Muslim Minority
- India
Karnataka abolishes 4% reservation for Muslims, adds it to EWS quota
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has announced its decision to scrap the four per cent quota for minorities and add it to the existing quota of two dominant communities of the poll-bound state.…
- World
Uyghur woman, teacher testify of torture, brainwashing in Chinese camps to US Congress
Washington: Two women who say they experienced and escaped Chinese “re-education camps” have provided first-hand testimony to members of the US Congress, giving harrowing detail while imploring Americans not to look away…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: ‘Only 5% Muslims in Old City slums pursue higher edu’, says survey
Hyderabad: A post-COVID-19 survey in urban slums and catchments of the Old City of Hyderabad revealed that the vicious cycle of poverty continues among the Hyderabadi Muslims living in slums in the…
- Telangana
Telangana: Rs 2200 cr allocated for minority welfare in budget
Hyderabad: The Telangana government has proposed to allocate Rs 2200 crore in the financial year 2023-2024 for the welfare of minority communities. In the previous financial year an amount of Rs 1,728.71…
- News
563 Muslim students from Telangana admitted to MBBS colleges
Hyderabad: The Siasat Daily and MS Education have organised a felicitation ceremony for 563 Muslim students who have been admitted to various MBBS colleges following NEET counselling. Of the 2800 seats, 563…
- India
Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui’s arrest is ‘tantamount to apprehending a Shankaracharya’
The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad arrested Islamic scholar Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui in Meerut on Tuesday night on charges of alleged illegal religious conversions. Siddiqui is one of the prominent scholars from western…
- World
Uyghur body supports complaint against French brands over link to forced labour
Munich: A pro-Uyghur body has endorsed the formal complaint submitted by a French lawyer against four France-based multinational companies over allegations of their involvement in forced labour of the Muslim minority group…
