‘Not Just Manipal’: Muslim Students across India say they are being targeted with Hate Speech in Classrooms

'Not Just Manipal': Muslim Students across India say they are being targeted with Hate Speech in Classrooms

Muslims students say they face hate inside the classroom, both from peers and, even more troublingly, from teachers By: Zafar Aafaq Last week when the video of a Muslim student confronting his teacher at Manipal University in Karnataka went viral, it triggered an unpleasant memory in the mind of 21-year-old Humza Siddique. In the video, which sparked a massive uproar on social media, a young engineering student berates his teacher, telling him that it was not funny to crack jokes about his religious identity. The teacher had compared his Muslim…

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Modi government’s advertisement spending: Rs 8.54 lakh per hour, Rs 2.05 crore per day, every day since 2014

Modi government's advertisement spending: Rs 8.54 lakh per hour, Rs 2.05 crore per day, every day since 2014

The central government has spent Rs 2.05 Crore, every day, since it came into power in 2014, till December this year. The Narendra Modi-led government has spent Rs 6491.56 Crore from 2014 till December 7, 2022, averaging out to Rs 750 Crore every year. These advertisement include those in print media and electronic media, through the Central Bureau of Communication (CBC), official figures available on CBC website reveal. Incidentally, the advertising spending has reduced by 68% in the last full financial year, as compared to the financial year 2014-15. As…

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Wont contest next assembly elections hints PDP President Mehooba Mufti

Wont contest next assembly elections hints PDP President Mehooba Mufti

PDP President and former chief minister J&K Mehooba Mufti on Sunday said she will not contest assembly election in J&K. Mehooba is not alone in the fray. Earlier National Conference president Dr. Farooq Abdullah also announced that his son and former chief minister J&K Omar Abdullah will not contest assembly elections till statehood to J&K is restored. Interacting with media persons here in Srinagar, Mehbooba Mufti said that participating in the next election was not her priority. “Those at the helm of the affairs are hell-bent to stifle dissent voice.…

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Do Kashmiri lives matter asks Mehbooba Mufti

Do Kashmiri lives matter asks Mehbooba Mufti

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday expressed concern over alleged incidents of violence against Kashmiri Muslims since the abrogation of Article 370. “A few weeks ago, a college in Akhnoor was raided by Bajrang Dal goons because they found out that Muslims students were offering prayers on the campus. They threatened the students but not before snatching away their mats and prayer caps,” the party alleged in its monthly newsletter ‘Speak-Up’. What was happening in the rest of the country is finally happening in Kashmir and Muslims are being treated…

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The other side of March session

The other side of March session

By : Syed Rizwan Geelani Recently the J&K government changed the academic session of schools in the Kashmir division and winter zone areas of Jammu division. After holding thorough deliberations with experts, academicians and officers, the government ordered shifting of annual examinations of all classes including classes 10th to 12th in March 2023, after the schools reopen post 75 days of winter vacation. The decision was taken to sync the academic calendar of J&K with the National Academic Calendar. Notably, Jammu and Kashmir had the March session till 1974-75 which was however…

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Maharaja introduced State Subject Laws to defeat anti-state forces in Kashmir: Prof Hari Om patron Ikkjutt

Maharaja introduced State Subject Laws to defeat anti-state forces in Kashmir: Prof Hari Om patron Ikkjutt

Ikkjutt Jammu Party, patron, Prof Hari Om today said that Maharaja Hari Singh introduced State Subject Laws in 1927 to “defeat anti-state forces in Kashmir and British India.” Addressing a press conference here, Prof Om said that Kashmiri leaders of all hues, who otherwise leave no opportunity to denounce the Dogras and the Dogra Maharajas as “aliens and oppressors”, and some of their agents outside Kashmir have unleashed a no-holds-barred propaganda blitz to create an impression that it’s the Maharaja Hari Singh’s State Subject Definition of 1927 and Instrument of…

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Flooded with apples, Jammu mandi sees dearth of buyers

Flooded with apples, Jammu mandi sees dearth of buyers

Flooded with Kashmiri apples, the only fruit mandi in Jammu has been witnessing a dearth of buyers, giving wholesalers nightmares. The Kashmiri apple harvest has been bumper this time, even more than the annual 20-21 lakh metric tonnes of production, causing a glut in the wholesale fruit market of Jammu. Wholesalers say the competition from Himachal apple too has affected their business as the harvest there too has been bumper. Bumper harvest The Kashmiri apple harvest has been bumper this time. Besides, wholesalers are also facing stiff competition from the Himachal…

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China vows to help Pakistan after India spoke of reclaiming occupied Kashmir

China vows to help Pakistan after India spoke of reclaiming occupied Kashmir

China has on Nov 4 “promised” to support Pakistan in protecting its “territorial integrity” right after India vowed to take back the part of its Kashmir region which is still under Pakistani occupation. The remark followed a visit to China by Pakistani Prime Minister Mr Shehbaz Sharif who was reported to have briefed Beijing on the current situation in the Valley. “China will continue to firmly support Pakistan in safeguarding its sovereignty, territorial integrity, development interests and dignity, and in achieving unity, stability, development and prosperity,” the timesnownews.com Nov 4…

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‘Promoting freedom integral part of US policy’: Biden to Kashmiri leader

Promoting freedom integral part of US policy - Biden to Kashmiri leader

US President Joe Biden has said that “defending democracy, promoting freedom, human rights, respecting the rule of law and treating everyone with dignity are the important part of core values of the foreign policy of the United States and American society”. Biden expressed these views in his recent letter to Raja Muzaffar, a Washington-based veteran Kashmiri leader, according to a message released to the media on Sunday. “The challenges facing our world today demonstrate how interconnected we are and how the fates of all people are bound together. From famines…

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6 November 1947 massacre that cut Muslim population of Jammu city by half

6 November 1947 massacre that cut Muslim population of Jammu city by half

In the aftermath of partition, the risk to Muslims increased ‘every hour,’ as hordes of non-muslim migrants began flooding into Jammu from areas that would become Pakistan. Following the March 1947 rioting in Punjab Rawalpindi, Attock, Murree, Bannu, and Hazara, the first trickle of refugees arrived in Jammu in April. The daily flood peaked in late 1947, when an estimated 160,000 Hindus and Sikhs came from Pakistan’s western provinces. (January 26, 1947, The Times, London) During the partition-related unrest, the majority of Sialkot’s non-Muslim population had fled to Jammu. Sialkot…

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