Maoism or terrorism -- which is a bigger threat for India?

Posted by IBNLive at 03:07 PM, Apr 09, 2010 in India
In the worst-ever Maoist attack on security forces, 75 CRPF personnel and a local policeman were killed in the forests of Dantewada early this week. Both the PM and the Home Minister have expressed the need to use the country's defence forces to take on the Maoists. Which is a bigger threat for India: Maoism or terrorism?


I suppose the question whether Maoism or terrorism is a bigger threat to India actually means to ask whether Islamic terrorism or Communist terrorism poses a bigger danger to India. It has to be accepted that India faces multiple threats to its existence and each such threat can by itself be disastrous for India. Therefore we have no choice but neutralize all threats without hair-splitting about lesser or greater dangers.

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Shoaib gave false info in divorce paper?

Updated on Saturday, April 10, 2010, 12:09 IST

Hyderabad: Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik, who is set to marry Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza, could land in fresh trouble for furnishing false information while giving divorce to his first wife Ayesha Siddiqui, according to official documents.

The divorce and agreement papers, which Shoaib signed April 7, have the name of his late father as Malik Saleem Hussain while the invitation for the April 15 wedding reception carries the name of his father as Malik Faqeer Hussain, the documents show.


According to legal experts, Shoaib could face legal action if Ayesha's family files a case against him on charges of furnishing false information.

The wrong name given in divorce certificate and the agreement signed on Rs.100 stamp paper could be yet another attempt by Shoaib to show that he did not marry Ayesha, they said.

The former Pakistani skipper divorced Ayesha Wednesday after she filed a police case against him for cheating. Sania's family members and some community elders convinced him to end the row through divorce.

It was immediately not known if Ayesha's family would again approach the police against Shoaib.

The Pakistani star is still caught in a legal mesh as the police have not yet returned his passport which was seized about a week ago.

Though Ayesha has informed the police that she was withdrawing her complaint, Shoaib would get back his passport only after completing legal formalities.

With police yet to return Shoaib's passport, the qazi expressed his inability to perform the 'nikah', which was scheduled to take place Friday evening.

Qazis in Hyderabad do not perform marriages of foreigners without verifying the passport and no-objection certificates from their respective governments.

Sources said the nikah would now be possible any day before April 15, the day when Sania's family has planned to host a wedding reception at the Taj Krishna hotel here.

IANS

Ayesha can now turn the tables against Shoaib. Shoaib sought to deny the nikah with Ayesha saying that the name in the nikahnama was Maha. Now Ayesha can deny the talaq as Sohaib's father's name is different. Shoaib appears to be the biggest crook who ever crossed the Indus into India to marry. Congrats, Sania.

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SC shunts Dinakaran to Sikkim, state lawyers protest

Updated on Friday, April 09, 2010, 17:56 IST Tags:Dinakaran, Sikkim, Chief Justice

Gangtok: In what is set to be a further embarrassment to Karnataka Chief Justice PD Dinakaran, the Sikkim Bar Association on Friday protested his proposed transfer to their state in the same capacity and appealed to the Supreme Court to reconsider the decision.

The bar association held an emergency meeting here soon after the news of the proposed transfer was telecast on news channels and unanimously resolved to boycott the swearing-in as well as the court to be presided over by Dinakaran, its president D R Thapa said.


"How come the person be fit to be discharge judicial duties in one state if he has not been found worthy of doing the same in another state," Thapa asked.

59-year-old Dinakaran has been dogged by charges of misuse of authority, corruption and land grab, which had prompted the apex court to retract its decision to elevate him to the Supreme Court last year.

The Supreme Court had earlier this week asked Dinakaran to go on a long leave and appointed Delhi High Court Judge Madan B Lokur as the acting Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court.

However, with Dinakaran refusing to go on leave, the proposal for his transfer was made by the Supreme Court collegium yesterday and it was sent to President Pratibha Patil for approval.

The decision was taken by the Supreme Court collegium consisting of Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan, Justice SH Kapadia, RV Raveendran and Dalveer Bhandari.

The proposal of shifting the controversial Karnataka High Court Justice is being sent to the Centre for approval of the President.

The collegium took the decision in the light of reports that the judicial work of the Karnataka High Court was being affected as Dinakaran was not been performing any judicial work since December last.

