Evening NEWS DIGEST
03 Jan.2017: 4 Rabius
Sani 1438: Vol:8, No:79
Modi govt exploring law on
banning beef & cow slaughter
New Delhi: Setting the ball
rolling for a possible law banning beef and cow slaughter, the Union
environment ministry has asked the agriculture ministry to explore the option
of enacting a national law to prohibit slaughtering of cow, selling of beef or
beef products. Anil Madhav Dave-led ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate
Change (MoEFCC) sent a letter to this effect to Union agriculture ministry’s
Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries (Cattle Division) on 23
Dec. Mint has reviewed a copy of the letter.It is not the first instance when
protection of cow, considered holy by a section of Hindus, is in news. Since
May 2014, when the NDA govt led by BJP assumed power, there have been several
occasions when the issue of cow protection has been in the limelight.MoEFCC
letter seems to be in response to a July 2016 judgment by the Himachal High
Court asking the Central govt to, “enact the law prohibiting slaughtering of
cow/calf, import or export of cow/calf, selling of beef or beef products, in
its wisdom, at national level”.“In view of the fact that slaughtering of
cow/calf, import or export of cow/calf, selling of beef or beef products and
related matters fall under the administration of Department of Animal
Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries (cattle division), it is required that
necessary action in the matter may kindly be taken,” said the MoEFCC letter.Meanwhile,
there have been demands to declare cow as India’s national animal replacing
tiger. The home ministry has discussed ways to check cattle (mainly cows)
smuggling to Bangladesh. The environment ministry has also asked the Animal
Welfare Board of India to assess the cost of building new cow shelters and
maintain existing ones to house stray cattle across India. livemint
End of Modi-Obama bonhomie?
After Israel, Russia, outgoing US admin. meddles in Indus Waters dispute
New Delhi: Fabled Narendra
Modi-Barack Obama friendship may have been just for the cameras. For the
outgoing US administration led by President Obama has started something that
won’t be appreciated by PM Modi as the
best parting gift from the former. According to a report in Pak newspaper Dawn,
the US has started the process for “peacefully” resolving the Indus Waters
dispute between India and Pakistan. The report says the US has taken the
initiative on its own without “waiting for an invitation to do so”.Meddling in
the Indus Waters Treaty dispute is latest act of the outgoing US administration
to unsettle bilateral relationship with “friendly” countries.Last week, US
Secretary of State John Kerry had irked his country’s all-weather ally Israel
by suggesting a “2-state” solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict and
claiming that the Jewish state was ruled by “most right-wing govt” in its
history. Kerry had attacked Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for
settlement-building, accusing the latter of dragging Jewish state away from
democracy. A week before Kerry’s speech, US had abstained from an anti-Israel
UNSC resolution. Kerry said US abstention helped preserve the 2-state solution.Financial
express
Re-promulgation of
ordinances is 'fraud' on Constitution: Supreme Court
New Delhi: The Supreme
Court has held that re-promulgation of ordinances without being placed before
the legislature was constitutionally impermissible as it amounted to bypassing
the legislative body which was the primary source of lawmaking authority in a
parliamentary democracy. A 7-judge constitution bench held that govt's decision
to bring ordinance can be reviewed by judiciary and said that it was obligatory
on the govt to place the ordinance before the legislative body for its
approval. Failure of govts, at the Centre as well as states, to place
ordinances before Parliament and state legislatures would itself constitute a
fraud on the Constitution.The majority verdict, by Justices AK Goel, UU Lalit,
DY Chandrachud and L Nageswara Rao, held that "re-promulgation defeats the
constitutional scheme under which a limited power to frame ordinances has been
conferred upon the President and governors". "The danger of
re-promulgation lies in the threat which it poses to the sovereignty of
Parliament and the state legislatures which have been constituted as primary
law-givers under the Constitution. Open legislative debate and discussion
provides sunshine which separates secrecy of ordinance-making from transparent
and accountable governance through lawmaking," it said.Chief Justice TS
Thakur, who was heading the bench, also agreed with majority verdict on the
issue but differed on one aspect. "I am in complete agreement with the
view expressed by my esteemed brother Chandrachud,that repeated repromulgation
of the ordinances was a fraud on the Constitution especially when the govt of the time appears to have persistently
avoided the placement of the ordinances before the legislature." CJI,
however, questioned whether it is mandatory for the govt to place the ordinance
before legislative body saying that the matter should be examined in a separate
proceeding. The court said that SC's `hope and trust' that lawmaking through
re-promulgated ordinances would not become the norm had been belied by
successive govts.TOI
SC bans religion, caste in poll
campaigns: Kancha Ilaiah says inclusion of caste in judgement was "unfortunate".
