Evening NEWS DIGEST
22 Dec.2016: 22 Rabiul
Awwal 1438: Vol:8, No:69
Now, Law Ministry to bring
tribals under Uniform Civil Code, too
New Delhi: While debate
over Muslim Personal Law is still raging in the country, the Law Commission has
now decided to bring tribals under the ambit of the proposed Uniform Civil Code
(UCC). Tribals in India have so far governed themselves and decided their own
customs through special constitutional rights. Top sources in the commission
and law ministry told DNA that the commission is soon likely to come up with
its second questionnaire seeking public opinion on whether tribals should be
brought under UCC.The questionnaire is also likely to have questions pertaining
to certain practices that are part of some tribal cultures. Some controversial
practices in tribals include wife-swapping and mating of minors.The questionnaire
did not have any specific questions related to tribals but a certain section of
the community has already moved the Supreme Court against the UCC.Sources in
the commission and law ministry confirmed the development and said that the
decision to include tribals in UCC was taken in a high level meeting on Dec. 7.
The officials also discussed the desirability and feasibility of a
supplementary questionnaire for purpose of engaging tribals in the debate and
the law commission chairman Justice BS Chauhan gave a go-ahead to the idea of
second questionnaire, sources said."Certain constitutional and legal
safeguards available to various communities and groups such as Article 371 A,
371 B, article 244 read with fifth and sixth schedule of the Constitution of
India, Section 1 of CrPC and section 1 of IPC also needs to be taken into
consideration while working on a UCC," Sources quoted Justice Chauhan from
meeting.According to sources, the panel decided to include tribals in the
proposed UCC after analyzing responses to the first questionnaire.Sources said
responses to the Commission from Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM and West Bangal CM
Trinamool Congress formed the basis of the idea. The two political parties
questioned the fallout of the UCC on the constitutional provisions which
provide special status to tribals. Quoting AIMIM's response to the commission,
a source said, "Will a UCC not violate certain provisions of the
Constitution. If exceptions may be created for certain groups-then what shall
be the basis of such exceptions?" DNA
Sharia courts have role to
play in dispute resolution: Faizan Mustafa, VC Law University
In an article on the recent
Madras High court verdict that ordered state govt to ban sharia courts, V-C of
NALSAR University of Law, Faizan Mustafa criticizing the order writes,
"Madras High Court order on Sharia courts is strange as the Supreme Court
itself in its landmark decision on July 7, 2014 has held that Sharia courts are
not courts as the Indian legal system doesn’t recognise a parallel judicial
system. No one has ever asserted that Sharia courts are ‘courts’ in the strict
sense of the term. Is it not a fact that privatisation of justice is a fact of
life not only in a developing country like India but in most developed
countries?Does our law not recognise arbitration and other alternative methods of
dispute resolution?Most businesses consider a private arbitrator anattractive
alternative to a judge selected by the govt. A recent survey of 1,000 of the
largest US corporations showed that 79% used arbitration to resolve commercial
disputes in the last three years.Thus one of the central functions of govt,
business dispute resolution, is largely escaping the State’s sphere of
influence. The decline in the use of public court processes and the shift to
private, largely unregulated and unscrutinised processes is a global trend. Govts
do attempt to portray the court system as one of speedy and impartial justice.
