Source: Associated Press By EMILY SCHMALL NEW DELHI (AP) — If China has panda diplomacy, India has yoga. Prime Minister Narendra Modi successfully lobbied the United Nations to designate June […]
The prime minister has two options: to be the reformist PM he was sold as, or to further the agenda of the party he belongs to. So far, he hasn’t […]
Jun 23, 2019 NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India on Sunday rejected a U.S. State Department’s annual report on religious freedom that raised questions about the government’s inability to curb violent […]
Source: Aljazeera Mumbai, India – Earlier this year, Maya Rachel McManus, a British Muslim, walked down the aisle in Kolkata on her wedding day and exchanged garlands with her partner. Later, […]
Source: BBC News An Indian magician who was lowered into a river while shackled in a bid to recreate Harry Houdini’s world-famous trick has drowned, police confirmed. Chanchal Lahiri was […]
Source: The New York Times By Kai Schultz NEW DELHI — An Indian court on Monday convicted six men over the kidnap, rape and murder of a Muslim nomadic girl […]
Arundhati Roy The Booker-winning Indian author casts an exacting eye over inequality, gender politics and imperialism Bidisha Sun 16 Jun Arundhati Roy at the time of her protests against […]
Epigraph: Whoever causes to get killed an innocent human life is indeed perpetrating a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Suggested Reading A British Convert to Islam: ‘I found Qur’an mother of […]
The decision was adopted by a recorded vote of 28 in favour to 15 against, with five abstentions. Countries voting in favour of the decision were Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, […]
Yes, charitable donations are rising slower than the rate at which philanthropists’ fortunes are growing, but there’s a reason for that Michael Mapstone The Independent Voices The UK’s foreign aid […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times It is very simple! And as we celebrate, the first United Nations International Day of Yoga – the […]
By Kashmir Life on February 2, 2018 Scores of books and ethnolinguistic literature have been around to explain who the Lost Tribes of Israel took refuge in Kashmir. The […]
India used to figure prominently in previous such reports on the issue of attacks against woman, the rights of children and corruption. The report for 2018 released on Thursday makes […]
Source: Religion News Service By Sumit Ganguly (The Conversation) — Almost immediately after winning a second term in office on May 23, India’s Prime Minister Modi gave a speech making light of […]
By Anand Chandrasekhar Jun 6, 2019 – 10:00 Pictures by Keystone (go to ‘source’ for all the pictures) The Swiss mountain air – and Chaplin’s antics (here posing as […]
By Emily Schmall NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s newly sworn-in Prime Minister Narendra Modi named a Cabinet on Friday, handing the powerful home affairs portfolio to the president of his […]
Source: Associated Press By AMRIT DHILLON NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi described his first term as “filling in potholes” — shorthand for addressing the country’s basic […]
Source: The Atlantic BY Jonah Blank VARANASI, India—The seven pandits draped in cloth of gold are clearly competing against the five in saffron. In front of thousands of assembled pilgrims, […]
Source: Reuters BY Mayank Bhardwaj AYODHYA, India (Reuters) – A thumping election win for India’s Hindu nationalist party on Thursday has instilled a sense of resignation among Muslims, some of whom […]
Source: The New York Times By Mujib Mashal VARANASI, India — It was 4 a.m. at the Yadav family home down a narrow lane in Varanasi, the constituency of the […]