Muslim women
- India
Video: Right-wing group harasses women at fair in UP, sparks outrage
In a disturbing incident, a group of young Muslim women was targeted by right-wing Hindutva men at a fair in Uttar Pradesh’s Milikhan Jahanpur village of Firozabad city. The incident came to…
- India
Waqf Amendment Bill: Women to be included as board members
New Delhi: The Muslim women have been empowered further by the Central government as they have been also included as members of the Waqf boards. Some of the key provisions of the…
- India
Journo Rana Ayyub’s number leaked; harassed via texts, calls
A prominent Indian journalist and author, Rana Ayyub has become a target of vicious harassment after her phone number was leaked on X by a right-wing account known as “Hindutva Knight”. This…
- India
Minority charity gives food to all after hijab-clad woman denied service over slogan
A local Muslim charity has come forward in the wake of a discriminatory incident where a Muslim woman was refused food for not chanting “Jai Shri Ram” outside Tata Hospital in Mumbai. This…
- India
Waqf amendments will ensure equal representation for Muslim women: Irani
New Delhi: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Smriti Irani said on Thursday that the Waqf (Amendment) Bill will ensure equal representation for Muslim women on the Waqf Board. The Bill, which…
- India
Bill to amend Waqf law proposes sweeping changes, rename Act
New Delhi: A bill to amend the law governing Waqf boards has proposed far-reaching changes in the present Act, including ensuring the representation of Muslim women and non-Muslims in such bodies. The…
- India
AIMPLB may challenge SC verdict on maintenance to Muslim divorced women
Lucknow: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) is preparing to challenge a recent Supreme Court ruling that mandates the payment of maintenance to Muslim divorcee women beyond the period of…
- India
Muslim woman entitled to seek maintenance from spouse: SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a Muslim woman can seek maintenance from her husband under section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), which is applicable to…
- Telangana
Telangana: CEO urged to deploy female staff to verify identity of women in ‘parda’
Hyderabad: Two high court advocates met chief electoral officer on Saturday and urged him to deploy women polling staff in all the polling stations, with a small enclosure provided within the polling…
- India
‘Modi Brigade’ seeks support from Muslim women voters in UP
Prayagraj: The ‘Modi Brigade’, a group of 50 Muslim women activists, are propagating the Centre’s policies among Muslim women in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj. The Muslim women activists of Minority Morcha, led by…
- Telangana
Bihar: AIMIM chief Owaisi calls for quotas for Muslim women
Kishanganj: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has made a strong pitch over quotas for Muslim women, flagging the alarmingly low representation, in Parliament, of females belonging to the minority community. The Hyderabad MP…
- News
International Women’s Day: Celebrating the triumph of Muslim women
Hyderabad: The Western narrative may paint them with broad strokes of misconception and stereotype. It may use words like “oppressed,” “submissive,” “veiled,” “uneducated,” and “deprived of rights” to define Muslim women. But…
- Kerala
Divorced Muslim women need not move court to get divorce recorded: Kerala HC
Kochi: The Kerala High Court has held that a divorced Muslim woman need not be sent to a court of law for recording the talaq if it is otherwise in order as…
- India
‘Permanent Husbands’ remark: FIR lodged against RSS Karnataka leader
Following his statement on Muslim women, a case has been filed against RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat at the Srirangapatna police station. Bhat, in his speech at a ‘Sankeerthana Yatra’ held in…
- News
Muslim women need urgent help to up their education, employment, health and financial situations
By Mohammed Amaan Khan Within the diversity of India, the need for inclusivity has never been more pronounced, and the spotlight now turns to the challenges faced by Muslim women in various…
