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Andhra Pradesh to get new High Court in Amaravati, to start functioning from January 1

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Andhra Pradesh to get new High Court in Amaravati, to start functioning from January 1

The central government has announced the formation of a new high court for the state of Andhra Pradesh. The high court will be named as High Court of Andhra Pradesh, which will start functioning from 1st January 2019. The new high court will be located at Amaravati, the newly built capital city of Andhra Pradesh.

The notification issued by the government says:

“In pursuance of article 214 of the Constitution and the Order issued by the Supreme Court of India and in exercise of powers conferred under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 30, sub-section (1) of section 31 and sub-section (2) of section 31 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, the President hereby constitutes a separate High Court for the State of Andhra Pradesh, namely,the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, from the 1st day of January, 2019 with the principal seat of such High Court at Amaravati in the State of Andhra Pradesh and the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad shall become the High Court for  the State of Telangana.”

Following the split of Andhra Pradesh into Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, its capital city Hyderabad was included in Telangana. Therefore, entire administrative machinery had to be created for Andhra Pradesh from scratch, and this new high court is part of that process.

The government has also transferred 16 judges from the high court at Hyderabad to the newly formed Andhra Pradesh High Court, while remaining 10 judges will become the judges of the high court for the Telangana state. This will be the 25th High Court in the country.

Last month, the Supreme Court had given the go-ahead for the formation of a new high court for Andhra Pradesh. The court had said that since all the requirements have been fulfilled, there is no embargo for the competent authority to issue a notification bifurcating the courts into the High Court of Telangana and High Court of Andhra Pradesh respectively. The court’s decision came after the green signal from an inspection committee.

In Amaravati, a very big complex known as Justice City is under construction, where the High Court and subordinate courts and even some tribunals would be accommodated. There is also a provision for construction of residential complexes for the judges of the High Court and judicial officers of the subordinate courts in the Justice City. Till those constructions are completed, the state government will hire vilas for residences of the judges, while the high court will function from a makeshift building, the govt had informed the Supreme Court.

New Darul Uloom Deoband Fatwa: Women forbidden from participating in marriage processions with men

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New Darul Uloom Deoband Fatwa: Women forbidden from participating in marriage processions with men

Darul Uloom Deoband, the Islamic Seminary, in a recent Fatwa, has decreed that women are forbidden to participate in marriage processions with men. It is fairly common for women relatives of the groom to participate in marriage processions with other men in the family. Sometimes, music is also played in these processions.

The fatwa comes after a resident had raised questions regarding the practice with the Fatwa department of the seminary. The seminary responded that not only were women forbidden from participating in such social functions with men, they are also forbidden from eating food alongside them on such occasions. The seminary also asserted that Muslims should not eat food while standing and advised Muslims to protect themselves from such activities.

Deoband has come up with such bizarre fatwa’s at a remarkable frequency. Earlier in February, the Islamic seminary had decided to issue a fatwa against Muslim women taking help of men while trying out bangles in shops.

It was also reported that Deoband clerics had issued a fatwa against life insurance, as they claimed that Life and death are in the hands of Allah and no insurance company can guarantee a man’s longevity. In the past, a cleric associated with the Darul Uloom Deoband university had issued a fatwa against women watching football games, as watching men playing with bare knees is forbidden for women.

In another instance of a bizarre fatwa, a fatwa was issued asking Muslim families to not marry men or women who work in banks. Posting photos of self and family on social media websites have also drawn Fatwas in the past. New Year Celebrations and designer burqas, too had the same destiny.

On another occasion, an Ulema had proclaimed that a group of Muslim women who performed Lord Ram’s Aarti on the eve of Diwali, ceased to be Muslims. The most peculiar Fatwa was when the seminary had declared that it was forbidden in Islam for an uncle to carry the bride to the palanquin as it could lead to feelings of lust between either of them.

Owaisi asks how can namaz disturb peace, here is how it has unfortunately

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Owaisi asks how can namaz disturb peace, here is how it has unfortunately

All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief, Asaduddin Owaisi has today expressed his rage at the UP Government after the Noida police announced banning namaz at public places.

Recently the Noida police have issued an advisory notice to 23 private companies in sector 58, asking their administrations to dissuade their employees from visiting nearby parks for offering namaz. The police asserted that the companies must ensure that their officials use office premises or mosques for Namaz but not public places.

Sector 58 Station House Officer (SHO) Pankaj Rai, who issued the notices, cited a Supreme Court order of 2009, which banned unauthorised use of public places for religious activities by all religions.

