#mumbai terror attacks

[republic-world]

US Court Grants Extension for 26/11 Mumbai Attacks Accused in Extradition Battle

In a recent development in the extradition case of Tahawwur Rana, a federal court in the United States has granted him additional time to file a motion against his extradition to India. Rana is a key figure accused in connection with the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

Context Recap: Tahawwur Rana had previously appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court in August, challenging the order of a US District Court in California that had denied the writ of habeas corpus. The denial was related to his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack. The recent decision by the Ninth Circuit Court allows Rana more time to prepare and submit his motion against the extradition.

Legal Maneuvering: Initially scheduled for October 10, the deadline for filing the motion has been extended. As per the latest court order, Rana's brief is now expected on November 9, 2023. The government's response to the motion will be due on December 11, 2023.

Earlier, on August 18, the court had granted Rana a stay of extradition, allowing his appeal to be heard by the US Court of Appeals. Rana faces multiple charges related to the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and is known to have connections with Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley.

Legal Perspectives: Judge Fischer from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit emphasized that Rana demonstrated potential irreparable harm if not granted the stay. The judge highlighted Rana's argument that he might face extradition to India without a review of his claims, a situation leading to significant irreparable harm.

The legal battle also involves arguments from US attorney John J Lulejian, who urged the district court to deny Rana's application for a stay. Lulejian argued that the delay caused by the stay could harm US credibility internationally and hinder its ability to cooperate with other nations in bringing fugitives to justice.

International Ramifications: The extradition case has broader implications, with the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in India actively pursuing Rana's role in the 26/11 attacks. The NIA has expressed readiness to initiate diplomatic proceedings for Rana's extradition.

Conclusion: The extension of the deadline for filing the motion adds another layer to the complex legal proceedings surrounding Tahawwur Rana's potential extradition to India. As the legal battle unfolds, the international community watches closely, given the significance of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

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[instavyapar]

Mumbai Terror Attack 26/11

On this solemn day, we remember the 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attack—paying tribute to the innocent lives lost and saluting the bravery of our heroes who stood tall against terror. 🕊️🇮🇳 Let’s honor their sacrifice and pledge to stay united and strong.

[theknowledgeemporium]

The Secret Heroes of India's TSD: Unveiling Covert Operations Post 26/11...

[darshanan-blog]

Major: Bollywood Movie Review

Inspired by real life story of Major Sandeep Unnikrishanan (Adivi Sesh), serving in the 51 Special Action Group of the National Security Guards in India, “Major” movie is a heart touching tribute to the soldiers who live and die by the ideals to serve the nation and protect others who are weaker to defend themselves.  Major Unnikrishnan was killed in action during the November 2008 Mumbai attacks…

[shehzadi]

more accounts of hindutva terrorism in india in the last 2 days:

beat a muslim youth and paraded him naked in telangana

razed another 40 muslim-owned shops in mumbai after previously razing 15 other muslim-owned shops on a different street in mumbai the day before

vandalised the store of an elderly muslim man in mumbai

brutally attacked the imam of a mosque in chattisgarh while chanting ‘jai shree ram’ and ‘hindustan mein rahna hoga jai shree ram kahna hoga’ (translates to ‘if you want to live in india, you will have to say glory to lord ram’)

attacked a 17-year-old dalit student because of his whatsapp status and forced him to chant ‘jai shree ram’ (translates to ‘glory/victory to lord ram’) in karnataka

beat up a christian couple for allegedly forcing people to convert in karnataka

police have also made a case against 62-year-old muhammad salim for ‘inciting riot’ because he protested alone during the live broadcast of ram mandir in kerala

and on top of all that (and these are only the recorded/reported crimes i could find), expect indian news channels and hindu nationalists to begin pedalling the ‘there was a temple there centuries ago before!!!!’ narrative again so they can repeat the babri masjid demolition with gyanvapi masjid, also in uttar pradesh because today (25.01.24) the archaeological survey of india (ASI) found ‘evidence’ of a pre-existing hindu temple. how interesting and not at all coincidental with the fact that elections are looming ahead and ram mandir was just inaugurated!!!

[homosexuhauls]

By Vidya Krishnan

GOA, India — My niece was just 4 years old when she turned to my sister-in-law in a packed movie theater in Mumbai and asked about gang rape for the first time.

We were watching the latest Bollywood blockbuster about vigilante justice, nationalistic fervor and, of course, gang rape. Four male characters seized the hero’s sister and dragged her away. “Where are they taking Didi?” my niece asked, using the Hindi word for “elder sister.” It was dark, but I could still make out her tiny forehead, furrowed with concern.

Didi’s gang rape took place offscreen, but it didn’t need to be shown. As instinctively as a newborn fawn senses the mortal danger posed by a fox, little girls in India sense what men are capable of.

