In another case of gross negligence, students of the Kasturba Gandhi School in Uttar Pradeshs Etah fell prey to food poisoning on Friday. What makes the case shocking was that the food poisoning was caused due to consumption of mid-day meal at the school. More than 40 students of the school have been admitted to a hospital after consuming the mid-day meal. Following the incident, Etah District Magistrate Amit Kishore has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the incident. This is not the first time that schools in Uttar Pradesh have been shown in bad light over mid-day meal scheme. In March last year, around 125 children were taken ill after consuming mid-day meal at a primary school in Belhari. They had consumed a meal of puri, chole and kheer after which they started vomiting and had loose motions. They were rushed to the district hospital and were stated to be out of danger. Four teachers were suspended, while services of five others terminated after the incident. In August, around 220 students fell ill after having puri and sabzi in the mid-day meal at a school in Sitapur. These incidents of negligence are not limited to Uttar Pradesh. In Thiruvananthapuram earlier…
Month: May 2019
Maharashtra farmers ‘reclaim’ land acquired by Nirav Modi’s firm
Farmers in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra today claimed that fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi, prime accused in the alleged Rs 11,400 crore Punjab National Bank fraud, had acquired their lands at less than prevailing rates. A group of over 200 farmers, who arrived in bullock carts at the tract of land at Khandala in Karjat tehsil, ploughed a part of it using a tractor as a symbolic reclaiming of possession. They will start cultivation on the full 125 acres of the acquired land soon, farmers said. Todays protest was meant to show that farmers have reclaimed their land, which was acquired on behalf of Nirav Modis Firestar company some years ago, they said. The land is among the properties attached by the Enforcement Directorate as a part of its probe against Modi who has fled the country, said a farmer activist. Protesting farmers also carried the tricolour and portraits of King Shivaji and Dr B R Ambedkar. They carried the banner of Kaali Aai Mukti Sangram, a local farmers organisation. The land was acquired from farmers at around Rs 15,000 per acre, whereas the government rate for land compensation in the area is around Rs 20 lakh per acre now, lawyer…
SC verdict on SC/ST Act: Govt holding hectic parleys on seeking review
Hectic parleys are being held by the government on seeking review of the Supreme Court verdict diluting provisions of SC\/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, amid indications that the ministry of social justice is in favour of the move. The ministry feels that the apex court order may defeat the real purpose of the law which is to ensure swift justice for victims of atrocities against the SC\/ST communities. According to sources, Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawarchand Gehlot recently met BJP chief Amit Shah, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Finance Arun Jaitley to discuss the matter. Jaitley been tasked with taking a final decision in this regard. The social justice ministry is likely to seek the opinion of the law ministry regarding it, a source in the ministry said. The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) and the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) have also conveyed their views and demanded a review of the verdict. The Supreme Court had on March 20 diluted stringent provisions mandating immediate arrest under the SC\/ST Prevention of Atrocities (POA) Act. It had taken note of the rampant misuse of the stringent Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities)…
This fear grips BJP, Congress, JD(S) and other parties ahead of Karnataka election 2018
Mainstream political parties like the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fear a lower turnout in the Karnataka assembly elections as voting is scheduled for May 12 – a second Saturday when all government offices and quite a few in the private sector are closed. It would have been better if polling was on a working day than on a weekend, which can affect voter participation, especially in urban constituencies where people tend to get away because the following day is a Sunday, BJP state spokesman Vamanacharya told IANS. The Election Commission on March 27 announced the poll schedule for the 224 assembly segments across the southern state in mid-summer when the average day temperature is expected to be above 40 degrees Celsius. As in the previous assembly election, held on May 5, 2013, polling will be in a single phase this time too, and the vote count is scheduled for May 15. Voting on a week day would have been convenient to lakhs of working people, including thousands of techies in this tech hub as they get a paid holiday to exercise their democratic right, asserted Vamanacharya. For instance, most of the 250,000 IT professionals working in Bengaluru…
Bombay HC protects social activists Teesta Setalvad from arrest till May 2
