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Kanhaiya Kumar moves bail plea in SC

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New Delhi: JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar on Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking to be released on bail.

The apex court bench comprising Justice J. Chelameswar and Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre said they will hear the plea at 10.30 a.m. on Friday.

Lawyer Vrinda Grover, who filed the plea on behalf of Kanhaiya Kumar, said in the petition that since the atmosphere in the Patiala House court complex was not conducive for moving the plea application, Kanhaiya Kumar was invoking his right under Article 32 to move the Supreme court directly for bail.

Under Article 32, a citizen can move the Supreme Court for enforcing his fundamental rights.

(Agencies)

Maulana Abdul Bari Nadvi of Bhatkal passes away

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Maulana Abdul Bari Nadvi

Bhatkal: Maulana Abdul Bari Nadwi, renowned Islamic scholar of Bhatkal and the principal of Jamia Islamia passed away on Wednesday at around 4:30 PM in a Mangalore hospital. He was 54 and bed-ridden since last few days.

Maulana’s body was brought to his residence in Bhatkal the same night at 9:30 PM. Thousands gathered in the vicinity of the house and waited late into the night to get a glimpse of the deceased.

Maulana’s funeral will be held at the Jamia Masjid at 10.00 am on Thursday, 18th February. He has been an imam and Khateeb in the same masjid for more than 32 years. People from across the town used to flock to the masjid to listen to his sermons on Fridays.

Maulana was an accomplished orator and a very well renowned scholar, respected by one and all in and outside Bhatkal. His demise has put the entire town in grief and mourning. His passing away has shocked everyone even though he was ill for some time. Muslims of Bhatkal shut down their business on hearing the news of the sad demise as a mark of condolence.

It is said that Maulana joined Jamia Islamia Bhatkal, the biggest Islamic school of the Shaafi sect in South India in 1983. Under his leadership, Jamia Islamia became one of the best Islamic institutions in the country. Maulana was deeply revered by all including the youth of Bhatkal, who considered him a highly resourceful and sharp teacher.

Holiday was declared in all Muslim educational institutions in Bhatkal and shops and business establishments have been shut down until the last rites are performed.

Social organisation of Bhatkal, Majlise Islah Wa Tanzeem, Educational institutions Anjuman Hami-e-Muslimeen and Jamia Islamia along with Bhatkal NRI’s Organisation based in gulf countries have expressed deep grief over his demise.

(Sahilonline)

Apple rejects FBI order to crack gunman’s phone

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Tim Cook says order to circumvent encryption on San Bernardino attacker’s phone would set dangerous precedent.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said the US government's order was setting a dangerous precedent [Reuters/Carlo Allegri]

Apple CEO Tim Cook said the US government’s order was setting a dangerous precedent [Reuters/Carlo Allegri]

by Al Jazeera

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has hit out at a court order that would force the company to write software allowing the FBI to crack encryption on its devices.

In a letter published on the company’s website on Wednesday, Cook said the move would set a dangerous precedent and have implications for the privacy of its customers.

The US government wants to crack encryption software on a phone belonging to one of the San Bernardino attackers, Syed Farook, but Apple says doing so will compromise security on devices belonging to other customers.

“Compromising the security of our personal information can ultimately put our personal safety at risk. That is why encryption has become so important to all of us,” Cook said in the letter.

“The FBI asked us for help in the days following the attack, and we have worked hard to support the government’s efforts to solve this horrible crime. We have no sympathy for terrorists,” he added.

Back door

The FBI wants software that bypasses the usual self-destruct mechanism that erases data when someone enters the wrong password too many times. Codebreakers want the ability to use as many combinations as possible at the same time to find one that lets them access the phone.

Cook said that releasing encryption-breaking techniques would create a back door that would roll back decades of security advancements in technology.

“The same engineers who built strong encryption into the iPhone to protect our users would, ironically, be ordered to weaken those protections and make our users less safe.

“The US government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create.”

The order represents a significant victory for the US Justice Department. The Obama administration has embraced stronger encryption as a way to keep consumers safe on the Internet, but struggled to find a compelling example to make its case.

Former UN chief Boutros Boutros-Ghali dies at 93

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UN announces death of 93-year-old Egyptian who was the body’s first African secretary-general.

Boutros-Ghali led the UN during the period that saw genocide in Rwanda, civil war in Angola, the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia [Reuters]

Boutros-Ghali led the UN during the period that saw genocide in Rwanda, civil war in Angola, the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia [Reuters]

by Al Jazeera

The UN Security Council has announced the death of former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who lived until the age of 93.

