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Don’t know why Prakash Padukone encouraged Saina Nehwal to leave my academy: Pullela Gopichand in new book

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Don’t know why Prakash Padukone encouraged Saina Nehwal to leave my academy: Pullela Gopichand in new book

Badminton coach and former Indian coach Pullela Gopichand has said that he was deeply hurt when Saina Nehwal had left his academy to join the training facility run by Prakash Padukone. He also said he wondered why Padukone encouraged Saina to leave his academy.

Current National Coach for the Indian Badminton team Gopichand has revealed the same while talking about difficult times in an upcoming book ‘Dreams of a Billion: India and the Olympic Games.’ In the chapter titled ‘Bitter Rivarly’, Gopichand narrates how miserable he had felt when Saina Nehwal had decided to leave his academy to train under Vimal Kumar at the academy run by Padukone in Bangalore.

In the book he also wondered why Prakash Padukone “never had anything positive to say about him”. The book has been co-authored by sports historian Boria Majumdar and senior journalist Nalin Mehta.

Talking about Saina’s exit, he has written, “It was as if something very dear was being taken away from me. Earlier, I had literally begged her not to go. But by then she had been influenced by others and had already made up her mind. While I didn’t want to hold her back and stall her progress, I knew this was something that wasn’t beneficial for either of us.”

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It is believed that Saina had left Gopichand’s academy as she felt that he was focusing more on the other star badminton player, PV Sindhu. Responding that, Gopichand says, “”Yes, I indeed had other players to look after and Sindhu had made serious progress in the two years between 2012 and 2014. But I had never intended to neglect Saina. Maybe I wasn’t able to convey this to her”.

He said that he felt Vimal or former Olympian Viren Rasquinha or Prakash Padukone could have talked to her to change her mind. “May be Viren or Vimal or Prakash sir could have spoken to her. I don’t know why they didn’t. In fact, they encouraged her to leave Hyderabad. It is a mystery to me why Prakash sir has never said anything positive about me while I have always looked up to him as my role model,” he said.

Saina’s husband and former CWG gold medallist Parupalli Kashyap also corroborated Gopichand, saying that she had faced difficult times after leaving his academy. She has lost in an early round at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and after that she had to undergo a surgery for an injury.

“It was clearly the worst phase in her life. She had lost early in the Olympics and it had wasted months and years of hard work. Gopi sir wasn’t with her anymore and she was soon to have surgery to get things back on track… She didn’t really know what to do,” Kashyap said recalling that period. Saina Nehwal returned to Pullela Gopichand’s academy after winning the 2017 World Championship.

Kashyap said that Saina wanted to go back to her former trainer, but she needed a big win before doing that. “My wife is a perfect Haryanvi Jatni, if you know what I mean. She is just too headstrong and proud. She desperately wanted to go back to Gopi sir and say sorry. She needed him badly but she was too stubborn to admit it and open to him,” he said.

The book chronicles India’s journey in the Olympics – the wins, the misses, the star sportspersons, their stories, and the challenges and possibilities that lie ahead of India to make its mark at the mega sporting event in 2020. The book published by HarperCollins will be released later this month.

Old images of Awasthi do not discredit the January 2020 visuals where he can be seen siding with Leftists

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Old images of Awasthi do not discredit the January 2020 visuals where he can be seen siding with Leftists

Renewed efforts are being made to associate Akshat Awasthi with the ABVP even after OpIndia busted the false narrative in a series of reports published yesterday. The latest narrative appears to be that more images and videos are surfacing which supposedly ‘proves’ Awasthi’s association with the ABVP.


Under such circumstances, there’s a need to understand the chronology of events here, or as the popular meme says, “Aap chronology samjhiye“. It’s important to remember here that the ABVP has rejected all allegations that Awasthi is associated with them in any manner. Furthermore, Awasthi has himself denied later on that he was associated with the ABVP and admitted that he was lying in the ‘sting’ and that he was merely boasting. Thus, it is clearly incumbent upon Rahul Kanwal and India Today to produce conclusive evidence of Awasthi’s membership of ABVP. So far, there hasn’t been any.

The new visual evidence that apparently ‘prove’ Awasthi’s association with the ABVP shows him hanging out with some ABVP members and him raising some slogans with the ABVP from the month of November. Unfortunately for the ones making these suggestions, this isn’t valid evidence to prove Awasthi’s political allegiance in the first week of January 2020 when violence escalated at the JNU campus.

