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Centre asks states, confine Rohingyas to
designated camps, record their personal &
biometric details
New Delhi: Centre has asked J&K and other
states to confine illegal Rohingya settlers to pre-identified locations within
their respective jurisdictions, record their personal particulars, including
biometric details, and not to issue them Aadhaar number or any other identity
proof. The meticulous preparation of their personal particulars has been sought
so that these details can eventually be shared with Myanmar for likely
repatriation, said a Govt source. This
indicates the Govt ’s intent to prevent a wider diffusion of Rohingya in India
beyond the camps, and the Centre’s concern over possible presence of radical
elements among them and their involvement in crime.In a letter to the chief
secretary of J&K Govt on Saturday,
the home ministry highlighted the “security risks posed by some of those
Rohingya/foreigners who entered India illegally and were involved in illegal
activities such as fraudulent procurement and/or fabrication of Indian identity
cards — PAN, voter IDs etc — money laundering, crimes and other anti-national
activities”, sources told TOI. Some of the Rohingya refugees, it added, are
also vulnerable to radicalisation. A home ministry officer said that similar
letters had gone to other states as well. According to estimates put together
by the intelligence agencies last year, there are around 40,000 Rohingya
Muslims illegally settled across the country.Of these, 7,096 are in J&K(Jammu),
3,059 in Hyderabad, 1114 in Mewat (Haryana), 1,200 in western UP , 1,061 in
Delhi (Okhla) and 400 in Jaipur.“Of late, some attempts by Rohingyas to move to
states like Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have come to notice. There has
also been new influx of immigrants into Jammu, Hyderabad, and Andaman &
Nicobar Islands,” said an intelligence officer. Advisory seeking confinement
and monitoring of Rohingyas follows up on a 2017 advisory that had asked the
states to detect Rohingyas and report them to Centre for likely deportation.TOI
Take steps to prevent entry of Rohingyas,
Centre to states
Centre awaits AAP report to continue ban on
SIMI
New Delhi: Union home ministry is awaiting
status report from AAP Govt on the
activities of the SIMI to decide whether the 5-year-ban on it should be
further extended.Govt had declared Simi
as an unlawful association and placed
it under a ban under the provisions of UAPA till Jan.31,
2019. In compliance of UAPA Centre constituted a tribunal for adjudicating whether there was sufficient
cause for declaring Simi an unlawful association under the provisions of the
same Act.tribunal through its July 30, 2014 order had confirmed the ban. And
subsequently, under the same Act, the ban became effective for a period of 5
years till Jan.31, 2019.In a communication
to Delhi chief secretary Anshu Prakash, MHA said since the ban was
coming to an end in 2019, it was for the state to find out if SIMI continued to
indulge in unlawful activity so that a fresh ban could be imposed on it.The letter
said: “If its (SIMI) membership continues, then ipso facto a case of unlawful
activity under the Act is made out. If this organisation and/or its members
commit offences in furtherance of their aims and objectives, then the charge
sheet would have to contain reference to such violations of the Act.”ASIAN AGE
TV channel pulled up for calling Delhi
residents 'rohingya, bangladeshis'
New Delhi: A TV channel has been served a
notice by the Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC) for airing a report which allegedly
referred to some locals of North Delhi's Bawana area as "Rohingya"
and "Bangladeshis", panel's head has said.The channel had aired a
programme on May 11 that "dubbed" residents of the area as
"Bangladeshis" and "Rohingyas" although these Indian
citizens had been officially settled there by Govt agencies after their relocation from various
areas of Delhi over the decades, chairman of the body Zafarul Islam Khan
said.The managing director of the channel was directed to reply by June 12 with
proof to show that the Bawana residents were "Bangladeshis" and
"Rohingya", Khan said.PTI
Justice KM Joseph’s elevation to Supreme Court
in limbo as top court goes on holiday
Uncertainty over the elevation of Uttarakhand High
Court Chief Justice KM Joseph to the Supreme Court continues with the collegium
headed by CJI Dipak Misra failing to meet to discuss the issue despite a
resolution on May 16 to convene a meeting “at the earliest.”The high-powered
panel of first five judges, which approves candidates for judgeship to the top
court, last met on May 16, two days before the court was to shut down for the
43 day-long summer recess. The resolution uploaded on the top court website
stated the “meeting stands deferred to be held at the earliest.”More than a
fortnight later, the CJI has not convened any meeting. Officials familiar with
the process also said that there is no likelihood of a meeting in the coming
week either because at least three of the five judges will be out of the
capital during that period. Judges are expected to be in Delhi in the second
week of June.And if the collegium fails to meet before Jun 22, when Justice J
Chelameswar demits office, then the recommendation for Justice Joseph could be
further delayed because the panel will have to be reconstituted. HT
Congress complains about 6 million ‘fake’
voters in MP, Election Commission to probe
New Delhi:Alleging manipulation by BJP-led
