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BSF given power to arrest, search, and seize till 50 kms from border in Punjab, Assam and West Bengal

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In a major decision taken by the central government, the Border Security Force (BSF) will now have the power to arrest, search, and seizure to the extent of 50 km inside three states which shares international boundaries with Pakistan and Bangladesh.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has strong claims that weapons are being dropped from drones across the border and development led to the expansion in the jurisdiction of the BSF.

However, the newly elected Chief Minister of Punjab Charanjit Singh Channi has already protested against it and in a tweet said, “I strongly condemn the government’s unilateral decision to give additional powers to BSF within 50 km belt running along the international borders, which is a direct attack on the federalism. I urge the Union Home Minister Amit Shah to immediately roll back this irrational decision,”.

However, former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday (October 13) welcomed the Centre’s decision on enhanced jurisdiction of the Border Security Force, which completely contradicts the Punjab government.

“Our soldiers are being killed in Kashmir. We’re seeing more & more weapons & drugs being pushed by Pak-backed terrorists into Punjab. BSF’s enhanced presence & powers will only make us stronger. Let’s not drag central armed forces into politics,” Amarinder was quoted in a tweet by his media adviser Raveen Thukral. 

But the state government of Punjab is not happy and a senior police official said, “It’s a very politically sensitive move. The main aim of BSF is to guard borders and stop infiltration. Recent cases have shown they have not been able to guard the delineated line and,” a senior police official claims.

According to him, this may also lead to regular confrontations with local police, and also villagers, when searches and seizures are done. “Their operational duties are around Border Outposts but with these new powers they would also operate well within jurisdictions of some states,” he adds.

However, the BSF official said, “If we have intelligence on any case, we will not have to wait for local police to respond and we can take preventive action well in time,”.

As per the new notification, BSF officers will be able to conduct arrests and searches in West Bengal, Punjab, and Assam. BSF has got the right to take this action under the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), the Passport Act, and the Passport (Entry to India) Act.

Now the BSF has the legal right to search and arrest just like the state police in the Indian states of Assam, West Bengal, and Punjab.

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TN CM Stalin felicitates vulgar YouTubers who spew abuses and make rape jokes

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On Monday (October 11), Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin met and felicitated a bunch of YouTubers who had reportedly crowd-sourced money to sponsor oxygen producing equipment for the Tiruvannamalai Government Hospital.

These YouTubers include Avudaiappan of Behindwoods, Madan Gowri, alleged ‘fact-checker’ Iyan Karthikeyan, ousted anchor from News 18 Tamil Nadu Senthilvel who currently runs Tamil Kelvi, and several others.

Among those who CM Stalin met and felicitated also include the controversial YouTubers who run the channel named Plip Plip which is known for its abusive content. The channel run by two persons who identify themselves as Gurubaai and Sarvs Saga are known for using obscene language that objectify women and spewing abuses referring to the male and female genitalia. In one of their videos they had even glorified gang rape.

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In the above video, Sarvs Saga tells Gurubaai that he wants to tell a joke and goes on like this:

“In a place, there lived a man who had a lot of money. He was also looking smart. You know what he did? Once a girl told him that she trusts him completely. What do you think that guy did?” to which Gurubaai replies “Did he love that girl? Did he marry her? Live-in relationship?”.

“Chi p**da. Tell that you don’t know.”, Saga says to Gurubaai.

Saga further goes on to say “You know what he did? The man and his friends gangraped that girl!” bursting out in laughter.

The original video seems to have been removed from the YouTube channel and only a clipping of it is doing the rounds on social media.

Sarvs Saga and Gurubaai (who has a separate channel of his own) are known for using vulgar language in their videos by making sexual references. They frequently and willingly use foul language in Tamil derogating women.

Despite several complaints by social media users, no action has been taken against them or their channel.

It is these two YouTubers who along with several other YouTubers who are vocal supporters of the DMK met CM Stalin and handed over the money they had collected through crowd sourcing.

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As per Avudaiappan, Iyan Karthikeyan had received a request from the Rotary Club in Tiruvannamalai for an oxygen producing facility at the Government Hospital in the district following which these YouTubers came together and put a live show on May 30 inviting funds for the facility. They had apparently received more than 23 lakhs which was handed over to the concerned company in the presence of CM Stalin.

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Video of Christian school teachers proselytizing students in TN goes viral

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A video has gone viral in which a man and a women said to be government school teachers can be seen indulging in proselytization activities by distributing bible to school children.

The incident is said to have happened in Tiruvannamalai.

In the video the lady recording the incident in her phone can be heard confronting the two teachers to which the female teacher disregards her and keeps distributing the Bible to children.

The Christian lady apparently told her that they have permission from the government to do so.

Here is the viral video.

https://twitter.com/ShivajiSreeram/status/1447863299454820360

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EU Court for Human Rights rejects case of sexual abuse by Catholic priests, says Vatican and the Pope have immunity

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According to the European Court of Human Rights, the Vatican and the Holy See (Pope) has the same legal immunity granted to sovereign states and on Tuesday (October 12) the European Court rejected a case filed by alleged victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests, reports Euronews.

