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Chinese hexacopters being used by ISI to supply weapons to jihadis in J&K

By
Balaji Subramanian
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In a new development at the Line of Control (LoC), Chinese manufactured hexacopters are being used by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to deliver weapons to to Islamic terrorists groups in Jammu and Kashmir.

Pakistan had received these hexacopters along with T-97 NSR rifles (manufactured by Norinco) which the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) uses as an inducement by the Chinese government to secure the CPEC projects. China has provided Pakistan’s Frontier Force with the same rifles.

Indian intelligence agencies are monitoring the threat as things would get more difficult with the coming of winter.

The ISI which has been providing covert support to Islamic terrorist groups for a long time has resorted to this strategy to supply as many weapons as possible so that the jihadists can carry out terror strikes against the security forces. Since 2019, Islamic terrorists have been finding it difficult to carry out major strikes against the security forces and are now targeting civilians who they deem as collaborators.

This new method has been adopted by Pakistan after the Indian Army in-principle decided not to open fire on unarmed intruder trying to cross over into India. This new plan allows Pakistan to send men and weapons over the LoC separately as the terrorists will have to carry less weight, allowing them to move fast.

In a report published in the Sunday Guardian Live, a senior Intelligence officer said, “The nexus between China and Pakistan in arming the terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir is becoming more evident with every passing day. The evidence we have of Chinese ‘goods’ being used to spread terror in India are too many,”.

However, due to high vigilance at the border, Indian security forces have managed to seize lots of weapons caches. Weapons so far recovered from the LoC are two China-made QBZ 95 rifles, 47 rifle, one M16 Rifle and two pistols which were smuggled across the IB fence in Ferozpur Kudian at the international border along with several assortments of deadly weapons capable of inflicting serious damage to our security forces.

Who threatened DMK MP Kathir Anand?

By
The Commune
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DMK MP Kathir Anand had complained to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla that intelligence officials had barged into his room in Tamil Nadu Bhavan in Delhi supposedly intimidating him. Speaker Om Birla took cognizance of the complaint and told that that this is a very serious issue and that the Delhi Police must inquire about the matter and issue a statement.

The Delhi Police examined the footage recorded on the surveillance camera at the Tamil Nadu Bhavan. In the footage it was seen that the MP’s personal assistant was being dragged and taken by some people.

During the inquiry, officials placed at the Tamil Nadu Bhavan mentioned that nobody can enter the premises without prior permission and that security officials frisk all persons entering. Not just there, the security officials are placed at all floors of the building and all persons moving from one floor to another are inspected.

Since the visitors were escorted by Kathir Anand’s aide, the Delhi Police believe the persons to be known to Kathir Anand.

The police have now submitted a report to the Lok Sabha Speaker. The intelligence have also written to the Speaker that they have nothing to do with Kathir Anand’s complaint.

It is to be noted that the 2019 General Elections for Vellore Constituency was postponed following seizure of huge amounts of cash from Kathir Anand’s office premises meant for distribution in his constituency . Investigations are underway regarding this. The Delhi Police are wondering whether Kathir Anand’s complaint is related to the incident.

On the other hand, it is said that Kathir Anand did not consult the party’s senior MPs about lodging a complaint with the Speaker.

As of now, these threads hang in air.

President Trump announces Platinum Plan for Black Americans, promises a range of measures

By
Harishankar Nagarajan
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At a Georgia campaign event on last Friday, President Trump unveiled a $500 billion economic plan designed to boost opportunities for African Americans. President Trump pledged to increase economic opportunities for Black Americans with a $500 billion measure aimed at creating 3 million new jobs and 500,000 new black-owned businesses.

In his speech, Trump described himself as a friend to the Black community who would make investments in treatments for kidney disease, diabetes, and sickle cell. He also pledged to continue the economic gains that occurred under his administration before the coronavirus pandemic reached the US.

President Trump also pledged his support for making Juneteenth (also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day to commemorate the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States) a national holiday, along with prosecuting the Ku Klux Klan and Antifa as terrorist organizations. Trump’s proposed plan, which purports to be built on four pillars of “opportunity, security, prosperity and fairness,” calls for a range of measures in support of the Black businesses and families. Included in the plan is a call for almost $500 billion of capital investment in the Black community, with much of it coming from increased federal contracting opportunities and other investments. He also called for 500,000 new Black businesses and 3 million jobs for Black Americans.

