National
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Extra-judicial executions: pay Rs 28 crore for killings, Punjab told
Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Almost 18 years after over 2,000 people were killed and summarily cremated at the height of militancy in Punjab, there is some relief for the families of the victims. The National Human Rights Commission on Tuesday recommended nearly...
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Minorities share in the central budget
By NA Ansari
Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: The central budget presented by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee in Parliament on 16 March for the financial year 2012-13 provides an amount of Rs. 3135 crore to the union ministry for minorities affairs. This represents an increase...
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Delhi Police pays Rs.3 lakh for killing youth in custody
Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: In yet another case of custody deaths, a young man in custody of the Delhi Police died due to torture at the Dhaula Kuan police post. Following intervention by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Police paid Rs.3 lakh as int...
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BJP MCD candidate does not need Muslim votes, will not serve them
Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: According to a news item published in the Delhi edition of Daily Inquilab of 15 April 2012, Bharitya Janta Party candidate Pinky Jain of Municipal Corporation of Delhi Ward No. 76 (Deputy Ganj, Delhi) said in a road show during the m...
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Sachar, Misra, Mander, yet a silent budget
Apr 28, 2012
+ Pic By Zafar Mahmood The annual budget of a country reflects the government’s priorities. It is, in fact, the preface of the financial year’s book. However, there is no noticeable mention of Muslims and other minoritie...
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Muslims in MP divided over Haj subsidy
By Zafar Alam Khan
Apr 24, 2012
Bhopal: Muslims in the state capital are divided over central government's talk of abolishing Haj subsidy. External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Monday said that Government of India (GoI) is giving 'second thoughts' whether to con...
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Is RSS losing faith in Gadkari?
By Mohammad Naushad Khan
Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: Controversies following Nitin Gadkari’s decisions one after another have not only weakened his authority in the BJP but have also undermined his equation with the RSS and allied outfits.
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Engineer arrested for Bijbehara blast
By Afsana Rashid
Apr 12, 2012
Police claims to have arrested a civil engineer in connection with the recent car bomb explosion at Bijbehara-Anantnag in south Kashmir that left one person dead and several injured. His family however, refutes the police claims. Police on ...
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UN rep visits J&K
By Afsana Rashid
Apr 12, 2012
United Nations Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary and arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns met people from diverse fields including academicians, advocates, human rights activists and journalists, during a fact-finding mission here on March ...
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Police gives a fresh list of unmarked J&K graves
By Afsana Rashid
Apr 12, 2012
Police says it has submitted a fresh list of unmarked graves to the State Human Rights Commission. The Commission however, denies having received any such report. Director General of Police Kuldeep Khoda on April 1 has been quoted as saying...
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Seminar on Maulana Mujibullah Nadwi
Apr 12, 2012
+ Pix Azamgarh: A two-day National Seminar was held here at the Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy on 25-26 March on Maulana Mujibullah Nadwi, a great intellectual and enlightened scholar. Dr. Abdullah Ammar, elder son of Maulana Mujibulla...
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Haj subsidy is an illusion: JIH
Apr 12, 2012
+ Pic New Delhi: In its monthly press briefing here on 7 April, Jamaat-e Islami Hind (JIH) elaborated its stand on NCTC, Haj Subsidy, the recent summit of BRICS countries, continuous Israeli aggression against Palestinians and the attem...
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Jamiatul Ulama (Arshad)’s conference
By NA Ansari
Apr 12, 2012
+ Pic Jamiatul Ulama-e Hind (Arshad)’s 29th 2-day conference was held in Deoband’s Madni Memorial School, Madni Nagar on 24 and 25 March. Jamiat’s president Maulana Arshad Madni said while addressing the administrative...
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By inviting Advani, S.P. again rubs salt on Muslim wounds
By Manzar Mehdi Faizabadi
Apr 12, 2012
+ Pic Ayodhya: Samajwadi Party’s position became awkward when it invited Advani for the swearing-in function of Akhilesh Yadav because Muslims did not like SP’s double standard at all. Babri Masjid’s plaintiff Haji Mah...
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Indian Muslims Still Paying the Price of Partition
By Karamatullah K. Ghori
Apr 12, 2012
What’s is it like being a Muslim in India 65 years after the cataclysm of August 1947 that unleashed the ‘Great Divide’ in the South Asian subcontinent and spawned India and Pakistan? The question comes naturally to every ...
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Indian Muslims Still Paying the Price of Partition
By Karamatullah K. Ghori
Apr 12, 2012
What’s is it like being a Muslim in India 65 years after the cataclysm of August 1947 that unleashed the ‘Great Divide’ in the South Asian subcontinent and spawned India and Pakistan? The question comes naturally to every ...
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Riot in Andhra Pradesh, Curfew Imposed, INR 1.32 Cr. Lost
Apr 12, 2012
By Ibrahim Usmani Hyderabad: Riots broke out in Sangareddy district of Andhra Pradesh on 29 March leading to 27 people getting injured, mostly Muslims, and a loss of about Rs. 1.32 crore worth of Muslim assets. It all started when a l...
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Fact-Finding Report on the Sangareddy Communal Violence
Apr 12, 2012
A fact-finding team of Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee consisting of Prof. Rehana Sultana, Lateef Mohammed Khan, Kaneez Fathima, M. Mandakini, S. Q. Masood and Mohammad Ismail Khan visited Sangareddy, the headquarter of A.P.’s Medak ...
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Muslims lag far behind in media race: Zakir Naik
Apr 12, 2012
Riyadh: Distinguished Islamic scholar and preacher, Dr. Zakir Naik, while speaking at a function held here in his honour, said that Muslims lag far behind in the media race, the most important reason of which is that they are ignorant of modern...
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Let sycophants not spoil the U.P. HC broth
By Haider Abbas
Apr 12, 2012
Lucknow: No doubt this city is the capital of UP but the political capital of this state capital is the High Court (HC), and under no way, its sway over the political dispensation can be denied or belittled. Its political enormity can be gauged...
