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Prime Minister Modi pays tribute to Easter Sunday terror attack victims at St. Anthony’s Church during his Sri Lanka visit

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Prime Minister Modi pays tribute to Easter Sunday terror attack victims at St. Anthony’s Church during his Sri Lanka visit

Following his visit to the Maldives, Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his Sri Lanka visit by paying tribute to the victims of the ghastly Easter Sundar terror attack victims at St. Anthony’s Shrine, Kochchikade.


Showing solidarity with Sri Lanks and the victims of the deadly terrorist attack which claimed the lives of hundreds of people, PM tweeted that he was confident that the country would rise again and that India stands in solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka.


Prime Minister Modi is on his first overseas visit after taking oath for Prime Minister’s office for a second time. He arrived in Sri Lanka today where he was given a ceremonial welcome by the Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe at the airport. He was invited by the Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena who had recently attended PM Modi’s swearing-in ceremony. PM Modi is expected to meet Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lankan Leader of Opposition, and Tamil National Alliance leaders.

India had alerted Sri Lanka of a possible Jihadist attack but the country did not pay any attention to the warnings thinking that India was attempting to create enmity between Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Consequently, Sri Lanka paid a heavy price for ignoring intelligence warnings. India is now providing intelligence assistance to Sri Lanka in the investigation of the Easter terror attacks.

Charges of nepotism, favouritism, backdoor appointment, loot and plunder levelled against sacked J&K Bank chairman Parvez Ahmad

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Charges of nepotism, favouritism, backdoor appointment, loot and plunder levelled against sacked J&K Bank chairman Parvez Ahmad

After removal of Jammu and Kashmir Bank’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Parvez Ahmad Nengroo yesterday, the Anti Corruption Bureau of Jammu and Kashmir police has intensified investigations against him. Soon after Ahmad was replaced by interim chairman R. K. Chibber, the ACB had raided the bank headquarters on the allegations of irregularities in appointments and other dealings in the bank during Ahmad’s term.

Today the ACB levelled several charges of nepotism and corruption by Parvez Ahmad Nengroo as chairman of the bank. According to ACB, he got his nephew appointed at his office, who is known as a key man of the chairman. He also got his daughter in law Shazia Ambreen appointed as PO who is currently heading the Hazratbal Branch of the bank. Two branches of the bank operate from the premises of the chairman and his in-laws. It is alleged that both the Kaprin Shopian and Wuyan branches are located at unsuitable locations from a banking point of view.


Two relatives of Ahmad, Asif Beg and M. Fahim also work in the bank, and they control the HR, board affairs and credit proposals of J&K Bank. Two more relatives, Faheem Nengroo, Taseen Nengroo, work in the chairman’s office. On the other hand, former minister Farooq Andrabi’s brother Shamsuddin Andrabi, who is only 12th passed, was directly appointed as manager and posted at the Bhaderwah branch of the bank.

There is also a question on Ahmad’s date of birth, as according to his School certificate, his date of birth is 21 April 1963, but as per records he passed the matriculation exam in 1977, this means he was only 14 years old when passed the 10th board examination.

Allegations of financial irregularities are also there against the former chairman. According to police, works for interiors of hundreds of branches of the bank were allotted to select few people at an inflated rate. Amounts ranging from ₹50 lakh to ₹1.5 crore were allotted for such work, but the actual cost was only about 30% of the amount paid.

During the term of Ahmad as chairman of the bank, loans worth hundreds of crore of Rupees were paid to select people on the recommendations of Imran Ansari and Sajad Lone, violating rules and guideline of sanctioning loans. Overdrafts of big amounts were also granted to people who had defaulted in payments to other banks, and many such CC accounts had turned into NPAs. It is also alleged that one time settlements were done with few defaulters in exchange of kickbacks.

There were huge variations in cost and income ratio of the bank, and expenditure increased to 200% to 500% during Parvez Ahmad Nengroo’s term as the chairman. It is alleged that ₹8 crore were spent under CSR on beautification of the Royal Spring Golf course. But this is a place used by elites only and common people didn’t benefit from this CSR activity.

