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Kerala floods: Anger mounts as toll rises to
368; red alert in 3 districts
The death toll due to rains and floods in
Kerala has gone up to 368, as 33 more deaths were reported on Saturday even as
around 58,000 people were rescued in different parts of the state, and red
alert is now there in just three districts, down from 11.Chief Minister
Pinarayi Vijayan, while giving the latest figures, told the media late on
Saturday that the flood relief work is going on in full swing and things are
slowly coming under control and more helicopters and personnel would be engaged
in the rescue and relief operations on Sunday.The 33 deaths reported during the
day took place in Ernakulam, Thrissur, Idukki, Pathanamthitta and Alappuzha
districts. Rejecting a demand from the Congress-led opposition and Kerala BJP
to hand over the rescue operations to the Army, he said: "In a rescue
operation, the most important thing is that it should be done only by the local
authorities who are well-versed with the locality, and the Army and other
agencies' help is sought and a combined operation is done."Meanwhile,
anger mounted across Kerala as coordination of rescue work went haywire due to
the magnitude of the calamity."There are several people who are waiting to
be rescued in areas like Pandanad and I
saw two bodies floating in the water. If there is anymore delay in, things will
taken a turn for the worse. We are drinking rain water to keep us
going...," said a resident of Pandanad.On late Saturday evening, a
150-member National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team started rescue
operations in and around affected areas of Chengannur. Congress MLA VD
Sateeshan, who was spearheading the rescue operations in Paravur in Ernakulam
district, said that he stood before a rescue boat team with folded hands and
they obliged and rescued several people.IANS
Kerala floods LIVE: IMD predicts no rains in
next 5 days
Shortage of medicine, drinking water for
Kerala flood survivors
Kerala counts its losses: 800,000 displaced,
at least 245 dead in floods
After UAE, now Qatar extends helping hand to
Kerala flood victims with Rs 35 crore financial aid
A day after UAE announced the formation of
committee to help Kerala flood victims, another Gulf country has come forward
with a huge financial help. Qatar’s Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has
announced a financial aid worth $5m (Rs 35 crore) towards the relief of flood
victims in God’s own country.According to media reports, more than 325 people
have already died in the raging floods, being described as the worst for over a
century.The financial help announced by Qatar will be used towards helping in
building houses for those, whose houses have been washed away in the floods. A
report by Peninsula Qatar website said that Al Thani also sent a cable of condolences
to President Ram Nath Kovind for the victims of the nature’s fury.Meanwhile,
Qatar Charity, through its representative in India, has also launched emergency
relief for those affected by the nature’s fury. The charity has already pumped
in half a million riyals for the first stage of its relief operation.This
humanitarian interface coincides with the launch of a fund raising campaign
targeting more than QR4m to meet the urgent humanitarian needs of 60,000 people
through food, medical and shelter assistance.jantakareporter
Mumbai: SIO raises Rs 1.5Lakh from 50 mosques
as relief funds
Mumbai: Owing to the dreadful floods due to
heavy rains in Kerala, the Students Islamic Organisation (SIO) of Maharashtra
has raised a whopping Rs 1.5 lakh from over fifty mosques in the state.The
organisation is carrying out a nationwide fundraising campaign for the state’s
relief fund. According to the organisation, they started the relief work after
conducting a survey of the affected sites along with some other NGOs. “At
present there is a huge need of food supplies, medical aid and shelter for the
displaced. Based on the list of requirements, the organisation is carrying
nationwide fundraising campaign,” said a member. As the level of destruction in
Kerala is huge, the organisation is still trying to bring in more support for
them.Khizer Shabibi, a student of mechanical engineering and in charge of flood
relief drive in Maharashtra has appealed to all countrymen to come forward and
help the people with financial aid. “In coming week, Muslims in Maharashtra
will celebrate Eid by sharing the pain of our brothers by sending massive
donations to Kerala. Furthermore, funds will be collected at more than 100
mosques along with prayers,” the student.ASIAN AGE
Kerala Floods: More than 50 mosques across
Maharashtra raise funds for deluge
AAP MLAs, MPs and ministers donating one-month
salary for Kerala: Kejriwal
New Delhi: All AAP MPs, MLAs and ministers
will donate their one-month salary for the relief work in flood-ravaged Kerala,
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said today, and also urged the city govt
employees to contribute at least one-day salary for the cause.CM, who yesterday
announced Rs 10 crore relief for the state, said that SDM offices will act as
collection centres for clothes, blankets etc.Kejriwal also assured the resident
commissioner of Kerala that his government will provide any further help needed
by the state.PTI
Kerala girl Hanan Hamid trolled for selling
fish donates Rs 1.5 lakh to CM’s relief fund
A 21-year-old Kerala girl, who was trolled for
selling fish outside her college to meet her educational needs has contributed
Rs 1.5 lakh to the Chief Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund, as the state
struggles to cope with the flood fury.Hanan Hamid, a B.Sc student at a private
college at Thodupuzha in Idukki district, said the money was donated by various
people after her struggle to fund her studies and take care of her family was
widely shared on the social media. “I had got the amount from people and I am
happy to give back the amount to the needy,” she told PTI.21-year-old, who also
worked as an anchor and flower girl for programmes to make ends meet had
