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Church group in Karnataka calls for ‘liberating places from idol worship’

The All India Christian Minority Front operating in Karnataka, has published a list of things to ‘pray’ for which includes ‘freeing places from the strongholds of the devil, especially from idol worship’.

 

Led by a priest named Samuel Sandayaraj, the organization operates under the motto of ‘Life Together’. In another post, it has requested ‘all brothers and sisters who have confessed to the Lord Jesus’ to declare themselves as Christians during Census 2021 so that ‘real number of Christians in the country can be known’.

In India, many Christian converts do not declare themselves to be Christians in order to get reservation privileges.

Time and again, it has come to light that Christian evangelicals indulge in proselytization by spreading hatred against Hindus and Hinduism. Christian missionaries like these randomly erect crosses on hillocks, encroach the land, plant churches and go about proselytizing in the nearby villages converting gullible people to Christianity.

 

Kerala: CPM comrades issue death threat to BJP leader V Manivarnan’s election agent

 With local body elections in Kerala nearing, the Communist party workers have issued a death threat to RK Premdas chief election agent of BJP at Parapparam in Pinarayi.

Premdas is the chief election agent of BJP Pinarayi division candidate, V Manivarnan. 

The CPM comrades vandalized decorations made by the BJP workers and hurled abuses in front of the house of RK Premdas who is a retired Agriculture officer with the Kerala government.

It started after BJP workers going on a door to door campaign in Pinarayi, considered to be a “Red Stronghold” where no one has ever challenged the authority of the communists in the area.

V Manivarnan said that the CPM is resorting to violent methods after the BJP made inroads entering into the red fort of the party which also happens to be the native place of the incumbent Kerala Chief Minister, Pinarayi Vijayan.

The BJP has registered complaints with the Pinarayi police station after CPM comrades gave death threats.

However, Manivarnan said BJP workers will not bow down to the threat and intimidation tactics and called CPM a fasicst organisation without any respect for democracy and democratic ethics.

China weaponises Brahmaputra, to build a super dam over river

China which controls Tibet has announced that it will construct a ‘super’ dam on the Brahmaputra river, close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Tibet, reports Hindustan Times.

India, a lower riparian state of the Brahmaputra gets water supply for its north eastern states from the river which originates from what China calls the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). It flows into Arunachal Pradesh where it is called Siang and then enters the Indian state of Assam where it is called the Brahmaputra.

This new development which has been on the cards for a long time is being seen as the weaponisation of the cross-border rivers.

The dam is likely to be constructed in Medog county of TAR, close to the State of Arunachal Pradesh, which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claims as its own territory.

China has also built dams on the waters that enter the lower Mekong Delta that has left millions of people without access to fresh water, particularly in Vietnam. Such tactics are seen by analysts as a method used by China to force nations to accept its supremacy in Asia.

In TAR, the river is called Yarlung Zangbo and in June 2000, a dam burst in Tibet causing flash floods downstream in Arunachal Pradesh. Also, China has always refused to disclose hydrological information to India on the grounds that it was deemed to be “internal matters”.

As per reports, the ‘super’ dam will be capable of producing three times the hydropower generated by China’s Three Gorges Dam which is known for holding the largest installed hydropower generation capacity anywhere in the world.

Power Construction Corporation of China (Powerchina) signed a strategic cooperation agreement under the CCP’s 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) with the TAR Government and already initial work for the dam’s construction has started.

If this dam is built on the Brahmaputra, it will significantly decrease the quantity and quality of water flowing into India and will pose a great threat to agriculture, aquatic life and livelihoods downstream that could lead to a serious conflict.

Urmila Matondkar who once called Hinduism as the “most violent religion” set to join Shiv Sena

Former actor turned politician, Urmila Matondkar, who left the Congress party in September 2019, will be joining the Shiv Sena on Tuesday (1 December) and is all set to be nominated as a Member of Legislative Council (MLC) in the state, Press Trust of India has reported.

Matondkars name is part of twelve names which has been forwarded by the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government to the Governor for MLC nomination.

