Evening NEWS DIGEST
13 Nov. 2016: 12 Safar 1438: Vol: 8, No:34
Uniform Civil Code: Law
Commission open to suggestions from tribals
New Delhi: With a section
of the tribal population up in arms against the govt's move seeking opinion of
Law Commission on possibility of having the Uniform Civil Code, the panel said
it was "open" to objections and suggestions from the community. "The
tribal community should make representation before the Commission. We would
also like to know their stand," Law Commission Chairman BS Chauhan told
PTI.He said the Commission considers tribals as a stakeholder in the entire
exercise in which representations are coming from various communities."Tribals
can also participate and debate in the entire exercise," the former apex
court judge said.The opposition from a section of the tribal community assumed
importance as a group has also moved the Supreme Court contending that the govt
was making an attempt to impose the UCC which will be against their ethos,
customs and religious practices.Rashtriya Adivasi Ekta Parishad, a group that
claims to work for protecting Adivasi interests, has filed a petition in the SC
seeking protection of their customs and religious practices, including their
right to practice polygamy and polyandry.The petition in the apex court claimed
the Adivasis (tribals) had their own personal laws and do not come in the
category of Hindus as they worshipped nature instead of idols and performed burial
of the dead.The marriage ceremonies of tribals are also different from that of
Hindus, it submitted.PTI
Muslims won’t tolerate any
interference in Shariah: Jamiat Ulama conclave in historic city of Ajmer
Ajmer: The 2-day 33rd
general session of the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind began here on Saturday at the
historic city of Ajmer which has the privilege of having the shrine of Sufi
saint Hazrat Khawja Moinuddin Chishti who is remembered as “Ghareeb Nawaz” and
was embodiment of universal peace and communal harmony. The city popularly
known as “Ajmer Sharif” has the distinction of people of all faiths and not
just Muslims visiting the saint’s shrine to pay their obeisance. In the
backdrop of Uniform Civil Code and Triple Talaaq controversy, Jamiat
Ulama-i-Hind’s general session began with all round refrain that Muslims will
never tolerate any interference in the Muslim Personal Law as any such
interference amounts to infringement of fundamental rights which have been
enshrined in the Constitution of India to one and all countrymen.Showing the
unity of all sects and schools of thought at the 33rd general session, Jamiat
Ulama-i-Hind President Maulana Mohammad Usman Mansurpuri said in his
presidential address that there is a need to iron out the sectarian differences
among the community as the communal forces are trying to exploit these to
defame Islam and the Islamic Shariah. He exhorted Jamiat members and followers
to attach themselves with the four lineage of Sufism. He said the decision to
hold 33rd Jamiat session in Ajmer Sharif was to give a universal message of
Islam against terrorism and communalism as Hazrat Khawja Moinuddin Chishti
always stood for these ideals.Sajjada nashin of Dargha Sirhind, Khawja Syed
Sadiq Huassian and president of Ahle-Sunnat wal Jamaat (North) Khawja Junaid
also addressed the Jamiat session and exhorted for unity and harmony among the
community. Meanwhile, special invitee Javed Jamil, writer, speaking on the
occasion said: “Communal Violence is a much bigger threat than Terrorism, and
Hindu Terrorism more dangerous than Muslim Terrorism”. siasat
Muslims won’t tolerate any
interference in Islamic Shariah : Jamiat Ulama
Won’t Tolerate
Interference:AIMPLB member
Bhopal: All India Muslim
Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) executive committee member Maulana Khalilur Rehman
Sajjad Nomani said that Muslims would not tolerate any interference in the
Shariah law.Maulana Sajjad Nomani was addressing a Muslim women’s meeting over
protection of Shariah that was attended by a large number of community women
here on Saturday.AIMPLB executive committee member Arif Masood, Bhopal
Mufti-e-Shahar Maulana Mufti Abul Kalam Qasmi and Somaiya Monai also addressed
the gathering on the occasion. Maulana Nomani said, “Today, the people who are
trying to interfere in the Shariah law by creating confusion over it do not
know that Islam provides equal rights to women. Those who want to impose
Uniform Civil Code in the cover of Talaq would never get success in their
intents.” Dailypioneer
Triple Talaq should be
banned: Javed Akhtar
Kerala Leaders call to
protect sharia
CURRENCY
crunch
Benami properties, gold
next on agenda, Modi talks about 50 more days of pain; claims 'powerful
enemies' out to 'destroy' him
New Delhi:PM Narendra Modi on Sunday received standing
ovation from audiences in Goa and Karnataka as he shed tears justifying his govt
’s demonetisation efforts, which have been criticised for mismanagement.These
were his first speeches since last Tuesday when he addressed the nation to
declare that the old series 500 and 1,000 would be illegal tender. On Sunday,
Modi announced the next step in his war on “black money” and corruption would
be a crackdown on benami properties.In a voice choked with emotion, Modi said
in Goa he had made strong enemies who “will not let me live, who will destroy
me.”“But I ask the people of the country to help in this fight against black
money for the next 50 days,” he said, adding if the scheme should fail people
could do whatever they thought fit with him. Without identifying the “enemies
of the drive” the PM sent out a strong
warning to them, “If you haven’t realised what I am made of, then do now… I
will dig into your records dating back to when India achieved its independence.
