Evening NEWS DIGEST
12 Nov. 2016: 11 Safar 1438: Vol: 8, No:33
Anger grows as banks
struggle to swap banned notes; Govt says ATMs not recalibrated for new notes,
to take 2-3 weeks
New Delhi: Anger
intensified in India on Saturday as banks struggled to dispense cash following
the government's decision to withdraw large denomination notes in an attempt to
uncover billions of dollars in undeclared wealth. Tempers frayed as hundreds of
thousands of people queued for hours outside banks for a third day to swap 500
and 1,000 rupee bank notes after the notes were abolished earlier in the
week.The banned bills made up more than 80% of the currency in circulation,
leaving millions of people without cash and threatening to bring much of the
cash-driven economy to a halt.Customers argued and banged the glass doors at a
Standard Chartered branch in southern Delhi after security guards blocked the
entrance, saying there were too many people inside already. Others turned on
Modi, criticising his ongoing visit to Japan while ordinary people suffered at
home."He is taking bullet train rides in Japan and here you have old
people knocking on bank doors for cash," said Prabhat Kumar, a college
student who said he had spent 6 hours in the queue. "He has made a
terrible mistake."Modi said he would pursue the fight against corruption
and tax dodgers even if it meant scanning decades-old records."If
unaccounted money is found out during the current clean up drive, accounts of
tax evaders dating back to the country's independence in 1947 will be checked.If
required I will hire people for this task," Modi told the Indian community
in Kobe.Nearly half of India's 202,000 ATMs were shut on Friday and those that
operated quickly ran out of new notes as scores of people descended upon
them.Finance minister Arun Jaitley said ATMs had not been adjusted to handle
new currency notes prior to the announcement in order to keep it under wraps. "Recalibration
of ATMs will be completed within 2 weeks,"he added. Referring to
inconvenience caused to public, Jaitley said there could be some, short-term
disruptive cost to the economy due to the demonetisation drive but this would
prove positive in the longer term.Traders in Delhi's vegetable market said they
were considering shutting down the market as cash was running out and banks
were dispensing a limited amount."We might have to close down until the
situation stabilises," said Metharam Kriplani, president of Chambers of
Azadpur Fruit and Vegetable Traders.People in Mumbai said grocers were charging
10 times the price of salt in return for accepting the old cash notes. Reuters
ATMs not equipped to
dispense new notes, require machine reconfiguration: Report
ATMs have not been
re-calibrated for new currency, it will take 2-3 weeks: Finance Minister
Jaitley
Out of 2 lakh ATMs, only 85000
functional on Friday
How to identify fake Rs 2000
notes from real ones
How India's currency ban is
hurting the poor:BBC
Kejriwal sees a huge scam
behind demonetisation
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal
has alleged that there is a huge scam behind the scrapping of Rs. 500 and Rs.
1,000 notes.“In the name of tackling corruption, a scam is being carried out on
a large scale. Some evidence has to come to light and TV channels are showing
it. It is not something new that I’m saying,” Kejriwal said today.“On Nov.8,
when PM Narendra Modi announced that Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes will not be
legal tenders any more, all friends and BJP people, who actually have all the
black money, were informed prior. Those who had large amounts of black money
got enough to time to take care of it, he said.“In the last 3 months, money has
been deposited in all banks on a large scale, running into thousand of crores
of rupees. This arouses suspicion,” he alleged. “When the deposits in quarters
before that were in the negative or there was no growth, how did suddenly such
high deposits were made between July and Sept.quarter? Whose money is this and
how did such large scale deposits happen?” he asked.“It is the common man who
is suffering due to this as those who have black money, have already done the
setting,” he alleged.“There are huge queues outside banks, are there any big
industrialists or black marketers in the queue? No. Shopkeepers, rickshaw
pullers, auto rickshaw driver, farmers and labourers are in the queue. Do they
have all the black money?” he said. Kejriwal alleged that demonetisation has
led to a system of commissions and provided a fillip to black money instead.
