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We need to fight back against Communist China’s bullying

By Lee Harding, Research associate Frontier Centre for Public Policy

If Canadians believe the threat of a communist superpower expired decades ago, they’re wrong. The Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (U.S.S.R.) may be long dead, but the Chinese dragon is alive and well. In 1970, KGB disinformation agent Yuri Bezmenov defected from the U.S.S.R. and became a Canadian citizen with the adopted name Tomas Schuman.

Remarkably, the Soviet tactics he disclosed years ago are much like those used by the Chinese Communist Party today. Canada should beware. Before his defection, Bezmenov worked with Novosti Press Agency, a KGB front that sought to undermine the West and keep its citizens propagandized through the misuse of journalism. Bezmenov worked out of the Soviet embassy in India before he made his bold escape. After the CIA arranged a home for Bezmenov in Canada, he was very much on his own – as was his choice. After he arrived and took the name Tomas Schuman, he was a student, worked on a farm, drove Continued on page 4

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B.C. health officials announced 204 new cases of COVID-19 but no additional deaths on Thursday. It’s the highest number of new cases in a single day since June 5, with the province’s seven-day rolling average tripling within the last 12 days, from 44 to 131. In a written statement, the province said there are currently 1,055 active cases of people infected with the novel coronavirus in B.C., the first time since June 26 the number of active cases has been over 1,000. The regional breakdown is as follows: 58 new cases in Fraser Health, which has 241 active cases. 23 new cases in Vancouver Coastal Health, which has 139

active cases. 107 new cases in Interior Health, which has 600 active cases.

Two new cases in Northern Health, which has 19 active cases. 14 new cases in Island Health, which has 51 active cases. No new cases of a person who typically resides outside of Canada; a group that has five active cases. A total of 51 people are in hospital, with 20 in intensive care.

Overall hospitalizations, which typically lag behind spikes and dips in new cases, are down slightly from last Thursday, when 53 people were in hospital with the disease. The number of patients in intensive care is up 33 per cent from 15 a week ago.

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Kenney outraged over PM Trudeau’s Senate appointment of Banff Mayor Karen Sorensen Premier Jason Kenney said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “showed contempt for democracy in Alberta” by appointing a “handpicked representative of Alberta” to the Senate in advance of provincial elections. On Thursday, Karen Sorensen resigned as mayor of Banff to represent Alberta in Ottawa after being chosen

by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon. Sorensen was first elected to local politics in 2004, serving six

Adopted from China, Canada’s Maggie MacNeil wins gold An adopted Chinese girl captured Canada’s first gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and it sparked outcry in China’s domestic media over its now-scrapped one-child policy.

On Monday, Canada’s Maggie MacNeil – who was born in China – garnered worldwide fame as she was crowned Olympic champion ahead of China’s Zhang Yufei, the top-ranked swimmer in the women’s 100m butterfly. Zhang had to settle for the silver medal in a time

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of 55.64 seconds, while MacNeil was 0.05 seconds ahead MacNeil, as mainland media reported, was abandoned by her biological parents after being born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province in February, 2000. One year later, she was adopted as a toddler along with her younger sister from a local orphanage by Susan McNair and Edward MacNeil, of London, Ontario, Canada, and they brought both children back to their hometown. MacNeil began Continued on page 8

years as a councillor, before she was elected Banff mayor in 2010, where she served for 11 years.

“I am humbled and incredibly honoured to be appointed to the Canadian Senate.

After 17 years being privileged to serve the people of Banff, I am exhilarated to have this amazing opportunity in service to Canada,” Sorensen said.

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Saturday, July 31, 2021 Homicide team investigating death of 1-year-old in New Westminster New Westminster police and the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) are looking into the suspicious death of a one-year-old infant.

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drove a laundry truck, became a language instructor and finally became the voice of CBC’s Russian-language broadcast to the U.S.S.R. After the Russians realized that Schuman was Bezmenov, KGB agents tried to intimidate him. He shared this tale in a 1984 interview with author G. Edward Griffin: “They would say something like,

We need to fight back against Communist China’s bullying ‘Please cross the street carefully because you know traffic is very heavy in Quebec.’ And fortunately, I know about the psychology and the logic of activity of the KGB, and I never allowed myself to be intimidated. This is the worst thing. This is what they expect: a

person, a defector, to be intimidated. Once they spot that you are scared they keep on developing that line, and then, eventually, you either have to give up entirely and work for them, or they neutralize you. They would definitely stop all kinds of political activity, which they fail to do in my case because I was starting already working for (the CBC).

And in response to their intimidations I said ... look, this is a free country and I am as free as you are. And I also can drive very fast. And gun control is not yet established in Canada so I had a couple of good shotguns in my basement. So, you’re welcome to visit me someday with your Kalashnikov machine guns.” Contemporary accounts in Canada sound similar. In recent years, Canadians who were Chinese or Uighur activists have testified to House of Commons committees that they face threats of violence if they keep speaking out against violations committed

by China. These intimidation campaigns were apparently co-ordinated by the Chinese embassy in Ottawa and its consulates in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal.

The 2020 report “Harassment & Intimidation of Individuals in Canada Working on China-related Human Rights Concerns” by the Canadian Coalition on Human Rights in China (CCHRC) and Amnesty International documented “continuing reports of individuals in Canada being subjected to rights violations further to a systematic campaign of harassment and intimidation that is often clearly linked to or backed by Chinese state authorities,” including at universities. Cherie Wong, executive director of the Alliance Canada Hong Kong, told the coalition that harassment and intimidation ramped up after she became a vocal supporter of the protest movement in Hong Kong. Wong said she was the victim of “co-ordinated social media attacks” that included death threats and rape threats.

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Day parole extended for killer of BC teen Reena Virk The 38-year-old woman convicted of murdering teenager Reena Virk near Victoria in 1997 will be allowed to continue her day parole.

The Parole Board of Canada ruled on July 14 that Kelly Ellard (pictured), who now goes by the name Kerry Sim, will continue to spend two nights a week at a community residential facility and five nights at her private home.

The board says Sim, who is now the mother of two young children, has recently fallen under personal and financial stress due to her spouse’s loss of employment and struggles with substance abuse. Despite that, the board found Sim’s “motivation level and reintegration potential are high.” Sim’s day parole was expanded last August, extended in January and has now been extended for another six months.

Sim was 15 when she and a group of teens

beat Virk and then she and an accomplice followed the injured girl, beat her again and drowned her in the Gorge waterway.

She was tried as an adult and had three seconddegree murder trials before 2009 when the matter was addressed by the Supreme Court of Canada and her life sentence for Virk’s murder was upheld.

The parole board is maintaining conditions linked to Sim’s release, including an order against the use of alcohol or drugs and a requirement that she have no contact with Virk’s family.

In its six-page report, the board says it expects Sim’s continued parole “will not constitute an undue risk and will continue to facilitate your reintegration into the community as a law-abiding member of society.”

Despite burn bans, BC man tells Mounties he didn’t want to mow his lawn, set it on fire instead A B.C. man who didn’t feel like cutting his grass has been fined more than $1,000 for the fire he started.

Mounties on the Sunshine Coast said they and firefighters were called to a home on the Port Mellon Highway for a report of heavy smoke on Tuesday.

The fire was called in by passengers on a passing BC Ferries vessel, who could see the fire from the water. The homeisnotfarfromtheLangdaleferryterminal.

According to the RCMP, the fire was about 10 feet in diameter, and had to be extinguished by firefighters.

