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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...

Tablighi Jamaat: K’taka HC conditionally quashes criminal cases against 9 foreigners

They are to leave the country immediately and not to return to India for a decade

Bengaluru riot: 3 dead, journalists beaten up by cops, vehicles gutted

Naveen, nephew of Congress MLA Srinivas Murthy, allegedly posted communal remarks on Facebook, setting of a night of violence, arson, deaths

NFIW report on Jamia violence finds men and women were sexually assaulted

Even a chemical gas that left people unconscious and immobile was also used but was unidentified as no blood test was carried out to ascertain its properties

Indian Muslims in the crosshairs after Times Now report on anti-Modi audio message?

Message being allegedly spread by phone calls urges people to not let the Prime Minister hoist the tricolour at the Red Fort this year

Hydrabad: Sedition charges re-invoked against 2 Muslim women for protesting Ayodhya verdict

The women had been booked last year in November for organising a congregation against the Supreme Court’s verdict

Christian groups demand justice for Dalit minorities

Petition in SC asking for extension of Scheduled Caste status to Christians and Muslims hailing from historically oppressed castes

India’s composite culture and Muslim stalwarts

Blaming Education ministers who were Muslims adds to Islamophobia in India.

‘Say Modi Zindabad’, order criminals as they thrash old Muslim man 

Gaffar, a 52-year-old autorickshaw driver from Sikar, Rajasthan, was beaten till unconscious after also being forced to chant 'Jai Shri Ram'

Police fuelling Systemic Communalism in Kerala?

Allegations of communal bias in response to and treatment of cases involving Muslims

An officer and a gentleman

From our Communalism Combat archives (Nov-Dec 1994), here is an exclusive piece by activist Harsh Mander where he gives a moving account of a humane and impartial administration’s encounter with the storm-troopers of hate in Madhya Pradesh

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