The central government plans to “revisit” the Haj subsidy policy as several Muslim organisations have asked for its discontinuation, external affairs minister S. M. Krishna said on Monday.

“Several M

Thousands of Tunisian Islamists took to the streets on Sunday to step up their demands for the creation of an Islamic state in one of the most secular Arab nations.

About 8,000 conservative Salafi Is

The Arab world's most famous actor, Adel Imam, has been sentenced to three months in jail for ‘defaming Islam’ in several roles on stage and screen, the Egyptian comic said on Thursday.

A Cairo court

Iran, which gave contracts to publishers in China to print copies of the Quran, has said the books are full of spelling mistakes, the Mehr news agency reported.

Several Iranian publishers had asked f

Shia cleric and president of All India Shia Personal Board Maulana Mirza Mohammad Athar has made it to the Limca Book of Records for his longest continuous series of sermons for the last 53 years at M

Mumbai: Islam is a great religion but there is a need to isolate those who have distorted its vision, US President Barack Obama told a huge gathering of college students here on Sunday.

"We recognise

A 13-year-old Dalit girl was kidnapped and apparently forced to convert to Islam in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, according to a media report on Saturday. Poonam was kidnapped from her house in

As debate intensifies across Europe on banning the Islamic full-body veil at public places, a British minister has defended a Muslim woman's right to wear the burqa and says it is empowering.

The en

A 23-year-old transgender is about to make history in Pakistan by becoming a doctor.

Sarah Gill, who is enrolled at Jinnah Medical and Dental College in Karachi, told a local daily, "Our community e