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Allah knew in 2011 that COVID will come in 2020, that is why graveyards were made before that: Watch bizarre viral video of Dr Jitendra Awhad

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Allah knew in 2011 that COVID will come in 2020, that is why graveyards were made before that: Watch bizarre viral video of Dr Jitendra Awhad

Social Media websites are awash with an undated video of Maharashtra Cabinet Minister for Housing Dr Jitendra Awhad in which he is seen declaiming that Allah was prescient to know in 2011 itself that the menace of coronavirus was going to hit the world in 2020 and therefore they (government) had built a graveyard in time.

Speaking at an event, Awhad could be seen gloating that his government had already predicted in 2011 that the scourge of COVID-19 would hit the country in 2020 and had therefore authorised the construction of a graveyard in the region, presumably to accommodate those who would die of the coronavirus.

“Allah knew in 2011 itself that the world would be hit by the deadly coronavirus in 2020 and therefore we had built the graveyard in time,” Awhad could be heard saying to rapturous applause.

It is unclear as to when Dr Jitendra Awhad made the remarks but from the video, it appears that the video is from the recent past and is from an opening ceremony of an NCP office under the jurisdiction of a local corporator Farzana Shakir Sheikh.

Dr Jitendra Awhad tested positive for coronavirus

While Maha Vikas Aghadi minister bragged that Allah knew about the coronavirus outbreak back in 2011 itself, the Minister for Housing also could not elude the wrath of the contagion. Back in April 2020, Awhad was tested positive for the virus and had admitted himself to a private hospital in Thane for a precautionary check-up. Earlier, Awhad was under home quarantine along with 15 members of his family for a week after reports had emerged that some of his security staff tested were positive for the novel coronavirus.

West Bengal: Police arrest one Mohammad Hanif for rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl, was living as Ram Kumar for 12 years

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West Bengal: Police arrest one Mohammad Hanif for rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl, was living as Ram Kumar for 12 years

Days after a 9-year-old girl was raped and murdered in Jorabagan in North Kolkata, the police have arrested an accused named Mohammed Hanif. And now it has emerged that he has been living under a Hindu alias for 12 long years, reported The Times of India.

As per reports, the minor girl had accompanied her elder sister from her home in Sovabazar to her maternal uncle’s house on February 3. However, after 5 minutes of her arrival, the victim went outdoors to play with her friends. According to the police, the girl went into another building to play hide and seek. It was then that the accused, who worked as a security guard, lured the victim by offering chips and biriyani.

Lack of background check helped Hanif get the job, says police

The post-mortem report revealed that the girl was murdered between 9 pm and 2 am, although police believe that the incident took place between midnight and 2 am. During the probe, the police nabbed the accused Ram Kumar alias Lombu, and found that it is not his real name and he has been living with a false identity for the past 12 years. It was revealed that his real name is Mohammed Hanif, and he joined the security guard job under the pseudonym of Ram Kumar. He had reportedly made forged documents to substantiate his claims.

When the police did a background check and visited the addresses that he had shared, it was found that the accused was a resident of Deoghar and not Samastipur or Giridih. A police official informed, “Our teams that had visited Jharkhand and Bihar have returned to Kolkata with details of his past and have now decided to question him again. We are waiting for some more details from Deoghar police about his past.”

Forgery charges to be pressed against accused

The cops are now investigating the background details of another accused named Ranvir Tanti aka Raghuvir. He works as a marble cutting technician. According to Joint CP (crime branch) Murlidhar Sharma, Hanif was able to land the job of the security guard due to a lack of preliminary background check. Another police official informed that charges for forgery may be pressed in the chargesheet and that they are investigating whether the crime was planned in advance.

