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‘Important opportunity’: Myanmar
Experts say unease over military representatives appearing for country should not detract from goal of achieving justice for Rohingya. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) begins hearings on Monday over Myanmar’s preliminary objections to a genocide case brought over the military’s brutal 2017 crackdown on the mostly Muslim Rohingya. The proceedings have been given added urgency and complicated by the coup that took place in Myanmar a little more than a year ago. The case was filed by The Gambia, a small West African country, with the backing of the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) after more than 700,000 Rohingya fled into […]Read more...
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Maha Guv falicitates
For a long time in India, blue-collar jobs and secure jobs were the center of attraction for most people. Seldom have people picked the path of opening their own venture. Thankfully, today this thought process has seen a paradigm shift as innovative businesses have started emerging lately. More people are trying to build their fortune by themselves through a venture rather than spending their lives behind desks. Indeed, India is witnessing a new wave of entrepreneurship, which is sweeping all orthodox beliefs and practices. Many prominent entrepreneurs have emerged from India in no time, and made the nation proud through […]Read more...
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EVM row: EC
They have for years been demanding the CEC to return back to ballot papers to ensure trust in the voting systems. Quamar Ashraf New Delhi: In a late night development on Wednesday, the Election Commission removed Varanasi Additional District Magistrate NK Singh and three other officials from poll duty after Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav accusation of EVM theft. However, the EC Yadav’s accusations of EVM tampering to suit the ruling BJP in the state. The issue of EVM tampering and theft received huge traction across social media with leaders of almost all non-BJP formation raising doubts on the functioning […]Read more...
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India’s Hindu groups
Hindu supremacist groups are demanding restrictions on Muslim girls wearing hijab in classrooms in more Indian states after a court upheld a ban on the traditional headscarf in Karnataka state, worrying students who had protested against the ban. The Karnataka High Court’s decision on Tuesday, backing the southern state’s February ban on the hijab, has also been welcomed by top federal ministers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who say students should avoid wearing religious clothing in class. A female Muslim student has already appealed the verdict in the country’s highest court, which could take up the matter […]Read more...
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BJP has hate
New Delhi: Concerned over “polarized nature of India’s polity”, the All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM) has decided to hold two-day interactive sessions involving community organisations and public intellectuals on May 20-21 in Delhi to find “workable solutions’ to restore the atmosphere of peace and communal amity. The AIMMM, India’s apex consultative forum for Muslim organizations, in the press conference, called on Saturday to share the outline of the programme, said concerned citizens including community leaders, intellectuals, advocates and some retired bureaucrats would chalk out plans to save the country from slipping into a “totalitarian state”. “It seems the current dispensation […]Read more...
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Fault lines widening
By Asad Mirza Recent outreach activities by Muslim leaders across India relays very disturbing and hopeless signs, instead of formulating a strategy to unify the Indian Muslims, these leaders are hell bent on further dividing them in various denominations and groupings As per the reports based on first-person accounts and news circulating on various social media platforms, the Indian Muslims across the country are worried about their and their future generation’s future in the country. The community as a whole is living under a siege mentality and is unable to fathom how to proceed further. One positive fallout of this […]Read more...
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Yasin Malik: India
The charge against the founder of JKLF rebel group carries a maximum sentence of death penalty or life imprisonment. An Indian court has convicted a top Kashmiri separatist leader in a “terrorism-related” case that carries a maximum sentence of the death penalty or life imprisonment. Mohammed Yasin Malik had been charged with “terrorist” acts, illegally raising funds, being a member of a “terrorist organisation”, criminal conspiracy, and sedition. Judge Praveen Singh set May 25 for hearing arguments from both sides on sentencing, the Press Trust of India news agency reported on Thursday. The judge also directed Malik to provide an affidavit […]Read more...
