Govt. approves development programme for minority concentration districts

By Khabrein.info Correspondent,

March 29: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today gave its approval for introducing a new Centrally Sponsored Scheme namely ‘Multi-sectoral Development Programme’ for minority concentration districts, with 100% central assistance, during the XIth Five Year Plan with an estimated expenditure of Rs.3780.00 crore.

The programme aims at improving the socio-economic parameters and basic amenities in these districts for improving the quality of life of the people and reducing imbalances in line with priority attached to inclusive growth. Absolutely critical infrastructure linkages like connecting roads, basic health infrastructure, ICDS centres, skill development and marketing facilities required for improving living conditions and economic opportunities and catalyzing the growth process would also be eligible for inclusion in the plan.

The focus on this programme will be on rural and semi-rural areas of the identified 90 minority concentration districts. Financial assistance would made available to these districts to address the ‘development deficits’ that were either not met fully by existing schemes / programmes or catered to by any scheme / programme of the State or Central Government. The programme will be implemented by the Panchayati raj institutions / line departments / agencies / Scheduled Area councils in accordance with the implementation mechanism in practice in the State/UT.
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IIM-A hikes fee 150 %, making it impossible for poor to enroll

By Khabrein.info Correspondent,
New Delhi, March 29: Indian Institute of Management – Ahmadabad (IIM-A) has decided to hike the fee for its post graduate courses making it impossible for poor students to enroll in one of the most prestigious institutes in the country. The 150 percent hike in the fee is not only atrocious but it also effectively closes the door for poor students to dream of getting admission in it
The institute has increased the fee for two-year post-graduate programme in business management from existing Rs.450,000 to Rs.1.15 million from the next academic session beginning this year.
The decision to hike the fee was taken at an IIM-A board meeting here in New Delhi. The government opposed the move saying this would result in the other IIMs also increasing the fees.
IIM-A has increased the fee for the first year from Rs 2.20 lakh to Rs 5.50 lakh and the second year fee has been hiked to Rs 6 lakh instead of Rs 2.40 lakh that students pay now.

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Bedevilled World by Prof. Azharul Islam released

By Khabrein.info Correspondent,
New Delhi,March 29: Global Media Publications, a leading New Delhi-based publishing house Saturday released an important book on America’s war on terror titled, Bedevilled World. The book discusses as to how America has tried to defame Islam in the garb of terrorism and has used it as a pretext to target Muslim nations in Asia and Africa.
The author Prof. Azharul Islam, a former Vice Chancellor of the International Islamic University, Rajshahi, Bangladesh says that Islam has been accused for every evil, every incident of terrorism, every action of some splinter groups in remote corners of the world. Islam has been portrayed as a savage religion, bent upon destroying world.
He says that this unjust portrayal of Islam (a Divine Religion) is in sharp contrast to Christian groups responsible for atrocities or terrorist attacks throughout the century up to the present time. For these Christianity is hardly named or blamed in world media. Basque separatists, IRA, Ku Klux Klan, other terrorists groups or individuals including Oklahoma city bomber 27-year old Timothy James McVeigh (168 were killed on 19 April, 1995) in countries like Britain, Germany, Lebanaon, North or South America or elsewhere in the world are never called Christian terrorists and Christianity is never blamed for their actions. President Bush’s so-called multi-billion dollar ‘war on terror’ in the last few years has failed to contain terrorism.
The author suggests that the so-called ‘war on terror’ should have been fought alongside the ‘war on global injustice’. Something about redressing global injustice, Muslim plight, bigotry, attack on Islam should be addressed genuinely. One should clearly understand that ‘fault’ does not entirely rest on a group or a smaller country but on the most powerful nation and the colonial powers for their imperialistic behaviour. A manifesto that seeks to enforce ‘Western hegemony and cultural imperialism’ through an archaic policy of ‘divide and rule’ is probably hard to win friends, though it is sure to create more enemies.
The author says that the world has a good example in Bangladesh where the government has fought openly against terrorist activities of some fringe Muslim organizations. He says that the Bangladeshi government was able to destroy terrorist infrastructure in the country due to some wonderful actions taken by it and by taking the general population in confidence against the terrorist elements.
Name of the Book: Bedevilled WorldBy Prof. Azharul Islam, ISBN: 8188869260Date of Publication: March 2008326 pages, tables, figuresPrice: Rs 845 (India), US$ 45 (Elsewhere)Published by : Global Media Publications

