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China bans public practice of Islam in Xinjiang province

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Xinjiang province

by CII Broadcasting

China‘s Xinjiang region (East Turkestan) has banned the practise of religion in government buildings and will fine those who use the Internet to ‘undermine national unity’, in a package of new regulations.

The rules, passed by the standing committee of Xinjiang’s parliament on Friday, stipulate penalties of between 5,000 and 30,000 yuan ($4,884) for individuals who use the Internet, mobile phones or digital publishing to undermine national unity, social stability or incite ethnic hatred.

Equipment used in the offences also can be confiscated, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday.

The regulations, which come into effect Jan. 1, also prohibit people from distributing and viewing videos about ‘radical’ religious subjects in or outside religious venues, and requires religious leaders to report such activities to the local authorities and police, the China Daily reported at the weekend.

“An increasing number of problems involving religious affairs have emerged in Xinjiang,” said Ma Mingcheng, deputy director of the Xinjiang People’s Congress and director of its legislative affairs committee, according to the Chinese newspaper.

People will not be allowed to practice religion in government offices, public schools, businesses or institutions. Religious activities will have to take place in registered venues, the report said.

They also are prohibited from wearing or forcing others to wear clothes or logos associated with religion, although the types of clothes and logos aren’t specified, the newspaper said.

Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people, has been beset by violence for years, blamed by the government on “extremists who want an independent state called East Turkestan.”

Rights groups and exiles say the problem is more to do with Beijing‘s harsh restrictions on the Uighur people’s religious and cultural customs and doubt the existence of a cohesive group fighting the government.

Last week, 15 people were killed in the latest bout of unrest in Xinjiang.

The energy-rich region sits strategically on the borders of Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and Central Asia.

Putin, blocked by Europe, turns to Turkey for Gas Pipeline

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin.(RIA Novosti / Alexey Druzhinin)

President of Russia Vladimir Putin.(RIA Novosti / Alexey Druzhinin)

by Juan Cole

The Russian annexation of Crimea and heavy interference in the Ukraine has had a significant consequence for its hydrocarbon industry. President Vladimir Putin has been forced to cancel a planned natural gas pipeline that would bring the fuel to southern Europe, because of European Union pressure for boycotting Russia. Moscow will not suffer very much economically, however, since it can sell as much natural gas to Turkey as it had been planning to sell to southern Europe, though perhaps at a bigger discount (Turkey has 75 people and is the world’s 17th largest economy. Greece has 11 million people and a small economy.)

The Ukraine crisis was in some ways provoked by aggressive expansionism by the EU and NATO into former Russian spheres of influence, in contradiction to promises made by the West to Premier Mikhail Gorbachev in the early 1990s. But be that as it may, Russia’s unilateral annexation of the Crimea and heavy interference in eastern Ukraine is inconsistent with international law.

Turkey plans to grow its economy substantially in the coming decade and is energy hungry, lacking much in the way of gas or oil itself, though it has coal. Slightly discounted Russian natural gas seems a good deal to Ankara. Moreover, Turkey has been rudely rebuffed in its bid to join the European Union, and this deal with Russia is a way for the Turks to remind the Europeans that if the EU had wanted Turkey to join its consensus, it could have admitted Turkey. As things now stand, Ankara is a free agent, and glories in its independence. Russian natural gas also has advantages for Turkey at the moment over Iranian natural gas, since the US has been pressuring countries not to deal with Iran or to allow bank transfers of money from Iran.

The significant political differences between Turkey and Russia on the Crimean Tartars and on Bashar al-Assad in Syria appear to have proved no bar to these economic deals.

Environmentally, burning natural gas is bad, but it isn’t nearly as bad as burning coal; some consider it half as carbon-intensive as coal, but that idea probably underestimates the methane emitted in drilling for gas. And, Turkey has big plans for coal. A Greenpeace study [pdf] observes:

“According to the World Resources Institute, Turkey plans 50 coal-fired power plants with a total installed capacity of 37,000 MW. This will rank Turkey first among OECD countries investing in new installed coal capacity and fourth globally, behind only China, India and Russia. Some projections suggest up to 86 new coal plant projects, when accounting for those that are in the process of permitting and those that have failed the application process.

