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By Salil Kader, 31st May 2008 was an important day for all those opposed to acts of terrorism being carried out around the world and which are wrongly attributed to Islam and its teachings.

By IANS Bhubaneswar : Clashes between two groups of Muslims over a local burial ground delayed the burial of a body by 12 hours in Orissa's Keonjhar district, police said Sunday. Fifty-years-old Nazir Hussein, a resident of Champua town, died Saturday morning in his home. His family members and relatives went to bury his body at the nearest burial ground. But a group of villagers from the same community restrained them from doing so.

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Mohammad Rashid is a convert Muslim from Allahabad. He is doing Ph.D. from Jamia Millia Islamia. Yesterday a team of the Anti-Terrorism Squad raided his rented room at House No. C. 81 in Abul Fazl Enclave area and he was picked up.

By Munize Ali, TwoCircles.net,

Jammu : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed on Thursday chaired his first meeting of the Unified Headquarters, the state's top security...

New Delhi : Outgoing Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday signalled his intention to stake claim to form the government despite a...

By Xinhua Gaza : A senior Islamic Hamas movement leader in Gaza has said that United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon should quit his post "because of his full partiality towards Israel". Mahmoud al-Zahar, foreign minister in the former Hamas-led government, accused Ban Ki-moon of violating the rules of the international organisation "by his biased attitudes towards Israel".

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: Samajwadi Party general secretary and MP Amar Singh appeared in favor of opening the door to Islamic Banking in India. He was addressing a select gathering of intellectuals and economists at India Islamic Cultural Centre here on September 1. Addressing the programme organized by Indian Centre for Islamic Finance, an outfit of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Amar Singh said he would meet Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in this regard.

By P. Karunakharan, IANS, Colombo : At least 12 police personnel were killed and 23 others injured when a motorcycle borne Tamil Tiger rebel blew himself up opposite the office of the senior superintendent of police (SSP) in Vavuniya town in northern Sri Lanka Monday, the defence ministry said in a statement. Three women constables were among the 12 killed in the explosion that occurred around 7.10 a.m., the ministry said. It added that 23 people, including 19 police personnel and four civilians, were injured and had been hospitalised.

By NNN-KUNA Washington : A high-level Iraqi delegation representing the renowned Anbar province arrived to Washington on Saturday and is scheduled to meet with US officials and congressional leaders next week. Sources at the State Department, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told KUNA that the Iraqi delegation would meet with senior officials in the White House, State Department, and Department of Defense but it was still not confirmed yet if they would meet with President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.

By TCN Staff Reporter,

On April 7 2015, five people accused in the murder of two policemen were killed in an encounter in Aler, Nalgonda after the...

New Delhi : Justice T.S. Thakur was sworn in on Thursday as the 43rd Chief Justice of India. President Pranab Mukherjee administered the oath of...

By IANS New Delhi : A city court Friday issued a warrant for inter-state gangster Brijesh Singh to be brought before it April 19 for trial in an extortion case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjeev Jain issued the warrant after Mumbai Police failed to present him before the court. Mumbai Police had sought Singh's custody Feb 4 so that he could be tried in a Mumbai court for his alleged involvement in the 1992 JJ Hospital shooting case. He allegedly worked for the Dawood gang in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, and is suspected of links with politicians.

Lucknow : The Samajwadi Party (SP) Friday announced the names of six party candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections scheduled for next month. The party's...

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New Delhi : "The mob that beat me up at the Patiala House Court seemed to be highly politically motivated as they were well...

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net पटना: ख़बर है कि चारा घोटाले में दोषी साबित हो चुके लालू यादव की ज़मानत रद्द कराने की तैयारी में...

