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Delhi HC Tribunal lifts ban on SIMI Times of India The Delhi High Court Tribunal on Tuesday night lifted the ban on Students’ Islamic Movement of India, citing lack of a concrete reason for continuing the ban. The organisation was banned in 2006 with the charge of indulging in anti-India activities. Student Islamic Movement of India – A profile
SIMI ban lift shocks police, intelligence officials The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they are not authorised to officially comment on any court judgement. The lifting of the ban on the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) Tuesday has come as a body blow to the intelligence and security agencies that are probing its hand in a series of terror blasts in Jaipur, Bangalore and Ahmedabad that have killed hundreds of people. “We have not seen the judgement yet but it is a complete shock to us. I can’t believe this can happen. The decision has really came at the wrong time when we are in hot pursuit of SIMI members in the country,†a top Intelligence Bureau (IB) official told IANS. Another IB official said: “We have not been informed about the judgement. But it is a big setback for the security agencies which are battling terrorism.†A top Delhi Police official, requesting anonymity, told IANS: “We have provided adequate information to the tribunal (that lifted the ban) and the decision is very surprising. It will badly affect us in the long run in the fight against terrorism http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal...s-police-intelligence-officials_10080396.html
Ban on SIMI to continue as SC stays Tribunal’s decision New Delhi, Aug 06: Just a day after the Delhi High Court Tribunal lifted the ban on Students’ Islamic movement of India (SIMI), the Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the Tribunal order, implying that the ban will continue as of now. The apex court has issued a notice to SIMI asking as to why it should not be banned and has given them 3 weeks to respond to the same. Zee News
Taslima returns to India Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, who was dramatically bundled out from West Bengal in November last year, returned on Friday after spending more than four months in Sweden. The 45-year-old Bangladeshi writer, who has been a target of Islamic fundamentalists, arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on Friday morning and was immediately whisked away by security agencies to an undisclosed destination, official sources said. The future plans of the writer, who shot to fame with her controversial book Lajja, were not immediately known. Her visa is valid till August 12. She has been requesting for permanent residentship in the country but the Government has not taken any decision on the issue Taslima had left India on March 18 for Sweden after she was kept in a safe house in the national Capital for more than four months. Taslima, who had not been allowed to see any visitors during the period, had described her confinement as living in "a chamber of death". Taslima has lived in many countries in exile, including France, Sweden and India since 1994. During her stay in India in the last five years, she has periodically travelled abroad with the last trip being in November last year before she was bundled out of West Bengal. Recipient of various awards, Taslima was shifted from Kolkata residence after violent protests marred parts of the metropolis over her controversial book Dwikhondito (divided into two). Certain references by her in the book stirred a storm with some Muslim organisations demanding that she be asked to leave the State. Taslima was packed off from Kolkata and shifted to Jaipur. The Rajasthan Government decided to shift her to Delhi after some Muslim organisations threatened state-wide protests against her stay Despite the writer's wish to return to Kolkata, the Left Front Government in West Bengal did not pay any heed to her request. The Bangladeshi author had said that she was "forced" to depart from Kolkata at such a short notice that she did not have time to even change her clothes. The CPI(M) came under increasing attack on Taslima issue, with major national parties demanding protection and extension of her visa. A Swedish passport holder, she flew to Sweden from Delhi on March 18 and was admitted to hospital. Meanwhile in Kolkata, criticising the Centre for facilitating the return of the controversial writer to India, Muslim organisations in the city on Friday called for her immediate deportation from the country. Holding a meeting under the banner