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India to develop air-launched swarm drone system

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The Indian Air Force (IAF) in a joint colaboration with at least two startups and the state-owned aerospace major Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), plans to develop an air-launched swarm drone system, designed to attack enemy’s advanced defence systems reports Economic Times.

The project would also involve the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) which will help build the artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for target acquisition.

The air-launched swarm drone system is currently deployed by China across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh.

When develped this weapons system would greatly reduce the vulnerability of pilots and fighter jets to the ground-based air defence systems of the enemy forces.

The IAF plans to use Jaguar land attack aircraft that will have the capablity of launching up to 24 killer drones from four pods which would then take down the individual enemy targets. 

The project will take four with a estimated budget of Rs. 1,000 crore and will be develped under the Combat Air Teaming Systems (CATS).

Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh said to killed by ‘remote controlled weapon’

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Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was mortally wounded and later killed by a mysterious remote-controlled weapon on Monday. His car is said to have been sprayed with bullets in Absard, to the east of Tehran. During the attack, a bomb in a Nissan pickup truck is also reported to have exploded.

Pictures on social media show a road strewn with wreckage and blood and a bullet-riddled vehicle. First, the defence ministry reported a gunfight between Fakhrizadeh’s bodyguards and several gunmen. One Iranian report quoted witnesses as saying “three to four individuals, who are said to have been terrorists, were killed”.

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Iranian media was further reported saying that the scientist had in fact been killed by a “remote-controlled machine gun” or weapons “controlled by satellite”.

Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of the country’s supreme national security council, made the comments at the funeral for Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. “The operation was very complex and took place using electronic devices, and no one was present at the scene,” he told Iranian media. He blamed Israel, which has not commented on the killing, and said an Iranian opposition group in exile, called Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, had also played a role. He did not provide evidence to back up the claims.

Huge quantities of arms and explosives seized from Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan’s assembly constituency

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When workers under the employment guarantee scheme in Kerala were clearing the bushes in a property which was vacant, a huge cache of arms and explosives were found which were later seized by the Dharmadam Inspector Sreejith.

The workers who had chanced upon the arms and explosives while they were working, alerted the police immediately. A force led by Dharmadam Inspector Sreejith defused the bombs using the expertise of bomb squads and seized the arms and explosives found. 

Kizhakke Palayad, the area from which these arms and explosives were seized falls under Dharmadam assembly constituency, a Communist party stronghold represented by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan who is also  facing the heat due to the gold smuggling scandal. 
 
This crucial development could not have come at a more delicate time as local body polls in Kerala are scheduled to be held in three phases on December 8, 10, and 14.

The seizure of arms and explosives has come to be seen as a serious security problem. It is noteworthy to mention that this is also the same place were the CPM had butchered a BJP, RSS worker Santhosh Kumar a few years ago.

The last few months have raised several questions on the functioning of the CPM due to several allegations made by central agencies like the Enforcement Directorate, National Investigation Agency and Customs that busted the gold smuggling racket and unearthing several other indiscretions of the LDF government in the past few months.
 
CM Pinarayi Vijayan is in a bind as the states most powerful bureaucrat, M Sivasankar who was his Principal Secretary is in jail for his alleged involvement in the gold smuggling.

Also, the arrest of Bineesh Kodiyeri, son of CPM politburo member Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, in a drug trafficking and money laundering case that led to Kodiyeri Balakrishnan resigning from the post of CPM state secretary.
 
BJP candidate for the Kannur district panchayath from Pinarayi division, V Manivarnan said that the state police must act soon and said, ” CPM is trying to create an atmosphere of fear to prevent voters from casting their franchise by evoking murderous tactics and Kannur district that has witnessed to several blood baths initiated by the CPM in the past”.

PM Modi sends message from Kashi to protesting farmers in Delhi, says new farm laws empower farmers

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in Dev Deepawali Mahotsav in Varanasi on Monday (November 30).

Addressing the event, the Prime Minister said when development works started for Kashi, the protesters protested for the sake of it. He said “when Kashi had decided that Vishwanath Corridor would be built till Baba’s Darbar, the protesters had criticized that too, but today the glory of Kashi is being revived by the grace of Baba.”

Taking the opportunity, PM Modi tore into the opposition over the protests against the new farm laws. He said categorically that the opposition is spreading rumours and misleading the farmers.

“After a lot of deliberation, the Indian Parliament gave agricultural reforms a legal recognition. These reforms have not only served to unshackle our farmers but also have given them new rights and opportunities. In just a short span of time, these new rights have begun to address the sufferings of our farmers,” PM Modi said.

“There’s a new trend now, earlier decisions of the government were opposed, now rumours have become the basis for opposition. Propaganda is spread that although a decision is fine, it can lead to other consequences, about things that haven’t happened or will never happen. Same is with farm laws,” PM Modi added.

