faheem Disturbances broke in the sensitive Madannapet and Saidabad areas of the Old city on Sunday morning leading to clamping of curfew. It is more than two years since curfew had to be enforced anywhere in the city.
Accusing Samajwadi Party of ignoring the Muslim community, Shahi Imam of the Delhi Jama Masjid has rejected the party’s legislative council ticket for his son-in-law, saying at least three Muslims should be given representation in the UP council on SP ticket.
Bukhari yesterday shot off a letter to Mulayam saying he did not want party ticket for his son-in-law Umar Khan.
Bukhari had supported the party during UP assembly elections.
Out of seven seats, Bukhari wants at least three for the Muslim community.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari today said that he was asked to leave the country but he had refused to do so.
“I was told to leave the country and that a plane was ready but I refused as I am not a weak-hearted man like others,” Zardari said while talking to a group of journalists and lawyers at the Governor’s House.
He did not say who had asked him to leave the country or when the demand was made.
“I told them that I would instead get an FIR registered against such elements,” he said.
Rahul Gandhi and Bilawal Zardari Bhutto, two scions whose respective pasts have uncanny similarities, are expected to talk at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s lunch here Sunday for Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari.
Informed sources said Bilawal, who took over as Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman at age 19 after the assassination of his mother and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007, figures in the guest list.
The sources said Rahul may also be at the lunch, and the two young leaders from India and Pakistan may get to talk.
In a secret message sent through a foreign leader to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, US President Barack Obama hinted that Tehran can have a civilian nuclear programme if it never pursues a nuclear weapon, a media report said.
“President Obama has signalled Iran that the United States would accept an Iranian civilian nuclear programme if Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei can back up his recent public claim that his nation ‘will never pursue nuclear weapons’,” the usually authoritative Washington Post reported.
voluntary group working for Pakistani refugees in India has requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to raise the problems of Hindus living in Pakistan with visiting President Asif Ali Zardari who is coming to India Sunday, a representative said.
The Seemant Lok Sangathan (SLS) Saturday submitted a memorandum to the prime minister’s office and drew attention to the alleged religious persecution of Hindus in Pakistan.
RJD supremo Lalu Prasad today said Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar are like “cousins” on communal issues.
“Both Modi and Kumar are like cousin brothers in relation to communal matters,” Prasad told reporters here.
He made this sarcastic remark when his attention was drawn to media reports suggesting that the international Time magazine report, under compilation now, will be presenting Modi and Prasad among top four influential personalities in India.
“Both Modi and Kumar are holding communal flags,” Lalu alleged.
—PTI
A CBI court today extended till April 17 judicial custody of former Karnataka Minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy and his personal assistant Mehfuz Ali Khan, arrested in connection with an illegal mining case.
Additional Civil and Sessions Court Judge and CBI special court judge B M Angadi passed the order after CBI moved an application seeking extension of custody.
Associated Mining Corporation and Deccan Mining Syndicate owned by Reddy and his wife Aruna Lakshmi have been facing probe over charges of illegal mining.
A woman allegedly threw her three daughters aged between 1 and 5 years into a well and then committed suicide by consuming poison in Rajasthan, police said Friday.
According to police, the incident took place in Taranagar area in Churu district, some 200 km from here.
The woman, Indra Devi is believed to have committed suicide over frequent family feuds. “It is suspected that she threw her three daughters, Manisha, 6, Aaina, 4, and Babali, 1, into the well and then consumed poison. A bottle of pesticide was recovered lying near Indra’s body,” said a police officer.
Seemingly unperturbed by his depiction as Lord Krishna in a BJP advertisement in a local newspaper, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today flagged off the “Kishan Yatra” aimed at welfare of farmers from here.
Targetting the Centre for being “insensitive” towards farmers and being “anti-Gujarat”, Modi said the policies like banning export of cotton have affected farmers from the state to a great extent.
Modi was most vocal to protest against the ban imposed by the Centre on export of cotton, which was later withdrawn.
The Shahi Imam of the Jama Masjid, who had earlier extended support to Samajwadi Party, today accused the party of ignoring the Muslim community while choosing nominees for Rajya Sabha and State Legislative Council.
Bukhari, in a letter written today to SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, has said that he had learnt from newsreports that his own son-in-law was among seven who had been nominated to the State Legislative Council.
Ignoring protests by opposition parties and objection by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) chief, the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh Friday went ahead with the transfer of a police official who was probing a liquor pay-off scandal allegedly involving some ministers.
A couple of hours after the opposition parties asked Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy to revoke the transfer of ACB additional director Srinivas Reddy, the officer was relieved of his post and asked to take charge of inspector general of coastal security.
Kicking up a controversy, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been depicted as Lord Krishna in a BJP advertisement published in a vernacular newspaper today.
The advertisement put up by BJP’s Amreli district unit President Bharat Kamdar evoked criticism from the Congress which alleged that Modi is resorting to this practice to win elections. Assembly polls in Gujarat are due towards the end of this year.
