In a high-level meeting chaired by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval in Srinagar with security officials and bureaucrats on Thursday, he asked the Security Forces to strengthen the anti-terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir while asking them to ensure zero collateral damage. Doval was in Srinagar for the second time since the abrogation of Article 370, stripping Jammu and Kashmir of the separate status.
Officers from Army, Central Reserve Police Force, State Police and other agencies attended this high-level meeting held in Srinagar. Doval, who is back in the national capital after holding a series of meeting with security functionaries and office-bearers in Srinagar from Wednesday, had reportedly asked the officials to work towards creating such an atmosphere in the Kashmir Valley that the common man could follow his routine properly without being intimidated by terrorist groups.
According to the reports, the NSA took stock of the situation and directed the forces to expedite their counter-terrorism operations. However, Ajit Doval also cautioned the forces to protect the lives and property of the citizens in their campaign against terrorists. Besides, Doval also reviewed the developmental projects for people and urged officials for their expeditious implementation, which comprises giving best health care, the shipment of apple boxes out of the Kashmir Valley and other such things.
This was the second visit to the valley by the NSA after the central government revoked Article 370 on August 5 and bifurcated the state into two union territories, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Both Union Territories will come into existence on October 31 and the first Lieutenant Governor of both the regions will take oath on the same day. On his maiden visit to Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370, the NSA encamped here for 11 days to review the security situation and interact with the locals to understand the difficulties faced by them.
Speaking for the first time ever over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman appears to be taking the moral responsibility for the killing by saying it “happened under his watch”.
Denying any prior knowledge of the killing, Prince Mohammed bin Salman told a reporter in December 2018, according to quotes released ahead of a new PBS documentary to be aired on October 1, ahead of the first anniversary of the journalist’s death: “It happened under my watch. I get all the responsibility because it happened under my watch.”
The documentary, “The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia”, slated to be released next week, examines the Saudi leader’s rise, his rule and ties to the events surrounding Khashoggi’s murder. It also features never-before-seen interview footage of Khashoggi months before his death, explaining how he went from being a supporter of the Crown Prince to a critic.
MBS, prior to this, has never been heard publically speaking of the killing in the last one year, though a UN expert had on July 19, 2019, citing ‘credible information’, linked the Saudi Arabia crown prince to journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. He had stated that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be investigated in the murder of Washington Post columnist and Kingdom critic Jamal Khashoggi.
In October, last year, the Turkish authorities had accused the Crown prince of Saudi Arabia of executing a premeditated homicide of Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi inside Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
A report by the special rapporteur, Agnes Callamard, read that the “personal assets” should be targeted with sanctions until there is proof he was not responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Jamal Khashoggi, 58-year-old journalist, a US-based columnist for the Washington Post and prominent critic of Prince Mohammed, had been living in self-imposed exile in the United States since 2017. He was a citizen of the USA, with bonhomie with many Trump administration officials. He had a huge twitter following.
Khashoggi incriminated Saudi of being complicit in aggravating humanitarian crisis going in Yemen, he also spoke vocally about sanctions against Canada for speaking on behalf of jailed activist like Raif Badawi along with many scathing comments.
Khashoggi was last seen entering the Saudi consulate on October 2, 2018, to obtain papers he needed to marry his fiancee Hatice Cengiz from where he suspiciously disappeared. According to reports, he was assassinated by Saudi government officials, inside Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. His fiancee was waiting outside the consulate when he was being killed.
Turkey was first to claim that Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate, saying it had evidences including audio recordings. Initially, Saudi authorities had strongly denied the allegation. However, subsequently, the investigators concluded that Khashoggi was forcibly restrained after a struggle and injected with a large amount of a drug, which resulted in an overdose that led to his death.
In January 2019, the UN’s human rights office tasked Callamard with establishing “the nature and extent of responsibilities states and individuals for the killing”.
Though the senior Saudi officials insisted that Khashoggi’s death was the result of a “rogue” operation, the Callamard’s report said Khashoggi was “brutally slain” inside the consulate that day and further concluded that it was “an extrajudicial killing for which the state of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is responsible”.
