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Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood ZakatIndia.org The citizens of India would be grateful to the Hon'ble Supreme Court for very kindly taking note of the contents of...

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By Xinhua Kabul : U.S. troops based in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province opened fire on a civilian vehicle Saturday morning, killing two persons, spokesman of provincial government Zarghon Shah Khaliqyar said. "The U.S. troops mistakenly opened fire on a local car in Manogai district at around 8: 00 a.m. local time this morning, leaving two civilians dead and injuring three others," Khaliqyar told Xinhua. He did not give more details. The U.S. military officials were not immediately available to make comment.

By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net Bhopal: On the occasion of 32nd anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world’s worst industrial catastrophe, the flag of...

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By Azera Rahman, IANS, New Delhi : The mood was sombre and the usual bustle was missing from the Jamia Milia Islamia University Monday when, unlike any other day, students had to compulsorily show their identity cards before entering the campus. The university reopened to gloom and tension after a dramatic weekend when police shot dead two suspected militants in nearby Jamia Nagar Friday and arrested five - including two who are said to be students of the university - for suspected involvement in the recent bombings in Delhi and other cities.

By Muhammad Najeeb Islamabad, Sep 17 (IANS) Pakistan's Supreme Court Monday rejected applications by opposition leaders for constituting a full court bench to hear writ petitions against President Pervez Musharraf for holding two posts - the presidency and the chief of army staff. Rejecting the applications, a nine-member bench headed by judge Rana Bhagwandas said the present bench would hear the petitions. Six petitions, including that of Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Tehrik-e-Insaaf chief Imran Khan, have been filed in the Supreme Court.

Kolkata : Branding as "draconian" the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) that gives sweeping powers to the armed forces to deal with terrorism,...

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Hyderabad : United Muslim Action Committee (Muttaheda Muslim Majlis-e-Amal), a platform of all major political parties in Andhra Pradesh has warned that the atrocities of police against the Muslim community will throw cold water on all the good steps the state government was taking for the welfare of the minorities.

By Mohit Dubey Lucknow: At his age, teenagers loaf around and look for fun and adventure. Not so for the 16-year-old Arsh Ali. He not...

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Both Ajmal Amir Kasab and Fahim Ansari are accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case. Kasab’s lawyer K P Pawar has Z-category security while Ansari’s lawyer Shahid Azmi was not given any security. Adv Shahid Azmi was shot dead yesterday evening by some unidentified men in his office in Taximen’s Colony, Kurla (West), Mumbai. He was receiving threats for few years but the government did not give him any security.

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Hyderabad : How the police uses baseless charges and fictious cases to frame and harass Muslims has once again been established with a local court in Hyderabad acquitting five youth in a terror related cases and ordering their release.

The youth who are now out of prison were arrested in September last year after the serial blasts rocked the city killing forty people and their alleged roles in the terrorist activities has become the hot topic of speculative reporting in the local media.

By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram : Veteran film director Shaji N. Karun is set to make a full length documentary on master painter M.F. Husain. Speaking to IANS, Shaji as he is popularly known, said that he has spoken to the 94-year-old legendary artist, who has agreed for it. "The documentary would begin in October and is slated for release next year. We are soon going to meet. More details can be revealed after we meet," said Shaji.

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Mumbai: In an unexpected hurried decision in the midst of the Sheena Bora murder probe, Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria is...

By IANS, Bhubaneswar : Fourteen people were arrested for killing a criminal and injuring his associate in Orissa capital Bhubaneswar Tuesday after the duo attacked some of them for complaining to the police against their unlawful activities. Bhubaneswar Deputy Commissioner of Police Himanshu Lal told IANS that five residents sustained injuries after Tuna Pradhan, 30, and Susanta Naik, 30, who were facing a score of cases, attacked some residents in Salia Sahi Sunday. The residents later lodged a complaint against them at the local police station.

By IANS Hyderabad: Two activists of a Hindu terror group accused in the October 2007 blast in the Ajmer Sharif dargah were Thursday brought here by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for questioning in the Mecca Masjid bombing in May the same year. Devender Gupta and Lokesh Sharma, both members of Hindutva terror group Abhinav Bharat, were produced before a court, which sent them to judicial custody for two weeks. CBI sources said the two were later shifted to Chanchalguda Central Jail amid tight security.