The police sources said that action against the former chairman and probe into backdoor appointments, illegalities, loot and plunder is intended to cleanse the system, make it more transparent, and help the bank in maintaining its position as the leading bank of the state.

Kya alien le gaye viman? Zee Rajasthan wonders if ‘aliens’ abducted IAF’s missing AN-32 aircraft which is still missing with 13 onboard

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Kya alien le gaye viman? Zee Rajasthan wonders if ‘aliens’ abducted IAF’s missing AN-32 aircraft which is still missing with 13 onboard

The Indian Air Force’s AN-32 transport plane which went missing with 13 people onboard near the China border on June 4 has still not been traced. Meanwhile, Zee Rajasthan ran a program yesterday where they wondered whether the aircraft has been abducted by aliens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vacHE5I4ZWg

The video starts with a montage of Air Force officers running around, the air traffic control room and other images of Indian Air Force jets taking off. It then informs how the Indian Air Force’s jet has gone missing followed by images and videos of more aircrafts.

The voice-over anchor then says how there is no sign of the missing aircraft. “Na aasman ne viman ko nigla, na hi viman ko dharti leel gayi (neither the sky swallowed the aircraft, nor did the earth swallow it),” he says. “Na hi samandar mein samaya viman (nor did the aircraft crash in the ocean),” he added. This is followed by montage of the ocean, with navy vessels and a submarine.

The dejected voice-over anchor then says, “Char din se talash jaari, phir bhi hai haath khaali (Search operations on since four days but still empty-handed).”

Then, as if on cue, he asks, where did the aircraft go? A graphic of a UFO comes with light falling down. “Kahin alien to nahin le gaye viman? (Whether the aliens took away the aircraft?” he asks very seriously. This is followed by imagery of a spaceship entering over what looks like a stadium and one alien graphic appears next to a flying aircraft (not the AN-32).

In the next slide, he asks whether the missing aircraft is a conspiracy our neighbouring planet. This is again followed by some footage of alien-films from Hollywood. “Are aliens playing hide and seek with us humans? If the aircraft is in this world, then how come there are no signs of it?” he asks.

Then the voice-over anchor wonders whether the aliens reside at the Indo-China border? He asserts that aircrafts just don’t go ‘missing’ just like that and that there will always be some evidence. Whether lack of evidence points to the fact that the aircraft is hidden in a UFO?

He then says how the world is full of mysteries and anything is possible. Then why shrug off the possibility of alien involvement in the missing aircraft? And if the aliens did not take away the aircraft, then why is it not traced yet? He concludes by questioning whether the aliens took away the aircraft.

Disclaimer: OpIndia does not believe the aliens abducted the aircraft and we certainly do not believe aliens reside on the Indo-China border. This is a sarcastic post to show the mainstream media comes up with bizarre conspiracy theories.

Delhi: ABP journalist’s car attacked by bike-borne assailants at Barapullah flyover, three shots fired

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Delhi: ABP journalist’s car attacked by bike-borne assailants at Barapullah flyover, three shots fired

An ABP News reporting team was attacked by two bike-borne assailants on the Barapullah flyover in Delhi, at wee hours of Sunday while the team was heading for a night shoot.

The gunmen shot three rounds of bullets at the vehicle carrying its reporter, cameraperson and the driver. The bullets hit the car, but the journalists escaped unhurt.

ABP News, an Indian Hindi news channel owned by ABP Group, has raised doubts on the law and order management in Delhi. While the team claimed of receiving a cold shoulder when they reached out to the cops near INA metro station, the Delhi Police has said that a case has been registered and the investigation is underway.


According to the report, the team had received information about the murder of a readymade clothes trader in Delhi’s Prasadnagar and was heading towards the site via the Barapullah flyover when two bike-borne assailants tried to apprehend the unit with a pistol.

