New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) In a bid to tone down the row over its fatwa against the singing of 'Vande Mataram', clerics from the Deoband Islamic seminary have said they won't ...

Hyderabad, Nov 5 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Salman Khurshid Thursday criticised the endorsement of a fatwa against the singing of "Vande mataram" by Muslims, saying some people ...

Bhopal, Nov 5 (IANS) It is not un-Islamic to sing "Vande mataram", two prominent Muslim groups in Madhya Pradesh said Thursday, two days after the clerics' body Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind approved an earlier ...

London, Nov.5 (ANI): Hardline al Shabaab insurgents who seized the southern Somali port of Kismayu have banned "corrupt" musical ring tones.Al Shabaab, which America says is al Qaeda's proxy in Somalia, wants ...

Deoband (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 3 (IANS) Urging terrorists and Maoist rebels to lay down arms, an Islamic cleric Tuesday assured them the community would help them take up their cause. "If terrorists and ...

Deoband (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 3 (IANS) Emphasising that communalism was against "pluralism" and opposed "political freedom to people", union Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday called for tolerance to "strengthen the ...

Saharanpur (UP), Nov 3 (ANI): Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said that india cannot view Islam as an alien faith. Speaking at the 30th general session of the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind here, Chidambaram ...

Deoband (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 3 (IANS) Citing the contribution of Muslims to the building of modern India, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Tuesday that India cannot view Islam as an "alien ...

New York, Oct.1 (ANI): Notwithstanding the huge monetary assistance that the United States is planning for Pakistan to help the troubled nation fight extremism and reduce anti-America sentiments, a majority of ...

Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 21 (IANS) As Muslims offered prayers in large numbers at mosques dotting towns and cities in Kerala Monday, superstar Mammootty too joined in the Eid festivities by praying at an ...

Tehran, Sep 13 (DPA) The office of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sued a senior religious leader, or Ayatollah, over "insulting remarks" against the president, Fars news agency reported Sunday. An informed source ...

Baghdad, Sep 11 (DPA) One prisoner was killed and 40 others injured in riots in the western Baghdad prison formerly known as Abu Ghraib, media reports said Friday. Prisoners set fire to Baghdad ...

Kabul, Aug 14 (IANS) Voters in Afghanistan have been urged to turn out in large numbers for the Aug 20 general elections in a campaign run by the election commission and the ...

Nairobi/Mogadishu, Aug 12 (DPA) Five Pakistani clerics have been shot dead during an attack on a mosque in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region, reports said Wednesday. Armed men entered the mosque in Galkayo town ...

By Khalid Akhter New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) Do bigamy and Islam go together? The Law Commission of India doesn't think so. Indian clerics of all hues disagree. But they don't seem to ...

Lahore, Aug 4 (ANI): The desecration of mosques, imambargahs and other places of worship and the killing of innocent people through suicide attacks and remote-controlled bombs is against Islam, humanity and Pakistan, ...

By Joginder Tuteja Mumbai, Aug 2 (IANS) Even as the governments of Pakistan and India still debate if they should talk to each other, Pakistani musician Shahvar Ali has come up with ...

New York, July 5 (ANI): Defying Iran's supreme leader and emerging as one of the most public signs of a major split in the country's clerical establishment, the most important group of ...

Chandigarh, July 2 (IANS) Strongly criticising a Delhi High Court judgement decriminalising homosexuality, Sikh clergy and religious leaders in Punjab Thursday called the ruling a "black day" for mankind. Avtar Singh Makkar, president ...

Chandigarh, July 2 (IANS) The Sikh clergy and religious leaders in Punjab Thursday protested a Delhi High Court ruling decriminalising homosexuality in the country. "This verdict of Delhi High Court is clearly against ...

By Vishnu Makhijani Astana, June 30 (IANS) Academics, clerics and leaders from 60 nations, including India, have gathered in the Kazakhstan capital for a global conference of faith and civilisations where they will ...

Tehran, June 24 (DPA) The best way to settle the dilemma over the controversial results of Iran's presidential elections would be formation of an independent committee, a statement released on opposition leader ...

Washington, June 19 (ANI): Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei today said that the recent presidential elections showed off the country's religious democracy for the world to see, shrugging an unprecedented challenge to ...

Islamabad, June 18 (IANS) Peace would remain elusive till extremism was eradicated from Pakistan, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Thursday, vowing to bring to its logical end the war on ...

Lahore, June 17 (ANI): After claiming the responsibility for carrying out the suicide attack on Jamia Naeemia here, in which the country's top religious scholar Dr. Sarfraz Naeemi was killed, the ...

New York/Washington, June 6 (ANI): Jihadi bloggers have reportedly reacted with dismay and shock over Muslim scholars welcoming US President Barack Obama's address to Muslims from Cairo on Thursday. According to CBS, ...

Kohat, May 19 (ANI): The Pakistan Government has started discreet negotiations through religious clerics with the deputy chief of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan for the rehabilitation of Sikh families, evicted from Orakzai Agency. A ...

Islamabad, May 17 (IANS) Pakistani clerics said Sunday suicide bombings and beheadings carried out by the Taliban is un-Islamic and urged Islamic nations to help Islamabad in the fight against militants. Sarfaraz ...

Washington, May 13 (IANS) Roxana Saberi, the American-Iranian journalist who was released Monday after spending more than three months in prison, was convicted of spying for the US because she had a ...

Lahore,May 6 (ANI): The Pakistan Ahl-e-Sunnah parties have asked the government to file a case of treason against the Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) chief Sufi Muhammad. Declaring Sufi Muhammad a 'rebel of sharia and the ...