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UP: Miscreants try to set mosque afire near
Kasganj, probe ordered
Bareilly: Miscreants attempted to set a mosque
afire in Ganjdundwara on Monday morning, ten days after communal violence
erupted in nearby Kasganj city.“The incident occurred around 4.30 am. Police
personnel from a local station and a reserve battalion were sent to the spot.
Although nobody was injured in the blaze, the entrance of the mosque was
damaged,” said Kasganj district magistrate RP Singh.Local residents helped
police personnel douse the fire. A complaint has been registered against
unidentified people.Kasganj superintendent of police Piyush Srivastav said
efforts were on to bring the culprits to justice. “We will not tolerate such
incidents. We have launched a hunt for the people involved, and they will soon
be put behind bars.”Harisharan Gautam and Nagendra Kumar – two constables
deployed with the Cobra Bike squad – were suspended for negligence, said
Srivastava.An independent fact-finding team comprising retired state inspector
general SR Darapuri, senior advocate Assad Hayat Khan, journalist Amit Sengupta
and prominent social activists has blamed the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and
other right-wing groups for the violence. The team had visited Kasganj under
the ‘United Against Hate’ banner on February 2.The attempt to burn down the
mosque comes after 5 days of relative peace in the district. Police have so far
arrested over 125 people for the clashes, and the case is being probed by a
special investigation team formed by the state govt.Normalcy has returned to
Kasganj, with most schools and business establishments across the city opening
on Monday. HT
Kasganj: Tension resurfaces as place of
worship gate set afire, two cops suspended
UP: Miscreants set door of a mosque on fire in
Kasganj, no damage reported
Sharpshooter from Kasganj arrested in Delhi encounter,
aide escapes:police
NEW DELHI: A sharpshooter from UP's Kasganj,
where communal clashes broke out on Republic Day, was arrested after an
encounter in Delhi this morning. His accomplice escaped. A member of what the
police call the "Chhenu" gang in UP, Tanwir alias Munnawar, is wanted
in a number of cases, including a double murder in Delhi and a case of firing at
policemen. Tanwir carried a Rs. 70,000 reward for his capture. Police had
information that Tanwir would reach Okhla Mandi in southeast Delhi with an
accomplice early this morning. Security was increased and the entire area was
barricaded to restrict their movement. As soon as they entered the area in a
Swift car, they opened fire on the police team. The police retaliated and
attacked their vehicle. Several rounds were fired and Tanwir was hit twice. He
survived as he was wearing a bulletproof jacket. Cops overpowered him, but his
associate managed to escape. Tanwir was arrested and taken to the hospital. 2
policemen were also injured in the encounter.NDTV
Kasganj violence: Muslim group presents
memorandum to President Kovind demanding security
A group of Muslims today handed over a
memorandum addressed to President Ram Nath Kovind to district authorities, demanding
safety measures for the community. They had also planned to take out a march
from Shahid Smarak to the Collectorate, but it was called off in view of
prohibitory orders in place. They demanded a judicial probe into Kasganj
incident and a fair compensation to the family of Chandan Gupta, who was killed
in the violence.“We gathered along with Muslim community leaders to take out a
‘Tiranga Yatra’ (tricolour march) to show our love for the country and the
national flag,” Shabana Khandelwal, one of the participants, said.“Due to
prohibitory orders, we were asked by the police to present the memorandum right
here,” Shabana said at Shahid Smarak. “In the memorandum to the president, we
have demanded safety measures for Muslims and their institutions. Also, they
should not be treated as second class citizens,” Shabana added.PTI
Agra Administration Denies Permission to
Tiranga Yatra by Muslims
Lucknow: Agra administration has denied
permission to a Tiranga Yatra organised by social activist Shabana Khandelwal
in which hundreds of Muslims were supposed to take part. Members of Muslim
community who had gathered to take out the Tiranga Yatra handed over memorandum
addressed to the President of India to the Agra administration.Amid chants of
‘Hindustan Zindabad’ and ‘Madre Watan Zindabad’, the Tiranga Yatra was stopped
by the police at Shaheed Smarak due to the absence of a permission.In the
memorandum, they demanded that raising obscene chants and slogans against
Muslims should be brought under the category of crime and to keep religion away
from politics. “Atrocities on Muslims in the name of nationalism should be
stopped and so should the debate on Vande Matram,” it said.News18
PIL filed in Delhi HC seeking independent
Muslim body for Haj pilgrims
New Delhi: A PIL seeking an independent Muslim
body to look into the arrangements for Haj pilgrims and quashing of the
government controlled Haj Committee has been filed in the Delhi High Court.The
plea referred to a recent notification of the Centre, scrapping the subsidy for
pilgrims to get cheaper flights to- and-fro. Since it has been scrapped, it
said, there was no need for a government-controlled panel to manage its affairs
and Haj Committee Act 2002 was also liable to be quashed. The plea seeking the
court's nod for an independent panel and quashing of the Haj committee was
filed by Delhi-based advocate Shahid Ali last week. Central gov had in 1959
introduced a subsidy for air travel between Bombay and Jeddah. Other flights on
Air India, the state-owned carrier, were added over time."Pass order or
direction or issuance of an appropriate writ, thereby quashing the present
Constitution of Haj committee and further allowing the Muslim citizens of India
to formulate their own body in the similar manner as the Sikh minority of India
is allowed to formulate their own body to manage their minority affairs under