They asked the team which comprised of reporter Siddharth Purohit, and cameraperson Arvind Kumar to park the car at a side. The driver was about to stop the car but after Purohit and Kumar’s suggestion, he sped up.


On seeing the car speeding up, the men fired three shots at the car. The first shot hit the driver’s door, while the second one smashed the driver side window pane. The third shot went amiss in air. After this, the assailants followed the team for about half a kilometre after which they fled.

The team alleged that they approached the police patrol at INA metro station and narrated the entire incident. However, instead of helping them out, or informing other stations, the cops removed the barricades and left.

According to the team, the incident took place around 1:30 am and the first call to the Police Control Room was made at 1:33 am. However, police arrived no sooner than 3:05 am after which, formalities regarding complaint were completed.

However, the Delhi police maintained that a case has been registered and investigations were underway.

Girls in a dance group invited to perform in Eid program forced to dance naked in Assam

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Girls in a dance group invited to perform in Eid program forced to dance naked in Assam

In a shocking incident in Assam, girls in dance troop invited to perform at an Eid celebration were forced to strip and dance naked by rowdy spectators, although they managed to escape.

According to a complaint filed with police by Arup D Rabha, director of the dance group, a special cultural show was organised on the occasion of Eid in the Asolpara village in Chaygaon area in Kamrup District. Kuddus Ali, one of the organisers of the event, had contracted the Rainbow Dance Group of Boko in Assam for performing in the event on 7th June, and an amount of ₹37,000 was agreed upon for the same. Accordingly, the 42-member dance group reached the venue in the evening on that day, but they were surprised to see that there was not any environment of a cultural program there. When they contacted Kuddus Ali, he took them to a weird looking place which was surrounded by corrugated sheet fences on all sides.

When the dance group started their traditional dance performance, around 700-800 youths present their created a ruckus, and started trying to pull the clothes of the girls in the group. Instead of controlling the mob, the members of the organising committee also participated in this assault. They asked the girls to strip and dance sexual numbers naked, and threatened to attack them with daggers if they don’t comply.

Apparently, the organisers had lied to the public that they have invited a naked dance group from Cooch Behar in West Bengal, and had collected a huge sum from the public in this pretext. The complaint says that organisers and spectators touched the girls inappropriately while trying to get them to strip. They also verbally abused the group for refusing to dance naked.

Eventually, the group somehow managed to escape from the barricaded venue, some of them barefoot, and called their friends for help and also called the Boko police station. One vehicle of the dance group was also attacked by axes and steel digger bars, causing substantial damage to the vehicle.

The complaint filed with police, source: time8.in

Later in the night, the dance group reached Boko with police escort. The Rainbow dance group’s director Arup D Rabha filed an FIR with Boko police station regarding the incident, where he has named Kuddus Ali, Sayed Khan, Atikul Islam, Samajuddin, Jeherul Islam and Abbas Ali, along with all the members of the organising committee of the event as the accused in the case.

The police have started investigating the case, and have made two arrests so far, Subhahan Khan and Shahrukh Khan.

Bihar: Minor girl brutally raped and murdered in Jamui, protestors alleging police inaction sit on indefinite hunger strike

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Bihar: Minor girl brutally raped and murdered in Jamui, protestors alleging police inaction sit on indefinite hunger strike

In yet another horrific incident a 16-year-old minor girl named Meena (name changed) was brutally raped and murdered in Jamui district, Bihar on May 26. The incident gained significance after several members of the Akhil Bharatiya Kshatriya (Rajput) Mahasabha started protesting against the Bihar police alleging negligence in handling the case.

A group of members of the Mahasabha accompanied by several villagers assembled in Kachhar Chowk in Jamui on May 8 to sit on an indefinite hunger strike demanding justice for Meena. While addressing the dharna (sit-in protest), Sanjeev Kumar Singh said that a Special Investigative Team (SIT) should be formed to probe the case at the earliest.

The protestors further demanded that the District Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police should fast track the process and ensure that the culprits are brought to justice.

