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Indian news channels banned in Nepal for reports about PM Oli getting honey-trapped by Chinese Ambassador

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The Commune
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In an unprecedented action, Nepal’s cable TV operators on Thursday (10 July), blocked all Indian news channels except Doordarshan after a news channel aired content that said that PM Oli was being honey-trapped by Chinese Ambassador to Nepal.

Nepal’s cable TV operators stopped broadcasting Indian news channels from their networks after the Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Hou Yanqi, meetings with senior Nepalese leaders.

However, this decision is not official and the ban on Indian news channels was not carried out by the communist-led Nepal government to have plausible deniability.

In New Delhi, Nepal’s Ambassador Nilambar Acharya expressed his displeasure about the Indian media’s coverage of the Chinese envoy’s recent meetings with senior Nepalese political leaders. He was particular about certain derogatory references in these reports.

Dhruv Sharma, vice-president of Mega Max TV cable network, said Indian news channels were resorting to “exaggerated and uncontrolled propaganda” about Nepal, especially “objectionable” reports that referred to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Chinese envoy Hou Yanqi.

Rajan Bhattarai, a member of the central committee of the ruling Nepal Communist Party and foreign affairs advisor to the prime minister, tweeted: “The news coming from Indian media against our PM and government after publication of new Map is condemnable. We completely reject their fabricated & fake reports. We urge them to respect Nepali government & people’s unified position on our sovereignty & national independence.”

It has been reported that the Chinese envoy in Kathmandu is practically running the government and has been instrumental in developing consensus between PM Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka “Prachanda”, who are seeking the ouster of Oli.

Oli has been accused of poor governance amid new map showing the Indian territories of Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura as part of Nepal, which has led to a diplomatic row with India.

Reports from Kathmandu suggest that China desperately needs Oli to remain the head of state so it can give colour to its machinations and create more trouble for India. For China, Nepal is another pawn in its quest to encircle India with its string of pearls.

China has been testing India for the last few years to see the extent to which it can push back India. It started with the Doklam standoff in 2017.  The current crises in Ladakh’s Galwan valley where 20 Indian soldiers were killed in an ambush is also seen as an expansionist move of China amidst the pandemic. Indian army in retaliation may have killed over 100 Chinese soldiers.

Indian news channels and a few intelligence and strategic experts have suggested that Nepal’s Prime Minister could be “honey-trapped” by the Chinese Ambassador.

Watch: Muslims in Bangladesh destroy fence of 200 year old Shiva temple

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The Commune
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The bamboo fencing of a 200 year old Shiva temple belonging to a minority Hindu family of was destroyed by land grabbers in Pirojpur district’s Dighirjan village in the Barisal division in Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Darpan reported.

In the video, a man in a blue t-shirt can be seen destroying the fence with a stick. A Hindu man can be heard saying “Viewers, see how Hindus are being persecuted here. We are staying here for ages but they are now destroying our fence. Look at the law and order situation in the country under the Awami League government”. In the middle, another man starts vandalising the property inspired by the blue t-shirt man’s actions.

Dipten Majumder, the owner of the land, is the principal of the local Shaheed Janani College. He is also the Vice-President of Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council.  The land of a 200-year-old Shiva temple that belongs to an aristocratic minority Hindu family (10%) and 11% of the family land was trespassed and vandalized by influential land grabbers.

It was reported that Tehsildar Mohammed Shahjahan Sheikh, Mohammed Hedayet Sheikh, and Mohammed Kamrul Sheikh destroyed the bamboo fence to illegally occupy the land.

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Despite Majumder’s efforts to stop, the landgrabbers went about destroying the fence. They even went on to abuse him and the members of his family, the report said.

Non-muslim minorities in Bangladesh and Pakistan are religiously persecuted on a daily basis. Here is a list of atrocities committed on them just in the month of May 2020.

The Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 was was passed by the Parliament of India on 11 December 2019 to fastrack the process of obtaining Indian citizenship to the religiously persecuted communities in these countries who entered India on/before December 31, 2015.

