Month: November 2022

From January 1, 2023, it may become obligatory for Indian television channels to air “national interest” content for 30 minutes every day, as per a report by The Indian Express. The report stated that earlier this month, the Union Cabinet had approved the ‘Guidelines for Uplinking and Downlinking of Television Channels in India, 2022’, under which it became obligatory for channels to telecast content in national and public interest. Even as the guidelines became effective across India on November 9, officials from the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (I&B) have said that the channels will be given time to conceptualize and create such content. After several rounds of meetings with the channels and other stakeholders, the likely implementation date for such content wi...

A Muslim youth was physically assaulted by a group of Hindu right-wing goons after he was seen traveling with a Hindu girl in a bus. The incident occurred near the Nanthur area of Mangaluru in Karnataka on November 24 as photos appearing on social media show the victim being taken away by the police. Another photo shows a blurred image of the girl and in the third photo, the victim can be seen in the middle of the group as he was apparently being thrashed. The attackers have been identified as members of Bajrang Dal. Meanwhile, the ADG of Police in Karnataka while retweeting the news said “appropriate action is being taken” regarding the incident. An FIR has been registered at the Kadri police station. “On Thursday, Siyad was returning from Karkala in a private bus at 4 pm. ...

Central Information Commissioner (CIC) Uday Mahurkar on Saturday passed an order on an RTI application against salaries being paid to the Imams in mosque by the Delhi government. “Giving salaries to Imams only in mosques amounts to not just betraying Hindu community and members of other non-Muslim minority religions but also encouraging pan-Islamist tendencies,” he observed in the order. “It is necessary to go into the history when it comes to giving special religious benefits to Muslim community by the state. A religious (Islamic) nation Pakistan was born out of the demand of a section of Indian Muslims for partition of India along religious lines. Despite Pakistan choosing to be a religious (Islamic) nation, India chose a Constitution guaranteeing equal rights to all religions. It ...