Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday accused the Congress of being anti-backward classes and said if the party comes to power in Haryana, it will snatch reservation for them and give it to Muslims. Addressing a ‘Backward Classes Samman Sammelan’ here, Shah referred to the Kaka Kalelkar Commission formed in the 1950s to provide … Read more
Washington: There has been a “concerning increase” in anti-conversion laws, hate speech, and demolitions of homes and places of worship for members of minority faith communities in India, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. In his remarks at the release of the annual State Department report on international religious freedom, Blinken said on … Read more
Since Hamas launched its unprecedented attack on Israeli civilians, killing 1,139 people and kidnapping at least 251 hostages, Israel’s retaliatory actions have pushed the country towards an economic crisis. Israel’s eight-month bombardment of the Gaza Strip has resulted in the deaths of at least 37,300 people, displaced nearly 1.7 million civilians, left more than 10,000 … Read more
Patna: A newly elected MP of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) on Monday found himself at the centre of a controversy for laments about “Muslims and Yadavs” not voting for the BJP-led NDA. In a video clip that has gone viral on social media, Sitamarhi MP Devesh Chandra Thakur can also be heard ruing … Read more
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed Hajj pilgrims on Saturday in a series of posts on social media platform X, formerly Twitter. Khameni told Hajj pilgrims to disassociate from the US and Israel. “This renunciation of the Zionist regime and its supporters, in particular the government of the United States of America, must … Read more
Yahya ben Yosef, one of the last Jews of Yemen, passed away last Thursday, and was buried by Muslim neighbors in his community, Israeli media reported on Sunday. Ben Yosef was reportedly buried in the village of Madar, north of Sana’a in Yemen, Ynet noted in their report. He had family in Israel. Reports … Read more
Asserting that the Calcutta High Court has exposed the “treachery” of the TMC with the OBCs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday slammed the Mamata Banerjee-led government in West Bengal for ”snatching the rights of OBC youths” for appeasement politics and “vote jihad”. Addressing an election rally in Barasat, Modi, without naming West Bengal Chief … Read more
Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani received an 11th-hour stay of execution on Sunday amid a high-stakes global campaign to save his life from the Islamic Republic’s brutal justice system. He was slated to be executed on Monday. New details about Ghahremani, held in Kermanshah Central Prison in Western Iran, indicated that his execution was postponed until … Read more
MUMBAI: Samajwadi Party MLA Rais Shaikh on Saturday said that the ‘social engineering‘ experiment between Muslims and Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA) for the Lok Sabha elections has proven successful and will ensure the victory of MVA candidates in Mumbai and Maharashtra. The SP workers will be fully active in the next two days to boost voter … Read more
Powerful Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is laying the groundwork for a political comeback two years after a failed and ultimately deadly high-stakes move to form a government without his Shi’ite rivals, multiple sources said. His return, likely planned for the 2025 parliamentary election, could threaten the growing clout of rivals including Iraqi … Read more
