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MODI'S 'IMPROMPTU VISIT' TO ATAL BRIDGE PM Narendra Modi did an impromptu visit of the Atal Bridge on the Sabarmati riverfront foot over the bridge connecting the east and west sides of the riverfront, in Ahmedabad after its inauguration. We’ve seen that khadi became the force of the freedom movement and broke the chains of slavery. The same Khadi can become an inspiration to make India developed and self-reliant. Khadi was made the symbol of the country’s self-respect by (Mahatma) Gandhiji during the freedom movement.
First India Bureau Jammu: Eleven family members in Burari, Delhi, were found dead at their house in 2018. Ten of the bodies were hanging, while the oldest family member, the grandmother, had been strangled.Asimilar scene confronted the police in Jammu ten days ago, when six people, including five members of a family, were found dead inside two houses. Autopsy revealed that they had died of an overdose of drugs, which they decided to take to end their lives, a senior police officer said on
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PM MODI TO DEDICATE SMRITIVAN TODAY Modi is set to dedicate Smritivan, a museum built as a tribute to those who lost their lives in earthquake on Jan 26, 200, in Kutch on Sunday. He had resolved to build a museum when he was Gujarat CM.
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FESTIVAL OF COWS Union Home Minister Amit Shah feeds a cow on the occasion of Pola festival, held in honour of cows and bulls, in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, on Saturday.
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The pedestrian-only ‘Atal Bridge’ is a foot-over bridge (FOB) on the Sabarmati river This iconic bridge is nearly 300 meters long and 14 meters wide in the middle The bridge has been built using 2,600 metric tonnes of steel pipes The roof is made up of colourful fabric and railing has been built with glass and steel The FOB connects the flower garden on the western-end of the riverfront Cyclists can also use this bridge to cross the river while avoiding traffic PM Narendra Modi spins charkha at the ‘Khadi Utsav’ event, in Ahmedabad on Saturday. Also seen here is CM Bhupendra Patel.
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New Delhi: After a nineyear-long legal battle, the Supertech twin towers of Noida will be reduced to rubble today. Noida-Greater Noida Expressway will remain shut between 2.15 pm and 2.45 pm for the demolition drive that is scheduled at 2.30 pm.
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‘AZAD TO LAUNCH OWN PARTY IN 14 DAYS, J&K UNIT 1ST’ Jammu: Ex-Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad is all set to launch his own party and its first unit would come up in J&K within a fortnight, his close confidant GM Saroori said on Saturday. He asserted that the restoration of pre-August 5, 2019 position of J&K will be part of manifesto.
GRIM MYSTERY Woman swims to bank after husband pushes her into river Agra (PTI): A man was arrested after he allegedly pushed his wife from the Yamuna river bridge in Bateshwar in Bah block, police said Saturday.Thewoman escaped drowning and told her family about the incident, they said. The husband, Arvind, was arrested after a complaint was filed by the woman’s brother Chandrakant, said Inspector Anand Kumar Sahi at Sikandra Police Station. In his ArvindChandrakantcomplaint,saidthathadtakenhis wife Santoshi to Bateshwar on a bike. He said when they reached the bridge on Yamuna there, Arvind pushed Santoshi off it and returned home in Runakata in Agra. “Santoshi fell into the shallow part of the river and swam to the bank with the help of the local people who were present there,” Chandrakant told police.
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New Delhi (ANI): Justice Uday Umesh Lalit took oath as the 49th Chief Justice of India on Saturday. President of India Droupadi Murmu administered oath of office at a ceremonyin Delhi. VP Jagdeep Dhankhar, PM Narendra Modi and Union ministers were present at the ceremony. Justice Lalit’s predecessor, Justice NV Ramana, was also present at the oathtaking ceremony.
DISNEY STAR WINS ICC MEDIA RIGHTS FOR IND FOR ‘24-27 New Delhi: Disney Star Wins ICC Media Rights For Indian Market For 2024-27. ICC on Saturday confirmed Disney Star will be the home of all ICC cricket in India for the next four years having won TV and digital rights to both men’s and women’s global events till 2027. CM SOREN & MLAs RETURN TO RANCHI FROM KHUNTI Jharkhand: Amid deepening political crisis in Jharkhand due to uncertainty over CM Hemant Soren’s, the CM and MLAs have returned to Ranchi from Latratu Dam in buses. Jharkhand Congress affairs in-charge Avinash Pande held meeting of party MLAs in Morabadi. NOIDA SUPERTECH TWIN DEMOLITIONTOWERSTODAY
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Agartala (ANI): RSS chief Dr Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday said that unlike aggressive int’l policies of countries like America, Russia and China, India teaches the world sanatan way of life through manifestation of “empathy” and “affinity”. “When America grew up as a strong nation, it wanted to throw its weight around. Same is case with Russia and China. But, we as a nation, want to build this country in such a way that we can teach the whole world the basics of ‘Dharma’— the philosophy of helping the helpless and feeding the hungry.” Mohan Bhagwat at Shanti Kali Temple, in Amarpur on Saturday.
India will lock horns against arch-rivals Pakistan in the 2nd match of the Asia Cup 2022 today at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai.
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@CPDelhi please take cognizance of this @LtGovDelhi,” heAtweeted.police officer said, an incident was reported in which some people, who were in a white Scorpio, had an argument with a person named Mohammad Unesh near Shastri Park chowk. No scuffle or manhandling occurred between both the parties. At the time of the incident, MLA Haji Yunus was not present in the car, the police said. Yunus also posted a video. In the purported video, the Scorpio car is seen parked in front of the victim’s car. One person is seen knocking on the window on the driver’s side following which a heated argument ensues between them.
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New Delhi (PTI): Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Mustafabad Haji Yunus on Saturday alleged that some anti-social elements who were in a ‘drunken state’ attacked his car in which his son and daughters were travelling. A case has been registered in this connection, the Delhi Police said. The incident took place in Shastri Park area following which Yunus took to Twitter to narrate the incident. “My car was attacked by some antisocial elements, in which my son and daughters were sitting. Five youths in a drunken state were in a white Scorpio car, they stopped my car and misbehaved with the family members!
Ashish Mishra Noida (PTI): Sitting on the boundary wall of a park opposite the Supertech’s twin towers to be demolished on Sunday afternoon, 14-yearold Mohammad Zulfiqar is animatedly explaining to his friends how the buildings will collapse like a pack of cards.“We will come early on Sunday to avoid the crowd and get this best spot. It’s a great view from here,” Irfan (10) chimes in as they look at the 100-metre structures from a awhenareironictheeraldawhoseoldatowerslageshantieserAli,worldcomplexitiesUnmindfuldistance.oftheoftheofthegrown-ups,Irfanandmanyoth-childrenlivingininanearbyvil-Gejhaflankingtheareanticipatingvisualspectacle.Otherslike16-year-SabinaKhanam,motherworksinflatinSupertechEm-Court,adjacenttotwintowers,feelitisthatthebuildingsbeingdemolishedmanydonothaveroofontheirheads.
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“Tumko pata hai ek dum girega ye dhaad dhad dhad” (do you know it will collapse like a house of cards), Zulfiqar tells his friends.Nahid (11) talks about the large number of police and media personnel staking out and how he has only seen such things happening on TV.
New Delhi (PTI): The Tihar Prison Complex, which is home to some of the most high-profile criminals, has over twoand-a-half times the number of inmates of its actual capacity, making it difficult to monitor them. The other prison complexes -- Rohini and Mandoli -- established in 2004 and 2016, respectively, to ease the burden of Tihar face the same issue. Delhi has three prison complexes -Tihar, Rohini and Mandoli -- all of them comprise central jails. According to an RTI response from the office of the Director General of Prisons, Tihar, which is considered to be one of the largest prison complexes in the world and comprising nine central prisons, has a capacity to house 5,200 inmates, but 13,183 prisoners are currently lodged in its different centralMandoli,jails.which has six central jails, has a capacity of 1,050 but 2,037 inmates are currently staying there. Rohini, which has only one central jail, has a capacity of 3,776 but 4,355 inmates are currently lodged there in different cases. A senior jail official said, “We do face a lot of challenges but are somehow managing it. But overcrowding leads to many problems such as petty fights between the inmates, difficulty in maintaining proper surveillance and conducting reformation activities etc.”
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Tihar jail is considered to be one of the largest prison complexes in the world. —FILE PHOTO RTI info reveals that against capacity of 5,200 inmates, over 13k prisoners are lodged in its different branches
The 16 central jails in the three prison complexes have TV facility in the common area of the high-security ward for prisoners lodged in those wards, jail officialsAccordingsaid. to them, the total population in 16 prisons is around 19,500 prisoners against the sanctioned capacity of 10,026 prisoners.
SEEKING JUSTICE People hold placards during a protest against remission of the sentence given to convits in Bilkis Bano case by Gujarat govt, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Saturday. (R) Shabana Azmi speaks at the protest site on Saturday. —PHOTOS BY PTI
1dead, another hurt after firing in South Delhi New Delhi (PTI): One person was shot dead while another was injured after an unidentified man opened fire at them in south Delhi’s Neb Sarai area, police said on Saturday. Deceased has been identified as Kapil Panwar, a resident of Bank Colony, Devli. The other person Pramod of Sangam Vihar, was admitted with gunshot injuries. Three gunshot injuries were found on his right leg.
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People look on at the Supertech twin towers in Noida on Saturday. —PHOTO BY PTI
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Sabina KhanamAnothersaid.resident of the area, Majeed Alam, 18, said, “I see no point in demolishing this almost complete building. Though there must have been irregularities, I think authorities should have come up with another plan rather than demolishing it. It could have housed many like us who don’t have proper homes,” he said.
