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Jammu and Kashmir: Stone pelters in South Kashmir kill 42 year old local truck driver

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Jammu and Kashmir: Stone pelters in South Kashmir kill 42 year old local truck driver

In a horrific incident on Sunday, protesters in Kashmir killed a civilian truck driver after stone-pelters attacked him in Bijbehara of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, reports ANI.


According to the reports, 42-year-old Noor Mohammed Dar, a resident of the same Zradipora Uranhall locality, was returning home in his truck when stone-pelters hurled stones at it, a police officer said.

Reportedly, the stone pierced the glass and injured the driver in the head. He was soon rushed to the nearby Bhijbhera hospital, from where he was referred to SKIMS Soura, the police officer said. However, Dar had already succumbed to his injuries before reaching the hospital, the official said.

The police soon identified the person who threw stones at the driver and arrested him. The accuses Kashmiri stone pelter has been slapped with a murder case against him at Bhijbhera police station, the official said.

The valley has been mostly calm after the abrogation of Article 370 which revoked Jammu and Kashmir’s separate status and made it an integral part of the country. The government of India even bifurcated the erstwhile state into two union territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. The move of the government has been largely welcomed by Indians.

Amidst ‘Jai Shri Ram’ chants, 6 Bulandshahr violence accused welcomed with garlands after being released on bail

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Amidst ‘Jai Shri Ram’ chants, 6 Bulandshahr violence accused welcomed with garlands after being released on bail

In a video which has been going viral on social media, six men accused of instigating mob violence that led to the killing of police inspector Subodh Singh in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr on December 3, 2018, are being seen welcomed with garlands amid chants of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Vande Mataram’ after being released on bail yesterday.


The six accused- Shikhar Agarwal, Hemu, Upendra Raghav, Jeetu Fauji, Saurav and Rohit Raghav were not only welcomed with garlands but the supporters also took turns at clicking selfies and pictures with them.

The Yogi Adityanath-led government in Uttar Pradesh had given its permission on June 28 to slap sedition charges on 44 persons accused of inciting violence in Chingravati area of Bulandshahr which claimed lives of two people, including that of one police personnel.

A bloodthirsty mob had run riot in the region after locals had discovered carcasses of cows in a field in Mahav village near Chingravati, Bulandshahr on December 3rd last year. Angered with police inaction even after repeated complaints, the mob had clashed with the police. The protest turned violent where the police inspector Subodh Singh accidentally shot Sumit, a 17-year-old boy. Inspector Singh too died after he was shot at by someone in the mob.

Following the arrest of Prashant Natt, the man accused of killing Inspector Subodh Singh, the Uttar Pradesh Police had arrested one more youth, Kalua, on January 1, 2019, who had allegedly attacked Inspector Singh with an axe.

Some reports had then suspected a larger political conspiracy in the Bulandshahr cow slaughter case. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, too, had called the violence a political conspiracy hatched by those who had lost their political grounds.

“Give me majority, I will teach Modi how to govern”: Former Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy

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“Give me majority, I will teach Modi how to govern”: Former Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy

Less than a month after the coalition Congress-JDS government in Karnataka collapsed, former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said that he would teach PM Modi how to govern if people of the state elect him with a majority in the future elections.

In a video tweeted by veteran journalist Vishweshwar Bhat, former Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy can be heard asking people to give him a majority in the elections so that he can reform the state. He further claims that he would teach Prime Minister Narendra Modi how to govern if people of Karnataka gives him a clear majority.


“Give me majority, I will show to reforms in the state. This is a challenge to me. Modi runs the government by only making promises. If I get a clear majority, I will also reach Modi how to govern,” said HD Kumaraswamy.

Interestingly, Janata Dal party and HD Kumaraswamy never accepts their inability to secure a majority in the legislative elections but rather blame the voters for not giving them a majority in the elections. In the last 2018 state elections, Janata Dal-Secular had only managed to win 38 out of the 224 seats. Kumaraswamy had become CM only with the support of the Congress party, which had won more seats in the elections.

After getting conned by the Congress party, JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy seems to be still nurturing his dream of returning back to power in the state of Karnataka. With a limited presence in the state, particularly to some districts in Old-Mysore region, the former Prime Minister HD Devegowda led JDS is fighting for its relevance in the state politics.

