Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, awarded Mufti Mohd. Mushtaq Tijarvi Ph.D. degree on his research work “Shaikh Junaid Baghdadi aur Unka Tasawwuf”.

Mufti Mushtaq, who has been rendering his services as Senior Lecturer at Islamic Academy, New Delhi, completed his work on this great Sufi scholar and his contribution to the development of Sufism, under the supervision of Professor Akhtarul Wasey of Department of Islamic Studies of the Jamia.

In his 5-chapter ...

Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) president G.M. Banatwalla has called upon the Union Government to table Justice Ranganath Misra Commission Report in the coming Budget Session of Parliament and provide reservation for Muslims.

“It is almost one year since Justice Ranganath Misra Commission Report was submitted to the Government but the Government is yet to make it public,” Banatwalla lamented while addressing the presspersons at Amravati on February 1.

The Orissa government has announced that a special legislation will be brought in the coming Budget Session to ensure 27 per cent reservation in government jobs for other backward classes (OBCs). The government said steps will be taken to improve the provisions for OBCs in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution after the bill is passed in the Assembly.

Reservation of 11.25 per cent for OBCs will be implemented as an interim measure and 15.75 per cent of jobs will be kept vacant....

A children protest rally was organised against farmers' suicide by Lokraj Sangathan in cooperation with other organisations, including Jamaat-e-Islami Hind from Mandi House to Agricultural Ministry House in the Capital.

Around 300 school children along with widows and orphans of suicide farmers participated in the rally, opposing Government policies of SEZ and lands and demanding writing farmers’ debts off.

Expressing solidarity with the kins of affected farme...

The ongoing tussle between the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) over Raj Thackeray’s tirade against the north Indians living in Mumbai, turned into violence on February 3. As the MNS workers tried to attack Samajwadi Party workers and targeted in particular the Muslims who had come to attend a rally organised by the United National Progressive Alliance, which was addressed by former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mulayam Singh Yadav, at Shivaji Park in Mu...

The Supreme Court has once again asserted that the gravity of an offence shall be the sole criteria for determining the quantum of punishment in heinous crimes and any leniency given to the accused on the basis of his or the victim’s social status would be a travesty of justice. The Rajasthan High Court had reduced the 10-year rigorous imprisonment awarded to a rapist, Madan Singh, by the trial court to seven years on the ground that the accused is a young person who is the only bread...

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes demanded to provide reservation for the Dalits who convert to Islam or Christianity. The Commission has sent its recommendations to the Ministry of Social Justice and Development. A senior member of the Commission, Mahendra Bodha said, “We have sent our recommendations to the Ministry of Social Justice and hoping the fruitful decision would be soon taken by the government.”

According to a report, the recommendations mainta...

The Government of Andhra Pradesh on February 2 started recruiting Muslims under 4 per cent reservation quota. This was one of the party’s election promises. The first to benefit from the reservation are 10 assistant engineers, including three women.

On February 2 these candidates had an interaction with Chief Minister YSR Reddy and Minister for Minority Welfare and Energy Mohammed Ali Shabbir in Hyderabad. They got the job under Backward Class “E” category. Ei...