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Feb 14, 2025 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Meryl Sebastian |Neyaz Farooquee
Why Muslims in India are opposing changes to a property lawSeveral Muslim groups have called the proposed changes politically motivated [Getty Images]A proposal to amend a decades-old law that governs properties worth millions of dollars donated by Indian Muslims over centuries has triggered protests in the country. The properties, which include mosques, madrassas, shelter homes and thousands of acres of land, are called waqf and are managed by a board.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
bbc.com | Meryl Sebastian
Trump and Modi spoke on Monday, their first interaction since the US president took office last week.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Geeta Pandey |Meryl Sebastian
A Muslim couple in India have been hounded out of their newly-purchased home by their Hindu neighbours who said they would not allow them to live there because of their religion. Hindu residents of the posh TDI City – an upscale residential bloc in the northern city of Moradabad – began protesting on Tuesday night after news of the sale became public.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Geeta Pandey |Meryl Sebastian
Uddhav Thackeray to return to NDA? Devendra Fadnavis drops BIG hint on ex-ally’s ‘ghar wapsi’The alliance between BJP and the Shiv Sena fell out after Uddhav Thackeray decided to walk out of the NDA in 2019 and formed a government in …
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Geeta Pandey |Meryl Sebastian
The incident resulted in a huge outrage in India after a video from the protest went viral.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
sg.news.yahoo.com | Meryl Sebastian |Neyaz Farooquee
Why there's no song and dance around India's killer airAmitabh Bachchan wore a mask in some scenes in the 2016 Bollywood film Pink [Screengrab from Pink's trailer]In the 2016 Bollywood hit Pink, a scene introducing Amitabh Bachchan’s character shows the actor emerging from his home on a winter morning into Delhi’s smog-filled streets, wearing a mask. The mask and Delhi's smoggy air feature in other scenes of the film but are of little relevance to its plot.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Meryl Sebastian |Neyaz Farooquee
Why there's no song and dance around India's killer airAmitabh Bachchan wore a mask in some scenes in the 2016 Bollywood film Pink [Screengrab from Pink's trailer]In the 2016 Bollywood hit Pink, a scene introducing Amitabh Bachchan’s character shows the actor emerging from his home on a winter morning into Delhi’s smog-filled streets, wearing a mask. The mask and Delhi's smoggy air feature in other scenes of the film but are of little relevance to its plot.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Meryl Sebastian |Neyaz Farooquee
In the 2016 Bollywood hit Pink, a scene introducing Amitabh Bachchan’s character shows the actor emerging from his home on a winter morning into Delhi’s smog-filled streets, wearing a mask. The mask and Delhi's smoggy air feature in other scenes of the film but are of little relevance to its plot. Yet, it is one of the rare examples of mainstream Indian films taking notice of the deadly air that makes many parts of India dangerous to live in every year.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
businessandamerica.com | Meryl Sebastian |Neyaz Farooquee
A proposal to amend a decades-old law that governs properties worth millions of dollars donated by Indian Muslims over centuries has triggered protests in the country. The properties, which include mosques, madrassas, shelter homes and thousands of acres of land, are called waqf and are managed by a board.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Meryl Sebastian |Neyaz Farooquee
A proposal to amend a decades-old law that governs properties worth millions of dollars donated by Indian Muslims over centuries has triggered protests in the country. The properties, which include mosques, madrassas, shelter homes and thousands of acres of land, are called waqf and are managed by a board.
