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- Kashmir death toll rises to 62, protests continue
- Shamsur Rahman Faruqi honoured by Pakistan’s civilian award Sitara-i-Imtiaz
- APCR condemns civilian killings in Kashmir
- Triumphant Shireen steps into Aliah University without veil
- Muslim scholar gets Sadhbhavana Award
- Aligarh Education Endowment Fund announces scholarship for poor students
- I am an Indian at heart: Shah Rukh
- Ambur’s young philanthropist Nattamkar Farook Ahmed
- 28-year-old protester killed in Kashmir, toll rises to 62
- TMMK demands 3% quota for Muslims in Puducherry
- Udaipur riot: Muslim groups demand Home Minister’s exit
- Policemen suspended for cremating Muslim
- Teenager killed in Kashmir, toll 61
- Maudany: Accusations because of absence of untoward incidents – Kerala Home Minister
- Accusation against PFI: Lok Sabha adjourned
- Arguments of three more Delhi blasts accused over
- Gujarat riots: SIT to probe officials' inaction
- Terrorism connection: Court finds no evidence against Kashmiri youth in Kerala
- 'Jamia's centre for culture has potential for excellence'
- CBI’s key witness in Sohrabuddin case turns hostile
- Victims of Bazardiha indiscriminate police firing honored
- ‘PFI threatens NSS’ – news; PFI and NSS refute
- An analysis of Azad Fellows 2010
| Kashmir death toll rises to 62, protests continue Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:35 AM PDT by Sheikh Imran Bashir, Agence India Press Srinagar: The fresh tension erupts in Kashmir valley after the death of two civilians. One man has been killed in firing in Anantnag district today and a teenager was killed in Sopore last night. In Sopore, the police have registered a murder case against the CRPF for the first time since the recent spate of civilian deaths in Kashmir began, after the death of 18-year-old Mudassir Nazir in pellet firing.
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| Shamsur Rahman Faruqi honoured by Pakistan’s civilian award Sitara-i-Imtiaz Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:03 AM PDT By TCN News New Delhi: Eminent Urdu critic and writer Shamsur Rahman Faruqi has been honoured by the Pakistani government by giving its third most highest civilian award "Sitara-i-Imtiaz." Faruqi edited Urdu literary magazine "Shabkhoon" which was published regularly for forty years before ceasing publication in 2005. In 2009 he was awarded "Padma Shri" by the Indian government for his work in the field of literature. Link: http://www.shamsurrahmanfaruqi.com/
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| APCR condemns civilian killings in Kashmir Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT By TCN News, New Delhi: The Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) has strongly condemned the In the past 10 weeks more than 60 Kashmiris, mostly youth, have lost their lives at the hand of
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| Triumphant Shireen steps into Aliah University without veil Posted: 20 Aug 2010 08:48 AM PDT By Adnan Alavi, Shireen Madiha has finally stepped into the university on her conditions. She had refused to bow down to the union's diktat that every woman teacher will have to wear a burqa on campus. Now she has succeeded and the union is forced to accept its defeat. Shireen [her name wrongly appeared as Sirin Middya in some newspapers] had invited the ire of the students' union in Kolkata's Aliah University, where she taught Bangla literature, for not wearing the veil.
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| Muslim scholar gets Sadhbhavana Award Posted: 20 Aug 2010 08:36 AM PDT By IANS, New Delhi : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday that India needs the services of people who work for strengthening social unity. Presenting the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadhbhavana Award to noted Islamic scholar Maulana Wahidudddin Khan, the prime minister said the award is given every year to a personality who had contributed to increasing social unity. He said that former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had taken "unprecedented initiatives to sign accords and start dialogue to end strifes in different parts of the country".
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| Aligarh Education Endowment Fund announces scholarship for poor students Posted: 20 Aug 2010 07:31 AM PDT By TCN News New Delhi: Aligarh Education Endowment Fund (AEEF) announces the Excellence in Education through Scholarships Scheme for 2010-2011 to bring about a transformation in the lives of academically brilliant and economically underprivileged students.