Reports further claimed that the apex court collegium has also cleared the name of the acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court Justice Madan B Lokur to be appointed as the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court.

The collegium has also recommended the name of the senior-most judge of the Jharkhand High Court MY Eqbal as the new chief justice of the Madras High Court. He will succeed Justice HL Gokhale, who has been recommended for elevation to the Supreme Court.

-PTI


How can a judge who is not good enough for one High Court be shifted to another High Court? Either the corruption charges against him should be pressed or he has to be absolved of any wrongdoing. Leaving him in limbo and expecting another High Court to accept his credentials is unfair.

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Radiation level in affected area of Delhi ‘normalises’

Updated on Friday, April 09, 2010, 21:43 IST
New Delhi: After 12 hours of investigation and search, scientists of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) Friday cleared a Delhi scrap market of radioactive material and sanitised five shops after five people were taken ill due to the radiation.

The DAE searched the contaminated site in west Delhi's Mayapuri area throughout Thursday night and till Friday forenoon. They found several pieces of the radioactive material in the area.


"The material was removed and packed in a shielded container. The radiation level in the area has come down to normal level. The road cordons have been removed," said an official.

"The scrap shop where the radioactive material was kept was found to have a high radiation field. Four nearby shops also indicated high radiation field," the official added.

Experts reported that the radioactive substance is Cobalt-60.

"The radio-nuclide responsible for high radiation field has been identified as Co-60 using a portable spectrometre. Such sources are used in industry for radiography, nucleonic gauges for thickness measurement and in medical applications. This incident/radiation exposure is not related to any of the DAE facilities," the atomic energy department added.


Four people suffered burn-like injuries after coming in contact with the radioactive material in the scrap market in Mayapuri area Thursday. Earlier, scrap dealer Deepak Jain also suffered burns and is battling for life at the Indraprashtha Apollo Hospital.

Jain was admitted to the hospital April 4 and "his bone marrow is significantly suppressed", a hospital bulletin said Friday.

"His condition continues to be serious," it added. "Currently, he is in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and a multi-disciplinary team of doctors is monitoring his progress," the hospital said.

Jain's body turned black when he touched the material, according to eyewitnesses.

The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) got the information from Apollo Hospital that a person, who is the owner of a scrap metal shop in Mayapuri, is showing symptoms indicative of suspected exposure to radiation.

Following this, a team of officials from the DAE and the AERB was sent to the scrap metal shop at Mayapuri. The officials used radiation detection equipment and monitored the radiation levels at various positions within the scrap shop and in the adjoining areas.

The team located the sources of radiation and isolated one of the sources and shielded it with locally available steel scrap materials. This was done to reduce the radiation level in the surrounding.

The Crisis Management Group in DAE was activated and a team of officers from DAE and AERB were sent to New Delhi with a wide range of radiation monitoring and detecting equipment for prompt identification and recovery of the radioactive pieces and their safe disposal. Following this, the area was sanitised.

Deputy Commissioner of Police Sharad Aggarwal said that a formal case has been filed.

-IANS

This incident highlights the importance of the Crises Management Group of DAE. It is quite possible that many of our enemies would see the possibilities arising out of this incident and manufacture "dirty bombs" with "technology" available at scrap yards. Therefore DAE has to train more experts so that radiation leaks in future can be quickly attended to and necessary measures taken to protect the public.

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SC to consider worship of Lord Rama in Ayodhya

09/04/2010

The Supreme Court today agreed to consider a plea for removing alleged unreasonable restrictions imposed by the authorities in Ayodhya on worshipping of Lord Rama in the temple at the disputed site.
"We will consider your plea," a Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice Deepak Verma said while asking Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy, a party in the matter, to move a fresh application in this regard.
"You have to a file proper application and then only the respondents can file response," the Bench said and gave three weeks time to him to submit the application.
The Janata Party chief told the court that he has filed an affidavit as directed by it in March last year which contains the prayers sought by him.
"My prayer is against the restrictions imposed on worship," he said and drew the attention of the bench that he has been impleaded as a party in the pending matter.
During the brief hearing, Swamy clarified to the bench that he was not raising the question of whether Ram temple be built at the site or not but restricting his prayers to worship of Lord Rama in the makeshift temple.