Noida (PTI): BJP MLA Rajeshwar Singh on Friday wrote to UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath raising concerns about the possible environmental impact of the demolition of twin towers in Noida scheduled to take place on Sunday. The former Enforcement Directorate atelydirectedNagar,lice,CommissionerNoidaFireEnvironment,PrincipalHome,headedformationCM,haveillegalnearly-100-metreandthemeasurespoliticianofficer-turned-suggestedtomitigateimpactofdustdebrisoncethetallstructuresbeenrazed.InalettertotheSinghsoughtofateambyACS,comprisingSecretaryDOServices,CEOAuthority,andofPo-GautamBudhhamongothers.“Thisteammaybetoimmedi-takestockofthe situation and should ensure that minimum pollution hazards are there and sufficient steps are taken to mitigate the same,” the MLA wrote. In his letter, Singh appealed to the CM to ensure that the hazardous materials being used for the demolition purposes do not in any way seep into the underground water resources and pollute the“Ensuresame that there are more than sufficient numbers of fire fighting vehicles, water tankers, sweeping machines deployed so that the dust particles released process can be contained from spreading in the environment,” he added.
“We have heard that an enormous quantity of explosives has been set up in the buildings to blow them up. I have only seen such scenes in movies but never in real life, so I can’t miss the chance to watch it,” Nahid“Manysaid. people do not have homes and have to spend nights on the footpath but here authorities are demolishing flats and buildings. How can I feel happy or excited about this exercise?”
Two men were held in connection with an alleged attempt to kill a 16-yearold girl in south Delhi’s Sangam Vihar area, police said on Saturday. The main accused, who is yet to be arrested, and the girl came in contact through social media, police said, adding that they belong to different communities. The victim, a Class-11 student of the Cambridge International School on Devli Road, received a gunshot injury on her shoulder. She told the police that while coming home from school, she was being followed by three men on a motorcycle. Near Sangam Vihar B block, one of them fired at her and the trio fled the spot, she said, adding that she knew one of the assailants. She identified him as Arman Ali and said she was in touch with him for two years through social media. She stopped talking to him around 6 months ago but the accused would still follow her continuously, Deputy Commissioner of Police (south) Benita Mary Jaiker said. During investigation, a man called Bobby was arrested from K block, Sangam Vihar. At the instance of Bobby, Pawan alias Sumit was also arrested, the DCPAlisaid.contacted Bobby and Pawan and hatched a plan to kill the girl with their help, the officer added. Two country-made pistols, three live and one empty cartridges were seized from their possession, police said, adding that a hunt is on to nab Ali.
New Delhi (PTI): Gunshots tore through early Saturday morning when police encountered three men allegedly slaughtering a bull in Rohini’s Bhagya Vihar area. All three accused were arrested, police said. The incident happened in the outer Delhi area around 2.30 am when police found three men slaughtering a bull and challenged them to surrender.Theaccused in turn opened fire at the police, which retaliated with firing at least five rounds, injuring two of the accused, they said. The accused were identified as Aman Ur Rehman, 22, a resident of Inderlok, Usman, 22, a resident of Brahmpuri, and Aeti Alam Shah, 19, a resident of Zakhira, they said. Rehman and Usman were wounded in the gunfire exchange, police said. According to police, a tipoff on Friday had told them that a few people would come to Bhagya Vihar area in Prem Nagar with a plan to slaughter a cow after incapacitating it with sedatives.Acting on the information, a police team reached Bhagya Vihar and witnessed the three accused slaughtering a bull, a senior police officer said.
Man objects to drinking footpath,onkilled New Delhi (PTI): A 44-year-old labourer was beaten to death allegedly by four persons after he asked them not to drink on a foothpath in south Delhi’s Saket area, police said on Saturday. Two men have been arrested in connection with the case. On Thursday around 7.26 am, information was received from Max Hospital, Saket that a man, identified as Arvind Sah, a resident of Pushp Vihar Sector-4, was brought to the hospital by his brother, Arun, and he was declared brought dead, a senior police officer said. On Thursday around 6 am, the deceased was found lying near a Mother Dairy outlet in Pushp Vihar, around 200 metres away from his home. During inquiry, it was found that the deceased was assaulted by three to four persons around 11 pm on Wednesday. Yunus posted a video in which the Scorpio car is seen parked in front of the victim’s car. One person is seen knocking on the window following which a betweenargumentheatedensuesthem.
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New Delhi (PTI) : A day after being marshalled out from the special session of the Delhi Assembly, BJP MLAs held a mock house sitting on Saturday and slammed the AAP government over the alleged liquor “scam”.Themock assembly session was held at the Ambedkar International Centre during which BJP members wore masks to impersonate Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia and other ruling party MLAs. The eight BJP MLAs were marshalled out for the entire day over alleged video recording of the special session on Friday. During the mock session, the MLAs took turn to ask questions and slam the Kejriwal government over the alleged liquor “scam”, which they could not do in the House on Friday. They asked why Kejriwal government withdrew it’s excise policy after a CBI probe was recommended by the LG V K Saxena. “The Kejriwal government did not open a single school or hospital in entire East Delhi but dotted it with liquor stores everywhere,” charged Rohtas Nagar MLA Jitendra Mahajan.Opposition Chief Whip Ajay Mahawar said Sisodia had claimed that the new excise policy 2021-22 will earn Rs 9,500 crore but it failed to match even Rs 6000 crore it had earned under old regime.
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“Kejriwal who took his MLAs to Rajghat which is Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial saying he followed in his footsteps yet he is turning Delhi into liquor city, “ Mahawar said. Leader of Opposition Ramvir Singh Bidhuri who along with his party colleagues had tried to raise the issue of irregularities in the excise policy during the special session on Friday before being marshalled out, said revenue of the government dipped under the new policy. “This is their policy in which they were going to open five schools to teach youngsters and women about drinking liquor, even though Kejriwal government has failed to open even a single college in its eight-year rule in Delhi,” Bidhuri charged. The one day special session has been extended and the House will reconvene on Monday.
After the news about the cancelation of the show broke out, Trinamool Congress MP Mohua Moitra tweeted, “VHP bullies spineless @ Delhipolice, cancel @munawar0018 show. Gandhiji said “I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed”. Is India@75’s communal harmony so fragile today that is is disrupted by comedy show?”
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The Union Minister further said, “Academia should actually go beyond the classrooms and create means for social good. And this event reflects or is dedicated exclusively, to the vast, vast tribal community of this country. This event is a tribute to neglected tribal leaders who led the independence struggle. More so, the Prime Minister has empowered the tribal communities by giving them rights. The PM has also given the tribals the representation to lead the country.”
—PHOTO BY ANI BJP workers stage a mock Assembly to protest against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government at Ambedkar International Centre in New Delhi.
Exhibition titled 'Partition of India...1947' at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi. —PHOTO BY PTI New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi Lieutenant Governor’s office has returned 47 files signed by the CMO staff instead of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, sources said Saturday. The move is likely to intensify the tussle between the two constitutional authorities in the national capital. The development came nearly a week after LG VK Saxena wrote to Kejriwal, pointing out that the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) was forwarding files seeking opinion and approvals to the LG Secretariat without his signatures. The files returned by the LG Secretariat included those related to the education department and the Waqf Board among others, the sources at the LG office said.
schemes pertaining to tribal issues. The international conference titled “Significance of Technology in Empowering Tribal Community of India” has garnered the participation of more than 2,000 JNU students.Jitendra Singh appreciated the Vice Chancellor of JNU and said, “Ever since she (new VC) has taken over, there’s been a constant series of academic activities, which is also actually very carefully designed with social relevance and all of them are in the context of what the government headed by Prime Minister Modi stands for.”
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New Delhi (PTI): With an aim to celebrate the growing popularity of Korean cuisine in the country, the Korean Cultural Centre India (KCCI) has announced the All India Korean Food Cooking Contest.K-food enthusiasts can participate by registering themselves and sending their video of cooking a Korean dish -- using authentic recipe or innovative fusion -- till September 11. The contest is organised by the KCCI in association with Banarsidas Chandiwala Institute of Hotel Management berandbasisfinalalsalscategoriesvideosganisers,According(BCIHMCT).totheor-fiveselectedfromboththe--profession-andnon-profession---willmakeittotheroundontheofcountsoflikesviewstillSeptem-30.
New Delhi (PTI): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday inaugurated the city’s first school which will prepare students for the armed forces. The Shaheed Bhagat Singh Armed Forces Preparatory School at Jharoda Kalan in Najafgarh currently has 175 students.Kejriwal asked the students to imbibe the feeling of living and dying for the nation. The state-of-the-art school has an exclusive services preparatory wing to inculcate officer-like qualities (OLQs) in students through individual and group tasks, mock interviews, psychometric tests and personality Schoolthelenceofgovernment’sandmessfacilityworkshops.developmentIthasafreehostelwithcadetforboysandgirlsispartoftheDelhiSchoolSpecialisedExcel-andaffiliatedtoDelhiBoardofEducation.
—PHOTO BY PTI Delhi L-G returns 47 files signed by CMO staff
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New Delhi (PTI): Police have denied permission to stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui’s show in Delhi to maintain communal harmony, officials said on Saturday, days after the Vishwa Hindu Parishad wrote a letter to the city police chief to cancel the programme.Asenior police officer said the central district police in its report to the licencing unit said the show will affect communal harmony in the area. The event was scheduled for Sunday afternoon (August 28) at the Kedarnath Sahni Auditorium, CBlock, SPM Civic Centre in central Delhi. According to the police, the central district police submitted its report to the licencing unit on Friday, following which the permission for the show was denied on the sameWhileday. giving permission, it is already mentioned in the form that the programme/show will not affect However,theharmonycommunaltheinarea.if the licencing unit gets any input that it will affect the communal harmony, then the permission for the show is denied, the ofSurendra Kumar Gupta, state president of right-wing Vishwa Hindu(VHP),ParishadonThursdaywrotealet-tertotheDelhi Police Commissioner urging him not to give permission to Faruqui’s show. The letter said Faruqui is going to hold a programme on August 28 at the Kedarnath Sahni Auditorium in Civic Centre and alleged that he mocks Hindu gods and goddess due to which there was a communal tension in Hyderabad recently. Gupta asked the police to cancel the show or the workers of the VHP and the Bajrang Dal will hold a protest against it. The organiser of the show refused to comment on the issue.