I will give jobs to 100,000 youths and ask them to do this work.” Modi said his
govt ’s intent to end conversion of black money into gold. He said the 2016-17
Budget did away with the tax on use of plastic money with the objective of
moving towards a cashless society.But crucially, amid reports that the move has
disrupted business and people are facing hardships, Modi attempted to correct
the discourse. “The gains of this move would outweigh the pain,” he said, at
the centenary celebration of an education society in Belgaum. Opposition
parties on Sunday said they would raise the issue in Parliament during the
winter session that begins Wednesday. Earlier in Goa, PM said: “This
(demonetisation) isn’t the end. This isn’t a full stop, I declare,” the.He said
demonetisation was a “secret operation” by his govt that took 10 months to plan
by a “small and trusted group” of people.Businessstandard
'More projects' to fight
graft; ready to face consequences: PM Modi
Thrashing criticism of
govt's demonetization decision PM Modi vows won't stop, even if burnt alive
They will not leave me
alive: Modi on demonetisation
Currency Demonetisation: PM
Modi Turns Emotional, Says Left Home And Family For Nation
PM Modi attacks Congress:
You could dare to stop only 25 paise, not higher denomination notes
Kejriwal to Modi: End
demonetisation, jail your friends with accounts in Swiss bank
New Delhi:Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday urged PM Modi to immediately withdraw the decision to
demonetise high value currency and jail those with illegal Swiss bank accounts.
He also said that if the massive cash crunch across the country continued, it
could lead to law and order issues and spiral out of control. “I urge the
PM to take back his decision” of Nov. 8
to demonetize the 500 and 1,000 rupee notes as it has created huge problems for
the ordinary people,” he said.indianexpress
Demonetisation: United
Opposition slams govt as Modi makes emotional appeal to bear hardship for 50
days
2 days after new Rs 2,000
note, a ‘fake’
Bengaluru:Barely 2 days
after banks began issuing the new, ‘high-security’ Rs 2,000 notes, police in
Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka have registered a case of cheating against
unknown persons for allegedly using a colour photocopy of the new note.Police
said Ashok, a vegetable vendor, realised the note was fake when he was tallying
the day’s collection. G Krishnaraj, Circle Police inspector of Chikkamagalur
city, said one of the workers at Ashok’s stall accepted a Rs 2,000 note from a
man who made purchases worth Rs 1,700. The suspect, so far unidentified,
allegedly handed over the note and said he would collect the balance later. indianexpress
Fake note: Karnataka
vegetable vendor duped with colour photocopy of Rs 2000 note
Recovery of fake notes
dipped by 30 % between 2013 & 2015:
Fake became too ‘original’ to detect
Was PM Modi's demonetizaion
plan leaked? The real story behind a Gujarati paper's 'prediction'
Ahmedabad: A city-based
evening newspaper, which published a news item as a prank on its readers on
April Fools Day saying the govt will scrap Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, has been
flooded with calls ever since the govt demonetised them. The daily--Akila--is at
pains now explaining to one and all that it was just an April fool prank as the
picture of the story published on April 1, 2016, has gone viral on social media
after the govt 's overnight decision on Tuesday."We had published the news
on April 1, as a prank on our readers that high denomination notes of Rs 500 and
Rs1000 will be discontinued. Its nothing but a coincidence that the news
eventually turned out to be true after six months," owner and editor of
the eveninger, Kirit Ganatra told PTI. There is a tradition in Gujarat that every
local language newspaper gives one prank news on April Fool Day. The next day
it is clarified in the paper that the particular news was a prank, those close
to the establishment said adding that this is generally enjoyed by the readers.DNA
Woman with Rs 25 lakh ends life in Telangana
Mahbubabad: A woman
committed suicide on Thursday believing that the Rs 25 lakh cash in high
denominations stashed at her house had become worthless.Kandukuri Vinoda, 55,
of Shanigapuram village in Mahbubabad mandal had sold her 12 acres at Amanagal
for Rs 76 lakh to realtors 2 months back. Since her husband was suffering from
paralysis, the family needed money for his treatment.The buyers had paid Rs 48