In addition to the economic aspects of the plan, the President’s plan proposes a range of other commitments to the Black community, including criminal justice reforms that include diversity training for police forces. He has also promised a National Clemency Program to unite families and invest in human potential, focusing on wrongful prosecution and rehabilitation.

With the US election heading its last leg, President’s announcement aims at increasing his support among African American community.

Is paradox-free time travel possible? This student-teacher duo say you can time travel all you want but the universe won’t let things change

By
Vaibavi Jayakumar
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Time travel is a concept that has both fascinated and bothered great minds through centuries. A major setback of this concept or the possibility of it is the Grandfather paradox, a potential logical problem that would arise if a person were to travel to a past time.

To put things in perspective, if a person travels back in time and kills his/her grandfather before he had children, it would make the person’s own birth impossible. So, time travel must avoid such logical inconsistencies and contradictions.

A student-teacher duo from Australia has now come out with a solution that could potentially make time travel possible and eliminate this paradox.

“Say you travelled in time, in an attempt to stop COVID-19’s patient zero from being exposed to the virus, If you stopped that individual from becoming infected — that would eliminate the motivation for you to go back and stop the pandemic in the first place. This is a paradox — an inconsistency that often leads people to think that time travel cannot occur in our Universe,” Dr Fabio Costa from the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Queensland explains.

A paradox-free time travel was thus, not believed to be possible until now but Dr Costa, along with an undergraduate student at the University of Queensland by the name of Germain Tobar, has come up with a mathematical model that proves that such paradox-free time travel is theoretically possible. If the current position and velocity of an object free falling under the force of gravity is known, it can help us calculate where it will be at any point of time.

This has now been published in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity and explains that knowing the state of a system at a particular time can tell us the entire history of the system, thereby helping us effectively eliminate the possibility of the paradox occurring.

The researchers say that it is possible “for events to adjust themselves to be logically consistent with any action” that the time traveler makes in the past or the future.

That is, if one were to try and stop the patient zero from getting infected of COVID, the person travelling back in time might catch the virus and become patient zero or someone else might get it.

In essence, no matter the actions we take, the pandemic would occur, giving your younger self the motivation to go back and stop it, Tony says.

The range of mathematical processes we discovered show that time travel with free will is logically possible in our universe without any paradox,” he says.

This new revelation poses a plethora of exciting opportunities for physicists and researchers, moving forward, as it could make time travel possible in our universe without any paradox.

 

Singapore becomes the first country in the world to get facial recognition for national ID

By
Vaibavi Jayakumar
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Singapore has become the world’s first country to have facial recognition as part of its national identification system. The national identity cards will contain facial verification allowing citizens to access private and government services. This is being rolled out all over the country now after a test run conducted in a bank.

A UK based company called iProov has designed this technology which will not only help to recognize the face, but will also test if the person is actually present. This will also help alert police officers when a criminal walks past.

“You have to make sure that the person is genuinely present when they authenticate, that you’re not looking at a photograph or a video or a replayed recording or a deepfake,” said Andrew Bud, founder and chief executive of iProov. “This is the first time that cloud-based face verification has been used to secure the identity of people who are using a national digital identity scheme,” he added.

This has raised concerns of whether it will increase the access that the government has to the citizens’ private details, but as of now, the government is not planning to regulate or restrict the technology. Notably, a lot of other countries are planning to jump the bandwagon, as this is an idea that could possibly revolutionize the way government’s monitor their citizens.

Australian man survives after being bitten by a crocodile in the head

By
Vaibavi Jayakumar
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An Australian snorkeler who had been bitten in the head by a crocodile on the head in northern Queensland has miraculously recovered. The 33-year-old man was attacked on Wednesday afternoon in deep waters 50 metres off Lizard Island, which is home to a large luxury resort. He is believed to have been bitten in Anchor Bay, offshore from the resort.

He had been given first aid before being rushed to Cairns Hospital, where he is being treated. The man is in stable condition, but a spokesperson for the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS), said that he is lucky to be alive.

“He was doing remarkably well, given the circumstances, and was stable throughout the flight,” Lee Poole, the RFDS spokesperson told the Brisbane Times. “Crocodile attacks in north Queensland are rare but obviously with an animal of that nature and size, they can be devastating and people have lost their lives,” he added.

