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After failing to protect Jio towers, now Punjab Government decides to give only Jio connection to PSPCL staff

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After failing to protect Jio towers, now Punjab Government decides to give only Jio connection to PSPCL staff

While Congress leader Rahul Gandhi keeps accusing the Modi government of working for the benefits of Ambani and Adani, the Congress-ruled Punjab government has directed the employees of the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited to use only Jio network as official connection for their phones. The PSPCL has directed its employees to send the details of their existing SIM card details so that those can be replaced with Jio SIMs. This comes just months after Jio mobile phone towers were destroyed by ‘farmer protesters’ while the state government remained a mute spectator.

In a letter issued on March 8 by a deputy chief engineer headquarters cum administration, North Jalandhar office of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) officials have been directed to send details of their SIM cards to the senior authorities with immediate effect. The directive was issued as the PSPCL’s contract with Vodafone has ended, and Reliance Jio grabbed the contract in recently released tenders.

The letter that was issued in Punjabi said, “Under your area, all Vodafone SIM users (PSPCL employees) should give the details of their SIM cards as per the requirement mentioned in the letter by 3 pm today, and if the details were not sent on time then the received information from other offices except yours would be sent to the higher authorities and the entire responsibility of it is of your office.”

Letter issued by PSPCL

Thousands of employees at PSPCL have been using Vodafone connection for years under the corporate connection scheme. As per reports, there was no severe connection problem reported by PSPCL. The employees also get a certain amount of data free under the corporate connection scheme. 

A Venu Prasad, Chairman cum Managing Director PSPCL, in a statement to The Indian Express, said that new tenders were called in after the contract with Vodafone was over. Three companies that Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone, participated in the bidding. The state-owned telecom company BSNL did not participate in bidding.

Prasad further said that the rate of Reliance Jio was the lowest compared to Vodafone and Airtel. “Reliance had quoted Rs 2.3 crore against Rs 2.92 crore of Vodafone, so there was a difference of Rs 62 lakh between the rates of two, so we chose the lowest one,” he added. Jio is also providing additional services.

The backlash on social media

After the letter issued by PSPCL started making rounds on social media, the Punjab government faced a backlash. It has to be noted that a large number of farmers and their supporters have been boycotting Jio services in Punjab. There were several reports about damaging Jio towers in Punjab as a mark of protest. The protesters destroyed a total of over 1500 towers.

AAP Punjab did not leave the chance and claimed that the contract was given to Reliance because of the friendship between Captain Amarinder, CM Punjab and Mukesh Ambani.

One Twitter user said, “At a time when Reliance is being opposed in Punjab due to the farmers’ protest, has issued an order to change the employees’ mobile from Vodafone to Jio.

Netizens took social media to outrage over the contract given to Jio by the state-owned power company. It has to be noted that after several towers were destroyed in Punjab and not strict action was taken by the Punjab government, Reliance Jio had moved to Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking orders for strict action against the protesters. While Punjab CM was directing Police to take action, Youth Congress leaders were provoking protesters to destroy towers.

Video of two Raebareli women fighting with each other goes viral, Brijesh Nirmal’s injured wife files case against Rashid’s wife

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Video of two Raebareli women fighting with each other goes viral, Brijesh Nirmal’s injured wife files case against Rashid’s wife

A video of two women wrestling with each other in full public view in a village has been doing rounds on social media. In the viral video from Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, two women can be seen pulling each other’s hair, as a man and a woman make unsuccessful efforts to stop the fight. The man asks them to let go of each other but the two women continue to wrestle rolling on the ground. He eventually walks away leaving the two fighting.

Two small kids, apparently belonging to either of them, can be seen crying seeing the two fight with each other. However, the women pay no heed to either their cries or the locals’ appeals to stop fighting. Both of them can be seen exchanging blows and kicking each other. Meanwhile, another man intervenes to stop the two towards the end of the video. It is not yet known why the women were fighting in public like that.

However, responding to the video shared on Twitter, Raebareli police said they have taken cognisance of the matter after receiving complaint about the fight and the appropriate action would be taken in the matter.

Fight between wives of Brijesh Nirmal and Rashid, case filed

According to reports, the incident took place on Wednesday in Etora village in Unchahar Kotwalil region in UP. The women who were fighting are the wives of Brijesh Nirmal and Rashid. Reportedly, the fight started with a minor argument between the two women fro the same village, but soon it turned violent and the two women started a violent physical fight. Brijesh Nirmal’s wife Chandrakali was severely injured in the fight. Afterwards, Chandrakali lodged a complaint with the Unchahar police station against the other woman, after which the police registered a case in the matter. Unchahar Kotwalil OC Binod Singh said that legal actions are being taken in the matter on the basis of the complaint filed by the woman injured in the fight.

