Ban Abhinav Bharat, Demands Qaumi Majlis-e-Shoora

In a memorandum sent to Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on April 27, Qaumi Majlis-e-Shoora demanded clamping of ban on Abhinav Bharat, the Hindutva Right wing organisation allegedly involved in the blast that took place in Malegaon on September 29, 2008....

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Attack on AMU Autonomy by Congressmen?

Recently President of India Smt. Pratibha Patil in her capacity of the visitor of the Aligarh Muslim University asked for facts from the University in view of contradictory representations received by her in favour of and against the Vice Chancellor,...

CIA's Muslim Black Sites

Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal)
Are you shocked by this title? Well, welcome to the real world, as they say. I will not comment on what I am calling here Muslim Black Sites, for, th...

Pakistani Taliban's treatment of Sikhs is illegal and barbaric: Muslim Leaders

The religious, political and community leaders of Indian Muslims have expressed their shock and concern at “the reports coming out of Pakistan’s tribal areas about the Pakistani Taliban’s kidnapping, extortion of huge amounts of mon...

Alleviation of Poverty-II

The Nobel Laureate Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh founded his Grameen Bank in Dhaka some 40 years ago. This bank has helped some 40 lakh very poor families to rise above the poverty line during the last 40 years. Socio-economic activists ...

Factors behind Low Voters' Turn-out

SOROOR AHMED discusses what is special about this parliamentary election that the turn-out is not crossing 50 per cent mark in many states....

'Gaza is Israel's Warsaw' Professor's Comparison of Israelis to Nazis Stirs Furore

Controversy has erupted at UC Santa Barbara over a professor’s decision to send his students an e-mail in which he compared graphic images of Jews in the Holocaust to pictures of Palestinians caught up in Israel’s recent Gaza offensive, a...

Terrorism has No Religious Basis

AMBASSADOR ISHRAT AZIZ, former career diplomat who is regarded as the architect of India’s policy to diffuse the diplomatic crisis during the Gulf War I, has a word with SAAD BIN ZIA on India’s Foreign policy especially towards the Ar...

Clinton's Unpromising Start

Incongruous. One can hardly think of a more suited term to describe the new US administration’s approach to peacemaking in the Middle East. Though there is little evidence that previous US administrations had genuinely attempted to play a balan...