lakh in instalments and the remaining amount was pending. Vinoda’s family had
kept the money in their house instead of at a bank as they were planning to buy
another piece of land. After paying about Rs 3 lakh for her husband’s
treatment, she also cleared a debt of Rs 20 lakh.Locals said Vinoda wanted to
give Rs 10 lakh each to her two daughters Rajitha and Kavitha as they hadn’t
paid any dowry.Deccan Chronicle
Stop treating people like
criminals: Shiv Sena
Shiv Sena has written to
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley asking him to stop treating every citizen like a
"criminal" in the wake of the demonetization of 500 and 1,000 rupee
notes. Rajya Sabha MPs Sanjay Raut and Anil Desai, while lauding the govt 's
intent on cracking down on black money, expressed concern over the manner in
which each and every Indian was being viewed as a criminal."We are worried
about the way each citizen has been viewed as a criminal by the govt . The
sudden declaration of the currency notes as illegal has rendered millions of
people and households in chaos," Raut and Desai said in a letter to
Jaitley released late on Saturday night.IANS
Use of Devanagari numerals
on new banknotes draws complaints of Hindi chauvinism: scroll.in
In a sharp break from the
tradition of not privileging one Indian language or script over the other, the
use of Devanagari numerals on the new Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 notes is the first
such instance in India’s post-Independence history.The departure from the past
has already triggered a murmur of resentment against the Bharatiya Janata
Party-led Union govt , which is perceived to have slyly resorted to cultural
imposition through the introduction of new notes.“The demonetisation has also
proved to be a cultural opportunity,” wrote Pulapre Balakrishnan acidly in his
piece, The New Colour of Money, in The Hindu, on Friday. Balakrishnan was
referring to what has always been the project of the BJP – to establish the
complete dominance of Hindi with the Devanagari script all over India.
Now Rs 3 crore deposit
ahead of Rs 500 & Rs 1000 note ban puts W. Bengal BJP in a spot
Kolkata: Deposits of Rs 3
crore made by West Bengal BJP in a nationalised bank here eight days before PM's
demonetisation announcement have triggered a controversy. Last transaction, involving
Rs 40 lakh, was made minutes before the PM's speech. BJP has insisted that the
events shouldn't be seen together; the cash deposits,it claimed, only proved
compliance. The revelations, however, provided opposition parties enough
ammunition to train their guns at BJP ahead of the Nov.19 bye-elections to one
assembly and two Lok Sabha seats in the state. Sources in the Indian Bank's
Central Avenue branch confirmed that the deposits were made in four tranches.
According to a report published in CPM mouthpiece 'Ganashakti' on Friday, BJP
had, on November 8, deposited Rs 60 lakh and then Rs 40 lakh - all of it in
neatly packed 500 and 1,000 rupee notes. While the first deposit was made to a
savings account (No.554510034) named BJP, West Bengal, in the afternoon, the
second was made around 8pm. However, it is not clear how the bank was open at
8pm. According to the same report, in a different current account (also
maintained by the party's state unit) Rs 75 lakh was deposited on November 1
and Rs 1.25 crore on Nov.5. ET
Demonetisation and its
discontents: why black money isn't going anywhere: AMITABH PANDEY
Decision to Demonetise
Currency Shows They Don’t Understand Capitalism: Prabhat Patnaik
Bihar shocker: Ambulance
refuses to accept abolished notes, rape victim struggles 3 hours to reach
hospital
Chandni Chowk traders say
it will take 2 months to regain business
Demonetisation damage
greater than its benefits, says Kaushik Basu
Jaipur: Infant dies, father
says no cash for ambulance
Jaipur:A father claims to
have run around for over four hours on Thursday night in Rajasthan’s Pali
district looking for an ambulance that would accept Rs 500 or Rs 1,000 notes to
take his newborn to hospital. By the time the family could arrange some Rs 100
notes, he said, the infant was dead.Champalal Meghwal said he was yet to tell
his wife about the death of their first-born. Hours after the son’s death, his
wife Manisha was discharged from the govt hospital in Pali and is back home at
their village Lapod. “She keeps asking where our son is, and I keep telling her
he is still at the district hospital undergoing treatment,” the 24-year-old
