Lessons on How to demolish a Mosque for HINDRAF dummies

IANS Reports from Delhi:
“A delegation of Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf), a rights group from Malaysia met leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday for support against the plight of ethnic Indians in that country. Moorthy informed the BJP leaders, that about 10,000 Hindu temples have been systematically demolished in Malaysia since its independence [...]

Muslims and Dalits discriminated in corporate India

For some time now and especially after publication of Sachar Committee Report Muslims put much emphasis on acquiring modern education. In rapidly globalized economy of India, education was promised to be the key to a brighter future for Muslim kids.
A recent study, however, finds that getting a call for interview can be reduced to as [...]

Muslims convicts in India is 19.1%, while the number of undertrials is 22.5%

Counter View: A Few Myths, Fewer Facts about Muslims
When Zakir Hussain was sentenced to death by hanging for his part in planting the bombs during the “Bombay Blasts” of 1993, he shouted, “If a Hindu does something, a commission is set up. But if a Muslim does something, he is hanged.” This was in reference [...]

316 million Indian workers get below $ 0.49 (Rs. 20) a day

394.9 million workers (86 per cent of the working population) belong to the unorganized sector
316 million workers live on less than Rs. 20, or $ 0.49, a day.
88 per cent of the Scheduled Tribes and the Scheduled Castes, 80 per cent of the Other Backward Classes and 85 per cent of Muslims belong to this [...]

Merits of Mandal report

In view of the confusion created by Mandal II, the Supreme Court has asked the government to clarify two things: One, what is the basis for determining who belongs to an OBC category; and two, the rationale behind 27 per cent reservation for OBCs. These two points need to be immediately cleared.
OBCs belong to the [...]

Only 17out of 474 Indian civil service winners are Muslims

New Delhi: A total of 17 Muslims have cleared the written and interview process of the Civil Services Exam of 2006. The top Muslim candidate Shamim Abidi appears on rank 16.
The written exam was help in October-November of 2006 and interview held in April-May of this year. The List of 474 candidates was released by [...]

More than 50 pc Muslim women backward in West Bengal : survey

If being born as a girl child is not the bottom-line, as revealed by the nation-wide survey on child abuse, perhaps being born as a Muslim girl in West Bengal is, so points out the National Family Health Survey II.
Be it education, media exposure (watching TV, cinema), health family planning or even in basic decision-making [...]

Justice Rare for Victims of Minority Persecution in India

NEW DELHI, INDIA — For the first time an all-India picture has emerged of anti-Christian violence from a people’s tribunal.
Victims of Christian persecution from across India shared their horrific stories and highlighted the denial of justice to them before an independent people’s jury.
According to International Christian Concern (ICC), the depositions were part of « The [...]

Muslims in the Indian army, only 2% ?

Muslims in Army : Hiding what`s well-known 
The reason for the Muslim under-representation in the Indian army, or the Sikh over-representation, is something that lies partly in history, and its public disclosure would harm nobody.
There’s something surreal about India’s debate on Muslim under-representation in the Indian army. If the defence minister says the army has [...]

Armed forces are not a Holy Cow

Armed forces are not a Holy Cow
It is extremely unfortunate that the government has dropped the move to collate data on the st