Category: India

On July 31, 2025, a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Mumbai delivered its verdict in the long‑running 2008 Malegaon motorcycle bomb blast case. All seven accused—including former BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur and Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit—were acquitted due to lack of “cogent and reliable evidence.” The court ruled that UAPA charges could…

A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Mumbai is scheduled to deliver its verdict today, Thursday, July 31, 2025, in the nearly 17-year-old Malegaon blast case. The incident occurred on September 29, 2008, when an improvised explosive device attached to a motorcycle detonated near a mosque in a Muslim-majority area of Malegaon, Maharashtra, killing six people…

The U.S. Department of State has imposed sanctions on six India‑based companies involved in the import or trade of Iranian‑origin petroleum and petrochemical products. This action is part of a broader sanctions package targeting 20 entities worldwide for engaging in what the U.S. called “significant transactions” in sanctioned goods. The Indian firms designated are: Alchemical…

Sharjeel Imam, a research scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Muslim community leader, currently jailed over protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), has announced his intention to contest the Bihar Assembly elections as an independent candidate from the Bahadurganj constituency in Kishanganj district. Incarcerated since January 28,…

A 30-year-old woman, Shama (Sama) Parveen Ansari, originally from Jharkhand and residing in Bengaluru’s Hebbal area, was arrested on July 29, 2025 by the Gujarat Anti‑Terrorism Squad (ATS). She stands accused of operating Facebook pages and an Instagram account with over 10,000 followers to distribute extremist content linked to Al‑Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS). Her online…

An Indian national identified as Abhay Devdas Nayak, aged 41, was arrested after allegedly impersonating a Muslim and making bomb threats aboard an EasyJet flight from London Luton to Glasgow on July 27, 2025. During the flight, he reportedly shouted phrases including “Allahu Akbar,” “Death to America,” and “Death to Trump,” causing panic among passengers and forcing an emergency…

A Delhi court has directed law enforcement to register a fresh FIR in the case of a Muslim family targeted during the February 2020 pogrom in Northeast Delhi. The family alleged that they were attacked in a violent communal incident, and that the police had previously failed to act on their detailed complaint—thus diluting the…

Mohammed [Last name withheld] and 184 other Hindu refugees of Pakistani origin were formally granted Indian citizenship on July 25, 2025, in a ceremony held in Rajkot, Gujarat. The recipients, settled across Kutch, Morbi, and Rajkot districts, received their citizenship certificates from Harsh Sanghvi, the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs (The New Indian Express). During…

Jamia Hamdard University has withdrawn 150 MBBS seats and 49 postgraduate medical seats for the 2025–26 academic year, effectively eliminating its entire medical admissions quota amid a deeper institutional dispute. The decision followed a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report alleging financial irregularities involving a ₹813 crore diversion from the Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences & Research (HIMSR)…