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Revoke Ban on Nirbhaya Documentary: Editors Guild of India

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New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India today slammed the government’s move to ban ‘India’s Daughter,’ the documentary about the brutal gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in a moving bus in Delhi in December 2012, and appealed for the ban to be revoked.

Calling the ban wholly unwarranted, the Editors Guild said it is based on misunderstanding of the power and the message behind the film.

Following is the full statement by the Editors Guild:

The Government of India’s move in banning the telecast of the BBC documentary ‘India’s Daughter’ depicting the aftermath of the brutal gang rape and murder of Nirbhaya is wholly unwarranted, based as it is on a misunderstanding of the power and the message behind it. The documentary portrays the courage, sensitivity and liberal outlook of a family traumatised by the brutality inflicted on the daughter, the continuing shameful attitudes towards women among the convict as well as the educated including lawyers and multiple voices in support of women’s freedom and dignity including students, former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Justice Leila Seth, Oxford academic Maria Misra and senior advocate and former Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam. While the Supreme Court has declared that there should be the broadest freedom to express even the most unacceptable of views, the message that emerges from the documentary is wholly positive and its power is such as to make people re-examine their own attitudes and the attitudes of people around them.

The Nirbhaya incident has been an obvious matter of public interest and has through all the stages of the investigation, trial and confirmation by the high court, been subject to a widespread public debate and discussion, protests and demonstrations and enquiry by the Justice Verma Commission that suggested reform of the law. To raise the issue of sub judice now at the stage of final appeal in the Supreme Court and seek to still discussion is absurd. Judges, particularly in the Supreme Court, are by training and temperament immune to the happenings in the public sphere outside the court, and it is an insult to the Supreme Court to suggest that the airing of the convict’s perverted views would tend to interfere with the course of justice.

Prompted by initial expressions of outrage, including by members of Parliament, over the views of the convict included in the documentary, the Government seems to have decided on the ban without viewing the documentary in its entirety. The rationale that the ban was in the interests of justice and public order as the film “created a situation of tension and fear amongst women” and as that the convict would use the media to further his case in the appeal that was sub-judice seems to be an afterthought.

The Editors Guild of India appeals to the Government of India to revoke the ban forthwith and enable the people to view what is a positive and powerful documentary touching on the freedom, dignity and safety of women.

Obama names Indian American investor as IMF director

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Washington: President Barack Obama has nominated Sunil Sabharwal, an independent Indian American investor in the payments sector, as US Alternate Executive Director at International Monetary Fund for a term of two years.

The White House sent Sabharwal’s nomination to the Senate on Wednesday. At over two dozen, Obama administration boasts of having the highest number of Indian Americans in key jobs than any previous administrations in the US.

Sabharwal, who has been an independent investor since 2006, was the chairman of the Board of Ogone, a European ecommerce payment services company, from 2011 to 2013, according to the White House.

He advised Warburg Pincus on its acquisition of Easycash, a German network services company, subsequently becoming a board advisor from 2006 to 2009.

From 2003 to 2006, Sabharwal was senior vice president of strategic investments at First Data Corporation/Western Union.

From 1997 to 2003, he held several positions at GE Capital, including managing director.

From 1992 to 1996 he worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Sabharwal received a BS from The Ohio State University and an MS from the London Business School.

(Agencies)

Hate rant: Case filed against Balika Saraswati

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Mangaluru: Four days after she addressed the massive Virat Hindu Samajotsava at Nehru Maidan, a case has been registered against Sadhvi Balika Saraswati for allegedly making a provocative speech.

The complaint has been filed by Suresh Bhat Bakrabail, president of Dakshina Kannada unit of Karnataka Komu Souharda Vedike.

The complaint alleges that Sadhvi Balika Saraswati made provocative statements by saying that love Jihad should be countered by chopping off the heads of Muslim boys who look at Hindu girls.

The complaint urged for suitable action against Sadhvi Balika Saraswati and the organizers of the Samajotsava.

