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Former Punjab CM Capt. Amarinder Singh calls Siddu an acolyte of Pakistani deep state

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Former Chief Minister of Punjab Captain Amarinder Singh who resigned from the Indian National Congress on Tuesday (November 2) called Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu as “an acolyte of Pakistani deep state”.

In his resignation letter that he wrote to long term Congress Party Interim President Sonia Gandhi, he said, “Despite my profound reservations and over the unanimous advice of almost all the MPs from Punjab, you chose to appoint an acolyte of Pakistani deep state Navjot Singh Sidhu who had publicly hugged the Pakistan Army Chief Gen Bajwa and Prime Minister Imran Khan, as the President of the Punjab Congress Committee.”

He further said, “Sidhu’s only claim to fame was that he would abuse me and my government on a regular basis. I am old enough to be his father but that did not stop him from using the filthiest and most vile language against me both publicly and privately.”

Singh also claimed that Sidhu was “patronised by Rahul and Priyanka” while Sonia Gandhi “chose to turn to a blind eye to the shenanigans of the gentleman”. He then dragged  General Secretary in-charge Harish Rawat and said both Rawat and Sidhu aided and abetted in this crisis

The former CM also said, “I had told you at that time also that Sidhu is a person of an unstable mind and you will one day regret this decision and it would be too late by then. I am sure you must be regretting it now.”

Singh also said, “When you chose to appoint a person who had been with the BJP for 14 years as PPCC President, I thought to myself where has the Congress come to. However, his appointment was only a continuum given that Nana Patole from the BJP and Revnath Reddy from the RSS had earlier been appointed as Presidents of Maharashtra and Telangana respectively.”

Captain Amarinder Singh who had resigned from the Congress party also announced the name of his new party-Punjab Lok Congress, just months ahead of the Punjab Assembly election with the possibility of an electoral tie-up with the BJP.

Singh had resigned in September as the chief minister after the Congress high command succumbed to the demand of Congress state chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.

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Russia offers S-500 anti-aircraft missile defense system to India with a longer range

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As the Indian Air Force (IAF) is just weeks from acquiring the S-400 anti-aircraft missile defense system from Russia, the director of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), Dmitry Shugaev said that Russia may also deliver its cutting-edge S-500 anti-aircraft missile systems to India and China in the future.

Shugaev said that Russia is looking at India, China, and other countries with which it has a long-standing partnership to sell S-500 Prometey which is designed for intercepting and destroying intercontinental ballistic missiles, as well as hypersonic cruise missiles and aircraft.

As per information provided to the public, this next-generation surface-to-air missile system has a range of around 600 kilometres (370 miles) and Russia may export this variant to friendly countries.

On Monday, November 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the Russian military will receive the first batch of S-500 missiles soon and said it is important to enhance the country’s air defences following a surge in NATO military activity near Russia’s border.

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Flipkart signs MoU with Govt of India to enhance rural livelihood

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Flipkart, India’s homegrown e-commerce marketplace, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Rural Development of the Government of India (MoRD), for their ambitious Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM) program, to help empower local businesses and self-help groups (SHGs) – especially those that are led by women – by bringing them into the e-commerce fold. The partnership is aligned with the DAY-NRLM’s goal of strengthening the capabilities of rural communities for self-employment and entrepreneurship, thus providing further impetus to the Prime Minister’s vision of an “Atmanirbhar Bharat”.

In the presence of Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Giriraj Singh, Minister of State for Rural Development Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, the MoU was signed at a ceremony in Delhi by the Joint Secretary (RL), DAY-NRLM Charanjit Singh and Flipkart’s Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Rajneesh Kumar on November 02, 2021.

On this occasion Giriraj Singh said, “SHGs are backbone of the rural economy and we are targeting to enhance their annual income to at least 1 lakh.  We are identifying and collaborating with all possible partners who can contribute to this cause and partnership between DAY NRLM and Flipkart will help in the process. Rural products from SHGs have huge potential of acceptance among the masses in India and abroad and e-commerce platform will prove to be an effective tool to harness it.” Shri Singh said that MoU will enable rural women to sell their products to more than 10 crore Flipkart’s customers.

This MoU is a part of the Flipkart Samarth program and aims to provide skilled yet under-served communities of craftsmen, weavers and artisans with national market access through the Flipkart marketplace, as well as dedicated support for knowledge and training. Flipkart Samarth seeks to break entry barriers for local communities by providing time-bound incubation and support with onboarding, cataloging, marketing, account management, business insights, and warehousing. This will create more avenues for increasing business and trade inclusion and help in creating and sustaining better livelihood opportunities.

