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Adibah Anam, daughter of a Yavatmal rickshaw driver, has made history by securing All India Rank 142 in the UPSC 2024 exam, becoming Maharashtra’s first Muslim woman IAS officer, Muslim Mirror reported. Educated in a Zilla Parishad Urdu school, she…

A surge of communal violence targeting Muslims has erupted across India following the June 20 Pahalgam terror attack, with reports of assaults on Kashmiri students, denial of medical care to a pregnant woman, and a fatal shooting in Uttar Pradesh.…

A mob allegedly linked to Hindutva groups attacked a madrasa and set fire to parts of a dargah in Telangana’s Jinnaram village on April 23, accusing Muslim students of vandalizing Shiva idols, Muslim Mirror reported. Police later confirmed through CCTV…

The Sambhal district administration in Uttar Pradesh will soon remove a mosque and part of a temple encroaching on a Public Works Department (PWD) road, Muslim Mirror reported. Officials confirmed both structures were built on government land along the Sambhal–Behjoi…

The killing of 26 tourists in Kashmir’s Pahalgam valley has triggered a severe diplomatic crisis between India and Pakistan, with New Delhi taking unprecedented retaliatory measures. India suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, a landmark agreement that survived three wars,…

A police inspector in India’s Haryana’s Palwal city has been arrested following an inquiry into allegations of custodial torture, news outlets reported. Radheshyam Sharma was suspended and taken into custody after a departmental investigation confirmed he assaulted Abid, a Muslim…

Widespread protests against the newly enforced Waqf (Amendment) Act in Uttar Pradesh have led to legal action against over 50 Muslims, following demonstrations across the state, the Clarion reported. On April 18, protestors in Bilaspur village, Baghpat, gathered after Friday…

At least 11 people, including three children, died when a residential building collapsed early Saturday in Mustafabad, a northeastern district of New Delhi, India, Dawn News Agency reported. Rescue teams worked throughout the day to dig through the rubble, managing…

A 13-year-old Muslim boy was allegedly attacked by three minors in the Maharajpur area late Thursday night after he refused to chant “Jai Shri Ram,” Clarion reported. The incident took place near the boy’s residence in Sarsaul, under Maharajpur police…

In the late 19th century, Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh opened his private collection of manuscripts to the public, fulfilling his father Mohammed Bakhsh’s vision. This act laid the foundation for what would become one of India’s richest repositories of intellectual…