Maoists free abducted Chhattisgarh cops
PTI | 01:10 AM,Oct 01,2010
(GREAT NEWS! BELIEVE ME ONE CAN REACH TO THE LONG LASTING SOLUTIONS BY PEACEFULL MEANS. I AM SURE GOVERNMENT WILL CO-OPERATE(THEY ARE ALREADY WORKING ON IT) IN SOLVING THIS PROBLEMS WITH DISCUSSING WITH THEM PERMANENTLY,WITHOUT GETTING BLACKMAILED BY NAXALITES,OR COMPROMISING MUCH,THOUGH FLEXIBILITY IS IMPORTANT TO SOLVE ANY PROBLEM. AS ABDUCTION,KILLINGS,FREEING THEM AND AGAIN ABDUCTION WILL DO NOT TAKE NAXALS TOO FAR. KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE,BLOWING SCHOOLS,ITS NOT A RIGHT WAY OF HELPING SUPPRESSED,MARGINALISED,OR STOP EXPLIOTATIONS OF POOR,BACKWARDS!!!...ETC)
The policemen were kidnapped by the Naxals from Bijapur district, which borders Andhra Pradesh, on September 19. The Maoists, among other things, had demanded an end to the security forces anti-Naxal campaign Operation Green Hunt and release of a few villagers in return for the freedom for the abducted cops. Senior officials told PTI that mediapersons and social activists had mediated in the talks with the ultras for the safe release of the policemen.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Scholarships for children of policemen killed in J-K-30/09/2010
30/09/2010
Scholarships for children of policemen killed in J-K
(I HOPE IT WON'T BECOME AN ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY AND THESE KIDS WILL ACTUALLY GET BENIFITED BY THIS. NO CORRUPTION HERE PLZ!!!)
Srinagar, Sep 30 (PTI) Jammu and Kashmir Police has sanctioned scholarships for 45 school-going children of its personnel who laid down their lives while trying to restore normalcy in the state, police said here today.
"Over Rs 1.51 lakh has been sanctioned in favour of 45 children of martyred jawans," a police spokesman said, adding 12 children of policemen will also be covered under this.
He said the scholarships were sanctioned for the academic year 2009-10 by the Director General of State Police Kuldeep Khoda at a monthly meeting here yesterday.
Addressing the meeting, Khoda said "It is the prime responsibility of Police Organisation to take care of the wards of our colleagues who have sacrificed their precious lives to uphold the tradition of bravery of Jammu and Kashmir Police."
Khoda said the scholarships have been sanctioned out of the Central Police Welfare Fund, which has been created for promoting quality education among children of the police personnel.
The department has taken many steps to provide financial assistance to these children so that they do not feel deprived, the DGP said, adding besides providing scholarships, free education is also being provided to them in Police Public Schools established in Jammu, Srinagar and some districts in the state.
He said the department is considering some more welfare schemes for the families of police martyrs, besides serving and retired police personnel.
Scholarships for children of policemen killed in J-K
(I HOPE IT WON'T BECOME AN ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY AND THESE KIDS WILL ACTUALLY GET BENIFITED BY THIS. NO CORRUPTION HERE PLZ!!!)
Srinagar, Sep 30 (PTI) Jammu and Kashmir Police has sanctioned scholarships for 45 school-going children of its personnel who laid down their lives while trying to restore normalcy in the state, police said here today.
"Over Rs 1.51 lakh has been sanctioned in favour of 45 children of martyred jawans," a police spokesman said, adding 12 children of policemen will also be covered under this.
He said the scholarships were sanctioned for the academic year 2009-10 by the Director General of State Police Kuldeep Khoda at a monthly meeting here yesterday.
Addressing the meeting, Khoda said "It is the prime responsibility of Police Organisation to take care of the wards of our colleagues who have sacrificed their precious lives to uphold the tradition of bravery of Jammu and Kashmir Police."
Khoda said the scholarships have been sanctioned out of the Central Police Welfare Fund, which has been created for promoting quality education among children of the police personnel.
The department has taken many steps to provide financial assistance to these children so that they do not feel deprived, the DGP said, adding besides providing scholarships, free education is also being provided to them in Police Public Schools established in Jammu, Srinagar and some districts in the state.
He said the department is considering some more welfare schemes for the families of police martyrs, besides serving and retired police personnel.
Wakf Board to move SC against High Court order-30/09/2010
30/09/2010
Wakf Board to move SC against High Court order
(I AM WRITING HERE AS A COUNTRYMEN,AND THESE ARE MY OWN PERSPECTIVE AND VIEWS.ITS WAKF BOARD'S RIGHT,IF THEY WANT TO FIGHT THIS CASE LEGALLY IN SUPREME COURT ALSO.NEXT DECISION WILL TAKE ONE MORE DECADE. BUT I THINK THIS MATTER SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN AS INJUSTICE AGAINST ONE COMMUNITY. AND NEED OF HOUR IS TO THINK WISELY,SANELY AND RATIONALLY. AYODHYA HAS A RELIGIOUS EMOTIONAL VALUE ALSO,NO ONE CAN DENY THAT,BUT HERE IT IS A PROPERTY DISPUTE, AND WHAT BIG PURPOSE CAN BE SOLVED BY FIGHTING FOR IT? IS JUST ONE MORE MOSQUE OR A TEMPLE CAN SOLVE AYODHYAVASI'S DAILY PROBLEMS OR WE NEED TO RISE ABOVE ALL AND TOGETHER DESIGN SOMETHING(IT CAN BE IN A SHAPE OF TEMPLE AND A MOSQUE) WHICH CAN HAVE IMPACT POSITIVLY ON EVERYONE OF US AND GENERATIONS TO COME,DEFINITLY WITHIN JURIDICTION OF VERDICT GIVEN.
IS SUPREME COURT HAS SOMETHING ELSE OR ANY OTHER ALTERNATIVE TO DELIVER?? I AM SURE IT WILL DELAY THIS MATTER FOR MANY MORE YEARS??? IS THIS ANY KIND OF SOLUTION?? EXCEPT IT CAN DEFINITLY FURTHER DILUTE THE ANIMOSITY AND HATRED BETWEEN THESE TWO COMMUNITIES MUCH MORE,WHICH CAN BE A BETTER POINT!! AND BELIVE ME OUR COUNTRYMEN WHO ARE VOTERS ALSO,HAVE BECOME MATURED ENOUGH TO THINK BEFORE VOTING IN ELECTIONS,AND IT WON'T VOTE ON THE BASIS OF THIS DESICION TO ANY COMMUNITY OR CANDIDATES, AS IT IS A JUDICIAL AND A COURT VERDICT.AND AYODHYA BELONGS TO EVERYONE.THEY ALL WANT PEACE AND GROWTH. SO BELIEVE IN PEACE AND TRANQUALITY,LEAD A HARMONIOUS LIFE MINUS VIOLENCE AND HATRED AS KILLINGS DID NOT TAKE A PERSON MUCH FAR!!....GOOD WISHES TO ALL OF US....VIBHA)
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Sunni Waqf Board on Thursday said it will move the Supreme Court against the Allahabad High Court order dividing the disputed land in Ayodhya among three parties.
"We will appeal against the division of disputed land among three parties," the Board's lawyer Zafaryab Jilani told reporters here. "High Court's formula of one-third land is not acceptable to the Waqf Board and it will appeal against it in the Supreme Court," he said.
He said they were not going to surrender the land. However, he said, the Board is open to any negotiated settlement on the issue if such a proposal for negotiations for a settlement came to it.
"Talks can happen if a proposal comes," he said. Jilani said the Board has time to appeal in the Supreme Court as status quo would be maintained for the next 90 days.
"The Board will move the apex court after a meeting of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board. We are not in hurry as we have 90 days time to appeal as a matter of right," Jilani said.
He said personally he did not agree with the findings of the three judges. Jilani said the possibility of an amicable solution still exist provided there was a proposal to this effect.
"This proposal would be tabled before the All India Muslim Personal Law Board for consideration but we won't accept any proposal to surrender," he said.
"The judgement pronounced in the case relating to Babri Masjid is not only partly disappointing but also against the settled principles of law and evidence adduced by the Muslim side," Jilani said.
"However much cannot be said at this stage as we are yet to study the judgement in detail. Still, we are of the firm view that no public resentment is required as the matter can be taken to the Supreme Court and there is no reason for any loss of hope in favour of the Mosque," he added.
"After getting the full text of the judgement, it will be examined in detail and an appeal against the same will be prepared and filed as per the decision of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board," Jilani said adding the members of Babri Masjid Action Committee will also be consulted.
"We hope that peace and tranquillity will be maintained throughout the country and the issue will not be taken to the streets by anyone," he added.
Source: PTI
Wakf Board to move SC against High Court order
(I AM WRITING HERE AS A COUNTRYMEN,AND THESE ARE MY OWN PERSPECTIVE AND VIEWS.ITS WAKF BOARD'S RIGHT,IF THEY WANT TO FIGHT THIS CASE LEGALLY IN SUPREME COURT ALSO.NEXT DECISION WILL TAKE ONE MORE DECADE. BUT I THINK THIS MATTER SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN AS INJUSTICE AGAINST ONE COMMUNITY. AND NEED OF HOUR IS TO THINK WISELY,SANELY AND RATIONALLY. AYODHYA HAS A RELIGIOUS EMOTIONAL VALUE ALSO,NO ONE CAN DENY THAT,BUT HERE IT IS A PROPERTY DISPUTE, AND WHAT BIG PURPOSE CAN BE SOLVED BY FIGHTING FOR IT? IS JUST ONE MORE MOSQUE OR A TEMPLE CAN SOLVE AYODHYAVASI'S DAILY PROBLEMS OR WE NEED TO RISE ABOVE ALL AND TOGETHER DESIGN SOMETHING(IT CAN BE IN A SHAPE OF TEMPLE AND A MOSQUE) WHICH CAN HAVE IMPACT POSITIVLY ON EVERYONE OF US AND GENERATIONS TO COME,DEFINITLY WITHIN JURIDICTION OF VERDICT GIVEN.
IS SUPREME COURT HAS SOMETHING ELSE OR ANY OTHER ALTERNATIVE TO DELIVER?? I AM SURE IT WILL DELAY THIS MATTER FOR MANY MORE YEARS??? IS THIS ANY KIND OF SOLUTION?? EXCEPT IT CAN DEFINITLY FURTHER DILUTE THE ANIMOSITY AND HATRED BETWEEN THESE TWO COMMUNITIES MUCH MORE,WHICH CAN BE A BETTER POINT!! AND BELIVE ME OUR COUNTRYMEN WHO ARE VOTERS ALSO,HAVE BECOME MATURED ENOUGH TO THINK BEFORE VOTING IN ELECTIONS,AND IT WON'T VOTE ON THE BASIS OF THIS DESICION TO ANY COMMUNITY OR CANDIDATES, AS IT IS A JUDICIAL AND A COURT VERDICT.AND AYODHYA BELONGS TO EVERYONE.THEY ALL WANT PEACE AND GROWTH. SO BELIEVE IN PEACE AND TRANQUALITY,LEAD A HARMONIOUS LIFE MINUS VIOLENCE AND HATRED AS KILLINGS DID NOT TAKE A PERSON MUCH FAR!!....GOOD WISHES TO ALL OF US....VIBHA)
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Sunni Waqf Board on Thursday said it will move the Supreme Court against the Allahabad High Court order dividing the disputed land in Ayodhya among three parties.
"We will appeal against the division of disputed land among three parties," the Board's lawyer Zafaryab Jilani told reporters here. "High Court's formula of one-third land is not acceptable to the Waqf Board and it will appeal against it in the Supreme Court," he said.
He said they were not going to surrender the land. However, he said, the Board is open to any negotiated settlement on the issue if such a proposal for negotiations for a settlement came to it.
"Talks can happen if a proposal comes," he said. Jilani said the Board has time to appeal in the Supreme Court as status quo would be maintained for the next 90 days.
"The Board will move the apex court after a meeting of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board. We are not in hurry as we have 90 days time to appeal as a matter of right," Jilani said.
He said personally he did not agree with the findings of the three judges. Jilani said the possibility of an amicable solution still exist provided there was a proposal to this effect.
"This proposal would be tabled before the All India Muslim Personal Law Board for consideration but we won't accept any proposal to surrender," he said.
"The judgement pronounced in the case relating to Babri Masjid is not only partly disappointing but also against the settled principles of law and evidence adduced by the Muslim side," Jilani said.
"However much cannot be said at this stage as we are yet to study the judgement in detail. Still, we are of the firm view that no public resentment is required as the matter can be taken to the Supreme Court and there is no reason for any loss of hope in favour of the Mosque," he added.
"After getting the full text of the judgement, it will be examined in detail and an appeal against the same will be prepared and filed as per the decision of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board," Jilani said adding the members of Babri Masjid Action Committee will also be consulted.
"We hope that peace and tranquillity will be maintained throughout the country and the issue will not be taken to the streets by anyone," he added.
Source: PTI
Ayodhya remains totally peaceful: police -30/09/2010
30/09/2010
Ayodhya remains totally peaceful: police
(GOOD AND GREAT! INDIA IS A COUNTRY OF RAM,RAHIM,GAUTAM BUDDHHA,MAHAVIR,MAHATMA GANDHIJI ETC....WHO TAUGHT 'PEACE AND NON-VIOLENCE' AS A METHOD TO FIND SOLUTIONS OF LIFE TO THE WHOLE WORLD. IN FACT IT IS A WAY OF LIFE THAT A PERSON CAN BE NON-VIOLENT,PEACEFUL AND TRUTHFUL!!.....WHY CAN'T WE SHOW THAT ONCE AGAIN!!!!)
Ayodhya: The twin cities of Ayodhya and Faizabad remained peaceful on Thursday after the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court pronounced its verdict on the Ramjanmbhoomi-Babri Masjid case, a police official said. "There was no report of any kind of violence in the entire district," Superintendent of Police (City) Rajesh Kumar Rai said.
"Maintaining peace and communal harmony was definitely a challenge for the security personnel. And now, I personally feel that we have succeeded in our target," added Rai, who was in-charge of the heavy security arrangements that have come up in the twin cities.
Nearly 20,000 security personnel from paramilitary forces, Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) and other security agencies are camping in the Faizabad district. Rai said that the residents of Ayodhya played a pivotal role in maintaining law and order ahead of the crucial judgement.
"We alone cannot take the credit for this. Locals also contributed their bit in maintaining law and order. Without their support it would have been a tough task for us," he said.
"The locals adhered to our directives of not holding any mass gatherings or getting involved with a procession... Actually they did not do anything to express themselves in view of the judgment," he added.
Asked how long the security personnel would continue to camp in Faizabad, Rai said: "As of now, we have not received any instructions from the state government to reduce the security cover that would continue to remain in place till any further order from the government."
No untoward incident has been reported from any part of the country after the Allahabad high court ruling on Ayodhya title suits but there would be no lowering of guard and extra vigil is being maintained especially in view of Friday prayers tomorrow.
ADG (law and order) Brij Lal said "Though no untoward incident has been reported from any part of the state after the pronouncement of the verdict and the situation was totally peaceful, we are maintaining extra vigil, especially in view of tomorrow's Friday prayers."
Thank god there's peace: Bollywood celebrities
New Delhi: Bollywood celebrities have lauded Indians for maintaining peace after the Ayodhya verdict and also hoped that the "shrieking" media does not "overdo their melodramatic analysis" and inflame passions.
Celebrities like Diya Mirza, Priyanka Chopra and Arshad Warsi took to micro-blogging site Twitter to share their views after the Allahabad High Court ruled that the spot in Ayodhya where a makeshift temple was built after razing the Babri mosque in 1992, was indeed where Hindu god Ram was born. There was heavy security in the nation prior to the verdict, but celebrities were glad that people remained peaceful.
Acclaimed filmmaker Pritish Nandy posted: "No report of any trouble anywhere across India. Proud to be an Indian in moments like this." "Now that the verdict has been announced, can we please leave Ayodhya behind and move on with our lives? We need to look ahead. If anything the verdict shows that we in India, despite our differences, our politics and our shrieking media, respect the rule of law," he added.
Music composer Vishal Dadlani has appealed to Indian to "be proud, be strong". "Resist every impulse to divide us. If Ram and Allah made us human, we owe it to them to be humane. Truly proud of my country and my people today. Jai Hind!" he added.
By a majority decision, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court also ruled that the land around the disputed site should be divided into three parts -- one going to Hindus, another to Muslims and the third to Nirmohi Akhara, a Hindu sect and a litigant in the case.
Actor Uday Chopra said: "Some decisions are beyond law. I think the bench has opted for a settlement and gone pro peace...If it helps to maintain it then I'm for it."
Sophie Choudhry prayed that "this 'division' helps to 'unite' our nation more than ever!"
National award winning actress Priyanka Chopra, however, said: "It will take a little time to fully decipher the ruling". But she appealed "... keep the peace... it's our nation at stake!"
Meanwhile, other actors said the media must react responsibly and not infuriate people with over-the-top discussions. "Verdict is out. Views (are) being expressed. No harm with that as long as the media does not meander and people remain peaceful," stated Diya Mirza.
While internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur said: "Now that the judgement is over, the media should not overdo their melodramatic analysis or else they will inflame people." According to actor Arshad Warsi, the judgement should be accepted gracefully. "Let us accept the judgement and ignore the lawyers and their opinion on news channels. Humanity should be our religion," he posted.
Source: IANS
Ayodhya remains totally peaceful: police
(GOOD AND GREAT! INDIA IS A COUNTRY OF RAM,RAHIM,GAUTAM BUDDHHA,MAHAVIR,MAHATMA GANDHIJI ETC....WHO TAUGHT 'PEACE AND NON-VIOLENCE' AS A METHOD TO FIND SOLUTIONS OF LIFE TO THE WHOLE WORLD. IN FACT IT IS A WAY OF LIFE THAT A PERSON CAN BE NON-VIOLENT,PEACEFUL AND TRUTHFUL!!.....WHY CAN'T WE SHOW THAT ONCE AGAIN!!!!)
Ayodhya: The twin cities of Ayodhya and Faizabad remained peaceful on Thursday after the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court pronounced its verdict on the Ramjanmbhoomi-Babri Masjid case, a police official said. "There was no report of any kind of violence in the entire district," Superintendent of Police (City) Rajesh Kumar Rai said.
"Maintaining peace and communal harmony was definitely a challenge for the security personnel. And now, I personally feel that we have succeeded in our target," added Rai, who was in-charge of the heavy security arrangements that have come up in the twin cities.
Nearly 20,000 security personnel from paramilitary forces, Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) and other security agencies are camping in the Faizabad district. Rai said that the residents of Ayodhya played a pivotal role in maintaining law and order ahead of the crucial judgement.
"We alone cannot take the credit for this. Locals also contributed their bit in maintaining law and order. Without their support it would have been a tough task for us," he said.
"The locals adhered to our directives of not holding any mass gatherings or getting involved with a procession... Actually they did not do anything to express themselves in view of the judgment," he added.
Asked how long the security personnel would continue to camp in Faizabad, Rai said: "As of now, we have not received any instructions from the state government to reduce the security cover that would continue to remain in place till any further order from the government."
No untoward incident has been reported from any part of the country after the Allahabad high court ruling on Ayodhya title suits but there would be no lowering of guard and extra vigil is being maintained especially in view of Friday prayers tomorrow.
ADG (law and order) Brij Lal said "Though no untoward incident has been reported from any part of the state after the pronouncement of the verdict and the situation was totally peaceful, we are maintaining extra vigil, especially in view of tomorrow's Friday prayers."
Thank god there's peace: Bollywood celebrities
New Delhi: Bollywood celebrities have lauded Indians for maintaining peace after the Ayodhya verdict and also hoped that the "shrieking" media does not "overdo their melodramatic analysis" and inflame passions.
Celebrities like Diya Mirza, Priyanka Chopra and Arshad Warsi took to micro-blogging site Twitter to share their views after the Allahabad High Court ruled that the spot in Ayodhya where a makeshift temple was built after razing the Babri mosque in 1992, was indeed where Hindu god Ram was born. There was heavy security in the nation prior to the verdict, but celebrities were glad that people remained peaceful.
Acclaimed filmmaker Pritish Nandy posted: "No report of any trouble anywhere across India. Proud to be an Indian in moments like this." "Now that the verdict has been announced, can we please leave Ayodhya behind and move on with our lives? We need to look ahead. If anything the verdict shows that we in India, despite our differences, our politics and our shrieking media, respect the rule of law," he added.
