Indian American Muslim Council, an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, in a statement on Dec. 14 applauded Harvard University for dropping courses taught by Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy over his exercise of hate-speech and demonstration of intolerance and bigotry, in an article for an Indian publication named DNA. In the article published in DNA on Jul 16, 2011, Dr. Swamy spewed venom against Indian Muslims, by attempting to associate t...

A Delhi court has sentenced an army jawan to seven years in jail for doubling as a Pakistan intelligence agent and supplying sensitive defence-related information to the neighbouring country. District and Additional Sessions Judge OP Gupta jailed Anil Kumar Dubey, 39, convicting him under Section 3 of the Official Secrets Act for passing on secret information to Pakistan about the movement and deployment of army troops in India, reports said on Dec 11.

According to the prosecution, th...

India and Israel are expected to sign a Free Trade Agreement, giving a boost to the bilateral trade from the current $5 billion to $15 billion level. Israel’s Ambassador to India Alon Ushpiz said this while addressing a seminar in the Capital on Dec 7. While providing details of the Indo-Israel bilateral relations, Ushpiz observed that differences of opinion on some issues have not affected the bilateral relations.

Israel is in the process of setting up seven centres of excellen...

Bihar Anjuman, a non-profit welfare organisation, working for the uplift of the Muslim community residing in Bihar and Jharkhand has launched yet another project to ensure that the children of the marginalised community also get the opportunity to go to schools and enrich their talent. The recent project, AMBITION 2020, which Bihar Anjuman Dammam-Khobar chapter has overtaken, is to adopt children from such sections of society that live in abject poverty and are willing but incapable to educat...

Dr. Sultana N. Nahar of the Ohio State University, USA on Dec 13 presented two awards with a cash prize of $150 to each best Muslim student with highest scores in the final year of B. Sc. The award ceremony was held at the Conference Room of the Department of Physics of AMU. Prof. Arunima Lal, Dean, Faculty of Science presented the certificate of merit to Ms. Zara Aftab and Mr. Mohd. Emadur Rahman. Dr. Sultana N. Nahar has deposited a cash amount of $12,000 for the capital fund of the four aw...

In one of the worst hooch tragedies in West Bengal, 57 people, mostly labourers, rickshaw-pullers and hawkers, died and over one hundred have been hospitalised in serious condition after consuming illicit liquor at Mograhat in South 24 Parganas district on Dec. 14. While 10 people died at Sangrampur village in the early hours of Dec. 14 after drinking from some liquor joints near the Sangrampur railway station, 47 died in two hospitals where they were admitted, reports said quoting official s...