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Personnel wanted for Muslim women project in Karnataka
Cow in contemporary political chessboard
Omar for dialogue with all sections in Kashmir
Muslim leaders condemn the attack on Kerala academician
JD-U, BJP activists clash over Modi posters
Rahmani Foundation conducts interview for CA course
SDPI protests against fuel price hike
Secularisation of Jamaat-e-Islami and the ghost of Abul ala Maududi
Attack on professor of the question paper controversy; leaders condemn act
Jama Masjid bomb hoax caller and media bias
Zeeshan Ali: first Muslim girl from Bihar to win Fulbright Fellowship
Kashmir Valley under curfew, restrictions
Kabir: An icon of a socio-cultural revolution

Personnel wanted for Muslim women project in Karnataka

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 09:02 AM PDT

By TCN News,

Bangalore: The Foundation for Educational Innovations in Asia (Fedina), an NGO based in the Karnataka capital, is looking for women personnel for a Muslim women-centric project in the South India state. The project has two aims – alleviation of poverty among Muslims and development of community women leadership.

Under the project initially, Fedina will organize seminars on the Sachar Committee report and housing for women-headed households. The group will work to unionise agarbathi and beedi workers.

Cow in contemporary political chessboard

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 07:51 AM PDT

By Ram Puniyani,

Omar for dialogue with all sections in Kashmir

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 07:41 AM PDT

By IANS,

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Monday asked the central government to start a dialogue with "different shades of opinion" in the state for which he is ready to act as a facilitator.

Speaking at a function in north Kashmir's Baramulla town, Abdullah said: "The time has come to go to the root of the problem in Kashmir and address it with all sincerity."

Muslim leaders condemn the attack on Kerala academician

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 04:52 AM PDT

By Milli Gazette,

New Delhi: We strongly condemn yesterday's violent attack and chopping off of the hand of Mr T. J. Joseph, a lecturer in Ernakulam District of Kerala by some miscreants on the pretext of taking revenge for Joseph's act of blasphemy.

We feel that law was taking its due course against the said lecturer for his misdeed and he was already suspended from his college for a year due to his insult to the Prophet of Islam by replacing the word "madman" in a quote with that of "Muhammad" while preparing an exam paper for the students of his college.

JD-U, BJP activists clash over Modi posters

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 04:18 AM PDT

By IANS,

Patna: Workers of the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and its ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday clashed in Bhagalpur and Patna over posters of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi during a strike organised against the hike in fuel prices.

In the communally sensitive Bhagalpur, a clash broke out after JD-U activists objected to BJP activists carrying Modi's posters, police said. The JD-U workers tried to tear the posters that led to the clash.

Rahmani Foundation conducts interview for CA course

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 03:49 AM PDT

By TCN News,

Patna: Rahmani Foundation conducted on 4th July an interview for final selection of candidates for its newly launched Chartered Accountancy course. The interview was for 63 candidates from Bihar and Jharkhand who have cleared the written test held on 27th June.

Out of 63, 58 candidates appeared in the interview held at Maulana Azad Engineering College, Anisabad in Patna.

SDPI protests against fuel price hike

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 02:13 AM PDT

By TCN News,

Chennai: The Social Democratic Party of India yesterday conducted state-wide protest in Tamil Nadu against the hike in the price of fuel and related products. The SDPI demanded roll back of the hike, saying the hike will affect the life of common people across the country.

SDPI took out protest march in several districts. The Chennai unit of SDPI also took out a massive protest rally.

Secularisation of Jamaat-e-Islami and the ghost of Abul ala Maududi

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 01:59 AM PDT

By R. Santhosh,

Attack on professor of the question paper controversy; leaders condemn act

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 01:25 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,

Kochi: The college professor who was recently in news by the controversial question paper insulting Prophet Muhammed was last day attacked by a group of people at his hometown in Moovattupuzha. His right hand was chopped off by the attackers while Professor TJ Joseph was returning home from the church on Sunday morning. The police have reportedly arrested some people in connection with the incident. The severed hand was successfully knit together in a long surgery that ended today early morning.

Jama Masjid bomb hoax caller and media bias

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 12:25 AM PDT

By Sohail Arshad,

On Saturday, almost all Urdu newspapers published from New Delhi carried a report on the arrest of a youth named Vishal hailing from Muzaffarnagar after he made two calls from his mobile phone to the police control room claiming that he had placed a bomb at the Gate No. 2 of Delhi's Jama Masjid. The news was missing in English dailies. Is it because the bomb hoax caller was Vishal and his target Jama Masjid? What would they have done if he were Vilayat Ali and target Janki Mandir?

Zeeshan Ali: first Muslim girl from Bihar to win Fulbright Fellowship

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 11:34 PM PDT

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

Patna: Bringing laurel to Bihar and her community, Zeeshan Ali has won Fulbright Fellowship from the United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF). She will be the first Muslim girl from Bihar to have been awarded the prestigious fellowship.

"I was quite surprised when the news was broken on me. I really feel honored. I am happy beyond bounds," says Zeeshan, Patna University Ph.D. student, talking to TwoCircles.net.

Zeeshan Ali

Kashmir Valley under curfew, restrictions

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 10:54 PM PDT

By IANS,

Srinagar: Most parts of the Kashmir Valley were Monday under curfew or strict restrictions to scuttle a separatist march to Anantnag town to protest the recent killing of three teenagers there.

Police vehicles fitted with loudspeakers made announcements in various localities late Sunday, asking residents to stay indoors as curfew had been imposed in the summer capital.

Authorities moved heavy police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) reinforcements into the Old City and uptown areas early Monday to enforce curfew restrictions.

Kabir: An icon of a socio-cultural revolution

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 11:45 AM PDT

By Balraj Puri

Kabir's 612th Prakash utsava was celebrated throughout north India on June 26.

He belonged to a galaxy of saints who led a socio-cultural revolution in 16th century which laid the foundation of a unique composite culture of India. It included Bhakti movement of Hindu saints and Muslim saints who influenced one another.