The EU Court also made it very clear that the immunity also protects it from being sued in local courts which is a reprieve when the church is hit by one scandal after another. Also, the Vatican is also not a member of the Council of Europe and therefore not subject to ECHR jurisdiction, though it was allowed to present written statements in the case as a third party.

The European Court of Human Rights said in a statement, “The Court did not find anything unreasonable or arbitrary in the detailed reasoning which led the Court of Appeal to reach that conclusion. It pointed out that it had itself previously characterised agreements between the Holy See and other States as international treaties,”. 

This comes just days after Pope Francis again apologised and expressed shame on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church after a report was published where an estimated 216,000 children have been abused by clerics in the French Catholic Church since the 1950s, the

It dismissed a case brought by 24 French, Belgian and Dutch nationals, who claimed to be sexually abused by Catholic priests when they were children.

They had filed a class-action suit and sought compensation for €10,000 for each victim but the Ghent Court of First Instance said in 2013 that it did not have jurisdiction over the Holy See as he enjoyed “diplomatic immunity” and “state privileges under international law”.

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PM Modi to formally launch seven new defence companies on the occasion of Vijayadashami

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After the much-needed dismantling of the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) to boost its efficiency and competitiveness, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 15 will formally launch seven new defence companies carved out of the OFB, four months after Union Cabinet cleared the board’s corporatisation in a much-awaited reform in the country’s defence manufacturing sector.

October 15 also happens to be the occasion of Vijayadashami, also known as Dussehra which is considered an auspicious day to begin any new venture and the new companies will be formally launched through video conference by the PM.

The government issued an order last month, dissolving OFB with effect from October 1 and now it has been split into seven government-owned entities that will produce ammunition and explosives, vehicles, weapons and equipment, troop comfort items, opto-electronics gear, parachutes and ancillary products.

These new companies have been named Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Limited, Troop Comforts Limited, India Optel Limited, Munitions India Limited, Avani Armoured Vehicles, Gliders India Limited and Yantra India Limited.

“All the indents previously placed on the OFBs by various services, CAPFs and state police have been converted into deemed contracts. These deemed contracts numbering 66 have a cumulative value of more than ₹65,000 crore,” said one of the officials.

“This process has been smoothly concluded following months of extensive consultations with all the stakeholders prior to the unveiling of the new defence companies and mobilisation advance worth over ₹7,100 crore for the financial year 2021-22 has been paid to the DPSUs by the respective indentors,” he added.

Ordnance factories were engaged in the production of tanks, armoured personnel carriers, mine-protected vehicles, bombs, rockets, artillery guns, anti-aircraft guns, parachutes, small arms, clothing and leather equipment for soldiers. But the weapons made by these factories were substandard which resulted in the death of several of our troops who are end-user.

The thumb rule of weapons manufacturing is that it must never cause harm to the user and now the government expects the seven newly formed companies will be professionally managed and it will not only increase in quality but also increase their share in the domestic market through better capacity utilisation and also tap new export opportunities.

This was a much-needed reform that has been discussed for the last two decades and several high-level committees underlined the need to improve the functioning of OFB to augment the country’s defence preparedness.

The Comptroller and Auditor General in fact raised serious questions about the quality of products supplied by OFB and its overall performance in several past reports. But the reform was thwarted because of politics, bureaucratic resistance, trade union and it must be noted that the factories were controlled by the board employed at least 70,000 people who have been against any move to corporatize it.

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The truth about a BJP candidate getting 1 vote in local body elections

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Counting for the Tamil Nadu local body elections that were held last week, started on Tuesday (October 12) with the DMK comfortably placed for a ‘victory’.

However, DMK family owned media houses like Sun News and other news channels having close ties with the party published news that a BJP candidate from Tamil Nadu secured just one vote with even his family members not voting for him.

The News Minute which is supposedly a ‘neutral’ media house but blatantly tows the line of the DMK also resorted to join the chorus.

However, the truth of the matter is that the candidate named Karthik, had contested from the Periyanaickenpalayam union Kurudampalayam panchayat ward number 9 as an independent candidate.  Although he is a member of the BJP, he did not contest on the lotus symbol.

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Also, since his family had their votes in ward number 4, they could not vote for him which was misconstrued by the DMK-friendly media that even his family members didn’t vote for him.

Elections were held on October 6 and 9 to fill 27,003 posts including 140 district panchayat ward members, 74 panchayat unions, 1,381 panchayat union ward members, 2,901 village panchayat presidents and 22,581 village panchayat ward councillors.

The results of local body elections which is conducted by the state election commission usually comes in favour of the ruling party in the state. People vote knowing that if they elect any other candidate apart from the ruling party, the developmental works in their villages would take a back seat.

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IMF lowers China’s growth for next year to 5.6%, India to be fastest growing economy in 2022

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Indian Economy In Robust Spot Globally In 2025 With High Frequency Indicators Picking Up Growth

As the people of China face the specter of a long and cold winter, there is more bad news for the Chinese economy as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) lowered China’s growth for next year to 5.6 per cent. However, India will be the fastest-growing economy in the world in 2022 at 8.5 per cent.

