Naushad Kashimji’s (name changed) school adopted a few Sanskrit shlokas as its official prayer for the morning assembly this academic year. Last week, when Kashimji’s principal noticed that he and a few other Muslim students were not singing the prayer, they were punished for it.

Defenders say convict was a teenager when he killed a boy in 2004 and that he was tortured into confessing.

Flood victims have been turned out of shelters by the police and army in Kyauktaw township.

Even until the eve of his 53rd birthday, which was also the day he was supposed to die, Yakub Memon was hopeful that his hanging would be stayed by the President of India.

Women’s groups condemn “all at once” declaration by Muslim men known as “triple talaq” to divorce their wives.

Christians in Tolikara, Papua (Indonesia) stormed a mosque today whilst people were performing the Eid Prayer setting the masjid on fire and attacking the worshipers with stones.

The Silk Road trading centre of Kashgar has been Muslim for centuries, but despite hordes of people thronging the main bazaar, Gulnur’s headscarf shop had barely any customers.

Recalling the horror and trauma they underwent, two Rohingya Muslims, who were in Malegaon to collect donations and Ramadan Zakat, said the community is facing worst humanitarian crisis in Myanmar and is in dire need of aid and support.

The Chinese authorities have been doing all they can to discourage Muslim Uighurs from fasting since Ramadan began. Free slices of watermelon were handed out in the middle of the day at Urumqi’s University of Medicine in Xinjiang, a region with a huge Muslim Uighur population.