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CITY HILIGHTS Vol 1, Issue 266 ` 2.00/- Friday, October 14, 2016 www.ibcworldnews.com www.cityhilights.news English Daily 4 NATION Dalit found murdered in UP A 30-year-old Dalit man was found murdered in Dhamat village under Purqazi police station in the district, police said.The body of Pappu was found with his throat slit. He was killed after he went to relieve himself in the fields, SP Crime Pradeep Gupta said.Police have registered a case against unidentified miscreants and the body has been sent for post-mortem. Leopard kills 12-year-old boy in Reasi A 12-year-old boy was killed by a leopard in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Noor Hussain was in the compound of his house in Mohara Bagla village in Chasana tehsil when a leopard attacked and killed him, a police officer said. As the people came out of their houses, the leopard left behind the victim. The body was recovered, he added. Woman CISF constable commits suicide at NSCBI airport A woman CISF constable allegedly shot herself on duty with her service revolver at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International airport in the wee hours, an airport police official said.The incident took place at Gate number 3 of the airport. The constable, identified as Lagni Biswas from Assam, was rushed to a hospital where she breathed her last, the official said. Tension prevailed at the airport following the sound of gunshot and senior CISF officials and airport police personnel rushed to the spot, he said. The body has been sent for post mortem, the official said adding a suicide note was recovered from the constable. Preliminary investigations revealed that Biswas had lent money to a person and this may have become a bone of contention in her family, the official said. Man dies as bus full of pilgrims rams into truck 8 more arrested for assault on Somaiya, BJP workers Eight more Shiv Sena activists have been arrested in connection with the assault on BJP leader Kirit Somaiya and party workers Bihar police suspended three policemen, including a Station House Officer (SHO) of Bhojpur district, after a video showing them dancing with bar girls went viral, a senior police official said. “We have suspended three policemen including an SHO, an ASI and a constable of Koilwar police station of Bhojpur district after a video footage went viral showing them dancing with bar girls at a function held at Koilwar, a small township in Bhojpur, the day before yesterday,” Patna Zonal IG Naiyar Husain Khan told the media. The action was taken after verifying the video footage, he added. Sources said that the dance programme was at suburban Mulund here, police said. The fresh arrests were made last night, taking the number of total arrests in 3 policemen suspended for dancing with bar girls organised by a puja committee at Koilwar chowk on Vijayadashmi. The three policemen who have been suspended with immediate effect include Koilwar police station SHO Sanjay Shankar, Assistant Sub-Inspector Devchandra Singh and a constable Bhushan, IG said. “Bhojpur Superintendent of Police has also been asked to initiate departmental proceedings against these policemen for their improper conduct. We will not tolerate such conduct at any cost in which policemen, including SHO, were seen dancing publicly at a stage,” IG said adding that this is not expected from a police officer. (PTI) BJP ‘sloganeering’ on temple to woo voters: Shiv Sena this case to 13, an officer of Navghar Police Station said. On Wednesday five persons were held during the day. The MP from Mumbai- North-East constituency was allegedly assaulted by Sena workers on Tuesday after they disrupted a programme organised by Somaiya wherein an effigy of ‘corruption mafia in MCGM’ was to be burnt to mark the festival of Dussehra. Three persons, including a woman, were injured in the clash between the workers of the two alliance partners. All the accused would be produced before a local today, the officer said. MCGM is ruled by the Sena-BJP alliance for the last 20 years and civic polls are scheduled early next year. Somaiya, a former Mumbai BJP chief, has aggressively targeted Sena and has repeatedly alleged that civic body was riddled with “mafia-raj and corruption”. (PTI) JNU orders probe into effigy burning of PM on Dussehra JNU administration ordered an inquiry into burning of effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others by a section of students in the university campus on the occasion of Dussehra by projecting them as Ravana. “We have ordered an inquiry into the effigy burning incident and are examining the issue,” said JNU Vice Chancellor Jagadesh Kumar, whose picture was also put on the effigy set ablaze on Tuesday night. The move comes nearly a week after the varsity ordered a proctorial inquiry into burning of effigy of Gujarat government and ‘gau-rakshak’ (cow vigilantes) and issued show-cause notices to the students concerned. While Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed and heads of several other militant organisations were the faces of Ravana effigies burnt on Dussehra across the country, members of Congress-affiliated National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) chose the visages of PM and BJP chief Amit Shah to represent the