TwoCircles.net - Indian Muslim news

How Ansari, Ahmed were acquitted in terror trial
Don't link terror with religion: Venkaiah Naidu
JIH issues guidelines for Muslims for Census 2011
Jawahar Hussain: Keeping alive a century old craft
Zakat board and Muslim economic and educational problems
Whom are the houses for under the Kanshiram Urban Poor Housing Scheme?
International Qur’an Seminar in Kerala ends
Court order on age of Salman Ahmad Wednesday
TCN Interview: Maulana Arshad Madni
NET Coaching at MANUU for minority students
IPS officer's bail plea rejected in Sohrabuddin case
Some RTE provisions impinge on minority rights: Indian church
Supreme Court denies bail to Gujarat cop
Syed I Ahson resigns from the post of Pro-VC of Patna University
PFI organizes community leaders meet on Muslim reservation
Ansari, Ahmed can't walk free - Rampur blast case remains
Court allows narco test on Ajmer blast accused
Muslim groups demand fresh probe into Mecca Masjid blast
SIMI files affidavit in Tribunal, not to fight case
Is there a spy wing in Aligarh Muslim University?
Education without sense of humanity useless: Mohd Umar Gautam

How Ansari, Ahmed were acquitted in terror trial

Posted: 03 May 2010 09:59 AM PDT

By IANS,

Mumbai: Mumbai Police were in for an unexpected embarrassment Monday when a special court picked holes in the prosecution theory on the involvement of Fahim Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed, the two Indians accused along with Pakistani national Ajmal Amir Kasab in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack case.

"The evidence of the prosecution falls short and cannot be accepted… the evidence against Ansari and Ahmed is unreliable," Special Judge M.L. Tahaliyani observed.

Don't link terror with religion: Venkaiah Naidu

Posted: 03 May 2010 09:52 AM PDT

By IANS,

New Delhi: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader M. Venkaiah Naidu Monday said the government was free to take action against anyone involved in terrorist activities but incidents of terrorism should not be linked with religion.

Talking to reporters here, he said that issues of majority or minority should not be raised in the context of terrorism.

Referring to reports about police investigations into the Ajmer dargah blasts, he said the government was free to take action against the guilty without any consideration of religion.

JIH issues guidelines for Muslims for Census 2011

Posted: 03 May 2010 09:40 AM PDT

By TCN News,

Patna: Jamat-e- Islami Hind (JIH) has appealed to Muslim community to take census 2011 seriously making sure registration of their names and information about them is recorded correctly. The census which has already begun from 1st April 2010 gets importance as it is also part of preparation of the National Population Register in which every Indian citizen has to get his/her name registered.

Jawahar Hussain: Keeping alive a century old craft

Posted: 03 May 2010 09:38 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net special correspondent

Lucknow: While passing through the narrow alley of Chikankari market in Old Lucknow, a subtle sound of hammer and chisel strikes your ear. The sound that started off a century ago is an effort by an engraving artist, Jawahar Hussain to preserve his ancestral art, notwithstanding a meager profit that he makes out of it. Jawahar (76) and his two sons Mohamad Hussain (45) and Dildar Hussain (39) make their living by engraving images on gold and silver and carving out many other state of art products without any machine assistance.

Zakat board and Muslim economic and educational problems

Posted: 03 May 2010 09:30 AM PDT

By Asghar Ali Engineer,

Indian Muslims, according to the Sachar Committee Report are slipping below Dalits in their economic and educational status and the Committee has supported this with wealthy of data. This is acknowledged by everyone including the Government of India. But who is responsible for this state of affairs? The Muslim themselves or the government? This is a big debate within the community.

Whom are the houses for under the Kanshiram Urban Poor Housing Scheme?

Posted: 03 May 2010 08:39 AM PDT

By Bobby Ramakant - CNS,

In the list of those who were alloted houses under the Kanshiram Urban Poor Housing Scheme last month, not a single urban poor figures from the two slum dwellings that were bulldozed last year in state capital Lucknow of Uttar Pradesh (UP).

