Wednesday, 17 August, 2022
TopicBengali Muslims

Topic: Bengali Muslims

‘Natives’ vs Bengali-speaking ‘Miyas’: Why Assam govt has named 5 Muslim groups as indigenous

Angana Chakrabarti -
Assam govt Tuesday announced 'indigenous' status for Goriya, Moriya, Deshi, Julah & Syed communities. Opposition accuses BJP of sowing division between Assamese & Bengali-speaking Muslims.

‘Not cows to be milked’ — Muslims in Bengal, Kerala, Assam are now assertive, want recognition

Fatima Khan -
Bengal, Kerala, Assam — each key state election has a serious ‘Muslim party’ in fray. A lot of young voters are drawn to them, but others are sticking with tried-and-tested ‘secular’ parties.

BJP wants to segregate Assamese Muslims from Bangladeshi Muslims, but some ask how

Myithili Hazarika -
The Assam govt has announced plans to start a census to segregate the state’s indigenous Muslims from ‘illegal migrants’.

Assam NRC a tool for targeting religious minorities: US commission on religious freedom

PTI -
The Commission said that many organisations have expressed concern that it is a "targeted mechanism to disenfranchise Assam's Bengali Muslim community".

Like with Rohingyas, Facebook aiding hate speech against Bengali Muslims in Assam: Report

Bismee Taskin -
Report by NGO Avaaz says posts terming Bengali Muslims as “criminals”, “rapists” & ”terrorists” were shared over 1,00,000 times and viewed at least 5.4 million times.

Assam wanted an end to its ethnic conflict. In the end, it got an NRC that nobody accepts

Ruhi Tewari -
Nobody seems to be willing to accept the final NRC list. The outcome of a long-drawn exercise has merely revealed the problems.

Assam’s Muslims who didn’t make it to NRC feel betrayed and angry

Bibhudatta Pradhan -
Residents & officials in Assam believe NRC exercise to detect undocumented migrants has been plagued by basic clerical errors and mistaken identities.

Muslims of West Bengal are no longer Mamata Banerjee fans but they have no real option

Rajat Roy -
Muslims in Bengal are fighting for their right to live peacefully without compromising their religious identity.

Bengali Muslims are not sure where they belong this Lok Sabha election

Rudabeh Shahid -
TMC’s electoral games to garner Muslim votes in Bengal and BJP’s NRC push has made an entire community vulnerable to statelessness.

On Camera

YourTurn

Opinion

Pakistan: Imran Khan's Instagram account hacked, doubious crypto link posted

Imran Khan’s becoming costly for Pakistan govt. But army won’t completely remove him from scene

Ayesha Siddiqa -
Imran Khan is so tuned into Pakistan’s domestic politics, he sees foreign policy more as a ploy. That’s why he can surprise his rally audience with a Jaishankar video.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation from the rampart of Red Fort on the occasion of 76th Independence Day, in New Delhi Monday | ANI/Sanjay Sharma

In the debate over freebies, India is forgetting it traded rule of law for welfare services

Emissions rise from chimneys at the Turow coal-powered power plant | Representational image | Photo: Bartek Sadowski | Bloomberg

Carbon market in India is long time coming. But Modi govt can learn from these mistakes

Economy

India’s ‘salaried class’ shrank during Covid, Muslims hit hardest, govt data suggests

Nikhil Rampal -
India’s salaried class shrank by 2.7 percentage points during pandemic, govt’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) shows. But data for religious minorities, women is even bleaker.

Defence

The two frigates under construction at Yantar shipyard in Russia | Snehesh Alex Philip | ThePrint

Not dependent on Ukraine for engines, want to be part of Make in India initiative, says Russia

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India had procured gas turbine engines from Ukraine & handed over to Russia to install them on the Admiral Grigorovich-class guided-missile stealth frigates being made for the Navy.

National Interest

NI 13.08

Tiranga vs Tiranga: Gloves are off as Kejriwal joins the ‘nationalism’ battle with Modi

Shekhar Gupta -
Kejriwal’s maun vrat on Modi has ended. This is an important turn in Indian politics. In some ways rivalling the dramatic turn in Bihar.

Follow us

Copyright © 2022 Printline Media Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.

 
×