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Dr. Omar Khalidi is the author of well-researched book 'Muslims in Indian Economy.' This book is a study of conditions of Muslims at all levels of economic ladder and from Muslim dynasties to the post-independent India. Editor of TwoCircles.net Kashif-ul-Huda interviewed him recently about...

Major cities to get missile defence shield Tribune News Service New Delhi, December 12 Major cities of the country, including Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and other “high value targets” will get the anti-ballistic missile defence shield, once the ballistic defence system (BMD) is fully...

Reliance to invest $24 billion in the Gulf: Ambani Dubai | Wednesday, Dec 12 2007 IST India's largest industrial conglomerate Reliance Industries will invest as much as 24 billion dollars in petrochemical projects in the Gulf countries in the next ten years, company's chairman and...

SLAMABAD: A survey which showed that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's popularity would shoot up after he stepped down as army chief and became a civilian president may have been a fraud poll, a media report said on Monday. The US-based International Public Opinion Polls (IPOP), which...

KARACHI: A Pakistani election tribunal on Monday dismissed two appeals seeking the rejection of former premier Benazir Bhutto's nomination papers for the upcoming parliamentary polls, paving the way for her to contest the January election that will restore democratic rule. PML-Q candidate...

At odds: Majority of bookies says nay to Modi Punters Bet On BJP Getting Less Than 90 Seats Tapash Talukdar & Sachin Dave AHMEDABAD/MUMBAI ON THE eve of the first phase of Gujarat Assembly elections, the electoral mood has swung against Narendra Modi and BJP, as sussed out by the...

Being Begum Nawazish Ali! He is a man who takes on the garb of a woman. Begum Nawazish Ali, who hosted chat shows in Pakistan got talked about for his wit, grit and panache. Ali Saleem (Begum’s original name) is set to extend his popularity in India with his show ‘Begum’ (9X) where he will...

PM pitches for technological modernisation of forces Dehradun (PTI): Pitching for technological modernisation of the armed forces in the "knowledge era," Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, on Monday promised all kinds of investment to make service conditions better and help attract the...

OSLO: At the award ceremony for this year's Nobel Peace Prize on Monday, Al Gore put the onus on the US and China to take the lead against global warming. India's Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations' IPCC which shared the prize with Gore received the Nobel medal on behalf of the UN...

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Parties, police, most corrupt in India: TI study Three out of four Indians believe political parties and the police are extremely corrupt. Almost half the people who had any contact with the police department in the past year said they had to pay a bribe to get their work done. This is among...

Conversations With A Muslim Lady from Delhi [Mrs Falak Khan is a young wife with two children. She lives in Gaffar Manzil, Jamia Milia Islamia - a Muslim-populated locality of New Delhi. The interview was done in Hindi.] Falak, what is the meaning of your name? Aasmaan. Sky. It is an...

1 Dec 2007, 0343 hrs IST,Rajat Pandit,TNN NEW DELHI: Problems with Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov notwithstanding, India in the next five to seven years will deploy two potent carrier battle groups (CBGs) to project power as well as act as a 'stabilising influence' in Indian Ocean...

Defence Minister denies intrusion by Chinese troops Saturday, 01 December , 2007, 20:49 Gangtok: India on Saturday denied that China had intruded into its territory in the North-Eastern sector and had destroyed forward posts and bunkers in Sikkim but admitted there were divergent perceptions on...

Quoting New York Times Lawyer Says Pakistan Heading Toward ‘Rigged’ Vote By JANE PERLEZ: New York Times, December 1, 2007 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 30 — A corporate lawyer dressed in a pinstriped suit, Munawar Akhtar, 71, clutched a poster of a defiant colleague held in solitary confinement...

Propaganda I say!!! Twenty-three-year-old Zhang Zilin was crowned the winner in Sanya, China, beating out Miss Angola who came came second and Miss Mexico who was third at the annual beauty pageant. "There are 1.3 billion people behind me," Miss China said during the 40-second interview stage...

Bustard hunting permits issued to Gulf leaders By Bhagwandas KARACHI, Nov 26: The federal government has issued houbara bustard hunting permits to 31 members of the ruling families of four Arabian Gulf states for the 2007-08 hunting season. According to sources, nine such permits have...

New Delhi, Nov 27 - Defence Minister A.K. Antony's repeated insistence of transparency in purchases of military hardware has resulted in the cancellation of an almost signed, sealed and delivered deal for the purchase of 197 Eurocopter Fennec copters for the Indian Army. For almost a year...

When 28-year-old Sayeed Musthafa, a graphic artist from Central Mumbai, received his first dividend payout from an infrastructure fund he had invested into last year, Akthar Quereshi, his buddy-next-door (and his investment guru) advised him to set aside a small portion for charity. Akthar...

Going global, Indian firms create jobs in US 26 Nov, 2007, 1242 hrs IST, IANS WASHINGTON: Indian firms are not just taking up outsourcing any more, but have in fact invested a whopping $6 billion in the United States and created 40,000 jobs with quite a few of them going to the Americans...