some tough days ahead for the aam aadmi in KER
Kerala: India Meteorological Department (IMD) issues Extremely Heavy (EH) rainfall alert for Idukki district for today.
3:04 PM · Jul 29, 2020
Kerala: India Meteorological Department (IMD) issues Extremely Heavy (EH) rainfall alert for Idukki district for today.
3:04 PM · Jul 29, 2020
Sabyasachi Roy Choudhury
July 30, 2020
‘Arabic is not an Indian language and is not even in the Schedule of Indian languages in the Constitution.’
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has expressed shock towards the decision of the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) in Kerala to appoint Arabic language teachers in schools. Condemning this, Alok Kumar, advocate, central working chairman of VHP, said that Arabic is not an Indian language and is not even in the schedule of Indian languages in the Constitution of India.
Arabic is widely studied for reading, understanding and memorising the holy Quran and hence, teaching it in schools run by Hindu devotees with funds dedicated to temples is an unreasonable expense.
TDB, which was constituted under the TravancoreCochin Hindu Religious Institutions Act, has three members. Two of whom are elected by the Hindu members of Kerala Council of Ministers and the third is elected by the Hindu members of the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
Therefore, it is clear that all three members are nominated from the ruling party of the state.
The VHP central working chairman also said that such a step was another attack on Hindus by members nominated by the Left Front government. He added that the money devoted by the Hindus to their deities being used in teaching the Arabic language is not acceptable. Reproving the decision, he called on the board to withdraw this action and has asked the people of Kerala to resolutely oppose it.
Alok Kumar also mentioned that the Sanskrit language is an invaluable treasure of Indian spiritual heritage in the tradition of millennia and its teaching should be made compulsory in the schools run by TDB.
The TNA will not be allowed to achieve through the election what the LTTE and its leader Prabakaran failed to achieve with the gun, he said.
Radical Islamist organisations in Kashmir and Kerala are receiving funding from Turkish outfits which are backed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Hindustan Times has reported.
The report claims that officials in New Delhi have noted that Turkey has emerged as the largest hub of anti-India activities after Pakistan has also also been involved in efforts to radicalise Indian Muslims recruit Islamic fundamentalists.
The Turkish government which had funded Kashmiri separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani for years has ramped up its efforts in recent years which includes funding religious seminaries and flying out new radicals to Turkey to enforce the teachings.
"We are also aware of some people from this group travelling to Qatar to meet some people from Turkey to seek funding for their activities...that amounts as high as Rs 40 lakh are being offered to preach radical Islam in Kerala", an official has been quoted as saying.
"We are warning PETA India it won't be an online protest this time. We Devotees will go to any extent for our Lakshmi to be in our Temple," Indu Makkal Katachi warned.
2 August, 2020
OpIndia Staff
On Saturday, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) reportedly filed a petition in the Madras High Court in a bid to take away Lakshmi the Elephant from her home at Manakula Vinayagar Temple in Puducherry. The development comes two weeks after the elephant was returned back to the temple, following the intervention by Chief Minister of Puducherry, V. Narayanasami.
A Twitter user named Murali informed that Puducherry Forest Department is trying to enforce the Tamil Nadu Captive Elephants (Management and Maintenance) Rules 2011 to seek custody of Lakshmi the Elephant. In a video shared on Twitter, he informed that the temple elephant was happy and slept peacefully in the temple, following her return to her home in the temple after 40 days.So #AntiHinduPeta which took NO action to stop the cruel halaal slaughter during #Eid has again filed a petition in Madras High Court to take elephant Lakshmi away from the Hindu temple in #Puducherry. This is the true face of @PetaIndia #PetaIndiaExposed pic.twitter.com/vuUIDyX3iN
— Shefali Vaidya. (@ShefVaidya) August 2, 2020
Indu Makkal Katachi informed that a case has been filed by PETA to take the Lakshmi the Elephant away from the Hindus. “We are warning PETA India it won’t be an online protest this time. We Devotees will go to any extent for our Lakshmi to be in our Temple,” the organisation said in a tweet.@PrakashJavdekar This is where Lakshmi lives. Your forest department controlled by @Manekagandhibjp says the Elephant should be sent to a sanctuary, for her to shame India & beg dollars from westerners! Do you concur? @PMOIndia @VNarayanasami @americai @SanjaySDutt @RahulGandhi pic.twitter.com/Xj8FH0n47a
— Muraliத் தேவரின் குரல்! (@rawincare1) August 2, 2020
PETA patronises on ‘animal cruelty’PETA has filed a case again on Puducherry Lakshmi to take her away 4 FCRA $£
We are warning @PetaIndia it won’t be an online protest this time.
