Woman attacked with acid in Srinagar
Srinagar : A young woman, who is a law student, was attacked with acid here Thursday, leaving her in a critical condition, police said.
Police...
Akalis in Punjab protest AAP ‘hurting’ religious sentiments
Chandigarh : Ruling Shiromani Akali Dal activists, including women, on Friday protested in Punjab against the "insensitivity" of the Aam Aadmi Party leadership towards...
Rift growing between Muslims and Communist Party in West Bengal
By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
Kolkata: Opposition to the policies of the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) is gaining momentum in the backwaters of West Bengal. Bhagwatipur in Hooghly District is a Muslim-dominated area. A meeting was organized there to discuss reservations for Muslims in government services, restoration of Wakf properties and cancellation of author Taslima Nasreen’s visa. Most of the speakers condemned the policies of ruling CPM. They held the government responsible for discontinuation of lessons in Qur’an at Far Farah Madrasa.
Modi accomplished the impossible, real test starts now
By Ashok Tandon,
Narendra Modi has proved in letter and spirit what Napoleon Bonaparte said: "Impossible is a word to be found only in the...
Muslim institutions not approaching minority education commission
By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh): It is a general feeling, and it is right, that minority education institutions particularly those run by Muslims face lot of problems when they try to get themselves recognized by the government, said speakers in a seminar on ‘Problems of Educational Institutions and Their Solution.’
The speakers said that educational institutions run by Christian missionaries do not face such troubles.
No truck with any political party, says Mayawati
By IANS,
Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Tuesday said her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will not have any truck with any political outfit, especially the Bharatiya Janata Party, during the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and criticised the Samajwadi Party for its turnaround on the nuclear deal.
"We will go alone to contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls. Even in future, the BSP will not form an alliance with the BJP or other parties," Mayawati told reporters here at a press conference.
Research shows, ‘Muslim localities of Delhi are at disadvantageous position’
By TCN News,
New Delhi: Former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, Justice Rajinder Singh Sachar, released a report on “Access to Urban Basic Services in the Muslim Localities of Delhi (A Research Study)” on January 28 at a function organized by the Institute of Objective Studies at the Nehru Guest House of Jamia Millia Islamia.
Indian-Americans condemn action against JNU students
By TCN News
New York (USA): Leading Indian American advocacy organisations have condemned the recent suppression of student protests...
BJP workers burn effigies of Lalu, Nitish in Bihar
Patna, (IANS): Opposition BJP workers on Thursday burnt the effigies of RJD chief Lalu Prasad and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in the Bihar...
Former Bangladesh minister convicted for keeping foreign liquor
By IANS
Dhaka : A former minister in Bangladesh has been convicted on charges of possessing 21 bottles of foreign liquor in violation of law.
Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind appeals Muslims not to vote for Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
By RINA,
Jamshedpur: The Jamshedpur unit of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUH) has appealed to Muslims not to vote for the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) candidate for Jamshedpur Lok Sabha seat, rather cast their vote in favor of the candidate of Jharkhand Vikas Morcha that is led by former chief minister Babulal Marandi.
At a press conference held at Sakshi Hotel in the city in which the top leaders of the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha were also present the Jharkhand JUH leaders made this announcement.
No more South Korean hostages killed: Taliban
By DPA
Kabul/Seoul : A spokesman for Taliban militants holding 21 South Korean aid workers in Afghanistan said Wednesday that no more of the hostages had been killed despite expiration of the latest deadline - while both Seoul and Kabul denied that a military operation was being launched to secure their freedom.
Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yusif Ahmadi told DPA however that should violence befall the remaining hostages, two of whose compatriots had already been shot dead, then the governments of South Korea and Afghanistan would be responsible.
Militants deny hand in suicide attack on Bhutto
By DPA
Islamabad : Pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan's tribal areas bordering Afghanistan have denied that they had attacked former prime minister Benazir Bhutto with two bombs that killed 139 people and injured more than 500, media reports said Saturday.
"We cannot even think of killing innocent people," said a spokesman of the militant commander Baitullah Mehsud, who was accused of threatening Bhutto with suicide attacks.
Five killed, scores injured as bridge collapses in Pakistan
By IANS
Karachi : At least five people were killed and scores injured Saturday when a portion of the newly inaugurated Sher Shah Northern bypass bridge caved in at Paracha Chowk here, Online news agency reported.
Authorities said the toll could mount as a large number of people rescued had sustained grievous injuries and many more were trapped under the rubble. Hospital sources confirmed two bodies had been brought to their mortuary.
Seven workers die cleaning septic tank in Andhra
Vijayawada, (IANS): Seven workers died while cleaning an underground tank at a private hatchery in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district on Friday, police said.
The incident...
Loyalty to country, government aren’t same: Author Rana Ayyub
By Rachel V. Thomas
New Delhi : Loyalty to the country does not necessarily mean loyalty to the government, says author Rana Ayyub,...
Former IB chief appointed special envoy on terrorism
New Delhi: Former Intelligence Bureau director Syed Asif Ibrahim was on Friday appointed as "special envoy for counter-terrorism and extremism", an official statement said.
File...
