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India’s top court to investigate calls for ‘genocide’ of Muslims
The top court’s intervention comes after calls by Hindu religious leaders to take up arms against Muslims during a meeting in Uttarakhand state last month.
India’s Supreme Court has issued notice to a northern Himalayan state following a…
India: man arrested for making app to sell Muslim women
The open source app - Sulli Deals - had been hosted on web platform GitHub in July 2021.
The 25-year-old was arrested days after a similar app - Bulli Bai - uploaded photos of more than 100 Muslim women.
Four students,…
India begins booster jabs as Covid-19 cases surge
Health and frontline workers and people above 60 years with comorbidities are currently eligible to take the jab.
Amid a surge in Covid cases and fear of Omicron variant outbreak, India starts its campaign to give the third…
Protesters trap India’s PM on Punjab flyover in security breach
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was trapped on a flyover for 20 minutes by protesters in Punjab in what is being reported as a serious security lapse.
They were demanding the resignation of a cabinet minister whose…
India hits highest daily COVID cases since September
Several countries see record-high COVID-19 cases as the more infectious Omicron variant spreads.
India has reported the highest number of COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours since early September, bringing the total number of…
India shuts app shared Muslim women’s photos for sale
The accused include developers of the app and Twitter handles that shared the images and content.
The open-source app - Bulli Bai - was hosted on the web platform GitHub, which has since taken it down.
This was the…
Oxfam in India says it’s ‘severely’ affected by foreign-funding license loss
The restriction came into effect from 1 January 2022, Oxfam said.
It added that it will reach out to India's home ministry to "urge" them to lift the restrictions.
This comes a week after India blocked foreign…
At least 12 dead in India’s New Year temple stampede
At least 12 people were killed and several others injured after a stampede at a religious shrine in India.
Pilgrims were visiting the shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi in Indian-administered Kashmir on Saturday when the tragedy…
India: Kashmiri rebels, Indian soldier killed in confrontation with gov’t
Kashmiri rebel groups have been fighting Indian forces for more than 30 years, demanding freedom or a merger with neighboring Pakistan.
Police reported that six suspected rebels have been killed by the government forces in India's…
India approves two new Covid vaccines, bring total to eight
India has approved two new vaccines amid fears of a third wave of Omicron.
The new vaccines - Serum Institute of India's Covovax and Biological E's Corbevax - have both been authorized for "restricted use in an emergency…