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Kisan Tehreek Jammu Kashmir Demands Repeal of ‘Anti-Farmer Laws’

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General Secretary J&K Kissan Tehreek Ghulam Nabi Malik Friday demanded repeal of anti-farmer laws. In a statement, he said these laws were aimed to help the corporate agri-businesses at the cost of poor farmer’s hard work. The issue is not the involvement of the private sector in agriculture but the BJP led Modi government is corporatizing agriculture. MSP is not given a constitutional guarantee. The farmers are pushed into a critical situation, the statement said. “The Modi government is pushing through various neo-liberal measures under the guise of the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat campaign’. All the measures announced for agriculture and rural infrastructure have actually given nothing much to the farmers,” it said. The Essential Commodities Act is amended hence corporates are al...

Sep102021 by News DeskNo Comments

22 Year Old Muslim Boy- Sole Breadwinner of the Family, Lynched to Death in U.P

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Samir Chaudhary, 22, a resident of Shamli district, Uttar Pradesh, was lynched to death by Hindu goons/attackers on Thursday evening, while he was returning home from the work.buy hard on oral jelly online https://www.adentalcare.com/wp-content/themes/medicare/languages/en/hard-on-oral-jelly.html no prescription As per the registered FIR, the incident took place on 09/09/2021 at around 6:00 pm. Samir like every day was returning home from work. As soon as Sameer alighted from the bus at the stand, Vatan Raj s/o Sopal, Vardan s/o, Pradeep alias Mintu, Akshay s/o Kullu, Raj s/o Rajesh, Ashish s/o Harish Chand, Lucky s/o Gabbar, Chintu alias Ayush Rana s/o Nidersh Rana, Bhonda s/o Bharat who were already present at the bus stand started thrashing him. They altogether attacked Samir with s...

Sep102021 by News DeskNo Comments

Amid Row Over Room for Namaz, BJP Leader Demands Space for Recitation of Hanuman Chalisa in Bihar Assembly

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Amid a row over allotment of a room in the new building of Jharkhand’s legislative assembly, BJP MLA a BJP MLA from Bihar’s Darbhanga district a similar arrangement in the Bihar Assembly to recite Hanuman Chalisa. BJP MLA Hari Bhushan Thakur said he will meet the assembly speaker soon in this regard. “If a room is allocated (in Jharkhand Assembly) to offer Namaz in the secular country, why shouldn’t there be room to chant ‘Hanuman Chalisa’? All sections of society are equal before the Constitution,” ANI quoted him saying. BJP MLA in Jharkhand had created a ruckus in the state’s assembly over allotment of a room for Namaz. They chanted ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and started chanting the Hanuman Chalisa at the premises. They also demanded a separate room for reading Hanuman Chalisa in the st...

Sep102021 by News DeskNo Comments

COVID-19 Third Wave: Govt enhances medical oxygen availability to 88,600 LPM in J&K

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As the Union Government is aiming at ramping up its medical oxygen production capacity to 15,000 tones per day in the country in view of the predicted third wave of Covid-19, Lt Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha has directed the officials to enhance medical oxygen generation capacity to 90,000 LPM in Jammu and Kashmir. According to the official figures available with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Jammu and Kashmir, currently generates around 88,600 LPM of medical oxygen, while the government so far has approved around 1,03,000 LPM oxygen generating units. Officials said that under the Health and Medical Education scheme state capex budget, a total of 37 oxygen generation units were approved, of which 34 plants are installed and are generating 31,375 LPM of medi...

Sep92021 by News DeskNo Comments

UP Police Books Journalist Rana Ayyub For Her Fundraising Campaigns

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On Tuesday, an FIR was filed against journalist Rana Ayyub in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad city for her fundraising campaigns for Covid-19 and flood relief work in Assam, Bihar and Maharashtra, as per a report by Live Law. The complaint was filed by a Hindutva group named Hindu IT Cell. The group alleged that Rana had collected money illegally through an online platform "in the name of charity." The complaint also mentioned that Rana had received foreign funds without the approval of the government. The charges against Ayyub were filed under Section 4 (punishment for money laundering) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act and Section 66D of the Information Technology Act (punishment for cheating by personation by using computer resources). The other sections included in the FI...

