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Muslims are happy in India because we are Hindus. Hence, India is a Hindu Rashtra: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

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Muslims are happy in India because we are Hindus. Hence, India is a Hindu Rashtra: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said that India is a land of Hindus and hence it is a Hindu Rashtra.


Addressing a meeting of intellectuals, RSS chief said that people think we progressed after the British came to India. It is incorrect. “We could have established a classless society in India even without the British intervention on basis of the Vedas,” he said.

Read: Mohan Bhagwat was right when he said ‘Lynching’ is a Western concept and here is why the Left is so outraged

Adding that the politics of India which changed after the second world war revealed the vested interest of various parties. They changed their tunes, otherwise, the fact is India is a country of Hindus and it is a Hindu Rashtra. “Hindu is not a name of any Puja or language or any region. It is a name of culture and it is a heritage for everyone who lives in India. It embraces and respects other cultures. Hence whenever any country stumbled, they came to India to know the truth. This land has welcome all and helped everyone grow. This has been our history.”

He further added that the Jews were roaming everywhere but only in India did they get refuge. “The Parsis and their places of worship are safe only in India. Muslims in India are the happiest than anywhere else in the world. Why is it so? Because we are Hindus. And hence ours is a Hindu Rashtra,” said RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.

Devdutt Pattanaik is like a dog chasing a car, he wouldn’t know what to do with it once he caught it

Nirwa Mehta
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Devdutt Pattanaik is like a dog chasing a car, he wouldn’t know what to do with it once he caught it

‘Mythologist’ Devdutt Pattanaik has been having an epic meltdown on Twitter. The ‘Devi’ author has referred to women on Twitter, complete strangers, as ‘chudail’ and ‘bitch’. Continuing his bizarre rant from last night, Pattanaik today morning tweeted a morphed image of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as Goddess Lakshmi and asked for a movement to get Dr Subramanian Swamy to be appointed as Finance Minister in place of Sitharaman.


Sitharaman, visibly bewildered at this bizarre behaviour of Pattanaik, took to Twitter to wonder what is he up to.


At this, Pattanaik then said he may have crossed the line and ‘apologised’.


Only to explain how Sitharaman should have never ‘allowed’ this morphing of image.


He then claims how this image was ‘bad Vastu’ for the economy and he knows it because ‘he reads scriptures’. Wonder which scriptures condone the language in the following tweets of Pattanaik.


Once he realised perhaps ‘reading scriptures’ may not make him learned, he again went on an offensive.


The ‘Shikhandi’ author even resorted to making a homophobic comment, asking someone to go to a dating site for homosexuals.


Which is weird, considering he himself came out of the closet and had openly admitted he’s gay. Pattanaik, in his book ‘Shikhandi: And Other ‘Queer’ Tales They Don’t Tell You’ writes about LGBTQ stories in Hinduism.

Read: Two-tier free speech: the magical hypocrisy of Javed Akhtar

Devdutt Pattanaik has metamorphosed into this proverbial dog chasing a car made popular by Heath Ledger who played the role of Joker in The Dark Knight. He continues to froth around his mouth, bark and run but doesn’t quite know what to do once the car stops.


He probably needs medical intervention for the psychotic meltdown he is having. Twitter has been a great leveller in more than one ways. These ‘celebrities’ one had put on a pedestal growing up because of their way with words, like Javed Akhtar and now Devdutt Pattanaik, have fallen from grace because of the way they interact with the ones who are actually their end consumers.

Perhaps it is time Pattanaik uses his gift of words and stops being a bitch.

Scam-accused Karti Chidambaram shares fake image to target PM Modi cleaning Mamallapuram beach

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Scam-accused Karti Chidambaram shares fake image to target PM Modi cleaning Mamallapuram beach

The Congress party seems to be unhappy about the informal summit between Prime Minister Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping as they are now attempting to discredit the Narendra Modi government by indulging in fake propaganda to discredit the event.

After Shashi Tharoor posted a photoshopped image on Twitter, it was now multi-crore scam accused Karti Chidamabaram’s turn to further his propaganda, who tried to take a dig at PM Modi by tweeting a misleading image to target PM Modi for ‘plogging’ at a beach in Mamallapuram.


