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Al Qaeda, ISIS terror modules planning to attack Jews, Israelis in India say Intelligence agencies: Reports

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Al Qaeda, ISIS terror modules planning to attack Jews, Israelis in India say Intelligence agencies: Reports

The Intelligence Agencies have raised alarms about the nefarious designs of Islamic terror outfits such as Al Qaeda and ISIS of possible attacks against the Jews and Israelis in India during their festive season in September and October. The agencies have alerted the respective states having a sizeable Jewish population and warned them that the terror cells of Al Qaeda and ISIS may be plotting to attack Jews and Israelis in their states.

According to the issued advisory, the terror modules are planning to attack the Jews and Israelis in India during their festive season which commences from the last week of September. In all, 3 Jewish festivals are supposed to fall between September and October, beginning with Rosh HaShanah (Jewish New Year) which runs through September 29 and October 1, Yom Kippur (the holiest day in Judaism) falls on October 8 and 9 while Sukkot will be celebrated between October 13 and October 22.

The reports say that the Indian intelligence agencies have been informed of the possible attacks on Jews and Israelis by their foreign counterparts. The inputs from foreign agencies hint at a plan to attack the Israeli embassy in New Delhi. Schools and hotels frequented by Israelis are also under the radar of terrorists.

As per official communication accessed by ANI, the terror outfits are desperate to carry out terror attacks on Israelis in India after Israel extended its support to India’s move to abrogate Article 370 and strip Jammu and Kashmir of its separate status.

The Jewish festive season in September and October generally attracts a significant number of Israeli tourists to India who congregate at usual known sites on specific dates and celebrate their festivals. With Jewish congregation in view, the input says that Al Qaeda and ISIS-related terror modules are intending to attack Israelis across the world. In this regard, several places such as the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, synagogues, Jewish schools, restaurants and hotels frequented by Israeli nationals in New Delhi and other cities are alerted to thwart any such terror attack.

The intelligence agencies have informed local police and local intelligence unit to take appropriate precautionary and precautionary actions to prevent any such attempt. Security has been strengthened outside sensitive places and outside the residences, Israeli and Jewish institutions, and Chabad Houses in Delhi to stop any terror attack.

Government’s decision to abrogate Article 370 inspired me to join politics: Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt as he joins BJP

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Government’s decision to abrogate Article 370 inspired me to join politics: Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt as he joins BJP

Olympic medallist wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt and former Indian Hockey captain Sandeep Singh have officially joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) putting all speculations to rest. The two sportsmen joined the BJP in the presence of Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala today.

It is possible that both sportsmen get MLA tickets in the upcoming Haryana assembly elections.

Dutt has said in a statement that BJP government’ bold decision to the abrogate Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir helped him to take this crucial decision of joining politics. He said that he was “influenced” by PM Modi who has shown that “good things can be done in politics”.


Sandeep Singh, echoing the same thoughts said he will now serve the country in politics after doing so as a sportsperson.

The wrestler, who hails from Haryana, met the state unit president Subhash Barala here on Wednesday and informed that he has submitted his resignation from the Haryana Police.

Dutt who is a freestyle Indian wrestler had won the bronze medal in the 2012 Olympic Games in the 60 kg category. He then went on to win a gold medal in the 2014 Commonwealth Games and was honoured with Padma Shri in 2013.

Dutt is likely to get the party’s ticket for one of the assembly segments in the Sonipat Lok Sabha constituency, which is his home district as well.

Meanwhile, Sandeep Singh is an Indian professional field hockey player from Haryana and an ex-captain of the Indian national team. In 2006, Singh was seriously injured in an accidental gunshot while travelling to join the national team for the World Cup in Germany. Despite being paralysed for two years, Singh had not only made a full recovery but had gone on to re-establish his place in the team. Singh currently holds a DSP rank in the Haryana Police.

The 2018 Bollywood movie Soorma was based on Sandeep Singh’s life.

Apart from the two sportspersons, former MP and Congress leader Kailasho Saini also joined the BJP in presence of Barala at the Haryana Bhawan here today.

The assembly polls in Haryana will be held on October 21, 2091.

Pakistani media invents a fictitious Imran Khan – Vladimir Putin meeting at a fictitious dinner hosted by Donald Trump

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Pakistani media invents a fictitious Imran Khan – Vladimir Putin meeting at a fictitious dinner hosted by Donald Trump

Yesterday some Pakistan media houses reported that prime minister Imran Khan met Russian president Vladimir Putin at a dinner hosted by US President Donald Trump in New York. A report published by Times of Islamabad, Business World and others reported that several world leaders were invited at the dinner on the side-lines of UNGA currently underway at the UN headquarters in New York.