Madhya Pradesh Govt in the revision of
electoral rolls in the state, the Congress petitioned the Election Commission
(EC) on Sunday and said that nearly 12% or six million of the state’s
approximately 50 million voters are fake “and fraudulent”.A Congress delegation
led by its Madhya Pradesh unit president Kamal Nath and campaign committee
chief Jyotiraditya Scindia met EC officials on Sunday morning and submitted a
petition giving details of the allegedly “bogus and fraudulent” voters based on
its surveys in 101 constituencies, Nath said after the meeting. The petition
was accompanied by a presentation listing out examples of fake voters. He said
the number of voters in the state has gone up by 40% in the last five years
while the state’s population had increased by 24% .Congress pointed to a large
number of instances of individuals with multiple voter registrations in the
rolls published by the EC on Jan. 1. In one case, Scindia pointed out that a
woman resident of Betul was registered under 26 different names with the same
picture at the same polling booth. “It is shocking. The present Madhya Pradesh Govt
is behind this,” he said.An EC official
said on condition of anonymity that two teams are being deputed to probe the
allegations of errors in electoral rolls. HT
Mehbooba urges JK separatists to take part in
dialogues
J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti said mainstream parties had
laid the groundwork for the Centre’s decision to halt security operations in
the state during Ramzan and urged separatists to come forward for talks in
order to end the “bloodshed” in J&K. Addressing a rally in Srinagar,
Mehbooba said that those who are “out of the mainstream” have been given a
chance to stop the bloodshed in strike-hit state.“An army man, a cop or a CRPF
jawan can’t find solution to this issue. It needs a political solution. If
there has been an invitation of talks from the Centre, I request all to save J&K
and come forward. We can’t force you or
dictate you. We can only request you,” she said. Separatist leaders Syed Ali
Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik, have said they were ready for dialogue
provided there was clarity on what would be the agenda for the talks.HT
Local recruits & Burhan Wani’s killing:
Security officials map militancy’s new patterns in the Valley:indianexpress
New Delhi: Killing of Hizbul Mujahideen
commander Burhan Wani on July 8, 2016, marks a watershed in militancy in the
Valley because it is directly linked to a cycle of recruitments to this day,
says a confidential report prepared by security agencies and accessed by Indian
Express.The report, tracing the antecedents of as many as 35 young men who
became militants after Wani’s death — most of them have been killed in
encounters — tracked their networks, friends and family, and pored over
interrogation reports to find how each was “influenced” by the killing of
Wani.Their killing in encounters, in turn, has pushed others into militant
ranks, the report finds. The result: a steady supply of local young men who
have kept the Valley on the boil.This has significant implications for any
counter-insurgency effort, said a top security official involved with the
report, adding there was a need for “suspension of operations” to go in for an
“immediate course correction”. Earlier, the entire recruitment of a local youth
into militant ranks was a secret process. With rare exceptions, new entrants
would begin as “upper ground workers” and then would be sent for arms training
across LoC for a minimum period of three months, return with arms and
ammunition. These men would operate with aliases and hide their identities.
Though these men had varied motivations to become militants in post-1990
Kashmir, they had an almost similar background.This has changed. Indian express
J&K : Latest militant recruit could be
brother of IPS officer
Srinagar : 2 months after 7 militants were
killed at their ancestral house in Shopian, the brother of an IPS officer from
South Kashmir has gone missing, and is feared to have joined militant ranks.
Shams ul Haq Mengnoo, a student of BUMS, has been missing since May 26, and
police sources say he may have joined Hizbul Mujahideen. Shams is the younger
brother of a 2012-batch IPS officer currently posted outside the state. The
family has not filed any missing person complaint with police.While the rest of
the family members remain tightlipped on the matter, IPS officer told Indian
Express he had no knowledge of it. “I don’t know what you are saying,” he
said.Unlike other recent militant recruits, Shams has not uploaded any
gun-wielding pictures on social networking sites. Police sources say that of
late Hizb militants have desisted from posting pictures of new recruits, and
this could be the reason his picture has not been posted.On April 1, seven
militants had been killed in a fierce encounter at the family’s ancestral home
in Draggad, including a cousin of Shams, Zabir Ahmad Turray. An ex
Tehreek-e-Hurriyat activist, Turray had been repeatedly booked under the Public
Safety Act before joining militancy. In a video that emerged after the
encounter, Turray had blamed police for his joining Hizbul.There were 3 other
militants present at Draggad house that day, who had escaped. Among them was top
Hizbul commander Zeenat-ul-Islam. Sources say Zeenat is a childhood friend of
IPS officer, and the 2 families have close relations.The same day, in another
village in Shopian, Kachdora, 5 militants had been killed in an encounter.
