Unidentified miscreants on Sunday attacked Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Pooran Prakash from Mathura.
Prakash got injured while he was inside the car, when the stones were pelted at his vehicle in Mathura’s Jamunapur area.
Investigation is under way, said Mathura SSP Babloo Kumar.
Further details are awaited.
A priest, of Kerala has been arrested for making a death threat to President Ram Nath Kovind.
The accused Jayaraman a priest of Chirakkal Bhagavathi temple in Thrissur called the police control room and said that he would bomb the St Thomas College where President Kovind is scheduled to attend a programme on Monday.
According to the reports, the police immediately traced the call details and arrested priest Jayaraman. The police said that Jayaraman did it under the influence of alcohol and forgot everything when he woke up the next morning.
President Kovind had arrived in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday on a three-day visit to State. He will instate the ‘Festival of Democracy’ on Monday, to mark the conclusion of the diamond jubilee celebrations of the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
The capacity of the 160 square feet individual bunker is eight people and the capacity of 800 square feet community bunker is 40 people.
The center has taken the initiative for border residents facing Pakistan shelling and also to ensure that their daily life and education is not disrupted. Construction of 102 bunkers has already been completed, providing major relief to the locals especially at the time of ceasefire violation by Pakistan.
“Some bunkers have already been constructed and many more will be completed soon here in Rajouri. The project by the Government will be wrapped up soon. Schooling facility will be provided in the bunkers, so that students’ time isn’t wasted and their schooling is completed on time,” Mohammad Aijaz Asad, Rajouri District Development Commission said.
Local resident Shubam Choudhary said, “It is a very good initiative taken up by the government. Whenever there is a firing, people take shelter in the bunkers. The government is increasing the number by providing one bunker each to every house here.”
Another local resident Yash Pal said, “Bunkers are helping us a lot during sudden firings. We have added light bulbs and fans inside for our comfort. I appreciate the decision of the government.”
In January 2018, the centre sanctioned Rs 415.73 crore for the construction of more than 14,460 bunkers in Kathua, Jammu, Samba, Rajouri and Poonch districts.
A fire broke out at South Kolkata’s Priya Cinema, one of the oldest and popular movie theatres, on Sunday night.
The fire triggered panic outside the upmarket south Kolkata as smoke started billowing out of the building while audience inside the theatre were watching a film.
The audience rushed out after the smoke filled the auditorium.
Five fire tenders were rushed to the spot to rescue the trapped audience and the family that owns the theatre and resides on the top floor of the same five- storey building.
No casualty was reported, the sources suspected that the cause of fire to be a short circuit.
A militant was arrested by police on Sunday night in Gandhi Nagar area of Jammu and recovered eight grenades from him.
As per the reports, police acting on intelligence inputs intercepted a bus in Gandhi Nagar area late Sunday night and arrested a youth who was carrying eight hand grenades.
According to an officer, the militant arrested was identified as Arfan Wani, an occupant of Awantipora in Pulwama district of south Kashmir. Police had recovered eight live hand grenades and Rs 60,000 in cash from his possession.
Security agencies and police are alert in the wake of intelligence inputs that the Kashmiri militants plot to carry out terror strikes in Jammu and New Delhi on the occasion of Independence Day on August 15.
A high alert has been sounded in Jammu after the arrest. The police said the arrested militant was being put through continued interrogation to get details about the plans and his contacts in Jammu and its outskirts.
Complete shutdown called by separatists against the legal challenge in the Supreme Court on the validity of Article 35-A brought life in Kashmir to a standstill on Sunday.
According to Article 35-A people from outside Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) are barred from acquiring any immovable property in the state.
Markets, business establishments, transport services were closed across the Valley as the shutdown is supported by large number of trader and business bodies.
The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) consists of separatist leaders has called for a two-day strike (Sunday and Monday)—as Supreme Court on Monday will hear a PIL challenging the validity of the Article 35-A.