Dreaded gangster Vikas Dubey shot dead in encounter

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In a typical cop flick style, gangster Vikas Dubey who was earlier arrested for killing 8 policemen was shot dead in an encounter when he tried to flee after the car in which he was being brought back overturned on the highway.

The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) was bringing back the dreaded criminal from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh to Kanpur.

The convoy had reached Jhansi in the early hours of Friday. The ANI had tweeted at 6:34 AM that the convoy reached Kanpur.

It can be seen that rains/thundershowers were prevalent over several parts of Uttar Pradesh.

At around 7:20 AM, the ANI tweeted that one of the vehicles of the convoy of the (STF) that was bringing back Vikas Dubey overturned.

It was reported that gangster Vikas Dubey attempted to flee the car after it overturned. Shots were fired by the police and he was later rushed to a hospital.

Later the SP of Kanpur West confirmed that Vikas Dubey was shot dead in retaliatory firing. He said that Vikas Dubey attempted to flee by snatching pistol of the injured policemen after the car overturned. “The police tried to make him surrender, when he fired at the policemen. The police fired in retaliation and he was injured. He was later rushed to the hospital.” the SP said.

DMK’s Saidai Sadiq uses crass words, hurls casteist abuse and brazenly issues death threats to independent vlogger and DMK critic Maridhas

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The Commune
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DMK spokesperson Saidai Sadiq has put out a video against independent vlogger Maridhas in which he threatens to parade him naked and take him to task for uploading videos criticizing and exposing the DMK and its links with Tamil Nadu mainstream media on his Youtube channel Maridhas Answers.

In his video he starts by addressing Maridhas with the tags “Eccha Poriki” (a derogatory crass word in Tamil), “Modi’s drumbeater”, “Amit Shah’s slave” and a coolie supporting BJP.  He alleges that Maridhas earns his livelihood by criticizing the Karunanidhi family, the DMK and the Dravidian movement. He makes a derogatory reference to Maridha and his parents saying that Maridhas is a man who was conceived 3 months after his father’s death.

Saidai Siddiq says that he is putting this video attacking Maridhas as “things are going out of control in social media” as he keeps attacking Karunanidhi, MK Stalin, Udhayanidhi Stalin and media (Tamil Nadu mainstream media like News 7, News 18 Tamil Nadu, Puthiyathalaimurai).

He further attacks him by his caste saying “If he is a truly a man… If he is a man born into a good caste, let him openly reveal his caste, gotram, his organization, and tell why he is opposing the DMK”.

Sadiq asks why Maridhas did not speak about Jay Shah, Home Minister Amit Shah’s son who has allegedly earned ₹80,000 crores. He asks if he is “man enough” to discuss the status of the economy, the questions over late former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s death, the raids in Tamil Nadu ministers’ premises, IT raids at the Chief Secretariat, the suicides happening due to NEET, and the corruption of Tamil Nadu ministers.

“Why are you repeatedly attacking the DMK? We are not in power. We are in opposition. AIADMK is in power. Edappadi Palaniswami is acting as the ‘slave’ Chief Minister. Instead of posing questions at those in power, why is ‘ayokyan’ (evil) Maridhas questioning and criticizing the DMK?” Sadiq says.

He asks what is the agenda ‘given to’ Maridhas and why he is repeatedly attacking the DMK when there are issues like Sathankulam, corruption in the ruling regime, Anitha, etc.

The DMK spokesperson warns that he won’t be able to walk alive in Tamil Nadu if he keeps criticizing the DMK or its leaders.

“DMK is the asset of Tamil Nadu. Bear in mind what will happen if some person gets angry”, Sadiq warns.

He further casts aspersions about his source of funds for his food, his supposedly costly car, watch, etc and keeps asking who is behind him and why does he support (sombu thookuradhu) the RSS.

Maridhas on July 5 had released a video exposing the background and working of Tamil news channels like News 18 Tamil Nadu, News 7 and Puthiyathalaimurai. In response to this Saidai Sadiq asks “Who gave Maridhas the authority to question and criticize the journalists and media houses?”

