Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s security has been beefed up following inputs about a threat to his life.
“I don’t pay attention to it. Our home dept and home minister Devendra Fadanavis are capable and we trust them. I won’t be scared of such threats; nobody can stop me from working for the public. I will continue to work for them,” said Shinde.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday instructed police officials to tighten up Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s security in wake of repeated threats to the latter, said sources.
Fadnavis also asked the Director General of Police (DGP), Mumbai Commissioners of Police (CP) and Intelligence Commissioner to put a high-level team to find out the culprit.
“Maharashtra Deputy CM gave instructions to tighten up CM Eknath Shinde’s security and asked DGP, CP Mumbai & commissioner intelligence to put a high-level team to find out the culprit in wake of repeated threats to CM,” informed Maharashtra Home Department sources.
Overnight charging of an electric scooter battery and that too inside the house took the life of a seven-year-old Vasai boy.
Shabbir Ansari, who had suffered over 80% burns after the detachable 24 Ah Lithium Ferro Phosphate (LFP) battery of an electric vehicle Batt:RE LO:EV exploded while being charged in the living room of Sarfaraz Ansari’s Ramdas Nagar home in Vasai on September 23
Sonia is the widow of Rajiv Gandhi, the elder son of Indira Gandhi. When the biggest nationalist party Congress was on the verge of collapsing, she became the backbone of the Congress and ruled for 15 long years. Her two children Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi are active in Indian politics. Sonia Gandhi’s involvement with Indian public life began after the assassination of her mother-in-law and her husband’s election as prime minister. As the prime minister’s wife, she acted as his official hostess and also accompanied him on a number of state visits.
In 1984, she actively campaigned against her husband’s sister-in-law Maneka Gandhi who was running against Rajiv in Amethi. At the end of Rajiv Gandhi’s five years in office, the Bofors scandal broke out. Ottavio Quattrocchi, an Italian businessman believed to be involved, was said to be a friend of Sonia Gandhi, having access to the Prime Minister’s official residence. She was accused of many things by Prime minister Modi himself, but nothing has been proven against her so far. Her foreign origin is one of the most attacking points.
She is one staunch India like any one of us, who loves India and serves the country by participating in policy-making whenever her party was in power. She surrendered her Italian passport to the Italian Embassy on 27 April 1983. Italian nationality law did not permit dual nationality until 1992. So, by acquiring Indian citizenship in 1983, she would automatically lose Italian citizenship. Born in a small village near Vicenza, Italy, Gandhi was raised in a Roman Catholic family. After completing her primary education at local schools.
Sonia completed her schooling at the age of 13; her final report card read: “intelligent, diligent, committed would succeed well at the high school for teachers”. She aspired to become a flight attendant. In 1964, she went to study English at the Bell Educational Trust’s language school in the city of Cambridge. The following year, she met Rajiv Gandhi at the Varsity Restaurant, where she was working as a part-time waitress, while he was enrolled for an engineering degree in Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. She married Rajiv Gandhi in 1968 and shifted to India.
The couple had two children, Rahul Gandhi (born 1970) and Priyanka Vadra (born 1972). Despite belonging to the influential Nehru family, Sonia and Rajiv avoided all involvement in politics. Rajiv worked as an airline pilot while Sonia took care of her family. She spent a considerable amount of time with her mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi. When Rajiv entered politics in 1982 after the death of his younger brother Sanjay Gandhi in a plane crash on 23 June 1980, Sonia continued to focus on her family and avoided all contact with the public.
Her son Rahul Gandhi is a member of the Indian Parliament, representing the constituency of Wayanad, Kerala in the 17th Lok Sabha. A member of the Indian National Congress, he served as the president of the Indian National Congress from 16 December 2017 to 3 July 2019. Gandhi is the chairperson of the Indian Youth Congress, the National Students Union of India also a trustee of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust.
Rahul Gandhi attended St. Columba’s School, Delhi before entering The Doon School in Dehradun, Uttarakhand from 1981 to 1983. Rahul went to St. Stephen’s College, Delhi (an affiliated college of the University of Delhi) in 1989 for his undergraduate education but moved to Harvard University after he completed the first-year examinations. In 1991, after Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated, he shifted to Rollins College in Florida, USA, and obtained his B.A. in 1994.
He further went on to obtain an M.Phil. from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1995. Before joining politics, Rahul Gandhi, worked at the Monitor Group, a management consulting firm, in London for three years.