Furniture giant IKEA to invest Rs 5,500 crore in Uttar Pradesh to build its first shopping mall in India, CM Yogi Adityanath welcomes the investment

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Furniture giant IKEA to invest Rs 5,500 crore in Uttar Pradesh to build its first shopping mall in India, CM Yogi Adityanath welcomes the investment

Ingka Centres, a subsidiary of the Ingka Group that includes IKEA Retail, has decided to invest Rs 5,500 crore for a shopping mall spread across a 48,000 square metre plot in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

According to the reports, the Swedish furniture giant IKEA is all set to open its first retail outlet in Uttar Pradesh. IKEA also said that it was setting up its first shopping centre in India with Rs.5,500 crore investment. It will be the third IKEA outlet in the country, and the first shopping mall in India built by the company, which will have an IKEA store as the anchor store. The existing two outlets, at Hyderabad and Mumbai, as IKEA stores.

IKEA will be building its shopping centre in the next two to three years, reports said. A 48,000-square-metre plot has been acquired in Noida for the project, the company confirmed on Friday. The Noida Authority has already transferred the land located in Sector 51 to IKEA. The authority has received Rs 850 crore from IKEA.

Noida Authority CEO Ritu Maheshwari said that the IKEA shopping centre will bring in investments to the tune of Rs 5,500 crore and generate employment opportunities for more than 2,000 people. She informed that the entire project will be completed in seven years.

The IKEA group also said that it was unveiling its ‘Meeting Places’ concept, providing a sustainable mixed-use destination that would bring ‘many people’ together for multiple reasons. “Delhi-NCR is one of the most important markets in India and we are happy to announce the first store here,” IKEA India CEO Peter Betzel said in a statement.

The proposed mall in Noida will add to Ingka Centres’ growing list of shopping malls across the world, and will be one of the largest. The company already has 45 shopping centres across Europe, Russia and China. It plans to enter the United States later this year. The shopping centres are separate from the standalone IKEA stores that the company operates across the world.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath welcomes IKEA, says it will prove to be a decisive factor

The announcement was made by the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who took to Twitter to congratulate the company and the Noida authorities.

“Heartfelt congratulations to Noida Authority and IKEA for this MoU. I am confident that IKEA’s decision to invest in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, will prove to be a decisive factor in their own investment growth manifold. My best wishes,” the UP Chief Minister said.

Continuing, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said, “IKEA will build shopping malls, hotels, offices, retail outlets etc., in the Noida area for the common man. With the creation of many jobs in the region, it will prove to be helpful in making ‘Ease of Living’ perfect.”

The CM emphasized that Uttar Pradesh has become a centre of attraction for national and international investors due to its investment-friendly, transparent and systematic policies. The MoU was signed virtually at the CM Yogi Adityanath’s residence in state capital Lucknow.

Along with the shopping centre that will be spread over two multi-storied buildings housing retail, offices and hospitality facilities, Ingka will also build an overhead walkway for the interchange between Noida metro’s Aqua Line and Delhi metro’s Blue Line as part of the deal. The plot is situated between the metro stations of the two corridors, and the interchange will pass through it. The company will also develop a rotary to facilitate traffic movement near the intersection of Vishwakarma Marg and Captain Shashi Kant Marg as well as green belts and a parking lot.

Though the original deal between INGKA Centres and Noida Authority was for 47,834 square metres of land, later the government asked the company to buy an additional 1,902 sqm of land adjacent to the plot, as it would be difficult to provide wide access for this smaller plot. In return, the Noida Authority agreed to offer a plot of land measuring 3,310 sqm for developing “social and support infrastructure”, that will serve both the IKEA centre and Noida residents.

Arvind Kejriwal asks Gujaratis to give AAP a chance in local body polls, Gujaratis give a befitting reply

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Arvind Kejriwal asks Gujaratis to give AAP a chance in local body polls, Gujaratis give a befitting reply

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Supremo on Saturday appealed to Gujaratis via Twitter to give the party a chance in the local body polls scheduled for Sunday, February 21.

In a tweet, he said, ‘give one chance to AAP, then see how we change Gujarat’. However, Gujarati netizens were not too impressed.

Twitter user Sachin Patel said that in the greed of freebies, he will not let the country be ruined. His vote will be for the BJP as he will vote for the progress of the nation and for better utilisation of the taxes he pays. “My vote for the devotees of Lord Ram,” he tweeted.

