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Agra: Idol of Lord Hanuman desecrated at Itmad-ud-Daula, eyes gouged out

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Agra: Idol of Lord Hanuman desecrated at Itmad-ud-Daula, eyes gouged out

Tempers in the area are running high as the idol of Lord Hanuman in Itmad-ud-Daula of the Agra city was found vandalised by an unknown person, says a report by Times of India. The desecration of the idol took place in the thickly populated area of Mahavir Nagar where the unidentified miscreant had scooped out the eyes of the idol.

According to the priests of the temple, Mahavir Das, the incident most likely happened on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday as he found the eyes of the idol gouged out on Tuesday morning.

The station house officer of Itmad-ud-daula, Udayveer Singh Malik, said that on Tuesday morning residents living near the temple reported incident of vandalism at the temple. Recognising the sensitive nature of the complaint, the idol was replaced by afternoon and a FIR was loged against unknown person under IPC section 153 (Want only giving provocation with intent to cause riot), Malik said. The police is also looking at CCTV camera footage for further investigation.

Read: Concerns of Hindus anywhere should be concern of Hindus everywhere

Earlier too, there have been several incidents of vandalism of temples across Uttar Pradesh. In one of such case, a Muslim youth entered a Temple in Khatoli(Uttar Pradesh) in July and attempted to break the Murti of Hanuman in it. He also abused the devotees worshipping at the Temple. The people present at the scene managed to get hold of the perpetrator but couldn’t prevent him from smashing the glass at the Temple. The Police came in and arrested him.

In another incident of temple desecration in June this year, a Muslim mob ransacked a temple in Rohanya village in Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh to oppose loudspeakers. The mob broke the loudspeaker and took away the idols of the temple along with them. Five men, Mehboob, Monis, Israel, Azaad and Alanoor have been arrested and a case was registered for trying to create enmity between religious groups.

In Meerut in June 2019, a Muslim mob entered a temple in Ghasauli village and thrashed a group of Dalit men who had put up loudspeakers in the temple for playing devotional songs. The Muslim community had objected to the loudspeaker on temple premises, which is near a mosque after the men from Dalit community put them up.

Uttar Pradesh: BJP lawmakers urge CM Yogi Adityanath to rename Aligarh to ‘Harigarh’

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Uttar Pradesh: BJP lawmakers urge CM Yogi Adityanath to rename Aligarh to ‘Harigarh’

Amidst the speculation that the name of Agra may soon be changed to Agravan, demands are being made to change the name of Aligarh by its ancient name ‘Harigarh’.

According to the reports, the BJP lawmakers have now requested the Yogi Adityanath led Uttar Pradesh government to rename the city of Aligarh into ‘Harigarh’. Speaking to the media, Aligarh MP Satish Gautam has reiterated the demand to rename the city by stating that Harigarh was the ancient name of the city. He said the demands have been made for a very long time now.

Local BJP MLA Sanjeev Raja also stated that the name of the city was changed to Aligarh during the Mughal period. In 2015, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad had also insisted about renaming Aligarh as Harigarh. Aligarh was named after Mughal governor Najaf Ali Khan

Read: Agravan when? UP govt asks historians to check if Agra city was ever known by any other name

BJP leaders also added that the idea to change the name of Aligarh was first mooted by the then UP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh in 1992. However, his attempts were thwarted by the then Congress government at the centre. With Modi government back at the centre, the hopes to restore the name of the place has been revived yet again.

Two days back, there were reports that the Yogi Adityanath government had asked historians and experts asked to look into the matter of change of the circumstances in which the name of the city of Agra was renamed into the present form. Last year, BJP MLA from Agra North, Jagan Prasad Garg, had requested the Chief Minister to change the name of the city to Agravan soon after Faizabad and Allahabad were renamed as Ayodhya and Prayagraj respectively.

JNU administration moves Delhi HC seeking contempt against protesting students, Delhi Police for violating court order

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JNU administration moves Delhi HC seeking contempt against protesting students, Delhi Police for violating court order

The Jawaharlal Nehru University administration on Tuesday approached the Delhi High Court seeking contempt action against its “students” and the Delhi Police for violating a court order against holding a protest within 100 metres of the varsity’s administrative block.

According to the reports, the JNU administration has stated that the protesting students had grossly violated the August 9, 2017, order of the high court by holding a protest within 100 metres of the administrative block and disrupting its day-to-day working.

The university also added that the Delhi police also violated the court order by refusing and failing to take action to maintain law and order in the university and removing the blockade around the administrative block.

