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Will snatch Rae Bareli in 2024 from Sonia Gandhi: Smriti Irani

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Union Minister for Textiles, Smrithi Irani who was on a three-day Amethi tour on Friday (December 25) has thrown the gauntlet at Sonia Gandhi by saying that in the next Lok Sabha elections, the BJP will snatch Rae Bareli, the Hindustan Times reported. 

“Remember, if you continue to harass BJP workers, then in 2024 we will snatch Rae Bareli, too,” the BJP leader said at a public meeting.

The former television superstar in 2019 general elections, did the unthinkable when she dethroned Rahul Gandhi from the Amethi constituency. 

This declaration could not have come at the worst time when Rahul Gandhi has again left the country on a foreign visit, reinstating the fact, he is not serious about politics nor is he interested in taking responsibility for his party.

On Friday, December 25), Irani accused Rahul Gandhi of “lying and misleading” farmers over the Centre’s recent farm laws. 

Addressing a farmers’ rally in her parliamentary constituency Amethi, Irani said, “Rahul Gandhi is telling lies and misleading farmers. He is shedding crocodile tears for farmers and misleading them, his own jija (brother-in-law) has encroached upon the land of farmers.”

Irani who is known for her determination and never give up attitude called on Rahul Gandhi for a debate on the farmers’ issue and called Congress general secretary for Utter Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s proposed Kisan Yatra in the state as a “stunt”.

The union minister for textiles and women and child development also tagged a tweet by BJP chief JP Nadda to question Rahul Gandhi’s opposition to farm laws.

She tweeted that Amethi’s farmers, fed up with the Congress, voted for the BJP in the last Lok Sabha polls.

The union minister also spoke of projects that had been started in Amethi since she became the local MP in 2019 and also talked about how the Yogi Adityanath government had also sanctioned big-ticket projects for Rae Bareli, too.

Apart from AIIMS-Rae Bareli, the Ganga Expressway, which would connect Meerut to Prayagraj, will pass through Rae Bareli.

In 2014, when Smrithi Irani lost the election to Rahul Gandhi and after that, she went back there over and over even after Deepak Singh, the Congress MLC had previously described Smriti as a “political tourist” in Amethi.

‘Honey, Moon please’: Ajmer man gifts plot on moon to his wife for wedding anniversary

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Many people dream of owning a piece of the Moon and that dream became a reality for Ajmer’s Sapna Anija when her husband Dharmendra Anija gifted her three acres of land on the celestial body on their wedding anniversary. “It was our wedding anniversary on December 24. I wanted to do something special for her. Everyone gifts earthly possessions like cars and jewellery, but I wanted to do something different. Therefore, I purchased land on the Moon for her,” Dharmendra Anija was quoted as saying by ANI.

Dharmendra bought the land through Luna Society International, a firm in New York City, USA. He said the process of purchasing it took about a year to complete. “I’m happy. I think I’m the first man in Rajasthan to buy land on the Moon,” he added.

Dharmendra’s wife Sapna said she never expected to receive such a special “out of the world” gift from her husband. “I’m extremely happy. I never expected he would gift me something so special. The party was organised by professional event organisers, and the setting was surreal. It felt like we are literally on the moon. There during the ceremony, he gifted me a framed certificate of the property document,” said Sapna.

A few months ago, Neeraj Kumar, a resident of Bodh Gaya, also bought one-acre land on the moon on his birthday, after getting inspired by actors Shahrukh Khan and late Sushant Singh Rajput.

Srinivasacharya Swami, the 92 year old scholar from Tamil Nadu who types his own books on the computer

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92 year old scholar T Srinivasacharya Swami recently earned praises and adulations after his efforts of writing a book using a computer by himself came to light. The scholar also found himself getting mentioned in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mann Ki Baat on Sunday (December 27).

Speaking about him in the 72nd edition of his radio show, ‘Mann ki baat’, Prime Minister Modi said, “92 years old T Srinivasacharya Swami Ji from Tamil Nadu is writing his book on the computer, that too, by typing himself. His inquisitiveness, self-confidence is still the same as his younger days. A Sanskrit and Tamil Scholar, he has written 16 spiritual books.”