of All-India Majlis-e Sura, the organisations said, "we are deeply disappointed and dejected by this step of the Centre, specifically Union Minister Pranab Mukherjee, that he has allowed Taslima to return to India." Seeking her immediate deportation from India, they said, "we are looking forward to a positive response from the Centre." "The Centre's step has definitely hurt sentiments of the Muslim community in India," said a statement signed by Aziz Mubaraki, Additional Chief Secretary to Shahi Imam of Tipu Sultan mosque. All-India Minority Forum president Idris Ali described Taslima's return to India as "unfortunate and unexpected" and said it "will not be accepted by Muslims in India". Source ioneer
Five terrorists reported to be hiding in Delhi New Delhi, Aug 09: In a sensational revelation, intelligence sources have said that five hardcore Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists are hiding in the national capital and may strike at sensitive areas in Delhi particularly during the Independence Day celebrations. Their prime target is believed to be Chandni Chowk, which is very close to Red Fort, where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will unfurl the tricolour on Independence Day. The militants may also target busy market places like Karol Bagh, Sarojini Nagar market, as well as bus and railway stations, said the sources. According to the information available to Zee News, one LeT militant – reportedly identified as Jaffer - has sent five terrorists via Jammu and Kashmir into the capital. Three of them have been identified as Zahoor, Altaf and Khurshid. Another person, identified as Ayoub Itoo, is believed to have been involved in supplying necessary materials like RDX and money to the terrorists. Following the information, all 10 districts of Delhi have been put on high alert. Police has been instructed to conduct random checks in various areas. Cops are keeping a strict vigil in market places, bus and railway stations. Dog squads have also been deputed in railway stations to sniff out dangerous materials. All the district DCPs have been told to keep a close watch on the movements of extremists and suspects moving in and out of Delhi. Recently, the Delhi Police had made it mandatory for bicycle buyers to produce document proofs to establish their identity. The step was taken in view of the use of cycle bombs during Ahmedabad blasts. In Ahmedabad serial blasts, terrorists had used tiffin boxes on bicycles and placed them in crowded markets to cause maximum damage. Zee
Govt approves Sixth Pay Commission recommendations The government on Thursday approved the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, heaping civil and defence staff with a salary hike bonanza on the eve of the country's 61st Independence Day. The Sixth Pay Commission, which was headed by Justice B N Srikrishna, had in March submitted its report to the government, recommending an average 28 per cent hike for central government staff and defence personnel. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had on wednesday held a meeting with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Defence Minister A K Antony and Finance Minister P Chidambaram to discuss the pay commission report and the recommendations of the empowered committee of Secretaries that went into it. http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/aug/14pay.htm
Ahmedabad blasts: American national flees India Ahmedabad, Aug 18: US national Kenneth Haywood, whose computer was used in Navi Mumbai to send a terror e-mail minutes before the Ahmedabad blasts, has fled the country. He was on a lookout notice and his passport was supposed to be impounded by the Mumbai Police to facilitate investigations. http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=462948&sid=REG
Govt may give CBI more powers to probe terror strikes New Delhi, Aug 18: The Central Bureau of Investigation is likely to be given additional responsibility of probing terror strikes as is done by the FBI in the US, Law Minister H R Bhardwaj said on Monday. Pointing to a proposal for having a new federal agency in the country on the lines of FBI, he said "The law is very clear that each state will have its own police force with a DGP...if you make these police forces efficient only a few crimes can be given to CBI. The CBI is our FBI." http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=462914&sid=NAT