The Kshatriya Mahasabha’s State General Secretary Vishal Singh and Vinod Yadav said that the victim’s family should be provided police protection as the family was allegedly receiving threats to withdraw the case. They also demanded a compensation of Rs 3 lakh for the victim’s family.

A day before, dozens of people from Jain Sangharsh Samiti had also met the victim’s family and assured justice. They too had blamed the police for not giving importance to the case. Moreover, a member of the Samiti also handed over a demand letter to the District Development Officer, Dharmaveer Kumar Prabhakar demanding immediate action against the perpetrators.

The Convenor said that the police-administration should soon arrest the accused and provided compensation of Rs five lakh to the victim’s family. If no such action is taken by the administration, then the members of the Jana Sangharsh Samiti would be forced to agitate, and that the district administration would be held responsible for it, said the letter.

The protestors have alleged that the police were trying to shield the accused and the passiveness that was being adopted in the inquiry was because the authorities were trying to play vote bank politics. Further alleging that the police was not taking any concrete steps to arrest the miscreants the members of the Rajput Mahasabha said that they would take up the matter with the Chief Minister.

Meena was brutally raped and murdered on May 26 after she went out of her house to defecate around 8 am. The family became suspicious when Meena did not return home for long. Her mother Mamata Devi and sister Shabnam looked around in adjoining areas but could not find her. Later the villagers informed that a teenage girl’s dead body was lying nearby. When the family reached the spot they identified her as Meena. Her face had been mercilessly smashed with a rock as she lied there in cold blood.

We have earlier too reported various such cases where the police have delayed action due to its biases.

Recently, in the Aligarh murder case, wherein a two-and-a-half-years-old Tina (name changed) in Aligarh’s Tappal, the Uttar Pradesh, was brutally murdered, the SIT had taken action against the concerned SHO for delinquency. The DG had said that action was being taken against the police officials for negligence.

In April we had reported how Mumbai Police had reportedly not only declined to mention Akhtar Sheikh’s name in the FIR but also ignored invoking the crucial POCSO. Akhtar Sheikh was accused of raping a minor girl in Ghatkopar, Mumbai.

Swarjya an online news portal had then identified two more such biased cases, one from New Delhi and one from Uttar Pradesh — where minor girls were kidnapped in a similar way but the police, in both cases, refused to add the accused’s name and POCSO ACT in the FIRs.

Ahead of India-Australia clash at World Cup, Aaron Finch hails Steve Smith as best batsman in the world

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Ahead of India-Australia clash at World Cup, Aaron Finch hails Steve Smith as best batsman in the world

Just ahead of India – Australia clash, the Australia captain, Aaron Finch started playing the mind games. He picked Steve Smith as the best batsman ahead of Virat Kohli, despite the latter has a better record in ODI and T20I.

“Steve is the best batter in the world in my opinion over all three forms of the game,” said Finch.

Smith v Kohli (in limited over cricket)
Test runs Test average ODI runs ODI average T20I runs T20I average
Smith 6199 61.37 3522 41.92 431 21.55
Kohli 6613 53.76 10861 59.34 2263 50.28

 

Smith (61.37) is better against Kohli (53.76) only in Tests.

Finch is happy to have both Smith and Warner back in the squad and performing well for the team.

“To have them back is great for the side and our batting, It’s a great help for me as a leader, in terms of tactics out on the field,” said Finch.

On Warner, he added: “David is so destructive at the top of the order, his record shows how destructive he is.”

Warner hit an unbeaten 89 against Afghanistan, while Smith scored 73 against West Indies.

Australia has won 12 games in a row, which boosted their confidence immensely, “I think winning the last three games is really important for us in India, to one, get some self-belief that we can beat this Indian side in their home conditions,” said Finch.

Clashes erupt between the BJP and TMC, BJP holds Mamata Banerjee responsible for death of BJP party workers

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Clashes erupt between the BJP and TMC, BJP holds Mamata Banerjee responsible for death of BJP party workers

Saturday evening clashes erupted between the BJP and TMC in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district leaving workers of both parties injured. The clashes broke out over tthe removal of party flags in Basirhat’s Sandeshkhali. BJP leader Mukul Roy held Mamata Banerjee responsible for the deaths of BJP party workers, he said that the TMC was indulging in a reign of terror.


