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After the Gujarat High Court acquitted 17 out of 32 convicts in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case, a victim on Friday said that eight members of her family were killed before her eyes during the clash.In the Naroda Patiya riot, atleast 97 Muslims were killed ...

'She was just a little girl. She didn't understand religion. Who is Hindu, who is Muslim.''She was just 8! Why punish her?'The family of the eight-year-old girl who was gang-raped and murdered in Jammu's Kathua district say everything has changed since that horrific crime.Rediff.com's Swarupa Dutt reports. IMAGE: The mother of the eight-year-old girl who was gang-raped and murdered sits before her clothes in their home in Rasana village, Kathua district, Jammu.The Bakarwal community they ...

At least 115 supporters of a pro-Iranian Shiite Muslim group were arrested in the Nigerian capital on Monday during the latest protest to demand the release of their detained leader, a police spokesman said.Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, head of the Islamic Movement ...

The horrific incident of Asifa rape and murder case, that has stunned entire country and has left nothing in killing humanity. The alleged rape and cruel murder of eight-year-old from Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua in a Hindu-temple has spread outrages against ...

'Will this communal pendulum, which is swinging towards the extreme of division and violence, ever swing back to its position of the '60s and '70s within my lifetime?''Or will my children, and their children, have to continue to suffer the consequences of the country, that we all love, torn apart along communal lines,' asks Najid Hussain in anguish. Reading recent articles by Harsh Mander (Sonia Sadly, external link) and Ramachandra Guha (Liberal Sadly, external link), and the generous ...

[USA], Mar 6 (ANI): China has allegedly detained dozens of Chinese Muslim women in its restive Xinjiang province, located in the north-western part of the country, for marrying Pakistani men belonging to Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region of Pakistan. This issue ...

[India], Mar. 02 (ANI): The students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Friday staged a demonstration in the city against the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Syria. Scores of students took to the street holding placards and raising slogans like "UNO down," ...

Jamida K is the first Indian Muslim woman to lead the Friday prayers.'I don't care if they kill me because what I have done is historical; nobody can take it away from me,' she says. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com On January 26, when Jamida K (popularly known as Jamida teacher) led the jumma prayers in a village in Kerala's Malappuram district, she was breaking centuries of Shariat convention and creating history as the first Muslim woman to do so in the country. The 35 year old led the ...

Countering the BJPs claims that as many as 26 RSS/BJP workers had been murdered in the last four years, Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy told the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday that only nine Hindus had died in communal incidents during the said period. He also ...