The meeting at Haryana Bhawan in Delhi lasted nearly three hours and included top leaders of the Sangh, over 60 Muslim clerics, intellectuals, maulanas, and scholars.
Hindutva has pushed once-visible Muslim clergy behind scenes & underlined its credibility crisis. Ordinary Muslims increasingly feel they achieved little by posing faith in Ulema.
However, all from the community were united in pointing out that Uniform Civil Code will affect other religions too. Some called it ‘attempt to polarise ahead of 2024 polls’.
Enforcing discipline among 170 million people, sharply divided on sectarian and linguistic lines, is never an easy task. It requires voluntary compliance.
Cutting trade ties with Pakistan is easier said than done: the neighbouring country is Afghanistan’s largest single trading partner, taking in 45 per cent of Afghan exports in 2024.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.
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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