said, adding he is afraid she may not survive the blow.“Our son was born at
4.11pm on Thursday at Govt Bangar
Hospital, but had some difficulty breathing. About four hours after his birth,
the doctors referred him to Jodhpur ,” Meghwal, 24, a farmer, said. indianexpress
UP elections: 90% of people
suffering, they will teach BJP a lesson, says Mayawati
If BJP contests next polls
only by using cheque, I will admit black money wiped out: Salman Khurshid
FIR against doctor for
‘turning away’ sick baby over Rs 500 notes
Jamaat skeptical about
govt’s claim to rein black money through demonetization
New Delhi: Jamaat-e-Islami
Hind has expressed skepticism over govt’s claim to curb the circulation of
black money by demonetizing 500 and 1000 rupee currency notes. The Secretary
General of Jamaat, Muhammad Salim Engineer said: “we are not convinced by govt’s
claim that the demonetization scheme will curb black money. If black money was
to be curbed, why introduce the 2000 rupee note. The assumption that black
money is all hard cash and stashed in gunny bags is highly overstated. A
substantial part of black money is stashed in Swiss banks, converted to bullion
and invested in real estate. There is no concrete effort to book the guilty of
siphoning funds abroad or having ‘’benami’’ property. This sudden announcement
by the govt appears to be an election stunt and has resulted in a lot of
inconvenience to millions of poor and middle class citizens. Lower income
groups without a bank account, farmers and laborers are unduly penalized by
this demonetization. The cash economy which actually protected India from the
sub-prime financial crisis of 2008 will be irreparably damaged by this move and
will kill the local market. Honest taxpaying citizens and housewives who have
saved cash in their homes over a period of time are unnecessarily punished’’. sahilonline
As queues lengthen and
banks run out of cash, the danger is of India losing patience
Chetan Bhagat’s long rant
against demonetisation of Rs 500, Rs 1,000 is a must read
Subramanian Swamy Lashes
out at Finance Ministry for 'Poor Planning and Execution'
Demonetization: Queues get
longer at banks, ATMs
Get ready to live without
milk and vegetables this week onwards, thanks to demonetization
OTHERS
MP:Curfew clamped in
Vidisha after Bajrang Dal activist’s murder
Bhopal:Authorities imposed
curfew in Vidisha town on Sunday following arson and stone pelting mainly by
Bajrang Dal supporters after one of their men was allegedly stabbed to death.
23-year-old Deepak Kushwah allegedly died of stab wounds at Baksariya. He was
said to be attacked by a group of men around 3 pm on Saturday.External affairs
minister Sushma Swaraj represents Vidisha Lok Sabha seat.The administration has
deployed heavy additional police force and a contingent of RAF as a
precautionary measure in the area. Police in the neighbouring districts,
including Bhopal have been asked to remain on standby to dash to Vidisha if
required.On Sunday, violence erupted when the victim’s body was being taken
home for his funeral. Agitated Bajrang Dal supporters set afire three thatched
houses in a slum belonging to the community of the main accused, two trucks and
a jeep and indulged in stone pelting. At least three persons sustained injuries
in the stone pelting.“Curfew was imposed in the city after arson and stone
pelting. It had a communal angle too. As many as 11 people were arrested since
yesterday. Now, the situation is under control,” collector of Vidisha Anil
Suchari said. According to police Deepak Kushwah allegedly involved in five
criminal cases and had an old enmity with his attackers. About four days ago
they had a clash but police failed to take action. Of the 13 accused, 11 have
been arrested.Locals say the immediate reason for the clash was sale of liquor
but the genesis of tension between two communities can be traced to a row
between two sides on construction of shops at the idgah and saffron brigade’s
demand for action against Rajya Sabha MP Chaudhary Munawar Saleem after his
personal assistant was arrested on espionage charges recently. HT
Vidisha tense after murder, violence; curfew
clamped
UN members favour UNSC
permanent seat for India
UN: India's bid for a
permanent seat in a reformed UNSC has received a strong support from many UN
member states, including the UK and France, who emphasised that the world
body's top organ must reflect the emergence of new global powers. Over 50
