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Rahul Gandhi to visit poll-bound Mizoram and Telangana

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New Delhi : Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi will be touring the states of Mizoram and Telangana for almost five days ahead of the crucial assembly elections.

A party source said that Rahul Gandhi will be travelling to Mizoram on October 15 and 16.

The source said that Gandhi will be attending the meeting of the party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) on October 17 and then leave for Telangana in the evening.

Rahul Gandhi will be participating in the bus yatra programme of the Congress in Telanaga for next three days on October 18, 19 and 20.

The source said that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is also likely to participate in the bus yatra on October 18.

The source further said that party chief Mallikarjun Kharge will be addressing a public meeting in Rajasthan on October 16.

He will also kick off a yatra in Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (ECRP) areas from Kota’s Baran.

The source said that yatra will be hybrid, at some place it will be pad yatra at some places it will be on vehicle.

The polling for 118-member Telangana assembly is scheduled on November 30, while 40-member Mizoram and 200-member Rajasthan assemblies will vote on November 7 and November 25 respectively. Counting of votes will take place on December 3.

Amit Shah to visit Kolkata on Monday to inaugurate Durga Puja

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Kolkata : Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Kolkata on October 16 to inaugurate Durga Puja in central Kolkata.

He will inaugurate the Puja of Santosh Mitra Square at Lebutala Park in central Kolkata, whose principal organiser is BJP councilor in Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Sajal Ghosh.

The theme of this particular community Puja this year is Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. “The Prime Minister Narandra Modi will be inaugurating the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya in January next year. But before that Home Minister will be inaugurating another Ram Mandir in Kolkata, ” Ghosh told media persons.

Ghosh also confirmed that the only programme that Shah will have in Kolkata on Monday will be to inaugurate the Puja. “As per the schedule fixed so far, he will be in the city for a couple of hours. He will come to the city, inaugurate the Puja and go back to New Delhi, ” Ghosh said.

Santosh Mitra Square, this year too, has maintained its tradition of not accepting the donation and other financial benefits offered by the state government to the community Durga Puja committees every year.

“We had not been accepting donations for the last two years. Pujas have been organised with lots of pomp and grandeur even before. So it will happen this year as well. But we do not want to be party to waste money of the state exchequer and that too at a time when the state government is unable to meet essential expenditure for development or go for recruitment for the vacant posts, ” Ghosh said.

Gujarat HC issues notice to university over PM Modi’s degree controversy, next hearing on Nov 3

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Ahmedabad : The Gujarat High Court on Thursday served a notice to Gujarat University (GU), addressing its Registrar, Piyush Patel.

The development followed the petitions filed by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh. The dispute pertains to defamation complaint regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s academic credentials.

Kejriwal and Singh, entangled in this defamation case in Ahmedabad, received their first summons for a court appearance on April 15, with a subsequent summons on May 23. They approached the High Court on September 16, aiming to nullify the April summons.

The AAP leaders are contesting the summons previously issued to them by an Ahmedabad magistrate court following a criminal defamation complaint from GU. They are also pressing for the reversal of an Ahmedabad sessions court decision that supported the original summons from the magistrate court.

However, the trial in the magistrate court concerning the criminal defamation is set to commence on October 14. Justice J.C Doshi denied the petitioner’s requests for a trial delay or postponement while their appeal is under the high court’s consideration.

The court scheduled the next hearing for November 3, by which the notice should be responded to.

‘Fix accountability of Railways & Centre’, says Kharge on Bihar train accident

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New Delhi : Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday condoled the deaths of passengers in the Anand Vihar-Kamakhya Northeast Express accident in Bihar’s Buxar and demanded to fix accountability of Railways and the Centre.

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi also condoled the deaths of passengers in the accident and wished for speedy recovery of the injured.

In a post on X, Kharge said, “The news of Northeast Express going from New Delhi to Assam being derailed in Buxar, Bihar is very painful.”

He said that many people have lost their lives and more than 100 people have been injured in this horrific accident.

“We express our deepest condolences to the families of the deceased and pray for the speedy recovery of the injured. Congress workers are requested to provide all possible help to the victims, ” Kharge said.

“This is the second major derailment accident after the Balasore train accident of June 2023. Accountability of the Railway Ministry and the Central Government should be fixed, ” he said, highlighting the June 2 triple train accident in Odisha’s Balasore in which over 293 people died and over 800 were injured.

Meanwhile, in a post on Facebook in Hindi, Rahul Gandhi said, “News of several people dead in the accident of the Delhi-Kamakhya Northeast Express is saddening. My condolences to the bereaved family members and pray for the speedy recovery of the injured.

“I urge the Congress workers to help the administration in the rescue and relief operations, ” he added.

Kashmiri woman and family trapped in Gaza appeals for help

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A Kashmiri academic, Lubna Nazir Shaboo, along with her family, is currently stuck in Gaza amid the ongoing conflict and has made an urgent plea to the Indian government for rescue. Lubna, a resident of Srinagar, explained that the bombardment has made movement impossible, and the Gaza Strip is completely surrounded, leaving no safe exit.

“We are not able to go anywhere because there is no safe place for us anywhere and the Gaza Strip is too small and it is closed from every side. There are no exit points over here,” she said in a social media video. 

The situation in Gaza is dire, with over 1,100 people, including 326 children, reported killed in Israel’s retaliatory airstrikes, and thousands more injured. Lubna and her family find themselves in a perilous situation, and their internet access is unreliable, making communication challenging.

