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Omar Abdullah comes in support of Imran Khan who was not given official welcome on arrival in US

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Omar Abdullah comes in support of Imran Khan who was not given official welcome on arrival in US

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister has come out in support of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan who was snubbed by the US on his maiden visit to the country as the head of the state.


Instead of flying a Pakistan International Airlines or the official aircraft, Khan flew commercial on Qatar Airways. On his arrival to the US, he was received by Pakistani officials and other low-key US officials. He even took a people-mover from the aircraft to the terminal.

Interestingly, Imran Khan was escorted out of the aircraft in a people mover instead of official vehicles. As per reports, Khan was not accorded the official welcome protocol when he reached America.

However, Khan’s humiliation seems to have affected former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah who sprung to his defence and said that this treatment of Khan reflects poorly on US. He even said how Khan flying commercial airline to reach the US saved money for his country which it didn’t need to spend. Abdullah also lauded Khan for not having an ego like ‘most “leaders”‘.


But Omar Abdullah’s argument of ‘cost saving’ was quickly punctured when it was seen that Imran Khan travelled from the airport in a large cavalcade of cars. This means only one thing, the cars were not allowed to go inside the airport. The cars were already there at the airport, therefore no cost was saved by taking the bus from the plane to the terminal.

Twitterati were quick to point out to Abdullah it is less about personal ego but about diplomatic relations two countries share.


This is not the first time Khan has been humiliated. In October 2012, the cricketer-turned-politician who was on his way to the US via Toronto was asked to deboard where the authorities had interrogated him for an hour on his views on drones. Earlier this month, Pakistan had claimed that Khan has been invited to Russia for Eastern Economic Forum. However, Russia denied having invited him.

Irony: Mamata Banerjee observes Shahid Dibas for 1993 police firing, while the then Home Secretary is now a TMC MP

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Irony: Mamata Banerjee observes Shahid Dibas for 1993 police firing, while the then Home Secretary is now a TMC MP

Today, the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is all set to celebrate the annual Shahid Dibas to commemorate the killing of 13 youth Congress workers. They were killed in a police firing in Kolkata on 21 July 1993 under the Left Front government.


Mamata Banerjee has for long always held Jyoti Basu, the then Chief Minister, and his cabinet responsible for the firing. However, she has refrained from blaming the then home secretary Manish Gupta for the firing. In fact, Gupta is now a member of TMC and serving as an MP in the Rajya Sabha.

Last year, both the Congress and the BJP termed the TMC’s “Shahid Dibas” as a farce. The BJP state chief Dilip Ghosh had accused the TMC of holding the rally for political gains. “None of the martyrs (those killed in 1993 firing) have got justice. The person who shot them was an officer then and today he is a minister in the TMC. He is governing the country,” Ghosh said.

The Congress had also called out Mamata’s hypocrisy. They claimed that “many of the people who were directly or indirectly responsible for the firing are holding positions in the state government”.

In 1993, July 21 Mamata Banerjee, who was then a Youth Congress leader, led a rally to the Writer’s Building. They demanded photo voter id card to be made mandatory. On their way to the building, the police had intervened and opened fire at them.

21 year later after Mamata became the Chief Minister, she had set up a commission to find out who had ordered the police to open fire. Mamata had blamed Jyoti Basu, the then Chief Minister, and his cabinet responsible.

The commission in its report has said that that the control room officers were “vicariously responsible” and “overacted to please their political bosses”. The report also says that the incident was worse than Jallianawala Bagh massacre.

Manish Gupta had also testified before the commission. He said that he didn’t support the firing. The commission said that ‘history would answer’ why the firing was ordered when the then home secretary did not support it.

The report came out in 2014 and the Mamata Banerjee government has not taken any action against those responsible. Many including the likes of Manish Gupta continue to hold positions of power within the TMC.

From her tweet today Mamata Banerjee could be clearly seen using the “Shahid Dibas” for political gains. She has once again retorted to the old demand for discontinuing the usage of EVMs.


