(Siasat News) Citizens of Hyderabad were disturbed on account of recent communal violence in the city. Every citizen has inhibition about the disruption of peaceful life. The properties of the Muslims were damaged in an organized way. The economy of the Muslims wash shattered. The Muslim community is leading the life of uncertainty.
The Supreme Court Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of the right to education (RTE) act that mandates unaided private schools to keep 25 percent seats for students from economically and socially weaker sections of society.
However, the court made it clear that this quota would not be applicable to unaided minority institutions.
The apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justice Swatanter Kumar upheld the constitutional validity of Section 12 1C of the RTE act that provides 25 percent reservation for students from weaker sections of society.
Nirmal Mehra, was 70, and principal of a well-known school in Delhi when signs of dementia began to show up. Mehra, an army officer’s wife and highly popular among her social group, started getting confused about directions and people.
As her disease became more severe, Mehra began losing memory of recent events and even stopped identifying her own family members.
The communal genii whose support the Congress invoked to oust Kerala’s first Communist government more than 50 years ago are still around and turning the state’s politics viral.
Across the fractured polity there is animated discussion on how the decision of the Indian Union Muslim League, the second largest constituent of the Congress-led United Democratic Front, to press its year-old demand for an additional ministerial berth will affect the communal balance.
With the next assembly elections drawing nearer, cow seems to have become a `political tool’ in Gujarat.
But the development in the last seven months indicate that BJP’s space as far as use of cow as a political commodity seems to have been completely taken over by the Congress apparently for political gains, without taking into consideration how much communal tension it can generate in a state being used as Hindutva’s laboratory by the BJP to polarize the voters.
Rigth from AP till New Delhi, there were many forces actively involved to stop the campaign of Urdu newspapers for the protection of Wakf properties. Threats were given that Govt. advertisements would be stopped. Despite these threats, Siasat, Munsif and Rahnuma-e-Deccan continued their campaign as a result which the people of the state were made aware of the existence of Wakf Properties and their destruction.
The Quran is not only unique in the way in which it presents its subject matter, but it is also unique in that it is a miracle itself. By the term “miracle,” we mean the performance of a supernatural or extraordinary event which cannot be duplicated by humans. It has been documented that Prophet Muhammad (S), challenged the Arabs to produce a literary work of a similar caliber as the Quran, but they were unable to do so in spite of their well-known eloquence and literary powers. The challenge to reproduce the Quran was presented to the Arabs and mankind in three stages:
Highlighting the role of Urdu media for the cause of saving Wakf properties, India’s leading newspaper The Times of India was published this article on Feb 1, 2008.
Urdu dailies take up wakf cause
Muslim in Indian cities – Trajectories of Marginalisation is an impressive work of scholarship. The book adds to the debate and discussions on the condition of Muslims following the publications of Sachar Committee and the Ranganath Mishra Committee reports. This book is a worthy addition in understanding the abysmal situation of Muslims in cities. The book covers Muslims in 11 cities – Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Aligarh, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Delhi, Cuttack, Calicut and Bangalore through 11 chapters apart from the Introduction and an erudite Conclusion.
(Firoz Bakht Ahmed) If at all there is a long-time, systematic daylight robbery in India, it is in the wheeling and dealing of land by the Waqf boards — given to them in the name of Allah by the affluent for the upkeep of orphans, widows, divorced women, educational and charitable purposes.
Immersed in American culture, US-born Muslims are increasingly taking leadership roles in mosques, presenting a new generation of imams entitled to guiding youths through the post-9/11 era.
“These are the people who know the culture, who know how to eat hamburgers and know baseball,” Sudanese-born Mustafa Kuko, the imam of the Islamic Center of Riverside, told Standard Examiner earlier this week with a laugh.
There have been many times in the history of the Congress when despite getting a solid mandate, the party simply lost steam in the second half of its term.
Thrice we have had a failed Janata experiment come right after?
We are now dangerously heading towards the fourth.
A look at the instances…
1971-77
Everything happens by the will of God. Whatever He wills happens, and whatever He does not will does not happen.
God had a plan for you before you were born, and He still has a plan for you.
God’s plan for you is necessary and glorious. His plan is vital to your success and important to the world.
God’s plan is not set in stone, as if we were robots pre-programmed in the factory. That would strip us of free will and deny our natures.
Allah Almighty Says (what means): “And the Prayer is a difficult matter except upon those who fear Allah; who are certain that they will meet their Lord, and that they will return to Him.”[Quran 2:45-46]
The uniqueness of the Prayer lies in the fact that it is repeated not once a year or a month nor a day, but indeed five times a day. It is the most remarkable distinction of a believer’s life. However, because of this continuous and demanding nature of the Prayer, it may be a cause of difficultly for some who lack its understanding and piety, or those who are new to it.
