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By Sheikh Qayoom, Srinagar/Jammu : Jammu and Kashmir will vote starting Tuesday in assembly elections that have for the first time made the BJP a...

By TwoCircles.net Staff reporter, Lucknow: As the Rihai Manch’ protest competed 13th day it has demanded action taken report on the RD Nimesh Commission report.

By IANS, Bhopal: A court here Tuesday granted regular bail to five convicts in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, the world's worst industrial disaster. Chief Judicial Magistrate R.V. Singh gave the reprieve to the convicts, who included 85-year-old Keshub Mahindra, the then head of the Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL). Tonnes of lethal gas leaked from UCIL's pesticide plant on the night of Dec 2-3, 1984, killing and maiming thousands. Seven people were convicted June 7 by a chief judicial magistrate (CJM) court that sentenced them to two years jail and imposed a fine of Rs.100,000.

Chennai: As many as 30,000 people have "followed" actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan on Twitter within 24 hours of him joining the micro-blogging site. Haasan joined Twitter...

By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: Diversity Index, social audit, clear policy guidelines, better social and physical infrastructure in Muslim concentrated areas, monitoring and evaluation of programmes at regular intervals, similar policy provisions for the persons engaged in similar occupational activities across the religious groups, and fixed accountabilities on officers implementing the programmes are some of the major recommendations of the Post-Sachar Evaluation Committee (PSEC) or Kundu Committee.

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Keeping aside their deep-rooted differences, Muslim religious, and community leaders gathered today on a platform ‘erected’ by Syed Ahmad Bukhari, Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid, and condemned in unison the Muslim bashing both by the government and media.

By IANS,

By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent, Kozhikode: “It is very unfortunate that a publisher doing academic work is being targeted by the police,” said Dr Ausaf Ahsan, Managing Editor of the distribution-cum-publishing house 'Other Books' to TwoCircles.net. The office of the Other Books in Kozhikode was raided by police on Friday on grounds that a book published by the house was seized from an accused in the case related to the attack on a controversial professor in Ernakulam.

By Kancha Ilaiah,

By TwoCircles.net news desk The Hague: A former Bosnian Serb army general who commanded much of the prolonged siege of Sarajevo has been sentenced to 33 years in prison by the United Nations war crimes tribunal set up to deal with the worst crimes committed during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which sits in The Hague, yesterday found Dragomir Milošević guilty of five counts of murder, inflicting terror and committing inhumane acts and acquitted him on two charges of unlawful attacks against civilians.

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Kolkata : West Bengal is mulling a 24x7 toll-free helpline to help transport pregnant women and sick infants to the nearest hospital in case...

By IANS, Raipur: Seven Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were killed Saturday when Maoist guerrillas blew up their vehicle in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, a month after the rebels slaughtered 76 security personnel in the same region. "The Maoists blew up a bullet-proof vehicle in the Koretal forested stretch with a landmine. At least seven CRPF men were killed," Director General of Police Vishwa Ranjan told IANS. A CRPF trooper was injured. Two civilians who were on a motorcycle in the vicinity when the landmine exploded with a deafening roar were also injured.

By राजीव यादव, उत्तर प्रदेश के सहारनपुर जिले में जुलाई 2014 में हुई सांप्रदायिक हिंसा पर आई रिपोर्ट ने भाजपा सांसद राघव लखनपाल व प्रशासनिक अमले को जिम्मेदार ठहराया तो भाजपा ने इसे राजनीति से प्रेरित रिपोर्ट करार दे दिया. इस रिपोर्ट के आने के बाद लाल किले की प्राचीर से सांप्रदायिकता पर ‘ज़ीरो टॉलरेंस’ की बात करने वाले प्रधानमंत्री से अपनी पार्टी की स्थिति स्पष्ट करने की मांग की जा रही है. वहीं अमित शाह जब खुद कहते हैं कि यूपी में भाजपा सरकार बनाने तक उनका काम खत्म नहीं होगा और अब वह ‘मिशन यूपी पार्ट-टू’ की रणनीति पर चल रहे हैं तो ऐसे में इस रणनीति के मायने समझने होंगे कि अब वे किस नए मॉडल के निर्माण की जुगत में लगे हैं. साथ ही इसकी जाँच भी ज़रूरी है कि सत्ता प्राप्ति तक ‘संघर्ष’ जारी रखने का आह्वान करने वालों ने मिशन पार्ट वन में क्या-क्या संघर्ष किया?

