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Samajwadi MP says India is facing natural calamities and Covid as BJP is messing with Islamic Sharia law

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Samajwadi Party MP from Moradabad, S T Hasan has said that the devastation caused by recent cyclones and the Covid-19 pandemic as a result of ‘aasmani aafat’ (divine disaster) because the Bhartia Janata Party (BJP) government at the centre has been messing with the Islamic Sharia law during the 7 years of its rule.

This outrageous statement was made by the Moradabad MP when he said, “The BJP government in the last seven years has tampered with the Islamic Sharia law. They have passed the Citizenship Amendment Act, which is against Muslims. We have also witnessed two storms wreaking havoc in a matter of just 10 days. Thousands of people have died due to the coronavirus outbreak. If the ones on the earth do not do justice, then the ones above take charge and deliver justice.”

Hasan then said that the state’s BJP government “total failure” to provide the people of the state with an opportunity to perform the last rites of those who died of Covid-19.

“Has anyone ever seen dead bodies of human beings being abandoned and dogs feeding on them? Where else in the world are bodies thrown in rivers instead of being cremated? Cremation grounds facing shortage of wood for funeral pyres? What kind of government do we have?” he asked.

On drawing a link between government decisions and natural calamities, Hasan said: “We Indians are a very religious lot and strongly believe that some supernatural being exists which controls the world and imparts justice.”

Reacting to Hasan’s remarks, UP’s Minister for Minority Affairs, Mohsin Raza described Hasan’s approach who happens to be a doctoras similar to that of the Islamic State (IS) terror group.

“It is more than clear from his statements that people like him do not have faith in the Constitution of the country. They want Samajwadi Party to form the government and introduce Sharia law thereafter. Their language is identical to the IS. Such people only believe in Sharia law.

“The problem of Hasan and Samajwadi Party leaders is that Holi is being celebrated in a big way in Barsana and for them, CAA being introduced is injustice and so is abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir,” Raza added.

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Reliance Industries to pay salary of deceased employees for 5 years

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In a noble gesture during a very difficult time, the Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries has announced that it will pay the same last drawn salary of its employees who succumbed to Covid-19 for the next five years.

The salary will be credited into the account of the next of kin of the deceased employees’ dependants, Livemint has reported.

Also, Reliance is providing three months’ salary as an advance in case of emergency and has taken the responsibility to fully fund tuition fees, hostel and books expenses of all children of the deceased employees until they complete their bachelor’s degree.

The company has also decided to pay 100 per cent premium required for hospitalisation coverage of the dependants including his or her spouse, parents, and children, and the workforce which is not on the payrolls of Reliance will be paid ₹10 lakh in case of a Covid-19 related death.

Tata Steel had earlier announced it will keep paying the salary of its Covid-19 related deceased employees to their dependant till the former’s retirement age.

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Nestle ‘admits’ that Maggi is indeed bad for health

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Nestle has recently come out and admitted that Maggi is indeed harmful to health. Nestle, which has set up production facilities in various parts of the world, is often embroiled in controversy over the quality of its food products.

Meanwhile, its officials have recently submitted a study on the quality of food products produced by the company. It said 60% of the company’s Maggi noodles, including ice cream, were unhealthy. The report came as a shock to all the consumers who have been consuming these instant noodles for decades. Nestle, has acknowledged that more than 60 per cent of its mainstream food and drinks products do not meet a “recognised definition of health” and that some of the categories of products “will never be healthy no matter how much they renovate”, a Financial Times report said quoting a Nestle document.

In addition to this, Nestle has stated that it is examining the nutritional value of its products and will make changes to prepare them with health and taste, as it is a health issue. Meanwhile, India is the company’s 11th largest market in terms of gross consumption and revenue generation.

Notably, Maggi was banned in India in 2015, after failing the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)’s standards for its impermissible levels of MonoSodium Glutamate (MSG) in its products.

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124 year old lady gets vaccinated in J&K, wins hearts online

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124-year-old Rehtee Begum in Baramulla became one of the oldest people in the country to receive their vaccine jabs, as Jammu and Kashmir implemented their door-to-door vaccination drive. Since the mountainous terrain offers challenges in terms of internet connectivity, the government has taken steps to perform door-to-door vaccination.

