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‘Myanmar
military, Buddhists killed my husband for not participating in killing, ousting
Rohingya Muslims, says Rohingya Hindu woman: Who really attacked Hindus in
Rakhine? Dhaka Tribune report
Among the half million Rohingya refugees who
have come to Bangladesh, only a handful of them are Hindus. In their statements
to many journalists and authorities, these people have described suffering
horrors of slaughter and arson just like their Muslim neighbours.In particular,
Rohingya refugees from the Hindu neighbourhood of Fakirabazar in Maungdaw,
described how masked assailants clad in black had shot and stabbed people and
dumped the bodies in holes in the ground. Over the last week and a half,
however, some of the statements have begun to change.Hindus, who are mostly
gathered in a separate camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, have started to blame
“militant Muslims” for attacks on the Hindus. Last week, a group of Rohingya
women told AFP they were Hindus, brought forcibly to the Kutupalong refugee
camp in Bangladesh by a group of men and told to convert to Islam. A reporter
from Indian news magazine India Today also found a woman from this group. She
claimed to have been forced to perform namaz and wear a burqa.Reuters reports
that in late August, a group of Hindu Rohingya women had told them it was
Rakhine Buddhists who attacked them. But later on, 3 of them changed their
statements to say the attackers were Rohingya Muslims, who brought them here
and told them to blame the Buddhists.Myanmar Govt on Sept. 27 announced it had found a mass grave of
Hindus near Fakirabazar, where at least 45 corpses of local Hindus were buried.
A group of local and foreign journalists were flown to the spot by the Myanmar
army and shown decomposing skeletal bodies laid out in rows on a field outside
the village, as distraught relatives wailed nearby.Myanmar Army blamed Arakan
Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) for this slaughter. Journalists have no access
to Rakhine state outside of these official visits and cannot verify any of the
official claims.The same day, Rakhine state Govt urged Hindu refugees who fled
to Bangladesh to return, promising they will be cared for in Sittwe, according
to reports in Myanmar media.This correspondent visited the camp of Rohingya
Hindus in Ukhiya and found them sheltered in a chicken farm and makeshift
houses beside a Hindu temple. The majority of them were from the villages of
Chikanchhari, Fakirabazar and Balibazar in Maungdaw.The refugees said they had
fled to save their lives from a group of people clad in black, whom they called
“Kala Party” (Black Party). They believed these people were Rohingya Muslims.A
number of Hindu refugees while arriving in Bangladesh had told the media that
they had lost their fathers and husbands at the hands of Myanmar army for their
reluctance to partake in Muslim killing in Rakhine.Expectant mother Anika Dhar,
18, escaped to Bangladesh and found shelter at Kutupalong’s Hindu camp with 77
other families. Her husband Milon was shot dead by the Myanmar army on Aug.27.Cox’s
Bazar Correspondent for New Age Mohammad Nurul Islam said:“They arrived in
Bangladesh with the Muslim refugees and told us that the Buddhists had attacked
them. We have audio records of their speeches.” “Myanmar military and Buddhists
killed my husband for not participating in killing and ousting Rohingya
Muslims,” Anika Dhar, a pregnant Hindu housewife, had told the Daily New Age in
late Aug.She also told a senior journalist with the Reuters TV that she had
taken shelter in a Muslim village after her husband was killed and came to
Bangladesh with them. Another woman, Padma Bala, who arrived in Bangladesh on
August 30, told the same journalist: “Moghs [Rakhine] are cutting us up.”
Reuters journalist is still in possession of the audio recording.Many Rohingya
Hindus have said they received support from Muslim neighbours in escaping the
army’s persecution.“Kala Party with arms, bombs and lethal weapons confined us
to our houses for 5 consecutive days. We managed to escape the confinement with
a Muslim neighbour’s help,” Arimahan Rudra told the Dhaka Tribune.According to
him there were 607 Hindus in the camp. “We, the Hindus and Muslims, have been
living together more than a hundred years in our village. The differences in our
religious faiths did not create any trouble,” said Hashu Mia, a Muslim refugee
from Fakirabazar village, now in Kutupalong.“After coming to Bangladesh, I met
one of my Hindu neighbours in Kutupalong bazar last week. He was the first to
recognise me here. He embraced me tightly and we cried,” he said.However, some
Rohingya Muslims say some members of the Hindu community had sided with the
army and Rakhine militia since the violence erupted.“Hindus are collaborating
with the army and Moghs in Muslim killing. They helped them in looting and
torching Muslim houses as they know the localities well,” said Abdus Salam,
another Rohingya refugee from Fakirabazar.“The relation between Hindus and
Muslims has significantly deteriorated over a month,” he told the Dhaka
Tribune.Many Rohingya Muslims think this is Myanmar’s long-term plan, a classic
divide and rule strategy, to create anger and hatred between the two religious
groups among the Rohingya.Rohingya insurgent group ARSA has strongly denounced
the allegations brought by the Myanmar army.“ARSA categorically denies that any
of its member of combatants perpetrated murder, sexual violence, or forcible
recruitment in the village of Fakirabazar, Riktapur and Chikonchhari in
Maungdaw on or about 25 Aug.,” the statement issued on Wednesday said.Rohingya
refugees say that since ARSA’s attack, the Myanmar army started a deadly
crackdown and killed hundreds of villagers regardless of their religious
identities.“Army is playing a game. Buddhists and Govt agents attacked Hindu
villages so that they can justify the military crackdown targeted on Muslim
eradication,” Mohammad Ayes, who enrolled himself in ARSA in Aug, told the
Dhaka Tribune.Mohammad Ayes, who joined ARSA a few days before the insurgent
attacks, said the Govt used the conflict
between the Hindus and Muslims, and take side of the Hindus as they were
working for them.Ayes argued that since the ARSA combatants do not have any
dress code, they do not need to hide their identity with black masks.“Whoever
uses masks, it means they want to hide their identities and commit atrocities.
It is a conspiracy against the Rohingya Muslims to prove that what the army is
doing is legal and necessary,”“If Hindus were really attacked by the Muslims,
would they not be afraid to escape with the Muslims to get shelter in
Bangladesh?” he asked.Another ARSA member who claimed to be a Jimmadar
(commander) told the Dhaka Tribune through a messaging app that the corpses the
Myanmar army found could be any Rohingya.“Now they are showing those bodies and
forcing the Hindu people to cry in front of the bodies and say that those
corpses were their relatives,” he said.“UN bodies and others are trying to
enter Rakhine state to investigate what atrocities were done by the military.
