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- Government to implement more minority welfare schemes
- Aligarh university ties up with American varsity
- AMU Academic Council approves courses for Malappuram centres
- Muslim Unity Front demands removal of IOA chief Kalmadi
- Radhakant Yadav – the lone campaigner of Karkare killing probe
- Minority Ministry to launch 4 new schemes
- Madhya Pradesh to appeal against Bhopal verdict
- Nitish to accord Modi ‘state guest’ status during BJP meet
- Include expatriates in Census: PFI
- CPM's anti-minority move will have serious consequences: MP Veerendrakumar
- Progress losing identity a sheer loss: Gujarat GIO President Saliha Malik
- Telangana: Muslim Forum appears before Srikrishna panel
- BJP weeps for Bhopal victims but accepts donation from Dow Chemicals
- Kashmiri separatists reject PM's talks offer
- What is true Religion
| Government to implement more minority welfare schemes Posted: 09 Jun 2010 09:46 AM PDT By IANS, New Delhi : The central government Wednesday said it would implement four more schemes for the welfare of minorities this financial year after an allocation of Rs.11 crore was made in the budget of 2010-11 for the new plans. These include strengthening of the state waqf boards, interest subsidy on educational loans for overseas studies, promotional activities for linguistic minorities, and a scheme for containing population decline of small minority community. Waqf boards are panels that look after Muslim property.
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| Aligarh university ties up with American varsity Posted: 09 Jun 2010 09:09 AM PDT By IANS, Lucknow : The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the University of North Carolina (UNC) in the US for research and academic exchange, an official said. "The agreement aims to promote exchange of information and material that are of mutual interest of the two premier institutions. The MoU would facilitate exchange of academic, administrative, research staff and visits of scholars and students," AMU's assistant public relations officer Zeeshan Ahmad told reporters in Aligarh, some 300 km from Lucknow.
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| AMU Academic Council approves courses for Malappuram centres Posted: 09 Jun 2010 07:47 AM PDT By TCN News, Aligarh: Within 48 hours after the Kerala High Court stayed admissions for a month at Aligarh Muslim University's Malappuram centre, the AMU Academic Council, in a special meeting today, approved the recommendations for starting BALLB and MBA courses at the Centres of Murshidabad (West Bengal) and Malappuram (Kerala) for the Session 2010-2011. The courses were recommended by the Board of Studies of the Department of Law and Department of Business Administration respectively.
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| Muslim Unity Front demands removal of IOA chief Kalmadi Posted: 09 Jun 2010 07:45 AM PDT By TCN News, New Delhi: The All India Muslim Unity Front has demanded immediate removal of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Chief Suresh Kalmadi in view of the "forced resignation of Mr. Nachiketa Kapur as deputy director general (DDG) protocol and Media in the Organising Committee of the Commonwealth Games and his association with anti national elements."
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| Radhakant Yadav – the lone campaigner of Karkare killing probe Posted: 09 Jun 2010 05:42 AM PDT By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, Frail but agile is 77-year-old Radhakant Yadav. The blood in the weak Lohiaite body is still hot. Behind Hemant Karkare's killing, he sees the forces that are active for racial supremacy on this land for five thousand years. Karkare was killed because he was exposing the nefarious design of Hindu fundamentalist groups, says 3-time MLA from Madhepura constituency in Bihar, in an exclusive interview with Mumtaz Alam Falahi of TwoCircles.net.
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| Minority Ministry to launch 4 new schemes Posted: 09 Jun 2010 05:11 AM PDT By TCN News, New Delhi: The Ministry of Minority Affairs will be implementing four new schemes for the welfare of Minorities during the current financial year 2010-11. They include strengthening of State Waqf Boards and Interest subsidy on educational loans for overseas studies for minority students. A budgetary provision of Rs. 11 crore has been made in the budget of 2010-11 for the new schemes. Other two schemes are Promotional activities for Linguistic Minorities and scheme for containing population decline of small minority community.
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| Madhya Pradesh to appeal against Bhopal verdict Posted: 09 Jun 2010 02:46 AM PDT By IANS, Bhopal : Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said Wednesday that the government will file an appeal in the high court seeking enhancement of the punishment awarded to seven convicts in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. A five-member committee of legal experts is being constituted to study the verdict before going in for the appeal, he told reporters. "Since the verdict is disappointing, we have decided to file an appeal to get justice for the victims and to get the sentence of the convicts increased," Chouhan said.
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| Nitish to accord Modi ‘state guest’ status during BJP meet Posted: 09 Jun 2010 02:31 AM PDT By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, Patna: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will be the state guest of Bihar when he will be visiting the state capital Patna to attend the Bharatiya Janata Party national executive meeting to be held on June 12 and 13. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's decision may be seen as a shift in his thinking though he has always tried to distance himself from Modi. While Nitish says the BJP executive meeting is their "internal affair" he has decided to accord the status of state guest to Modi along with L K Advani.
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| Include expatriates in Census: PFI Posted: 09 Jun 2010 02:24 AM PDT By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent, Kozhikode: All expatriates should be included in the census of population, demanded the Popular Front of India. The list of houses and the National Population Register (NPR) will be made this year and collecting details from every house will take place in February 2011. The NPR is the base for Unified Identity Card (UID) which is an indirect method of proving citizenship. The current situation is that the expatriates who left the country to make a living are risking their very citizenships.
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| CPM's anti-minority move will have serious consequences: MP Veerendrakumar Posted: 09 Jun 2010 02:04 AM PDT By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent Kozhikode: The CPI (M) efforts to appease the majority community by making anti-minority moves will have serious consequences, said MP Veerendrakumar. He added that the CPI (M) was following such policies in order to escape from the political truth that the party had gone far away from people.
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| Progress losing identity a sheer loss: Gujarat GIO President Saliha Malik Posted: 09 Jun 2010 12:41 AM PDT |
| Telangana: Muslim Forum appears before Srikrishna panel Posted: 09 Jun 2010 12:36 AM PDT By TCN News, Hyderabad: As part of its exercise to hear all stakeholders of Telangana, the Central government-formed Srikrishna Committee yesterday heard the Muslim Forum for Telangana. Responding to the Committee's main question about benefit to the Muslim community if Telangana is formed, the Forum submitted a detailed report. The Forum said that as Muslims' population will higher in Telangana as compared to that in present Andhra, the community will benefit in every field.
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| BJP weeps for Bhopal victims but accepts donation from Dow Chemicals Posted: 08 Jun 2010 11:54 PM PDT By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, Patna: Apparently Bharatiya Janata Party is weeping for the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy, but the party, many do not know, accepted donations from Dow Chemicals Company which owns all assets and liabilities including the killer pesticide plant of Union Carbide India Ltd. Dow Chemicals bought Union Carbide in 2001.
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| Kashmiri separatists reject PM's talks offer Posted: 08 Jun 2010 10:37 PM PDT By IANS, Srinagar : Both groups of the separatist Hurriyat Conference as also the Muzaffarabad-based militant conglomerate, United Jihad Council, Tuesday rejected the dialogue offer of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. During his two-day visit to Kashmir, the prime minister renewed his offer of dialogue to all those groups who shun violence in Jammu and Kashmir.
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