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First Sharia-based NBFC to open in Kerala after RBI nod

Last Updated: Sunday, August 18, 2013, 19:33

Outgoing Governor Duvuuri Subbarao, who is retiring on September 4, had earlier said that Islamic banking was not possible in the country.

Australia politician brands Islam a `religion from hell`

Last Updated: Friday, August 16, 2013, 15:50

An Australian politician has branded Islam as a `religion from hell` and claimed that building mosques in the country is high treason.

Imran Khan sends notice to JUI chief over `Jewish Agent` remark

Last Updated: Friday, August 16, 2013, 15:34

Pakistani cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan has sent a legal notice to Jamiat Ulema e Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman.

California man behind anti-Islam film released to halfway house

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 14, 2013, 09:50

The man behind a film that stoked anti-US protests across the Muslim world has been moved from prison to a halfway house to serve the remaining weeks of his sentence, federal officials said on Tuesday.

Top human rights activist arrested in Bangladesh

Last Updated: Sunday, August 11, 2013, 18:26

Bangladesh authorities have arrested human rights activist on charges of misleading people by disseminating "false information" about police crackdown against Hefazat-e-Islam members in May.

Rights group official arrested in Bangladesh

Last Updated: Sunday, August 11, 2013, 15:12

Bangladesh authorities have arrested a senior official of a human rights organisation on charges of misleading people by disseminating "false information".

‘Moustache-man’ Afridi flirting with death in Pakistan

Last Updated: Thursday, August 8, 2013, 23:41

Pakistani businessman Malik Amir Mohammad Khan Afridi has been kidnapped, threatened with death, forcibly displaced and lives apart from his family: all because of his enormous moustache.

Expert on militant Islam as Manning trial witness

Last Updated: Thursday, August 8, 2013, 14:17

Navy Cmdr. Youssef Aboul-Enein is set to testify today at Manning`s sentencing hearing at Fort Meade, near Baltimore.

Pope urges `mutual respect` with Islam in personal

Last Updated: Friday, August 2, 2013, 19:24

Pope Francis called on Friday for "mutual respect" between Christianity and Islam and an end to "unfair criticism" in a personal message congratulating Muslims on the feast of Eid al-Fitr.

US school under fire for pro-Islam history textbook

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 17:15

A Florida school has come under fire for having plenty of course material on Islam, but not so much on Christianity or Judaism.

Now, a TMC MLA threatens to behead Congress leader

Last Updated: Monday, July 22, 2013, 11:46

In another display of the politics of threat in West Bengal, a ruling Trinamool Congress MLA openly threatened to "behead" a Congress leader in Birbhum district.

ICC rejects Libya bid to suspend Gaddafi son handover

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 00:51

The International Criminal Court on Thursday rejected Tripoli`s request to suspend the handover of slain leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam.