Ali Khan Jerusalem, March 31: Israel on Monday curbed travel from the West Bank and access to Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound as Jews began to celebrate Passover holidays amid raised tension with the Palestinians.
Four Israeli rightwing activists were briefly detained when they tried to make their way to the Old City in annexed east Jerusalem with two goats intended for ritual slaughter, police said.
Hyderabad, March 31: It was noticed in Old City and Musheerabad area that the police officials had failed to respond the emerging situations, especially the communal violence which the State capital has been witnessing for the last three days.
The inexplicable part of Tuesday developments is that despite more than 6,000 armed personnel being kept at the disposal of the city police, violence broke out in newer areas in Secunderabad side in addition to Begum Bazar, after a Bajrang Dal rally turned violent escalating the tension all over the city.
Hyderabad, March 31: Tennis star Sania Mirza remarked that her wedding with Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik should be looked at as a simple wedding like that of any other Indian girl and that she is not trying to make any statement on India-Pakistan relations through it.
Speaking to the media late on Tuesday evening at her residence, Sania said that the wedding-cum-receptionwould be held in Hyderabad on April 15 and she was delighted at the whole idea. “There is mutual admiration and more importantly the two families are really happy at it,” she added.
Hyderabad, March 31 (Siasat News): The badly affected were the daily wage earners. Petty vendors who plied trade on the Patherghatti footpaths and the auto rickshaw drivers couldn’t operate. Construction labour from neighbouring Nalgonda and Mahabubnagar districts were seen pleading with police to allow them to move out of the curfew areas.
Hyderabad, March 30: Violence broke out in Musheerabad area of Hyderabad when a group of people took out rally on the occasion of Hanuman jayanthi, started pelting stones. Several people reported injured and vehicles were also damaged.
But the situation in riot-hit old city of Hyderabad on Tuesday remained peaceful even as the indefinite curfew imposed on Monday night continued, police said.
Kuwait City, March 30: A court on Tuesday sentenced a Kuwaiti woman to death for starting a fire that killed 57 women and children at the wedding party of her husband who married another wife.
Judge Adel al-Sager read out the verdict against Nasra Yussef Mohammed al-Enezi, 23, at the court of first instance. The sentence will have to be upheld by the appeals court.
The woman was found guilty of “premeditated murder and starting a fire with the intent to kill.”
The Aug. 15 inferno engulfed the women-and-children-only tent in minutes and triggered a stampede.
Mumbai, March 27: In a fresh twist to the ownership dispute over Jinnah House, a central government office has found a copy of the will made by Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah which mentions that the leader bequeathed the property to sister Fatima Jinnah. The development may hamper the Wadia family’s claim to the posh property located on Mount Pleasant Road at the upmarket Malabar Hill.
Washington, March 27: FIRST she admitted a crush on David Miliband. And now Hillary Clinton has been very publicly flirting with the foreign minister of Pakistan.
The US secretary of state collapsed into giggles as if she were a schoolgirl during a press conference with Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday.
It came as they announced a “ new spirit of cooperation” between the two countries.
The pair seemed keen to bridge the gap between the podiums during a press briefing following their bilateral meeting at the department of state in Washington.
Geneva, March 26: The U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday narrowly passed a resolution condemning Islamaphobic behavior, including Switzerland’s minaret building ban, despite some states’ major reservations.
The resolution, which was criticized by the United States as “an instrument of division,” “strongly condemns… the ban on the construction of minarets of mosques and other recent discriminatory measures.”
In a November referendum Swiss citizens voted to ban the construction of new minarets, a move that drew criticisms worldwide.
Khartoum, March 26: Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir warned on Thursday that making, selling or consuming alcoholic drinks will be punishable by the lash under the country’s Islamic laws.
“Whoever makes, drinks or sells alcoholic drinks in Khartoum will be whipped, regardless of what the United Nations or human rights groups have to say about it,” said Bashir, who is seeking re-election next month.
By Syeda Hameed) I PICK UP my pen to write on a subject that has, once again, brought the glare of politics and media on Muslim women.
Dubai, March 25: Osama bin Laden today warned that al-Qaeda will kill American soldiers if the self-confessed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is executed.
“The day America will take such decision [to execute Khalid Mohamed and any others] it would have taken a decision to execute whoever we capture,” Bin Laden said in the latest audio record, broadcast on Al-Jazeera.
He also said that US president Barack Obama was “following the footsteps of his predecessor”, a reference to George Bush, the former US president.
New Delhi, March 24: The Lives of almost two lakh children registered under the directly observed treatment, short course (DOTS) programme for tuberculosis in the country might be in danger.