“Gold rates have gone up and black money has gone up instead of decreasing,” he
said.the hindu
Demonetisation a 'big black
scandal': Mamata Banerjee
Kolkata: Ratcheting up her
demand for withdrawal of the Modi-led central govt 's decision to demonetise Rs
500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said the move has
turned out to be a "big black scandal". "This has turned out to
be a big black scandal. Hardship for the common citizens and full advantage to
the money launderers. I have said this before, but given the way the young, old
and everyone is suffering let me again appeal to the Central govt to withdraw this 'black' political decision
which is anti-commoner," Banerjee tweeted. IANS
Ready to work with CPM to
save country: Mamata on demonetisation
Mamata Banerjee Calls
Demonetisation A 'Big Black Scandal', Demands Rollback
Kapil Sibal attacks
demonetisation scheme, seeks probe of money pumped in Modi’s PM campaign
Demonetisation will not serve
purpose of checking black money: CM Akhilesh
‘WB BJP deposited Rs 1cr hours
before demonetisation’
New Delhi: CPI(M) hasclaimed
that BJP was aware of the Centre's decision to demonetise currency of higher
value in advance, while ruing that the move has affected the party's
campaigning ahead of by-polls in few seats in West Bengal. "BJP's Bengal
unit had deposited an amount of Rs 1 crore in a Kolkata bank, hours before PM Narendra
Modi made the announcement on Tuesday. "The move has certainly affected
our campaigning in terms of expenditure. Workers are facing trouble in
procuring election material at the grassroots level," senior party leader
Rabin Deb said. PTI
BJP leaked demonetisation
information to benefit party
Demonetization: Uddhav
Thackeray slams Modi
Mumbai:After the
opposition, now the BJP is facing heat from its own ally over the scrapping of
Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes citing
"torture" to common man, Shivsena Chief Uddhav Thackeray came down
heavily on the move. It is seen as the most brazen attack on Modi govt's war on
black money.Calling the serpentine queues outside banks as a
"torture" Shivsena Thackeray went on to warn the Modi govt of a surgical strike by the citizens that may
cost him dear. india today
From Japan, Modi warns of
more steps on black money, if required
Kobe: Acknowledging the
hardship being faced by people back home following the demonetisation of Rs 500
and Rs 1,000 notes, PM Narendra Modi on Saturday said more steps could be taken
to curb black money as warranted.Addressing the Indian diaspora here, Modi said
he had already opened several windows for people to come clean on their
ill-gotten wealth. After that, he said, he had to think of other ways and
demonetisation was one such step -- a matter that had to be kept secret.He said
that after the window offered in Sept.for people to declare their unaccounted
wealth, Rs 125 lakh crore was received by banks. "If after this you think
that the situation remains like before then it's not my fault," he said,
adding that after the demonetization scheme, "there is no guarantee that
more won't follow".IANS
Nation in chaos over
demonetisation, Modi frolicking in Japan: Congress
Do Bazaar Rupye in Urdu,
Dhon Hazaar Rupye in Hindi; Wrong Urdu, Hindi text on new Rs 2000 notes:
scholars
If they do, the freshly
minted maximum value currency of Rs 2,000 denomination is faulty, say
Chennai-based Urdu scholars. While 'hazaar' means thousand, 'bazaar' means
market. 'Do Bazaar Rupye'. This is found to have been printed in Urdu on Rs
2,000 currency. Instead of saying 'hazaar' which means 'thousand', they have
committed a spelling error resulting in a word 'bazaar' which means market or
shopping area, said U Mohamed Khalilullah, an Urdu scholar and chartered
accountant.On the reverse side of the new Rs 2,000 note, the value of the
currency has been printed in 15 languages. In Urdu, it is printed as 'Do Bazaar
Rupye,' said Mohamed Khalilullah. He said the Hindi phrase too was not correct,
as it has been printed as 'Dhon Hazaar Rupye', instead of 'Dho Hazaar
Rupye.'TOI
Salt Crosses Rs. 300/kg in
Delhi, NCR, UP, Govts Deny Shortage Rumours
New Delhi/Lucknow: Amid
rumours of a salt shortage in different parts of Delhi, NCR and UP, both
central and Delhi govt s on Friday clarified there is no such
shortage."There is no shortage of salt. State govt s have all powers to
ensure its availability at reasonable prices," a central govt spokesperson said.The clarification came after
rumours were rife that the price of salt has gone up to Rs. 250 per kg in
Delhi/NCR and Rs. 400 per kg in UP.This led to a panic-like situation in Noida,
Laxmi Nagar, Chandni Chowk and some other places in the national
capital."The department monitors the prices of 22 essential commodities on
daily basis. As per the prices reported by centres from across the country,
there has been no increase in price of salt whatsoever," Department of
