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Raza Academy calls COVID vaccine Haraam for Muslims, fears it may contain pig’s gelatin

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As the UAE Fatwa Council issued a Fatwa that if the Covid-19 vaccine contains pork gelatin, it is permissible for Muslims, however, Sunni Muslim clerics of Raza Academy in a meeting in Mumbai Wednesday (23 December) have categorically stated that the Chinese Covid-19 vaccine which contains pork gelatin is Haraam (forbidden) for Muslims, India Today has reported.

“There are reports of a Chinese vaccine with parts of pig’s body. As pig is Haram for Muslims, a vaccine containing its body parts cannot be allowed. Even if a hair of a pig falls in a well, water from that well is forbidden for Muslims. Hence, as per Islamic law, a vaccine which contains pig’s gelatin cannot act as a treatment against any disease”, Raza Academy’s Secretary-General Saeed Noorie has been quoted as saying.

It is however ironic after UAE’s highest Islamic authority, the UAE Fatwa Council, ruled that coronavirus vaccines are permissible for Muslims even if they contain pork gelatin because preserving human lives are important when there is no alternative.

“Coronavirus vaccination is classified under preventive medicines for individuals, as recommended by the Islamic faith, particularly in times of pandemic diseases when the healthy happen to be prone to infections due to the high risk of contracting the disease, therefore posing risk to the entire society,” the UAE Council said.

Karnataka withdraws night curfew one day after implementation

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The Karnataka Government withdrew the night curfew on Thursday one day after announcing it. This turn of events has come amidst rising concerns of coronavirus cases and a scare of the new strain. While it had announced the new norms following the footsteps of the Maharashtra government, it rolled it back after vehement opposition from the public.

Last night, the government had indicated a change in timings from what was announced first. “The night curfew had been announced to curtail the spread of the new coronavirus strain after getting advice from experts. After getting feedback from the public, the issue was re-examined, and in consultation with cabinet colleagues and senior officials, the decision has been withdrawn,” a statement from the Chief Minister’s office said on Thursday evening.

“The public should undertake self-regulation (quarantine), use masks, social distance, avoid unnecessary travel and follow government guidelines on the control of COVID-19,” the statement added.

The midnight Christmas Mass on 24 will be permitted and the celebration of Christmas and New Year festivities will be as per the guidelines issued earlier. According to the guidelines, any person violating the above-mentioned containment measures will be liable to be proceeded against as per the provisions of Section 51 to 60 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, besides legal action under section 188 of the IPC.

DGT-MSDE inks pact with Microsoft and NASSCOM for digital skilling to augment the employability of Young India

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The Directorate General of Training (DGT) joined hands with Microsoft and NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Service Companies) to provide a digital content for ITI students and boost the various programs for upskilling and reskilling.  Nearly 1,20,000 students in around 3000 ITIs across India can be benefited by this digitized e-learning module via the Bharatskills portal.

Over the last two years, DGT has collaborated with several digital industry front-liners like IBM, SAP, Cisco Systems, Accenture Solutions, Quest Alliance, Adobe, SSC-NASSCOM etc., to enable students to become industry-ready. Under the aegis of the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE), DGT is responsible for imparting long-term institutional training to the nation’s youth through its extensive network of about 15,000 Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) and 33 National Skill Training Institutes (NSTIs). DGT plays a key role in the execution of vocational training schemes and in realizing the dream of ‘Skill India’.

Commenting on the initiative, Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey, Union Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship said, “Through the DGT-Microsoft partnership, we are aiming to impact thousands of students by enabling digitization in education and hope it to reach more students and teachers soon.  As the pandemic is compelling fast-track digital transition, these new learning initiatives will empower young learners with technical and market-oriented skills.”