11 bodies recovered after Chhattisgarh massacre
By IANS
Raipur : As many as 11 bodies were recovered from a thick jungle pocket in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district Saturday, a day after about 200 heavily armed insurgents attacked a 21-member police party, a senior police officer said.
"Now confusion is over. Eleven cops of the 21-member police team were killed in Friday's ambush while five cops whom we assumed to have also been killed returned safely today and five others returned Friday soon after the attack," Ratanlal Dangi, Bijapur district superintendent of police, told IANS by telephone.
Muslims to get reservation in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation election
By Mohammed Siddique, TwoCircles.net
Hyderabad: Of the 150 seats of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), 92 have been reserved for different categories and only 58 will be in the general categories on which every body will be able to contest.
50 seats have been reserved for the backward classes, four percent of which will be for the backward groups of Muslim community. In these 50 seats, 17 will be exclusive for women. 12 seats have been reserved for the scheduled castes and two for the scheduled tribes.
IAEA Nuclear Safeguard director due in Iran July 11
By IRNA
Tehran : The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Nuclear Safeguards Director Olli Heinonen will arrive in Tehran on July 11 to discuss Iran's nuclear case.
Iran's representative to the IAEA, Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh, has said Heinonen is to offer a working agenda to Iran on the basis of which questions on Iran's nuclear case will be raised and responded.
Israel, US mull developing anti-missile defence system
By DPA
Washington/Tel Aviv : Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak met his US counterpart Robert Gates in Washington and discussed the joint development of an anti-missile system, the minister's office said Wednesday.
The "multi-layered missile interception system" discussed at Tuesday's meeting between the two is aimed at countering the perceived threat from Iranian missiles.
Bhullar’s death sentence commuted to life term
New Delhi : The Supreme Court Monday commuted the death sentence of 1993 Delhi terror convict Devender Pal Singh Bhullar to life imprisonment on...
10 more SIMI activists detained in Madhya Pradesh
By IANS
Bhopal : The Madhya Pradesh police Saturday detained 10 alleged activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) in Narsinghpur district.
They were detained in Rakai village following the clues provided by those arrested in the past one week and on the basis of telephone call details.
The police detained them while looking for SIMI activist Mohammad Irfan, who is absconding since 2000. All those detained have been remanded to judicial custody.
Too many similarities between Nandigram and Gujarat
By Amulya Ganguli, IANS
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya's proud boast that those who had earlier evicted his party's supporters from Nandigram had been paid back in their own coin recalls Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's recourse to Newtonian law - every action has an equal and opposite reaction - to explain the anti-Muslim pogrom in the state in 2002, which followed the burning of a train coach in which his party's kar sevaks were returning from Ayodhya.
Pulled by members, Shia Wakf Board head gets support from community
By TCN Special Correspondent,
उत्तराखंड में जज बन गई गांव की जहांआरा ,गुलसिताँ’ और आयशा
आसमोहम्मद कैफ । Twocircles.net
22 दिसम्बर को उत्तराखंड न्यायिक सेवा के आएं परिणाम में तीन मुस्लिम लड़कियां जज बन गई है। खास बात यह है...
Five killed in suicide terror attack in Russia
By IANS/RIA Novosti,
Moscow : At least five people were killed and 39 injured early Sunday in a suicide terror attack on a military unit in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, a law enforcement source said.
A suicide bomber detonated his car packed with explosives near Buinaksk town after ramming into the gates of the military unit, the source said.
Another source said 34 were injured and that many of them were in a serious condition.
Earlier the defence ministry put the toll at three and said 26 people were injured.
Govt. to lift control over minority education institutions
By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
New Delhi: In a big development for minority communities, the Union government has decided to exempt Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and some other universities from government control over fees, admission quotas and administration.
Kerala no better than Delhi with regards to sexual violence against women
By Abdul Basith, TwoCircles.net,
US-Afghan forces eliminate large insurgent group
By Xinhua
Kabul : Afghan government troops and the US-led coalition forces have killed a large group of Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan province and detained a foreign facilitator in the neighbouring Zabul province, the coalition said Wednesday.
Afghan National Security Forces and coalition forces killed the insurgents near the Deh Rawod District of Uruzgan province Tuesday, said a statement released by the coalition late Tuesday night without specifying the rebel casualties.
Government withdraws from case against Benazir in Swiss court
By IANS
Islamabad : Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has withdrawn from a $150 million corruption case against former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and two others in a Swiss court.
Six acquitted in British nationals’ killings in Guj 2002 riots
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Ahmedabad/London: Exactly 13 years to the day when the post-Godhra communal violence began in Gujarat in 2002, all six accused in...
Intellectuals announce ‘Dandi Chalo’ over incompetency of government in nabbing Kalburgi killers
By TwoCircles.net, Staff Reporter
Dharwad (Karnataka) : The protest over killing of rationalist and veteran Kannada writer, MM Kalburgi has...
Special court denies homemade food in Ramzan to Muslim accused; Mumbai prison restrict another...
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Mumbai : In an unsympathetic occurrence the Special MCOCA court established inside Mumbai Central Prison, commonly known as Arthur Road Jail, turned down the application filed by 20 odd accused persons in a case of ‘sending of threatening email before Gujarat and Delhi blasts in 2008 ‘ for allowing homemade food delivered by relatives inside prison during the month of Ramzan.
