Air quality deteriorated in the national capital with the rise of pollutants in the atmosphere on Thursday.
The Air Quality Index (AQI) was recorded at 254 in ITO and 246 in Patparganj, both in the ‘poor’ category, as per the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) data.
“Vehicular pollution needs to be controlled. We used to come at 6 am for a morning walk but now we have started coming at 5 am while the pollution level is low. The public should be aware and move to CNG and electric vehicles. The government is taking steps but public awareness is important as well,” said Anil Sharma.
Another resident of the city told ANI that if the Odd-Even rule is imposed in the national capital it would certainly bring down the pollution level.
“Stubble burning is another reason for pollution here … the pollution increases during evening hours. The Delhi Government has started a new campaign to turn off the engines at the red lights but I do not think it helps in bringing down the pollution level,” he added.
“Pollution has become a fact of life for the people of Delhi, they have to learn to live with it. Pollution is a part of modernization but people should be smart enough to help bring down the pollution here. These masks are now a part of our lives that will save us from pollution as well,” said another resident.
A cyclist, Shubham Bhadoria, near India Gate, said that as compared to other locations in Delhi, people witness a low level of pollution in this area due to greenery.
“I do experience difficulty while breathing when I go out cycling. Pollution level is surely increasing,” he added.
Another cyclist, Pawan said, “I essentially came here for fitness and maintain my health. The pollution levels have risen here due to stubble burning but before that we used to see clear skies here.” (ANI)
The Mizoram government has consented to pull out its forces from Assam’s territory, on the latter’s request, as per Home Secretary, Assam, Gyanendra Dev Tripathi.
The meeting held on Wednesday was attended by Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs (in-charge of North East) Satyendra Kumar Garg, Home Secretary, Mizoram, Pi Lalbiaksangi, and Home Secretary, Assam, Gyanendra Dev Tripathi.
“In view of the present situation, we requested the Mizoram Government to withdraw the forces in the Assam side which they had deployed. The Government of Mizoram has agreed to our request. So, the problem of deployment of forces has been resolved,” Tripathi told reporters here.
The Assam government official said that pulling out of forces will begin soon.
Meanwhile, Joint Secretary, MHA Garg termed the meeting as a “fruitful one”.
Further, Tripathi said both sides held meetings to restore peace and normalcy in the disturbed areas and that efforts are on to start the movement of trucks carrying essential commodities stranded on the Assam side of the border to Mizoram.
Prior to this, Home Secretary-level talks were held at Lailapur close to the interstate border to bring back peace and tranquility and for plying of stranded trucks and vehicles on the Assam side of the border following the flare-up on Saturday night. (ANI)
The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) on Wednesday launched India’s first-ever khadi fabric footwear in presence of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari.
Speaking at the launch event of the footwear via video conferencing, Union MSME Minister Gadkari congratulated Khadi artisans for designing such attractive footwear and said: “Their (artisans) efforts will definitely give a boost to the khadi industry and will also help in increasing local employment. For the first time in the country, khadi fabric shoes were launched through video conferencing. Our appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi is that khadi usage should increase.”
The Union Minister informed that each pair of khadi shoes is priced between Rs 1,100 to Rs 3,300. Initially, 15 designs for female footwear and 10 designs for male footwear have been introduced.
These footwears will bear paintings from across the country including the famous Madhubani painting. This unique initiative has been taken to promote the various art forms of India along with the khadi fabric.
Gadkari also launched the online sale of khadi footwear through KVIC’s e-portal www.khadiindia.gov.in. (ANI)
B Bikram, a Bengali settler
in Meghalaya, says a vigilante Khasi Students Union has been terrorising non-tribals
in the state. “First they targeted Sikhs, now Bengalis,” he tells LokMarg
So now, we have been formally
declared Bangladeshis. In India. By those whom we saw growing up before us,
whose fathers were our friends, college-mates our neighbours. It’s altogether a
different issue that we had moved in to Shillong at least seven decades back,
some among us even more than a century ago.
