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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa Saturday offered prayers at the famous Lord Venkateshwara temple at Tirupathi in Andhra Pradesh.
Rajapaksa arrived in a special aircraft from Nepal, where he was on a pilgrimage, and after a 'darshan' at the temple atop Tirumala Hills left for Sri Lanka, officials said.
- Rajapaksa entered the sanctum sanctorum through 'mahadwaram' or main door and offered prayers. Top priests blessed the couple.
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However, the entry of Rajapaksa and 25 others through 'mahadwaram' created a row.
Some religious leaders criticised the TTD authorities for allowing him through 'mahadwaram' in violation of TTD rules.
They pointed out that under TTD rules only mothers with infants, the aged, infirm and physically challenged can have direct entry through 'mahadwaram'.
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
Sri Lankan president prays at Tirupathi - Yahoo! India News
Jagran - Yahoo! India - जजिया दो या जान
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पेशावर के एक भीड़ भरे इलाके में गुरुद्वारे के बाहर टूटी कुर्सी पर बैठे अमनदीप सिंह (बदला हुआ नाम) भविष्य की चिंता में डूबे है। वे उत्तार-पश्चिम पाकिस्तान के कबीलाई जिले खैबर की तिरा घाटी में बसे अपने पैतृक गांव और व्यवसाय को छोड़ कर आए हैं। उन्हें धमकी मिली थी कि गांव छोड़ दो या जान और माल की हिफाजत के लिए 'जजिया' टैक्स दो।
इस त्रासदी से दो-चार होने वाले अमनदीप अकेले नहीं है। शाम ढलते ही पेशावर के दबगरी बाजार की एक संकरी गली में स्थित जोगा सिंह गुरुद्वारे में उनके जैसे कई सिख और हिंदू एकत्रित होने लगते है। अमनदीप बताते है, ''मेरी जानकारी में 400 सिख और 57 हिंदू परिवारों ने खैबर के कस्बों और गांवों से भाग कर पाकिस्तान के मुख्य शहरों में पनाह ली है।''
- दरअसल तालिबान लड़ाकों को प्रशिक्षण और हथियारों के लिए धन की जरूरत होती है, जिसके लिए वे डराने-धमकाने, अपहरण और मादक पदार्र्थो की तस्करी का काम करते रहे हैं। अब जजिया के नाम पर सिख और हिंदू उनके शिकार बन रहे हैं। इसकी शुरुआत ओरकजई से हुई थी, जहाँ तालिबानों ने सिखों से बलपूर्वक जजिया वसूलना शुरु किया। इसके बाद जजिया का भूत खैबर में भी फैल गया।
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Pratahkal - दो गुटों में पथराव के बाद तनाव, बाजार बंद कराये
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- भीलवाड़ा
- पुरानी धानमण्डी में क्रिकेट खेलने को लेकर हुए विवाद ने देखते ही देखते साम्प्रदायिकता क ा रूप ले लिया और कुछ असामाजिक तत्वों ने इसी दौरान रोड़ लाइटें भी नियोजित तरीके से बन्द कर दी जिससे माहौल बिगड़ गया।
- उधर कल की घटना के विरोध में आज हिन्दू संगठनों ने पुराने शहर के बाजार बन्द करवा दिये और जुलूस के रूप में कोतवाली पहुंचे जहां उन्होंने एक ज्ञापन पुलिस अधीक्षक के नाम अतिरिक्त पुलिस अधीक्षक को दिया जिसमें कल रात एक सम्प्रदाय विशेष के युवकों द्वारा मनोज कसारा के साथ मारपीट करने, धानमण्डी चौक में पथराव करने के नामजद आरोपियों को गिरफ्तार करने की मांग की है। ज्ञापन में पुलिस की कार्यशैली की सराहना करते हुए तत्काल काबू पाने के लिए बधाई भी दी।
- विश्व हिन्दू परिषद के सुरेश गोयल ने पुलिस प्रशासन से मांग की है कि देर रात तक पुराने शहर में बैठे रहने वाले असामाजिक तत्वों पर रोक लगायें। इसी के साथ उन्होंने दोषियों की गिरफ्तारी की मांग करते हुए चेतावनी दी कि अगर गिरफ्तारियां नहीं हुई तो आन्दोलन को तेज किया जा सकता है।
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Organiser - How they lost and won Maharashtra
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- By Dr Jay Dubashi
- There was time when onions used to bring down governments. Now, apart from the usual scary headlines in the papers, nothing happens. Not a single Congress candidate lost election because of prices. It is as if the word "inflation" has been rubbed out of people’s memory.
