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Ummid.com is a platform to discover Indian Muslims in totally a new form. http://www.ummid.com http://www.ummid.com aleem.faizee@gmail.com en-us aleem.faizee@gmail.com no The Ernakulam unit of the CPI-M has accused M.A. Yusuf Ali, owner of the Emke Group, of encroaching upon the government land for his Rs.1600-crore Lulu Shopping Mall project here that opened in March this year. 26 May 2013 06:34:27 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/26.05.2013/middle_est_busmn_in_kerala_polit.html A26167C9-19FE-4CCC-9AE0-F48B48480110 00:00 no An over 100-strong group of Maoists Saturday attacked a Congress party convoy, carrying out a landmine blast and then opening fire, resulting in the death of 16 people, including two senior Congress leaders and injuries to 25 others. 26 May 2013 03:48:27 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/26.05.2013/maoist_attack_death_toll.html B012FBDF-48B9-4089-B83C-78B082A8A9E8 00:00 no Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi, the UAE's minister of development and international cooperation, has been ranked 67th among the world's powerful women in 2013 in an annual report by Forbes. 26 May 2013 03:46:44 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/26.05.2013/uae_mnstr_pwrfl_womn.html 0A42AEFB-99E8-44DE-9BB6-85E9B053A31C 00:00 no An over 100-strong group of Maoists Saturday attacked a Congress party convoy, carrying out a landmine blast and then opening fire, resulting in the death of two senior Congress leaders, including Mahendra Karma, and injuries to senior party leader V.C. Shukla. 25 May 2013 19:14:13 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/maoist_attack_on_cong_con.html 3E97FB35-9633-45BD-82CD-52DC82EF1BAA 00:00 no Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists in the area, and comes amid accusations of ethnic cleansing in the aftermath of sectarian violence. 25 May 2013 18:55:08 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/two_child_policy_fr_rhngya_muslims.html 2D61E0CB-03B2-4CF0-9893-E700413601B8 00:00 no From Ishrat Jahan to Maulana Mujahid, there's a long list of the usual suspects ending up dead in detention or in staged police encounters. There have been others like the Mumbai lawyer Shahid Azmi, another defender of the indefensible, whose killing remains a permanent mystery. 25 May 2013 18:19:34 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/zaka_syed_on_khalid_mujahid.html 29938C6F-65D8-49CD-800C-74640C05D701 00:00 no "Within the next six months, we need to bring out a workable research document for marketing space solar power to space-faring nations," Kalam said Friday at the 32nd International Space Development Conference (ISDC) in his acceptance speech on receiving the Wernher Von Braun Memorial Award in San Diego, USA. 25 May 2013 17:25:46 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/kalam_on_space_solar_pwr.html 1E7CA755-4708-4A7A-A7AA-DA441D22AFC4 00:00 no "India's relations with Africa are rooted in history... India's engagement with Africa has come a long way and today we have built a new template for partnership in the form of the India-Africa Forum Summit. Our partnership is guided by the vision and promise of our African partners of their priorities," an Indian ministry of external affairs official said ahead of the visit. 25 May 2013 17:20:16 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/hamid_ansari_at_au.html 01C43553-9C78-4A52-A8E4-A751BC2C2134 00:00 no This will be the fourth NID campus in the country. The institute was established in Ahmedabad in 1961 and has its campuses in Gandhinagar and Bangalore, offering graduate and postgraduate diploma courses in 18 disciplines. 25 May 2013 15:50:49 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/fdnt_stone_of_nid_hyd.html FF193E2D-F5E8-4E7E-9DBC-1807C213E9A2 00:00 no Available between from May 26 to June 2 between 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., 'Hopeline' -- 011- 65978181 has been launched by NGO Snehi. Students can also seek help online and the by sending their queries on hopeline98@gmail.com. 25 May 2013 15:05:08 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/helpline_for_cbse.html E90F7209-32F9-40C3-B389-31193C8B910A 00:00 no A decision on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the BJP's prime ministerial candidate will only be taken by the party's parliamentary board "when it is appropriate" and not when the national executive meets here next month, a BJP leader said Saturday. 25 May 2013 14:43:08 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/bjp_on_modi_as_pm.html 86117893-A279-4A46-AEA0-F178FDE16915 00:00 no Jolly said: "The Indian government should have taken adequate steps well in advance to protect the Indian labour force working in Saudi Arabia the Foreign Ministry along with Ministry of Overseas Affairs has failed in its primary task." 25 May 2013 14:11:52 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/bjp_on_nitqat.html 6AFAEFA5-3D99-4E34-93ED-F4BD87329B9D 00:00 no Addressing a public meeting at Chak Mohammad Yar, about 25 km west of Jammu, Abdullah said: "A healthy change in the mindset of politicians in Pakistan towards Kashmir issue and India-Pakistani relations has also been clearly observed during the recent electioneering process in that country." 