By the end of 1957, France claimed political dissent in Algieria had been eradicated. Yet soon the Algerian people were to take to the streets to reclaim their independence in a chapter that remains largely unknown On 11 December 1960, three years after the Battle of Algiers, large-scale popular uprisings overcame French military oppression and changed the...
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February 2, 2017September 18, 2025Education, Opinion, Special Column
Thank Colonial Britain for These 7 Present Day Crises in the World
The sun might have set on the formidable British empire, but not on its legacy. Many of the present day conflicts around the world have deep-seated links with British colonial polices, their mismanagement of the process of independence, and the legacy they left behind in law, by drawing up unviable borders and by migrating cheap...
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January 27, 2017September 18, 2025Opinion, Special Column
Why does our country need a constitution?
By Mohamad Shafi Each one of us knows very well that our Constitution was adopted on 26 November1949, however it came into force on 26 January 1950, here a simple question strikes our mind that each community has a religious book, whether we talk about Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and Buddhists, each of them have...
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January 27, 2017September 18, 2025Opinion, Special Column
Turkey at a crossroads Part-2 (Final)
By : MD IRSHAD AYUB (https://www.facebook.com/mdirshad.ayub) Growing strategic synergy ties Russia The increasingly forging ties with Russia on major international issues such as Syria, also an immediate neighbor of Turkey that seems to have reflecting bringing peace and stability in Syria. Paradigm shift of Ankara’s policy pertaining to Syrian president Assad is also the reflection...
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January 20, 2017September 18, 2025Opinion, Special Column
Turkey at a crossroads Part-1
By : MD IRSHAD AYUB The New Year’s Eve attack on Istanbul nightclub that killed at least 39 people and wounded many people, most of them were foreigners. Ankara and Istanbul have been targeted by several terrorist attacks in 2016 carried out by the Islamic State group or Kurdish rebels, killing more than 180 people....
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January 11, 2017September 18, 2025Special Column
राजनीतिक पार्टी के बिना राजनीतिक ताक़त हासिल करना असंभव
शम्स तबरीज़ कासमी भारत में राजनीतिक शक्ति प्राप्त करने के लिए बुनियादी शर्त मजबूत राजनीतिक पार्टी का अस्तित्व है, स्वतंत्रता के बाद से जू पार्टयाँ सरगर्म हैं उनमें मुसलमानों का कोई योगदान नहीं है, राष्ट्रीय और क्षेत्रीय पार्टी में चन्द मुस्लिम चेहरे सिर्फ मुस्लिम वोट पाने के लिए रखे गए हैं, पार्टी अध्यक्ष जब चाहते...
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December 30, 2016September 18, 2025Islam, Special Column
A man of many letters: Maulana Abdul Haq Azami
BY : MD IRSHAD AYUB ( https://www.facebook.com/mdirshad.ayub) I am very saddened and with deep sorrow to learn about the demise of a great Islamic scholar as well as a preacher of the most authentic book of hadith Sahih Bukhari, Maulana Abdul Haq Azami. He has been preaching at the world’s most prominent Islamic seminary Darul...
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December 4, 2016September 18, 2025Islam, Special Column
The Long Journey Of Madrasas Part 2(Final)
Part 1’s link : http://millattimes.com/en/2016/12/02/the-long-journey-of-madrasas-part-1/ Prior to the setting up of the religious school in Kolkata in 1781, the British authorities had already banned all Muslim education institutes in this region in 1757, following the conquest of Bengal. This seminary founded by Warren Hastings in 1781 was only meant for religious education of the Muslims. After...
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December 2, 2016September 18, 2025Special Column
The New Barbarianism In Syria
The New Barbarianism in Syria Syria has been engulfed in political violence since 2011. It has disintegrated into a cauldron of competing rebel groups, terrorist elements, international powers, and religious factions. Further, the Syria conflict is compounded by Syria’s ethnic divisions and sectarian lines. Despite the fact that the most of the Syrian population are...
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November 6, 2016September 18, 2025Special Column
THE SOLUTION TO THE CURRENT DILEMMA LIES IN RESPECT FOR HUMANITY
Though the people who attack humanity, from around the world, are followers of different religions but from east to west and from north to south only Muslims are being largely discredited and as a result Islam is blamed as the promoter of intolerance and extremism. By Muddassir Ahmad Qasmi Communal riots, terrorist attacks,...