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this case it was undoubtedly human.

Mounties said the homeowner told them that instead of cutting the tall grass, he’d just decided to burn it.

The province is currently under several burn bans due to the risk of wildfires in what has been an unusually hot and dry s u m m e r .

T h e homeowner was warned by police about the recklessness of his actions, the RCMP said. He was also fined $1,150 under the provincial Wildfire Act.

Heated confrontation outside BC court between protesters and man charged in alleged racist incident Members of a group that fights anti-Asian hate rallied outside the provincial courthouse in Richmond on Wednesday and were involved in a confrontation with a man at the centre of an alleged racist incident that took place at a Steveston coffee shop earlier this year. The accused, Michel Jean-Jacque Berthiaume, had just left the building after appearing on a mischief charge when he was confronted by protesters. “You brought the coronavirus to this country and you’re killing our people,” Berthiaume told the protesters. “I prefer to have English or French or German than have Chinese in this country.”Berthiaume was in court in relation to a March 29 incident at Rocanini Coffee Roasters in Steveston. A portion of the

incident was captured on security video. It shows a man pouring a drink on the floor and a woman hurling the contents of a cup at a Steveston coffee shop manager. The pair allegedly used antiAsian slurs as they were asked to leave. Astrid Maria Secreve is also charged with mischief. If convicted, the maximum punishment under Canadian law is just under two years in jail and or a $5,000 fine The Stop Anti-Asian Hate Crimes advocacy group, which rallied outside Berthiaume and Secreve’s first court appearance last month, said it wanted more serious charges.

Still, spokesperson Ivan Pak said they are grateful the case is now before a judge. “Such behaviour will not be (tolerated) in our community,” he said.

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Almost 60,000 suspected of breaching Covid-19 quarantine Canadians may have tossed their reputation for politeness and civil behaviour during COVID-19. A story in Blacklock’s Reporter states the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) reported some 58,000 Canadian international travellers suspected of breaking quarantine and leaving their homes. It is not known how many were charged by the RCMP. In a report to the Commons government operations committee, the Agency wrote that home checks during the quarantine focused on medium-risk travellers.

Those viewed as higher risk were referred to the provinces of jurisdiction for compliance verification.

The Quarantine Act mandates returning travellers must self-isolate at home for two weeks or face penalties such as six months in jail or fines of up to $750,000. Over a five month period in 2021, home checks were conducted on 348,647 people.

Subsequently, 57,578 people were referred to the RCMP for possible non-compliance — if someone meant to be home did not answer the phone or the door. Obviously, some of those people may have been home but unable to respond to a knock on the door or a phone call, so that number will inevitably be lower. Those in quarantine are warned not to leave their property before the quarantine period is up except for medical emergency.

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Kenney outraged over PM Trudeau’s Senate appointment of Banff Mayor Karen Sorensen

“It is a tremendous responsibility to be asked to represent the province of Alberta at the federal level and I look forward to working hard to give voice to the diversity of groups that make up our nation.” However, Kenney argued the federal government should have waited until after the province had a chance to vote for its own nominees.

“Sadly, the Prime Minister’s decision to snub his nose at Alberta’s democratic tradition is part of a pattern of flippantly disregarding our province’s demands for a fair deal in the Canadian federation and the desire of Albertans for democratic accountability,” Kenney said in a news release. Last month, the Alberta assembly voted to urge Trudeau

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“While I never intended to leave the role of mayor before this term was complete, I am confident in the abilities of our very thoughtful and diverse council, and I am comforted knowing a municipal election is

only a few months away. And while I will be spending part of my time in Ottawa, Banff has and will always have my heart,” said Sorensen, who announced late last year she would not seek another term as mayor. In the meantime, Coun. Corey DiMano will take the role of deputy mayor, with Banff council discussing next steps at the Aug. 9 meeting.

Sorensen fills Senate vacancy Sorensen will fill one of two Alberta Senate seats left vacant after former senator Grant Mitchell resigned in April of 2020. Senator Elaine McCoy died last December. Alberta Independent Sen. Paula Simons said she is “delighted” to have Sorensen join her in the Senate. “I’ve made my frustration clear when I’ve spoken to various members of the Liberal cabinet and caucus about the need to fill these vacancies so that Alberta can have proper representation under the current constitutional framework,” Simons said.

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BC records 204 new cases of COVID-19 Walk-in clinics to provide COVID-19 jab as B.C. pushes to reach those unvaccinated The provincial death toll from the disease is 1,771. There have been a total of 149,648 cases in the province.

So far, 81 per cent (3,753,057) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 64.1 per cent (2,971,793) have received their second dose.

Okanagan outbreak On Wednesday, the province declared a COVID-19 outbreak in the Central Okanagan after a rapid rise in cases in the region.

More than half of B.C.’s daily and active COVID-19 cases are concentrated in the area, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said. Under the new health order, masks are mandatory in indoor public spaces for anyone over the age of 12 and are also being encouraged outdoors when people cannot physically distance themselves.

B.C. looks to improve lower COVID-19 vaccination rates in the Interior as potential 4th wave looms Travel to and from the region, which includes Kelowna, West Kelowna, Peachland and Lake Country, is also being strongly discouraged unless individuals are fully immunized. In the last week, a number of businesses in the Central Okanagan have been forced to close because of illness. Health officials say enforcement will be stepped up at establishments where three or more cases of COVID-19 have occurred. Henry made reference Thursday to Alberta’s new relaxed COVID-19 protocols which will start to come into effect over the next few weeks.

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Almost 60,000 suspected of breaching Covid-19 quarantine Those in quarantine are forbidden from entertaining visitors or guests, and may not visit family or anyone else.

They are also instructed to isolate physically from others in the same dwelling if they didn’t travel with that person.

Those living in apartments are banned from public gathering places such as lobbies and only able to go outside to private yards or balconies.

Health Minister Patricia Hajdu told Commons, “Anyone who is returning to Canada must take a test upon arrival and quarantine until the receipt of a negative test, and then go to complete their

quarantine in their own home. “Quarantine has been a very important process.” More than $2.9 million in fines were levied on air travellers who refused to stay at pandemic hotels. An order requiring passengers to pay for three nights’ stay will be repealed August 9. Alarmingly, people came up with forged COVID tests and some failed to submit tests on arrival. A total of 28,305 air passengers and drivers were referred to Covid hotels for “not having suitable accommodation to quarantine,” according to a June 22 briefing note Impact Of Border Measures And Statistics drafted by the Department of Public Safety.

Adopted from China, Canada’s Maggie MacNeil wins gold From page 1

swimming in 2008 and became a rising star at the University of Michigan, where she was teammates with Hong Kong’s own Siobhan Haughey Her potential became crystal clear at the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea in 2019, where she dethroned world record-holder Sarah Sjostrom in the 100m butterfly to win gold in 55.83 seconds.

The 21-year-old world champion’s story is one of the thousands – if not millions – of deserted children in China under the nowscrapped onechild policy . “Imagine had she not been brought up from the orphanage, or had she not been deserted by her biological parents, what would she be now?” wrote one comment on the country’s microblogging site Weibo.

“The adoption changed her life orbit completely as she was given such quality care and training.” “She might have

dropped out of school to support a younger brother had she stayed in China,” wrote another. The notorious one-child policy, which was rolled out in 1980, was imposed for more than three decades before it was liberalised into a two-child policy in 2015.

