A village chief and a gang of higher-caste men opened fire on poor farmers in northern India and killed at least 10 of them in a land dispute, police officials said on Thursday. Experts said it was one of the deadliest such episodes in India in years. “It was a massacre,” Roma Malik, an activist...
MD IRSHAD AYUB The term Fascism refers to “the aggressive, radical and ultra-nationalist ideology as well as right wing political system, which believes in the ideas of totalitarian, authoritarianism, centralised and corporate state.” The word fascism comes from fascio, the Italian word for bundle, which in this case represents bundles of people. Its origins go...
New Delhi/ 21 July: To discuss about the preparation of a 3-Day International Seminar on the occasion of Silver Jubilee celebration of Markazul Ma’arif Education and Research Centre (MMERC), a meeting was held on Thursday evening, 18 July 2019, in MMERC’s Delhi office. Dr. Mufti Obaidullah Qasmi, Assistant Prof. Dr Zakir Hussain College of...
One should not underestimate the effectiveness of SAM-centric air defense strategies. Notably, the 1973 Yom Kippur War’s early stages and the Egyptian air defense units’ record revealed the fact that ground-based air defenses could indeed bleed modern air forces. Likewise, lessons-learned from the 2008 Russo-Georgian War are very telling in this respect. Thanks to the upgrades by...
On July 12, 2019, Turkey began receiving the first batch of the S-400 deliveries from Russia. Ankara’s aspirant procurement can fundamentally transform the Turkish military strategic posture. Above all, acquiring a game-changing Russian surface-to-air missile (SAM) system will lead to drastic changes in the Turkish Air Force’s concept of operations (CONOPS). Inevitably, a novel operational art...
New Delhi: The Indian education system is plagued with a number of issues, be it concerning accessibility, quality, equity, lack of humanity and values, discrimination, hate content, etc. Today, we are in need of an education system that would be erected on constitutional ethos and ensure that accessibility, quality and equity is ensured for all,...
Sheila Dikshit passes away at 81 in Delhi. Sheila Dikshit, former three times Delhi Chief Minister, has passed away. She was 81. Dikshit was keeping unwell for the past few months. The Delhi Congress president was admitted to Escorts Heart Hospital in the morning after her health deteriorated. She breathed her last at about 3.30...
Alongside the mob lynching of Muslims, we are witness to growing attacks on dalits. Muslims and dalits are the new combined ‘other’ under the current political regime. While attacks on Muslims consolidates the Hindus, simultaneous attacks on dalits defines who that Hindu is. A number of incidents of mob lynching that have targeted Muslims are...
Pakistani Prime Minister Khan will be paying a three-day trip to the US starting from July 21. This will be his first official visit as the head of the South Asian state, as well as his first face-to-face meeting with US President Trump. This is the next logical step in the global pivot state’s geopolitical...
New Delhi(Millat Times) Delhi Minorities Commission taken seriously a complaint by a JNU female professor that she is being harassed due to her Muslim identity. DMC has issued a notice and interim order to the Registrar JNU over the complaint of the professor who has alleged systematic harassment by the JNU administration, especially by the...