- Then the shootings in Mumbai on 26/11/08 in which at least 200 people died. This happened in Mumbai , the state capital, under the very eyes of the Chief Minister who after a decent interval decided to inspect the damages in the company of his actor son and a film producer.
- Did any of this have any impact on the election? None at all. In Mumbai city, the Congress and its new side-kick, MNS (Maharashtra Navnirman Sena), have grabbed more than 50 per cent of seats, as if they had nothing to do, either with rising prices or farmers’ suicides or shootings in the city. There is now a distinct disconnect between politics and political events, as if the two were independent of each other, with no link between them.
- What has happened is that over the years the ruling party has tightened its hold on about 25 per cent of the electorate, including minorities, and the rising middle class, whose fortunes are not decided by farmers but by the ups and downs on the stock market. Their incomes now depend on what happens in Dalal Street in Mumbai and Wall Street in New York than the onion fields in Nasik or potato patches in Solapur. These sections now believe that their fortunes are linked with those of the ruling party, no matter what happens elsewhere.
- But you don’t win elections with 25 per cent of the vote. You need at least 30 per cent to 35 per cent for a win. So the entire energies of the ruling party are directed towards acquiring and making sure of this extra five per cent to 10 per cent, which makes the difference between victory and defeat.
It is possible to get that difference only if you break up the existing opposition parties. And, for the last ten years, this is what the ruling party and its bosses have been doing. - It is high time the opposition saw the writing on the wall and closed its ranks. It is not only the farmers who are committing suicide, the opposition is committing suicide too aided and abetted by the Congress. This explains the enthusiastic reception accorded to Raj Thackeray by the media, which is largely controlled by foreign interest and the ruling party. It is Raj today, it could be some body else tomorrow. Mulayam Singh and Mayawati, are you listening?
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Organiser - Sarsanghachalak inaugurates Ekal Kumbh
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- By Vinod Bansal
- Sarsanghchalak of RSS Shri Mohan Bhagwat inaugurated a massive Ekal Kumbh organised by Ekal Vidyalays in Delhi on October 30. More than 12,000 vanvasis & girivasis of Ekal Vidhyalaya assembled in Swarna Jayanti Park of Rohini in North west Delhi. Vanvasis from Assam to Gujrat and Jammu to Kerala and from almost all states of the country participated in the three day conclave.
- The three day conclave would be formally concluded with the address of Sadhvi Ritambhara on the evening of first November. A grand exhibition depicting real Bharat living in rural and forest area will be inaugurated by the Yog guru Baba Ram Dev on 29 October evening. Many NRIs are also participating the conference hosted by the Bharat Lok Siksha Parishad, Delhi. All sessions would be conducted and organised by vanvasis only
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Popular Front backs DHRM
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- For the first time, Popular Front of India (PFI) has come out in the open in support to the Dalit Human Rights Movement (DHRM). PFI state president Nazarudin Elamaram, state general secretary P. Abdul Hameed and state treasurer K.H. Nazar said that the PFI decided to express solidarity with the DHRM in view of what they called `Dalit hunt’ by the police, RSS, Shiv Sena and CPM workers at the Thoduve colony near Varkala.
They alleged that violence was being unleashed on weaker sections by branding them as `Dalit extremism’. - In the name of the murder of Sivaprasad in Varkala not only the Dalits in Thoduve colony but Dalits in all Dalit colonies in the district and nearby districts were being harassed and false cases foisted upon them, they said.
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