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The Maratha community has been taking out huge 'silent marches' across the state to press its demands including reservations in jobs and education.
"Prime Minister says Muslims should not be treated as vote banks, while his CM in Maharashtra deliberately lets the ordinance which provided 5 per cent quota to Muslims in education lapse," the former Minority Affairs Minister said.
The then Congress-led government had decided to provide reservations to the Muslims not on religious ground but taking into account their social and economic backwardness, he said.
"Even the HC found our decision on quota for education fair. This decision was taken after Sachar and Mehmood-ur-Rehman committees said the condition of Muslims is worse than that of SC/STs," Khan said.
Maharashtra Samajwadi Party president Abu Asim Azmi said he had called a meeting of all Muslim leaders including legislators across the party lines on quota issue.
"If Marathas are protesting for their right of reservation, it is time for the Muslim community to unite and put pressure on the BJP government to ensure that the community gets reservation as well....prominent professionals and political leaders will meet and decide the further course of action," Azmi said.
To draw government's attention towards their demands, Mevani, along with advocate and social activist Amrish Patel, led the agitating workers and their supporters to the AMC building in Gol Limda area of city this afternoon.
After reaching the main gate of the AMC office, these agitators confronted with police, who were deployed in large number to control the situation.
After some heated exchanges, Mevani, Patel and around 400 agitators were detained by police and taken to the city police headquarter in Shahibaug area.
"We detained around 400 agitators, including women, as they tried to stop people from entering in the AMC office and tried to block the road. We released them later. No one was injured during the detention," Assistant Police Commissioner of 'D' division, Baldev Desai, said.
Talking to media after his detention, Mevani alleged that the Gujarat government is persecuting people for raising their voice.
Purohit had argued that he was in jail for more than seven years and as NIA had concluded the investigation, he should be set free on bail.
The trial court has consistently refused bail to Purohit since 2010. His last bail plea was rejected in October 2015, following which he moved the High Court.
Among other things, Purohits appeal claimed that the trial court should have appreciated the fact that he has an outstanding meritorious record and that he risked his life to fight against terrorism across the country.
It also said that he had been framed.
On May 13, NIA filed a supplementary chargesheet giving a clean chit to six accused, including Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur. It also said Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act was not applicable in the case.
Six persons were killed in a blast at Malegaon in north Maharashtra in September 2008.
NDTV reports that the PM is believed to have said, "Blood and water cannot flow at the same time." While this does not mean that India will abrogate the treaty, India has said that this is the appropriate time to review the Indus Waters treaty and that it needs more time to study the treaty.
Meanwhile, the Congress has also demanded a special Parliament session to discuss the security situation. The party wants Pakistan declared a terrorist state.
Foreign ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said that while India did not intend to violate the 1960 treaty, "eventually any cooperative arrangement requires goodwill and mutual trust on both sides".
The cricketer had previously tweeted a message to the brave men of the Indian Armed Forces. @BCCI#TeamIndia skipper @imVkohli pays homage to the martyrs of #UriAttack and condolences to their families.
The missile flew close past the Congress leader's head and hit former HRD minister Jitin Prasada.
The youth was immediately detained by the police and taken to the city police station. The youth was heard saying "roadshow is useless", according to an eyewitness. Prima facie, the youth has no political links, police said. The matter was being probed.
However, Rahul said the attacker was from the BJP and RSS. "A BJP-RSS worker attacked me while I was heading for my rally. They can keep attacking me, but I shall continue fighting and I won't back down. BJP, RSS spread hate, but the Congress and I operate with love," Rahul said.
Everyone is unanimous on the answers: Nobody has the faintest clue.
Home minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, or Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar seem to have the answer.
At least 50 to 60 senior correspondents are scratching their heads, contacting their sources for information, but there are still no clear answers.
As of now, only one person knows the answer to the questions being raised: Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Image: Major General Tewari (extreme right)
Hariom Sharma, a resident of Shastri Nagar locality, flung his shoe from a distance at Rahul at Transport Crossing, from where the roadshow started.
However, the shoe did not hit him.
The youth was immediately detained by the police and taken to the city police station. The youth was heard saying "roadshow is useless", according to an eyewitness. Prima facie, the youth has no political links, police said. The matter was being probed.
Shoes have been hurled at former PM Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram, Kanhaiya Kumar, Arvind Kejriwal, Jitan Ram Manjhi.
During the meeting, which lasted for more than an hour, the watchdog sought technical details about Galaxy Note series amid concerns over batteries of some of the devices getting overheated and exploding, sources said.
On September 23, a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 caught fire inside an IndiGo aircraft coming from Singapore during landing at the Chennai airport. Following the incident, which was the first of its kind involving a Samsung Galaxy Note on board an aircraft in India, DGCA had summoned the company's officials for a meeting.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will further examine the smartphone that caught fire, the sources said. The incident happened within a fortnight of the regulator prohibiting the use of Galaxy Note 7 on board following a series of cases of the smartphone's battery exploding in various countries.
This model is yet to be launched in the Indian market.
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The Indus Waters Treaty is a water-sharing arrangement signed by then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and then President of Pakistan Ayub Khan on September 19, 1960, in Karachi. It covers the water distribution and sharing rights of six rivers -- Beas, Ravi, Sutlej, Indus, Chenab and Jhelum. The agreement was brokered by the World Bank.
The Karnataka government on Monday reportedly told the Supreme Court that additional Cauvery river water can be released to Tamil Nadu only in December because the state's major cities were on the verge of running out of drinking water.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's government moved an appeal in the Apex court seeking modification of the its order on supplying 6,000 cusecs of water for a week to help farmers in Tamil Nadu till September 27.
The petition came three days after Karnataka assembly passed a resolution saying the river will be used only for meeting drinking water needs of villages and towns in the Cauvery basin and Bengaluru. However, the resolutions did not mention the Apex court's order.
