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Indian Americans condemn Saudi award for Prime Minister Modi

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Award defies logic given Modi’s record before and after taking office as Prime Minister By TCN News, Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy...

Floods in Sri Lanka displace more than 1.2 mn

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Speaking of human rights in a ‘Resisting Valley’: Kashmir before the UN Review

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By Mohammed Sirajuddeen for Twocircles.net The Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review (Third Cycle) of the 27th session is going to be held in early...

Protest in Boston against arbitrary arrest of human rights defenders in India

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By TCN News: Boston, MA, US: Over 50 people assembled at Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to protest against the arbitrary arrests of human rights defenders...

US sponsors excavation project at Qutub Shahi Tombs

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Hyderabad: The US is sponsoring an excavation project at the famous Qutub Shahi Tombs here with a grant of $101,612, it was announced here...

US-based NGO helps Kashmiri student become first in village to study engineering

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By TCN News Srinagar: Ghulam Haider Lone, who lives in a village in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, started losing sleep after his...

SIO and Bhasha-O-Chetana Samity organise candle light vigils, denounce Paris attacks

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By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net Kolkata: The Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) and Bhasha-O-Chetana Samity organised candle light vigils in Kolkata on Sunday to show...

California removes Islamophobic contents from syllabus and corrects Islamic history

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State Board of Education accepts some of the recommendations from scholars to reverse Islamophobic edits pushed by US based Hindu nationalist groups By TCN News, California:...

Another Indian Canadian killed in drug gang war?

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By IANS, Vancouver : Yet another Indian Canadian man appears to have perished in the drug gang war here, but police are yet to confirm if this is indeed the case. Twentynine-year-old Sarbjit (Steve) Nagra Friday drove his bullet-riddled SUV to a hospital in Maple Ridge, about 40 km from here, after he was shot. Dragging himself to the emergency room of the hospital, he told the doctors that he had been shot. After initial treatment, he was shifted to the Royal Columbian Hospital near here. But Nagra succumbed to his gun shots.

Nepalese thorn will only get worse for India

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By Amitava Mukherjee Among the chattering diplomatic community of New Delhi, Nepalese Ambassador Deep Kumar Upadhyay is certainly one of the exceptions. A suave,...

Jamia Millia introduces nine new courses for admission in academic session 2016-2017

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By TwoCircles.net, Staff Reporter New Delhi: In a significant move aimed at increasing the courses available in Jamia Millia Islamia, the varsity...

Hunt continues for Nepal’s slain king’s fabled wealth

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By Sudeshna Sarkar, IANS Kathmandu : Six years after the murder of Nepal's king Birendra and his entire family inside the tightly guarded palace in Kathmandu, a new mystery has arisen about the enigmatic royals. Where did the fabled wealth possessed by the king, his queen Aishwarya and two sons vanish? A team of ministers searching for the properties of the four has been able to trace only about 35,000 pounds.

Harvard India Conference sees protests against Rohith Vemula’s suicide

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By TCN News, Cambridge (USA): The 13th annual edition of the Harvard India conference saw protests against the death of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit research...

Protests across Asia over Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingyas

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Dhaka, (IANS): Thousands of people took to the streets across Asia to denounce Myanmar's treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority as some 290,000 of...

More family members desert Nepal’s deposed king

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By IANS, Kathmandu : His son and controversial former crown prince Paras was the first member of Nepal's disgraced former royal family to leave his motherland after the abolition of the 239-year-old institution of monarchy. After the playboy former royal's exit from Nepal last month for greener pastures in Singapore, his wife, erstwhile crown princess Himani, and their three minor young children followed suit within a fortnight. Now deposed king Gyanendra's remaining child, daughter Prerana, has also followed her brother.

Will growing seagrass beds bring back rare sea cows to Chilika?

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By Jatindra Dash, IANS, Chilika (Orissa): Wild life experts are hoping the highly endangered dugong or sea cow could again come visiting Orissa's Chilika Lake, thanks to the expanding beds of sea grass growing in the shallow waters - a critical requirement for the big marine animal. Seagrass meadows are the only marine flowering plants found in shallow waters. They serve as spawning and nursery grounds for a large numbers of fish and invertebrate species, and provide a critical habitat for dugongs and turtles.

