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19 Bengali Hindus of Cachar were declared ‘foreigners’ by Assam’s Foreigners Tribunal in Dec 2021

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Reports have emerged that as many as 22 people were declared as “foreigners” by six Foreigners Tribunals (FT) functioning in the Bengali-dominated Cachar district of Assam in the month of December 2021. Of the 22, 19 are Bengali-speaking Hindus and the rest Bengali-speaking Muslims.

This development comes despite the Assam government having directed the FTs last September to not pass “consequential directions or orders” and stick to giving “opinion” on a person’s nationality.

Foreigners Tribunals, which are quasi-judicial in nature and are unique to Assam, decide the fate of people suspected to be illegal immigrants. Foreigners’ Order, 1964, empowers FTs to only opine whether a person is a foreigner or an Indian citizen.

The six FTs of Cachar (there are 100 FTs in Assam) declared the 22 men and women as “foreigners” in separate judgments and on different dates in December 2021.

The additional Superintendent of Police (Border) of the district sent a letter to the District Magistrate (Cachar) with a list of the new “foreigners”. He said all the public welfare schemes of the Centre such as ration cards, Aadhaar cards and so on would be taken away from the persons included in the list. Their names would also be deleted from the voter list.

North East Linguistic and Ethnic Co-ordination Committee general secretary Kankan Narayan Sikdar said that due to the non-enactment of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019, for two years, Bengali Hindus in particular were facing extreme harassment in the name of identification of “foreigners”.

“Declaring a total of 22 people, including 19 Bengali Hindus in the district ‘foreigners’ in one month is really painful. The coordination committee will co-operate with the persons in the case challenging the verdicts of the FTs in the high court and prove that they are Indians,” he added.

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Bengaluru doctors successfully operate on Iraqi woman with heart tumour as big as tennis ball

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Doctors at Bengaluru’s Sagar Hospitals successfully operated on a 30-year-old Iraqi national and removed a tumour the size of a tennis ball that had grown in her heart.

Noor Hussain, who is a microbiologist in her home country, had lived with the life-threatening condition for more than a decade. She had flown down to Bengaluru for medical help amidst the Covid curbs. The six-hour surgery was conducted on January 17, a week after Hussain landed in Bengaluru.

“A large tumour in the heart’s chambers is rare”, said Dr Ashwini Kumar Pasarad, head of cardiac surgery, Sagar hospitals, who operated on the woman. He said that the tumour removed from Hussain’s heart weighed over 200 grams — almost 80% of a normal heart (250-300 grams).

The cause of the tumour is said to be either congenital (growing since birth) or due to possible exposure to radiation.

“Besides the usual difficulties, the surgery was also challenging since there was no clear demarcation between the tumour and the heart muscles. A portion of the heart had to be reconstructed during the procedure”, said Dr Pasarad.

“If the tumour wasn’t removed, Hussain would have suffered congestive cardiac failure, where the heart is unable to pump the normal quantity of blood and gets congested. She would have also suffered sudden cardiac death due to the irregular rhythm of the heart,” he added.

Noor Hussain had made the trip to Bengaluru with her father and a friend, the latter of whom is a pharmacist who had studied in Bengaluru. The successful surgery is a second shot at life for Hussain, as she had almost given up hope.

Mohammed Yusuf, the pharmacist who accompanied Hussain to Bengaluru, said the tumour was detected in 2011 and it was said to be benign. In 2020, almost 10 years later, Hussain suffered breathlessness during the initiative phase of the pandemic, but she tested negative for Covid-19.

“She visited multiple hospitals. In Turkey she was told surgery was risky and inoperable. The family then decided to seek help in Bengaluru,” Yusuf said. He said that the Indian embassy in Iraq helped immensely and the visa was processed in two days.

Hussain was discharged on Tuesday.

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NCPCR team to visit Thanjavur to inquire suicide of minor Hindu girl

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A team of officials belonging to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) headed by its Chairman, Priyank Kanoongo, will be visiting Thanjavur on January 30 – 31 to inquire about the suicidal death of minor Hindu girl who was allegedly subjected to forced conversion and torture.