By IANS Islamabad : Indian High Commissioner Satyabrata Pal has met Maulana Fazlur Rahman of the six-party Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) religious alliance and discussed the political situation in the country. "During the meeting, (Rahman) expressed concern over political instability in the country and is reported to have shared his desire for early return of normality by ensuring a level-playing field to all political parties in the coming elections," Dawn reported Thursday.

By Xinhua

Ankara : A senior Turkish army general said Thursday that the country was in the process of implementing across-border operation against the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party(PKK) based in northern Iraq, private NTV reported.

By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Politics is not a dirty word for her. In fact she enjoys being a politician. Mrs. Badar Sayeed, who represents Triplicane constituency in Tamil Nadu Legislative Assemby, always wanted to be part of the decision making process of the country and politics gives her that opportunity.

By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent, Bengaluru: The non-bailable arrest warrant issued against PDP chairman Abdunnasir Ma’dani has been extended to August 3 by a Bengaluru court. The warrant in connection with the Bengaluru blast case was extended twice earlier since being first issued on June 15. Meanwhile, those accused and are remanded asked the court for the copy of the chargesheet.

By IANS,

By TCN News Lucknow: Terming education as the only tool for development of minority communities, eminent Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Sadiq said on Sunday that that only those communities and nations would survive who exhibit excellence in education. Quoting from religious texts of Holy Quran, Sadiq said that there was no alternative to seeking education from the very birth for humans. He was speaking while chairing a session at the second day of two-day national conference on minority education in UP underway at Integral University.

By A. Mirsab , TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: Maharashtra state Minority Minister Mr. Arif Naseem Khan who was addressing a rally in Aurangabad city of Maharashtra hurled a full fleshed attack on BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi during his speech and asked Muslims to vote for secular party Congress in greater number to beat Narendra Modi’s dream of ruling India.

By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,

By NNN-Afghan News Kabul : The Taliban agreed Tuesday to free 19 South Korean church volunteers held hostage since July after the government in Seoul pledged to end all missionary work and keep a promise to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net, Srinagar : Zahid Rasool Bhat, one of the Kashmiri truckers immolated by a group of Hindu...

By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net Manzoor Alam is the Chairman of the New Delhi-based Institute of Objective Studies, a Muslim social science research centre, and also the General-Secretary of the All India Milli Council. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand, he speaks about the Muslim leadership in contemporary India. Q: What do you think the priorities of the Indian Muslim leadership should be today?

Jammu: Voting for the Jammu Lok Sabha seat started on a brisk note Thursday as enthusiastic voters queued up outside polling stations much before...

By TCN News, Aligarh: Scores of students from the Faculty of Law of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Friday took out a march to demand justice for late advocate Nabi Ahmad, who was shot dead within the premises of the Sessions Court at Allahabad on Thursday.

By IANS, Deoband (Uttar Pradesh) : Terrorists and Maoists were urged Tuesday to give up arms by a mass gathering of Muslim clerics at India's oldest Islamic seminary here, prompting Home Minister P. Chidambaram to applaud the move "as a call to duty ... to all right thinking people". Addressing an estimated 500,000 followers, the clerics said the Muslim community, the country's largest religious minority, would take up their cause if the terrorists and Maoists shunned violence.

By IANS,

Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) Victims and legal experts on Tuesday hailed the Supreme Court's verdict striking down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act,...