demon king and burnt the effigy on Tuesday. They claimed that it was a protest against the Centre’s “failure” to honour its promises and the “continuous attacks” on various educational institutions across the country. (PTI) LDF govt in Kerala to frame law on nepotism Minor Dalit rape victim attempts self-immolation in Madhya Pradesh A Dalit rape victim at a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Itarsi allegedly tried to immolate herself by pouring kerosene, fearing that an accused in the case, who came out on bail recently may kill her, police said. The minor girl suffered 40 per cent burn injuries in the incident on Wednesday and is being treated at a hospital, they said, adding her condition is Loss of telephone cables: No relief by Bombay HC to MTN officer stated to be stable and out of danger now. She took the extreme step at her residence in Nayagaon, out of the fear that the accused would harm her, Itarsi Sub Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP) Anil Sharma said. She was raped in February this year following which two accused were arrested, he said. The main accused in the Kerala Government decided to bring a law to prevent nepotism in appointments in key positions in public sector units, a decision which comes in wake of a controversy over certain appointments in the PSUs in the Industrial Department. The decision in this regard was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The cabinet also entrusted Chief Secretary S M Vijayanand to examine the various complaints with regard to the appointments which have become controversial. “This is to prevent nepotism in appointments,” a statement quoting the Chief Minister said. The cabinet also decided that henceforth vigilance clearance would be mandatory for appointment of posts like Managing Director and General Manager in state PSUs Besides this, a committee of national level experts will be henceforth make appointments in senior posts in PSUs in the state, he said. The LDF government is facing flak after Industries Minister E P Jayarajan appointed some of his close relatives in key posts in some state PSUs. Jayarajan had appointed P K Sudheer, his nephew and son of CPI (M) Kannur MP P K Sreemathi, as Managing Director of Kerala State Industrial Enterprises Ltd. The minister had also appointed his brother’s daughter-in-law Dipthi Nishad as General Manager of Kerala Clay and Ceramics Products Ltd at Kannur. Following the heat generated over the issue after Congress-led UDF and BJP launched agitation, Sudheer’s posting was quashed by the government and Dipthi, who had taken charge, resigned. (PTI) case is still lodged in jail but one of his accomplices (Anil Yadav) was released on bail nearly two months back and since then the victim is gripped with a fear that he may take revenge or might kill her, Sharma said. It appears that in a disturbed state of mind, she poured kerosene to immolate herself and suffered 40 per cent burn injuries, he said. Soon after the incident, Yadav was arrested and booked under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, he said. Police and social organisations were helping the victim and her family in all possible manner, the SDOP said. (PTI) CBI registers three cases in Jat reservation agitation A man was killed and 12 others were injured when a bus in which they were travelling rammed into a truck in Bharatpur district, police said.Ashiq, 28, died on the spot and his body has been shifted to a local hospital for post-mortem, a police official said.The bus was full of pilgrims and was on its way to West Bengal from Ajmer. Dear Readers... City Hilights invites you to send in your suggestions, articles, photos, stories and ideas. We will publish them for you. This is your platform. Voice your opinion. Showcase your talent. Your suggestions are valuable to us. info@ibcworldnews.com For Advertisements contact: 080-2210 5300 adv@ibcworldnews.com www.ibcworldnews.com In the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Dussehra rally in Lucknow, Shiv Sena said the celebration of the festival in Uttar Pradesh was an attempt by BJP to consolidate votes in the name of Ram temple for the forthcoming Assembly elections. At the same time, the ruling alliance partner sought to know what prevents BJP from making use of its absolute majority in the Lok Sabha to start construction of the temple in Ayodhya instead of just engaging in sloganeering on the issue. “The Prime Minister twice said the slogan of ‘Jai Shree Ram’ while speaking in Lucknow and thereby sounded the poll bugle for the state. What impact this sloganeering is going to have will be seen in the near future. But, the fact is that the UP polls are a matter of life and death for BJP,” an editorial in Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ said. It said Modi’s act of performing ‘Ganga aarti’ (in Varanasi) soon after becoming the PM led to enthusiasm among party workers and believers of Hindutva. It was also significant that he was the first PM to do so. “The whole idea behind celebrating Dussehra in Lucknow and raising the slogan of ‘Jai Shree Ram’ was to garner votes in the name of constructing a Ram temple in the upcoming UP polls,” it said. “It (BJP) hopes that even if the temple is not constructed, the lotus would at least bloom,” the Sena said, adding, the BJP should once and for all announce how much more politics it wants to play over the issue of Ram temple. “You have 280 seats in the Lok Sabha and along with other parties like Sena, you have 300 plus seats. If a Ram temple is not constructed now, when will it be?” it asked. “Don’t just engage in sloganeering but start construction of the temple and the Shiv Sena will help you, because it was the Sena which had brought down the dome of the Babri Masjid,” it said.