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New Delhi : Hitting out at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for questioning the Aam Admi Party's protests over the demolition of a slum...

New Delhi : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday recommended a CBI probe into the Chittoor encounter case in which 20 alleged...

By TCN News, Aligarh: A Multi Ministerial Consultative Meeting held today at Trivandrum, expressed the satisfaction on the progress made by the Aligarh Muslim University in starting the Center at Malappruam. The meeting was attended by Mr. K.P. Rajendran, Minister for Revenue and Land Reforms, Mr. M.A. Baby, Minister for Education & Culture, Dr. T.M. Thomas Issac, the Minister of Finance and Public Works, Mr. Paloli Mohammad Kutty, Minister of Local Self Government and Mr. N.K. Premachandran, Minister of Water Resources.

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Hyderabad: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi has termed as "unlawful" and "absurd" the statement of Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse comparing...

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Srinagar : A class seventh student was allegedly killed, with pellet wounds found in his body, in a late Friday clash with security forces...

Srinagar : The water level in the Jhelum river and its tributaries receded significantly on Wednesday as the weather improved in Jammu and Kashmir,...

By NNN-KUNA New York : The Human Rights Watch has blasted Israel's decision to limit fuel and electricity to the Gaza Strip in retaliation for "unlawful" rocket attacks by armed groups saying it amounts to "collective punishment" against the civilian population of Gaza, contravenes international law, and will worsen the humanitarian crisis there. "Israel may respond to rocket attacks by armed groups to protect its population, but only in lawful ways," said Sarah Leah Whitson, director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East division Monday.

By NNN-WAM Abu Dhabi : UAE Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan has held a meeting with President Dr Thomas Boni Yayi of Benin, who is currently on a private visit to the UAE. Sheikh Hamdan welcomed Dr Yayi Monday, expressing the hope that his visit would contribute in further boosting ties of friendship and cooperation between the two countries. He also expressed UAE's keenness to enhance cooperation with Benin in commercial, economic, tourism and telecommunications fields.

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Lucknow : Aligarh Muslim University will tie up with several varsities in the United States to establish international academic linkages, a university official said Monday.

"AMU vice-chancellor Prof P.K. Abdul Azis has already left on a 12-day US visit to sign Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with varsities there," AMU spokesperson Rahat Abrar told IANS on phone.

By NNN-BSS Dhaka : The government in a press note Monday announced complete withdrawal of curfew from six divisional headquarters including capital Dhaka with the return of "proper and stable" situation. It said the curfew was enforced in six divisional cities including Dhaka on Aug 22 in view of the untoward incidents on Aug 20 and afterwards. The law and order has been restored as a result of all out efforts of the law enforcement agencies and sincere support and cooperation of the countrymen., it added.

Ahmedabad, Sep 29 (IANS) The Nanavati-Shah inquiry commission probing the 2002 Godhra riots Saturday directed two mobile service providers to give call details of Gujarat ministers, police officials, legislators as well as of Chief Minister Narendra Modi during the sectarian violence. The call records demanded relate to the period Feb 25 to March 2004. The commission has granted a week's time to comply with the order.

By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: A day after the minor girl at the center of Handwara protests gave her statement to the local...

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By TwoCircles.net staff reporter New Delhi: Christians of Delhi and NCR (National Capital Region, including Delhi, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Noida) organised a mammoth rally here today to protest against ongoing anti-Christian violence in Orissa and Karnataka, to demand justice and ban on Bajrang Dal and VHP. The rally was supported by All India Christian Council. The rally in fact marked the end of the 7-day dharna at Jantar Mantar that started on September 26.

By IANS Dubai : Bahrain will stop accepting amnesty applications from illegal immigrant workers by Dec 1, a month ahead of the expiry of its amnesty deadline, a senior immigration official has said. In a bid to curb the blatant violation of the country's labour norms, Bahrain had announced a general amnesty scheme for illegal foreign workers last month. It asked all illegal immigrant workers and their employers to regularise their work permits or face heavy penalties.

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Islamabad : The military assault on the Lal Masjid, which killed over 100 people, has left traders in the heart of the Pakistani capital fearing possible suicide attacks because of the presence of security forces.

Amid beefed up security arrangements, the shopkeepers -- and shoppers too -- feel vulnerable because the presence of a large number of security personnel has only increased, they say, the chances of suicide attacks.

By IANS, New Delhi : A 70-year-old woman was found murdered in her house in central Delhi Friday, police said. The victim, Munni Devi, is survived by two sons and two daughters.

By Sarwar Kashani Srinagar/New Delhi : Two more civilians, including a middle-aged woman, were killed in fresh firing by security forces in Kashmir on Monday...