You may wonder, “Why take a 4-year-old to such a movie?” But there is no escaping India’s rape culture; sexual terrorism is treated as the norm. Society and government institutions often excuse and protect men from the consequences of their sexual violence. Women are blamed for being assaulted and are expected to sacrifice freedom and opportunity in exchange for personal safety. This culture contaminates public life — in movies and television; in bedrooms, where female sexual consent is unknown; in the locker room talk from which young boys learn the language of rape. India’s favorite profanities are about having sex with women without their consent.

It is the specific horror of gang rape that weighs most heavily on Indian women that I know. You may have heard of the many gruesome cases of women being gang-raped, disemboweled and left for dead. When an incident rises to national attention, the kettle of outrage boils over, and women sometimes stage protests, but it passes quickly. All Indian women are victims, each one traumatized, angry, betrayed, exhausted. Many of us think about gang rape more than we care to admit.

In 2011 a woman was raped every 20 minutes in India, according to government data. The pace quickened to about every 16 minutes by 2021, when more than 31,000 rapes were reported, a 20 percent increase from the previous year. In 2021, 2,200 gang rapes were reported to authorities.

But those grotesque numbers tell only part of the story: 77 percent of Indian women who have experienced physical or sexual violence never tell anyone, according to one study. Prosecutions are rare.

Indian men may face persecution because they are Muslims, Dalits (untouchables) or ethnic minorities or for daring to challenge the corrupt powers that be. Indian women suffer because they are women. Soldiers need to believe that war won’t kill them, that only bad luck will; Indian women need to believe the same about rape, to trust that we will come back to the barracks safe each night, to be able to function at all.

Reports of violence against women in India have risen steadily over the decades, with some researchers citing a growing willingness by victims to come forward. Each rape desensitizes and prepares society to accept the next one, the evil becoming banal.

Gang rape is used as a weapon, particularly against lower castes and Muslims. The first instance that women my age remember was in 1980, when Phoolan Devi, a lower-caste teenager who had fallen in with a criminal gang, said she was abducted and repeatedly raped by a group of upper-caste attackers. She later came back with members of her gang and they killed 22 mostly upper-caste men. It was a rare instance of a brutalized woman extracting revenge. Her rape might never have made headlines without that bloody retribution.

Ms. Devi threw a spotlight on caste apartheid. The suffering of Bilkis Bano — the defining gang rape survivor of my generation — highlighted the boiling hatred that Indian institutions under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist, have for Muslim women.

In 2002 brutal violence between Hindus and Muslims swept through Gujarat State. Ms. Bano, then 19 and pregnant, was gang raped by an angry Hindu mob, which also killed 14 of her relatives, including her 3-year-old daughter. Critics accuse Mr. Modi — Gujarat’s top official at the time — of turning a blind eye to the riots. He has not lost an election since.

Ms. Bano’s life took a different trajectory. She repeatedly moved houses after the assault, for her family’s safety. Last August, 11 men who were sentenced to life in prison for raping her were released — on the recommendation of a review committee stacked with members of Mr. Modi’s ruling party. After they were freed, they were greeted with flower garlands by Hindu right-wingers.

The timing was suspicious: Gujarat was to hold important elections a few months later, and Mr. Modi’s party needed votes. A member of his party explained that the accused, as upper-caste Brahmins, had “good” values and did not belong in prison. Men know these rules. They wrote the rule book. What’s most terrifying is that releasing rapists could very well be a vote-getter.

After Ms. Bano, there was the young physiotherapy student who in 2012 was beaten and raped on a moving bus and penetrated with a metal rod that perforated her colon before her naked body was dumped on a busy road in New Delhi. She died of her injuries. Women protested for days, and even men took part, facing water cannons and tear gas. New anti-rape laws were framed. This time was different, we naïvely believed.

It wasn’t. In 2018 an 8-year-old Muslim girl was drugged and gang raped in a Hindu temple for days and then murdered. In 2020 a 19-year-old Dalit girl was gang-raped and later died of her injuries, her spinal cord broken.

The fear, particularly of gang rape, never fully leaves us. We go out in groups, cover ourselves, carry pepper spray and GPS tracking devices, avoid public spaces after sunset and remind ourselves to yell “fire,” not “help” if attacked. But we know that no amount of precaution will guarantee our safety.

I don’t understand gang rape. Is it some medieval desire to dominate and humiliate? Do these men, with little power over others, feeling inadequate and ordinary, need a rush of power for a few minutes?

What I do know is that other men share the blame, the countless brothers, fathers, sons, friends, neighbors and colleagues who have collectively created and sustain a system that exploits women. If women are afraid, it is because of these men. It is a protection racket of epic proportions.

