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Delhi High Court to hear plea by Dr. Zakir Naik’s NGO challenging Centre’s ban

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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday will hear a plea by Islamic preacher Zakir Naik’s NGO, the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), challenging the ban by the Home Ministry on the organisation.

Earlier in February, the Court had set up a Judicial Tribunal to look into banning Zakir Naik’s NGO under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

A notice had also been issued to IRF to respond to a plea by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to hold in camera proceedings

The National Investigation Agency had also filed three affidavits in sealed cover before the Court giving reasons for the ban on the IRF.

The IRF, earlier moved a petition seeking directions against the ban imposed on it by the central government.

On November 15, the central government had banned the IRF for five years after declaring it as an “unlawful association” under the anti-terror laws, and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) followed up with raids on its premises in Mumbai on November 19.

According to the Home Ministry, Naik has allegedly made many provocative speeches and had engaged in terror propaganda.

The Maharashtra Police have also registered criminal cases against Naik for his alleged involvement in radicalisation of youths and luring them into terror activities, officials said.

He came under the scanner of the security agencies after Bangladeshi newspaper ‘Daily Star’ reported that one of the perpetrators of the July 1,2016 terror attack in Dhaka, Rohan Imtiaz, ran propaganda on Facebook in 2015 quoting Naik.

Last month, The Enforcement Directorate (ED) issued summons to Zakir Naik and the IRF under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The foundation had first come under the scanner after the terrorist responsible for Dhaka attack earlier this year, in an online post had said, that he was inspired by Naik’s speeches.

(Agencies)

Cash withdrawal limit for savings accounts hiked to Rs 50k per week

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New Delhi: The demonetization exercise is taking place fast as part of government’s plan subsequent to the withdrawal of the specified bank notes of Rs 5,00 and Rs 1,000 from circulation on November 8, 2016.

The Reserve Bank of India, in its circular on February 8 said that inn line with the pace of remonetisation, it has now been decided to remove the restrictions on cash withdrawals from Saving Bank accounts (including accounts opened under PMJDY) in a two step process as under:

It added that effective February 20, the limits on cash withdrawals from the Savings Bank accounts will be enhanced to ₹ 50,000 per week (from the current limit of ₹ 24,000 per week); and Effective March 13, 2017, there will be no limits on cash withdrawals from Savings Bank accounts.

In the wake of withdrawal of Specified Bank Notes (SBNs) since November 09, 2016 Reserve Bank had placed certain limits on cash withdrawals from Savings / Current / Cash credit /Overdraft accounts and withdrawals through ATMs.

On a review of the pace of remonetisation, Reserve Bank partially restored status quo ante by removing the restrictions on cash withdrawals from Current / Cash credit / Overdraft accounts and ATMs effective January 31, 2017 and February 01, 2017 respectively. However, the limits on cash withdrawal from Savings Bank accounts continued to be in place.

(Agencies)

Bengaluru: Air hostess molested near HRBR layout street by bikers

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In yet another instance that shows maximum city and India’s IT hub Bengaluru is not safe for women walking on streets or even inside ofices, an air hostess has been molested by bikers on February 12th near HRBR layout at Banaswadi Police station.

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Bengaluru: In yet another instance that shows maximum city and India’s IT hub Bengaluru is not safe for women walking on streets or even inside ofices, an air hostess has been molested by bikers on February 12th near HRBR layout at Banaswadi Police station. According to police an FIR has been registered against unknown people as the culprits are yet to be identified. It is not yet clear if the bike registration numbers were jotted down by anyone. According to reports, the air hostess was approached by the bikers and they groped her that resulted in the woman’s shirt getting torn. The woman was left standing in shock after the assault, before she approached the police to register a case. According to reports, the victim and her friend were coming back from a nearby hotel when the incident happened. Further details on the incident are awaited.

This case comes closely in the wake of the murder of of a woman employee inside the Infosys office. The 23 year old victim was brutally strangulated with a computer cord in the conference room of her office located at Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Pak at Hinjawadi Pune. The women was identified as OP Rasila and was a native of Kerala.

Bengaluru has been witnessing cases of crimes against women since the starting of the year and it seems that the offenders are on a rampage. One of the incidents that had left the entire country in a state of shock was on the New Year’s eve when the thousands of unruly men had gathered on MG Road and had molested the women present on the street- all this when more than 1,000 policemen were deployed for the security of the women. The growing incidents of crime against women show how Bengaluru does not seem to learn from its mistakes.