In 2011, Turkey’s overall energy mix was comprised of 31% coal, 32% natural gas, and 27% petrol, with the remaining 10% composed of hydropower, wood/biofuels and wind. The Ministry of Energy and Natural Resource’s energy vision for 2023 predicts a near doubling of total energy sources, with the only significant difference that use of gas would decrease in relative terms to 23% and the use of coal would increase to 37%. In absolute terms this would mean a 2.3-fold increase of coal use in just 12 years.”

A person can only hope that the diversion of Russian natural gas to Turkey will forestall the building of some of those 50 or 85 coal plants, which are an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen. Why sunny and windy Turkey doesn’t initiate a crash program of renewables is a huge mystery, since then their fuel would be free and their economy would really take off.

My advice to Greece and other southern European countries that Putin has just by-passed for natural gas is to turn to renewables rather than seeking to replace Russian gas with Qatari. Italy gets 7% of its electricity from solar. Greece so far has little wind or solar power, its main renewable source for electricity being hydroelectric. About half of its electricity comes from dirty lignite coal. A quarter is from gas. Greece has enormous solar and wind potential but its government hasn’t promoted it. Putin wants to maneuver Turkey into reselling Russian gas to southern Europe, so as to sidestep sanctions. But if Turkey and Greece initiated a crash program of renewables they would save money and remove themselves from the geopolitical cross fire.

'Devastating': Suspension of food assistance threatens 1.7 million Syrians with hunger

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‘This couldn’t come at a worse time’

Street art by Syrian refugees in Iraq. Mural reads: "Hope gives wings to humanity." (Photo: Samantha Robison/ European Commission DG ECHO/flickr/cc)

Street art by Syrian refugees in Iraq. Mural reads: “Hope gives wings to humanity.” (Photo: Samantha Robison/ European Commission DG ECHO/flickr/cc)

by Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams

“This couldn’t come at a worse time,” stated UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres.

Guterres’s comment is in response to the UN World Food Programme’s announcement Monday that it was suspending its food assistance to Syrian refugees as a result of a “funding crisis.”

The suspension of the program means that many of the over 1.7 million Syrian refugees in neighboring countries that had depended on the program’s food vouchers to buy food will now go hungry, the WFP states.

The suspension “will endanger the health and safety of these refugees and will potentially cause further tensions, instability and insecurity in the neighboring host countries,” stated WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin.

Many of the refugees are in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt, and already faced lack of access to necessary hygiene, clothing, shelter, and more.

With the cold winter season about to hit, these refugees may find themselves further on the brink, the agencies warn.

“Winter is already an extremely difficult period for Syrian refugees, but the suspension of food assistance at this critical juncture is going to be devastating,” Guterres’s statement continued.

The conflict that has gripped the country since 2011 has created over 3 million refugees—roughly half the country’s population. The UN refugee office has called it “the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era.”

As Common Dreams reported last month,

According to [Raed Jarrar, expert on Middle East politics and Policy Impact Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee], a “real solution” to the refugee crisis does not lie in the “charitable” responses proposed by the UN, but in a long-term political and social response which engages and empowers people who are directly impacted by the violence. “The solutions for the displaced people is not resettlement or to keep them in limbo where they live,” argues Jarrar. “The real solution is to create the conditions at home to allow for a voluntary repatriation and deal with the root causes that displace them. That is the most important thing to focus on with this humanitarian crisis.”

Aligarh Muslim University, Raja Mahendra Pratap and Attempts of Polarization

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Raja Mahendra Pratap

Those resorting to communal politics have not only perfected their techniques of polarizing the communities along religious lines, but have been constantly resorting to new methods for dividing the society. On the backdrop of Muzzafar nagar, where ‘Love Jihad’ propaganda was used to enhance the divisive agenda, now in Aligarh an icon of matchless virtues, Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh is being employed for the similar purposes.

The attempt by BJP and associates to hold the memorial function in his honor within campus was successfully deflected by the Vice Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) University with the plan for a seminar befitting his contribution to the freedom movement of this AMU alumnus.

BJP dug up this icon from pages of history and gauzing prevalent respect for him after the lapse of decades after his death. The answer to why now at this particular juncture is very revealing. Mahendra Pratap died on 29 April 1979, and now out of the blues BJP seems to have felt that his Jat, Hindu identity can be pitched as a flag of their politics. Pratap was a freedom fighter extraordinary, a journalist and a writer. He was a humanist, believing in International federation of nations transcending the national and religious boundaries. He was a Marxist who called for social reforms and empowerment of Panchayats. He was president of Indian Freedom Fighters’ Association He was also the first one to form the provisional Indian Government in exile by establishing it in Kabul in 1915. Just to recall the Indian National Congress adopted the goal of complete freedom for India much later in its 1929 session. This Provisional Government was called Hakumat-i-Moktar-i-Hind, and was constituted with Pratap as the President, Maulvi Barkatullah as prime minister and Maulana Obaidullah Sindhi as interior minister.