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Muslim ulama oppose new gender sensitive nikahnama

By Rakesh Mohan Chaturvedi
Lucknow, March : Clerics are refusing to accept the new nikahnama, a marriage document prepared by a Muslim women's organisation, which it claims is free from any gender bias.
The All India Muslim Women Personal Law Board (AIMWPLB) has prepared the new nikahnama, inviting sharp reaction from clerics.
Sunni cleric Khalid Rashid Firangi Mahali dismissed it as a "publicity stunt".
"Two years ago the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) came out with a nikahnama and all sections approved it. Even the women representatives agreed. So what was the need for another code?" Rashid said.
But AIMWPLB president Shaista Ambar, who prepared the new marriage document, is undeterred.

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Gujarat riots: SC says religious fanaticism worse than terrorism

By Khabrein.info Correspondent,
New Delhi, March 26: Indian Supreme Court (SC) in a landmark observation regarding Gujarat riots said today that religious fanaticism is worse than terrorism. The Supreme Court is the only institution that has consistently stood up to support the Gujarat riot victims. The riot, one of the worst in India’s post-independent history is a blot on India’s face. More than two thousand people mostly Muslims were slaughtered in riots that had apparent backing of the state government.
The apex court today also ordered Gujarat’s Modi government to set up a special investigation team (SIT) within 10 days to probe 10 14 most important cases of communal riots in the state six years ago.
A three-member Supreme Court bench consisting of Justices Arjit Pasayat, P. Sathasivam and Aftab Alam said the team would submit its probe report to the court in a sealed cover within three months and it would act further on the court's order.

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SC orders 10 Gujarat riot cases to be probed again

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New Delhi, March 25: Supreme Court has once again cast suspicion on the handling of Gujarat riot cases by the Modi government in the state. SC today ordered 10 Gujarat riot cases to be probed again by a former CBI director. Gujarat riots of the year 2002 were worst riots in the history of post independent India. More than two thousand people, mostly Muslims, were slaughtered across the state. State government has been accused of complicity in the riots that has divided this western Indian state on religious lines like never before.

SC today constituted a special team headed by former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director R.K Raghavan to probe 10 crucial cases of 2002 communal carnage in Gujarat.

Supreme Court bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat, P. Sathasivam and Aftab Alam took the decision while hearing a bunch of petitions seeking either a probe into these cases by the CBI or transfer of their trial outside the state.

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AP, Assam and Bengal: Muslim enrolment at primary level 100 %

By Husna Anjum
(Khabrein.info Special)
New Delhi: A survey by National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) has made the startling finding that the primary enrolment among Muslims is still a lot lower than the national level. Muslims who make around 14 percent of the national population, their ratio in primary school was a meager 9.4 percent, while in pre-primary level it was just about 7.5 percent.
Though it was not at all amazing after recent surveys including the Sachar Committee report, all showing that Muslims were the most backward community when it comes to education.
What is good about the recent survey is that it shows that Muslims are doing a lot better in states where the over all development level is good and also in state out of BIMARU hold that include UP, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The enrolment of Muslims in primary level in Andhra Pradesh is better than the overall enrollment in the state. The same is true about Muslims enrollment in a not well off state of West Bengal.
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Muslim Woman married to sister’s husband to get maintenance

