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(Al-Jazeera) Rights groups say the forced deportation of Rohingya to Myanmar is a ‘cruel disregard for human life and international law’.

Mohammed Shariff Baba Budangiri Dargah or Dattatreya Peetha in Chickmagalur of Karnataka popularly referred to as Ayodhya of the South is in the news again. Recently, remarks by Hindu nationalist bloc including BJP ministers have worsened the situation. They are armed with the Karnataka High Court order of 28 September …

Lucknow — More than 600 families in Lucknow will now get an Iftar spread from Saturday when Ramazan begins. Owing to the pandemic, the 183-year-old Nawabi kitchen at Chhota Imambara was shut for two consecutive years. The Nawabi kitchen has a tradition of providing Iftar, the meal served to those …

(The Quint) One tribal man was killed on the fateful night. Another succumbed to his injuries a week later.

Waquar Hasan On its 200th anniversary on 27 March, journalists associated with Urdu media commemorated Urdu journalism’s contribution to the nation in particular. They lamented that the language, which played a crucial role in India’s freedom struggle, has not got its due in the independent India as it has become …

(The Print) India’s ‘lost’ children are usually trying to escape from something: crippling poverty, deprivation, violence, abuse, or simply unbearable pressure to perform well in exams.

(Clarion India) Bushra and Lamya, proudly wear hijab, showing that the ban on headgear in educational institutions is wrong

By Arshi Qureshi Many Muslim families in Uttar Pradesh are concerned about their lives and livelihoods as the BJP returns to power. “Do you think we’ll be able to do anything if the BJP retakes power?” We are 20%, they are 80% – obviously, we will bear the brunt of …

Arshi Qureshi On 24 February, 2020 – Shahrukh’s mother Shehnaaz was waiting for her son to return home from Ijtema (an Islamic congregation). “Before leaving for the Ijtema, he informed us that he would return in the afternoon; at the time, we had no idea that riots had broken out …

Arshi Qureshi “Each day feels like a year; I wonder what sin I committed that I have to go through this agony,” Saleem Khan wrote in one of his letters to his family. So far, Saleem had written approximately 200-300 pages of letters from the Mandoli jail. It has been …