India

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…

An Indian court acquitted 69 Hindus, including a former minster from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), of the murder of 11 Muslims during communal riots in the western state of Gujarat in 2002. The case related to the deaths…

A study has been conducted by researchers from the University of Cambridge and it states that climate change is fuelling deadly heat waves in India and it is putting the country’s development at risk, reversing its progress on poverty alleviation,…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…