A controversial, fugitive Islamic preacher from India went viral on social media after a video of him having a heated exchange with a girl during his visit to Pakistan emerged where the girl asked the preacher a question about the existence of societal ills, including pedophilia, in Islamic societies.
Indian authorities are investigating a suspected terrorist attack after militants opened fire at a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims to the Shiv Khori cave temple in Indian-controlled Kashmir, plunging the vehicle into a deep gorge and killing nine and injuring 33 others.
A High Court in India rejected a plea for protection filed by a Hindu-Muslim couple, citing that their marriage is invalid as per Muslim Personal Law, which governs all Muslims in India in several aspects, such as marriage and divorce.
Hindu-Muslim Marriage Invalid Under Muslim Personal Law : MP High Court Refuses Protection Plea Of Inter-Faith Couple pic.twitter.com/XPwzTqBOwP
A Tamil Nadu-based podcast, Schumy Vanna Kaviyangal, or SVK, has seen increased harassment from Islamist groups. The harassment eventually escalated into death threats.
A high court in India rejected a plea to protect a Muslim woman and a Hindu man after ruling that her decision to enter into a live-in relationship with the man is illegal under Muslim law, calling it Zina (fornication) and Haram (an act forbidden by Allah).
Just weeks after the northern state of Uttarakhand in India passed a uniform civil code (UCC) that unified personal laws on marriage and divorce and banned certain practices such as polygamy and child marriage, another northern Indian state made an unprecedented move to repeal a colonial-era law on Muslim marriage and divorce to ban child marriage.
A well-known Hindu nationalist organization went to court to prevent two lions named after a 16th-century Mughal emperor and a Hindu deity from sharing a zoo enclosure in the state of West Bengal.
Hindu nationalists go to court over lion named after Muslim emperor in India https://t.co/EevKjGvU4i
Many people worldwide celebrate Valentine’s Day on February 14th with flowers, chocolates, and sweet messages. However, many Hindu nationalists across India were not happy with the event and wanted Indians to stop celebrating it.
Lawmakers in a small Indian state have voted to approve a landmark civil code that will unify personal laws for marriage, divorce, inheritance, and adoption for Hindus, Muslims, and other religious communities, including legislation that will require couples living together to register with the government or face punishment.
From a Mughal-era mosque that was razed by radical Hindu nationalist militants more than three decades ago, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated a newly constructed and highly anticipated Hindu temple that was built in the former mosque’s place, drawing both support and criticism from various groups and sectors of Indian society.
NPR: India's Modi inaugurates a long-promised but controversial Hindu temple in Ayodhya https://t.co/47r8d9zlj4
