On July 21, 2023, the Western Railway’s RPF arrested a Bangladeshi resident identified as Kuddus Ismail Sheikh from Mazgaon in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The accused, as reported by Free Press Journal, is said to be the mastermind behind the 2021 daring copper wire theft of five local trains parked in Virar Carshed in Maharashtra.
The accused has been on the run for the last two years while his 17 accomplices were nabbed and sent to jail. Kuddus reportedly returned to India in January 2023 after fleeing to Bangladesh in October 2021. A special RPF team was sent out on June 29, 2023, to apprehend the accused after receiving information about his presence in Mumbai’s Govandi neighbourhood.
On July 22, 2023, Kuddus was brought before Vasai Road Railway Court, where he admitted to his role in the copper wire theft and provided information about his accomplices. He admitted they had sold the copper wires that had been stolen.
“The successful arrest was the result of relentless efforts by the RPF Virar team, working in collaboration with various agencies and sources of information. Kuddus Ismail Sheikh is currently in RPF custody until July 26, 2023” said an official of WR.
The event, which happened on October 16, 2021, involved the breaking of the locks on the coaches of five local trains, which led to the theft of copper cables and other railway supplies worth Rs 7,18,080. Kuddus had eluded capture up until recently, while the other 17 accused had been detained and had served their prison sentences.
In 2019, at least four UN Refugee card holder Rohingyas were among the six nabbed by the Police for allegedly stealing copper wires from the metro stations and metro tracks in Noida and Delhi. According to reports, the accused would steal copper wires by climbing over the station’s wall and have multiple cases of theft lodged against them. The copper wire recovered from them are worth approximately Rs 10 lakh.
Aslam, Asif, Manjur Alam, Nazir and Ali Hasan were residents of Delhi while Zubair Malik was from Mawana, Meerut. Zubair was believed to be the gang leader. Of these, at least four had United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) issued refugee cards, valid till November 2020.
Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, representing the Hindu petitioners in the Shringar Gauri-Gyanvapi complex case has revealed that the Muslim side misled the Supreme Court on the scientific survey of the disputed structure called the Gyanvapi mosque which was initiated earlier on Monday. The apex court, on hearing the objections of the Anjuman Intezamia Committee (AIC) against the ASI survey, imposed a stay on the survey till 5 pm on 26th July.
“After hearing both sides, the SC has stayed the district court order till 5 pm on 26th July and has directed the Allahabad High Court to decide the case afresh. We will present our arguments before the Allahabad High Court. But I want to say this that the Muslim side, Anjuman Intezamia misled the Supreme Court and gave the wrong statement that excavation is being held there whereas no such excavation process has begun there,” Jain said while speaking to the media after the SC order.
#WATCH | On Supreme Court's order, Vishnu Shankar Jain, representing the Hindu side in the Gyanvapi mosque case, says "Supreme Court has put a stay on the order of the District Court on survey of the Mosque complex and has asked the Allahabad Court to decide matter afresh. We… pic.twitter.com/bhJdoRrCwf
On Monday, July 24, the Supreme Court of India halted the ongoing Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) survey at the disputed Gyanvapi Mosque structure till 5 PM on 26th July. The matter was mentioned before the apex court by senior advocate Huzefa Ahmadi on behalf of the Gyanvapi Masjid Committee against Varanasi district court’s order directing ASI to conduct a scientific survey at the disputed structure premises, excluding the sealed area where Shivling was found last year.
Advocate Ahmadi while presenting the arguments on behalf of the committee said that the survey team had begun digging at the western wall. “They have already started digging at the western wall, with what responsibility is the SG saying no excavation done”, Advocate Ahmadi reportedly argued.
SG Tushar Mehta confirmed only measurement and photography were being conducted by ASI, and not even a brick was being touched or will be touched in the future. However, Ahmadi kept asking for a stay on the survey.
Ahmadi: This was passed on a Friday at 4pm. They have already started digging at the western wall, with what responsibility is the SG saying no excavation done. I am sorry I do not normally get carried away ..
SG: It is okay.
CJI: We will hear tomorrow, not delay. And say no…
The argument was made even as the survey on 24th July only consisted of inspection work.
