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Posted: 20 Jul 2021 16:58
Chetakji I don’t think that picture is of Danish funeral.
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Tanaji wrote:Chetakji I don’t think that picture is of Danish funeral.
Media in non BJP-friendly states off course is making a big issue out of this. Though know one really knows what the issue is.vijayk wrote:any coverage on pegasus in regional news?
The company told NDTV that it is “not related to the list published by Forbidden Stories”. According to the company, the list of Indian phone numbers that were supposedly ‘potential targets’ of surveillance was “not ours, never was”.
Forbidden Stories is the name of the journalism project that had provided information to The Wire and other media organisations along with Amnesty International. “It is not a NSO list, and it never was – it is fabricated information. It is not a list of targets or potential targets of NSO’s customers,” spokesperson for the NSO Group told NDTV and added that “repeated reliance on this list and association of people on this list as potential surveillance targets is false and misleading.”
There is no change in the stance that Singh will not meet Sidhu till he publicly apologises for his "derogatory" tweets against him, chief minister's media advisor Raveen Thukral said, indicating the simmering tension between the two leaders is far from over.
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"Reports of @sherryontop (Sidhu) seeking time to meet @capt_amarinder are totally false. No time has been sought whatsoever. No change in stance... CM won't meet #NavjotSinghSidhu till he publicly apologises for his personally derogatory social media attacks against him," Thukral tweeted.
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Now we are talking ... at least interestingThe widening differences between Punjab Congress leaders -- Captain Amarinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu intensified with their wives joining them in the conflict.
A day after Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh's wife and Lok Sabha member from Patiala, Preneet Kaur targeted Sidhu for 'ignoring' Amritsar, Sidhu's wife Navjot Kaur hit back at her stating that she need not worry about Amritsar which is being handled 'very efficiently', adding that her husband who is providing ration to the people from his savings, will not leave his people in the lurch.
'While COVID was devastating people, you were not in Patiala for almost a year but in your farms. Do not bother about Amritsar East, it's being handled very efficiently.
'He will not leave his people in the lurch. He used his savings to provide ration to his people,' tweeted Navjot Kaur.
This comes amid the second and the last meeting of the three-member panel, constituted by Congress president Sonia Gandhi to resolve differences among its leaders in Punjab Congress, is underway at the party's 'war room' at 15, Gurdwara Rakabganj road in the national capital.
Kakkaji wrote:Govt aim is to make Tamil Nadu a $1 trillion economy: Stalin
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has set an ambitious target for the State to be a $1 trillion GDP economy by 2030. “We want Tamil Nadu to be one of the best States in South Asia. Our government's target is to make Tamil Nadu a $1 trillion economy,” “We want to ensure that there is a conducive business environment in the State,” he added.
Language is one thing, reality on the ground can be something else. The politicos have to curb their natural instincts of trying to squeeze every last drop of money out of any new project into their own pockets before letting it go ahead. Otherwise, even the Kerala government talks about the state being business friendly. That said, I have higher expectations from TN based on past performance. While both DMK and ADMK govts. have lined their pockets they did enough for a decent amount of industrial development in the state by Indian standards.Pratyush wrote: This represents a welcome change in the political language being used in India.
That states are setting targets for economic development.
I see this as a positive aspect of GST.
Politicians who have shut down a critical copper plant will never deliver growth- they write nice letters and press will act as their but nothing positive on the ground.nachiket wrote:Language is one thing, reality on the ground can be something else. The politicos have to curb their natural instincts of trying to squeeze every last drop of money out of any new project into their own pockets before letting it go ahead. Otherwise, even the Kerala government talks about the state being business friendly. That said, I have higher expectations from TN based on past performance. While both DMK and ADMK govts. have lined their pockets they did enough for a decent amount of industrial development in the state by Indian standards.Pratyush wrote: This represents a welcome change in the political language being used in India.
That states are setting targets for economic development.
I see this as a positive aspect of GST.
