Indian Muslims

  • Batla defence counsel R K Naseem succumbs to head injuries
    By TCN News, New Delhi: Noted criminal lawyer R.K. Naseem, who was the main defence counsel for Batla House encounter and Delhi blasts accused, succumbed to head injuries on February 7 at a private hospital here after battling for life for about two weeks. On January 24, his close relative and ex...
  • TCN cartoon: Reserved for Muslims
    By Yusuf, TwoCircles.net
  • Professional career gives respect and security to women
    Zohra Javed I recently read an article "stay-at-home-mom", which talked about how essential it is for a woman to be there for her children when they are growing up, and that women professionals often end up neglecting their home and family. Indeed there can be no two opinions on the importance of...
  • India privileged Hindi but discriminated against Urdu: Prof. Oommen
    By TCN News Aligarh: Noted Sociologist, Dr. T.K. Oommen, Professor Emeritus of Jawharlal Nehru University said that although India’s mind boggling linguistic diversity has been acknowledged, independent India’s language policy was precariously proximate to that of the nation-state. India pur...
  • West Bengal to accord job quotas for poor Muslims
    By IANS, Kolkata : West Bengal's Left Front government Monday said it would reserve 10 percent of government jobs to economically, socially and educationally backward Muslims by including them in the OBC (Other Backward Class) category. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said his governme...
  • Minority minister, V-C read Fatiha at Dr Zakir Hussain’s grave
    By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Today was 113th birth anniversary of Late Dr. Zakir Husain, former President of India and former Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia. Union Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed and Jamia Millia Vice-Chancellor Najee...
  • Muslims to get 10% quota in OBC: West Bengal cabinet
    By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net, Kolkata: Yielding to the pressure by the Muslim community in the state, the West Bengal Government today decided to reserve 10% quota for socially, educationally and economically backward Muslims under OBC category. The state cabinet took the decision today...
  • Bengal to adopt Ranganath Mishra Commission recommendations
    By IANS, Kolkata : West Bengal's Left Front government Monday decided to adopt the Ranganath Mishra Commission's recommendations for the betterment of economically, socially and educationally backward minority Muslims in the state. "We have decided to adopt the Ranganath Mishra Commission's re...
  • Andhra to challenge high court order on Muslim reservation
    By IANS, Hyderabad : The Andhra Pradesh government Monday decided to challenge in the Supreme Court the verdict of the high court quashing a legislation for four percent reservation to Muslims in education and jobs. Immediately after the seven-member constitutional bench delivered its verdict,...
  • SRK fed up of IPL controversy
    By IANS, New Delhi : Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is tired of being under the Shiv Sena scanner for his stand on Pakistani players in the Indian Premier League (IPL), and says now he is hoping that all ends well. "(I) hope all turns out well. Hate altercations and misunderstandings - tir...
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Articles

  • Professional career gives respect and security to women
    Zohra Javed I recently read an article "stay-at-home-mom", which talked about how essential it is for a woman to be there for her children when they are growing up, and that women professionals often end up neglecting their home and family. Indeed there can be no two opinions on the importance of the mother's role in the life of her children. I am an ardent champion of what the writer calls a "stay-at-home mom". But I also realise that she and I are among those fortunate women who have a supp...
  • Shahzad’s arrest and Goebbels’ lies
    By Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association, Goebbels, the Nazi propagandist, believed that a lie repeated several times over would soon acquire the legitimacy of truth. The Delhi Police has surpassed Goebbels’ strategy. By deluging the press and the public with one lie after another, it hopes that the truth will never be extricated. Who killed Inspector Sharma? Shahzad Ahmed (not ‘urf Pappu’ as he has never borne that name), the most recent prize catch of the ...
  • SRK-Shiv Sena standoff not as heroic or villainous
    By Mayank Chhaya, IANS, In the Shah Rukh Khan-Shiv Sena standoff the heroism is not as heroic and villainy not as villainous as some in the media are projecting. Khan "standing up" to the Sena is as much a broadcast media driven narrative as Bal Thackeray's "threats and intimidation." At its core it is nothing more than a fading 84-year-old rabble rouser's personal need for attention and losing battle to burnish a very thin legacy. It must not be a happy thought for Thackeray that 44 y...
  • Computer-based tests have a bright future in India
    By Nina Mehta, IANS, Aamir Khan and his friends, in the movie "Three Idiots" rush from the hospital to write an exam. Since they reach late, they keep writing even after the professor says "Time Up", and sure enough the professor refuses to take their answer sheets. Aamir asks the professor whether he knows their roll numbers and names and when the teacher says no, Aamir mixes their sheets with the rest. A brilliant way to tackle an unsuspecting professor and not-so-sophisticated paper...
  • Shiv Sena ire against Shah Rukh Khan
    By Ram Puniyani, A fortnight ago (January 2010) Shah Rukh Khan, the celebrated film star, voiced his opinion that Pakistani Cricket players should not be prevented from playing in IPL cricket League. This sparked a big row of protest from the local Shiv Sena supporters, who criticized Khan and tore the posters of his film, ‘My Name is Khan’, they also went on to say if Shah Rukh’s ‘Khan’ is awakening he should very well go to Pakistan and be there. At the same time Shiv Sen...
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