No holiday for Eid-uz-Zuha for Rajasthan Muslims

No holiday for Eid-uz-Zuha for Rajasthan Muslims

Jaipur: After meat ban in Mumbai, the BJP government in Rajasthan who with an aim to saffronise education has released a circular to celebrate the birth anniversary of Jan Sangh ideologue Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay on Sep 24 which is likely to coincide with Eid-ul-Zuha.

Eid-ul-Zuha is the biggest festival for Muslims and cancellation of a national holiday would prevent thousands of Muslims from celebrating it.

The move has irked Muslim groups who say the dates were terming it a violation of human rights of Muslim employees.

“This is a clear violation of human rights of Muslim employees. Eid-ul-Zuha is the biggest festival for Muslims and an official event that day would deny people from celebrating it,” says Salim Engineer, national secretary, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, as per reports published in IndianExpress.

“They are saying it is voluntary but how can that be when there are clear orders to not grant leave. We will meet the chief secretary about this and also file a writ petition in the High Court,” he said.

As per reports, the Rajasthan government directs principals of all government as well as private colleges to not grant leave to any staff member on Sep 24 and to be present in a blood donation campaigns in all government and private colleges on Sep 25. The order also restricts college staff from leaving the college headquarters around the time.

Jus now J&K separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s passport suspended

Jus now
J&K separatist leader Syed Ali Shah
Geelani’s passport suspended
GEO| Sep 22, 2015, 07.32
Syed Ali Shah Geelani is a hardline
pro-Pakistani Kashmiri separatist.
NEW DELHI: The government on
Tuesday suspended the passport of
hardline Kashmiri separatist leader
Syed Ali Shah Geelani for four weeks.
Geelani had accepted an invitation
from the Organization of Islamic
Countries (OIC) to participate in a
meeting in New York on September 27
in New York.
Besides Geelani, two more Kashmiri
separatist leaders — Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq — have also got an invitation
to participate in the OIC meeting.
Geelani was issued a passport in July
this year after the government
rejected his half-hearted application a
month earlier saying his application
was incomplete.

Rains lash Valley showers to continue till Sep 24:MeT

SRINAGAR: Upper reaches in the Kashmir valley received light to moderate snowfall while plains, including summer capital, Srinagar were being lashed by rain since last night resulting in chilly conditions. A Met department spokesperson said here that there could be isolated rain till September 24, a day before the Eid-ul-Azha, when the weather will turn dry for subsequent three days in the Kashmir valley. He said there could be widespread or isolated rain during the next 48 hours in Jammu region and scattered or isolated rain in Ladakh during the next 24 hours. The upper reaches in the valley, including holy Amarnath cave shrine and its periphery besides Sheshnag, Mahaguns, Pisso top, Panjtarni and other heights in Pahalgam received fresh light to moderate snowfall since last night. However, at Pahalgam it was raining since last night, a hotel owner told over phone. Though there are icy cold winds in the town since this morning, the minimum temperature at the world famous health resort remained above normal. It was 10.9 degree Celsius, three notches above normal despite 19 mm rainfall during the night. Gulmarg, famed ski resort in north Kashmir recorded highest 26.2mm rainfall during the past 24 hours while upper heights received snow resulting in drop in the minimum temperature which settled at 6.6 degree, half a notch below normal. The spokesperson said the maximum temperature at Gulmarg yesterday was 16.2 degree, three notches below normal.

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NASA confirmed Name Of Prophet Mohammed found written on Mars

NASA released the pics of MARS taken from different angles and these images have confirmed that name of"Muhammad" has been written on the surface of Mars.

Kashmiri Girls Kicked Out of Punjab College

Kashmiri girls kicked out of Punjab College hostel at mid-night According to the report, the Kashmiri girls accused the college authorities of forcing them out of the hostel with luggage. Around 40 Kashmiri girls were forced to spend whole night in open after authorities at Desh Bhagat College in northern state of Punjab kicked them out, a media report said today. According to Punjab News Express, the college authorities ordered the hostel inmates to vacate at odd hours in the wake of strike by college students against filling of some seats from management quota. According to the report, the Kashmiri girls accused the college authorities of forcing them out of the hostel with luggage. "They said there was arrangement of their security,” the report added. “The college authorities also threatened the girls to lodge a FIR against them and impose heavy fine if hostel is not vacated.”