Karnataka has said its citizens would go thirsty and crops ravaged if it released any more water to Tamil Nadu.
The state, including capital Bengaluru, has witnessed violent protests over the water-sharing, provoking an appeal from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for calm.
The PM today held discussions on the five-decade-old Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan. Modi was also briefed by officials from various ministries including external affairs and water resources. He wants to discuss the pros and cons of any action on the 1960 water treaty that has survived two full-scale wars between the two countries.
The discussions are being seen as a sign that reviewing the Indus Waters Treaty may be on the table for India as a response to the Uri attack in which 18 soldiers were killed by terrorists of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed.
The Indus flows from India into Pakistan and if India goes ahead and blocks the flow, it could lead to drought and famine in Pakistan. Blocking the flow of the Indus could also flood Kashmir.
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Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active areas.
Japan accounts for about 20 percent of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.On March 11, 2011, the northeast coast was struck by a magnitude 9 earthquake, the strongest quake in Japan on record, and a massive tsunami.
Those events triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl a quarter of a century earlier.
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However, restrictions on the assembly of people were in force in most areas.
There is no curfew anywhere in Kashmir today as well, but restrictions on the assembly of people were in place in many parts of the Valley as a precautionary measure, a police official said here. He said the decision to not clamp curfew was taken in view of the improving situation.
However, normal life continued to remain affected in Kashmir, where the markets came to life in the afternoon yesterday in the wake of relaxation, from 2 PM, announced by separatists. Shops, petrol pumps and other business establishments remained closed today due to the separatist call for shut down, while public transport remained off the roads for the 80th straight day.
Acting on the mandate from both the Houses of the legislature to draw Cauvery water only for drinking purposes of Bengaluru and other towns in the State, Karnataka filed a petition in the Supreme Court on Monday seeking a modification of the apex courts order of September 20.
The Supreme Court order had asked Karnataka to release 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery water on a daily basis from September 21 to 27.
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Image: Former PM HD Deve Gowda, extreme left, speaks with Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah during an all party meeting on the Cauvery water sharing issue last week.
First Secretary in the Permanent Mission of India to the UN Eenam Gambhir had said,"the worst violation of human rights is terrorism".
"When practiced as an instrument of state policy it is a war crime. What my country and our other neighbours are facing today is Pakistan's long-standing policy of sponsoring terrorism, the consequences of which have spread well beyond our region," she said.
She had said India sees in Pakistan "a terrorist state"which channelises billions of dollars, much of it diverted from international aid, to training, financing and supporting terror groups as militant proxies against it neighbours.
Sushma Swaraj is also expected to give a befitting reply to an earlier address at the UNGA by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Under the UNGA's right to reply, after Sharif's address, the Indian diplomatic mission at the UN was also point-blank and called the neighbouring country the "Ivy League of terror'.
Image: External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj shares a light moment with reporters and India's Permanent Representative in the United Nations, Syed Akbaruddin at the UNGA, New York, on Saturday.
Sentiment remained downbeat as investors went about booking profits in recent gainers. The 30-share barometer declined 149.22 points, or 0.52 per cent, to 28,519, with sectoral indices led by realty, banking and auto accounting for much of the losses, falling by up to 0.94 per cent. The index had lost 104.91 points in the previous session on Friday.
But, while the initial reaction might be relief, the protracted negotiations and the reduction of the deal to a third of its original size underscores the long-running problems with Indian defence procurement, an even more pressing concern given rising tensions with Pakistan.
And while Narendra Modi enjoys the credit for a deal he personally helped broker, the Indian prime minister must now also work out where he gets the 90 aircraft he chose not to buy. Read more
PM Modi tweeted: "Moment of immense joy and pride for India. Congratulations to @isro on successful launch of PSLV-C35/SCATSAT-1 & 7 co-passenger satellites. Our space scientists keep scripting history. Their innovative zeal has touched the lives of 125 crore Indians & made India proud worldwide."
The 37th Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or PSLV, carrying eight satellites - three from India, three from Algeria, and one each from Canada and the US - successfully lifted off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh at 9:12 am.PSLV takes off from Sriharikota carrying 8 satellites - three from India, three from Algeria, and one each from Canada and the US.
"Warm birthday wishes to Dr. Manmohan Singh ji. May God bless him with a long and healthy life," he said in a tweet.
"PM @narendramodi spoke to Dr Manmohan Singh-ji and extended birthday greetings to him," the PMO said in a tweet. Singh, who served as Prime Minister from 2004 to 2014, was born in Gah in Pakistan. Singh's family migrated to India during partition in 1947.
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While SCATSAT-1 will be released first into a 730 km Polar Sunsynchronous Orbit after about 17 minutes, the rest will be injected into a lower orbit of 689 km after around two hours.
There will be two re-ignitions of the launch vehicle for this purpose, Kumar said.
Besides SCATSAT-1, the others are PRATHAM and PISAT, two academic satellites from India, ALSAT-1B, ALSAT-2B and ALSAT-1N (all from Algeria) and Pathfinder-1 and NLS-19, from USA and Canada, respectively.
The 48-and-a-half-hour countdown for PSLV-C35/SCATSAT-1 Mission started at 8:42am on Saturday.
According to ISRO, this is the first mission of PSLV in which it will be launching its payloads into two different orbits.
This will be the 15th flight of PSLV in 'XL' configuration with the use of solid strap-on motors, it added.
The mission objectives of SCATSAT-1 are to help provide weather forecasting services to the user communities through the generation of wind vector products for weather forecasting, cyclone detection and tracking, ISRO said.
SCATSAT-1 is a continuity mission for scatterometer payload carried by the earlier Oceansat-2 satellite, ISRO added.