By IANS, Chandigarh : A terse "talaq, talaq, talaq" phone call seeking divorce is the latest twist in the controversial high profile marriage of former Haryana deputy chief minister Chander Mohan alias Chand Mohammed with his estranged second wife Fiza alias Anuradha Bali. Fiza told reporters here Saturday that Chand had called her up from London late Friday night and uttered "talaq" three times. He also sent her an SMS with the message to confirm that he was divorcing her, she said.

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Kozhikode: Two Muslim girls have topped the Kerala Medical Entrance Examination, result for which were announced by P K Abdur Rabb, the Minister for Education in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday. Securing 954.7826 marks, P Hiba, a resident of Manchery in Malappuram district, bagged the first rank in the examination while the second rank went to Mariam Rafi of Aluva in Ernakulum district. Mariam Rafi is daughter of Abdul Rafi and Ancy Rafi. Mariam got 944.3478 marks. Securing the two first ranks, the duo also broke into the male bastion, which has been continuing for last few years in the entrance examinations in the state.

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By Rajeev Ranjan Roy, IANS, New Delhi : Islam does not prohibit a woman from solemnising a marriage and it was reflective of the "slow and steady" changes happening in Muslim society, says Syeda Hameed, an official who courted controversy by performing the marriage rituals of a couple. "As a religion, Islam does not prohibit a woman from solemnising marriage. We have to move forward. It is the need of the hour," Hameed, a member of the country's Planning Commission, told IANS in an interview.

By Xinhua Ankara : Two militants of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) were killed by Turkish security forces in an operation in southeastern Turkey, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Friday. The security forces found two kalashnikov rifles, five chargers, four hand grenades, one walkie-talkie, and explosive materials along with the bodies of the two PKK militants, who were killed in the operation in Semdinli town of Hakkari province on Thursday evening, said the report.

New Delhi, Sep 28 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday stayed further admissions in educational institutions in Andhra Pradesh against a newly-enacted state law granting four percent quota to Muslims students. A bench, headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, stayed further admission in the state's professional colleges, while granting immunity to those Muslim students already admitted against the quota.

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Panaji: There can be a law to prevent forced conversions but there should not be a blanket law against conversions per se, because it...

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In order to know what the common Muslim thinks of the current ruling dispensation in New Delhi and Patna, the United Progressive Alliance and the National Democratic Alliance governments respectively,TwoCircles.net talked to aam admi and tried to make the informal survey as much representative as possible.

Gandhinagar, Aug 31 (IANS) A single judge bench of the Gujarat High Court Tuesday quashed the First Information Report (FIR) filed against senior IPS officer Kuldeep Sharma charging him with murder in a 26-year-old shootout case. In a setback to the Narendra Modi government and the police, Justice R.H. Shukla ordered quashing of the FIR and rejected the state's plea of stay on the order.

By TCN News, Mumbai: The Citizens’ Initiative for Peace (CIP), Mumbai – a coalition of a number

By IANS, Patna : Maoist guerrillas killed two people, including a village head, at a 'jan adalat' (kangaroo court) in a Bihar village after finding them "guilty" of helping the police, the police said Friday. A group of armed Maoist guerrillas killed Babuli village head Ashok Das and his close associate Mohammad Mustafa late Thursday night in Jamui district, about 200 km from here. "Their throat was slit by Maoists to send a message of harsh punishment to others," said a police official.

By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Incarceration of Muslim youths in fabricated terror cases is becoming more dangerous than communal riots, Maulana Arshad Madani, the Jamiat e Ulama Hind chief, said here on Friday. “Thousands of youths are languishing in different jails across the country for years, some for as long as 20 years. Some officials and agencies are spoiling the lives of thousands of Muslim youths by falsely incarcerating them in terror cases,” Maulana Madani said after releasing a book by Mufti Abdul Qayyum Ahmed, one of the six persons who was acquitted by the Apex Court on May 16, 2014 after spending 11 years behind bars in the 2002 Akshardham terror case.

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: A day after the arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar, President, Jawaharlal Nehru University Student’s Union,...

By IANS Jagatsinghpur : Upper caste residents allegedly denied a woman from drawing water from a tube well in a village in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district because she was a Dalit, the police said Wednesday. Lochan Sethi, 25, a resident of Iribisa village some 120 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, told the police that she was denied from taking water and was assaulted by the village upper caste people when she tried to draw water from the village tube well.

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Kolkata : West Bengal's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), probing the mysterious death of Muslim youth Rizwanur Rahman, will hand over all investigation reports to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Home Secretary Prasad Ranjan Roy said Wednesday.