The Bombay High Court today ordered no arrests of social activists Teesta Setalvad and her associate Javed Anand till May 2 in a criminal case lodged against them by the Gujarat police for alleged misappropriation of funds. A bench of Justice Revati Mohite-Dere gave an interim protection to the from arrest till May 2 on their plea for tarnsit anticipatory bail, fuiled yesterday. While allowing their plea, the bench asked them to appear the probe agency tomorrow for recording their statements and later, as and when required. The Ahmedabad Crime Branch had last week lodged a complaint against Setalvad and Anand, alleging that through their NGO Sabrang Trust, they had fraudulently secured central government funds to the tune of Rs 1.4 crore between 2008 and 2013. According to the complaint on the basis of which the case was lodged, the funds had been secured to provide education to poor children in Gujarat and Maharashtra and to help victims of the 2002 post- Godhra riots in Gujarat, but were misappropriated or used for other purposes. The case was registered against Setalvad and Anand under various sections, including 403 (dishonest misappropriation of property), 406 (criminal breach of trust), and 409 (criminal breach…
China says it wants to stick to ‘right path’ of bilateral ties with India
China wants to stick to the right path of bilateral ties with India, explore new areas for cooperation and ensure sound and steady development of the relationship, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said today. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunyings remarks came during a media briefing as she replied to a question on a series of high-level meetings between the two countries. After last years stand-off in Dokalam, India and China have stepped up dialogue at various levels to reset the ties. Hua said Chinas ties with India have seen new progress and all round cooperation this year. This year under the guidance of the two leaders (Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi), China and India relations have been developing with a sound momentum, Hua said. China attaches great importance to developing relations with India and we would like to work together to implement the consensus reached by leaders, stick to the right path of the bilateral ties, accumulate more positive energy, explore new areas for cooperation and ensure sound and steady development of bilateral ties, she said. We have seen close exchanges at all levels and new progress in all round cooperation, Hua said without elaborating. On April…
Ram Navami clashes in West Bengal: Governor K N Tripathi appeals for peace post violence
In the wake of violence on the occasion of Ram Navami, West Bengal Governor K N Tripathi today appealed for peace and said everybody should perform their religious practices peacefully. Tripathis comment comes in the backdrop of violence in various parts of the state over the celebration of Ram Navami on Sunday. There should not be any riot or violence. And people should perform their religious practice peacefully, Tripathi told PTI. When asked whether he has any piece of advice for the state government, Tripathi said, whatever I have to say to the state government, Ill communicate separately. Heavy police force was deployed in the Raniganj area of West Bengal yesterday after clashes broke out between two groups on Monday over a Ram Navami procession, killing one person and injuring two police officers, a district official said. In another incident, one person was killed and five police personnel were injured in group clash in Purulia. Sword-wielding BJP supporters had defied the state governments ban on armed rallies on Ram Navami. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had directed the director general of police to instruct all superintendents of police to take strong action against those who carried arms in the rallies.
Major fire at ISRO research centre in Ahmedabad
A major fire broke out at a research facility located in the Space Application Centre (SAC) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) here this afternoon, officials said. Nobody was injured in the blaze, which was doused within a couple of hours, they said. A major fire broke out inside a building which is used as an antenna testing laboratory (for satellites). It is located inside the sprawling SAC campus in the Satellite area of the city. As many as 27 fire tenders were pressed into service, Additional Chief Fire Officer Rajesh Bhatt said. A senior official of the Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Services (AFES) said the fire was reported around 2 pm and it took almost two hours to douse the flames. The exact cause of the fire was not yet known, the fire official added. According to Bhatt, the blaze spread quickly due to the presence of U-Foam material on the labs walls. Several senior government officials, including Ahmedabad Collector Vikrant Pandey and Joint Commissioner of Police K L N Rao, along with AFES officials visited the fire-hit unit. Pandey said a team of forensic experts would ascertain the cause of the fire. Since it was lunch time,…
Delhi government cancels 9 advisors to ministers after Centre direction, AAP cries foul; top highlights
The Delhi government had to cancel the appointment of 9 key advisors to ministers following a direction from the Union Home Ministry. The city government has also said that creation of such posts was void. The general administration department (GAD) in its order said, The MHA clarified that Therefore, creation of posts by Delhi cabinet for accommodating these appointees is void ab-initio being done by an agency not competent under the law to do so. Here are top highlights In a letter to GAD on April 10, the MHA said no approval of the central government was taken for creation of the posts to which the nine advisors were appointed on a co-terminus basis. According to a GAD order issued today, the MHA said these were not on the list of approved posts. Asked about the move, Deputy Secretary, GAD, Promila Mitra, who signed the order, said she was not authorised to speak on the matter. According to reports, the MHA directions came after the services department wrote to it seeking to know the legal status of the appointment of the nine advisors. No prior approval of the central government has been taken for creation of the posts on which…