the Act known as Sikh Gurudwara Act, 1925," plea said.The question of
whether the government should continue to look at all affairs of the Haj
Committee, right from inviting applications for Haj till the return of Hajis
after the pilgrimage, had acquired importance after the Centre scrapped the
subsidy, petition said.It said an independent agency without any control of the
govt should be substituted.PTI
Judge Loya death: Lawyer in SC once again
points out contradictions in Maharashtra’s probe report
Senior advocate V Giri on Monday told the
Supreme Court that the investigative report submitted by the state of
Maharashtra in connection with the death of Judge Brijgopal Harkishan Loya was
full of contradictions. Giri, appearing for petitioner Tehseen Poonawalla, said
there were enough grounds for an independent inquiry into the circumstances
around the CBI judge’s death. A Supreme Court bench, comprising Chief Justice
of India Dipak Misra and justices AM Khanvilkar and DY Chandrachud, were
hearing petitions that demanded an independent investigation monitored by the
Supreme Court into Loya’s death. When Loya died in December 2014, he was
presiding over a special CBI court in Mumbai that was hearing a case about the
extrajudicial murder by the Gujarat Police of alleged extortionist Sohrabuddin
Sheikh.scroll
Hearing in Loya case turn acrimonious as
lawyers clash
Muslim Board to decide strategy on talaq at
Hyderabad meet
Hyderabad: With Modi govt determined to go
ahead with the passage of triple talaq bill in Parliament, All India Muslim
Personal law Board (AIMPlB) will decide its future course of action on the
issue at its crucial meeting here this week.3-day-long general body meeting of
the apex body of Indian Muslims, beginning on February 9, will discuss the
issue and evolve a strategy for protection of Muslim Personal law. The triple
talaq bill and the Babri Masjid case, which is coming up for hearing in the
Supreme Court from February 8, top the agenda of the crucial meeting to be
presided over by AIMPlB chief Moulana Rabey Hasani Nadvi, AIMPlB sources told
IANS.AIMPlB will pass a Hyderabad Resolution, spelling out the roadmap for the
next one year.The meeting is expected to take a decision on the proposal to
introduce a new provision in its model nikahnama (marriage contract) in which
the man has to commit that he will not give instant triple talaq. The board
believes that this amendment will help in dissuading men from giving triple
talaq (in one sitting), considered as the worst form of divorce among
Muslims.The board will review the progress made in "Islah-e-Moashira",
or the country-wide campaign for reforms in Muslim society, aimed at creating
awareness against social evils like dowry and triple talaqThe board will take
stock of the cases relating to Muslim Personal law pending in various courts and
discuss how it can implead itself to protect the Sharia.It will also discuss
effective use of social media platforms to inform people about its activities
and create public awareness. Nearly 600 prominent Muslim leaders including
religious scholars, heads of various Muslim organisations, politicians, lawyers,
academicians and other eminent personalities from different walks of life will
attend the conclave. 51-member executive, including 5 women, will meet in the
evening of Feb.9 to ratify the minutes of the previous general body meeting
held at Kolkata in 2016. Secretary General Moulana Syed Wali Rahmani will brief
the members on the board's activities since previous executive held in
September last year.IANS
When two people get into wedlock, no one
should interfere, says Supreme Court
New Delhi: Two adults are free to get married
and "no third party", be it parents or society or khap panchayats,
have any right to harass or cause harm to them, said CJI Dipak Misra, against
honour killings on Monday."When two people get into wedlock, no one should
interfere. Neither parents, society, khap or panchayat... no one at all,"
said Mr. Misra, leading a 3-judge Bench, that upheld the fundamental right of
two people who wish to get married to each other and live peacefully. When
activist Madhu Kishwar informed the Supreme Court about the recent murder of
Ankit Saxena, a young man who was allegedly murdered by his lover's parents,
Mr. Misra said "we are not into that. That is not before us. Ms. Kishwar
said "honour killing" is "too soft a word for such crimes
against young people"."These should be called hate crimes," she
submitted.But the CJI went on to repeatedly emphasise that no one has any
individual, group or collective right to harass a couple. Misra said it is up
to the courts to decide legally whether a marriage is null and void or children
are legitimate or illegitimate, or in the case of a property dispute, "no
other person or group" have the right to intervene.thehindu
India hit list of Hindu Muslim couples taken
off Facebook
A Facebook page calling for violence against
102 Muslim men who are allegedly in relationships with Hindu women has been
taken down. The page, which asks Hindus to "track and hunt the boys on the
list", prompted outrage online.The list also included links to the
Facebook profiles of those named, raising concerns about their safety.Although
the page is named "Hindutva Varta" (Hindutva Talk), no Hindu
right-wing group has owned up to it yet.The list appeared on social media feeds
over the weekend after a Twitter user called attention to it. "Hindu
terrorists publish a long list of inter-community marriages and urge Hindus to
kill the husbands of these women," the tweet read.While the page is no
longer available, Indian website Alt News has archived a few of the posts,
including the list but has blurred the names of the couples. All of the
archived posts encourage violence against instances of so-called "love
jihad".The term has been popularised by radical Hindu fringe groups who
accuse Muslim men of participating in a conspiracy to turn Hindu women from
their religion by seducing them. "It's alarming that such a list exists in
the first place," Pratik Sinha, cofounder of Alt News, told the BBC.