After independence he also participated in the electoral arena where he defeated Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Mathura in the 1957 Lok Sabha election. His commitment to being opposed to communal forces could not be more evident than this opposition of his to the leader of Bhartiya Jansangh, Vajpayee. Ironically same person is being lifted up as the icon, who opposed their politics. BJP leaders like Yogi Adityanath are claiming that had Mahendra Pratap not donated the land the AMU would not have come up. This is contrary to the facts. The predecessor of AMU, Mohammadan Anglo Oriental College was formed in 1886, with a land bought from British cantonment (Nearly 74 Acres) and much later Pratap had leased 3.04 acres of land, this is called Tikonia ground and is used as a playground by the City High School of AMU in 1929. He joined the Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College in 1895, but could not complete his graduation. He left MAO College in 1905. MAO became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920, which regards Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh as an alumnus. In 1977, AMU, under V-C Prof A M Khusro, felicitated Mahendra Pratap at the centenary celebrations of MAO.

He wasn’t born when MAO was established, and there is no record of any donation of land from him. Mahendra Pratap’s father Raja Ghanshiam Singh of Mursan had got a hostel room constructed, which continues to stand as Room Number 31 in Sir Syed Hall (South).

BJP demanded that Mahenra Pratap’s birthday should be celebrated as AMU celebrates the birthday of Sir Syed, the founder of the University RSS Functionaries and BJP leaders put pressure on the VC. VC pointed out that AMU cannot celebrate birth day of every donor or alumnus, while recognizing their contribution to the building up of the University. As such already AMU in recognition of Pratap’s contribution to the University has put up his photo in University along with the photo of Sir Syed.

On November 17 (2014), BJP chief of UP Mr. Laxmikant Bajpai and general secretary Swatantra Dev Singh visited Aligarh and directed their district unit to celebrate the birth day of Mahendra Pratap’s within the MU campus. The raja is a also Jat icon, In popular perception AMU is seen as a Muslim institution. The Jat-Muslim conflict instigated by communal forces, which erupted in the form of violence in Muzaffarnagar continues to affect in western part of UP. The BJP through its machinations allegedly wants to restore the glory of a Jat ‘king’. As such the idea is to appropriate one more of icons and in the process if the state government puts curbs on the celebration, the BJP can benefit by accusing the state Government of “Muslim appeasement”.

As the matters stand VC, Gen. Shah’s suggestion of celebrating the birth anniversary of Raja Mahendra Pratap by organizing a seminar on his contribution to freedom movement of India is a welcome initiative. The situation seems to have been diffused for the time being. BJP had planned a rally outside the gate of AMU, which would have precipitated the unwarranted incidents.

This whole episode has many lessons for the society. To begin with, the national icons are being modulated to suit the interests of communal politics. Be it Sardar patel, Swami Vivekanand, Mahatma Gandhi or in this case Raja Mahendra Pratap, they are being presented in the light which suits the communal politics. In case of Mahedra Pratap, who was a Marxist internationalist; is being presented as a mere Jat leader. He was a person who opposed the politics in the name of religion, as is evident by his electoral fight against BJP’s previous avatar, Bhartiya Jan Sanghs’ Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Secondly BJP associates are manipulating people’s identity as primarily being religious identity, Hindu or Muslim. In case of Muzzafarnagar, the Jats who were instigated in the name of ‘love Jihad’ came to stand more for Hindu identity. This identity is then made to stand opposed to the ‘other’ religious identity in particular, the Muslim identity and sometimes Christian identity. Same game is also being experimented in parts of Delhi, where Dalits are being made to pitch against Muslims, in a way two deprived communities being made to fight for’ their’ religion’ on the pretext of some issues related to faith.

The communal politics not only manipulates the identity of the people but also that of the icons, as is clear in the case of Raja Mahendra Pratap. The third major lesson for society to learn is that the search is on to find more and more issues to pitch one religious community against the other to strengthen the politics of a particular type. While the top leadership will talk of moratorium on violence, the associates of the same leadership will stoke the processes which will lead to the process of violence in due course.

A great amount of restraint is needed to ensure that we learn the values of the icons, e.g. the likes of Mahendra Pratap teach us the basic lessons of love and amity, peace and universal humanism. To use the techniques of conflicting religious identities is a gross violation of human morality, irrespective of the religion in whose name it is done.

Actor Deven Verma passes away

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Deven Verma passed away in Pune following a cardiac arrest. Photo: Indian Express

Deven Verma passed away in Pune following a cardiac arrest. Photo: Indian Express

Pune: Veteran Bollywood character actor and filmmaker Deven Verma, who delivered memorable performances in films like “Angoor” and “Khatta Meetha”, died here early Tuesday following a heart attack and kidney failure, family sources said. He was 77.

He is survived by his wife Rupa Ganguly, the younger daughter of the late legendary actor Ashok Kumar.

Verma breathed his last around 2 am at his home in Pune, the city of his birth from where he graduated in politics and sociology before joining the film industry.

The actor also featured in movies such as “Angoor”, “Chori Mera Kaam”, “Andaz Apna Apna”, “Bemisal”, “Judaai”, “Dil To Paagal Hai”, and “Kora Kagaz”.

His funeral will be performed Tuesday afternoon at the Yerawada crematorium.

(IANS)

Communal tension grips Kalol town after midnight clash

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Vadodara/Indian Express: Communal tension gripped Kalol town, situated around twenty kilometres from Godhra, after two Muslim youths were allegedly beaten up by a group of five Hindu youth who objected to their participation in a Hindu marriage late Sunday night.

The victims, Rafiq Jarodia and Shahid Morza, along with complainant Wasim Sheikh had gone to attend the ceremony of a friend, Bhavdipsinh Sisodia on invitation.

One of the invitees, Sunny Joshi saw them and objected to their participation in a “Hindu marriage” and asked them to leave. According to the FIR, n ot long after the marriage procession arrived at the Kalol college compound, the Muslim boys left the venue and were walking towards parking lot.

As they were preparing to leave, they were chased and rounded up by five persons named in the FIR – Sunny Joshi, Sandip Tadvi, Dipesh, Parth Kanojia and Akshay Soni. Rafiq and Shahid were allegedly beaten up with iron rod and bricks by fhe accused around mid night onSunday, who allegedly said they disliked Muslims participating in Hindu marriage, FIR filed at Kalol police station stated.

One of the two had to be admitted to a private hospital. The injured was later referred to the civil hospital in Vadodara.

Upon hearing of the incident, hundreds of Muslims from around Kalol gathered near the bus stand to mark their protest, upon which police teams from Godhra had to be rushed to take situation under control. “The matter was soon brought under control and Muslims were dispersed. The situation is under control,” police said.

Two persons have been arrested in this connection and police are looking for other accused in the FIR. They have been booked under sections 143, 147, 149, 307, 504, and 507 (2) of IPC and section 135 of GP Act, police said. EoM.

Selective Condemnation of Selective Violence by Pope Francis – Dr Javed Jamil

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Pope Francis would have done well to say that every act of violence and innocent death, whoever the victim, whoever the culprit, whatever the place, whatever the time, whatever the method and whatever the motive should be condemned by the whole world

Pope Francis walks in front of the honour guard at the presidential palace in Ankara. Photo: Reuters

Pope Francis walks in front of the honour guard at the presidential palace in Ankara. Photo: Reuters

by Dr Javed Jamil

According to the BBC, “Pope Francis has urged Muslim leaders around the world to condemn terrorism carried out in the name of Islam. Speaking on board a flight back to Rome, the Pope said that he understood the harm caused by the stereotype that linked Islam with terrorism.”

He said a “global condemnation” of the violence would help the majority of Muslims dispel this stereotype. Pope Francis was returning from a three-day visit to Turkey. The pontiff denounced people who say that “all Muslims are terrorists”. “As we cannot say that all Christians are fundamentalists,” he said.”

While I have no reasons to doubt the good intentions of the Pope, I have many reasons to question his knowledge and his selective appeal. It appears certain that Pope like most other residents of the current world is exposed to the continuous motivated propaganda carried out by West through international media, and he has never stopped to have a closer look at the propaganda. He seems to have become a victim of the common propaganda which can see only “terrorism” as the only condemnable category of violence and “Muslim Terrorism” as the only condemnable category of “terrorism”. Why can’t the people like him recognize the fact that violence committed in any name is bad, and our response to violence should be proportional to the magnitude of the violence rather than its denominations?

