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Pakistan refuses to claim body of infiltrator after Indian forces foil the infiltration plan at Attari

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Pakistan refuses to claim body of infiltrator after Indian forces foil the infiltration plan at Attari

A Pakistani intruder was shot dead by the Border Security Force (BSF) troops near the Attari border on Wednesday. In a flag meeting which was immediately called by the BSF to enlightened the Pakistani rangers of the infiltration bid, the Pakistani border personnel were asked to claim the body. As per reports, they refused.

The Pakistani intruder was trying to cross the border through railway track near Attari when a BSF personnel caught him. The intruder was seen moving towards the gate number 103 near the zero line fence at Attari. He was warned by the BSF but the intruder allegedly did not pay heed to BSF’s warnings.

As the intruder kept on moving, he was shot down by BSF jawans on duty.

The Pakistani intruder has been identified as Gulnawaz.

The top officials on duty, including BSF deputy inspector general (DIG), Amritsar sector, JS Oberoi, were immediately informed about the incident.

The BSF troops thereafter launched a search operation near the Attari railway gate and its nearby areas.

Pakistan has an old habit of disowning and refusing to take back its own people. Following its old line, Pakistan had on August 4 also refused to claim the bodies of the 5-7 Pakistani intruders who were killed by the Indian Army after they had tried to infiltrate into the country.

After a successful operation, the Indian Army had offered the Pakistan Army to take over the dead bodies of their five BAT soldiers and terrorists.

The Indian Army had offered to approach the Pakistan Army with a white flag and offered them to take over the dead bodies for last rites of the dead terrorists and Pakistani soldiers but the terror state refused to do so.

During the Kargil war also, Pakistan has shown similar apathy to its own soldiers and refused to take back the dead bodies of its soldiers despite the Indian Army’s repeated requests.

India had then charged Pakistan with doing “great disservice to the families of their soldiers and to the traditions of armed forces everywhere” by its continuous and callous refusal to accept the bodies of Pakistan Army regulars killed in the Kargil operations.

“It is clear that Pakistan is fully aware of the identities of these bodies but it does not wish to acknowledge this fact as it would immediately expose its army’s involvement in Kargil,” an external affairs ministry spokesperson had said then.

HDFC Bank issues clarification with regards to rumours about the ‘Deposit Insurance Cover’

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HDFC Bank issues clarification with regards to rumours about the ‘Deposit Insurance Cover’

With reference to an image of a passbook being circulated on social media, leading private sector bank HDFC has issued a clarification that appears to have sent some of its customers in a tizzy. An HDFC passbook image with details of the bank’s ‘Deposit Insurance Cover’ printed saying that deposits in the bank up to Rs 1 lakh is insured is doing the rounds on the social media websites.


The printed message read, “The deposits of the bank are insured with DICGC and in case of liquidation of the bank, DICGC is liable to pay each of the depositors through the liquidator. The amount of this deposit is up to Rs 1 lakh within 2 months from the date of claim list from the liquidator.”

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Responding to a tweet posted by a user who uploaded the image and insinuated that the bank is indulging in white-collar thievery, HDFC Bank issued a clarification stating that the information was not new and had been inserted as per a June 22, 2017 RBI circular.

The statement issued by the bank said, “This pertains to information about the deposit insurance cover. We would like to clarify that the information has been inserted as per RBI circular dated Jane 22, 2017 which requires all Scheduled Commercial Banks, all Small Finance Banks and Payment Banks to incorporate information about ‘deposit insurance cover’ along with the limit of coverage upfront in the passbook.”

The Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) is a fully owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India which provides for protection of Rs 1 lakh per depositor for deposits in commercial banks, regional rural banks, local area banks (LABs) and cooperative banks, and rest of the deposit amount is relinquished in the unusual case of a bank failure.

A new chapter will reveal who allowed the perpetrators of 1993 Mumbai blasts to flee: PM Narendra Modi

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A new chapter will reveal who allowed the perpetrators of 1993 Mumbai blasts to flee: PM Narendra Modi

Narendra Modi, in his rally at Akola in Maharashtra ahead of the Assembly Elections, took an aim at the opposition parties after Praful Patel’s alleged links to Dawood-aide Iqbal Mirchi became public. The Prime Minister declared that we could soon discover as to exactly why and how the perpetrators of the 1993 Mumbai blasts escaped punishment all this while.
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PM Modi said, “Do you remember the blasts that took place in Maharashtra and especially in Mumbai in trains, in buses, and in buildings? The perpetrators of the massacre fled and took shelter in enemy territory.” “People have been asking how this happened. A new chapter will reveal who helped these perpetrators to flee and what their relations with the perpetrators were, business, commercial or otherwise,” he added.