“Realising that the process of writing and printing books has changed, he learned computer and necessary software at age of 86 years. His life is a clear example of the fact that life remains full of energy till the time inquisitiveness and urge to learn does not fade away,” he added.  The Prime Minister went on to say that the scholar’s life is a clear example of the fact that life remains full of energy till the time inquisitiveness and urge to learn does not fade away.

Shri T Srinivasacharya Swami is an expert in Agama Shastras (temple rituals/practices). He learnt Adobe Pagemaker at age of 86 and sits in front of the computer everyday typing in both Tamil and Sanskrit.

He studied the Vedas and served as a priest at the Sri Vedantadesikar Temple in Mylapore. He started his own press Sri Raghavasimham Press in the 1980s. His books have also been prescribed by the HR & CE Board for those studying to become priest. He also delivers religious discourses.

His habit of reading the old Sanskrit scripts led him to research further which resulted in his first prose book on the day-to-day temple ritual called Sri Padmatantra Prayogam.

He has been writing and printing his own books for the past few years. So far, he has written 16 books on various subjects based on Ancient Sanskrit texts. Srinivasacharya Swami is also proficient in reading  and composing in Grantham. He was hand-composing till 2000, after which he started using the computer and types his books.

Home Minister launches series of schemes in Manipur

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated several development projects in Manipur on Sunday. The Home Minister inaugurated the e-office and Thoubal Multipurpose Project (Thoubal Dam) in Imphal through virtual mode. He also laid the foundation stone of seven major development projects, including the Churachandpur Medical College, IT-SEZ at Mantripukhri, Manipur Bhawan in Dwarka, New Delhi and the Integrated Command and Control Center at Imphal. Union Minister for Development of North-Eastern Region, Dr Jitendra Singh, Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and other dignitaries were also present on the occasion.

Speaking on this occasion, Home Minister Amit Shah said this day marks an important milestone in the developmental journey of Manipur started under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Today many important projects are being started in a single day, including a Medical College at Churachandpur, IIIT and IT-SEZ at Mantripukhri, which will serve as a benchmark for the entire North East. Home Minister Shah said the State Police Headquarters and Smart City Integrated Center at Imphal will help in advancing Smart Governance. Home Minister Shah said the IIIT and IT-SEZ will connect the youth of Manipur with the world. After the creation of IT-SEZ, the GDP of Manipur will increase by Rs 4,600 crore annually and there will be employment generation for 44,000 people. With the establishment of the medical college, the youth of Manipur will come out as doctors and the health system of the state will be strengthened.

The Union Home Minister said under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the state Chief Minister has steered Manipur out of bandhs and blockades on the path of development. Modi is committed to the development of the entire North-East and the trust of the people here will never be compromised. Home Minsiter Shah said the Chief Minister of Manipur Biren Singh has done remarkable work in the last 3 years. There has not been a single shutdown in the last 3 years, which proves that people flourish under the rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party. CM Biren Singh has led Manipur on the path of development under the leadership of the Prime Minister and has given a new identity to Manipur.

Home Minister Amit Shah said the entire North- East is very close Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s heart, and the Prime Minister says Eastern India and Western India are the two arms of Mother India. Western India has developed, but without the development of Eastern India, India’s development is not possible. After 2014, there has been a huge amount of development in the North-East under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi. The North-East was previously known for separatism and different insurgent movements, but over the past six-and-a-half years many organizations, one after the other, have laid down their arms and the remaining ones too, having faith in the leadership of  Modi Ji, will join the mainstream.

(Source: PIB)

Rahul Gandhi says “arrivederci”, flies off to Italy ahead of party’s Foundation Day

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On the eve of Congress party’s foundation day, youth leader Rahul Gandhi has flown off to Milan in Italy reportedly in a Qatar airlines flight, for a ‘short personal visit. 