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Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal with Deputy CM Manish Sisodia inaugurates Shaheed Bhagat Singh Armed Forces Preparatory School in New Delhi on Saturday.
SISODIA SHOULD RESIGN, OR BE REMOVED: CONG New Delhi (PTI): The Congress on Saturday slammed the Aam Aadmi Party over the alleged excise policy “scam” and demanded that either Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia should resign or he should be removed. Congress general secretary Ajay Maken also alleged that Kejriwal was not removing Sisodia as the strings of the matter were attached to him. Maken challenged Kejriwal to a debate on the excise policy issue. “I challenge Kejriwal ji for a debate on this and I will tell him what the scam is,” he said. Maken called for a through investigation into the “excise policy scam”. “Kejriwal ji, in his earlier avatar, used to say that till the minister resigns, there can be no fair investigation. We remind him of the words he used to say against an honest prime minister like Manmohan Singh,” he said. Responding to a question, Maken said, “If Sisodia does not resign, he should be removed. Kejriwal ji should remove him but he will not do so as it will be exposed that the strings of this matter attached to him.” “Ask Kejriwal ji about the liquor scam, he will talk about education and other things. We want to ask him to clarify what he has to say on the liquor scam,” Maken said at a press conference at AICC headquarters here. Congress general secretary Ajay Maken (C) addresses a press conference along with Jairam Ramesh (R) and Vineet Punia (L) in New Delhi on Saturday.
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he Indian National Congress is im ploding and there can’t be a bigger proof than the high-profile exit of Ghulam Nabi Azad. Senior Supreme Court lawyer Kapil Sibal and Ashwini Kumar had quit the party earlier. Given that both the leaders are members of the G-23. Nearly all G-23 members have taken a stand against the present leadership of the par ty, particularly Rahul Gandhi whom Azad has described as “immature”, and were de manding fair and transparent elections to the top party posts. The resignation comes just be fore Congress’ scheduled “Bharat Jodo Yatra”. The party which can’t hold its own leaders together is talking of unifying the coun try! And with the prevailing state of affairs it also wants to lead an opposition front against the BJP in the 2024 elections even when no other opposition party is willing to give it the pole position. So is it time to write an epi taph for the Indian National Congress? Maybe not, but if the trend continues the end could be well nigh near. Much of what is being witnessed is the result of factionalism. The G23 faction does not want Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot to be given the importance he is getting from the Gandhi family. There’s also the talk of Gehlot contest ing the party’s organisational elections. Gehlot has denied any such move. Perhaps mak ing someone from the dissi dent group the party presi dent could help but that would be the end of the Gandhis. What about Azad himself? A gubernatorial assignment or contesting elections in Kashmir as BJP’s proxy can didate can’t be ruled out. Nearly all G-23 members have taken a stand against the present leadership of the party, particularly Rahul Gandhi whom Azad has described as “immature”, and were demanding fair and transparent elections to the top party posts
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T n the leadup to the 75th anni versary of Indian independ ence, a variety of articles ap peared in the US press writing the epitaph for its democracy. The future of India’s democ racy “looks increasingly bleak,” according to the Associ ated Press, and we learn in The Washington Post that India’s democracy “dies in prime time.” These articles attributed many of India’s woes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Yet few of these articles asked why Modi and his party continue to win elections. One answer might be his success in attracting female voters. Few in the US or the UK realize that Modi’s party has been increasingly successful with women voters. This year key Indian states went to the polls. The BJP did bet ter among women than among men. In India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh (UP), 48% of women voted for the BJP in compari son to 44% of the men. De spite the BJP’s UP success, the BBC dryly asked “Are women really thriving in UP as PM Modi claims?” The ar ticle concludes with the quote “Women here have very little freedom. They are told who to vote for and they often vote along with the rest of the family.”
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More women than men now vote for the BJP. By building toilets, providing homes with piped water, delivering gas cylinders that replace firewood for cooking, and focusing on menstrual health, the BJP has won the trust and support of female voters
As independent India celebrates its 75th birthday, western journalists and Americans should recognize India is a robust democracy. Honest assessments are fair and to be lauded, and no one should uncritically accept any narrative, but the recent stories in Associated Press, The Washington Post or The New York Times seem facile at best and dismissive at worst. Women from disadvantaged groups in India’s society are rising to better lives, greater hopes, and hundreds of millions have reason to believe a healthier, brighter future awaits them
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the illnatured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth. Buddha Amit @AmitShahShah Wishing everyone a very Happy Pola Lok festival. This folk festival to express gratitude towards livestock is a symbol of India’s agricultural culture.
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POPULARSCHEMESWELL-IMPLEMENTEDPROVEWITHWOMEN Newly independent India’s so cialist state proved adept at highfalutin rhetoric but poor at the delivery of public ser vices. Since Modi came to pow er in 2014, these fundamental services have been prioritized with effective outcomes. Some schemes are noteworthy to un derstand what is going on. The narrative of a fashion able, barrel-chested Modi may have an element of al lure. It may even appeal to some voters. However, this narrative is woefully incom plete. Under Modi, the polls give a sense that the BJP has successfully delivered on is sues that matter to women. Cannily, Modi is cultivating his female voter base. Earlier this year, the prime minister declared: “Women…have blessed us – we have won splendidly in areas where women voters have dominat ed.” He went on to say, “It is our good fortune that BJP has got so much love, so many blessings from mothers-sis ters-daughters.” The narra tive of a fashionable, barrelchested Modi may have an ele ment of allure. It may even appeal to some voters. How ever, this narrative is woefully incomplete. Under Modi, the polls give a sense that the BJP has successfully delivered on issues that matter to women. Cannily, Modi is cultivating his female voter base. Earlier this year, the prime minister declared: “Women…have blessed us – we have won splendidly in areas where women voters have dominat ed.” He went on to say, “It is our good fortune that BJP has got so much love, so many blessings from mothers-sis ters-daughters.” Women seem to have blessed the BJP, and a fair review of the data might reveal this fortune is no mere accident, nor the result of “toxic men” telling women how to vote, but because the Modi government has been successful in improving the domestic lives of women.
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TOP TWEETS COURT PROLIFERATIONPLACES’ ne gets an idea of how religious places of worship prolifer ate in a city or state from the verdict of Kerala High Court which re fused to allow a commercial building to be converted into a mosque as in an area of 5 km there are already 36 mosques lo cated in the building’s vicinity. The situation in Kerala must indeed be exasperating for this is what the judge said that the state has 10 times more reli gious structures than villages and 3.5 times more than hospi tals. The court described the situation thus, “Kerala is ex hausted with religious institu tions and prayer halls…If every devotee of Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Jews, Parsis etc. start to construct religious places and prayer halls near their resi dence, the state will face serious consequence including commu nal disharmony.” The judge said that the holy Quran does not prescribe a mosque in every nook and cranny. The judgment should be fol lowed in other states where reli gious structures keep sprouting.
The BJP is facing a common refrain: India is a misogynis tic country that disempowers women, and women vote du tifully for the BJP because they are instructed to do so by their men. If that is true, how do we explain women voting for the BJP in greater numbers than men? In 2020, Modi broke a long standing taboo by addressing the issue of menstrual health in his August 15 Independ ence Day speech. He declared “Through 6,000 Jan Ausha dhi centers, about 50 million women have got sanitary pads at [Rupee] 1 . We have worked for women’s empow erment. Navy and Air Force are taking women in combat roles…women are now lead ers.” Note that one rupee is a little over one cent. This means that women can get sanitary napkins at the cheapest rate in the world. Modi’s claim of putting women in positions of power is no empty boast. In Gujarat, he was succeeded as chief minis ter by Anandiben Patel, who is now the governor of UP. This year, Modi’s BJP has elected Draupadi Murmu as president. She is the second woman to hold that office. More impor tantly, she is the first woman who comes from India’s longoppressed scheduled tribes to becomeModi’spresident.outreach to women is part of a longstanding BJP tradition. From the very be ginning, the party created Mahila Morcha, its extreme ly active women’s wing. It had strong female leaders such as Vijaya Raje Scindia and Sushma Swaraj, both of whom died after decades of public service. With Murmu as the head of state, the BJP is sending the signal to wom en from canbackgroundsunderprivilegedthattheytoorisetothetop.
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Jammu: In the wake of a spate of resignations by its leaders in support of Ghulam Nabi Azad, working president of the J&K Cong Raman Bhalla said only those who were hibernating for eight years have deserted it and they will meet the same fate as that of former Punjab CM Amarinder Singh.
Amit Shah, Union Home MinisterUnion HM Amit Shah inaugurates the Office Building of NIA Raipur branch in presence of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, in Raipur on Saturday.
