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Election results setback for Modi, Shah: CPI-M

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 The results of Assembly elections in the Hindi heartland are a setback for the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah, the CPI-M has said, warning that the BJP may be tempted now to whip up more communal frenzy.

An editorial in the CPI-M journal “People’s Democracy” also warned the Congress to immediately address the problems of agrarian distress and employment generation in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.

“They cannot afford to take a soft attitude to communal activities and must crack down on cow vigilantism and mob lynching,” said the Communist Party of India-Marxist.

The editorial pointed out that overall, the results of the Assembly elections “are a setback for the BJP and the leadership of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. 

“It provides the much needed momentum for the forthcoming battle in the Lok Sabha elections to defeat the BJP,” it added.

The results of the elections in the three BJP-ruled states have a national significance, it said. 

“The defeat has dented the image of invincibility around the Modi-Shah duo which has been assiduously built up by the BJP… They have proved to be ineffective in their own traditional strongholds.” 

The editorial also said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had been increasingly losing by-elections, reflecting “the growing discontent among the people against the Modi government at the Centre and the BJP-ruled state governments”. 

At the same time, it faulted the Congress for trying to borrow some issues from the Hindutva platform. This, it said, did not get them any electoral benefits. 

But it warned that the BJP had still got a substantial vote share — 41 per cent in Madhya Pradesh and 38.8 per cent in Rajasthan. In the former it was 0.1 per cent ahead of the Congress vote share and just 0.5 per cent less than the Congress share in Rajasthan.

“This underlines the scope for a BJP recovery if there is a slight swing in its favour. It also points to the likely possibility of the BJP-RSS combine stepping up its communal agenda in the coming days in view of the Lok Sabha elections.” 

IANS

Police officers pose as couple, rescue marketing firm staffers.

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Hafiz, Sheikh and Peer confessed to have kept Karthik at a house in Venkatagiri Kota in Andhra Pradesh.

A couple moving about in Mulabagilu, holding hands and visiting coffee shops and parks on Sunday did not attract any passersby. But they actually helped rescue a man held hostage by three people, hours after he was abducted.

The couple were actually cops in disguise — Shivajinagar police sub-inspector Sheela Gowda and her colleague Shamiulla. The two were supported by Ansar Beig and a team of police personnel in plainclothes, tracking the three kidnappers and keeping vigil over their colleagues.

Karthik, an employee of a Queen’s Road-located multi-level marketing company, Direct Selling Tours and Travels, was taken hostage on Sunday morning from near his office by the three who were angry over the firm not returning the Rs 2.5 lakh they had invested in it.

But the trio had failed to understand that returns were guaranteed only if they recruited more people into the direct marketing chain, the police said.  The three kidnappers —  Hafiz, Mohammed Sheikh and Ghous Peer — called the company’s owner, Vivan, to demand the money as ransom, failing which Karthik would be killed.

Vivan alerted the police, and Sheela and her team swung into action. They asked Vivan to inform the kidnappers that he would return the money. When Vivan called the kidnappers, they asked him to come to Mulabagilu in the evening.

Sheela and Shamiulla, and their team followed Vivan to Mulabagilu, about 100 km from airport.   Once there, the kidnappers asked Vivan to reach Chittoor, as they suspected that he had come with cops. Sheela told him to convince the kidnappers that the money would be given to them in Mulabagilu as it was 7 pm and the trio agreed.

Vivan informed Sheela that the kidnappers had relatives in Mulabagilu, as they had mentioned in the forms while investing money. That was when Sheela and Shamiulla started moving about posing as ‘lovers’ and the team spotted the trio.

It was the kidnappers who made a call to Vivan asking him to come to a restaurant, even as they were followed by Beig and the other cops. “My colleague and I went around restaurants and fields even as our team in a private car watched the kidnappers move around on two KTM bikes. We were in plainclothes, and even held hands and walked … so no one got any suspicion,” said Sheela.

Vivan was asked to remain out of sight as Sheela and her ‘boyfriend’ made their way to the restaurant. They spotted the kidnappers outside the restaurant. The trio never suspected anything as the couple moved in with their colleagues close behind, and nabbed them.

Hafiz, Sheikh and Peer confessed to have kept Karthik at a house in Venkatagiri Kota in Andhra Pradesh. Karthik was rescued the same night. Accused were taken in judicial custody on Monday.

PTI

Gehlot to be Rajasthan CM

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Gehlot to be Rajasthan CM

Jaipur, Dec 13 (IANS) Veteran Congress leader Ashok Gehlot appears to have pipped Sachin Pilot in the race for Chief Minister in Rajasthan.

The name of 67-year-old Gehlot, a two-time Chief Minister, will be announced by the party in Delhi on Thursday evening after Congress President Rahul Gandhi completes discussions with senior party leaders, party sources said.

Gehlot and Sachin Pilot, the other main contender for the post, on Thursday met Gandhi.

Gehlot returned to Jaipur, apparently after being told of the party’s decision to pick him as the Chief Minister.

