Community News
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Jashn-e Bahaar Mushaira
May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Jashn-e Bahaar Musaira, an annual international poetic symposium was held in Delhi’s Delhi Public School, Mathura Raod premises on 12 April. In addition to Indian poets Waseem Bareilvi, Javed Akhtar, Aalok Srivastava, Popular M...
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Muslims arrested in Udgir communal riots freed on bail
May 18, 2013
Udgir / New Delhi: Following communal riots in Udgir (Maharashtra) on 16 March when a rumour was floated by mischief makers that a green flag was hoisted on a temple in an old fort, a large number of Muslims (about 24) were arrested on the susp...
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Intrn’l Media House in need of Urdu mass media students
May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Students of Urdu mass media of Jawaharlal Nehru University are now in demand by foreign media houses. According to Dr Shafi’ Aiyyub, who is a teacher in Urdu mass media course in JNU, a team of Mind Works Global Media Services,...
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Good educational performance of AMU’s Girls High School
May 18, 2013
Aligarh: Results of 1st to 8th classes of AMU’s Girls High School were declared on 17 April according to which 96.81 percent girls have been successful. At the primary level 99.79 percent students (girls) have passed and at junior level 9...
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“Saffron” Haj House?
May 18, 2013
Indore: What an irony! Even the proposed Haj House in this Madhya Pradesh city could not escape a saffron touch. Manzoor Ahmad and Haider Ali Mehwal, members of the M. P. State Haj Committee, apprised prior to lottery for selecting Haj pilgrims...
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85-year-old Nurjahan arrested for arson
May 18, 2013
Alirajpur (Jhabura): 85-year-old Nurjahan, who cannot stand on her two legs and needs support while walking, was arrested on charge of arson. She was granted bail by a court and was released later on. She was arrested when people of a locality ...
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“Sisters” SOS to Namo ‘bhai’
May 18, 2013
Ahmedabad: “Sisters when ever in distress send me a post card. Your brother is in Gandhinagar”, says a poll poster offering help to sisters in need. Inspired by the poll promise these sisters have been urging the brother, sorry, Big...
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RSS plan to explose bomb aborted
By AG Khan
May 18, 2013
Thiruananthupuram: An activist of RSS died while riding a bike when the explosive in his possession exploded accidently. A. V. Dilip Kumar (27) is son of an RSS worker, A. Shankaran. He was promptly rushed to hospital after the explosion where ...
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Kerala Muslim to receive kidney from Christian priest
May 18, 2013
Kochchi: Thirty year old Rasad Muhammad had lost all hopes of survival as he was desperately in need of a kidney and had failed to get a donor. The light at the end of tunnel came when he narrated his woes to a co-traveller in a bus on his way ...
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Moin Khan tops PET exam
May 18, 2013
Bhopal: Moin Khan of Indore topped the merit list of Pre Engineering Test (PET) 2013 conducted by the Vyavsayik Pareeksha Mandal (Professional Examination Board) by securing 187 marks of out of 200. He shares this position with another student ...
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Guj ATS picks Shahid from Ujjain
May 18, 2013
Ujjain: Gujarat ATS arrested Shahid (27) of Nagori Mohalla in connectin with Ahmedabad blasts. He will be produced in a local court for transit remand. A larage number of people gathered in the Topkhana area protesting against his arrest which ...
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ADG Pande to be arrested
May 18, 2013
Ahmedabad: A special CBI court issued a warrant for the arrest of upper police DG PP Pande. Earlier ACGM (Upper Chief Judicial Magistrate) had declined to issue such an order. A CBI team reached Ghajipur (UP) to nab him where he is believed to ...
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NIA continues grilling villager
May 18, 2013
Indore: An NIA team of six members visited a village, Sarvar Janbudi, and grilled a villager for six hours and later on left with instruction to report at Mahesh Guard Line Indore head quarters. Shersinh s/o Darbar Sinh visited his house and wa...
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Minister calls employee’s wife for cancelling his transfer
May 18, 2013
Bhopal: Angry over refusal in helping in a land deal the minister transferred the employee concerned and through a middleman suggested to him to come with his wife to get the transfer cancelled. This had given the congress the much sought after...
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Five-year sentence for SIMI activists
May 18, 2013
Khandwa: Two activists of SIMI, Zafar Husain Quraishi and Muhammad Khalil, have been sentenced to five-year term along with a fine of Rs 10,000 each. Three others have been set free. They were arrested on 1 April 2008 for instigating people to ...
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Investigating agencies support Modi, says American report
May 18, 2013
Washington: According to an American report issued by Secretary of State John Kerry on 19 April, civil society in India continues to express its concern over Gujarat government’s failure to arrest the perpetrators of communal violence in ...
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‘Umeed’, ‘Himayet’, and ‘Self Help’ organisations in J&K
May 18, 2013
Srinagar: Union minister for rural development Jai Ram Ramesh said here that during the past 5 years under the ‘Umeed’ Programme, more than 9 lakh women have associated with 90 thousand ‘self help’ groups. He said that t...
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Haroon Yusuf’s illegal use of Waqf driver
By NA Ansari
May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Haroon Yusuf, presently Delhi’s minister for energy and power was Chairman of Delhi Waqf Board about a decade ago i.e. from March 1999 to March 2004 (5 years). Simultaneously, he was also an MLA from Ballimaran assembly constit...
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First instalment released to Khwaja University
May 18, 2013
Lucknow: Vice Chancellor of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Urdu, Arabic & Persian University, Dr Anees Ansari said that the University Grants Commission had released an amount of Rs 2.5 crores (Rs 25 million) for the building of a Library and Com...
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Maulana Azad’s anthology of poems released
May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Few people know that Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, first education minister of India was, in addition to being an author, was a poet also. No one had earlier shed light on this aspect of Maulana Azad but now Husn Ara Trust has compiled an...
