SITAPUR: The acting is dire and the scenarios fake, but staged videos are peddling disinformation and fanning sectarian tensions in India, which has seen rising Hindu radicalisation under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. One such five-minute film purported to show a Muslim man mixing toilet cleaning liquid
New Delhi: An Indian court has restricted Al Jazeera from airing or releasing a documentary on “hate crimes against Muslims” in the country, media reports said. According to a report published in Indian news website The Wire, the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday restrained the Doha-based
London: Islamic charitable groups in the UK donated £20.2 billion ($24.4 billion) to local and international causes last year, according to an official report. More than 165,000 groups or individuals contributed to the total, according to the study by the National Council for Voluntary Organizations, reported
Mumbai: The Muslim leaders have said that the Muslims have never felt so insecure, feeling under Bharatiya Janata Party-Narendra Modi government in India. The prominent minority leaders and intellectuals like Maharashtra Samajwadi Party President Abu Asim Azmi, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen state President and MP Syed
Guwahati: The death toll after ethnic clashes in India’s remote northeast rose to 54 on Saturday, with fresh violence overnight despite authorities rushing in troops to restore order. Thousands of soldiers were sent to Manipur state after a protest march by a tribal group turned violent
Telegana: Union Home Minister Amit Shah vowed to scrap reservations for Muslims in Telangana if the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in the state. The Assembly elections in Telangana will be held later this year. Addressing a rally at Chevella near Hyderabad, Shah described the
New Delhi: In another Islamophobic diatribe, Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati, a Hindu militant priest, notorious for hate-mongering and misogynist speeches, has once again spit venom against Muslims, now urging his followers to attack Makkah and seize Kaaba. “Hindu Rashtra is a dream, we will not only capture
Jerusalem: Muslim worshippers packed Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa compound for noon prayers on the fourth Friday of the holy month of Ramadan under heightened Israeli police presence. The prayers ended peacefully amid simmering tensions in a year-long escalation of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Israeli police raids at the sacred compound last
Chhattisgarh: Members of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Hindutva group Vishwa Hindu Parishad on April 10 pledged the economic boycott of Muslims and Christians in Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur days after communal clashes took place in the state, reported The Hindu. Communal clashes had erupted in Bemetara district
New York: The new Indian text books for children have either diluted or completely omitted some significant references, including to Mahatma Gandhi’s opposition to Hindu nationalism, and the 2002 riots in Gujarat, where hundreds of Muslims were killed in days of indiscriminate violence at a