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Ayodhya: Man throws acid at woman after marriage called off

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Ayodhya: A 25-year-old man allegedly threw acid at a woman here in the Haiderganj area of the city after his marriage with her was called off, police said on Tuesday.

The woman has been referred to Lucknow Trauma Centre in critical condition and the man has been arrested, police said.

The man went to the 20-year-old woman’s house late Monday night and threw acid at her while she was asleep, police said.

Inspector General Ayodhya Range Pravin Kumar said Rajkaran Sharma was known to the victim and her family and lived in an area under the Inayat Nagar Police Station.

He was miffed that his marriage with the woman was called off. The reason why it happened was not specified.

“We will file the chargesheet in the court in two days and within 15 to 20 days we will get the guilty punished,” the IG added.

India to buy 26 Rafales, 3 Scorpene submarines from France, deal likely to be announced during PM Modi’s visit

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NEW DELHI: In a major development, India is planning to buy 26 Rafale fighter aircraft and three Scorpene class conventional submarines from France.

The proposals have been placed before the Defence Ministry by the defence forces and are likely to be announced during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to France this week, government sources told ANI.

As per the proposals, the Indian Navy will get 22 single-seated Rafale Marine aircraft along with four trainer aircraft.

The Navy had been pressing for acquiring these fighter aircraft and submarines urgently as they have been facing shortages in view of the security challenges around the country.

The aircraft carriers INS Vikramaditya and Vikrant have been operating the MiG-29s and need the Rafales for operations on both carriers.

Meanwhile, the three Scorpene class submarines would be acquired under the repeat clause by the Navy as part of Project 75 where they would be built in the Mazagon Dockyards Limited in Mumbai.

The deals are estimated to be worth over Rs 90,000 crore but the final cost would be clear only after the contract negotiations are completed which will be held after the deal is announced.

India is likely to seek price concessions in the deal and would be insisting on having more ‘Make-in-India’ content in the plan, sources said.

Industry sources said for the Rafale M deal, India and France are expected to form a joint team to negotiate the deal like it was done for the previous Rafale deal for 36 fighter aircraft.

The proposals have been discussed in the defence ministry at high-level meetings already and are likely to be placed before the defence acquisition council in the next few days and expected to be accorded Acceptance of Necessity by the government before the announcement in France. 

We will bring Amarnath pilgrims home safely: Karnataka Minister

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BENGALURU:  Revenue Minister Krishna Byregowda on Monday clarified that the Amarnath Yatra pilgrims from Karnataka, who were stranded due to rain-related damage, were brought to safety to relief camps, and they will be brought back home soon.

“Already, 129 pilgrims who were rescued and taken to the CRPF camp have been safely brought to Kashmir. However, the weather has worsened in the Baltal camp and the road has been closed due to heavy fog. Once the situation improves by Wednesday, the road operation will begin.

After that, those in the Baltal camp will also be brought to Kashmir and to Karnataka,” he informed the Assembly.

The Chief Minister’s Office is communicating with four senior IAS and IPS officers from the state, who have already been sent to Kashmir. “The families of pilgrims need not panic as it is our responsibility to bring everyone home safely,” he said, expressing confidence.

No LoP in Karnataka Assembly, Congress takes jibe at BJP leadership

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BENGALURU: Even a week after the commencement of the budget session in Karnataka, the Legislative Assembly remains without a Leader of Opposition (LoP), since the BJP top brass are yet to take a decision. The ruling Congress party criticised the BJP, terming the latter’s indecision as undemocratic.

According to BJP legislators, the appointment of LoP is unlikely anytime soon and the session will continue like this until the end.

Former chief minister Basavaraj Bommai’s son Bharat was blessed with a baby boy on Monday. The entrepreneur and industrialist, Bharat, tweeted about the glad tidings, with many of his and his father’s friends greeting him.

One killed, Rs 1.2 cr looted from bank in Manipur

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GUWAHATI:  One person was killed and several others were injured in violent clashes in Manipur on Monday, while a bank branch that reopened after two months found Rs 1.2 crore was looted. 

The Axis Bank branch in Churachandpur was shut on May 3 in the wake of violence. When it reopened on Monday, Rs 1.2 crore and other valuables including gold were found to be missing. The bank lodged an FIR with the police. 

A gunfight erupted at Singda and Phayeng villages on the border of Imphal West and Kangpokpi districts around 3 am and continued till 6 am. It started again around 8 am and continued for some time before the security forces brought the situation under control.

Official sources said the miscreants were using drones at night to recce areas before unleashing attacks.  In a status report filed in the Supreme Court, the Manipur government said a total of 142 people were killed in the violence while 5,995 FIRs were filed. Six cases were transferred to the CBI. The police detained 6,745 people. 

Over 50,000 people were displaced by the violence. They are taking shelter in the state as well as some states in the Northeast. 