But on the eve of
Durga Puja this year, posters across the city put up by the Khasi Students’
Union (KSU) are telling us that we the Bengalis in Meghalaya are Bangladeshis. It hurts. But immediate
concern is more pressing: It scares.
One is reminded of the fateful Durga Puja of 1993 when a young girl was killed because the member of this very student union threw a petrol bomb on the taxi she was travelling in. Oh yes, in this part of the country, Students Unions can do that. They throw petrol bombs, burn alive people and do a range of vigilantism like checking on people’s documents and certifying who is a legitimate citizen of India and, more importantly, who is not.
On October 21, posters and banners were put up at various spots in Shillong that declared Bengalis as Bangladeshis
Yes, the police has kindly
removed the “banners that were displayed on October 21 in public places”. “We
request all concerned to kindly cooperate with us in promoting peace and
harmony in the state”, the Police appealed too.
But the Pavlovian dog
whistle is sounded. Bengalis in Meghalaya are now fair game. In December 2018, they
targeted the Dalit Sikhs but the national outrage had ensured peace on that
front.
While the non-tribal
people settled in Meghalaya have been at the receiving end of the violent
xenophobia since late seventies with periodic out bursts of violence, no one
from the outside never really took note of it. After all the state sends only
two MPs to Lok Sabha and the non-tribals hardly have any political role to play
even in these two seats.
So when violence broke
out in Ichamati early this year, its effects were hardly felt anywhere else.
Eight months later, a young boy from the village calls up to say “Dada we have
no way to earn a penny. Our shops have not been allowed to be opened in last
eight months, we got no help from the government and no work even under MNREGA.
We need to live but how?” Yes, the state government sent a team to investigate
the “allegations” of harassments there which found nothing wrong.
But the youths who met
the governor to appraise him of the situation found themselves named in FIRs
for defaming the state. Seriously? FIR for making a representation to the
Governor in a democracy? Well you better believe it.
Just like the way you
will have to believe that the KSU president Lambokstar Margnar took umbrage
over people writing about the situation in social media from outside and said:
“Don’t try to provoke and mislead the people of the state and if we react, it
will be on them.” Don’t believe me? Read
The Shillong Times, the oldest English daily of the North East that
reported this on October 9.
It is festive season
once again. Puja, Diwali and then Christmas. The year has been heavy on us.
Cutting across ethno-religious fissures it is important that we all stand
together now. Can we? Please?
When Pandits were
evicted from Kashmir, the tremors were felt across the country. But in here,
the process is slow and steady with clinical injection of threats, violence and
intimidation. And at the forefront of it all is a student union. In another
country, such organisation would perhaps be called a terror group
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif has said that the overall situation in Pakistan is volatile and two parallel governments control the country.
He did not define these two governments but said; “A situation of ‘state above state’ exists in the country which creates confusion and is not in the interest of the nation and public.”
Talking to journalists outside the office of his eldest son Hussain Nawaz in central London on Tuesday, he said that whatever has happened in Karachi is enough to prove what “I had been saying for a long time.” “There is no need to seek further proofs and evidence to prove the lawlessness in the country. Enough is enough. I never say a word without facts and figures. Whatever I say, it is based on facts and experience,” he said.
Referring to the arrest of his son-in-law Captain Safdar Awan at five-star hotel in Karachi on Monday morning, Nawaz Sharif commented that everyone knows who picked him up from hotel room, who arrested him by force and who registered an illegal FIR against him. “These facts can’t be ignored easily”.
“Whatever has had happened and the way Safdar Awan was arrested is not and can’t be permissible in a civilised society and they have crushed all civilised norms. Every person who knows and believe in realities and facts would understand that whatever I had been telling in my previous four, five speeches are absolutely correct. No one would be in doubt at all now after this incident”, he added.