speakers shared their suggestions, perspectives and concerns over reform of the
15-nation UNSC during a General Assembly session here last week."Many
favoured bolstering representation for such emerging powers as Brazil, Germany,
India and Japan. While some spotlighted the progress made in recent years
through intergovtal negotiations on Security Council reform process, others
voiced deep frustration that more had not yet been achieved," a summary of
the Nov.7 meeting posted on the UN site said. PTI
Creating "Muslim as the
enemy" is RSS-BJP mantra: Jignesh Mevani
New Delhi: Creating
"Muslim as the enemy" to mobilize the Hindus and manufacture a
conflict between the two communities, is the primary aim of the RSS-BJP govt in the country, a meet organized by people's
movement ‘Satyagarh Abhiyan' here today observed. It demanded a Supreme
Court-monitored probe into the Oct.31 Bhopal encounter in which one police
constable and eight under-trials were killed. The meet, attended by Gujarat
Dalit leader Jignesh Mewani, CPI youth leader Ameeque Jamei, JNU Students Union
president Mohit Panday, Gujarat lawyer Shamshad Pathan and others, expressed
concern over politics of "fake encounter" in the
country."Politics of fake encounter propelled the PM ship of Narendra
Modi. We all know how Sadiq Jamal, Ishrat Jahan, Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsi
Prajapati were eliminated by police after terming them as Lashkar affiliates.
This politics of fake encounter is now being replicated by MP CM Shivraj Singh
Chauhan,"Pathan said, adding that he may throw his hat in the ring for the
position of PM soon ahead of the next general elections. Satyagrah Abhiyan has
stepped up effort for mobilization of people from today at Jantar Mantar to
spearhead the cause for justice for nine people, including the police constable
killed in Madhya Pradesh. The police claim that alleged ‘SIMI activists' had
killed the constable, before escaping from jail.Calling for a wider pan-India
Dalit-Muslim OBC alliance, Jignesh Mewani said, that these communities need to
come on one platform to fight the RSS led forces in the country. India Tomorrow
Creating “Muslim as the
enemy” is the RSS-BJP mantra, says Jignesh Mevani: Muslim Mirror
Students, Dalit activists
joined hands to call SC probe on Bhopal
'encounter'
27 days later, 275 km
apart, Najeeb’s parents hope, waiting for news
Badaun/new Delhi:Lying on a
stringed cot, fingers clasped behind his head, Nafees Ahmed looks up straight
at the winter sun streaming in through the skylight of the courtyard. Ever
since his son Najeeb went missing from his hostel room in Delhi’s Jawaharlal
Nehru University on October 15, Nafees has spent most of his days — and nights
— on this cot near the door of his home in Vaidon Tola, a neighbourhood in the
Uttar Pradesh town of Badaun. “I don’t sleep inside these days. Mein sochta
hoon kya pata woh yahin aa jaye aur mujhe bell sunayi na de (What if he comes
here and I don’t hear the doorbell)?” he says.“Kya pata woh yahin aa jaye” is
also what keeps Nafees’s wife Fatima awake at night, about 275 km away, at her
sister-in-law’s home in Delhi’s Zakir Nagar. “Neend hi nahin aati, aur jab aati
hai to ek dum khul jaati hai. Mera bachcha kahan hoga, kya kar raha hoga (I can’t
sleep at night. And when I do, I wake up with a start, thinking where would my
child be, what would he be doing)?” Indian express
JNU sloganeering: Spl Cell
set to file chargesheet against 8 students
New Delhi: Having recorded
the statements of eight Kashmiri students who allegedly raised anti-India
slogans at an event held in JNU on Feb.9, the Delhi Police Special Cell said it
has concluded its investigation and is likely to submit a chargesheet soon. Special
Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Arvind Deep confirmed that the statements
had been recorded and added, “Before filing a chargesheet, we are gathering
some other crucial evidence.” According to sources, of 8 students, 2 are from
JNU, three from Jamia Millia Islamia and one from Aligarh Muslim University.
“The decision to summon them was taken after the raw video footage of the event
was examined, and police received the forensic report. Central Forensic Science
Laboratory, CBI, found the footage was authentic,” sources said.They added that
letters were sent to the heads of the three central universities, asking them
to direct the students to join the probe. Police had identified the students,
two of them brothers, after questioning JNU student Umar Khalid and others.
