As much as 60 per cent of the population of Muslim-dominated Malegaon falls below the poverty line, says a 221-page report by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). Denied the most basic amenities, absence of adequate health facilities and almost zero per cent representation of Muslims in government jobs, Malegaon has been transformed into a ‘living hell’, it adds.

As per the study, about 45.4 per cent of the total recorded deaths among Muslims have been of children...

A man arrested on charges of being a Pakistani spy here in India to kill Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, said in the trial court that he was being framed by police and asked the court to give him a chance to prove his innocence. Appearing before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav, the accused Imran and his wife, who have been in jail for the past four months, asked court’s permission to tell their s...

Leaders of some of India’s leading Muslim organisations met the Delhi Police Commissioner BK Gupta on Mar 21. The delegation apprised the Police Commissioner about the Muslim community’s apprehensions over the renewed harassment of the community in the name of fight against terror.

Dr. Zafarul-Islam Khan, President All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, led the delegation. He told the Police Commissioner that Muslims are deeply pained and angered by the renewed arrests, esp...

Senior Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Kuldip Sharma has moved the Supreme Court (SC) with the demand that all matters relating to his conduct as a civil servant, including his annual confidential ratings (ACRs), be placed before the Governor of Gujarat, or before any other constitutional authority the court may deem fit, because Chief Minister Narendra Modi is acting against him with biased and malafide intentions.

In his petition, Sharma has alleged witch-hunt since he performed his dutie...

Indian American Muslim Council has condemned TIME magazine’s cover story on Mr. Narendra Modi as a dismal PR exercise intended to whitewash Mr. Modi’s complicity in the Gujarat pogrom of 2002. “Although TIME’s cover story is not an endorsement, it contains inaccuracies, half-truths and glaring omission of pertinent details on Mr. Modi’s tenure as Chief Minister. These betray its real objective – an attempt by APCO Worldwide, Modi’s PR firm in Washingt...

A Delhi court on Mar 23 observed while punishing six persons, including a bank manager, that corruption was a major roadblock in India’s development. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge V.K. Maheshwari said: “Corruption is considered to be one of the major roadblocks in India’s journey from a developing to a developed economy.”

The court added that if scams which highlighted the politician-bureaucratic-corporate nexus were not checked, they ...

The Madras High Court Bench ruled that there was no need for a Muslim woman to produce a court decree as a proof of divorce from her husband for the issue of passport for her minor child. “The local jamath has certified the fact of giving talaq (divorce). Hence, the passport officer of the Thanjavur Seva Kendra cannot say a decree from a court should be produced to prove that the marriage was dissolved,” Justice K K Sasidharan said, while disposing of a writ petition filed by Ramj...