Vips wrote:Sidhu and Khujliwal are two people who will do anything for power. People of such ilk are a danger to the country.
he didn't say "best state in India", he said something like "best state in southeast asia"Aditya_V wrote:Politicians who have shut down a critical copper plant will never deliver growth- they write nice letters and press will act as their but nothing positive on the ground.nachiket wrote: Language is one thing, reality on the ground can be something else. The politicos have to curb their natural instincts of trying to squeeze every last drop of money out of any new project into their own pockets before letting it go ahead. Otherwise, even the Kerala government talks about the state being business friendly. That said, I have higher expectations from TN based on past performance. While both DMK and ADMK govts. have lined their pockets they did enough for a decent amount of industrial development in the state by Indian standards.
Also, how casually Indians have replaced "Indian Subcontinent" with "South Asia." This is the success of American psyops against Indians as the Yanks began this trend mischievously 20 years back. The American embassy is playing another psyops these days: replacing the term Indian Americans with "Bengali Americans," or "Punjabi Americans" or "Tamil Americans." The idea is to pretend as if the word India doesn't exist. "Sub-nationalities" is the name of the psyops these days to denationalize Indians and widen their ethnic fault lines. Whites are rolling in heathen hatred, obsessed with destruction of heathen civilization. The day we get rooted in our own ancient philosophy as superior alternative to desert monotheism and start questioning their faith, their house of cards will collapse, and they know it.Aditya_V wrote:Politicians who have shut down a critical copper plant will never deliver growth- they write nice letters and press will act as their but nothing positive on the ground.nachiket wrote: Language is one thing, reality on the ground can be something else. The politicos have to curb their natural instincts of trying to squeeze every last drop of money out of any new project into their own pockets before letting it go ahead. Otherwise, even the Kerala government talks about the state being business friendly. That said, I have higher expectations from TN based on past performance. While both DMK and ADMK govts. have lined their pockets they did enough for a decent amount of industrial development in the state by Indian standards.
Nothing's changed, he has always been this way. A couple of years back when i called him out on twitter for taking credit for 'Ram Janmabhoomi' verdict in SC, i got panned by his army of supporters on twitter. This self-proclaimed "hindu hridhaya samrat" called for a ban on RSS in the 90s. When does his current RS term end ?chetak wrote:When 2BHK "journos" like Rohini Singh start liking your tweets, rest assured that the ideology of jehadin Suhasini Haidar has taken control.
Swamy is now taken as seriously as Yashwant Sinha. He has trashed himself.
Modi was right all along.
It looks like Amarinder Singh's goose is cooked. Time for him to retire to his Paki wife's ISI guest house in Lahore.In what appears to be a show of strength, newly-appointed Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu hosted 62 party MLAs at his residence in Amritsar on Wednesday.
The meeting assumes significance as it comes amid a public tussle between Sidhu and Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh, who was strongly opposed to the former's elevation.
Among the prominent ministers who reached Sidhu's house were Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Charanjit Singh Channi and Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria besides outgoing state unit chief Sunil Jakhar.
Only 18 out of the 80 Congress MLAs in Punjab skipped the meeting.
Later, Sidhu, along with the MLAs, boarded luxury buses and went to pay obeisance at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, where a large number of Congress supporters gathered. They also went to the Durgiana temple and Ram Tirath Sthal.
While Sidhu has been appointed as state unit chief, the crisis in Punjab Congress is far from over.
Amarinder Singh, who has sought a public apology from Sidhu for his "derogatory" tweets, has made it clear that there is no change in his stance. The CM's media adviser on Tuesday tweeted that Amarinder won't meet Sidhu until the cricketer-turned politician apologises.
However, Sidhu found support from the MLAs who gathered at his house, with some of them saying there is no need for the Punjab Congress chief to apologise.
Minister Randhawa, who was behind organising the meeting, told reporters he was surprised at the “behaviour” of the chief minister.
