Delhi Jama Masjid’s Shahi Imam attacked

27102014

Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid, Syed Ahmed Bukhari was attacked yesterday while he was offering evening prayers at Jama Masjid in Delhi. The Imam escaped unhurt. Police has identified the attacker as 32 year old Kamaluddin, a resident of 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, who allegedly tried to set the Imam on fire with kerosene.

Talking to reporters, Special Commissioner for law and order, Deepak Mishra said that the attacker has been arrested and investigation is going on to ascertain why he attacked Bukhari.

The accused has been booked under IPC Section 307, attempt to murder.

Imam’s younger brother, Tariq Bhukari said, the man had jumped about eight queues of devotees when they were kneeling during prayers and poured kerosene on Bukhari.

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24 European banks fail ECB’s financial stress test

27102014

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has announced that 24 European banks have failed stress tests of their finances. No UK banks are included. Ten of them have taken measures to bolster their balance sheets in the meantime. All the remaining 14 banks are in the eurozone.

The list of 14 includes four Italian banks, two Greek banks, two Belgian banks and two Slovenian banks. The worst affected was Italian bank Monte dei Paschi, which had a capital shortfall of 2.1 billion euros. The banks, now, have nine months to shore up their finances or risk being shut down.

The review was based on the banks’ financial health at the end of 2013. The health check was carried out on 123 EU banks by the EBA to determine whether they could withstand another financial crisis.

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President Petro Poroshenko’s coalition set to win

27102014

Parliamentary elections in  Ukraine, its exit polls suggest that President Petro Poroshenko’s bloc looks set to win the Parliamentary elections. Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front party is close second.

About 3 million people in Donetsk and Luhansk, two eastern regions ravaged by conflict, did not vote in the polls yesterday. Another 1.8 million people in Crimea, annexed by Russia in March, also did not take part.

Pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk plan to hold their own polls next month. Preliminary official results are expected today.

Poroshenko has thanked voters for supporting what he described as a call for a reformist, pro-European majority.

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Dilma Rousseff re-elected as Brazil President

27102014

Dilma Rousseff has been re-elected as the President of Brazil. She secured 51.45 per cent votes in yesterday’s closely fought elections.

Her rival, Aecio Neves bagged 48.55 per cent of the votes. Ms Rousseff, in power since 2010, is popular among the poor in Brazil because of her government’s welfare polices.

Both candidates made economic growth and lifting Brazilians out of poverty central to their election campaigns.

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Bilawal Bhutto attacked during ‘Million March’ in London

27102014

A protest march by a UK-based pro-Pakistan group on the Kashmir issue in the heart of London today fizzled out as barely a few hundred protesters gathered to wave placards and flags.

The so-called ‘Million March’ from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street descended into chaos as Pakistan Peoples Party(PPP) chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari stepped on to the makeshift stage to speak.

The crowd began booing and throwing empty plastic bottles and refused to let him speak. A group of angry protesters who had traveled from Derby in the East Midlands region of England said,this march was to be about Kashmir and for the welfare of Kashmiris.

Bilawal has no business being here.
The march was led by Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry,referred to as a former prime minister of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), and was supported by Mirpuri-origin British parliamentarian Lord Nazir Ahmed of Rotherham.

A counter-protest held by a rival group yesterday ended with memorandums submitted for the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan at their high commissions in London. The memorandums urged both India and Pakistan to “respect the fundamental human rights of all citizens of Jammu and Kashmir”.

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Cyclone Nilofar developing in Arabian Sea

27102014

Coastal districts of Gujarat would receive isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall from Thursday as Cyclone Nilofar would intensify further into a severe cyclonic storm during the next 24 hours.

The MeT department said that the storm, over west central and adjoining southwest Arabian Sea, has moved slightly northwards and lays centred about 1,165 kms southwest of Naliya in Gujarat.

It said, winds speed reaching 45 to 55 kms per hour gusting to 65 kms per hour would commence along and off Gujarat coast from Thursday.

The fishermen have been advised not to venture into the sea as the Gujarat coast will be very rough.