Indian Muslims

  • Aurangabad, a beautiful and historically important city: Farah Pandith
    By TwoCircles.net staff reporter Aurangabad: "I will understand the problems being faced by Muslim organisations and here and apprise US president about them," said Farah Pandith. Farah Pandith who is president Obama's special representative to Muslim communities was in Aurangabad on her two day ...
  • JK Bank for loans to educated unemployed youth
    bY Agence India Press Srinagar: In a significant development, J&K Bank had adopted Seed capital fund scheme of government of Jammu and Kashmir to provide hassle free finance to the unemployed educated youth in the state. In this regard, the bank, in its board meeting held on August 30, 2010 ha...
  • Hundreds of Wakf properties in Delhi illegally encroached by ASI
    By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: There are around 158 Wakf properties in Delhi which are under the illegal encroachment of Archeological Survey of India. Delhi Wakf Board (DWB) has accepted this fact, in reply to an RTI query by Afroz Alam Sahil, an RTI activist. Most of these pro...
  • Amit Shah challenges apex court's handing over of Sohrabbudin case to CBI
    By IANS, New Delhi : Gujarat's former minister of state for home Amit Shah has moved the Supreme Court questioning its Jan 12, 2010, judgment handing over the investigations into the Sohrabuddin Sheikh-Kausar Bi abduction and killing case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Shah, now...
  • Police oppose bail to Maudany, final hearing on Sep 6
    By IANS, Bangalore : Karnataka police Thursday opposed granting bail to People's Democratic Party chief Abdul Nasir Maudany, now in jail here for alleged involvement in the 2008 serial explosions in Bangalore. Maudany, arrested by the state police from his camp in Kerala Aug 17, has sought bai...
  • Arrest Geelani for fomenting Kashmir trouble: Jethmalani
    By IANS, Mumbai : Senior jurist and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ram Jethmalani Thursday demanded the immediate arrest of Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani, who he alleged is on Pakistan's payroll and responsible for the current unrest in Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing mediapersons...
  • Curfew continues in Anantnag, restrictions in Srinagar
    By Sheikh Imran Bashir, Agence India Press Srinagar: Srinagar: Life was again crippled in the Kashmir valley due to general strike, called by breakaway Hurriyat Conference (G), and curfew restrictions in some parts. Shops and business establishments remained closed today, after doing brisk...
  • Action demanded against culprits who brutally attacked Delhi blast accused
    By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: The Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association (JTSA) has demanded that the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) take suo motu cognizance of the claims made in the court by Delhi blasts accused Salman that he was brutally attacked in Tihar jail. T...
  • Indian Muslims to express solidarity with the Palestinian people on Int’l Qods Day
    By IRNA, New Delhi:Indian Muslims across the country will stage protest rallies for the liberation of Masjid Al-Aqsa on International Qods Day (September 3rd). Founder of Iran's Islamic Revolution late Imam Khomeini designated the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan (Muslims fasting mont...
  • Selective ban by Britain and US
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  • Selective ban by Britain and US
    By M GhazaliKhan  Someof the well known international figures who have undergone tough and hum...
  • The dilemma of Jamaat-e-Islami in a secular India
    By Dr Wasim Ahmad, I studied in a madrasah, Jami‘atul Falah, which has many nice objectives written down (http://www.jamiatulfalah.org/). Besides, however, the written objectives of Jami‘atul Falah, there is one more (implied) objective. It is to prepare individuals for Jamaa‘at-e-Islami (Tahreek-e-Islami ke liye afraad tayyaar karna). This is because the Jami‘atul Falah was founded by the members of Jamaa‘at-e-Islami Hind. I find a paradox here, thou...
  • UPA government’s financial inclusion policy and economic empowerment of Muslims
    By Tameemuddin Humble The vast majority of the Muslim population in India is chronically poor and destitute and cannot avail the welfare schemes of the government meant for them through the formal financial institutions. Muslim access to banking services The financial exclusion of the community is further proved with the recent reports that 50,000 Muslim students in Bihar and 90,000 in Andhra Pradesh could not open the bank accounts to deposit their scholarship cheques. The com...
  • MPs' salary hike: Do they have a case?
    By M.R. Madhavan,IANS, The Lok Sabha has passed the bill to revise the salary of members of parliament. Much of the debate in the media has been on the wealth of current MPs and the lack of accountability. It is important to focus as well on structural issues related to remunerating legislators. Under the bill, the base salary of MPs is being raised to Rs.50,000 from Rs.16,000 per month. The daily allowance paid to MPs when they attend parliament is being hiked to Rs.2,000 from Rs.1,000. T...
  • The bloody game in Kashmir: How far will it run?
    By Mohammad Shafi, It happened 18 years ago, when I was hardly 8. I still remember it as if it happened today. Afzal Mamu, a kind hearted man living in a nearby house, possessing a bright, peaceful and hopeful face, keeping always a small home-made purse with him in which he used to keep small tasty Kashmiri apples, sometimes Kashmiri nuts and pears to offer us. Whenever it was holiday, my friends and I used to spend maximum hours of the day with him. My parents were well aware that...
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