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1 person arrested from Karuppar Koottam gang

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The Commune
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The Central Crime Branch (CCB) has arrested M Senthil Vasan, 49-year old man part of Karuppar Koottam Youtube channel on Wednesday evening, two days after cases were registered from different quarters.

M Senthil Vasan is a resident of Velachery, and is a member of the YouTube channel Karuppar Kootam, run by Surendar Natarajan.

Earlier, the Tamil Nadu unit of the BJP had filed complaint after the issue gained traction. A complaint was filed by a BJP functionaries – RC Paul Kanakaraj, advocate wing’s head of BJP state unit stating that Surendar had posted videos against Hindu religion.

Complaints were filed by Tamil Nadu BJP Youth Wing President Vinoj P. Selvam and Aswathaman, a member of the party’s legal cell as well.

Members belonging to the Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) too had filed a complaint against the channel earlier.

The CCB registered a case under Sections 153, 153(A)(1)(a), 295(P), 505 (1)(b) and 505(2) of IPC on Monday.

Karuppar Koottam had abused Hindu God Murugan revered as the Tamil God in Tamil Nadu by making derogatory references to Kandhasashti Kavasam, a hymn dedicated to Lord Murugan.

Karuppar Koottam channel has been posting videos abusing Hindu Gods, Hindus and Brahmins for a long time under the garb of ‘rationalism’. In the series titled “Aabasa Puranam” (Porn Puranam), members of the Karuppar Kootam (especially Surendhar Natarajan) use vulgar language and trash-talk Hindu Gods like Murugan, Saraswathi, Brahma, etc.

Canon, Epson and Nikon live together in this Belagavi house

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Vaibavi Jayakumar
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Photographer couple Krupa and Ravi Hongal are trending on social media after building a giant DSLR shaped house in Belagavi, Karnataka, where they live with their sons who have been named Canon, Epson, and Nikon.

This house has been named ‘Click’ and is grabbing eyeballs on social media as well as in their town. The three-story house is located on Shastri Nagar. The couple has called it an expression of their passion, and have gone one step ahead and name their sons after DSLR brands.

The house’s exterior looks like a DSLR camera and features the names Canon, Epson, and Nikon on its front wall. It has two glass windows facing the road, each representing the viewfinder and camera lens respectively. The interiors also feature photography themed walls.

“I have been into photography since 1986. Building this house is a dream come true. My family opposed it but we remained adamant”, Ravi was reported telling ANI.

The couple also said that they had to borrow money from friends and relatives as well as sell their old house in order to build this one. One can say that this family is truly living a ‘picture perfect’ dream.

Lakshmi to return to her home in Manakula Vinayagar Temple

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Vaibavi Jayakumar
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Lakshmi, the elephant who was displaced from Manakula Vinayagar temple, has been sent back home following orders by Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanaswamy. It was confirmed on the official social media handle of the Union Territory on Monday.

Lakshmi was taken away from her home by PETA and the Animal Welfare Board, following accusations of mistreating her. They also booked the temple board under The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. Maneka Gandhi was also involved in this and had requested a safe or location for Lakshmi. This resulted in her forcible removal to the Krishi Vigyan Kendra, where her health had started deteriorating. Following this, the department has been ordered by the Chief Minister to return Lakshmi to the temple.

Mr Subrat Goswami from Gurugram, who was involved in the efforts to bring Lakshmi home, has confirmed to us that the order for her return has been passed and following the completion of certain formalities, she will return to the Manakula Vinayagar Temple. Sources told that she is expected to be back by Wednesday.

Notably, Lakshmi has been with the temple since 1997 when she was adopted by the temple after being abandoned by her mother and has become synonymous with Puducherry.

Source: OpIndia

China mindlessly ravages the biggest Tibetan Buddhist site in eastern Tibet

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Vaibavi Jayakumar
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The biggest Tibetan Buddhist site which is populated densely on the west bank of the river through Yarchen Gar near Eastern Tibet has been reduced to nothing by China. The Chinese government has reduced almost half of this region to bare ground, as reported by the London based NGO Free Tibet. The monks and nuns who use to inhabit this region have also been displaced from their homes.

The Yarchen Gar was established in 1985 and is a Buddhist monastery that had close to 10000 people living in it.

A wave of demolitions has been taking place in this region since August 2019. This is an attempt by Chinese communist party authorities to decimate the inhabitants of this area. Most recently about 70 nuns were evicted from there to their native county of Jomda, and at least 3500 have been removed on an overall basis.

Those who do not denounce the Dalai Lama and accept the Communist Party’s ideals are put in “re-education centre” (read concentration camps).

 

Earlier reports in 2019 said that the Chinese authorities closely monitor the monks’ movements and check on all outside visitors.