In letter to PM, govtaccuseschools13,000K’takaofgraft Bengaluru: Two associations representing at least 13,000 schools in Karnataka have written to PM Narendra Modi, accusing the read.place,”corruptionschoolsaidedappliedpliancenatoryrational,tions.cationalcertificatestocationedarelegedModihavementSchoolsaidedTheondaryPrimaryManagementsruption.governmentBommai-ledBasavarajBJPofcor-TheAssociatedOfAndSec-SchoolsandRegisteredUn-PrivateManage-AssociationurgedPMtolookintoal-bribesthatbeingdemand-bythestateedu-departmentissuerecognitiontoedu-institu-“Unscientific,ir-discrimi-andnoncom-normsaretoonlyun-privateandhugeisintheletter
New Delhi (PTI): The Congress Working Committee (CWC) will meet on Sunday to approve the schedule of dates for the election of next party president. This comes in the backdrop of party veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad’s Gandhi.niashipfidencecouldcision-makingthememberspollsgivingSourcesresignation.saidbesidesapprovaltotheschedule,theoftheCWC,party’shighestde-body,alsoexpresscon-intheleader-providedbySo-GandhiandRahulThiswouldbesig- nificant in the context of Azad’s resignation and criticism of the leadership.TheCongress, dealing with the fallout of a series of high profile exits, including that of Kapil Sibal and Ashwani Kumar, attempted to deflect the latest blow by alleging that Azad’s DNA had been “Modi-fied” and linking his resignation to the end of his Rajya SabhaAheadtenure.ofthe CWC meeting, to be held virtually at 3:30 PM with Sonia Gandhi presiding over it, party sources had said the process of the election of the president will be delayed by a few weeks, not more than that, and the party should have a full-time president in October.
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New Delhi: As Congress reels under resignations of leaders, party MP Manish Tewari has said that spection”“self-intro-isneeded and that a “crack” seems to have appeared between India and Congress. Tewari was among 23 Cong leaders who wrote to Sonia Gandhi two years ago, seeking organisational changes.
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NIA to have branches in all states by 2024, says Amit Shah Raipur (PTI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the Narendra Modi government took all efforts to strengthen probe agencies such as the NIA and anti-terror laws in line with its policy of zero tolerance towards terrorism. The National Investigation Agency will have branches in all the states by May 2024, he said.He was speaking at the inauguration of the office building of the NIA’s Raipur branch here.The Modi govt has adopted zero tolerance policy against Left Wing Extremism, terrorism and other related crimes including fake currency and narcotics, and therefore we left no stone unturned to strengthen the NIA, heThesaid.BJP-led Union govt also anti-terrorintivegovernmentsedsharedanti-terrorstrengthenedlaws,terrorism-relat-inputswithstateirrespec-ofthepartyrulingastate,strengthenedinvestigation agencies and increased conviction rate in such crimes, Shah added.“In line with this (policy), our government worked towards strengthening the NIA. I am happy that in the cases handled by NIA, the conviction rate has reached 94% from 75% in 2014,” he said. Peace is being witnessed in Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370 and today our agencies have succeeded in checking terror activities there. It became possible because the NIA took stringent action against those involved in terror funding in 2018, 2019 and 2020. A total of 105 cases (of terror funding) were registered and 876 persons were arrested and in 94 cases charge sheets have been filed, he added.
The Modi government has adopted zero tolerance policy against Left Wing Extremism, terrorism and other related crimes including fake currency and narcotics, and therefore we left no stone unturned to strengthen the NIA.
Arina (ANI): A Pakistani infiltrator was apprehended by Border Security Force (BSF) personnel along the international border in Jammu’s Arina sector during the early hours of Saturday, the officialsThissaid.is the third attempt of intrusion within a week. On the intervening night of Friday and Saturday, BSF personnel noticed movement near the International Border in the RS Pura area of the Arina sector. As soon as the intruder crossed over to the Indian side and started moving toward the fence, the BSF troops challenged the intruder but when he continued to walk ignoring their warnings, they fired upon him. The intruder hid behind a gate and was soon apprehended by the BSF personnel.
Gwalior: Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said his former Cong colleague Azad has finally “freed” himself, a day after Azad ended his nearly becameend,yearshassituationparty.association5-decade-oldwiththe“TheinternalofCongressbeenclearformanynow.ButintheGhulamNabijifree,”hesaid.
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INDIA NEW DELHI | SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2022 05 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epapers/delhi I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia Mahesh Sharma New Delhi: ‘Hardcore honest’ leader Arvind Kejriwal has not yet sacked his ministers Satyendar Jain, who is in jail. His portfolio was definitely given to Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia but he was not removed from the post of minister. His position is that of a minister without a department, and lodged in jail. In West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee also did not remove Partha Chatterjee for a few days after his arrest, but later Mamata removed Partha from the post of minister. Mamata Banerjee, who has defended her ministers and leaders in any situation, even said that if Partha has committed a mistake, then the party will not interfere in any action according to the law. But the ‘staunch honest’ leader - Kejriwal -has not yet removed his minister arrested for doing hawala business. Now other dimensions have also been added to this, about which a petition was also filed in the court, however, the court refused to consider it. But valid questions were raised in that petition. The petitioner had said that Satyendar Jain has become “mentally unstable” and the law states that a mentally unstable person cannot be made a minister. However, the court said that it cannot remove Jain from the post of minister considering him to be mentally unstable. Even though the court refused to remove him, it is a fact that Jain had said in the ED’s interrogation in the Hawala case that he had lost his memory and that he has forgotten many things. How can he remain a minister even if he has amnesia? First of all, there is no justification to keep him minister after him being lodged in jail, but when he himself is saying that he is forgetting things, then he should not be kept on the post of minister.
Burari in Jammu... of Police, Jammu, Chandan Kohli told reporters here. He said two people -- a health worker and a plumber -- were arrested for not informing police on time, which could have saved their lives. Flanked by the four members of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) that was formed to crack the mysterious deaths in Tawi Vihar locality of Sidhra on August 17, the officer said, “According to our investigation, Habib moved to Jammu in 1997. He used to financially help his next-door neighbour Sakeena, who worked as a domestic help at his home. Hailing from Doda district, Sakeena was facing several court cases and two of her children were specially-abled,” Kohli said. Habib convinced Sakeena, her daughter Rubeena and grandson Sajad Ali to end their lives. Police recovered the bodies of the four from Habib’s house on August 17, while the bodies of Sakeena’s children -- Zaffar Salim and Naseema -- were found in their house after Habib’s sister Shahzada informed police that her brother was not answering the Referringphone.tothe investigation during which police obtained CCTV footage, call recordings and bank account details, he said Sakina’s pitlakhKumarwhilecannulaswereworkerThethecinesnulas,gustingersAugustloweddosetochildrenspecially-abledwerethefirstdieofadrugover-onAugust12,fol-bySakeenaon14andtheoth-onAugust15.“Theystartedwork-ontheirplanonAu-5bybringingcan-dripsandmedi-anddeactivatingCCTVthenextday.servicesofhealthSanjeevKumarutilisedtofixtheonallofthem,plumberVijaywaspaidRs2.5byHabibtodigainSakeena’shouse.”
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Bengaluru: Rahul Gandhi will be pursued to assume the position of party president, said M Mallikarjun Kharge who claimed that no other party leader has the same level of “pan-India appeal” that Gandhi does. He said anyone seeking to lead the party should be throughout“well-recognised”thenation.
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Chennai-Dubai flight Chennai (Agencies): An IndiGo aircraft (6E 65) from Chennai was delayed by six hours on Saturday after a drunk man who wanted to stop his family from leaving the country made a false bomb threat to the Dubaibound private carrier. The Indigo flight was scheduled to depart at 7.20am on Saturday, but after the control room received an anonymous phone about a bomb threat, the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) were called in. The aircraft was transported to a secluded bay as per policy, and security services conducted a thorough inspection to see whether any explosive materials were planted in the flight. But, nothing was found on the aircraft. The Indigo flight which was supposed to depart with 180 passengers and crew members from Anna International Airport in Meenambakkam was rescheduled to 12 noon for departure to the destination.
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After initial interrogation, the intruder was identified as 45-year-old Mohammad Shabad a resident of Pakistan’s Sialkot. Further details are being obtained from the apprehended person. Earlier on August 25, the BSF shot a Pakistani intruder who attempted to smuggle narcotics across the International Border in the Samba area of Jammu. with Satyendar Jain. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra with party leader Harish Rawat and others at CWC meet.
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BSF arrests Pakistani intruder from int’l border along J&K
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Jammu: Ghulam Nabi Azad is all set to launch his own party and its first unit would come up in Jammu and Kashmir within a fortnight, his close confidant GM Saroori said on Saturday. He said that the restoration of the pre-August 5, 2019 position of Jammu and Kashmir will be part of the party’s manifesto.
Hoax bomb threat delays
BSF persnnel on vigil at the Indo-Pak border. PERSONNEL IN CASE ‘WILL FORCE RaGa TO BECOME PREZ’ CRACK BETWEEN CONG: TEWARI CONG RESIGNATIONSDOWNPLAYS ‘FINALLY, AZAD FREED HIMSELF’ AIDE: GNA’S OWN PARTY IN 14 DAYS
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The Congress had announced in October last year that the election of the new party president will be held between August 21 and September 20 this year. The CWC had decided that elections for block committees and one member each of state Congress units will be held from April 16 to May 31, district committee chiefs will be elected between June 1 and July 20, state chiefs and AICC members between July 21 and August 20, and AICC president between August 21 and September 20.
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Cremation of the deceased on a street, near a Saturday.Prayagraj,season,monsoontheriverofonaffectedflood-areathebanksGangaduringongoinginon —PHOTO BY PTI Shillong (PTI): Two Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested from near the Indo-Bangla desh border in Megha laya’s East Jaintia Hills district. A joint team of police and BSF appre hended the duo identi fied as Misba Uddin (31) and Badrul Alom (30) while the others man aged to flee back to Bangladesh, police said. Both the arrested per sons from Darponagar village in Bangladesh, the police said.
