The authorities in Assam’s Nagaon district on Saturday launched an eviction drive to clear encroachments from 795 hectares of reserved forest land, where about 1,500 families – all of them Bengali-speaking Muslims – had been living.
Pope Leo XIV has visited Istanbul’s famed Blue Mosque on the third day of his trip to Turkiye, his first known visit as leader of the Catholic Church to a Muslim place of worship.
A confrontation inside Naharlagun’s Jama Masjid in Arunachal Pradesh has now gone viral after two leaders of the Arunachal Pradesh Indigenous Youth Association (APIYO) challenged the mosque’s cleric for refusing to say “Bharat Mata ki Jai”.