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MUSLIM POPULATION NEWS

Indonesian police given sole power to grant abortions for rape victims

August 02, 2024 8:15 pm

A spokesperson for the national police did not immediately respond to request to elaborate on the rules, which are part of a broader health law and take immediate effect, or on police procedures to deal with rape victims.

Hamare Baarah and the myth of India’s Muslim population ‘explosion’

June 26, 2024 10:06 am

According to the 2011 Census of India, the growth rate of the Muslim population was higher than the Hindu population. The controversy surrounding this interpretation obscured that the gap between the two had significantly reduced between 2001 and 2011.

Amit Shah says Bihar caste survey shows inflated Yadavs, Muslim population

November 06, 2023 5:44 am

Addressing a public meeting at Patahi in Muzaffarpur district, Amit Shah also said the decision to conduct the caste survey was taken while the BJP was part of the state government in alliance with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U).

Muslim call to prayer arrives to Minneapolis soundscape

June 02, 2022 9:01 am

This spring Minneapolis became the first large city in the United States to allow the Islamic call to prayer, or adhan, to be broadcast publicly by its two dozen mosques.

A day in the life of an Imam holding Friday prayers during Ramzan: ‘We’re not doing anything wrong... people should understand that’

June 10, 2018 12:49 pm

Apart from prayers, Wajid addresses two things in his sermon: the prices of foodgrains, and the need to make Aadhaar cards.

At RSS-sponsored meet in Ajmer, Muslim women ‘pledge’ to keep ‘small family’

August 20, 2018 2:22 pm

The resolution is in line with Ranchi meet of RSS’s Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal in October, which called for reformulation of the population policy in view of a “demographic imbalance”.

Review policy to check Muslim, Christian population: RSS resolution

November 01, 2015 12:28 pm

“The share of population of religions of Bharatiya origin, which was 88 per cent, has come down to 83.8 per cent, while the Muslim population, which was 9.8 per cent, has increased to 14.23 per cent during the period 1951-2011,” said the RSS resolution.

With Muslim population rising in Bengal, RSS predicts its branches will double

October 13, 2015 12:02 pm

The RSS says its membership is growing. RSS Joint General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale predicted the number of RSS branches in West Bengal would rise to 1,200 next year from 650 in 2013.

Myth of Muslim growth

September 02, 2015 12:44 am

Once again, the debate on census population data on religion misses the point.

Govt using census data to polarise Bihar before polls

August 27, 2015 12:48 am

The Congress too saw a Bihar connect as it accused the government of trying to project the data only to show that the Muslim population was increasing, while the Hindu population was on the decline.

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