Sidhu's elevation as state unit chief has to be respected and accepted by all, irrespective of whatever differences there might have been in the past, he said.
Randhawa said even senior leader Partap Singh Bajwa and Sukhpal Singh Khaira earlier were at loggerheads with Amarinder Singh but now they have sunk their differences.
“Why can't the chief minister sink his differences with Sidhu,” Randhawa asked.
MLA Kuljit Singh Nagra said Sidhu will formally assume the charge of the state party chief at Chandigarh on Friday and expects the chief minister to be present at the event.
Amrinder Singh Raja Warring said, "I think at this level, leaders should not ask each other to apologise."
Pargat Singh also said there was no need for Sidhu to apologise.
"I have always said it cannot be a fight between personalities. The fight was about issues," said Pargat, a former India hockey
On Tuesday, scores of Congress workers and Sidhu supporters had accorded a warm welcome to Sidhu when he arrived in Amritsar after being appointed the state party chief.
The party workers put up posters of Sidhu at many places in the city.
Sidhu had been calling on ministers and legislators in Chandigarh to mobilise support in the past few days amid escalating tension with Amarinder.
Going by the reception Sidhu received from party workers and local leaders on his way to Amritsar, it seems that he has managed to consolidate his position among party cadres.
Some party functionaries claim that energy has also started following among cadres as the organisational functioning of the party remained in inertia after Congress president Sonia Gandhi had dissolved Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee and district committees in January 2020, and a meeting of the PPCC coordination committee was never held.
It will fall on deaf years. The only thing saving India's economy is our demographics, the median age in India is 26, meaning most have the opportunity to increase their earnings, recuperate the loses and adjust wages to cost of living increases. However, given our sheer population we have tens of millions of elderly, retirees and the very poor who do not benefit from inflation adjusted wage/earning increases . To put things in perspective, in 2006 almost exactly this month the crude oil prices hit $70/barrel, the price per litre of petrol increased from Rs 44 to Rs 46.50 in Bangalore (there was uproar in parliament), today when oil is again at $70/barrel the cost per litre of petrol is Rs 109 in Bangalore. Agreed, rupee has lost value against the dollar but that still does not explain 2.5x higher cost, and honestly it does not take long to debunk the "we have to pay the oil bonds" reasoning.Zynda wrote:Petrol has hit 110 INR in BLR pumps...time to arrest this up slide...this is seriously affecting the wallet for a lot of people including me. I know international crude prices have risen 40%+ since last year, which is reflected on domestic prices as well but the inflation level is quite high for most people who are not earning a lot. A trip to bunk now gives a bad wallet heartburn...people don't care about economics of oil bonds and bad decision behind the same etc. (or taxes from fuel is being used in other places like infrastructure etc.)...all they see is prices going up around them of commodities but savings going less & less each month.
Chiming in quickly:Ambar wrote: Fuel prices have a direct effect on cost of everything because of the increase in transportation cost. I really don't understand what calculation is running in the head of NS that she thinks this won't be a net negative on the very consumers and MSMEs she claims to help. Nothing is worse than stagnant income , low interest rates and rising inflation to widen the income inequality.
Pratyush wrote:X post from economy thread
This represents a welcome change in the political language being used in India.
That states are setting targets for economic development.
I see this as a positive aspect of GST.
This BIF/Roler/roper group with CM stalin has been at an independent "eelam/tamil nadu" etc for a long time now ( Remember kumari kandam or a separate continent? ) Sad thing is the opposition is chasing its tail and not really standing up to this nonsensekrithivas wrote:CM Stalin and his BIF are slowly laying the grounds for secession by their "choice of words" - Last week it was "Union of India" and not "Republic of India", the week before was fighting against centralizing port authorities, and now wanting to be the 1T economy in South Asia (we know who uses this terminology the most). CM Stalin will meet the same fate as his father CM Karunanidhi when he paraded LTTE cadres in a state function. CM Stalin is part of the BIF complex.
