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Thugs hired by DMK panchayat chairman assault AIADMK cadres for stopping illegal sand mining in Kumbakonam

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The incident in which ADMK cadres were violently assaulted by DMK cadres for reportedly attempting to stop illegal sand mining has stirred outrage in Kumbakonam.

The alleged incident occurred in Kariyapatticheri, Thiruvidaimaruthur village, in Kumbakonam district, where the DMK panchayat chairman Gunasekharan and his men were involved in illegal sand mining.

The illegal sand mining by the DMK leader was stopped after ADMK cadres of that area made a compliant to the district collector. Enraged by the stopping of illegal sand mining, DMK panchayat chairman Gunasekharan and his brother Kannan dispatched hitmen to an ADMK cadre’s home and office, who filed a complaint with the collector and smashed all of his possessions.

ADMK cadre Soundararajan and his friend Natarajan were seriously hurt in the incident, and Natarajan was taken to the Kumbakonam government hospital. Despite filing an official complaint, Soundararajan and Natarajan allege that the police are not taking action against the DMK chairman. People in the area were enraged by the DMK cadres’ anarchic behaviour.

(with inputs from NewsJ)

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ISRO to build ground station in Vietnam under Look East policy to help ASEAN countries

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The Modi government’s “Look East” policy received a boost as India is building a Mega Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Ground Station in Vietnam for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries. 

India which has been supplying the Covid-19 vaccine to neighboring countries is now building space cooperation among the ASEAN countries. Work has started on a ground station to be established in Vietnam’s payload data reception, processing, and dissemination facility.

This is now seen as space diplomacy as India aims to provide a reliable operational space-based system for remote sensing over the ASEAN countries like Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam.

The proposed facility for the ground station would be built on four hectares of land at My Phuoc 3 industrial park, in Binh Doung province of Vietnam and this facility will have a 11m antenna installed by ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network(ISTRAC).

The estimated cost for the project is 86 billion Vietnamese dollars and work will be completed in 18 months. 

This facility once finished will be very helpful for ISRO which already has ground stations in Bengaluru, Lucknow, Mauritius, Sriharikota, Port Blair, Thiruvananthapuram, Brunei, Biak.

The idea of a ground station in Vietnam was proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015 at the India ASEAN meeting at Nay Pyi Taw in Myanmar and in the following year, India told the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) its vision of the free and open Indo-Pacific region.

This particular initiative has been called India’s space diplomacy wherein India conducts foreign affairs and advances its national interests by joining like-minded countries in the ASEAN region and counter global powers who are exercising their hegemony. 

India has proposed to support ASEAN countries to receive the data from RESOURCESAT 2 and OCEANSAT 2 that will be very helpful for countries that are in the South China Sea region.

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Christian pastor in Andhra sexually assaults 10 year old girl, stuffs ₹50 in her hand to keep quite

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The police in Andhra Pradesh have arrested a 46-year-old Church pastor Alavala Sudhakar over allegations of sexual assault on a minor girl in the Kakinada rural zone of East Godavari district.

As per reports, the pastor allegedly assaulted the minor girl on June 22 and as soon the victim’s mother came to know, she filed a police complaint in the Sarpavaram police station. The pastor was arrested under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and remanded to judicial custody by the court.

According to a local news report, the pastor was attending a function on June 22, where he laid his eyes on the 10-year-old girl who he later convinced to go with him to a field away from the church and then proceeded to sexually assault the minor.

When the terrified 10-year-old girl started screaming for help, Pastor Sudhakar stuffed a fifty rupee note in her hand as a bribe asking her to not tell anyone about the incident.

Later when the villagers and her family members spoke to the minor she told them about her ordeal with the pastor which led her mother to approach the police with a complaint against the pastor.

Sarpavaram circle inspector B Rajasekhar said: “The Kakinada-based pastor, identified as Alavala Sudhakar, attended a function in the city on June 22. While the function was in progress, Mr Sudhakar reportedly sexually abused the victim in a nearby thatched house.”