Based on the complaint, Pandeshwar police registered a case under Sections 153 (A) and 295 of the IPC.

58 Rajya Sabha MPs give notice for impeachment of HC judge

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New Delhi: 58 MPs of Rajya Sabha have given a notice for impeaching Justice S K Gangele of Madhya Pradesh High Court who is facing allegations of sexual harassment of a woman Additional District and Sessions Judge of Gwalior.

The move, initated by JD-U President Sharad Yadav, has got endorsement from members of a number of parties including Congress, CPI-M, Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party and BSP.

Some members of the legal fraternity had met the MPs and and requested them to take up this matter, Yadav said.

“A number of people from the judicial fraternity had come to meet me in this regard and told me the case history. I felt that the lady judge’s voice was not being heard. I found that this is a fit case for impeachment,” said the JD(U) leader.

As per the rules, at least 50 MPs have to give notice for impeachment of any judge of a High Court or the Supreme Court.

In the notice given to Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari, the MPs have said the motion should be admitted for removal of Gangele under Article 217 read with Article 124 of the Constitution.

The notice cites three grounds of “misconduct” for initiating the process of impeachment.

They include “sexual harassment” of a woman Additional District and Sessions Judge of Gwalior while Gangele was a sitting judge of the Gwalior Bench of the High Court, victimisation of the particular judge for not submitting to his “illegel and immoral demands”, including, but not limited to transferrring her from Gwalior to Sidhi and “misusing” his position as the Administrative Judge of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh to use the subordinate judiciary to “victimise” the lady judge later.

The issue had hogged media headlines after the lady judge resigned on July 15 last year days after she was transferred to a remote district.

After resigning the lady judge had sent representations to the President of India, the Chief Justice of India and the Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court on August 1, 2014 in which she had made serious allegations against the Justice.

Supreme Court Chief Justice H L Dattu has set up a three-judge committee for a thorough probe into the sexual harassment complaint against the Madhya Pradesh High Court judge after receiving a preliminary inquiry report on a complaint by a woman judicial officer.

Article 124(4) when read with proviso (b) to Article 217(1) states that a judge of a High Court shall not be removed from his office except on the grounds of ‘proved misbehaviour’.

The prefix ‘proved’ only means proved to the satisfaction of requisite majority of Parliament, if so recommended by the inquiry committee.

If the Rajya Sabha takes up the impeachment motion, it will be the third such case in Parliament’s history and the second in the Upper House.

In recent times, Justice Soumitra Sen of Calutta High Court had faced impeachment proceedings in Rajya Sabha in 2011 for “misconduct” and “misappropriation of funds” in the capacity of a Calcutta High Court receiver.

The Rajya Sabha had voted in favour of impeaching him and while the proceedings in the Lok Sabha were in progress, the judge resigned. Subsequently, the impeachment proceedings were dropped, taking into consideration his resignation.

Under the constitution, a judge of a high court or the Supreme Court can be removed by the President by a motion adopted in both the Houses of Parliament by two-thirds majority in the same session on “proved misconduct and incapacity”.

The first such case involved impeachment of Justice V Ramaswami of the Supreme Court in May 1993 which fell in Lok Sabha for lack of numbers.

(PTI)

Arvind Kejriwal undergoes naturopathy treatment in Bengaluru

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Bengaluru: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was today admitted to a naturopathy institute on the city outskirts for a 10-day treatment of his persistent chronic cough problem and other ailments.

The AAP leader, who landed at the airport around noon accompanied by his parents, drove straight to Jindal Nature Cure Institute on Tumkuru Road on city outskirts.

Kejriwal would undergo naturopathy regimen that would include detoxification therapy for his cough and different types of “drainage treatments”, a senior doctor said.

“He will undergo detoxification therapy, especially for his cough – different types of drainage treatments have to be given,” Dr Babina Nandakumar, Chief Medical Officer at the Institute told reporters.

She said to control his disease once he gets back home, doctors will put him on a routine so that he gets used to it.

