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Muslim Education in Uttar Pradesh: Pathways to Inclusion and Reform
A limited community imagination and an absence of political will together have pushed a community, UP’s Muslims, once a leader in social, political and cultural life of the region, to marginalisation; the author examines solutions
21 years later, 14 acquitted for murder in one of the many 2002 Gujarat riots cases
They were accused of killing and burning bodies of 17 Muslims in one of the many incidents of widespread violence in Gujarat in 2002, in the aftermath of the burning of a coach of the Sabarmati Express at Godhra
Marching through a Muslim dominated area, a mob raises provocative and communal slogans
Halting outside a mosque, the mob chanted: Say Vande Mataram if you have to live in India
Who is to be blamed for the consistently low Muslim representation in the police force?
Since the year 2013, no new NCRB data has been provided to shed light on the current Muslim personnel present in our police force
Bilkis Bano’s plea against remission to convicts could not be heard in SC
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Bilkis Bano was 21 years old and five months pregnant when she was gang-raped while fleeing the riots that broke out after the Godhra train burning incident. Her three-year-old daughter was among the seven family members killed.
Bihar: Christian man beaten up on allegation of forced conversion
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Court orders 12 UP cops to be booked for murder of farmer: Cow Vigilantism
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UP Madrasa Board to introduce NCERT syllabus, no to NCPCR’s diktat on non-Muslim students
However, the controversial, even unconstitutional, recommendation of the NCPCR ‘directing’ non-Muslim students not to be educated at Madrasas was rejected
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