By Vanya Mehta, TwoCircles.net, Since the publication of Arundhati Roy’s introduction to The Annihilation of Caste, called “The Doctor and the Saint,” intellectuals and Dalit activists have spoken out against her as a choice for the introduction as well as her over-emphasis on Mahatma Gandhi’s story over Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar’s story.

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Dubai : The Haj quota for India this year has been fixed at 160,491, the Indian embassy in Saudi Arabia said Tuesday.

The embassy statement issued from Riyadh came following reports appearing in a section of the media, which quoted India's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia M.O.H. Farook as saying that the Haj quota for India had been increased.

"The official request from the Indian side to increase the quota further is under consideration by the Saudi side," the statement said.

By IANS Jaipur : With only a few days left for Eid-Ul-Zuha, Jaipur's Bakra Mandi (goat bazaar) is in full swing ahead of the Muslim festival. Talk of the town is a pair of goats, named Salman and Arbaj, each costing Rs.171,000. Eid-Ul-Zuha, the festival signifying spirit of sacrifice, will be celebrated Friday. Muslims all around the world offer animal sacrifices on the festival in deference to Prophet Ibrahim who is believed to have agreed to slaughter his son, Ismail, on Allah's command.

Mumbai : The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the court registry to prepare afresh the paper-book pertaining to the Salman Khan accident case. Justice...

By TwoCircles.net reporter New Delhi: Dr. Sayed Mahmood Naqvi, an Emeritus Scientist of National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) was awarded ‘National Mineral Award for Excellence-2006” in New Delhi today. Sis Ram Ola, Minister of Mines conferred the award to Dr. Naqvi.

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter, New Delhi: Hajis from India this year will have to face problems or pay more for accommodation at Makkah thanks to two reasons: rise in costs and shortage of accommodation in the holiest city of Islam. Due to global price rise and demolition of several buildings for the expansion and development of Haram Sharif in Makkah, even the joint efforts of Consul General of India, Haj Committee of India and Haj Consul have failed to ensure accommodation of all 1,55,000 Hajis to perform Haj this year.

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By Mohit Dubey, Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh's ruling Samajwadi Party and a confident BJP will be the main contenders in most of the 11 assembly...

By IANS, Gandhinagar : Geetha Johri, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and a member of the apex court-appointed probe committee in the 2002 post-Godhra riots cases, has offered to quit the team after the Supreme Court's remarks against her in the probe into the killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikk in an alleged staged shootout. Johri has written to R.K. Raghavan, the chief of the Special Investigation Team (SIT), requesting him to relieve her from the squad.

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Aligarh: Acting swiftly over the allegation of assault of an engineering student of Aligarh Muslim University by the two policemen of Civil Lines Police Station, Aligarh Superintendent of Police Man Singh Chauhan has transferred the Station House Officer of the said station.

The two policemen had allegedly beaten up Javed Alam, a final year engineering student at an ATM counter inside the campus and detained him for hours in the station, says a report in The Hindu.

By IANS, Guwahati: The army, deployed in Assam's troubled Kokrajhar district, has started an operation to seize all illegal arms and ammunition there, informed sources said Saturday.

New Delhi: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here Friday to finalise the cabinet of a PDP-BJP...

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net दिल्ली: राजस्थान के शिक्षा विभाग द्वारा किए गये स्टाफिंग पैटर्न में उर्दू तालीम के साथ सरकारी स्तर पर किए गए भेदभाव...

By Mohd Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net,

Failure of the state govt to constitute three-member Wakf Tribunal By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has ruled that till the state government...

By IANS, Noida : The murder of Noida girl Aarushi Talwar turned into a whodunit Saturday as the original suspect, the family's domestic help, was found dead on the terrace of their house with his throat slit in the same manner as the first victim. Superintendent of Police (city) Mahesh Mishra said the domestic help, Yam Prasad alias Hemraj, was killed in a manner similar to Aarushi's murder.

By Muhammad Najeeb, IANS Islamabad : Normalcy returned to Pakistan Monday after the death of 44 people in three days of widespread street violence in the wake of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination. Attacks on private and government property erupted shortly after Bhutto was killed in Rawalpindi Thursday evening as tens of thousands took to the streets, blaming the government of President Pervez Musharraf for the murder. The worst hit in the mayhem was the state-run Pakistan Railways.

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Lucknow : The Uttar Pradesh Madrassa Board, which governs around 1,900 seminaries in the state, is all set to get tech-savy and give the students computerised marksheets, an official said Monday.

"The board will computerise the results of the madrassa students and will issue computerised marksheet to them," board registrar Shoaib Ahmad told IANS.