25 May 2013 13:19:31 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/omar_on_pak_ldrshp.html E840A5E5-A556-4B7D-B3B0-8FD73A2E4B36 00:00 no The new capabilities, and a production system for building touch-sensitivity into different robots, will improve the way robots work in unconstrained settings, as well as their ability to communicate and cooperate with each other and with humans, reports Science Daily. 25 May 2013 12:34:30 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/sceintst_on_skin_rbt.html 891C3E7B-3C2D-45E1-BEA4-D28C10C3B334 00:00 no "It's possible to revive the lost glory of our higher education system and take at least a few of our universities into the global top league," Mukherjee said while inaugurating the Maharaja Agrasen University at Kalujhanda, near here, in Solan district. 25 May 2013 11:12:55 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/centre-of-excellnce-in-uvs.html 72F5CBE0-FBC1-4410-B29A-1289E74CD529 00:00 no In a surprise move, the Mumbai police on Friday banned the Muslim reservation march from entering Azad Maidan and hold the rally, the Muslim Reservation Federation (MRF) activists said in a press conference held at Marathi Patrakar Sangh today afternoon. 25 May 2013 10:26:56 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/muslim_rservation_march_permission.html 285CA3D7-4778-4897-B4A1-13FC7C1695CC 00:00 no The Indian minister's visit comes when the Indian Embassy in Riyadh and the consulate in Jeddah and other centres in Dammam and the Eastern Province have issued a second lot of 27,000 Emergency Certificates to enable Indian citizens to leave Saudi Arabia for home. 25 May 2013 08:27:10 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/help_indians_in_saudi.html 690EC6CD-3658-4E17-9249-2508C7AE2320 00:00 no The jury is out, however, on the question whether the poll surveys indicate a present-day urban bias against the Congress-led alliance rather than a genuine countrywide reality. Sonia Gandhi's comment to mediapersons during the celebrations - "you Dilliwalas know nothing about the feelings of the people" - underlines the divide. 25 May 2013 08:22:37 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/upa+perf-honest-appsl.html C6DFF786-2609-48C0-9157-BA4F6E4C8D4B 00:00 no "The wedding was solemnised in a simple way at the temple in the presence of dozens of people, including police officials," Hiralal Mandal, a social activist said, adding that the wedding found the support of relatives and villagers. 25 May 2013 07:23:02 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/frn_marrs_rape_victm.html 98556E06-9424-4A54-B1D2-29D7250558E4 00:00 no The media hype has added to the speculation with nearly a dozen TV channels and others leading people to believe that Chennithala would be inducted into the cabinet once he finished his statewide campaign May 18, the second anniversary of the Congress-led government. Tension grew with talk that he wanted the home portfolio. 25 May 2013 07:21:14 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/friction_in_kerala_cong.html 8DAA9EB3-42DF-4770-9A43-D1CCDD6D366F 00:00 no Many vehicles in Pakistan are powered by compressed natural gas due to its cheap price. Due to poor manufacturing quality of gas cylinders, gas cylinder blasts frequently occur in the country. 25 May 2013 06:46:05 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/pak_kds_die_in_cyldr_blast.html 75BF77E7-BC8D-4EB2-BDC0-671691EBAECC 00:00 no In a new book, Jagdish Bhagwati senior fellow at Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University professor, demonstrate how growth was the strategy successfully deployed to reduce poverty in India. 25 May 2013 05:19:46 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/india_grwth_stry.html 3BA57E14-2E86-4C4C-84B3-E2E836B46E68 00:00 no "Tina Kandelaki is a friend, but the truth is more important. My cat is 100 times more beautiful," he said. Kandelaki, a TV celebrity, responded by asking her followers to vote on Instagram for her cat - Brazil. 25 May 2013 04:21:17 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/25.05.2013/whose_cat_btfl.html 0274559A-829D-4DF8-895D-8A679706C3CF 00:00 no The proposals, backed by both archbishops, offer a nearly complete victory for the female clergy and their supporters outraged by the failure of the earlier legislation, The Guardian reported. 24 May 2013 17:23:14 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/24.05.2013/church_on_female_bishops.html 32AC2089-1E93-450C-8E1C-FBB6F9B6E5D5 00:00 no According to a BBC correspondent, there was a suggestion that there had been threats on board during the flight, involving some sort of weapon or bomb - although this had not been confirmed. 