While Shia Waqf board chief Waseem Rizvi welcomed the decision, Owaisi, furious with the Noida police’s intervention, hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government alleging that the UP police would shower petals on ‘kanwariyas’, but interrupt the Muslims for whatever they did. He further lambasted at the UP government, asking, how could namaz, once a week mean disrupting peace and harmony?

Well, history has it, how the Friday namaz has been, often seen turning into mass violence. On April 25, we had reported how a large mob speculated to be numbering into a thousand, went on a rampage following the Friday Namaz Prayers in Madhya Pradesh’s Burhanpur town. In order to restore peace, the police proceeded to lathi charge the violent youths.

In August last year, the police had to fire at a mob in Aligarh which was resorting to incessant stone pelting after Friday prayers. Post-Eid prayers too had seen intense violence in July 2017 when a large mob decided to attack a police station in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.

In 2012, Lucknow had witnessed one of the biggest mayhem when a mob, numbering about 500, went berserk and indulged in large-scale violence, targeting media persons in particular and even beating up several bystanders who were caught unawares after the Alvida namaz (on the last Friday of Ramzan). The mob also had vandalised a statue of Lord Mahavira.

A lot more such incidents have been rampant in the valley of Jammu and Kashmir too.

In a similar incident, in June, a mob in Janglaat area of Jammu and Kashmir pelted stones at security personnel after Namaz offerings. According to a report, just a few hours after the situation in the rogue valley turned violent, the officials deployed in the area were forced to use tear gas shells in order to disperse the agitated crowd.

With Kashmir regularly witnessing such episodes of post-Friday namaz violence, it was reported recently, how the second Friday of Ramzan had turned violent in Jammu and Kashmir. At least 50 people were reported injured when a huge gathering of youths, post-Friday prayers, started brandishing anti-national flags and pelted stones at security personnel posted a little away from Jamia Masjid in the Nowhatta area of the city.

In fact, performing prayers on the street has long been a disputable argument in the foreign countries as well. France which is the biggest home to the Muslim minority in Western Europe had introduced a ban on praying in the streets, though the French Muslims argued that they did not have enough space in Mosques.

Before Indira Gandhi was released from jail on 26th December 1978, a plane was hijacked by Congress workers

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Before Indira Gandhi was released from jail on 26th December 1978, a plane was hijacked by Congress workers

On 26th December, 1978, Indira Gandhi was released from jail. Six days prior to that, Congress workers had hijacked a plane to demand her release. Following the draconian Emergency, Indira Gandhi was detained for breach of privilege and contempt of the Indian Parliament, and her arrest invoked massive protests by Congress supporters throughout the country.

The protests that were triggered by Indira Gandhi’s arrest, the Left would have us believe, were rather peaceful and an outpouring of emotions for a beloved Prime Minister. However, 20th December 1977 proved just how deeply embedded the basic DNA of the Emergency was in the Congress cabal.

Forty years back on this day, Congress crossed all semblance of political decency and indulged in a mid air drama on board Indian Airlines flight 410. On 20th December, an aircraft was hijacked by two members of the Youth Congress.

The hijack was seen as one of the most shameful acts committed by the Congress and a dangerous display of contempt for the rule of law.

The hijacking was carried out with the intention of securing Indira Gandhi’s release from jail and having all criminal cases against her and Sanjay Gandhi withdrawn. Another demand of the hijackers was that the Janata Party Government at the Centre tender its resignation. To this end, two members of the then Youth Congress, Bhola Pandey and Devendra Pandey, hijacked an Indian Airlines plane, IC 410, from Lucknow to Delhi, soon after it took off from Lucknow.

Bhola Pandey and Devendra Pandey, the two hijackers belonging to Congress

The then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the Inspector General of Police and the Chief Secretary took a special flight to Varanasi and arrived at the airport the following morning to negotiate the release of the passengers.

The hijackers, who appeared to be armed, surrendered in the presence of the media after keeping 132 passengers hostage for several hours. However, it was later revealed that the hijackers had carried out the act with toy guns.

The hijacking incident created quite a stir in Parliament and within the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation. That week was marked by large scale violence in many states, triggered by members of the Congress Party in protest against the arrest of Indira Gandhi.

What could then be observed as the epitome of immorality was when the Indian National Congress, instead of condemning the act, which was a threat to national security, rewarded the hijackers with party tickets for the 1980 State Assembly election.

Bhola served as a Congress MLA from 1980 to 1985 and from 1989 to 1991 from Doaba, Ballia, and also remained a member of the House for two terms. Devendra served the party as General Secretary of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee, UPCC, until recently.

The Congress, further unveiling its maliciousness, hatched a plot to split the Janata Party in Parliament in 1979 and succeeded in doing so by weaning away Chaudhary Charan Singh and his followers.