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Isha donates medical equipment to DMK Youth Wing Secretary and MLA Udhayanidhi Stalin

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Isha donated 300 BiPAP non-invasive ventilators and 18 lakh KN 95 face masks to DMK Youth Wing Secretary and MLA Udhayanidhi Stalin in Chennai on Tuesday in support of the state government’s efforts to combat the pandemic.

Regarding this, Udhayanidhi Stalin posted on his Twitter account, “on behalf of Isha Outreach – Covid Action, Naksatra and Dinesh Raja, donated 300 BiPAP non-invasive ventilators and 18 lakh KN-95 face masks to me today for corona relief. Thanks.”

In May this year, Isha had donated 500 oxygen concentrators, PPE kits and KN 95 face masks to the Government of Tamil Nadu.

Isha has also offered its 18 electric crematoriums for free cremation services for victims of the pandemic.

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Modi Government creates a new Ministry of Co-operation

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In a historic move, a separate ‘Ministry of Co-operation’ has been created by the Modi Government for realizing the vision of ‘Sahkar se Samriddhi’.

This ministry will provide a separate administrative, legal and policy framework for strengthening the cooperative movement in the country.

It will help deepen Co-operatives as a true people based movement reaching upto the grassroots.

In our country, a Co-operative based economic development model is very relevant where each member works with a spirit of responsibility.

The Ministry will work to streamline processes for ‘Ease of doing business’ for co-operatives and enable development of Multi-State Co-operatives (MSCS).

The Central Government has signaled its deep commitment to community based developmental partnership. Creation of a separate Ministry for Co-operation also fulfils the budget announcement made by the Finance Minister.

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MHA directs AP Chief Secretary to take action Addl. DGP Sunil Kumar who had indulged in hate speech against Hindus

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Based on a complaint filed by Lok Sabha MP Raghu Ramakrishna Raju, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has directed the Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary to take action against Andhra Pradesh IPS officer PV Sunil Kumar who had indulged in hate speech against Hindus and for peddling divisive communal/caste based politics through his organization ‘Ambedkar India Mission’.

The IPS officer who is the Additional Director General of Police, (Crime Investigation Department) in Andhra Pradesh Government has been accused of abusing his position by running a private organization named in violation of Section 3 of The Police Forces (Restriction of Rights) Act, 1966.

He is also accused of provoking people of Scheduled Caste by making hateful statements against Hindu religion, scriptures and Gods on social media platforms.

On 26th November 2020, on the occasion of India’s Constitution Day, he appeared on Facebook live through the official page of “Ambedkar’s India Mission” and abused Hindu Religion and Hindu Sacred scriptures like Vedas and Puranas.

In another video that is available on social media, the officer can be seen praising the British rule stating that it was the British who gave them a God to pray and built churches, built hospitals, etc and adds that it was because of them that they are able to study today.

Earlier, Legal Rights Observatory (LRO), a legal activism non-profit, had filed a complaint against the officer with the Ajay Kumar Bhalla, Secretary of Union Ministry of Home Affairs, to issue directions to the Andhra Pradesh Police to lodge an FIR against PV Sunil Kumar and conduct a detailed investigation into his finances for revealing links with national and international donors.

The MHA has asked the Chief Secretary to file an ‘Action Taken Report’ to the Ministry at the earliest.

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CM Stalin goofs up, writes to IT Minister instead of I&B Minister regarding Cinematograph Act amendment

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In a hilarious goof up Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin wrote a letter to the Union Minister of Information Technology Ravishankar Prasad regarding the amendments to the Cinematograph Act instead of writing to the Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting had sought public suggestions for the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill, 2021 which will penalise film piracy with a jail term and fine, introduce age-based certification, and empower the Central government to order recertification of an already certified film following receipt of complaints.

