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Sanjay Dutt hugs Modi, shakes hands
Maulana Khalid Rasheed Farangi Mahali attacked in Lucknow
Girls education mandatory: Farangi Mahal fatwa
A M P Jamaludeen appointed OSD for formation of TN Legislative Council
Bihar to get Rs. 20,000 crores in Annual Plan
11 Hindu right wing activists charged for Goa blast
Khurshid to represent India at Islamic economic forum
Maulana Noorul Huda released, police files closure report
Muslim-Hindu Relations in Jammu Province – Part 5
Advani says Muslims fare better in Gujarat
Batla House still makes front-page news in Bihar
‘Who Killed Karkare?’ provoked me to file PIL: Bihar ex-MLA
Jamia Millia offers unique language programmes
SIT chief’s integrity questioned, reconstitution demanded
Jamia Millia gets Rs 8 crore to carry out research in Nanotechnology
Mushawarat pitches for proportional electoral system
Young Muslim women fume at Deoband diktat

Posted: 17 May 2010 10:24 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,

Ahmedabad: After Amitabh Bachchan, today was the turn of Sanjay Dutt to hug and shake hands with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Bollywood star Dutt who is from a Congress family though himself close to Samajwadi Party praised Modi in high tone for the development work in the state.

On a friendly trip to Gujarat, Sanjay Dutt paid a visit to the CM's office, where he warmly hugged Modi and shook hands with him, says a news report of Zee News.

Maulana Khalid Rasheed Farangi Mahali attacked in Lucknow

Posted: 17 May 2010 10:07 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter

Lucknow: Two miscreants attacked eminent muslim cleric and Naib Imam Aishbagh Eidgah, Maulana Khalid Rasheed Farangi Mahli outside the eidgah on Monday. The incident occured as Farangi Mahli emerged from his office after offering maghrib prayers.

Girls education mandatory: Farangi Mahal fatwa

Posted: 17 May 2010 09:06 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,

Lucknow: In a fatwa issued on Monday the Darul Uloom Firangi Mahal of Lucknow has made it mandatory on all muslims to make efforts for providing education to girls. The fatwa came as a silver lining after a series of fatwas issued by Islamic seminary Darul Uloom, Deoband attracted much media attention reportedly painted as anti-women.

A M P Jamaludeen appointed OSD for formation of TN Legislative Council

Posted: 17 May 2010 07:23 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Joint Secretary A M P Jamaludeen has been appointed Officer on Special Duty to take up works for revival of the Legislative Council, the Upper House of the State Assembly, says a government order.

The appointment of OSD (Officer on Special Duty) comes in the wake of the Tamil Nadu Assembly passing a resolution for the revival of the Legislative Council and a Bill to this effect was also passed in both the Houses of Parliament.

Bihar to get Rs. 20,000 crores in Annual Plan

Posted: 17 May 2010 07:22 AM PDT

By TCN News,

Patna: Bihar will get Rs. 20,000 crores from the Centre for its Annual Plan for the year 2010-11. The plan size was approved today at a meeting between the Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar. Bihar CM said that during current financial year social sector will get priority in plan allocation with over 36 per cent fund allocation.

11 Hindu right wing activists charged for Goa blast

Posted: 17 May 2010 06:40 AM PDT

By IANS,

Panaji : The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Monday filed charges in a court against 11 activists of a Hindu right wing organisation for the 2009 Diwali-eve blasts that killed two people in Goa's Margao town.

However, the organisation itself has been given a clean chit, its top official claimed, noting that it has not been named as conspirator.

All the 11 people named in the charge sheet are members of Sanatan Sanstha, whose members were also linked to several low-intensity explosions in Maharashtra some years back.

Khurshid to represent India at Islamic economic forum

Posted: 17 May 2010 06:37 AM PDT

By IANS,

New Delhi : Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will represent India at a global business forum in Malaysia beginning Tuesday that aims to create economic bridges between the Muslim and non-Muslim world.

The sixth World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF), being held in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, is being organised by the World Islamic Economic Forum Foundation.

