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[1] From: syed rahman <surahman2000@yahoo.com Date: Fri Jun 22, 2007 Subject: Hillary Wooing Indian Americans, Says NY Sun Hillary Wooing Indian Americans, Says NY Sun http://www.khabrein.info/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=1545&Itemid=6\ 1 Senator Hilary Clinton's presidential campaign is harnessing the growing clout of Indian Americans "to a degree previously unknown in presidential politics," the New York Sun reported recently. The newspaper mentioned Clinton's upcoming appearance later this month at a $1,000-a-plate Manhattan fundraiser hosted by New York hotel and restaurant owner Sant Chatwal and the former First Lady's scheduled address at the July conference of the Indian Institutes of Technology in Silicon Valley. There are also plans for Clinton to attend a campaign event featuring Bollywood stars later this year. Chatwal told the Sun that Indian Americans hope to raise at least $5 million for her campaign. ------------ [2] From: syed rahman <surahman2000@yahoo.com Date: Fri Jun 22, 2007 Subject: Govt announces 20,000 scholarships for minority students Govt announces 20,000 scholarships for minority students http://www.khabrein.info/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=1549&Itemid=8\ 8 New Delhi, June 22: In a welcome move that aims to improve the academic condition of the minorities specially Muslims in the country, the Central Government on Thursday announced the approval of 20000 annual scholarships for students belonging to minority communities. The scheme is slated to be launched from this academic year. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs gave its approval for a centrally sponsored scheme of Merit Cum Means Based Scholarship to students belonging to Minority Communities to be implemented by the State Governments/Union Territories,” an official statement said. “Students from the minority communities fulfilling the merit-cum-means criteria and pursuing professional/technical courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in institutes recognized by the appropriate authorities will be eligible for this scholarship,” a government announcement said. ----------- [3] MUSLIM MOB IN PAKISTAN ASSAULTS CHRISTIANS WITH AXES, GUNS Source: Compass Direct News Christian families fled a village in Pakistan’s Punjab province this week after an armed mob injured Protestants preparing for an evangelistic meeting, the victims’ lawyer said. Seven Christians were injured when at least 41 Muslim men armed with guns, axes and wooden sticks attacked a Salvation Army church in the village of Chak (north of Faisalabad) the night of Sunday, June 17, said lawyer Khalil Tahir Sindhu. The Christians’ refusal to give in to demands that they cancel the evangelistic meeting prompted the attack. The mob ruined many of the church’s books and beat seven Christians, causing bruises and fractured bones. “Some of the injuries were when they were hit with the blunt side of an axe while others were caused by the weapon’s sharp side,” Sindhu added. Police initially refused to file a case against members of the mob, and doctors came under pressure from the Muslim attackers to understate the Christians’ wounds. --------- [4] Broken people in booming India http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2007/06/20/AR2007062002535_2.html ------ [5] From: syed rahman <surahman2000@yahoo.com Date: Sat Jun 23, 2007 Subject: Government scholarships available for Indian students in UK Government scholarships available for Indian students in UK Following scholarships are awarded by British government for Indian students who want to study different courses for in British Universities Read more: http://www.khabrein.info/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=1538&Itemid=8\ 4 ---------- [6] From: rkurian@bgl.vsnl.net.in Date: Sat Jun 23, 2007 Subject: Putin's War-whoop... Putin's War-whoop: The impending clash with Russia By Mike Whitney "What is a 'unipolar' world? It is world in which there is one master, one sovereign--- one center of authority, one center of force, one center of decision-making. And at the end of the day this is pernicious not only for all those within this system, but also for the sovereign itself because it destroys itself from within. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17912.htm ---------- [7] From: rkurian@bgl.vsnl.net.in Date: Sat Jun 23, 2007 Subject: Fears for Democracy in India.. Fears For Democracy In India By Martha C. Nussbaum http://www.countercurrents.org/nussbaum220607.htm What we see in Gujarat is not a simplistic, comforting thesis, but something more disturbing: the fact that in a thriving democracy, many individuals are unable to live with others who are different, on terms of mutual respect and amity. They seek total domination as the only road to security and pride ------------- [8] From:<johndayal@vsnl.com STATEMENT NEW DELHI, 14 JUNE 2007 CHRISTIAN GROUPS WELCOME ST STEPHEN'S QUOTA FOR DALIT CHRISTIANS. A HISTORIC MOVE, SAY COMMUNITY LEADERS [The following is the text of the Statement issued by Dr John Dayal and Mr. Prashant Solomon at the Meeting organised by Christian groups at the India International Centre on 23rd June 2007 to honour St Stephan's College, Delhi, its acting Principal, Rev Valson Thampu, the Chairman if its Supreme Council, the Rt Rev Bishop Karam Masih, CNI Bishop of Delhi, and Catholic Nun and Jesus and Mary College Principal Sr Marina for their affirmative action in assuring education of excellence for the youth of the underprivileged and the marginalized. The meeting was organised by the All India Catholic Union, the All India Christian Council and the United Christian Action, the Delhi group founded by Christian Alumni of St Stephen's College. National Minorities President Ambassador Hamid Ansari Presided. Delhi Catholic Archbishop Most Rev Vincent M Concessao was the Chie guest. Apart from Bishop Karam Masih and Rev Valson Thampu, guests of honour, who also spoke, were Union labour Minster Oscar Fernandes, Delhi Minorities Commission chairperson Faruqui, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee president and former union minister Salman Khursheed, former Chief whip of the congress in the Lok Sabha