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Higher Education set for a revamp from the next academic year

By
Vaibavi Jayakumar
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Amit Khare the Secretary of MHRD announced the higher education reforms that are to be implemented from the coming year under the new National Education Policy. Under the scheme, there will be a multiple entry and exit scheme to ensure that students efforts are not wasted in case they are forced to drop out for some reason.

This means that the student will be receiving a certificate in diploma for completing 1 or 2 years of the degree course. This also means that students will be allowed to take a sabbatical from their course in the form of an academic credit bank system, and can go for a Ph.D after completing one additional year after their four-year degree.

In addition to this, a multidisciplinary education system is to be introduced wherein they will be able to study minor subjects like music along with their major.

  • Some key points in the new Education Policy are as follows:
  • MPhil courses will be discontinued under the new policy and all the courses at undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD level will now be interdisciplinary
  • All higher education institutions, except legal and medical colleges, will be governed by a single regulator
  • Board exams in schools will be low stakes and test actual knowledge of students instead of “rote learning”
  • Home language, mother tongue or regional language will be the medium of instruction up to Class 5
  • School curriculum will also be reduced to core concepts and there will be an integration of vocational education from Class 6

(Source: TOI)

Defamation suit filed against Channel Vision Madan Ravichandran by Udhayanidhi Stalin: Media Reports

By
The Commune
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If media reports are to be believed, DMK Chief MK Stalin’s son, youth wing secretary of the party and ‘actor’ Udhayanidhi Stalin has filed a defamation suit against the News Head of Channel Vision Madan Ravichandran.

Udhayanidhi Stalin had mentioned in his suit that Madan’s video on the deer mafia expose titled “Udhanidhi vs Maankari” (Udhayanidhi vs deer meat) was baseless and amounted to defamation.

The defamation suit filed at the Saidapet Court alleged that the video posted had no basis and was an attempt to tarnish his reputation and his family. Udhayanidhi has demanded that Madan Ravichandran be prosecuted under Indian Penal Code, Defamation Act and be given severe punishment.

However Madan has said in his tweet that he hasn’t received any legal summon till now and that he will face the case legally. He has also promised more interesting shows to his viewers.

Madan Ravichandran who has been releasing videos exposing the DMK-Media nexus through his Madan Diary series had released a video in which he exposed the DMK indulging in illegal deer hunting and the mafia behind it.

On July 12, Thiruporur DMK MLA Idhayavarman was caught for brandishing a gun in broad day light and firing multiple rounds in the middle of a road in which one of the bullet hit a passer-by. He had fired at the car of a real estate agent Kumar while travelling along the East Coast Road owing to a property dispute. Incidentally, the police had seized a several rifles and ammunition from Idhayavarman’s premises.

It is said that that the DMK MLA hunts deers to be served to DMK Youth Wing secretary Udhayanidhi Stalin. This was disclosed by an unidentified man in Madan’s video.

Prime Minister Modi to roll out development projects worth 500 crores in Ayodhya

By
Vaibavi Jayakumar
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch development projects worth ₹ 500 crores for Ayodhya on the day of the Ram Mandir Bhoomi Poojan on August 5. The foundation stones for projects worth ₹326 crores are said to be laid on that occasion while the projects for the remaining ₹161 crores will be spent for services dedicated to people.

The projects include expansion of the 36.7 km National Highway 30 between Azamgarh and Bahraich via Ayodhya to a four-lane highway at a cost of over ₹ 252 crores. Ayodhya is also set to get a new bus station at ₹7 crores to facilitate better transport for pilgrims. A new police barrack of 200 people capacity is also set to be established in Ayodhya.

Spiritual leader Morari Bapu has also vowed to donate ₹5 crores to the temple, on behalf of the Chitrakoot Dham. “I pledge to donate Rs 5 lakh for the Ayodhya Ram Mandir construction. But that won’t be all, in total it will be a collection of Rs 5 crore contribution from my Katha listeners”, the preacher said while addressing the online viewers of a Ram Katha from Pithoria Hanuman temple. “If I had told somebody, he alone would have donated the entire amount, but I want this to be everyone’s participation”, he added.