Food and Consumer Affairs said.There has been no report about any disruption in
production of salt, its supply and distribution, it added.Earlier in the day,
rumours of no salt stocks in UP led to panic buying in many parts of the
state.IANS
One dead after rumours of
salt shortage trigger panic in UP
New Delhi: Rumours of no salt stocks in UP triggered a major law and order situation,
leading to the death of a woman in Kanpur, police said on Saturday.In the panic
buying around midnight, when the rumours spread like wildfire in Bakarganj
Bazaar in Kanpur, Savita (52) too, rushed to buy some salt.In the melee she was
pushed around and slipped into a drain, dying on the spot, the police
said.siasat
Baby Dies After Mumbai
Hospital Allegedly Refuses To Take 500, 1,000 Rupee Notes
MUMBAI: For Jagadish and
Kiran Sharma, residents of Mumbai's Govandi area, the effect of the govt 's
radical move to withdraw 500 and 1,000 rupee notes from circulation, has not
just been bothersome but utterly devastating.The couple lost their newborn baby
after allegedly being turned away by a private hospital in Govandi just because
they did not have enough usable cash to make the deposit.Kiran went into labour
at her home on Wednesday just minutes before her husband could manage transport
to take her to the Jeevan Jyot Hospital and nursing home, which the couple have
been visiting regularly for the last six months for check-ups.But the hospital
turned them away after they requested to make a part of the deposit worth Rs.
6,000 in denominations of 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, Jagadish said. "I requested
them again and again, even telling them that the govt has directed hospitals to
accept 500 and 1000 rupee notes for a few more days but they refused to hear us
out," said Jagadish Sharma.NDTV
Hid in Washroom For an
Hour: Official After Attack at IDBI Bank
What is about to follow is
a first-person account of Daljit Kaur, an employee of the Subzi Mandi branch of
IDBI bank in Delhi, where violence ensued on Saturday morning as a group of
goons attacked bank officials with stones and injured several of them. the Quint
70-yr-old dies in front of Mumbai SBI branch
Mumbai: A 70-year-old
Mulund resident who was standing in a long queue to deposit money and exchange
demonetised Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes died after suffering a stroke on Friday
afternoon outside a State Bank of India Branch in his neighbourhood. Vishwas
Vartak, a former PWD employee, was leading a retired life at his residence in
Aditya Park in Hari Om Nagar, Mulund East. The SBI branch had a long queue and
there was no respite for Vartak, despite norms that senior citizens should have
a separate queue. Vartak lived with his wife, two sons and daughters-in-law.DNA
Thane: Eyewitness recounts
horror of 72-year-old collapsing to death in ATM line
3 people die in India in
the wake of demonetization policy, Rahul Gandhi joins queue
Housewife 'jumps to death'
after futile ATM visit
Howrah: A 27-year-old
homemaker fell to death from her 10th-floor flat in a posh apartment complex in
Howrah's Belur on Friday morning, soon after returning empty-handed from a
nearby ATM.Police suspect she jumped off the balcony after a spat with her
husband. Police have learnt that Madhu was asked by her husband, Brajesh, a
realtor, to queue up at the ATM after picking up the couple's 2 kids from
school. She was told to wait till Brajesh replaced her. Madhu did stop at the
ATM, but returned home on finding it shut."I bade Madhu and the kids
goodbye and left for work. I stepped out and was shocked to find my wife lying
on the road with blood all around her. I don't know why she chose to take her
life," said a distraught Brajesh. Other family members insisted Madhu did
not commit suicide but accidentally fell from the balcony.TOI
In River Ganga now, there
are notes of Rs 500, Rs 1000 flowing: PM Modi
New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi, who is on a 3-day visit to Japan, addressed
diaspora community in Kobe on Saturday. Talking about his latest move to curb
black money, he saluted the resolve of 125 crore Indian citizens who are facing
hardships to help rid the country of corruption. Indian express
Shortage of new notes:
Customers allegedly loot fair price shop in MP
Chhattarpur:Enraged over
not getting ration from a fair price shop due to shortage of cash after Centre’s
demonestisation move, people at Bardaha village here allegedly looted groceries
from the outlet in protest. The shop owner Munni Lal Ahirwar has alleged in his
complaint that the villagers looted foodgrains as they did not have cash to
purchase it, police, however claimed that no such incident took place and it
was only a minor scuffle.PTI
Irate customers attack bank
staff in Kolkata, Howrah
Demonetisation may not win
war against black money as Cash has less than 6% of share in it
New Delhi: The
demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 banknotes is unlikely to help the govt suck out black money from the economy as
hoarders keep a tiny portion of their ill-gotten wealth in hard cash, going by
income-tax data.Cash recovery has been less than 6% of the undisclosed income
seized from tax evaders, shows an HT analysis of data from tax raids from
financial year 2012-13 onwards. Critics argued the move would do little to
unearth black money hoarded by the rich who park their cash in different asset
classes than keep it idle.Tax data seem to bear that out. For instance, in
income-tax probes from April 1 to Oct.31 this financial year, black-money
holders accepted having stashed Rs 7,700 crore worth of ill-gotten assets. The
cash component was merely Rs 408 crore or 5%. The remaining was invested in
business, stocks, real estate and benami bank accounts, the data show.
Financial year 2015-16 saw the highest black-money detection in the period, of
which 6% was cash.HT
Dainik Jagran Journalist
broke story about currency demonetisation a fortnight back
Lucknow:Though the Centre
has claimed that the decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes was known
only to a handful of people, the story was broken by a Kanpur-based Hindi
journalist almost a fortnight before the dramatic late evening announcement by
the PM .Brajesh Dubey of the Hindi daily Dainik Jagran is gleefully accepting
congratulatory telephone calls and envious looks from his peers for his story
of Oct.27 that also confidently reported that Rs 2,000 notes would be issued as
replacement. Talking to IANS over the phone, Dubey, who is on the business beat
for the Hindi daily, did not reveal his source for the story citing the “ethics
of journalism”, but said it came from “informed and long-standing sources”.It
was done routinely, he said, and did not draw attention even from colleagues,
forget readers, until the Nov.8 “surgical strike” on black money -- an event
that was so “top secret” that ministers were reportedly “quarantined” after the
cabinet meeting where they were informed of the decision. Dubey is happy now
that the story has not only been confirmed by subsequent developments, but also
that his byline has been noticed by the fraternity everywhere.IANS
Currency ban won't affect
netas. Only people will suffer: RSS leader Govindacharya
Veteran RSS leader KN
Govindacharya has claimed that the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000
currency notes announced by PM Narendra Modi would have negligible impact in
bringing down the black money in the economy. According to Govindacharya, the
demonetisation scheme and introduction of high value currency notes would
result in weeding out only 3% of the black money.In a post on Facebook, the RSS
leader wrote, "I was surprised and happy after scheme to withdraw Rs 500
and Rs 1000 was announced, but after giving it a deep thought, my excitement
fizzled out. These 2 initiatives by Modiji would take out only 3% of the black
money and would not have any far reaching consequences. This would end up being
yet another election jumla of the PM." Catch news
Why Demonetisation Could
Fail to Make a Dent on Terror Financing:Raghu Raman
Modi move a huge blow to
purchasing power, may backfire on PM: Swaminathan Aiyer
Currency ban: Queues get
longer at banks, ATMs; struggle for new notes continues
ATMs run dry as people make
a dash for cash after demonetisation move
Watch: Bad in 2014, Great
in 2016 – BJP’s Flip-Flop on Currency Exchange
India may soon see cash
riots unless govt ensures adequate cash flow:Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
Modi loses over 3 lakh
followers on Twitter, Kejriwal gains
Demonetisation leaves lakhs
of tea, jute workers in Bengal, Northeast unpaid
NAJEEB MISSING
Countrywide Campus Protests
On November 15 For Missing JNU Student
New Delhi: JNU Students Union (JNUSU) on Friday called
upon major student organisations across the country to hold campus protests on
Nove.14-15 and to intensify the fight for Najeeb Ahmed, student of the JNU
missing from campus here for last 26 days. At a conference organised on the JNU
campus by the students union denounced the varsity's inaction and "total
abdication"in its duty to bring the culprits to justice, and deliberated
the ways in which the protest movement could be intensified.PTI
Najeeb Ahmed row: JNU Students
blame Delhi Police for delay in efforts to trace him
New Delhi: The students of
JNU campus criticized the Delhi Police on Saturday for delayed efforts to in
find Najeeb Ahmed, who has been missing from last 28 days after allegedly being
beaten up by a mob of 20 students comprising mostly of ABVP members.JNUSU
President Mohit Pandey told ANI, “Police has not taken any action for finding
Najeeb. They have not followed the procedures and responsibilities. Those who
had beaten him were not interrogated. Constantly the members of ABVP are saved.
