Welcoming RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s remarks on construction of a Ram temple during his lifetime, the Shiv Sena on Saturday said he should announce a date for its commencement.
“We welcome the stand taken by Mohan Bhagwat on the issue. He should now announce a date for the commencement of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya to give an impetus to the issue…. If a temple cannot be built there despite the bloodshed that happened over the issue, what about the hundreds of people who sacrificed their lives for the cause,” the Sena said in an editorial in its mouthpiece ‘Saamana’
It said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has the “courage” to build a Ram Temple in Ayodhya and that his popularity will only increase once he takes the issue in his hands. “To show that it is not only the minorities who are pampered by the government, construction of a Ram temple is a necessity…. If it is not built now, it can never be built,” it said.
“This issue cannot be prolonged anymore. It needs to be finished now. The blood that has been shed over the issue should not be disrespected,” the Sena, which is an NDA constituent, said.
Bhagwat had on Wednesday said, “The grand goal may be realised in our own time. May be we can see it with our own eyes.” “None can say when and how the temple will be constructed, but we need to be prepared and ready,” he had said.
The Delhi government announced on Friday each private car and two-wheeler will be allowed on the city’s roads only every other day from next year in a bid to even the odds stacked against authorities in their efforts to clean up the Capital’s toxic air.
Private vehicles will be allowed to run on the streets on alternate days depending on whether their licence plates end in even or odd numbers, the government declared a day after it faced criticism from the Delhi high court over the city’s mounting pollution problem.
The method, more commonly known as road space rationing, is followed in various forms across the world, though experts said implementation could prove to be a major challenge as well over two million vehicles would have to be kept off the roads every day.
“We are talking about implementing this plan in a city where no one is ready to follow basic traffic rules,” said a senior government official on condition of anonymity.
The model is already in force in Beijing, which Delhi surpassed last year to be ranked as the world’s most polluted city in a WHO report.
The decision taken at a meeting headed by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal will not apply to CNG-driven buses, taxis, auto-rickshaws and emergency vehicles but will cover automobiles entering Delhi from other states.
Officials say even-numbered cars will be allowed to run on even days and odd-numbered ones on odd days.
A committee comprising members of the environment department, traffic police, transport department and the divisional commissioner will decide how the policy will be implemented.
Till then, traffic police may get interim powers to penalise errant drivers under the new rule.
The sweeping move, like the one adopted by Beijing in 2008 ahead of the Olympics, will apply to a large bulk of nearly nine million vehicles registered in Delhi, which adds about 1,500 new vehicles to its roads every day.
The city’s vehicular population, which causes choking jams on all weekdays, includes about 2.7 million cars.
The government also announced a slew of other measures that could help curb air pollution, including stopping roadside parking to battle congestion, a improving the public transportation system and bringing cleaner fuel to the city before the rest of the country.
The city also plans to shut down one of its oldest and least efficient thermal power plants. The Badarpur plant, commissioned in the early 1970s, uses outdated equipment and often breaks down.
Traffic police will also be told to ensure that diesel-guzzling trucks, which transit through the city at night, enter only after 11pm. Currently trucks are allowed to enter the city at 9pm, often resulting in massive traffic jams.
It was not immediately clear when the measures would take effect or exactly how long they would continue.
Earlier this year the city ordered all private cars older than 10 years to be taken off the roads, becoming the second major city in the world to do so after Beijing.
Last year, the World Health Organization named the Indian capital as the world’s most polluted, with 12 other Indian cities ranking among the worst 20.
In November and early December the city’s air quality slumped to hazardous levels, with levels of PM2.5 pollutants, the very fine particles that get lodged inside the lungs and cause the most damage, soaring to 12 times above WHO’s safety level of 25 micrograms per cubic meter.
The city has been blanketed in grey smog, and while there is no reliable data on respiratory diseases, most doctors in the capital report a sharp spike in pollution-related illness during the winter months.
Sunita Narain, director of The Center for Science and Environment, a Delhi-based research and advocacy group, said the government had responded “to a public health emergency.”
“I would like to thank the Delhi government,” she told reporters.
*Beijing started road space rationing in 2008 to curb pollution levels ahead of Olympics.
*Rationing was done for two months. Implementation was through automated traffic surveillance
network.
*Car owners were compensated by exemptions from paying vehicle taxes for three months.
A day after Union home Minister Rajnath Singh said that Dadri lynching had no communal or beef angle while citing a report submitted by Uttar Pradesh government, dna managed to access confessional statements of some of the accused of the case in which they clearly mention that cow slaughter was indeed the prime motive.
According to documents accessed by dna, two of the accused, Shivam and Vishal Rana, in their statement to investigators said that they “got emotional after some persons informed them that a Muslim had slaughtered a cow.”
