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Shekhawat for strong law to fight
VHP’s struggle to continue till seer freed: Togadia
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Stop talking via media, RSS tells BJP cadres
Left was informed on petro price hike: Pranab
PM acts good Samaritan
NDFB to hold talks only with Centre
Vice-Marshals file caveats in SC
Arif unhappy at birth of Gudia’s child
Indo-Bangla border tense over bodies
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Shekhawat for strong law to fight global terror
New Delhi, November 15 “Terrorism today poses the biggest threat to peace and democracy and there is an urgent need to develop a strong international law that will comprehensively deal with the
menace. But in codifying such a law a guarded approach has to be adopted against selective definition of terrorism,” Shekhawat said. He, however, said that the goal could only be achieved by mutual dialogue between the countries with a desire to resolve the emerging conflicts. In a separate session on Private International Law, presided over by the Delhi High Court Judge Vikramjit Sen, the Secretary-General of “The Hague Conference on Private International Law, Mr Hans Van Loon, said there was urgent need to tackle the problem emerging from vast differences in private laws affecting rights of individuals in the globalisation era. “It is perhaps for the first time that the problem of private laws is being debated in India. It has to be noted that governments are not steering the process of evolving a private international law despite the world is shrinking with the globalisation of economy, which has been leaving its imprint on the lives of every individual,” Loon said. Due to this problem, individuals and companies, who were involved in trillions of dollars transactions around the globe, were facing several legal problems, he said adding that The Hague conference though had laid down certain norms for the member nations to follow to make private laws commonly acceptable. He specially referred to the matrimonial disputes pointing out that efforts were being made to “bridge the gap between the secular and religious laws like those prevalent in Islamic countries.” “Simple pronouncement of Talaq...talaq...talaq will not do in dealing with the matrimonial issues,” the 1978 convention on family matters had emphasised, he said. Two lawyers from Chandigarh, dealing with the disputes covered under private laws — Anil Malhotra and Ranjit Malhotra — highlighted the
problems regarding enforcement of judgements of foreign courts in the matters arising out of private law disputes. Anil Malhotra said due to the problem the verdicts in hundreds of “runaway” marriages in Punjab with the brides being deserted with offsprings by NRI
bridegrooms, could not be enforced and the culprits had been taking advantage of the situation for decades. “Regarding enforcement of judgements and orders of foreign courts in India arising in family and matrimonial matters in overseas jurisdiction, there is no separate provision in the Indian law for their recognition and enforcement,” he said. Ranjit Malhotra said in the light of prevailing child abduction law in India, foreign court custody orders could not be mechanically enforced in the wake of the recent Supreme Court judgement. “Where
separated spouses bring minor children to the country from abroad and there was apprehension of abduction, obtaining a consent letter by the spouses from the court of jurisdiction in that country has now become necessary,” he said. American Society of International Law President James Carter took up the issue of international sports disputes, saying thousands of
dollars were involved in such matters. The main disputes in the sports arena arose out of enforcing discipline among players by the clubs and the sports federations, their
eligibility to represent a particular federation, contract with players, doping and legal wranglings between national and international federations for which a common international sports law was needed, he said. |
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VHP’s struggle to continue till seer freed: Togadia
Chennai, November 15 Addressing a protest meeting here today the VHP leader castigated Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and DMK President M. Karunanidhi in a speech laced with attacks against the minorities. “All these three leaders have committed ‘Shivadroha’ by arresting Kanchi Shankaracharya, who is the leader of 83 crore Hindus in order to please the minorities,” he alleged. Referring to today’s police raid in the Kanchi Mutt, Mr Togadia in his usual rabble-rousing manner said: “The Tamil Nadu police had dared to enter a Hindu mutt. This is Tamil Nadu government’s Eid gift to the Hindus.” He demanded to know what transpired between the Congress Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr Rajasekhar Reddy, and the Centre prior to the Shankaracharya’s arrest since he was nabbed at Mehboobnagar. His speech certainly did not go down well with a section of the crowd when he said, “Our President is a Muslim, our super Prime Minister is a Christian. There is no place for Hindus in India.” Mr Togadia alleged that the entire case against the seer was to woo minority vote-banks by the Congress for the state Assembly elections in Haryana, Jharkhand and Bihar next year. Criticising Ms Jayalalithaa for ordering the arrest of the Shankaracharya, he posed a question to her, “Do you think by arresting the Hindu saint, you can snatch away DMK votes? You will lose all Hindu votes.” All speakers trained their guns on Ms Jayalalithaa and Mr Karunanidhi for the seer’s arrest and said he was being framed for “obvious political reasons”. The Hindu Munnani leader, Mr Rama Gopalan, said: “Ms Jayalaithaa should not have ordered the arrest as she should be grateful to the Shankaracharya when he saved her government following the mid-night police raid to arrest Mr Karunanidhi.” The DMK was then part of the Central Government and Ms Jayalalithaa’s Government would have been dismissed had the Shankaracharya not spoken to the then Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, he said. Surprisingly, Ms Jayalalithaa had maintained total silence since the Shankaracharya was arrested on November 11 night. Meanwhile, former Union Minister for Human Resource Development Murli Manohar Joshi could not meet Ms Jayalalithaa today and would visit the Shankaracharya at the Vellore Central prison tomorrow. Condemning the manner of his arrest, Dr Joshi said: “The treatment meted out to him is unimaginable and there was no need to arrest a person of his stature and lodge him in jail. If at all the police needed to question him, he could have been kept in a guest house or a temple.” |