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However, all of these images date back to November. And two months is a long long time. Student politics is a lot like conventional politics, only much worse as the worst aspects of conventional politics are amplified at this level. Therefore, whatever Awasthi’s loyalties were in November cannot be construed as an accurate representation of his political orientation in January of 2020. Fortunately for us, we do have some evidence to indicate what Awasthi’s political loyalties were on the day violence escalated in January.

Read: India Today issues clarification on old date seen in JNU sting video, stays mum on JNUSU activist being passed off as ABVP member

In a video released by ABVP, Awasthi can be clearly spotted with Leftists who were assaulting ABVP students. The Police kept the left and ABVP factions separated and stood between them in a row, and Akshat could be clearly seen on the side of the Left. Now, it is conclusive evidence that Awasthi was clearly with the Left during the time violence escalated at JNU.


Could Awasthi have been a part of ABVP some time in the past? Certainly, but not a shred of evidence has been produced to prove even that. Do Awasthi’s pictures from the past with ABVP karyakartas prove his association with the ABVP in the first week of January? Certainly not. The only conclusion that could be drawn is the fact that Awasthi is politically promiscuous, like a lot of people in politics usually are. Will it be fair to blame the BJP for the reprehensible conduct of Navjot Singh Sidhu ever since he joined the Congress party? It’s a similar situation here at best.

Again, we have to remember, it is India Today which has to prove that Akash Awasthi was a part of the ABVP when violence escalated at JNU in the first week of January. They made the claim and they blamed the ABVP, therefore, it is India Today and Rahul Kanwal who must produce evidence that Awasthi was an ABVP member during the time period in question. Furthermore, images from November 2019 that purportedly show Awasthi as an ABVP member do not discredit visuals from January 2020 which clearly indicate that he was one of the Leftists. The fact that the Lutyens Cabal is ignoring the January 2020 evidence only shows that they are not interested in the truth, they only care about politics.

Awasthi’s past political inclinations do not matter. Just like Shiv Sena’s past political stance does not mean that it isn’t one of the ‘secular’ parties now. It took two weeks for Shiv Sena to change from fascists to upholders of constitutional values. Two months is enough time for Awasthi to turn Left if he was even a part of the ABVP, to begin with. The only thing that matters is his affiliations during the January JNU fracas. It is only that we should be concerned about. And so far, despite the loud proclamations by the media, not a single shred of evidence has been produced that proves he is/was an ABVP member.

Watch: Protests held in Delhi’s Sarita Vihar demanding opening of road blocked by Shaheen Bagh anti-CAA protests”

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Watch: Protests held in Delhi’s Sarita Vihar demanding opening of road blocked by Shaheen Bagh anti-CAA protests”

The residents of  Sarita Vihar in New Delhi held a protest on Sunday demanding the removal of barricades and blockage on road number 13A between Mathura Road and Kalindi Kunj, in order to ease traffic movement.

The road has been illegally blocked by ‘protestors’ near Shaheen Bagh from past many days as a mark of protest against the CAA.


The residents of Sarita Vihar urged Delhi Police to go ahead and remove blockade and said that they’re supporting them in the action.


“Delhi Police, you open the roads, we are with you,” the crowd chanted.

Following the failure of violent protests perpetrated by the Muslim mobs on the streets of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia University, few women belonging to Muslim community sat on a protest at Shaheen Bagh and blocked bus stop and a highway causing severe problems to the public of Delhi.

Initially, these protests were passed off as ‘organic protests in a bid to ‘save the constitution’. However, the masks began to fall off as it was revealed that it was all staged. We had reported on how this was a carefully crafted plan to humanise the violent protestors as a conversation in a WhatsApp group of JNU students right after the Ayodhya verdict gave a clearer picture of how the Shaheen Bagh ‘organic’ protests blocking the highway was culminated.

Just a few days back, at the peaceful protests of Shaheen Bagh, slogans of “Jinnah Wali Azadi” were also shouted by the protestors exposing the claims of “liberal-secular” media, who had earlier passed of these protests as peaceful.

Treasurer of Editors Guild of India asks union civil aviation minister to find her bag taken away by a passenger by mistake

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Treasurer of Editors Guild of India asks union civil aviation minister to find her bag taken away by a passenger by mistake

Misplacing and losing luggage is one of the common risks of travelling, especially in air travel where the bags are separated from the passengers. Sometimes airlines misplace the bag, either load them in some other plane or not load at all, and sometimes people take someone else’s bag from the carousel, mistaking it to be theirs.