In April this year, the IMF had forecasted China’s growth at 8.4 per cent, however, IMF lowered China’s growth for this year citing “large-scale disorderly corporate debt defaults or restructuring”. But the IMF is very optimistic on India as its GDP will grow at 9.5% in 2021 And 8.5 per cent in 2022, and will be have the bragging rights to be the fastest-growing economy.


The IMF added that “China’s property sector could reverberate widely” but with the recent revelation of coal and power shortages including the 300 billion dollars Evergrande property crisis, taking a more lenient view, the IMF said, “China’s prospects for 2021 are marked down slightly due to stronger-than-anticipated scaling back of public investment,”.

It is indeed very bad news for the global economy as many economists are predicting another financial crisis even worst than the 2008 collapse of Goldman Sach because in April, the IMF was looking at China’s growth this year at 8.4 per cent and it has lowered China’s growth for next year to 5.6 per cent due to “stronger-than-anticipated” pullback in public spending in China leading to growth going on a downward spiral.

As per the IMF projection, the global economy would to grow at 5.9 per cent in 2021 and 4.9 per cent in 2022 which is 0.1 percentage points lower for 2021 than the July forecast. However, India’s economy is expected to grow by 9.5 per cent in 2021 and 8.5 per cent in 2022.

“The outlook for the low-income developing country group has darkened considerably due to worsening pandemic dynamics,” Gita Gopinath, chief economist of the IMF, said.

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Modi addresses NHRC, says do not show selective outrage on human rights

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While addressing the 28th-anniversary function of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (October 12) urged people not to be “selective” while raising issues of human rights.

Modi delivered his speech virtually and said that though “some people” see human rights violation in a particular incident, they ignore violation of such rights in other, similar cases.

“There is an aspect of human rights that I want to discuss today. These days, we see that people have started interpreting human rights in a way that benefits them. However, these rights are grossly violated when these are looked at from a political lens. This selective behaviour is harmful for our democracy,” PM Modi warned.

The Indian PM said selective outrage of human rights violations is not good for society and such a mentality harms the very concept of human rights and drew an analogy between human rights and India’s independence movement by saying, “We fought for our rights across centuries and, as a country and society, always protested against injustice and tyranny,”.

Modi remarked that India has always been “committed and sensitive” towards issues concerning human rights.

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NIA cracks down on Maoist sympathizers in TN, raids 12 places across state

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Officials from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided 12 places in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday (October 12) in connection with the Edakkara Maoist Training Camp case.

Raids were conducted in Chennai, Coimbatore, Salem, Theni, Sivaganga, Kanyakumari and Pudukottai districts.

Edakkara Maoist Training Camp case is related to the training camp held in Nilambur Mundakadavu Colony in Kerala in September 2016 on occasion of the formation of CPI (Maoist). The camp reportedly held arms training and study classes on Maoism.

The Kerala Police had identified 19 participants from a photograph that was taken during the training camp and had booked them under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, Arms Act and other provisions of Indian Penal Code for indulging in anti-national activities.

The Union Home Ministry order the NIA to take over the case from Kerala Police in August this year. An FIR was re-registered by the NIA on August 20.

On Tuesday, the NIA sent its team to several locations across Tamil Nadu.

In Coimbatore, they combed the house of a dentist named Dinesh. While he was not among the 19 participants, the Kerala Anti-Terror Squad had arrested him in February 2021. Incriminating documents, pen drive, simcard, bank passbook, and pamphlets were seized.

Several other places of Maoist sympathizers across the state were raided and incriminating evidences have been seized.

The team also raided 3 locations in Kerala and 5 in Karnataka to crack down on Maoist sympathizers.

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Bishop converts Hindu woman and receives ₹34 lakh as bribe to appoint her as teacher in govt-aided school

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Church members belonging to the Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church have complained that one of their bishop converted a Hindu woman to Christianity overnight and took a bribe of ₹34 lakh to appoint her as a teacher in the government-aided school run by the Church. 

The Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church runs more than 200 schools, 40 orphanages, hospitals and an art college spread throughout Tamil Nadu.

Daniel Jayaraj, the 13th Bishop of this Church allegedly continues to hold his position despite his term ending on March 5, 2020. He also illegally dissolved the Church council and has been accused of embezzling money to the tune of ₹6 crore from foreign countries. A case pending in the Church’s court in this regard. This Bishop has now been accused filling the posts of teacher and headmaster by receiving lakhs of rupees from various persons for the schools functioning under his jurisdiction. 

An incident has come to light where a Hindu woman named Hemavathi was converted by the Bishop overnight and appointed as a teacher in the Christ Girls High School in Thanjavur after receiving ₹34 lakh as bribe from her.

Bishop Daniel Jayaraj had apparently fired the former headmaster of Christ Girls’ High School for asking about this. In place of him, Benjamin Jayaraj and one Anita Pramilapurani has been appointed by Daniel Jayaraj.

Members of the Church allege that he has appointed many people through such illegal methods. Despite complaints being filed with the Chief Education Officer in this regard no action has been taken. It has been alleged that even the CEO has been bribed ₹50,000 for such illegal appointments.

(With inputs from Dinamalar)

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