The Enforcement Directorate has launched a massive crackdown on properties linked with Dawood Ibrahim and his associates. As per sources in the Mumbai Police several politicians, through numerous firms and private companies, are found to have links with those properties.

Read: Sharad Pawar ‘invented’ an extra bomb blast in 1993 ‘to promote Hindu-Muslim harmony’, said was praised for his lie

As per sources, the ED has zeroed in the properties of a key Dawood associate named Iqbal Memon alias ‘Mirchi’. While tracking Mirchi’s business ventures and properties in India and the UK, the ED has discovered links with a firm that is linked to former UPA-era civil aviation minister Praful Patel and his wife Varsha Patel.

OpIndia had accessed documents that validate NCP leader and former Union Minister Praful Patel’s financial dealings with Dawood Ibrahim and his associates. The documents accessed by us reveal signatures of Praful Patel on documents that linked him to Igbal Memon, a key aide of Dawood Ibrahim.

Sharad Pawar, one of India’s senior-most politicians who was the chief minister of Maharashtra during the 1993 bomb blasts of Mumbai, had done the unthinkable, apparently to promote secularism and protect harmony between Hindus and Muslims. He had invented a bomb blast.

Sharad Pawar had rushed to the Doordarshan studio soon after the attacks and had announced that there were 13 blasts in total. He had invented an additional blast at a Masjid out of thin air. Testifying before the Srikrishna Commission, Pawar had even tried to pin the bomb blasts on LTTE. This lie also, he claimed, was told to avoid Hindu-Muslim clashes.

Maharashtra, along with Haryana, will go to polls on 21st October and the results will be declared on 24th October.

Twitterati share hilarious memes to celebrate Karwa Chauth

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Twitterati share hilarious memes to celebrate Karwa Chauth

Karwa Chauth, which is being celebrated today, has brought out the funny side of netizens as they took to Twitter to share some hilarious memes celebrating the festival.


Karwa Chauth is celebrated in some parts of India by married women, who keep a fast till they sight the moon in the evening.


The fast is kept for the long life of the husband. The married women dress up in all finery and drink water and eat food only after offering prayers to the moon.


It is one of the toughest fasts women keep for the longevity of their husbands. Women in different parts of India also observe the Vat Savitri vrat and Hartalika Teej for the same.


Twitterati also poked fun at husbands whose wives were fasting for Karwa Chauth.

Global child pornography and abuse ring busted: Police arrest over 300 paedophiles in 38 countries

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Global child pornography and abuse ring busted: Police arrest over 300 paedophiles in 38 countries

In a massive international operation carried out by law enforcement officials of USA, UK, Germany and South Korea, a dark web platform that allowed paedophiles around the world to upload sickening child abuse videos and made them available to ‘customers’ for cash has been busted.

As per reports, The USA’s Department of Justice yesterday revealed in a press conference that a website named ‘Welcome to Video’, a Bitcoin-based dark web platform that catered to paedophiles worldwide has been taken down and its administrator, a South Koran national named Jong-Woo Son has been arrested.

The Darknet site that was taken down by law enforcement agencies, image made available by the US Department of Justice, via Reuters

As per reports, the ‘Welcome to Video’ site was tracked and was under investigation since March 2018. Working extensively with multiple law enforcement agencies worldwide, investigators have been unmasking the identities of the ‘anonymous users’ and uploaders by tracking server data for each transaction.

As per reports, over 250,000 videos were found on the website under search terms such as “preteen hardcore,” “paedophile” and references to sex involving children as young as 2 and 4 years old.

The videos were stored in a South Korean server by the current administrator Jong-Woo Son and were being made available to users via a secret bitcoin-based network.

The website was first discovered by Britain’s National Crime Agency during its investigation into one of the UK’s most prolific paedophiles, Dr Matthew Falder, who is serving 25 years in prison for 137 offences linked to the sexual abuse of children.

