National
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AMU facing financial crisis
Mar 02, 2012
Aligarh: Acting Vice Chancellor of AMU Prof. Sibghatullah Farooqi said here in an interview that the University is going through an acute financial crisis because of which all its developmental activities and educational plans have come to a st...
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SIT shielded perpetrators of crimes
Mar 02, 2012
By R B Sreekumar Media reports on Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) Final Report u/s 173 CRPC on Mrs. Zakiya Jafris complaint/FIR against the CM Narendra Modi and 62 others generally confirm the exoneration of nearly all culprits for...
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Attempt to provoke communal riot in Maharashtra town
By NA Ansari
Mar 02, 2012
A mischievous attempt was made by some unknown person/s to provoke Hindu-Muslim riot by throwing the slaughtered head of a pig in a mosque in Jamkhed, district Ahmadnagar (Maharashtra) on 14 February. When some persons saw it in the early morni...
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NCTC: Political slugfest over fight against terror
By Mohammad Naushad Khan
Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: The National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), which was to become operational from 1 March this year, has been temporarily put on hold and a final decision would be taken in consultation with the chief ministers of states opposed to ...
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Undergrad girl students use of library in AMU
Mar 02, 2012
Maulana Azad University provides facilities as the reference library for higher academic and research purposes. It alone cannot cater the needs of all the 27000 students of the University as about 5000 to 6000 students visit the library every d...
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Mangalore Muslim Central Committee condemns Prabhakar Bhat
Mar 02, 2012
Mangalore: “The defamatory statements against Muslim community by RSS leader Dr Prabhakar Bhat Kalladka during his speech at the Hindu Samajotsava is strongly condemned by the Muslim Central Committee,” Al Haj K S Mohammed Masood, p...
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A Car Bomb that exposed India’s Sham sovereignty
Mar 02, 2012
By Arun Shrivastava arunshrivastava.1951@gmail.com + Pic New Delhi: The important thing about the February 13 attack on an Israeli diplomat’s car (Number: 109 CD 35; blue number plate with CD meaning Diploma...
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Communal riots in Tamil Nadu’s city
Mar 02, 2012
Tirunelvelli: Communal riots erupted in this city of Tamil Nadu on 7 February in which sixteen persons, including six police personnel were injured. According to police sources this clash took place on the night of 7 February when some persons ...
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Shia-Sunni riots in Lucknow on the occasion of Prophet’s birthday
Mar 02, 2012
Lucknow: Prophet Muhammad’s (pbuh) birthday was celebrated here on 5 February and different meetings and processions passed off peacefully but at night, riots erupted between Shi’as and Sunnis in Sa’datganj thana area and inci...
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Mayawati’s Dalit Report Card
By Haider Abbas
Mar 02, 2012
+ Pic Lucknow: A political storm is brewing in UP. It is still quite preposterous to forecast that there would be a change of guard in UP, but as the trends suggest, the state government is battling under a rampant anti-incumbency facto...
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Nandita draws parallels between Modi and Hitler
Mar 02, 2012
+ Pic Vadodara: Actress-film maker Nandita Das on 6 February compared Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Without taking Modi’s name, Das said, “It was during Hitler’s time that Ge...
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SC slams Modi for “spurious” case against Teesta
Mar 02, 2012
+ Pic New Delhi: The Supreme Court on 21 February questioned the Gujarat government for initiating a probe against social activist Teesta Setalvad for her alleged role in a case of “illegal” exhumation of the bodies of the 2...
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Gita — not a religious book?
By Ram Puniyani
Mar 02, 2012
Srimad Bhagwat Gita or Bhagwat Gita or Gita has been in the news recently for various reasons. A few months ago, the matter came up when a Siberian Court in the Tomsk City of Russia was to decide about the ban on the translation of Gita by Bhak...
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Most Indian kids underweight: CRY
Mar 02, 2012
Kolkata: Around 48 per cent of children under five years of age in India are underweight, ranging from 20 per cent of the child population (under-five years) in Sikkim to a whopping 60 per cent in Madhya Pradesh, according to an NGO, Child Righ...
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Indians have stashed over $500 billion in banks abroad: CBI chief
Mar 02, 2012
Indians are the largest depositors in banks abroad with an estimated USD 500 billion (nearly Rs. 24.5 lakh crore) of illegal money stashed by them in tax havens, CBI Director A P Singh said on 13 February. India has suffered from the flow of il...
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Modi: the eternal legal Mona Lisa
By AG Khan
Mar 02, 2012
+ Pic Ahmedabad: ‘Mona Lisa’ remains an eternal enigma for art critics. So is Modi who is simultaneously slammed as well as absolved. Each legal agency has its own verdict. While the Gujarat High Court found him guilty o...
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Muslims across Tamil Nadu protest for reservation
Mar 02, 2012
+ Pic The Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamaath organised protests in all district headquarters across Tamil Nadu demanding 10 per cent reservation for Muslims in education and employment opportunities in the Union Government and seven percent re...
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Will Mulayam succeed in checkmating Congress?
By Haider Abbas
Mar 02, 2012
+ Pic The results of parliamentary general elections of 2009 are still fresh in memory. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav was licking his wounds after a short alliance with Kalyan Singh – a convict of the Babri Masjid demo...
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How Muslims should vote in UP Assembly elections
Feb 14, 2012
By Syed Shahabuddin Since 1950, in all elections the Muslim community has always supported the formation of a secular, stable and strong government at the Centre and in the states, but right from 1947 persistently it has been under-represen...
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Police stonewalls queries on unknown graves
Feb 14, 2012
Police has declined to provide information under Right to Information (RTI) Act to the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) regarding unmarked graves and mass graves in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The Association in a st...