DGT launched an online learning platform called Bharatskills (https://bharatskills.gov.in) in October 2019. Bharatskills provides easy access to updated curricula and course content of all courses under the Craftsmen Training Scheme (CTS), Question Banks, mock/practice papers, learning videos, etc. The platform is available to trainees and trainers of the ITI ecosystem, thus enabling learning outside the classrooms. This platform also presents a unique access to a centralized, scalable and a thriving support ecosystem through its industrial partners for students and teachers, who can now learn to meet the demands of the industry.

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, the usage of the Bharatskills learning platform increased multifold from around 90,000 users in March 2020 to more than 16.55 Lakh users having accessed the portal as on date.

Speaking on the occasion, Anant Maheshwari, President, Microsoft India, said that empowering the next generation of learners with industry relevant digital skills was critical as we moved towards building economic resilience. “The last few months have accelerated the need for upskilling and has shown clearly that the future of learning will be supported by technology. Our partnership with DGT and NASSCOM is built on this foundation of equipping the learners of today with the skills required to thrive in the jobs of tomorrow”, he said.

Under an MoU between DGT, Microsoft and NASSCOM, Microsoft has facilitated access to free content available on the Microsoft Learn platform for more than 24 Lakh students in the ITI ecosystem, by linking the Global Skilling Initiative (GSI) through the Bharatskills platform. Further, it is enabling the digitization of the entire content of a popular course – ‘Computer Operating and Programming Assistant’ (COPA) through NASSCOM.  Trainers/Faculties in the NSTIs and ITIs are participating in the faculty development programs being conducted with Microsoft’s support.

The blended content, with self-learning digital tutorials and handholding from teachers, is expected to be accessed by more than 1 lakh 20 thousand students pursuing the course across 3000 industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) annually. This is expected to reduce the number of class-room hours and student-teacher engagement, leading to the possibility of training double the existing number of students in COPA course within the same infrastructure.

(Published from PIB)

Ladakh’s Tso Kar Wetland Complex now a Wetland of International Importance

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India has added Tso Kar Wetland Complex in Ladakh as its 42nd Ramsar site, which is a second one in the Union Territory (UT) of Ladakh.

Expressing happiness, Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar shared this information in a tweet message today.

The Tso Kar Basin is a high-altitude wetland complex, consisting of two principal waterbodies, Startsapuk Tso, a freshwater lake of about 438 hectares to the south, and Tso Kar itself, a hypersaline lake of 1800 hectares to the north, situated in the Changthang region of Ladakh, India. It is called Tso Kar, meaning white lake, because of the white salt efflorescence found on the margins due to the evaporation of highly saline water.

The Tso Kar Basin is an A1 Category Important Bird Area (IBA) as per Bird Life International and a key staging site in the Central Asian Flyway. The site is also one of the most important breeding areas of the Black-necked Crane (Grus nigricollis) in India. This IBA is also the major breeding area for Great Crested Grebe (Podicepscristatus), Bar-headed Geese (Anserindicus), Ruddy Shelduck (Tadornaferruginea), Brown-headed Gull (Larusbrunnicephalus), Lesser Sand-Plover (Charadriusmongolus) and many other species.

The aim of the Ramsar list is “to develop and maintain an international network of wetlands which are important for the conservation of global biological diversity and for sustaining human life through the maintenance of their ecosystem components, processes and benefits”.

Wetlands provide a wide range of important resources and ecosystem services such as food, water, fibre, groundwater recharge, water purification, flood moderation, erosion control and climate regulation. They are, in fact a major source of water and our main supply of freshwater comes from an array of wetlands which help soak rainfall and recharge groundwater. The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change would be working closely with the UT Wetland Authority to ensure wise use of this site.

(Published from PIB)

Man receives death threats after registering in loan app in Bengaluru

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In Bengaluru, the Central Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has registered a case against a company for threatening a borrower and pushing him to suicide who had registered himself in their app for getting loans.

Vivek, a youth from Palayanur, Chengalpattu district borrowed ₹4,000 from an app and was unable to repay it on time. The app company involved had intimidated Vivek following which his friends had posted content taunting him. Unable to bear insult, he jumped into the well and committed suicide.