Antilia bomb scare: Telegram channel used for sending terror message was created in or near Tihar Jail

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Antilia bomb scare: Telegram channel used for sending terror message was created in or near Tihar Jail

Terrorist organization Jaish Ul Hind used a Telegram channel to take responsibility for the parked vehicle outside Mukesh Ambani’s residence. Now a private cyber agency has claimed that the channel was created in Tihar Jail, Delhi.

The Indian Expresses quoted official sources and said that the investigating agency asked the firm to track the location of the phone that was used to create the said channel on the messaging app Telegram. However, it is unclear which investigating agency had hired the private cyber experts, but the findings have been shared with the Special Cell of Delhi Police by the central agencies.

Channel was created using TOR network

As per the security analysis report submitted by the private cyber firm, the channel was created using the TOR network. TOR network is used for accessing the darknet, the dark side of the internet which is not visible for normal web browsers. The mobile phone and SIM card used for creating the channel was located near or in Tihar Jail. The report suggests that the channel was created on February 26. It lists the mobile number used for accessing the internet while creating the channel. The message taking responsibility for the SUV outside Ambani’s residence was posted on February 27 night.

Jaish Ul Hind later denied the claim

On February 28, Jaish Ul Hind allegedly used another channel on Telegram. The terror group claimed that they did not post the previous message and they had no connection to the SUV parked outside Ambani’s house. The police believe that the second message was sent from outside the country, but the location could not be pinned.

The message that was allegedly sent from or near Tihar Jail demanded money from Ambanis. A link for payment through cryptocurrency was also mentioned in the message. However, the link was not functioning, according to Mumbai Police. The message claimed that it was only a trailer, and “the big picture was yet to come.” It further added, “the brother who placed the SUV near the Ambani house has reached the safe house.”

Investigating agencies probing the case

Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorist Squad was looking into all cases related to the terror scare, death of Mansukh Hiren and missing vehicle case. However, the National Investigation Agency took over the terror scare case and now ATS is investigating the remaining two cases that are the death of Mansukh Hiren and his missing car.

Uttar Pradesh: Neha Naz accuses her husband Shahnawaz of abuse, harassment in viral video, appeals to CM Yogi for help

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Uttar Pradesh: Neha Naz accuses her husband Shahnawaz of abuse, harassment in viral video, appeals to CM Yogi for help

In a video that has gone viral on social media, Sambhal resident Neha Naz has accused her husband Shahnawaz and his family of abuse and harassment.

In the video, she says that she has been married since six years. After first year of her marriage, she gave birth to a girl child. She alleges that soon after, her husband and his family members started harassing her because they did not want a girl child. Naz further alleged that her husband’s family also made her undergo abortion for being pregnant again with a girl child.

“I have been staying at my matrimonial home since past 15 days. After I came here, my husband Shahnawaz Akhtar has been demanding Rs 10 lakh dowry. My father passed away 9 months back after he got to know. My mother became a widow. How will my mother take care of my and my daughter’s expenses? We have no source of income. What do I do? I want to end my life,” she said.

She then further appealed to the UP administration and UP CM Yogi Adityanath to help her. “If anything happens to me, my husband Shahnawaz Akhtar and my brother in law Wasim Akhtar will be responsible,” she said.

Following this, the UP Police got into action and 7 people have been arrested till now.

As per Police, case has been registered under relevant sections of the IPC.

Ayesha Khan suicide

This video comes just days after Ahmedabad woman Ayesha Khan jumped off to her death in the Sabarmati river after leaving a video blaming her husband for her extreme step. Ayesha, too, was facing harassment over dowry. A week after Ayesha’s death, more details had emerged that revealed former’s husband Arif had an extra-marital affair with a Rajasthan girl. Just before she died, Ayesha had spoken to her husband who asked her to die and send him a video.

Bengaluru: Zomato delivery boy arrested for assaulting a customer, breaking her nose

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Bengaluru: Zomato delivery boy arrested for assaulting a customer, breaking her nose

A delivery agent of the food-delivery app Zomato has been booked and arrested on Wednesday for allegedly attacking a Bengaluru-based content creator named Hitesha Chandranee.

