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  • Advani must be tried for Babri conspiracy: CBI to SC

    May 12, 2012

    New Delhi: The CBI has told the Supreme Court that it was not only against dropping of conspiracy charges against BJP leader L K Advani in the Babri Masjid demolition case but also wanted him and other leaders to face trial along with the accus...

  • Modi can be prosecuted for promoting enmity: Amicus

    May 12, 2012

    + Pic Ahmedabad: A Supreme Court-appointed amicus curiae has held that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi can be prosecuted under various sections of the IPC for “promoting enmity among different groups” during the 2002 Gu...

  • Commission demanded for child rights

    By Afsana Rashid
    May 12, 2012

    Demanding the establishment of a Commission for the protection of child rights and framing of Juvenile Justice (care and protection of children) Act at par with national and international standards to safeguard the rights of children, social ac...

  • Peoples Conf launches youth wing

    By Afsana Rashid
    May 12, 2012

    Announcing the launch of the students’ wing of his party, Peoples Conference chairman Sajjad Gani Lone said the same would empower the youth and end the “hold of dynastic politics in Kashmir.” Formation of Peoples Students Uni...

  • Hurriyat calls for a wholesome approach

    By Afsana Rashid
    May 12, 2012

    Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has asked the government to come clear on what he termed a policy to “fragment” Kashmiri society along sectarian lines. “A divide is being created under a conspiracy and it has institu...

  • Court stand on Pathribal a setback: Amnesty

    By Afsana Rashid
    May 12, 2012

    Terming the Apex Court’s verdict on Pathribal killings as a major setback for the victims, Amnesty International has said that the “court relied on emergency laws instead of upholding the universal and constitutional right to life.....

  • 5503 youth held for the 2010 unrest are still in jails in J&K

    By Mohammad Naushad Khan
    May 12, 2012

    The promise of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to pardon all youths arrested during the 2010 unrest has so far not been redeemed. At least 5503 youths, mostly students, were arrested during the 2010 turmoil in the state and till ...

  • The Price of Partition is shared on both sides of the Divide

    By Karamatullah K. Ghori
    May 12, 2012

    I’d not the faintest idea when writing my previous piece-that asked the rhetorical question whether Muslims of India were still paying the price of Partition of 1947 (MG, 16-30 April 2012, p. 8) -that it would unleash a spate of passionat...

  • Western media and Islamophobia

    May 12, 2012

    By Asghar Ali Engineer Muslims keep on complaining that media is hostile to Islam and Muslims, and projects more often than not their distorted image. The Western media in particular has been quite antagonistic, particularly after the t...

  • Decline in Muslim representation in M.P.

    May 12, 2012

    By Zafar Alam Khan Bhopal: Muslim leadership in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh is on the decline and the condition is so bad that the state assembly that has a strength of 230 had only one legislator from the Muslim community de...

  • Only 2.5% Muslims get into UPSC

    May 12, 2012

    + Pix New Delhi: Out of a total of 920 successful candidates who passed India’s prestigious civil service examination this year, only 30 Muslims candidates managed to get in which is about 2.5 percent of the total while Muslims co...

  • IOS celebrates silver jubilee

    By NA Ansari
    May 12, 2012

    + Pic New Delhi: A three-day function to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of the Institute of Objective Studies (IOS) was held during 13-15 April at the Constitution Club here. Speakers from different walks of life expressed their views abo...

  • JIH to campaign against arrests of Muslim youths

    May 12, 2012

    + Pic New Delhi: Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, president of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, expressing serious concerns on the continued arrests of Muslim youths in the name of counter-terror operations, demanded the government of India to stop ...

  • PMO drops limited exam plan for IPS officers

    By NA Ansari
    May 12, 2012

    New Delhi: Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has rejected the Delhi High Court’s verdict on limited examination for the appointment of IPS officers in response to a petition filed by Zakat Foundation of India that the government’s...

  • No US visa to Modi despite appearing on Time cover

    By Mohammad Naushad Khan
    May 12, 2012

    The US administration has made it clear that there will be no change in its visa policy towards Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The Gujarat government might have expected some leniency on the part of the US administration in its visa poli...

  • Bigger role for Modi will shatter NDA

    By Mohammad Naushad Khan
    May 12, 2012

    + Pic After assembly elections fiasco, the RSS is groping in the dark searching for a face that can rejuvenate the BJP before the mega political event in 2014. The RSS gameplan to strengthen the BJP in order to push its agenda has faile...

  • Electoral equations and Secular values

    By Ram Puniyani
    May 12, 2012

    The UP Assembly elections results gave a clear mandate to the Samajwadi Party. Congress was claiming that the results of UP will be a shocker, meaning a surprisingly better performance of Congress. As results came through, Congress was nowhere ...

  • When govt will apologise to its innocent “terror” victims: Manisha Sethi

    May 12, 2012

    + Pic “When actor Shah Rukh Khan was detained for a couple of hours at a New York airport recently, the media as well as Indian authorities went into overdrive and sought an apology from the United States administration. When Amer...

  • Gujarat: Justice or Forgive and Forget?

    May 12, 2012

    By Asghar Ali Engineer In view of what is going on in Gujarat where victims have been denied justice for more than ten years, a debate has started that one should forgive and forget and march forward and engage oneself in economic developme...

  • Even if Modi said let Hindus kill Muslims, it is not an offence: SIT’s twisted wisdom

    May 12, 2012

    The detailed report of a Special Investigations Team into allegations that Gujarat Chief Minister ordered his police officers to allow Hindu mobs to kill Muslims in 2002 has controversially claimed that even if Modi gave such an order, it would...