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  • It is a mad, mad world...

    By Zafarul-Islam Khan
    Jan 27, 2012

    Rushdie did not come or even speak over video after all; yet he is all over the place. Earth is ruined, skies have fallen for this temerity on part of “the mob” as TOI front page banner headline shrieked on 25 January. No matter if ...

  • Discord in Jamia Hamdard over the VC

    Jan 27, 2012

    By Muhammad Iqbal Professor of Botany and an ex-acting VC, Jamia Hamdard + Pic Located in Tughlaqabad, south Delhi, Jamia Hamdard (deemed university), is a unique institution. Its founder, late Hakim Abdul Hameed, set up the campu...

  • Notice to The Hindu for defamation, damages

    Jan 14, 2012

    By Abdul Bari Masood   New Delhi: Father of Muhammad Yasin Bhatkali, a youth of Bhatkal (Karnataka) has sent a legal notice to the English daily The Hindu’s editor N. Ram and its associate editor Pravin Swamy, the self-styled e...

  • BJP fighting a lost battle in UP?

    By Mohammad Naushad Khan
    Jan 14, 2012

    BJP camp is already demoralised ahead of polls. The saffron party’s political strategy seems to have gone awry. Induction of various tainted leaders expelled from the BSP into BJP’s fold mirrors the political bankruptcy of the BJP w...

  • MG, media and Muslims

    Dec 30, 2011

    With this issue, The Milli Gazette starts its 13th year. This is a matter of pride and joy for a publication which from the very beginning chose to swim against the tide and took up issues not appreciated by the so-called “mainstream&rdqu...

  • During last 10 years, Police killed 4 in custody daily

    By Mohammad Naushad Khan
    Dec 30, 2011

    According to a report released by the Asian Centre for Human Rights in the past ten years police have killed on an average four a day in police and judicial custody. As per the report the number of custodial deaths between 2001 to 2010 is 14,23...

  • Joke...tokenism...dangerous...

    Dec 30, 2011

    While Left and Samajwadi parties have criticised the quota of 4.5 % as "most inadequate" and "tokenism,"   Muslim organisations like Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, All India Ulema Mashaikh Board (AIUMB) and All India Muslim...

  • 4.5% : Congress’ sleight of hand

    By Zafarul-Islam Khan
    Dec 30, 2011

    Cheating is the name of the game when it comes to offering any real benefit to the Muslim community. In 1947, Muslims enjoyed reservation not only in government services but also in the legislatures, but it was taken away in the Constituent Ass...

  • Rise in religious land disputes a burden: HC

    Dec 15, 2011

    The High Court while dismissing the petition filed by South Delhi based trust, SRI Doodh Nath Mahadeo Mandir Sabha, seeking eviction of encroachers from within the boundaries of the temple said that such cases come into the picture when another...

  • IB demons are out again

    By Zafarul-Islam Khan
    Dec 14, 2011

    + Pic After a respite of sorts since the confession of Aseemanand a year ago, IB, in the guise of Delhi Special Police, swooped upon Muslim youth once again. Members of the so-called “Indian Mujahidin” (which remains an enigm...

  • Beware of the Sarkari Musalmaan

    Dec 14, 2011

    In the previous issue of The Milli Gazette (1-15 December), it is reported that on 10 December 2011, former union minister Jagdish Tytler will be awarded with seven others in a function at India Islamic Cultural Centre (IICC), New Delhi, by Mau...

  • From arrest to bail: pathology of Malegaon

    By Mustafa Khan
    Nov 29, 2011

    Malegaon: Overwhelming people in Malegaon are good natured. That does not exonerate them from the few who are in a pathological condition. They are of course not terror-prone at all. Among the scourge that has exacted a terrible price from ...

  • UP: Maya’s move may boomerang

    Nov 29, 2011

    By Mohammad Shahid Lucknow: The UP Chief Minster, Ms Mayawati, had her way in getting the controversial  resolution on division of UP into four smaller states passed by the UP Assembly in record 16 minutes during the winter session whi...

  • Schoolchildren are still in jail

    Nov 14, 2011

    Moradabad: Nearly four months after they were detained by the police, three Muslim schoolchildren are still in the district Jail here, unable to get bail for an offence their distraught families claim they never committed. The children have bee...

  • Treat attack on minorities as terrorism: Judge

    Nov 14, 2011

    + Pic Mangalore: Attacks on religious minority groups in India are nothing but acts of terrorism, says Michael Francis Saldanha, a former judge of the Karnataka High Court. “There are many forms of terrorism and attack on minoriti...

  • UP Muslims may not vote for Congress

    Nov 14, 2011

    By Mohammad Shahid Lucknow: During his east UP visit at a chaupal where Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was highlighting the failures of the Mayawati Government, a villager asked: ‘Why the Government is unable to check the pri...

  • Deoband student killed by police

    Oct 29, 2011

    Here is a heart-rending story which has failed to attract the attention of the media or government agencies. It shows how the police over the years have become a Muslim-hating force with subtle support of elements in the government. It happ...

  • Helpless Home Minister beseeches CMs

    By Zafarul-Islam Khan
    Oct 29, 2011

    With riots raging all over the country at the rate of two incidents per day, our home minister finally mustered courage on 11 October to write a letter to the states’ chief ministers. He told them politely that certain elements may incite...

  • Anti-Muslim & anti-Dalit Modi is now anti-Brahmin

    By Amaresh Misra
    Oct 29, 2011

    Bizarre developments keep taking place in Gujarat. IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has been arrested. Previously, on 5 February 2011, the Gujarat government issued a show cause notice to senior IPS officer Rahul Sharma.  Why did Sharma suddenly b...

  • It seems all we have done over 12 years is simply not enough!

    Oct 20, 2011

    Can you imagine that in the whole width and breadth of India and in a community boasting a population of 180 million, there is only one (Muslim) company which orders MG for all its board members? We need a lot more subscribers, a lot more advertis...