AIATF chairman and ex-Congress minister MS Bitta slams TOI journalist for not supporting abrogation of Article 370

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AIATF chairman and ex-Congress minister MS Bitta slams TOI journalist for not supporting abrogation of Article 370

While most people belonging to the Congress ecosystem have voiced their dissent over the abrogation of Article 370, the all India Anti-Terrorist Front (AIATF) chairman and former chief of the Indian Youth Congress, Maninderjeet Singh Bitta shared a video on his Facebook homepage where he can be seen slamming a Times of India journalist for not supporting Modi-led government’s move of revoking the separate status of Jammu and Kashmir and dividing it into two Union Territories – Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.

MS Bitta captions his post: “Abhi bhi desh mein bahut deshdrohi hain jinko Dhara 370 hatane se pareshani hain” roughly translated as, “there are still many traitors in the country who are getting hassled by the abrogation of Article 370”.

In the video, MS Bitta can be heard lauding PM Narendra Modi for his bold decision. Slamming the TOI reporter he says: “Aap kaahe ke patrakar hain? Modi ne itna bada kaam kar diya..aap logo par koi asar nahi kya? (How can you even claim to be a journalist? Modi has accomplished such a big task and it does not even affect you all?). He goes on to ask: “aap Hindustani hain? kya aap ek Bhartiya hain? (are you an Indian?), “if you are a proud Indian that you should be saluting to what Modi has done” (agar aap Hindustani ho toh Modi ne jo kiya hain usko salute karo na…), said a visibly irked MS Bitta to the TOI reporter.

Before walking away, Bitta damns the journalist by saying: if you do not understand the contributions made by Modi then you are not fit to be called a true patriot.

Earlier also the ex-Congress minister had called for a vote in Parliament on the revocation of Article 370 and 35A of the Constitution, saying it will help the nation identify the “traitors”. “Parliament is in session and the government should hold a vote to know who wants revocation of Article 370 and Article 35A of the Constitution. The nation will come to know about the nationalists and the traitors,” Bitta told reporters.

Expressing confidence that Modi will end terrorism in Kashmir soon, Bitta had then alleged that a handful of people, funded by Pakistan’s spy agency ISI, are defaming Kashmir and harming the local businesses.

Bitta had lost a leg in a bomb attack on July 7, 1992, that killed 13 people in Punjab’s Amritsar city. He survived another deadly attack on September 11, 1993, at Indian Youth Congress premises in Delhi as its president in which nine people were killed and 36 others wounded. Attacking the Congress government in Delhi in 2013, Bitta had accused the then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit of backstabbing him by withdrawing his security. He had said his party dumped him and left to die despite him being on terrorists’ hit list.

Meanwhile, despite few exceptions, Congress has refused to accept the Abrogation of Article 370 and demanded that the “wrong decision” of revoking Article 370 be reversed. While the majority of the people of Jammu and Kashmir have welcomed this bold move, Congress party and its ecosystem have desperately attempted to create a false narrative by deliberately repeating the Pakistani line on J&K.

Congress congratulates PV Sindhu for making ‘her’ nation proud, people wonder which nation Congress belongs to

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Congress congratulates PV Sindhu for making ‘her’ nation proud, people wonder which nation Congress belongs to

A tweet by the official Twitter handle of the Congress party has raised a very unusual question, do they consider India to be their own nation?

The tweet in question is a congratulatory message to P V Sindhu, who created history today by becoming the first India to win the BWF World Championships gold medal. The new world badminton champion won the title by defeating Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in the 2019 BWF World Championships held in Basel, Switzerland.


While congratulating PV Sindhu for her achievement, Congress party tweeted, ‘You have made your nation proud’, which prompted many to wonder whether Congress does not consider PV Sindhu’s country to be theirs also.

Congress party was immediately questioned by alert social media users for saying ‘your nation’ instead of ‘our nation’. People wondered if Congress does not think PV Sindhu has not made their nation proud, which nation actually they belong to.


Many people on Twitter speculated that the Congress party considers either Pakistan or Italy as their nation, not India.


