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Modi Government Reminds Twitter of Indian Constitution and Laws
Taking very serious note of non-compliance of Twitter to government orders, the Government of India reminded Twitter of the Indian Constitution and the sanctity of the Indian laws Wednesday. In the wake of the hooliganism in the name of farmers protest on Republic Day, the government has asked Twitter to remove/block handles which were propagating false news with the hashtag of ‘farmer genocide’. In response, Twitter withheld some accounts but refused to comply fully saying “...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dials PM Modi for Vaccine
Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, dialled Prime Minister Narendra Modi late Wednesday night requesting for the vaccine to inoculate its population against Covid-19, Prime Minister’s Office informed in a press release.
Darshan Lal Jain: A Synonym for Selfless and Social Service
A man who served society selflessly all his life, veteran swayamsevak Darshan Lal Jain ji left for heavenly abode Monday. He was 93. From participating in Quit India Movement at the age of 15 to going to jail for opposing the Emergency in 1975, there was not one occasion when Darshan ji was not available to serve Ma Bharati. A shy person, he always refused to be recognised for his work.
Rescue Operations Still Underway in Uttarakhand, Debris Causing Problems
Massive debris causing problems in rescue operations, authorities working round the clock to ensure the supply of food and water in neighbouring villages. Thirty-two people have died and about 200 are still reported missing after the sudden rise in the water level in the Alaknanda river system in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand. The flash flood in the river system happened Sunday morning supposedly because of glacier burst. Massive rescue and relief operations are underway since then.
In Fighting Corona, Yogi Shows the Way
In what brought the smile on many faces, Uttar Pradesh recorded zero Corona related deaths Monday. Thirty-Seven districts in the state recorded no new cases of infection, informed Amit Mohan Prasad, Principal Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare, Uttar Pradesh. Total reported new cases in the state stood at 113. These cases were reported from the 38 of the 75 districts in the state. Uttar Pradesh, with a population of 20 crores, is the most populous state in the country.
Press Trust of India journalist accused of ‘sexual harassment’
Representational image | ThePrint Text Size: The woman had filed a complaint against Ammar Zaidi with the I&B Ministry in December last year. New Delhi: The board of the Press Council of India is set to take up an anonymous complaint of sexual harassment against a journalist working with the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency. According to the woman, journalist Ammar Zaidi used a very “sexist” term for a woman colleague after a press conference organised by a public sector company.
Chinese report says Indian notes printed in country, AAP and Congress slam Modi govt
Image of rupee notes | Bloomberg Text Size: Opposition says BJP-led government compromising national security, financial sovereignty; government denies report. New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress have accused the BJP-led government at the Centre of compromising the country’s security and financial sovereignty after a Chinese paper reported that a state-owned firm had bagged a contract to print Indian currency notes.
Amritsar blasts, RBI board meeting make front page
Front Page The story of the bloody attack Sunday on a religious meeting near Amritsar in Punjab is spread on the front pages of all the English newspapers. The Hindu reports, “At least four people were killed and 15 injured in a grenade attack on a religious congregation at village Adliwal near Amritsar on Sunday.” The Indian Express has put the police version and the CM Amarinder Singh’s statement in the very first paragraph of the report.
End of the era of Bansals as #MeToo strikes Binny
Front Page Flipkart chief executive officer and co-founder Binny Bansal resigned from the company after an internal investigation revealed allegations of “serious personal misconduct”, reports Reuters. According to the report, the allegation came to the knowledge of Flipkart’s parent company Walmart in July this year.
Arvind Kejriwal unlikely to contest 2019 Lok Sabha polls – ThePrint
Aam Aadmi Party, it is believed, doesn’t see much virtue in fielding Arvind Kejriwal this time, feels it will be better if he keeps his focus on Delhi. New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal will not contest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019, a strategy the Aam Aadmi Party had adopted in 2014 to project the Delhi Chief Minister as the main challenger to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nationally.
Congress caught napping as BJP & AAP pay tribute to former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri
BJP and AAP take out ads lauding Lal Bahadur Shastri, India’s second PM. BJP beats Congress to acknowledging Shastri even on social media. New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Tuesday took the lead in paying homage to former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, who shares his birth anniversary with Mahatma Gandhi, even as the Congress sought to re-assert its claims over Gandhi’s legacy at a party working committee meeting in Maharashtra’s Wardha.