Since that day, at least 30 youths have left homes to join militancy in South
Kashmir.indianexpress
JK court cancels bail granted to Andrabi, 4
others in terror-related case
Srinagar: J&K High Court cancelled the bail granted to
banned Dukhtaraan-e-Milat’s chief Aasiya Andrabi and four others in a
terror-related case, saying the trial court had exercised the discretion to
grant bail in an “erroneous manner”.on Saturday, the division bench comprising
Acting Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice MK Hanjura quashed the order of
Aanantnag Additional Sessions Court, granting bail to Andrabi and four others
last month.They had been arrested by Anantnag Police in April this year for
allegedly planning to organise a large-scale demonstration and stone-pelting in
South Kashmir.PTI
Will be constrained to revoke Ramzan ceasefire
if Pakistan doesn’t mend ways: Union minister
Yavatmal:Union minister Hansraj Ahir on Sunday
said the Govt would be “constrained” to
revoke the Ramzan ceasefire it had announced last month if Pakistan continued
to indulge in cross-border firing and terrorism.Ahir said, “We had decided to suspend operations in
view of Ramzan. However, there is no respite in cross-border terrorism and
ceasefire violations on the part of Pakistan.”“We will be constrained to revoke
the ceasefire agreement,” the minister said at a press conference at the Govt Guest House in Yavatmal on Saturday.PTI
Shillong unrest: Curfew imposed across city
till tomorrow, MHA sends team of central forces to restive areas
New Delhi :With Shillong remaining tense for
the fifth straight day, a curfew has been imposed across the city from 4pm
today to 5am tomorrow as the administration struggles to maintain law and order
in the restive parts of the city.In view of the prevailing situation, a joint
team of CRPF and BSF battalions has been dispatched to Shillong to help the
state government control the ongoing crisis, said the Home Ministry. However,
no report has been sought so far from the Meghalaya government on the present
situation.Shillong has been on the edge since Thursday following a clash
triggered by an altercation between a Khasi boy and a Sikh woman in a Punjabi
settlement with around 350 households in Them Iew Mawlong. Clashes between
stonepelting protesters and security forces continued in Shillong the previous
night, with teargas shells fired in the area where the standoff had
begun.indianexpress
Security threats to Dalit Sikhs: 4-member team
from Punjab to visit Meghalaya
Chandigarh: Seriously concerned about reports
of security threats to the Dalit Sikhs in Shillong, Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh has decided to rush a
4-member team, headed by Cabinet Minister Sukhjinder Randhawa, to the Meghalaya
capital.The team will make a ground assessment of the situation in the troubled
areas of Shillong and extend all possible help to Sikh community there, an
official spokesperson said on Sunday. Amarinder has directed the team, which
has MPs Gurjit Aujla and Ravneet Bittu and MLA Kuldip Singh Vaid as its other
members, to leave for Shillong on Monday morning.Amarinder has also sought the
Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma’s cooperation
in facilitating the team’s visit, and ensuring their access to the areas from
where reports of tension or trouble are coming in, said an official. Amid
reports of simmering tension, Amarinder has urged Sangma to provide full
protection and safety for the Sikh community and their religious institutions
in the state, said an official.Amarinder has offered all possible help to
Meghalaya Govt in ensuring the security
of Dalit Sikhs, whose ancestors were reportedly brought to Shillong during British
era.newindianexpress
Dalit murders show cruel face of caste in this
TN village
Kachanatham:It’s hard to believe that a couple
of persons from a dominant community can prevail over a village of mostly Dalit
households. But that is what appears to have happened at Kachanatham village in
Sivaganga district. On May 28 night, the village witnessed one of the worst
caste clashes in the district.Sources say that despite provocations in the form
of insults and intimidation by caste Hindus, the Devendra Kula Vellalars
(listed as as Scheduled Caste-Pallars) of the village would remain quiet,
partly in fear and partly to avoid trouble.The Pallars, almost all of whom own
farmland, depend on agriculture for their livelihood.They cultivate paddy,
sugarcane and banana when it rains, and when water is released from the Vaigai
dam. They fear the dominant community could block irrigation to their fields or
destroy their crops, P. Kannusamy, 65, a farmer,said on Saturday. “This is the
cruel face of the dominance of caste Hindus in this area, which we have borne
for several years,” he lamented.“We do not have the wherewithal to confront the
caste Hindus,” says N. Muthukannu, 51, another resident of the village. “Their
pangalis [clansmen] join hands to unleash terror on us when we question their
dominance.”told The Hindu
Muslim organisations too promoted cause of
Telangana
Hyderabad:At a time when the Telangana
sentiment was at its peak, several Muslims and Muslim organisations jumped into
the movement. Be it the 1969 agitation or, for that matter, more recently, in
2008 and 2009. And with the anniversary of the formation of the State on
Saturday, some of those involved in the movement share their
experiences.Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Telangana and Odisha president Hamid Mohammed
Khan says that it was in 2008 that the socio-religious organisation jumped in
