Quaid Najmi

AIMIM and ISLAM parties rock in civic polls Mumbai : Amid Maharashtra’s sweeping saffron surge, a counter-current has quietly but decisively come to the fore – in the form of a fledgling Indian Secular Largest Assembly of Maharashtra (ISLAM) Party and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM).   Shocking punters and pundits, both parties with a Muslim base have etched striking footprints in the elections to 29 municipal corporations, marking a dawn of reshaping minority politics in...

Mumbai bids adieu to Uddhav’s 25-year rule ‘Thackeray Brand’ replaced with ‘Fiery Fadnavis’   Mumbai : The bitterly fought Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) election results were on anticipated and decisive lines – with sobering lessons for all the players.   The Shiv Sena (UBT) led by ex-Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray is poised to meekly hand over the keys to the country’s richest civic body – over which it lorded for three decades - to the Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena combine.  ...

Mumbai : Sparking intense debate and deep unease among Muslims, the Maharashtra government has appointed a non-Muslim IAS officer as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the State Haj Committee (SHC), just as preparations for the annual Haj pilgrimage get underway.   According to official sources, Manoj Jadhav, a high-ranking IAS officer, is named the new SHC CEO, replacing Shaikh Ibrahim S. Aslam, who demitted office recently.   The appointment is being described by critics as unprecedented...