Evening NEWS DIGEST
7 Feb.2017: 9 Jamadiul Awwal 1438: Vol:8, No:110
US, UK, France move UN to
ban Masood Azhar; China blocks again
New Delhi: In a move that
helps Pakistan and goes against India, China has once again blocked an attempt
to have Masood Azhar, chief of Jaish-e-Mohammed, blacklisted by the UN. Unlike
last year, when India asked action against Azhar, this time, the proposal was
moved by 3 countries- the US, the UK and France."We have been informed of
this development, the matter has been taken up the matter with the Chinese govt
," said External Affairs Ministry said.A "technical hold"
thwarts the blacklisting - which would freeze Azhar's assets and ban his travel
globally - while more facts are collected. China used that option twice last
year before a full-fledged veto. Now, it has used the shelving option again
just days before the three-nation proposal would have to be either adopted or
rejected.The "hold" lasts 6 months and can be further extended by 3
months. During this period, it can be converted into a "block", which
kills the proposal, which has to be adopted unanimously by all members of
Security Council.NDTV
‘Pak wants India’s N-programme
under IAEA safeguards’
Islamabad:Pakistan wants
India to bring its entire civilian nuclear programme under the safeguards laid
out by the International Atomic Energy Commission, DG Disarmament at the
Foreign Office said on Monday. “It is incumbent on us to stand up for our own
interest. We want an assurance that India’s whole three stage nuclear power
programme would be under safeguards,” DG Disarmament at Foreign Office Kamran
Akhtar was quoted as saying by Dawn.PTI
India’s ‘Cold Start’
doctrine can’t ensure easy win against Pakistan: Chinese media
Beijing:Indian Army’s “Cold
Start” doctrine to seize control of Pakistani territory might be intimidating
but will not lead to a “landslide” victory against nuclear-armed Pakistan,
state-run Chinese media has said.“Both India and Pakistan are nuclear-armed
countries. Even if the Cold Start strategy sounds intimidating and there is
indeed a gap between the two powers’ military might, it does not mean that New
Delhi can easily win a landslide victory against Islamabad,” an article in the
state-run Global Times said today.“Truth is, Pakistan has considerable strength
to safeguard its sovereignty and its nuclear weapons should not be ignored,” it
said.PTI
China’s state-run paper
says India working against Beijing’s interests in Sri Lanka
India is working against
Chinese interests in Sri Lanka by interfering in a port project funded by
Beijing because New Delhi is worried about losing its influence in the Indian
Ocean, state media said on Tuesday.Quoting local academics, nationalistic
tabloid Global Times said Sri Lanka was made to repeatedly “vow” that China
will not be allowed to indulge in military activities at the island nation’s
Hambantota port – although the facility was always meant for civilian use. Karunasena
Kodituwakku, Sri Lankan ambassador to China, had told mediapersons last week
that Colombo will not allow China to set up a military facility at any port in
the country. Chinese investors have also been informed that no civilian
facility will be allowed to be used militarily, he added.HT
India watches warily as China
further ramps up FDI into Nepal
New Delhi: China's
influence in Nepal's economy continues to grow by leaps and bounds with Beijing
again topping the list of nations who have pledged maximum FDI into Nepal.According
to Nepal govt figures, China accounted for as much as 68% of all FDI pledged for Nepal in the first half
of current fiscal year. This is a massive jump from China's 40% share of the
total FDI pledged for Nepal by various countries in 2015-16. According to
Nepal's Dept.of Industry, China accounted for $51.77 million out of a total of
$76.39 million FDI pledged for Nepal in the first half of the current fiscal
year. This has further cemented China's position as top contributor of FDI for
Nepal.Quoting figures, China's Xinhua said in a report that the total FDI
pledged into Nepal for same period during the last fiscal (2015-16) was only
$59,93 million when the country had gone through troubling blockade from
India''.TOI
Khalistani, pro-Pak
Kashmiri groups coordinating actions in Canada
Indian govt is monitoring the increased coordination
between Khalistani and pro-Pakistan Kashmiri groups, particularly in organising
anti-India protests in countries like Canada.While such protests have also been
staged in the recent past in London and New York, this “new trend”, according
to one official, has become evident in the Greater Toronto Area. The latest