He has alleged that authorities in Ayodhya have put unreasonable restrictions on worshipping of Lord Rama in the temple at the disputed site.

Earlier on January 29, he had submitted that irrespective of the final outcome relating to the title deed dispute pending in the Allahabad High Court, the authorities should ensure adequate arrangements for devotees to have a 'darshan' of the idols. Denial of the same was violative of their fundamental rights, he had said.

Swamy has contended that the regulations imposed on the puja practice by the Uttar Pradesh Government in consultation with the Statutory Receiver, the Commissioner, Faizabad District, were unreasonable and unnecessarily harsh.

"According to this applicant (Swamy), these (regulations) are highly derogatory, humiliating and unreasonable and particularly harsh on aged, infirm or even female devotees," the affidavit placed by him in support of his application before the bench said.


K.Venugopal
#1
Friday, 09 April 2010 23:04:40
V.Sunder's comment that "Lord Ram will not be angry if he is worshipped at some other place" is like saying that Lord Ram would not have been angry if another bride was offered by Ravana in place of kidnapped Sita! Maybe if V.Sunder was in Lord Ram's situation he would have accepted Ravana's offer, but all Hindus are not such cowards to accept the worship of Lord Ram in any other place than at his birth place. Such a worship would not be at Ram Janmabhoomi just as another bride would not be Sita.
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K.Venugopal#1
Friday, 09 April 2010 23:25:55
The right of all communities to unconditional worship as per their religion is granted in India not because of recent secularism but because of ancient Hinduism. Does any Muslim country allow that? Did any Christian country allow that before secularism took roots in Christian countries?

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Sania Mirza to wed Shoaib Malik in Hyderabad today

09/04/2010
In yet another surprising twist to the Sania Mirza-Shoaib Malik affair, the tennis star has decided to marry the Pakistani cricketer on Friday (April 9) instead of the previously decided date of April 15.

Quazi Azmatullah Jaffri of Dar-Ul-Qazzat confirmed that the nikah will be performed after evening prayers on Friday.

The couple had earlier announced that they would tie the knot on April 15 but as it turns out that date has been set for their reception ceremony to be attended by about about 500 guests at the Taj Krishna hotel.
Ever since they announced their wedding, the couple had been hounded by the media over Shoaib's first marriage. Another Hyderabad girl Ayesha Siddiqui had alleged that Shoaib married her over phone before dumping her without a divorce due to her weight problems.

Shoaib initially denied the allegations and claimed that Ayesha duped him into a phone marriage by sending photographs of a different woman. The all-rounder, however, finally agreed to divorce her after being pressurised by community leaders.
Ayesha had also filed an FIR against Shoaib alleging fraud and criminal intimidation which led to the cricketer's passport being confiscated by the police.

The FIRs have been withdrawn after Shoaib agreed to divorce Ayesha and Shoaib is likely to get back his passport before the reception if he applies to the court on Friday.
"As far as police are concerned, the case is closed. Shoaib has to apply to the court and get back his passport," Narasimha Reddy Additional Commissioner of Police said.

He said some administrative procedures have to be followed.

"We received requisition from Siddiquis. Now they can settle the matter in Lok Adalat," Reddy said.
PTI

K.Venugopal
#2
Friday, 09 April 2010 17:36:33
I suppose this is a case of ‘all is well that ends well’. Best wishes to the young couple for a joyful married life.

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BJP to take firebrand leader Uma Bharti back?

Press Trust of India, Thursday April 8, 2010, Gwalior

BJP general secretary Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday denied reports that the party was pondering over taking firebrand leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Uma Bharti back into its fold.

"No discussion is on in the party over taking back Bharti," Tomar, who is also the State Party President, told reporters on the sidelines of a function at Berja village near Gwalior.

Following Bharti's resignation as president of the Bhartiya Janshakti Party, the organisation which she floated after parting ways with the BJP, speculations about her possible return in the saffron party gained ground.

There is no doubt that had Uma Bharti not left the BJP, she would have been the natural choice to succeed Advani to the post of BJP president. She was certainly popular with the cadre. Somewhere down the line, unfortunately, her fiery nature took on the hue of indiscipline and she lost direction. But no story can be written off in politics. Uma Bharti may still scale great heights in Indian politics and serve the cause of Hindutva, which is dear to her. Wishing her all the best in coming back to the BJP.

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