“All students said during questioning that they came to know about the event
from social networking websites,” sources said.“Investigators scanned the
social media profiles of the eight students and discovered that one of them had
posted a slogan raised at the event on Facebook,” sources claimed.indian
express
1.4 lakh students in 2,000
schools to take RSS exam
New Delhi; *“Astronomy and
metaphysics are described in the Rig Veda”*“The concept of the atom can be
traced to Vedic times”“Paramanu(beyond atom) was considered to be the smallest
particle, which cannot be divided further. Nuclear energy is produced by
splitting the same”*Sushruta is the “father of surgery”. He described over 300
surgical procedures… including a method of stitching intestines by using
“ant-heads as stitching material”.These are pointers from a ‘study material’
issued by Vijnana Bharti, the science and technology wing of RSS, for an exam
the outfit is conducting in over 2,000 govt and private schools across the country on
Nov.20. Around 1.4 lakh students from Classes 6 to11 will take the three-hour
exam on ‘Indian contribution to science’ and the ‘Life of former President APJ
Abdul Kalam’. indianexpress
UP madrassa teacher
teaching students of different communities for free
Bareilly:Education is
regarded as the key to achieving progress and harmony in society, and keeping
this in mind, a teacher in UP's Bareilly is educating poor children for
free.Nasreen Shamshi, primary school teacher of Urdu,teaches underprivileged
children at a madrassa. She has authored a book to make the learning Urdu
easier for her Hindi-speaking students. Teaching with a motto of keeping
education above everything else, students of all communities are welcome to
attend her free classes to learn Urdu and Hindi. "Students of all
religions are studying in this madrassa, not only Muslims. We believe that
education is for children of religions. I have around 14-15 non-Muslim
students, all of them have shown a lot of interest in learning Urdu. This is
because they are learning Urdu through Hindi in avery simple manner,"
Shamshi said.ANI
Sonia Gandhi likely to quit
after Punjab, UP elections
New Delhi:Congress
president Sonia Gandhi is likely to resign from her position as the party chief
after the 2017 Assembly elections in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. Reliable sources
close to the party president said she will step down owing to health reasons.
The sources added that she has not been keeping well and wanted to step down much
earlier, but members of the party’s old guard wanted her to continue till
elections in the two crucial states are done.indian express
Kirti Azad's wife Poonam
joins AAP
New Delhi: Poonam Azad,
wife of suspended Bharatiya Janata Party leader and MP Kirti Azad, has joined
the AAP.TOI
Sheila Dikshit's son in law
Imran arrested under Domestic Violence Act: The Hindu
New Delhi: Son in law of
ex-Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit has been arrested for allegedly subjecting his wife
to domestic violence. The accused Imran and Ms.Dikshit's daughter Latika had
been living separately. The couple has two children. He has been booked under
the Domestic Violence Act after the victim filed a complaint at the Barakhamba
Police station and a case under relevant provisions of Domestic Violence Act
was registered. Imran had separated from Dikshit's daughter, 10 months back.
Do not let vested interests
tarnish the image of the great Tipu Sultan:Prof.BP Mahesh Chandra Guru
Can mistake that ruined
majestic Kashmir lake be fixed?AP
BHOPAL KILLING
MP govt announce cash
rewards for villagers: But call records say most of calls received during
encounter
Bhopal:Madhya Pradesh
govt has announced cash rewards for
several villagers for helping security forces track down and kill 8 men last
month, but records suggest most of the villagers had called an emergency police
number while the encounter was already on. The police claim the SIMI activists
who had broken out of the Bhopal jail were killed on Oct.31 in an encounter
that took place between 10.45am and 11.45 am in the capital’s outskirts. They
said the villagers had called the police control room and alerted them about
the fugitives in the vicinity.But out of the 4 calls received alerting the
police about the SIMI men, 3 were made while the encounter was underway. One
was at 11.02am, followed by 2 back-to-back calls at 11.09am.The caller who
dialed 100 at 11.02am actually told the police that he was following the
fugitives headed towards a hillock near Khijradev village.The call records that
seem to dispute the police version of the events further deepen the mystery
over the encounter that activists have slammed as staged.State officials
refused to comment on why locals who had called while the encounter was on were
being rewarded. CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan felicitated the villagers and
announced a collective award of Rs 40 lakhs at a public function in Bhopal a
day after the encounter. HT
Bhopal encounter: Despite
court order, barred from meeting SIMI accused, says lawyer
No terror attack but MP
branded Simi breeding ground:Shams Ur Rehman Alavi’s article
World
Islam to no longer be the state
religion in Bangladesh's constitution, says ruling party: India Today
Dhaka:Bangladeshi ruling
party Awami League leader Dr Abdur Razzak said that Islam will be withdrawn as
the state religion from the constitution of Bangladesh.Awami League presidium
member Dr Abdur Razzak at a discussion held at the National Press Club on
Saturday said, "Endangering our lives we fought in Liberation war for a
non-communal Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a
country of communal harmony, here we live with people from all religions and
Islam should not be accommodated as state religion in the constitution of Bangladesh."