joint protest was at the venue for the celebration of India’s Republic Day in
Brampton, a suburb of Toronto. The groups participating in that protest were
the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), Canada, United Front of Sikhs and J&K
Diaspora Alliance. Last year, these groups had highlighted the flashpoint of
the killing of Burhan Wani. Another protest was held in front of the Indian
consulate in Toronto to “raise concern over Indian forces committing genocide
of Kashmiri people in Indian occupied Kashmir” and the announcement of that had
described Wani as a “freedom fighter”. The group, Friend of Kashmir had joined
that protest. hindustantimes
India cooperated to
implement UN-mandated sanctions against Iran: US Report
Washington: India, a major
buyer of oil from Iran, has implemented UN-mandated sanctions against it, a
bipartisan Congressional report has said amid the Trump administration’s
efforts to muster international support against Tehran after conducting a
missile test.The independent Congressional Research Service (CRS) said in its
latest report said that India began reducing economic relations with Iran in
2010 when India’s central bank ceased using a Tehran-based regional body, Asian
Clearing Union, to handle transactions with Iran. “India implemented
UN-mandated sanctions against Iran and generally cooperated with multilateral
efforts to use sanctions to achieve a nuclear agreement with Iran,” the report
which was presented to lawmakers on Monday.PTI
OTHER
SC refuses to interfere
with ordinance, says enemy’s property must come to Govt
New Delhi: Supreme Court has
refused to interfere with NDA govt’s decision to re-promulgate Enemy Property
(Amendment and Validation Act), 2016 ordinance, saying it was a sensitive topic
that did not require judicial intervention at this juncture. Under the
ordinance all movable and immovable assets of “enemies” and their legal heirs
from hostile countries such as Pakistan and China vest with the Centre.A bench
of Chief Justice JS Khehar and Justice NV Ramana told the petitioner, Congress
Rajya Sabha MP Hussain Dalwai, that enemy’s property must come to the country.
“Govt is free to promulgate the ordinance to take over such property,” the
bench told his counsel verbally.“An enemy’s property must come to the country.
What happens when a person who is an enemy and is dead? His property must come
to the country,” the bench said when Dalwai’s lawyer, senior advocate Anand
Grover called the Dec.23, 2016 ordinance “unconstitutional” and “drastic.” Grover
said the Parliament was not taken into confidence by the govt while issuing the
ordinance.Rejecting his contention, the bench said: “It depends upon the issue.
If the issue is very serious, or affects national interests, they are free to
do it (Govt). You are an MP. You must also be sensitive. It should be debated
in Parliament. Should we interfere at this stage? You can always raise the
issue in Parliament.” Grover then withdrew the petition. hindustantimes
Enemy property must go to
govt , says Supreme Court
Nothing concrete to declare
Sanatan Sanstha as terror outfit, Centre tells Bombay HC
Mumbai: Union govt on
Tuesday told the Bombay High Court that till date it has not found any
satisfactory material to declare right wing organisation Sanatan Sanstha a
terror outfit under the UAPA and ban it. A division bench of Justices VM Kanade
and PR Bora was hearing a petition filed by Vijay Rokade seeking a ban on the outfit,
members of which are alleged to have carried out terror activities in Panvel
and Thane.The bench was informed that the Maharashtra govt, based on a report
and material submitted by ATS, forwarded a proposal to the Union govt in 2012 recommending a ban on the group. Union
govt today told the court that the
evidence and other material sent by the state govt was not conclusive and hence it cannot declare
the organisation as a terror outfit. It had made a similar affirmation in
October last year. The bench has now posted the petition for final hearing on
March 7.PTI
HC to hear petition seeking
ban on Sanstha on March 7
Malegaon blasts accused
Sadhvi Pragya gets bail because NIA does not have proof against her: scroll.in
report
The Bombay High Court on
Tuesday granted bail to Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur in the 2008 Malegaon blasts
case. Before passing the verdict, the judge heard audio and video clips of
conversations between Thakur and others accused, including Lieutenant Colonel S
Purohit, which were submitted by the NIA. The court had asked the agency to put
phone call transcripts on record after the counsel of a blast victim accused