The Bhumi Pujan ceremony of the Ram Mandir is to be telecast live on Doordarshan and said to be attended by over 150 people adhering to social distancing norms.

Kashmiri Separatist Syed Ali Shah honoured with Pakistan’s highest civilian honour

By
Vaibavi Jayakumar
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Kashmiri separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani was endowed with Pakistan’s highest civilian honour, the ‘Nishaan-e-Pakistan’ on Tuesday. This has reportedly been done as an act of insult to India, exactly one week before the anniversary marking the repealing of Article 370.

Notably, Geelani had recently resigned from the Tehreek-e-Hurriyat, the faction he had floated in 2003, citing ‘rebellion against leadership by cadres’. “He (Geelani) has written a detailed letter to Hurriyat members in which he said, given the present situation within the Hurriyat Conference, he is completely dissociating himself from the platform,” Geelani’s spokesperson said in a press statement.

Geelani had reportedly said that he was unhappy with Hurriyat members for staying quiet over the decisions of Centre that are being implemented in the Valley, such as the abrogation of Article 370.

This comes at a time where intelligence reports have found out that Pakistan has been working closely with its agencies Inter-services Intelligence (ISI) to humiliate India close to the first anniversary of the abrogation of Section 370. This has been seen as an attempt by the country to show India in a poor light. Furthermore, Pakistan had planned to give ‘royal treatment’ to Kashmiri politicians, activists and international organisations, which are critical of India, on August 5, along with observing the event as a “black day”.

Communists have a meltdown over DD telecast of Ram Mandir Bhoomi Poojan

By
Vaibavi Jayakumar
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The Communist Party Of India (CPI) has expressed outrage over the telecasting of the Ram Mandir Bhumi Pujan by Doordarshan. With the Pujan scheduled to be held in a few days, the CPI has lodged a complaint against its telecast to the Central Government.

In the complaint, it has demanded the Centre to ban the airing of the program, calling it to be against the secular interests of the country. It added that the use of Doordarshan to televise a religious function like the Pujan is against the “accepted norms of national integrity”.

It mentioned the Section 12 2 (a) of the Prasar Bharati Act, which is is the rulebook governing the National Broadcasting Agency, and said that it should abide by the provision of ‘upholding unity and integrity of the country and the values enshrined in the Constitution’ as given in the Act.

“Considering the historical dispute over the land where the religious function is about to take place, it would be mature for the government to desist the attempts to politicise the issue and ensure that the secular image of the country is not undermined, wrote CPI”s Binoy Viswam in the letter. In conclusion, it said that a broadcasting channel governed by an arm of the state should refrain from telecasting the religious function in Ayodhya.

Meanwhile, the preparations for the historic Bhumi Pujan in Ayodhya is underway. It is to be held on August 5th, 2020, with all the social distancing norms intact.

Amazon to create million jobs in India in the next 5 years

By
Vaibavi Jayakumar
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An Indian employee cleans the floor inside Amazon's largest Fulfillment Centre (FC) in India, on the outskirts of Hyderabad on September 7, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / NOAH SEELAM (Photo credit should read NOAH SEELAM/AFP/Getty Images)

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has said that his company plans to create a million jobs in India by 2025. Amazon is looking to create thousands of job opportunities in India, by expansion of its warehouses as an immediate measure.

These expanded warehouses are expected to be an addition to the existing 60 warehouses, or fulfillment centres, in 15 states, with a total storage capacity of over 32 million cubic feet, the company said in a blog post on Thursday (23 July). The expansion is touted to increase amazon’s capacity to an extent of close to 10 football fields.