Nearly 8 months after fire destroyed their camp in Delhi, Rohingya refugees await basic...

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Scores of Rohingya families living at a makeshift camp in near New Delhi’s Madanpur Khadar area are living a meagre existence, with poor access...

Close to 6,000 poor patients treated free by IMRC in 12 days in three...

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Kerala:The 7th annual India Health Initiative-2016, a program created by US-based NGO India Muslim Relief and Charities (IMRC) to...

Sir Syed Day 2014 in San Francisco Bay Area

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By Ras H. Siddiqui, TwoCircles.net, San Francisco: The Aligarh Muslim University Alumni Association of Northern California carried on its annual tradition of holding Sir Syed Day in the San Francisco Bay Area with a fine evening of cultural expression, reflection and entertainment at the ICC in Milpitas on Saturday, September 20th.

Haj stampede: Two Indian officials reach accident site

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New Delhi: Two Indian officials have reached the site of the accident near Makkah as one Indian woman was reported to be among the...

Breaking News: Imran Khan ready to talk to Modi: Pakistan Foreign Minister

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Islamabad, Feb 28 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is ready to talk to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi over telephone "to extend an...

Berlusconi as Superman is his Christmas gift to grandchildren

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By DPA, Rome : Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gave his grandchildren an early Christmas present: a Superman-like doll with facial features resembling his own. "My grandchildren now really feel like the descendants of a super- hero," Berlusconi was quoted as saying Thursday by the online site, Tgcom. The 72-year-old Berlusconi, a twice married father of five and grandfather of four, made the revelation during a Christmas party held for employees of Palazzo Chigi, the Rome-based office of Italian prime ministers.

Court sentences serial predator and rapist to 42 years

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By DPA, Singapore : A Singapore court sentenced a serial predator and rapist to 42 years in jail Tuesday, the longest prison sentence handed down to a sexual offender in the city state so far, a news report said. Bala Kuppusamy was also ordered to be caned the maximum fine of 24 strokes. Between April and June, the 48-year-old man robbed and sexually assaulted seven women who were walking alone at night, the online edition of Straits Times newspaper reported.

A letter to Rohith Vemula from a young Muslim

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Mahtab Alam for Twocircles.net Dear Rohith, I am not sure how or whether this letter will ever reach you. However, after reading and rereading your heartbreaking...

Discrimination pervading life of stateless minorities: UN

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Geneva, (IANS): Discrimination, exclusion and persecution are still pervading the life of the world's stateless minorities and immediate actions are needed to secure equal rights...

2 dead in serial blasts in Kathmandu

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By Sudeshna Sarkar, IANS Kathmandu : At least two people were killed and dozens injured after a series of bomb blasts in at least five busy areas of Kathmandu valley Sunday, a year after the Maoists signed a peace pact with the government and ended their violent guerrilla war. Early reports said four people including two women were killed and over two dozens injured in the blasts. However, only two deaths were confirmed till late evening. Some of the busiest areas in the capital, Balaju, Tundikhel and Tripureshwor, were targeted by unknown attackers.

False evidence given against me in Nepal apex court: Sobhraj

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By Sudeshna Sarkar, IANS Kathmandu : Charles Sobhraj, accused of being a serial killer, has alleged that state lawyers have pulled a fraud on Nepal's Supreme Court by tabling a privately made documentary as Interpol evidence of his guilt to prevent him from winning an appeal against a life term.

Large protest outside Madison Square Garden ask Modi to end repression of minorities; erosion...

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By TCN News, New York, NY: They came in large numbers, represented different faiths and ideological persuasions, and from across the United States. Protesters outside the Madison Square Garden event today in New York City, came to stand up for seclarism, and to convey some firm and simple demands to visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, under the banner of "Alliance for Justice and Accountability."

Dubai honours Indian expat for ‘green message’

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By IANS Dubai : The Dubai Municipality has honoured a 10-year-old Indian expat who turned his love for the World Cup into an innovative way to...