Maulana Noorul Huda released, police files closure report

Posted: 17 May 2010 06:18 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,

New Delhi: The red-faced Delhi Police on May 15 filed a closure report in the case they filed against Maulana Noor-ul Huda, a cleric from Deoband who was deplaned from an Emirates flight and arrested on May 12. Community leaders had condemned the cleric's arrest on a weak suspicion and demanded the government to release him immediately.

Muslim-Hindu Relations in Jammu Province – Part 5

Posted: 17 May 2010 05:36 AM PDT

By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net,

Full Series: Muslim-Hindu Relations in Jammu Province

Z is a Shi'a Muslim and works in a government department in Jammu. He tells me about the small Shi'a community in the town, which comprises of some 40-odd families. Most of them are Kashmiris and Ladakhis, there being very few local Shi'as.

Advani says Muslims fare better in Gujarat

Posted: 17 May 2010 04:53 AM PDT

By IANS,

New Delhi : Muslims fare better in Chief Minister Narendra Modi's Gujarat, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani said Monday, citing Justice Rajinder Sachar's report on minorities.

"In setting up the Sachar committee, the government had its own objectives. But going through the comparative statistics compiled by the committee, I feel Gujarat should be grateful to Justice Sachar for proving convincingly that under Narendra Modi's regime, Muslims are far better off than their compatriots in other states," Advani said in the latest post on his blog.

Batla House still makes front-page news in Bihar

Posted: 17 May 2010 04:36 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,

Patna: The Muslim community and their leaders have not forgotten the Batla House encounter. Urdu media knows it, not only in Delhi but also in other states like Bihar, and when there is any development on the issue or even fresh statement for probe into the incident, the news generally takes front-page space.

‘Who Killed Karkare?’ provoked me to file PIL: Bihar ex-MLA

Posted: 17 May 2010 04:03 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,

Patna: Notwithstanding the low coverage or blackout by the mainstream media of the book Who Killed Karkare?, it has reached far and wide. It was this book that influenced a Bihar politician so much so that he moved the Supreme Court for a fresh probe into the killing of the then Maharashtra ATS Chief Hemant Karkare during 26/11.

Jamia Millia offers unique language programmes

Posted: 17 May 2010 03:55 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia offers quite a few interesting options to students interested in pursuing foreign language courses. Apart from offering options such as French, Arabic, Spanish and many others, the University also offers quite a few unique options such as Pashto, Turkish, Uzbek, Kazakhi, and Kyrgyz among others.

SIT chief’s integrity questioned, reconstitution demanded

Posted: 17 May 2010 03:54 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,

Ahmedabad: Reconstitution of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team probing Gujarat riots of 2002 has been demanded citing the facts that put the integrity of the SIT chief under cloud. The demand of reconstitution has come when SIT is in the final stages of submitting its report.

Jamia Millia gets Rs 8 crore to carry out research in Nanotechnology

Posted: 17 May 2010 12:50 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: The Central Government has sanctioned more than Rs 8 crore for Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) to carry out advanced research in the field of Nanotechnology/Nano-sciences. The grant has been given by the Department of Information Technology, Government of Indi.

Mushawarat pitches for proportional electoral system

Posted: 17 May 2010 12:38 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: Feeling that the present electoral system in India is "inherently anti-minority and reduces the representation of all minority groups in the legislatures and gives it a majoritarian dominance, All India Muslim Majlise Mushawarat has pitched for proportional electoral system. AIMMM has also demanded reform in the electoral system.

Young Muslim women fume at Deoband diktat

Posted: 16 May 2010 11:16 PM PDT

By Sarwar Kashani, IANS,

New Delhi : Many young Muslim women have reacted sharply to the Deoband seminary's fiat on women and men working together in offices, saying it's high time clerics started looking at real issues plaguing the community such as economic backwardness.

"I don't understand what makes them think it is possible to stop women from working," Farzana Tasneem, a 20-year-old jeans-clad girl who works at a call centre, told IANS.