Meanwhile, senior advocate Hari Shankar Jain also representing the Hindu petitioners said that the order does not mean a stay on the survey itself. He said, “There is no stay on the survey…don’t say it like that. The SC has rather said that breathing time is being granted to them since the order was delivered on Friday so they should get two days’ time till 5 PM of 26th July, Wednesday to approach the High Court. The only difference is that they can challenge, this shouldn’t be seen as a stay (on the survey). Because they have only been granted the right to move HC and till then the order will not be implemented that’s all.”
#WATCH | Hari Shankar Jain, counsel for the Hindu side, after SC stays ASI survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex till 5pm July 26 says, "This order should not be looked at as a stay on the ASI survey of mosque premises. SC has given the Muslim side chance to approach the High… pic.twitter.com/lsHKlKG2Gs
The senior advocate further said that the order cannot be called wrong. “The survey which was being done in accordance with a court order was right and the order given by the SC is also right. If there is no stay granted by the HC till 5 pm on 26th July then the survey will resume. We will also move High Court,” Hari Shankar Jain said.
On Sunday (July 23) afternoon, a woman was reportedly stripped naked and beaten by miscreants associated with the ruling Trinamool Congress party. The incident took place in Burwan village in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal.
As per a report by Aaj Tak Bangla, the woman was thrashed and sexually assaulted by TMC goons for joining the Congress party. When two Congress workers tried to save the victim, they were also beaten by the miscreants.
The Trinamool Congress goons also attacked the family members of the two Congress workers, who came to the rescue of the woman. The victim and three others were admitted to the local hospital, before being transferred to the Kandi Subdivision hospital.
Citing local sources, Aaj Tak Bangla reported that the woman was a member of the ruling Trinamool Congress party. After being denied a ticket in the panchayat election, she contested the polls as an independent candidate.
The victim later joined the Congress party. After TMC goons learnt about the matter, they beat her black and blue. “I was a member of the Trinamool Congress. I supported the Congress party so they thrashed me brutally. The TMC miscreants disrobed and assaulted me on the road,” the woman narrated.
“They stripped me naked and beat me,” she told an Aaj Tak Bangla reporter. The incident led to an atmosphere of chaos and unrest in the area. On being informed about the matter, the police rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control.
Another day, another woman is assaulted and stripped naked in West Bengal’s Burwan (Murshidabad). She was assaulted by TMC workers because she supported an independent candidate, who is now with the Congress.
Mamata Banerjee has maintained stoic silence. So has Rahul Gandhi.
While speaking about the matter, BJP national spokesperson Amit Malviya said, “Another day, another woman is assaulted and stripped naked in West Bengal’s Burwan (Murshidabad). She was assaulted by TMC workers because she supported an independent candidate, who is now with Congress.
“Mamata Banerjee has maintained stoic silence. So has Rahul Gandhi,” he emphasised. The development comes days amid public outrage over a viral video from Manipur wherein two women were gang-raped and paraded naked by a mob of men.
BJP workers sexually assaulted by TMC goons in West Bengal
On Thursday (July 20), a BJP gram sabha candidate in West Bengal informed that she was physically assaulted, stripped and paraded naked by workers of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) party during the panchayat elections.
As per a report by ANI, the incident took place on July 8, 2023, in Dakshin Panchla in the Howrah district of West Bengal. In her official complaint filed with the Panchla police, the victim narrated that the assault was carried out by TMC gram sabha candidate Hemanta Roy at the polling station.
She further added that Roy was accompanied by other 40-50 TMC workers, including Noor Alam, Sanju Das, Ranabir Panja, Sukamal Panja, Alfi Sk. The copy of the First Information Report (FIR), as reported by Republic TV, read, “They hit me on my chest, and head with sticks and pushed me out of the polling booth.”
The victim pointed out that the TMC gram sabha candidate instigated party workers such as Sukamal Panja and Ali Sheikh to tear her saree and inner dress. “They further assaulted me and forced me to undress naked and molested me in front of other people,” she emphasised.