The arrest of Falder, a geophysicist from an affluent British family, has led to the arrest of Kyle Fox, who had filmed his sexual attacks on a five-year-old boy and a one-year-old girl. Fox appeared on footage on the ‘Welcome to Video’ site, raping a young girl.

Jong-Woo Son is already in South Korean Prison. He has been charged by the US department of justice too. Investigators have found that between June 2015 to March 2018, Welcome to Video earned more than 370,000 USD by over 7000 Bitcoin transactions.

Acting in coordination as the names and identities of the uploaders and ‘end-users’ were revealed, police in 38 countries including the UK, Ireland, USA, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Czech Republic and Canada have raided and arrested the paedophiles.

337 paedophiles have been arrested so far. 92 of them are from the USA. 34 of them are already charged and facing sentences. The US department of justice has also made their names public.


In the UK, the USA and Spain, 23 children in total have been rescued from the clutches of active abusers.

As per the US DOJ, the Welcome to Video site operated as a hidden site accessed via the Tor web browser that hides the location of the websites and their viewers. Child abusers who posted videos of the abuse could earn ‘loyalty points’. Points were also awarded to users who referred the site to new users. Points could also be purchased via Bitcoin, allowing nearly anonymous payments.

The US Justice Department’s officials stated yesterday that tracking down ‘Welcome to Video’, ‘Silk Road’ and other such sites that sell porn, paedophilia, prostitution and drugs in the dark web has been “Testing the limits of the FBI’s technological capabilities”.

Several of the child sex offenders who were caught are yet to be jailed.

‘His Excellency, Recep Erdogan, Don’t be a fool!’ Donald Trump warns Turkey of consequences for persecution of Kurds

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‘His Excellency, Recep Erdogan, Don’t be a fool!’ Donald Trump warns Turkey of consequences for persecution of Kurds

US President Donald Trump warned his counterpart Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an extraordinary letter sent to him after his decision to invade Syria. President Donald Trump wrote a letter to Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan calling on him to “work out a good deal!” and warning him not to be a “tough guy” or “fool”.

The letter by US President comes after Turkey launched its invasion into northeastern Syria. Three days after approving Turkish invasion on Kurdish-dominated region by pulling US troops, Trump told the Turkish president he would wreck Ankara’s economy if the invasion went too far.

Donald Trump letter Recep Tayyip Erdogan/ Representational Image: Twitter

“Let’s work out a good deal,” Trump wrote in the letter dated October 9, whose authenticity was confirmed to AFP by the White House.

In his unique approach to diplomacy, Trump’s issued a warning that he could destroy Turkey’s economy if the situation in Syria is not contained and resolved in a humane way.

“You don’t want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people, and I don’t want to be responsible for destroying the Turkish economy — and I will.”

Read: Had Donald Trump taken time to educate himself about world affairs before becoming President, he would not look foolish

“History will look upon you favorably if you get this done the right and humane way,” Trump said. “It will look upon you forever as the devil if good things don’t happen.”

The US leader told Erdogan a “great deal” was possible if he negotiated with the head of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, whom Turkey has labelled a “terrorist” for his ties to the Kurdish PKK militants in Turkey.

“Don’t be a tough guy. Don’t be a fool,” he finished adding, “I will call you later.”

On October 9th, Turkey President Erdogan launched a Turkish military offensive into Syria, claiming it wanted to “neutralize terror threats” and establish a “safe zone”. The Turkish forces last Wednesday carried out airstrikes and later announced ground troops had invaded northeastern Syria.

The US President Donald Trump had decided to pull out American forces from northern Syria, allowing Turkey to proceed with a military operation in the region. The decision had received huge criticism from across the globe. Since then, Trump has been trying to contain the damage from his last week’s sudden decision.

Another #MeToo scandal rocks academia as playwright Sudipto Chatterjee is accused of raping a student during rehearsals

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Another #MeToo scandal rocks academia as playwright Sudipto Chatterjee is accused of raping a student during rehearsals

Yet another ‘Me Too’ scandal has emerged in the academia after a theatre student Angela Mondal accused playwright and poet Sudipto Chatterjee of sexually harassing her during a rehearsal. Chatterjee has taught at esteemed educational institutions across the world like New York University, University of California, Berkeley, Tufts University in the US as well as India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University.

