Ali Khan Directing Minority Welfare Department to resolve the issue of salaries to Makkah Masjid staff, Deputy Chief Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali asked to pay the salaries of Makkah Masjid and Shahi Masjid staff along with the staff of Minority Welfare Department.
M A Hameed gave satisfactory answers to the questions asked by the candidates during weekly career guidance programme aired on Deccan Radio 107.8 MHz. He informed that the last date for Civil Services is June 19. Answers were given to recorded questions and queries asked during the live programme. Siddiqua Fatima compiled the questions. Programme was coordinated by Faheem Ansari, Ms. Safoora and Mohammed Muneer.
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Disseminating the message of Quran is the need of the hour. Quran is the greatest of the blessings bestowed upon Muslims by Allah. It is the greatest miracle which would remain unaltered till the day of Judgment. It has the solution to all problems of humanity. It is the guidance for humans. These views were expressed by Maulana Peer Syed Shabbir Naqshbandi Iftekhari founder of World Quranic campaign.
He urged the youth to recite Quran with Tajweed. He was speaking on the occasion of Qirrat competition. A large number of students from various madrasas participated in the competition.
State president State Urdu Teachers Association Telangana (SOTA), Mohammed Abdul Nayeem and State General Secretary Mohammed Anwarul Baqi in a statement told that Director of School Education, Government of Telangana through his order no 310/2015 dated 15-6-2015 has rescheduled the timings of Urdu Medium Schools from 8 am to 1:30 pm during Ramadan and issued orders to all DEOs and Joint Directors. For copy of the order or other details contact on cell no 984949576.
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Siasat and Minorities Development Forum (MDF) are organising the 42nd Du Ba Du programme on Sunday, June 21, at S A Imperial Garden, Tolichowki. Mr. Zahed Ali Khan editor Siasat will preside over. Mr. Abid Siddiqui president Minorities Development Forum will deliver welcome address. Mohammed Moinuddin president Federation of Tolichowki Colonies will be the chief guest. Keeping in view the rising popularity of the programme and repeated requests by parents and guardians the programme is being conducted in the month of Ramadan from 11 am to 4 pm.
In rare comments on Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslims, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged caution on granting citizenship to minorities, saying the sensitive issue must be addressed “very, very carefully.”
The Myanmar government is reviewing citizenship status and “should go about it very quickly and very transparently and then decide what the next steps in the process should be,” she told The Washington Post.
A US lawmaker, speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives, today congratulated the men’s football team of pacific island Guam for defeating India in a World Cup qualifying match.
Congresswoman Madeleine Z Bordallo described Guam’s 2-1 victory over India as a ‘David vs Golith’ story.
“Mr Speaker, I rise this morning to congratulate the Guam Men’s National Soccer team, Team Matao, as they lead Group D in the second round of the FIFA World Cup Asian qualifiers,” she said on the floor of the US House of Representatives.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s younger brother Prahlad today said educational qualifications of HRD Minister Smriti Irani should be verified as being done in the case of former Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar.
Prahlad, vice-president of All India Fair Price Shop Dealers’ Federation (AIFPSDF), said this while interacting with reporters here.
“Just as degrees of AAP MLA and former Delhi Minister Jitender Singh Tomar are being verified, a probe should be carried out into Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani’s degrees,” he said.
Two antique books dating back to the 17th century, stolen in Stockholm in the 1990s and sold to Americans by a German auction house were returned to Sweden today, US officials said.
US authorities handed back the books, intercepted by the FBI from a bookstore in Manhattan and from Cornell University, to the National Library of Sweden at a ceremony in New York.
Both books — whose most recent owners did not know had been stolen — were printed in the early 1600s in Europe during the Renaissance.
The Dalai Lama will be honoured with Philadelphia’s Liberty Medal for his efforts to promote compassion and human rights around the globe.
In announcing the award today, National Constitution Center CEO Jeffrey Rosen said the Tibetan spiritual leader has “emphasised the ideals of freedom, dialogue and tolerance.”
The medal comes with a USD 100,000 cash prize. It’s given annually by the Constitution Center to those who strive to secure liberty for people worldwide.
A harrowing video of doctors frantically trying to save pale, limp children after a chlorine gas attack in Syria shocked US lawmakers today, amid renewed calls for a no-fly zone to protect civilians.
“The Syrian government is using chlorine gas with impunity,” the former US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, told a House panel, warning that other nations like North Korea were watching the international response carefully.
An international consensus against using chemical weapons “forged after World War I is steadily eroding,” he warned.
World oil prices fell back today despite news of a seventh weekly drop in US crude stockpiles, and ahead of a Federal Reserve interest rate decision.
US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for delivery in July fell 60 cents to USD 59.37 a barrel compared with yesterday’s closing level.
Brent North Sea crude for August delivery shed 66 cents to USD 63.04 a barrel in late afternoon deals in London.
The US government’s Department of Energy reported that American commercial crude inventories sank by 2.7 million barrels in the week ending June 12.
