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Kashmir rights panel chief to probe Sopore firing
Present Bihar Assembly has lowest Muslim representation in 60 years
HWF releases report card for Jan-May 2010
Muslim United Front demands roll back of price hike on petroleum products
Curfew in Sopore, separatist shutdown in Srinagar
Riot accused gets more time to reply to lawyer's charge
Nanavati panel's stand June 30 on summoning Modi

Kashmir rights panel chief to probe Sopore firing

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 09:44 AM PDT

By IANS,

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government Saturday appointed state human rights commission chief Justice (retd) Syed Bashir-ud-Din to conduct an enquiry into Friday's firing incident in Sopore in which two youth were killed.

Present Bihar Assembly has lowest Muslim representation in 60 years

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 06:48 AM PDT

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

Patna: The current 14th Bihar Legislative Assembly has the lowest number of Muslim Members since Independence. Since the first state assembly poll held in 1952 in Bihar the present assembly – for which elections were held in 2005 which saw victory of JD-U and BJP combine – is the first in last 60 years to witness the lowest Muslim representation.

HWF releases report card for Jan-May 2010

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 03:36 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Writer,

New Delhi: Impressive – the word will sum up the report card of activities in January-May 2010 of Delhi-based Human Welfare Foundation to uplift the Muslim community in the country. During the period HWF opened Vision Institute of Technology, conducted two mass marriages and adopted a blind family who had sought permission for mercy killing, and did a lot more.

Muslim United Front demands roll back of price hike on petroleum products

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 01:04 AM PDT

By TCN News,

Patna: Describing the Friday night hike in prices for petroleum products including kerosene and cooking gas as a cruel joke with the poor already burdened with inflation, Muslim United Front president Abu Qaisar demanded the Union Government to roll back the hike. "In the interest of common people, the centre should withdraw the price hike," Qaisar said.

Curfew in Sopore, separatist shutdown in Srinagar

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 12:57 AM PDT

By IANS,

Srinagar: Curfew continued Saturday in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore town, a day after the killing of two youths by security forces led to violence, while life in Srinagar was affected by a separatist shutdown.

"Curfew continues in Sopore but the situation there is peaceful," a police officer said here.

However, there were reports of protesters defying curfew and pelting stones at a few places in Sopore, some 55 km from here.

Riot accused gets more time to reply to lawyer's charge

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 12:44 AM PDT

By IANS,

Ahmedabad: A special court here Friday granted Babu Bajrangi, an alleged conspirator of the 2002 communal riots at Naroda Patiya, time till June 29 to file his reply to a lawyer's plea seeking cancellation of his bail for threatening him.

Advocate R.A. Sheikh, who represents a few victims of the massacre case, alleged that Bajrangi last Friday threatened him of dire consequences for raising his voice against him.

Nanavati panel's stand June 30 on summoning Modi

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 12:41 AM PDT

By IANS,

Gandhinagar: The suspense on the stand of the Nanavati-Mehta judicial inquiry commission, probing the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat, on summoning Chief Minister Narendra Modi for questioning will continue till June 30.

The state government pleader Friday submitted a sealed cover to Gujarat High Court's special bench of Chief Justice S.J.Mukhopadhyaya and Justice Akil Kureshi containing the commission's stand on the Jan Sangharsh Manch's demand for summoning Modi. The envelope shall be opened in court June 30.