I’m not asking merely for equality. I want retribution. Recompense. I want young girls to be taught about Ms. Bano and Ms. Devi. I want monuments built for them. But men just want us to forget. The release of Ms. Bano’s rapists was about male refusal to commemorate our trauma.

So we build monuments with words and our memories. We talk to one another about gang rape, keeping it at the center of our lives. We try to explain to our youngest, to start protecting them.

This is how the history of the defeated is recorded. That’s what it all boils down to: a fight between forgetting and remembering.

[raghavbinwal]

ShadowsOfJustice

This tale unravels in the midst of India, where Girish, a man entangled in a mesh of suspicion, finds himself falsely associated with a militant group. Concerned for his son's safety, Girish's father engineers his escape to London. However, Girish becomes ensnared in a shadowy world of crime amidst the bustling streets of the city. Just when hope seems distant, a catastrophic explosion in Mumbai shatters the very foundation of his existence. Upon his return to his hometown, Girish is thrust into a nightmarish ordeal as authorities label him a terrorist. Extradited to England, Girish, accompanied by his steadfast friend Pavan and two others, endures relentless interrogation. Despite vehemently asserting his innocence, Girish succumbs to coercion and confesses to crimes he did not commit, all to shield his loved ones. As Girish languishes in incarceration, a glimmer of hope emerges when a fellow inmate confesses to the very crime Girish is accused of. Yet, justice remains elusive as authorities choose to ignore the revelation. Amidst the chaos, tragedy strikes with the untimely demise of Girish's father, igniting a fierce determination within Girish to seek truth and redemption. In the midst of Girish's nightmarish ordeal, his only beacon of hope is Mithun, his father's resolute lawyer. Mithun, a seasoned legal expert known for his unwavering commitment to justice, takes on Girish's case with utmost determination and resolve. As the trial progresses, Mithun encounters numerous obstacles and challenges in his quest to save Girish from wrongful conviction. The prosecution, backed by powerful interests, presents a compelling case against Girish, relying on circumstantial evidence and fabricated testimonies to frame him for the terrorist attack in Mumbai. However, Mithun is undeterred by the daunting odds stacked against him. Armed with his sharp legal acumen and unwavering belief in Girish's innocence, he meticulously scrutinizes every piece of evidence presented by the prosecution, uncovering inconsistencies and loopholes that cast doubt on their narrative. Mithun also leverages his extensive network of contacts within the legal community to unearth crucial witnesses and evidence that could exonerate Girish. He delves deep into the shadowy world of crime and corruption, following leads and pursuing avenues of investigation that others dare not tread. As the trial reaches its climax, Mithun unveils a series of dramatic revelations in the courtroom, presenting irrefutable evidence that not only disproves the prosecution's case but also exposes the true perpetrators behind the terrorist attack. His impassioned defense and masterful cross-examinations leave the prosecution scrambling to salvage their crumbling case. In a pivotal moment of the trial, Mithun confronts a key witness whose testimony forms the linchpin of the prosecution's case. Through a series of incisive questions and relentless pressure, he manages to elicit a confession from the witness, revealing the intricate web of lies and deceit orchestrated by those seeking to scapegoat Girish for their own nefarious purposes. As the truth comes to light, the courtroom erupts in disbelief and astonishment. Girish, overcome with emotion, watches as Mithun's unwavering determination and brilliance turn the tide of the trial in his favor. In the end, justice prevails, and Girish is vindicated of all charges, his name cleared of the stigma of terrorism that had threatened to destroy his life. Mithun's heroics in saving Girish serve as a testament to the power of perseverance, integrity, and unwavering belief in the pursuit of truth. His relentless pursuit of justice against all odds not only saves Girish from wrongful conviction but also exposes the flaws and injustices inherent in the legal system, inspiring hope for a better, more just society.

#story

[its-a-hil]

hm. just remembered something

when i was in elementary school (my guess is ~2nd grade but really it could be anything) they had us fill out something with personal information, like hobbies, interests, hopes, and stuff

but one of the fields was 'biggest fear'

and i, approximately 7 year old, answered 'terrorism'

i remember finding that again when i was in middle school and thinking "that's weird ... did i even know what terrorism was then ... " and i specifically thought about how non-scared i was about terrorism

so like... what happened. i know i watched a ton of engineering/military tv shows that i didn't realize were extremely right wing

but my parents didn't talk much about 9/11 or anything like that. and i didn't ever play cod or other shooters where i would even be exposed to the word. i was mostly playing like neopets flash games at this point

(maybe it was around the 2008 mumbai attack? i know one of my extended family members nearly got caught up in that)

anyway this is to say that something was deeply wrong with the united states in the early 2000s.