By Amulya Ganguli, IANS, Although Christians were described as internal enemies in Guru Golwalkar's catechism of hate, "Bunch of Thoughts", they were not targeted by the Sangh Parivar - the right-wing Hindu nationalist political grouping - as systematically as at present. The Parivar's primary enemies were always the Muslims. They were accused of having invaded the country from the eighth century onwards, destroyed temples during the medieval period and finally partitioned the country in 1947. Islamic terrorism is the latest addition to this list of sins.

By IANS,

New Delhi : Accusing the ruling Congress party of "being one with fundamentalists", the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday called for a nationwide strike Thursday over the Jammu and Kashmir government's order cancelling land allotment to Amarnath shrine authorities.

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Mumbai: Mrs. Qamar Nasreen, mother of Shaikh Abdul Naeem – an accused in Aurangabad Arms haul case of 2006 and resident of Aurangabad, has rejected police claim that on Sunday Naeem escaped from the custody of West Bengal police when he was being escorted from Kolkata in Howrah-Mumbai Super-fast train for hearing of the case before Mumbai special court. She has alleged that the police might have illegally detained him at an undisclosed location and she is afraid that she might be killed in a staged encounter.

By TCN News, Aligarh: Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has rejected the Ministry of HRD proposal for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for the admission in MBBS course.

By Brij Khandelwal, IANS Agra : Just 500 metres from the Taj Mahal, there's another monument of love in this city that very few people know about - one that has changed the life of many a leprosy patient in India. The Japanese-founded Jalma Centre for Leprosy Treatment, being run by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), has completed more than four decades of service, treating hundreds of thousands of leprosy affected who are traditionally ostracised in India.

By IANS,

TwoCircles.net News Desk नई दिल्ली : आज़ादी के मुजाहिदों में सितारों की तरह चमकने वाली देश और दुनिया में प्रख्यात क्रन्तिकारी युवा दिलों की धड़कन...

By NNN-UNCHR Geneva : Almost 20,000 Iraqis applied for asylum in industrialized countries in the first half of this year, up 45 percent on the previous six months, according to provisional statistics compiled by the UN refugee agency. UNHCR, using information provided by governments, said about 19,800 asylum claims were lodged in 36 industrialized countries during the review period, compared to 13,600 in the second half of 2006.

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter The Additional Sessions Court here on Monday awarded double life imprisonment to 11 Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activists for the murder...

Srinagar: Normal life was affected in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district on Wednesday following a shutdown called by hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah...

By Mohit Dubey Varanasi : With bilateral talks and business meetings wrapped up in New Delhi earlier in the day, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe...

By Mahtab Alam for TwoCircles.net from flood zone, Supaul City (Supaul): In a corner of the mega relief camp Bina Kumari and Manita Kumari are reading some textbook. Even though there are 2,000 people in the camp, they are concentrating on reading ignoring the surrounding. “We want to read,” said Bina and Manita, students of class IV and V respectively. But they don’t know why to read. They have mathematics book provided by the government in this camp, first of dozens of camps this reporter visited in the last one week in Purnia, Saharsa and Supaul.

By TwoCircles.net news desk New Delhi: A native of Muzaffarpur, Bihar, Moin Khan has won his bid for re-election for the Trustee of York Township in the state of Illionis of the USA. He collected over ten thousand votes in the election held on April 7th. Running on the Republican ticket, Khan was able to attract a large number of Democrats as well as Independent voters. Public is represented by the trustees on the Township Board. They are also responsible for auditing accounts, monitoroing the performance of York Township, vote on contracts, and other city related businesses.

By Maitreyee Boruah,IANS, Bangalore : Jammu and Kashmir's young cricketers, bitter about the detention and release of teammate Pervez Rasool here on suspicion of carrying explosives, have asked fellow Indians not to look at all Kashmiri Muslim youth as terrorists. "It was a bitter episode," said Pervez, 21, who was briefly detained on Oct 17 by Bangalore police for questioning after a metal detector at Chinnaswamy stadium indicated presence of explosive material in his bag.

