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Kerala government not involved in Maudany case: Achuthanandan
Modi praises Gujarat Police
Ready for peace talks in Kashmir: PM
No interference in madrassas: Sibal
Stones not bullets worry forces in Kashmir
Dengue deaths cause panic and anger in Jamia Nagar
Prohibitory orders clamped around Anvarsseri campus; Maudany moves SC
Government will maintain communal peace: PM
'Recall senior policemen before Nanavati-Mehta panel'

Kerala government not involved in Maudany case: Achuthanandan

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 02:33 AM PDT

By IANS,

Thiruvananthapuram : Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Sunday told a group of Muslim leaders that his government has nothing to do with the impending arrest of People's Democratic Party (PDP) chief Abdul Nazir Maudany, an accused in the 2008 Bangalore bombings.

"Let Maudany get arrested. He should come before the law," Achuthanandan told around a dozen leaders from four Muslim groups who met him Sunday morning.

Modi praises Gujarat Police

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 12:49 AM PDT

By IANS,

Rajkot : Chief Minister Narendra Modi Sunday lavishly praised the Gujarat Police, saying it had helped to crush terrorism in the state and beyond.

In his Independence Day address here, Modi said the Gujarat policemen had maintained peace in the state while terrorism and Maoism had laid siege to the nation.

The "brave officers and men of the Gujarat Police have done the country proud" by smashing the terrorist network blamed for the 2008 bomb attacks in the state, he said.

Ready for peace talks in Kashmir: PM

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 11:23 PM PDT

By IANS,

New Delhi : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday said his government was ready for talks with "every person or group" that abjures violence in Jammu and Kashmir.

In his address on the country's 64th Independence Day, Manmohan Singh maintained that the state "is an integral part of India" and any dialogue in Kashmir would be held within this framework.

No interference in madrassas: Sibal

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 10:55 PM PDT

By IANS,

New Delhi : Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Saturday that the government had no intention of interfering in the process of religious education imparted in madrassas.

But he said schools run by religious minorities will have to comply with quality provisions of the law on right to education.

Stones not bullets worry forces in Kashmir

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 10:04 PM PDT

By F. Ahmed, IANS,

Srinagar : For the first time since the early 1990s when the violent separatist campaign began in Kashmir, authorities are not bothered about militant strikes but rather the new idiom of protests exemplified by the stone pelters.

A Valley-wide curfew Saturday in the wake of riotous protests a day ago in which four people were killed and 47 others injured marked Independence Day eve.

Dengue deaths cause panic and anger in Jamia Nagar

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 09:53 PM PDT

By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,

New Delhi: Because of around a dozen suspected dengue deaths in Jamia Nagar, there is an unprecedented amount of panic, scare and anger among the local residents these days. Even simple viral fever is being misunderstood as dengue.

On Friday, 13th of August itself, two suspect dengue deaths were reported from Jamia Nagar — Vinod Kumar from Nai Basti and Shabana from Batla House died at the Holy Family Hospital on Friday,.

Prohibitory orders clamped around Anvarsseri campus; Maudany moves SC

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 09:47 PM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,

Kollam: Prohibitory orders have been clamped around the Anvarsseri campus where PDP chairman Abdunnasir Maudany resides, in a move suggestive of an imminent arrest. A large police force is camping in the area. Higher police officers in the state have reached Kollam. Meanwhile, in a move contrary to his earlier announcement, Maudany approached the Supreme Court for anticipatory bail. He also expressed his readiness to court arrest to the religious leaders who visited him.

Government will maintain communal peace: PM

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 07:34 PM PDT

By IANS,

New Delhi:Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday said his government would always maintain communal peace and harmony and protect the minorities.

"Our government is committed to maintain communal peace and harmony. We also consider it our duty to protect the minorities and provide for their special needs," Singh said while addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort.

"This is why we have started many new programmes in the last four years for the welfare of our brothers and sisters belonging to the minority communities," he added.

'Recall senior policemen before Nanavati-Mehta panel'

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 07:30 PM PDT

By IANS,

Ahmedabad: Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), which has taken up the cause of the 2002 Gujarat communal riot victims, Saturday urged the Nanavati-Mehta judicial inquiry commission to re-call some top police officers for cross-examinations in the light of fresh evidences culled from the police control room records.