By IANS,

By DPA, Kandahar (Afghanistan) : A series of five explosions and gunfire killed at least 35 people, including police forces in southern city of Kandahar, an interior ministry spokesman said Sunday. The Taliban called the attacks a reaction to the NATO commander's warning about an imminent military offensive in the region. Several insurgents equipped with suicide vests and assault rifles targeted several parts of Kandahar city Saturday night, killing "35 people, including 13 brave policemen of this country", Zamarai Bashary, an interior ministry spokesman, said in Kabul Sunday.

By IANS, Bhopal : Three girls burnt alive their 13-year-old schoolmate in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha district, the police said Thursday. The incident occurred Wednesday in Satpada Sarai village. Nidhi while returning from school saw three girls - two of Class 7 and one of Class 9 - beating a girl studying in the same school. "When she intervened, she drew the ire of her schoolmates," a police official said. Irked over her intervention, the trio started beating up Nidhi. She, however, managed to escape and ran towards her house.

By Abdul Hameed, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: The deteriorating condition of the 2006 Malegaon blast accused Dr. Salman Farsi has attracted the attention of Urdu media. Farsi along with other co-accused has been on an indefinite hunger strike since March 18 demanding earliest completion of the probe and release of innocents arrested in the case.

By TCN News, Hyderabad: The city-based Hyderabad Youth Mirror (HYM), an online magazine for students and youth, announced results of its recently held city level...

By Karoly, The options that have been placed for "what should be the future political approach of Muslims" have been (1) vote for UPA, (2) vote for NDA, (3) vote for the third front and (4) form their own secular democratic party.

By IANS Chennai : The Tamil Nadu assembly Monday passed a bill providing for 3.5 percent reservation each to Backward Class Christians and Muslims in government jobs and education. This quota will be within the overall 49 percent reservation allowed by the Supreme Court and has been carved out of the existing 30 percent quota for Backward Classes. Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi asked members of all political parties to take oath on this day to "continue to strive for social justice in the state".

Chandigarh : AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal started his five-day visit to Punjab on Thursday to boost the political prospects of...

By News Agency of Kashmir Jammu, Nov 18 (NAK) Seeking support from the people of Jammu and kashmir Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati outspread a new social vision here Sunday, promising reservation for deprived section of upper castes and religious minorities of the country and J&K in particular.

By TCN News

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram will address the massive gathering of Deobandi clerics descending in Deoband in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh from across the country under the banner of Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind. About 10,000 clerics, besides five lakh followers of Jamiat, are attending the 3-day conference starting from November 1.

By IANS, Ranchi : Girls' hostels in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi are emerging as potential security threats as these can be a sanctuary for female Maoist rebels, an official said. According to a senior police official, the hostels are turning to be safe place for women Maoist guerrillas. "We have information that some of the girls coming from remote areas of the state to study in Ranchi act as carriers of Maoist documents and explosives," a police official told IANS on condition of anonymity.

By IANS, Rawalpindi : Pakistan Thursday urged the US-led NATO forces to take it into confidence before launching operations in areas adjacent to its borders in Afghanistan. "Pakistan's army should be taken into confidence before launching any offensive by US-led coalition troops at areas, adjacent to Pakistan's border," army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani told a visiting NATO commander, Online news agency reported, quoting sources.

By M.R. Narayan Swamy, Title: Capital Conquest; Author: Saba Naqvi; Publisher: Hachette India; Pages: 202; Price: Rs.499 The book could not have come at a better...

By IANS,

New Delhi :The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has directed Hindi news channel NDTV India to go off air for 24 hours for allegedly...

By Azera Parveen Rahman, Dibrugarh (Assam) : They are perceptive, have no biases, are honest and don't mince their words. Articles by children reporters of...

By IANS New Delhi : Six men have been arrested here for duping state-owned Syndicate Bank of Rs.9 million by stealing and forging bank drafts, police said Wednesday. According to police, the scam started a man named Lalit Kumar stealing a booklet containing 50 blank bank drafts from the Dwarka branch of the bank in February. Kumar, who used to work as electrician in the bank, sold the booklet to his friend Harjit Singh for Rs.500 per draft. Singh, in turn, sold them to Raj Kumar Gupta for Rs.1,000 each.