But in reality, traditional courts have many problems, just like the other
appendages of govt al bureaucracy. They are often slow at their best and
conduits for gross injustice at their worst.At a more fundamental level, no
evidence shows that the adversarial system which our judiciary follows is the
best way to solve disputes. Whenever parties choose arbitration rather than govt
courts, it demonstrates that arbitration is making both parties better
off." He continued, "A study of 94 years of Sharia courts’ decisions
would show that the courts have been by and large pro-women and have saved
hundreds of marriages and gave decisions in favour of destitute
women." HT
Triple talaq: Muslim law
board clerics following Shaitaan, not Rahman, says RSS leader
Agra: In its efforts to
turn Muslim women towards the BJP, the Muslim Rashtriya Manch, which is a
Muslim frontal organization of RSS, has opened a front against the triple talaq
issue in Agra. RSS leader Indresh Kumar held a meeting with the Muslim
community of Agra in which he criticised the Muslim Personal Law Board's stand
on triple talaq issue saying that the board appears to be standing alongside
"Shaitaan" instead of "Rahman".In an interview to India
Today, Kumar said that triple talaq has not been mentioned in the holy Quran
and even if it is necessary, talaq should be given in the light of the quran
and hadith. Talaq given under the influence of any drug or alcohol or in anger
is 'haraam' and is deemed invalid in the eyes of the Islamic law.He said that
the Islamic clerics are misleading Muslim men and women in the name of Islamic
laws but in fact, they are keeping the Muslim populace ignorant about the real
meaning of Islam. He warned the Muslims not to be misled by the 'maulanas' and
not allow them to do what they please on the matter of triple talaq.Indresh
said that the Muslim Personal Law Board needs to decide what path it wants to pick
- that of the devil or that shown by the Prophet.So far, he said, the board has
chosen the devil's path and ignored the rights of the 10-12 crore Muslim women
in India, but it is time that the clerics give up their previously assumed
stand and choose the righteous path in the light of the holy Quran and
hadith.He said that the Prophet himself never used talaq in his life. It was
his effort that all women should get equal rights in Muslim society and RSS
will launch a nationwide signature campaign through the Muslim Rashtriya Manch
on this matter. The campaign has been started from Agra and will continue
across the country. Criticising Indresh for commenting on the Muslim Personal
Law Board, Mufti Mudassar Ali Khan Qadri said "Indresh should first adopt
Islam before commenting." He said that "if the RSS is so devoted
towards securing Muslim rights in India, then Indresh should tell how many
Muslims are there in RSS and their total percentage." Qadri said "there
are very few Muslims seen at the meetings of RSS, which is a clear indicator of
what place Muslims have in Sangh's organisation. India today
Uniform Civil Code no
threat to pluralism: Katju
Kochi:Markandey Katju, ex-Supreme
Court judge, has said that vote bank politics has stalled the implementation of
a Uniform Civil Code in the country. Katju said that a common law did not mean
that pluralism would come to an end in the society. “When the old Hindu laws
were abolished, Hinduism was not abolished. Even if you abolish Shariat laws,
Islam will not be abolished. Many Muslim women are now opposing the triple
talaq,” he said. Asked whether it was proper to forcibly impose a common code,
Katju said he believed some kind of force was required to eradicate backward
practices in various religions.
Najeeb Jung resigns as
Lieutenant Governor of Delhi
New Delhi:In a sudden and
surprise move, Najeeb Jung on Thursday resigned as the Lieutenant Governor of
Delhi. He submitted his resignation to the govt of India. According to Raj
Bhawan, Jung would be returning to his first love, which is, academics. He
thanked PM Narendra Modi for all the help and cooperation he received during
his tenure. Jung also thanked the people of Delhi for all their support and
affection, especially during the one year’s President Rule in Delhi, when he
got unstinted support from them and which in turn helped run the administration
in Delhi smoothly and effortlessly.He was also thankful to CM Kejriwal, with
whom he always had dispute over administrative jurisdiction,for his association
in the last 2 years.