requested people to donate for relief funds. Her story had gone viral after a
Malayalam daily reported her struggles. She was trolled as a section of media
users had expressed doubts about her struggles and claimed it was
“fake”.indianexpress
Kerala floods: college girl Hanan Hamid
donates rs 1.5 lakh she got from well-wishers
UAE-based Indian-origin tycoons pledge Rs 125
mn for flood-hit Kerala
Donate 10 of Eid budget for Kerala flood
victims Farangi to Muslims
Lucknow: The Islamic Centre of India has appealed
to Muslims to at least donate 10 per cent of their Eid-ul-Adha budget for
flood-ravaged Kerala. Head of the Islamic Centre of India and senior member of
All India Muslim Personal Law Board Maulana Khalid Rasheed Farangi said the
amount should be deposited in the Kerala chief minister's relief fund. "Bakr-Eid is a festival which
symbolises sacrifice in the real sense. This time, it is the flood-affected
people of Kerala who need our support," he said.PTI
Muslim organisations issue advisory to ensure
a peaceful Bakri Eid
Prominent Muslim organisations, religious
leaders and scholars have issued a joint advisory calling upon the community to
abide by ‘dos and don’ts’, to ensure that Eid ul Adha, popularly known as Bakri
Eid passes off peacefully, without any unpleasantness. The festival of
sacrifice will be celebrated on August 22, 2018, across the country. The
eight-point advisory, ahead of a festival where Muslims offer cattle as a symbolic sacrifice in remembrance of
Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham), has asked Muslims to avoid streets and public places
for carrying out the sacrifice and hold slaughters jointly at a common place
and ensure the highest level of cleanliness and hygiene. It also requested
community members to not break the law under any circumstance and keep in touch
with the local administration and draw their attention towards maintaining law
and order in the area. The advisory was issued by Maulana Syed Muhammad Rabey
Husni Nadwi, president of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB),
Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, president of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, and other
eminent leaders. The advisory stated that owing to the present situation, there
could be a difficulty in procuring the qurbani meat (or the sacrificial
animal). But people should remember their responsibility and carry out the duty
responsibly. It stated that people should not offer the sacrifice in open places
and on the roads, footpaths and roadways. “Kindly ensure that you are burying
the blood and entrails of the animal in the earth after the qurbani. Kindly
ensure the highest level of cleanliness and hygiene,” the advisory read. The
advisory also asked people to try and offer the sacrifice collectively in
neighbourhoods and asked people to exercise maximum self-control and
self-restraint. DNA INDIA
Top Indian Ulema issue advisory for
Eid-ul-Adha:‘Make animal sacrifice collectively, bury entails and blood,
exercise maximum self-control’: Greater Kashmir
Muslims organisations issue advisory for Eid
ul Adha:TCN
Ahead of Eid, Muslim groups, scholars issue
advisory: Rising Kashmir
Muslim bodies issue advisory to community for
peacefully Eid ul Adha: theindianawaaz
Bakrid 2018: 8 must-to-do things Muslims asked
to follow religiously this Eid-ul-Adha: Okhla Times
Bill in Parliament for building Ram temple
likely if BJP gets numbers: UP deputy CM
Lucknow:Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister
Keshav Prasad Maurya on Sunday said he was hopeful that if the need arose and
there was no way out, the Centre could opt for the legislative route in
Parliament for the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya, when it has
adequate numbers in both Houses.“When such a need arises that there is no way
out except bringing a Bill, I am fully confident that in such a situation and
when we have adequate strength (in both Houses of Parliament), remember these 2
things”, he said without elaborating.“At present, in Parliament, we do not have
adequate strength. Because even if we bring the matter in Lok Sabha, our
strength in the Rajya Sabha is less, and it will definitely be defeated. Every
devotee of Lord Ram knows this. The court will soon give its judgement.“The day
we have the strength, it will be constructively used and not misused (Lekin Jis
din hamare paas takat hogaa, uss takat ka sadpuyog hoga, durpayog nahi hoga),”
Maurya told PTI.He said the matter was being heard in the Supreme Court.Maurya
said if the grand Ram temple was built, it will be a “true tribute” to VHP
stalwart Ashok Singhal, Mahant Sri Ramchandra Das Paramhans (former head of the
Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas in Ayodhya) and karsewaks who sacrificed their lives.PTI
Bhopal SIMI men killing case: Supreme Court
not inclined to interfere in commission’s report
New Delhi The Supreme Court has said it was
“not inclined” to interfere with the findings of an inquiry commission in the
alleged encounter killings of 8 activists of the banned outfit, SIMI, after a
prison break in Bhopal in 2016.The commission, in its report, had given a clean
chit to the MP Police and had termed as “reasonable” and “inevitable” the use
of force by the police that resulted in the deaths of 8 SIMI activists.A bench
comprising Justices Ranjan Gogoi, Navin Sinha and KM Joseph referred to the
report of one-member commission, headed by a retired high court judge, and said
there was no point in keeping the plea seeking independent probe into the case
pending before it.“Inquiry report of a retired high court judge has come. The
report is negative,” the bench said, adding, “There is no point in keeping the
matter pending”.“In view of the report of the commission of inquiry constituted
by a retired High Court judge, which has been brought on record, we are not
inclined to interfere. The special leave petition is accordingly disposed of,”
the bench said. The bench was dealing with a petition filed by a relative of
one of those killed in the encounter seeking an independent probe in the
incident.The counsel appearing for the petitioner claimed in the court that the
