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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Recent terror strikes in Bangalore and Ahmedabad point to the fact that these anti-terrorism conferences, fatwas and community efforts are not working. One reason could be that a vast majority of Muslims of India are not convinced that the terrorists could be one of them. It is not a denial by Indian Muslim's but a failure on the part of the investigating agencies to produce a convincing proof of who is behind these terror acts. The emails sent by the group calling itself “Indian Mujahideen” is our only way to guess who can be behind these attacks.

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Kochi: The Mujahid Students’ Movement (AP faction) will conduct a Qur’an Knowledge Exam in Ramazan. The exam is conducted as part of the organisation's Ramazan campaign ‘Holy Qur’an: Path of Light for the Humanity’. The primary round of the exam will be held on September 13 and the final on October 18. The exams will be conducted in various centres inside and outside the state.

By Agencies, Chennai Famous young Indian music composer Yuvan Shankar Raja announced that he has converted to Islam. Yuvan, son of Indian music maestro Ilayaraja,...

By NNN-PTI, Srinagar, India : An indefinite curfew was imposed in almost the entire Kashmir region this morning with police cracking down on separatists agitating in the valley. The move comes ahead of a rally called by separatists at Lal Chowk tomorrow to protest against the "failure" of the Centre to resolve the Kashmir issue. A government spokesperson told PTI that the curfew had been imposed in Srinagar and other major towns of the Kashmir valley as a precautionary measure.

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: Terming it as an attack on the religious minorities, several civil society organizations and Muslim groups have condemned the burning of St Sebastian Catholic Church in north-east Delhi.

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Saharanpur: Muslim masses cannot be held responsible for the partition of India in 1947. The country was divided as a result of personal interests of a handful of leaders, said prominent scholar Asghar Ali Engineer.

Attending a workshop on “Maintaining Peace and Solution of Conflicts” in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, he said justice for all at all levels was a must for peace and dialogue was a better way of resolving conflicts. He also accused the U.S. for disturbing peace in the world.

By TCN News, Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee (CLMC) has expressed concern for gross human rights violations by the state government functionaries during the ongoing movement for Telangana in Andhra Pradesh. Lateef Muhammad Khan, Gen Secretary, CLMC, has written to Ms. Sabita Indra Reddy, Minister for Home, Andhra Pradesh apprising her of the human and civil rights violations of citizens during the movement.

By DPA Islamabad : The prospect of emergency rule loomed in Pakistan Thursday after President Pervez Musharraf cancelled a scheduled trip to Afghanistan and summoned top officials for talks on the deteriorating situation in the country. After pulling out of the three-day tribal assembly in Kabul aimed at curbing the Taliban insurgency, Musharraf Wednesday consulted for several hours with top legal aides, while State Information Minister Tariq Azeem told media the option of emergency rule was on the table.

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By TwoCircles.net staff reporter Aligarh: Alamgir, a final year student of Bachelor of Social Work was killed on Friday by unidentified gunmen outside the campus....

By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net, Kolkata: With a view of preparing a comprehensive post-Sachar Committee assessment of the minorities in the country, the member-secretary of...

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By IANS, Jammu : Panthers Party, which was launched in Jammu and Kashmir as a regional party in 1982, got a new chairman Monday after having been led by Bhim Singh since its formation.

By IANS Panaji (Goa) : Even while the Goa government is trying to fend off allegations of a cover-up in the murder of British teenager Scarlette Keeling, a German tourist Sunday alleged that she was molested by an unidentified man at Cavelossim beach here. Twenty-seven-year old German national Marlene Martha Gabriel complained to the police that an unidentified person molested her at Cavelossim beach Saturday night. According to police inspector Edwin Colaco, Gabriel, in her statement, said that a man pulled her swimwear while she was bathing in the sea.

By IANS, New Delhi : Teachers of Jamia Millia Islamia university staged a protest at the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) office here Friday against its clean chit to Delhi Police in the Batla House gun battle September 2008, saying the rights panel had merely gone by the police version and not spoken to any eyewitness. The teachers demanded a judicial probe into the incident.

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By IANS Dhaka : Bangladesh Wednesday paid rich tributes to its founding father, slain former president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, with Chief Advisor Fakhruddin Ahmed calling him "a shining star in the sky of the nation". This is the first time he has been recognised as "father of the nation" by a government other than that of the Awami League that Mujib helped found in 1949 in the then East Pakistan.

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter New Delhi: Justice Aftab Alam, who until recently was active Chief Justice of Jammu & Kashmir High Court has been appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of India. Along with Justice Alam, Justice Gangpat Singh Singhvi of Andhra Pradesh High Court and Justice Jagdish Madhurlal Panchal of Rajasthan High court have also been appointed to the Supreme Court of India.

By Xinhua Baghdad : Some 150 Sunni Arab families were displaced from a mixed Sunni and Shiite neighborhood after clashes between residents and Mahdi Army militia, loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, an Interior Ministry said on Saturday. The families fled their homes in Washash district to other predominantly Sunni districts of Adel and Ghazaliyah in western Baghdad after fierce clashes erupted late on Thursday, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

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Patna : The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has demanded death sentence to people involved in the manufacture and sale of counterfeit medicines and setting up of a special cell for detection of spurious drugs.

"The government should treat the manufacturers of fake drugs as murderers. They should be given death sentence," IMA president Ajay Kumar said here Saturday.

He said the fake drugs market in India was worth Rs.700 million and dealt in all kinds of medicines, including life saving drugs and vaccines.

