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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...

Mob attacks Christians in Chhattisgarh, 8 hospitalised

Hindutva hardliners accused the Christians of conversions, when they were praying at a house church in Dantewada district

Withdraw comments against Quran, apologise: National Commission for Minorities tells Waseem Rizvi

NCM issued notice to the former Uttar Pradesh Shia Central Waqf Board chairman for his plea to Supreme Court seeking ‘removal’ of some verses from the Quran 

Uttar Pradesh: Three deaths, multiple theories, murder or accident?

Three young men were killed, in what the media says is a road accident, but locals fear may be a case of targeted communal violence Varanasi

Mehmood Pracha raids: Delhi court asks police how they plan to protect lawyer-client privilege

Mehmood Pracha’s firm Legal Axis represents several persons accused in the Delhi violence cases

UP man arrested for assaulting Muslim boy for entering temple to drink water

The video was shared widely on social media and was brought to the cognisance on Ghaziabad police through Twitter

What will Waseem Rizvi gain by antagonising the Muslim community?

The ex-Chairman of the Shia Waqf Board has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking ‘removal’of 26 verses of the Quran

The curious case of four men accused of theft, but slapped with attempt to murder!

Azamgarh police arrest four people from Jaunpur district, accuse them of being gang of looters stealing poultry, cattle

Restore Maharashtra State Urdu Sahitya Academy: Rahman Abbas’ appeal to CM Thackeray

One of India’s well-known fiction writers writes an open letter to the Maharashtra Chief Minister to request the resumption of the Urdu Academy free of any political or religious influence.

Delhi court stays search warrant for Adv. Mehmood Pracha’s office raid

Pracha’s office was raided the second time since December 2020, and this time it was done in his absence

Advocate Mehmood Pracha’s office raided again!

Pracha, who is also the lawyer of many accused in the Delhi violence of February 2020, has moved court against the search claiming that it is an intimidation tactic

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