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16 April 2012 Violence Breaks Out At Indian Beef-Eating Festival Dalits students argue they should have freedom to eat what they want A beef-eating festival at a university in the Indian city of Hyderabad has led to clashes between rival sets of Hindu students, police say. They say that Hindus who regard cows as sacred fought with low caste Dalit groups who organised the event. About 1,500 people were fed beef biriyani as part of the festival late on Sunday evening. Dalit groups want beef on the campus hostel menu. Right wing Hindu groups say eating beef is not Hindu...

Dr. John C. Drew, a grant writing consultant in Laguna Niguel, Calif., tells Newsmax he met Obama in 1980 when Obama was a sophomore at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Drew had just graduated from Occidental and was attending graduate school at Cornell University. Drew’s then girlfriend, Caroline Boss — now Grauman-Boss — knew Obama because she shared classes with him at Occidental.... During Christmas break, Drew says he was at Grauman-Boss’ home in Palo Alto when Obama came over with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, his roommate from Pakistan. “Barack and Hasan showed up at the house in a BMW, and...

MUMBAI: In 2008, when Atlanta-based Georgia Tech University bought 250 acres of land in Hyderabad it left many gaping. It did something even more astonishing shortly afterwards: it invited its own faculty members to quit their jobs and consider moving to India. A professor in the computer science department of the university told TOI: ‘‘Each one of us got a formal note. Even more amazingly, he added, all of us were offered the same salary that we were getting in Georgia. It was clearly an offer very few would even think of refusing; given the cost of living in India,...

What do you need to know to work for the Pakistani Government? According the April 10, 2008 New York Times, the Obama campaign staff stated: 'Mr. Obama visited Pakistan in 1981, on the way back from Indonesia, where his mother and half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, were living. He spent 'about three weeks' there, Mr. Obama’s press secretary, Bill Burton, said, staying in Karachi with the family of a college friend, Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, but also traveling to Hyderabad, in India.' That information is significant for two reasons. First and foremost is the fact that Mohammed Hasan Chandoo is a radical Muslim...

But The Sunday Telegraph has learned that scores of young Muslim men have disappeared from the central Indian city of Hyderabad, suspected of leaving for Pakistan to be trained by the country’s Islamist terror groups. As many as 40 potential recruits are reported to have left the city - which has a large Muslim minority - under extremist guidance, while many other young men cannot be traced.

HYDERABAD, India (AFP) -- Indian police on Sunday named 15 people as suspects in twin bombings in Hyderabad that killed 43 after questioning a man who allegedly confessed to an earlier attack. Four of the 15 suspects in the August 25 attacks at an outdoor auditorium and a popular eatery are already under arrest for alleged roles in other such attacks, police said, adding that the remaining 11 are at large. "A case has been registered for criminal conspiracy, waging war against the state and under the Explosive Substances Act," Hyderabad police commissioner Balwinder Singh said in a statement of...

HYDERABAD: With pressure mounting on Bangladesh to act against Islamist terror groups operating from its soil, the police in Dhaka have arrested a key accused in the Hyderabad twin blasts. Abu Hamza alias Asif - a close aide of Abdul Shahid alias Bilal, the commander of Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami (HuJI) - was arrested on Saturday from a lodge in Dhaka. He is also an accused in the Mecca Masjid blast in Hyderabad in May. Hamza, a 32-year-old Hyderabadi, had left India in 2004. The Andhra police believe he has been helping Bilal in executing various terror tasks and also recruiting for...

Islamist extremists blamed for India bombings By Peter Foster and Rahul Bedi in New Delhi Last Updated: 1:21am BST 27/08/2007 Islamist extremists have been blamed for a double bombing in Hyderabad, the south Indian information technology hub, which left 42 people dead, including several women and children, and more than 50 injured. Relatives of one of the victims of the bombings in Hyderabad on Saturday express their grief during his funeral yesterday Security sources said militant groups with links to Pakistan and Bangladesh were behind the attacks, which were calculated to foment Hindu-Muslim sectarian tensions and strike at the soft...

HYDERABAD, India: The police continued to find and defuse bombs throughout the southern Indian city of Hyderabad on Sunday, a day after a pair of synchronized explosions ripped through two popular gathering spots, killing at least 42 people and wounding scores of others. State and national officials are calling the blasts in Hyderabad, a city with a history of Muslim-Hindu tensions, acts of terrorism. After the attacks, the police defused 19 more bombs - all fitted with timers and placed in plastic bags - at bus stops, movie theaters, road intersections and pedestrian bridges. The police said each of the...

WASHINGTON: The United States has condemned the terror attacks in Hyderabad that killed 42 people and has said that it will continue to work with India to eliminate terrorist threats. "We are saddened to learn of the attacks. The Indians are our friends and allies. Inciting violence and committing violence against innocent people is never acceptable," a State Department official said. At least 42 people, including five women and seven students, have been killed and 50 injured in two explosions at a crowded park and a popular eatery in Hyderabad on Saturday evening. "Those who engage in terrorist activities seek...

HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - Three explosions within minutes, one at a street-side food stall and two in an amusement park, killed at least 34 people in Hyderabad on Saturday, police and officials said. More than 50 people were wounded in the blasts in a city with a history of communal violence, and where nearly a dozen people were killed when a mosque was bombed in May. Officials said at least one of Saturday evening's blasts was likely to have been a bomb. "I will be able to confirm that around 34 have been reported dead," R.V. Chandravadan, one of the...

New Delhi/ Hyderabad: At least 36 people died and 40 were injured in two blasts at two places in Hyderabad on Saturday evening. The blasts occurred at around 1930 hrs IST—the first at Lumbini Park on Necklace Road near the state Secretariat and the second five minutes later at Gokul Chat shop, a popular eating joint in Koti. The two places are eight km apart. More than two dozen people at Gokul Chat and six at Lumbini Park. Several hundred people had gathered at an auditorium in Lumbini Park for a laser show off the Hussain Sagar Lake. State Home...

Twin blasts rock Hyderabad, 20 dead Reuters Posted online: Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 1953 hours IST Updated: Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 2023 hours IST Hyderabad, India, August 25: Two explosions within minutes killed at least 20 people in Hyderabad on Saturday, police said. "At least 20 people have been killed in the two blasts within a gap of 10 minutes," a senior police officer said. One blast was at the Lumbini amusement park where a laser show was taking place, and the officer said it could have been caused by an 'improvised explosive device'. Seven people were killed...

The Hyderabad police on Sunday arrested eight suspected operatives of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and unearthed an alleged plot to detonate bombs near Ganesh temple in Secunderabad during the forthcoming Ganesh festival in the city. Seven other suspects are absconding. Police Commissioner RP Singh said that the arrested included a religious leader, Maulana Naseeruddin, who was the kingpin behind the plot. Naseeruddin headed an organisation known as Tahreek Tahfuz Shariat-e-Islami (Movement for Protection of Islamic Law). "Naseeruddin has been working clandestinely on behalf of LeT and their leaders Abdul Bari alias Abu Hamza and Shahed alias Abu Nidal, both natives of...

HYDERABAD: The developments in the Old City over the weekend made call centres jumpy, for the communal flare-up is a first-time experience for them. The United States-based principals of these call centres and software development installations tend to react very fast to anything resembling communal trouble," a manager of a global business process outsourcing (BPO) centre said. On Saturday night, when news of the communal disturbance in some parts of the Old City broke, multi national companies call centres started drawing up alternative plans to shift work to other centres should the violence spread to new areas. Managers handling various...