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NIA raids in Theni and Madurai over links with banned terrorist orgnization

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The National Intelligence Agency(NIA) is conducting raids in multiple locations in Madurai and Theni, on the information of alleged links with banned terrorist organizations.

NIA is conducting a search at the houses and shops of Yusuf Aslam, a resident of Chinamannur in the Theni district, today(July 24) from morning 5 am following intelligence that he has links with a banned terrorist organization. Tensions in the area were high during the raid, thus security has been strengthened.

NIA is also searching the house of Abdullah, a resident of Theppakulam Tamilan street in Madurai district, for posting, for posting comments on social media against the sovereignty of India. NIA raids are currently taking place in both houses.

(with inputs from Dinamalar)

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India strikes first medal at Tokyo Olympics, Saikhom Mirabai Chan wins silver

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India’s weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu has won the country’s first medal at Tokyo Olympics 2021, with a silver in women’s 49kg.

Her best in Snatch was 87 kg and in Clean & Jerk 115 kg, which gave her a combined weight of 202kg.

China’s Zhihui Hou won the gold with new Olympic record combined weight of 210kg and the Bronze went to Cantika Aisah of Indonesia for lifting a combined weight of 194kg.

Saikhom Mirabai Chanu has won the World Championships and multiple medals at the Commonwealth Games and was awarded the Padma Shri for her contributions to the sport and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awards by the Government of India for the year 2018.

Christian pastor George Ponnaiah arrested for hate speech against Hindus, following police complaints by BJP, IMK and Hindu Munnani across TN

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Christian Pastor George Ponniah, wanted on charges of rabid hate speech against Hindus and slandering Bharat Mata, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, has been arrested by police today (July 24).

After his hate speech video went viral on social media, several Hindu leaders filed complaints across Tamil Nadu and controversial Pastor George Ponnaiya went into hiding. Kanya Kumari Police formed five special teams to arrest the pastor, and he was arrested in Kallikudi, Madurai district, using his cell phone signal.

On Wednesday, speaking at a function jointly organized by Christians and Islamists at a church in Arumanai municipality, Kanyakumari district, Pastor George Ponnaiya said,” No Hindu will vote for them(DMK) no matter how many temples the Minister of HR&CE Sekhar Babu visits and performs Kumbabishegam, or how many temples he visits and worships without wearing clothing. Neither Mandaikaadu Amman temple worshipers nor Hindu votes helped the DMK win. DMK won by begging Christians and Muslims. DMK should not forget this. You did not win because of your talent.”

He further said that he had already told DMK MLA Prince that it was because of Christian Pastor’s direction and Pentecostal staff’s door-to-door campaign DMK won.

He continued, “We informed DMK Kanya Kumari district secretary Suresh Rajan that we will campaign in Nagercoil during a meeting in Nagercoil. However, he declined since it would unite Hindu votes against the DMK. As a result, BJP’s MR Gandhi won the election.”

“He claims he will not step on the ground with footwear because he considers it Bhoomodevi,” the Pastor stated of BJP MLA M.R. Gandhi, adding, “I wear shoes when I walk outside because I don’t want the dirt of Bharat Matha to touch my body.”

He claimed that the Tamil Nadu government provides us with free footwear so that we do not get rash or scabies from stepping on Bharat Mata, and that Bhuma Devi is a dangerous woman.

He warned Hindus saying,” we (minorities) were 42% once and now we are 62% of the total population in Kanya Kumari. soon, our population will cross 70%. we will continue to increase our population and no one can stop it. we tell this as a warning to Hindus. we do not fear BJP or RSS. You cannot stop us. ”

He further stated that Prime Minister Modi’s and Home Minister Amit Shah’s final years will be miserable, and that if the God we believe in is still alive, we shall watch Amit Shah and Modi being devoured by dogs and worms.

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“TN Fin Min PTR has given farmers the title of thieves”: Farmers from Theni submit petition

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The Cumbum Valley Farmers Association have submitted a petition to Tamil Nadu Minister of Cooperatives I. Periyasamy stating that Finance Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan has given the title of ‘thieves’ to farmers alleging that officials at the behest of Palanivel Thiagarajan have cut off power to prevent the farmers from using Mullaiperiyar water for irrigation.

Farmers of Theni district in and around the Mullaiperiyar dam have dug wells in their own property (patta land) to use the water for irrigation.

However, farmers have alleged that the authorities have cut off power supply on the orders of Finance Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan, claiming that they are stealing water from the Mullaiperiyar.

