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Togadia fails to appear before SIT
Jamia Millia starts new distant learning course
Now action, not empty promises: Bhopal Gas Survivors
Rs. 100 crores for minority welfare lying unused in UP
A Jihad for gender equality
Hot April disturbs normal life in Patna
Muslim NGO adopts blind family of Uttar Pradesh
Jamia Millia invites applications for mechanical engineering courses
Muslim leaders furious over phone tapping in Muslim-dominated cities
Campus Front demands judicial enquiry of Batla encounter
Stand up to protect humanity, Indian culture: Muslim scholars
Jamia MLA to spend his salary on legal aid of Delhi blast accused
Offering prayers on roads is against Islam: Dr Zafar Mahmood
The Tablighi Jamaat in Mewat – Part 4
Gujarat: Teesta files rejoinder, demands reconstitution of SIT
Why I hate the IPL
Muslims should strive for seeking education: Kalbe Sadiq

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 10:53 AM PDT

By IANS,

Gandhinagar: Summoned by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the 2002 post-Godhra communal riots, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) international general secretary Pravin Togadia struck a defiant note when he sent in his proxy with a set of queries. The SIT turned down the plea and refused to accept the proxy appearance.

Jamia Millia starts new distant learning course

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 10:17 AM PDT

By IANS,

New Delhi: After suspending the bachelor of arts (BA) regular course this year, the Jamia Millia Islamia Monday announced the launch of a similar programme through the distant-learning mode.

"The Centre for Distance and Open Learning, announces the launch of BA (General) course from the session starting 2010-11," the university said.

Now action, not empty promises: Bhopal Gas Survivors

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 09:47 AM PDT

By TCN Special Correspondent,

New Delhi: "We are fed up with empty promises, it's more than enough now and we want action," says furious Safreen Khan, one of the children exposed to toxic contamination from Union Carbide's untreated chemical waste. She is sitting on a Dharna jointly organized by four groups of the survivors at Jantar Mantar since 15thApril to remind the Prime Minister his own promises made in 2008.

Rs. 100 crores for minority welfare lying unused in UP

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 09:45 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net special correspondent,

Lucknow: Political parties may be vying each other for muslim votes.However these lofty claims vanish in thin air for implementing the schemes meant for their development.

The case in point is the centre sponsered multi sectoral development projects in the state. A fund of nearly 100 crores rupees is gathering dust at the state minority welfare office. The funds are meant for development in the muslims dominated districts of the state.

A Jihad for gender equality

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 08:35 AM PDT

By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net

Nasiruddin Haider Khan is in Hindi journalism since 1992 and currently work as Deputy Resident Editor of Dainik Hindustan in Agra. He has been working on gender issues especially Muslim women issues for the last 16 years. Mr. Khan has a diploma in Journalism from Indian Institute of Mass communication and MA in Womens studies from Lucknow University.

Hot April disturbs normal life in Patna

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 07:46 AM PDT

By TCN Staff Reporter,

Patna: No sooner summer season started this year than the whole nation came under the unrelenting heat wave which has taken many lives so far in different parts of the country. In the month of April, the temperature is presenting the scene of hot month of June. Condition is similar in Bihar's capital city of Patna where the running April has been recorded as the hottest April in one decade. With each day, heat is going up here.

Muslim NGO adopts blind family of Uttar Pradesh

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 07:42 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: The Delhi-based NGO Human Welfare Foundation has come up to adopt the Uttar Pradesh family with five blind sons after Munauwar (60) and his wife Rubina (55) pleaded for mercy killing in their letter sent to President Pratibha Patil. The family was fed up of their penury and the burden of their five blind sons in Uttar Pradesh's Mau district, had sought mercy killing for their entire family.

HWF made the announcement to adopt the family at a Press Conference in Varansi on 22 April.

Jamia Millia invites applications for mechanical engineering courses

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 06:46 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: The Department of Mechanical Engineering of Jamia Millia Islamia has invited applications from students for several undergraduate as well as postgraduate professional courses including Industrial & Production, Machine Design and Thermal Engineering. The university also offered Ph.D. program in these subjects.