The NCPCR in a press release said that the Tamil Nadu Government was not extending support in facilitating its visit citing Model Code of Conduct put in place for the upcoming urban local body elections.

The press release also said the concerned Superintendent of Police and Investigating Officer have been asked to be present.

The NCPCR team will be meeting the deceased girl’s parents and also interact with her classmates, school authorities, doctors who had treated her, doctor who had performed post morterm and also the locals there.

Earlier on January 24, NCPCR Chairman Priyank Kanoongo said in a tweet that severe action will taken on the basis of the statement of the 17-yr-old who committed suicide and her parents.

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TN’s R-Day tableau gets stuck under direction board in main road, Dheeran Chinnamalai’s sword cutoff to pass through

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The DMK government in Tamil Nadu had announced that Tamil Nadu’s tableau would be part of the Republic Day celebrations and would be taken across the state.  A video has now surfaced, showing the poor or rather lack of planning in showcasing the tableau.

In the video, the tableau can be seen stuck on the arterial Anna Salai because of its height, and is not able to pass through the route board. Vehicles were stuck in traffic jam caused because of the tableau getting stuck. Those in charge of the tableau then climb on top and cut off the sword of Dheeran Chinnamalai’s statue, in order to ensure that entire tableau passes through the board. The statue is basically destroyed, for it to pass through. For the rest of the procession, Dheeran Chinnamalai’s statue goes on without a sword.

Recently, the DMK and its sympathizers in the media have been creating a fuss that Central government ‘rejected’ Tamil Nadu’s tableau from being part of the Republic Day Parade.

A clarification was issued by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh that tableaus are selected by an expert committee through a rigorous selection process and also pointed out that Tamil Nadu’s tableau was part of the parade in 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021.

Despite the clarification, the DMK has been playing politics over the matter with CM Stalin announcing that the allegedly ‘rejected’ tableau would be part of the Republic Day celebration in Tamil Nadu and also be taken across Tamil Nadu.

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DMK Govt awards man who wanted to ‘finish off’ PM Modi and HM Shah

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Recently, the DMK government in Tamil Nadu has announced an award for writer Nellai Kannan, for his contributions towards developing the Tamil language. Simultaneously, a video of the writer’s speech during anti CAA protests, has gone viral on Twitter, pointing out his offensive speech towards Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah.

Addressing a crowd of Muslims gathered in a meeting called by the Islamist outfit Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI),  Nellai Kannan ‘jokes’ about ‘”finishing off” Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. “I thought you will “Finish Off” (read kill) PM Narendra Modi & Amit Shah, but you have not..” he says, addressing a gathering of Muslims seated amongst Muslim leaders. Nellai Kannan had said that Home Minister Amit Shah was acting as the brain behind PM Modi and that if his story was ‘finished’, that of the PM would also be over too. He also uses names and calls the Prime Minister a ‘fraud’ and a ‘dog’.

In the same video he also derogates AIADMK leaders O. Panneerselvam and Edappadi K. Palaniswami addressing them vulgarly. He also makes derogatory comments on PM Modi’s wife. He says that he would ‘kill’ BJP leader K.T. Raghavan if he went for a TV debate with him. He also calls the Brahmin community derogatarily as ‘dogs’ (Paapaara Naaingala).

It is to be noted that the Tamil writer was also booked for his speech, and subsequently arrested for it, back in 2020. He also received the Kamarajar Kathir Award in the presence of Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin, in December 2021.

Check out his speech here:

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India sells BrahMos supersonic cruise missile to Philippines

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In a historic first, on Friday, January 28, 2022, India has concluded a deal with the Philippines to supply the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile. 

“The deal for which Philippines Department of National Defence has issued the ‘Notice of Award’ to the BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited has been concluded.”

This is the largest defence deal worth $374.96 million (Rs 2700 crores) contract for the purchase of a shore-based anti-ship missile system from India. 

