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Watch: Ex-cricketer Venkatesh Prasad sings hymns for Shri Ram as he wishes for Ram Navami

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Watch: Ex-cricketer Venkatesh Prasad sings hymns for Shri Ram as he wishes for Ram Navami

Venkatesh Prasad, a stalwart of the Indian Cricket Team in the 90s, posted a video on Twitter singing hymns to Lord Shri Ram and wishing everyone a happy Ram Navami. He can be seen singing Ram Bhajans in the video he shared.

The tweet by venkatesh Prasad reads, “SitaRam SitaRam SitaRam kahiye, Jaahi Vidhi Raakhe Ram taahi vidhi rahiye. Say ‘SitaRam, SitaRam, SitaRam.’ Live happily in whatever manner Lord Ram places you. Let Ram’s name be on your tongue, his work in your hands. You are not alone dear one. Ram is with you. #RamNavami”

Venkatesh Prasad has been making similar posts on his Twitter account recently. The talented medium-fast bowler has been posting Hindu-centric messages on his Twitter account for quite some time now. He also sang Shri Ram Stuti and posted a video of it on Twitter in June of last year. He also provided the audience with translations of the lyrics.

Venkatesh Prasad performed the Surya Namaskar, a salute to the Sun God, for his fans on International Yoga Day in 2021.

Prasad recently slammed the Congress party for normalizing the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits and attempting to spread misleading information about crimes against the Hindu minority. The former cricketer accused the Congress of plunging to new lows by injuring Kashmiri Pandits’ feelings once again.

Prasad joined Twitter on the 8th of April, 2021. Within a couple of months, Prasad had made several tweets emphasizing his Hindu roots. He is one of the few celebrities who have been so open about their Hindu faith and one can hope that he is only the first among many to come.

Meerut: BSP leader Yakub Qureshi’s illegal meat factory, house and hospital to be bulldozed soon, read details of the case against him

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Meerut: BSP leader Yakub Qureshi’s illegal meat factory, house and hospital to be bulldozed soon, read details of the case against him

Following the issuance of non-bailable warrants against former minister and BSP leader Haji Yaqub Qureshi, his wife, and two sons, the police administration initiated action to demolish his house and meat factory in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. Police have launched a search operation for Yakub Qureshi and his family. According to the police, the location of Yakub Qureshi and his son Imran has been found in Delhi. A police team has camped there to nab the two. At the same time, the location of Yakub Qureshi’s wife Shamjida and the other son Firoz has not yet been found by the police.

Former minister Haji Yaqoob Qureshi owned and ran Al Fahim Meatex Private Limited. This meat factory is situated in Village Allipur Jijmana Dhikauli under the Kharkhauda police station area. There was an illegal business of meat packaging and processing going on in the factory. Police charged 18 people, including Yakub Qureshi, his wife Shamjida, and sons Firoz and Imran, after recovering meat from the spot. Meat worth five crore rupees was caught in the factory. Yakub Qureshi is yet to hand over the records of packaging and processing in the factory to the police. The police have already issued a notice for the same.

The police today visited the meat factory, which already has been seized, and pasted notice that it will be demolished. Similar notice was pasted on his house, and a hosital, both of which are built illegally by the BSP leader.

Why is this meat factory illegal?

Speculations of former minister Yakub Qureshi’s meat plant at Hapur Road being bulldozed by the Meerut Development Authority (MDA) are being made ever since the crackdown on it began. The MDA did not want to rush into the matter as the appeal filed on behalf of Yakub in the Supreme Court on the matter of mitigation map of the plant is in the process. The map approval of this plant has been pending for several years. The map application was rejected by the MDA as the land on which the plant was built included green verges, road widening land, and land for public use.

Yakub Qureshi’s meat factory is sealed now. Image Source: Amar Ujala

There was an appeal in the government and the High Court after which Yakub Qureshi had received the instruction that if he breaks the construction of green verge and road widening land, and land for public use, then the map should move towards approval. Yakub Qureshi demolished the construction of green verge and road widening land but kept the encroachment on the land for public use. The MDA again rejected his application.