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| I am an Indian at heart: Shah Rukh Posted: 20 Aug 2010 07:05 AM PDT By IANS, New Delhi : Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan doesn't seem to shy away when it comes to expressing his sentiments for the nation. Describing his nationality, Shah Rukh tweeted: "I am half Hyderabadi (mom) half Pathan(Dad), some Kashmiri (grandmom). Born in Delhi, live in Mumbai. Have a punjabi wife and own Kolkata (India Premier League) team. Indian at heart (sic)." The 44-year-old is currently shooting in Hyderabad and feels nostalgic with his visit to the city after 12 years.
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| Ambur’s young philanthropist Nattamkar Farook Ahmed Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:59 AM PDT By Shafee Ahmed Ko, TwoCircles.net, The Town of Ambur (Vellore Dist) has a devout young man whose duty, as he feels, is only to honour the great scholars in Islam and serve them to his best. He has constructed a mosque, runs schools and he feels only to hallow the name of Allah. Himself being Hafiz-e-Quran, he wishes that youngsters become Hafiz along with the modern education.
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| 28-year-old protester killed in Kashmir, toll rises to 62 Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:36 AM PDT By IANS, Srinagar : A 28-year-old man was killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district Friday when security forces opened fire at a mob attacking a local police station. With this, the toll of civilians in the ongoing unrest since June 11 rose to 62. "A violent mob first attacked shopkeepers who opened for the day's business in Bijbehara town forcing closure of the markets there. Then they attacked Bijbehara police station and indulged in stone pelting, forcing security forces to use rubber bullets to quell the protesters," a senior police officer told IANS.
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| TMMK demands 3% quota for Muslims in Puducherry Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:30 AM PDT By Shafee Ahmed Ko, TwoCircles.net, Chennai: Prof. M.H. Jawahirullah, President, Tamilnadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam, has demanded 3% reservation for Muslims in Puducherry while terming as meager the 2% reservation for the community announced recently by the state government. Puducherry Chief Minister Mr. Vaidiyalingam has announced that his government will give Muslims 2 percent quota from within the quota for the Backward classes.
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| Udaipur riot: Muslim groups demand Home Minister’s exit Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:27 AM PDT By TCN News, Jaipur: Rajasthan Muslim Forum, the umbrella body of prominent Muslim organizations in the state, has demanded resignation of Home Minister Shanti Dhariwal of Congress government in Rajasthan for the Udaipur riot which rendered hundreds of people homeless last month. Rajasthan Muslim Forum along with human rights and social organizations held a demonstration at Badi Chauper in Jaipur recently where as many as 60 affected persons from Sarada village in Udaipur district narrated their story of pain and how a fight between two criminals was given communal color.
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| Policemen suspended for cremating Muslim Posted: 20 Aug 2010 01:57 AM PDT By IANS, Patna : Two police officers have been suspended here after a Muslim banker found dead near a park was mistakenly identified as a beggar and cremated according to Hindu rites. The body of Mohd Ishrafil, a 46-year-old State Bank of India official, was recovered near Gandhi Maidan last week. He was cremated within three hours. According to police, Ishrafil's body was cremated after officials assumed he was a beggar. "It was a big mistake on the part of the police," an officer admitted Friday.
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| Teenager killed in Kashmir, toll 61 Posted: 20 Aug 2010 01:20 AM PDT By IANS, Srinagar : Thousands of people defied curfew in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore town Friday morning after an 18-year-old succumbed to his injuries sustained in firing by security forces, taking the civilian toll since June 11 to 61, officials said. Mudasir Nazir, 18, was killed and two people were hurt when Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers opened fire Thursday evening after a violent mob attacked their picket in Sopore town, about 50 km from here, police said.
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| Maudany: Accusations because of absence of untoward incidents – Kerala Home Minister Posted: 20 Aug 2010 01:10 AM PDT By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent, Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has come up justifying the government and police in the developments that led to the arrest of PDP chairman Abdunnasir Maudany. The government has been criticised from certain corners on its dealing of the Maudany issue, even as Maudany himself and the Karnataka police praised the way the Kerala police dealt the matter.