India Finds Uranium In Icy Ladakh higly cocerntrated Indian Uranium Hi, We have some extreme good news.Scientists have for the first time found uranium in 'exceptionally high concentration' in Ladakh, the icy Himalayan region in Jammu and Kashmir that has strategic significance for India. Samples of rocks analysed in a German laboratory have revealed uranium content to be as high as 5.36 percent compared to around 0.1 percent or less in ores present elsewhere in the country. India badly needs uranium to fuel its nuclear power plants and the proposed India-US nuclear deal is all about importing it. The Ladakh find may cheer those opposed to the deal even though detailed exploration and mining may take years. The Ladakh block lies between the Indian plate in the south and the Asian plate in the north and is bounded by the 'Indus and the Shyok suture zones'. Collision between the two plates 50-60 million years ago formed the Himalayas. The earth's crust that got crushed and melted during collision and pierced the surface, cooled and solidified becoming 'magmatic' rocks dotting what geologists call the Ladakh 'batholith'. It is in these rocks that uranium is found. 'The presently recorded uranium rich zircons from young magmatic intrusions of the Shyok suture zone and associated sequences is the first record from these remote regions,' Rajeev Upadhyay, a geologist at Kumaon University in Nainital, told IANS in an e-mail interview. 'In geological terms, these uranium-bearing magmatic rocks exposed in Ladakh are very young (between 100 million and 25 million years ago),' he said. Other uranium rich rocks in India such as in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Rajasthan are very old geological terrains known as the Precambrian (2,500-3,000 million years old), he said. For his study, reported in the journal Current Science, Upadhyay took samples from thick exposed granite from a place north of Udmaru village in Leh district. The village in the Nubra-Shyok River Valley is situated on a volcanic rock formation known as the Shyok Volcanics. The samples of rock mineral (zircon) were analysed at the isotope laboratory of the University of Tuebingen in Germany where he had gone under the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. 'Geochemical analysis of the separated zircon grains showed exceptionally high concentration of both uranium (0.31-5.36 percent) and thorium (0.76-1.43 percent),' Upadhyay said. He added that the study is preliminary and 'detailed work is in progress'. According to Upadhyay, uranium-bearing magmatic rocks are located all along Kohistan, Ladakh and southern Tibet (from east to west). 'However, contents of uranium may differ from place to place,' he said. Officials of the atomic minerals division under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) did not reply to questions about the significance of this new find or whether the Ladakh uranium could augment India's reserves. The total established uranium resources of the country so far (in the form of uranium oxide or yellow cake) are 94,000 tonnes. The majority of these resources, according to DAE, occur in three 'provinces': Singhbhum in the east, Mahadek in the northeast and Cuddapah in the south. The low uranium content in ores, however, makes mined uranium in India expensive compared to that in Australia whose ores contain as much as 15 percent uranium.
Indian Army Chief Warned China Indian Army Chief General J.J. Singh warned China against any misadventures (read aggression) the Communist Regime may attempt on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) that separates the two Asian giants. "I can assure you that a 1962-like situation will not be repeated. We are fully prepared to defend our borders," Singh said during a media interaction at Fort William, the Army's Eastern Command headquarters here in Kolkotta (formerly known as Calcutta). Necessary infrastructure was being developed in Arunachal Pradesh which borders China. Roads have been built upto Walong and would be constructed right up to Dichu located along the border, he said. Asked about reports of incursions by the Chinese into the the Fish Tail-II area between Dichu and Madan Ridge in Arunachal Pradesh, he said the matter had been amicably settled at the local level. "There is no cause for concern about Madan Ridge. Flag meetings are held at the local level and the issue has been settled without tension," Singh said. Both India and China were handling the boundary issue with maturity, he said, adding, "the National Security Agency on our side and its Chinese counterpart have taken the right approach in settling the boundary issue." Pointing out that a Sino-Indian joint military exercise was slated next month, he said it would help the two countries learn from each other's experiences.