The MDA got a written affidavit from Yakub Qureshi that no commercial or any kind of activity would be carried out till the case was disposed of. Recently, a violation of the same affidavit was found when the business was going on by secretly running the meat plant on a large scale.

On the information of illegal slaughter, a joint team of police and local administration had raided Al-Faheem Meatex Private Limited in Allipura village in Meerut-Hapur road on March 30. During the raid 2,460 kilogram meat said to be worth rupees five crore was recovered after which an FIR was lodged against Qureishi.

Yakub Qureshi’s house is also illegally built and it may also be bulldozed

The MDA is likely to take action at former minister Yaqub Qureshi’s house at Sarai Wahlim in Meerut. In fact, about four years ago, Yakub Qureshi revamped his old house in a new way. During this construction, a basement was also built in it without taking permission. Being the old city, the basement could not be allowed nor could it have had a map passed by the offices. The MDA had directed to demolish that basement. Yakub Qureshi told MDA that the basement is demolished. But it is now known that he lied.

The police pasted a notice on Yakub Qureshi’s house. Image Source: The English Print

Meerut’s SSP Prabhakar Choudhari said, “Yakub Qureshi and his family have not yet submitted any documents of the meat plant. They are not cooperating in the investigation. In such a situation, the attachment of Yakub Qureshi’s house will be done and the Gangster Act will also be imposed. So that their property can be attached under section 14A.”

Yakub Qureshi owns an illegal hospital run by an educational trust; set to be bulldozed

On Wednesday (April 6, 2022), the administration sealed Yakub Qureshi’s My City Hospital on Hapur Road in Meerut. Dr. Sudhir Kumar, who was involved in the operation along with Deputy CMO Javed Hussain, said Qureshi’s hospital was operating without registration.

Meerut district CMO Dr Akhilesh Mohan said, “The registration of this hospital was not renewed since 2019. Notices were also sent to the hospital several times. No response was given despite repeated notices being sent. So, the action was taken.”

Yakub Qureshi’s hospital may also be bulldozed soon. Image Source: Navbharat Times

The hospital was being run in the name of Yakub Education Charitable Trust. During the course of the operation, it also came to light that the hospital was given to another person to run on the lease. Without registration, the hospital cannot be given on lease to anyone else.

Yakub Qureshi’s past records show that he is an Islamist

Yakub Qureshi, who is a four-time Mayor from Meerut, had made headlines after he announced a bounty of Rs 51 crore for beheading the cartoonists of France-based publication Charlie Hebdo for publishing the cartoon of Prophet Mohammad. Qureshi later announced to give the said amount to the terrorists who had barged into the office of Charlie Hebdo armed with lethal weapons and killed 12 people including 8 journalists. Qureshi was also reportedly involved in attacking environmental activists who had started a movement for banning meat plants to save the environment.

After becoming the largest shareholder, Elon Musk keeps coming up with whacky ideas to alter Twitter’s functioning, mocks the micro-blogging site

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After becoming the largest shareholder, Elon Musk keeps coming up with whacky ideas to alter Twitter’s functioning, mocks the micro-blogging site

South Africa-born billionaire Elon Musk surprised the world recently by buying a 9.2% stake in the micro-blogging platform Twitter Inc. Interestingly, Musk’s Twitter investment became public just a week after he ran a Twitter poll questioning if the social media behemoth was rigorously adhering to the principles of free speech.

For Elon Musk, the last week has been very busy as he has been suggesting a plethora of changes to the workings of the micro-blogging platform, whose credibility has been at stake due to its left-leaning bias and arbitrary decision making.

From banning advertising to slashing its price, Musk has continuously dropped hints on how he wants to reshape Twitter.

Just hours after Musk’s Twitter purchase became public, the real-life Tony Stark took a cheeky dig at Twitter by tweeting, “Oh hi lol”. The tweet was meant to ridicule Twitter and its free speech standards. This tweet had come days after he had questioned the free speech policy of Twitter and also sought public views about the need for a new platform.

Perhaps, the multi-billionaire visionary inventor Elon Musk contemplated buying shares of Twitter after receiving a favourable response from the public.