the NIA of not conducting a thorough investigation into the case. “There are
reasonable grounds to believe that accusations [against Thakur] are prima facie
true...there are serious charges under [the] UAPA which are applicable and that
point to her [Thakur’s] involvement,” BA Desai had said. The counsel’s
allegations came on Jan.20 after NIA said that it had no objection to granting
bail to Thakur in connection with the case. Appearing for the agency,
Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh had told the bench that the agency did
not have any evidence against Thakur. “The prime witnesses who had earlier
deposed against her have retracted from their previous versions during our
probe,” Singh said. The Supreme Court has also dropped charges against Thakur
under the MCOCO, Singh told the court. scroll.in
Malegaon blast: NIA submits
audio, video clips to HC
CD with crucial evidence
related to Malegaon blast case turns up cracked
Zakir Naik’s school to be
transferred to minority trust owned by Abu Azmi soon
Mumbai: After muchdeliberations,
IRF-owned school in Mazgaon may be handed over to a trust owned by Samajwadi
Party leader Abu Azmi. The state education department has already approved a
proposal for the transfer of the school management from its founder Zakir Naik
to Azmi’s Niyaz Ahmed Minority Educational and Welfare Trust. The school, its
management, curriculum and workings are being scrutinised by legal experts
before the official transfer can be formalised. “We just want to ensure there
are no risks involved and I have appointed a solicitor to look into it. Once
that is done, our trust will run the school,” Azmi said.According to Azmi,
curriculum of Islamic International School (IIS) will remain unchanged. IIS is
affiliated with IGCSE and teaches Quranic texts, Arabic along with academic
subjects to its students. It currently has 220 children and over 100 staffers
and teachers.The school faced uncertainty when the Union Cabinet banned the IRF
for 5 years in November last year and the bank accounts of the school along
with that of IRF and Harmony Media were frozen.“The decision to transfer the
school has been taken keeping in mind the academic year of children. We feared
a shutdown. To prevent that, if another trust runs the administration, children
will not lose out on an entire year. Their exams were ongoing when the ban was
announced,” the spokesperson for IRF said. According to principal Qureshi, the
routine expenses of stationary, bills and other administrative expenditures are
being handled by him until either he gets access to bank accounts or another
trust starts funding the school. “We are happy with the state govt ’s decision
to transfer the school to another trust. Our concern was that the course should
not change and my son’s education must not get affected,” said Mouzam Armar,
father of Humaid Armar who studies in eighth class at the school. Several
parents too had approached the education department to plead that the school
must not shut down along with IRF offices. indian express
Gujarat riots: Court to
record Kodnani's statement on Feb.9 in Naroda Gam massacre case
Ahmedabad: A special court
will record on Thursday the statements of ex-Gujarat Minister Maya Kodnani and 10
other accused in the Naroda Gam case of 2002 Gujarat riots in which eleven
members of a minority community were killed. Kodnani, who is serving 28 years
in jail in the Naroda Patiya massacre case and is currently out on bail, was
scheduled to record the statements along with others before the special SIT
judge PB Desai today. However, due to
the unavailability of the judge, the statements will now be recorded by the
court on Thursday. So far, the court has recorded statements of 48 out of total
83 accused in the Naroda Gam riots case. Naroda Gam massacre is one of the nine
2002 post-Godhra riots cases investigated by the SIT. 11 people belonging to
the minority community were killed in Naroda Gam during a bandh call given to
protest the Godhra train burning incident. PTI
Samshul Hoda, key accused
in Kanpur derailment, involved in murder, criminal activities: indian express
A key suspect in the Kanpur
train derailment incident of November 2016 was nabbed from Tribhuvan
International Airport in Kathmandu after he was deported from Dubai. Samshul
Hoda was arrested along with 3 others, identified as Brij Kishor Giri, Ashish
Singh and Umesh Kumar Kurmi, all from Kalaiya district in Nepal. However, the
Kanpur train derailment incident is not the only one where Hoda has been
accused. He is an internationally linked criminal and has been a part of many
criminal activities in Nepal as well as India.