UP Shocker! First denied ambulance, man forced to carry wife’s body on cart after Mainpuri hospital denies hearse van
After being allegedly denied an ambulance, a 37-year-old man had to carry his sick wife on a handcart for around 8 kilometres to reach Maharaja Tej Singh District Hospital in Mainpuri on Monday. However, the woman was declared brought dead on reaching the hospital. His ordeal, however, did not end there. According to The Indian Express, the husband was denied a hearse van to carry his wifes mortal remains and had to use the same hand cart which he uses to sell vegetables to bring his wifes body home. Kanhaiya Lal said his wife Soni (35) had complained of breathlessness on Monday. But when it did not arrive, I took her to the hospital in my handcart. The doctors said she had died. When I requested the hospital for a vehicle to return with the body, no one responded On being asked whether Lal had called up the government He, however, said that the man did request for an ambulance while returning home, but did not get. Hospital employees, who should have guided him on how to get a hearse van, did not do so, After the probe, hospital eye surgeon Dr Praveen Kumar Jha, who is also the nodal…
‘Nirav Modi’ grabs eyeballs at Mumbai’s famous Elephant Parade at Worli Sea face
Mumbais famous Elephant Parade at Worli Sea face, witnessed a unique elephant structure of absconding diamond businessman Nirav Modi. A traction of crowd gathered to witness the biggest Elephant Parade with Save the elephant species being the main message. The parade showcases many kinds of elephant statues on display. Amidst the showcase of numerous elephant structure, a special Nirav Modi Elephant is grabbing eyeballs. The elephant has been names Ratnaraj. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated the first edition of the Elephant Parade India, where 101 elephant sculptures by designers are on display at the Gateway of India in Mumbai. The London edition of the Elephant Parade in 2010 became its biggest public art exhibition and raised over four million pounds for elephant conservation. The organisers have now come to Mumbai and hope the city will be able to match that performance and help raise the required funds to ensure the Asiatic elephants are protected well. 20 percent of the net profit collected from the parade is donated to elephant welfare and conservation projects.
Delhi Assembly passes resolution on MLALAD works execution
The Delhi Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution directing the state government to formulate strict guidelines for the execution of works under Member of Legislative Assembly Local Area Development (MLALAD) funds. No executing agency should take more than 21 days for providing an estimate of work requested from an MLA, and if there is any other proposal for the same work by other entities, the MLA concerned must be informed within seven days, the resolution said. The request and process of allocation of funds to an executing agency should not take more than 14 working days, it added. It further said that the request or process of preparing the Notice Inviting Tender (NIT) and inviting tender should not take more than 30 days from the day of receipt of funds. The guidelines in the resolution also state that the award of work should not take more than 14 days after finalisation of bids and that the execution of work after the award should not take more than 90 days. The savings in the MLALAD work should be returned to the Urban Development Department within 90 days of completion of work, as per the resolution. If any agency applies for a…
CBSE paper leak: NHRC sends notices to board chairperson, HRD ministry, Delhi police chief
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) today sent notices to the HRD ministry, the CBSE, and the Delhi police chief over the leak of question papers of two subjects, seeking a detailed report in four weeks. The NHRC has also observed that such instances would adversely affect the credibility of the institutions in which the students have absolute faith. The notices have been sent to the Secretary of the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, chairperson of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the commissioner of Delhi Police, seeking a detailed report in four weeks, a senior NHRC official said. The HRD ministry is also expected to inform the Commission about the steps taken regarding counseling of the aggrieved students and to make the process of conducting board examinations trustworthy and foolproof to avoid recurrence of such painful incidents in future, the rights panel said in a statement. The HRD ministry had last week announced that the re-examination of the CBSE Class 12 economics paper would be held on April 25, while the Class 10 mathematics re-test, if required, would be conducted only for Delhi-NCR and Haryana in July. Reportedly, two cases have been registered on charges of…
Prison without bars: Why open prisons should be the norm?