Kejriwal’s new-found love: former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh
In the past three and half years since he has been Delhi CM, Kejriwal never wished Singh on his birthday. In 2012, he called Singh a ‘corrupt leader’. New Delhi: Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal has, of late, come to discover many virtues in Dr Manmohan Singh, the former prime minister whom he slammed for not ordering inquiries against “his corrupt ministers” in 2012.
Modi critic Ashish Khetan turns Modi fan one month after quitting AAP
Ex-colleagues of the former journalist are not pleased with the praise Ashish Khetan is sending Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s way. New Delhi: Having quit the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), journalist-turned-politician Ashish Khetan has suddenly developed admiration for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Once a staunch critic of Modi and the NDA government, he surprised many this weekend by heaping praise on the Modi government’s Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana scheme.
Hindustan Times gives major RSS conclave only two small paras on Pg 1
“India’s diversity should be celebrated and the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh does not seek to foist its ideology over anyone while its inner functioning is democratic and not dictatorial.” That’s how The Times of India paraphrased RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s opening speech at a three-day seminar on the ‘Future of Bharat’ Monday. Surprisingly, the RSS chief’s conclave was not splashed across the mainstream media.
AAP is so desperate in Punjab it's reaching out to disgraced leader it sacked in 2016
AAP leaders meet Sucha Singh Chhotepur, sacked as convener of Punjab unit two years ago, want him to help rebuild party. New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has reached out to its former Punjab convenor Sucha Singh Chhotepur almost two years after he was unceremoniously sacked from the post over allegations that he accepted a “bribe” and misappropriated funds collected in the party’ name.
Economic Times thinks Raghuram Rajan's note on bad loans is not a page 1 story
Raghuram Rajan’s NPA note was missing from Wednesday’s edition of India’s largest business daily. The Economic Times, one of the largest business newspapers in the world, carried no reports on the former RBI governor’s note to the parliamentary committee on bad loans wherein he traced the roots of the current NPA crisis to the UPA’s tenure. Considering this is one of the most hotly debated stories of the day — nay, the four years of the Modi government — should we wonder why?
Why out-of-power Indian politicians are writing more and more books
As Kapil Sibal joins the list of writer-politicians, leaders such as Shashi Tharoor and Pavan Varma explain what it entails in a country like India. New Delhi: At the launch of Shades of Truth last week, former union minister Kapil Sibal joined a long list of Indian politicians who have written books when out of power.
Yashwant Sinha, Shotgun on AAP wishlist for LS polls
Party opens channels for communication with the two leaders, offers to field them in the national capital. New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has opened channels of communication with rebel BJP leaders Shatrughan Sinha, the party MP from Patna Sahib, and former union minister Yashwant Sinha, offering to field them as candidates in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. A source in AAP told ThePrint the party is keen to use both the leaders to its advantage ahead of the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
IIT dropped my name from alumni award list under BJP pressure, claims AAP’s Somnath Bharti
But IIT Delhi rejects this allegation, saying awardees are selected following a two-stage screening process. New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party MLA Somnath Bharti tweeted Saturday, alleging that he was not selected for ‘distinguished alumni award’ by IIT Delhi owing to BJP pressure, a charge the institute has categorically denied. Bharti, who did hid MSc in mathematics from the institute (1995 batch), was the secretary of IIT Delhi Alumni Association for two terms — 2007-08 and 2011-12.
Media celebrates freedom to love as if it were its own victory
Pride, love, freedom and equality! With the Supreme Court scrapping the archaic, colonial law that criminalised homosexuality and all other sexual acts that did not lead to procreation, a new age dawned in India Thursday. In a unanimous verdict, a five-judge bench declared the 2013 Supreme Court judgment recriminalising homosexuality as “arbitrary, fallacious and retrograde”, reports The Times of India.
