The Canadian Parvasi - Issue 43

The International News Weekly india
April 27, 2018 | Toronto 10
JeM commander killed in
Tral gunfight: J&K DGP
Indo-Asian News Service
Jammu : Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday
said that one of
the four militants
killed in Tuesday's
gunfight in
the Tral forest
area was a Jaishe-Muhammad
(JeM) operational
commander.
State Director
General of Police
(DGP), S.P. Vaid
said: "Operational commander of JeM Mufti Yasir
was among those killed in the joint operation in upper
reaches of Tral."
Four JeM militants, one soldier and a state police
constable were killed in the over eight-hour
long gunfight.
The DGP has also uploaded a picture on Twitter
of the slain militant showing him alongside
Masood Azhar, the founder of JeM.
The picture had been taken in Pakistan few
years ago by the media there.
Azhar was released from Kotbalwal jail in
Jammu district in 1999 and taken to Kandahar in
Afghanistan where he was swapped with the 158
passengers of Indian Airlines flight IC 814 taken
hostage.
Two other militant commanders, Sheikh Omar
and Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar were also swapped in
addition to Azhar for the release of hostages.
The flight was hijacked from Kathmandu and
after a stopover at Amritsar it was taken to Kandahar.
Congress spreading lies by
hiring foreign agencies: Modi
Indo-Asian News Service
New Delhi : Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on
Thursday accused the
Congress of spreading
lies by hiring foreign
agencies and dividing societies
on caste lines. He
said political purity cannot
come unless the Congress
culture ends.
In an interactive session
with BJP candidates,
state office bearers and
leaders of Karnataka via
the Narendra Modi app,
the Prime Minister urged
them not to fall for the
Congress's lie and focus
on people-to-people contact
till the voting.
"If you analyse last few
elections, you will realise
how a few political parties
have indulged only
in dividing societies on
religious lines. They give
lollipops to a community
before elections and then
forget them," he said.
Modi said that this is
the working style of the
13 school children killed in UP accident
Indo-Asian News Service
Gorakhpur/New Delhi
: Thirteen school children
were killed and six others seriously
injured on Thursday
when a train hit their van at
an unmanned railway crossing
in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar,
police said.
Chief Medical Officer
(CMO) of Kushinagar district,
Akhilesh Kumar told IANS
that one child and the driver
of the van were in critical
condition. The incident took
place at the Dudhi Behpurva
gate at 7.10 a.m. when the
children were headed to the
Divine Public School. The
injured were rushed to Pandrauna
Hospital which is 30
km from the accident site.
Railways spokesperson
Ved Prakash told IANS that
the children died on the spot
as the Siwan-Gorakhpur passenger
train crashed into the
van at the crossing, 100 km
from Gorakhpur.
According to a North
Eastern (NE) Railway official,
at least 25 people, mostly children
below the age of 10 years
were travelling in the van
when the incident occurred.
The train was on its way
to Gorakhpur from Siwan.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's
office instructed
district authorities to undertake
rescue and relief operations
immediately.
An accident relief medical
train from Gorakhpur was
dispatched to the site, the NE
official said. Several senior officials
have also rushed to the
accident site. An inquiry has
been ordered.
According to the Railway
Ministry, it was an unmanned
level crossing with
Gate Mitra deployed there.
Railway Minister Piyush
Goyal expressed his grief over
the accident and announced
an ex-gratia of Rs two lakh
each to the kin of the victims.
"I am saddened by the
news of school children dying
in a train accident. I have spoken
to senior railway officials
and ordered an inquiry into
it," Goyal said in a tweet.
Adityanath directed the
Divisional Commissioner of
Gorakhpur to conduct a probe
into the incident. He also announced
an ex-gratia of Rs
two lakh each to the families
of the deceased.
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His remarks came in the wake of a Supreme
Court bench posing questions over
the relevance of the Sikh turban in response
to a petition filedby a Sikh cyclist refusing to
wear a helmet.
“My faith, its tenets are decided by my
scriptures, history and my value systems.
They are not to be determined or questioned
by judges whose role, in the first place, is to
protect my civil, human and religious rights
in accordance with the basic principles of
the Indian Constitution,” noted Sikh Forum
secretary-general Partap Singh.
Congress in which they
exploit emotions of some
community before elections
and forget them after
the elections.
"They will never give
account of their works.
They keep indulging in
dividing the society. The
political purity can not be
established in the country
till the Congress culture
is finished from the mainstream,"
he added.
Hitting out at the Congress
for spreading "rampant"
lies, Modi asked the
party workers not to fall
for the opposition's trap
of falsehoods.
"Congress has resorted
to rampant lying
after a series of defeats
in elections. Earlier, the
Congress used to spread
lies over five to 10 issues
they raised. Now out of 50
issues, 40-45 are based on
lies," the Prime Minister
said. Modi said, in such
circumstances, karyakartas
must stand their
ground, expose their lies
and also fight their means
of deceiving people by
"hiring foreign agencies".
The Prime Minister
said that the other political
parties hesitate to talk
on development because
development can be quantified.
"This was unacceptable
to those parties
which only concentrated
on division. We govern
and also fight elections
based only on development
model," he said.
Asaram convicted, sentenced to life in
2013 case of minor's rape
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Informed sources said the court also convicted
Shilpi (warden of Asaram's ashram) and Sharad, while
Shiva and Prakash were acquitted in the case. Asaram
Bapu is facing trial in another sexual assault case in
Gujarat.
The final arguments in the case were completed in
the Jodhpur court on April 7, which reserved the order
for Wednesday.
Asaram Bapu was arrested in 2013 after a teenaged
girl from Uttar Pradesh's Shahajahanpur, a Class
12 student at his Chhindwara Ashram in Madhya
Pradesh, filed a complaint and accused him of rape at
his ashram in Manai village on the Jodhpur outskirts
on August 15, 2013.Asaram was arrested from Indore
and brought to Jodhpur on September 1, 2013. He is under
judicial custody since September 2, 2013. He was
earlier denied bail by the Supreme Court.
Sikh body upset over SC's
views on turban
The Sikh Forum took strong objections
to the Supreme Court’s query, saying it unfortunately
reflected a serious deficit of understanding
of religious sensitivities and
historical traditions of a country as rich in
diversity as India.
“That was the last thing you would expect
from the highest court of a country
where Sikhism was born, a country that had
a Sikh prime minister, a Sikh CJI, two Sikh
army and three air-force chiefs and countless
Sikh soldiers who fight the enemy on the
frontline with their proud turbans on,” the
Sikh Forum said in a statement.