India

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…

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…

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…

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…

A high-level Iraqi official delegation visited India on Friday as part of consolidating security and religious tourism. The official delegation was headed by Iraq’s National Security Advisor, Qassem al-Araji, accompanied by top officials, as both countries agreed to work together…

Indian Shia followers of AhlulBayet, peace be upon them, have signed a petition demanding the reconstruction of the Baqi Cemetery in Saudi Arabia, where the Infallible Imams, peace be upon them, are buried. The correspondent of Shia Waves Agency in…

India implemented 84 shutdowns in 2022, and remains the country with the highest number of recorded shutdowns in the world — for the fifth consecutive year, according to a report by the American organization “Access Now”, which monitors internet censorship…

The Indian newspaper ‘Rising Kashmir’ said in an article it published on its official website that, “Muslims around the world are gearing up to celebrate Shab-e-Barat, also known as the ‘night of forgiveness’, a significant festival observed on the 14th…