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[1] From: syed rahman <surahman2000@yahoo.com Date: Fri Sep 21, 2007 Subject: Govt. releases Rs 70.55 crore for Gujarat riot victims Govt. releases Rs 70.55 crore for Gujarat riot victims PDF Print E-mail By Khabrein. info Correspondent, http://www.khabrein.info/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=6501&Itemid=8\ 8 New Delhi, September 21: In a welcome gesture that would assuage the feeling of neglect of the victims of Gujarat pogrom 2002, the government of India Thursday released Rs. 70.55 crore as relief assistance to the victims of the worst communal carnages in India. Earlier this year Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced the relief funds for the victims of the sectarian strife that claimed 1,169 lives and left hundreds injured, and damaged property worth millions of rupees. A press release of Ministry of Home Affairs said that the Centre has made Rs. 70.55 crores available to the Gujarat Government for providing additional ex-gratia assistance to the victims of the communal violence of 2002 in the State. ------- [2] From: Pradip Kumar Datta <pradip200@yahoo.com Date: Thu Sep 20, 2007 Subject: Floods, landslides take heavy toll on Assam tea plants Floods, landslides take heavy toll on Assam tea plants 20 Sep, 2007, 0020 hrs IST, Bikash Singh, TNN GUWAHATI: The tea industry in Assam’s Barak Valley is facing serious problems. After landslides, tea estates in the area are now facing the wrath of floods. At a time when the gardens have to pay a Durga Puja bonus, the tea belt in the districts of Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj have incurred financial losses exceeding Rs 20 crore due to natural calamities. The valley’s estates have sent an SOS to chief minister Tarun Gogoi to consider total withdrawal of green leaf cess with respect to the Barak Valley tea industry for the time being to bail them out of the crisis. Natural calamities have cut off links for several Barak Valley estates. More than seven tea gardens were locked out while many could not send despatches as there is no road link or the roads are inundated. Tea Association of India secretary Dipanjal Deka said estates were facing a cash crunch as there was hardly any dispatch of finished tea from them. “On September 6, the Food Corporation of India said there is a foodgrain stock available in the area for 10 days. If the situation doesn’t improve, there will a food crisis in the gardens,” he added. Indian Tea Association (Surma Valley branch) secretary Sumanta Guha Thakurata told ET: “The situation in a majority of the 116 tea gardens in Barak Valley is so aggravated that garden managements have been facing severe financial strain, with the Durga Puja bonus due to be distributed.” Mr Thakurata added that there had been no end to the miseries of the area, with communication bottlenecks due to lack of railway connectivity with Guwahati since June 25 and the occasional closure of National Highway 44 due to frequent landslides in Meghalaya. The situation was compounded due to devastating floods in the Barak Valley areas that resulted in the region being cut off from the rest of the country. Mr Thakurata said more than 10 lakh people in the Barak Valley had been affected by the floods. He added that at least 50% of the gardens in the three districts of the valley had been affected due to the floods. In a number of gardens, matured and young tea was inundated. Mr Thakurata said water levels had risen to submerge quarters of workers at several places and plantations and factories were also flooded. Additionally, a majority of the gardens faced scarcity of high speed diesel, coal and foodgrain .Electricity supply had also been disrupted. Mr Thakurata said despatch of tea from a majority of the estates had been held up due to the breakdown in communication . “All financial sources are blocked as products are not being marketed,” he added. He said average price realisationfor per kg of tea had been less this year. While in 2006, the average price for a Barak Valley tea was about Rs 63.64, this year, it is around Rs 59. Cachar produces 52-55 million kg of tea. This year, production figures are expected to remain the same. More than 80,000 people are employed in tea estates of the Barak Valley. Tea from the area is supplied to Rajasthan, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. -------- [3] From: kashif-ul-huda <kaaashif@gmail.com Date: Thu Sep 20, 2007 Subject: Muslim organisations form Milli Ittehad Parishad in WB Muslim organisations form Milli Ittehad Parishad in WB<http://www.twocircles.net/2007sep19/muslim_organisations_form_milli_ittehad_p\ arishad_wb. html By TwoCircles. net staff reporter Kolkata : Muslim organisations and influential leaders in the state, including Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Shahri Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith, Milli Council, Sunnat Aljamaat, Shia Asna Asari and the Muslim Institute, have come under one platform to tackle the "indifferent" attitude of the state government towards minorities. --------- [4] From: syed rahman <surahman2000@yahoo.com Date: Thu Sep 20, 2007 Subject: To Muslims, Ram is their Imam-e-Hind by Firoz Bakht To Muslims, Ram is their Imam-e-Hind by Firoz Bakht By Firoz Bakht Ahmed http://www.khabrein.info/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=6459&Itemid=8\ 8 On behalf of all Muslims who believe in reason and sanity, I declare that the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) affidavit (since withdrawn) questioning the existence of Hindu god Ram was vitriolic, scathing, unfortunate and blasphemous -not just to Hindus but to all those who cherish our pluralistic cultural heritage. How can a government decide the veracity of a figure like Ram? ----------- [5] From: Amit Kumar <ak_jnu@yahoo.com Date: Thu Sep 20, 2007 Subject: Re: [indiathinkersnet] It is a matter of secularism and not faith It is matter of Public Sentiments and Heritage. It has nothing to do with secularism or faith (in your sense). Moreover, It is wastage of public property and termination of poor boatman's livelihood as well. Ecological hazards caused by it is another implication of this political project. Environmental Impact Assessment and Social Impact Assessment