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By TCN News, New Delhi: The three-day Inter-University Cultural Festival “MIRAAS 2014” was formally inaugurated by Prof. S.M. Sajid, Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia on February 24, 2014.

By Sahil Makkar, IANS New Delhi : Party divas beware! Next time you decide to hang out at a classy lounge, bar, or discotheque, don't just gulp down the drink proffered by your "friend". It could be mixed with a lethal 'date rape pill'. The 'date rape' drugs, mixed discreetly with drinks, are meant to deaden the senses of the drinker, making them unable to ward off sexual assault. The drugs make a woman lose her discretionary ability and she falls victim to sexual exploitation, with or without her knowledge.

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By IANS Islamabad : The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) of radical Muslim leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman has decided to contest the Jan 8 elections on a separate ticket. The JUI move has made evident the fissures in the religious alliance,Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), of which JUI is a unit. The coalition has been insisting on boycotting the elections. Rehman Sunday informed the MMA about his desire to contest the elections separately, Liaquat Baloch of the MMA told Daily Times.

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New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Thursday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to prove that the body exhumed from a village near Ranchi was that of Shashinath Jha, for whose murder former union coal minister Shibu Soren was sentenced to life imprisonment.

By DPA, Madrid : Up to 37 people were injured when a car bomb exploded outside police barracks in Burgos in northern Spain Wednesday morning, the El Mundo newspaper said in its internet edition. The car bomb exploded around 4 a.m. (0200 GMT) next to a building occupied by Spain's Guardia Civil, the paper said, quoting police sources. There had been no warning. Police suspect the Basque separatist group ETA may have been responsible for the bombing. Most of the victims suffered only light injuries, mainly cuts from broken glass, but damage to the buildings was substantial.

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Jammu : Police today arrested a Territorial Army jawan for allegedly raping a minor girl in Surankote area of Poonch district. Two women were also detained for allegedly abetment of the crime.

Reports reaching here revealed that a thirteen year old girl (name withheld) approached Surnkote police station on Thursday complaining that she escaped captivity of an army jawan, who was rapping her from the last three days.

By IANS, Mumbai : Four thieves who carried out the diamond heist of over Rs.6.6 crore from a jewellery show here and fled to Dubai were brought to Mumbai early Thursday, a senior official said. "We have brought them here. We will present them in the magistrat's court in the afternoon," Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Deven Bharti told IANS.

New York : Media plays an important role in its coverage of portraying Muslims as terrorists, says a study. Exposure to news stories which are...

By IANS, New Delhi : The Delhi High court Wednesday asked the National Human Rights Commission for a status report on the Jamia Nagar shootout between the police and suspected terrorists as the police told the court that they had given a detailed report on the incident to the rights panel. The high court directed the NHRC to file its status report in the case by March 4. It also asked the rights panel what enquiry has it conducted in this case so far.

Kolkata : The Trinamool Congress Tuesday released its fourth list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, including the son of late Indian president...

Chennai : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Thursday said the 2016-17 railway budget had failed to meet the state's expectations but welcomed...

By TCN News, Aligarh: Dr. G. S. Hashmi, Assistant Professor, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Dr. Z. A. Dental College, Aligarh Muslim University has been nominated as member to the editorial team of the International Journal of Rare Tumors and Journal of Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology Research.

By Malik Rashid Faisal 797th Urs is being commemorated in Ajmer at the dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti. It is a six day affair that invites devotees from all over the world. Malik Rashid Faisal writes about the Urs of the previous year.

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Bangalore : A battery of journalists, photographers and TV news crews waited at the Bangalore airport for most of Sunday - not for a VVIP or a rock star but to catch the first glimpse of Muhammad Haneef, returning home after his 25-day ordeal in Australia.

Outdoor broadcasting (OB) vans for live telecast with reporters and camerapersons began trickling in at the airport as well as at the residence of Haneef's father-in-law in BTM Layout area to keep track of his arrival.

By Ram Puniyani, One of the best parts of childhood for me was to enjoy the mythological tales and become aware of the world where Lord Hanuman could fly, as the emergency herbal treatment is to be delivered to his master’s brother; Laxman. Lord Ram travelling by Pushpak Viman (aero plane), Lord Ganesha being planted with the head of elephant as his human head was chopped off by his father, all this was uncritically digested.

