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** <http://www.jharkhand.org.in/contact.htm> <http://www.jharkhand.org.in/forum> 4 dead in Indore; many injured over Amarnath land row strike Bhopal, July 3: A scattered strike over the transfer of forest land to the Amarnath shrine trust turned violent on Thursday, with four people killed in Madhya Pradesh and dozens injured in clashes, police said. Strike supporters shut down transport and businesses in several states, as protesters blocked roads, smashed vehicles and stopped trains. They were protesting against the government of Jammu and Kashmir for reversing a decision to transfer forest land to the Amarnath shrine trust in Kashmir. The government was forced to back down after Muslim protesters shut down Kashmir last week over the transfer of land, a move that has angered thousands of Hindus in India. On Thursday, authorities imposed curfew in Indore, a town in Madhya Pradesh, where four people, including two Muslim residents were killed when Hindu groups clashed with them, forcing police to open fire and lob tear gas shells. In Indore, police used loudspeakers to warn both communities to stay inside their homes and had detained dozens of people for rioting, a senior officer said. A Muslim trader was seriously injured after he set himself on fire when a Hindu mob beat him up and ransacked his shop in a remote town in the state, police said. Hindu protesters have demanded that land be allotted to Hindus for building temporary shelters built for pilgrims who visit Amarnath cave in Kashmir every year. In Bihar, supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who called the one-day strike, blocked trains and damaged vehicles in Patna. Carrying party flags and wearing saffron turbans, protesters shouted "Kashmir Hamara hai" (Kashmir is ours) as they forced traders to close shops. OPPOSITION The BJP, the main opposition party, supports the demand for temporary shelters. "The response to the strike shows the anger of the people against the government's attack on secular fabric of the country," Prakash Javdekar, a senior BJP leader, said in New Delhi. "They surrendered meekly under pressure from separatists." But Gujarat, one of BJP's most important states, refused to join the protest. Officials said they needed to focus on a possible early general election. Authorities in Jammu imposed a curfew for the second day in a row, forcing residents to stay indoors. "We have not yet taken any decision on relaxing it," a police spokesman said. The impact of the strike was also felt in some northern Indian states, where protesters clashed with police and threw stones at passing vehicles. There was no impact of the strike in New Delhi. Over 100 protesters were held in Hyderabad, police said, but in Bangalore, life was normal. "It is business as usual, we are not off," a spokeswoman for Infosys, India's top software company, said. Bangalore is home to more than 1,500 IT companies. In Mumbai, hundreds of protesters blocked traffic on the highway from the domestic airport for more than half-an-hour, officials said. In Madhya Pradesh and Maoist-dominated Chhattisgarh, activists of conservative Hindu groups patrolled streets with bamboo canes to enforce a total strike. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kashmirlive.com/story/4-dead-in-MP-many-injured-over-Amarnath-land-row-strike/331305.html ** ** ** Adivasi woman gang-raped at Dahivat PTI JALGAON: A four-member-gang, who entered into a hut of adivasi-couple at Dahivat-Shivar in the district early on Tuesday, raped an adivasi woman and fled with small cash and some grass-cutting-instruments, police said on Wednesday. Police said that the four members entered into an agriculture-field owned by one Madhukar Wagh, where Dilvarsingh Sonawane and his wife were asleep in their hut. The gang knocked the door, beaten up the couple, tied Dilvarsingh by a rope to his bullock-cart and gang-raped his wife. Later, they took away cash of Rs 60, some grass-cutting instruments and fled under the cover of darkness. On a complaint by a woman, police have registered offence against the four unidentified persons. DSP Santosh Rastogi, visited the rural hospital, where the woman victim is being treated at Mehunbare and assured that police will arrest the culprits very soon, police added. http://www.dnaindia.com/dnaprint.asp?newsid=1175101 Jalgaon From Wikipedia Coordinates <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system>: 21°01′00″N 75°34′00″E / 21.0167, 75.5667<http://toolserver.org/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?pagename=Jalgaon¶ms=21.0167_N_75.5667_E_region:IN_type:city> *Jalgaon* (जळगाव) is a city in western India, to the north of the Maharashtra <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharashtra> state in Jalgaon District <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalgaon_District>, which itself is located on the northern Deccan <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan>Plateau. Located within the productive, irrigated agricultural region of Khandesh <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khandesh>, Jalgaon is a municipal corporation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_corporation>. Formerly part of territory controlled by the Holkar<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holkar>family of Maratha <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratha> rulers, Jalgaon became part of British India's <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_India> Bombay Presidency <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_Presidency> in 1818 and part of independent India in 1947 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947>. Jalgaon is also the hometown of the Smt. Pratibha Patil<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratibha_Patil>, President of India. Modern Jalgaon now boasts of vast industrial areas, educational institutes and good hospitals. The city is well developed with good roads, shopping centres, and residential areas, and also has good communication and transport infrastructure. Jalgaon is near the world famous Ajanta Caves<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajanta_Caves>and is one of the key attraction places for tourists all around the World. Jalgaon has a diverse climate. It is exceptionally hot and dry during summer with temperatures reaching as high as 47 degrees Celsius. Jalgaon receives about 700 mm rainfall during monsoons, which is followed by pleasant temperature in winter. 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