Dubai: India is facing major diplomatic outrage from Muslim-majority countries after top officials in the governing Hindu nationalist party made derogatory references to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), drawing accusations of blasphemy across some Arab nations that have left New Delhi
New Delhi: India tightened public security after the circulation of a letter warning of militant attacks to avenge derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) by an official of the ruling Hindu nationalist party. Several Indian media groups shared the June 6 letter attributed to al
Uttar Pradesh: A teenager from Uttar Pradesh, India, shot his mother dead after she prohibited him from playing mobile phone games and then hid her body for two days, reported NDTV. The police reported that the 16-year-old boy murdered his mother using his father's licensed gun
New Delhi: Videos from an Uttar Pradesh village show locals slapping and harassing three Muslim fakirs (ascetics) who were begging for alms. Videos shared on social media show the men being forced to do sit ups and chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. According to NDTV, the incident
New Delhi: Before the assembly elections in March this year, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Uttarakhand had repeatedly raised the purported issue of “large-scale migration of Muslims” to the state. Then, on the last day of campaigning, chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami announced that
Kolkata: Lashing out at the former haratiya Janata Party (BJP) spokespersons Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal for their derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), Chief Minister of the Indian state of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee, on Thursday, said that heinous statements like
Gamderba: The recent violence in India-occupied Kashmir overshadowed celebrations for a Hindu festival, with crowds a fraction of their usual size despite heavy security to mollify fears of an attack. The annual gathering takes place at the Kheer Bhawani temple, a short drive from Srinagar, and
Dubai: More than 90 women plan to file lawsuits against the FBI, accusing former agents at the agency of botching the sex abuse investigation into former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, the New York Times reported. Olympic gymnastics gold medalists Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla
Moscow: The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said that Russia violated 1,444 worshippers’ right to religious freedom when it declared the Christian organization an “extremist” group in 2017. “The court found that the definition of ‘extremism’ was overly broad in Russian law and had been
Seoul, South Korea: South Korea and the United States put on an aerial show of force to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, flying 20 fighter jets over waters west of the Korean Peninsula in response to Pyongyang's recent missile tests. The allies sent the jets