RTI query rejected in Bababudangiri case on grounds of ‘national security’
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Rs.7 mn missing from ATM van in Delhi
By IANS
New Delhi : Four employees of a security company, engaged in refilling automated teller machines (ATM) of national and international banks with cash, have been detained after they reported Rs.7 million missing from their custody, the police said Tuesday.
Driver of the cash-carrying van Sanjeev and three other employees of Security Trans Indian identified as - Rajesh, Rajkumar and Harish - were taken into detention for questioning Monday afternoon after they reported a bag of cash was missing from their van.
Taliban kill eight in Afghanistan
By DPA
Kabul : Six security guards and two policemen were killed when Taliban attacked a convoy, transporting supplies to foreign forces in southern Afghanistan, police said Sunday.
The attack took place in Maidan Shar district of southern Wardak province Sunday morning, Muzafar Ali, provincial police chief said.
"Six security guards and two police, who were escorting the convoy were killed when Taliban fired a rocket propelled grenade from their vehicle against the convoy," he said.
National consultation on expectations of Muslim community from 12th Five Year Plan
By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,
Google’s black ribbon tribute to Kalam
New Delhi : Google on Thursday paid tribute to former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, with a black ribbon on its homepage.
Kalam died...
Gujarat cop held in Prajapati killing sent to police custody
By IANS,
Gandhinagar : Gujarat Police inspector Ashish Pandya, who was arrested from Rajkot Thursday for his role in the killing of Tulsi Prajapati in an alleged fake gun battle, was presented before a Danta court Friday and remanded in 12-day police custody.
Pandya, who refused a lawyer and argued his case in person, has denied all the charges made out by the police. He is the fifth policeman to be arrested in the case.
Farmers in distress across India, especially Gujarat: Congress
New Delhi : The state of agriculture nationally and especially in Gujarat, where more than 5,000 farmers have committed suicide between 2002 and 2012,...
What explains large Muslim turnout for Yakub Memon’s funeral
By Irfan Engineer,
Media reported that about 8000 people attended the last journey of Yakub Memon – whom the Supreme Court had earlier convicted for...
Maoists attack policemen in Orissa
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.
A peek inside the online campaign against Mohd Zubair
Multiple tweets of Alt News fact-checker Mohammad Zubair reveal that these were shared without context by the Hindu right-wing contributing to his arrest.
Vipul Kumar...
मायावती से मुसलमानों का मोहभंग, उपचुनाव में नही मिला उनका वोट!
By आस मोहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net
लखनऊ- लोकसभा चुनावों में 10 लोकसभा सीट जीतकर वापसी करने वाली उत्तर प्रदेश में मायावती के नेतृत्व वाली बहुजन समाज...
No fund to pay salaries from April: civic bodies to HC
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court on Tuesday was informed by the civic bodies that the funds were not being released by the...
Iraqi PM urges accord front to return to Govt
By NNN-KUNA
Baghdad : Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki hoped the Accord Front would return to his government after he rejected resignations of Front's ministers on Sunday.
Al-Maliki, at a joint news conference with President Jalal Talabani and Vice-President Adel Abdulmahdi, said the spirit of the teamwork and cooperation existed between the conflicting parties before and after the removal of Saddam Hussein.
Seven separatist leaders to quit Mirwaiz-led Hurriyat
Srinagar: Seven separatist leaders Saturday decided to quit the moderate Hurriyat group headed by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq.
These include Sheikh Yaqoob, the brother of a...
“Building Islam in Detroit” exhibition opens at Jamia Millia Islamia
By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
New Delhi: A photo exhibition entitled ‘Building Islam in Detroit’ was today inaugurated at the FTK Centre for Information Technology in Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) by Steven White, Deputy Chief of Mission, US Embassy, in the presence of Prof Mushirul Hasan, Vice Chancellor of JMI.
The exhibition comprising 20 panels of visuals and accompanying explanatory text has been set up by the USIS in collaboration with the Outreach Programme of JMI, says a release from the university.
Muslim attacked by cow vigilantes dies in Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad : A 25-year-old Muslim man who was thrashed brutally allegedly by cow vigilantes on September 13 died at a hospital here on Friday...
Modi, opposition discuss JNU, FIR over attack on journalists
New Delhi : The sedition case filed against a JNU student leader came up for discussion as Prime Minister Narendra Modi met opposition leaders...
High courts talk tough on pleas of three politicians
By IANS
Lucknow: Adopting a tough stance, two high courts Wednesday declined to hear three politicians who had sought their intervention in different criminal cases pending against them.
While separate benches of the Allahabad High Court turned down applications of dreaded mafia don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari and budding politician and Bharatiya Janata Party's Pilibhit nominee Varun Gandhi, the Uttarakhand High Court proved to be equally unobliging for yet another criminal-turned politician Amarmani Tripathi.
Shaheen Bagh: 40th day of Protest against CAA, NPR & NRC, crowd increased and...
