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Global leaders, soil experts, celebs extend support to Sadhguru’s Save soil Movement

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The Commune
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Sadhguru, one of India’s most influential spiritual leaders, kicked off the global #SaveSoil movement
from London on Monday. The 65-year-old Yogi is undertaking a 100-day motorcycle journey to raise
awareness and enact policy changes on soil extinction. Riding 30,000 kilometers through 27 countries,
Sadhguru will cross three continents to draw attention to the direst ecological concern of our
generation – rapid soil extinction.

As he kicked off the Movement, #JourneyForSoil became one of the top trends on Twitter with celebrities, global leaders and people from across the world coming out in support with heartfelt messages, wishing him a safe ride. Actors Santhanam, Ganesh Venkatraman, Rakul Preet Singh, Juhi Chawla, Lyricist Pa. Vijay and other various celebrities came out to express support for the campaign.

Actor Santhanam expressed his support for the campaign and said, “Sadhguru’s bike ride for the Save
Soil movement to raise awareness about rampant desertification is starting today! Over the next 100
days, Soil should become the most widely discussed topic on the planet. Wishing you a safe journey,
@SadhguruJV!”

Upbeat about the success of the campaign Lyricist Pa Vijay in a video message said, “I think the great
effort put forward by Sadhguru on the topic of Saving the Soil will make an impression on the people
of the world. Because soil is the source of man. This soil is the pinnacle of total humanity. The effort
taken with a great effort to protect this soil will surely go to people from all walks of life. I hope this
will lead to a great renaissance and soil revolution. So my regards and congratulations to this
movement. Thanks”

Expressing her support for the cause, Kiran Bedi, Former Lt Governor of Puducherry said, “I don’t
remember anyone in the recent history who has taken up ecological movements at this level!
@SadhguruJV, wishing you the best of health and well-being during the 100 days of your ride! We are
with you on this endeavour to #JourneyForSoil”

“Having signed MOUs with 6 countries to create policy changes to Save Soil, Sadhguru gets set to ride
across 27 Countries for 100 days at the age of 65! If that’s not epic don’t know what is! We r with you,
Sadhguru!” said actress Rakul Preet Singh in a heartfelt message.

Actor Mr. Ganesh Venkatram urged support for the campaign and said, “Let’s all come together to
support the ‘Savesoil’ movement & help create the much needed awareness! My Best wishes to
@Sadhgurujv ji as he begins his long bike journey on March 21st to create d much needed awareness
..Lets make this a peoples movement !”

Tony Robbins, author-life coach, in a video message, invited people to join the movement and said, “Healthy soil is vital for life. Let’s do this together and make a difference for this planet to be more conscious.”

Meenakshi Lekhi, Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture, tweeted, “Save the Soil to
solve major problems faced by humanity”.

Apart from these, playback singers Karthik, Velmurugan, Mangali, Director Vasant, actress Juhi Chawla
and many others have expressed their support for the Save Soil movement.

The movement seeks to activate and demonstrate citizen support across nations, and empower governments to initiate policy-driven action to revitalize soil and halt further degradation. To enable this, the Movement will aim to reach 3.5 billion people – 60% of the world’s electorate. It is supported by various global bodies and agencies including the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD); the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Faith for Earth, a UNEP initiative; the World Food Programme (WFP); and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

(This is an official press release from Isha Foundation. The Commune was not involved in creating this content.)

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Narco-terror still a problem, ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan remain stable

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Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt told Rajya Sabha on Monday (March 21) that the military and security agencies along the western borders remain largely stable, however, narco-terror nexus sponsored by inimical elements across the border aimed at causing instability still is a threat to India.

“Security situation along Western Borders (IB Sector) remains largely stable. However, there are indications of an emerging narco-terror nexus sponsored by inimical elements across the border aimed at causing instability, especially along border areas. Our forces along Western borders are adequately poised to respond to any challenge posed by adversary across entire conflict spectrum,” he said.

The minister also told the Upper House in a written reply that the Line of Control (LoC) remains stable after the DGMOs (Director General Military Operations) of India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire in February 2021.

