New Delhi: Thousands of women farmers held protest marches and delivered speeches at the Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur protest sites at Delhi’s borders on International Women’s Day.

Noting that women contribute significantly to the country’s farming sector, the organisers have laid out elaborate plans to let women farmers manage the stage, arrange food and security and share tales of their struggles on the occasion.

“The stage is being managed by women, the speakers are all women and the issues that are being discussed are of both farming and women farmers more specifically,” farmer leader Kavitha Kuruganti told PTI on Monday.

“The discourse of the debate is focusing on women farmers. The debate is also on the contribution of women in this movement,” said Kuruganti, who is also a member of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha.

She added that the participation of women has increased significantly with the arrival of “thousands of women”.

Thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been camping at the Delhi border points for over 100 days, demanding the repeal of farm laws and a legal guarantee on the minimum support price for their crops.

International Women’s Day is celebrated across the world on March 8 and it is a day when women are recognised for their achievements, according to the United Nations.

This year’s theme — ‘Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world’ — celebrates the tremendous efforts by women in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the pandemic, and highlights the gaps that remain, the UN Women stated.

Ballia (UP): A teacher here has alleged that he was removed from an RSS-run school after he refused to donate Rs 1,000 for the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, a charge denied by the institution.

Yashwant Pratap Singh, who worked as an acharya (teacher) at Saraswati Shishu Mandir in Jagdishpur localilty, also claimed that the school has withheld his eight months’ salary.

Singh said he was given a receipt book for the collection of funds for the temple. He deposited around Rs 80,000 collected for it, he said.

Singh claimed that he was pressured to donate Rs 1,000 for the temple when the district pracharak of the Rasthriya Swyamsewak Sangh (RSS), Satyendra, came to the school.

When he refused, the school authorities “misbehaved” and removed him from the school, Singh alleged, adding that he has given a written complaint in this regard at the district magistrate’s office.

Singh said he will approach a court if justice is not done to him.

Meanwhile, school principal Dhirendra said all employees were given receipt books for the collection of funds as per their capacity.

“Singh also took three receipt books willingly but later did not deposit them. He himself resigned,” he said, denying the allegations.

RSS district pracharak Satyendra too said no one is being pressured for the collection of funds. He accused Singh of indiscipline and not having interest in teaching.

Mangaluru: Locals near Montepadav in the Konaje Police Station’s jurisdiction reportedly caught an individual associated with a Hindutva organization for his alleged involvement in a theft of two-wheeler, temple’s donation box, and other robberies in the area, and handed him to the Konaje police on Sunday night. 

The accused who is a resident from Montepadav has been identified as Tharanath alias Mohan, the police revealed.

On Saturday, the accused had allegedly stolen a two-wheeler parked inside the compound of a home in Montepadav and fled. After the homeowners checked the CCTV footage and discussed with various people to ascertain the identity of the thief, they were able to determine that the accused was Tharanath. When they went to the accused’s house on Sunday night, he reportedly tried to flee but was caught by the locals, who later handed him to the Konaje Police.

Theft of Temple’s Donation Box, Burglary of Other Homes 

The police have revealed that the accused Tharanath has been involved in various cases of burglary including the theft of gold ornament from homes, robbery of Bags of Areca nut, theft of petrol from his friend’s vehicles, and also the theft of money from inside the donation box of a local temple. 

As of late, Tharanath has attempted to rob a poor household in the Gangaramajalu vicinity but had to allegedly flee after the homeowners woke to the noise of his scooter, and in doing so he had left his scooter behind.  Fearing a police crackdown, Tharanath had visited the station in the aftermath of the incident, where the Konaje police warned him with a citation and sent him away.

The accused Tharanath was a convener of the Viranjeneyanagar’s Bajarang Dal faction and was involved with the Montepadav Sharadanagar’s Vishwa Hindu Parishad, it is learned. Apart from that, he was also an active participant in the various programs organized by Hindutva organizations that took place in the vicinity. 

He was allegedly kept away from the organization after he was caught stealing, it is learned. After laying low for two months in the aftermath of the incident, Tharanath once again began his thieving activities and was apprehended in the case of the recent two-wheeler robbery which occurred on Saturday, for which the locals handed him over to the Konaje police. 

A case has been registered at the Konaje Police station in this regard, and an investigation is underway.

The AIUDF is a part of the Grand Alliance comprising the Congress, BPF, CPI(M), CPI, CPI-ML and the Anchalik Gana Morcha.

GUWAHATI: The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), a major constituent of the opposition Congress-led Grand Alliance, on Sunday night released the first list of 16 candidates and said it has renominated seven of its 13 sitting MLAs for the Assam assembly election.

AIUDF president Badruddin Ajmal said that the party has put 11 candidates in alliance with its partners while in five seats, it has decided to go for a friendly contest.

The AIUDF is a part of the Grand Alliance comprising the Congress, BPF, CPI(M), CPI, CPI-ML and the Anchalik Gana Morcha.

Aminul Islam is one of the seven renominated candidates who will contest the Dhing seat, which is the only constituency in the list that goes to polls in the first phase on March 27.

The other six such contestants are Suzamuddin Laskar (Katlicherra), Nizamuddin Choudhury (Algapur), Nazrul Haque (Dhubri), Nijanur Rahman (Gauripur), Hafiz Bashir Ahmed (Bilasipara West) and Dr Hafiz Rafiqul Islam (Jania).