Until now, the madrassa students were issued type-written certificates and marksheets.

By IANS, Srinagar: Curfew was Tuesday clamped in parts of the Kashmir Valley to end days of violence, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said, warning that curfew violators will be dealt with sternly. As three more people were killed in firing by security forces, Abdullah appealed to everyone in Jammu and Kashmir to help restore normalcy in the state. "Curfew is being imposed in various parts of the valley... areas under north Kashmir, some areas have come under curfew.

By IANS, Bhopal : A woman who allegedly got her abusive husband killed with the help of hired criminals in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district has been arrested, police said Monday. According to police, Mamta Jogi, 30, of Narwar town in the district, 311 km from Bhopal, was often beaten up by her husband Kishanlal. The husband, who was unemployed, also used to take all the money she earned as a maid.

Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Friday directed the state administration to procure prefabricated structures to provide shelter ahead of the...

By IANS, Lucknow : Suddenly, nearly half a dozen students of the Lucknow Arts College find that no one is willing to let out rooms to them. They are paying the price for belonging to Azamgarh, the district that has lately been linked to suspected terrorists. These are among the 15-odd Muslim as well as Hindu students from eastern Uttar Pradesh - which houses Azamgarh - for whom paying guest accommodation has dried up.

By Xinhua Islamabad : Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday said in a national address that his country has been put on the path of development. "We empowered people, women, minorities and youth," said Musharraf, who lifted the state of emergency in the country on Saturday. Talking about the emergency rule in the country, Musharraf said that visible and positive changes have been witnessed during the emergency period. The terrorism spreading in tribal areas has been contained, he said.

By IANS, Panchkula (Haryana): The Haryana police said Sunday they were yet to arrest Ranjit Bajaj, the son of a former bureaucrat couple in Punjab, against whom a charge of attempted murder was filed Saturday evening. "So far we have not arrested Ranjit Bajaj. We are still investigating the matter," district police chief Maneesh Chaudhary said. Bajaj, the son of retired bureaucrats B.R. Bajaj and Rupan Deol Bajaj, was booked following a complaint from Gurmohan Singh Bedi, son of a sitting Punjab and Haryana High Court Judge M.M.S. Bedi.

By IANS Srinagar : A guerrilla commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen was gunned down by security forces in a south Kashmir village early Tuesday, police said. Acting on intelligence information, troops from 31 Rashtriya Rifles and the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the police surrounded a house in Dugripora village, 40 km from here. The dead man was identified as Chota Jehangir. "As the security forces challenged the hiding guerrilla to surrender, he opened fire, resulting in minor injuries to an officer," a police officer told IANS here.

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By Soroor Ahmed, TwoCircles.net,

By DPA, Baghdad: Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, whose Iraqiya List won the most seats in this spring's parliamentary elections, confirmed Saturday that he has received warnings of planned assassination attempts against him and other leaders in his party. Allawi said warnings were conveyed to him two months before the March 7 elections by the multinational forces in Iraq, as well as the Iraqi Defence Minister. The plans reportedly called for him to be killed with a bomb placed in his car. He added that the Iraqi government did not provide him with protection.

By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,

By TCN News, New Delhi: Noted film director and social activist Mahesh Bhatt released Asrar-us-Sanadeed, a book authored by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, great Muslim thinker, reformer and founder of the Aligarh Muslim University, here on Monday.

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Bangalore : Indian doctor Muhammad Haneef Wednesday contested claims by Australian authorities that they have fresh evidence of his involvement in the failed British terror plot and challenged them to come out with the full transcript of his police interrogation and an online chat with his brother.

"What Australian Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews is revealing now about the probe and the chat is not new. It is only selective and partial," a tense Haneef told reporters here at a hurriedly-convened press conference.

Srinagar : Life remained paralysed in the Valley on Thursday for the 13th day as authorities continued to impose curfew following extension in the...

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By NNN-KUNA Ramallah : Israeli authorisation for the construction of a new road in eastern Jerusalem will create obstacles for Palestinians with intentions to hinder their travelling and movements, the Haaretz daily said. The new road will separate the pathways between Israelis and Palestinians, an Israeli source told Haaretz Monday, adding that the road would be an initial step to construct a new Jewish neighbourhood in the area between Jerusalem and the West Bank.

By A. Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: Expressing their concerns for the violation of Human Rights in Egypt, some Muslim organizations in Mumbai has sent a combined memorandum to the Egypt’s Ambassador to India. These organizations have also appealed Government of India to bring the matter before United Nations and help restore democracy in Egypt.

New Delhi : The Delhi Police on Monday admitted on Monday before the Delhi High Court that "it has no video footage" which could...