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Madhya Pradesh Government Includes Chapters on RSS Leaders in MBBS Course

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The Madhya Pradesh Government has introduced chapter on RSS Leaders in the MBBS Course from this academic year. The move to include profiles of RSS founder KB Hedgewar and ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyaya in the ethics part of the foundation course for the first-year MBBS students in Madhya Pradesh has come for sharp criticism from all quarters. The Student group Campus Front of India on Monday demanded removal of chapters on RSS leaders from the MBBS course saying that the BJP-led state government’s move to include RSS leaders’ profiles is highly condemnable. The CFI said “neither Hedgewar and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya nor their organisation RSS had contributed in any way to social development. Rather, they founded RSS, spouting ideology of hatred and extermination in India. ‘Brahmin...

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BJP Members Protest Over Allotment of Namaz Room in Jharkhand Assembly, Chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in the Assembly

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On Monday, the opposition BJP disrupted proceedings in the Jharkhand Assembly after they protested over allotment of a room for offering Namaz. As per a report by the PTI, BJP MLAs sat on the stairs at the entrance of the assembly before the session for the day began, chanting Hanuman Chalisa and 'Hare Rama' with placards. And as soon as the proceedings for the day began at the Assembly, the BJP members marched in chanting 'Jai Shri Ram.' The BJP members demanded to look back at the order pertaining to the allotment of the namaz room. The Speaker of the Jharkhand Assembly, Ravindra Nath Mahto, urged these members to go back to their seats. "You are good members. Please cooperate with the Chair," he appealed. However, since the row continued, the speaker adjourned the House t...

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Yogi Government Books Former Governer under Sedition Law

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Aziz Qureshi, the Former Uttar Pradesh Governor was on Sunday booked for sedition by Yogi Government in Uttar Pradesh for his alleged derogatory remarks against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The case was registered in the Civil Line police station of UP’s Rampur district. The former Governer has been accused of making derogatory remarks against the UP government and after he met Azam Khan’s family on Sunday. He also publicly termed the UP government a ‘devil’. On the cases filed against Azam Khan, he had said the fight is between the devil and a human. A BJP leader lodged a complaint against him in the Civil Lines police station and the police registered a case against Qureshi under sections 153-A, 153-B, 124-A and 505 (1) (b) of the IPC. "The former governor had come to meet Az...

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I Won’t Take Help of Any lawyer, Yasin Malik tells court Over 30-year Old twin Cases

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In twin cases of the 1990s, incarcerated chairman of banned Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Muhammad Yasin Malik appeared through video conferencing in the court stating that he would like to cross-examine the witnesses himself without taking assistance from any lawyer. The Special Court in Jammu today started cross-examination of witnesses in the three-decade-old cases of killing of four Indian Air Force personnel and the abduction of then Indian Home Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed”s daughter Dr. Rubaiya Sayeed. Among over a dozen accused only one accused and a witness was present while the Court deferred the cross-examination process when the lawyers of the accused cited the disturbances in Valley as a reason for the absence of their clients. Court sources told news agency Kashmi...

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‘Breats Cut off, Neck Slit’- Muslim Woman Allegedly Gang-raped in Delhi

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Rabiya Saifi, a civil defense officer associated with the office of Lajpat Nagar District Magistrate, was brutally murdered after allegedly being gang-raped in the national capital on 26 August. Her family members alleged that her both breasts were cut, her neck was slit and private parts were mutilated. Apart from that, there were several cut marks across her body. The police say a man identified as Nizamuddin has surrendered in connection with Rabiya’s murder. The man has claimed that he is her husband and killed her wife near Surajkund Pali Road, Faridabad, Haryana. An FIR has been lodged at Surajkund Police Station in this regard. But the family does not approve of the police version. They say functionaries of the Lajpat Nagar DM office may be involved in her murder because she w...