On the occasion of the UN’s Minorities Day on December 18, a seminar on Prime Minister’s 15 point programme for the welfare of Minorities was organised by Delhi Minorities Commission at Hindi Bhavan, New Delhi.

Chief Guest Ms. Parveen Talha, the first Muslim woman IAS officer, in her address said that the Muslims in India are generally poor and economically backward but the responsibility of pulling them out of poverty and illiteracy also l...

While the UPA government at the Centre is storming the political arena with its talk of development measures for the Indian Muslims, about a century old Siddha Mosque in West Midnapur district of West Bengal has come under serious threat from the Union Surface Transport Ministry of the same regime. The Ministry wants the mosque to be demolished or relocated in lieu of compensation. According to them the mosque is coming in the way of a service road to be built along the Nation...

In a symposium organised by Sir Syed Awareness Forum of Aligarh Muslim University to discuss the findings of the Sachar Committee Report, Maulana Fazl-e-Rahim Mujaddidi, Rector Jamia Hedaya, Jaipur emphasised that after revelations made by the Sachar Committee, Indian Muslims should chalk out a plan to develop themselves and must not look towards the government for encouragement and aids.

He said that Sachar Committee Report is a mirror of the real sta...

A mammoth rally of Students Islamic Organisation (SIO) of India on December 18 rocked Calicut city with slogans against commercialisation of education. The SIO activists were marching to greet the newly elected president of the organisation Bishruddin Sharqi for the next term of 2007-2008. The new president has taken over the charges from S. Zameer Qadri who retired recently from SIO after completion of 30 years of his age. Sharqi got elected in a four-day meeting of Zonal Adv...