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• Kashmir: Unrest continues in the Valley depite freezing cold

  By Afsana Rashid

  Feb 25, 2011

  Jammu and Kashmir High Court on December 16 adjourned hearing in criminal revision petition filed by state government in Zahid Farooq murder case. No arguments could take place following which court adjourned the case. Hearing in the petiti...

• 2010 Kashmir: Jama Masjid without Juma prayers

  Feb 25, 2011

  Srinagar: Jama Masjid Srinagar could not hold Friday prayers for 14 consecutive weeks during 2010, thanks to frequent curfews clamped by the state administration. The latest curfew was to prevent Mir Waiz Umar Farooq from attending the Friday p...

• New generation drifting away from Urdu and Hindi

  Feb 25, 2011

  Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Urdu Academy’s awards-presentation function was held at Bhopal on 24 December when 13 Urdu men of letters were honoured with awards. Speaking on this occasion, chaired by Academy’s Chairman, Dr. Bashir Badar, ...

• Another mosque rehabilitated in Punjab

  Feb 25, 2011

  Fazilka: Majlis Ahrar Islam-e-Hind under the leadership of Punjab’s Shahi Imam Maulana Habibur Rahman Sani Ludhianvi has been actively working for liberating occupied mosques in Punjab and has so far got a number of illegally occupied mosques libe...

• School boy shatters cricket record

  Feb 23, 2011

  Mumbai: Thirteen-year-old Armaan Jaffer of Rizvi Springfield School of Bandra (Mumbai) broke all previous records in school cricket when he scored mammoth 498 runs on 22 December while playing for his school against Raja Shivaji School of Dadar...

• Popular Front of India not terrorist organisation: SC

  Feb 23, 2011

  Popular Front of India has defended its activists facing charges of attempt to murder under the Explosive Substances Act and Unlawful Activities prevention Act for chopping off the hand of a blasphemous professor. in its affidavit submitted to ...

• Kashmir’s new top cop talks tough on Baramulla deaths

  Feb 23, 2011

  Newly appointed Inspector General of Police (Kashmir Range) SM Sahai has taken a serious note over the death of four persons, including a student in police firing during a protest in Baramulla district on 8 September. Expressing his concern ove...

• 8000 Kashmiris disappeared since 1989

  Feb 23, 2011

  Relatives of disappeared Kashmiris every year gather on human rights day at a central park in Srinagar to find out the truth behind those disappeared since separatist rebellion began in 1989. The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons wa...

• NGO seeks withdrawal of Jamia Millia Islamia admission notice

  Feb 23, 2011

  With National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI) yesterday clearing grant of minority status to Jamia Millia Islamia (a Central university) in south Delhi, Nawa-e-Haque, a Delhi-based NGO has written to its Vice-Chancellor se...

• Bhat advocates merger of Urdu and Hindi media

  Feb 23, 2011

  New Delhi: Hamidullah Bhat, director of NCPUL, said here while talking to editors of UNI Urdu Service, Urdu, Hindi and English newspapers on 30 December that for building and development of the country and nation, merger of Urdu, Hindi and Engl...

• Attempt to occupy Masjid land in Darya Ganj, Delhi

  Feb 23, 2011

  New Delhi: Paltan Wali Masjid in New Delhi’s, Darya Ganj area has once again come in the limelight when an attempt was made to gradually occupy it by placing idols on its land. VHP is in the forefront in this mischievous attempt. In fact,...

• Kerala madrasas ahead of their northern counterparts

  Feb 23, 2011

  New Delhi: National Council of Educational Research & Training (NCERT) conducted a study of Kerala’s madrasas and found that madrasas in this state are better and more reformed in many respects as compared to the 'stereotypical' madrasas in north ...

• Unani therapy: civilisational accomplishment

  Feb 23, 2011

  Deoband: A felicitation programme was organised by Dr. Bashir in honour of the newly elected members of Indian Medicine Board of Uttar Pradesh – Dr. Akhktar Saeed and Dr. Qamaruzama Quraishi. Faculty of Jamia-Tibb, students and prominent ...

• Mosque demolished in Gujurat by mistake

  Feb 23, 2011

  Ahmedabad: Estate section of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (Western Zone) demolished Fatima Masjid and an adjacent temple without serving even a formal notice in Sabarmati extension area. This has created great resentment among local shopkeep...

• Mehfil-e-Gang-o-Jaman: literary meet at Ghalib Academy

  Feb 22, 2011

  New Delhi: Ghalib Academy witnessed Mehfil-e-Gang-o-Jaman in which literary figures of three Indian languages - Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi participated. Presided by renowned literary figure G.R. Kanwal; the programme had K.L. Narang Saqi as the ch...

• Sheikh Abdullah’s grand-daughter voices female woes

  Feb 22, 2011

  Srinagar: Female woes and concerns have been highlighted by Sheikh Abdullah’s grand-daughter Nayla Ali Khan in her latest book Hind-Pak Raqabat ki buniyad: Kashmir. with the rise of militancy in 1989 and armed clashes between the militant...

• Waqf Board has no money to pay employees and widows

  Feb 22, 2011

  New Delhi: Delhi Waqf Boad has no money to pay to its employees. In addition to this, the Imams of Masjids under the Waqf Board have not been paid their salaries for two months and pensions to widows have not been paid for eight months. To ...

• Deal sternly with Qadiani mischief: Ahrar

  Feb 22, 2011

  Rampur: All India Majlis Ahrar Islam held a meeting here to discuss Qadiani activities in the area. Muslims were warned about the growing menace of Qadiani mischief who are misleading ignorant and gullible Muslims to their faith. Agents who are...

• Swami Agnivesh must apologise to Muslims: Punjab Imam

  Feb 22, 2011

  Ludhiana: Swami Agnivesh, who had recently participated in a conference organised by Qadianis at Qadian (Punjab), had reportedly said there that he was happy to participate in that conference, 'today I came to know about the true teachings of Isla...

• Firaq Memorial Lecture on Amir Khusro

  Feb 22, 2011

  New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia organised Firaq Memorial Lecture on Amir Khusro. Speaking as chief guest, eminent Urdu critic Gopi Chand Narang established him as the first person who portrayed Indian culture and civilisation in Urdu and Hindi....