[Nasheman news] Thiruvananthapuram Senior CPI-M leader and former Kerala Minister V.J. Thankappan passed away on Saturday near here, according to his family. He was 84.
Thankappan died following age-related issues at his home in the city suburbs, a family member said.
The four-time Communist party of India-Marxist MLA also served as the Minister for Local Administration in the E.K. Nayanar cabinet of 1987-91. He is survived by his wife and four children.
The Left leader had started off as a clerk in the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation but soon quit to plunge into full-time politics.
He first won from the Nemon assembly constituency in 1983 when he was elected in a bye-election. Subsequently he completed a hat trick from the same seat.
In 2006, he won from the suburban Neyattinkara parliamentary constituency, here.
Thankappan was a hugely popular leader and one who rose in the party through the ranks.
Shah calls Rahul Gandhi ‘habitual liar’
[Nasheman news] New Delhi BJP President Amit Shah on Friday hit out at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi soon after Attorney General K. K. Venugopal said he had never told the Supreme Court that Rafale file/documents were stolen, but the photocopies of the same were unauthorisedly taken away.
Shah alleged that Rahul Gandhi lies habitually and has no credibility in Indian politics.
“Rahul Gandhi and falsehood are synonyms of each other. In the series of lies, he has yesterday said that Rafale documents were stolen but now it has been proved that it didn’t happen,” Shah said in a series of tweets.
Shah’s attack came soon after AG sought to clarify that he had never said that the Rafale documents, that were published in a section of the media and used by the petitioners, were “stolen.”
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in a tweet quoted the AG saying that he had never said that the Rafale documents were stolen and that all he had told the top court was that the petitioners (Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie and Prashant Bhushan) in their application used “photocopies of the original” papers, deemed by the government.
The BJP President said that Rahul Gandhi’s lies are in public now. He also claimed that the Congress chief has spoken over a dozen lies on the Rafale issue itself.
“The people of the country have now understood the politics of lies of Rahul Gandhi. For them, Rahul Gandhi has become an instrument of entertainment,” Shah said.
“Sometimes he lies about the foundation stone laying of the Ordnance Factory in Amethi, sometimes he lies about loan waiver…” he added.
Karanataka State Wakf Board Election – 2019
Karnataka state board of Wakf election which were held on 2nd March to elect it 11 members. The results were announced by the returning officer on March 7th 2019.
Dr. Mohammed Yousuf and Anwar Pasha won from the Mutavalli catogery with 279 & 270 votes respectively.
The category to which the election were held was
1.Parlimentery Category
(Loksabha & Rajya Sabha). 2. Legislative Category (MLAs & MLCs). 3.
Bar
Council Category. 4. Mutavalli Category(2 Members).
Dr. Nassir Ahmed. MP Rajyasabha. Mr.Tanvir Sait. MLA. Kaneez Fathima MLA were declared winners from legislative category
The Government will nominate 2 members each from Ulema
Category &
Prestigious organisation & Government officer will be Ex officio member.
After the entire process of filling the vacancies is over the
11 members
will elect the new Chairman of Wakf board
IAF MiG-21 crashes near Bikaner in Rajasthan.
The MiG-21 was reportedly on a routine mission when it crashed near Bikaner in Rajasthan.
An Indian Air Force MiG 21 crashed in Rajasthan today after a likely bird hit. The pilot of the fighter jet ejected and is safe, the Indian Air Force said, adding that initial inputs suggested that the jet crashed due to a bird hit.
Bikaner’s superintendent of police, Pradeep Mohan Sharma, told news agency PTI that the MiG-21 jet in Shobhasar ki Dhani, 12 km outside of Bikaner city.
The Indian Air Force said in a statement that the MiG-21 had taken from the Indian Air Force’s Nal airbase in Rajasthan and that it was on a routine mission.
The Indian Air Force said, “Today afternoon a MiG-21 aircraft on a routine mission crashed after getting airborne from Nal near Bikaner. Initial inputs indicate the likely cause as bird hit after take off. Pilot of the aircraft ejected safely. A CoI [Court of Inquiry] will investigate the cause of the accident.”
The MiG-21 crash in Rajasthan comes at a time of heightened tensions between India and Pakistan. Air forces of both the countries have been involved in bombing missions in respective territories.
Indian and Pakistani jets even got into a dogfight over Jammu and Kashmir on February 27 leading to the brief capture of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman.
Agencies
My government committed to women’s safety, security: Modi
Nasheman News : The central government is fully committed to women’s safety, security and empowerment for which it has rolled out several schemes, programmes and projects, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Friday.
Addressing a gathering of women at a convention of the National Livelihood Mission, coinciding with the International Women’s Day, Modi said that it was his good fortune that earlier in the day he had the privilege to kickstart the work on the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor, a project taken up by Ahilya Bai more than 200 years ago.
“On the International Women’s Day, I bow to women power and salute every daughter and mother in this country as they are engaged in many ways in nation building and realizing the idea of a New India,” he said.
He also referred to the bravery and valour of the Indian defence personnel and said that it were only due to the blessings of “mothers and sisters” that the soldiers were involved in protecting the nation.
Referring to Ganga river, Rani Laxmi Bai and Ahilya Bai Holkar, the Prime Minister said that all of them had a connection with Kashi and in their own ways they contributed immensely to what Kashi is known for.
While Mother Ganga provides salvation to all, Laxmi Bai sounded the bugle against the British and sowed the seeds of freedom while Holkar initiated the revamp of the Kashi Vishwanath temple, Modi said.
Many schemes of his government like providing help during pregnancy, extension of maternity leave, free immunization and provision of capital punishment for rapists were meant for women’s safety, security and empowerment.
‘Shown me my place’: Navjot Singh Sidhu
Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu was missing from the list of speakers at Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s Moga rally on Thursday, March 7, 2019.