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, TwoCircles.net special series: Ayodhya 2009 Even after 16 years Ayodhya residents, both Hindus and Muslims, recall it as if it happened yesterday. Such shocking and painful was the demolition of Babri Masjid there on 6th December 1992, and killing of Muslims and destruction of their property in the vicinity.

By DPA Kuala Lumpur : Malaysian police have detained an Indian man for masquerading as a doctor and treating patients as a substitute for the real physician on his off-days, reports said Monday. The suspect, in his 30s, was believed to have entered the country legally as a technical expert for another company earlier this year but had been masquerading as a doctor instead, immigration chief Ishak Mohamed was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times.

By Sanu George, IANS, Kochi (Kerala) : Thirty-year-old Rasad Muhammad would never have thought that his desperate search for a kidney would end in a bus journey.

By Mubasshir Mushtaq for TwoCircles.net

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72-year old Maulana Jalaluddin Umri was recently elected the Amir or President of the Jamaat-e Islami Hind. In this interview with Nigar Ataulla and Yoginder Sikand he talks about his vision for the Jamaat in the coming years. Q: Could you tell us something about yourself and your background?

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.

New Delhi/Kolkata : Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Sunday attacked at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her reactions to arrest of her...

By IANS/RIA Novosti, Moscow : Dozens of Moscow residents and visitors turned to doctors with nervous breakdowns and heart attacks after two early morning bomb blasts in the capital's subway, a hospital source said. The blasts in Moscow's Lubyanka and Park Kultury subway stations occurred during rush hour, killing at least 35 people and injuring over 30. Many people suffered nervous breakdowns after the attacks. The source said: "Some 50 people turned to doctors for medical help." He said these people were witnesses of the blasts.

By TCN News, New Delhi: Taking suo motu cognizance of a media report that Kerala government was targeting human rights defenders and rights activists by labeling them as ‘Maoists sympathizers’, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the Director General of Police, Kerala, and called for a report within two weeks.

By TwoCircles.Net Staff reporter, नई दिल्ली: आज के दिन धारा 341 में लगाए गए धार्मिक प्रतिबंध के विरुद्ध राष्ट्रीय ओलमा कौंसिल के ज़रिए दिल्ली में...

By TCN News,

By TwoCircles.net News Desk, New Delhi: Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadees has expressed grave concern on the legalization of homosexuality by a Delhi High Court verdict today, and said the judgment is against Indian culture, religious traditions and human values.

By Quaid Najmi Mumbai : Renowned academic and Marathi litterateur Shripal Sabnis, who had criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lahore trip, says he lives in...

By Prensa Latina Gaza : The Israeli Army continued escalating the killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza Strip on Friday, amidst alleged peace negotiations between the parties. Medical sources said that a farmer died and another was wounded by an Israeli forces attack in south Gaza Strip. According to Palestine Autonomy ó s reports, at least 30 Palestinians have been shot dead by the Israeli soldiers in the last ten days.

We always feel proud when we tell somebody that we are from Bihar, a state which is always known for its tolerance, non-violence and...

By IANS, Kathmandu : Two people were shot dead in southern Nepal Wednesday, a day after an explosion in the same plains killed three. S. Mussalman and Ram Prasad Chaudhary, both members of the debutant Terai party Terai Madhes Loktantrik Party, were gunned down in Kapilavastu district by an armed group. No one has claimed responsibility for the killings. The murders come after the ceasefire called by 14 armed groups active in the Terai plains ended Tuesday.

By IANS,

New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday conveyed his strong disapproval and sense of outrage of the entire Lok Sabha over the...