In a Facebook post, Angela Mondal has written a detailed account of turn of events where she was allegedly subjected to sexual harassment by Chatterjee while ‘rehearsing’ for a sexual assault scene.

In her post, she has claimed that she faced sexual abuse of the highest order by the renowned Theatre personality Prof. Sudipto Chatterjee, who also happened to be the faculty of the institution in which she has enrolled with.

She narrates that when she auditioned for a play called Lysistrata, which happened to be an in house production of the institute, she was selected by Chatterjee for the lead role of his own production ‘Bhadroja’.

Read: #MeToo: The Wire journalist Vinod Dua accused of stalking, sexual harassment

“After three shows of Bhadroja, he suddenly realized that a scene wasn’t working and wanted to help me out with that. He called me to his place to teach me diaphragm breathing and psychophysical approach to acting,” wrote Mondal.

She added, “He spoke to me about the traumas of rape as the scene was of a similar nature, and took me to my utmost state of vulnerability. He held me from behind to teach diaphragm breathing and explained it wasn’t sexual, because if that had been the case then I would’ve felt his hardness.”

“Then he asked me to lie down on the bed with my eyes closed and deliver the dialogues of the above-mentioned scene. He started touching me and asked me to respond to his touch while delivering the dialogues. Then without a warning, he penetrated me with his fingers and asked me to spurt out the dialogues louder and louder,” she continued.

“I had became a corpse, completely non-functional. The moment I tightened my body and my voice broke, because of the suppressed cry, he withdrew. He distanced himself and explained how the process is complete and I’ve reached the emotional and mental state that was needed for the scene,” Mondal shared her story.

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Mondal further alleged that Sudipto Chatterjee had tried something similar on another occasion, however, she could vocalize her ‘NO’ this time, so Chatterjee stopped harassing her.

Expressing her ordeal, Angela Mondal in her post stated that she “lived in denial, bottled up the trauma and continued to work” for the production ‘Bhadroja’, avoiding him as much as she could and took time to deal with her mental health and finally decided to come out with this incident.

Mondal claimed that when she finally confronted Sudipto Chatterjee with a written statement on WhatsApp, he blocked her. Sudipto’s wife Annesha Chakroborty, who was aware of the entire incident since the beginning, asked her to forget about it because exposing these allegations would destroy their relationship, alleges Mondal in her post.

She said that she had informed few other members of Sudipto Chatterjee’s theatre group ‘Spectators’, but they could not take any measures against him due to his power and position, however, they showed empathy through personal chats.

Mondal said she filed an official complaint with the institution against him on Monday and on 16th of October she was called for a meeting at the college and during the same meeting, the authority had informed me that Sudipto Chatterjee had ‘apparently’ submitted his resignation a day before the hearing.

“This isn’t the justice I deserve. It is an open secret in the circuit, that Sudipto Chatterjee, has been a serial sexual molester. There have been too many victims, however, he always had gotten away with this because the survivors couldn’t come out with their traumatic experiences,” expressed Mondal.

She added, “I am voicing out my experience on behalf of the women who have been at the receiving end of such violence but couldn’t. It is important that the people know that there is rapist roaming free in the eminent cultural circle, so that they may take necessary steps to exclude Sudipto Chatterjee from whatsoever association.”

Ending her post, Mondal stated that she was not Sudipto’s first prey and neither will be his last and asserted, “We will have to stop him”.

Bhopal: One Dilshad Khan dupes over 50 women to meet expenses of his 5 wives, arrested with associate Alok Kumar

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Bhopal: One Dilshad Khan dupes over 50 women to meet expenses of his 5 wives, arrested with associate Alok Kumar

The Special Task Force of Madhya Pradesh Police has busted a gang that has been involved in cheating over 50 women of money by promising them government jobs.

As per reports, the police have been receiving complaints of a gang actively involved in cheating women by promising them jobs as nurses at AIIMS Bhopal. After an investigation, the STF finally cracked down on the gang and have arrested the gang leader Dilshad Khan and his associate Alok Kumar.

Alok and Dilshad were allegedly targetting qualified women and taking money from them promising permanent jobs as nurses at the Bhopal AIIMS.

The gang leader Dilshad has confessed to the STF that he has 5 wives and he has been involved in this crime only to meet the heavy expenses of maintaining them.

