India

The Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board plans to provide houses to the lower-middle-class within the Shia community through a scheme that involves allotting vacant land to beneficiaries. The board will get the houses constructed through a committee, and selected beneficiaries…

At least 30 people have been killed in ethnic clashes in the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur, officials say. The violence broke out earlier this week when indigenous tribes protested against moves to grant tribal status to the Meiteis, promising…

A 17-year-old Muslim boy has achieved first place with a remarkable score of 82.71% in class-12 Sanskrit board exams in Uttar Pradesh, India. Mohammad Irfan, who desires to become a Sanskrit teacher, has outperformed 13000 competitors as the sole Muslim…

The International Nonviolence Organization (Free Muslim) welcomed the foreign ministers’ meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held in India, expressing its “hopes that the conference will contribute to limiting the ongoing acts of violence in more than one place…

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has, for the fourth year in a row, recommended inclusion of India’s government in a religious freedom blacklist, noting that conditions in the country for religious minorities “continued to worsen” throughout…

Hundreds of followers of Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them) in a number of Indian cities have signed a unified petition, calling on human rights organizations and Islamic governments to urgently take action to pressure Saudi Arabia to rebuild the…

Today, Abu Talib Seminary in Lucknow, a center affiliated with Grand Ayatollah Shirazi, saw a special gathering of the faithful and Shia scholars who performed the Friday congregational prayer in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the hate-driven demolition of…

The chief of All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) severely criticized a recent statement made by the Union Minister of India about removing Muslims’ welfare benefits in Telangana. Speaking in a public meeting at Chevella in Telangana, Amit Shah had described…

Social activists circulated a video showing a group of cow vigilantes in Punjab, India, attacking a Muslim family and violating its sanctity. The activists said that the attack was based on the vigilantes’ suspicion that the Muslim family was cooking…

Jammu and Kashmir officials disallowed the congregational Eid prayers at Srinagar’s Jamia Masjid for the fourth consecutive year. The management of the mosque criticized the unreasonable condition set by authorities, which restricted the prayers time until before 7.30 a.m., saying…