Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Muslim

Egypt Upholds Life Sentences Against 3 Muslim Brotherhood Leaders

Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld life sentences against Supreme Guide of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie and two other senior members of the group, Mohamed al-Beltagy and Safwat Hegazy, in the case dubbed "Arab Police Department" storming in Port Said. The court sentenced six other people to 15 years…

Asharq Al-Awsat

The murky world of Prashasak Samiti: Meet BJP and Adityanath’s social media warriors

Last year in May, the village of Noorpur in Uttar Pradesh made news when its Dalit residents alleged that a marriage procession of theirs had been stopped by a group of local Muslims. The situation became tense enough to warrant armed police being deployed in the area.

Newslaundry

How the Hindu man’s crisis of masculinity fuels Hindutva

As I browse my Twitter timeline, surfing through replies by people clearly identifying themselves as staunch Hindus and, more importantly, as Narendra Modi’s supporters, a common theme emerges: among other religious and political iconography, they use as their display pictures the image of an angry Hanuman’s face, bathed in half…

Newslaundry

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

‘I cannot pay even five rupees, forget 50,000. I’d rather go to jail’: Muslim families in UP’s Sambhal respond to notices for damages

In Sambhal, as in Rampur, the Uttar Pradesh police are reversing a famous Biblical saying: they are visiting the sins of the children upon their families. Only the children’s sins haven’t been proven yet and the families don’t have the means to serve their punishments.

Newslaundry

Citizenship Bill: Police crack down violently on Jamia Millia protest, Aligarh students go on hunger strike

University students across the country continued to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill on Friday. At some places, the protests took a violent turn.

Newslaundry

Survivors’ tale: This film shows how Myanmar planned ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya

Two years after hundreds of thousands of Myanmar’s Muslim ethnic minority were forced to flee in a military-led crackdown, a new film called Mechanics of a Crime, reveals their persecution was premeditated. It comes as thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh agreed to be relocated on Sunday.

Newslaundry

#NewDelhi: What happened in Gali no. 5?

On August 30, a 23-year-old boy Sahil Singh was allegedly beaten to death by a mob in Gali No.5, Vijay Park in Delhi’s Maujpur. Sahil, along with his friend Abhishek Kumar entered into a scuffle with Sanjay Chandraban, a man in his early forties and his minor son, Ayush. Both…

Newslaundry

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

A history lesson for Atul Kochhar

It’s obvious the celebrated Michelin-starred chef Atul Kochhar does not know his roast poussin from his lamb rump. For starters, how could an apparently savvy, accomplished and trained chef not tell the difference between Muslim and Islam when he castigated Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra? In the tweet to Chopra, Kochhar…

Newslaundry

The racism chronicle

The film that took Akshun Abhi, all of 24 years, and the team of 7 Rounds to Cannes is based on last year’s Kansas racial killing in which a 51-year-old Navy veteran shot an Indian techie who was enjoying a drink with a friend in a pub.“Suddenly, this man walked…

Newslaundry

‘Hatred is a disease. It has to be treated’

Tucked in Delhi’s south-east, Jamia Nagar is a sprawling locality home to the Jamia Millia Islamia university as also numerous residential areas around it. It is a curiously mixed place, with small industries, cramped workshops and famous eateries jostling for space with congested housing and visibly unplanned areas. Yet, it…

Newslaundry

Retributive justice, ‘viral’ fear and social media’s helping hand

A video showing two young men being lynched, circulated on social media, fanned violence against Muslims in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar in 2013. The police said it had been recorded at least two years earlier and had no connection to the riots.

Newslaundry

Bantwal, Karnataka’s most brazenly communal constituency

Section 144 was imposed in Dakshina Kannada’s Bantwal taluka, 25 km from Mangalore, from the very first day of Ramzan (May 26) last year. The prohibitory orders were in place for almost 56 days. Despite the precautionary measures, the taluka in coastal Karnataka witnessed two murders and several instances of…

Newslaundry

The battle against rape begins in the living room

The revulsion over the Kathua and Unnao rape cases was fresh in the minds of people when another instance of ugly Indian male chauvinism came to the fore.

Newslaundry

#KarnatakaAssemblyElection: Ayodhya, Tipu and Kits for Minority Journalists

For those who believe elections in India are about roti, kapda, makaan, here is a reminder that they are wrong. Sanjay Patil, the Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker from Belagavi (Rural), who has been given the ticket by the party again this time, is emphatic that the May 12 election is…

Newslaundry

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Newslaundry

Brothers in Arms: The Sangh and the Kibbutz

MS Golwalkar, BJP’s guruji, wasn’t closeted about his admiration for Hitler. His ideas of Hindutva and Hitler’s ethnic cleansing had much in common. Both believed in the creation of modern nation states with only pure races—one by expelling Jews, the other by desiring a similar fate for Muslims. Their vision had…

1 … 190 191 192 193

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

United Nations

38,307 stories

Bharatiya Janata Party

The Bharatiya Janata Party

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.