On the situation at the Line of Control, the minister said, “The situation along Line of Control remains stable post the Directorate General of Military Operations (DGsMO) Understanding of February 2021. Both the Armies have exercised restraint in the interest of maintaining peace along the LC. However, the situation is being closely monitored and the Indian Army remains prepared to thwart any threat from inimical elements as also to respond in case of any escalation along the Line of Control,”.

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Christians convert Christians: Evangelical missionaries indulge in converting people fleeing war-ravaged Ukraine

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As the Russia-Ukraine war continues, it has created a massive refugee crisis in Europe as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are fleeing for their lives, and Christian evangelical missionaries are targeting vulnerable Ukrainians who are predominantly orthodox, reports Mission Kaali.

Ben Lewis, chief international correspondent of Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is presumably reporting from the Ukraine-Poland border in a tweet said, “At the Ukraine/Poland border. Tired women and children leaving their country. They’re being pestered by American preachers telling them they all need to accept Jesus as their saviour and their lives will be better. Receiving a lot of eye rolls in response,”.

There are copious videos and photos of American missionaries preaching as tired and haggard Ukrainians are getting off the trains at the Poland-Ukrainian border. The conflict has created nearly 2 million refugees who have come into Poland.

Overall there are 3 million refugees have fled Ukraine to other border states, including Hungary, Moldova, and Romania.

However, missionary groups are trying to take advantage of this situation by asking them to convert instead of offering any real material help like food, clothing, medical care, and shelter. 

Franklin Graham son of Billy Braham who was perhaps the greatest evangelist in a recent article on Samaritan’s Purse said, “are deploying life-saving medical care to aid people who are suffering. We want to meet the needs of these families in their darkest moments while pointing them to the light and hope of Jesus Christ”.

It is a matter of Christians trying to convert Christians because the American Evangelical Missionaries do not consider the Orthodox sect or Roman Catholics as legitimate.

In a shameful but not surprising gesture the American missionary organisation, Awakening Europe, is offering empty faith healing, as boasted about on their Facebook page.

American journalist Josh Marshall who is the founder of TPM Media in a tweet said, “State Rep who wrote a plan to organize a mass killing of liberals to found a Christian theocracy in America just showed up in Poland with dozens of Ukrainian children he wants to bring to America for adoption,”.

The most concerning development coming out of the Russian invasion is of a former American state representative possibly trying to steal Ukrainian children and bring them to the USA.  Former Washington state representative Matt Shea has been in the town of Kazimerz Dolyny, in Poland.  He is with a group of Ukrainian children supposedly in different stages of the adoption process, supposedly on the behalf of a US nonprofit called “Loving Families and Homes For Orphans”.  

Matt Shea is reportedly involved in multiple domestic terror incidents in the US. The organization ‘Loving Families and Homes for Orphans’ also seems to be a problematic organization as it was registered in Florida just a month ago.

(With inputs from Mission Kaali)

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Defence Ministry approves Indian Army’s request for a dedicated surveillance satellite to monitor LoC and LAC

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The Commune
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The Defence Ministry on Tuesday (March 22) has cleared a Rs 4,000 crore proposal by the Indian Army that has asked for a dedicated surveillance satellite to keep an eye on the borders with China and Pakistan.

“The Defence Acquisition Council meeting on Tuesday cleared the proposal for a made in India dedicated satellite for the Indian Army. The project for the satellite GSAT-7B will be carried out in partnership with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and would help the Indian Army enhance its surveillance in border areas,” government sources told ANI.

The Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force (IAF) already have dedicated satellites of their own and this approval will help the Indian Army to achieve situational awareness capability.

Information is power and after the post-military standoff with china starting-May 2020, the Indian Army has been working towards upgrading capabilities along and strengthening its surveillance assets is being viewed as an important part of operations and now it the Army is operating drones along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.

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“Islamic terrorists are waiting to infiltrate from launch pads in Pakistan and PoK”: Union Minister Nityanand Rai

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The Commune
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The Indian Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said in Lok Sabha on Tuesday (March 21) that a significant number of terrorists are waiting in various launch pads in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

However, there is a decrease in the number of infiltration from across the border to 34 in 2021 as compared to 51 in 2020, 138 in 2019, and 143 in 2018.

Pakistan and India have been observing a ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) for over a year now, however, it has still not given up its support for Islamic terrorist organisations like Jaish e Mohammad (JeM) and the Lashkar e Taiban (leT) and that is why it is still in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) gray list.