So they buried the bodies of Rohingya. If any investigation is carried out the
military will be accused for sure. So to destroy the evidence they are posing
Muslim bodies as Hindu bodies,” the militant said.Several refugees, when asked
whether they had heard about Rakhine state Govt ’s invitation to the Hindus to
return and stay in Sittwe, said they did not feel safe in Myanmar and wanted to
go to India.“I would feel at peace in India. In Myanmar we will never feel
safe,” a woman said.
Who really attacked Rohingya Hindus in Myanmar?
Rohingya Muslims can't be allowed in India,
says Bhaiyyaji Joshi: RSS leader raises national security issue
Raipur: RSS general secretary Suresh Bhaiyyaji
Joshi said on Sunday that Rohingya migrants escaping a military crackdown in
Myanmar cannot be allowed to stay in India as they may pose a threat to the
country's security.Joshi also said that the protection of cows was not a
religious matter, but an economic issue as cattle are the basis of India's
agriculture and economy.He, however, warned the groups taking the law into
their hands that stern action will be taken against them. "Rohingya
Muslims illegally migrated into the country from Myanmar. Hindus were killed
there... We read that people from Myanmar have reached J&K and set up camps there and now demanding
amenities there," Joshi said.PTI
Rohingyas in Haryana don’t want to go back to
Myanmar
Majeri: Dispossessed and poor, and living
lives of misery and squalor in a 100 square yard area in Majeri, Haryana, is
preferable to going back to their original homes in Myanmar for 250 Rohingya
Muslim refugees.Atif Hussain,43, is one of them, and is candid in admitting
that he entered India at midnight with the help of agents when security on
borders in both India and Myanmar was lax.“I came to India to escape from
certain death. I have no doubt I would have been killed. I don’t want to go
back to Myanmar,” Hussain told ANI.He, however, says he has no qualms about
being deported to Myanmar, but demands that India ensures safe passage and
guarantees their well being.“We don’t want to be killed there,” he pleads.ANI
RSS' Muslim wing says Rohingya not welcome,
wants grand temple in Ayodhya
RSS-affiliated Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM)
would give a call for pushing Rohingya Muslims out of India and pitch for
construction of a grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya at an event in UP on Oct 4.RSS national executive member Indresh
Kumar is its chief patron.MRM has chosen Saharanpur in BJP-ruled UP to hold what it calls the 'Paigam-i-Aman'
conclave from where the message would be loud and clear.Minority Affairs and
Waqf minister of UP , Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary, would be the chief guest at the
event.According to top sources in the Manch, 4 resolutions would be passed at
the conclave: on modernisation of madrasas; cow slaughter and lynching;
Rohingya Muslims; and on Ram temple in Ayodhya."We support the stand taken
by the Centre in the Rohingya matter. We have seen throughout history that
those who have come as guests stayed put and from tenants turned into owners.
Bangladeshi immigrants are a case in point. They came as refugees, but are now
a national problem. While they came as refugees, these Rohingyas are coming as
Muslims which is not acceptable. Rohingyas will become a problem for our
posterity," MRM national convenor Mohammad Afzal told DNA."The Muslim
society must not be moved because Rohingyas are also Muslims. They must be
turned away whether or not they are terrorists," he added.UP minister,
meanwhile, is also expected to take stock of the modernisation of the madrasas
as envisioned by PM Modi. dnaindia
No mosque near Ram Temple, says Ayodhya priest
Ram Vilas Vedanti
New Delhi: Mahant Ram Vilas Vedanti, ex-BJP
legislator and ex-chair of the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas, on Monday turned down a
suggestion to construct a mosque on 67-acre plot of land near the makeshift Ram
Temple in UP’s Ayodhya.Vedanti, who claims he played a pivotal role in bringing
down the Mughal-era mosque on Dec.6, 1992, was speaking at a conference
organised by Pune’s MIT World Peace University to discuss ways of finding an
amicable solution to the long-standing religious dispute.While members of the
conference pitched the idea of constructing places of worship to all religions,
including a mosque, within the 67-acre campus, Vedanti was adamant about the
construction of a temple on the 2.7 acre where the structure stands.Vedanti is
among the 13 people, including senior BJP leader LK Advani, who has been
accused by the Central Bureau of Investigation of conspiring to bring down the
16th-century mosque.He pointed out that the mosque should be built in Muslim-dominated
areas of Faizabad -twin city of Ayodhya.“We want an amicable settlement of the
issue. Mosque, however, cannot come up at 67-acre campus. That land belonged to
the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas and was taken over by Union Govt headed by [exPM]
Narasimha Rao. We demand that land is restored to the Nyas,” he told HT on the
sidelines of the conference.Nyas is a trust that is committed to building a Ram
temple at a disputed religious site.He was, however, open to the suggestion of
building boarding, educational, and health facilities within the campus.He also
asserted that the structure that was brought down in 1992 was “not a mosque” as
it had “no minaret, but idols and remnants of a temple.”“Only some Sunnis, who
are acting on the instruction of terrorists, don’t want this to be solved. Mir
Baqi, the lieutenant of Babar (Mughal ruler), who was sent to demolish the
temple was a Shia; his community now wants a temple at the site. Recently, some
Shia groups sent trucks of construction materials for the temple,” he said.HT
Let Ayodhya be melting pot, says Mahant
Vedanti
BHU VC Girish Chandra Tripathi goes on leave
New Delhi: BHU V-C Girish Chandra Tripathi
went on leave on Monday citing personal reasons, according to varsity sources.
Tripathi and BHU Registrar did not respond to calls and an SMS left by this
reporter. As first reported by Indian Express on Sept.28, Govt had sounded out
V-C on the option of going on leave.Tripathi is learnt to have put in his
application on Monday, less than two months before he retires as head.V-C had
been at the centre of a firestorm over his alleged mishandling of protests by
women students over an incident of alleged sexual harassment on campus and
several cases of alleged institutional bias against women. As per the BHU Act,
if the university head goes on leave, the Rector will act as the head and, in
the Rector’s absence, the university Registrar will assume charge as V-C.
