'Most Dargahs, Mosques Will Be Threatened'

'The new Waqf bill sows the seed for conflict in every town and village of India.' < IMAGE: A protest against the Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024 in Kolkata, April 4, 2025. Photograph: ANI Photo......

Bengal minister Firhad Hakim defends Muslim population remarks

Firhad Hakim, a senior minister in West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress, has defended his remarks on the Muslim population in the state and India, saying he is a diehard secular and patriotic......

Bypoll boost for NDA in Bihar, Assam, Meghalaya; jolt in Bengal

The juggernaut of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance, which triumphed in three of the four east and north-eastern states that went for assembly bypolls on Saturday, was......

Protesters want Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus as interim govt chief

The leaders of the Students Against Discrimination on Tuesday said they want Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus as the head of Bangladesh's interim government, a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina......

Islamic nations to form trading group

Muslim nations will form a preferred trading group by the end of the year aimed at greater economic integration among the Organisation of Islamic Conference countries, while plans are afoot to form......

How India can be an affluent society by 2039!

India to be an affluent society by 2039. The statement may raise many an eyebrow now but India 2039, an Affluent Society in One Generation, a book edited by Anil Sood and Harinder S Kohli, and......

India to get its first Islamic bank

The Kerala High Court on Thursday cleared the way for setting up the country's first Islamic bank in this state. The court nod came after it dismissed two PILs challenging the setting up of an......

Pak favours onland Indo-Iran pipeline

Former Pakistani Oil Minister Usman Aminuddin on Friday made a strong appeal to India to consider importing natural gas from Iran through an onland pipeline passing through Pakistan."This is a......