Assam gears up for assembly polls with major alliances forming. The BJP-led NDA faces a Congress-backed grand alliance. Key issues include ...

Assam's Chief Minister defends a voter list revision exercise. He states no genuine Indian citizens are being targeted. Opposition parties,...

Khaleque, a two-time MLA and one-time MP, had sent his resignation from primary membership of Congress to its national president on Friday,...

These constituencies include Wayanad, which was represented by Rahul Gandhi. Former Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi recently did an outr...

Over the decades, Muslim BJP MPs have had a nominal presence in Parliament. Naqvi himself has been a Rajya Sabha member for three terms, Na...

Dismissing as "baseless" the BJP's charge of communalism against his All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), Badruddin Ajmal claimed "no...

As per Assam accord the date of detection and deportation of foreigners is March 25, 1971 irrespective of religious affiliation, while for ...

Currently, the NRC is being updated under the strict monitoring of the Supreme Court in Assam and July 31 has been set as a deadline for fi...

We turned the demography into a challenge and our plan forced Congress and AIUDF to fight each other in Assam, says BJP general secretary R...

It's also worth noting that the BJP has put up as many as nine Muslim candidates in Assam. None of them is a likely winner, but the symboli...

MIM leader, Asaduddin Owaisi refuses to be embarrassed by his focus, or faith, or his route map in the competitive jungle of democratic asp...

The growth rate of Muslim population in the country was around 29 per cent between 1991 and 2001, higher than the national average.

Adivasis, say observers, suffer because they are caught in the vortex of Assam's ethnicity-based politics. The BTAD has tried to use the ad...

As Gujarat CM for over 10 years, he ran a government in which Muslims never found any representation. Not was there any Muslim candidate in...

The 16th Lok Sabha will have one of the lowest representation for Muslims with just about 20 of them emerging victorious in the Lok Sabha p...

A primer on the continuing ethnic conflict between the indigenous Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslim settlers in western Assam.

The tabling of the Rajinder Sachar Commission report, which provides data on the dismal socio-economic status of Muslims, is sure to let lo...