Court no platform to escalate tension: SC
The Supreme Court on Monday said it can’t be used as a platform for further escalation of violence, as it asked the counsels of Kuki and Metei groups to put forth positive suggestions to improve the law and order situation in Manipur, instead of levelling allegations

Tejashwi must quit after being chargesheeted in land-for-jobs scam: BJP

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PATNA:  Bihar assembly on Monday witnessed an uproar when BJP demanded the resignation of Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav in view of the filing of chargesheet against him in the land-for-jobs scam.

As soon as the House assembled on the first day of the monsoon session, BJP chief whip Janak Ram rose from his seat and demanded the resignation of Tejashwi. Both CM Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi were present in the house at that time.

The first supplementary budget for the financial year 2023-24 was also tabled in the House in the monsoon session. Earlier, Bihar CM, Tejashwi and his elder brother and minister Tej Pratap Yadav reached the assembly in the same vehicle.

BJP’s chief whip said that it had never happened earlier, adding that for the first time, during the tenure of Nitish, a chargesheeted person was participating in the proceedings of the House as deputy CM. “Why is action not being taken against Tejashwi?” he asked.

He said that the government had to concede to the demands of teachers after they were forced to appear in Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) examination. 

“We will take out a march to assembly on July 13 and will not allow the House to conduct its proceedings,” he said. Meanwhile, the grand alliance’s legislature party meeting was held under the CM.

16 states oppose Karnataka’s demand for rice at cheaper rate: Centre

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NEW DELHI:  Amid the din of Opposition unity talks, 16 states opposed the Congress-ruled Karnataka government’s demand to allow states to buy cheaper rice through the Open Market Sales Scheme (OMSS) of the Centre. The Union government has discontinued selling stocked grains (rice and wheat) to state governments under the OMSS on June 13.

In a recently concluded state food ministers’ meeting in New Delhi, 16 states opposed the demand of the Karnataka government to participate in OMSS, said Sanjiv Chopra, secretary of the Food and Public Distribution Department.

According to Chopra, states and Union Territories (UTs), including Tamil Nadu and Odisha, are of the view that the Centre’s surplus food stock should be used in the larger interest of 140 crore population and “not for a particular section and particular class of people”.Advertisementhttps://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2023/jul/11/16-states-oppose-karnatakas-demand-for-rice-at-cheaper-rate-centre-2593603.html

States supported the Union government’s move to sell grains to private traders to control food grain inflation. However, the Union government has failed to sell the grains to private traders. Under the first e-auction on July 5 across 19 states, traders showed a very lukewarm response to the OMSS of rice.  Only 12 buyers turned up. Out of it, only five traders registered bid 170 MT of rice out of a total of 3.86 LMT which the Food Corporation of India offered to sell.

Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh has criticised the Union government over the failed e-auction as the government has played petty and vindictive politics on poor food security in Karnataka. “Government’s e-auction has flopped miserably and more than 99.9% of the rice offered for e-auction remains unsold. In any case, it is clear that the Modi government has greater faith in private traders to control inflation than in state government than the public distribution system” states Ramesh.

Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh has criticised the Union government over the failed e-auction as the government has played petty and vindictive politics on poor food security in Karnataka

61 more people killed as rains continue to batter north India

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CHANDIGARH/LUCKNOW: At least 61 more people were reported dead across North India following incessant rains, flashfloods and lightning strikes on Monday, 34 of them in Uttar Pradesh and 17 in Himachal Pradesh, which is the worst affected state so far.

More than 300 tourists are stranded in Himachal’s Lahaul-Spiti district amid snowfall. Efforts are on to rescue them. Rains hampered the clearing of massive landslides that snapped road links. The tourists have been put up in hotels and government accommodations by the local administration. Besides, tourists and locals in two state roadways buses have been stuck following a flash flood in the Pagal nullah near Sissu village in the Lahaul Valley as it blocked the Manali-Leh highway.

The initial estimate of property loss in Himachal Pradesh is around Rs 3,000-4,000 crore. The overall toll in the North included six in Haryana and four in Punjab. In UP, 17 got electrocuted due to lightning while 12 drowned. Besides, there were five other rain-related deaths in the state.

Most rivers in the North were swollen, with the Yamuna in Delhi, too, crossing the danger mark following the release of water from the Hathnikund barrage in Haryana. Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Himachal Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and assured all support. The Centre deployed 39 National Disaster Response Force teams — 14 in Punjab, 12 in Himachal, eight in Uttarakhand and five in Haryana — for the rescue and relief operations.

Sukhu said efforts were underway to evacuate the stranded tourists and residents in Lahaul-Spiti and Kullu districts using helicopters whenever the weather permits. In Himachal, five persons were killed in the Nirmand area of the Kullu district while five others died in the Shimla district in two different landslides. Also, the Shimla-Kalka highway was blocked near Shoghi due to a landslide.