Another Twitter user Dipak Trivedi said that Gujaratis don’t want a government that gives freebies but a government that gives employment opportunities. “Delhi people are regretting electing Kejriwal, Gujaratis will not give you such a chance,” he said.

Another Twitter user said that he does not want to turn Gujarat into yet another hotbed of protests the way Delhi has become. “We don’t want to invite fake aandolanjeevis to Gujarat,” he said.

Some Twitter users did not even consider it was worth giving importance to his appeal.

One Twitter user asked him to keep on moving.

Others were just not happy even with the appeal.

One Twitter user said that he would’ve thought of giving a chance earlier. But after seeing how Delhi has changed in past few years, he will not.

Shiv Sena inducts out-on-bail convicted murderers Rahatmulla Khan, Indin Shaikh and Anawar Shaikh into the party: Read details

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Shiv Sena inducts out-on-bail convicted murderers Rahatmulla Khan, Indin Shaikh and Anawar Shaikh into the party: Read details

In a shocking decision that could stoke major controversy, three people convicted for the murder of senior RPI leader Naresh Gaikwad have been inducted into Shiv Sena by senior party leaders on Tuesday.

According to the reports, the three convicts – Rahatmulla Khan alias Papa Khan, Indin Shaikh and Anawar Shaikh have joined Shiv Sena in the presence of party leader MLA Balaji Kinikar and Thane rural president Gopal Landge. All the three accused are currently on parole due to COVID-19. The three convicts have joined the party ahead of Ambernath municipal council election.

Naresh Gaikwad, the Dalit leader from Thane District, was killed in 2000 by six people, including the three Muslim youths who have now joined Shiv Sena. All six accused were sentenced to life imprisonment in the Dalit leader’s murder case.

Son of the Dalit leader express shock

Naresh Gaikwad’s son Kabir Gaikwad, who is associated with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), has expressed his shock over Shiv Sena’s decision to induct three murder convicts into their fold. “I am shocked with Shiv Sena’s decision of allowing the convicts, who killed my father, to join the party,” Gaikwad said.

The deceased leader’s son, expressing disbelief, said that he hoped CM Uddhav Thackeray would ask his party to expel these goons from the Shiv Sena. He also appealed to jail authorities to cancel the parole of the convicts.

A senior Shiv Sena leader from the city, speaking to the Times of India, said the party might lose Dalit votes in the civic election, and added that party senior leaders should think about their decision.

Meanwhile, Shiv Sena MLA Balaji Kinikar said to allow these convicts to join the party was the decision of his senior leaders.

‘Will the BJP take responsibility’, asks Shiv Sena as it looks to shift blame, hits out at BJP for rising Coronavirus cases in Maharashtra

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‘Will the BJP take responsibility’, asks Shiv Sena as it looks to shift blame, hits out at BJP for rising Coronavirus cases in Maharashtra

As Maharashtra witnesses yet another sharp increase in the number of Coronavirus cases, the ruling political dispensation in the State has begun accusing the Opposition BJP. In its party mouthpiece ‘Saamna’, Shiv Sena claimed that the BJP pressurised the government to ease the restrictions, leading to a spike in the number of cases.

Several political leaders in the State have been diagnosed with the deadly virus. They include the health in-charge Rajesh Tope, Jayant Patil, Raksha Khadse, Eknath Khadse, Bacchu Kadu, and Rajendra Shingne. “Will the BJP take responsibility,” asked Shiv Sena in its party mouthpiece.

Instead of owning up to its administrative failure, the Shiv Sena has alleged that the Opposition wanted a full-fledged Shivaji Jayanti and opening up of restaurants and temples. And the party has now asked the BJP to take responsibility, even though it exercises no control over the administrative decisions taken by the State government.

Rising Coronavirus cases in Maharashtra

On Friday, Press Information Bureau (Maharashtra) reported that the total number of new cases in the State have reached 6,112 while active cases stood at 44,765. At the same time, Maharashtra had witnessed 20.87 lac cases since the outbreak of the pandemic and 51,173 fatalities.