to the fray. Jamaat, he says, was aware of the region’s backwardness and its
causes which is why the decision was taken to join the movement.“We formed an
advisory committee to study these injustices. We analysed a lot of Govt released
data, Planning Commission reports and the distribution of resources to
Telangana region. We analysed Govt employment patterns too.In 2008 we decided
to wholeheartedly support the movement,” Khan says.Jamaat, he says, was a part
of Telangana Joint Action Committee, and its organs supported the cause.“We
organised Telangana garjanas in all districts and used our established units to
further the cause of Telangana,” he says.While the Jamaat formally took part
movement in 2008, All India Majlis-e-Tameer-e-Millat (AIMTM), another socio-religious
organisation was active during the 1960s.According to its vice-president
Ziauddin Nayyar, it was in 1969 that the then general secretary Laiq Ali Khan
was actively associated with Telangana Praja Samithi, co-founded by then CM of
erstwhile AP M. Chenna Reddy. “Several of the Tameer-e-Millat’s leaders were
even jailed for being a part of the agitation. Our ties were so close with the
movement. Another member, Tahir Osmani, was well known for his renditions of
poetry and slogans for Telangana statehood,” Nayyar recalled.thehindu
Modi is fooling the nation: Congress slams PM
for visiting mosques when abroad
New Delhi:Congress party has hit out at PM Narendra Modi for allegedly refusing to wear
skull caps and visit mosques in the country but happily do so during foreign
visits. Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi made the attack in a tweet, in
which he posted a supposed conversation between a reporter and senior Congress
leader Kamal Nath during a press conference.As per Singhvi, Kamal Nath was
asked about PM Modi having ‘problem’ in wearing skull caps and visiting mosques
in the country, but happily visiting mosques, wearing caps and offering chadar
during visits abroad. Kamal Nath replied, as per Singhvi’s tweet: “For a man
who has fooled the nation, it doesn’t matter whether he wears the cap or
not.”times now
BJP clears pitch for 2019 Lok Sabha battle: No
Hindutva and Mandir, ‘only Vikas’
Panaji: Ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha Elections,
Union Minister for Minorities Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday cleared that BJP
will fight the upcoming polls on one issue only - “development, development and
development”. He further said that there was no space for Hindutva as well as
temple issues.Union Minister was in Goa to underline the achievements of PM Modi-led NDA Govt since it came to power in
2014. Hoping that NDA Govt will again
win next year’s Lok Sabha polls, Naqvi further said that there was no vacancy
for PM post in 2019. "The people of the country are with the development
agenda of the Modi-led Govt . But there are some people who want to hamper
it," he said.timesnownews
Nitish to be face of NDA in Bihar for 2019 Lok
Sabha polls
JD(U) has said that Bihar CM Nitish Kumar would be the face of NDA for the
2019 Lok Sabha elections in Bihar.“Nitish Kumar will be the face of NDA in
Bihar for Lok Sabha polls,” K C Tyagi, JD(U) national general secretary, said ,
apparently admitting that the ground realities had changed since 2014, when
Narendra Modi had single-handedly steered the NDA to victory in Lok Sabha
polls, both in the state and the country.HT
UP minister blames BJP’s bypoll losses on
anger over Maurya not being made CM
New Delhi:UP minister Om Prakash Rajbhar Monday blamed
voters’ disenchantment over the BJP’s choice of UP CM for the loss in the recent bypolls in the
state.Rajbhar claimed backward classes were unhappy that Keshav Prasad Maurya
wasn’t made the CM after the state
polls.“BJP contested assembly polls with Maurya (a OBC) as its face but later
Yogi Adityanath was made CM . Backwards supported the BJP in the hope that
Maurya will become CM. The result of this anger reflected in the defeat of the
BJP in bypolls,” Rajbhar told PTI over the phone.indianexpress
RSS spreads rumours, wants to convert country
into Hindu state: Ram Puniyani
Hyderabad: RSS is a rumour spreading society
and its motto is to convert the democratic country into a Hindu state by
implementing Manu Smriti Doctrines. These are the people who instead of
fighting for India’s independence, preferred the slavery of the British. Their
main objective is to spread hatred among the Hindus and the Muslims so that
Manu Smriti is implemented.Noted social activist, Ram Puniyani expressed these
thoughts while addressing a meeting here on ‘Journey of Democracy’ organized by
United Citizens’ Forum.Congress spokesman, Abhishek Pratap Singh, Gujarat MP,
Dr. Amee Yajnik, Rights Activist, Dr.Lenin Raghuvanshi, Advocate Waseem Ahmed
Khan also addressed the gathering.Dr. Amee Yajnik, MP of Gujarat mentioned the
lapses of Modi Govt in respect of women and said that by changing the label of
the schemes started by the previous Govt , BJP is beating the trumpet. Congress
Spokesperson, Abhishek Pratap Singh said that BJP claims that it is following
the ideology Shyama Prasad Mukherjee who was Dy. CM during the Muslim League
Regime in West Bengal in 1942. Dr. Raghuvanshi said that RSS is working on the
lines of ISIS to divide society. He further said that Prophet Mohammed (PBUH)
made Hazrat Bilal a Muazzin who was a slave and he implemented the constitution
in Makkah. He announced clemency after the conquest of Makkah. These are the
two incidents which promoted Islam and eradicated misconceptions about Islam.