ASSEBLY POLLS & POLITICS
Triple talaq in one sitting
should lead to imprisonment: Zafar Sareshwala
Lucknow: Team Narendra
Modi's Muslim face and chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University
Zafar Sareshwala, who is on a 3-day tour of poll bound UP to feel the pulse of the electorate in general
and the Muslim community in particular, met top clerics of leading seminary
Nadwatul Ulema in Lucknow on Monday.Later, talking exclusively to TOI, he said
minorities no longer see BJP as their enemy. "Earlier, political rivals of
our PM Narendra Modi had tried to paint
him as an enemy of the minority community but people are not buying this notion
any longer," he said. Describing his meeting with the seminary's rector
Maulana Rabe Hasan Nadvi and Mualana Salman as a courtesy call, he said to have
discussed a host of issues relating to the minority community including
education, health and extent and impact of various schemes launched for empowerment
of Muslims.Taking a dig political parties out to woo Muslims by giving them
tickets and promising the community sops, he said, "Muslims will have to
understand they cannot continue being treated as statistics in govt schemes and manifestos of political parties.
They have to rise above issues and go for better education so that they can
claim their rights in the society on the grounds of their qualification rather
than sops," Sareshwala, who is holding a series of workshops titled
'Taleem O Tarbiyat' focusing on financial literacy among Muslims in
collaboration with the BSE and public sector banks starting with the inaugural
session at PM Modi's constituency of Varanasi, on Feb.19.The move is being seen
as another step in helping the minority community to keep abreast with the
advancement in financial sector and stay in sync with the latest in the sector.Recently,
Sareshwala's initiative towards modernisation of madarasas has yeilded results
with 10 such institutes being linked to virtual classes as a pilot project. Virtual
classes were introduced at Rasoolpura Madarsa Charagh-e-Uloom in Nati Imli
locality under the project. "People who resort to triple talaq in single
sitting should be imprisoned for violating the Sharia," he said. On the
raging controversy over minority status of AMU he said the issue can be taken
up with PM Modi by people concerned and can be sorted out through discussions.timesofindia
Centre's stand on triple
talaq uniting Muslims: Jilani
Muzzafarnagar: Babri Masjid
Action Committee convener Zafaryab Jilani claimed that the Centre's stand on
triple talaq has united Muslims in poll-bound UP. He sought to downplay
allegations that Samajwadi Party had not fielded enough Muslim candidates
saying Akhilesh Yadav is a rising brand in politics and because of this Muslims
would vote for the party and not on the basis of candidates from the community.
