अल्पसंख्यांक
October 24, 2016
The Jharkhand sub-inspector and a VHP official accused of severely beating Minhaj Ansari in Narayanpur police station have not yet been arrested.
Image credit: Dheeraj Kumar
On the night of October 3, Jharkhand police swept down on Dighari village in Jamatara district, detaining 22-year-old Minhaz Ansari, and two of his friends, Shahban and Fahim.
Ansari, who owned a small...
October 24, 2016
नई दिल्ली| अपनी फिसलती जुबान के लिए मशहूर केंद्रीय मंत्री गिरिराज सिंह, आये दिन नए-नए विवादित बयान देकर खोखली लोकप्रियता बटोरते रहते हैं। गिरिराज सिंह बिहार के नवादा से सांसद हैं मगर जनता के बीच इनकी पहचान इनके काम की वजह से नहीं बल्कि इनके विवादित बयान की वजह से हैं।
उत्तर प्रदेश (यूपी) के सहारनपुर जिले में एक सभा को संबोधित करते हुए गिरिराज सिंह ने एक बार फिर विवादित बयान दे दिया...
October 24, 2016
(Paper presented at the India International Islamic Academic Conference held on 8-9 October, 2016, at the India Islamic Cultural Centre, New Delhi.)
Abstract: By late 19th century and early 20th century, one finds the emergence of an 'upper-caste' Christian public sphere comprised of theologians who identified themselves with the values of 'Hindu' and '...
October 24, 2016
The Supreme Court today passed an order directing the trustees of the Haji Ali Dargah Trust to act on the July order of the Bombay High Court granting women equal access, on par with men to the iconic Haji Ali Dargah in Worli, Mumbai.
The trustees asked for two weeks time to act on the verdict. Take four weeks, the apex court ruled while warning that failure to implement the order after...
October 24, 2016
Agitating JNU students today formed a human chain from the administrative block to the Vice-Chancellor’s residence to protest the university administration’s “inaction” in tracing a missing student of the varsity.
A student of School of Biotechnology, Najeeb Ahmed, allegedly went missing on last Saturday following a brawl on the campus allegedly with members of ABVP...
October 22, 2016
As the dust surrounding the issue of abolition of triple talaq and reform in Islam refuses to settle, another altercation took place on Friday in Govandi, (Mumbai), where local women running a signature campaign against the controversial practice of instant divorce were allegedly ill-treated and abused verbally by some of the locals.
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Women activists from...
October 22, 2016
झारखंड में आरएसएस आदिवासियों और किसानों की जमीन जबरन छीने जाने के प्रावधान वाले एसपीटी-सीएनटी अध्यादेश के विरोध में एकजुट हो रहे आदिवासियों को गुमराह करके, अल्पसंख्यकों के खिलाफ भड़काने में लगा हुआ है। संघ की नीति गुजरात की तरह यहाँ भी आदिवासियों को अल्पसंख्यकों से लड़वाकर अपनी राजनीति सेंकने की दिख रही है।
आदिवासियों और पिछड़ों की एकजुटता से परेशान संघ ने आदिवासियों में बेहद सम्मानित सिदो...
October 22, 2016
Written by: Rukmini Sen
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad [ABVP] and Bharatiya Janta Party [BJP] should remember what West Bengal did to Congress, not too long ago.
Congress Chief Minister Sidharth Shankar Ray over saw killings of thousands of young men and women in the seventies. Congress claimed to have killed ‘anti-national’ Naxals. People in Bengal,...
October 21, 2016
It is time for the Muslim community to introspect on how things have come to such a pass. Practices like triple talaq, halala and polygamy, steeped in patriarchal and medieval narratives, can hardly be regarded as just and fair.
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In the background of a bunch of writ petitions filed before the Supreme Court by some Muslim women’s organisations and individual victims...
October 20, 2016
While upholding the conviction of 17 convicts, Gujarat High Court acquitted on Thursday remaining 14 convicts in Sardarpura massacre case of 2002.
Image: The Indian Express
Out of the 62 accused in the massacre that was probed by a Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team, 31 were convicted for life imprisonment and the remaining had pleaded not guilty in the special court...