Shias, traditional BJP backers, divided over CAAThere seems to be simmering discontent within the Muslim community that has its nerve centre in Lucknow, a hint of which was also seen in I...
Police should show restraint: NCM chief Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi“The protesters should stay away from people who break law while police should be sensitive and cautious while dealing with youth. They are...
Doval meets religious leadersThe National Security Advisor held a meeting with Hindu and Muslim religious leaders on Sunday. The participants favoured more dialogue bet...
RSS, BJP reach out to Muslims ahead of Ayodhya verdict; meeting with clerics, intellectuals heldThe meeting, held at the home of minority affairs minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, was attended by RSS leaders Krishna Gopal and Ramlal, forme...
Don’t play politics, respect verdict: Muslim clericsLeading clerics issued appeals to the Muslim community during prayers at various mosques in Uttar Pradesh on Friday to maintain peace and n...
Babri Masjid: Amicable solution by mutual discussion can be looked at, says Mulayam SinghThe statement by Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav comes close on the heels of spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s meetings with...
Rajnath Singh meets Islamic leaders over IS swayThe Home Minister sought the cooperation of the clerics, who offered all help to the government in this regard, official sources said.
AIMIM's show in Bihar & UP will tell whether Asaduddin Owaisi is close to being the face of Indian MuslimsOwaisi added that his party will go it alone. The BJP, for its part, has reacted with predictable nonchalance to Owaisi’s gambit. The BJP h...
BJP and Narendra Modi have won Muslim votes too: ClericsMuslims too have voted for the BJP in large numbers as they exhorted prime minister-elect Modi to fulfill the promises he has made to the c...
Protests against Karbala land acquisition; 300 detainedAs many as 300 protesters, including Shia cleric Kalbe Jawad, were detained today over acquisition of Karbala land in Jor Bagh area of city.
Lok Sabha elections 2014: Sonia Gandhi's efforts fail to woo MuslimsEven before Sonia met Imam Bukhari — a meeting that has led to a BJP-Congress controversy — she had met the head priest of Lucknow’s Shahi ...
Waqf property dispute: Clerics plan to lay siege to Congress officesMaulana Kalbe Jawad, an influential cleric, said a coordinated protest will also target all Congress constituencies in the battleground sta...
Maulanas protest against Congress on waqf properties land grab issueTaking their long-running protest up one level, prominent Muslim clerics threatened to work against Congress in Sonia and Rahul Gandhi’s co...
Clerics attack Rahul Gandhi, but don’t spare Narendra Modi eitherMuslim leaders, who say both BJP and Cong are two sides of the same coin, are betting on regional parties and third front government after ...
Grab & destruction of property is the last straw: Muslim clericsMuslim clerics are upset with the Congress because the “grab and destruction of waqf property” was the “last straw”.
Not just Narendra Modi, Maulvis now against Rahul Gandhi and Congress on the Waqf land issueSalman Khurshid said while they acknowledge there are grievances, they do not see how agitating against Congress will help the Muslim cause.
Not Congress, regional parties our best bet: Muslim ClericsTwo influential Muslim religious voices have blasted the Congress party for treating the community as a vote bank.