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"Allow Hindu leaders to carry guns", urges Pramod Muthalik

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PRAMOD MUTHALIK

Coimbatore: Hardline Hindutva activist and Shri Ram Sena chief Pramod Muthalik has urged the Tamil Nadu government today, to issue licences to leaders of Hindu outfits to possess firearms for the purpose of what he terms, “self-protection.”

Speaking to reporters, Muthalik, whose extremist group was recently banned by the Goa CM from opening its branch in the state, said though police security is being provided to Hindu outfit leaders, it’s impact will be limited, as it is not possible to give them protection wherever they go. Hence, the demand for licenced weapons.

“Not only Hindu leaders, even Dalits may keep one if they feel their life is in danger. Hindu leaders need guns to protect their lives from extremists as they are being targeted frequently. As many as 127 Hindu leaders were murdered over the last decade. The government should cancel the licence if the weapons are found to be misused,” he said. One interesting point to be noted was, his distinction of Hindu leaders from Dalits.

Muthalik, along with other Hindu leaders also submitted a petition to Coimbatore City Police commissioner AK Viswanathan, which he said will be forwarded to Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. He added that he would submit a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Sting video exposes BJP's 'dirty game', claims AAP

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New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday released a footage showing BJP leader Sher Singh Dagar offering money to an AAP legislator swaying him in to his party, to allegedly improve BJP’s chances of forming a government in the capital.

AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal released a sting video purportedly showing Delhi BJP vice president Sher Singh Dagar offering Rs. 4 crore to AAP MLA Dinesh Mohaniya as a “token amount”, and saying Mohaniya won’t be allowed to go anywhere until the floor test is taken in the Delhi assembly. This comes amid reports that the BJP was preparing to form the government in Delhi, which has been under president’s rule since AAP gave up power in February this year.

“You are dearer than a little brother,” Dagar is allegedly heard saying in the video. “Tell us your requirements, without any hesitation,” he said.

Dagar is also heard claiming that the party was trying to buy three or four more MLAs from AAP.

Releasing the video in a press conference on Monday, Arvind Kejriwal, said “BJP’s dirty game has been exposed,” and that they would present the footage to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

“Our operation to expose BJP’s horse-trading has been going on for one month,” said Kejriwal. “BJP does not have the numbers to form the Delhi government, which is why they are indulging in malpractices. We will not let them form the Delhi government through dishonesty,” he added.

Criticizing the video, BJP leader Vijender Gupta said that, “They (AAP) have been doing this for long. Earlier they made allegations against (now central minister) Nitin Gadkari … and now again they are attacking us. This is an attempt to defame the party.”

“Even if Dagar interacted with the (AAP) MLA, it was in his personal capacity and not as a leader of the BJP,” he added.

Meanwhile, the Congress urged the Supreme Court to take cognizance of the matter and order fresh elections in Delhi.

(With additional input from Agencies.)

Youths assaulted while buying cattle in Murudeshwar, Bhatkal

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Bhatkal: Two youths were brutally attacked by a gang of miscreants, while buying cattle at Murudeshwar in Bhatkal Taluk of Uttara Kannada district.

The youths Sadaan (31) and Nasrullah (25) had paid Rs.17,000 to one Jathappa Naik in Murudeshwar to buy cattle, however, after receiving the money, Naik allegedly insisted the duo to transport the cattle in the night on Sunday, September 7.

According to sources close to Nasheman, the moment Sadaan and Nasrullah reached the house of Naik, a group of reportedly 30 men surrounded and attacked them with iron rods.

Both have been admitted to a private hospital at Murudeshwar. DySP Muthuraj and circle inspector Prashanth Nayak rushed to the spot and assured the neighbourhood people gathered at the hospital premises of immediate arrest of the culprits.

The police have arrested Mahesh Naik, Nagesh Naik, Jathapa Naik, Purandar Naik and Ganesh Naik on Monday. All the accused were produced in the court.

A case has been registered in Murudeshwar police station.

Dissidence brews in Congress

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Siddaramaiah-Parameshwara

All is not well in state Congress, with dissidence brewing on a daily basis against Siddaramaiah’s government by disgruntled MLAs for cabinet posts. But many ministerial aspirants lining up the queue, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has decided to set aside the cabinet expansion by at least a month.

Sources close to Nasheman, say two of the reasons, why the CM does not wants to expand his cabinet, is firstly his aversion to appoint a deputy CM, which has been a long waiting demand of State Congress president G. Parameshwara, and secondly is his self reasons to single handedly control state politics for a longer time.

However, with the results of the recently concluded bypoll elections coming in favour of Congress, Siddaramaiah has effectively consolidated his powers, with even Congress general secretary in-charge of state, Digvijay Singh saying, he would leave it to the CM on when to expand the cabinet.

The biggest looser in this power struggle at least for now, seems to be G. Parameshwara, who left with no apparent choice, has given up his demands, following the decision of Congress high command.

“I have been a sincere party worker and will continue to be so throughout my career. I will stick to the high command’s decision in this regard,” he told reporters on seeking his reaction to the reports that the central Congress leadership was not in favour of creating the post of deputy chief minister in the state.