Kancha Ilaiah, a prominent
writer and political scientist based in Hyderabad, told Al Jazeera that the
inclusion of caste in the Supreme Court judgement was "unfortunate". "Verdict
said mobilising voters on the basis of caste, race, language and religion
amounted to corruption," he said. Ilaiah, who belongs to the Dalit caste,
India's so-called lowest caste, said the judgement undermines the ability of
his social class to use politics as a means for their upliftment."The SC
now says we cannot use the caste issue for our liberation, for our equality. If
they say that, then how do we achieve our liberation? What about the right to
speak about my oppression?" Ilaiah said. "It is as if the SC has said
[our enslavement] cannot be used as an instrument to fight back," he
added.However, Ilaiah believes the judgement means that parties like BJP could
no longer openly intimidate minorities or use "Babri [a demolished mosque]
or beef as part of their electioneering". Aljazeera
Dissent on SC ruling on
religion,caste : Curbs free speech, negates history of prejudice
New Delhi: Differing with
the majority, 3 judges on the Constitution Bench invoked “histories of
discrimination and injustice” on the basis of religion, caste, community to
argue that candidates should not be barred from addressing their “legitimate
expectation” that deprivation due to these “immutable characteristics” will be
remedied through the electoral process.Stating that issues of religion, caste,
etc. “are crucial to maintaining a stable balance in the governance of the
nation,” the minority view in the 4-3 judgment said that “the spirit of
discussion, debate and dialogue sustains constitutional democracy” and “a sense
of inclusion can only be fostered by protecting the right of citizens freely to
engage in a dialogue in public spaces”.Deliberation on religion, caste, etc. is
the affirmation of “constitutionally protected values and…an intrinsic part of
the freedom of speech and expression”, held the minority view, and warned that
imposing a prohibition on electoral discourse on issues pertaining to caste,
race, community, religion or language might reduce democracy to “an
abstraction” apart from restricting the fundamental right of freedom of speech
and expression of candidates.Describing caste, race, religion and language as
“matters of constitutional importance,” the minority judgment, authored by
Justice D Y Chandrachud on behalf of himself and Justices Adarsh K Goel and
Uday U Lalit, said that discussion of matters relating to these identities
which are of concern to the voters is not an appeal on those grounds. Indian express
SC verdict on misuse of
religion jolts poll-bound Punjab
The Supreme Court verdict
on the misuse of religion and caste by political parties has sent ripples among
the political parties in poll-bound Punjab, where sacrilege is an issue, and
radical Panthic outfits have also decided to field candidates.While the
Congress called the judgment a blow to the ruling party, Shiromani Akali Dal
(SAD), the latter sought to downplay it by saying they had never used religion
to seek votes.Referring to the SC verdict that politicians can’t use religion,
caste, creed or language for seeking votes, state Congress president Captain
Amarinder Singh said the order has far reaching implications for Punjab where
the Akalis have always misused religion to seek votes. He said even today,
Akali leaders were taking people to gurdwaras and making them swear their
support to the SAD.Amarinder alleged that many Akali leaders were holding
‘ardaas’ outside gurdwaras to influence people to cast their vote on basis of
their religion. He also accused the Akalis of misusing Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak
Committee (SGPC) for electoral purposes.The SAD, however, put up a brave front
on the issue. “There is no doubt that the SAD is a party for which Sikhism is a
core value and politics and religion in Punjab are in a way inseparable. But it
is a disciplined party and has never used religion, caste, etc for elections.