The party appears to have preferred Gehlot over Pilot in view of the mandate it got in Rajasthan, where it has fallen short of legislative majority by one seat in the 200-member Assembly.

The party, however, has the backing of its pre-poll ally Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), which won one seat, six Bahujan Samaj Party MLAs and a majority of the 13 Independents, who are mostly Congress rebels.

Pilot reportedly put up a fight staking his claim to the post on the ground that he had galvanised the party after the defeat in 2013, when he was appointed the state party chief.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the central Congress observers, K.C. Venugopal and Avinash Pandey, met the newly elected MLAs in a bid to find out who they would prefer as Chief Minister.

The MLAs authorised Gandhi to take the call on the Chief Minister’s name.

Both Gehlot and Pilot had also called on Governor Kalyan Singh on Wednesday evening and staked claim to form the government. Both contested the Assembly elections and won their seats.

IANS

LS adjourned for the day amid ruckus over Rafale, Ram temple

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LS adjourned for the day amid ruckus over Rafale, Ram temple

 The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day on Thursday after two brief adjournments during Question Hour amid unrelenting protests by the opposition, which raised the Rafale deal among other issues, while NDA ally Shiv Sena demanded an ordinance to pave the way for the construction of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya at the earliest.

Soon after the House resumed its proceedings at noon following two adjournments, Congress, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Shiv Sena members raised slogans in support of their demands and came near the Speaker’s podium.

The Congress members were keen on a discussion on the Rafale fighter jet deal under rules that entail voting; DMK raised the Cauvery water distribution issue between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka and TDP members sought special category status for Andhra Pradesh.

Speaker Sumitra Mahajan allowed the Shiv Sena members to raise their issue during zero hour.

Shiv Sena’s Anand Rao Adsul demanded that the government bring an ordinance before the next general elections for the construction of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya.

Adsul also reminded the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of its promise on the construction of the Ram temple made in its 2014 election manifesto.

“The government should take initiative to bring an ordinance and pave the way for construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya before the next general elections,” Adsul said.

He said former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee could not take the initiative for the construction of the temple as he was running a coalition government of 25 political parties.

“But here is a government which has absolute majority. They had mentioned it in their manifesto, too.

“Four-and-a-half years of this government has already passed but nothing has happened. Our alliance with the BJP is based on Hindutva but it seems the BJP has forgotten it,” he said.

Adsul also said the results of the five state assembly elections were an indication and the government should get the message.

TDP member Venkateshwara Rao sought to put a poster over the mike installed near the Speaker’s podium but was reprimanded by the Speaker who said she will be forced to name him. Once a member is named, he or she has to leave the House.

As soon as Adsul concluded his speech, Mahajan adjourned the House for the day as sloganeering continued.

Shiv Sena members had also protested in the Parliament complex in support of their demand.

BJP MP B.Y. Raghavendra, who won the by-poll from Shimoga, earlier took oath as a new member of the House.

IANS

Crime Branch rescue 35 girls, bust human trafficking racket,

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B The central crime branch police arrested four persons allegedly for illegal trafficking of girls. As many as 35 girls of Nepalese origin were rescued during the operation.

The arrested have been identified as Kishan Gale (29), Lakshman Gale (29), Rakesh Sharma (38) and Thag Bahadur Thapa (32), while the kingpins behind the racket – Venkatesh Rao and Navraj – are yet to be arrested.

Police officials claimed that the accused were illegally trafficking the girls to foreign countries after promising them of good jobs abroad. They were being kept illegally in Sudha Lodge at Cotton Pete from where they were rescued. 

Two laptops, one printer, 6 mobile phones, 6 fake seals, two passports and other materials were also recovered, informed the police sources. It is suspected that more people are involved in this racket and a probe has begun.

It is gathered that the police are making arrangements to send the rescued girls to their native.

PTI

Man gets 3 years jail for impersonating A P J Abdul Kalam

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UUdupi additional JMFC court judge Manjunath M S on Wednesday, December 13 sentenced a man convicted of impersonating former president of India A P J Abdul Kalam to three years rigorous imprisonment and a penalty of Rs 7,000.

The convict, Niranjan Chidananda Bhat, a resident of Mudabettu had begun using the former president’s name when he was still alive some nine years ago. Besides impersonation, Bhat had even forged the former president’s signature to mail recommendation letters through a fake id ‘apj_abdulkalam@in.co’ created at the cyber centre ‘Surf N View’ near Udupi Karavali Bypass.

It is learnt that Bhat had sent a congratulatory email to the President and had copied the signature from the letter sent by the President to thank him. 

Later, Bhat had through the fake email id sent a recommendation letter, bearing Dr Kalam’s forged signature, nominating himself for the American Engineers Organisation’s Hoover award. Another such letter was mailed to Goswami D Yogi in New York seeking details of a 50 MW solar thermal plant project. Bhat also attempted to hoodwink officials by trying to prove that all the documents he sent were genuine. 

