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Mid-Day Meal Scheme Workers Organized A Protest March, MEP’s Nowhera Shaikh Offers Help

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MEP party’s All India President Dr. Nowhera Shaikh last night met the protesting Mid-Day Meal Scheme Workers and assured them of all the help.

Besides, Dr. Nowhera Shaikh gave blankets to more than 1000 workers and also arranged food & shelter for them. Dr. Nowhera Shaikh also stated that she will speak to the authority and also take the required legal action to see that the workers get their well – deserved dues.

Dr. Nowhera Shaikh was deeply concerned about the plight of the women who are preparing the food for the children especially the women who are sleeping in the open in the Freedom Park.

Last but not the least assuring a quick solution Dr. Nowhera Shaikh also said that her support for the entire community of the Mid – Day Meal Scheme’s Workers will always be there and that she will not rest until she brings justice to the Mid – Day Meal Scheme’s Workers.

Triple talaq bill has many ‘flaws’, says AIMPLB

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Hyderabad: A top body of Muslim clerics today said there are many “flaws” in the triple talaq bill proposed by the NDA government and vowed to work towards removing them. The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) claimed efforts are being made to enact a “very wrong law”.

“There is no such law in the whole world… an effort is being made to make a very wrong law. There are other such flaws. The Muslim Personal Law Board’s stand is to get those flaws removed,” AIMPLB spokesperson Moulana Khaleel-ur-Rehman Sajjad Nomani said.

He was talking to reporters on the eve of the 26th Annual General Meeting of the board to be held here for three days. The AIMPLB spokesperson, however, said the board is not opposed to the bill but want the flaws removed.

The board requested all opposition parties to consider whether the bill can be passed in its present form. The triple talaq bill has already been passed in the Lok Sabha and but it is yet to get a nod in the Rajya Sabha, where the BJP-led NDA lacks a majority.

The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017, criminalises instant talaq and provides for up to three years of imprisonment for accused Muslim men. Nomani alleged the bill in its present form would ban the institution of talaq itself.

“It is generally publicised that this bill is presented to stop triple talaq. But, the fact is, if you read the bill, this bill is to ban the entire institution of talaq,” Nomani said. The bill also enables any person from anywhere to complain against a Muslim man vis-a-vis divorce, he alleged.

The meeting of the board would firm up future course of action on the triple talaq issue and also the Ayodhya matter, he said. Replying to a query, Nomani said the board has not received any official or unofficial proposal to resolve the decades-old Ayodhya issue.

(PTI)

Keli Classical Dance Festival 2018 To Be Held In Mumbai

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Keli is now entering the 26th year of its tireless journey in pursuit of excellence in the rich & diverse forms of India’s artistic traditions. The forthcoming 3 days long Keli festival scheduled on 9th Feb, 2018 – 10th Feb, 2018 – 11th Feb, 2018 will focus on India’s classical dance traditions, Bharatnatyam, Kuchupudi & Mohiniyaattam.

Bharatanatyam, is presumably the oldest classical dance heritage of India. Conventionally it is a solo dance performed only by women. It initiated in Tamil Nadu and eventually flourished in South India. It is a dance form of an illustrative anecdote of Indian mythology themes & spiritual ideas emoted by a dancer with excellent footwork & impressive gestures. Its performance repertoire includes nrita, nritya & natya. It also continues to inspire several art forms including paintings & sculptures starting from the spectacular 6th to 9th century temple sculptures.
Kuchupudi is a dance tradition that originated in the village of Kuchipudi of Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh. This ancient dance form finds place in the 10th century copper inscriptions & in 15th century texts like “Machupalli Kaifat”. Traditionally it is regarded that the sanyassin of Advaita Vedanta sect, Tirtha Narayana Yati, and his disciple Siddhendra Yogi initiated, methodized & arranged the present day version of the dance form in the 17th century.

Mohiniyattam is ancient Indian classical dance form that evolved in the state of Kerala. Mohiniattam adheres to the Lasya type that showcases a more graceful, gentle & feminine form of dancing. Conventionally it is a solo dance performed by female artists.

This festival will be dedicated to the memory of Guru S. K. Rajarathnam Pilla, Guru Kalanidhi Narayanan, Vedantha Sathyanarayana Sharma, Guru Thottekkat Chinnammu Amma.