On Sunday, the scam-accused Karti Chidambaram posted an image on his Twitter account which showed an image of videographers shooting an event. The next two images showed Prime Minister Modi’s recent leisurely walk on a Mamallapuram beach, where he picked up trash that was strewn on the picturesque beach.

Also Read: Congress leader Digvijay Singh shares a fake image to target the Modi government

The Sivaganga MP also tried to mock PM Modi by tweeting ‘Jai Shree Ram’ on his Twitter post. He suggested that while PM Modi was followed by a large camera crew to video record him picking up garbage at the beach.

Congress spokesperson and Supreme Court lawyer Brijesh Kalappa also posted the same image of the camera crew to claim that they were shooting PM Modi on the beach.


But actually, the first image shared by Karti Chidamabaram in which some video and photojournalists recording an event at a beach is seen is nowhere connected to PM Modi’s Mamallapuram event. The image was taken from a PR website called Tayscreen. The firm produces films and videos for advertisement and promotional activities, and the image is a still photo from such a shoot.

The image Karti Chidamabaram tweeted actually belongs to website Tayscreen

By tweeting these unrelated images, Karti Chidamabaram resorted to fake propaganda to insinuate that the PM Modi’s beach ‘plogging’ event was actually staged.

Earlier in the day, senior Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor had also resorted to similar propaganda after he had deliberately shared a photoshopped image of Times of India headline mocking the informal summit. The headline read, “Modi, Xi will mate 6 times in 24 hours”.

Also Read: Maharashtra Youth Congress uses 2012 Indian Idol audition contestants to depict them as ‘unemployed youth’

Karti Chidambaram is currently facing investigation in a number of cases including money laundering and having undisclosed foreign assets. He has been charged in cases like INX Media case and Aircel Maxis case and is facing probe from the central agencies. His father P Chidambaram has also been facing an investigation by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the Aircel Maxis case.

Delhi: One suspect arrested in PM Modi’s niece Damyantiben Modi’s purse-snatching case, items recovered

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Delhi: One suspect arrested in PM Modi’s niece Damyantiben Modi’s purse-snatching case, items recovered

Delhi Police has arrested a suspect, Nonu, in connection with the purse-snatching incident of Damyantiben Modi, Prime Minister Modi’s niece in Delhi yesterday. The snatched items have been recovered. Based on her complaint, a case was registered and the police later identified two snatchers.

In a shocking incident, some unidentified miscreants snatched the purse of PM Modi’s niece while she was on her way to Gujarati Samaj Bhawan in Delhi on Saturday. PM Modi’s niece was attacked right outside the gate of the Bhawan while she was paying the auto fare.

The DCP(north) Monica Bhardwaj had informed that a case of robbery has been registered based on the victim’s statement. The victim, Damyantiben Modi, along with her husband had travelled from Amritsar to reach Delhi today morning. They were supposed to stay at the Gujarati Samaj Bhawan before leaving in the evening.

Read: PM Modi’s niece attacked: Robbers snatch her handbag from autorickshaw near Gujarat Samaj Bhawan

Damyantiben in her statement said that she was ambushed by the attackers when the auto had stopped in front of Bhawan and she was about to pay for the fare. At around 8:10 am, two bike-borne men waylaid her from behind and snatched her purse which was kept on her lap. Following the incident, she went to the Civil Lines Police station and filed a complaint.

As per reports Damyantiben Modi also fell down from the auto during the struggle and suffered some injuries. She was later taken to AIIMS Trauma Centre.

Damyantiben Modi is the daughter of PM Modi’s elder brother Prahlad Modi. She has stated that she was carrying Rs 56,000 in cash, two mobile phones and some important documents in her handbag that was snatched.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor shares a photoshopped image of TOI headline to undermine Modi-Xi meet

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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor shares a photoshopped image of TOI headline to undermine Modi-Xi meet

Senior Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday attempted to pull off a cheap trick of taking a dig at Prime Minister Modi by deliberately posting a fake image of Times of India headline.

In a hurry to target the Prime Minister for his informal summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Congress MP Shashi Tharoor shared an image which showed headline of a Times of India article mocking the meet. The headline read, “Modi, Xi will mate 6 times in 24 hours”.

The now-deleted tweet by Congress leader Shashi Tharoor

As social media users pointed out that Shashi Tharoor was indulging in spreading fake images, the Congress MP had to delete the misleading image. However, he did not apologise for spreading fake images targetting PM Modi on social media.

