Popular Indian guru arrested over alleged rape of law student
Source: BBC News A popular spiritual guru has been arrested in India for the alleged rape of a 21-year-old woman, Indian media report. Falahari Maharaj is accused of raping the […]
India’s Bride slave trade entry of sheikhs to be stopped
Girls from poor families are sold like commodities to the Arabs, many of whom arrive in India on tourist visas. Siddhartha Rai | Posted by Ashna Kumar New Delhi, September 23, 2017 | UPDATED 07:33 IST A +A – Omani and Qatari nationals with Indian Muslim priests after their arrest in Hyderabad on Wednesday for […]
India: Contract Marriage Racket: Police Arrest Eight Arab Sheikhs In Hyderabad Who Wanted To ‘Marry’ Minor Girls
Indianexpress.com http://indianexpress.com/article/india/contract-marriage-raids-police-arrest-eight-arab-sheikhs-in-hyderabad-who-wanted-to-marry-minor-girls/Two other local qazis who performed fake marriages recently have also been arrested. Cops sealed several residence-cum-guesthouses in Falaknuma and Chandrayangutta area. (Express photo) In a major crackdown on contract marriages racket involving old Arab sheikhs “marrying” local teenage Muslim girls, Hyderabad Police raided several guesthouses and lodges and […]
Caravan of Love takes its peace message to Indian families touched by hate
Source: The Guardian Huizhong Wu in Ahmedabad Wednesday 20 September 2017 05.00 BSTLast modified on Wednesday 20 September 2017 05.52 BST A police escort is a must when travelling in the Karwan-e-Mohabbat, or “Caravan of […]
Political reporter beaten to death in north-east India
Source: The Guardian Shantanu Bhowmick attacked with sticks outside Agartala two weeks after high-profile murder of another journalist indi Indian journalists at a road blockade set up over the killing of […]
Development Impact Bond: Are India’s daughters a good return on investment?
By Anand Chandrasekhar in Bhilwara, Rajasthan September 19, 2017 It’s barely been a month since Naina was re-enrolled and she’s already missed two days of school. She had to […]
Seeking to deport Rohingya, India tells court has evidence of militant links
Source: Reuters BY Suchitra Mohanty, Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s home ministry said on Monday it would confidentially share intelligence information with the Supreme Court showing Rohingya links with […]
Black dot on 1,800-year old Indian manuscript is first ‘zero’
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP LONDON A black dot on a third-century Indian manuscript has been identified by Oxford University as the first recorded use of the mathematical symbol for zero, 500 years earlier than previously thought. “Scientists from the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, have used carbon dating […]
India: Amarnath attack mastermind Abu Ismail among two Lashkar terrorists killed in Kashmir
Delivering a major blow to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Kashmir, security forces killed two terrorists — including the alleged mastermind of a deadly attack on Amarnath yatrisearlier this year — on the outskirts of Srinagar on Thursday evening. LeT leader Abu Ismail (24) and his associate, Abu Kasim, were “eliminated” in […]
India’s Vigilante Cow Protectors: ‘If Police Did Their Job, We Wouldn’t Have To’
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Niharika Mandhana Sept. 11, 2017 5:30 a.m. ET PANIPAT, India—Across this northern town, clusters of young men embarked on patrols one recent night, some […]
India raises ‘offensive’ lamb advert with Australia
Source: BBC News India has lodged a diplomatic protest with Australia over an advert depicting the Hindu god Ganesha enjoying lamb. The TV advert, by a meat industry lobby group, […]
A Sinner in Mecca review – Islam, homosexuality and the hope of tolerance
Source: The Guardian BY Charles Kaiser Sunday 10 September 2017 13.29 BSTLast modified on Monday 11 September 2017 14.33 BST Parvez Sharma is a proud gay Muslim whose first film, A Jihad For Love, was the first ever […]
India: PM Modi meet singer Adnan Sami
Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed with reverence singer Adnan Sami along with his wife Roya and daughter Medina, who was born in May this year. The Sami family met the Indian Prime Minister on Friday. They also gifted Arab sweets to him which they had bought from the city of […]
Indian journalist critical of Hindu extremists is shot dead in Bangalore
Source; The Guardian BY Michael Safi in Delhi A senior Indian journalist and activist has been shot dead outside her home in Bangalore. Gauri Lankesh was the editor of a Kannada-language […]
Priyanka Chopra brings the world to Toronto: Govani
By SHINAN GOVANIColumnist Fri., Sept. 1, 2017 thestar.com The globe-trotting superstar will precede the celebrity onslaught to host TIFF’s annual fundraising gala on Sept. 6. She’s got Tabasco in her handbag, and the world on a string. Next stop: Toronto. Among the flotilla of stars coming to town at September’s behest, […]
Sheba Chhachhi: Indian women are in the midst of a fundamentalist backlash
By Anand Chandrasekhar in Thun August 30, 2017 The number of reported crimes against Indian women has more than doubled between 2005 and 2015 (Keystone) Indian artist and activist Sheba Chhachhi believes that Indian women who deviate from conservative cultural norms are facing an unprecedented level of violence against […]
How India’s leather tanners pay the price of Hindu nationalism
Sanjay Kumar | Published — Sunday 3 September 2017 More than 100,000 families are involved in the tannery industry, and 65 percent of them are directly affected by the ban on slaughterhouses and the decree on cattle trade. (AN photo) DELHI: With sadness in his eyes, a forlorn Hafiz-ur-Rahman surveys […]
Taj Mahal is Muslim tomb not Hindu temple, Indian court told
Source: BBC News BY Amrit Dhillon in Delhi Government archaeologists reject claim the structure was built by Hindus and that they should be allowed to worship there Claims that the Taj Mahal […]
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh: Why India rapist guru remains ‘god’ for followers
Source: BBC News BY Justin Rowlatt South Asia correspondent In amongst all the coverage of the spectacular downfall of the self-styled Indian “godman”, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, one voice has been […]
Indian court jails self-styled ‘godman’ for 20 years, security tight
Source: Reuters BY Adnan Abidi ROHTAK, India (Reuters) – An Indian judge sentenced a self-styled “godman”, whose followers went on a deadly rampage after he was convicted of rape last […]