Yusuf Ansari, Twocircles.net
New Delhi. 'Tere ghurur ko jalayegi, wo aag hun, Aakar Mujhe Dekh, Main Shaheen bagh hun (I am the fire that will...
IIT-JEE results out: Rahmani-30 results low, ranks high
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
Patna: Trying hard to repeat last year’s success, Rahmani-30 coaching centre for Muslim IIT aspirants has secured 33% results this year in IIT-JEE. However, the ranks of its successful students this year are higher than those of last year. According to the results of IIT-JEE 2010, announced at 8 am today, of 12 students of Rahmani-30 who had appeared in the April 11 test, only four have qualified for admission in IIT.
Assam: SC provides relief to 50 lakh women; says panchayat certificate is proof of...
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
In a big relief to nearly 50 lakh women in Assam who were fearing deportation after their citizenship had been questioned,...
Over 5,000 Pakistanis, 1,300 Bangladeshis overstaying in India
New Delhi : Over 5,000 Pakistanis and more than 1,300 Bangladeshis have been found to be overstaying in India, the government said Tuesday.
"As per...
Polygamy and the Qur’an
By Asghar Ali Engineer,
In our attempt to codify Islamic law in India which is today quite loosely applied causing lot of problems to Muslim women, we interviewed number of prominent ‘ulama. One of our questions was should polygamy be regulated? With few exceptions most of them said ‘no’. Polygamy is needed and some even said it is exclusive preserve of man and he can take second wife even without any reason or permission of first wife.
Four held with revolvers in Gujarat
By IANS,
Ahmedabad : Four people, including a man convicted for killing a police constable, were arrested with three locally made revolvers from a Gujarat village Tuesday, authorities said.
"Hayat Dafer, who had been sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for killing a police constable in Bhavnagar in 2004, had jumped his furlough in 2008 and was arrested from a village near here," Inspector J.P. Raol said.
"Hayat and his three other accomplices are involved in numerous highway robbery cases," he said.
Congress has only one agenda – to stop me, says Modi
Thane (Maharashtra) : The Congress is pursuing a single-point agenda "Stop Modi" but the voting trend so far in the Lok Sabha elections indicates...
478 complaints of poll code violation in Kashmir: EC
Jammu : As many as 478 complaints of violation of the model code of conduct have been received by the Election Commission since the...
Five shot at in Delhi rioting, 70 arrested
New Delhi : Five people were shot at during a clash Saturday between two communities over a petty issue in east Delhi's Trilokpuri area,...
Half of Muslim doctors in US feel discrimination
Washington : American Muslims, even those in one the most highly regarded professions in the US, encounter a less-than-inclusive and welcoming work environment during...
Tribal school kids kill mates to get a holiday
By IANS
Partur (Maharashtra) : Three teenage students of a tribal school here killed their two younger schoolmates so that they could get a long holiday.
The killers, who have confessed to their crime, will be produced before the district court in Jalna and sent to a reformatory, Partur police told IANS Thursday.
The minor offenders, Jibhya Kale, Vallabh Kale and Namdeo Pawar, all in their early teens, took 8-year-old Ashok Kale and his 5-year-old brother Mangal Kale to a farm near their school Tuesday night and asphyxiated them.
Hamas leader calls for dialogue with Fatah
By Xinhua
Damascus : Exiled Hamas leader in Syria Khaled Meshaal on Friday called for dialogue with the rival Fatah movement after days of infighting between the two groups in Gaza.
    "What is needed now is to deal with the Palestinian split," Meshaal told a press conference here, saying Hamas, or the Islamic Resistance Movement, supported the Arab sponsorship of a dialogue in the Palestinian national interest.
Suicide van bomb kills six people in Iraq
By Xinhua
Ramadi(Iraq), Nov 21 (Xinhua) Two suicide bombers blew up their explosives laden minivan in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, capital of Anbar province, Wednesday morning, killing six people and wounding six, a provincial police source said.
The two suicide bombers parked their minivan outside a courthouse guarded by policemen in central Ramadi, some 110 km west of Baghdad, and blew it up, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Terai rebels abduct official, kill former employee
By IANS
Kathmandu : Making a mockery of the government's pledge to provide security to its employees in the Terai plains after a nationwide backlash following the brutal killing of a municipal official, Nepal's rebels abducted another official Thursday night and killed a former employee.
A band of former Maoists led by Jay Krishna Goit, once one of the top Maoist leader from the plains, Thursday abducted Jagannath Saha, a senior municipal official, from Jankinagar town in south Nepal.
Arresting of my son won’t silence me on oppression: Amir Rashadi
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
The government has hatched a conspiracy to eliminate Muslims. As I was protesting against this conspiracy my son was picked to terrorise me and silence me, says Maulana Amir Rashadi, chief of Uttar Pradesh Ulema Council and director of Jamiatur Rashad of Azamgarh, in an exclusive interview with Mumtaz Alam Falahi of TwoCircles.net.
SDPI says supporting AAP in Delhi election, in reality with Cong candidates
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: In a statement issued on January 5, Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) said, it is extending its support to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), in the ensuing elections for the Delhi Legislative Assembly with the exception of five assembly seats, namely Babarpur, Mustafabad, Seelampur, Matia Mahel and Okhla.
