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Malappuram Arabic college teacher rapes minor student, absconds

A minor college student was allegedly sexually assaulted and raped by an Arabic college teacher in Kalpakancherry in Malappuram district.

Salahuddin, a native of Varanasi, Kalpakancherry works as a teacher at the Arabic college in the area. He had raped a 17 year old student studying at the college.

He had threatened the girl to not disclose about the incident to anyone. However, her parents found her to be upset when they were planning to get her married. The girl then disclosed about the incident to her parents who then alerted the child line workers.

Upon finding the incident to be true, the child line registered a complaint with the Kalpakancherry police station. Salahuddin has been charged under relevant sections of the POCSO Act.

It has been reported that Salahuddin is a serial offender and had sexually assaulted many girls prior to this.

The police have launched a hunt for Salahuddin who is currently absconding.

 

Indian Armed Forces to get MQ-9B Guardian Drones from the US

After the induction of the Rafale fighter jets into the Indian Air Force (IAF) which was seen as a major force multiplier, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is laying the groundwork to purchase 30 General Atomics MQ-9B Guardian drones from the United States, as reported India Today.

The cost of the 30 drones would be around $3 billion. An ‘acceptance of necessity’ (AON) for 30 drones is expected to be placed before the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC). To have such technology in the arsenal of Indian military will enhance its capability for surveillance of its borders, be that may the heights of the Himalayas or the vast space of our oceans and seas. 

The MQ-9 is a long endurance high altitude drone with radar and electronic support to locate the enemy. It can stay on the air for 35 hours and can fly as high as 45,000 feet. The MQ-9 is the first hunter-killer UAV designed for long-endurance, high-altitude surveillance.

India plans to purchase six MQ-9 drones worth $600 million in an outright fashion. Two drones will be given to the Indian Army, Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force.

The Indian Navy which has one of the most difficult tasks of monitoring our coast lines, protect our economic zones and keep an eye on China’s increasing presence in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) has been made the lead service for the acquisition.

NIA takes over Bengaluru violence case, alleged mastermind SDPI’s Muzamil Pasha and his associates to face heat

The National Investigation Agency which has taken over the probe in the Bengaluru violence case will interrogate SDPI leader Muzamil Pasha and his close associates for allegedly “instigating the mobs” that triggered the violence in Bangalore city.

According to an NIA statement, on 11 August 2020, at around 08:00 PM, more than 1000 people gathered in front of the house of Congress MLA Shri Naveen Srinivas Murthy (Pulakeshi Nagar constituency) at Kavalbyrasandra, Bengaluru City. The mob was protesting against the derogatory social media (Facebook) post about Prophet Mohammed made on 11.08.2020 at around 4 pm by Shri Naveen, nephew of the MLA allegedly insulting the religious sentiments of the Muslims. The State Secretary of SDPI, Muzamil Pasha had earlier called a meeting and directed the members of PFI/SDPI to instigate the mob and incite violence. 

“The mob went on rampage in D J Halli, K G Halli and Pulakeshi Nagar area in Bengaluru. The mob attacked the two police stations namely D J Halli and K G Halli and vandalized the property of police stations including government and private vehicles parked in these police stations,” the statement said.

The mob had attacked the house of Congress party MLA from the Pulakeshi Nagar constituency Akhanda Srinivas Murthy and then went on to attack police stations.

It all started after the MLA’s nephew Naveen had allegedly insulted the religious sentiments of the Muslims. The violence that erupted later one was seen by many as premeditated and caused lots of damage to government and private properties.

After the riots, the BJP government in Karnataka announced that rioters who damaged public properties and vehicles in Bangalore will have to pay for the damages. The Bengaluru rioters would be made to pay for the damages and the funds are expected to be recovered from their property. This is as per the Supreme Court’s directive, the damages to public property would be recovered from the rioters.

Trump holds China accountable for Wuhan Virus at UNGA, says WHO is controlled by Chinese

United States President Donald Trump who is in the midst of a tough election campaign on Tuesday (September 22)  blamed the Chinese Communist government for the global spread of the Wuhan virus.

“The United Nations must hold China accountable for their actions,” Trump said.

In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Trump called on the United Nations to hold China accountable for “unleashing” the Covid-19 causing SARS-CoV-2 virus onto the world.

“We must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world: China,” Trump said.

“In the earliest days of the virus, China locked down travel domestically while allowing flights to leave China and infect the world. China condemned my travel ban on their country, even as they cancelled domestic flights and locked citizens in their homes,” Trump said in a pre-recorded speech.

Trump was also very uncharatable towards the World Health Organisation (WHO) for its role in the early days of the  spread of Wuhan virus pandemic and alleged that the global health body was “controlled by China”.