"But to think that someone has spent their time tracking down the names of
people in such relationships is equally troubling."BBC
A love marriage, an abduction charge and a
husband Iqbal waiting for word from his
wife
Mumbai; Iqbal Chaudhary, 28, spends every
spare minute trying to make a call. Both his phones are always switched on and
he checks each frequently for any update, a call or a message from his wife
Reshma, 23. Chaudhary alleges that Reshma was abducted from Vashi in Navi
Mumbai in December; he has moved a habeas corpus petition in Bombay High Court
saying she had been kidnapped by members of her family because their marriage
was inter-faith. Reshma appeared in court on January 22. She told the court
that day that she would return to her in-laws’ home within a week, but is yet
to do so. She added that she went with her family of her own will.“I was so
relieved to see her there… I didn’t care where we were, I just wanted to speak
to her,” Chaudhary says, seated in his home in Mankhurd, suburban Mumbai. Reshma,
of Kasargod in Kerala, was studying in Mangaluru when she and Chaudhary met, on
Facebook. Chaudhary would travel to Mangaluru to meet her, and eventually the
two decided to elope. “In July 2016, we posted two letters, one to her family
and one to the police station, saying she was going away on her own and as an
adult she could marry me. We did not leave behind an address, anticipating the
trouble that would definitely follow,” says Chaudhary, who works as an
assistant engineer with a private firm.Iqbal’s mother Saidunnisa Chaudhary, 56,
describes it as a day she will never forget. “We had been trying to arrange
Iqbal’s marriage but he would say no. From his siblings, we knew he was talking
to some girl. But when he brought her home, I was shocked,” she
says.Saidunnisa’s first thought was that Reshma should return home. “I told
her, beti, go back to your parents. Don’t do anything stupid. However, she said
that she loved my son and wouldn’t live without him. Iqbal also said he’d marry
only her. So I gave my consent,” she recounts.Reshma converted to Islam and
married Iqbal on July 14, 2016.A mother to six sons and four daughter,
Saidunnisa knew this wouldn’t be simple. “I asked her to call her parents after
their wedding. Her family members came with the police,” she says. “I am a
mother, I know how her mother might feel. I used to ask Reshma to call them
daily. But they were so against the marriage that they refused to speak to
her.”“Some policemen asked me about love jihad and asked if I knew Zakir Naik.