Adinath, an idealist jailor, scrimmages a prisoner who wants to kill him. However, he is vigilant enough to not use a lathi to neutralise his assailant. Instead, he reaches out for a bell to call for help. The two-minute-long shot is one of the most telling scenes of V Shantaram The prisoner is one of the six inmates picked by Adinath (played by Shantaram himself) as part of a social experiment to reform them outside the confines of the prison. The film drew inspiration from the It portrayed the rehabilitation of these prisoners through hard work and the kind guidance of the jailor, and not brute force. Shantaram Sadly, things did not turn out that way. It was only six decades later that the concept of open prisons (a jail with minimum security, functioning on the self-discipline of the inmates) finally got a new lease of life in the country. In December 2017, the Supreme Court directed the Centre to hold meetings with prison officials across India to set up more open prisons. This directive was in response to a PIL filed by advocate Gaurav Agarwal on the poor condition of prisons in India. The court also asked the Centre…
Third Front 2019: Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao meets Deve Gowda in Bengaluru
Continuing his efforts for the formation of a third front, Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao met Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) chief H D Devegowda today in Bengaluru. The Telangana CM, who is strongly pitching for the federal front, left for Bengaluru around 10:30 in the morning from the Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad. Rao is on a three-day visit to the city and will discuss the possibility of a third front in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief will met Deve Gowda at latter Rao will also meet Deve Gowdas son and former Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy. This is not the first time that K Chandrashekhar Rao is trying to meet political leaders for the third front at the national level to bring in a qualitative change in national politics. The TRS supremo had last month met West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamta Banerjee in Kolkata. KCR had said that he would like to form a federal front of like-minded parties to constitute an alternative political front against BJP and the Congress. The Telangana CM had said on March 3 that people are…
Shiv Sena slams PM Modi for speaking on domestic issues abroad and coming back empty-handed from UK
The Shiv Sena today denounced Prime Minister Narendra Modi for speaking about domestic issues on foreign soil and said he is coming back empty-handed from the UK which has given shelter to fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya. The Uddhav Thackeray-led party said one may have a deep dislike for the Congress or the Gandhi family, but speaking about domestic issues on foreign land does not befit anybody. The regional party said Modi should follow the advice of his predecessor Manmohan Singh and speak more often. (Former PM) Manmohan Singh has advised Modi to speak more often and to speak on time. He has also said that Modis advice to him when he was the prime minister is now applicable to him as well, the Sena said in an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamana. The former PM was quoted as saying that Modi should follow the advice he gave him when he was in office – that is to speak more. The advice given by Manmohan Singh is only fair. Except bhakts (Modi supporters), who are flying in the air, the whole country feels the same. However, what Manmohan Singh said was only a half truth. Modi may become a mauni baba…
Rajasthan horror! 6 men gang-rape woman, upload video on social media
A 40-year-old woman was raped by six youths in Rajasthans Baran district who filmed the crime and uploaded the video on social media, police said today. The crime was committed around a month ago but the victim lodged a report in Mahila police station of Baran district after she came to know about the video being uploaded on social media, they said. Police have booked the six persons under section 376 of the IPC and various sections of the IT Act but none of the accused have been arrested so far. The woman, who works as a labourer at a roadside dhaba in Kota, lodged a complaint on March 5 against the six youths, SHO Mahila police station, Baran Anis Ahamed said. The victim, in her complaint, alleged that around a month ago, when she reached Baran to visit her in-laws family, one of the accused, Chetan Meena (21), who was also familiar to her, took her on his motorbike to an isolated place near Samaspura village in pretext of dropping her to her destination. Five others joined Meena and they took turns to rape her, the victim said, alleging that the accused also filmed the crime on mobile. They…
More than 100 Left organisations to hold pan India protest against Narendra Modi govt on May 23
