President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is traveling to Moscow on Monday for his third meeting this year with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for the opening ceremony of the Turkey-Russia cross-cultural year. Erdoğan’s visit is expected to focus on regional cooperation between the two countries, as well as Turkey’s planned counterterror operation in Syria. “Our cooperation with...
डॉ सैय्यद ज़फर महमूद: जिन्होंने ज़कात फाउंडेशन की नींव रखी
अशरफ हुसैन वो नाम है जिन्होंने ज़कात फाउंडेशन की नींव रखी, जिससे आईएएस व दीगर अलाइड सर्विसेज में मुस्लिमों की नुमाइंदगी बढ़ी है, इस साल 28 में से 18 छात्र तो वहीं साल 2018 में 52 मुस्लिम चुने गए थे इनमें 41 का ताल्लुक ज़कात फाउंडेशन से था। मुस्लिम युवाओं को आईएएस आईपीएस बनने का...
Sadatullah Hussaini has been elected new Ameer (National President) of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
Sadatullah Hussaini has been elected Ameer (National President) of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. He was elected by Jamaat’s 157 member Markazi Majlis-e Numanidgan (Council of Representatives) after thorough deliberations on all aspects. He has been elected for a 4 year term from April 2019 till March 2023. Syed Sadatullah Hussaini is former National President of Jamaat’s student...
Upcoming Lok Sabha Elections: Is Modi’s Era coming to an end?
India begins its month-long general election process next week in what many regard as a heated race that will either make or break the Modi era. Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the BJP was elected by a landslide half a decade ago on promises of restoring India’s long-lost international standing and turning it into a...
Why Turkey’s Opposition Shouldn’t Underestimate Erdogan
Turkey’s main opposition party and its electoral partner pulled off a stunning upset of the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in local elections on March 31. Voters in Ankara, the capital, and Istanbul, Turkey’s industrial and economic center, opted for candidates from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) rather than...
Putin-Erdogan Summit: What’s Next For The Two Great Powers?
Turkish President Erdogan’s visit to Russia next week will see the two Great Powers take their strategic partnership to the next level in an increasingly multipolar and complex world. The Turkish leader will arrive in the Russian capital next Monday on 8 April for the upcoming session of the High-Level Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council, which is an...
The colour of the BJP in the Kashmir Valley is Green, not Saffron
The colour of the BJP in the Kashmir Valley is not saffron but green. The BJP has issued poll-related advertisements in local newspapers that don’t have even a trace of saffron but is full of green, a colour preferred by many in Kashmir because of its association with Islam and Pakistan. Many believe that green...
Did India Shoot Down a Pakistani Jet? U.S. Count Says No.
India’s claim that one of its fighter pilots shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet in an aerial battle between the two nuclear powers in February appears to be wrong. Two senior U.S. defense officials with direct knowledge of the situation told Foreign Policy that U.S. personnel recently counted Islamabad’s F-16s and found none missing. The findings...
Being ‘Liberal’ Means Asking Muslims to Spoil Their Best Chance in Begusarai
Sharjeel Imam The onus of defeating right-wing extremists already falls on Muslim voters. Now liberals expect them to abandon a winning candidate in favour of a social-media celebrity, Kanhaiya Kumar. This ‘fight against fascism’ in the general election has led to bizarre developments. In Begusarai, the ‘anti-fascist’ intellectual lobby has put all its weight behind...
Lal Salaam to Jai Bhim: Why Rohith Vemula left Indian Marxists
Jashwanth Jessie Not many people know that my friend Rohith Vemula was once a diehard supporter of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Before he joined the Ambedkar Students’ Association (ASA) at the University of Hyderabad, he was a firebrand leader of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI), affiliated to the CPI(M). His disillusionment with...