Discontent in AAP goes global, members of disbanded NRI units slam Delhi leadership
AAP’s NRI members accuse the Delhi leadership of adopting ‘use and throw policy’, say they will now directly work for betterment of Punjab. New Delhi: Members of the Aam Aadmi Party’s Overseas units, which were unilaterally disbanded by party convenor Arvind Kejriwal on 1 September, slammed the decision Wednesday and said it was taken after they decided to “directly work with” the party’s Punjab unit.
Ashutosh says AAP got him to use his caste name in 2014
Tweet by Ashutosh comes a day after it was reported that another leader, Atishi Marlena, was made to drop her surname because it sounds Christian. New Delhi: Former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Ashutosh Wednesday tweeted that the party had, before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, urged him to mention his surname to improve his electoral chances. Ashustosh’s revelation comes a day after Atishi Marlena was reported to have dropped the title ‘Marlena’ from her name as it sounded Christian.
AAP makes MP nominee Atishi drop Marlena from her name because it 'sounds Christian'
The party doesn’t want to give the BJP a handle to queer the pitch for it in East Delhi, from where Atishi, who is actually a Punjabi Rajput, will contest in 2019. New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) member Atishi Marlena, who was declared the party’s East Delhi Lok Sabha candidate Monday, has dropped ‘Marlena’ from her Twitter handle and publicity material to dodge rumours that she is a Christian, sources told ThePrint. @AtishiMarlena will now be @AtishiAAP on Twitter.
Is Kejriwal a true politician or unthinking dictator? The question that's splitting AAP
A flurry of exits, compromises with rivals & dissent in its ranks have left AAP stuttering, raising questions over its chief’s functioning. New Delhi, Chandigarh: Nearly six years after it was born with high promise, the Aam Aadmi Party appears to be floundering — the recent exits of prominent leaders Ashutosh and Ashish Khetan coming when the party is grappling with dissent in Delhi and in the only other state it has a significant political presence: Punjab.
After Ashutosh, Ashish Khetan said to be on his way out of AAP
Sources say it’s a ‘pressure tactic’ by Khetan to get a Lok Sabha ticket. He dismisses talk of quitting, says wants to focus on his legal practice. New Delhi: Just a week after senior party leader Ashutosh resigned from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), there’s buzz that another key member could be on his way out. Former journalist Ashish Khetan, who led the AAP’s watershed assembly election campaign in 2015, has reportedly withdrawn from party affairs.
Ashutosh’s resignation from AAP reflects poorly on Kejriwal’s ability as team leader
Party leader tells ThePrint his exit is a ‘warning bell’ for seniors, other say two-three people take all the decisions, most are clueless about party strategy. New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party leader Ashutosh resigned from the party Wednesday, citing “very very personal reasons”, but there is more than meets the eye. Ashutosh, who was a member of the Political Affairs Committee of the party — the AAP’s decision-making body — had not been attending programmes and meetings for a long time.
Ashutosh joins a long list of leaders who've left AAP
Differences with party boss Arvind Kejriwal, ‘irregularities’ in ticket distribution for Delhi polls among factors that led to past exits. New Delhi: Journalist-turned-politician Ashutosh is the latest among the list of leaders who have resigned from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over what is believed to be their differences with the top brass of the party.
Chinese report says Indian notes printed in country, AAP and Congress slam Modi govt
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress have accused the BJP-led government at the Centre of compromising the country’s security and financial sovereignty after a Chinese paper reported that a state-owned firm had bagged a contract to print Indian currency notes. “The prime minister should answer why this information was not disclosed? He should also answer why was there a need to go to a foreign country to get the currency printed?” AAP spokesperson Raghav Chadha said.
From Nehru’s stenographer to Indira’s man Friday, the life and times of R.K. Dhawan
The senior Congress leader who passed away Monday was known to be Indira Gandhi’s closest confidant during and after the Emergency. New Delhi: There was a time when R.K. Dhawan’s words carried the aura and authority of prime minister Indira Gandhi herself. The senior Congress leader, who passed away Monday at the age of 81, was her closest confidant and adviser, and finds regular mention in books about her era.
Jan Sangh founder S.P. Mookerjee was murdered, claim academicians at Nehru Memorial event
Mookerjee’s death has been the subject of debates and conspiracies for decades and Nehru is among those who have been controversially linked to it. New Delhi: Syama Prasad Mookerjee did not die a natural death but was murdered, a group of academicians have claimed, 65 years after the founder of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh – the forerunner of the BJP – died in Srinagar in what has long been said as mysterious circumstances.