This is the 37th crocodile attack in the state, as Queensland is very famous for housing crocodile-infested waters since 1985.  Eleven of the attacks have been fatal.

New York gets its first ever Black female police chief

By
Vaibavi Jayakumar
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Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan, a top official at the Rochester Housing Authority, took over as the head of the Rochester Police force in New York on Saturday. This comes just weeks after the Black Lives Matter protests all over the world, with the US being its epicentre.

Cynthia has worked for the Rochester Police Department for 24 years before her retirement in 2009 and will be taking over in the aftermath of the controversial death of Daniel Prude in police custody.

Speaking about this, New York Mayor Lovely Warren said that Cynthia will be swearing-in as interim head of the police department on Oct. 14.  “As the first woman to serve in this role, I am confident she will bring a different perspective and instil a fresh approach to policing, which are very much needed in our city at this particular time,” Warren said in a statement.

The mayor fired the last chief, La’Ron Singletary, on Sept. 14 as racial justice demonstrations boiled over the department’s handling of the asphyxiation death in March of Daniel Prude, 41, who was having a psychotic episode when he was arrested. Several officials have been effectively suspended without pay following this episode, following the ruling by a medical examiner calling Prude’s death a homicide by asphyxiation, with the drug PCP a contributing factor.

6 facts you should know about late Shri Jaswant Singh

By
Vaibavi Jayakumar
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Jaswant Singh, the stalwart who was once Vajpayee’s right-hand man, passed away on the morning of September 27. He had served in the Vajpayee government between 1998 and 2004 and held portfolios of Defence, Finance and External Affairs. He has the distinction of being one of the longest serving parliamentarians from 1980 to 2014. He had been in coma since 2014, after suffering falling in his bathroom and getting his head injured. Several national leaders like Prime Minister Modi took to Twitter and expressed their condolences.

Here are some interesting information that you should about the former Union Minister:

1. He is known as one of the best negotiators in Indian politics

His skill as a negotiator and diplomat during talks with the United States has been well acknowledged by his U.S. counterpart Strobe Talbott. He is widely regarded for his handling of relations with the United States which were strained after the 1998 Indian nuclear tests which resulted in U.S. President Bill Clinton visit to India in 2000.

2. He was popularly addressed as Vajpayee’s Hanuman

Late Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee had had a cartoon framed in his office of himself and Shri Jaswant Singh wherein the later had been depicted as his Hanuman. As Singh himself put it at the time of his expulsion, “During Atalji’s time there was a cartoon that I keep framed. In that, I was pictured as Hanuman. But now I appear to have become Ravana.”

3. He was India’s External Affairs Minister when IC 814 was hijacked

While Home Minister LK Advani was against exchanging the hostages for release of the hijackers as he thought it would affect the public opinion of the government, Jaswant Singh advocated for negotiating with the Taliban for the release of the hostages. At that time, he had received a call from his home about the birth of his granddaughter Harshini Kumari Rathore. In an article to The Print, Harshini narrates how Jaswant Singh had to balance between the duty as a grandfather and as the Minister in the government.

This release of the prisoners became a setback to the BJP government. The present National Security Advisor Ajit Doval who was the Intelligence Bureau Chief at that time described the whole incident as a “diplomatic failure” for the inability to make the US and UAE use their influence and secure a quick release of the passengers.

4. A man of controversies

His 2006 book called “A Call to Honour” caused outrage as he had claimed about the presence of a mole in the PV Narasimha Rao cabinet who had leaked India’s nuclear test secrets to the US. Dr. Manmohan Singh hit back at Jaswant Singh and asked him to name the mole. Later Jaswant Singh changed his position saying that the claim was based on a ‘hunch’.

In his book ‘Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence’, he had heaped praises on Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah while pinning Jawaharlal Nehru as the man responsible for partition.

5. Vice President candidate of NDA in 2012

He was nominated as the Vice President candidate for the NDA in 2012. Former Chief Minister late J. Jayalalithaa had extended her support to Singh’s candidature. However, he was defeated by Hamid Ansari.

6. Expelled from the party multiple times

Though he was one of the founding members of the party, Jaswant Singh has been expelled from the party multiple times. The first time he was expelled was following his book on Jinnah. He was reinstated into the party in 2010.

After he was denied a ticket in the 2014 general elections, he decided to contest as an independent candidate from Barmer. After he refused to withdraw, and was expelled from the BJP in March 2014.