Najeeb Jung's resignation:
BJP blames Kejriwal government, Congress says 'exit unceremonious'
Jung's resignation is a
surprise to me: Kejriwal
Delhi HC directs lie
detector test on 9 suspects in connections with Najeeb’s disappearance
New Delhi:Over the ongoing
investigation on JNU scholar Najeeb Ahmed’s mysterious disappearance, Delhi
High Court had, today, directed the police to conduct lie detector tests of 9
suspects allegedly having connection in the case and the matter had been
adjourned till Jan.23rd, next year. In a status report submitted at the court,
Delhi police had stated that 560 police officials along with the dog squad had
conducted search operations at the JNU campus for 2 days, in the presence of
the missing student’s mother and brother. Earlier, yesterday, the police, after
their second day of search at the JNU campus, had said that it will conduct lie
detector test on Najeeb’s room partner Kazim. The police Crime Branch started
probe. on the Najeeb missing case, at the JNU campus from Monday. However, JNU
students had expressed disappointment over the police investigation citing the
delay in tracing the student, who went missing after being beaten up by a mob
of 20 students, most of whom were ABVP members.financialexpress
Over 100 names in Sahara
file, officials claim some pages may be ‘fabricated’
New Delhi: The purported
Sahara “diary,” now in the Supreme Court, are, in fact, 11 pages of alleged
“payment entries” that name more than 100 leaders across the political spectrum
as recipients. These include those from at least 18 parties including BJP,
Congress, JD(U), RJD, SP, NCP, JMM, JVM, TMC, BJD, BKU, Shiv Sena and LJP.There
are 2 printed pages with two lists of names of politicians that have a total of
54 names. 2 handwritten pages and another printed page with some jottings
repeat some of these names. Another 2 printed pages list 62 candidates
contesting elections.One handwritten page has payment dates of 2010 against the
alleged entries. The diary also include 5 pages of what it calls “received
details” of incoming payments in a tabular form with “cash expenditure details”
made between 2013 and 2014. The stated outflow of funds during 10 months, as
per these entries, adds up to over Rs 100 crore.Senior Supreme Court lawyer
Prashant Bhushan filed a petition in the apex court alleging a “cover-up”
following raids conducted by the Income Tax Dept.against Aditya Birla Group
companies in Oct.2013 and on Sahara India Group in Nov.2014. On Oct.25, 2016,
Bhushan had sent his complaint to all investigating agencies and the two
retired judges heading the Special Investigating Team on black money. indianexpress
Rahul Gandhi vs Modi row:
Over 100 politicians listed in Sahara diary, but some pages may be ‘doctored’
Charges against Modi
deserve proper response, impartial inquiry: Sitaram Yechury
DEMONETISATION
Amit Shah’s co-operative
bank at Ahmedabad Ashramam road gets Rs 500 crore deposit, just after notes ban
Ahemedabad: Within 3 days
after the announcement of demonitisation, a cooperative bank have got Rs. 500
crore deposit. BJP chief Amit Shah is the director of this Bank. Income Tax Dept.and
Enforcement Directorate have started investigation on this information. The
bank is at Ahmedabad Ashramam road. Major part of this 500 crore, is deposited
on same night of announcement of demonitisation. There are 190 branches for
this cooperative bank. But the money in such large amount is deposited only in
its head office at Ashramam Road. The money has started flowing to the bank
just after the demonitisation announcement.Small vendors and farmers form the
majority customers of the bank. This strengthens the doubt that, form where did
such a huge amount of 500 crore was deposited in this bank. IT Dept.is also
verifying CCTV visuals from the bank.Various cooperative banks in Gujarat were
also piled up with such illegal money deposits.india livetoday
'Demonetisation may have
cost banks Rs 3,000 cr per day'
Bank officers hold
demonstration at RBI offices across India
New Delhi: Members of All
India Bank Officers' Confederation (AIBOC) today held demonstrations at various
RBI offices, including Mint Road headquarters in Mumbai, demanding adequate
cash availability to banks and complete withdrawal of deposit cap rules.
