Interesting articles of the day 2/20/2009

Following are interesting articles of the day (February 20, 2009) which affect Hindus and their rights directly or indirectly. Also, some general articles. All the articles with my views on some of them.

1. Christian Taliban: Hindu Temples set on fire in Silchar


2. Sexual abuse of Nuns in Convents and Catholic Church


3. Court convicts former Union minister Sukhram in disproportionate assets case

   Former Union communications minister Sukhram was on Friday convicted by a Delhi court for amassing Rs 4.25 crore of disproportionate assets that included seizure of Rs 2.45 crore from his residence in New Delhi.
   
   Special CBI Judge V K Maheshwari held the 82-year-old politician from Himachal Pradesh guilty under various provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
   
   During the arguments in the case, special CBI prosecutor Gurdial Singh had alleged that Sukhram, in his capacity as a public servant during the period from June 20, 1991 to August 16, 1996, had abused his official position and amassed huge assets including one palatial house at Ghaziabad and a farm house in Himachal Pradesh, besides cash, bank balances and jewellery.



4. Dr. Subramanian Swamy assaulted in Madras High Court by Anti-Hindu racist Pro-Terrorist-LTTE lawyers
   
   Such Anti-Hindu Anti-Brahmin racist bigots should be debarred from practicing law and sent off to Sri Lanka to live with LTTE terrorist whom they love so much. They should be booked under treason and sedition charges!
   
   
   • Police, lawyers clash at Madras HC. For the pictures please click here.

     Pitched battles were fought outside the Madras high court on Thursday afternoon after the police arrested 17 lawyers for attacking Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy.
     
     Lawyers sympathetic to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on Tuesday hurled rotten eggs at Swamy inside the court in the presence of the judges and shouted anti-India slogans.

   
   
   • Video: Police lathicharge the Pro-Terrorist-LTTE lawyers. These traitors got what they deserve, police ka danda up their LTTE ass.
   
   
   • Video: Police, lawyers clash outside Madras HC
   
   
   • 150 lawyers protest Madras HC violence, arrested

     Police arrested 150 lawyers in Chennai on Friday as protests continue to disrupt life in the state. The lawyers were taking out a protest march to the Tamil Nadu secretariat over the violence in the Madras High Court on Thursday, when rampaging lawyers and lathi wielding police fought pitched battles. The Tamil Nadu Bar Association president is among those arrested. Courts in Chennai remained closed today and lawyers were seen protesting outside the court premises, as well. Earlier in the day, the issue rocked Tamil Nadu assembly, leading to an en masse eviction of the entire opposition. The opposition was demanding that the question hour be postponed to discuss the mayhem on court premises.

   
   
   • HC orders probe, courts shut today
   
   


5. SC notice to Tamil Nadu lawyers over frequent strikes

   The Supreme Court on Thursday sought response from Madras High Court Advocates Association (MHCAA), whose members resorted to arson and stone pelting against police, as to why their lingering judicial work paralysing strike be not declared illegal.
   
   Undaunted by the misdirected show of strength, a lawyer from Tamil Nadu took courage to stand up alone against the continuing stir by advocates in Chennai and wanted the apex court to take action as per its 2003 judgment, which had virtually barred lawyers from going on strike.
   
   Petitioner R Muralidaran through counsel S Balaji filed the PIL making strong remarks against the dictatorial manner in which the Madras HC Advocates Association (MHCAA) has been arbitrarily calling for strikes on one pretext or the other paralysing judicial work in the state.
   
   Appearing for the petitioner, senior advocate Harish Salve told a Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices J M Panchal and A K Ganguly that lawyers' strike in TN has become an endemic problem requiring intervention of the apex court and sending of a strong message.
   
   The High Court has functioned for only nine days this year because of the strike calls given by the lawyer bodies in support of Tamils in Sri Lanka and numerous other issues, including protest against the recent amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code, Salve said pointing to the collossal loss of judicial time, especially when the courts faced huge pendency.



6. Bangladesh minister points to Dhaka link to 26/11


7. 22 universities across India fake, UP tops at 9: UGC

   According to the UGC Act, only those universities that have been established under an Act of Parliament or state legislature or granted a deemed university status under Section 3 of the UGC Act are entitled to call themselves universities and confer degrees. Contravention of these provisions of Section 22 and 23 of the UGC Act attract penalty under Section 24 of the Act.
   
   The universities that have been declared fake in Uttar Pradesh are Mahila Gram Vidyapith/Vishwavidyalaya, Prayag (Allahabad); Indian Education Council of UP (Lucknow); Gandhi Hindi Vidyapith, Prayag (Allahabad); National University of Electro Complex Homeopathy (Kanpur); Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose University (Open University), Achaltal (Aligarh); Vishwavidyalaya, Kosi Kalan (Mathura); Maharana Pratap Shiksha Niketan Vishwavidyalaya (Pratapgarh); Indraprastha Shiksha Parishad, Institutional Area Khoda, Makanpur (Noida) and Gurukul Vishwavidyala (Vridanvan).
   
   Fake institutions in Delhi are Varanaseya Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, Varanasi, Jagatpuri (Delhi); Indian Institute of Science and Engineering (New Delhi); Commercial University Ltd, Daryaganj (Delhi); United Nations University (Delhi); Vocational University (Delhi) and ADR-Centric Juridical University, Rajendra Place (New Delhi).
   
   Besides, Maithili University/Vishwavidyalaya, Darbhanga (Bihar); Badaganvi Sarkar World Open University Education Society, Gokak, Belgaum (Karnataka); St Johns University, Kishanattam (Kerala); Kesarwani Vidyapith, Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh); Raja Arabic University, Nagpur (Maharashtra); DDB Sanskrit University, Putur, Trichi (Tamil Nadu) and Indian Institute of Alternative Medicine (Kolkata) have also been declared fake.

   Why only Sanskrit Universities are closed down? Why not fake and communal Madarsas and sexually exploitative Convents? Why this bias?