International Qur’an Seminar in Kerala ends

Posted: 03 May 2010 08:37 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,

Thiruvananthapuram: The greatness of the Qur'an should be brought out to people, said Shashi Tharoor, former Minister of State for External Affairs. He was inaugurating the concluding session of the International Qur'an Seminar held at the Kerala University campus in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday.

The Qur'an is not against the discoveries of modern science and that makes it the wonder among the wonders, opined noted scholar Dr Zakir Naik, while delivering the key-note address on 'Quran and Modern Science'.

Court order on age of Salman Ahmad Wednesday

Posted: 03 May 2010 08:34 AM PDT

By IANS,

New Delhi: A city court Monday reserved its order for Wednesday on the claim of 2008 Delhi serial bombing accused Salman Ahmad that he was a minor at the time of the attack.

Ahmad had filed an application in the court claiming he was a minor when the serial bombings took place in the capital Sep 13, 2008, killing 26 people and left 135 others injured.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja, after hearing the arguments on behalf of Ahmad and the prosecution, said she will pronounce the order on Ahmad's application on May 5 (Wednesday).

TCN Interview: Maulana Arshad Madni

Posted: 03 May 2010 08:16 AM PDT

By Murtaza Shibli for TwoCircles.net,

Maulana Arshad Madni is the President of one faction of Jamiatul-Ulama-e-Hind. He teaches Hadith at the famous Muslim seminary Deoband and operates several educational and charitable Muslim organisations in India. This interview was conducted at the central office of the Jamiatul Ulama-e-Hind office, New Delhi.

How do you see the 'Aman ki Asha', the peace initiative that was started by the Times of India and daily Jang, the two leading media houses of India and Pakistan?

NET Coaching at MANUU for minority students

Posted: 03 May 2010 08:10 AM PDT

By TCN News,

Hyderabad: The UGC-NET Coaching Centre at Maulana Azad National Urdu University will arrange coaching for the minority students for NET exam scheduled to be held on 27th June 2010.

The National Educational Testing Bureau of University Grants Commission (UGC) conducts National Eligibility Test (NET) to determine eligibility for lectureship and for award of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) for Indian nationals. Clearing UGC-NET is a requirement for teaching in colleges and universities, and research.

IPS officer's bail plea rejected in Sohrabuddin case

Posted: 03 May 2010 07:54 AM PDT

By IANS,

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat High Court Monday rejected the bail application of Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Dinesh M.N., an accused in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake shootout case.

Earlier in April, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court also rejected his bail application.

Dinesh M.N., a Rajasthan cadre IPS officer, mentioned in his plea that investigation of the case has been transferred to the CBI by the Supreme Court and a fresh investigation would take a long time.

Some RTE provisions impinge on minority rights: Indian church

Posted: 03 May 2010 07:50 AM PDT

By IANS,

New Delh: Expressing apprehension about certain clauses of the Right to Education Act, the Catholic Bishop Conference of India Monday said these provisions impinge upon the rights of the minorities to manage their institutions.

"We appreciate the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government's effort to spread universal education for all by passing the RTE Act. However, certain sections of the act are discriminatory and violate the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution of India," CBCI chairman Joshua Mar Ignathios said at a press conference here.

Supreme Court denies bail to Gujarat cop

Posted: 03 May 2010 07:40 AM PDT

By IANS,

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday declined to hear a petition of Gujarat police officer Rajkumar Pandiyan, an accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake gun battle case - and directed him to approach a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court or the high court for bail.

A bench headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan told Pandiyan, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer now in judicial custody, to present his bail plea before the CBI, which is probing the case.

Syed I Ahson resigns from the post of Pro-VC of Patna University

Posted: 03 May 2010 07:35 AM PDT

By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net,

Patna: Fed up with lawless situation at university and criminal behavior of students, Syed I Ahson Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Patna University (PU) has resigned from his post yesterday. He has submitted his resignation to VC Shyam Lal to forward it to the university's chancellor and governor of Bihar Mr. Devanand Konwar, governor of Bihar.

