The ADR earlier alleged that a significant number of voters, particularly Muslims, were illegally removed from the rolls and that the process lacked transparency.
Muslims would do better to think about whether the public performance of religion strengthens or weakens secularism—the idea in which they have the highest stake.
The 'ghuspaithiya' narrative is being whipped up precisely when illegal immigration has actually diminished. Like most BJP-RSS ideas, it’s just an unimaginative Right-wing trope.
How is it that so many men from the same background could be involved—or remain silent? The answer is not comfortable. It lies in the moral codes they carried with them to England.
In his book, 'I, Witness', Shahid Siddiqui recalls encounters with the titans of Indian politics, presenting them not as distant icons, but as fallible beings.
Mohammed Raheel, a 24-year-old driver, was arrested for assaulting and recording a Muslim woman & a Hindu man on his phone near the Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad.
FIR accused them of distributing pamphlets promoting the teachings of Islam and verbally explaining their religious beliefs in the premises of a temple in Jamkhandi.
Affirmative action exists for Indian Muslims, but it must be restructured to address the hierarchy within the community. It is Pasmanda Muslims who sit at the bottom.
By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.
It will be tough for Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra to get right. Rupee is the worst-performing Asian currency this year against the dollar.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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