Muslim Congresswoman experiences increase in death threats

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Washington, April 15 (IANS) Muslim Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has said that in the days since President Donald Trump tweeted about a speech she gave...

Experts express concern over India’s downgrading to ‘electoral autocracy’ and ‘Partly Free Country’ in...

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Recent reports by international groups have pointed out that India has turned from "the world’s largest democracy to an ‘electoral autocracy", and said that from being...

Contender for Syedna title, Khuzaima Qutbuddin dies in US

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Mumbai : Khuzaima Qutbuddin, the claimant to the title of 53rd Dai al-Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohra community, has passed away in the US,...

AID: Twenty-five years of Sangharsh, Seva, and Nirman

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By Suresh Ediga for TwoCircles.net Courage, Commitment, and Change or Sangharsh, Seva, and Nirman are the guiding principles of Association for India’s Development (AID). AID...

Nepal Maoists fear ‘dirty’ horse-trade ahead of poll

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By Sudeshna Sarkar, IANS, Kathmandu : Nepal's Maoist party, which last year won a historic election as well as the prime ministerial race, Saturday said it feared "dirty horse-trading" by its opponents with money flowing to buy their way to power in the upcoming poll. Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, who cancelled his engagement to attend the 2,553rd birth anniversary of Gautam Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, to instead address the first national rally of people still searching for relatives missing during the armed insurrection.

Ashoka Pillar now stands tall in Australia

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By Neena Bhandari, IANS, Sydney : It has been hailed as historic. A five-metre-high Ashoka Pillar now stands at a monastery located midway between Sydney and Canberra, in a celebration of the spread of Buddhism from India to Australia. Believed to be the first in Australia, the Ashoka Pillar has been installed at the Sunnataram Forest Monastery in the verdant surroundings of Southern Highlands.

Pentagon developing stealthy sensors for bat-inspired spy plane

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By IANS Washington : A tiny six-inch spy plane modelled on a bat would gather data from sights, sounds and smells in urban combat zones and transmit information back to soldiers in real time. University of Michigan (U-M) Centre for Objective Microelectronics and Bio-mimetic Advanced Technology (COM-BAT) will develop sensors, communication tools and batteries for the US Army for this micro-aerial vehicle that's been dubbed "the bat".

After Pashupati, Tirupati hits headlines in Nepal

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By Sudeshna Sarkar, IANS, Kathmandu : Lord Pashupatinath will have to submit his earnings to an auditing committee and have his priests appointed on the basis of a competitive exam. As the times change in Nepal, transforming the world's only Hindu kingdom into a Maoist-ruled republic, now it remains to be seen if another Hindu religious icon, Lord Tirupatinath, will be summoned for being "accessory" to a string of daring crimes that shook Nepal's business community last year.

Leaving East Germany – as easy as Alpha, Bravo, Charlie?

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By Helen Maguire, DPA, Berlin : In the winter of 1962, just months after the Berlin Wall was built, bus driver and war veteran Hans Weidner decided he was fed up with life in East Germany. Weidner equipped his passenger bus with metal plates and, on a bitterly cold Christmas Day, charged through the Drewitz border crossing into West Berlin, with two families on board. This is just one of many Cold War experiences that Peter Boeger, head of the Checkpoint Bravo foundation, hopes to preserve.

Helicopter crash in Peru kills 10

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By DPA Lima : Ten people were killed when a helicopter of mining giant Rio Tinto crashed in central Peru, according to media reports. Television channel Canal N reported Wednesday that rescue teams found the wreckage of the chopper in the Sexi district of the Cajamarca province, some 700 km northeast of Peruvian capital, Lima.

Why Indians are succeeding in US politics but not Indian Muslims ?

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Educating a rural nation

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By Madi Sharma, EuAsiaNews, London: In Europe there is a "Right" for all to have access to free education, thus leaving no excuse as to why children should not attend school. More and more this "Right" is accepted by governments across the world and extended to their young citizens with the importance of an educated society being acknowledged as a key tool to economic development, growth and poverty alleviation. Therefore one would ask why all children, especially in developing countries, do not attend school when a free education is provided by the State.

