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LS
adjourns after uproar over inclusion of caste in census |
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Ramadan
to begin in India from August 12 |
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GoM
clears caste in census from biometric stage |
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PM's
remarks on autonomy evoke mixed reaction |
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Unrest in
Kashmir diverts tourists to neighbouring Himachal Pradesh |
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Madani's
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to begin in India from August 12
The holy month of
Ramadan will begin in India from tomorrow, August 12, 2010 as
the confirmed reports of sighting of moon
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Fasting is prescribed so that you may learn self-restraint |
PM urges
all shades of political opinion to come forward for talks in J & K
The Prime Minister,
Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Tuesday said that addressing the alienation
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Winning
hearts and minds of Kashmiris important: PC |
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 Unrest in
Kashmir diverts tourists to neighbouring Himachal Pradesh
Foreign tourists are heading for Shimla in the wake of growing
unrest in Jammu and Kashmir. Domestic and foreign tourists usually
go to
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Parliament over Mamata's Maoist remark
Proceedings in both houses of Parliament on Tuesday were disrupted
after the opposition attacked the UPA Government over Railway
Minister and Trinamool Chief
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for regulatory mechanism
for distance education
To enhance the standard of distance
education, the Government today indicated that it was mulling
putting in place a regulatory
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Teacher
wins fight against burqa diktat
A teacher at West Bengal's first Muslim
University, who was not allowed to hold classes after she defied the
student union's "diktat" to wear a burqa, has finally won her battle
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 Muslim
women law board decries fatwa against woman qazi
In yet another row over fatwa, the All India
Muslim Women Personal Law Board (AIMWPLB) on Sunday decried the
recent fatwa issued
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Khan to get Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavna Award
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan will be given the prestigious Rajiv
Gandhi
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Chhattisgarh grandma sells off ancestral property to build village
school
Setting a unique example of philanthropy, an elderly lady in
Abhanpur block, located 10 kilometres from Raipur, the capital of
Chhattisgarh, has disposed off her
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to announce third front in Bihar tomorrow
Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari today accused the
successive Congress, RJD and NDA
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At least four million people will need
food assistance across Pakistan over the next three months
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 Over 12
million people affected by floods in Pakistan
About 12 million people have now been
affected by Pakistan's worst floods in 80 years, disaster officials
have said, raising previous estimates by three times.
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Nations: The United Nations has launched an appeal for
$459m to help the victims of devastating floods that have affected
more than 14 million people across Pakistan.
The call from the UN's humanitarian agency on Wednesday came as food
prices skyrocketed after huge areas of crops were destroyed by the
waters.
"We have a huge task in front of us to deliver all that is required
as soon as possible," John Holmes, the UN humanitarian chief, said
at a meeting at UN headquarters.
According to UN figures, more than 1,600 have died and nearly
300,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed.
"The death toll has so far been relatively low compared to other
major natural disasters, but the numbers affected are
extraordinarily high," Holmes warned.
"If we don't act fast enough, many more people could die of diseases
and food shortages."
Holmes said the money sought represented the minimum needed for
emergency assistance over the next three months and did not include
anything for rebuilding infrastructure.
At least 1.4 million acres of crops were destroyed in Punjab, the
breadbasket of Pakistan, according to the United Nations. Fields in
the floodplains of the northwest have also been devastated as rivers
have spilled over their banks.
An official in Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa said maize, rice, sugarcane and vegetable crops were the
most affected.
"I had 200 kilos of corn at my home which the flood took away with
it," Dil Aram Khan, a farmer from Pirpai in Nowshera District, said.
"All of our wealth is destroyed along with our wheat."
At least four million people are expected to need food assistance
across Pakistan for the next three months at a cost of nearly $100m.
Marcus Prior, the spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP),
said his organisation had received a "pretty decent response so
far".
"We've had just over $13m committed and we have good indication that
other donors are going to step in and help us out in a very
significant way in the days ahead," he told Al Jazeera.
"The fact is that we have at least the food we need for the first
month to feed those people who have been so badly affected ... But
we need contributions to buy food locally here in Pakistan."
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