A few days ago (September 22, 2019) there was a news about a minor girl gang raped in Kaushambi. When we looked in to the same, some details emerged pointing towards the fact that the girl was from Dalit community and rapists were all Muslims. As is the standard operating procedure of secular media, there was no outrage, humanity didn’t die. Even though the girl belongs to Dalit community, there was no media coverage. She could have got the coverage, had she been a victim of upper caste Hindus. Which she was not.
OpIndia took the story in September 22 and followed it up with two more stories about the accused getting caught. The details were shocking as the culprits, Adil, Najik and their unidentified friend, not only raped the girl, but they went on to make a video. The girl, media reports claim, knew the rapists and begged for mercy in the name of Allah.
It was shared on OpIndia Hindi Facebook page with the headline (see screenshot) that has not a single word that’s offending or manufactured, or fake, or goes against journalistic ethics. These words came from girl’s mouth and the names of rapists are not protected by some law of the land. Then comes Facebook, with its ‘community guidelines’ and deletes the post with the news report.
The same Facebook hosts several news stories with words ‘Jai Shri Ram’, ‘she kept begging for mercy in the name of god’, ‘bhagwaan ke liye chhod do’, then how come Facebook gets all this touchy-feely about Muslim names and ‘Allah ki kasam’? This is a clear case of shielding rapists because they belong to a certain religion!
When we tried to talk it out with Facebook, I was told that image might be problematic, even after we blurred the girl. If you see the image, no sane mind would tell that the image of offensive, demeaning or promotes hatred in the name of religion. The face of the rapist is visible (unless of course Facebook finds that insulting somehow), and girl’s dress is yellow. You can’t make out what’s wrong with sharing this image as it is not graphic, nor depicts violence or shows blood etc.
So, the question is: what kind of image should be used to represent these ghastly crimes? Should we always use a girl timidly sitting in the corner of a room? Does that imagery somehow enhances or reduces the ghastliness of such criminal acts? How does that image promote hatred or is disturbing?
A 15 year old kid is being gang raped and this news, not even some opinion piece, the news itself is against Facebook’s community guidelines! At the same time, these companies won’t ever tell you the exact guidelines you have violated. They give you the link and ask you to familiarise yourself with their guidelines so that you don’t commit the mistake again. You can keep searching the link to know which section or subsection you violated and won’t ever reach a conclusion.
Yet, we try to understand things at our own level to figure out why Facebook people are annoyed. After spending good amount of time, you will realise that it’s ok to post condoms over Trishool, show Hindu devi as a prostitute, show male genitalia with Shiva’s tripund, portray Hindu deities in vulgar ways, but if you post a rape news, where culprits are Muslims and your headline has Allah, it gets in to their bottoms. And, boy! They don’t like it.
Hinduphobia and content offending Hindu Dharma is flowing with uncontrolled fluidity on timelines of Facebook. Abusive words for Hindu deities, peeing on Shivlinga, desecration of temples and statues, poster of Bhagwan Hanuman being ripped and beaten by chappals are all fine under Facebook’s community guidelines. They don’t violate any chapter, section, subsection, sentence, phrase, word, thoughts or any part of anything from their community guidelines.
Then you start to think whether their community comprises of some 14th century Islamic attackers and thieves or those creating such biased policies have their DNAs where mocking Hindu deities, their vulgar portrayal is all fine but when you name a Muslim rapist, who makes a video, uploads it, Facebook suddenly gets a burning sensation up its you-know-where.
Whether it’s Facebook, or YouTube, these organisations have always taken shelter of arbitrary ‘community guidelines’. They want news organisations or general public to shield the culprits by the web of words where they are addressed as Ram (name changed) so that one particular community doesn’t feel hurt. But the fact is, any community, Hindu or Muslim, feels hurt because a rapist is named in a report, they should be ashamed of their existence.
So, who does this idiotic act: computers or humans?
When you think about it, look at the sequence of events, you wonder if computers and algorithms are doing the ‘deleting’ part, or are they busy targeting a few organisations or people based on their biases? When we shared it on our Facebook page, we got the message that it violated community guidelines. You can’t even appeal as the button which says ‘see details’ and enables you to appeal, is offline in these cases.
