India takes up Shah Rukh case with US

W
ith Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan being detained and questioned at Newark airport, India on Saturday took up the issue with the US Embassy in New Delhi, which said it was ascertaining details about the incident involving the "global icon" who was welcome to America.

"The matter was taken up with the US Embassy," External Affairs Ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash said soon after the reports about detention of the actor reached.

He said the Embassy was ascertaining factual details of the incident.

Consul General of India in New York is in touch with Khan, Prakash added.

US Ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer issued a separate statement, saying, "We are trying to ascertain the facts of the case -- to understand what took place."

Describing Shah Rukh Khan as a "global icon", Roemer said, "He is a very welcome guest in the United States. Many Americans love his films."

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Manipur continues to agitate over 'fake' encounter

Weeks after the alleged fake encounter in which a young unarmed man was allegedly gunned down in the heart of Imphal, Manipur remains tense.

The city is paralysed under curfew and a heavy security
deployment patrols the streets.

"People have lost faith on the government and this time they want appropriate action. That's dismissal or life imprisonment so that this is not repeated again in the future," says Satyajit, a protestor.

In fact, the longest protest anywhere in the world has been going on in Manipur. From Sharmila's fast unto death against the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act, which is the current issue, some Manipuri women have been on a relay hunger strike for the last 240 days in support of Sharmila's cause.

But if Sharmila's cause hasn't been able to move the governments in the centre and the state its unlikely that the current agitation will be able to sustain its momentum.

People of Manipur have virtually lost faith in everything.

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