We Devotees will go to any extent for our Lakshmi to be in our Temple
RT if you are a Hindu and agree. #leaveourhindulakshmialone pic.twitter.com/icGi2KNUU3
— Indu Makkal Katchi ( Official ) (@Indumakalktchi) August 1, 2020
On Sunday morning, PETA had tweeted not to torture or chain animals for recreational activities. The ‘animal rights’ organisation uploaded a picture of an elephant, accompanied by an overlay text that read, “Not Ours to Abuse.” In its tweet, PETA wrote, “Elephants are social animals who love to be with their families in the wild. Not on concrete floors, confined and chained to be tortured for rides and circuses.” Despite its overemphasis on animal cruelty, PETA India has spuriously talked about encouraging ‘kindness in animals’ amongst Muslims by sharing guidelines on how to slaughter them ‘kindly’.
PETA conspired to take Lakshmi away but failedElephants are social animals who love to be with their families in the wild.
Not on concrete floors, confined and chained to be tortured for rides and circuses. pic.twitter.com/wKNJjwuG3h
— PETA India (@PetaIndia) August 2, 2020
Lakshmi the Elephant was taken away from her home after PETA and the Animal Welfare Board intervened in the matter and accused the Temple of violating the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. BJP leader Maneka Gandhi, too, was involved in the whole affair and she requested Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry Kiran Bedi and Directorate of Forests and Wildlife to remove the elephant from the temple and shift her to a ‘safer’ location. At the time, Lakshmi the Elephant was forcibly removed from the Temple and shifted to the Krishi Vigyan Kendra at Kurumamber, where her health was reported to have deteriorated.
On July 18, the official Twitter account of Indu Makkal Katchi informed that Lakshmi the Elephant had returned to her home in Manakula Vinayagar Temple. Earlier, Chief Minister of Puducherry, V. Narayanasami, had directed the forest department to return Lakshmi back to her home at the Manakula Vinayagar Temple in the Union Territory. The development was confirmed by the IT cell of the Congress party on social media.
Maneka Ghandi is becoming a liability to the BJP and it is better for the party to expel this mother & son duo as well. They are from the same 'elitist' Nehru-Ghandi clan and I still cannot understand why BJP keeps them in their ranks.chetak wrote:menaka ghandy, the AWBI and peta need to be taught a lesson.
The son seems to be quite desperate to get back in the good books of the MAD. his saccharin sweet tweets are getting increasingly pathetic and paranoid.Sachin wrote:Maneka Ghandi is becoming a liability to the BJP and it is better for the party to expel this mother & son duo as well. They are from the same 'elitist' Nehru-Ghandi clan and I still cannot understand why BJP keeps them in their ranks.chetak wrote:menaka ghandy, the AWBI and peta need to be taught a lesson.
05 Aug 2020
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Bishop Franco Mulakkal to face trial as it dismissed his plea seeking discharge in the rape case lodged against him by a nun, saying that there is no merit in his petition.
A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde, A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian told the counsel for Bishop that the court is not saying anything on merit but is dismissing the plea on the issue of discharge from the case.
Mulakkal, in his plea has challenged the Kerala High Court order of July 7, dismissing his discharge plea in the rape case filed by the nun.
The Kerala High Court on July 7 rejected his petition seeking discharge in the case.
The High Court had asked the deposed Bishop of Jalandhar diocese to stand for trial in the rape case, which was registered on the basis of a complaint filed by a nun of same diocese in Kerala.
The high court had dismissed the plea by the bishop, admitting the prosecution argument that there was prima facie evidence against Mulakkal in the rape case, which was registered on the basis of a complaint filed by a nun of Jalandhar diocese.
