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Kashmiris hold protest in Delhi
Shah grilled by CBI throughout Saturday
No violence in Kashmir, curfew partially lifted
Muslims, Christians need to work together for their uplift: ZFI
Centre to open vocational schools in districts of small industries
Army, IAF bring succour to devastated Leh
Love of Urdu or love for Muslim votes?
Farooque Mapkar: Story of a lone fighter
TMMK, AIADMK may form alliance to take on DMK
Youth Succumbs to Injuries, Army jeep falls into Chenab in J&K
Leh flash floods: 115 killed, Relief team arrived
Centre to upgrade Regional Centres of IIMC
Fuel & Engine
A look into how wakf trusts connive with looters
CPI-M supports 'maximum autonomy' for Kashmir
Geelani rejects talks offer, Mirwaiz silent
Kashmir: Peaceful protests continues, 5 wounded in Sopore
80 dead, over 300 injured in Leh flash floods

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 09:54 AM PDT

By IANS,

New Delhi: Kashmiri students and professionals living in Delhi Saturday took out a rally here to protest the human rights violations back home.

Hundreds of Kashmiris assembled at the Jantar Mantar and demanded a political solution to the Kashmir issue, rather than "a military one".

Among the other demands put forth were the demilitarisation of Kashmir, the repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers Act), the release of all political prisoners and a dialogue with Kashmiri leaders.

Shah grilled by CBI throughout Saturday

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 09:22 AM PDT

By IANS,

Gandhinagar: Gujarat's former minister of state for home Amit Shah was grilled throughout Saturday by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials probing the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake shootout case. The questioning is expected to continue late in the night.

According to CBI sources, Shah's interrogation would continue late in the night and might be resumed again Sunday. His two advocates, Mitesh Amin and Yatin Oza, have been permitted to be in visual distance though not in hearing distance during the questioning.

No violence in Kashmir, curfew partially lifted

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 08:24 AM PDT

By IANS,

Srinagar: No major incident of violence was reported from anywhere in the Kashmir Valley Saturday and authorities lifted curfew from parts of Srinagar and three major towns. Another injured youth succumbed to his injuries, taking to 49 the toll in the violence since June 11.

Residents in curfew-bound areas complained of acute shortages of essential commodities, while fuel supplies to the Valley remained suspended for the fifth day Saturday as the oil tankers association refused to bring in fuel supplies from Jammu.

Muslims, Christians need to work together for their uplift: ZFI

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 07:39 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: "Due to exclusion from the list of Scheduled Castes many Muslims and Christians are deprived of their basic rights in India. So, there is a need to work together for the uplift of the two communities," said Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood, president of Zakat Foundation of India.

Dr. Syed Zafar Mahmood in centre

Centre to open vocational schools in districts of small industries

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 07:03 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,

New Delhi: By 2011, the Union Ministry of HRD will establish National Vocational Education Framework (NVEF). NVEF will target those youths who, because of financial constraints, cannot study and are compelled to work in small scale industries like those of glass, bangles, zari, silk, candles and others.

According to HRD minister Kapil Sibal, NVEF is aimed at getting Muslim children and youth, who constitute a huge chunk of labor force in these industries, enrolled in NVEF schools.

Army, IAF bring succour to devastated Leh

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 05:57 AM PDT

By IANS,

New Delhi/Leh: Six Indian Air Force (IAF) planes landed Saturday in devastated Leh town in Jammu and Kashmir's Ladakh region with men and material to carry out rescue and relief operations after flash floods triggered by a massive cloudburst killed 120 people.

The Indian Army has also activated its disaster management cell for rescue operations on a war footing since the tragedy hit the cold desert mountainous region located at an altitude of 3,505 metres.

Love of Urdu or love for Muslim votes?

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 05:35 AM PDT

By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,

New Delhi: Jis ahd-e-siyasat ne yeh zinda zabaan kuchli/Us ahd-e-siyasat ko marhoomo'n ka ghum kyun ho, Ghalib jise kahte hain Urdu hi ka shaer tha/Urdu pe sitam dha kar Ghalib pe karam kyun ho.

These famous lines by late Sahir Ludhyanvi who read this poem titled as "jashn-e-Ghalib" in Government sponsored Ghalib Centenary (100th death anniversary) Mushaira way back in 1969, aptly describe the systematic and sustained political apathy of Urdu by the Indian political class since last many decades.