Despite being proven wrong many times, the TMC continues to blame the EVMs for the losses the party faced during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Last month, Mamata read an Urdu sher and blamed the EVMs to take on the BJP. Other TMC MPs had also staged a protest in front of the Parliament demanding to bring back paper ballot in future elections.

BJP leader BS Tomar shot dead in Ghaziabad, accused Shahrukh and Tasneem arrested

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BJP leader BS Tomar shot dead in Ghaziabad, accused Shahrukh and Tasneem arrested

Two accused, Shahrukh and Tasneem, have been arrested for the murder of BJP functionary BS Tomar, reports Times of India journalist Raj Shekhar Jha.


Tomar was shot dead late last night in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad. The killers had fired five rounds at Tomar. He was rushed to the hospital but he succumbed to injuries at the hospital. The incident took place about 50 metres from a police station. SHO Praveen Sharma has been suspended over the incident.

Class nine student beaten by senior students for protesting ‘Allah Hu Akbar’ during National Anthem singing in school

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Class nine student beaten by senior students for protesting ‘Allah Hu Akbar’ during National Anthem singing in school

In a shocking incident, a class nine student of a school in West Bengal was beaten senior students after he protested to the chants of ‘Allah Hu Akbar’ during the singing of the National Anthem. The student Arup Halder had to be hospitalised after the incident that happened on Thursday.

According to a report by Bengali daily Dainik Jugasankha, the incident happened in the Taldi Mohanchand High School in Canning in 24 Paragana district. On Thursday morning when the students were singing the National Anthem Jana Gana Mana as per custom, some Muslim students of class 12 suddenly started shouting ‘Allah Hu Akbar’ instead of singing the anthem. Although other students remained silent to this, class nine student Arup Halder could not tolerate it.

News clip from Dainik Jugasangha

Arup vehemently protested the vilification of National Anthem by the Muslim students, and tried to inform the teaches about the same. But the unruly students got infuriated at this, and they thrashed him badly. Due to the serious nature of the injuries, he was admitted at the Canning Hospital by the teachers of the school.

The family of Arup has alleged that the school authorities have not taken any action against the students who thrashed Arup. They also allege that the police also refused to register a case when they went to lodge a complaint about the incident. It is alleged that police took Arup’s mothers signature on a plain paper for a mutual settlement of the case. Rafiqul Gazi and Ashaful Gazi are the main accused in the case, who were joined by two other class 12 students in beating Arup.

US snubs Pak PM Imran Khan, welcomed by low-key US officials on his maiden visit, escorted to the terminal in a bus

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US snubs Pak PM Imran Khan, welcomed by low-key US officials on his maiden visit, escorted to the terminal in a bus

The humiliation does not seem to stop for the parody country Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan.

In a video shared by Government of Pakistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan can be seen deboarding the commercial flight and later boarded a bus along with Pakistan Foreign Minister Qureshi and Pakistan ambassador to the US Asad M Khan. Reportedly, he was not accorded the due state protocol while he landed in America.


Khan not only flew a commercial airline, but he even flew Qatar Airways instead of the national carrier Pakistan International Airlines.

Reportedly, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has travelled to the United States of America on a state visit to meet his counterpart US President Donald Trump. As Pakistan is on a verge of both financial and moral bankruptcy, just like their citizens, low-key officials of the United States state department had arrived to welcome him.

While entire Pakistan is celebrating the maiden visit of Imran Khan, the Trump administration cared little for Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Interestingly, Imran Khan was escorted out of the airport in a people mover instead of official vehicles. As per reports, Khan was not accorded the official welcome protocol when he reached America.

This is not the first time Khan has been humiliated. In October 2012, the cricketer-turned-politician who was on his way to the US via Toronto was asked to deboard where the authorities had interrogated him for an hour on his views on drones. Earlier this month, Pakistan had claimed that Khan has been invited to Russia for Eastern Economic Forum. However, Russia denied having invited him.

Kamal Nath government threatens to restrict Narmada water in Gujarat, plays politics over rehabilitation of project affected people

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Kamal Nath government threatens to restrict Narmada water in Gujarat, plays politics over rehabilitation of project affected people

The Madhya Pradesh government headed by Kamal Nath has threatened the Gujarat government of restricting the flow of Narmada into the state on the pretext of Gujarat government not taking up the matter of rehabilitation seriously.

