By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,

Bangalore: Bangalore-based Institute of Higher Learning is going to organize a three-day workshop on value-based journalism for a targeted audience of Muslim youth from across the country from 30th May-1st June in Bangalore.

55 year-old Syed Abdullah Tariq runs an Islamic group based in Rampur, a town in western Uttar Pradesh, that focuses on dialogue with Hindus. An engineer by training, he was one of the chief disciples of the late Maulana Shams Naved Usmani, a noted Islamic scholar who had also a deep knowledge of the Hindu scriptures.

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,

Patna: In line with anti-terrorism conferences being organized in the length and width of the country, Bihar’s Rabita Madaris Islamia has decided to organize a similar conference in Patna on 1st June.

The purpose of the conference is to raise voice against the well-planned campaign to tarnish the image of Islam and Muslims and to improve peace and security and brotherhood, said Maulana Marghubur Rahman, Secretary of Rabita Madaris Islamia in the state capital on 14th May.

By IANS,

Jaipur : People from across all communities in Jaipur Thursday evening gathered near the Manas Chowk police station, where one of the eight bombs went off two days ago, and lit 63 candles, one each for the lives lost in the terror attack.

“This is our fight against terrorism. We should all come forward and tell these terrorist organizations that we are one,” said Haji Syed Alvi, a representative of the Noor Suni Centre.

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,

New Delhi: Standing united against terrorism, Muslim organizations and leaders have strongly condemned the Jaipur bombings and demanded severe punishment to the real culprits of the crime against humanity.

Maulana Syed Mahmood Madani of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JUH) said the serial blasts in the Pink City point out that by destroying secular and democratic forces of the country, the miscreants and terrorist elements want to create the atmosphere of fear and terror and communal tension.

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,

New Delhi: India’s foreign policy on Israel-Palestine conflict has changed in the last ten years, admitted Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyer speaking in a conference on Israeli aggression and independence of Palestine on 14th May.

The national conference was jointly held on the completion of 60 years of Israeli occupation of Palestine under the auspices of the Joint Committee of Muslim Organizations and Sadbhawna Mission at New Delhi’s Constitution Club.

By IANS,

Agartala : Her writing "badly affected" since she left Kolkata and desperate to return, controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen said she would return there "as soon as possible". If not Kolkata, she would choose Agartala as her home when she returns to India in August.

By Kavita Bajeli-Datt, IANS,

Jaipur : Two days after terrorists struck in the heart of the city - and her life - four-year-old Suhana Khan was Thursday in a sedated world of pain and bewilderment. Still waiting to meet her mother who she believed was being treated in another hospital room.

"We have not yet told her. She is so small," said a grim Razakh Khan, Suhana's grandfather, who lost three daughters in Tuesday evening's serial blasts that killed 61 people and injured 216.

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter

Chennai : The Prince of Arcot and president Ajmer Dargah Committee Nawab Mohammed Abdul Ali has strongly condemned the perpetrators of May 13 Jaipur serial bomb blasts, which resulted in horrendous toll of about 80 innocent lives and rendered about 200 injured.

In a statement released here Wednesday the Prince also demanded from the Government to "suppress terrorism with iron hand" and maintain greater vigil in the country.

By Tarique Anwar, TwoCircles.net,

Patna : Common people of Jaipur are trying to bring the life to normalcy just days later after devastating serial blasts rocked the walled city on Tuesday. All are trying to help one another irrespective of the religion. There is no feeling of communalism in the mind of local people. They all are trying to maintain communal harmony and old Ganga-Jamuna culture. Mr Azim Khan, a Peace Fellow for Foundation for Universal Responsibility of Dalai Lama, who is at present in Jaipur, told TwoCircles.net on phone Wednesday night.