Another complaint filed by a woman candidate of BJP, in Howrah’s Domjur… She was groped and assaulted, by TMC candidate and his agents, inside the counting center on 11th Jul 2023. Mamata Banerjee’s police is still to file an FIR. These are not isolated instances of crimes… pic.twitter.com/EL27FlYY6j
On Friday (July 21), BJP national spokesperson Amit Malviya informed that a woman candidate of his party was groped and assaulted by workers of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in West Bengal.
He had shared the screenshot of an online police complaint, filed by the victim wherein she accused two TMC workers, namely Arun Thakur and Shuvankar Malik of sexually assaulting her.
The complaint filed with the Domjur police stated, “This said persons touched the secret part of my body throughout the counting and as well beat me during the counting.”
“As per the guideline of respected High Court a male was not supposed to touch a female, but this said persons continuously beaten me and touched the secret parts of my body which is against law and order,” it added.
The victim said that the assault was orchestrated by TMC Block (Jagatballavpur) President Subir Chatterjee and Dibyendu Chatterjee, TMC President for Makardah-1 Anchal. She also requested to police to analyse the CCTV footage of Room No 2 and Table No 9 (Round 1) in the Domjur counting hall.
“This is also to inform you that we have requested many times verbally to Domjur BDO Gargi Das but she has not taken any satisfactory action against this. Hope you will take necessary action against the said person and will continue with your legal steps against this said persons to save the democracy of India,” the BJP candidate said in her complaint.
On Saturday, 22nd July, Gujarat police arrested Godhra train burning case convict Qasim Abdul Sattar alias Qasim Biryani Gaji Ghanchi from Panchmahal district a year after he jumped parole. Sattar was serving a life sentence for his involvement in the Godhra train massacre in 2002. Last year, Sattar jumped parole and was absconding since then. Police received a tip-off that he was living in Limkheda taluka. The parole furlough squad of Panchmahal police raided the location and arrested him.
Sattar was handed over to the City B division police, from where he would be shifted to Sabarmati central jail in Ahmedabad to serve the rest of his sentence. Interestingly, this is the second time Sattar jumped parole. In 2021, he jumped parole but was arrested by the police. It is unclear on what grounds he was granted parole despite jumping it once before.
Godhra Train Massacre
On 27th February 2002, an Islamist mob set two coaches of the Sabarmati Express on fire in Godhra. 59 Hindu karsevaks, including children and women, were burnt alive in the incident. Following the train burning incident, communal riots broke out in Gujarat, leaving 1,200 persons dead and several thousand injured.
Sattar was part of the Islamist mob that attacked the train carrying the Hindu devotees. In March 2022, he was arrested and charged with sections pertaining to murder, attempt to murder, dacoity, voluntarily causing grievous hurt, deterring public servant, and other relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, Railway Act and Prevention of Damages to Public Properties Act.
In March 2011, 11 convicts were handed death sentences in the matter, and 20 were sentenced to life imprisonment by a special court. Six years later, the death penalty for 11 convicts was commuted to life imprisonment by Gujarat High Court, while the court upheld life imprisonment for 20 others.
On Sunday, July 23, the Raisen administration in Madhya Pradesh drove a bulldozer over the illegal property of one Akhtar Ali accused of raping and harassing a minor girl. The bulldozer was rolled in the presence of Sub Divisional Magistrate and Deputy Superintendent of Police in the Devnagar village of Raisen district.
According to the reports, the accused aged 35 molested a minor girl on July 17 when she was alone at home. As per the police complaint filed by the girl, her father had gone to the farm when the accused entered her home and took her forcefully to the backyard. He molested her and touched her inappropriately.
On seeing the girl crying for help the neighbors rushed but the accused had managed to escape from the spot till then. The accused Akhtar Ali has been booked under section 376 ab, 376 n, 506 of the Indian Penal Code and under section 5 m, 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012.
The local Hindu organisations condemned the incident and protested against the rape and molestation of the minor girl. They demanded severe action against the accused. Following this, the Sub Divisional Magistrate led the bulldozer action and pulled down the illegal property of the accused in Devnagar village.