Cops to secure religious worship places in Andhra

By
Harishankar Nagarajan
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With the increasing attacks by the Opposition, Andhra Government led by CM Jagan Mohan Reddy has instructed police department to secure religious worship places. The state police department has already initiated the process of calling priests and religious heads across the state to be vigilant and fix surveillance cameras in churches, temples, mosques and others.

With the increasing attack on Hindu temples starting from a fire incident at the Antarvedi Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple in the state’s East Godavari district, CM Jagan is on backfoot with numerous grass roots organization calling out the ineffectiveness of State Govt in protecting Temples. NDA leaders and workers led a one day fast on the call of Jana Sena President Pawan Kalayan. BJP Andhra leadership is also working on the ground to mobilize people on the issues of attacks on Hindu temple and traditions.

In Prakasam and West Godavari districts, like all others, the policemen personally visited temples, churches and mosques, suggesting safety measures to the clergy as well as locals. A Prakasam police official said the department is keeping 24×7 vigil at all places of worship across the district.

“We are taking it very seriously on the ground. We are ensuring that no opportunity is given and everything is attended to promptly on ground, responded to promptly and no opportunity is given to exploit this situation,” Prakasam Superintendent of Police (SP), Siddharth Kaushal, told IANS, who is recovering from Wuhan virus.

He said police are also monitoring social media to look for trouble makers. With Andhra Government turning blind eye on proselytization activities of Christian NGOs, CM Jagan has led State politics to unnecessary polarization on the basis of region which has never happened in Andhra Pradesh. TDP Leader Former CM Chandrababu Naidu aslo called out bluff of State Government against attack on Hindu temples.

All you need to know about China White, the drug hitting party circuits in India

By
Harishankar Nagarajan
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The drug menace surrounding celebrities in Bollywood and Sandalwood has taken up space across media for past 2 months. With the demise of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, NCB (Narcotics Control Board) has taken up active role in breaking the drug chain which is being used by celebrities.

Apart from the usual heroine and cocaine, another drug named ‘China White’ is said to be reaching India’s party circuits.

As the Bollywood and Sandalwood deals with a worsening substance abuse crisis, China White is said to have seen a surge among celebrities.

For those unfamiliar with China White, here’s what you should know about the designer opioid, its effects on a person, and what research is available so far.

‘China White’ is the street name for furanyl fentanyl and a few other known derivatives of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid painkiller found in most emergency rooms. ‘China White’ is similar to heroin and morphine, but is a hundred times more potent, if not more so. It is either snorted through the nose or injected directly into the bloodstream. The high lasts longer and is more difficult to treat if a person overdoses.

Dr. Wilfredo Lopez-Ojeda, a biomedical sciences professor at the University of Central Florida who co-authored the Universal Journal of Clinical Medicine editorial with Dr. Carlos Ramos-Matos notes “What gave rise to China White is a mixture of the original fentanyl with perhaps some residues of heroin and maybe some cocaine, then they started referring to it as a more pure product.”

Hence it is a pure product. It is mixed with heroine or cocaine to give the ‘higher than high’ effect.

China White is a fat-soluble painkiller that’s much stronger and lasts far longer than morphine, heroin or fentanyl itself. The designer drug has led to a rash of overdose-related deaths over the last five years. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attributed 14 deaths in Rhode Island and 50 deaths in Pennsylvania to acetyl-fentanyl.

What kills China White users are the designer drug’s side effects. People high on the drug who enter emergency room may seem like they’re overdosing on heroin or another opioid, but the symptoms are more complicated because fentanyl derivatives are far more powerful. “When they enter the emergency room, the symptoms are very confusing,” Lopez-Ojeda says. “If treatment is not followed through accordingly, people can end up dying.”

This designer drug is said to be reaching India through Myanmar. In October 2017, the Mizoram police caught a large quantities of the drug that was being smuggled from Myanmar which was meant for distribution in the north-east states.

With NCB questioning lot of celebrities, talent managers across Bollywood, more details about drug usages will be thrown up. Many youths across India with nature of being seen cool towards their peers, consumes these drugs at miniscule level and in the end get struck in the vicious cycle of substance abuse. There are lot of reports emerging which states that youths in Punjab are severely addicted to drugs and drugs are being trafficked through the borders via Pakistan. It is high time the elders of the family guide the youth towards healthy habits and make sure they don’t lose their valuable years in drug addiction.

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