Senior Allahabad High Court advocate last evening claimed Muslims have united
on the Centre's stand on triple talaq. PTI
UP polls: Modi will
interfere with Muslim personal law, says Mayawati
UP polls: BJP tops list of
candidates with criminal cases in 1st phase
New Delhi;A report by UP Election Watch and Association of Democratic
Reforms has scrutinised self sworn affidavits of 836 out of 839 candidates
contesting in the first phase of UP Assembly polls on Feb.11. Report found details
about financial and criminal records of candidates. As far as candidates with
criminal records is concerned, 168 (20%) candidates have criminal cases registered
against them. Shockingly,a high 17% or 143 candidates have serious criminal
cases to their names. Breaking it down party wise, 29 out of 73 candidates from
the BJP declared criminal cases. From BSP, 28 out of 73 candidates declared
cases. Similarly, 19 out of 57 candidates from RLD, 15 out of 51 candidates
from Samjwadi Party, and 6 out of 24 from Congress, and 38 out of 293
Independent candidates have criminal cases. indianexpress
BJP accused of 'political
capital' as it raises controversial triple talaq issue ahead of UP polls: DailyMail
Triple Talaq fight gets
bizarre makeover in UP, now its a communal agenda, not for Muslim women’s
dignity
Riot-hit Muslims, disappointed
Jats, distressed farmers; a divided Muzaffarnagar all set for UP polls: Indian
Express
Malegaon blast cccused’s
son: Last polls, I campaigned for him, this time he will do it himself
Lucknow: Retired major Ramesh
Upadhyay, accused in the Malegaon blast case, is likely to visit his native
place Ballia to contest the Assembly polls from Bairia seat as an Independent
candidate. A Mumbai court had on Saturday granted three weeks’ interim relief
to Upadhyay — who is lodged in the city’s Taloja Central Jail — to contest and
campaign. indianexpress
Muslim vote holds the
balance in 1st phase of UP polls
New Delhi:Gearing up for
political battle in UP, Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party are eyeing
the Muslim vote in the 73 assembly seats that will go to the polls in the first
phase, on Feb.11.The party that takes the lead in the first leg will stay one
jump ahead of its rivals in the remaining 6 phases. Traditionally, the Muslims
of western UP have voted for the BSP while the Jats would stay with Ajit
Singh’s RLD.That social alliance was ruptured in the Lok Sabha elections of
2014, when the Jats voted for the BJP and the Muslims were divided between the
SP and BSP. Congress’s performance was below par.Both the SP-Congress alliance
and the BSP are attacking the BJP for trying to polarise the voters of western
UP. This was evident in the Rahul-Akhilesh road show in Agra and BSP chief
Mayawati’s rallies in the area. Businessstandard
Gujarat: WPI, new player in
state politics
Ahmedabad: Welfare Party of
India (WPI) that has grown out of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind will be testing the
political waters in Gujarat for the first time in the Dec. 2017 Assembly polls.
The party, which has set up its networks in Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, AP,
Telangana, West Bengal, Delhi and Assam, will be formally launched in Gujarat
during a function on Feb.12 at Ambedkar Hall in Saraspur. The function will be
attended by party’s vice-president Lalita Naik, national general secretary PC
Hamza and local political activists, including Raghunath Chhara, Surendrapal
Gautam and Rajubhai Solanki.Its national president SQR Ilyas said: “WPI will
certainly contest the 2017 Assembly polls.”However, he did not say how many
seats his party plans to contest. “We will discuss it with our local party unit
and decide seats from where the party will field its candidates,” he
said.Indian Express
BJP-led state gov targeting
one community in the name of eviction: Badruddin Ajmal
Guwahati: AIUDF chief and
MP Badruddin Ajmal has accused BJP-led state govt of being 'biased' by targeting a particular
community in the name of eviction from encroached govt lands in the state.Saying that his party is
never opposed to freeing govt land from encroachers, Ajmal said,"There are
proper procedures laid down for carrying out eviction drives on encroached
lands. The recent evictions were carried out without proper rehabilitation or
compensation packages in place," added Ajmal.AIUDF leader Aminul Islam
said even as govt records state that 23.3% of state's land is under
encroachment, authorities concerned are only targeting char lands (river
islands on Brahmaputra) and a particular community for carrying out eviction
drives. timesofindia
Mumbai civic polls: Shiv
Sena parachutes Hardik Patel to woo Gujarati votes, wean off growing BJP
influence:
Mumbai: In a major boost to
its campaign to win a fifth consecutive term at the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation,
Shiv Sena on Tuesday announced that leader of the Patidar community Hardik
Patel will campaign for the party in run-up to the crucial 21 Feb.polls to the
227-seat corporation. Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray also declared Patel to be
the face of the party in Gujarat for the forthcoming Assembly election.
