A sessions court in Varanasi on Wednesday rejected bail applications from all 14 accused in the controversial “Ganga Iftar” case, observing that the alleged...
In an opinion piece titled, "Who Owns the Ganga? A River of Many Faiths, Not One", a Delhi-based writer, translator and researcher, Rakhshanda Jalil, offers family memories, Urdu poetry, and a dash of melodrama to establish a narrative that Ganga is a ‘secular’ river not owned only by Hindus.
Shahabuddin Razvi claimed that Joseph Vijay invited alcoholics and gamblers to Iftar, which he deemed illicit and sinful from an Islamic perspective. The Sunni cleric went on to to advise Tamil Nadu Muslims against trusting Vijay as he said that the latter is using Muslims for climbing the political ladder while in his movies he presents Muslims as terrorists.