This is not the first time that the same image has been doing rounds in the social media. The Congress ecosystem has been time and again have spread this image on social media platforms. Last year, the usual suspects like Vinod Jose, the Executive Editor at the Caravan and disgraced former IPS Officer, Sanjiv Bhatt had shared the same image to discredit PM Modi’s Wuhan visit.

Times of India had also tweeted an explanation in 2018 that the image doing the rounds on social media where the purported Times of India headline read ‘Modi, Xi will mate 6 times in 24 hours’ is fake and malicious.


“A photoshopped image of our headline on the Modi-Xi meet is doing the rounds. All our editions carry the correct headline. You can see the difference when the correct & fake headlines are placed together. The one on the right is the photoshopped image with the word ‘mate’ tilted”, Times of India had tweeted with the screenshot of the original headline and the photoshopped image.

Read: Congress’ Shashi Tharoor caught lying on cow-related violence in an interview with Swati Chaturvedi

A trend has emerged in the recent years where the usual elements try to undermine Prime Minister Modi’s meets with leaders of powerful nations by concerted attempts at mocking Narendra Modi.

Last year, the Congress party had attempted to undermine Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s historic visit to India by tweeting a juvenile video of the Indian PM hugging world leaders. Congress had also attempted to drag domestic politics into Japanese PM Shinzo Abe’s diplomatic visit to India while claiming credit for the Bullet Train and slamming Narendra Modi for it simultaneously.

PMC Bank Scam: MD Joy Thomas became Junaid Khan, married his assistant per Islamic rituals and owned properties with her

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PMC Bank Scam: MD Joy Thomas became Junaid Khan, married his assistant per Islamic rituals and owned properties with her

Former MD of Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank, Joy Thomas, converted to Islam, married his assistant at the bank as per Islamic rituals in 2012, changed his name to Junaid Khan and owned 10 properties in Pune with his second wife allegedly as part of the Rs 4,355 crore scam, reports have revealed.

Investigation agencies have discovered documents that suggest that Junaid Khan had several investments under that name as well as his second wife. According to Mid-day, Khan’s second wife owns nine flats and a boutique in Pune. The total value of these assets hasn’t been ascertained yet but is estimated to be around Rs. 4-5 crores.

Read: Nirav Modi financial fraud: All you need to know

While investigating Khan’s investments, the agencies found four flats in Mumbai and Thane registered under his and the first wife’s name. They also discovered a café registered under the name of his son from the first marriage. Soon, documents under the name of Junaid Khan and a woman who wasn’t known to be his wife at that point of time were also discovered. Later, it was discovered that the woman was his wife and Joy Thomas had changed his name to Junaid Khan.

As per reports, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) discovered that all these properties were purchased since 2012, which coincides with the time period when the accused Rakesh and Sarang Wadhawan of Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL) began the non-payment on loans while borrowing additional amounts from PMC Bank.

Read: Maharashtra Cooperative Bank scam: All you need to know why ED filed an ECIR against Sharad Pawar

“The properties are jointly owned by Thomas and his second wife and we are yet to find out the share percentage of ownership of the ten properties. As it is jointly owned, the attachment could be difficult but if we are able to prove those bought from the proceeds of crime then we can initiate proceedings and attach these properties,” a senior police officer told India Today. “Besides the ten properties, Thomas also owns a flat in Thane and a commercial property which is under the control of his son from his first wife,” the officer added.

Former MD of PMC bank, Joy Thomas aka Junaid Khan was arrested by a special investigation team (SIT) of the EOW of Mumbai Police on the 4th of October. He had been absconding until then. The EOW had filed an FIR on September 30 (Monday) against HDIL and PMC Bank officials in the PMC bank fraud case. The persons named in the FIR include PMC bank’s former chairman Waryam Singh, former Managing Director Joy Joseph Thomas, Housing Development and Infrastructure Limited (HDIL) group promoters Sarang Wadhawan and Rakesh Wadhawan.

The RBI has already dismissed the board of governors of PMC bank and has appointed an administrator. The bank has been put the bank under restrictions, putting a limit of ₹1000 withdrawal by depositors initially, which was later raised to ₹10000 and ₹25000. The bank is also not allowed to give any loan without the prior approval of RBI. The restrictions have been put for six months after RBI was informed about the PMC Bank fraud by a whistleblower inside the bank.

