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By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,

By IANS, Mumbai : At least two people were injured when a crude bomb planted on a cycle exploded in the basement car park of a cinema hall in Thane near here Wednesday afternoon, police said. The explosion took place at around 4.10 p.m., police said, adding that top officials had rushed to the spot. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Thane) B.S. Shinde told IANS: "I have received the information that the explosives were planted on a cycle."

This book examines the role of Ulemas in attempting to use the idea of jihad as an instrument for combating colonialism in South Asia...

By IANS, Kabul : Four soldiers of the NATO-led coalition forces were killed in southern Afghanistan Friday.

By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,

By DPA Kabul : Afghan and coalition forces killed at least 40 Taliban insurgents in two separate fire fights in southern Afghanistan, officials said Saturday. Afghan police and coalition forces battled with suspected insurgents in Naw Abad area in Deh Yak district of southern Ghazni province on Friday, killing 18 rebels. Another six were arrested, Alishah Ahmadzai, provincial police chief, told DPA.

By NNN-Xinhua Abu Dhabi : Dubai police have seized over one and a half million tablets of narcotics which had been smuggled into the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to be exported to another Gulf country, local newspaper Gulf News reported on Thursday. A total of 1,527,000 tablets of Keptagon, a type of performance-improvement drug, were seized by the Drug Combat Department of Dubai police in an operation to foil the attempt to smuggle these drugs to another Gulf country, according to the report.

By TCN Special Correspondent,

Srinagar : Engineers and staffers of the Public Health Department in the Kashmir Valley remained on a protest strike Friday over alleged misbehaviour by...

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By Priyanka Borpujari, On July 9, despite the chill in the winds, about 200 people gathered outside St George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa. This is the Anglican cathedral that Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu uses as a religious, and political, seat. Outside the stone structure was a passionate shout to Israel to stop the blood-spill in Palestine: little girls with their heads covered coughed between the slogans, young men exchanged their keffiyeh as they carried the Palestinian flag. In doing so, the crowd joined thousands across the world in protesting against the violence in Gaza.

Srinagar : An attack by a suspected armed group on a sarpanch (village head) in Jammu and Kashmir demonstrates disregard for human life,...

By IANS New Delhi : The Indian government will not intervene in criminal cases against Indian designer Anand Jon, who faces a slew of charges related to sexual assault and molestation in the US, said E. Ahamed, minister of state for external affairs. "Anand's mother has spoken to me over telephone, seeking the government intervention. I have clarified that normally there cannot be a government-to-government talks on this," Ahamed told IANS here.

New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to roll back the hike in excise duty levied...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) has urged the central government to declare flood and erosion as national calamity. Slamming the Assam government for misuse of the funds meant for the development of the poor people, AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal also appealed to the central government to monitor the utilization of the funds sanctioned by the central government.

By IANS, Raipur : "Indian Maoists lack courage to shun bullet for ballot," said Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Wednesday while reacting to a call given by newly-elected Prime Minister of Nepal, Prachanda, to Indian Maoist guerrillas to opt for ballot if they enjoy people's support. Participating in a debate here at Raipur Press Club on Maoism, Singh termed controversial civil militia movement Salwa Judum, launched in June 2005 against insurgents, as "a self-inspired movement of tribals thirsty for development".

By IANS, Ahmedabad : The Gujarat government has said state Minister Maya Kodnani has "constitutional right" to defend herself even as she has refused to heed to repeated summons from a Supreme Court-appointed panel probing the communal violence of 2002. "Mayaben Kodnani, apart from being a minister, has a constitutional right, like you and me, to seek redress from court," Health Minister and government spokesperson Jaynarayan Vyas told IANS Wednesday.

By IANS, New Delhi : Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad Monday said more consultations were required before a decision could be taken on creating a separate state of Telangana.

By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net,

Current Situation And Information Regarding Help From Civil Society And Concerned Citizens SOME FACTS ABOUT THE INCIDENT · The fire started at around 7.30 in the morning and only stopped at around 11.30, after the whole basti leaving 3-4 houses had been destroyed.

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Kolkata : A BJP fact-finding team will visit West Bengal's Birbhum district Sunday where a party worker was killed allegedly by Trinamool Congress goons,...

By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net , Zanskar (Kargil): Sikander Khan, 66, a Muslim who has spent most of his life in Padum,...

By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter, Delhi: A three-day international conference sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research on ‘How to understand and co-exist with radical...

By IANS, Ahmedabad : The annual rath yatra (chariot festival) of Lord Jagannath got underway in Ahmedabad Wednesday with 15,000 state policemen and central forces providing tight security along the 14-km route. Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi performed 'puja' at the Jagannath temple in the city before the main chariot of Lord Jagannath started trundling at 8 a.m. More than 50,000 people are following the chariot that is being pulled by 50 devotees.