Police officer Vikas Kumar Shahwal confirmed the incident and said that the accused has been arrested by the police. Further investigations in the case are underway.
I live in Ireland, the other day I used a public lady’s washroom and watched a man retouching his/her make-up in the mirror. As a “regressive” Indian I am not used to seeing a “woman” with a prominent Adam’s apple, strong shoulders under a spaghetti top and a pair of athletic thighs almost ripping the fishnet leggings – I paused for a moment, feeling an invasion of my privacy and gaped at a couple of ladies in the washroom hoping for an acknowledgement. However, to my surprise, they were quite accepting as they made sure he/she noticed the credence of his/her gender choice.
This incident induced consternation in me and the more I pondered over it, the more trepidation took over. I was appalled to see how women were so comfortable with a man in their space. They had not only bestowed themselves with a medal but also walked out with a beaming halo.
Well, that was Ireland, not India and what’s happening in the rest of the world doesn’t necessarily apply to Indians. But doesn’t the western wokeness permeate into Indian societies? Hasn’t our very Indian Chief Justice of India – Hon. Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud; who was hearing a batch of petitions for permission to same sex marriage said something to spark this debate in India?
CJI Hon. Chandrachud emphasised – “There is no absolute concept of a man or an absolute woman at all. It’s not a question of what your genitals are. It’s far more complex, that’s the point. So even when Special Marriage Act says man and woman, the very notion of a man and a woman is not an absolute based on genitals.”
So, if you think the debate of trans rights does not apply to India, think again. Because very soon it will.
India has always recognised a third gender, Male, Female and Kinnar. I think India or for that matter, the world should only have LGK – Lesbians, Gays and Kinnar. Anything after that is just privilege and playfulness. Let’s save this topic for another day and discuss how blurring the line between gender and sex is only injurious to women.
Let’s just agree that there is an asymmetry in gender and will continue to exist; no matter how hard we try to fill this gap; the truth is that men will dominate corporate, political, defence, manual labour and socio-economic fronts amongst violent crimes, theft and rioting. While women dominate the fashion, beauty, entertainment, education, medicine, childcare and mental health fields. We can take an easy guess as to why the Male and Female genders have organically pursued these career options over centuries.
Now, out of all the categories mentioned above, how many do you think have been crossed over?
Are we seeing Transwomen demanding and beating Men in corporate, politics, manual labour or defence jobs? Or are we only witnessing Transmen crossing over and taking up the space of women in Beauty, fashion, education, entertainment and sports?
A woman’s space has always been accessible because it’s in her nature to be accepting, inclusive empathetic and magnanimous. It has often been taken advantage of that and invading a woman’s space almost comes organically to these notoriously dazed men.
By attesting words like ‘dazed’ or ‘confused’; I by no means intend to hurt or deride the people who are sexually attracted to their same sex. Here, I am referring to the “Play Dress-up” people.
The people who are not only diluting and defeating the rights of Lesbians, Gays and Kinnars but also of Women.
Women, over the centuries, have fought for themselves with various types of Feminist movements. In India, many women are struggling to share the responsibilities of children and home with their partners. They have broken stereotypes and rejected rules dictating them based on their gender. Just when women were about to make a point, and make choices, we have men who feel like a woman and want to have a bite of everything a woman does and can do!
To make matters worse the Multinational Corporations and Media firms are encouraging this and shoving this down the general public’s throat.
The recent Bride’s cover:
Alok Vaid Menon on India Today Magazine ‘Brides’
Alok Vaid-Menon, a Trans activist-model was allowed and got away with this.
Everybody who is interested in this debate knows about Dylan Mulvany.
Dylan Mulvaney (Before and after)
This Tranwoman has a long list of endorsements, majorly in feminine products like make-up, women’s sportswear, and feminine hygiene products including Tampons and alcoholic beverages. His popularity had grown manifolds since his Tiktok series – “Life… or (no. of days) as a Woman” with big brands like Nike, Mac, and Maybelline sponsoring him to endorse their products. Everything was up-to-code until Bud Light!