By NNN-Bernama Bachok, Malaysia : More efforts will be made to lure global financial institutions to choose Malaysia as their centre for Islamic financial services, particularly Islamic banking, takaful (insurance) and the Islamic capital market, says Malaysian Deputy Finance Minister Dr Awang Adek Hussin.

Hyderabad : One person was killed and 15 others injured when a bus fell off a bridge in Telangana's Adilabad district on Tuesday, police...

By IANS, Washington : The backlash from Taliban attacks on places from Kashmir to Karachi has led to greater Pakistani cooperation with the US in the Afghanistan war, says the US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. "We feel clearly that we're working more closely together with them. And I think that's a very big step forward," Richard Holbrooke told CNN Sunday attributing recent Taliban arrests to increased communication between the two governments.

By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net,

By Waliullah Ahmed Laskar, for TwoCircles.net,

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New Delhi : Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind has demanded from the government to ensure rehabilitation of the family members of 116 Muslims killed in the anti-Muslim riots that shook the village Logai in Bhagalpur district in 1989 as well as the return of about 50 families who had left the village about 18 years ago.

Jamiat general secretary Maulana Syed Mahmood Madani said here Tuesday, "Though the Muslims of this village have got justice after the passage of 18 long years but delay in justice is tantamount to justice denied."

By M Reyaz and Mudassir Rizwan, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi / Patna: In the moment of grief, most Indians have stood in solidarity with the families of victims of the brutal Peshawar killings, where in a desperate attack Taliban terrorists killed over 140 persons, including 132 school children of a school run by Pakistan army.

By IANS,

By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net,

By IANS, Lucknow : Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi begins his two-day visit to Uttar Pradesh Monday to boost the membership drive undertaken to re-activate the youth wing of the party. Gandhi commences his journey from Aligarh, where he will also visit the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). He then proceeds to Etah and Hardoi where he hopes to spend the night. On Tuesday, he would visit Lakhimpur-Kheri, Bahraich, Ambedkar Nagar and Sitapur.

By Xinhua Kabul : Afghan and the US-led coalition forces have killed several militants and detained 10 in a major offensive in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, a statement said Monday. The combined force Sunday conducted an extensive search operation in the Musa Qaleh district targeting people associated with an insurgent weapons facilitator, who is believed to have been killed in an earlier operation in the area, the statement said.

Mumbai : Reckless developmental activities with no regard for nature conservation could be the prime cause behind the recent floods in Jammu and Kashmir,...

New York, Sep 26 (DPA) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared the dispute over his country's nuclear programme "closed" even as Western nations threatened additional sanctions if Iran fails to stop its enrichment programme. Ahmadejad said in a speech before the UN General Assembly Tuesday that the matter was now in the hands of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog. The IAEA has been holding talks in the last two days with Iranian negotiators to map out a plan to get assurances and proof that Iran's nuclear intentions are peaceful.

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: The two-day National Seminar on Muslim Alienation: Manifestation and Challenges began today at Jamia Millia Islamia with the inaugural by Abusaleh Shariff, former Member Secretary of PM’s High Level Committee to prepare a report on Social, Economic and Educational Status of Muslim Community in India, popularly known as Sachar Committee. L-R: Tanweer Fazal, Raheem Mondal, Adil Mehdi

By Xinhua Geneva : The UN Children's Fund (Unicef) painted a bleak picture of the situation of children in Iraq, where an estimated two million boys and girls continue to suffer from poor nutrition, disease and interrupted education. Thousands of families have been obliged to leave their homes because of violence or threats, and hundreds of children have lost their lives in the violence, Unicef said in a press release Friday. Conditions continue to deteriorate, with parents preventing their children from attending schools for fear they would be attacked.

By Mohammed Shafeeq

IANS

Warangal/Hyderabad : A major human smuggling scandal uncovered with the arrest of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP in New Delhi has shaken up Andhra Pradesh, discrediting many of its politicians and blunting the campaign for a separate Telangana state.