There is a huge building of Govt. Civil Hospital in Kamatipura which was supposed to be a 30 bedded hospital inaugurated by Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu in 2005 is devoid of beds..
It is regrettable that there is not a single bed in the hospital. This hospital is commonly known as Palam hospital. Fifty years back a doctor by name Palam had come from Madras who used to treat plague patients.
Outlining six norms for investment in capital market by Muslims, Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has said followers can invest in the equity of a company which is not involved in production of liquor and interest-based businesses.
Mufti Fakhrul Islam while issuing a fatwa said Muslim can invest in those companies which have movable as well as immovable properties.
The seminary said that a part of the profit should be distributed among the poor. Besides, it has also advocated for taking informed decisions before making investments in the equity market.
By a Lady : “I am a young woman from a very well-known family. All my life I have been religiously committed and of good character, as all will attest, but for some reason I got to know a young man. I wanted to help him because he had suffered the calamity of his father’s death, and he is responsible for his siblings and his mother, but he went down the path of keeping company with bad people. I advised (which was not even a face to face communication!) him and I felt it was my duty to stand beside him and advise him sincerely.
Debunking the government’s claim that the number of poor in India has come down, a top adviser has claimed that around 70 percent of the country’s 1.2 billion population is poor, and stressed the need for a multi-dimensional assessment of poverty.
“The government claim that poverty has come down is not valid… there is a need for a multi-dimensional assessment of poverty as around 70 percent of the population is poor,” National Advisory Council member N.C. Saxena told IANS in an interview.
Like many children in his age, Shahid, a young Pakistani from the southern city of Karachi, dreamed of attending a school and leading a peaceful life with his family.
But his dream has turned into a nightmare, leaving him sit in a medium-size hall in a juvenile jail.
“The nutshell of my story is that I have been here for last six months, and waiting for my fate,” Shahid, 14, told OnIslam.net.
Manish Mehrotra has been cooking up delectable dishes for over 15 years, but if there’s one learning he has carried back as the winner of the reality show “Foodistan”, these are the recipes of popular street food in Pakistan.
Mehrotra, who works at Indian Accent restaurant, a fine dining restaurant at The Manor here, was in the much India vs Pakistan final round with chef Poppy Agha from Karachi. He says the show has given all Indian contestants an insight into the food and cooking style of the neighbouring country and vice versa.
ONE OF the most baffling aspects of the 2008 Malegaon blasts probe was the cropping up of the name of the Bhonsala Military School. The Nashik-based military academy was started by Hindu Mahasabha founder Dr BS Moonje. The chargesheet filed by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in 2009 cited several witnesses from the school who had confirmed that the main accused in the blasts case had indeed been teaching at the school. One of the main accused was Lt Col Srikant Purohit, who had provided training sessions at the school.
Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan, the VIIth Nizam of Hyderabad built Osmania Genral Hospital for treating the patients but today, it is in bad condition. There is no arrangement for maintaining cleanliness. Buildings are not maintained properly. One can guess the state of affairs by visiting this state hospital.
SYED MAQBOOL Shah is waiting for chief minister Omar Abdullah to fulfill his promise of getting him a job.
Shah, an accused in the 1996 Lajpath Nagar blast case, was acquitted of all charges by the Delhi High Court after spending 14 years of his prime youth in Tihar jail.
His acquittal generated a lot of media buzz in the Valley and outside leading to the chief minister making a grand promise of his rehabilitation.
That was nearly two years ago. “ In a state where even a Matric fail gets a government job, why is he being denied one,” asks his elder brother Peer Hassan.
Researchers have warned that pregnant women using mobile phones may be putting their babies at the risk of developing behavioral problems.
Yale University researchers found that exposure to mobile radiation during pregnancy affects the brain development of babies, leading to ADHD.
ADHD is a development disorder characterized by inattention, hyperactivity and impulsiveness.
“We have shown that behavioral problems in mice that resemble ADHD are caused by mobile phone exposure in the womb,” said senior author professor Hugh Taylor.
A court here Saturday asked Delhi Police’s anti-terror unit, special cell, to furnish names of investigators who questioned Israeli embassy car blast accused Syed Mohammad Kazmi. Interrogators gave a report denying his harassment.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav said a detailed reply had to be filed by the special cell about the uniform of its personnel.
The court’s remark came on a petition by journalist Kazmi, 52, currently in police custody. The accused alleged that officials of some foreign investigating agency also interrogated him.