This faux-pass by the Congress party comes at the time when the party is seen on the same side as Pakistan on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir. Both Congress and Pakistan have opposed the abrogation of Article 370, and Pakistani media and politicians are regularly using comments made by Congress leaders to attack India on the issue.

Congress NSUI National secretary ‘proud’ of shameful vandalisation of Savarkar’s bust by collegues, calls freedom fighter ‘gaddar’

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Congress NSUI National secretary ‘proud’ of shameful vandalisation of Savarkar’s bust by collegues, calls freedom fighter ‘gaddar’

The politics behind the installation of the bust of Veer Savarkar in the Delhi university reached its crescendo with the authorities of the university being forced to pull down Savarkar statue under pressure from National Students’ Union of India (NSUI).

The president of the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU), Shakti Singh of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), on Tuesday installed busts of the three historical figures at the North Campus of the university without seeking approval from the university or civic authorities.

Following the installation, Congress-affiliated NSUI Delhi wing president Akshay Lakra blackened the bust of Veer Savarkar to protest against its unauthorised installation. Lakra along with other activists also put a shoe garland around Savarkar’s statue.

Yesterday in another despicable low, the National general secretary of NSUI has taken to Twitter to not only endorse the shameful act carried out by her associate but to also defame India’s freedom fighter by calling him a ‘Deshdrohi’ and ‘Gaddar’ (traitor).

Surbhi Dwivedi took to Twitter to say: We r proud of @akshaylakra17 for blackening the face of a Deshdrohi who used to write mercy petitions to the britishers & was involved in the killing of Gandhiji. Gaddar Savarkar doesn’t deserve to be placed beside the freedom fighters who laid their lives for the country.


This is, however, not surprising as the adherent is just toeing in lines with its bosses which in this case is the Congress party. Hatred for Veer Savarkar is not new for Congress. Congress has a history of harassing Savarkar since 1910 when Jawaharlal Nehru refused to donate for Savarkar, according to an article by Shreerang Godbole in weekly Organiser in 2004. Read to know.

Moreover, Veer Savarkar was jailed for false charges in the murder of Mahatma Gandhi. Later Savarkar was released when no evidence was found against him. Since then, except for a small period of time under Indira Gandhi, Congress has always tried to malign and defame Savarkar and neglected his glorious contribution to the independence struggle.

The Congress Party, its president Rahul Gandhi and others of the ‘secularist’ school of thought have repeatedly insulted the great revolutionary and freedom fighter Swatantryaveer Savarkar (meaning of it is ‘Hero of Independence’ Savarkar), and called him a ‘traitor’ for his ‘mercy petitions’ to the British while he was in jail in the Andamans, where he was incarcerated from 1911 to 1921. In reality, those petitions were a ‘strategic letter of ploy’ to get out of jail, for which Savarkar should be praised.

Congress govt in Madhya Pradesh to introduce courses in govt and private colleges on ‘life, ideology and policies’ of Rajiv Gandhi

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Congress govt in Madhya Pradesh to introduce courses in govt and private colleges on ‘life, ideology and policies’ of Rajiv Gandhi

Congress government in Madhya Pradesh, on Friday, decided to introduce special sessions in government as well as private colleges to teach students about the “life, ideology and policies” of former PM Rajiv Gandhi.

“The state government will observe 75th birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna Rajiv Gandhi the whole year, as ‘Yuva Sankalp Varsh’ by organising different programmes, competitions and inviting experts to inform the students about Rajiv Gandhi’s life, ideology and policies”, said the official.

The programmes will be held from August 20, birth anniversary of Late Rajiv Gandhi to May 21, 2020, his death anniversary.

The motive to organise such an event would be to make the students aware of work done and policies introduced by Rajiv Gandhi as PM, said the state higher education and sports minister Jeetu Patwari.

Congress has always been synonymous with the dynasty and until it ceases to exist it somehow will continue the dynastic propagandism.

The Rajasthan Congress has also decided to include a write-up on former Prime Minister and an integral of this league, Rajiv Gandhi in the revised social science textbook for schools from the next session.

Sources said the write-up will be the part of the chapter ‘Aazadi Ke Baad: Bharat Ka Swarnim Itihas’ in classes XI and XII. “Rajiv Gandhi will be introduced as the father of modern India who laid the foundation for information technology,” a source said.

