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Month: April 2022

Apr52022 by News DeskNo Comments
‘India needs him’: 78-year-old Uttarakhand woman transfers her property to Rahul Gandhi

‘India needs him’: 78-year-old Uttarakhand woman transfers her property to Rahul Gandhi

INDIA
A 78-year-old woman from Uttarakhand's Dehradun transferred all her property worth 50 lakhs and 10 Tola gold to Rahul Gandhi, stating that the country needs him. Pushpa Munjial has presented a will in the Dehradun court, giving the ownership title of her properties to Rahul Gandhi. She described Rahul Gandhi and his ideas as necessary for the country. She said she is very much influenced by the thoughts of Rahul Gandhi and that is why she is giving her property to him.
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Non-local commits ‘suicide’ in Sonamarg

Non-local commits ‘suicide’ in Sonamarg

REGIONAL
A non-local committed suicide by hanging himself in Shutkadi area of Sonamarg in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Tuesday. Police sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that a non-local whose identity is being ascertained allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself to death at Sheep Husbandry hut at Shutkadi area of Sonamarg. A police team along with Tehsildar Gund reached the spot. Tehsildar Gund Javaid Iqbal said that forensic experts have been called in to know about the cause of the death. (KNT)
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42 militants killed in past 3 months: DGP

42 militants killed in past 3 months: DGP

REGIONAL
“Attacks clear manifestation of savagery; civil society condemned these acts” Director General of Police Dilbagh Singh on Tuesday said that 42 militants were killed in the past three months. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a wreath laying ceremony of a paramilitary CRPF personnel who was killed in a militant attack in Srinagar on Monday, the DGP, according to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said that 42 militants have been killed in the past three months. Referring to the recent militant attacks on non-local labourers and CRPF personnel in Kashmir Valley, the police chief said these attacks are a clear manifestation of savagery and insanity. “Everyone including civil society condemned these attacks. We also condemn these attacks,” he said, adding that necessar...
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Centre considering removal of AFSPA from some parts of Jammu Kashmir: Report

Centre considering removal of AFSPA from some parts of Jammu Kashmir: Report

REGIONAL
The Modi-led government is considering the removal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 from some districts in Jammu Kashmir. Quoting sources India today reported that PM Narendra Modi may make an announcement regarding this during his visit scheduled later this month. Areas in J&K were brought under the AFSPA in September 1990 through a notification issued by the then state government, declaring the Kashmir valley a 'disturbed area' under Section 3 of the law. It was only in August 2001 that the then state government extended the scope of AFSPA to Jammu province. On March 31 of this year, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced a reduction in the number of areas in Nagaland, Assam and Manipur where AFSPA was in force. Meanwhile, a Times of India report quoted a s...
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PM Modi to visit J-K on April 24: BJP

PM Modi to visit J-K on April 24: BJP

OTHERS
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Jammu and Kashmir later this month, his first trip to the union territory since the abrogation of Article 370, quoting a senior BJP functionary PTI reported. He will address a conference of local body representatives in Samba on National Panchayati Raj Day on April 24, Jammu and Kashmir BJP General Secretary (Organisation) Ashok Kaul said while addressing a function of Kashmiri Pandits here. Kaul said efforts are being made for a meeting between the prime minister and representatives of the Kashmiri Pandit community so that they can raise their concerns with him. In August 2019, the Centre abrogated Jammu and Kashmir’s special status under Article 370 of the Constitution, and bifurcated it into union territories.
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Ayesha Takia, Husband ‘Singled out’, Harassed by security personnel at Goa Airport

Ayesha Takia, Husband ‘Singled out’, Harassed by security personnel at Goa Airport

INDIA
Famous Bollywood actor, Ayesha Takia and her husband Farhan Azmi took to social media to express their anguish after being stopped at Goa Airport. Ayesha was traveling along with her husband and son, Mikhail from Goa to Mumbai when the incident took place. The two were "Singled out" and faced immense harassment when an officer read their names from their boarding passes. A male officer also tried to touch the Bollywood female actor. Farhan Azmi who is also the son of Samajwadi Party leader took to his Twitter alleging, "I was boarding for Mumbai on @IndiGo6E 6386, 18:40 hrs flight & these racist officers R P Singh, A K Yadav, commander Rout & senior officer (SP category) Bahadur purposely singled me & my family (wife & son) immediately after they read out my name o...
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Situation in Karnataka turns grim: Hindu groups plan to broadcast Hindu prayers during Adhaan time

Situation in Karnataka turns grim: Hindu groups plan to broadcast Hindu prayers during Adhaan time

INDIA
The situation is turning more serious in Karnataka with Hindu organisations planning to broadcast Hindu prayers at the time of azaan in mosques. Hindu activist Bharath Shetty stated on Monday that the campaign would start in Anjaneya temple of Yelahanka in Bengaluru at 5 a.m., during the time of azaan. The campaign is planned throughout the state, he said. This being a sensitive issue, more so as Ramzan has just begun, the police is making elaborate security arrangements. The Hindu organisations are planning to broadcast “Om Namah Shivay”, “Jai Shri Ram” slogans and other devotional prayers exactly at the time of azaan in mosques. The Shri Ram Sena has stated that it had submitted a request to the authorities for stopping the use of loudspeakers at 5 a.m. The tehsildar and the ...
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At least three children on way to the school killed in Syrian bombing

At least three children on way to the school killed in Syrian bombing

INTERNATIONAL
At least three children on their way to the school were killed in northwestern Syria. The shelling targeted the village of Maaret al-Naasan in Idlib province, which is home to more than 3 million people, many of them internally displaced by the country's war which started in 2011. Hajj Ahmed, the principal at al-Amal school, said the attack happened at about 11:15 a.m. and that one of the students was in the ninth grade. Another was in the seventh grade and two were in the eighth grade. “They were on their way to start their school day and this strike hit," he said. The boys were killed about 50 meters (165 feet) away from the school and their blood-splattered school bags were still on the ground sometime after the shelling. Their bags had the markings of the U.N. children's ag...
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ED attaches commercial and agricultural plots in Jammu

ED attaches commercial and agricultural plots in Jammu

REGIONAL
The Enforcement Directorate attached immovable assets in the form of commercial and agricultural plots located at Narwal in Jammu and Bagla tehsil at Samba in a money laundering case. The assets were attached worth Rs. 11.25 crore and belonged to Gurdeep Singh son of Harnam Singh, resident of Channi Himmat, Jammu. ED informed that money laundering case was recorded against M/s Dutta Financers India Ltd and its Directors including Gurdeep Singh and others. The Enforcement Directorate further said that the investigation in the money laundering case began in January 2014 against Directors and promoters of Dutta Financers India Ltd on the basis of FIR registered by Gandhi Nagar Police Station under Sections 406, 409, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of RPC, 1932 , investigated by the Crim...
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