Nirbhaya gangrape victim’s friend demanded money for appearing on interviews, claims journalist

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Nirbhaya gangrape victim’s friend demanded money for appearing on interviews, claims journalist

In a shocking new revelation, a journalist, Ajit Anjum, former managing editor of India Today and News 24 had alleged that the friend of Nirbhaya, who was brutally gang-raped in a moving vehicle in December 2012, demanded thousands of rupees from news channels for appearing for interviews. Anjum contended that the sole witness of the Nirbhaya gangrape case had shamelessly monetised the tragedy that befell on her girlfriend.


In a series of tweets posted by Anjum, the journalist asserted that Nirbhaya gangrape victim’s friend charged exorbitant money from news channels for narrating the ghastly sequence of events of the dreadful night of December 16, 2012, when his friend Nirbhaya was fatally assaulted and gang-raped by 6 men in a private bus. Anjum claimed that he had conducted a sting operation on Nirbhaya’s friend where he is seen dealing with a TV channel and accepting money to give it an interview.

Ajit Anjum tweeted that the incident is from September 2013 when the accused in the Nirbhaya rape case were sentenced to death by a fast track court. There was continuous coverage of Nirbhaya gangrape case on all channels so I asked reporters to get Nirbhaya’s friend to the channel’s studio for an interview but they informed me that he was demanding money for his appearance on news channels,” Anjum alleged.


He further added, “I asked my reporters to bring Nirbhaya’s friend to the studio. However, I was informed that his friend goes to the studio with his uncle and charges thousands for an interview. I could not believe it at first. It was insane.”

Expressing his anguish over the man’s brazen attempts to monetise a cruel and lethal assault on his own friend, Anjum asserted that he was baffled at the moral bankruptcy of the boy, watching him broker deals with channels for telling her poignant story. “I constantly saw him on television. I never saw the pain in his eyes,” Anjum said.


Deciding to conduct a sting operation on Nirbhaya’s friend, Anjum said, “I made my reporter sit in front of me and asked him to talk to boy’s uncle on phone. He demanded Rs one lakh for coming to the studio but the deal was finalised for Rs 70000. I wanted that money to be given in front of Nirbhaya’s friend. Rs 70000 was offered to uncle right in front of the boy. Everything was recorded. He was then taken to the studio. After ten minutes into the conversation, the boy was asked why does he take money from channels to narrate the story. The boy kept refusing that he charges money for his appearance on interviews.”

“Then during the recording, the boy was shown part of his sting on screen. It was then he apologised in front of the cameras,” the journalist tweeted.


Anjum said that the decision to not broadcast the sting operation was taken considering that the case was ongoing in the court. The journalist was concerned that the explosive nature of the sting operation could have been used by the lawyers of the accused in their favour and thus he decided against the broadcasting of the sting operation.

Abusive author Devdutt Pattanaik calls a woman ‘bitch’, Twitter finds no violation of its rules

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Abusive author Devdutt Pattanaik calls a woman ‘bitch’, Twitter finds no violation of its rules

The micro-blogging site, Twitter which had earlier conceded to its left-leaning bias and had recently vexed several of its users by displaying its selective targeting based on ideology has now said that an abusive author, Devdutt Pattanaik hurling abuse at a woman and calling her a ‘bitch’ does not violate its conduct rules.


The abusive troll today took to Twitter to call a woman named Kanchana Premkumar ‘bitch’, for simply pointing to him the difference between a ‘lungi’ and ‘veshti’ (a Tamil outfit).

SS of Devdutt Pattanaik’ Tweet

The ‘mythologist’ Devdutt Pattanaik, however, did not stop there. After being called out for his horrid mindset, he posted a Tweet defending his act. In his defence, he equated his scornful comment to ‘Sarama’ a mythological being referred to as the female wolf of the Gods.

This sought of trifling behaviour is something which is very much expected from the author who has several times in the past resorted to using language that could only ever be construed as evidence of his deteriorating mental health.

Recently, Devdutt Pattanaik had displayed similar derangement by hurling abuse at another woman and calling another woman ‘chudail’. It is rather uncouth and vile to call a woman ‘chudail’ (witch) for a mere difference of opinion, but it is very much expected from a person as brainsick as probably Pattanaik is.

