Ali Khan Hyderabad, August 26: Throughout the day the umpteen number of TV Channels were blaring and blazing with the coverage of condolence meetings for the victims of Gokul Chat and Lumbini bomb blasts,on this day two years age, whereas the victims of Mecca Masjid of the same time are simply forgotten. Without even so much as a mention in most of the Channels.
Dubai, August 26: A booming Muslim population in the United States is creating a shortage of mosques and prayer space, forcing the faithful to get creative during the holy month of Ramadan as Muslims in Virginia rent out Jewish synagogues.
In Reston, Virginia, a synagogue has opened its doors to Muslim worshipers to perform daily prayers during Ramadan, according to the Washington Post. The extra space is crucial to accommodate the additional worshippers expected.
Eating out – another extravagance of our community. Hyderabadi Muslims are well known for their heartedness and magnanimity in spending unstintingly on the needy and doing other charity. At the same time they are equally famous for being spendthrift and extravagant. And this trend is at the peak in the month of Ramzan where they go overboard in helping out and reaching out to the needy and those in want as it is ordained by their faith. They spend magnanimously and feel a sense of satisfaction and gratification giving Khairat and Zakat.
Bhopal, August 22 (Pervez Bari): Acquiring any knowledge be it religious or modern, for the benefit of oneself or the society at large, is not forbidden in Islam. The followers of Islam can gain knowledge from any source even from un-Islamic institutions or non-Muslims for the uplift of society. The religious knowledge in Islam is matter of faith while the pursuit of knowledge of modern science and technology is associated with intellect.
A compilation of the selected parts of the Quran with commentaries, THE MESSAGE OF THE QURAN- A GUIDE TO MANKIND was released at the Siasat Urdu Daily, Diamond Jubilee Hall. The well attended programme by Scholars, Educationists and intellectuals of the city with a good number of school students was quite an enlightening programme bringing in the much needed and neglected awareness of the Quran and its significance and relevance to the present day English moorings and identity.
Dubai, August 21: Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, will start the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan on Saturday along with most other GCC and Arab countries.
Senior religious councils in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, Algeria and Iraq said the moon’s crescent was not sighted after nightfall on Thursday, and so Friday would be the 30th day of Shaaban, the month preceding Ramadan.
Washington, August 20: The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly rose last week, a government report showed on Thursday, as companies continued to cut payrolls amid uncertainty over the economic outlook.
Initial claims for state unemployment insurance benefits rose 15,000 to a seasonally adjusted 576,000 in the week ended August 15 from 561,000 the prior week, the Labor Department said.
Bhopal, August 20 (Pervez Bari): The Nagpur bench of Mumbai High Court has issued notice to Maharashtra Government returnable after two weeks in a matter Public Interest Litigation, (PIL), filed by Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti, (VJAS), president Kishore Tiwari praying to cancel & withdraw the government resolution extending illegal state largesse & extra ordinary illegal favour to MLAs Local Area Development Funds, (LADFs), meant for entire financial year -2009-10 is being allowed to be spent in six months time as the MLAs term is expiring in October 2009.
Bhopal, August 20 (Pervez Bari): The Ludhiana-based International Human Rights Organisation, (IHRO), has hailed the Punjab Pollution Control Board, (PPCB)’s action of disconnecting power to the dyeing industrial units there on instructions of the Punjab government, which, in turn, has thus executed the orders, though belatedly and reluctantly, of the state high court for cleaning the Budda Nullah.
Hyderabad, August 20: The Nizamabad police detained a Bangladeshi national, Ms Faroon Begum, 25, at Ansanpally village of Dharpally mandal on Tuesday. She had come here to meet her lover Mr Ravi, 26, of Ansanpally village. The police took her into custody for overstaying and is trying to deport her to Bangladesh.
According to sources, Ms Faroon, a native of Sabargaon near Dhaka in Bangladesh and Mr Ravi became close in 2008 at Dubai. The duo worked as non-teaching staff in a school there.
Bhopal, August 20 (Pervez Bari): The condition of drought in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra state is getting worse day by day as six more farmers committed suicides allegedly due to crop failure and acute distress following huge debt .
According to Nagpur-based Kishor Tiwari, president of Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti, (VJAS), in this month of August more than 36 farmers in drought prone Vidarbha region have committed suicides. It is a matter of concern that now reports from new areas of paddy growing cases of farm suicides have started to come, he added.
