Politics

by: Dr Tajammul Hussain India’s cultural and political complexities, particularly regarding the Hindutva ideology and its impact on Indian Muslims, are important and worthy of deeper examination. India is a diverse and multifaceted country with a long history of coexistence, but it also faces significant challenges today, especially related to …

CNX-APAC To Be Held in Hyderabad  Digital Empowerment Foundation Hosts CNX-APAC 2024 and Digital Citizen Summit 2024 with Telangana Government, and T-Hub Hyderabad, November 14: The 8th edition of the Community Network Xchange- Asia Pacific (CNX-APAC) and the 6th Digital Citizen Summit (DCS) 2024, will take place on 15th and …

The election of Kemi Badenoch, as the new leader of Britain’s Conservative Party seems to have rattled not just the common public but even the diehard Tories. But this should also be seen as the last-ditch efforts by the Conservatives to revive the party’s fortunes.  Last week, Britain’s chastened Conservative …

In a notable development during the most recent American elections, many within the Muslim community made their voices heard, underscoring their active civic engagement despite expressing dissatisfaction with both major political parties. This election season saw heightened participation, as Muslim Americans voiced concerns on critical issues – especially the Israel-Gaza …

Amer Ali Khan, News Editor of Siasat and Member of Legislative Council (MLC), stressed the importance of empowering the Muslim community through education and economic stability. Speaking during a felicitation program organized by Anjuman e Muhabbin e Urdu Telangana at Media Plus Auditorium, Mr Khan highlighted the need for unity …

Hyderabad, October 6: During his address at the 37th Founder’s Day of Mukarram Jah School, His Excellency Orhan Yalman Okan, Consul General of the Republic of Türkiye, highlighted the critical role of education in shaping responsible, moral, and visionary generations. Speaking to the gathering, he expressed his appreciation for the …

Hyderabad, October 4: If India and Pakistan were to engage in a nuclear war, the human toll could be catastrophic, potentially leading to the deaths of nearly 2 billion people, according to the Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD). This stark hypothetical scenario was discussed during a recent meeting …

For over 4 decades, Muslims have suffered at the hands of right-wing extremists, who have corrupted the secular soul of India, to further their political agendas, or spin hate against the Muslim community. While both Hindus and Muslims coexisted peacefully for decades, extremist aberrations have ruined and wrecked India’s harmonious …

Hyderabad, September 14 — In a powerful display of bipartisan respect, Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy lauded Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi for his steadfast advocacy on behalf of India’s backward communities. Speaking at the launch of the book “Prophet for the World,” written by All India Muslim Personal Law …

By: Asad Mirza A universal truth is that there are no permanent enemies and friends in politics, only ensuring your interests, supremacy and continuing in office guides you breaking or forming alliances across the democratic world. But the Nepali politics gives a completely new meaning to horse-trading or coalition politics, …

Ballot Box Was arranged at the iran consulate in hyderabad for iranis in hyderabad to cast their vote for the IRAN presidential elections 2024 Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon, won the runoff presidential elections held on Friday to become Iran’s 9th president. Iran went to elections after the then President Ebrahim …

By: Ram Puniyani Om Birla, the speaker of Lok Sabha is mired in many controversies. When he started his 2nd term as Lok Sabha (Parliament) Speaker he read out a resolution against Emergency which was imposed in 1975 by Indira Gandhi. The background of that emergency was the rising Sampoorna Kranti …

                                                                               – Ram Puniyani The propaganda machinery of the BJP is quite strong and the party’s parent organisation RSS further expands the reach of this machinery. The basic premise of the propaganda campaign of the RSS-BJP has always been to distort medieval history to demonise Muslims and glorify the ancient Indian civilisation and …

Ram Puniyani Democracy is a system of society won after long and intense struggles. The preceding society had mostly Kingdoms. A typical kingdom was an alliance between the Feudal lord-King and clergy. While clergy was representative of the religious power, the king was presented as the son of God whose …

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi pressurized US-based auto giant Tesla from investment in Telangana. Tesla was willing to invest in Telangana but Modi ji pressurized Tesla and prevented them from investing in Telangana.  In an explosive interview, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy alleged that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi …

