Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy said temples in remote locations were under attack and the attacks occurred at midnight. A day after temple idols were vandalized in Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday attacked the opposition for allegedly discrediting his government. Without naming the …
Read More »Pakistani regional government to finance construction of destroyed temple | Religion news
Dozens of people arrested, including a local Islamic leader, after a Muslim mob destroyed a temple in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A Hindu temple in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that was destroyed by a Muslim mob earlier this week will be rebuilt with funds from the provincial government, its …
Read More »Pakistan arrests more than a dozen for attack on Hindu temple | Conflict news
Pakistan police arrested more than a dozen people in night raids the day after Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj Samadhi, a Hindu temple, was burned down and badly damaged by a mob in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakthunkhwa, authorities said on Thursday. The attack on the temple on Wednesday in …
Read More »Uttar Pradesh files first case within hours of passage of anti-conversion law | Bareilly News
BAREILLY: Hours after the UP ordinance against “forced” religious conversion went into effect, a 22-year-old man from Bareilly He was booked for “threatening to kidnap” and convert a 20-year-old woman, a girl he knew from school who is now married to someone else. The FIR was presented on the basis …
Read More »Under the anti-conversion law, the first case of UP registered in Bareilly | Bareilly News
BAREILLY: Uttar PradeshThe first case reported under the newly enacted Illegal religious conversion law has been registered against a 22-year-old college student in Deorania Police Station in Bareilly district late on Saturday. The young man had been forcing a 20-year-old interfaith married woman to change her. religion and start living …
Read More »Uttar Pradesh’s ‘love jihad’ law goes into effect as of today, governor approves ordinance
By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: November 28, 2020 1:30:17 pm Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel passed an ordinance against forced or “dishonest” religious conversions on Saturday. (Express file photo Javed Raja) Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel on Saturday gave his consent to an ordinance enacted by …
Read More »Will do ‘surgical strike’ on Hyderabad old city if BJP wins polls: BJP chief
BJP MP Bandi Sanjay’s comment prompted a strong reprimand from TRS acting chairman KTR. Political discourse surrounding the upcoming municipal elections in Hyderabad reached a new low on Tuesday, with BJP Telangana state chairman and MP Bandi Sanjay calling for a surgical attack on the Old City area of Hyderabad, …
Read More »In India, a vocal Muslim party broadens its base | India
Mudassir Nazar’s family has traditionally voted for opposition parties defending secularism, but in the recently concluded elections in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, they voted for the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul- party. Muslimeen (AIMIM), who advocates for the rights of Muslims and other marginalized groups. “Our town [Bohita] Almost unanimously …
Read More »Kamal Nath-Digvijaya Singh ‘Real Gaddars’, says Scindia after the overwhelming victory of the loyalists at MP Bypolls
By winning key seats in Madhya Pradesh, Tuesday’s bypoll results surely did not disappoint Rajya Sabha MP Jyotiraditya Scindia, whose political future was fixed on him. Despite seven of its loyalists, including three lost ministers in the Gwalior-Chambal region, Scindia garnered a massive share of votes for the Bharatiya Janata …
Read More »France: Charlie Hebdo reprints offensive cartoons of the Prophet | News
The French satirical newspaper whose Paris offices were attacked in 2015 is reprinting controversial cartoons of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad that gunmen who opened fire on its newsroom cited as their motivation. The move was announced Tuesday, a day before 13 men and a woman accused of providing weapons and logistics …
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