Maulana Abul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed (11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958) was a Muslim scholar and a senior political leader of the Indian independence movement. He was one of the most prominent Muslim leaders to support Hindu-Muslim unity, opposing the partition of India on communal lines.
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NEW DELHI: Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has said attempts were being made to vilify Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in the wake of Jaswant Singh’s book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah and said it was a malicious campaign to distort history for narrow partisan interests. He also attacked attempts to make out that Shyama Prasad Mukherjee,...
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MUMBAI: India’s animation industry is expected to hit $1 billion by 2012 and the gaming industry would touch $830 million then, aided by increased outsourcing and a growing domestic market, a report released on Wednesday said. The Indian animation market, estimated at $494 million in 2008, is seen growing at a compounded annual...
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INDIA, NEW DELHI: Criticizing a ban imposed on his book by Gujarat government, expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh on Thursday said it amounted to “banning thinking” and likened the step to the one taken against noted author Salman Rushdie for his controversial work ‘Satanic Verses’. “I am greatly saddened by it,” Singh told...
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MUMBAI: Gulshan Bawra, the writer of popular Hindi film songs like “Yaari hai imaan mera yaar meri zindagi” (Zanjeer) and “Mere desh ki dharti” (Upkar), passed away at his Pali Hill residence in Mumbai on Friday.
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