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News

Govt reaches out to Muslim community ahead of Ramzan

States have been consulting with community leaders to ensure that people conduct prayers at their homes

1 min read22 Apr 2020
Mint-lounge

Opinion | A Savarkar in the Qutb Shahi court

The Qutb Shahi court was a balance of factions: there was a Persian Shia faction, a Sunni party of Indian Muslims, groups of Hindu warlords, and eventually a powerful Brahmin bureaucratic establishment

5 min read7 Dec 2018
Mint-lounge

Lessons on communal harmony

An ambitious new study proposes Hindu-Muslim relations in India as a model for Europe to follow

5 min read19 Oct 2018
News

Rome's Colosseum turned red to protest Pakistan blasphemy law

Hundreds gathered outside Rome's Colosseum to hear the husband and daughter of Asia Bibi, who has been on death row in Pakistan on charges of blasphemy

1 min read25 Feb 2018
Mint-lounge

Jodhabai: More than Akbar's wife

Jodhabai was described by a contemporary as 'a great adventurer', she towered over phenomenal business enterprises even while sequestered in the Mughal harem

4 min read17 Feb 2018
Opinion

Outrageous statements shouldn't be taken lightly

BJP MP Vinay Katiyar's statement on Taj Mahal soon becoming Tej Mandir, however outlandish it might sound, cannot be taken lightly

4 min read8 Feb 2018
Opinion

Hadiya broke no law

As an adult Hadiya has the right to make her own decisionson marriage, on religion or anything elseeven if it seems wrong to her family

4 min read30 Nov 2017
Politics

SC asks father of Kerala woman to produce her before court on 27 November

Supreme Court directs the father of a Kerala woman, who had converted to Islam and married a Muslim man, to produce her before it on 27 November

1 min read30 Oct 2017
Education

UGC panel suggests changing AMU, BHU names; govt says no such plan

HRD minister Prakash Javadekar says the government has no intention to change names of Banaras Hindu University and Aligarh Muslim University

1 min read9 Oct 2017
Politics

Activists, women petition Chief Justice of India to end triple talaq

In a letter to CJI J.S. Khehar, activists said Muslim women are eager for a judgment which would end the practice of triple talaq

1 min read11 Aug 2017