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Pakistan imposes complete ban on Indian content on TV, radio

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Islamabad: Amid rising tensions with India, Pakistan’s media regulatory authority on Wednesday approved a complete ban on airing of Indian content in Pakistan from October 21.

The decision was taken at the 120th meeting of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) held on Wednesday in the federal capital.

The federal government had earlier suggested banning airing of Indian content in a tit-for-tat move after Pakistani content was completely banned by India.

The ban will come into effect at 3 p.m. on October 21, and violators will be prosecuted under law, said the statement.

Radio and television stations which violate the ban will have their licences suspended without a prior show cause notice, said the statement issued from the regulatory authority.

The ban extends to all Indian content on cable and radio being aired in the country.

“Pemra, with the authority vested by the federal government, today announces the cancellation of the one-sided rights given to India by the Pervez Musharraf government,” said the Pemra statement.

Earlier in October, Pemra granted Absar Alam the authority to revoke or suspend licences of companies airing Indian content without providing prior notice.

On August 31, Pemra had announced that strict action would be taken against the channels airing foreign content more than the prescribed limit and traders selling illegal Direct to Home (DTH) sets.

The ban order comes amid calls from certain quarters in India for a ban on Pakistani content and artistes.

In India, some political groups have demanded a ban of Pakistani actor Fawad Khan starrer “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil”, directed by Karan Johar.

Tensions between the two neighbours have risen since the September 18 terror attack on an Indian army base in Uri in Jammu and Kashmir, which left 19 Indian soldiers dead.

India said it carried out “surgical strikes” across the Line of Control on terrorist launchpads on September 28-29.

(IANS)

I want to see my child: Missing JNU student’s mother

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New Delhi: Fatima, the mother of missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed, on Thursday urged the authorities to “help her find my child”.

“Let me see the face of my child once. Keep him (after that) for a month if you like. I won’t say a word. But just let me see him once,” Fatima told CNN News18 channel.

“I am from a very small place… I want to see my child safe. I don’t know if he has eaten anything or is hungry,” the sobbing woman said.

“My appeal to everyone is to help me find my child,” said Fatima, who rushed from Badaun in Uttar Pradesh after receiving a frantic call from Ahmed on the night of October 14 night.

Ahmed went missing on October 15 night from a university hostel after a brawl with the BJP-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members.

(Agencies)

Cong leader Rita Bahuguna joins BJP, slams Rahul for barb at Modi

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New Delhi: In a jolt to Congress in poll- bound Uttar Pradesh, senior party leader Rita Bahuguna Joshi today joined BJP and attacked Rahul Gandhi over the way he was running the party and his reaction to the army’s surgical strikes.

67-year-old Joshi, daughter late Congress veteran Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna, over whom there has been speculation of deserting Congress, joined BJP in the presence of party president Amit Shah at the party headquaters here.

A former UPCC president who resigned as a Congress MLA today, said there is no alternative to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP.

Joshi, who was said to be unhappy with the Congress leadership over projection of Sheila Dikshit as its chief ministerial face in Uttar Pradesh, rued the present state of affairs in the party, alleging that it is in such a bad shape that it has contracted out its working to strategist Prashant Kishore.

Slamming Rahul for his ‘dalali’ barb at Modi over the surgical strikes, Joshi said she has been disheartened by the events which happened in the last few days.

“India is fighting terrorism and the Modi government has given the army a free hand. Besides valour of the army, the government’s strong leadership was also behind the surgical strikes.

“Along with the nation, I too was happy. The whole world accepted India’s arguments behind the strikes. Congress, however, behaved like a small party and went on to question it. The whole nation was upset with a phrase like ‘khoon like dalali’,” she said attacking Gandhi.

His remarks gave Pakistan an opportunity to question surgical strikes, she said, adding that political differences over national interest were not good.

Noting that she had spent 24 years out of 27 years of her political career in Congress and only 10 months in Samajwadi Party, she said, “The decision to quit Congress was not easy. However, I took it in the interest of the nation and the state (UP).”

Her joining BJP is expected to give a boost to the party’s efforts to consolidate Brahmin voters as it looks to capture power in the state following a gap of over 15 years.

The assembly polls in UP are due early next year. Ruling Samajwadi Parry and BSP have been in the power by turn all this while.

(Agencies)

Delhi HC extends relief to JNU students

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Kanhaiya Kumar. AFP

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday extended the relief granted to the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students against the university’s decision holding them guilty of indiscipline in the controversial February 9 event.

Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva slated the hearing on pleas filed by the JNU students — Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and others — for November 7 due to paucity of court’s time on Wednesday.

“Whatever is the interim position will continue till next date,” the court said.

During the brief hearing, advocate Akhil Sibal appearing for Umar Khalid contended that his client was not served notice over the setting up of disciplinary inquiry against him.

“I (Umar) was not even told that there was a disciplinary inquiry being set up,” Sibal said.

Sibal added that Umar was not given proper opportunity to defend himself and the prescribed rules were not followed by the varsity.

The JNU students had challenged the findings of the university’s appellate authority holding them guilty of indiscipline in connection with the controversial February 9 event on campus in which “anti-India” slogans were allegedly raised.