Hiding these incidents, people are associating terrorism with Islam so as to
tarnish the image of Islam.Siasat
Mumbai: Iftar party by Sangh Parivar's Muslim
body faces flak for using state property
RSS' Muslim body Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM)
has planned to host an iftar party. However, trouble surfaced after objections
were raised against the use of the state Govt owned Sahyadri Guest House at Malabar Hill for
the purpose. RSS functionary, MRM's patron Indresh Kumar is scheduled to attend
the event to be hosted on Monday. "Govt rules bar any activity other than official
meetings and workshops (sic) from being held at the guest house. Even such
events can only be scheduled by the senior-most elected officials (the CM ,
deputy CM , ministers and ministers of state) and the senior-most bureaucrats
(the state's chief secretary, additional chief secretary, secretaries and
officials of similar rank). The rules do not permit events of hosting Iftaar
party, which is a religious event," noted Advocate Adil Khatri and RTI
activist Shakeel Ahmed Shaikh, in a written application to CM Devendra Fadnavis
about the "unauthorised use" of the guesthouse for the event. They
demanded an inquiry into the role of sanctioning officers from the protocol
department. However, a protocol department official said the venue had been
allotted to the minority development department for a meeting.dnaindia
RSS ‘No’ to iftar at RSS founder's memorial -
Smruti Mandir Nagpur
Nagpur: Amid the series of iftar parties held
throughout the country by Sangh Parivar’s Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), their
request to hold one inside RSS founder Dr Keshav Hedgewar’s memorial — Smruti
Mandir at Reshimbagh, has gone unheeded. As the venues were finalized, Smruti
Mandir did not feature in the list, which has left MRM activists miffed. They
are alleging step-motherly treatment by their parent organization, RSS.
Recently, state Govt had given Smruti Mandir the status of a tourist spot. “
However, after keeping the proposal on hold for some days, the request was
finally turned down by senior functionaries whom we met,” said Mohammed Farooq,
state chief of MRM.“The gesture has left MRM activists disappointed. It appears
that we are getting secondary treatment. If the RSS indeed wants to bring
Muslims closer, then why not hold the event at Smruti Mandir. It would be the
ideal venue to host an iftar dinner,” he said.Farooq said he had also assured
that only vegetarian food would be served, but to no avail. Not only this, a
senior member also turned down the request to hold an Eid milan get-together
inside premises.TOI
Delhi: Honour killing victim photographer
Ankit Saxena family host iftar party
New
Delhi:Nearly 4 months after Raghubir Nagar in west Delhi lost one of its
residents to what police said was a case of “honour killing”, when the clock
stuck 7.15 pm on Sunday evening, over hundreds of people gathered at a lane in
the area to partake in an iftar party. They wanted to spread the message of
peace by remembering the local Hindu boy who was killed because of his
relationship with a Muslim woman.Ankit Saxena, 23, a freelance wedding
photographer, was murdered in front of his family in Feb.by the relatives of a
woman he was courting since they were opposed to the inter-faith affair.5
months after the incident, his father Yashpal organised the iftar on Sunday
with the help of their neighbour Mohammad Izhar Alam. Alam’s family, Ankit’s
friends and neighbours pitched in to cut fruits, make roohafza (a cool drink)
and distribute food among people who gathered to attend the iftar outside their
home.In attendance were not just their neighbours, but also former bureaucrat
and activist Harsh Mander and Gorakhpur doctor Kafeel Ahmad Khan. A poster with
several photographs of Ankit Saxena, including one wherein he is seen wearing a
skull cap, and another in which he is seen wearing a turban, adorned a wall in
the lane.“Alam is like my brother and he suggested we can do this. I really
liked the idea but I did not know how to do it so he said he would arrange
everything. We hope this will help spread the message of peace and harmony,”
Yashpal said, adding, “I thought we should do this as it would be an auspicious
start to the trust that I have set up in Ankit’s name.”Yashpal said, “I want
them (the accused in Ankit’s murder) to be hanged. But I won’t hate everyone
from their community just because they belonged to it. There should be love and
peace. My only child is gone but I want his name to live forever.”Meanwhile,
while eating their meal, neighbours recalled what a happy-go-lucky man Ankit
was. Pushpa Otwal, a neighbour, said she knew Ankit since his childhood and
that she had come to attend the iftar in his memory. “I have never attended an
iftar in my life and I didn’t know what it is like. But Yashpal ji explained it
is just like how we fast during navratras. This is a very good step,” she said.
