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By NNN-IRNA Tehran : Visiting Moroccan Energy Minister Mohamed Boutaleb has conferred with Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on expansion of mutual ties between the two countries. According to the Information and Press Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the meeting Tuesday, Mottaki said Iran attaches importance to expansion of all-out ties with Arabic Morocco as well as countries in North Africa. "We regard development, power and success of Moroccan as our own," Mottaki said.

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Kolkata : Family members of late Congress leader and former union minister A.B.A. Ghani Khan Chowdhury have planned an elaborate lunch menu for Congress president Sonia Gandhi during her visit to their home in West Bengal's Malda district on Monday.

By IANS, Srinagar: Justice Mahesh Mittal Kumar was sworn in as the new chief justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court here Friday.

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By Shaik Amer Arafath for TwoCircles.net, When our Constitution was framed, the framers made a special provision with intention to provide equal opportunity in the...

By IANS New Delhi : Sher Singh Rana, the alleged killer of parliament member and former 'Bandit Queen' Phoolan Devi, Tuesday sought the transfer of his trial to another city court, saying he did not have faith in the judge hearing the case. "I do not have faith in you. Kindly transfer the case to any other court," Rana said in the court of Additional Sessions Judge V.K. Bansal. He moved an application for the same through his counsel D.B. Goswami.

By Xinhua Islamabad : The Election Commission of Pakistan on Tuesday unveiled the schedule of the general elections, the state-run Pakistan Television (PTV) channel reported. The polls of the general elections will be held on Jan. 8 in 2008, Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan Qazi Muhammad Farooq said. The nomination papers are expected to be filed from Nov. 21 to 26 and they will be scrutinized from Nov. 27 to Dec. 3, Farooq said. The revised list of candidates will be issued by the Election Commission on Dec. 16, according to the schedule.

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By Tanveer Jafri, Former President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam was frisked by the security staff of the US based Continental Airlines at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi on his way to Newark, USA. While Dr. Kalam, in his well known polite and generous way, followed all the security checks as asked by the security staff, the staff people, by not having any trust in the former President of India, frisked him as usual, (read rudely).

By IndScribe Shukat Mahal palace, a unique example of Indo-French structure, built in the reign of Nawab Qudsia Begum nearly 180 years ago, was...

Jammu : Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday arrested five of 20 people accused by a minor of raping her. "The girl was brought here...

By M. Zajam TwoCircles.net, “United We Stand, Divided We fall”, popular phrase used by our leaders during freedom struggle to counter British “Divide and Rule” policy. It was effective slogan which united people in freedom movement, irrespective of religion, cast and language differences. After Independence, this slogan lost its importance. .

By IANS, Ranchi: Explosives were recovered from Maoist hideouts on the outskirts of Ranchi Saturday, police said.

By DPA, Aachen (Germany): Heinrich Boere, an 88-year-old who admits that he assassinated three suspected members of the Dutch resistance for the SS during the Second World War, was jailed for life Tuesday at the end of a murder trial in Aachen, Germany. Boere, a native speaker of Dutch, served in the Feldmeijer death squad set up by the Nazi military organisation SS. He described the 1944 assassinations in detail, but contended at the trial, which began last year, that he was only following orders and would have been executed for insubordination if he had disobeyed.

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By Xinhua Jerusalem : The meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas ended on Monday evening in Jerusalem with what the Israeli side called "positive" results. David Baker, a spokesman for the Israeli prime minister's office, told Xinhua that the meeting was positive, and the two sides made some progress in certain elements regarding the joint statement during their two-hour long discussions. The spokesman, however, didn't reveal the details about the so-called progress.

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ArrayKolkata : The Muslim festival of sacrifice Eid-ul-Adha was celebrated with religious fervour across West Bengal on Tuesday. The biggest congregation was organised on the...

By IANS, Hoshiarpur : Unidentified assailants Sunday shot dead the head of Maidas Nirmali dera (sect) at village Baddon in this Punjab district, police said. "After the morning prayer inside the dera hall, Sant Pardhan Singh went out to open the main gate. Some three-four persons were already standing outside the gate and they immediately fired at him," said Amrik Singh, a resident of Baddon village. "Before fleeing from the spot, they also fired at the tyres of the car parked outside the gate so that nobody could chase them. Pardhan Singh received four bullet injuries," he added.