Journalist Sheela Bhatt, who is the Treasurer of Editors Guild of India, also faced a similar situation today. She tweeted on January 11 morning that someone took her bag leaving behind his/her own, which is of the same size, same colour and same brand. But as Sheela Bhatt is a journalist and not an ordinary citizen, she wants the civil aviation minister to find her bag and deliver it her home.


In the tweet, she said that she was waiting for Air India to cooperate, and then added, “Please, deliver my bag home”, tagging the twitter handle of Hardeep Singh Puri, the civil aviation minister. Delhi airport replied to her tweet asking for her flight and contact details through direct message on Twitter. Few hours after that Sheela replied to them saying ‘still waiting’, and she tagged the minister in this tweet also.

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It may be noted that her baggage was not misplaced by the airlines, and therefore Air India is not responsible for it. The fact that someone exchanged her bag by mistake means that the bag was unloaded from the plane and was put on the baggage carousel.

Although losing one’s luggage is not a pleasant experience, asking the union minister to find and deliver it looks too much, as it is the mistake of some passenger and not a mistake of the airlines or the airport. Perhaps the journalist should contact the airport authorities to locate her bag, instead of contacting the minister for it.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman shuts down sexist wannabe ‘liberal’ who called her ‘sweetie’ in style

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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman shuts down sexist wannabe ‘liberal’ who called her ‘sweetie’ in style

On January 12, the country celebrated National Youth Day on the birth anniversary of one of the greatest Bharatiya Swami Vivekananda. In the honour of Swami Vivekananda, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman posted a stanza of a poem written by himself in his ‘The Awakened India’.


As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman posted the message of Swami Vivekananda, a wannabe liberal jumped on to her timeline to mock her in a condescending manner for quoting Swami Vivekananda on his birth anniversary.

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One Sanjoy Ghose, who claims to be a struggling lawyer, also struggled to comprehend facts and shockingly made sexist comments by calling the Union Minister ‘Sweetie’. He claimed that Finance Minister had wrongly quoted Swami Vivekananda’s poem which was inspired from Katha Upanishad.


Responding to condescending ‘lawyer’, Sithraman shot back and schooled him regarding the facts. She stated that Swami Vivekananda is often quoted with the verse from Katha Upanishad, however, the poem was from ‘The Awakened India’, written in August 1898, contrary to what Ghose claimed.


Swami Vivekananda is considered to be one of the greatest intellectual born in the country. He is seen as a youth idol because of the relevance of his ideas and ideals to the youth even today. The nation is celebrating his 150th birth anniversary.

Swami Vivekananda’s poem TO THE AWAKENED INDIA, published in Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, volume 4

Swami Vivekananda propounded the importance of education in building a nation. He believed that education was the primary means to empowering people. He especially emphasized on education being relevant to the common masses.

On the lines of making his dream come true, the Indian Government has sanctioned a “Value Education Project” of the Ramakrishna Mission. The ‘Value Education Project’ aims to inculcate moral values in students and provide them with a decision making framework for life.

In 2019, CBSE proposed to introduce the Value Education Programme in its affiliated schools for students of classes 6, 7, and 8.

Decorated DSP of Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested along with two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists

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Decorated DSP of Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested along with two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists

In a very significant development in the terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, a senior police officer of J&K Police was arrested by the state police forces along with two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Davinder Singh, a decorated police officer who had won the prestigious President’s Police Medal on 15th August last year, was arrested near Mir Bazar in Qazigund area of Kulgam District in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, when he along with the two terrorists were travelling in a car. They were reportedly travelling to Delhi.

The two HM terrorists arrested along with Singh have been identified as Naveed Babu and Asif Rather. The trio was nabbed by a J&K police party led by South Kashmir Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Atul Goel. Both the terrorists are from Sophian. Two AK-47 rifles and some hand grenades were found in the Maruti car used by them.

DSP Davinder Singh was currently posted at the Srinagar International Airport. Earlier he was in the anti-hijacking squad of J&K police, and before that a part of the special operations group when the elite force was established. He was posted as an inspector in the SOG, and due to his successful anti-terror operations, he had got an out-of-turn promotion as DSP.

But later he was removed from SOG after there were allegations of extortions against him, and he was suspended from services for some time. After that, he was posted at the police control room and then the anti-hijacking unit.