He says that no film runs for long and that his time is near. “I don’t care if you file a police complaint against me for threatening you. People have woken up now. You are defaming the OBC, MBC, SC community. All of us are angry. It won’t take 5 minutes to put a case against you, arrest you. Everybody knows the reception that Subramanian Swamy got from AIADMK women’s wing. We are not responsible if anyone throws dung or eggs or pisses on him. Mind you, if you don’t stop your act we will immerse you in dung”, he says on an instigating note.

In light of these recent developments, Maridhas’ residence at Madurai has been given police protection round the clock.

MHRD says CBSE syllabus reduction is one-time, asks not to make uninformed comments

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The Commune
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Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) on Thursday (9 July) issued a clarification and requested all concerned to desist from commenting on the exclusion of some topics from the CBSE syllabus.

The MHRD issued a statement from its official twitter handle that read, “There has been a lot of uninformed commentary on the exclusion of some topics from #CBSESyllabus. The problem with these comments is that they resort to sensationalism by connecting topics selectively to portray a false narrative.”

The opposition had attacked the HRD ministry for the exclusion of chapters like secularism and nationalism from the syllabus for classes 9-12 for 2020-21.

However, the Ministry clarified that the exclusion is a one-time measure and would apply for exams in 2020-21 because of the covid-19 pandemic in the country.

As per the HRD, this decision was taken to reduce stress on students and the ministry took advice and recommendations of various experts including the suggestions received from educationists through MHRD’s #SyllabusForStudents2020 campaign.

The HRD ministry further said, “While it is easy to misconstrue exclusion of 3-4 topics like nationalism, local government, federalism, etc. and build a concocted narrative, a wider perusal of different subjects will show that this exclusion is happening across subjects”.

“It is our humble request: #Education is our sacred duty towards our children. Let us leave politics out of #education and make our politics more educated,” the ministry added.

Afghan people to decide the fate of peace process, not Taliban

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The Commune
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Image Credits: The Economist

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in a statement that he made on Wednesday (8 July) said, the fate of the peace process will be decided by the people of Afganistan, the TOLO news reported.

The Afghan government wants the Taliban to merge into the political system of Afganistan and Ghani said, “It is our responsibility to merge the Taliban in the structure of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan which will happen hopefully. But we must remember that the final decision about peace will be taken by the people of Afghanistan”.

The elected Afghan government was never involved when the talks were held between the Americans and the Taliban. However, there is a possibility of direct talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, sometime this month.

Conceding to the Taliban’s demand, the Afghan government, have so far released 4,015 Taliban prisoners and the process will continue.

The Taliban had previously stated no peace will be possible unless Kabul releases all the Taliban prisoners as per the deal the Islamic militant group signed with the US in February.

Also on Wednesday, members of the government peace negotiating team said, “There are different options, we are ready to go to Doha, we hope that the Taliban get prepared as soon as possible so that we can sit together and seek ways for peace and make peace for a common future.”

The 21-member peace negotiating team is currently working in four groups as part of their preparations for talks with the Taliban.

DMK man who is accused of murdering a young woman is still absconding

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The Commune
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Sasikala, a young woman working in a private company and a native of Nainaar Kuppam was sexually harassed and later killed by Devendran as she refused to give in to his sexual urges.

The DMK man along with his brother Purushotthaman had secretly filmed her and threatened to spread it on social media. Both of them reportedly tortured the woman to satisfy their sexual desires. Sasikala had refused to budge and warned them of telling her parents. Enraged, the DMK office bearer killed her and made it look like she committed suicide by hanging herself.

Initially, the incident was seen as a suicide however, Sasikala’s brother had raised doubts over her death and ffiled a complaint with the police.

On Sunday, the 39 year old Purushottaman surrendered at the Kancheepuram Superintendent of Police office.

However, Devendran, the DMK youth wing officer bearer is still absconding.

No heaven for NDTV’s Ravish Kumar and other ‘good non-Muslims’, Islamic evangelist Zakir Naik says

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The Commune
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Zakir Naik, the rabid Islamic evangelist whose speeches have inspired terrorist attacks in different parts of the world has said in a new video that NDTV’s Ravish Kumar and other ‘good non-Muslims’ will not go to Jannah (Muslim heaven).