While the Congress governments in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are all set to glorify Rajiv Gandhi, one wonder if the curriculum will teach the students about the various transgressions of Rajiv Gandhi including the Bofors scam.

Though Congress has always blamed the ruling government for saffronizing the education system what is appalling that Congress’ self-absorption has always pulled them back from crediting India’s evolvement to anyone else apart from its own ancestry. They have distorted Indian history by exaggerating the work and achievements of Jawaharlal Nehru while giving less importance to the work of other freedom fighters like Vallabhbhai Patel and Bhimrao Ambedkar and  Veer Savarkar.

In May, Congress government in Rajasthan had decided to change the class 10 school textbooks in the state, reversing the previous BJP Government’s decision to include the contribution of freedom fighters like Veer Savarkar in the school curriculum. The textbook would now depict Savarkar as a traitor who begged for clemency from the British government. Going a step further the Ashok Gehlot government in June axed the prefix ‘Veer’ from freedom fighter Savarkar’s name in the revised Class X social science textbook in the state.

P Chidambaram blames IAS officers for illegal FIPB approvals, says he didn’t see the files

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P Chidambaram blames IAS officers for illegal FIPB approvals, says he didn’t see the files

Former union finance and home minister P Chidambaram, who is being interrogated in custody by the Central Bureau of Investigation, has blamed IAS officers for illegal FIPB approvals that have landed him in trouble. The senior Congress leader is accused of granting illegal FIPB approval for foreign investment into six companies including INX Media and Aircel Maxis, and laundering the black money received as kickbacks for the illegal favours granted to the companies.

According to reports, P Chidambaram has said during his interrogation that the decisions to grant FIPB approval to INX Media for foreign investment of ₹307 crore was granted by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) division of the finance ministry. He said that 7-8 IAS officers handled the files related to foreign investments and he as finance minister never had enough time to go through the files. He said that he used to act on their recommendations.

“If there has been any irregularity, they should be knowing about it,” the finance minister in the UPA government said.

This marks a change in his position who has been maintaining that there was nothing wrong in the FIPB approval. His lawyers had argued that the total FDI in INX Media didn’t exceed the maximum limit of 75% even though the company raised far more FDI than what was allowed. According to allegations, Chidambaram and his son had influenced the FIPB members to issue an approval to INX Media for a downstream investment the company had already made in its subsidiary INX News, even though this request was rejected by the board earlier.

Indrani Mukerjea, who was the co-founder of INX-Media, has told the investigators that after the Income Tax department had detected the illegal investments, she had met P Chidambaram and his son Karti to settle the matter. The company was asked to make payments to the foreign bank account of a company controlled by Karti Chidambaram, and after that the fresh approvals were granted to make the illegal investments legal.

Indrani has turned approver into the case, and her version makes it clear that the IAS officers who were members of the FIPB had granted the approval on the influence of P Chidambaram. But now the former finance minister is trying to blame the officers saying he had signed the filed without seeing them.

After this statement by P Chidambaram, the then members of the FIPB are expected to be questioned by the CBI.

Indrani Mukerjea and her husband Peter Mukerjea are facing trial in a case involving the murder of Sheena Bora, her daughter from her earlier marriage. They are currently lodged in jail.

After getting more than 20 bails, P Chidambaram was finally arrested by CBI in a dramatic manner on 21st August, a day after Delhi High court had rejected his anticipatory bail plea. He was arrested at his residence after Supreme Court had refused to grant any interim relief, and a special CBI court had granted  CBI the custody of Chidambaram on the next day for 4 days.

Uttar Pradesh: Five journalists arrested for spreading fake news, booked under Gangster Act

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Uttar Pradesh: Five journalists arrested for spreading fake news, booked under Gangster Act

Five journalists, including three out on bail in a corruption case, have been booked under the Gangster Act after they allegedly circulating fake news on their portals, reports Times of India.

According to the reports, the Uttar Pradesh police have booked five journalists in Noida after they had attempted to put pressure on cops in connection with the corruption case that is already in court.

The journalists had published a series of ten news article, which cops claims that were motivated. One such news article accused the SSP of giving caste-based promotions to cops in Gautam Budh Nagar.