Lockdown imposed in Yavatmal and Amravati

On Thursday, the Shiv Sena administration had imposed a lockdown in Yavatmal. During the period, all schools and coaching institutes will remain closed. At the same time, only 50 people would be allowed at weddings and religious functions will be barred. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has also tightened the implementation of Coronavirus guidelines in the Mumbai district.

A similar lockdown has been imposed in Amravati on Saturday, starting from 8 pm that will remain effective until 7 am on Monday. While talking about the development, Dr Salunke attributed the rising cases of Coronavirus to the complete carelessness of people. He said that people from the same family have been testing positive. “This means they are exposed to infection during the same period. It could happen only at some public function, gathering, etc, where COVID-19 protocols have been ignored,” he added.

Why are the Coronavirus cases rising in Maharashtra – Here is what the state COVID task force and even the state health minister think

The state has seen a sharp rise in the number of Coronavirus cases and while Shiv Sena now wants to blame the BJP, devotees visiting Temples etc, the reasons as explained by the state COVID task force and even the health minister makes no mention of the reasons that Shiv Sena is peddling today.

State surveillance officer Dr Pradeep Awate suggested that one of the reasons could be the reopening of local trains, however, that would not explain the spike in areas like Vidarbha. He believes that the state-local elections held recently could be one of the reasons that the state is seeing a spike in cases. “Some areas in Vidarbha and Marathwada had reported more than 80 per cent voter turnout during the gram panchayat elections. It could have led to the spread of the disease. For instance, the Tivsa tehsil in Amravati district is now showing 32.7 per cent positivity rate. That means, every third sample is testing positive,” Awate said. He also had a similar theory for Similarly, the Sasurve village in Rahmatpur, Koregaon tehsil, of Satara district.

Speaking further, Awate said that marriage and family functions that had been put on hold earlier have also resumed and it is not uncommon to see 400-500 people at such gathering. This is the reason that restrictions on such gatherings have also been brought back. Another doctor from the taskforce had remarked that the surge in cases is due to people not keeping up their guard and assuming that the pandemic is over.

Interestingly, while the Shiv Sena blames BJP, State health minister Rajesh Tope agreed, and said people not following physical distancing norms, or avoiding face masks, would be heavily penalised.

In fact, report in Indian Express also suggests that Maharashtra has seen a drop in the number of samples being tested and contact tracing efforts.

Coronavirus outbreak in Maharashtra has been grim from the onset

Since the outbreak of the deadly Coronavirus, Maharashtra has one of the worst affected States in the country. It topped the list in the most number of active cases until recently when the spot was taken by a State with ‘model healthcare’ – Kerala.

Earlier in September last year, an undated video did the rounds on social media in which Omprakash Shete, who is the chief of the Medical Assistance Cell of the Maharashtra Chief Minister, was seen breaking down while talking to media about the Coronavirus pandemic situation in the state. In the video, Shete was seen desperately crying over the rising toll of deaths in the state due to coronavirus.

“I am not able to sleep. Common man is dying. It feels bad”, Shete said breaking down. He said that every day he receives hundreds of messages and he is tired of responding to them. “People are dying because they do not have money. I have requested the court to help them”, said Shete in a broken voice. By September last year, Maharashtra reported more than 12.60 lakh confirmed cases, thereby taking its share of active cases to more than 28%.

Shooter Manu Bhaker accuses Delhi airport officials of ‘treating her like criminal’, Air India refutes allegation as Minister Kiren Rijiju steps in: Details

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Shooter Manu Bhaker accuses Delhi airport officials of ‘treating her like criminal’, Air India refutes allegation as Minister Kiren Rijiju steps in: Details

Indian Olympian and shooter Manu Bhaker was allegedly refused permission to board an Air India flight from Delhi on Friday after officials stopped and asked her to pay extra charges for carrying and ammunitions.

Taking to Twitter, Manu Bhaker narrated her ordeal, saying she was not being allowed to board flight AI 437 at IGI Delhi by Air India’s officials, who allegedly asked her Rs. 10,200. Despite all valid documentation and DGCA permit, she said, an official named Manoj Gupta and other airline staff humiliated her.

Seeking help from Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju and Union Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, Manu Bhaker said that Air India’s officials stopped her and treated her “like a criminal” because she was carrying guns and ammunitions for training at the MP Shooting Academy.

