Nashik: People in Nasik trooped out on Sunday on the streets to welcome and offer chilled soft drinks to over 1,000 Muslims who embarked on a 300-km Gandhian march to Mumbai demanding reservations in job, an official said. The protestors started from the sensitive power-loom town of Malegaon after the Friday prayers for Mumbai's Azad Maidan as their destination, which they hope to cover by May 26, according to Muslim Reservation Federation (MRF) spokesperson and social activist Aleem Faizi.
"As we pass through small towns and villages, more and more Muslims are joining the 'padyatra' to express support for the cause of 20 per cent job and other reservations for the community people," Faizi told IANS.
The protestors are carrying the national flag, banners and placards espousing the cause and march briskly, braving the rising mercury in the hinterland from dawn to dusk.
Faizi said the MRF is an umbrella organisation of over a dozen major Muslim organisations from the state, all working towards a common goal of reservations for Muslims....
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06:01 AM, May 20, 2013
Mumbai: Federation of Associations of Maharashtra (FAM) representing 750 trade associations in the state on Thursday said, it would continue with its call for indefinite trade bandh till the LBT (Local Body Tax) is removed, even as the agitation entered 18th day. The decision on indefinite strike was taken at a meeting of traders called by FAM at Azad Maidan on Thursday. Several BJP leaders like Jaywantiben Mehta, Raj Purohit,...
01:06 AM, May 10, 2013
Patna: Making a strong pitch for special category status for Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday said it would be better if the privilege was given sooner or else people would themselves take a decision in this regard in the 2014 general elections. "Amendment in criteria for according special status itself symbolises half victory for Bihar," Kumar said addressing a rally at Purnea. The CM reiterated demand for special...
02:59 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Chennai: Former National level squash player and athlete Komal Sharma says her sports career helps her cope with long working hours on the movie sets. "Thanks to long shoots on sets and locations, it is very likely that an actor can lose his or her physical and mental stability in no time. I'm glad that my years of sports career keeps me fit even after a long day's shoot. I...
04:14 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Signalling his intentions of playing a bigger role in national politics, Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar on Sunday addressed a huge rally at New Delhi's Ramlila Maidan on Sunday and declared that his fight for a special status to the state would continue till the Centre accepted it. ...
06:19 PM, Mar 17, 2013
In his first foray into national politics, Bihar Chief Minsiter Nitish Kumar came up with a powerful political statement at the Adhikar rally in Ramlila Maidan in the capital. He admitted that while Finance Minister P Chidambaram's Budget 2013 had showed concern for Bihar, the state had largely been treated unfairly by the Centre. ...
02:02 PM, Mar 17, 2013
The satellite rights of this film has been bought over by Zee TV and the movie is all set to hit the screens as a Tamil New Year gift, on the 14th of April. ...
01:22 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will make his first foray into national politics in the run up to the next General Elections in a massive show of strength in the capital on Sunday. Kumar will address a rally in Delhi's Ramlila Maidan seeking special status for Bihar. ...
11:02 AM, Mar 17, 2013
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will make his first foray into national politics in the run up to the next General Elections in a massive show of strength in the capital on Sunday. Kumar will address a rally in Delhi's Ramlila Maidan seeking special status for Bihar. ...
07:26 AM, Mar 17, 2013
The film is a sequel to the Tamil film 'Amaidhi Padai', released way back in 1994. ...
06:22 PM, Mar 16, 2013
In another horrific incident, a group of men allegedly abducted and gangraped a woman in a moving car in New Delhi, just almost three months after the brutal December 16 gangrape that shook the country and exposed the flimsy safety facilities for women in the national capital. The woman has alleged that she was driven around the city on Sunday night, crossing many busy traffic lights along the route. ...
11:07 PM, Mar 10, 2013
In what is fast turning out to be a cleverly planned crime, police on Sunday revealed that the minor siblings, whose bodies were found near a railway track in Pragati Maidan in Delhi, were murdered on the same day of their kidnapping by the accused, one of them their maternal uncle. The maternal uncle, Amit Singh, lived in the same area as the children and he, along with other two...
03:15 PM, Mar 03, 2013
Police have arrested three people in the abduction-cum-murder of two minor siblings, whose bodies were found near a railway track in Pragati Maidan in central Delhi on Saturday. Those arrested include a distant relative of the victims, and he is also the main accused in the case. ...
01:30 PM, Mar 03, 2013
Three people were detained in the abduction-cum-murder of two minor siblings in Delhi on Sunday. The detainees include one distant relative of the children, whose decomposed bodies were found near a railway track in Pragati Maidan in central Delhi on Saturday. ...
10:16 AM, Mar 03, 2013
The school principal of the two children, whose decomposed bodies were found near Pragati Maidan in central Delhi on Saturday, said that the "kidnapper" was known to the siblings. "School dispersed as usual on that day. There was nothing suspicious. The two kids looked fine when they left with that man. They even referred to him as their uncle," he addded. ...
10:36 PM, Mar 02, 2013
Violence against children continues as the bodies of two siblings were found near Pragati Maidan in Central Delhi on Saturday. The bodies of the two, a boy and a girl, were found in a highly decomposed state. ...
02:30 PM, Mar 02, 2013
With a towering height of 70 feet, the world's tallest statute of Mahatma Gandhi was on Friday unveiled in Bihar. Bapu is seen standing affectionately with two children on either side in the bronze statue constructed at the historic Gandhi Maidan in Patna. ...
06:01 PM, Feb 15, 2013
The World Book Fair 2013 beginning February 4 will celebrate indigenous literature with its theme, "Indigenous Voices - Mapping India's Folk and Tribal Literature", and commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda with a special pavilion exhibiting photographs and books from the spiritualist's life. The fair will open at Pragati Maidan in Delhi. ...
05:15 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Two unidentified men gangraped a 17-year-old girl in Delhi, police said Tuesday. The rape survivor, a domestic help, had gone to work in a house in Jamia Nagar in south Delhi where the incident happened. ...
05:58 PM, Jan 29, 2013
Mumbai Police have ordered an enquiry into a controversial poem published in the force's in-house magazine about the Azad Maidan protesters. Deputy Commissioner of Police SS Gholap has been instructed to conduct an enquiry into the poem and how it got published in the magazine 'Samwaad', Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh said. ...
09:11 PM, Jan 15, 2013