Though this has come as a disappointment, Parameshwara might strike at the right juncture, after being low for some time. One has to keep in mind that, he is an old party loyalist, and Siddaramaiah is still considered an outsider by many. Sources close to Nasheman, say that, MLAs left out of the cabinet may join forces to strengthen Parameshwara to unseat CM Siddaramaiah.

With these two camps cat fighting each other, one interesting individual to watch out for would be DK Shivkumar (DKS). An old party loyalist, DKS belongs to the powerful Vokkaliga community, who might well be a lone survival in the struggle for power between two leaders from the backward class.

'Haider', set in the backdrop of Kashmir, gets 41 cuts from Censor Board

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Bangalore: Vishal Bhardwaj’s ambitious rendition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, ‘Haider’, has become the latest victim of the sharp scissors of the censor board, with 41 cuts before getting a U/A (Unrestricted Public Exhibition-But With Parental Guidance) certificate.

A truck load of corpses, wire being inserted inside a naked man, a shot of a bloody dead body, Shahid Kapoor crying on seeing flames, are some of the scenes deleted from the movie.

Interestingly, the Vishal Bhardwaj-Basharat Peer scripted movie, was the last film to be censored by CBFC’s suspended CEO, Rakesh Kumar, who is currently in judicial custody after being accused in a bribery case.

Haider, the latest in Bhardwaj’s list of adaptations of Shakespeare, has Kashmir at the heart of the story, with Peer’s acclaimed international bestseller, ‘Curfewed Night’ as its source.

“The film is an attempt to answer the stereotypical, jingoistic films Bollywood has made about Kashmir. Every character in the film is a Kashmiri—a doctor, a lawyer, teacher, a research scholar, a police officer. These are people who have agency and they’re not just victims,” Peer has said about his debut entry.

Haider, which also stars Tabu and Kay Kay Menon, is set for release on October 2.

Salman Khan hurts Muslim religious sentiments at his Being Human show

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Bangalore: Salman Khan has done it again. A year after being booked in Hyderabad for hurting religious sentiment of Muslims in a TV reality show hosted by him on Colors channel in 2013, the actor is back in news again for “insulting” religion, this time at his Being Human fashion show.

The bone of contention is a video, which is being circulated on social media, showing a model walking down the ramp at his Being Human fashion show, with the Arabic word ‘Allah’ prominently displayed at the bottom of her gown.

Though it is unclear, when and where the event took place, or what the intention of the organizers or the designer was, but messages on Facebook and WhatsApp, clearly indicates, Muslims’s anger against the clip.

Last year, Khan was booked under section 295 of the Indian Penal Code at Falaknuma police station in the old city of Hyderabad for depicting “Jannat” (heaven) and “Jahannum” (hell).

Govinda Pai memorial award to K. S. Nisar Ahmed

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Poet K.S. Nisar Ahmed at the function to receive the Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai Memorial Award in Udupi.

Poet K.S. Nisar Ahmed at the function to receive the Govinda Pai Memorial Award in Udupi.

Udupi: Celebrated Kannada poet and writer, Prof. K. S. Nisar Ahmed was honoured with the prestigious Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai Memorial Award at a function organised by the Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai Research Centre and other organizations here. The award carries a citation and a cheque of Rs. 1 lakh.

Urban Development Minister Vinay Kumar Sorake, who spoke after presenting the annual award, said that Prof. Ahmed’s contribution to Kannada literature was invaluable.

Mr. Sorake said that it was fitting that the poet should get the Govinda Pai award. “Prof. Ahmed is a jewel of Kannada literature whom we all like and treasure,” he said.

In his acceptance speech, Prof. Ahmed said that poets such as the late D.V. Gundappa and the late Govinda Pai had a big influence on him. In addition to being a poet, Govinda Pai was a scholar who did a lot of research, he said.

Earlier, B.A. Viveka Rai, former Vice-Chancellor of Kannada University, Hampi, said that writers such as the late D.R. Bendre and the late Kuvempu liked Prof. Ahmed a lot. It was when Prof. Ahmed became the president of the Kannada Sahitya Academy that literary programmes were held for the first time at the hobli-level, he added.

Kota Srinivas Poojary, MLC; Kusuma Kamath, principal of MGM College, and H.P.R. Hande, Assistant General Manager of Karnataka Bank, were present at the event.

Free undertrials who have served half their maximum term, orders Supreme Court

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New Delhi: In a landmark judgement, which would come as a sigh of relief to many undertrials who are languishing in prisons for years with only a bleak hope of justice, the country’s apex court ordered the release of all undertrials who have served half their maximum term yesterday.

The bench headed by Chief Justice R.M. Lodha said that district judges will visit jails once in a week for two months in their respective districts and identify such undertrials from October 1.

India’s criminal procedure code already states that once the undertrial has served more than half of his maximum sentence, the detainee must be released by the court on his personal bond with or without sureties, however, the law is rarely implemented.

“Having given consideration to legislative policy in Section 436 A of the CrPC and that a large number of undertrial prisoners are languishing in jails, we are of the view that an order is required to be passed by us so that undertrial prisoners do not continue to be detained in prisons beyond the maximum period as provided under Section 436 A of the CrPC,” the bench, also comprising justices Kurian Joseph and R. F. Nariman, said.