As you would expect, you would like to know what’s the issue. When we mailed Facebook they asked us to appeal and also tried to dictate how we should have formed the headline. I am an editor of this website. Someone who works at Facebook, has zero media experience, tells me how to frame headlines!
Perhaps, they wanted the headline to be like this: Some guys did something to a girl, police is doing something. And, they would expect you to write the report like this: “A 15 year old girl had gone somewhere, three guys Ram, Shyam and Kanhaiya (names changed) took her somewhere and did something bad.” Have you ever seen the ‘names changed’ prefixed with ‘Salim-Rashid-Parwez’? You wouldn’t have, because crimes of Muslims have been covered under ‘from particular community’ and their names ‘changed’ by Hindu names.
It is not about why do we want to write Muslim’s names. It is about the fact that if Hindu naming is very much conventional, and even the burden of Muslim crimes gets hidden under ‘name changed’, purposefully or ignorantly Hindu, why shouldn’t we write Muslim accused’s name? Is it protected by law?
When the story was removed by Facebook, I asked them if the same news was deleted for being on Facebook page, how come it still exists at over 30,000 places on Facebook itself, if it is deleted by algorithms or unbiased humans? Why isn’t all posts deleted? I told them that I shared the same news and it is very much there on my profile. Eight hours later they suspend my account for 24 hours. It means, it’s not automatic. When I gave them the information, they targeted me. As if this was not all, someone reported my tweet on Twitter. However, Twitter said it found no issues with the tweet.
The question is: Why does Facebook feel its backyard is on fire when Muslims are addressed as criminals in context of a crime? What’s so special about these Muslim culprits that their names should be hidden under Ram (name changed)? Does Facebook approve of Muslim rapists? Does Facebook uses parts of some particular book in its community guidelines where it says raping a kafir is all in good spirits?
If it’s actually as such, then Facebook must declare that their guidelines have descended from the heavens and Zuckerberg received it in some cave of Hawai Islands. And according to those commandments, we will allow Hinduphobic content, vulgar portrayal of Hindu deities, posts demeaning Hindu Dharma as freedom of expression, but reports of Muslims involved in a gang rape, however factual those may be, won’t be allowed as they go against our sacred guidelines.
It is for you to decide what’s going on here. Facebook takes our data, what we like or dislike, our images, posts, the style of our writing, our location, everything we posts is stored on a server. That data is sold to any political party, some food chain, some online shopping company, cosmetics giant, banks or anyone in need and has the money.
So, no one should say what do we pay Facebook. Or the statement that it is a private company, it can make its own policies. Of course, they can keep them at their whim, if they stop stealing and storing data, with or without consent. We are paying them and they ought to protect the rights that is provided by the countries they operate in to.
These companies, with their data machinery indulges in election meddling, suppresses news content from people/organisations that are against their ideology. They shouldn’t be preaching about some arbitrary guidelines, unless they come clean on their biases.
That’s why, Facebook should shed its doublespeak, and tell the world why does it protect Muslim rapists? Facebook should let the world know if posts being shared in Facebook should follow Sharia law? Facebook should speak up if media organisations should post news while facing Mecca and, maybe, offer Namaz while at it? Facebook should let us know if the news being shared on its platform get ‘Halal certification’?
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has accused the Central government of ‘Sanskrit imposition’ in Tamil Nadu after it was reported that Anna University had decided to teach its students Hindu scriptures and Philosophy as a subject to its 3rd semester B.Tech and M.Tech students.
Later, Vice-Chancellor, M.K. Surappa, clarified that the notification will be amended soon and students will have a choice in the matter.
Chennai:Anna University has decided to teach ‘Philosophy’ as a compulsory course to its 3rd Semester BTech&MTech students. MK Surappa,Vice Chancellor says,”I’ll speak to my colleague in IST (Information Science&Technology) dept that there must be a choice. We will amend it soon.” pic.twitter.com/drziaFy39Y
The allegations of Sanskrit imposition was raised after it was reported that the university has decided to include Upanishads, Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Vedas, Plato and Francis Bacon etc in the undergraduate engineering course.