The central government filed the petition on behalf of JNU, seeking direction to issue contempt notice against the students and Delhi Police and also demanded punishment in accordance with the Contempt of Courts Act for alleged wilful disobedience of the court order.

Read: Ravish Kumar incites violence, wants students from Hindi heartland with ‘third class’ ideology to be more like JNU goons

Senior standing counsel Monika Arora, representing the varsity also sought direction to Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik to provide assistance to the JNU in controlling the ongoing and any future contemptuous acts of the students and their leaders and removing them from within 100 metres of the administrative block.

Earlier in the day, the Delhi Police had registered two FIRs in connection with Monday’s protest march. Reportedly, the Delhi Police had registered FIR against unknown protestors for allegedly violating prohibitory orders, obstructing police officers from discharging duties, and causing hurt.

The second FIR was filed for the alleged damage caused to public property at Aurobindo Marg in South Delhi. According to the police, almost 30 police personnel and 15 students were injured during the eight-hour protest.

Read: There is no ‘fee hike’ in JNU: While free education may be a right, free accommodation is certainly not

The case has been filed under IPC sections 147 – punishment for rioting, Section 148 – rioting, armed with deadly weapon, Section 149 – every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object, Section 151 – knowingly joining or continuing in assembly of five or more persons after it has been commanded to disperse, Section 34 – acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention and Section 3 of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.

The violent protests had erupted in JNU after the university administration had introduced fees for utility services like water and electricity on an actual basis, and a fixed charge of Rs 1700 per month for services like sanitation, maintenance, cook etc.

The room rent was also increased from ₹20 to ₹600 for single-seater and from Rs 10 to Rs 300 for double seater. One time security which is refundable had gone up from Rs 5,500 to Rs 12,000 and the students have been protesting against it.

Following the violent protests, the JNU administration had announced a ‘major rollback’ in the hostel fee hike. Despite the rollback, the JNU goons had resorted to shocking vandalism during the protest and had desecrated the soon-to-be inaugurated statue of Swami Vivekananda on campus shocking citizens across the country.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor joins UK firm which had hosted NDTV’s Nidhi Razdan in controversial Kashmir event

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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor joins UK firm which had hosted NDTV’s Nidhi Razdan in controversial Kashmir event

In what may trigger a controversy, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has now decided to join a UK-based advisory firm CTD Advisors which had recently organised anti-Indian events in London.

According to the reports, the Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor will be joining as a strategic advisor at a UK firm known as CTD Advisors. Shashi Tharoor will be providing strategic advice to the clients of the firm, who operate in opaque and unfamiliar political and regulatory environments and manage their reputational risk.

The CTD Advisors was founded last year by former British banker and business strategist Shoaib Bajwa as a Pakistan-origin-London-based international affairs advisory firm with global access. CTD Advisors had hosted the event ‘The Cost to Britain of the Kashmir Crisis: Is There a Solution?’ at the Chatham House, London on November 7 which had caused a huge controversy after it had resorted to peddling falsehood against the Indian government by inviting anti-Indian voices.

Read: Defence analyst slams Nidhi Razdan’s claim that she countered Pakistan at UK Kashmir event, exposes her lies and anti-India statements

NDTV journalist Nidhi Razdan had attended the event along with other anti-Indian voices. She had mirrored the lines what were being peddled by Pakistan to paint India as evil and Pakistan as a victim of terrorism. To the delight of the Pakistani establishment, she also added that India’s credentials at the world’s largest democracy have been shadowed by the events in Kashmir.

The event was attended by former Pakistani envoy to the UN Maleeha Lodhi and Lyall Grant, UK’s former National Security Advisor, who stated in the event that “Modi’s actions in occupied Kashmir are radicalising Kashmiris and that has a direct impact on UK’s national security where more than 1 million Kashmiris live.”

The event was shockingly endorsed by terrorist organisation JKLF. The JKLF had called the event as an event that managed to ‘bring Kashmiri voices’, by referring to Razdan’s speech. The JKLF had also thanked the organisers profusely. It is needless to remind here that ironically, JKLF has been one of the chief initiators of radicalisation and terrorism in the Kashmir valley. Its chief Yaseen Malik is currently facing charges for killing Indian Air Force personnel in cold blood.

Tharoor will be joining the firm along with former UK National Security Advisor Sir Mark Lyall Grant, who was also one of the invitees to the anti-Indian event organised by Bajwa. Former Head of British Defence Intelligence Chris Nickols and the Friends of Israel Group’s Honorary President Lord Stuart Polak will also be part of the firm.

