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- Low conviction rate in criminal cases: who is responsible?
- 1 killed in Lal Chowk shootout in Srinagar
- Majlis-e-Ahrar help gain the possession of an occupied mosque in Punjab
- Rahber Coaching Centre offers free tuition to pre-matric minority students
- Withdraw Foreign Educational Institution Bill: Muslim students groups
- ‘Mainstream’ Media, They did it once again
- Muslim MPs tell TCN why they oppose women quota bill
- BSP targeted in parliament for money garland, Bareilly violence
- High court dismisses plea for de-sealing SIMI office
- Asaduddin Owaisi meets PM on Muslim reservation
- Curfew relaxed in Bareilly
- Jamia teachers rally demands minority status for varsity
- High court to hear pleas of Godhra accused Tuesday
- Muslim women reject cleric's advice to stay away from politics
- Five Muslims on indefinite hunger strike against police behavior
- TCN cartoon: Muslim supporters
- MIT workshop to examine communal violence in India
- Meo Muslims wants ST status like Mina
- Logic of women's reservation
- For Muslim reservation, PFI marched to the Parliament
- Permanent Resident Bill of J&K is Anti-Women
- A third of India live in a state of famine: Dr. Binayak Sen
| Low conviction rate in criminal cases: who is responsible? Posted: 16 Mar 2010 11:18 AM PDT By Dr Mookhi Amir Ali, One agrees with the Law and Judiciary Minister (Maharashtra) Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil that ideally the conviction rate in criminal cases fought by the state should be hundred percent. The present conviction rate only shows enormous waste of public money and valuable working hours of the courts. But why does he want to discipline only the pleaders by imposing fifty per cent conviction rate?
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| 1 killed in Lal Chowk shootout in Srinagar Posted: 16 Mar 2010 10:42 AM PDT By Sheikh Imran Bashir, AIP, Srinagar: One person was killed and four others were injured, including two CRPF personnel, when militants struck the heavily-guarded Lal Chowk commercial hub of the city on Tuesday morning. Three civilians identified as Mehrajuddin Wani of Rainawari locality, Mehrajuddin Shah of Nawa Kadal and Khursheed Ahmad Parray of Khansahib area of Budgam district received gunshot wounds in the attack and were admitted to a hospital where Parray 28 succumbed to his injuries, official sources said.
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| Majlis-e-Ahrar help gain the possession of an occupied mosque in Punjab Posted: 16 Mar 2010 10:41 AM PDT By RINA, Ludhiana: A deserted mosque was rehabilitated after 62 years at Longowal, a city in Punjab. The masjid was under occupation of Municipal Committee in recent years. Few days ago when the roof of the main hall of the masjid collapsed, Municipal Committee shifted its office to one of the side rooms. Local Muslims who have been complaining about the illegal masjid occupation, alerted Majlis-e-Ahrar about the incident.
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| Rahber Coaching Centre offers free tuition to pre-matric minority students Posted: 16 Mar 2010 10:38 AM PDT By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net, Patna: With an aim to check pre-matric dropout rate in Bihar and Jharkhand, the Rahber Coaching Centre is providing free tuition to poor minority and other backward class students of Class 8-10. The centre has invited application from the eligible students to join free part-time coaching in different parts of Bihar and Jharkhand.
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| Withdraw Foreign Educational Institution Bill: Muslim students groups Posted: 16 Mar 2010 10:07 AM PDT By TCN News, New Delhi: Muslim students organizations condemned the Foreign Educational Institution (Regulation of Entry and Operation) Bill, 2010 that was approved today by Union Cabinet, and demanded its immediate withdrawal, saying the move will increase the commercialization of education.
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| ‘Mainstream’ Media, They did it once again Posted: 16 Mar 2010 09:26 AM PDT By Mahtab Alam, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: On 7 March 2007, when more than 5000 activists of Tamilnadu Muslim Munnetra Kazagham (TMMK) marched to Parliament from various parts of the state to demand reservation for Muslims in government services and educational institutions, they could not make news for mainstream media at all as the march was completely blacked out. Three years down the line situation seems not to have changed. Yesterday, there were several rallies on Muslim issues here but 'mainstream' newspapers have just buried the news.
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| Muslim MPs tell TCN why they oppose women quota bill Posted: 16 Mar 2010 06:46 AM PDT |
| BSP targeted in parliament for money garland, Bareilly violence Posted: 16 Mar 2010 06:26 AM PDT By IANS, New Delhi : The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) was Tuesday put on the mat over a multi-crore money garland given to its leader and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati with Samajwadi Party, Congress, and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members questioning the extravagance in the Lok Sabha. The continuous uproar led to the house being adjourned for the day. The Lok Sabha will now meet April 12, after a three-week break. The members were on feet on the issue as the house re-assembled at 2 p.m. after two adjournments on the issue earlier in the day.
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| High court dismisses plea for de-sealing SIMI office Posted: 16 Mar 2010 06:24 AM PDT By IANS, New Delhi: The Student Islamic Movement of India's (SIMI) plea to de-seal a south Delhi property housing its office was Tuesday rejected by the Delhi High Court, which said the request was "untenable in law". The building was sealed after the central government banned the outfit in 2001 for alleged involvement in terrorist activities.