The university’s appellate authority also imposed a fine on Kanhaiya and asked him to file an undertaking that he would not participate in or be present at any illegal activity taking place on the JNU campus.

The university had slapped the students with a number of punishments, including rustication, hostel debarment, and financial penalty on the basis of probe by the High Level Enquiry Committee.

While the appellate authority had reduced the fine of some students, for Khalid and Bhattacharya, the punishment remained the same.

Umar was rusticated for one semester, while Bhattacharya was barred from the university premises for five years.

(IANS)

UNESCO adopts anti-Israel resolution on al-Aqsa Mosque

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UN agency passes resolution that criticises Israeli policies around al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem.

The resolution caused Israel to suspend its cooperation with the agency. (AFP/File)

The resolution caused Israel to suspend its cooperation with the agency. (AFP/File)

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Palestinian leaders have welcomed a decision by the United Nations cultural agency to adopt a resolution on occupied East Jerusalem that sharply criticises Israeli policies around the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, while Israel says it ignores Jewish ties to the key holy site.

A spokesman for Paris-based UNESCO said on Tuesday that the resolution, which caused Israel to suspend its cooperation with the agency, was adopted without a new vote after being approved at the committee stage last week.

The text, which touches on Israel’s management of Palestinian religious sites, refers throughout to the al-Aqsa mosque compound site in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City only by its Muslim names: al-Aqsa and al-Haram al-Sharif.

Al-Aqsa Mosque compound is the third-holiest site in Islam. Jews refer to the site as the Temple Mount.

Palestine’s deputy ambassador to UNESCO, Mounir Anastas, told reporters the resolution “reminds Israel that they are the occupying power in East Jerusalem and it asks them to stop all their violations”, including archaeological excavations around religious sites.

The UNESCO resolution also condemned Israel for restricting Muslim access to the site, and for aggression by Israeli police and soldiers, while also recognising Israel as the occupying power.

“By criticising the report for the omission of the words Temple Mount, [Israel] glosses over more than two dozen detailed criticisms of Israeli actions in and around the Old City, which is after all occupied territory,” Al Jazeera’s Paul Brennan, reporting from West Jerusalem, said.

The resolution was submitted by Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar and Sudan – and was originally passed with 24 votes in favour, six against, and 26 abstentions.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said in a statement on Thursday that UNESCO had lost its legitimacy by adopting this resolution.

“The theatre of the absurd at UNESCO continues, and today the organisation adopted another delusional decision which says that the people of Israel have no connection to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall,” Netanyahu said.

In April, UNESCO also passed a resolution condemning “Israeli aggressions and illegal measures against the freedom of worship and Muslims’ access to the al-Aqsa Mosque”, also failing to mention the site’s Jewish name.

In 2011, the Palestinians were admitted as a member state of the organisation, which led the United States to suspend its payments to UNESCO.

The latest resolutions created unease at the top of the organisation, with Michael Worbs, who chairs UNESCO’s executive board, saying he would have liked more time to work out a compromise.

“We need more time and dialogue between the members of the board to reach a consensus,” he told AFP news agency.

UNESCO chief Irina Bokova had distanced herself from Thursday’s vote, saying in a statement: “Nowhere more than in Jerusalem do Jewish, Christian and Muslim heritage and traditions share space.”

But Riyad al-Maliki, the Palestinian foreign minister, responded to Bokova by describing her comments as “completely unacceptable”.

“The Palestinian government expects Ms Bokova to focus her efforts on implementing the will of member states and preserving Jerusalem from the Israeli systematic colonisation and assault on its Palestinian character,” said Maliki.

Al-Aqsa Mosque is located in East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed following its invasion in 1967 – in a move never recognised by the international community – as part of its subsequent military occupation of the West Bank.

Jewish settlers and Zionist organisations have called for complete Jewish control over the mosque compound.

Jewish groups’ incursions into the mosque compound have continuously led to Palestinian protests across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli military and armed settler incursions have resulted in Palestinian deaths and injuries in recent years in particular. Muslim access to the religious site has also been tremendously limited by the army.

Kochi gets FIFA approval as World Cup U-17 venue

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Kochi: Three years after identifying a city stadium as a possible football World Cup venue, a high-level FIFA delegation on Wednesday cleared it to be considered for holding 2017 U-17 World Cup.

The venue cleared is the local Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium that stages One-Day International cricket and Indian Super League football matches.

Tournament Director Javier Ceppi told reporters here that Kochi becomes the first Indian city to be officially declared as one of the venues to host the next year’s U-17 World Cup.

“Congratulations! We are pleased to announce Kochi as a venue. A few more things have to be completed and we will continue to closely work with the government of Kerala,” said Ceppi.

It was the then Chief Minister Oommen Chandy who in 2013 expressed the state government’s willingness to play host to the tournament, assuring all possible support.

Since then, FIFA officials have been visiting the main as well as practice venues in this port city.

Suggestions were made by the visiting delegations to develop this venue to achieve the standards required. On their part, local authorities also spared no effort to ensure that the opportunity is not lost.

The deadline fixed for making the venue foolproof for the tournament is March 2017, when the delegation will visit again.