Sangtam. Other speakers included Child rights activist Joseph Gathia, Peoples Union for Civil Liberties lawyer M Pancholi, and St Stephens Alumni association secretary Arvind Mehtrotra. Dr. John Dayal gave the welcome address and Law scholar and journalist Prashant Solomon, organsing secretary of United Christian Action, delivered the vote of thanks. Fr Dominic Emmanuel, svd and Spokesman of the Delhi catholic Archdiocese was the master of ceremonies at the House-full meeting. A Detailed report of the meeting will be published tomorrow] We welcome as 'historic' the move by St Stephen's College to give preferential admissions to brilliant students from the Dalit Christian community in the prestigious institution of higher learning. St Stephen's college has become among the first Church-constituted Institution to take this long due affirmative action which will go a long way in undoing long-held prejudices against Christians from the erstwhile depressed classes and scheduled castes in north and south India. We also welcome the New Education Policy announced by the Catholic Bishops Conference of India which reaffirms the commitment of the church to the education of the marginalised. These moves will go a long way in removing the impression that the Church runs only elite schools for the rich and powerful without concern for the poor. These revolutionary measures will also go a long way in the empowerment of 60 per cent of the Indian Christian community who had fallen out of the development net of the church and were also ignored by the State. These steps are also in keeping with the recent recommendations of the Justice Rangnath Misra National Commission for religious and Linguistic Minorities which had said Dalit Christians [and Dalit Muslims] must be given scheduled caste status and privileges given to Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist Dalits. We call upon both the State and the Church to ensure quality education through well equipped schools and modern curricula in districts, towns and Dioceses where Dalit Christians are in reasonable numbers. This willing keeping with the spirit of the recommendations made for the Muslim community by the Prime Minster's Special committee on Minorities headed by Justice Rajinder Sachchar which gave its report some months ago. We are distressed at the extremely motivated, and oft verging on the communal, public and media campaign that has been launched against St Stephen's College and against Rev Valson Thampu, who is together with Archbishop Vincent Concessao and Dr John Dayal, a member of the National Integration Council. The allegations and mischief of disinformation is best countered by recalling Rev Thampu's excellent recapitulation of the Calling of Stephens. We quote from the document: "Principal Mukherjee used to go out into the rural areas of Punjab to urge poor Christians to come to St Stephen's ... C. F. Andrews taught in St. Stephen's College from 1904-1914. He was easily the most distinguished member of the faculty. Yet, the then Principal S. K. Rudra motivated him to join Gandhiji in the Phoenix Settlement in South The College was willing to lose 'prestige' for the sake of its wider vision and commitment. This is just one instance of the breadth of vision that underlies the greatness of St. Stephen's College. The College is duty-bound to remain sensitive and responsive to the unfolding saga of nation building. We note with pride that the Central Government is committed to empowering the SC/ST as well as the economically and socially backward classes of our country. It is a sacred and timely mission which St. Stephen's College feels urged to endorse and emulate. Even though Article 15(5) exempts all minority educational institutions from the reservation policies of the State, we in St. Stephen's want to be a part, voluntarily, of this commitment to social justice. St. Stephen's College cannot, and does not want to, be unmindful of the movement to build the India that Gandhiji dreamt: the "the India of our dreams". Minority rights are not meant to create a special class of citizens, but to enable numerically handicapped religious collectivities to preserve their script and religious culture in a way harmonious with the ethos of the Indian Constitution, which dreams of a caste-less and class-less society where all people are free to develop and find fulfillment. St. Stephen's College cannot afford to be blind to this national goal. We have to contribute out mite to the glorious destiny of India. It is our conviction that practicing social justice and pursuing excellence at the same time is the best we can do in this regard. St. Stephen's College also has a duty to develop the members of the Christian community and prepare them to participate in nation- building. An under-developed community cannot be an asset to the nation. A nation is only as developed as its least developed community is. The Christian community in the North is at least as under- developed as the Muslims and Neo-Buddhists are. This is the backdrop against which the review of admission policy has been initiated." The Supreme Council of the College, which is the highest policy making body, has enunciated the following policy guidelines to guide admissions 2007-2008. (a) Admissions from the General Category be 40% (b) Admissions from the Christian Community: 40%, of which 25% [i. e., 10% of the total seats] to be set apart for Dalit Christians. The Dalit status of the applicants to be decided on the basis of the certificates issued by the authorities of the Church. (c) Admissions from SC/ST, Physically Challenged candidates and wards of war victims be 15% in all. (d) Sports 5% All admissions will be based on inter-se merit, as stipulated by the Hon'ble Supreme Court --------- [9] From: Abhiyya 2006 <abhiyya@yahoo.com Date: Sat Jun 23, 2007 Subject: CIA to reveal decades of misdeeds When they dump the unwanted/expired 'informations', they call it declassification "This is about telling the American people what we have done in their name," Gen Hayden CIA to reveal decades of misdeeds http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6229750.stm Gen Hayden: Documents give a glimpse of a very different time ------- |
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