Hurriyat Leader was NOT Killed by the Police: NSA Hurriyat leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz, whose shooting during the "LoC march" organized by Kashmir separatists on August 11 gave an explosive turn to the agitation, was not killed by a police or army bullet. In a shocking revelation, national security adviser M K Narayanan told the Union Cabinet on Thursday that it was not at all clear who had fired the fatal bullet at Aziz, a former Al Jehad leader who was part of the march on the Srinagar-Muzzaffarabad highway. The NSA also pointed out that there were many rivalries at work in the Kashmir Valley. NSA disclosure points to Pak hand in unrest Times of India
'Kashmir will be normal within 10 days' National Security Adviser MK Narayanan has said the government was hopeful of restoring normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir within seven to 10 days as he underlined the decision to divert land to a Hindu temple trust was a "mistake". Asked when he thought Kashmir would return to anything like a semblance of normalcy, Narayanan said: "We are hopeful that this (normalcy) could be achieved within next week to 10 days". http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1186847
After NSG waiver, all eyes now on US Congress VIENNA: With the NSG crossed, the scene will shift to the US for the final ratification of the Indo-US nuclear civil cooperation agreement by an up-down vote of the US Congress which meets on Monday. The Bush administration is expected to persuade American lawmakers to pass the pact before the session ends by September 26 by not insisting on the mandatory 30-day session period required to present the agreement for approval. If all goes well, Manmohan Singh will sign the agreement with President Bush in Washington towards the end of the month. http ://timesofindia.indiatimes. com/After_NSG_waiver_all_eyes_on_US_Congress/articleshow/3453734.cms
India can buy American nuclear technology under new international deal The ground-breaking deal means that the US will be able to reverse a 34-year ban on selling peaceful nuclear technology to the rapidly growing South Asian power, imposed after India first tested an atomic weapon in 1974. India has steadfastly refused to sign global non-proliferation accords designed to check the spread of nuclear weapons. But George W.Bush made the opening up of nuclear trade with India a key element of US efforts to forge closer ties with the country, which Washington sees as a crucial democratic ally in the region. The 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, which governs the legal world trade in nuclear components and know-how and includes Britain, signed off on the deal after three days of contentious talks in Vienna and some concessions to countries insistent on holding India to its promises not to touch off a new nuclear arms race. Read More : http ://www.telegraph. co. uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/2696284/India-can-buy-American-nuclear-technology-under-new-international-deal.html
India a genuine emerging power MANCHESTER: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, considered to be a potential Prime Minister, has heaped praise on India calling it a "genuine emerging power" from whom the world had "many expectations." http ://timesofindia.indiatimes. com/World/India_a_genuine_emerging_power_UKs_Miliband/articleshow/3522195.cms
India banned import of milk products from China India has banned the import of milk and milk products from China effective immediately for three months, a government statement said on Thursday. Source: Reuters
Orissa Police opened fire on 1,000 angry Hindus Police opened fire on a crowd of 1,000 angry Hindus .The mob, most of them women, surrounded the police station Tuesday in Raikia, a small town in Orissa state, demanding that police release two locals arrested in connection with recent Hindu-Christian clashes, said Kishore Pradhan, a local police officer. http ://in.news.yahoo. com/210/20080924/317/tnl-police-in-eastern-india-fire-on-hind.html
Number of millionaires rises to 1.23 lakh in India With economy growing in a rapid pace and stock markets rising sharply in 2007, India saw the fastest growth in the number of high networth individuals (HNI) worldwide and their combined wealth touched a $440 billion, said a Merrill Lynch (ML) and Capgemini report. "The growth in India's HNI population was the fastest worldwide at 22.7% over the number in 2006, said the third annual Asia-Pacific Wealth Report. The number of millionaires in India grew to 1.23 lakh at the end of 2007, it said and added that a majority of them were from the rich entrepreneur segment The combined wealth of India's HNIs jumped 25.7 % to $440 billion in 2007. HNIs are individuals with more than $1 million in net assets, excluding their primary residence and consumables, the report said. It noted that Indian HNIs allocated 36% of their assets to equities and the rest in other assets like real estate. http ://timesofindia.indiatimes. com/Number_of_millionaires_rises_to_123_lakh_in_India/articleshow/3528488.cms
India banned Chinese Milk products products India banned Thursday the import of dairy products from China over concerns they could be contaminated with dangerous chemicals. A government spokesman told AFP the temporary ban was only a preventative measure since India does not import dairy products from China. India joined more than a dozen countries that have ordered bans or taken other steps to curb consumption following a scandal over tainted milk in China that has sickened 53,000 babies and killed four. http ://www.indodaily. com/reports/India_bans_Chinese_dairy_products_999.html