After he became the biggest shareholder of Twitter, he posted a poll on the website asking users whether they wanted an edit button. His options are the misspelled “yse” and “on” to highlight the need for an edit button.

The idea was so revolutionary that it disrupted the existing system at Twitter Inc, pushing CEO Parag Agarwal to caution Twitter users to vote carefully on the poll by the eccentric billionaire. Agarwal said that the consequences of this poll would be important.

For years now, Twitter users have asked for an edit button, however, the micro-blogging site has remained immune to those requests. 

Two days later, Elon Musk continued to troll Twitter by pushing his maverick ideas to change how Twitter functions. It looks like Elon Musk is hell-bent on introducing the edit button on the micro-blogging site.

Musk had tweeted a meme that also teased Twitter regarding the edit button being added to Twitter. The tweet depicts how Musk selling his first company Zip2 to Compaq for $305 million in 1999 led to Twitter finally getting an edit button. 

Elon Musk’s tweets around it forced even Twitter to confirm that it was indeed working on an edit button.

“Now that everyone is asking… yes, we’ve been working on an edit feature since last year! No, we didn’t get the idea from a poll. We’re kicking off testing within Twitter Blue Labs in the coming months to learn what works, what doesn’t, and what’s possible,” tweeted Twitter Communication.

Musk’s madness did not stop there. Elon Musk again took to Twitter to state that he was excited to be present at the next board meeting.

“Twitter’s next board meeting is going to be lit”, he tweeted last week featuring his famous pot-smoking meme from Joe Rogan podcast in 2018.

Two days later, Elon Musk shared another tweet to point out some statistics to ask whether Twitter was dying as the most-followed people on Twitter hardly tweet.

Sharing a list of the top 10 most-followed personalities on Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk pointed out that most celebrities tweet “rarely and post very little content”. He poignantly asked whether Twitter was dying?

The list by World of Statistics has former US President Barack Obama at the top and Elon Musk at the eighth spot. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi also features right below the Tesla CEO on the list. Others include entertainers like Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Rihana, football star Cristiano Ronaldo, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, and Ellen DeGeneres.

He also pointed out how celebrities such as Taylor Swift tweeted three months back and pop-artist Justin Bieber only a year before.

Besides poking fun at Twitter, Musk also shared some profound ideas, such as an authentication checkmark for everyone who pays $3 for signing up for Twitter blue. He also suggested that Twitter should not depend just on advertising money to survive as it enhances the “power of corporations to dictate policy”.  

Twitter Blue, which was launched in June 2021, is Twitter’s first subscription service and offers exclusive access to premium features on a monthly subscription basis. It is available only in select countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Musk even promised his long term adversary, Dr. Michael Burry of Big Short fame, that he will get his blue tick back even though he shorted Tesla’s stock

On Sunday, Musk again held a poll that took a swipe at Twitter employees in San Francisco. He asked whether the headquarters there should be converted into a homeless shelter since “no one shows up (for work) anyway”.

Nearly 10,91,908 users voted in the poll, wherein 91% said ‘yes’ and just 9% said ‘no’.

The madness continued as Musk also shared more of his wild ideas in his latest polls that he held on Twitter.

In his recent poll, he suggested a name change, asking whether it was time to remove the “w” in “Twitter”. The billionaire gave voters two choices: “yes” and “of course”.

If changed, the new name would be “Titter”. More than 56 percent of the voters wanted “Twitter” to be the named without a “w”, the rest said, “Of course”.

Long-term followers of the richest man on the planet will know that these tweets are very much in character for him, Musk has always been very cavalier with his Twitter feed. Whether it helps Twitter or not, either ways there are some interesting times ahead with the microblogging site.

Gujarat: Ram Navami procession faces attack, stone pelting while passing through Muslim dominated area in Himmatnagar

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Gujarat: Ram Navami procession faces attack, stone pelting while passing through Muslim dominated area in Himmatnagar

Days after a Hindu New year celebration procession was attacked when passing through in Karauli in Rajasthan, a similar incidence has taken place in Gujarat. A Ram Navami Shobha Yatra or procession organized on 10th April 2022 at Chhaparia village in Himmatnagar of the Sabarkantha in Gujarat was targeted by some local Muslim goons and stones were pelted at it. Apart from stone-pelting, some vehicles were also vandalized in this incident.

