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Imran Khan says Pulwama was an ‘indigenous thing’ by a Kashmiri ‘boy’ who was radicalised by the ‘brutality of security forces’

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Imran Khan says Pulwama was an ‘indigenous thing’ by a Kashmiri ‘boy’ who was radicalised by the ‘brutality of security forces’

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on his maiden visit to the US as head of state washed his hands off the Pulwama attack. Speaking in Washington, Khan said that Pakistan had nothing to do with the Pulwama terror attack that took place in February this year.

Khan said, “This whole thing, Pulwama, what happened in February last year, it was clearly an indigenous thing. It was a Kashmiri boy radicalised by the brutality of the security forces. He blew himself up. But because this group (Jaish-e-Mohammad) claimed responsibility which was in India as well, Jaish-e-Mohammad was operating in India, Pakistan suddenly came into the limelight.”

This is not the first time Pakistan has played victim and obfuscated from taking responsibility of the terrorism thriving on its soil. In a video released days after the Pulwama attack, Imran Khan had not even once condemned the dastardly attack on CRPF soldiers. In his statement, Khan claimed that his country had nothing to gain from attacking India.

Ahead of Khan’s visit to the US, terror organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed was taken into a judicial custody, again. He is the mastermind behind the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai and is accused of terror funding. Many speculated that the arrests were made to save Khan’s face before he visits the US.

Amusingly, Imran Khan’s bid to blame Pulwama attack on India is also a line the Indian ‘liberals’ and Indian opposition parties have toed. Following the Pulwama attack, many Congress supporters had floated conspiracy theories that Pulwama was an ‘inside job’ carried out on behest of Prime Minister Modi. One Congress leader and conman who questioned Pulwama as an ‘inside job’ was given a Lok Sabha ticket by the party. A Goa Congress leader had even asked for proof of the terror attack and accused PM Modi for ‘planning’ the Pulwama attack. A Karnataka Congress MP even said that the Pulwama attack was a ‘match-fixing’ between PM Modi and Pakistan.

Following the Pulwama attack, India carried out Balakot airstrikes where Indian Air Force pilots went across the LOC and destroyed the terror camps on the other side. Here, too, Pakistan denied destruction of any terror camps. Congress and opposition leaders again came to Pakistan’s rescue asking for proof of Balakot airtrikes.

Senior citizen who used to put lizards in his own food on trains to get free meal caught by railway officials

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Senior citizen who used to put lizards in his own food on trains to get free meal caught by railway officials

A string of unusual incident where “lizards” were being found in railway food was finally unriddled after a senior citizen, who was supposedly a regular offender, was rounded up by the railway authorities.

A senior citizen named Surender Pal, in his 70s, was found guilty of contaminating his own meal to get free ones from the national transporter. The matter came to the fore when a senior divisional commercial manager noticed the uncanny similarity in the modus-operandi in the cases that were transpiring for a while.


“He was the same person. He claimed to have found a lizard in the samosa he ate at Jabalpur station on July 14. Then he complained that a lizard has been found in his biryani at Guntkal station. I became suspicious and alerted the senior DCM and shared the man’s photo. He turned out to be 70 plus and did it for free meals,” Basant Kumar Sharma, Senior DCM, Jabalpur, told PTI on phone, adding that it seemed Pal was doing this for some time.

After some senior official at the Guntkal station accosted Pal, he confessed to his nasty prank, which he had been carrying out for a while now. The officials even recorded a video, in which Pal is heard not only confessing to the crime but also saying he has been using a “fish which cured mental illness” for his tricks.

In the video, the officials at the Guntkal station can be seen explaining to the man that railways is a national pride and it belonged to the public.

Though Pal was chastised for giving railways a bad name, he was also assured that no action would be taken against him if he promised to mend his ways.

In the video, Surendra Pal is heard admitting to the nasty prank he carried off to procure free meals from the railways and is also heard apologising for the same. Claimed to be mentally unstable, he begged for forgiveness from the railway authorities, “I have done a wrong thing. I am an old man, I am mentally unstable, I have blood cancer. Please let me go. In Punjab, there is an ayurvedic medicine. I used a fish which cures bone diseases and mental illness,” said Pal.

Pal also claimed his father was a senior DCM, to which officials said it was not right for him to fraud the railways that was like his family.

Railways have until last year received more than 7,500 complaints from passengers over bad quality of food served on trains. The railways, in turn, had imposed Rs 15.5 million fines on vendors, warned 2,322 of them, terminated the contract of one and found 555 complaints unsubstantiated until October last year.

