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| Editorial: Jamia to Be a Minority Institution? |
Editorial: Jamia to Be a Minority Institution?
The Editorial Team
A petition under article 226 & 227 of the constitution of India seeking writ of certiorari quashing order passed by National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions declaring Jamia Millia Islamia as a minority institution has been filed in the New Delhi High Court. Conferring minority status to Jamia will reserve 50 per cent seats in the institutions for Muslims depriving SC/ST students from reservation benefits they were hitherto enjoying in the institution. Thi...
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| The Decline of Secularism As Minorityism |
The Decline of Secularism As Minorityism
 OP Gupta, IFS (Retd)
IN December 1988 the Jamia Millia Islamia University was elevated to the status of a ‘Central' University by an Act of Parliament. As a Central University it has been offering constitutionally guaranteed 22.5 per cent reservations to SC & ST Hindus in educational seats and employment; and, steps to introduce 27 per cent reservation for OBC Hindus were in the process. But on February 22, 2011 Hindus were robbed of these reservations without having been given any h...
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| An Adolescent Hindu Girl Raped in Bangladesh |
An adolescent Hindu Girl Raped in Bangladesh
From VOIF Correspondent
Bangladesh Minority Watch (BDMW) received an appeal from Ms.Momata Rani requesting us for legal assistance as she has been sexually assaulted by above perpetrators on 5th of January, 2011 deceived her in the name of marriage. As per version of the victim one Muslim man Mohammad Belal used to tease her every time for sexual assault. The perpetrators are nearer of her village. The victim did never respond to his request. On the date of occurrence dated 05.01.11 the victim ...
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| Evangelical Christianity: Devils in High Places |
Evangelical Christianity: Devils in High Places
Yogesh Pawar
In his explosive new book The Armies Of God: A Study In Militant Christianity, British-born, Malaysia-based academic Iain Buchanan blows the lid off a subject that most scholars and journalists tend to shy away from: the rise of US evangelism as a force in global affairs. His book looks at how some of the powerful evangelical outfits operate - often as US government proxies - in countries such as Indonesia, Thailand, and of course, India, and the disastrous effects this has had on ...
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| Other Victim of Islam: India | Other Victim of Islam: India
Serge Trifkovic
India prior to the Moslem invasions was one of the world's great civilizations. Tenth century Hindustan matched its contemporaries in the East and the West in the realms of philosophy, mathematics, and natural science. Indian mathematicians discovered the number zero (not to mention other things, like algebra, that were later transmitted to a Moslem world which mistaken has received credit for them.) Medieval India, before the Moslem invasion, was a richly imaginative culture, o...
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