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By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD (AA): The number of coronavirus cases in Pakistan passed the 5,000 mark as the country reported 254 new cases in the last 24 hours, health authorities said on Sunday. The total number of cases is now at 5,038, while 14 more fatalities in a day raised the death toll to […]

6th Apr 2020

Jammu & Kashmir: Muslim countries rejects India’s new law in Kashmir

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) rejected the new laws introduced by the Indian government in Jammu and Kashmir, saying it could change the Muslim-majority region’s demographics. In a statement, issued late Saturday from its headquarters in Jeddah, the Muslim body expressed its deep concern over the adoption […]

22nd Mar 2020

Jammu and Kashmir: COVID-19 information blackout by Indian govt hitting Kashmir hard

By Nusrat Sidiq SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir, India (AA): Anxiety and fear is gripping residents of Indian-administered Kashmir after the first coronavirus case was found in the region’s main city, Srinagar, yesterday, yet a lid is still being kept on information. The confirmation came after government spokesman Rohit Kansal tweeted the news and called […]

11th Mar 2020

India: ‘Muslims bore brunt of Delhi riots’

By Cheena Kapoor NEW DELHI, India (AA): Head of a quasi-judicial body in India has claimed that the violence that jolted parts of union capital Delhi recently was “well-planned” and “one-sided”. In the worst-hit riots in decades, which started on the day when U.S. President Donald Trump was in the city, over 50 people […]

10th Mar 2020

Pakistan: 25 killed as van plunges into river

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) All 25 passengers were killed after a van plunged into the Indus River in northern Pakistan on Monday morning, an official said. The vehicle fell into the river in Skardu district, a famous tourist destination which borders China. Faizullah Faraq, a spokesman for the government of Gilgit-Baltistan region […]

8th Mar 2020

Bangladesh: 3 killed, dozens missing in boat accident

By SM Najmus Sakib DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Three people were killed including a child and dozens of others are missing Saturday as two bridal boats capsized in Rajshahi’s Sreerampur, Bangladesh, according to reports. At least 34 people are missing in the accident on the way to Gangerhat village in Poba Upazila of Rajshahi district on […]

3rd Mar 2020

India: 47 deaths confirmed in Delhi in anti-Muslim violence

By Cheena Kapoor NEW DELHI, India (AA): The death toll from recent anti-Muslim violence in Delhi reached 47 Monday after four more bodies were fished out from drains and brought to a hospital. 350 people have been injured in the violence. Hundreds of Muslim homes, businesses, cars, mosques, madrassas were attacked, many torched. The […]

27th Feb 2020

India: 34 die, 200 injured as pro BJP supporters rampage Muslim areas in Delhi

By Abdul Adil (The Muslim News): The death toll in the Indian capital New Delhi from the violence rose to 34, officials said Wednesday. More than 200 people were also injured in the deadliest violence North East Delhi has seen in years. Hundreds of Muslim homes, businesses, cars, mosques, madrassas were attacked, many torched. […]

25th Feb 2020

India: 7 killed during protests over citizenship law, which discriminates against Muslims

By Cheena Kapoor NEW DELHI, India (AA): A police officer and six civilians were killed, 150 injured,including 48 policement, in the Indian capital Monday as clashes between pro- and anti-citizenship law protesters turned violent on the second day of demonstrations. The violence began on Sunday when Kapil Mishra, a leader of the ruling nationalist […]

19th Feb 2020

Jammu & Kashmir: Internet shutdown cripples research in Kashmir

By Nusrat Sidiq SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir, India, (AA): The communication clampdown over the past six months in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir has crippled research activity in academic and scientific institutions . The region has two central and nine state universities besides two premier engineering institutes and 93 degree colleges. Even as the government […]

21st Jan 2020

Bangladesh: 22 Rohingya Muslims detained before trafficked

By SM Najmus Sakib DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Bangladesh police detained some 22 Muslim Rohingya refugees as they were gathered to be trafficked to Malaysia through Bay of Bengal, a police officer told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday. In a tip off, police in a drive, detained 18 Rohingya women, three men and one child who […]

20th Jan 2020

Pakistani PM warns India over civilian killings on Kashmir LoC

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan warned India on Sunday of a befitting response over the continued killing of civilians across the Line of Control (LoC), a de facto border that divides the Kashmir valley between Pakistan and India. “I want to make clear to India and the international […]

16th Jan 2020

UN holds Kashmir talks as rights fears continue

By James Reinl UNITED NATIONS (AA): UN Security Council members held rare talks on the disputed region of Kashmir on Wednesday amid ongoing concerns over the flashpoint between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan. After the meeting, senior Russian diplomat Dmitry Polyanskiy said the 15-nation body had discussed the contentious Indian-administered region, where New Delhi […]

15th Jan 2020

Kashmir: Avalanche kills 61 in Pakistan-administered Kashmir

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least 61 people were killed and over 53 injured after an avalanche struck a village in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, official media said on Tuesday. Rescue operations were launched for another 12 victims who are missing after the incident, which occurred in Surgan village of the mountainous Neelam Valley […]

7th Jan 2020

India: Hindu mob attacks top university campus injuring 35

By Shuriah Niazi NEW DELHI (AA) Security has been beefed up at the campus of a prestigious Indian university following a night of terror when masked men attacked students with batons. The police who were present outside the University did not do anything to stop the mob entering the univerisity. It took the police […]

31st Dec 2019

India: Fear grips Muslim-majority town of Rampur

By Shuriah Niazi UTTAR PRADESH, India (AA) : Fear has gripped the Muslim-majority town of Rampur, 250 kilometers (150 miles) northwest of Indian capital New Delhi, as police have booked 141 people and are hunting thousands of others, for participating in protests against the new citizenship law. The Citizenship Amendment Act adopted recently by […]

20th Dec 2019

India: Two killed in protests over new anti-Muslim citizenship law

By Ahmad Adil CHANDIGARTH, India (AA): At least two protestors were killed in southern India as demonstrations against a controversial new citizenship law escalated and spread Thursday, local media reported. The deaths occurred in Mangaluru in the Karnataka state when police opened fire to quell protests. “Two protesters have been killed in police firing […]

22nd Dec 2019

India: 15 killed, mainly Muslims in anti-citizenship law protests

By Shuriah Niazi NEW DELHI (AA): Fifteen people were killed, mainly Muslims, many of them from bullet injuries, in India as peaceful protests reverberate across the country against a controversial citizenship law, security officials said Saturday. Inspector General of Police Praveen Kumar confirmed the death toll to Anadolu Agency saying fresh cases were reported […]

17th Dec 2019

Indian premier claims discriminatory citizenship law ‘not against any religion’

By Shuriah Niazi and Riyaz ul Khaliq NEW DELHI, India (AA): As protests against police crackdown in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia — a central university — and new citizenship law, spread in other parts of the country on Monday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi calimed the new law will not affect any religion or […]

16th Dec 2019

Bangladesh: Factory fire kills 10 near Dhaka

By Md. Kamruzzaman DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): At least 10 people have been killed and several injured n a deadly fire at a fan factory near the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Sunday evening. Fire services and civil defense officials told Anadolu Agency that firefighters recovered the bodies from inside the damaged factory after dousing the flames […]

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Over 120 people attended a landmark conference on the media reporting of Islam and Muslims. It was held jointly by The Muslim News and Society of Editors in London on September 15.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence event is to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to society. Over 850 people from diverse background, Muslim and non-Muslim, attended the gala dinner.