The Western media (and also the Indian media under the influence of both the West and the Hindutva propagandists) focuses only on a certain category of violence, which of course suits its designs and its ideological foundations.

For them, only beheadings are a condemnable form of violence and not the carnage through bombs; the former is the method of “them” (Muslim terrorists) and the latter is currently the method of “Us” (the West). It is another matter that the beheadings kill less than a dozen and bombs kill millions. Of course, bombs also become condemnable when bombs of lesser intensity are used by the al-Qaida and its allies which kill tens or hundreds unlike the thousands and tens of thousands that the American, Israeli and British bombs kill.

The Pope also ignores the fact that at the global level, violence as a whole is a predominantly Western monopoly and terrorism as a whole is also a more non-Muslim than Muslim monopoly. al-Qaida killed not more than 6000 innocent Westerners but America’s “war against terror” of al-Qaida killed more than 2 million innocent Muslims. ISIS is also a creation of West, which entered Iraq after its war against Syrian Government failed despite huge support of Western weaponry, which was later used in Iraq.

Terrorism in India, mainly by non-Muslims (believing or non-believing Hindus) has killed more than 40,000 people in the last 2 decades. Tamil Terrorism in Sri Lanka claimed more than 100,000 lives. America, France, Britain, China and Russia have been responsible, directly or indirectly, for the overwhelming majority of deaths in wars and civil wars in the last century.

And of course they are also the countries with maximum deaths in murders, suicides and induced abortions. More than 180 million people lost lives in wars in the last century and more than 1 billion children have been murdered through abortions in the last 20 years. The number of deaths by way of murders has also been more than 10 million.

But it is not the magnitude of violence but the type of violence that attracts the international attention. Any violence that can be linked to the West and their ideologies make no news. But as soon as there is violence somewhere which can be made to appear linked to the forces or the ideologies opposed to them, it is attacked with all their weapons.

The Pope would have done well to say that every act of violence and innocent death, whoever the victim, whoever the culprit, whatever the place, whatever the time, whatever the method and whatever the motive should be condemned by the whole world. He should have recognized the fact that the genesis of terrorism has several factors, and one major factor is the role of West in Muslim countries, their support to brutal regimes in the region, and the deaths caused by Western forces in the Islamic world. He should state that almost all the acts of violence are devilish, and while terrorist attacks are committed by lesser devils, the wars and aerial bombings are conducted by the bigger devils. It would have certainly sounded better if he had appealed to West to stop intervening in Muslim countries.

The Pope should also explain if the Middle Eastern acts of violence can be linked to Islam or Muslims, why Western violence cannot be linked to Christianity and Christians. My appeal to the Pope is the same as has been to the pontiffs and protagonists of all religions of the world: recognize the fact that the real threat to the world comes not from any religion but the forces of irreligion led by West. And I would like to inform Christian pontiffs that we Muslims differentiate between Westernism and Christianity despite the fact that Christianity is the dominant religion in the West.

Dr Javed Jamil is a New Delhi-based physician, poet and writer with over a dozen books to his credit including his latest, “Muslims Most Civilized, Yet Not Enough” and “Muslim Vision of Secular India: Destination & Roadmap”.

Church gutted in East Delhi, Archbishop asks PM to order judicial enquiry

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The alter of the St Sebastian Church was completely gutted on Monday. (Source: Express photo by Ravi Kanojia)

The alter of the St Sebastian Church was completely gutted on Monday. Photo: Ravi Kanojia, Indian Express

New Delhi: A Catholic church in East Delhi’s Dilshad Garden area, St Sebastian’s Church, was completely gutted in a fire this morning. Church authorities alleged the fire was an attempt at triggering religious polarisation ahead of the Delhi polls, likely early next year.

On the complaint of Church priest Fr. Anthony Francis, the police have registered an FIR against unknown outsiders for causing the fire with malicious intent. Senior officers of Delhi police, the Special Branch and the Forensic Crime unit came to the spot after many hours, and once the agitated members of the Catholic community blocked the roads in the area. Samples were retrieved from the inside of the church, which was still smelling of fuel oil.

The forensic team found traces of kerosene inside the church premises, which led the police to conclude that the attack was pre-meditated.

A case of “mischief by fire” has been lodged and the police are questioning several persons, among them the watchman of the church.

The police will come out with a final report after the forensic team finalises its findings.