Gujarat tops the list of states with installed rooftop solar projects at 261.97 MW: Govt informs Parliament

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Gujarat tops the list of states with installed rooftop solar projects at 261.97 MW: Govt informs Parliament

Gujarat tops the list of states to have installed rooftop solar projects with an installed capacity of 261.97 megawatts, informed R K Singh, Minister of State (MoS) for New and Renewable Energy and Power Tuesday.

In response to a question raised by Member of Parliament Parimal Nathwani, Singh pointed out, at present, total rooftop solar installations within the country stands at 1,700.54 MW. While Gujarat tops the chart, it is closely followed by the states of Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu with 198.52 MW and 151.62 MW capacities respectively.

He further pointed out the government has set a target of installing 40,000 MW of rooftop solar projects by the year 2022 in the country, which also includes installation of RTS on the rooftop of houses.

Nathwani intended to learn about the target fixed by the government for generating power through solar panels on rooftops of houses alongside the funds allocated to achieve the given target and quantum of power generated through RTS.

MoS said that out of the total 261.97 MW installation in Gujarat, 183.51 MW were subsidised installations while 78.45 MW were non-subsidised.

No formal study has been conducted to ascertain the quantum of power generated through solar panels installed on rooftops of the houses. However, on average, it is estimated that 1.5 million units per MW per year are generated from solar rooftop plants, Singh asserted.

DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal posts old child rape video from Hyderabad on Twitter, asks Delhi police to file report

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DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal posts old child rape video from Hyderabad on Twitter, asks Delhi police to file report

Former Aam Aadmi Party leader and Chairperson of Delhi Commission for Women Swati Maliwal broke women safety laws today when she posted a child rape video on her Twitter account.

Today afternoon Swati posted a video captured with a phone camera showing an elderly person attempting to rape a minor girl. In the video, an aged man is seen with a small girl in a room where he was about to rape her. When he was in the middle of the crime, some people enter the scene and rescue the child.

Although there is no indication of the location where the crime happened, she assumed that it happened in Delhi and tagged the Delhi police asking them to file FIR immediately and arrest the man.

Even though the face of the girl was blurred in the video, it is still a very disturbing video, and laws make it clear that such rape videos can’t be shared online. When one comes across such videos, they are supposed to contact the police, not share it on social media. Being in the position of heading the Women Commission in Delhi, Swati Maliwal could have easily directly contacted senior officials of Delhi police. But she chose to share the video on social media, in clear violation of law.


She also assumed it is from Delhi and didn’t try to verify it. Because, it has turned out that the video is from March this year, and it is from Moghalpura in Hyderabad. More importantly, the man seen has already been arrested by police and is in jail now. In the video below, we can clearly see the same man in police custody.

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The 71-year-old Mohammad Jabbar had attempted to rape a two- and half-year old girl in an under-construction building on 6th March this year. Although he was caught by locals, he had managed to escape. But police managed to nab him two days later.

Swati Maliwal could have found out these details about the video easily, but in an attempt to create a sensation, she posted the video online.


When several people including journalists asked her to do delete the video, pointing out that this is illegal and the case is old and the man has been arrested, she deleted it. But she ignored several people informing her that the man has been arrested, saying she has sought a report from police. When the perpetrator has already been arrested by police in a different state that does not come under her jurisdiction, one wonders why she is seeking a report from Delhi Police on the case.

Karnataka Congress-JDS coalition government collapses after it fails to get trust vote passed in Assembly

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Karnataka Congress-JDS coalition government collapses after it fails to get trust vote passed in Assembly

The coalition government of Janta Dal (Secular) and Congress was facing a second trust vote in little over one year after elections were held on May 2018. Various MLAs from the ruling coalition had rebelled and that’s why the trust vote was needed. After days of drama, CM Kumaraswamy finally moved the trust vote today that failed to pass in the Assembly. As a result, the Karnataka government has officially collapsed.

During the Trust Vote, the total Members present and voting were 204 and the Majority Mark was 103. The votes in favour of the Congress-JDS government were 99 and the votes against Congress-JDS government were 105.

Ordinarily, if the vote had resulted in a tie, speaker KR Ramesh Kumar would have had a casting vote if there is a ‘tie’ in the Confidence Motion.

However, the government has collapsed with a vote way over the majority mark of 103.

As a result of the Karnataka Congress-JDS government collapsing, HD Kumaraswamy will in all likeliness resign at the earliest.

