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Govt funds used for pro-BJP social media
trends: NDTV Report
In an investigative report on Monday, NDTV
claimed that there has been a noticeable trend to indicate that the ruling Govt
has been ‘employing’ what are popularly
known as ‘trolls’ to clean up their online image – and do damage control on
social media on their behalf.NDTV journalists Sreenivasan Jain and Manas Pratap
Singh, in their report, cited recent examples of the above phenomenon such as Twitter
hashtag #HaryanaWithKhattar. The report observes that soon after the hashtag
was ‘planted’ it began trending thanks to the ‘efficiency’ of certain Twitter
users who bombarded the social media portal with multiple posts using the
hashtag. To put things intoperspective, a certain Bhargav Jani,(going by
Twitter handle @bhargavjanibjp) had posted 63 tweets (that originated on other
accounts)in 92 minutes with #HaryanaForKhattar hashtag, reported NDTV.This is
not the only instance in which BJP supporters have endorsed such tweets. Here
are the key takeaways from the NDTV report:The report notes that Jani, whom PM Narendra Modi follows on Twitter, has been a
‘social media manager’ at Ahmedabad-based IT firm ‘Silver Touch Technologies
Ltd’ since December 2016. Jani’s detailed CV reveals that he tweets "at
least 30 times a day while engaging influencers to increase the followership
(sic) of client's social media profiles".Now, while Silver Touch
Technologies has big names like Reliance Industries on its clientele, the firm
mostly serves the Govt . It maintains 46 govt websites and develops apps for
the President of India, MEA, among other govts arms,reported NDTV.Yet another
employee of Silver Touch, namely, Himanshu Jain, one of the firm’s directors,
was found to be endorsing pro-BJP tweets, through his handle @HimanshuJainOn.
He had endorsed tweets using hashtags like #ModiTransformsIndia, for example. During
the sting operation, NDTV learnt from one Jaiswal of Silver Touch:During the
sting operation, NDTV learnt from one Mr Jaiswal of Silver Touch:"If
somebody does a negative comment, how do you react to the negative comment, how
to neutralise it. It comes under online reputation communication. So we do all
these activities.(sic)"Moreover, a Manoj from the firm backed Jaiswal’s
claim, saying that indeed they performed such services and did “reputation
work” for Haryana. However, these “reputation management” activities would have
to be disguised as “content writing or something else” on paper.Not only were
Silver Touch’s executives unwilling to talk on camera when NDTV journalists
visited their Delhi office, one Sanjoy Roy refuted all above mentioned claims
of their being involved in “reputation management” activities, saying:" We
are an IT services firm and have nothing to do with social media
promotions."So what about Silver Touch’s employees aggressively sharing
pro-BJP posts on Twitter and attacking dissenters? Well, Roy seems to think
it’s merely tweeting in “private capacity” and has nothing to do with Silver
Touch’s ethos. When interrogated over email by NDTV about the party’s connection
with Silver Touch, this is what BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya wrote in
response:"I don’t know of anyone with the name Bhargav Jani who works with
BJP IT Cell in any formal or contractual capacity, either in the national team
or any of the state teams. He may be a volunteer though. I also don’t know of
Silver Touch Technologies. Have never met any of their representatives. So the
question of BJP IT department having any kind of dealing with them doesn’t
arise."The Quint
Exclusive: The 'Silver Touch' Behind BJP's
Online Dominance? NDTV
Gorakhpur horror revisited: 68 children die at
BRD Medical College in 4 days
In what is becoming a tragically recurring
occurrence, 68 children have died at Gorakhpur's Baba Raghav Das (BRD) hospital
in the past four days. Out of the 68 deaths, 48 of them took place in the
neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and 24 of them died in the paediatric
intensive care unit (PICU). Encephalitis
patients are usually treated in NICU and PICU wards. Yogi Adityanath and his Govt
have come under heavy fire from all sides for the terrible health condition and
resources in a constituency he has represented five times in the Lok Sabha. The
mahant-politician has faced flak for focusing on bovine welfare while infants
are facing severe health issues in the state.TOI reports that 16 kids died on
Saturday, while the number of casualties during the previous three days was 18,
16 and 18, respectively. As many as 198 children are undergoing treatment at
the two wards. So far the total number of deaths in Oct.this year is 362, while
586 kids died in 2016 and 662 in 2015 in the same month. timesnownews
68 kids die at Gorakhpur's BRD medical college
in 4 days
Jay Shah case: Gujarat court issues summons to
reporter and editors of ‘The Wire’
Ahmedabad:A Gujarat metropolitan court issued
summons to a reporter and editors of ‘The Wire’ in a criminal defamation suit
filed by Jay Shah, son of BJP chief Amit Shah. The court held that there was a
prima facie case and ordered them to appear before it on Nov.13.Jay Shah had
moved the metropolitan court after the news portal published a report on Oct.