Now, homes have been demolished and hotels and parking lots have been constructed in their place in order to bring in more tourists from mainland China to this area.

(Source: Zee5, FreeTibet.org)

NID students can now apply for work permits in Germany

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Preetika Parashuraman
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The Commerce and Industry Minister announced that centres of National Institutes of Design (NID) have been included in the European country’s Arabin database. 

This step has made the application for work permits for NID students easier.

The Arabin database will list foreign degrees and higher education qualifications concerning German diplomas and degrees.

The foreign qualifications will be evaluated by the Central Office for Foreign Education.

This will be helpful for securing German Work Visa, Job Seekers Visa or the German Blue Card.

A foreign university-level qualifications in Germany is often an essential prerequisite for securing a German Work Visa, Job Seekers Visa or German Blue Card.

The success of visa application often depends on whether qualification acquired outside Germany is on par with an equivalent German qualification.

5 National Institutes of Design have been established in India for imparting high quality design education, according to the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade.

NID Ahmedabad (with campuses in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Bengaluru) commenced its activities in 1961. Four new NID’s in Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Assam, and Madhya Pradesh were built in the last few years.

These NIDs are declared Institutions of National Importance under the Act of Parliament and are internationally acclaimed premier design institutes.

Source: PTI

BJP leader kidnapped in J&K

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The Commune
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Mehrajudin Malla, a BJP worker and vice president of Watergram municipal council was kidnapped by some unknown people in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday morning, the Hindustan Times reported.

Citing local sources, it had reported that “some unknown people purportedly pushed Malla into a car and sped away”.

It is not known if he was provided with security cover.

BJP state spokesman Altaf Thakur was quoted saying “He is the vice-president Watergam Municipal Council. His father was also with BJP and acted as a general secretary. This family is loyal to the BJP for many years,”. He has blamed terrorists for the abduction of Malla.

Malla’s kidnapping abduction comes days after two BJP leaders resigned from the party.

Just last week, Waseem Bari, BJP former district president of Bandipore, was brutally killed, along with his father Basheer Ahmad and brother Suhail Basheer outside their shop.

J&K Police had had said that two outlawed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists were involved in the killing. Bari’s security personnel have been detained.

Assam floods wipe out Kaziranga National Park

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Preetika Parashuraman
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The Assam floods have devastated human life and wildlife drastically. 

The Kaziranga National Park has been wiped out due to the floods killing more than 60 animals.

Locals report seeing some animals wandering outside the park.

“Due to floods, 80% of Kaziranga National Park is submerged in water,” Director of Kaziranga National Park P Sivakumar said. He added that “so far, 66 animals have died and 170 animals rescued.”

According to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) , a female rhino calf was separated from her mother in the Agartoli range. However, staff of CWRC and Kaziranga National Park rescued it. As of now, it is under care in CWRC’s rescue centre.

Herd of elephants were seen making their way out of this massive puddle of water.

A tiger was spotted taking shelter under a shed.

 

The Assam State Management says that 27 out 33 districts are heavily flooded and more than 2700 villages are submerged in water.

Bloomberg reported that at least 77 people are dead and more than 2 million are displaced.

Source: ANI

Dogs to aid in detecting COVID-19 in Chile

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Preetika Parashuraman
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Chile’s Police are training their dogs to sniff people’s sweat to identify people who are infected by COVID-19. 

Currently, 3 golden retrievers and a labrador are being trained.

Dogs have more than 300 million olfactory receptors, and can detect smells 50 times better than humans.

With the ability to smell 250 people an hour, it has been decided to deploy dogs with an officer in places such as railway stations or airports.

Chile’s national police, the Carabineros, and specialists at the Universidad Catolica de Chile have come together to kickstart the training program and hope to send the dogs on field by the end of August.

“The virus has no smell, but rather the infection generates metabolic changes” which in turn leads to the release of a particular type of sweat “which is what the dog would detect,” said Fernando Mardones, a Universidad Catolica Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology.

He added that there is evidence that dogs can Mardones can detect diseases such as tuberculosis, parasite infections, and even early stages of cancer.

A British-based charity Medical Detection Dogs made use of the sharp sense of smell of dogs to identify human diseases. This was set up in 2008.

They had also trained canines in late March of this year to detect COVID-19.

He added that evidence already exists that dogs can detect diseases such as tuberculosis, parasite infections, and even early stages of cancer.

Canines can detect subtle changes in skin temperature, potentially making them useful in determining if a person has a fever.

Sweat samples taken from COVID-19 patients will be treated at the Universidad Catolica’s clinic.

The virus has killed over 11,000 people in Chile.