In her tweet, the 19-year-old added, “At least don’t insult players every time and please don’t ask for money.”

The shooter alleged that officials asked her to pay money at the airport despite having all documents in place and permission from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to carry the weapons. 

Responding to the allegations, Air India said that the officials at Delhi Airport had only sought her valid documents for verification as per rules for the carriage of her weapon on board.

“In absence of the same, legitimate specified charges for the arms were conveyed to you. No one sought a ‘bribe’ as has been alleged. You were issued a boarding pass on your assurance of furnishing valid documents before boarding,” Air India clarified.

The national carrier also said that she was immediately allowed to board the flight once the verification was carried out. “It may please be noted that Air India has always encouraged and respected Sportspersons and have many eminent sports legends working with us,” Air India responded.

However, Manu Bhaker rejected the clarification by Air India to say that Air India was trying to save culprits Manoj Gupta and a security person who had stopped her initially. “You will further damage the reputation of Air India,” said the 19-year-old shooter accusing Air India’s officials of snatching her mobile and deliberately deleting the images.

Bhaker, an ISSF World Cup gold-medallist, was later allowed to board the flight, who thanked Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju for his help. To which the minister replied saying, “You are India’s pride @realmanubhaker.”

Manu Bhaker, one of India’s topmost shooters, has secured a berth for Tokyo Olympics in the women’s 10m air pistol event. The Haryana-born shooter will be competing at the ISSF World Cup scheduled to be held from March 18 to 29 in New Delhi. She is part of the 10m women’s team, 25m women’s team and the 10m mixed team.

Amidst chants of Allahu Akbar, PFI rally in Kerala parades chained people dressed in RSS uniform, depict the Moplah massacre of Hindus

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Amidst chants of Allahu Akbar, PFI rally in Kerala parades chained people dressed in RSS uniform, depict the Moplah massacre of Hindus

In a shocking rally in Kerala today, the Popular Front of India (PFI), an extremist Islamist organization, chose to do a rally parading men dressed in RSS uniforms. The men being paraded were also chained. The audio and visuals from the rally confirm a lot of Islamic chanting, including Allahu Akbar, la ilaha illallah muhammadur rasulullah, and others chanted during the procession.

The rally was held in Tenhipalam town in Malappuram district of Kerala, and video shows the procession passing through Chelari, the main commercial centre of the town.

Some of the chants during the procession were potentially incendiary, including calls to chain RSS members. Apart from people in RSS uniforms, the rally also had people dressed as British officers, chained and tied with ropes, with the other end of the rope held by people in skullcaps and lungis. The RSS and British dressed people were followed by a large group of people holding lathis, dresssed in skullcaps and lungis.

Some sources have said that PFI’s rally today is to ‘celebrate’ the centenary of the ‘1921 Malabar Hindu Genocide’ or Moplah massacre, which is better known in history as the Malabar Rebellion of 1921.

The estimated Hindu deaths of the ethnic cleansing in Moplah massacre tantamount to somewhere around 10,000 and it is believed that as many a 100,000 Hindus were forced to leave Kerala in the wake of the riots.

Annie Besant described the events in her book ‘The Future of Indian Politics’ as: “They murdered and plundered abundantly, and killed or drove away all Hindus who would not apostatize. Somewhere about a lakh of people were driven from their homes with nothing but the clothes they had on, stripped of everything. Malabar has taught us what Islamic rule still means, and we do not want to see another specimen of the Khilafat Raj in India”.

Babasaheb Ambedkar in his book, Pakistan or the Partition of India, wrote, “The blood-curdling atrocities committed by the Moplas in Malabar against the Hindus were indescribable. All over Southern India, a wave of horrified feeling had spread among the Hindus of every shade of opinion, which was intensified when certain Khilafat leaders were so misguided as to pass resolutions of “congratulations to the Moplas on the brave fight they were conducting for the sake of religion”.”

The number of Hindu Temples that were destroyed in the genocide is speculated to be a hundred. Forcible conversion of Hindus were rampant and unspeakable atrocities were poured upon Hindus.

