Muslims need to be empowered with education and the community should stop its dependency on the government, said Rajinder Sachar, former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court. “Why you are completely depended upon the government...why not force the government to get equal opportunities for you? You will have to do that,” he said, speaking at the inaugural session of 9th All India Muslim Educational Conference (AIMES).

Delivering the keynote address, he said, &...

Raking up the issue of a “deficit” in representation of Muslims in Parliament, MIM MP from Hyderabad Asaduddin Owaisi asked for proportional representation since in the past 60 years, the representation of Muslims had not risen in keeping with the proportion of rise in the Muslim population in the country. “Only 471 Muslims have been elected to Parliament so far, and this is the ...

Thanks to Aamir Khan’s show ‘Satyamev Jayate’, the spirited discussions and even outrage have not stopped since Sunday morning  when the inaugural episode on female infanticide was first telecast. While Khan himself met Rajastan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot to petition his government to act against the social menace, the Madhya  Pradesh government on Wednesday terminated the license of 65 Medical  Termination of Pregnancy centres in order to check the Sex  ...

The suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt says the closure report submitted by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) only confirmed his long-standing apprehension that it was only working to “shield” Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other “powerful persons” from legal punishment for their involvement in the 2002 Gujarat pogrom.

In a letter to SIT Chairman R.K. Raghavan, Mr. Bhatt said it was “outrageously ...

The Gulbarg Society massacre case has taken a new turn as the Supreme-Court-appointed Special Investiga...

Twenty-two of the 65 Urdu medium schools run by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi have vacancies for over 300 Urdu language and subject teachers. The situation is similar in Delhi Government’s senior secondary schools where the last permanent appointment of Urdu teachers took place in 1995.

Federation for Educational Development, a group of NGOs looking into minority educational development, has recently sent a letter to the chairman of Minorities’ Commis...

The Jammu and Kashmir government on May 17 removed the medical superintendent of G B Pant Hospital in Srinagar where 368 children have died since January 1. Health and medical education secretary M K Dwivedi said, “Doctor Skowkat Ali Zargar, director of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, discussed his preliminary findings into the neonatal deaths of children in G B Pant Hospital. Based on his preliminary findings, it is revealed that there has been lack of ne...

When Jai Prakash Singh, an IPS officer and a third semester law student at Lucknow University, was “caught red-handed” while copying during the examinations about six months back along with others at different centres, he had allegedly threatened the members of the “flying squad”, who had caught him, with dire consequences and dared them to take action against him. Six months later, Singh proved that what he had said was correct. ...