(PTI) The Bombay High Court has refused to interfere with the decision of authorities to compulsorily retire a junior telecom officer in Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd after a departmental inquiry held him guilty in a case of loss of telephone cables. “No case has been made out by the petitioner to cause interference by this (High) court in exercise of its writ jurisdiction… the petition is dismissed,” Justices Naresh Patil and Prakash Naik said in a recent judgement. The petitioner, Prakash Tyagi, joined services as Junior Telecom Officer in the erstwhile Mumbai Telephone in 1979. By an order dated February 4, 1988, he was placed under suspension, as a departmental enquiry was ordered on account of missing 600 metres of cable. The charges mentioned in the charge-sheet issued in 1989 related to loss of telephone cable and other related matters. An FIR was lodged with Juhu Police Station on February 9, 1988 in connection with the incident. The department alleged that the petitioner, while working as Junior Telecom Officer (JTO), had not laid cables of about 600 metres, but created record showing that he had executed the work. The un-utilised stock of cable thus remained unaccounted for, according to the department. The petitioner denied the charges levelled against him. An Enquiry Officer was appointed who held a probe and filed a report on January 7, 1991, holding the petitioner guilty of missing cables mentioned in charges 1 to 4 in the chargesheet, while exonerating him from two other charges. Petitioner’s contention was that the Enquiry Officer has not given any reason as to why he had recorded finding of guilt in respect of charges 1 to 4 in the chargesheet. Thereafter, the disciplinary authority passed an order on August 17, 1995, compulsorily retiring the petitioner. The petitioner filed an appeal on October 18, 1995, before Appellate Authority against the penalty of compulsory retirement imposed on him but it was rejected in August 1997. He had argued that he was acquitted by a Magistrate in March 1996 after a full trial. He then filed a review petition which too was rejected by the Competent Authority in 1998. The aggrieved petitioner moved the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) which rejected his plea. He then challenged the CAT order in the High Court. The High Court was of the view that all the authorities had concurrently held that the charges levelled against the petitioner were proved. The HC further held that the CAT in detail had scanned the material referred to in the charges, considered the pleadings of the parties, the stand taken by the petitioner and had upheld the findings of the Enquiry Officer. Therefore, the bench refused to give relief to the petitioner and dismissed his petition. CBI registered three cases to probe incidents of violence and arson during the Jat quota agitation in Rohtak in February, including the burning of residence of Haryana Finance Minister Capt Abhimanyu. CBI spokesperson said the agency took over investigation in these cases on the request of Haryana government and further orders from Department of Personnel and Training. “Allegations include attacking, looting of weapons of the police guard, attempting to murder the family members and burning down the residence of Finance Minister in the government of Haryana,” she said. One of the cases registered by the agency relates to alleged arson at the residence of Abhimanyu on February 19 while another is related to assault and looting of weapons from the company of BSF and Haryana Police by the rioters. The rioters had allegedly attempted to murder the troops while they were on law and order duty at Delhi bypass, Rohtak, the spokesperson said. “A large number of persons were allegedly injured & some of them grievously in these violent attacks. It was further alleged that property worth crores of rupees was burnt and weapons of police guards were looted by the agitators who were demanding reservation for a certain community in Haryana. These cases have been transferred by the Government of Haryana to CBI,” the spokesperson said. (PTI)