Venezuela’s UN Ambassador Rafael Ramirez, the current council president, made the announcement at the start of a meeting on Yemen’s humanitarian crisis on Tuesday, before asking members to rise for a moment of silence.

Born in November 14, 1922, in Cairo, Boutros-Ghali studied in the Egyptian capital and Paris and became an academic specialising in international law.

The Egyptian politician and diplomat was the sixth secretary-general of the United Nations, serving from January 1992 to December 1996.

He led the UN during the period that saw genocide in Rwanda, civil war in Angola, the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia – all of this amidst increasingly stormy relations between the US and the UN.

Al Jazeera interviewed Boutros-Ghali, a Coptic Christian, in 2009, when he spoke in part on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In his farewell speech to the UN, Boutros-Ghali said he had thought when he took the post that the time was right for the UN to play an effective role in a world no longer divided into warring Cold War camps.

“But the middle years of this half decade were deeply troubled,” he said. “Disillusion set in.”

Writer Akbar Kakkattil passes away

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Akbar Kakkattil

by Madhyamam

Kozhikode: Famous litterateur and Kerala Sahitya Academy vice chairman Akbar Kakkattil passed away at a private hospital here Wednesday morning.

He was 62.

Kakkattil had been undergoing treatment for cancer for the past few months.

Born in 1954 at Kakkattil in Kozhikode District as the son of P. Abdulla and Smt. Kunjhamina, he completed his school education from Parayil L P School, Kakkattil and Sanskrit Secondary School Vattoli. He took his Bachelor of Education degree from Govt. Training College, Tellichery. He has served as a Malayalam teacher for about 30 years in various schools, including National Higher Secondary School, Vattoli, where he worked for a long period.

Akbar Kakkattil turned to creative writing at the age of fourteen by publishing short stories in a regular column for children in Mathrubhumi weekly.

He was well known for his short stories based on school experiences. Critics have also considered him as a writer who creatively used colloquial language in his writing. Kakkattil is a two time state academy award winner and has received many other renowned awards.

His body will be kept in Kozhikode town hall from 9am to 11.30pm for the public to pay homage. The funeral will be held with state honour at 5 pm in Kandoth Kuni Juma Masjid.

He is survived by wife Jameela and two daughters.

Kanhaiya Kumar falsely implicated: Prashant Bhushan

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A file photo of activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan. Photo: PTI

A file photo of activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan. Photo: PTI

New Delhi: Senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan today alleged that arrested JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar has been “falsely implicated” and that he is ready to represent him in court.

“I am ready to represent Kanhaiya Kumar. I am usually busy with Supreme Court and High Court but if the need arises I will represent him because he is a fine student leader who has been falsely implicated,” Bhushan said.

Swaraj Abhiyan, the outfit floated by Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav, has been supporting the students and teachers of the Jawaharlal Nehru University who have been agitating in the wake of Kumar’s arrest over charges of sedition.

Professor Anand Kumar, another leader of the group who also taught in JNU, has slammed the police action as “shameless abuse” of state power to settle political score which is making a “mockery of democracy”.

Kumar was arrested last week in connection with a case of sedition and criminal conspiracy registered over holding of the event at the varsity during which anti-India slogans were alleged to have been raised.

(PTI)

JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar beaten up at Patiala court

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New Delhi: Arrested JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar was allegedly attacked by lawyers at Patiala House Court premises on Wednesday.

A group of lawyers bet him up as the police produced him in the court, said media reports.

The Supreme Court has sent a team of lawyers under police protection on a fact finding mission.

Earlier, in an open defiance of Supreme Court order, a large group of men dressed in lawyers’ robes barged into the Patiala House court complex and allegedly beat up a journalist and a student ahead of the hearing in the sedition case of JNU students’ union President Kanhaiya Kumar.

The group, which could be seen raising slogans “Vande Mataram” and waving India’s flag in the court premises, was led by Vikram Chauhan, one of the lawyers who had attacked JNU students and faculty on February 15.

The journalist, identified as Anwar of news channel CNN IBN, said despite heavy police deployment, clashes erupted in the court complex and the cops’ presence did not deter the lawyers from shouting slogans and fighting with journalists and students.
The Supreme Court had, earlier in the day, restricted the number of people inside the courtroom, allowing only five reporters and two supporters of the arrested students to attend the hearing.

The apex court had acted on a petition that alleged that the police were a “mute spectator to the brazen display of brute force” on February 15.