By RINA, Deoband: The national president of Tanzeem Ulema-e-Hind Maulan Syed Ahmad Khizar Shah Masoodi has reacted very sharply to Prof. Tahir Mahmood’s interview in The Hidustan Times in which he has dealt with the issue of beard and other Islamic issues. Maulan Syed Ahmad Khizar Shah Masoodi has called it unfortunate and a strong sign of the deterioration of Muslim Ummah. “Neither Ulema Kiram are blind nor their followers, however, it appears that Prof. Tahir Mahmood has lost the power of sight” he said.

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New Delhi : Muslims took out religious processions, observed fast, gave charities and held special prayers across the national capital Sunday to mark Youm-e-Ashoora as day of victory of virtue over evil.

On the 10th day of the month of Muharram, the first month in the Islamic calendar, Muslim across the globe remember the martyrdom of Imam Hussain, grandson of Prophet Mohammed, some 1,400 years ago, at a place called Karbala in Iraq.

By TCN News, Hyderabad: The Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) in collaboration with the National Council for promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL), New...

By Xinhua Washington : US President George W. Bush welcomed Afghan President Hamid Karzai on his arrival at the presidential retreat of Camp David. The two leaders are expected to discuss some issues of mutual interest including the war on terror, counter-narcotics operations and the US contribution towards rebuilding post-Taliban Afghanistan. In addition, the fate of 21 South Korean hostages held by the Taliban is also likely to be high on the agenda during the two-day discussions.

By TCN News, New Delhi: Vice-President of India, Mohammad Hamid Ansari, inaugurated a photo-exhibition on Dr. Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari, a leading light of the Indian Independence Movement and a co-founder of Jamia Millia Islamia, on December 24 in the M.F. Husain Art Gallery at the University campus.

By IANS Karaikkudi (Tamil Nadu) : A man brandishing a toy gun was detained Saturday from near the venue of a rally here to be addressed by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi later in the day, police said. Security personnel cornered the man as soon as they spotted him with what seemed to be a gun but turned out to be a plastic toy, police said. Gandhi is scheduled to address a rally at Karaikkudi, about 400 km south of Chennai, in the evening.

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: On the eve of 62nd Independence Day when President of India was preparing to congratulate the nation, a group of students, teachers and civil and human rights activists from across the National Capital gathered near the Delhi Police Headquarters in the heart of the city to protest violations of right to life – the growing culture of encounter killings – reminding the powers that be that all is not well with the country, particularly its minorities and the downtrodden –frequent target of these encounters. .

By IANS, Mexico City : Police have seized $3.3 million in cash hidden inside television sets at the international airport here in the Mexican capital. Some cash was also hidden inside massage tables, Mexican taxation agency Tributary Administration Service (SAT) said in a statement Tuesday. The cash, in $20 bills, was bound for Caracas, capital of Venezuela, Xinhua reported Wednesday citing a government statement. Officials from the Attorney General's Office also took part in the operation.

By Hemant Kumar Rout, IANS Behind the cheerful chaos of India's many festivals lies its deeply syncretic core. Like the annual chariot festival where millions of Hindus across North India celebrate a triad of deities coming out of their temple homes, ably helped by Muslims who join in the festivities not because religion demands it, but because tradition and mutual respect call for it.

New Delhi: Around 27 percent of candidates in the third phase of Bihar assembly elections have a criminal record, a report by a think...

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New Delhi : The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), a partner in the Bihar government with the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), on Tuesday welcomed the complete...

By IANS Mumbai: One person was killed and two others were injured when the balcony of a building and a portion of its wall collapsed in south-central Mumbai Wednesday, an official said.

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Baghdad : Security authorities imposed a curfew Sunday in the southern areas of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

A brief statement by the Multi-National Force (MNF) said pedestrians and vehicles would not be allowed on the streets, thereby allowing the execution of operations in East Rasheed district.

The curfew was imposed upon the directive of the Iraqi security forces and is limited to that area alone, it said.

Earlier Sunday, a booby-trapped car exploded in the area, but no casualties were reported.

