RSS Leader Mohan Bhagwat announced that he would release a book on Mahatma Gandhi as the “biggest Hindu patriot” On 1 January, Modi Government Ministers Prahlad Patel and V. Muraleedharan will participate in the release ceremony of the book ‘Making of a Hindu Patriot’ by authors J.K. Bajaj and M.D. Srinivas, at Rajghat here. In February of this year, Bhagwat also published a book calling for the creation of Gandhi’s dream of India. Bhagwat had said, “Gandhiji had always described himself as a staunch ‘Sanatani Hindu.’ He was never embarrassed to be a Hindu himself. J.K.Bajaj is the managing director…
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The farmers from Punjab have been protesting against the Farm Bill in Delhi. Today, they resorted to violence as PM Modi speech was addressed to nine crore farmers. After vandalising many Reliance Jio towers in Punjab and almost crushing policemen under their tractors in Uttrakhand, reports have now emerged that at least four locations in Punjab, where PM Narendra Modi’s contact with farmers was being screened, were ransacked by ‘farmers’. Punjab’s Bathinda, Kotkapura, Fazilka and Jalandhar, where BJP leaders arranged a live screening of the event, faced acts of vandalism and disturbance by protesting ‘farmers.’ Interestingly, the demonstration was led…
Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, got the first dose of Coronavirus vaccine. Also, more than 5,000,000 people have already enrolled to take COVID-19 vaccine in Saudi Arabia since it was introduced last Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Health. Several Muslim groups plan to boycott vaccines expressing their concerns as to whether the vaccine will be made from ‘Halal’ ingredients. The highest Muslim body in Indonesia is set to grant a halal certificate for the experimental Coronavirus vaccine produced by China-based Sinovac Biotech. The Indonesian Ulema Council Halal Product Guarantee Agency and the Institute for the Assessment of…
The Shivraj Singh Chouhan Cabinet approved the ‘Love jihad’ legislation or the MP Freedom of Religion Bill 2020. The new legislation calls for 2-10 years’ imprisonment for the involuntary marriage of a minor or a woman from a lower caste. Madhya Pradesh Home Secretary Narottam Mishra said, “Under the new MP Freedom of Religion Bill 2020, forced conversion of a minor, woman or person from Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe, a minimum prison term of 2-10 years with a minimum penalty of Rs 50,000 would be imposed.” “Under the new bill, forcing a religious conversion will attract 1-5 years of…
PM Modi slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s statement of “no democracy” in India, and that those who stood up against the Prime Minister were branded “terrorists” even though they were (RSS Chief) Mohan Bhagwat.” Some political groups are still dreaming about democracy, but they see their duplicity and their bleakness. The group that governs in Puducherry did not hold local elections despite the Supreme Court’s directives, while Jammu and Kashmir conducted Panchayat-level polls within one year of being a union territory,” said PM Modi, after unveiling the Ayushman Bharat scheme for health insurance coverage for all union citizens. He said…
A week after his high-decibel visit to West Bengal, Union Home Secretary Amit Shah arrived today in the vicinity of Assam, which is also going to the polls in a few months’ time. His two-day visit to the north-east area started with much fanfare as he landed around midnight (December 25-26) at Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, Guwahati, where scores of folk artists and hundreds of supporters had created a festival-like atmosphere for him. https://twitter.com/AmitShah/status/1342545512570839041?s=20 Amit Shah’s projects in Guwahati include the distribution of financial grants to 8,000 Namghars (the ancient Vaishnavite monasteries of Assam) under the Assam Darshan programme.…
The police, along with the Army and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), broke down a terror network in Jammu and Kashmir’s Awantipora, ANI news agency said. Jaish-e-banned Mohammad’s outfit network was involved in grenade lobbying incidents in the areas of Tral and Sangam, ANI quoted police officials as saying. The six arrested terror operatives have been in contact with Pakistani handlers and have targeted security forces by lobbing grenades upon security forces in recent past, the police further said, according to ANI. The police have recovered incriminating material, including explosive substance, from the possession of the arrested operatives. A case…
Police sources said Pakistan attacked the Bandi Post of the Indian Army on Friday at LoC in Poonch district. Two army porters identified as Altaf Hussain and Mohammad Sulaiman were wounded in Pakistani shootings. “The injured porters have been shifted to hospital for treatment”, sources said. Pakistan has with impunity been violating the bilateral ceasefire agreement signed by the two countries in 1999. Since January 2020, in more than 3200 ceasefire violations by Pakistan, 30 civilians have been killed and 102 injured.
The first Centre for Studies in the country, the Atal Study Centre, named after Bharat Ratna and late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, will be built at the prestigious Banaras Hindu University of Uttar Pradesh (BHU). This study centre run by the Faculty of Social Sciences will have extensive study and research programmes related to the lives of the country’s leading political figures. Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Kaushal Kishore Mishra, told IANS, “The Atal Study Centre is being established in the BHU named after former Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee. More than one…
The findings provide new information on the potential impact of even minimal alcohol consumption on high-risk human activities, such as driving, piloting or working heavy machinery, that rely on keen visual and visuomotor control. Eye movements and vision in previous studies were only impaired by blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) approaching the legal driving limit. For the first time, a study by the research team based at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California found the hand-eye co-eyes “Our findings provide a cautionary tale that the subjective experience of drunkenness is often not aligned with objective impairment of sensorimotor coordination. In other…