We will go to police time and again. We will not let Najeeb forget understand
our responsibility,”Police is delaying the investigation. Why is the basic
investigation not happening? We want only Najeeb to be searched. We doubt that whether
the Delhi police is really doing the investigation or not?” Former President
Akbar said.ANI
Crime Branch to probe
missing JNU student's case
BHOPAL KILLING
3 MP cops ‘injured’ in Bhopal
encounter go missing
Bhopal:3 MP policemen, who
the govt said were injured in a
controversial encounter, appear to have gone missing. Repeated attempts to
trace them ran into a police wall or angry and anxious family members.An HT
investigation, however, found that none of them were seriously injured and one
of them has been attending office without a break since the encounter on the
outskirts of Bhopal on Oct.31. A family member of another cop told an HT
reporter that the policeman had gone to hospital alone on his motorcycle. The 3
were said to have been injured when fired upon by 8 men who allegedly escaped
from Bhopal jail and were shot dead by police in encounter, which has come
under a cloud following contradictory statements by police officials and
surfacing of amateur video clips.“They received cut injuries on hand and feet,”
was the curt reply of SP (north) Arvind Saxena when asked about the nature of
injuries. It was only after repeated requests that he revealed their names —
special task force head constable Narayan Singh and crime branch constables
Dinesh Khatri and Mayand Singh.But he refused to give their residential
addresses. HT managed to meet the family members of two of the policemen.HT
2 weeks on, Khandwa’s
Muslims still seething with anger over Bhopal encounter
Khandwa: It is almost two
weeks since 8 men were gunned down in a police encounter hours after breaking
out of the Bhopal jail, but sections of the Muslim community in Khandwa, the
Madhya Pradesh town from where 5 of the killed fugitives hailed, is still
seething with anger.Thousands had turned out for the funerals of 5 on Nov.2 and
raised angry slogans against the state govt and the police. Agitated mourners also pelted
stones in Tapalchaal neighbourhood of the city, best known to outsiders for
being the birthplace of legendary singer Kishore Kumar.Aqeel Ashraf, a
prominent activist, said the encounter shrouded in controversy has further
deepened the sense of alienation among the local Muslims. Khandwa-based lawyer
and a prominent community member, Javed Chouhan, said the resentment and anger
brewing among Muslim youth was a reaction to the encounter. Senior Congress
leader Riaz Hussain said the Oct.31 killings have added to the communal
tension. Cleric Syed Ansar Ali said a fair probe was the only way to stop
Muslim youth from being radicalized.HT
SIMI men’s lawyer ‘denied’
entry to Bhopal jail, approaches police
Bhopal:A lawyer for 5
suspected SIMI men lodged in Bhopal Central Jail failed in his court-approved
mission to meet the clients on Saturday, prompting him to approach the police.
