Thursday, May 20, 2010

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Court refuses to revive Babri case against Advani

Posted: 20 May 2010 10:49 AM PDT

By IANS

Lucknow: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani and 20 others got a reprieve Thursday with the Allahabad High Court rejecting a plea to revive criminal cases against them in the 18-year-old Babri Mosque demolition case.

The Lucknow bench of the court dismissed a plea of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to revive criminal cases against the accused.

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Delhi serial blasts accused given copy charge-sheet

Posted: 20 May 2010 10:46 AM PDT

By IANS

New Delhi: A city court Thursday handed over a copy of the charge sheet to the two suspected terrorists accused of involvement in the 2008 Delhi serial blasts.

Delhi police filed the charge sheet against Salman Ahmed and Mohammad Shahzad May 15.

The defence will give its reply on the charges to Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja May 24.

Baweja May 5 allowed police 10 days' time to file a charge sheet against Shahzad and Salman, arrested in February and March this year respectively.

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Two die in Ladakh avalanche, army rescues 73

Posted: 20 May 2010 10:44 AM PDT

By IANS

New Delhi: An Indian Army team rescued 73 civilians trapped under an avalanche in Ladakh on Tuesday in which two people died under mounds of snow, including a tourist from Bangalore, an official said here Thursday.

An army spokesperson said 75 civilians and many vehicles were trapped under the avalanche Tuesday when a landslide struck near Changla top, the third highest pass in the world at 17,350 ft height.

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Haj Pilgrimage in utter chaos in U.P., minister blames union government

Posted: 20 May 2010 08:50 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter

Lucknow: The utter chaos prevalent during the qurrah(lottery) on Thursday for Haj pilgrimage-2010 gave ample proof that the devotional journey will not be a smooth affair for the hajis of Uttar Pradesh.


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SPO Ismail Khan took on Maoists, saved many lives in Dantewada

Posted: 20 May 2010 07:20 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: Special Police Officer Ismail Khan is recovering in Dantewada hospital. He is one of the survivors of the Monday brutal attack by Maoists in Dantewada, in which 36 people, including 12 Special Police Officers (SPOs), were killed when the bus carrying them was blown up.

The toll could have been much higher as more than 75 people were traveling in the public bus had Ismail Khan not acted bravely.

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Muslims most backward in education: NSSO survey

Posted: 20 May 2010 06:42 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: After Sachar Committee, now National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), a central government body, has confirmed that India's largest religious minority is the most backward community on the educational front. Muslims' ratio in higher education is lower than even Scheduled Tribes (STs), considered most backward.

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Separate law needed for Islamic banking in India: RBI

Posted: 20 May 2010 05:25 AM PDT

By IANS,

Thiruvananthapuram : Islamic banking in India is not possible now with the current banking principles based on interest payment, but it can be done though a separate legislation, Reserve Bank of India Governor D. Subbarao said here Thursday.

"With the present set of Banking Regulation Act, Islamic banking just cannot take place because many of the banking principles in place are based on interest payments. However, Islamic banking is possible through a separate legislation," Subbarao told reporters here at the end RBI Board meeting.

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India to observe May 21 as Anti-Terrorism Day

Posted: 20 May 2010 02:21 AM PDT

By IANS,

New Delhi : India will observe Anti-Terrorism Day Friday to mark former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination on May 21, 1991.

The home ministry said in a statement Thursday: "Anti-terrorism Day is observed to generate awareness among all sections about the danger of terrorism, violence and its dangerous effect on the people, the society and the country."

Debates and discussions will be organised in schools, colleges and universities Friday. Symposia, seminars and lectures will also take place.

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Muslim-Hindu Relations in Jammu Province – Part 8

Posted: 20 May 2010 01:09 AM PDT

By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net,

Dalit Perspectives on Religion and Inter-Community Relations

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Mumbai University Senate election: AMP appeal for alumnus enrolment

Posted: 20 May 2010 12:51 AM PDT

By TCN News,

Mumbai: The Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) has appealed to all alumnus of Mumbai University to enroll to be eligible to vote in the university's Senate Election slated for August 2010. "Participate to the fullest, put in all your efforts to ensure equal representation in the highest decision making body of the university," AMP said.

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Ban killings in the name of ‘honor’

Posted: 19 May 2010 11:58 PM PDT

By Centre For Social Research,

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Muslim students rank high at engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu

Posted: 19 May 2010 10:40 PM PDT

By V.M. Khaleelur Rahman for TwoCircles.net,

Chennai: Muslim students are among top 10 across trades at various engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu in 2009-2010. In the trade of B.E. Marine Engineering, Mohammad Naina Maricar S of Mohamed Sathak Engineering College and in B. Arch Aysha Khanam of MEASI Academy of Architecture have got top position. These colleges are attached to Anna University, Chennai.

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Sohrabuddin case: Arrested cops sent to CBI custody

Posted: 19 May 2010 08:37 PM PDT

By IANS

Gandhinagar: Jailed Deputy Superintendent of Police N.K. Amin and Inspector V.A. Rathod were Wednesday granted four days' Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody for questioning in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake gun battle case.

CBI Special Court Judge V.B. Barot also turned down Amin's request for four weeks' time to appeal against the order.

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Afzal Guru should be hanged at the earliest: Digvijay Singh

Posted: 19 May 2010 08:35 PM PDT

By IANS

New Delhi: Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh Wednesday said that Parliament House attack convict Afzal Guru should be hanged at the earliest.

"The Supreme Court has given him the punishment. It should be done at the earliest," Singh told reporters here.

Singh's views are at variance with the official stance of the Congress on the issue. The party Monday steered clear of the issue, saying that mercy petition of Afzal Guru was a matter to be decided by the president, and the central and Delhi governments.

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Hajj 2010: 5861 Hajj seats allotted to J&K

Posted: 19 May 2010 08:05 PM PDT

By AIP Bureau

Srinagar: According to Executive Officer, J&K State Hajj Committee (SHC), Srinagar, as many as 5861 Hajj seats have been allotted to J&K State by Hajj Committee of India Mumbai for Hajj 2010.

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Fourth Ittehad-e-Millat Convention in Bhopal on May 23

Posted: 19 May 2010 07:31 PM PDT

By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,

Bhopal: Keeping aside their sectarian differences and rivalries Muslim Ulema (clerics) of various sects from all over India would come on one platform for the sake of welfare of Muslim Ummah at large here in Bhopal on May 23 at Noor-us-Saba Hotel.

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