Music composer Vishal Dadlani has appealed to Indian to "be proud, be strong". "Resist every impulse to divide us. If Ram and Allah made us human, we owe it to them to be humane. Truly proud of my country and my people today. Jai Hind!" he added.
By a majority decision, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court also ruled that the land around the disputed site should be divided into three parts -- one going to Hindus, another to Muslims and the third to Nirmohi Akhara, a Hindu sect and a litigant in the case.
Actor Uday Chopra said: "Some decisions are beyond law. I think the bench has opted for a settlement and gone pro peace...If it helps to maintain it then I'm for it."
Sophie Choudhry prayed that "this 'division' helps to 'unite' our nation more than ever!"
National award winning actress Priyanka Chopra, however, said: "It will take a little time to fully decipher the ruling". But she appealed "... keep the peace... it's our nation at stake!"
Meanwhile, other actors said the media must react responsibly and not infuriate people with over-the-top discussions. "Verdict is out. Views (are) being expressed. No harm with that as long as the media does not meander and people remain peaceful," stated Diya Mirza.
While internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur said: "Now that the judgement is over, the media should not overdo their melodramatic analysis or else they will inflame people." According to actor Arshad Warsi, the judgement should be accepted gracefully. "Let us accept the judgement and ignore the lawyers and their opinion on news channels. Humanity should be our religion," he posted.
Source: IANS
Test for the soul of India!-30/09/2010
By E Jayakrishnan, India Syndicate, 30/09/2010
Test for the soul of India!
The judges and the court have done what they have to do. Now, it is over to India. Can it be that a temple and a mosque can stand side-by-side?
(YESTERDAY'S VERDICT/JUDGEMENT SHOWS AYODHYA DO NOT BELONG TO CITIZENS OF ONE COMMUNITY OR FAITH. IT IS A CITY OF ALL AND FOR ALL!!....VIBHA)
In a way, how the people of India react to the Ayodhya judgement is test for the soul of India, not just the idea.
What happens in the coming few days will decide the fate of India - will it go down as an idea that looks vibrant outside, but hollow inside? Any gesture or shrillness, either of victory or defeat from the political parties or the religious leaders will be a clarion call for the lunatic fringe in either group to stir up trouble.
Or, if there were an attempt by the any of the players to take advantage (as UP CM Mayawati has already sought to do), then the citizens of India should stand together ; oppose and smoke out the rabble-rousers.
As it is, the Sunni Wakf Board has gone on record to say that they will appeal the judgement of the Allahabad High Court in the Supreme Court. Given the time usually taken for these issues to be sorted, you can safely say that the final act in this dispute will come about in years, not in months. The High Court judgement, as the Union Home recently pointed out is just the "semi-final".
Until then, the ball is in the court of the Indian citizens and the political and religious leaders in the country to ensure that they wait till the final act is played out before issuing calls for building mosques or rebuilding temples.
For that, they will have to divorce the dispute and the judgement from the historical baggage that seemingly accompany it. Not an easy task, considering that the verdict issue is likely to be hotly debated in the coming weeks to come.
But for the sake of India, especially the younger generation who have are increasingly striding the world as global citizens of an increasingly confident India. That is why, even a remote attempt to paint to the issue as a zero sum game - where one or the either idea has won - will be destroying the dreams and aspirations of the New India.
The judgement, as far as we can see in the short time that we have add since the verdict, leaves enough scope for building both a temple, where large numbers believe Lord Ram was born and rebuilding the Babri Mosque, where it once stood, before it was brought down by a fanatic mob in 1992 exists.
This is buttressed by many on both sides of the dispute that now that the judgement has divided the disputed three ways, the time is ripe for a settlement that would appeal to what is the best and the highest in India.
What a monument would be to modern India, if the temple and the mosque were to stand side-by-side. Each secure in its own faith, and the devotion of the faithful!
What is also encouraging is that at the time of going to press, not a sentence, nor a stone, has been spoken or thrown in anger. And, that can only be a happy portent for the future.
Source: India Syndicate
Test for the soul of India!
The judges and the court have done what they have to do. Now, it is over to India. Can it be that a temple and a mosque can stand side-by-side?
(YESTERDAY'S VERDICT/JUDGEMENT SHOWS AYODHYA DO NOT BELONG TO CITIZENS OF ONE COMMUNITY OR FAITH. IT IS A CITY OF ALL AND FOR ALL!!....VIBHA)
In a way, how the people of India react to the Ayodhya judgement is test for the soul of India, not just the idea.
What happens in the coming few days will decide the fate of India - will it go down as an idea that looks vibrant outside, but hollow inside? Any gesture or shrillness, either of victory or defeat from the political parties or the religious leaders will be a clarion call for the lunatic fringe in either group to stir up trouble.
Or, if there were an attempt by the any of the players to take advantage (as UP CM Mayawati has already sought to do), then the citizens of India should stand together ; oppose and smoke out the rabble-rousers.
As it is, the Sunni Wakf Board has gone on record to say that they will appeal the judgement of the Allahabad High Court in the Supreme Court. Given the time usually taken for these issues to be sorted, you can safely say that the final act in this dispute will come about in years, not in months. The High Court judgement, as the Union Home recently pointed out is just the "semi-final".
Until then, the ball is in the court of the Indian citizens and the political and religious leaders in the country to ensure that they wait till the final act is played out before issuing calls for building mosques or rebuilding temples.
For that, they will have to divorce the dispute and the judgement from the historical baggage that seemingly accompany it. Not an easy task, considering that the verdict issue is likely to be hotly debated in the coming weeks to come.
But for the sake of India, especially the younger generation who have are increasingly striding the world as global citizens of an increasingly confident India. That is why, even a remote attempt to paint to the issue as a zero sum game - where one or the either idea has won - will be destroying the dreams and aspirations of the New India.
The judgement, as far as we can see in the short time that we have add since the verdict, leaves enough scope for building both a temple, where large numbers believe Lord Ram was born and rebuilding the Babri Mosque, where it once stood, before it was brought down by a fanatic mob in 1992 exists.
This is buttressed by many on both sides of the dispute that now that the judgement has divided the disputed three ways, the time is ripe for a settlement that would appeal to what is the best and the highest in India.
What a monument would be to modern India, if the temple and the mosque were to stand side-by-side. Each secure in its own faith, and the devotion of the faithful!
What is also encouraging is that at the time of going to press, not a sentence, nor a stone, has been spoken or thrown in anger. And, that can only be a happy portent for the future.
Source: India Syndicate
Here is the relevant portion of the judgement-30/09/2010
30/09/2010
Here is the relevant portion of the judgement
In the light of the above and considering overall findings of this Court on various issues, following directions and/or declaration, are given which in our view would meet the ends of justice:
From Justice S U Khan:
(i) It is declared that the area covered by the central dome of the three domed structure, i.e., the disputed structure being the deity of Bhagwan Ram Janamsthan and place of birth of Lord Rama as per faith and belief of the Hindus, belong to plaintiffs (Suit-5) and shall not be obstructed or interfered in any manner by the defendants.
(ii) The area within the inner courtyard denoted by letters B C D L K J H G in Appendix 7 (excluding (i) above) belong to members of both the communities, i.e., Hindus (here plaintiffs, Suit-5) and Muslims since it was being used by both since decades and centuries. It is, however, made clear that for the purpose of share of plaintiffs, Suit-5 under this direction the area which is covered by (i) above shall also be included.
(iii) The area covered by the structures, namely, Ram Chabutra, (EE FF GG HH in Appendix 7) Sita Rasoi (MM NN OO PP in Appendix 7) and Bhandar (II JJ KK LL in Appendix 7) in the outer courtyard is declared in the share of Nirmohi Akhara (defendant no. 3) and they shall be entitled to possession thereof in the absence of any person with better title.
(iv) The open area within the outer courtyard (A G H J K L E F in Appendix 7) (except that covered by (iii) above) shall be shared by Nirmohi Akhara (defendant no. 3) and plaintiffs (Suit-5) since it has been generally used by the Hindu people for worship at both places.
(iv-a) It is however made clear that the share of muslim parties shall not be less than one third (1/3) of the total area of the premises and if necessary it may be given some area of outer courtyard. It is also made clear that while making partition by metes and bounds, if some minor adjustments are to be made with respect to the share of different parties, the affected party may be compensated by allotting the requisite land from the area which is under acquisition of the Government of India.
(v) The land which is available with the Government of India acquired under Ayodhya Act 1993 for providing it to the parties who are successful in the suit for better enjoyment of the property shall be made available to the above concerned parties in such manner so that all the three parties may utilise the area to which they are entitled to, by having separate entry for egress and ingress of the people without disturbing each others rights. For this purpose the concerned parties may approach the Government of India who shall act in accordance with the above directions and also as contained in the judgement of Apex Court in Dr. Ismail Farooqi (Supra).
(vi) A decree, partly preliminary and partly final, to the effect as said above (i to v) is passed. Suit-5 is decreed in part to the above extent. The parties are at liberty to file their suggestions for actual partition of the property in dispute in the manner as directed above by metes and bounds by submitting an application to this effect to the Officer on Special Duty, Ayodhya Bench at Lucknow or the Registrar, Lucknow Bench, Lucknow, as the case may be.
(vii) For a period of three months or unless directed otherwise, whichever is earlier, the parties shall maintain status quo as on today in respect of property in dispute.
In the result, Suit-1 is partly decreed. Suits 3 and 4 are dismissed. Suit-5 is decreed partly. In the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case the parties shall bear their own costs.
From the Judgment of Hon'ble Mr. Justice Sudhir Agarwal
Gist on some points
1. The area covered under the central dome of the disputed structure is the birthplace of Lord Rama as per faith and belief of Hindus.
2. Disputed structure was always treated, considered and believed to be a mosque and practised by Mohammedans for worship accordingly. However, it has not been proved that it was built during the reign of Babar in 1528.
3.In the absence of any otherwise pleadings and material it is difficult to hold as to when and by whom the disputed structure was constructed but this much is clear that the same was constructed before the visit of Joseph Tieffenthaler in Oudh area between 1766 to 1771.
4.The building in dispute was constructed after demolition of Non-Islamic religious structure, i.e., a Hindu temple.
5. The idols were kept under the central dome of the disputed structure in the night of 22nd/23rd December 1949.
Other Original Suits no. 3 of 1989 and 4 of 1989 are barred by limitation.
Read the entire judgement here
Here is the relevant portion of the judgement
In the light of the above and considering overall findings of this Court on various issues, following directions and/or declaration, are given which in our view would meet the ends of justice:
From Justice S U Khan:
(i) It is declared that the area covered by the central dome of the three domed structure, i.e., the disputed structure being the deity of Bhagwan Ram Janamsthan and place of birth of Lord Rama as per faith and belief of the Hindus, belong to plaintiffs (Suit-5) and shall not be obstructed or interfered in any manner by the defendants.
(ii) The area within the inner courtyard denoted by letters B C D L K J H G in Appendix 7 (excluding (i) above) belong to members of both the communities, i.e., Hindus (here plaintiffs, Suit-5) and Muslims since it was being used by both since decades and centuries. It is, however, made clear that for the purpose of share of plaintiffs, Suit-5 under this direction the area which is covered by (i) above shall also be included.
(iii) The area covered by the structures, namely, Ram Chabutra, (EE FF GG HH in Appendix 7) Sita Rasoi (MM NN OO PP in Appendix 7) and Bhandar (II JJ KK LL in Appendix 7) in the outer courtyard is declared in the share of Nirmohi Akhara (defendant no. 3) and they shall be entitled to possession thereof in the absence of any person with better title.
(iv) The open area within the outer courtyard (A G H J K L E F in Appendix 7) (except that covered by (iii) above) shall be shared by Nirmohi Akhara (defendant no. 3) and plaintiffs (Suit-5) since it has been generally used by the Hindu people for worship at both places.
(iv-a) It is however made clear that the share of muslim parties shall not be less than one third (1/3) of the total area of the premises and if necessary it may be given some area of outer courtyard. It is also made clear that while making partition by metes and bounds, if some minor adjustments are to be made with respect to the share of different parties, the affected party may be compensated by allotting the requisite land from the area which is under acquisition of the Government of India.
(v) The land which is available with the Government of India acquired under Ayodhya Act 1993 for providing it to the parties who are successful in the suit for better enjoyment of the property shall be made available to the above concerned parties in such manner so that all the three parties may utilise the area to which they are entitled to, by having separate entry for egress and ingress of the people without disturbing each others rights. For this purpose the concerned parties may approach the Government of India who shall act in accordance with the above directions and also as contained in the judgement of Apex Court in Dr. Ismail Farooqi (Supra).
(vi) A decree, partly preliminary and partly final, to the effect as said above (i to v) is passed. Suit-5 is decreed in part to the above extent. The parties are at liberty to file their suggestions for actual partition of the property in dispute in the manner as directed above by metes and bounds by submitting an application to this effect to the Officer on Special Duty, Ayodhya Bench at Lucknow or the Registrar, Lucknow Bench, Lucknow, as the case may be.
(vii) For a period of three months or unless directed otherwise, whichever is earlier, the parties shall maintain status quo as on today in respect of property in dispute.
In the result, Suit-1 is partly decreed. Suits 3 and 4 are dismissed. Suit-5 is decreed partly. In the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case the parties shall bear their own costs.
From the Judgment of Hon'ble Mr. Justice Sudhir Agarwal
Gist on some points
1. The area covered under the central dome of the disputed structure is the birthplace of Lord Rama as per faith and belief of Hindus.
2. Disputed structure was always treated, considered and believed to be a mosque and practised by Mohammedans for worship accordingly. However, it has not been proved that it was built during the reign of Babar in 1528.
3.In the absence of any otherwise pleadings and material it is difficult to hold as to when and by whom the disputed structure was constructed but this much is clear that the same was constructed before the visit of Joseph Tieffenthaler in Oudh area between 1766 to 1771.
4.The building in dispute was constructed after demolition of Non-Islamic religious structure, i.e., a Hindu temple.
5. The idols were kept under the central dome of the disputed structure in the night of 22nd/23rd December 1949.
Other Original Suits no. 3 of 1989 and 4 of 1989 are barred by limitation.
Read the entire judgement here
Magnanimity is the need of the hour, because some TV chennals are stirring up trouble by calling it a defeat of Muslims, or "extremely one sided judgement" "panchayati verdict" or beyond all legal parameters etc., etc. Hindus and Muslims should not fall into this trap of winners or loosers
My respect to Kamal Farooqui, Zoya Hassan and Sadiya Dehalvi, not at all agitated at the judgement and respecting the verdict. It's the likes of Rajiv Dhavan, Yogendra Yadav and Mukul Keshvan, who are calling it a one sided or panchayati judegement
My respect to Kamal Farooqui, Zoya Hassan and Sadiya Dehalvi, not at all agitated at the judgement and respecting the verdict. It's the likes of Rajiv Dhavan, Yogendra Yadav and Mukul Keshvan, who are calling it a one sided or panchayati judegement
Ayodhya land to be divided into three parts: HC-New Delhi, September 30, 2010
Ayodhya land to be divided into three parts: HC
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, September 30, 2010
First Published: 16:08 IST(30/9/2010)
Last Updated: 17:27 IST(30/9/2010)
(I HAVE NOT READ THE DETAILED REPORT OF THIS JUDGEMENT, SO DON'T WANT TO COMMENT ON IT MUCH.BUT I DO BELIEVE NO WISE PERSON WANT TO GO TO SUPREME COURT NOW. ITS BETTER TO SORT OUT THINGS TOGETHER NOW AFTER HIGH COURT VEDICT,HOW AND WHAT DESIGN OF CONSTRUCTION NEED TO IMPLEMENT, FOR EXAMPLE DURING PARTITION EAST AND WEST PAKISTAN WAS FORMED IN TWO OPPOSITE BORDERS OF OUR COUNTRY FOR WHICH THEY WERE DEMANDING A LAND PASSAGE FROM OUR HEARTLAND FROM PUJAB VIA KOLKATTA TO NOW BANGLADESH....IT WAS A ONE REASON OF PAKISTAN'S FURTHER DIVISION AND SO ON....DON'T WANT TO REPEAT IT BUT TO CLEAR THE POINT ONE NEED TO UNDERSTAND HISTORY SO THAT IT WON'T GET REPEATED. THOUGH ITS BETTER TO MOVE ON IN PRESENT SO THAT OUR FUTURE BECOME BRIGHT AND SUCCESSFUL.
I AM SURE ALL BELONG TO WHICH EVER RELIGION WILL BE AGREE WITH THIS DECISION MORE OR LESS.IT WILL STRENGTHEN OUR BONDS BETWEEN DIFFERENT RELIGIONS AND ENHANCE OUR NATIONAL INTEGRITY.OUR SECULAR THEME OF OUR CONSTITUTION.ITS WILL BE BETTER FOR OUR COMPOSITE SOCIETY,WHICH HAS UNITY IN DIVERSITY.
AS EVEN IN SUPREME COURT WHAT ELSE OR DIFFERENT THEY WILL GIVE VERDICT SO THAT HARMONY AND JUSTICE IN OUR COUNTRY PREVAIL AND SOLUTION CAN BE GIVEN?? MUSLIMS HAS MACCA AND MADINA TO WORSHIP, SO AS PLACES HERE IN INDIA !!....HINDUS HAS RAM AND KRISHNA ETC...BUT I AM SURE WE ALL RESPECT EACH OTHERS FAITH AND BELIEVE IN HUMANITY.THIS IS WHAT ALL 'RELIGIONS','GODS'OR THEIR 'PATHS'OR PANTHS' TEACHES US.
SO ITS BETTER IF WE MAINLY FOCUS ON HUMANITY.AS TAKING CARE OF EACH OTHER,EARNING FOR EACH OTHER,HELPING IN EDUCATION OR HEALTH CARE OF EACH OTHER,HELPING IN SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND BASIC NECCESSITIES,RIGHTS,DUTIES OF EACH OTHER PEACEFULLY....AS AN INDIVIDUAL,AS A FAMILY PERSON,AS A COMMUNITY MEMBER,NATIONAL CITIZEN OR GLOBAL OR UNIVERSAL CITIZENS....ARE THE REAL AND RIGHT PATH.
EVEN MAHATMA GANDHIJI WHO WAS KILLED BY A PERSON WHO THOUGHT HE FAVOURED MUSLIMS AND WAS REASON FOR DIVISION OF OUR COUNTRY AND THE FORMATION OF THE PAKISTAN,AND LATER ON BANGLADESH ON THE BASIS OF RELIGION...(WHICH IS A OLD STORY,NOT TO TALK ABOUT ANYMORE...AS EVEN MAHATMAJI WOULD HAVE FORGIVED HIM AS THAT WAS A DIFFERENT MAHAUL,MINDSET OR CIRCUMSTANCES), MAHATMAJI BELIEVED IN RAMA AND RAMA RAJYA IN BHARATVARSH,WHICH 'I THINK' WHAT HE ACTUALLY MEANT BY IT IS...PEACEFULL ALLROUND GROWTH OF OUR COUNTRY AND COUNTRYMEN...POOR-RICH,DALIT-SAVARON,RURAL-URBAN,ILLETRATE-ELITE,MEMBERS OF ALL RELIGIONS- KIDS,YOUNG,ADULT,OLD,GIRLS,BOYS,LGBT...WHOEVER EXISTS INCLUDING LIVING NON LIVING THINGS,ART,CULTURE,HERITAGE,HISTORY,GEOGRAPHY,LITERATURE...ETC,..ETC....WHICH NEED TO BE TAKEN CARE OF,MENTAL,PHYSICAL,ECONOMICAL,MORAL,ETHICAL,ENVIRONMENTAL..ETC WHICH CAN BECOME AN EXAMPLE FOR OTHER COUNTRIES ONCE AGAIN AND CAN LEAVE IMPACT ON TODAY'S AND NEXT GENERATIONS TO COME.
AS A OLD SONG'S LINES SAYS-"JAHAN DAAL-DAAL PE SONE KI CHIDHIYA KARTI HAI BASERA,WOH BHARAT DESH HAI MERA!!!"