On Tuesday, Matondkar is expected to join the Shiv Sena in Uddhav Thackeray’s presence.

In the 2019 general elections, Matondkar fought on a Congress ticket from Mumbai North parliamentary constituency and lost the election by a margin of almost 4 lakh votes against Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Gopal Shetty.

In September of the same year, she had resigned from the Congress party accusing it of using her as a pawn for petty internal politics and also alleged, some of her own party people had sabotaged her campaign during the elections and they were rewarded later.

Matondkar who now joins the Shiv Sena had once said that Hinduism was the “most violent religion”. She said, “The religion which has been known for its religious tolerance has turned out to be the most violent religion of them all. What is sad is that this sort of terribly heinous actors have been applauded and are constantly going viral. People are made to believe this is how the society always was.”

However, she later clarified following a backlash and said that Hinduism was an epitome of peace but under the leadership, Prime Minister Narendra Modi it has turned out to be most violent of them all.

16 year old girl killed by one ‘Saiyed Ali’ in Uttar Pradesh for refusing his advances

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In a horrific incident, a 16-year-old girl was brutally murdered by a man named Saiyed Ali as the girl rejected his advances. The incident happened in Baghuda village bordering Sikandarpur in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district.

According to Hindi media reports, the victim was staying at her maternal grandfather’s house and had gone to harvest the crops in the field with her friends at around 4 pm. Saiyed Ali, a dailywage laborer, had followed her to the spot, pushed the girl to the ground and slit her throat.

Saiyed Ali fled the scene and threw his knife at a distance before the victim’s friends could reach for help. However, the villagers nabbed him and handed him over to the police.

Meanwhile, police have recorded the statement of the girl’s grandmother and her friends. Superintendent of Police Devendranath stated that Saiyed Ali had pursued the girl one-sided. Apparently, the girl, daughter of one Suresh Sahni, was an acquaintance of Ali but had stopped talking to him after he returned to his village from Delhi on November 12. Saiyed Ali assumed that the girl was in a relationship with another man and wanted to avenge it.

Police were deployed in the area amid tensions as the accused was a Muslim and the victim, a Hindu.

The incident comes just days after Ballia police arrested Imran, who had lured a Hindu girl into a love by hiding his religion. Imran tried to flee the village with the girl, hiding the fact that he belonged to a Muslim community. However, the villagers caught him and handed him over to the police.

With rising cases of love jihad, the Uttar Pradesh government has enacted a law to prevent such crimes. The first under this law case was registered on November 29 against a man named Owais Ahmed for attempting to forcibly convert a girl to Islam in Bareilly.

Woman who had miscarriage after CPM goons kicked her in the stomach is now BJP’s candidate for local body polls

Humiliated, attacked and kicked in the stomach by CPM goons in Kerala when she was pregnant, Jyotsna who had a miscarriage and had to abort her baby back then is now a BJP candidate for the local body polls to be held in the second week of December.

Back in January 2018, in Kerala’s Kozhikode district, Jyotsna who was four and half months into her pregnancy had to forcefully abort her baby after she was kicked by a Communist Party of India (Marxist) goon named Thamby during a scuffle between her husband and neighbours over a land boundary dispute. Seven CPI(M) workers were arrested in February 2018 for assaulting the pregnant woman, who lost her baby.

The then BJP State Chief Kummanam Rajasekharan issued a statement saying, “Under the Marxist regime, it seems even babies are not safe in wombs. Law and order is precarious and party workers are ruling the state”.

In this local body election, Jyotsna is contesting as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate in Koorachundu, Kerala. BJP National General Secretary (Organization) BL Santosh shared this information on Twitter.

Elections to 941 gram panchayats, 152 block panchayats, 14 district panchayats, 86 municipal councils, and 6 municipal corporations is slated to be held in three phases  on December 8, 10, and 14 with counting of votes happening on December 16.

