Sharjah ruler arrives in Kerala on five-day visit

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September 26, 2017

Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 26: Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, supreme council member and ruler of Sharjah, arrived to a warm reception here on Sunday on a five-day visit to Kerala.

Mr. Al-Qasimi, who arrived in a private jet at 3.15 p.m. at the invitation of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, was greeted with Thalappoli and Pancharimelam at the technical area of Thiruvananthapuram international airport. Mr. Al-Qasimi, later, inspected a Guard of Honour accorded to him by the Kerala Police.

Mr. Vijayan; his wife Kamala; Ministers K.T. Jaleel, Kadakampally Surendran, K.K. Shylaja, and Ramachandran Kadannappally; Mayor V.K. Prashant; Chief Secretary K.M. Abraham; Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister Nalini Netto; Private Secretary to the Chief Minister M.V. Jayarajan; State Police Chief Lokanath Behera; District Collector K. Vasuki; and District Police Chief P. Prakash were present to receive Mr. Al-Qasimi. Later, Mr. Al-Qasimi and dignitaries proceeded to a hotel at Kovalam where he will be staying.

“Still fondly remembers his warm hospitality and the good words he expressed about Malayalis & Kerala during my visit to Sharjah last year (sic),” the Chief Minister said in a Facebook post.

Mr. Al-Qasimi will call on Governor P. Sathasivam at 10.55 a.m. on Monday and later meet Chief Minister and his Cabinet colleagues at the Raj Bhavan. After lunch with the Governor, he will return to the beach resort where the State government will organise a cultural fiesta in his honour in the evening. He will take part in the dinner being hosted by the Chief Minister. On Tuesday morning, he will call on the Chief Minister at his official residence in Cliff House. Later, he will participate in a convocation ceremony being organised by the Calicut University at 11 a.m. in Raj Bhavan where the Governor will confer the DLitt. degree on him. He will deliver a lecture in the evening in the city.

Mr. Al-Qasimi will proceed to Kochi on a private visit on September 27 and will return to the Emirate in the evening.

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It is suspected that activists of Bajrang Dal put up the controversial banner. Though it was removed later, it sparked debates on social media and photos of it went viral.

The development comes amid the controversy over the naming of a flyover at Yelahanka in Bengaluru after Savarkar.

A Hindutva ideologue, Savarkar has tendered apology to British imperialists and pledged to support them following his arrest during India’s freedom movement.

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Minneapolis, Jun 2: An official autopsy released Monday ruled that George Floyd, the African-American man whose death at police hands set off unrest across the United States, died in a homicide involving "neck compression".

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Bengaluru, Mar 6: All the arrested in a case of sedition filed over a school play in Karnataka's Bidar have been granted anticipatory bail by a court that said the case lacked enough basis.

The play, themed on protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), "has not caused any disharmony in the society", said the district and sessions court in Bidar.

The play, performed in January by the children of prestigious Shaheen School, landed in trouble when a sedition complaint was filed over an 11-year-old girl's lines - enacting an elderly woman, she said if anyone asked for documents she would hit them with slippers.

That led to a sedition case and the police questioning children, teachers and the school management over many rounds.

"The drama has not caused any disharmony in the society. Considering all the circumstances, I am of the opinion that the ingredients of Section 124A of IPC (Sedition) are prima facie lacking," said the court.

Five members of the school management team have been granted protection from arrest. Earlier, the head teacher and the mother of the student who spoke the dialogue were sent to custody, but on other charges including the abetment of an offence. They were not accused of sedition. They were later granted bail.

The repeated questioning of young students and the arrest of the widowed mother of a student caused a huge uproar in the town.

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On Thursday, a team of lawyers from different districts again went to Hubballi and were provided police protection. BT Venkatesh, one of the lawyers, said he had a meeting with bar association members and that the matter was sorted out. The students have applied for bail and an order is expected next week.

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