8, stating, among other things, that the turnover of his company Temple
Enterprise Private Ltd increased 16,000
times in the year following the BJP’s election to power at the Centre in 2014.
EC likely to announce dates for Gujarat polls tomorrow;
may carry out elections in two rounds
New Delhi: Election Commission is likely to
announce dates for Gujarat Assembly elections on Wednesday.As per reports, the
Gujarat assembly elections will be held in 2 rounds. EC is said to have
prepared for the assembly elections.The counting of votes may happen on
Dec.18.The EC had on Oct. 12 announced that polling for the assembly elections
in Himachal will take place on Nov. 9, but held off announcing the Gujarat
schedule. EC had just said the polling in the western state would be held
before Dec.18. newsnation
PIL in SC for stronger, more independent
election commission of India
A PIL has been filed before the Supreme Court
for strengthening the Election Commission of India making it more independent
while also providing protection to the Election Commissioners at par with the
Chief Election Commissioner. PIL has been filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar
Upadhyay seeking direction to the Centre to “take appropriate steps to confer
rule making authority on the Election Commission of India on the lines of the
rule making authority vested in the Supreme Court of India to empower it to
make election related rules and code of conduct”. Upadhyay also prayed for
direction to the Centre to provide independent secretariat to the Election
Commission of India and declare its expenditure as charged on the consolidated
fund of India on the lines of the Lok Sabha / Rajya Sabha secretariat.Besides,
he sought “same and similar protection to Election Commissioners (EC) so that
they shall not be removed from their office except in like manner and on the
like grounds as the Chief Election Commissioner”. livelaw
Hardik Patel places set of demands before
Congress for lending support
Patel quota stir leader Hardik Patel has put
forward a set of demands before Congress, including an assurance about
reservation for Patidars in govt jobs and educational institutions, as a
condition for supporting the party in the Gujarat Assembly polls.Sources in the
Congress party said Patel sought a maximum number of tickets for Patidar
candidates in constituencies where community has dominant presence.24-year-old
spearhead of ‘Patidar Anamat Andolan’, during his talks with Congress’
in-charge for Gujarat Ashok Gehlot on Monday sought greater representation in
the party’s organisational set up for politically influential Patels, who
hitherto backed BJP, they said.Patel, sources said, termed the representation
of Patels in Congress’ organisational structure in Gujarat as “minimal”.Alpesh
Thakor, a prominent backward class leader and ’Gujarat Kshatriya Thakor Sena
convenor’, had joined the Congress in the presence of its vice president Rahul
Gandhi on Monday. thehindu
To defeat ‘mahachor’ BJP, we can support
‘chor’ Congress: Hardik Patel
Vasundhara Raje Hits Pause Button on
'Draconian' Bill as Face Off With Media Intensifies
Jaipur: All major media
organisations--including the Federation of Press Clubs in India have come
together against Criminal Law (Rajasthan Amendment)Bill, 2017 moved by Rajasthan
Govt that effectively gags in the media
while protecting public servants, magistrates, serving and former judges from
being investigated for on-duty action.Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje who had
decided to place the proposed Bill on the table of the House on Monday morning
has had to to reconsider her decision in face of stiff opposition. The
journalists, the opposition, as well as rights organisations like PUCL have all
come out in strong condemnation of Raje’s move with Public Interest Litigations
already filed in court against the Bill that seeks to shoot the messenger even
as it protects those favoured by the Govt of the day.By the end of Monday Raje lost much