Mander said, “This is a message for humanity... many of us are not fasting but
when we sit together and eat, it sends a message that we are brothers and
sisters,” he said.Kafeel, suspended paediatrician of BRD Medical College, said
Ankit’s father has set a big example.HT
Thousands of People From Different Religions
Iftar Together at Jama Masjid of Delhi During Ramadan
New Delhi:Every year during the month of
Ramadan, Asia’s largest mosque, Jama Masjid of Delhi becomes instrumental in
uniting the people of different faiths and cultures who converge here for
Iftars and depart with unforgetable experience of love and harmony that
transcends religion, culture and political boundaries.It is a little known fact
that a few Muslim families of Old Delhi have been organising open joint Iftars
since several generations which people from all over the country (and abroad)
attend along with their families and friends.Canadian food blogger Trevor James
is at Jama Masjid with his friend Anubhav Sapra on this day. He feels he is
fortunate that he is visiting India during Ramadan.caravandaily
Ahmedabad: 39 men of Hindu Jagran Manch
detained for holding march against Muslim occupants in residential society
Ahmedabad:Police detained 39 persons who tried
to march under the banner of Hindu Jagran Manch against what they call “taking
over” of a residential society by Muslim occupants. Police said that the
protesters were detained as they had not been given permission to hold the
protest march in the area. “They had sought permission on Saturday. It cannot
be given on such a short notice. Since permission was given to them earlier for
a bike rally, today’s rally was also to be carried out on bikes. So, we
rejected it. Later, when they planned to go ahead with the programme, we
detained 39 of them. They were released after three hours,” Paldi station
officer B S Rabari said.indianexpress
Ghaziabad shocker! Skeleton of 4-year-old Zaid
found after 18 months in wooden box
Ghaziabad: A skeleton, reportedly of a
4-old-boy who was missing for the past 18 months, has been recovered from a
wooden box lying on the terrace of a house in Garima Garden area of Sahibabad
on Monday, the police said. On December 1, 2016, Mohammad Zaid went missing
from his house. A few days later, his father received a call demanding a ransom
of Rs 8 lakh for the release of his son, a police officer said.Even though two
persons were arrested for their alleged involvement in making the ransom call,
the missing boy could not be traced, he said.Today, some children playing in
the street went to the terrace of a building to search for their missing ball
and noticed the skeleton in the wooden box on the roof of the adjacent
building, the police officer said. They informed the locals, following which
Zaid's father reached the spot and identified it by his the clothes, he said,
adding the skeleton has been sent for autopsy and DNA test. timesnownews
Scientific study will be conducted to
determine the exact colour of Taj Mahal: Centre
Union Minister of Culture and Environment
Mahesh Sharma on Sunday said that a scientific study will be conducted to
determine the exact colour of the marble of Taj Mahal.A scientific study called
colour stereography will be carried out. It is a technique by which two almost
identical pictures are used to create a single three-dimensional image. It
allows people to perceive both variations in colour and variations of light.
“We have original photographs of the monument that are over 100 years old and
the same will be compared with pictures taken after cleaning of the monument to
measure the changes,” said Sharma, according to The TOI.scroll
3 cops arrested for their role in murder of
cattle trader Hussainabba in Karnataka
The Udupi Police on Sunday arrested three
personnel for their alleged role in the murder of a cattle trader in Shenarbettu
on May 29, TOI reported. SP Laxman Nimbargi identified the arrested personnel
as Hiriyadka Police Station Sub-Inspector DN Kumar, driver constable Gopal and
constable Mohan Kothwal, The Hindu reported.Of the three, Kumar was suspended
for dereliction of duty on May 31.The deceased’s brother had filed a complaint
alleging that 61-year-old Hussainabba was assaulted by Bajrang Dal activists
before he died. 2 other occupants in the car in which Hussainabba was
travelling had purportedly escaped from the site.Accused police personnel were
reportedly present at the scene of the murder.Nimbargi said the victim died in
a police vehicle and on finding him dead, the accused left his body a kilometre
away from the site where his vehicle was waylaid. The police officials then
registered a case of unnatural death while citing that he may have died of a
cardiac arrest while fleeing from the police.
Jharkhand: 58-yr-old woman allegedly dies of
starvation, son says no food at home for 3 days
Ranchi;A 58-year-old woman allegedly died of
starvation at a village under Dumri Block of Giridih district in Jharkhand.
District officials said the woman’s family did not have a ration card but are
probing whether a formal application for the same had been submitted.According
to officials, Savitri Devi, a resident of Mangargaddi village in Dumri, died on
Saturday. However, they were only informed about the death after her younger
son, Hulas Mahato, reached home on Sunday. An investigation is underway to
probe Devi’s death, they said.Mahato claimed that his mother has not been
receiving pension in the last three years despite being selected under a scheme
for widows in 2014. He said that after
his father’s death in 2010, the little produce they got from a small
family-owned farm barely lasted for two-to-three months. indianexpress
More boys dropping out of madrasahs in Bengal: thehindu
On June 1, when results of West Bengal Board
of Madrasah Examination were declared, an unusually high number of girls had
made it to the merit list. From Mehbuba Yesmin of Kaliachak in Malda district,
who stood second, to Napisa Khatun of Murshidabad district, who ranked 10th,
there were five girls who made it to the merit list.A close look at students
who took High Madrasah Examination in 2018 reveals that almost 70% are girls.
