Assam Assembly Polls: A contest of coalitions, calculations and cloutAssam gears up for assembly polls with major alliances forming. The BJP-led NDA faces a Congress-backed grand alliance. Key issues include ...
23 Mar, 2026, 08.46 AM IST
Assam: Opposition alleges voter list manipulation during SR exercise; CM Sarma denies claimsAssam's Chief Minister defends a voter list revision exercise. He states no genuine Indian citizens are being targeted. Opposition parties,...
24 Jan, 2026, 09.52 PM IST
Congress treats Muslims like slaves, says Assam MP after quitting partyKhaleque, a two-time MLA and one-time MP, had sent his resignation from primary membership of Congress to its national president on Friday,...
16 Mar, 2024, 03.25 PM IST
Amid outreach, BJP minority wing targets bigger share in Lok Sabha ticketsThese constituencies include Wayanad, which was represented by Rahul Gandhi. Former Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi recently did an outr...
21 Jun, 2023, 02.53 PM IST
With Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi's Rajya Sabha term ending, no Muslim among BJP MPsOver the decades, Muslim BJP MPs have had a nominal presence in Parliament. Naqvi himself has been a Rajya Sabha member for three terms, Na...
06 Jul, 2022, 06.02 PM IST
No Modi wave this time, BJP polarising Hindus by showing my face, invoking Mughals: Badruddin AjmalDismissing as "baseless" the BJP's charge of communalism against his All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), Badruddin Ajmal claimed "no...
14 Mar, 2021, 02.47 PM IST
Clause 6 panel of Assam accord must reserve 21 assembly seats for indigenous communities: CommitteeAs per Assam accord the date of detection and deportation of foreigners is March 25, 1971 irrespective of religious affiliation, while for ...
04 Aug, 2019, 08.52 PM IST
Centre to identify illegal immigrants, deport them: Amit ShahCurrently, 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...
17 Jul, 2019, 11.48 PM IST
We consolidated votes on development, governance and Assam's identity: Ram MadhavWe turned the demography into a challenge and our plan forced Congress and AIUDF to fight each other in Assam, says BJP general secretary R...
20 May, 2016, 12.41 PM IST
Poke Me: Three big upcoming assembly polls can be seen as '25%-plus Muslim elections'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...
01 Apr, 2016, 12.43 PM IST
Who’s afraid of Asaduddin Owaisi? Congress, Lalu, Mulayam, Mamata ...MIM leader, Asaduddin Owaisi refuses to be embarrassed by his focus, or faith, or his route map in the competitive jungle of democratic asp...
03 May, 2015, 10.48 AM IST
Muslim population rose by 24 per cent during 2001-11The growth rate of Muslim population in the country was around 29 per cent between 1991 and 2001, higher than the national average.
22 Jan, 2015, 02.14 PM IST
Ethnicity-based politics: Why Assam’s adivasis are soft targetsAdivasis, say observers, suffer because they are caught in the vortex of Assam's ethnicity-based politics. The BTAD has tried to use the ad...
04 Jan, 2015, 10.57 AM IST
Modi government and opposition's role: Focus must shift to India's inclusiveness and diversityAs Gujarat CM for over 10 years, he ran a government in which Muslims never found any representation. Not was there any Muslim candidate in...
10 Jun, 2014, 04.46 AM IST
Elections 2014: Muslim representation to be low in next Lok SabhaThe 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...
17 May, 2014, 10.42 PM IST
Assam: Control over land key reason for clash between Bodos, MuslimsA primer on the continuing ethnic conflict between the indigenous Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslim settlers in western Assam.
19 Aug, 2012, 02.05 PM IST
- So, who is the culprit?
The tabling of the Rajinder Sachar Commission report, which provides data on the dismal socio-economic status of Muslims, is sure to let lo...
01 Dec, 2006, 01.12 AM IST