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India ruling party has no Muslim MP for the first time in history

Modi’s BJP is left with no Muslim parliamentarian after Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi resigns as the minorities affairs minister.

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

How BJP wrested back control of India’s richest state Maharashtra

After days of political drama experts say was orchestrated by BJP, a coalition gov’t falls and a new leader is sworn in.

Maharashtra political drama

Who is Mohammed Zubair, Indian journalist arrested by Modi gov’t?

Alt News co-founder has long been in the BJP’s crosshairs for his relentless debunking of fake news and false claims.

Mohammed Zubair

Muslim journalist running fact-checking website arrested in India

Delhi Police arrest the Muslim co-founder of leading fact-checking website, accusing him of insulting Hindu sentiments.

Mohammed Zubair

New spinning wheel may boost India’s hand-woven pashmina business

Poor wages, competition from cheap shawls from mechanised mills have dealt severe blow to real pashminas for many years.

Shaista Bilal working on a spinning wheel which works with a pedal

Nikhat Zareen becomes fifth Indian woman to win world boxing gold

The 25-year-old boxer from Telangana state beat Thailand’s Jitpong Jutamas at the Women’s World Boxing Championships.

Nikhat Zareen

Indian climate activist, 10, invited to East Timor inauguration

Licypriya Kangujam to attend Nobel winner José Ramos-Horta’s presidential oath-taking as a special guest of honour.

Licypriya Kangujam

‘Textbook repeat’: India courts hear Hindu-relics-in-mosque pleas

India’s top court and court in Varanasi hear petitions by Hindu groups claiming Mughal-era mosque has Lord Shiva relics.

Gyanvapi Mosque

India: Muslim group takes ‘dangerous bulldozer politics’ to court

Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind’s plea in Supreme Court as properties mainly belonging to Muslims are bulldozed in BJP-ruled states.

Protest against demolitions in India

‘Harassment’: Amnesty official barred from leaving India

Aakar Patel says immigration authorities stopped him from flying to the US after he was placed on a ‘look-out circular’.

Executive Director, Amnesty international India, Aakar Patel