Source: AFP

The Indian connection to Hagia Sophia

By
Harsha Shekar
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For the sake of global peace and prosperity, the incumbent Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has revived the memories of brutality of the Ottoman Empire, by virtually converting the Church-turned-Mosque-turned Museum, Hagia Sophia into a Muslim place of worship thus turning Turkey into an Islamist Republic from an earlier version of it being atleast a namesake secular state. This shade of fanatism of the Turkish President stems from his ambitions to become a modern-day Khalifa of the Muslim world, reinvigorating the supremacy of the Ottoman Turks over other Muslim nations.

Hagia Sophia has now become a battleground between the Christian Right and the Muslim Right, and as far as India, a secular republic situated miles away is concerned, it is a trivial matter.

However, when we zoom into this triviality, we can understand the connections between India and the Hagia Sophia mosque.

The Hyderabad Nizam happens to have an intimate, historical connection with the current situation in Turkey. The Hyderabad Nizam and Turkish Caliphate – two of some of the world’s most orthodox Muslim families are deeply connected with the marital ties. The links dates to the days of Princess Niloufer of the Turkish Royal Family and Durru Shehvar, the daughter of Khalifa Abdul Majid. The Ottoman and Hyderabad Nizam’s family came close to each other during the days of the Khilafat Movement, which itself was started by Muslims in non-partitioned India to protest against the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

Maulana Shaukat Ali, the Khilafat Movement leader and his brother Maulana Mohammad Ali demanded that the Nizam of Hyderabad start paying a pension of 300 pounds a month to the Khalifa-in-exile. During 1924, Turkey had become a Republic and the Caliphate was abolished then. As a necessary corollary, the royal family was sent in exile. The Khalifa, Abdul Majid had settled down in Nice, a southern French Mediterranean port city. Nizam was the world’s richest man at the time and Islamist elements, including those in India were desperate to support and restore the Ottoman Caliphate. The Hyderabad Nizam and the Caliph thus shared a typical ruler-clergy relationship.

Seven years later, the Khalifa was looking for a match for his daughter, Durru Shehvar. Again, it was the Khilafat Movement leader who proposed the match between her and Azam Jah, the elder son of the seventh Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan who was then the richest man in the world. The story then had a twist. The marriage was not easy to pull off. Durru was the daughter of the Caliph-in-exile and thus sought by Muslim royals across the world. There was a disagreement regarding the Mehr (dowry in lieu of maintenance) amount and it was finally settled at 40,000 Pounds. With Shaukat Ali’s intervention, the Caliph offered for the same Mehr, his brother’s daughter Princess Niloufer in marriage to Nizam’s younger son Moazzam Jah.

Later, when Abdul Majid died and his daughter Durru Shehvar wanted to get him buried in the graveyard attached to the holy mosque in Madina, Niloufer had come to her cousin’s rescue. She had contacted Ghulam Mohammed, a former official in the Nizam’s Government, who was at the time the President of Pakistan to ensure that Majid got buried in Saudi Arabia. Till his very last, Nizam or its officials and the last Caliph of Islam maintained close ties. Hagia Sophia was turned into a museum under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a secular leader, in 1934. Today, the conversion of Hagia Sophia to a Mosque is virtually a revival of the Caliphate era, which in turn, has an intimate link with India. The conversion of the historical building might be gaining a colour of Christianity vs Islam, but the cathedral-turned-mosque-turned-museum-turned-mosque also has an India connection.

Inputs taken from: TFI Post

(Views expressed are the author’s own)

DRDO develops P7 Heavy Drop System for Indian Army Special Forces

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The Commune
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The Indian Army’s Para Commando Special Forces after a long wait will finally get its P7 Heavy Drop System developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation.

This is a fully indigenous system manufactured by L&T who makes the platform system, parachutes manufactured by Ordnance Factory.

The P7 Heavy Drop System is capable of para dropping military stores up to 7-ton weight class from IL 76 aircraft. This will help our special forces to operate in a hostile environment and difficult terrain more effectively.

This heavy drop system will also be useful for our infantry forces to receive emergency supplies during field operations.

P-7 Heavy Drop Parachute system

Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE) is a pioneer in the field of Aerial Delivery Systems, has designed and developed the Heavy Drop P-7 Parachute system to airdrop 9.5 Ton (Max all Up mass) class payload using IL 76 Aircraft.

The P-7 heavy drop system comprises of Parachute system and Platform system. The parachute system is a three stage system and is designed to airdrop a payload ranging from 5 ton to 9.5 ton.

In the first stage, Extractor Parachute pulls out the payload from aircraft and then initiates twin canopy of the auxiliary parachute system.

Auxiliary Parachutes pull and assist in the deployment of the Main Parachute and brake parachute system. The main parachute system is a cluster of five canopies. After deployment, the Main Parachute brings the payload to steady-state and safe Rate of Descent.

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