In a recent ruling on Wednesday, in connection with an inter-caste marriage case of a Hindu-Muslim couple, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has said that officialdom must not be seen “raising eyebrows and laying snares and landmines” in such cases. The procedure for a court marriage, it has said,[Read More…]
The video of Khelo India Khelo players catering to the ministers during an event in Ranchi BJP office is making round on internet, but the officials seem to remain in denial. When asked to comment on the matter, they either declined from having any information on the matter or found[Read More…]
India has faced unforgettable communal riots both before and after its independence. Amid the many communal riots comes a Facebook post originally written by Meghna Athwani who, while iterating her experience of sharing a cab with religiously-different people, slams all the political parties for their continuous efforts to instigate religious[Read More…]
The atheist ruling Communist Party has banned minors under 16 from religious activity or study in Linxia, China. Following the displeasing move, residing Hui Muslim community fear the eradication of Islam from the country. A deeply Islamic region in western China that had offered religious freedom for the ethnic Hui[Read More…]
New Delhi: Dubbing female genital mutilation as violative of bodily integrity of a girl child, the Supreme Court on Monday said that religious practices cannot be cited to justify such mutilation in the Dawoodi Bohra community. The observation came from a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar[Read More…]
New Delhi: Investigators in the mysterious deaths by hanging of 11 in Delhi’s Burari neighbourhood are convinced that it was a case of mass suicide in a ritual practice by the family suffering from a shared psychological disorder, a police officer said on Thursday. The officer said the final closure[Read More…]
A video of a Muslim teacher, Latifa Abuchakra, speaking at the NEU-NUT Section Annual conference 2018 has gone viral. Latifa takes a compelling stand against OFSTED- UK’s largest teaching union, the chief of which faced immense backlash after she questioned and allegedly pressured schools to ban the Muslim hijab. “Shame[Read More…]
Jharkhand is to call for a series of protests and demonstrations in connection with Muslim welfare. Since many of the required committees for the welfare of the Muslims have not been formed, the economic and social development of the Muslim society seems to be affected adversely. Careless attitude of the[Read More…]
New Delhi: A new shelter home for widows, with capacity for 1,000 people, has been constructed in Uttar Pradesh’s Vrindavan by the Union Women and Child Development Ministry, an official statement said on Tuesday. The ministry signed an MoU on Tuesday with Uttar Pradesh’s Women and Child Development Department, which[Read More…]
Jammu: The annual pilgrimage to the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine remained suspended for a second consecutive day on Thursday following a forest fire, police said. Around 25,000 pilgrims were currently stranded at the Katra base camp for clearance to start the uphill trek to the shrine located in Jammu and[Read More…]
Patna: A Muslim in Bihar chose humanity over religious customs, broke his Ramadan fast to donate blood to an eight-year-old Hindu thalassemic boy and saved his life. Jawed Alam on Tuesday donated blood to Rajesh Kumar in Gopalganj district, a district health official said. The boy was rushed to the[Read More…]
Jodhpur: Five years after charges of rape were levelled against Asaram Bapu, the Jodhpur Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe Court on Wednesday convicted the self-styled godman along with others accused in the case. The judgement in the case for raping a minor was pronounced by Judge Madhusudan inside the Jodhpur[Read More…]
Patna: Kamla Devi, Pankaj Kumar, Geeta Devi and Sanjay Singh, all Hindus, share one thing in common. Their lives have been transformed through “interest-free” loans provided by a Muslim cooperative credit society in Bihar, yet another example how integrated Indian society has always been at the grassroots level. They are four[Read More…]