AICC spokesman Randeep Surjewala, as quoted by PTI, said, “Rahul Gandhi has left for a short personal visit abroad and will be away for a few days”.

In an article published in ThePrint, since 2015, Rahul Gandhi has travelled abroad at least 247 times — an average 62 trips in a year, which amounts to five a month. 

Gandhi, who had led the opposition parties to protest against the farm bill has again left the country just a few days after he met President Ram Nath Kovind where he and two different opposition delegations asked for the revocation of the three recently passed farm legislation.

Rahul Gandhi has a very poor track record in attending parliament and asking questions. Just a while back the Congress leader missed the debates in the parliament over the agricultural laws along with Sonia Gandhi citing the latter’s health issues.

In 2019, Rahul Gandhi had lost his seat in Amethi constituency to BJPs Smrithi Irani. This seat was party crown jewel and a short while later he left far foreign trip to an undisclosed location and for an undisclosed reason. 

He even called Prime Minister Narendra Modi “an incompetent man” and recently quipped, “Democracy…. which country are you talking about? There is no democracy in India. It is in your imagination but not in reality.

The serially absent leader also had sent out a tweet quoting a famous poem written by poet Dwarika Prasad Maheshwari which is about never quitting no matter how adverse the situation or opponent it.

Soon after the news broke, keywords like Italy and Milan became of the top trends on Twitter.

Also, just a few days ago party spokesperson Randeep Surjewala had said that 99.99 per cent of Congressmen still think Rahul Gandhi to be the right person to lead the party amid dissent by senior leaders demanding an organizational overhaul of the party.

Vladimir Putin to receive the country’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine

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Russia launched a voluntary vaccination programme of Russia-made Sputnik V vaccine earlier in December, starting with the most vulnerable groups in Moscow. President Vladimir Putin is to receive the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a Russian state TV channel on Sunday.

“He said he will be vaccinated, he made this decision and was waiting until all formalities are completed,” the spokesman was quoted as saying to Rossiya 1 TV Channel on its website.

People over the age of 60 may begin to apply for shots on Monday, Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on his website on Sunday, the day after the Russian health ministry said the vaccine was approved for use by elderly people after a separate trial.

Putin, 68, had said earlier that Sputnik V was effective and safe, seeing no reason for people not to be vaccinated, adding he was waiting until it became available. Since the start of the coronavirus outbreak in Russia, Putin has mainly worked remotely, held meetings via videolink and has limited travel. In August he said one of his daughters had taken part in the clinical trial of the vaccine and felt well afterwards.

Daylight robbery in Kodaikanal: Police and men claiming to be from health dept harass tourists, take fines (bribes) citing absurd reasons

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Tourists arriving at Kodaikanal complain that they are being made to put up with opaque rules and harassed to pay hefty bribes to enter the town.

Kodaikanal, the pretty hill station nestled in the fringes of Western Ghats in Dindigul district of Tamil Nadu has been witnessing a steady surge of tourists from across the country ever since the lockdown norms were released.

But many have complained that they were subjected to harassment by police constables and men pretending to be from health department, who along with some youth (most likely home guards) cordon off vehicles in the name of checking e-pass and take bribes.

A tourist from Kerala who had come to spend Christmas at the hills said that they were made to pay fine despite having a valid e-pass. Another tourist with a valid e-pass was made to pay ₹500 as ‘social distancing charge’.

Police Constable, ‘Health Department Official’ and youth gang cordoning off vehicles

The police constables and ‘department officials’ primarily target youngsters, people of other states and those vehicles that are not of Tamil Nadu registration. They ask them for e-pass and if they do have one, they demand ‘fine’ to be paid to enter the hill station with the amount ranging anywhere between ₹1000 – ₹5000. If not paid, they are called into a shady room and harassed further. Tourists from other states who refuse to pay fine are asked to stay in 20 days quarantine.