“We want some edifice to be built on the foundation that has to be laid,” the bench added. Though this would not apply in cases where death sentence was provided as maximum sentence.

Speaking to Nasheman, prisoners rights activist and founder of Bangalore based organisation, Janasadbhawana, Mr.Faiz Akram Pasha, said that, “this is a great day for justice in the country, as there are thousands of prisoners slugging their life away for petty crimes in our prisons.”

Ordering the next date of hearing of the case Dec 8, the court said that on the completion of the two-month exercise, the registrar generals of the high courts will send the report on the exercise and undertrial prisoners released to the secretary general of the Supreme Court.

No Al-Qaeda threat to Karnataka, says CM Siddaramaiah

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CM Siddaramaiah (Photo credit: IE)

CM Siddaramaiah

Bangalore: Days after Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri announced the formation of an Indian branch of his global armed group that he said would spread Islamic rule and “raise the flag of jihad” across the subcontinent, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah play downed the issue and said that there was no threat to the state from the outfit.

However, he said the state is on high security alert, following the centre’s direction on the matter.

Al Qaeda, which many counter-insurgency experts claim have kept a low profile, since the assassination of its founder Usama bin Laden in 2011 in Pakistan, have been eclipsed mainly from its offshoot organisations, which have emerged in recent years since the uprisings in the Arab/Muslim world.

In a video posted online on social forums, the present Qaeda leader, said the new force would “crush the artificial borders” dividing Muslim populations in the region.

“This entity was not established today but is the fruit of a blessed effort of more than two years to gather the mujahedeen in the Indian sub-continent into a single entity,” he said.

Meanwhile, Home Minister K.J. George claimed that the law and order situation in Karnataka was best in the country.

Additional Director-General of Police, Law and Order, Kishore Chandra told the media that the police are always on alert and there was no need for any special security arrangements, however, according to sources close to Nasheman, the police are keeping a close watch on individuals and organisations in their radar.

First International Aviation Conclave to be held in New Delhi

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IAC Press Conference, Bangalore.

IAC Press Conference, Bangalore.

Bangalore: International Aviation Conclave (IAC), a three day Conference cum exhibition, supported by the Ministry of Civil Aviation (Government of India), Directorate General of Civil Aviation (Government of India), US-India Importers Council, ADS-UK, is being organised at the India Trade Promotion Organisation, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi (India), from 9th to 11th October 2014. The theme for the inaugural year is ‘Empowering Aviation – Encouraging Stability towards Sustainability’.

The announcement which was made today at a Press Conference organised at Bangalore, was attended by: Capt. G.S. Rathee, CEO, IAC-2014, Mr. Govindachary, MD, Corporate Leisure & Property Development Pvt. Lt, and Dr. Edmond Fernandes, CEO, Center for Health and Development (R) and Member, Advisory Council IAC-2014.

The prime focus taken into accordance for the event is promotion of aviation domain taking into account the Foreign Direct Investment, Global Co-operation, liberalized policies by the Government to showcase growth potential in the Indian economy. The industry leaders will exhibit their products and services before the Global Aviation leaders and Aviation Industry catalysts. Promotion of latest aircrafts with an intention to enhance Regional Air Connectivity, Strong focus on General Aviation and Allied activities, focus on Domestic Manufacturing of Aircrafts & parts with International Collaborations, Maintenance Repairs and Overhauls, Aviation Safety and Security, Ground Handling Operations, Airport Infrastructure & Development, Medical and General Tourism, Aviation/Aerospace Medicine, Research and Surveillance Products, Training, and New Trends in Information Technology will b key attraction at IAC 2014.

Capt G.S. Rathe, CEO, IAC said, “IAC 2014 will prove to be a key catalyst for economic growth and socio-political development providing excellent platform for business associations and an unrivalled access to the untapped yet highly resourceful Indian Aviation market. This first edition of the conclave will prove to be a milestone in achieving stability and sustainability for the Global Aviation Industry, thus empowering aviation worldwide”.

Some global luminary speakers to be present at the conference on October 2014 according to the organizers are: Dr. Nasim Zaidi, Election Commissioner of India & former Secretary Civil Aviation, Mr. Jalal Haider – Director General, World Aviation Forum, & Former Vice President International Civil Aviation Organisation, Mr. Mark Shwab, CEO, Star Alliance, Mr. David Soucie, Safety and Accident  Analyst, Senior Aviation expert, Mr. Greg Principato – Former President, Airport Council International (NA), Mr. Sidharth Kapur – President & CFO, GMR Airports, Mr. Vijay Poonosami – Vice President.

Some of the key participants at IAC are: Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company, UAC, Tecnam, ADS Group, Shaurya Aeronautics, Sky Cabz, TPL, etc.

In order to give due appreciation and encouragement to industry players who have given outstanding services in their respective areas, ‘The International Aviation Awards’ will take place on the concluding day of the event, where organisations & individuals from more than 25 categories under Aviation & Allied domains will be awarded.

For more details about the conclave you can visit: http://www.aviationconclave.com/

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