India’s supreme court has halted a lower court’s decision that effectively banned Islamic schools in the country’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh.

A controversial “anti-Muslim” citizenship law enforced by the Indian government recently has exacerbated communal tensions in the world’s largest democracy.

It was his first visit to the disputed region’s capital, Srinagar, since the abrogation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in 2019.

A report says instances of anti-Muslim hate speech more than doubled across India last year.

India’s main opposition the Congress party says its bank accounts have been frozen by the income tax department weeks before the expected announcement of national elections.

India's most populous state has terminated the remunerations of around 21,000 teachers of subjects including mathematics and science in Muslim religious schools, or Madrasas.

University students across India are either being suspended or being detained by the police, over the screening of a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role during the deadly Gujarat sectarian riots in 2002.