I realised then that I will have to approach the judiciary,” Iqbal says. On
Dec.22, his lawyer Hasnain Kazi filed the habeas corpus petition. A division
bench of Justices B R Gavai and B P Colabawalla directed the police to
investigate the case and also the number from which Chaudhary had claimed to
have received a call from his wife.On January 22, Reshma came to the court and
said that she had gone with her family of her own will. She also added that
although she and her husband were attacked on Dec17 and she was taken to her
family, after that she went with them of her own will.indianexpress
Indian army warns of retaliatory action
against Pakistan over killing of 4 soldiers
New Delhi: Army on Monday indicated it would
take retaliatory action against the killing of 4 army men in heavy shelling by
Pakistani forces along the LoC in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir,
saying that its action would speak for itself.Vice chief Lt Gen Sarath Chand
said the Army has been responding appropriately to Pakistan shelling, asserting
that India will continue to give a “befitting reply” to such acts.“That (retaliation)
goes without saying, I think I don’t have to say that. (Our) action will speak
for itself,” he said when asked about the killing of a Captain and three other
Army men in the Rajouri sector. Captain and three jawans were killed and at
least 4 people injured on Sunday in the heavy Pakistani shelling along the
LoC.PTI
97 people killed in 834 ceasefire violations
in three years: Jammu-Kashmir govt
Jammu:As many as 97 people, including 41
civilians, were killed and 383 others injured in 834 ceasefire violations by
the Pakistani troops in the last three years, the Jammu and Kashmir government
said on Monday. In a written reply to a question by a PDP MLC in the
Legislative Council on Monday, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said that 379
ceasefire violations took place along the LoC and the International Border (IB)
last year, while 233 violations took place in 2016 and 222 in 2015.PTI
Pakistan suspects India planning attack on
CPEC installations: Dawn report
Islamabad:India plans to attack installations
along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to sabotage the multi-billion
dollar project, Pakistan’s interior ministry has claimed. The ministry, in a
letter to Gilgit-Baltistan’s home department, warned of possible terrorist
attacks on the CPEC route, including bridges at Karakoram Highway and other
important points. It issued directives for making foolproof security arrangements
to avoid any untoward incident, Dawn online reported on Monday.An official of
the home department said the letter claimed that “India had sent 400 Muslim
youngsters to Afghanistan for receiving training to be able to carry out
attacks”.The Gilgit-Baltistan government said it enhanced security on the CPEC
route, including two dozen bridges built on Karakoram Highway from Khunjerab
Pass to Diamer district.IANS
J-K: Army opens fire on youths pelting stones
in Kulgam, case registered
Srinagar :An open FIR was registered by the
J&K police after Army opened fire on a group of youth pelting stones in
south Kashmir’s Kulgam district. One person was injured in the firing, who is
believed to be stable now.Locals said that villagers took out protest against
thrashing of civilians and ransacking of the houses during a search operation
at Hawoora village in Kulgam. The protestors pelted stones on the army patrol
after which the soldiers opened fire. This resulted into injuries to one youth
who was identified as Arif Ahmad Lone.The injured civilian was referred to SHMS
hospital in Srinagar, from where he was shifted to SKIMS. The doctors said that
the condition of injured civilian is now stable.A senior police officer said,
“A case has been registered in this incident. And we are investigating it.’’ indianexpress
Don't exploit my son's death for religion,
pleads Saxena's father
New Delhi: Days after 23-year-old
photographer, Ankit Saxena, was brutally stabbed to death by the family of his
Muslim girlfriend in west Delhi's busy area Khyala in full public view, the
bereaved father of Ankit said that the murder should not be given a communal
twist and exploited to whip up trouble. "I don't want any inflammatory
statements. I feel very saddened by what happened, but I don't want anyone to
create a hostile environment against Muslims. I have nothing against any religion,"
Ankit's father Yashpal Saxena told NDTV. Griefing at the loss of his only son,
Yashpal said: , "Yes, those who killed my son were Muslim...but every
Muslim can't be branded for this. Don't use me to spread communal tension,
don't drag me into it...I appeal to everyone not to link this to religion and
vitiate the atmosphere."Ankit was attacked and stabbed by his girlfriend,
Shehzadi's father, mother, uncle and 14-year-old brother on a road near his
home in west Delhi on Thursday Feb. 1. In CCTV footage, he was seen talking on
the phone just moments before he was attacked. "It is very sad...A
person's throat is slit, that too with such planning and precision that a man
dies within two-three seconds. There were thousands there, but not one person
helped or tried to take him to a hospital," lamented Yashpal condemning
that people were just watching his son die.Ankit, he said, kept shouting to his
girlfriend's mother, "Aunty, I have done nothing... I didn't take your
daughter. Whatever you want to do, I am here." But seconds later, he was
on the street, his throat slit.Asian Age
NIA Arrests 2 Hawala Operators from UP’s
Muzaffarnagar on Terror Funding Charges
Lucknow:NIA has arrested 2 hawala operators
from Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh for alleged involvement in terror funding.