By: Dr. Ram PuniyaniBJP has a strong electoral machine, well backed up by its parent organization, RSS. The core module of RSS-BJP is based on demonization of Muslims through distortions of the medieval period of history in particular and glorification of the past where caste and gender hierarchy prevailed. When …

Hyderabad, October 26: Ahead of the 2023 Assembly Elections in the state, the Ahle e Hadith sect of the Muslim community pledged their support to the Congress party. The delegation presented a charter of demands to Mr Zafar Javeed, Convenor of the Telangana Congress Minority Declaration Committee on Thursday. The …

Party to Release Minority Declaration after Dussehra Hyderabad, October 14: The Congress party will release its Minority Declaration for the upcoming Telangan Assembly elections soon after the Dussehra festival. The decision was taken by Minority Declaration Draft Committee of the Telangana Pradesh Congress. According to Mr Zafar Javeed, the Vice …

India and Pakistan are poised against each other, to play a more proactive and constructive role in Afghanistan’s redevelopment, trying to negate each other’s initiatives. The ascendancy of Taliban to power in Afghanistan almost two-and-a-half months ago, after the hasty and chaotic withdrawal of the US forces from the country …

While an effort to classify the Taliban into good and bad is rather easy, the underlying reasons to classify them as Deobandi becomes a little tough and illogical. The seizure of Afghan capital, Kabul by the Taliban and their declaration to declare Afghanistan an Islamic Emirate has again raised the …

In recent times the Chinese navy’s coercive activities in the South China Sea and its global port-buying spree have added different dimensions to its naval strategy. Ever since Communist China came into existence in 1949, its belligerence over South China Sea – SCS, has been increasing and some recent events …

The onset of Arab Spring had raised expectations in the region of power being transferred to the people ultimately, but the ensuing developments have completely changed the dynamics of the pro-people movements in the region. While most the Indian media has been obsessed with developments taking place in Afghanistan, it …

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia:  On August 11, Ambassador Dr. Ausaf Sayeed, in the run up to first bilateral naval exercise between Saudi Arabia and India, accompanied by Real Admiral Ajay Kochhar, Captain Sachin Sequeira, Deputy Chief of Mission Shri N. Ram Prasad and Defence Attaché Col. Gurtej Singh Grewal called on …

King Abdullah’s US visit marks an end to four years of being snubbed by the Trump administration, and may herald a new chapter in the US-Jordanian ties. Jordanian King Abdullah became the first Arab leader to meet the US President Joe Biden at the White House on July 19. By …

The 2020 survey carried out by Carnegie Endowment, tries to find and analyse the reasons for Modi’s popularity in the United States. Indian-origin American citizens now comprise the second-largest immigrant group in the USA. Over the years with increasing political influence and playing an active role in the US internal …

A recent survey of Arabs has brought out some revealing changes and ideas endorsed by the young Arab population. A recent 2019-2020 Arab Opinion survey conducted by Doha-based Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies has bought out some revealing perceptions of the Arab citizens. The survey in its seventh …

Joe Biden’s win will have a definite impact on America’s relationship with other countries across the globe. Twenty years after the nail biting Bush-Al Gore electoral fight in 2000, the recent Trump-Biden presidential contest was perhaps the most watched and nerves wracking electoral fight till the victor was declared. It …

China’s Diplomatic Outreach-II  The 25-years pact between Iran and China may change regional geopolitical dynamics to a large extent. The global audience was gripped recently by two historic developments in the Middle East. Both are supposed to have considerable affect on the regional geopolitics. The news of a strategic partnership …

Israel-China Relations on an Upswing Economic ties between China and Israel have increased considerably in recent years. In addition Israel has also been working hard to strengthen political and cultural interaction between the two nations. In its  72 years of existence, Israel has been a nation with few friends except …

At 75, UN calls for a boost to multilateralism. The 75th UN General Assembly (UNGA) session, which began on 15 September has been unlike any other in the organisation’s three quarters of a century of existence. This year, most globals leaders will not be at the UN in person and …

