Monday, May 10, 2010

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Sheikh Syed Shah Jameeluddin of Hyderabad is no more

Posted: 10 May 2010 11:11 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,

Hyderabad: Noted Islamic scholar and spiritual leader from Hyderabad, Maulana Sheikh Syed Shah Jameeluddin Al-Razavi Al-Sharfi Al-Qadiri, Sajjada Nashin of Sharfi Chaman, passed away on Sunday morning in the capital city of Andhra Pradesh. He was 63 and is survived by two sons and two daughters.

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Terror probe leak: Hyderabad top cop urged to check SIT

Posted: 10 May 2010 10:36 AM PDT

By TCN News,

Hyderabad: The Commissioner of Police of Hyderabad has been urged to take action against Special Investigation Team (SIT) Officials of Hyderabad Police for making selective leaks about some terror cases involving Muslims in the Telugu and English media. SIT recently made a leak to a South India English paper.

City corporator Amjed Ullah Khan has written a letter to the Commissioner of Police to take action against the SIT Officials for leaking selective news against Muslims to the Telugu/English media to tarnish the image of Muslims.

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Maulana Azad Urdu University starts admission process

Posted: 10 May 2010 09:46 AM PDT

By TCN News,

Hyderabad: Maulana Azad National Urdu University, the only university offering courses at higher level through Urdu medium, has started the admission process for regular courses for the academic year of 2010-2011 with the commencement of sale of prospectus and application forms on May 10. The university offers several higher courses, both professional and regular.

Courses offered at MANUU

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Kanhaiya Lal – A teacher in defense of Batla House accused

Posted: 10 May 2010 09:28 AM PDT

By Salman Sultan, TwoCircles.net,

Mr. Kanhaiya Lal is a renowned teacher of Physics in Azamgarh and his name is known not only to school-going students of Science but also to their parents. He retired as Principal, Shri Subhash Inter College, Karkhia, Azamgarh. Kanhaiya Lal has close acquaintance with the family of both Mohammad Sarvar and Hakim – Azamgarh youth accused in some terror cases. Lal knows three generations of these Muslim youths.

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Rubabuddin wants CBI probe in Prajapati encounter case

Posted: 10 May 2010 09:12 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,

Ahmedabad: Rubabuddin, brother of Sohrabuddin Sheikh killed in a fake encounter in November 2005, has demanded that Gujarat CID (Crime) should stop probing Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter and it should also be handed over to CBI.
Rubabuddin's contention is that the two fake encounters are linked with each other and hence they should not be investigated by two different agencies. "These are two different incidents of the same case and hence, these needed to be probed by one agency only'', he has demanded.

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13 people injured in police-protester clashes in Kashmir

Posted: 10 May 2010 09:10 AM PDT

By IANS,

Srinagar: Thirteen people, among them seven policemen, were injured in daylong clashes between stone pelting young men and police across the Kashmir Valley Monday even as life remained affected by a shutdown called by the local bar association.

The shutdown was called against what the bar association termed "the collapse of judiciary, maltreatment meted out to political prisoners, and veiled attempts to change the demographic position and identity of the state".

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MIM tells panel it prefers unified Andhra Pradesh

Posted: 10 May 2010 08:56 AM PDT

By IANS,

Hyderabad: The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) Monday told the Srikrishna committee that it is opposed to bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh but if the split becomes inevitable, Rayalseema should be merged with Telangana to form a new state with Hyderabad as its capital.

The political party, which has considerable following among Muslims in Hyderabad and other parts of Telangana, told the panel that it is against the idea of making Hyderabad a union territory.

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Danish Ashraf among 3 Sahsaram boys who cracked Civil Services

Posted: 10 May 2010 07:42 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,

Patna: Danish Ashraf is just 22 and has cleared India's topmost Civil Services examination in first attempt. His hometown Sahsaram in Bihar is proud of him and two other candidates from the same town who have cleared UPSC 2009. Among 875 successful candidates there are 21 Muslims. Ashraf is one of them.

Ashraf hailing from Sahsaram district cleared this top exam in first attempt obtaining 409th rank which brought smile on the faces of Muslims from the district - the soil of Sher Shah Suri.

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Togadia questioned by SIT probing Gujarat riots

Posted: 10 May 2010 06:57 AM PDT

By IANS,

Gandhinagar: Pravin Togadia, the general secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), was questioned for three hours Monday by a Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat.