Mughals established ‘Akhand Bharat’: Unintentional comedy erupts as Islamists trend #ThanksMughals

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Mughals established ‘Akhand Bharat’: Unintentional comedy erupts as Islamists trend #ThanksMughals

Scratch a ‘liberal’ find a Mughal apologist. But then, there are few who not only normalise the barbaric violent history of Mughals but also glorify it. Days after the hashtag ‘MosquesofIndia’ trended by some Muslims on Twitter revealed how there are many more mosques in India which are built over demolished Hindu temples, the same set of Islamists took to Twitter to thank Mughals. Except, this time it led to some unintentional comedy as Mughals were even credited for things like creating the ‘Akhand Bharat’ which existed even before Islam was born.


Irena Akbar is a former journalist with Indian Express and has a complicated relation with facts. But she could try her hand at comedy.

She urged everyone to trend ‘ThanksMughals‘ with pictures of their legacy.


Irena Akbar then wondered where would the PM address the nation on 15th August had it not been for the Red Fort.


Red Fort was ‘chosen’ as part of the Independence movement because it was one of the most prominent non-colonial structures in Delhi. The Hindu structures were either demolished and structures like Qutub Minar or Jama Masjid were built or the others were built by the British.

Perhaps it would do her good if she reads history. Of the time when Mughals fell and the holy symbol of Khalsa Panth was unfurled at the Red Fort. Even before India became independent in 1947.

Read: Fact check: was Aurangzeb a “secular” ruler as his sympathisers claim he was?

Of course, she was also ‘proud’ to be ‘Babur ki aulad’ (descendant of Babur).


Babur’s commander Mir Baqi built the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya after demolishing the ancient Hindu temple at the Ram Janmabhoomi.

Read: All the historical literary evidence point that the Babri Masjid was built on the ruins of Ram Temple: Noted historian Meenakshi Jain speaks to OpIndia

Despite thousands of historical evidence that suggest otherwise, Akbar (Irena, not the Mughal Emperor who did not look like Hrithik Roshan) refuses to accept the forceful conversions that were rampant under the Mughal rule.


Islamist and fake news peddler Mohammad Asif Khan also joined in and said how ‘they’ had lost all the battles against Mughals.

‘They’ lost all battles against Mughals

In a now-deleted tweet, he spoke about how ‘they’ lost all battles against Mughals and now ‘they’ are writing ‘fake history’ to demonise Muslims. Presumably, when. he said ‘they’, he was referring to the Hindus. These are the very people who rather express pride in Mughals who raped, killed, converted and suppressed Hindus for centuries and demonise Hindus just like the Mughals did.

He alleged that Bollywood is also part of this ‘propaganda’. While there are many, many stories of valour and bravery, perhaps Khan could start with the first significant military victory against the Adilshahi forces by Maratha King Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

You see, India’s culture was rich even before the country was invaded by foreigners. Mughals destroyed many cultural symbols and structures and built their own over them. They looted and plundered India’s wealth and took it back home. While Islamists seem to hold the Mughal history dear, and it is a part of India’s history, it does show their deep-seated hatred for Muslims when they would worship the very forces that oppressed Hindus and attempted to destroy their faith.

Unfortunately, the problem today lies in not what happened in the past but people not willing to acknowledge the historical wrong and crimes.

After Rahul Gandhi’s infamous ‘hug and wink’ in Parliament, now Congress MLA blows kisses in Odisha Assembly

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After Rahul Gandhi’s infamous ‘hug and wink’ in Parliament, now Congress MLA blows kisses in Odisha Assembly

Congress supremo Rahul Gandhi’s ‘hugs and winks’ in the Parliament seems to have become a pacesetter for his coteries. Following the footsteps of his mentor, Congress MLA Taraprasad Bahinipati managed to turn the Odisha assembly session on Tuesday into a comic session after he blew a flying kiss to Speaker SN Patro for being allowed to raise issues faced by his constituency.

The Jeypore MLA, who was the first to ask questions in the House, was seen throwing a kiss at the speaker at the end of his speech which he later said was a sign of gratitude since the speaker gave him the opportunity to speak first amongst the 147 members of the House and he did not intend to hurt anyone.


“I wanted to thank the Speaker. The flying kiss was a mark of my appreciation for him as he showed concern for the backward areas in my constituencies,” he said.

Read: ‘For five seconds, I was shocked. I was very angry,’ Sumitra Mahajan on Rahul Gandhi’s infamous wink

“I am indebted to the Speaker for giving me the opportunity among the 147 members of the House to raise the first question,” Congress MLA Bahinipati told reporters outside the Odisha Assembly.