CITY HILIGHTS Vol 1, Issue 266 ` 2.00/- Friday, October 14, 2016 www.ibcworldnews.com www.cityhilights.news English Daily 5 WORLD Russia says Damascus embassy targeted in mortar attack, no staff hurt The Russian embassy in Damascus was targeted in a mortar attack on Wednesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said, condemning what it called “a terrorist attack” in the Syrian capital. One of the mortar shells, fired from a district controlled by rebels, exploded close to the guard post in front of the embassy, while another detonated near the entrance to the consular office, the ministry said in a statement. The embassy compound was strewn with shrapnel, but none of embassy staff were hurt, it said. It said material damage was being assessed. “We confirm that Russia’s consistent policy of uncompromising fighting against terrorists in Syria will be continued,” the ministry said. Three South Koreans found shot dead in Philippines The bodies of three South Koreans with gunshot wounds to the head have been found in the Philippines, a South Korean foreign ministry official said on Thursday, the latest in a string of killings of Koreans in the southeast Asian nation. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has waged a ruthless anti-crime campaign since taking office on June 30 in which more than 3,600 people have died in police operations and alleged vigilante killings. The bodies of two men and a woman, all older than 40 and all with gunshot wounds to the head, were found on Tuesday in Bacolor outside the capital, Manila, the ministry official said by telephone. Chief of police at the town of Bacolor, Sonia Alvarez, said the deaths were unlikely to be related to drugs and instead looked like a crime of passion or indebtedness. The case takes to six the tally of South Koreans found dead this year in the Philippines, where more than ten South Korean citizens have been killed each year since 2013, South Korean media said. India, Russia ink pact to set up 25 irradiation centers New Delhi, India and Russia signed a pact to set up 25 integrated infrastructure centers for irradiation treatment of perishable food items to improve shelf life and cut post-harvest losses. At least 7 centers will be set up in Maharashtra, with the first centre near Shirdi to be ready next year. Perishable items ranging from flowers to fish will be treated there on a commercial scale. The agreement was signed between Russia’s United Innovation Corporation (UIC) -- a subsidiary of Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation -- and Hindustan Agro Co-op Ltd on the sidelines of the BRICS Business Forum. Dear Readers... City Hilights invites you to send in your suggestions, articles, photos, stories and ideas. We will publish them for you. This is your platform. Voice your opinion. Showcase your talent. Your suggestions are valuable to us. info@ibcworldnews.com Concerned about king’s health, Thais flock to Bangkok hospital About 300 people gathered at a Bangkok hospital on Thursday where Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest reigning monarch, is in an unstable condition as the government urged jittery stock market investors to ignore rumours. The palace said in a statement late on Wednesday the king’s health had “overall not yet stabilized” and the 88-year-old was on a ventilator and battling a new infection. It followed a statement on Sunday saying the king was in an unstable condition after receiving haemodialysis treatment. Well-wishers gathered on Thursday outside Siriraj Hospital, which is near Bangkok’s Chao Phraya river. Some wore yellow, the king’s colour, and others donned pink, a colour they believe will bring the king an improvement in his health. Some prayed. “I was worried so I came here to see for myself,” said housewife Thornpan Tornueng, 67. “This evening I will take part in chanting for the king.” District police commander Rithee Visetkamin said more people were expected to gather at the hospital through the day. The king has long been seen as a unifying figure in Thailand, which has grappled with political uncertainty in recent years. His health, which is watched closely, is a sensitive subject. Strict lese-majeste laws mean public discussions of his health and any succession plans are punishable by lengthy jail terms. Investors in the Stock Exchange of Thailand have sold shares since Sunday’s statement from the Royal Household Bureau on the king’s health. The main index fell as Putin rejects accusations of meddling in U.S. election Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted on Wednesday his country was not involved in an effort to influence the U.S. presidential election even as WikiLeaks released another trove of internal documents from Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Last week, the U.S. government formally accused Russia of launching a hacking campaign to “interfere with the U.S. election process.” Clinton’s campaign, which has charged the Kremlin is trying to help Republican Donald Trump win the White House on Nov. 8, took its allegations a step further on Tuesday when John Podesta, chairman of the Democratic nominee’s campaign, accused the Trump campaign of colluding with Russia. At events in Florida, Trump said he had nothing to do with Putin or Russia. “I promise you, I don’t have any business deals with Russia,” Trump said at a rally in Lakeland. In Moscow, Putin said nothing in the hacking scandal is in Russia’s interests and accused all sides in the U.S. presidential campaign of misusing rhetoric about Russia for their own purposes. “They started this hysteria, saying this (hacking) is in Russia’s interests, but this has nothing to do with Russia’s interests,” Putin told a business forum. Putin said his government would work with whoever won the U.S. election, “if, of course, the new U.S. leader wishes to work with our country.” WikiLeaks, the organisation started by Julian Assange that publishes leaked information on the internet, this week released thousands of emails from Podesta’s email account and