The Union health ministry has withdrawn the stock of the drug being used under the revised national tuberculosis control programme (RNTCP) since 2007 after an Indore-based laboratory found it was “not of standard quality”. But what is worrying is that 90 per cent of the stock in the Capital has already been distributed to children.
Lucknow, March 22 (Pervez Bari) : All India Muslim Personal Law Board, (AIMPLB), an apex body of Indian Muslims, has rejected Bharatiya Janata Party, (BJP), presidents Nitin Gadkari’s appeal to Muslims to allow Hindus to build Ram temple at the site where Babri Masjid stood till December 6, 1992.
Lucknow, March 22 (Pervez Bari): The All India Muslim Personal Law Board, (AIMPLB), has been empowered by its general body to launch “Awami Thareek” public campaign against hostile Indian courts’ verdicts violating Islamic Shariah laws if the Central Government does not takes remedial measures to undo the wrong done.
Hyderabad, March 18: Social networking site Facebook is all set to establish its support centre at India’s Silicon Valley 2 – Hyderabad. And what’s more, Facebook is already on a hiring spree for its office in Hyderabad. The social networking site founded in 2004 has more than 400 million active users and still counting.
Marijuana, March 17: A Kentucky man high on marijuana and drunk on whiskey put his 5-week-old son in the oven Sunday and left him there overnight, police said.
The oven door was slightly ajar, and the oven was not turned on.
After smoking marijuana at the restaurant where he works as a cook, Larry Long, 33, returned home to share a fifth of whiskey with the baby’s mother, Brandy Hatton, McCracken County Sheriff Jon Hayden said in a statement.
Hatton had four or five shots and went to bed while Long finished the bottle, Hayden said.
New Delhi, March 17: In a development that could worry the Congress which is trying to revive itself in the Hindi heartland, the warring, but influential, Deobandi and Barelvi sects are warming up to each other to oppose the Women’s Reservation Bill which has already created unrest among Islamic scholars and bodies.
New Delhi, March 17: HIZBUL Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin has been caught on camera at a terror launch pad in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, exhorting his squad of suicide attackers to cross the Line of Control (LoC) and attack the security forces. “Go to India, wage Jihad. You will be fighting in the most inhospitable weather conditions. You will be killed there but your martyrdom will be supreme,” screams Salahuddin, the commander-in-chief of the Pakistanbased terror outfit.
Kuala Lumpur, March 17: Two Malaysian girls aged 10 and 11 who were wed to middle-aged men have been separated from their husbands as their cases are investigated, religious officials said Monday.
The girls were married off last month by their fathers, who said they were following religious edicts, said deputy head of northern Kelantan state’s religious department Mohamad Abdul Aziz Mohammad Noor.
Occupied Jerusalem, March 17: Ruins in northern Israel previously thought to have been a synagogue have now been identified as a 7th century palace used by the Umayyad caliph who started construction of Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock, archaeologists said on Tuesday.
The site on the shores of the Sea of Galilee is that of the al-Sinnabra palace, which was described by early Arab historians but whose precise location had long been unknown, according to Tel Aviv University, whose Institute of Archaeology led the recent excavations.
(By Jyotirmaya Sharma) There were those that branded this writer as a secular fundamentalist, believing that using a term they think is pejorative is an alternative to an informed discussion.
Others questioned my knowledge of Indian traditions, including my knowledge of Sanskrit and other Indian languages. In this instance, neither do they know what I know or how much I know, but I too remain in the dark about their legitimacy to question my competence.
There were those who blamed my ‘westernised’ education for my views.
New Delhi, March 16: Ram Jethmalani on Monday came to the defence of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi.
He questioned the legality of a Supreme Court order directing the Special Investigation Team ( SIT) on Gujarat riots to probe the involvement of Modi and 62 others even without hearing them.
In what could give a boost to Modi, his colleagues and several state government officials whose role was under the scanner, an SC bench comprising Justice D. K. Jain, Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice Aftab Alam assured Jethmalani that it would look into the matter.
Youthful India will outperform everyone
Delhi,March 15:Harvard prof says only proper policies will yield demographic dividend.YOUTH power translates to wealth. The greater the number of earning youth, more the savings, faster the economic growth, higher the per capita income and quicker the reduction of poverty, said David Bloom, professor of economics and demography at Harvard University.
Hyderabad, March 13: Dr.Car (www.drcar.co.in), the largest pre-owned car trading platform in India has now launched an all new product to cater to a hitherto uncatered market segment.
Transactions, in friends or in relations, have had no possibility of expert validation. Consequently the possibility of embarrassing situations post transaction, with respect to valuation and technical conditions, was a real concern. Dr. Car is aiming to deploy its expertise to bring in much needed validation to the transaction process through the CEP.