The authorities found out about the fire around 6.30 am after the watchman, who came in for work around that time, informed them. There was no security guard at the church between 5 and 6 am, which was when the authorities thought the fire started.

There was no casualty since the church was empty at the time.

“It seems to be a deliberate act as we could smell kerosene on the spot. It has been a very emotional day for us,” Father Stanley Kozhichira, of the Delhi archdiocese told the media.

Delhi Archbishop Rev. Anil Couto, has in a memorandum to Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Mr. Rajnath Singh, called on them to urgently order a judicial enquiry into the burning.

Addressing the media, Archbishop Couto said apart from the judicial enquiry, the government must repair the building before Christmas, ensure that policemen guilty of dereliction of duty are punished, and special police investigation teams are set up to trace the guilty.

The church was built in 2001. Almost 3000 people attend the Sunday mass.

Representative of church at the protest site. Photo: Krishna Vamsi

The Christian community cutting across denominations, and civil society have decided to protest at the offices of the Police Commissioner of Delhi on Tuesday morning to focus attention on the attempts to polarize the people in Delhi state which goes to the polls soon, and the continued persecution of Christians in Madhya Pradesh, Chhatishgarh and other tribal and rural areas.

On Sunday, 30th November 21014, two house churches in Annupur district of Madhya Pradesh were attacked. Earlier in November, catholic priests in the Bastar region in Chhatisgarh were told all their schools were to install statues of Goddess Saraswati and they would not be allowed to be called “Father”, the usual honorific, by the students, but would be called “Acharya”. In other districts of Chhartisgarh, village panchayats under political influence have passed regulations banning non-Hindu religious persons from organising prayers or opening places of worship in their territory.

Maoists gun down 13 CRPF troopers in Chhattisgarh

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Maoists-CRPF-Chhattisgarh

Sukma: Maoists Monday gunned down 13 CRPF troopers engaged in an operation aimed at flushing out the rebels from a thickly forested area of Chhattisgarh, police sources said.

The deadly attack, the worst in months, also killed two officers – a deputy commandant and an assistant commandant of the Central Reserve Police Force.

The incident took place near Chintagufa area in Sukma district, Additional Director General of Police R.K. Vij told IANS. “We have suffered a major casualty.”

The Maoists fire indiscriminately from all sides at a joint contingent of the CRPF and Chhattisgarh Police. “Suddenly there was heavy firing from almost everywhere,” Vij told IANS.

He said the security forces were engaged in a major combing operation when the Maoists sprayed bullets.

The attack site is about 500 km south of capital Raipur. The area is cut off from all communication networks.

Officials at the state police headquarters said Chintagufa was a den of Maoists where they have had several major hideouts since the 1990s.

One officer said the security forces were often scared to carry out anti-Maoist operations in the area.

“The casualty is basically due to lack of solid intelligence,” said a CRPF officer posted at Sukma’s Dornapal base camp.

“We failed to know that Maoists had assembled in hundreds in the area with sophisticated weapons to take on the CRPF.

“But we have to admit that getting specific intelligence in the insurgent-commanded jungle war zone has always been a difficult task,” the officer told IANS.

The attack site is part of Bastar region that is spread out over 40,000 square km. In almost the entire forested interiors, the rebels run a parallel government.

In the past six months the insurgents had come under heavy pressure from both the paramilitary troopers and the state police.

(IANS)

B S Yeddyurappa's nephew arrested in cheating case

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Mysuru: A nephew of former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa has been arrested by police for cheating a man after receiving huge amount of money.

Yeddyurappa’s sister’s son Rajesh was arrested by Hanumanthanagar police in Bengaluru on Monday following a complaint by K G Krishnappa, resident of Banashankari in Bengaluru.

In the year 2008, when the Yeddyurappa government came to power, Rajesh had allegedly promised to get 11 acres of land, previously owned by Krishnappa at Mogaralli on KRS Road, denotified.

The land had been acquired by Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board from Krishnappa in the year 2007.Rajesh had received Rs 20 lakh cash, a cheque amounting to Rs 20 lakh, and a Honda City car from Krishnappa in return for the favour. However, he failed to get the land denotified, as per the complaint.

Krishnappa filed a complaint with Police Commissioner, Bengaluru on September 28, 2011. Shortly after, Rajesh too filed a complaint against Krishnappa with the Banashankari police, stating that the latter had been threatening him. Hanumanthanagar police also seized the Honda City car found at Rajesh’s house.

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