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Since January 2025, the PhD scholars under the Maulana Azad National Fellowship (MANF) have not received their stipend. This has posed some serious questions over their sustenance and their pursuit to continue our research. According to a reports the Ministry of Minority Affairs told the students in an RTI response that the NMDFC has released the pending fellowship amounts to the respective MANF fellows up to December 2024. The Ministry added, “Further, NMDFC is in the process of receiving funds under the MANF scheme from the Government to release fellowships to the existing MANF fellows.”
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As the dust settles on the military escalation between India and Pakistan post the 22 April terror attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam, the war of perceptions remains rife. According to some observers, Pakistan is winning the narrative war against India, at least in the international court of opinion. In an exclusive interview with The Quint, Pakistani military expert and Senior Fellow at the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London, Ayesha Siddiqa, tells senior journalist Harinder Baweja how the ‘war’ between India and Pakistan has made General Asim Munir, now elevated to Field Marshal, the new ‘hero’ of Pakistan. Speaking in detail about Pakistan’s response to Operation Sindoor, Siddiqa states that while India and Pakistan have officially been ‘enemies’ for the past 75 years, the two know very little about each other.
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"What the delegations are going to be telling their interlocutors is that if India is targeted by the terror infrastructure in Pakistan, then, notwithstanding the nuclearisation of South Asia, there will be a response. The nuclear shield cannot be used as an instrument of blackmail,” Congress MP Manish Tewari told The Quint.
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Why is it “deshbhakti” when a PM visits Pakistan, but “deshdroh” when a singer’s video gets shared by a Pakistani handle? In this no-holds-barred conversation, Neha Singh Rathore responds to the hate, the allegations of spreading religious divide, and questions about her political leanings.
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BJP minister Kunwar Vijay Shah called Col Sophiya Qureshi "sister of terrorists". A news channel wrongly called Qari Mohammad Iqbal who was killed by Pakistani shelling in Poonch, a terrorist. On the other hand, Pakistani trolls have also been targeting Indian Muslims only. How it is tricky to be an Indian Muslim during an India-Pakistan conflict.
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India-Pakistan conflict has left Uri devastated. In this video, we take you to the ground zero where homes lie in ruins, lives have been lost, and families are struggling to cope with the destruction. Hear firsthand accounts from survivors and see the extent of the damage caused by cross-border shelling.
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