accused had not fired at the policemen and wanted to surrender.The lawyer
alleged that it was an extra judicial killing of 8 persons and an independent
inquiry was needed in the matter.The commission, in its report tabled in the MP
assembly in June this year, had said, “The use of force resulting in the death
of the escaped persons was quite inevitable and quite reasonable under the
prevailing circumstances.”SIMI activists were identified as Amzad, Zakir
Hussain Sadiq, Mohammad Salik, Mujeeb Shaikh, Mehbood Guddu, Mohammad Kalid
Ahmed, Aqeel and Majid. PTI
Maharashtra ATS Recovers Coded Letters From
Right-wing Terror Suspects
Maharashtra ATS investigating the case of
explosives and firearms recovered from members of Hindu organisations, told the
court that they have recovered several documents that have handwritten code
language pointing towards a terror conspiracy.ATS has also said that they have
recovered some vehicle number plates and firearms, which could have been used
in some offence.Vaibhav Raut, Sharad Kalaskar and Sudhanva Gondhlekar were
produced before the special NIA court on Saturday as their eight day custody
came to an end.ATS has sought an extension of remand on grounds that it needs
to confront the accused with the recovered articles and also decode several
chits and letters written in code language recovered from the arrested
individuals and also to find the mastermind and other people involved in the
terror conspiracy.ATS told the court that several raids have been conducted at
various places and huge quantities of suspicious articles have been seized,
including arms, ammunition, parts of firearms, explosives, vehicles, number
plates, hard disks, pen drives, laptops and several handwritten chits and
letters. However, the court was told that ATS could not get time to interrogate
the accused as they were busy conducting raids and so more time was needed.ATS
has recovered CCTV footage of several locations around the place from where
firearms and explosives were seized. The footage is being monitored to find
evidence in the case.news18
Gau Raksha Group in Maharashtra Rallies in
Support of Terror Accused
Mumbai: Even as ATS is investigating the role
of three Hindu hardliners arrested in Maharashtra for their alleged roles in
terror activities, over six thousand people gathered at a protest rally
organised in Nallasopara, North Mumbai on August 17. The protest rally was an “emotional
appeal” to the state police and was organised in the support of the prime
accused Vaibhav Raut, said one of the organisers.Raut, a resident of
Nallasopara and who ran a ‘cow-protection outfit’ called the ‘Hindu Govansh
Raksha Samiti’ in the region since 2014 was arrested on August 10 along with
Sharad Kalaskar of Aurangabad and Sudhanva Gondhalekar of Satara.According to
the investigating agency, Kalaskar and Gondhalekar were allegedly working with
Raut to make homemade bombs and to spread panic at public gatherings. ATS has
claimed that the trio were planning to place one of the bombs a few metres away
from one of the upcoming Maratha rallies. This, accordingly to the
investigations so far, was to make the state act upon the long pending Maratha
community’s demand for reservation. The trio have been sent to ATS’s custody
until August 28.The gathering at Nallasopara on Friday mainly comprised of men
and women from different areas like Dahanu, Wada, Thane, Raigad and Mumbai.
Most of them belonged to the Bhandari caste, to which Raut belongs to. “Raut
has been leading an active public life and his work of saving cows is known
across this region. He has in fact influenced several other youths to get
involved in the work of Gau Raksha. The Bhandari community came out in support
of his work and wrongful criminalisation yesterday in the rally,” said Diptesh
Patil, one of Raut’s close friends and also a co-founder of the cow-protection
organisation that Raut floated a few years ago.thewire
Dabholkar murder: Pune court remands key
suspect to CBI custody till August 26
PUNE:A day after Sachin Andure, alleged by
probe agencies to be one of the shooters of rationalist Dr. Narendra Dabholkar,
was arrested by CBI, a special court on Sunday directed the accused to be
remanded to CBI custody till August 26.Earlier in the day, CBI escorted Andure,
a resident of Aurangabad’s Kuwarphalli area, from Mumbai to Pune and produced
him before the court of Special Judge Archana Mujumdar a little after noon amid
robust police deployment.Andure’s name first cropped up during Maharashtra ATS
interrogation of Sharad Kalaskar. ATS had arrested Kalaskar along with Vaibhav
Raut from Nallasopara in Mumbai, and Sudhanwa Gondalekar from Pune on August 10
for allegedly planning disruptive activities in several parts of the
State.thehindu
Ex-Sena corporator detained in Dabholkar
killing case
Aurangabad :A former Shiv Sena corporator has
been detained in connection with the killing of anti-superstition activist
Narendra Dabholkar in Maharashtra’s Jalna district, CBI sources said
Sunday.Shrikant Pangarkar, a former member of the Jalna Municipal Corporation,
was detained Saturday night by the CBI after interrogation of Sachin Prakasrao
Andure, the alleged main shooter in the Dabholkar murder case, they
said.Andure, a resident of Aurangabad in Central Maharashtra, was arrested in
Pune last evening, said a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) spokesperson
Saturday.Pangarkar, aged around 40, was taken into custody after Andure told
the CBI that he was with him at the time of Dabholkar’s murder, the sources
said. The former corporator was allegedly riding pillion on the motorcycle
driven by Andure, they said.PTI
Amroha BJP leader demands capital punishment
for Navjot Singh Sidhu for hugging Pakistan Army Chief
BJP minority morcha leader from Uttar
Pradesh’s Amroha on Sunday triggered a controversy after he demanded a capital
punishment for Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu for hugging Pakistan
Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and sitting beside President of Pakistan
Sardar Masood Khan at Imran Khan’s oath-taking ceremony held on Saturday in Islamabad.
