Indian Muslim

By IANS,

New Delhi : Terming former Gujarat minister Amit Shah a chick, Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad Thursday dared the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to arrest the broiler - Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

"Amit Shah is just a 'chuza’ (chick), the broiler is still to be arrested," Lalu Prasad told reporters outside parliament.

Shah, Gujarat's former minister of state for home, has been arrested for the 2005 killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in a staged shootout.

By IANS,

New Delhi : Eminent criminal lawyer K.T.S. Tulsi will appear for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shootout case in which former Gujarat minister Amit Shah has been arrested, a government source said Thursday.

"The CBI decided to field Tulsi and an ASG (additional solicitor general) as noted lawyer Ram Jethmalani is providing legal assistance to Shah," said a government source on condition of anonymity.

By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,

Bengaluru: The hearing of the anticipatory bail plea submitted by PDP chairman Abdunnasir Ma’dani has been adjourned till August 3 by the Karnataka High Court. Justice N Ananda adjourned the hearing on the request of the public prosecutor HS Chandramouli for some more time to file objections.

By George Joseph, IANS,

New Delhi : Congress leader Saifuddin Soz says the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, which has seen angry protests by stone-pelting mobs and 17 civilian deaths in the past month, is "still retrievable", but "the quality of governance has to improve".

"There is no point in blaming just Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. The buck does not stop at Omar's door only," Soz, 73, the state Congress chief, told IANS in an interview at his residence here.

By TCN News,

New Delhi: The old and famous Zakir Hussain College of Delhi University has now become Zakir Hussain Delhi College. In a way it is not really a new name. The college used to be called as Delhi College during 1960s when it was located at Ajmere Gate.

It was only in 1975 that the name of the college was changed from Delhi College to Zakir Hussain College after Zakir Hussain College Memorial Trust took it over. Since then it has been a popular demand to include ‘Delhi’ in the name of the college to highlight its history.

By IANS,

Mumbai : Legendary singer Mohammed Rafi's son Shahid Rafi will Saturday launch a music academy in his father's name as a tribute on his 30th death anniversary.

"There are so many fans of my father who used to repeatedly ask me to start something like this. So finally I got together with some people and decided to launch this academy," Shahid Rafi told IANS.

By IANS,

New Delhi : The central government has not received any request from Kerala on banning radical Islamic outfit Popular Front of India (PFI), Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here Thursday.

"I've not got anything," Chidambaram told IANS outside parliament, when asked whether the state government had requested the central government to ban the PFI.

Suspected activists of the outfit chopped the hand of a Kerala lecturer earlier this month for preparing an "inflammatory" question paper with references to Prophet Mohammed.

By TCN News,

New Delhi: The Group of Ministers (GoM) was not amused when it found out that there was no reference at all of “Islamic influence on Indian history,” in both the opening and closing ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games (CWG). So it has directed the organizers of the Games to provide a “true” representation of India’s inclusive culture by weaving this in, as per reported by Indian Express.

By IANS,

Gandhinagar : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Thursday summoned Geetha Johri, the first woman IPS officer of Gujarat, by Aug 10 for questioning in connection with the 2005 killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in a staged shootout.

Johri was a part of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by R.K. Raghavan to probe the case.

By IANS,

Srinagar : Restrictions in parts of Kashmir Valley, including Srinagar, continued Thursday as authorities tried to scuttle protests and demonstrations by separatist groups against alleged human rights violations.

Leader of the hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Geelani, has called for sit-ins and protests actoss the valley.

Restrictions were placed in five old city areas as well as in uptown Maisuma locality. There was a clamp down in north Kashmir's Sopore and Baramulla towns as well.