GOOD THAT NOW HINDU'S AND MUSLIMS OR OTHERS ARE READY TO SHARE SPACE,FAITH,FEELINGS,SUGGESTIONS AND EMOTIONS WITH OTHER RELIGIONS COUNTERPARTS WITHOUT ANIMOSITY. GOOD WISHES TO OUR COUNTRY.GOOD WISHES TO ALL OF US!!!....VIBHA)
comprising justices SU Khan, Sudhir Agarwal and DV Sharma today delivered a split verdict in 60-year old Ayodhya title suit.
The majority ruled that the disputed land in Ayodhya was a joint property, held by all the three claimants namely Hindu Mahasabha , Nirmohi Akhara and Sunni Central Waqf Board. Justice SU Khan said that the mosque was built by Babar, not by demolishing a temple , but on the ruins of a temple.
According to Chief Standing Counsel of the UP Government, Devendra Upadhaya, the two judges namely Justices Khan and Agarwal ruled that the disputed property should be equally divided ( One third each) among the three parties. Justice DV Sharma has been categorical that the land belongs to Hindus and has rejected the claim of the Sunni Waqf Board.
However, the entire bench is of the view that the central dome of the disputed structure goes to Hindu Mahasabha, where the idols were installed in 1949 and again in 1992 after the demolition of the Babri Mosque. The sita rasoi and ram chabootara have been given to Nirmohi Akhara.
The bench has also directed maintenance of status quo for three months and invited suggestions from all the parties for demarcation of the land.
In view of the verdict, the nation has been put on high alert. Uttar Pradesh has turned into a fortress with thousands of paramilitary personnel patrolling the streets.
The intelligence network is on high alert throughout the state to monitor movement and activities of anti-social elements.
Aerial surveys of "sensitive places", including the Ram Janmbhoomi complex in Ayodhya has been done, police sources said.
All the security personnel deployed in Ayodhya and Faizabad have been equipped with tear gas shells and rubber bullets and the gazetted officers of various government departments have been asked to assist in policing. They have also been provided with rubber bullets and tear gas shells.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court paved the way for the Ayodhya verdict to be delivered by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court.
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, September 30, 2010
First Published: 16:08 IST(30/9/2010)
Last Updated: 17:27 IST(30/9/2010)
(I HAVE NOT READ THE DETAILED REPORT OF THIS JUDGEMENT, SO DON'T WANT TO COMMENT ON IT MUCH.BUT I DO BELIEVE NO WISE PERSON WANT TO GO TO SUPREME COURT NOW. ITS BETTER TO SORT OUT THINGS TOGETHER NOW AFTER HIGH COURT VEDICT,HOW AND WHAT DESIGN OF CONSTRUCTION NEED TO IMPLEMENT, FOR EXAMPLE DURING PARTITION EAST AND WEST PAKISTAN WAS FORMED IN TWO OPPOSITE BORDERS OF OUR COUNTRY FOR WHICH THEY WERE DEMANDING A LAND PASSAGE FROM OUR HEARTLAND FROM PUJAB VIA KOLKATTA TO NOW BANGLADESH....IT WAS A ONE REASON OF PAKISTAN'S FURTHER DIVISION AND SO ON....DON'T WANT TO REPEAT IT BUT TO CLEAR THE POINT ONE NEED TO UNDERSTAND HISTORY SO THAT IT WON'T GET REPEATED. THOUGH ITS BETTER TO MOVE ON IN PRESENT SO THAT OUR FUTURE BECOME BRIGHT AND SUCCESSFUL.
I AM SURE ALL BELONG TO WHICH EVER RELIGION WILL BE AGREE WITH THIS DECISION MORE OR LESS.IT WILL STRENGTHEN OUR BONDS BETWEEN DIFFERENT RELIGIONS AND ENHANCE OUR NATIONAL INTEGRITY.OUR SECULAR THEME OF OUR CONSTITUTION.ITS WILL BE BETTER FOR OUR COMPOSITE SOCIETY,WHICH HAS UNITY IN DIVERSITY.
AS EVEN IN SUPREME COURT WHAT ELSE OR DIFFERENT THEY WILL GIVE VERDICT SO THAT HARMONY AND JUSTICE IN OUR COUNTRY PREVAIL AND SOLUTION CAN BE GIVEN?? MUSLIMS HAS MACCA AND MADINA TO WORSHIP, SO AS PLACES HERE IN INDIA !!....HINDUS HAS RAM AND KRISHNA ETC...BUT I AM SURE WE ALL RESPECT EACH OTHERS FAITH AND BELIEVE IN HUMANITY.THIS IS WHAT ALL 'RELIGIONS','GODS'OR THEIR 'PATHS'OR PANTHS' TEACHES US.
SO ITS BETTER IF WE MAINLY FOCUS ON HUMANITY.AS TAKING CARE OF EACH OTHER,EARNING FOR EACH OTHER,HELPING IN EDUCATION OR HEALTH CARE OF EACH OTHER,HELPING IN SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND BASIC NECCESSITIES,RIGHTS,DUTIES OF EACH OTHER PEACEFULLY....AS AN INDIVIDUAL,AS A FAMILY PERSON,AS A COMMUNITY MEMBER,NATIONAL CITIZEN OR GLOBAL OR UNIVERSAL CITIZENS....ARE THE REAL AND RIGHT PATH.
EVEN MAHATMA GANDHIJI WHO WAS KILLED BY A PERSON WHO THOUGHT HE FAVOURED MUSLIMS AND WAS REASON FOR DIVISION OF OUR COUNTRY AND THE FORMATION OF THE PAKISTAN,AND LATER ON BANGLADESH ON THE BASIS OF RELIGION...(WHICH IS A OLD STORY,NOT TO TALK ABOUT ANYMORE...AS EVEN MAHATMAJI WOULD HAVE FORGIVED HIM AS THAT WAS A DIFFERENT MAHAUL,MINDSET OR CIRCUMSTANCES), MAHATMAJI BELIEVED IN RAMA AND RAMA RAJYA IN BHARATVARSH,WHICH 'I THINK' WHAT HE ACTUALLY MEANT BY IT IS...PEACEFULL ALLROUND GROWTH OF OUR COUNTRY AND COUNTRYMEN...POOR-RICH,DALIT-SAVARON,RURAL-URBAN,ILLETRATE-ELITE,MEMBERS OF ALL RELIGIONS- KIDS,YOUNG,ADULT,OLD,GIRLS,BOYS,LGBT...WHOEVER EXISTS INCLUDING LIVING NON LIVING THINGS,ART,CULTURE,HERITAGE,HISTORY,GEOGRAPHY,LITERATURE...ETC,..ETC....WHICH NEED TO BE TAKEN CARE OF,MENTAL,PHYSICAL,ECONOMICAL,MORAL,ETHICAL,ENVIRONMENTAL..ETC WHICH CAN BECOME AN EXAMPLE FOR OTHER COUNTRIES ONCE AGAIN AND CAN LEAVE IMPACT ON TODAY'S AND NEXT GENERATIONS TO COME.
AS A OLD SONG'S LINES SAYS-"JAHAN DAAL-DAAL PE SONE KI CHIDHIYA KARTI HAI BASERA,WOH BHARAT DESH HAI MERA!!!"
GOOD THAT NOW HINDU'S AND MUSLIMS OR OTHERS ARE READY TO SHARE SPACE,FAITH,FEELINGS,SUGGESTIONS AND EMOTIONS WITH OTHER RELIGIONS COUNTERPARTS WITHOUT ANIMOSITY. GOOD WISHES TO OUR COUNTRY.GOOD WISHES TO ALL OF US!!!....VIBHA)
comprising justices SU Khan, Sudhir Agarwal and DV Sharma today delivered a split verdict in 60-year old Ayodhya title suit.
The majority ruled that the disputed land in Ayodhya was a joint property, held by all the three claimants namely Hindu Mahasabha , Nirmohi Akhara and Sunni Central Waqf Board. Justice SU Khan said that the mosque was built by Babar, not by demolishing a temple , but on the ruins of a temple.
According to Chief Standing Counsel of the UP Government, Devendra Upadhaya, the two judges namely Justices Khan and Agarwal ruled that the disputed property should be equally divided ( One third each) among the three parties. Justice DV Sharma has been categorical that the land belongs to Hindus and has rejected the claim of the Sunni Waqf Board.
However, the entire bench is of the view that the central dome of the disputed structure goes to Hindu Mahasabha, where the idols were installed in 1949 and again in 1992 after the demolition of the Babri Mosque. The sita rasoi and ram chabootara have been given to Nirmohi Akhara.
The bench has also directed maintenance of status quo for three months and invited suggestions from all the parties for demarcation of the land.
In view of the verdict, the nation has been put on high alert. Uttar Pradesh has turned into a fortress with thousands of paramilitary personnel patrolling the streets.
The intelligence network is on high alert throughout the state to monitor movement and activities of anti-social elements.
Aerial surveys of "sensitive places", including the Ram Janmbhoomi complex in Ayodhya has been done, police sources said.
All the security personnel deployed in Ayodhya and Faizabad have been equipped with tear gas shells and rubber bullets and the gazetted officers of various government departments have been asked to assist in policing. They have also been provided with rubber bullets and tear gas shells.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court paved the way for the Ayodhya verdict to be delivered by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court.
Peace! Peace!Peace!-
Peace describes a society or a relationship that is operating harmoniously and without violent conflict. Peace is commonly understood as the absence of hostility, or the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, safety in matters of social or economic welfare, the acknowledgment of equality and fairness in political relationships.
In international relations, peacetime is the absence of any war or conflict. The study of peace also involves the causes for its absence or loss. These potential causes include: insecurity, social injustice, economic inequality, political and religious radicalism, and acute racism and nationalism.
The world is increasingly getting aggressive. Despite millennia of religion, civilization and culture, peace among people and nations remains elusive. But for the future of humanity, peace deserves a chance.
In international relations, peacetime is the absence of any war or conflict. The study of peace also involves the causes for its absence or loss. These potential causes include: insecurity, social injustice, economic inequality, political and religious radicalism, and acute racism and nationalism.
The world is increasingly getting aggressive. Despite millennia of religion, civilization and culture, peace among people and nations remains elusive. But for the future of humanity, peace deserves a chance.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Half of Commonwealth Games volunteers disappear with kit-Sep 30, 2010-
Half of Commonwealth Games volunteers disappear with kit
Josy Joseph & Rajeev Deshpande, TNN, Sep 30, 2010, 12.16am IST
(PLZ DON'T PROVE THAT WE ALL ARE IRRESPONSIBLE CITIZEN'S OR COUNTRYMEN...GO BACK TO YOUR WORK OR RETURN THE KIT, SO THAT OTHERS USE IT)
Tags:volunteers|games village|commonwealth games|awol
NEW DELHI: The spirit of the Games doesn't seem to be prevailing. Seen to be an essential ingredient of the Games, volunteers have gone missing. An estimated 10,000 volunteers have dropped out after enrolling for the mega sports show.
The volunteers have displayed less than expected zest for the Games due to what is seen as a combination of reasons ranging from random allocation of responsibilities, relatively unglamorous assignments and poor training and motivation.
A part of the problem also seems to have been the terms offered to volunteers. Instead of payments, the experience of participating in the Games with a certificate at the end of the event are the main rewards. However, there is also a smart set of clothes - the kit costs Rs 12,000 - besides meals while at work.
While these terms are the norm at most such events, the thrill and experience of the job and an opportunity to watch top athletes being the big hook, the attrition rate of volunteers has been rather high. Beset with controversies, the Games have perhaps not proved too attractive for many who signed up.
Sources said the missing volunteers have gone away with their uniforms that might have been what they found to be of interest. Perhaps, they should have been paid a daily allowance at least. Some of the work is quite tough and requires good communication skills, said an official who confirmed mass desertions.
The situation has led to private parties having to step up their participation. "We are doing all that has been asked of us," said Abhijit Sarkar, spokesperson of Sahara group. Many of the volunteers at the airport and Village are from the group.
It is being hoped that the volunteers will return as those who did turn up at the Village have made a good impression on athletes who have moved in. It is also possible that the volunteers could not be immune from the overall ineptness that has marked the functioning of the OC. There is concern over how the logistics of the events will be affected by the lack of volunteers though some feel there is enough human resource.
The volunteers were part of the effort to make the Games a participatory event and with nearly half of the total 22,000 going AWOL, it is quite a hole to fill. Complaints of missing volunteers have been pouring in at the airport and important centres, even though an official associated with the volunteer programme claimed that all of them turned up at the Village.
Volunteers have been given two pairs of vibrant uniforms, free Metro passes from home to venues and packaged food. These volunteers have been trained by Amity University. It is also being wondered how the catering contracts will be honoured as the caterers would be making a certain number of food packets every day.
Josy Joseph & Rajeev Deshpande, TNN, Sep 30, 2010, 12.16am IST
(PLZ DON'T PROVE THAT WE ALL ARE IRRESPONSIBLE CITIZEN'S OR COUNTRYMEN...GO BACK TO YOUR WORK OR RETURN THE KIT, SO THAT OTHERS USE IT)
Tags:volunteers|games village|commonwealth games|awol
NEW DELHI: The spirit of the Games doesn't seem to be prevailing. Seen to be an essential ingredient of the Games, volunteers have gone missing. An estimated 10,000 volunteers have dropped out after enrolling for the mega sports show.
The volunteers have displayed less than expected zest for the Games due to what is seen as a combination of reasons ranging from random allocation of responsibilities, relatively unglamorous assignments and poor training and motivation.
A part of the problem also seems to have been the terms offered to volunteers. Instead of payments, the experience of participating in the Games with a certificate at the end of the event are the main rewards. However, there is also a smart set of clothes - the kit costs Rs 12,000 - besides meals while at work.
While these terms are the norm at most such events, the thrill and experience of the job and an opportunity to watch top athletes being the big hook, the attrition rate of volunteers has been rather high. Beset with controversies, the Games have perhaps not proved too attractive for many who signed up.
Sources said the missing volunteers have gone away with their uniforms that might have been what they found to be of interest. Perhaps, they should have been paid a daily allowance at least. Some of the work is quite tough and requires good communication skills, said an official who confirmed mass desertions.
The situation has led to private parties having to step up their participation. "We are doing all that has been asked of us," said Abhijit Sarkar, spokesperson of Sahara group. Many of the volunteers at the airport and Village are from the group.
It is being hoped that the volunteers will return as those who did turn up at the Village have made a good impression on athletes who have moved in. It is also possible that the volunteers could not be immune from the overall ineptness that has marked the functioning of the OC. There is concern over how the logistics of the events will be affected by the lack of volunteers though some feel there is enough human resource.
The volunteers were part of the effort to make the Games a participatory event and with nearly half of the total 22,000 going AWOL, it is quite a hole to fill. Complaints of missing volunteers have been pouring in at the airport and important centres, even though an official associated with the volunteer programme claimed that all of them turned up at the Village.
Volunteers have been given two pairs of vibrant uniforms, free Metro passes from home to venues and packaged food. These volunteers have been trained by Amity University. It is also being wondered how the catering contracts will be honoured as the caterers would be making a certain number of food packets every day.
Ayodhya not a dispute over a mere piece of land, it is a conundrum-Thursday, Sep 30, 2010, 1:31 IST -
Ayodhya not a dispute over a mere piece of land, it is a conundrum
(WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT REGION,CAST,CREED,RELIGION,FINANCIAL POSITIONS,LANGUAGE BARRIERS,GENDER....DIVISION,DISCREMINATIONS,AND DIFFERENCES ARE STILL THERE IN OUR MINDSET WHICH ARE GETTING CURB WITH TIME,WE ARE MATURING AND WANT TO LIVE PEACEFULLY. YOUNG GENERATIONS DO NOT BELIEVE IN THESE DIFFERENCES MUCH. BUT STILL AFTER WATCHING FEW REACTIONS,FOR EXAMPLE JUST NOW RESPECTED SHRI MULAYAM SINGHJI'S,WHICH SHOWS THEY HAVE NOT TAKEN DECISION CORRECTLY. FACT IS THERE IS 3PARTIES IN THIS CASE,ALL OF THEM GOT ONE PART OF PLOT,WHERE IS 'INJUSTICE'OR DECISION ON FAITH AND NOT ON LEGALITY ARISES???"...ITS BETTER NOT TO PLAY MERE POLITICS IN SUCH SENSETIVE ISSUE. ITS DIFFICULT TO PROVE EXISTENCE OF GODS AND FAITHS IN HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY,OR MYTHOLOGY.IT SHOWS, WE STILL DON'T YET ACCEPTED THAT EVERY RELIGION TEACHES US 'HUMANITY' AND IT IS A WAY OF LIFE TO REACH TO THE GOD,WHICH IS PEACE.WE BELIEVE -GOD IS ONE WHO WILL TAKE CARE OF OUR ALL PROBLEMS, WHICH IS ACTUALLY OUR SELF BELIEVE THAT HELPS US COME OUT OF PROBLEMS. OUR BELIEVE IN SELF OR OTHERS ARE BIGGEST BLESSINGS!!!....TODAY I WAS LISTENING TO FEW 'BHAJANS' AND 'SONGS'WHOSE LYRICS WERE NOT AT ALL 'COMMUNAL IN A SENSE, THAT CAN VITIATE ATMOSPHERE!!!...VIBHA)
Published: Thursday, Sep 30, 2010, 1:31 IST
By Deepak Gidwani | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA
The entire country waits with bated breath for answers to tricky questions on the Ayodhya dispute, which have been around for six decades now, causing tumult, unrest and instability from time to time.
The task of the three-judge special bench is complicated by the fact that Ayodhya is not just a dispute over a mere plot of land measuring 60 ft by 40 ft. It is a conundrum involving posers relating to subjects from history, geography and archaeology to religion, faith and politics.
Was the Babri mosque built after demolishing a temple? Was Ayodhya the birthplace of Lord Ram as Hindus believe? Was the disputed shrine being used as a mosque till Ram’s idols were foisted inside in December 1949? These are just a few of the numerous questions that have popped up in courts ever since the first title suit was filed in 1950.
Counsels on both sides agree that arriving at “pat answers” would be an onerous task. For, there is no clinching evidence to prove that Ayodhya was, in fact, Ram’s birthplace. Similarly, the Muslim side has not been able to prove that namaz was regularly being held at the site after 1934 when a portion of the mosque was damaged during riots in Ayodhya.
A crucial question which has remained is whether a temple existed at the site before the mosque was built in 1528. Ranjit Lal Verma, the counsel for Nirmohi Akhada, which is one of the main parties in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit, fervently hopes the judges would rely on the “convincing” evidence the Archaeological Survery of India (ASI) submitted before the court after excavations at the disputed site in 2003.
The 574-page report had concluded that the structure had remains which have “distinctive features associated with temples of north India”, points out Ajay Pande, another advocate for the Hindu petitioners.
“While most of the arguments are based on faith, belief and religion, the ASI report is the only clinching evidence in black and white,” he asserts.
However, the contesting parties are not convinced.
“The ASI had conducted the excavations in a big hurry and drafted a report to please its political masters,” says Sunni Central Waqf Board counsel Zafaryab Jilani. He is obviously referring to the BJP-led NDA government of that time at the Centre. “If they had dug further, they might have found remains of some Buddhist or Jain shrines,” he quips.
Interestingly, on the eve of judgment day, the one thing that counsels on both sides seem willing to agree upon is that the pronouncement of the high court verdict could set the stage for arriving at a solution based on mutual agreement.
This is probably because both sides now realise that the only way to end the impasse is to put their heads together and thrash out a solution. Most advocates on both sides told this correspondent that a mandir-masjid complex could be the only way out. Ironically, that is exactly what the shrine was before the dispute started. As the adage goes, the more things change, the more they remain the same.
(WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT REGION,CAST,CREED,RELIGION,FINANCIAL POSITIONS,LANGUAGE BARRIERS,GENDER....DIVISION,DISCREMINATIONS,AND DIFFERENCES ARE STILL THERE IN OUR MINDSET WHICH ARE GETTING CURB WITH TIME,WE ARE MATURING AND WANT TO LIVE PEACEFULLY. YOUNG GENERATIONS DO NOT BELIEVE IN THESE DIFFERENCES MUCH. BUT STILL AFTER WATCHING FEW REACTIONS,FOR EXAMPLE JUST NOW RESPECTED SHRI MULAYAM SINGHJI'S,WHICH SHOWS THEY HAVE NOT TAKEN DECISION CORRECTLY. FACT IS THERE IS 3PARTIES IN THIS CASE,ALL OF THEM GOT ONE PART OF PLOT,WHERE IS 'INJUSTICE'OR DECISION ON FAITH AND NOT ON LEGALITY ARISES???"...ITS BETTER NOT TO PLAY MERE POLITICS IN SUCH SENSETIVE ISSUE. ITS DIFFICULT TO PROVE EXISTENCE OF GODS AND FAITHS IN HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY,OR MYTHOLOGY.IT SHOWS, WE STILL DON'T YET ACCEPTED THAT EVERY RELIGION TEACHES US 'HUMANITY' AND IT IS A WAY OF LIFE TO REACH TO THE GOD,WHICH IS PEACE.WE BELIEVE -GOD IS ONE WHO WILL TAKE CARE OF OUR ALL PROBLEMS, WHICH IS ACTUALLY OUR SELF BELIEVE THAT HELPS US COME OUT OF PROBLEMS. OUR BELIEVE IN SELF OR OTHERS ARE BIGGEST BLESSINGS!!!....TODAY I WAS LISTENING TO FEW 'BHAJANS' AND 'SONGS'WHOSE LYRICS WERE NOT AT ALL 'COMMUNAL IN A SENSE, THAT CAN VITIATE ATMOSPHERE!!!...VIBHA)
Published: Thursday, Sep 30, 2010, 1:31 IST
By Deepak Gidwani | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA
The entire country waits with bated breath for answers to tricky questions on the Ayodhya dispute, which have been around for six decades now, causing tumult, unrest and instability from time to time.
The task of the three-judge special bench is complicated by the fact that Ayodhya is not just a dispute over a mere plot of land measuring 60 ft by 40 ft. It is a conundrum involving posers relating to subjects from history, geography and archaeology to religion, faith and politics.
Was the Babri mosque built after demolishing a temple? Was Ayodhya the birthplace of Lord Ram as Hindus believe? Was the disputed shrine being used as a mosque till Ram’s idols were foisted inside in December 1949? These are just a few of the numerous questions that have popped up in courts ever since the first title suit was filed in 1950.
Counsels on both sides agree that arriving at “pat answers” would be an onerous task. For, there is no clinching evidence to prove that Ayodhya was, in fact, Ram’s birthplace. Similarly, the Muslim side has not been able to prove that namaz was regularly being held at the site after 1934 when a portion of the mosque was damaged during riots in Ayodhya.
A crucial question which has remained is whether a temple existed at the site before the mosque was built in 1528. Ranjit Lal Verma, the counsel for Nirmohi Akhada, which is one of the main parties in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit, fervently hopes the judges would rely on the “convincing” evidence the Archaeological Survery of India (ASI) submitted before the court after excavations at the disputed site in 2003.
The 574-page report had concluded that the structure had remains which have “distinctive features associated with temples of north India”, points out Ajay Pande, another advocate for the Hindu petitioners.
“While most of the arguments are based on faith, belief and religion, the ASI report is the only clinching evidence in black and white,” he asserts.
However, the contesting parties are not convinced.
“The ASI had conducted the excavations in a big hurry and drafted a report to please its political masters,” says Sunni Central Waqf Board counsel Zafaryab Jilani. He is obviously referring to the BJP-led NDA government of that time at the Centre. “If they had dug further, they might have found remains of some Buddhist or Jain shrines,” he quips.
Interestingly, on the eve of judgment day, the one thing that counsels on both sides seem willing to agree upon is that the pronouncement of the high court verdict could set the stage for arriving at a solution based on mutual agreement.
This is probably because both sides now realise that the only way to end the impasse is to put their heads together and thrash out a solution. Most advocates on both sides told this correspondent that a mandir-masjid complex could be the only way out. Ironically, that is exactly what the shrine was before the dispute started. As the adage goes, the more things change, the more they remain the same.
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(References such as the 1986 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica reported that "Rama’s birthplace is marked by a mosque, erected by the Moghul emperor Babar in 1528 on the site of an earlier temple".
[1] According to the Hindu view, the ancient temple could have been destroyed on the orders of Mughal emperor Babur. Claims have been made that worship took place on a platform called the "Ram Chabutara" prior to Independence. According to British sources, Hindus and Muslims (who came from Faizabad) used to worship together in the Disputed Structure in the 19th century until about 1855. P. Carnegy wrote in 1870"It is said that up to that time, the Hindus and Mohamedans alike used to worship in the mosque-temple. Since the British rule a railing has been put up to prevent dispute, within which, in the mosque the Mohamedans pray, while outside the fence the Hindus have raised a platform on which they make their offerings."[4]
This platform was outside the disputed structure but within its precincts.In 1858, the Muazzin of the Babri mosque says in a petition to the British government that the courtyard had been used by Hindus for hundreds of years.)
(IF EARLIER 'HINDU-MUSLIM' USED TO PRAY TOGETHER WHY NOT NOW??...THOUGH HISTORICAL EVEDENCES INDICATES TOWARDS 'EXISTENCE OF RAMJANMSTHAN' WHICH WAS CALLED 'MASJID A JANMSTHAN-MOSQUE ON BIRTH PLACE LATER ON BY INDIAN MUSLIMS!!!THESE POINTS MUST GET CONSIDERATION,AND I AM SURE IT WILL!!!....7.00AM VIBHA)
(8.00pm,30/9/10-THANKS TO COURT WHO ASKED ALL THE 3 PARTIES TO DIVIDE THE PLOT AND GO AHEAD WITH CONSTRUCTION...WHICH MEANS A SYMBOL OF NATIONAL HARMONY WILL GET CONSTRUCTED. IT WILL BE BETTER IF ALL OF THEM SIT TOGETHER WITH GOVERNMENT AS THAT PIECE OF LAND IS UNDER THEM AND DECIDE WHAT KIND OF CONSTRUCTION SHOULD BE DONE,WHICH CAN BE FREE FROM CONTROVERSIES OR DISPUTES IN THE FUTURE AND WHICH HAS MORE RELEVENCE AND USEFULLNESS EXCEPT JUST A MANDIR OR A MOSQUE TO OFFER PUJA!!...GOOD WISHES TO ALL. HAVE FAITH IN OUR JUDICIARY AND FOLLOW THEIR INSTRUCTIONS (as after supreme court verdict no one can defy).. ...VIBHA TAILANG)
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The Ayodhya debate is a political, historical and socio-religious debate that was most prevalent in the 1990s in India, centred around a plot of land in the city of Ayodhya. The main issues revolve around access to a site traditionally regarded as the birthplace of the Hindu God Rama, the history and location of the Babri Mosque at the site, and whether a previous Hindu temple was demolished or modified to create the mosque. The Babri Mosque was destroyed by hardline Hindu activists during a political rally which turned into a riot on December 6, 1992.
Contents [hide]
1 Religious background
1.1 Ram Janmabhumi
1.2 History of Babri Masjid
2 Early historical surveys
2.1 The Mahant Ram Case
3 Post-independance
3.1 The title cases
4 Hindu nationalism
5 Demolition of Babri Masjid
6 Contradictory View
7 Timeline of the debate
8 See also
9 References
10 Further reading
[edit] Religious background
At the centre of the debate is the status of the land known as Ram Janmabhumi, on which the original Babri Masjid was built.
[edit] Ram Janmabhumi
Main article: Ram Janmabhumi
Ayodhya is revered by devout Hindus as the traditional birthplace of the god Rama, legendary King of India and avatar of Vishnu. Hindu religious groups claim that a Ram temple was built at the site sometime during the 11th century, and was destroyed during the 16th century to build the Babri Masjid.[1]
[edit] History of Babri Masjid
A view of the Babri Mosque, pre-1992Main article: Babri Masjid
When the Muslim emperor Babar came down from Farghana in 1527, he defeated the Hindu King of Chittorgarh, Rana Sangram Singh at Fatehpur Sikri, using cannon and artillery. After this victory, Babur took over the region, leaving his general, Mir Banki, in charge as Viceroy.
Mir Banki enforced Mughal rule over the population. Mir Banki came to Ayodhya in 1528 and built the Mosque.[2] The main reason to build the Mosque in Ayodhya was because it served as a central point of India under the Mughal Empire. Later on the Mughal Empire shifted to Delhi.
Mir Banki after building the mosque named it after his master Babar.
Before the 1940s, the mosque was called Masjid-i Janmasthan ("mosque on birthplace") by Indian Muslims.[2] The Babri Mosque was one of the largest mosques in Uttar Pradesh, a state in India with some 31 million Muslims.[3]
[edit] Early historical surveys
In 1767, Jesuit priest Joseph Tieffenthaler records Hindus worshipping and celebrating Ramanavami at the site of the mosque. In 1788, Tiefffenthaler's French works are published in Paris, the first to suggest that the Babri Masjid was on the birthplace of SriRama, saying that "Emperor Aurangzeb got demolished the fortress called Ramkot, and erected on the same place a Mahometan temple with three cuppolas" reclaimed by Hindus through numerous wars after death of Aurangzeb in 1707 A.D like they earlier fortified it during Jahangir's rule as Ramkot.
During the 19th century, the Hindus in Ayodhya were recorded as continuing a tradition of worshiping SriRama on the Ramkot hill. According to British sources, Hindus and Muslims used to worship together in the Babri Mosque complex in the 19th century until about 1855. P. Carnegy wrote in 1870: "It is said that up to that time [viz. the Hindu-Muslim clashes in the 1850s] the Hindus and Mohamedans alike used to worship in the mosque temple."
Claims have been made that worship took place on a platform called the "Ram Chabutara" prior to Independence. According to British sources, Hindus and Muslims (who came from Faizabad) used to worship together in the Disputed Structure in the 19th century until about 1855. P. Carnegy wrote in 1870:
"It is said that up to that time, the Hindus and Mohamedans alike used to worship in the mosque-temple. Since the British rule a railing has been put up to prevent dispute, within which, in the mosque the Mohamedans pray, while outside the fence the Hindus have raised a platform on which they make their offerings."[4]
This platform was outside the disputed structure but within its precincts.In 1858, the Muazzin of the Babri mosque says in a petition to the British government that the courtyard had been used by Hindus for hundreds of years.
[edit] The Mahant Ram Case
In 1885, Mahant Raghubar Ram moved the courts for permission to erect a temple just outside the Babri Masjid premises. Despite validating the claim of the petitioner, the Faizabad District Judge dismissed the case citing the passage of time.[5] On 18 March 1886, the judge passed an order in which he wrote:
I visited the land in dispute yesterday in the presence of all parties. I found that the Masjid built by Emperor Babar stands on the border of Ayodhya, that is to say, to the west and south it is clear of habitations. It is most unfortunate that a Masjid should have been built on land specially held sacred by the Hindus, but as that event occurred 356 years ago, it is too late now to agree with the grievances. (Court verdict by Col. F.E.A. Chamier, District Judge, Faizabad (1886)[6]
[edit] Post-independance
There were several later mosques in Faizabad district in which pilgrim city of Ayodhya falls. But, Ayodhya has almost negligible[7] Muslim population though there are substantial numbers of Muslims 7 km away at District Headquarters - Faizabad. The Babri Mosque at Ayodhya where Muslims never offered Namaz since 1947 independence became famous due to the importance of the disputed site where Hindus have been offering Pujas to Lord Ramlala from even before 1947 independence. Since, 1948, by Indian Government order, Muslims were not even permitted to be near anywhere closer than 200 yards away from the site; the main gate remained locked Hindu pilgrims were allowed to enter through a side door. Also, the 1989 Allahabad High Court order opened the locks of the main gate and restored the site for eternity to the Hindus. However, when Hindus wanted modifications of the dilapidated Islamic style structure built by General Mir Banki on orders of Mughal invader Babur from Uzbekistan (Farghana town) and did Shilanyas (inauguration) of a proposed new grand Temple with Government permissions, there were Muslim unrests in many parts of India and Government moved court. Since, then the matter is sub-judice and this political, historical and socio-religious debate over the history and location of the Babri Mosque, is known as the Ayodhya Debate. Recently on court orders Archeological Survey of India dug the spot and found a previous ancient temple that was demolished or modified to create the later Mosque under Babur.[8]
References such as the 1986 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica reported that "SriRama’s birthplace is marked by a mosque, erected by the Mughal emperor Babar in 1528 on the site of an earlier temple".[9] According to the Hindu view, the ancient temple could have been destroyed on the orders of Mughal emperor Babur. This view has been supported by findings of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which carried out an excavation in Ayodhya.[10]
The latest archeological evidence comes from examination of the site after the destruction of the Babri Mosque. The Archaeological Survey of India under Braj Basi Lal, although initially published as finding no significant structures as these reports were based on inconclusive facts and were mere a media leak, subsequently put forward evidence of a pre-existing temple predating the mosque by hundreds of years as its final report.
[edit] The title cases
In 1950, Gopal Singh Visharad filed a title suit with the Allahabad High Court seeking injunction to offer 'puja' (worship) at the disputed site. A similar suit was filed shortly after but later withdrawn by Paramhans Das of Ayodhya.[11] In 1959, the Nirmohi Akhara, a Hindu religious institution,[12] filed a third title suit seeking direction to hand over the charge of the disputed site, claiming to be its custodian. A fourth suit was filed by the Muslim Central Board of Wakf for declaration and possession of the site. The Allahabad high court bench began hearing the case in 2002, which was completed in 2010. However, the bench withheld its verdict till September 24. After the Supreme Court dismissed a plea to defer the high court verdict, the high court set September 30, 2010 as the final date for pronouncing the judgement.[13][14]
[edit] Hindu nationalism
The Ayodhya debate has grown along with a revival of Hindu Nationalism.
The issue of the disputed structure had remained inactive for four decades, until the mid-1980s.[15] The Hindu Nationalist movement pressed for reclamation of three of its most holy sites which it claimed had suffered at the hands of Islam, at Ayodhya, Mathura and Varanasi. L K Advani, the leader of the BJP in his memoirs argued, "If Muslims are entitled to an Islamic atmosphere in Mecca, and if Christians are entitled to a Christian atmosphere in the Vatican, why is it wrong for the Hindus to expect a Hindu atmosphere in Ayodhya?"
The legal case continues regarding the title deed of the land tract which is a government controlled property.[16] While the Muslim parties want the Babri Mosque to be reconstructed through a court order, the Hindu side wants a law in parliament to have a temple constructed,[17] saying faith in the existence of Ram Janmabhoomi cannot be decided in a court of law.
The situation regarding the Ram Janmabhoomi has been compared to the Temple Mount controversies and claims in Israel by right wing blogger Daniel Pipes. In particular, Pipes writes:
Ayodhya prompts several thoughts relating to the Temple Mount. It shows that the Temple Mount dispute is far from unique. Moslems have habitually asserted the supremacy of Islam through architecture, building on top of the monuments of other faiths (as in Jerusalem and Ayodhya) or appropriating them (e.g. the Ka'ba in Mecca and the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople).[18]
Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has praised Hindu Nationalists for "reclaiming India's Hindu heritage".[19] He further added that the destruction of Babri mosque was an act of historical balancing[20] and the repatriation of the Ramjanmabhoomi was a "welcome sign that Hindu pride was re-asserting itself."[21]
[edit] Demolition of Babri Masjid
Main article: Demolition of Babri Masjid
By the middle of the 20th century, Hindus in the area were claiming that the Mosque had not been used by Muslims since 1936, and they took over the 'unused' mosque in 1949. A movement was launched in 1984 by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP party) to reclaim the site for Hindus who want to erect a temple dedicated to the infant SriRama (Ramlala), at this spot.
On 6 December 1992 the structure was demolished by karsevaks,[22] 150,000 strong, despite a commitment by the government to the Indian Supreme Court that the mosque would not be harmed.[23][24] More than 2000 people were killed in the riots following the demolition. Riots broke out in many major Indian cities including Mumbai, Delhi and Hyderabad[citation needed]
On 16 December 1992, Liberhan Commission was set up by the Government of India to probe the circumstances that led to the demolition of Babri structure.[25] It has been longest running commission in India's history with several extensions granted by various governments. Politicians like L.K.Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi were alleged to be influential in the demolition. On 23 November 2009 the Liberhan commission report was leaked to the media. The leaked report concluded that the demolition may have been planned by top leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party or All India Muslim League to terrorize the country .[26]
Many Muslim organizations have continued to express outrage at the destruction of the disputed structure and carried out the 2005 Ram Janmabhoomi attack in Ayodhya along with strong opposition to building of the proposed new temple even threatening the Head of current Ram Temple (at same spot since 1992).[27]
[edit] Contradictory View
It was until about 1990 the standard view that an ancient Ram Janmabhoomi temple was demolished and replaced with the Babri Mosque. References such as the 1986 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica reported that "SriRama’s birthplace is marked by a mosque, erected by the Mughal emperor Babar in 1528 on the site of an earlier temple".[28]
However, there are some contradictory viewpoints, indicating that there may not have been a significant Hindu temple at the site. In his Communal History and SriRama's Ayodhya, Professor Ram Sharan Sharma writes, "Ayodhya seems to have emerged as a place of religious pilgrimage in medieval times. Although chapter 85 of the Vishnu Smriti lists as many as fifty-two places of pilgrimage, including towns, lakes, rivers, mountains, etc., it does not include Ayodhya in this list."[29] Sharma also notes that Tulsidas, who wrote the Ramcharitmanas in 1574 at Ayodhya, does not mention it as a place of pilgrimage. This suggests that there was no significant Hindu temple at the site of the Babri Mosque.[29] After the demolition of the mosque in 1992, Professor Ram Sharan Sharma along with Historians Suraj Bhan, M.Athar Ali and Dwijendra Narayan Jha wrote the Historian's report to the nation saying that the assumption that there was a temple at the disputed site was mistaken, and no valid reason to destroy the mosque.[30] However, archaeological excavations by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in 1970, 1992 and 2003 in and around the disputed site have indicated a large Hindu complex existed on the site[31]. In 2003, by the order of an Indian Court, The Archaeological Survey of India was asked to conduct a more indepth study and an excavation to ascertain the type of structure that was beneath the rubble.[32] The summary of the ASI report [33] indicated definite proof of a temple under the mosque. In the words of ASI researchers, they discovered "distinctive features associated with... temples of north India". The excavations yielded:
“ stone and decorated bricks as well as mutilated sculpture of a divine couple and carved architectural features, including foliage patterns, amalaka, kapotapali, doorjamb with semi-circular shrine pilaster, broke octagonal shaft of black schist pillar, lotus motif, circular shrine having pranjala (watershute) in the north and 50 pillar bases in association with a huge structure" [34] ”
[edit] Timeline of the debate
Year Date Event[citation needed]
1528 The Babri Masjid was built in Ayodhya in 1528. Hindu groups claim it was built after demolishing a temple.
1853 The first recorded communal clashes over the site date back to this year.
1859 The colonial British administration put a fence around the site, denominating separate areas of worship for Hindus and Muslims. And that is the way it stood for about 90 years.
1949 In December of that year, idols were put inside the mosque. Both sides to the dispute filed civil suits. The government locked the gates, saying the matter was sub-judice and declared the area “disputed”.
1984 The movement to build a temple at the site, which Hindus claimed was the birthplace of Lord Ram, gathered momentum when Hindu groups formed a committee to spearhead the construction of a temple at the Ramjanmabhoomi site.
1986 A district judge ordered the gates of the mosque to be opened after almost five decades and allowed Hindus to worship inside the “disputed structure.” A Babri Mosque Action Committee was formed as Muslims protested the move to allow Hindu prayers at the site.
1989 The clamour for building a Ram temple was growing. Fronted by organizations like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, foundations of a temple were laid on land adjacent to the "disputed structure."
1990 The then BJP president Lal Krishna Advani took out a cross-country rathyatra to garner support for the move to build a Ram temple at the site. VHP volunteers partially damaged the Babri mosque. Prime Minister Chandrashekhar intervened and tried to negotiate with the various groups. But talks failed.
1991 Riding high on the success of Advani's rathyatra, the BJP became India's primary opposition party in Parliament and came to power in Uttar Pradesh.
1991 The movement for building a temple gathered further momentum with Karsevaks or Hindu volunteers pouring into Ayodhya. Bricks were sent from across India.
1992 December 6 The Babri mosque was demolished by Karsevaks. Communal riots across India followed.
1992 December 16 Ten days after the demolition, the Congress government at the Centre, headed by PV Narasimha Rao, set up a commission of inquiry under Justice Liberhan.
1993 Three months after being constituted, the Liberhan Commission began investigations into who and what led to the demolition of the Barbri mosque.
