Tag: Muslims

Muslim shopkeepers start leaving Purola town in Uttarakhand after ‘Love-Jihad’ allegations & threat

A few Muslims own shops and houses in Purola town but are too scared to return back after protests and threats.

June 8, 2023

Posters surface in Purola, Uttarakhand asking Muslims to leave by June 15, reason: ‘Love Jihad’

Following protests and demonstrations by right-wing Hindu organizations against  Love Jihad after an alleged attempt by two youths to take away a local girl last week, now posters have appeared on the shops owned by minority community members to vacate and leave before June 15, 2023 in Purola town of Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand. This...

June 6, 2023

Mayawati blames Cong, BJP for pathetic state of Dalits, Muslims

The BSP supremo called the statement made by the former Congress president Rahul Gandhi during his US tour about the pathetic condition of crores of Dalits and Muslims of India a bitter truth.

June 2, 2023

‘This is Kashmir where the G20 will take place’ -Arab influencer Amjad Taha’s praise for India

Known as "paradise on Earth," it's a place that has protected the Earth and may be the answer to climate change, the influencer wrote on Twitter.

May 21, 2023

BJP paying ‘someone’ to divide Muslim votes: CM

Ready to sacrifice my life to protect the nation from divisions, says Mamata

April 23, 2023

Periyar and Gandhi~I

Periyar was initially an enthusiastic supporter of Gandhi from the very inception of the Non-Cooperation Movement as he was aware of the narrow social base of the Congress and the dominance of lawyers within it before Gandhi took charge. The advent of Gandhi was significantly transformative as his political and social activities were such that everyone could participate and his principles could ‘be understood by all‘. The atavistic orientation of Gandhian principles like khadi, prohibition and abolition of untouchability were refreshingly new and novel

April 21, 2023

SC to adjudicate on quota for SCs amongst Muslims, Christians

The apex court has decided to hear in July nearly two-decade old petitions challenging the 1950 Presidential order, which excluded Scheduled Castes in Muslim and Christian communities from the ambit of reservation.

April 12, 2023

BJP plans massive Muslim outreach in UP during PM’s 100th ‘Mann Ki Baat’ episode

To woo the Muslims in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP is planning a massive outreach through Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 100th 'Mann Ki Baat' episode on April 30.

April 9, 2023

“No question of Congress returning to power”: Karnataka CM Basavaraja Bommai

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government last week abolished religion-based reservations by scrapping 4 per cent reservation given to Muslims in Karnataka under the 2B of the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category.

April 4, 2023

Progressing British Muslims

Superficial concerns have been raised both within and outside the UK about the status of the Muslim population, though the census statistics convey something positive.

April 3, 2023

Message of Ramadan 

Ramadan provides an internal retreat where the mind and its natural ‘thirst‘ for knowledge, awakening and reason is given greater precedence over the physical needs and desires of the body needs which are regularly served but rarely satisfied. Human desire in its bare essence is animalistic and somewhat selfish. It has been the evolution of teachings of faith that has kept in check much of our primitive need for constant self-gratification  

March 9, 2023

Gujarat cops justify public flogging of Muslims

An affidavit submitted in the high court on the flogging of Muslims during Navratri last year, Kheda district police officials have said that the public flogging of the detained Muslims was carried out to maintain peace and harmony in the area.

February 22, 2023

Muslims join Christmas celebrations in Kashmir

People belonging to different faiths greeted their Christian brethren on occasion.

December 25, 2022

Trespassers storm mosque in Hyderabad, conduct rituals

A few Muslims noticed the gathering in the land belonging to the mosque and registered their protest. They complained that the Rai Durgam police was a mute spectator.

October 16, 2022

Varanasi court to decide on carbon dating of “Shivling” in Gyanvapi mosque today

The appeal filed by seven devotees sought direction from the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) to ascertain the nature of the structure found on the Gyanvapi campus.

October 14, 2022

Gyanvapi mosque case: Varanasi Court to deliver verdict on carbon dating of ‘Shivling’ on Oct 14, say lawyers

Earlier on September 29, the court had reserved the order in the Gyanvapi Mosque-Shringar Gauri case after hearing both sides' arguments.

October 12, 2022

Man married non-Muslims, received funds from PFI

Aas Mohammed is also linked to the Popular Front of India (PFI), and married non-Muslim girls by taking funds from the PFI.

October 11, 2022