“The Chinese government and the World Health Organization—which is virtually controlled by China—falsely declared that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission. Later, they falsely said people without symptoms would not spread the disease,” he said.

TN CM writes to PM Modi to include experts from the state in committee studying Indian culture

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (September 23) urging him to personally intervene and direct the Ministry of Culture to reconstitute the expert committee that has been constituted for studying the origin and evolution of Indian culture.

CM Palaniswami wrote that while it was a welcome move to deepen the understanding of the country’s rich and varied cultural roots, he said that the composition of the committee in itself was a matter of deep concern.

He said that the committee had no member from any of the southern states especially from Tamil Nadu, adding that the state has a glorious past and is home to one of the oldest civilisations, viz, Dravidian civilization, a living and thriving culture in south India.

Highlighting the recent Keezhadi excavations, Palaniswami said that it revealed how the Sangam era can now be dated back to as early as 6th century BCE placing the Tamil culture and language as one of the oldest surviving heritages in the world.

CM Palaniswami also recalled Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Mahabalipuram last year where he hosted and played guide to Chinese President Xi Jinping by showing around the monuments.

“If you recall, Sir, around this time last year, you visited Mahabalipuram, where you had observed the awe-inspiring timeless monuments and glorious legacy of Tamil heritage in full splendor. You will, therefore, agree with me that any chronicle of Indian history and culture would be grossly incomplete without giving its rightful place to Tamil culture and language”, CM Palaniswami wrote.

He expressed his dismay about the Ministry of Culture having chosen to ignore experts from Tamil Nadu and urged him to reconstitute the expert committee by including scholars from Tamil Nadu.

One of the oldest arms manufacturer in the world to set up unit in UP

Webley & Scott, one of the oldest arms manufacturer in the world will be setting up a manufacturing unit at Hardoi district in Uttar Pradesh.

With this,  Webley & Scott will become the first global firearms company to set up its base in India.

Webley is famous for the revolvers and automatic pistols it supplied to the British Army, during World War 1 and World War 2.

Webley & Scott had entered into a joint venture with Sial Manufacturer Pvt Ltd, an Uttar Pradesh company and obtained license to manufacture firearms in 2019.

The company will start its operations in India with the production of .32 revolver and will eventually expand to produce shot guns and rifles as well.

China replicating its Xinjiang policy in Tibet, thousands sent into forced labour

China is aggressively working towards making Tibet into another Xinjiang by building a military-style training centers which will play host to Tibetan rural labourers.

According to President Xi Jingping, this reform has been created to “effectively eliminate lazy people and guide the masses to create a happy life with their hardworking hands”.

As per reports, Beijing has started the mass transfer of rural labourers from Tibet to other parts of China. The forced migrants of Tibet will end up working as low wage workers in textile, manufacturing, construction and agriculture. However, this is seen as a coercive labor training and transfer system.

Resently protests rocked China’s Inner Mongolia Region as Communist Party of China regime brought in a new policy that the ethnic Mongolians fear will wipe out their culture.

As per new development, the Communist regime has unilaterally decided to impose Mandarin over Mongolian in the schools by mandating the teaching of main subjects like politics, history, and language and literature in Mandarin instead of Mongolian.

Adrian Zenz, an independent Tibet and Xinjiang researcher says, “This is now, in my opinion, the strongest, most clear and targeted attack on traditional Tibetan livelihoods that we have seen almost since the Cultural Revolution”. This detailed report was released this week by the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington, Washington D.C.-based institute that focuses on policy issues of strategic importance to the US “It’s a coercive lifestyle change from nomadism and farming to wage labour.”

However, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly denied the involvement of forced labour, and said “What these people with ulterior motives are calling ‘forced labour’ simply does not exist. We hope the international community will distinguish right from wrong, respect facts, and not be fooled by lies,”.

Xinjiang province is home to ethinic Turkic Uighurs Muslims and China has litrally converted this place into a concentration camp. It is believed that over 1 million Uighur Muslims are being held in a so called education camps. Now China has again implimented the same policy in Tibet in pursuit of what Chinese authorities call “stability maintenance.” aimed at quelling dissent, unrest or separatism.

The spin put by the Communist authority is that, “In order to cope with the increasing downward economic pressure on the employment income of rural workers, we will now increase the intensity of precision skills training and carry out the organised and large-scale transfer of employment across provinces, regions and cities,”. This is the statement released by Tibet’s Human Resources and Social Security Department in July.

China is calling this labour transfer programs to other parts of China are voluntary, but human rights groups and researchers say this move is far from voluntary.

“These recent announcements dramatically and dangerously expand these programs, including ‘thought training’ with the government’s coordination, and represent a dangerous escalation,” said Matteo Mecacci, president of US-based advocacy group, the International Campaign for Tibet.