The main person supposedly an health department official coordinating

Even those tourists belonging to the state are not spared. A tourist from Trichy who wished to remain unidentified said that the police and men claiming to be from the health department seized the liquor he had purchased at a TASMAC Elite outlet in Trichy. “There is no rule that prohibits liquor purchased from a registered TASMAC outlet to be carried anywhere within the state. Even if a new rule was promulgated, there is no mention of it anywhere. No signboards exists in the place that says ‘liquor purchased from outside Kodaikanal would not be allowed’. This is just complete fraud. Whatever is going on here in the name of ‘checking is just sheer harassment and illegal.”, said the tourist.

He said that the police had asked him to deposit his liquor at the check-post and collect it while returning back. When asked for a receipt or acknowledgement, the police constable refused to give one stating that it might ‘cost his job’. On the day of his return, the tourist was told that the liquor had been submitted to the DSP’s office.

The issue has been reported in Malayalam media as many tourists from Kerala had raised concerns about the daylight robbery happening in the name of checking.

Many have also urged the Sub-Collector of Kodaikanal Sivaguru Prabakaran IAS to take action against the perpetrators.

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Karnataka: ASHA worker gives advice to wife of corona-infected, gets assaulted

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An Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) worker was allegedly assaulted by the wife of a COVID-19 infected person.

On December 21, Rajeevi BS had gone to the house of a coronavirus-infected individual in Kutrupdy village, Kadaba Taluk in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district. She was collecting the details of the people with whom the infected individual had come into contact, as part of her job following up on the contact-tracing of infected people. While doing so, the ASHA worker noticed several relatives visiting the house of the infected person. Shocked, she advised the infected person’s family members not to allow visitors and to maintain social distancing guidelines.

Enraged over this advice, the infected person’s wife assaulted Rajeevi with a broom.

Dakshina Kannada District Health Officer Dr Ramachandra Bairy said that a case had been registered against the assailant in the jurisdictional police station.

Kannur Airport staffer fired over Facebook post against Kerala CM

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A staffer at the Kannur International Airport Limited (KIAL) was dismissed from service allegedly over his Facebook post criticising the Kerala government.

Hailing the July Supreme Court verdict on the Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple in his post, KL Ramesh had lambasted the Kerala government and made some comments on Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. In the aftermath of the post, KIAL had sent him a show-cause notice and instituted an inquiry team to investigate the matter. However, Ramesh’s explanation in reply to the show-cause notice was found to be unsatisfactory. Subsequently, KIAL Managing Director V Thulasidas issued a termination order to Ramesh, who was at the time working in the Fire and Rescue Wing at the airport.

Several Facebook users too had raised objections against Ramesh’s comments, saying that he had insulted the Chief Minister in his Facebook post.

Muslim women who married Hindu men and changed religion seek police protection

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In two separate cases, where Muslim women had married Hindu men in the Bareilly district of Utter Pradesh, police protection had to be given after they converted to Hinduism.

Both marriages took place in Bareilly’s Hafizganj and Bahedi area. In one case police called the families of both sides to settle the matter amicably. However, a case of abduction and robbery was filed in the Bahedi area by the family of the Muslim woman against the Hindu man she had married.

The woman’s family asked the local authority that the provisions of the new anti-conversion law be included in the FIR.

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Rohit Singh Sajwan, told reporters, “The couples, in Hafizganj and in the Bahedi area, are adults. In both the cases, we have considered the girl’s statement. In the Hafizganj case, the couple visited a police station and sought security. Families of both sides were called to the station and the matter was settled. The family members of the girl have accepted the marriage and no case was filed.”

Sajwan said, “We are following the high court’s direction which says that two consenting adults in a relationship have the right to live together without any interference from their families.”

Their marriage was solemnised on Thursday (December 24), in a temple in the Rithora area with members of a Hindu outfit who had come forward in support of the couple.

In the Bahedi area, the Muslim woman, 29, ‘eloped’ with a Hindu man and later she released a video saying that she got married on 4 September in a temple after converting to Hinduism and has alleged that her parents have threatened to kill her.

The women in the video could be heard saying that if anything happens to her, her parents will be held responsible.

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