(IANS)

Allahabad court serves Katju notice on petition against his comments on beef

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Allahabad: An Allahabad court issued notice to retired Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju on a petition accusing him of having made “objectionable” remarks with regard to consumption of beef in his blog posts.

Additional sessions judge Shuchi Srivastava passed the order on the review petition of advocate Rakesh Nath Pandey, who alleged that justice Katju hurt Hindu sentiments by seeking the repeal of a law that bans cow slaughter in many states.

Srivastava asked justice Katju to file his reply by November 18, the next date of hearing.

The petition was filed by Pandey challenging an order of the chief judicial magistrate whereby his prayer for directing the police to lodge an FIR against justice Katju was turned down.

Justice Katju, who is also a former chairman of the Press Council of India, made a series of controversial statements on the communally sensitive issue of cow slaughter and beef ever since possession and sale of beef were made punishable by fine and five years in jail in Maharashtra last January.

In the wake of the Dadri lynching case from last September in which a 50-year-old man was beaten to death near Noida by a mob suspecting him of cow slaughter, justice Katju came up with an outpouring of a number of scathing remarks.

Recently, in a Facebook post, justice Katju wrote that he had a “danda” (stick) with which he wished to hit those who made a fuss over the issue of cow slaughter and beef.

(PTI)

IAF’s Mi-17 helicopter crash-lands in Uttarakhand

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Dehradun: An Mi-17 helicopter of Indian Air Force today crash-landed near Mana village in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand.

Some persons onboard received minor injuries when the helicopter carrying 15 people, including crew members, crash- landed on Thastoli helipad near Mana, police sources said.

Prima-facie a technical fault led to the crash-landing, the sources said.

(PTI)

Gujarat riots accused extradited from UK

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Samirbhai Vinubhai Patel. Photo: CBI

Samirbhai Vinubhai Patel. Photo: CBI

London: A 40-year-old man wanted in connection with the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat was today extradited from the UK to stand trial in India, becoming the first person to be sent back from Britain 24 years after the two countries signed an extradition treaty.

Samirbhai Vinubhai Patel had been arrested by Scotland Yard in west London in August on a Red Corner Notice issued by Indian authorities.

His extradition order was signed by UK home secretary Amber Rudd on September 22 and the “surrender arrangements” were finalised for his departure.

It marks the first extradition from the UK since the signing of the India-UK Extradition Treaty in 1992.

“Following Government of India’s request for extradition, Mr Samirbhai Vinubhai Patel, an Indian national, is being extradited on 18th October, 2016 to face trial in India,” the High Commission said in a statement today.

“Mr Patel is facing trial in connection with post-Godhra riots in India in 2002. He is charged with the offence under Section 302 of IPC, along with 43 other accused. The offences include being member of an unlawful assembly; rioting and murder. The accused was arrested in India and was on bail and after jumping bail had escaped to UK,” the statement added.

According to Gujarat Police, Patel is wanted in connection with riots in Ode village of Anand district.

A team of officials from India will take him into their custody to fly him back to India today.

“On 22 September the Secretary of State (Amber Rudd), having carefully considered all relevant matters, signed the order for Samirbhai Vinubhai Patel’s extradition to India. He is accused, whilst being part of a rioting mob, of three counts of murder, two counts of using unlawful violence with others for a common purpose and one count of arson,” a UK Home Office spokesperson had confirmed last week.

On March 1, 2002, 23 people from the Muslim community were burnt alive in a house in Pirwali Bhagol area of Ode village.

Patel along with two other accused, who are still at large, are accused of being part of the rioting mob at the time.

Patel’s whereabouts were traced to a home in Hounslow, west London, after which Scotland Yard nabbed him on August 9.

“On 9 August officers from the MPS (Metropolitan Police Service) extradition unit attended an address in Beavers Lane, Hounslow and arrested Samir Vinubhai Patel, aged 40, on a warrant issued under section 71 Extradition Act 2003. He appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court on August 10, 2016,” a Scotland Yard statement said.

“We can confirm that Mr Patel has consented to his extradition to India. However, we are unable to comment on any surrender arrangements as this is an operational matter for the police,” a UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) statement added.

(PTI)

No water in Karnataka’s reservoirs, CM Siddu says after fresh SC order

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Bengaluru: Reacting to the Supreme Court order directing Karnataka to release 2,000 cusecs of Cauvery water per day to Tamil Nadu till further orders, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said there was no water in the state’s reservoirs.

“There is no water at our reservoirs, I have not yet seen the order copy. I will speak to the advocates after going through the order copy,” he told reporters in Bengaluru.

The top court on Tuesday retained its direction to Karnataka to release 2,000 cusecs of Cauvery water per day to Tamil Nadu till further orders and asked the two governments to ensure peace and harmony, saying citizens should not become law unto themselves.

“We intend to first adjudicate the issue of maintainability of appeals filed by Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. At this juncture, the interim order dated October 4 directing Karnataka to release 2,000 cusecs of water per day to Tamil Nadu will continue till further orders,” the bench comprising of Justices Dipak Misra, Amitava Roy and A M Khanwilkar said.

(Agencies)

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