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A respectable and noted personality of the city conducted an exemplary marriage of his son. The card cost hardly 2 to 3 rupees. The Nikah was performed in a mosque. The groom’s family didn’t lay the burden of booking a function hall for the marriage ceremony. The Nikah was performed in the vast premises of Masjid Haji Kamal, Darushifa, which was attended by atleast 500 guests. Qari Mohammad Ali Khan recited the verses of Holy Quran. Groom’s father gave a short & comprehensive speech after Nikah and threw light on the unwarranted trend of extravagance in Muslim marriages. Mr.

Siasat daily has always been trying, to bring to light the public and social issues and to resolve them; and the efforts are bearing fruits.

On June 28, Siasat had published the heartrending story of a poverty-ridden woman, Zakia Sultana, who has 4 deaf and dumb young girls. The mother can’t even have a good sleep on a single night because of her worries of their marriage. Deaf and dumb prospective grooms’ demand for 50000 rupees cash and a motor cycle gives sleepless nights to the father too.

(Siasat News) I can’t sleep due to the worries of my four deaf and dumb unmarried daughters. I have become so weak that I can’t even walk for a few yards. I get up during nights and look at my daughters and start thinking what would be their future. I start shedding tears and severe headache starts while thinking about hem. The severity of headache can’t be described in words. To make arrangements for their marriages at my old age is unbearable for me. Their growing ages have become the cause of my grief.

Pregnancy has emerged as the biggest killer across the globe for teenage girls, with a million teenagers dying annually, a report by international voluntary organisation Save the Children said here Thursday.

The report, ‘Every Woman’s Right’ said: “Girls under the age of 15 are five times more likely to die in pregnancy than women in their 20s. Babies born to younger mums are also at far greater risk and around one million babies born to adolescent girls die every year.”

As the summer heat settles on Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti every morning, the 700-year-old urban sprawl in south Delhi comes to life blurring the boundary between the past and present. It is a strange cluster of old Mughal buildings, archaeological relics and new concrete homes that exist in secular harmony in the Indian capital.

The government schools open shutters, a gymnasium for Muslim women sees its first batch troop in to get into shape, the health care clinics, vocational training schools and computer centres begin their grind for the day.

Middle aged men who exercise get a boost to their sex drive, a higher sperm count and stronger erections, a study has found.

Losing weight reduces the chances of low testosterone levels by up to 50 percent in more mature males.

The results come from a study by Dublin doctors of 900 men with an average age of 54 taking part in a US diabetes prevention programme, Daily Mail reported.

Weight loss can delay or avoid the onset of diabetes among those men who are most susceptible to the disease.

British researchers have found the men quite fond of smoking actually go on to pass damaged DNA to their children as fathers while raising risk of cancer among them.

Researchers at the University of Bradford found in their study that smoking harms the father’s DNA, and these damaged genes can be inherited by his children. This raises the risk of youngsters developing childhood cancers, particularly leukaemia, Daily Mail reported.

Both Mohammed Ali Jinnah and Lord Mountbatten wanted to become Governor General of Pakistan, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman wrote in his just-out memoirs in which he mentioned Mahatma Gandhi as a “magician” who had a great capability of casting an influence on people.

Written during Mujib’s stay in jail as a state prisoner between 1967 and 1969, “The Unfinished Memoirs” begins with
his recollections of his days as a student activist in Kolkata in the run-up to the movement for Pakistan in the early 1940s.

Three important pillars of the society, namely, judiciary, politics and police, if they decide, crimes could be abolished. The only formula to abolish crimes is that the criminals shouldn’t be freed and the innocents shouldn’t be touched. Renowned lawyer of the Supreme Court, Mr. Wasi Ahmed Nomani was delivering a lecture on Friday at Abul Kalam Azad Oriental Research Institute, Public Garden, on “Politics – Shelter of crimes”.

Cure for cancers afflicting children have witnessed an improvement by around 70 percent, experts said at a seminar on childhood cancer here Thursday.

“The solid tumours in children require meticulous treatment with facilities of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy to achieve high cure rates. Through these steps, the cure rates have gone up to 70-80 percent,” said Anish Maru, senior consultant, medical oncology at the Dharamshila Hospital.

Himangini Singh Yadu, who represented India at the Miss Asia Pacific 2012, has won the international title. She is the first one to win the crown in 12 years. The beauty pageant was held in Busan, South Korea, Saturday.

“This is a dream come true! All the hard work, time and effort that my mentors have put in with me has paid off,” said Himangini said in a statement.

She has been selected by I AM She, a national beauty pageant, started in 2010, which sends its winner to Miss Universe and Miss Asia Pacific pageants.
Indore girl wins Miss Asia Pacific 2012

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday assured that investor sentiment will be improved and the economy nursed to high growth path again, as citizens were “impatient” for more.

“We are determined to create an environment that would boost investor sentiment and promote an atmosphere conducive to enterprise and creativity,” the prime minister told the G20 Summit here.

“Our policies will be transparent, stable and designed to provide a level playing field to both domestic and foreign investors,” he said, using the forum to send the message that his government now meant business.