of her determination and rushed to convene a meeting of senior BJP leaders and
Ministers to discuss what could be done. She reportedly urged them to
reconsider the Bill even though the BJP has full majority of 160 legislators in
the Rajasthan Assembly.The Rajasthan Govt has hit the pause button for now, but it is
still not a done deal. thecitizen
Protests force Raje to review gag bill as
Rajasthan refers it to House panel
BJP MLA refuses to share stage with Rajasthan
CM
Rift within the Rajasthan unit of the BJP
became clear on Monday after a veteran saffron party MLA, Ghanshyam Tiwari
publicly humiliated the CM, Vasundhara Raje Scindia.Tiwari, who was meant to be
felicitated on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the former vice
president, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, said he would not like to receive the
honour at an event, where Raje was presiding as chief guest. He said that Raje
had been personally vindictive against her after he raised the issue of
corruption in her Govt. jantakareporter
Tribal organisation rallies against amendment
in Land Act, conversion law
Ranchi;A tribal organisation held a rally in
Ranchi on Monday against Jharkhand Govt ’s Anti-Conversion Bill and its
proposed amendments in 2013 Land Acquisition Act.Adivasi Sengel Abhiyan (ASA)
organised the rally at Morabadi ground of Ranchi.“The Govt ’s policies are
anti-tribal. The state Govt is working
against the sentiments of indigenous and tribal people. There is need to fight
against the wrong policies of the state Govt,” Salkhan Murmu, president of
AASA, said at the rally.He said “Anti-conversion Law and Amendment in the 2013
Land Acquisition Bill by the state is a cruel joke. We oppose both actions of
the state Govt .” The BJP-led Jharkhand Govt has passed the Religious Independence Bill
2017. If a person is found guilty of converting a person then he will be liable
to three years imprisonment.The state Govt has passed from the assembly to amend the 2013
Land Acquisition Act so that land can be acquired for industrial and other
purposes.IANS
Mersal fallout: IT Search At Actor Vishal's
House A Day After He Slammed State BJP Leader For Promoting Piracy
Income tax officials conducted a search at the
production house of Tamil actor Vishal on Monday afternoon, a day after his
accused Tamil Nadu BJP leader H Raja of promoting piracy by watching
just-released movie Mersal online.The search was over the TDS discrepancy of Rs
51 lakh, reported The Indian Express.Initially, the search party was mistaken
for men from the intelligence unit of GST, which became a hot button issue
after a scene in the Vijay-starrer Mersal criticised the newly implemented tax
structure and drew film fraternity members into a fight with BJP leaders who
thought the scenes were false "criticism".Directorate General of
Goods and Service Tax Intelligence (DGGSTI) on Monday denied that it raided the
premises of top Tamil actor Vishal's film production house."It is to
clarify that the officers of DGGSTI have not conducted any such search
operations and the news which is being circulated is factually incorrect and
false," Joint Director of DGGSTI P V K Rajasekhar said in a release in
Chennai. Outlookindia
Ambani friendly firms acquire majority control
in NDTV, after SpiceJet Ajay Singh’s exit:PGurus.com report
Now it is crystal clear that SpiceJet owner
Ajay Singh has withdrawn from acquiring NDTV. Though Ajay Singh cited
complicated legal cases and bad finances as the reason for his exit, according
to solid information from Stock Exchange brokers, Mukesh Ambani has taken
majority control in NDTV through recent purchases in Stock Exchanges using some
friendly trading funds.It is reliably learnt that Reliance Industries head
Mukesh Ambani now owns more than 51% of the NDTV shares through his associated
companies and trading funds, leaving Ajay Singh to walk away from the deal.The
recent run-up in the share price of NDTV has been nothing short of spectacular.