Of the 52,502 students who took the examination this year, 36,565 are girls and
15,937 are boys. Madrasah Board authorities said schemes promoting girls
education such as Kanyashree, conditional cash transfer scheme, and Sabuj
Sathi, the scheme of providing bicycles to school-going girls, are some of the
reasons. But there is more to this phenomenon than encouraging girls to attend
schools.
Process for establishment of JK madrasa board
underway: Minister
Jammu :A process is underway to establish a
board to run the affairs of madrasas in J&K , Minister for Hajj and Auqaf
Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali has said.He announced this at a meeting with ulemas in
Rajouri district last evening, an official spokesman said.The minister said the
Govt under the leadership of CM Mehbooba Mufti was keen to give due
recognition for their services and it could be achieved by giving them an
institutional set up.PTI
WORLD
Iran denies negotiating with Israel over Syria
Secretary of Supreme National Security Council
of Iran, Ali Shamkhani yesterday denied media reports claiming that Iran and
Israel have held talks over the Iranian presence in Syria in the Jordanian
capital, Amman.“Reports of talks between representatives from Iran and Zionist
entity aim to legitimise the Zionist entity and weaken the axis of resistance,”
Shamkhani said in a press statement.“Syria’s response to Israeli aggression
against the T4 airbase has enhanced the Syrian force’s confidence and made the
Zionist entity understand that it will pay for any new aggression.”Last week,
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Bahram Qassemi, denied reports that Iranian
and Israeli officials have held indirect talks over the Syrian conflict.Saudi
Elaph newspaper reported yesterday that Iranian and Israeli security officials
held security talks in a hotel in Amman. According to the paper, as a result of
the talks, Tehran pledged not to involve Lebanese Hezbollah or any Iranian
militia in battles in Western Syria;specifically in Daraa and Quneitra, against
Syrian opposition. The paper added that Israel has agreed in return not to
interfere in the course of the fighting there.middleeastmonitor
Camp David: Saudi secretly backed landmark
negotiations
Documents released by the US State Dept.have
revealed secret Saudi backing for the Camp David negotiations between Egypt and
Israel, contrary to the kingdom’s very public condemnation for the
controversial 1979 peace accords. Saudi Arabia officially cut ties with Cairo
after Egypt’s President Sadat signed the peace deal with Israel, calling him a
traitor of the Arab states.According to a report by The New Arab, the files,
classified until their release on Friday, reveal Riyadh’s duplicitous dealings
in which it gave Washington its private support for the US-led peace process in
the Middle East, while publicly rejecting the “unilateral Egyptian solution”
with Israel.A telegram from Jeddah dated 10 August 1978 reveals a meeting
between the US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and the Saudi Foreign Saud al-Faisal
in Taif. In the telegram, the kingdom gives its backing to US President Jimmy
Carter’s invitation to Egypt’s President Sadat and Israel’s PM Menachem Begin to Camp David for peace
negotiations following decades fighting between the two
countries.middleeastmonitor
Israel minister wants to build settlement near
Gaza in response to missile attacks
Israel’s housing minister is planning to build
a new settlement close the blockaded Gaza Strip in relation to mass protests
and the worst flare-up since a 2014 war.Yoav Galant, who is also a Security
Cabinet member, will submit plans on Sunday to build the settlement to house at
least 500 families just seven kilometres from Palestinian enclave, Israel Hayom
reported. Galant hopes the settlement will be set up near the religious Kibbutz
Saad, which has been the target of numerous rocket attacks from Gaza.The report
comes after more than 120 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire during
protests along the border with Gaza.middleeastmonitor
Israel forces dig up Palestinian graves in
Jerusalem
Officers of Israel’s Nature And Parks
Authority (INPA) reportedly resumed excavation work yesterday at the
Palestinian Bab Al-Rahma cemetery, just outside the walls of the Old City in
occupied East Jerusalem, according to the Wafa news agency.Wafa reported that
INPA staff began digging up graves and land in the cemetery around 20 days ago.
