Gali Nagaraja

Jordan on Tuesday declared that all Muslims should be engaged in the war against terrorist organisations, which seek to defame the Islamic faith.

Islam has nothing to do with terrorism and the violent practices conducted by terrorist groups which seek to tarnish the image of this faith.

Therefore, it is the duty of Muslims to fight terrorism, Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Judeh was quoted as saying by the official news agency Petra during a meeting with a US Congress delegation.

Pakistan on Tuesday expressed serious concern for the plight of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and called for peaceful existence of all communities in the country.

The UN General Assembly in December last year passed a resolution, showing “serious concern” over the government’s treatment of the Rohingyas and said the international community was united in promoting change in Myanmar’s treatment of its minorities.

India’s eyes were not shut on underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, but “some international compulsions” were hindering his extradition from Pakistan, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday.

Addressing a media conference at the Press Club here, Rajnath Singh asserted that the government will not tolerate anyone raising pro-Pakistan slogans, and said his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has not wavered from its long-held stance favouring abrogation of Article 370 that guarantees special status to Jammu and Kashmir.

Congress party vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a fashion icon and said that the ‘suit-boot ki sarkar’ should stop the oratory and start action, for the nation would not accept them in the present form after five years.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government is in “action mode” and has restored hope in India.

“The government led by Shri @narendramodi is in action mode and it has been successful in restoring confidence and hope in India and its people,” the home minister tweeted.

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government completed one year in office on Monday.

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Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday hailed the impact that the NDA regime has had in India during the last one year under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s steward leadership.

“The government has completed one year under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi. There was a function in Delhi where the Prime Minister launched a special channel for farmers, a first for India. The channel lists various aspects of farming, including special techniques, crop diversification, soil, weather and so on,” Jaitley said, while launching a booklet on the work done by the NDA Government here.

A court in Bangladesh on Tuesday sentenced a school teacher to life imprisonment for raping a five-year-old student.

Tanjina Ismail, judge of the fifth Women and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal in Dhaka, gave the sentence to 24-year-old Md Minhaz Uddin, a teacher of Holy Crescent School in Shewrapara and also fined him 200,000 taka ($2,570) for the rape on March 11 last year, bdnews24.com reported.

The parents of the child found out about the incident when she was crying in pain on her way home from school. They saw blood on her pants when undressing her.

A senior Iranian nuclear negotiator has stressed on observing the country’s red lines set for the nuclear talks with the world powers, saying the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme is highly sensitive for both the country’s interests and future, a media report said on Tuesday.

“Diplomats and negotiators are obliged to comply with the guidelines and red lines set for them,” Press TV quoted Abbas Araqchi, who is also Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, as saying in a TV interview on Monday night.

The Congress Party on Monday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for targeting the former UPA regime and said that the BJP-led NDA Government needs to change its mindset towards farmers.

“It is unfortunate that Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he will cure the disease of the land of the farmers. But Modi ji… disease is not in their lands, instead, it is in the minds of the government,” Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala told ANI.

England beat New Zealand by 124 runs in the first test match at Lord’s on Monday.

The host team bowled the Kiwis out for 220 runs with 9.3 overs left on the final day.

Ben Stokes took 3-38, including the wickets of Kane Williamson and Brendon McCullum in successive deliveries.

England, which was earlier, bowled out for 478 to set New Zealand a target of 345, take a 1-0 lead into the final Test at Headingley starting on Friday. (ANI)

Mid 2014 was the High Time in the history of Indian Politics; The Bed Ridden Indian Democracy was in desperate need of a Messiah to bring it back to life. The change of government was inevitable after UPA-II’s failure on many grounds. But people never expected the change would backfire like this. Corporate friendly National Party BJP registered Victory in the elections.

Top negotiators of South Korea, the US and Japan plan to meet in Seoul on Tuesday to discuss the North Korea’s nuclear programme and ways of resuming the long-stalled six-party talks to denuclearise the Korean Peninsula.

Bilateral talks would be held on Tuesday among the three diplomats, who represent their respective countries in the six-party talks, according to South Korea’s foreign ministry, Xinhua reported.

An Air France passenger jet coming from Paris was escorted by two US F-15 fighter jets to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport after an anonymous telephone threat, authorities said.

Local media reported on Monday that the unidentified caller said that the Air France plane had a chemical weapon on board.

The FBI said in a statement that the military escort was ordered as a special precautionary measure after a “telephone threat” about which it gave no details, although the agency did say that there was never any risk to the plane’s passengers, reports Efe.

President of Minorities Cell of Congress, Mr. Mohammed Sirajuddin told that the Muslims of India are not the citizens of this country by chance but by choice. Congress Party of India honored the Muslims like Dr. Zakir Husain and Mr. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed by appointing them as Presidents of India. He condemned the statement made by Dr. Najma Heptullah in which she had proclaimed that the Muslims of India are facing inferiority complex right from the day of Independence. In this manner she has ridiculed crores of Muslims of India and hurt their feelings. Mr.