By: Asad Mirza The seesaw like relations between India and Nepal, have taken a nosedive for the worse, during the last fortnight. The immediate provocation is the long-standing territorial issue surrounding Kalapani, a patch of land near the India-Nepal border, close to the Lipulekh Pass on the India-China border.  However, …

The continuous images on television and social media platforms of beaten out, hungry, gaunt faces of luggage carrying individuals on their heads, some of whom walking bare foot, with their earthy possessions on their heads and shoulders, with women and children in tow; were enough to pull one’s heartstrings. This …

Asad Mirza Based on a response by the HM in the parliament recently, some people have started saying that the government is taking a step back and bowing to pressure of anti-CAA protestors is ready to change tacks. Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Delhi violence, the …

Asad Mirza One wonders how a riot starts. A city or a locality which is apparently calm, with people going about their day to day lives, suddenly find themselves surrounded by rioters followed by physical abuse, shooting, arson and fire setting. The pattern is copiable anywhere in India, where a …

By: Asad Mirza The United States signed a peace deal with the Taliban, of Afghanistan on 29 February at Doha, Qatar. The accord follows a weeklong truce and 18 months of stop-and-go negotiations. It sets the terms for the withdrawal of the remaining roughly 13,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan over …

By: Asad Mirza US President Donald Trump became the seventh American president to visit India, with his maiden two-day visit on 24 February 2020. The government which has become habitual of spending big bucks on irrelevant but optics high events, spent more than an estimated 250 crore rupees on the …

By: Asad Mirza Three events of the last week, related to jurists and the courts have restored one’s belief in the institutions and actors, who are supposed to be the guardian angels of the Indian Democracy, besides the supremacy of the rule of law and the constitution. In a notable …

By: Asad Mirza 8 February in Delhi saw the end of one of the most vitriolic, hate-fuelled and destructive election campaign in India. The ruling BJP made it an issue of honour, but they made one mistake. With one arrow they wanted to kill both the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) …

By: Asad Mirza The UK officially became a non-member of the European Union (EU) from Friday 31 January’s night, a certainty welcomed by Indian businesses operating in the UK as well as British businesses keen to expand into the Indian market. The official transition period from Saturday until the end of …

Hyderabad, February 8: The Indian government has no money to deliver on the numbers it presented while announcing the 2020-2021 Union Budget, said Member of Parliament and former Finance Minister Mr P Chidambaram. Presenting a perspective on State of Indian Economy ‘Union Budget 2020-21’ at Muffakham Jah College of Engineering …

Washington, D.C., January 29, 2020: India’s government has become “the enemy of the people” who are protesting the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), Magsaysay Award winning civil rights activist from India, Sandeep Pandey, said at a briefing at the United States Congress this week. The police have especially been targeting the …

Hyderabad, February 1: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President Capt. N. Uttam Kumar Reddy described the budget presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Seetharaman on Saturday as highly disappointing, especially for Telangana State. Uttam Kumar Reddy, in a media statement, said except for some changes in Income Tax slabs, there was …

Washington, D.C., January 29, 2020: The U.S. must oppose a new Indian law that aims to deny citizenship to Muslims and render them stateless, subject to detention and deportation, an official with the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has said. The U.S. Government must also consider the “use …

By Asad Mirza The lead-up to the Delhi assembly elections is slowly building up. The manner, in which the ruling BJP has made it a prestige issue to win, is a pointer towards its naked lust for power and to control every state in the country by hook or by …

RAMALLAH, Monday, January 27, 2020:  The world should stand against the American so-called deal of the century because it violates international law, today said Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh. Speaking at the opening of the weekly cabinet meeting held in Ramallah, Shtayyeh said the Palestinians have rejected the deal of the …

by Asad Mirza The only face off seems to change the retrospective date for the NRC and instead set a current date for new citizens being born in India e.g. after 1 Jan 2020. The on-going protests against the CAA-NRC-NPR trio have entered 36th day now. The government is adamant …

By : ASAD MIRZA For the past one-month or so, since the new Citizenship Amendment Act and NCR and NPR were thrust on the Indian citizens, the country has been waddling in a chakravyuh (maze) of ambiguous promises and statements. People are demonstrating against the decision due to the ambiguities regarding …