Chennai (ANI): De fence Secretary Ajay Kumar attended the inaugural ses sion of the 10th National Mari time Search and Rescue Exercise (SAREX) 2022. He talked about the importance of the Indian Coast Guard. “Indian Coast Guard was able to rescue 32 fishermen, who were stuck 40 miles away from the Bangla desh coast. It has helped in saving more than 11,000 thousand lives. In the last 3 months, it has saved around 60 lives, in volving 10 has5,000itagerichnationalities,”different“Indiahasamaritimehergoingbackyearsandbeenblessed with a pivotal position in the geostrategy. 40 per cent of container ized tankers in the world transited close to the Indian coast. The importance of our mar itime domain for secu rity, stability and eco nomic wellbeing.”
Thiruvananthapuram: National Testing Agen cy (NTA) has decided to allow a group of female students from Kerala to write the National beraminationpearcalthatmonth.nationinnerwearmadeagainTest-2022gibility-cum-EntranceEli(NEET)examaftertheyweretoremovetheiratanexamicentrelastTheNTAsaidtheaffectedmediaspirantscanre-apfortheNEETexonSeptem4iftheydesire.
The Twitter officials, however, refuted the whistleblower’s allegations and denied there was any data security breach in India
Panaji (ANI): Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Saturday stated that his govern ment will provide full support to state police investigations into the demise of Haryana BJP leader and actor Sonali Phogat.Phogat, 42, was de clared dead at the St An thony Hospital at An juna in North Goa on August 23. A post-mor tem report revealed blunt force injury on her body, following which the Goa Police registered a murder case.The Goa Forward Party MLA Vijai Sard esai had on Thursday took a swipe at the BJPled state government over the probe into the case. Sawant had earli er said that preliminary reports suggested Sona li Phogat died of cardi ac“Yesterdayarrest. they said she died of heart attack. Today, a post-mortem revealed several blunt force injuries. It proves Chief Minister likes to give clean chit, jump the gun. This is giving Goa a bad name. This shows the state of af fairs here,” Sardesai had said on Thursday.
Cong-JMM MLAs hold back-to-back meetings as CM’s fate hangs in balance
TOP TWITTER HONCHOS PULLED UP OVER WHISTLEBLOWER’S CLAIMS
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren along with Congress MLAs Anoop Singh, Dipika Pandey Singh and Amba Prasad enjoying boat ride at Lathathu dam, on Saturday.
Lucknow (ANI): Con sidering ongoing devel opment driven by the “double engine” gov ernment in Uttar Pradesh, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday announced that Uttar Pradesh state would soon be ahead of all states in terms of new generation infra structure.Speaking at an event at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Convention Centre here, Singh mentioned how Uttar Pradesh is moving step by step on the path of develop ment under a “double engine” government run by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Centre, and Chief Min ister Yogi Adityanath in the state.
Full support from day one in the investigation. Those who have to be punished will be punished by Goa Police one hundred present. At present, they (accused) are in custody and an investigation is going on.
BJP’s offensive against Kejriwal over his functioning sans cabinet portfolios and not attesting signatures upon files from CMO Arvind Kejriwal
SIDDARAMAIAH NOT TO ATTEND EVENT
“Is the MoU signed by Rahul Gandhi with the Chinese Communist Party the reason behind this support to Chi na?”Ravi also shared the invitation of the programme and al leged that a contro versial photo of So nia Gandhi and Ra hul Gandhi could be seen along with Chi nese President Xi Jinping.Meanwhile, veter an Congress heldpatetionFriendshipfromclinedfiedSiddaramaiahleaderclarithathehaddetheinvitationtheIndia-ChinaAssocia(ICFA)toparticiintheeventtobeonSunday.
The Shashi Tharoor-led panel has been holding meetings with various stakeholders including tech companies, social media firms, ministries and other regulators on the issue of citizens’ data security and privacy. The panel is also working on a comprehensive report on data privacy and security. Besides Tha roor, Congress MP Karti Chidambaram, TMC MP Mahua Moitra, TRS MP Ranjith Reddy, BJP’s Rajyavardhan Rathore attended the meeting.
A mid a looming political crisis in Jharkhand, CM Hemant Soren has taken all UPA MLAs and ministers to a guest house near Latratu dam in the Khunti district. The decision to move the legislators from Ranchi was taken after a UPA meeting. CM SOREN, RULING MLAs REACH KHUNTI
—Pramod Sawant, Goa CM Sonali Phogat
“I had a detailed dis cussion with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party national President J P Nadda. They tried to know about the political situ ation in Karnataka. I have requested the Prime Minister to fre quently visit the state and have assured him that the BJP will win more than 140 seats (out of the total 224) and come back to power,” Yediyurappa said.
“All MLAs and minis ters have only gathered to discuss the political activities that have went down in past few days. We’re here to dis cuss the matter and reach some conclusion on it,” said Avinash Pande.
UP to be soon ahead of all states in new generation infra: Rajnath Rajnath Singh at inauguration and foundation stone laying ceremony of various projects, in Lucknow on Saturday. —PHOTO BY ANI
New Delhi (PTI): A par liamentary panel ques tioned top Twitter offi cials over a whistle-blow er’s revelations on its In dia operations, and gave them a dressing-down as their replies on issues of data security and priva cy were “not satisfacto ry”, sources said. The officials from the company, however, re futed the whistle-blow er’s allegations and de nied there was any data security breach in In dia, sources told PTI. Top Twitter execu tives, including Senior Director (Public Policy) Samiran Gupta and Di rector (Public Policy) Shagufta Kamran, de posed before the Parlia mentary Standing Com mittee on Information and Technology chaired by Congress leader Shashi Tharoor. The panel questioned them about the reports on former head of Twit ter (security) Peiter Zat ko’s allegations the mi croblogging site know ingly allowed the Indian government to place its “agents” on the company payroll where they had “direct unsupervised ac cess to the company’s systems and user data”. The Twitter officials denied any such thing having happened, sources in the panel told Press Trust of India. The members also questioned the social media giant’s officials if their data security policies is in sync with local policies and with the single global priva cyTheypolicy.asked how does the micro-blogging site handles conflicts in na tional privacy policies of different countries, with the sources saying the executives didn’t give satisfactory re plies.They also evaded questions about data safety and privacy, a member said, following which they were repri manded by the MPs. Zatko’s allegations were reported by inter national media houses. Twitter has already stated it was a “false narrative” and the alle gations and “opportun istic” timing appear designed to capture at tention and inflict harm on the company, its cus tomers and its share holders.
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Invite to K’taka Cong leaders for pro-China event triggers row Bengaluru (ANI): Karnataka Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah on Saturday refused to participate in an event organised by the Chinese embassy citing ideological differ ences. “Although I refused to par ticipate in the program organized by India-China Friendship Associa tion on Sunday, I was surprised to see my name in the invitation letter,” tweeted Siddaramaiah.
Renni Abraham Mumbai: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal sans a single cabinet portfolio is under fire from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) even as he has sounded the bugle for his party, AAP’s no holds barred political battle in the forthcom ing Gujarat state as sembly elections. A source familiar with the development said, “The Lt Gover nor’s office has pulled up the Delhi CM for his unusual practice of sending across impor tant files for opinions and clearance without the duly attested signa ture of Arvind Kejri wal. Another aspect that is distinctly notice able in his political style of operations is that he is a CM without any portfolio. The com bined effect of this po litical strategy seems to be to absolve him of any personal responsibility if his government deci sions, like the recently withdrawn excise poli cy, fall foul of the law.”
Ranchi: Amidst the po litical pandemonium in Jharkhand, all UPA leg islators have now reached the residence of Chief Minister He mant Soren. A meeting of the Congress Legisla ture Party was also held on Saturday evening to chalk out a strategy for further action to save the coalition govern ment.AICC’s Jharkhand incharge Avinash Pande, state president Rajesh Thakur, CLP Alamgir Alam held meeting with Congress MLAs in Ranchi after they re turned from Latratu Dam in Khunti.
The source, however, admitted that the cur rent political tirade launched against the Delhi CM was a result of the AAP’s strong politi cal focus to upset the BJP applecart in Gujarat where Kejriwal has an nounced his plans to launch an all-out election campaign to dislodge the BJP from Anotherpower.source said, “In the previous edition of the state assemblies in Gujarat the BJP had been on the backfoot due to the Congress party’s election strate gies combined with the dominant Patel commu nity also rabble rousing its demands for politi cal reservations in the state. Although the BJP retained power in Guja rat, the number of seats it held fell below the 100 MLAs mark.”
Bengaluru: An invi tation sent to state Congress leaders, in cluding leader of Op position Siddaramai ah, by the Karnataka chapter of India-Chi na Friendship Asso ciation for a seminar on ‘US intervention in China’ has trig gered fresh contro versy in the south ernTakingstate. a dig at the Congress, BJP na tional general secre tary and MLA C.T. Ravi said: “If anyone had doubts that Con gress works for Chi na, this will clear them. Why should the Congress side with China if Amer ica is interfering in its internal affairs?
Full support to probe into Phogat death case: Goa CM Sawant Def Secy at inaugural Nat’l Martime SAREX
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Bengaluru (PTI): Vet eran BJP leader B S Yediyurappa on Satur day said Prime Minis ter Narendra Modi has agreed to his request of visiting Karnataka, where the party is aim ing to come back to power, at least once a month, in the run-up to the 2023 Assembly polls. The former Chief Minister who was in New Delhi on Friday to meet the party’s central leadership said, no force can stop the BJP from coming back to power in Karnataka.
Mumbai (PTI): With India being energy deficient, there is a need for the country to diversify agriculture into energy and power sectors, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said on Saturday. “We already have energy shortage. We are making an expenditure of `15 lakh crore every year for importing petrol, diesel and other petroleum products. So, this is the time we can diversify agriculture towards the energy and power sector,” Gadkari said. He urged the industry to focus on alternative fuels with the help of futuristic technologies.“While65-70% of our population depends on agriculture, our agricultural growth rate is only 12-13%. And the next move should be cogeneration to increase revenue from sugar. The industry should produce less sugar and more byproducts, embracing the vision for futuristic technologies and using the power of leadership to convert knowledge into wealth. This will enable the farmers to become not only food growers but energy producers as well,” he added.