According to the reports, the Bengaluru police have detained the delivery agent a day after Hitesha Chandranee had taken to Twitter to claim that she was attacked by the delivery executive on Tuesday after an argument over delayed delivery of food order. 

Confirming the arrest, Bengaluru DCP (South East) Joshi Srinath said, “A delivery man of Zomato (in photo) has been booked and arrested for allegedly attacking a woman in Bengaluru”.

On Tuesday, the social media influencer named Hitesha Chandranee, shared a video on Instagram to allege that the delivery man attacked her after she questioned him about the delay in delivering her order.

Seen with a bloody injury on her nose, Hitesha claimed that a delivery man barged into her house and abused her after she questioned him over late delivery. Further, she said that she place an order around 3:30 pm on March 9, which was supposed to be delivered by 4:30 pm, but she did not receive it on time. Hence, she called Zomato’s customer support and requested them to cancel the order or give her free delivery.

Customer claims she was attacked, delivery agent alleges she threw ‘chappal’

As per Hitesha, she asked the delivery executive, whom she identified as Kamaraj, to wait as she talked to a customer care representative. Hitesha claimed that the delivery guy started abusing her after she refused to collect the order.

Further, Hitesha had said that she had given him a choice to cancel the order, however, the delivery agent refused to take the order back, and he started screaming at her. “I tried to shut my door, but he pushed the door, took my order from the table, that is he entered my home and punched me on my face so that I don’t get back to him, and he ran away,” the social media influencer had claimed.

However, according to a report from The News Minute, the delivery executive had refuted the allegations of Hitesha and said that she was the first to hit him with a slipper, to which he responded in self-defence. The act of self-defence by the delivery guy resulted in her getting hurt due to a door, he alleged.

Zomato apologizes for the incident

Following the controversy, Zomato had said that it will cooperate in the police investigation as well as the medical assistance that is required. 

Later, it also issued a statement saying, “We deeply regret this incident & apologise to Hitesha for this traumatic experience”.

“We are in touch with her and are providing our complete support through the necessary medical care and investigation. Meanwhile, we have delisted the delivery partner from our platform,” the food-delivery app said.

Russia: Woman passenger tied up to her seat after she tried to take off her clothes repeatedly onboard a flight

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Russia: Woman passenger tied up to her seat after she tried to take off her clothes repeatedly onboard a flight

In a bizarre incident earlier this week, a woman passenger had to be tied to her seat by airline staff after she repeatedly took off her underwear mid-flight.

According to the reports, a 39-year-old female passenger traveling on a Russian flight had to be tied down with a rope and tape after she started walking inside the cabin as soon as the aircraft took off. The unruly passenger is believed to be under the influence of drugs which resulted in the mid-flight chaos.

The woman passenger got up from her seat within 15 minutes of departure from Vladivostok and started roaming around the cabin, as per a report by the Daily Mail. A few minutes later, the woman started taking off her clothes and putting them on again. The woman continued to do the same despite the repeated orders from the cabin crew.

As the lady continued to make mischief on the flight, the flight attendants and some of the other passengers decided to tie up the woman to her seat after fearing for the safety and convenience of other passengers. The woman was tied with a rope to her seat to stop the woman from causing any harm to herself. She was tied to her seat for the rest of the flight.

In the video that has been shared widely on social media platforms, the woman can be seen tied to her seat after her ‘erratic behavior’.

A video of the alleged intoxicated passenger on board a Russian flight

The plane reached Tolmachevo airport in Novosibirsk, Siberia, where the woman was taken into custody. She later admitted to having taken some synthetic drugs before boarding the plane.

According to Russia’s interior ministry, the woman was taken for a medical examination to determine exactly how intoxicated she was. The woman is charged with low-level charges of ‘petty hooliganism’, as stated by the interior ministry. The police have launched an investigation into the matter.

Pakistan: 13-year-old Hindu girl kidnapped, forcefully converted to Islam in Sindh

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Pakistan: 13-year-old Hindu girl kidnapped, forcefully converted to Islam in Sindh

Religious minorities in the Islamic state of Pakistan face a real and constant threat of extinction. Almost every day there are reports of Hindu, Sikh and Christian girls being abducted and forcefully converted to Islam as the Islamic country not just watches that happen as a mute spectator but also facilitates it. Yet another incident of abduction and forceful conversion of a minor Hindu girl has come to light in Pakistan.

