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Apple is set to launch a low-cost iPhone after new images of the phone was leaked.

A US tech website, Techdy, has reportedly got its hands on the new phone’s plastic casing and front screen assembly.

Techdy claimed that the device has a 4inch screen like an iPhone 5 and is shaped like Apple’s iPod Touch.

According to the Sun, speculation has been rife about a low cost iPhone after images of its rear shell in white, red, blue, green and yellow emerged last month.

(Dr. Ram Puniyani) From 2002 Gujarat carnage Gujarat in particular and India in general has seen the rise of Narendra Modi on the political firmament. His propaganda machinery has given him the image whereby he is regarded as the ‘development man, non corrupt, strong and all that. A substantial section of society has bought this propaganda uncritically.

Heart disease is no longer restricted to the middle-aged and the old. Long working hours at the desk, little physical exercise and unhealthy eating habits are also taking a toll on working professionals in their late twenties and early thirties, experts say.

According to the India Today-Saffolalife Study conducted on 46,000 urban Indians, 78 percent of those aged between 30 and 34 run the risk of a heart attack, Kanchan Naikawadi, Director, Indus Health Plus (P) Ltd. said.

In last few months, 30-year-old TV actor Abir Goswami and 20-plus Kannada actor Hemanth died of a heart attack.

Bangladesh wants India’s help to identify graveyards in the Indian territory where slain soldiers of Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War were buried, an official said here Wednesday.

The Bangladesh government is likely to take the remains of the slain soldiers and try to protect the graveyards with the help of India, the official said.

A two-day meeting of officials of Bangladesh and India began in the city to discuss, among other issues, the identification of the burial spots of th 1971 Liberation War.

Over a fortnight after the flash-floods, while many villages remain inaccessible by road, tragic stories are emerging from areas where dirt tracks have been opened up. About seven kilometres from Guptkashi, the six-odd hamlets that comprise the Deoli-Bramhagram panchayat have reported 57 men missing, and the area is fast getting the tag of the “village of widows”.

For about six months of the year, the menfolk here go to Kedarnath, where they work as mule operators, ferrying pilgrims from Gaurikund. Many of them have not returned home.

The flashfloods of June 16 have eroded the faith of the devout. At Badrinath, believed to be the most popular of the Char Dham going by the sheer number of people who would stop over, shaken pilgrims are saying they doubt if they would return even after its restoration.

Every year, the peak pilgrimage season at Badrinath ends on June 30 with much fanfare. This year, though, June 30 is the gloomiest ever. The belief that Badrinath is the seat of the ‘Bhairavi Chakra’ – Bhairavi is a terrifying aspect of Shakti much like Kali but is identified as the consort of Bhairava – has suffered.

Mosques in the UK have been subject to increased anti-Islamic attacks since the historic 9/11 incident and the recent Drummer Lee Rigby’s murder. According to the Independent, the number of anti-Islamic attacks has increased by tenfold in the days following the Woolwich attack with mosques being set alight and Muslims targeted at home in the past month. A senior government advisor said that there is a ‘lack of political will’ to tackle the rise of Islamophobic attacks in Britain and attempts to ‘tackle this issue, even before Woolwich, struggled to lead to fruition.

Doing service for humanity is one of the greatest ways we can show our devotion to Allah. All of the revealed scriptures place great emphasis on helping others. In Islam, helping others and solving their problems is not only an important virtue, it is also a profound act of worship. It is a means of righteousness that promotes peace on Earth and allows us to earn Allah’s eternal reward in the Hereafter.

Allah likes it so much when we help others that He forgives us our sins for something as simple as moving some thorns out of the path where people walk.

In late May, the Myanmar president Thein Sein arrived in Washington, DC for a historic meeting with Barack Obama. The US president praised him lavishly at the press briefing that followed their summit. He lauded his leadership “in moving Myanmar down a path of both political and economic reform”, before discussing joint projects that US assistance will focus on in Myanmar, such as improving agriculture. Pleased, Thein Sein replied: “I take this opportunity to reiterate that Myanmar and I will continue to … move forward so that we can build a new democratic state, a new Myanmar.”

KUNAN – POSHPURA :mass Rape of 53 Kashmiri Women
The Centre for Policy Analysis, New Delhi, a think tank has since 2009 been involved with the people of Kashmir in the search of a peaceful and just solution. Over the years, several groups of civil society activists and experts
have visited Kashmir for round table dialogues with the Kashmir intellectuals, politicians and activists. Several groups of Kashmir, including women and youth, have come for similar round tables in New Delhi.

India’s civilization and culture are such that this country always plays by the rules. At the time of the formation of the United Nations, it was clear to the whole world that India’s independence was round the corner. India had made huge contribution to the war effort of the Allies in the just concluded World War 2. But for the heroic contribution of Indian army’s famed 4th Division the result of the tank battle against Rommel in El Alamein could have been different. That victory alone changed the course of war in Europe.

Many Muslims in this country are still taking lightly the ‘smoking is haram’ fatwa, that was decided by the Muzakarah Committee of the National Fatwa Council for Islamic Religious Affairs in 1995.

Hence, Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister’s Office (Islamic Affairs), Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman urged Muslims, especially in the state, to realise that smoking had been decreed as haram in line with Islamic teachings.