has not said how it obtained them. Last week, it posted excerpts from Clinton’s private speeches to banking and financial firms. The Clinton campaign has not confirmed the authenticity of the messages. The leaks, coming as the election campaign reaches the final stretch, have the potential to embarrass the Clinton camp. In recent days, however, Trump’s own campaign has been in deeper trouble over the emergence of a 2005 video in which Trump bragged about groping women. Many Republican elected officials have turned their back on him and Clinton’s lead in national opinion polls has increasedeft Trump escalated his attacks on U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday, deepening a fracture in the Republican Party. Clinton, a former secretary of state, has repeatedly accused Trump of having overly friendly ties with Putin and Russia. She has noted that Trump’s foreign policies have tended to align with Russian’s interests, whether it has been questioning NATO’s role in defending Eastern Europe, failing to recognise Russia’s intrusion into Ukraine, and supporting Russia’s actions in Syria. Trump, a New York businessman who has never previously run for office, has shifted his policies on a wide range of issues, from taxes to the minimum wage to immigration during his White House campaign but his statements on Russia have been consistent. His friendly stance toward Moscow departs from the views of many prominent Republicans. During a presidential debate on Sunday, Trump publicly disagreed with his own vice presidential choice, Mike Pence, who had called for a more hawkish approach toward Russia. “I DON’T KNOW PUTIN” At that debate, Trump questioned whether Russia was behind the hacks, as the U.S. government has asserted. And on Wednesday, during a rally in Ocala, Florida, Trump echoed those remarks. “Have you ever noticed, anything that goes wrong they blame Russia?” Trump told the crowd. “They always blame Russia and then they says Donald Trump is friends . . . I don’t know Putin, folks. What the hell do I have to do with Putin?” Trump has said that as president he would seek warmer relations with Russia and that it would be in the United States’ best interests to seek Russia’s help to defeat Islamic State. “Trump is the most pro-Russian presidential candidate ever,” said Max Boot, much as 6.9 percent on Wednesday to its lowest since March 1, but recovered to close down 2.5 percent, its lowest since the end of May. It was down 2.1 percent by the mid-day break on Thursday. Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak said he had asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate rumours that had been affecting the market. “I will tell the SEC to investigate who spread the news and who caused stocks to fall. Foreigners are waiting to pick up stocks and Thais are selling them,” Somkid told reporters. “I don’t think it’s beneficial to do that because this is an important time for the country and we should not undermine ourselves.” “Don’t listen to rumours. Please only listen to the government,” he added. The government on Wednesday urged people to ignore rumours on social media and wait for official announcements. [Reuters] a senior fellow for national security studies at the Council of Foreign Relations. “Putin no doubt sees a once-ina-lifetime opportunity to reorient U.S. foreign policy in his direction by electing Trump.” A Russian ultra-nationalist ally of Putin who is known for his fiery rhetoric said Trump was the only person able to de-escalate dangerous tensions between Moscow and Washington, and predicted nuclear war if Clinton were elected. “Relations between Russia and the United States can’t get any worse. The only way they can get worse is if a war starts,” Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a flamboyant veteran lawmaker, told. Clinton campaign chairman Podesta said on Tuesday the FBI was investigating a “criminal hack” of his emails, and he tied the Trump campaign to the leaks by suggesting that a former Trump adviser, Roger Stone, had advance warning of the hacks. The Trump campaign has not responded to the allegation about Stone, but Trump has denied any coordination with the Russian government to embarrass Clinton. He has, however, made clear he supports WikiLeaks’ efforts. “I love WikiLeaks,” he said at a rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. The United States has an ongoing criminal investigation into Assange’s publishing of classified material. Clinton has been a fierce critic of Assange, who remains at the Ecuadorean embassy in London where he sought refuge in 2012 to avoid possible extradition to Sweden. Last week, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Department of Homeland Security said the government was confident the hacks of Democratic political groups and campaign officials originated from high levels of the Russian government. The White House on Tuesday promised a “proportional” response to Russia over the hacks. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told CNN the United States has offered no proof of his government’s involvement, and suggested Moscow was unconcerned about possible reprisals. “If they decided to do something, let them do it,” Lavrov said. ( Reuters) India rejects Pak’s reference to women’s condition in Kashmir United Nations: Innocent Indian women have suffered for long due to the persistent terrorist acts perpetrated by “proxies of Pakistan”, India has said as it strongly rejecting references by Islamabad to conditions of women in Kashmir. Counsellor Mayank Joshi in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN here “completely” rejected the “baseless allegations” made by Pakistan about women in Jammu and Kashmir, saying “in fact” it is the innocent Indian women who have for “long suffered due to the persistent terrorist acts perpetrated by proxies of Pakistan.” Joshi exercised India’s Right of Reply after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Special Envoy on Kashmir Shezra Mansab Ali Khan referred to the conditions of women in Kashmir during an October 11 session on Advancement of Women in the General Assembly’s Third Committee, which focuses on social and humanitarian issues. Khan said armed conflict and illegal occupation accentuates the plight of women. Citing the situation in Kashmir, she said “thousands of women have fallen victims to brutal oppression and occupation. Countless others have suffered rape and sexual abuse, the worst and most traumatic form of violence.” Joshi said it is “ironical” that a country that has “institutionalised the oppression” of women in its society including through “medieval draconian laws is making claims about the rights of women in a pluralistic democracy such as India.” He said Pakistan will be well served to “seriously examine” what ails its women and hampers their advancement. Pakistan has been constantly raising the Kashmir issue at various platforms in the UN, including in the General Assembly and its various committees that deal with diverse issues such as disarmament and decolonisation. Joshi asserted that India will not respond to the “lies and deceit” Pakistan has been resorting to at the world body to pursue a diplomacy of “hate”. “We are aware of Pakistan s cynical attempts to pursue diplomacy of hate through lies and deceit. We do not intend to further respond to such misguided and futile efforts,” he said. A Pakistani official however again took the floor to exercise the Right of Reply to Joshi s remarks, saying no amount of “obfuscation” could hide the alleged human rights violations in Kashmir. He said Jammu and Kashmir was an “internationally recognised” dispute and Pakistan rejected “any insinuations to equate the legitimate struggles of the Kashmiri people with acts of terrorism. [PTI] Indian faces threat from inside, not outside: Shivshankar Menon Washington: The real threats to India are “internal” and emanate from communal and social violence, not from outside forces such as Pakistan or China, former national security advisor Shivshankar Menon has said. Asked if Pakistan or China pose an existential threat to India, Menon said: “No”. “In terms of national security, I think the real threats are internal,” he told. “There’s no existential threat to India’s existence today externally, unlike in the 50s or when we were formed. And for many years till late 60s there were actual internal separatist threats, not any more. I think that we have actual dealt with,” Menon said. His long career in public service spans diplomacy, national security, and India’s relations with its neighbours and major global powers. Menon served as national security advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from January 2010 to May 2014. Menon’s first book post retirement - ‘Choices: Inside the making of India’s Foreign Policy’ - is all set to hit book stores globally next week. Asked to elaborate on what he meant by internal threats, he said: “If there are real threats to India, to the idea of India, India’s integrity, today they actually come from within the country.” “If you look at violence in India, deaths from terrorism, from left wing extremism, declined steadily throughout this 21st century until 2014-2015. Even now the basic trend for terrorism, left wing extremism is down. What has increased is since 2012, communal violence, social violence, internal violence has increase. That is something we need to find a way in dealing with,” Menon said. “This is not a traditional law and order problem, which our traditional instruments, the police, the states know how to deal with. You look at violence against women, communal, caste violence, if you look at those firms of violence, these are all a result of tremendous social and economic change of uprooting of population, urbanization... various forms of change, which we still need to learn how to deal with,” he said. Menon said those are the threats, which in the long run, has a “potential to make real difference”. “India has changed. It is normal. It happens to most societies where there is change. But you also have to learn new ways of dealing with,” he said and attributed the new threats to the rapid and fast development of the country. When asked that some people attributed this to the BJP coming to power, Menon said even that is a consequence of the change that the Indian society is undergoing now. Menon previously served as India’s foreign secretary from 2006 to 2009 and as ambassador and high commissioner to Israel from 1995-1997, Sri Lanka (1997-2000), China (2000-2003) and Pakistan (2003-2006). [PTI]
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