“To make the students well-rounded apart from technology, we are introducing more and more courses in humanities,” Surappa told reporters. “If some student doesn’t like this course, he always has an option to choose any other course… so no course is compulsory, nobody is controlling anyone here,” he said. “We are not imposing anything, in fact, we are not teaching Sanskrit at all,” he added.
“It is condemnable to attempt imposition of Sanskrit by making philosophy compulsory in the syllabus of Anna University’s CEG campus,” DMK President M.K. Stalin said in a tweet. CPI(M) state unit secretary K Balakrishnan said that it was condemnable that philosophy and Bhagavad Gita had been included in the engineering syllabus.
“This is against the principles of secularism. Introducing the teachings of a particular religion in a syllabus studied by students from all faiths and the state government standing by that is not acceptable,” he said demanding its withdrawal.
The Hindi imposition debate was triggered recently after Home Minister Amit Shah remarked that Hindi should attain the status of ‘Raj Bhasha’. “But there is a need for our nation to have one language so that foreign languages don’t find a place. This is why our freedom fighters envisioned Hindi as ‘Raj bhasha’ (official language),” Amit Shah had said at the event to mark the day the Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi written in Devanagari script as the central government’s official language
In a shocking case of Hinduphobic propaganda, a program producer with Kalaignar Seithigal TV – the media network controlled by DMK, made derogatory comments against Hindu holy book ‘Bhagawad Gita’, reports Swarajya
On 25 September, Iniyavan, a show producer in the Kalaignar Seithigal TV – the propaganda channel of the DMK, put out a Facebook post saying that something good can be found in Bible and Koran, the holy books of Christians and Muslims respectively, and degraded Bhagwad Geeta, the holy book of Hindus, comparing it to a bodily function.
Ethirajan Srinivasan, a social media user, exposed the rabid Hindu post written on Facebook by Iniyavan. After severe outrage, Iniyavan has now deleted his Hindhuphobic post.
Kalaignar News Program producer Iniyavan insulting Bhagwad Gita.
There are good things in Bible & Koran, but one will get only”Premature ejaculation” by reading Gita. pic.twitter.com/zD5HmTxKQD
In another post which he wrote last year, Iniyavan expressed his hatred on Ganesh Chaturti wall posters posted by Hindu Munnani across Pudhukkottai town and had claimed that India is getting ready for cultural war. “I appeal to my LEFT friends to wage a war against these, otherwise generations to come will abuse you,” he wrote.
“My comrades are either equipped with red flags or guns,” he said in a comment on the post.
“”Ganesh Chaturti wall ads by @hmrss1980 across Pudhukkottai town shows that India is getting ready for a cultural war, I appeal to my LEFT friends to wage a war against these, otherwise generations to come will abuse u.
Iniyavan has mentioned in his bio that he works as a program producer at DMK owned Kalaignar Seithigal and former executive producer at Angela Studios. He claims that he also worked at Oneindia Tamil and studied journalism at Loyola College Chennai.
IPS officer SMH Mirza became the first person to be arrested in the Narada Sting Operation Case. He was arrested by the CBI on Thursday. Mirza was the Superintendent of Police of Burdwan district in West Bengal when the sting operation was conducted. He is allegedly seen on camera accepting bribes on behalf of politicians belonging to the Trinamool Congress.
“Earlier, too, we had questioned him (Mirza) on several occasions. Today, we arrested him following another round of questioning. He is one of the key links in Narada tapes scandal,” a senior official was quoted by PTI as saying.
As per reports, the CBI was not satisfied with Mirza’s answers during the interrogation. He was unable to explain accepting cash during the sting operation. Furthermore, based on the investigation and questioning of other witnesses related to the matter, Mirza was prima facie found to be involved in the alleged illegality. Reportedly, the CBI is currently conducting voice sample testing of a dozen persons caught in the Narada sting operation.
The sting operation was conducted by Mathew Samuels of the Narada News portal. Samuel posed as a businessman and could be seen in the tapes offering money to Trinamool Congress leaders. The video clips span over 52 hours and showed 13 people, including seven MPs, four ministers, one MLA and an IPS officer accepting a total of Rs 60.5 lakh as bribe. While former TMC MP Sultan Ahmed passed away, Mukul Roy and Sovan Chatterjee have joined the BJP since then.
