India

Mangaluru city police have booked Dakshina Kannada district Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) joint secretary Sharan Pumpwell after he and his followers planted saffron flags calling for a boycott of Muslim traders during festivals in Hindu temples in Karnataka. Mangaluru city…

Indian rescue teams are finding it difficult to reach flood-hit areas in the north-eastern state of Sikkim where more than 140 people are missing as the region is still experiencing bouts of heavy rain, Reuters reported on Saturday, October 7.…

Life in Karnataka, located in southern India, was significantly disrupted as the state observed a shutdown on Friday, in protest of the water release from the Cauvery River to neighboring Tamil Nadu. The shutdown had a substantial impact on transportation…

India saw the lowest level of monsoon rainfall this year since 2018 as the El Nino weather pattern made August the driest in more than a century, the state-run weather department said on Saturday. The summer rainfall deficit is likely…

The Washington Post published an article highlighting religious tensions in India, the policy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party in exploiting the differences between the Hindu majority and the Muslim minority in the country. The author of…

A report by Hindutva Watch indicates that anti-Muslim hate speech incidents in India averaged more than one a day in the first half of 2023 and were seen most in states with upcoming elections. This Washington-based group monitoring attacks on…

BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri, whose egregious communal comments in parliament have ignited massive outrage, received a warning today of “severe action” from Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. In a video from Lok Sabha, Mr Bidhuri repeatedly hurls abuses and Islamophobic…

A group of Muslim female students at Desh Bhagat University in Punjab faced a distressing incident on a Thursday afternoon as they engaged in a protest that had been on-going for approximately three weeks. The protest was organized after the…

The southern Indian state of Kerala closed some schools, offices and public transport on Wednesday in order to stop the spread of the rare and deadly Nipah virus, which has killed two people, Reuters reported today. The state government on…

The Husseini procession launched in Mumbai to commemorate the Arbaeen of Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, has achieved a resounding success; amid a wide participation of Muslims, Christians and followers of other faiths. Local sources said in their reports,…