Bud Light, an alcoholic drink overwhelmingly consumed by Men, faced a brutal backlash and it suffered a massive drop of 28% making Anheuser-Busch lose $20 Billion in Market Cap value. Bud Light continues to drop despite corrective actions. What does it say about the reactions of both genders to the invasion of their space?
Women allowed Dylan Mulvaney and activist-model Alok Vaid-Menon to pose as women and embrace everything which is designated for women. The title of “Bride”, “Mother”, and “Wife”, products like Sports Bras, Tampons or sanitary pads which are foreordained only for women are now being owned by them and women did not push back!
The bottom line is Men do not accept and tolerate any mutilation of the definition of manhood but women accept, embrace and further, anything that cries victim in front of them.
The United States being the most developed country in the world has its boon and bane. The Transgender movement is a premonition for other countries where this movement is still in its nascent stage.
In US the incompetent sportsmen are changing their gender identity overnight and participating in women’s sports, not defeating them by small margins but leaps. Sportswomen are accepting challenges in boxing and martial arts against men. They are letting big companies like Adidas and Nike hire males to sell their women’s swimsuits and sports bras. Miss Netherlands is a Man who defeated scores of women in femininity. They allow Men to enter girls’ washrooms in schools, and Trans Men dressed as Drag Queens are taking classes for primary kids in schools.
Do you think most men would tolerate Transwoman advertising an athletic supporter or an Electric Beard Shaver, or allow a Transwoman pretending to be a male to date their dependent heterosexual daughter?
The repercussions of this nonchalance by women have led to incompetent men dressing up as women and asking them to scooch over in sports, product endorsements, public spaces, and beauty pageants and even allowed them to define them.
Yes, the definition of woman is open for interpretation by everyone. The battles women have fought to be defined as a person who is more than a birthing machine have been reversed by these nasty men. Women participating in and validating this Trans movement are regressive to women. Names like “Menstruators”, “Birthing person”, “Everyone with a cervix” and “Non-men” are a result of the affirmation people are giving to these delusional mental patients. So much so, that they are even snatching away your identity if for some medical reason, you cannot conceive or breastfeed.
CJI Chandrachud agrees that woman or man is a notion, you are being reduced to a “feeling”. He even calls being a Man- a notion, but will men accept that? The debates, the discussions, the activists, and the spokesperson are all FOR women, By Women and AS women. Men have not even put this option on the table for discussion; there are no debates questioning manhood or whether a transwoman should be able to go down the drain and clean it. Everyone is benefitting from confusing the general public with these discussions.
Activists against the radical Trans movement are mostly males who are picking ridiculous, radical and delusional Trans activists and putting them on their channels, inviting them for debates and discrediting them to gain followers and become famous. Women and the young are so vulnerable to consuming it in any form on social media and assuming that the world around them is LGBTQ+++. The fact is, that a very small percentage of people around you are them, the ones who are genuine are just fighting to be accepted by families and friends, who have a flair of femineity or masculinity and don’t want to be discriminated against, they want to step out with the person they love and have the right to marry and commit his/her intention.
Alok Vaid-Menon or Dylan Mulvaney do not stand for any of their rights or in the Indian context, the rights of Kinnars. Such “Play-dress up” people are even more perilous for women.
Feminists who claim to be the warriors of oppressed women; are joining hands with these cross over men to give away women’s rights.
Corporate companies are giving credits and funding to companies if they have gender-fluid policies and programmes in office spaces, events and products designed for Pride and Trans. All coincidently (?) invading only women’s rights and spaces. Probably because they noticed that Women don’t push back.
I’ll end this with a movie suggestion: The Stanford Prison Experiment.
This movie was based on a psychological experiment conducted in the summer of 1971. It was a two-week simulation of a prison environment that examined the effects of situational variables on participants’ reactions and behaviours. The participants were divided into two groups of Prison Guards and Prisoners. The experiment was stopped in between; because the guards became authoritarian and abusive while the prisoners became submissive and distressed. How you interpret the findings is relative to which situation you mean to apply the experiment to, but the statement of the real-life character Christopher Archer, who was intensely abusive to the prisoners, at the end of the experiment said – “I was running my own experiment, to see what kind of verbal abuse people could take before they start objecting or lashing back. It really surprised me that nobody said anything to stop it or questioned my authority. I started to abuse people so much, it became so profane and still people didn’t change.”