He said the edict (fatwa) issued by the national committee was agreed upon by the Sarawak Fatwa Council.

Yug Mohit Chaudhry :Mumbai Mirror

NIA investigation confirms ACP Shengal falsely accused nine innocent men and fabricated evidence.

Friday, September 8, 2006: It was one of the holiest days in the Muslim calendar –Shab-e-Barat – when bombs exploded at the Malegaon Chowk, and in a mosquecemetery compound, during the afternoon prayers.

Thirty-one people were killed and 300 suffered injuries in the attacks that visibly targeted Muslims, but the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), in a predetermined manner, immediately blamed Muslim terrorists and arrested nine from the community.

Drinking excessive amounts of cola and eating honey made from the pollen of Rhododendrons can cause unusual syncope (fainting) and symptoms of arrhythmia, a new study has found.

The findings were reported in two case studies presented as abstracts at the EHRA EUROPACE 2013 meeting, in Athens 23 to 26 June.

“Both these studies underline the importance of clinicians taking detailed medical histories for patients with unexplained arrhythmias and including questions about their dietary intakes,” Professor Andreas Goette, the EHRA Scientific Programme Committee chairperson, said.

To seek knowledge is a sacred duty, it is obligatory on every Muslim, male and female. The first word revealed of the Qur’an was “Iqra” “READ!”

Hence, seek knowledge! Educate yourselves! Be educated.

Surah Al-Zumr, ayah 9 reveals:

“Are those equal, those who know and those who do not know?”

Surah Al-Baqarah, ayah 269 reveals:

“Allah grants wisdom to whom He pleases and to whom wisdom is granted indeed he receives an overflowing benefit.”

Salman Khan is known as the bad boy of Bollywood and he will be in the news for all the wrong reasons. There were cases on him for his rash and reckless driving, poaching endangered animals and and fights with his co-stars have created shivers in the tinsel town. And freshly, the ‘Dabangg’ star’s act of threatening a fisherman has hit the headlines.

Over half of children in the US have tried sipping or tasting alcohol by age 11, a shocking new study has revealed.

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh collected data from 452 children in one Pennsylvania county each year from ages 8 and a half through 18. The children were asked how old they were when they first sipped or tasted alcohol, had a drink, had three or more drinks in a row, or were drunk.

A group of gun enthusiasts have decided to fight against a new line of pork-laced bullets manufactured by a US company. The group is angered about the idea of an Islamic cultural center opening near Ground Zero. According to the Huffington Post, South Fork Industries, based in Idaho, however has claimed its ammunition, called Jihawg Ammo, is a defensive deterrent to those who violently act in the name of Islam.

It is needed to reveal to those who do not share the same belief that the verses of the Holy Qur’an as well as the prophet’s traditions and sayings stress the fact that Islam (which literally means “peace”) stands for universal peace and prosperity. It aims at the advancement of humanity in general. The message of peace advocated by the Qur’an is addressed to the entire human family, not to Muslims alone.

About a third of women worldwide have been physically or sexually assaulted by a former or current partner, according to the first major review of violence against women.

In a series of papers released today by the World Health Organization and others, experts estimated nearly 40 per cent of women killed worldwide were slain by an intimate partner and that being assaulted by a partner was the most common kind of violence experienced by women.

“Violence against women is a global health problem of epidemic proportions,” WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan said in a statement.

My Horrible Experience with Air India staff in Hyderabad and Mumbai.

Dear Sirs,

I am a frequent flyer by Air India for past 37 years, holding a Maharaja Club membership card No. 100158512, I am very Loyal to Air India although lot of suggestion from family and friend to stop flying Air India. Now with my experience of yesterday’s delay and service provided at the Maharaja Club Lounge in Mumbai airport forced me to write this complaint to the higher authorities in Air India and the ministry of Aviation.

A mysterious new respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East spreads easily between people and appears more deadly than SARS, doctors reported Wednesday after investigating the biggest outbreak in Saudi Arabia.

More than 60 cases of what is now called MERS, including 38 deaths, have been recorded by the World Health Organization in the past year, mostly in Saudi Arabia. So far, illnesses haven’t spread as quickly as SARS did in 2003, ultimately triggering a global outbreak that killed about 800 people.

A new research has suggested women regularly using talcum powder to keep fresh actually increase their risk of developing ovarian cancer by almost a quarter.

Scientists have warned powder particles applied to the genital area can travel into a woman`s body and trigger inflammation, which allows cancer cells to flourish, Daily Mail reported.

Exposing developing tissue to low levels of the plastic bisphenol A (BPA) is associated to a greater incidence of prostate cancer in tissue grown from human prostate stem cells.

BPA is found in plastic water bottles and is universally prevalent, and tests indicate that almost everyone has measurable levels of the chemical in their bodies.

The quality of wakefulness affects ease of a mammal falling asleep, a new study has suggested.

The study has helped identify two proteins that were never before linked to alertness and sleep-wake balance.

Principal author Dr. Masashi Yanagisawa, professor of molecular genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at UT Southwestern said that their study supports the idea that subjective sleepiness is influenced by the quality of experiences right before bedtime.