“The diaspora is united against fascism. We are standing with farmers’ movement. We are inspired by the heroic protest of Shaheen Bagh and now by the farmers” M Ghazali Khan LONDON — Amid the corona scare and the social distancing restrictions, the Indian diaspora in...
The word ‘Urdu’ initially referred to ‘Shahjahanabad’, the walled city of Delhi. This sense became current around the mid-17th century and continued to be in use until the beginning of the 19th century. As the name of a language, the word ‘Urdu’ came to be used for...
By Abdul Bari Masoud New Delhi: The Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG), a group of prominent former civil servants including former election commissioners, on Tuesday flayed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for once again raising the pitch for simultaneous elections to...
WELLINGTON – Brenton Tarrant, the Australian-born terrorist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, spent nearly three months in India while travelling extensively around the world, before moving to New Zealand to carry out the country’s worst...
By Abdul Sattar Shaik A one-day Bharat Bandh on 8th December tomorrow, will not have the dramatic impact on the government to take back the three farm bills and create a law on the MSP, which is what the farmers and their associations are hoping for. There has a to be...
By Frank F Islam Vaccine. That is our word of the year for 2020. Our choice for 2019 was trust — not for its presence but for its absence in that year. In 2018, we chose three words: toxic justice, trumper-tantrum and shutdown. Our 2018 Word Of The Year blog began as...
By L.R. Balley On 6th December, 1956 a great son of India Dr. B.R. Ambedkar breathed his last breath leaving behind billions of his followers in tears. His followers pay tributes to this visionary social scientist by Celebrating 6th December as Mahaparinirvan Day. In...
By Prof. Shamsul Islam According to a statement (December 4, 2020) of the Science and Technology minister Harsh Vardhan a new campus with in the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala would be named “Shri Guruji Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar...
Though the farmers of Bihar and Gujarat are not in the forefront of the on-going movement, whenever the history of the farmers’ struggle in India is written, Champaran and Kheda found special mention Soroor Ahmed PATNA – It was in 1917 that the first farmers’...
By Ather Ahmed ATKINS Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, one of the architects of modern India was born on October 17, 1817 in Delhi and started his career as a civil servant. The 1857 revolt was one of the turning points in Syed Ahmed’s life. He clearly foresaw the imperative need...