This was further eased to become a threechild policy in 2021 to deal with a looming demographic crisis underscored by a rapidly ageing population coupled with the lowest birth rate since the Great Famine, the years of 1959 to 1962, when the country suffered an estimated tens of millions of deaths from starvation. Under the first iteration of the policy, local authorities seeking to meet population targets often took harsh measures such as forced abortions and sterilisation. Families’ preference for boys, especially in rural, farming areas, further resulted in massive sex-based abortions, adoptions or abandonment, leaving a large gender imbalance in the country. Families which violated the one-child, and later two-child, policy faced hefty fines and difficulty finding a job. As recently as 2020, local authorities in Sichuan fined a family 718,080 yuan (US$110,000) for having seven children, according to Global Times. Hong Kong’s Cheung Ka-long clinches Olympic gold in historic win at Tokyo Games Hong Kong’s Cheung Ka-long clinches Olympic gold in historic win at Tokyo Games All this led many families to abandon their infant daughters at the gate of orphanages, schools or even on the street, in hopes that either the homes or another family would care for them.

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Resident killed jumping from balcony to escape apartment fire in Chilliwack One person has died after a fire at an apartment complex in Chilliwack, B.C., early Thursday. The fire broke out at the building in the 9200-block of Hazel Street, near Yale Road. Several people phoned 911 around 1:20 a.m. PT, according to the fire service. Crews arrived to find flames and heavy smoke shooting out the roof of the building. “Multiple people [were] trapped on their balconies,” said Assistant Fire Chief Andrew Brown with the Chilliwack Fire Department. Crews rescued several

residents with a ladder. One resident was killed after they tried to jump from a balcony to safety. Underinsurance leads to whopping bill after fire at condo building Fifty firefighters responded to the fire. Two crew members suffered smoke inhalation.

Brown said the 50-unit complex is largely destroyed, with severe damage to the roof and top floor. Crews are still investigating the cause of the fire.

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Saturday, July 31, 2021 Man arrested after violent outburst at McDonald’s restaurant in Richmond

A man has been arrested following a violent outburst inside a McDonald’s in Richmond, B.C., that was caught on camera, marking the second time this year that video has surfaced showing staff at the restaurant being verbally abused.

The video circulating online shows a customer lashing out at staff after declaring he was unhappy with the service, tearing through plastic safety guards, throwing a garbage can at staff and violently knocking down displays and cashiers’ tills while customers and staff can be heard yelling at him to stop.

Witnesses said he was pursued by police shortly after he left the restaurant and allegedly fought with them.

According to Richmond RCMP, two employees and two police officers were assaulted in Tuesday’s incident. They have

identified the suspect as a 30-year-old man from Delta, B.C., who is facing possible charges of mischief over $5,000, assault and assaulting a peace officer. Labour representatives say incidents targeting frontline workers have been on the rise over the past year, many of them attributed to frustrations surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this year, staff at the same McDonald’s were berated by a customer allegedly following a dispute over masks. At the time, employees said, incidents like this occur on a near daily basis. “It’s been a stressful year for a lot of people, but nonetheless it’s not an excuse for endangering workers in the workplace,” said Sussanne Skidmore, secretary treasurer of the B.C. Federation of Labour. “It’s pretty emotional watching that and knowing how stressful those jobs can be ... frontline jobs have been incredibly important during the last year and a half,” she said.

70% of sudden deaths recorded during BC heat wave were due to extreme temperatures, coroner confirms 570 of the 815 deaths deemed ‘heat related,’ chief coroner says; 79% of those who died were 65 or older. B.C.’s chief coroner has confirmed the majority of people who died suddenly during the week of June’s record-breaking heat wave lost their lives as a direct result of the extreme temperatures. Lisa Lapointe confirmed in an interview Thursday morning that 570 of the 815 sudden deaths recorded over that time period — 70 per cent — have now been deemed “heat related.” “[If not] for the extreme heat, they would not have died at that time,” Lapointe said during an interview with CBC’s The Early Edition.

According to Lapointe, 79 per cent of those who died were 65 or older. “Many, many of those who died had underlying health conditions. So, they were more vulnerable to extreme heat,” she said. “Some people died in their single-family home, sitting in their living room, in their armchair. But [they had] doors and windows closed and the temperature was well above 30, 35 C.”

Lapointe said people don’t always realize their bodies just “can’t cope” when they get that hot, particularly if they have “some frailties already.”

Who is responsible for deaths caused by extreme heat? Temperatures soared to record levels throughout B.C. during the last week of June, peaking on June 28 and 29. More than 100 all-time records were shattered across Western Canada, including in several B.C. communities that sweltered in temperatures of more than 40 C. More than 300 sudden deaths were reported throughout the province on one day alone — June 29, the day Lytton, B.C., shattered Canada’s all-time temperature record. The overall number of sudden deaths represented a nearly 300 per cent increase from the average number of deaths recorded over the same week every year since 2016. First responders were stretched to the limit during the heat wave.

At times, dispatchers had more than 200 calls waiting for a response.

Gas line ruptured by excavator leads to large fire in Surrey; traffic expected to be disrupted for hours Traffic was expected to be disrupted in an area of Surrey for at least a few hours Thursday while crews manage a fire at a ruptured gas line. Assistant Chief Ben Dirksen told CTV News crews were called at about 8:40 a.m. after an excavator struck a gas main line near 32nd Avenue and 192 Street. The rupture led to a fire, Dirksen said.

FortisBC was on scene at the blaze and worked to shut down the line. Images from the scene showed large flames with crews blocking the road. Dirksen said 12 firefighters were on scene as well as three vehicles. Nobody was injured, he said, but as of 11:30 a.m., traffic was still expected to be disrupted for “a couple hours.”

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Saturday, July 31, 2021 Governor-General, newly appointed by PM Trudeau will agree on election call by him, expert says The long-standing tradition of the Governor General acceding to Canadian prime ministers’ requests to dissolve Parliament will practically push Mary Simon to accept a plea from Justin Trudeau to call an election, a constitutional law expert said Wednesday.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has asked Simon to refuse any request from Trudeau that would send voters to the ballot box, noting that the fixed-election law states that every general election must be held on the third Monday of October four calendar years after the last one.

Singh said in a letter to the newly installed Governor General that the law allows for an early election if the government has lost the confidence of the House, but the Trudeau government has won every confidence vote it has faced including on the speech from the throne and the budget.

Ottawa University law professor Errol Mendes said the Governor General as a representative of the Queen has in theory the power to refuse a request from Trudeau to dissolve Parliament.

However, that power has not been used for many decades because Canada has been regarded as an independent country from the United Kingdom.

“I don’t think (Simon) will accede

to the leader of the NDP’s request.

There’s no chance whatsoever,” he said.

Anticipation of an early election call is rising as federal party leaders, including Trudeau and Singh, have been travelling around the county on campaign-style tours in recent weeks.

Speaking to reporters Wednesday in St. John’s, N.L., Trudeau repeated his frequent claim that Parliament has been dysfunctional as Conservative MPs have been using “procedural tactics” to delay and block what he said are “important progressive pieces of legislation.”

He said the NDP did nothing to help his Liberal government pass laws including one to ban conversion therapy and another to eliminate mandatory minimum criminal sentences. “(The NDP) could have stood with us to move forward faster,” Trudeau said.

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This Bigg Boss 11 contestant was caught in a prostitution racket model-turnedactress Arshi Khan, who shocked us with her revelation that she was indeed the girlfriend of former Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi, is hitting headlines from the Bigg Boss house with her bold statements.

