Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Apologised

New Delhi, February 20: In an apparent move to appease the main Opposition, the Bhartiya Janata Party ahead of the Budget Session, Union Minister Sushilkumar Shinde apologises over his 'Saffron terror' remark on Wednesday. In a statement released by his office, Shinde said, “I had no intention to link terror to any religion.”

“My statement given in Jaipur last month has created a misunderstanding,” he further added.

Earlier, staging a strong protest over Home Minister's "saffron terror" remarks, BJP had said today that Shinde’s comments were part of a conspiracy to divide the nation for vote bank politics and demanded an apology.

Stepping up the attack on Shinde ahead of the Budget Session of Parliament starting tomorrow, BJP president Rajnath Singh questioned the Home Minister's intentions in making such a provocative statement.

"This comment of the Home Minister is part of a conspiracy to divide the nation for vote bank politics," Singh said, addressing a large number of protesting party workers at Parliament Street here today.

Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said the Congress was indulging in "communal polarisation" through such remarks.

"The Congress and UPA vote bank is contracting. Shinde wants to divide the nation on the basis of religion. They are trying to indulge in communal polarisation. The Home Minister made this statement with the intention of dividing the nation for votes and seek the vote bank of a particular religion," Jaitley said, addressing the protesting partymen.

Jaitley questioned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on how they have allowed such a Home Minister, who is giving Pakistan a reason to say that India is running terror camps, to function.

Singh also questioned the intentions of Shinde to make such provocative comment and appealed to the countrymen "to understand the conspiracy behind making such a statement."

A month ago, Shinde using the platform of Congress Party's Chintan Shivir in Jaipur had said, "We have got an investigation report that, be it the RSS or BJP, their training camps are promoting Hindu terrorism.” Needless to say this remark by the Home Minister evoked a strong reaction both from the BJP and the RSS. The BJP has been relentlessly attacking Shinde since then and seeking his apology and resignation.

The BJP had categorically said that they would raise the matter in Parliament, raising fears amongst the Congress leaders that the Budget Session would be a stormy affair.

However, with important legislations pending, the Congress was keen that the House runs smoothly. Prime Minsiter Manmohan Singh said today in the national capital, "This session of Parliament is going to transact important financial business before the House and it is our sincere hope that we will have a productive, constructive debate leading to agreed solutions to the many national problems that our country faces."

Shinde's statement on the eve of Budget Session can be seen as a climbdown for the Congress party and a victory of sorts for the BJP. However, the BJP is yet to react on Shinde's regret over his 'saffron terror' remarks.

Saga Of Destruction & Hindu Devastation In West Bengal.

At least 200 houses of Hindus fully looted and torched yesterday in 4 villages NALIAKHALI, HEROBHANGA, GOPALPUR and GOLADOGRA under Canning P.S. in South 24 Paragana district.Police was moot spectator.At 'PRIYOR MOR' (JOYNAGAR P.S.) - all 20 Hindu shops has been fully looted ans damaged.
      Police are severely torchuring Hindus of JALABERIA In KULTALI P.S.
And our Mamata Didi is busy in inauguration,painting and Rabindrashangeet!!!!
She is nurturing Islamic Fundamentalism in a hope for being Prime Minister of greater Bangladesh in future.

Here are photographs of assault on Hindus.

China Says Army Is Not Behind Attacks in Report

(Courtsey:-NYT)
By DAVID BARBOZA


SHANGHAI — A day after an American security firm accused a Chinese People’s Liberation Army unit in Shanghai of engaging in cyber warfare against American corporations, organizations and government agencies, China’s defense ministry issued a strong denial and insisted that the report was flawed.

At a press conference in Beijing Wednesday, the ministry suggested the allegations were destructive and challenged a study by Mandiant, an American computer security firm that identified P.L.A. Unit 61398 in Shanghai as one of the most aggressive computer hacking operations in the world.