Hong Kong bank offers 0.001 percent interest rate on deposits

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By DPA, Hong Kong : Hong Kong's leading bank, HSBC Holdings, Thursday was offering interest rates so low that customers would need to save $250,000 for a year to earn enough interest to buy a cup of coffee. A record low interest rate of 0.001 percent was being offered by HSBC, which has 4.2 million customers in the city of seven million, because of what it described as rock-bottom interbank rates. The rate meant that a saver would need to deposit two million Hong Kong dollars ($258,000) for a year to get enough interest to buy a cup of coffee costing 20 Hong Kong dollars.

5 Canadian Muslims charged in Toronto gang-rape

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By IANS, Toronto : With sexual assaults on women becoming common in Canada's biggest city, five Muslim Canadians have been arrested for allegedly gang-raping two women here on New Year's Day. The five - Rozbah Bahri, 27, Parvez Bahri, 25, Said Serwary, 23, Ahmad Ghafari, 23 and Omed Sarwary, 23 - turned themselves in Thursday after police flashed their photos on TV networks and in newspapers. In the first case of sexual assault in the New Year, the five men allegedly gang-raped the women in their early 20s in their hotel in downtown Toronto on New Year's Day.

Human Rights Protection Association condemns Rajnath Singh’s Israel visit

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By TwoCircles.net Staff reporter, At a time when one after another countries are sidelining Israel, Indian Home Minister’s visit will send wrong message to...

Protests of Sri Lankan Tamils must not be dismissed as extremism

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By Dharsha Jegatheeswaran and Gajen Mahendra for Twocircles.net All pictures courtesy Tamil Guardian On Saturday September 24, Ezhuka Tamil, organised by the Tamil People’s...

Jews, Muslims, Indian Americans join hands against hate crimes

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Washington, (IANS): People from the Jewish, Muslim, and Indian American communities gathered on the steps of Tifereth Israel Synagogue in northwest Washington and stood...

When hate hits home: NRIs wake up to racism

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By Jaspal Singh A forum on hate crimes against Indians and peoples hailing from South Asia is being held at MIT on Saturday May 6,2017...

India to be guest of honour at Mexico’s international cultural fest

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New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) The 46th edition of Cervantino International Festival, to be held in Mexico, will see India participating as a guest...

Modi Govt must listen to protesting farmers, repeal pro-corporate farm laws: IAMC

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TCN News Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy group committed to safeguarding India’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, has come out in support of tens...

Blair’s decade in office: a legacy of war and waste?

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By Prasun Sonwalkar, London: As British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the ruling Labour party celebrate the 10th anniversary of coming to power Tuesday, critics are beginning to call his decade in office as one of "war and waste". Blair last week outlined his 10-year legacy in a dossier to his Labour MPs, but not a few have begun to recall Enoch Powell's prophecy that all political careers end in failure.

Five killed in Indonesia landslide

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By Xinhua, Jakarta : Five people were killed in a landslide in Mamuju regency of West Sulawesi province of eastern Indonesia Tuesday, an official of the regency administration said. "It was certain that five people were buried and dead," Sarman, a senior official said. One of the bodies of the five has been found, but the others are still missing, Sarman said. The rain has also triggered flood and inundated rice field, and cocoa plantations, said the official. Indonesia has been frequently hit by landslides, which have claimed hundreds of lives.

4th Annual Mehfil-e-Hyderabad Celebrated in Mississauga

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Nepal gets a new villain – a transgender

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By Sudeshna Sarkar, IANS, Kathmandu : Thirteen years ago, Nepal's Maoists became dreaded when they began an underground war against the state. Later, the last king Gyanendra became hated when he strove to make himself an all-powerful monarch. Now, with monarchy abolished and the Maoists having laid down arms, Nepalis are being presented with a new villain. Veteran Nepali film director Shovit Basnet's upcoming movie "Chino" (the sign) is set to usher in a new trend in villainy.

