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After putting its view on Rahul Gandhi’s speech in Parliament during the trust vote, Research visits the other darling of the media, the man whose speech on the same day at the same venue caught the fancy of the Fourth Estate — Omar Abdullah — in the form of a debate in the wake of the seemingly endless strife in the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir Celebrating tyrants __________________ Saradindu Mukherji __________________ The person who turned an overnight hero of the Indian media — as also the ‘liberal’, jihad-friendly ‘secular’ intelligentsia — following his speech in Parliament on 22 July, is incidentally the grandson of the man who is widely suspected to be responsible for the mysterious death of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee in a jail in Jammu & Kashmir at the age of 53. One may read the letter written by Mukherjee’s mother to Jawaharlal Nehru to know more about the conspiracy. It was Mukherjee, the last of our Mohicans, who almost single-handedly saved Calcutta and then West

____________ Press release ____________ Dhaka, 11 August 2008: The Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM), an NGO in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, has, by its Bangladesh Chapter‘s Secretary General Mr Rabindranath Trivedi, who is also an ex additional secretary to the Government of Bangladesh, filed a writ petition to the High Court Division bearing Writ Petition No 6092 of 2008 on Sunday the 10th August 2008. The bench constituted with Justice Khadem-ul-Islam and Justice Masuk Hossain Ahmed of a High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, have received the writ petition for hearing. The Vested Property Act represents a major source of insecurity and human rights violation against the Hindu community in Bangladesh. It is clear that the VPA is detrimental to the minorities and religious harmony of Bangladesh. Former Deputy Attorney General of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and renowned lawyer Barrist