Last year in January, the Yogi Adityanath U.P. Government had asked for a ban on PFI because of the violence caused by PFI during the anti-CAA riots. The Central Government deferred the banning of PFI because of anti-CAA violence and nothing has come of it yet.

Oracle Corporation, which was to acquire TikTok in USA, sold software to China that enabled invasive surveillance of citizens: Details

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Oracle Corporation, which was to acquire TikTok in USA, sold software to China that enabled invasive surveillance of citizens: Details

Oracle Corporation, an American multinational computer technology behemoth headquartered in Austin, Texas, is facilitating repression in China, a report published on theintercept.com by Mara Hvistendahl has revealed. The explosive report shined a light on the grim details of how sophisticated software built by Oracle helped Chinese police in Liaoning province to make sense of surveillance data collected through invasive means: financial records, travel information, vehicle registrations, social media, and surveillance camera footage.

Slides from a 2018 presentation that is hosted on Oracle’s website, show that four products sold by the computing giant were used by the Liaoning police authorities to do “criminal analysis and prediction”. One of the slides demonstrated Oracle software facilitating police to create network graphs on hotel registrations and traced down anyone associated with a particular suspect. Another slide showed Oracle software helping police build “security case heat maps”.

The concluding slide stated that Oracle software products helped the police officials to make sense of seemingly incomprehensible datasets and provided them with key inputs that enabled their search for “key people/object/events” and “identify potential suspects” which according to the Chinese authorities are those who dissidents and critics that dare to express their opinions without any inhibitions.

As per loads of documents hosted on its website, Oracle representatives have marketed the company’s data analytics for use by police and security contractors across Mainland China. The documents suggested that at least in two instances, the provincial departments used the company software for their intrusive surveillance activities. In yet another document, Oracle legitimised the repressive practices of Shanxi province by describing the police as a “client” in a need of an intelligence platform.

The American software giant also boasted about providing data security services to other Chinese police entities, including the police in Xinjiang, the restive Chinese province where a cultural genocide is being waged against the Uyghur Muslim minorities and other marginalised ethnic groups.

The documents accessed by journalist Mara revealed that Oracle has not only pitched their software and rendered their services to the Chinese police entities but they have also approached other organisations in the country, in their bid to sell their data analytics softwares. Oracle has reportedly made presentations to woo People’s Liberation Army, China National Nuclear Corporation, and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and enlist them for their services. However, it is unclear whether the aforementioned Chinese organisations have entered into agreements with the computing leviathan.

The trove of the documents, however, reveal that the American organisation has only paid lip-service to its professed principles and have sacrificed its values in lieu of the sale of its sophisticated softwares. Oracle’s presentations detailing its fraternising with the Chinese police entities and its overtures to the Chinese security establishment pose serious questions, given that Oracle is an important constituent of the US security apparatus and is in association with all the 5 branches of the US military.

Oracle was to lead TikTok’s US operations to prevent data from being passed to Chinese authorities

Significantly, Oracle’s close association with the government also helped it secure a deal to control the US operations for the Chinese social media company TikTok, which came under the scanner of the Trump administration for its accompanying privacy concerns. The US government had ordered TikTok to find a US buyer for its American operations. The proposed plan, which is under legal scrutiny in the court of law, was fuelled by concerns that the Beijing-based parent company of TikTok might pass on sensitive user data of Americans to the Chinese authorities.

However, in a strange turn of events, the documents betray that far from safeguarding US interests, Oracle has been marketing and selling its software to the very same authorities whom the US government suspected of seeking data from the Chinese parent company of TikTok. In its bid for TikTok, Oracle was supposed to prevent TikTok from sharing the data of American users to their Chinese bosses. Instead, the documents divulge that Oracle was chomping at the bit of selling its data analytic software to the Chinese entities. The revelation is a vivid example of how an organisation, in its relentless pursuit of making profits, has brushed aside the human rights concerns.

Besides human rights concerns, Oracle’s proposals to Chinese security organisations underscore profound national security implications. In one of the presentations that Oracle has reportedly presented to its prospective Chinese customers, the organisation has cited its US military’s work, in an attempt to win Chinese cloud computing contracts.

