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- Mohsina Kidwai elected chairperson of Haj committee
- Forged visas, 15 months, and 22 harassed Indian engineers in Saudia
- A history of violence
- Women’s dignity must be upheld: JIH Rajasthan chief
- Women’s Reservation Bill: What it means for Muslim representation?
- Kerala under scorching heat
- Grand Mufti urges Muslim women to enter politics
- Stone pelting is un-Islamic: Kashmiri cleric
- Jamia staff to go on strike over minority status
- Bengal BJP stages blockades over price rise
- Lok Sabha adjourned for day over women's bill trouble
- Ulema Council threatens stir against cleric's arrest
- Why teach only Gita in schools: Madhya Pradesh minorities
| Mohsina Kidwai elected chairperson of Haj committee Posted: 10 Mar 2010 09:31 AM PST By IANS, New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Mohsina Kidwai was Wednesday elected chairperson of the Haj Committee of India, a government panel that makes arrangements for the Muslim pilgrimage to the holy cities of Makkah and Medina in Saudi Arabia. Hasan Ahmed and Aboo Bucker were elected vice chairmen at the meeting of the newly constituted committee, according to a statement by the ministry of external affairs. Kidwai is a Congress general secretary.
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| Forged visas, 15 months, and 22 harassed Indian engineers in Saudia Posted: 10 Mar 2010 08:47 AM PST By Naushad Katipalla for TwoCircles.net, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia): A group of 22 Indian engineers, who have been desperate to return home for over 15 months, heaved a huge sigh of relief on Thursday when their first batch left for India after their case was set on following the intervention of the Riyadh Governorate. Earlier somebody forged the official papers of one company and attained 50 visas of various nationalities and Indian visa has been sold to ABT, Recruitment Agency, Mumbai, India.
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| Posted: 10 Mar 2010 07:54 AM PST By Zohra Javed for TwoCircles.net, Something happened a couple of days ago, and the developments since have taken me on a whirlwind tour of not just the past, but the present and a peep into the future too. Let me talk from the past first. Sample this: Children in the primary section of a prestigious school fight over something that is of course as trivial as a mosquito leg on the vast horizon. But for the "warring" camps it is a matter of "honour", so the fight continues and ends with one boy hitting the other. The fight ends in tears.
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| Women’s dignity must be upheld: JIH Rajasthan chief Posted: 10 Mar 2010 07:25 AM PST By TCN News, Jaipur: "Women's Dignity must be upheld and their rights must be protected," said Engineer Muhammad Saleem, State Chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Rajasthan. He was addressing the women attending a conference for them on "Women's Rights in the light of the teachings of Prophet Muhammad", held at Muslim Musafir Khana of Jaipur on Monday on the occasion of International Women's Day.
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| Women’s Reservation Bill: What it means for Muslim representation? Posted: 10 Mar 2010 07:12 AM PST |
| Posted: 10 Mar 2010 07:10 AM PST By Aaliya Rushdi, TwoCircles.net, Thiruvananthapuram: Fierce heat has hit the shores of Kerala this summer. The people of the state are in search of a method to overcome the heat. They are even unable to grasp sleep at night. Many of the citizens of the State say that they have heard of much heat and hot in other states but, in Kerala this is for the first time that we face such a situation.
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| Grand Mufti urges Muslim women to enter politics Posted: 10 Mar 2010 05:10 AM PST By IANS, New Delhi : A top Islamic cleric Wednesday welcomed the passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha, describing it as "a great step towards women's empowerment". "This is a great step towards women's empowerment. I would urge Indian Muslim women to enter politics and get themselves elected to parliament and state assemblies. They will have to empower themselves," the Grand Mufti of Kashmir, Maulana Bashir-ud-Din, told reporters here.
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| Stone pelting is un-Islamic: Kashmiri cleric Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:27 AM PST By IANS, New Delhi : Terming stone pelting as a form of protest un-Islamic, the Grand Mufti of Jammu and Kashmir, Maulana Bashir-ud-Din, Wednesday said such violent practices were against the basic tenets of the religion whose essence is "peace and brotherhood". "Islam strongly prohibits any means of violence. The stone pelting practice is surely un-Islamic. It causes inconvenience to people and propels more violence," the Grand Mufti told IANS here. Bashir-ud-Din heads the Sharia court of Jammu and Kashmir and is also the president of the state Personal Law Board.
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| Jamia staff to go on strike over minority status Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:25 AM PST By IANS, New Delhi : Over 2,000 professors and administrative staff of the Jamia Millia Islamia will go on strike March 15 demanding minority educational institution status for the varsity, a tag that will allow 50 percent reservation for Muslims but no quota for any other category, an official said Wednesday. "This is another effort to press the government to recognize Jamia Millia Islamia as a Muslim minority educational institution in clear terms," said N.U. Khan, president, Jamia Teachers' Association.
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| Bengal BJP stages blockades over price rise Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:21 AM PST By IANS, Kolkata : Hundreds of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists Wednesday staged road blockades across West Bengal protesting the rising prices of essential commodities and proposed reservation for Muslims in the state. The protest caused severe traffic disruptions in Kolkata and many other towns as BJP supporters took out long rallies and blocked important road crossings during peak hours.
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| Lok Sabha adjourned for day over women's bill trouble Posted: 10 Mar 2010 02:40 AM PST By IANS, New Delhi : The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day Wednesday after Mulayam Singh Yadav, Sharad Yadav and Lalu Prasad staged noisy protests demanding that the seven MPs suspended in the Rajya Sabha a day earlier be taken back. The trio also reiterated their opposition to the women's bill passed in the upper house Tuesday, reserving 33 percent seats in all legislatures for women, saying the proposed legislation should give special privileges to women from the Dalit, tribal and minority communities.
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| Ulema Council threatens stir against cleric's arrest Posted: 09 Mar 2010 11:05 PM PST By IANS, Lucknow : The Ulema Council Wednesday threatened to launch a statewide agitation against the arrest of a leading cleric, nabbed for his alleged role in last week's communal clash in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district. "If the police fail to release Maulana Tauquir Raza Khan in the next one-two days, we will hit the streets along with thousands of Muslim residents of the state," national general secretary of the Ulema Council (a body of clerics) Mohammad Tahir Madni told reporters in Azamgarh, about 300 km from here.
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| Why teach only Gita in schools: Madhya Pradesh minorities Posted: 09 Mar 2010 10:13 PM PST By Sanjay Sharma, IANS, Bhopal : Minorities in Madhya Pradesh have criticised plans to introduce the Bhagvad Gita in state-run schools, saying the scriptures of other religions should also be part of the syllabus, even as a section of Muslim leaders sees nothing wrong with it. The Catholic Church in Madhya Pradesh has said the government should, if it has to, teach the scriptures of all religions and not just the Hindu scriptures.
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