Muslims in India

MUSLIMS IN INDIA NEWS

What Telangana Congress doesn’t realise: There can be no social justice if it excludes Muslims

June 14, 2025 1:02 pm

Telangana government, in its recent cabinet expansion, gives representation to all other marginalised communities, except Muslims

Decode Politics | PM Modi's 'Muslim quota' attack on Congress: What lies beneath?

April 24, 2024 10:01 pm

14 Muslim groups identified as backward were given 4% quota in united Andhra in 2004; UPA govt's 4.5% sub-quota within OBC pool was quashed by court in 2012, but Cong's 2014 manifesto talked of a similar move

'Our religion does not tell us to look down at other religions': Farooq Abdullah

April 23, 2024 5:38 pm

The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said that it was unfortunate that the PM had said such a thing as Islam teaches that everyone should be treated equally.

Renaming of cities is not about rewriting history —it's about killing memory

December 25, 2023 10:16 am

Those who resist it do so as an act of staking equal claim to public spaces, asserting themselves as citizens who cannot be erased from public life

Rights activist Harsh Mander writes: The line between the vigilantes and the state seems to be blurring in Haryana

February 25, 2023 9:00 am

The death of Junaid and Nasir are evidence of the dangerous consequences of state authorities joining hands with vigilantes

SC to set up fresh 5-judge bench to hear pleas challenging polygamy, 'nikah halala'

November 24, 2022 3:34 pm

While polygamy allows a Muslim man to have four wives, 'nikah halala' is a process under which a divorced Muslim woman has to first marry another person, consummate it and get a divorce from the second husband, if the couple were to remarry after a compromise.

It is not criticism by moderate Muslims that fuels Islamophobia

October 13, 2021 7:29 am

Javed Anand writes: It is fuelled when they are silent about the unsavoury words and deeds of some Muslim individuals and organisations.

Who is responsible for the communal divide in India?

October 02, 2021 7:38 am

Balbir Punj writes: British furthered Hindu-Muslim divide, but role of Islamic invaders must not be glossed over.

Survey: 50 per cent cops feel Muslims naturally prone to crime

August 28, 2019 2:31 pm

It also found that 35 per cent of police personnel interviewed for the survey think it is natural for a mob to punish the “culprit” in cases of cow slaughter, and 43 per cent think it is natural for a mob to punish someone accused of rape.

In five years, India's largest minority has been cleaved from basic entitlements of democratic citizenship

April 18, 2019 9:13 am

The Muslims of India are different than their brethren in other parts of the world because they are the only Muslims on the planet (except Turkey) who have cherished 72 years of uninterrupted democracy.

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