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  • Bengal: CPM plays the minority card

    By AG Khan
    Mar 17, 2011

    With assembly elections in sight, CPM in West Bengal is gearing itself to face the imminent threat that Congress and Trinamool Congress are likely to pose. This has prompted the state chief minister to move from one door to another begging for ...

  • Peace Party - RLD alliance rattles BSP et al

    Mar 17, 2011

    By Ashraf Ahmad indianews08[@]gmail.com New Delhi: The formation of a political alliance and its announcement on 23 Feb in Lucknow, between Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and Peace Party (PPI) with its seven constituent parties, mainly Bhartiya...

  • Congress and BJP jostle for political upmanship

    By Mohammad Naushad Khan
    Mar 16, 2011

    Congress and BJP are harping on each other with various issues to score political points. The two parties are trying to seize every moment in order to project their political upmanship. Cricket world cup may come as a soothing balm for both politi...

  • Maulana Vastanvi and Darul Uloom Deoband

    By Syyed Mansoor Agha
    Mar 15, 2011

    The storm the Deoband fraternity has raised over a statement attributed to Maulana Vastanvi reminds me of an incident related to the famous religious scholar Sheikh Ahmad Raheem Mulla Jeevan which was published in the mouthpiece of Jamiatur Rashad...

  • Sykes-Picot regime is falling down

    By Zafarul-Islam Khan
    Feb 27, 2011

    The upheaval in the Arab World these days is the second attempt within half a century to bring down the treacherous Sykes-Picot regime imposed on the region after the First World War. It was a secret Anglo-French treaty to usurp, divide and rule t...

  • India: Terror alerts — questions galore

    Feb 26, 2011

    Once again an alert has been sounded in view of the danger of terrorist attacks all over the country, particularly in Mumbai, Ahmadabad, Bangalore and Goa. It has been stated in the alert issued by the Union home ministry that according to informa...

  • Wajida Tabassum: a defiant writer

    By AG Khan
    Feb 19, 2011

    Wajida Tabassum, who reached pinnacles of fame but got eclipsed in oblivion, died on 7 December in Mumbai. An extremely frank and to a great extent controversial storywriter, she died at her Andheri home. She had been suffering from arthritis, dia...

  • RSS has forged nexus with Mossad

    By Amaresh Misra
    Feb 01, 2011

    Digvijay Singh’s 4th January 2011 Press Conference finally proved that the Congress General Secretary indeed spoke to Hemant Karkare on 26/11-and that Karkare faced the threat to his life and limb-as well as to the security of his family-not from ...

  • Enquiry has already cost AMU Rs 50 lakh!

    By Mushtaq Ahmad Alig
    Jan 31, 2011

    An article has appeared in an Urdu daily newspaper written by a sitting MP, who was defeated in the election for membership of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Court, in which he has levelled baseless allegations against professor P.K. Abdul Az...

  • Under NIA, ATS nose, Hindutva terrorists roaming free

    Jan 08, 2011

    Mumbai: Some top officers of Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) are still on the hit-list of Hindutva organisations. These groups, however, deny any role in former ATS Chief Hemant Karkare’s death. at the same time, they still do not consider ...

  • Hindutva Communal-Terrorism: The Enemy Within

    By Amaresh Misra
    Jan 08, 2011

    The speech given by Digvijay Singh at the Congress AICC meet on 19 December 2010 is historic in more ways than one. After a long time-stretching back as far as 1984, the death of Indira Gandhi and the anti-Sikh riots-Congress has taken a firm posi...

  • Deadly Headley’s conquest of India

    By AG Khan
    Dec 04, 2010

    Noise is being made about America’s reluctance to divulge much about Headley’s activities during the past few years. This Pakistan-born Muslim, son of a Jewish mother, was a much sought after “mole” for American agencies. Aware of his potentials a...

  • Husaini Tigers frustrate enemy plots

    By Haider Abbas
    Oct 21, 2010

    The bulwark of our tigers is to fight against the fake and fraud brand of religious leaders today. They are now in plenty sponsored by BJP, RSS and US. There is a growing US influence on ulama today. We slog for 24 hours a day and still do not mai...

  • Missing explosives: tip of the iceberg

    By AG Khan
    Oct 21, 2010

    New Delhi: Mystery behind the missing explosives is becoming more and more alarming day by day with fresh disclosures every single day though the mainstream media as well as the home minister, NSA and NIA have decided to turn a blind eye. From ...

  • We will never accept second class citizenship

    By Zafarul-Islam Khan
    Oct 20, 2010

    The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court has grossly overstepped its limits proving what we knew all-along that some people were more equal than others even in the eyes of law in this secular and democratic country. What was de facto until yes...

  • Clean chit for Modi: BJP-Congress deal

    By AG Khan
    Sep 15, 2010

    Modi is Congress’ son-in-law

  • Marxists bare their Stalinist fangs

    By Zafarul-Islam Khan
    Sep 15, 2010

    At one time Comrade Jyoti Basu's cabinet overwhelmingly consisted of Brahmins

  • Hindu sacrificed his child to keep word to Muslim

    By NA Ansari
    Aug 23, 2010

    People like Master Maan Singh no longer walk our earth.

  • Slave Media, Paid News — Dangerous signs ahead

    By Zafarul-Islam Khan
    Aug 02, 2010

    One is afraid that soon even our Urdu press will no longer be free and will become His-Masters-Voice. A matter of great shame for the Muslim community.

  • Mr Minister! Jamia is Our Offspring

    By Tahir Mahmood
    Jul 04, 2010

    More damaging than demolishing historical mosques