NDTV is facing a plethora of lawsuits and has been running up losses quarter
after quarter. In any other democratic country, it would have been a subjected
to microscopic scrutiny by Stock Exchange Regulators and other agencies
designed to probe Money Laundering. On September 4, NDTV’s share value was just
Rs.39. On Oct. 11, it shot up to Rs 72!!! The current price is Rs 62.50 when
stock exchanges closed on Oct. 23. It does not take a rocket scientist to
figure out why this loss-making company’s shares are fluctuating so wildly.
Someone, who knew what he/ she wanted was steadily buying. The next question would
be why someone, who owns several media companies, wants to buy NDTV shares? It
definitely should have been investigated by the market regulator SEBI, which is
under NDTV friendly Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.Earlier – some three months
ago this was the NDTV’s shareholding pattern. Founder Prannoy Roy and wife
Radhika Roy and their shell company RRPR Holdings had around 30 % shares in
NDTV. Mukesh Ambani associated companies own around 35 to 38 % shares after
putting around Rs.400 crores in early 2010. This is established in Nira Radia
tapes and in the recent revelations of former NDTV Editor Barkha Dutt.
After ‘harassment by usurer', family to
self-immolation, 3 killed in Tamil Nadu
Tirunelveli: ‘Kanduvetti’ (lending money at
usurious interest rates) related family traumas made a shocking re-entry, on
Monday, as three persons of a family of four including a woman and her two
daughters succumbed to severe burn injuries they suffered in an open
self-immolation at the Tirunelveli district collector's office. Family head
Esakkimuthu, a daily wage worker, is undergoing treatment with third degree
burns.While the family had resorted to this unbelievably self-tormenting step
to protest the alleged lethargy of the police and the district administration
towards his complaint against an usurer, the gruesome incident happened in
broad daylight at around 11 am on Monday in front of the hall where the public
grievances redressal meeting was on at the Collectorate. Esakkimuthu (27), a
daily wager from Kasidharmam village near Kadayanallur in Tirunelveli district
along with his wife, Subbulakshmi and their two daugters, Mathisaranya (4) and
Akshayabaraniya (2), came to the district collector’s office and were waiting
under a tree in front of the public grievances day meeting hall when he
suddenly doused himself, his wife and children with kerosene and set themselves
on fire, tightly hugging his wife and children.As the fire raged, members of
the public and police personnel nearby put out the fire after struggling for
about 15 minutes. By then the four were critically injured and were rushed to
the Tirunelveli medical college hospital in a police vehicle.Esakkimuthu’s
younger brother, Gopi, who accompanied his brother’s family to the district
collector’s office, asked his brother to wait under the tree and went out on
personal work, when Esakkimuthu had resorted to this extreme decision.Rushing
to the hospital on hearing of the incident, Gopi, in great depression, banged
his head against the glass window pane of the hospital and injured himself. According
to Gopi, his brother’s family was trapped by a usurer, Muthulakshmi, who too is
a distant relative of Esakkimuthu, tortured him and his family demanding double
the amount of Rs 1.45 lakh she had lent to Esakkimuthu a few years
ago.Muthulakshmi is alleged to have been supported by a retired sub-inspector
of the same village, who in turn allegedly influenced the local police (Achanputhur
police), not to take on file the complaint against the usurious moneylender.
