Afghan Taliban vow to implement media ban on images of living thingsAfghanistan's Taliban morality ministry pledged Monday to implement a law banning news media from publishing images of all living things, w...
14 Oct, 2024, 06.06 PM IST
Taliban say it's absurd to accuse them of gender discriminationThe Taliban have denied accusations of gender discrimination and human rights violations as Australia, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands...
27 Sep, 2024, 02.18 PM IST
Taliban imposes new restrictions on women, bans public speakingAfghanistan's Taliban regime has implemented new restrictive laws, requiring women to cover their entire bodies, prohibiting them from publ...
24 Aug, 2024, 11.24 AM IST
Iran's president proposes an ex-nuclear negotiator as foreign minister. A woman is also on the listIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian nominated Abbas Araghchi as foreign minister and Farzaneh Sadegh for roads and housing, potentially Ira...
11 Aug, 2024, 06.07 PM IST
YouTuber, Indian Idol contestant Farmani Naaz faces flak from Muslim clerics for singing 'bhajans'Muslim clerics in Deoband have harshly criticised Farmani Naaz, an Indian Idol contestant and YouTuber, for singing 'bhajans'.
02 Aug, 2022, 07.56 PM IST
Afghan refugees recall horror stories of homeRefugees from Afghanistan who have either fled to India or are waiting for their visas to be processed, and are presently in Kabul, said th...
16 Aug, 2021, 08.59 AM IST
Taliban launch multi-pronged assault on Mazar-e-Sharif, in North AfghanistanMunir Ahmad Farhad, a spokesman for the provincial governor in northern Balkh province, said the Taliban attacked the city from several dir...
14 Aug, 2021, 12.37 PM IST
Zakir Musa slams Indian Muslims for not joining jihad, calls them ‘world’s most shameless'Former Hizbul Mujahideen commander Zakir Musa, in his first message as an al-Qaeda operative, released an audio recording on Monday slammin...
14 Jul, 2018, 09.24 AM IST
Muslim women will no longer live under fear of talaq: M J AkbarThe Minister of State for External Affairs noted that the legislation would "benefit the country...community and the nation ...and will pro...
28 Dec, 2017, 09.11 PM IST
How female qazis took the law into their own handsBMMA established the Darul Uloom Niswaan in 2016 to train women from across the country. Of the 30 that enrolled, 13 have finally been awar...
27 Aug, 2017, 10.32 AM IST
Freedom from triple talaq: Goa shows the wayIf a referendum with secret voting is held among Muslim women, they will surely opt to abolish triple talaq and polygamy . But they are not...
03 Apr, 2016, 10.26 AM IST
Terrorist in new ISIS video may be of Indian-originSiddhartha Dhar, also known as Abu Rumaysah, had skipped bail and fled Britain in 2014 with his wife and their four children to join ISIS i...
05 Jan, 2016, 03.42 PM IST
92 per cent of Muslim women in India want oral triple talaq to go: StudyIn a first of its kind study, the women have unequivocally voiced their dissent against the discriminatory practice of triple talaq with 92...
21 Aug, 2015, 11.09 AM IST
All fatwas not irrational, some wise & for general good: Supreme CourtNEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed its unwillingness to delve into the legality of the parallel Sharia courts or examine the...
26 Feb, 2014, 04.28 AM IST
Pak Taliban negotiators meet militants leaders on peace talksTwo negotiators representing the Pakistani Taliban in the peace talks with the government have met the militant leadership in the lawless N...
09 Feb, 2014, 03.07 PM IST
Muslim law board to join Ayodhya appeal in SC?No one on the All India Muslim Personal Law Board ( AIMPLB) will admit it right now but it looks all set to become a litigant in the Ayodhy...
10 Oct, 2010, 06.29 AM IST
- Mush set to quit army within days: Officials
Pervez Musharraf is set to resign as army chief and become Pakistan's civilian president by the weekend, officials said on Wednesday as the...
21 Nov, 2007, 06.51 PM IST