Maktoob

Maktoob is a standalone media platform from India that focuses on issues related to human rights, minority groups, and other important news events. Founded in 2014 by Aslah Kayyalakkath and Naseel Voici while they were still undergraduate students, Maktoob has developed into one of the most captivating media organizations in the country.

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Mob attacks, police inaction pushes UP's cattle traders to brink

2 weeks ago | maktoobmedia.com | Ghazala Ahmad

On Eid al-Adha, when animal sacrifice is a key ritual, fear among Muslim cattle traders was at its peak. In Uttar Pradesh, buffaloes and goats are primarily sacrificed. Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh, home to two major buffalo meat factories, is a key hub for the meat trade; however, recent violence has disrupted business operations across the state. The recent brutal attack by cow vigilantes on four Muslim meat traders in Aligarh has sent shockwaves through cattle trading communities across the region.
“We are Indians,” say declared foreigners from Assam 'pushed out' by BSF to Bangladesh territory

1 month ago | maktoobmedia.com | Arshad Ahmed

Fourteen individuals were allegedly pushed back by the Border Security Forces (BSF) in the early hours of May 27 morning through the India-Bangladesh border area between Assam’s Mankachar district and Bangladesh’s Rowmari in Kurigram district. This round of push was initially resisted by the Bangladeshi locals and the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), which looks after the country’s border, leading to simmering tension and a standoff between the BSF and the BGB, sources from Rowmari told Maktoob.
Why tribals in Arunachal Pradesh are protesting India's mega dam project?

1 month ago | maktoobmedia.com | Arshad Ahmed

Tension has flared in northeastern Arunachal Pradesh since May 23 after villagers, mostly women, from Siang and Upper Siang districts clashed with Central Armed Police Forces near the site of a mega dam in Upper Siang.
Communal slurs, Skullcap taunt preceded fatal stabbing of newly wed Muslim youth in Haryana: FIR

1 month ago | maktoobmedia.com | Jibraan Uddin

A Muslim youth was fatally stabbed to death in Haryana’s Panipat on Saturday evening following an altercation over wearing a skullcap. 24-year-old Firdaus Alam, also known as Asjad Babu, was stabbed around 8:30 PM on May 24 in the Sukh Ram Colony area near Sanoli Chowk, according to the First Information Report (FIR). “Six months ago, my younger brother got married. He hadn’t harmed anyone, yet he was killed,” Alam’s brother, Asad Raza, told Maktoob. “What kind of justice is this?
“Assisting genocidal onslaughts in Palestine, India”: Protest disrupts JCB’s 80th anniversary event in Britain

1 month ago | maktoobmedia.com | P P Jaseem |PP Jaseem

Activists from the Stop the JCB Demolitions Campaign on Sunday disrupted the bulldozer manufacturing company JCB’s 80th anniversary at the company’s headquarters in the city of Rocester, Britain.
“A long night”: Kashmiris react to brief ceasefire violation

1 month ago | maktoobmedia.com | Gafira Qadir

After days of intensifying conflict, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri confirmed on Saturday evening that India had agreed to a ceasefire with Pakistan. “The Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) of Pakistan called the DGMO of India at 3:30 pm. It was agreed between them that both sides would cease all firing and military action on land, in the air, and at sea with effect from 17:00 hours (5 pm) onwards,” Misri said at a press conference held in South Block.
‘We are cursed’: The cost of being Kashmiri after Pahalgam attack

2 months ago | maktoobmedia.com | Gafira Qadir

Twenty-seven-year-old Taiyuba Amin didn’t know what was happening back home when her phone started buzzing with back-to-back anxious calls from home. She ignored it, thinking the family would understand that she was busy. However, it didn’t stop. “I hadn’t read the news yet. I was busy,” she said. “I thought if I didn’t answer the call, Mamma would know I was busy as always. But when it didn’t stop ringing, I answered.”Amin’s anxious mother asked her to return to the valley.
“We’ve been wronged”: Sacked Bengal teachers to continue protests even after SC relied

2 months 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.
Leaked British police intelligence report says Hindu extremists worsen community relations in UK

2 months 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.
Bihar: 32 Muslim kids, guardian detained and held in a prison cell for 14 hrs, released after public outcry

2 months 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.