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Babri verdict:
Plans afoot to deal with
law and order |
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Students
shouldn’t be forced to wear burqas: Dhaka court |
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41,827
decade-old cases pending in Delhi courts |
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IGNOU to
offer course in PC hardware, networking |
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Poor
children are securing more seats in IITs: Director |
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BJP wants
to shed communal image, eyes Christian votes in Goa |
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India! says Pakistan with box of mangoes
Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh Friday received an unexpected, yet pleasant, gift from
Pakistan when a box
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Pakistan
accepts Indian aid offer
Accept
Indian aid, no role for politics in
disaster: US to Pak
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mathematics among young generation, says President
Noting that mathematics
inculcates the habit of rational thought
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President Patil to inaugurate International
Mathematicians Congress in Hyderabad
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Nuclear
Liability Bill faces fresh hurdles from BJP, Left
The Nuclear Liability Bill faced fresh roadblocks today with the BJP
and the Left parties asserting that they would oppose any dilution
of the suppliers' liability. Both the BJP
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Saudi
Arabia to launch official TV, radio for fatwa
Saudi Arabia is mulling the idea of setting up an official
television channel and radio station for accredited Muslim scholars
to issue fatwas, or religious edicts, reports said
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Poor
children are securing more seats in IITs: Director
Fighting all odds more
and more poor children are making it to the prestigious Indian
Institute of Technology, some of them without even taking any help
from private
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 BJP wants
to shed communal image, eyes Christian votes in Goa
In a bid to shed its communal image and boost its minority vote
base, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
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 AMU
invites nominations for Sir Syed International Award
The Aligarh Muslim
University has announced its prestigious international award named
after its
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professor to spearhead major study on Indian judiciary
Jayanth Krishnan-a
professor of Indiana University Maurer School of Law-will serve as
project director
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Three-fold salary hike, yet MPs say yeh dil mange more
Hours after the Union Cabinet cleared a 300 per cent salary hike,
from Rs. 16,000 to Rs. 50,000, for members of Parliament and doubled
their perks on Friday
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Bill to rebuild Nalanda University passed in Rajya Sabha
The Rajya Sabha Saturday passed a bill to re-establish the historic
Nalanda University in Bihar as an international institute of
learning
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NRIs to get voting
rights: Moily
Indian government is
planning to provide voting rights to Non-Resident Indians and steps
are being taken to make it a reality, Law and Justice Minister
Veerappa Moily has said. "The Law ministry
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flee as second wave of flood hits the country
A second wave of floods
have inundated several areas in Balochistan even as the worst deluge
in Pakistan’s history took the
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Supporters and critics of ground zero mosque
protest near the site
Monday, August 23, 2010 05:11:00 AM,
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 Mosque
near Ground Zero!
The memories of 9/11, 2001 have haunted
not only the US but the whole of the World, as it changed the
direction of global politics and the way people look at Islam and
Muslims. This debate was brought forward again
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New York:
With chants and banners, hundreds of critics and supporters of the
proposed centre in New York showed up despite an overcast and
drizzly sky to express their views amid the national debate over the
facility, CNN reported on its website.
Police estimated that by 11:30 a.m. supporters of the centre
numbered up to 250, and critics numbered about 450 gathered near the
proposed site to express their feelings.
A banner on the anti-centre side said: “Land of the free. Stop
sharia before it stops you.” Another sign read, “No mosque here.
Preserve the dignity of our loved ones killed on 9/11.”
Those in favour of the constructions said freedom of religion was
the main issue in the debate.
“I am hoping there will be a more thoughtful discussion and that
people realize it is just wrong — it is un-American — to paint an
entire religion by the action of a few extremists,” one supporter
said.
At the conclusion of the protest, those opposed to the construction
marched by ground zero.
The Islamic centre’s leaders say the $100 million facility calls for
a community centre including a mosque, performing arts centre, gym,
swimming pool and other public spaces.
It will be built near where the World Trade Centre was destroyed by
Islamic extremists on Sep 11, 2001. The attacks killed more than
2,700 people.
Some New Yorkers say an Islamic centre near the site is a painful
affront.
The Coalition to Honour Ground Zero was organising the rally against
the construction of the centre. The NYC Coalition to Stop
Islamophobia staged the counter-protest.
Firefighters, families of the Sep 11 victims, first responders and
residents of the neighbourhood will join the protests, organisers of
the anti-centre protest said on their website.
On Sunday, Daisy Khan, who is heading the development of the project
with her husband, said moving the project to another site is not
under consideration for now.
She added that a move could be considered after consultations with
“all major stakeholders”.
“We have to be very careful and deliberate in making any move,” Khan
said.
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