“Once he is here for ten days, we will put him on a routine, so he gets used to this routine … so whatever he learns here, he should try to inculcate (it) after getting back home if he really wants to control his disease,” the CMO said.

Nandakumar said Kejriwal needs to be examined in order to know his ailment. “We have to examine him completely, and then whatever investigations have to be done that also has to be done. Only then, can I come to a conclusion what is he actually suffering from,” she said.

“Last time when he came, he did not have any chronic cough problem. He had come for diabetes,” she added.

About the treatment, Babina said, “Naturopathy is a drugless form of medicine where it does not apply any kind of medicine. We believe that naturopathy is that accumulation of toxins is the root cause of the diseases.”

“So, once a patient comes over here, we detoxify the system. Once the toxins are eliminated from their system, the whole organs get rejuvenated and function in an efficient way,” she added.

Kejriwal was at the same Institute in 2012 spending 10 days for treatment of diabetes, along with anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare with complaints of high blood pressure.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also asked Kejriwal to consult a yoga therapist at a well known institute in Bengaluru for his persistent cough during the Delhi Police’s ‘At Home’ function in New Delhi a couple of weeks ago.

Facing internal turmoil in AAP, Kejriwal had yesterday skipped a meeting at Delhi where members of the party national executive voted to remove founder members, Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, from the Political Affairs Committee, the party’s key decision making body.

(PTI)

Lynch mob justice: Gang break into Nagaland jail drag out alleged rapist and beat him to death

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Lynched: The gang overpowered security at the Central Jail in the city of Dimapur and grabbed the man before beating him to death. It is unclear whether he is dead in this shocking image

Lynched: The gang overpowered security at the Central Jail in the city of Dimapur and grabbed the man before beating him to death. It is unclear whether he is dead in this shocking image

Dimapur: An alleged rapist, suspected to be a Bangladeshi migrant, was thrashed and killed by a mob which stormed the high-security central jail in Nagaland’s commercial town of Dimapur, officials said.

Taking justice into their own hands, the gang today overpowered security at the Central Jail in the city of Dimapur and grabbed the man, who allegedly raped a female student multiple times last month.

According to local media reports, he died while being dragged four miles through the streets as people beat and pelted him with stones.

Shocking: The man allegedly raped a student from a local women’s college multiple times in February and he was arrested a day later

Accused: The alleged rapist has been identified as a 35-year-old used car trader

The horrific attack on the man, who had not been convicted of rape, comes amid rising anger over the high rate of sexual violence in the country.

He has been identified as 35-year-old Syed Farid Khan, a used car trader, according to The Indian Express. 

The man allegedly raped a student from a local women’s college on February 24, and he was arrested a day later.

At least 10 vehicles were also set ablaze by the unruly mob forcing the authorities to clamp curfew in Dimapur district.

‘A mass protest rally against the rape was held at Dimapur this morning after which students and angry people forced into the district jail and managed to pull out the accused,’ the Press Trust of India news agency said.

It has been reported the crowd tore down two gates before dragging him to the town’s clock tower.

It’s said they also set fire to homes and shops in an area where the suspect ran his business.

Several people were injured when police used batons and opened fire, while officers were hurt when the mob pelted them with stones in Nagaland state in northeast India. The police later removed the man’s body.

‘The situation is very tense,’ town police superintendent Meren Jamir told the Hindustan Times. ‘We are trying our very best to restore order.’

(Agencies)

An interaction with entrepreneur Nandita Singgha

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Time to celebrate celebrate Women’s Day with Nandita Singgha, Founder & Managing Director of “Total Presentation Devices Limited”.

Nandita Singgha

Nandita Singgha, happens to be a strong, wise and above all a successful albeit a gutsy woman entrepreneur synonyms to women power, she’s an epitome and a role model of millions of women who desire to carve a niche for themselves but fail to explore their credentials and bridge the gap between inspirations to aspirations.