Aftab Advani further said Navjot Singh Sidhu is Pakistan’s lover and he should
be sent to Pakistan.“Attending Imran Khan’s oath-taking ceremony over the
funeral of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is clearly an act of
treason. I demand the central government to file a case of sedition against
him. He should be given capital punishment, if possible,” said BJP minority
morcha leader from Amroha. It comes hours after BJP criticised Navjot Singh
Sidhu for attending Imran Khan’s oath-taking ceremony.“Did Sidhu take
permission from the Congress Party before deciding to visit Pakistan to attend
Imran Khan’s oath-taking ceremony,” said BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra while
addressing a press conference on the matter on Saturday. NewsX
Incumbent upon PM Modi to safeguard Article
35-A: Valley trade bodies
The business community in Kashmir today said
it was incumbent upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi to safeguard Article 35-A of
the Constitution if he was honest in his "deeds and words" to embrace
the people of the valley.Article 35-A, which provides special rights and
privileges to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, is currently facing a legal
challenge in the Supreme Court.The community said Modi should either get the
petitions challenging Article 35-A in the top court withdrawn by the
petitioners or to defend the provision by pleading for the dismissal of the
case."It is an irony that Indian PM, who only few days ago swore of
Kashmiriyat from the ramparts of Red Fort, is attempting a judicial onslaught
on the same Kashmiriyat with the intention to change its demography for larger
insidious political agenda," Abdul Majeed Zargar, spokesman of the joint
forum of 27 trade, business and civil society organisations, told reporters
here.He said, "If PM Modi is honest in his deeds and words to embrace people
of Kashmir, then it becomes incumbent upon him either to get these petitions
withdrawn by the RSS-backed organisation or to defend his own constitutional
provision in the Supreme Court."Zargar said Modi should also make a
statement in Parliament "reaffirming this solemn commitment to the people
of Kashmir".The forum also appealed to Jammu and Kashmir Governor NN Vohra
to rise to the occasion and engage the best legal minds to argue against the
petitions "both on law and facts and get them dismissed".Zargar said
the people of Kashmir would "shed their last drop of blood" to save
their demographic character, identity and other hereditary rights. Separatists,
under the banner of the JRL, yesterday had called for strike on August 26 and
27 to protest against any tinkering with Article 35-A and also threatened to
launch a mass agitation if the Supreme Court gives a verdict against it.PTI
Kashmiri engineer suspected to be ISIS
sympathiser deported from UAE
New Delhi :A Kashmiri man, living in the
United Arab Emirates (UAE), was deported to India on August 14 on suspicion of
being an ISIS sympathiser, news agency PTI reported. Irfan Ahmad Zargar, a
36-year-old resident of Chattatabal area on the outskirts of Srinagar,
allegedly showed active support to ISIS activities in Syria on social media
platforms.Zargar was interrogated by the NIA for two days before being handed
over to Jammu and Kashmir police, who were carrying out detailed
investigations, PTI quoted officials as saying.Zargar, an engineer, was picked
up by the authorities in Dubai on April 28 this year when he was entering into
the Gulf country from Oman, officials told PTI. Zargar, who used to work with a
telecom company in Dubai, maintained that he had travelled to Oman for setting
up a handcrafts business.indianexpress
Dawood’s key aide, Jabir Moti, held in London
New Delhi: Mafia don Dawood Ibrahim’s key
aide, Jabir Moti, has been detained in London by security agencies, ANI
reported on Sunday. Moti, a Pakistan national, is believed to be in charge of
Ibrahim’s finances.It is learnt that Moti was arrested by London Police at a
star hotel on Friday and has been produced before a court, according to a news
report.It is not clear on what charges Moti is currently being held. The news
report claims that Moti holds a 10-year UK visa and is a permanent resident of Hungary.
He is also a citizen of Antigua and Dominican Republic, the report added. His
passport states that he is a resident of Karachi and is 48 years old.indianexpress
Truck with cow carcasses in MP: BJP
politicking over cows, says Congress
After the recovery of a truck carrying
carcasses of 41 cows near Indore on Saturday and deaths of hundreds of cows
across the state in recent weeks, the Congress has accused the BJP government
in Madhya Pradesh of paying lip service to the cow and using it for whipping up
passions.The state has a strict anti-cow slaughter Act and a board devoted to
conservation of the animal, yet cows are dying unnatural deaths, the Opposition
party alleged. It cited the case of BJP-ruled Rewa Municipal Corporation, in
whose premises cows were found illegally buried last week.Congress MLA
Sunderlal Tiwari alleged that six cows were buried in RMC premises close to a
temple and the matter came to light only after a putrid smell spread. He said
that another nine cows were buried near the corporation’s godown. “Bajrang Dal
and BJP kept silent and the issue was raised by Congress councillors,’’ he
said, accusing the ruling party of suppressing the matter. Only junior-level
staff were penalised and senior officers were spared, MLA said, demanding a
probe into the incident and the deaths of cows in Udaigiri, Vidisha, Kuakhedi,
Gwalior and Ujjain among other places.indianexpress
Cleric, 2 others held under sedition charges
in UP for not allowing national anthem in madrasa on I. Day
Uttar Pradesh Police have arrested a Muslim
Cleric and two others for not allowing national anthem to be sung in a madrasa
in Maharajganj on Independence Day. In a video, making rounds on social media
the cleric, Mohammad Junaid Ansari and two unidentified persons stopped
students of the Arabia Ahle Sunnat Anware Taiba Girls’ College from singing the
national anthem after hoisting the national flag on August 15th.“Hamare yahan
rashtragan nahi hoga…najayaz hai,” Ansari is heard saying in the video.Police
who booked the trio for sedition said Ansari was an outsider and had no role in
the college.The national flag was hoisted by principal Fazlur Rahman, after
which the students were about to sing the national anthem when Ansari came up
and stopped children saying it was not allowed in Islam. he principal who was
standing next to him does not oppose Ansari, while another teacher, Sunil Mani
Tripathi, who shot the video, can be heard protesting against Ansari’s
action.Police also confirmed that despite the objection buy Ansari, the