2001 Tensions rose on the anniversary of the demolition of the mosque as the VHP reaffirmed its resolve to build a temple at the site.
2002 February 27 At least 58 people were killed in Godhra, Gujarat, in an attack on a train believed to be carrying Hindu volunteers from Ayodhya. Riots followed in the state and over 1000 people were reported to have died in these.
2003 The court ordered a survey to find out whether a temple to Lord Ram existed on the site. In August, the survey presented evidence of a temple under the mosque. But Muslim groups disputed the findings.
2003 September A court ruled that seven Hindu leaders, including some prominent BJP leaders, should stand trial for inciting the destruction of the Babri Mosque.
2004 November An Uttar Pradesh court ruled that an earlier order which exonerated LK Advani for his role in the destruction of the mosque should be reviewed.
2007 The Supreme Court refused to admit a review petition on the Ayodhya dispute.
2009 The Liberhan Commission, which was instituted ten days after the demolition of the Barbri mosque in 1992, submitted its report on June 30 - almost 17 years after it began its inquiry. Its contents were not made public.
2010 The Allahabad High Court to pronounce its verdict on four title suits relating to the Ayodhya dispute on September 30, 2010[14]
Read more: SC defers hearing on Ayodhya plea - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/SC-defers-hearing-on-Ayodhya-plea/articleshow/6602545.cms#ixzz10tfdAnmV
The petitioner, Ramesh Chandra Tripathi, then approached the Supreme Court, which stayed the High Court verdict on Friday. The two judges who heard the case differed, resulting in the Chief Justice stepping in.
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^ a b Sikand, Yoginder (2006-08-05). "Ayodhya's Forgotten Muslim Past". Counter Currents. http://www.countercurrents.org/comm-sikand050806.htm. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
^ Ali (preface by Irfan Habib), M.Athar (2008). Mughal India. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195696615.
^ Ancient Temple Found Beneath Disputed Mosque About - August 25, 2003
^ Ratnagar, Shereen (2004) "CA Forum on Anthropology in Public: Archaeology at the Heart of a Political Confrontation: The Case of Ayodhya" Current Anthropology 45(2): pp. 239-259, p. 239
^ Prasannan, R. (7 September 2003) "Ayodhya: Layers of truth" The Week (India), from Web Archive
^ Suryamurthy, R. (August 2003) "ASI findings may not resolve title dispute" The Tribune - August 26, 2003
Mahavir Mandir, Patna has published an e book on Ayodhya debate written by Acharya Kishore Kunal available on http;//www.mahavirmandirpatna.org/prakashan/ebook/bookindex.html.
[edit] Further reading
Online court verdict will be avilabe from the official website of india's Allahabad High Court from September 30, 2010 http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/indexhigh.html
Solution to Ayodhya Dispute http://blog.karuturi.org/2010/09/solution-to-ramjanmabhoomi-babri-masjid.html
Ayodhya dispute history http://news.oneindia.in/feature/2010/ayodhya-dispute-history-ram-temple-babri-masjid.html
Communal History and Rama's Ayodhya, by Ram Sharan Sharma, People's Publishing House (PPH), 2nd Revised Edition, September, 1999, Delhi. Translated into Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Two versions in Bengali.
Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor. 1996. Edited, translated and annotated by Wheeler M. Thacktson. New York and London: Oxford University Press.
Ayodhya and the Future of India. 1993. Edited by Jitendra Bajaj. Madras: Centre for Policy Studies.
Elst, Koenraad, Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple (2002) ISBN 81-85990-75-1
Emmanuel, Dominic. "The Mumbai bomb blasts and the Ayodhya tangle", National Catholic Reporter (Kansas City, August 27, 2003).
Harsh Narain. 1993. The Ayodhya Temple Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources. Delhi: Penman Publishers.
Hassner, Ron E., War on Sacred Grounds. 2009. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. [2]
R. Nath. Babari Masjid of Ayodhya, Jaipur 1991.
A. Nandy, S. Trivedy, S. Mayaram, Achyut Yagnik Creating a Nationality: The Ramjanmabhumi Movement and Fear of the Self, Oxford University Press, USA (1998), ISBN 0195642716.
Rajaram, N.S. (2000). Profiles in Deception: Ayodhya and the Dead Sea Scrolls. New Delhi: Voice of India
Thakur Prasad Varma and Swarajya Prakash Gupta: Ayodhya ka Itihas evam Puratattva— Rigveda kal se ab tak ("History and Archaeology of Ayodhya— From the Time of the Rigveda to the Present"). Bharatiya Itihasa evam Samskrit Parishad and DK Printworld. New Delhi.
Thapar, Romila. A Historical Perspective on the Story of Rama in Thapar (2000).
Thapar, Romila. Cultural Pasts: Essays in Early Indian History (New Delhi: Oxford University, 2000) ISBN 0-19-564050-0.
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(References such as the 1986 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica reported that "Rama’s birthplace is marked by a mosque, erected by the Moghul emperor Babar in 1528 on the site of an earlier temple".
[1] According to the Hindu view, the ancient temple could have been destroyed on the orders of Mughal emperor Babur. Claims have been made that worship took place on a platform called the "Ram Chabutara" prior to Independence. According to British sources, Hindus and Muslims (who came from Faizabad) used to worship together in the Disputed Structure in the 19th century until about 1855. P. Carnegy wrote in 1870"It is said that up to that time, the Hindus and Mohamedans alike used to worship in the mosque-temple. Since the British rule a railing has been put up to prevent dispute, within which, in the mosque the Mohamedans pray, while outside the fence the Hindus have raised a platform on which they make their offerings."[4]
This platform was outside the disputed structure but within its precincts.In 1858, the Muazzin of the Babri mosque says in a petition to the British government that the courtyard had been used by Hindus for hundreds of years.)
(IF EARLIER 'HINDU-MUSLIM' USED TO PRAY TOGETHER WHY NOT NOW??...THOUGH HISTORICAL EVEDENCES INDICATES TOWARDS 'EXISTENCE OF RAMJANMSTHAN' WHICH WAS CALLED 'MASJID A JANMSTHAN-MOSQUE ON BIRTH PLACE LATER ON BY INDIAN MUSLIMS!!!THESE POINTS MUST GET CONSIDERATION,AND I AM SURE IT WILL!!!....7.00AM VIBHA)
(8.00pm,30/9/10-THANKS TO COURT WHO ASKED ALL THE 3 PARTIES TO DIVIDE THE PLOT AND GO AHEAD WITH CONSTRUCTION...WHICH MEANS A SYMBOL OF NATIONAL HARMONY WILL GET CONSTRUCTED. IT WILL BE BETTER IF ALL OF THEM SIT TOGETHER WITH GOVERNMENT AS THAT PIECE OF LAND IS UNDER THEM AND DECIDE WHAT KIND OF CONSTRUCTION SHOULD BE DONE,WHICH CAN BE FREE FROM CONTROVERSIES OR DISPUTES IN THE FUTURE AND WHICH HAS MORE RELEVENCE AND USEFULLNESS EXCEPT JUST A MANDIR OR A MOSQUE TO OFFER PUJA!!...GOOD WISHES TO ALL. HAVE FAITH IN OUR JUDICIARY AND FOLLOW THEIR INSTRUCTIONS (as after supreme court verdict no one can defy).. ...VIBHA TAILANG)
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Ayodhya debate
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The Ayodhya debate is a political, historical and socio-religious debate that was most prevalent in the 1990s in India, centred around a plot of land in the city of Ayodhya. The main issues revolve around access to a site traditionally regarded as the birthplace of the Hindu God Rama, the history and location of the Babri Mosque at the site, and whether a previous Hindu temple was demolished or modified to create the mosque. The Babri Mosque was destroyed by hardline Hindu activists during a political rally which turned into a riot on December 6, 1992.
Contents [hide]
1 Religious background
1.1 Ram Janmabhumi
1.2 History of Babri Masjid
2 Early historical surveys
2.1 The Mahant Ram Case
3 Post-independance
3.1 The title cases
4 Hindu nationalism
5 Demolition of Babri Masjid
6 Contradictory View
7 Timeline of the debate
8 See also
9 References
10 Further reading
[edit] Religious background
At the centre of the debate is the status of the land known as Ram Janmabhumi, on which the original Babri Masjid was built.
[edit] Ram Janmabhumi
Main article: Ram Janmabhumi
Ayodhya is revered by devout Hindus as the traditional birthplace of the god Rama, legendary King of India and avatar of Vishnu. Hindu religious groups claim that a Ram temple was built at the site sometime during the 11th century, and was destroyed during the 16th century to build the Babri Masjid.[1]
[edit] History of Babri Masjid
A view of the Babri Mosque, pre-1992Main article: Babri Masjid
When the Muslim emperor Babar came down from Farghana in 1527, he defeated the Hindu King of Chittorgarh, Rana Sangram Singh at Fatehpur Sikri, using cannon and artillery. After this victory, Babur took over the region, leaving his general, Mir Banki, in charge as Viceroy.
Mir Banki enforced Mughal rule over the population. Mir Banki came to Ayodhya in 1528 and built the Mosque.[2] The main reason to build the Mosque in Ayodhya was because it served as a central point of India under the Mughal Empire. Later on the Mughal Empire shifted to Delhi.
Mir Banki after building the mosque named it after his master Babar.
Before the 1940s, the mosque was called Masjid-i Janmasthan ("mosque on birthplace") by Indian Muslims.[2] The Babri Mosque was one of the largest mosques in Uttar Pradesh, a state in India with some 31 million Muslims.[3]
[edit] Early historical surveys
In 1767, Jesuit priest Joseph Tieffenthaler records Hindus worshipping and celebrating Ramanavami at the site of the mosque. In 1788, Tiefffenthaler's French works are published in Paris, the first to suggest that the Babri Masjid was on the birthplace of SriRama, saying that "Emperor Aurangzeb got demolished the fortress called Ramkot, and erected on the same place a Mahometan temple with three cuppolas" reclaimed by Hindus through numerous wars after death of Aurangzeb in 1707 A.D like they earlier fortified it during Jahangir's rule as Ramkot.
During the 19th century, the Hindus in Ayodhya were recorded as continuing a tradition of worshiping SriRama on the Ramkot hill. According to British sources, Hindus and Muslims used to worship together in the Babri Mosque complex in the 19th century until about 1855. P. Carnegy wrote in 1870: "It is said that up to that time [viz. the Hindu-Muslim clashes in the 1850s] the Hindus and Mohamedans alike used to worship in the mosque temple."
Claims have been made that worship took place on a platform called the "Ram Chabutara" prior to Independence. According to British sources, Hindus and Muslims (who came from Faizabad) used to worship together in the Disputed Structure in the 19th century until about 1855. P. Carnegy wrote in 1870:
"It is said that up to that time, the Hindus and Mohamedans alike used to worship in the mosque-temple. Since the British rule a railing has been put up to prevent dispute, within which, in the mosque the Mohamedans pray, while outside the fence the Hindus have raised a platform on which they make their offerings."[4]
This platform was outside the disputed structure but within its precincts.In 1858, the Muazzin of the Babri mosque says in a petition to the British government that the courtyard had been used by Hindus for hundreds of years.
[edit] The Mahant Ram Case
In 1885, Mahant Raghubar Ram moved the courts for permission to erect a temple just outside the Babri Masjid premises. Despite validating the claim of the petitioner, the Faizabad District Judge dismissed the case citing the passage of time.[5] On 18 March 1886, the judge passed an order in which he wrote:
I visited the land in dispute yesterday in the presence of all parties. I found that the Masjid built by Emperor Babar stands on the border of Ayodhya, that is to say, to the west and south it is clear of habitations. It is most unfortunate that a Masjid should have been built on land specially held sacred by the Hindus, but as that event occurred 356 years ago, it is too late now to agree with the grievances. (Court verdict by Col. F.E.A. Chamier, District Judge, Faizabad (1886)[6]
[edit] Post-independance
There were several later mosques in Faizabad district in which pilgrim city of Ayodhya falls. But, Ayodhya has almost negligible[7] Muslim population though there are substantial numbers of Muslims 7 km away at District Headquarters - Faizabad. The Babri Mosque at Ayodhya where Muslims never offered Namaz since 1947 independence became famous due to the importance of the disputed site where Hindus have been offering Pujas to Lord Ramlala from even before 1947 independence. Since, 1948, by Indian Government order, Muslims were not even permitted to be near anywhere closer than 200 yards away from the site; the main gate remained locked Hindu pilgrims were allowed to enter through a side door. Also, the 1989 Allahabad High Court order opened the locks of the main gate and restored the site for eternity to the Hindus. However, when Hindus wanted modifications of the dilapidated Islamic style structure built by General Mir Banki on orders of Mughal invader Babur from Uzbekistan (Farghana town) and did Shilanyas (inauguration) of a proposed new grand Temple with Government permissions, there were Muslim unrests in many parts of India and Government moved court. Since, then the matter is sub-judice and this political, historical and socio-religious debate over the history and location of the Babri Mosque, is known as the Ayodhya Debate. Recently on court orders Archeological Survey of India dug the spot and found a previous ancient temple that was demolished or modified to create the later Mosque under Babur.[8]
References such as the 1986 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica reported that "SriRama’s birthplace is marked by a mosque, erected by the Mughal emperor Babar in 1528 on the site of an earlier temple".[9] According to the Hindu view, the ancient temple could have been destroyed on the orders of Mughal emperor Babur. This view has been supported by findings of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which carried out an excavation in Ayodhya.[10]
The latest archeological evidence comes from examination of the site after the destruction of the Babri Mosque. The Archaeological Survey of India under Braj Basi Lal, although initially published as finding no significant structures as these reports were based on inconclusive facts and were mere a media leak, subsequently put forward evidence of a pre-existing temple predating the mosque by hundreds of years as its final report.
[edit] The title cases
In 1950, Gopal Singh Visharad filed a title suit with the Allahabad High Court seeking injunction to offer 'puja' (worship) at the disputed site. A similar suit was filed shortly after but later withdrawn by Paramhans Das of Ayodhya.[11] In 1959, the Nirmohi Akhara, a Hindu religious institution,[12] filed a third title suit seeking direction to hand over the charge of the disputed site, claiming to be its custodian. A fourth suit was filed by the Muslim Central Board of Wakf for declaration and possession of the site. The Allahabad high court bench began hearing the case in 2002, which was completed in 2010. However, the bench withheld its verdict till September 24. After the Supreme Court dismissed a plea to defer the high court verdict, the high court set September 30, 2010 as the final date for pronouncing the judgement.[13][14]
[edit] Hindu nationalism
The Ayodhya debate has grown along with a revival of Hindu Nationalism.
The issue of the disputed structure had remained inactive for four decades, until the mid-1980s.[15] The Hindu Nationalist movement pressed for reclamation of three of its most holy sites which it claimed had suffered at the hands of Islam, at Ayodhya, Mathura and Varanasi. L K Advani, the leader of the BJP in his memoirs argued, "If Muslims are entitled to an Islamic atmosphere in Mecca, and if Christians are entitled to a Christian atmosphere in the Vatican, why is it wrong for the Hindus to expect a Hindu atmosphere in Ayodhya?"
The legal case continues regarding the title deed of the land tract which is a government controlled property.[16] While the Muslim parties want the Babri Mosque to be reconstructed through a court order, the Hindu side wants a law in parliament to have a temple constructed,[17] saying faith in the existence of Ram Janmabhoomi cannot be decided in a court of law.
The situation regarding the Ram Janmabhoomi has been compared to the Temple Mount controversies and claims in Israel by right wing blogger Daniel Pipes. In particular, Pipes writes:
Ayodhya prompts several thoughts relating to the Temple Mount. It shows that the Temple Mount dispute is far from unique. Moslems have habitually asserted the supremacy of Islam through architecture, building on top of the monuments of other faiths (as in Jerusalem and Ayodhya) or appropriating them (e.g. the Ka'ba in Mecca and the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople).[18]
Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has praised Hindu Nationalists for "reclaiming India's Hindu heritage".[19] He further added that the destruction of Babri mosque was an act of historical balancing[20] and the repatriation of the Ramjanmabhoomi was a "welcome sign that Hindu pride was re-asserting itself."[21]
[edit] Demolition of Babri Masjid
Main article: Demolition of Babri Masjid
By the middle of the 20th century, Hindus in the area were claiming that the Mosque had not been used by Muslims since 1936, and they took over the 'unused' mosque in 1949. A movement was launched in 1984 by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP party) to reclaim the site for Hindus who want to erect a temple dedicated to the infant SriRama (Ramlala), at this spot.
On 6 December 1992 the structure was demolished by karsevaks,[22] 150,000 strong, despite a commitment by the government to the Indian Supreme Court that the mosque would not be harmed.[23][24] More than 2000 people were killed in the riots following the demolition. Riots broke out in many major Indian cities including Mumbai, Delhi and Hyderabad[citation needed]
On 16 December 1992, Liberhan Commission was set up by the Government of India to probe the circumstances that led to the demolition of Babri structure.[25] It has been longest running commission in India's history with several extensions granted by various governments. Politicians like L.K.Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi were alleged to be influential in the demolition. On 23 November 2009 the Liberhan commission report was leaked to the media. The leaked report concluded that the demolition may have been planned by top leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party or All India Muslim League to terrorize the country .[26]
Many Muslim organizations have continued to express outrage at the destruction of the disputed structure and carried out the 2005 Ram Janmabhoomi attack in Ayodhya along with strong opposition to building of the proposed new temple even threatening the Head of current Ram Temple (at same spot since 1992).[27]
[edit] Contradictory View
It was until about 1990 the standard view that an ancient Ram Janmabhoomi temple was demolished and replaced with the Babri Mosque. References such as the 1986 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica reported that "SriRama’s birthplace is marked by a mosque, erected by the Mughal emperor Babar in 1528 on the site of an earlier temple".[28]
However, there are some contradictory viewpoints, indicating that there may not have been a significant Hindu temple at the site. In his Communal History and SriRama's Ayodhya, Professor Ram Sharan Sharma writes, "Ayodhya seems to have emerged as a place of religious pilgrimage in medieval times. Although chapter 85 of the Vishnu Smriti lists as many as fifty-two places of pilgrimage, including towns, lakes, rivers, mountains, etc., it does not include Ayodhya in this list."[29] Sharma also notes that Tulsidas, who wrote the Ramcharitmanas in 1574 at Ayodhya, does not mention it as a place of pilgrimage. This suggests that there was no significant Hindu temple at the site of the Babri Mosque.[29] After the demolition of the mosque in 1992, Professor Ram Sharan Sharma along with Historians Suraj Bhan, M.Athar Ali and Dwijendra Narayan Jha wrote the Historian's report to the nation saying that the assumption that there was a temple at the disputed site was mistaken, and no valid reason to destroy the mosque.[30] However, archaeological excavations by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in 1970, 1992 and 2003 in and around the disputed site have indicated a large Hindu complex existed on the site[31]. In 2003, by the order of an Indian Court, The Archaeological Survey of India was asked to conduct a more indepth study and an excavation to ascertain the type of structure that was beneath the rubble.[32] The summary of the ASI report [33] indicated definite proof of a temple under the mosque. In the words of ASI researchers, they discovered "distinctive features associated with... temples of north India". The excavations yielded:
“ stone and decorated bricks as well as mutilated sculpture of a divine couple and carved architectural features, including foliage patterns, amalaka, kapotapali, doorjamb with semi-circular shrine pilaster, broke octagonal shaft of black schist pillar, lotus motif, circular shrine having pranjala (watershute) in the north and 50 pillar bases in association with a huge structure" [34] ”
[edit] Timeline of the debate
Year Date Event[citation needed]
1528 The Babri Masjid was built in Ayodhya in 1528. Hindu groups claim it was built after demolishing a temple.
1853 The first recorded communal clashes over the site date back to this year.
1859 The colonial British administration put a fence around the site, denominating separate areas of worship for Hindus and Muslims. And that is the way it stood for about 90 years.
1949 In December of that year, idols were put inside the mosque. Both sides to the dispute filed civil suits. The government locked the gates, saying the matter was sub-judice and declared the area “disputed”.
1984 The movement to build a temple at the site, which Hindus claimed was the birthplace of Lord Ram, gathered momentum when Hindu groups formed a committee to spearhead the construction of a temple at the Ramjanmabhoomi site.
1986 A district judge ordered the gates of the mosque to be opened after almost five decades and allowed Hindus to worship inside the “disputed structure.” A Babri Mosque Action Committee was formed as Muslims protested the move to allow Hindu prayers at the site.
