The Jammu and Kashmir state human rights commission (SHRC) has asked the state police chief to furnish details on the local civilians having been allegedly subjected to forced labour by Army in frontier Kupwara district for thirteen years from 1990 following the outbreak of insurgency. This, the commission said, would help it towards proceeding further for providing compensation to the victims. The direction came during the hearing of a case filed by lone independent member of the Jammu and K...

Journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in bombing of the Israeli diplomat’s car, has told a Delhi court that in police custody, he was forced to sign some papers without reading them. In a handwritten application, sent from Tihar Jail, Kazmi told Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav, “I was forced to sign papers which were not given (to me) for reading. I was also made to sign on blank papers.” Kazmi said when he refused to sign the papers, ...

The Supreme Court has slapped a penalty of Rs 25 lakh on the Gujarat government for intercepting meat containers on NH 8 and registering complaints against the exporters for violating the Gujarat Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act 2011, which prevents transportation of cow. The exporters have, in a petition, told SC the meat was being transported from north India to a Mumbai port. In one such case, a division bench of Justices Altamas Kabir and Surinder Singh Nijjar pulled up the Gujarat gov...

Various Muslim groups on Apr 16 filed petitions with State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) against the city police for torturing them during the recent communal clashes in the Old City. Three separate petitions were filed at the SHRC, including one on the death of a youngster. In the first petition, it was alleged that Syed Ghouse alias Majju (30) jumped to his death while trying to escape the police dragnet. Ghouse was sitting with a group of

The Telugu Desam Party demanded an enquiry through Central Bureau of Investigation into the allotment of Wakf land to Hindujas in 2007 in Visakhapatnam for setting up of a power plant. Addressing a press conference at NTR Trust Bhavan, Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council Dadi Veerabhadra Rao demanded immediate cancellation of the second agreement that the State Government had with the Hindujas in 2007 during the regime of YS Rajasekhara Reddy as Chief Minister. He said that th...

The Madras high court has upheld the state government’s move to recover 4.5 lakh from two police personnel, who were allegedly involved in a case of custodial death because of which the government had to pay the sum as compensation to the victim’s family. Justice K Chandru, dismissing the petitions of a special sub-inspector and an inspector, said: “The state’s liability to pay compensation (in case of custodial deaths) cannot be questioned. Similarly, the state’...

India has seized a bank guarantee worth Rs 224 crore furnished by an Israeli defence vendor for breach of integrity pact after the company was blacklisted for alleged involvement in graft cases related to ordnance factories. “It is the first case in which the integrity pact was brought in vogue and the bank guarantee given by the Israeli Military Industry (IMI) was encashed for their involvement in corruption related cases. The bank guarantee amounting to Rs 224 crore has been encashed ...

The data, released by the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), suggests that the enrolment of Muslim children at the elementary level is nowhere near the national average. With a 10.49% enrolment in elementary schools, Muslims fare worse than the OBCs (42.26%) and the SCs (19.72%). In the Hindi-speaking states (Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan) as well as in Goa, Gujarat and Maharashtra, the gap in enrolment of Muslims at...

Professor Huzoor H. Khan, Department of Mathematics at the Aligarh Muslim University shall be the new President of Indian Mathematical Society (IMS). According to Professor V. M. Shah, General Secretary of the Indian Mathematical Society, Prof. Khan was elected President of IMS during the general body meeting of the society held at SRTM University, Nanded, Maharashtra recently.