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India lift maiden Women’s World Cup title with 52-run win over South Africa
Palestinian Journalist Saleh Al-Jafarawi Abducted and Shot Dead in Gaza City
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“TMC’s Muslim Base Will Crumble”: Humayun Kabir Promises to Shatter TMC’s Muslim Vote Ahead of 2026 Bengal Elections
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Waqf Amendment Act 2025 and the Politics of Majoritarian Control
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India
At least 20 people were burnt alive and 16 others seriously injured when a private bus travelling from Jaisalmer to Jodhpur caught fire on...
India
Muslim Women Have Absolute Right to Divorce by Khula Without Husband’s Consent: Telangana High Court
The Telangana High Court has ruled that Muslim women have an absolute and unconditional right to end their marriage through khula, a form of...
India
A Navy clerk has been arrested from the naval headquarters in Delhi for allegedly spying for Pakistan’s intelligence agency, ISI. The man, Vishal Yadav,...
Hate Watch
Nearly all students have been pulled out of a government school in Karnataka’s Chamarajanagar district after a Dalit woman was appointed as the head...
India
Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir, who was suspended after he announced plans to build a replica of the Babri Masjid in Murshidabad, has declared...
India
The Patanjali group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Russian government to work together on promoting health and wellness. The agreement was...
India
Lora Santhakumar, an assistant professor at SRM University in Chennai, has been removed from her post after the university’s internal inquiry claimed she committed...
India
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said the government would “reach every place” when asked whether its focus would now move to...
World
At least 44 people have died in a massive high-rise fire in Hong Kong, officials confirmed on Thursday, as the blaze continued to burn...
World
A volcano in Ethiopia’s northeastern Afar region has erupted for the first time in nearly 10,000 years, and its ash cloud has drifted across...
World
A widespread internet outage on Tuesday affected numerous popular websites and services, including X (formerly Twitter), after technical problems struck Cloudflare, a major internet...
World
Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death by the International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka, after being convicted of crimes against...
India
MD ALI From real to real, the obsession of Hindutva for Muslim monuments has become one of the repetitive themes for their ideological survival....
World
For almost a decade, one of the Muslim world’s most admired public intellectuals has lived beneath a cloud of accusation. Dr Tariq Ramadan—grandson of Imam...
India
Mehebub Sahana, University of Manchester The Ganges, a lifeline for hundreds of millions across South Asia, is drying at a rate scientists say is...
Opinion
Syed Azharuddin The recently passed Waqf Amendment Act 2025 has triggered a wave of protests and constitutional scrutiny across the country. Far from being...
World
Interviewers: K Shabas Haris & Najma Ashraf Yousef Alhelou is a Palestinian journalist, political analyst, commentator, and filmmaker. He actively uses social media platforms,...
India
On May 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of India delivered one of its most significant rulings since 2017 on women’s workplace rights, officially recognising...
Features
Luqmaan Zeerak & Syed Affan In the wake of the April 22 attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 tourists, Kashmir has entered a harsher...
Indian Muslims
In the Sambhal violence on November 24, following the court-ordered survey of Shahi Jama Masjid, five people were reportedly killed in police shootings. However,...
India
Hindu leader Ramgiri Maharaj sparked controversy on January 7, 2025, by claiming that ‘Vande Mataram’ should replace ‘Jana Gana Mana’ as India’s national anthem....
Hate Watch
The Shri Ram Saini, an extremist group affiliated with the RSS recently organised a training camp in Karnataka’s Bagalkot district from December 25 to...
Human Rights
The Delhi Police on Tuesday urged the Delhi High Court to take a “very strict view” on bail applications filed by activists Umar Khalid,...
India
Farmers protesting at the Punjab-Haryana border have announced a tractor march across the country on January 26, continuing their fight for the Centre to...
Hate Watch
In UP’s Kushinagar in the village Nebua Naurangia, a shocking incident came to light. Three Muslim women were beaten and paraded naked over the...