The amendment of sub-section (1) of section 6 regarding ‘Revisional powers of the Central Government’ has attracted criticism from filmmakers. It says that if the Central Government receives complaints against a film that allude to violation of Section 5B(1) of the Cinematograph Act, 1952, then it may ask the Chairman of the Board to re-examine the film.

Many in the Tamil film industry sympathetic to the ruling DMK regime have been carrying out a misinformed propaganda against the amendments which seeks to offer intellectual property protection as well as curb film piracy.

The press release issued by the Tamil Nadu Department of Information & Public Relations (DIPR) stated that ‘Chief Minister Stalin has written to ‘Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting’ Ravishankar Prasad (who is the IT Minister and not I&B Minister) to drop the amendments to the Cinematograph Act as it reduces the powers of the state government and against freedom of speech and expression.

After the goof up came to light, the DIPR retracted the press release.

BJP Tamil Nadu General Secretary K.T. Raghavan took a jibe at CM Stalin saying that he had written to the Information Technology Minister instead of Information & Broadcasting Minister and advised him to have good advisors.

BJP Tamil Nadu spokesperson asked if incompetent DMK cadres were running the government.

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Parliamentarian Kharventhan releases compilation of his parliament speeches as e-book

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In a virtual meeting organized by Prime Point Foundation on July 5th to mark their 21st Anniversary, two eBooks of select speeches of former MPs Dr. S K Karventhan and S S Ramasubbu were released by former MOS Home Hansraj Ahir and former Karnataka Chief Minister Dr. Veerappa Moily, who was also a union minister of important portfolios in the Congress government. Arjun Ram Meghwal, MoS Parliamentary Affairs was also present. Dr. S K Kharventhan and S S Ramasubbu were the outstanding Parliamentarians and recipients of Sansad Ratna Awards of 14th and 15th Lok Sabha respectively.
Dr Veerappa Moily appealed to Media and MPs to highlight the positive aspects of developments in the country that made people feel secure and safe. In this context, he said the Prime Point Foundation was doing yeoman service by recognizing the good work done by MPs and awarding them the Sansad Ratna awards for their good performance in Parliament,
Dr. Moily appreciated the work of both MPs Karventhan and Ramasubbu, who had done great work for their constituencies and the e-books would serve as role models for the young generation of MPs and political science students.
Mr. Hansraj Ahir, while releasing the ebook containing the speeches of Dr. Kharventhan, said the foundation had done great work by bringing out and highlighting the works of MPs in the House. He said that Parliament provided ample opportunities for any MP to raise the constituency issues and get them resolved.
Arjun Ram Meghwal, in whose presence these ebooks were released suggested that Prime Point Foundation can bring out a volume containing the select speeches of 75 great leaders from the first Lok Sabha till the current one, by 15th August 2022, to mark the celebration of the 75th Independence Day.
K. Srinivasan, Founder Chairman of Prime Point Foundation agreed to the suggestion of Arjun Ram Meghwal and also said that they would bring out 8 ebooks containing the select Parliamentary speeches of Anandrao Adsul (Shiv Sena), Hansraj Ahir (BJP), Arjun Ram Meghwal (BJP), Bhartruhari Mahtab (BJD), Shrirang Appa Barne (Shiv Sena), Supriya Sule (NCP), Dr. Veerappa Moily (Cong) and N K Premachandran (RSP) next month on the Independence Day. All these 8 Parliamentarians are Sansad Ratna Awardees for their outstanding performance. Sansad Ratna Awards are presented to top-performing Parliamentarians every year after the Budget Session, based on the performance data provided by PRS India and Lok Sabha Secretariat. The Award was instituted on the suggestion given by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, who himself launched the first Award event in May 2010. Till 2021, 75 Awards have been presented. The awardees are selected by a Jury committee of eminent Parliamentarians through a transparent process.
The Jury Committee for the current 17th Lok Sabha is headed by Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal (MoS, Parliamentary Affairs) with Shri N K Premachandran (Kerala) and Shri Shrirang Appa Barne (Maharashtra) as members. The Jury Committee Members themselves are the outstanding Parliamentarians and Sansad Ratna Awardees. Sansad Ratna Awards and NextGen Political Leaders are the initiatives of Prime Point Foundation to honour the outstanding Parliamentarians and also to develop future political leaders.