As the minister briefed the Parliament, he was asked whether Pakistan has built infrastructure along the LoC and terrorists had tried to infiltrate from the launch pads. To this question, the minister said, “information sought to be a sensitive operational matter concerning national security and cannot be divulged in the interest of national security,”.

In his address in the Parliament Rai made it very clear that the central government regularly reviews the security situation along the LoC and takes all precautionary measures to eliminate threat elements, including terrorists.

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DMK functionary arrested under POCSO Act for sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl

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Feature Image Credits: News 18 Tamil Nadu

In yet another instance of crime against women and children in Tamil Nadu, a DMK cadre named Sivakumar (50) has been arrested by the police reportedly for sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl.

Sivakumar is a building mason residing in Chinnakarai near Palladam in Tirupur district. He is also a DMK functionary in the area. He had reportedly taken the 3-year-old girl living in his neighbourhood into his house where he sexually abused her.

The traumatized girl went home crying and told her parents about the incident. Subsequently, the girl’s parents lodged a complaint at the Palladam Women’s Police Station.

The Palladam women police who investigated the incident arrested the accused DMK functionary. A case has been filed under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

Posting about this incident on social media, AIADMK Spokesperson Kovai Sathyan questioned DMK MP Kanimozhi’s silence who had tweeted about another incident where a 22-year-old Christian Dalit girl was raped by 8 people including two DMK functionaries for several months.

(With inputs from News 18 Tamil Nadu)

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Stolen antiquities returned from Australia to India to be restored to its original temples

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The Commune
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After Australia returned 29 stolen Indian antiquities, Union Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy on Monday (March 21) informed that these cultural treasures will now be handed over to the temples of respective states from where they were taken.

Speaking to ANI, Reddy said they have been brought back from Australia as a part of a special drive. He said, “The antiquities primarily sculptures and paintings, which have been brought back from Australia today are part of a special drive… We are working on it actively…Soon, we will hand over those items to respective states, their temples,”.

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s virtual summit with his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison, Australia had handed over 29 antiquities to India because it is part of our civilization and heritage.

As per reports, the antiquities range in six broad categories as per themes – Shiva and his disciples, Worshipping Shakti, Lord Vishnu and his forms, Jain traditions, portraits, and decorative objects. These antiquities come from different time periods, with earlier ones dating to the 9-10 century CE.

These antiquities and paintings are made from a variety of materials – sandstone, marble, bronze, brass, paper and were stolen from across India. The antiquities are from the Indian states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and West Bengal.

The repatriated antiquities include Shiva Bhairav, a 9th-10th century CE Rajasthan Sandstone, the child-saint Sambandar from 12th century CE, and seated Jina sculpture from Mount Abu region, Rajasthan.

Other antiquities repatriated include the portrait of Maharaja Sir Kishen Pershad Yamin Lala Deen Dayal, memorial portrait of Hiralal A. Gandhi, and untitled ‘Manorath’ portrait of donor and priests before Shri Nathji, Nathdwara.

Since the advent of the Narendra Modi government some 200 stolen antiquities have been returned to India from across the world.

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Christian Dalit woman raped by 8 people including 2 DMK functionaries

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In yet another incident of crime against women in Tamil Nadu, a 22-year-old Dalit woman in Virudhunagar district was allegedly raped repeatedly for months by eight people, which includes two DMK functionaries and four school students. All eight members accused of the crime have been arrested by the police.

The survivor is reportedly a Christian Dalit (Pallar) woman.  The arrested persons have been identified as Junaith Ahamed (27), Hariharan (27), Praveen (21), Madasamy (37) and four other minor boys studying in Classes 10, 11 and 12. All of them hail from Virudhunagar.

The arrested Hariharan is a local DMK youth wing functionary who lured the 22-year-old woman into a relationship and took her to a secluded place, where he forced her to have sex with him. He filmed the same and circulated it among his friends. He and his friends reportedly threatened to share the video in internet and continued to exploit the girl sexually by blackmailing her. This Junaith Ahamed who is also a local DMK youth wing functionary and the four minor boys.

The accused had sexually abused the woman for several times over a period of one year.

A case has been registerd on charges of rape under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against all the eight people.