Nandita Singgha came and she conquered the hearts of millions with her strong sense of leadership quality. Her company “Total Presentation Devices Limited” has become the 1st Bollywood Production Company to be ISO certified for quality services in the filmmaking process. ISO 9000 is a series of standards developed & published by the “International Organization for Standardization” (ISO), that define, establish & maintain an effective quality assurance system for manufacturing & service industries.

An ardent believer of the ideology #BeYourOwnBoss, Nandita Singgha has proved her mettle in the field of technology and this is just an extension of the same mission in a larger perspective. Nandita Singgha, an Indian women of 3rd world country has a vision matching to the best of American corporate practices.

Hence, for all those women harboring on the ship of desires, embark on a new journey this Women’s Day and set your sight on that one entrepreneurial goal every women wishes for. This Women’s Day activity will eventually grow into an online portal which takes place every year holding a vision to up rise women. Apart from honing aspiring women entrepreneurs, Nandita will also be looking at recruiting youngsters for her company.

Nandita averred, “I am inviting budding women entrepreneurs to share their venture dreams with me with a strong sustainable plan. If you have the determination & approach towards it, I would love to be a part of it and support the dreams. This Women’s Day, liberate your inner desire to be an entrepreneur. 8th of Mar, 2015 could be a new beginning for you and for me. If you dream of having your own business or running your own show, please write to me on nsinggha@gmail.com.”

Wishing all the readers a Happy Womens’ Day Nandita Singgha stated, “The subject of empowerment of women is becoming a burning issue all over the world including India since last few decades. There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women. The empowered women is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description. Hence, as a token of love & celebration this women’s Day I am presenting them with an opportunity to fulfill their dreams and build a name for themselves.”

Being a successful entrepreneur, besides owning a production house is no cakewalk and Nandita Singhaa will surely vouch for it. Triumphing upon the hearts, Nandita Singgha has her platter full with a few films in the pipeline under her own production house banner.

Nandita Singhaa’s few films in the pipeline are ‘Middey’ to be directed by Nandita Singgha is based on true incidents where she has taken certain characters of a few journalists as reference who become powerful handling the entire system, underworld & ATS through journalism and bring justice to society; ‘J Returns’ to be directed by Nandita Singgha is based on a true incident and a story covered by a journalist named J who fights for Indian – American doctor Anandan Roy’s bail & justice who is based in US and J is from Mumbai and works as a TV newsreader; ‘Megacorp’, to be directed by Nandita Singhaa is a bilingual international movie based on a true incident & accident that had taken place in a pharmaceutical industry, the entire mystery was revealed by Jay a journalist by profession when his own sister dies untimely & ‘Red’ to be directed by Nandita Singgha, the plot of the film revolves around a group of journalists who identify themselves with Code Red, they work voluntarily by secretly fighting for injustice happening in society. They are the true heroes of the society where lots of recognition is yet to be given to them

Sure enough there is lots to look forward to, on this Women’s Day.

After beef ban, Maharashtra government scraps quota for Muslims

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Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis with PM Narendra Modi. Photo: PTI

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis with PM Narendra Modi. Photo: PTI

Mumbai: Devendra Fadnavis-led BJP government in Maharashtra has scrapped an ordinance providing reservation for Muslims, despite the Bombay High Court allowing quota for the community in educational institutions.

“An ordinance to this effect (providing a five per cent job quota) lapsed on December 23 last year,” a Maharashtra government resolution said.

“Considering this fact, the concerned government resolution issued on July 24 last year is being scrapped,” the government resolution said. In June last year, Maharashtra’s earlier Congress-NCP government had approved a 16 per cent reservation for Marathas and a five per cent for Muslims just ahead of the October 15 Assembly polls, after the Congress was routed in the general elections.

The quota was given through two separate categories,namely the Educationally and Socially Backward Category (ESBC) for Marathas as well as a Special Backward Class (Muslims) segment for the Muslims.

On November 14, 2014, the Bombay High Court had stayed implementation of the decision of the erstwhile Congress-NCP government to provide 16 per cent reservations for Marathas in jobs and education, which was announced just ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly polls.