India slams Erdogan’s statement on Kashmir, calls it gross interference and completely unacceptable

India took a strong affront over Turkey’s remarks on Kashmir on Tuesday (September 22) and slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for “gross interference” in India’s internal affairs and called Erdogan’s remarks ‘completely unacceptable’.

“We have seen remarks by President of Turkey on Indian UT of Jammu and Kashmir. They constitute gross interference in India’s internal affairs and are completely unacceptable. Turkey should learn to respect the sovereignty of other nations and reflect on its policies more deeply,” TS Tirumurti, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said in a tweet.

The Turkish President who aspires to be the next leader of the Islamic community or the Ummah made this contentious remarks on on Kashmir on the second day of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) when he said Kashmir was still “a burning issue”. He added, “The Kashmir conflict, which is also key to the stability and peace of South Asia, is still a burning issue,”.

“We are in favour of solving this issue through dialogue within the framework of the United Nations resolutions, especially in line with the expectations of the people of Kashmir,” Erdogan added in a prerecorded message.

In a tweet sent out by embattled Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan he said, “Deeply appreciate President Erdogan once again raising his voice in support of the rights of the Kashmiri people during his address to UNGA. Turkey’s unwavering support remains a source of strength for the Kashmiris in their legitimate struggle for self determination.”

https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/status/1308609215628443648

This is not the first time Turkey has raised the issue of Kashmir at the UN. It did the same thing last year along with Malaysia but the latter got the message loud and clear when India put sanctions on the import of palm oil and since then Malaysia has kept quite on the Kashmir issue.

When those who swear by the name of Ambedkar practice untouchability

On September 6, a person named T. Amarnath from Zee Tamil channel reportedly called Ma. Venkatesan, a Dalit scholar and a spokesperson of BJP Tamil Nadu, to invite him to the launch of a series on Babasaheb Ambedkar and speak about the visionary leader for their ‘Tamizh Tamizha’ show anchored by film director Karu Pazhaniappan.

Ma Venkatesan had inquired about the details of the programme like who are the participants, what will be the format of the show, how much time does one get, etc. The person had mentioned that it would not be a debate but a show where each person shares their thoughts and views on Dr. Ambedkar. He was told that they were on the talks with other leaders too. The BJP spokesperson had confirmed his participation and was told that the shooting for the show would happen on September 20 and that they would be reaching out to him soon to work out other formalities.

“However, there was no call after that.”, Ma. Venkatesan said.

The programme was aired on September 21. Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) head Thol. Thirumavalavan, VCK leader Aloor Shanavas, DMK spokesperson ‘Tamilan’ Prasanna, separatist Thirumurugan Gandhi, Sundaravalli of the Communist Party, Senthil who was recently expelled from News 18 Tamil Nadu had participated in the show.

https://www.facebook.com/ZeeTamizh/videos/1033277150430547

“It is an easy guess about what these members would have spoken about Babasaheb. While an Islamist was invited to a show on Ambedkar who was dead opposed and brutal critic of Islam, someone who has written a book on the lesser known side about Ambedkar was washed off conveniently.” Ma. Venkatesan said speaking to The Commune.

Ma. Venkatesan had called T. Amarnath but he would not pick up. He had later called his literary and media circles to inquire about why he was not invited.

It was told that the organizers and other leaders were not okay with Ma Venkatesan being invited as he would talk about Ambedkar’s critical views on Islam and Christianity, his position on Sanskrit, Kashmir, etc., which would not suit their ideology and construct of Ambedkar.

“Apparently, the other guests including Karu Pazhaniappan had told that none of them would come if I participate”, Ma. Venkatesan said.

He says that like other Tamil channels, the hegemony of Dravidianists and communists exist in Zee Tamil too.

“This is their form of untouchability and these people claim to be followers of Ambedkar!”, Ma. Venkatesan said condemning the treatment meted out to him.

Galwan Valley martyr Havildar Pazhani’s wife given Tamil Nadu govt posting

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Tuesday (September 22), handed over the appointment order to P Vanathi Devi, wife of Havildar Pazhani who was martyred during the Galwan Valley clash between India and China at the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh.

She has been posted as a Revenue Inspector in the Civil Supply Department. She had earlier worked as a clerk in a college in the district after her graduation.

Havildar Pazhani, who had been with the Indian Army for 22 years, belonged to Kadukkaloor village in Ramanathapuram district. His brother is also in the Army and is currently posted in Rajasthan.

Pazhani has been an inspiration for many youth in the nearby areas and many of them have joined the army.  He had visited his village back in January.

Pazhani is survived by a son who is 12 years old and an 8 year old daughter.