students in fact sung the National Anthem later.indiatimes
Engineer, lawyer set up group to monitor
'biased and fake' news, draw flak from journalists
MUMBAI: An aeronautical engineer from Mumbai
and a Delhi-based lawyer have come together to set up a group, which will
monitor news reports and social media posts that are "biased and
fake" and take necessary action.The organisation, "India Against Bias
Media" (IABM), has been formed by Vipul Saxena, an aeronautical engineer,
and Vibhor Anand, a Supreme Court lawyer.The group has been filing cases
against disseminators of reports, which are aimed at, "destroying
religious and social fabric of the country", Saxena said. However,
journalists expressed concern over the setting up of the group, saying it may
harass and intimidate scribes and social media users.The duo had been working
on the project for the last two years, but made a soft-launch of the forum on
Twitter over a week ago.Since then, they have filed almost two dozen cases,
mainly of sedition, across the country against several people.City-based
journalist Jatin Desai was critical of the new group, saying its existence will
prove detrimental to democratic values of the country."Forming different
opinions and openly expressing them are the heart and soul of a democratic
country. These people are trying to harass journalists and people (social media
users) by selectively filing cases against them.""Dissent can never
be suppressed.Otherwise,we will have a handicapped democracy,"said Desai,
a member of Mumbai Press Club. PTI
Assam: Indigenous Muslims demand 'ethnic' tag
Guwahati: Fearing an "identity
crisis" owing to the inclusion of a large number of Bengali-speaking
Muslims in NRC, an umbrella body of Assam's indigenous Muslims will launch an
agitation from Aug.25, demanding constitutional safeguards and status of
"ethnic community".An executive committee meeting of the Sadou Asom
Goria-Moria-Deshi Jatiya Parishad, a forum of at least 40 lakh "indigenous
Muslims", held here recently decided to stage protests in each district
HQRS and resort to a train blockade on August 25, followed by a
"satyagraha" here on Oct.13 and a convention thereafter to urge
BJP-led government to fulfil its pre-poll promise."We consider this
government to be anti-indigenous people. BJP had promised in its election
manifestos in 2011, 2014 and 2016 that it would conduct a census of the
indigenous Muslim groups like Goria, Moria, Deshis and accord them
constitutional safeguards. But the party seems to have forgotten its promise
and has not even taken any welfare measures for the community," said Azizur
Rahman, general secretary of the committee."We are clubbed with the
Muslims of East Pakistan and considered Bangladeshis. The indigenous Muslim
groups are either converts from local communities or war prisoners of the
Mughal-Ahom wars. So our identity must be protected," adviser of the
committee and veteran lawyer Nekibur Zaman had said recently.The committee also
said more than 3,600 indigenous Assamese Muslims have been tagged as doubtful
voters, on the suspicion of their being illegal migrants from Bangladesh, while
7 have been declared foreigners and sent to detention camps.telegraph india
Top court comes to the rescue of star-crossed
Muslim-Hindu couple, defies parents
New Delhi:9 days after Anjali Jain went
missing, the Supreme Court directed the SP of Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh, to
produce her before a bench led by CJI Dipak Misra on 27 Aug. Anjali, who holds
a BBM degree, married 32-year-old Ibrahim Siddique 6 months ago against the
wishes of her parents.The top court’s directions came on a plea by Siddique,
who filed a habeas corpus petition.Siddique has also challenged a Chhattisgarh
High Court order, which despite hearing Anjali at length, “erroneously”
declined to record her wishes and directed her to choose between staying with
her parents or at a hostel.“The high court despite recording that the detenue
(Anjali) was a major of 23 years of age and by her own admission was married to
the petitioner (Siddique), limits her freedom to either live with her parents
or be accommodated in a hostel,” (sic) Siddique said in his plea.This, Siddique
claimed, is a clear violation of her rights since she had expressed her intent
to live with him. According to the petition, the matter is serious given that
“certain serious and life-threatening events have transpired subsequent to the
impugned order and the petitioner apprehends serious threats to his and his
wife’s life”.In his plea, Siddique invoked the top court’s judgment in the
Shafin Jahan case — which also dealt with a habeas corpus case involving Hadiya
who had converted to Islam before marrying Shafin and was detained by her
parents — to press his point on the issue of dealing with the matter of private
custody of an adult girl by her parents.Siddique said, instead of deciding the
habeas corpus case filed by a husband for custody of his wife forcibly detained
by her parents, the high court expressed its doubts about the legality of the
marriage.theprint
Another Inter-Faith Marriage Reaches SC;
Muslim Man Claims Violation Of Hadiya Judgment By Chhattisgarh HC
Delhi: Muslim Ola driver found dead, row over
his cremation
New Delhi: On August 9, Ola cab driver
Mohammad Yusuf (40) left his house in north Delhi’s Sadar Bazaar and never
returned. His family searched for him, only to find that he had died and his
body cremated by the UP Police in Mathura’s Ol village — 200 km from his house.
While the family has vented their ire at the police for “their callous
attitude” for cremating a Muslim, police said “the man could not be identified
and was cremated as per procedure”. As per norms, police wait 72 hours in cases
pertaining to unidentified bodies. When no contact with the family is made, the
body is disposed of.Yusuf was found murdered, with his hands tied behind his
back and dumped in a canal on Aug.10. He had left his house at 10.30 pm to drop
a passenger the night before. Ola informed his family that his last known
location was at Jhurvai, Mathura, following which GPS went unresponsive at
12.19 am. The passenger who took the cab could not be contacted by the company.The
family went to Sadar Bazaar police station to file a missing persons complaint,
which was registered the following morning. “When they did his post-mortem,
they should have seen that he was circumcised… This is complete callousness on
their (UP Police) part. They should have at least waited for us,” said Atiya,
Yusuf’s elder sister.The Ol police chowki in-charge, who led the search for
Yusuf in the bordering villages, said that they could not ascertain his
religious identity due to lack of any documents. indianexpress
20% Muslim women in slums face health risks:
Survey
Mumbai:Approximately 20 per cent Muslim women
