Indian Muslims

  • SIO president discusses community issues with Rahul Gandhi
    By TCN News, New Delhi: SIO National President, Suhail K.K and National Secretary Shahnawaz Ali Raihan today met AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi at his residence and discussed with him several community and national issues including minority character of Aligarh Muslim University and J...
  • Islamic clerics oppose women's reservation
    By IANS, Lucknow :Not only certain political parties, but even some influential Islamic scholars and clerics are strongly opposed to the women's reservation bill. Their opposition seems to stem from the fact that such a provision will not only entitle but also encourage more and more Muslim ...
  • Zakia Jaffri's charges against Modi
    By IANS, Gandhinagar : Zakia Jaffri in her petition has levelled serious charges against Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots, and has made out a case of conspiracy and abetment to commit multiple offences of murder. The charges of conspiracy and abetment to commit multiple offences ...
  • Modi summoned on riots, Congress wants him to go
    By IANS, Gandhinagar/New Delhi: The 2002 Gujarat riots returned to haunt Chief Minister Narendra Modi Thursday when a Supreme Court-appointed investigation team summoned him for questioning March 21 over his alleged complicity in the anti-Muslim violence that rocked the state, particularly in the...
  • WRB an opportunity for SP to bring Muslim voters back
    By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net, Lucknow: Despite failing it its efforts to block women reservation bill in the parliament, the Samajwadi Party (SP) has decided to exploit the opportunity for cornering its drifting Muslim vote-bank. The Rajya Sabha MPs Kamal Akhter and Amir Alam will be p...
  • Campus Front concerned at centre’s new education policy
    By TCN News, New Delhi: Campus Front of India has expressed its concerns at the new education policy of the central government, terming it a way toward union government’s monopoly on education with states having little stake. Education is currently in the Concurrent List but newly annou...
  • Women Reservation Bill historical blunder: Manzoor Alam
    By Mahtab Alam, TwoCircles.net, After 14 years, the Women Reservation Bill has been voted with difference of 186 and 1 in Rajya Sabha of Indian Parliament on 9th February. But many believe, passage the bill of is a historical blunder in its present form. All India Milli Council along with...
  • Andhra plea for Muslim quota to be heard March 22
    By IANS, New Delhi : The Supreme Court Thursday decided to hear March 22 an Andhra Pradesh government's lawsuit challenging the state high court's ruling striking down a law reserving four percent of seats for Muslim students in professional colleges. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan...
  • Narendra Modi summoned by SIT for questioning on riots
    By IANS, Gandhinagar : The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the 2002 Gujarat communal riots has summoned Chief Minister Narendra Modi for questioning on March 21. According to SIT chief R.K. Raghavan, the move to question Modi follows an order by the Supreme Cou...
  • TN Muslim students body supports Telangana
    By TCN News, Chennai: While extending its support to the demand for a separate Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh, the Tamil Nadu based Muslim Students Federation has condemned the Andhra and Central Governments for not taking seriously the suicides by agitating students at Osmania Uni...
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Articles

  • Reservation bill will be beacon for emancipation of women
    By Amulya Ganguli, IANS, The passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha is a momentous, heartwarming step not only for India, but is likely to be an inspirational trendsetter for women's empowerment in the entire region. Although it is only the first step, the ripples from the smashing of a glass barrier are bound to be felt in virtually all areas of traditional male dominance. Like its democracy, therefore, India will also be a beacon in the matter of women's emancipat...
  • Women's bill elevates Sonia Gandhi to league of her own
    By Mayank Chhaya, IANS, The passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament, elevates Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi to a league of her own and guarantees her a defining place for posterity. There is perhaps no parallel in modern political history anywhere in the world of a rank outsider potentially leaving such a profound impact on a rancorous and vast Indian democracy. Either by design or default Gandhi seems to have perfect...
  • A history of violence
    By Zohra Javed for TwoCircles.net, Something happened a couple of days ago, and the developments since have taken me on a whirlwind tour of not just the past, but the present and a peep into the future too. Let me talk from the past first. Sample this: Children in the primary section of a prestigious school fight over something that is of course as trivial as a mosquito leg on the vast horizon. But for the "warring" camps it is a matter of "honour", so the fight continues and ...
  • Women’s Reservation Bill: What it means for Muslim representation?
    By Md. Mudassir Alam for TwoCircles.net, March 9, 2010 is seen as a red letter in the history of democratic India as the long waited Women’s Reservation Bill (WRB) was passed in the Rajya Sabha by a majority of 186 to 1. Some see the bill as a rising sun for the women of country, while some say women got their right in the political set up. From here on the Women’s Reservation Bill will be presented in the Lok Sabha for approval. Most probably the bill will be pa...
  • Mohammad (PBUH) as liberator
    By Asghar Ali Engineer, This month we celebrated the birth day of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). It is celebrated by Muslims with great devotion and reverence. But often it has been seen that devotees do not reflect on the message of the person whom they so venerate. It just becomes a tradition rather than occasion for deep reflection. Muslims also refer to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as Muhsin-e-Insaniyyat i.e. the benefactor of humanity but hardly care to know in what...
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