(Agencies)

“Its really a miracle that Kya Yehi Sach Hai? has garnered 2 million hits on YouTube Channel just within 3 months”

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Bobby Vatsa happens to be an extremely talented actor who has really proved his mettle both on the small screen as well as big screen since the last 2 decades. But the turning point in his career was his association with director Y P Singh and his film Kya Yehi Sach Hai? which was released half a decade ago. And this particular Y P Singh’s film Kya Yehi Sach Hai? has got 2 million hits on YouTube within a period of just 3 months. That apart Bobby Vatsa’s performance in Kya Yehi Sach Hai? has really earned hIm a lot of critical appreciation from celebrity albeit hardcore critics.

Bobby, both Y P Singh & you really deserve a huge round of applause for the greatest response that your film Kya Yehi Sach Hai?, directed by Y P Singh, is garnering tremendous response on YouTube Channel, that too after its runaway theatrical success half a decade ago.

Thanks Shaheen I am glad that Kya Yahi Sach Hai has got such a tremendous response, Can you beat it? 2 million hits on YouTube Channel that too just within 3 months, and as you already mentioned it Kya Yehi Sach Hai? had also proved to be a runaway success in its theatrical round half a decade ago. Not only this Shahrukh Khan had also highly appreciated the film on social media platforms when it was released then.

Indeed Kya Yehi Sach Hai? has proved to be a milestone film of your illustrious career spanning almost 2 decades. What say?

Yes you are right! Indeed Kya Yehi Sach Hai? had really proved to be a milestone film of my career and a very special film of my filmic journey till this date. More especially because Kya Yehi Sach Hai? happens to be the most authentic & hard hitting film about the police department. In fact it had also proved to be a benchmark film on the corruption aspect of the politics, the police & the Government department’s honest & dishonest chaotic state. Which was shown beautifully in the film. Based on the real life account of Y P Singh and his times in the police department and his will to fight the corrupt system at that time. The history seems to repeat itself that after 5 years of release the antagonist shown (based on politician Chhagan Bhujbal) is now arrested on the charges of corruption and how corruption became the major disease which still remains incurable. Of course the film had made a lot of affect at that time. Besides Kya Yehi Sach Hai? was highly appreciated then. But now even after a lapse of 5 years, its release on Youtube Channel has created a great response and has got nearly 2 million hits that too in just 3 months. So I would say that Kya Yehi Sach Hai? is a film that represents and still makes people aware about the demonic impact of the corrupt system rampant everywhere.
Kya Yehi Sach Hai? is based on a novel “Carnage By Angels” written by Y P Singh himself who has also directed the film. Apart from myself Shalini, Raju Mavani et al have also enacted key roles in Kya Yehi Sach Hai?.

Ok now time to tell us which are your forthcoming films?

I have just completed 2 films titled The Last Rave & Delhi 47 Kms. The Last Rave is based on real life incident centering around a rave party which was held in Pune. In this film I have enacted the role of a detective who is honest. He is appointed to end corruption in the department. Flora Saini is opposite me. In Delhi 47 Kms I have enacted the role of a Don and Sanya Singh is opposite me.

It seems that you are also really active in events now.

Yes! I am doing a lot of social events. Recently I did 2 Eye Gazing events. In this 2 unknown persons have to sit & stare in each other’s eyes. The message is don’t judge anybody without knowing the real person. It is very relaxing. After this one would not hesitate to connect with anybody. It is a human connection movement. Eye Gazing started in Australia and now it is being organized globally in India and I am organizing it. It is a good platform to connect with people.

And you have also made a short film. Right?

Right again! I have made a short film titled The Cure based on the theme of blood phobia and it has bee made under my own company named Creative Karma. It is an 18 minute short film in English with international actors acting in it. The film was also appreciated globally & ended up bagging 5 varied international awards in US.

Do you think your filmic journey till this date has been satisfactory? And what do you think on reflecting back on this 2 decades of journey?

I would say that indeed my filmic journey till this date has been very interesting, riveting & fruitful. As I have ended up doing films, plays, TV shows, events, social awareness campaigns et al. I had started my career with Shyam Benegal’s Tv show titled Discovery Of India. Not only this I have also ended up working with the best of directors in the best of films. But I think that I am still a kid and would love to remain like a kid forever.

What change have you noticed in all these years?

Down the years I have noticed that the whole industry has changed. The digital change that has come in the last few years is the future & the largest medium to reach the audiences. Now we can’t deny it.

So what have stored up your histrionics sleeves? And as a parting shot also tell us more about your dream of playing 15 varied roles?

Yeah! I am really keen to enact 15 varied roles in a single film. The Late Sanjeev Kumar happens to be my favorite actor who had enacted 9 roles. Then Kamal Hassan Sir had enacted 10 roles in Dashavataram. I am really looking forward to break these records. Of course I am in search of a good script for one of my forthcoming films in order to fulfill my long cherished dream.

Tamil Nadu parties slam Karnataka’s move to construct dam in Mekedatu

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Chennai/Bengaluru: Political parties in Tamil Nadu, including the main opposition DMK, on Friday slammed Karnataka’s proposed move to construct check dams across river Cauvery in that state.