Reportedly, the five journalists who were booked are Sushil Pandit, Udit Goel, Raman Thakur, who are from Gautam Budh Nagar, Chandan Rai from Sahibabad and Nitish Pandey from Lucknow. The police officials said that Raman Thakur is on the run and police have announced a reward of Rs.25,000 on his head, while the police arrested the others on Friday night.

However, the journalists have denied the allegations against them. They said that the police should have sent them a notice if they had any objections to the news articles.

“We are being framed in a baseless case. If the police had issues with our articles, they should have given us notices and we would have produced evidence to prove our points. But they misused their power to book us under the Gangster’s Act. We will challenge them in court,” said Rai.

On Saturday, District Magistrate BN Singh and Noida police chief Vaibhav Krishna speaking to the press said that the inter-state criminals were posing as journalists.

“The accused would give lucrative offers to senior police officers to get their job done. If the cops declined, they would broadcast unverified and motivated news against these officers,” Krishna said.

“The accused had recently carried news that the Lucknow SSP and I had deployed some officers as SHOs on the basis of their caste and under the instructions from a political party. Both Pandey’s and Rai’s web portals carried the news. They also accused police of being involved in sand mining,” he said.

Nitish Pandey runs policenewsup.com, Rai is the owner of policemedianews.com. Pandit runs sansaniindia.com, while Goel owns grenoexress.com.

The officer said that Goyal, Thakur and Pandit were arrested on January 30 for plotting with a Noida Police inspector to extract Rs 8 lakh from a fake call centre operator. “They were out on conditional bail and carrying fake news to influence a sub-judice matter,” Krishna said. The offices of these web portals have been seized.

Meanwhile, the district magistrate has also clarified that the administration is not against journalists or freedom of expression but claimed that the accused would operate as a gang. “The postings of SHOs were done purely on the basis of merit and I also had a say in it. The accused were ganging up against police in order to get relief in a sub judice matter, which is why they are being charged under the Gangster Act,” said Singh.

The ‘journalists’ have been remanded in five days’ police custody. The accused were produced before a magistrate on Saturday. The magistrate has granted our appeal for a five days’ police remand, the police said.

Vyapam ‘whistleblower’ and Congress sympathiser doctor publishes confidential medical report to falsely malign Baba Ramdev’s associate

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Vyapam ‘whistleblower’ and Congress sympathiser doctor publishes confidential medical report to falsely malign Baba Ramdev’s associate

An activist doctor posted a confidential medical report of a private individual to falsely claim that Baba Ramdev’s associate consumes ganja (Marijuana).

Dr. Anand Rai, who is known as a whistleblower of the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh, posted the copy of a medical test report yesterday on his verified Twitter handle. Dr Rai is close to senior Congress leaders, who wanted to contest Madhya Pradesh assembly elections in 2018 on a congress ticket.

In the medical report that he posted on Twitter, the name of the patient is mentioned as Acharya Balgovind Ji, and the report indicates that urine test of the person is positive THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol), which is an active ingredient of Marijuana.


Dr. Anand Rai used this report to claim that an associated of Baba Ramdev consumes cannabis. But the fact is, there no well-known associate of Ramdev with the name Acharya Balgovind. The most well-known associate of the yoga guru is Acharya Balkrishna, who is the chairman of Patanjali Ayurved. The doctor deliberately used the medical report of a different person with an obvious different name in an attempt to malign the entrepreneur.

It may be noted that while the language used by the doctor indicated an insulting tone, a large number of sadhus in India use cannabis, mostly the devotees of Shiva. It is possible that the Acharya Balgovind mentioned in the test report is one such devotee. The report is from AIIMS in Rishikesh, an area where a large number of Sadhus live. This means the doctor is insulting all such sadhus who consume cannabis as a religious practice.

Most importantly, Medical test reports are considered confidential documents, and this activist-politician-doctor has violated norms of the medical profession by posting the report on a public forum without the consent of the actual patient, just to insult someone else.

Dr Anand Rai wanted to contest the 2018 Madhya Pradesh assembly elections on a Congress ticket, but the party had denied him a ticket. Although he was denied the ticket, he maintains a close relationship with senior Congress leaders, and his Facebook page is a testimonial of that fact.

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