Besides, rail operations on the Shimla-Kalka rail track were suspended as landslides blocked the track. 
In Punjab, floodwaters entered the Nabha Thermal Power Plant near Rajpura in Patiala forcing the shutdown of one of its 700 MW units.

Army rescues 910 university students in Punjab

The Army rescued 910 students and 50 others from the flooded Chitkara University near Rajpura in Punjab. The flood relief columns of its Western Command worked through the intervening night of Sunday and Monday to evacuate them and helped prevent the breaching of canals by the flood waters, the Army said.

AP CM Jagan lays stone for revival of Chittoor Dairy

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TIRUPATI: Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday tore into Opposition Leader N Chandrababu Naidu on his home turf of Chittoor district by holding him responsible for the closure of Chittoor Dairy, which stood as the lifeline of dairy farmers of the region for decades together.

Jagan fulfilled the promise he made during his Praja Sankalpa Yatra for the revival of Chittoor Cooperative Dairy, and exchanged the copies of MoU with representatives of Amul, which will invest Rs 385 crore. He also laid the foundation stone for a medical college in Chittoor.   

Addressing a huge public meeting, Jagan came down heavily on Naidu stating that the former CM had orchestrated the destruction of Chittoor Dairy and closed it down in August 2002 to develop his family-owned Heritage. “Chittoor Dairy which was started as a chilling unit, had grown to process 2.5 to 3 lakh litres of milk a day by 1993. But, it was systematically pushed into losses by Naidu, who started Heritage in 1992, between 1992 and 2002,” Jagan alleged.

The conspiracy to rundown Chittoor Dairy was so visible that while it suffered losses during the 10 years, Heritage continued to grow with huge profits every year. “The dairy was closed abruptly leaving lakhs of farmers in the lurch as the management kept pending a huge amount as arrears. The YSRC government repaid the dues of Rs 182 crore and Amul will invest Rs 150 crore in the first phase of Chittoor Dairy revival,” he explained.

The revival of Chittoor Dairy will provide direct employment to 5,000 people and indirect employment to two lakh people, besides benefiting 20 lakh dairy farmers in Rayalaseema.“Not only Chittoor Dairy, but Naidu also sold several sugar factories and paper mills in the cooperative sector and public sector units like Allwyn and Republic Forge to TDP leaders like T Devender Goud and Nama Nageswara Rao for peanuts or closed them down taking kickbacks for encouraging private units,” he charged.

After closing down or selling 54 such units for peanuts through the Department of Implementation during his regime, Naidu unabashedly brought out a book ‘Privatisation, a success story in AP’ After the launch of the Jagananna Pala Velluva programme in December 2020, in partnership with Amul, the milk procurement prices had gone up manifold, benefiting lakhs of dairy farmers, he highlighted, adding that it forced the private dairies to increase the milk procurement prices due to competition.  

“For Naidu, there is no difference between father-in-law and farmer as he can backstab anyone,” he remarked and added that some people close to the TDP chief had even created obstacles to the construction of a medical college in Chittoor.

Terming Naidu and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan non-resident politicians, Jagan said they know nothing about social justice. “The two leaders do not reside in our State and if anyone wants to see them, a trip to the neighbouring State is a must, which shows how distant they are from the people,’’ he observed.
Naidu is now thinking of constructing a house in Kuppam 40 years after his public life and at a time when the people are preparing to bid adieu to him permanently, Jagan ridiculed.

Pawan Kalyan, who supported the TDP’s policy of ‘plunder, stash and devour’, has once again joined hands with Naidu and they are trying to cheat the people with false promises ahead of elections, hoping that people’s memory is short. The pack of wolves has come together and is spreading falsehood with the support of friendly media,’’ he observed.

Appealing to the people to think why the previous TDP regime failed to implement welfare schemes, when the present YSRC government has provided Rs 2.23 lakh crore to beneficiaries through DBT schemes in the last four years, Jagan exhorted them to support the YSRC in the next elections if they feel they are benefited.

Responding to the appeal of local MLA A Srinivasulu, the Chief Minister sanctioned Rs 75 crore for development works in the Chittoor Municipal Corporation, agreed to construct Kapu Bhavan and allocated funds for a road-over-bridge. District Collector S Shan Mohan, Energy Minister P Ramachandra Reddy and Amul Dairy MD Jayen Mehta participated in the programme.

Bangladesh: Dengue death toll increases to 73

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DHAKA [Bangladesh]: Six more deaths caused by dengue have been reported in 24 hours till Sunday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 73 this year, according to Dhaka Tribune.

According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), 836 more patients were hospitalized with viral fever during the period, Dhaka Tribune reported.

A total of 2,750 dengue patients, including 1,968 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at different hospitals across the country, as per Dhaka Tribune.

So far, the DGHS has recorded 12,954 dengue cases, and 10,131 recoveries this year.

Moreover, in 2022, the country recorded 281 dengue deaths which mark the highest on record after 179 in 2019. It also recorded 62,423 dengue cases and 61,971 recoveries last year. 

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