The details of the courses and seats are as follow;

1) B. Tech. (Mech. Engg.) has an intake of 70 students and the last date for submission of application forms for admission is 22.04.2010.

Muslim leaders furious over phone tapping in Muslim-dominated cities

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 06:31 AM PDT

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

Patna: Muslim community leaders are furious over phone tapping by intelligence agencies in Muslim dominated areas in Delhi, Lucknow and Hyderabad, and have demanded the government to make the agencies accountable. The disclosure about the tapping was made in the latest issue of English weekly Outlook. The magazine has also said that phone calls of some top political leaders from different parties were also tapped and taped.

Campus Front demands judicial enquiry of Batla encounter

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:36 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: Expressing its solidarity with Jamia Nagar residents who are on an indefinite hunger strike since April 14th to press the demand for judicial probe into Batla House encounter, Campus Front of India (CFI) has also demanded judicial inquiry into the September 19, 2008 encounter and all other fake encounters.

Stand up to protect humanity, Indian culture: Muslim scholars

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:31 AM PDT

By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net,

Patna: "Humanity teaches us to take care of others more than ourselves and to protect other's rights more than our own but today human beings have indulged in selfishness which created an uncomfortable situation in the world. Everyone has his circle and boundary to work in but today everyone is involved in encroachment which leads to tension between the people" said Maulana Walai Rahmani, Sajjada Nashin Khanqah Rahmani, Munger.

Jamia MLA to spend his salary on legal aid of Delhi blast accused

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:15 AM PDT

By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net,

New Delhi: To provide financial and legal assistance to Azamgarh youths who are behind the bar in connection with Delhi serial blasts 2008, Asif Mohammad Khan, MLA from Okhla, has announced to donate his monthly salary for their legal aid. For immediate help, the MLA last week gave Rs. 50,000 each to the family of Ziaur Rahman and Mohd Shakeel, two of about one dozen Azamgarh accused in the terror blasts.

Offering prayers on roads is against Islam: Dr Zafar Mahmood

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 03:45 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: President of Zakat Foundation of India Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood has said that offering namaz on road causing inconvenience to others is against the true spirit of Islam. "As good Muslims we should appreciate that causing inconvenience to others while offering namaz ba-jama'at particularly on Friday is against the true spirit of Allah's religion," Dr Mahmood said.

He further said that this is "a general problem all over the country. We need to go deeper into the issue and try to find long term solutions."

The Tablighi Jamaat in Mewat – Part 4

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 02:44 AM PDT

By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net,

Partition, Mewat and the TJ

Gujarat: Teesta files rejoinder, demands reconstitution of SIT

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 07:52 PM PDT

By TwoCircles.net reporter,

Ahmedabad: Strongly denying the charges leveled against her by the Gujarat government, Mumbai-based activist Teesta Setalvad of Citizens for Justice and Peace(CJP) has demanded reconstitution of the Special Investigation Team(SIT) and shifting of trial of the riots cases of 2002 outside Gujarat.

Why I hate the IPL

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 07:32 PM PDT

Dr. Shah Alam Khan,

To qualify as an Indian, it is essential that you love cricket, it is important that you gossip, it is vital to fall in love with pelvic thrusting actors and cajoling actresses on the celluloid screen and it is quintessential that you make money the quick (and sometimes the wrong) way. The saga of Indian Premier League (IPL), the beleaguered cricket league of India, is no exception to these general rules of Indianness.

Muslims should strive for seeking education: Kalbe Sadiq

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 07:23 PM PDT

By TCN News

Lucknow: Terming education as the only tool for development of minority communities, eminent Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Sadiq said on Sunday that that only those communities and nations would survive who exhibit excellence in education. Quoting from religious texts of Holy Quran, Sadiq said that there was no alternative to seeking education from the very birth for humans. He was speaking while chairing a session at the second day of two-day national conference on minority education in UP underway at Integral University.