In 2012, while researching fishers’ rights to the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary on the eastern coast of Odisha, I stumbled upon an unexpected conflict. Odiya fishers were accusing long-settled Bengali fishers of being undocumented migrants who had destroyed the ecosystem with […]
Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 18 (IANS): The Muslim college girls in Bulandshahr district’s Khurja have complained that they were being harassed by miscreants and forced to wear burqa. The girls, on Monday, met the Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Isha Priya […]
The Union Minister for Minority Affairs, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has said that 100 per cent digital/online Haj process in India has fulfilled the dream of “Ease of Doing Haj” for the Indian Muslims. He was addressing a training of trainers […]
New Delhi, Feb 11 (KNN) The next “Hunar Haat”, to be organized by Ministry of Minority Affairs from February 13, 2020 at India Gate Lawns, Rajpath, New Delhi will be based on the theme of “Kaushal Ko Kaam”. This “Hunar […]
The scholarly literature in the Islamic world has always been a private enterprise. Individual scholars quite early in the Islamic history span a web of intellectual network. In conversation with each other through exchange of ideas, these scholars by mid […]
As doubts loom over the accuracy of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), the Assam government is planning to conduct a survey to identify the indigenous Muslim population of the state in order to segregate them from illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. […]
A look at the reality of a Muslim textile retailer in South India tells of a deeply influential humanism that wonderfully underlines the dignity of men. Director Arun Karthick’s reserved, deeply humane approach to addressing the hideous anti-Muslim rhetoric that […]
Assam is likely to conduct an exercise to identify the state’s indigenous Muslim population and segregate them from illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, even as doubts over the accuracy of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) are yet to be addressed. Guwahati: […]
The Northeast Delhi Lok Sabha constituency, which has Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari, former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and AAP’s Dilip Pandey in the fray, recorded the highest turnout at 63.45 per cent in the polls today. The constituency comprises […]
On 12th December, 2019, in the Seventieth Year of the Republic of India, “The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019” has been adopted as an amendment to the prior “Citizenship Act, 1955”. Soon after that, a widespread and unseemly controversy has broken […]