In her complaint to the police in June, 2018, the nun had alleged that she was subjected to sexual abuse by the bishop during the period between 2014 and 2016.
The bishop, who was arrested by the Special Investigation team, which probed the case, charged him with wrongful confinement, rape, unnatural sex and criminal intimidation.
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KSEB(Kerala State Electricity Board has reportedly totally switched off power to Cities and districts of Pallakad, Thrissur, Ernakulam etc,. Checked with friends in Pallakad they confirm it is so.
Kannur, Thalassery Vadakara areas also, got feedback now.
Power was out in Allapuzha, Palakkad and Thrissur as well, these districts are not mullah majority.hnair wrote:There was uninterrupted power since morning in Trivandrum and south districts which are less seckoolar than parts of central and most of malabar districts
(Grapevine says instructions came from agencies to make sure the faithool districts don’t get too excited when watching the auspicious goings on)
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Kerala kocals swing into action: What sets Malayalis apart is our spirit &unity, during floods, the pandemic &now the aircrash. When a mishap occurs, people throw themselves into the situation regardless of religion/caste/class. That’s my #KeralaModel!
Death Toll In Munnar Landslide Mounts To 52, Tamil Parties Urge Kerala CM To Pay Adequate Compensation For Family Of Deceased Workers https://swarajyamag.com/insta/death-tol ... ed-workers via @swarajyamag
All of this "Kerala jingoism" is planned and the sellouts of Indian and international media are actively supporting it. They are laying the foundation for a separatist movement. Indian govt needs to drop the statesman act and start actively investigating and unravelling it.Yagnasri wrote:So Kerala is apart. While they are great people does that mean that they are a set apart from other people in the Bharat? Really? The state is as good or bad as other states in many aspects. But this arrogant here is quite funny considering that the entire airport establishment in a table top and decision to allow wide body aircrafts in here in spite of concerned from safety experts are all done to get a link to arab world for Kerala Muslims. They even forced Ashoka Gajapathi Raju the then minister to ignore safety concerns. Now they do not want to speak about that.
The victims were trapped in the land slide and bodies were recovered quite late, after a couple of days. So they could have been badly decomposed or mutilated. That could be the reason why the mass cremation was done. But the sad fact is that for GoKL the victims of the air plane crash was more important than these poor tea plantation workers. The compensation amounts itself showed who was more important.chetak wrote:why not hand over the bodies to the family members for a dignified burial
This well orchestrated movement started of in 2014, the year when 'secular forces' got their first trouncing. Kerala was then show cases as the last bastion of the (self certified) 'secular progressive forces'. This group how ever retained some hope that RaGa & Co can do some magic and sort out things at least by 2019. But that also flopped. Now the BIF knows that another separatist movement has to be started and Kerala's present demographics and ruling party gives them a head start. The action plan seems to be to encourage KL people to have a superiority complex basically due to the money inflow from the middle eastern sheikdoms. And then use this to make the average Keralite (who would not have stepped outside the state borders) loath every other Indian and considering the Arabs as their masters. It would be for the GoI to ensure that GoKL and business houses in KL are not allowed to bypass GoI rules and deal directly with Arabs.Krita wrote:All of this "Kerala jingoism" is planned and the sellouts of Indian and international media are actively supporting it.
darshan wrote:Former ISRO Scientist Nambi Narayanan Gets Compensation Of Rs 1.3 Crore By Kerala Govt For Implicating Him In Spy Case
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In a positive development, the Chief Minister (CM) Pinarayi Vijayan has finally handed over an additional compensation of Rs 1.30 crore to renowned former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientist Nambi Narayanan who had been wrongly implicated by the Kerala Police in case of espionage over two and a half decades in the past, reports Hindustan Times.
The Supreme Court had in 2018 ruled that Narayanan was not guilty of any of the espionage charges which had been pressed on him by the Kerala Police. It had categorically mentioned that the case was "unnecessary" and that "he was implicated."
The case got murkier when RB Shrikumar, an officer close to Congress ecosystem was posted as the Deputy Director of the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) at Trivandrum in 1994.
