Exxon Mobil and Chavez keep oil prices high
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Oleg Mityayev) - Oil prices will stay at a record high level, especially since the United States is involved in permanent conflicts with major oil exporters. This week, oil prices have gone up again by Chavez's surcharge - $3.5 per barrel.
Book Review: Khaki & Ethnic Violence in India
By Mahtab Alam, TwoCircles.net,
Name of the book: Khaki & Ethnic Violence in India
Author: Omar Khalidi
Publisher: Three Essays Collective
B-957 Palam Vihar, Gurgaon, Haryana-122 017, India
Phone: +91 98681 26587, +91 91863 44843
Year: 2010 (2nd and Revised edition)
Pages: 196
Price: Rs. 300/-
दिल्ली चुनाव : छोटी गलती पर बड़ी पकड़
By मो. आसिफ़ इक़बाल,
देश की राजधानी दिल्ली फ़िलहाल सियासी पार्टियों और उनके प्रत्याशियों का अखाड़ा बनी हुई है. हर तरफ शोर-शराबा, जलसे-जुलूस, भाषण और घोषणाएं मौजूद हैं, जिन्होंने दिल्ली में एक विचित्र माहौल पैदा कर दिया है. ऐसा नहीं है कि दिल्ली में पहली बार चुनाव होने जा रहे हैं. लेकिन इसके बावजूद देश की दो बड़ी राजनीतिक पार्टियां - सत्तारूढ़ भाजपा और पिछले पंद्रह साल दिल्ली में सरकार में रहने वाली कांग्रेस - दोनों ही कुछ हैरान-परेशान दिख रही हैं. इन दो सबसे बड़ी राजनीतिक दलों की इस परेशानी दिल्लीवाले पहली बार महसूस भी कर रहे हैं.
Americans attacking Sikhs thinking they’re Muslims: Daily
By Arun Kumar
Washington : As police investigate an attack on a Sikh man in California as a hate crime, a media report said violence...
Nine months after attack, Dalits of Samastipur wait for justice while accused roam freely
By Amit Kumar for Twocircles.net
This is the second in a four-part series on cases of Dalit atrocities in India which were brought up during...
The phantasmagoria of Pakistan’s women’s rights
By Ishtiaq Ahmed
The past few days have been filled with such dramatically contrasting news about the fortunes of Pakistani women that one can liken the rights of Pakistani women to a phantasmagoria: a changing scene made up of many elements in which the changes that take place make it impossible to discern what is real and what is merely an illusion.
Subramanian Swamy’s amnesia or bluster?
By Faraz Ahmad,
Politicians seem to suffer from bouts of amnesia or they start with the assumption that the audiences they are addressing lack either memory or intelligence or perhaps both.
Banking on Muslim votes
By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net,
In about 45 days, we will know which collection of parties is going to form the next government in India. Indian elections are less about issues and more about voting blocks. While most voting blocks are tied to political parties organized on the basis of caste or regional identities there is one vote block that is up for grabs in every election or so it seems. Muslims who have been loyal Congress vote banks for a long time since Indian independence have for some time made it known that they will vote strategically at the local level that best serves their interests.
What does axing of NSA talks mean to Kashmiris
By Sheikh Qayoom
Pakistan's decision to call off the NSA-level talks with India proves an old maxim for the people of Jammu and Kashmir:...
Muslims should not become defensive: preventing radicalisation remains a top necessity
By Kaleem Kawaja for Twocircles.net
In the last one year, there has been an upsurge in terrorism committed by a variety of terrorist groups from...
2020 in review: India is beset by crisis of majoritarianism, shrinking of democratic space
Syed Ali Mujtaba
India has moved into 2021 with several crisis facing it. Millions of Indians are looking at the government for solving this crisis....
Film Review: From Hindu to Hindutva
By Ram Puniyani,
Kandhmal violence has been the most ghastly communal violence in the Adivasi areas in India. Close to two years after the violence the tragedy of the area continues, the victims of violence, the rehabilitation, the justice to victims, most of these are no where close to what they should be.
Modi’s modernity vs saffron orthodoxy
By Amulya Ganguli,
Historian Ayesha Jalal has writen in her latest book, "The Struggle for Pakistan", that "at the root of Pakistan's national identity crisis has been the unresolved debate on how to square the state's self-proclaimed Islamic identity with the obligations of a modern nation-state".
Students clash in NIT Srinagar after India’s defeat in World T20 Semi-final
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
Srinagar: Things took uglier turn in National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar after India lost the World T20...
