Minority Scholar

An elderly man was convicted and sentenced by a Kerala court to a cumulative of 56 years imprisonment for repeated aggravated sexual assault of a minor boy who went to the convict for Islamic classes.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a charge sheet against a 35-year-old PhD scholar from Tamil Nadu in an ongoing investigation of a case related to online child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAM), said an official release.

Over a thousand academicians and research scholars have in a statement expressed support to the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the amended citizenship law that fast-tracks the process of giving citizenship to persecuted non-Muslims from three neighbouring countries.

A group of advocacy organizations has awarded its annual prize for human rights defenders to imprisoned Chinese Muslim minority economics professor Ilham Tohti, shining new attention on a case that has brought strong international condemnation.

The Madras High Court on Tuesday stayed suspension of a Muslim research scholar of a state-run unviversity, holding that the action was taken on a suspicious criminal case and it went against the government's push for inclusiveness of minorities and Dalits in higher education.

Seven minority students working for a website run by a prominent Muslim Uighur scholar recently convicted of separatism stood trial on the same charge on Tuesday in China's far west region of Xinjiang, a rights lawyer said.

A Muslim Uighur scholar accused of separatism sought to show on Thursday that his writings and classroom lectures, including rhetoric saying Chinese are dragons and Uighurs are wolves, were not a campaign to split his native Xinjiang region from China.

An outspoken Chinese minority scholar was indicted on separatism charges amid a renewed flare-up of bloody anti-government violence in the country's far west.

An outspoken Chinese minority scholar has been indicted on separatism charges amid continuing anti-government violence in the country's far west.

A 25-year-old PhD scholar at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting his 13-year-old sister-in-law, police said on Sunday.

A 13-year-old girl got pregnant after allegedly being raped repeatedly by her brother-in-law, who is a PhD scholar in Jawahar Lal Nehru University and lives in South Delhi's Vasant Vihar area, police said.

The BJP's minority cell in Maharashtra gathered on Tuesday at the Mahim Dargah in Mumbai and offered prayers for the NDA's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on his 63rd birthday. Around 50 Muslims, largely all men with BJP flags and Modi-masks, offered the traditional chaddar at the shrine of Islamic scholar Makhdoom Ali Mahimi and said the...

An elderly man was convicted and sentenced by a Kerala court to a cumulative of 56 years imprisonment for repeated aggravated sexual assault of a minor boy who went to the convict for Islamic classes.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a charge sheet against a 35-year-old PhD scholar from Tamil Nadu in an ongoing investigation of a case related to online child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAM), said an official release.

Over a thousand academicians and research scholars have in a statement expressed support to the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the amended citizenship law that fast-tracks the process of giving citizenship to persecuted non-Muslims from three neighbouring countries.

A group of advocacy organizations has awarded its annual prize for human rights defenders to imprisoned Chinese Muslim minority economics professor Ilham Tohti, shining new attention on a case that has brought strong international condemnation.

The Madras High Court on Tuesday stayed suspension of a Muslim research scholar of a state-run unviversity, holding that the action was taken on a suspicious criminal case and it went against the government's push for inclusiveness of minorities and Dalits in higher education.

Seven minority students working for a website run by a prominent Muslim Uighur scholar recently convicted of separatism stood trial on the same charge on Tuesday in China's far west region of Xinjiang, a rights lawyer said.

A Muslim Uighur scholar accused of separatism sought to show on Thursday that his writings and classroom lectures, including rhetoric saying Chinese are dragons and Uighurs are wolves, were not a campaign to split his native Xinjiang region from China.

An outspoken Chinese minority scholar was indicted on separatism charges amid a renewed flare-up of bloody anti-government violence in the country's far west.

An outspoken Chinese minority scholar has been indicted on separatism charges amid continuing anti-government violence in the country's far west.

A 25-year-old PhD scholar at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting his 13-year-old sister-in-law, police said on Sunday.

A 13-year-old girl got pregnant after allegedly being raped repeatedly by her brother-in-law, who is a PhD scholar in Jawahar Lal Nehru University and lives in South Delhi's Vasant Vihar area, police said.

The BJP's minority cell in Maharashtra gathered on Tuesday at the Mahim Dargah in Mumbai and offered prayers for the NDA's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on his 63rd birthday. Around 50 Muslims, largely all men with BJP flags and Modi-masks, offered the traditional chaddar at the shrine of Islamic scholar Makhdoom Ali Mahimi and said the...