“They have destroyed democracy and democratic institutions, only God knows what would be the future of the country”, Nawaz Sharif commented.
The former prime minister who is now a convicted person and living in London for his medical treatment, went on to say that everyone is clear in his mind after watching the developments that occurred in the last few days and believes that he (Nawaz Sharif) speaks the truth and unveils the facts.
Nawaz Sharif also praised the Sindh police and termed the force as brave for lodging the protest against misbehaving and humiliation to IG Police. “Sindh police is honourable force and their timely reaction and protest is a beacon and good example for other institutions to follow”, he commented.
“The arrest of Safdar Awan is condemnable but more deplorable is that they violated the sanctity of privacy. This unethical and illegal action is not permissible in any religion and civilized society. They broke the lock and door of the room and entered inside where a lady was sleeping. Everyone knows who they were and who did this wrongful and illegal deed,” he said.
When he was asked about what may be the goals of this action, Nawaz Sharif said that only they themselves can reveal the real aims of this action. “They are afraid why Nawaz Sharif is unveiling the facts and informing the people. I am not scared and will continue to tell the truth. This is my prime duty and will continue to reveal the facts”, Nawaz Sharif vowed.
Commenting on Sindh’s situation, the former prime minister said that the situation there has become worse and beyond control. “Police officers are leaving their jobs and no know knows now who will control the law and order situation in that province,” he said.
He smilingly addressed the newsmen, saying there is no point in talking to them as they will not publish or broadcast his conversation. PEMRA has barred Pakistani TV channels and newspapers from broadcasting or publishing the conversation of Nawaz Sharif as he is a “convicted offender”. (ANI)
The government of France has ordered the dissolution of the Sheikh Yassin Islamist association, whose founder, Abdelhakim Sefrioui, is currently in custody as a suspect in the case of the brutal killing of a history teacher in Paris, French government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday.
The association was named after Palestinian imam and politician Ahmad Yassin, a cofounder and spiritual leader of the Hamas movement, which is designated a terrorist organization by the United States, Israel and several other countries. Sefrioui is being probed over charges of incitement of religiously-motivated violence against the murdered teacher.
“This morning we declared the dissolution of the Sheikh Yassin group,” Attal said at a press briefing after a cabinet meeting.
The spokesman slammed radical groups like the banned one as “Trojan horses of radical Islam” in France.
Last week, history teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded by an 18-year-old teenager on the outskirts of Paris after he showed cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad during a lesson. This apparently prompted outrage among some Muslim parents. The killer, a French citizen of Chechen descent, was subsequently shot dead by police. An inquiry is still underway, with Sefrioui and six other suspects being probed on various related charges.
Shutting down groups spreading ideas linked to radical Islam is part of an urgent effort declared by French President Emmanuel Macron to fight the spread of religious radicalism in France. (ANI/Sputnik)
Hunger
is a cliché from the past which no one wants to talk or write about, or show on
screen. It is as if it does not really exist. Except in annual global reports,
where the statistical index is too impersonal and distant. This is authentic alienation
of the post-modern kind.
Even
in the social media in India, this huge human crisis suddenly erupted when the
desperate mass exodus of tens of thousands of migrant workers was out there on
the highways and streets, like a scene from an old war movie, or Partition, or,
simply, as the aftermath of a famine. For the mainstream media and society, hunger
is hidden and invisible, like these great mass of workers, their faces, bodies
and families, and their imagined homelands and infinite struggles, stoicism and
suffering. It is hardly listed as one of the top stories in any daily editorial
briefing, least of all in contemporary times.
Post
liberalization, it has been, in a systematic
way, turned into a remote abstraction, as if it does not exist, with prime time
TV shows, shopping malls, fast highways and flyovers, and swanky cars capturing
our gaze. Hunger is neither a priority nor an attractive oral or textual
narrative. It does not sell.