Geng Yansheng, a spokesman for China’s Ministry of National Defense, said that China had been the victim of cyber attacks that have originated in the U.S., and that Mandiant mischaracterized China’s activities.

“Chinese military forces have never supported any hacking activities,”

Mr. Geng said at the press briefing. “The claim by the Mandiant company that the Chinese military engages in Internet espionage has no foundation in fact.”

On Tuesday, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, Hong Lei, had made similar remarks, arguing that cyber attacks are difficult to trace because they are “often carried out internationally and are typically done so anonymously.”

The New York Times reported on Tuesday that a growing body of digital forensic evidence pointed to the involvement of the P.L.A. Shanghai unit and that U.S. intelligence officials had also been tracking the unit’s cyber activities.

On its Web site, Mandiant released a lengthy report on Tuesday detailing some of its evidence, including Internet protocol addresses and even the identities of several Chinese individuals it believes were behind some of the attacks. Mandiant said it had monitored the hackers as they logged onto social networking sites or through e-mail accounts.

Attempts to contact two of the individuals through telephone numbers and instant message service addresses linked to them were unsuccessful. In one case, the individual — whose online profile says he is 28 years old and a graduate of a university that specializes in computer science — declined to answer questions.

Several military analysts said they had also traced some major cyber attacks back to the P.L.A. and its Shanghai Unit 61398, which is known to be engaged in network security.

Still, many security experts concede that it is difficult if not possible to know for certain where attacks originate because hackers often take control of computers in various locations.

Chinese officials have insisted in recent years that China is one of the biggest targets of cyber attacks.

“Statistics show that Chinese military terminals connected to the Internet have been subjected to large numbers of attacks from abroad, and I.P. addresses indicate that a considerable number of these attacks are from the United States, but we have never used this as a reason to accuse the United States,” the defense ministry said Wednesday. “Every country should handle the problem of cyber security in a professional and responsible manner.”

Jalllianwala Bagh carnage shameful incident in British history: UK PM

(NewsBharati)

Amritsar, February 20: Regretting the Jalllianwala Bagh carnage, British Prime Minister David Cameron termed the 1919 massacre a shameful incident in British history.

Cameron visited Golden temple and Jalllianwala Bagh on Wednesday. He paid homage to unarmed civilians who lost their lives in rampage firing.  

Cameron is the first British Prime Minister to visit Jallianwala Bagh after 94 years of the incident. "This was a deeply shameful act in British history. One that Winston Churchil rightly described at that time as monstrous. We must never forget what happened here and we must ensure that the UK stands up for the right of peaceful protests," Cameron wrote in the visitors book at Jallianwala Bagh.

The gesture, coming on the third and final day of a visit to India aimed at drumming up trade and investment, is seen as an attempt to improve relations with India and to court around 1.5 million British voters of Indian origin ahead of a 2015 election. 

The 1919 slaughter, known in India as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, was described by Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the Indian independence movement, as having shaken the foundations of the British Empire. A group of soldiers opened fire on an unarmed crowd without warning in the northern Indian city after a period of unrest, killing hundreds in cold blood. 

The British report into the Amritsar massacre at the time said 379 people had been killed and 1,200 wounded. But a separate inquiry commissioned by the Indian pro-independence movement said around 1,000 people had been killed. 

Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, the man who gave the order to fire, explained his decision by saying he felt it was necessary to "teach a moral lesson to the Punjab". 

Other British politicians and dignitaries - though no serving prime minister - have expressed regret about the incident before. In 1920, Winston Churchill, then the Secretary of State for War, called the Amritsar massacre "a monstrous event", saying it was "not the British way of doing business".

On a visit to Amritsar in 1997, Queen Elizabeth called it a distressing episode, but said history could not be rewritten. However, her husband, Prince Philip, courted controversy during the visit when he questioned the higher Indian death toll.

Before he became prime minister, Tony Blair also visited, saying the memorial at Amritsar was a reminder of "the worst aspects of colonialism".