According to the reports, Madhya Pradesh Minister for Narmada Valley Development Surendra Singh Baghel on Saturday threatened not to release the Narmada water for the Sardar Sarovar dam unless the Gujarat government and the Centre addressed its concerns about the dam-affected people.

He has accused the Gujarat government and the Centre of not addressing the concerns about the project-affected people. He also alleged that the Gujarat government was not serious about meetings under the Narmada Control Authority (NCA) to help rehabilitate those people hit by the project. Baghel had also accused Gujarat government of not releasing water for power generation.

Meanwhile, the Gujarat government has now warned Madhya Pradesh not to play politics over Narmada water and that both were bound by the ruling of the Supreme Court and the Narmada Control Authority (NCA) in the matter.

Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel accused the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh of playing politics over the issue. He said that MP government’s ‘threat’ showed a lack of understanding of the legal agreement reached under the NCA.

Nitin Patel clarified that under the NCA agreement the water could be released for power generation only after it reached a level of 131 metres in the dam and that the state had already paid Rs. 400 crore to rehabilitate the project-affected people.

“We will get our share of Narmada water that is due to us. It doesn’t befit the Congress to keep aside the entire interest of the nation to play politics over water,” said Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani.

“The party is unable to digest its defeat in the Lok Sabha polls and is now coming up with ways to politicise matters that have already been decided,” said Rupani. “The water is being distributed as per the share decided by the NCA and no state can suddenly decide to change it.”

Chief Minister Rupani also clarified that the Madhya Pradesh government first raised the issue of displaced people on May 27 stating that over 6,000 were yet to be rehabilitated. He added that the Madhya Pradesh boycotted the meeting of the Sardar Sarovar Reservoir Regulation Committee on July 18.

“The Resettlement and Rehabilitation sub-group of the NCA held a meeting on the issue on July 12, but no senior official of the MP government participated. They also boycotted a meeting of the Sardar Sarovar Reservoir Regulation Committee on July 18.”

However, Baghel contended that MP government officials had to shun the NCA meeting “because they (Gujarat government and the Centre) are not taking us seriously”.

The two hydel electricity generation plants at the Sardar Sarovar dam have a capacity of 1,450 MW, which is shared by Madhya Pradesh (57 per cent), Maharashtra (27 per cent) and Gujarat (16 per cent).

Netizens ‘express concern’ over Priyanka Chopra’s asthma after a picture where she is smoking cigarette went viral on social media

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Netizens ‘express concern’ over Priyanka Chopra’s asthma after a picture where she is smoking cigarette went viral on social media

Actress Priyanka Chopra’s picture where she is smoking a cigarette has gone viral on social media. Her husband Nick Jonas and her mother are also seen in the picture smoking cigars. Netizens took to Twitter to express their concern over Chopra’s asthma because of which she has always campaigned against smoke, especially from firecrackers.


Twitterati also pointed out her own hypocrisy.


Few weeks prior to her wedding last year, during Diwali, Priyanka Chopra had urged people to skip crackers in Diwali, as it makes life difficult for asthma patients. Chopra herself has been suffering from asthma since childhood, she has claimed.

Twitter users even dug up Chopra’s own old tweet condemning smoking where she had claimed she does not smoke. While things could change with time so do personal preferences, the hypocrisy is quite baffling.


The duality of celebrities when it comes to what they preach and what they practice is often pointed out on social media.

Telangana: Irfan and Ghouse kill Saddam, surrender to police with his severed head

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Telangana: Irfan and Ghouse kill Saddam, surrender to police with his severed head

In an appalling act, two men, Mohammed Irfan and Mohammed Ghouse murdered a man, one Saddam, and brought along his severed head to the police station to surrender themselves.

Reportedly, the horrific incident occurred on Saturday evening in Nampally block of Nalgonda district of Telangana. Two youths – Mohammed Irfan and Mohammed Ghouse arrived at Nampally police station with one of them holding a severed head in one hand and a sickle in the other.

