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Jammu and Kashmir authorities here on Thursday night placed hardline separatist leaders Syed Ali Geelani and Masrat Alam under house arrest.

“To maintain law and order, Geelani has been out under house arrest in his Hyderpora residence in the city,” a senior police officer told IANS in Srinagar.

Geelani, according to sources, had been planning to visit the south Kashmir’s Tral town on Friday where a civilian was killed in firing by the security forces three days ago.

The father of one of the five undertrial prisoners gunned down last week by police in Telangana has approached the high court, seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into his killing.

Mohammed Ahmed, father of Viquar Ahmed, filed a petition in the Hyderabad High Court on Wednesday, seeking directions to the Telangana government to order a probe by the CBI.

Alleging that his son and four others were murdered in cold blood by police, Ahmed pleaded that a First Information Report (FIR) be registered against 17 policemen in connection with the April 7 incident.

On April 14, the day when the nation marked Dr BR Ambedkar’s 124th birth anniversary, around 800 people belonging to the Valmiki community in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur allegedly ‘converted’ to Islam with a hope to save their houses from demolition.

As per reports, Wednesday, the Rampur district administration had earlier this month marked some houses, which they say would be demolished. The locals alleged that the demolition is being carried out to pave way for a shopping mall, which is backed by powerful Uttar Pradesh government minister Azam Khan.

Khan represents Rampur in UP assembly.

April 14, 2015, wil mark the 125th birth anniversary of Babasaheb Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar. Dr Ambedkar was an India’s foremost advocate who fight for empowerment of Dalits.

Dr Ambedkar was an economist par excellence and his work in this field had laid the foundation for the country’s central bank ‘Reserve Bank of India’.

Sunitha Krishnan who is running #ShameTheRapistCampaign shocked the Supreme Court bench when her lawyer told that she has received 90 shocking online rape footages.

According to a Mailtoday report, Krishnan launched the #ShameTheRapistCampaign to fight against incidents of sexual violence. It all began when Sunitha Krishnan uploaded an edited version of a gang rape video on YouTube in the first week of February this year. It was one of nine such videos that were being circulated as MMS clips.

(ANI): A new study has revealed that smartphones in bedrooms are to be blamed for couples having less sex.

Professor David Spiegelhalter, of Cambridge University, found the number of times the average heterosexual couple makes love has fallen from four times a month in 2000 to three times a month now, Daily Star reported.

Speaking on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, the professor claimed the decline are hard to identify, but suggested that mobile devices were getting in the way. In 1990, the figure was five times a month.

It was exactly one hundred years ago on this day that Mahatma Gandhi, a feisty barrister newly returned from South Africa, stepped foot for the first time in Delhi.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who returned to India from South Africa on January 9, 1915, arrived in Delhi on April 12 along with his wife Kasturba and others. He stayed here two days and records say that he visited the Qutab Minar, Red Fort, St Stephen’s college and the Sangam Theatre during that time.

Over 600 Chinese workers embraced Islam in Makkah after being introduced to the tenets of Islam by Islamic scholars, as per reports in Saudi paper Sabq.

According to the sources, the scholars prepared a daily plan at night, when they offered 12 hours of intensive courses on Islam. The program was attended by Chinese workers and engineers, who recently embraced Islam, to support the scholar’s hard work.

The efforts of scholars from Taneem Da`wah office turn out well with the Chinese embraced Islam.

As a state which has the worst sex ratio (number of females per 1,000 males) and child sex ratio in the country and notorious for its undemocratic Khap diktats, Bachelors are turning up to marry rape victims.

According to Deccan Herald report, Haryana’s Sirsa district which is home to popular sect Dera Sacha Sauda many eligible bachelors are being registered and many got married.

(The wonderful article is written by Mr. Tanweer Alam for Times of India Edit page) Reservation has always been an important issue in Indian politics. Often it is also seen as a tool for vote bank politics. Any talk of extending the benefit of reservation to minorities, especially Muslims, gets politicised and becomes a polarising issue. The net result: Muslims have been effectively kept out of it.

The Shiv Sena on Thursday attacked author Shobhaa De for her criticism of the government’s proposal to make multiplexes exhibit Marathi movies during prime time.

“What is this, Shobhaa aunty?” the party asked sarcastically, taking umbrage at her remarks calling the government’s move “dictatorial” in tweets over the past couple of days. These have created a political furore in the state.

Senior Shiv Sena legislator Pratap Sarnaik demanded an apology from De and even moved a notice in the state Assembly for breach of privilege of the house over her comments.

Begum Hazrat Mahal was the wife of former Awadh ruler Nawab Wajid Ali Shah. Her maiden name was Muhammadi Khanum and she was bestowed the title ‘Hazrat Mahal’ after the birth of her son Birjis Qadr.