The Congress Party tempted him with the prime ministership if he broke away with his MPs. The party offered him support to form the government. These moves led to the fall of the Morarji Desai Government. Charan Singh was sworn in as Prime Minister by the President, but he never faced Parliament as Prime Minister because the Congress Party withdrew support before the next session and thus forced elections.

Meanwhile, the Charan Singh Government, under pressure from the Congress Party, initiated the process to withdraw the case against the hijackers. The case against the two Pandeys was dropped, and the Congress honoured both of them by giving them election tickets.

Congress’s history of corruption and malpractice is probably as old as the party itself. We Indians have somehow grown used to tales of its corruption. The Gandhi family and the Congress’s track record of corrupt activities should make even the hardened cynic thump the table and call for a revolution.

With each passing year, the magnitude of corruption and scams under the UPA grew larger. Whether it was the Nagarwala scandal or the 1976 oil scam in the Indira Gandhi government, or Bofors and HDW under Rajiv Gandhi, then the JMM bribery scandal in the Narasimha Rao government, which ended with the first conviction of a Prime Minister under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

The cases under the Manmohan Singh UPA government are too numerous. From Suresh Kalmadi’s Commonwealth Games scandal to the coal scam, the 2G telecom scam, the Aircel Maxis deal, and the AgustaWestland chopper scam, one can go on and on.

The Nehru Gandhi dynasty has taken India and Indians for granted, and we have chosen to remain blind to the history of the family’s corruption, which we have almost accepted as a way of Indian life and politics.

Jammu and Kashmir Congress leader promises Rs 1 crore and jobs for terrorists, says will hang BJP leaders if back to power

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Jammu and Kashmir Congress leader promises Rs 1 crore and jobs for terrorists, says will hang BJP leaders if back to power

Senior Congress leader and Observer of Minority Department of All India Congress Committee, Sagheer Khan from Jammu and Kashmir in a bizarre statement has promised Rs 1 crore help to “innocents” killed by forces on charges of terrorism, Republic TV reports. The Congress leader claimed that Bhartiya Janta Party is inflicting atrocities on Kashmiris and forcing security forces to execute innocents, he also promised that people incarcerated on charges of terrorism will be freed.

“The atrocities that BJP is committing against the people here are resulting in the deaths of several innocent people. If Congress comes to power here, then we will offer 1 Crore Rupees and a job to those suffering in the aftermath. And the innocent people who have been killed and those who are in jail under terror charges will all be freed as well.” Sagheer Khan said. He also added that if Congress comes to power, it will pass a bill and execute all BJP leaders. He said, “BJP leaders who have carried out these killings here, no matter how much powerful the leader is, a new law will be formed and those BJP leaders will be hanged to death. These BJP party workers will be hanged to death.”

The Congress leader also made reference to Bulansher violence, in which a UP Police inspector was shot dead by some assailants. Sagheer Khan said that incident was an example of Hindu Terrorism.

”You must have known that a soldier named Jeetu from 22 Rifle got so angry by Hindu terrorism prevailing here that he went and killed inspector Subodh Kumar” Khan said.

Earlier this month, a clash broke out between Police and Bulansher residents after carcasses of cows were found in the locality. The police, as per reports, opened fire at the protesters. It is claimed that the police was forced to open fire after the protesters attacked them with stones. In the chaos, inspector Subodh Kumar Singh lost his life.

Jammu and Kashmir had been placed under the Governor’s rule as the Mehbooba Mufti-led PDP-BJP coalition government fell after its coalition partner BJP withdrew their support from the government. The assembly was disbanded on November 21 by Governor Satyapal Malik. According to reports, security forces have successfully eliminated over 230 terrorists in this year.

College students, maulvi, rickshaw driver among those recruited by ISIS inspired terror module to carry out terror attacks

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College students, maulvi, rickshaw driver among those recruited by ISIS inspired terror module to carry out terror attacks

The National Investigative Agency (NIA) in a joint operation with the Uttar Pradesh anti-terrorism squad on Wednesday conducted searches in 17 locations in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in connection with a new ISIS module named ‘Harkat ul Harb-e-Islam’.

As per NIA, a maulvi, a civil engineering student from Amity University in Noida, third year BA student, an auto-rickshaw driver, welding shop owner and a garments business owner are among those who are accused and suspects. A woman believed to be linked to the module is also detained and is being questioned.

The NIA has detained ten people for interrogation, from which five have been detained from Amroha itself. The NIA IG in a press briefing said that their level of preparedness suggests they wanted to carry out explosions in near future by remote control blasts and fidayeen attacks. He added that this is a new ISIS-inspired terror-module and they were in touch with a foreign agent.