[mariacallous]

In 2010, Indian actor Shah Rukh Khan starred in a film called My Name Is Khan that served as a critique of Islamophobia in the United States in the post-9/11 era. In the movie, Khan goes on a journey to the United States to meet the American president and tell him that having an Islamic last name doesn’t make him a terrorist. In real life, however, his name has made him a target at home.

A year after Narendra Modi became India’s prime minister in 2014, Khan said there was a climate of intolerance in the country that “will take us to the dark ages.” Two days later, a senior leader of the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and an acolyte of Modi, Yogi Adityanath, said Khan spoke the language of terrorists and equated him to the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terrorism attacks. Adityanath threatened Khan, saying he would be out of business if a “huge mass” of Indians, implying Hindus, boycotted his films. Since then, fringe political outfits linked to the BJP—and even some BJP leaders—have repeatedly attacked Khan.

The latest attack began when the trailer of Khan’s latest film, Pathaan, was released last month. Hindu nationalists of the BJP and those linked to the party expressed three major objections. First, that actress Deepika Padukone should not have worn a saffron-hued bikini in a song titled “Besharam Rang” because saffron is a sacred color in Hinduism. Second, the bikini was a few centimeters too revealing to be approved by the far right’s cultural police. And third, and more tellingly perhaps, they slandered Khan for his fitness, questioning whether the 57-year-old’s chiseled “six-pack” abdomen could possibly be real.

The charges were ludicrous. Bollywood actresses have worn saffron in sensuous songs before, but it’s never been so controversial. Moreover, Padukone wore a green skirt and several other colors in the song. The attack didn’t make sense, but it was nonetheless vicious. One protester on air, who was later revealed to be an actor himself, dared Khan to dress his daughter in a green bikini instead of Padukone, a Hindu actress. Green is a sacred color in Islam, and Khan’s wife is also Hindu.

“Had Deepika worn a saffron bikini opposite a Hindu actor, there would have been no controversy,” Hartosh Singh Bal, political editor of the Caravan, told Foreign Policy from Delhi in a phone interview. “It is all because [Khan] is a Muslim.” Several male Indian actors have flaunted abs before, and rare have they met with such ridicule.

Many people believe that the insidious campaign to discredit Khan emerges out of Hindu nationalists’ broader effort to humiliate minorities into accepting their secondary status in a country they want to claim for themselves. There have been frequent calls by the BJP to turn India into a theocratic state—a Hindu rashtra or a country predominantly of and for Hindus. As part of that bid, they hope to control Bollywood itself, the country’s biggest cultural force and its most effective messenger.

After #BoycottPathaan trended on Twitter, #BoycottBollywood soon followed. There were several well-crafted tweets, as if coordinated with one another, calling on directors to change their scripts and fall in line—or risk a total boycott. But this was not the first time Bollywood came under attack. Scholars who studied the trend between August 1 and September 12 discovered thousands of ghost accounts created over these months that solely tweeted with the hashtag #BoycottBollywood. More than 300 accounts each tweeted over 1,000 tweets on Bollywood over that nearly month and a half, “suggesting organized behavior,” said Joyojeet Pal, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan who conducted the study. Junior politicians of the BJP and of its affiliates were also discovered to be pushing the content.

Outrage on social media was to a large extent manufactured, but it is hard to say how many Indians genuinely approved of the sentiment. An investigation by news website the Wire revealed that many of the news stories that defamed Khan and called for Pathaan’s boycott reflected the views of political partisans rather than genuine protesters. Meanwhile, Pathaan has enjoyed enormous ticket sales, a resounding rejection of the calls to boycott Khan’s movies and Bollywood more generally.

Fans thronged cinemas in cities across India and at screenings abroad to see Khan return to the screen after a four-year hiatus. The controversies instigated around him—including outright falsehoods about how he had supposedly donated millions of dollars to Pakistan and was caught spitting at the funeral of Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar—did little to dampen public enthusiasm for his movie.

As Khan hopped between buildings, dived off planes, and walked on the facade of a skyscraper, all to save India from a terrorist attack, Indians across faiths seemed proud that Bollywood could also produce its own version of Mission Impossible and were eager to applaud Khan’s reinvention from romantic heartthrob to action hero. Even Indians abroad, who are arguably among the biggest believers in Hindu nationalism, rushed to screenings in the United Arab Emirates, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany. The movie has reportedly smashed box office records in India, and in the first 16 days since its release, it earned nearly $10 million.

Meera Rizvi, a professional scriptwriter whose maternal ancestors were ethnic Pashtuns like Khan’s, said she had little interest in watching the movie but attended a screening as an act of resistance to bullying from Hindu nationalists. “Bullies have been empowered by the right-wing government, and they think they can do whatever they want,” Rizvi said. “I went to see the movie to stand up against the bullying Khan has been subjected to.” Many others said they believed it was all a useless controversy. Anju Dhawan, an interior designer, said she didn’t understand why there was controversy at all. “Shah Rukh is an actor. Hindu, Muslim has nothing to do with it,” she told Foreign Policy from Karnal, India.