We never seek votes in the name of religion. And there will be no impact of the
SC judgment on our politics or on Punjab elections,” said Akali MP Sukhdev
Singh Dhindsa. hindustantimes
SC decision may clash with
justice Verma’s ruling: Owaisi
Aurangabad: AIMIM chief
Asaduddin Owaisi expressed fears that Monday's ruling by the Supreme Court
banning seeking of votes by using religion, caste or community would clash with
its earlier decision.MIM chief, who was in the city to assess the performance
of party corporators, was referring to the 1995 ruling by justice J S Verma of
the SC that Hinduism is a way of life and not a religion."The parties
contesting elections on the Hindutva plak would use it (justice Verma's ruling)
as a defence and claim that they are seeking votes on the basis of way of life
and not religion," said Owaisi.Replying to a question, he said that he is
not disappointed by Monday's judgment but was expecting that the bench would
consider and review the justice Verma ruling. timesofindia
SC ruling ‘clashes’ with
Hindutva verdict: Owaisi
BJP moves EC against Owaisi
for 'spl Muslim budget' remark
Mumbai:BJP has filed a
complaint against AIMIM President and MP Asaduddin Owaisi over his
controversial speech at a public meeting in Mumbai saying that the speech
sought to provoke communal tension in the city. Owaisi had stated if people
support the AIMIM, he would try to approve special budget for Muslims worth
`6,770 crore. “Owaisi’s speech was aimed at inciting communal tension and to
disturb the law and order situation in the city. The demands made in the speech
are completely illegal. They are also against the principles that the Supreme
Court ruling has set on Monday and is also detrimental for the Muslim
community,” the letter given to state election commission by Mumbai BJP General
Secretary Sumant Ghaisas said. new
indian express
Why, 22 yrs on, SC’s
‘Hindutva judgment’ remains elephant in room: indian express
SC verdict a double-edged
sword with wide ramifications
Support SC ban on invoking
religion, caste during elections: Rajnath
SC verdict on separating
religion and caste from politics is sadly unrealistic: Sandip Roy, Editor,
HuffPost India
SC's verdict delinking
religion from politics is good for BJP and bad for others: By Srinivasa Prasad
SC verdict on religion is
excellent one, all should welcome it: Congress
JNU notice to student union
chief over protests
New Delhi: Continuing with
its spate of show-cause notices, JNU administration has now issued a notice to
student union president Mohit Pandey warning him of action if the protests at
the administrative block are not stopped. Following chaos in Academic Council
(AC) meeting, the administration has also sought police presence for the
Executive Council (EC) meeting scheduled today. 9 students were suspended for
allegedly "disrupting" the AC meeting along with a teacher who was
served notice for addressing them."The series of show-cause notices and
suspensions are just an attempt by the administration to attack the student
unity and destroy the protest culture at the varsity. The suspended students
have refused to appear before the enquiry committee and we will protest outside
the EC meeting venue as well," Pandey.PTI
Retired JNU professors
condemn JNU admin.for suspending 10 students
Following the recent
tension that has been enveloping JNU, pertaining the issue of students protest
against the Academic Council meeting wherein 10 students were suspended,
several retired professors expressed concerns over it. Students were protesting
against the council decision for making interview marks the sole criteria in
determining admission to research studies and M Phil.As many as 15 retired JNU
professors, including the renowned historian, Romila Thapar, condemned the
university administration for suspending 10 of its students and slammed the
varsity of alleged connection with the Academic Council. The group of retired
professors termed the action of the varsity "supreme contempt for the
dignity and freedom of the faculty and students". india today
JNUTA to protest
authorities’ ‘undemocratic’ conduct
JNU protest: Administration
threatens students union president of disciplinary action
Ex- JNU faculty expresses
shock over Council meet
AMU students protest
against police brutality
Agra: Students of AMU took
out a protest march on Monday against what they termed as a "brutal
attack" on them by police during their rail blockade programme on Dec.31.
