Brutal Khaki: Bilal Sheikh sent to jail two days after he came out of ICU

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Construction at Musharraf's ancestral house in Delhi stirs row

By IANS, New Delhi: The demolition of a portion of former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf's ancestral home, Neharwali Haveli in Old Delhi's Daryaganj, has stirred a row with the legality of the construction coming under question. Archaeological experts say that while the building could be a...
Chidambaram denies bias against Myanmar refugees

By IANS, New Delhi: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday denied any discrimination against Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar on the basis of religion and said they would be dealt with as per guidelines. Speaking during zero hour after some members expresed concern over the refugees who...
Brutal Khaki: Bilal Sheikh sent to jail two days after he came out of ICU

By TCN Staff Reporter, Mumbai: The brutal face of Maharashtra police was exposed Wednesday afternoon when they sent to jail Bilal Abdul Qadir Sheikh just two days after he came out of ICU. Bilal was brutally beaten by Thane police on May 2 just for breaking a traffic signal. He suffered serious...
Out of 2.18 lakh refugees in India, 2 lakh are Tibetans and Sri Lankans

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Asylum seekers must not be seen from religious angle while granting or refusing them refugee status in any country. These people flee their homeland sometimes seeking freedom from political tyranny or intensive religious discrimination and sometimes...
Kuwait brings middle-eastern culture to India

By IANS, New Delhi : A week-long panorama of Kuwaiti culture which opened in the capital May 15 has for the first time brought arts, crafts and performing traditions of the ancient port-nation to India to strengthen people-to-people cultural ties between the two countries. The culture showcase,...
Moon Sighting: Hijra Committee prepares a scientific lunar calendar

By Abdul Basith MA, TwoCircles.net, Kozhikode: Fixing the dates for Ramzan and Eid has remained a topic of confusion and sometimes hot argument among Muslims across the world. Certain leaders of Muslim organisations, Ulema and Qazis own the ‘power’ to decide up on the starting of a lunar month and...
AMU Kishanganj: Hopes for start of session in 2012 hanging in balance

By Md Mudassir Alam, The proposal of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) special centre is delaying with various reasons especially due to lack of coordination between the central and state governments. The project which was made public by the former Vice Chancellor of AMU Prof P K Abdul Azis in the...

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Rural restaurants for food security - and jobs too

By Anil K. Rajvanshi, IANS, In every religion, culture and civilization, feeding the poor and hungry is considered amongst the most noble deeds. In the Hindu religion, for instance, one is able to do one's 'punya' (good work) by feeding the poor. However, such large-scale feeding will require huge investment in both resources and time. A better alternative is to create conditions by which proper...
Can AMU do a Saturn?

By Shakeel Ahmad for TwoCircles.net Change is an essential ingredient for innovation; change in status quo must be the way of life for those who wish to experience the taste of progress, savour the flavor of growth, transcend into an advanced realm of being. Change is what the Creator has pleaded throughout the existence of universe, through prophets and their teachings, through eco-systems of...
Lt. General Zameeruddin Shah: New hope for AMU

By Jasim Mohammad, At last the Aligarh Muslim University has got a responsible and dedicated man as Vice-Chancellor. Lt. General (Retd.) Zameeruddin Shah has been appointed the Vice-Chancellor and the AMU community particularly saner elements among students and teachers have hope that the university will again achieve new heights of academic excellence. Often people think that Lt. General...
Nazir Hussain: From INA to Bollywood

By Danish Khan, Nazir Hussain, the famous character artist was born on May 15, 1922 in a small village of Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur district. Hussain, now long forgotten, acted in more than 400 movies and is considered as the Pitamah of Bhojpuri cinema. Much before it became fashionable and productive, Hussain was instrumental in the making of first Bhojpuri film 'Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari Chadhaibo...
Blanket State Policy to put Muslims within 3% in Civil Services

By Syed Zubair Ahmad, When Hamdard Study Circle was founded by Hakeem Abdul Hameed in 1992 for the preparation of students of weaker section of society, particularly Muslims, for Civil Services Examination, Syed Hamid, the ex-vice chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University and an I.A.S himself was very excited at that moment. For him a dream was going to be materialized in few years. Syed Hamid was...
Haj Subsidy: Religious and constitutional aspects

By Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood, Unlike the other four basic pillars of Islam, Haj is not obligatory for every Muslim. In fact it is simply not possible for each Muslim in the world to become a Haji. If 2.5 million Muslims perform Haj each year, still more than one billion Muslim population of the world would need at least four centuries to perform Haj, whereas the generation changes in much less than a...
Politics through Food Habits

By Ram Puniyani, In the middle of April 2012 Osmania University (OU) witnessed an unusual violence on the issue of eating beef. A section of dalit students’ were demanding that University Hostels should have beef on the menu. They also organized a beef festival in which a large number of students ate beef biryani. The festivity was not to last long as the ABVP, the student wing of RSS, created...

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