PM Modi said that his government understands the apprehensions of farmers that decades of falsehood had put in the minds their minds adding that his government does not work with the intention of deceiving.

“I know that decades of falsehood do put apprehensions in the minds of farmers, I want to say this from the bank of Mother Ganga – we are not working with the intention of deceiving. Our intentions are as holy as the water of river Ganga”, he assured.

Recently, the newly enacted farm laws came in handy for a farmer in Maharashtra that helped him get his dues settled. A maize grower from Maharashtra named Jitendra Bhoi used the provisions under the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020 suing two traders who did not pay him within the stipulated three days payment window as mandated and received the whole amount from them worth ₹2,85,000

UK PM Boris Johnson has had enough of ‘woke Californians’, plans crackdown on selective censorship

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The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson is considering introducing new laws to limit social media giants in the country owing to Twitter’s alleged selective and controversial self-adopted policies that censor voices from chosen sections of its userbase, reports Daily Mail.

Johnson who is the leader of the conservative party in the UK was perturbed after Twitter applied warning labels to more than 65 tweets sent by President Donald Trump during the just US  presidential elections. However, no such restrictions were applied to any of the tweets by President-elect Joseph Biden.

The Online Harms Bill has been presented before the Parliament and Johnson has discussed the amendment designed to punish social media companies which publish harmful material.

Through these new laws, Johnson seeks to “limit the ability of a bunch of woke Californians to interfere in the UK”.

Many people across different countries including India have criticized and raised concerns against Twitter for its alleged left-leaning bias and the unilateral power it has to censor anyone.

In India too, there have been several allegations of Twitter shadow banning prominent accounts that are critical of the left and supposedly ‘liberal’.

A new watchdog called Digital Markets Unit is expected to become fully operational by 2022 as a part of the Competition and Markets Authority. It has called for stronger powers over Google and Facebook to address their ‘unassailable’ positions in digital advertising and social networking.

Non-resident workers belonging to UP taste sweet success through KVIC’s Honey Mission

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The self-sustainability measures initiated by Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) in wake of the Covid-19 pandemic have begun yielding results. The distressed non-resident workers* who were engaged with KVIC’s Honey Mission in Uttar Pradesh in the month of August, have reaped their first honey harvest and are awaiting a bumper yield in the months from December to March.

To begin with, five non-resident workers in Western UP’s Muzaffarnagar district extracted 253 kg of honey from their 50 honey bee boxes that were distributed to them on August 25 this year. Raw honey sells at an average of ₹200 per kg and at this rate it is estimated to fetch nearly ₹50,000 to the non-resident workers.  This means an average income of ₹10,000 to each of these beneficiaries. A total of 700 bee boxes were distributed to 70 non-resident workers after training by KVIC in this region. Honey extraction from remaining bee boxes will continue in coming days.

The production of honey from these boxes will increase by at least 5 times in the months from December to March as the Eucalyptus and Mustard crop will be in full bloom during the season. Each of these bee boxes will produce nearly 25 kg of honey during the peak season. Further, the beekeepers will be able to migrate their boxes to nearby states like Haryana, Rajasthan and Eastern Uttar Pradesh where honey bees will find abundance of pollen and nectar and thus add to honey production.

KVIC Chairman Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena said it was heartening to see the non-resident workers reconnecting to their roots and engaging in self-employment. “These distressed workers who had returned to their home from other cities were roped in with Honey Mission as part of the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan. It is great to see that in just three months the workers have begun earning livelihood on their own. The production of honey and their income will grow by manifold in coming months,” Saxena said.

The beneficiaries thanked KVIC for the support and said beekeeping enabled them to earn their own livelihood without having to migrate to other cities in search of jobs. “I am thankful to the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi whose vision for Aatmanirbhar Bharat has created local employment for us. We are five workers who got 50 bee boxes and in just 3 months we have extracted 253 kg of honey,” said Amit Kumar, a KVIC beekeeper in Saharanpur district.

Notably, responding to the Prime Minister’s call for Aatmanirbhar Bharat, KVIC engaged hundreds of non-resident workers in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and engaged them with its flagship schemes like Honey Mission, Kumhar Sashaktikaran Yojana and Project DigniTEA among others. Apart from distributing them with essential tool kits; KVIC also provided technical training and supervision to the new beekeepers so as to support them.

*Instead of the term migrant workers, non-resident workers has been used

(Published from PIB)

Church group in Karnataka calls for ‘liberating places from idol worship’

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The All India Christian Minority Front operating in Karnataka, has published a list of things to ‘pray’ for which includes ‘freeing places from the strongholds of the devil, especially from idol worship’.