Thackeray felicitates Patel at his residence at Bandra in Mumbai on Tuesday. Patel
addressed a joint press conference with Thackeray. firstpost
OTHERS
Human Development Index:
‘Gap remains between SCs, STs and other social groups’
New Delhi:Unemployment rate
has increased by more than 56% among Scheduled Castes, by 69% among Schedules
Tribe communities, and nearly 62% among
OBCs in the last 5 years, govt informed the Rajya Sabha on Monday.Overall
unemployment has increased by approximately 31 % over the same period, Minister of State for
Planning Rao Inderjit Singh said. In a written answer, Singh said,“There has
been improvement in the Human Development Indices of SCs and STs over the
years, even if the gap in the indices (still) remains between them and other
social groups”. He said the main reasons for this gap are “poverty, and its
vicious circle, illiteracy, dependence largely on wage labour, etc”.
“Unemployment rate for Scheduled Castes in 2011 was 3.2%. Today it has gone up
to 5%,” Singh said. “For STs, it was 2.6% (in 2011) and has gone to 4.4 % . Total
unemployment rate in the country has also gone up — it was 3.8% in July 2011,
and has become 5% today,” he said. Among the reserved categories, the “highest
incidence of unemployment today is of OBCs — it was 3.2% in 2011 and became 5.2 % in August 2016,” the minister said. indianexpress
Note ban led to rise in domestic
violence:MP crisis centre
Bhopal:The withdrawal of
high-denomination notes on the night of Nov.8 saw a sudden spike in instances
of domestic violence over the next few weeks when men realised that their wives
had saved money without their knowledge, an analysis of complaints at the
country’s first One Stop Crisis Centre (OSCC) in Bhopal has revealed.“Husbands
threatened their wives, beat them and warned them of consequences like jail
terms because they felt a loss of control over their wives,’’ said Sarika
Sinha, regional director of Action Aid, an NGO that runs the OSCC “Gauravi”, in
collaboration with the Public Health and Family Welfare department of the
Madhya Pradesh govt.“The wives used to save money in the past, too, but it
never came to light. Overnight, they became criminals in the eyes of their
husbands,’’ said Sinha, referring to some of the victims who approached the
OSCC in the govt -run J P Hospital in Shivaji Nagar. indianexpress
Maha OKs Rs 1cr for pilot
plan of measuring Wakf land
Mumbai: Maharashtra Govt today
approved release of a sum of Rs 1.08 crore for undertaking the pilot project of
measuring Wakf Board's land in the State. As a part of the pilot project, Pune
and Parbhani districts have been selected to undertake the measurement of Wakf
Board's land with the help of local revenue officers.The total cost of the
pilot project is Rs 2 crore, of which Rs 1.08 crore was sanctioned for release,
according to a Govt Resolution (GR) issued today. Govt has given a period of 6
months for commencement of the measurement drive, the GR stated. PTI
21 missing Keralites
instigating others to join IS:NIA
21 persons from Kerala who
went missing and were tracked to Afghanistan are currently active on the social
media trying to instigate others, sources in NIA tell OneIndia. All these
persons have been tracked to a camp at Jalalabad in Afghanistan,NIA sources
also say.These persons are suspected to have joined the IS in Afghanistan which
operates under the banner of the Wilayat Khorasan. Probe officials say that
these persons have not been on the battlefield since their entry into
Afghanistan through Iran.They have been tasked with bringing in more people
from India into Afghanistan. OneIndia News
8 from Tamil Nadu, 1 from
Telangana joined IS in Syria:NIA
Hyderabad: 9 persons -- 8
from Tamil Nadu and 1 from Telangana -- are believed to have joined the Islamic
State in 2016. NIA booked a fresh case to probe the matter on Jan.26, 2017. Central
agencies had interrogated 3 persons deported from Abu Dhabi for recruiting
Indian youngsters for ISIS. According to NIA's FIR registered this Republic Day
in Delhi and then Chennai, in Jan2016, NIA took custody of Sheikh Azhar Al
Islam Abdul Sattar Sheikh, Mohammed Farhan Mohammed Rafiq Shaikh and Adnan
Hussain Mohammed Hussain, who were working in Abu Dhabi on behalf of ISIS
"to identify, motivate, radicalise, recruit and train Indian citizens
located both in India and other countries for planning and executing terrorist
attacks in India and in other friendly countries". news indian express
Bhopal encounter: jailbreak probe panel term extended
Bhopal:State govt has extended the tenure of Justice SK Pandey
commission, which is probing into the jailbreak by SIMI men and their
subsequent hilltop encounter in Bhopal, by another 6 months.Constituted by the
state govt on Nov.7, 2016, the
commission was to submit its probe report in 3 months. However, as 3 months'
time was ending on Monday, the state govt extended its tenure in light of the
elaborate nature of the commission's work. Meanwhile has completed significant
part of its investigations. It has also directed the concerned parties to
appear for hearing on March 1. Representing the kin of 2 alleged SIMI men ---
Aqeel and Majid, advocate Parvez Alam said,"We have made our submissions
before the commission and now it has summoned us for hearing on March 1."