There
is hardly any reporter’s notebook, camera or statistics which is choosing to
capture the cracked mirror of emaciated intestines, or measuring the abysmally
low calories, the mass stunting of children due to malnutrition, the wasting of
bodies, and abject and rampant malnourishment or undernourishment, especially
that of girls and mothers in poor households. Neither the hunger of the body nor
the hunger of the soul is indeed measured by the post-modern measurements of
progress and development.
Satyajit Ray’s adaptation of Munshi Premchand’s Sadgati was not only about exploitation and feudal oppression in an entrenched casteist society loaded in favour of the upper castes. It was also about hunger, fatigue, prolonged malnutrition, hard, bonded labour. Ray’s Pather Panchali, also a story of stark poverty and forced displacement and migration, is also about food snatched from nature, just that bit to eat, and a sweet loving home full of memories given away to its ravaged future, even as a snake enters the empty house while their bullock cart moves away into the grey horizon. This was the cinema of realism, like the early cinema in Bollywood and its soulful lyrics and songs — life on the streets, homeless and hungry, life inside slums, sanitary pipelines, on footpaths. In black and white.
A still from Do Bigha Zameen
One
decade before Bimal Roy’s Do Bigha Zameen,
the Bengal famine across both sides of the undivided border, in 1943-44, and
killed around 3 million people. If you see the pictures of the times, you might
just about end up not eating for days. Indeed, there was relentless starvation,
and universal injustice. However, there was also mass displacement and forced
migration, huge unemployment and scarcity in both rural and urban areas,
homelessness, and lack of sanitation, a slow and steady death.
So
how are the vast millions of the jobless, migrant workers, the homeless, the
landless labourers, daily wagers now living hand-to-mouth, their children,
mothers and daughters in the unorganized sector of 93 per cent workforce in
India without any trade union or fundamental rights, majority of them Dalits,
poor Muslims, from extremely backward castes, and adivasis — how are they
coping with the post-lockdown, pandemic reality? For all you know, hunger might
kill more people than the disease, thereby becoming yet another invisible
epidemic in countries like India. The slow, silent, unseen killer.
The
central government, which cared little for the millions walking under a
scorching sun after the lockdown, has declared that it has no real data on the
migrant workers. Indeed, it says that it has no real data either on health
workers, doctors and nurses who have perished as frontline Corona warriors. So
when the government does not have data, how shall we document the local hunger
index among the vast population of the poor and jobless?
The Global Hunger Index 2020 report released recently
has ranked India at 94 among 107
countries. It was ranked 102 out of 117 countries in 2019. One year earlier,
India was 103 among 119 countries. It is difficult to confirm if these statistics
or rankings are based on empirical surveys. And, yet, this is widely recognized
as an important indication of global hunger. China, Ukraine, Cuba, Kuwait, Brazil,
Chile, Russian Federation, even Bosnia Herzegovnia, which were ravaged by war
and genocide, are at the top in terms of successfully tackling hunger. Bangladesh,
Myanmar and Pakistan have done much better than India.
The Global Hunger Index is a categorical
indictment of modernity’s alleged progress. It points out that so many human
beings are hungry and malnourished — 690
million people. Globally, 144 million children suffer from stunting. At least
5.3 million children died before their fifth birthdays because of malnutrition.
Almost 40 per cent of children in India are
stunted, a large number of them ‘wasting’ due to malnourishment. Almost 14 per
cent are undernourished, says the report. Surely, the mid-day meal schemes in
schools have played a role in reducing malnourishment and hunger, or MNREGA, during
the UPA regime from 2004 onwards. However, the public distribution system (PDS)
has been demolished, post liberalization – and it started under Manmohan Singh
and the Congress regime. Economist Utsa Patnaik’s seminal study, ‘The Republic
of Hunger and Other Essays’, is a testimony to this bitter realism. Surely, the
current impasse of thousands of tonnes of food-grain holed up in the FCI
godowns, is as much a ‘policy failure’, as was the Bengal famine under the
British.
