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The problem of Muslim backwardness demands a response that is both urgent and specific
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The Ranganath Misra Commission is likely to recommend that religion should be delinked from caste while deciding the Scheduled-Caste status.Friday , 16 March '07
Keeping mum over the issue of reservation for Muslims, the Congress today stressed the need for “modern” education for the upliftment of the community, during a “Conference on Reservations for Muslims” organised by the Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind.Wednesday , 14 March '07
In the backdrop of the Sachar Committee’s findings, the Jamiat Ulema-i-HindMonday , 19 February '07
A high-level committee set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development to find ways to improve the educational status of Muslims has suggested that the University Grants Commission...Friday , 16 February '07
In a stinging observation, the Supreme Court today described the banned Students Islamic Movement of India as a “secessionist movement”.Saturday , 10 February '07
Through a three-page office memo that invokes a 16-year-old official order, the Manmohan Singh government is putting in place what could be its first affirmative action policy when it comes to recruitment of minorities in government jobs.Friday , 12 January '07
The Sachar Committee report highlighting the abysmal state of Muslims in education, society and employment is now moving beyond the debating stage.Thursday , 28 December '06
Unfazed by the BJP’s charge of Muslim “appeasement” and continuing with his recent tendency to confront political issues head-onThursday , 28 December '06
Data from the 2001 Census points at two conclusions which go against the Justice Sachar Committee Report that says there is a high discrepancy between Muslim literacy rates and that of the restThursday , 28 December '06
Taking a cue from the Mandal Commission report which in effect redrew the political equations in the country, various Muslim groups and regional Muslim political parties are meeting here to create a joint national platform to “see the implementation of Sachar Committee Report at its right earnest”.Thursday , 28 December '06
Going ahead on the commitments made under the Prime Minister’s 15-point programme for minorities the Ministry of Rural Development has set aside about Rs 1,000 crore for minorities under three of its schemes.Thursday , 21 December '06
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s remark that minorities be given preferential rights over resources could just be a curtain-raiser.Wednesday , 20 December '06
Insted of opening up the Sachar Committee report on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslims for a debate, the government plans to take note of the findings of the report either by legislative measure or by considerations in the coming Budget.Wednesday , 20 December '06
In a significant development after the tabling of the Sachar report, Muslim MPs, cutting across party lines, today handed over a wishlist of sorts to Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh: IITs and IIMs exclusively for MuslimsSaturday , 16 December '06
Cutting across party lines, 21 Muslim MPs met on Thursday to discuss ways to address the problems of community in the wake of the Rajinder Sachar Committee Report.Monday , 4 December '06
Following the Sachar committee’s recommendations on the modernisation of madrasas across the country, the government has moved a step closer to setting up a Central madrasa board.Friday , 1 December '06
Sachar report is a challenge for Parliament. Can it give this debate coherence?Friday , 1 December '06
Even as the Left prepared a case for greater government involvement for empowerment of Muslims in the light of the Sachar panel report tabled in Parliament today
Friday , 1 December '06
This Sunday, the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, which comes under the Human Resource Development Ministry
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