On one such drive on Wednesday, 124-year-old Rehtee Begum got her first vaccination jab. Her picture immediately went viral after the Department of Information and Public Relations, Jammu and Kashmir Government shared it on their official Twitter handle.

Since there are no official records confirming her age, there is no definitive proof about her age. According to Guinness Book of World Records, Japanese woman Kane Tanaka is currently the oldest person living at an age of 118. If her family’s account of her age is to be believed, Rehtee Begum is the oldest surviving person in the world.

In order to ensure 100% vaccination, the Jammu and Kashmir Government has left no stone unturned and has initiated a door-to-door vaccination drive to vaccinate every household. They have also set up mobile vaccination camps at several places in the state. The priority list that has been issued by the government includes shopkeepers, street vendors, people related to the tourism and hotel industry, lawyers, journalists, specially-abled people, orphans, widows, and Government employees on COVID duties.

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Turning job seekers into job creators, Startup India achieves major milestone

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As on June 3, 2021, 50,000 startups across have been recognized as startups under the Startup India initiative by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), of which 19,896 have been recognized since April 1, 2020.

Startup India is a flagship initiative of the Government of India launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 16 January, 2016. The initiative is intended to catalyse startup culture and build a strong and inclusive ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship in India. Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) acts as the nodal Department for the Startup initiative.

With the launch of the Startup India initiative, recognized startups have now spread across 623 districts. Each State and UT has at least one startup. 30 States and UTs have announced specific Startup Policies to support startups. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat have the greatest number of startups.

It took only 180 days to add the last 10,000 startups, as compared to 808 days for the first 10,000 at the beginning of the initiative. 743 startups were recognized in 2016-2017, in the first year of the initiative, which has now increased exponentially to over 16,000 startups being recognized in the year 2020-2021.

The recognized startups have contributed significantly to job creation, with 5,49,842 jobs reported by 48,093 startups with an average number of 11 employees per startup. About 1.7 lakh jobs were created by recognized startups in the 2020-2021 period alone.

The sectors that had the maximum registered startups were ‘Food Processing’, ‘Product Development’, ‘Application Development’, ‘IT Consulting’ and ‘Business Support Services’. The leadership teams of 45% startups have a women entrepreneur.

“Funding opportunities to startups have been enhanced through the Fund of Funds Scheme with an overlay of INR 10,000 crore and the recently launched Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS) with an outlay of INR 945 crores. Multiple programs conceived and implemented by DPIIT  -National Startup Awards, State Ranking Framework, Global VC Summit, Prarambh: Startup India International Summit – have provided the ecosystem an opportunity to engage with multiple partners, get recognized for their contribution and showcase the work that is being done. DPIIT will continue to engage with multiple stakeholders to address the growth opportunities and challenges in the ecosystem, helping the Indian startup ecosystem reach greater heights.”, the press release issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry read.

(Published from PIB)

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India Today’s Rahul Kanwal gets trolled by netizens after on-air faux pas about Nagaland

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India Today’s Rahul Kanwal is being trolled by netizens on Twitter and other social media platforms after his faux pas about Nagaland, while he was on-air, became viral.

Rahul was on air with Rupin Sharma, Nagaland DGP and author of the book ‘Extradition’, and was discussing the repartition of Mehul Choksi from Dominica. When there was a brief power cut from Sharma’s end to which he had later apologised, Rahul had said, ‘You’re in Nagaland, electricity goes off even in India. Go on.’

This quickly made him controversy’s favourite child, as people from all over the country went ahead to question how someone who was holding a high position in one of the country’s most famous news platforms could make this blunder.

BJP’s Mizoram spokesperson Mmhonlumo Kikon tweeted about this, saying, “We need to invite @rahulkanwal to Nagaland very soon! We need major geography class for major media professionals too! What say @payalmehta100 @AdityaRajKaul @Karma_Paljor??,” to which Rahul had replied saying, “This was a slip of tongue. My apologies. Was meaning to say Delhi. My bad.” This apology did not do much to pacify those who were offended by the faux pas, and invoked a lot of comments against him online.

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Woman in Andhra thought to be dead pulls a surprise

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The incident in which a woman who was thought to be dead due to COVID and then was later found to have been buried alive in Andhra Pradesh has come as a shock. It is to be noted that, a little while after she was buried, she had managed to come back, scaring the daylights out of her kin and those nearby.

