Mirpurkhas (Pakistan): More than 270 members of 40 Hindu families belonging to the Bheel community embraced Islam in village Gulzar Khalil near Bachao Band, Umerkot district on Monday.
Kolkata: Shiraz Hussain, a artist of South Kolkata, will present an aluminium map of India to PM Manmohan Singh, on which he has painstakingly inscribed the verses from Quran.
Kottayam (Kerala): As per the details published by Department of Economics and statistics, out of 19,53,646 population the so called Minority Religions counts for 9,88,057 while the Hindu population is only 9,63,497.
'First she learnt to read Urdu followed by Arabic and is now memorising the Koran, a rare thing for a non-Muslim girl. It all appears to be god's wish,' said Hafiz Azam, a teacher at the seminary.
An Islamist group in Pakistan has forced a Sikh, who had converted to Islam 29 years ago, to leave his village in Peshawar's Tirah Valley after his house was set on fire and his son kidnapped for not embracing "authentic Islam".
Genetic studies have suggested that Muslims in northern India are mostly descendants of local people who embraced Islam rather than repositories of foreign DNA deposited by waves of invaders.
Some Sindhi leaders here today announced restrictions on girls of the community
in the wake of two of them eloping with Muslim youths in the past fortnight, but the central
Sindhi Panchayat distanced itself from the move.
A Muslim body here today said it had excommunicated a youth of the community
who married a Sindhi girl after converting to Hinduism but a leading cleric distanced
himself from the move, saying the matter was never placed before elders.
Hindu rightwing organisations here Monday demanded that a Muslim boy who had reportedly run away with a Hindu girl and married her be arrested and the girl handed over to her parents.