Day 1: Inaugural Program & Bharatnatyam by Padmashri Malavika Sarukkai & group to be held Fri 9th Feb, 2018, at Y. B. Chavan Centre, Opp. Mantralaya at 6.45 pm. Guests of Honour: Kumar Shahani, Padmabhushan Ustad Zakir Hussain, Anand Neelakandan & Surendrababu. Felicitating the artists: Golden Conch: Padmashri Malavika Sarukai. Lasyasree: Dr. Jayaprabha Menon. Silver Conch: Sreelakshmi Govardhan. Artist Bio: Malavika started dance studies at the age of 7 training under Guru Kalayanasundaram of the Thanjavur school & Guru Rajaratnam of the Vazhuvoor school. She has also studied abhinaya under Guru Kalanidhi Narayanan & Odissi under Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra & Guru Ramani Ranjan Jena. Intense, extraordinary & luminous are the qualities that distinguish Malavika Sarukkai‘s dancing. With her artistic mastery & technique, she commands a presence on the world stage. She is acclaimed globally for her creative dance choreographies, which transport the viewer to the heartbeat of dance, taking dance beyond specific geographies. As a passionate path breaking dancer from India, she has contributed a significant & large body of work. Her collaborative productions have synergized through dialogues with artists from different media, poets, musicians, painters, sculptors & contemporary writers. These interactions bring to her choreographic interpretations the incandescent beauty of the classical language & the energized articulation of a contemporary mind.
Accompanying Artists: Srilatha S (Nattuvangam), Srilakshmi Venkataramani (Violin), Murali Parthasarathy (Vocal), Nellai A Balaji (Mridangam) & Sharad Kulshreshtha (Light Designer).

Day 2 – Kuchupudi by Sreelakshmi Govardhana & Group. In association with DAE Cultural Centre on Sat 10th Feb 2018, at Anushakthi Nagar, at 7.30 pm

Artist Bio: Sreelakshmy Govardhanan is an eminent Kuchupudi artiste from India. She is the disciple of Guru Sri Pasumarthy Rattaiaha Sarma. She is widely known for her grace, exquisite footwork & acting technique, which comes alive during her dance performances. Other than performing at varied prestigious Indian dance festivals, she has performed on varied international platforms in Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, UK, Colombia, USA, Jordan & Gulf countries that have earned her rave reviews. She performed as the lead of the Kuchupudi team at the “Make In India” program at Hannover Messe, 2015 in Germany. She was also invited to choreograph a confluence of Indian dance for the inaugural event of “Marhaba NaMo in Dubai” where Prime Minister of India visited UAE after 34 years. She has choreographed dance moves for the Award winning Malayalam feature films. Sreelakshmy is the founder & artistic director of the Avantika Space for Dance, a centre for learning, performance & research.

Accompanying Artists: Natungam: Sureshkumar Neelamperur, Reju Nararayan (Vocal), Arunkumar (Mrudangam) & Hema Balasubrahmanyam (Flute)

Day 3: Mohiniyattam in association Mudra Academi of Dance & Music by Jayaprabha Menon & Group on Sun 11th Feb, 2018 at Terna auditorium, Nerul (West), at 7.00 pm.

Artist Bio: Jayaprabha initiated her training in dance from Guru Kalamandalam Saraswathy and then continued with Guru C V Chandrasekhar & Guru Bharathy Shivaji. Jayaprabha’s graceful nritta is phenomenal as one can discern the union of the dance & the dancer into a single entity. Her metamorphosis into the vivid characters on the stage speaks for her histrionic adroitness. Myriad are the choreographies that embrace both puranic & contemporary motifs and further, they are quintessential of her insatiable urge to establish the intrinsic identity of the dance form peculiar to Kerala. Also, they are the end results of her perennial search for the roots of the dance form. In this endeavour, she has been fortunate enough to enjoy the guidance of Padmabhushan Kavalam Narayana Panicker, an acclaimed authority of Sopana Sangeetham. Association with stalwarts like Birju Maharaj, Sonal Mansingh & Raja – Radha Reddy in eclectic productions has expanded her vista of the essence of Indian classical dances.

Accompanying Artists: Kottakkal Jayan (Vocal) R. Kesavan (Mrudangam), G. Soundrarajan (Veena), G. Raghuraman (Flute), Nandakumar Marar (Idakka) & Padmasree Malavika Sarukkai

Rajini and I need to ponder if we have to align: Kamal Haasan

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Chennai: Leading Tamil actor Kamal Haasan, who is all set to foray into politics soon, today said he and superstar Rajinikanth needed to contemplate if it was necessary for them to join hands and face the election. Haasan said both of them were being asked repeatedly if they would face the polls together and added that he endorsed the view of Rajinikanth in this respect.