The crowds, however, did not indicate a rejection of political polarization. At least two highly educated professionals FP spoke to believe in Hindu nationalist propaganda, making unsubstantiated allegations against Khan. Political analysts told FP that Pathaan’s success did not indicate a change of mood in a nation still in thrall of Modi and the BJP’s broader political agenda. “It showed that Hindu nationalists still do not have the ability to wipe out the appeal of a celebrity who is a Muslim, just like Indians would cheer a Muslim cricketer,” Bal said. “It didn’t mean the mood of the country has gone a certain way.”

Last week, Indian press reported that Modi called on his ministers to refrain from making unnecessary comments that overshadow the government’s developmental work. But that message has come far too late to rein in the mob, said filmmaker Anurag Kashyap. “It was about controlling their own people. Things have gone out of hand now,” Kashyap said. “When you stay silent, you empower prejudice and you empower hatred. It has now got so much empowered that it is a power in itself. The mob is out of control now.”

[newspatron]

How Tukaram Omble Helped Uncover the Truth Behind the 26/11 Mumbai Attacks

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To Read About 26/11 Mumbai Attacks and Tukaram Omble: A Chronicle of Terror and Resilience The 26/11 Mumbai attacks were one of the most horrific and tragic events in India’s history. A group of 10 terrorists, belonging to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, unleashed a wave of violence and terror across the city, killing 175 people and injuring more than 300. The attacks lasted for four days,…

[hoonvrs]

you’re jus hating yeonie for no reason, religious or not, trauma is trauma and you’re being a bitch about it, yall muslims have wreaked havoc on indian civilians multiple times too. the jammu terror attacks? mumbai’s taj attacks? you may claim that they don’t belong to your religion because they follow violence but they are muslims who’ve caused trauma to so many people. there’s absolutely no reason to bash up someone for that, there’s a difference between having religious trauma and being a straight up islamophobe.

party ended 30 years ago and bros still here

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 11.26

Holidays

Anti-Obesity Day

Bonn Om Touk (Water Festival; Cambodia)

Casablanca Day

Constitution Day (Abkhazia; Georgia; India)

Coton de Tulear Day

Corn Salad Day (French Republic)

Economic Abuse Awareness Day (Australia, Canada)

Family Day (Palau)

Festival of Big Talk

Festival of Shadow Economies

Flag Day (Colombia)

Fraternity Day

Good Bath Day (Japan)

Good Grief Day

Holiday List Day

International Bananagrams Day

International Day of Cats

International Shoemaker Day

International Women Human Rights Defenders Day

Iron Deficiency Day

Kelaghayi Day (Azerbaijan)

Kodanikupäev (Citizen Day; Estonia)

Lion Day USA

Mākua Rothman Day (Hawaii)

Mumbai Terror Attacks Remembrance Day

National Alexis Day

National Eric Day

National Heath Day

National Law Day (India)

National Ranboo Day

Netherfield Ball Day

Republic Day (Mongolia)

Sojourner Truth Day (Michigan)

Tazaungdaing (Myanmar)

World Lewis Day

World Olive Tree Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Cake Day

National Milk Day (India)

World Olive Day

4th & Last Sunday in November

All Souls' Day (Visu Dvēseles Diena; Latvia)

Artist’s Sunday [Sunday after Thanksgiving]

Crystal Skull World Day [4th Sunday]

International Laksa Day [Last Sunday]

International Shift Worker Sunday [Last Sunday]

John F. Kennedy Day (Massachusetts) [Last Sunday]

Judgement Sunday (Tuomiosunnuntai; Finland) [Last Sunday]

Mother’s Day (Russia) [Last Sunday]

Museum Store Sunday [Last Sunday]

National Bicycle Day (Philippines) [4th Sunday]

National Secondhand Sunday [Last Sunday]

National Youth Sunday (UK) [Last Sunday]

Pasadena Doo Dah Parade [Sunday after Thanksgiving]

Small Brewery Sunday [Sunday after Thanksgiving]

Stir-Up Sunday [Last Sunday before Advent]

Sunday of the Dead (Totensonntag; Austria, Germany) [Last Sunday]

Independence Days

The Golliez (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

Mongolia (from China, 1921)

Feast Days

Alypius the Stylite (Christian; Saint)

Basolus (a.k.a. Basle; Christian; Saint)

Bellinus of Padua (Christian; Saint)

Celebration of the Excellence of Genevieve in Paris (Roman Catholic)