Besides Delhi, demonstrations were held at various offices of RBI, including
its head offices in Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru and Jaipur.PTI
Volume up but value of card
transactions falls to 9-month low
OTHERS
Lt General Bakshi meets
Defence Minister amidst speculation he will resign from Indian Army
Lt General Praveen Bakshi,
who was superseded to appoint Lt General Bipin Rawat as the new Indian Army
chief, met Defence Minisre Manohar Parrikar amidst speculation that he would
resign from Army, reported the Indian Express. The report quotes officials as
saying that Lt General Bakshi had sought a meeting with Parrikar as a courtesy
call. Bakshi also reportedly met the present Army chief General Dalbir Singh
Suhag after that. While the Opposition has widely questioned the Modi govt ’s
decision to supersede to senior Army officers, Lt General Bakshi and Lt General
PM Hariz, defence sources have maintained the Rawat was chosen for his
“tremendous hands on experience of serving in combat areas”. Some reports have
also been suggesting that Bakshi may actually be appointed India’s first Chief
of Defence Staff. Lt General Bakshi is currently the chief of the Eastern
Command. financialexpress
Contain Zakir Naik for
peace and harmony: Centre to tell Tribunal
New Delhi: A Zakir Naik's
lecture that allegedly justified suicide bombings is one of the many documents
that the govt has submitted before a judicial tribunal looking into the ban
imposed on the IRF, the preacher's NGO.Tribunal was set up after the govt banned
the NGO. Once a ban is imposed, a tribunal would hear out the govt as well as
the organisation and decide if the ban is justified or not. Govt officials say
that they have a strong case on hand and the ban was imposed after serious
consideration of the records. Govt would, however, rely heavily on the cases
filed against Naik and his NGO by Kerala and Maharashtra police. Centre, during
course of arguments would also submit if Naik's NGO is not contained, it could
lead to enmity being promoted between two religions. oneindia.com
Tribunal formed to look
into IRF ban begins work
Centre may examine
medicinal properties of cow urine
New Delhi:Science and
Technology Ministry may now have to critically evaluate the role of cow urine
and dung in curing diseases.On Dec.18 and 19, Union Science Minister Harsh
Vardhan and a slew of senior officials from the Department of Science and
Technology, Department of Biotechnology and National Environment and
Engineering Research Institute participated in a workshop.Titled ‘Scientific
Validation and Research on Panchgavya’, it was held at the Indian Institute of
Technology, Delhi. ‘Panchgavya’, or mixture of 5 products from the cow, is a
concoction of dung, urine and milk along with curd and butter. “I call for
everyone’s support & participation in this noble effort,” Dr.Vardhan — a
medical doctor — tweeted,“MoS&T is firmly with cause of panchgavya.” thehindu
Ayurveda Researcher Says
Western Cows Fart To Destroy Ozone Layer, But Indian Cows Are Innocent
While scientists across the
globe have been struggling to find ways to curb climate change, a researcher of
the Jamnagar-based Gujarat Ayurveda University has claimed that the belching of
the Western cows adversely affects the ozone layer, causing the hole in it, but
holy Indian cows are not responsible for global warming.Dr Hitesh Jani, who has
been given responsibility to conduct research by Gujarat Gauseva and Gauchar
Vikas Board, in his research paper says that Western cows are responsible for
global warming while glorifying cows of Indian origin."In India, we prefer
our original zero-maintenance desi cow, rather than fat Jersey cows that keep
eating and drinking through the day, fall sick more often and have to be pumped
full of antibiotics. These cows fart methane gas, so often that the ozone layer
has got a hole," reads his research paper, 'Panchgavya Chikitsa: The
Medicine of Millennium', which glorifies Indian 'gau' over Western Jersey cows.
The research paper says that the A-1 milk of Western cows is the root cause of
many diseases, but the A-2 milk of Indian cows are a celestial remedy for all
diseases. indiatimes
Pak accuses India of
attempting to change Kashmir demographics
Islamabad:Pakistan has
accused India of settling non-Kashmiris in Jammu in an attempt to change the
demographic composition of the region.“Reportedly, PDP-BJP regime… in violation
of UNSC Resolutions, has started issuing domicile certificates to non-Kashmiri
Hindus in Jammu region.The move is part of the regime’s nefarious designs to
change the demographic composition of the territory,” Foreign Office spokesman
Nafees Zakaria said.“This act of bringing material change in the disputed
territory of J&K is a blatant violation of UNSC Resolutions on Kashmir.