The court had also stayed the Maharashtra state’s decision to provide a five per cent job reservation to Muslims in government service, but it allowed quotas for them in educational institutions. The Maharashtra state government had challenged the Bombay High Court order in the Supreme Court, which refused to interfere with the interim decision of the High Court but asked the Maharashtra state government to go back to the Bombay High Court on the issue.

On January 5, this year, the Bombay High Court gave three weeks to the Maharashtra state government to file an affidavit submitting data to justify its decision to provide reservations to Marathas and Muslims in jobs as well as educational institutions.

Earlier, the Bombay High Court had said that the Supreme Court had already laid down the law for reservation as per which it cannot exceed 50 per cent of the total seats. In fact, 52 per cent of seats in government jobs and educational institutions are already reserved for targeted groups.

However, in the run up to the Maharashtra Assembly poll,the erstwhile Congress-NCP government had raised reservations to 73 per cent by announcing a 16 per cent quota for Marathas and a five per cent quota for Muslims.

(Agencies)

Everyone must watch 'India's Daughter': Nirbhaya's Father

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New Delhi: A day after the Nirbhaya documentary ‘India’s Daughter’ caused a ruckus in the Parliament, urging the government to ban the telecast in India, Nirbhaya’s father said that the ‘documentary holds a mirror to the society.’

Speaking to NDTV, Nirbhaya’s father said that ‘banning the documentary will only encourage people more to see it.’

“Everyone should watch the film. If a man can speak like that in jail, imagine what he would say if he was walking free,” said the father of the young woman who was brutally gang-raped, tortured and killed by six men, including a 17-year-old, on a moving bus.

The woman came to be known as “Nirbhaya” or fearless, and became a symbol for India’s fight to check crimes against women.

“The documentary exposes what is happening. If the country has taken a decision, we have to accept it,” he told the news channel.

Despite the opposition from the Indian government BBC Four aired the documentary early on Thursday morning.

The documentary is based on the 2012 Delhi gangrape which shook the nation. It includes interviews of Nirbhaya’s parents, doctors, lawyers and one of the accused Mukesh Singh. The filmmaker Leslee Udwin too appealed to the Indian government that banning the documentary was not right.

Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan out of AAP's PAC; Kejriwal's resignation rejected

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New Delhi: Senior AAP leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav, who were on a collision course with party Convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, were today voted out of Political Affairs Committee of the party, which has been rocked by dissidence in recent days.

In a show-down in the party’s 21-member National Executive (NE), supporters of Kejriwal voted out Yadav and Bhushan by 11 to eight votes. Kejriwal and Mayank Gandhi were not present at the meet.

Yadav and Bhushan’s ouster from PAC came days after the duo had raised red flag against continuation of Kejriwal as National Convener as also questioned his working style, evoking a sharp reaction from Kejriwal supporters who accused Bhushan and his father Shanti Bhushan of wanting to have a “vice-like grip” on all party wings, from PAC to policy committee to NE.

The two leaders left the stormy session after the decision of the Executive. While Yadav maintained that he would continue working as dedicated worker of the party, Bhushan left saying that a majority decision will prevail.

Later announcing the decisions of NE, AAP leader Kumar Vishwas said Yadav and Bhushan will be given new roles.

“The party has decided to relieve them from the responsibility as members of the PAC. They will be assigned new role and responsibility,” Vishwas said.

He said “personal opinions and personal differences” will not come in the way of the unity of the party, which will deliver on its promises and will not betray the trust of the people.

Ahead of the meet, while Yadav had offered an olive branch to the party’s top brass saying the question of Kejriwal staying as National Convener has never been an issue while Bhushan had said that he was “firm on ethics”.

Both leaders have, in the past few days, had alleged that the three-year-old party has strayed from the core ideals of ‘swaraj’ (self-governance) and transparency that set it apart.

Speaking to reporters after his removal, Yadav said, the party was created with “blood and sweat” of thousands of supporters whose trust should not be betrayed.

(Agencies)

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