Mr. Amer Ali Khan, News Editor of Siasat Urdu Daily received a letter from Good Samaritans India Destitute Home in which a request was made for the burial of the dead body of Mohammed Husain. In the same manner requests were received from various police stations. 19 Muslim dead bodies were procured from Osmania and Gandhi Hospitals and arrangements were made for their burial in the Muslim graveyard of Kukatpally. Maulana Mohammed Zubair offered funeral prayer. Mr. Zahid Ali Khan, Editor of Siasat Urdu Daily thanked the president of Muslim graveyard Mr. Shaik Abdul Aziz. Mr.

Dramas like “Dastan-e-Golconda” are a befitting reply to “Love Jihad” and “Ghar Wapsi” campaigns of the communal elements. The CDs of such dramas should be sent to the Central Institutions promoting national integration and communal harmony in order to face the dangers of communalism. These thoughts were expressed by Mr. Zahid Ali Khan, Editor of Siasat Urdu Daily who is the President of Fine Arts Academy while delivering Presidential Speech on the occasion of the inauguration of the program presented at Ravindra Bharati yesterday.

Mr. Zahid Ali Khan, Editor of Siasat Urdu Daily will inaugurate coaching classes for BUMS entrance test at Abid Ali Khan Eye Hospital, Darulshifa, at 10 a.m. today. Mr. Ismail Ali Khan, Chairman of Telangana State Electricity Regulatory Commission will be the Chief Guest. Dr. Meer Yousuf Ali, Joint Commissioner, Dept. of AYUSH will be the guest of honour. Hakim Syed Ghousuddin, co-ordinator of coaching program and Mr. Khalid Mohiuddin Asad, convener have requested the students to attend the program.

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IITs located in A.P. and Telangana have issued notification for admissions. Talking to Newsmen yesterday, VC of Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technology, Prof. Satyanarayana gave the details of the notification. He said that admission notification has been issued for IITs in Hyderabad, Basra, Edupulapaya, Nuzvid. Students desirous of seeking admission in these IITs may download application forms from the website. The last date of submission of completed applications is 19th June. No application will be accepted after this date.

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday hit out at the Narendra Modi government over its order concerning the powers of the city’s elected government, saying it had also taken away the powers of Delhi’s Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) to probe central government staff.

Iraq on Monday rejected criticism by the US defense secretary that Iraqi security forces lacked the will to fight against the Islamic State (IS) militant group after the fall of the city of Ramadi.

The Iraqi media highlighted the comments of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi who said in an interview with the BBC that he was surprised by the comments of US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and pledged to recapture Ramadi soon.

“I’m surprised why he said that. I mean, he was very supportive of Iraq. I am sure he was fed with the wrong information,” Abadi told the BBC.

The UN has not declared postponement of peace talks due to be held in Geneva this week, said a senior official of Yemen’s Shia Houthi group on Monday as it was fighting a Saudi-led Arab coalition in the north and supporters of the exiled president in the south.

The UN plans to hold a conference in Geneva on May 28 that will involve Yemen’s exiled government, political factions, including the Houthi group and the Arab coalition, to restore momentum toward a political transition process. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged all Yemeni parties to engage in the talks without precondition.

Solar Impulse (Si2), the solar plane on a mission to fly around the globe without a drop of fuel, is all set for a challenging 8,000-km journey on Tuesday, flying non-stop from Nanjing in China to Hawaii in the central Pacific, a media report said on Monday.

For Si2, which is powered by more than 17,000 solar cells installed on its 72-metre wings, it will be its greatest challenge yet, BBC reported, adding the experimental aircraft could take five-six days and nights of continuous flight to reach its destination.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday urged the country’s defence industry to expand military-technical cooperation with others in order to find more clients among Moscow’s allies and strategic partners.

“To win new clients, the Russian defence industry should swiftly react to the ever-changing market environment…and develop military-technical ties with all of our allies and strategic partners,” Putin said at a meeting on military cooperation with foreign countries.

Indian-origin voters in the UK played a decisive role in Prime Minister David Cameron-led Conservatives winning the elections, with one million ethnic minority votes going in his favour, a post-poll survey said.

The Conservatives won a majority as a result of one million ethnic minority votes, new research by British Future think tank has found.

Nearly 6,15,000 Indian-origin voters were expected to vote in the May 7 elections this year with many expected to switch loyalties from Opposition Labour to the Conservative party.

Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram today gave zero marks to the Modi government on the issue of job creation, faulted it for not carrying out major reforms despite adequate numbers in the Lok Sabha and spoke of worrying signs in the economy.

The senior Congress leader also took a jibe at Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, saying tax terrorism coined by him has “come to haunt him” now in the backdrop of tax notices to FIIs regarding Minimum Alternate Tax.