Raising slogans against UP police and carrying placards "AMU stands
against injustice" and "UP police murdabad", the students
submitted a memorandum to CM Akhilesh
Yadav, through local administration demanding action against the police
personnel.Nabeel Usmani, secretary of AMU, said we were proceeding towards the
railway platform peacefully to protest against the failure of the police in
tracing missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmad, when police resorted to unprovoked
lathicharge, leaving several students injured.Dubbing the police action as
"unjustified and undemocratic", Usmani said such treatment is not
acceptable. He said the AMU students' union expects the CM to initiate action
against the guilty police personnel. Students' union also demanded that CM
direct the police and the administration to behave.TOI
Sinha seeks meeting with PM
Modi to talk Kashmir
Noida: Ex-Foreign Minister
Yashwant Sinha, who recently led a group of concerned citizens to Kashmir, was
hopeful of resumption of a formal dialogue between Kashmir and New Delhi soon
and has sought an appointment with PM Narendra Modi to deliberate on the issue.
The senior BJP leader claimed that he had meetings with several senior
functionaries in the NDA govt and is
doing ‘front ground work’ to resume a formal dialogue process soon. Even though
Sinha was tightlipped about the meetings, sources said he has met Home Minister
Rajnath Singh and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and discussed his visit
to Kashmir. Sinha believes in ex-PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s doctrine of
‘Insaniyat, Jhamooriyat and Kashmiriyat’ on Kashmir and is advocating and
lobbying for immediate resumption of ‘unconditional’ dialogue process with all
stakeholders in J&K, including Hurriyat. And for Pakistan to make the
‘triangular talks’ possible at latter stage, Sinha said they have to abide by
the commitment of not “exporting violence and terror.” economictimes
Minority status in J&K;SC
seeks response in 2 weeks; imposes fines to Centre, JK Govt.
Jammu: In the much
publicized PIL related to setting up of Minority Commission in J&K for
extending benefits available to minorities, the Centre and State Govt suffered a major blow when the Supreme Court
of India on Monday imposed costs of Rs 15,000 each for not filing their reply
in time.The apex court has directed payment of Rs 30,000 to the petitioner
Ankur Sharma. It gave two weeks’ time to the Union and the State govt s to file
their responses.On Monday, when the much publicized matter in WPPIL No.
489/2016 titled Ankur Sharma V/s Union of India and Ors. seeking identification
of religious and linguistic minorities in the state of J&K, came up for
hearing, Advocate Sharma (petitioner-in-person) strongly pressed for the
suspension of minority schemes illegally being implemented in the State for the
reason that the Central NCM Act is not applicable to the state of J&K and
the majority community of the state is illegally reaping the benefits of more
than 50 minority schemes. State Times News
HC admits plea of five
convicted for Dilsukhnagar twin blasts
Hyderabad: High Court on
Monday admitted the appeal filed by the 5 convicts of the Dilsukhnagar bomb
blast and would hear it along with the reference proceedings of the Special NIA
Court for confirmation of the death sentence awarded to the convicts.While
admitting the matter, the bench comprising Justice C V Nagarjuna Reddy and
Justice M S K Jaiswal said that it will hear the appeal along with the case
records and the file referred by the NIA Court for confirmation of the
sentence. On Dec 19, the special court imposed death sentence on the convicts -
Yasin Bhatkal, Asadullah Akhtar, Zia Ur Rahman, Mohammed Tahseen and Aizaz
Saeed Shaik - who were found guilty of carrying out the blasts. newindianexpress
Office-bearers untraceable,
cops fail to send tribunal notice to IRF
Mumbai: With the
office-bearers of banned IRF untraceable, the Mumbai Police has not been able
to serve a notice on it to appear before a judicial tribunal that was formed to
look into the ban. After the Central govt notified the UAPA comprising Delhi
High Court Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal to adjudicate whether there was a
just cause to declare IRF as an ‘unlawful association’, the tribunal issued a