Tripathi’s replacement, till he is on leave, has to be decided by HRD Ministry.Govt
has already expedited its search for his successor. Last week, university
uploaded an advertisement on its website seeking applications for V-C’s post
over the next one month.Indian Express
Selection procedure in line with AMU’s unique character:VC
New Delhi:The appointment procedure of AMU’s
V-C has worked well for the institution and its unique character, incumbent
head Tariq Mansoor said. He was reacting to a Govt audit of the university, which recently
recommended that AMU’s selection process of its V-C should be tweaked to align
with the procedure followed by other Central universities. “It (V-C appointment
at AMU) is keeping in view the unique character and autonomy of our institution.
This is laid down in the AMU Act, which was passed by Parliament,” he said. “It
has worked very well (for AMU). Eminent persons have been appointed as
vice-chancellors in the past – Hamid Ansari and Saiyid Hamid to name a
few.”Unlike other Centrally funded varsities, AMU has a unique process to
select its head.University’s Executive Council shortlists a panel of five
candidates from received applications and forwards it to the AMU Court, which,
in turn, selects three names and sends the list to HRD Ministry. The President
then appoints one out of the three finalists.UGC audit report has also flagged
the culture of “inbreeding” in AMU, which, it observed, had affected the
diversity in faculty appointments. Objecting to this recommendation, Mansoor
said, “There is no rule in any other university such as Delhi University, BHU,
Jamia Millia (Islamia) or JNU that bars students of the same university for
faculty recruitment. If he is the best candidate, why can he not be eligible?”
“I don’t agree with the diversity point either. Our university has a historical
character just like Jamia Millia, BHU… We have members of every caste and every
religion, whether it is teachers, students or non-teaching staff. If you look
at the medical faculty, we have 40% non-Muslim teachers… There is
diversity.”“As far as national character is concerned, the university selects
the candidate on merit and on basis of an all-India advertisement. We advertise
vacancies in all national newspapers. Only those candidates who satisfy UGC norms
are selected.”Asked specifically about the audit’s observation that UGC norms
seem to have been violated in faculty recruitment, he said, “If there are any
individual cases, those have to be examined, but we cannot generalise.” indianexpress
AMU VC disputes UGC's 'inbreeding' charge
Taj Mahal dropped from UP govt's tourism
booklet
New Delhi: Taj Mahal, one of the Seven modern
Wonders of the World, has been omitted from UP Govt 's booklet aimed to promote
tourist spots in the state. 32-booklet, which has the famed Ganga aarti as its cover
image, has been printed to promote the tourist spots in UP, but surprisingly
the most prominent and popular one is missing. Timesofindia
FESTIVALS, VIOLENCE & INCIDENTS
Communal clashes erupt in Kanpur during Tazia
procession, 30 injured
Kanpur:Communal clashes at 2 places in Kanpur
left nearly 30 people, including five policemen, injured while nearly 10
vehicles and four shops were either set afire or ransacked.The situation in
Param Purwa was partially under control whereas in Rawatpur, people of the two
communities were reportedly firing at each other besides fighting a pitched
battle with the cops.Trouble began when a Tazia procession — commemorating the
death of Imam Hussein ibn Ali, grandson of prophet Muhammad — took a different
route instead of the permitted one.It was supposed to take a U-turn from
Jhandewala crossing but went straight through a pocket where another procession
for Hindu goddess Durga’s idol immersion was being taken.Tempers flared quickly
and the two sides clashed, pelting stones at each other. Anti-social elements
torched a police vehicle, ransacked a police outpost and shops and set afire 5
two-wheelers in the area.Police fired tear gas shells to disperse the mob but
were attacked with stones and bricks, leaving them injured.In Rawatpur, the
organisers of Ram Baraat refused to allow the Tazia procession on Saturday
night.As the issue was being resolved on Sunday morning, bricks were thrown
from a temple on police teams involved in negotiations. Police then resorted to
baton charge on the crowd.SP (south) Ashok Verma and 4 other policemen were
injured in Parampurwa while SP (west) Gaurav Grover was hit by bricks in
Rawatpur.SSP Sonia Singh said trouble-makers were being identified through
video footage and tough action would be taken. 2 police officers, Kalyanpur
circle officer Rajnish Verma, Kalyanpur SHO BP Singh, were suspended for
negligence in their response to the clashes.HT
Kanpur communal violence: DSP suspended, DM
orders probe; paramilitary forces deployed in affected areas
Day after clash, sec 144 in 2 police station
areas of Kanpur
Muharram: Communal clash breaks out in
Ballia’s Sikandarpur, 6 injured
Varanasi:6 people were injured and 4 two-wheelers
set on fire when people of 2 communities clashed following rumours of stone
pelting on a Tazia procession brought out during Muharram in UP’s Ballia on
Sunday evening, police said. According to police the communal clash erupted
when Tazias were passing from Jalpa Chowk near Rasidia Masjid at the district’s
Sikandarpur town.As the rumour of stone pelting on the procession spread, two
communities confronted each other and hurled brickbats.In the muddle,
unidentified anti-social elements attacked people with sharp-edged weapons,
injuring 6. They also set on fire 2 bikes and 2 bicycles.hindustantimes
Police book 60 VHP, Bajrang Dal members for
firing in the open near Agra fort: scroll
Agra Police registered a FIR against 60
members of the VHP and Bajrang Dal for engaging in “celebratory firing” as part
of Dussehra festivities on Saturday, HT reported.29 people were named in the
report, as the rest are still being identified, police said. The incident took
place at a temple near the Agra Fort, a popular tourist attraction. The groups,
which had guns, pistols and swords, allegedly also shouted slogans against
other communities and sought a Ram temple in Ayodhya.“The way the firing was
done in the open, at a venue so close to a tourist spot, Agra Fort, makes the
matter serious and calls for action,” Agra SP Kunwar Anupam Singh told the
Hindustan Times. Those responsible for making inflammatory religious remarks and
firing in the open will be identified based on photographs and videos, he
added. Singh said that gun licences of those who are found to have broken the
law would be cancelled.