Shrikumar and other officials of the IB, along with the politically charged Kerala Police allegedly acted with a malafide intent not only destroy the career of Nambi Narayanan but also by compromising national security by preventing ISRO from succeeding in its mission to master the art of cryogenic engines. Yes, you heard it right. Years later, Nambi Narayanan goes on to plead with successive governments to investigate, expose the role of the CIA and politicians, police officers, media who had acted at CIA’s behest.
After 15 days of investigation by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Kerala Police, the case was transferred to the CBI which after 18 months of the investigation in April 1996 concluded that the case against Nambi Narayanan and others was fabricated. The CBI had reportedly submitted two confidential reports to the Union and Kerala governments listing respectively serious lapses by IB officials and SIT members.
The CBI in its report had observed, “The aforesaid IB officials comprising the team enquiring into ISRO case acted in an unprofessional manner and were privy to the arrest of six innocent persons, thereby causing them immense mental and physical agony.” The CBI had also clearly indicted Srikumar for “failing in their duty to conduct the inquiry in an objective and fair manner.”
Interestingly, five top most scientists of the country, Sathish Dhawan, UR Rao, Yashpal Rodham Narasimha, K Chandrasekhar and TN Seshan had also written a joint statement in 1997 stating how America is posing hurdles to block India’s cryogenic engines programme. The statement by the top scientists had subtly hinted regarding the outside interference in the cryogenic developmental programme by fabricating fake espionage cases against its top scientists like Nambi Narayanan. It has been alleged that CIA to safeguard the US commercial interests, had planted a fabricated case through its moles in the Intelligence Bureau, using the politically inclined Kerala police as a conduit.
It leads to a very disturbing question on why did the Intelligence Bureau officers like RB Srikumar with the help of Kerala Police try to undermine the cryogenic programme by planting a fake espionage case against Nambi Narayanan and other scientists? The Congress leaders of Kerala to sustain its agenda towards K Karunakaran had allegedly utilised the services of the Kerala police to implicate Nambi Narayanan and other scientists in a fabricated case despite knowing that he was involved in one of the country’s significant developmental programmes.
Swapna Suresh, friends cheated each other for max gains
The key persons in the network ventured forth to cheat each other as gold smuggling through the diplomatic channel ensured a solid profit.
18th August 2020
KOCHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing the smuggling of gold via the diplomatic channel has found that the accused persons duped each other in the smuggling chain to augment their individual monetary gains. After interrogating Swapna Suresh for nearly 13 days, ED also found that she — along with two foreign nationals — received `3.6 crore as commission from the contractor for the Life Mission housing project. Swapna received huge commission from brokering various projects of the UAE Consulate in Thiruvananthapuram too.
The key persons in the network ventured forth to cheat each other as gold smuggling through the diplomatic channel ensured a solid profit. ED estimates that 164kg of gold was smuggled in total on 21 occasions since September 2019 before the gang was busted. In all instances, gold was brought through the Thiruvananthapuram airport, an ED officer told TNIE.
“Rameez K T, who is the mastermind behind the smuggling of gold via the diplomatic channel, cheated Swapna, Sandeep Nair and Sarith P S. The deal was to give $1,000 as commission to Swapna, Sandeep and Sarith for smuggling each kilogram of gold. They also received `50,000 as additional remuneration for a successful smuggling bid,” the officer said. However, to lower their commission, Rameez never revealed the exact quantity of gold smuggled on each occasion. Only persons appointed by Rameez were permitted to open the consignment at Sandeep’s house.
Swapna took `1 cr from Life Mission contractor
“IF 25kg of gold is smuggled, Rameez would tell Sandeep, Sarith and Swapna that only 15kg was smuggled,” the officer said. At the same time, Swapna and Sarith got even on Rameez by claiming that gold arrived with the full knowledge of the UAE Consul General. The duo charged additional $1,000 dollars for each kilogram of gold claiming it to be the payment to the Consul General. “The Consul-General was unaware of the smuggling attempts. But Swapna and Sarith made Sandeep and Rameez believe that an amount is paid as commission to the Consul General. After the Consul-General returned to the UAE in April this year, they paid $1,000 dollars to the Consulate in-charge claiming that they were bringing in duty- free goods on three occasions in June,” the officer said.