The Intelligence Agencies have raised alarms about the nefarious designs of Islamic terror outfits such as Al Qaeda and ISIS of possible attacks against the Jews and Israelis in India during their festive season in September and October. The agencies have alerted the respective states having a sizeable Jewish population and warned them that the terror cells of Al Qaeda and ISIS may be plotting to attack Jews and Israelis in their states.
According to the issued advisory, the terror modules are planning to attack the Jews and Israelis in India during their festive season which commences from the last week of September. In all, 3 Jewish festivals are supposed to fall between September and October, beginning with Rosh HaShanah (Jewish New Year) which runs through September 29 and October 1, Yom Kippur (the holiest day in Judaism) falls on October 8 and 9 while Sukkot will be celebrated between October 13 and October 22.
The reports say that the Indian intelligence agencies have been informed of the possible attacks on Jews and Israelis by their foreign counterparts. The inputs from foreign agencies hint at a plan to attack the Israeli embassy in New Delhi. Schools and hotels frequented by Israelis are also under the radar of terrorists.
As per official communication accessed by ANI, the terror outfits are desperate to carry out terror attacks on Israelis in India after Israel extended its support to India’s move to abrogate Article 370 and strip Jammu and Kashmir of its separate status.
The Jewish festive season in September and October generally attracts a significant number of Israeli tourists to India who congregate at usual known sites on specific dates and celebrate their festivals. With Jewish congregation in view, the input says that Al Qaeda and ISIS-related terror modules are intending to attack Israelis across the world. In this regard, several places such as the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, synagogues, Jewish schools, restaurants and hotels frequented by Israeli nationals in New Delhi and other cities are alerted to thwart any such terror attack.
The intelligence agencies have informed local police and local intelligence unit to take appropriate precautionary and precautionary actions to prevent any such attempt. Security has been strengthened outside sensitive places and outside the residences, Israeli and Jewish institutions, and Chabad Houses in Delhi to stop any terror attack.
Olympic medallist wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt and former Indian Hockey captain Sandeep Singh have officially joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) putting all speculations to rest. The two sportsmen joined the BJP in the presence of Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala today.
It is possible that both sportsmen get MLA tickets in the upcoming Haryana assembly elections.
Dutt has said in a statement that BJP government’ bold decision to the abrogate Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir helped him to take this crucial decision of joining politics. He said that he was “influenced” by PM Modi who has shown that “good things can be done in politics”.
.@DuttYogi says, #Article370Scrapped played a crucial role in his decision to join politics. He insisted, he was “influenced” by PM Modi.
Sandeep Singh, echoing the same thoughts said he will now serve the country in politics after doing so as a sportsperson.
The wrestler, who hails from Haryana, met the state unit president Subhash Barala here on Wednesday and informed that he has submitted his resignation from the Haryana Police.
Dutt who is a freestyle Indian wrestler had won the bronze medal in the 2012 Olympic Games in the 60 kg category. He then went on to win a gold medal in the 2014 Commonwealth Games and was honoured with Padma Shri in 2013.
Dutt is likely to get the party’s ticket for one of the assembly segments in the Sonipat Lok Sabha constituency, which is his home district as well.
Meanwhile, Sandeep Singh is an Indian professional field hockey player from Haryana and an ex-captain of the Indian national team. In 2006, Singh was seriously injured in an accidental gunshot while travelling to join the national team for the World Cup in Germany. Despite being paralysed for two years, Singh had not only made a full recovery but had gone on to re-establish his place in the team. Singh currently holds a DSP rank in the Haryana Police.
The 2018 Bollywood movie Soorma was based on Sandeep Singh’s life.
Apart from the two sportspersons, former MP and Congress leader Kailasho Saini also joined the BJP in presence of Barala at the Haryana Bhawan here today.
The assembly polls in Haryana will be held on October 21, 2091.