On the 24th of July, five people including one woman lost their lives in a tragic accident on the Yamuna Expressway. The accident took place in the early hours of the day near the Tappal area in the Aligarh district. Reportedly, three men were rescuing a family that was trapped in their vehicle after it met with an accident. At that moment, the car was rammed by a speeding tourist bus from behind. It ran over the car occupants and the youths involved in the rescue operation.
Subsequently, a woman and a man trapped in the car, along with the three men involved in the rescue operation were fatally injured in the ensuing collision. Those among the dead were identified as two men both named Pushpendra, Pawan from Mathura’s Naujheel, and Yogendri, a woman from Tappal. However, the driver’s identity was not yet known.
Around 8 people including the villager have sustained serious injuries and have been admitted to a private hospital in Noida. The driver of the tourist bus responsible for the incident is said to have fled from the crime scene. After the accident, the locals blocked the road and demanded justice. But after getting assurances from the police, they helped them in clearing the road for the resumption of normal traffic on the Yamuna Expressway.
Meanwhile, police took the dead body in their possession and sent it for postmortem. They have initiated an investigation into the case.
According to the information received, a car from Agra to Noida had collided with another car. The accident took place at Mile Stone 56 of Yamuna Expressway at around 4:10 am on Monday morning, 24 July. Three people including a woman, and a child were trapped in the car with serious injuries. They cried and screamed for help.
Meanwhile, 4 youths were passing from there and were headed for their job at the Jewar Airport. When they were nearby, they heard the screams of the car occupants and they stopped to take out the injured trapped in the car.
The four youths that came up to help the car occupants were identified as Pushpendra (27) s/o Sugriv Singh, and Pushpendra (28) s/o Bhav Singh – both residents of Avakheda village of Naujheel, Praveen alias Pawan (26), s/o Mukesh Chaudhary and Dharamveer s/o Virendra Singh resident of Baghai (Katalia).
The four youths struggled to pull the injured car occupants as they were badly trapped.
After tireless efforts, Dharamveer managed to pull an innocent girl out of the car and he took her to the footpath to bring the child from harm’s way.
Pushpendra Singh, Pushpendra Chowdhary, and Pawan Chowdhary were pulling out the woman trapped in the car. Tragically, while they were engaged in the rescue, a Volvo bus coming from behind ran over all three young men, as well as the individuals already inside the car. As a result of the accident, the three young men, the woman, and a man who were in the car lost their lives.
Former Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi is well known for spouting falsehoods against India and the incumbent government led by PM Narendra Modi, not only on Indian soil but multiple times on foreign land too. In his desperate attempt to discredit Modi, the top leader of the Congress, among other things, has frequently woven a cacophony of lies about the state-run aerospace company- Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).
In 2019, he went as far as to forecast the impending doom of HAL and blamed the Modi administration for it. However, whether the Gandhi scion likes it or not, the truth is that not only have HAL shares jumped five times its price in the last five years, but the market capitalisation of the state-owned aerospace company has also crossed the Rs 1.30 trillion mark with the stock hitting a new high of Rs 3894 (at the time of publishing this report) on the NSE.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Union Minister for Electronics and Technology, shared a chart showing the share price of HAL over the previous five years on July 24. The share price of HAL was Rs. 789.30 on July 27, 2018. Meanwhile, as of Monday (July 24, 2023), the share price of HAL was trending at Rs 3908. Thus, during the course of five years, HAL’s share price has increased 4.95 times. This is unique because the rise has been consistent in these five years.
Under PM @narendramodi ji's govt Public Sector Units, Banks etc grow , expand n become competitive. Eg @HALHQBLR shares have grown 5 times
Under Rahuls Cong, Public sector units n Banks were piggy banks for loot n imports were encouraged – Just look at companies like BSNL,… pic.twitter.com/JdJTwsZgqh
— Rajeev Chandrasekhar ?? (@Rajeev_GoI) July 24, 2023
HAL is a defence public sector undertaking (DPSU) which is engaged in the business to undertake design, development, manufacturing, maintenance, repair, overhaul, and servicing of products like aircraft, helicopters, engines and other related systems like avionics, instruments, and accessories. In addition to this, the corporation uses homegrown technology to produce combat planes and missiles. It also engages with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to contribute to the space programmes of the country.