The MoRD’s DAY-NRLM programme with its outreach in 6768 blocks of 706 districts across all 28 States and 6 UTs has 7.84 crore women mobilized into more than 71 lakh SHGs is proving as the game-changing initiative to empower poor rural women. Under the mission, poor women from different cross-sections of class and caste form into SHGs and their federations, providing financial, economic and social development services to their members for enhancing their income and quality of life. As part of the efforts to promote livelihoods activities, continuous efforts have been made by NRLM at state and national level for promoting rural products manufactured by these SHGs by providing platforms like Saras Fairs, Saras Gallery and retail outlets, state owned online e-commerce platforms and other commercial e-commerce platform.

Shri Charanjit Singh, Joint Secretary (Skills), DAY-NRLM said, “DAY-NRLM’s partnership with Flipkart Samarth provides a great platform for capacity-building, enhancing and impacting rural livelihoods, especially for women. This step will mobilize and channelize the resources required for building and supporting rural businesses to realize their full potential for growth, which is crucial for inclusive and robust national development, especially during the current post-COVID era.”

Rajneesh Kumar, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Flipkart Group said, “We are leveraging our knowledge of the Indian market to enhance social and economic development for the under-served communities, many of whom reside in rural areas. The crafts of India’s local artisans, weavers and self-help groups deserve to reach a far wider audience, including and beyond their respective regions. The Flipkart Samarth initiative provides them with access to potentially more than 350 million consumers on our platform spread across the country. We are delighted and honored to partner with the DAY-NRLM and be able to contribute to a vital aspect of nation-building.”

The Flipkart Samarth program was launched in 2019 as a sustainable and inclusive platform to empower underserved domestic communities and businesses with better opportunities and livelihoods. Flipkart Samarth is currently supporting the livelihoods of over 9,50,000 artisans, weavers and craftsmen across India, and is continuously working towards bringing even more sellers onto the platform.

(Published from PIB)

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Income Tax Department conducts searches in Tamil Nadu

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The Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operations in Tamil Nadu in the case of a group engaged in the manufacturing of animal feeds, poultry farming, edible oils and export of egg products. The search action in the group was initiated on 27.10.2021 covering 40 premises located in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala.

During the course of the search operation, several incriminating documents and materials in the form of electronic data have been found and seized. These seized documents indicate that the group is involved in suppressing its income by different ways such as inflating expenses including booking bogus purchases, by under invoicing of sales and also by non-reflecting scrap/by-products sales in the regular books of accounts. The analysis of seized documents also shows that unaccounted income so generated has been invested in acquisition and construction of various immovable properties and also incurred in meeting unaccounted expenses.

The search action has resulted in seizure of unaccounted cash of ₹ 3.3 crore and detection of unaccounted income exceeding ₹300 crore.

(Published from PIB)

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Indian Army’s brigade conducts largest airborne assault exercises in eastern Ladakh

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The Indian Army on Monday (November 1) conducted one of its largest airborne assault exercises when troops of the Army’s Shatrujeet brigade were inserted to a drop zone at an altitude of more than 14,000 feet. 

The Indian Army’s Shatrujeet brigade is conducting an airborne exercise along the northern borders in eastern Ladakh to check its rapid response capabilities amid Indian and Chinese militaries who are in a border standoff in eastern Ladakh since May 2020.

These exercises are part of the Army to pre-acclimatise the troops along with specialist vehicles and missile detachments were transported through C-130 and AN-32 aircraft from five different airbases to enhance inter-theatre move, precision stand-off drops, rapid grouping, and the capture of designated objectives with speed and surprise, they said.

This paradrop is one of a kind in the world and the Indian Army is the most experienced military to conduct this dangerous exercise particularly when temperatures are minus 20 degrees Celsius and rarefied atmosphere in the super high altitude terrain.

The exercise also involved combat-free fall jumps and integrated battle drills by airborne forces, mechanized columns, and attack helicopters, to turn this into a cohesive rapid response capability and seamless integration.

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Head of Islamic center in Kerala accused of sexually exploiting women

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Kerala which is has been in the news for all the wrong reasons has again proved that women are not safe in the Communist-ruled state after it emerged that a young woman who had converted to Islam at the Kozhikode Mukhadar Tarbiathul Islamic Center made shocking revelations wherein she accused the head of the center of torture and sexually exploiting women and girls under the pretext of ‘teaching’ them Islam. 

In an explicit interview given to Janam TV, the woman said the chief of the Islamic seminary sexually abused a large number of girls and called the Islamic Center a prison and said women and girls were forbidden from leaving the religious seminary. 

