16-30 June 2011
Table of Contents
Ramdev’s anti-graft fast: new face of communal politics (Ram Puniyani) 1
Palestinian mother is the first Arab woman to reach Everest (NA Ansari) 1
“Dreaded LeT terrorist” is acquitted after five years (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 1
Cartoon (MG/Yusuf) 1
Issue / Opinion
Will Kancha’s “post-Hindu India” ever emerge? (Madhu Chandra) 2
Baba Ramdev: Yogi or Commissar? (Ram Puniyani) 2
National
India bankrolls bankrupt Israel (writerasia.blogspot.com) 3
Cops convicted 18 years after murder (articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com) 3
Saffron Baba to establish private army (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 3
MF Hussain: do gaz zameen mil na sakee koo-e yaar main 3
Natgrid to become operational by (2013) 3
National
Arun Jaitley and the albatross of Communal Violence Bill around his neck (Mustafa Khan) 4
Giani, Sanjay to blame for Punjab mess (MG News Desk) 4
15 die every hour due to road accidents (MG News Desk) 4
RSS commitment to Hindutva is hollow (MG News Desk) 4
In 16 months, 6.5 lakh undertrials given bail (MG News Desk) 4
National
Sangh wages proxy war against the Congress (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 5
An ode to Ode of Anand (Mustafa Khan) 5
National
Sangh tries to pre-empt Communal Violence Bill (John Dayal) 6
Congress and BJP trade charges over communal violence bill (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 6
National
CBSE results of Urdu medium schools of Delhi (NA Ansari) 7
US panel demands probe into Modi’s role in Gujarat riots (MG News Desk) 7
RSS to launch paper, channel to counter terror charges (MG News Desk) 7
Agnivesh assaulted by Mahant close to BJP (MG News Desk) 7
National
“Sanatan Sanstha is the Hindu Taliban” (Javed Anand) 8
National
Apex Court’s sharp wrap on High Court knuckles (Haider Abbas) 9
Professor Khan Muhammed Atif Ghilzai (Haider Abbas) 9
National
Now, Modi too eyes Muslim votebank (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Amit Shah faces new trouble (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
No room for Muslims in Gujarat housing (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Election exercise begins in Gujarat (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Demand for a CBI inquiry into Phool Muhammad murder (NA Ansari) 10
Human Rights / Terrorism
U.P. tops in human rights violations (MG News Desk) 11
Human rights courts soon in Delhi (MG News Desk) 11
“Firing after Mecca Masjid blast justified” (MG News Desk) 11
Move to keep CBI, NIA out of RTI opposed (MG News Desk) 11
Apex Court warns against fake encounters (MG News Desk) 11
Consequences of Ishrat probe feared (MG News Desk) 11
Youth in jail 4 times over his term (MG News Desk) 11
Time to halt descent to a majoritarian democracy (Ram Puniyani) 11
Issues
Indian Muslims: balance-sheet since Partition (Syed Shahabuddin) 12
Issues
Towards a riot-free India (Ram Puniyani) 13
CBI to probe funds collected for the Babri Masjid demolition (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 13
Analysis
Baba Ramdev’s Political Drama! (Nilofar Suhrawardy) 14
10 reasons why India cannot really move on (Sanjay Jha) 14
Malegaon High School (Izhar Ateeq) 14
Jammu & Kashmir
Dateline Srinagar: Afsana Rashid 15
Hurriyat revokes expulsion of Abbas group 15
List of disappeared submitted to CM 15
Amarnath yatris to swamp Kashmir 15
Plan for youth’s skill development 15
Protest after double murder in Bawan 15
Newsmakers 16
Taking care of unclaimed bodies (Manzar Mehdi Faizabadi) 16
Former senior bureaucrat R.K. Saiyed is no more (AG Khan) 16
Special Reports
Welfare Party executive holds meeting 17
Rehab India opens village for riot victims of Assam 17
Rural Technology Institute’s new building inaugurated at Alamkhani 17
Cartoon (MG/Yusuf) 17
Community News
Govt okays religion, caste survey 18
MIM will move court if cops given clean chit in Mecca Firing 18
Widespread resentment at Haj draw 18
Gujarat gets its first Congress mayor in Gandhinagar 18
Gujarati Muslim youth selected as Dy SP 18
Saudis declare Zamzam water safe 18
SP to woo Muslims by raising reservation issue 18
Waqf Development Agency plan reflects biased mentality (NA Ansari) 18
Government plans to split backward castes into sub-castes 18
Kashmiri Muslim safeguards Pandit’s school and temple 18
Spreading education and knowledge 18
Mass marriages amidst communal harmony 18
Community News