The incident happened in the afternoon when the Ram Navami procession was passing through a Muslim majority locality named Chhapariya. The procession had started at Ramji Mandir in Chhapariya at 4.15 pm, and was to reach Tower chawk after passing through several areas of the city. However, it was attacked when the Hindu religious prcession reached the Muslim dominated area. Several vehicles, which were part of the Ram Navami procession, were damaged in the attack, and one open Jeep was burnt by the attackers.

A convoy of Himmatnagar police had reached the spot on being informed about the violence. The police also released several teargas cells to control the situation.

After stone-pelting and vandalism, tension and unrest prevailed in the entire area. There was also a lot of anger among the devotees as the procession of the deity was pelted with stones. A large number of police personnel have been deployed to control the situation and prevent any further violence. However, the area is still witnessing an uneasy silence.

Police are on alert mode to avoid any unsolicited incidents. Police are keeping a close watch to check antisocial elements and their activity.

Attacks by Muslim mobs on processions of Hindu deities on the occasion of Hindu festivals are increasing with every passing day. A similar incident had happened in Karauli of Rajasthan in the last week when on 2nd April 2022, a mob of Muslims attacked a rally taken to celebrate the Hindu New Year when it was passing through a Muslim-dominated area of the town. About 40 shops were burnt down by the mob and many vehicles were either burnt or vandalized. Moreover, the Rajasthan state administration and police held Hindus responsible for the violence ignoring the fact that the procession of Hindus was the actual victim of the attack by the mob of Muslims. Now as the Chaitra Navaratri concludes on Ram Navami, a mob of Muslims attacked the Ram Navami Shobha Yatra in Gujarat.

Delhi CM Kejriwal uses BJP supporter’s tweet and twists it to attack Gujarat government

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Delhi CM Kejriwal uses BJP supporter’s tweet and twists it to attack Gujarat government

On April 10, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal used a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker’s tweet about the education system in general and used it to target the Gujarat government. In his tweet, CM Kejriwal said, “People of BJP are also raising questions on the crumbling education system of Gujarat. Rising above the party line, voice has started rising for a good education in Gujarat. BJP could not give good education in 27 years. “AAP” government will give good education in Gujarat similar to Delhi by taking the people of Gujarat and all the parties along.”

Misleading tweet by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.

He was replying to Dr Bharat Kanabar, a BJP worker of 35 years. Attaching an old 2015 photo from Bihar, Kanabar had said, “‘K’ is the ‘K’ of the lotus. No one taught the ‘x’ of ‘x’ education. Education has become a commodity. Education has become a commodity in this country of 900 universities and 40 thousand colleges, whose buyers and sellers are shameless. The education system is plagued by viruses like paper leaks, exam theft, fake degree certificates.” Nowhere in his tweet did he mention Gujarat. However, CM Kejriwal used the tweet and twisted it to target the Gujarat government.

Now-deleted tweet by Dr Bharat Kanabar

Clarification by Dr Kanabar

Later, Kanabar deleted the tweet after the unwanted attention thanks to Kejriwal’s quote tweet and clarified his stand. He said, “The photograph was from Bihar. The main issue is about the evils of the education sector. There is no need to applaud Congress or the AAP. I have been an active activist for BJP for 35 years. The ideology of nationalism is in the veins, so even if you wake up and ask, only the “K” of the lotus will be spoken.”

The reality behind the image

The image used by Kanabar was from 2015, and it showed family and friends of the students climbing the walls of the examination centre to help the students in cheating. Over 300 people were arrested in the case.

AAP ‘education model’ and fake degrees

While Kejriwal may be trying to enter Gujarat through his ‘education model’, factual data shows that Delhi is far behind other states when it comes to education. CM Kejriwal may have forgotten that his own ex-Law Minister Jitinder Singh Tomar was accused of obtaining a fake degree. Interestingly, after High Court cancelled his election, AAP fielded his wife Preeti Tomar in Assembly elections.