notice to the IRF to appear before the tribunal on Feb.6. Tribunal has given
televangelist Zakir Naik’s IRF 30 days to provide its written objections to the
ban.However,Mumbai Police has only been able to paste a copy of the notice at
the IRF office on Tandel Street in Dongri. The office has been shut ever since
the organisation was banned by Union Ministry for Home Affairs in Nov.Officers
at the Dongri police station have spent the last week tracing home addresses of
IRF’s office-bearers after the tribunal was not satisfied with its initial
efforts. “At first, we served a copy of the notice on IRF’s lawyer Mubin
Solkar. But the tribunal has instructed us to serve copy only to the
office-bearers,” said a polcie officer. Since then, the local police have been
making announcements on loudspeakers in Dongri hoping to gain attention of the
organisation’s members. Officer added that copies of the notice had also been
sent to the Mumbai City Collector. indian express
2 men held in Goa do not
have terror links: police
Panaji: 2 persons, who were
arrested after they were found distributing pamphlets about a programme by NGO
of Zakir Naik, do not have terror links, Goa police said on Tuesday. Abdul
Nasir and Iliyaz Ismail were held last night at Dona Paula beach in Goa as they
were distributing pamphlets about a programme by Naik’s NGO in Mangalore.“We
have interrogated the two over the night. We have found that they have no
terror links. They had come to Dona Paula beach with their family,”SP (North)
Umesh Gaonkar said.He said the duo was in possession of the pamphlets
canvassing for a convention of Salafi Muslims to be held in Mangalore from Jan.9-16.
Ismail is a resident of Margao where he has been living for over a decade,
while Nasir is his brother-in-law, who is from Kasargod (a village in Kerala),
the SP said.He said ATS, IB and Special Branch teams interrogated accused while
Margao police was also asked to get details about them.PTI
Goa: 2 detained for
circulating anti-ISIS leaflets
2 held for distributing
pamphlets about Naik's NGO in Goa
2008 Malegaon blasts: Court
allows NIA to use copies of missing documents as evidence
Mumbai: A special court has
allowed NIA to use available copies as secondary evidence in place of papers
that have gone missing in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case. In April last year,
the special NIA court had been informed that some original documents that were
part of the evidence were untraceable. These included 13 witness statements
recorded by Maharashtra ATS under Section 164 of Criminal Procedure Code and
two statements of the accused recorded under the MCOCA.In Sept., NIA, which
took over the probe in 2011, had approached the court seeking permission to use
photocopies of the original documents. The accused, including Lieutenant
Colonel Prasad Purohit, had opposed the plea, stating they had been provided
truncated copies, and their authenticity was not verified.Special public
prosecutor Avinash Rasal said the court observed that among the documents were
various statements available with the investigators, including the ATS and the
NIA. Case is at the stage of framing of charges against the 11 accused,
including Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Major Ramesh Upadhyay, Sameer Kulkarni
and others.indianexpress
SP ‘cycle’ symbol war:
Akhilesh meets father Mulayam, Azam Khan tries for truce; 10 latest
developments
Lucknow: In middle of a war
as to who will control the Samajwadi Party, Akhilesh Yadav today visited father
Mulayam Singh Yadav at his home in Lucknow hours after the phone call between
the father and son this morning. Mulayam
Singh Yadav took a chartered flight from Delhi to Lucknow this morning. With
support of thousands of party members, Akhilesh Yadav replaced his father as
party chief, report by NDTV stated. The Yadav family has dragged their party
into a crisis just when UP gears up for the upcoming 2017 elections. The
relationship between father and son has soured to the extent that it has
Election Commission ahead of the crucial assembly elections in the state. It
looks unlikely that the Election Commission will be able to solve the feud in
the family in time for UP elections. The Samajwadi Party may come up with a new
attempt at finding a truce after the father and son phone call this morning. As
per report, Mulayam Singh has so far not expelled the CM from their party.