In her interview, the woman said that the head of the Centre who is a Muslim cleric, raped an 18-19-year-old girl one day, and later he told her that by taking a bath all her sins would be forgiven even though he is the one who allegedly raped her.

When asked how she got to know about the incident, the woman told Janam TV that it was the victim herself who shared her story with her, and on the same day, the victim was taken away by her family.

The interview may not get national attention but it is creating a tsunami in Kerala after she said how Muslim clerics targeted unsuspecting and vulnerable women and girls to join the religious center, where they commit unspeakable atrocities against them.

She said women and impressionable young girls were conned into joining the religious seminary under the pretext of offering them a house to live in and money for their expenses. 

When young women would join the seminary, they were asked to stay at the center for 40 days, and during this period the chief of the seminary sought a private audience where he allegedly tortured the girls and sexually exploited them.

In the interview, the new convert to Islam said that the 19-year-old girl who was subjected to torture and sexual assault happened on June 8 but no official complaint was lodged with the police as the girl was reportedly threatened by the powerful Islamic cleric against reporting the incident with the police.

Also, in Islam, when a woman is raped it must be witnessed by four men of repute in order to punish the rapist which is impossible.

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Former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh arrested for money laundering

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In a major embarrassment for the collation government in Maharashtra, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) late Monday (1 November) night arrested former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh.

Earlier Deshmukh was questioned for over 12 hours in connection with the money laundering case and the former Maharashtra minister who belongs to the Sharad Pawar led Nationalist Congress Party appeared before the ED to record his statement around noon.

Anil Deshmukh who is a very powerful politician in the state had filed a plea cancelling the agency’s summons in the laundering case filed against him, which was rejected by the Bombay High Court because Deshmukh had been evading being questioned by the ED for months and had exhausted his legal remedies, reports Times of India.

The former state home minister had been on the run as the ED raided several places in the last few months to trace Deshmukh’s whereabouts, but could not find the former state minister.

However, when Deshmukh arrived at the ED office at Ballard Estate in Mumbai on Monday, the investigating officer started questioning him and the agency has also flown an additional director from Delhi in the evening to supervise the process.

Earlier, the ED had arrested Deshmukh’s private secretary Sanjeev Palande and personal assistant Kundan Shinde for allegedly helping Deshmukh and his son Hrishikesh with money laundering.

According to the ED, Deshmukh, through his aide, Shinde, had collected Rs 4.7 crore from (now-dismissed) assistant police inspector Sachin Waze in cash who then headed the CIU branch of Mumbai police and had collected the money from orchestra bar owners of Mumbai illegally for Deshmukh.

Also, former Mumbai Police Commishanar Param Bir Singh in a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had accused Deshmukh of interference and using the police to extort up to ₹ 100 crore every month. 

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Actor Suriya’s hypocrisy: Releases ‘Jai Bhim’ in Hindi, features scene where Prakash Raj slaps a north-Indian for speaking Hindi

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In yet another case of reeking hypocrisy by alleged ‘actor’ Suriya, his latest film ‘Jai Bhim’ features a controversial scene in which a north-Indian man gets slapped for speaking Hindi.

Jai Bhim, directed by T.J. Gnanavel is based on a real life incident that happened in the 1990s where men from the Irular tribe were taken by the police and implicated in false cases. Suriya plays the role of a lawyer named ‘Chandru’ who takes up the case to get justice for the victims.

The film is dashed with the trademark elements of ‘porali’ films with images of Karl Marx, Dr. Ambedkar and ‘Periyar’ E.V. Ramasamy Naicker.

The film also has made efforts to coax the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu by featuring a scene that instigates violence against speakers of the Hindi language.

In a blatantly bigoted scene, Prakash Raj who plays the role of a police officer slaps a north-Indian (who has been stereotyped as a ‘Marwari’ Saet) for speaking in Hindi and asks him to speak in Tamil.

It is worth mentioning that Suriya who is also the producer of the movie has released Jai Bhim in Hindi too in order attract Hindi audience.

Many on social media not just pointed out the problematic scene but also lashed out as Suriya for being a hypocrite.

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In Hindi, the same scene shows Prakash Raj uttering the dialogue “Speak the truth”. Only in Telugu and Tamil, the makers of the film seem to have deliberately kept the dialogue to exploit linguistic faultlines.

Many point out that this has deliberately been done to appease the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu, the party which is known for inciting hatred in the name of a non-existent ‘Hindi imposition’.

This is not the first time alleged actor Suriya who has of late been resorting to virtue signalling is being called out for his hypocrisy.

In “Soorarai Pottru”, a mischievous distortion of the story of Captain G.R. Gopinath, Suriya who is shown as an ‘anti-caste’ and a ‘socialist’ capitalist (God knows what that is!) utters the dialogue “I want to break the cost barrier and the damn caste barrier too!”.