Pratyush wrote:X post from economy thread
This represents a welcome change in the political language being used in India.
That states are setting targets for economic development.
I see this as a positive aspect of GST.
Khalistanism is also an option, isn't it?Ambar wrote:Nepotism is almost always the reason. Capt Amrinder Singh is 79 and at the end of his political career, he was prepping his son Raninder Singh to take over the reigns which may not have sat well with the party old timers in the state. That said, i am surprised that Sidhu was able to garner the support of majority of MLAs, i always thought PJ INC won't accept orders from the puppetmasters sitting in DL, so looks like the Capt had stepped on quite a few toes. What next for Amrinder Singh ? AAP ? SAD ? Or floating a new party ? If the chatterati are to be believed , him and his son are contemplating floating their own party, but as we've seen in many other states, the gestation period for a new party is anywhere from 8 to 10 yrs before they are strong enough win on their own. Sidhu is bad news as the CM of a sensitive border state like PJ.
via @nirwamehta·Jul 21Taliban ran a car over Danish's dead body because he was Indian. Then went all 'we are sorry' and Indian 'liberals' then hailed Taliban for 'apologising'. Danish, your jamaat, from all sides, failed you.
Taliban killed, mutilated Danish Siddiqui’s body as he was Indian, ‘apologised’ after details of his work was hailed
'They killed him, kept his body and refused to return it,' local persons tell how Taliban killed Danish Siddiqui, mutilated him as he was Indian and expressed regret after his body of work showing pics of funeral pyres during COVID were hailed
21 July, 2021
OpIndia Staff
Taliban killed Danish and mutilated his body because he was Indian
Taliban’s claims that they were unaware that Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was with the Afghan forces when they ambushed them, leading to his death, fall flat as local Afghan leaders tell a different side of the story.
Aaj Tak report states that Danish’s body was mutilated because he was an Indian. Speaking to Aaj Tak, Afghan army commander Bilal Ahmed said that Taliban first shot Danish then ran a car over him after they got to know he is Indian since Taliban hates India and Indians. That they knew Danish had died of the bullet but they still ran a car over him because he was an Indian.
Interestingly, after his death, Danish’s body of work, especially the pictures of funeral pyres during the second wave of coronavirus and Rohingya crisis, was publicised and hailed by all, Taliban expressed sorrow on killing him. In fact, Taliban had claimed they did not know how the photojournalist had died. “Any journalist entering the war zone should inform us. We will take proper care of that particular individual. We are sorry for Indian journalist Danish Siddiqui’s death. We regret that journalists are entering war zone without intimation to us,” The Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid had told News18.
In an article published by Newslaundry, Afghan journalist Ahmad Lodin said that the Taliban killed Danish and kept his body. In fact, they even refused to return his mortal remains.
Snippet from Newslaundry article
As per Lodin, who spoke to Newslaundry, the Afghan authorities contacted Taliban and Red Crescent but they refused to return Danish’s body. After much negotiation, his body was returned at 3 PM. Lodin also said that Danish’s body had been ‘disrespected and mutilated’. According to the report, Reuters was aware that Siddiqui was injured few days prior to the attack that killed him. However, they did not pull out an injured journalist from the conflict zone.
Subsequently, Danish Siddiqui’s friends and colleagues in media and other ‘liberals’ had hailed Taliban for expressing regret at killing Danish, whom they killed and mutilated his body because he was an Indian.
via@KimZetter, July 21, 2021“Amnesty, and the investigative journalists and media outlets they work with have made clear from the outset in very clear language that this is a list of numbers marked as numbers of interest to NSO customers” – meaning they are the kind of ppl NSO clients might like to spy on
via@ANI·2hKerala HC dismisses petition by Sister Lucy Kalappura seeking police protection to continue her stay at Franciscan Clarist Convent at Karakkamala, Wayanad.
Court also clears that it can't direct her to go out of the convent
She had protested against rape accused Franco Mulakkal