Washington, August 19: Until now, DNA was considered the “gold standard” of criminal investigations: Hundreds of wrongly convicted individuals have been freed around the world after DNA analysis proved them innocent of their crimes; and many of the guilty have been brought to justice through DNA evidence as well.
But the days of DNA’s supremacy in the courtroom could soon come to an end, as researchers in Israel say it can be faked and planted at crime scenes, using basic DNA analysis techniques.
New Delhi, August 19: Nearly 150,000 women and children are trafficked from South Asia every year, “most of them from, via and to India”, says a new report that also underlines how the economic meltdown has heightened the risk of child sexual exploitation.
India is the main destination of “alarming flows” of crossborder trafficking in South Asia, says the study by global child rights group ECPAT International, supported by the Body Shop International.
“In India, the majority of trafficking in underage girls for sexual exploitation happens within the country,” it says.
Dubai, August 19: The spokesman of Iran’s Supreme Leader called on neighboring countries to mobilize their forces in preparation for the coming of the savior of Islam and to unite with the Islamic Republic in paving the way for his arrival, an Iranian news agency reported Sunday.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s spokesman, Ali Saeedi, said countries like Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan and Afghanistan should gather together all their forces in order to make drastic changes to prepare for the coming of al-Mahdi al-Montazar, Arabic for “the awaited guided one.”
Dead Sea can help UPA Govt. take a wise decision on Gay Sex
Bhopal, August 18 (Pervez Bari): The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board, (AIMPLB), is in touch with the Union Government over the issue of legalizing gay sex after the Delhi High Court’s verdict decriminalising homosexual acts among consenting adults.
Washington, August 18: That’s the conclusion, more or less, of a study that found 90 percent of the paper currency in circulation in the United States carries trace quantities of cocaine.
What’s more, this represents a more than 20 percentage point increase over a similar study carried out two years ago, researchers point out, when 67 percent of US bills were found to have traces of cocaine.
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Mumbai, August 15: “My sister is not a terrorist. The Gujarat police killed her in a fake encounter,” said Mussarat Jahan, Ishrat Jahan’s sister reacting to the Gujarat High Court order on Thursday, directing a probe into the alleged fake encounter in June 2004.
Senior Gujarat IPS officer D G Vanjara, is in jail for staging the fake encounter of Soharabudin Shaikh, on November 26, 2005 in Gandhinagar.
Bhopal, August 14 (Pervez Bari): At high level review meeting taken by the AMU Vice Chancellor, Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis has cancelled the list of admitted students for M.A. History and decided that a fresh list of candidates should be declared by 13th of August and admission be completed on August 20, 2009.
Bhopal, August 14 (Pervez Bari): Syed Shahnawaz Hussain, president of Bharatiya Janata Party, (BJP), Minorities Morcha, has claimed that the relations between BJP and the minorities are changing for the better which bode well for the party. He said at least it was better than the relationship between the Samajwadi Party and minorities.
Bhopal, August 14 (Pervez Bari): More than three dozen doctors got hands on training in mechanical ventilation and surgical airway to treat the emergency patients effectively in a three-day workshop on Emergency and Trauma Airway Management held at J. N. Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.
At the end of the course the certificate distribution ceremony was held. Dr. S. Moied Ahmed, Director of the Course said that a majority of the participants said that they had found the course very informative, practical and useful to every doctor from any specialty.
Bhopal. August 14 (Pervez Bari): The Bhopal-based Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, (MANIT), a premier educational institute of India, administration in a bid to bolster its sagging image has decided to go overboard and reach out to the public at large through the media regarding its Vision and Mission.
Dogged by scams, corruption charges and controversies over the last few years, the MANIT administration has girded up its loin to provide justice to one and all and transparency in its working to stop wagging tongues from ruining the institute of national importance.
Washington, August 14: A new study conducted on mice has uncovered a chemical compound that effectively targets cancer stem cells — the key cells that spread malignant tumors and are usually resistant to treatment.
In a study published in Thursday’s edition of the journal Cell, a group of medical researchers said they had discovered that a compound called salinomycin directly targeted cancer stem cells.
Washington, August 13: Former Vice President Dick Cheney believes his old boss, President George W. Bush, gradually turned away from his advice during their second term in the White House, showing a surprising independence as he started taking more flexible positions on a range of issues, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
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