By NNN-IRNA United Nations : Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said here that insecurity in Iraq would be most damaging to Iran. The president made the remarks when he was questioned during a press conference after his address to the 62nd UN General Assembly Tuesday, on the US claims on supply of weapons to Iraq by Iran. Iran and Iraq are two great nations whose friendship and links are historical and widespread, he said voicing Iran's opposition to insecurity in the neighbouring state.

By NNN-KUNA Washington : Blackwater, the US security company that brought heightened tension between the US and Iraq over a shootout in Baghdad, has defended the actions taken by its guards that led to the killing of 10 Iraqis, the US media quoted the firm as saying in a statement. "Blackwater's independent contractors acted lawfully and appropriately in response to a hostile attack in Baghdad on Sunday," the North Carolina-based company said in a statement Tuesday.

By TCN News Hyderabad (Telangana): The Indian Muslim Relief and Charities (IMRC) organised a health check-up camp for about 600 people in Hasan Nagar locality...

By IANS, New Delhi : Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta Wednesday held a meeting with chief secretaries and police chiefs of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa to review the Maoist situation. Gupta said the meeting reviewed the progress of implementation of the integrated action plans aimed at curbing Maoist influence in these states.

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: Eminent spiritual leader, Sajjada Nasheen of Khanqah Munger Maulana Muhammad Wali Rahmani escaped unhurt when anti-social elements started pelting stone as the Maulana was about to entre the Idgah to lead Eid prayers on Monday. However, a namazi sustained injuries in head.

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By IANS, Manila : Gunmen of the Abu Sayyaf militant group have executed three civilians in the Philippines, the military said Saturday. The execution came just nine days after the militant group led by Puruji Indama killed three people abducted May 27, Xinhua reported. The latest victims were abducted Friday in Maluso town of southern Philippines.

By IANS, Srinagar : Life once again returned to normal for a day as authorities did not impose any restrictions in this Jammu and Kashmir summer capital after separatists withdrew their protests Friday, also a public holiday on the occasion of Jaumat-ul-Vida. Banks, educational institutions, government offices and post offices were closed here on account of Jaumat-ul-Vida, which is the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

By TwoCircles.net news desk, Patna: As Hajj trip of 2009 is going to start from tomorrow-20th October- for Haj aspirants of India, the Union Cabinet today approved the following relevant features for this year’s Haj program: 1. The Haj operations 2009 would commence from 20th October, 2009 and conclude on 1st January, 2010. 2. The number of Haj pilgrims would be approx. 1, 23,211 under the government subsidy scheme. 3. Every Haj pilgrim would pay only Rs.16, 000/- as fare and the remaining fare would be borne by the government of India.

By IANS, Ranchi : Maoists attacked a police station, torched six trucks, blasted a government building and a political party's office in two districts of Jharkhand while enforcing their 24-hour strike in parts of the state early Thursday. "Maoist guerillas attacked Pirtand police station around 1 a.m. in Giridih district, some 210 km from here," District Superintendent of Police A.V. Homkar told reporters. "A fierce gun battle ensued with the police which lasted for about four hours. No casualty took place in the gun battle," he added.

Mumbai : Pakistani-American terrorist-turned-approver David Coleman Headley on Thursday said Thane collegian Ishrat Jahan, shot dead in an alleged shootout with police in 2004,...

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New Delhi: Haj Committee of India (HCI) announced the programme for Hajj 1429 with some new rules. With improved system and restrictions in place, these new rules promise to make this year's pilgrimage smoother for Hajis.

The announcement made by HCI's head office in Mumbai said the quota for this year will be 110,000, same as last year. Hajj application forms are available at offices of all State Haj Committees or can be downloaded from HCI's website www.hajcommittee.com.

By IRNA Islamabad : Prime Minister Muhammadmian Soomro on Friday ordered a judicial inquiry into the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Addressing a news conference in Islamabad after chairing a special cabinet meeting, he said the inquiry would be headed by a High Court judge who would be appointed in consultation with the family of Benazir Bhutto and Pakistan Peoples Party leadership. He said investigations of the inquiry would be made public.

By TwoCircles.net special correspondent New Delhi: RSS front organization Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM) organized an iftar on Saturday where some Indian...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Tehran: In a rare effort to reach out to the youth in Europe and North America, the Supreme leader of Iran Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has written an open letter on Islam and prejudices.

New Delhi ; Nearly 250 people, including activists, artists and school children, protested here demanding India should boycott all collaborations and end military ties...

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Islamabad : At least 20 militants were killed as Pakistani special forces stormed the besieged Lal Masjid here early Tuesday following failed negotiations overnight between authorities and the holed up radical Islamists.