Jameel Aahmed Milansaar

Dr. H. R. Keshavamurthy*            24th December is observed as “National Consumer Rights Day” in India, since on this day the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 was enacted. The Consumer Protection Act provides for effective safeguards to consumers against various types of exploitations and unfair dealings, relying mainly on compensatory rather than a disciplinary or preventive approach. With a large consumer base of 1.27 billion ( 52% males and 48% females) constituting nearly 17.31% of the world’s population, the demography of Indian consumer shows an interesting pattern pointing towards a young consumer base which believes in market mechanism. 30 % of the population lives in urban areas and the rest in rural. The diversity itself is a major challenge for any consumer protection regime. The Constitution of India provides for protection of rights of an individual and also enjoins the State to adhere to the Directive Principles. The...

Dr. M. Manzoor Alam The Delhi Assembly elections results have brought total rout to Congress Party and near-victory to BJP. However, the heavy backing to Aam Aadmi Party has surprised us all, including psephologists, “scientists” of election. We welcome the change as it is the unchangeable nature of life even though all of it has not been to our liking. The most likeable part of it is the rise of AAP, which is the only party in India that has garnered so much of support without resorting to religious, casteist, sectarian or class appeal. That is a real, substantial achievement for a secular democracy: citizens contesting elections as citizens, not as members of a certain religion, caste, sect or class. Their vote support too has come without these considerations. The elections were so keenly fought that no party has emerged with even a working majority, much less absolute majority. Let us hope that whoever forms the government tries to consolidate and further build on the substanti...

Dr. Mohammad Manzoor Alam The single specialisation of RSS since 1920s has been sowing hatred and hostility in the Hindu mind against religious minorities, particularly Muslims and, to a lesser degree, Christians. One of the themes of the anti-Muslim propaganda: the Muslim birth rate is so high that by 2035, Muslims will become the absolute majority in India. The latest round of demographic propaganda began recently with the exhortation of RSS joint general secretary Dattareya Hosable to Hindus to produce more children to “maintain the demographic balance”. Upto here it was ok. But soon the RSS website came up with the following canard: “… In 2035, Muslims will become absolute majority in India (total population: 197.7 crore). Conversion, threatening, rioting, slaughtering, terrorism, intrusion, polygamy, avoiding birth control are major tools for Muslims to reach that figure within the said period”. This is nothing but hate propaganda based on falsehoods. How does threatening, rio...

Born in Mecca in 1888, Maulana came to India in 1890 as a child. The best part of his formative years was spent in Calcutta. In 1916, he was to meet Gandhiji in Calcutta, and was greatly influenced by his speeches. Azad joined the freedom movement of India, and was arrested by the British for his seditious writings, and detained in jail at Ranchi for four years. On his release in January, 1920 he met Gandhiji in the latter's Sabarmati Ashrama, and became his ardent follower. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a profound scholar, a great patriot and a veteran statesman. He was an outstanding Muslim whom no provocation and no pressure could deflect from the path of nationalism. He became the symbol of Hindu-Muslim unity, enjoying in a large measure the confi­dence of both the communities even on trying occasions. Azad was highly respected by the Muslims, even when he was very young, as he was a great scholar of merit. He was a reputed scholar of the Quran. As an orator in Urdu, he w...

A time to recall the stalwarts The HIndu  http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-time-to-recall- the-stalwarts/article5318102.ece

Narendra Modi: 4-in-One By Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam We are told Narendrabhai Modi, who is a 4-in-One product, would be best suited for India’s prime ministership. The first quality that he has is that he is a liar. He, and people like him, think that lying is an essential “quality” for a successful politician. We have no opinion on that, but every time he tells a lie he is caught. That means he is not good at even lying. Recently, he said that Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru did not attend Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s funeral. Soon people came out with the fact that Pandit Nehru was very much there at his colleague’s funeral. The elaborate falsehood that he resorted to about Uttarakhand disaster evacuation was another example of his lying. His second quality is that he is a miniature-sized Hitler, a good consolation for the contemporary Hitler lovers in India. He has all the hatred for Muslims that Hitler had for Jews. He also shares Hitler’s hatred for Leftists and liberals. His th...

Would Sardar Patel in who's image Narendra Modi is trying to sell himself have approved of these high handed anti-democratic actions? ATTACK ON HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS & PROTESTORS Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti Press Release Date: 31 October 2013, 6.30 a.m. • Gujarat Government cracks down on right to freedom of expression. • Activist and villagers detained and house arrests in the wee hours of the morning of October 31 2013. Police have actually entered into over two dozen villages to terrorise villager protestors. • Gujarat Government stiffles the Voice of Tribals and Activists who want to protest his Visit . If they speak out in Gujarat, they must go to jai., at Kevadia. On 30 October 2013, we 4 activists, Rohit Prajapati, Trupti Shah, Amrish Brahmbhatta, Sudhir Biniwale, were put under house arrest by Rajpipal police even before they had reached the venue of the protest. They were followed by police vehicles right form Devalia chokadi when they were travailing from Vadodara to...

Today i bring to you a thoughtful article By Soroor Ahmed, TwoCircles.net A few days after Eid-ul-Fitr, which fell on August 9 in India, rediff.com did a story claiming that a top Muslim cleric somewhat linked with Deoband met the Gujarat chief minister and BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, in the month of Ramazan. The story did not disclose the name of the Muslim leader. Two months later just on eve of Eid-ul-Azha Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Hind chief Mehmood Madani, while speaking at a conference on the demand of reservations for Muslims in Jaipur, attacked the Congress accusing it of stoking communal fears in order to gain Muslim votes. He also blamed some regional parties for adopting the same policy and said that they are spreading fears about Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi unnecessarily in order to gain votes. That was not enough. He was approached by a number of journalists to whom he told the Congress cannot scare Muslims to get votes from them. They ...