Islam was made the religion of the state by autocratic ruler Hussain M.Ershad
damnifying the main spirit of Liberation War. He added
"Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Rahim" at the beginning of the constitution.
Abdur Razzak was speaking at a round table titled "Deep Rooted Unity of
Common People of Bangladesh and India to Counter Terrorism" organised by
SAARC cultural society, where he said, "In different programs I told the
journalist that I do not believe Islam should be in the constitution as state religion.
It's merely a strategy. If opportunity comes we will repeal Islam from the
constitution."
Obama signs executive order
declaring probe Into election results; revote planned for Dec. 19th
Washington DC: Following
the results of Tuesday night’s election, President Obama has signed Executive
Order 13805, which orders a full recount of all votes cast in the election and
calls for a special election to be held on December 19th. Obama signed the
order in response to the concerns of thousands of voters across the country who
said that they were prevented from casting a ballot on election day, too many
absentee ballots have not been found or counted, equipment failures, as well as
concerns that some members of the electoral college may have acted
unethically.“People all over the country have been flooding my office with
calls, telling my staff of horror stories about being harassed and intimidated
by poll workers,” Obama told reporters. “Many have even said that they were
flat out denied entry into the voting booths to cast their ballots if they were
wearing a Hillary Clinton shirt or other signs showing support for her as
President. This was especially bad in areas of Florida and North Carolina where
there are high numbers of Latino and African American voters. We must
investigate these claims. The margin of victory is too close to call, and the
outcome of this election is too important. There is just too many legal
challenges in too many states to just call this a victory for Trump.”Under the
President’s order, the votes cast in all precincts nationwide will be
recounted, and all poll workers who took part in Tuesday’s election will be
subjected to strict background checks. This process is expected to take 30
days. In precincts where the Department of Justice has cause to believe that
voter suppression has occurred, new elections will be held on Dec. 19th, with
those results being used to help determine who will represent the individual
states in the electoral college.Not surprisingly, Donald Trump is not happy
with the president’s decision.AP
Trump's anti-Muslim rants
disappeared due to technical glitch, are back on website
Corporations running the
world used to be science fiction – Now it’s a reality: Aisha Dodwell
Hang yourself with your
headscarf, says anonymous note to Muslim schoolteacher after Trump's win
Will a Muslim lead
Democratic Party of US?
Ex-2016 presidential
Democratic contender Bernie Sanders said he would be backing Keith Ellison
–first Muslim to be elected to US Congress – for party’s leadership position.
Democratic has been reeling since its loss in US elections last week that saw
its candidate Hillary Clinton lose out to President-Elect Donald Trump.“I don't
think the political establishment and the billionaires would like Keith Ellison
as the DNC chair. Good! Join me in supporting Keith,” Sanders wrote. Al Arabiya
Netanyahu backs ‘racist’
bill to silence mosque prayer calls: Israeli daily
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he supports a bill to bar
mosques from using loudspeaker systems for the Muslim call to prayer. times of
israel
Gwadar port : Chinese ship
opens new trade route via Paki port
Islamabad: Pakistan's top
civilian and military leaders traveled to the country's southwest on Sunday to
open a new international trade route by seeing off a Chinese ship that's
exporting goods to the Middle East and Africa from the newly built Gwadar
port.The first convoy of Chinese trucks carrying goods for sale abroad has
arrived in Pakistan amid tight security using a road linking Gwadar to China's
northwestern Xinjiang region, the govt
said in a statement.PM Nawaz
Sharif said that Pakistan will provide best possible security to foreign
investors to enable them to use the Chinese-funded port for international
trade.Amid security concerns for foreign workers, the Pakistani army has
created a special force to guard the new trade routes and the port, which is
located in insurgency-wracked Baluchistan province where an overnight blast at
a shrine killed nearly 50 people.AP
Pakistan’s strategic Gwadar
port opens China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
Pakistan: 52 killed in
blast Balochistan's shrine
At least 52 people have
been killed and over 100 injured by a massive blast at a shrine in southwestern
