Oh, thrill of reading dangerous books!A number of books found themselves removed from Texas school libraries, and reinstated last week, for supposedly extolling 'pornographic fi...
When touching up become haraamKate Middleton faced criticism for editing a photo with her children after her January surgery. The land of setting tabloids like The Sun a...
‘He used to be late all the time’: Bollywood veteran Prem Chopra reveals why Rajesh Khanna couldn’t sustain his stardomBoth the superstars (Bachchan and Khanna) were seen in two Bollywood classics- ‘Anand’ (1971) and ‘Namak Haraam’ (1973).
Sanyas from your harem of devicesMaharaja of Machines is passé. A true aristocrat is tired of polygadgetophilia.
Portrait of an Iranian journo as a fact-tellerPosting, airing or publishing unpleasant truths can be problematic, especially in closed societies like Iran. A picture showing a couple gr...
Surrogate adverts, a sinful loopholeLiquor and cigarettes companies reek of sin for trying to cajole India's soft-minded into procuring their bad, dangerous but completely leg...
- Qurbani to Burkini, Grenoble Gets It Right
And keeping France's culture and tradition in mind, it has also allowed women to continue to swim topless in the Alpine city's swimming poo...
Jai jawan, jai kisan: Enjoy not one, but two spectacles on Republic DayThe ‘Kisan Ganatantra Parade’ by farmers protesting against GoI’s farm laws is neither as shocking nor as ‘namaak haraam’ an act as it seem...
One more time, with less feeling!Do meme-sahebs worried about things racist seem silly? Or are they actually silly?
Javed Akhtar calls to end azaan on loudspeakers, says it causes discomfort to others"In India for almost 50 years Azaan on the loud speak was Haraam. Then it became Halaal and so halaal that there is no end to it, but there...
New threat in J&K: Homegrown suicide bomberAs per a line of thought in Islam that in emerged West Asia, suicide committed in furtherance of jihad is not ‘haraam’ as the suicide attac...
Trolls back at work, attack Mohammad Kaif for a Christmas postKaif had posted a picture of his family by a Christmas tree on his social media handle.
When Rajesh Khanna ridiculed Amitabh Bachchan's punctualityKhanna believed that clerks were punctual and that the Big B was not a clerk, but an artist.
Pakistani clerics issue fatwa in favour of transgender marriagesIt stated that a trans person having "visible signs of being a male" may marry a woman or a trans with "visible signs of being a female" an...
- Muslim body rejects HC verdict on Ayodhya
A body of Muslim scholars and clerics, who gathered at Jama Masjid on Thursday, rejected the verdict of the Allahabad high court on the Ayo...
- Businessmen ask govt to start Islamic banking in India
Some leading Muslim businessmen from Uttar Pradesh have asked the government to allow Islamic banking in India.
- 'Pak intelligence agencies supporting 'jehadis'
Pakistani clerics have accused the intelligence agencies in the country of supporting 'jehadi' organisations whose actions now cannot be ch...