Compounding the crisis, Gaza’s only power station has been shut down due to a lack of fuel, potentially affecting hospital operations. Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical facility, has a limited supply of fuel for its backup generators.

Efforts to supply humanitarian relief to Gaza are facing significant challenges, as Egyptian security sources oppose establishing secure passages for refugees seeking to leave the enclave. In response, the Indian government has launched Operation Ajay to facilitate the return of Indians from Israel who wish to come back home.

Drug smuggler arrested in Punjab, Rs 4.94 Cr seized

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Chandigarh : In a big blow to inter-state narcotic network, the Jammu and Kashmir Police and Punjab Police in a joint operation have apprehended one drug smuggler from Mullanpur Dakha in Punjab and seized Rs 4.94 crore along with 38 fake vehicle number plates and one revolver, Punjab Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav said here on Wednesday.

He is one of the key accused in 30 kg heroin recently recovered in Jammu.

Investigations were on-going to establish the backward and forward linkages, Yadav added.

Punjab Police have arrested 20, 979 drug smugglers, including 3, 003 big fish, since July 5, 2022. The police have registered 15, 434 FIRs of which 1, 864 are related to commercial quantity, Inspector General of Police Sukhchain Singh Gill told the media here on Tuesday.

He said the police have recovered 15.10.55 kg heroin from across the state after carrying out cordon and search operations in drug-affected areas, besides laying checkpoints at vulnerable routes.

Additionally, 147.5 kg heroin was recovered by Punjab Police from seaports of Gujarat and Maharashtra, taking the total effective recovery of heroin to 1, 658.05 kg in just 15 months, Gill added.

Salaries of Ram temple priests hiked

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Lucknow :  The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Tirath Kshetra Trust has further hiked the salaries of priests performing daily rituals at the Ram temple in Ayodhya.

This information was given by Acharya Satyendra Das, head priest of the temple.

Now, Das will get Rs 32,900 monthly salary while his four assistants will get Rs 31000 each.

Along with Das, five priests perform daily rituals at the makeshift temple in Ram Janmabhoomi.

The Trust has been constituted to look after construction and management of Shri Ram Janambhoomi Mandir in Ayodhya.

AAP workers protest against Sanjay Singh’s arrest by ED

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New Delhi : Following the arrest of AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, the party workers and leaders on Tuesday held a protest in the national Capital.

The AAP also claimed that while they were on the way to gherao BJP headquarters, the Delhi Police thrashed party workers and detained hundreds of them.

Scores of AAP party workers and leaders also raised slogans “Sanjay Singh sher hai” and “Modi jab-jab darta hai, ED ko aage karta hai.”

AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sandeep Pathak said during the protest that the BJP had got Sanjay Singh arrested in a bogus case because they know that now it is difficult for the saffron party to stop the AAP.

“The BJP is misusing institutions like the ED and the CBI for its electoral gains. The BJP is conspiring to destroy the Constitution and democracy. I want to tell the BJP government that no matter how many fake cases they file against AAP leaders, no matter how many AAP leaders they put in jail, it will not scare us. Now, it is impossible for them to stop the AAP.

“For us, national interest comes first and our fight is to save the Constitution of the country. We will fight against the BJP dictatorship and end it once and for all, ” said Pathak.

During the protest, AAP MLA Kuldeep Kumar said that for the last 15 months, the ED and CBI had been investigating a bogus case at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but they could not find anything.

“The Supreme Court also said that if this case goes to the court on basis of the allegations levelled by the ED, it will not last a minute. Even after this, they continue to arrest our leaders.

“MP Sanjay Singh is the loudest voice of the poor. He does not hesitate to speak against the Modi government. That’s why the Modi government has got him arrested through ED, ” said Kumar.

“The police have beaten our workers brutally even though they were protesting peacefully. Many people received head injuries. They even thrashed the women. This brutality of the police shows that Modi has destroyed the Constitution and democracy, ” he said.

ED searches locations linked to Delhi AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan

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New Delhi : The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday carried out searches at several locations linked to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Amanatullah Khan in the national capital.

An ED source confirmed that the agency sleuths were carrying out the searches in the premises linked to Khan.

The source said that the agency’s actions were in connection with the Waqf Board case. However, officials remained tight-lipped on the case.

The ED action comes in the wake of the CBI and Delhi government’s ACB registering the case in the Waqf board.

The ACB had arrested Khan, an AAP MLA from the Okhla Assembly constituency in South Delhi in September last year.

The action comes days after the ED arrested party Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh last Wednesday in connection with the alleged liquor scam case.

Two LeT terrorists killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian

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Security forces killed two terrorists belonging to the proscribed terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in the Alshipora area of Shopian in South Kashmir. Acting on credible intelligence, the security forces launched a targeted operation, leading to the encounter with the terrorists.

The encounter resulted in killing of two LeT militants, identified as Morifat Maqbool and Jazim Farooq, also known as Abrar. One of them believed to have killed a Kashmir Pandit, Sanjay Sharma. 

Sharma was killed in a militant shootout at his home in Achan (Pulwama) in February. This led the family to migrate for the first time since 1989. The State Investigating Agency  is probing the murder case.

The encounter took place after intelligence inputs pointed towards the presence of terrorists in the Alshipora area. The security forces, including local police and army units, cordoned off the area and initiated the operation, leading to a fierce gun battle with the militants.

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