By TCN News, New Delhi: Welfare Party of India national president Mujtaba Farooque, in a letter to Mrs. Sushma Swaraj, the Minister for Foreign Affairs...

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New Delhi : Noted Pakistani rights activist and Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission of Human Rights Asma Jehangir Wednesday visited the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) here to discuss religious issues having a bearing on human rights.

Jehangir called on NHRC chairman Justice Rajendra Babu as part of her in-depth study of human rights situation in India.

By Muhammad Najeeb, IANS Islamabad : The body of Pakistan's slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto may need to be exhumed for an autopsy if the government allows international experts to institute a probe into her assassination. Bhutto died after gunshots and a suicide bombing Thursday evening following a public rally at Rawalpindi's Liaquat Bagh. Though there was no autopsy carried out on her body, the procedure might become necessary now with her Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) demanding a probe by an international team of investigators.

New Delhi : The RSS may not harm Islam in India, but it will certainly destroy Hinduism, Hindi poet Ashok Vajpeyi said on Thursday. "Mahatma...

By TwoCircles.net, Staff Reporter Hyderabad: Asaduddin Owaisi, the President of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen and the MP from Hyderabad constituency received threats on...

By TwoCirlces.nets Staff Reporter, New Delhi: An Iftar party was organized by the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) Secretary Dr Ashok Chowdhery at the BPCC Headquarter on … A special dua was also held on the occasion for brotherhood among fellow Indians.

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net पटना: बिहार चुनाव में सोशल मीडिया का क्रेज सिर चढ़कर बोल रहा है. आलम ये है कि वे नेता जिन्हें सोशल...

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By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net Patna: While the last date of submission of Haj 2009 application form for Muslims in Bihar is May 31, 2009, the Bihar state Haj Committee has not been able to have hard copy of Haj application form so far, and so they have asked aspirants to download the form from the website of Haj Committee of India www.hajcommittee.com.

By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,

Islamabad: The recent episode in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, where 67 Kashmiri students were suspended from college for three days after they cheered Pakistan's victory...

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By TCN News, Guwahati: Doctor Syed Iftikar Ahmed, chairman of Guwahati-based NGO ‘AIDS Prevention Society’ and a member of Lions Club of Narangi has been invited to attend the Lions Day programme at the United Nations’ headquarters in New York.

By Abdul Hameed, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: Violence-hit Nanded in Maharashtra is struggling to return to normal as Muslims are scared in the wake of one-sided arresting of youths following communal clashes. It was on March 13 that a communal clash took place in Nayi Aabadi area in Nanded when a certain group was playing the banned CD of the song ‘Mandir Wahin Banayenge’ (We will build the temple {Ram Mandir} at the same place {Ayodhya}) in front of Aabidin Masjid.

By Anando Bhakto, New Delhi : Congress leader and author Shashi Tharoor has said that BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has not been able...

By Badre Alam and Sanjay Kumar for Twocircles.net The tragic death of Rohith Vemula at Hyderabad Central University (HCU) has created a strong public...

By Maulvi Yahya Nomani, (Translated from Urdu by Yoginder Sikand) Islam insists that Muslims should abide by the pacts and treaties that they have entered into with others. The Quran repeatedly insists on this. In one place, it says, ‘[A] nd keep the covenant. Lo! of the covenant it will be asked’(17:34). A hadith report claims that the Prophet once remarked, ‘A person lacks faith if he is not trustworthy and he who breaks his agreements has no religion.’

By Xinhua Gaza : Two Palestinian armed groups said Sunday they launched four homemade rockets from northern Gaza Strip at the southern Israeli town of Sderout early in the day. The armed wings of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) and the Fatah movement led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas claimed their responsibility for the attack in leaflets. The two groups also told the media that they attacked the Israeli-Egyptian crossing by eight mortar shells.

Hyderabad : Twelve students of Osmania University were arrested on Friday for allegedly holding a "beef festival" in violation of court orders, police said. Police...

By IANS, New Delhi: Four people were arrested from Rajasthan's Alwar district for kidnapping and trafficking young girls from the national capital, police said Sunday. Three minor girls have been rescued. Bina, Mangal, Ashok and Shyam Lal were arrested from Sondavas and Girvas village in Alwar district Saturday, police added. According to police, raids were conducted after receiving information that a gang was kidnapping young girls from Delhi and selling them in Rajasthan.

By DPA, Kirkuk (Iraq) : At least nine people were killed and 78 injured Wednesday in three car bombings in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police sources said.

Srinagar: Police in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district Saturday said seven guerrillas killed in a gunfight with security forces in a forest area in...