The two factions may come
together, says Azam Khan
Netaji should allow SP to
contest UP polls under Akhilesh: Abu Azmi
Development not Ram Mandir
will be BJP's agenda in UP assembly polls 2017: Naidu
New Delhi: Senior BJP
leader Venkaiah Naidu has said party will fight election in UP on developmental
agenda and not on issues like Ram Temple and ruled out projecting any CM ial
face. "Real alignment" is in favour of PM Narendra Modi, who he described as the
"mascot of development" and a "bigger face". Information
and Broadcasting Minister said the anti-black money campaign has attracted
people, especially from the lower sections of the society, towards BJP and it
will further get momentum with the "fruits" of the ban getting
"visible"."We have reports coming from UP, newer sections and
people who were keeping a distance from BJP earlier, particularly sections of
the lowest strata, they are all moving towards BJP after the demonetisation or
remonetisation."This will I am sure gain further momentum as the fruits of
anti-corruption vaccine administered by Modi become visible," he told
PTI.PTI
10 Yrs of Sachar Report:
Some Critical Observations
New Delhi: With no
significant changes in the socio-economic conditions of the Muslim community
even 10 years after Sachar Committee report accepted by the central govt ,
social groups, community leaders and academicians say the intention of Govts is
the main factor behind the backwardness of Muslims in the country. At a program
titled “10 Years of Justice Sachar Committee Report - A Review” held here, they
urged the govt to implement the Sachar Committee recommendations with honest
intention to uplift the community and other minorities. Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty
of Delhi University said:"There were two major recommendations (of Sachar
Committee). First, diversity index to be applied in all public and private
organizations. This is still on paper only. Unless we really apply this index
we don’t realize whom we are missing out. Second was to set up a National Data
Bank. We still don’t know whether govt has any policy about this yet.The
present govt has in fact almost dropped Right to Education Act. This was
strongly recommended to be implemented with special emphasis in Muslim
concentration areas. ”Mohammad Salim Engineer, Secretary General of
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, stressed on implementation of Equal Opportunity
Commission. “Sachar Committee report is the most realistic and important as it
presents the real image of Muslims and other minorities. But it is the most
politically exploited report also,”he said.IndiaTomorrow
Don't split your vote,
Mayawati tells Muslims
Lucknow: BSP chief Mayawati
on Tuesday cautioned Muslims in UP not
to split their votes and said Dalits won't be swayed by hollow words.Mayawati
told the media here that Muslims would have to be extra cautious in the coming
assembly elections and not waste their vote on the Samajwadi Party which she
said was on the verge of splitting."Samajwadi Party has been divided into
two. Muslims have to be very careful. They should not divide their votes,"
she said.She rubbished accusations that she believed in caste-based
politics.IANS
Women ‘straying away’ from
Indian culture reason for Bengaluru mass molestation, says Abu Azmi
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party
Mumbai unit chief Abu Azmi courted controversy on Tuesday as he suggested that
the reason behind ‘mass molestation’ of women in Bengaluru during new year’s
eve celebrations was because of them ‘straying away’ from Indian culture.“In
these modern times, the more women are naked, the more fashionable, modern and
educated they are considered. And this is increasing in the country. This is a
blot on our culture,” NDTV quoted him as saying. Thousands of revelers
assembled at Bengaluru’s MG Road for new year celebrations. Taking advantage of
this, miscreants groped and molested women as they ran for their safety. Around
1,500 policemen and women were also posted to ensure robust security
arrangements but the crowd that grew in several thousand became hard to control
for the police.
