EAM questions timing of BBC’s documentary, says it’s ‘politics’

New Delhi (ANI): “Actual politics” is being conducted “ostensibly as media” by people who do not have the “courage to come into political field,” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told ANI, alluding to the controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Terming the furore as “politics by another means,” Jaishanka said, “Sometimes politics of India doesn’t even originate in its borders, it comes from outside.” “We are not debating just a documentary or a speech that somebody gave in a European city or a newspaper edits somewhere -- we are debating, actually politics, which is being conducted ostensibly as media — there is a phrase ‘war by other means’ this is politics by another means — I mean you will do a hatchet job, you want to do a hatchet job and say this is just another quest for truth which we decided after 20 years to put at this time,” he said.

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JUMBO KILLS 16

PEOPLE IN 12 DAYS IN JHARKHAND

Ranchi (PTI): A tusker has allegedly killed 16 people in five Jharkhand districts in the past 12 days with four in a block in Ranchi district alone on Tuesday, forest officials said. This has prompted the Ranchi administration to impose prohibitory order under Section 144 Cr PC in Itki block prohibiting gathering more than five people to restrict further casualties, Ranchi divisional forest officer Srikant Verma said. Villagers of Itki block have been asked to remain inside their houses, specially during sunrise and sunset.

HYDERABAD SHOCKER: STRAY DOGS MAUL 4-YEAR-OLD TO DEATH

Hyderabad (ANI): In a horrific incident, a four-year-old boy was mauled to death by a pack of street dogs at a housing society in Erukula Basti, in Bagh Amberpet in Hyderabad. The child was identified as Pradeep. In footage captured on a CCTV camera, the boy can be seen walking around playfully when street dogs attack him. About six stray dogs kept biting the child until he fell to the ground unable to stand again. By the time someone could come to his rescue, the boy fell unconscious and bled profusely.

NIA CONDUCTS RAIDS AT PREMISES OF GANGSTER LAWRENCE BISHNOI’S CLOSE AIDE

Kutch (ANI): National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted raids at the premises of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s close aide Kulwinder in Gandhidham. According to sources, Kulwinder has been a longtime associate of Bishnoi. Cases of providing shelter to the people of the Bishnoi gang were also against him. NIA sources revealed Kulwinder is also connected to international drug syndicates. In a major crackdown against gangster syndicates, the NIA launched searches at over 70 locations across several states on Tuesday. The searches were conducted in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, and Madhya Pradesh.

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KILLED IN ROAD ACCIDENT IN SITAPUR

Sitapur (ANI): Three people, including two women, were killed in a road accident after a car hit a bike on Monday evening in Imaliya Sultanpur area here, police said. The deceased have been identified as Jhabbu (35), Rajeshwari (32), and Sonashree (60). “The victims were on their way to Sitapur to attend an auspicious program when a speeding car hit them from the front in Imaliya Sultanpur area, near village Durgapur, Sitapur district,” police said.

BIHAR: 22 ARRESTED FOR VIOLENCE IN JETHULI VILLAGE before the Lok Sabha polls of 2024, the external affairs minister questioned the timing of the documentary.

Patna (Agencies): As many as 22 persons have been arrested by Patna Police in connection with the violence in Jethuli village, an official said on Tuesday. Among the arrested, 9 of them were involved in firing on Sunday where two persons died on the spot while another succumbed to injuries in the hospital. Two persons are currently battling for their lives in Patna Medical College and Hospital. “We have deployed an adequate police force in the village to restore peace”, officials said.

“I mean, come on, you think timing is accidental! Let me tell you one thing - I don’t know if the election season has started in India, Delhi or not, but, for sure it has started in London, New York,” he added.

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The Union Home Ministry has written to the States to nominate adequate number of Indian Police Service (IPS) officers for Central deputation. The Ministry expressed concern that the State governments were either withdrawing the names of selected officers or not relieving them for taking up an assignment with the Centre that resulted in considerable delay in the placement of the officers at the Centre and adversely impacted the entire process of “selection, deputation and cadre management”.

New Delhi (ANI): Noting that he belongs to a family of bureaucrats and that the political opportunity as a union minister came as a bolt from the blue in 2019, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that his father Dr K Subrahmanyam was removed as Secretary, Defence Production, by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi soon after she came back to power in 1980 and he was superseded during the Rajiv Gandhi period with someone junior to him becoming the Cabinet Secretary. Jaishankar talked about his journey from foreign service to politics and said he had always aspired to be the best officer and get elevated to the post of Foreign Secretary.

‘PM MODI SENT TROOPS TO LAC, NOT RAHUL GANDHI’: JAISHANKAR HITS OUT AT CONGRESS New Delhi (ANI): Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi who has been targeting the government over China’s aggression on the LAC in eastern Ladakh, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that it is not the Congress leader but Prime Minister Narendra Modi who sent the Army to the Line of Actual Control as a countermeasure to troop deployment by China and the opposition party should have honesty to look at what happened in 1962. Jaishankar said the Modi government had increased the budget by five times to ramp up border infrastructure. Referring to Congress and other opposition parties outraging over the Chinese building a bridge on the Pangong Lake last year, the Minister said the area had been under illegal occupation of China since the 1962 war.