By TCN News, लखनऊ: रिहाई मंच ने लखनऊ जेल प्रशासन पर निमेष कमीशन द्वारा कचहरी विस्फोटों में फर्जी तरीके से गिरफ्तार बताए गए तारिक कासमी और अन्य आरोपियों की हत्या की साजिश रचने का आरोप लगाते हुए जेल अधीक्षक को तत्काल बर्खास्त करने की मांग की है.

By Xinhua

Sharm El-Sheikh : Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday that he plans to release 250 prisoners from the Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

    Olmert made the remarks in a four-way summit at this Red Sea resort which aims to ease the current grave situation in the Palestinian territories and activate the stalled Mideast peace process.

TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter लखनऊ :आज से 8 साल 7 महीने पहले जिन लोगों पर देशद्रोह का आरोप लगा था, वो इतने दिनों तक जेल में...

By TCN News Aligarh: The Ibn Sina Academy, Aligarh, organised a national seminar on “Life and Contribution of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen)” between 14 and 15...

By TwoCircles.net news desk, New Delhi: A group of Jamia Millia Islamia teachers today met Chairperson of National Human Rights Commission Justice Rajendra Babu and urged him to ensure that truth and justice prevail in the Batla House encounter case.

By IANS,

Jammu: Security forces Saturday busted a guerrilla hideout in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district and seized a cache of arms and ammunition, a defence...

By TCN News, Aligarh: Aligarh Muslim University today sent a special team to supervise the work for AMU Murshidabad Special Centre. AMU Vice Chancellor Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis handed over all the documents relating to the Special Centre to the Officer on Special Duty, Prof. M. M. Ashhar of Department of Civil Engineering.

By IANS, Lucknow : Residents of a Muslim-dominated village in Uttar Pradesh are boycotting the ongoing pulse polio vaccination campaign to protest the authorities' indifference to poor civic conditions in their area. Residents of Sarvat village in the Muzaffarnagar district, about 350 km from Lucknow, boycotted the vaccination drive May 24 and said they will continue their protest till their complaints about poor sanitation, contaminated water supply, and lack of garbage disposal facilities are addressed.

By IANS,

By Arun Kumar, IANS, Los Angeles/Washington : An Indian American millionaire, who turned pauper overnight in the great American meltdown, killed his wife, mother-in-law and three sons and then took his own life in one of the first tragedies linked to the deepening financial crisis. Karthik Rajaram (45), was found dead in his upscale Porter Ranch home in Los Angeles Monday along with his wife Subasri (39), mother-in-law Indra Ramaseshan (69) and sons, Arjuna (7), Ganesha (12) and Krishna (19).

Lucknow : The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has expelled former minister Avadhpal Singh Yadav for anti-party activities, an official statement said. Party chief Mayawati ordered...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent, Kochi: Superintendent of Police Sajid Farid Sapu of the National Investigation Agency has been given charge of investigating the Calicut twin blasts case. The Agency is now reportedly studying the reports of the developments in the investigation carried out by the state police so far. The Agency would also analyse the scope of the involvement of Thadiyantavide Naseer who is now under police custody in Bangalore.

By IANS,

By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,

New Delhi: "I want to study but Delhi government schools are refusing me admission." This is how the 13-year-old Farman Khan narrates his plight and the ordeal that he went through just because he wants to study.

But don't be surprised. He has not applied in any convent school like Delhi Public School. These are the government schools of Delhi which, in a show of mockery of the right to education, are denying him admission without any rhyme and reason.

New Delhi : The Congress on Tuesday demanded a law against discrimination of people from weaker sections in educational institutions across the country. "What happened...

By Feroze Mithiborwala,

By TwoCircles.net news desk, New Delhi: The jury of the Jan Sunwai into the Jamia Nagar encounter have unanimously demanded judicial probe into the 19th September encounter by a sitting Supreme Court judge and have demanded that investigations be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI).

By Mohd. Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net,

By IANS,

Lahore/New Delhi : India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan and a host of leaders and celebrities across the subcontinent took to...

By TCN News,