From Legends of The Ramayana to education and message to writers – Watch Author Amish in conversation with OpIndia’s Nirwa Mehta

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From Legends of The Ramayana to education and message to writers – Watch Author Amish in conversation with OpIndia’s Nirwa Mehta

Best-selling author of the Shiva trilogy and the Ram Chandra series, Amish Tripathi sat down with OpIndia and talked about his new series Legends of The Ramayana, which is streaming on Discovery+.

Amish said he learned a new thing every day while making the series, and it brought him closer to Lord Ram and Goddess Sita. He thanked the makers for the idea of making the documentary and said it came as a blessing for him.

Amish, whose fourth book in the Ramchandra series is all set to launch very soon, said the makers wanted to make a documentary that was respectful to the Indian culture. Amish said they went to all the locations, including Ayodhya, Prayagraj, Chitrakoot, Panchvati, Hampi, Rameshwaram, and in Sri Lanka, Sigiriya, which was Ravan’s capital.

He said there could be many reasons Sanatan Dharma survived, but all the other pre-Bronze religions died. It could be our ancestors never surrendered, or it could be we were decentralized, so there was not a single head that, if cut, would end the Sanatan Dharma.

Amish added he feels we have a fine mix of rigidity and flexibility. We never got dethatched from our stories. However, we were flexible enough to add a little bit of modernization to the stories. He gave examples from Ramayana, in Valmiki Ramayana, there is no mention of Lakshman Rekha, but it finds reference in Ramcharitra Manas. However, the picturization in the 1980s Ramayana series is different from what was depicted in Ram Charitramanas.

While talking about the importance of including the ancient way of teaching in the modern education system, he said what we learn is the European way of history. They made it look like their history is history, but anyone else’s is mythology. He said fighting the battle of history and mythology on the European battleground is a waste of time, and instead of convincing others, we should concentrate on analyzing how our history can be beneficiary for us.

You can watch the interview here.

West Bengal: TMC leader’s son accused of raping and murder of a minor girl, cremated body forcefully

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West Bengal: TMC leader’s son accused of raping and murder of a minor girl, cremated body forcefully

A Trinamool Congress leader’s son has been accused of raping a juvenile girl by inviting her to his birthday party. The girl died from heavy bleeding, and her body was purportedly cremated by the accused forcefully.

The incident happened on last Monday in the Shyamnagar locality of  Gajna gram panchayat in Nadia’s Hanskhali number one block. As soon as the incident became known, there was outrage among the locals.

The accused’s name is Brajgopal, the son of Gajna Gram Panchayat member Samar Gowla. Brajgopal’s birthday was on Monday. The minor, a Bogula inhabitant, was invited by Brajgopal to his home for a party. The minor’s family members claimed that the 14-year-old girl went to Brajgopal’s residence that night with another girl and a few others.

The family members said that individuals at Brajgopal’s residence alerted them that the girl had been unwell at the party. They stated they were urged to take the kid to a local doctor. The family also alleged that they were prohibited from taking the girl to a hospital or a private facility.

The girl was rushed to a local doctor by her family members as suggested, but she could not be saved. The next day, she died. According to the family, the girl died as a result of excessive bleeding. Her family members also said that after her daughter died on Tuesday, the Trinamool leader and his party workers forcefully burnt her body at a nearby crematorium.

The minor’s relatives said that they were horrified at the loss of their daughter. However, after receiving assurance from Child Line staff, they filed a case with Hanskhali police station. They allege that the girl was gang-raped.

The victim’s relatives have also accused the police of misconduct. According to them, Hanskhali Police Station head Mukunda Chakraborty refused to consider the gang rape accusation.

TMC leader and accused’s father, Samar Gowla, stated, “My son was rumoured to have an affair with the girl. However, no celebration was planned at home on that particular day. If they are throwing a party, it is inside their circle of friends. I’m not sure.”

