Source: Bloomberg By Anindya Upadhyay,Pratik Parija,Kanika Sood and P R Sanjai Violence against cattle owners—in a Hindu-majority country under a populist government—resulted in 11 deaths last year. Narendra Modi at an agricultural fair […]
The Wire: For the past month, Rajasthan has been convulsed by a controversy over the Bollywood movie, Padmavati, based on Padmavat – a prose-poem written by Malik Muhammad Jayasi in 1540 CE which uses Alauddin Khilji’s conquest of Chittor in 1303 CE and his supposed obsession with Rani Padmini of Chittor as a […]
Sssssh. (Reuters/Denis Balibouse) Written by Quartz Staff 3 hours ago Quartz india There was a smattering of Sanskrit, a line from Tagore, and the expected hard sell as Narendra Modi […]
Mumbai 2018-01-22 17:36 By Rayana KhalafContributor Source: Twitter/mthakur121 Three Bollywood actors have made the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement proud by reportedly refusing to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his recent trip to India.https://stepfeed.com/these-muslim-bollywood-actors-refused-to-meet-israeli-pm-benjamin-netanyahu-4324 While several stars in the Indian film industry took part in a special gala event featuring Netanyahu and his wife, actors Shah Rukh Khan, […]
Source: BBC News In March 2016, a 22-year-old man was hacked to death in daylight on a crowded road in southern India for marrying a woman of a higher caste. […]
Columns Dr. Sujata Ashwarya | Published — Friday 19 January 2018 There is a twisted irony to the renaming, in the presence of the Israeli prime minister, of the iconic […]
Source: BBC News India’s Supreme Court has cleared the release of controversial Bollywood film Padmavat, and overturned the decision by four states to ban its screening. It has been approved […]
By Moin Qazi, Nagpur, India (moinqazi123@gmail.com) One of the most contentious issues that have vexed the minds of Muslims is the concept of interest in the modern-day economy. The Islamic clerics (ulema) have exhibited an ambivalent stand on major issues concerning Islamic finance and on most occasions preferred to diplomatically […]
Written by Kashif Khalid, Qadian, Gurdaspur, Punjab Email: kashifqdn@gmail.com Jalsa Salana or Annual Gathering is one of the oldest conventions of India conducted by Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The founder of the community His Holiness Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (pbuh) initiated it in the year 1891. This year the convention was held […]
By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi 13 January 2018 Schools and playgrounds can be dangerous places where children are isolated or bullied. Children often use differences in appearance, skin colour, […]
PTI| Updated: Jan 14, 2018 The Army’s aim is to ensure that it continues to maintain the pressure on the terrorists and those fomenting trouble there, Gen Rawat said. NEW DELHI: Advocating a “politico-military” approach in dealing with the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, Army chief Gen Bipin Rawat today […]
By: Zubair Khan Pictures: Shaikh Fatehudin. The New Delhi World Book Fair (NDWBF), held for the past 45 years, is a major calendar event in the publishing world. NDWBF 2018 was scheduled from 6 to 14 January 2018 at the centrally located Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. The Fair was organised […]
The rocket launch would take place from ISRO’s spaceport located at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. All India | Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: January 08, 2018 16:01 IST ENGALURU: India will launch 31 satellites, including earth observation spacecraft Cartosat, on January 12 instead of its earlier tentative schedule on January 10, an Indian Space […]
Source: The New York Times By VINDU GOEL, KAI SCHULTZ and HARI KUMAR JAN. 3, 2018 Unrest in India fanned out to Mumbai, the financial capital, on Wednesday, and schools, trains and businesses shut down […]
Reuters International This content was published on January 4, 2018 Women stand next to policemen as they wait to check their names on the draft list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) at an NRC centre in Chandamari village in Goalpara district, in the northeastern state of […]
Source: BBC News A Muslim has been beaten to death in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand after reportedly asking a group to stop playing loud music on New Year’s […]