Washington: Expressing outrage at the Time magazine's cover story on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a leading group of Indian American Muslims on Sunday called for an international campaign against the prestigious weekly through email, letters and social media networks - Twitter and Facebook. "This is an unethical article. We don't expect such a glorification of someone who was involved in massacre of Muslims in Gujarat 10 years ago," Shaik...
12:33 AM, Mar 19, 2012
New Delhi: Acclaimed writer Salman Rushdie, author of the controversial "The Satanic Verses" as also bestsellers like "Midnight's Children" and "Shame", on Saturday denounced "disgraceful vote bank politics" being practised in the country and said "95 per cent of Muslims in India are not interested in violence being done in their name". Returning to India two months after he was stopped from attending the Jaipur Literary Festival, Rushdie spoke at...
02:30 AM, Mar 18, 2012
New Delhi: A desperate Samajwadi Party is trying to shore up its Muslim support in Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav says he's ready to join hands with the Congress, if the latter agrees to give 18 per cent reservation to Muslims. Muslim votes will play a crucial role in the last two phases of Assembly Elections in Uttar Pradesh. SP earlier claimed that they would win 40 of...
06:31 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Newark: Americans living and working in New Jersey's largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department's effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive even the city's mayor says he was kept in the dark. For months in mid-2007, plainclothes officers from the NYPD's Demographics Units fanned out across Newark, taking pictures and eavesdropping...
07:01 AM, Feb 23, 2012
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11:43 PM, Feb 14, 2012
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11:48 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Action against Khurshid as demanded by the Election Commission for his defiance on the subquota issue appears unlikely. ...
11:33 PM, Feb 13, 2012
A teary-eyed Congress as election fever heats up in Uttar Pradesh. Two rounds of votes have been polled. Congress continues to cling on to its ...
05:39 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: 24 hours after the Election Commission complained about Law Minister Salman Khursid to the President, he maintains, his sub-quota promise was part of the Congress manifesto. Pulled up by his party on one hand, Khurshid was defended by Congress leader Digvijaya Singh while the Opposition demands his resignation. The Prime Minister is likely to call a meeting on the crisis on Monday. The sources told CNN-IBN that Khurshid...
09:33 PM, Feb 12, 2012
The EC's letter has been forwarded by President Pratibha Patil to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. ...
05:33 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Allahabad: Criticising Union Minister Salman Khurshid for his "defiant stance" against the Election Commission, CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat on Sunday said "people occupying responsible positions must not talk and behave irresponsibly". "We do not approve of Khurshid's defiant stance. He is a union minister and people occupying responsible posts must not talk and behave irresponsibly," Karat, who was here to address election meetings in support of candidates fielded by his...
04:57 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Azamgarh: With less than 24 hours to go before Uttar Pradesh votes in the first phase, all eyes are on the state's large 18 per cent Muslim vote. How crucial will it be this time around? Young Muslims of Uttar Pradesh are debating quota for the Muslims announced by the Congress and the Samajwadi Party. A Muslim voter in Uttar Pradesh Madiur Rehman believes that caste is a reality in...
06:21 AM, Feb 07, 2012
On this episode we bring you a glimpse of the Muslims not as voters but as ordinary people. ...
11:56 PM, Feb 04, 2012
Unnao/Hardoi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday blamed both Samajwadi Party (SP) president Mulayam Singh Yadav and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati for "gross neglect" of Muslims in Uttar Pradesh. The Congress general secretary who was on a whirlwind tour of a series of state assembly constituencies in Unnao and Hardoi districts, adjacent to Lucknow, projected his party's efforts for the welfare of the community, especially stopping in Muslim-dominated...
01:48 AM, Jan 29, 2012
Lucknow: Throwing his weight behind Samajwadi party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid Maulana Ahmad Bukhari on Saturday appealed to Muslims to vote for SP candidates in upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. But the Imam's appeal has significantly not gone down well within the SP itself when the party's Muslim face Azam Khan seemed to question the cleric's political loyalties. "Imam has plunged into political discussion...
07:47 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Lucknow: In a major setback for Congress in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid, Syed Ahmed Bukhari on Saturday rejected their Muslim sub-quota of 4.5 per cent and supported the Samajwadi Party for the upcoming polls in the state. "I don't agree with 4.5 per cent reservation formula of Congress, it will only create further misunderstandings. Muslims should get reservation on the basis of population," Bukhari said....
02:15 PM, Jan 28, 2012
New York: Muslim groups are calling for New York's police commissioner to step down because of his appearance in a film they say paints their religion and its adherents in a bad light. About 20 activists held a news conference on the steps of City Hall on Thursday and criticised Ray Kelly for giving an interview to the producers of the movie 'The Third Jihad'. The movie uses dramatic footage...
09:31 AM, Jan 27, 2012
For the last few days, Salman Rushdie is in the news. Some are speaking in his favour and some against. A controversy is on. His ...
06:47 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Lucknow: In the absence of a wave and no issue that could have an emotional sway on voters, the Muslim vote seems to be the one that could make or mar political fortunes in Uttar Pradesh. At least three of the four major players plus a newly-formed political outfit are clearly eying the 19 percent Muslim vote that may determine the destiny of India's most populous state of 200 million...
01:01 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Ahmedabad: As Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi gears up for his one-day fast on Friday in Godhra as part of his 'Sadbhavana' mission, the town has virtually turned into a fortress. The 'harmony mission' comes nearly a month before the 10th anniversary of Godhra carnage where 59 people, mostly karsevaks, were killed when the Sabarmati Express train was burnt on February 27, 2002. Local BJP leaders expect a crowd of...
06:02 AM, Jan 20, 2012