Sources said there are several unanswered questions that the commission is
probing like the source of weapons recovered from the possession of the alleged
SIMI men who were killed in the encounter.TOI
Judge probing Bhopal
jail-break says he has not resigned
Bohra community's deputy
in-command passes away
Mumbai:Syedi Husain
Bhaisaheb Husamuddin, who had been conferred with the title 'Mazoon-e-Dawat' -
the highest ranking official under the Dai, passed away today at his residence
'Saifee Mahal' here. According to the Islamic calender, he was 100.Born in
Gujarat, Syedi Husamuddin was the second son of the 51st Dai al-Mutlaq, Syedna
Taher Saifuddin. PTI
Haj 2017 application closed,
statewise Qurrah/Draw for pilgrim selection from March 14
Mumbai: Haj Committee of
India, the apex body responsible for Hajj operations in India, has stopped
receiving Haj Application Forms (HAF) for Haj 2017 as the last date of
application lapsed on Monday.The draw for pilgrim selection will be held by
respective Stat Haj Committees from March 14 to 21, 2017. The final dates of
each state will be announced soon. ummid
President to give best
university award to JNU
JNU which was critically
accused as the hub of anti-national elements in the recent past has bagged the
'Visitor's Award' this year for the best central university in the
country.Several BJP leaders, including ex-HRD Minister Smriti Irani, have
dubbed the university as the agent of terrorism, considering the sedition
charges levied against the students of JNU for protesting the execution of
Afzal Guru. indiatoday
Dalhousie Road renamed
after Dara Shikoh: Why Hindutva right wingers favour Aurangazeb's brother:
Indian Express
How a chancellor with RSS
links goes against Nalanda University's international character: Ravi Kumar
Earthquake jolts north
India, no casualties at epicentre Uttarakhand
Col Nizamuddin who drove
around Netaji dies at 116
WORLD
Syria hanged 13,000 in
Saydnaya prison: Amnesty
As many as 13,000 people
were hanged in 5 years at a notorious Syrian prison near Damascus, Amnesty
International has said, accusing the govt of a "policy of
extermination".Titled "Human Slaughterhouse: Mass hanging and
extermination at Saydnaya prison," Amnesty's damning report, released on
Tuesday, is based on interviews with 84 witnesses, including guards, detainees,
and judges.It found that at least once a week between 2011 and 2015, groups of
up to 50 people were taken out of their prison cells for arbitrary trials,
beaten, then hanged "in the middle of the night and in total
secrecy."The report said:"Throughout this process, they remain
blindfolded. They do not know when or how they will die until the noose was
placed around their necks." Most of the victims were civilians believed to
be opposed to govt of President Bashar al-Assad."They kept them [hanging]
there for 10 to 15 minutes," a former judge who witnessed the executions
said. "For the young ones, their weight wouldn't kill them. Officers' assistants
would pull them down and break their necks," he said. Amnesty said the
practice amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity, and were probaby
still taking place. Thousands of prisoners are held in the military-run
Saydnaya prison, one of the country's largest detention centres located 30km
north of Damascus. Aljazeera
Syria: 13,000 secretly
hanged in Saydnaya military prison
Assad’s slaughterhouse
defies description, but it’s horrifyingly real
Assad 'has secretly
executed 13,000 people'
Intense raids kill 26
people in Syria's Idlib
Dozens of people, including
civilians, have been killed in air strikes on the rebel-held Syrian city of
Idlib, according to several sources, in some of the most ferocious raids there
in months. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday that at least 26
people were killed and casualties were expected to rise as rescue workers
searched for bodies under the rubble."10 civilians, mostly women, are
among the dead," Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the group. aljazeera
ISIL fighters 'besieged' in