The police have registered a case against the app company under three sections and are investigating the complaint lodged by him for threatening to pay more interest.

Notably, in the past couple of weeks, three persons including a jobless techie and an agriculture extension officer have ended their lives allegedly owing to harassment from representatives of such apps over repayment of loans. Officials have stated that there are at least 60 such loan apps available on Google Play Store that ar not registered or recognized by the Reserve Bank of India as an NBFC making their operations were unlawful.

47 Hindu pilgrims who were granted visa to visit Pakistan cancel trip

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The government of Pakistan had issued visas to those who had applied for visas to go on pilgrimage to holy places in Pakistan.

The Government of Pakistan on the 21st of December issued visas to 47 Indians who had applied for visas to visit the Sri Kadas Raj temples in the Sakwal district of Pakistan’s Punjab province. They have been given permission to make this pilgrimage between December 23 and 29.

Pakistan High Commission in Delhi issued visas to a group of 48 pilgrims at 8 pm on Tuesday leaving no time for the organizers of the pilgrimage – Kendriya Sanatan Dharam Sabha – with no time to inform the pilgrimage aspirants about their visit to Pakistan. The Hindu yatra was scheduled to leave for Katasraj cluster of temples in Chakwal district of Pakistan via Attari land border on Tuesday. The Hindus were to celebrate Mokshda Ekadashi and Shri Gita Jayanti Utsav besides taking a holy bath in the pond of Katasraj’s cluster of temples.

Devotees from all over the world visit the Shadani Darbar Temple, which is considered to be more than 300 centuries old. The temple was established in the year 1706 by Sadhu Shadaram Sahib, who was born in Lahore in 1708.

UAE Fatwa Council: Islam allows the use of non-halal ingredients in medicine if it is used to save lives

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As some, Islamic countries like Pakistan and Indonesia are contemplating the use of coronavirus vaccine because it may not be permissible under Sharia as the serum may contain pork, the United Arab Emirates’ highest Islamic authority, the UAE Fatwa Council, has ruled that coronavirus vaccines are permissible for Muslims even if they contain pork gelatin, Khaleej Times reported.

Pork gelatin is a common vaccine ingredient and under Islamic law of Sharia, pork is “0Haram” i.e. un Islamic, hence it is forbidden for Muslims. It is necessary under Islamic law that a product is Halal certified.

However, the UAE Fatwa Council, under the chairmanship of Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah, issued a ‘fatwa’ (Islamic ruling) which now states that one of the important compliance with Islamic Sharia’ is the protection of the human body.

In Islam, under adverse condition like famine, and the only food available to eat is pork then the pork becomes halal and they may eat it. 

will allow the coronavirus vaccines to be used in compliance with Islamic Sharia’s objectives on the protection of the human body and other relevant Islamic rulings.

“Coronavirus vaccination is classified under preventive medicines for individuals, as recommended by the Islamic faith, particularly in times of pandemic diseases when the healthy happen to be prone to infections due to the high risk of contracting the disease, therefore posing risk to the entire society,” the Council explained.

The Fatwa Council was quite specific with its ruling to ensure there is no doubt in the minds of Muslims when it said, though the vaccine contains non-halal ingredients banned by Islam, it’s permissible to use it in implementation of the Islamic rule that permits the use of such products in case there are no alternatives

The fatwa council said as per Islamic jurisprudence, the pork gelatin is considered medicine, not food, with multiple vaccines already shown to be effective against a highly contagious virus that poses a risk to the entire society.

Nobel Prize winner ‘economist’ Amartya Sen illegally holds land of India’s first Nobel Prize winner

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Indian Economist and winner of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Amartya Sen’s name has come up in a list of illegal plot holders.

His name has been mentioned in a letter sent by the Vishwa Bharati University to the West Bengal state government, Times of India has reported.

This letter has caused a lot of embarrassment as it lists out unauthorised occupants of the university land while claiming that dozens of its plots “have been recorded wrongly in favour of private parties”.