Tension in Ghaziabad area after video of
temple firing
Ghaziabad:Hours after a video of at least a dozen
people opening fire, apparently from the premises of a temple in Ghaziabad’s
Masuri area, went viral, a police case was registered against unknown persons
for breaching conditions of their arms licence.The incident, believed to be a
‘show of strength’ on the occasion of Dussehra, has led to tension in Masuri,
which has a large population of Muslims and where communal clashes 5 years ago
had led to 6 deaths.“An FIR has been registered under Section 30 of Arms Act
(punishment for contravention of licence or rule) against 25-30 unknown persons
on the basis of a complaint given by a police chowki in-charge. We are going
through video footage of the incident and identifying people. No person was
injured but the act was a violation of the Arms Act,”said Satyendra Prakash
Singh, SHO, Masuri police station, Ghaziabad.The incident allegedly took place
at Dasna Devi temple — located around 4 km from Masuri police station — between
11 am and noon on Saturday, police said. Some locals claimed similar firing on
Dussehra takes place every year.A resident who lives near Bilal Masjid in
Masuri questioned the intent behind the firing. “This area has seen communal
violence in the past, and it is very sensitive. This kind of show of strength,
with several rounds of bullets being fired, is aimed at increasing communal
tension here,” the resident alleged. Indianexpress
Communal riots break out in Vadodara during
Tazia processions, 2 injured in police firing
Vadodara: Communal riots broke out in Panigate
area of the city late on Sunday night during the Tazia immersions, leaving some
cops and three civilians injured. The police had to open fire at the rioters
who went beserk after 2 communities clashed with each right near the Panigate
police station. About 10 persons have been arrested and many more booked by the
Panigate police for rioting and stone pelting.The incident occurred when a
Tazia procession was passing from the Panigate police station road."Some
of the members in the procession were showing aggression and wielding sticks.
Soon it sparked tension among the locals and those participating in the
procession, leading to stone pelting," said a senior police
official."It seemed to be pre-planned. Some residents of Ektanagar, who
participated in the procession, have enmity with Bavchavad residents. They
tried to create tension near Bavchavad but we had tight police security there.
So when the procession reached Panigate police station, some participants
showed aggression and it snowballed into riots," the police official
added.The cops soon hurried the Tazia procession out from the area and then
tried to disperse the mob. timesofindia
2 injured in police firing during Muharram in
Vadodara
Bihar: Stone pelting sparks communal tension
in Jamui
Patna/Munger:Tension prevailed in Jamui town
after a 9-year-old boy from a majority community was injured in stone pelting
when an idol immersion procession was taken out on Saturday. In retaliation,
members of majority community attacked a Muharram procession in Masaurhi Chowk
locality of the town on Sunday. The district administration has put idol
immersion and Muharram processions on hold in the town following the twin clashes.Jamui
SDPO Nisar Ahmed said trouble started when some anti-social elements pelted
those participating in two idol immersion processions with stones in Khaira Mor
and Masaurhi Chowk areas of the town on Saturday. “The stones were being pelted
from terraces of some houses. A nine-year-old boy was injured in stone pelting
at Khaira Mor,” SDPO said, adding Sashastra Seema Bal and STF personnel have
been deployed in the town to avoid any untoward incident.SDPO said DM Kaushal
Kishore and SP Jayant Kant are camping in the town to bring the situation under
control. In another incident, a Muharram procession was allegedly attacked at
Baruraj in Muzaffarpur district on Sunday. SHO of Baruraj police station Pramod
Kumar said members of the minority community were pelted with stones. “Security
has been tightened in the area in view of the clash,”SHO added.TOI
Bihar: Tragedy strikes Muharram processions, 4
electrocuted, 27 hurt as Tazias hit power cables
Bhagalpur: 4 persons were killed and 27
injured when high tension electric wires snapped and fell on Muharram
processions after coming in contact with Tazias (replica of tomb of Husain, the
martyred son of Prophet Muhammad, carried during the procession) at 2 villages
of Bhagalpur district in east Bihar late on Sunday evening. 2 persons were
killed and 20 injured in the first incident at Machipur village in Lodhipur
police station area on the outskirts of Bhagalpur, 190 km east of Patna. The
deceased have been identified as Mohammad Kamran and Mohammad Anzar. 2 other
persons - Mahmood and Imtiyaz - died and 7 others suffered burn injuries in the
second incident at Milki village in Naugachia subdivision of the district. Hindustantimes
Dalit man beaten to death for attending garba
event in Gujarat, 8 booked
Ahmedabad:A 21-year-old Dalit man was
allegedly beaten to death by a group of men belonging to the upper caste Patel
community for attending a garba event in Gujarat’s Anand district in the early
hours on Sunday, police said.The incident took place around 4 am.Jayesh
Solanki, cousin Prakash Solanki and two other Dalit men were sitting near a
house adjacent to a temple in Bhadrania village when a person made “derogatory
remarks about their caste”, police said quoting a complaint filed in connection
with the incident.The accused said Dalits “do not have any right to watch
garba. He made casteist remarks and asked some men to come to the spot”, an
officer at the Bhadran police station said.The upper caste men allegedly
thrashed the Dalits and banged Jayesh’s head against a wall, the officer
said.PTI
‘Ram’
calls BJP leader ‘Ravana’, refuses to burn effigy
Jaipur:Hundreds of people flock to watch
Ramleela organised by the municipal council in Rajasthan’s Sirohi town on
Dussehra, a Hindu festival that marks the victory of good over evil, every
year.This year, however, there was a twist in the tale.The actor portraying the
role of Lord Ram refused to shoot the arrow to burn the effigy of Ravana during
Ramleela, the popular drama that enacts the Hindu deity’s battle to kill the
10-headed demon king to rescue his wife Sita.Instead, Manoj Kumar Mali, actor portraying
the Hindu god, called BJP mandal president in Sirohi, Suresh Sagarvanshi, the
demon king. “Actual Ravana is sitting on the stage, politicising every issue.