Girl converts over talaq
torture, faces threat: dailypioneer
Ghaziabad: A Muslim girl
who converted to Hinduism on Dec.30, 2016, over tortures following triple talaq
is alleged to have been facing threat to life. Worried for her 3-month-old
son’s safety, she has gone into hiding. After 3 months of the marriage to
painter named Feroz in 2006, her husband started beating her on trifles, she
alleged. During 8 years of her marriage, she was forced to undergo three
abortions. Her husband beat to death their two months old daughter. After a few
months of talaq, her husband rued that he had divorced her. Then he asked her
to complete iddah of four months 10 days and Halala with his friend to make her
able to remarry him. But when she completed these conditions, he refused to
accept her. Rather she confined her into a room and started offering her to
other men. Unable to bear the torture, she decided to fight for her rights. dailypioneer
Leave by March 31,
northeast rebel groups tell Hindi speakers, Bengalis
Guwahati: 3 lesser known
northeast rebel outfits mentored by hostile-again National Socialist Council of
Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) and the Paresh Barua faction of United Liberation
Front of Asom (Ulfa-Independent) have set March 31 as deadline for Hindi
speakers and Bengalis to quit Tripura and parts of Assam and West Bengal.These
outfits are Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO), National Liberation Front
of Twipra (NLFT) and People’s Democratic Council of Karbi-Longri (PDCK). They
have been provided a new lease of life by the Myanmar-based United Liberation
Front of Western South East Asia, a front helmed by NSCN-K and Ulfa-I. Hindi
speakers, seen as representatives of ‘colonial New Delhi’, have been pet
targets of major extremist groups in the Northeast. Bengalis have been added to
their hate list in reaction to BJP’s plan to grant refugee status to persecuted
non-Muslims from neighbouring countries, primarily Bengali Hindus from
Bangladesh.
Modi, Putin, Erdogan are
anti-Muslim,claims a IS video clip
Damascus: A chilling video
released by the Islamic State says that leaders like Narendra Modi, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin, among others, work against the interest of
Muslims and Islam. In a gory 19-minute clip, which is filled with bloodshed and
devastation in Syria, has a voice over in Arabic and Turkish. The video is
titled--The Cross Shield. In the video, the IS speaks about how these leaders
are to be blamed for the bloodshed in Syria. The main focus of the video is
around Erdogan who is blamed for the war in Syria. In the 19-minute clip, there
is a picture of Modi with Erdogan, which was clicked at the G-20 Summit in
Turkey in November. Apart from Modi and Erdoğan, the video goes on to blame US
President Barack Obama, Russian President Putin, Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad and Pope Francis for working against the interest of Muslims and
Islam.Video also makes references to the situation in Afghanistan.Video which
was posted on several jihadi websites also speaks about the air strikes in
Syria.oneindia
PM Modi should be arrested,
will seek justice in court: Mamata on Sudip Bandyopadhyay’s arrest
AFSPA in Nagaland extended
for 6 months
Disabled may get 5% quota in colleges from next session
Demonetisation Fallout?
Investments Fall by over 50%
RBI’s refusal to reveal
info on demonetisation is ‘blatant subversion of the law’: Shailesh Gandhi
WORLD
Russia to host internal
Palestinian reconciliation talks
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170103-russia-to-host-internal-palestinian-reconciliation-talks/
Russia is to host a meeting
for the major Palestinian factions on 15 January, local news agency TASS
reported. Russian news agency said that senior PLO official Wasel Abu Yousef
told the Israeli newspaper the Jerusalem Post about this planned meeting.Quds
Press also reported a senior Palestinian official discussing the meeting. The
news organisation did not name the official but said the meeting would discuss
the reorganisation of Palestinian institutions.“The Russians will host a
meeting of Fatah, Hamas and other Palestinian officials in Moscow in the middle
of January to discuss reconciliation,” Abu Yousef said.TASS reported the Deputy
Russian Foreign Minister and Special Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and
North Africa Mikhail Bogdanov saying on 3 June 2016 that, in addition to
Israeli settlements, “the split among Palestinians is another negative factor
hampering the peace progress”. “Russia fully supports efforts on soonest
