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Lok Sabha to have more number of Muslim MPs as 27 emerge victorious
India | May 24, 2019, 05:15 PM ISTThe number of Muslim MPs in the Lok Sabha has increased to a decade high of 27, up from 23 last time, with a dozen of them winning from Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal even as none of the six Muslim candidates fielded by BJP tasted victory.
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Lok Sabha polls: Deoband asks Muslims to pray for 'suitable results'
India | May 21, 2019, 05:10 PM ISTDeoband, the renowned Islamic seminary in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur, has appealed to Muslims to offer prayers if they want the results of Lok Sabha elections to be "suitable for all".
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US war veteran mows down Indian-origin family thinking they were Muslims
India | Apr 28, 2019, 05:53 PM ISTA 13-year-old girl identified as Dhriti was in coma and fighting for her life after the attack in Sunnyvale on Tuesday, police said on Friday according to Mercury News.
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Pak man claims Hindu woman embraces Islam, marries him; FIR says she is minor, abducted
World | Mar 27, 2019, 02:16 PM ISTHis claim came a day after the provincial Minorities Affairs Minister Hari Ram Kishori Lal directed authorities to register an FIR of the abduction and provide protection to the girl's family.
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Islamophobia post 9/11 responsible for NZ mosque attacks: Pak
World | Mar 15, 2019, 05:30 PM IST"Strongly condemning" the terror attack on the mosques in New Zealand, Prime Minister Khan tweeted: This reaffirms what we have always maintained: that terrorism does not have a religion. Prayers go to the victims and their families.
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Muslims sore at 3 phases of LS polling during Ramadan
Mar 11, 2019, 02:48 PM ISTMaharashtra Congress Rajya Sabha MP Hussain Dalwai said that it is surprising how the EC failed to consider this aspect and urged it to examine if suitable modifications in the dates can be made.
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Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Muslim MPs' LS share dips, will 2019 be different?
Mar 10, 2019, 04:22 PM ISTIt remains to be seen how many Muslim leaders are fielded in the polls and how many of them get elected. But if the outcome of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections is taken into account, one can not expect a huge change in 2019.
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Muslims better off in Gujarat than other states: Vijay Rupani
National | Dec 26, 2018, 10:04 AM ISTHe accused the Congress of creating a rift between Hindus and Muslims.
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Muslims in China make clothes for US in locked compound
World | Dec 19, 2018, 04:59 PM ISTBarbed wire and hundreds of cameras ring a massive compound of more than 30 dormitories, schools, warehouses and workshops in China’s far west. Dozens of armed officers and a growling Doberman stand guard outside.
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Uttar Pradesh: Upset over police treating son's death as suicide, Muslim man embraces Hinduism with family
India | Oct 03, 2018, 08:52 AM ISTBaghpat District Magistrate Rishirendra Kumar confirmed the incident and said the family members changed their religion as they were not satisfied with the police probe into the death of Akhtar’s son a few months ago.
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Condition of Muslims in India is far better than those in Indian sub-continent: Maulana Mahmood Madani
Aug 13, 2018, 08:18 PM ISTLok Sabha elections 2019: “I agree that Muslims in India are in a comfortable position, but the situation has deteriorated in the last four years,” said Alvi.
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China: Large protests by Hui Muslims halt demolition of mosque
World | Aug 10, 2018, 02:36 PM ISTA huge crowd of ethnic Hui Muslims, gathered from noon until late last night in the square outside the Weizhou Grand Mosque thwarting plans by the local government to demolish the mosque.
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Mayawati bats for reservation in government jobs for weaker upper castes, Muslims
India | Aug 07, 2018, 04:34 PM ISTBahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Tuesday batted for reservation in government jobs for the economically weaker upper castes and Muslims and other minorities
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Lynching in the name of cow could lead to another 'Partition', warns PDP leader Muzaffar Baig
India | Jul 28, 2018, 11:26 PM ISTBaig's reaction came after several lynchings on beef smuggling suspicion by cow vigilantes
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Azam Khan advises Muslims to keep away from dairy business: Here's why
National | Jul 24, 2018, 09:27 PM ISTAzam Khan’s comments have come after Alwar lynching.
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2019 Lok Sabha agenda: Development or Hindu-Muslim divide?
Kurukshetra | Jul 17, 2018, 09:20 PM IST2019 Lok Sabha agenda: Development or Hindu-Muslim divide?
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Row over Rahul Gandhi's alleged ‘Muslim party’ comments to cast its shadow on Parliament session
India | Jul 18, 2018, 04:15 PM ISTBJP leaders believe that a political narrative imbued with its Hindutva agenda will suit the party as it battles anti-incumbency in poll-bound states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and gears up for the next Lok Sabha elections 2019.
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'I stand with the last person in the line', says Rahul Gandhi over ' Muslim party' remark row
India | Jul 17, 2018, 02:08 PM ISTA war of words had erupted over an Urdu daily's report that Rahul, during an interaction with Muslim intellectual last week, had told them that Congress was a party for Muslims.
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Congress, BJP engage in war of words over Rahul Gandhi's remarks on Congress 'a party for Muslims'
India | Jul 16, 2018, 11:35 PM ISTThe Congress has denied as false and baseless the remark published recently in an Urdu daily while its minority department head Nadeem Javed, who was quoted as saying that its president described the Congress as being a 'Muslim party', also denied having said so and claimed he was being "misquoted".
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Did Rahul Gandhi claim 'Congress is a Muslim Party'? Editor of Urdu newspaper says 'Yes'
National | Jul 16, 2018, 07:45 PM ISTMeanwhile, a combative BJP questioned Rahul Gandhi's "silence" over his reported remarks that the Congress is "a Muslim party".