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- TCN cartoon: Census for exclusion
- Press Guild of Kashmir resents curbs on local media
- Move to encourage entrepreneurship among minorities
- Politics of competitive communalism, says BJP of Kashmir situation
- Tenuous calm in Srinagar, Kashmir Valley as curfew continues
- Srinagar journalist barred from meeting family
- Attack on Kerala Professor: PFI on the defensive
- Special Centres: AMU house seems not in order
- Attack on professor was planned: Kerala DGP
- Kashmir: No cruelty towards innocents, says Kanthapuram to minister
- ISNA Convention Sends Message of Compassion & Mercy
- Share capital of minorities financial institution hiked
- Justice Eqbal initiative: TN family courts to work on weekend also
- Army won't be in Srinagar for long: Chidambaram
- Curfew continue in Srinagar, newspapers hit their publication
- Army in Srinagar a deterrent: Chidambaram
- Indefinite curfew continues in Kashmir
| TCN cartoon: Census for exclusion Posted: 08 Jul 2010 10:38 AM PDT By Yusuf, TwoCircles.net,
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| Press Guild of Kashmir resents curbs on local media Posted: 08 Jul 2010 09:47 AM PDT IFJ condemns media gag in Kashmir By AIPTV- Bureau, Srinagar: Press Guild of Kashmir, has expressed serious resentment against the government that has virtually banned the local media but was extending all facilities to media persons coming from Delhi and other parts of India to cover the situation here.
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| Move to encourage entrepreneurship among minorities Posted: 08 Jul 2010 08:28 AM PDT By IANS New Delhi: The government Thursday approved an increase of Rs.5,000 crore in the authorised share capital of a state-controlled finance corporation to encourage entrepreneurship among the minorities. The capital of the National Minorities Development Finance Corporation (NMDFC) has been raised to Rs.1,500 crore from Rs.1,000 crore, Minister of Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni told reporters here, after the cabinet took the decision.
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| Politics of competitive communalism, says BJP of Kashmir situation Posted: 08 Jul 2010 08:26 AM PDT By IANS, New Delhi: The "explosive" situation in the Kashmir Valley is the result of the "politics of competitive communalism" between the National Conference and the opposition PDP and the lack of timely action by the central government, which was in turn being exploited by Pakistan, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Thursday. The BJP demanded that the central government identify the role of Pakistani agencies "in sponsoring and financing these protests through separatists".
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| Tenuous calm in Srinagar, Kashmir Valley as curfew continues Posted: 08 Jul 2010 08:23 AM PDT By IANS, Srinagar: A tenuous peace prevailed in Srinagar and the Kashmir Valley with no major incident of violence reported Thursday, as the army conducted flag marches for the second day to enforce the indefinite curfew imposed after several deaths when security forces fired on violent protesters. "There was no relaxation in the indefinite curfew that was imposed here Wednesday. People stayed indoors and the law and order situation was under control throughout the Valley," a senior police officer told IANS Thursday evening.
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| Srinagar journalist barred from meeting family Posted: 08 Jul 2010 08:11 AM PDT By IANS, Srinagar: A journalist whose wife and two daughters fainted after teargas seeped into their house has been prevented from meeting them for two days after curfew passes were declared invalid. Izhar Wani of the French news agency AFP has been desperate to get home to meet his wife and daughters Saira, 10, and Saba, 6. All three were alone at their home in Sringar's Sunwar area when a teargas shell burst with a loud bang on their front lawn Tuesday. Before they could realise what happened, the gas seeped into the house.
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| Attack on Kerala Professor: PFI on the defensive Posted: 08 Jul 2010 07:18 AM PDT By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent Kochi: The recent attack on the professor, accused in the question paper controversy of insulting Prophet Muhammed, has put the Popular Front of India on the defensive in Kerala. The police may even reconsider its decision to give permission for the Freedom Parade that the PFI has been carrying out for the past several years.
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| Special Centres: AMU house seems not in order Posted: 08 Jul 2010 07:16 AM PDT By TCN News, Aligarh: All is not well with the powerful bodies of Aligarh Muslim University as far as the proposed off-campus centres are concerned. The special meeting of the Executive Council of AMU held today was adjourned without any work on the issue of the official term to be given to the centres.