As it so happens, it’s not the first time that Pattanaik has had a meltdown on social media. During the Padmavat controversy, the author believed it was a good idea to demonize the men of the society in which women performed Jauhar to avoid being defiled by Islamic barbarians. He accused Hindus who understood and respected the motivations of the women who performed Jauhar of being ‘marital rapists’ and claimed they just liked burning women.

Apart from his atrocious conduct on social media, his work has been criticized heavily for errors, manipulations and outright lies. He has been accused of misinterpreting Sanskrit texts and many believe he does so on purpose to peddle a particular version of Leftist political ideology.

Alka Lamba returns to Congress after a brief 5 year stint with AAP, joins party in presence of PC Chacko

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Alka Lamba returns to Congress after a brief 5 year stint with AAP, joins party in presence of PC Chacko

After serving the Indian National Congress (INC) in various capacities for more than 20 years, Alka Lamba quit the grand old party to join the Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party in December 2014. However, within 5 years of being in AAP, Lamba grew disillusioned with the party leadership and finally resigned from the party in September 2019 after rumbling for over a year that she would leave the party. Today, the MLA from the Chandni Chowk joins Congress fold in presence of party leader, PC Chacko.


Last month, Alka Lamba had taken to Twitter to inform her followers that she had given her resignation from the AAP party. Lamba had tweeted in early September that it is time to bid farewell to the party and give up its primary membership. Days after her tweet, Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel had on September 19 disqualified Lamba from the House. Today, in the presence of PC Chacko, Alka Lamba joins Congress.

Read: Finally, AAP’s Alka Lamba quits, a month after AAP spokesperson taunted her that they will accept her resignation on Twitter too

Before her resignation last month, Alka Lamba had gained the notoriety of announcing her resignation arbitrarily without actually submitting it. Her threats of resignation were so pervasive that senior leaders in AAP were ready to accept her resignation but she was yet to officially tender her resignation. AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj had stated that Lamba has ‘announced’ her impending resignation over a dozen times but is yet to actually resign. He had added that the party will accept her resignation even on Twitter.

A former President of Delhi University Students’ Union, Lamba began her career as a student leader and also served as the National President of the National Students’ Union of India. She had also offered her services as General Secretary of Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee and Secretary of All India Congress Committee.

Alka Lamba’s relations with AAP had turned sour when in last December Arvind Kejriwal had allegedly asked her to resign from the party after her refusal to support party’s resolution on Rajiv Gandhi’s Bharat Ratna. Earlier this year, Lamba had claimed that proposal of joining Congress would be a matter of respect for her.

Malpura, Rajasthan: Arson during curfew imposed after stone-pelting during Durga Puja procession, police launches probe

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Malpura, Rajasthan: Arson during curfew imposed after stone-pelting during Durga Puja procession, police launches probe

Incident of arson has been reported from the town of Malpura in Rajasthan which has been on tenterhooks after clashes broke out after stone pelting at the Durga Puja procession. Aggrieved by the incident, the locals in the town sat on a dharna outside Malpura police station, refusing to burn the effigies of Ravan till their demand of arresting the miscreants was met. However, seeing no end to the impasse, the district administration burnt the Ravan effigies on Wednesday morning and imposed Section 144 in the region to avoid escalation.

On Friday, the local administration relaxed the curfew restrictions for two hours in the morning for people to stuff necessary provisions. The curfew had been in place since stone pelting on Durga Puja procession. At around 10:30 am, the blaring sirens intimated people of the reimposition of the curfew restrictions. However, in the afternoon, panic set in among the local authorities as two shops on the road leading to truck stand caught fire. This sparked tensions among the residents who surrounded police officers in their area and expressed anger over the incident of arson.

Read: 8 attacks on Durga Puja and Dussehra processions in just 2 days, Durga idol vandalisation reported across India

On being informed about the arson incident, Inspector General of Ajmer Police Sanjeev Nirjari, Superintendent of Police Adarsh Sidhu, Additional Superintendent of Police Gordhan Lal rushed to the spot to take stock of the situation. The officials tried to assuage the seething anger among the people by assuring them that swift and punishable action would be taken against the culprits. The police also detained a few youths from the locality for questioning.

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