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Topic: Muslim League

Jihad against Hindus was declared in newspaper columns: SP Mookerjee on Great Calcutta Killings

On 20 September 1946, Hindu Mahasabha leader Syama Prasad Mookerjee delivered a speech in the Bengal Legislative Assembly condemning the violence during the Great Calcutta Killings. Here's an excerpt from the speech.

If secularism was defined thinly, Jinnah was one. Go deeper & he was majoritarian not theocrat

Retaining their Muslimness and Indian nationality in full, the notion of equality-as-parity challenged Mohammad Ali Jinnah's supposedly dangerous demand for Pakistan.

Muslim League Jammu Kashmir (Masarat Alam faction) declared as ‘unlawful’ for ‘anti-national activities’

The Centre has declared the organisation as 'unlawful association' under UAPA. Union home minister Amit Shah says it was inciting people 'to establish Islamic rule in J&K'.

When Muslim League and Congress agreed to Partition plan ‘behind the scenes’

In 'The 1947 Partition of British India', Jennifer Leaning gives less-known accounts of the Partition plan.

Jinnah didn’t join the Muslim League right away. He had one condition

In Jinnah: A Life, Yasser Latif Hamdani writes about how Jinnah often played the bridge between Hindus and Muslims.

On Camera

India’s tech ambitions need private sector investment in R&D. Budget 2026 holds the key

India’s private sector remains hesitant to invest in R&D. This is understandable, as the domestic market often fails to reward differentiated technologies adequately.

India’s public debt stabilising post pandemic hike as Centre cuts burden, but states lag—Economic Survey

While Centre makes progress lowering debt from pandemic peak and cutting borrowing costs, states face slower adjustment with limited market discipline, survey finds.

‘LCA man’ Ravi Kota, key in operationalisation of IAF’s Tejas fleet, picked as next HAL CMD

Mechanical engineer & alumnus of IIM-A & IAS France, Kota was General Manager in HAL’s Light Combat Aircraft division. He was selected from a pool of eight candidates.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.