2 hawala operators, Dinesh Garg and Adesh Jain, have been accus ed of funneling
funds from the UAE to LeT militants in the country.This came after the arrest
of Bihar-based Mahfooz Alam and Shaikh Abdul Naeem. Mahfouz was remanded to
two-day police custody by NIA Special Court. Mahfooz further led NIA to Garg
and Jain for allegedly routing money for him through UAE.news18
Aurangabad arms haul case: NIA arrests youth,
says he provided logistics
New Delhi NIA on Sunday arrested a 22-year-old
from Bihar, Mahfooz Alam, who it claimed was an associate of an accused in the
2006 Aurangabad arms haul case. Alam was arrested in Delhi and produced before
a special court, which granted his custody to NIA for 2 days.According to NIA,
Alam had provided logistical support to Aurangabad arms haul accused Shaikh
Abdul Naeem who was arrested recently. Naeem had earlier escaped the custody of
Chhattisgarh Police. Alam is the fourth accused arrested in this case. The
other 3 are Naeem, Dhannu Raja and Touseef Malik.indianexpress
Taj Mahal will soon become ‘Tej Mandir’, claims
BJP MP Vinay Katiyar
BJP MP Vinay Katiyar on Monday stirred a
controversy after he said that Taj Mahal in Agra will soon become “Tej Mandir”.
Katiyar’s remarks come on a day when it was reported that the upcoming Taj
Mahotsav, which will be held between February 18 and 27, will be about Ram.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath and Governor Ram Naik will be the chief
guests on the opening day of the event. “You can call it Taj Mahotsav or Tej
Mahotsav, both are the same,” the founder of Bajrang Dal told ANI when asked
about the 10-day event in Agra. “There is not much difference between Taj and
Tej...Our Tej Mandir was turned into a cremation ground by Aurangzeb. Taj Mahal
will be converted into Tej Mandir soon.”scroll
No alliance with NCP, they provided political
patronage to Milind Ekbote, says Prakash Ambedkar
Mumbai:Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh president
Prakash Ambedkar Sunday declared his party would not have any alliance with the
NCP in the coming elections, saying the latter had always provided political
patronage to Samast Hindu Aghadi chief Milind Ekbote, an accused in the case
related to Bhima-Koregaon violence of Jan.1. At the end of the two-day national
executive meeting of BBM held in Mumbai,a resolution was adopted to this
effect.Speaking to the media at the party HQRS in Dadar, Ambedkar said, “During
the Congress-NCP govt, there were several instances of Hindu-Muslims riots,
which were the handiwork of Milind Ekbote. There were reports from top police
officials and intelligence recommending the arrest of Ekbote. NCP president
Sharad Pawar intervened and stopped his arrest.” He added, “Police department
had taken a final decision to arrest Ekbote for riots in Nov 2011. It was based
on a series of activities including recurring communal clashes between Hindus
and Muslims in the years.”indianexpress
Kannada Zilla Panchayat to clerics: Help us
educate Muslim students
Mangaluru: Aiming to improve the results of the
Muslim community in the SSLC examination, Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat has
sought the help of religious heads in the district. A letter was written to
them after the authorities and elected representatives noted that the
performance of Muslim children was poor in SSLC examination held last year.“Of
the 30,008 students who appeared for the SSLC exam in the district last year,
about 5,500 failed. Of the total students who appeared for the exam, 8,860 were
Muslim children of whom 2,212 failed! We held a discussion with education
experts and studied the situation. We found that 41.87 percent Muslim students
failed in the SSLC examination. of this 1,348 were boys and 864 girls," Zilla
Panchayat Education and Health Standing Committee Chairman Shahul Hameed,
said.A list was prepared of all the schools which had less than 60 per cent
passout and it was revealed that the highest number of these schools were in
Muslim dominated areas and the passout percentage was around 25 per cent.With
the help of Jamiyyatul Falah, the education department is also providing
special training to students in various parts of the district. “This training
is not restricted to the Muslim community. Students are taught tips on how to
write examinations,” Shahul Hameed said.Deccan Chronicle
Dalits protesting against Kerala ‘caste’ wall
to move protest to Secretariat
Dalits have been protesting against the
‘caste’ wall around the temple managed by the Nair Service Society in Ernakulam
district for almost a year, but a recent incident has prompted them to protest
outside Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram.On Sunday, Ernakulam’s Puthencruz
police arrested 128 participants of a Dalit Pride March in Choondi after Dalit
activists and RSS workers raised slogans against each other at the March.For
over two years now, Dalit residents of Kochi’s Vadayambadi have been protesting
the ‘caste’ wall erected by upper-caste Nairs around the Bhajana Madam temple
in the area. However, they now plan to protest with renewed vigour. Dalit Bhoo
Avakasha Samara Munanni, local body comprising of residents in the locality,
plans to launch an indefinite strike at the Secretariat in
Thiruvananthapuram.thenewsminute
Undertrial Shabir Ali facing murder charges
ends life in Mumbai’s Arthur Road jail
Mumbai : A 26-year-old undertrial, accused of
murders, allegedly hanged himself at Arthur Road jail in the early hours of
Monday.According to officers from NM Joshi Marg police station, who are
investigating the alleged suicide, Shabirali Garibulla Shaikh was arrested by
the MIDC police and had 3 cases of murder registered against him. Cops said
Shaikh had attempted suicide on the jail premises in the past after which he
was given psychiatric help.Rajvardhan Sinha, inspector general (prisons), said
Shaikh was an undertrial for the past three years. He had attempted suicide in
the past, but was saved by the guards. Shaikh was transferred to a separate
cell for inmates who need psychological help and was undergoing treatment.
