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Times of India

The Delhi High Court Tribunal on Tuesday night lifted the ban on Students’ Islamic Movement of India, citing lack of a concrete reason for continuing the ban. The organisation was banned in 2006 with the charge of indulging in anti-India activities.

Student Islamic Movement of India – A profile

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they are not authorised to officially comment on any court judgement.

The lifting of the ban on the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) Tuesday has come as a body blow to the intelligence and security agencies that are probing its hand in a series of terror blasts in Jaipur, Bangalore and Ahmedabad that have killed hundreds of people. “We have not seen the judgement yet but it is a complete shock to us. I can’t believe this can happen. The decision has really came at the wrong time when we are in hot pursuit of SIMI members in the country,� a top Intelligence Bureau (IB) official told IANS.

Another IB official said: “We have not been informed about the judgement. But it is a big setback for the security agencies which are battling terrorism.�

A top Delhi Police official, requesting anonymity, told IANS: “We have provided adequate information to the tribunal (that lifted the ban) and the decision is very surprising. It will badly affect us in the long run in the fight against terrorism


http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/..._10080396.html

New Delhi, Aug 06: Just a day after the Delhi High Court Tribunal lifted the ban on Students’ Islamic movement of India (SIMI), the Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the Tribunal order, implying that the ban will continue as of now. The apex court has issued a notice to SIMI asking as to why it should not be banned and has given them 3 weeks to respond to the same.

Zee News

Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, who was dramatically bundled out from West Bengal in November last year, returned on Friday after spending more than four months in Sweden.


The 45-year-old Bangladeshi writer, who has been a target of Islamic fundamentalists, arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on Friday morning and was immediately whisked away by security agencies to an undisclosed destination, official sources said.


The future plans of the writer, who shot to fame with her controversial book Lajja, were not immediately known.

Her visa is valid till August 12. She has been requesting for permanent residentship in the country but the Government has not taken any decision on the issue

Taslima had left India on March 18 for Sweden after she was kept in a safe house in the national Capital for more than four months.

Taslima, who had not been allowed to see any visitors during the period, had described her confinement as living in "a chamber of death".

Taslima has lived in many countries in exile, including France, Sweden and India since 1994. During her stay in India in the last five years, she has periodically travelled abroad with the last trip being in November last year before she was bundled out of West Bengal.

Recipient of various awards, Taslima was shifted from Kolkata residence after violent protests marred parts of the metropolis over her controversial book Dwikhondito (divided into two).

Certain references by her in the book stirred a storm with some Muslim organisations demanding that she be asked to leave the State.

Taslima was packed off from Kolkata and shifted to Jaipur. The Rajasthan Government decided to shift her to Delhi after some Muslim organisations threatened state-wide protests against her stay

Despite the writer's wish to return to Kolkata, the Left Front Government in West Bengal did not pay any heed to her request.

The Bangladeshi author had said that she was "forced" to depart from Kolkata at such a short notice that she did not have time to even change her clothes.

The CPI(M) came under increasing attack on Taslima issue, with major national parties demanding protection and extension of her visa.

A Swedish passport holder, she flew to Sweden from Delhi on March 18 and was admitted to hospital.

Meanwhile in Kolkata, criticising the Centre for facilitating the return of the controversial writer to India, Muslim organisations in the city on Friday called for her immediate deportation from the country.

Holding a meeting under the banner of All-India Majlis-e Sura, the organisations said, "we are deeply disappointed and dejected by this step of the Centre, specifically Union Minister Pranab Mukherjee, that he has allowed Taslima to return to India."

Seeking her immediate deportation from India, they said, "we are looking forward to a positive response from the Centre."

"The Centre's step has definitely hurt sentiments of the Muslim community in India," said a statement signed by Aziz Mubaraki, Additional Chief Secretary to Shahi Imam of Tipu Sultan mosque.

All-India Minority Forum president Idris Ali described Taslima's return to India as "unfortunate and unexpected" and said it "will not be accepted by Muslims in India".

Source :Pioneer

New Delhi, Aug 09: In a sensational revelation, intelligence sources have said that five hardcore Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists are hiding in the national capital and may strike at sensitive areas in Delhi particularly during the Independence Day celebrations.

Their prime target is believed to be Chandni Chowk, which is very close to Red Fort, where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will unfurl the tricolour on Independence Day.

The militants may also target busy market places like Karol Bagh, Sarojini Nagar market, as well as bus and railway stations, said the sources.

According to the information available to Zee News, one LeT militant – reportedly identified as Jaffer - has sent five terrorists via Jammu and Kashmir into the capital. Three of them have been identified as Zahoor, Altaf and Khurshid.

Another person, identified as Ayoub Itoo, is believed to have been involved in supplying necessary materials like RDX and money to the terrorists.