Mukul Roy tweeted last night that he would be reaching Union Home Minister Amit Shah to apprise of the Sandeshkhali killings.


Sources in the BJP have said that a total of five party workers have been killed in the clashes and several others are seriously injured. The names of the deceased are as given below:

  1. Prodip Mondal, aged 36 years s/o Uday Mondal – Mondal Party President
  2. Sukanta Mondal, aged 28 years s/o Late Shakti Pramukh
  3. Tapan Mondal, aged 25 years s/o of Barun Mondal
  4. Devbrata Mondal
  5. Shankar Mondal aged 30 years s/o Uday Mondal

A BJP delegation led by party leader Mukul Roy would leave for Sandeshkhali from the airport today at 11 AM. The delegation would comprise of Mukul Roy, General Secretary Sayantan Basu, MP Locket Chatterjee, MP Jagannath Sarkar, MP Shantanu Thakur, MP Arjun Singh and MLA Dulal Bar.

On the other hand, the TMC leader in charge of North 24 Pargana district blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party for the death of TMC worker Qayum Mollah. He was taken to the Minakha Gramin Hospital seriously injured and later succumbed to injuries.

The TMC is known for its violent political tactics in West Bengal. Yesterday, a BJP victory procession turned violent after TMC party workers disrupted the procession. On May 30th, a TMC worker has allegedly stabbed a BJP worker for chanting Jai Shri Ram.

Uttar Pradesh: Shahnawaj caught red-handed for raping 9-year old Dalit girl in Varanasi

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Within days of the barbaric act of killing a 3-year old girl at Aligarh surfaced, another act of child abuse has occurred in Varanasi when a man named Shahnawaj was caught red-handed after he raped a 9-year old Dalit girl.

According to the Times of India, Shahnawaj, a native of the town, had called the victim to his place on the pretext of giving her some clothes. As soon as the victim reached his place, he took her inside a room and allegedly raped her.

Reportedly, the girl began to cry after he tried to rape her and later pushed her outside his room. Later, the girl returned home and informed family members about the incident, who caught the accused and took him to the police station.

The police have lodged an FIR under section 376 (rape), 511 (punishable offence) of IPC, 325 SC/ST Act and section 7/8 POCSO and sent the girl for medical examination after taking the accused into the custody, said inspector Sharad Tripathi.

Similarly, in March 2019, a 17-year-old minor Dalit girl was allegedly gang-raped by five men in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district. The accused had even reportedly filmed a video and threatened to make it public if the girl reported the matter to anyone. The five accused, Danish, Farid, Umama, Maj and Sabur were arrested by the police.

In a similar deplorable incident at Aligarh, a Muslim man named Zahid had brutally choked a minor girl, Tina Sharma (name changed) to death over an argument with her family regarding a small loan amount. The brutal incident had shocked the conscience of the nation.

Zahid had brutally choked Tina with a dupatta (scarf) and hid the body in his house in a straw bag. After three days when the corpse started emitting a foul smell, Zahid threw Tina in a pile of trash. Tina’s body was completely decomposed with her eyes gouged out.

Bhopal: Body of an 8 year old girl found in a drain, six police officers suspended

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Bhopal: Body of an 8 year old girl found in a drain, six police officers suspended

Just days after the brutal murder of a 2-and-a-half-year-old girl Tina (name changed) in another body of an eight-year-old girl has been found in a drain in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.


The girl’s body has been sent for postmortem and the cause of her death will be ascertained once the reports are out. According to police, one police officer has also been suspended. In Aligarh case too, police officials were suspended for delinquency.

Update 1: Madhya Pradesh Home Minister has said that the main culprit has been identified and his location has been traced. Six policemen have been suspended till now.

Note: This is a developing story and we shall update it when new information emerges.

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