Sinha said Shaikh tore a strip from a bedsheet and used it to hang himself from
the door of the cell he was locked in. The incident took place at 4am on
Monday. Shaikh’s suicide came to light after one of the guards spotted his body
hanging from the door.Cops said a case has been registered and further
investigation is underway.HT
Modi to visit Palestine, meet Abbas during
Middle East tour
New Delhi; PM Narendra Modi will visit
Palestine during a brief tour of the Middle East, the foreign ministry said
Monday, just weeks after hosting Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu.Modi will
meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in an overture seen as India's effort
to balance its decades-old support for the occupied territories against its
growing closeness to Israel.The Indian premier will visit Ramallah first on his
three-day tour of the region between February 9 and 12, which will also take in
Oman and the United Arab Emirates.Foreign ministry official B. Bala Bhaskar
said Modi's visit to Palestine would be his first, though the Indian premier
has met Abbas on three previous occasions. The leaders are expected to discuss
information technology, health and tourism during the brief visit, Bhaskar
added. Modi will also address a joint press conference and attended a
banquet.The Indian premier will depart for the UAE on Saturday, where he will
address a summit in Dubai and meet business leaders before travelling to Oman
for further engagements.AFP
Bangladesh's great support helped curb terror
in northeast: Rajnath
Agartala:Terror activities in northeast India
have been checked due to Bangladesh's great help and support while rail links
and bus services between the two countries facilitated travel of the region's
people to other parts of India via the neighbour without any much trouble,
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday."Bangladesh's immense
help and support facilitated India to tame the terrorist activities in
northeastern states. Our relation with Bangladesh now at best place," he
said while addressing election rallies here.He said that with his BJP central govt's
establishment of new rail links with Bangladesh and introducing bus services
through that country facilitated the people of northeastern states to go to
other parts of India avoiding the problematic journey through mountainous
terrain of region and saving them huge time, costs and problems.IANS
Alam Beg, martyr of Sepoy Mutiny, wants to
return home
New Delhi: Headhunting is usually associated
with primitive tribes and contemporary terrorists, but the colonial rulers of
India also collected heads of Indian soldiers as war trophies.A 160-year-old
skull of sepoy Alam Beg, now in the possession of a historian in London, is
proof that colonial rulers who brought many modern practices to India were also
at times inhuman. In 1857, Alam Beg, also known as Alum Bheg, was a soldier
with the 46th Bengal Native Infantry, an arm of the East India Company.The
Mutiny that year, after having covered the north Indian heartland, spread to Sialkot
(now in Pakistan), where Alam Beg and his companions tried to follow their
fellow soldiers and attacked the Europeans posted there. On July 9, 1857, they
killed seven Europeans, including an entire Scottish family.Alam Beg, along
with his comrades, left Sialkot and trekked all the way to the Tibetan frontier
only to be turned away by the guards on the Tibetan side. He was reportedly
arrested from Madhopur, a scenic town on the northern part of the Indian Punjab
and taken back to Sialkot. A year later, he was tried for the brutal killing of
the Scottish family and blown up from the mouth of a cannon. The Mutiny ended
soon after. Alam Beg’s tragic story surfaced more than a century later thanks
to an Irish captain Arthur Robert George Costello, who was present at his
execution.The Hindu
WORLD
Maldives SC didn't seek India's assistance:
Authorities
Male:The Maldives Supreme Court did not seek
assistance from the Indian government to enforce its last week's order to
release high-profile prisoners, including self-exiled former President Mohamed
Nasheed and former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb, the Department of Judicial
Administration (DJA) said.A report in Maldives' SunOnline on Monday said that
some Indian newspapers carried reports stating that the Indian Ocean nation's
Supreme Court asked for New Delhi's assistance to enforce its February 1 order. However, the DJA denied the reports, saying
"neither the Department nor the top court made any such request". The
crisis, which has included repeated rounds of clashes between police and
opposition protesters, began when the Supreme Court ruled on February 1 that
all politicians opposed to President Yameen, including Nasheed, be released
immediately. It said their trials were "politically influenced".The
government has so far refused to implement the order, saying it had concerns
about releasing those who were convicted for "terrorism, graft,
embezzlement and treason".It said it had been advised by the Chief Justice
to follow "due process in releasing the detainees".The government
said that the Prosecutor General had informed the top court about the
"legal challenges" in the implementation of the ruling. In response,
the court issued a second order on Sunday stating "there was no legal
barrier to implementing its decision" and that "the order must be