restoration of inter-Palestinian unity on the basis of PLO and the Arab Peace
Initiative, holds dialogue with representatives of the whole range of
Palestinian forces, first of all Fatah and Hamas, in the interests of achieving
appropriate agreements.”But Palestinian political analyst Ahmed Awad told Quds
Press that this meeting would not be more than a show of public relations for
Russia, which has been seeking bigger role in the region.“Moscow maintains good
relations with many of the Palestinian factions,” he said, “however, it is
weaker than mediating an internal reconciliation which needs financial and
security guarantees that Russia is unable to fulfil.” middleeastmonitor
Syria rebels freeze
negotiations, saying truce violated
Syria's main rebel groups
say they have frozen their participation in preliminary peace talks planned for
Kazakhstan later this month due to several "violations" by the regime
of a five-day-old truce.Sources said the groups were freezing their
participation in negotiations being prepared by Russia due to a govt-led
assault on Wadi Barada, a rebel-held area near Damascus that is key to the
capital's water supply.The groups suspending their participation included the
Free Syrian Army, one of the biggest coalitions fighting against President
Bashar al-Assad, and the Army of Conquest, another coalition of anti-govt groups. Aljazeera
US-led strikes in Iraq,
Syria have killed at least 188 civilians -US military
Turkish, Russian aircraft
destroy IS targets in Syria: Army
18 IS militants killed in
clashes in Syria: Turkish military
Recapturing Mosul is ‘a
matter of weeks not years’: French President Hollande
Baghdad: The battle to recapture the city of
Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city and the last major Daesh stronghold in the
country, is likely to take weeks, the French President Francois Hollande said
on a visit to Baghdad on Monday. He vowed to continue supporting Iraq in its
fight against Daesh militant group and to help in the reconstruction efforts of
damaged cities.“France will actively participate in the reconstruction efforts
in Mosul after defeating the Daesh there”, Hollande said during a joint news
conference with Iraqi PM Haider
Al-Abadi.“Everything that contributes to reconstructing Iraq is an additional
step to avoiding Daesh strikes on our own territory,” he added. He was due to meet PM Haider
al-Abadi, of Iraq’s main Shiite political group, President Fuad Masum, a Kurd,
and Parliament speaker Salim al-Juburi, a prominent Sunni politician. middleeastmonitor
ISIL ramps up fight with
weaponised drones: Aljazeera
Mosul;As fighting raged in
eastern Mosul on a recent afternoon, a black Humvee arrived at an Iraqi army
command post with a collection of plastics, electronics and rotor blades lashed
to its back.Soldiers leaped to unload the cargo, which comprised the remnants
of the latest tool in ISIL's armoury: drones.The haul included a number of
small devices of the kind favoured by filmmakers and hobbyists, costing a few
hundred dollars apiece. But there were also larger, fixed-wing craft fashioned
out of corrugated plastic and duct tape, apparently made by the fighters
themselves. Aljazeera
56 killed, many beheaded,
in grisly Brazil prison riot
Sao Paulo:A prison riot in
the Brazilian Amazon has left at least 56 people dead with some bodies
decapitated and burned, officials said.The riot erupted on Sunday afternoon and
lasted for 17 hours in Anisio Jobim Penitentiary Complex in Manaus, the capital
of Amazonas state. Rioters took 12 guards hostage and a still unconfirmed
number of prisoners escaped.aljazeera
Deputy leader of Libya’s
UN-backed govt resigns
A deputy leader of Libya’s Govt
of National Accord (GNA) announced his resignation on Monday, saying the
UN-backed administration had failed to tackle urgent problems arising from
years of conflict and political disarray.The resignation of Musa al-Koni casts
doubt on the future of the govt in its
current form, just over a year after it was launched under a UN-mediated deal
that had only partial support from Libya’s rival factions. Western powers
backed the GNA to tackle Daesh, boost Libya’s oil production, and help stem the
flow of sub-Saharan migrants from Libya to Europe. middleeastmonitor
Israeli forces demolish 11
Bedouin residential structures, 87 left homeless: middleeastmonitor
Israeli PM questioned for
graft
US store displays racist
window signs about Obama, Muslims
Alcohol abuse increases
risk of heart disease
Hilarion Capucci, priest of
Palestinian resistance, dies
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