Hifzur Rahman Qasmi* The 17th Lok Sabha elections came to an end in the month of Ramadan after a hue and cry of two months’ campaigning. The results were also declared in the same month, though it was much beyond the expectations of the political analysts. The new government was formed and the newly elected...
Sikandar Azam Once again, 102,462 people have to prove their citizenship credential in Assam as per the newly released National Register of Citizenship (NRC) draft. For poor common people, it is very difficult to waste entire day for the same work. The prime question is why enough scrutiny was not done by officials at the...
Dr. Basma Hasanat, New Delhi Sorrow and grief engulfed Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district. More than 70 children died due to encephalitis in the last couple of days while hundreds of them are in critical condition. At this perilous situation, a holistic approach and a comprehensive plan are required so that further lives of children could be...
Sikandar Azam 2014 Lok Sabha recorded the lowest share of Muslim Member of Parliament (M.P) in the Indian Parliament. One of the major reasons for decline was the rise of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) which got a huge victory in the general election. BJP gave less than 2 percent tickets to Muslim candidates and none...
Sharjeel Imam and Saquib Salim Najeeb Ahmad, a first year MSc student of Biotechnology, was beaten up on 14 October, 2016 by a group of people in Mahi-Mandavi hostel after an alleged scuffle, and he mysteriously disappeared the next day. It is for the first time that a student from a central university has disappeared,...
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...
Dr. Firdous Azmat Siddiqui The twenty-three pages’ new guidelines published on the website of the University Grants Commission have raised some important questions about the future of hundreds of women’s studies centres in the country. The most important thing to be noticed is the fact these guidelines published on their website are date marked to...
Politicians and the mainstream media should take time out and reflect on the role they may have played which led to the mass killing of Muslim worshippers at two of New Zealand’s mosques in Christchurch. What happened during Friday prayers, as 49 innocents were slaughtered by a crazed gunman, went out on a live stream and...
Nyla Ali Khan Indian nationalists are quick to claim their intractable hold on Kashmiris; Pakistani nationalists are just as quick to claim to speak for Kashmiris. Kashmir, despite having a real internal history and a place in the world, is suppressed by its positioning in the Indo-Pak conflict. Mainstream Kashmiri politicians culpably reiterate that “Kashmir...
Pratab Bhanu Mehta The Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute has long been accompanied by a sense of foreboding. The dispute has been historically charged, politically divisive and communally violent, putting both the nation and the Constitution at risk. So putting the dispute into mediation under the aegis of the Supreme Court evokes a resigned weariness. For...