More than 100 Left-affiliated organisations will hold marches in all state capitals on May 23 to protest the Centres policies. The Jan Ekta Jan Adhikar Andolan (JEJAA), an umbrella organisation consisting of trade unions, peasant organisations, agricultural workers, state and central government employees, bank and insurance workers, college and university teachers, students, women, dalits, adivasis and environmentalists, would observe Protest Day on May 23. Taking further the recent struggle of the peasantry and the workers and various other sections of the people, the JEJAA has decided to launch struggle on the occasion of the 4th anniversary of the NDA government, Hannan Mollah, member of the coordination committee has told reporters. On May 23, the JEJAA will organise massive mobilisation at all state capitals including Delhi to observe the protest day, Mollah said. The protest day would mark the launch of a series of campaigns with the aim of making the government accountable for the devastating impact of its policies and betraying the people, especially the women and youth, by its false promises, the leaders of the coordination committee said. After the successful farmers march in Maharashtra organised by the All Indian Kisan Sabha (AIKS), which is also part of the…
UP, Bihar Lok Sabha by-elections: Moderate to low polling in Gorakhpur, Phulpur, Araria
Moderate to low polling was today recorded in the Lok Sabha by-elections in Uttar Pradeshs Gorakhpur and Phulpur and Bihars Araria, being viewed as yet another test for the BJP ahead of the general elections next year. While 43 per cent of the voters exercised their franchise in Gorakhpur, where UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath cast his ballot, the turnout in Phulpur was lower at 37.39 per cent, the state election office said. Fifty-seven per cent polling was registered in Araria, Bihars Chief Electoral Officer Ajay V Nayak said. In the Bhabua and Jehanabad Assembly constituencies in Bihar, where bypolls were also held, the voter turnout was 54.03 per cent and 50.06 per cent respectively, he said. A poll official in UP said there were complaints of electronic voting machine malfunctioning at a few booths, but the EVMs were promptly replaced without affecting the polling. The reason behind the lower than expected turnout in the high-stakes polls in UP, the countrys electorally most significant state with 80 Lok Sabha seats, was said to be a lack of enthusiasm among voters who are now looking forward to the general elections next year. The bypolls were necessitated after Adityanath and Deputy Chief…
Pakistan, India in talks over harassment incidents, says Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif
Pakistan and India are in talks over the issue of alleged harassment of Pakistani diplomats stationed in New Delhi, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has said. Pakistan has claimed that there had been as many as 26 instances of harassment and intimidation of its diplomats since March 7, following which Islamabad called back its high commissioner Sohail Mahmood for discussions on the issue. He returned to New Delhi on March 22. Higher authorities in both India and Pakistan are in talks to handle harassment incidents of Pakistan High Commission, Asif told Associated Press of Pakistan yesterday. He hoped that efforts in this regard would bear fruit and relationship between the two neighbouring countries would improve, the report said. The foreign minister also said that Pakistan is keen on establishing cordial relations with its neighbouring countries on the basis of equality for maintaining regional harmony. Our top priority is establishing peace in the country as well as in the region in larger interest of the people, he said. Asif also said that Pakistan was making all-out efforts to develop healthy and durable relations with Afghanistan, Iran, India, Russia, and other countries of the region. He said Pakistan wants peace in Afghanistan. We…
Parliament logjam to end? Government to reach out to opposition to bring peace
As Parliament remained paralyzed for the 14th consecutive day, the government on Thursday decided to reach out to the opposition parties to ensure smooth functioning so that the pending bills get passed in both the Houses. Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Vijay Goel, who has been assigned the task to talking to opposition leaders, met Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad for a brief discussion. He will again meet him to discuss the issues in detail. The Minister said he would also meet leaders of the TDP, AIADMK, TRS and other parties. Ever since the second phase of Parliaments Budget session began on March 5, disruptions have crippled both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on a number of issues including demand for special status to Andhra Pradesh, Punjab National Bank fraud case and setting up of Cauvery Management Board. The Congress, the Trinamool and some other opposition parties have been protesting against the banking fraud blamed on absconding jeweller Nirav Modi and his associates, while the TDP and the YSR Congress have been demonstrating for special status to Andhra Pradesh. The AIADMK wants a board for the management of the disputed Cauvery river water….
