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[1] From: "Pradeep Deshpande" <proton54@hathway.com> Date: Mon Oct 23, 2006 Subject: Re: [indiathinkersnet] Muslim Women's Personal Law Board: Press Release: On Imrana I do agree with mr. Yogi Sikand .The Law has conferred with much awaited justice to Imrana , the victim. It's time the Muslimists honour the law of the secular India in their own interest as the community is expected to extend full co operation and respect to the Law in the first place. Rape is a crime against humanity and also attack on on gender justice- one of the essential features of Indian secular democracy . Their hesitance to do so, only will result in giving one more tool in the hands of hindu fanatics to beat them back which should not happen. This is time the progressive elements within the community come up and persuade the conservative lot to keep their Personal Law home and honour the law of the land; Crimes like rapes and atrocities against women are crimes against humanity and in case the Islam and Kuraan have always stood for gender justice ,Muslims in India have no reason to go against it .More they learn to respect Islamic teachings in their true form and more they keep pace with IC provisions, less will be chances for 'others ' to blame them . Efforts being made by All India Muslim Womens' Personal Law Board must be supported in all possible ways. With Diwali and Id greetings .. Subject: [indiathinkersnet] Muslim Women's Personal Law Board: Press Release: On Imrana > > PRESS RELEASE > 21-10-06 > All India Muslim Women's personal Law Board has termed > the stand of Mr. Kamal Farouqee of Muslim Personal Law > Board on the fate of rape victim Imrana highly > deplorable as unjust, unfair, insensitive and brutal. > In a press release issued here today Broad's Founder > Secretary general Ms. Parveen Abdi ------------------ [2] From: "River Basin Friends\(NE\)" <riverbasinfriends@yahoo.co.in> Date: Mon Oct 23, 2006 Subject: China's river plan worries India Open for debate in the group--what will be impact in North East-- focus on Assam and Arunachal. China's river plan worries India Indrani Bagchi [ 23 Oct, 2006] NEW DELHI: A controversial Chinese plan — currently on the boil in Beijing, that involves damming the Brahmaputra river and diverting 200 billion cubic metres of water annually to feed the ageing Yellow river — is giving sleepless nights to the Indian government. Though it is still at the discussion stage and presents an enormous engineering challenge, the plan reportedly has the backing of Chinese President Hu Jintao, a hydro-engineer by profession, say sources in Beijing. The idea, nevertheless, is believed to be serious enough to warrant exchange of cables between Beijing and New Delhi. India plans to engage in some serious consultations with China on this issue over the next few months. The project plans to take the diverted water to feed north-eastern China watering Shaanxi, Hebei, Beijing and Tianjin areas, which could be looking at a parched future. If the project goes through, it could strangle one of India's and Bangladesh's biggest sources of water. China's economic prowess is the toast of the moment, but China's real source of influence over its southern neighbours is that it controls the tap for this part of the world. The proposed project, called the 'Greater Western Water Diversion Project', is part of the gigantic South-North water project that has already been started by China. In August, the Chinese government sanctioned 300 billion yuan to divert water from the upper reaches of the Yangtze river in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau to the upper reaches of the Yellow river in north-western China. It will bring water from the Yalong, Dadu and Jinsha rivers, which are tributaries of the Yangtze, to the upper reaches of the Yellow river. It is the proposed western route of this project being debated in China at present that is worrying strategists and policy-planners in the Indian government. They believe this project, if allowed unopposed, could have immense impact on lower riparian states like India and Bangladesh. Indian officials are preparing for detailed discussions with their Chinese counterparts over the next few months. The western diversion project is inspired by a book, How Tibet's Water Will Save China , by Li Ling. Picking up a great deal of support among the Communist party leadership in Beijing, sources said, this book details the proposal by hydrologist Guo Kai called “Shuo-tian” (reverse flow) canal, which proposes to divert the Brahmaputra. Recently, responding to Indian media reports that China had built a dam on the Sutlej river, the Chinese foreign ministry acknowledged the dam in Zhada county in Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) but said they did it for electricity for the local population. In doing so, they "considered fully the impact on lower reaches” http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-2229977,prtpage-1.cms . River Basin Friends AKAJAN District-Dhemaji.787059. Assam. India -------------- [3] SC/ST dropout rates high Chetan Chauhan New Delhi, October 22, 2006 Even as the debate over reservation for the weaker sections continue in the wake of the recent Supreme Court orders, high dropout rate among Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe children still remains a challenge for the Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry. Figures released by the ministry on Friday said that as many as 37 per cent Scheduled Caste students and 49 per cent Scheduled Tribe students stop studying after initial years of schooling. While the dropout rate of other category of students has witnessed a phenomenal fall, the rate still remains high for SC/ST students as compared to the figures in 2001-02. “Reducing the figure still remains a challenge,” the ministry said in a statement. HRD minister Arjun Singh has proposed a pre-matriculation scholarship for the SC/ST and other backward classes (OBCs) and girl students in his comments on the 11th Five-Year Plan approach paper of the Planning Commission. The ministry