Following the information, all 10 districts of Delhi have been put on high alert. Police has been instructed to conduct random checks in various areas. Cops are keeping a strict vigil in market places, bus and railway stations. Dog squads have also been deputed in railway stations to sniff out dangerous materials.

All the district DCPs have been told to keep a close watch on the movements of extremists and suspects moving in and out of Delhi.

Recently, the Delhi Police had made it mandatory for bicycle buyers to produce document proofs to establish their identity.

The step was taken in view of the use of cycle bombs during Ahmedabad blasts.

In Ahmedabad serial blasts, terrorists had used tiffin boxes on bicycles and placed them in crowded markets to cause maximum damage.

Zee

The government on Thursday approved the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, heaping civil and defence staff with a salary hike bonanza on the eve of the country's 61st Independence Day.

The Sixth Pay Commission, which was headed by Justice B N Srikrishna, had in March submitted its report to the government, recommending an average 28 per cent hike for central government staff and defence personnel.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had on wednesday held a meeting with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Defence Minister A K Antony and Finance Minister P Chidambaram to discuss the pay commission report and the recommendations of the empowered committee of Secretaries that went into it.

http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/aug/14pay.htm

Ahmedabad, Aug 18: US national Kenneth Haywood, whose computer was used in Navi Mumbai to send a terror e-mail minutes before the Ahmedabad blasts, has fled the country. He was on a lookout notice and his passport was supposed to be impounded by the Mumbai Police to facilitate investigations.

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=462948&sid=REG

New Delhi, Aug 18: The Central Bureau of Investigation is likely to be given additional responsibility of probing terror strikes as is done by the FBI in the US, Law Minister H R Bhardwaj said on Monday.

Pointing to a proposal for having a new federal agency in the country on the lines of FBI, he said "The law is very clear that each state will have its own police force with a DGP...if you make these police forces efficient only a few crimes can be given to CBI. The CBI is our FBI."

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=462914&sid=NAT

higly cocerntrated Indian Uranium


Hi,
We have some extreme good news.Scientists have for the first time found uranium in 'exceptionally high concentration' in Ladakh, the icy Himalayan region in Jammu and Kashmir that has strategic significance for India.

Samples of rocks analysed in a German laboratory have revealed uranium content to be as high as 5.36 percent compared to around 0.1 percent or less in ores present elsewhere in the country.

India badly needs uranium to fuel its nuclear power plants and the proposed India-US nuclear deal is all about importing it. The Ladakh find may cheer those opposed to the deal even though detailed exploration and mining may take years.

The Ladakh block lies between the Indian plate in the south and the Asian plate in the north and is bounded by the 'Indus and the Shyok suture zones'. Collision between the two plates 50-60 million years ago formed the Himalayas.

The earth's crust that got crushed and melted during collision and pierced the surface, cooled and solidified becoming 'magmatic' rocks dotting what geologists call the Ladakh 'batholith'. It is in these rocks that uranium is found.

'The presently recorded uranium rich zircons from young magmatic intrusions of the Shyok suture zone and associated sequences is the first record from these remote regions,' Rajeev Upadhyay, a geologist at Kumaon University in Nainital, told IANS in an e-mail interview.

'In geological terms, these uranium-bearing magmatic rocks exposed in Ladakh are very young (between 100 million and 25 million years ago),' he said.

Other uranium rich rocks in India such as in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Rajasthan are very old geological terrains known as the Precambrian (2,500-3,000 million years old), he said.

For his study, reported in the journal Current Science, Upadhyay took samples from thick exposed granite from a place north of Udmaru village in Leh district. The village in the Nubra-Shyok River Valley is situated on a volcanic rock formation known as the Shyok Volcanics.

The samples of rock mineral (zircon) were analysed at the isotope laboratory of the University of Tuebingen in Germany where he had gone under the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.

'Geochemical analysis of the separated zircon grains showed exceptionally high concentration of both uranium (0.31-5.36 percent) and thorium (0.76-1.43 percent),' Upadhyay said. He added that the study is preliminary and 'detailed work is in progress'.

According to Upadhyay, uranium-bearing magmatic rocks are located all along Kohistan, Ladakh and southern Tibet (from east to west). 'However, contents of uranium may differ from place to place,' he said.

Officials of the atomic minerals division under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) did not reply to questions about the significance of this new find or whether the Ladakh uranium could augment India's reserves.

The total established uranium resources of the country so far (in the form of uranium oxide or yellow cake) are 94,000 tonnes. The majority of these resources, according to DAE, occur in three 'provinces': Singhbhum in the east, Mahadek in the northeast and Cuddapah in the south.

The low uranium content in ores, however, makes mined uranium in India expensive compared to that in Australia whose ores contain as much as 15 percent uranium.