In 2002, Gandhi returned to India and set up his technology consultancy viz. Backops Services Private Ltd in Mumbai, where he was one of the directors of the firm. He then opened BackOps UK, a firm which used to acquire defence contracts from foreign companies that supplied to the Indian armed forces.
Sonia Gandhi’s daughter Priyanka Gandhi did her schooling at Modern School (New Delhi) and at Convent of Jesus and Mary, Delhi..She obtained a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi and later a master’s degree in Buddhist studies in 2010. All three of them are highly educated and have the dignity of labour. Whatever they did for a living is in the public domain.
Western Railway is considered to be the better in railway services but the Western Railway is being mistreated by the Ministry of Railway. RTI activist Anil Galgali has been informed by the Western Railway administration that there is no General Manager of the Western Railway for the last 8 months.
RTI activist Anil Galgali had asked for various information about the General Manager of Western Railway. Deputy Chief Staff Officer of Western Railway Ram Prasad B informed Anil Galgali that the post of General Manager of Western Railway is vacant from February 1, 2022.
Presently Prakash Butani who is the Additional General Manager has been given the charge. The competent authority for this appointment is Railway Board and it is advised to get information about the name of the Competent Authority from the Railway Board.
Anil Galgali has sent a letter to the railway minister and the administration demanding that the vacant post be filled immediately.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jairam Thakur inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of 14 developmental projects and schemes worth Rs 195.38 crore in the Dharamshala Assembly constituency today.
He inaugurated Rs 13.64 crore STP automation, augmentation and Amrit Neel Sarovar, Rs 24.76 crore construction and reconstruction of jhuggis for slum dwellers, Rs 9.37 crore intelligent and barrier-free bus shelter, Rs 6.85 crore warehouse for Electronic Voting and VVPAT machines, Rs 3.55 crore 50-metre bridge over Bhagan khud on Dharamshala-Yol-Palampur-Chadhiyar road, Rs 8.50 crore science block of government degree college Dharamshala and Rs 67 lakh environment garden. Chief Minister also laid the foundation stones of developmental projects worth Rs 128 crore.
These included Rs 101 crore comprehensive electrification project for Smart City Dharamshala, Rs 8.41 crore 33 KV sub-station at Dhagwad, Rs 7.99 crore drinking water supply scheme for Chamunda Nandikeshwar Dham and Rs 5 crore football stadium, Rs 2.17 crore green field gardens in Dharamshala Smart City area, Rs 1.91 crore Shri Chamunda Mata temple and Rs 1.56 crore science block of Government Girls Senior Secondary School Dharamshala.
Later, at a function organized on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti on police ground, Thakur gave away the house allotment letters to the beneficiaries of the Integrated Housing and Slum Development Program and Slum Re-Development component of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna under the aegis of Dharamshala Municipal Corporation and Dharamshala Smart City Limited. As many as 83 beneficiaries got the allotment letters.
The Chief Minister paid floral tributes to Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on their birth anniversaries and garlanded the statues at Gandhi Vatika.
He said, “Mahatma Gandhi was a harbinger of peace and non-violence” and he planted a sapling of Tulsi”.
The CM launched a mobile App ‘Satyanishtha’ developed by Kangra police. He also listened to the public grievances at Circuit House. MLA Dharamshala Vishal Nehria, MLA Baijnath Mulakh Raj Premi, Deputy Mayor Sarv Chand Galotia, BJP district president Chander Bhushan Nag, Deputy Commissioner Nipun Jindal, Managing Director-cum-CEO Dharamshala Smart City limited Pradeep Thakur, SP Khushal Sharma were also present among others.
Earlier, CM laid the foundation stone of developmental projects worth Rs 71.38 crore at Gandhi Chowk in Mandi town Friday.
Apart from this he inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of Rs 28.94 crore Water Supply Scheme for newly added areas of Municipal Corporation Mandi, Rs 3 crore Municipal Corporation Parking and Red Cross shopping Complex Mandi, Rs 92 lakh Parking in Zonal Hospital in Mandi on Friday.
Education Minister Govind Thakur and MLA from the Manali constituency – also present at Saturday’s event – said that the ‘Dev Lok’ would prove an added attraction for the tourists visiting the area. He said that the tourists would also get an opportunity to peep into the rich and diverse culture and history of Himachal Pradesh.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on Sunday approved the appointment of Ajay Bhadoo as Deputy Election Commissioner of the Election Commission of India. “Appointment of Ajay Bhadoo, lAS (GJ:1999), as Deputy Election Commissioner, Election Commission of India, from the date of assumption of the charge of the post, for an overall tenure of five years upto 24/07/2024 or until further orders, whichever is earlier,” a press release by the Secretariat of the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet read.
