Hazrat Abu Hurairah (RadiAllahu anhu) narrates from Rasulullah (Sallellahu alaihi wa sallam) that there is a group of angels who patrol the earth and wherever they find any gathering of Zikr they call out to each other and form a circle around this gathering that reaches to the sky.
Hadhrat Abdullah Ibn Abbas (radiallahu anhu) says: “After the passing away of the Prophet (sallellahu ‘alaihi wa sallam), I said to an Ansari friend of mine: ‘The Prophet (s.a.w.s.) is not now with us. But a large number of Sahabah are still among us. Let us go to them and get knowledge of the Islamic practices.’ He said: ‘ Who is going to approach you for learning a regulation in the presence of these eminent Sahabah?’ I was not discouraged. I kept up my quest for knowledge and approached every person who was supposed to have heard something from the Prophet (s.a.w.s.).
The departure of nearly 8,000 pilgrims from Andhra Pradesh and adjacent districts of Karnataka for Haj-2012 will begin from October 6.
According to the State Haj Committee, the arrangements for the departure of Haj pilgrims from Rajiv Gandhi International Airport are complete both at the Haj Camp at Haj House at Nampally and the GMR Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamsabad. The first flight will depart from RGI Airport at October 6 at 9.20 pm. The Haj pilgrims bound for the first flight have been asked to report at the Haj Camp on Thursday.
Nepal once last Hindu kingdom are taking all steps to control Indian big brotherly attitude and now its the turn of Hindi film industry.The Communist party of Nepal has banned all screening of Bollywood films in Nepal.Cinema halls across Nepal are currently not allowed to screen any Hindi film.
CPN (Maoist) led by Mohan Kiran Vaidya, had last week threatened that any hall showing Hindi films would be attacked. Several Maoist groups established camps in Nepal’s border area of Bhairahawa and stopped all vehicles from plying between the two countries.
All perfect praise is due to Allaah; I testify that there is nothing worthy of worship except Allaah and that Muhammad is His Slave and Messenger; may Allaah send salutations and exalt his mention, as well as that of his family and all his companions.
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A Pakistani judge granted bail to a brothel owner on the condition that she attends daily classes at a mosque for a month, a ruling that prompted a leading daily to note that “spiking the legal with the moral” was a “mixture too heady even for these times of most ingenious experiments”.
“Pure in name and known for its abstinence, Pakistan must nevertheless attract attention for the variety of cocktails it offers. But this one has the potency to send the whole bar into a spin,” said an editorial in the Dawn Thursday.
The Pakistan government has allowed export of 200,000 tonnes of sugar.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet, presided over by Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh.
An official said the ECC was asked to allow export of 400,000 tonnes of sugar by the commerce ministry due to an expected surplus in the coming seasons.
The committee, however, permitted export of only 200,000 tons in the first phase, reported Dawn.
Every sugar mill would now be given a quota of 10,000 tons.
—IANS
The tomb of a powerful seventh-century Maya queen was discovered at the El Peru-Waka site in the northwestern Guatemalan province of Peten, archaeologists said Wednesday.
The co-director of the expedition, US archaeologist David Freidel, called the tomb “the most important find” of his 43-years working in Guatemala.
K’abel was the wife of King K’inich Bahlam II, but her title, Kalomt’e, or Supreme Warrior, indicates she had greater authority than her spouse, Freidel said.
The couple ruled the Wak kingdom for at least 20 years in the late seventh century.
Over two million wealthy Pakistanis live in palatial houses, possess arms, drive luxury cars, travel abroad and hold multiple bank account, but don’t pay their taxes, said a media report.
There are 2.38 million people in the country who are rolling in wealth, but do not figure on the tax roll at all, reported Dawn.
As many as three million people possess a National Tax Number (NTN), but only 1.4 million of them filed income tax returns last year.
The statistics were compiled by the National Database and Registration Authority.
Hoping to meet the growing demand for power, the Uttar Pradesh government is exploring the viability of setting up two new thermal power plants in the state.
Officials of the energy department Wednesday decided to extend full cooperation to Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) in developing two thermal power generation projects at Jagdishpur and Gonda.
South Africa has lost a total of 430 rhinos to poaching since January, state-run news agency SA News reported.
“The latest rhino poaching statistics indicate that a total of 430 rhinos have been lost to illegal killings since the beginning of this year,” the Department of Environmental Affairs said.
A total of 205 people have been arrested, the department said.
The Kruger National Park has lost 258 rhinos, whereas Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal and the North West provinces continue to be hit by poachers, collectively accounting for the loss of 141 rhinos.
Six months after his arrest in a murder case and amidst allegations of land grabbing, the district administration is yet to ascertain if a substantial chunk of land in Yakutpura on which Hamza bin Omar alias Zafar Pahelwan’s large house stands actually belongs to the government.
To the surprise of critics expecting no contest, Republican challenger Mitt Romney held his own against President Barack Obama as the two sparred over jobs, taxes and healthcare in the first presidential debate.
