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Srinagar : A cloudburst in the mountains here Saturday led to the water rising in the Sindh stream, threatening hundreds of low-lying villages in...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent, Malappuram: KT Abdul Raheem, noted Islamic scholar and member of the national representative body of the Jamat e Islami Hind, died yesterday. The 67-year old was admitted to a private hospital when he died around 7.30 pm.

By Rafat Nayeem Quadri,

By IRNA

Islamabad : At least eight students of a girl seminary were killed when paramilitary forces opened fire on them in Islamabad on Tuesday, a spokesman for the seminary said.

A spokesman for Lal Masjid (red mosque) Abdul Qayyum said that the students were killed as the result of the firing from the security forces.

Meanwhile, Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherapo said that one security man was also killed in firing from the students.

Fierce firing started when an armoured vehicle moved close to the mosque.

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

Jaipur (Rajasthan): Even as the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Jaipur on September 5 extended the police remand of Shahbaz Hussain, one of the main accused in the Jaipur bombing, Hussain’s arrest itself has raised many questions than it answered.

First, his arresting seems to be inspired by the arrest of Abu Bashar as main accused of Ahmedabad serial blasts. Hussain was arrested on August 25, a few days after Abu Basher was arrested from Azamgarh.

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter

New Delhi : Professor Baseer Ahmad Khan joined Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) as Pro-Vice Chancellor here Monday.

Dr Khan has rendered his services as professor in the Faculty of Islamic Studies and Social Sciences of Jamia Hamdard. He was also Dean Students Welfare and Proctor of the university besides Head of the Faculty.

Former president of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Students Union, Dr Khan was also a lecturer in AMU for a brief period.

By Brij Khandelwal, Agra : The Uttar Pradesh government will renovate the neglected red sandstone structure here that was once the rich library of Mughal...

Riyadh : The monthly salary for Indian maids recruited in Saudi Arabia has been fixed at 1,200 Saudi riyals ($320), a media report said...

By IANS, Srinagar : Authorities continued restrictions in Srinagar city and some other major towns of Kashmir Monday for the second consecutive day to prevent separatist protests.

By TCN Staff Reporter, Varanasi (UP): It was a testimony which moved the audience to tears. When Abdul Rahman started narrating the terrible experience, people remembered that fateful day which created many chapters of pain in their lives. He was referring to the indiscriminate police firing in Bazardiha on a peaceful and innocent Muslim crowd on March 11, 2009 during the festival of Holi. Two youths Mohammad Moin Akhtar (22) and Khalik-uj-jama (19) died in that barbaric incident

By IANS,

By DPA

Bangkok : Thai police have arrested three Indian nationals on charges of holding an Indian garment exporter hostage for a 25 million baht (over $741,840) ransom, media reports said Friday.

Police rescued the hostage, Narendra Dev Pandey, 40, Wednesday from a house in Nonthaburi province, neighbouring Bangkok, shortly after detaining the gang that had kidnapped him.

Pandey, who suffered broken rids, was taken to Police General Hospital for treatment. He was kidnapped Sunday.

New Delhi : A court here Tuesday directed officials of Delhi's Tihar jail to provide all facilities to Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal who...

By IANS,

By Mir Umar, Agence India Press, Srinagar: The forum of traders in the Kashmir valley have suspended cross border trade with Muzafarabad in Pakistan through the Line of Control (LoC) for the past one week. Speaking to the media persons at Srinagar on Sunday, a trader attributed this suspension to recent unrest in the valley.

New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Wednesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to see that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is booked for murder and criminal conspiracy for his alleged role in the communal violence of 2002. The RJD president Lalu Prasad led a delegation of his party's ministers and members of parliament to the prime minister's residence to seek the government follow-up on the expose by the Tehelka newsmagazine of Modi's role in the 2002 violence.

By IANS, Kolkata : In a shocking incident, two nuns were killed late Wednesday when an unidentified man attacked them with swords at their mission here, police said. The incident took place at Gurudham, a popular mission in eastern Kolkata, and the attacker also died of injuries.

By TCN News

Srinagar : A flood alert was sounded in the Valley on Tuesday as Jhelum river crossed the danger mark in Srinagar. "The water level of...

By IRNA London : A conference of defence and foreign ministers from the eight countries involved in the international coalition in southern Afghanistan opened in Edinburgh Friday with a call for greater burden-sharing in the conflict. "We are looking to our NATO partners to share the burden, particularly of the more difficult parts of the country," British Defence Secretary Des Browne said.

By TCN News,

By TCN News, Patna: Bihar Pradesh Congress’s Minority division organized a national level gathering on 29th March where State Congress president Ashiq Chaudhary was the chief guest. Addressing office bearers and members from different parts of the country, Chaudhary said that this election is a fight between communal powers and secular forces which means that every community should unite in bringing congress to power, because it is a secular party. He praised the centre for providing funds for minority welfare to every state, while expressing disappointment on the fund’s improper utilization. The state minority president, Minnatullah Rehmani, who was chairing the session, said it is only the minority communities that could improve the kind of disrupted socio-political environment prevalent in the country. He mentioned several opportunities available for the minority communities, like MSDP, Nayi Roshni , Learn and Earn, Student scholarship etc, while criticizing the Bihar government for injustices meted out to the minorities.

Gurgaon, March 25 (IANS) Assistant Commissioner of Delhi Police Rajbir Singh was shot dead on the outskirts of the national capital allegedly by a property dealer following a dispute over money. The suspect, Vijay Bhardwaj, has been arrested and the weapon used in the crime has been recovered, the police said. The incident occurred Monday evening when Singh, known as an "encounter specialist" for the number of alleged criminals he had shot down, had gone to collect Rs.6 million from Bhardwaj at his office on Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road here.