Last year, Arshi was arrested by the crime branch of Pune police, who received a tip-off of an alleged sex racket operation run by two agents named Krushna Kafale and Vipul Dahal.

Arshi was in Hotel Arora in Pune when the cops raided and caught her. Later, she was kept in custody. However, the actress created a ruckus and managed to return home.

In the video, she said, “Radhe Maa was involved in a sex scandal, and I had said in front of the media many times. I had been to Pune for an event and was in my room at

around 12.45 am, 10 crime branch officers came to arrest me because I am a Pakistani Muslim.

They asked to show my ID proof and official documents.

A senior inspector, Sandeep Patil was unaware of the fact that I had switched on the recorder on one of my phones.

They made a sexual demand and also Rs 15 lakhs from me.”

Last year, she was in the limelight when she claimed to have sex with Shahid Afridi. Her Tweets had read, “Yes, I had sex with Afridi! Do I need the Indian media’s permission to sleep with someone?

It’s my personal life. For me it was love.”

A year later, news of Arshi’s pregnancy broke which she later denied and called it “false alarm”.

Indian Idol 12 grand finale: Aditya Narayan has a surprise treat planned for Pawandeep Rajan and Ashish Kulkarni’s fans When Ashish Kulkarni was eliminated a few weeks ago from Indian Idol 12, fans were pretty disappointed with the fact that he couldn’t make it to the top 5. Many people wanted Ashish to be one of the top 3 finalists while others vented out their anger on social media after his elimination. However, fans can now wipe out their tears and rejoice as Ashish will once again be seen performing at the Indian Idol 12 grand finale. And host Aditya Narayan is planning to treat Ashish and Pawandeep Rajan’s fans with a special surprise on the final day. Also Read - Indian Idol 12: Pawandeep Rajan, Arunita Kanjilal, Aditya Narayan and others join the ‘Baspan Ka Pyaar’ trend and it’s hilarious – watch video If you would remember, Aditya had

shared a heartfelt note on Instagram for Ashish after his elimination. He had written about rendering a song with Ashish and Pawandeep. “Kulku mere bhai. You know I have immense love for you and complete faith in your abilities. I am thrilled to be rendering your first song as a composer along with @ pawandeeprajan. Aur bahut saara music banaana hai saath mein. Keep dreaming, believing and achieving. The Indian Idol stage will truly miss your presence,” read Aditya’s post. Also Read - Trending TV news today: Pawandeep Rajan’s tribute to Rishi Kapoor and Rajiv Kapoor on Indian Idol 12, Sharad Malhotra’s ex Pooja Bisht opens up on posttrauma phase of their relationship and more

Priyanka on English version of Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna Singer-songwriter Jay Sean had Priyanka Chopra in splits after he sang the popular track from Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol’s Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna. Why, you ask?

It’s because the singer sang the Bollywood hit with a twist i.e. by singing the English translations of the Hindi lyrics with the original tune.

Hence, instead of singing “Ye kudiyaan nashe di pudiyaan, ye munde gali de gunde”, Jay Sean sang the literal translation which went: “These girls are packets of intoxication, these guys are the alley’s gangsters.” When it came to “Mehndi laga ke rakhna, doli saja ke rakhna, lene tujhe o gori, aayenge tere sajna”, the English translation went: “Apply henna

on your hands, decorate your doli (palanquin). To take away ‘O beautiful’, Your lover will come.”

The singer wrote in the caption: “Not quite the same innit.ï¸Â I deeply apologize if I have ruined this song for ur forever.

However I will continue to do these coz they give me jokes.” Priyanka took to the comments section to share her reaction and Jay Sean responded to her comment with laughing emojis. The singer and Barfi actress have been friends for a long time.

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Saturday, July 31, 2021 Shilpa wasn’t ready to marry Raj Kundra until he bought bungalow in front of Amitabh Bachchan’s house Raj Kundra had told in the interview that his first meeting with Shilpa Shetty was through his manager. Shilpa won the UK reality show Big Brother at that time. Raj Kundra-Shilpa Shetty Love Story: In the ongoing porn film case, the problems of Raj Kundra are piling up as days are passing by. The businessman, whose

police custody was supposed to end today, has been extended by 14 days till August 10. Amid all these, an old interview of Raj Kundra is going viral on social media. In the interview with Bollywood Now, the businessman can be seen revealing details about his love life with his wife Shilpa Shetty Kundra.

Raj disclosed in this interview that his first meeting with Shilpa was through his manager.

Shilpa won the UK reality show Big Brother and her popularity was very high during that time. Raj went to her with the idea of making perfume. He, however, softened Shilpa’s heart when Raj touched her mom’s feet in the very first meeting. Raj further revealed that Shilpa was not interested in a romantic relationship

with him. He told, “I’d like to say woh diya le ke mere peeche bhaagi (she ran after me with a lamp in her hand) that you are the one I have to marry, but that would be lying. Main toh haath paer dho ke peeche padh gaya (I really chased her), once I knew there was a little inclination of friendliness or that she liked me, I said, chalo, let’s try.”

Raj further continued and said, “But she said, ‘Raj, this won’t work’. She was very blatant, she didn’t give me a chance to impress her. I said, ‘Why won’t it work?’

She said, ‘Main Bombay nahi chhod sakti, main India nahi chhod sakti, aur tum London mein rehte ho (I can’t leave India, or Mumbai, and you live in London)”.

Raj Kundra then revealed that the very next day, he called up producer Vashu Bhagnani and said that he wanted to buy a house in Mumbai. Vashu then came out to the rescue when he said that there was a property in Juhu that Raj could buy. Shilpa’s husband then bought that house without having seen the property and called up his ladylove after 10 minutes. Raj was then quoted saying by the publication in Hindi, “You were saying you only wanted to live in Mumbai. You probably know where Amitabh Bachchan lives? I’ve bought a house next to his, now let’s talk”.

Shilpa Shetty obviously couldn’t say no to this romantic gesture and the two got married in 2009.

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When Shah Rukh Khan was asked what would he do if someone kisses his daughter, here’s what the actor said Shah Rukh Khan and Suhana Khan share the best father and daughter bond. SRK is immensely protective of his daughter, and he loves to take care of her with utmost warmth. SRK once appeared on Koffee With Karan with Alia Bhatt to promote his film, Dear Zindagi. The host of the show, Karan Johar, asked some firey questions to SRK in the chat show. One such question that got our attention was when Karan Johar asked, “Would you kill the person who kissed your daughter?”

Shah Rukh Khan transformed into a fatherfigure and answered it in the sassiest way

possible. He said, “I will rip his lips off.”

Reacting to it, Alia Bhatt said that’s sweet.

His daughter Suhana Khan is currently out

of India and keeps treating her fans with stunning pictures.

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Former premier Christy Clark endorses Mark Marissen for Vancouver mayor The campaign for political insider Mark Marissen’s Vancouver mayoral bid got a little more interesting this weekend, as former B.C. premier Christy Clark (who is also Marissen’s ex-wife) showed up to support him at his first in-person campaign event.

The private event was held in the West End on Saturday and included roughly 50 supporters from across the political spectrum.

Former Vancouver Greens board member Fernando Garci-Crespo Santalo, and former COPE Council Committee member Paulina Schwartz were among those in attendance.

Clark says she’s supporting Marissen’s bid to become mayor because she believes that city hall is currently lacking someone who has the ability to “get along with other people.”

“At this time in our city’s history, we need a mayor who’s really able to pull

together people of different views,” she said.