Taking the offensive right from the word go in the 90-minute encounter, Wednesday night in Denver, Colorado, Romney made good use of a gaffe by Vice President Joe Biden to suggest that the middle class had been “buried” under Obama’s economic policies.
A new book says President Barack Obama hoped to put Osama bin Laden on trial if he had surrendered during a US raid.
In a book on the raid that killed bin Laden, author Mark Bowden quotes Obama as saying he thought he could make a strong political argument for giving bin Laden the full rights of a criminal defendant, to show US justice applies even to him. In the book, Bowden says Obama said he expected the terror leader to go down fighting.
“The Finish” is due out October 16.
Obama’s remarks are the first time the president has discussed putting the terrorist on trial.
Two persons were electrocuted and ten others injured when the vehicle in which they were carrying a Goddess idol came in contact with a live wire in Odisha’s Cuttack district, police said Wednesday.
The incident took place at Mallihata village in Jagatpur police station area when some youths were taking out a procession of the goddess “Khudurkuni” yesterday for immersion, they said.
The revelers had covered the idol with a metal sheet in order to protect the idol from rain. When the sheet came in contact with the 11 KV live wire, the whole vehicle was electrocuted.
US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney Wednesday sparred on domestic issues including healthcare, government regulation and the role of government, as they faced off in the first presidential debate.
The two candidates began to touch on regulation and healthcare when they concentrated on the topic of economy during the first half of the debate, reported Xinhua.
Three British nationals have been arrested for unauthorised entry into the rooms of the West Indian cricketers in their hotel here, the police informed today.
“At least three girls of British nationality have been arrested for unauthorised entry by the ministerial security division when they entered the hotel floor of the rooms of the West Indian cricketers,” a statement from the police spokesman and superintendent, Ajith Rohana, said.
They have been handed over to the Cinnamon Gardens police for further investigations.
The so-called “bad bank” created to house Spain’s toxic real-estate assets will start operating in December and will feature greater participation by private investors than initially announced.
Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said private investment will account for at least 55 percent of the equity and subordinated debt in the new asset management company, where non-performing property loans and other impaired assets are to be segregated.
The song ‘Tata Birla Ambani Aur Bata’ from director Prakash Jha’s upcoming film ‘Chakravyuh’, which ran into trouble with the Censor Board, is not meant to disrespect or hurt anyone, he told reporters here today.
The Censor Board passed the song after a disclaimer, which clarifies that the names have been used symbolically and does not mean any harm or disrespect to any individual or brand.
India Thursday successfully test fired its indigenously developed, nuclear-capable ballistic missile Prithvi-II from a test range in Odisha, an official said.
The 350-km range missile blasted off from the launch complex No.III at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) of Chandipur in Balasore district, around 230 km from here.
“The test was successful,” ITR director M.V.K.V. Prasad told IANS.
The launch was carried out by the Indian armed forces, as part of user trial, and monitored by the scientists of Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO).
TRS MLA Harish Rao has alleged that Telangana ministers are afraid of chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy who is an obstacle in Telangana formation and they are forced to praise and fawn the chief minister to save their seat.
Criticizing CM’s fresh statement against formation of separate Telangana state Harish Rao told that on one hand Congress high command is carrying out discussion on Telangana issue and on the other hand chief minister is rejecting possibilities of Telangana.
Russia’s Mission Control Center announced that it dropped an earlier plan to move the International Space Station into a different orbit to avoid possible collision with space debris after additional calculations showed that there was no such threat.
Mission Control Center said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies that a fragment of space debris would fly by too far to pose any danger to the space outpost, so a plan to fire booster rockets to carry out the maneuver on Thursday at 07:22 A.M. Moscow time (0322 GMT) was canceled.
NASA astronomers were able to make the most precise measurement yet of the Hubble constant, or the rate at which our universe is stretching apart.
The Hubble constant is named after astronomer Edwin P. Hubble who astonished the world in the 1920s by confirming our universe has been expanding since it exploded 13.7 billion years ago. Astronomers used the Spitzer space telescope to measure the constant.
The newly refined value for the Hubble constant is 74.32.1 km per second per megaparsec. A megaparsec is roughly 3 million light years, Xinhua reported Wednesday.
India Thursday test fired its indigenously developed, nuclear-capable ballistic missile Prithvi-II from a test range in Odisha, defence sources said.
The 350-km range missile blasted off from the launch complex No.III at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) of Chandipur in Balasore district, around 230 km from here.
—IANS
India’s energy needs can be met entirely by solar and other renewable sources, says a new study by two professors at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore. Their report published in the journal Current Science may add ammunition to the anti-nuclear agitation in India.
The analysis by Hiremath Mitavachan and Jayaraman Srinivasan of IISc’s Divecha Centre for Climate Change overturns the argument that nuclear power is essential for India because the country does not have enough land to exploit the potential of solar energy in India.