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New Delhi (PTI): Tata Motors plans to bring in new products, expand existing model lineups as it aims to retain dominant position in the SUV segment amid increasing competition from competing brands, according to a senior official. The auto major, which currently sells models like Punch, Nexon, Harrier and Safari, also plans to bring in additional trims and variants with feature enhancements in order to cater to the evolving customer “Werequirements.plantofurther expand the SUV space by adding new nameplates/ variants at regular intervals and expanding our consumer base. We plan on retaining the leading SUV brand position in India,” Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Vice President (Sales, Marketing and Customer Care) Rajan AmbaCurrently,said. the company has a strong presence in the SUV space with Punch, Nexon, Harrier and the new flagship Safari doing well in their respective segments, he noted. The company aims to further strengthen its product portfolio in terms of competitiveness, and a comprehensive set of powertrain and technology options, Amba said. Besides, the company plans to continue to differentiate on design, safety and driving pleasure, keeping the customer excited in its products, he added. With these interventions, the automaker plans to sell more SUVs this fiscal as compared with 2.22 lakh units it dispatched in FY21, he noted. The overall SUV product contribution to Tata Motors’ sales in April-June quarter this fiscal stood at 67%, higher than the industry penetration of 40%, Amba said. In order to further bolster its presence in the SUV segment, the company has introduced Jet Edition encompassing Nexon, Harrier and Safari, priced between ` 12.13 lakh and `22.75 lakh respectively.
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The comments from the finance minister come just a few days after the finance ministry clarified that there are no plans to levy any charges The ministry had said that the cost borne by providers will have to be recovered through other means
PTI New Delhi: Future Lifestyle Fashions Ltd on Saturday said its consolidated net loss narrowed to `135.96 crore in the April-June quarter of FY23. It had posted a net loss of `348.08 crore in the corresponding quarter a year ago, said FLFL, the fashion and apparel retailer arm of the Future group. Its revenue from operations was down 8.42% to `272.88 crore during the period under review as against `297.99 crore in the corresponding period last fiscal, the company said.
The minister further said that the country’s requirement for sugar was 280 lakh tonnes this year, while the production was more than 360 lakh tonnes. Nitin Gadkari told the industry that the government has decided to launch flex fuel engines in the country.
New Delhi (PTI): As many as 32 companies have submitted applications for Design-led Incentive Scheme (DLI) and Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme of telecom, according to an official release on Saturday. The Design-led Incentive scheme has received an “enthusiastic response” from telecom equipment manufacturers, it said. “A total of 32 companies...Have submitted applications. 17 of these 32 companies have applied as Design-led manufacturers and remaining as Production linked manufacturers,” the statement said but did not give the names of Productionapplicants.
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According to official release, as many as 32 companies have submitted applications for Design-led Incentive Scheme (DLI) and Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme of telecom The Design-led Incentive scheme has received an “enthusiastic response” from telecom manufacturersequipment
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“We see digital payments as a public good. People should be able to access these facilities freely, so that the digitisation of the Indian economy becomes attractive to them. We intend to achieve a higher level of transparency through digitisation. Therefore, we do think it’s not yet time for charging for UPI services,” she said. The comments from the finance minister come just a few days after the finance ministry clarified that there are no plans to levy any charges on UPI. The UPI has a zero charge framework from January 1, 2020. The ministry had said that the cost borne by providers will have to be recovered through other means. Last week a discussion paper put out by the Reserve Bank of India sought suggestions on whether charges should be levied on transactions through UPI and other payment systems and interchange fees on cards. The Centre will continue to provide support to the digital ecosystem this year also to encourage further adoption of the digital economy, the finance ministry said, setting clear the government’s thinking on the issue.
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WHAT’S THE PLAN AHEAD Tata Motors plans to bring in new products, expand existing model lineups as it aims to retain dominant position in SUV segment The auto major, which currently sells models like Punch, Nexon, Harrier and Safari, also plans to bring in additional trims and variants with feature enhancements
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New Delhi: The railways’ catering and ticketing arm IRCTC has withdrawn a controversial tender for hiring a consultant to monetise its passenger and freight customer data following concerns over privacy, officials said on Friday. IRCTC informed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology chaired by Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday that it was no longer pursuing the tender. “IRCTC has withdrawn the tender in light of the non-approval of the Data Protection Bill,” an IRCTC official informed the panel.
TOP POINTS With India being energy deficient, there is a need for the country to diversify agriculture into energy and power sectors, says Gadkari He said that the country’s requirement for sugar was 280 lakh tonnes this year He urged the industry to focus on alternative fuels
PLI scheme in telecom sector was launched in 2021. A total of 31 companies are existing beneficiary New Delhi (PTI): With Maruti Suzuki proving to be a successful Indo-Japan collaboration, company Chairman RC Bhargava feels if the two countries work with full partnership and trust in the manufacturing sector, they would be the best in the world. Also, the growing partnership between India and Japan is going to be a huge positive factor for the growth of Indian manufacturing. “I believe that India Japan partnership, which we have seen in Maruti Suzuki and some other areas, is becoming stronger, and more and more Japanese companies are getting interested in investing in India, partnering with Indian companies,” Bhargava said. He cited the example of Escorts Kubota, where the latter has become a promoter in the Indian farm equipment.
LIFESTYLE FASHIONS LOSS NARROWS TO RUPEES 136 CRORE DPIIT REVIEWS 40 CRITICAL PROJECTS IN INFRASTRUCTURE New Delhi: The Federation of Hotel and Restaurant Associations of India has submitted a representation to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman seeking an increase in the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme loan tenure and simplified process for availing of loans by the hospitality sector. The request comes on the back of the finance ministry’s recent decision to increase the ECLGS corpus from `4.5 lakh crore to `5 lakh crore.
Linked Incentive scheme in telecom sector was launched in 2021. A total of 31 companies are existing beneficiary for manufacturing of various telecom equipment under the said scheme. Moreover, in order to promote the entire valuechain in telecom manufacturing, design-led PLI was launched in June 2022. It provided additional incentive of 1% over and above the existing incentives for products that are designed in India.
PTI FHRAI ASKS FM FOR INCREASE IN ECLGS LOAN TENURE Mumbai: The country’s foreign exchange reserves fell $6.687 billion to $564.053 billion in the week ended August 19, according to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data. In the previous week ended August 12, the reserves declined $2.238 billion to $570.74 billion. The drop in the reserves during the week ended August 19 was due to a fall in the Foreign Currency Assets (FCA) and the gold reserves, as per the Weekly Statistical Supplement released by RBI on Friday.
New Delhi (Agencies): Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman reiterated government’s stand to keep the digital payments ecosystem completely free without levying any charges to aid its Speakinggrowth.atanevent in Mumbai, Sitharaman said that the government sees digital payments as a public good and that people should be able to access these facilities freely.
32 companies submit applications for DLI & PLI scheme of telecom
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Majority of states plan to meet FY23 fiscal deficit targets: BoB
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New Delhi (Agencies): Many Indian states have committed to meet the FY 23 fiscal deficit target of 3.61%, a report by the economists of Bank of Baroda said. In FY23BE, the 21 states analysed have budgeted to meet the fiscal deficit target, down from 3.71% in FY22RE. Revenue deficit is likely to come down to 0.6% from 1% in FY22RE, while primary deficit could remain broadly steady at 1.38% versus 1.44% in FY22RE, the report furtherStatessaid.like Bihar, Assam, Goa, and Punjab have projected maximum consolidation. According to the report, Bihar, Assam, and Goa have done so by aiming for cuts in overall expenditure and jump in their own tax revenues. Punjab expects consolidation despite increased spending targets. Meanwhile, Assam, Bihar, Goa, Telangana, and Chhattisgarh are likely to turnaround revenue deficit into surplus in FY23.
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HOUSING.COM TO INVEST `40 CR ON TV, DIGITAL ADVERTISING New Delhi: Realty portal Housing.Com will invest `40 crore in one year on a TV and baseincreaseascampaign,advertisingdigitalitseekstouseratitsplatform and simplify buy-sale and renting journey of consumers. Housing.Com seeks to provide consumers maximum options so that they don’t have to settle for anything less than perfect. The company would invest about `40 crore on this campaign over the next 12 months. The ad campaign will be run on TV, digital and OTT platforms.
MAJOR TALKING POINTS Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that the government sees digital payments as a public good and that people should be able to access these facilities freely
Lifetime benefits now to top judiciary
J airam Ramesh says that the DNA of GNA (Ghulam Nabi Azad) has become ‘Modimay’. If sources are to be believed, when Ghulam Nabi was in the RS and the LoP, his deep connect with Arun Jaitley, was due to ‘Jammu connection’ of Jaitley’s wife, Dolly. It was Jaitley, who got Azad to meet Modi directly, & that meeting turned into friendship. Modi occasionally invited Azad to meet him, and an intimacy grew between them. This is the reason that when Ghulam Nabi was retiring from the RS, Modi had said in his farewell speech –“We won’t let you sit idle.” The BJP is giving so much importance to Azad only because of the assembly elections slated to take place in Jammu and Kashmir. In the new delimitation, the scope of Jammu has increased and that of Kashmir has decreased. BJP is trying that Ghulam Nabi’s newemergespartyasamajor player in the J& K elections so that it can simultaneously hit Congress, National Conference and Mehbooba’s PDP and this would benefit the BJP indirectly.