 

Led by a priest named Samuel Sandayaraj, the organization operates under the motto of ‘Life Together’. In another post, it has requested ‘all brothers and sisters who have confessed to the Lord Jesus’ to declare themselves as Christians during Census 2021 so that ‘real number of Christians in the country can be known’.

In India, many Christian converts do not declare themselves to be Christians in order to get reservation privileges.

Time and again, it has come to light that Christian evangelicals indulge in proselytization by spreading hatred against Hindus and Hinduism. Christian missionaries like these randomly erect crosses on hillocks, encroach the land, plant churches and go about proselytizing in the nearby villages converting gullible people to Christianity.

 

Kerala: CPM comrades issue death threat to BJP leader V Manivarnan’s election agent

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 With local body elections in Kerala nearing, the Communist party workers have issued a death threat to RK Premdas chief election agent of BJP at Parapparam in Pinarayi.

Premdas is the chief election agent of BJP Pinarayi division candidate, V Manivarnan. 

The CPM comrades vandalized decorations made by the BJP workers and hurled abuses in front of the house of RK Premdas who is a retired Agriculture officer with the Kerala government.

It started after BJP workers going on a door to door campaign in Pinarayi, considered to be a “Red Stronghold” where no one has ever challenged the authority of the communists in the area.

V Manivarnan said that the CPM is resorting to violent methods after the BJP made inroads entering into the red fort of the party which also happens to be the native place of the incumbent Kerala Chief Minister, Pinarayi Vijayan.

The BJP has registered complaints with the Pinarayi police station after CPM comrades gave death threats.

However, Manivarnan said BJP workers will not bow down to the threat and intimidation tactics and called CPM a fasicst organisation without any respect for democracy and democratic ethics.

China weaponises Brahmaputra, to build a super dam over river

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China which controls Tibet has announced that it will construct a ‘super’ dam on the Brahmaputra river, close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Tibet, reports Hindustan Times.

India, a lower riparian state of the Brahmaputra gets water supply for its north eastern states from the river which originates from what China calls the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). It flows into Arunachal Pradesh where it is called Siang and then enters the Indian state of Assam where it is called the Brahmaputra.

This new development which has been on the cards for a long time is being seen as the weaponisation of the cross-border rivers.

The dam is likely to be constructed in Medog county of TAR, close to the State of Arunachal Pradesh, which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claims as its own territory.

China has also built dams on the waters that enter the lower Mekong Delta that has left millions of people without access to fresh water, particularly in Vietnam. Such tactics are seen by analysts as a method used by China to force nations to accept its supremacy in Asia.

In TAR, the river is called Yarlung Zangbo and in June 2000, a dam burst in Tibet causing flash floods downstream in Arunachal Pradesh. Also, China has always refused to disclose hydrological information to India on the grounds that it was deemed to be “internal matters”.

As per reports, the ‘super’ dam will be capable of producing three times the hydropower generated by China’s Three Gorges Dam which is known for holding the largest installed hydropower generation capacity anywhere in the world.

Power Construction Corporation of China (Powerchina) signed a strategic cooperation agreement under the CCP’s 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) with the TAR Government and already initial work for the dam’s construction has started.

If this dam is built on the Brahmaputra, it will significantly decrease the quantity and quality of water flowing into India and will pose a great threat to agriculture, aquatic life and livelihoods downstream that could lead to a serious conflict.

Urmila Matondkar who once called Hinduism as the “most violent religion” set to join Shiv Sena

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Former actor turned politician, Urmila Matondkar, who left the Congress party in September 2019, will be joining the Shiv Sena on Tuesday (1 December) and is all set to be nominated as a Member of Legislative Council (MLC) in the state, Press Trust of India has reported.

Matondkars name is part of twelve names which has been forwarded by the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government to the Governor for MLC nomination.

On Tuesday, Matondkar is expected to join the Shiv Sena in Uddhav Thackeray’s presence.

In the 2019 general elections, Matondkar fought on a Congress ticket from Mumbai North parliamentary constituency and lost the election by a margin of almost 4 lakh votes against Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Gopal Shetty.

In September of the same year, she had resigned from the Congress party accusing it of using her as a pawn for petty internal politics and also alleged, some of her own party people had sabotaged her campaign during the elections and they were rewarded later.

Matondkar who now joins the Shiv Sena had once said that Hinduism was the “most violent religion”. She said, “The religion which has been known for its religious tolerance has turned out to be the most violent religion of them all. What is sad is that this sort of terribly heinous actors have been applauded and are constantly going viral. People are made to believe this is how the society always was.”

However, she later clarified following a backlash and said that Hinduism was an epitome of peace but under the leadership, Prime Minister Narendra Modi it has turned out to be most violent of them all.

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