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Met Tiger Memon in PoK after 1993 blasts, claims Kashmir MLA Usman Majeed

August 1, 2015

Srinagar, Aug 1: Former militant-turned Congress MLA Usman Majeed on Friday stoked a controversy by claiming he had met Tiger Memon after the 1993 Mumbai blasts in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir during which he seemed "worried" about his brother Yakub's surrender fearing the ISI might kill him.

Usman-MajeedSMajeed's claim comes a day after Yakub was hanged in Nagpur Central Jail.

"I met Tiger in 1993. I met him 2-3 times. He used to come to our office in Muzaffarabad (capital of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir). I was not friends with Tiger. Hilal Beg, the founder of the Students Liberation Front and chief of Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen militant outfit introduced me to him,"the MLA from north Kashmir'sBandipora claimed.

He said Tiger had already carried out the bomb blasts in Mumbai when they met.

"He was most wanted that time in our country. He had carried out the blasts. I asked him how and why he had done itand what was the reason behind the blasts," Majeed said.

"He replied that the main reason was the demolition of the BabriMasjid and the riots that followed it. He said people, including women, had come to him and told him that they were being killed and he had got emotional. That's is why hecarried out the blasts," Majeed claimed.

He said Tiger had told him that ISI had plannedand helped in carrying out the blasts.

"ISI helped Tiger in carrying out the blasts. Itwasn't Tiger himself who did it. According to Tiger,everything was done by Pakistan the plan and the weaponrywas provided by them (Pakistan) and the plan was executed byhis (Tiger's) gang on the directions of ISI," he claimed.

The legislator also claimed that Tiger was worried after hisbrother Yakub had "surrendered" and feared that the ISI might kill him.

"Yakub was mentioned to me when Tiger said he had surrendered. We had heard from the media that some Yakub, who was Tiger's brother, had surrendered. Tiger said Yakub had surrendered, but our people here said he was apprehended.

"ButTiger was worried about the surrender. He thought ISI wouldlose his trust. Pakistan also had the worry that he mightsurrender. Tiger said there was less respect for him in Pakistan than earlier and that ISI was looking at him with doubtful eyes."

"When Yakub surrendered, Tiger left Pakistan becausehe feared that the ISI will kill him. He felt humiliated and disgusted and fled to Dubai. But after negotiations, they (ISI) brought him back because they did not want him to surrender.

"They feared Yakub might provide the platform and hewill facilitate Tiger's surrender too," Majeed claimed.

According to him, ISI would never allow Tiger to surrender.

Majeed crossed into Pakistan from Bangladesh. After staying there for two years, he returned and surrendered to Indian authorities and was part of a counter-insurgent group headed by Kukka Parray. He later contested the assembly elections and winning as anIndependent candidate in 2002 from the Bandipora consitutency.

He became a minister of state in the then MuftiMohammad Sayeed led PDP-Congress government. In 2008 assembly polls, he was defeated by the PDP candidate but he wrested the seat in 2014 when he contested on a Congress ticket.

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May 27,2020

Mumbai, May 27: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday ordered re investigation by the CID into the suicide of a 53-year-old interior designer and his mother, allegedly over non-payment of dues by TV journalist Arnab Goswami and two others.

State Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said he ordered re investigation after Adnya Naik, daughter of interior designer Anvay Naik, claimed that Alibag Police in neighbouring Raigad district did not probe the non-payment of dues which had driven her father and grandmother to suicide.

"Adnya Naik had complained to me that #AlibaugPolice had not investigated non-payment of dues from #ArnabGoswami's @republic which drove her entrepreneur father & grandmom to suicide in May 2018," Deshmukh tweeted.

"I've ordered a CID re-investigation of the case," the minister, an NCP leader, added.

He also used the hashtag "Maharashtra government cares" while sharing the tweet. Earlier this month, the police registered an abetment of suicide case against Republic TV editor-in-chief Goswami and two others.

The suicide note purportedly written by Anvay Naik, managing director of Concorde Designs Private Limited, said he was forced to take his life as he was not paid dues of Rs 5.40 crore by the three accused.

Republic TV denied the allegation and said that certain vested interest groups were running "a false and malicious campaign and making false statements and innuendos against the company by exploiting the tragic event".

Mumbai Police are also conducting a probe against Goswami over his statements about the Palghar lynching case of April this year.

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Agencies
February 5,2020

New Delhi, Feb 5: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday expressed his suspicion over the government using force to clear the Shaheen Bagh stretch where an agitation has been ongoing for over 50 days against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

While speaking to ANI over the phone, Owaisi was asked that there are indications from the government that after February 8, Shaheen Bagh will be cleared.

In reply, he said, "Might be they will shoot them, they might turn Shaheen Bagh into Jallianwala Bagh. This might happen. BJP minister gave a statement to 'shoot a bullet'. The government must give an answer as (to) who is radicalising."

Further speaking about NPR and NRC, Owaisi said, "Government must give a clear cut answer that till 2024 NRC will not be implemented. Why are they spending Rs 3900 crore for NPR? I feel this way because I was a History student. Hitler during his reign conducted census twice and after that, he pushed the jews in a gas chamber. I don't want our country (to) go in that way."

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Bloomberg
July 27,2020

New Delhi, Jul 27: India’s coronavirus epidemic is now growing at the fastest in the world, increasing 20% over the last week to more than 14 lakh confirmed cases, according to Bloomberg’s Coronavirus Tracker.

Infections in the South Asian nation of 130 crore people have reached 14.3 lakh, including 32,771 deaths, India’s health ministry said, with daily cases close to a record 50,000 on Monday. India is only trailing the US and Brazil now in the number of confirmed infections, but its growth in new cases is the fastest.

Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are among the states where the maximum number of daily cares are being reported. The world’s second-most populous country has been ramping up testing, with 515,472 samples taken on Sunday, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research.

Still, India and Brazil have some of the world’s lowest testing rates, with 11.8 tests and 11.93 tests per 1,000 people respectively, compared to the US with 152.98 tests per 1,000 and Russia with 184.34, according to Our World in Data, a project based at the University of Oxford in the UK.

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