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Stop talking via media, RSS tells BJP cadres
New Delhi, November 15 “It is not clear why the BJP had to hold its first newly constituted office-bearers’ meeting in full media glare. The media has its limits and there are consequences. But for the full blast televising of the remarks at the office-bearers meeting, the events that led to former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti’s expulsion from the party could have been different”, said a hard-hitting front page Editorial in the latest issue of RSS mouthpiece,“Organiser”. “There are people like us who used to believe that we can
imagine the way BJP would decide its course. Not any longer. Of late, the media has begun to play a major role in the BJP affairs. Leaders decide their attitudes on advice from mediapersons. It is one thing to be media-savvy, another to be captivated by the media”, it said. Apparently taking a dig at Ms Bharti, it said: “success also is a disease. It makes many victims of their own image. Over a time, leaders get so used to this image about themselves that they refuse to see other images or hear other voices. It is sad that great parties fall prey to media shenanigans”. “In a party like the BJP, personal ego should give way to national ego, common good”, it said. Interestingly, the usually critical Hindi organ “Panchajanya” makes no reference to the Uma Bharti episode in its entire issue.
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Left was informed on petro price hike: Pranab
Kolkata, November 15 Both ministers criticised the decision to enforce a Bangla bandh by the SUCI and the Trinamool Congress on November 17 and December 6, respectively, against the oil price rise. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has also opposed the bandh, asserting that the High Court’s order against the SUCI’s proposed
Bangla bandh on November 17 would be executed firmly. But state CPM chief Anil Biswas and Ms Mamata Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress have challenged the High Court’s order curtailing the people’s democratic and trade union rights. |
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PM acts good Samaritan
New Delhi, November 15 The Prime Minister was distressed on reading about the plight of the girls in the newspapers and ordered the assistance early this month. |
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NDFB to hold talks only with Centre
Guwahati, November15 In an-e-mail to a section of the media yesterday, NDFB spokesperson S Sanjarang said, “We have declared ceasefire to initiate talks with the Government of India and not with the Government of Assam. How could the state government, which is not in a position to declare a ceasefire and talk without the permission of the Central Government talk to the NDFB?” Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi later told reporters here that “It was fine for the outfit to negotiate with the Centre directly”. He was, however, insistent that the ground rules of the parleys be worked out and a representative be named by the NDFB to be contacted directly. At present there was a communication gap between the state government and the NDFB. The outfit’s leaders could be contacted only through a long and indirect process of messengers who then communicated it to their leaders. Claiming that it had responded on October 15 to Mr Gogoi’s truce offer of September 30, the NDFB asserted that “Instead of declaring a ceasefire, Mr Tarun Gogoi is only talking about ground rules of ceasefire and wants us to send a representative immediately to sign the agreement modalities. What can the Bodo people expect from the Government of Assam?’’ The NDFB warned in the e-mail that it should not be equated with the disbanded Bodo Liberation Tigers which signed the Bodo Accord to form the Bodoland Territorial Council. The e-mail said the NDFB’s ceasefire declaration was sincere and honest. “The motive of the ceasefire is to talk to the Government of India and resolve the conflict peacefully and democratically.”
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Vice-Marshals file caveats in SC
New Delhi, November 15 “We filed caveats at the residence of Joint Registrar S.K. Seth, who was authorised to receive caveats and urgent filings in the Supreme Court during Diwali vacation,” Keshav Kaushik, counsel for Air Vice Marshals T.S. Chhatwal and Harish Masand, told PTI. On the petitions filed by Chhatwal and Masand, a Bench of Justice Vijender Jain and Justice H.R. Malhotra had on November 8 quashed promotions of four Air Marshals and ordered setting up of a fresh Promotion Board within four weeks to reconsider their cases along with the two AVMs. Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee had said the Government would file a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court against the order of the High Court, which was critical of the conduct of Air Headquarters and the then Air Officer in-charge of Personnel (AOP) N. Menon for attempting to mislead it by concealing the truth.
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Arif unhappy at birth of Gudia’s child
Ghaziabad, November 15 Gudia was remarried to Taufeeq when her first husband Arif did not return from the Kargil conflict as he was taken a prisoner of war by Pakistan. Taufeeq has also not claimed the child thus far and has said that he can accept Gudia and the baby only if Arif divorces her. Gudia is currently staying with her parents after a village panchayat ruled that her marriage with Taufeeq was invalid.
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Indo-Bangla border tense over bodies
Kolkata, November 15 The police said the two dead were yet to be identified. The police was also investigating into the possibility of the two being killed in Bangladesh and their bodies later dumped on this side of the border.
— UNI |
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