By Pervez Bari, Twocircles.net, Bhopal: Mr. Liyaqat Khan of Pune has been elected President of the Maharashtra unit of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI).

By Prashant K. Nanda, Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi: Deploring the state of education in India and especially among the Muslim community, Shammi Abidi, who has stood 16th among the successful civil service candidates this year, said she wants to be a guiding light for Muslim girls. The 28-year-old Abidi, daughter of a professor in Lucknow, has also topped the list of Muslim candidates who have qualified the most competitive civil services examination of the country. Of the 474 successful candidates, only 17 candidates from the Muslim community have achieved success.

New Delhi : The union tribal welfare ministry has formulated an umbrella scheme for education of Scheduled Tribes (ST) students by merging a few...

By V.S. Karnic, IANS

Bangalore : Suspected links with international terror, rising rupee, weak monsoon and doubts over the survival of Karnataka's coalition government are all adding up to make the life of this IT capital of India an unsettling one.

The monsoon season usually starts early in June and continues till August/September. For most of the past seven weeks, the weather has been cloudy but there has hardly been any rain, except for one heavy downpour.

New Delhi : The Supreme Court Monday upheld the Jammu and Kashmir government's decision to give higher compensation to victims of Kishtwar riots who...

By IANS, Mumbai : Gangster Firoze Abdul Rashid Khan alias Hamza, one of the prime accused in the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, has been arrested after being on the run for 17 years, a top police official said here Saturday. Hamza, now 40, was an important mafia functionary and oversaw the landing and transportation of explosives used in the 13 blasts on March 12, 1993, which left 257 dead and over 700 injured.

By IANS, New Delhi : The Supreme Court Wednesday said that the rehabilitation of riot victims was a national responsibility and could not just be construed within legal and moral parameters.

New Delhi : There were no intelligence inputs to suggest that Al Qaeda and Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror groups have...

By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Recent terror strikes in Bangalore and Ahmedabad point to the fact that these anti-terrorism conferences, fatwas and community efforts are not working. One reason could be that a vast majority of Muslims of India are not convinced that the terrorists could be one of them. It is not a denial by Indian Muslim's but a failure on the part of the investigating agencies to produce a convincing proof of who is behind these terror acts. The emails sent by the group calling itself “Indian Mujahideen” is our only way to guess who can be behind these attacks.

By NNN-PTI, New Delhi : Setting at rest concerns of a key Muslim body, the Law Commission of India has said there is no proposal before it for enacting a uniform code for the minority community. It said there was also no proposal before it for recommending to the Centre any measure which will pave the way for "uniform civil code in the country." The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) had on Monday said in a statement that any such proposal was "ill- motivated" to pave the way for "enactment of a uniform civil code of the Shariat laws".

By Xinhua Colombo : At least 16 people were feared killed and nearly as many injured here in an explosion Wednesday afternoon after a female suicide bomber earlier in the day killed one and injured two, defence officials and media said. Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said that the incident happened close to a supermarket in the eastern suburb of Nugegoda around 5:50 p.m. local time (1220 GMT). The explosion also started a fire in the area, he said.

By IANS Ranchi : At least 14 people, including 11 security personnel, were injured in a landmine blast by suspected Maoist rebels in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand Wednesday, the police said. The incident took place near Banso village, about 130 km from the state capital here. Suspected rebels of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) detonated the landmine when security personnel on patrol in a jeep passed over a bridge. The driver of the vehicle and 11 security personnel were injured along with two civilians who were also on the bridge, the police said.

By Mohit Dubey, IANS,

Srinagar : At least a dozen people including security men were injured Thursday in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir when activists of the...

Lucknow: A judge in Allahabad has received a threatening letter, saying he will be blown up if he does not dismiss a case against...

By TCN News, New Delhi: The Union Public Service Commission has announced the results of National Defence Academy & Naval Academy Exam (II) 2009. The examination was held for admission to Army, Navy and Air Force Wings of National Defence Academy and Naval Academy 10+2 (Executive Branch). Very few Muslims are among the successful candidates. Among 694 successful candidates for Army/Navy, there are only 13 Muslims. For Air Force, 282 have been selected. Muslims among them are just 5 while for the Naval Academy there is only 1 Muslim among 57 successful candidates.

Damascus/Baghdad/New Delhi: The Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), an Al Qaeda splinter group, Tuesday seized a strategic eastern Syrian town along...

By TwoCircles.net special correspondent, New Delhi: A day after international rating agency Moody’s raised India’s credit rating outlook from stable to positive, a group of doctors, senior lawyers and journalists gathered in New Delhi to share their anguish in the backdrop of a lower court judgment holding no one guilty of the infamous Hashimpura massacre in which 42 Muslims were killed in cold blood allegedly by cops belonging to the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC).

By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: In a landmark judgment announced on August 19, 2014 the Court of Sessions Judge, Imphal East, dismissed the charge that anti-AFSPA crusader Irom Chanu Sharmila, who has been on fast for the last 14 years demanding repeal of AFSPA, was attempting to commit suicide and ordered the State Government to release her form custody. The verdict came after Sharmila filed a petition against an earlier order passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), Imphal East on June 4 last that charged her with attempt to commit suicide under Section 309 of IPC.

By Xinhua 　Baghdad : The U.S. military said on Sunday that its troops and aircraft killed six suspected militants during an early morning raid in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Sadr City. The troops initially targeted a Special Groups member specializing in kidnapping operations, the military said in a statement. The Special Groups are Shiite militia extremists who are funded, trained and armed by external sources, specifically by Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force operatives.

By IANS

Ranchi : It has taken police 38 years to arrest a person charged with theft and attempt to murder in Jharkhand.