Given this scenario, Lord Ram has to return disappointed,”said Mali.He alleged
that the committee presided over by Sagarvanshi gets more money as a grant from
the municipal council than all the other committees.The organisers and
politicians were left in a tough spot after Mali along with around 100 people
from his group, portraying the roles of various gods, goddesses and the Vanar
Sena or the army of monkeys, walked out of show shouting slogans against the organizers.HT
OTHERS
We should remove secularism, socialism from
Constitution: Govindacharya
Estranged RSS ideologue KN Govindachrya likes
to call himself a ‘former’ RSS Swayamsevak, but those who know the RSS say no
one becomes a ‘former’ in RSS.Govindacharya has never left RSS’ cause
throughout his political career. Even though he does not hold any official post
in any of the right wing organisations, he enjoys considerable clout among
right wing ideologues.Once a powerful general secretary of the BJP,
Govindacharya had floated Rashtriya Swabhiman Andolan to fulfil his vision of
‘Bharat’. In an interview with National Herald, the 74-year-old ‘former’ RSS
pracharak says that the concept of secularism is a western import and it should
be removed from the Constitution as early as possible.Recently, RSS chief Mohan
Bhagwat said that the Constitution should be amended. In 2016, you said that you
would rewrite the Constitution to reflect Bharatiyata. Is there any
co-relation?nationalheraldindia
Kerala CM lashes out at RSS chief for remarks
on minorities
http://www.ptinews.com/news/9117310_Kerala-CM-lashes-out-at-RSS-chief-for-remarks-on-minorities.html
New Delhi: Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan has lashed out at RSS chief
Mohan Bhagwat, saying that Keralites did not need any advice on nationalism
from those who had turned their back towards the freedom struggle and served
the colonial rulers.Vijayan, inaugurating 2017-19 Delhi Union of the Kerala
Union of Working Journalists(KUWJ),said that RSS considered religious
minorities as an "internal threat" to the country.He also said that
the RSS chief's allegation that the state Govt was supporting anti-national elements was a
challenge to each Keralite and to Kerala society as a whole.Bhagwat, at a
Vijayadashmi celebration in Nagpur in Maharashtra, had said that in the
Left-ruled Kerala and Mamata-ruled West Bengal, "jihadi and anti-
national" forces were at work and the Govt s there were not only
indifferent but at times lending a helping hand to them to "appease"
a section of the voters for "petty political interests". Rejecting
RSS chief's remarks, Vijayan has said, "It is a known fact that communal
forces play a major role in disturbing the political atmosphere of Kerala. But
certain media houses hide this fact and blame the progressive movements and
organisations of the state."PTI
Anti-national remark by RSS challenge to
Keralites: CM
Muslim body ‘socially’ boycotts Manipur Deputy
CM
Imphal:Manipur Muslim Welfare Organisation
(MMWO) has announced to “socially” boycott Manipur Deputy CM Yumnam Joykumar for not taking action against
his son Yumnam Devjit over Facebook post controversy.Last month, Yumnam Devjit
Singh had reportedly posted on his Facebook saying the practice of ‘Kurbani’
(slaughter of animals) during Muslim festivals as “practicing to kill human
beings”.Speaking to media persons today at its office located at Hatta in
Imphal, MMWO vice president KM Boboy announced that the Muslim community in
Manipur has “socially” boycotted Deputy CM Yumnam Joykumar. He added that boycott will
remain as long as Deputy CM does not take action against his son.morungexpress
Ajmal Kasab’s hanging felt like a stone on my
head for two, 3 days: Rtd IPS Meeran Borwankar
Meeran Chadha Borwankar who retired on
Saturday after 36 years of police service, spoke to The Indian Express about
her career — from the police officer Haseena Bano wanted transferred to
handling Sanjay Dutt’s incarceration in Pune and the hangings of Ajmal Kasab
and Yakub Memon. Borwankar said, "I
thought I would be relieved after Kasab’s hanging, but actually it felt like a
stone on my head for 2-3 days. I had switched off my mobile before I entered
the prison. My children had no idea what was happening. No one knew. The prison
manual has a drill. You have to take the height, weight, measurements of the
person to be hanged and make sand bag replicas according to that. Then you have
to practise the hanging so that it is painless. The first time I saw this
exercise, I got a severe headache. I could not take it. Also, before the
hanging, I had to do a lot of talking to myself — that I was just doing my duty
and I should not feel guilty. You only justify to yourself by saying that the
due process of law has been followed. It is not as though some injustice has
happened…. I now feel people involved in hangings should be counselled. “The
biggest challenge in Ajmal Kasab’s case was the secrecy. Former Deputy CM and then Home Minister R R Patil Sir was very
emphatic about this.”indian express
Gauri Lankesh case: SIT has got clues, says
Karnataka Home Minister
Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy Monday
claimed the Special Investigation Team probing the killing of senior Kannada
journalist Gauri Lankesh has got clues and is in the process of gathering
evidence. Gauri Lankesh, known to be an anti-establishment voice with strident
anti-right wing views, was shot dead at close range by unknown assailants at
her home here on the night of Sept. 5.“We have got clues, but we cannot tell
things to the media for now, because we should have correct evidence for the
clues we have got,” he told reporters at Chikkaballapura.He said “If there are
no proper evidence when we file a charge sheet at the court, it won’t stand. So
we are trying to collect the evidence correctly…Our SIT is working towards
gathering evidence.”PTI
Dhinakaran booked, 10 held for distribution of
pamphlets with ‘derogatory’ remarks against PM Modi, Palaniswamy
Salem :Sidelined AIADMK leader T T V
Dhinakaran was today booked and 10 of his supporters were held in connection
with distribution of pamphlets allegedly containing defamatory remarks against PM
Narendra Modi and Tamil Nadu CM K Palaniswami here. Ex-MLA Venkatachalam and
local AIADMK functionary Saravanan were among the 10 arrested on the basis of a
