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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
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Topic: Muslims in India

In Mohammed Siraj, the Pasmanda Muslims have a hero

There’s a subtle radicalism in a name like Siraj being spoken with national pride. His success is read as proof that someone from a working-class, Pasmanda background can achieve this status.

Unsolved questions post Air India crash prelim probe report & Shubhanshu Shukla fuels next-gen’s dreams

Global media also looks at how battery-swapping is emerging as the next big focus area for venture capitalists.

Islamic scholar backs Owaisi says Muslims face ‘step-family’ treatment

The row began when Asaduddin Owaisi Monday criticised Union Minister Kiren Rijiju in response to a social media post about the Union Government's welfare schemes for minorities in India.

Agra Muslim victim’s cousin recognised the killer in gau rakshak video, called police

The family is looking to the Yogi govt for justice. 'If they wanted to take revenge for the Pahalgam attack, they could have beaten him up. At least he’d still be alive,' said the victim's mother.

Those ‘feeding off’ India have Bharatiya DNA, should stop Aurangzeb worship—Yogi at RSS event

Sambhal is a reality that pre-dates Islam, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said, speaking to Panchjanya editor Prafulla Ketkar and Organiser editor Hitesh Shankar.

Halal certification is turning into a scam. It’s creating a Muslim-only economy

Why should everything be reduced to the binary of Halal and Haram? It’s pop Islam—faux piety, driven by pseudo-Islamic power theology that seeks to paint the world in garish green.

UP madrasa verdict splits 2 brothers. For one, it’s a lifeline; for the other, a dead-end

Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of UP’s Madrasa Act but ruled that higher Kamil and Fazil degrees don’t meet UGC standards. It’s left many young job-seeking Muslims in despair.

‘Good friends talk’, US will continue to flag treatment of Muslims in India, says top diplomat

US Deputy Secretary Richard Verma said Washington DC would not hesitate to bring up the issue with New Delhi as part of the two countries’ bilateral dialogue.

Once-powerful AIMPLB is battling multiple crises. Internal strife, calls for reforms and UCC

UCC is an existential battle for All India Muslim Personal Law Board. ‘If it comes into the country, the board will end’.

Fear, riots, but no ‘Muslim victimhood’— launch of ‘City on Fire’ puts Aligarh in spotlight

Journalist Zeyad Masroor Khan's memoir ‘City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh’ was launched at Delhi's IIC, drawing authors & activists like Harsh Mander, Ziya Us Salam, and Natasha Badhwar.

On Camera

China will be more central to India now. Though an anti-US unity is premature

Even with the option of EU markets, China will have to be a significant part of India’s economic policy. But the difficult security relationship is an important complication.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.