In this situation, the Minister of Cooperatives, I. Periyasamy who came to the Theni District Collector’s Office was met by the farmers of Cumbum Valley. Around 200 farmers submitted a petition to the Minister in which they stated that Finance Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan has given the title of thieves to farmers who produce food. They said that farmers use the water for irrigation and not for any other purpose.

The farmers have asked Chief Minister MK Stalin to stop the despotic actions of Palanivel Thiagarajan affecting thousands of farmers and their livelihoods.

(With inputs from Dinamalar)

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Chinese workers in CPEC arming themselves, have no trust on Pakistani troops paid to protect them

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As the Taliban faces difficulties in their quest to overtake Afghanistan while maintaining influence in Pakistan, Chinese workers who are carrying out maintenance works at various China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects in Pakistan have armed themselves to protect themselves from future attacks.

This trend of Chinese arming themselves comes in the wake of the deadly attack on a bus carrying Chinese engineers to the Dasu dam site in Upper Kohistan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on July 14, which killed nine Chinese nationals.

This attack either exposed Pakistans failure to protect the Chinese workers or their troops are compromised as the military is highly Islamised.

The Chinese have invested billions of dollars into CPEC and in order to give their engineers and workers protection, Pakistan was told to create two Special Security Divisions (SSDs), with 15,000 troops each. Since maintaining such a large force requires a lot of money, the Pakistan army had asked for and received money for equipping these divisions.

However, that did not stop the insurgents from carrying out attacks leading to the death of their own troops and those they have to protect.

As per reports, many Chinese feel like hostages under constant arm guard, and “this has led to a number of near-riot situations where fistfights have turned ugly, especially when it relates to the Chinese using Pakistani army vehicles to visit and frequent red-light areas”.

There are also serious cases of embezzlement on the part of the Pakistani army involving Chinese money and instead of using the money to protect the Chinese, the money has been used to buy artillery pieces and combat helicopters which are not useful when to comes to human asset protection from terrorists.

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TMC MP Shantanu Sen suspended for Monsson Session after snatching and tearing apart IT Minister Vaishnaw’s statement paper

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Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Shantanu Sen has been suspended for the rest of the Monsoon Session on Friday (July 23), after tearing up a statement prepared by Union Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on the Pegasus row.

Yesterday the monsoon session of Rajya Sabha had to be adjourned after TMC MP Santanu Sen, following in the footsteps of Mamata Banerjee, snatched a statement paper from  Ashwini Vaishnaw and tore it to pieces as the minister rose to address the Pegasus snoop-gate controversy.

On the eve of the monsoon session, the now-debunked Pegasus snoop scandal erupted, and when IT Minister Vaishnaw began to make a statement on the phone-tapping allegations, TMC MP Sen rushed to the Well of the House and snatched the paper from Vaishnaw’s hands, while opposition MPs rushed to the Well and raised anti-government slogans.

Deputy Chairman Harivansh, who was present when the horrific act was committed, urged the protesting MPs to return to their seats and allow Vaishnaw to finish his statement, but the minister was unable to do so due to the snatching and tearing of the paper, which he instead laid a copy of on the House table.

BJP MP Swapan Dasgupta in an interview to ANI said, “It seems that some people of Opposition, notably some of the TMC MPs, got up & took the paper from the hands of the Minister (IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw while he was speaking on ‘Pegasus’) & tore it up. This is completely unseemly behaviour.”

“He was making a statement, you had a right to question him after that but instead of going in for a debate, is this the type of hooliganism we see inside the House? This is completely against all norms, I think it should be condemned outright,” he added.

The opposition once again ensured that the parliament’s Monsoon Session, which took place in the midst of the Covid epidemic, failed to conduct any business due to the opposition’s constant disruption.

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MEA: Pakistan stooping to a new low, with Pakistan’s Interior Minister blaming India for kidnapping of Afghan ambassador’s daughter

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After Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad has blamed India for the abduction and the torture of Afghanistan’s envoy daughter in Islamabad, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs Thursday(July 22), said, “Even by their standards, Pakistan’s denial of the victim’s account is stooping to a new low.”
 
MEA’s spokesperson Arindam Bagchi during a virtual media briefing called it a “shocking incident” and added, “This involves two other countries viz. Afghanistan and Pakistan, and usually we would not comment on it,”.

On July 16, the 26-year-old daughter of Afghan ambassador Najibullah Alikhil was abducted and was held for almost five hours and assaulted by unidentified men presumably of Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI). The Afghan government recalled its envoy and senior diplomats from Islamabad after this incident.
 