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By IANS, New Delhi : BJP leader Arun Jaitley Thursday termed his party's win in Gujarat as "emphatic" and its loss in Himachal Pradesh "disappointing".

Program on “Dialogue between Media and Muslims” held in Mumbai By TCN News,

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By Asit Srivastava, IANS, Gaddeajijpur : When Hindus visit a temple in Gaddeajijpur village of Uttar Pradesh, they also make it a point to pray at the adjacent mausoleum. It is no different for Muslims. For, the villagers believe their prayers will not be answered otherwise. Gaddeajijpur village, located on the outskirts of Hardoi district, some 110 km from state capital Lucknow, sees Hindus and Muslims pray together at the Lord Hanuman Temple and the Jind Peer Baba Mazar that are adjacent to each other.

By Syed Zarir Hussain, IANS, Guwahati : Frontline minority groups in Assam have cautioned the government to not allow student groups and political parties to take the law into their hands by hounding suspected illegal migrants as part of the "anti-foreigners" drive.

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Malegaon: There are some commonalities between the social and economic problems of Malegaon and Bhiwandi, particularly the situation of women, said Mahmudurrahman, chairperson of the surveying committee of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM).

By IANS, Jammu: The Indian Army has refused to hand over five soldiers, including a colonel and a major, charged with the killing of three villagers in Kupwara in April to the Jammu and Kashmir Police. The army says that an internal enquiry was on against its men for the alleged killing of the three in Machil village in April, informed sources said Sunday. The police had filed the chargesheet in a court against Colonel D.K. Pathania and four other soldiers. They were charged with killing the three and then claiming they died in a shootout.

By Jaspal Singh, Today is the 134th birth anniversary of one of the greatest writers of Hindustan,Munshi Premchand.He is referred to as Upanyas Samrat(emperor of the novelists) Munshiji was born in a small village near Banaras in a family of limited means.His father was a Patwari.His earlier education was done in a local Madrasa,where he learnt Farsi and Urdu from a Maulvi.Later on he went to other schools and colleges in Banaras and Allahabad.

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By IANS, New Delhi : A gang of robbers involved in at least 11 cases of robbery and vehicle thefts in Delhi was busted and three of its members arrested Thursday, a police official said Friday. Manveer (23), Sompal (24) and Vikas (26) were apprehended from K.N.Katju Marg in outer Delhi. "A special team was constituted to nab the robbers who caused the sudden rise in incidents of daylight robberies, snatching and motor vehicle thefts in the area of Rohini since last 2-3 months," a senior police official said.

By Rupa Abdi, TwoCircles.net I read about her in a small article in the ‘Times of India’ and decide to visit her during my recent trip to Lucknow. I met her at her home in Choudhary Tola - a nondescript locality of Aliganj. . Afroz Jahan does not come across as some fire brand activist or a high society socialite working for the cause of down trodden. This mild mannered frail woman comes from a conservative Muslim family of a daily wage earner.

By IANS Bhubaneswar : A group of Maoist insurgents attacked members of the special operation group (SOG) Friday in a forest in Orissa's Gajapati district, police said. A group of ten to 15 Maoist guerrillas attacked about 20 SOG members in Khichilingi forest, nearly 60 km from the district headquarters of Pralakhemundi and 350 km from the capital, district police chief Satyabrata Bhoi told IANS.

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Palanpur (Gujarat) : Witnesses in the 2005 Gujarat communal riots were Friday summoned to appear before the Special Investigation Team (SIT), formed by the Supreme Court to inquire into the violence, at Gandhinagar May 9.

Members of the SIT visited the Satnagar refugee camp, 110 km from here, and personally served the summons.

As many as 20 Muslim families are living in Satnagar camp, witnesses to communal riots in Sardarnagar village in Mehsana district.

By Iboyaima Laithangbam Imphal : The local body polls in Manipur on January 11 are viewed here as a keen fight between the ruling Congress...