Business World report on Imran meeting Putin
Dunya News has removed the report now

“Prime Minister Imran Khan was seen discussing different issues with Russian President Putin during a dinner hosted for world leaders by US President Trump on the occasion of 74th session of United Nations General Assembly in New York”, the reports said. It also added that “the dinner was attended by many world leaders including Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Azerbaijan. PM remained busy in discussion with Putin while Indian PM Modi was seated with Afghan President Ghani”.

Times of Islamabad report on the Imran Khan – Putin meeting

The reports also carried a photograph of Imran Khan and Putin having a conversation at the dinner.

But there are two big problems with this report; first, Putin is not even attending the UNGA and he is in Moscow, and the second, no such dinner was hosted by President Trump in New York.

It has been widely reported that Vladimir Putin is not attending the United Nations General Assembly this year. Yesterday, when he was supposed to be attending a dinner hosted by US president, he was actually in Moscow, where he met Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who has also skipped the UNGA. Venezuela is facing a deep financial crisis, and Maduro is visiting Russia to seek support from his government, and also for business deals. Therefore, there is no way Putin could have met Imran Khan in New York during the UNGA.

Moreover, there is not any news about any dinner hosted by the US president at New York for world leaders attending the UN annual meet. The last state dinner hosted by Trump was on 20th September for Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the White House. It may be noted that US state dinners are hosted at the White House in Washington DC, not in New York where UN headquarters is located. The Pakistani reports mention Indian PM Modi also attending the dinner, but no such event has been reported by Indian media which is present in USA in large numbers to cover Modi’s US visit.

The photograph of Imran Khan and Putin that Pakistani media houses published is old, it is from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meet held in Bishkek in July this year. This was the same event where Imran Khan had embarrassed Pakistan in front of the world by remaining seated while all other dignitaries were standing to welcome various heads of state entering the hall.

This means the Pakistani media invented a completely fictitious dinner hosted by Trump in New York, and then invented Imran Khan’s meeting there with Vladimir Putin who is 7,500 km away in Moscow.

Madhya Pradesh sex racket: 13 IAS officers, a former Chief Minister and Governor possibly honey trapped by a gang

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Madhya Pradesh sex racket: 13 IAS officers, a former Chief Minister and Governor possibly honey trapped by a gang

After a Special Investigative Team (SIT) was formed to investigate the high profile honey-trap racket uncovered in Madhya Pradesh, significant new details have come to light. Earlier, the wife of the state coordinator of Congress party’s IT Cell was arrested for her involvement in the racket.

The arrested women in the honey-trapping racket are identified as 39-year-old Shweta Vijay Jain, 48-year-old Shweta Swapnil Jain, 35-year-old Barkha Soni (wife of former Congress IT cell vice-president), 34-year-old Aarti Dayal and an 18-year-old college student. Omprakash Kori, 34, who drives Aarti Dayal’s car was also arrested.

As per reports, SIT has now come across a list of 13 IAS officers, who served in various departments such as fisheries, agriculture, culture, industries, urban administration, forest and others at various points of time, that the women kept. The ‘hit list’ was created from the pages of a government diary by the ring handler with ticks and codes scribbled against their names. The precise number of officers who got honey trapped is still a matter of investigation.

Nearly 4,000 files containing screenshots of sex chats, videos of officers in compromising positions, and audio clips have so far been recovered from laptops and mobile phones confiscated from the honeytrap ring by the investigative authorities. Reportedly, the investigators are suffering an embarrassing time going through all the lurid details of the matter.

More than 40 call girls, including B-grade Bollywood actresses, were used to honey trap politicians, bureaucrats including a former Chief Minister and Governor of Madhya Pradesh. According to reports, the kingpin in the racket was Shweta Swapnil Jain. “After initial interaction with a bureaucrat or a minister, Shweta used to invite the ‘target’ for sex, to a guest house or a five star suite of her choice. Once the ‘target’ was involved in a sexual act, his video was recorded either by a hidden mobile or a spy cam,” an SIT officer involved in the investigation was quoted by India Today as saying.

Shweta has reportedly confessed that once a Minister or Secretary was honey-trapped, his favour was used to procure lucrative contracts for the NGO she was running. The Bhopal Municipal Corporation reportedly obliged her with a Rs. 8 crore contract. She also confessed that a former Chief Minister of the state had gifted her a bungalow in Minal Residency, a posh Bhopal area.

Congress spokesperson in the state, K.K. Mishra, said the racket was being operated in Bhopal, Indore and other prominent towns of MP. “It (racket) was going on for years, therefore 80 percent of politicians involved in the blackmail are of the BJP. Police have got names of all the leaders. However, I would not take any names till there is any arrest of a politician or a bureaucrat”. He added, “We will arrest Congress persons too if their involvement in obliging the operators is proved prima facie. But let me repeat, the majority of leaders involved in the scandal are from the BJP.”