What strike, we are all in office: Delhi’s IAS officers counter AAP govt’s ‘lies’
Contrary to claims of the Arvind Kejriwal government, ThePrint found most bureaucrats in their offices, working. New Delhi: Over the past four days, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi has been accusing its bureaucracy of being on a “strike”, and as a result, stalling all of the government’s development works. But when ThePrint did the rounds across the Capital, it found that most of Delhi’s bureaucrats were in their offices, discharging their duties.
Rahul Gandhi, before you sermonise on Vajpayee, look how you treated Narsimha Rao
The Congress has never bothered to credit Narasimha Rao for the massive liberalisation of the trade and investment policy in 1991. Yet another political storm was kicked up, between the Congress party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), when Rahul Gandhi accused the BJP of humiliating its senior leaders, including stalwarts such as Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L.K. Advani.
Why the fuss over Pranab? A previous RSS chief called Indira ‘India’s greatest politician’
In a 2005 Walk The Talk, then RSS chief K.S. Sudarshan praised Indira Gandhi, saying she had a good understanding of the people, their needs, and the country. New Delhi: That an old Congress warhorse is set to address an event hosted by a staunch ideological adversary of his party, the RSS, has struck many as odd. But the invitation to former President Pranab Mukherjee is not the first time the Sangh has shown respect for a Congress leader.
Arvind Kejriwal's wife is kicking up a twitter storm, but no one knows why
AAP leaders remain tight-lipped about the possibility of Sunita Kejriwal’s political debut, saying her sudden aggression against the NDA government on social media has left them perplexed as well. New Delhi: Long a quiet companion on the political journey of her husband, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, Sunita Kejriwal has kicked off buzz about her own plans with a sudden Twitter spree targeting rivals.
AAP yet to submit audit report to EC, donor list still unavailable
The ADR report comes two years after AAP removed the list of its donors from the party website. New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has not yet submitted its audited report of earnings and expenditures to the Election Commission of India for the fiscal year 2016-17, an Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) report released Tuesday said. The deadline to submit the audit report was 31 October 2017.
Yogendra Yadav’s Swaraj Abhiyan leaves AAP way behind in Karnataka
Abhiyan secures over three times the votes that AAP managed, despite contesting in 17 fewer seats New Delhi: In a major embarrassment for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the party polled way less than the Yogendra Yadav-led Swaraj Abhiyan, which got more than three times the votes that AAP managed despite contesting in 17 fewer seats.
For the first time in 46 yrs, Karnataka's bellwether seat Shirahatti may buck the trend
The unique trend started way back in 1972 when the Congress won the Shirahatti seat and went on to form the government led by Devraj Urs. New Delhi: The Karnataka assembly poll results, declared Tuesday, has thrown a surprise. For the first time in 46 years, the party that has won the Shirahatti assembly seat in Karnataka — considered a bellwether constituency — may not be able to form the government in the state.
What Indian voters buy with ‘bribes’ just before elections: Booze, good food & clothes
The IIM-Bengaluru and University of Kent study looked at consumption patterns of households in major states before & after elections and found a spike in the expenditure on some key items ahead of the vote. New Delhi: The money paid as “bribe” to Indian voters is used to drink more liquor, eat more meat and pulses, buy clothes, books and school uniforms, according to a study by researchers from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Bengaluru and the University of Kent in Britain.
In reiterating Joseph's name lies CJI Misra's path to salvation
The CJI will redeem his lost name and the judiciary’s prestige if he ensures the collegium meets at the earliest and sends back just one name — Joseph’s. Controversy refuses to part ways with Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra – whatever he does, or even doesn’t, attracts controversy. Forget the allegation against him of constituting benches to decide how politically sensitive and controversial cases case will be decided.
Modi govt wants NITI Aayog to play peacemaker in GM row
The idea is to bring supporters and opponents of GM technology into the same room and sort out differences. New Delhi: The Modi government has tasked NITI Aayog to play peacemaker in the GM controversy amid opposing viewpoints on the use of this technology to boost farm productivity, ThePrint has learnt. The idea is to bring supporters and opponents into the same room and sort their differences out, sources said.
