Muzaffarnagar peaceful, death toll climbs to 43
By IANS,Muzaffarnagar: The riot-ravaged Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh was calm for a third day Thursday, with the authorities relaxing curfew for seven hours, even as the death toll went up...
View ArticleUP cancels permission for BJP rally in Fatehpur Sikri
By IANS,Lucknow : The Uttar Pradesh government late Thursday ordered the cancellation of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rally scheduled for Sep 15 in Fatehpur Sikri near Agra.Officials said that the...
View ArticleCurfew in Shopian, partial restrictions in Srinagar
By IANS,Srinagar: Authorities continued curfew in south Kashmir Shopian, Kulgam and some other towns of Jammu and Kashmir Friday to maintain law and order.Tension had gripped Shopian town Wednesday,...
View ArticleAman chaupal organised at Rainbow School with Kiran Nazish
By TCN News,New Delhi: Aaghaz-e-Dosti (An initiative for Indo-Pak friendship, started by Mission Bhartiyam) organized its fourth Aman Chaupal today on 11 September 2013 at Rainbow English Senior...
View ArticleBring Ordinance on Prevention of Communal Violence immediately: Swami Agnivesh
By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: “The Muzaffarnagar riots have made it imperative on the Central Government to bring an ordinance on the Prevention of Communal Violence, and then see to its...
View ArticlePersian teachers’ body criticizes UPSC move to exclude Persian, Arabic from...
By TCN News,Aligarh: An emergent meeting of All India Persian Teachers' Association (AIPTA) was held at the Institute of Persian Research, Aligarh Muslim University under the chairmanship of Prof....
View ArticleMuzaffarnagar riots leave 43,000 homeless
By IANS,Muzaffarnagar : Violence-hit Muzaffarnagar was calm for the fourth day Friday, with Uttar Pradesh officials saying that the three days of violence had left over 43,000 people homeless.And with...
View ArticleBhatkal's arrest could give more clues to Delhi bombings
(Five years after Sep 13, 2008 serial blasts)By IANS,New Delhi : The arrest of Yasin Bhatkal and his associate Asadullah Akhtar has given Delhi police hope of nabbing the other conspirators involved...
View ArticleUS varsity delegation to visit AMU
By IANS,Aligarh : A group of academicians from the Ohio State University in the US will visit the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in Uttar Pradesh to help set up a science, technology, engineering and...
View Article'Women need to retaliate against sexual harassment'
By Meha Mathur, IANS,New Delhi : Girls need to retaliate against sexual harassment and clothing cannot be made a convenient excuse for molestation.This was the general sentiment voiced by students of...
View ArticleA few voices of sanity amidst Muzaffarnagar mayhem
By Mohit Dubey, IANS,Muzaffarnagar/Lucknow : Even as savagery and hatred blinded people in Muzaffarnagar and neighbouring districts over the last weekend, all does not seem to be lost. As two...
View ArticlePeace march in Lucknow tom on Muzaffarnagar riot
By TCN News,Lucknow: A number of civil society groups and smaller parties have come together to organise a peace march tomorrow in Lucknow. The march will begin from Hindi Sansthan to Gandhi statue in...
View ArticleJoint South Asian Eid event features Sudhir Narain’s Ghazal performance
By Ras H. Siddiqui, TwoCircles.net,San Francisco, USA: In a joint effort by San Francisco Bay Area Indians and Pakistanis, a late Eid event was held at the India Community Center facilities in...
View ArticleRSS creating communal rifts, says CPI-M
By IANS,New Delhi : Describing the Muzaffarnagar violence as "a warning bell", the CPI-M Friday accused the RSS of creating communal rifts to benefit the BJP in the next Lok Sabha election."The RSS had...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia to build residences for foreign workers
By IANS,Riyadh : The Saudi Arabian government Friday approved the construction of residential complexes for foreign workers on the outskirts of Riyadh to provide them with suitable housing...
View ArticleMuslim youth and Muzaffarnagar violence
By Soroor Ahmed, TwoCircles.net,Be it the communal riots in Muzaffarnagar in UP or relatively small one in Nawada in Bihar it is time for the Muslims, especially its leadership, to make introspection...
View ArticleShahid Azmi's mom helped Raj Kumar to get right look
By IANS,Mumbai : Raj Kumar Yadav, who will be seen as lawyer Shahid Azmi, who was shot dead in his office, got the right look for his role with the help of late advocate's mother.Hansal Mehta's...
View ArticleNarendra Modi: From tea vendor to PM candidate
By M.R. Narayan Swamy, IANS,New Delhi : For one who sold tea as a boy at a railway station in Gujarat, Narendra Modi has had a meteoric rise in Indian politics, catapulting from an untested chief...
View ArticleJudicial probe into Kishtwar violence begins
By IANS,Jammu: A judicial probe ordered into the Aug 9 communal clashes in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar town is set to begin Saturday, a source said.Justice (retired) R.C. Gandhi "will operate from the...
View ArticleBihar to crack down on those creating communal tension
By IANS,Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has asked the state police to use the National Security Act against any one trying to create communal tension in the state, officials said Saturday.A...
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