India’s first-ever nationwide study published in the Lancet in UK and released to the media in India at the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai on Mar 28, has revealed an interesting find that in States where Muslim population is higher, cervical cancer risk is “much lower.” For instance, Jammu and Kashmir and Assam, which have 75 and 40 per cent Muslim population respectively, have “less than a quarter of the national rates of cervical cancer,” the authors w...

BBC World Service TV called it a great emotional victory for the ‘pugnatious’ maverick, ex-Labour Party member, who defeated his Labour rival candidate by over 10,000 votes margin; a rarest of rare landslide victory in any UK election. Galloway stood for the downtrodden and in his Bradford constituency, for the discriminated and demonised British Muslims.

Ghulam Muhammed

Mumbai, M.S.

It refers to Lok Sabha Speaker resisting demand of some Parliamentarians to hand over Mavlangkar Auditorium to Constitution Club, where both the institutions are situated in the same premises. There are two groups of Parliamentarians with MPs of various political parties scattered in both the groups cutting across party-lines with a group presently managing affairs of the Parliamentarians’ elite club not accepting it as a public-authority answerable under RTI Act. Other group demands, r...