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Fix responsibility of police in communal violence bill: Muslim forum
Batla post-mortem: TCN leads, mainstream, Urdu papers follow
AIMPLB says no to Communal Violence Bill
Feel humbled, honoured with Rajya Sabha nomination: Javed Akhtar
Husain's work fetches over Rs.2 crore
Bareilly now has only night curfew
Army's tours open up incredible India to Kashmiris

Fix responsibility of police in communal violence bill: Muslim forum

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:48 AM PDT

By TCN News,

Aligarh: The Forum for Muslim Studies & Analysis (FMSA) today sent a memorandum to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh demanding amendment in communal violence bill to fix responsibility of police officers in dealing communal riots and suitable punishment to the erring police personnel. The Aligarh-based FMSA also demanded police reform to make the police department accountable.

Batla post-mortem: TCN leads, mainstream, Urdu papers follow

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:39 AM PDT

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

New Delhi: The Batla House is a hot cake, even one and half years after the bloody shootout took place in the predominantly South-East Delhi locality. TwoCircles.net broke the news about the revealing post-mortem report of the slain terror suspects around midnight on March 17. The next day saw news rooms in Delhi busy sending their men to get a copy of the report. And today about a dozen papers – from mainstream to Urdu to Hindi – published the news prominently. Some gave credit to TwoCircles.net.

AIMPLB says no to Communal Violence Bill

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 06:15 AM PDT

By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net,

Lucknow: Demand for revoking the court verdicts which are against the Islamic shariah by legislative procedure will figure during the three day 21st annual convention of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) that began here today. The convention is being held at Islamic seminary Nadwatul Uloom besides a open house at Aishbagh eidgaah.

Feel humbled, honoured with Rajya Sabha nomination: Javed Akhtar

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 06:11 AM PDT

By IANS,

Mumbai : Eminent poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar, who was nominated to the Rajya Sabha Friday, said he feels "honoured" and will strive to live up to the people's expectations.

"I feel immensely honoured by this great responsibility entrusted upon me and I shall strive to live up to the people's expectations," Akhtar told IANS minutes after his name was announced.

"In fact, I feel humbled that I have been chosen to enter the sanctum sanctorum of the Indian democracy. It is indeed a great responsibility and I shall attempt to contribute in whatever manner I can."

Husain's work fetches over Rs.2 crore

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 01:46 AM PDT

By IANS,

New Delhi : An untitled work by eminent painter M.F. Husain sold for over Rs.2 crore at the Saffronart Spring Online Auction 2010.

The art work that crossed the Rs.2 crore mark shows four horses and a female rider and was painted by Husain 1970.

The Saffronart auction Wednesday witnessed a resurgence in demand for works by pioneering contemporary masters, said a statement issued by the Mumbai-based online art auction house.

Bareilly now has only night curfew

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 11:41 PM PDT

By IANS,

Bareilly : Day curfew was Friday lifted in Uttar Pradesh's riot-hit Bareilly district but it will be clamped at night, the authorities said Friday.

With no fresh trouble, the curfew was lifted at 5 in the morning. It will be reinforced only at 10 p.m, District Magistrate Anil Garg told a news conference here.

This is because the place is "peaceful and normal", Garg said in Bareilly, 250 km from Lucknow. "Considering the way the situation is turning normal, we will soon be in a position to lift the curfew completely."

Army's tours open up incredible India to Kashmiris

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 10:22 PM PDT

By Binoo Joshi, IANS,

Jammu : For 45-year-old Rashid Badana, a nomadic Gujjar in Jammu and Kashmir, a sea was something "slightly bigger than the lakes in our state" - until the Indian Army took him to a whole new world.

"I never imagined the sea to be so vast. I thought it would be slightly bigger than the lakes in our state," said Rashid, still in awe of what he got to see as part of one such trip to southern India last year.