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Never wrote for any Kannada daily, says Taslima
Abdul Kalam, Ratan Tata are India's most trusted: Survey
Need of capacity building for NGOs working on minority schemes: Agwan
Seminar on Challenges of Pluralism and Islam held in Chennai
What is wrong in Saudi becoming interlocutor for peace?
Bihar Govt to coach minority youths for police recruitment
Popular Front will march to Parliament for Muslim reservation
Curfew continues in riot-hit Karnataka town
Babur and sons of Babur
4 killed in communal clashes in Madhya Pradesh township

Never wrote for any Kannada daily, says Taslima

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 03:57 AM PST

By IANS,

New Delhi : Bangladeshi writer-activist Taslima Nasreen Tuesday said she never wrote an article on the Islamic veil that triggered widespread rioting and arson in Karnataka, killing two, and suspected it was an attempt to malign her.

Abdul Kalam, Ratan Tata are India's most trusted: Survey

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 03:47 AM PST

By IANS,

New Delhi : Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and industrialist Ratan Tata top the list of 100 most trusted Indians while artist M.F Husain is at 91 and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati is at the very bottom, a survey conducted for Reader's Digest has revealed.

Need of capacity building for NGOs working on minority schemes: Agwan

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 02:58 AM PST

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

New Delhi: Abdur Rasheed Agwan, a known face in the field of social activities in Delhi and chairman, Universal Knowledge Trust, has recently launched a Hindi fortnightly NGO India to inform and empower non-governmental organizations working in social sector. Very few schemes for minorities have incentives for NGOs, but most of the NGOs working on minority projects lack capacity, infrastructure and required information, says Agwan in an interview with Mumtaz Alam Falahi of TwoCircles.net.

Seminar on Challenges of Pluralism and Islam held in Chennai

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 02:13 AM PST

By TCN News,

Chennai: Indian ulama have to work assiduously to develop a fresh understanding of Islamic texts in the context of present-day life and create a new interpretation of Islamic law, Prof. A R Momin, former head of department of sociology in Bombay University, said here today.

What is wrong in Saudi becoming interlocutor for peace?

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 01:51 AM PST

By Dr Mookhi Amir Ali,

When Shashi Tharoor said that Saudi Arabia can be a good Interlocutor he meant Saudi Arabia can be a very convenient mediator between India and Pakistan. He may now try to explain a different meaning of the word "interlocutor" but he has betrayed his disagreement with India's persistent stand that there should be no mediation by a third party in resolving the Indo-Pak differences.

Bihar Govt to coach minority youths for police recruitment

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 01:46 AM PST

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,

Patna: To increase the presence of minority communities in state police forces, the Bihar Government yesterday announced to start coaching centres in different districts to help minority youths to crack test for recruitment in security forces. The candidates will be coached for both academic and physical tests. The move though good could be termed as an electoral announcement to woo minorities before the assembly elections to be held later this year.

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 01:41 AM PST

By TCN News,

Bangalore: To press the Central Government for 10% quota for Muslims in job and education in the entire country, the activists of Popular Front of India will march towards Parliament on March 18, marking end of their two-month long national campaign for Muslim reservation.

National Executive Council of PFI that met here on 28th Feb and 1st March, demanded the UPA Government to declare 10% reservation to all Muslims all over India in the light of Ranganath Misra Commission report in the ongoing parliament session.

Curfew continues in riot-hit Karnataka town

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 10:34 PM PST

By IANS,

Bangalore : Curfew continued in Karnataka's riot-hit Shimoga town as did prohibitory orders banning crowds in Hassan, police said Tuesday, a day after two people were killed following protests against an article on the veil by Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen.

"The situation in the town is peaceful and under control. No untoward incident has been reported since Monday evening. The three-day curfew will be in force till Wednesday evening," Shimoga Superintendent of Police S. Murugan told IANS.

Babur and sons of Babur

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 08:44 PM PST

By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net

Thanks to the propaganda of the Sangh Parivar, Babur, founder of Mughal Empire has become a controversial figure in Indian history. Babur was an invader but he was also the founder of a dynasty that gave shape to an India that we are rightly proud of. Be it the architecture, arts, literature, music, or dance, it is difficult to imagine present day India without the Mughals.

4 killed in communal clashes in Madhya Pradesh township

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 03:46 PM PST

By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,

Bhopal : Indefinite curfew has been imposed in a small township of Madhya Pradesh following communal clashes between two communities wherein one person was killed as per official announcement on Monday.