The MPs and MLAs in the Parliament and the State Assembly’ are generally expected to observe the law and conduct oneself appropriately, but considering Rahul Gandhi himself has several times in the past shown similar deportment, the MLAs conduct in the Odisha Assembly on Tuesday does not surprise anyone.

The skeletons keep tumbling out: Three more former altar boys accuse two priests of sexually abusing them inside Vatican Church

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The skeletons keep tumbling out: Three more former altar boys accuse two priests of sexually abusing them inside Vatican Church

In yet another case of sexual abuse emanating from the Vatican church, three former altar boys of the Catholic church have now made shocking allegations stating that they were sexually abused two priests in the Vatican, reports Guardian.

The child abuse cases have yet again rocked the Catholic church as several anonymous former altar boys at the Vatican’s youth seminary have accused at least two priests of sexually abusing them by kissing and fondling three of them in the Nineties.

Reportedly, Le Iene (‘The Hyenas’), an Italian investigative TV programme broke these allegations in 2017, stated that the senior seminarian, who is now a priest, had sexually abused teenagers who served as altar boys at papal masses in St Peter’s Basilica. The allegations of abuse in the Vatican’s youth seminary dates back to the 1980s and 90s when the boys were aged between 10 and 14, will be telecasted in an Italian TV show on Sunday.

These shocking cases of sexual abuse have now come to light just two months after the Vatican Church had announced Father Gabriele Martinelli and Father Enrico Radice will stand trial over accusations of covering up sexual crimes.

Read: Pope of ‘Mafia like Church’ must resign, knew of sexual abuse allegations and did nothing : Archbishop

According to one of the victim altar boys, a priest sat him down on his lap and fondled his penis. In the programme, one of the victims had alleged that one of the priests, who was managing the school’s communal showers, tried to remove his bathrobe. “He wanted to undress me,” the victim alleged. “I tried to wriggle away. I was 13 years old. I fell to the ground and asked him what are you doing?. I then got up and ran away,” said the victim.

Another victim alleged that he was abused at the Casa Santa Marta, a place where many priests stay. The victim said he was arrested by a priest at the youth seminary when he was 10 or 11 years old. “He asked me to go upstairs to his room, made me sit on his legs, began to stroke my thigh and then put a hand on my private parts,” he told Le Iene.

Reportedly, the priest allegedly persisted with the abuse and later stopped it as the alter boy refused the advances.

Read: Investigation reveals nuns in Catholic institutions in India facing ‘decades of abuse’ by priests who enjoy protection

The victims, who are now aged between 37 and 40, had come forward together a few years ago to share their agonies to the public. The third victim has also made similar allegations but chose not to go into detail for the programme. They claimed that a fourth former altar boy suffered worse sexual abuse than they did, but he refused to talk.

The allegations were corroborated by several people who claimed to have witnessed some of the abuse.

The fresh allegations come just months after Catholic leaders had gathered for an unprecedented summit at the Vatican to tackle widespread paedophilia within the church. At the close of the summit in February, Pope Francis promised the church would “spare no effort” in bringing abusers to justice and would not cover up or underestimate abuse.

In March this year, Cardinal George Pell, who is third in seniority after the Pope in the Vatican, was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison for sexually abusing two choirboys in the late 1990s.

George Pell, who was the former Vatican treasurer, is the most senior Catholic figure ever to be found guilty of sexual offences against children. Pell had abused young choir boys in a Melbourne cathedral in 1996 and 1997. Ironically, George Pell was one of the inner circle of nine cardinals chose by Pope Francis to deal with issues such as sexual abuse of children by the clergy, fixing account books and financial reforms.

Similarly, in January this year, in a major embarrassment to the Vatican Church and Pope Francis, Vatican priest Hermann Geissler, who was appointed to handle sex-abuse cases within the Catholic Church has quit from his position two months after being accused of sexual abuse.

Hermann Geissler, who was the Chief of staff in a Church Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was accused of sexual harassment by a former nun named Doris Wagner-Reisinger. The former nun of the Church had earlier accused an unnamed Vatican priest of making sexual advances towards her during a confession session in 2009

Watch: ‘Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj…’ Tanhaji actor Sharad Kelkar corrects journalist who referred to the Maratha warrior by his first name

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Watch: ‘Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj…’ Tanhaji actor Sharad Kelkar corrects journalist who referred to the Maratha warrior by his first name

The trailer of the film ‘Tanhaji’ which is slated to release on January 10, 2020, is winning hearts already. Meanwhile, a video clip has gone viral on social media where the actors of the film are interacting with the media. In that, actor Sharad Kelkar, who plays the role of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj corrected a journalist who referred to the Maratha warrior-king by his first name.