Shaheen Bagh women have presented a model of Gandhian Satyagraha in practice. Shaheen is a Persian origin word in Urdu, referring specifically to the Barbary falcon In Persian, Shaheen literally means ‘majestic’ or ‘like a king’. It also symbolises speed, superiority, determination, loyalty, strength, wisdom, freedom, focus, ambition and aspiration. …

by: Asad Mirza The fifth edition of an annual gathering of Muslim leaders from across the world was hosted by Malaysia from Dec 19 to 21 last year. The conference was attended by leaders from 20 Muslim countries including Iran, Qatar and Turkey, and sought to foster closer cooperation among …

By: Asad Mirza One has lost the count of sleepless nights spent since 15 Dec when the ‘police action’ against Jamia students started a whole chain of protests and reprisals across the country. Jamia was followed by AMU and scores of cities in UP and down south in Karnataka. The …

Request to Pass Bill To Reject NRC NPR in Assembly Condemn JNU Attacks, Laud Hyderabad Police We Will Serve Our Community, Save Our Nation For the Future Generations Warn Fellow Citizens Against Submitting Documents Hyderabad, January 6: A group of women organizations on Monday urged the Telangana state government to clarify …

By Asad Mirza It seems the ruling class in India is trying to teach the public, the rudimentary alphabets. For it first comes the CAA then NRC then NPR. But unlike the traditional alphabets the new alphabets means the same. So whether it is CAA or NRC or the NPR, …

by: Asad Mirza The protests against the CAA started as soon as the news that the Bill has been given Presidential Assent became public. The first protestors were students, and within five days of the start of protests from Jamia, it spread to 22 campuses across India, medical and legal …

By: Asad Mirza The exponential growth of Social Media services in the recent years, with every person becoming a photographer or a journalist or a critic has transformed our society to a completely new one, where most of us are living with two personas, one our original and one our …

The number of devotees thronging Ayodhya, to have a glimpse of the old Ram temple at the disputed site has been swelling since the SC verdict awarded the disputed land in entirety to the Hindu temple, ending 69 years old litigation.  This also is a pointer to the plans of …

British Indians (also Indian British people or Indian Britons) are citizens of the United Kingdom (UK) whose ancestral roots lie in India. According to latest figures, Indians comprise about 1.4 million people in the UK, making them the single largest visible ethnic minority population in the country. The largest group …

After losing a record 15 votes in the House of Commons in his first hundred days as the prime minister, and at the fourth attempt (the first was on 4 September) for the 16th vote, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, tasted victory for the first time, but in reality a …

By: Asad Mirza Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in the US today, on his first visit to the US after becoming the country’s prime minister for the second time in may, this year and fourth since he became the prime minister for the first time in 2014. As …

By: Asad Mirza Former London Mayor Boris Johnson led the campaign for Britain to leave the EU, and after a dramatic prime minister race, he’ll be serving in one of the country’s top positions. Johnson is a clownish character, but he’s got enviable popularity levels and is known by his …

By:Asad Mirza Rahul Gandhi’s resignation as Congress President seems to have put the party on the brink of a collapse. Even after getting rejected by the people, who do not think that the party has changed much after Rahul Gandhi took over the party’s command in December 2017, and despite …

By: Asad Mirza While the Brexit saga keeps on unfolding and the race for the next prime minister ship heats up between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, an all encompassing and incisive report by the House of Commons on UK-India relations has gone comparatively unnoticed by the media both in …

By :Asad Mirza The Media Ownership Monitor (MOM) project, a global research and advocacy effort to promote transparency and media pluralism at an international level, was initiated by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in 2015. In India, it conducted the Media Ownership Monitor project together with Delhi based digital media company, …

By: Asad Mirza The National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill emerged as key issues during the election campaign with both BJP President Amit Shah and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at loggerheads over it. The BJP is pitching the NRC as a strong step against infiltrators …

Should Mohammed Azharuddin contest election from Hyderabad? If so, he will contesting against MIM leader  Asaduddin Owaisi. The Telangana State Congress has invited Mohammed Azharuddin, who has earlier represented the party from Muradabad constituency, to contest from the Telangana State. But is Mohammed Azharuddin interested? In this video, Dr. Syed …