The parties urged the Tamil Nadu government to take steps to prevent Karnataka from going ahead with its move.

“The newly-formed AIADMK government should immediately take up the issue with the Centre and prevent Karnataka’s proposed move,” DMK working president M K Stalin said in a statement.

Terming Karnataka’s decision as “unilateral”, he said DMK was of the opinion that the move would harm “relations between the two states”.

CPI(M) Tamil Nadu unit secretary G Ramakrishnan while condemning the neighbouring state for taking steps to go ahead with its plan, demanded that the Centre immediately intervene and prevent construction of the new dam.

“The party’s Executive Committee urges the Centre to expedite the steps to implement the award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal,” he said.

CPI state secretary V Durai Manickam echoed similar views.

“The Chief Minister should convene a meeting comprising various political parties, farmers associations and press the Centre on the issue,” he said.

Karnataka had proposed to construct check dams across the Cauvery at Mekedatu.

The state claims that the project would meet the drinking water needs of Bengaluru and other towns that would arise in future in the Cauvery basin in Karnataka.

(Agencies)

Pakistan Senate upholds Hindu personal law; passes marriage bill

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by Kalbe Ali, Dawn

Islamabad: The Hindu community is set to have a personal law for the first time as the Senate on Friday unanimously passed ‘The Hindu Marriage Bill 2017’.

The bill — appro­ved by the National Assem­bly on Sept 26, 2015 — is likely to get presidential assent next week to become a law.

The bill will mainly help Hindu women get documentary proof of their marriage. It will be the first personal law for Pakistani Hindus, applicable in Punjab, Balo­chis­tan and Khyber Pakhtun­khwa. Sindh has already formulated its own Hindu marriage law.

The bill presented in the Senate by Law Minister Zahid Hamid faced no opposition or objection. It was mainly due to the considerate and sympathetic views expres­sed by the senators and the MNAs of all political parties in the relevant standing committees.

The bill was approved by the Senate Functional Com­mittee on Human Rights on Jan 2 with an overwhelming majority. However, Senator Mufti Abdul Sattar of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl had opposed the bill, claiming that the Constitution was vast enough to cater for such needs.

While approving the bill, committee chairperson Senator Nasreen Jalil of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement had announced: “This was unfair — not only against the principles of Islam but also a human rights violation — that we have not been able to formulate a personal family law for the Hindus of Pakistan.”

Senators Aitzaz Ahsan, Dr Jehanzeb Jamaldini and Sitara Ayaz, while supporting the bill, had said it related to the marriage of Hindus living in Pakistan and had nothing to do with Muslims.

Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, who had been working relentlessly for three years to have a Hindu marriage law in the country, expressed gratitude to the parliamentarians.

“Such laws will help discourage forced conversions and streamline the Hindu community after the marriage of individuals,” he said, adding that it was difficult for married Hindu women to prove that they were married, which was one of the key tools for miscreants involved in forced conversion.

The law paves the way for a document ‘Shadi Parath’ — similar to Nikahnama for Muslims — to be signed by a pundit and registered with the relevant government department.

However, the Hindu parliamentarians and members of the community had concerns over one of the clauses of the bill that deals with ‘annulment of marriage’. It states that one of the partners can approach the court for separation if anyone of them changes the religion.

“What we demand that the separation case should be filed before the conversion as it has given an option to the miscreants to kidnap a married woman, keep her under illegal custody and present her in a court that she has converted to Islam and does not want to live with a Hindu man,” Dr Vankwani said.

However, the bill is widely acceptable for Hindus living in Pakistan because it relates to marriage, registration of marriage, separation and remarriage, with the minimum age of marriage set at 18 years for both boys and girls.

Tamil Nadu CM Palanisamy wins vote of confidence after Oppn walks out

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Chennai: With DMK and Congress absent from the Tamil Nadu Assembly, new Chief Minister and Sasikala pick Edappadi Palanisamy on Saturday won the vote of confidence, with 122 AIADMK MLAs voting in his favour.

Earlier, ruckus broke out in Tamil Nadu Assembly as a special session began or the key floor test on the confidence motion to be moved by Chief Minister Edappadi K Palanisamy.

The Speaker P Dhanapal walked out of the Assembly and the House was adjourned till 1 PM amid violence by DMK MLAs. Legislators tore papers, broke chairs and pulled off microphones after the Speaker rejected their demand of secret ballot in trust vote.

The Palanisamy camp had 122 MLAs in the 234-member House with one vacancy. Ailing DMK supremo M Karunanidhi was not present in the House.

(Agencies)

Trump declares media ‘the enemy of the American people’

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President Donald Trump has stepped up his verbal attacks on widely respected US news organisations.