By Faraz Ahmad Lalu Prasad The day a CBI court in Ranchi convicted Lalu Prasad of fodder scam (September 30), the Supreme Court set aside the decision of the Karnataka government to replace its public prosecutor G Bhawani Singh in the Disproportionate Assets case against Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha, an Iyengar Brahmin, which when read with the recent judgements of the apex court and its subordinate courts, singularly targeting OBC leader Lalu Prasad and a Muslim politician Rasheed Masood, widely known for his financial integrity, forces us to reiterate that justice should not just be done but seen to have been done as well. The Congress government in Karnataka through its notification of August 26 withdrew the appointment of G Bhavani Singh as the Public prosecutor, whom the outgoing BJP government in Karnataka had appointed evidently in a gesture of reciprocity for Jayalalitha’s softness towards not just the BJP but its PM candidate Narendra Modi, though at th...

Oct 4, 8:59 PM The schedule for assembly elections in Delhi, Rajasthan, Mizoram, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh has been announced. Except, Chhattisgarh where polls will be held in two phases, all four states will have single phase polls. The elections in Chhattisgarh will held on 11th and 19th November. While, in Madhya Pradesh the polls will be conducted on 25th November and in Rajasthan it will be held on 1st December. The election in Delhi and Mizoram will be held on 4th December. Counting of votes in all states will take place on 8th of December. Announcing the poll schedule in New Delhi today, the Chief Election Commissioner, V. S. Sampath said that the commission will take all steps to conduct free and fair elections. He said that the Commission, for the first time, is also taking necessary steps to make available the None of the Above option for the voters. Mr. Sampath said, Central Awareness Observers will be deployed for the first time, to oversee the efficien...

Proud of Rahul Gandhi for admitting Sonia Gandhi chided him; as we expected her to. This is the kind of honest, open leader nation wants. My mother told me the words I used were wrong: Rahul Gandhi on ordinance  Words may have been wrong, but sentiment wasn't: Some interesting tweets @imaijazahmad 2m Modi (NaMo) for BJP and Rahul Gandhi for Congress as PM Candidate. lets see who will loot #India for Next five years. ‏@indiarightnow 2m Rahul Gandhi: #MyMomToldMe Ladki wale aa rahe hai tumhe dekhne ke liye. This time don't open your mouth @sonoritachauhan 3m Don't blame Rahul Gandhi for referencing his mom in every speech- it's a natl prob - 40-yr-olds still seeking advice from moms Neither Rahul Gandhi Nor Narendra Modi Has Found A New Language To Gel With The Voters, https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Rahul%20Gandhi%22&src=tren

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O. P. Sharma* Mahatma Gandhi, “The Father of the Nation” is one of the greatest freedom fighter, a revolutionary social reformer and above all an ace communicator. Not only he held lofty principles but he effectively propagated his message among the masses by using the then existing media, mostly the print as well as through public meetings. Among his other qualities of leadership he was the best communicator. His distinguish quality was that he truthfully believed in the message and skillfully conveyed his philosophy which he himself also practiced. He sent his thoughts through the life by setting a personal example. His autobiography titled “My Experiments with Truth” narrates the actual life he lived and practised his principles for setting a personal example. This was also the secret of his success as a communicator More than anyone else, Mahatma Gandhi recognized that skillful communication is the most effective tool to shape public opinion and mobilize it for popular ...

The Mumbai-based Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) has moved the Supreme Court in a detailed writ petition (WP Nos 170/2013) asking for the Supreme Coirt’s direct intervention through an appointment of a High Powered Committee of Court Commissioners to survey the four worst affected districts, assess details of the dead and misisng as also the scale of damages and monitor the transparency and quality of the probe/investigation and report back to the Supreme Court. Petitioners have also asked for directions to transfer the investigations to the CBI. The petition filed last Tuesday came up for hearing with other matters today and will now be heard next week. Two Victim Survivors, Shahid Hassan, son of Sirajuddin who along with four others was massacred in the attack on Lisadh village of Shamli district and Samaydeen son of Kamruddin who was also killed in the violence at Lisadh and the Awami Council for Peace and Democracy are also co-petitioners in this substantive petition t...

Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam The anti-Muslim riots in Muzaffarnagar and adjoining areas are already being compared to Gujarat 2002. As many as 50,000 people have been officially reckoned to have become internal refugees. According to official records, 85 people have died, but unofficial estimates put it at a much higher figure. Picture For Representation purpose only Police and administrative laxity, and sometimes police’s criminal collusion with rioters, have brought on this sorry state of affairs. Above everything else the murky dealings of Samajwadi Party leadership with the Sangh had a paralysing influence on the state machinery and encouraged goondas to indulge in rape, loot, arson and murder. Many Muslims have “disappeared”, many of their young women have been kidnapped and whisked away to places where they cannot easily be found. Like Gujarat, it was a well-planned operation. Police in several areas have been seen to be hand in glove with rioters. These riots need ...

Rapid industrialization and urbanization coupled with continuous decline in per capita availability of water is putting a lot of pressure on the available water resources in the country. As per report of standing sub-committee for assessment of availability and requirements of water for diverse uses in the country, the future water requirements for meeting the demands of various sections in the country for the year 2025 and 2050 have been estimated to be 1093 BCM and 1447 BCM respectively. The increasing gap between water availability and demand highlight the need for conservation of water. The National Water Policy also lays stress on conservation of water. It has been stipulated that efficiency of utilization in all the diverse uses of water should be optimized and an awareness of water as a scarce resource should be fostered. With per capita availability of water depleting at a faster pace, the Government has declared the Year 2013 as Water Conservation Year under which awa...