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At least 4 million people have been affected by the worst floods in Bangladesh’s northeast for nearly two decades, the United Nations said on Monday. The Bangladeshi government said the floods, which began last week, had submerged 70 per cent…

Media sources reported on Sunday that a prominent Shia leader was assassinated in Khorog, capital of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) in Tajikistan. Mamadbokir Mamadbokirov a Tajik Shia leader in the Badakhshan region was martyred Sunday during a special security…

The “Karbala Imambargah” Foundation in the town Mirpur, Bangladesh, organized a mourning ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the demolition of Jannat al-Baqi in Medina.The Foundation said in a statement through its official Facebook page, that the ceremony included discussions…

An estimated 230,000 Muslims were living in Japan as of the end of 2020, according to Hirofumi Tanada, professor emeritus of sociology at Waseda University. But only seven cemeteries in Japan accept burials of Muslims. The entire Kyushu region has…

The Indonesian Berita Bantul news agency, quoted one of the most famous poets in the country, who reported his personal impressions and feelings when visiting the holy city of Karbala and the Imam Hussain Holy Shrine. The agency quoted the…

The UN’s Humanitarian Country Team in Yemen on Saturday, released its Response Plan (HRP) for this year, seeking nearly $4.3 billion to reverse a steady deterioration across the country, the grinding war there continues, despite a current pause in fighting.…

Muslim activists organized a protest in the city of Chikamagaluru in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, to protest against the decision to ban headscarves in state schools.After weeks of protests in state schools and its streets, the state Supreme…

Hindu hard-line groups have called for restrictions on the wearing of headscarves in classrooms in many Indian states, after a court upheld a ban on headscarves in the southern state of Karnataka, alarming India’s Muslims.The Karnataka Supreme Court’s recent decision…

India witnessed angry reactions from Muslims in protest against the support of a court in the state of Karnataka, the decision to ban the headscarf in schools, claiming that wearing it is not one of the principles of the Islamic…

Today, Tuesday, the Indian judiciary approved a ban on headscarves in classrooms in the southern state of Karnataka.The Supreme Court in the Indian state of Karnataka issued the ruling after considering petitions by Muslim students against the government’s ban on…