UP: Cyber cop Triveni Singh seeks VRS

Dr. Ahtesham Siddiqui

Lucknow: With IPS Dr. Triveni Singh, who made his identity as a Cyber Cop in UP Police, has created a stir in the Police Department of UP by asking for VRS! Singh has cited health issues as the reason for seeking VRS, although his retirement is to be in November 2025.

Dr. Triveni Singh is a PPS officer of the 1994 batch. He was promoted from PPS to IPS by the Yogi government and in November 2019 Yogi government posted him as captain in Azamgarh, however, Singh was removed from there in 2020 and posted in cyber headquarters and since gration and driving prosperity.

Sheikha Fatima bint Mubaraq in her keynote address said that the summit comes at a “historical moment”.

“The summit has come at the historical time when humanity needs someone to light candles to light the way to get out of narrow lanes after health pandemics, political conflicts and social and economic crises,” she said.

Lauding the women’s participation in UAE’s development, Murmu further said, “You have several women as Ministers, members of the UAE Federal National Council, and prominent Ambassadors. They have taken their country to Mars, and they are working to make their country carbon-neutral.”

“India has always been at the forefront of promoting gender respect and democracy in society. Our history is full of examples of women taking up leadership roles. In fact, the Indian scriptures have laid great stress on respect for women. I quote here one such example, which says ‘Yatra Naryastu Pujyante Ramante tatra’ meaning wherever women are given due respect, even the Gods like to live there,” Murmu said.

NIA raids in 8 states target nexus of gangsters, terrorists, & drug mafia

New Delhi (Agencies): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is carrying out searches at multiple locations in 8 states in cases related to a nexus between gangsters, terror groups & drug mafia, officials said.

The raids were being conducted in the national capital, Maharashtra, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat & Madhya Pradesh, they said.

The NIA action comes a few days after the government had declared Harwinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda, who is currently based in Pakistan, a terrorist under the stringent anti-terror law.

The NIA re-registered two cases last year from the Special Cell of the Delhi Police to probe a conspiracy being hatched by criminal gangs based in India

Himachal govt dissolves Staff Selection Commission

then, he is posted in the same squad. Singh has also received the President’s, Bravery Medal. Singh, who has solved over 250 crimes, is also known as ‘Cyber Singham’. Interestingly, a web series is also being made on him by the name of Cyber Singham. Singh is credited to have solved and exposed the gang of 146 crore fraud in Cooperative Bank.

Shimla (PTI): The state government dissolved the Himachal Pradesh Staff Selection Commission (HPSSC) located at Hamirpur, whose functioning was suspended after the recruitment exam paper for junior office assistants (IT) was leaked in December.

“The reports of departmental inquiry and vigilance bureau pointed out irregularities and papers were being leaked and sold to selective people for the past 3 years, following which the state government has decided to dissolve the commission with immediate effect,” said CM Sukhvinder Singh.

NIA conducts searches and raids at more than 70 places across various states, on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY ANI

CBI SEARCHES AT 30 LOCATIONS IN PUNJAB TO PROBE ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION AGAINST FCI OFFICIALS and abroad to raise funds, recruit youths to carry out terrorist activities in Delhi and other parts of the country besides indulging in targeted killings of prominent persons.

New Delhi: The CBI on Tuesday launched searches at 30 locations in Punjab as part of its probe into allegations of corruption against Food Corporation of India (FCI) officials who procured inferior grains to benefit merchants and rice millers, officials said. The CBI teams started coordinated raids on the premises of grain merchants, rice mill owners, and serving and retired officials of the FCI in multiple districts of Punjab as part of ‘Operation Kanak 2’, they said. This is second round of searches in the FIR pertaining to an organised syndicate of officers at the FCI, who allegedly charged bribes of Rs 1,000-4,000 per truck unloaded at the FCI godowns from private millers per crop season for covering up lower quality grains supplied by them and other favours.

60 MPs knock at Rlys door seeking Vande Bharat train services

New Delhi (PTI): With ‘Vande Bharat’ trains running at almost full capacity on 10 routes, 60 parliamentarians, including 14 MPs from non-NDA parties, have petitioned the railways to begin the operation of the state-of-the-art trains connecting their constituencies.

While most ofs the petitions have come from BJP MPs, including senior leader Devendra Fadnavis who has asked for a train between Solapur and Mumbai.

Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi has requested for a Vande Bharat train from Dharwad to

Bangaluru and Civil Aviation minister Jyotiraditya M Scindia for a train to Gwalior.

Out of the 10 Vande Bharat trains currently in operation, the Bilaspur-Nagpur Vande Bharat Express had the lowest occupancy till January this fiscal, while the Mumbai-Gandhinagar route recorded the highest, official data showed.