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India to outnumber China with almost 3 million people in mid-year, UN says
April 20, 2023
India to outnumber China with almost 3 million people in mid-year, UN says
According to the United Nations’ data released on Wednesday, India is set to outnumber China as the world’s most populous nation, with almost 3 million more people by the middle of 2023. The “State of World Population Report” for 2023,…
Results of population control policy among Indian Muslims
April 17, 2023
Results of population control policy among Indian Muslims
The population control policy implemented by the Indian government in recent decades has primarily affected the Muslim population. According to Reuters, the population census is conducted every 10 years in India, with the last one carried out in 2011. According…
Anti-Islamic agenda takes more calculated measures in India amid top politician’s condemnation
April 8, 2023
Anti-Islamic agenda takes more calculated measures in India amid top politician’s condemnation
Recently, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has revised high school textbooks, eliminating certain chapters that served to promote Muslim-Hindu unity, indicated the presence of Islam in India, or provided evidence of Hindu extremist violence, which are…
Indian schools accused of rewriting history after edits to schoolbooks
April 7, 2023
Indian schools accused of rewriting history after edits to schoolbooks
The Indian government has been accused of rewriting history to fit its Hindu nationalist agenda after school textbooks were edited to remove references to Mahatma Gandhi’s opposition to Hindu nationalism, as well as mention of a controversial religious riot in…
India: Hindu extremists attack a 110-year-old Islamic schools, burn over 4500 books
April 5, 2023
India: Hindu extremists attack a 110-year-old Islamic schools, burn over 4500 books
An armed mob of around 1,000 people vandalised a madrasa in Bihar Sharif’s Murarpur locality and set fire to its library, said Mohammad Siyabuddin, the imam of the mosque and caretaker of the madrasa. The 110-year-old library with a collection…
1987 Maliana massacre case: 39 acquitted due to lack of evidence
April 3, 2023
1987 Maliana massacre case: 39 acquitted due to lack of evidence
On Saturday a Meerut court acquitted 39 accused in the communal riots that took place in Maliana, which resulted in 72 Muslims killed and hundreds of others injured. Almost, 36 years since the killing of the innocent Muslims during the…
India: Hindu nationalists brutalize a mosque imam as he refuses to chant their mottos
April 1, 2023
India: Hindu nationalists brutalize a mosque imam as he refuses to chant their mottos
Activists circulated very saddening videos of a mosque imam being brutalized and beaten by a group of Hindu extremists in an Indian village in Maharashtra. The ‘India Today’ network reported that the victim said he was sitting in the mosque…
State of Karnataka removes 4% education quota for Muslims, distributes it to Hindu communities
March 29, 2023
State of Karnataka removes 4% education quota for Muslims, distributes it to Hindu communities
The Hindu nationalist right-wing government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the southern Indian state of Karnatakam made a decision to remove the 4% quota for the Muslim minority in employment and educational institutions, media reports said. The decision…
Footage circulating social media shows Hindu authorities demolishing mosque in Gujarat
March 29, 2023
Footage circulating social media shows Hindu authorities demolishing mosque in Gujarat
Activists have circulated on social media platforms a footage showing the damage one of the oldest mosques in India’s Gujarat experienced after Indian authorities demolished it publically. Activists and bloggers said in posts followed by Shia Waves Agency that “the…
Top Indian newspapers publish Grand Ayatollah Shirazi’s answers to religious queries
March 28, 2023
Top Indian newspapers publish Grand Ayatollah Shirazi’s answers to religious queries
Grand Ayatollah Shirazi’s Religious Queries Office in India announced that several significant newspapers in the country have been publishing the answers to his followers’ religious queries during the blessed month of Ramadan. All answers are carefully provided based on fatwas…