A controversy erupted after the rally of Congress president Rahul Gandhi at Moga on Thursday after Punjab local bodies minister Navjot Singh Sidhu was not included in the list of speakers.
A miffed Sidhu said it was the first time after former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal’s rally in Amritsar in 2004 that he has not been allowed to speak. Sidhu was then Amritsar MP from the BJP.
“If I am not good enough to speak at Rahul’s rally, I am not good enough as a speaker and a campaigner. Whether I am invited to speak or not is something that is not under my control. But it has shown me my place and made it clear who all from the Congress will campaign for the party in the coming Lok Sabha polls,” Sidhu said.
Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar said Sidhu should have been among the speakers and not inviting him to speak was an oversight. “Sidhu is our party’s star campaigner. It was an oversight on part of the party. Rahul ji asked me if all had spoken, when he (Rahul) was invited to speak. I told him I do not know as I had come with him,” Jakhar said.
The event was anchored by state cooperation minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, whose department was the organiser of the debt waiver function. Randhawa said he was asked by chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh and All India Congress Committee general secretary in-charge of Punjab affairs, Asha Kumari, to name just four speakers.
“I was told that Rahul ji was getting late for another rally at Kangra in Himachal so only Jakhar, the CM, Asha Kumari and Rahul ji will speak. Had I been told Sidhu too is to be invited, I would have called him. He is our party’s star campaigner and I enjoy a good rapport with him,” Randhawa said.
Sidhu, who had prepared to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Balakot airstrikes, said he could not speak to Rahul too as the Congress president had to rush to Kangra. The Punjab chief minister and Sidhu have taken divergent stands on the airstrikes, with Sidhu questioning the BJP on the number of casualties and Amarinder saying that the “message that acts of terror would not go unpunished was more important than whether one militant was killed in the airstrikes or 100”.
Agencies
Zero tolerance on violence against women: Rahul
Nasheman News : Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that there should be zero tolerance on violence against women in the country, adding that the Women Reservation Bill will be passed in Parliament if Congress comes to power in the coming Lok Sabha polls.
While addressing a women’s convention on the occasion of International Women’s Day in Jeypore city, Gandhi also admired the “fighting spirit” of women and urged people to recommit themselves to break barriers that hinder the path to equality.
“Fight for your space and don’t consider yourself less than anyone,” he said.
He also said that while around eight women are getting raped every day, only seven victims are getting justice per year.
“If Congress forms the government in Odisha, girls will get free education,” he added.
The Congress president is slated to address a public meeting in the city later in the day.
Toll in Jammu grenade attack increases to 2
Nasheman News : The death toll in the Jammu bus stand grenade attack increased to two on Friday, police said.
Muhammad Riyaz, 32, who was injured on Thursday when the grenade flung by a militant exploded under a parked passenger bus at the General Bus Stand here, succumbed to his wounds in a hospital early Friday, the police added.
A 17-year-old youth from Uttarakhand was killed on Thursday, with 30 others injured.
Yasir Javaid Bhat alias Arhaan of Kulgam district, who has confessed of carrying carried out the attack, has been arrested.
Yasir Bhat was said to be aligned with the Hizbul Mujahideen terroroutfit.
State Governor Satya Pal Malik has sanctioned Rs 5 lakh for the victims’ next of kin and Rs 20,000 each for the injured.
Thursday’s was the third such attack at the Jammu General Bus Stand by militants in the last nine months.
‘Match-fixing between PM, Pak’: Cong’s BK Hariprasad
Congress parliamentarian from Karnataka, BK Hariprasad has stirred a controversy with his “match-fixing” comments on the Pulwama attack while attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“(Union Minister) Ravi Shankar Prasad should clarify whether there is any match-fixing between Pakistan and Narendra Modi. Without their knowledge this Pulwama incident should not have taken place. If you look at the chain of events that has taken place after Pulwama, it looks like Narendra Modi had a match-fixing with the people of Pakistan,” Hariprasad said.
Hariprasad’s comment came two days after another Congress leader, Digvijaya Singh termed Pulwama attack as an “accident”.
“The government of Jammu and Kashmir has openly admitted that it’s a total failure of intelligence that has resulted in Pulwama. They can detect beef in… Kerala House but they can’t detect RDX on a sensitive National Highway. It shows it’s a total failure of Narendra Modi’s government,” said Hariprasad, while criticising the Modi government.
Karnataka BJP general secretary N Ravikumar said Hariprasad’s comments were “highly condemnable and irresponsible”.
“He should be ashamed of making such statements. Where had he mortgaged his brain before making such a statement?” Ravikumar said.
This is not the first time Hariprasad gave a controversial comment. Earlier, in January he mocked Amit Shah when the BJP president was admitted to AIIMS in Delhi for swine flu treatment. He said Shah got flu because he tried to destabilise the Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Karnataka.
Agencies
SC orders mediation to settle Ayodhya title dispute
Nasheman News : The Supreme Court on Friday ordered mediation to settle the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid Ayodhya title dispute case by a three-member panel.
The panel will be headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice F.M.I. Kalifulla with Art of Living founder, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and senior advocate Shriram Panchu as its members.
Ordering the mediation, the five-judge constitution bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice S.A. Bobde, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice S. Abdul Nazeer barred both the print and visual media from reporting on the mediation proceedings.
It also barred those participating in the proceedings from speaking to the media.
The mediation proceedings would be held at Faizabad and would commence in a week.
The order pronounced by Chief Justice Gogoi did not pass any specific guidelines, leaving it to the mediators to take a call, and said that mediators could take any legal assistance that may be necessary.
The court has ordered the mediation to use the time available before the regular hearing of the matter during which all the parties to the dispute have been asked to complete the paper work relating to the dispute.