Syria's al-Bab in Aleppo
Syrian govt forces have advanced on ISIL-held city of
al-Bab, cutting off the last supply route that connects it to the armed group's
strongholds further east towards Iraq, according to a monitoring group.ISIL
fighters in the area are now effectively surrounded by the Syrian army from the
south and by Turkish-backed rebels from the north, as Damascus and Ankara race
to capture the largest stronghold of the armed group in Aleppo province, the
Observatory for Human Rights said. aljazeera
Israeli settlement law
'violates rights and dignity'
Ramallah - Palestinian
politicians and human rights groups are warning that a new law passed by
Israeli parliament violates international laws and is a step towards Israel
annexing the occupied West Bank. The so-called Regulation Law, passed on Monday
night, allows for the retroactive legalisation of about 4,000 homes built by
Jewish settlers on privately owned Palestinian land."Law sets a new legal
framework that implements Israeli political interest and puts it above international
humanitarian law,"Suhad Bishara, lawyer at Adalah legal centre for Arab
minority rights in Israel said.AlJazeera
Muslim groups say Trump’s
travel ban significantly harming their community
Washington:US President
Donald Trump’s travel ban on nationals from 7 Muslim-majority countries
inflicts “significant harm” on Muslim Americans, over half a dozen groups
representing the community have told a court, urging it to dismiss the
“unconstitutional” order. “Executive Order is an unconstitutional infringement
upon the rights of Muslims. It inflicts significant harm on the American Muslim
community and American Muslim professionals,” groups said in their legal brief
filed before US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.Prominent among the groups are
Muslim Advocates, American Muslim Health Professionals, Council for the
Advancement of Muslim Professionals, Islamic Medical Association of North
America, Muslim Urban Professionals, National Arab American Medical Association
and Network of Arab-American Professionals.PTI
Muslim names on CV hit job
chances in UK: Report
London:A Muslim sounding
name on the CV affects an applicant’s chances of being called in for a job
interview for managerial posts in the UK, a new report has claimed. Muslim men
are 76% less likely to be employed than their white Christian counterparts,
according to research by the Research Centre for Study of Ethnicity and
Citizenship at the University of Bristol. BBC teamed up with social scientists
at the university to examine discrimination at managerial level jobs by
submitting job applications for 100 sales jobs with two identical CVs with the
names “Adam” and “Mohamed”.PTI
Over 120 firms fighting
back against Trump's Muslim ban
Trump’s loose talk about
Muslims gets weaponized in court against travel ban
Saudi deports 39,000
Pakistanis in 4 months: Report
Riyadh:Some 39,000
Pakistani nationals have been deported from Saudi Arabia in the past four
months for visa violations even as a top security official has ordered a
“thorough scrutiny” of Pakistanis allowed in to the Kingdom amid concern that
some of them could be ISIS sympathisers.PTI
Saudi man tries to set
himself alight in Kabaa
'Shocking' sex crimes in church:
4,444 children 'abused' by Australian Catholic priests: aljazeera
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/02/scale-catholic-church-sex-crimes-revealed-170206135244774.html
About 7% of Catholic
priests in Australia were accused of sexually abusing children between 1950 and
2010, but few allegations were investigated, an inquiry in Sydney has heard. Scathing
figures, released as hearings began on Monday over the allegations dating back
decades, were compiled with the cooperation of the church as part of the Royal
Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.It, Australia's
highest level of inquiry, reported 4444 alleged incidents of sexual abuse by Catholic
priests between 1980 and 2015.
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