Muslims
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BJP hits out at Shiv Sena for demanding revocation of voting rights of Muslims
National | Apr 13, 2015, 02:53 PM ISTNew Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today lashed out at its key ally Shiv Sena for demanding the withdrawal of voting rights from the Muslim community.Party spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said that participation in an electoral
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Muslims, Christians uncomfortable in Modi regime: Muslim Personal Law Board
National | Mar 22, 2015, 08:47 PM ISTJaipur: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Sunday launched a frontal attack on the Narendra Modi government and announced a nationwide campaign to counter right wing forces, accusing Hindu organisations like the RSS
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Muslims responsible for bringing bad name to their community: Madani
National | Mar 21, 2015, 06:50 PM ISTBIJNOR : Muslims themselves are responsible for bringing a bad name to the community and creating the "Islam's image of terror", Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind general secretary Maulana Mehmood Madani today said and called for spreading education
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Another Kejriwal audio tape surfaces, claims AAP only option for Muslims
National | Mar 13, 2015, 11:37 AM ISTNew Delhi: A day after a tape surfaced in which Arvind Kejriwal is purportedly talking of poaching on Congress MLAs to form government in Delhi, another audio tape emerged on Thursday in which he allegedly
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Indian Muslims 'vital players' in advancing shared vision: US
India | Mar 05, 2015, 07:59 AM ISTNew Delhi: US Ambassador to India Richard Verma on Wednesday described Indian Muslims as ‘vital players' in advancing India and America's shared value and vision.Verma was addressing a town hall at the India Islamic Cultural
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Shiv Sena tells Muslims: For special treatment, go to Pakistan
National | Mar 03, 2015, 12:29 PM ISTMumbai: "If the Muslim community in India want any special treatment as Muslims, they should go to Pakistan," the Shiv Sena warned here Tuesday."If they (Muslims) want anything from this country, they must first accept
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Muslims-Christian can live in India under our laws: Subramaniyam Swamy
India | Mar 01, 2015, 05:19 PM ISTNew Delhi: Janta Party leader Subramaniyam Swamy said only under our laws Muslims and Christian can live in this country. He was speaking at Virat Hindu Sammelan here on Sinday.Swamy said wherever Muslims are in
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Reward of Rs 1,00,786 for beheading Mufti Iliyas for his controversial Lord Shiva remark
India | Feb 24, 2015, 11:48 AM ISTNew Delhi: All India Faizan-e-madina Council chief Moin Siddiqui announced a cash reward of Rs 1,00,786 for beheading Jamiat Ulema's Mufti Muhammad Ilyas for his remark that Lord Shiva was Muslims' first prophet.Siddiqui said that
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Citing India, Obama calls for correcting distorted impression of Muslims
World | Feb 20, 2015, 11:11 AM ISTWashington: Citing the good work by Muslims around the world including India, with one of the world's largest Muslim populations, US President Barack Obama acknowledged that many in the US have a distorted impression of
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This Konkan village drafts a 100-year pact to maintain communal harmony
India | Feb 11, 2015, 11:37 AM ISTMumbai: To maintain the communal harmony between Hindus and Muslims, a 100-year pact has been signed in Burondi village of Ratnagiri district. The notarised pact lays down a code of conduct for members of both
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Pigs, pork to be kept out of Oxford University textbooks to avoid offending Jews and Muslims
World | Jan 15, 2015, 11:28 AM ISTNew Delhi: To avoid offending Muslims and Jews, textbook writers have been asked to refrain from using references to pigs, sausages and other pork- related items by Oxford University Press (OUP). This new development came to
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Aiyar Calls Paris Attack 'Backlash' by Muslims, Cong Distances
National | Jan 09, 2015, 09:10 AM ISTNew Delhi: Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar today described the terror attack in a satirical magazine office in Paris as a "backlash", noting that Muslims were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan without any discrimination
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Pakistani journo irks MJ Akbar, what happened next is commendable!
Mouthful | Jan 15, 2015, 03:59 PM ISTMJ Akbar's befitting reply to Pakistani journalist on ‘India being a Hindu Nation' is a must watch!Where India is proud of its ‘Unity in Diversity' and is scaling new highs of development with each passing
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Muslim quota row: MIM to launch agitation from today
National | Jan 06, 2015, 12:28 PM ISTNew Delhi: Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) has asked all MIM units to submit a memorandum to the district collectors or tehsildars in their respective districts from today to register their protest against the state government's indifferent
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Muslim quota row: MIM to launch stir on Jan 6 against Maharashtra govt
National | Jan 02, 2015, 01:07 PM ISTMumbai: Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) will launch an agitation against Maharashtra government's decision to scrap job reservations for Muslims. The party will hold a rally in Beed on January 6, to be addressed by party President
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Break silence on conversions, Agnivesh tells Modi
National | Dec 31, 2014, 12:51 PM ISTNew Delhi: Arya Samaj leader Swami Agnivesh Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to break his silence on the issue of religious conversions and reassert his agenda of development and said Hindu chauvinists "should fix
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Several injured in clash with cops at disputed Karbala site
India | Dec 31, 2014, 06:43 AM ISTNew Delhi: Several people were injured here Tuesday evening in South Delhi's Karbala area after locals clashed with police when they were stopped by the cops from entering a disputed site during a religious procession.
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Muslims, Christians in India were Hindus: Pravin Togadia
India | Dec 17, 2014, 04:50 PM ISTAhmedabad: Adding fuel to fire in the recent conversion-row, working president of right-wing organisation Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Pravin Togadia said ancestors of Indian Muslims and Christians were Hindus. “The ancestors of Indian Muslims were
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Rajya Sabha to discuss issue of forced conversions today
National | Dec 17, 2014, 09:01 AM ISTNew Delhi: The issue of alleged forced conversion in Agra has been creating ruckus in parliament over the past few days. The Rajya Sabha will discuss the issue today even as the opposition demands Prime
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Mehdi's 60 per cent followers non-Muslims, most Muslims from UK: Govt
India | Dec 15, 2014, 05:21 PM ISTNew Delhi: More than 60 per cent followers of Mehdi Masroor Biswas, the Bengaluru-based executive, who was running a pro-ISIS twitter account, were non-Muslims and a majority of his Muslim followers were from western countries,