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AMU organized science refresher course for madrasa teachers
MANUU Lucknow campus starts the admission process
Jamia invites applications for Civil Services exam coaching
Muslim candidates win 31 of 146 wards in Malda, Murshidabad
Lok Sabha Budget Session Report Card: Owaisi hits century
Kaiser new Congress chief in Bihar
Rizwanur's brother rejected by voters
Recommendation for more plus two seats in Malabar
66-year-old Jabbar Husen fails in Class 10 boards for 45th time
Christian, Muslim communalism increasing in Kerala: Chief Minister
West Bengal civic polls: Mamata sweeps Kolkata, leads state
Azam Khan’s entry into SP appears imminent
Projecting retrograde fatwas: Reinforcing stereotypes
Attack on Freedom Flotilla- Come on Obama, earn your Nobel!
Without minority status, whom AMU off-campuses are going to serve?
University of Kashmir signs MOU with Iran Culture House

AMU organized science refresher course for madrasa teachers

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 09:23 AM PDT

By TCN News

Aligarh: The Centre for Promotion of Science (CPS), Aligarh Muslim University organized a Refresher Course in Science Subjects for teachers from Muslim Managed Educational Institutions and an Introductory Science Course for teachers from madrasas.

MANUU Lucknow campus starts the admission process

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 08:42 AM PDT

By TCN News

Hyderabad : Maulana Azad National Urdu University which has been awarded "A" grade from NAAC last year, has started the admission process for regular courses with the commencement of sale of applications at its Lucknow Campus.

Jamia invites applications for Civil Services exam coaching

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 06:27 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: The Centre for Coaching and Career Planning, Jamia Millia Islamia has invited applications for free coaching for Civil Services (Mains) 2010 Examinations from the students who belong to Minorities, OBCs, SCs and STs and wish to appear in the Civil Services Examinations 2010. Applications must reach Jamia by June 4.

Muslim candidates win 31 of 146 wards in Malda, Murshidabad

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:54 AM PDT

By TCN News,

Patna: Highly Muslim dominated Malda and Murshidabad districts in West Bengal could elect only 31 Muslims together in 146 wards that went to poll on May 30. The results of 81 municipalities of West Bengal were announced today. Trinamool Congress has won 33 municipalities while the Left Front only 18. Congress got only 7.

Lok Sabha Budget Session Report Card: Owaisi hits century

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 03:55 AM PDT

By TCN News,

Congratulations, Mr Asaduddin Owaisi on making a century of questions on the floor of the Lok Sabha during February-May Budget Session 2010. Perhaps this is the first time that a Muslim parliamentarian has asked more than 100 questions in a single session. Well done, Hyderabad MP of Majlise Ittehadul Muslimeen. Third time in a row Owaisi leads Muslim MPs in the report card of floor performance exclusively presented by TCN.

Kaiser new Congress chief in Bihar

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 03:29 AM PDT

By IANS,

New Delhi : Effecting top-level changes in its faction-ridden Bihar unit before assembly polls this year, the Congress Wednesday named Mehboob Ali Kaiser as the new state party chief.

Kaiser, secretary of the All India Congress Committee, has been appointed president of the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee in place of Anil Kumar Sharma, Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said in a statement.

Rizwanur's brother rejected by voters

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 02:28 AM PDT

By IANS,

Kolkata : Even as the Trinamool Congress swept the Kolkata municipal polls, one of its star candidates, Rukbanur Rahman - brother of Rizwanur whose mysterious death shocked the city - was defeated.

Javed Khan, a Trinamool legislator and one of the party's mayoral candidates, also lost to a lesser known candidate.

Rukbanur, in the forefront of the campaign to bring to justice those responsible for the 30-year-old computer graphics teacher's death, lost to Revolutionary Socialist Party's Sushil Kumar Sharma.

Recommendation for more plus two seats in Malabar

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 01:15 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,

Thiruvananthapuram: The Left Democratic Front yesterday recommended to the government to allot more seats and schools for plus two in the Malabar area. The recommendation was made after a meeting of the LDF, considering the unavailability of higher education options in relation with the increase in the success percentage of the SSLC (10th standard). The meeting requested the government to allot more batches of plus one in the existing schools, said Vaikom Visvan, the LDF Convener.

66-year-old Jabbar Husen fails in Class 10 boards for 45th time

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 12:08 AM PDT

By IANS,

Lucknow : It was 45th time unlucky for 66-year-old Jabbar Husen from an Uttar Pradesh village who has failed his Class 10 exams again this year -- but the never-say-die grocer is determined try and try again till he succeeds in clearing the exam.

Husen, who owns a grocery store in Fatehpur district's Bindki village, about 200 km from here, could not clear three of the six papers in Class 10. Results of the Class 10 Uttar Pradesh board were announced Tuesday.

Christian, Muslim communalism increasing in Kerala: Chief Minister

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 11:42 PM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,

Thiruvananthapuram: Christian and Muslim communalism is growing in Kerala and it is hard to control, said the state Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan. The Opposition leader maintains they are a secular party but there is Christian-Muslim communalism under their curtain of secularism, he said at the face-to-face programme organized by the Kesari Memorial Trust.

West Bengal civic polls: Mamata sweeps Kolkata, leads state

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 11:32 PM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,

Kolkata: Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee is leading in the West Bengal civic bodies polls. Her party has swept the Kolkata Municipal Corporation with 97 seats leaving ruling Left Front much behind at 33. Counting of votes for 81 civic bodies in the state began this morning. Elections were held on May 30.

Azam Khan’s entry into SP appears imminent

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 10:04 PM PDT

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter

Lucknow: Entry of expelled Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan into partyfold appears imminent with party leaders gearing up for the moment. The final decision now rests with the SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav who is also reported to be inclined towards readmitting his old friend and colleague in party fold.

Projecting retrograde fatwas: Reinforcing stereotypes

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 10:00 PM PDT

By Ram Puniyani,

The Islamic seminaries issue fatwas by the dozen, day in and day out. It is only on few occasions that these get media publicity, and the quantum of media publicity is also not uniform. Some fatwas are really projected very much hogging all the lime light ; some others are hidden on the back pages in small column centimeters while few others never taken note of. Which are these one's where media interest and curiosity is maximum? This is the question which media pundits can introspect and debate but few observations are in order.

Attack on Freedom Flotilla- Come on Obama, earn your Nobel!

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 09:40 PM PDT

By Dr. Shah Alam Khan,

When President Barrack Obama was declared the winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace 2009, there were mixed responses from the International and US communities. The blacks were ecstatic, the whites sighed, and the browns like me only hoped that the Nobel laureate Obama would usher in change in a world where his country is seen more of a tormentor than anything else.

Without minority status, whom AMU off-campuses are going to serve?

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 09:22 PM PDT

By Shahidur Rashid Talukdar for TwoCircles.net

AMU Vice Chancellor Prof. PK Abdul Azis's claim that "setting up of five Centers across the nation will transform the fate of excluded minority from development deficit to a life of dignified existence" does not seem very well-founded. In order to expect a great deal from these satellite campuses on behalf of the marginalized Muslim community one first needs to know the nature of those campuses.

University of Kashmir signs MOU with Iran Culture House

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 08:48 PM PDT

By AIP Bureau

Srinagar: One day International seminar to deliberate on life and works of Syed Abul Hassan Hafizian , a Sufi Saint in Kashmir was organized on Tuesday by Department of Persian, University of Kashmir in collaboration with Iran Culture House, New Delhi. The event marked the commencement of silver jubilee celebrations of the PG Department of Persian of the Varsity.