As per the agreement, the Philippines will get three missile batteries and the range of the missile will be 290 kilometres and a speed of 2.8 Mach (thrice the speed of sound) India will also train their operators along with the necessary integrated logistics support package, said the sources.

India is also holding talks with Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and a few other nations who have shown interest in this potent system because the BrahMos missile can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft, and land.

India on January 11 successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile of the extended-range sea-to-sea variant from the Indian Navy’s newly commissioned INS Visakhapatnam on the Western seaboard.

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Madurai Collector presents “Best Social Service Award” to Islamist org PFI

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On the occassion Republic Day, the District Collector of Madurai Dr. S. Aneesh Sekhar IAS presented the ‘Best Social Service Award’ to radical Islamist organization Popular Front of India (PFI).

The award was received by one S. Mohamed Abuthahir who is the Madurai District President of PFI.

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Popular Front of India is an extremist Islamic organization whose members have indulged in crimes from murders to rioting. It has often been accused for involvement in anti-national and anti-social activities by the Indian Government. Indian intelligence agencies have reported the role of the PFI in several terror attacks.

In 2019, Pattali Makkal Katchi worker Ramalingam was brutally murdered near Thiruvidaimarudhur in Thanjavur district by members belonging to the Popular Front of India and Social Democratic Party of India. He had resisted Islamic conversions in the Pakku Vinayagam Thoppy village near Kumbakonam.

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Rahul Gandhi writes letter to Twitter demanding reason for drop in followers; firm says zero tolerance towards manipulation

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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi recently wrote a letter to the Twitter CEO Parag Aggarwal, telling him that he was informed discretely by Twitter employees from India, that they were under immense pressure to silence his voice. This letter comes after Rahul Gandhi saw a tremendous drop in his follower count on Twitter. However, in response to the letter, the social media site has said that it has zero tolerance towards manipulation and spam.

In his letter, Rahul Gandhi had included an analysis of Twitter accounts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. He said while his followers increased by 4 lakh on average for the first seven months of 2021, the growth had come to a halt after his account was suspended for eight days in August last year.

“Perhaps not so coincidentally, it was precisely during these months that I raised the plight of a rape victim’s family in Delhi, stood in solidarity with farmers and fought the government on many other human rights issues. In fact, a video of mine that promised farmers that the 3 infamous farm laws will be repealed is among the most watched video on Twitter posted by any political leader in India in recent times,” Rahul Gandhi wrote.

Responding to this letter, a Twitter spokesperson has now said, “Twitter has a zero-tolerance approach to platform manipulation and spam. We fight spam and malicious automation strategically and at scale with machine learning tools, and as part of those consistent and ongoing efforts to ensure a healthy service and credible accounts, follower counts can and do fluctuate.”

In addition, news agency ANI had reported that the spokesperson also said, “Follower counts are visible features and we want everyone to have confidence that numbers are meaningful and accurate. We remove millions of accounts each week for violating our policies on platform manipulation and spam.”

Following this, pointing to the defections that Congress is seeing, BJP’s Amit Malviya said at a time when the party is facing rebellion in Uttarakhand, Punjab, Rahul Gandhi is worried about his Twitter followers. And replying to this tweet, former IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “May be large number of leaders who are leaving Congress, their followers are now unfollowing Rahul Gandhi.”

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Rampant corruption alleged in issuing of TASMAC bar tenders

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Minister for Prohibition in the DMK government Senthil Balaji, while speaking in the Assembly, had claimed that no corruption is taking place in the issuance of tenders for government liquor outlets. However, there has been no satisfactoory answer to why bar owners, gathered in front of the house of the Minister and protested.

Many bar owners have also approached the courts filing a case against wrongful sale of bar tenders.

In a recent video released by Ilaya Bharatham run by YouTuber Karthik Gopinath, the Chief of the TASMAC Bar Association, N Anbarasan and the Secretary of the Association, Balamurugan had spoken about the corruption in the sale of bar tenders.