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| Asaduddin Owaisi meets PM on Muslim reservation Posted: 16 Mar 2010 04:29 AM PDT By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen president and Lok Sabha Member from Hyderabad, Asaduddin Owaisi today met Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in New Delhi to reiterate his demand for quota for Muslim women in the Women Reservation Bill and 10% reservation to entire Muslim community in India as recommended by Ranganath Mishra Commission.
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| Posted: 16 Mar 2010 04:22 AM PDT By IANS, Bareilly : Curfew in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district was relaxed for eight hours Tuesday for only the second time since it was imposed two weeks ago following a communal clash, authorities said. "As situation is turning normal, we today (Tuesday) decided to relax the curfew from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.," Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) (Bareilly Range) Rajiv Sabharwal told reporters. The curfew was first relaxed Monday.
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| Jamia teachers rally demands minority status for varsity Posted: 16 Mar 2010 02:48 AM PDT By IANS, New Delhi : Nearly 2,500 professors and administrative staff of the Jamia Millia Islamia university Monday assembled at Jantar Mantar, a stone's throw from Parliament House in New Delhi area, to press their demand for recognition of the varsity as a Muslim minority educational institution. The tag will allow 50 percent reservation for Muslims but no quota for any other category.
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| High court to hear pleas of Godhra accused Tuesday Posted: 16 Mar 2010 02:45 AM PDT By IANS, Gandhinagar : The Gujarat High Court will Tuesday hear the plea of 79 accused in the Godhra train burning case, challenging a designated court's decision to consider the confession of the accused as evidence. Earlier this month, a special court at the Sabarmati prison had turned down the accused' plea and started to consider the confession statements as evidence against them. Designated Judge P.R. Patel had observed that a decision whether to accept the statements as evidence can be considered at a later stage and the trial should continue.
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| Muslim women reject cleric's advice to stay away from politics Posted: 16 Mar 2010 01:09 AM PDT By Sanjay Sharma,IANS, Bhopal: Muslim women have reacted angrily to a leading Muslim cleric's advice to keep away from politics and concentrate on home and family, saying this could be his personal view and there is no such stipulation in Islam. Even as the debate over the women's reservation bill continues, Shia cleric Maulana Syed Kalbe Jawwad had said Saturday that women should have no role in politics and stay at home.
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| Five Muslims on indefinite hunger strike against police behavior Posted: 15 Mar 2010 08:39 PM PDT By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net, Ballarpur (Maharashtra): Five Muslims are on indefinite hunger strike since March 9, 2010 in Ballarpur town in the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra. They are demanding tough action against police officer Aslam Khan who is an inspector at Ghughes police station of the town. They blamed the officer to hurt their religious sentiment during the Miladun Nabi procession.
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| TCN cartoon: Muslim supporters Posted: 15 Mar 2010 08:15 PM PDT By Yusuf, TwoCircles.net
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| MIT workshop to examine communal violence in India Posted: 15 Mar 2010 07:30 PM PDT By TCN News Cambridge (Massachusetts): India has seen many violence based on religious and cultural differences. A workshop is being organized on April 9th and 10th at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to examine the roots and processes of such violence.
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| Meo Muslims wants ST status like Mina Posted: 15 Mar 2010 12:59 PM PDT By TCN Staff Reporter, New Delhi: Smoking Huqqa and eating steaming hot Kichadi, sitting on their traditional chairs, hundreds of old men and youth of Muslim Meo community of Haryana and Rajasthan made their unique presence at Jantar Mantar. They were rallying to demand ST status to the Community like Mina, with a difference style.  
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| Posted: 15 Mar 2010 12:52 PM PDT By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi It is an unfortunate fact that in a democracy nothing is achievable without united agitations. This time again the Muslim social and political leadership in India is failing to unite strongly against a very genuine demand and clear hypocrisy against them in guise of women empowerment.
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| For Muslim reservation, PFI marched to the Parliament Posted: 15 Mar 2010 12:29 PM PDT By TCN staff reporter, New Delhi: Demanding 10% reservation to all Muslims in India in Central Government services and educational institutions in the light of Justice Ranganath Misra Commission report thousands of Popular Front of India (PFI)'s activists marched to the parliament. Front's chairman E. M. Abdul Rahiman while inaugurating the Public meeting after march to parliament said, "This march to the Indian Parliament is part of a two months long nationwide campaign for Muslim Reservation by Popular Front of India"
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| Permanent Resident Bill of J&K is Anti-Women Posted: 15 Mar 2010 12:00 PM PDT By Balraj Puri On International Women's Day when Rajya Sabha passed a bill for reservation of 33% seats for women in Parliament and state legilatures, Jammu and Kashmir State assembly admitted a bill which would deprive women status of permanent resident of the State if they married an outsider.
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| A third of India live in a state of famine: Dr. Binayak Sen Posted: 15 Mar 2010 11:14 AM PDT By TCN News Aligarh: Dr. Binayak Sen, renowned human rights worker and Chhattisgarh based public health professional, delivered the IG Khan Memorial lecture in Kennedy Auditorium on Sunday to a rapt audience of students and faculty members. Citing data and facts from his work on tribal and poor workers in Chhatisgarh, Dr. Sen presented the grim reality of the state of the nation's dispossessed. He pointed out that almost 33 percent of the country's population lived in a state of famine that translates to a third of the population of one sixth of humanity living in India.
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