Vindictive ‘democracy’
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat,
A priest was found to have ‘sacrificed’ his wife to please the God in Indore, a story revisited the gory “tandoori murder” of Naina Sahni by her politician husband Sushil Sharma, who is serving life imprisonment in the jail and wanted to spend time with his mother to perform his ‘sonly’ duties. Girls are being hanged to deaths after being gang raped and political class as a whole speak of controlling time and choices. It is not that we suggest here that all the ills of the country began with the current government but there are certain trends.
20 children rescued in Delhi, says Bachpan Bachao Andolan
New Delhi : Twenty children, including eight girls, were rescued from shoe factories and placement agencies here on the initiative of Bachpan Bachao Andolan,...
Bias media and use of social media
By Mahmad Sidat, TwoCircles.net,
With the rise of the right wing politics in India, there has been spurt of communal violence against Muslims in various...
All set for the polls in India?
By Amulya Ganguli, IANS
If there was any doubt about the possibility of an early general election in India, last Friday's union budget has removed it.
The display of massive populist profligacy in the budget, which is evident in the writing off of Rs.60,000 crore ($15 billion) of farmers' loans along with sharp cuts in income-tax rates, are tell-tale signs of a poll later this year.
Bobby Jindal to comply with same-sex marriage ruling
By Arun Kumar
Washington: Louisiana's Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal is still not reconciled with the US Supreme Court's ruling to recognize same-sex marriage, but for...
Tough road ahead for Rafi Ahmad Kidwai University at Kishanganj
By TwoCircles.net special correspondent,
सफ़दर अली : मुसलमानों की तरक़्क़ी का आन्दोलन
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
सीतामढ़ी(बिहार):किसी रास्ते पर चलना आसान होता है. मगर चलते-चलते अपना जायज़ा लेना, किसी क़ौम, समाज व देश के बारे में सोचना...
Muslim youth: India’s most wanted!
Death of Khalid Mujahid has once again brought into focus atrocities on Indian Muslim youth in the name of terrorism. This special TCN series...
Why the accidental PM is becoming irreplaceable
By Amulya Ganguli, IANS,
A curious feature of the scams affecting the government is that they haven't undermined Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's position as much as may have been expected.
अत्याचार की टोकरी में दलित और मुसलमान
आसिफ इकबाल
मुस्लिम जमातों और नेताओं की ओर से यह बात बहुत पहले से कही जाती रही है कि आतंकवाद के नाम पर मुसलमानों की...
Playing politics with Tamil lives in Sri Lanka
By M.R. Narayan Swamy, IANS,
Sri Lanka's beleaguered Tamil community deserved better from Tamil Nadu. As the West gets hyper to know what it can do to end the killings of innocent civilians in the conflict and assist their flight from the war zone, election-bound Tamil Nadu is obsessed with street protests.
A political class leading a state of 70 million Tamils, more than three times the population of Sri Lanka, seems to be crippled, unable to think beyond the mundane denunciations and name calling.
शिकायतों और अनियमितताओं के आईने से प्रधानमंत्री मोदी के आदर्श ग्राम की हक़ीक़त
समय पूरा होने के बाद भी आधे-अधूरे विकास से जूझ रहा है प्रधानमंत्री का आदर्श गांव जयापुर
सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net
जयापुर/वाराणसी: मोदी के गोद लिए गए...
Jihadistan: A guerrilla nation that Pakistan cannot control
By Harold A. Gould, IANS,
In the face of the mounting military, political and ideological threats emanating from the Taliban-Al Qaeda sanctuary in the tribal areas of Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, it is wrong to think that the US should sit on its hands while Pakistan makes timorous efforts to rein in the Islamic extremists.
A developing Islamic University in Rotterdam
By Jan Felix Engelhardt,
Rotterdam, Netherlands - Tural Koç is feeling rather pleased with himself. The administrative head of the Islamic University of Rotterdam (IUR) has just taken a major step towards gaining state approval for his university. Following close consideration of content and formal requirements, the Dutch accreditation authority has now granted official recognition to the first IUR course.
Muslims need to self evaluate
By Mir Hasan Ali
A loud explosion…gasps of fright amid shock…followed by the growing sound of ambulance sirens.
It has happened yet again.
Muslim graveyards: Analysis of two verdicts of Patna High Court
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
Investigating Mehdi Foundation’s beliefs and claims
By Yoginder Sikand
A fortnight ago, the walls of my locality in New Delhi were plastered over with posters depicting a bearded man bearing a ponderous turban, below which were etched slogans fiercely denouncing Pakistan. 'Pakistan Promotes Islamic Terrorism', 'Islamic Terrorists Rule Pakistan', 'Declare Pakistan a Terrorist State' and so on the posters proclaimed. They were issued by The Mehdi Foundation International (MFI), a little-known outfit with a rather bombastic name.
