Local ‘IS chief’ Tamim Chowdhury prime architect of Dhaka cafe attack, say police

Edit Indian Express 31 Jul 2016
Believed to be in his mid-30s, Chowdhury aka Sheikh Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif reportedly left Canada in 2013 itself and has been identified by numerous terrorism experts and analysts as the head o ... ....

City to host street art festival

Edit The Hindu 31 Jul 2016
Hyderabad is set to host a multi-location street art festival, the kind it has never seen before ... Papa Rao, trustee of art@telangana ... ft ... The street is our gallery,” said Hanif Kureshi of St-artindia at an interactive session with city-based artists, laying out his vision for the street art experiment ... Rao. ....

Muslims join Dalits' fight in Gujarat, thousands to attend big Sunday rally

Edit The Times of India 30 Jul 2016
"We have announced our whole-hearted backing to the rally tomorrow and many of our members and community are likely to attend it," Nasir Ansari, general secretary of the Gujarat unit of Jamiat-e-Ulema Hind, told IANS on Friday evening ... "We have been victims of political conspiracy in the past ... Political parties have only attained power by using our emotions," vice-president of Jamiat-e-Ulema-Hind Mohammed Hanif said ... --IANS. desai/rn/vm....

A thing of beauty

Edit The Hindu 30 Jul 2016
A few years ago, I got a request from a well known publisher to go through Kai Chand The Sar-e-Aasman. Though devoted to publishing Indian language titles in translation, the lady on the other end of the phone had no acquaintance with Urdu ... She sent me a copy of the book. It was a voluminous one, some 850 pages ... Well Kai Chand... The novel comes with the recommendation of luminaries such as Orhan Pamuk, Mohammed Hanif and Nadeem Aslam....

Sessions court dismisses anticipatory bail pleas in 27 lakh chit fund scam

Edit The Times of India 29 Jul 2016
PUNE. A sessions court dismissed the anticipatory bail application of two directors of a chit fund firm ... In their plea, Kamlesh and Vikram said that a false complaint was lodged against them with the purpose of harassing them ever since they handed over the firm's business to one Mohammad Hanif Shaikh, who duly notified the handover to subscribers in April ... The court observed that the transfer had no valid recognition ... RELATED....

Five Bangladeshi terrorists might have entered India

Edit The Times of India 29 Jul 2016
KOLKATA. At least five Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorists, whose names appear in the latest list handed over by Rapid Action Batallion (RAB) to Indian authorities, suspected to have sneaked into India ... Also known as Abu Ibrahim Al-Hanif, Chowdhury's interview appeared in the June, 2016 issue of Dabiq-ISIS' propaganda magazine. According to sources, he left Canada in 2013 and could not be traced after that ... RELATED....

If politics has become stranger than fiction, we novelists must try harder

Edit The Guardian 29 Jul 2016
Richard T Kelly. From Dickens and Zola to Tolstoy, the best political novels thrive on complexity. Rolling news and social media encourage us to live under a siege of immediate reaction ... Related. Robert Harris. why I write political fiction ... The attractions are clear ... Twitter ... Hanif Kureishi has lamented that, unlike in Dickens’s time, there is not one contemporary writer with “a sense of the whole society, from prisoner to home secretary” ... ....

Let all the children boogie: how a new Bowie biography took me back to teenage subversion

Edit New Statesman 28 Jul 2016
Thank God Paul Morley’s The Age of Bowie doesn't try to be an objective, sensible biography ... I don’t want real ... Here is 1972. “. ... It was obvious to us that the super-cool soundtrack for the TV dramatisation of Hanif Kureishi’s zeitgeist novel The Buddha of Suburbia, set in south ­London in the Seventies, could only have been written by Bowie, who in the early days bought his shirts and shoes in Lewisham ... The Age of Bowie....

Afghanistan need modern Mi-35 gunships to rebuff terrorism groups: Atmar

Edit Khaama Press 27 Jul 2016
The National Security Adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar has said Afghanistan need modern Mi-35 gunship helicopters in order to rebuff the terrorist groups in the country. Atmar is currently on an ... Atmar further added “Now we have obsolete modifications of Russian combat helicopters....

In Gujarat, Dalit protest has no leader, but many followers

Edit Indian Express 26 Jul 2016
Protest by Dalits against the Una flogging incident, in Surat. (Source. Express photo by Hanif Malek) Unlike the Patidar reservation agitation that saw guiding faces like Hardik Pat ... ....

Surat sub-inspector booked for ‘murder’ after Dalit youth death

Edit Indian Express 26 Jul 2016
Dalit outfits and other groups take out protest rally against the youth’s death. (Source. Express photo by Hanif Malek) A DAY after a 25-year-old Dalit man died during a raid on w ... ....

Former Pak cricketers slam team after Old Trafford defeat

Edit Deccan Chronicle 26 Jul 2016
Karachi. Former fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has criticised Pakistan's dismal performance in the second Test against England, saying that the team's batting got completely exposed ... And the problem of consistency remains as usual," he said ... Former batting legend Hanif Muhammad had a word of advise for Younis, who is Pakistan's highest Test run-getter ... He will find it hard to adjust himself," Hanif said. ....

England v/s Pakistan: Former Pakistani players criticise dismal performance at second Test

Edit DNA India 26 Jul 2016
--> Tue, 26 Jul 2016-01.35pm , Karachi , PTI. England beat Pakistan on Monday by a massive 330 runs to win the second Test at his Old Trafford home ground ... England beat Pakistan on Monday by a massive 330 runs to win the second Test at his Old Trafford home ground ... Former batting legend Hanif Muhammad had a word of advise for Younis, who is Pakistan's highest Test run-getter ... He will find it hard to adjust himself," Hanif said. ....
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