By Asit Srivastava Lucknow, Nov 12 (IANS) Even as Vande Mataram is once again being debated, discussed and dissected after a fatwa on singing the national song was re-endorsed by an Islamic seminary ...

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 ...

Mathura, Nov. 7 (ANI): Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Saturday slammed Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan for stating that migrant labourers from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh would not be welcomed ...

Lucknow, Nov 7 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Vinay Katiyar Saturday asked union Home Minister P. Chidambaram and renowned yoga guru Swami Ramdev to "apologise to the country for ...

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 ...

By Subhash K Jha Dismissing the 'fatwa' by Jamait-e-Ulema Hind against Vande Mataram, renowned lyricist, poet and film scriptwriter Javed Akhtar says, "This controversy is old and obsolete. Vande Mataram is part ...

New Delhi, Nov 4 (ANI): No resolution was passed during Home Minister P. Chidambaram's visit to the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUH) conference at Deoband on Tuesday. According to Home Ministry statement, no resolution ...

Deoband (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 3 (IANS) Terrorists and Maoists were urged Tuesday to give up arms by a mass gathering of Muslim clerics at India's oldest Islamic seminary here, prompting Home ...

Petaling Jaya (Malaysia), Oct.1 (ANI): The Sisters in Islam (SIS) has said the decision to whip part-time model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno for drinking beer undermines the Malaysian Government's efforts in portraying ...

By M. Rajaque Rahman It has become almost fashionable for a Muslim to say 'Islam is in danger'. The religion whose literal meaning is peace is today seen as the root cause of ...

London, Aug 4 (ANI): Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, the only female writer with a fatwa on her head, has refused to apologise for infuriating fundamentalists ahead of a secret visit ...

New Delhi, July 28 (IANS)The vilest crimes are committed in the name of defending the honour of a family or a woman and "we should hang our heads in shame" when ...

New Delhi, July 28 (ANI): Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday expressed his deep resentment over violence against women, saying "we should hang our heads in shame" for incidents like ...

By Bindu Gurtoo, CNS So the French president has gone and done it. In the first presidential address in the French Parliament since 1848, the esteemed President talked about… the Burqa! By declaring, ...

Moradabad, July 3 (ANI): A day after the Delhi High Court overturned ban on gay sex, Muslim clerics in Moradabad have issued a fatwa against homosexuality. The Delhi High Court on Thursday had ...

Dhaka, June 29 (IANS) A widow was whipped 202 times and a man 101 times following a fatwa by a religious leader for their alleged involvement in "anti-social activity" in a village ...

Washington, June 15 (ANI): The Obama administration has refused to acknowledge the re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "There is an awful lot of questions about how this election was run," Vice ...

Dhaka, May 26 (ANI): Memories of the grainy video of a teenage girl being publicly flogged in Swat in Pakistan came rushing back when a 22-year-old unmarried woman in Bangladesh was ...

By Sharat Pradhan Lucknow, May 16 (IANS) The dramatic comeback of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh was not foreseen even by its own leadership. In a state that sends the largest number of ...

Milan Char (Assam), April 19 (IANS) The call of the muezzin echoed quite a distance as most men, old and young, left their chores and rushed to the nearest mud-and-straw mosque for ...

New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) The Election Commission Friday issued notice to Imraan Kidwai, who heads the Congress party's minority cell in Chandigarh, for his alleged inflammatory remarks during a campaign ...

By Azera Rahman Bali, March 8 (IANS) Many Islamic scholars in Indonesia agree with Indian clerics that yoga doesn't contradict Islam and point to many similarities between the two. Their views are helping ...

Bali, March 4 (IANS) Never mind the recent ban in Indonesia on certain elements of yoga, the first International Bali-India Yoga Festival has attracted hordes of people. If anything, the ban has ...

Bali, March 3 (IANS) Yoga doesn't contradict Islam and is a means to healthy living, a well known Islamic scholar said here Tuesday, barely weeks after a fatwa was issued in Indonesia ...

Bali, March 3 (IANS) Barely weeks after Islamic leaders in Indonesia issued a "fatwa" against yoga, a well known Islamic scholar Tuesday came out strongly in support of yoga as a means ...

Dubai, Feb. 22 (ANI): Saudi Arabias prominent scholar Sheikh Mohamed Al-Najim has said those who use alcohol-based bio-fuels in their cars could be committing a sin. Najimi is a member of the ...

London, Feb 15 (IANS) Twenty years on from global protests over the publication of "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie, the storm itself has ended -- but the world has had to ...

Tehran, Feb 11 (IANS) Iran Wednesday said the fatwa to kill British-Indian author Salman Rushdie was still valid even after 20 years of its issuance, IRNA news agency reported. The fatwa ordering the ...

New York, February 9 (ANI): Four failed marriages have not stopped Sir Salman Rushdie from being a charmer or so it seemed after the stunning Pia Glenn was recently spotted on ...