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Right-Wing Men Demolish Sai Baba Idol in Delhi- Call him ‘Jahadi Mullah’

INDIA

The followers of Sai Baba filed a complaint against demolition of his idol at a temple in Shahpur Jat area in New Delhi. A video clip has gone viral on social media, in which some Hindutva fanatics can be seen carrying out the demolition. While demolising his idol, they were saying that Sai Baba was a ”Muslims” and were using pejorative terms such as ”jihadi”, ”mullah” for him. The man, who is seen in the viral video supervising the demolition, has been seen with the hate preacher Yati Narsinganand Saraswati, who in recent days has gained notoriety after abusing Islam and Muslim. The idol breaker has been identified as Padam Panwar, who is a real estate businessman. According to Scroll.in, Narsinganand, who supported his follower Shirangi Yadav for thrashing a Muslim boy Asif at Dasn...

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Two Women Arrested in Connection with Attack on BJP Leader in Srinagar

OTHERS

Two women, both residents of Budgam, were arrested for their alleged involvement in the attack on the BJP leader’s residence last week in Srinagar outskirts. A police guard was killed when militants attacked the house of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mohammad Anwar Khan at Nowgam bypass in the outskirts of Srinagar city on April 1. Khan was not present in the house when the attack took place. Official sources said that after following various leads, police was able to arrest two girls, identified as Anjum Younis and Tabasum Maqbool, from Kanihama in the central Kashmir district of Budgam. “The girls were arrested for their alleged involvement in the attack,” they said. They said one of the accused is a nursing student. “The duo was arrested by Police Station Nowgam in con...

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Preparations being Finalized for Amarnath Yatra, Principal Secretary visits Pahalgam

ISLAMABAD

The Principal Secretary to Lieutenant Governor Nitishwar Kumar, accompanied by Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, P. K Pole visited Pahalgam and took stock of the arrangements being put in place for smooth conduct of Sh. Amarnath Ji Yatra 2021 in a meeting with the concerned officers here. At the outset, the Yatra Officer, Deputy Commissioner Anantnag, Dr. Piyush Singla briefed the principal Secretary about the Yatra Plan vis a vis security, accommodation, healthcare, food, drinking water and other facilities to be made available to the pilgrims. He also briefed him about the steps being taken to execute the plan smoothly for a successful pilgrimage to the Holy Cave. Assistant Yatra Officer, CEO PDA, Mushtaq Ahmad Simnani apprised the meeting about the facilities available on the Pa...

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‘Men Ran Naked as their Clothes Caught Fire’- After Escaping Persecution, Constant Fires Pose Challenge to Rohingya Community

REGIONAL

Mubashir Naik After anguish and mourning, a new feeling of dismay has gripped the Rohingya community after fifteen of their shelters were gutted in a mysterious ablaze in Jammu's Maratha mohalla area during the intervening night of Sunday and Monday. "Nobody lives in that house, there is no electricity in the makeshift hut where the fire emerged from," says a middle-aged Rohingya man who has been living in one of the many make-shift slum colonies by the persecuted Rohingya community. A few weeks back the community that took refuge in various parts of India to escape the persecution from the majority Buddhists and the Government in Myanmar was in the news when at least 170 of their members after a Government order were rounded up and lodged in a Sub Jail of Jammu in the Hiranagar area...

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Leaves of Doctors, Nurses Cancelled in Kashmir amid Spike in Covid 19 Cases

REGIONAL

Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad Rather, the director of health services in Kashmir, on Monday asked the chief medical officers and medical superintendents falling under the jurisdiction of directorate of health Kashmir to cancel the leaves of medical staff including doctors, nurses, paramedical staff and other official in view of Covid-19 upsurge. In an order a copy of which lies with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), director health Kashmir said that it is enjoined upon all the Chief Medical Officers/Medical Superintendents and other Territorial Offices falling within the jurisdiction of this Directorate that amid upsurge of the covid-19 pandemic, all the leaves either sanctioned or under consideration at Directorate level or at respective offices of CMO's and other DDO's in respect of do...

