Feed Editor 13 Dec 2010 19:44:27 GMT Want to have latest news on Indian and Global Muslims? Log on right away to www.ummid.com. Ummid.com is not the usual websites offering the news pertaining to Indian Muslims. 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 Chief Ministers Naveen Patnaik of Orissa and J. Jayalalithaa of Tamil Nadu Thursday backed former Lok Sabha speaker Purno Sangma for the presidency, giving a new twist to an election in which the Congress and the BJP have not revealed their cards. 17 May 2012 15:57:57 GMT http://ummid.com/news/2012/May/17.05.2012/sangma_as_pres.htm FCCAE7B6-4722-4EBA-A9DB-D54BEE6504E2 00:00 no A survey in China has found the Chinese are ageing faster. An average Chinese is 8.2 years older than his or her real age while men have a poorer health than women. 17 May 2012 15:40:14 GMT http://ummid.com/news/2012/May/17.05.2012/age_of_chinese.htm 568A5389-ED26-41AF-B0EB-B04F9CDA08A6 00:00 no Spectacles for the blind, a real-time communication between speech impaired and others and a guide to expecting mothers are some of the projects showcased by the employees of Microsoft at the Microsoft IT Research Centre here Thursday. 17 May 2012 15:38:11 GMT http://ummid.com/news/2012/May/17.05.2012/microsoft_india.htm 59B15EF0-89C8-4A6E-AC12-1B2C4EAA0C0C 00:00 no The Indian School of Business (ISB) Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Bahwan CyberTek (BCT) Group of Oman, to provide executive education courses in the Middle East. 17 May 2012 15:04:32 GMT http://ummid.com/news/2012/May/17.05.2012/isb_mou_middle_est.htm 0D2E3036-BD43-4413-B41F-7C7A4B76E049 00:00 no Three judges from the Saket district courts were attacked by a motorbike-rider in south Delhi after their car hit his vehicle, police said Thursday, adding one of the judges was injured. 17 May 2012 14:24:24 GMT http://ummid.com/news/2012/May/17.05.2012/judges_attacked.htm 1B3764E9-1408-4451-9430-AF66BC74CD6E 00:00 no While all eyes are on Mulayam Singh Yadav ahead of India's presidential election, mum is the word in his camp. The Samajwadi Party chief is keeping his cards close to the chest, though his party's support will be crucial in the ruling UPA's choice of president. 17 May 2012 14:20:02 GMT http://ummid.com/news/2012/May/17.05.2012/mulayam_on_pres.htm B13C84D3-F798-42F4-9EDF-0A3DA20DDA44 00:00 no After revolutionising the Internet, Google has now unleashed its next-generation technology - 'Knowledge Graph' - which can locate even more relevant information for you than ever before, on the right-hand side of the traditional results. 17 May 2012 13:56:22 GMT http://ummid.com/news/2012/May/17.05.2012/knowledge_graph_google.htm 392C9457-604C-4F16-9C70-7C0C9EF32829 00:00 no Home Minister P. Chidambaram, who is known to be fluent in Tamil and English, stunned the Lok Sabha Thursday when he addressed the house in Bhojpuri, receiving praise from Speaker Meira Kumar, who comes from Bihar, for his effort. 17 May 2012 09:36:29 GMT http://ummid.com/news/2012/May/17.05.2012/chidambaram_in_bhojpuri.htm 5D204F41-2644-4025-B58E-3C07D21F7AF4 00:00 no In order to improve the democratic character of global governance, Indian parliamentarians have lent their support to a global campaign for the creation of an elected global parliamentary assembly at the United Nations. 17 May 2012 09:25:58 GMT http://ummid.com/news/2012/May/17.05.2012/indian_mps_in_un_parl.htm 72B51183-BB60-4374-A28B-0510E125A5D1 00:00 no In 1923, iconic Bengali humorist Sukumar Ray described a curious race of beings "who were scared to laugh". With the government forced to apologise for a 1949 cartoon on Jawaharlal Nehru and B.R. Ambedkar after parliamentarians of all hues raised a massive ruckus, are Indians becoming that humourless race? 17 May 2012 09:21:52 GMT http://ummid.com/news/2012/May/17.05.2012/humour_n_indians.htm 7F8436CD-1E11-47AA-ABE5-2D92CE758E4A 00:00 no The skeletons are tumbling out of the corruption cupboard but Uttar Pradesh's former ruling party, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), is unusually quiet -- not even reacting to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's allegation that it was involved in scams of over Rs.40,000 crore. 17 May 2012 06:25:59 GMT http://ummid.com/news/2012/May/17.05.2012/bsp_scam_elephant.htm 1B4FF437-1320-4189-A0F1-F4046E00ADB9 00:00 no After holding office for a year, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy is patting himself on the back. But critics are not impressed. 17 May 2012 06:23:13 GMT http://ummid.com/news/2012/May/17.05.2012/chandy_after_a_year.htm 596DE2DE-9B29-4022-9146-E3C4FB37F2A6 00:00 no US lawmakers of both Democratic and Republican parties have slammed the Obama administration's request for $2.4 billion for Pakistan, calling it a "black hole" where the US has "sunk" $24 billion over the last decade. 17 May 2012 06:19:06 GMT http://ummid.com/news/2012/May/17.05.2012/us_aid_to_pakistan.htm 0FF722FD-A194-469E-AAB3-038CA874FBC2 00:00 no "Were the guilty to be punished, the loss of faith can be restored to a large extent. But the CBI's report may well be only a storm in a tea cup. The Manmohan Singh government has neither the will nor the strength to take on the BJP which may get away with the murder of India's secularism", Nayar, noted journalist and syndicated columnist, wrote in his article. 17 May 2012 05:04:12 GMT http://ummid.com/news/2012/May/17.05.2012/kuldeep_nayyer_on_babri_demo.htm 881DE29F-A9D8-491C-8DB2-73FCF5990760 00:00 no The demolition of a portion of former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf's ancestral home, Neharwali Haveli in Old Delhi's Daryaganj, has stirred a row with the legality of the construction coming under question. 17 May 2012 03:38:45 GMT http://ummid.com/news/2012/May/17.05.2012/musharraf_hs_in_india.htm 623754B7-FAAD-4EBC-B2E1-7B6CD2E90A84 00:00 no Looks more likely decide who we would trust with our money rather than their reputation, says a new study. 17 May 2012 03:32:59 GMT http://ummid.com/news/2012/May/17.05.2012/look_person_trust.htm 05ED8852-F791-49A6-87CF-92785FCC3DA4 00:00 no Amid reports on some TV news channels that Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan had complained to Chairman M. Hamid Ansari about cameras excessively focusing on her during the oath-taking ceremony of actress Rekha, the Rajya Sabha secretariat Wednesday denied the news as factually incorrect. 16 May 2012 16:30:15 GMT http://ummid.com/news/2012/May/16.05.2012/jaya_tv_rprt_focus.htm 37B8487C-4E4C-4E11-9301-107B10BEC78B 00:00 no The Delhi High Court Wednesday directed its joint registrar to take police assistance, if needed, to bring veteran Congress leader N.D. Tiwari to court premises for collecting his blood sample for a DNA test in a paternity suit. 16 May 2012 16:28:11 GMT http://ummid.com/news/2012/May/16.05.2012/paternity_test_on_tiwari.htm D0C8DD90-1F6B-4628-A8D5-9E630A1BA1E5 00:00 no