Instead, Achanputhur police registered a complaint preferred by Muthulakshmi
that Esakimuthu was cheating her of Rs 1.45 lakh and jewels worth Rs 60,000.“As
the local police was not taking his complaint, Esakkimuthu sought the
intervention of the Tirunelveli district collector and submitted a petition on
the issue 6 times but in vain. With the police and the district administration having failed him, deeply
dejected Esakkimuthu, has resorted to this extreme step of burning himself as
he believed at least then the officialdom would wake up to the issue of usury,”said
Gopi, who too is undergoing treatment for his head injury in the same hospital.Deccan
Chronicle
Aligarh:Communal clash, stone-pelting, gunfire
after 2 families argue over who gets their shaving first
Agra: Tension prevailed in Harduaganj area of
Aligarh after two families from different communities clashed and pelted each
other with stones and also opened fire following an altercation at a barbershop
over who would get a shave first.According to police trouble started after Sonu
Singh and Mohd Aslam allegedly fought with each other over shaving at a
barbershop. Police said that both men were taken into preventive custody under
section 151 of CrPC.Taking to TOI, SSP, Rajesh Pandey said that it was not a
communal issue but fight among two people from different communities over a
petty issue. However, the situation is under control and both families have
been warned. He said, a case under section 151 of CrPc against Mohd Aslam and
Avdhesh Singh for disturbing peace in the area. Sonu's brother, Aadesh Kumar, a
resident of Sapera Bhanpura village said that his younger brother went to a
barbershop for a shave where another haircut was underway so he sat over there.
Meanwhile, Mohd Aslam came and asked the barber to do his shave after finishing
the haircut. This led to an argument between him and Sonu. While, Mohd Aslam
claimed that an unnecessary issue was created, he said, "I had always allowed
Sonu to have a shave first whenever they have reached barbershop together.
However, since I was in a hurry, I requested the barber to serve me
first".TOI
Mahisasur become rallying point of Dalits,tribals
in Bengal
Kolkata :In the evening of Sept.19 (Mahalaya),
the beginning of matri paksha, at a small pandal in front of a Durga temple
adjacent to Durganagar rail station in the northern suburbs of Kolkata, one
speaker after another walked up to the microphone to lambast the narrative of
goddess Durga and the killing of ‘demon king’ Mahisasur.The podium was named
after slain journalist Gauri Lankesh, described as ‘a martyr of Aryan
imperialism’.The speeches ended with the salutations ‘Jai Bhim’ and ‘Jai
Mahisasur’. A majority of the gathering of about 100-odd people described
themselves as followers of the Ambedkar-Periyar stream of thoughts. By mid-Oct.
more than 1,000 such gatherings were held across West Bengal.In Feb.2016,
statements similar to their speeches found in a leaflet on JNU campus earned
the wrath of the former HRD minister Smriti Irani, resulting in her outburst in
Lok Sabha against those who hailed Mahisasur as a hero and ‘scandalised
Durga’.Her speech had an unintended effect. In Bengal, where Durga puja is the
biggest annual festival, it angered those who consider themselves as
descendents of Mahisasur.“Mahisasur is the central figure Bengal’s dalit and
adibasi people are uniting around,” said Ananta Acharya of Democratic Action
Forum of Dalits, Women and Minorities.In Bengal, apart from members of the Asur
community, who number a little more than 4,000, a large number of the followers
of Sari and Sarna religions (Scheduled Tribe or ST), numbering at 4.93 lakh and
2.64 lakh respectively, consider Mahisasur as their ancestor, besides sections
of people belonging to the Scheduled Castes (SC) and OBC.HT
How results of UP Judicial Services Exams 2016
bust a myth about AMU
Aligarh: Even as the central Govt is opposing
the minority character of AMU on the premise that a centrally-funded
