NEW DELHI – Prominent Islamic scholar and author Maulana Muhammad Yusuf Islahi passed away at a hospital in Noida on Tuesday after a brief illness. Bon on July 9, 1932, in Formulli, Attoc district (now in Pakistan), Islahi acquired his primary education in Bareilly,...
Mayor-elect Ghalib was born in Yemen and came to the United States alone as a young man, with a smattering of broken English and little else Hamtramck (USA): Hamtramck will become the first known city in the US with a government made up entirely of Muslims, according...
Around 8 pm on Wednesday, a fire broke out at a Rohingya camp in Haryana’s Nuh district, gutting over 30 shanties and displacing 102 Rohingyas. As per Sabbir Ahmed, founder of Rohingya Human Rights Initiative, no casualties were reported and the fire, suspected to...
Indian Union Muslim League MPs give adjournment motion notice in the Parliament to discuss the proposal cleared by Union Cabinet that raises the minimum age of marriage of women from 18 to 21 years. The Muslim League leaders alleged that the new move is a planned one...
The United States House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to approve a Democratic proposal for a U.S. State Department office to address Islamophobic bias after a Republican congresswoman used an anti-Muslim slur against a Democratic colleague. The bill, authored by...
KABUL: The US dollar has depreciated against the afghani, Afghanistan’s national currency, from 130 afghani days ago to 95 afghani on Thursday, reports said. Officials of Sara-i-Shahzada, the largest money changers market in Afghanistan, were quoted by the...
Stepping up the demand for reservation for Muslims in Maharashtra, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi cited that while 83 percent of the community in Maharashtra were landless, only 8 percent of the Marathas were landless. “As many as 67...
By Abdul Bari Masoud New Delhi: As usual the Tablighi Jamaat kept cryptic silence on the Saudi Islamic Affairs ministry’s vague Tweets obliquely referring or without naming it “one of gates of terrorism”, but latching with alacrity onto it, the Hindutva-inspired...
Give permission for more mosques, free Waqf properties from government control, says AIMBPL general secretary Khalid Saifullah Rahmani NEW DELHI – All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has taken strong objection to Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal...
Umar Malick, former president of Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), a US-based advocacy group of Indian expats, passed away on Monday in Santa Clara, California. He was around 50 years old. IAMC confirmed the death in a press statement saying they are saddened by...