By khabreininfo Correspondent,
New Delhi, March 23: In a ruling of far reaching consequences, the Indian Supreme Court said that a Muslim woman married to her sister’s husband should get maintenance from her husband.
Under Islamic law a man cannot marry two sisters at the same time. The husband can marry the sister of her wife only when the two have been separated or after the death of the first sister.
Two-member bench of the apex court of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice J.M. Panchal while ruling on a plea of maintenance by Bismillah Begum said that she would be given maintenance by her husband. The woman who hails from Karnataka state had said that she married Chand Patel, the husband of her elder sister Mashaq Begum in 1992. The two fell apart in 2001 after the birth of their daughter.
Her husband on the other hand denied that he ever married. He also said that even if he married her "it was void from the word go and never valid as per the Muslim personal law, which forbids marriage with the wife's sister during the latter's life or continuation of her marriage".
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Muslims in Indian Economy - 2: Shahnaz Hussain: the woman who rules Indian beauty market

By Azera Rahman
She is a name to reckon with when it comes to herbal beauty care. But when Shahnaz Hussain is not immersed in her world of ayurveda, she does a whole lot of other things, for instance, snipping her Louis Vuitton bags to make pockets on her coat or designing six-foot-tall wooden dolls!
As you walk into Hussain's luxurious south Delhi home, a big Christmas tree complete with all the decorations welcomes you at the door. But instead of the usual green, this Christmas tree is in white - she had it specially ordered from London.
There's just one term to explain Hussain's home, 'interesting'. The drawing room, for example, is done up in pristine white and is filled with crystals, various sized flower vases, decorative items, soft toys, clocks, photographs and artefacts.
'The drawing room should be in subtle colour so that it's soothing to the visitors. Bright colours add too much weight on the mood of the guests. And these decorative pieces have been picked up on various trips to different countries at different times,' Hussain, donning a flaming red overcoat, thick gold anklets and red high heeled shoes, told IANS.

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Taslima Nasreen bids adieu to India

By Khabrein.info Correspondent,

New Delhi, March 19: Taslima Nasreen has finally bid adieu to India. On Wednesday Taslima, the author of several defamatory books including Dwikhandita, left India for London from where she reportedly left for a destination she did not disclose.

Taslima left for London from New Delhi on a British Airways flight. She had bitterly criticized the Indian government before she left the country.

In an interview to a leading Indian daily she said that “Fundamentalists do not torture you to death. They just finish you off. But the Indian Government slowly pushed me towards death. My terrible experience has shattered all notions about a secular and democratic India,”

She went on to add, “For 20 years, I have been hitting out against fundamentalism. There has been no physical attack on me. But India, when it failed to break me psychologically, destroyed me physically by denying treatment to an ill person”. Taslima has threatened to reveal all about the deplorable treatment given to her by Indian government. She said that she expose the Indian government which was out to kill her.

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Bin Laden threatens Europe over Prophet Mohammed cartoons

Washington, March 20 (DPA) Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden threatened Europe over the publication of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed, in comments made in an internet video released to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the US-led war in Iraq.

Addressing the "intelligent ones in the European Union," bin Laden said the drawings first published in a Danish newspaper were even more offensive than war-related killings, according to a transcript of his remarks released by the IntelCenter, a private firm outside Washington that monitors terrorist activities on the web.

"Although our tragedy in your killing of our women and children is a very great one, it paled when you went overboard in your unbelief and freed yourselves of the etiquettes of dispute and fighting and went to the extent of publishing these insulting drawings," he said. "This is the greater and more serious tragedy, and reckoning for it will be more severe."

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Taslima Nasreen is leaving the country

By Khabrein.info Correspondent,
New Delhi, March 18: Controversial author, Taslima Nasreen who was holed up in a safe house in New Delhi Delhi for the last several months has announced that she is leaving the country. Sources who are close to Taslima say that she will go to Swedan.
Taslima who lives under the tight vigil of the central government agencies due to the heightened security concerns says that she cannot endure to live in such condition where neither she can venture out of the safe house not can easily meet anyone.
Reports indicate that Taslima may leave the country as soon as Tuesday evening. Earlier reports said that she was leaving the country for some medical check ups.
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Some important books on Dalai Lama, Tibet, and Buddhism