Maoist leader arrested in West Bengal, weapons seized
By IANS,
Kolkata: A key Maoist leader was arrested during a search operation jointly carried out by the central paramilitary forces and state police in West Bengal's troubled West Midnapore district Thursday, police said.
The joint forces also seized a huge cache of weapons, ammunition and explosives during the operation - the biggest since the central forces offensive started in June last year. These included the weapons and ammunition looted during the attack on Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) camp Feb 15.
Arshad Madani lashed out at Triple Talaq propaganda, praised Yogi in Varanasi
TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
National President of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind Maulana Arshad Madani lashed out at government and media for creating useless propaganda over Triple Talaq issue....
Paradise on Earth becomes horror for its residents
By Sheikh Qayoom,
Srinagar : As historical records confirm that the recent floods in Kashmir have been worse than the worst ever - that in...
Moussa to address EU parliament’s meeting in Lisbon
By NNN-KUNA
Cairo : Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa will head to Lisbon, Portugal, Sunday to take part in the EU parliament's foreign relations and cooperation committee meeting.
The League's official spokesman Alaa Rushdi told the press that Moussa's address to the conference would focus on the situation in the Mideast and efforts to revive the peace process. The address would also touch upon European-Arab relations.
Splendid performance of Muslim candidates in BPSC exam 2010
By TCN News,
Patna: Muslim candidates have made a splendid performance in Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) competitive examinations 2010. Of 362 successful candidates 37 are Muslims, that is about 10.22%. This is far greater show by them compared to the last year results where only 4 were Muslims. Total 893 students who succeeded in Main examination had appeared in the interview held from 15 to 23 March. The result was announced yesterday.
Adityanath’s appointment indicates BJP pursuing Hindutva politics: Opposition
New Delhi, (IANS): Opposition parties on Saturday criticised the BJP after it announced Yogi Adityanath's name as the new Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh,...
Naseeruddin Shah ko Gussa Kyon Aata hai?
Ram Puniyani
The index of health of democratic society is gauzed by the feeling of security experienced by the minorities. Similarly one can say that...
Court asks police to furnish evidence on ‘framed’ teacher
By IANS
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Monday directed Delhi Police to furnish the evidence collected against Uma Khurana, the teacher in a government-run school framed in a fake sting operation by a private TV channel that alleged she was forcing schoolgirls into the flesh trade.
The police have found no evidence against the teacher, who was granted bail by a local court Monday.
22nd anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition: Several groups put up united symbolic demonstration at...
By Mahmood Asim, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: More than 30 organizations put up a united demonstration at Jantar Mantar on the 22nd anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition on Saturday, December 6.
Sentenced to die, Naushad says he is innocent
By IANS,
New Delhi: One of three men sentenced to death for a 1996 bombing here that killed 13 people claimed Thursday that he was innocent and had been framed by a disgruntled police officer.
In a hand-written statement in English distributed to reporters at the court, Mohammad Naushad said he deserved to be acquitted but the judiciary had let him down.
Muslims must grab benefits of centre’s minority scholarship schemes
By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net,
Patna: Bihar Minority Chhatrawiritti Morcha (means Bihar minority scholarship front BMCM) has urged Muslim students to grab the benefits from educational scholarship schemes of the central government for minority students. The convener of BMCM, Mr. Irshad Hussain appealed to Muslim students to fill up the forms for 2009-10 scholarship and submit that as soon as possible.
Voting over in the Assembly by-elections in Kerala
By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,
Kochi: People voted in the by-elections to three Assembly constituencies in Kerala today. The by-elections were held in Kannur, Ernakulam and Alappuzha where the sitting MLAs contested to the Parliament seats and won. Even though they will not have any impact either on the state or central governments, these elections are crucial for both the LDF and the UDF. The UDF has to win as the sitting MLAs were all from the Congress. As the elections will be a judgement of the state government, winning is important for the LDF also.
PFI condemns attack on media by RSS; demands probe on RSS role in terror...
By TCN News,
Bengaluru: The Popular Front of India condemned the attack on the head office of the Headlines Today news channel by the RSS last day. The organisation congratulated the channel for exposing the real face of the Sangh Parivar. It also reiterated its demand to the UPA government to start an investigation on all the activities of the RSS in India and abroad and to investigate all blast cases after 1993.
Sohrabuddin’s kin awarded Rs. 1 mn as ex-gratia
By IANS,
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Gujarat government to pay Rs.1 million in ex-gratia to the mother and three brothers of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, who was wrongly branded a terrorist and killed by police in a staged shootout in 2005.
A bench of Justice Tarun Chatterjee and Justice Aftab Alam also deferred to Sep 2 the issue of transferring the case for further investigation to a special probe panel headed by former Central Bureau of Investigation director R.K. Raghavan.
SSSC demands justice for the Kunan Poshpora victims and repeal of AFSPA
By TCN News,
New Delhi: On the 23rd anniversary of the shameful Kunan Poshpora incident, SSSC demanded justice for the victims. In the incident, about 100 women were raped on the same night by soldiers of the Rajputana Rifles in the Kunan and Poshpora village in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir. It has been 23 years but still there is no justice. None of the guilty officers have been prosecuted.