Kashmiris have hopes that international community and relevant international
organizations will call India to the account,” he alleged.PTI
UN chief Ban Ki-moon asks
India, Pakistan to resolve differences through dialogue
NSA to take a call on
relief for Khalid Wani’s family
Srinagar: NSA Ajit Doval is
likely to take a call on granting ex gratia to the family of the slain Hizbul
Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani for the controversial killing of his elder
brother, Khalid Wani, in 2013.Sources said Doval would meet officials of the
Army, the police and other security agencies and discuss the issue on
Dec.27.Pulwama district administration has compiled a list of 140 cases,
including that of Khalid, for paying compensation. Khalid, 25, was killed on
April 13, 2015, in a forest area at Tral in Pulwama. Army said it was an
encounter death. However, the family alleged that he was killed in “custody”
and he was a “civilian”. thehindu
NIA registers case in
cross-LoC almonds trade allegedly financing militancy in J&K
NIA has registered a case
against unknown people in connection with the trade of California almonds
across LoC in J&K, reported PTI. The investigative officials have carried
out searches at the trade facilitation centres in Salamabad in Kashmir’s
Baramulla district and Chakan-da-bagh in Poonch district of Jammu and seized 20
sacks of documents.“We are analysing the records. There is a huge
over-valuation of products that come from Pakistan,” an official told The
Hindu. This came after the NIA got a tip-off that proceeds from this trade was
being used to fund militant outfits in the state. scroll
California almonds new mode
of terror funding in LoC trade: NIA
Modi Govt wants more power
for NIA, move could eat into states’ rights
New Delhi:NDA govt wants to
expand the mandate of NIA, giving it powers to probe human trafficking, weapons
dealers, hacking of important websites and violations of the explosives law. Home
minister Rajnath Singh also wants to end central agency’s dependence on
approval from state police chiefs before confiscating or attaching assets of
people accused of crime. Unlike CBI, NIA was not dependent on the state govt’s
approval before probing these offences. There were protests later that the
provision violated the constitutional separation of powers between the states
and Centre. Law and order is a state subject.Among those who protested was then
Gujarat CM Narendra Modi.HT
Govt wants J-K’s penal law
under NIA purview
No gallows in Telangana or
AP to hang Hyderabad blast convict Yasin Bhatkal: HT report
How private companies using
Aadhaar to try to deliver better services
Aadhaar, as India’s Unique
Identity Project is called, aims to give a 12-digit unique identity number to
all residents by collecting their fingerprint and iris scans. As of Sept., its
database, maintained by Unique Identity Authority of India, held the names,
addresses and biometric information of more than 105 crore people. Project was
created by the UPA govt in 2009 to reduce leakages in the country’s welfare
programmes. But, quietly, a range of private sector companies have started
using it. This includes verification firms like Authbridge, banks like HDFC,
telecommunications companies like Reliance Jio, among others.So far, most
discussions on Aadhaar have focused on its utility for welfare delivery and the
risk of govt surveillance. But as private sector companies incorporate Aadhaar
into their systems, fresh questions and concerns are emerging about what this
means. A recent tweet by a journalist that went viral encapsulated these
concerns. Vijaita Singh tweets, "Yes, I was astonished to see my entire
aadhar card replica on Jio salesman's palmtop, how can govt give them access to
our private data?" scroll.in
UPSC Combined Medical
Services Exam 2016: 43 Muslims among 894 recommended for various posts
New Delhi: 43 Muslim
doctors are among a total of 894 recommended for various medical posts to be
filled based on Combined Medical Services (CMS) Examination 2016 conducted by
UPSC the final results of which were declared Wednesday. Out of the total 43
Muslim doctors, who made to the list of 894 successful candidates, 13 are
female.As per the Merit List released by the UPSC, 09 Muslim doctors figure
among top 100. Ahammad Kabeer bagged the 18th rank whereas Saif Anees ranked
22, Zeba Khanam 27 and M. Tausif Ullah ranked 28.Other Muslim doctors who are
among top 100 are Nadeem Husain (rank 54), Ahsan Kamal (rank 61), Reham Ahmad
(rank 72), Mahammad Samim Mandal (rank 76) and V Md Ismail Zabeehullah (rank
100). ummid
Muslim woman cohabited with
married Hindu man gets share over his land: The Hitavada
Raipur: A woman who
cohabited without marriage with an already married man has got right along with
other heirs in the land of the man after his death. The married man was
follower of Hindu religion while the woman with whom he lived was a Muslim and
the man had not divorced his first wife. It was on the basis of a ruling of the
Supreme Court of India the woman other than the first wife has been given right
on the land.In the Court of Additional Tahsildar, Thankhamariah, the son of the
deceased man filed application for mutation of revenue records related to 3.69
hectares of land that was owned by the man. The son wanted the land to be in his
name and also in the names of his mother (the first wife who became widow) and
his sisters jointly. Muslim woman filed objection and demanded inclusion of her
name and also the names of her two daughters with the property. The Muslim
woman claimed to be the wife of the man and she also maintained that the man
was father of her two daughters. She claimed that the man had married her.