complaint filed by one Vinayakam, alleging that the accused were found
distributing the pamphlets among the public outside a hall, where Palaniswami
was holding a meeting with senior officials yesterday.PTI
3 years of Swachh Bharat: 2.5 lakh villages
declared open defecation free, but 1.5 lakh claims not verified
As many as 49.62 million more households in
India have toilets–rising from 38.7% in 2014 to 69.04% in 2017–and 250,000 of
India’s 649,481 villages have been declared free of open defecation, but the
claims of 150,000 (63%) of these villages have not been verified and there is
no way of knowing if the rest are using the new toilets.These are the conclusions
of an IndiaSpend analysis–of Govt data–of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India
Mission), which was inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi on Oct. 2, 2014, with the aim to make India free of
open defecation by Oct. 2, 2019. hindustantimes
Kuwait releases 22 Indian prisoners, commutes
sentences of 97 others
Dubai: Emir of Kuwait has freed 22 Indian
prisoners and commuted the sentences of 97 others lodged in the Arab country’s
jails, according to India’s Embassy in Kuwait City.The list containing the
names of 119 Indians is addition to the 15 Indian prisoners whose death
sentences were recently commuted to life imprisonment.The Indian prisoners in
Kuwait covered by the Amiri pardon include 22 people who have been ordered to
be released immediately, Embassy of India in Kuwait City said in a
statement.Sentences of 53 Indians have been reduced from life imprisonment to
20 years, it said.PTI
Act as protectors, not predators: Gujarat high
court
Ahmedabad: Gujarat high court has advised the
police to act like guardians and protectors, and not predators on lovebirds who
are from different religions.A bench of Justice Abhilasha Kumari and Justice A
J Shastri frowned upon the police authorities of Kheda district for taking side
of one community and targeting the boy and his family. The bench was
"quite disturbed" at knowing that the boy's family was targeted and
the house was vandalized even after the high court ordered protection for
them.The police officials separated the couple forcibly and send the girl to
women shelter home at the behest of her family members and neighbours. This led
the judges to say, "Police should act as guardians and protectors, not as
predators."The case pertains to Vavdi village near Nadiad, where a Muslim
boy and a Hindu girl, who is studying in 4th year of physiotherapy, decided to
get married amid strong objection from the girl's family and neighbours. When
they applied for registration of their marriage, communal tension spread in the
village. The couple went into hiding. The youth's house was vandalized and his
family was forced to leave the village. The court ordered Kheda district SP to
ensure protection for the couple and the youth's family. timesofindia
PFI
accuses Centre of vilification for taking stand against Sangh Parivar
ideology
New Delhi: Popular Front of India (PFI) has
accused the centralGovt of repression and tarnishing its image as a consequence
of its "consistent stand" against the "fascist ideology of Sangh
Parivar".PFI was formed in 2006 as a successor to National Democratic
Front (NDF) in the form of a federation. It is constituted of Karnataka Forum
for Dignity (KFD) [Karnataka], NDF, and Manitha Neethi Pasarai (MNP) [Tamil
Nadu]."The attempts are being made by using certain agencies under the
control of the central Govt and aim at tarnishing the image of the
organisation," PFI said."Certain sections of the media are playing up
to this plot by pro-actively stamping the 'terrorism tag' based on some allegedly
leaked NIA reports. This vilification campaign is seen as an attempt to create
a stereotype amongst people to later justify the repression," it
added.According to the group, the alleged NIA report referred to two local
cases in Kerala and neither "can be quoted as terrorism". "In
one case, the trial court found that neither PFI as an organisation nor its
leadership are involved and, in the other case, Kerala High Court has quashed
UAPA sections and the Supreme Court refused to admit any appeals by NIA to set
aside the Kerala High Court order," it said.IANS
Waqf Board may be re-constituted in a month,
indicates Delhi Govt
New Delhi:The process to re-constitute the
Delhi Waqf Board, which was dissolved last year, has begun and the seven-member
panel might be formed in the next one month, a Govt official said today. The issue was raised at a
meeting of the Delhi Assembly’s Minority Welfare Committee, headed by AAP MLA
and former Waqf Board chairman Amanatullah Khan.“The committee was told that the
new board could come up in the next one month,” said the official. The process
would be launched by publishing a list of the Mutawalli (managers of Waqf
property) voters. These 48 voters would elect one of the four members of the
board, he added.The Waqf Board comprises four elected and three nominated
members. Delhi Govt nominates a social
activist, an Islamic scholar and one of its officials as members to it. The
elected members are those chosen by the Mutawallis and the Bar Council, besides
an MP and an MLA. The board, which looks after the Waqf properties in Delhi,
had been a bone of contention between the ruling AAP and the office of the
LG.PTI
Ram Sewak, Mangli arrested for cow slaughter in UP
Gonda (up);2 persons have been arrested for
their alleged role in cow slaughtering at Bhatpurwa village in Katra Bazar
leading to tension in the area, police said today.Ram Sewak and Mangli have
been booked under the stringent NSA, they said. According to police, the duo
took away the cow belonging to Ganesh Prasad Dixit from the latter’s house on
Sunday and slaughtered the animal in a nearby field, SP, Umesh Kumar Singh
said. “There was tension in the village, but the police reached the spot and
now the situation is under control,” he said. The officer added the incident
was deliberate and that it was planned keeping in mind the Moharram procession
in the village today. indianexpress
A ‘Pakistani’ is here: Wheelchair-bound man
abused for sitting during national anthem in Guwahati theatre
New
Delhi: A disabled rights activist who is wheelchair-bound was abused and
commented upon for not standing up for national anthem in Guwahati on Monday.
