National
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How Muslims should vote in UP Assembly Elections
By Syed Shahabuddin
Feb 10, 2012
Strive for Muslim unity at the constituency level, rising above party affiliations or religious or sectarian considerations and chose a winnable candidate by common agreement who is reliable, capable and vocal and reputed to have a secular background
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Modi in serious trouble over Lokayukta issue
By Abdul Hafiz Lakhani
Jan 27, 2012
Ahmedabad: What Chief Minister Narendra Modi was afraid of, finally happened. Gujarat High Court upheld the appointment of retired judge R A Mehta as the state’s lokayukta. This, in many ways, is a historical judgment. A government alread...
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Sharia court seeks expulsion of missionaries
By Afsana Rashid
Jan 27, 2012
+ Pic Issuing a decree the Shariah court here on January 19 sought expulsion of three Christian priests from the state for their alleged involvement in conversions. It also demanded the monitoring of activities of Christian missionary s...
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200 people killed in the Valley last year
By Afsana Rashid
Jan 27, 2012
More than 200 people were killed in Kashmir valley last year, says a report by Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS), a local human rights organization. It further provides a comprehensive compilation of various incidents that to...
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PUCL fact-finding report on Brijpal Maurya’s fake encounter at Sanjarpur in Badaun
Jan 27, 2012
Human Rights organisation PUCL after having known that Brijpal Maurya son of Leeladhar Maurya of Sanjarpur village in Badaun district was killed in a fake encounter while he was looking after his ploughed agricultural land during the night of 7...
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Violence on minorities up by 90 pc in Karnataka: Saldanha
Jan 27, 2012
Mumbai: Former judge in the Bombay and Karnataka high courts, Justice Michael Saldanha has described Karnataka with having the worst communal-persecution record and a state that encourages terror on minorities. Addressing a press meet organ...
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Ghalib’s birth anniversary
By NA Ansari
Jan 27, 2012
+ Pix New Delhi: Poochhte hain woh ki Ghalib kaun tha / Koee batlaye ki hum batlaayen kya That is how Ghalib, whose 214th birth anniversary was celebrated in Delhi on 27 December at a 3-day function ‘Yaadgare ...
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Lavatories built on Zauq’s mazar
By NA Ansari
Jan 27, 2012
+ Pix New Delhi: Recently, Dr. Khaliq Anjum, secretary of Anjuman Taraqqi-e Urdu, Delhi and Shahid Maahuli of Ghalib Institute stated in a statement that Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) demands an amount of Rs. 50,000 for organisin...
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Counter-terrorism centre to become fully operational from 2013
Jan 27, 2012
Home Minister P Chidambaram’s pet project, the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) constituted with the specific purpose of serving a nodal agency co-ordinating all for all anti terror activities finally got the government’s no...
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Only 200 terrorist present in J&K
Jan 27, 2012
For the first time in the history of troubled Jammu and Kashmir in the past two decades the number of terrorist has fallen to a remarkably low point. From 1990 to 2000 on an average 4000 terrorist were present in the state. In the past decade t...
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Bail applications of 4 police personnel rejected
Jan 27, 2012
Azamgarh: One Kamaluddin of Azamgarh’s Devapaar village was picked up by Madhya Pradesh police on 13 June 1996 but was untraceable thereafter. In this connection four police personnel were arrested and lodged in Azamgarh’s district ...
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M. P.: pathway to Hindu Rashtra
By Ram Puniyani
Jan 27, 2012
Last month (December 2011) M. P. Government’s Gau-Vansh Vadh Pratishedh (Sanshodhan) Act (Bill for Protection of Cow Progeny) got the Presidential clearance. As per this act punishment for slaughtering the cow or its progeny, transporting...
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Karnataka most dangerous state for Christians?
Jan 27, 2012
+ Pic A nationwide report points out that in 2011, 172 incidents have been reported from across the country in which churches and Christians have been attacked. Karnataka tops the list with 47 incidents followed by Odisha with 25 incide...
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UP Muslims face political onslaught
By Haider Abbas
Jan 27, 2012
Lucknow: The 23 years of politics in the Hindi heartland (and elsewhere) is nothing but an off-shoot of the implementation of the Mandal Commission report, by late PM VP Singh, who despite being an Upper Caste Thakur, was the most despised poli...
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Peace Party to walk the extra mile in UP
By Mohammad Naushad Khan
Jan 27, 2012
In view of the chances of a hung assembly in Uttar Pradesh the Peace Party is trying to create its own space within the political configuration before and after polls. The announcement of 4.5 percent quota for minorities by the Congress has mad...
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‘Exempt Wakf from Rent Control Act’
Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: A Select Committee of Parliament which examined the Wakf (Amendment) Bill, 2010 introduced in Lok Sabha in May 2010 has suggested modification of some 19 clauses of the Bill. The purpose of modifications is to plug all loopholes in t...
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Noorul Islam University to launch satellite
Jan 27, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Tamil Nadu’s Noorul Islam University (NIU) will soon be rigging up its own satellite and launching it too with government help, a university official said. The Rs.100-crore satellite will be used for agricultural appli...
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Symposium on primary education by AWMELA
Jan 27, 2012
Azamgarh: A one day symposium on ‘Standard of Primary Education’ was organized by AWMELA (Association for Welfare, Educational and Legal Assistance), Azamgarh in the Conference Hall of Shibli Academy on 15th January, 10 am. On this ...
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Rajasthan yet to respond to compensation demand
Jan 27, 2012
Jaipur: More than a month after a fast track court here acquitted 11 persons of the charge of involvement in the May 2008 Jaipur serial blasts, the Congress-led government in Rajasthan is yet to respond to demands for compensation to the exoner...
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Film on Rudrapur riots
Jan 27, 2012
+ Pix The Pratirodh Bureau has released a documentary film ‘Partition Revisited’. Produced by Rajeev Yadav and Shahnawaz Alamof the Uttar Pradesh unit of the People’s Union For Civil Liberties, it is based on the Rudra...