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New Delhi : Former Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday accused the Narendra Modi-led NDA government of creating a "fake controversy" around the...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: The Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has joined in the chorus of condemnations against the abduction, murder and subsequent uploading of the visual of beheading a journalist by the militants in the conflict-ridden Syria.

By Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal, The CBI may have succeeded in its mission in Shopian, that of what Noam Chomsky refers to as manufacturing consent about non-existence of any violations in the twin rapes of Asiya Jan and her sister-in-law Neelofar Jan. But this is only as far as the opinion outside Jammu and Kashmir, formed by a consistent over-drive of narration of lies, is concerned.

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter Hundreds of people reached Nandigram today under the banner of Milli Ittehad Parishad (MIP) bring much needed relief to the inhabitants. Siddiquallah Chaudhry of Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind of West Bengal and member of the delegation informed TwoCircles.net by phone that they carried blankets, rice and other food items for displaced people of Nandigram. There are about 25,000 displaced people in Nandigram. Mr. Chaudhry alleged that even today there are reports of some women being raped even though CRPF has been deployed but security is not adequate.

By Xinhua Islamabad : The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) led by former prime minister Benazir Bhutto Friday announced three days of nationwide mourning after bomb attacks at her rally killed over 130 people and wounded hundreds. During this period, PPP flags would fly at half-mast all across the country while black flags will be hoisted in party offices as a mark of mourning, media reports said. Bhutto narrowly escaped an attempt on her life as the twin blasts ripped through her parade on the streets of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi.

By Muhammad Najeeb, IANS Islamabad : British High Commissioner to Pakistan Robert Brinkley Wednesday met former prime minister Nawaz Sharif at his residence in Lahore and told him that Britain had long been calling for a level-playing field for the January elections. Brinkley welcomed the former prime minister, who also heads Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), back to Pakistan. Sharif returned from exile in Saudi Arabia to Lahore Sunday.

By TCN News, New Delhi: A city NGO, Sambhavna Trust Clinic launched “Ulat Palat”, a book for children on the environmental and health hazards of packaged snacks. Children from the communities where the groundwater is contaminated by Union Carbide’s industrial waste as well as members of the Clinic were present at the launching of the book.

By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram : Muslims in Kerala Monday offered prayers at mosques and specially erected prayer centres across the state on the occasion of Bakr-Eid. Monday is a public holiday in the state and Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan offered his Bakr-Eid wishes to the people of the state. Bakr-Eid commemorates Prophet Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his beloved son Ismail on god's command.

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By Agence India Press Srinagar: A general shutdown paralyzed life across the Valley on Friday as authorities clamped strict restrictions in the old areas of the city to ward off trouble that had started earlier this week with the death of a 14-year-old Wamiq Farooq on Sunday. Chairman of Huriyat conference Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, continued to remain under house arrest for the second day. While two other pro-freedom separatist leaders, Shabir Shah and Nayeem Khan, were arrested on Wednesday to prevent them from participating in the protests here.

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Kolkata : West Bengal's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), probing the mysterious death of Muslim youth Rizwanur Rahman, will hand over all investigation reports to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Home Secretary Prasad Ranjan Roy said Wednesday.

By Ras H. Siddiqui, TwoCircles.net, Sacramento, California: The Anne Marie Schubert campaign for Sacramento County District Attorney took a turn towards the Muslim community in the region as a fundraiser arranged by the Sharif family, Mohammad Asif Sattar and Dr. Mohammad Tariq, gathered an impressive guest list of about 100 people at the Sattar residence in Fair Oaks on May 4th to assist in the campaign.

Dhaka, Jan 2 (IANS) The chief of Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), his deputy and seven others are to be tried for murdering two freedom fighters in 1971 in a case that harks back to the liberation movement against the then Pakistan government. Jamaat's Amir Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and seven members of the country's largest Islamist party are accused of killing Osman Gani and Golam Mostafa alias Tukub Ali on Nov 25, 1971, barely three weeks before the country was liberated.

Guwahati : In view of apprehensions that the Centre's demonetisation move would affect wage disbursal to tea garden labour in Assam, the central...

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New Delhi : A member of Ranbir Sena, a militia of landlords in Bihar, was arrested here for his involvement in several criminal cases, police said Wednesday.