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Shoaib and Sania face fresh trouble
Blast accused's jail cannot be changed, court told
Court tells Gujarat to reconsider madrassa's plea
SIO launches Muslim reservation campaign in West Bengal
West Bengal: 834 Lower Division Clerks recruited, only 16 Muslims
Social Transformation in Islam: Reform or Revolution?
Protest against Bihar law to regulate coaching institutes
Police disallow separatist seminar in Srinagar
"Islam and non-violence" seminar in Chennai on April 26th

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 08:12 AM PDT

By IANS,

Hyderabad: A day after getting back his passport, Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik and his wife Indian tennis star Sania Mirza Wednesday faced fresh trouble with a city court asking police to look into the complaint that they hurt religious sentiments of Muslims.

A Muslim organisation has complained that Shoaib, Sania, Shoaib's first wife Ayesha Siddiqui and 11 others hurt the sentiments of Muslims on the issue of divorce.

Blast accused's jail cannot be changed, court told

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 08:06 AM PDT

By IANS,

New Delhi: A city court was Wednesday told by the Tihar jail authorities that Indian Mujahideen terror suspect and Delhi serial blast accused Salman Ahmad's plea for transfer to another jail cannot be accepted as it is against the jail manual.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Kaveri Baweja was presented a report by jail officials, in which they opposed Ahmad's plea.

The court deferred till April 24 the hearing on an Ahmad's application for a change in his jail on the ground that there was a threat to his life.

Court tells Gujarat to reconsider madrassa's plea

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 06:32 AM PDT

By IANS,

Gandhinagar : The Gujarat High court has directed the state education department to reconsider a madrassa's plea seeking permission to start class 8 in English medium.

Setting aside the department's decision to reject Victoria Jubilee Madrassa's request, Justice K.A. Puj observed that the authorities did not follow the law.

According to the petitioner institution, it had sent a proposal to the state education board for opening class 8 in English medium but it was rejected without any hearing.

SIO launches Muslim reservation campaign in West Bengal

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:52 AM PDT

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

Patna: Putting pressure, ahead of the coming Assembly elections, on the Left Front government in West Bengal to provide reservation to Muslims in jobs and education, the West Bengal chapter of Students Islamic Organisation of India today launched a state-wide 10-day campaign for Muslim reservation.

West Bengal: 834 Lower Division Clerks recruited, only 16 Muslims

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 04:58 AM PDT

By Zaidul Haque for TwoCircles.net,

Kolkata: Notwithstanding the promises by the Left Front government for quota to Muslims in the state, the deprivation of and discrimination against the community is going on. Take it. Of 834 Lower Division Clerks recruited by the government in February and March this year, only 16 are Muslims. That is less than 2% while the community constitutes more than 25% of the state population.

Social Transformation in Islam: Reform or Revolution?

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:37 AM PDT

By Maulana Waris Mazhari

(Translated from Urdu by Yoginder Sikand/Noor Mohammad Sikand)

Protest against Bihar law to regulate coaching institutes

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:15 AM PDT

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

Patna: Coaching institutes as well as students are opposing the Bihar state law that will regularize coaching institutes in the state. They say the Bihar Coaching Institute (Control and Regulation) Bill 2010 will just industrialize the coaching profession as only big capitalists could fulfill all requirements of the law, and this will directly affect the students as they will have to pay higher fees.

Police disallow separatist seminar in Srinagar

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 01:11 AM PDT

By IANS,

Srinagar : Police Wednesday sealed a hotel where Muslim separatist leaders were to attend a seminar that was also to be addressed by senior guerrilla commanders from Pakistan over a phone link.

Dozens of policemen descended on Taj Hotel to seal it ahead of Wednesday's seminar on the role of Kashmiri separatist leaders.

Police detained human rights activist Mohammad Ahsan Untoo, who had organised the seminar, as well as Javaid Mir, chairman of a faction of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and others.

"Islam and non-violence" seminar in Chennai on April 26th

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 09:47 PM PDT

By TCN News,

Chennai: Chennai based Forum for the Promotion of Moderate Thought in Islam is organizing a seminar on the topic of "Islam and non-violence." Prince of Arcot Mohammad Abdul Ali and famous scholar Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer are some of the speakers in this seminar.

The secretary of the Forum, A. Faizur Rahman talking to TwoCircles.net said that "the idea behind this event is to propagate the fact that Islam is a non- violent religion and it is not what the extremist claim it to be."

Islam and non-violence