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| Attack on professor was planned: Kerala DGP Posted: 08 Jul 2010 07:16 AM PDT By TwoCircels.net Staff Correspondent Kochi: The attack on Professor TJ Joseph was a planned and organized one, said Kerala state DGP Jacob Punnoose. He was talking to media persons today after visiting the place where the professor was attacked.
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| Kashmir: No cruelty towards innocents, says Kanthapuram to minister Posted: 08 Jul 2010 07:13 AM PDT By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent Kozhikode: The measures taken by the army in Kashmir should not turn to be cruelty against innocents, said Kanthapuram AP Aboobaker Musliyar, national general secretary of Sunni Jam'iyathul Ulema, to Mullappalli Ramachandran, Minister of State for Home Affairs. Kanthapuram made the request while visiting the minister in New Delhi.
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| ISNA Convention Sends Message of Compassion & Mercy Posted: 08 Jul 2010 07:09 AM PDT by Ayub Khan for TwoCircles.net Chicago, IL: Speakers at the largest continental Islamic conference here emphasized compassion and mercy as the hallmark of the faith and urged American Muslims to play a leading role in promoting these noble values. The theme for the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)'s convention was 'Nurturing Compassionate Communities.' Held at the familiar Rosemont Convention Center, near Chicago, from July 2-5, 2010 it attracted thousands of Muslims from across the country. 
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| Share capital of minorities financial institution hiked Posted: 08 Jul 2010 07:05 AM PDT By IANS New Delhi: The government Thursday approved a hike in the authorised share capital of the National Minorities Development Finance Corporation (NMDFC) from Rs.1,000 crore to Rs.1,500 crore to enable the company to lend more to people of the minority communities. NMDFC's schemes are targeted at the economic uplift of people of minority communities living below the poverty line through self-employment. NMDFC expects to cater to 87,984 beneficiaries during fiscal year 2010-11.
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| Justice Eqbal initiative: TN family courts to work on weekend also Posted: 08 Jul 2010 07:00 AM PDT By Shafee Ahmed Ko, TwoCircles.net, Chennai: For fast disposal of pending cases in Family Courts in Tamil Nadu, Chief Justice of Madras High Court Y.M. Eqbal has asked all six family courts in the state to work on Saturdays also besides weekdays. If necessary, the courts will function on Sundays as well. The courts will work accordingly from coming Saturday (10th July).
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| Army won't be in Srinagar for long: Chidambaram Posted: 08 Jul 2010 06:58 AM PDT By IANS New Delhi: Expressing the hope that the army would not be required in the Kashmir Valley for too long, Home Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday said it was being deployed as a deterrent to help police and paramilitary forces maintain law and order in curfew-bound Srinagar. As strict restrictions continued in many parts of the troubled valley, Chidambaram said Kashmir was peaceful barring "two very minor incidents" of violence Wednesday. "So far today (Thursday) I have not received any reports of any incident," the home minister told reporters here.
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| Curfew continue in Srinagar, newspapers hit their publication Posted: 08 Jul 2010 06:56 AM PDT By Sheikh Imran Bashir, Agence India Press Srinagar: Curfew continued in Srinagar and many other major towns of the Kashmir Valley for the second consecutive day on Thursday. "The situation is under control even though late in the evening there were some protests mostly in Masjids in some localities," police said. Srinagar city is under lockdown Thursday as thousands of soldiers patrolled the streets to enforce a rigid curfew aimed at ending weeks of violent anti-government protests.
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| Army in Srinagar a deterrent: Chidambaram Posted: 08 Jul 2010 06:54 AM PDT By IANS New Delhi: Home Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday said the army was deployed in Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir as a "deterrent", with the police and paramilitary forces maintaining the law and order there. "The army has been kept ready. The purpose of deployment of the army was a deterrent effect. Police and paramilitary forces are maintaining the law and order," Chidambaram told reporters here.
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| Indefinite curfew continues in Kashmir Posted: 08 Jul 2010 06:50 AM PDT By IANS Srinagar: An indefinite curfew, enforced with the army's assistance following violent protests that led to four deaths two days ago, continued Thursday in Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar and other major towns of the valley. Seventeen columns of army soldiers conducted flag marches Wednesday to restore order in Srinagar which witnessed one of its worst public outrage and violence Tuesday when four civilians were killed in clashes between mobs and security forces.
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