North Korea calls US President Joe Biden ‘an old man in his senility’ after he called Vladimir Putin a war criminal

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North Korea calls US President Joe Biden ‘an old man in his senility’ after he called Vladimir Putin a war criminal

North Korea is known to call global political figures the names and adjectives no less weird than its own rules. This time North Korea has called American president Joe Biden an old man in his senility after he termed Russian president Vladimir Putin a war criminal.

The official news agency KCNA (Korean Central News Agency) carried a commentary on Saturday 9th April 2022. In this commentary, it said, “the latest story is the US chief executive who spoke ill of the Russian president with groundless data.” It is notable that Joe Biden had called Vladimir Putin a war criminal and called for him to be put on trial for the atrocities against Ukrainian civilians.

KCNA added in its commentary, “Such reckless remarks can be made only by the descendants of Yankees, master hand at aggression and plot-breeding. The conclusion could be that there is a problem in his intellectual faculty and that his reckless remarks are just a show of imprudence of an old man in his senility.”

According to a report by News18, the commentary by Korean Central News Agency also described Biden as a president known for his repeated slip of tongue. However, it did not clearly mention his name. It further said, “Gloomy, it seems, is the future of the U. S. with such a feeble man in power.”

This is not the first time that North Korea has made such remarks about the global political leaders especially the president of the United States. Even before Joe Biden was declared a presidential candidate, KCNA called him a rabid dog that must be beaten to death with a stick. Before that, it referred to former US President Donald Trump as a mentally deranged US dotard. Donald Trump’s predecessors Barack Obama and George W. Bush were termed as a monkey and half-baked man by KCNA.

North Korea has been supporting Russia in the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, and has accused the US of being the root cause of the crisis. The country had voted in favour of Russia in the United Nations General Assembly to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council.

Imran Khan beaten up in his office by General Bajwa: Pakistanis claim on social media amidst political turmoil in the country

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Imran Khan beaten up in his office by General Bajwa: Pakistanis claim on social media amidst political turmoil in the country

On Sunday (April 10) morning, social media was rife with claims that Pakistani Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Bajwa roughed up Prime Minister Imran Khan at his residence on Saturday night for allegedly trying to remove him and changing the leadership of the Pakistani army.

The development comes at a time when Pakistan is going through a period of political turmoil, with the Imran Khan government failing to win the no-confidence motion. New PM Shehbaz Sharif is likely to take office soon and form a new government.

One Twitter user Ali claimed, “Around 10:00 at night PM denotified Gen Bajwa. Meanwhile, a helicopter arrived at PM House. At PM House, soldiers stopped the speaker in the waiting room. Imran was waiting for Gen Faiz but Gen Bajwa himself was in the helicopter. (The) meeting started in the room and it was a very bad one.”

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Another Pakistani Twitter user alleged, “He didn’t hand over. He was forced out at gunpoint. Bajwa and DGISI came in helicopter, entered PM House and misbehaved with PM. It is a coup with civilian facade. America, 3 stooges, judges, and Army chief were complicit. III Brigade was deployed. They will now eliminate IK.”

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Another user Marium wondered whether Imran Khan was indeed slapped and assaulted in the aftermath of ‘denotifying’ General Bajwa as the Chief of Army Staff.

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“Interestingly, Imran was expecting Faiz to arrive when a helicopter landed at PM House but to his utter shock, it was Gen Bajwa, who in his mind had already been removed. That’s when he decided to call it quits. It was his last roll of the dice. And wrong numbers had come up,” wrote another Pakistani user.

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A Twitter user Zameer Afaqi claimed, “Sad. According to sources, IK passed an order to dismiss Bajwa but defense secretary didn’t move the summary. Also, PM house was bugged so Bajwa got aware in time. He reached PM house in a helicopter and his men thrashed IK. He was slapped and kicked several times before he gave up.”

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Citing sources, another Pakistan claimed that Imran Khan was locked up for an hour by General Bajwa. “Imran khan removed Bajwa last night, (and) appointed a new officer. But, when (the) desired helicopter landed on PM house, it was Bajwa instead of his desired Officer. IK was locked up for an hour,” he asserted.

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Counterclaims are also being made on Twitter by Pakistanis, citing security sources, that General Bajwa did not meet Imran Khan at Prime Minister’s Office on April 9 evening.

