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By RIA Novosti Tehran : Tehran is prepared to share data on its controversial nuclear programme with the United Nations nuclear watchdog, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday. Iran, which western countries suspect of pursuing a secret nuclear weapons programme, has stepped up cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in recent months, and in late July invited inspectors to visit a 40-MW heavy water reactor in Arak.

By TCN News, Hyderabad: Hyderabad: The members of Interfaith Forum has condemned the incidence of violence in Kishan Bagh between the Sikh and the Muslim communities in the morning of 14th May 2014. “It is very unfortunate that some vested interests seemed to have succeeded in their aim to bring Muslims and Sikhs at loggerheads by damaging Sikh religious flag at Sikh Chowni, Kishan Bagh, Hyderabad in the intervening night of 13-14 May 2014,” a joint statement said.

By IANS, Srinagar : Five separatist militants, including two Pakistani nationals, were killed in two gunfights in north Kashmir's Kupwara district where Indian security forces foiled an infiltration bid Saturday. Police said troops of the 18 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and the special operations group (SOG) of the Jammu and Kashmir police jointly surrounded a forest area in Jabdi Rang in Lolab of the border district on a specific information about the presence of a group of militants.

By Pardeep Attri, Interesting news which caught my eye on January 16th, 2010 was “Human Resource Department’s internal appraisals of ‘Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan’ showing most of its physical target’s for 2009-10 are set to be fully achieved.” – With 85% schools opened of set target, 78% teachers, 92% schools with drinking water, providing free textbooks to 92% school students.

By Xinhua Islamabad : Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has vowed not to allow foreign troops to enter Pakistan in a bid to capture terrorists in the country. The prime minister said Pakistan Army is capable of defending its territory and can take action against extremist and terrorist elements, according to state-run Associated Press of Pakistan (APP). "We will never allow any country to violate our sovereignty and integrity," said Aziz in an interview with Al-Arabia TV channel.

By IANS, Srinagar: Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti Thursday termed the death sentence given to three Kashmiri men for the 1996 Lajpat Nagar blasts as "most unfortunate" and said the Kashmir issue needs "a more compassionate and restrained response" from the government to prevent further violence. Mehbooba was the first to react from the mainstream Kashmiri political camp on the death penalty to three Kashmiris by a Delhi court for the 1996 Lajpat Nagar bomb blast in which 13 people were killed.

By IANS, New Delhi: Prominent highlights of the budget for 2012-13 presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Lok Sabha Friday:

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Agra : Shiv Sena activists, who argue that the Taj Mahal was built on the site of a Shiva temple, attempted to perform Hindu rituals at the monument here Monday afternoon but the police prevented them from entering it.

The activists were forced to perform their arti and puja ritual at the Taj Corridor overlooking the white marble mausoleum as the police did not allow them to move within the 500-metre security ring around the Taj.

By DPA, Mogadishu/Nairobi : At least 42 people, including ten lawmakers, have died in fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu after Islamist insurgents declared "a final war" against African Union (AU) peacekeepers. Radical Islamist group al-Shabaab is battling to oust the weak Western-backed government, which is penned into small enclaves in Mogadishu protected by around 6,000 AU peacekeepers from Uganda and Burundi. Insurgents dressed in army fatigues Tuesday entered a hotel popular with parliamentarians near the presidential palace and shot dead ten lawmakers.

By IANS Hyderabad : In a novel initiative, Andhra Pradesh Police are printing "know your criminals" booklets containing photographs, addresses and brief crime details of 400 notorious offenders of the capital city. "The idea behind printing these booklets is primarily to show the photos of offenders to the victims immediately after occurrence of the crime. Secondly, the policeman on the streets can always refresh his memory about the criminals whenever he finds free time," said a statement from city police commissioner's office Monday.

By Sohail Arshad, The writer takes an analytical look at the US proposal for appointing American teachers in Indian madrasas and smells a conspiracy in the proposal --Editor.

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By IANS, New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Monday mourned the death of veteran theatre personality Habib Tanvir, who passed away in Bhopal after prolonged illness. Dikshit described Tanvir as one of the most popular Hindi playwrights. Tanvir died at about 6.30 a.m. Monday at the National Hospital at Bhopal, where he had been admitted about 20 days ago after developing respiratory problems. He was 85, family sources said. Dikshit, who is in Nanital in Uttarakhand, spoke to the daughter of Tanvir to convey her personal condolences and grief.

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By Raouf Rasool For the past few days, Kashmir has faced renewed turmoil, with ordinary people at the receiving end. And once again the elected...

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By NNN-Prensa Latina Tehran : Iran declared on Saturday that the United States is still lying by telling the world in an intelligence report that Teheran suspended a nuclear arms program in 2003. Spokesman from the National Security Commission and Foreign Policy of the Parliament Kazen Yalahi said contrary to everything expressed by the 16 US intelligence entities, the Persian country has never had an atomic weapons program. “That is another lie to try to deceive the international community,” Yahali said.

New Delhi: The Railway Budget forsakes common man's needs and creates interests for the corporates, Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said on Thursday. “Around...

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By IANS, Hyderabad : The Urdu media here has strongly condemned the terror attacks in Mumbai and called for bringing the culprits to book to prevent such attacks in future. Five Urdu dailies published from Hyderabad were unequivocal in condemning the Nov 26 terror attacks and termed it as India's 9/11, an attack on India's sovereignty and a barbaric act against humanity. The Urdu media opposed war against Pakistan as a solution to the problem of terrorism but felt that Islamabad was not doing enough to stop terror acts emanating from its soil.