As per NIA, a total amount of Rs. 7.5 lakh, 100 mobile phones and 135 sim cards were recovered along with laptops. Some searches are still underway. 10 of the initial 16 suspects are arrested by the NIA. As per the NIA, the module was largely self-funded and some members had even stolen gold from their homes to raise the funds.

Officials confirmed that they were planning to attack Delhi police headquarters, RSS office and other “vital installations” and important personalities in the national capital and in UP ahead of Republic Day celebrations next month.

Parallel raids were conducted in Simbhaoli, Lucknow, 6-7 places in Delhi, mostly Seelampur and other places.

In east Delhi’s Jafarabad area, the NIA carried out searches along with the Delhi Police’s Special Cell and arrested five ISIS terrorists namely Md. Azam, Anas, Zubair Zafar, Zaid and Zubair Mallik and recovered seven pistols and swords. ISIS flags have also been siezed from the suspects who had pledged alliance with the Islamic State.

Several sophisticated weapons and explosives like Ammonium Nitrate, pistols and one grenade launcher were recovered along with jihadi literature.

Despite Rahul Gandhi’s rhetoric on women empowerment, cabinets of 3 recently won states have negligible representation

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Despite Rahul Gandhi’s rhetoric on women empowerment, cabinets of 3 recently won states have negligible representation

After the Chief Ministers in the three States of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh took oaths along with their respective cabinets, Congress’ hypocrisy on women empowerment is lying exposed. Despite Rahul Gandhi’s tall claims about the inclusion of women in politics, his party failed to give adequate representation to women in the three states where they recently formed the government.

The composition of the cabinets in these three states exposes the shallowness of the promises of women empowerment made by the party. In Chhattisgarh cabinet, there is only one woman legislator out of a total of 12 legislators. Similarly, Rajasthan cabinet is no better with one woman out of 23 as compared to 4 women legislators in the Vasundhara Raje government. There are 2 women in the 28-member Madya Pradesh cabinet led by Kamalnath who is facing allegations of involvement in the 1984 riots.

Of late Rahul Gandhi has portrayed himself as a strong advocate of women’s rights and has been talking about reservation for women in politics in what appears as an attempt to create a vote bank of women. Earlier this month he had directed the state governments of Congress and its allies to pass a resolution to reserve one-third of its seats in the Lok Sabha and the Legislative Assemblies for women.

In stark contrast to his political posturing, Rahul Gandhi’s party chose to appease Muslim fundamentalists instead of supporting the empowerment of Muslim women by opposing the Triple Talaq Bill introduced by the NDA government. However, if one looks at the history of Congress Party, this was not unexpected as Rahul’s father Rajiv Gandhi had also acted in the same way when he overturned the verdict of the Supreme Court in the Shah Bano case only to appease the fundamentalist Muslims for political gains.

Despite his own hypocrisy on the issue of women empowerment, he often targets the BJP and the RSS for not giving equal representation to women.  He once commented “Have you ever seen women wearing shorts working in RSS?” without realizing the sexist nature of the remark. In the month of July this year, Rahul had included a total of seven women out of 51 members in the Congress Working Committee, one of them being his own mother Sonia Gandhi.

Complaint filed against Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy by activist for his encounter order video

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Complaint filed against Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy by activist for his encounter order video

Trouble seems to be intensifying for the Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy for his remark– “kill them mercilessly” in a video that surfaced yesterday. Activist Narsimhamurthy has approached the Human Rights Commission to file a complaint against the Karnataka CM for his threat to call for violence.


The activist questioned the country’s law and constitution and said, “The Chief Minister asked police officials to gun down the killers. We have law and constitution in our country. The procedure of law should be followed, the Chief Minister cannot issue such orders,” Murthy said.

The Chief Minister was on Tuesday caught on camera endorsing lawlessness when he asked to ‘mercilessly’ kill the accused in the murder of a Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) worker.  As per media reports, the Chief Minister was apparently issuing orders to a senior police officer following the death of JDS leader Honnalagere Prakash.

Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy was caught in a video instructing someone on the phone ‘He (murdered JDS leader Prakash) was a good man, I don’t know why did they murder him. Kill them (assailants) mercilessly in a shootout, no problem.” However, Kumaraswamy later retracted by claiming that it was his emotional outburst that led his unseemly behaviour. He also claimed that the suspects were wanted in two other murder cases. They were in jail and now they have killed one more person.