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| Accusation against PFI: Lok Sabha adjourned Posted: 19 Aug 2010 11:50 PM PDT By TCN News, New Delhi: The CPI (M) accusations against the Popular Front of India in the Lok Sabha led to disruptions and later adjournment of the house for half an hour yesterday. MB Rajesh, CPI (M) MP from Kerala, said in the Zero Hour that the centre should investigate into the allegations against the PFI. His naming of certain parties 'that helped terrorists' irritated some UPA MPs who protested against his remarks. The disruptions finally led to the adjournment of the house.
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| Arguments of three more Delhi blasts accused over Posted: 19 Aug 2010 11:19 PM PDT By IANS, New Delhi : The arguments by the defence counsel of three more of the 14 accused in the Sep 13, 2008 Delhi serial blasts case ended Thursday, with all contending there was no evidence to prove their guilt. With these, the arguments for seven of the accused - all represented by lawyer M.S. Khan, are over. Those for the remaining seven will start Sep 27. Appearing for Sadiq Sheikh, Zia ul Rehman and Qayamuddin Kapadia, Khan argued that no circumstantial evidence is available in their case.
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| Gujarat riots: SIT to probe officials' inaction Posted: 19 Aug 2010 11:18 PM PDT By IANS, New Delhi : The Supreme Court Thursday permitted the Special Investigating Team (SIT) probing the 2002 post-Godhra riot cases in Gujarat to investigate allegations of inaction by the state government during the carnage at Ahmedabad's Gulberg Society. The court order came on a complaint filed by Zakia Nasim, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jaffri burnt alive by a mob at the society, alleging a larger conspiracy behind inaction of the state government machinery.
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| Terrorism connection: Court finds no evidence against Kashmiri youth in Kerala Posted: 19 Aug 2010 11:06 PM PDT By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent, Peerumed: A Kerala court yesterday stated that there was no evidence for any terrorism connection of the Kashmiri youth Althaf Ahmed Khan who has been living in the state for the last eight years. The order of the Perumed Judicial First Class Magistrate Court put an end to the terrorism allegation put on Althaf by the police and media.
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| 'Jamia's centre for culture has potential for excellence' Posted: 19 Aug 2010 10:45 PM PDT By IANS, New Delhi : In a survey conducted by Bangalore's India Foundation for the Arts, Jamia Millia Islamia University's "Centre for Culture, Media & Governance" (CCMG) has been rated as a "Centre with Potential for Excellence". The survey called "Arts and Humanities Research Mapping, India" has listed 12 such centres in the country with CCMG being one of them.
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| CBI’s key witness in Sohrabuddin case turns hostile Posted: 19 Aug 2010 09:58 PM PDT By TCN Staff Reporter, Ahmadabad: In a major setback to the Central Bureau of Investigation's probe of the Sohrabuddin Sheikh-Kausar Bi murder case, one of its main witnesses retracted from a critical disclosure he had made before CBI. Noor Mohammed Ghoghari, who is also accused in the Popular Builder firing case, made an unexpected appearance before the Ahmadabad sessions court on Wednesday, 18th of August and said he had not given any statement to the CBI. In fact he counter-charged the agency with torture and pressure to extract a statement of their choice from him.
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| Victims of Bazardiha indiscriminate police firing honored Posted: 19 Aug 2010 09:54 PM PDT By TCN Staff Reporter, Varanasi (UP): It was a testimony which moved the audience to tears. When Abdul Rahman started narrating the terrible experience, people remembered that fateful day which created many chapters of pain in their lives. He was referring to the indiscriminate police firing in Bazardiha on a peaceful and innocent Muslim crowd on March 11, 2009 during the festival of Holi. Two youths Mohammad Moin Akhtar (22) and Khalik-uj-jama (19) died in that barbaric incident 
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| ‘PFI threatens NSS’ – news; PFI and NSS refute Posted: 19 Aug 2010 09:44 PM PDT By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent, Kottayam: The Popular Front of India and the Nair Service Society refuted the news report that the former had threatened the latter. The report had come as breaking news in a Malayalam tabloid.
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| An analysis of Azad Fellows 2010 Posted: 19 Aug 2010 01:29 PM PDT More than half are female students By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net With the aim to gear up students from Minority communities in the field of higher education, Government of India has launched 'Maulana Abul Kalam Azad National Fellowship' from this year which will encourage and financially help them. Community ratio
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