अल्पसंख्यांक
November 1, 2016
मध्य प्रदेश पुलिस द्वारा 8 सिमी सदस्यों को मारे जाने को लेकर सरकार लामबंद नज़र आ रही है। जहां एक और मध्य प्रदेश की जेल मंत्री कह रही है कि सिमी के लोगों को मार गिराने के लिए हमारी तारीफ होनी चाहिए।
वहीं दूसरी और सरकार में केंद्रीय मंत्री जितेंद्र सिंह ने कहा कि भोपाल जेल से भागे 8 सिमी कार्यकर्ताओं के कथित एनकाउंटर से देश का मनोबल बढ़ेगा और जनता में विश्वास बढ़ेगा कि ‘हम सुरक्षित हैं।...
November 1, 2016
A series of communal incidents in Madhya Pradesh has raised the question about the security of Muslims in the state.
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A series of communal incidents in Madhya Pradesh has raised the question about the security of Muslims in the state. In all these incidents Muslims were the main targets.
According to the findings of a team of All India Secular Forum, more than 40...
November 1, 2016
Monday’s gruesome encounter of eight Muslim undertrials in Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s Madhya Pradesh has sent social media users into utter frenzy with an overwhelming majority condemning the BJP government for extra-judicial killings.
The eight men, alleged SIMI members, were accused of having fled the jail by allegedly killing a guard. Within hours of their reported escape, they...
November 1, 2016
Only 30-35 policemen were deployed to control a 3000-men strong crowd, which later turned into an unruly mob and vandalised about 100 homes and 10 temple in the district's Nasirnagar upazila
The conjoint idol of Radha and Krishna-- Hindu god and goddess, somehow survived an attack launched on different temples in Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar on Sunday, October 30, 2016Dhaka Tribune...
November 1, 2016
Barely four days ago, October 27, 2016 to be precise, addressing a rally at no less a historic spot than Etawah, known for being politically savvy strongman Mulayam Singh’s home turf, BJP’s chief strategist and party president, Amit Shah took us all down memory lane. He told a public rally and through this the voters of Uttar Pradesh (the state goes to the polls in the first...
October 31, 2016
Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims
October 31, 2016 is the 141st Birth Anniversary of the Iron Man, India’s first home minister, Sardar Vallabhai Patel.
In 1996, scholar and politician, Rafiq Zakaria delivered the Sardar Patel Memorial lecture titled “Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims.” (They were divided in two parts: the first, dealing with the Sardar’s...
October 31, 2016
Police have filed two cases against more than 1,000 people over Sunday’s attack on temples and homes of the Hindu community in Nasirnagar of Brahmanbaria
An unruly mob of hundreds of people armed with locally-made weapons demolished at least 10 temples to the ground along with vandalising hundreds of houses of the Hindu community at Brahminbaria‘s Nasirnagar upazila on Sunday...
October 31, 2016
As Sikhs were being massacred in Delhi after Indira Gandhi’s assassination, Zail Singh stood by helplessly, Home Minister Narasimha Rao played cool.
On November 1, 1992, The Pioneer newspaper, then edited by the legendary Vinod Mehta, published a story that Amit Prakash and this reporter had stitched together. Titled, 1984: The Price of Inaction Revisited, we based our story on...
October 31, 2016
The inaction of the police and university authorities is baffling.
It has been more than two weeks since a student – Najeeb Ahmed – disappeared from the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University in the national capital, following a brutal thrashing and threats at the hands of a group of students belonging to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. The thrashing followed an...
October 31, 2016
The Quranic injunction providing the option to a divorced couple to reunite has been trivialised in ulema-sanctioned common practice to the extent that it is extremely degrading and humiliating to women, defies all standards of human decency.
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Religious and social customs in almost all societies and in all walks of life were constructed by males to give them greater...