Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy said an ordinance would be promulgated within a month to provide five per cent reservation for Muslims in education and employment.

Participating in the distribution of computers to madrasas, organised by the state Urdu Academy in Hyderabad on June 9, Dr Reddy said the government would overcome all legal hurdles in a month for providing reservation for the Muslims as the issue was pending in the Supreme Court.

Stating that the...

A Sessions Court in Ahmedabad on June 9 granted anticipatory bail to a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), N K Amin alleged to be involved in the sensational Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged encounter case. Amin, who had not been responding to the summons by the CID, however has been asked to report to the Central Investigation Department (CID) within three days. He is to report to the CID every first Monday of the month. 

The court has also ordered him ...

Urdu is most often considered the language of Muslims. But the participants at the all-India conference of State Urdu academies, organised by the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL) say no to this erroneous concept. To call Urdu the language of Muslims is to deny its roots in the composite culture of India, they said.

Inaugurating the conference held at Bangalore on June 6, NCPUL president Ali Javed said fitting Urdu into the straightjacket of one religion was a co...

Imams and Muazzins took to the streets in Bhubaneswar on June 7 demanding monthly allowance. Staging a demonstration near the State Assembly, hundreds of Imams and Muazzins called upon the Government to direct the Wakf Board to extend the emolument to them immediately.

Secretary of the All Orissa Masjid Imam Association Sk Asfaque Ali said the Supreme Court, in CWC 715/1993, had directed the State governments to provide a fixed monthly amount to the Imams and Mauzins through the Wakf ...

Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umri, in due consultation with Central Advisory Council session held at Bangalore from May 26 to 31, nominated Naib Ameers, Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries, said a JIH statement here Monday.

Mr. Muhammad Jafar, who had been Jamaat’s Secretary General during the last three terms, and Professor K.A. Siddique Hassan, who was Secretary during the last term, have been nominated as Naib Ameers. Earlier, the former was founder pr...