Officials returned yesterday to continue digging, which Wafa noted was in order
to build “a national [Israeli] park on parts of the cemetery’s land”.Last
month, Israeli authorities placed metal fences around the parts of the cemetery
that it intends to annex. Wafa added that the parts of the cemetery which are
subject to confiscation and destruction contain the centuries-old graves of
Muslim leaders.middleeastmonitor
Report: Israel imposes $28,100 fines on
Palestinian kids
Israeli courts have imposed fines of more than
100,000 shekels ($28,100) on Palestinian children detained in Ofer prison, near
Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, a new report revealed.Palestinian
Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said that as many as 32
Palestinian minors were arrested and brought to the prison’s children’s
section, 12 of them were arrested from their homes, 18 from the streets and one
child was detained at a military checkpoint while another was arrested for not
possessing a permit.MEMO
Jordan's King Abdullah to ask PM to resign
amid protests: sources
Jordan's King Abdullah II is expected to ask PM
Hani al-Mulki to resign amid widespread
anger over price hikes and an income tax reform bill, sources told Al
Jazeera.For a fourth consecutive day, hundreds of Jordanians converged in the
capital, Amman, demonstrating on Sunday night against IMF-backed price
increases and a tax reform bill sent to parliament last month.The protests,
which also took place in main provincial towns, are the biggest the kingdom has
seen in years. Demonstrators have been convening near the cabinet office,
chanting and calling for the removal of Jordanian PM Hani al-Mulki, whose Govt proposed raising income tax by at least five
percent.Al Jazeera
Bashar al-Assad to visit North Korea
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is set to
visit North Korea in what would be the first visit by an international head of
state to the country since Kim Jong-un came to power, North Korean state media
reported.Assad is said to have told the North Korean envoy to Damascus, Mun
Jong-nam, that he would make the trip during a meeting on May 30. aljazeera
Nearly half of Afghan children out of school:
UN
Kabul :Nearly half of Afghanistan's children
are not attending school because of worsening security, poverty and sex discrimination,
according to a new UN report.The number of children deprived of schooling is at
its highest rate since 2002 -- the year after US-led ouster of the repressive
Taliban regime, which had banned girls from the classroom.Girls remain more
likely to miss out on a formal education, making up 60 % of the 3.7 million
children aged between seven and 17 not at school.The figure rose as high as 85 %
in some of the worst-affected provinces,
reflecting pervasive gender-based discrimination in parts of the deeply
conservative Muslim country.AFP
46 migrants drown after boat sinks off
Tunisian coast
At least 46 migrants drowned when their boat
sank off Tunisia's southern coast while dozens of others were rescued by the
coastguard.The rescue operation was ongoing, the defence ministry said on
Sunday."The coastguard and the navy continue their search with the support
of a military plane," the interior ministry said.aljazeera
Anti-immigration party wins Slovenia elections
The anti-immigrant SDS party of veteran
right-wing leader Janez Jansa won Slovenia's parliamentary election, but now
faces a difficult task in courting a coalition partner to govern.The
centre-right Slovenian Democratic Party secured 25 % of the vote, the State
Election Commission said late on Sunday.The anti-establishment LMS party of
comedian-turned-politician Marjan Sarec had 12 percent, followed by the
centre-left Social Democrats with 10 percent, and the SMC party of outgoing PM Miro Cerar at 9 percent.aljazeera
Facebook allowed phone makers to access users’
data, says New York Times
After a New York Times report claimed that
Facebook allowed about 60 device makers, including Apple and Samsung, to access
personal information of users and their friends, the social network has
defended the pacts saying that these partnerships do not raise privacy
concerns.Even before Facebook apps were widely available on smartphones,
Facebook had data-sharing partnerships with the device makers, the report said
citing company officials, adding that most of the deals remain in
effect.Facebook said that the partners signed agreements that prevented
people's information from being used for any other purpose than to recreate
Facebook-like experiences.IANS
White House slams group for attacking its
senior official as an Islamophobe
WASHINGTON: The White House has come out
strongly in support of recently appointed Chief of Staff of the national
security advisor Fred Fleitz whose views on radical Islam have sparked
controversy in the past.Fleitz, national security adviser John Bolton's new
chief of staff, has drawn scrutiny for his past work with the Center for
Security Policy, a conservative think-tank, that has been accused of promoting
anti-Muslim messages.PTI
FLASH: VIEWS & NEWS
Was making Adityanath UP CM PM Modi’s biggest political mistake?Kubool
Ahmad
Yogi govt wooing minority among minority in UP
as Shias reportedly constitute 15-20% of Muslim population
Kairana, a state template:Sudha Pai , Sajjan
Kumar
Why the Muslim Personal Law Board will not
agree to allow adoption in Islam:SANYA DHINGRA
Photographers summoned for Babri trial worried
about grainy memories of 1992 demolition:RITIKA JAIN
Modi’s gambit to split OBCs can be risky for
his govt in 2019. But do risks deter him?D.K. SINGH
Purulia killings: RSS-BJP workers under threat
in Mamata’s West Bengal or is it orchestrated panic?theprint
Two centenarians from Bangladesh on opposite
ends of immigrant ruling:Sadiq Naqvi
2G: The scam that wasn’t :
SALMAN KHURSHID AND DAKSHA SHARMA
Except BJP, all parties in Assam opposed to
Citizenship Amendment Bill
India’s ‘good relations’ with Iran and Russia
important to the US :DHAIRYA MAHESHWARI
Save the Children: Gaza children on brink of
mental health crisis: aljazeera
As the Kathua Trial Begins, Let Us Remember
What Hindu Dharma Really Stands For: Yashwant Thorat
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