On Monday, groups of lawyers had beaten up journalists and JNU students and teachers ahead of the hearing of the sedition case registered against Kumar.

Yesterday, top editors of national media and hundreds of journalists had hit the streets demanding action against those involved in beating up members of their fraternity in the court complex in police presence.

The journalists had also sought Supreme Court’s intervention in protecting freedom of speech.

(Agencies)

JNU Case: Support for arrested student from Chomsky, Pamuk, 84 others

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(Photo: Andrew Rusk/flickr/cc)

(Photo: Andrew Rusk/flickr/cc)

New Delhi: Eminent academicians, scientists and writers from across the world, including Noam Chomsky and Orhan Pamuk, have recorded their condemnation of the arrest of a JNU student in a strongly-worded statement that says it is “evidence of the present government’s deeply authoritarian nature, intolerant of any dissent”.

A statement signed by 86 academicians from renowned universities also condemns “the culture of authoritarian menace that the present government in India has generated”.

The statement says: “We have learnt of the shameful act of the Indian government which, invoking sedition laws formulated by India’s colonial rulers, ordered the police to enter the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus and unlawfully arrest a student leader, Mr. Kanhaiya Kumar, on charges of inciting violence –without any proof whatever of such wrongdoing on his part.”

Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested last week for allegedly shouting anti-India slogans during an event held on the campus on February 9 in support of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, who was hanged three years ago.

Mr Kumar has been charged with sedition, for which the maximum punishment is a life term. A report by the Delhi Police on the arrest credits “reliable sources”, explaining sedition charges against the student.

Expressing solidarity with protesting JNU students and faculty, who have boycotted classes to press for Mr Kumar’s release, the statement says: “Mr. Kumar, whose speech (widely available on a video) cannot in any way be connected with the slogans uttered on the previous day, was nonetheless arrested for ‘anti-national’ behaviour and for violating the sedition laws against the incitement to violence. Since there is no evidence to establish these charges, we can only conclude that this arrest is further evidence of the present government’s deeply authoritarian nature, intolerant of any dissent, setting aside India’s longstanding commitment to toleration and plurality of opinion, replicating the dark times of an oppressive colonial period and briefly of the Emergency in the mid-1970s. ”

The action of the police had brought “great dishonor” to the government, the signatories assert, and urge “all those genuinely concerned about the future of India and Indian universities to protest in wide mobilization against it.”

(Agencies)

BJP wins 4 seats as NDA fares better in by-polls

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New Delhi: The BJP on Tuesday won four seats and the Congress two as the ruling NDA bettered the Opposition in by-elections for 12 seats held across eight states three days ago. Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) was the worst sufferer.

The SP lost two of the three seats it held in Uttar Pradesh – one each to the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJP also snatched two seats from the Congress – one each in Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka.

The BJP was the winner in Maihar (Madhya Pradesh), Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh) and in Hebbal and Devadurga in Karnataka.

The Congress grabbed Bidar in Karnataka and Deoband in Uttar Pradesh.

Bihar’s Harlakhi seat was retained by the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP). The Shiv Sena won from Palghar in Maharashtra, the ruling TRS crushed the Congress in Narayankhed in Telangana and the CPI-M won from Amarpur in Tripura again with the BJP taking the second spot.

Punjab’s Kharoor Sahib constituency went the Shiromani Akali Dal way in an election boycotted by both the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the state’s new entrant.

(IANS)

Turkey pushes for ground operation in Syria

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by Al Bawaba

Turkey has announced it is in favor of a military deployment on the ground in Syria but on the condition that its allies participate in the operation, according to a statement released by a senior Turkish official said on Tuesday.

“We want a ground operation with our international allies,” the official told reporters in Istanbul.

“There is not going to be a unilateral military operation from Turkey to Syria,” the official remarked, before adding that: “Without a ground operation it is impossible to stop the fighting in Syria.”

Turkey considers the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as essential to ending the protracted war in Syria which is currently in its fifth year. The Turkish state is also highly critical of the involvment of Iran and Russia and their support for the Assad regime.

“We are asking the coalition partners that there should be a ground operation,” the official said.

Turkey has attacked Kurdish militia targets in Syria over the past few days, a move which has strained relations between Ankara and Washington. The United States has been supportive of Syrian Kurds fighting Daesh, but Turkey fears this will embolden Kurds living within Turkish borders to push for independence.

Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz previously stated on Sunday that Turkey had no plans of intervening on the gound in Syria.

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