In June last year, Sandeep and Rameez approached Swapna via Sarith to smuggle gold under the cover of diplomatic baggage. In July, two dummy consignments were sent to ensure that smuggling through the diplomatic channel is a safe route. “On both occasions, Rameez’s associates in Dubai videographed the packing of the consignment to take persons investing money in smuggling into confidence. The dummy packet reached Thiruvananthapuram intact, without any checking. On arrival, the consignment was cleared within an hour,” an official said. After the 2018 flood, the UAE Consulate, on the insistence of Swapna, decided to donate money to Life Mission -- the Kerala government’s welfare housing project.
“The total cost for providing flats to over 120 families in Thrissur sponsored by the UAE Consulate under the Life Mission project was worth `18 crore. The land for the project was given by the Kerala government. Swapna, a high-ranking UAE diplomat and an Egyptian national in the UAE Consulate agreed to give the construction work to a contractor for a commission amounting to 20 per cent of the project cost. They received `3.6 crore as commission, with Swapna alone receiving `1 crore,” an officer said. Sandeep, another accused in the case, had approached the construction company through its employee. The company held a meeting with a top UAE Consulate official.
The commission amount was fixed later in a meeting between the company representatives and the accused persons at a hotel in Thiruvananthapuram. “Swapna also received commission worth around `70 lakh from companies which were given contracts to collect fees for the stamping of UAE Visa at the consulate. Swapna and the co-accused also received a commission for allotting the construction of the UAE Consulate in Hyderabad,” an officer said. Swapna, who was very close to the Consul General with decisive power, resigned from the consulate expecting the current Consul General would be appointed as the Ambassador of UAE to another foreign Mission and she would receive an important position there.
‘Sivasankar is a traitor’ PWD Minister G Sudhakaran called M Sivasankar a ‘traitor’ for misusing his freedom. “The stink in CMO stops at Sivasankar. There is no problem beyond that,” he said
Went abroad together M Sivasankar has admitted to the ED that he had travelled abroad with Swapna on a couple of times. Swapna had also hired a joint bank locker with a third person as per his direction.
Sachin wrote:Kerala Gold smuggling round up.
Kerala gold probe: No exemption certificate issued for baggage from UAE, says protocol officer
Mystery over role of Kerala ministers in Swapna’s deals deepens
Kerala minister Jaleel faces Customs probe for receiving food & Quran copies from UAE
What amazes me is the absolute impunity shown by GoKL and this minister in particular in violating the rules & laws of India. The state government spokespeople are keeping quiet, and the minister is now using the now famous excuse; i.e his religion and the holy book . UAE is to have sent carton loads of Quarans to India, but their own staff does NOT know who booked those parcels. In Kerala again they were all received without the due formalities, and moved to a secure printing press under the control of minister K.T Jaleel. Now in secured/armoured vans these parcels go to various places like Malappuram, and one secured/armoured van had also gone to Bangalore. Read this along with the recent riots in Bangalore city. It may not be far-fetched to think that UAE has been actively trying to cause L&O problems in India with financial help routed via Kerala.
Thoothukudi Sterlite Copper Plant: What Made Madras High Court To Rule Against Its Opening
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The Madras High Court has dismissed all the contentions of the UK-based Vedanta Resources while dismissing its petition to quash the Tamil Nadu government's 28 May 2018 order to shut its Thoothukudi Sterlite Copper Plant.
A two-judge bench of Justices TS Sivagnanam and V Bhavani Subbaroyan, in their 815-page judgement, said Vedanta had failed to prove any malafide intent on the part of the Tamil Nadu government ordering its copper plant closure.
The judgement, written by Justice Sivagnanam, has also referred to the 2013 Supreme Court judgement that allowed Sterlite to resume operations after the High Court ordered it shut.
It has drawn some inferences from the Supreme Court ruling to dismiss Vedanta’s petition.
The judges have said that there was collusion between Sterlite and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board in getting a favourable order in the Supreme Court in 2013, while they have also questioned the permission given for the plant’s expansion.
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