(RRS) senior leader K S Sudarshan met Muslim clerics, including Shi'ite cleric Hamid-ul Hassan on Sunday.Sudarshan's meeting with the Muslim clerics was aimed at harmonizing ties between the two communities and came at a time when a row over the singing of the patriotic song "Vande Mataram" is in the limelight.The Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind, an Islamic group, had passed a fatwa last week against the singing...
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(ANI): Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RRS) senior leader K S Sudarshan met Muslim clerics, including Shi'ite cleric Hamid-ul Hassan on Sunday.Sudarshan's meeting with the Muslim clerics was aimed at harmonizing ties between the two communities and came at a time when a row over the singing of the patriotic song "Vande Mataram" is in the limelight.The Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind, an Islamic group, had passed...
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After Maulana Kalbe Sadiq, the vice president of All India Muslim Personal Law Board, yet another Shia cleric Maulana Hamidul Hasan has made it clear that Muslims have no objection to singing Vande Matram, the national song, not as a form of worship but in praise of the motheraland.What's more, the assertion came in the presence of K Sudarshan, former RSS Chief at Maulana Hasan's residence in the old...
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Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today came down heavily on the hardline Muslims for refusing to sing 'Vande Mataram' in line with the recent 'fatwa' (religious diktat) passed by Jamat-E-Ulema Hind (JUH) disallowing Muslims to sing the national song.'Why there is opposition to 'Vande Mataram', a song which pays respect to the motherland? They say they have religious freedom as per the Shariyat law and...
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Sena chief Bal Thackeray today came down heavily on the hardline Muslims for refusing to sing 'Vande Mataram' in line with the recent 'fatwa' (religious diktat) passed by Jamat-E-Ulema Hind (JUH) disallowing Muslims to sing the national song. ''Why there is opposition to 'Vande Mataram', a song which pays respect to the motherland? They say they have religious freedom as per the Shariyat law and Islam...
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minister of state for external affairs in India, Shashi Tharoor, has asked the national song of India, Vande Mataram to be made optional.Tharoor said that the national song is optional like the national sport. He also opined that the Vande Mataram should be sung out of a feeling of respect that one has for his or her motherland. He said that singing the national song should not be forced on people.He...
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TVS Matriculation Higher Secondary School; (below) students of Our Lady Matriculation Higher Secondary School at the fancy dress competition.Chidambaram, Ganesh and Chiddharthan of TVS Matriculation Higher Secondary School won the State-level ‘Tamil scientific Competition’ conducted by the Scientific Tamil Association of the State government and Periyar University, Salem, for their computer project,...
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Unionminister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor, who has a penchant forcontroversy, has called for making the national song, 'Vande Mataram',optional."We've had an unseemly controversy in north about thenational song, Vande Mataram. I've always tried to explain to people, yes, thenational anthem and the national flag stand high in our Constitution. There arelaws protecting them. The national...
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students from ArunachalPradesh today held a protest here against China's claim overthe state, terming it as a "matter of mental agony for thepeace loving and patriotic people of the state".The All Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union (AAPSU), whichorganised the protest, also accused the Centre of having a"lukewarm attitude and diplomatic romancing with itscounterpart"."We express our deep sense of concern...
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Islamic seminary Darul Uloom has rejected the Union government’s proposal of a central madrasa board.Senior faculty members moved a resolution to this effect on Monday. The scholars suggested that the government should come up with a new board to govern those Muslim institutions that primarily have a non-religious curriculum to promote education."However, we feel that they should leave madrasas alone....
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