On April 5, India President Droupadi Murmu gave her assent to the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025. The new law, which has been renamed the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency, and Development ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — The implementation of the law has been one of the key poll promises of Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the run-up to the general election, which is scheduled to be held by May ...

NEW DELHI, Feb 11 (Reuters) - (This Feb. 11 story has been refiled to clarify that India is home to the third-largest Muslim population in the world, in paragraph 8) Shayara Bano heaved a sigh of ...

India's parliament passed a controversial bill that amends laws governing Muslim land endowments, known as waqfs, by including non-Muslims on the boards that manage these properties and increasing ...

KOLKATA, India, April 14 (Reuters) - Protesters angered by a new law on land use they say discriminates against Muslims set fire to police vehicles in Kolkata, capital of India's West Bengal State, on ...