Jamia Teachers Solidarity Group organised a programme ‘Batla House Encounter – One Question’ at the Edward Said Hall of Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) on February 20. The speakers at the programme felt that Batla Encounter has hurt not only the Muslims of India but the minorities across the world. Apart from the police, the media and judiciary are targeting Indian Muslims. Today, nobody talks of justice and equity rather the term ‘terrorism’ is being exploited to v...

Succumbing to the strong protest by UP Ulema Council over a controversial question in the Provincial Civil Service exam, regarding Azamgarh being ‘breeding ground of terrorists’, the UP Public Service Commission (UPPSC) decided to cancel the question. In a statement, UPPSC Controller of Examination office said the commission regretted the inclusion of the question in the General Studies paper. The commission has asked examiners not to examine the answer to the question. Now the ...

The Left parties have blamed the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre of not keeping the promises made to Indian Muslims for their uplift and welfare. Addressing the rally of National Youth League, Secretary of Communist Party of India D. Raja alleged that the Sachar Committee had revealed the plight of Indian Muslims. The UPA had only made promises but never fulfilled them. It kept assuring that it is implementing the PM’s 15-Point Programme for the...

At a meeting held at Sultanpur on February 20, Shi’a scholar and Member All India Muslim Personal Law Board Maulana Kalbe Jawwad appealed to the Muslims “to unite on a common platform”. He emphasised that Ulema and Muslim leaders must come on a common platform and decide which political party Muslims should vote for. He said the general elections are round the corner and the political parties are using all sorts of means to woo Muslims. However, Muslims must give a second ...

Seven years after the anti-Muslim massacre in Gujarat 2002, the state government has redrawn its list of the dead ­– the missing are now presumed dead. The official toll, hence, stands corrected – 1,180 dead instead of 952. Also, the Gujarat high court on February 27 received the first petition seeking direction to the state government to release compensation for the missing people, who will now be considered dead.

Riot victim Saeedabanu Malek from Naroda Gam lo...

The central government has decided to increase the corpus fund of Maulana Azad Education Foundation (MAEF) to Rs 700 crore. The MAEF is a society registered under Societies Registration Act, 1860 in 1989, has been provided with Corpus Fund of Rs.250 crores (till 2007-08) by the central government. The MAEF has helped the educationally backward minority communities by providing grant-in-aid to NGOs for construction of school, hostel building etc. and by granting scholarship to girl students ...