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs once again expresses deep concern over the continuation of unprofessional remarks by Pakistan’s Interior Minister regarding the abduction of the daughter of our Ambassador in Islamabad,” the Afghan foreign ministry has said in a statement.
 
When Bagchi was asked how secure Indian High Commission personnel are in Pakistan, he said, “I would not like to get into specific securing measures.”
 
On India-Afghanistan bilateral relations, the MEA spokesperson said, “We are guided by the Strategic Partnership Agreement signed between the two sides in October 2011. As a contiguous neighbour, India supports the Government and the people of Afghanistan in realizing their aspirations for a peaceful, democratic and prosperous future where the interest of all sections of Afghan society including women and minorities are protected,”.

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PM Modi to inaugurate nine new medical colleges in UP, state aims to become hub for medical education and treatment

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate nine new medical colleges in the Siddhartha Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh (UP), on July 30th, to boost medical education and healthcare.

With the addition of nine new medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh, the total number of medical colleges in the state would rise to 48. Deoria, Etah, Fatehpur, Ghazipur, Hardoi, Jaunpur, Mirzapur, Pratapgarh, and Siddharthnagar are among the districts where new colleges were established. Four new medical colleges will be opened by the end of the year, taking the total number of colleges to 52.

According to the UP state government spokesman, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked the administration to complete all necessary arrangements on time as nine medical colleges in nine districts are inaugurated simultaneously making it a historic event.

As of now, 70% of the faculty members have been finalized in these nine new colleges,  and the process for selection of the remaining 30% is presently underway.

Since the BJP took power in Uttar Pradesh in 2017, the state has added 36 new medical colleges to its initial count of only 12 medical colleges before CM Yogi assumed office. Adityanath had earlier called for the need of one medical college in each district to prevent patients from travelling to other districts for treatment.

Districts in the state that previously lacked a hospital will now have medical colleges built on a Public-Private-Partnership model in 16 districts, with the goal of making Uttar Pradesh a medical education hub where not only residents of the state but people from all over the world can access a wide range of medical services.

Uttar Pradesh already has four premier medical institutes namely Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Sefai institute, and King George’s Medical University (KGMU).

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IMK chief Arjun Sampath arrested for protesting against Angalamman temple demolition in Coimbatore

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Indu Makkal Katchi Chief Arjun Sampath was arrested in Coimbatore for protesting against the Coimbatore Corporation and the Tamil Nadu government at the temple demolition site, condemning the demolition of the Angalamman temple on the banks of Muthannankulam pond.

Arjun Sampath, who peacefully protested at the temple demolition site, was arrested by Coimbatore Police, according to Indu Makkal Katchi. They also urged Coimbatore Corporation officials to rebuild the temple where it was destroyed.

Earlier this week, IMK Chief Arjun Sampath has called for the worshipping of Angalamman deity and Thiruvalluvar on July 23rd, at the place where the temple was demolished in Coimbatore. He said,” Worship and Parikara Puja would be done at the site of the temple’s demolition on Friday, July 23rd, with the Angalamman deity and Thiruvalluvar portraits. Also, Porridge distribution and collective prayers will be held.”

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Karnataka becomes first state to give reservation for transgender community in govt services

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In a positive development for the transgender community in Karnataka, the state government has become the first state in the country to provide one per cent reservation for them all the government services.

The Karnataka government led by BS Yediyurappa submitted a report to the High Court in this regard informing that a notification had already been issued after amending the Karnataka Civil Service (General Recruitment) Rule, 1977 and the case was heard by the High Court Divisional Bench headed by the Chief Justice A.S. Oka heard the case on Tuesday (July 20).

The final notification issued on July 6, specifies one per cent reservation in all general as well as reserve categories for the third gender.

Whenever a notification is published inviting applications for the government jobs, ‘others’ column must be added along with male and female columns. The notification also underlines that there should not be any discrimination to the transgenders in the process of selection.

However, if there is a non-availability of transgender candidates, the job could be given to males or females from the same category, the notification notes.

‘AN NGO named Sangama had filed a Public Interest Petition (PIL) in the High Court seeking justice for the transgender community and the denial of job opportunities in the State Special Reserve Constable Force and Bandsman postings.

The lawyer for the government, Vijay Kumar Patil, informed the Bench that the government has provided the one per cent horizontal reservation in government recruitments by bringing amendment to the existing rule.

The High Court Divisional Bench has made it very clear that if a separate petition is filed in this regard, it would consider giving directions to the government and asked the counsel appearing for the Central government to specify its stand on the matter and welcomed and commended the action of the government.

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