Conrad of Constance (a.k.a. Conraal; Christian; Saint)

Day of the Covenant (Baháʼí)

Ethelwine of Athelney (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Christ the King (Christian)

Feast of the Holy Family (Christian)

Hugo Ball Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Isaac Watts (Episcopal Church (USA))

John Berchmans (Christian; Saint)

Kara Walker (Artology)

Nicon Metanoite (Christian; Saint)

Peter, Bishop of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)

Racist Depreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Sidney (Positivist; Saint)

Siricius, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Stylianos of Paphlagonia (Eastern Orthodoxy)

Sylvester Gozzolini (Christian; Saint)

Tantan (Muppetism)

Valraven’s Day (Pagan)

William Sidney Mount (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s National Baby Dropping Day.)  

Premieres

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Novel; 1865)

Alien: Resurrection (Film; 1997)

Anarchy in the U.K., by The Sex Pistols (Album; 1976)

Australia (Film; 2008)

Bad Santa (Film; 2003)

Casablanca (Film; 1942)

The Daffy Doc (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)

Dangerous, by Michael Jackson (Album; 1991)

Flood Waters or Drown in the Valley (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 234; 1963)

Fragile, by Yes (Album; 1971)

Heir-Conditioned (WB LT Cartoon; 1955)

Home Defense (Disney Cartoon; 1943)

I Believe I Can Fly, by R. Kelly (Song; 1996)

The Ice Storm (Film; 1997)

Imitation of Life (Film; 1934)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcast (Film; 1999)

The King’s Speech (Film; 2010)

Licorice Pizza (Film; 2021)

The Mosquito Coast (Film; 1996)

Orchids in the Moonlight, recorded by Xavier Cugat (Song; 1940)

Penguins of Madagascar (Animated Film; 2014)

Rockshow (Paul McCartney Concert Film; 1980)

Squeeze: Unplugged (MTV TV Concert; 1989) [1st Unplugged Concert]

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Film; 1986)

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Film; 1993)

Timeline (Film; 2003)

The Toll of the Sea (Film; 1922) [1st Technicolor Film)

Treasure of Monte Zoom, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 233; 1963)

The Triplets of Belleville (Animated Film; 2003)

Unplugged (Music TV Series; 1989)

The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins (Novel; 1859)x

Today’s Name Days

Anneliese, Gebhard, Konrad (Austria)

Stilyan, Stilyana (Bulgaria)

Hugo, Konrad, Siricije (Croatia)

Artur (Czech Republic)

Conradus (Denmark)

Dagmar, Maara, Maare, Tamaara (Estonia)

Sisko (Finland)

Delphine (France)

Anneliese, Konrad, Kurt (Germany)

Kyparisia, Nikon, Stelios, Stergios, Stiloanos, Stylianos (Greece)

Virág (Hungary)

Corrado, Cristo (Italy)

Konrāds (Latvia)

Dobilas, Silvestras, Vygantė (Lithuania)

Konrad, Kurt (Norway)

Delfin, Dobiemiest, Jan, Konrad, Konrada, Lechosław, Lechosława, Leonard, Sylwester (Poland)

Stellina (Romania)

Kornel (Slovakia)

Conrado, Juan, Leonardo, Silvestre (Spain)

Linus (Sweden)

Mallory, Rashad, Rashawn, Yesenia, Yessenia (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 330 of 2024; 35 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 47 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 27 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 14 (Wu-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 13 Kislev 5784

Islamic: 13 Jumada I 1445

J Cal: 30 Mir; Nineday [30 of 30]

Julian: 13 November 2023

Moon: 99%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 22 Frederic (12th Month) [Sidney]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 64 of 89)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 5 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Is (Stasis) [Half-Month 23 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 12.10)

[brookston]

Holidays 11.26

Holidays

Anti-Obesity Day

Bonn Om Touk (Water Festival; Cambodia)

Casablanca Day

Constitution Day (Abkhazia; Georgia; India)

Coton de Tulear Day

Corn Salad Day (French Republic)

Economic Abuse Awareness Day (Australia, Canada)

Family Day (Palau)

Festival of Big Talk

Festival of Shadow Economies

Flag Day (Colombia)

Fraternity Day

Good Bath Day (Japan)

Good Grief Day

Holiday List Day

International Bananagrams Day

International Day of Cats

International Shoemaker Day

International Women Human Rights Defenders Day

Iron Deficiency Day

Kelaghayi Day (Azerbaijan)

Kodanikupäev (Citizen Day; Estonia)

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[beardedmrbean]

Police in the Indian capital, Delhi, have raided the homes of prominent journalists and authors in connection with an investigation into the funding of news website NewsClick.

NewsClick's founder Prabir Purkayastha and a colleague were arrested. Police also seized laptops and mobile phones.

