In a bid to improve the standard of education and to provide better educational opportunities for their youth, Muslim organisations in the country have taken an initiative to set up a separate board on the lines on ISC and CBSE. “It has been decided to set up a Muslim Education Board on the lines of ISC and CBSE boards which will give affiliation to religious and non-religious educational institutions in the country,” member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board Maulana Kha...

A severe attack was recently launched by communal forces in Sarada tehsil of Udaipur district of Rajasthan. In that area, a small population of Muslims live surrounded by a tribal habitation. There have been very cordial relations between the Muslims and the tribals of Sarada. But the BJP and RSS have been trying for some time to destroy that harmonious relationship and succeeded in organising the tribals to attack the Muslim locality last week, reports CPI(M) organ, People’s Demo...

Former BJP MLA of Visnagar Prahlad Mohanlal Patel Gosa, and former member of Visnagar Taluka Panchayat Dahyabhai Tribhuvandas Patel, accused in a 2002 Gujarat riot case, on August 3 surrendered before special judge S C Srivastava in Banaskantha and was arrested. They were sent to judicial custody. Gosa and Patel are facing charges of instigating the riots in Dipda Darwaja locality of Visnagar town where 11 Muslims were burnt to death by a mob in February 2002. In February this year, a speci...

An absconding member of Hindutva organisation Sanatan Sanstha was arrested by Maharashtra ATS for his alleged role in the 2009 Goa blast – the sixth person to be held in the case. An ATS team laid a trap and arrested Prashant Juvekar, absconding since October 16 last year, from near Bhusawal railway station in Jalgaon district on July 31, state ATS chief Rakesh Maria said. A 7.65 mm pistol was recovered from Juvekar, who was actively involved in the conspiracy and was trained in makin...

The Lokayukta police on August 6 submitted its report in connection with the Rs 100 crore Sugni Devi land scam before a special court here, but the petitioner objected exclusion of state Industry Minister Kailash Vijayvargya’s name in the report, Lokayukta sources said. The report, which was submitted after four months’ investigation to Special Judge S K Raghuvanshi, included the names of 17 people, including legislator and the then Mayor-in-Council member Ramesh Mendola, indust...

Four Rajasthan Police personnel, accused in the death of Tulsiram Prajapati, a key witness in the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, were arrested after they surrendered in the Danta court in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district on August 6. ASI Narayansingh Chauhan, constables Dalpatsingh Rathod, Kartarsingh Jat and Yuddhveersingh Rajput, posted at Udaipur were sent to judicial custody by chief judicial magistrate S S Joshi. According to deputy SP R K Patel, investigating officer in the...