National
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Pt Anand Narayan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlavi
May 16, 2013
By Asad Faisal Farooqui The gradual decline of Urdu in its traditional homeland, has made people suspicious about its future, even Urdu-speaking people hardly show interest for this sweet language as a result future seems gloomy for ...
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Muslim leaders meet PM, Sonia on reservation
May 16, 2013
New Delhi: A delegation of top leaders of prominent Muslim organizations met Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi here on 22 May to press the demand for Muslim reservation and passage of the Communal Riots Bill w...
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The Muslim businessmen of India
May 16, 2013
By Aakar Patel Mumbai’s Mid Day newspaper group was sold by the Ansari family this week. The Ansaris had owned it for 72 years, and they were the only Muslims to own a major English newspaper. Ansaris are converts from the Vankar cas...
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Media website launched
May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Claiming that it will be a common platform to all budding and professional journalists a website, http://mediahive.co.in/ was launched here on 17 May. It will be a one-stop information centre for journalists, media students and...
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After Sachar, NSSO says Muslims are educationally most backward
By Mohammad Naushad Khan
May 16, 2013
After Sacher report, National Sample Survey Organisation released a report on 20 May which says that Muslims of India are the most educationally backward and worse off than even Scheduled Tribes (STs) which has been traditionally considered to ...
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Khalid Rasheed Firangi Mahli attacked
May 16, 2013
Lucknow: The Naib Imam of the Eidgah and member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, Sunni cleric Khalid Rasheed Firangi Mahali was attacked here in the evening of 17 May by four people, as he was coming out of the Eidgah after offering ...
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Unearthing the linkages between Makkah Masjid, Ajmer and Malegaon blasts
May 16, 2013
By Subhash Gatade I. It was a murder of an old activist which the RSS would love to forget. It is a different matter that despite the innumerable ways in which it has tried to banish the memory of the whole incident it has found it v...
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Hashimpura massacre: statements of 5 witnesses recorded
By NA Ansari
May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Five eye witnesses, all of whom belong to Meerut District, while deposing before the Additional Session Judge Manu Rai Sethi in Delhi’s Tees Hazari Court, said that on 22 May 1987 when about 500 Muslims were present outside a m...
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Kashmir Sikhs threaten to migrate
May 16, 2013
Srinagar/Jammu: Various Sikh organisations under the banner of Guru Manyo Granth Society (GMGS) have urged the state government led by the chief minister Omar Abdullah to take concrete steps to redress the genuine grievances of the Sikh populat...
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SGPC asks Sikhs not to mention caste in Census
May 16, 2013
Avtar Singh Makkar, chief of the Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee, has asked the Sikh community not to mention their castes in the Census survey. Makkar said that Sikhism does not approve of any caste system and its followers should not report th...
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ISD-Link to facilitate cross-LOC trade contradict govt’s claim
By Mohammad Naushad Khan
May 16, 2013
Contrary to the impression given by the government that ISD connection has been restored between the two parts of Kashmir, what exists is in fact a few connections to facilitate trade between the two sides. Six ISD lines were approved for Salam...
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Kerala Association for Minority Education to protest
By T. Riyas Babu
May 16, 2013
Association for Minority Education, an umbrella organisation which looks after the educational requirements of minority communities, in a meeting held at Sports Council Hall of Kozhikode in Kerala on 19 May decided to launch a protest demanding...
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‘Rent-a-riot’ or riot for a price
By NA Ansari
May 16, 2013
Shri Ram Sene, the Karnataka-based Hindutva outfit and its chief Pramod Muthalik had come into limelight when its members had attacked and misbehaved with some women in a pub on the occasion of Valentine’s Day last year on the ground that...
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Minorities have right to set up edu inst: SC
May 16, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court held on 22 May that minorities have a “fundamental right” to establish educational institutions and the Government cannot put any unreasonable restrictions on them. “It appears that the appella...
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Separate legislation needed for Islamic Banking: RBI
By T. Riyas Babu
May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor D Subbarao while speaking to mediapersons after RBI Board meeting on 20 May, said that a separate legislation was needed for Islamic banks to be functional in India. He said that Islamic Banking w...
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Panel for more power to Centre to control riots
By Mohammad Naushad Khan
May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Justice Madan Mohan Punchhi has submitted a report to the Centre in which he has made 200 recommendations in order to ensure smooth coordination between states and Centre. The essence of the 1456-page report includes amendment of the...
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Anju Gupta’s deposition in Babri demolition
May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Ms Anju Gupta, the IPS officer who appeared in CBI’s special court in Rae Bareily for the 4th time on 15 May (she appeared for the first time on 26 March, then on 23 and 29 April) in the Babri Masjid demolition case said in rep...
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India bans 100 global terror outfits
May 16, 2013
New Delhi: The government has banned more than a hundred terrorist outfits from across the globe including Jemaah Islamiyah (involved in Bali bombing) of Indonesia, Islamic Jihad Group of Libya, the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, the Egyptia...
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Amnesty asks Orissa to stop excessive use of police force against Adivasis
May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Amnesty International (AI) has urged the authorities in Orissa to halt immediately unnecessary and excessive use of force by police and private civil militias on Adivasi (indigenous communities) and peasants protesting against the ac...
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RSS to check “border” madrasas
May 16, 2013
With the help of its newly floated outfit Seema Jagran Manch, RSS is planning to open schools in the Uttar Pradesh areas on the borders of Nepal in order to keep an eye on the activities of madrasas running there. The objective of this new outf...