The party presidents brother Sirajuddin Ajmal has been nominated for the Jamunamukh constituency, replacing the elder Ajmal’s son and sitting MLA Abdur Rahim Ajmal.

Phani Talukdar, Aminul Islam (advocate) and Karimuddin Barbhuiya were nominated from Bhabanipur, Mankachar and Sonai constituencies respectively.

The party has decided to go in for a friendly contest in five seats and nominated Minakshi Rahman from Sarukhetri, Rafiqul Islam from Jaleswar, Mujibur Rahman from Dalgaon, Ashraful Hussain from Chenga and Rajib Ahmed from Bagbar.

Elections to the 126-member Assam assembly will be held in three phases on March 27, April one and April six.

Pramesh Jain

Home maker arrested for assaulting traffic cop on busy junction:

The Upparpet police have arrested a 40 year old  woman who slapped a Upparpet Traffic Assistant Sub-Inspector,K Basavaiah,the women even  manhandled and created ruckus on the busy  Mysore bank circle after she was caught jumping traffic signal on Saturday.

The accused has been identified as Apoorvi Dias, 40, resident of Nyanpanahalli,and native of Goa.

Senior officer said,as usual our ASI,who was doing his routine duty near Mysore Bank Circle in the afternoon while on duty he observed a car jumped the traffic signal the cops flagged the car for jumping traffic signal.

On Saturday afternoon,the women along with her family heading home and jumped the signal at KG road and were heading towards palace road.

After stopping the car the ASI,Basavaiah K who was on duty stopped the car at the next junction and explained them about the violation and  asked to pay the fine.

Enraged Apoorvi got down and started hurling with abuses at Basavaiah using unparliamentary language and created ruckus and even slapped the traffic ASI on duty.

The ASI and other staff who were explaining her about the violation she did and were just giving awareness to her by telling to follow traffic rules but the women driver was not ready to listen at all to them and she started shouting at them and started hurling abuses at the ASI.

Then our ASI,Basavaiah asked her to behave properly following which she started accusing him of touching her and held his collar and slapped him in public while he was discharging his duty.

Shocked by this Basavaiah passed the information to control room and the Hoysala police arrived at the spot and took her to the upparpet police station and filed a complaint.

Even at the station the woman was not ready to  apologize for her mistake and was unapologetic and continued to misbehave with police at station too following which an FIR was filed against her followed by legal action as per law.

During questioning it was found that the accused is a home maker and native of Goa was residing in an apartment with her family in Nyanapanahalli main road.

A case has been registered in upparpet police station and the accused has been charged with assaulting government servant on duty,voluntary hurt and intentional insult to provoke,She was later produce before the magistrate and remanded to judicial custody he added.

Pramesh Jain

Duo held Fake Gold, 1298 grams seized by CCB :

The CCB officials of Special inquiry squad wing on Friday arrested two con men who were trying to sell fake gold to the people luring them as genuine gold .

The accused has been identified as Arjun,31,and Rahul,21,both native of Sathemala in Mandya district.

The duo was arrested while they were luring passers by near a lodge on NR road in SJ park area.

Senior officer told media persons,that a credible information was received by our special inquiry squad wing that some two persons are selling gold type item in SJ park near lodge.

Acting on a tip off a special team rushed to the spot and where observing the duo when some passer by was passing from there the duo were trying to sell the fake gold the team who kept a close watch on the duo and nabbed them red handed while trying to sell the gold type items.

The team detained the duo for questioning and during investigation the team got checked the gold type item from goldsmith which they were having and after checking it was found that it is fake gold and based on which the duo has been arrested.

A case has been registered in SJ park police station and further investigating to ascertain their criminal background.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner, Kamal Pant,has appreciated, Joint CP Crime, Sandeep Patil, DCP Crime-1, KP Ravikumar,and his whole team who has successfully nabbed the two Conman who were trying to lure people by selling fake gold and for the timely action and commendable job done by them is highly appreciable and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Pramesh Jain

B.Tech Student ends life in Bengaluru due to depression.

A 25-year-old B.Tech graduate ended his life by jumping before moving train at Aravantikepalya near Anekal on Friday night.

It is alleged he was under depression after Covid attack and it led him to take this extreme step,the police said.

The deceased has been identified as Suneel Kumar,25,a resident of Mayasandra.

A senior police officer, said that,Kumar left home around 6 pm after informing his mother that he would go for evening walking.As he did not return home till midnight the parents started searching for him.Around 8.30 pm he jumped before a moving train at Aravantikepalya and ended his life.

The loco pilot of the passenger train alerted guards and Baiyyapanahalli Railway police rushed to the spot and shifted the body for postmortem.

Later Anekal police informed about the incident to Suryanarayana Swamy,father of the deceased.

Swamy,who runs a small scale business told the police that Kumar had Covid attack a month ago and he was under treatment for few days.Later he was discharged from the hospital and went  under severe depression.

He had stopped talking with his parents and was used to be alone.He was taken into counselling for a few days and the doctors advised him that he is under depression and had asked family not to let him alone.

The Baiyyapanahalli police have taken up a case and are investigating.

Those in distress or those having suicidal tendencies can call Arogya Sahayavani Ph: 104 for help.)