“Rajini sir, to this question had said that only time will give an answer and I had seconded that view. Truly, only time will answer,” he said in his weekly column in Tamil magazine ‘Ananda Vikatan.’ Haasan, who is set to unveil his political party’s name and go on a political tour on February 21 said both of them should first formally launch their respective political parties.

Following this, policies should be spelt out and it needed to be seen if these were compatible, he said. “Hence, it is not a decision that can be taken now… Also, both of us need to ponder if that is necessary,” he said.

In addition, Haasan said the question of aligning with Rajinikanth was not like choosing the star cast for films as both were entirely different things. On January 17, to a query on forging ties with Haasan, Rajinikanth had said, “Only time will be able to tell that. Let us see in due course of time.”

Last month, Haasan had appealed to the people to support his political journey. “Join hands with me to empower our country and the state,” he had said. The entry of two top Tamil film stars comes against the backdrop of a perceived vacuum in Tamil Nadu politics after former chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s death.

The perception gained currency in view of the ill-health of DMK chief M Karunanidhi for over a year following which he was inactive in politics.

(PTI)

MEP Party Workers Meet in Townhall

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All India Mahila Empowerment Party’s (MEP) held a meeting for its party workers here at city’s Townhall, where the party’s Founder and President Dr. Nowhera Shaik countered the negative rumours spread against her and the party.

Addressing both the workers and the press, Dr. Nowhera Shaik said that some mischief mongers are spreading lies against her that she is helping BJP by contesting in the elections. Dr. Shaik said that she registered her political party in February 2014 even before Narendra Modi became the PM, so there is no question of her helping anyone.

She said the party is contesting elections to create an impact in people’s lives, and promised interest-free loans for taxi drivers and farmers of the state, if they come to power.

MEP leader R Janab, who also spoke at the meeting, took on the Congress and said that the Congress party has been fooling people by putting the fear of BJP in people.

He also took on the BJP, and alleged that the party has so far only made false promises and but has never delivered on them.

Bring law to punish anyone calling Indian Muslims ‘Pakistani’: Owaisi

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New Delhi: AAIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday demanded that the government should bring a law to punish with three-year jail term any person who calls an Indian Muslim “a Pakistani”.

Owaisi, who was taking part in the debate in the Lok Sabha on the motion of thanks to the President’s Address, also said the triple talaq bill was “anti-women.”

“Bring a law that if any Muslim is called Pakistani, the person will be face three year jail term,” he said, but added that the BJP-led government will not bring such a bill.

Owaisi said Muslims living in India had rejected Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s two-nation theory.

(IANS)

Will hear Ayodhya matter as ‘pure land dispute’: SC posts case for Mar 14

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said it will deal with the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi matter as a “pure land dispute” and indicated that impleadment applications of those which were not before the High Court would be dealt with later.

A special bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra said that it would hear the appeals on March 14 and clarified that it never intended to hear the case on a “day-to-day basis”.

The bench, also comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and SA Nazeer asked parties before the Allahabad High Court to file in two weeks English translation of documents exhibited by them.

The top court said the excerpts of vernacular books, which have been relied upon in the case, be translated in English and be filed within two weeks from Thursday.

The apex court also directed its Registry to provide copies of video cassettes, which were part of high court records, to parties on actual cost.

The special bench of the apex court is seized of a total 14 appeals filed against the high court judgement delivered in four civil suits.

The Supreme Court had in December last year rejected the vehement submission of Sunni Waqf Board and others that hearing of appeals in the sensitive Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute be conducted in July 2019 after the general elections.

The headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also “prima facie” had declined the demand put by a battery of senior lawyers including Kapil Sibal and Rajeev Dhavan that the appeals be either referred to a five or seven judge bench, keeping in mind the sensitive nature of the case and its ramifications on the country’s secular fabric and polity.

A three-judge bench of the Allahabad High Court, in a 2:1 majority ruling, had in 2010 ordered that the land be partitioned equally among three parties — the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla.

(Agencies)

Congress protests in RS against PM’s remark on Renuka Chowdhury

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New Delhi: Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned till noon today after the Congress members created an uproar over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks against party MP Renuka Chowdhury.

No sooner had the House mourned the death of its former member Frida Topno and the listed papers were laid on the table, Congress members were on their feet protesting against Modi’s dig at Choudhury during his reply to the debate on Motion of Thanks on President’s address yesterday.

Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu chided the members for their “unbecoming” behaviour and asked them to resume their places.