“Mark is exceptional at getting along with people from all political backgrounds.

He is very good at negotiating with federal and provincial governments.”

On policy, Clark says that while she and Marissen don’t agree on everything, she’s excited about his stated goal of “making room for the middle class” in the housing market.

When asked if she thinks the support of a divisive former premier might actually hurt Marissen’s chances of garnering votes with a fickle electorate like Vancouver’s, Clark notes that “Mark is a lot less partisan than I am... and I think that’s what City Hall needs.”

She goes on to say that “Mark and me don’t agree on everything to do with politics, but I believe in good, smart people who want to make a difference.”

Highrise fire in Vancouver caused by magnifying effect: fire department A fire on the roof of a Vancouver highrise under construction appears to have been caused by sunlight being magnified by a curved wall of windows.

That’s the determination reached by Vancouver Fire Rescue Services after last Tuesday’s fire on the eighth floor the building on Quebec Street and Fourth Avenue.

In a tweet, Trevor Connelly, VFRS assistant chief of operations, revealed the fire was caused by “magnification of sunlight by a concave shaped wall of windows,” attaching a photo showing charred roof insulation and several windows on the wall blown out. In an email to CTV News, Connelly said “these types of incidents are rare, however, it does happen.”

One example he pointed to, was

the infamous case of the “WalkieTalkie” tower in London, England.

The building has a curved shape, and had a glare so strong, it melted nearby cars and shops in September 2014. The solution to the solar glare problem was fixed by the erection of a permanent sunshade on the upper floors.

Connelly said he’s only seen such cases “roughly half a dozen times” in his career, including a vase in a sunny window that started a fire in a pillow, and one where a crystal or glass ball started two fires at the same time.

In this latest case on Quebec Street, the fire did extend from the roof into the interior of the building, but crews were able to extinguish it quickly before it spread too far. No one was hurt.

Greater Vancouver has the most secondary homeowners in Canada: survey A recent survey has found that Greater Vancouver has the most multiple property owners in Canada.

Carried out by Royal LePage, the online survey asked 1,500 Canadians in Greater Vancouver (500), the Greater Toronto Area (500) and the Greater Montreal Area (500) over one week in June. It was found that 12% of property owners in the GMA owned more than one property, 13% in the GTA and 14% in Greater Vancouver. Over 40% of those secondary property owners in the GTA and Greater Vancouver used equity from their primary residence to make the purchase.

“While some secondary properties are used for recreational purposes, many of these homes are foundational to Canada’s critical supply of

rental housing,” said Phil Soper, president and CEO, Royal LePage. “Entrepreneurial landlords supply housing to the 30% of Canadians who rent, be they new immigrants, students, young people entering the labour force or those who cannot or choose not to own their home.”

Secondary properties currently vacant: 7% When survey respondents from Greater Vancouver were asked about the purpose of their secondary properties, more than two-thirds said they were collecting rental income, if only some of the time. In fact, 27% of secondary property owners said they were not collecting any rental income at all, while 51% said they are using the unit solely as a rental property.

Thirteen per cent said they were using the

One-time payments to seniors over 75 likely to also go to the dead, documents say Canada’s seniors minister was warned in the spring that the Liberal government’s plan to send $500 payments to pensioners in August would end with some of the money going to people who had died.

It’s not unheard of for federal benefits to flow to a person after their death, often as a result of lags in reporting to federal authorities from provinces and territories that are responsible for collecting information about a person’s death.

Usually, though, those incorrect payments are followed by uncomfortable collection calls from Service Canada.

A late May briefing note to Seniors Minister

Deb Schulte said the government wouldn’t seek to recoup the deposits made to the deceased.

The briefing note obtained by The Canadian Press said the risks of paying the dead “is very low” and the department won’t reassess eligibility under such circumstances.

The note obtained under the Access to Information Act also says that one-time payments will be made to seniors postmortem if their survivors apply and the deceased met eligibility requirements.

Employment and Social Development Canada, which oversees the payments, wouldn’t say how much the almost $1.7 billion budgeted for the measure it estimates could go to dead people.

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Covid-19 vaccine hurdles await international students eyeing campus life in Canada Like many students eyeing in-class learning this fall, Nyle Maker is on the hunt for his second dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine before starting university in Hamilton.

But unlike most, the 18-year-old McMaster University student has already received a full series of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V in his home country of Pakistan and is embarking down a murky road of not just mixing shots, but effectively doubling them.

Maker says he was led to believe he didn’t meet the vaccine requirements to

secure a room under McMaster’s shifting campus housing policy, because Sputnik hasn’t received the rubber stamp from Health Canada or the World Health Organization.

The university recently revised its rules to give international students a little more leeway, but these changes were too little and too late to help Maker.

By the time he had one dose of Pfizer under his belt, Maker says McMaster’s residences had filled up, leaving him and many other students on a waiting list.

73% of Canadians say the US is not safe due to COVID-19: poll As COVID-19 case numbers continue to rise in the United States, most Canadians are wary of travelling south of the border.

According to a new Yahoo/Maru poll, 73 per cent of Canadians do not think it’s safe to travel to or vacation in the United States due to the pandemic. While 27 per cent of all Canadians believe it’s safe to travel south of the border, some provinces are more open to the idea, including in Alberta (37 per cent), Manitoba and Saskatchewan (30 per cent) and British Columbia (29 per cent).

A recent Yahoo/Maru poll found most Canadians do not think it's safe to travel to the U.S. due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A recent Yahoo/Maru poll found most Canadians do not think it’s safe to travel to the U.S. due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

While the federal government has loosened COVID-19 restrictions for Canadian travellers,

allowing the fully vaccinated to travel abroad without having to quarantine upon return, many still plan to avoid international travel and stay in Canada over the next six months due to concerns about the pandemic.

The Yahoo/Maru poll found that about half (51 per cent) of Canadians do not plan to travel within the next six months. For those who are planning a vacation, 35 per cent say they will travel domestically within Canada, while 9 per cent plan to travel internationally outside the U.S., and 5 per cent plan to visit the U.S. Compared to before the pandemic, just 26 per cent of Canadians didn’t take a vacation, while 37 per cent travelled domestically and 38 per cent internationally.

A recent Yahoo/Mary poll found that most Canadians do not plan to travel within the next six months.

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Prime Minister Trudeau announces the appointment of Senators The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that Canada’s new Governor General, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, appointed the following individuals as independent Senators to fill vacancies across Canada: - David Arnot, for Saskatchewan - Michèle Audette, for Québec - Amina Gerba, for Québec - Clément Gignac, for Québec - Karen Sorensen, for Alberta All new Senators were recommended by the Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointments, and chosen using the merit-based process open to all Canadians. This process ensures Senators are independent, reflect Canada’s diversity, and are able to tackle the broad range of challenges and opportunities facing the country.

Quote: “I am pleased to welcome Parliament’s newest independent Senators. Their combined experience, perspectives, and dedication to serving Canadians will further strengthen the Senate and help shape our country’s future. I look forward to working with them, and all Senators, as we take steps toward our recovery and to building back a more resilient and inclusive Canada for everyone.” The Senate is the Upper House in Canada’s parliamentary democracy. It unites a diverse group of accomplished Canadians in service of their country.

Created to counterbalance representation by population in the House of Commons, the Senate has evolved from defending regional interests to creating space for the voices of historically underrepresented groups like Indigenous peoples, racialized communities, and women.