Back in July 2020, he was appointed as Joint Secretary to former President Ram Nath Kovind. Bhadoo, a Gujarat batch IAS officer has also served as the Vadodara Municipal Commissioner. He took charge of the Municipal Commissioner’s post in July 2018.
Indian javelin thrower Shivpal Singh has been suspended from competing till October 2025 due to a doping violation.
As per the Olympics.com he subsequently tested positive for the banned substance methandienone, a performance-enhancing steroid.
As a result, the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) suspended Shivpal Singh for four years. The ban comes into effect from October 21, 2021, which means that the 27-year-old will be out of action till October 2025.
The Uttar Pradesh-based athlete was a silver-medalist at the 2019 Asian Championships, where he achieved his personal best throw of 86.23m.
He had also won the 2019 World Military Games. Shivpal Singh is the fifth notable Indian athlete to be caught in the doping net this year.
Discus thrower Navjeet Kaur Dhillon, sprinter Dhanalakshmi Sekar and quarter-miler MR Poovamma have all been banned from competitions due to violations. Tokyo Olympian Kamalpreet Kaur, too, failed a dope test.
The death toll rose to 174 after a riot at a football match in Indonesia broke out on Saturday. At least 174 people have been killed after a riot at a football match in Indonesia.
The violence broke out at a stadium in East Java during a game between Arema and Persebaya Surabaya, reportedlocal media.
At least 174 people died in the stampede, Deputy East Java Governor Emil Dardak told local media on Sunday afternoon. Other official or government-backed sources put the number between 129 and 182.
Video footage from local news channels showed people rushing onto the pitch in the stadium in Malang and images of body bags, reported local media.
After the match in East Java province between Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya ended on Saturday night, supporters from the losing team invaded the pitch to express their frustration, police said.
Officers fired tear gas to control the situation, triggering a stampede and cases of suffocation, East Java police chief Nico Afinta told reporters.
Meanwhile, Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Sunday ordered a safety review of the country’s football matches. In what appears to be one of the world’s worst stadium disasters, more than 300 people were rushed to nearby hospitals, but many died on the way or in treatment.
FIFA regulations state that no firearms or “crowd control gas” should be carried or used by the police. As reported by local media, Indonesia’s chief security minister, Mahfud MD, has said on social media that the stadium was filled beyond capacity.
While the sporting venue is only supposed to hold 38,000 people, he claimed 42,000 tickets had been issued.
Indonesia’s football league had said games would be suspended for a week – but Widodo has ordered all matches to be postponed until the investigation is concluded, reported local media.
Arema has also been banned from hosting matches for the rest of the season. Further sanctions could follow.
There have been previous outbreaks of trouble at matches in Indonesia, with an intense rivalry between clubs sometimes sparking violence between supporters.
Gangster Deepak Tinu, one of the accused in the Sidhu Moosewala murder case, escaped from police custody in Punjab’s Mansa district, official sources said on Sunday.
They said a manhunt has been launched to nab Tinu, who escaped on Saturday night when he was brought on a production warrant from Goindwal Sahib jail in another case by the Mansa police, they said.
Tinu is a close aide of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, also an accused in the murder case of the Punjabi singer.
When asked about the incident, Inspector General, Bathinda Range, Mukhwinder Singh Chhina told PTI over the phone, ”We are working on it, police parties are on the job and we will catch him soon.” Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, popularly known as Sidhu Moosewala, was shot dead in Punjab’s Mansa district on May 29.
He was killed when he was on his way to Jawahar Ke village in Mansa in a jeep with his friend and cousin. His vehicle was waylaid and bullets were sprayed on him by six-shooters.
After the killing, Goldy Brar, a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, claimed responsibility for the murder.
Tinu is among 24 accused who have been charge-sheeted in the murder case.
Security agencies have been put on alert after an email was received at the Mumbai international airport warning about a bomb on an IndiGo plane, police officials said Sunday.
While the warning turned out to be a hoax, the security has been beefed up at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, they said.
“On Saturday night, an email was received at the Mumbai airport, in which it was written that a bomb had been planted in Indigo flight number 6E 6045,” an official said.
This flight was to take off from Mumbai and land at Ahmedabad. It was checked after the email, but nothing was found on the flight, the Mumbai police said.
However, the flight was delayed. Security agencies are investigating the matter.