WORLD
Report: Company building
ships for Israeli navy owned by Lebanese official
Israeli TV has reported
that a company building warships for the Israeli Navy is owned by the family of
Samir Moqbel, Lebanon’s defence minister until last week.According to the
Channel 2 report broadcast yesterday, the construction of four ships was agreed
in a 2015 deal worth $480 million between Israel and German company
ThyssenKrupp, which then subcontracted the work to the Moqbel-owned shipyard,
now called German Naval Yards Kiel. As described by the Times of Israel,
Channel 2 claimed that “the true ownership of the company emerged when Zionist
Union MK Erel Margalit recently sent an urgent letter to Attorney General
Avichai Mandelblit, calling on him to open an investigation into the affair.” middleeastmonitor
Hezbollah using US weaponry
in Syria – senior Israeli military officer
Israel has informed the US
that Lebanese Hezbollah fighters in Syria are using US armoured personnel
carriers originally supplied to the Lebanese Army, a senior Israeli military
officer said on Wednesday.US State Department said last month that the American
embassy in Beirut was working to investigate images on social media purporting
to show Hezbollah, which supports President Bashar al-Assad, displaying US
military equipment in Syria.Those images were widely reported to have been of
US-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, which the State Department said were
extremely common in the region.In an intelligence briefing to foreign reporters
in Tel Aviv, the senior officer showed a photograph of military vehicles, which
he said included US-made armoured personnel carriers (APCs), along a road. middleeastmonitor
Saudi Egypt relations sour?
Pro Al-Sisi Egyptian media calls King Salman a traitor
Egyptian campaign against
Saudi Arabia has reached new heights when a newspaper loyal to coup President
Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi described the Saudi monarch, King Salman Bin Abdelaziz, as
a traitor. In the meantime, pro-Sisi parliamentarians have launched a sharp
attack on Saudi Arabia, expressing contempt for it. One of them said: “We want
to position Saudi Arabia where it deserves to be placed.” Yesterday, the human
rights committee of the post-coup parliament witnessed a stormy attack on the
visit made on Friday to Ethiopia by Saudi officials and what has been reported
of Saudi funding for the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is said to reduce
Egypt’s share of the waters of the Nile.MP Said Shababik, one of the
committee’s members, said: “We want to position Saudi Arabia where it deserves
to be placed.”This came after MP Magdy Seif raised questions, during the
committee’s meeting, in the presence of assistant Egyptian Foreign Affairs
Minister Khalid Yusri, about the connection between the visit and the Ethiopian
Renaissance Dam.In a new escalation in the press, the pro-regime International
News newspaper yesterday published a picture of King Salman on the front page
with a headline which read: “His Majesty the Traitor”. The newspaper attacked
the Saudi monarch and described him as a traitor.In a series of subheadings,
the newspaper explains that it considers the Saudi monarch a traitor for three
reasons:Some observers see such media attitude as a new escalation by the
Egyptian press against Saudi Arabia. In the meantime, news reports have
disclosed, quoting a diplomatic source, that the majority of agreements between
Egypt and Saudi Arabia have been precluded or delayed except for the projects
linked to Al-Azhar,for these have almost completely been implemented.The
Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper quoted the source as saying that most of the
investments that are backed by personalities close to Muhammad Bin Salman have
been completely stopped in the aftermath of the suspension of oil supplies
through the state owned Aramco. The source added that “the Saudi pressure will
not force a change in the Egyptian position whether regarding the Syrian crisis
or the Yemeni crisis and that Cairo will maintain communication with all
