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  • Expat Ride — a book on Gulf NRIs released

    + Pic Former A.P. Minister for NRI Affairs, Mohammed Ali Shabbir stressed the necessity to attract small investors from Indian residents in the Gulf region to invest in India. Concerned with the fact that government mainly tries to attr...

  • Godhra still untouchable for Modi govt

    The world was witness to the Nautunki of Gujarat CM Narendra Modi’s Sadbhavna upvaas at Ground Zero – Godhra – on 20 January where only a handful Muslims turned up to be counted with the Hindu posterboy. A couple of days back,...

  • Delhi Waqf Board’s first priority is vacating of illegal occupations and increasing income

    New Delhi: Chaudhari Mateen Ahmad, 4-time MLA from Seelampur constituency who was elected the new chairman of Delhi Waqf Board on 3rd January said after taking over his new assignment that his first priority would be to get illegal occupations ...

  • Tragedy at Husain Tekri: 12 killed in stampede

    Jaora (Ratlam): Twelve persons were killed in a stampede at Husain Tekri, a Shia Muslim shrine, on the occasion of march on chool (bare foot march on glowing embers) on the occasion Chehallum of Karbala martyrs. Husain Tekri is revered equally ...

  • Cheerful moms can keep nation happy: Kalam

    Former president Abdul Kalam while speaking at the NIE Newspapers meet 2012 organised by the Times of India’s Student Edition in the national capital on 16 January said that if my mother is happy, my home is happy. If my home is happy, so...

  • Charminar’s unique position

    Hyderabad: The famous historical building Charminar, symbol of Hyderabad city has been selected by Earth Platinum, the world’s largest atlas which has found a place in the Guinness Book of World Records even before its publication for a d...

  • Communal tension after building of temple on govt land

    Deoband: Construction of a religious building for worship in violation of Supreme Court order and also without permission of local government authorities led to communal tension. People belonging to Hindu and Muslim communities assembled at tha...

  • Educational loan to minorities, all backward classes

    New Delhi: Delhi government has given its approval for providing educational loans for pursuing technical and professional education to all boy and girl students belonging to minority communities as well as all backward classes. Delhi governmen...

  • Rs. 40 crores approved for Haj House in Bangalore

    Bangalore: Karnataka’s chief minister Sadanand Gowda has approved Rs. 40 crores for the building of a Haj House near Hegde Nagar, a suburb of this city. Addressing the people after the land-digging function for the Haj House building, the...

  • Hindi Qur’an distributed in Aligarh jail

    Aligarh: A delegation of Jamat-e Islami Hind of AMU area led by local ameer Dr. Safdar Sultan Islahi, in cooperation with a local organisation visited Aligarh jail on 18 December 2011. First of all the delegation members met jail authorities li...

  • One more Mahmoodabad-like case in the offing

    Bhopal: Claims and counter claims on 5000 acres of land owned by the Bhopal Nawab family have been further complicated by the state government jumping into the fray. So, not only 35,000 families but also the state government are staking claim t...

  • Fellowship for students preparing for civil services

    New Delhi: Zakat Foundation of India (ZFI) has announced on its website www.zakatindia.org the process of selection of promising students for ZFI fellowship 2012 with a view to training them to succeed in IAS examination. ZFI President Dr. Zafa...

  • Very high dropout rate among Delhi’s Muslim children

    New Delhi: A shocking dropout rate of 97% among Muslim children in Delhi in the age group of 7-19 years was reported. This rate has been given by Delhi Minorities Commission headed by Safdar Husain Khan according to whose findings the dropout r...

  • Nine AMU schools to be made at par with Kendriya Vidyalas

    New Delhi: University Grants Commission has decided to allocate an amount of Rs. 84 crores to AMU to help it upgrade nine schools affiliated to it and bring them at par with Kendriya Vidyalas (K.V.) and meet KV parameters. Most of the 15 thousa...

  • World Urdu Editors Forum constituted in Hyderabad

    Hyderabad: A 2-day World Urdu Editors Conference, sponsored by Hyderabad’s Urdu daily Siyasat was held in this city on 30 and 31 December 2011. Before the end of this conference, a meeting of its delegates was held at which ‘World U...

  • Muslim women threat self-immolation over graveyard

    Amreli: Muslim women’s threat of self immolation at the graveyard site if attempts to build a temple continue, has caused a sensation. They have conveyed their resolve to National Human Rights Commission New Delhi and D.I.G. Junagarh in w...

  • Pakistani flag unfurled by Shri Ram Sene miscreants

    + Pic Bangalore: Unfurling of the Pakistani flag on a government building in the Bijapur district was intended to implicate Muslims of the village. It was a mischief conspired by the activists of Shri Ram Sene to create tension. Police ...

  • Shehla murder mystery: 10 lakh reward declared

    + Pic New Delhi: The CBI doubled the reward (raising it to Rs. 10 lakh) for providing clues to the mysterious murder of Shehla Masood who was shot dead on August 16 last year in Bhopal. Meanwhile the CBI has quizzed three persons after ...

  • Electronic Qur’an

    Ranchi: An electronic version of the Holy Qur’an has become the talk of this city these days. Muhammad Ghayasuddin of Ranchi; owner of a private firm, Bharat Electronics (not the Public Sector Bharat Electronics Ltd.) during his Haj pilgr...

  • Dr. Fareed Parbati (1961-2011)

    + Pic   By Mohammad Imtiyaz Ahmad Dr. Fareed Parbati, a noted Urdu poet of Kashmir, died on 14 Dec. 2011. He was a pillar of the new literary generation of Kashnir. Though he was a commerce graduate, Urdu literature, especi...