1989 The clamour for building a Ram temple was growing. Fronted by organizations like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, foundations of a temple were laid on land adjacent to the "disputed structure."
1990 The then BJP president Lal Krishna Advani took out a cross-country rathyatra to garner support for the move to build a Ram temple at the site. VHP volunteers partially damaged the Babri mosque. Prime Minister Chandrashekhar intervened and tried to negotiate with the various groups. But talks failed.
1991 Riding high on the success of Advani's rathyatra, the BJP became India's primary opposition party in Parliament and came to power in Uttar Pradesh.
1991 The movement for building a temple gathered further momentum with Karsevaks or Hindu volunteers pouring into Ayodhya. Bricks were sent from across India.
1992 December 6 The Babri mosque was demolished by Karsevaks. Communal riots across India followed.
1992 December 16 Ten days after the demolition, the Congress government at the Centre, headed by PV Narasimha Rao, set up a commission of inquiry under Justice Liberhan.
1993 Three months after being constituted, the Liberhan Commission began investigations into who and what led to the demolition of the Barbri mosque.
2001 Tensions rose on the anniversary of the demolition of the mosque as the VHP reaffirmed its resolve to build a temple at the site.
2002 February 27 At least 58 people were killed in Godhra, Gujarat, in an attack on a train believed to be carrying Hindu volunteers from Ayodhya. Riots followed in the state and over 1000 people were reported to have died in these.
2003 The court ordered a survey to find out whether a temple to Lord Ram existed on the site. In August, the survey presented evidence of a temple under the mosque. But Muslim groups disputed the findings.
2003 September A court ruled that seven Hindu leaders, including some prominent BJP leaders, should stand trial for inciting the destruction of the Babri Mosque.
2004 November An Uttar Pradesh court ruled that an earlier order which exonerated LK Advani for his role in the destruction of the mosque should be reviewed.
2007 The Supreme Court refused to admit a review petition on the Ayodhya dispute.
2009 The Liberhan Commission, which was instituted ten days after the demolition of the Barbri mosque in 1992, submitted its report on June 30 - almost 17 years after it began its inquiry. Its contents were not made public.
2010 The Allahabad High Court to pronounce its verdict on four title suits relating to the Ayodhya dispute on September 30, 2010[14]
Read more: SC defers hearing on Ayodhya plea - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/SC-defers-hearing-on-Ayodhya-plea/articleshow/6602545.cms#ixzz10tfdAnmV
The petitioner, Ramesh Chandra Tripathi, then approached the Supreme Court, which stayed the High Court verdict on Friday. The two judges who heard the case differed, resulting in the Chief Justice stepping in.
[edit] See also
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^ Prasannan, R. (7 September 2003) "Ayodhya: Layers of truth" The Week (India), from Web Archive
^ Suryamurthy, R. (August 2003) "ASI findings may not resolve title dispute" The Tribune - August 26, 2003
Mahavir Mandir, Patna has published an e book on Ayodhya debate written by Acharya Kishore Kunal available on http;//www.mahavirmandirpatna.org/prakashan/ebook/bookindex.html.
[edit] Further reading
Online court verdict will be avilabe from the official website of india's Allahabad High Court from September 30, 2010 http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/indexhigh.html
Solution to Ayodhya Dispute http://blog.karuturi.org/2010/09/solution-to-ramjanmabhoomi-babri-masjid.html
Ayodhya dispute history http://news.oneindia.in/feature/2010/ayodhya-dispute-history-ram-temple-babri-masjid.html
Communal History and Rama's Ayodhya, by Ram Sharan Sharma, People's Publishing House (PPH), 2nd Revised Edition, September, 1999, Delhi. Translated into Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Two versions in Bengali.
Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor. 1996. Edited, translated and annotated by Wheeler M. Thacktson. New York and London: Oxford University Press.
Ayodhya and the Future of India. 1993. Edited by Jitendra Bajaj. Madras: Centre for Policy Studies.
Elst, Koenraad, Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple (2002) ISBN 81-85990-75-1
Emmanuel, Dominic. "The Mumbai bomb blasts and the Ayodhya tangle", National Catholic Reporter (Kansas City, August 27, 2003).
Harsh Narain. 1993. The Ayodhya Temple Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources. Delhi: Penman Publishers.
Hassner, Ron E., War on Sacred Grounds. 2009. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. [2]
R. Nath. Babari Masjid of Ayodhya, Jaipur 1991.
A. Nandy, S. Trivedy, S. Mayaram, Achyut Yagnik Creating a Nationality: The Ramjanmabhumi Movement and Fear of the Self, Oxford University Press, USA (1998), ISBN 0195642716.
Rajaram, N.S. (2000). Profiles in Deception: Ayodhya and the Dead Sea Scrolls. New Delhi: Voice of India
Thakur Prasad Varma and Swarajya Prakash Gupta: Ayodhya ka Itihas evam Puratattva— Rigveda kal se ab tak ("History and Archaeology of Ayodhya— From the Time of the Rigveda to the Present"). Bharatiya Itihasa evam Samskrit Parishad and DK Printworld. New Delhi.
Thapar, Romila. A Historical Perspective on the Story of Rama in Thapar (2000).
Thapar, Romila. Cultural Pasts: Essays in Early Indian History (New Delhi: Oxford University, 2000) ISBN 0-19-564050-0.
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Ayodhya dispute: claims and counter-claims -29/09/2010
29/09/2010
Ayodhya dispute: claims and counter-claims
(ZAMEEN DO EIKARRH CHAHIYE,HUMEIEN BHI,TUMHE BHI...JEENE KE LIYE!!!
MARNE PER TOOO KOI HUMEIN DO GUZ ZAMEEN MEIN DAFNAEY YA NADEE KINARE JALAYE,
KYA FARQ PADTA HAI??
KYON LADTE HO,MARTE AUR MARTE HO ZAMEEN KE TUKDE KE LIYE???
BHAGAWAN YA ALLAH NE TOOO DIL MEIN BASNE KI BAAT KAHI HAI!!!
AYODHYA MEIN SARV DHARM BHAICHARE KI AUR PYAR-SNEH KI DHARA BAHTI HAI,
MANDIR MEIN HER DEVI-DEVTAON KI MURTIYAIN DIKHTI HEIN,
BUDDH HO YA MAHAVEER SABKO JAGAH MILTI HAI!!!
JAHAM MUSLIM FHOOLON KE HAAR BANATE HAI,
AUR HINDU USSSE SHRADHA BHAV SE MURTIYON PER CHADHHATE HAI,
JAHAN HINDU KARTEIN HEIN MASJIDON KI RAKSHHA,
AUR MUSLIM BANATEIN HEIN KHADAOUN MAHANTON KI!!!
JAHAN MUSLIM DARJEE KE SEELE KAPDON KO,
HINDUON KE RAMLALLA PAHANTE HEIN!!
YEH AASTHA USS INSANIYAT PER HI TO HAI
JISSE RAM-RAHIM,AALAH,GOD,BUDDHA,MAHAVIR NE SIKHAYA HAI!!!
PER AIISSA KYON KI MUSLIM MURTIYON KI IBADAT NAHIN KARTE,
HINDU AAZAN NAHIN SUNNA CHAHTE-YEH QAISI CHAHAT HAI???
QUON NA INSANIYAAT KA MANDIR HO, RAM-RAHIM KE VACHAAN HON??
NA MURTIYON AUR GHANTIYON SE TUMHARA ZI TALKH HO,
NA AAZAANON KI GOONJ SE HUMARA MANN KASMASAYE???
KYA AYISI AYODHYA NAHIN HO SAKTI???
JAHAN DALITON KE BHI RAM-RAHIM,SAVARGON KE BHI RAM-RAHIM,
HINDUON KA BHI RAM-RAHIM,MUSALMANO KE BHI RAM RAHIM
PYAR KE BOL SEEKHAYEIN!!
(BACHPAN MEIN SUUNI VO BOL GEET KI YAAD AA GAYEIN-
"TU HINDU BANEGA NA MUSALMAN BANEGA,
INSAAN KI AULAAD HAI INSAAN BANEGA)
SOO!!! CHOODO KAL KI BATEIN,KAL KI BAAT PURANI
NAYE TAUR PE LIKHINGE,MILKAR NAYEE KAHANI!!
JAI BHARAT,JAI HINDUSTAN,JAI INDIA!!(
YAAD HAI HUM SABKO,HUM SAB PAHLE BHARATIYE HEIN!!!
(HUMEIN SABKO BANNA HEIN SAMARTH! SWABHIMANI!BHARAT!...LADNA HAI,BHOOK!BHAYE!AUR BHRASHTACHAAR KE KHILAF!!BURAION,GAREEBI,KURITIOUN KE KILAF!...HUMARA HAAT SABHI ZAROORATMANDON,SHOSHITON KE SAATH HOGA!!...KYONKI KARM HI POOJA HAI! MEHNAT HI IBBADAT HAI! INSAANIYAT HI DHARM HAI!! BAKI TOOOOO SIRF AAPNI AASTHA YA FAITH HAI,JISE BHI-PUJO TO BHAGWAN HAI, NA POOJO PASHAN HAI!!JEENA HAI TO 'SHOW PIECE YA ORNAMENT BAANKER NAHIN, SARTHAK-'PERSON'S OF SUBSTANCE' BAANKER JINA HI JEEVAN HAI!!
VIBHATAILANG-30/9/10...MERI TVARIT ABHIVYAKTI)
New Delhi: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court will Thursday give its verdict on the Ayodhya land row. Here are the claims and counter-claims of the contestants in the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi dispute:
Birthplace of Hindu god Ram:
- Hindu litigants say the disputed site in Ayodhya is the birthplace of Ram.
- Muslim litigants argue there is no historical, archaeological or religious proof for this. They say even Hindu religious bodies and 'akharas' in Ayodhya are not unanimous on this issue.
Ram temple:
- Several Hindu organisations claim a Ram temple was built at the site in 10th-11th century A.D. This was destroyed to raise the Babri mosque in the 16th century.
- Muslim groups say there is no historic evidence to back this. According to them, Turkish sultans found a mound at Ram Kot in Ayodhya in 1194.
Temple or mosque:
- Hindu groups claim the Ram temple was razed by Mir Baqi, a general of Mughal emperor Babar, to build a mosque in 1528.
- Muslim groups say there is no evidence to back this assertion.
Archaeological evidence:
- The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which carried out excavations, said in a 574-page report that there were distinctive features associated with a 10th centrury north Indian temple beneath the Babri mosque site.
- Muslim groups and the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Waqf Board challange the ASI findings. They say the ASI ignored the discovery of glazed tiles and pottery, besides two graves, which proved that Muslim settlements existed there even before Babar's time.
Possession rights:
- Muslim groups claim they have held the title of the land at the site for centuries. They say that regular prayers were offered at the mosque till Dec 22, 1949.
- Hindus argue that Muslims got possession of the site during Babar's time.
Legal limitation:
- Hindus argue that the Rule of Limitation applies to the suit filed in 1961 by Muslim litigants and organisations. Muslims protected their title though adverse possession.
- Muslim groups argue that they have the legal title. One cannot go back to several centuries ago on the argument of adverse possession.
Ayodhya dispute: claims and counter-claims
(ZAMEEN DO EIKARRH CHAHIYE,HUMEIEN BHI,TUMHE BHI...JEENE KE LIYE!!!
MARNE PER TOOO KOI HUMEIN DO GUZ ZAMEEN MEIN DAFNAEY YA NADEE KINARE JALAYE,
KYA FARQ PADTA HAI??
KYON LADTE HO,MARTE AUR MARTE HO ZAMEEN KE TUKDE KE LIYE???
BHAGAWAN YA ALLAH NE TOOO DIL MEIN BASNE KI BAAT KAHI HAI!!!
AYODHYA MEIN SARV DHARM BHAICHARE KI AUR PYAR-SNEH KI DHARA BAHTI HAI,
MANDIR MEIN HER DEVI-DEVTAON KI MURTIYAIN DIKHTI HEIN,
BUDDH HO YA MAHAVEER SABKO JAGAH MILTI HAI!!!
JAHAM MUSLIM FHOOLON KE HAAR BANATE HAI,
AUR HINDU USSSE SHRADHA BHAV SE MURTIYON PER CHADHHATE HAI,
JAHAN HINDU KARTEIN HEIN MASJIDON KI RAKSHHA,
AUR MUSLIM BANATEIN HEIN KHADAOUN MAHANTON KI!!!
JAHAN MUSLIM DARJEE KE SEELE KAPDON KO,
HINDUON KE RAMLALLA PAHANTE HEIN!!
YEH AASTHA USS INSANIYAT PER HI TO HAI
JISSE RAM-RAHIM,AALAH,GOD,BUDDHA,MAHAVIR NE SIKHAYA HAI!!!
PER AIISSA KYON KI MUSLIM MURTIYON KI IBADAT NAHIN KARTE,
HINDU AAZAN NAHIN SUNNA CHAHTE-YEH QAISI CHAHAT HAI???
QUON NA INSANIYAAT KA MANDIR HO, RAM-RAHIM KE VACHAAN HON??
NA MURTIYON AUR GHANTIYON SE TUMHARA ZI TALKH HO,
NA AAZAANON KI GOONJ SE HUMARA MANN KASMASAYE???
KYA AYISI AYODHYA NAHIN HO SAKTI???
JAHAN DALITON KE BHI RAM-RAHIM,SAVARGON KE BHI RAM-RAHIM,
HINDUON KA BHI RAM-RAHIM,MUSALMANO KE BHI RAM RAHIM
PYAR KE BOL SEEKHAYEIN!!
(BACHPAN MEIN SUUNI VO BOL GEET KI YAAD AA GAYEIN-
"TU HINDU BANEGA NA MUSALMAN BANEGA,
INSAAN KI AULAAD HAI INSAAN BANEGA)
SOO!!! CHOODO KAL KI BATEIN,KAL KI BAAT PURANI
NAYE TAUR PE LIKHINGE,MILKAR NAYEE KAHANI!!
JAI BHARAT,JAI HINDUSTAN,JAI INDIA!!(
YAAD HAI HUM SABKO,HUM SAB PAHLE BHARATIYE HEIN!!!
(HUMEIN SABKO BANNA HEIN SAMARTH! SWABHIMANI!BHARAT!...LADNA HAI,BHOOK!BHAYE!AUR BHRASHTACHAAR KE KHILAF!!BURAION,GAREEBI,KURITIOUN KE KILAF!...HUMARA HAAT SABHI ZAROORATMANDON,SHOSHITON KE SAATH HOGA!!...KYONKI KARM HI POOJA HAI! MEHNAT HI IBBADAT HAI! INSAANIYAT HI DHARM HAI!! BAKI TOOOOO SIRF AAPNI AASTHA YA FAITH HAI,JISE BHI-PUJO TO BHAGWAN HAI, NA POOJO PASHAN HAI!!JEENA HAI TO 'SHOW PIECE YA ORNAMENT BAANKER NAHIN, SARTHAK-'PERSON'S OF SUBSTANCE' BAANKER JINA HI JEEVAN HAI!!
VIBHATAILANG-30/9/10...MERI TVARIT ABHIVYAKTI)
New Delhi: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court will Thursday give its verdict on the Ayodhya land row. Here are the claims and counter-claims of the contestants in the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi dispute:
Birthplace of Hindu god Ram:
- Hindu litigants say the disputed site in Ayodhya is the birthplace of Ram.
- Muslim litigants argue there is no historical, archaeological or religious proof for this. They say even Hindu religious bodies and 'akharas' in Ayodhya are not unanimous on this issue.
Ram temple:
- Several Hindu organisations claim a Ram temple was built at the site in 10th-11th century A.D. This was destroyed to raise the Babri mosque in the 16th century.
- Muslim groups say there is no historic evidence to back this. According to them, Turkish sultans found a mound at Ram Kot in Ayodhya in 1194.
Temple or mosque:
- Hindu groups claim the Ram temple was razed by Mir Baqi, a general of Mughal emperor Babar, to build a mosque in 1528.
- Muslim groups say there is no evidence to back this assertion.
Archaeological evidence:
- The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which carried out excavations, said in a 574-page report that there were distinctive features associated with a 10th centrury north Indian temple beneath the Babri mosque site.
- Muslim groups and the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Waqf Board challange the ASI findings. They say the ASI ignored the discovery of glazed tiles and pottery, besides two graves, which proved that Muslim settlements existed there even before Babar's time.
Possession rights:
- Muslim groups claim they have held the title of the land at the site for centuries. They say that regular prayers were offered at the mosque till Dec 22, 1949.
- Hindus argue that Muslims got possession of the site during Babar's time.
Legal limitation:
- Hindus argue that the Rule of Limitation applies to the suit filed in 1961 by Muslim litigants and organisations. Muslims protected their title though adverse possession.
- Muslim groups argue that they have the legal title. One cannot go back to several centuries ago on the argument of adverse possession.
Commonwealth Games 2010: earplugs at the ready for the return of the vuvuzela -29 Sep 2010
Commonwealth Games 2010: earplugs at the ready for the return of the vuvuzela
The Commonwealth Games could end up sounding an awful lot like the football World Cup. Vuvuzelas, the long plastic horns that created a constant din – and plenty of debate – last summer in South Africa, have been selling steadily in New Delhi ahead of the Games.
By Telegraph staff and agencies
Published: 5:21PM BST 29 Sep 2010
It's back: Fresh from conquering South African football stadiums, the Vuvuzela has been unleashed on New Delhi Photo: AFP
"There is a lot of demand for the vuvuzela," said Suresh Kumar, the chairman of Premier Brands, the Indian company in charge of merchandizing at the Commonwealth Games. "We have sold more than 12,000 pieces."
Loved by some and despised by others, the vuvuzela was a constant topic of conversation in South Africa. While the local football fans embraced the atmosphere it helped create at games across the country, many overseas broadcasters and viewers complained that the drone disrupted the enjoyment of watching games on television.
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Referendum: Are Premier League clubs wrong to ban vuvuzelas?The debate has not deterred Commonwealth Games organisers in the Indian capital, where 50,000 vuvuzelas were imported from China for the event. There is no plan to bring in more, even though the plastic horns are the second-best selling product behind T-shirts, Kumar said.
"People here like them because in India we associate celebrations with noise," he added. "Festivals like Diwali are always very loud."
Even Indian Sports Minister M S Gill got in on the act, standing with Commonwealth Games organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi and blowing a vuvuzela on Wednesday at the athletes' village.
Because of the sounds that emanated from the World Cup, several Premier League clubs and even the All England Club at Wimbledon banned vuvuzelas from their venues. Uefa has also banned them from European football competition.
The Commonwealth Games may not cause as much of an uproar for viewers overseas, however. On Tuesday, Indian Tourism Minister Kumari Selja admitted only 200,000 of the 1.7 million tickets for the games have been sold.
The vuvuzelas are selling for 250 rupees (£3.50) and organisers hope the relatively inexpensive price – inexpensive for foreigners anyway – will help sales.
"This will enable everybody to own a piece of the games," the organizing committee said on its website.
The Commonwealth Games could end up sounding an awful lot like the football World Cup. Vuvuzelas, the long plastic horns that created a constant din – and plenty of debate – last summer in South Africa, have been selling steadily in New Delhi ahead of the Games.
By Telegraph staff and agencies
Published: 5:21PM BST 29 Sep 2010
It's back: Fresh from conquering South African football stadiums, the Vuvuzela has been unleashed on New Delhi Photo: AFP
"There is a lot of demand for the vuvuzela," said Suresh Kumar, the chairman of Premier Brands, the Indian company in charge of merchandizing at the Commonwealth Games. "We have sold more than 12,000 pieces."
Loved by some and despised by others, the vuvuzela was a constant topic of conversation in South Africa. While the local football fans embraced the atmosphere it helped create at games across the country, many overseas broadcasters and viewers complained that the drone disrupted the enjoyment of watching games on television.
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Referendum: Are Premier League clubs wrong to ban vuvuzelas?The debate has not deterred Commonwealth Games organisers in the Indian capital, where 50,000 vuvuzelas were imported from China for the event. There is no plan to bring in more, even though the plastic horns are the second-best selling product behind T-shirts, Kumar said.
"People here like them because in India we associate celebrations with noise," he added. "Festivals like Diwali are always very loud."