parties without exception”.Arabi21/ middleeastmonitor
Turkish army suffers
biggest loss in operation against ISIL in Syria
Clashes between
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels and ISIL fighters have intensified around the
northern Syrian town of Al-Bab, resulting in the deaths of 16 Turkish soldiers,
the military's highest single-day toll of its 4-month campaign inside the
country.Wednesday's battles, in which another 33 Turkish soldiers were wounded
and 138 ISIL members were also killed, were some of the deadliest yet in
Turkey's Euphrates Shield operation in northern Syria, according to the
army."The operation to control Al-Bab, which is being besieged under the
Euphrates Shield Operation, is ongoing," army said in a statement. The
military had said earlier that rebel forces, which have been launching attacks
on ISIL fighters in Al-Bab for weeks, had largely established control over the
strategic area around the town's hospital.Turkey's military was pressing on
with the operation after its foreign minister and his Russian and Iranian
counterparts said in Moscow on Tuesday that they were ready to help broker a
deal to end Syria's almost 6-year-old war.About 30 Turkish soldiers have been
killed in the course of Euphrates Shield, which was launched to push ISIL and a
Kurdish militia away from Syria's border with Turkey. Turkish air strikes on
Wednesday destroyed 67 ISIL targets, military said. aljazeera
Death toll of Turkish
soldiers in al-Bab increase to 16
UN to create team that will
probe Syria war crimes
UN General Assembly has
voted to establish a special team to "collect, consolidate, preserve and
analyse evidence" as well as to prepare cases on war crimes and human
rights abuses committed during the conflict in Syria.The General Assembly
adopted a Liechtenstein-drafted resolution to establish the independent team
with 105 in favour, 15 against and 52 abstentions. The team will work in
coordination with the UN Syria Commission of Inquiry. aljazeera
Russia: Assad's future not
part of Syria talks: AP
Beirut:A top Russian
diplomat says President Bashar Assad's future is not on the agenda of Syria
talks involving Russia, Iran and Turkey.Foreign ministers of the three
countries sat down for talks on Tuesday in what Moscow said was the "most
effective format" to bring an end to the war in Syria.Sergei Ryabkov,
Russia's deputy foreign minister, said in an interview with the RIA Novosti
news agency Thursday that Assad's future is "absolutely not a topic for
discussion right now" between Russia, Iran and Turkey. Houstonchronicle
Common ground on Syria
unites Russia and Turkey against the west
Thousands still waiting for
evacuation from east Aleppo
Thousands of civilians and
fighters are still waiting to be evacuated from the last rebel bastion in
Aleppo city but difficulties including harsh weather are complicating the final
phase of the operation, a rebel spokesman said.On Wednesday, bad weather and
poor condition of some cars appeared to have slowed the operation which has
already brought out thousands of others since late last week.Vehicles were
still streaming out of eastern Aleppo on Thursday morning after an evacuation
overnight monitored by the United Nations, a UN official in Syria said. aljazeera
Mosul : Daesh bombings kill
20 Iraq soldiers
A series of Daesh car bombs
targeting an Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) staging ground just outside of Mosul
has resulted in the deaths of approximately 20 soldiers today, while separate
mortar attacks have killed four aid workers and seven other civilians this
week. Daesh’s Amaq news agency said that three vehicle-borne improvised
explosive devices (VBIEDs) targeting Iraqi soldiers in Gogjali, a satellite
town just outside of east Mosul, had killed 20 soldiers. The Iraqi govt gave no figures for their losses.Gogjali was
recaptured from Daesh approximately two months ago, and had been declared
“secure” by the Iraqi authorities who use it as a staging ground, resupply
station and they have also located their field hospital there.The militant