In what can be called a scathing indictment, the letter has information on the wrong recording of ownership in government’s record-of-right (RoR).

That has resulted in the university’s land being illegally transferred allowing private players to set up restaurants, schools and businesses on land which was procured by India’s first Nobel Laureate Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore.

On Amartya Sen, the letter states that he is illegally occupying 13 decimals of land, roughly over 5600 square feet (sq ft), which is over and above the 125 decimals land legally leased to his late father.

In 2006, Sen, who has considerable influence in India as a leading left intellectual wrote to the then vice-chancellor to transfer the land in his name, which was approved but the excess land was not returned to the university

The estate official has been quoted as saying in a report, “Sen is well aware that he is occupying a good quantum of university’s land unauthorisedly”. Also, the letter adds that the Sen family benefited by selling plots near the campus.

Islamic terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh who murdered American journalist Daniel Pearl freed by a Pakistan court

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The Sindh High court in Pakistan on Thursday (December 24) has ordered the immediate release of Omar Saeed Sheikh, in connection with the abduction and brutal murder/decapitation of journalist Daniel Pearl who was the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal reports The Hindustan Times.

Sheikh was also one of the three terrorists India was forced free when Indian Airlines flight IC-814, was hijacked by a group of Pakistani terrorists which was bound from Kathmandu to Delhi in December 1999. Later the highjackers took the plane to Kandahar which was at that time under the control of the Taliban.

The Sindh high court said the detention orders for Sheikh and three other accused were null and void, ordering their immediate release. The judge presiding the case in his ruling observed, “These men have been rotting in jail for 18 years without committing any crime,”.

However, the court said their names should be put on a no-fly list so that they couldn’t leave Pakistan. Also, Sheikh had and many Pakistani observers still think has connections with Al Qaeda. 

Omar Saeed Sheikh has spent 18 years on death row and his seven-year sentence for kidnapping was counted in the time already served, however, he is now a free man

Sheikh, a British citizen was born in London in 1973 of Pakistani origin, was freed by India along with Jaish-e-Mohammed founder Masood Azhar and terrorist Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar in December 1999. 

It was again a case of Islamic radicalism because Sheikh was quite a bright student and had attended the London School of Economics (LSC) to study applied mathematics, statistics, economics and social psychology.

However, when he came in contact with radical Islamists at the LSE, his already predisposition towards violence took a turn towards violent Jihad.

Daniel Pearl, a Jewish American in his capacity as South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal was investigating and researching links between militants in Pakistan and Richard C Reid, known as the “shoe bomber” who tried to detonate a bomb while on a flight from Paris to Miami in 2001.

However, he was abducted in Karachi in January 2002 and was later has his throat slit and beheaded his captors in Karachi and this gruesome act of cold-blooded murder in the name of Islam was captured on video and is still in circulation in social media.

SPB gets a chocolate statue in Puducherry

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A 5.8 feet tall and 339 kg chocolate statue of SB Balasubrahmanyam has been designed in Pondicherry with 339 kg of chocolates to pay homage to the late singer SBP.

During the annual New Year and Christmas festivities at the ‘Zuka’ Chocolate Shop on Pondicherry Mission Road, statues of various celebrities are designed and displayed as shopping figurines. In honour of the late singer SB Balasubrahmanyam this year, a 5.8-foot-tall chocolate statue of him has been designed with 339 kg of chocolate. Made realistically in 161 hours, the statue has captivated the audience.

The statue displayed in the shop on Mission Street here is of 5.8 ft tall weighing 339 kgs. The statue is totally made of chocolate alone. It is being displayed in the shop to attract tourists in this Christmas and new year season. The team claimed that it took them 161 hours to create the statue weighing 339 kilos.

Earlier, statues of 12 celebrities including Army veteran Abhinandan, former President Abdul Kalam, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, actor Rajinikanth and cartoon character Mickey Mouse were designed. Chef Rajendran, the creator of the chocolate statue, said that the chocolate statue will be on public display till January 10.

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