“With the expanded network of more than 60 fulfilment centres, we look forward to creating thousands of job opportunities with competitive pay,” Akhil Saxena, Vice President, Customer Fulfilment Operations, APAC, MENA & LATAM, Amazon India, said in a statement. “Our investment in infrastructure and technology is to provide sellers with closer access to Amazon’s fulfillment offerings, customers with faster delivery on a wider selection of products and help ancillary businesses such as packaging, transportation and logistics,” he added.

These warehouses are to be situated at Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Patna, Lucknow, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ludhiana and Ahmedabad, and are said to make the experience more customer and retailer friendly.

BREAKING: Rafale jets land at Ambala Air Base

By
The Commune
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Five Rafale jets of the 36 signed with the French Government has touched down at Ambala this afternoon. The aircrafts and the pilots were received at the station by IAF chief RKS Bhaduria.

The team of pilots were led by Group Captain Harkirat Singh, the commanding officer of the No 17 Squadron also known as “Golden Arrows”.

The Rafale fighter jets will be inducted into the IAF’s Golden Arrow squadron today.

Soon after taking off from the Al Dhafra Air base in UAE, the Rafale pilots established contact with Indian Navy warship INS Kolkata, deployed in the Western Arabian Sea.

Here is the audio:

The Rafale pilot expressed his pleasure over being received by INS Kolkata guarding the seas. INS Kolkata responded back in a brief interaction saying “May you touch the sky with glory. Happy landing!”.

The jets had taken off on Monday from France’s Mérignac Air base. It had a brief halt at the Al Dhafra Air Base in UAE. The jets undertook a mid air refuelling exercise too.

https://twitter.com/Maverick_bharat/status/1288095217120186370

The first Rafale’s tail has the number RB-001, the initials of Rakesh Bhadauria who had led the complex negotiations.

IPAC-DMK next target: Collect details of doctors working in hospitals, Recruit 90 ‘social activists’ and DMK sympathizers per ward as influencers

By
The Commune
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DMK leader MK Stalin has been issuing statements against the Tamil Nadu government on a daily basis on various issues of – OBC reservation, coronavirus, draft EIA notification 2020, etc. At the same time, Prashant Kishor’s IPAC team which has been deployed to device the election strategy for DMK continues to give assignments to the party in the run-up to the elections.

At the beginning of the pandemic, when the entire nation was under complete lockdown asking people to stay indoors and maintain social distancing, the IPAC team came out with a propaganda initiative called “Ondrinaivom Vaa” (Come, Let’s Unite).

Under this initiative, the public would send petitions through a missed call which would then be forwarded to the respective district secretaries of the DMK to provide relief assistance. This had burnt holes in cadres’ pockets with petrified DMK men lamenting about the party not providing funds and that they had to shell out their own money.

Next, IPAC team selected more than twenty major cities across Tamil Nadu and devised a program to feed the poor living in those cities on a daily basis. In this project, the DMK party did not directly involve themselves but roped in NGOs working in these cities. These NGOs were then put in touch with DMK IT Wing members.

Now, IPAC has asked for a list of 90 people in each ward in all the major cities of Tamil Nadu. The DMK secretaries have been instructed to collect the details including WhatsApp number of social activists, those running NGOs, and other DMK sympathizer in their area considered as ‘potential influencers’. Earlier The Commune had reported that how the IPAC was recruiting gullible college students as interns to identify influencers to create a pro-DMK narrative.

In addition to collecting the details of these ‘potential influencers’, the IPAC team has sent details of small and big hospitals in cities and has asked the DMK office bearers to collect the details including WhatsApp number of the doctors working in these hospitals. This will be extended to municipalities and panchayat unions as well. It is being said that they are planning to collect information more from municipalities and less from panchayat unions compared to municipal corporations.