Officials are reportedly investigating allegations that NewsClick got illegal funds from China - a charge it denies.

Critics say the move is an intentional attack on press freedom.

Started in 2009, NewsClick is an independent news and current affairs website known to be critical of the government. In 2021, it was raided by tax authorities on allegations of breaking India's foreign direct investment rules.

The co-ordinated raids at 30 locations on Tuesday are some of the largest and most extensive on India's media in recent years. Police later confirmed they had arrested Mr Purkayastha and Amit Chakravarty, the website's head of human resources.

"A total of 37 male suspects have been questioned at premises, nine female suspects have been questioned at their respective places of stay and digital devices, documents etc have been seized/collected for examination," a police statement said.

Opposition leaders accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of a "fresh attack on the media". But Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said investigative agencies were merely doing their job.

How did the raids happen?

Among those also questioned were journalists Abhisar Sharma, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Aunindyo Chakravarty, Urmilesh, Bhasha Singh, popular satirist Sanjay Rajoura and historian Sohail Hashmi. Some were taken to police stations.

Searches were also carried out at the website's office in Delhi, news agency ANI reported.

In Mumbai, activist Teesta Setalvad's house was also searched. Ms Setalvad has long fought for victims of the deadly 2002 riots in Gujarat state and has written articles critical of the government for NewsClick.

A source close to Mr Purkayastha told the BBC that more than 15 policemen arrived at the editor's home at 06:30 local time (01:00 GMT).

"They did not produce any warrants or paperwork, questioned him for several hours and took away all the electronic devices they found at home," they said. Later, news agencies showed him being taken away by the police in a vehicle.

Mr Rajoura's lawyer, Ilin Saraswat, said the comedian was raided at the same time and that police took away his laptop, his two phones, some DVDs of his old work and some documents.

"The police said that Mr Rajoura is not named in the current investigation, but since he has worked with the website, he will be interrogated. We have not been provided a copy of the police complaint," he added.

BBC India offices searched by income tax officials

Indian tax authorities raid critical media outlets

India top court frees Muslim comic on bail

According to reports, the raids are in connection with a case registered against NewsClick in August after a New York Times report alleged that the website had received funds from an American millionaire to spread "Chinese propaganda".

It claimed that Neville Roy Singham worked closely with the "Chinese government media machine" and used his network of non-profit groups and shell companies to "finance its propaganda worldwide".

A case was reportedly registered against the website under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, or UAPA, a draconian anti-terror law that makes it nearly impossible to get bail. NewsClick has rejected all the charges as false.

Who was raided?

All the people who were raided have been associated with NewsClick - some are employees, while others have worked on freelance projects.

Prabir Purkayastha, its founder and editor-in-chief, is the author of a number of books and a founding member of the Delhi Science Forum. During the 1975 Emergency - when civil liberties were suspended - he was jailed along with several opposition politicians.

Bhasha Singh is an activist and journalist who has reported extensively on manual scavenging and farmers' suicides. She has accused the government of being anti-women and on Monday appeared in a NewsClick video expressing concern over the increasing trend of members of the governing BJP praising the man who assassinated India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.

Abhisar Sharma is a prominent video journalist known for his critical views of the government. He worked for BBC Hindi before moving to work at the NDTV news channel. One of his last videos covered widespread protests by government employees against a new pension scheme.

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, writer, journalist and filmmaker, is best known for his investigations into billionaire tycoon Gautam Adani and is facing several defamation suits filed by the industrialist. Earlier this year, he was mentioned in a report by Hindenburg Research which alleged that companies owned by Mr Adani had engaged in decades of "brazen" stock manipulation and accounting fraud - allegations denied by the industrialist who is perceived as being close to PM Modi.

[redeyedroid]

The rights we're talking about here are just for the IPL and don't include India's international schedule, or other domestic competitions like the Ranji Trophy. Or the ODI World Cup that'll be held in India at the end of the year.

I've mentioned this before, but on a per-game basis, the IPL is now the second most valuable sports league in the world after the NFL.

Disney Hotstar retained the domestic TV rights for the next five years, but lost the digital rights and the international TV rights.

Viacom paid $3bn to take those rights away from Disney. Disney paid another $3bn for the rights they retained.

It took football decades to crack the US. F1 needed new owners and a smart marketing strategy. But there's one last massively popular sport out there that isn't at all supported by US cultural hegemony.

An aside: The Asian subs that Disney lost here were probably 90%+ Indian. Yes, the whole subcontinent loves cricket. Pakistan - India at cricket is one of the biggest sports rivalries in the world. England - Australia is the oldest. Pakistan - India is the most intense.