(Ram Puniyani)In Kalyan a Muslim youth Bilal Shaikh was slaped with a non boilable cognizable offense (May 2012) under section 333, after he jumped the traffic signal. He was assaulted brutally by the police for having arguments with them, suffered a fracture in right arm and was in jail for eight days. The policemen who beat him up got released with the non cognizable warrant.

Whatever the Congress speaks, it sounds like an evangelist’s outpouring. The party was no different a few days ago at its meeting of some 100 delegates, comprising Working Committee members and state presidents. The party again acted like a preacher who wanted to stir up feelings of revival. It cannot be done by merely attacking the opponents. There has to be answers to the questions on the ever-rising prices and the never-ending scams.

A tribute by Ravi M. Khanna
The first I heard about Mehdi Hassan, whom now I call an amazing “Ghazaltraash” (Sculptor of Ghazals), was in 1966 when a friend of mine brought me a reel-to-reel tape of a Pakistani Radio recording of something he said would spellbind me. He insisted that he has never heard such a voice, such meticulous pronunciation of Urdu and such articulation of the words, especially while singing Ghazals by famous Urdu poets.

“Trust me”, he said.

V.K.Tripathi, Professor, IIT-Delhi: On May 28, 2012 the Andhra Pradesh High Court has quashed the two months old Central Government order giving 4.5% reservation to minority OBCs within the OBC quota.

The judgment says that the reservation on the basis of religion is unconstitutional. It is a strange reading of the constitution. The spirit of the constitution is that there shall be no discrimination on the basis of caste, religion or class. However, if certain communities suffer social discrimination and deprivation, it provides reservation as an instrument to neutralise it.

The Centre for Policy Analysis, in collaboration with Action Aid, India and Focus on the Global South, organized a Youth Convention in Srinagar on June 2,2012 as a sequel to a similar Convention on the Democratic Rights of Kashmiri Youth held in New Delhi in March,2012. Nearly sixty students from Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia Islamia along with five journalists and activists travelled from Delhi by bus to Srinagar to participate in the Convention being held at the Institute of Management and Public Administration.

(Kuldip Nayar) When a chief minister leads a demonstration in her own state to protest against the hiked petrol price, it shows the intense feelings over the raise. But it is all too comical to see the chief minister doing so when her party is part of the government at the Centre, where the buck stops. How are the two justified?

(Siasat News) All India Muslim Personal Law Board launched a campaign for the protection of the constitutional rights of the minorities to establish and administer their own religious educational institutions in the country. Its effect was positive. Accepting the proposal of Muslim Personal Law Board, Central Govt. amended Right to Education Act and kept the religious and educational institutions of the Muslims out of its jurisdiction.

• Life imprisonment is 14 years then why it is of 22 years for Abdul khadeer?
• When other dreaded killers can be released from jail then why not Abdul khadeer?
• Dacoits, Terrorists, Professional Killers, Rioters can be given a second chance then why not Abdul khadeer?
• When other prisoners get clemency on national festivals then why not Abdul khadeer?
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The central government Thursday denied media reports that Fasih Mehmood, an Indian engineer working in Saudi Arabia, was in its custody.

“The media reports are wrong… he is not in the custody of Indian intelligence agencies… the police of Delhi and Karnataka want the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) to approach the Interpol to locate him,” Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters here.

He said Mehmood could be in Saudi Arabia.

‘Search for peace of mind and contentment of heart introduced me to Islam and for this I started reading religious books and today Alhamdulillah I am a Muslim.’ Mrs. Khadija (former name Janet Foxcroft) revealed this during a meeting with Siasat correspondent. She told that she wishes to serve for the welfare and prosperity of her community as a Muslim, since Muslims are alienated from welfare activities due to which uncertainty prevails in elimination of poverty from Muslim community.

All praise is due to Allah, the One Who says:
[And do not come near to the unlawful sexual intercourse.] (Al-Israa’ 17:32)

And peace and blessings be upon His slave and Messenger Muhammad, who said, “When a man commits fornication, faith departs from him and there is something like a canvas roof over his head; and when he quits that action, faith returns to him” (Abu Dawud 40:4673).

From being worth Rs36 lakh in 2003-04, the Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy emerged to become the richest MP with an asset base of Rs365 crore for himself and another Rs40 crore for his wife Bharathi by 2011. According to the I-T returns of Jagan in 2003-04 his declared assets were worth Rs36 lakh. In the following year, his assets were at Rs6.6 crore. However, according to an affidavit filed by him in 2011, his assets were at Rs365 crore. Between 2003 and 2010, Jagan floated at least 36 companies to expand his business empire supporting the exponential growth in his wealth.

From a small-time businessman to a formidable political leader, Y S Jaganmohan Reddy — better known as Jagan — had a rather smooth ride for over a decade before hitting one bump after another and finally finding himself in CBI’s custody.

The only son of late Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, Jagan began his business career in
1999-2000 by establishing a tiny power company Sandur in neighbouring Karnataka and then expanding it to the north-
eastern states.