Myanmar President Thein Sein has declared martial law in four townships following violent ethnic clashes between the Buddhists and Muslims. Dozens of people have been killed and many have been displaced due to the unrest. ...
09:25 AM, Mar 24, 2013
Special courts would be set up soon for Muslim youth accused of various offences, including terror-related charges, Minister for Minority Affairs K Rahman Khan said in New Delhi on Saturday. ...
03:00 AM, Mar 24, 2013
More than 120 people have been injured in clashes between opposition protesters and Islamists near the headquarters of Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood in the capital. The violence erupted after activists protesting against the Islamists' policies and targeting of journalists, marched to the building guarded by police and Brotherhood members. ...
08:53 AM, Mar 23, 2013
At least 42 people were killed, including a senior Muslim cleric, and over 80 wounded in an explosion at a mosque in downtown Damascus on Thursday. A suicide bomber set off an explosive device at the mosque during a religious lesson being given by Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti, a top Sunni Muslim preacher and long time supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, state-news agency SANA reported Thursday. ...
07:40 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Government has blocked a total of 254 URLs (web addresses) or uniform resource locators in 2013, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. Of the total URLs blocked, 60 URLs were of sites hosting videos of the film Innocence of Muslims and 194 URLs were blocked in compliance of court orders, Minister of State for Communication and IT Milind Deora said in a written reply to Lok Sabha. ...
07:21 PM, Mar 13, 2013
The police must answer why innocent Muslims are being implicated in terror cases When in doubt about a terror investigation, blame the most readily ...
06:54 AM, Mar 13, 2013
Hundreds of Christians clashed with police across Pakistan on Sunday, a day after a Muslim mob burned dozens of homes owned by members of the minority religious group in retaliation for alleged insults against Islam's Prophet Muhammad. ...
04:16 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Across India dozens of young Muslims are being arrested, some tortured for their alleged links with terror. However, in many cases there is complete lack of evidence; the police are being forced to admit that the arrests were wrong. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 04, 2013
The dance by about 400 young men was a rare moment of light-hearted expression of dissent amidst political turmoil that has left dozens dead and hundreds injured. ...
09:56 PM, Mar 02, 2013
Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf on Friday announced the end of his self-imposed exile and said he would return to his country as it needs a third alternative in politics. Musharraf said he would return to Pakistan within one week of the formation of an interim government. ...
06:43 PM, Mar 01, 2013
A series of bombings struck Baghdad and towns south of the Iraqi capital on Thursday, killing at least 22 and wounding dozens in areas that are home to mostly Muslim Shiites - the latest evidence of rising sectarian discord in Iraq. The attackers struck a day before tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims are expected to take to the streets in what have become weekly protests against the Shiite-led government...
11:05 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Families of those killed in last week's bombing in Quetta have refused to bury the dead as a mark of protest. 89 Shia muslims were killed in the blast and 200 others were injured. ...
09:42 AM, Feb 19, 2013
Thirty years after the Nellie massacre in Assam, in which almost 1800 people were hacked, the survivors still wait for justice. With most cases dropped by the police, and pittance of compensation paid, the victims have also lost all hope for justice. ...
11:56 AM, Feb 18, 2013
The death toll in a devastating bomb attack that targeted Shia Hazaras in Quetta city of southwestern Pakistan rose to 81 as several persons died in hospital and bodies were pulled out of the rubble of collapsed buildings, officials said. About 40 people were killed instantly when hundreds of kilograms of explosives hidden in a water tank loaded on a tractor-trolley were detonated in a busy market at Kirani Road...
01:50 PM, Feb 17, 2013
Five months after YouTube was banned in Pakistan for hosting clips from a controversial anti-Islam film, authorities have said there are no plans to remove restrictions on the popular video-sharing website in the immediate future. ...
01:56 PM, Feb 14, 2013
While much work has been done on exploring and exposing communalism in India, relatively little attempt has been made to understand its conjoined twin, secularism. ...
05:54 PM, Feb 13, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party registered one more victory in Gujarat by sweeping the polls in the Salaya municipality in Gujarat's Jamnagar, where 90 per cent of the population is Muslim. The BJP put up 24 Muslim candidates in a total of 27 seats, all of whom won. ...
09:18 AM, Feb 13, 2013
Kashmiri-origin students on Monday held a silent march at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) campus to protest against the country's criminal justice system following the hanging of Afzal Guru in the Parliament attack case. ...
03:04 PM, Feb 11, 2013
No other Bollywood star has been in as many controversies as Shah Rukh Khan. Recently in the news for an article on being Muslim, the actor now says he won't speak on anything political or religious. ...
07:29 AM, Feb 08, 2013
Amidst demand for action against VHP leader Praveen Togadia for allegedly making provocative speeches, the Centre has asked the Maharashtra government to probe the charges and book the Hindu outfit leader if he is found to be violating laws. ...
02:32 PM, Feb 07, 2013