24 May 2013 17:05:42 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/24.05.2013/pak_plane_mid_air_alrt.html 07E52D18-8CDC-4698-9CAE-8A2EF6518891 00:00 no Searing summer heat continued to scorch the plains and hills across north India as temperatures remained over 45 degree Celsius Friday. There will be no respite from the intense heat Saturday, the weather office said. 24 May 2013 16:41:46 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/24.05.2013/heat_across_plains.html 2D90D643-A0D6-410D-A8B5-0B424C823E45 00:00 no The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Friday issued notice to Delhi's Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University for an anomaly in its admission exams in which aspirants were allotted an examination centre which had been shut for the past 10 years. 24 May 2013 15:03:31 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/24.05.2013/nhrc_on_ip_exam_goof_up.html D9ED86D4-9871-464E-BC47-DDE2C2203286 00:00 no Nick Robinson, the BBC's political editor, Friday apologised for directly quoting a Whitehall source who described the Woolwich killers as being "of Muslim appearance". 24 May 2013 14:50:57 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/24.05.2013/bbc_on_muslim_rmrk.html D6DCAE7F-D56F-4DA5-8F56-46E2F8EDB648 00:00 no The committee, headed by Indian Council of Social Science Research chairman Sukhadeo Thorat, has suggested that the institutions be set up as central universities with their focus on minorities, instead of minority institutions as proposed, The Telegraph said in a report Wednesday. 24 May 2013 14:27:48 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/24.05.2013/panel_on_minority_uvs.html 8480374B-C5B7-4517-80B2-7B78860A1560 00:00 no The results will also be available through interactive voice response system (IVRS) at a charge of Re.0.30 per minute. The numbers will be available on CBSE website. 24 May 2013 14:03:13 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/24.05.2013/cbse_rslt_mndy.html 5AFCEF32-0D39-43FF-AEA2-369E8F7090B1 00:00 no The government says the law is aimed at protecting Turkey's youth from the harms of alcohol but secularist opponents accuse the Islamic-rooted ruling party of gradually imposing an Islamic agenda. 24 May 2013 14:00:21 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/24.05.2013/turkey_on_alcohol_sales.html 95B82DB5-90D1-47C5-B465-741B37B37A85 00:00 no "The border problem was not created by India. It is a heritage of colonial times when borders were not defined," Kadakin said, speaking of the recent standoff between the Indian armed forces and the Chinese People's Liberation Army, whose soldiers had erected tents deep inside Indian territory along the India-China border. 24 May 2013 13:11:08 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/24.05.2013/russia_on_india_china_brdr.html 11192BD7-F997-4A07-A2E8-2045D6D4103D 00:00 no Saudi high school students have recently received eight awards at the annual Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, (Intel ISEF), in Phoenix, Arizona. The Saudi team ranked third globally behind the Canadian and American teams, attaining the same ranking as their Chinese counterparts, according to Arab News. 24 May 2013 13:07:41 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/24.05.2013/saudi_stdnts_at_us_scince_fair.html D56924D6-3149-4FD4-9249-1C0D78A11B67 00:00 no Mincing no words, Badal added: "The Congress is no longer a stakeholder in Punjab. We had always maintained that Amarinder Singh would do to the Congress in Punjab what Mr. Sidharath Shankar Ray had done to the Congress in West Bengal in the 1970s. 24 May 2013 12:19:10 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/24.05.2013/punjab_politics_hotter.html 179775D7-5789-4144-9079-7678B617FA24 00:00 no "If Bangalore degenerates, then Karnataka will be hurt and he will not be able to execute his ambitious programme for the state. Also let us remember there is a Lok Sabha election in 2014. The citizens of Bangalore are articulate, have high expectations and will not easily accept any more destruction of their city," Pai said. 24 May 2013 11:39:24 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/24.05.2013/hopes_in_cong_gvrmt_kar.html 962EC375-3220-4AB1-8DF6-F835E2F28C72 00:00 no If it were to be a tidy separation of the Muslims from the rest and the rest were a solid bloc of sorts, you have the outlines of a Hindu state. This outcome may be to the liking of people with a certain ideological bent. But any fool can tell you that is not the way the cookie is crumbling, given the country's linguistic ethnic and caste divisions. But something even more dangerous is happening. 24 May 2013 10:13:30 GMT http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/May/24.05.2013/khalid_mujahid_n_war_on_terror.html 0B9A1AED-AEEB-43DC-B07F-36EB6583A628 00:00 no