“Some people informed us that (Mohamad) Akhlaq, a Muslim, had slaughtered a cow which is considered as mother in Hindu religion. Our feelings were provoked and after that we entered deceased Akhlaq’s home and injured Danish by beating him. We beat up deceased Akhlaq and dragged him towards the transformer and left him there,” the documents read quoting both Vishal and Shivam Rana.
On Tuesday, while responding in the Lok Sabha to the debate on intolerance, home minister Rajnath Singh said that as per the reports filed by the Uttar Pradesh government, the Dadri lynching case had no communal angle.
“The word beef was not even mentioned and even pre-meditation was difficult to establish,” said Rajnath. The confessional statement by the accused was recorded in a police remand report, dated October 14 and submitted to the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Surajpur court.
The confession was produced by UP police while requesting custody of Shivam and Vishal Rana. Vishal, who is being seen as the prime accused in the case, is the son of a local BJP leader Sanjay Rana. He is also accused of announcing, from a temple in Dadri’s Bisara village on the night of September 28 that Mohamad Akhlaq had slaughtered a calf and stored the beef at his home. Akhlaq was beaten to death while his younger son Danish was left grievously injured and is now recuperating in Delhi.
“I know the people who provoked us to take the step. I don’t know them by their name but I can recognise their faces and can identify them if police takes us to them” the document reads further. A senior police officer when asked why haven’t there been further arrests in the case said, “The accused had identified some people but we cannot arrest them arbitrarily. The accused have tendency to mislead the police but it is our job to refine the evidence gathering process”.
“If the deceased’s daughter identifies more people we will certainly take action according to the law,” the officer told dna.
The FIR had named eight other people, including a juvenile, all of whom were arrested by the police. Five other people were also mentioned in the FIR as unknown suspects. Sources in the police said that Shaista Saifi, daughter the deceased, recorded her statement in front of the Chief Judicial Magistrate and identified six more accused persons responsible for the killing of her father.
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dna contacted Yusuf Saifi, the lawyer for Mohamad Akhlaq’s family to know the status of the other accused persons. “I cannot delve into the details of the case as it is still in the court. However it is a known fact that the FIR mentions other persons accused of attacking my clients. I will not rest until justice is delivered. Every single person guilty of the crime will face the law.
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The confession was produced by UP police while requesting custody of Shivam and Vishal Rana. Vishal, who is being seen as the prime accused in the case, is the son of a local BJP leader Sanjay Rana. He is also accused of announcing, from a temple in Dadri’s Bisara village on the night of September 28 that Akhlaq had slaughtered a calf and stored the beef at his home. Akhlaq was beaten to death while his younger son Danish was left grievously injured and is now recuperating in Delhi.
(3 Dec) New Delhi, Dec 3: The Sunni radical organisation Islamic State (ISIS) has threatened to wage war against India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and several other countries in its e-book released on jihadist platform called Black Flags from the ISIS. The group for the first time has made a direct reference of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ongoing political scenario in India in the e-book. “The war will rage in every country, and this is why there is (sic) over one-and-a-half billion Muslims in the world”. “They will fight the New World Order in every land and every place. The peak of this war against the New World Order will be the battle against al-Dajjal (the Antichrist),” it states, reported The Indian Express. Making a reference to Dadri lynching, ISIS termed PM Modi a “right-wing Hindu nationalist who worships weapons and wants a movement to kill cow eaters. “A movement of Hindus is growing who kill Muslims who eat beef. The people who fund these organisations want to grow a huge following of Islam-haters who can turn into potential recruits for future wars in their countries.” According to the group, PM Modi is preparing his people for a future war against Muslims”. “They have a political wing for the propaganda to get more recruits, and armed militias who can start a terror campaign against their number 1 enemy-the Muslims,” the group said. Read More: ISIS may carry out ‘lone wolf’ attack, warns Kiren Rijiju The government had said earlier said that banned terror group ISIS may carry out terror strikes anywhere in the country using a single terrorist also known as ‘lone wolf’ to create a mayhem.
NEW DELHI: The Rajya Sabha was on Thursday adjourned for half an hour after the house witnessed an uproar over former Congress minister Kumari Selja’s remark that she was asked about her caste at a temple in Gujarat. The government and the opposition locked horns on Wednesday as the treasury benches sought to contradict Selja’s claim of having faced caste discrimination at the temple when she was a union minister. The Rajya Sabha was adjourned till 11.44 a.m. On Wednesday, Leader of the House Arun Jaitley referred to Selja’s comment made during the discussion on constitution that she was once enquired about her caste at a temple in Dwarka. Jaitley said that contrary to her claim, Selja’s comments in the visitors’ book of the temple were full of “complimentary words”.