Arman Ali, Executive Director of Shishu Sarothi, NGO for differently-abled, was
in a multiplex when two men sitting behind him called him a ‘Pakistani’ for
sitting while the national anthem was being played, ANI reported. Ali said he
was singing the national anthem while sitting.“I don’t think the Supreme Court
would’ve thought of a situation like this. I’ll write to the Chief Justice
about this incident.”Ali took to Facebook and expressed, “Today, I took my
nieces and nephew for a movie. As usual they played the NationalAnthem before
the movie and my niece and nephew stood up. However, since I am a wheelchair
user, I did my best by sitting upright. At the end of the Anthem, I heard a
comment from behind “Saamne Ek Pakistani Baitha Hai” (“There is a pakistani
sitting in the front”).” indianexpress
WORLD
Las Vegas attack: Deadliest US mass shooting
since 1949 as over 50 people killed and 400 injured
At least 50 people have been killed and more
than 400 injured after at least one gunman opened fire on concert-goers on the
popular Las Vegas Strip in the US state of Nevada. The mass shooting took place
late on Sunday outside a building at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino during
the Route 91 country festival. Over 22,000 people were in attendance at the
concert. Police named the shooter as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, who they said
fired into the crowd from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel. The
suspected attacker was later found dead in his hotel room, a police statement
said. Wade Millward, a journalist with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, told Al
Jazeera that the attack took place while country-music star Jason Aldean was
performing."Witnesses told me they heard a sound like fireworks going
off," he said."Aldean played on for about 30 seconds before it dawned
on everyone that this was not fireworks. Then people hit the ground and people
ran.”Watson said he saw several injured people when he and his family ran from
the scene of the attack.Another witness, Felipe Uribe, was watching the concert
from the top floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel when he saw the attack take
place."We were looking at the concert down below when we saw what appeared
to be fireworks", Uribe told Al Jazeera. "It wasn’t until later on
that we realised it was actual gunshots."During a press conference, Clark
County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said that at least 50 people had been killed and
more 400 were injured, but added that the precise number of victims could not be
given. 2 on-duty police officers were shot, one of them is still in critical
condition,Lombardo said.He also said the suspected shooter, an unnamed Las
Vegas resident, was killed in a shootout with police in the hotel room where he
was shot. This attack is the deadliest mass shooting in US since 1949. Al Jazeera
'If shooter was Muslim, we'd call it a
terrorist attack': Piers Morgan after Las Vegas shooting
Reacting to the Las Vegas massacre, outspoken
journalist and well-known anti-gun activist Piers Morgan wrote on Twitter: “If
the shooter was Muslim, we'd call this a terrorist attack. This was a terrorist
attack, committed by a 64-year-old white American.Morgan’s lament is not
uncommon and speaks up about what many deem hypocritical since the term
terrorist is very easily used for Muslim extremists but rarely used to describe
white, Caucasian gunmen.Morgan, a vocal anti-gun activist, had said earlier:“I
speak as someone who loves America and loves Americans,” he says. dnaindia
‘Yes’ side wins Catalonia independence vote
marred by chaos
Barcelona:Catalonia’s regional govt declared a
landslide win for the “yes” side in a disputed referendum on independence from
Spain that degenerated into ugly scenes of mayhem on Sunday, with more than 800
people injured as riot police attacked peaceful protesters and unarmed
civilians gathered to cast their ballots.Catalonia has “won the right to become
an independent state,” Catalan president Carles Puigdemont said after the polls
closed, adding that he would keep his pledge to declare independence
unilaterally from Spain if the “yes” side wins.“Today the Spanish state wrote
another shameful page in its history with Catalonia,” Puigdemont added, saying
he would appeal to the EU to look into alleged human rights violations during
the vote. Catalan regional Govt spokesman Jordi Turull told reporters early
Monday that 90% of the 2.26 million
Catalans who voted chose the “yes” side in favor of independence.He said nearly
8% of voters rejected independence and the rest of the ballots were blank or
void. He said 15,000 votes were still being counted.The region has 5.3 million
registered voters, and Turull said the number of ballots didn’t include those
confiscated by Spanish police during violent raids that aimed to stop the
vote.AP
Palestinian PM in 'historic visit' to Gaza
Palestinian Authority PM Rami Hamdallah
arrived in the occupied Gaza Strip on Monday, in the latest effort at national
reconciliation between the West Bank-based PA and the Hamas Govt in Gaza.In a
press conference upon his arrival, Hamdallah described the visit as a
"historic moment" towards unity of the Palestinian people. "We
came at the orders of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to announce to the
world, from the heart of Gaza that the Palestinian state cannot be without
political and geographic unity between the West Bank and Gaza. "We know
that the only way to achieve our goals is through unity, and to protect the
Palestinian political system," said Hamdallah, adding that the national
unity Govt would start to assume its
administrative responsibility of the Strip. The premier also announced that
several committees have been established to handle issues such as border
crossings and PA employees in the Strip. Visit is Hamdallah's first to Gaza in
2 years. "We look forward to turning over the page of division forever,
and achieving comprehensive national reconciliation that would strengthen the
perseverance of our people and preserve their rights,"Iyad al-Buzom, spokesperson
for the Ministry of Interior in Gaza, said in a statement ahead of the visit. Hamdallah
will also be visiting Shujayea neighbourhood, where the Israeli army committed
a massacre during the 2014 war on Gaza.
An Egyptian security delegation led by the Egyptian envoy to Israel,
Hazem Khairat, will be monitoring the reconciliation process. "Hamas's
decision to respond to Abbas's intitiative and to dissolve the administrative
committee is an important step that we will build on with lots of work,"
Hamdallah said at the press conference. "This is all just an exercise. PA
does not believe in the legitimacy of Hamas' arms. This means that the PA wants
to end the resistance in Gaza and Hamas refuses that. And if Fatah accepts the
resistance, Israel will take measures against the PA," Abdulsattar Qassem,
a political science professor at the an-Najah University in Nablus in the
occupied West Bank told Al Jazeera. He said, "This will inevitably lead to
the destruction of the potential new unity Govt . For this reason, this week,
and for the coming months, Hamas and Fatah will attempt not to speak about Oslo
and the issue of resistance. At least, to appear successful before the
Palestinian people. But at the end of the day, Israel will not accept
this."Al Jazeera
Israel to impose 11-day ‘closure’ on West
Bank, Gaza
Israeli authorities are set to impose an
11-day closure on the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) for the Jewish
holiday of Sukkot.While it has become standard practice for Israel to impose
blanket restrictions on Palestinians’ movement during Jewish holidays, 11 days
is an unusually long period for such a closure.Palestinians and human rights
groups say such measures are an example of collective punishment meted out by
Israeli authorities on Palestinians residents of West Bank and Gaza
Strip.During these closures,Palestinians are prohibited from travelling from
oPt into Israel, except for “emergencies”. middleeastmonitor
Israel demands Interpol arrest Hamas leader
Israel Law Centre (Shurat Hadin) has demanded
Interpol issue an arrest warrant for the exiled Hamas leader Saleh Al-Arouri
who spent more than 17 years under administrative detention in the occupation’s
jails, an Israeli newspaper reported. According to the Jerusalem Post,Shurat
Hadin sent demand letter to Interpol on Thursday, one day after the
international police organisation accepted Palestine a member state.Shurat
Hadin claims that Al-Arouri masterminded two lethal attacks against Israeli
targets in 2014 when three illegal Israeli settlers were kidnapped and killed
and in 2015 when another illegal settler was killed along with his wife. middleeastmonitor
Israel’s ex-foreign minister Livni: Only Jews have national right for
self-determination in Israel
Israel’s former foreign minister Tzipi Livni
has claimed that only Jews have a national right for self-determination in
Israel.Livni, whose Hatnuah faction forms part of the opposition Zionist Camp,
made the remarks as part of ongoing discussions in the Knesset about the exact
nature of a proposed “nation-state bill”, which seeks to consolidate the State
of Israel’s nature as a “Jewish state”.According to a report in the Jerusalem Post,
a number of Israeli parliamentarians – including Livni – are concerned that
proposed legislation will not mention “equality”. The demand is opposed by
others, including influential figures such as Likud member and coalition chair
David Bitan.Livni was quoted in the article as demanding that legislators “take
the Declaration of Independence and write simply that Israel is the state of
the Jewish people in which there is equality for all”.
