The Varanasi District Judge on Monday reserved the order in the Gyanvapi mosque case. The verdict is expected to come tomorrow (May 24). During the proceedings, the maintainability of the Places of Worship Act, 1991 was raised by the Muslim side. The Act provides for the maintenance of the religious character of any place of worship as...
New Delhi: An emergency online meeting of the working committee of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board was convened last night to discuss the attitude of the sectarian forces towards the Gyanwapi Masjid and various masajid and Holy places of Muslims in the country. These issues were discussed in detail. The members realized that on...
The United Arab Emirates’ President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan died aged 73 on Friday, state media said, after battling illness for several years. “The Ministry of Presidential Affairs condoles the people of the UAE and the Islamic world… on the passing of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan on Friday, May 13,” the official WAM...
Popular Front of India Chairman O M A Salam has welcomed the interim order by the Supreme Court preventing the lodging of further FIRs under Sedition Law. Section 124-A of the Indian Penal Code or Sedition Law is a colonial-era relic that has been widely misused by various governments in independent India to deal with...
By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi Assam, the northeastern state of India with one-third Muslims in the state population, has nearly 3.62 lakh landless families in 31 of its 33 districts. They are Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in their own land. This has been mainly because of land erosion and devastation caused by the mighty Brahmaputra river....
Nine people, including a one-year-old girl, died and more than half a dozen were injured in a road accident in Chhattisgarh’s Kondagaon district on Sunday.All the deceased were from the same family, police said. The incident occurred on Sunday, after the autorickshaw they were travelling in collided with an SUV, police said, near Borgaon turn...
The Taliban has announced the names of several members of a new caretaker government in Afghanistan led by Mohammad Hasan Akhund. The Taliban has appointed Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund as the ‘acting’ Prime Minister in the new Afghan government, with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and Mullah Abdus Salam being his deputies. The lesser know Mohammad Hasan...
Uzbekistan will allow girls to wear headscarves in schools in a bid to ensure devout Muslim families send their daughters to school so that female attendance can increase, the Central Asian country’s Education Ministry said. The decision follows the amendment earlier this year to the country’s law on freedom of conscience, allowing women to wear the...
Former J & K legislator and separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has passed away at the age of 92 in his Srinagar residence. He was an MLA from the Sopore constituency of Jammu and Kashmir in 1972, 1977 and in 1987. Geelani was a stalwart leader of the Hurriyat Conference who was ailing for...
America said it destroyed an explosive-laden vehicle with an air strike in Kabul on Sunday that killed a suicide car bomber suspected of preparing to attack the airport, U.S. officials said, as the United States nears the end of its massive airlift of tens of thousands of Afghans and military presence in the capital. A Taliban...