“I have no option other than to adjourn the House,” he said, suspending the proceedings till 1200 hrs.

Yesterday, during the reply, Modi had questioned the Congress’s claim of being the originator of the biometric national ID Aadhaar when he said that the then Home Minister L K Advani had in 1998 spoken about an all-purpose national ID in Rajya Sabha.

This led to Chowdhury bursting into loud laughter. Naidu had disapproved of the behaviour but Modi asked him not to stop Chowdhury.

“Sabhapati ji meri aapse vinti hai Renuka ji ko kuch mat kahiye. Ramayan serial ke baad aisi hansi sunne ka saubhagya aaj jaake mila hai (I request you not to say anything to Renuka ji. After the Ramayan serial, we got the privilege of hearing this kind of laughter only today,” he said, to the amusement of top BJP leaders and other ministers sitting around him.

Chowdhury had protested the remarks but the chairman did not allow her comments to go on record.

Today, the Congress tweeted: “We condemn PM Modi’s derogatory remark in Parliament against former Union minister and RS MP Renuka Chowdhury.”

“We also urge the RS Speaker Shri Venkaiah Naidu to not act in a partisan manner and accord due respect to a fellow member of the house,” it said.

(PTI)

BSP, JD(S) announce alliance for Karnataka assembly elections

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The BSP and the Janata Dal (Secular) on Thursday announced that they are entering into an alliance to contest the Karnataka assembly polls together.

The alliance would continue in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as well, BSP leader Satish Chandra Misra and JD (S)’s Danish Ali said at a press conference.

They said the two parties would contest the Karnataka assembly polls due sometime in April together.

(PTI)

Maldives opposition seeks India’s help to end crisis

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Mohamed Nasheed has urged India to send an envoy to end Maldives crisis [Al Jazeera]

by Al Jazeera

An opposition leader in the Maldives has called on India to intervene after President Abdulla Yameen declared a 15-day state of emergency amid a deepening political crisis in the island nation.

Mohamed Nasheed, the country’s exiled former president, urged neighbouring India on Tuesday to send “an envoy, backed by its military” to free two Supreme Court judges and a former president who were arrested in the capital Male after the emergency declaration.

He also urged the United States to impose targeted sanctions on Yameen and his associates.

The Maldives, an Indian Ocean archipelago, was plunged into turmoil on February 1 when its Supreme Court issued a shock ruling that overturned terrorism convictions against nine of Yameen’s opponents, including Nasheed, and ordered those in jail be freed.

Yameen defied the ruling and ignored calls from the United Nations, European Union, and foreign governments, including India and the US, to comply with it.

In a televised address on Tuesday, the president said he declared a state of emergency to investigate a “coup” against him.

‘Judicial overreach’
Accusing Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed and Judge Ali Hameed of corruption and judicial overreach, Yameen said the bench had deliberated on removing him and his attorney general, and discussed reinstating two police chiefs he had sacked over the weekend.

“I had to declare a state of emergency because I had no way to hold a judge of the Supreme Court accountable,” he said. “I had to suspend [their immunity] to find out how thick this plot, this coup was.”

The emergency decree gave security forces sweeping powers to make arrests and curtailed the authority of the judiciary.

Shortly after the emergency was announced on Monday, security forces stormed the Supreme Court building and arrested Saeed and Hameed. The remaining three judges on the top court bench were not detained.

Yameen’s estranged half-brother, former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who has sided with the opposition, was also detained in the early hours of Tuesday.

Police also took Mohamed Nazim, a former defence minister who was under house imprisonment, into custody on Tuesday. Nazim was sentenced to 11-years in jail on weapons smuggling charges in 2015, and was among the nine whose release the top court had ordered last week.

Meanwhile, the parliament, where the opposition have a majority, remained suspended.

‘Martial law’

WATCH: Maldives president declares emergency, arrests judges (2:20)
In his appeal on Tuesday, Nasheed, the former president, accused Yameen of declaring “martial law” in the Maldives.

“We must remove him from power,” he said.

“We would also like the US government to ensure that US financial institutions stop all US$ financial transactions of the regime leaders in the Maldives,” he added.

Responding to the state of emergency, the US urged restraint on Monday.

“The Maldivian government and military must respect the rule of law, freedom of expression, and democratic institutions. The world is watching,” the US National Security Council said in a Twitter post.

Boris Johnson, the UK foreign secretary, said he was gravely concerned and called on Yameen “to peacefully end the state of emergency”.

China, India, Australia and the US have issued travel advisories for the Maldives.

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