Even Indian Sports Minister M S Gill got in on the act, standing with Commonwealth Games organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi and blowing a vuvuzela on Wednesday at the athletes' village.
Because of the sounds that emanated from the World Cup, several Premier League clubs and even the All England Club at Wimbledon banned vuvuzelas from their venues. Uefa has also banned them from European football competition.
The Commonwealth Games may not cause as much of an uproar for viewers overseas, however. On Tuesday, Indian Tourism Minister Kumari Selja admitted only 200,000 of the 1.7 million tickets for the games have been sold.
The vuvuzelas are selling for 250 rupees (£3.50) and organisers hope the relatively inexpensive price – inexpensive for foreigners anyway – will help sales.
"This will enable everybody to own a piece of the games," the organizing committee said on its website.
Naxals to release hostage policemen unconditionally?-September 29, 2010
Naxals to release hostage policemen unconditionally?
NDTV Correspondent, Updated: September 29, 2010 22:37 IST
(JUST NOW HEARD IN A TV NEWS THAT THESE COPS ARE FREED. GREAT NEWS!!! IT SHOWS IF GOVERNMENT AND NAXALS GENUINLY AND HONESTLY WANT TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM PEACEFULLY WITHOUT VIOLENCE AND KILLINGS OR DISTRUCTION,THEY CAN DO IT.ITS NOT IMPOSSIBLE.IT CAN HAPPEN IN ALL THE STATES SUFFERING FROM NAXALS PROBLEMS!!...AND NOT JUST ONLY IN CHATTISGARH,WHICH IS WORST EFFECTED RECENTLY!!!...GOOD WISHES TO EVERYONE!!!....VIBHA)
Raipur: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has said that Maoists are releasing the four policemen they had taken hostage. He said they will be released soon.
Earlier on Tuesday night, the Naxals had extended by 24 hours the deadline set for the release of the four policemen. The Chhattisgarh government has been negotiating with the Maoists on the safe return of the hostages.
On September 19, the Maoists killed three of the seven policemen they had abducted in Bijapur district in Bastar region; they had demanded the withdrawal of operation Greenhunt.
The government even sent the families of the cops to Hyderabad to speak to Naxal sympathisers there.
NDTV Correspondent, Updated: September 29, 2010 22:37 IST
(JUST NOW HEARD IN A TV NEWS THAT THESE COPS ARE FREED. GREAT NEWS!!! IT SHOWS IF GOVERNMENT AND NAXALS GENUINLY AND HONESTLY WANT TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM PEACEFULLY WITHOUT VIOLENCE AND KILLINGS OR DISTRUCTION,THEY CAN DO IT.ITS NOT IMPOSSIBLE.IT CAN HAPPEN IN ALL THE STATES SUFFERING FROM NAXALS PROBLEMS!!...AND NOT JUST ONLY IN CHATTISGARH,WHICH IS WORST EFFECTED RECENTLY!!!...GOOD WISHES TO EVERYONE!!!....VIBHA)
Raipur: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has said that Maoists are releasing the four policemen they had taken hostage. He said they will be released soon.
Earlier on Tuesday night, the Naxals had extended by 24 hours the deadline set for the release of the four policemen. The Chhattisgarh government has been negotiating with the Maoists on the safe return of the hostages.
On September 19, the Maoists killed three of the seven policemen they had abducted in Bijapur district in Bastar region; they had demanded the withdrawal of operation Greenhunt.
The government even sent the families of the cops to Hyderabad to speak to Naxal sympathisers there.
Forget Kashmir, worry about your own survival: Krishna to Pak-Sep 29, 2010,-
Forget Kashmir, worry about your own survival: Krishna to Pak
Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN, Sep 29, 2010, 07.35pm IST
Forget J&K, worry about your own survival: Krishna to Pak
WASHINGTON: Forget Kashmir, worry about your own survival. This was the blunt message India's external affairs minister SM Krishna gave Pakistan after Islamabad's familiar rhetoric on Kashmir at the United Nations through its foreign minister SM Qureshi scuttled an expected meeting between the two.
In some of the sharpest language emanating from India, the normally affable Krishna taunted Pakistan and its representative for using the Kashmir issue as a "ploy" to deflect attention from its parlous internal situation arising from governance issues related to home-grown terrorism and the recent floods.
Pakistan, Krishna suggested, ratcheted up the Kashmir issue whenever things were going well for India or going badly for Pakistan in a "pattern" that had been going on for sixty-plus years.
Indeed, for three days preceding Krishna's response, Qureshi cranked up rhetoric on Kashmir in a throwback to the 1990s, including at a UN address in which he demanded that Kashmiris should be allowed to exercise their right of self- determination "through a free, fair and impartial plebiscite under the United Nations auspices" and referred to human rights abuses in Kashmir. Earlier, he also sought US intervention in the matter.
Krishna's terse response, in which he pointedly referred to the "Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir," included telling an Asia Society audience that New Delhi had held many referendums in the state in form of universally recognized elections, an oblique dig at the military dominated neighbor.
In an earlier comment, Krishna had said Pakistan should "vacate" the part of Kashmir it occupies (as called for by the UN resolution), a point that New Delhi seldom makes, but seems to have been provoked into remembering because of Islamabad raising the stakes through Qureshi.
"Such unsolicited remarks will not and indeed, cannot, divert attention from the multiple problems Pakistan needs to tackle for the common good of its people, and of the entire region," Krishna said about Qureshi's rants on Kashmir in New York.
The indirect exchanges ensured that the two foreign ministers left New York for home without a formal meeting, and the incremental progress on the Kashmir issue made through back channels during the past decade, based on which the US is also pushing for a resolution, remains on ice.
In fact, the growing feeling in New Delhi and Washington is that Qureshi is merely fronting for a hard-line Pakistani military which is not inclined towards peace with India because it finds dividends in continued attrition and confrontation.
Indeed, Krishna's decision not to meet Qureshi came amid continued Pakistani resistance to act on the Mumbai terrorist attack perpetrators. In fact, it transpires that Pakistan's arrest of the key planner of the attack, Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, is a sham.
In his book, Obama's War, Bob Woodward quotes US National Security Advisor Jim Jones as telling Pakistani leaders that Lakhvi is not being adequately interrogated, and more shockingly, "he continues to direct LeT operations from his detention center."
The books also reveals most of the US leadership regards Pakistan Army Chief Kayani as a two-faced liar, and that Pakistan has not really given up on its sponsorship of terrorism.
Still, for form's sake, Krishna said Qureshi was welcome to visit India for "some of" the Commonwealth Games where they could pick up the threads of the now tattered dialogue. Before he left New York, Qureshi, who has been insisting that he wants a "result-oriented dialogue" and not a photo-op, gave no indication if he would go to New Delhi for the Games -- or talks.
Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN, Sep 29, 2010, 07.35pm IST
Forget J&K, worry about your own survival: Krishna to Pak
WASHINGTON: Forget Kashmir, worry about your own survival. This was the blunt message India's external affairs minister SM Krishna gave Pakistan after Islamabad's familiar rhetoric on Kashmir at the United Nations through its foreign minister SM Qureshi scuttled an expected meeting between the two.
In some of the sharpest language emanating from India, the normally affable Krishna taunted Pakistan and its representative for using the Kashmir issue as a "ploy" to deflect attention from its parlous internal situation arising from governance issues related to home-grown terrorism and the recent floods.
Pakistan, Krishna suggested, ratcheted up the Kashmir issue whenever things were going well for India or going badly for Pakistan in a "pattern" that had been going on for sixty-plus years.
Indeed, for three days preceding Krishna's response, Qureshi cranked up rhetoric on Kashmir in a throwback to the 1990s, including at a UN address in which he demanded that Kashmiris should be allowed to exercise their right of self- determination "through a free, fair and impartial plebiscite under the United Nations auspices" and referred to human rights abuses in Kashmir. Earlier, he also sought US intervention in the matter.
Krishna's terse response, in which he pointedly referred to the "Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir," included telling an Asia Society audience that New Delhi had held many referendums in the state in form of universally recognized elections, an oblique dig at the military dominated neighbor.
In an earlier comment, Krishna had said Pakistan should "vacate" the part of Kashmir it occupies (as called for by the UN resolution), a point that New Delhi seldom makes, but seems to have been provoked into remembering because of Islamabad raising the stakes through Qureshi.
"Such unsolicited remarks will not and indeed, cannot, divert attention from the multiple problems Pakistan needs to tackle for the common good of its people, and of the entire region," Krishna said about Qureshi's rants on Kashmir in New York.
The indirect exchanges ensured that the two foreign ministers left New York for home without a formal meeting, and the incremental progress on the Kashmir issue made through back channels during the past decade, based on which the US is also pushing for a resolution, remains on ice.
In fact, the growing feeling in New Delhi and Washington is that Qureshi is merely fronting for a hard-line Pakistani military which is not inclined towards peace with India because it finds dividends in continued attrition and confrontation.
Indeed, Krishna's decision not to meet Qureshi came amid continued Pakistani resistance to act on the Mumbai terrorist attack perpetrators. In fact, it transpires that Pakistan's arrest of the key planner of the attack, Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, is a sham.
In his book, Obama's War, Bob Woodward quotes US National Security Advisor Jim Jones as telling Pakistani leaders that Lakhvi is not being adequately interrogated, and more shockingly, "he continues to direct LeT operations from his detention center."
The books also reveals most of the US leadership regards Pakistan Army Chief Kayani as a two-faced liar, and that Pakistan has not really given up on its sponsorship of terrorism.
Still, for form's sake, Krishna said Qureshi was welcome to visit India for "some of" the Commonwealth Games where they could pick up the threads of the now tattered dialogue. Before he left New York, Qureshi, who has been insisting that he wants a "result-oriented dialogue" and not a photo-op, gave no indication if he would go to New Delhi for the Games -- or talks.
Anti-outsourcing bill blocked in US senate-29/09/2010
29/09/2010
Anti-outsourcing bill blocked in US senate
Washington: Senate Republicans successfully blocked the passage of an anti-offshoring bill that would have denied tax breaks to US companies which move jobs overseas.
Republicans in a 53-45 vote prevented the bill from overcoming a filibuster. At least 60 votes were needed to overcome the Opposition's obstruction.
As per the bill, there will be a ban on government contractors from using American taxpayers' money to move jobs offshore.
What is seen as an electoral populist move, the Creating American Jobs and End Offshoring Act aims at small manufacturers and included a payroll tax exemption for firms that move jobs to US, but the bill also contains provisions to prevent businesses from deferring US taxes on the income they make from foreign subsidiaries.
Indian IT honchos had said the bill won't make much of an impact on India. However, they warned that US companies operating in other countries may be beaten by the same stick.
Several business groups such as the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) were strongly opposed to the legislation. It had sent a letter to senators arguing the measure would make US corporations less competitive and hurt job creation.
Terming the bill as an election gimmick, Republican senator Orrin Hatch slammed the Democrats for their "height of irresponsibility" that would put the US economy at "greater risk."
"Desperate times call for desperate measures and the majority is showing how desperate they are with a bill that increases the tax burden on job creators and ship much-needed US jobs overseas."
Hatch feared that "raising taxes on companies' overseas profits will just incentivize them to move their domestic facilities to another country... That is not the prescription that will cure our ailing economy."
Source: PTI
Anti-outsourcing bill blocked in US senate
Washington: Senate Republicans successfully blocked the passage of an anti-offshoring bill that would have denied tax breaks to US companies which move jobs overseas.
Republicans in a 53-45 vote prevented the bill from overcoming a filibuster. At least 60 votes were needed to overcome the Opposition's obstruction.
As per the bill, there will be a ban on government contractors from using American taxpayers' money to move jobs offshore.
What is seen as an electoral populist move, the Creating American Jobs and End Offshoring Act aims at small manufacturers and included a payroll tax exemption for firms that move jobs to US, but the bill also contains provisions to prevent businesses from deferring US taxes on the income they make from foreign subsidiaries.
Indian IT honchos had said the bill won't make much of an impact on India. However, they warned that US companies operating in other countries may be beaten by the same stick.
Several business groups such as the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) were strongly opposed to the legislation. It had sent a letter to senators arguing the measure would make US corporations less competitive and hurt job creation.
Terming the bill as an election gimmick, Republican senator Orrin Hatch slammed the Democrats for their "height of irresponsibility" that would put the US economy at "greater risk."
"Desperate times call for desperate measures and the majority is showing how desperate they are with a bill that increases the tax burden on job creators and ship much-needed US jobs overseas."
Hatch feared that "raising taxes on companies' overseas profits will just incentivize them to move their domestic facilities to another country... That is not the prescription that will cure our ailing economy."
Source: PTI
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Common Wealth Games 2010 Motto "COME OUT AND PLAY"
No.of Nations participating in Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi 72 Commonwealth Teams
No.of Events in Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi 17
Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi Opening ceremony 3rd October
Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi Closing ceremony 14th October
Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 Officially opened by President of India
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Commonwealth Games 2010 Mascot Shera
2010 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games also known as the ‘Friendly Games’, the Common Wealth Games is a multinational, multi-discipline sports event held once in four years and participants come from the Commonwealth of Nations - or former colonies of the British Empire. The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) with its headquarters based in London is responsible for the direction and control of the 2010 Commonwealth Games. The motto of the Common Wealth Games 2010 is around three core values - Humanity, Equality and Destiny.
The XIX commonwealth games 2010 are barely 74 days away. It kick starts on the 3rd of October in New Delhi and the sports extravaganza go on till the 14th. It will be Delhi’s largest event to date which has to its credit big sports events like the 1951 and 1982 editions of the Asian Games. The Opening Ceremony will be at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi. It is for the first time Delhi is hosting the Commonwealth Games 2010 and the only second Asian city after the Kuala Lumpur Games in 1988.
The credit of the look and design of the Common Wealth Games 2010 logo goes to Idiom Design and Consulting. Shera, the friendly tiger is the Commonwealth Games 2010 mascot.
India’s President Mrs. Pratibha Patil accepted the invitation from the Queen of England to grace the Queen’s Baton Relay 2010 Delhi which is a curtain raiser of the main event. India’s ace shooter Abhinav Bindra received the baton and became the first baton bearer. The Baton 2010 Delhi would take 240 days to touch the soil of all member nations and this epic journey would be more than 170,000 km plus another 100 days of touring India which makes it one of the longest relays in the history of Commonwealth Games. The Baton relay concludes with the final baton bearer entering the JN Stadium during the Opening Ceremony on the 3rd of October 2010.
New Delhi is gearing up for the main event. Preparations are on in full swing to make the event an unforgettably memorable one. Delhi has gone for serious and drastic renovation and beautifying drives. Himachal Pradesh is going to supply all the exotic flowers to Delhi for the 2010 Common Wealth Games. The state before hand has secured an order worth Rs. 31 crores for the purpose. From ensuring uninterrupted power supply to bringing down the menace of beggars, the Delhi Government has quite a busy schedule.
According to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the 2010 Commonwealth Games are expected to rake in more money than its previous two editions held in Manchester and Melbourne, close to a staggering of USD 4940 millions. 72 nations are participating and there will be 17 disciplines. Medical tourism is expected to benefit a lot.
Common Wealth Games 2010 Events
A lot of sports complexes of international standards are being readied and inaugurated.
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium - Athletics, lawn bowls, weightlifting
Dhyan Chand National Stadium - Hockey
Indira Gandhi Arena - Archery, cycling, gymnastics, wrestling
Delhi University Sports Complex - Rugby Sevens
Thyagaraj Stadium - Netball
Siri Fort Sports Complex - Badminton, Squash
Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range - Shooting
Talkatora Stadium - Boxing
SPM Swimming Pool Complex - Aquatics
RK Khanna Tennis Complex - Tennis
Yamuna Sports Complex - Table Tennis
There are 26 new stadia which will be utilized for the 2010 Common Wealth Games, some older ones will be renewed and upgraded. The Commonwealth Games 2010 Village is also coming up, organizers are trying to connect it to the stadium with a 2.2 km underground stretch reducing travel time by 6 minutes.
The Delhi Police has a challenging task to provide and ensure round the clock security to all the athletes and also, ensure that business is not affected. Mock security drills are slated to begin in August. Special law and order squads have been formed to avoid any law and order situation and random checks will be done from time to time.
All information related to the CWG 2010 will be made available at all metro stations in the form of a booklet which includes various places of interest in and around Delhi, how to reach them, and all related and detailed information of hotels, important emergency numbers, railway stations, markets, etc. A decision to launch a special commuter-friendly service is also in the offing. Bharat Guides and Scouts volunteers will help with the traffic congestion volumes that are likely to increase during the games.
The Common Wealth Games 2010 organizers signed a memorandum of understanding with the UN Environment Programme to showcase a sustainable game which is environment friendly.
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Commonwealth Games also known as the ‘Friendly Games’, the Common Wealth Games is a multinational, multi-discipline sports event held once in four years and participants come from the Commonwealth of Nations - or former colonies of the British Empire. The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) with its headquarters based in London is responsible for the direction and control of the 2010 Commonwealth Games. The motto of the Common Wealth Games 2010 is around three core values - Humanity, Equality and Destiny.
The XIX commonwealth games 2010 are barely 74 days away. It kick starts on the 3rd of October in New Delhi and the sports extravaganza go on till the 14th. It will be Delhi’s largest event to date which has to its credit big sports events like the 1951 and 1982 editions of the Asian Games. The Opening Ceremony will be at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi. It is for the first time Delhi is hosting the Commonwealth Games 2010 and the only second Asian city after the Kuala Lumpur Games in 1988.
The credit of the look and design of the Common Wealth Games 2010 logo goes to Idiom Design and Consulting. Shera, the friendly tiger is the Commonwealth Games 2010 mascot.
India’s President Mrs. Pratibha Patil accepted the invitation from the Queen of England to grace the Queen’s Baton Relay 2010 Delhi which is a curtain raiser of the main event. India’s ace shooter Abhinav Bindra received the baton and became the first baton bearer. The Baton 2010 Delhi would take 240 days to touch the soil of all member nations and this epic journey would be more than 170,000 km plus another 100 days of touring India which makes it one of the longest relays in the history of Commonwealth Games. The Baton relay concludes with the final baton bearer entering the JN Stadium during the Opening Ceremony on the 3rd of October 2010.
New Delhi is gearing up for the main event. Preparations are on in full swing to make the event an unforgettably memorable one. Delhi has gone for serious and drastic renovation and beautifying drives. Himachal Pradesh is going to supply all the exotic flowers to Delhi for the 2010 Common Wealth Games. The state before hand has secured an order worth Rs. 31 crores for the purpose. From ensuring uninterrupted power supply to bringing down the menace of beggars, the Delhi Government has quite a busy schedule.
According to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the 2010 Commonwealth Games are expected to rake in more money than its previous two editions held in Manchester and Melbourne, close to a staggering of USD 4940 millions. 72 nations are participating and there will be 17 disciplines. Medical tourism is expected to benefit a lot.
Common Wealth Games 2010 Events
A lot of sports complexes of international standards are being readied and inaugurated.
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium - Athletics, lawn bowls, weightlifting
Dhyan Chand National Stadium - Hockey
Indira Gandhi Arena - Archery, cycling, gymnastics, wrestling
Delhi University Sports Complex - Rugby Sevens
Thyagaraj Stadium - Netball
Siri Fort Sports Complex - Badminton, Squash
Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range - Shooting
Talkatora Stadium - Boxing
SPM Swimming Pool Complex - Aquatics
RK Khanna Tennis Complex - Tennis
Yamuna Sports Complex - Table Tennis
There are 26 new stadia which will be utilized for the 2010 Common Wealth Games, some older ones will be renewed and upgraded. The Commonwealth Games 2010 Village is also coming up, organizers are trying to connect it to the stadium with a 2.2 km underground stretch reducing travel time by 6 minutes.
The Delhi Police has a challenging task to provide and ensure round the clock security to all the athletes and also, ensure that business is not affected. Mock security drills are slated to begin in August. Special law and order squads have been formed to avoid any law and order situation and random checks will be done from time to time.
All information related to the CWG 2010 will be made available at all metro stations in the form of a booklet which includes various places of interest in and around Delhi, how to reach them, and all related and detailed information of hotels, important emergency numbers, railway stations, markets, etc. A decision to launch a special commuter-friendly service is also in the offing. Bharat Guides and Scouts volunteers will help with the traffic congestion volumes that are likely to increase during the games.
The Common Wealth Games 2010 organizers signed a memorandum of understanding with the UN Environment Programme to showcase a sustainable game which is environment friendly.