H Prakash was a former Zilla Panchayat member and JDS worker who was attacked by four men while he was travelling in his car on Mysuru Road at the highway near Maddur. The attacks reportedly opened the car’s back door, where Prakash was sitting and attacked him with a machete. As per the reports, Prakash survived the attack but later succumbed to the severe injuries at Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences.

Ashok Gehlot’s pick for Jaipur District Collector has various cases of corruption against him

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Ashok Gehlot’s pick for Jaipur District Collector has various cases of corruption against him

Jagroop Singh Yadav, who took charge as District Collector of Jaipur today has been embroiled in various corruption cases. Believed to be a close aide of chief minister Ashok Gehlot, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) had filed a case of corruption against him for alleged misuse of office while awarding 222 sq mtr of land to two beneficiaries in 1989.

Yadav was also named in another FIR filed by the ACB in 2014 for an alleged Rs. 2.5 crore scam when he was the CEO of Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC). It was alleged that the corporation had unduly favoured a contractor for deploying security guards at various parks in the city and the officers did not even bother to check the physical presence of the guards in the parks.

Yadav was also named in the 2001 case where was accused of indulging in corrupt practices like helping ration card dealer siphon off kerosene in open market and adulteration when he was the District Supply Officer.

A Rajasthan Administrative Services (RAS) officer, Yadav was promoted to IAS rank in 2015. A case under section 420 (cheating), 467 (and 13(1)(D) of Prevention of Corruption Act were filed against him when he was an RAS officer. However, even when the investigation in the case was on, he was promoted as an IAS. Yadav is one of the 68 officers brought in by the newly elected Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in the large-scale bureaucratic reshuffle he undertook within days of swearing in.

Pakistan is trying to stoke unrest in Punjab by reviving Khalistani militancy, reveals arrested terrorist

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Pakistan is trying to stoke unrest in Punjab by reviving Khalistani militancy, reveals arrested terrorist

The interrogation of the suspected terrorist Shabnamdeep Singh, who was arrested from Patiala in Punjab last month, has revealed striking details of plans to create a new terror group in Punjab. The group, Khalistan Gadar Force, is allegedly being formed under the guidance of Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI. According to sources in the Punjab Police, Shabnamdeep was in constant touch with Javed Khan Wazir, an ISI agent and Gopal Singh Chawla, a Pakistani Khalistani supporter.

Singh also revealed that the ISI had promised to give ten million rupees to him for establishing the new Terror front ‘Khalistan Gadar Force’. Punjab Police hails Singh’s arrest as a major achievement in unravelling the Khalistani-ISI nexus behind the renewed attempts to foment terror in Punjab. Pakistan is constantly engaged in the conspiracy of terrorist activities in Punjab.

The Police had found incriminating evidence in form of several letters and pads of ‘Khalistan Gadar Force’ in Shabnamdeep Singh’s possession. The intelligence agencies have stated that ISI is actively involved in building Khalistani Terror Network by luring disgruntled Sikh youth of Punjab through Khalistani supporters living in countries like Pakistan, Britain and Canada.

According to an officer associated with a central security agency and who monitors Khalistani activities, ISI has been trying to create a new terror group in Punjab. Intelligence agencies have put all the groups connected with Khalistani terrorists under surveillance. Security agencies believe new terror groups benefit immensely as all eyes are fixed on activities carried out by already established terror outfits.

Intelligence agencies suspect that ISI is pumping huge money in Punjab to set up terror modules and stir unrest in the state. Not only this, some Khalistani supporters living in foreign countries are running an agenda in the name of Referendum 2020 under a conspiracy to achieve secession of Punjab from India. According to a security official, ISI issues instructions to the youth associated with Khalistani terrorists through a special messaging application in their mobiles. Agencies are finding it extremely difficult to intercept messages sent over this application in real time. Youths are informed about weapon consignment and other details through this application.

The Home Ministry has issued a circular to all the agencies to collect all the information related to the ‘Khalistan Gadar Force’ and also find out how many people are associated with this group so far and who is behind them.

The arrest of Shabnamdeep Singh conclusively proves Pak-ISI nexus in promoting disorder and violence in Punjab. Sukhminder Singh Hansara, a known Khalistani activist had recently felicitated Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and Pak Army Chief Bajwa in an event in Canada. Imran Khan even invited Gopal Singh Chawla, a Khalistani Terrorist known for his anti-India utterances in the Kartarpur groundbreaking ceremony.

Recently, Imran Khan took an opportunity to ridicule India by claiming that India should learn from Pakistan how to treat its minority. While India has a stellar record in treating its minorities, Imran Khan would do well to realise how Pak’s cosying up with terror outfits has adversely affected minorities of both Pakistan and India.

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