Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Bangladesh to amend law to restore properties to Hindus: Minister - South Asia - World - The Times of India

  • Bangladesh to amend law to restore properties to Hindus: Minister - South Asia - World - The Times of India

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    • DHAKA
    • The Awami League-led government will amend a controversial Bangladeshi law to restore properties seized from minority groups, mainly
    • Hindus, a minister said here on Tuesday.

      The Parliament will pass the Vested Property Return (amendment) Act 2009 during the ongoing session, said state minister for land Mustafizur Rahman.

      In November, the ruling Awami League government had approved the amendment under which vested properties of the minority community, mainly Hindus, will be returned to them, the Star Online said.

      The law has been flayed by the minority community in the country as it was used to capture their properties before Bangladesh became independent from Pakistan in 1971.

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    • संघ के सिरदर्द बनेंगे राहुल के ‘एकलव्य’
    • सचिन देव
    • कांग्रेस महासचिव राहुल गांधी ने देश भर के आदिवासी क्षेत्रों में राष्ट्रीय स्वंयसेवक संघ के ‘वनवासी कल्याण परिषद’ के स्कूलों का प्रभुत्व कम करने की रणनीति तैयार की है। उनके सुझाव पर केंद्रीय जनजाति कार्य मंत्रालय ने राष्ट्रीय स्तर पर ‘एकलव्य आवासीय विद्यालय’ खोलने की योजना तैयार की है। यह आदिवासियों के बीच सक्रिय आरएसएस के संगठनों के लिए सिरदर्द साबित हो सकता है।

      राहुल की आदिवासी क्षेत्रों में रुचि को देखते केंद्र इस योजना पर गंभीरता से अमल करने में जुट गया है। एकलव्य आवासीय विद्यालयों के लिए जनजाति कल्याण विभाग ने प्रतिवर्ष एक हजार करोड़ रुपए के प्रावधान का लक्ष्य रखा है। जनजाति कल्याण मंत्री कांतिलाल भूरिया ने दैनिक भास्कर को बताया, ‘आम तौर पर आदिवासी चौथी या पांचवीं कक्षा के बाद पढ़ाई छोड़ देते हैं, इससे वे न तो खेती के लायक रहते हैं और न ही नौकरी के।’

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Indian village marks 25 years in dark despite electric posts - CNN.com

According to an independent power expert, over 40 per cent of India's population still depends on kerosene for lighting, such as these children using lanterns on the grounds of their school.
    • According to an independent power expert, over 40 per cent of India's population still depends on kerosene for lighting, such as these children using lanterns on the grounds of their school.

    • For a village in India's faraway northeast, it is time for an unusual jubilee: Posts to convey electrical power arrived in Kanugaon in 1985. In 2010, residents still find themselves without electricity -- leading them to mark the 25th anniversary of what they refer to as a life in darkness.

      "All our petitions with the authorities have gone in vain," said Tankeswar Das, a member of the group, "Committee to mark the silver jubilee of electricity poles."

      He said hundreds of villagers on Sunday used a unique method in a new bid to make their voice heard -- a mock "yajna," or a Hindu fire ritual.

      "Maybe a yajna to atone for any sin that might be depriving us of this essential service works since all other efforts have not," worked out, Das said.

      Located in Assam state, Kanugaon has been on India's subsidized power-supply plan that the country has launched to cover more than 100,000 darkened villages by March 2012.


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Laskhar-e-Taiba Al Alami claims responsibility for Pune bomb blast

  • Laskhar-e-Taiba Al Alami claims responsibility for Pune bomb blast

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    • An unknown militant group calling itself the Laskhar-e-Taiba Al Alami claimed on Tuesday that it was behind Saturday's bomb attack in Pune that killed ten people including two foreign nationals.

      "The caller identified himself as Abu Jindal, described himself as the spokesman of the LeT Al Alami (international), and claimed the group had carried out the attack because of what he said was India's "refusal" to discuss Kashmir in the forthcoming talks with Pakistan," a report on The Hindu newspaper's website stated on Tuesday.

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The Pioneer > Online Edition : >> Hindus ignored in Muslim JK

  • The Pioneer > Online Edition : >> Hindus ignored in Muslim JK

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    • Hindus ignored in Muslim J&K
    • Sandhya Jain
    • While successive Governments at the Centre have failed to redress the citizenship and human rights of refugees, mostly Hindu Scheduled Castes, who migrated to Jammu & Kashmir after Pakistan grabbed parts of the State in the 1947-48 war, and again after the wars of 1965 and 1971, the UPA has with alacrity welcomed PoK-based militants to the Valley. Nearly one lakh Hindus remain excluded from the socio-economic and political life of the State, denied voting rights, education for their children, bank loans, and the right to own property, since 1947.
    • Many Hindus view the amnesty scheme as a new incarnation of the Jammu & Kashmir Grant of Permit for Resettlement Act, 1982, which was ultimately stayed by the Supreme Court on a petition by Mr Bhim Singh of the Panthers Party.
    • The Resettlement Act aimed at the resettlement of Kashmiris (read Muslims) who had migrated to PoK and Pakistan, and wished to reunite with their Indian kith and kin. It was disliked by the State’s Hindu community which saw it as a ploy to deprive Hindus of the migrant properties which had been allotted to them. These fears have now been revived.