The BJP’s rise in Kerala seems to be posing a serious challenge to the Communist regime. The party had put up an impressive performance in the 2015 local body elections winning 35 out of 100 seats in Thiruvananthapuram Corporation alone. This time the national party is looking forward to expand its footprints in other areas.

Govt launches Mission COVID Suraksha to accelerate Indian COVID-19 vaccine development

The Government of India (GOI) has announced the third stimulus package of ₹900 Crore for the “Mission COVID Suraksha- The Indian COVID-19 Vaccine Development Mission” which will be provided to the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) for Research & Development of Indian COVID-19 vaccines.

The COVID-19 Vaccine development Mission with end-to-end focus from preclinical development through clinical development and manufacturing and regulatory facilitation for deployment, would consolidate all available and funded resources towards an accelerated product development. This will help accelerate development of approximately 5-6 vaccine candidates and ensure that these are brought closer to licensure and introduction in market for consideration of regulatory authorities for introduction in public health systems, to combat further spread of COVID infection.

The important objectives of the fund will be accelerating pre-clinical& clinical development; licensure of COVID-19 vaccine candidates that are currently in clinical stages or ready to enter clinical stage of development, establishing clinical trial sites, and strengthening the existing immunoassay laboratories, central laboratories and suitable facilities for animal studies, production facilities and other testing facilities to support COVID-19 vaccine development. The other important objective will be supporting development of common harmonized protocols, trainings, data management systems, regulatory submissions, internal and external quality management systems and accreditations.   Capabilities for process development, cell line development and manufacturing of GMP batches for animal toxicology studies and clinical trials will also be supported under the Mission. A key element will be development of suitable Target Product Profile so that vaccines being introduced through the mission have preferred characteristics applicable for India.

Led by Department of Biotechnology and implemented by a dedicated Mission Implementation Unit at Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC),the existing activities under National Bio Pharma Mission (NBM) and Ind-CEPI Mission will provide complementary strengths to this Mission.

Phase-I of the COVID Suraksha Mission has been allotted ₹900 Crore for a period of 12 months.

A total of 10 vaccine candidates have been supported by Department of Biotechnology so far at both academia and industry and as on date, 5 vaccine candidates are in human trials including the Russian Vaccine Sputnik-V with at least 3 more in advanced stages of preclinical to enter human trials shortly.

Dr RenuSwarup, Secretary Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology   and Chairperson BIRAC said, “Mission COVID Suraksha is our targeted effort to enable development of indigenous, affordable and accessible vaccines for our country and will complement the National Mission of AtmanirbharBharat”.“India has exhibited enormous strength in vaccine manufacturing and through this National COVID Vaccine Mission, we are confident that our vaccine manufacturers will develop affordable and accessible vaccine not only for India but the world”, she added.

(Published from PIB)

Islamic cleric in WB says Muslims are real majority

The appeasement policies of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has given way for Islamist leaders to issue threats to the Hindus living in the state. 

In a provocative speech, Abbas Siddique, a radical Islamic cleric at Furfura Sharif, claimed that Muslims are the real majority constituting 35% of the population. “This is Bengal. We Muslims are 35% here. We are in majority. Because Adivasis, Mathuas, Dalits are not Hindus.”

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Political analyst say that this is the classic strategy deployed by Mamata – ‘Unite Muslims, Divide Hindus’ which gave her two electoral victories.

This is the same maulvi who when the COVID pandemic was stretching its tentacles across India said “May Allah send such a terrible virus to India that 10 to 20 to 50 crore people die in India.” He said that he does not mind whether he will live or die but will surely ‘take Hindus with him’.

It is to be noted that this Islamist cleric had earlier asked Mamata, why she had sent such girls to the parliament who were useless referring to TMC MPs Nusrat Jahan and Mimi Chakraborty.

Trouble for Mamata Banerjee is brewing with the likely prospect of Abbas joining hands with Asaduddin Owaisi who is the Amir of The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM). He was accused of dividing Muslim votes in Bihar and playing spoilsport to the Mahagathbandan alliance’s victory. 