in city’s slums suffer from prolonged illness. While 6 per cent suffer from
high blood pressure, 8 per cent have diabetes, tuberculosis and thyroid
malfunction and 3 per cent suffer from asthma, kidney stones and skin
problemsCommissioned by the Maharashtra State Women’s Commission, the findings
of a first-of-its kind survey conducted by Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan
(BMMA) highlights poor health conditions among Muslim women in slums like
Behrampada, Bharatnagar, Garibnagar, Jogeshwari, Kalina, Mahim, Navpada,
Andheri Dongar and Gyaneshwar Nagar. Titled ‘Health Status of Muslim Women-A
Short Study’, the survey reveals that lack of easy access to health care
services has also led to daily painkiller consumption by 18 per cent of Muslim
women residing in these slums.For the survey, BMMA spoke to 250 women about
general, reproductive and mental health and found that most of them also
complain about poor access to toilets and health care centres.Maharashtra State
Women’s Commission’s chairperson, Vijaya Rahatkar, who recently received the
report from BMMA, admitted being shocked by the state of health of Muslim
women. Mumbai Mirror
AIMIM corporator, who opposed motion on
Vajapyee, arrested; BJP members booked after ruckus
Aurangabad (Maha), An AIMIM corporator has
been arrested here on charges of trying to promote enmity and incite riot after
he opposed a resolution in the municipal corporation to pay tributes to former
prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, police said today. The police later also
registered a case against 5 BJP corporators including the deputy mayor of the
city for allegedly thrashing the AIMIM corporator at the meeting of the civic
body in Aurangabad in central Maharashtra.Syed Mateen Sayyad Rashid, a member
of the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation(AMC) belonging to AIMIM, was arrested
last night, a police official said. The arrest was made after a complaint was
filed against him by the AMC’s security officer, he said.Earlier yesterday,
Rashid was allegedly thrashed by BJP corporators for opposing a condolence
motion for paying homage to Vajpayee who died in New Delhi on August 16. AIMIM
corporator had told PTI last night that he was opposing the move to pay homage
to Vajpayee in a “democratic manner”, but was assaulted by around a dozen BJP
corporators. Cases of assault were also registered today against five BJP
corporators on a complaint lodged by Rashid. None of them has been arrested
yet, police said.Offences under IPC sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt),
506 (criminal intimidation) and 147 (rioting) were registered against deputy
mayor Autade and four other BJP corporators including a woman, said inspector
Shingare. Police were also looking for around a dozen persons who vandalised a
car and created ruckus outside the AMC building, he said.PTI
Muzaffarpur scandal: Former social welfare
minister Manju Verma, husband booked under Arms Act
Begusarai :An FIR was registered against
Bihar’s former social welfare minister Manju Verma and her husband under Arms
Act following recovery of 50 cartridges from her in-law’s house during a CBI
raid in connection with the Muzaffarpur shelter home sex scandal, police
said.The CBI had on Friday raided nearly 12 places in four districts of Bihar,
including residences of Verma in Patna and her in-law’s place in Begusarai.The
FIR was registered on Saturday against Verma and her husband Chandrashekhar for
recovery of 50 live cartridges from her in-law’s house at Arjun Tola village
during a raid, Cheria Bariarpur police station SHO Ranjit Kumar Rajak
said.Police said the live cartridges are of different firearms.The FIR was
registered against the couple by a CBI official, Rajak said, but declined to
name him.PTI
‘Culture of silent fear’: TISS report points
to sexual, physical and mental abuse in shelter homes across Bihar
Patna:Sexual abuse, varying in forms and
degree of intensity, was prevalent in almost all shelter homes in Bihar, a TISS
report made public by the Bihar government has found.Tata Institute of Social
Sciences (TISS), which had conducted social audit of short stay homes across
Bihar, has found certain institutions “stood out in a manner that was
appalling”.The state government had commissioned audit by TISS in 2017 and the
report was submitted to the Social Welfare Department in April this
year.According to the 100-page report, the Muzaffarpur shelter home run by
Brajesh Thakur, prime accused in the sex abuse case, had been “running in a
highly questionable manner along with grave instances of violence. Several
girls reported about violence and being abused sexually”.The medical reports
latter confirmed rape of 34 inmates of the shelter home over a period of
time.PTI
Rahul Gandhi revokes Mani Shankar Aiyar’s
suspension from Congress’ primary membership
New Delhi:Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on
Saturday revoked the suspension of senior party leader Mani Shankar Aiyar from
the primary membership of the Indian National Congress. Aiyar was suspended in
December last year for calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “neech kism ka
aadmi” during the campaigning for Gujarat polls last year.In the press release
issued by the INC, it said that the Congress president had approved recommendation
of Central Disciplinary Committee of AICC for revoking the suspension of Mani
Shankar Aiyar from primary membership with immediate effect.indianexpress
Modi Is A Model and Hero: Patna High Court
Chief Justice
PATNA: Newly-appointed Chief Justice of Patna
High Court, Justice Mukesh Rasik Bhai Shah who was recently elevated to the
post of Chief Justice from being judge of the Gujarat High Court, has called
Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “model and a hero” when asked by a journalist
why people are linking him with PM Modi and BJP President Amit Shah.During an
interview with the Hindi daily Amar Ujala, the journalist asked: You come from
Gujarat. As you are from the state of PM Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah, people
end up linking you with Modi. Why does this happen?Justice Shah replied:
Because Narendra Modi is a model. He is a hero. As for Modi, this is going on
for the last one month. There are hundreds of such clippings on social media.
Newspapers also publish such things every day.caravandaily
Delhi: Sohn Burj Masjid in Mehrauli in
precarious condition; encroachments continue
New Delhi: The condition of Sohn Burj Masjid
located at Mehrauli is getting dilapidated day by day. Besides illegal
occupation is continued in the premises. But no action has been taken so far.
Masjid Sohn Burj is a historical masjid but is now in a precarious condition.
Big stones are falling down from the masjid wall where people pass through.