By Aziz A. Mubaraki, If by any means spilling Muslim blood is the deciding factor for Muslims to decide who the community should take vengeance against, then these dissemblers i.e., ISIS, Al Qaeda or geographically more closer, the Talibans, should immediately go into hiding as these organizations have been butchering Muslims for years now.

By Natisha Mallick, TwoCircles.net Md. Waris oils the head of his son while the boy makes faces for the camera. Link: TCN Ramadan 1433window.onload = function() {var...

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By TCN News, Aligarh: The Student’s Union of the Aligarh Muslim University today organized a Symposium on “Role of AMU Old Boys”.

By TCN News, New Delhi: A two days National Convention of Muslim Women with the title ‘Sadak Se Sansad Tak’ has started in New Delhi...

By IANS, Peshawar : A powerful explosion in this Pakistani city extensively damaged a police van, injuring two policemen Friday, two days after the blasts in Lahore that killed 35 people. The police mobile van that was on Ring Road in Achini Bala area was heavily damaged, Dawn reported. On Wednesday, three back-to-back blasts in Lahore killed at least 35 people and wounded over 200. The first blast occurred near Karbala Gamay Shah in Lahore's Lower Mall area while the second and third blasts were near Bhatti Chowk, just a few paces away.

By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent, Kochi: Kadeesumma is back home in Malappuram after celebrating Eid in the Rashtrapathi Bhavan. It was her first Eid away home, but the 75-year old says she has no regrets as she celebrated it with the President of the country.

By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net The Assam state elections results have made it clear that the Bharatiya Janata Party has decimated the incumbent Congress to...

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By Najiya O., TwoCircles.net, Kochi: The Kerala state government has invited applications for the Merit-cum-Means Scholarships for the academic year 2009-10. The scholarship is awarded by the central Ministry of Minority Affairs. Students belonging to the Muslim and Christian communities in Kerala who are pursuing the listed technical/professional courses at the undergraduate or postgraduate level can apply for the scholarship.

By Xinhua Baghdad : At least seven people have been killed and some 40 others injured in a car bomb attack at a popular marketplace in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk, a municipal police chief said Friday. "A car bomb ripped though the Hurriyah vegetable market in Kirkuk City at about 12 noon killing at least seven people and wounding 40 others," Brigadier Burhan Wasif, police chief of Kirkuk city told Xinhua by telephone. The blast damaged several civilian cars and nearby shops, he added.

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Special Series on Terror Arrests from Bihar -- Part One

By IANS, Shimla: A woman committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan at her residence in the Himachal Pradesh capital Sunday, police said. However, her family alleged that police were not thoroughly investigating the matter. The family alleged that the son of a senior state police official was having an affair with the woman. "Ritu Kalmatia, 28, was found hanging from a ceiling fan at her residence in Shimla today (Sunday)," Superintendent of Police R.M. Sharma told reporters.

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By IANS Srinagar: At least 25 people were injured Friday as protests against Israel's air strikes on Palestinians in Gaza rocked the old Srinagar city and other towns in the Kashmir Valley Friday. The police resorted to baton-charge to quell the mob in the capital city, officials said. Hundreds of protestors, majority of them youth, took to the streets in several old city areas in the afternoon after the congregational Friday prayers.

By Asma Anjum Khan for TwoCircles.net, A Face book post said. An Afghani child falls asleep after hard work at a brick kiln. Children as young as three year olds do hard labour, as seen here.

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By TCN News Member of Parliament and AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal raised the issue of floods in Assam during the Zero Hour of the...

Patna : RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday demanded a high-level impartial probe into the killing of eight undertrial SIMI activists in an...

By TCN News, Dammam: The Indian Social Forum, Karnataka state, Eastern Province has congratulates the elected SDPI backed candidates that won in the Panchayat elections...

Kolkata : At least 10 Bangladeshis were arrested Sunday in West Bengal for travelling without proper documents, police said. The Bangladeshis were arrested from a...

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: In a controversial development, India's elite National Investigation Agency (NIA) today gave clean chit to 6 accused, including Sadhvi Pragya...

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By TCN News, Kannur: Mohammed Ayoob Kannur, of Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka state who was in a Saudi jail, has been released from the jail. With IFF’s regular follow up, it took 4 months to complete the formalities and he was released and sent to India.