implemented".Embattled President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom on Monday
asked the Supreme Court to revoke its decision.Attorney General Mohamed Anil
said that the move to unseat the President would be
"unconstitutional".IANS
Maldives President Asks Court to Revoke Order
to Release Detained Politicians
UN human rights chief warns Rohingya abuses
could spark regional conflict
Jakarta: UN human rights chief warned Monday
that possible acts of "genocide and ethnic cleansing" against
Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority could fuel a religious-based conflict that
spreads beyond the country's borders."Myanmar faces a very serious crisis
–- with a potentially severe impact on the security of the region,"UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said during a speech in
Jakarta. His remarks follow the publication of a report last week about mass
graves of Rohingya in Myanmar's crisis-hit Rakhine state, where government
troops have been accused of waging an ethnic cleansing campaign against the
minority.AFP
Erdogan and Pope discuss Jerusalem as scuffles
break out near Vatican
Vatican City: Tayyip Erdogan made the first
visit by a Turkish president to the Vatican in 59 years on Monday, discussing
the status of Jerusalem with Pope Francis, as scuffles broke out between police
and demonstrators nearby.Police, who put much of the centre of the city under
lockdown for the visit, said two people were detained after demonstrators tried
to break through cordons to get closer to the Vatican from an authorised
protest several blocks away.Returning a visit made by the pope to Turkey in
2014, Erdogan spoke privately with Francis for about 50 minutes in the
pontiff's frescoed study in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, which he uses
mostly for ceremonial purposes.A Vatican statement said the talks included
"the status of Jerusalem, highlighting the need to promote peace and
stability in the region (Middle East) through dialogue and negotiation, with
respect for human rights and international law."Both Erdogan and Pope
Francis are opposed to US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, which many U.S. allies say could doom
Middle East peace efforts.Reuters
Israel issues deportation notices to African
migrants
Israel started issuing deportation notices to
African asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan.On Sunday, first wave of notices
were distributed to men who are in the country without families, the Israeli
daily Haaretz reported. 20,000 people who are not held in the country's open
detention facility will be expected to leave within 60 days, or risk being
imprisoned indefinitely. Refugees will
be asked to either leave for Rwanda, or back to their home countries. Aljazeera
Palestinian children call for rescuing Gaza
from humanitarian crisis
Dozens of Palestinian children came out to the
streets of the Gaza Strip to call for international efforts to save the enclave
from the economic and humanitarian disaster caused by the 11-year long Israeli
siege. Children gathered in Saraya Square in central Gaza City and held banners
warning of the complete collapse people’s ability to survive in the enclave. They
called on all local and global powers to act quickly to save the Gaza Strip in
order to ensure children’s right to live a decent life.The coalition of
charitable organisations organised the rally to condemn the Israeli siege
imposed on Gaza Strip.MEMO
Arab League starts international efforts to
solve Israel-Arab conflict
Arab
League announced that an Arab ministerial delegation had started contacts with
“active international groups” to crystallise a position which would help solve
the Israel-Arab conflict, Quds Press reported. In a press release, the
Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab League for Palestine and Occupied Arab
Territories Said Abu Ali said that these contacts aim to adopt a strategic
choice for the solution of the Arab-Israeli conflict based on the Arab Peace
Initiative and international resolutions.He also said: “The last ministerial
meeting of Arab League [held on Thursday] adopted Palestinian position to find
a multilateral mechanism to broker the peace process under umbrella of the UN.”middleeastmonitor
Air raids on rebel-held Idlib province
intensified
Images of death and destruction from the
northern province of Idlib in Syria have flooded social media, with local
activists and aid workers saying shelling by Russian and Syrian government warplanes
in the area has intensified.Rescue workers from the Syrian Civil Defence (SCD),
a volunteer search and rescue team, say that at least 18 civilians have been
killed and more than 45 wounded in the continuous bombardment and a gas attack
on the rebel-held province since Sunday night."The Russians are in a
frenzy. They're going mad. The shelling is ongoing throughout the day and
night. The warplanes are hitting residential areas," Hadi Abdullah, a
local journalist, told Al Jazeera by phone from the town of Kafr Nabl in the
northwestern Syrian province bordering Turkey.aljazeera
Syrian refugees 'at risk of being pushed to
return'
Aid agencies have warned that hundreds of
thousands of Syrians are at risk of being pushed to return in 2018, despite
ongoing violence in the Middle Eastern country.The warning was issued by six
humanitarian agencies amid what they called a "global anti-refugee