CHENNAI: Normal life continue to be impacted in the flood-hit Chennai while there was temporary respite for the citizens as the rains stopped since Wednesday night. However, the dark the sky has threatened more downpours. The central government has declared the city as disaster zone. The water level on the roads and residential areas have not receded. The Adyar river that passes through the city is overflowing as surplus water from Chembarambakkam lake is let into the river. In several places the communication lines were down. The Southern Railways on Thursday cancelled a total of 20 trains out of Chennai Central Station and Chennai Egmore Station and seven trains from other stations.
Tirumala Venkateswara Temple, considered to be the country’s largest custodian of gold deposits, might come to the rescue of the Prime Minister’s ambitious Gold Monetisation Scheme launched earlier in November.
The scheme, launched along with the gold bond and the national gold coin initiatives, hasn’t met with much success and the state-owned trading major MMTC has initiated talks with the temple trust authorities to participate in the scheme, MMTC head Ved Prakash has said.
MMTC is also targeting the rich non-resident Indians (NRIs) to market the gold coins minted with the national emblem of Ashok Chakra engraved on it. Previous attempts to popularise gold coins within the country hasn’t been quite successful.
“We have just initiated the discussion with Tirupati (Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams). They may give around a tonne initially. Tirupati is the biggest gold custodian, having tonnes and tonnes of gold,” Prakash said on the sidelines of a conference by the Federation of Indian Mineral Industries.
The Tirupati temple is believed to be holding about 200 tonnes of gold in its vaults, with the temple authorities believed to be receiving 10 kg of gold every week.
“They have been giving us small quantities for melting to convert it into Tirupati medallion to be given to the devotees. Some gold is also being melted into bricks. Now, we believe the temple trust would give huge quantities under the scheme,” he said.
The temple’s huge resource remains largely untapped and the government is now worried over the lukewarm response to the gold scheme, with the finance ministry likely to hold a review meeting with banks and RBI representatives on Tuesday to assess the scheme.
For the national gold coin scheme, MMTC is planning to launch the scheme globally, particularly among the rich NRI community spread over the UK, the US, Singapore, UAE and Africa.
“We believe that for the national coin, which the country never had before, there would be a huge demand from the NRI community. So far, we have produced about 50,000 coins. We plan to produce 2,000 coins a day. The demand is going to be much more, once it is launched globally,” he said.
Within the country, it is in talks with three banks — ICICI Bank, SBI and Indian Overseas Bank, apart from the postal department – to market the scheme.
“Maybe within 10 days, we would tie up with one of the banks for 100-150 centres across the country. Then we would launch the scheme after creating the marketing infrastructure all over India. That’s why we are yet to launch it in a big way although the Prime Minister officially launched it on November 5. Now we are selling the coins through our own distribution centres. We are ready to supply the projected demand of about 1 lakh coins a month once we rope in the Hyderabad Mint. Initially, the coins are getting minted in the Mumbai with the one in Kolkata just starting production,” he said.
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GADCHIROLI, MAHARASHTRA: An 11-year-old girl was today found dead in a well at the school hostel premises in Armori town near here, police said.
The minor girl identified as Trunali Mahendra Chaudhari was a student of Class V at Mahatma Gandhi Vidyalaya in Armori and resided in Indira Gandhi Girls’ Hostel of the school.
Her parents rushed to the hostel after its warden today informed Trunali’s relatives that she could not be found at the hostel and school, Armori Police Station In-charge Subhash Dhawle said.
“They searched the area, but could not trace Trunali. Finally some locals, who accompanied her parents, looked into the well on the hostel premises and found the body, which was then taken out,” Sanjay Wakde, a social worker from Armori said.
Accusing the hostel warden and the school management of negligence, the victim’s parents have refused to take custody of the body until action is taken against the guilty.
A large crowd gathered outside the Armori police station seeking action against those responsible for the girl’s death.
The process of registering an offence in this connection was on, the Station In-charge said, adding that investigation was underway.
United Nations: Over three million children under the age of five in Nepal are at the risk of death or disease this winter due to a severe shortage of fuel, food, medicines and vaccines, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said. Over the past 10 weeks, vital imports of essential commodities were restricted at Nepal’s southern border due to unrest over the country’s new constitution, Xinhua reported. The government’s regional medical stores have already run out of vaccines against tuberculosis, while stocks of other vaccines and antibiotics are critically low, Monday’s report said. UNICEF cautioned that children still recovering from earthquakes in April and May could be the worst hit. Earlier this month, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his growing concern over the blocking of essential supplies on the Nepal-India border, and called on all sides to lift these restrictions without further delay. Over 200,000 families affected by the tremors are still living in By news24online, 01 Dec 2015 12:36 PM
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