But relations between the two countries being what they are, there's less crossover between the IPL and the equivalent Pakistan Super League than you might think. Their players sadly don't play in each other's leagues - India banned Pakistani players from the IPL after the Mumbai terror attacks and the top Indians are so famous at home that, even if there was an appetite to play in Pakistan, they don't need to travel the world to make their fortunes. There are issues over whether India will travel for this year's Asia Cup, scheduled to be played in Pakistan, and they haven't played a series against each other in any format for a decade, their only meetings at tournaments. I don't have figures, but other than a lot of bickering on social media about whose players and competitions are better (eg Indian fans were gleeful that some of their women are getting paid more for their participation in the inaugural WPL than Pakistan's captain, Babar Azam is getting for playing in this year's PSL) there doesn't seem to be much following of each other's leagues. I doubt there are many Pakistani subscribers for IPL coverage.

[ainnewsone]

तहव्वुर हुसैन राणा पर अमेरिकी सुप्रीम कोर्ट का फैसला?

US Supreme Court Rejects Tahawwur Rana's Petition, Shiv Sena Demands Action on Other Fugitives तहव्वुर हुसैन राणा पर अमेरिकी सुप्रीम कोर्ट का फैसला: शिवसेना (UBT) सांसद संजय राउत ने उठाए अन्य भगोड़ों पर सवाल AIN NEWS 1 मुंबई: अमेरिकी सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने तहव्वुर हुसैन राणा की व्रिट ऑफ सर्टियोरारी याचिका को खारिज कर दिया है। इस पर प्रतिक्रिया देते हुए शिवसेना (UBT) के सांसद संजय राउत ने कहा, "यह न्यायिक प्रक्रिया है, जो लगातार चलती रहती है। अब हमें नीरव मोदी, दाऊद इब्राहिम और टाइगर मेमन जैसे भगोड़ों को वापस लाना होगा। हमारी सूची काफी लंबी है।" तहव्वुर हुसैन राणा कौन है? तहव्वुर हुसैन राणा 2008 में हुए मुंबई आतंकी हमलों के एक प्रमुख साजिशकर्ता डेविड हेडली का सहयोगी है। हेडली ने अमेरिका में राणा के जरिए इन हमलों की योजना बनाई थी। राणा को इस मामले में भारत प्रत्यर्पित करने की कोशिशें कई वर्षों से चल रही हैं। अमेरिकी सुप्रीम कोर्ट का फैसला तहव्वुर राणा ने अमेरिकी कोर्ट में भारत प्रत्यर्पण को रोकने के लिए याचिका दायर की थी। हाल ही में सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने इस याचिका को खारिज कर दिया, जिससे भारत के लिए राणा को प्रत्यर्पित करने का रास्ता साफ हो गया है। शिवसेना का रुख संजय राउत ने कहा, "यह भारत के लिए एक महत्वपूर्ण फैसला है। हालांकि, हमें केवल राणा पर ही नहीं, बल्कि नीरव मोदी, दाऊद इब्राहिम और टाइगर मेमन जैसे अन्य भगोड़ों को भी वापस लाने पर ध्यान देना चाहिए। इन अपराधियों को न्याय के कटघरे में खड़ा करना हमारा कर्तव्य है।" अन्य भगोड़े अपराधी 1. नीरव मोदी: पंजाब नेशनल बैंक घोटाले का मुख्य आरोपी, जो इस समय ब्रिटेन में है। 2. दाऊद इब्राहिम: 1993 के मुंबई धमाकों का मास्टरमाइंड, पाकिस्तान में छिपा हुआ है। 3. टाइगर मेमन: 1993 धमाकों में दाऊद का सहयोगी, जिसे भारत में पकड़ने के लिए कई प्रयास किए गए हैं। सरकार की जिम्मेदारी संजय राउत ने यह भी कहा कि केंद्र सरकार को इन सभी भगोड़ों को जल्द से जल्द भारत लाने के लिए कड़ी कार्रवाई करनी चाहिए। तहव्वुर हुसैन राणा का मामला भारत के लिए न्यायिक प्रक्रिया में एक बड़ी जीत साबित हो सकता है। हालांकि, भारत को अन्य अंतरराष्ट्रीय भगोड़ों को भी न्याय के दायरे में लाने के लिए रणनीतिक कदम उठाने होंगे। https://youtube.com/shorts/Yz7cSnq0kxM?si=XaMW0rIPU1IFROaF The US Supreme Court's rejection of Tahawwur Hussain Rana's writ of certiorari is a significant development for India. Rana, an accomplice of David Headley in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, may now face extradition to India. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut emphasized the need to also extradite other fugitives like Nirav Modi, Dawood Ibrahim, and Tiger Memon. This highlights India's ongoing efforts to bring justice to those involved in major crimes, including financial frauds and terror activities.   Read the full article