Yesterday some Pakistan media houses reported that prime minister Imran Khan met Russian president Vladimir Putin at a dinner hosted by US President Donald Trump in New York. A report published by Times of Islamabad, Business World and others reported that several world leaders were invited at the dinner on the side-lines of UNGA currently underway at the UN headquarters in New York.
“Prime Minister Imran Khan was seen discussing different issues with Russian President Putin during a dinner hosted for world leaders by US President Trump on the occasion of 74th session of United Nations General Assembly in New York”, the reports said. It also added that “the dinner was attended by many world leaders including Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Azerbaijan. PM remained busy in discussion with Putin while Indian PM Modi was seated with Afghan President Ghani”.
The reports also carried a photograph of Imran Khan and Putin having a conversation at the dinner.
But there are two big problems with this report; first, Putin is not even attending the UNGA and he is in Moscow, and the second, no such dinner was hosted by President Trump in New York.
It has been widely reported that Vladimir Putin is not attending the United Nations General Assembly this year. Yesterday, when he was supposed to be attending a dinner hosted by US president, he was actually in Moscow, where he met Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who has also skipped the UNGA. Venezuela is facing a deep financial crisis, and Maduro is visiting Russia to seek support from his government, and also for business deals. Therefore, there is no way Putin could have met Imran Khan in New York during the UNGA.
Moreover, there is not any news about any dinner hosted by the US president at New York for world leaders attending the UN annual meet. The last state dinner hosted by Trump was on 20th September for Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the White House. It may be noted that US state dinners are hosted at the White House in Washington DC, not in New York where UN headquarters is located. The Pakistani reports mention Indian PM Modi also attending the dinner, but no such event has been reported by Indian media which is present in USA in large numbers to cover Modi’s US visit.
The photograph of Imran Khan and Putin that Pakistani media houses published is old, it is from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meet held in Bishkek in July this year. This was the same event where Imran Khan had embarrassed Pakistan in front of the world by remaining seated while all other dignitaries were standing to welcome various heads of state entering the hall.
This means the Pakistani media invented a completely fictitious dinner hosted by Trump in New York, and then invented Imran Khan’s meeting there with Vladimir Putin who is 7,500 km away in Moscow.
In a big relief for Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank (PMC) customers, the Reserve Bank of India has relaxed its earlier imposed withdrawal limit of Rs 1000 to Rs 10000. The earlier notification issued by the bank on September 2, 2019, had set panic among its customers as it restricted them from withdrawing more than Rs 1000.
Directions under Section 35A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (AACS) – Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank Limited, Mumbai, Maharashtra – Relaxation in withdrawal limit of Deposit Accountshttps://t.co/oYdCAl1BVB
Relaxing the withdrawal limit, the central bank today issued a statement saying, “On a preliminary assessment of the bank’s latest depositor and liquidity profile as furnished by the Administrator, RBI has decided, in the interest of depositors, to review the Directions. Accordingly, vide modified Directive dated September 26, 2019, it has been decided to allow the depositors to withdraw a sum not exceeding ₹10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand Only) (including ₹1,000/- wherever already withdrawn) of the total balance held in every savings bank account or current account or any other deposit account by whatever name called, subject to conditions stipulated in the RBI Directive dated September 23, 2019.”
The RBI in its directive has said that after easing of the withdrawal limit restriction, about 60 per cent of the PMC customers will be able to withdraw their full amount. The bank has yet not commented on the fate of the remaining 40 per cent of the customers who have placed their faith in the bank to deposit their money.
Some of the aggrieved customers had filed a joint police complaint on Thursday against the bank’s chairman and its directors for alleged misappropriation of funds of the customers. According to reports, a group of distressed customers went to Sion police station in central Mumbai with a written complaint against the bank officials.
The Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank had been put under regulatory restrictions by the RBI owing to irregularities disclosed to the apex bank. In a message sent to the shareholders, the bank’s Managing Director Joy Thomas said, “I regret to inform you that your PMC Bank has been put under regulatory restriction under Section 35A of B.R. Act by RBI for a period of 6 months due to irregularities disclosed to RBI. As the MD of the Bank, I take full responsibility and assure all the depositors that these irregularities will be rectified before the expiry of six months.”