According to reports, later the police party raided Singh’s house in Shivpora near army headquarters in Badamibagh and recovered one AK-47 rifle, two pistols and three hand grenades. His ancestral house at Tral in Pulwama district was also raided by police. According to police sources, the DSP had taken a leave of four days from Saturday on the pretext of visiting Jammu. Another AK-47 was recovered based on Naveed Babu’s information.

The HM terrorist Naveed Babu arrested along with Singh is also a former J&K police constable. In 2017 he had fled from his duties with two AK-47 rifles and joined HM. He is currently the Hizbul Mujahideen’s operational commander of South Kashmir, the second in command in the area after divisional commander Riyaz Naikoo.

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Naveed is expert in making IEDs, and is involved in several terror activities. He is accused of killing 11 non-local truck drivers and labourers in south Kashmir in October and November last year. According to sources, Police were tracking his movements and he was traced when he made a phone call to his brother.

It is important to note that DSP Davinder Singh’s name had come in the 2001 parliament case too, as the prime accused Afzal Guru had taken his name in a letter written to his Supreme Court lawyer Sushil Kumar. In the letter written from Tihar jail in 2004, Afzal Guru had said that he was forced by Guru to take one of the attackers named Mohammad to New Delhi, rent a flat for him to stay and also to purchase a car from him. Afzal had also alleged that Singh and another police officer Shanty Singh had tortured him at the Humhama STF camp. Shanty Singh is currently in jail for shooting down a civilian in police custody labelling him a terrorist.

Afzal had said that a person named Atlaf Hussain, brother in law of Budgam SSP Ashaq Hussain, had brokered a deal between his family and DSP Davinder Singh for his release, and in exchange Singh had asked him to transport Mohammad to Delhi.

Dear Shashi Tharoor, here is why BJP is in power, Aadhaar is linked to banks and those who pay taxes cite their PAN

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Dear Shashi Tharoor, here is why BJP is in power, Aadhaar is linked to banks and those who pay taxes cite their PAN

Ever since the Modi government passed the historic Citizenship Amendment Act to provide citizenship to persecuted minorities of three neighbouring countries, the Congress party has indulged in a misinformation campaign to discredit the government’s initiative.

In a similar act, Senior Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday resorted to spreading half-truths to mislead public on the provisions of Citizenship Amendment Act.

Taking to Twitter, the Congress MP posted an image of a protestor holding a poster, who is apparently asking a few questions to the Modi government. However, the questions posed by the so-called protestor, which perhaps even Shashi Tharoor also concurs with, do not literally question the government but peddles misinformation regarding the Citizenship Amendment Act under the guise of asking ‘tough’ questions to the establishment.


If someone takes a careful look at the poster of the protestor, the questions being asked to the government has itself been based out of wrong facts. By resorting to false facts, the protestor is not only misleading public but also creating a panic among the citizens.

Shashi Tharoor, being an elected representative of the Parliament, adds more fuel to the fire by posting such misleading image on his social media platform to spread more propaganda instead of reprimanding the young man for spreading propaganda.

The protestor poses a set of questions to the Modi government like if Voter ID was not a proof a Citizenship, how was BJP in power? Secondly, he asks if Aadhaar is not proof citizenship, why was it linked to Bank accounts and lastly, if PAN card isn’t a proof for Citizenship, why it is being used by the government to collect Income Tax.

It is rather laughable to see such posters being paraded at anti-CAA rallies as there aren’t any provisions in the entire legislation that seek Indian citizens to prove their citizenship. It is important to note that the Citizenship Amendment Act was passed by the Parliament of India to grant citizenship to those persecuted religious minorities from three neighbouring countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

In fact, there are no provisions in the entire legislation which either demands any Indian to submit their documents. Addition to this, the objective of the legislation is to grant citizenship to persecuted people and not to take away the citizenship of any particular group of Indian citizens, especially Muslims.

To answer senior Congress leader’s questions, the voter ID card is issued by Election Commission of India. Only those who are above the age of 18 years are eligible to get voter ID. Hence, a voter ID alone cannot be considered comprehensive proof of citizenship. And since he asked, BJP is in power because majority of Indians above the age of 18 years voted for it. For someone who has won his 3rd term as Member of Parliament, surely would know how the election process works.

Further, Aadhaar Card is given every resident of the country and not to citizens only. Secondly, it is linked to bank accounts in a bid to eliminate financial frauds. Moreover, linking Aadhaar to banks allows people who do not have PAN to open a bank account under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana and that way, the subsidies meant for the poor can directly go to the bank accounts, thereby getting rid of middlemen.

