
New York: The New York Police Department targeted Muslim mosques with tactics normally reserved for criminal organisations, according to newly obtained police documents that showed police collecting the license plates of worshippers, monitoring them on surveillance cameras and cataloging sermons through a network of informants. The documents, obtained by The Associated Press, have come to light as the NYPD fends off criticism of its monitoring of Muslim student groups and...

10:51 PM, Feb 24, 2012

Newark: Americans living and working in New Jersey's largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department's effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive even the city's mayor says he was kept in the dark. For months in mid-2007, plainclothes officers from the NYPD's Demographics Units fanned out across Newark, taking pictures and eavesdropping...

07:01 AM, Feb 23, 2012

A day after the verdict, all is calm in Ayodhya. Amid tight security, Friday prayers were held at the mosques in a calm and cordial atmosphere. ...

04:53 PM, Oct 01, 2010

Mosques in the US are facing more scrutiny, including the proposed Islamic center and the mosque near Ground Zero. ...

12:45 PM, Sep 03, 2010
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What is the right balance between expression of religious belief and national values? Is Europe suffering from xenophobia in the name of secularism? Will forcing ...

05:19 PM, Apr 23, 2010

The Apex Court has banned all encroachments in the name of religion. ...

03:44 AM, Sep 30, 2009

The restriction will apply to places of worship of all communities. ...

04:00 PM, Sep 29, 2009

As per recent revelations, FBI had planted a spy in a S California mosque. ...

01:01 AM, Apr 17, 2009

Rebuffed by the clergy, the Army has stopped its Operation Sadhbhavana programme to reconstruct sufi shrines and mosques. ...

07:07 PM, Jun 04, 2007

The Army's initiative to renovate mosques and shrines in Jammu and Kashmir isn’t getting the response it expected. ...

12:04 AM, May 31, 2007

Friday's attack was another in a series of terror attacks on mosques and temples that have happened in last year. ...

01:05 AM, May 19, 2007

The girls, numbering a few hundreds, addressed media and threatened to push back police and paramilitary troops. ...

08:01 PM, Feb 06, 2007

There was talk of demolishing the mosque about a decade ago because the govt thought it was an encroachment. ...

11:08 PM, Oct 22, 2006

Vishwa Hindu Parishad gave ultimatum to Bhopal district administration to demolish all mosques constructed on govt land. ...

06:53 PM, Sep 19, 2006