A video of the conversion ceremony of the girl has gone viral

A 13-year-old Hindu girl named Kavita Oad from Kandhkot area of Sindh was reportedly abducted and then forcibly converted to Islam. A video of the incident which has now gone viral on social media was shared by Pakistani journalist Naila Inayat on Twitter.

In the video, the minor girl can be seen sitting on the ground with a mob surrounding her and recording the video of the conversion ceremony. According to Inayat, the conversion ceremony is facilitated by notorious cleric Mian Mithoo of the Bharchundi mosque. Mithoo is a hardline cleric and politician and is notorious for systematically carried out kidnappings and forced conversions of poor Hindu girls.

The minor Hindu girl has been married off to her abductor

As per the information shared by Sukhdev Hemnani, Vice-President of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Twitter, informed that he is following up the case with local officials. He said that the documents have proved that the girl is just 13 and he is getting the help of lawyers to file a case in court. He added that he is also coordinating with Sindh women’s department for help and assistance in the case.

Sukhdev said that Kavita was forcefully taken to Ghotki from Kadhkot for conversion. He added that an FIR has been registered in the matter and a case will be filed by a lawyer today. Sindh women’s department official Syeda Shehla Raza has informed that they are trying to recover the girl.

As it usually happens in such cases, the minor girls are married off to their abductors, making it legally difficult for their family members to get them back.

Hindu community protests against the conversion of minor Hindu girls

The Hindu community in the Tangwani city of Pakistan held a protest against the conversion of minor girls from the community and demanded that Kavita be returned to her family.

Incidents of abductions followed by forceful conversions of Hindu girl are rampant in Sindh, Pakistan. Cries of the victims’ families fall on deaf ears and even the courts in Pakistan fail to do justice with the victims. Interestingly, such blatant and routine acts of religious persecution of Hindus in Pakistan go completely unnoticed by international human rights organisations.

CPI(M) fields JNU riots case accused Aishe Ghosh in West Bengal elections

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CPI(M) fields JNU riots case accused Aishe Ghosh in West Bengal elections

Aishe Ghosh, the JNUSU president and an accused in the JNU riots case, has been nominated as the CPI(M) candidate from the Jamuria constituency ahead of the West Bengal assembly election. The 25-year-old far-left ‘activist’ from Durgapur came into the limelight after allegedly conspiring and leading the attacks on students inside the JNU campus in January 2020.

According to the reports, the Left Front on Wednesday announced its candidate list for 120 seats in West Bengal. The CPI(M) has fielded JNU’s student wing president Aishe Ghosh in the Jamuria Assembly constituency in the West Burdwan district. 

Aishe Ghosh, a member of CPI(M)’s student wing SFI, will be the first sitting JNUSU president to contest assembly elections. She had become the president of JNUSU in 2019. Ghosh, who is graduated in political science from Delhi University’s Daulat Ram College, had joined JNU for her masters.

Aishe has replaced incumbent CPI(M) MLA Jahanara Khan, who had won the 2016 elections by securing a 43.29 per cent vote share. She will be contesting as a joint candidate of the Congress-left-ISF coalition to take on the TMC and the BJP.

Ahead of the West Bengal elections, the left parties had announced a coalition with the Congress party and radical Islamist Abbas Siddiqui’s newly-created political party Indian Secular Front (ISF). The eight-phase Assembly polls for the 294 Assembly seats in West Bengal will begin on March 27. The results will be announced on May 2.

Aishe Ghosh – an accused in JNU riots case

Aishe rose to fame during the 2020 JNU riots, during which the left-wing ‘students’, joined by outsiders, had unleashed large scale violence against other students inside the university and had forced them to boycott classes in protest against fee hike. As the president of JNUSU, Ghosh had allegedly led the mob that physically attacked students and prevented them from registering for the winter semester to enforce the boycott.

The left-wing mobs, led by Aishe Ghosh, had allegedly also vandalised the university server room and disabled Wi-Fi on the campus, preventing students from registering online. Several students and ABVP leaders were injured in the attack by left-wing groups.

Following a detailed investigation, the Delhi Police had named Aishe Ghosh and 19 others in the FIR for violence inside the JNU campus on 4th January 2020. The Delhi Police had investigated the attacks and had identified masked men who had vandalised property and beaten up students on the JNU campus on January 5.