Should the media not applaud Kejriwal’s anti corruption plank?
By Saeed Naqvi
It is true that every anti corruption movement in recent history has decisively shifted the centre of gravity of Indian politics...
Clean India movement should also clean the air
By Rajendra Shende,
The most crucial inclusion in the India-US Joint statement issued on Sep 30 is the strategic partnership on energy and climate change. The actions agreed will have far reaching impacts on India's poor, neo-middle class and youth. They will also enhance the image of an India as a steward in international negotiations on environment.
School girl in Assam raped, commits suicide after Panchayat offers family money to keep...
By Abdul Kalam Azad
When the entire country was celebrating 68th Republic Day, a tenth standard student of Sidhuni High School in Barpeta district of...
Nitish government won’t last over two years: Paswan
Patna : The Nitish Kumar-led Grand Alliance government in Bihar will not last more than two years, and there will be mid-term polls, union...
‘If Modi can demonetise, he can also revamp higher education and research’
By Sahana Ghosh
Mohanpur : The Narendra Modi government should show decisiveness of the kind that was on display over demonetisation to depoliticise and revamp regulatory...
It’s time NRI business leaders discovered Africa
B Kul Bhushan, IANS,
Why haven't NRIs in the West invested in Africa? Perhaps due to the lack of information about high returns on investment. Perhaps due to the outdated perceptions and prejudices about Africa. Perhaps due to apathy about Africa as a growing market. Or perhaps due to violence that constantly bursts into headlines.
Is AAP emerging as viable alternative for Muslims?
By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net,
More than ever Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) seems to be emerging as a credible alternative, a party with difference in real sense of the term, from the two national parties, the Left Front and host of regional parties for voters across the social spectrum. What has been interesting and remarkable change for the party though is its perception amongst the Muslim community, which is gradually warming up to the new party.
Let’s not export saffron mischief to Malaysia!
By Sampathkumar Iyangar
Malaysia has been of the very few countries with which India can be said to be enjoying consistently friendly relationship. Bilateral trade volumes, currently at USD 4.5 billion, are growing. The relation has been marked by full respect to for each other and been mutually beneficial. There has been no talk of one of them taking advantage of the other.
Modi hails all-women IT centre as ‘glory of Saudi Arabia’
Riyadh : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday described an all-women IT centre set up by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) here as the “glory...
Kollam Tragedy: Local Hindu groups played communal card, defied orders on ban on firecrackers
By TCN Staff Reporter
With the death toll at Kollam temple tragedy touching 110, the media attention Kerala has now turned to the bitter...
Singur strife concerns livelihood, not just farmland
By Sushma Ramachandran, IANS,
The fate of future industrial development in West Bengal hangs in the balance with the suspension of work at the Tatas' Nano factory in Singur, some 40 km from the West Bengal capital Kolkata, owing to disputes over farmland acquired for the project. A domino-like effect has already been sparked off by the controversy surrounding this high-profile project, with one of India's best known software companies Infosys Technologies also articulating concerns over whether it should go ahead with its own venture in the state.
In rural India, less to eat than 40 years ago
By Pavitra Mohan
As India's 70th year of Independence begins, widespread progress is evident, but in rural India, where 833 million Indians (70 per cent)...
Cheraman Mosque to get heritage museum, digital library
By Shafeeq Hudawi
Kozhikode: The Cheraman Juma Masjid at Kodungallur, Kerala, built in AD 629, holds a special place in Islam’s history in India. The...
Are all secular parties callous towards Muslims?
Should Muslim Parties oppose secular parties or have alliances with them?
By Kaleem Kawaja,
To answer the above...
An eye for an eye and the blinding of Indian justice
By Jayshree Bajoria
On his 54th birthday, Yakub Memon took the last, loneliest walk of his life – to the hangman’s noose. Memon was executed...
Paes, Sania perfected the winning mantra
By Veturi Srivatsa
As suspected, the Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha Committee report punishing two franchises and their officials for their notoriety in the Indian...
Violence against women is not a tenet of Islam
By Naazish YarKhan,
Listening to the radio one day, I was shocked to hear the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) report on widespread occurrence of rape in Afghanistan. As a Muslim who knows that the core of her religion is about justice and mercy, I asked myself how the perpetrators of these acts could have strayed so far from the Muslim faith and from basic humane principles.
Nitish pays for his political miscalculation
By Soroor Ahmed, TwoCircles.net,
The resignation of Nitish Kumar from the post of chief minister of Bihar following the decimation of Janata Dal (United) has exposed how weak actually he was without the support of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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