While counsel Parvez Alam claimed prison authorities demanded an untrue
submission from him, jail superintendent Dinesh Nargave said his office was
only going by routine formalities. Alam registered a complaint at Gandhinagar
police station, alleging that Bhopal Central Jail authorities “denied” him a
meeting with the five clients despite permission from the judiciary. The
district and sessions court had, on Friday, allowed Alam a 20-minute meet with
the five “operatives” of the banned Islamic students’ organisation inside the
jail. Judge Ram Kumar Chaube, while dismissing a revision petition filed by
Madhya Pradesh govt , specified that the lawyer should stick to the rules of
the state jail manual.On Saturday, when Alam reached the Bhopal Central Central
Jail at 10.35 am, he was asked to fill up a form. The lawyer said he was asked
to write that Adil, Irfan, Javed, Zuber and Mohammed Sadiq, who he wanted to
meet, were his relatives.“They are my clients; not relatives. I don’t
understand why they are behaving like this,” Alam told HT. “They are now trying
to frame me, too, as a SIMI activist.”The jail authorities showed disrespect to
Friday’s court order, he added.HT
Bhopal encounter: Court
rejects MP govt plea, allows lawyer to meet SIMI men in jail
Catching the lies of MP CM:Hemender
Sharma
Encounter:HC asks petitioner
to approach judicial panel
OTHERS
Never Named Anyone, Says
Wife Of Murdered Tribal On Professor Nandini Sundar
RAIPUR: Days after the murder of a villager in
Chhattisgarh's Maoist-hit Bastar, the police cited his wife's complaint to name
Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar and Jawaharlal Nehru University's
Archana Prasad as murder suspects.Sitting in her home at a village around 400
km from Raipur, Shamnath Baghel's wife Vimla told NDTV that she didn't name
Nandini Sundar or anyone at all, even the killers.Vimla says the family was
sleeping on Nov 4, when the Maoists knocked on their door."When I did not
open the door, they broke it down. They barged in and dragged my husband out of
the house. They had guns, swords...They pointed a gun at me and asked me to
stay inside. There were 15-20 men... I did not know any of them. I could not
see them properly as they flashed a torch at me. They did not say a word. They
took him and killed him on the road," said Vimla.NDTV
Wife of Murdered Bastar
Villager Denies Naming Nandini Sundar and Others in FIR
India will not become 'pawn'
for Japan: Chinese Daily
Beijing: India will not
become a "pawn" for Japan to contain China, a Chinese state-run media
said on Saturday, accusing Japan of exploiting Sino-India disputes for its own
interests. "Japan wants to use the disputes between China and India to
court India to help contain China. Japan seeks to urge India to meddle in the
South China Sea issue, even at the cost of changing its long-held position of
reducing nuclear usage to offer special benefits of civil nuclear cooperation
to India," Global Times said in an editorial on PM Narendra Modi's three-day visit to
Japan."Looking at Japan's diplomatic policies over the past few years,
(Japanese PM Shinzo) Abe administration has become more active trying to sway
regional powers to encircle China," the daily said.PTI
UK regulator slaps penalty
on Zakir Naik’s Peace TV for anit-Jewes speeches
New Delhi:Britain’s regulator,
Ofcom, has imposed a penalty of £65,000 on Club TV Limited, the licence holder
of Zakir Naik’s Peace TV Urdu in Britain for breach of the content code.Naik’s
NGOs in India are currently under govt scrutiny and the process has been initiated to
declare them terrorist entities under the UAPA.The Ofcom regulator found the
telecast of the public lectures by an Islamic scholar highly critical and
potentially offensive to the Jewish people. This was broadcast on Sept.12 and
13 on Peace TV Urdu.The order issued on Friday, found a number of
discriminatory remarks made on the Jewish people as an ethnic group in the
lectures delivered by Islamic scholar Israr Ahmed who died in April 2010. The
role and actions of the Jewish people through history from c.1500 to the
present day were examined in the lectures that had comments like “this cursed
people…this cursed race”, found to be offensive under the Ofcom code.The
regulator observes that the breach of the code was serious as the content
included numerous examples of overwhelmingly negative and stereotypical
references to Jewish people which, in its view, were a form of hate speech.