Russian Embassy dismisses Indian Express report on Afghan peace process, says it is based on ‘ill-informed sources’

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Russian Embassy dismisses Indian Express report on Afghan peace process, says it is based on ‘ill-informed sources’

The Russian embassy in India has issued a statement on Tuesday dismissing a report published by Indian Express that had claimed that Moscow had asked the other interlocutors to keep India out of the Afghan peace process.

In an article published on Tuesday, the Indian Express had reported that the Russian interlocutors had asked for the stakeholders in the Afghan peace process to leave India out of the dialogue amidst the growing proximity between Moscow and Beijing. According to the report, Russians wanted China, the US, Pakistan and Iran at the table.

“The decision to leave India was apparently done at the behest of Pakistan which has never wanted India to be part of any roadmap for the region,” the report claimed. The Indian Express had quoted unnamed sources to make such claims.

The Indian Express report that suggested that Russian wanted India out in Afghan peace plan

However, the report further claimed that India reached out to all key players in Afghanistan and other countries to make its way to the negotiating table.

“Our interests need to be safeguarded…the next couple of months hold the key to progress,” a top official was quoted as saying.

It was also reported that India could finally enter the peace process along with five other countries to decide on the roadmap for peace in Afghanistan with the backing of the United States after Russians decided to keep India out.

Further, the report said, “By being part of the team, New Delhi hopes to have a role in setting the terms — especially concerning terrorism, violence, women’s rights and democratic values. India’s refrain has been that it wants an Afghan-led, Afghan-controlled and Afghan-owned process but ground realities have been such that other players have dictated terms.”

Russia refutes Indian Express report

A day after Indian Express published its purported claims on the Afghan peace process, Russia expressed its disappointment over half-truths published by the media outlet.

In a statement released on Tuesday, the Russian Embassy in Delhi stressed that Russia “always stated that India plays a very important role in Afghanistan, and its eventual deeper involvement in dedicated dialogue formats is natural”. The embassy slammed Indian Express for publishing the report that seemed to be based on “ill-informed sources”.

“Dialogue between Russia and India has always been very close and forward-looking on all global and regional issues, including the situation in Afghanistan. It has been intensively maintained in bilateral and multilateral formats, including the SCO-Afghanistan Contact Group, Moscow consultations, etc.,” a statement from Russian Embassy in response to the report said.

Further, the statement read, “Due to the complexity of the Afghan settlement, moving towards a relevant regional consensus and coordination with other partners, including the US, is critical. We proceed from the importance of the implementation of the US-Taliban agreement signed in Doha in February 2020 and approved by a UN Security Council resolution”.

Afghan peace process

The latest controversy has come amidst the ongoing negotiations between various stakeholders, including the United States, Afghanistan and Islamic terror group Taliban, to achieve sustainable peace in Afghanistan.

Recently, United States Secretary Antony Blinken had written a letter to Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani and chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah. In the letter, Blinken had sought a peace conference facilitated by the United Nations (UN) with representatives from six nations, including India, to discuss a “unified approach to supporting peace in Afghanistan”.

In the letter, the US Secretary of State has said Turkey will be approached to host a senior-level meeting of both sides in the upcoming weeks to finalise a peace agreement. The US Secretary of State urged Ghani or his “authoritative designees” to attend the meeting. 

Blinken also said that the Geneva-based organisation should convene a meeting with foreign ministers and envoys from  Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran, India and the US to discuss approaches to support peace in the war-torn country, Afghanistan.

It is speculated that thee peace plan may open the possibility that the USA troops, currently deployed in Afghanistan, might stay on for a longer time.

Canada: Billboards thanking PM Modi for providing coronavirus vaccines come up

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Canada: Billboards thanking PM Modi for providing coronavirus vaccines come up

Billboards have come up across Greater Toronto area in Canada to thank PM Modi and India for providing Chinese coronavirus vaccines.

The billboards thanking PM Modi and India were put up by Hindu Forum Canada.

Earlier in February it was revealed that Canada had not yet reached out to India, world’s largest vaccine manufacturer for procurement of the same for its citizens. India has been at the forefront of vaccine diplomacy where it has given vaccines to other countries along with making inoculation of Indians as a priority. However, till February 2nd week, Canada had not yet reached out to India for the same.

It was speculated that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was putting the lives of Canadians at risk while pandering to the pro-Khalistan outfits and MPs in Canada who have been attacking India under the pretext of ‘farm laws’. In fact, Trudeau himself had played by their book and ‘expressed concerns’ over the Punjab farmer protests, which have been supported by pro-Khalistan people from within and outside India.

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