Several
states in India have moved with positive measures. Kerala delivers food kits to
poor households, post pandemic. In Bengal, before and after the cyclone, the
government provided food across the spectrum during the pandemic. The civil
society pitched in. The successful health and social security experiment in
Dharavi, Mumbai, perhaps the largest slum in the world, is a paradigm shift in
terms of efficiency and optimism.
Indeed, if anything, the deadly and
deathly virus, should at least teach modern societies the importance of a healthy
body and human being, who can withstand this killer disease. So how will the
affluent society, the huge capitalist machine of excessive consumerism, and our
mighty government, react to this hunger index?
Hopefully, with empathy, compassion,
and a blueprint of effective praxis to end hunger once and for all.
As she returned to Mumba after wrapping the shoot for her upcoming film ‘Laal Singh Chaddha,’ actor Kareena Kapoor Khan on Wednesday treated fans with a breath-taking picture of herself from her flight.
The ‘mom-to-be’ who is expecting her second child with her superstar husband Saif Ali Khan, took to Instagram to share the high-on-style picture where she is seen gazing outside of the window.
The picture sees the ‘Jab We Met,’ actor exuding elegance in a white coloured suit which she paired up with a silver antique neckpiece.
“Mask pehniye aur bahar dekhiye,” she wrote in the caption making a statement about always wearing masks as the coronavirus cases soar in the country.
Earlier in the day, the 40-year-old actor had shared her excitement of flying back home with a glowing selfie on the photo-sharing platform. (ANI)
United States President Donald Trump abruptly concluded a solo interview with CBS News’ “60 Minutes” on Tuesday, and did not return for an appearance he was scheduled to shoot with US Vice President Mike Pence, sources said.
After camera crews set up at the White House on Monday, Trump sat down with host Lesley Stahl for about 45 minutes on Tuesday before leaving abruptly the interview and told the network he believed they had enough material to use, according to two sources, CNN reported.
CBS News did not instantly respond to a CNN request for comment. When reached for comment, the White House did not dispute CNN’s reporting.
Later, Trump posted on Twitter a clip of the reporter at the White House attacking her for not wearing a face mask.
“I am pleased to inform you that, for the sake of accuracy in reporting, I am considering posting my interview with Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes, PRIOR TO AIRTIME! ” he added. “This will be done so that everybody can get a glimpse of what a FAKE and BIASED interview is all about … ” Trump tweeted.
However, a source later informed CNN that Stahl had a mask on from the time she entered the White House to when the interview started. The image from the tweet only showed her standing with her producers before she went back to her belongings to wear the mask.
According to CNN, with about two weeks until the election, “Trump has spent this week lobbing scatter-shot attacks and growing upset at depictions portraying his campaign as doomed. His truncated taping on “60 Minutes” seemed an extension of what has been Trump’s visible irritation as he enters the campaign’s final days.”
Along with Trump and Pence, former Vice President Joe Biden and California Senator Kamala Harris also gave interviews with CBS and all four are scheduled to appear in a programme on Sunday. Trump and Pence were scheduled to appear on the Sunday programme together, as they did four years ago for a walk and talk session before Trump decided to end the interview without reason. Biden and Harris, however, filmed their interviews separately.
Trump is facing a massive national polling shortage against Biden.
He even called the director of NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Dr. Anthony Fauci a “disaster” on Monday, and called the news media “criminals” for not reporting unproven accusations against Biden.
Trump also demanded his attorney general to work “fast” to investigate the unfounded accusations against Biden before the elections. After the panel organizing Thursday’s debate announced that the candidates’ microphones would be muted for certain parts of the event, Trump accused them of bias.
Trump has also expressed anger over news stories commenting that his campaign is fated for defeat. He has even questioned why the Republicans are appearing to distance themselves.
Polling in states where Trump won in 2016, shows Biden to be ahead this time. Trump admitted that he was upset while standing on the tarmac in Arizona on Monday.