With today’s announcement, there have been 60 independent appointments to the Senate made on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Under the Canadian Constitution, the Governor General appoints individuals to the Senate.

By convention, Senators are appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister.

In 2016, the selection process for Senators was opened to all Canadians.

Candidate submissions are reviewed by the Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointments, which provides recommendations to the Prime Minister.

The Board is guided by public, transparent, non-partisan, and merit-based criteria to identify highly qualified candidates.

Once appointed by the Governor General, new Senators join their peers to examine and revise legislation, investigate national issues, and represent regional, provincial, and minority interests – important functions in a modern democracy.

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Delta variant spreads globally as cases soar The Delta variant of Covid-19 has now been detected in 124 territories worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. It is expected to become the dominant variant globally in the coming months, with the WHO predicting that there could be more than 200 million confirmed cases within a matter of weeks. Infections are rising, particularly in Europe and the western Pacific region. Some Western countries have started to ease restrictions as death rates have dropped. But those without access to vaccines or with a slower vaccine rollout are facing a deadlier threat. Here, BBC journalists around the world give a sense of the toll the Delta variant is taking and what impact its spread could have.

Indonesia - Demand for funerals soars With more than 1,300 deaths in a day, Indonesia has become Asia’s new Covid epicentre. Hundreds of people have died in selfisolation - possibly because they could not get immediate treatment or were turned away by overwhelmed hospitals.

Wirawan, a firefighter in the capital city of Jakarta, sees the worsening crisis first-hand. He and his team are tasked with picking up bodies from homes before finally delivering them for burial. Before the latest spike in cases, he arranged two or three funerals a day. Now, he gets calls for up to 24 funerals a day.

That’s more than he can handle, so the bodies need to wait. Dying alone in Indonesia’s grim battle with Covid-19 The country is recording more than 50,000 new daily cases, and the government is keeping emergency restrictions until at least the end of this week. It is likely to extend the measures on Monday.

As the new highly transmissible Delta variant, which was first detected in India, continues to ravage the country, Indonesia is racing to vaccine its people. From 208 million people eligible for vaccines, only around 16 million have received both doses.

Graph showing rising cases and deaths in Indonesia What is the Delta variant?

Delta variant, the first cases identified in India, but it has been reported in lots of countries around the world. It is a variant of concern, meaning it has undergone some genetic changes that are potentially worrying in terms of transmissibility and vaccine escape.

In some countries, including the UK, Delta has become the dominant type of Covid circulating.

Experts say vaccines still work well to protect against severe disease caused by this variant Tunisia - Tunisia is now witnessing the most devastating impact of Covid since the global pandemic took hold. It’s not known whether most of the new infections are the Delta variant specifically, but case numbers grew after its known arrival here. Hospitals across the country are completely overwhelmed, with some medics filmed crying over a shortage of oxygen concentrators as they are forced to decide who lives and who dies. A digger tears the ground up for graves in Tunisia, July 2021image copyrightGetty Images

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Consider this. Last weekend Amit Shah, the greatest Home Minister India has had since Sardar Patel, travelled to Shillong, Meghalaya.

The Big Boss gathered around him the chief ministers, directors-general of police and chief secretaries of all the north-eastern states, and issued a diktat that they sort out their intractable inter-state boundary differences, as they should be mindful of the Modi government’s project of uniformity and conformity. It was a breathtaking demand, considering the demographic complexity and fluid politics of the region; but, then, Shah righteously arrogates to himself an uncomplicated clarity about how everyone should adjust to the requirements of a New India.

A few days later, the police forces of Assam and Mizoram were exchanging fire, and the respective chief ministers were exchanging angry tweets.

At the end of the day, five policemen (and now six) were dead; not at the hands of a terrorist or in enemy fire but by another state police force. So much for the preferences of India’s tough home minister.

For the BJP’s failed Chanakyas, the allure of pegasus was irresistible not allow himself to be bothered by those selfappointed moral guardians in Nagpur nor would he be overly deferential to the muchfamed central high command. He routinely reminded everyone that there were limits to the Modi-Shah overlordship of the party. His two-year innings in Bengaluru was the very anti-thesis of the ‘cleaner and nobler politics’ that the Modi crowd so strenuously flaunts in New Delhi. The onus is on the central bosses to explain why this tainted man was tolerated in the first instance, why he had to go now and how his departure will help the people of Karnataka.

If the latest Yeddy episode exposes the shabby calculations at work in Modi’s New India, consider how the Uttarakhand drama a few weeks ago brought home the utter political incompetence of the so-called Chanakyas.

A tiny state got saddled with three chief ministers within a space of six months. The failure to anticipate that a foisted chief minister would have to get elected to the state assembly is the kind

Amit Shah, of course, is not the first provincial politician from the “mainland” to think that the north-easterners can be made to fall in a neat line, as per the convenience of the imperial Delhi durbar; but he is indeed the first politician who has turned ignorance and arrogance into an axiom of statecraft.

Now, consider this. Within a space of one month after the ouster of Tirath Singh Rawat as Uttarakhand chief minister, one more BJP CM has had to put in his papers, this time in Karnataka. B.S. Yediyurappa’s presence in the chief ministerial gaddi these last two years not just mocked every single professed principle of good governance but also ridiculed the BJP’s much-touted claims of having ushered in a new kind of politics.

He used, first, his own resourcefulness to grab the chief minister’s post and then ruled the state on his terms of low cunning, baser morals and indifferent governance; he would

of blunder even the Rahul Gandhi-led Congress Party would not make. Just because the New Delhi-based media serenades them as master strategists does not necessarily make the ModiShah clique any smarter or wiser set of politicos.

And, once again, do consider the central leadership’s surrender in Uttar Pradesh.

A man who had never had any kind of administrative experience was given the chief ministerial baton; he expectedly failed – and failed spectacularly – when the first real crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, made its exacting demands on his administration.

Devotees gather at Har Ki Pauri Ghat to offer prayers during Kumbh Mela 2021, in Haridwar, Sunday, April 11, 2021. Photo: PTI The world watched in horror as the largest state became the epicentre of administrative apathy and political callousness. Uttar Pradesh deserves a break from the bumbling helmsman.

Yet the much-feared Modi-Shah team cannot bring about a change of leadership in Lucknow.

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India seeks to reform its military amid new security threats The top brass of the Indian military met last week to discuss massive reforms, which are aimed at integrating the capabilities of the army, the navy and the air force.

In a plan backed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, the current 17 single-service units will come under five “theater commands” in a bid to establish a unified approach to deal with future conflicts.

However, reports of discord between the service’ chiefs emerged as they squabbled over the structure and ambit of the unified commands.

Earlier this month, Chief of Defense Staff General Bipin Rawat and head of the air force, Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria, reportedly exchanged harsh words over the proposed reforms.

India reports 43,509 new Covid-19 cases, 634 deaths India recorded 43,509 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 634 deaths in the past 24 hours. Kerala recorded more than 22,000 cases for the second consecutive day.

The active cases in the country rise again and are now above the 4 lakh-mark.

In Kerala, there are 1.5 lakh active cases.

Meanwhile, a state-level serosurvey data released by the Government show that only 44 per cent of Kerala’s population above the age of six years had so far been infected by the coronavirus, against the national average of over 67 per cent. This, in effect, means that a much larger proportion of the

population in the state is still susceptible to the disease compared to many other states.

For the last two days, Kerala has reported over 22,000 infections, over 50 per cent of the national count. The state has been reporting the maximum number of cases in the country for several weeks now.