Furthermore, it’s now being reported that meritorious girls from poor families were targeted by the gang members for their racket. They were promised scholarships but were then forced into prostitution. “The families of the girls were approached through one of the accused and the gang had plans to push them into prostitution and make them members of the gang as they had done with Monika Yadav who was a brilliant student in school,” a source was quoted by India Today as saying.

Shweta, the kingpin, has reportedly confessed that she had trapped dozens of college girls and made them sleep with bureaucrats and politicians. Videos were made of these sexual escapades and these videos were then used by the gang to extort money.

Two Christian factions in Kerala fight over a Church, HC directs arrest of Jacobites preventing Orthodox entry

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Two Christian factions in Kerala fight over a Church, HC directs arrest of Jacobites preventing Orthodox entry

The Kerala High court on Thursday directed the police to arrest the supporters of the Jacobite faction who had blocked the police the previous day from implementing the controversial Supreme Court 2017 verdict regarding the Church’s management.

Since yesterday, the supporters belonging to the Jacobite faction, under the leadership of a few Metropolitan priests, had locked the gates and assembled inside the St Mary’s Church in Ernakulam district’s Piravom in Kerala, barring supporters of the Orthodox faction to formally take over the administration of the church as instructed by the Supreme court in its 2017 verdict.

In a landmark judgement delivered on July 3, 2017, the Supreme Court had ruled on a centuries-old dispute between Jacobite and Orthodox factions of Kerala’s Malankara Church. The SC had ruled that 1100 parishes and their churches under the Malankara Church, which were until then controlled by the Jacobite faction should be controlled by the Orthodox faction, as per the 1934 Malankara Church guidelines.

As reported by The Hindu, the Kerala High court gave the oral directive when the case relating to the Piravom church came up for hearing. The court also sought an explanation from the State government as well as counsel for the Jacobite faction as to under what authority was the Jacobite faction supporters preventing the Orthodox faction from entering the church.

The Kerala court following the Supreme court 2017 verdict also directed the State government to file a report by 1.45 pm on Thursday after complying with its earlier directive to provide police protection to the Orthodox priests to perform religious services at the church.

On Wednesday morning, the Orthodox faction had reached the Church to take its possession after the Kerala High Court directed the police to provide protection to their priests to conduct religious services in the church. The court gave the order on a petition by the Orthodox faction of the church, seeking police protection to conduct mass and prayers in the church.

Tensions escalated between the two rival factions and even the huge deployment of police and fire force personnel in front of the church could not resolve the issue. “It was next to impossible to implement the SC verdict in the present scenario, as the forced implementation of the verdict might lead to a gunfight,” informed the police.

The Orthodox faction had moved the High Court after the state government had failed to implement the apex court’s order.

The dispute between the two Christian factions are not new, in fact, it is about a century old. Last year, the situation at the Piravom Valiyapalli remained tensed after one member of the Jacobite faction threatened to jump off the Church building, while others poured kerosene over their heads and threatened to set themselves alight, as police then too tried to implement the SC verdict.

The Piravom Valiyapalli is just one of the many churches, which has been a part of the heightened dispute over the church administration ever since the SC ruling.

Noida: Husband ‘loses’ wife in a gamble, pressurises her to get into physical relationships with his friends

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Noida: Husband ‘loses’ wife in a gamble, pressurises her to get into physical relationships with his friends

In a shocking incident from Noida, a woman has alleged that her husband has been forcing her to make physical relationships with three of his friends after he ‘lost’ her to them in gambling. Following her complaint, the Noida police have taken the husband into custody.

The woman alleged that her husband had put her on the stake while gambling with his friends after he ran out of money on Monday. When he lost the bet he started pressuring her to have a physical relationship with his friends. The husband also called his friends home and showed them pornographic videos.

Meanwhile, Inspector Rajvir Singh Chauhan, in-charge of police station Sector 20 said that the accused is being interrogated and every angle of the case is being probed.

This is, however, not the first time such an outrageous offence has been reported. Last month, in a similar case, a man hailing from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh, who was addicted to gambling and alcohol had put his wife on the stake after running out of money and allowed his friends to gang-rape her after losing the bet.

After the incident, the victim went to her maternal uncle’s house. Her husband followed her there, asking for forgiveness and said that it was a mistake. Accepting the apology, the wife went back with her husband in his car. On their way back, her husband stopped the car and allowed his friends to gang-rape her once again. Following this horrific incident, the woman approached the court which in turn asked the police to register a case.

