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The Earth is a mosque
AIUDF appeal to PM to protect Dhubri from Brahmaputra River
Boycott Swiss products to get Indian money back: citizens call
Fellowship program on conflict resolution & human security
JKLF leader on hunger strike protesting death sentence in Lajpat Nagar case
Muslim rulers worked for a secular India: Prince of Arcot
The Tablighi Jamaat in Mewat – Part 6
Why Indian monetary system is pro-capitalist?
Bogey of indigenous identity fuels Assamese militancy
M Rafi – A man who guided 17 Muslim youths to top jobs in Bihar
CBI arrests cop for Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter
Kashmir separatist leader Shabir Shah hospitalised
Azim Premji discusses joint ventures in UAE
Separatist unity moves jolted in Kashmir
JKLF chief on hunger strike against death for two Kashmiris
British Indian Muslims applaud German MPs for condemning Modi

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 11:18 AM PDT

By Ibrahim Abdul-Matin

Last Thursday, on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, I found myself thinking back to my first hiking trip to New York's Bear Mountain. I was six years old. Having grown up in Brooklyn, New York, I thought the entire world was a sea of concrete buildings. But that trip changed my reality. I remember moss growing on rocks, small streams of water and fresh air.

When it came time to pray, my father, a convert to Islam, shared with me a saying of the Prophet Muhammad: "The earth is a mosque."

AIUDF appeal to PM to protect Dhubri from Brahmaputra River

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 10:44 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: All India United Democratic Front President Badruddin Ajmal has appealed to the Central Government as well as Assam Government to take urgent measures to protect the embankment in Dhubri district from the River Brahamputra. Otherwise, 2.5 lakh people will be rendered homeless and the district will have an open watery border with Bangladesh.

Boycott Swiss products to get Indian money back: citizens call

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 10:27 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,

Mumbai: Cutting across party lines, several political parties, NGOs and activists came together on Wednesday at the historic Azad Maidan here and gave a call of boycott for Swiss products and tourism to press the Swiss government to push out the huge Indian black money from its banks.

Fellowship program on conflict resolution & human security

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 10:14 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: The Centre for Conflict Resolution & Human Security (CCRHS), a research-based and policy-oriented non-government institution in New Delhi, has announced its first Fellowship Program for 2010-2011. The Fellowships are open to experts, scholars, Ph.D. students, professionals and activists working on topics related to conflict resolution and human security.

JKLF leader on hunger strike protesting death sentence in Lajpat Nagar case

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 09:39 AM PDT

By Mir Umar, AIP,

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Mohammad Yasin Malik began a daylong hunger strike here to protest the death sentence being given to two Kashmiris in the 1996 Lajpat Nagar bomb blast case in New Delhi.

Malik and other senior leaders of the JKLF began their strike at party's Maqbool Manzil headquarters in uptown Maisuma here.

Muslim rulers worked for a secular India: Prince of Arcot

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 07:26 AM PDT

By Shafee Ahmed Ko, TwoCircles.net,

Chennai: Islam always promoted communal harmony and peace. Although Moguls ruled India more than 500 years they never wanted India to be Islamic. Akbar the Great had a secular India -- he introduced Deen-e-Ilahi and married a Rajput woman only to uphold peace and harmony in the land, said Prince of Arcot Abdul Ali at a seminar here on "Islam and non-violence" organized by Forum for Promotion of Moderate Thought in Islam.

The Tablighi Jamaat in Mewat – Part 6

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 06:08 AM PDT

By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net,

Why Indian monetary system is pro-capitalist?

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 06:01 AM PDT

By Syed Zahid Ahmad,

Though we 'the People of India' solemnly resolved 'India to be a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic and to secure to all its citizens Justice, social, economic and political liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith and practice, equality of status and of opportunity' but we have yet to realize that despite 63 years of independence, our monetary system is not socialist but continues to be Pro-Capitalist as designed by the capitalists during the British India rule.

Bogey of indigenous identity fuels Assamese militancy

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:55 AM PDT

By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi,

The Census 2011 has begun nationwide on 1st April 2010. Though the Schedules for Census of India 2011 and National Population Register have no columns to enrol one's language or religion this time, yet it had fuelled past differences of Assamese and Bengalis in Assam. Following is an historic account of this language dispute in Assam, a north-eastern state of India.

M Rafi – A man who guided 17 Muslim youths to top jobs in Bihar

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:15 AM PDT

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

CBI arrests cop for Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:02 AM PDT

By IANS,

Gandhinagar: An Indian Police Service (IPS) officer posted in Ahmedabad was Wednesday arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh killing in faked shootout, taking the number of cops held in the case to 15.

Ahmedabad crime branch's Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abhay Chudasama, 44, a 1999 batch IPS officer, was one of the conspirators who abducted Sohrabuddin and his wife Kauserbi, the CBI said.

Kashmir separatist leader Shabir Shah hospitalised

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 04:52 AM PDT

By IANS,

Jammu : Shabir Ahmad Shah, prominent separatist leader and president of the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party, was hospitalised here Wednesday after he fell unconscious in his prison barrack, an official said.

Shabir Shah fell unconscious in his barrack in Kot Bhalwal jail on the outskirts of Jammu. He is having multiple health problems.

"He was immediately shifted to a private hospital," the official in the prison department said.

Doctors attending to the separatist leader refused to comment on his condition.

Azim Premji discusses joint ventures in UAE

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 04:51 AM PDT

By IANS/WAM,

Ajman : Indian industrialist Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, one of India's largest IT companies, discussed establishment of joint ventures with the ruler of Ajman, one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Premji is here on a visit to strengthen technological ties between the Gulf countries and India.

Premji and Sheikh Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi, ruler of Ajman, Tuesday discussed ways to strengthen cooperation and establish joint ventures.

Separatist unity moves jolted in Kashmir

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 02:40 AM PDT

By IANS,

Srinagar : Steps towards unity between the two groups of the separatist Hurriyat Conference received a setback here Wednesday when the hardline senior separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani said his party would carry forward its own protest programme to highlight rights violations in Kashmir.

Addressing a media conference at his Hyderpora residence in summer capital Srinagar, Geelani said two members of the moderate Hurriyat group, Maulana Muhammad Abdullah Tari and Aga Syed Hassan had met him to chalk out a common protest programme.

JKLF chief on hunger strike against death for two Kashmiris

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 01:32 AM PDT

By IANS,

Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Muhammad Yasin Malik Wednesday began a daylong hunger strike here to protest the death sentence being given to two Kashmiris in the 1996 Lajpat Nagar bomb blast case in New Delhi.

Malik and other senior leaders of the JKLF began their strike at party's Maqbool Manzil headquarters in uptown Maisuma locality here.

British Indian Muslims applaud German MPs for condemning Modi

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 11:09 AM PDT

By TCN News,

Patna: British Indian Muslims and the family members of slain MP Ehsan Jafri welcomed and appreciated the two German MPs-Ute Granold and Pascal Kober- for their courage to express truth about Gujarat CM Mr. Narendra Modi and brutality against Muslims in the state. After a visit to Gujarat earlier this month, the two MPs expressed concern over discrimination and injustice against Muslims there and compared Modi with Hitler.