Plugged-In: SC says no foul play in judge Loya's death, and the Army needs money
The Supreme Court has spoken: The news of the apex court rejecting petitions seeking an independent probe into the death of special CBI judge B.H. Loya eclipsed all other events Thursday. Every headline today was a variation of the Supreme Court’s statement that it had found no evidence of foul play in judge Loya’s death, and that the pleas were an attempt to malign the credibility of the judiciary (when Loya reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest, he was accompanied by four judges).
Modi's travels, a new defence panel & where ATM money went
Headlines today rotate around four pivots — military, money, Modi, and a splash of cricket. Military The Indian Express opens with a headline on a new integrated defence panel on strategy formed by the Centre Wednesday under the chairmanship of national security adviser Ajit Doval.
Govt pushes NITI Aayog for land leasing law but RSS affiliates poke holes in draft
The Modi government is pushing for a Land Leasing Act to make land tenancy easier before the upcoming elections. New Delhi: The Model Agricultural Land Leasing Act proposed by the NITI Aayog to simplify the leasing of farm land has come in for objections from affiliates of the RSS. The proposed law is part of the Modi government’s larger plan to ease rural distress and boost farm incomes and NITI Aayog is said to be under pressure to finalise the draft ahead of Lok Sabha elections due next year.
Plugged-In: A country of rape & murder, Mark Zuckerberg's apology, and a united South
Unnao rape and murder case: MLA’s brother arrested, SIT formed. Atul Singh Sengar, the brother of Bangermau MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, was arrested Monday in connection with the death during judicial custody of the father of a minor who has accused the brothers of gang-raping her last June — a murder charge will now be included in the case. The front page of The Hindu also informs us that a five-member special investigation team has been set up to probe the case.
Plugged-In: Kashmir's deadliest clashes in years, ISRO power failure, Dalit History Month
A 24×7 blur of headlines, breaking news and shouting matches, notifications and pop-ups — news, views and opinion have become an overwhelming flood that follows us all the time. Plugged-In from ThePrint is a new feature that sifts through the mountain of content and explains the big headlines and commentary from across media — briefly, intelligently. A one-stop quick-read put together by the best minds in the business for the news junkie on the go.
Anna Hazare’s second indefinite hunger strike begins, minus the fervour & frenzy of 2011
Categories: Politics Hazare cut a much lonelier figure on stage this time. Giving him company were ex-Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde, and ex-Haryana Lokayukta Pritam Pal Rajgopal Singh 23 March, 2018 8:55 pm Anna Hazare in New Delhi | PTI Hazare cut a much lonelier figure on stage this time. Giving him company were ex-Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde, and ex-Haryana Lokayukta Pritam Pal.
Dinesh Karthik, Kejriwal's apologies & the silence of the PMs
The best Indian cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint. The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online or on social media and are credited appropriately. The lead cartoon by Satish Acharya in Sify celebrates Dinesh Karthik’s thrilling innings against Bangladesh to win India the Nidahas Trophy in Sri Lanka Sunday. Karthik scored 29 of just eight balls to take India to victory.
The Kisan Long March, empty promises and problems with BJP's open door policy
The best Indian cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint. The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online or on social media and are credited appropriately. The dominant theme for cartoonists today was the Kisan Long March in Maharashtra. In the lead cartoon, Satish Acharya in Mail Today takes a dig at critics of the protest, and Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis’ statement that 95 per cent of the protesters were not farmers, but tribals.
Last Laughs - Best cartoons of the day
The best Indian cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint. The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online or on social media and are credited appropriately. The lead cartoon by Jayachandran in the Mint shows a vandalised statue refusing to let go of BJP president Amit Shah, casting a shadow on the party’s triumph in the northeast.
Disabled and disempowered in the Indian civil services – ThePrint
Even though the law reserves three per cent of vacancies in each civil service for disabled candidates, they are routinely denied posts. New Delhi: Shweta Bansal cleared the civil services exam in 2012 with a rank of 769. The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) recommended her for service, but she was denied a post by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), which told her that none of the eight services she opted for could accommodate a candidate like her.
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