backlash", harsher conditions in regional countries who have taken in
Syrians and a "misleading rhetoric" suggesting the country is safe
for refugees to return to after victories by the Syrian government. aljazeera
Yemenis protest after US drone attack kills 7
in Shabwa
Scores of Yemenis have taken to the streets of
the southern province of Shabwa after a US drone attack killed at least seven
civilians.January 28 drone attack decimated a car carrying at least six male
members of the same family and another individual as they were searching for a
"missing child" in Shabwa's Said district, residents said.Saleh
al-Aishi al-Ateeqi, a relative of one of the victims who organised the protest,
told local media that "the victims were all innocent civilians who had
nothing to do with any political or religious organisation." Aljazeera
Saddam's eldest daughter Raghad on most wanted
list
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/02/saddam-eldest-daughter-raghad-wanted-list-180204163537080.html
Iraqi government has placed the name of late
Saddam Hussein's daughter, Raghad, on the most wanted list, together with 59
other individuals.The 60 people are wanted on suspicion of belonging to the
ISIL, al-Qaeda or the Baath Party.The list, seen by AFP, includes the name of
Saddam's daughter, Raghad, who lives in Jordan.It also features 28 suspected
ISIL fighters, 12 from Al-Qaeda and 20 from the Baath party, giving details of
the roles they allegedly play in their organisations, the alleged crimes of
which they are suspected, and, in most cases, photographs.All are Iraqis, apart
from Maan Bashour, Lebanese man accused of recruiting fellow citizens to fight
in Iraq.The list includes senior members of the group, among them Fawaz
Mohammad Mutlaq, a former officer in Saddam's Fedayeen paramilitary
organisation who later became a member of the ISIL military council. aljazeera
Pak Jamaat leader shot dead in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa province
BANNU: Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan’s district
leader Malik Tufail Ahmed was shot dead by unidentified armed men in Ghoriwala
area here on early Sunday morning. According to the police, unidentified armed
men opened fire at JI leader, killing him on the spot. The attacker managed to
flee from the scene. Further investigation into the case was under way.Daily
Times
Rise in hate crimes against Muslims, Hindus in
US: Report
Washington: A year after President Donald
Trump’s election, there has been a substantial increase in hate violence
against South Asian, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Middle Eastern, and Arab communities
in the US, a report said Friday.Between November 9, 2016 and November 7, 2017,
the not- for-profit group South Asian Americans Living Together (SAALT) said in
a report that it recorded 302 incidents of hate violence and xenophobic
political rhetoric aimed at these communities. This is an over 45% increase
from its previous analysis in just a year, SAALT said, adding that this has not
been seen since the year after the attacks of September 11, 2001.This breaks
down further into 213 incidents of hate violence and 89 instances of xenophobic
political rhetoric — of which 248, or an astounding 82%, were motivated by
anti-Muslim sentiment, it said.One in five perpetrators of hate violence
incidents referenced President Trump, a Trump policy, or a Trump campaign
slogan, underlining a strong link between the president’s anti-Muslim agenda
and hate violence post- election, the SAALT said. Suman Raghunathan, executive
director of SAALT alleged that through its policies and rhetoric, the Trump
administration’s incessant demonisation of Islam has created an environment of
hate and fear-mongering for Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim.PTI
Nuclear plan: China accuses US of 'Cold War
mentality'
China has accused the US of having a
"Cold War mentality" after the latter announced its plans to
diversify its nuclear arsenal by developing smaller bombs.On Sunday, the
Chinese foreign ministry said that the US should focus instead on promoting
regional stability, and condemned a US government report that listed Beijing as
a potential nuclear enemy.aljazeera
Cyprus election: Anastasiades wins
presidential race
Nicosia- Nicos Anastasiades has won a second
five-year term as president of the Republic of Cyprus, official results have shown.With
all votes counted,incumbent conservative secured 56 percent on Sunday,
comfortably ahead of his rival, Stavros Malas, leftist-backed independent,at 44%.aljazeera
Head of Turkey's religious affairs meets Saudi
minister
RIYADH:Head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Ali
Erbas met Saudi Minister of Islamic Affairs, Endowment, Dawa and Guidance Saleh
bin Abdul-Aziz Al ash-Sheikh in Riyadh on Sunday.Both officials discussed how
the potential of both countries could be used for creating global impact.Erbas
underlined the importance of facilitating Islamic training and knowledge, and
shared that Turkey’s religious affairs body wants to start new projects as well
as maintain existing partnerships with Saudi Arabia.He invited Saudi students
and researchers to continue their studies and research in Turkey.This was
Erbas’ third visit to Riyadh in the last four months. He invited Saudi minister
to visit Turkey.Anadolu
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