Hillary Clinton visit: West keeps an eye on the daughters of East
By Soroor Ahmed (NVONews.Com) When US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited India in July last year she showed interest in meeting a woman chief minister. There was one right in Delhi, Sheila Dikshit. Lucknow was not far away as UP was then ruled by a Dalit woman, Mayawati. In that case she would have [...]
By Soroor Ahmed (NVONews.Com) What is interesting is that while women candidates are repeatedly doing well at the top in Civil Services examination in the last over a decade, their performance in other prestigious under-graduate competitive examination do not match with the boys. Though a much larger percentage of girls appear in all India under-graduate [...]
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By Syed Ubaidur Rahman (NVONews.Com) It was a double-blow inflicted by the allies to the BJP on Thursday. First its deputy leader in the Upper House of Parliament, S S Ahluwalia, lost the Rajya Sabha election from Jharkhand, where Arjun Munda of the party is the chief minister. Then came the news that the Janata [...]
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By Soroor Ahmed, (NVONews.Com) Only nine months separate between the birth of two theocratic states in the world. To much extent, they both owe their existence to the British imperialism. On August 14, 1947 Pakistan came into being, after the partition of Indian sub-continent. According to Islamic calendar it was 27th of Ramazan, considered as [...]
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Mufti Shamoon Qasmi was not a famous name among Indian Muslims or in Media till just sometimes ago. But just after his expulsion from Anna Team he seems to have become a much sought after personality. He claims that he resigned from Anna team on his own due to their communal anti-Muslim bias, while Anna [...]
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By A Hameed Yousuf Team Anna has, for long, been suspected of working for something else than its stated goal. The expulsion of Maulana Shamoon Qasmi from the team has only strengthened this perception. Maulana was the Muslim face of the Team Anna. Though not popular among the community, his skull cap, long beard and [...]
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By S Ahmed (NVONews.Com) The Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar’s ‘Sewa Yatra’ or the tour for service has put him in a little bit uncomfortable situation as for the first time opposition has raised some questions regarding the usefulness and effectiveness of such ‘yatras’. The next phase of Nitish Kumar’s Sewa Yatra started on [...]
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By Ram Puniyani In Saidabad and Madannapeth areas of Hyderabad (April 1st week, 2012) violence was unleashed against the local Muslims. In this violence several houses were damaged, many a people were injured and women were raped. Just before the incident Praveen Togadia had given an inflammatory speech in the area. There was news that [...]
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MCD election results: Congress decimated, Batla House suspect loses election
April 18, 2012 No Comment
MCD election results are out and Congress has been completely decimated. Meanwhile Batla House suspect Zia-Ur-Rehman lost the election from ward No 205 but with a narrow margin, says Ubaid of NVONews.Com New Delhi: Congress has been thrashed badly in municipal elections in Delhi. Three civic bodies were carved out by Shiela Dixit government in [...]
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By Soroor Ahmed The era of imposing President’s Rule and subsequent demand of scrapping Article 356 is over, at least for now. Things may not be falling apart as Centre still holds control on the country. But then its grip is not so firm as it used to be in the era of Indira Gandhi [...]
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The youth who spent 14 years in Jail on fictitious charges of involvenemnt in terrorism and was freed by court was shocked when Jamaat-e-Islami Hind gives him Rs 2000 as ‘donation’ after making big announcement By AN Shibli New Delhi: Mohammad Amir, the man who got freedom after spending 14 precious years of his life [...]
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By Soroor Ahmed With Presidential election just over 100 days away several allies of the ruling Congress as well as non-BJP NDA leaders have started flexing their muscles. They are criss-crossing from west to east and from north to south to bring about a consensus choice. Election for the 16th President is due in July [...]
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By NVONews.Com Correspondent, Sudan was partitioned last July and a new land-locked oil-rich nation, South Sudan, came into being. The argument was that it would end the prolong infighting between Muslim and Christian minority. Nine months later it is back to square one. The two nations are at war once again. On Wednesday Khartoum threatened [...]
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By Kaleem Kawaja When the fresh face eloquent Barrack Obama burst on the US political scene with a promise to change America with totally new humanitarian thinking and policies in 2008, not only America hailed him, the world at large told him, “Come and change my world too.” So infectious was his promise in a [...]
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