Togadia arrived at the SIT office accompanied by sadhus and supporters in tow.

When asked about the questions posed to him by the SIT, Togadia said: "I was asked whether I had come to Ahmedabad during the communal riots. I told then where would I go, to Pakistan?"

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Muslim research scholars to evaluate minority IAS coaching centres

Posted: 10 May 2010 06:27 AM PDT

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

Patna: Concerned at the fall in the number of successful Muslim candidates in civil services this year despite emergence of several coaching institutes exclusively for minority candidates, a group of Muslim research scholars from Jawaharlal Nehru University will soon prepare an evaluation report of these institutions, their process and efforts.

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Suicidal development India’s new hallmark

Posted: 10 May 2010 05:43 AM PDT

By Soroor Ahmed, TwoCircles.net,

India, it seems, has evolved a new yardstick for development. More the farmers' suicide more 'developed' the country or state is. This is not figment of imagination of any prophet of doom, but the impression one gets after going through the figures provided by none else but the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Sharad Pawar, in Rajya Sabha on May 7.

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Islam, Muslims and Extremism

Posted: 10 May 2010 05:42 AM PDT

By Maulana Waris Mazhari,

(Translated from Urdu by Yoginder Sikand)

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Census: Jamiat concerned at non-inclusion of religion, language

Posted: 10 May 2010 04:39 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: Jamiat Ulema-I-Hind has expressed grave concern at non-inclusion of religion and language in the form for Census 2011. The move has caused serious apprehension among the minorities as they see it as a deliberate attempt to deny them their basic rights and privileges, Jamiat President Maulana Qari Sayed Mohammad Usman said.

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Kashmiri boy ready with racquet skills in international squash

Posted: 10 May 2010 04:06 AM PDT

By Aamir Nowshahri, IANS,

New Delhi : Many of his contemporaries back home in Jammu and Kashmir would be using their after-school hours preparing for stone-pelting, a regular feature in the troubled state. But Junaid Muzaffar Thoker, 12, has a different agenda on his mind - representing India at two international junior squash tournaments.

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Minority recruitment in UPA: banks lead, ministries lag

Posted: 10 May 2010 03:19 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: The recruitment of minorities in central government jobs during the Congress-led UPA Government at the centre has seen steady, small growth. While ministries and their affiliated offices have not welcomed minorities in good numbers steadily, public sector banks and other financial institutions have recruited them in higher numbers. The information was disclosed by Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid.

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Appoint high-level panel to reinvestigate all terror blasts: PFI

Posted: 10 May 2010 02:43 AM PDT

By TCN News,

Bangalore: With Rajasthan ATS exposing the involvement of Hindu extremists in Ajmer as well as some other bomb blasts, Popular Front of India (PFI) has demanded central government to appoint a high-level panel consisting of jurists, investigating officers and human rights activists to reinvestigate all blasts that took place after 1992 in different parts of the country .

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Ajmal wants India-Bangladesh border sealed permanently

Posted: 10 May 2010 02:39 AM PDT

By TCN News,

Patna: Maulana Badruddin Ajmal, Lok Sabha MP from Dhubri in Assam, has demanded complete sealing of India border with Bangladesh. In a letter to state Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, perfume baron Ajmal made this demand and others regarding relief and rehabilitation of cyclone affected people in the state and protection of Dhubri from the onslaught of the River Brahamputra.

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Women and the Tablighi Jama‘at

Posted: 10 May 2010 01:21 AM PDT

By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net,

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Overhaul investigating agencies, probe all bomb blast cases afresh: SDPI

Posted: 10 May 2010 01:13 AM PDT

By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,

Bhopal: The Social Democratic Party of India, (SDPI), has made a fervent appeal to the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram to overhaul the investigating agencies at its command and order fresh probes in all bomb blast cases all over the country. This should be done in the light of exposure of Hindu extremists' involvement in the Ajmer Dargah blasts, SDPI said.

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Head-scarf issue: parent to file case in court against principal

Posted: 10 May 2010 12:38 AM PDT

By TCN News,

Alappuzha: The father of the girl who was ousted from school for wearing the head-scarf will file a case against the school principal in the court today. Naseer Musliyar, father of Nabala who was ousted from the Believers Church English Medium School in Alappuzha, will reportedly file the case at the Alappuzha Chief Judicial Magistrate Court. The petition asks the court to direct the police to register a criminal case and make an inquiry on the matter.

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