There is a growing sense of uncertainty of life as each day passes by due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Many countries are in lockdown. This could have been a time to gel well with partners and bond with them. Unfortunately, there is a wave of surging domestic violence against women not just in the developing […]

New Delhi: In a letter to the Director/Secretary, Delhi Health Department, Delhi Minorities Commission has asked it to drop any mention of religious undertones in its daily bulletins on coronavirus cases in Delhi. The DMC Chairman Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan said in his letter Your bulletins of Coronavirus victims are showing a separate column Markaz Masjid. […]

New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) Vice-Chancellor Prof. Najma Akhtar has constituted a Mental Health & Counselling Committee (MHCC) to facilitate the mental health and wellbeing of students and to provide psycho-social support to the students staying in the Hostels /Campus or outside during and after COVID-19 outbreak due to lockdown/ University closure. The thirteen […]

BeyondHeadlines News Desk New Delhi: There is anguish among Muslim youth leaders and activists with respect to the arrest of Meeran Haider, the president of RJD youth wing’s Delhi unit. The demand for his release has been trending on social media and they are also demanding Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav to take action […]

New Delhi: Delhi Minorities Commission has sent two notices to the Police Commissioner Delhi. One is about plans to boycott Muslims in a Shastri Nagar colony and the other is about the lynching of Muslim youth in a village under Bawana police station. The Commission in its notice attached a video from Shastri Nagar in […]

By Ram Puniyani As India is under lockdown, we see the attempts to contain the Corona Virus. With over four thousand reported cases and over one hindered deaths, India is shaken to the core and it seems life will not be the same again. What is more worrying in India is that the mistake of […]

Dr Syed Nadeem Fatmi There is perhaps a need to discuss what sociology in general and epidemics sociology in particular which interacts with the sociology of knowledge and social epistemology has to say about pandemics and emerging infectious diseases. The available literature on the sociology of pandemics clearly reveals that a sociological lens is very […]