Following a court order, an FIR had been registered in Jaffarabad police station in Jaunpur district.

Ram Mandir case: Muslim parties apologise to Supreme Court for questioning ASI report

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Ram Mandir case: Muslim parties apologise to Supreme Court for questioning ASI report

A day after Muslim parties questioned the authorship of 2003 report of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) report that had confirmed the presence of a large structure at the Ram Janambhoomi site, it took a U-turn on Thursday to apologise to the Supreme Court for wasting its time in the Ayodhya land dispute case.

According to the reports, senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, who is representing the Muslim parties apologised to the court after another advocate representing Muslim parties – Meenakshi Arora had questioned the ASI report. “Yesterday’s argument was futile. Authorship can’t be questioned. Authenticity not in doubt,” said Dhawan.

Senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan told to the five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi that they do not wish to question the authorship of the summary of the ASI report.

“It is not expected that every page is to be signed. The authorship of the report and the summary need not be questioned. If we had wasted my lords time, then we apologise for that. There is no point going into that. The report in question has an author and we are not questioning the authorship,” Dhavan, representing the Muslim parties, said.

On Wednesday, senior advocate Meenakshi Arora, also representing the Muslim parties, questioned the ASI report saying every chapter is attributed to an author but the summary has not been attributed to anyone. Arora had also raised her doubts on the authorship of the Archeological Survey of India’s (ASI) report, which had excavated the disputed site on Allahabad High Court’s orders. She had questioned the credibility of archaeology as a scientific discipline.

“Archaeology is at best a social science. It is not a natural science like physics or chemistry since its findings cannot be verified and may differ from the opinion of one person to another,” Arora submitted before the Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.

However, an unimpressed Supreme Court while responding to Arora’s argument, had said the mosque side should have questioned this during the trial, and not now during the appeal. The court had said that the report has become part of court records, and it can’t be questioned now.

In 2003, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) had excavated the Babri Mosque site at the direction of the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court. The archaeologists had reported that evidence of a large structure pre-existed the Babri Masjid.

Further, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked parties in the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case to finish their arguments by October 18. The Supreme Court also warned that the parties will not be given any extra day. The apex court continued its hearing on the 32nd day.

“If arguments can’t get over by October 18, there won’t be an extra day,” said Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi, who is heading a five-judge bench. The bench also comprises Justices S A Bobde, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan, and S Abdul Nazeer.

Chief Justice Gogoi also pointed out that the bench will have just have four weeks to write and deliver the judgment once arguments conclude on October 18. “It will be miraculous if the top court can write judgment in the remaining time given the amount of materials parties have given,” he said.

BJP’s Purvanchal Morcha protests outside Kejriwal’s residence over his NRC remarks

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BJP’s Purvanchal Morcha protests outside Kejriwal’s residence over his NRC remarks

The BJP has organised a massive protest outside Delhi CM and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal’s residence against his statement on Delhi BJP leader Manoj Tiwari over NRC.

In a stunning display of ignorance about the difference in citizenship and domicile, Arvind Kejriwal had yesterday said that if NRC is implemented in Delhi, Manoj Tiwari will be the first one to leave Delhi. The Delhi CM had either forgotten, or ignored the fact that NRC is for checking citizenship, and not state domicile.

Scores of BJP workers, mainly from BJP’s Purvanchal Morcha, held protests in Delhi earlier today against Kejriwal’s remarks for Delhi BJP leader Manoj Tiwari. The police have detained members of BJP’s Purvanchal Morcha who took part in the protest against Arvind Kejriwal for his remark on Wednesday against Tiwari. Police also resorted to using water cannons against the protestors.


In response to the misinformative statement by Kejriwal and other AAP leaders against implementing NRC, Tiwari had retorted saying, “If I am illegal, then is Kejriwal suggesting that every Purvanchali is illegal? Do you want to force them out of Delhi too? NRC identifies illegal immigrants, that is people who are from outside India and not from other parts of India. The people of Delhi will now answer to the Chief Minister.”

Delhi BJP leader Manoj Tiwari had said recently that the situation in Delhi is worsening due to the presence of illegal immigrants who pose a threat to the safety of people in Delhi. Tiwari had said that the situation in Delhi had become “too dangerous” because of the presence of illegal immigrants in the city. Tiwari assured that the BJP government will implement the NRC in Delhi as well just like they have done it in Assam

A police complaint was also filed against the AAP supremo for spreading falsehoods and fomenting trouble. BJP leader Kapil Mishra filed a police complaint against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and AAP MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj for fear-mongering, trying to cause trouble and spreading lies through social media about NRC.

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