Archaeological department has not inspected the masjid so far. The condition of
the masjid was also reported to Delhi Waqf Board but encroachments continue in
the area. Recently some people have done construction on the Waqf land and
illegal occupation is increasing day by day.siasat
Only 23% of rural income from farming, reveals
NABARD 2016-17 survey
New Delhi:Agriculture generates not even a
quarter of rural household incomes in India. Even for so-called agricultural
households, just over 43 per cent of their average income comes from
cultivation of crops and rearing of animals, according to the National Bank for
Agriculture & Rural Development’s (NABARD) All India Rural Financial
Inclusion Survey 2016-17.The survey reinforces a trend that has gathered
momentum since the start of this century — of an increasingly less ‘Krishi’ in
‘Bharat’. While agriculture may, by definition, be largely rural, the converse,
though, isn’t true. The NABARD survey estimates the total number of rural
households in India for 2016-17 at 21.17 crore. The definition of “rural” is a
broad one, covering revenue villages and semi-urban centres with a population
of less than 50,000. Out of the 21.17 crore rural households, 10.07 crore, or
under 48 per cent, are “agricultural” — those with at least one member
self-employed in farming and reporting annual value of produce at more than Rs
5,000. The remaining 11.10 crore households or 52 per cent are
“non-agricultural”.According to the survey, whose reference period is 2015-16,
the average net monthly income of Indian rural households — after deducting
expenses incurred in the course of economic activity — was Rs 8,059. The
highest share of this (Rs 3,504) was accounted for by wage labour (both farm
and non-farm), which was followed by government or private service jobs (Rs
1,906). On the other hand, agriculture — i.e. income from crop cultivation and
livestock rearing — contributed only Rs 1,832.indianexpress
WORLD
More than two million Muslims begin Hajj
pilgrimage
More than two million Muslims have started the
annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.The five-day pilgrimage must be
performed by all Muslims, who are financially and physically able, at least
once in their lives.On Sunday, pilgrims started gathering in Mina valley, on
the outskirts of Mecca, for the start of the Hajj.In temperatures reaching the
40-degree mark, these people will perform rites in the Mina valley, mount
Arafat and in Mecca. Male pilgrims wear two white unstitched pieces of cloth
that cover their body, known as the 'ihram', while women wear loose fitted
clothing.Pilgrims are not allowed to cut their hair, wear perfume, or engage in
sexual acts. The ritual ends with men completely shaving their heads.The climax
of the Hajj includes the Eid al-Adha festival, which is one of Islam's two
major festivals and involves the sacrifice of an animal, usually a sheep, goat,
or cow.Around 54 million pilgrims have attended the Hajj over the past 25
years, according to official figures.Almost 14,000 international and domestic
flights have so far transported pilgrims with around 21,000 buses also
used.aljazeera
Saudi prepares for the annual Muslim
pilgrimage as Hajj begins today
Israel rejects UN report on protecting
Palestinians
Israel has rejected a report by UN
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres outlining options for strengthening the
protection of Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territories.Israel's UN
Ambassador Danny Danon said in a statement late on Friday that "the only
protection the Palestinian people need is from their own
leadership".14-page report laid out four options, from increasing aid to
the Palestinians, sending UN rights monitors and unarmed observers to deploying
a military or police force under UN mandate.The report was requested by the
General Assembly in response to a surge of violence in Gaza, where 171
Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since late March."Instead of
suggesting ways to protect the Palestinian people from Israel, UN should
instead hold the Palestinian leadership accountable for continually endangering
its own people," Danon said."Report's suggestions will only enable
the Palestinians' continued rejectionism."A UN mandate for a protection
force would require a decision from the Security Council, where the United
States could use its veto power to block a measure opposed by Israel.The report
released to all UN member-states comes amid a vacuum in Middle East peace
efforts as European and Middle East powers await a peace plan from President
Donald Trump's administration that has been under discussion for months.UN
diplomats have recently begun questioning whether the US peace plan will ever
materialize.middleeasteye
Palestinian president vows to appeal Israel’s
law at UN
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/palestinian-president-vows-to-appeal-israel-s-law-at-un/1235318
RAMALLAH;Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
on Saturday vowed to appeal Israel's controversial law of Jewish nation-state
at the UN.Speaking in a televised program, Abbas said he rejects the U.S.
mediation for Palestine-Israel peace talks and emphasized that there would no
meeting with the U.S. until it reverts its decision to recognize Jewish
settlements and Jerusalem as an Israeli capital.Underlining that the Oslo
Accords would not continue if the current situation persists, he called on
Hamas to allow the national unity government of Palestine to carry out its
activities in the Gaza Strip.Anadolu
Imran Khan announces 21-member Cabinet
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has
unveiled his 21-member Cabinet, most of whom previously held key posts in the
regime of former dictator General (retd) Pervez Musharraf.Out of the 21 names
announced, 16 will be ministers while five others will advisers to Mr. Khan,
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesman Fawad Chaudhry said yesterday, hours
after the cricketer-turned-politician was sworn-in as the country’s 22nd Prime
Minister.According to the list shared by Mr. Chaudhry on his Twitter account,
veteran politician Shah Mahmood Qureshi will be the foreign minister.Mr.