Aurangabad: Sheikh Aamer faked ‘forced to chant Jai Shri Ram’ story to get applauded in the community

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Aurangabad: Sheikh Aamer faked ‘forced to chant Jai Shri Ram’ story to get applauded in the community

In just 3 days, another fake incident of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan being forced has come to fore in the city of Aurangabad. In the latest case, the alleged victim Aamer reportedly contrived a story that the 4 youths he had an altercation with had forced him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan and filed his complaint on this basis at the police station to seek grandstanding from members of his community.

(Source: Lokmat Samachar)

However, barely a day after filing a complaint that some persons had forcibly asked him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’, the alleged victim Aamer went back on his statement. Aamer conceded that he fabricated the story of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan being enforced upon him to raise his stature among his community members and teach those who dare to challenge people from his community a lesson.

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Aamer said to the police that the minor scuffle he had with the car driver at Bajrang Chowk instantly reminded him of the Hudco corner incident and he was determined to teach the car driver a lesson and getting him punished and thus elevate his standing among his community members. He, therefore, filed a false report in the police station alleging that the car driver and his friends forced him into chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and threatened him with violence for not abiding by their demands.

According to the reports, Sheikh Aamer, working with food ordering app Zomato, and his friend Shaikh Nasir were travelling on a bike to collect a takeaway from a restaurant when four to five men in a car had a trifling brawl with the duo while their bike brush past the car at a turn. After Aamer gave a communal flair to the incident falsely accusing the youths of browbeating them into chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’, the police had arrested 4 of them.

The four arrested are engineering students. Their car has been seized by the police. They have been charged under sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race and doing acts prejudicial to the maintenance of harmony), 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) and 506 (criminal intimidation). All the four arrested acknowledged that they had a petty quarrel on the turning but vehemently denied of asking the Zomato duo to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans.

A couple of days back, a similar false report alleging intimidation by miscreants to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ was filed by Imran Ismail Patel. Patel, a hotel employee, said in his complaint that a gang of around ten goons stopped him near Hudco Corner in Begumpura area when he was returning home on a motorbike in the early hours and forced him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. However, a couple who came to his rescue claimed that Patel wasn’t intimidated for raising religious slogans but the altercation occurred due to some old personal feud.

Even after India rejects Trump’s claim on Kashmir mediation, Farooq Abdullah congratulates Modi, Mehbooba Mufti welcomes move

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Even after India rejects Trump’s claim on Kashmir mediation, Farooq Abdullah congratulates Modi, Mehbooba Mufti welcomes move

India has categorically rejected claims made by United States President Donald Trump that Indian PM had requested him to meditate on the Kashmir issue. The spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, Raveesh Kumar had rejected Trump’s claim last night itself when the news of the comment had appeared. Today external affairs minister S Jaishankar gave statements in both the houses of parliament stressing that Narendra Modi never requested Donald Trump to mediate in the Kashmir issue. The MoS to the Prime Minister’s office, Dr Jitendra Singh has also confirmed that no such request has been made by Narendra Modi.

However, the National Conference president Farooq Abdullah chose to ignore all these denials and assumed that Modi requested Trump to mediate on Kashmir. And unlike Congress which is demanding that Modi clarifies on the issue, Abdullah welcomed US mediation between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir issue, and congratulated Modi for the same.


He said, “It is a matter of happiness that when PM Modi talked to Trump he had told him that Kashmir issue is complex & if there can be some help it would be good.”

He further congratulated PM Narendra Modi on seeking help and said, “I congratulate Modi Ji, he too wants to use everything to solve this issue that is creating tensions between India & Pakistan.”

Moreover, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief, Mehbooba Mufti, who has recently been threatening India with dire consequences if Articles 370 and 35A were scrapped, also craftily expressed her faith in the US President over the Indian Prime Minister by saying that though the US Presidents claims were refuted by the GOI, it marks a huge policy shift.


The two Kashmir leaders are welcoming a move, which goes totally against India’s stated position and also provisions of the Shimla Agreement. The agreement clearly states that all differences between the two countries are bilateral, and hence there is no scope for any third-party mediation or arbitration. But still, and despite India reiterating that there will not be any third party and vehemently rejecting Trump’s version, they are rooting for Donald Trump to mediate on Kashmir.

Ever since Trump made the comments, there has been a systematic attempt to insinuate that Narendra Modi did make the request as Trump alleged. Numerous journalists and politicians jumped on the Trump bandwagon to take potshots at the Modi government and the Prime Minister himself.

