Community News
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Awards
Mar 27, 2012
Prof. GOPI CHAND Narang, eminent Urdu critic, researcher and scholar has been selected for being honoured by Bhartiya Jnanapeeth with its prestigious 24th ‘Moorti Devi Award 2010’ (which is given for philosophical thoughts and civil...
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Obituaries
Mar 27, 2012
HAFIZ MUHAMMAD Siddiq, an active member of Jamiatul Ulama-e Hind, former Congress M.P. and a former minster of U.P. died of heart attack on 13 March at Muradabad. Realising the importance of education for Muslims he set up a number of instituti...
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Men & Women In News
Mar 27, 2012
JAVED USMANI, who was appointed secretary in the Planning Commission has been appointed chief secretary of U.P. by the new government even before he could take over as Planning Commission’s secretary. He is the second Muslim to be appoint...
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Delhi Waqf Board equipped with modern techniques
By NA Ansari
Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Waqf Board was the first among all state Waqf Boards to be computerised in the year 2000 and thereafter also it launched its own website in 2005. Now it is trying to surpass other Boards in many respects. In its meeting hel...
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Murder most foul: following un-Islamic life style
Mar 13, 2012
Bhopal: Like the layers of onion, Shehla Masood murder lays bare what happens when an un-Islamic life style becomes our mantra of success. Love, greed, jealousy, adultery, envy – all the ingredients of such a life style lead to a predicta...
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Graveyard land is always a graveyard land, says court
Mar 13, 2012
Baghpat: A two-judge bench of Allahabad High Court consisting of Justices Sunil Ambawani and Manoj Mishra has ruled that a graveyard land is always a graveyard land and even if no burial takes place on its land for a long time, in that case als...
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ZFI Fellowship’s services coaching test to be held in April
Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: Zakat Foundation of India (ZFI)’s Sir Syed Coaching Centre’s annual coaching examination for civil service will be held this year on 28 and 29 April at God’s Grace School (North Campus), Abul Fazal Enclave. On that ...
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Apex Court seeks clarification on govt’s Haj policy
Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: Supreme Court’s two-judge bench consisting of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai has directed the central government to furnish complete information to it about its Haj polity i.e. the basis on which Haj subsidy is g...
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Minorities complaints centres in Delhi
Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi State Minorities Commission has decided to open about 10 Delhi Minorities Complaint Centres at different places in Delhi in order to solve the problems and difficulties of the minority community people of Delhi in a better way....
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2 arrested for misuse of minority funds in UP
Mar 13, 2012
Two employees have been arrested by Economic Offence Wing (EOW) sleuths along with Hazratganj police for misuse of funds allocated to UP Minority Finance and Development Corporation by the Centre for the welfare of the minorities in the s...
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Bogus Rocket launcher story exposed
Mar 13, 2012
Vadodara: The court acquitted seven innocent youth arrested in a much publicised rocket launcher recovery case and slammed the police for its bogus story. A lot of noise of vicious designs was made at the time of the arrest of these persons on ...
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Lecture on Arab Spring
Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: An extension lecture on ‘Arab Spring’ sponsored by Zakir Husain Institute of Islamic Studies was held at Jamia Millia Islamia on 29 February. Speaking on this topic Karmatullah Ghori, a former diplomat of Pakistan who is ...
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Christian cemetery demolished to appease Jains
Mar 13, 2012
Ahmedabad: A cemetery wall was demolished, graves and crosses destroyed in Sabarmati extension. Jawahar Nagar to appease a local BJP corporator Chanchalben Parmar and her husband. The two alongwith other members of the Jain community led an ope...
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Gujarat H.C. contempt case: home minister to apologise
Mar 13, 2012
Ahmedabad: In a landmark decision the Gujarat High Court ordered the state home minister to tender a written apology in the contempt of court case. Inspite of High court directive to transfer three police officers while the Ishrat Jahan fake en...
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Demonstrating Sadbhavna
Mar 13, 2012
Aligarh: Sadbhavna is demonstrated neither by fanfare and pomp & show nor by publicity gimmicks. Here are two Muslims carrying the dead body of Chandrapal of village Atroli (Aligarh) for cremation without waiting for more helping hands. The...
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Former British envoy deposed through video-conferencing
Mar 13, 2012
Ahmedabad: Former British envoy Ian Reakes deposed from London before the special SIT court in Himmat Nagar through video-conferencing in connection with the murder of three British nationals during the 2002 post Godhra riots. He was cross exam...
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Darul Uloom Deoband budget approved for current year
Mar 13, 2012
Deoband: Darul Uloom Deoband’s 2-day budget meeting or session ended on 24 January in a cordial atmosphere as against an expected stormy and noisy session. The session was presided over by Maulana Ishtiaq Ahmad Muzaffarpuri. In the press ...
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A school in memory of Ehsan Jafri in Ahmedbad
Mar 13, 2012
Surat: Muhammad Abdul Rafik, an employee of a private firm in Jalna town of Aurangabad district (Maharashtra), moved by the brutal killings of Ahsan Jafri, former Congress M.P. and dozens of innocent people of Gulberg Society in 2002 Gujarat ri...
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Delhi private schools discriminate against Muslim children
By NA Ansari
Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: Lok Janshakti Party’s general secretary Abdul Khaliq, while making sensational revelations about the step motherly treatment being meted out to Muslim children regarding admissions in nursery classes in private schools of Delhi...
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Karamatullah Ghori’s services in the literary field
Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: A literary function jointly sponsored by Ghalib Institute and Alami Urdu Trust was held in Ghalib Institute on 17 February in honour of Karamatullah Ghori, retired Pakistani diplomat settled in Canada who was in Delhi recently. In ad...
