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Vol. XLVIII No. 30, 2010-10-24

COMMUNAL HARMONY CAMPAIGN BEGINS FROM NOV 19

The National Foundation for Communal Harmony (NFCH), a Central government organisation based in New Delhi, has launched a campaign to promote communal harmony in society from November 19 to 25. Schools across the country have been encouraged to participate, according to a note circulated by the CBSE. “We have been celebrating it every year since it is a good opportunity for students to learn more about communal harmony. Normally, we organise a series of cultural activities around the ...

RIOT-HIT MUSLIMS STAY INDOOR DURING GUJARAT CIVIC POLLS

For 70-year-old Rajobibi Saiyed of Naroda Gam, which was one of the worst-affected localities in Ahmedabad during the 2002 communal riots, the scars continue to keep her indifferent to polls, a national daily reported on October 11. “I remember how my sons and daughters were dragged into police vans and beaten up severely. I was also taken to the police station for no reason. I cannot forget it. We fled and remained away from Juhapura for five days when the Ayodhya verdict came, as we...

ASI REPORT ON BABRI MASJID ISSUE SHOULD BE MADE PUBLIC

The Allahabad High Court based a significant part of its judgment in the Ayodhya case on the evidence provided by the Archaeological Survey of India’s report on its excavations at the site, submitted to the court in 2003. However, that report is still hidden from the public eye, and a virtual gag order placed on archaeologists who acted as observers during the excavation. Now that the judgment has been pronounced, a group of 130 academics, activists and intellectuals have demanded tha...

AIMPLB TO MOVE SC AGAINST ALLAHABAD HC VERDICT ON BABRI MASJID

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board on October 16 unanimously decided to challenge the Allahabad high court’s verdict on the Babri Masjid title suits in the Supreme Court. “During a meeting of the working committee, it was decided that the AIMPLB will move the Supreme Court directly or through the Sunni Central Waqf Board.” The 51-member committee discussed in detail the high court verdict. ...

CIVIL SOCIETY DEPLORES BABRI MASJID VERDICT

In the first civil society response in the capital to the Babri Masjid verdict, eminent historians and activists deplored the “disturbing absence of the concept of secularism” in the lengthy judgment. They said the judgment read as though the judges had penned the verdict in a pre-Constitution era. Calling the verdict a “judicial reconstruction of faith” rather than interpretation, advocates noted that the judges, far from upholding the principles of a secular state,...

SAI SANCTIONS RS. 3.9 CRORE FOR HOCKEY ASTRO TURF AT AMU

The Sports Authority of India has informed the Aligarh Muslim University as well as the CPWD (Agra) that a sum of Rs: 3 Crore and 90 Lakh has been sanctioned for Hockey Astro Turf in the Governing Body meeting of the Sports Authority of India recently. The CPWD has been asked to take necessary action in this matter. The Secretary, Games Committee, Prof. Tariq Mansoor has expressed happiness over this matter and hoped that the laying of Hockey Astro Turf will go a long way in revival of Hockey...

DR. MASOOD HUSAIN KHAN DIES

Eminent linguist and Emeritus Professor of Aligarh Muslim University, Dr. Masood Husain Khan died at Aligarh, a statement said on October 16. Dr. Khan, 92-year old scholar of Urdu, served as Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and Jamia Urdu, Aligarh. His magnum opus, A History of Urdu Language, originally his PhD dissertation which was published in 1948, advanced a new theory of Urdu’s birth, contradicting all theories hitherto popular among scholars. Prof. Kh...

HARVARD GETS BIGGEST INT'L DONATION IN 102 YRS, FROM TATA GROUP

India’s Tata Group has given a whopping $50 million to the prestigious Harvard Business School in Boston to fund a new academic and residential building on its campus, the largest gift received by the institute from an international donor in its 102-year-old history. The gift comes from Tata Companies, the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and the Tata Education and Development Trust, the philanthropic entities of the Group. It comes days after Anand Mahindra, ...

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