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Commonwealth Games 2010 Participating Countries
Commonwealth Games 2010 Participating Countries Commonwealth Games 2010 Medal Table
Commonwealth Games 2010 Venues Commonwealth Games 2010 Tickets
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Commonwealth Games 2010 Sports
Commonwealth Games 2010 Aquatics Commonwealth Games 2010 Netball
Commonwealth Games 2010 Archery Commonwealth Games 2010 Rugby 7s
Commonwealth Games 2010 Athletics Commonwealth Games 2010 Shooting
Commonwealth Games 2010 Badminton Commonwealth Games 2010 Squash
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India slams Pakistan for sponsoring terrorism in J-K-29/09/2010
29/09/2010
India slams Pakistan for sponsoring terrorism in J-K
United Nations: India today slammed Pakistan for sponsoring militancy and terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and said Islamabad should not impart lessons to it on democracy and human rights.
Hitting back at Pakistan a day after its Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi harped on giving the Kashmiri people the right to "self-determination through plebiscite", External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said Islamabad must stop its state-sponsored militancy and terrorism in the state.
"Jammu & Kashmir, which is an integral part of India, is the target of Pakistan-sponsored militancy and terrorism.
Pakistan must fulfill its solemn commitment of not allowing territory under its control to be used for terrorism directed against India," he said in his firmly worded speech at the 65th UN General Assembly session here.
Krishna said the "credible and firm action by Pakistan against terrorist groups operating from its soil is in the interest of the region as it is in Pakistan's own interest."
Slamming Qureshi for his remark against Indian security forces, Krishna said, "Pakistan cannot impart lessons to us on democracy and human rights." He said India was committed to good neighbourly relations with all our neighbours, including Pakistan.
Krishna, however, emphasised that "Pakistan has to live up to its commitment not to allow use of its soil by terrorists acting against India." This, he said, would significantly help reduce the trust deficit that impedes the development of better bilateral relations between our two countries.
Stating that there can be no justification for terrorism just as there can be no good and bad terrorists, Krishna said it has emerged as one of the most serious threats to international peace and security.
"Acts of terrorism need to be condemned by all, wherever and whenever they are committed, by whomsoever and for whatever purposes. It is important for every Member State of the UN to note that it is no longer possible to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
"To defeat this scourge, it is imperative for the global community to build on international cooperation and take concerted action against terrorists and their sponsors," he said.
Speaking about the revamp of the UN, Krishna said, the world body needs "urgent reform to reflect contemporary realities and to effectively meet emerging global challenges."
"The UN, with its universal membership and equality of nations, enjoys a unique legitimacy that requires it to be at the centre of international governance. We must, therefore, not just reaffirm the central role of the UN in global governance but restore and reinforce it reflecting contemporary realities," he said.
Krishna assured India's commitment to the principles and purposes of the United Nations, saying the UN should be at the core of global governance and efforts to meet the challenges of collective peace, security and development.
"The changes in the global geo-strategic order since 1945 have barely been reflected in the most vital of the UN's organs, charged with the maintenance of international peace and security," he said.
"Developing countries contribute almost all the troops that are part of the UN's peacekeeping presence worldwide.
Yet, their voice on the Council's high table on decisions relating to international peace and security is barely audible," the minister said.
He pointed out the example of Africa, which has no permanent member in the Security Council, though it is seized of conflicts in the continent.
"An overwhelming majority of the membership expressed clear support for expansion in both the permanent and the non-permanent categories of the Council along with an improvement of its working methods. It is imperative that we take these negotiations to an early and logical conclusion."
Krishna also said that India has an abiding commitment for achieving universal, non-discriminatory nuclear disarmament within a specified timeframe.
"We call for an intensification of discussion and dialogue amongst Member States and the larger non-governmental communities so as to strengthen the international consensus that can be translated into concrete action on achieving nuclear disarmament," he said.
"We remain committed to a unilateral and voluntary moratorium on nuclear explosive testing," the minister said.
The External Affairs Minister lauded Afghanistan for conducting parliamentary elections successfully, saying "We believe the international community needs to be steadfast in its engagement with Afghanistan to ensure the success of its reconstruction efforts and its emergence as a democratic, pluralistic and prosperous society.
"The continuing existence of safe havens and sanctuaries for terrorists beyond Afghanistan's borders is the major impediment to the restoration of peace and security in Afghanistan. This should be a primary focus of the international community."
Source: PTI
Krishna slams Qureshi for remarks on Kashmir
India slams Pakistan for sponsoring terrorism in J-K
United Nations: India today slammed Pakistan for sponsoring militancy and terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and said Islamabad should not impart lessons to it on democracy and human rights.
Hitting back at Pakistan a day after its Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi harped on giving the Kashmiri people the right to "self-determination through plebiscite", External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said Islamabad must stop its state-sponsored militancy and terrorism in the state.
"Jammu & Kashmir, which is an integral part of India, is the target of Pakistan-sponsored militancy and terrorism.
Pakistan must fulfill its solemn commitment of not allowing territory under its control to be used for terrorism directed against India," he said in his firmly worded speech at the 65th UN General Assembly session here.
Krishna said the "credible and firm action by Pakistan against terrorist groups operating from its soil is in the interest of the region as it is in Pakistan's own interest."
Slamming Qureshi for his remark against Indian security forces, Krishna said, "Pakistan cannot impart lessons to us on democracy and human rights." He said India was committed to good neighbourly relations with all our neighbours, including Pakistan.
Krishna, however, emphasised that "Pakistan has to live up to its commitment not to allow use of its soil by terrorists acting against India." This, he said, would significantly help reduce the trust deficit that impedes the development of better bilateral relations between our two countries.
Stating that there can be no justification for terrorism just as there can be no good and bad terrorists, Krishna said it has emerged as one of the most serious threats to international peace and security.
"Acts of terrorism need to be condemned by all, wherever and whenever they are committed, by whomsoever and for whatever purposes. It is important for every Member State of the UN to note that it is no longer possible to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
"To defeat this scourge, it is imperative for the global community to build on international cooperation and take concerted action against terrorists and their sponsors," he said.
Speaking about the revamp of the UN, Krishna said, the world body needs "urgent reform to reflect contemporary realities and to effectively meet emerging global challenges."
"The UN, with its universal membership and equality of nations, enjoys a unique legitimacy that requires it to be at the centre of international governance. We must, therefore, not just reaffirm the central role of the UN in global governance but restore and reinforce it reflecting contemporary realities," he said.
Krishna assured India's commitment to the principles and purposes of the United Nations, saying the UN should be at the core of global governance and efforts to meet the challenges of collective peace, security and development.
"The changes in the global geo-strategic order since 1945 have barely been reflected in the most vital of the UN's organs, charged with the maintenance of international peace and security," he said.
"Developing countries contribute almost all the troops that are part of the UN's peacekeeping presence worldwide.
Yet, their voice on the Council's high table on decisions relating to international peace and security is barely audible," the minister said.
He pointed out the example of Africa, which has no permanent member in the Security Council, though it is seized of conflicts in the continent.
"An overwhelming majority of the membership expressed clear support for expansion in both the permanent and the non-permanent categories of the Council along with an improvement of its working methods. It is imperative that we take these negotiations to an early and logical conclusion."
Krishna also said that India has an abiding commitment for achieving universal, non-discriminatory nuclear disarmament within a specified timeframe.
"We call for an intensification of discussion and dialogue amongst Member States and the larger non-governmental communities so as to strengthen the international consensus that can be translated into concrete action on achieving nuclear disarmament," he said.
"We remain committed to a unilateral and voluntary moratorium on nuclear explosive testing," the minister said.
The External Affairs Minister lauded Afghanistan for conducting parliamentary elections successfully, saying "We believe the international community needs to be steadfast in its engagement with Afghanistan to ensure the success of its reconstruction efforts and its emergence as a democratic, pluralistic and prosperous society.
"The continuing existence of safe havens and sanctuaries for terrorists beyond Afghanistan's borders is the major impediment to the restoration of peace and security in Afghanistan. This should be a primary focus of the international community."
Source: PTI
Krishna slams Qureshi for remarks on Kashmir
London, Paris escape Mumbai type attack-29/09/2010
29/09/2010
London, Paris escape Mumbai type attack
Terror plot linked to Al-Qaeda targeting major cities across Europe foiled, say police
London: An al-Qaeda-linked plot to launch a Mumbai-style terror attack simultaneously on London and major cities in France and Germany was disrupted by intelligence agencies, a report has said.
The plan for suicidal onslaughts similar to the 2008 atrocity in Mumbai, where 166 people were killed in a series of gun and grenade assaults was uncovered after a combined operation involving United States, United Kingdom, France and German intelligence agencies, The Guardian reported on Tuesday quoting officials.
British security and intelligence sources, who have been concerned for some time about the possibility of a Mumbai -- style attack in Europe, confirmed that they believed a plot was being hatched by militants based in Pakistan.
The increased rate of U.S. coordinated drone raids along the border with Afghanistan is believed to be a response to intelligence gathered about the plot.
Quoting sources, Sky News reported that "militants based in Pakistan were planning simultaneous strikes on London and major cities in France and Germany."
The plan was in an advanced but not imminent stage and the plotters had been tracked by spy agencies "for some time".Intelligence sources told Sky the planned attacks would have been similar to the commando-style raids carried out in Mumbai.
The report said the European plot had been "severely disrupted" following intelligence sharing between Britain, France, Germany and the US. It is not known whether the attackers are already in Europe.
News of the planned strikes came as the Eiffel tower in Paris was evacuated because of a bomb scare for the second time in two weeks.
"It doesn't necessarily mean it was a target, but it shows how nervous the French are," the report said.
When the terror plan came to light, US military began helping its European allies by trying to kill the leaders behind the plot in Pakistan's Waziristan region.
There have been a record 20 missile attacks using drone aircraft there in the past 30 days.
"I am led to believe a number of these attacks were designed against the leadership of this particular plot, which had an al Qaeda and possibly some sort of Taliban connection projecting into Europe," Sky News foreign editor Tim Marshall said.
Britain's terror threat level remains at "severe" following the underpants bomber's attempted attack on Detroit airport last Christmas.
In the aftermath of the attack western intelligence agencies gained access to computers seized from the Islamist group which listed other potential targets outside the Indian subcontinent for commando -- style terror strikes.
Nine of the gunmen were killed -- but a lone survivor gave Indian investigators a full confession that the assault was planned in Pakistan by Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant group that originally began an armed campaign against the Indian army in Jammu and Kashmir.
US military briefings suggested the latest missile attacks in Pakistan had been coordinated by the CIA and were an unusual example of using drones to pre-empt possible terror plots.
Source: PTI
London, Paris escape Mumbai type attack
Terror plot linked to Al-Qaeda targeting major cities across Europe foiled, say police
London: An al-Qaeda-linked plot to launch a Mumbai-style terror attack simultaneously on London and major cities in France and Germany was disrupted by intelligence agencies, a report has said.
The plan for suicidal onslaughts similar to the 2008 atrocity in Mumbai, where 166 people were killed in a series of gun and grenade assaults was uncovered after a combined operation involving United States, United Kingdom, France and German intelligence agencies, The Guardian reported on Tuesday quoting officials.
British security and intelligence sources, who have been concerned for some time about the possibility of a Mumbai -- style attack in Europe, confirmed that they believed a plot was being hatched by militants based in Pakistan.
The increased rate of U.S. coordinated drone raids along the border with Afghanistan is believed to be a response to intelligence gathered about the plot.
Quoting sources, Sky News reported that "militants based in Pakistan were planning simultaneous strikes on London and major cities in France and Germany."
The plan was in an advanced but not imminent stage and the plotters had been tracked by spy agencies "for some time".Intelligence sources told Sky the planned attacks would have been similar to the commando-style raids carried out in Mumbai.
The report said the European plot had been "severely disrupted" following intelligence sharing between Britain, France, Germany and the US. It is not known whether the attackers are already in Europe.
News of the planned strikes came as the Eiffel tower in Paris was evacuated because of a bomb scare for the second time in two weeks.
"It doesn't necessarily mean it was a target, but it shows how nervous the French are," the report said.
When the terror plan came to light, US military began helping its European allies by trying to kill the leaders behind the plot in Pakistan's Waziristan region.
There have been a record 20 missile attacks using drone aircraft there in the past 30 days.
"I am led to believe a number of these attacks were designed against the leadership of this particular plot, which had an al Qaeda and possibly some sort of Taliban connection projecting into Europe," Sky News foreign editor Tim Marshall said.
Britain's terror threat level remains at "severe" following the underpants bomber's attempted attack on Detroit airport last Christmas.
In the aftermath of the attack western intelligence agencies gained access to computers seized from the Islamist group which listed other potential targets outside the Indian subcontinent for commando -- style terror strikes.
Nine of the gunmen were killed -- but a lone survivor gave Indian investigators a full confession that the assault was planned in Pakistan by Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant group that originally began an armed campaign against the Indian army in Jammu and Kashmir.
US military briefings suggested the latest missile attacks in Pakistan had been coordinated by the CIA and were an unusual example of using drones to pre-empt possible terror plots.
Source: PTI
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Arzoo.com launches a “know it all” website for commonwealth games visitors in India-29/9/10
Arzoo.com launches a “know it all” website for commonwealth games visitors in India
Mumbai/Arzoo.com, one of India’s leading online travel portals is launching a dedicated website for the convenience of the tourists,visitors of commonwealth games in Delhi, which will sense them as a ready reckoner giving out information related to the games and everything tourists need to know about India, its tourists attractions and essential services.
The newly launched website, commonwealthgamestravel.net will provide various types of information to the visitors which will include information on hospitals, hotels, cafés, shopping destinations, chemist, etc in Delhi.
Common Wealth Games 2010 is a golden opportunity for India to portray itself as a nation that strongly promotes sporting and cultural activities as well as position itself as an emerging economic power of the world. New Delhi, the national capital of India is hosting the event and Jawaharlal Nehru stadium is the main venue for this esteem sporting mega event.
It will surely be remembered as a remarkable event in the history of India. It is not only a significant event for sports fraternity but also a huge opportunity for tourists to explore India and is cultural heritage. According to an official estimates, Common Wealth Games 2010 will be visited by around two million foreign tourists and 3.5 million tourists from different part of India.
“India has got this opportunity to host one of the most prestigious sporting events. Sportsmen and sports-enthusiasts from different parts of the world, especially from Common Wealth Countries will be visiting India to witness this event. This is a huge opportunity for the travel and hospitality industry as the tourists will not only visit Delhi, but they are also likely to visit different parts of India. Overall sentiments of the travel and hospitality industry are high and they are looking forward to the huge surge in demand for rooms and travel. I am very glad that Arzoo is helping in promoting the Common Wealth Games as well as tourism in India.” said Mr. Amal Purandare, Head India Operations, Arzoo.com.
Arzoo.com boasts of a wide network of over 10,000 PSA’s(Preferred sales agents) and over 100 franchises. The website is also endorsed by their numerous corporate clients. Arzoo.com is equally strong when it comes to serving individual customers. The website is known to provide complete travel solutions, personalized services and dedicated support to several corporate houses as well individual customers.
While the Old Delhi area is crammed with awe inspiring Mughal era structures, Lutyens’ Delhi or New Delhi is a tribute to the grandiosity of the British Era. The tourist can experience the world of tranquillity at the serene Lodhi Gardens and Lotus temple or check out stunning monuments like Jama Masjid, Red Fort, Qutub Minar complex, and Humayun’s Tomb. The most popular tourists attractions are India Gate, Rashtrapati Bhavan and Parliament House. Get to know about the Margaret Thatcher of India at the Indira Gandhi Memorial.
Commonwealth Games will give the chance to plan all this and much more. Delhi is the central point for further travel into India. This tour is a wonderful way to experience some of the top most crowd pullers of India like the one and only Taj Mahal, the deserts of Rajasthan, and amazing feats of architectural brilliance such as Jantar Mantar, Hawa Mahal, Jal Mahal, Jaigarh Fort, Albert Hall. The fact that the Commonwealth Games would be held in Delhi also ensures that visitors would have plenty of opportunities to indulge in the city’s legendary culinary and retail scene.
Similarly, there are endless options when it comes to shopping. Be it world class swanky malls or charming little markets and traditional bazaars, Delhi has it all. The most popular shopping stops are Delhi Haat, Crafts Museum, Fabindia and Cottage Industries Emporium. With so many attractions to choose from there would not be a single dull moment during the games.
Through this website, the tourists will also have an access to destinations in India to and fro travel details, general information like Visa Requirement, Tourist offices in India, Festivals in Indian States, Do’s and don’ts and Mannerisms in India at one go.
Tourists can look forward to special hotels and flight deals on the site and also information of many other exciting things to do while in Delhi to witness the games. Arzoo.com’s website caters to all the international foreign tourists as well as domestic tourists.
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Mumbai/Arzoo.com, one of India’s leading online travel portals is launching a dedicated website for the convenience of the tourists,visitors of commonwealth games in Delhi, which will sense them as a ready reckoner giving out information related to the games and everything tourists need to know about India, its tourists attractions and essential services.
The newly launched website, commonwealthgamestravel.net will provide various types of information to the visitors which will include information on hospitals, hotels, cafés, shopping destinations, chemist, etc in Delhi.
Common Wealth Games 2010 is a golden opportunity for India to portray itself as a nation that strongly promotes sporting and cultural activities as well as position itself as an emerging economic power of the world. New Delhi, the national capital of India is hosting the event and Jawaharlal Nehru stadium is the main venue for this esteem sporting mega event.
It will surely be remembered as a remarkable event in the history of India. It is not only a significant event for sports fraternity but also a huge opportunity for tourists to explore India and is cultural heritage. According to an official estimates, Common Wealth Games 2010 will be visited by around two million foreign tourists and 3.5 million tourists from different part of India.
“India has got this opportunity to host one of the most prestigious sporting events. Sportsmen and sports-enthusiasts from different parts of the world, especially from Common Wealth Countries will be visiting India to witness this event. This is a huge opportunity for the travel and hospitality industry as the tourists will not only visit Delhi, but they are also likely to visit different parts of India. Overall sentiments of the travel and hospitality industry are high and they are looking forward to the huge surge in demand for rooms and travel. I am very glad that Arzoo is helping in promoting the Common Wealth Games as well as tourism in India.” said Mr. Amal Purandare, Head India Operations, Arzoo.com.
Arzoo.com boasts of a wide network of over 10,000 PSA’s(Preferred sales agents) and over 100 franchises. The website is also endorsed by their numerous corporate clients. Arzoo.com is equally strong when it comes to serving individual customers. The website is known to provide complete travel solutions, personalized services and dedicated support to several corporate houses as well individual customers.
While the Old Delhi area is crammed with awe inspiring Mughal era structures, Lutyens’ Delhi or New Delhi is a tribute to the grandiosity of the British Era. The tourist can experience the world of tranquillity at the serene Lodhi Gardens and Lotus temple or check out stunning monuments like Jama Masjid, Red Fort, Qutub Minar complex, and Humayun’s Tomb. The most popular tourists attractions are India Gate, Rashtrapati Bhavan and Parliament House. Get to know about the Margaret Thatcher of India at the Indira Gandhi Memorial.
Commonwealth Games will give the chance to plan all this and much more. Delhi is the central point for further travel into India. This tour is a wonderful way to experience some of the top most crowd pullers of India like the one and only Taj Mahal, the deserts of Rajasthan, and amazing feats of architectural brilliance such as Jantar Mantar, Hawa Mahal, Jal Mahal, Jaigarh Fort, Albert Hall. The fact that the Commonwealth Games would be held in Delhi also ensures that visitors would have plenty of opportunities to indulge in the city’s legendary culinary and retail scene.
Similarly, there are endless options when it comes to shopping. Be it world class swanky malls or charming little markets and traditional bazaars, Delhi has it all. The most popular shopping stops are Delhi Haat, Crafts Museum, Fabindia and Cottage Industries Emporium. With so many attractions to choose from there would not be a single dull moment during the games.
Through this website, the tourists will also have an access to destinations in India to and fro travel details, general information like Visa Requirement, Tourist offices in India, Festivals in Indian States, Do’s and don’ts and Mannerisms in India at one go.
Tourists can look forward to special hotels and flight deals on the site and also information of many other exciting things to do while in Delhi to witness the games. Arzoo.com’s website caters to all the international foreign tourists as well as domestic tourists.
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