I would have liked to have dinner with Mahatma Gandhi: Obama

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By IANS, Washington : US President Barack Obama has said that if he could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, it would be Mahatma Gandhi, adding he is "a real hero of mine". Obama had gone to Wakefield High School in Arlington to give a speech welcoming students back to school, when he took a few questions from ninth-graders. Lily, a student, asked: "And if you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be?" "Well, you know, dead or alive, that's a pretty big list," Obama was quoted as saying by Los Angeles Times Wednesday.

The world mourns Paul the octopus, Maradona doesn’t

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By DPA, Berlin: The international football community Wednesday mourned the death of Paul the Psychic Octopus while Diego Maradona was apparently pleased.

How Nepal’s Maoist war started with Tibet rebels’ guns

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Archives release may reveal new Holocaust victims

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Bad Arolsen (Germany), May 1 (DPA) The opening of one of the world's most extensive archives dealing with Nazi concentration camps and forced labour may reveal the names of many previously unknown Holocaust victims, according to the archives chief, Reto Meister.

The girl child is well cared for in America

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By Vishnu Makhijani, IANS, Los Angeles : Wherever you look in Los Angeles, termed the surf city of the world, you'll find more girls than boys. It's a trend that continues up the line. Not only this. If you count the number of men and women driving on the roads, the numbers even out. This should not be surprising, given that the census for 2000 counted 281.4 million people in the US - 143.4 million of them female and 138.1 million male.

Academics from Australia extend support to JNU, HCU

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By TCN News Over 100 academics, students, writers, artists and activists from Australia joined the international community in extending support to the struggles of the...

Muslim group break Ramadan fast with Irish LGBT community

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Dublin : A Muslim group aimed at fostering peace and integration in Ireland has joined members of the country’s LGBT community to break fast...

Israel offers scholarship to Indian students, professionals

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New Delhi, (IANS): Celebrating 25 years of its multi-faceted relation with India, Israel on Friday offered scholarship and training to Indian nationals in its...

Over 80,000 Iranian pilgrims to perform Haj: Saudi Arabia

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Riyadh, (IANS): Saudi Arabia has announced that 83,828 Iranian pilgrims will perform Haj this season after Iran boycotted the religious ritual last year. Minister of Haj,...

SL blasts: 359 dead, FBI joins probe, 58 arrested

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Colombo, April 24 (IANS) The US Embassy in Sri Lanka has said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was on the ground in...

Wreckage of 16th century ship discovered off Brazil

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French motorcyclist Bourgin dies Dakar accident

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By IANS, Santiago: French motorcyclist Thomas Bourgin of KTM team died in an accident on a highway in northern Chile during the Dakar Rally.

Deaf-mute Geeta lands in Delhi from Pakistan

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New Delhi: Geeta, a deaf-mute Indian woman who has been stranded in Pakistan for over a decade, arrived here on a flight from Pakistan,...

IMRC to provide monthly ration to 1,500 poor and elderly women in Hyderabad

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By TCN News Hyderabad: US-based Indian Muslim Relief and Charities (IMRC), in collaboration with their Hyderabad-based sister organisation Sahayata Trust, have launched a programme...

Stand up against US, Israeli ‘villainy’, Khamenei urges Muslims

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Tehran, (IANS): Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday urged Muslims worldwide to take a stand against the US and Israel's "villainy" during the...

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net वाल्मिकी नगर (बिहार) : गांधी के सत्याग्रह की ज़मीन इस समय नेपाली क़ब्ज़े से जूझ रही है. चम्पारण से सटे...

India-Israel ties much stronger than one UN vote: Envoy

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New Delhi, (IANS): The India-Israel relationship is much stronger than one vote in the UN, Israeli Ambassador to India Daniel Carmon said on Friday, referring...

Capture of LTTE sea-base remarkable victory: Sri Lanka

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By KUNA, New Delhi : The Sri Lankan army Thursday continued its advance march, a day after capturing a LTTE sea base in the Northwestern Mannar region. "The capture of Vidataltivu area near Mannar is a remarkable victory for the Army because the LTTE's biggest Sea Tiger base on the western coast was located there. Their deep sea smuggling and other illegal activities have been affected following this," Sri Lankan military spokesperson Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara told reporters at Colombo today.