group’s ability to launch devastating attacks inside Gogjali suggest that the
neighbourhoods claimed to have been “liberated” by the ISF and the US-led
Coalition may not be as secure as previously thought. middleeastmonitor
Daesh strikes back in
Iraq’s ‘liberated’ eastern Mosul
Iraq: Daesh claims 5,000
govt troops killed in Mosul
UNSC to vote on ending
Israeli settlement activity
UN Security Council is due
to vote on a draft resolution that would demand Israel "immediately and
completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian
territory, including East Jerusalem".Egypt circulated the draft late on Wednesday
and a vote was scheduled today.Israeli settlements are illegal under
international law and seen as major stumbling block to peace efforts as they
are built on Palestinian land occupied by Israel. The Palestinians want an
independent state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, areas Israel
captured in a 1967 war. Aljazeera
Study: Illegal Israeli
settlers receive 4 times the funding
Settlers receive four times
the budget allocated to ordinary citizens living within Israel, a new study has
revealed.They also receive 24 per cent more than those living in the Negev and
19 per cent more than people living in the Galilee.According to the study
prepared by Dr Roby Nathanson from the Macro Centre for Political Economics, a
settler in the West Bank will receive 1,923 shekels ($503) annually in the form
of grants and tax privileges in the context of the state’s budget for
2017-2018, approved by the Knesset this morning. middleeastmonitor
Jerusalem: 19-year-old shot
protesting home demolition
Israeli forces have shot
dead a Palestinian teen during clashes that erupted when soldiers arrived to
demolish the home of an alleged attacker. Soldiers opened fire on a crowd and
fatally hit Ahmad al-Kharoubi, a 19-year-old Palestinian, during clashes with
youth before dawn on Thursday in occupied East Jerusalem's Kafr Aqab
neighbourhood.Including Kharoubi, the Al-Haq human rights organisation has
documented the killing of at least 107 Palestinians by Israeli security forces
or settlers."Perpetrators include soldiers (regular and so-called border
police), settlers, police, settlement guards, settler escorts, private security
company personnel, light train guards, undercover units and municipality
guards," Al-Haq's Tahseen Elayyan told Al Jazeera. aljazeera
Muslim, Turkish Sevil
Shhaideh set to be Romania’s first female PM
Bucharest: Romania could be
headed for its first female PM, an economist who is a member of Romania's small
Muslim and Turkish community.Liviu Dragnea, chairman of Romania's Social
Democratic party, which won the parliamentary election, proposed Wednesday that
Sevil Shhaideh take the post of PM . The announcement was a surprise because
her name is not widely known in Romania.Shhaideh, 52, is a member of the Social
Democratic Party but did not run in the Dec.1 elections. She was minister for
regional development for 6 months in 2015, and is currently a senior official
in the regional development ministry.AP
Romania Set for First
Female, and First Muslim, PM
Nearly 5,000 expelled from
universities over FETO links
The head of Turkey's
Council of Higher Education has announced that nearly 5,000 people had been
expelled from universities for being linked to the terrorist group FETO.A total
of 3,850 academics and 947 administrative personnel were among the
dismissed."Some applied to return to duty and 16 of them were
reinstated," Sarac said.World Bulletin
UN advisor fears Myanmar
situation may get out of hand
http://www.worldbulletin.net/headlines/182061/un-advisor-fears-myanmar-situation-may-get-out-of-hand
A top UN official is
warning that the ongoing violence in Myanmar's west is in danger of “getting
out of hand", and is asking the country's leaders to be more assertive in
resolving historic problems faced by the area's Muslim and Buddhist communities.World
Bulletin
Lame duck presidents and
angry secularists should keep quiet; it’s Syrian voices which must be heard:
Yvonne Ridley article
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