Recently, on July 20, Argentina’s Ministry of Defence and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) inked a Letter of Intent (LoI) pledging their commitment to a productive partnership and the purchase of Light and Medium Utility Helicopters for Argentina’s armed services. Prior to this, the US company, GE Aerospace announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to produce fighter jet engines for the Indian Air Force. After this deal of $ 716 million (Rs 5868.58 crore), high-tech engines will be manufactured in India.
For the fiscal year 2022–2023 (FY23), HAL reported its highest-ever revenue from operations, amounting to around Rs 26,500 crore (provisional and unaudited), compared to Rs 24,620 crore the year before. In comparison to FY22, the company’s sales increased by 8% throughout the year.
After the shipments from FY23 were liquidated, the company’s order book was around Rs 82,000 crore at the end of March 2023. Fresh contracts worth over Rs 26,000 crore were obtained throughout the year, including those for the production of 70 HTT -40, 6 Do-228 aircraft, and PSL V launch vehicles. Additionally, HAL stated in a media statement that the ROH front saw new orders of Rs 16,600 crore throughout the year.
With payments of over Rs 25,000 crore received from various Defence Customers during FY23, the company’s cash flow has also improved significantly.
In light of the state-run aircraft company’s constant growth over the previous five years, it is important to remember Rahul Gandhi’s predictions from 2019 and how they might now be coming back to haunt him.
In January 2019, Rahul Gandhi, who was the president of the grand old party then, accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “weakening” the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to help his “suit-boot” friend.
His allegation came after media published reports that said the company, struggling with low finances has been forced to borrow money to pay salaries to its employees. On January 6th, the Times of India published a report that said not a single rupee had accrued to HAL of the Rs. 1 lakh crores that Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had spoken about in the parliament. Rahul Gandhi proceeded to use that report to target the Modi government.
When you tell one lie, you need to keep spinning out more lies, to cover up the first one.
In her eagerness to defend the PM's Rafale lie, the RM lied to Parliament.
Tomorrow, RM must place before Parliament documents showing 1 Lakh crore of Govt orders to HAL.
Rahul asserted that the Raksha Mantri had lied in Parliament to “defend PM’s Rafale lie”. However, in this regard, Nirmala Sitharaman came all guns blazing with documentary proof.
Nirmala Sitharaman retaliated to Rahul’s tweet by tweeting that he should “start from ABCs” and read the complete report before commenting on it. She furthered “It’s a shame that the president of @INCIndia is spreading lies and misleading the country. HAL has signed contracts worth Rs 73,000 crore are in the pipeline. Will @RahulGandhi apologise to the country… and resign?”
In order to back her claims, Sitharaman also put out details of the contract awarded to HAL since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014.
Similarly, in 2018, Rahul Gandhi tried to instigate workers of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to create unrest in the organisation, thereby affecting production in the crucial plant. The party’s Twitter handle also went into overdrive mode while covering Rahul Gandhi’s misadventure. He declared that the company was in danger. Rahul Gandhi went a set ahead and planned an interaction event with employees and former employees of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited today at Cubbon Park in October 2018.
Congress party and Rahul Gandhi had aimed the event to launch fresh attacks at the government over their claim that the government has ‘cheated’ HAL in the Rafale deal and ‘gifted it to Anil Ambani’, but the HAL employees association has reportedly officially distanced itself from the meeting.
Given that the company’s financial situation is skyrocketing and it has taken the 52nd slot in the total market cap list, the Gandhi scion must not be too thrilled right now.
Former Rajasthan minister Rajendra Singh Gudha claimed that the Congress leaders dragged him out of the State Assembly on Monday.
Rajasthan Legislative Assembly was adjourned on Monday after sacked minister Gudha along with BJP MLAs create ruckus. Speaker CP Joshi adjourned the proceedings after the ruckus.