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Association of Indian Muslims (AIM), a US based organization of Indian Muslims have requested the government to have CBI look into the causes that lead to recent disturbances on Aligarh Muslim University campus. Kaleem Kawaja, president of AIM said that Indian Muslims are very disturbed on the recent events at AMU campus.

 

By NNN-KUNA Baghdad : Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad agreed to combat the "terrorist activities" of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). A press release issued by Al-Maliki's office on Sunday said the Iraqi Prime Minister and the Iranian President discussed the Iraqi-Turkish conflict in a phone call Saturday evening. The leaders agreed that PKK's activities are harming the interests of Iraq, Turkey, and Iran, and that military action is not the only solution for the conflict.

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Patna: A few stray incidents were reported today in anti-Christian violence which broke out in Orissa after the killing of five people, including a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader.

By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net Kozhikode: Just a few days of the brutal incident, in which veteran Kannada writer M M Kalburgi was shot dead by...

By Mumtaz Falahi, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Vice President of India Mohd. Hamid Ansari on 15th July released a book entitled “Islami Tarraqqi Pasandi” authored by Late Ali Jawad Zaidi at a function here in the national capital. Addressing on the occasion, the Vice President said that this book contains the issues on how to make the lives of common men better and purposeful. He suggested that this useful book should be translated into Hindi and English also so that more and more people may take advantage of this book.

New Delhi: Milli Gazette editor Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan said here that Hamas’ takeover of Gaza Strip is good for Palestine and there is no justification to think that it will harm the Palestinian cause. As a result of the takeover, today for the first time in history there is a free and independent part of Arab Palestine.

 

By Arif Hussain On Sunday the Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra D. Modi said powerful moneyed people wouldn’t leave him alive. And nobody batted an...

By Xinhua Baghdad : U.S. and Iraqi troops has detained an al-Qaida financier who is suspected of receiving 100 million U.S. dollars from al-Qaida sympathizers, the U.S. military said on Thursday. During an operation in Baghdad's central neighborhood of Kindi on Tuesday, the troops detained the suspect who is "believed to have received $100,000,000 this summer from terrorist supporters who cross the Iraqi border illegally or fly into Iraq from Italy, Syria and Egypt," the U.S. military said in a statement.

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Meerut : Majlis Falah-e-Insaniyat president Maulana Abdullah Saleem has lamented the government's bid to neglect Urdu and Ulema in the celebrations of First War of Independence 1857.

By Xinhua Ramallah : Palestinian security sources said on Thursday 29 people were arrested in West Bank cities for taking part in demonstrations against the U.S.-hosted peace conference in Annapolis. Islamic Hamas movement said most of the detainees were its members, describing the detentions as the biggest campaign against the movement since the security services, loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, launched a crackdown against Hamas in June.

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net, Srinagar: The repercussions of recent drubbing of BJP in Delhi Polls can be seen over government formation in jammu and Kashmir.Taking advantage of the recent debacle of BJP, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has issued fresh eleven-point demands for government formation. BJP won 25 of 37 seats of Jammu division while PDP got 28 seats in the Kashmir valley in recently concluded Assembly Elections resulting in the complete polarization of the two regions of the state with divergent interests for the two parties. Both the parties are reluctant to enter in any kind of alliance before mutually consenting on the common terms.The fragmented mandate by people has already delayed government formation since 23rd December 2014. Presently, State is under Governor Rule.

By TCN News Over 100 academics, students, writers, artists and activists from Australia joined the international community in extending support to the struggles of the...

By IANS, Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday urged resumption of the India-Pakistan dialogue for the sake of peace in the state. "The suspension of the dialogue has strengthened the hands of the forces inimical to Indo-Pak friendship," Abdullah told reporters on the sideline of a function. The chief minister said that this was clear from the resumption of firing on the border.

By IANS, New Delhi : A suspected Pakistan-trained terrorist of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen outfit who carried a reward of Rs.25,000 on his head has been arrested here, the police said Tuesday. Habibur Rehman of Uttar Pradesh was arrested Monday evening from Sarai Kale Khan area, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar told IANS. Rehman had escaped in 2001 when two of his Pakistani accomplices were arrested smuggling eight kilograms of explosives into the capital. The police said Rehman had provided logistic support to them.

By IANS, New Delhi : The Supreme Court will Wednesday hear a petition seeking deferment of the much awaited Ayodhya verdict by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court.

By DPA, Baghdad : At least 12 people were killed in a suicide bombing late Thursday that targeted a celebration in the city of Ramadi to mark Prophet Mohammed's birthday.

By IANS New Delhi : A 35-year-old widow and rape victim was thrashed here by a group of men and women who accused her of demanding a huge sum of money to withdraw a charge of rape against a man now in jail. The appalling incident took place in Mandawali area of east Delhi late Thursday when the woman, who had consumed alcohol, was returning to her rented house owned by the rape accused, Ram Kumar, the police said Friday. Ram Kumar's family members and friends reportedly accosted her and got into a heated argument with her. This soon led to the vicious assault by 15-20 people.

Political battle lines drawn even as victim minorities still look for ideal law to stop targeted hate and bloodshed By John Dayal Remember these?