Bomb threat forced evacuation of Ajmer Dargah; Chhatti Sharif resumed after an hour of...
A commando just outside the Dargah
By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
Ajmer: Police commandoes with guns surrounded the World-famous Ajmer Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti as police...
Four arrested with fake currency in Uttar Pradesh
By IANS,
Lucknow : The Uttar Pradesh Police Friday said it had busted an inter-state gang dealing in fake currency with the arrest of four people from Lucknow district and the recovery of counterfeit currency worth Rs.1.6 million.
"Three of those arrested are from Bihar while the other is from Uttar Pradesh," said Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order) Brij Lal.
The people were arrested near the Badshah Nagar railway station in Lucknow, he added.
They have confessed to circulating fake notes amounting to Rs.10 million in different parts of the state, police said.
Congress coined term ‘Hindu terrorism’: Rajnath
New Delhi: The government and the opposition locked horns in the Lok Sabha on Friday, with Home Minister Rajnath Singh accusing the Congress of...
Complaint filed in UP to lodge criminal case against Facebook
By TCN Special Correspondent,
Maoists shoot truck driver’s assistant, blow up school
By IANS,
Ranchi: Maoist rebels shot dead and set afire a truck driver's assistant and set ablaze three trucks laden with bauxite in Jharkhand's Gumla district Thursday morning, police said. In another incident, Maoists blew up a government school in Giridih district.
"The truck driver's assistant was shot and then burnt by the Maoists. The rebels also set on fire three trucks," said Superintendent of Police Narendra Kumar Singh.
Sharad Pawar supports Muslim reservation demand
By Abdul Hameed, TwoCircles.net,
Mumbai: In an apparent move to get sympathy of India’s second majority community before the coming Lok Sabha elections, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has supported the demand that Muslims in Maharashtra should be given reservation along with Marathis.
He was addressing a gathering of Ulemas at Jamia Qadria Ashrafia in Nagpada, Mumbai yesterday. The meeting was called to provide Muslims an opportunity to interact directly with Sharad Pawar and put their demands before him.
BJP established ‘record in political immorality’ by joining hands with JMM: Govindacharya
By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,
Bhopal: The rightist Bharatiya Janata Party, (BJP), has established a "record in political immorality" and crossed the Rubicon line by deciding to join hands with Shibu Soren-led Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, (JMM), to form ministry in Jharkhand state.
The above is the considered opinion of Rashtriya Swabhiman Andolan National convenor K N Govindacharya, the pracharak-turned-politician who led the BJP into power in the 1999 Lok Sabha elections. He put forth his views candidly while addressing media persons here on Tuesday.
बरेली में भीड़ की मुट्ठी में कानून, चोरी के आरोप में पेड़ से बांधकर...
बरेली के आंवला में बासित नाम के युवक की भीड़ ने लोहा चोरी करने के आरोप में पीट-पीट कर हत्या कर दी है। बासित...
‘Cow Holy, Dalit Unholy?’: Ambedkar group raises slogan during protest rallies in USA
BY TCN News,
Detroit: Giving a global voice to the ongoing protests against the caste atrocities committed in India against Dalits, the Ambedkar Association...
अमित शाह: भाजपा की हार का एकमात्र चेहरा
सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net
पटना: आज का दिन बिहार के निवासियों के लिए रोज़ की सुबह ही है. उनका मुख्यमंत्री नहीं बदला. जिस दल को वे...
AP: Only two Muslims on Congress list of candidates
By Mohammed Siddiqu, TwoCircles.net,
Hyderabad : The finalization of the list of Congress candidates for the 42 Lok Sabha seats in Andhra Pradesh has put an end to he speculations about the former Indian cricket captain Mohammed Azharuddin entering the electoral fray for Parliament.
There were speculations that Azhar may be given ticket either from Secunderabad or Nizamabad but the party has nominated the sitting MPs from both the constituencies- Anjan Kumar Yadav from Secunderabad and Madhu Goud Yashki from Nizamabad.
Lebanese army destroys militant hideouts in nothern camp
By NNN-Xinhua
Beirut : The Lebanese army on Saturday destroyed a large number of the hideouts of the remaining Fatah al-Islam militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, continuing its hold on the militants.
Battles between the soldiers and the militia were now taking place from street to street and were most intense in the southwestern and northwestern areas of the Nahr al-Bared camp, the official National News Agency reported.
AIUDF wins Jamunamukh assembly by-poll
Guwahati : AIUDF candidate Abdur Rahim Ajmal Tuesday won the Jamunamukh assembly by-poll in Assam.
"AIUDF candidate Abdur Rahim Ajmal polled a total 62,513 votes...
दिल्ली में हिंसा का नंगा नाच जारी: मौजपुर, ब्रह्मपुरी में आज भी पथराव और आगज़नी
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दिल्ली। ज़ाफ़राबाद और मौजपुर में सोमवार की हिंसा के बाद भी हिंसा रुकी नहीं है। मंगलवार सुबह कई इलाक़ों में पत्थरबाज़ी और आगज़नी...