institution cannot be minority-specific, the latest results of the UP Judicial Services Exams 2016 have demolished a
myth created about the university for long.That 10 of the successful candidates
for the post of civil judges are from AMU should be enough to remove the tag of
non-performer recently attached to the varsity in a Govt report.But the results have demolished a
bigger negative tag, rather myth - that AMU is sort of a madrasa where only
Muslim students study.Of the 10 graduates of AMU who have recently qualified to
become civil judges, seven are not Muslim.These candidates were offered
coaching by AMU's Residential Coaching Academy.UP Judicial Services Exams 2016 were conducted by
the UP Public Service
Commission.IndiaTomorrow
Our marriage proves that the idea of love
jihad is fake, says Kerala Hindu woman who wed Muslim man
“We are legally married couple, and I am glad
that court endorsed our union. No one can separate us now.”That was 24-year-old
Sruthi Meledath’s reaction to the Kerala High Court verdict on Oct. 19
affirming her marriage to 26-year-old Anees Hameed. Meledath is Hindu, while
Hameed is Muslim.The couple shot into the spotlight earlier this month when
Meledath testified in court about the physical and mental torture she had
undergone at the Sivasakti Yogavidya Kendram in Ernakulam district. Yogavidya
Kendram is among a handful of so-called reconversion centres functioning in
Kerala in which Hindu women who have fallen in love with men from other
religions are subjected to a variety of strategies, including coercion, to
bring them back to Hinduism.In the couple’s first media interview since they
were reunited, Meledath told Scroll.in that she will continue to live as a
Hindu while her husband will follow the faith into which he was born. “This is
our reply to proponents of fake ‘love jihad’ campaign,” Meledath said. Love jihad
is a term frequently used by Hindutva organisations to allege a conspiracy by
Muslim men to marry women from other religions solely to convert them to Islam. scroll
Imam accused of sexually assaulting 8-yr student
arrested
Mumbai:JJ Marg police Monday arrested a
50-year-old imam accused of sexually assaulting a minor girl in Nagpada who
regularly went to study in the madrasa where he taught. According to the
police, Imam Abdullah Naji, who had fled after a complaint was registered
against him last week, was booked under Section 373 of IPC(punishment for rape)
and sections 4,6, 8 and 12 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act
(POCSO) that relates to sexual crime committed against minors.Police officers
said a detailed medical examination conducted at the JJ hospital confirmed that
the minor had been sexually assaulted.Dr Preeti Lewis, gynaecologist at hospital,
said 8-year-old was brought for examination on Oct.14. “She had a history of
sexual assault. After examination, she was moved to the paediatric ward,” she
said. indianexpress
Salahuddin’s son Shahid Yosuf arrested by NIA
in 2011 terror funding case
Srinagar:Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed
Salahuddin’s son, Syed Shahid Yosuf, was arrested by the National Investigation
Agency on Tuesday in connection with the 2011 terror funding case.Before his
arrest, Yosuf, 42, was questioned by NIA after his name cropped up during
investigations. He will be produced before a magistrate later in the day.NIA
officials alleged that Yosuf had over the years received funds from Hizbul
Mujahideen member Ajaz Ahmad Bhat alias Ajaz Maqbool Bhat.“The NIA has already
filed two chargesheets against six accused persons in this case in 2011. Out of
these six chargesheeted accused, four including Ghulam Ahmad Bhat, close
associate of Syed Ali Geelani, chairman Tahreek- e- Hurriyat are in judicial
custody and facing the trial in the special court NIA, New Delhi. The other two
namely Mohammad Maqbool Pandit and Aijaz Ahmad Bhat are still absconding. The
red notice has already been issued against both the absconding persons,” NIA
said in a press statement.