The resignation came after a group of students pelted stones on the office of S I Ahson while he was holding a meeting with some senior teachers in his chamber on Saturday evening.

PFI organizes community leaders meet on Muslim reservation

Posted: 03 May 2010 07:19 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: To discuss the way to press government about Muslim reservation and to continue the campaign for it, Popular Front of India (PFI) yesterday organized a meeting of community leaders at Constitution Club, New Delhi.

The meeting was in sequel to the PFI all India campaign from 31st January to 15th March 2010 demanding 10% reservation for Muslims in government jobs and educational institutions. It was attended by delegates from several states.

Ansari, Ahmed can't walk free - Rampur blast case remains

Posted: 03 May 2010 06:01 AM PDT

By IANS,

Mumbai : They may have been acquitted in the 26/11 Mumbai attack case, but Fahim Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed, the two Indians who had been accused along with Pakistani national Ajmal Amir Kasab, have to fight other legal battles before they walk free.

The two suspected operatives - Ansari from Goregaon in Mumbai and Ahmed from Madhubani in Bihar - of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were Monday acquitted by a special court in Mumbai that was hearing the 26/11 terror attack case.

Court allows narco test on Ajmer blast accused

Posted: 03 May 2010 05:46 AM PDT

By IANS,

Ajmer : A court here Monday allowed the Anti-Terrorist Squad of the Rajasthan police to conduct narco test on Devendra Gupta, a suspect arrested for the 2007 bombing at the revered Ajmer Dargah Sharif that killed three people.

"The additional chief judicial magistrate has given us permission for conducting the narco test and we now plan to take Gupta to Hyderabad for it," an ATS official told IANS.

The ATS while moving an application in the court Saturday said the test was necessary as Gupta was hiding important and critical information relating to the bombing.

Muslim groups demand fresh probe into Mecca Masjid blast

Posted: 03 May 2010 12:42 AM PDT

By IANS,

Hyderabad : Muslim groups in Hyderabad have demanded a fresh probe into the 2007 bomb blast at Mecca Masjid in view of the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) revelation that the 2007 blasts at the historic mosque and the Ajmer shrine were linked.

The CBI and Rajasthan's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) believe that the blast at the Hyderabad mosque and the Khwaja Moinuddin Chisthi dargah in Ajmer are the handiwork of same group.

SIMI files affidavit in Tribunal, not to fight case

Posted: 02 May 2010 11:46 PM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: The banned Students Islamic Movement of India on May 1 filed an affidavit in the Delhi High Court Tribunal to inform it has chosen not to contest the declaration of the ban any more. Ex-SIMI president Shahid Badr Falahi said in the affidavit that he wants "to put an end to this mindless, futile, unequal, unethical and unjust exercise in which the Government has shamelessly used the Judiciary to achieve its ends of casting a shadow of criminality on the entire Muslim community."

Is there a spy wing in Aligarh Muslim University?

Posted: 02 May 2010 10:35 PM PDT

By Nakshab Khan, IANS,

New Delhi/Aligarh : It's an open secret in the Aligarh Muslim University that an 'intelligence wing' of the varsity snoops on students and teachers. The administration flatly denies the allegation though it admits that a "watchdog keeps an eye on outsiders and anti-social elements".

The purported 'local intelligence unit' (LIU) came into news with two recent unsavoury incidents on the campus.

Education without sense of humanity useless: Mohd Umar Gautam

Posted: 02 May 2010 10:16 PM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,

Jharia: All human beings are brothers and sisters unto each other and education without the sense of humanity is useless. These views were expressed by speakers at a one-day conference on Paigham-e-Insaniyat (Message to Humanity) and turban-tying ceremony organized by Madrasa Mohammadia, Upper Kulhi, Jharia in Dhanbad at Balu Banker Ground on 24 April 2010.