Following demands from Hindutva groups, municipal authorities initially ordered the demolition of the top three floors in October 2024, later extending the order to the entire mosque in May 2025. The Himachal Pradesh High Court has directed that the lower two floors of the Sanjauli Mosque remain intact, while ordering the removal of the top...
Traders say police dismissed identity documents and accused them of being foreigners for speaking Bengali Four Muslim traders from West Bengal’s Murshidabad district have been ordered to leave Odisha’s Nayagarh town within three days after being accused of being Bangladeshi or Rohingya migrants, The Telegraph reported on Tuesday. The men, all from Sagarpara gram panchayat...
“This is a true message of humanity,” said a local cleric, highlighting that the rescued passengers were from the Hindu community In the predawn stillness of Nilam Bazaar on Monday, a faint splash stirred Abdul Basit, the imam of Bodo Badi Jama Masjid, from his sleep. Stepping outside, he saw headlights flickering beneath the surface...
Circular promoting “patriotism and cultural pride” was issued via an official WhatsApp group before being abruptly withdrawn The Rajasthan government on Sunday scrapped an order that had directed schools to observe December 6 – the anniversary of the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition – as “Shaurya Diwas”, a day of valour, officials said. The instruction, circulated...
Assam has carried out multiple eviction and demolition drives since the BJP came to power in the state in 2016, many of them in settlements predominantly inhabited by Bengali-speaking Muslims Authorities in Assam’s Nagaon district have evicted more than 1,500 Bengali-speaking Muslim families from what officials say is encroached reserved forest land, local media reported...
The allegations surfaced days after the SEC extended the deadline for final publication of electoral rolls for all local body polls from December 5 to December 10. Mumbai, India, — The Mumbai unit of the Congress party on Friday alleged that the draft electoral roll for the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections contains 1.1...
Islam was arrested on April 24 after he alleged that the April 22 attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam was a conspiracy by the Modi government to “incite hatred and violence against Muslims”. The Gauhati High Court has struck down the National Security Act (NSA) detention of Assam legislator Aminul Islam, saying authorities failed to...
The searches were described as part of efforts to dismantle what authorities call a “terror support ecosystem” and to prevent plots aimed at disrupting public order.
Growing outrage has erupted in Kashmir ahead of Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam’s upcoming concert at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC) on 26 October, with many locals and social media users calling for a boycott of the event over his past remarks considered Islamophobic. The controversy stems from Nigam’s 2017 comments criticising the use of...
The Prime Minister also announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh for the next of kin of each deceased and Rs 50,000 for each of the injured.