By IANS, Jammu : Suspected guerrillas have shot dead a former militant of the Hizbul Mujahideen and three members of his family in Jammu and Kashmir's mountainous Doda district and the police said the massacre appears to be an act of reprisal. The incident occurred around 11.30 p.m. Wednesday when terrorists barged into the house of Hizbul Mujahideen's former guerrilla Ghulam Hassan in Marmat area, about 170 km north of Jammu, police officials said Thursday.

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By Muhammad Najeeb, IANS Islamabad : The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam (PML-Q) is confident that President Pervez Musharraf will have smooth sailing in the presidential elections as the party and its allies have more than 55 percent votes in the assemblies. "I don't see any problem in the elections, General Musharraf will get the required numbers," said Minister of State for Information Tariq Azim, adding that even if the opposition resigns, the elections for the president's office will be held.

By Arun Kumar, IANS Washington : In the weeks before Benazir Bhutto's assassination, the US government directly provided her with intelligence on dangers she faced from militants in Pakistan, according to a leading US daily. The Bush administration did so as the US-backed President Pervez Musharraf resisted pressure to expand the scope of her security detail, the Los Angeles Times said citing US lawmakers and other officials and Bhutto supporters.

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Author of almost a hundred books, the late Maulana Shihabuddin Nadwi of Bangalore (1931-2002) is best remembered for his efforts to develop what he regarded as a 'scientific' framework of Quranic exegesis, being one of the few contemporary South Asian ulema to have worked in this field. His books and the institution that he founded—the Furqania Academy—were devoted to the elaboration of a 'scientific' Islamic theology (kalam) as well as 'scientific' explanations of various Islamic beliefs, laws and practices.

By IANS Dhaka : Bangladesh has mooted demarcation of land and maritime borders as part of its "balanced relationship" with neighbours. The announcement came as part of a 10-point foreign policy plan of the current caretaker government Foreign Advisor Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury mooted on Wednesday at a media conference in New York.

By IANS, Srinagar : Renowned environmental scientist Subhan Khan Pathan died of a massive heart attack while reading out a research paper here Tuesday, police said.

By TCN News, Aligarh: The Department of Education, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) had organized the “Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Memorial Lecture” on the National Education Day to mark the birth anniversary of India’s first education minister.

By IANS, Raipur : A Congress leader was killed by unidentified assailants in Chhattisgarh's Maoist stronghold Bastar district Tuesday but his family ruled out the guerrillas' involvement, police said. Sankata Prasad Tiwari was attacked in the wee hours at his house, about 18 km from district headquarters Jagdalpur town. The assailants slit his throat with sharp-edged weapons. He was rushed to Maharani Hospital at Jagdalpur, where he was declared brought dead. Police said they have begun a probe and are looking into all angles.

By IANS, Lucknow : At least five people, including a policeman, were injured in a communal clash over a land dispute in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district, police said Thursday.

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Kolkata : So you think Munnabhai MBBS only exists in the wacky world of Bollywood? Trust West Bengal to deliver them in droves.

A medical entrance test scam has been unearthed in the state in which senior medical students, mostly from Uttar Pradesh, impersonate for medical career aspirants and sit for their entrance exams.

A 25-year-old woman, who worked as an agent for several distance learning courses, is the latest to be arrested Sunday by police in Durgapur under Burdwan district in connection with the racket.

By IANS, New Delhi : With former Indian chief justice A.M. Ahmadi saying Muslims have let down the constitution by not availing of rights enshrined therein, a book launch event here Saturday turned into an occasion for introspection. Ahmadi, in his no-nonsense address at the city's India Islamic Cultural Centre (IICC), urged the gathering of around 50 Muslims drawn from different walks of life to use constitutional rights to their advantage.

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By IANS, New Delhi : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Monday said the government would re-look into repealing the special legal powers given to security forces in the state only after the present cycle of violence ended. A grim-looking Abdullah arrived in the capital to meet the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh-led cabinet panel on security Monday after fresh violence in the Kashmir Valley left 15 more civilians dead, most of them in firing by security forces, in the last four days.

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New Delhi: Only education can take the Muslim community to its zenith. And to achieve this end the concerned members of the community including religious and secular scholars will have to work in a planned and coordinated manner. These views were expressed by the well-known Shiite scholar and the Principal of Jawwadiyyah Arabic College, Maulana Shameemul Hasan.

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New Delhi : A court here on Tuesday sent, to two days police custody, former Delhi University (DU) professor S.A.R. Geelani, who was arrested...

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In the last of the three-part series on Malegaon blasts, we bring you the story of a Unani doctor who was one of the...

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By Aslam Chandio, TwoCircles.net, Islamabad: Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board, Shaharyar Mohammad Khan has updated envoys from cricketing nations as well as head of the European Union in an informal setting, at a dinner in Islamabad. On the occasion, the PCB chairman briefed the high commissioners and other diplomatic staff from 10 nations and head of European Commission posted to Islamabad on the general improvement in the security situation following the Pakistan Army’s launching of Zarb-e-Azab last June to eliminate terrorist safe havens in FATA and elsewhere.

GAZA, Jan 1 (KUNA) -- Israelis must understand even their country's closest allies want Israel to pull back from the West Bank of the Jordan River and share Jerusalem, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in an interview published Tuesday. When speaking of the future, "the world that is friendly to Israel...speaks of Israel in terms of the '67 borders. It speaks of the division of Jerusalem, " Olmert said in the interview with the English-language Jerusalem Post newspaper.

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TCN News मध्य प्रदेश/दिल्ली : गौरक्षा के नाम कथित गौरक्षकों की गुंडागर्दी बढ़ती जा रही है. गुंडागर्दी का एक नज़ारा मध्य प्रदेश के मंदसौर रेलवे...

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Carmen (Philippines) : Since the age of 15 Muslim rebel Datumanong Lumanggal has fought countless battles against government troops in the southern Philippines to defend his peoples' rights and identity.