4 found guilty of 2005 London bomb plot
By Prasun Sonwalkar, IANS
London : As investigations continued into the recent attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow, four people were Monday found guilty of hatching a failed copycat plot to set off explosions in London's transport network just two weeks after the 7/7 London bombings.
Dhaka now ready to send ex-premiers abroad for medical treatment
By IANS
Dhaka : Bangladesh's interim government, accused of blocking medical treatment abroad for ailing and detained former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, has said it is willing to send her, as well as her rival Khaleda Zia, abroad provided they seek permission.
Hasina's Awami league (AL) and Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) said they would not apply for permission.
Media reports said Thursday that they fear that the government wants to send them out of the country to curb political dissent.
Journalist Mutti-ur-Rehman takes on the media for their biased reporting
This special TCN series highlights some of the example cases of people accused of terrorism and their struggle for justice. This series is sponsored...
Suspended Punjab officer to move court
By IANS,
Chandigarh: A senior officer of Punjab who was suspended after a corruption case was filed against him by the state vigilance department, Saturday said he will move the high Court if the case is not quashed.
"The Punjab vigilance had filed the case based on false and fabricated grounds. I have no trust in their inquiry and if they do not quash this case then I will move High Court against them. I am also ready for CBI inquiry into this issue," said V.K. Janjua, Punjab's former director for industries.
Rajsamand murder: Ghastly crime, gruesome hate
By Ram Puniyani
The ghastly incident in Rajsamand, Rajasthan, showed the impact which ‘Hate other’ can create. On December 6, Shambhulal Regar, an ex-marble trader...
Pakistan close to bringing ordinance on Amnesty to Bhutto, others
By NNN-PTI
Islamabad : Pakistan government is close to bringing an ordinance which is expected to grant amnesty to former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and other important political leaders in corruption cases against them.
Quoting unnamed sources, private Geo TV reported that final touches were being given to the National Reconciliation Ordinance, which would pave the way for withdrawal of cases against Bhutto, exiled former Premier Nawaz Sharif and other important political leaders.
नयी सदी, नयी सरकार: मैला ढोनेवाले मैला ही ढो रहे हैं
फहमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
पटना: देश को आज़ाद हुए सालों हो चुके लेकिन दलित समुदाय के साथ भेदभाव लगातार जारी है. यह समुदाय अभी तक...
Hundreds of academicians, journalists appeal UN Special Rapporteur to stop intimidation of Kashmiri journalists
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Members of the Kashmir Scholars Consultative Action Network have written to Prof David Kaye, United Nations Special Rapporteur on promotion and protection of...
India-Pakistan Conflict: In the Shadow of Missiles, Faith Waits to Fly for Hajj
Mohammad Aatif Ammad Kanth, TwoCircles.net
Handwara (Jammu and Kashmir): For over two decades, Ghulam Ahmed Dar, 70, a daily wage laborer from Tutigund village in...
Iraqis take over from MNF in Karbala
By NNN-KUNA
Baghdad : Iraqi forces will take over security duties from the Multi National Forces (MNF) in Karbala province on Monday.
An MNF press release said Karbala will witness a celebration on the occasion of handing over the security duties for Karbala to Iraqi security personnel.
The release did not reveal where the celebration would be held, however, security sources said it will take place in one of the city's stadiums with the attendance of Iraqi officials and US officers.
Inconsolable pain, uncertain future encircle Asghar’s family
By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net,
Beaten by teacher, Bengal boy dies
Kolkata : A student of a residential school in West Bengal's Murshidabad district died on Tuesday after allegedly being beaten by teachers for indiscipline.
Two...
Iran’s FM holds talks in Oman
By NNN-KUNA,
Muscat : Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki held here talks with his Omani counterpart Yousef bin Alawi and discussed with him bilateral cooperation between the two countries.
Alawi said in a statement that his talks with Mottaki were significant to review coordination over a number of issues of mutual concern.
He said he listened to the Iranian point of view over a number of issues of concern to the region, saying Iran has been exerting tremendous efforts to contribute positively in resolving the crises in Lebanon and Iraq.
Musharraf leaves for Kabul jirga
By Xinhua
Islamabad : Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf left for Kabul Sunday to address the Pakistan-Afghan joint peace jirga (assembly) being held in Kabul.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai telephoned Musharraf Friday evening and invited him to attend the closing session of the jirga.
Musharraf had earlier cancelled his participation in the Kabul jirga citing "domestic engagements".
Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz represented Musharraf at the inaugural session Thursday.
Minority communities’ artisans to showcase talent at IITF
New Delhi : Artisans belonging to minority communities will showcase their wares and talent at the India International Trade Fair (IITF) this year, Minority...
Suspected LeT operatives sent to judicial custody
New Delhi : A court here Tuesday sent to judicial custody, till Sep 2, suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative Abdul Subhan and his aide Asahbuddin...
Journalists’ Forum Assam condemns the beheading of journalist in Syria
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.
Police officer, Maoist killed in West Bengal
By IANS,
Kolkata : The officer-in-charge of a police station and a Maoist were killed in a gun battle in West Bengal's Bankura district, police said Thursday.