And to answer his third question, why PAN is linked to income tax returns, well, even non-resident Indians as well as foreigners have to pay income tax if they fall in tax paying bracket. If income is generated in India, one needs to pay income tax on it as per the Income Tax Act, 1961, as amended from time to time. As a lawmaker himself, who was once a junior minister serving the government of India, one would expect he’d know the basics of how things work in India.

Jharkhand: Masjid Imam issues fatwa against 75-year-old man denying burial for being ‘unIslamic’, being friendly with Hindus and visiting temples

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Jharkhand: Masjid Imam issues fatwa against 75-year-old man denying burial for being ‘unIslamic’, being friendly with Hindus and visiting temples

A 75-year-old man Kariman Mian, of Makri village in Garhwa district in Jharkhand, who died of natural causes on Thursday, was denied burial in the graveyard as the Iman of Makri Masjid, Zakir Ansari, issued a fatwa against him for his ‘unIslamic’ lifestyle. His body was buried in land near his house and not in the graveyard without any ‘janaza ki namaz’.

As per the Imam, Kariman Mian’s food habits were not ‘halal’ and used to drink liquor. As per reports, some people from the community also opposed his burial as he was friendly with Hindus and spent his time mingling with them and going to temples and also accused him of indulging in ‘black magic’. Eventually, the Hindus came forward and completed the burial formalities.

As per the information given by his relatives, a Jagran report states that Kariman Mian did not have any son. The relatives had gathered to bury him after he passed away and were digging the grave. But secretary of Muslim community Maqbool Ansari and Imam Zakir stopped them from digging the grave. They said that since Kariman Mian used to work as a healer and visited temples, he will not be given space on the graveyard to bury him and nor will anyone from the community be part of his burial ceremony.

India Today ‘journalist’ fails to comprehend science and tech, spreads false propaganda on JNU servers

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India Today ‘journalist’ fails to comprehend science and tech, spreads false propaganda on JNU servers

Following the botched up ‘sting operation’ by India Today, which tried to falsely depict alleged left-wing students as ABVP members and implicate them for the crimes that the left-wing forces unleashed on January 5 inside campus, the India Today has suffered a massive meltdown and has indulged in attempts to brazen it out despite being caught red-handed.

On Sunday, in a similar act, the India Today media network yet again indulged in another false propaganda against the JNU administration to absolve ultra-left wing forces from their crimes.

Tanushree Pandey, the India Today journalist, came up with a gem as she claimed that they had accessed emails sent from the server of Communication and Information services, which have been damaged by the left-wing students on January 4. With claims of emails sent by JNU administration, she hinted at no damage for servers as stated by Delhi police.

The ‘journalist’ who seems to have no idea regarding how the system of email works implied that if emails could be sent from these servers, how could someone claim that servers have been damaged by left-wing students.


Soon, NDTV journalist Arvind Gunasekar also made similar bizarre claims on how could JNU administration could send mails if the servers at CIS had already damaged.


Gunasekar, himself, is a JNU alumni and one would expect at least he would know how the internal mails in JNU work.

In a hurry to target ABVP students and JNU administration, the ‘journalists’ seems to have waged war against science and technology as they failed to even comprehend basic technological aspects behind the working of an email system.

According to India Today journalist Tanushree Pande, the emails cannot be sent by the JNU administration if the servers at the CIS is damaged, thereby insinuating that left students had not damaged servers inside the JNU as stated by Delhi police. The emails have been sent by JNU administration on January 5, a day after the servers were damaged by leftist goons.

However, in reality, ‘journalists’ seem to be thinking that the servers at JNU is using the same server for email that is used for other activities like regisration for semester and Wi-Fi access in the campus. To their embarrassment, the ‘journalists’ have utterly failed to comprehend the basic difference between mail servers and web servers.

But a simple online search of the MX record of JNU’s email domain shows that the university’s email servers are not located in its campus. Tech-savvy netizens quickly pointed outed that JNU is using Google Suite, a corporate solution from Google that includes the facitlity to use Gmail with custom domain names, for all its email needs. Therefore, the email servers are not located inside the JNU campus, but they are located in the servers farms operated by tech giant Google, which are located outside India.


According to the MXtoolweb site, the “jnu.ac.in” site, which is the email domain of JNU, is hosted on Google servers and not on the servers which are damaged inside the JNU campus. A IP location lookup of associated IP addresses point to Google headquarters at Mountain View, California, the address Google uses to register its servers.