In the video titled “Dr Zakir Naik on the fate of Ravish Kumar who stands for Muslims & Righteous Non-Muslims”, he says that despite their noble efforts and taking the side of Muslims, they will not find a place in Jannah. He goes on to explain how they do not deserve the Muslim heaven as they have not converted to Islam. He says that they will go to hell because of the crime of ‘shirk’ (idol worship) which is supposedly a bigger crime than any other crime.

Zakir Naik was responding to a question by one of his follower Furkan who has asked about what would happen to good non-Muslims in the country like Ravish Kumar who not only speak the truth and take the side of Muslims but also show the truth of ‘oppressors’.

“Not just him, there are many others from different professions who are like him. What will Allah do to him if they do not die as Muslims as they do not deserve equal punishment like other ‘bigger wrongdoers’,” Furkan asks Naik

Zakir Naik elaborates about how there are different levels within the Jannah (the paradise garden) and not all Muslims will be on the same level in the Jannah. Likewise, he says that there are different levels in hell too. He says that people like Ravish Kumar will go to a moderate hell but hell nevertheless as they have committed the sin of idol worship.

He goes further to say that embracing Islam is the ‘pass-mark’ required to go to Jannah. Virtues like honesty, charity will only fetch ‘5-10 marks’ in the exam for heaven, he says.

“Muslims with such virtues will get their additional 5-10 marks but any non-Muslim irrespective of his virtues will only go to hell”, Zakri Naik says.

He finally ends it by saying that he prays for people like Ravish to convert to Islam.

In essence, the Islamic evangelist asks kafir Ravish Kumar to go to hell.

Aavin launches special buttermilk to boost immunity in view of COVID

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The Commune
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Tamil Nadu’s milk cooperative Aavin has come out with new immunity boosting buttermilk called Aavin Shakthi that has ingredients like tulsi, ginger, jeera, pepper, curry leaves, lemon and turmeric.

The new formula has been provided by Tamil Nadu Medicinal Plant Farms and Herbal Medicine Corporation Limited (TAMPCOL), a corporation owned by Government of Tamil Nadu.

The Aavin Shakthi comes in 200 ml packs priced at ₹15.

Dairy Development Minister K.T. Rajendra Balaji launched the Aavin Shakthi along with other products in the presence of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami, Dairy Development Secretary K. Gopal and Aavin’s Managing Director M. Vallalar.

Along with buttermilk, Aavin also launched Aavin Long Life – a 500ml milk pack with 4.5% fat that can last upto 90 days and Aavin Tea Mate  – pasteurised full cream milk 6.5% fat aimed at tea shops.

New chocolate and mango flavoured lassi were also launched.

These new products will feature Aavin’s new mascot the ‘cute cow’.

Aavin’s Ambattur dairy will be manufacturing these products.

BRO To Unveil Six New Bridges Constructed In J&K Critical For The Army

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The Commune
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Image Credits: DNA India

India is all set to unveil six bridges constructed by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) in Jammu & Kashmir critical to our army, the FinancialExpress reported

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will unveil four bridges in Akhnoor sector and two in Jammu-Rajpura area constructed at a cost of ₹45 crore. “All bridges are around 300 to 100 metres approximately,” a senior Defence Ministry officer was quoted saying.

The present government at the Centre has been developing its long-neglected border infrastructure to help in the development of border villages and also for ready mobilization of troops.

The Ministry of Defence in a statement said, “Defence Minister Rajnath Singh reviewed the ongoing projects with DG BRO (Border Roads Organisation) and other senior officials at a meeting in South Block Thursday (9 July)”.

BRO has been on the forefront in the building of roads, bridges, tunnels and airfields in remote border areas and has also undertaken construction in friendly foreign countries like Bhutan, Myanmar, and Afghanistan in line with India’s overall strategic objectives.

BRO Director General Lieutenant General Harpal Singh has also briefed the Defence Minister on the progress of the under-construction 8.8-km-long Atal Rohtang Tunnel that is set for a September opening.

In June 2020, the government had approved an additional ₹1,691 crore for highway works by the BRO in Jammu & Kashmir and Uttarakhand which is critical for swift troop movement along the frontlines.

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