First woman to drive diesel engine 19
Dikshit’s “communal” charge irks St Stephen staff 19
Modern medical centre in Jamia Nagar 19
Bengali Muslims unhappy with Mamta’s choice of ministers 19
40-day Personality Development Workshop in IICC 19
Ahmedabad youth clears UPSC in first attempt 19
Bihar Madrasa Board’s Wostania results out 19
Kerala church for the first time elects its head 19
Inauguration of 7-storey educational building 19
Army and Intelligence agencies differ on infiltration in J&K 19
Deeni Madaris Board’s 40-day ‘Madrasa-Chalo’ campaign 19
Urdu second official language in some districts of W. Bengal (NA Ansari) 19
Community News
“Scientific presentation of Qur’an is wrong” 20
Maudany taken to hospital and returned without treatment 20
2002 riots: another police officer blames Modi (Gaurav Shah, CNN-IBN) 20
Minarets are being destroyed by monkeys but repair denied (Manzar Mehdi Faizabad) 20
Urdu enjoys official patronage in Canada (NA Ansari) 20
Two thousand Dalits embrace Buddhism in Udupi 20
BJP lost poll deposits in constituencies Modi addressed 20
719 pilgrims selected but 1426 will go for Haj from Delhi 20
National Workshop On Scientific Urdu Translation At AMU 20
Community News
Congress to relaunch National Herald etc (National Herald), its Hindi edition Navjeevan and its Urdu edition Qaumi Awaaz) 21
Kingfisher offloads blind woman with kids 21
Urdu medium girls felicitated at IICC 21
Translation of scientific books into Urdu 21
In Hyderabad, it is difficult for a Muslim to hire a house (amityindias.blogspot.com) 21
Petitions against minority scholarship schemes dismissed 21
Community News
Despite under-representatoin in the international media, Urdu’s future is bright (NA Ansari) 22
Darul Huda Islamic Uni. in Kerala 22
International
“US-NATO war served Al-Qaeda strategy” (Gareth Porter) 23
US keeps smallpox viruses at Georgia lab for future use (J. D. Heyes) 23
Cartoon (MG/Yusuf) 23
International
American Muslims and their inadequate institutions (Kaleem Kawaja) 24
In US-Pakistan relations, stability means obedience: Chomsky (Maria Amir) 24
Egyptian delegation arrives in Tehran (english.farsnews.com) 24
Muslim Brothers more dangerous than Iran bomb: Israel (jpost.com) 24
International
The Long Reigning in France’s Ethnocentrism 25
International
The Arab Spring: Hobbled by Hostile Summer? (Karamatullah K. Ghori) 26
Book
Not just another book about Palestine, Book: My Father was a freedom fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story, Author: Ramzy Baroud, Publisher: Pluto Press, London: Year: 2010, Pages: 210 (paperback), Language: English, ISBN-10: 0745328814, ISBN-13: 978-0745328812, Price: Paperback US$12.24 (Raid Khoury) 27
Islamic Perspectives
Islamism is a viable political system (Kaleem Kawaja) 28
“Soon shall we show them Our Signs” (Qur’an - 41:53) – Scientists crack the spiders’ web code (Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology) 28
MG Classifieds 29
Rejoinder / Opinion / Letters
MG (Mansoor Osmani) 30
“I am not a terrorist” (Major Ramesh Upadhyay) 30
Muslim Awqaf in India (Ghulam Muhammed) 30
Widows and Half Widows of Kashmir (Farooq Abdul Gaffar Bawani) 30
What kind of Muslims are they? (Niyaz Ansari) 30
Urdu and Indian Muslims (S.M. Pasha) 30
Success of AIUDF in Assam (Qazi Abdul Rahman) 30
SP status and Muslim reservation (S. Haque) 30
Fake encounters are cold-blooded murders (G. Hasnain Kaif) 30
Muslims are not organized (Mohd. Rafiq Chauhan) 30
Irfan Alam tortured by Bihar police (S. Haque) 30
David Headley (Syed Sultan Mohiddin) 30
Suicide of a Marxist Muslim (Dr AH Maqdoomi) 30
Brahmins fighting a fratricidal war (Ghulam Muhammed) 30
Rejoinder / Opinion / Letters
Baba Ram Dev and the clueless Prime Minister (Dr Mookhi Amir Ali, Dr A H Maqdoomi, Syed Sultan Mohiddin, SM Pasha) 30
Anti-corruption law (Dr Mookhi Amir Ali) 30
Sushma dancing episode (Dr Maqdoomi) 30
Uma back in BJP, yet again (Nazneen O.Saherwala) 30
Advertising to children (Clement Ferrer) 30
Lesson from Fukushima nuclear disaster (Syed Sultan Mohiddin) 30
FDI in retail trade (Syed Sultan Mohiddin) 30
Media ethics (Irfan Machiwala) 31
World Environment Day (Mohd. Ziyaullah Khan) 31
Translate it into actions, Mr Obama (Kodimirpal) 31
NATO strike on Libya (Khawaza Umer Farooq) 31
Arab world in process of transition (Mohamedameen) 31
Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds (Kodimirpal) 31
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