On April 5, India President Droupadi Murmu gave her assent to the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025. The new law, which has been renamed the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency, and Development ...

Although India is the largest democracy in the world, the rise of right-wing ethnonationalism under Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slowly unraveling the secular democratic fabric of Mahatma Gandhi’s ...

NEW DELHI, Feb 11 (Reuters) - (This Feb. 11 story has been refiled to clarify that India is home to the third-largest Muslim population in the world, in paragraph 8) Shayara Bano heaved a sigh of ...

NEW DELHI – India's government on Wednesday approved an ordinance to implement a top court ruling striking down the Muslim practice that allows men to instantly divorce. The government decision came ...

NEW DELHINEW DELHI — In the Indian capital’s Shaheen Bagh neighborhood, beside open sewers and dangerously dangling electricity wires, a group of Muslim women in colorful headscarves sit in resistance ...

Assam recently became the second Indian state to pass a Bill for banning polygamy. Despite the criminalisation of polygamy ...

India is home to some two hundred million Muslims, one of the world’s largest Muslim populations but a minority in the predominantly Hindu country. Since India’s independence, Muslims have often faced ...

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NEW DELHI — India’s government on Wednesday approved an ordinance to implement a top court ruling striking down the Muslim practice that allows men to instantly divorce. The government decision came ...