Girijamma of Christianpet in Andhra Pradesh was admitted to Vijayawada Government Hospital on May 12 due to a severe case of coronavirus infection and was thought to have died on May 15. A body was handed over to relatives from the hospital.

Meanwhile, Girijamma’s son Ramesh had died earlier that month due to coronavirus. Relatives had thought that both the mother and son have died. However, 10 days after the funeral, when a special prayer meeting was being held at Girijamma’s house, everyone was shocked to find Girijamma alive.

Further investigation into this issue revealed that the body of another man, who died due to hospital negligence, was returned to her relatives and that it was his body that was buried, while Girijamma was fully alive and was undergoing treatment at the same hospital. An inquiry is underway as to find out how the body was mismatched.

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Reliance Industries and US chip-making giant Qualcomm to collaborate for developing critical 5G equipment

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India’s leading telecommunication company, Reliance Industries led Jio Platforms and US chip-making giant Qualcomm have collaborated to manufacture critical 5G equipment in India, Economic Times has reported.

Qualcomm had invested $97 million in Jio last year and these 5G equipment will help catalyse the 5G ecosystem in India. Both companies has envisioned a partnership to develop open and interoperable interface compliant architecture-based 5G solutions with a virtualised RAN.

The Jio-Qualcomm partnership had achieved a speed of over 1 Gbps on Jio 5G via Qualcomm’s RAN Platforms.

Reliance has proved to be the most formidable rival for China and it has already completed the testing of its 5G radio and core solutions and is now preparing for a 5G field trial after having received a trial spectrum from Department of Telecommunications.

“India is at the forefront of the global digital revolution. Jio is accelerating the rollout of digital platforms and indigenously developed next-generation 5G stack, making it affordable and available everywhere,” RIL had said in its annual report.

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BJP MLA from Karnataka wins hearts by performing last rites for 566 people

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Karnataka State Revenue Minister Ashoka’s selfless act towards performing the last rites of 566 COVID victims has been hailed by all. Since this is something that even the relatives of the victims were hesitant to perform, this has taken everyone by surprise.

In various states in India, relatives refused to bury or cremate the bodies of corona patients and left them in hospitals has caused a lot of distress and shock to the rest of the country. Acknowledging this issue,  R Ashoka, Karnataka’s Revenue Minister, had promised to cremate the bodies of more than a thousand people in Karnataka who were left unattended by relatives due to fear of COVID. He then went on to set up a 12-member committee headed by Swami Banu Prakash Sharma.

The minister, who performed the funeral rites as he had promised, posted on his Twitter page that he was satisfied with the funeral rites for the souls of the dead to be blessed. The tweet went on to read, “I would like to request all the political leaders to respectfully dispose of such unattended corpses in their district. The ashes of these 566 people have been immersed in the holy Kaveri. I have also instructed the Deputy Commissioners to conduct funeral rites in all the districts if the bodies are not claimed by the relatives.”

The minister said that when they tried to return their remains of the victims to their relatives, which had been cremated in government cemeteries by the corona, they had not accepted the invitation or had switched off their mobile phones. Therefore, he had come forward to dissolve the remains of 566 people in the Kaveri and perform the funeral rites.

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Indian Army renovates ancient Shiva Temple in Gulmarg, now open to public

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The Indian Army renovated an ancient Shiva Temple in Jammu and Kashmir’s Gulmarg which has now been opened for the public. This temple is said to be constructed in 1915 by Maharani Mohini Bai Sisodia, wife of the erstwhile Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir Hari Singh. This temple is also famous for being featured in ‘Jai Jai Shivshankar’, a famous Bollywood song from the movie ‘Aap Ki Kasam’.

“The Army battalion at Gulmarg, with the help of locals repaired the structure of the Shiv temple, Gulmarg. The landscape and pathways leading to the temple were also redesigned and rebuilt,” an Army official said.

“It’s known to everyone that Kashmir is a paradise on earth but the real beauty of Kashmir is its people and the massage to the world is of Kashmiriyat and brotherhood if we see around us here we will find a Gurudwara a church a mosque and a temple this is real Kashmiriyat this temple is taken care by a Muslim from last 30 years which is a big example of Kashmiriyat and an inspiration for all,” he added.

The Kashmiri heritage has always been portrayed in an Islam-centric manner, and so, the restoration of this Shiva temple is particularly significant.

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