Server hosting details of “JNU.ac.in” website

Moreover, as per another online tool ultratools.com, JNU’s mail servers are located in the US, as it shows the locations along with the owner of the servers.

JNU mail server test

From the above, it can be categorically said that although JNU uses servers located in the campus for other IT-related activities, it is not hosting its own email server. As they are using Gmail services, their mails are hosted by Google, not by CIS at JNU. Therefore, the JNU administration can still send and receive emails from any computer connected to internet and is not dependent on the JNU network. As the left-wing students had only disabled the CIS servers and Wi-Fi access in the campus, it is possible that the computers used by the JNU administration were connected to the internet independently or with a separate network which was still functioning, and it was not dependent on the servers which were damaged as claimed by our esteemed ‘journalists’.

It can be noted that although earlier companies and instutions used to host their own email servers, that trend has changed and now most organisations use corporate email solutions provided by companies such as Google and Microsoft.

It seems there have been concerted campaigns against the ABVP in an alleged effort to save the ultra left-wing students, who are the main accused in the JNU violence. As Delhi police revealed that seven left-wing students, including Aishe Ghosh – the president of JNUSU – and four left students organisations were responsible for the barbaric violence that was inflicted on students on the campus, left-wing ‘liberal-secular’ media have resorted to a hit job against the ABVP.

Soon after Delhi police carried out the press conference in which evidence was released to the public regarding the involvement of ultra-left-wing students in the violence, India Today had come up with a shoddy sting operation claiming two JNU students allegedly belonging to the ABVP confessed on camera for instigating violence and vandalising the Sabarmati hostel on January 5.

A detailed fact-check was done by OpIndia regarding the so-called India Today sting operation and proved that the whole investigation was nothing but lies and half-truths to falsely implicate ABVP and absolve left-wing forces from its crimes that they had unleashed on JNU campus.

India Today had not only failed to prove that the two members belonged to ABVP but also indulged in fake news by sharing misleading images.

Responding to India Today’s hit job, the nationalist students’ organisation ABVP had categorically rejected charges that the two alleged JNU students were associated with the organisation. Despite clarifications by the ABVP, India Today had carried out their fake story to mislead the public on the JNU violence.

Interestingly, one of the students- Akshat Awasthi, who India Today had ‘exposed’ in its fake sting operation on Saturday as a member of ABVP, had retracted his statements by stating that whatever statements he had made to the India Today reporter were false and said he only such confessions simply to display bravado. In fact, Awasthi has said that he is not even a member of ABVP.

Shiv Sena says boycotting Deepika’s film is ‘Talibani mindset’, netizens reminds erstwhile saffron party of its own shenanigans

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Shiv Sena says boycotting Deepika’s film is ‘Talibani mindset’, netizens reminds erstwhile saffron party of its own shenanigans

After Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone’s PR stunt ahead of release of Chhapaak where she visited JNU and stood by one of the accused in violence, JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh, received flak over the social media, many people had called for boycott of her new film. Reacting to the call to boycott the film, saffron-turned-‘liberal’ political party Shiv Sena has condemned the same saying that such an act is reflective of ‘Talibani mindset’.

As they say, the Internet never forgets. Netizens were quick to point out all the times Shiv Sena had acted like thugs.


In November, 2017, ahead of release of Deepika Padukone starrer Padmaavat, Shiv Sainiks had burned effigies of filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali and had also demanded a complete ban on the film. In fact, even after Shiv Sena became ‘liberal’ and joined hands with Congress and NCP, the party workers went violent and stopped screening of a Kannada film in Maharashtra in December, 2019. In the past, Shiv Sena has violently opposed release of various films including Mani Ratnam’s Bombay, Karan Johar’s My Name Is Khan, Aamir Khan’s PK, amongst others.

Netizens also reminded Shiv Sena of the time they indulged in destruction of public property.


In October 1991, Shiv Sainiks dug up the Wankhede Stadium strip in Mumbai to prevent Pakistan from playing in the country. That was not the only time Shiv Sena tried and succeeded in stopping cricket matches in and outside Maharashtra.


The hypocrisy was clearly not lost on twitterati who reminded Shiv Sena how their workers forcibly shaved off the head of a man because he criticised Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray in a Facebook post. Later, Shiv Sena goons attacked and assaulted a government employee for calling Uddhav Thackeray ‘nalayak’ in a Facebook post.

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