Special Task Force ADG Ashok Awasthi has been quoted by India Today as saying, “The gang has duped over 50 women so far by promising them to be recruited as a nurse in AIIMS, Bhopal.”

Dilshad’s fourth wife reportedly runs a private clinic in Jabalpur while his associate Alok Kumar’s only wife is the superintendent in a government-run girl’s hostel in AIIMS.

While it is not clear yet whether the women have been involved in the crime or not, the STF is to interrogate them soon.

The police team has stated that the gang targetted educated women from villages in search of jobs and duped them of money. The STF is now trying to locate all victims of the gang.

‘Extremely adorable!’ PM Modi blesses Gul Panag’s son after she shares a video where he identifies ‘Modi ji’ on magazine covers

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‘Extremely adorable!’ PM Modi blesses Gul Panag’s son after she shares a video where he identifies ‘Modi ji’ on magazine covers

Prime Minister Modi blessed actress Gul Panag’s son on Twitter after she shared an adorable video of her son identifying him on covers of magazine.


Panag said that her son, Nihal, now promptly identifies PM Modi in magazines and newspapers. Prime Minister Modi acknowledged the video and said that he wishes him best in whatever he seeks to do.

Read: Gul Panag reveals Arvind Kejriwal and AAP’s dangerous pandering to Khalistanis during elections

“I am also sure he will find an amazing mentor and guide in you, @gulpanag,” he tweeted.

‘I love Burhan Wani’, ‘Zakir Musa come back’, apples with anti-India and pro-Pakistan messages found in Kathua, Jammu & Kashmir

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‘I love Burhan Wani’, ‘Zakir Musa come back’, apples with anti-India and pro-Pakistan messages found in Kathua, Jammu & Kashmir

In a shocking incident, fruit sellers in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district have found boxes of Kashmiri apples with anti-India messages like “We want freedom”, “I love Burhan Wani”, “Zakir Musa come back”.

According to the reports, the Jammu and Kashmir fruit traders found the apples with pro-Pakistan and anti-India messages while unloading boxes at the Kathua fruit market. The traders then raised anti-Pakistan slogans as a form of protest. The sellers opened the boxes purchased from the wholesale market only to find the messages written on the fruits with a black marker.

The police questioned several traders in Kathua as well as Jammu about the boxes, which were shipped from Kashmir. According to the police, the boxes were sent to a trader in Jammu.

Read: Pakistanis announce infiltrating India by crossing the LoC en masse to ‘liberate Kashmir’, Imran Khan says ‘No, it will upset narrative’

The apples also had messages like ‘Azadi’, ‘Go back India-Go back India’, ‘Meri Jaan Imran Khan’ and ‘Pakistan-Pakistan’.

Sanjeev Chib, SHO of Kathua Police Station, said that they have called the Jammu traders for questioning after the matter was brought to their notice. The police said that the initial investigation has revealed that the apple boxes were transported from Kashmir.

Jammu Fruit Association president Praveen Gupta said such incidents could disturb the peace. He added that police questioned some traders summoned from the main fruit market at Narwal in Jammu. “How are the local traders to be blamed? They received the fruit boxes from Srinagar. It is difficult to check all the 500 to 600 boxes packed in a truck,” Gupta asked.

He further added that the local traders shared the details of a fruit dealer from Kashmir who sent the apples. “Local traders gave the challan number of the dealer from whom the trucks were received. He may have in turn got them from some grower,” he said.

Following the incident, the fruit sellers on Wednesday also threatened to boycott apples from Kashmir if the government fails to take action. They further said that people are refusing to purchase them due to these messages.

Read: Imran Khan’s new Friday fad: Comes to PoK to declare that Indian Muslims will rise against India

“The boxes were from Kashmir and the messages were written in English and Urdu,” Gupta said, demanding that the government and police take strict action against those behind this.

The Pakistani sponsored Islamic terrorists in the valley are desperate to perpetrate terror in the region. With normalcy being returned to Jammu and Kashmir, the terror groups are trying to incite violence and stoke fear in the minds of the people in the state.

On Monday, the terrorists had targetted a truck driver, which was followed by an attack on two Punjab-based apple traders on Wednesday in which one was killed and the other is in critical condition. The improving apple trade between Kashmiris and the rest of the country has increased the desperation of Paksitani-sponsored terrorists and are responding to the situation with violence.

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