only gives scholarships to post-matriculation students. What is still a worrying factor for HRD ministry officials is the fact that 73 lakh children are still out of school. SC/ST and minority children make a sizeable chunk of that figure. The government has achieved some success in this area though. The figure was 2.3 crore in 2003. “The focus is now to bring those children into schools who cannot be reached easily by improving the quality of learning under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA),” the statement read. Despite the challenges, the overall enrolment under SSA has gone up significantly, especially at the primary level. The government is expecting universalisation of enrolment in the next few years. The gross enrolment figure is now pegged at 98 per cent as compared to 90 per cent in 2004-05. Even if the dropout rate (31 per cent) is taken into account, the net enrolment ratio has risen to 82 per cent from 72 per cent during the corresponding figure. “A large number of education guarantee schemes and alternative and innovative schools have been mainstreamed, giving an opportunity to many children to study in regular schools,” the statement said. The gender gap has also closed with improvement in enrolment of girl students. The gender parity rate at primary level in many states has risen to over 90 per cent. It is 83 per cent at the upper primary level. SSA addresses the need of over 209 crore children in 11 lakh habitations. As many as 9.72 lakh primary schools and 36.95 lakh teachers are covered under this flagship programme of the government. ------------- [4] From: "Pradeep Deshpande" <proton54@hathway.com> Date: Sun Oct 22, 2006 Subject: Re: [indiathinkersnet] Satyagrahis in Kerala against Death Penalty Assaulted reg; burning effigy of Afzal Guru let's excuse them ;they know nothing of what they are at and doing..! Original Message From: "Sukla Sen" <suklasen@yahoo.com> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 Subject: [indiathinkersnet] Satyagrahis in Kerala against Death Penalty Assaulted > Friends, > > > Today, a group of yuvamorcha activists entered the satyagraha pandal of anti death penalty committe at trivandrum and assaulted the satyagrahi, Rajmohan K K. They were returning after "hanging" Muhammad Afsal Guru's effigee. -------------------- [5] From: "dn.rath" <dn.rath@gmail.com> Date: Mon Oct 23, 2006 Subject: The hated Act must go The hated Act must go THE HINDU -23-10-06 The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 "should be repealed," as the Justice B. P. Jeevan Reddy Committee set up to review its provisions has recommended unambiguously. "The Act is too sketchy, too bald, and quite inadequate in several particulars," the committee explains, adding that "for whatever reason" it has become in the Northeast "a symbol of oppression, an object of hate, and an instrument of discrimination and high-handedness." It balances this recommendation by noting that "the overwhelming desire of the overwhelming majority" of people in the Northeast is that "the Army should remain [though the Act should go]." The 147-page report was submitted in June 2005. For the United Progressive Alliance Government to procrastinate any longer on tabling it in Parliament, and acting on it, would be political folly of the first rank. This newspaper obtained a copy of the report and published its highlights in the issue of October 8. Subsequently, it posted, in the public interest, the whole report on its website www. thehindu. com. The draconian Act - a hand-over from the British Raj - was brought into force in 1980 in parts of the Northeast, including Manipur where opposition to it is strongest. Labelling virtually the whole State as a "disturbed" area, the armed forces have had a free run under cover of the Act, which empowers them to arrest, search, and shoot anyone on the basis of mere suspicion. The rape and murder of Thangjam Manorama by men of the Assam Rifles in 2004 as well as other incidents came in the backdrop of the structure of high-handedness it engendered. Reliance on such statutes to perpetrate state violence invites counter-violence in a region that should be doing much better. All this slows down the search for political solutions and undermines development effort. There can be no quarrel with the committee's recommendation that the armed forces should stay on in the region, given its continuing volatility. However, the rationale for the suggested incorporation of certain provisions of the hated Act in other laws is dubious. The state already has all the powers it needs in other instrumentalities. Through repealing the Act, the Government can set the stage for an active peace process, especially in Manipur (which accounts for nearly 40 per cent of all violent incidents in the Northeast). That draconian laws cannot be repealed so long as there are forces that conduct politics through violence is a morally feeble argument. It sanctions a vicious cycle in politics. If the Government asks the right question - do the armed forces need extraordinary protective guarantees and immunity in the line of duty more than the ordinary people need the constitutional protection - it will come up with the right answer. -------------- [6] From: "Aisha Khan" <aishakhaann@yahoo.com> Date: Tue Oct 24, 2006 Subject: Some Of The Reasons Women Need To Lose Their ... Women love so much are actually putting a toll on their feet, as well as the rest of their body. http://www.articlealbum.com/blogs/fashionpk/2006/10/some-of-reasons-wome n-need-to-lose.html ------------------ [7] From: "editor@countercurrents.org" <editor@countercurrents.org> Date: Mon Oct 23, 2006 Subject: No update for a few days Hello, My computer is showing some problem. I think I would have to replace the motherboard. I would not be able to update the site for a few days. So, no news letter for a few days. Please dont send in articles until I start publishing again. Hope to come back as soon as possible. Have a nice break!!!!!!!!! Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!! Binu --------------- |
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