It also showed state BJP President R C Faldu as Arjun and party leaders Vijay Rupani, Purshottam Rupala and I K Jadeja as the Pandavas.
The Quran is not only unique in the way in which it presents its subject matter, but it is also unique in that it is a miracle itself. By the term “miracle,” we mean the performance of a supernatural or extraordinary event which cannot be duplicated by humans. It has been documented that Prophet Muhammad (S), challenged the Arabs to produce a literary work of a similar caliber as the Quran, but they were unable to do so in spite of their well-known eloquence and literary powers. The challenge to reproduce the Quran was presented to the Arabs and mankind in three stages:
Political Joint Action Committee Chairman Prof M Kodandaram today said the ruling Congress and the opposition Telugu Desam Party had ‘deceived’ the four crore people of Telangana on the statehood issue.
Speaking after inaugurating a two-wheeler bike rally launched against the suicides of youth, demanding a seperate Telangana state, at Moualali near here, he called upon students and youth not to resort to extreme steps like self-immolation.
The Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, Friday asked Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to revoke the legislative council ticket of his son-in-law Umar Khan.
Accusing the Samajwadi Party of not paying enough heed to Muslims, Bukhari, in a one-page letter, also slammed senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan for his “unsavoury remarks”.
Pointing out that he had not sought any ticket for his son-in-law, Bukhari asked Mulayam Singh Yadav to “seriously and honestly work for the welfare of Muslims instead”.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari goes to Ajmer Sharif Sunday with a prayer on his lips after grappling with a string of problems, including the tense aftermath of Osama bin Laden’s killing, a coup rumour and dragging court cases.
Zardari, 56, took charge of Pakistan in September 2008, almost a year after the assassination of his charismatic wife and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Since then, he has been besieged by controversies.
Strip queen Poonam Pandey is hurt after her morphed nude images emerged in Kolkata. The Kingfisher model said that she doesn’t want unwanted controversies in her life. She recently tweeted, I am really shocked and hurt over the incident in Kolkata, a fan made stupid morphed picture of mine which by mistake was published on a News Paper.
Please keep me away from any such unwanted controversies which could hurt one’s sentiments.The picture shows a morphed image of a Pakistani cricketer bowing before the portrait of Sachin Tendulkar and nude Poonam.
—-Source: Bollywood101.com
Opposition parties in Andhra Pradesh Friday asked Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy to revoke the transfer of a police official who was probing the liquor pay-off scandal allegedly involving some ministers.
A delegation of leaders of Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Communist Party of India (CPI) and Lok Satta called on the chief minister and urged him to defer the order at least till the official submits his report to the state high court on the status of the investigations.
Peddapalli MP G Vivek on Friday accused the State Government of sending wrong reports over the situation in Telangana region to the Centre during the general strike of employees.
Talking to media persons, Vivek alleged that the State Government had sent wrong reports over the situation in the region to the Centre to dilute the statehood agitation. Stating that the Telangana agitation reached crucial phase during the general strike period, he said that the time has come for the Centre to take decision on bifurcation of State.
The nationwide strike by jewelers entered its 20th day on Thursday to protest against a steep hike in import duty on gold, and an excise duty in unbranded jewrllery. In a country that is the largest buyer of bullion in the world, and where household gold consumption is worth about $45 billion, the extended strike is now weighing both on everyone’s minds as well as business. Here are five things you need to know about the strike.
Sunny Leone now masters the art of using Twitter to gain publicity and popularity. The sensational import from Canada who is currently shooting for Jism 2 seems to be having a blast on the sets. Sunny has posted a picture of herself in a bathtub from the shooting on the social networking site with a tweet that read, “shot from the set of day 1.”
Pakistan cannot take action against Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)chief Hafiz Saeed in the absence of solid evidence, the foreign ministry said Thursday.
The US Monday announced an award of up to $10 million for information leading to arrest and conviction of Saeed and $2 million for Hafiz Adbul Rahman Makki, under the Rewards for Justice programme, for information on the two terrorists.
Saeed is the founder of the LeT that was blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
BJP today slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for announcing sops for Muslims ahead of next year’s panchayat polls and said the state government had no right to distribute public money “to gather Muslim votes”.
“If this cash-strapped government has so much money, why is it not providing it to the poor and even poor Muslims?” BJP’s state President Rahul Sinha told reporters here.
The BJP leader described the chief minister’s announcement of sops to imams as ‘communal’ and urged her to refrain from it.
A failed asylum seeker, who sought compensation for being banned from having sex with his girlfriend in prison, was awarded 750 million pounds (about $1.1 billion) in a baffling administrative blunder before being quickly corrected.
Rayden Kullem demanded the huge sum in compensation, claiming his human rights had been breached, The Sun reported Thursday.
Incredibly, he temporarily won his claim because of a mix-up.
A top judge then had to dismiss the “preposterous” claim at an urgent court hearing.