J-K Police close murder case against DSP Qadri
as kin of victim turn hostile
New Delhi:J&K police have closed the case against its DSP
Yasir Qadri, who was accused of killing a 26-year-old during a police raid on
his residence in the wake of ongoing protests in Kashmir over the killing of
Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani.Additional solicitor general Tushar
Mehta submitted the closure report in a sealed cover to the Supreme Court on
Monday. He informed the bench headed by justice NV Ramana that a decision to
file a closure report was taken after the victim’s parents and sister turned
hostile.hindustantimes
Money Laundering: Telangana legislative
council leader named in chargesheet against meat exporter Moin Qureshi
Leader of Opposition in Telangana Legislative
Council and senior Congress leader Shabbir Ali has been named in the
chargesheet filed by ED against meat exporter Moin Qureshi in connection with a
money laundering case. Shabbir Ali, a very vocal critic of TRS Govt and CM K Chandrashekar Rao, has been named in the
chargesheet for his alleged involvement in the bribery ring.Ali dismissed all
charges. “I live a very clean life and stay away from any controversial or
illegal dealings. I do not have any link with Moin Qureshi or any Qureshi. I
don’t know what this chargesheet you are talking about and why my name is in
it,’’ Ali said.“If ED says I have some links with Moin Qureshi then either he
is lying or ED making baseless allegations,’’ he said. indianexpress
Muslim outfits hold massive rally in support
of Rohingyas in Kolkata today
Kolkata: As many as 14 Muslim organisations
will hold a massive protest march in support of Rohingyas on Tuesday. According
to ANI, rally will be held from Park Circus to the Myanmar Consulate at 12
noon. Among the prominent organisations which are participating in today's
rally are - Bangiyo Imam Parishad,Jati Jagran Manch, Bhasa-o-Chetna Samity,
Sankhyalaghu Parishad.Since Myanmar Consulate falls under the high-security
zone, a heavy security blanket has been put in place there. The slogans,
banners and posters condemned PM Modi for failing to raise the plight of the
Rohingyas with the Nobel laureate, Aung Sang Suu Kyi.zeenews
Shocker from Vizag: Woman raped in broad
daylight on footpath, onlookers record video
Visakhapatnam: In a spine-chilling incident, a
woman was allegedly raped by a drunk man in broad daylight on a footpath along
a busy road in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam. Shockingly, the horrific crime
was captured on camera, as onlookers decided to take a video of the incident,
instead of helping the victim. Reportedly, the accused, identified as
23-year-old G Shiva, has been arrested.
According to reports, the incident occurred on Sunday at 2 pm near a railway
station in Vizag, where the woman was sitting behind a tree on the footpath.
The accused, apparently heavily drunk at the time, approached her and allegedly
forced himself upon her. The entire incident was recorded by an auto-driver
present at the spot. However, even as several people walked past the road, not
a single person made an attempt to stop the man from committing the crime of
raping the hapless woman. Police later arrested the suspect after the police
control room received a call regarding the incident. G Shiva has been booked
under section 376 of the IPC that deals with rape. timesnownews
WORLD
Rex Tillerson says Taliban is welcome in
afghan govt :news week
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said
there is space for members of the Taliban militant group in Afghan Govt,
despite Washington’s plan to ramp up its military action against the radical
Islamist faction.“Clearly, we have to continue the fight against the Taliban
and against others in order for them to understand they will never win a
military victory,” Tillerson told reporters on his first visit to Afghanistan,
which was unannounced.“And there are, we believe, moderate voices among the
Taliban, voices that do not want to continue to fight forever. They don’t want
their children to fight forever.” Afghan Govt and the Taliban have engaged in
several rounds of peace talks in recent years, all of which have broken down.newsweek
Tillerson visits India seeking help fighting
Taliban in Afghanistan:UPI
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited
India Tuesday — part of a multi-day trip to Asia and the Middle East that
officials say is designed to cement a relationship instrumental in ending the
war in Afghanistan.After making a surprise visit in Afghanistan Monday and
traveling from Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Tillerson and Afghan President
Ashraf Ghani arrived in New Delhi.Tillerson seeks a design for the region which
involves a cooling of tensions between India and Pakistan, as well as
persuading the Pak Govt to take stronger
action to end ties with the Taliban and other jihadist groups. Withdrawal of
support would end the war in Afghanistan, India Express reported Tuesday.Last
week, Tillerson addressed the Center for Strategic and International studies in
Washington, D.C., and identified India as one of “two bookends of stability on
either side of the globe” — the US being the other — and mentioned Pakistan and
China as disruptive forces in the region.“India needs a reliable partner on the
world stage, and the U.S. is that partner,” Tillerson said.
