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Equal Inheritance Rights for Muslim Women: Upholding Constitutional Justice and Gender Equality

March 17, 2026 Press Statement by Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) wholeheartedly welcomes the recent observations made by the Supreme Court of India during...

Hate Watch: Right-Wing group sing bhajans in Karnataka church as “protest” 

Archbishop of Bengaluru had warned against such vigilante after Karnataka’s Backward & Minority Welfare Department proposed a survey of “Christian missionaries and places of worship”

Survey of Karnataka’s Christian missionaries and places of worship, a dangerous exercise: Archbishop

When conversion bogey, anti-religious feelings are being whipped up, it is dangerous to make such surveys, says Archbishop of Bengaluru Archdiocese Peter Machado

CJP moves NCM over hate crimes against Muslims in Madhya Pradesh

Since August, right-wing groups have reportedly threatened and assaulted Muslims in the State

CJP approaches minorities commission over attacks on Christian nuns, prayer congregation in UP

Right-wing goons have allegedly targeted the minority community, falsely accusing them of conducting religious conversion

Muslim boy had come to do “recce”: Yati Narsinghanand 

The 10-year-old had wandered into the temple as he was new to the area, and didn't understand the "consequences" this could have had for someone from his religion 

J&K government directs Migrant staff not to leave Kashmir

The order states that any absence from duty will be dealt with as per service rules

Uttar Pradesh: Who are these Hindutva mobs prowling the streets, targeting minorities?

Over a dozen were targeted on Sunday, including two nuns, mobs accused them of conversion, thrashed, and marched them to police station

Gujarat: Mob brutally attacks two teenage Madrasa students on a busy road

The teenagers were beaten up after being identified as Muslim due to their attire, they are badly injured and hospitalised

Indore: Police file FIR against Muslim family that was attacked ‘for not leaving village’ 

Madhya Pradesh, is witnessing the targeting of poor, lesser educated, Muslims, especially in the interior areas, says SC advocate Ehtesham Hashmi 

Friday Sermons Urge Protection for Kashmiri Pandits/Sikhs in kashmir Valley

Representation ImageIn a welcome development, two prominent Mosques in...

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