Qureshi, the vice president of the party, was the foreign minister from 2008 to
2011 under the Pakistan Peoples Party government when the 2008 Mumbai terror
attack took place.He was in New Delhi when 10 Pakistan-based LeT terrorists
attacked India’s financial capital.Pervaiz Khattak has been appointed the
defence minister while Asad Umer will be the finance minister. Mr. Khattak
served as the chief minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province from 2013-18.Asad
Umer is the son of former Lt Gen Mohammad Umer who was part of the Pakistan
Army during 1971 war with India.The newly-announced Cabinet is expected to take
oath on Monday at the President’s House.At least 12 members of Khan’s Cabinet
served under General (retd) Musharraf, The News reported.The new Cabinet
includes a former spokesperson of Musharraf, his attorney and several members
of his cabinet and core team, the paper said. thehindu
Pak PM Imran Khan's cabinet full list: Pervez
Khattak is new defence minister, Qureshi gets foreign ministry
Pak Jamaat Chief Congratulates Imran Khan
Lahore:Ameer e Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
Senator Sirajul Haq has congratulated PTI Chairman Imran Khan on taking oath as
Prime Minister.In a statement here, he said it was a matter of satisfaction
that a democratic process of transfer of power had been completed after oath
taking ceremony of the Prime Minister.He said that the Prime Minister should
now focus on his election manifesto and fulfil all his promises made during the
election campaign. He said the JI did not believe in opposition for the sake of
opposition, and it would appreciate every action of the government taken in the
public interest besides criticizing the government for its wrong decisions.He
expressed hope that the new government would ensure the supremacy of the
constitution and ideology of Pakistan as well as it would take all steps to
strengthen and stabilizethe national institutions.UrduPoint
Iraq Supreme Court ratifies result of May vote
Iraq's Supreme Court has ratified the results
of the May 12 parliamentary election, its spokesman said, setting in motion a
90-day constitutional deadline for the winning parties to form a
government."The court has issued a decision to ratify the results of the
parliamentary election," the spokesman said in a statement on Sunday.A
nationwide recount of votes showed on August 10 that populist Shia leader
Muqtada al-Sadr retained his lead, positioning him to play a central role in
forming the country's next government. Many Iraqis, including Kurdish and Sunni
Arab groups, disputed the results of the vote, alleging widespread electoral
misconduct.In June, a huge fire destroyed a warehouse housing boxes containing
ballots from the May vote. Iraqi officials, including its prime minister,
Haider al-Abadi, said that the fire was started deliberately with the aim of
harming Iraqi democracy.aljazeera
Bomb that killed 40 children in Yemen was
supplied by the US: Report
The bomb used by the Saudi-led coalition in an
attack on a school bus that killed 40 children in Yemen last week was sold as
part of a US State Department-sanctioned arms deal with Saudi Arabia, munitions
experts told CNN.Working with Yemeni journalists and munitions experts, CNN
reported late Friday that the weapon that hit the bus on 9 August was a
500-pound (227kg) laser-guided MK 82 bomb made by Lockheed Martin, one of the
top US defence contractors.Of the 51 people who died in the air strike, 40 were
children, the Houthi health ministry said last week, adding that of the 79
people wounded, 56 were children.The bomb is similar to one used in an attack
on a funeral hall in Yemen in October 2016 in which 155 people were killed and
hundreds more wounded, CNN said. The Saudi coalition blamed "incorrect information"
for that strike.After the funeral hall attack, president Barack Obama banned
the sale of precision-guided military technology to Saudi Arabia over
"human rights concerns," CNN said, adding that the ban was overturned
by the Trump administration's then secretary of state Rex Tillerson in March
2017.The US says it does not make targeting decisions for the coalition, which
is fighting a Houthi rebel insurgency in Yemen, according to CNN, but it does
support its operations through billions of dollars in arms sales, the refueling
of Saudi combat aircraft and some sharing of intelligence.The day of the air
strike, the US State Department called for the Saudi-led coalition to
investigate it.middleeasteye
Report: US-made bomb used in deadly attack on
Yemen school bus
Turks' woes over currency crisis: 'It is a
kind of Cold War'
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is
striking a defiant tone a day after two major ratings agencies further
downgraded the country's debt.He insists the growing economic crisis is part of
a plot against his country.Erdogan made the comments at a meeting of his ruling
AK Party.The Turkish lira has lost 40 percent of its value against the dollar
this year. aljazeera
Iran has good relations with Turkey: Defense
minister
ANKARA ;Iran has good relations with Turkey,
Iranian Defense Minister Amir Khatami said on Sunday. Speaking to the state
television, Khatami said his country’s relations with Turkey, Afghanistan,
Azerbaijan and Pakistan are based on “brotherhood and honesty”. He said he has visited
several countries recently, describing the results of his visits as “positive”.
On August 7, the U.S. re-imposed a first round of economic sanctions on Iran,
which mainly target the country’s banking sector. Anadolu Agency
Iranian spiritual leader sentenced for
'insulting Islam':Reuters
LONDON:An Iranian court has sentenced the
founder of a spiritual movement to five years in jail, his lawyer told ILNA
news agency on Saturday, after he was accused of corrupting Muslims.Mohammad
Ali Taheri, founder of Erfan Halgheh, which calls itself “Interuniversalism” in
English, was arrested in 2011 and charged with “insulting Islamic sanctities”
and “spreading corruption on earth”.Taheri was sentenced to death by a
Revolutionary Court in 2015, but acquitted on appeal in 2016. The court then
re-imposed the death sentence in 2017, but the five-year sentence replaces
it.Taheri founded Erfan Halgheh after receiving what he claims were “spiritual
inspirations” that empowered him to connect with a larger “cosmic
consciousness”.He practised his beliefs, along with his thousands of followers,
in “healing sessions” often involving alternative medicine.
2 billion people live in poverty: Report
Two billion people are living in poverty while
753 million others experience extreme poverty and are struggling to survive,
according to the Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2018.The situation of
helpless people suffering from famine, drought, clashes and natural disasters
has come up as the World Humanitarian Day, marked each year on Aug. 19,
approaches.The World Humanitarian Day is held every year on Aug. 19 to support
people getting affected by crises around the world.According to the Global
Humanitarian Assistance Report 2018, at least 201 million people in 134
countries were in need of humanitarian assistance to survive in 2017.The report
said 20.7 million people in Yemen were in need, followed by civil war-hit
Syria, where 13.7 million people needed assistance. Hosting 3.5 million
Syrians, Turkey came third in the list with 12.8 million people, who were in
need of humanitarian assistance.Anadolu Agency
FLASH VIEWS & NEWS
The Sangh Sees NRC as a Device to Target
Muslims All Over India:Ajay Gudavarthy, thewire
Alwar lynching: Raghuwar Jain… or Rakbar: In
his name lay the story of a region’s close ties with its cattle:Hamza Khan
Election Commission should not allow
simultaneous polls: IPA/HARIHAR SWARUP
The Relentless Persecution of the Delhi Govt
Is a Slap in the Face of Democracy:Prem Shankar Jha
Row over Sidhu in Pakistan exposes us as a
nation of paranoid, ignorant, immature idiots:SHEKHAR GUPTA
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