Want Afghan-controlled peace efforts: India to
Ghani
New Delhi: India told visiting Afghan
President Ashraf Ghani that it believes peace efforts in his war-wracked
country should be "Afghan-led" and "Afghan-controlled". Welcoming
the Afghan President to India, President Ram Nath Kovind also condemned the
series of terror attacks in his country, including in the provinces of Kabul,
Kandahar, Ghazni and Paktia, that have resulted in over 200 people being killed
in the past week.Kovind expressed admiration for the astute leadership that
Ghani has provided to Afghanistan through difficult times and commended Afghan
President for strengthening bilateral relations between India and
Afghanistan.IANS
PM Modi and Ashraf Ghani discuss range of
issues, resolve to end terror
US mulls sanctions on Myanmar over Rohingya
crisis
US is considering sanctions against Myanmar
authorities for its "violent, traumatic abuses" of the Rohingya
Muslims in restive Rakhine state. Washington may use a human rights law to
target leaders or groups involved in the violence in the western state, US
State Dept said in a statement. "We express our gravest concern with recent
events in Rakhine state and the violent, traumatic abuses Rohingya and other
communities have endured," the statement said. "It is imperative that
any individuals or entities responsible for atrocities, including non-state
actors and vigilantes, be held accountable.""We are exploring
accountability mechanisms available under US law, including Global Magnitsky
targeted sanctions," Heather Nauert, State Dept spokesperson, said. aljazeera
Bangladesh, Myanmar agree to halt the outflow
of Rohingyas
Govt officials from Bangladesh and Myanmar have
agreed to halt the outflow of Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh and enable the
refugees to return home.The two sides met Tuesday in Myanmar’s capital,
Naypyitaw, to discuss a crisis that has seen hundreds of thousands of Rohingya
flee to Bangladesh to escape violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The sides
said in a joint statement that “Myanmar affirms its commitment to immediately
halt the outflow of Myanmar residents to Bangladesh, to restore normalcy in
Rakhine to enable displaced Myanmar residents to return from Bangladesh at the
earliest” possible time. hindustantimes
Saudi crown prince vows to restore 'moderate,
open' Islam in Saudi kingdom
Riyadh:“We will not spend the next 30 years of
our lives dealing with destructive ideas. We will destroy them today. We will
end extremism very soon,” he says.Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed
bin Salman on Tuesday vowed to restore “moderate, open” Islam in a kingdom
known for its ultra-conservative rule.“We are returning to what we were before
-- a country of moderate Islam that is open to all religions and to the world,”
he said at an economic forum in Riyadh.“We will not spend the next 30 years of
our lives dealing with destructive ideas. We will destroy them today. We will
end extremism very soon,” he said.AFP
Kuwait emir warns of GCC collapse and crisis
escalation
The emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al
Sabah, warned of the collapse of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - an
alliance of Gulf countries - should the crisis with Qatar remain unresolved. In
a statement at a Kuwaiti parliament session on Tuesday, the emir warned GCC
leaders of the potential dangerous military and political intervention that may
ensue as a result of the political deadlock. "Contrary to our wishes and
hopes, the Gulf crisis has the potential of escalating; therefore, all of us
must be fully aware of its potential consequences," Sheikh Sabah said.
"Any escalation will bring with it an outright call for regional and
international intervention, which will destroy the security of the Gulf and its
people." aljazeera
FLASH: VIEWS & NEWS
Taj and bigotry: BJP’s misreading of history
raises questions on state’s ability to be a custodian for nation’s historical
sites:Audrey Truschke, indianexpress
Adityanath Turns UP Into a State of
Encounters: 433 Killed In 6 Months:Divanshu Bhalla, thecitizen
I Am A Refugee --Aborted, Stalked, Raped,
Abused---As I Have No Home to Call My Own:Shoma A.Chatterji
Even in ancient India, the state was usually
at war with the forest and its inhabitants:Upinder Singh
Kerala High Court’s Ban on Student Protests
Poses Serious Threat to Democracy:KAVITA KRISHNAN
In Kafkaesque JNU, teachers & V-C at
cross-purposes:Ayesha Kidwai
Court drops terror charges against Anzar Shah
Qasmi
Maulana Anzar Shah has no links with terror
outfit: Court
After registrar Khan , another top Mumbai
varsity official quits
Mumbai: Libas chairman loses battle over store
at Peddar Road
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