Indian engineer arrested in Saudi Arabia

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By TCN News Riyadh: Fasih Mahmood, an engineer from Darbhanga, Bihar was arrested by Saudi Police on Sunday and now waiting to be deported to India.

India-origin man fights ‘telephone scam’ in Canada

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Winnipeg: Residents of Winnipeg City of Canada, especially of Indian-origin, have been faced with a peculiar scam in which fraud calls are made to...

Signature campaign against UCC in Kuwait by Tamil Islamic associations

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By TCN News A signature campaign has been started by the Kuwait Tamil Islamic Committee (K-Tic) with Federation of All Kuwait Tamil Islamic Associations...

Discrimination against Muslims on rise in US: Survey

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Washington, (IANS): The US is becoming an increasingly Muslim-unfriendly country, a survey released by the Pew Research Center revealed on Wednesday. The study showed that nearly...

Canada: Today Kosovo, Tomorrow Quebec?

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By Prensa Latina Ottawa : Canada faces the conundrum Wednesday whether it can follow the rapid US, Britain and France recognition of Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence without fueling separatist wishes among key sectors in Quebec. Recent polls reveal that half of Quebec's seven million citizens wish to become independent from Canada. Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier said they are studying Sunday's announcement, but provincial co-governing PQ (Quebec Party) has warned it will follow Kosovo if Canada supports that declaration of independence.

‘Nepal palace massacre linked to princess’ chopper crash death’

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By Sudeshna Sarkar,IANS, Kathmandu : Nepal's Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda Friday dropped a new bomb shell, alleging that there was a link between the bloodbath in the royal palace in 2001 that wiped out the king, queen and the entire royal family, and a chopper crash five months later in which the slain queen's youngest sister was killed.

Singapore tattooist jailed for disfiguring woman

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By DPA, Singapore : A Singapore court sentenced a tattoo artist who helped a friend tattoo his wife's breasts, abdomen and forearms for suspected infidelity to two years and 10 months in jail, news reports said Thursday. The sentence for the tattooist, 41, was two months shorter than the husband's jail term. Like the husband, who was sentenced in 2007, he will also be given six strokes of the cane, the Straits Times newspaper reported.

Love in the age of intolerance: A story from Dubai that restores faith in...

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In the age of intolerance where humanity seems to be divided by border and religion, a number Muslim professionals of India went out...

Nepal gays ask UN to save arrested peers in Iran

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Kathmandu : In a show of solidarity, Nepal's burgeoning homosexual community is seeking international support for the release of 80 gay men arrested in Iran.

Reported use of Pegasus surveillance on Indian citizens disturbing: SIO

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The Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) said that the sheer brazenness with which individuals were targeted and their devices hacked raise alarm bells...

Computer virus targets Russian opposition

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By IANS, Washington : Opponents of Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin are being targeted through a computer virus sent by email, CNN reported.

Belgium’s Khan brothers show EU the yoga way

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Brussels: Ten years back Feroze and Sameer Khan opened their yoga centre in Brussels, starting initially in the auditorium of the Indian embassy. Today,...

​ PM Modi gifts miniature painting of Bedil tomb to Tajik Prez

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By TwoCircles.net, Staff Reporter New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday presented to President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon a specially commissioned...

Putin to take up literature, sports after quitting politics

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By IANS/RIA Novosti, Moscow: Literature, sports, jurisprudence and public projects will top the list of Vladimir Putin's interests when he decides to quit politics, the Russian president said.

UP Govt. forms committee for ensuring participation of minorities in government services

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Lucknow: In a significant move, the Uttar Pradesh government has formed a three member committee for ensuring participation of minorities...