The Tamil Nadu government earns a lumpsum amount of its revenue from sale of liquor through TASMAC outlets which ammounts approximately ₹33000 crores. TASMAC Bar Association chief Anbarasan and Secretary Balamurugan, have however said that there are a lot of problems associated to the sale of bar tenders. Speaking the Ilaya Bharatham, Anbarasan said, “Bars have been functioning for almost 18 years now. Till now, there have been no misuse of this, as we have been running these bars transparently. However, now, on the 30th they announced the sale of tenders. While the Minister announced that the sale happened in 30 districts, it never actually happened. Nowhere have bars opened up in these 30 districts that the minister claims that the tender was sold at. The government has also faced losses for the month of January, as there was a reduction in revenue received. I’m not sure as to how the government is going to deal with this issue. But, I know that if the tender sale happened transparently, these issue wouldn’t have even come up in the first place.”

There is an accusation that the tenders were majorly given to those belonging to the Karur district. While speaking about this Anbarasan said that, the problem is not that these tenders have been given to people belonging to Karur. However, they have been given to those who have not gotten the land or builder’s NOC (No Objection Certificate).

Most of the tenders that have been allocated, the bars have not been opened yet. Many have approached the courts complaining about this. Talking about this, he said, “When 2 year tenders were given back in 2019, bars were kept closed for a period of 18 months. And therefore many have approached the courts for justice, demanding that the tender system itself is done away with. When the government said that it is not possible, we then asked them to atleast conduct it transparently.”

The secretary Balamurugan also said that when they approached Minister Senthil Balaji he told them that the tender bid process is happening transparently and without corruption. However, he claims that they were not able to access the Tender application form, which were supposed to available from December 15. They then went to the court demanding transparent tender bids. Only after the court said that everybody should be able to access the application forms, the website beccame accessible for some. Even then, only a group of bidders from Karur were allowed to bid those tenders, and many others from other districts were not even allowed to participate in the bid.

The chief of the TASMAC Bar Association, Anbarasan, is now suspended from DMK, citing the protest that they staged in front of the Minister’s house. However, Anbarasan clearly states that the problem comes from Minister Senthil Balaji, and not the DMK party at large. So, the accusation is that the Minister is trying to replace the old tender system, to fit in a new one.

He also said that in order to run a TASMAC wine shop and bar, the keepers have shell out 1.8% of the revenue as rent to the government. It is because of this that the cost of water bottles and other items inside the bar is higher, he said as they need to make some profit. He also says that almost 7.5 lakh families are dependant upon the TASMAC for their livelihood, and therefore requests the government to take some action.

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Beijing Winter Olympics: China tries to convert Zhangjiakou region into Alps with artificial snow

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News have emerged from China that in order to host the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has directed more than 2 million cubic metres of water to create artificial snow, report Bloomberg .

The 2022, Beijing Winter Olympics will be the first to rely completely on man-made powder/snow and it remains to be seen how effective it will be as China is working to convert the Zhangjiakou region into the Alps.

The upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics will be held at two sites – Yanqing and Zhangjiakou and both these places hardly receive any snowfall and that is why Beijing is diverting around 10 percent of consumable water from a district in Zhangjiakou, which is an already arid region and people in this area rely on agriculture for a livelihood.

According to China Water Risk, an environmental group based in Hong Kong, where the Communist regime has gone out of its way to supress freedom of speech, more than half of Zhangjiakou is “highly water-stressed” and since 2015, China has been investing heavily to turn the agricultural and rural Zhangjiakou into a tourist hub.

According to Carmen de Jong, a geographer at the University of Strasbourg, “There is bound to be some impacts in a region where there is nearly no water in the winter. For half a year, during the snow sports season, the water stays away from the natural ecosystem.”

Also, there are risks when the fake snow will melt, it could be harmful to the environment and such a large scale energy-intensive process could spew tons of planet-warming gases.

China claims that it wants to lift the region’s 430,000 residents out of poverty and over the years Zhangjiakou has witnessed the construction of seven upscale ski resorts and the region receives around 3 million skiers per year.

However, the Chinese Communist Party’s goal, in reality, skewred and the hosting of the Winter Olympics is less to do with poverty alleviation and more to show China’s ‘glory’ to the world.

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