Sanjiv Bhatt Every other day there is an incident or a story in the media that directly targets Muslims in one or the other form. There is whole machinery working to create a strong narrative to defame and single out this largest minority community. The same community which fought for independence decided to live on...
The group was travelling in a largely Taliban-controlled area when the eight people were abducted from their vehicle, Baghlan police spokesperson Zabihullah Shuja said. Seven Indian engineers and an Afghan national working for a power plant project in northern Afghanistan’s Baghlan were kidnapped by a group of armed men on Sunday, officials said. The group...
Wading into the controversy over the presence of Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s portrait in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Union Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh said that Muslims who support the idea of having Jinnah’s portrait in AMU are insulting their forefathers. “If you are a Muslim and you wish to have...
This is the second part of a series on the recent incidents in AMU. You can read the first article here. When a BJP MP recently asked Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) to explain why a portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah was hanging on campus, it should have been clear that the ground was being prepared for a...
Both the Hindu Mahasabha and Muslim League had divisive and regressive ideologies. The inheritors of Savarkar’s ideology are now bent upon destroying universities which are, ideally, supposed to be liberating spaces that allow all kinds of ideas to flourish Prof. Faizan Mustafa No one individual has caused as much damage to the Muslim cause in...
A BJP MP has asked Aligarh Muslim University to explain why it displays a portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, triggering a row days after a student sought permission to hold an RSS shakha on its premises. In a letter written to vice chancellor Tariq Mansoor on Monday, Aligarh MP Satish Gautam objected to the Pakistan...
New Delhi The Central Secretariat meeting of Popular Front of India has appealed to the people of Karnataka to defeat Hindutva politics in the upcoming Assembly elections and vote for secular candidates and representatives of people’s politics, to defeat the BJP. Modi government which came to power 4 years ago promising ‘Ache Din’ has made...
A case under non-bailable sections has been registered against Sadhvi Saraswati, a Hindutva hardliner, for making divisive comments aimed at promoting enmity and hatred between religious communities at a gathering in Kasaragod district in the state. The case has been filed at the Badiadka police station in the district, four days after the controversial preacher...
Hours after he was sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Kavinder Gupta on Monday courted controversy by terming the rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua as a “minor incident”. In a video posted by Congress leader Salman Nizami, Gupta is heard saying, “The Kathua incident is a minor one and...
Tribute was paid to the late Justice Rajinder Sachar in the closing sessions New Delhi(Press Release) A two-day international seminar on the life and contr4ibutions of the celebrated Palestinian scholar Dr. Ismail Raji organized by Institute of Objective Studies (IOS), New Delhi in the C. I. T. Hall of Jamia Millia Islamia came to an...