While speaking to Trump off-camera in 2016, Stahl said that he admitted his attacks on the press were meant to demean negative stories that are published about him.
As per CNN, “He said, ‘You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you.’ He said that,” Stahl said. (ANI)
Patna (Bihar) [India], October 21 (ANI): No qualms in fielding candidates with a criminal background and it is reflected in the 1st phase of Bihar elections 2020 as out of 1064, 328 (31%) candidates are with criminal cases and Rashtriya Janta Dal(RJD) tops the list while Bharatiya Janata Party comes in the second position with (72%), according to an election watchdog Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR).
No political party can claim that it has not given tickets to candidates with pending criminal cases including serious cases which are non-bailable offences, Rashtriya Janta Dal(RJD) has fielded most number of candidates with a criminal background (73%), followed by BJP (72%).
According to the report, 244 (23%) candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.
Serious criminal cases are non-bailable offences with over five years of imprisonment where 22(54%) out of 41 candidates analysed from RJD, 20(49%) out of 41 candidates analysed from LJP, 13(45%) out of 29 candidates analysed from BJP, 9(43%) out of 21 candidates analysed from INC, 10(29%) out of 35 candidates analysed from JD(U) and 5(19%) out of 26 candidates analysed from BSP have declared it in their affidavits.
Highlighting other parties, the polls body says that about 24 (59 per cent) out of 41 candidates analysed from the LJP have declared criminal cases against themselves and 20 (49 per cent) have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.
The report also noted 12 (57 per cent) out of 21 candidates analysed from the Congress, 15 (43 per cent) out of 35 candidates analysed from the JD(U) and eight (31 per cent) out of 26 candidates analysed from the BSP have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
“Among the major parties, 30(73%) out of 41 candidates analysed from RJD, 21(72%) out of 29 candidates analysed from BJP, 24 (59%) out of 41 candidates analysed from LJP, 12 (57%) out of 21 candidates analysed from INC, 15 (43%) out of 35 candidates analysed from JD(U) and 8 (31%) out of 26 candidates analysed from BSP have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits,” says ADR report.
On crime against women, the report notes 29 candidates have declared cases related to crime against women. Out of 29 candidates, 3 candidates have declared cases related to rape (IPC Section-375 and 376).
On Financial Also, out of the 1064 candidates analysed by the watchdog, 375 (35%) are crorepatis.
The average assets of candidates contesting phase 1 election is Rs 1.99 crores. Of this 9% of candidates have wealth of Rs 5 crore and above, while 12% have wealth between Rs 2 and Rs 5 crore.
Highest asset candidate is RJD’s Anant Kumar Singh and 5 candidates from various parties have declared zero assets.
“Among the major parties 39(95%) out of 41 candidates analysed from RJD, 31(89%) out of 35 candidates analysed from JDU, 24(83%) out of 29 candidates analysed from BJP, 30(73%) out of 41 candidates analysed from LJP, 14(67%) out of 21 candidates analysed from INC and 12(46%) out of 26 candidates from BSP have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore,” report adds.
The report also analysed educational qualification of the candidates contesting in phase 1 and noted that 43% of the candidates had declared their educational qualifications as between Class 5 and Class 12 and 49% as graduates or above. Out of the total candidates, 11% are women.
The watchdog analysed self-sworn affidavits of 1064 out of 1066 candidates contesting phase 1 of the election.
Talking about the age of the candidates in phase 1, 403 (38%) candidates have declared their age to be between 25 to 40 years while 548 (52%) candidates have declared their age to be between 41 to 60 years. There are 112(11%) candidates who have declared their age to be between 61 to 80 years. 1 candidate has declared his age 82 years.
The Bihar election will be held in three phases for a total of 243 seats — the first phase for 71 seats on October 28, the second phase for 94 seats on November 3, and the third phase for the remaining 78 will be on November 7.
The results will be announced on November 10. (ANI)
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