By Xinhua Jerusalem : A Qassam rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning fell at an open field in northern Ashkelon, the furthest distance a rocket has struck yet, local media said. According to a Yedioth Ahronoth report, there were no damages or injuries reported in the incident. But Israeli police bomb squad was called to the scene in Ashkelon, and is looking into the possibility that the rocket fired was a Katyusha, as sappers claim that the area is out of Qassam range.

By NNN-BSS Dhaka : The Australian High Commissioner in Dhaka Douglas Foskett handed over 38,550 tonnes of wheat worth 14 million Australian dollars to the government of Bangladesh to support its food based programmes for ultra poor people. Joint Secretary of Food and Disaster Management Ministry of Bangladesh, Shafiqul Islam received the Australian donation on behalf the government at a ceremony at the Chittagong Port Sunday.

By TCN News, Mumbai: Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) and some Muslim leaders have praised Mumbai Police mature handling of the protest on Saturday that turned violent.

By IANS Islamabad : After Musharraf who? That is the question doing the rounds in Pakistan with indications that Pervez Musharraf, president and army chief for the last nine years, may shed his uniform by the end of this year. A strong hint of Musharraf's immediate plans was given by political confidant Mushahid Hussain Sayed in an interview to Washington Post.

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter

Patna:Nitish Government of Bihar has taken a decision to celebrate the birthday of Bharat Ratan Maulana Abul Kalam Azad as Education Day. State cabinet has approved this decision and now 11th November will be celebrated as education day. The Secretary of cabinet A.K.Chauhan has given this information after cabinet's meeting.

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New York/New Delhi: India and Pakistan clashed at the UN General Assembly after Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif raked up Kashmir in his address,...

By IANS New Delhi : The Delhi government will conduct its own investigation into the death of Rinki Kaushik, the 15-year-old student of a private school in east Delhi who slipped into coma after a teacher beat her, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said Thursday. "The government will further investigate the death of the student. The accused teacher has already been suspended. The school has also been derecognised," Dikshit told reporters here Thursday.

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By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net

Bhopal: A two-day workshop for "Taleemi Edaron Ka Wefaq-wa-Milli Masail" (Federation of educational institutions & community problems) began here today at the office of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh zone, situated at the Huda complex in Lajpat Rai Colony.

By IANS, Hyderabad: Union Human Resource Development Minister M.M. Pallam Raju Monday asked the universities and colleges to make the campuses safe for women.

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By सिद्धान्त मोहन. एक लंबा समय बीत चुका है. जिस समय अरविन्द केजरीवाल ने दिल्ली में सरकार बनायी थी, सरकार बनने के अगले दिन से ही भाजपा ने केजरीवाल से एक-एक दिनों का हिसाब मांगना शुरू कर दिया था. तब तत्कालीन दिल्ली सरकार के लगभग हरेक फैसलों पर भाजपा ने आलोचनात्मक रवैया अपनाया था. थोड़ी कूटनीतिक चूक और ज़्यादा जोश की ज़द में आकर जब अरविन्द केजरीवाल ने खुद की सरकार को 49 दिनों में गिरा दिया, भाजपा ने भी मौके को भिन्न-भिन्न तरीकों से भुनाने में कोई कसर नहीं छोड़ी. यह भी एक कारण था कि बनारस की इस साल की लोकसभा सीट पर हुए चुनाव में अरविन्द केजरीवाल को हार का सामना करना पड़ा. इन बातों को यहां गिनाने का आशय साफ़ है, यदि भाजपा किसी एक सरकार की आलोचना करने का अधिकार रखती है तो इतने स्पष्ट और विराट बहुमत से आई केन्द्र सरकार के प्रति भी सराहना और हौसलाफ़जाही के साथ-साथ जनता को प्रश्नांकन और आलोचना का अधिकार प्राप्त है. कुछेक महीनों पहले मोदी सरकार ने कांग्रेस के दस सालों के शासनकाल का हवाला देते हुए जनता से अपनी सरकार को ‘हनीमून पीरियड’ देने की गुज़ारिश की थी. लेकिन जनता, जो लगभग पिछले एक साल से वादों, घोषणाओं और भर्त्सनाओं के ज़रिए ‘रामराज्य’ के सपने देख रही थी, द्वारा देश की केन्द्रीय सत्ता से सवाल करना गलत तो नहीं है. चूंकि नरेन्द्र मोदी बनारस से चुनकर प्रधानमंत्री की कुर्सी पर बैठाए गए हैं और उन्होंने बार-बार ‘माँ गंगा’, ‘बनारस के बुनकरों’ और बहुलतावादी संस्कृति का हवाला दिया है, इसलिए TCN ने बनारस के भिन्न-भिन्न तबकों – जिनमें मतदाता, चुनाव प्रत्याशी, सामाजिक विचारक और राजनेता शामिल हैं – से मिलकर मोदी सरकार के इन लगभग शुरुआती तीन महीनों का हिसाब माँगा.

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Dhaka : In a major blow to the opposition in Bangladesh, a top Awami League leader has pleaded he be released from jail by stating that he had to follow party chief Sheikh Hasina's "dictates" and is now ready to quit politics.