New Delhi, March 18: With Tibet up in flames, a number of people want to learn more about the country, Dalai Lama and Buddhism. Here we give a list of some important books on the life of His holiness Dalai Lama, his country and religion, Buddhism.
Understanding the Dalai Lama Rajive Mehrotra http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=17227 Dalai Lama, My son : A Mother’s Story Diki Tsering http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24183
Many Ways to Nirvana : Discourses on Right Living : His Holiness the Dalai Lama Renuka Singh http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24288
The Dalai Lamas : The Institution and its History Ardy Verhaegen http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24184
The Essential Dalai Lama : His Important Teachings Rajiv Mehrotra http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24235
The Last Time I Saw Tibet Bimal Dey http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24952
Tibet Past and Present Deb Bahadur Thapa http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24358
An Account of Tibet : The Travels of Ippolito Desideri, 1712-1727 Filippo De Filippi http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=13218
Antiquities of Upper Tibet : An Inventory of Pre-Buddhist Archaeological Sites on the High Plateau (Findings of the Upper Tibet Circumnavigation Expedition, 2000) John Vincent Bellezza http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=12968
Apparitions of the Self : The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary Janet Gyatso http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=14179
Buddhas Warriors : The Story of the CIA-Backed Tibetan Freedom Fighters, the Chinese Invasion and the Ultimate Fall of Tibet Mikel Dunham http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=12682
Diary of a Journey Across Tibet Bower Hamilton http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=11021
Engaged Buddhism : The Dalai Lamas Worldview Bharati Puri http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24230
Feminism, Nationalism and Exiled Tibetan Women Alex Butler http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=16837
The Buddhism of Tibet or Lamaism L. Austine Waddell http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24147
The Last Time I Saw Tibet Bimal Dey http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24952
Tibet Past and Present Deb Bahadur Thapa http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24358Dictionary of Buddhism By Damien Keown http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24191 Abhisamayalankara - Prajnaparamita - Upadesa - Sastra : The Work of Bodhisattva Maitreya By E. Obermiller Th. Stcherbatsky Year of Publication: 2006 http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=14174 Ahimsa : Buddhism and the Vegetarian Ideal By Bodo Balsys http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=14176 An Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy in India and Tibet By Zahiruddin Ahmad Year of Publication: 2007http://www.gmpublications.com /product_info.php?products_id=24267 Antiquities of Upper Tibet : An Inventory of Pre-Buddhist Archaeological Sites on the High Plateau (Findings of the Upper Tibet Circumnavigation Expedition, 2000) By John Vincent Bellezza http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=12968 Buddha : A Revolutionary and Reformer By Ramesh Chandra & Sangh Mittra http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24123 Buddha : His Life, His Doctrine, His Order By Hermann Oldenberg http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id =25468 Buddhanusmrti : A Glossary of Buddhist Terms By Kala Acharya http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24126 Buddhism : Art, Architecture, Literature and Philosophy (2 volume set)By G. Kamalakar http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24377 Buddhism as/in Performance : Analysis of Meditation and Theatrical Practice By David E.R. George http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24137 Buddhism Declined in India : How and Why By D.C. Ahir http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24129 BUDDHISM IN INDIA By GAIL OMVEDT http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=11178 Buddhism in Indian Literature By Narendra K. Dash Year of Publication: 2007 http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=25532 Buddhism: A Religion of Salvation By Moti Lal Pandit http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24132 Buddhist Art : In Praise of the Divine By Shashibala http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24150 Buddhist Art and Thought By Shashibala Year of Publication: 2007http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24106 Buddhist Divinities By Puspa Niyogi http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24157 Buddhist Sects and Sectarianism By Bibhuti Baruah http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24167 Dukkha : Suffering in Early Buddhism By M.V. Ram Kumar Ratnam http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24208 Encyclopaedia of Buddhist Tantra (5 volume set)By Sadhu Santideva http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=24908 Encyclopaedia of Gods and Goddesses (30 volumes set) Nagendra Kr Singh (ed.) http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=11554 Encyclopaedic History of India Through Ages ( 7 volume set) By S.R. Bakshi & Sangh Mittra http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=11306 Foregleams of God : A Comparative Study of Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity By T. Issac Tambyah http://www.gmpublications.com/product_info.php?products_id=12378