UP CM Yogi Adityanath ridicules SP-BSP bonhomie, says some people are ‘circus lions’
Ridiculing the new found SP-BSP bonhomie in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today said some people have become circus lions and were surviving on leftovers. The chief minister targeted the opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) during the Budget discussion in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. Some people have become circus lions, who do not hunt, but survive on leftovers of others and remain glad as if it has got a prey. It will be good if, instead of becoming such type of lions, one trusts his self-respect, he said without naming anybody. Adityanath also attacked samajwad (the political ideology of the Samajwadi Party) on which SP members objected and requested the Chairman to expunge a particular word from the proceedings. The country does not need samajwad, but Ramrajya, he said in his address. Hitting out at Adityanath, SP members said the word samajwad (socialism) is there in the preamble of the Constitution and the chief minister should not say like this. I know very much about this fake brand. This brand was seen in Germany as Naziwad and in Italy as fascism. Have we not seen its distorted form as gundaraj (hooliganism) in UP?…
Rahul Gandhi hits out at Amit Shah for comparing opposition with animals
Congress president Rahul Gandhi hit out on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah for his remarks on the opposition parties during his speech at BJP Gandhi condemned Shah He further said, On Friday, Amit Shah made harsh comments by equating the opposition parties as animals on their attempt to unite as one against the incumbent government ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha Polls. Shah said, Everybody else as far as they are concerned are animals. Thats fine, that is the way they look at the world. It is a disrespectful statement, but we dont take what Mr Amit Shah says with too much seriousness, Gandhi said. Speaking at the rally, Shah indicated that BJP-led National Democratic Alliance will remain at power after the 2019 LS polls under the leadership of Narendra Modi. Shah also criticised Rahul Gandhi and National Congress Party Chief Sharad Pawar for spreading false hopes and misleading the people against BJP. Shah in an attempt to appease the SCs and STs said that the government will never abolish the Atrocities Act and reservation to SCs, STs and OBCs and will also not allow Congress to do so. Shah However, later Amit Shah said his intention was…
Big panic! When a leopard strayed into house in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore
A leopard that strayed into a house in Palhar Nagar area here today was captured even as it injured three persons during the effort, officials said. The leopard, around 8 years old, had come from a forested area near here and caused panic among local residents. It injured two forest staffers and one employee of the Indore Municipal Corporation while efforts were on to capture it, Uttam Yadav, in charge of the civic-run Kamla Nehru Zoo said. He said that it was finally captured after being hit by two tranquilising darts. It would be released into the wild after mandatory medical tests, Yadav said. (More details are awaited.)
TTV Dinakaran floats Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam: From party symbol to Jayalalithaa’s legacy, 5 key takeaways
TTV Dinakaran floats Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam: Former rebel AIADMK leader and Tamil Nadus erstwhile Chief Minister and Sasikalas nephew, TTV Dinakaran, on Thursday, floated a new party, the Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam with the support of several dissident party workers and leaders. He named his party after the late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa. Dinakarans announcement comes less than a month after Kamal Haasan entered politics with his party – Makkal Needhi Maiam. A strong crowd had gathered for the announcement. While announcing his new party, TTV Dinakaran exuded confidence that his party will win all upcoming elections from now by using the new party name and party flag. Notably, Dinakaran secured a win in the much-hyped RK Nagar bypoll last December with a huge majority. RK Nagar was once held by J Jayalalithaa. Here are the top 5 developments on TTV Dinakarans announcement: Party Flag: The flag unveiled by Dinakaran for his party Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam is black on top, white in middle and maroon on the bottom. The party flag also has an image of Jayalalithaa Party Symbol: TTV Dinakarans chose pressure cooker as his party symbol using which he secured the RK Nagar polls….
