Maktoob

6 days ago | maktoobmedia.com | Amarabati Bhattacharyya

After widespread outrage and appeals from the teaching fraternity as well as the State government, the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the untainted teachers of Classes 9-12 in West Bengal government and aided schools, whose appointments were cancelled in connection with the 2016 ‘school jobs-for-cash scam’, to continue working until fresh appointments are made to the posts.

2 weeks ago | maktoobmedia.com | P P Jaseem |PP Jaseem |Indian Muslim Minorities

A secret report compiled by the NPCC (National Police Chiefs’ Council), a national body of senior police officers in the United Kingdom, states that Hindu extremists may worsen community relations between Hindus and other faith groups, including Muslims and Sikhs, in the UK. The Daily Mail, one of the leading British tabloids, which leaked the report, claimed that Hindutva forces are forming alliances with far-right groups over their ‘common hatred’ towards Muslims.

2 weeks ago | maktoobmedia.com | Jibraan Uddin

In a deeply disturbing incident, 32 Muslim children and a senior guardian from Maida Babhangama village in Bihar were detained by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) at Mokama railway station on allegations of child labour trafficking on Monday. The children, who were on their way to pursue Islamic education at Jamia Zakariya Madarsa in Surat, Gujarat, were held for nearly 14 hours before being released due to mounting pressure from local residents and community members.

1 month ago | maktoobmedia.com | Gafira Qadir

Earlier this week, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) banned two political and religious outfits, Jammu and Kashmir Ittihadul Muslimeen (JKIM), headed by Masroor Abbas Ansari, and Awami Action Committee (AAC), headed by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, under an anti-terror law, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) 1967 for the next five years.

1 month ago | maktoobmedia.com | Jibraan Uddin

“They set both my auto-rickshaws on fire right in front of me,” fifty-four-year-old Sagheer Mohammad Khan, a resident of Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, recalls the horrifying night of Sunday when violence broke out in his neighborhood. “I was hiding inside my own home, watching from my window as my rickshaws burned. My injured father, my daughter, and my wife were with me, terrified.”Sagheer told Maktoob that around 11 PM, a mob gathered outside his house near the main square.