Pakistan on Saturday evening, said local officials.The blast occurred at the
shrine of Sufi saint Shah Noorani located in the remote Lasbela district of
southwestern Balochistan province, which is visited annually by thousands from
across Pakistan.Sohail Rehman, Deputy Commissioner of the Khuzdar district,
confirmed the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber. World Bulletin
Turkey dismisses 310 navy
officers in failed coup probe
Istanbul:Turkey’s defence
ministry has suspended or dismissed another 310 military personnel as part of
an ongoing investigation into the movement allegedly responsible for July’s
failed coup. The ministry tweeted om Sunday that 168 officers and 123
non-commissioned officers have been suspended from the navy, while 15 officers
and four non-commissioned officers were dishonourably discharged.Over 4,200
military personnel had been dismissed by the ministry since the failed coup on
July 15 which killed over 270 people.AP
Street battles rage in
Mosul suburbs as ISIL hits back
ISIL fighters have launched
several fierce counterattacks against Iraqi forces on the eastern outskirts of
Mosul city, underscoring the intense battle ahead as govt troops and their allies push into densely
populated neighbourhoods.An ISIL suicide car bomber targeted Iraqi troops in
the city's eastern Qadisiya neighbourhood early on Saturday, setting off heavy
fighting that involved mortar rounds, gunfire, and rocket-propelled
grenades.Iraqi officers told the AFP news agency fighting was also under way in
the adjoining Arbajiya area.
Iraqi Kurd forces destroyed
Arab homes: rights group
Iraqi Kurdish forces have
unlawfully destroyed Arab homes and villages in northern Iraq over the past two
years in what may amount to a war crime, rights group Human Rights Watch said
on Sunday.Kurdish Peshmerga fighters are part of a 100,000-strong Iraqi
alliance, helped by US-led air raids and military advisers, that is battling to
retake Mosul from ISIL. New York-based rights group said in a report that
violations between Sept.2014 and May 2016 in 21 towns and villages in disputed
parts of the Kirkuk and Nineveh provinces had followed "a pattern of
apparently unlawful demolitions". middleeastmonitor
Iraq army crushes child
under a tank amidst war crimes allegations
Memo has seen horrifying
leaked footage that shows what appears to be Iraqi soldiers torturing a child
and dragging him through the desert before placing him in front of a tank for
him to be crushed. The incident occurred during the ongoing operations to
recapture Mosul from Daesh militants.The disturbing footage depicts ululating
Iraqi soldiers towering over a clearly terrified child, named as Muhammad Ali
Al-Hadidi by activists, who is covered in sand and is raising his hands in fear
in a vain attempt to defend himself.Muhammad is then dragged through the desert
before being hurled in front of a US-made Iraqi tank as the soldiers appear to
be shouting sectarian slurs against the child, a Sunni. Muhammad is placed head
first in front of the tank’s left-hand tracks.The soldiers then open fire in
Muhammad’s general vicinity, before ordering the tank driver to move his
vehicle over the defenceless child while telling each other, “Film me! Film
me!”Intentionally torturing, killing, maiming and mutilating children during
war is a war crime, a violation of international humanitarian law and a breach
of children’s rights. middleeastmonitor
3 Rohingya villages burned
in Myanmar: HRW
Satellite images show that
several Rohingya village in Myanmar's Rakhine State have been burned to the
ground in recent weeks, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Saturday.The New
York-based rights group urged authorities to invite United Nations
investigators to look into the destruction of a total of 430 buildings in three
villages in the northern Maungdaw district between October 22 and November
10."New satellite images not only confirm the widespread destruction of Rohingya
villages but show that it was even greater than we first thought," Brad
Adams, HRW's Asia director, said in a statement.According to HRW, the damage
took place in the villages of Pyaung Pyit, Kyet Yoe Pyin, and Wa Peik. aljazeera
Brotherhood leader Beltagi
‘abused’ in prison: Family
The family of jailed Muslim
Brotherhood leader Mohamed al-Beltagi has cited abuses and violations against
him in prison in Egypt.Beltagi was detained in 2013, shortly after the military
deposed Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, in a
military coup.He was slapped with several jail terms on multiple charges, which
he says were “politically-motivated”. In a Saturday statement, Beltagi’s family
said he had been placed in solitary confinement in a windowless cell for two
months. middleeastmonitor
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