Hariharan, Junaith Ahamed, Praveen and Madasamy were produced before the Special Court and remanded in judicial custody. The four minor boys were produced before a magistrate and sent to a juvenile correction home.

The horrific crime bears striking similarity to the case that happened in Pollachi near Coimbatore where women were lured into relationships and sexually exploited by men. The issue gained lot of media traction with the then Opposition leader and DMK chief MK Stalin training his guns on the AIADMK.

While DMK MP Kanimozhi has tweeted condemning the incident, AIADMK spokesperson Kovai Sathyan has questioned why she has refrained from naming the accused who are functionaries of her party.

BJP Tamil Nadu spokesperson SG Suryah has questioned the silence of journalists who are treading lightly on the incident.

With inputs from sources, The Federal and The News Minute

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Sadhguru Kicks Off 100-Day Motorcycle Journey From London To Save Soil

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 Sadhguru kick started the Save Soil Journey this afternoon from Trafalgar Square amidst a teeming crowd of onlookers. People gathered at the Square to offer him their best wishes and hear his last words before he hit the road on the arduous 100-day motorcycle journey. The Square throbbed to the well-loved tune of the Soil Song as the audience created a wave of swaying arms. A 7-year-old girl flagged off the 30,000 kilometre, 27 nation, 3 continent long-journey. 

In a recent address to UK Parliamentarians, Sadhguru ardently voiced the importance of a girl child in this movement as a way of transcending social divisions of nationality, race, religion and caste, and creed. “When they see a child, a girl child,” he said, “I believe people’s hearts will become little more tender.” He urged women to take up the movement, speaking of the critical role they play because of the greater concern they have for future generations. “If you want to say ‘I love you’ to your child, you must just say ‘Save Soil’ because it is a more committed way of saying ‘I love you.’

To the crowd at the largest public event held in London yesterday at ExCeL, Sadhguru said about the Journey, in a heartfelt address, “In case I don’t make it, you must take it up. Let’s make it happen.” 

Passing through the UK, Europe, the Middle East and India, Sadhguru will visit 27 nations over the next few months, where he will engage with world leaders, the media and leading experts across the globe to emphasize the urgent need for concerted action to Save Soil. 

According to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), over 90% of the earth’s soil could become degraded by 2050 leading to catastrophic crises worldwide including food and water shortages, droughts and famines, adverse climate changes, mass migrations and unprecedented rates of species extinction. This ‘soil extinction’ is the gravest threat to Humanity right now, as our planet is losing the ability to grow food because of rapid soil degradation.

The Save Soil Movement seeks to activate and demonstrate citizen support across nations, and empower governments to initiate policy-driven action to revitalize soil and halt further degradation. To enable this, the Movement will aim to reach 3.5 billion people – 60% of the world’s electorate.

In the past week, six Caribbean nations took the historic first step of signing memorandums of understanding with Conscious Planet, in an expression of impassioned commitment to the Save Soil movement. 

Save Soil is a global movement to inspire a conscious approach to saving our soil and planet. This is, first and foremost, a people’s movement. The aim is to demonstrate the support of over 3.5 billion people (more than 60% of the world’s voting population) around the world and empower governments to initiate policy-driven action to revitalize soil and halt further degradation World leaders, influencers, artists, experts, farmers, spiritual leaders, NGOs and citizens are vocally supporting the movement to re-establish Humanity’s relationship with Soil.

(This is an official press release from Isha Foundation. The Commune was not involved in creating this content.)

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Australia returns 29 sacred antiques taken from all over India including Tamil Nadu, PM Modi inspects

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Just before the scheduled virtual meeting between the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, 29 antiquities have been repatriated to India by Australia. 

These antiquities which are part of our glorious civilization belong to different themes such as Lord Shiva and his disciples, Worshipping Shakti, Lord Vishnu and his forms, Jain tradition, and other portraits and decorative objects and some of them date back to 9-10th century CE.

These antiquities are mainly sculptures or paintings and the sculptures are carved in sandstone, marble, bronze, and brass and were stolen from different parts of the country, including – West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Rajasthan.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally looked at these antiquities when they returned from Australia as they are very important to preserve our heritage and there is also a video on youtube uploaded by the PM’s office.

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