(Photo: Michael Vadon/flickr/cc)

(Photo: Michael Vadon/flickr/cc)

by Al Jazeera

US President Donald Trump has ratcheted up his verbal assault on the media, describing it as “the enemy of the American people” in a tweet.

Shortly after landing at his holiday home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida – where he is spending a third consecutive weekend – the president lashed out.

“The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!” he wrote on Friday.

Trump had tweeted an earlier post which targeted the New York Times, CNN, NBC “and many more” media organisations – and ended it with the exclamation “SICK!”

But he swiftly deleted that before reposting the final version – adding two more “enemies” to his list.

Many US presidents have criticised the press in the past, but political analysts say Trump’s language has more closely echoed criticism leveled by authoritarian leaders around the world.

Trump, who regularly accuses the media of overstating his problem, also has accused journalists of failing to show sufficient respect for his accomplishments – including in their coverage of a long-winded press conference on Thursday in which he voiced a litany of grievances against the industry.

Many journalists were taken aback by the extraordinarily combative press conference, which was described by some as bizarre, but Trump echoed words of praise he got from one right wing commentator and insisted that it had been a bravura performance.

The 70-year-old partly built his election campaign on criticising the press as biased.

Month of tumult

In four tumultuous weeks, Trump has seen his national security advisor ousted, a cabinet nominee withdraw, a centerpiece immigration policy fail in the courts and a tidal wave of damaging leaks.

Trump tried to put that first month of difficulties behind him as he pitched himself as a champion of US jobs and industry during a visit to Boeing in South Carolina.

Trump visited North Charleston to renew a campaign vow to champion jobs and industry.

“As your president, I’m going to do everything I can to unleash the power of the American spirit and to put our great people back to work,” he said.

“This is our mantra, ‘buy American and hire American.’ We want products made in America, made by American hands,” he said, pledging to wean the country off imports.

Although the unemployment rate is at a low five percent and wages are rising steadily, a triple whammy of deindustrialisation, globalisation and automation have hit the US heartland hard.

Indian women book World Cup berth

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Colombo: Cricket World Cup qualifiers : Mithali, Mona score fifties in nine-wicket win over Bangla

India women produced an all-round effort to trounce Bangladesh women by nine wickets in a Super Six match to qualify for the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017, here on Friday.

Opting to bowl after winning the toss in the Super Six game of the ongoing ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier, Indian eves first restricted Bangladesh women to a paltry 155 for eight in 50 overs and then chased down the target, reaching 158 for one in 33.3 overs to book a berth in the main event to be held in England in June.

The chase turned out to be a cakewalk for Indian eves with opener Mona Meshram (78 not out off 91 balls) and skipper Mithali Raj (73 not out off 87 balls) hitting fluent fifties to get over the target with consummate ease.

However, India didn’t have the best of starts to their chase losing Deepti Sharma early on. She was caught and bowled by right-arm off-spinner Khadija Tul Kubra.

But then came in Mithali, world’s second-highest run-getter in women’s cricket, and she and Mona hit 22 fours between them to leave Bangladesh in dissaray.

Bangladesh now have no option but to beat Sri Lanka women and surpass their net run-rate, in its last game to keep their World Cup aspirations alive.

Besides India, South Africa is the other team to have secured its place in the CC Women’s World Cup 2017.

Unbeaten so far in the tournament, India will next play Pakistan in their final Super Six game on February 19 at the P Sara Oval.

Earlier, Fargana Hoque (50 off 107 balls) scored a half-century for Bangladesh women while opener Sharmin Akhter made 35 to help get past 150-run mark after being invited to bat.

For Indian women, pacer Mansi Joshi (3/25) picked up three wickets while leg-spinner Devika Vaidya (2/17) accounted for two.

Brief scores: Bangladesh women: 155/8 in 50 overs (Fargana Hoque 50, Sharmin Akhter 35; Mansi Joshi 3/25) lt to India women: 158/1 in 33.3 overs (Mona Meshram 78 n.o., Mithali Raj 73 n.o.; Khadija Tul Kubra 1-37 ).

(Agencies)

Actress Bhavana abducted and molested in her car

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Kochi: South Indian Actress Bhavana was travelling home after a shoot while she was kidnapped by her former driver and his friends.

A group of men in a tempo traveller followed the actress as she was returning to Kochi from Thrissur on Friday night in her car. The tempo hit the car and pushed aside the driver, and got into the car.

The gang harassed and clicked pictures of the young actress. The gang got off at Palarivattom and fled in another car.

Bhavana, then took refuge at a director’s house in Kakkannad. After being informed by the director, the police arrived at his home and recorded the actress’ statements.

The actress reportedly told the police that her former driver Martin was among those who forcefully entered her car. Police have taken Martin into custody.

Police have reportedly got a lead on the culprits.

(Agencies)

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