Interestingly, a petition was also filed before the Islamabad High Court, seeking a stay on ‘attempts’ by Imran Khan to ‘denotify’ General Qamar Bajwa as COAS. It was filed by Advocate Adnan Iqbal, citing Article 199 of the Pakistani Constitution.

The petitioner had accused Khan of using ‘arbitrary powers’ for personal and political gains. He prayed before the court that the notification against General Bajwa be termed ‘illegal, insignificant and void.’ Meanwhile, Pakistani Information Minister Fawad Chowdhury denied the allegations of trying to de-seat General Bajwa as the COAS.

He claimed, “The government fully understands the importance of the army chief and Pakistan Army as an institution. Reports that anyone is even thinking of changing the leadership of Pakistan Army are baseless rumours and lies. This is being done under an agenda. The government condemns these rumours and completely denies them.”

Imran Khan loses no-confidence motion

Imran Khan’s tenure as Prime Minister of Pakistan was finally over on Saturday night as he lost the no-confidence motion in Pakistan’s National Assembly. Khan joined the long list of Pakistani Prime Ministers who have failed to complete their full tenure as per the official Pakistani Constitution.

Since Pakistan’s inception, no PM has managed to survive the full term, and Imran Khan didn’t turn out to be an exception. This time, there was no direct coup by the Pakistan Army, and Imran was displaced by a show of opposition unity, and by America as per Imran’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Pakistan Army, which had allegedly installed Imran as the PM of the country, didn’t come to his support as he lost the battle in Supreme Court and then the National Assembly.

In the run-up to the no-confidence vote, Imran Khan and his party colleagues repeatedly said that their government was being destabilized by a foreign power, namely the United States of America. They said that Imran Khan is being punished for visiting Russia ahead of the Russia-Ukraine war. However, this attempt to blame foreign powers didn’t work, and Imran Khan ended up losing his post as the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

The opposition parties in Pakistan had accused Khan of corruption and economic mismanagement, along with the prevailing high inflation and a weakening currency. While Imran tried to rally support around him through religion and by claiming a foreign conspiracy against Pakistan, eventually it wasn’t enough.

Doordarshan live telecasts Shri Ram Janmotsav from Ayodhya, watch

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Doordarshan live telecasts Shri Ram Janmotsav from Ayodhya, watch

On April 10, Doordarshan telecasted Shri Ram Janmotsav live from Ayodhya for the first time in history. Ram Navami celebrates the birth of Shri Ram which took place in Ayodhya in modern day Uttar Pradesh.

DD Network channels, including Doordarshan, DD Bharti and others, live telecasted the festivities straight from Ram Lalla darbar. Ram Navmi, the day on which Bhagwan Ram was born, was celebrated for the first time on Ram Mandir premises since the construction of the Bhavya Ram Mandir began in Ayodhya. For the last two years, the celebrations could not take place because of Covid-19.

Thousands of devotees attended the celebrations at Ram Janmbhoomi, Kanak Bhawan and other temples of Ayodhya. Several cultural events were also organized at Tulsi Udhyan, Bhajan Sandhya Sthal, Guptaar Ghat, Digambar Akhada, Valmiki Bhawan, Digambar Jain Mandir, Ram Ki Paudi, and Gandhi Ashram.

Around 20 lakh devotees were expected to reach Ayodhya as per reports. An eleven feet tall and six-inch-wide incense stick was also burnt in front of Ram Lalla Virajmaan that would burn for 3-4 days.

Jalabhishek of Ram Lalla Virajman was done with one quintal of Charnamrit. Furthermore, 56 dishes and 2.5 quintal sweets were prepared for the festival. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath did a virtual darshan of Ram Lalla Virajman from Gorakhnath Temple.

Two year-long waits for celebrations

On March 25, 2020, Shri Ram Lalla was shifted from the tent to Manas Mandir. CM Yogi had planned grand celebrations for Janmotsav, but things did not work out due to the Covid-19 lockdown. For the last two years, the celebrations have been taking place on a minimal scale.

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