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JK Govt’s Back to Village Move a ‘Big Joke’, Nothing Happening on Ground: G.A Mir

REGIONAL

Jammu Kashmir PCC chief Ghulam Ahmed Mir, on Monday alleged the JK government’s much talked about “Back to Village program” as a big joke stating tall claims have been made by the government that remained confined to papers only while nothing happened on ground. Mir announced a 45-day long program under the title—“Congress Chali Panchayat Ki Aur” under which meetings will be held in every panchayat and village across the UT. “Let me tell you that former J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik announced B2V-1 met people and perhaps took away the papers along with him to Goa. After him, the former LG JK, GC Murmu announced B2V-2, he did same what Malik did. Now recently, LG Manoj Sinha launched B2V-3 and meetings were held in various parts of Kashmir and Jammu with tall claims of changing the map ...

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Covid 19- Number of Severely infected Patients Rising Drastically: DAK

REGIONAL

Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Monday said hospitals in Kashmir are witnessing a surge in severe cases of Covid-19 infection. “A few weeks ago, we had dropped in the number of severe cases, but over the last few days hospitals are seeing an increase in a number of seriously-ill Covid-19 patients, much like we saw last spring,” said DAK President and influenza expert Dr. Nisar-Ul-Hassan. “Patients in large numbers are coming to hospitals with severe bilateral pneumonia requiring oxygen, some needing intensive care and the support of ventilators to help them survive the respiratory distress. Our beds are full, oxygen points are occupied and we don’t have space in intensive care units.” “Patients are coming with bad lungs when it is difficult to salvage them. Not only the eld...

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India COVID-19 Update – More than One Lakh Test Positive, 478 Deaths in a Day

INDIA

Confronting the most exceedingly terrible rush of pandemic yet, India detailed in excess of 1,03,558 cases new COVID-19 cases just now, educated the Union Health Ministry on Monday. With this, India entered the rundown of nations, alongside the US, to report more than 1 lakh cases in a day. With these extra cases, the complete number of COVID-19 cases in the nation has arrived at 1,25,89,067. With 478 new passing, the loss of life in India has gone up to 1,65,101. There are 7,41,830 dynamic cases in the country as of now. Moreover, 52,847 individuals were released after recuperation on Saturday, taking the cross country recuperation count to 1,16,82,136. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 8,93,749 examples were tried on Sunday. A sum of 24,90,19,657...

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An Act of Defiance by Myanmar’s Beauty Queen

INTERNATIONAL

Han Lay, Miss Grand Myanmar, stood up a week ago against supposed outrages submitted by her nation's military, turned heads. "Today in my nation Myanmar, there are such countless individuals kicking the bucket," she said at the Miss Grand International 2020 occasion in Thailand. "Kindly assistance Myanmar. We need your pressing global assistance at the present time". Barely a month prior, Han Lay, who is 22, was in the city of Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city, challenging the military. The turmoil in Myanmar started two months prior when the military held onto control of the nation, fixing a majority rule political decision in which Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party won by an embarrassing margin. At the point when a huge number of in...

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Border CBM’s Need To Strengthen China’s Envoy

INTERNATIONAL

India and China need to fortify certainty building measures in line regions and stay away from a rehash of last year's line emergency, China's emissary to India Sun Weidong has said. "Support of harmony and quietness need our joint endeavors," Mr. Sun said. "The boundary questions must be settled through exchange and dealings... In the event of an occurrence, a convenient correspondence through military and discretionary channels ought to be attempted to evade any activity that may muddle or heighten the circumstance. We ought to reinforce certainty building measures to together keep up harmony and serenity in the line regions. The exercise of a year ago's line episode is significant and such occurrence ought not be rehashed." He offered the remarks in a "virtual discour...