When a journalist asked Kelkar about the role he is playing of ‘Shivaji’.. Sharad Kelkar corrected her and said it is ‘Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’. The journalist then gracefully corrected herself and referred to the great Maratha by the name he is revered as.

Google removes the anti-India mobile app ‘2020 Sikh Referendum’ from its Play Store

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Google removes the anti-India mobile app ‘2020 Sikh Referendum’ from its Play Store

Facing ire for joining hands with terror groups giving them a platform to spread their anti-India agenda, the Google play – the official app store for Android apps from Google has now removed the application named “2020 Sikh referendum”, which is a Sikh extremist movement sponsored by the terror state of Pakistan to destabilise India through its extremist activities in the Indian state of Punjab, from its play store.

The tech giant had faced severe backlash from various social media users for its decision to allow space for a pro-Khalistan terror organisation to push its propaganda on the internet. Punjab chief minister, Captain Amarinder Singh had also urged the Central government to persuade Google in this regard and had also asked the Director-General of Police to coordinate with Central security agencies to tackle the threat resulting from the launch of the app.

Read: Hard Kaur supports pro-Khalistan ‘Referendum 2020’, extends support to banned terror outfit Sikhs For Justice

Acceding to the demands, Google has now taken off the app which is published by a developer named Icetech, which has published another app named Voice of Punjab on the Play store. This app is also spreading hatred and promoting the Khalistan movement.

After pushing making Islamic literature on Ghazwa-e-Hind available on its play store, the tech-giant Google had also allowed space for the pro-Khalistan terror organisation at the beginning of the month.

Read: OpIndia investigation: Tentacles of radical Islam, Pakistan, Khalistan in Houston anti-Modi protests ahead of ‘Howdy Modi’ event

During analysis of the said application and the website in the DITAC Lab, Punjab, it was found that the data of voters registered through the App was also linked and stored in the webserver of the website, namely www.yes2Khalistan.org, created and handled by ‘Sikhs For Justice’ (SFJ), an Association banned by the Government of India.

Based on these findings, the Cyber Crime Centre of Bureau of Investigation, Punjab, had moved to get the App removed from the Google Play Store and the website blocked for usage in India.

Parliament passes bill to remove Congress President as the permanent member of Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Trust

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Parliament passes bill to remove Congress President as the permanent member of Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Trust

The Parliament on Tuesday has passed the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (Amendment) Bill, 2019 which seeks to remove the Congress president as a trustee of the memorial.

According to the reports, the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (Amendment) Bill 2019, paving the way for the removal of the Congress president as a permanent member of the Trust that runs the memorial. The Lok Sabha had already passed the bill on August 2.

The new bill has deleted the provision that makes the sitting president of the Indian National Congress as a permanent member of the trust. The bill has also added a new clause to include the Leader of Opposition or the leader of the single largest opposition party in the Lok Sabha to be a member of the trust.

The government said the bill “seeks to make apolitical” the trust that runs Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial. The bill also has an added clause that allows the central government to terminate the term of a nominated trustee before the expiry of his term without assigning any reason.

Read: No taxes paid for Anand Bhavan: Prayagraj authorities send 4.35 crores notice to Nehru Memorial Fund

Speaking on the occasion, the Minister of State for Culture and Tourism (IC), Prahlad Singh Patel said this bill will end the political colour which the trust earlier had. He attacked the opposition parties by stating that they had no problem with other provisions of the bill, but only with the one in which the Congress president was being removed as a trustee.

“As we remember 100 years of Jalliawalan Bagh massacre, it is necessary to build Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial as National Memorial in true sense. These amendments will make this Memorial a National Monument in the true spirit,” Patel was quoted as saying in a government statement.

Slamming the Congress party, Minister Patel said the party was “playing with the rules and regulations of the trust. “I just wanted to ask as how many cheques the Congress party has given to the memorial,” he said.

Read: Remembering Udham Singh, the brave heart who avenged Jallianwala Bagh massacre

He said Punjab Chief Minister would be in the trust and through him, the Congress party would have its representation. Reportedly, former governor RL Bhatia, Member of Parliament from Amritsar, two MLAs of Amritsar, the mayor of the city, Punjab Culture Minister and the Chairman, Improvement Board Amritsar will be part of the management committee of the trust.

Meanwhile, Congress MP Pratap Singh Bajwa urged the government to show large-heartedness. It was time that the government showed “magnanimity” and recognised the Congress party’s contribution to the freedom struggle, he said.

“There is no need to rewrite history,” Bajwa said, adding that the relationship between Jallianwala Bagh and Congress party cannot be separated.

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