NGO: Israel collectively punishing 40,000
Palestinians
Israeli authorities imposed collective
punishment on 40,000 Palestinians immediately after an attack on an illegal
Israeli settlement that left 3 Israeli soldiers dead, NGO B’Tselem
said.“Immediately following the attack, the military implemented punitive
measures against the residents of nine villages in the area of Beit Surik,
northwest of Jerusalem, totaling about 40,000 people,” NGO’s press release
said. middleeastmonitor
Coordinated bombing strikes Syria's Damascus
More than 10 people have been killed in an
apparently coordinated bombing in Syria's capital Damascus, according to
several sources.A car bomb went off near a police station in Damascus's
al-Midan neighbourhood on Monday, shortly before two suicide bombers detonated
their explosive belts, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR)
said.11 dead included police officers and civilians, the SOHR said, adding that
the attack also caused injuries. There was no immediate claim of responsibility
for the attack. aljazeera
At least 10 Afghan security personnel killed ,
another 9 wounded in 'erroneous' air raid
As the Afghan military attempts to push back
Taliban fighters, an air raid has killed 10 security personnel in Helmand
province, according to an official.At least 9 Afghan police officers were
wounded in the "erroneous" air attack in Gereshk district and an
investigation is under way, Hayatullah Hayat, Helmand governor, told AFP."Airstrike
happened as Afghan forces were pushing to break through the Taliban front line
in the strategic area that has been the scene of heavy fighting over the past
several days," Hayat said.The incident, which was confirmed by the defence
ministry, comes more than two months after US aerial bombardment killed 16
Afghan police officers and wounded 2 others in the same district, large parts
of which are under Taliban control.In other developments on Sunday, Afghan
President Ashraf Ghani met Pakistan's army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa in
Kabul.The two sides discussed regional security and bilateral relations, a
statement released by the Afghan Presidential Palace said. aljazeera
Sharifs indictment in graft cases postponed by
a week
Islamabad:Pakistans ousted PM Nawaz Sharif today appeared before an
anti-corruption court for the second time in a week but his indictment was
postponed till Oct.9 as his children, who are also been named in the
high-profile Panama Papers case, failed to appear in court.Sharifs sons Hussain
and Hassan and his daughter Maryam are co-defendants in the Panama Papers case
and are currently in London with their mother Kalsum, who is undergoing
treatment for throat cancer. Sharif, 67, got a brief reprieve when the
Accountability Court decided to postpone his indictment till Oct.9. Sharif and
his children Hussain, Hassan and Maryam; and son-in-law Mohammad Safdar ? are
now expected to appear on Oct. 9 to be
formally indicted. Sharif could be jailed after the indictment.PTI
Iran's Zarif to visit Qatar amid Gulf
crisis:AFP
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
will visit Qatar for talks on relations between the two countries that have
caused tensions in the Gulf.Zarif held talks with officials in Oman on Monday
before heading to Doha on his first visit to Qatar since Saudi Arabia, Bahrain,
the UAE, and Egypt cut ties with Qatar in June. 4 countries accuse Qatar of
backing extremism and fostering ties with their rival Iran, charges that Doha
denies.Zarif is due to meet Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and
Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. Iranian
foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghassemi said talks would focus on relations
in the Gulf, economic cooperation, and the latest developments in Syria, Iraq,and
Yemen.Oman, a tiny sultanate across the water from Iran, has traditionally had
closer ties with Tehran than its neighbours and has maintained relations with
Qatar throughout the crisis. Zarif's talks in Muscat covered "energy, the
economy and transit" and the potential "transfer of Iranian gas through
the Sultanate of Oman to India", according to the official Oman News
Agency. AFP
Saudi poet Al-Ghaslan arrested in widespread
campaign
Following the campaign of arrests that began
more than three weeks ago against a number of preachers, academics, thinkers,
writers, journalists, and intellectuals, Saudi authorities have arrested poet
and writer Fawaz Al-Ghaslan from his home in Hail.The “Prisoners of Conscience”
account, which monitors Saudi opinion detainees on Twitter, posted that “the
arrest of the writer Fawaz Al-Ghaslan on 25 Sept. has been confirmed to us.” middleeastmonitor
Bangladesh: Myanmar proposes Rohingya refugee
return
Myanmar has proposed taking back the hundreds
of thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled a brutal military crackdown into
Bangladesh in recent weeks.Bangladesh's Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali told
reporters that Myanmar was willing to bring back more than 500,000 people from
the persecuted Muslim minority after talks today with a senior Myanmar
representative."Talks were held in a friendly atmosphere and Myanmar has
made a proposal to take back the Rohingya refugees," Ali said after
meeting Myanmar official Kyaw Tint Swe in the capital, Dhaka. "What
Bangladesh has been saying is that we want to settle this issue peacefully and
both countries have agreed to that."Ali said both countries agreed to form
a joint working group to start work on the massive repatriation.Myanmar
delegation did not speak to the media. UN has called the exodus of 507,000
Rohingya since August 25 the world's fastest-developing refugee emergency, and
said Buddhist-majority Myanmar is engaging in ethnic cleansing against its
Rohingya minority.Aljazeera
Bangladesh, Myanmar agree to draw up plan for
refugee repatriation:Reuters
2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
awarded to Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W Young
New Delhi:2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine has been awarded to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W.Young
for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.
The announcement marked the start of this year’s Nobel season. It is the 108th
time the prize has been awarded.“Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael
W. Young were able to peek inside our biological clock and elucidate its inner
workings. Their discoveries explain how plants, animals and humans adapt their
biological rhythm so that it is synchronized with the Earth’s revolutions,” the
Nobel Foundation said.The medicine prize will be followed by the physics prize
announcement on Tuesday. The honour could also go to the discovery of
exoplanets by Swiss astrophysicians Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz. indianexpress
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