After coming out of the House, Rajendra Singh Gudha spoke to reporters and said, “Around 50 people attacked me, punched me, kicked me and Congress leaders dragged me out of the Assembly. The Chairman of the Rajasthan Assembly did not even allow me to speak. There were allegations against me that I am with BJP. I want to know, what is my fault.”
Rajendra Singh Gudha was carrying a red colour diary in the House today which according to him contains details which can expose Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.
“After CM Gehlot asked me, I snucked a red diary from a raid site where ED and Income tax were conducting raids,” he said.
Sacked Rajasthan Minister Rajendra Singh Gudha, says “I wanted to present my red diary to the Chairman but he did not allow me to speak. Congress leader Shanti Kumar Dhariwal pushed me and other Congress leaders started fighting with me and took away some pages of the diary. Some Congress leaders kicked and punched me and later threw me out of the Assembly. I was getting calls to not attend the session and that I will be sent to jail soon.”
Meanwhile, Leader of Opposition in Rajasthan Assembly Rajendra Singh Rathore said that government should come forward if there is nothing serious about the red diary that former minister Gudha was carrying.
“Rajendra Gudha was not allowed to speak. If there is nothing in the red diary, then the government should come forward,” he said.
Before the proceedings former minister Gudha said that the atrocities against women are increasing in the state adding that there was nothing wrong about the remarks he made in the State assembly over the condition of women in the state. Gudha further asserted that he would not issue an apology in this matter.
“Why will I apologise, what was my fault. I did not say anything wrong, atrocities against women are increasing in the state. I will answer in the house. We were not allowed to speak but now I am free,” he said.
Earlier on Friday, Gudha had criticised his own government over recent incidents of crimes against women in the state which led to his sacking from the state cabinet.
Speaking in the assembly, Gudha, the Congress leader said that it should be accepted that the state government “failed” in women’s safety.
“It is true and should be accepted that we have failed in women’s safety. Instead of Manipur, we should look within ourselves why atrocities on women have increased in Rajasthan,” Gudha said.
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On 24th July, Union Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia schooled General Secretary in-charge Communications of Indian National Congress Jairam Ramesh over a misleading tweet about “collapsed” false ceiling at Veer Savarkar International Airport in Andaman.
The structure is outside the terminal building. Besides, a part of the false ceiling had been deliberately loosened for CCTV work. Heavy winds (about 100 km/hr) later, led to the swinging panels as seen in the video. The false ceiling had been restored after completing the work.… https://t.co/DuLYjUIk0V
— Jyotiraditya M. Scindia (@JM_Scindia) July 24, 2023
In his tweet, Scindia explained that the ceiling in the viral video quote-tweeted by Ramesh was of the structure outside the terminal building and a part of the false ceiling was deliberately loosened for CCTV work. Later, heavy winds (about 100 KMPH) led to the swinging panels that were recorded in the video. After the completion of the work, the false ceiling was restored. Scindia said, “Next time, instead of jumping the gun and seeking sensationalism out of nothing, just seek an explanation.”
Scindia was replying to Jairam Ramesh‘s tweet where he claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated incomplete and substandard infrastructure, in this case, Veer Savarkar Airport. He wrote, “The Prime Minister will inaugurate anything these days — even if it’s unfinished or substandard infrastructure (highways, airports, bridges, trains, etc.). More than willing, ministers anxious to boost their Sensex with him oblige. It’s the taxpayers and citizens who pay the cost. Such a sorry state of affairs in ‘New India’!”
The Prime Minister will inaugurate anything these days — even if it’s unfinished or substandard infrastructure (highways, airports, bridges, trains, etc)
More than willing ministers anxious to boost their Sensex with him oblige.
The Congress leader was quoting a tweet by Andama Chronicle that showed a swinging false ceiling panel.
The new integrated terminal building of Veer Savarkar International Airport at Port Blair was inaugurated virtually by PM Narendra Modi earlier this month on Tuesday, July 18. With a construction cost of around ₹710 crore, the new terminal building will be able to handle about 50 lakh passengers annually.