Indian American group meet in Chicago to improve India's villages

By Arun Kumar
Washington, March 16 (IANS) A group of Indian American activists plan to bring together friends of India who wish to play an active role in improving conditions in India's villages at a conference in Chicago in May.
Sponsored by 'US-India Friendship' group, the May 3-4 India Rural Development Action Programme Conference aims to develop concrete action programmes for water development, healthcare, primary education and economic development of Indian villages.
It is a follow up to the December 2007 Rural India Learning Journey undertaken by 24 Indian Americans to rural areas in Tamil Nadu.
It gave the participants a first-hand look at how the villagers of India are faring compared to the rapid progress of the upper and middle-class in the cities, the sponsors said.
The experience, while certainly eye-opening, was perhaps unexpectedly a positive one, according to Ram Narayanan, coordinator of the sponsoring enterprise US-India Friendship.
"Some of India's dynamic social entrepreneurs, otherwise known as NGOs (non-government organisations), are already in action lending a helping hand to transform rural India," he said.
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Some new titles on Islam and Indian Muslims

Newsletter March 2008: Some new titles on Islam and Indian Muslims

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Rights of Hindu and Muslim Women
By Neera Bharihoke, 2008
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Religion and Law in Independent India
By Robert D. Baird
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Behind the Veil : Representation of Muslim Woman in Indian Writings in English 1950-2000
By A.R. Kidwai
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Change and Continuity in Indian Sufism : A Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Branch in the Hindu Environment
By Thomas Dahnhardt
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Comparative Status of Muslim Women
By K.K. Sharma
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Democracy in Muslim Societies : The Asian Experience
By Zoya Hasan.
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Encyclopaedia of Madrasa Education in India
By K.C. Sharma
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The Faces of Islam : Tradition and Terror
By Naunihal Singh
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Faith Healing Among Muslims
By Meraj Hashmi
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Glimpses of Muslim Education in India : Peeping Through the Convocation Addresses of The Aligarh Muslim University
By Shan Mohammad
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India's Muslims : An Omnibus: Islamic Revival in British India Deoband, 1860-1900; The Bengal Muslims 1871-1906: A Quest for Identity; Legacy of a Divided Nation India's Muslims Since Independence
By Barbara Daly Metcalf, Rafiuddin Ahmed and Mushirul Hasan
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Islam, South Asia, and the West
By Francis Robinson
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Islam in India and Pakistan : A Religious History of Islam in India and Pakistan
By Murray T. Titus
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Islamic Fundamentalism in South Asia/R.K.P. Multani. Delhi, Sumit Enterprises, 2007, viii, 320 p., Rs 995/-.
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Living with Secularism : The Destiny of India's Muslims
By Mushirul Hasan
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Marriage Contract in Islam
By Tanzeem Fatima. New Delhi
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The Moria Muslims of Assam : A Study on the Cultural Variability and Drift
By Pradyot Kumar Guha
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Mosques
By Razia Grover
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Muslim Artisans, Craftsmen and Traders : Issues in Entrepreneurship
By Abdul Waheed
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Muslim Identity and Islam : Misinterpreted in the Contemporary World
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Muslim Modernism and the Problem of Modern Science
By M. Maroof Shah
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Muslims, Dalits and the Fabrications of History
By Shail Mayaram, M.S.S. Pandian and Ajay Skaria. Ranikhet Cantt
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Muslims in India : Contemporary Social and Political Discourses
By Yoginder Sikand
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Muslims of India Since Partition
By Balraj Puri
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The Red Thread : Healing Possession at a Muslim Shrine in North India
By Beatrix Pfleiderer
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Redefining Islamic Political Thought : A Critique in Methodological Perspective
By Obaidullah Fahad
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Religion in Indian History
By Irfan Habib,
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Seamless Boundaries : Lutfullah's Narrative Beyond East and West
By Mushirul Hasan
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Terrorism Resistance and Islam : A Study of 7/7 London Bombings
By Obaidullah Fahad.
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The Ulama, Islamic Ethics and Courts Under the Mughals : Aurangzeb Revisited
By M.L. Bhatia,
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What the Koran Really Says : Language, Text & Commentary
By Ibn Warraq,
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Women and Islam
By Shabana Fatma.
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WOMEN AND ISLAM
Fatima Mernissi
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Insurgency and Terrorism in India and Pakistan : With Special Reference to Benazir Bhutto
By Md. Elyas, 2008
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Terror's Last Gasp in Kashmir
By K.S. Rajamani. Delhi, 2008
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India Under the Shadow of Terrorism
By H. Parameshwar Hegde
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Insurgency and Terrorism : From Revolution to Apocalypse
By Bard E. O'Neill
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Responding to Terrorism in South Asia
By S.D. Muni
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Understanding Terrorism in South Asia : Beyond Statist Discourses
By Imtiaz Ahmed
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Unholy War : Extremism in the Name of Islam
By Naunihal Singh
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AMU gives itself pan-India character

