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India: 12 dead, Panchkula bears the brunt as violence breaks out in Punjab, Haryana

Tribune News Service, Panchkula, August 25, http://tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/12-dead-panchkula-bears-the-brunt-as-violence-breaks-out-in-punjab-haryana/457311.htmlVehicles torched by Dera followers in Sector 5, Panchkula, on Friday. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari Curfew in Panchkula, Ferozepur, Bathinda, Mansa; clashes with police, banks, govt offices attacked A trail of death and destruction descended on Panchkula as soon as  Sirsa Dera head Gurmeet […]

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India: 15,000 paramilitary personnel deployed in Punjab, Haryana; mobile internet to be suspended

Tribune News Service New Delhi/Chandigarh, August 24http://tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/15-000-paramilitary-personnel-deployed-in-punjab-haryana-mobile-internet-to-be-suspended/456852.html More than 15,000 paramilitary personnel have been deployed in Punjab and Haryana ahead of Friday’s Dera verdict by a Panchkula court, a Union Home Ministry official said on Thursday. Meanwhile, mobile Internet and data services across Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh will be suspended for […]

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India: SC sets aside triple talaq, declares it unconstitutional

Satya Prakash, Tribune News Service, New Delhi, August 22After triple talaq verdict, All India Muslim Women Personal Law Board president Shaista Ambar celebrates with a petitioner in Lucknow. —Tribune photo       tribuneindia.com Muslim men can no longer pronounce instant triple talaq as the Supreme Court on Tuesday declared the age-old practice unconstitutional on […]

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Junk today’s secularism: India needs a reinvented secularism 2.0 rooted in separation of religion and state

timesofindia.indiatimes.com:  India’s ambitious experiment with freedom of religion has failed. Our insipid brand of secularism, based on states’ active engagement amid stated religious neutrality, has led to the appeasement of a few, but empowers none and brings injustice for all. Instead of uniting our society, it has fomented fragmentation and […]

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India: IN A FIRST, Bombay MOSQUE OPENS DOOR TO WOMEN scholars

Maulana Mohammed Fayyaz Baqri’s wife is among the many women who impart knowledge about the Quran to fellow Muslim women. http://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/cover-story/in-a-first-yari-road-mosque-opens-door-to-women-ulemas/articleshow/60078262.cms- By Linah Baliga, Mumbai Mirror | Updated: Aug 16, 2017, 01.21 AM IST At a time when Muslim women are breaking into many a male bastion, a mosque on Yari Road has […]