According to police, the severed head is that of a 28 year old autorickshaw driver Saddam. He was beheaded by the duo with a sickle used to cut coconuts. A case has been registered.

The police investigations revealed that Irfan and Ghouse murdered Saddam to avenge the death of a woman, whom they considered their sister.  Reportedly, the woman, who was a widow, was taken to Hyderabad by Saddam some years ago. In 2017, the woman was later found dead under suspicious circumstances. The duo had blamed Saddam for the death of the woman they considered their sister.

Two youths, Shekhar and Basant forced to chant religious slogans by a mob that showed them Tabrez Ansari’s video, stabbed when refused

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Two youths, Shekhar and Basant forced to chant religious slogans by a mob that showed them Tabrez Ansari’s video, stabbed when refused

In a horrific incident, two Hindu youth have been attacked and stabbed by a mob after they refused to chant religious slogans, reports Dainik Bhaskar.

According to the reports, the incident occurred in Ranchi, Jharkhand on Saturday when a mob attacked two Hindu youths – Shekhar and Basanth, who were forced to chant religious slogans after showing video of Tabrez Ansari, who was allegedly killed by a mob.

According to the youth, they were in search of their cattle on the outskirts of the city. Initially they were asked about their religion. After that, they were reportedly forced to chant religious slogans. The men also showed them the videos of Tabrez Ansari while asking them to raise religious slogans. Shekhar and Basant allege that they were stabbed as they objected to the demands of the mob.

As Shekhar and Basant refused to raise religious slogans, the angry men stabbed them with knives. One of the victims has been stabbed in the neck while the other one has been stabbed in the hand by a group of four men.

A complaint has been registered in the Argora Police Station, Ranchi against the accused. The search has begun to nab the accused.

Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma wants to kiss Cyberabad Police nonstop for 39 days. Here is why

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Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma wants to kiss Cyberabad Police nonstop for 39 days. Here is why

Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma wants to kiss Cyberabad Police nonstop for 39 days. He even says that if he had a second daughter, he would’ve married her to Cyberabad Police. The reason is Cyberabad Police sent him a challan. No, not for unleashing Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag on unsuspecting audience years ago, but for violating traffic rules.

Yesterday, Varma posted on Twitter a video of himself riding pillion on a bike, with two others, asking where is the Police. He said that the Police may be busy watching the film ‘Is Smart Shankar’ and hence he was flaunting how he was flouting traffic rules.


The Police, however, did not take it too kindly. Turns out, an alert citizen informed Cyberabad Police about the traffic rules violation, following which Cyberabad Police swung into action. The police issued an e-challan to Varma.


The Cyberabad Police then informed Varma via Twitter that while they were grateful that Varma was reporting traffic rules violation, they hope next time he actually follow the same himself. They even attached copy of the challan issued.


Extremely thrilled at receiving the challan, Varma took to Twitter to thank them.


Earlier, Mumbai Police has also used Twitter effectively to teach celebrities a lesson or two in traffic rules as well as humility. In November 2017, the Mumbai Police reprimanded film actor Varun Dhavan for taking a selfie in middle of the road at a traffic signal. The picture was published in the tabloid Mid-day, which showed Dhavan obliging a visibly excited fan in an autorickshaw next to his car by stretching out of his car and taking a selfie. Mumbai Police reprimanded Dhavan and said that such stunts look good only in films, in real life they could be a threat to him, the fan and even other commuters on the road. They said as a responsible Mumbaikar, they expect better from him. Mumbai Police even issued a challan to Dhavan.

Similarly, in December last year, a video of Actor Dulquer Salman shot by Sonam Kapoor went viral in the social media. In the video, Salman was seen fidgeting with his mobile phone while sitting on the driver seat in a moving car and Sonam Kapoor, who appeared to be shooting the video, was heard saying ‘weirdo’ to Salman. When Mumbai Police reprimanded them for such a stunt, Sonam went defensive and asked Mumbai Police to take so much interest in ‘regular folks’ as well.

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