Nepali gov’t asked to recover spending of royal ministers

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By Xinhua, Kathmandu : The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) of Nepal Tuesday instructed the government to recover a sum of money from former royal ministers, local newspaper The Rising Nepal reported on Wednesday. The involved amount of 14 million Nepali rupees (around 203,000 U.S. dollars) from royal regime ministers Kamal Thapa, Shrish Shumsher Rana and Tanka Dhakal is to be investigated, since the CIAA believed that the process of spending from the public fund during their tenure was wrong, according to highly placed sources at the CIAA.

Pakistan SC disqualifies PM Sharif in Panama Papers case

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Islamabad, (IANS): The Pakistan Supreme Court on Friday disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after a probe team found his wealth far above his earnings in...

Protest during Rajasekhara Reddy’s Chicago visit

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Chicago : Over 400 Indians, including Hindu groups, held a protest here during the visit of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy against what they claimed were his government's highly detrimental policies towards Hindu institutions in the state.

’39 Clues’ to succeed Harry Potter?

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By Parveen Chopra, IANS New York : Those gnawed by emptiness following the completion early this year of the Harry Potter series of books by J.K. Rowling can take heart. Scholastic, the books' US publisher, has unveiled plans Tuesday to launch what it hopes will be a follow-up blockbuster series. Called "The 39 Clues", this series of mystery novels will feature 10 books - the first of which will be released next September - as well as related Web-based games, collectors' cards and cash prizes.

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NGO joins UN body to fight malnutrition with spirulina

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By IANS, New Delhi: Delhi-based NGO, Sainik Welfare Organisation which provides low cost housing to soldiers, has joined hands with a UN body to spread awareness about including the micro algae spirulina in food in order to eradicate malnutrition and achieve the UN's Millenium Goals. The United Nations' Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro algae Spirulina Against Malnutrition has joined hands with Sainik Welfare. SWO was selected for the project on the basis of its growing reach.

‘Canada has not changed its stand on Kashmir’

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By Gurmukh Singh,IANS, Toronto : Canada Tuesday reiterated that it has not changed it position on Kashmir. The clarification came after a pro-Pakistan Kashmiri group here wrote a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently alleging human rights violations by India in the Kashmir valley. Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon, who had replied to the letter last week, told parliament Tuesday that Canada has not deviated from it long-held position on the Kashmir issue.

How did Mina Stampede happen – Who is Responsible for it – Saudi Arabia...

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By Dr.Ajmal 769 Haj piligrims died in the Mina Stampede, and the preceding week around 107 died in the Crane Crash in...

Morrison Menon case studies in Dubai Women College curriculum

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Doha : UAE-based chartered accountants Morison Menon on Sunday said that two of studies have been included in the business curriculum of Dubai Women...

646,000 Rohingya refugees currently in Bangladesh: UN

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Dhaka, (IANS): The UN on Friday raised the number of Rohingya refugees who have arrived in Bangladesh since late August to 646,000. The latest data raises...

Modi hands over Bhabhatron to Mongolian cancer centre

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Ulan Bator : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday handed over Bhabhatron, a telecobalt machine developed by the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre for cancer...

Bangladesh blocks 35 websites

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Dhaka : The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has blocked 35 websites, a media report said on Friday. The telecom regulator blocked online news portals...

Trade, terror to be focus of Modi-Erdogan talks

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By Aroonim Bhuyan  New Delhi, (IANS): Economic ties and cooperation in the fight against terrorism are expected to dominate the bilateral talks Prime Minister Narendra...

Time running out for China quake survivors

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By AFP, Mianyang, China : Cries for help echoed from under the rubble of shattered communities Friday as China warned time was running out to save survivors of an earthquake that has claimed an estimated 50,000 lives. The first foreign rescue teams were allowed into the disaster zone to join the frantic -- and increasingly grim -- search for life among the huge mounds of concrete and metal that were once homes, schools and factories.

Man commits suicide in front of Japanese parliament

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By RIA Novosti Moscow : A man shot himself in the head in front of Japan's parliament building early on Wednesday holding a letter of protest to the prime minister, Kyodo news agency reported. The man, believed to be 58, was reportedly a right-wing activist from Osaka. He was carrying two envelopes, one containing a letter to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda asking him to toughen Japanese policy toward China.

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