On May 24, 2009 the then district CID police inspector Srinivas Raj lodged a complaint regarding the forgery post which investigations into the case were undertaken by I Ganesh Hedge, who subsequently filed a charge sheet.

The case was argued by the then public prosecutor Mamthaz and the present assistant public prosecutor Jayanti K.

PTI

Kaizala app helping 1,000 Indian firms boost workplace productivity: Microsoft

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 Microsoft on Thursday announced that its enterprise social network app Kaizala is now helping over 1,000 government and private businesses in India improve workplace productivity and streamline growth.

The company also said it will expand the reach of Kaizala — launched in India last year and now available in 18 languages across 28 markets in Asia, Middle East, Africa and South America — to Office 365 commercial plans worldwide.

“Kaizala, with Cloud scale and enterprise security, is enabling organisations to achieve more by empowering employees, engaging customers and enhancing workplace productivity. We are delighted with the rapid adoption in just over a year,” said Anant Maheshwari, President, Microsoft India.

Developed by the Microsoft Garage team, Kaizala allows people to be connected in a group, create hierarchy-based access to a group and create groups within groups.

Microsoft also announced new features in Kaizala, like “Me Chat” and “Persistent Chat” along with video and voice calling and web app. 

“Kaizala is a chat-based communication and data management tool. It is an enterprise ready, compliant and secure chat app, offering organisations easy and simple way to share data for insightful decision making and gives employees an easy-to-use solution for efficient collaboration and improved productivity,” explained Rajiv Kumar, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft.

Backed by Microsoft’s Azure platform, organisations like YES Bank, UPL, Alembic Pharmaceuticals, Shopper’s Stop and Eureka Forbes are using the Kaizala app. 

“Microsoft Kaizala serves as an Electronic Medical Record, with no attendant cost, and the patient’s data is shared across the group of treating doctors and nurses,” said Dr Devi Shetty, Founder and Chairman, Narayana Health who is one of the early adopters of Microsoft Kaizala. 

“All group members monitor a patient’s treatment and make interventions in real time,” he added.

The customers are using Kaizala to bridge gap between employees, extended workforce and customers; share information among employees; collect data from the field through polls or surveys; track movement of first line workers; and get real-time analytics on integration with Office 365, said the company. 

Earlier this year, Microsoft enabled digital payments services on Kaizala in India. The UPI payment integration on Microsoft Kaizala works with all the banks that are already participating in UPI.

Microsoft Kaizala is available as a free mobile app on Android, iOS and Windows platforms for individual users.

IANS

Madhya Pradesh CLP to meet at 4 p.m.

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  The newly elected Congress MLAs in Madhya Pradesh will meet at 4 p.m. in the Pradesh Congress Committee office on Thursday to choose their Legislature Party leader, party officials said.

State party chief Kamal Nath and Guna MP Jyotiraditya Scindia, who headed the party’s poll committee during the just concluded Assembly polls, are expected to be present. Both are front-runners for the Chief Minister’s post. 

Central party observer and former Defence Minister A.K. Antony was on Wednesday in Bhopal to meet the new legislators after the Congress in a nail-biting finish defeated the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party by securing 114 seats but fell two seats short of a majority in the 230-member House.

The meeting was expected to reach a consensus on the Chief Minister’s name, however, that did not happen.

Rebel MLAs, who won as Independent candidates in the November 28 polls, were also part of the CLP meet. Antony met every one individually.

IANS

BJP MPs meet, pay homage to Vajpayee

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 The BJP Parliamentary Party met here on Thursday and paid tributes to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and former Union Minister Ananth Kumar.

The meeting, attended among others by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President Amit Shah and party veteran L.K. Advani, decided to celebrate Vajpayee’s anniversary on December 25 on a large scale.

BJP sources said no discussion was held on the outcome of the Assembly polls in five states.

The BJP is holding a review meeting at its headquarters here over the election results. Modi, Shah, several union Ministers, party office bearers, state Presidents and those in-charge of the five states would attend.

In the recently concluded Assembly polls in five states, the BJP was ousted from power in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

IANS

Over 28,500 Indian workers died in Gulf nations since 2014

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 A total of 28,523 Indian workers died in the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries from 2014 to 2018, the government said on Wednesday.

In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh said that while the highest number of 12,828 Indian workers died in Saudi Arabia during the period, 7,877 such workers died in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), 2,932 in Kuwait, 2,564 in Oman, 1,301 in Qatar and 1,021 in Bahrain.

The Gulf nations are home to a large expatriate Indian population and many of them are blue-collar workers in the infrastructure sector.

Singh stated that Indian missions and posts have specialised community welfare wings and labour wings in these countries with large numbers of Indian workers.

“In addition, the government has launched an online portal called MADAD for addressing the grievances of Indian nationals abroad,” he said. 

“The MADAD portal is regularly monitored in our missions and posts at various levels, thus giving high priority to grievances of Indian workers,” he added.

IANS

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