From being billed as mother of “all confidence building measures” to derision as a “cosmetic step”, Srinagar-Muzaffarabad cross-Line of Control bus service has survived tensions between India and Pakistan including Mumbai terror attacks and numerous ceasefire violations along the border to complete 10 years of its operation on Tuesday.

Suspended several times over variety of reasons, the bus service has proved to be boon to thousands of people from divided families living on either side of the LoC.

As fighting continues to rage in Yemen with reports of over 500 killed in the past two weeks, Saudi Arabia’s envoy in India says that the coalition airstrikes have not targeted any civilian areas and that the oil-rich Arab kingdom is playing its “natural role” as “an anchor of stability” in the region.

The envoy also refuted “misinformed” reports about covert Saudi backing for the Islamic State (IS) and said Riyadh had designated the IS, or Daesh, as a terrorist organisation and criminalised any relationship with the organisation and its affiliates.

Prints of Nobel Quran that were written during the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) lifetime were reserved at Berlin State Library for years have been scientifically proven that the rare items found belong to the early Islam era.

The Qur’an prints were examined in a laboratory in Zurich, the seven page parchment papers Kuran script prints were written between the years 606 and 652.

According to Jeanette Lamblia, State Library spokesperson, as part of a major long term project called the “Corpus Coranicusm”, the copies were examined and analysed in a Zurich laboratory.

For 75-year-old Chinese poet Zhang Shixuan, composing verses in Urdu is a passion and over the past five decades his love for the language has grown manifold.

The couplets he recited at the 17th annual Jashn-e-Bahaar mushaira here on Friday evinced much interest among those present at the event.

“Toot jaata hai qalam, harf magar rehta hai, paaon chalte hain magar naqsh thair jaata hai (The pen breaks but words stay, feet keep moving but their impressions remain),” read one of them.

There is a heavy rush for purchasing books on Islam in France after the brutal attack on Charlie Hebdo recently. Islam is the fastest growing religion of Europe. A supplement of a magazine specially brought out on the Quran was flown off the shelves. Book shops in France are selling more books on Islam than ever after the attack in January which killed 17 persons. The French people are inquisitive about many things in Islam. They are not satisfied with the replies they get from the electronic media.

India will overtake Indonesia as the country with the largest number of Muslims by 2050 while Hindus will become the world’s third largest population by that time, a new study by a US think-tank said.

According to the Pew Research Center’s religious profile predictions assessed data released yesterday, Muslims are
projected to grow faster than the world’s overall population and that Hindus and Christians are to roughly keep pace with
worldwide population growth.

“India will retain a Hindu majority but also will have the largest Muslim population of any country in the world,

A twelve-year-old Muslim girl Maryam Siddiqui has won the first position among over 3,000 participants at the ‘Gita Champions League’ contest, organized by International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) in January reports The Times of India.

Maryam is a rank holder at the exams in school. But recently, the class VI student has aced a written competition based on the Bhagwad Gita.

The 100 mark multiple choice question based test, evaluates children on their knowledge of the Gita.

Rapists don’t have much to be bothered about, if they are a resident of Bhagwanpur village of Haryana’s Yamuna Nagar district.

The reason is, panchayat in this district reportedly set free the accused for raping a Dalit girl after hitting him five strikes of the shoe and slapping a penalty of Rs 5,000 on him.

The incident took place on 25 march when 22- year old Kala, her neighbour allegdely raped the 19 year- old victim when she had gone to collect fodder from the field.

Sümeyye Erdoğan while giving lecture on “the perception of Muslim women around the world and the fight for the equality,” said that the topic of inheritance distribution in Islam was among the most discussed in terms of equality.

The daughter of Turkish president explained that “Women receiving a lower share of inheritance than men is normal, considering men’s responsibilities according to Islam.

Zhou Qunfei, the chairwoman of a Chinese touchscreen glass supplier firm that has clients like Apple and Samsung, has been crowned China’s richest woman, with a fortune of nearly USD 8 billion.

Dubbed as the “Queen of Mobile Phone Glass”, the 25-year-old has ousted Chan Laiwa, founder of Beijing Red Sandalwood Cultural Foundation, who was previously named China’s richest woman with total assets of USD 6.1 billion according to a global billionaire list by Forbes released last month.

Britain has denied admission to over 700 international students from taking courses in nuclear, biological and chemical warfare subjects amid fears they might use the knowledge to build weapons of mass destruction.

A total of 739 student applications, for a range science and engineering based courses, have been rejected to prevent extremists gaining access to the information and materials they need to develop nuclear and chemical weapons, as reported in the telegraph.

There was a time, not very long ago — one year short of 30, to be precise — when only a Christian was chosen to go to Punjab to fight what then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi termed “the nation’s battle” against separatists. I had accepted a “demotion” from secretary in the Union home ministry to DGP of the state of Punjab at the personal request of the prime minister.