Sania Mirza

Deoband (UP): Jamait-e-Ulema Hind (JEU) issued fatwa against singing national song 'Vande Matram'. According to a resolution, Muslims should not sing 'Vande Matram' as its reciting is against the Islam.

The fatwa was issued at Deoband national convention meet. The JEU leader said that the some of the lines in the song is against Islam. Meanwhile, Home Minister P Chidambaram will address a Jamait-e-Ulema Hind conference here today.

This is not the first time that a fatwa has been issued against the song. In 2006, after asking tennis pinup Sania Mirza to get rid of her signature T-shirts and short skirts, Muslim clerics in Hyderabad had issued a fatwa (religious edict) against the Bankim Chandra Chatterjee composition.

This should be It- Sania's 1st WTA Singles Title

PATTAYA (Thailand): Sania Mirza will have to beat world number five and top seed Russian Vera Zvonareva to claim the second WTA singles title of h
Sania Mirza
Sania Mirza reacts during her semi-final against Magdalena Rybarikova at the PTT Pattaya Women's Open tennis tournament on February 14, 2009. (Reuters Photo)
er career as the two players set up the summit clash in the $220,00 Pattaya Open on Saturday.

Sania edged past world number 51 Magdalena Rybarikova in the first semi-final 6-4, 5-7, 6-1 while Zvonareva beat Shahar Peer of Israel 6-1, 6-4 in the other last-four clash.