Maharashtra, the state with the highest case count in the country, also has a relatively low disease prevalence. The data shows that about 58 per cent of Maharashtra’s population has so far been infected. This could mean that even Maharashtra had done an above-average job at detecting and reporting the infections.

27 pc reservation for OBC, 10 pc for EWS in all-India quota for medical courses Experts say India has “a lot of catching up to do” in the domain of technological advancement, such as artificial intelligence.

The country faces security challenges from multiple fronts, including China and Pakistan.

Indian soldiers march during the Republic Day parade in New Delhi on January 26, 2014 Analysts warn that some of the old structures of the Indian military might not be equipped to deal with new conflicts The top brass of the Indian military met

last week to discuss massive reforms, which are aimed at integrating the capabilities of the army, the navy and the air force.

In a plan backed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, the current 17 single-service units will come under five “theater commands” in a bid to establish a unified approach to deal with future conflicts.

However, reports of discord between the service’ chiefs emerged as they squabbled over the structure and ambit of the unified commands.

Goa Chief Minister in trouble for asking to rape victims ‘why were they out so late?’

Four men posing as policemen at Goa’s Benaulim Beach raped two minor girls on Sunday, 25 July.

In a shocking incident, four men posing as policemen at Goa’s Benaulim Beach allegedly raped two minor girls on Sunday, 25 July.

Two days after the incident, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, under pressure from the Opposition over the gang rape said parents must introspect on why their children were on the beach late at night.

The police have arrested the four accused – 21-year-old Asif Hateli, 33-year-old Rajesh

Mane, 31-year-old Gajanand Chinchankar, and 19-year-old Nitin Yabbal. Of these, Rakesh Mane is believed to be a government servant.

The accused had threatened to upload photos of the incident on social media platforms if they weren’t paid Rs 65,000, according to The Times of India.

Theaccusedhavebeenbookedundersections of the Indian Penal Code, the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, and the Goa Children’s Act and have been remanded in four days of police custody.

Mizoram bunkers, Assam build-up elevate tensions on disputed border Bunkers constructed by suspected Mizo trespassers simply throughout the interstate boundary in Barak Valley’s Karimganj district and an allegedly large mobilisation of state forces by Assam to counter the transfer stored the border pot boiling for the fourth successive day for the reason that violence in Cachar final Monday.

Mizoram on Thursday dashed off its third missive to the Centre in two days, warning of a contemporary border showdown after its

neighbour Assam ramped up its posts within the neighborhood of the disputed zone that’s now below the CRPF’s watch.

Assam claimed late within the night that bunkers constructed by alleged Mizo intruders had been discovered within the Bhubirband space of Karimganj district’s Ratabari. Just a few years in the past, Mizos had allegedly intruded into Bhubirband and occupied a big space. “As of now, the situation is under control. We are not going to take any chances this time.

Indian Railways introduces new rules for online ticket booking People who have not booked train tickets online for a long time will now have to follow new rules. The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has introduced a set of new rules for online ticket booking and has asked passengers to make sure that they complete the verification process which includes the mobile number and email id.

Only after the verification process, an individual will be able to book his or her ticket. However, this whole process will only take 50 to 60 seconds. Also, this process

is interesting and not time-consuming.

Steps to book train tickets online: People who prefer travelling by train book their tickets through IRCTC. Before booking their tickets online, passengers are requested to create a login id and password on the portal.

So, to create a log in password, passengers will now have to provide their registered email and phone number. As soon as both are verified on the portal, a person can easily book the tickets.

Details on verification of email ID and phone number:

Raj Kundra arrested as he was not cooperating with probe: Police to Hight Court Mumbai Police told Bombay High As per section 41A, the police may, in cases Court that Raj Kundra was arrested in an where arrest is not warranted, issue summons alleged case of production and streaming of to the accused and record his or her statement. pornographic films as he was not cooperating The police said in their reply that a notice with the investigation. was issued prior to In an affidavit the arrest, but Kundra filed in response to refused to accept it.

Kundra’s petition “The fact that the challenging the arrest, petitioner refused the police also argued to accept the notice that section 67(A) implies that the of the Information petitioner refused Technology Act, which to cooperate with is about “publishing/ the investigation,” creating pornographic said the affidavit content”, was rightly filed by inspector invoked in the case.

Kiran Bidve.

Kundra was arrested During the by the Mumbai crime hearing before Justice branch on July 19, A S Gadkari on and is presently in Thursday, Kundra’s Raj Kundra in police custody. judicial custody. lawyer Aabad His bail application was rejected Ponda argued that when such a notice by a lower court on Wednesday. is issued, a period of two weeks is given In his petition, he claimed that the material to the person to appear for questioning. which he allegedly disseminated through “Kundra was not even given two days apps was not pornographic, and at the or two hours. His office premises were most it could be described as “lascivious”. searched by the police on the afternoon of Kundra (45), who is married to actor July 19. This went on for about three to four Shilpa Shetty, also alleged that the police hours during which Kundra was present had not issued any notice under section and cooperating. Later in the evening he was 41A of the Code of Criminal Procedure asked to accompany the police to the police before arrest, which is mandatory. station where he was arrested,” Ponda said.

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Punjab Court grants anticipatory bail to gangster-turned-activist Lakha Sidhana

A Delhi court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to gangster-turned-activist Lakha Sidhana in a case related to his alleged involvement in the violence that ensued at the Red Fort here on Republic Day. Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau granted pre-arrest bail to Sidhana.

Advocate Jasdeep Dhillon, representing the accused, said he had joined the probe and fully cooperated with the investigating agency.

Earlier, Public Prosecutor Pankaj Bhatia,

representing the police, told the court that SidhanahadinvitedtheprotesterstotheRedFort and is one of the main conspirators in the case.

Sidhana, however, denied any involvement in the Republic Day violence.

On January 26, protesting farmers clashed with police during the tractor rally against three farm laws and stormed into the Red Fort, hoisting religious flags on its domes and injuring scores of policemen.

Our 5 priority areas have started getting a push: Navjot Sidhu A day after Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh asked PSPCL to revisit all one-sided PPAs signed by previous government, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Navjot Sidhu on Friday claimed that his five priority areas had started getting a push.

Sidhu said this as he visited Congress Bhawan here to meet the party leaders and workers of Jalandhar and Kapurthala.

Addressing the media and the gathering,

he said, “Jehra sada panj-nukati priority area hai, ehde te hun boor pena shuru ho gya hai (Our efforts to get the five priority areas pushed has started bearing fruits).”

He reiterated that the Punjab model on power supply was far better than the Delhi model as Punjab was perhaps the only state which was offering Rs 10,000 crore subsidy to the masses as compared to Delhi which was offering only 1,700 crore subsidy.

Thousands of govt employees protest against 6th pay commission report Thousands of government employees associated with various organisations across the state have gathered in protest in Patiala against the state government’s implementation of the recommendations of the 6th pay commission report.

The protest has erupted in the last year of the current Congress-led state government which implemented the recommendations beginning July 1.

There are around 5.40 lakh government

employees and pensioners in the state.

Government employees holding the protest include employees associated with Punjab and UT employees and pensioners’ front, ministerial services association, vocational teachers’ union, employees of PSPCL, medical practitioners, and over 100 other groups.

According to the employees, they are being provided minimal increment in salaries with the new implementation.