By Brij Khandelwal
Aligarh, March 11: The Aligarh Muslim University is trying to make itself compatible with the changing times and needs of the society despite resentment from within.
Vice-chancellor P.K. Abdul Azis is keen that the institution joins the ranks of the best in the field of education.

The vice chancellor told the IANS that a proposal to open five new centres of the university to give it an identifiable all-India character is awaiting clearance from the Ministry of Human Resources Development (HRD), while four examinations centres have started functioning this year.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has also given Rs.70 million to the university's technical college, the Zakir Hussain College of Engineering and Technology (ZHCET), to upgrade it to the level of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

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H-1B professional visas creating jobs in US: study

By Arun Kumar
Washington, March 14 (IANS) American businesses are finding it hard to fill skilled positions even as H-1B visas that bring in foreign professionals, including a large number from India, are creating jobs in the US, shows a new US study.
Confirming Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' contention that an arbitrary cap on H-1B visas is forcing them to outsource jobs, the study shows major US technology companies today average more than 470 job openings for skilled positions in the US while defence companies have more than 1,265 each.
A second complementary study by the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) found after examining H-1B filings and year-by-year job totals for the technology companies in the Standard & Poor (S&P) 500 that hiring skilled foreign nationals on H-1B visas is associated with increases in employment at US technology companies.
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Khwaja Hasan Gafoor takes over as new police commissioner of Mumbai

By Hasan Kamal
Khwaja Hasan Gafoor is the 2nd Muslim officer who is going to take charge of Police Commissioner in a span of 43 years. Previously Majeedullah had been Police Commissioner from 1962 to 1965. Majeedullah is well known personality among the people right from common man to police personnel and even in Media, he is known as an honest and hardworking police commissioner.
The appointment of Khwaja Hasan Gafoor is hailed everywhere because of being Muslim and other side responsible and educated Muslims and Non-Muslims are also feeling relaxed to see that an honest, efficient and dutiful person has taken charge of such a higher post of police department. During his previous tenure nothing was heard wrong against him. All who met with him were impressed with his jolly nature. He has earned prestigious International awards twice for his fine performance. People who know him are well aware that his father late Khwaja Abdul Gafoor was also a well know personality and he was retired from the post of Additional Chief Secretary of Maharashtra Government. Late Khwaja Abdul Gafoor was scholar of Urdu, he worked for promotion of Urdu language and he used to respect and admire Urdu scholars. He used to write articles too. His wife (mother of present Commissioner of Police) belonged to a respectable family of Hyderabad and her speaking style of Hyderabad used to make her natural personality more distinguished. Thus the back ground of Khwaja Hasan Gafoor is such an impressive that people refer him as an example of politeness and nobility.
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