BJP-RSS focused on making Babasaheb ‘Ramji’ instead of working for people of his caste, says Mayawati
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati, on Saturday, launched a fresh attack against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday passed an order asking all departments and high court benches in Lucknow and Allahabad to change Dr BR Ambedkar Mayawati said that the BJP-RSS government doesnt care about the people of backward castes tribals. The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said that the government is only interested in vote bank politics. The BJP-RSS govt does not care about the torture on the people of backward castes tribals. They are more focused on making Babasaheb Ramji instead of working for the people of his caste. They are only interested in vote bank politics nothing else, she said. After the latest order passed by the UP government, the use of The spelling of his name in Hindi was also changed as it is pronounced However, the English spelling of the name will remain the same. Earlier, the Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav had also hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, alleging that it was trying to defame and harass its political opponents in the name of inquiries, adding that it would…
Cauvery water dispute: Center files clarification petition before Supreme Court, seeks more time
The Centre, on Saturday morning, filed a clarification petition before the Supreme Court in connection with the Cauvery water dispute. In its plea, the Centre asked to clarify that whether it can modify the composition of Cauvery Management Board (CMB). It also sought more time from the Court for implementing the February 16 order on Cauvery Issue. Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu government filed a contempt petition against the Centre in the Cauvery Issue. The State government said that it is going to mention the matter before the Supreme Court on Monday. The decision to move the Supreme Court was announced by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Friday even as ruling AIADMK announced it would observe a fast on April 3 on the matter. The party had earlier in the day said the fast would be held on April 2. According to a release by AIADMK, the fast would be held from 8 AM to 5 PM on Tuesday in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. The party faulted both DMK and Congress for not ensuring that the state got its due share from the inter state river. It said the previous UPA government did not take steps to ensure the…
After Rajya Sabha loss, Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav pact face another acid test in UP council polls
Even after losing in the Rajya Sabha elections, BSP supremo Mayawati has asserted that her partys understanding with Samajwadi Party will not be affected. On Saturday, Mayawati dismissed there was any trouble in the newly forged-partnership with Akhilesh Yadavs SP. The BSP chief said she will not let BJPs design tamper the newly-formed relationship. However, the SP-BSP association will be put to another test in the Uttar Pradesh council polls due in April. Twelve MLC seats in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly are will fall vacant on May 5. The leaders who tenure would end include Alhilesh Yadav, BJPs Mohsin Raza and Mahendra Singh. For the Rajya Sabha polls, Mayawati had reportedly made an agreement with the SP that BSP will help SP win two council seats. But the condition was that the SP should ensure the election of BSP candidate to Rajya Sabha. The agreement has not worked and Mayawati, despite claimed there was no trouble in SP-BSP pact, reminded Akhilesh that in his positions, she would have ensured the victory of her ally first. Each candidate needs at least 33 votes to get elected to the UP Legislative Council. BJP-led NDA, which has 324 MLAs, and can easily win…
First Look: Salman Khan in jail; reel-life Chulbul Pandey walks-in as convict in Jodhpur prison
A picture speaks a thousand words! When Salman Khan, popular for his role as a fearless cop in blockbuster Dabangg, walked-in inside the Jodhpurs central jail, the picture was shared many times on Twitter. With a sense of unease on his face, Salman Khan was captured walking inside the jail after courts verdict. At least three such pictures have gone viral so far. A number of people have reacted to Salman Khans photos in jail. Salman : Mujhe Swagat nahi karoge ? Jailer in Jodhpur Central Jail : Swag se karenge Sab Ka Swagath, one person said on Twitter. In another picture, Salman was seen sitting on the chair in Jodhpur jail in a relaxed-posture. The pictures were taken earlier in the day after a Jodhpur court sentenced Salman to five years in jail on the charges of killing two blackbucks in October 1998. The court acquitted Salmans colleagues, Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Neelam and Sonali Bendre. The 52-year-old actor was taken to the Jodhpur Central jail from the court premises in a police vehicle. This is the fourth time when the Tiger zinda hai actor has been lodged in the Jodhpur Central Jail. The actor had earlier spent 18…
Kolkata shocker! Man mummifies mother’s body, preserves it in refrigerator for 3 years
In a shocking incident reported from Kolkata, a leather technologist in his fifties was detained by the Kolkata police on Wednesday night for mummifying his mothers body and preserving it in a refrigerator at his house for the past three years. The man, identified as Subhabrata Majumdar, had reportedly lost his mother on April 7, 2015. Since then, he has been applying According to the details provided by the police, Majumdar had reportedly removed the internal organs from his mother He used to live a very secretive life and didnt mix with anyone in the neighbourhood. The neighbours got suspicious when a high-tonnage air conditioning machine was installed in the vacant first floor of Majumdars house. The machine used to run all the time which forced the neighbours to register a complaint with the police. During its investigation, police found a second freezer on the same floor of the house. Majumdars mother worked at the Food Corporation of India (FCI) while he was working for a leather products company, but left the job five years ago. The police is still not sure why Majumdar has been storing this body. Bina Mazumdar Why her body was stored for three years is…