The J&K government has filed an application in the Supreme Court, informing that it is going to seek adjournment of the hearing of the petition in view of the “ongoing preparations for the upcoming Panchayat and urban local body and municipal elections in the state”.
Security forces have been deployed in strength in the region to maintain law and order.
Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Sunday said that reservation will not guarantee employment as jobs are reducing in the country.
Nitin Gadkari made the remarks in an interaction with the reporters over the ongoing agitation by the Marathas and other groups for reservation in Maharashtra and in other parts of the country.
“Let’s us assume the reservation is given. But there are no jobs. Because in banks, the jobs have shrunk because of IT. The government recruitment is frozen. Where are the jobs?” he asked.
“The problem with the quota is that backwardness is becoming a political interest. Everyone says I am backward. In Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, Brahmins are strong. They dominate politics. (And) They say they are backward,” the senior BJP leader said.
“So one school of thought is that a poor person is a poor person, he has no caste, creed or language. Whatever may be the religion — the Muslim, the Hindu or the Maratha (a caste), in all communities there is one section which has no clothes to wear, no food to eat.
“One school of thought also is (that) we must also consider the poorest of the poor section in every community,” he said.
This is a “socio-economic thinking” and it must not be politicised, the Union Minister said.
Nitin Gadkari urged people to maintain peace and said that the responsible political parties must not add fuel to the fire.
Later in a tweet Gadkari clarified that the central government is not going to change the reservation criteria. “My attention has been drawn to certain media reports attributed to me. There is absolutely no thinking at the central government to change the reservation criteria from castes to economic conditions,” he tweeted.
India has become the third Asian country after South Korea and Japan to get the Strategic Trade Authorization-1 (STA-1) status by the United States (US).
In a federal notification issued by US, India became the 37th country in the world to be designated the STA-1 status.
“This action befits India’s status as a Major Defence Partner and recognises” the country’s membership in three of the four export control regimes — the MTCR, WA and AG, the federal notification said.
After the latest notification from US, India is now part of three of the four multilateral export control regimes — the MTCR; the Wassenaar Arrangement, and the Australia Group.
India was earlier listed in STA-2 category along with Albania, Hong Kong, Israel, Malta, Singapore, South Africa and Taiwan.
In a well fought semifinal, PV Sindhu beat Japan’s former world number one Yamaguchi by 21-16, 24-22 to reach the finals of the World Badminton Championship.
“We know each other’s game, we play very often, we played at the All England Championship. So we needed to be patient and consistent to win. I was prepared for long matches because both Yamaguchi and Okuhara are very good players and can go on and on in the rallies,” Sindhu said.
“It was a good match overall. I hope this time it would be a better result than the last time. I have to prepare well for tomorrow, so it’s not yet over,” Sindhu said after the match.
Sindhu will meet her Rio Olympic opponent Carolina Marin of Spain in the title match tomorrow.
A good news for the tree savers. Forest officers have sent a notice to NBCC asking them to be present on August 6, 2018, and give their views on the cutting of trees at areas of Netaji Nagar and Thyagraaj Nagar.
A team of forest officers had visited the site along with the patrolling team of Citizens4trees and acknowledged the violation of High Court and NGT stay order. Forest officers had found the trees to be chocked under the debris and also blocked with construction material.
Talking about the move, Prerna Prasad, green activist and initiator of Citizens4trees initiative said, ” I am happy that Citizens4trees created a positive impact. NBCC is finally removing debris from all its trees after notice was issued to them by Forest Department against violation of High Court and NGT order. But this is just the beginning. We have to force the government t to take back the order of cutting not even a single tree. ”
It is praiseworthy to mention that Citizens4trees began tree patrolling team, a first of its kind in the Capital, to keep vigilance on the developers who would come at night to cut down the trees. The team would patrol from 12 am to 4 am on the routine basis.
Copy of the notice is enclosed.