Sweden’s royal family has announced the name of its latest addition, newborn Prince Nicolas Paul Gustaf.
King Carl XVI Gustaf informed the government today that his first grandson he also has two granddaughters will also get the title Duke of Angermanland, a province in northern Sweden.
Prince Nicolas is the son of Princess Madeleine, the younger sister of Crown Princess Victoria, and her husband Christopher O’Neill. He was born Monday.
Guinea has charged members of the ousted military junta over the 2009 Conakry stadium massacre in which at least 157 protesters were killed, judicial and charity sources said today.
Security forces opened fire and mowed down demonstrators after tens of thousands gathered at the capital’s main stadium
On September 28, 2009 to protest against the regime led by Moussa Dadis Camara.
Women were raped, hundreds of people were wounded and dozens are still missing.
FIFA has hired a top American lawyer Jenny Durkan, who was a candidate to become US attorney general, to help in its battle against a corruption storm, officials said today.
Durkan was spoken of as a candidate last year to head the US legal department that has caused the biggest crisis to hit football’s scandal-tainted world body.
“Quinn Emanuel (QE) are representing FIFA and Jenny Durkan is part of the QE team,” a FIFA spokeswoman told AFP.
The United Nations was scrambling today to get Yemen peace talks in Geneva moving with both the exiled government and the Iran-backed Yemeni rebels accusing each other of trying to sabotage the process.
The third day of the high stakes talks, launched by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon with an appeal for a badly-needed two-week humanitarian truce, also stumbled over the makeup of the different delegations.
“The only positive point so far is that the negotiations are continuing and that no delegation has slammed the door,” said a Western diplomat close to the talks.
The US State Department will abandon decades of tradition this fall at the annual UN General Assembly by setting up shop in a hotel other than New York’s Waldorf-Astoria, which was purchased last year by a Chinese company.
At least 31 people were killed today and dozens wounded in five simultaneous blasts at Shiite mosques and a house in the rebel-held Yemeni capital, medics and witnesses said.
Two car bombs targeted mosques, while a third hit the house of the head of the Huthi rebels’ politburo, Saleh al-Sammad, witnesses and security officials said.
Among the mosques hit by car bombs was Al-Hashush, which was targeted in March in a series of suicide bombings against Shiite houses of worship claimed by the Islamic state group that killed 142 people.
US First Lady Michelle Obama arrived today with her mother and daughters in Milan, where she is set to push her healthy food agenda at the World Expo.
The first lady kicked off the Italian leg of her trip to Europe, which began in London on Monday, with a cooking demonstration at the James Beard American Restaurant alongside a group of schoolchildren.
Tomorrow she will visit the world exhibition underway in the northern Italian city, which has a theme close to her heart: food.
The European Central Bank on Wednesday raised the maximum emergency funding that Greek banks can obtain by 1.1 billion euros (USD 1.24 billion), a banking source said.
The increase — which brought the overall ceiling on Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) to 84.1 billion euros — came after a stark Bank of Greece warning that the country could crash out of the eurozone unless it can conclude loan talks with its EU-IMF creditors by the end of the month.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghuvar Das today assured the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) supremo, Babulal Marandi that his government will not tolerate the brokers and middlemen and initiate stringent action if found deceiving poor Raiyats (land owners) in the state.
Qatar paid the African Football Confederation USD 1.8 million (1.6 million euros) to present its bid for the 2022 World Cup at a congress, the continent’s top football official told a French magazine.
CAF president and FIFA vice president Issa Hayatou said he saw nothing wrong with the payment made before the confederation held a congress in the Angolan capital Luanda in January 2010.
Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup later the same year at a controversial FIFA vote now under investigation by Swiss authorities.
EU member states agreed today to extend damaging economic sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis by another six months to the end of January 2016, officials said.
The agreement by ambassadors from the 28 European Union nations meeting in Brussels will be formalised by foreign ministers from the bloc when they meet next week, the officials said.
“EU foreign ministers will finalise the decision in Luxembourg on Monday,” Poland’s permanent representative to the EU said on Twitter, while several sources also confirmed the agreement.
Canada today submitted a request at the World Trade Organization for retaliatory trade measures against the United States for non-compliance after winning a meat labelling dispute.
At a special WTO meeting held to iron out trade disputes, Canada evaluated the suspension of its tariffs and related obligations on US goods at three billion Canadian dollars (USD 2.5 billion) annually.
This was “in response to the US’s continued non-compliance with its WTO obligations” in the COOL (Country of origin labelling requirement) dispute,” a source close to the dispute said.
The state government will amend section 1 of the Maharashtra Rajyabhasha Act, 1964, to remove the existing ambiguity and clearly mention Marathi as the official language, Education Minister Vinod Tawde said here today.
He said unlike similar Acts enacted by states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu which have clearly declared Kannada, Telugu and Tamil as official state languages respectively, the Maharashtra law is ambiguous on this aspect.