Ofcom was also concerned about the potential harm arising from such a speech.In
its defence, Club TV expressed its sincere regret and acknowledged that the
contents should not have been broadcast. However, it argued that its viewer
profile is over 25 years old — i.e. the channel’s viewers were not the youngest
and most impressionable. the hindu
Delhi:Violence erupted near
Dargah at Jorbagh Karbala, 200 policemen deployed
New Delhi: Arguments
between the 2 groups of people over the erection of parking gate inside a
dargah allegedly at Jorbagh Karbala in South Delhi lead to violence with both
sides pelting stones at each other as well as cars parked in the area for over
20 minutes on Friday night. The scuffle settled only after the police reached
the spot and seized the area. Around 200 policemen were deployed to control the
situation and five people were detained, police said. financialexpress
India,Pak should resume
talks on J&K:ex-Hurriyat head
A separatist leader in the
Valley Friday asked mainstream and separatist parties in J&K to sit together and draft a resolution asking
India and Pakistan to resume the dialogue on Kashmir issue. Former chairman of
Hurriyat Conference Abdul Ghani Bhat said people in India and Pakistan should
build pressure on their govt s against the “war mongering and jingoism”.During
the release of his book Beyond Me, Bhat said the Kashmir conflict is the
foundation of “darkness” in the subcontinent and has engulfed the whole South
Asian region. He said all recognised parties in J&K, including the BJP,
should “put their heads together” and draft a joint resolution asking India and
Pakistan to end the stalemate.
Curfew imposed in parts of
Srinagar, Friday prayers not allowed inside mosque; Geelani remains house
arrest
Day before separatist
march: Yasin Malik held again, Mirwaiz put under house arrest
World
Trump's victory followed by
wave of hate crime attacks against minorities across US - led by his supporters
Police are investigating a
wave of alleged hate crimes against Muslims, Hispanic Americans, black people,
ethnic minorities and LGBT community in the wake of the US election.Attackers
professing support for Donald Trump have been accused of numerous attacks in
the 24 hours following his shock victory, including death threats, physical
assaults and racist graffiti. Among the incidents is the alleged robbery of a
Muslim student at San Diego State University by 2 men who “made comments about
President-elect Donald Trump and Muslim community”, before stealing her purse,
rucksack and car.SDSU Muslim Student Association said the victim was a black
Muslim student wearing full Islamic dress, and is planning a demonstration
against “anti-Blackness, Islamophobia, and all other forms of discrimination
that have become increasingly normalised during the campaign and now election
of Donald Trump”. Independent UP
Saudi student is beaten,
killed in Wisconsin
After Trump’s win,
hijab-clad Muslim students targeted on California campuses
Muslim Students Targeted In
California Attacks: AFP
Black Americans fear
racism, police violence postTrump
Protests against Donald
Trump continue across US
Senior Saudi prince Turki
al-Faisal says Trump shouldn't scrap Iran deal: Reuters
US President-elect Donald
Trump should not scrap a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers but should
take the nation to task for its "destabilizing activities" in the
Middle East, said a former senior Saudi official.Gulf powers watched with alarm
as US President Barack Obama forged a deal with its top regional foe over
Iran's nuclear program last year and warned it would embolden Tehran's pursuit
of regional hegemony in part through support for proxy groups fuelling regional
conflicts."I don't think he should scrap it. It's been worked on for many
years and the general consensus in the world, not just the United States, is
that it has achieved an objective, which is a 15-year hiatus in the program
that Iran embarked on to develop nuclear weapons," Prince Turki al-Faisal,
a former Saudi intelligence chief and ex-ambassador to Washington and London
said on Thursday.
Egyptian police arrest
scores of anti-Sisi protesters
At least 130 people have
been arrested across Egypt as calls for protests against poor economic conditions
and rising prices went largely unheeded.In the capital, Cairo, where riot
police had been deployed in force in anticipation of Friday's protests, some 39
alleged demonstrators were arrested.Police also quickly scattered several dozen
protesters who assembled in the port city of Suez, according to media
reports.Meanwhile in Beheira province, some 70km north of Cairo, sources told
Al Jazeera that security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets against
protesters. aljazeera
Egypt: IMF approves $12bn
loan
Afghanistan: Explosion hits
US airbase in Bagram
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/afghanistan-explosion-hits-airbase-bagram-161112045737967.html
NATO says at least 4 people
have been killed in an explosion inside the largest US military base in
Afghanistan, with the Taliban claiming responsibility for attack.The explosion
struck at dawn on Saturday inside heavily fortified Bagram Airfield, north of
Kabul, as the Taliban step up attacks on Western targets before the onset of
winter, when fighting usually ebbs.
Turkey detains chairman of
opposition Cumhuriyetdaily
Istanbul Turkey’s state-run
news agency says the chairman of the opposition Cumhuriyet daily has been
detained as he returned from abroad, a week after several senior staff were
arrested for allegedly supporting terrorist organisations.AP
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