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पाकिस्तान के खिलाफ सक्रिय हों भारतीय अमेरिकी: एचएएफ - India Abroad News - Videsh - LiveHindustan.com


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'मुसलमानों को उनका उचित हक मिल रहा है'

  • 'मुसलमानों को उनका उचित हक मिल रहा है'

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    • भारत में आयोजित बीबीसी की चर्चित दोहा बहस के दौरान मौजूद लोगों में से बहुमत का मानना था कि भारत में मुसलमानों को उनके पूरे हक मिल रहे हैं। बहुमत का यह भी मत था कि मुसलमानों के साथ भेदभाव नहीं किया जा रहा है।

      दोहा बहस बीबीसी टेलीविजन पर प्रसारित किया जाने वाला एक विश्व प्रसिद्ध कार्यक्रम है जिसका आयोजन कतर फाउंडेशन करता है और इसके ऐंकर टिम सेबस्टियन हैं।

      पहली बार भारत में आयोजित इस बहस का विषय था- 'सदन की राय है कि भारत में मुसलमानों को समुचित हक नहीं मिल रहे हैं।'

      दिल्ली के सेंट स्टीफन्स कॉलेज में आयोजित इस बहस के प्रस्ताव के पक्ष में 37.9 प्रतिशत लोगों ने मत किया जबाकि 62.1 प्रतिशत ने विपक्ष में मत दिया।

      बहस में चार विशिष्ट अतिथियों ने हिस्सा लिया जिनमें केंद्रीय राज्य मंत्री सचिन पायलट, वरिष्ठ पत्रकार एमजे अकबर, सीमा मुस्तफा और सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता तीस्ता सीतलवाड थीं।

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J&K's VHP to launch country-wide agitation over surrender policy - dnaindia.com

  • J&K's VHP to launch country-wide agitation over surrender policy - dnaindia.com

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    • Jammu
    • The Jammu and Kashmir VHP today said that it will launch a country-wide agitation against the proposed surrender policy mooted by the state government, saying the move will destabilise internal security of the country.

    • "We will launch a country-wide agitation to expose the Congress-led UPA government over red carpet welcome to the armed terrorists operating in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK)," state VHP chief Rama Kant Dubay told reporters here today.

      "While displaced Kashmir Pandits cannot be rehabilitated in Kashmir valley in their own country, as also 1947 refugees from PoK in Jammu, the Centre has drawn a plan to rehabilitate terrorists of PoK in this country in Kashmir," he said.


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KalingaTimes.com: Prohibitory order clamped in Kendrapara town

  • KalingaTimes.com: Prohibitory order clamped in Kendrapara town

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    • Kendrapara

    • Prohibitory order under section 144 Cr PC was clamped today at a place near the district collectorate office in the heart of this district headquarters town after Viswa Hindu Parishad (VHP) sought for demolition of structures near a place of worship.

      Earlier the district wing of VHP had threatened to take law unto its hands to register their protest against illegal encroachment and construction work by minority community members near a place of worship.

    • Manmath Nath Sahu, secretary of VHP district wing, told reporters here this afternoon that the said 50 decimal plot near a mosque is now under unlawful occupation of minority community members. The community is trying to bring up permanent structure at the disputed site. Sahu, quoting documents and historical evidence, pointed out that a Hindu temple adorned the spot and that was subsequently vandalized and destroyed by foreign invaders.

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D A I J I W O R L D - Bantwal: Ramya Shetty of ‘Love Jehad’ Fame, Returns Home

  • D A I J I W O R L D

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    • On Monday February 15, a local court permitted Ramya Shetty to go back to her parents. It may be recalled that after Ramya Shetty had eloped with Mohammed, who was already married and had three children, on December 4 last year, Hindu organizations had termed it as ‘Love Jehad’. While her parents filed a missing complaint at Konaje police station, her brother, Shivaprasad, had also filed a habeas corpus petition in the court.
    • Bantwal
    • On Monday, Ramya, who came to the court, expressed the view that she had committed a mistake, and revealed her desire to return to her parents. The court, after holding a hearing, permitted her to return to her parents home in Pottolike. Mohammed had not appeared in the court on Monday. The parents of Ramya have sent her to the house of a relative in Vamanjoor for a week. Her parents feel that Ramya has realized her mistake and changed her mind accordingly.

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Jagran - Yahoo! India - International :: नेपाल को हिंदू राष्ट्र बनाने के लिए हड़ताल

  • Jagran - Yahoo! India - International :: Politics News

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    • काठमांडू
    • धर्मनिरपेक्ष गणतंत्र नेपाल को हिंदू राष्ट्र घोषित करने की मांग को लेकर की गई हड़ताल से सोमवार को यहां सात जिलों में जनजीवन बुरी तरह प्रभावित रहा। भीष्म एकता परिषद ने देश को हिंदू राज्य घोषित करने की मांग को लेकर हड़ताल की अपील की थी।

    • पुलिस ने बताया कि हड़ताल से अच्छम, बैतादी, बाजुरा, बझांग, दादेलधूरा, दारचूला और दोती जिले में जनजीवन प्रभावित हुआ। बाजार और शिक्षण संस्थान बंद रहे, यातायात सेवाएं भी बाधित हुईं।

      संगठन देश को हिंदू राष्ट्र, गाय को राष्ट्रीय पशु, राष्ट्रीय झंडे को पहले जैसा करने व नेपाल में संघीय प्रणाली लागू करने के फैसले को वापस लेने की मांग कर रहा है।


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