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Vol. XLV No. 19, 2007-11-25 |
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| 600 MUSLIMS AND DALITS KILLED AT NANDIGRAM |
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President All India Confederation of Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, Dr. Udit Raj has claimed that more than 600 Muslims and Dalits were killed in Nandigram during the last week. His claim is based on the reports of his organisation along with information from West Bengal Unit of Indian Justice Party. He said that SEZ has been established in this area mainly because there is majority of Muslims and Dalits in Nandigram. He asked as to why media and social workers were not allowed in th...  |
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| FOLLOW-UP ACTION ON SACHAR PANEL FINDINGS HAILED |
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Forum for Faith and Fraternity (FFF), a Cochin based voluntary organisation, has warmly welcomed the recent announcement by the Government of Kerala that an 11-member committee has been appointed to formulate recommendations based on the findings of Justice Sachar Committee Report.
“We compliment the State Government of Kerala for this much needed step and hope that this policy decision will act as an example to be emulated by all other States and Union Territories of India,” an FFF... |
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| MODI NOT INVITED TO WEF'S MEETING IN DAVOS |
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Indian Muslim Council – USA on November 18 announced that WEF had not invited Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi. The World Economic Forum (WEF) issued their statement in response to the letters sent to the WEF board that brought their attention to the human rights violations committed by the Narendra Modi Government in Gujarat.
Various news sources had reported the claim by the Government of Gujarat that WEF had invited Narendra Modi to speak at Davos, Switzerland in January 2008. T... |
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| 'DELINK RELIGION FROM SCHEDULED CASTE NET' |
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Ranganath Misra Commission for Linguistic and Religious Minorities in its report sent to the Government of India in May 2007, advocated to the Government to delink religion from caste net and grant equal right to all Dalits irrespective of religion.
The First ever meeting of Dalit Muslims and Christians in Andhra Pradesh, held in Osmania University Centre for International Programmes (OUCIP) on November 17 urged the Central Government to table Ranganath Commission Report in the Parliament and p... |
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| REHABILITATE VIOLENCE, FLOOD VICTIMS OF ASSAM: IUML |
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Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) president G.M. Banatwalla has written to Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi urging him to undertake on war footing relief and rehabilitation measures for the unfortunate victims of violence and floods.
“In Assam nearly 5,100 Muslim families, numbering about 25,000 people, are still languishing in relief camps in extreme neglect since Bodo violence 14 years ago,” he stated.
A high level delegation of IUML led by Mr. Banatwalla returned last week from ... |
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| ABDULLAH MUGHAISI RE-ELECTED MILLI COUNCIL PRESIDEN |
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All India Milli Council, in its general body meeting concluded here Monday, unanimously re-elected Maulana Hakim Abdullah Mughaisi as its president for the next consecutive term.
Addressing the members attending the meeting, Maulana Mughaisi said, “All India Milli Council aims to solve the problems of Indian Muslims in the light of law of the land and the Constitution rather than on sensational politics. It is necessary that all Muslim societies, organisations, institutions, madrasa gradu... |
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