Mamata is worried that the same might repeat in 2021 Bengal Assembly polls and is in a very delicate political situation as Abbas Siddique had initially asked Mamata for 50 seats. The two Islamic religious institutions that dominate West Bengal are the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind and Furfura Sharif. In the North, Jamiat is influential Furfura holds the sway in the south. In 2011, Furfura played an important role in Mamata’s accession to power.

With many important leaders and supporters of Mamata deserting TMC,owing to her high-handed behaviour and the possibility of her losing the Muslim vote bank, her return to power in 2021 looms large. 

Kerala: CPM’s sinister plans for local body polls exposed, “Vote before 11 AM, spread rumour that someone in the booth has COVID”

The local body elections in Kerala are scheduled to be held in three phases on December 8, 10, and 14 with counting of votes happening on December 16. Elections will happen for 941 gram panchayats, 152 block panchayats, 14 district panchayats, 86 municipal councils, and 6 municipal corporations. With the BJP expanding its base in the state, the CPM is afraid of losing its ground and is resorting to win the elections by hook or crook.

Recently, it was revealed that there were independent candidates with similar names to that of the BJP candidates in wards where the BJP has a higher chance of winning. To add to this, the Kerala State Election Commission was allotting the ‘rose’ symbol (which looks similar to ‘lotus’) to these independent candidates with names identical to the BJP candidate’s name in order to confuse the voter. According to a report by Deccan Herald, at least eleven wards in Thiruvananthapuram have independent candidates with their names identical to that of BJP’s candidates and rose flower as a symbol.

For instance, the BJP candidate for Kazhakoottam ward is Anu G Prabha. An independent candidate named Anu is contesting with the ‘rose’ symbol. Similarly, M S Archana with rose flower symbol is about to play spoilsport to BJP’s Archana Manikantan. There are similar namesake independent candidates contesting under the rose symbol at four other local body wards in Thiruvananthapuram district.

BJP Kerala President K. Surendran has alleged that it was a deliberate attempt by the Pinarayi Vijayan government and the pro-left employees at the State Election Commission to spoil the chances of BJP in the elections. The party has decided to move the Kerala High Court seeking a rearrangement of the order of candidates in the EVM.

Meanwhile, another ploy of the Communist party has come to light. In a video that is going viral on social media, a CPM functionary can be heard advising the cadres to cast their votes before 11 AM and spread a rumour that someone in the booth has COVID so that nobody else comes to vote for other parties.

“By 11 AM all our votes should be gone to our parties. The CPM has decided that all the votes should be cast by 10:00-10:30 AM. Thereafter, go to every house and spread a rumour that someone in the booth has COVID so that no one else comes to vote, especially oldies.”, the CPM functionary says.

The BJP’s rise in Kerala seems to be posing a serious challenge to the Communist regime. The party had put up an impressive performance in the 2015 local body elections winning 35 out of 100 seats in Thiruvananthapuram Corporation alone. This time the national party is looking forward to expand its footprints in other areas making the Communist party to resort to deploy sinister plans to arrest its growth.

Serum Institute all set to apply to DCGI to manufacture Covishield COVID-19 vaccine

The world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines, the Serum Institute of India (SSI) is going to apply for the emergency use authorisation for the Covishield COVID-19 vaccine developed by University of Oxford and AstraZeneca in two weeks, reports Economic Times.

Adar Poonawalla whos the chief executive officer (CEO) SII met with Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi, who had visited the facilities of the pharma companies which are working on the development of vaccines against the disease in Pune.

SII is in the process of applying to the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) and will submit data to the authority for analysis.

According to Poonawalla,  the Government would purchase as many as 30-40 crore doses of the Covishield vaccine from SII by June 2021.

It is clear that the vaccine will first be distributed in India, and thereafter in COVAX countries, which are mainly in Africa. He stated, “The UK and European markets are being taken care of by AstraZeneca and Oxford. Out priority is India and COVAX countries.”

Pooonawalla also said he was very impressed by the amazing knowledge of vaccines PM Modi has.