Despite numerous clarifications by the Indian government, the opposition is adamant that Modi should issue a statement on the matter on the floor of the House. Chants of “Pradhan Mantri, jawab do, jawab do” were raised inside the Parliament as well and Opposition parties even staged a walk-out over the issue. The Congress party has even given an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha. This was despite the fact that EAM S. Jaishankar had refuted Trump’s claims in the strongest of words.

It is appaling that while no Indian can ever believe that the Indian Prime Minister can ever make a pitch for mediation when it comes to Jammu and Kashmir, people from the opposition like the National Conference President, Farooq Abdullah and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief, Mehbooba Mufti, and the Congress of course, in their animosity for the Prime Minister are willing to rake up such theories without even blinking an eyelid, even if it costs us the country’s reputation.

Who is Prime Minister Modi’s ‘very special friend’ who came to meet him in the Parliament today?

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Who is Prime Minister Modi’s ‘very special friend’ who came to meet him in the Parliament today?

Prime Minister Modi today shared images with a ‘very special friend’ who had come to meet him at the Parliament. These images, which were shared on Instagram and Facebook, had PM Modi posing with a small kid in his office.

PM Modi with a ‘very special friend’ at his office (image: Narendra Modi’s Facebook page)
PM Modi with a ‘very special friend’ at his office (image: Narendra Modi’s Facebook page)

The little kid playing with PM Modi in these pics is granddaughter of BJP MP Satyanarayan Jatiya. He is a Rajya Sabha member.

Haryana: Farmer murdered by cattle thieves, two buffaloes and a calf stolen

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Haryana: Farmer murdered by cattle thieves, two buffaloes and a calf stolen

A farmer was murdered in the Barwala area of Hisar, Haryana on Sunday night by unidentified miscreants before the criminals proceeded to steal his livestock. The criminals had stolen two buffaloes and a calf.

The buffaloes were of the Murrah breed and belonged to the victim. The victim has been identified as Naresh, a 40-year-old resident of the area.

The victim’s brother has stated that Naresh was sleeping alone in a shelter in the leased farmland the night on the night of the murder. The next morning, he was found murdered by sharp-edged weapons and his cattle were missing. Based on his statement, the Police have lodged a case against unknown people under section 460 of the Indian Penal Code.

The dead body was discovered by one worker of the farm owner. He immediately reported the matter to the Police and informed the victim’s brother about the incident. The Police soon arrived at the scene of the crime and started their own investigation into the matter.

According to the relatives, the financial losses incurred by the family exceed 1 lakh rupees. They claim that a single Murrah buffalo could be easily sold for 50-60 thousand rupees. The calf, they claim, usually fetches 15-20 thousand rupees as well. Naresh’s family was greatly dependent on him for their livelihood. He was the father of 5 daughters and two sons. His murder has threatened the livelihood of his family as well.

Cattle theft is a huge problem in the country that leads to regular violence. There have been many cases where the cattle smugglers attack the farmers and even the police. Cattle smugglers have also been known to hurl bombs and attack people indiscriminately. The Indian state, thus far, has been ineffective at thwarting the menace.

While stray incidents where the farmers gang up to defend their livestock and end up taking the law in their hands get highlighted in the media, the widespread menace pf cattle smuggling and its devastating impact on farmers’ lives get largely ignored.

Afghanistan hits out at Trump, says won’t let foreign powers determine its fate

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Afghanistan hits out at Trump, says won’t let foreign powers determine its fate

In a sharp riposte to the American President Donald Trump, the Afghanistan government issued a press release claiming that no foreign countries hold the power of deciding the fate of their country.

Trump had yesterday made a controversial remark regarding the tumultuous situation in Afghanistan asserting that he could end the war in a week’s time but that would entail killing 10 million people which he didn’t wish to.


Responding to US President Donald Trump’s comments, the Afghanistan Press Release said, “Afghanistan is one of the oldest and deep-rooted countries in the world who has survived through and overcame countless calamities. The Afghan nation will therefore not allow any foreign power to determine its fate.”

It further stated that its relationship with the United States is based on common interest and mutual respect and that it appreciates US’ participation in ensuring peace in the region but it won’t let foreign heads of states to dictate Afghanistan’s fate. Through the press release, Afghanistan has also sought clarification on the US President Donald Trump’s statements.

Earlier yesterday, during interaction with the press, Trump said, “If I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth. It would be over in literally, in a week’s time. I don’t want 10 million people to perish.”

Trump, speaking alongside Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Oval Office, said there exists “tremendous potential between” the U.S. and Pakistan, and predicted that the Islamic Republic would “help us out to extricate ourselves” from Afghanistan.

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