Topic: Citizenship Amendment Act protests
Jamia suspends professor for tweeting he ‘failed non-Muslims’, he says it was sarcasm
In clarification, assistant professor Abrar Ahmad says tweet, in which he claimed he failed 15 non-Muslim students, was just to ‘explain how minorities are treated under CAA’.
On World Poetry Day, a look at India’s verses of resistance
The recent protests in India have brought to the fore poetry's relationship with the State.
Video of couple having sex in public is not from Shaheen Bagh
The video being shared on Twitter with the claim that it was shot at Shaheen Bagh is actually from 2018.
Imran Khan party wing showed Delhi riots as anti-Muslim, spread fake news: Delhi Police
Report prepared by the Delhi Police’s Special Branch claims Pakistan-based accounts trended anti-India hashtags during Delhi riots and spread rumours later.
CAA plea in SC by UN body unusual, foreign entity can’t do this, says ex-India envoy to UN
Dilip Sinha, the former Indian ambassador to UN, says India is not a party to any international convention that would allow a foreign entity to take it to court on human rights.
Delhi riots international conspiracy, CIA & NIA should investigate: Minority panel member
National Commission of Minorities member Atif Rasheed refers to Bernie Sanders’ speech to claim international angle while insisting that BJP leader Kapil Mishra made no hate speech.
MEA summons Iranian Ambassador over foreign minister’s remarks on Delhi communal riots
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif had Monday tweeted condemnation of the riots, telling India not to let ‘senseless thuggery prevail’.
Ashutosh Varshney on lessons from Delhi riots & Debashish Mallick on why telecom’s a mess
Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Ashutosh Varshney, Vikram S Mehta, Rakesh Sood, Mihir Sharma, Sandipan Deb & many others.
Pogrom, genocide & ethnic cleansing: What these mean and how they differ from each other
After the recent communal riots in Delhi, these three words have frequently appeared in news headlines and on social media.
Why Northeast Delhi violence is India’s first Hindu-Muslim riots with guns
Of the 38 persons killed in Delhi riots, nearly half had bullet injuries. Delhi Police claims open use of firearms shows people had stocked up these illegal weapons.
Erdogan’s assault on Macron is the height of cynicism
There was a time when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan didn’t see the West as Turkey’s enemy and even wanted to join the European Union.
Turkey waging new war of economic liberation, says Erdogan after country’s currency falls
Erogan's speech follows the Turkish lira weakening to a record low of 8.3849 per dollar on Friday.
Defence
Here is why US changed Rajnath Singh’s statement on ‘reckless aggression’ by China
Both the US State and Defense departments have added footnotes to the transcripts they released on Rajnath Singh’s remarks at 2+2. The State Department has also updated the text.
5 reasons for the crisis in global Islam
If tens of crores of Muslims across the world feel they are victims of mass Islamophobia, their holy prophet shown deliberate disrespect, it is a sense of crisis and siege.