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Tuesday, November 4, 2025
TopicClerics

Topic: Clerics

India’s Muslim politics is in flux. The once-important ulema are now on the margins of this churning 

Hindutva has pushed once-visible Muslim clergy behind scenes & underlined its credibility crisis. Ordinary Muslims increasingly feel they achieved little by posing faith in Ulema.

Some Iranian clerics are speaking out against regime’s crackdown on protests. What it could mean

Some experts say the criticism sheds light on divisions within religious authorities, but doubt whether it will be 'game-changing'. Others say silence of other clerics is significant too.

Not a ‘rapist maulana’ – video showing Muslim man dragging ‘unconscious’ woman scripted

In a video, an elderly Muslim man is seen dragging an unconscious woman to a dark room. On being confronted by the cameraperson, he says he is ‘treating the woman’ in the ‘name of god’.

Not madrasas, not Pakistan terror camps, India’s blasphemy killers are products of toxic hate

Anti-blasphemy campaign in India isn’t being led by clerics. And accused in Udaipur and Amravati killings didn't have any religious education or ties to right-wing organisations.

Some clerics think they are above Quran. It’s making Indian Muslims sectarian and backward

In ‘Indian Muslims’, K. Rahman Khan writes that more Muslim religious leaders, especially younger ones, need to promote the message of genuine spirituality.

Mullahs are supervising biology books. Imran Khan govt has put Pakistan in reverse gear

Clerics deciding PTI school curriculum will magnify body-related taboos. Pakistan is now on track to overtake Saudi Arabia as most stoutly conservative.

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Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.