Oracle denies selling its data analytics softwares to Chinese police and military entities

Following the revelations, The Intercept got in touch with Oracle spokesperson Jessica Moore who rubbished her company’s involvement with a repressive Chinese regime. She asserted that the materials demonstrated in the presentations provided an insight into what products built by Oracle are capable of and dismissed them as simply “aspirational business development ideas” that “do not indicate any targeted or intended sales/support execution.” She further added that the company is not selling its analytics product for reasons implied in the presentations and insisted that such activities would not jibe with Oracle’s core Corporate Citizenship Values, including our Human Rights statement.

Moore further elaborated that her organisation carries out extensive due diligence to ensure that its exports abide by the trade restrictions, including agreements with the Chinese military. When asked about Oracle’s bid to military-linked entities, she said, “Any such transactions would have to be in full compliance with U.S. and applicable export control and economic sanctions laws and regulations. Period. And beyond our legal and regulatory obligations, Oracle is very conservative and cautious in how we even approach such opportunities.”

Leaked Chinese Police data reveals law enforcement officials using sophisticated tools and technology to repress its citizens

It is pertinent to note that Chinese police have been using new-age technology and complex software to keep a tab on the citizens. Earlier this month, leaked Chinese Police data brought to fore the extent to which the Chinese authorities went to subjugate ethnic minorities, especially Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province. The report on the Chinese police data leak demonstrated how futuristic technology and sophisticated software are increasingly used by the authorities to snoop on the citizens that are deemed exhibiting suspicious behaviour.

The database threw light on the lengths that China goes in not only scrutinising the minority Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang but also their relatives and friends, along with those who are living abroad. Artificial Intelligence, sophisticated surveillance systems, new-age technology and human intelligence are all employed by the Chinese Communist Party to track and monitor the Uyghur Muslims and those associated with them.

Be it surveillance through popular messaging app WeChat or using invasive “anti-terrorism sword” tool at the checkpoints in Xinjiang’s Urumqi, or availing the services of facial recognition software, the Chinese officials have displayed no moral restraints in undertaking invasive surveillance activities. The database brings to light a systematic campaign of repression that involves cameras placed in the homes of private citizens, the development of internment camps for housing the “extremists”, children being forcibly separated from their families and sent to preschools with electric fences, the organised destruction of Uyghur cemeteries, a structured plan to suppress Uyghur births, forced abortion, sterilisation, and birth control.

Greta Thunberg rallies in defence of Disha Ravi after landing the Indian ‘toolkit activist’ in trouble: Details

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Greta Thunberg rallies in defence of Disha Ravi after landing the Indian ‘toolkit activist’ in trouble: Details

Greta Thunberg has tweeted her support for fellow ‘climate activist’ Disha Ravi days after her arrest. It is pertinent to recall that it was Greta Thunberg herself who landed Disha Ravi in trouble after leaking the ‘toolkit’ that exposed the nefarious designs against India.

The global climate activist said, “Freedom of speech and the right to peaceful protest and assembly are non-negotiable human rights. These must be a fundamental part of any democracy. #StandWithDishaRavi”.

Greta Thunberg tweets in support of Disha Ravi
Greta Thunberg tweets in support of Disha Ravi

After the Swedish activist leaked the anti-India toolkit on social media, Disha had texted her on WhatsApp, “Can we just not say anything at all for a while. I am going to talk to lawyers.” The WhatsApp conversations reported in the media also revealed that Disha Ravi was well aware that she could have UAPA charges levelled against her.

Pressure had been building on Greta to comment on Ravi’s arrest but she had maintained her silence until now. However, she finally appears to have bent the knee and tweeted in the latter’s favour.

Disha Ravi was arrested from Bengaluru for her alleged role in creating the toolkit. The toolkit also exposed the Khalistani hands behind the global campaign against India. The role of Pieter Friedrich, close associate of a Pakistani ISI operative, has also come to the fore. Khalistani terror group Sikhs for Justice have also rallied to Ravi’s defence.

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