Pakistan Govt to ban people from travel, shopping, education & public sector if not unvaccinated soon Pakistan will ban air travel for anyone who is without Covid-19 vaccine from August 1 and will require all public sector workers to get vaccinated by August 31, the government announced on Thursday, along with a host of other restrictions.

From August 1, unvaccinated people will

no longer be allowed to enter government offices, schools, restaurants and shopping malls, said Asad Umar, who heads National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC), a military-run body that oversees the pandemic response, at a joint news conference

PM Imran Khan names ‘common friend’ who offered Rs 1K crore bribe to withdraw case against Nawaz Sharif Prime Minister Imran Khan filed a reply in defamation case and recognized a “common friend” who offered him Rs 1,000 crore bribe on behalf of Shahbaz Sharif,younger brother of disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to withdraw Panama Papers case within the Supreme Court against then prime minister Nawaz Sharif.Imran Khan in 2017 alleged that

PML-N party president Mr Shabaz Sharif offered him Rs 1,000 crore by one “common friend” to withdraw the case of Panama Papers from Supreme Court in which then prime minister Nawaz Sharif was named. Prime Minister Khan at the moment didn’t disclose the name of one who provided him the bribe on behalf of Sharifs.

‘Azadi’ from Pakistan slogans raised in PoK rally after election results In a massive embarrassment for Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, citizens of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) raised slogans demanding ‘Azadi’ from the Pakistan government after the results of the recentlyheld polls in the region were announced. In the video shared by PML-N’s Maryam Nawaz Sharif, PoK citizens can be heard sloganeering against the newly-elected PTI government

in the region demanding ‘Azadi’ from them.

“Today, on the first day of the PTI’s fake victory, for the first time in Azad Kashmir, the slogan of “Independent Kashmir” was raised. When you rob people’s votes, oppress them, such incidents arise,” said Maryam Nawaz on her Twitter handle. Protests erupted onto the streets of PoK as thousands marched against the Pakistan.

US ‘Really Messed Up’: Imran Khan on Afghanistan war Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in an interview with on Tuesday, 27 July, questioned the United States for its invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and said, “I think the US has really messed it up in Afghanistan.”

Speaking to Judy Woodruff on PBS NewsHour, Khan said that a political settlement that is ‘inclusive’ and involves all factions,

including the Taliban, is the only solution to Afghanistan’s situation, Dawn reported.

The US and its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) allies have agreed to withdraw all troops in return for a deal by the Taliban militants to make sure that the areas under Taliban control would prevent extremist groups from operating.

FIJI Fiji wins second gold medal in Rugby Sevens at consecutive Olympic Games Fiji won its second Olympic gold medal in Rugby Sevens in consecutive Olympic Games having previously won at Rio 2016.

Two members of that Rio 2016 winning team, who also received the 2016 ANOC Award for Best Male Team, were part of the team here in Tokyo.

The Flying Fijians overcame rivals New Zealand in the final at Tokyo 2020 with a convincing 27-12 win. It was an emotional

moment for the team who haven’t seen their family since Easter as they have had to live in a bubble due to COVID-19.

“It takes a special kind of person to make that commitment. We knew at that stage it wasn’t going to be easy but I think the journey we’ve been on, we’ve recognised it would be tough and I think what you’ve seen out there today and the last three days is the resilience of the group dealing with whatever’s been thrown our way,” said Fiji coach Gareth Baber.

health staff who test positive for COVID-19 asked to continue working as outbreak worsens As Fiji continues to battle a spiralling outbreak, its government has directed asymptomatic health staff who have tested positive to COVID-19 to keep working. In a letter circulated by the Ministry of Health, those infected staff have been asked to continue their work in COVID safe “bubbles” without elaboration.

Health workers who are primary or secondary contacts of COVID patients have

also been told they need to keep working with infection control measures.

The directive comes as Fiji authorities shift their COVID-19 strategy from an elimination phase to a mitigation phase in parts of the country where community transmission is widespread.

More than 300 people have died after contracting COVID-19 in Fiji, and almost 6,000 new cases have been detected this week alone.

Nine opposition MPs arrested over criticism of land bill in Fiji Nine opposition MPs arrested over criticism of land bill in Fiji.

Detentions include two former PMs, prompt fears government is using police as a ‘political weapon’ Nine prominent opposition politicians including two former prime ministers have been arrested in Fiji for voicing concerns about a contentious land bill, leading to fears the Fijian government is using the

police as a “political weapon” to intimidate and crack down on dissent.

Six members of parliament and three other high-profile politicians were taken into custody by the criminal investigations department on Sunday and Monday in relation to comments they had made regarding proposed amendments to a land bill, which is expected to be debated in parliament this week.

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Maharashtra likely to ease Covid-19 restrictions, open local trains, gym & malls Maharashtra government is planning to open up local train services for people who have taken two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine, said state Health Minister Rajaesh Tope on Thursday. He added, this proposal is under discussion and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will take a final call on it.

The state government is also planning to ease Covid-19 restrictions in 25 districts where cases and positivity rate are low. However, no restrictions will be lifted in the remaining 11 districts that have high active cases.

“No relaxations have been planned for districts like Pune, Solapur, Sangli, Satara, Kolhapur,

Raigad Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri, Palghar, Beed and Ahmednagar as cases are still high there,” Tope said.

Speaking to India Today TV after a meeting of the state Covid-19 taskforce chaired by the chief minister, Rajesh Tope said it was recommended that in level three cities where weekend restrictions are currently applicable, the restrictions should now be limited only to Sunday.

“There was positive discussion regarding opening up theatres, shopping malls and gyms with fully vaccinated staff or limited attendancelike at 50 per cent capacity.

Govt not allowing opposition to discuss issues of national importance in Parliament - Rahul Amid adjournments in both houses of Parliament, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday alleged that the Centre is not allowing the Opposition to discuss the issues of national importance.

Taking to Twitter, the Wayanad MP said the Opposition should be allowed to talk about inflation, farmers and the alleged Pegasus snooping issue.

“The foundation of our democracy is that the Parliamentarians being the voice of the people discuss the issues of national importance. Modi government is not allowing the opposition to do this work. Don’t waste more time of

Basavaraj Bommai sworn in as Karnataka CM Three-time MLA and former Minister Basavaraj Bommai took oath as the 30th Chief Minister of Karnataka on July 28.

He was sworn in by Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot in the presence of senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, including former chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and BJP Karnataka in-charge Arun Singh.

He took oath in the name of God amid cheers from wellwishers and his supporters, who were also raising slogans of Bharat Mata Ki Jai. PM Modi finally broken his silence on the change of guard in Karnataka. Congratulating

new Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, he tweeted: “He brings with him rich legislative and administrative experience.

I am confident he will build on the exceptional work done by our government in the state.

Best wishes for a fruitful tenure.”

He praised former chief minister Mr. Yediyurappa, who resigned on July 26. “No words will ever do justice to the monumental contribution of Shri B. S. Yediyurappa Ji towards our party and for Karnataka’s growth. For decades, he toiled hard, travelled across all parts of Karnataka and struck a chord with people. He is admired for his commitment to social welfare,” the PM tweeted.

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Parliament - allow us to talk about inflation, farmers and #Pegasus!,” said Rahul Gandhi in a tweet roughly translated from Hindi.

The monsoon session of the Parliament, which started on July 19, witnessed adjournments almost every day over several issues.

Earlier on Tuesday, Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu raised concerns about the continuous disruptions of the House.

Addressing the House, Naidu said, “I am concerned about the media reports that some sections of the House are determined not to allow the House to function for the remainder of the session.

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