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Updated: ( 4:00:37 GMT)
Tuesday February 09 , 2010
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Muslims protest Andhra HC verdict on quotas for Muslims
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Muslim quota: Andhra no, Bengal yes
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HYDERABAD/KOLKATA: The Andhra Pradesh high court, in a majority decision, Monday struck down as unsustainable the legislation providing 4% reservation in educational institutions and government jobs to backward groups among Muslims. A seven-member bench was divided 5-2 and provided three different decisions while striking down the legislation. In Bengal, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya Monday announced a “policy decision” to reserve 10% of government jobs for disadvantaged sections of backward-class Muslims in Bengal, prodded by allies to spring a potential vote-catcher ahead of key elections. Bhattacharjee said: “The 10% reservation will not be on the basis of religion. It will be for the benefit of those Muslims who are backward socially, economically and educationally".
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PC for better force use against Naxals
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NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, who will be meeting Chief Ministers of the Naxal-affected states of West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Jharkhand in Kolkata on Tuesday, is likely to ask them why they were not raising enough forces on their own and not filling the existing vacancies. Chidambaram will review their preparedness and inter-state cooperation in fighting Naxalism.
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BJP blames govt policies for price rise
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NEW DELHI: The government’s faulty policy that was failing to take note of the unprecedented spurt in prices of essential food items had led to a situation in which a majority of the population was unable to buy enough to eat, even as hoarders, multi-nationals and corporate houses made huge profits, BJP president Nitin Gadkari said Monday. He outlined the party’s decision to stage an agitation on this issue inside and outside parliament.
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Student stabs molestor cop outside court
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CHANDIGARH: In what comes as a major security lapse, a 29-year-old student from Varanasi, posing as a freelance journalist, attacked former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, convicted in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, with a knife when he came out of a local court on Monday. Utsav Sharma, who has done his graduation in fine arts from the Ahmedabad-based NID, took the security by surprise by attacking with a knife on his face and neck.
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Cong fumes at Pawar-Thackeray meet
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NEW DELHI: A day after Mr Sharad Pawar provided legitimacy of sorts to the Shiv Sena’s opposition on allowing Australian cricketers to play in India, by discussing the issue with Bal Thackeray, Congress went public with its unease over the move made by the leader of its alliance partner. “There cannot be two authorities in the state. There cannot be an extra-constitutional authority in the state,” said Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan.
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Recovery on track: GDP to grow at 7.2%
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NEW DELHI: India’s gross domestic product (GDP) — the total income of all economic entities in the country — will grow at 7.2 per cent in 2009-10, an official forecast said on Monday, confirming signs of a turnaround amid worries about the drought-hit farm sector. The GDP forecast put out by the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO), however, is a shade lower than projections by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Finance Ministry.
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South Asian Policy Analysis Network
South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) and the South Asian Journal have initiated a project to develop an interactive network of experts for the South Asian Policy Analysis (SAPANA) Network which was launched in April, 2006. SAPANA is a non-partisan, South Asia-wide research and policy analysis network, the first independent South Asian think-thank in the region and is expected to play an influential role in guiding discussion, analysis and policy both in South Asia and outside the region.
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South Asia Media Commission was formed in April 2007 to monitor journalists’ safety and violation of media rights and to publish periodical reports. It was envisaged to respond with speed to such violations to press for remedial action.
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South Asian Media School
In 2007, SAFMA, a network of South Asian journalists and media practitioners, aware of the political nuances of the region and sensitive to the demands of the new media age, felt the need to cultivate a new generation of South Asian media persons. With this in mind, the South Asian Media School was set up at South Asian Media Centre, a hub of media activity.
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