While Prashant Kishor’s IPAC team for the DMK has been quietly gearing up for the polls, the team led by Sunil, who previously oversaw the DMK’s IT wing, is now touring district – wise to prepare the ground for the AIADMK. It is being said that with the AIADMK looking forward to retain power for another term, Sunil’s team has been conducting a survey asking people about what schemes would they like to be implemented in their area. For the AIADMK, Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami (fondly called as EPS) has been emerging as the face to bank on for the 2021 elections. Both the party and the leader has consolidated itself and has emerged stronger under CM Palaniswami. His tenure has seen the delta zone being declared as protected zone, bringing the Cauvery dispute to a conclusion and also steady flow of investments into the state. These have been instrumental for the party to win the Assembly by-elections and put a tough fight against the DMK in the local body elections. It would do well for the party to bank on the EPS-OPS ‘double barrel gun’ with EPS as the CM face for the next polls.

Iran blows dummy US aircraft carrier during Prophet Mohammed 14th drill, US goes on high alert

By
The Commune
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In a surreal military drill conducted by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, the Iranian navy fired missiles at a dummy model of a US aircraft carrier. This has made the US military temporarily put two regional bases on alert as reported by the BBC.

The US has called this exercise “irresponsible and reckless behaviour by Iran”, labelling it an attempt “to intimidate and coerce”.

Iran named the drills as Prophet Mohammed 14th that has very important meaning to Shia Muslims and this exercise was broadcast on state television.

For the exercise, Iran used a dummy which resembles a carrier the US routinely sails into the Gulf. The fake aircraft carrier also had dummy fighter jets onboard and then it was targeted by missiles launched from a variety of angles, including some aimed at the carrier.

“What was shown today in these exercises, at the level of aerospace and naval forces, was all offensive,” Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander Major General Hossein Salami told the state television.

When Iran fired one of their ballistic missiles, it was detected by the Americans who immediately put their troops on high alert in the UAE and Qatar, the US military said.

“The US Navy conducts defensive exercises with our partners promoting maritime security in support of freedom of navigation; whereas, Iran conducts offensive exercises, attempting to intimidate and coerce,” said Commander Rebecca Rebarich, spokeswoman for the US Navy’s Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet.

The relationship between Iran and the US took a nosedive ever since Donald Trump became the US President. He cancelled the Iranian Nuclear deal that was finalized during the Obama period and has been levying sanctions on the country allegedly for its nuclear activities.

At this time, any escalation of conflict between Tehran and Washington in the Gulf waters is best avoided as the Strait of Hormuz serves as one of the arteries for world’s oil to flow.

“We don’t need lessons in constitutionalism from Razakars”: Tejasvi Surya hits out at Owaisi

By
The Commune
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In an interview to the Outlook magazine ahead of the Ram Mandir Bhoomi Poojan, Member of Parliament from Hyderabad Asaduddin Owaisi had said that “Babri Masjid is a mosque and will remain as one” and added that “as far as Muslims and people who believe in justice are concerned, we will keep telling the new generation that our masjid was demolished”.

He also said in his interview that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should clarify if he is visiting Ayodhya in his capacity as PM or in his individual capacity. “As the Prime Minister, he represents all religions and also people who don’t believe in religion.”

Mr. Owaisi had shared the link to the interview in a tweet with a caption saying that attending Bhoomi Pujan in official capacity will be a violation of constitutional oath taken by the Prime Minister and that secularism is a basic structure of the constitution.

“We can’t forget that for over 400 years Babri stood in Ayodhya and it was demolished by a criminal mob in 1992”. Owaisi had tweeted.

Responding to Mr. Owaisi’s tweet, BJP MP from Bengaluru South hit out at the former’s hypocritical stance asking where was ‘secularism’ when Presidents and Prime Ministers of India organized Iftaar parties in official capacities and in official residences.

He also said that the Masjid was built by razing the temple and that mistake has now been reversed.

“P.S We don’t need lessons in constitutionalism from Razakars”, Mr. Tejasvi Surya added.

The Ram Mandir’s Bhoomi Poojan in Ayodhya is scheduled to happen on August 5th, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to lay the foundation stone. Over 150 attendees have been invited for this event. After

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