of this project was not done. Even, Economic forecast is misleading, gestation period is prolonged. Investment has grown 5 times from its estimation. .... an you still support it. Constitution of India do support pluralism, but is doesn't allow distraction of India's heritage. The basic structure of constitution also doesn't allow authoritarian behavior by elected government, as Mr. Karunanidhi is doing. Beside this, there are so many practices are in prevail among non-hindu religions, which constitution does not allow. You should also do something for that first. There can be political mobilization to save Ram Setu or against it. But being a rational, educated and common man we must oppose sethusamnudram project. Irfan bhai, if you don't have any personal gains from this project, you should not support it directly or indirectly. The people who are opposing this project, might belong to any political and social group. But just on the basis of mis match one must not advocate any mindless political vendetta against any religion, as Karunanidhi is doing. All the best for your further research.. kindly understand the purpose of the articles of constitution, while quoting them. Regards, Amit JNU, New Delhi Irfan Asgharali <irfansan@hotmail.com wrote: IT IS A MATTER OF SECULARSIM AND NOT FAITH By Irfan Engineer In a developing country like India, if faith is pitted against secularism, it proves advantageous politically to the rightist political parties. It amounts to playing on their home turf. Sangh Parivar has always derided secularism as a western concept. -------- [6] From: raj <raj.justindia@gmail.com Date: Thu Sep 20, 2007 Subject: ULFA close to Islamic ultras; US group http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp? id=sep2007/at03 ULFA close to Islamic ultras; US group From Our Spl Correspondent NEW DELHI, Sept 19 – Assam Government may not be in a great hurry to resume dialogue with outlawed ULFA, but a reputed US intelligence thinktank has reported that with the militant outfit increasingly hobnobbing with Islamic militant groups, Government of India cannot afford to ignore ULFA much longer. "Though ULFA's militant activity is confined to India's restive North-east, the group's financial enterprise and strong links with Islamist militant groups have made it a threat that New Delhi will not be able to ignore much longer," Stratfor said in its latest analytical report titled 'India: ULFA abandons peace talks'. "Though India has largely turned a blind eye to militant groups operating in its far-flung North-east, the growing Islamisation of the region, the deteriorating security situation in Bangladesh and these insurgents' recent reach into the heart of India's financial hub provide more than enough reason for New Delhi to start paying closer attention to its North Eastern border," the report said. The report significantly linked ULFA with the recent Hyderabad blast. "The two prime suspects in that bombing belonged to Bangladesh-based Islamist militant group Harkat-ul-Jihad e-Islami, which is known to have a working relationship with ULFA and other North Eastern insurgent groups, and with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency," the report stated. "ULFA regularly dances around the idea of peace talks and knows full well that New Delhi is not serious about rewarding its militant campaign with political concessions. "At the same time, ULFA prefers keeping up the militant front to maintain its financial network and its beneficial relationship with Pakistan's intelligence agency that helps keep India's hands tied. Thus, talk of negotiations does not really hold much weight," Startfor opined. The report analysed that with Indian Government facing 'loads of political pressure' over its civilian nuclear deal with the US and the entry of corporate retail firms into the country, ULFA in all likelihood saw this as an opportune time to pressure New Delhi into coming to the negotiating table. "The Indian Government is reluctant to continue talks, especially as the chief mediator for ULFA, Dr Mamoni Raisom Goswami, is in hospital after suffering a cerebral stroke," the report stated. New Delhi would have to pay more attention to the ULFA as it has begun to outsource operations like suicide attacks from Islamic groups, Stratfor opined. "Stratfor has been closely monitoring the growing nexus between India's North Eastern insurgent outfits and militant Islamist groups that regularly traverse India's extremely porous border with Bangladesh. "This is an area where ideology, religion and ethnicity hold little or no regard, as each militant group works with another to promote its cause. ULFA, in particular, has shown a growing propensity to work with Islamist militant groups in the area, and has even begun to outsource operations, including suicide attacks," the report stated. -------- [7] From: kashif-ul-huda <kaaashif@gmail.com Date: Thu Sep 20, 2007 Subject: 70 crores for victims of 2002 Gujarat pogrom; arrests continue in Hyderabad 70 crores for victims of 2002 Gujarat pogrom<http://www.twocircles.net/2007sep20/70_crores_victims_2002_gujarat_pogrom\ .html By TwoCircles. net staff reporter New Delhi: Seven years after the gruesome state sponsored killings of Muslims in Indian state of Gujarat, the UPA government at the Centre have decided to pay addition 70 crores to the victims. The press release issued by the Home Ministry stated that "the Centre has made Rs. 70.55 crores available to the Gujarat Government for providing additional ex-gratia assistance to the victims of the communal violence of 2002 in the State." Read more<http://www.twocircles.net/2007sep20/70_crores_victims_2002_gujarat_pogrom.h\ tml Muslim groups allege 'indiscriminate arrests, torture' of youths<http://www.twocircles.net/2007sep20/muslim_groups_allege_indiscriminate_a\ rrests_torture_youths. html *By Mohammed Shafeeq, IANS* Hyderabad : Nearly a month after two bomb blasts killed 44 people here, the police continue to indiscriminately arrest and harass Muslim young men, community groups allege, but the authorities deny the charges. The families of arrested Muslim youths and the community leaders allege that the youths have been illegally detained and subjected to torture. ------- |
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