84 UP fin department officers promoted Ahtesham Siddiqui Lucknow : The officers of Finance & Accounts Services Group Grade-1 of the Government of Uttar Pradesh have been promoted from Grade Pay 6600 Level 11 to Grade Pay 7600 Level 12. The committee headed by ACS Finance IAS Prashant Trivedi has issued its mandate. The DPC of 84 finance officers will benefit the officers and the Chief Treasury Officer (CFO) will be sent to the districts soon. Among the officers who have been promoted is SFAO Rajinikanth Verma who has now become the CFO of UP information department. On the other hand, Sadhna Kori, who is responsible for the salary slips of IAS and PCS officers, has become Deputy Secretary, Salary Slip Irla Check Finance Dept after getting promotion from Under Secretary in Finance Department. Kori’s husband, IPS Sanjay Kumar Kori, is DIG ITBPCFOLucknow.Renu Verma posted in AIDS Control Society has become Joint Director. Sadhna Kori Rajinikanth Verma Renu Verma New Delhi (Agencies): Former DGP and retired IPS officer Bhushan Lal Vohra has an advice for future IPS officers: “Stick to the rules and our Constitution and you will be inconvenienced.” Vohra was speaking at the launch of his autobiography An Unlikely Police Chief: From and To Jaisalmer House. “Just like I was (thrown) from Delhi Police to Manipur, then Kashmir and more, while others remained in their places. That requires one to compromise on certain principles which I will never do,” he Publishedsaid. by Konark Publishers, the book was released Friday at New Delhi’s India International Centre (IIC) in the presence of eminent guests such as N.N. Vohra, former Governor, Prakash Singh, former DGP, and former Additional Solicitor General of India, Sidharth Luthra. Known fondly as ‘Bhushi’ within the IPS fraternity, Vohra joined the IPS in 1967. Growing up in the refugee camps of Bharatnagar, Vohra went on to serve as the DGP as well as state home secretary of Manipur and Tripura, where he fought against insurgency.Journalist Vijay Kranti, who grew up with Vohra in the refugee camps, said of him: “He grew up from the Son of Bharatnagar to the Son of Bharat”.
SWAMY MET DIDI’S THAKUR JI R ecently, when Subramanian Swamy reached Kolkata with the desire of RS in his mind, he had an hourlong meeting with Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee there. If sources are to be believed, Didi told Swamy that if he joins his party, the party will give him full respect in return. After this, toofferandsonalmyshowedMamataSwa-herper-templemadehimprayers
—PHOTO BY PTI WHAT HAS CHANGED? Till recently, retired CJI and top court judges were given monthly monetary benefits to hire guards, domestic helps and chauffeurs. The amount given would be discontinued, a functionary said. While a retired CJI was entitled for Rs 70,000 per month for the purpose, retired Supreme Court judges were provided Rs 39,000 per month.
former Home Secretary G K Pillai were among the 134 signatories. “We write to you as we are deeply distressed by this decision of the govt of Gujarat and because we believe that it is only the SC which has the prime jurisdiction, and hence the responsibility, to rectify this horrendously wrong decision,” the letter read. After serving 15 years in jail, one of the Radheshyamaccused,Shah, approached the SC with a plea for his premature release, the letter said.
Supreme Court judge will be entitled to 24X7 security cover at his or her residence in addition to a round-theclock personal security guard for a period of three years from the date of retirement. If a retired CJI or a retired judge of the top court is already provided a “higher grade” security on the basis of threat perception, “the higher grade security already provided shall continue”.A retired CJI will be entitled to a rentfree Type-VII accommodation in Delhi (other than the designated official residence) for a period of six months from the date of retirement. Type VII accommodation is usually provided to sitting MPs who have been former Union ministers. The ceremonial lounge facility at airports extended to retired CJI and retired SC judges announced earlier this month would also continue. Retired chief justices of the HCs were also extended the VIP lounge facility by amending the High Court Judges Rules.
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Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav during the unveiling ceremony of the statue of Chaudhari Raghuvir Singh Pradhan in Noida on Saturday. —PHOTOS BY PTI UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath along with MoS Road Transport and Highways VK Singh inspects the Hindon Bridge in Ghaziabad on Saturday.
AZAD IS UNITING THE OLD LOYALISTSSANJAY G hulam Nabi Azad has sent a 5-page letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi announcing his resignation from the primary membership. In this letter, he has directly blamed Rahul Gandhi for Congress’s current condition. Interestingly, in this letter, Sanjay Gandhi’s name is mentioned more than that of Rajiv Gandhi. Going by the text of the letter, it seems that old Sanjay loyalists may also find an important place in Ghulam Nabi’s new party. He said that he was influenced by the ideas of Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Bose and Abul Kalam Azad from student life and took over the chairmanship of J& K Youth Congress in 1975-76 after Sanjay Gandhi asked him for this. Azad has questioned the Congress leadership at a time when the Congress is busy preparing for the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’. Does it indicate that the colour of strings of Azad’s lofty ambitions has turned Saffron?
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Thakur ji. Mamata, toherexpressingwhilepainSwamy, said, “People think that I am an atheist, but my Thakur ji is my world.” Happy with Mamata’s hospitality, Swamy has returned to Delhi. He has also praised Mamata on Twitter, but isn’t able to decide whether to join TMC or not, because next year, Didi is going to get 3 RS seats.
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New Delhi (PTI): A chief justice of India will now get a domestic help, a chauffeur and a secretarial assistant for lifetime from the day he or she demits office, according to the latest offivetyaresidenceround-the-clocktledIndiaretiredchangesSupremeformerextendedamendedamendedThejudgestiespost-retirementagainhaveCourtistryinDepartmentissuedgovernment.benefitspost-retirementnotifiedbytheInafreshnotificationonFriday,theofJusticetheUnionLawMin-saidtheSupremeJudgesRulesbeenamendedtoextendmorefacili-toretiredCJIsandofthetopcourt.ruleswereearlieronAugust23.ThebenefitsoftheruleswillbetoalllivingCJIsandretiredCourtjudges.Asperthelatestintherules,achiefjusticeofwillalsobeenti-toasecuritycoverattheirinadditionto24X7personalsecuri-guardforaperiodofyearsfromthedateretirement.Aretired
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...AND FINALLY B JP MP from Delhi Gautam Gambhir has started looking for a new role for himself. He is roaming around his parliamentary constituency these days, asking people, ‘Who do you want to be the next Delhi CM?’ One can hear the crowd saying - ‘Gautam Gambhir.’ The party workers are shocked at this. They don’t even get an appointment to meet Gambhir and what is he asking from the public for himself?
It is said that on hearing this, Ghulam Nabi bid farewell to Sonia saying- “Madam, you are thinking only for your son, not for the country and the party.”
RUCKUS BETWEEN RAO’S SON AND DAUGHTER T RS chief Chandrashekhar Rao’s daughter Kavitha Rao seems to be extremely angry with her brother KTR these days, especially when links to the Delhi liquor scam are said to be related to companies owned by her. Talking to some of her close journalist friends, Kavitha recently revealed how she made a complete strategy to bring his father to power. But today, Kavitha said, she has become a victim of internal squabble in family and her brother KTR doesn’t want her to remain in politics. Kavitha suspects that her brother may have a role in getting all documents against her company out and might be behind her defeat in the last L S polls.
2ND FRONT At the end of the day, look back and think – whom did you help to smile today? —Dr Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO & Editor-in-Chief, First India
New Delhi (PTI): More than 130 former civil servants on Saturday wrote an open letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) against the premature release of 11 men who were jailed in the gangrape case of Bilkis Bano and requested him to rectify this “horrendously wrong decision”. “Like the overwhelming majority of people in our country, we are aghast at what happened in Gujarat a few days ago, on the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence,” the letter said.
TURMOILSITARAM’S C PI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury has been repeatedly accused by his party men that he is more concerned about Congress & the Gandhi family than his own party. At the party meeting held recently, Yechury claimed that now his only goal will be how to create a third front in the 2024 elections. Kerala CM P Vijayan Interrupted and said, “You never get tired of worrying about the Gandhi family and the Congress, but don’t forget that in Kerala, we isparty.withcompetingarethesameTheBJPnowherepetition.Yet you seem to be serving only the theoptioner,YechuryCongress.”said,“Earli-IdidnotseeanyotherofBJPotherthanCongress.NowthatNitishKumarhaskickedofftheBJP,myconfidenceinNitishhasincreasedthatheisthemostsuitablefacefortheThirdFront.”Afterthis,therewassilenceinthemeeting.
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AZAD INTIMATEDALREADYHAD PLANS WHILE MEETING SONIA N early two weeks before saying goodbye to Congress, Ghulam Nabi had met Sonia Gandhi and while expressing his anguish in front of her, he had also disclosed his future strategy. According to Ghulam Nabi- ‘The acceptance of Rahul Gandhi is less in the country and even less among the workers. I have turned 74 years old, I do not wish for anything else. Ghulam Nabi, while sharing his pain with Sonia, further said that he has worked with Indira Gandhi and Rahul is of his son’s age. “The last time I met him along with Anand Sharma and Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Rahul said to his assistant – ‘Get Ghulam Nabi a cup of tea’ Madam, we are people of old culture, we are not used to hearing that. You also address me as Azad Saheb,” heAsaid.reliable source said that after listening to Gulab Nabi, Sonia said- “Rahul is turning 50 and he has given his entire ‘youth’ to the party, he is toiling hard day and night. Removing him at this time may put a ‘Nakara’ tag on him forever, I will not allow this to happen.”