Farooque Mapkar: Story of a lone fighter

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 05:09 AM PDT

By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net,

Mumbai: He was shot, jailed, charged with rioting, declared absconder but Farooque Ahmed Mohammed Kasim Mapkar never gave up and finally he got last week what he had been fighting for since 1993 – a ray of hope for justice in Hari Masjid police firing case during Bombay riots.

TMMK, AIADMK may form alliance to take on DMK

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 04:31 AM PDT

By Shafee Ahmed Ko, TwoCircles.net,

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhgam (TMMK) and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhaga (AIADMK) of former chief minister J. Jayalalithaa are coming closer in a bid to form an alliance to take on the ruling Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) in the assembly elections in 2011.

Youth Succumbs to Injuries, Army jeep falls into Chenab in J&K

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 02:56 AM PDT

By Agence India Press,

Srinagar: A 22-year, Rameez Ahmad Rishi, who got seriously injured in security force firing in Sopore town on Friday, succumbed to his injuries on Saturday. The death toll in Kashmir violence since June 11 reached 49.

Rishi had sustained a bullet injury and doctors at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, (SKIMS) said he could not be revived despite their best efforts, Dr. Tabish told Agence India Press.

Leh flash floods: 115 killed, Relief team arrived

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 02:54 AM PDT

By Shiva Duangmee,Agence India Press,

Leh: The series of cloudbursts that hit Leh late on Thursday, August 5 night has claimed over 115 lives and wounded more than 350 people and over 400 people are still missing, among them are 31 soldiers, after flash floods hit Leh in Ladakh on, August 6.

In the morning weather has improved and planes have started landing at the airport here carrying the disaster management team with doctors, medicine and other relief materials in the Indian Air Force flights on Saturday.

Centre to upgrade Regional Centres of IIMC

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 02:40 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: The Central Government will provide funds under 12th Five Year Plan to establish full-fledged facilities at the four Regional Centres of country's prestigious Indian Institute of Mass Communication in J&K, Kerala, Maharashtra and Mizoram.

Fuel & Engine

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 02:26 AM PDT

By Dr Wasim Ahmad,

A look into how wakf trusts connive with looters

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 12:20 AM PDT

[Part 4 of Special Series on waqf properties in Maharashtra]

By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net,

Mumbai: Mumbai has a unique distinction of having the highest rate of properties in India, so is the case with its wakf properties which are in thousands of acres, encroached by government, semi-government agencies and individual Muslims and Non-Muslims – whoever got chance to lay hand on them.

CPI-M supports 'maximum autonomy' for Kashmir

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 11:56 PM PDT

By IANS,

Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh): The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Saturday said the central government had failed to solve the Kashmir issue and supported "maximum autonomy" for the troubled state as its problems "can't be resolved through conventional means".

In his inaugural speech at the CPI-M's four-day central committee meeting in this Andhra Pradesh city, party general secretary Prakash Karat made a specific reference to Kashmir and said the central government has failed to solve the issue and tide over the alienation of Kashmiri youth.

Geelani rejects talks offer, Mirwaiz silent

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 11:22 PM PDT

By IANS,

Srinagar: The offer of "quiet dialogue" by union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has not gone down too well with separatist leaders in Jammu and Kashmir with hardline leader Syed Ali Geelani rejecting it saying it was an attempt to "discredit him" as he had not softened his stand.

Kashmir: Peaceful protests continues, 5 wounded in Sopore

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 09:47 PM PDT

By Sheikh Imran Bashir,Agence India Press,

Srinagar: After seven days of consistent news of deaths and violence, the Kashmir Valley on Friday witnessed less-violent protests amid rains and strict imposition of curfew. One youth was, however, critically injured in security forces' action in north Kashmir.

Five people were injured, one of them critically, in clashes with security forces across Kashmir Valley Friday as protesters again defied curfew and came out on the streets.

80 dead, over 300 injured in Leh flash floods

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 09:46 PM PDT

By Shiva Duangmee, Agence India Press,

Leh: At least 80 people have been killed and 300 injured while as many more are missing after flash floods hit Leh in Ladakh. Reports said a number of people were killed and many injured in a massive cloudburst on Thursday night.

59 bodies have been recovered from the flooded areas, J&K Director General of Police Kuldeep Khoda said. Among the dead were three jawans of the Army Service Corps.

"At least 200 people are in the army hospital with injuries. And many more people are trapped under houses and buildings that have collapsed," he said.