However actor Suriya who is a director of two companies – one ‘2D Entertainment Private Limited’ and the other ‘Rakkia Cinemas Private Limited has recorded his name as “Rakkia Gounder Sivakumar Suriya”.

He was also called out for opposing NEET while having a ‘selection criteria’ for awarding scholarships to ‘deserved students’.

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Former intel officers and allies of the US in Afghanistan join ISIS-K

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After Colin Kahl, the undersecretary of defense for policy told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the United States could face a possible terror attack carried out by Al Qaeda or  ISIS-K, ISKP or IS-Khorasan in the next six to eighteen months, it has been revealed that a large number of abandoned allies of the US in Afghanistan have joined ISIS, reports The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) 

This is all due to the US forces withdrawal from Afghanistan and in that process, a large number of their ‘abandoned’ spies and allies in order to survive have joined hands with the radical jihadist Islamist outfits like ISIS. 

But the irony is that the Taliban which is in itself is a puritanical Islamist regime, sees ISIS as a direct threat to its authority in Afghanistan.

According to the WSJ, the Taliban has claimed that the number of such US allies are now, defecting to ISIS which means they now bring tradecraft, warfare techniques, and intelligence gathering expertise that could seriously undermine the Taliban government which is already vulnerable as the new regime do not have any money to govern.

What is now troubling the US is that former Afghan national army officials and men from the Afghan Republic’s Intelligence and Military have also have joined the ISIS-K in recent weeks after the Taliban revealed that an army officer was killed in the past week while fighting the Taliban.

Ex-head of the National Directorate of Security, Rahmatullah Nabil, said, “In some areas, ISIS has become very attractive. If there were a resistance, they (former Afghan security and defence forces) would have joined the resistance. For the time being, ISIS is the only other armed group.”

After the US forces left Afghanistan, in perhaps the worst form of retreat and abandoning of its allies, thousands of ex-soldiers, former police officials, and Afghan Republic Intelligence officers suddenly were unemployed under constant threat of being killed by the Taliban despite being assured of amnesty

So these intelligence officers and ex-officials who worked in the National Directorate of Security who have no money were provided with large sums of money and assurance of security against the Taliban regime by ISIS.

The Taliban and ISIS are both followers of Islam but the former follow Salafi Islam and the Taliban adhere to the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam or Deobandi movement based in the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh.

Though once rivals, as per the WSJ report, US Intelligence did provide information to the Taliban, but they are reluctant to consider ISIS-K as a major threat because it would give the latter credence in a place where any form of weakness is viewed as a sign of defeat.

Senior Taliban leader Mawlawi Zubair remarked, “We are not faced with a threat nor are we worried about them. There is no need, not even a tiny need, for us to seek assistance from anyone against ISIS.” He further added, “In the current situation, we are not dealing with a few difficulties, we are facing many. If we get rid of all our economic and administrative problems, ISIS will disappear in 15 days in all of Afghanistan.”

But what is unimaginable is that after the US left Afghanistan the Biden administration willfully handed out a list of American citizens, Afghan allies, biometric data, and green card holders to the Taliban which is not known for its amnesty. This blunder is now been seen as the reason why many former allies who were trained by the US have now joined ISIS-K because there are many reports of the Taliban executing army officers, police, and intelligence personals as an act of revenge.

With access to the biometric devices, along with weapons, vehicles, and ammunition left behind by the fleeing Americans Taliban started going door-to-door in search of Afghan interpreters and US allies and as a matter of survival many have joined ISIS.

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38% Indians vaccinated twice, govt launches door-to-door vaccination drive

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As per data released by Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, over i06.31 crore Indians have received at least one  Covid vaccine dose and over 38 per cent have received both shots.

“With the administration of 12,77,542 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 106.31 Cr (1,06,31,24,205) as per provisional reports till 7 am today,” the ministry said in a statement.

Mandaviya called this an extraordinary feat and said that India is rapidly progressing on the path to defeating the virus.

”An extraordinary feat of an extraordinary nation! India has administered 1st COVID-19 vaccine dose to 78 per cent of the eligible population and 2nd dose to 38 per cent of the eligible people. Congratulations to all as we rapidly progress on our path to defeat the virus!” Mandaviya tweeted.

However, the government is also very concerned after it discovered a low vaccination rate in some districts across the country and is now working on plans to ramp up the inoculation drive.

The ministry also announced the ‘Har Ghar Dastak’ (door-to-door vaccination) programme for the next one month, and the focus will be to increase the percentage of the second dose to beneficiaries.

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