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Vol. XLVIII No. 44, 2011-02-06 |
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| RELEASE MUSLIMS FALSELY ACCUSED IN BLAST CASES |
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Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat has voiced concern at the continued detention of Muslims “falsely accused” in bomb blasts cases and urged the Union government to release them without delay, pay them compensation and ensure their rehabilitation. In a letter to Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, she said these people, most of them young men, were in jail in the blast cases of Malegaon (2006 and 2008), Mecca Masjid (2007), the Samjhauta Express ...  |
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| ANDHRA MUSLIMS FOR TELANGANA: JIH |
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Asserting that the Muslims in the Telangana region strongly favour a separate state contrary to what was projected in the Srikrishna Committee report, Malik Moatasim Khan, state president of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind said that in the coming future, the organisation will be in the forefront of various statehood agitations. Speaking at a press conference which saw the participation of prominent Telangana agitation leaders, Khan also expressed confidence that MIM would also support the cause soon. Ru... |
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| ISLAMIA INTER COLLEGE SAID NO TO DANCE ON REPUBLIC DAY |
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The vice president of the organising committee of Islamia Inter College, Saharanpur, UP, Mrs Naz Siddiqui did not allow some of their students to perform dance during the Republic Day ceremony. In a bid to break the old noble Islamic tradition of this college, some students had prepared for dance events with the permission of some college teachers to perform it on stage with several other cultural programmes on the occasion of the Republic Day. However, when Mrs Siddiqui came to know about ... |
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| STOP VIOLENCE AND AGGRESSION IN EGYPT, TUNISIA: JIH |
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Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has drawn the attention of Egyptian and Tunis governments to let the people-friendly establishment emerge in their respective countries, stopping forthwith their long process of ridiculing Islam and unleashing violence and aggression against their own peoples. The Acting President of Jamaat, Mr Muhammad Jafar said, in a press statement, that the way these Muslim countries hanged rather mercilessly great scholars of Islam, subjected thousands of Islam-loving persons to the... |
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| 7 LAKH GIRLS KILLED IN WOMB EVERY YEAR IN INDIA |
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Seven lakh girls are killed by parents every year in India even before they are born, NHRC member and former envoy Satyabrata Pal claimed. “When a woman finds she is pregnant, anxieties set in about the sex of the unborn child. Ruthless foeticide often follows if tests that are illegal, but easy to get, show it is a girl,” Pal said while delivering the Sisir Bose Memorial lecture at Netaji Research Bureau in Kolkata on January 22. The former diplomat, who was quoting UNFPA (Unit... |
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| IAMC PAYS TRIBUTE TO MAHATMA GANDHI |
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The Indian American Muslim Council, an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, has paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of his death anniversary on January 30, by calling on all Indians to come together as one nation, to rise above communal politics, and to discredit the hate-filled ideologies that claimed the Mahatma’s life.
Mahatma Gandhi’s leadership during India’s freedom struggle, his tenacity in livi... |
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| AMBUR INDUSTRIALIST M. RAFEEQUE AHMED GETS PADMA SHRI |
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The Chairman of the Farida Group, Mr. M. Rafeeque Ahmed of Ambur, Tamil Nadu, is one of the eight Muslim recipients of Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian honour, this year. Mr. Ahmed made his debut in the leather industry in 1963, under the direction of his father M. Abdul Majid Sahib. Later on he took full charge of the firm Farida Prime Tanners, established by his father. After the demise of his father in 1965, he modified the conventional tannery equipping with latest, moder... |
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