The ebooks can be downloaded from www.sansadratna.in

Dr. S K Kharventhan: http://www.prpoint.com/publication/skk14.pdf

S S Ramasubbu: http://www.prpoint.com/publication/ssr15.pdf

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PM Modi wishes Tibetan freedom fighter and spiritual leader Dalai Lama on his 86th birthday

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (6 July) wished Tibetan freedom fighter and spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama on his 86th birthday.

This direct interaction between Modi and the Tibetan leader in exile comes when the relation between India and China is tense after the border clash between the armies in the Galwan Valley in June last year that left 20 Indian soldiers dead and an unspecified number of dead Chinese soldiers.

PM Modi used Twitter to inform the public of the telephonic conversation that he had with Dalai Lama.

“Spoke on phone to His Holiness the Dalai Lama to convey greetings on his 86th birthday,” PM Modi said.

“We wish him a long and healthy life,” PM Modi added.

Dolma Tsering, a member of Tibetan parliament praised the move by the Indian PM and said, “This is a positive move from PM Modi on wishing happy birthday to His Holiness (Dalai Lama). PM Modi wants to send message that India is no longer going to be very cautious talking about Tibet. It sends a very strong message to China: Dolma Tsering, member of Tibetan parliament.”

Lobsang Wangyal, a Tibetan activist, said, “PM Modi calling the Dalai Lama to wish him on his birthday is a great gesture, despite the border issue between India and China. This is a sign of India showing its strength. It is a very strong message to China.”

Earlier today, in a message on his 86th birthday, Dalai Lama said, “Since I became a refugee and now settled in India, I have taken full advantage of India’s freedom and religious harmony. I want to assure you that for the rest of my life I am committed to reviving ancient Indian knowledge,”.

“I really appreciate the Indian concept of secular values, not dependent on religion, such as honesty, karuna (compassion) and ahimsa (non-violence),” he added.

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Minor girl raped in Communist state of Kerala, suspect is a DYFI worker, the youth wing of CPI (M)

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Another grizzly act of rape involving a minor has been reported from the Communist state of Kerala after police on Monday (July 5) arrested yet another member of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) which is the youth wing of the ruling CPI(M).

As per reports, Arjun (22) a worker of the Communist party and resident of the Idukki district, repeatedly sexually abused the girl for three years before raping and killing her.

The body of the minor girl was found hanging in a room at her parents’ quarters. Comrade Arjun who had reportedly been doing a lot of social work in his region and as a volunteer during the pandemic is now under bars for his monstrous act.

A police officer said, “The incident, which occurred on June 30, was reported as an accidental death. We were told that a shawl accidentally got tied around her neck while she was playing. The parents were away at work. However, the postmortem revealed that the girl had been subjected to sexual abuse over a long period, which made police look into the murder angle.”

Quoting the youth, the police officer said, “The girl fell unconscious during the assault and the assailant feared she may have died. Subsequently, he hanged her in the room using her shawl.”

The rape and murder of this minor girl by this communist took place on June 30 when the accused sneaked into the house of the minor. It has also been reported that comrade Arjun later panicked after the incident and spread the rumour of the minor death as accidental.

However, his lies were busted after an autopsy report conclusively proved that the alleged rapist and murder was a longtime tormentor of this minor girl and further investigation led to the arrest of four suspects. 

Recently the Kerala Police booked two CPM leaders PP Baburaj and TP Lijeesh for sexually assaulting and blackmailing a female party worker and more and more instances of sexual abuse and sexual harassment are emerging in the state.

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