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UP government plans SC status for 17 OBC sub-castes
May 12, 2012
In order to fulfil the promise made by Akhilesh Yadav during his election campaign to MBC leaders the Samajwadi party government is planning to include 17 OBC sub castes into the Scheduled Castes list. Akhilesh had assured MBC leaders tha...
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Madrasas in J&K reject Centre’s grant
May 12, 2012
Madrasas in Jammu and Kashmir have refused to accept grant under the centrally sponsored scheme for providing quality education in Madrasas (SPQEM). Under the scheme the Jammu and Kashmir government had received a grant of Rs 7.61 crore, betwee...
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Gujarat municipality to ban non-veg food
May 12, 2012
Ahmadabad: Palitana Municipal Committee, under the pressure of the Jain leadership on 20 April passed a resolution to ban the sale of meat and other non-vegetarian food, including eggs, within its municipal limits. The town has a population of ...
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Muslim nuclear scientist found dead
May 12, 2012
Chennai: Nuclear scientist Mohammed Mustafa, 24, was found dead in his quarters at Kalpakkam, around 80 km from here, with his wrists slashed on 23 April evening, police said. A police official in Kalpakkam said: “We found Mustafa with hi...
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Plain murder: SC lets Army choose what kind of trial
May 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on 2 May gave the Army full “discretion” to choose between a court martial and a criminal trial for seven officers accused of killing five persons in a fake encounter in Pathribal over 12 years ago. The ...
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One day’s catch of fish makes a man a multi-millionaire
May 12, 2012
Rajkot (Gujarat): A fishterman of Jamnagar Hasan Isha Bhayya set out for about a week-long fishing expedition at sea on 24 April but on the very first day by sheer good luck his catch of ghol fish, an expensive and somewhat rare species of fish...
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Environment Award named after Veer Abdul Hameed in U.P.
May 12, 2012
Lucknow: UP’s Akhilesh Yadav government in an important decision has named the state’s award in the field of environment and ecology in the memory of Shaheed Abdul Hameed winner of India’s highest military award, Param Vir Cha...
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AIMES to launch educational and socio plan for Muslims
May 12, 2012
In order to expedite the educational process particularly in medical, technical and other higher education, the All India Muslim Educational Society (AIMES) is planning an action plan for the Educational and Socio Economic upliftment of Muslims...
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Quota and Batla harmed Congress in UP: Cong panel
May 12, 2012
The panel constituted under AKAntony to assess the reasons for the dismal performance of the Congress in the recently held assembly elections, found that controversy over minority quota, Batla House encounter and irresponsible and divergent sta...
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Amjad Khan: an unsung hero
May 12, 2012
+ Pic Kudos to all who helped secure the release of Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon from Maoists to reunite with his family but what is equally painful is that none of them even bothered to acknowledge the bravery of Amjad Khan...
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Jamia Millia’s 50-bed hospital inaugurated
May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia University’s own 50-bed hospital named King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud Hospital was inaugurated by Jamia’s former Vice Chancellor Lt. Gen. (Retd.) M.A. Zaki in the university campus on 28 April i...
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Kamraz to organise intll. literary festival in J&K
May 12, 2012
Adbee Markaz Kamraz aimed at promoting Kashmiri language is planning to organise an International Kashmir Literary Festival in the state on the lines of Jaipur Literary Festival to project Kashmir on the International literary scene. Dr Shujaat...
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I.A.S. officer’s agony: justice denied
May 12, 2012
Pradeep Sharma, suspended IAS officer, expressed his agony against the Gujarat government by saying, “In Gujarat power lies only with one man”. He claimed that he and his IPS brothers were being targetted by the state government. He...
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NCM seeks Delhi govt clarification over school admissions
May 12, 2012
New Delhi: The question of discrimination in the admission of Muslim children in nursery classes by private and public schools in Delhi was raised by L.J.P. president Ram Vilas Paswan and NCP’s general secretary Tariq Anwar in Parliament ...
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Muslims deviating from the true path of Islam: Kalbe Sadiq
May 12, 2012
Maulana Kalbe Sadiq, senior member of the Muslim Personal Law Board while speaking at a Ram Katha gathering at Rajkot in Ahmedabad recently asked the Muslims to ignore the preaching of the fundamentalists and follow Islamic scholars in order to...
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UP govt’s plan to free innocent Muslims is dangerous: RSS
May 12, 2012
The RSS has protested the move of the Samajwadi party to release all jailed innocent Muslims by saying that this kind of act would give them a licence to do anything and get away with it. RSS also claims that a similar demand to release saffron...
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T.V. serial on Sufi saints under ‘Roshni kay Minar’
May 12, 2012
New Delhi: A T.V. serial related to the 800th annual ‘Urs’ of Khwaja Gharib Nawaz Hazrat Moinuddin Chishti Ajmeri will be telecast by Aalami Sahara Urdu channel twice a week on Sundays and Thursday from 26 April at 10.30 p.m. In add...
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A.P. government allocates 35 acres of land to Waqf Board
May 12, 2012
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh government has allocated 35 acres of prime land to A.P. Waqf Board in lieu of the land of a Dargah in Hyderabad which was acquired by the state government. With this the state government has so far returned a total of ...
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They came, they killed, they escaped
By AG Khan
May 12, 2012
Ahmedabad: The heavy toll of victims during the 2002 riots remains a nightmare for many who survived. However, their hopes for justice suffered a serious set back with two recent judgements in which all the accused were acquitted. The Gujar...
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Kishanganj’s 35 middle schools upgraded to High Schools
May 12, 2012
Kishan Ganj: Kishan Ganj, a Muslim majority district of Bihar, is among the most backward, educationally as well as economically, areas of Bihar where upto now there were only 35 middle schools. Now, after more than six decades of Independence ...