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Gender Neutral Rape Laws: Not As Simple As You Might Think
fter the Nirbhaya Rape case in Delhi, a committee led by Justice Verma, a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was established in December 2012 to make recommendations for amendments to the Criminal Law that would expedite the legal process and strengthen punishment for those found guilty of sexual assault against women. Justice Leila Seth, a former High Court judge, and Gopal Subramanium, a former Solicitor General of India, were the other members of the Committee.OnJanuary 23, 2013, the Committee submitted its report. It included suggestions for changes to the law pertaining to rape, sexual assault, trafficking, child sexual abuse, victim medical examinations, police, and electoral and educational reforms but the government rejected their recommendations and passed legislation making rape a crime against both sexes, making it genderWhatneutral.followed was a lot of backlash from feminist groups. It is important to note that gender neutrality was not the only reason why there was a backlash, but also because they did not take any of the recommendations from the Committee, including recognising marital rape and keeping the age of consent at 16. Marital rape is still, even in 2022, not recognised by our constitution.Prominent women’s rights advocate Flavia Agnes also voiced concern against the bill, “I oppose the proposal to make rape laws genderneutral.” She also added that women’s groups had also protested against gender-neutral Child Sexual Abuse laws.
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DO MEN NOT GET RAPED BY WOMEN? There is a misconception that men are more likely to be raped by other men. This misconception originates from rape statistics in the USA. In truth, the state’s definition of rape is flawed, it does not consider “made to penetrate” as rape. For male victims, the sex of the perpetrator varied by the type of sexual violenceTheexperienced.MajorityOf Male Rape Victims (93.3%) Reported Only Male Perpetrators.ForThree Of The Other Forms Of Sexual Violence, A Majority Of Male Victims Reported Only Female Perpetrators: Being Made To Penetrate (79.2%), Sexual Coercion (83.6%), And Unwanted Sexual Contact (53.1%). For Non-Contact Unwanted Sexual Experiences, Approximately Half Of Male Victims (49.0%) Reported Only Male Perpetrators And More Perpetrators.ed(37.7%)One-ThirdThanReport-OnlyFemale
DO BOYS NOT GET ABUSED? India had pledged to safeguard its children from all types of sexual exploitation and abuse when it ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1992. The first extensive
gender-neutral rape laws. They believe that there should be separate laws, instead, where complaints can be filed against women when there is a clear power dynamic, such as hostel wardens, teachers and so on. tims are likely to be statistically quite small. On the other hand, around 3 million women face sexual violence every year and 99% of those cases are never reported.Thisis the trolley problem. If rape laws are made gender neutral then it will give a course of justice to male rape victims, but will alsoharm female victims by giving more legal avenues to rapists. On the other hand, if the rape laws are gender specific, then they will deny justice to female on male rape victims. And as is the trolley problem, you run over the side with fewer bodies ...... right? Well however you may choose to answer this moral paradox, the centre repealed the in 2018 activists tried to make rape laws gender neutral once again, the centre said that rape laws cannot be gender neutral after ‘consultation with Women’s Groups.This topic is still a matter of debate amongst feminist groups; with the younger and justtheguesandlaws,vourgenerationinter-sectionalisebeinginfa-ofgender-neutralwhiletheolderexperiencedonear-againstit,holdingviewthatIndiaisnotready.
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unal Rawal and Arpita Mehta are all set to tie the knot. As their wedding festivities have already begun, we saw Bollywood celebrities coming together to be a part of their special occasions. Last night was their pre-wedding bash and a lot of Bollywood celebrities like Malaika Arora, Arjun Kapoor and others graced the event. A lot of pictures and videos from the bash are doing the rounds on social media but the one video that has caught our attention was Janhvi Kapoor grooving to her film Dhadak’s song Zingaat.
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Tara BLUEin I n the picture that Angad Bedi shares, we can see both Neha Dhupia and him looking gorgeous together. It is a monochrome picture wherein Neha seems to have worn a black dress and Angad is wearing a white shirt. He hugs his wife from behind and both of them have bright smiles on their faces. The best part about this picture is the background. We can see Abhishek Bachchan, Maniesh Paul and others dancing in the background. Sharing this picture Angad wrote, “Happy birthday my Juicy luicy...Time to put some loose in that luicy. Come back soon we need to spend your money !!! I love you @nehadhupia.” Neha Dhupia also commented and wrote, “Thank you my love @angadbedi also I must say this image has some epic photobombs.”
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arhan Akhtar and Shibani Dandekar never fail to set couple goals. They often pose together for pictures which later gets all their fans gushing on them when it makes it to Instagram. Well, currently the couple is having a gala time attending a friend’s wedding in Australia. Every other day the two keep sharing pictures of them enjoying themselves in Australia. Today, Shibani is celebrating her birthday and on this special day, Farhan took to his Instagram handle to share a picture and a lovey-dovey post for his wife on her special day.
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ara Sutaria is one of the most talented and promising actresses in Bollywood. The actress has again turned heads again as she took to her social media handle to share her stunning picture. In the images, the Ek Villain Returns actress can be seen posing sensually in a blue satin dress. Tara blends the raunchy picture with her sultry expressions as she turns temperature in the gorgeous photo. Sharing the photo, the 26-year-old wrote, “Many moons ago but still one of my favourites.” While fans and followers came up with heart and heart-shaped-eye emojis, a social media user commented, “you are looking beautiful.” “Koi ithna khubsurat kaise ho skta,” wrote another fan.
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atrina Kaif is one of the most gorgeous actresses in Bollywood and there is no denying this fact. The actress took to her Instagram handle and shared a stunning picture of her making our Saturday even more beautiful. In the pictures, we can see Katrina Kaif sitting on a chair and looking her casual best. She is wearing a white tee and a denim dungaree and has shared a couple of pictures wearing this. With her hair open and minimal makeup, Katrina looks like a perfect beauty in these pictures. In the first picture, she looks away from the camera and is playing with her hair. In the next picture, she looks straight into the camera and in the last she has shut her eyes. Sharing these pictures, she wrote, “Musings”.
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Kumari is one such leader. The MP expressed her gratitude to the publication for the award and said that it has only renewed her commitment to work even more zealously for the people of her constituency and the State.
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AECL ANNOUNCES ITS LAUNCH OF SEASON 4!
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Rajsamand MP, Diya Kumari was honoured with the ‘Asia One Covid 19 Commitment Award’ by Asia One magazine at the 7th Edition of the Pride of the Nation Series Awards in New Delhi on Saturday. This recognition has been given for the outstanding social welfare measures adopted by her in her constituency during the pandemic. The publication stated that the Covid-19 pandemic had a huge impact on the abovemanychallengesdespitefabricsocio-economicoftheworld.Yet,thenumerousitposed,leadersroseadversity.MPDiya
The food ingredients and health ingredients India, a cuisine festival will be hosted in New Delhi’s Pragati Maidan from September 14 to September 16. The business platform for food and beverage in the nation is a must-attend event since it is primarily focused on Indian culinary components.
The official Twitter handle of the Police Families Welfare Society shared the glimpses from the event organised by Hauz Khas of PFWS, on the occasion of the Womens Equality Day, in which homemakers were honoured for their incredible services at home and taking care of their family with full devotion.
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CITY FIRST B udding young author Saptarshim Borah’s book Worlds Collide: The City of Cyborgs was launched by Hiranandani Foundation School (Thane) principal Neelu Lamba on 1st WorldsAugust.Collide: City of Cyborgs is a science fiction novel with the main theme being outer space and Artificial Intelligence. The story revolves around an orphan boy named Tracer Lee whose life changes after an odd meteorite crashes into a forest near his
It is also expected that Veteran Indian left HanderSuresh Raina will also be present to cheer up for the matches during the
ell us something yourself.about My name is Arushi Gambhir and I am photographer.philosopherphilosopherit,things,thetaughtist.asandashaveprofessionalDelhi-basedaModel.IworkedinDelhiafashionbloggernowworkinganonlinestyl-Weareoftentolookforbeautyinallsoinfindingthelaymanasksthewhiletheasksthe What inspired you to become a model? I believe that fashion is like eating, you shouldn’t stick to the same menu remember, I wanted to be supermodel so I used to collect fashion magazines during my childhood, then I started participating in fashion shows and runways which gave me enough confidence about my dressing style and I realised that I can make a name from my fashion. What are the challenges that you faced? Being a fashion model, is equal parts being who you actually are and what people hope you will be. It is very difficult to keep yourself physically fit and mentally calm during miles of travelling and standing for dozens of hours to attend back-toback bookings in the peak season. I have had a fair share of struggles and I have hustled hard and I still do. What is the golden moment in your life? My greatest accomplishment is my conviction, which I want to radiate more of. I want to learn more about life from others who are enthusiastic about style and clothing.
CITY FIRST A fter a long wait of 18 months, Artist Event Cricket League (AECL) announced the commencement of its 4th season which will start from September 7 onwards in the presence of eminent celebrities including dancing sensation Sapna Chaudhary, popular singer Milind Gaba and actor turned politician Manoj Tiwari. The founders of AECL, Ashish Mathur, Sonia Mathur, Ashish Rathee and Vipul Gosai also unveiled the list of celebrities and teams, during a press briefing on Saturday. It is expected that the inauguration cer-
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emony will be flagged off by Chief Guest Anil Vij Home Minister – Haryana state, and Anurag Thakur will be tossing the coin during the friendly opener.
The renovation of Rajpath in Delhi has begun recently and visitors may have to wait till next month to stroll on Rajpath, visit India Gate and take a walk along the revamped lawns and refurbished canals due to the constructionactivities. Despite the work on this stretch having been more than 95% complete, it has not yet been opened to the public. The stretch has been closed to the public for 18 months now the housing ministry had announced different deadlines for completion of the project which have been missed but soon will decorate the Rajpath beautifully. The installation of the statue of Subhas Chandra Bose in the Grand Canopy is also planned at India Gate. The India Gate and Rajpath area is the largest public space in the national capital.
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