Bankura Superintendent of Police Vishal Garg told IANS that a group of heavily armed Maoists abducted and shot Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Tarashankar Patra Wednesday night.
When police inspector Rabi Lochan Mitra led his men in search of the guerrillas, they opened fire, triggering the gun battle.
Networking the Millat: a one-man crusade
By Nigar Ataulla
“ Networking�…. We have all heard this umpteen times at seminars and forums. The Muslim community has many scattered links that need to be tied up. How common it is to find Muslims running from pillar to post to reach out to each other. A database of Muslim organizations, journalists, social workers or for that matter educational institutions had always been a dream of sorts. But not anymore!
Muslim industrialist builds Mandir, Muslim politician inaugurates it
By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,
8 Muslims acquitted in 97’ Tamilnadu bomb blast case
By Shafee Ahmed Ko, TwoCircles.net,
Chennai: In a fresh case of false implication of Muslims in terror cases in the country, 8 members of the community, who were languishing in jail in the 1997 serial bomb blast case, were acquitted by a special court in Chennai on Friday as the prosecution could not prove charges against them.
The bomb blasts were executed in three trains in Tamil Nadu and Kerala 7 around the Babri Masjid demolition anniversary in 1997, killing 10 people and injuring 70 others.
Saudi expects to receive 2 mn pilgrims for Haj
Riyadh, (IANS): Saudi Arabia expects to receive around two million pilgrims this Haj season, including 1.7 million foreigners, the media reported on Sunday.
More than 1.8...
CBI files chargesheet in Dera murder, rape cases
By IANS
Ambala : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against functionaries of the Dera Sacha Sauda religious sect at a special court in this Haryana town in two cases of murder and the rape of a woman sect follower.
The CBI filed the chargesheet Monday night at the residence of the special CBI court judge R.N. Bharti. Dera chief Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh's name also figured in it, CBI sources indicated.
Maoist guerrillas kill one, trigger blast
By IANS,
Malkangiri (Orissa) : Maoist guerrillas killed a man early Wednesday in Orissa’s Malkangiri district and then triggered a blast when Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were going to the spot to investigate, police said.
A trooper was critically injured in the explosion.
The Maoists guerrillas killed the man, suspecting him to be a police informer, at Badigata village, some 60 km from the district headquarter of Malkangiri and 700 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, a police official said. The identity of the victim is not yet known, he said.
New J&K CM Mufti rages controversy over his statement on conducive atmosphere for election
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net,
Jammu: After being sworn-in as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed raged a controversy. In a news conference in Jammu, Mufti said that Hurriyat, Pakistan and militants allowed a conducive atmosphere for the recently held Assembly elections in the State.
Indian among 11 jailed in Spain for terror offences
Bu IANS,
London : An Indian-born father-of-six has been convicted in Spain along with 10 Pakistanis for planning terrorist attacks in Barcelona's underground train system last year.
Mumbai-born Roshan Jamal Khan was among 11 men jailed for up to 14 years by Spain's anti-terrorism court Monday for plotting to "carry out a violent attack using explosives against the Barcelona metro, which could have caused many casualties".
"The indiscriminate aim is evidence of the terrorist nature of the attacks," the court said.
Curfew continues in parts of Srinagar, Kashmir Valley
By IANS,
Srinagar : Curfew continued for the second day without relaxation in parts of Jammu, Srinagar and some other places in the Kashmir Valley Thursday.
Karnataka: Muslim girl commits suicide after being harassed by teacher ahead of R-Day rehearsals
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
In a tragic turn of events, a Muslim girl named Zaibunnisa committed suicide on January 25 after allegedly facing violence and...
Kerala looking into reports of Taliban style courts
By IANS,
Thiruvananthapuram : Kerala is looking into the veracity of media reports suggesting that Taliban style courts are functioning in the state, Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan told the state assembly Tuesday.
He said this in response to a submission raised by Congress legislator Aryadan Mohammed.
Mohammed said the first such report of a Taliban style court appeared in Veekshenam daily this month and was followed by a series of reports in Mathrubhoomi daily.
US more in alignment with Islamic values than many Muslim states: Sheikh Aaidh Al-Qarni
By Siraj Wahab
A popular Saudi author and religious scholar has raised some questions about governmental and societal practices across the Arab world and asserts that the United States is more in alignment with many Islamic values than many countries represented as Muslim states.
Sheikh Aaidh ibn Abdullah Al-Qarni, whose self-help book “Don’t Be Sad” sells briskly both in English and Arabic, made the remarks in two recent columns published in the pan-Arab mass-circulation Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat.
At least 33 militants killed: Pakistani army
By DPA
Islamabad : The Pakistani military has claimed to have killed at least 33 militants as heavily-armed supporters of a pro-Taliban cleric gained control over a third town in the north-western valley of Swat.
"We apprehended four militants near the valley's Saido Sharif airport when their armed supporters came for their help but our forces repelled the attack, killing six of them," army spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told the Dawn news channel Wednesday.
Mumbai CID team visits West Bengal, find out that Bengali workers they arrested in...
By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net
Nearly a month after the arrest of four people in Mumbai for being ‘illegal Bangladeshis’, a team of two men...