An unidentified decomposed body of a man who would be around 35 year old was found inside a rexine suitcase near the stream that lies between Harigram and Panvel.
According to police, the incident came to light when a tribal boy, who had gone to catch crabs from the river, spotted a hand hanging out of the suitcase. The curious man then called the Panvel police and informed about them about the bag. On receiving the phone, the police immediately rushed to the spot and saw the decomposed body of a man inside the bag.
The senior police inspector of the Panvel police station said, “The suitcase was found in the bushes just seven feet below the road and a few feet above the river. This particular area is less frequented by people. The incident came to light when a local boy, who had gone to the river to catch crabs, noticed the suitcase. He informed the police about the incident.”
The police feel that the suitcase might have been thrown out from a moving vehicle as it was found among the bushes. Currently, the police have registered a case against an unknown person. Further information is yet to come in.
Lok Sabha voted in favour of the introduction of Citizenship Amendment Bill after a division was ordered, 293 MPs voted in favour of introducing the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha, while 82 MPs voted against it.
The contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan escaping religious persecution there. The Lok Sabha voted in favour of introducing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill despite protests from Opposition which labelled the legislation “regressive”. The bill was introduced with 293 yes and 82 Nos. The Lok Sabha saw a war of words between Home Minister Amit Shah and the Opposition, with Shah insisting that the bill was “not even 0.001% against the minorities of the country”. Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury called it “nothing but a targeted legislation over minority people of our country”, while the TMC called it “divisive and unconstitutional”.
Shiv Sena has also slammed the Centre over Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and said it could lead to an increase in vote bank politics in India. The Shiv Sena also questioned whether the intention of the bill was to “create a vote bank” and said it is not good for the country. “Is it acceptable?” Sena questioned in its editorial mouthpiece Saamana. While it did not directly oppose the bill, it suggested Shah to revoke voting rights of new citizens for the next 25 years. Sena’s suggestion came just before Shah presented the bill in Lok Sabha on Monday. Sena also questioned the move as it fears that “selective acceptance” of Hindu illegal immigrants will act as a trigger for a religious war in the country. It also warned the Centre that the bill could lead to an “invisible partition” of Hindus and Muslims.
The Bill has triggered widespread protests in northeastern states with a large section of people and organisations opposing the Bill, saying it will nullify the provisions of the Assam Accord of 1985, which fixed March 24, 1971, as the cut-off date for deportation of all illegal immigrants irrespective of religion.
The BJP has issued a three-line whip to all its lawmakers to be present in the Parliament. “All BJP members in Lok Sabha are hereby informed that some very important Legislative Business will be taken up for discussion and passing in the Lok Sabha from Monday, the 9th December 2019 to Wednesday, the 11th December 2019. All members of the BJP in Lok Sabha are therefore, requested to be positively present in the House and support the government,” the letter reads.
Shah said he was ready to respond to all queries “but the Opposition must not walk out” when he does.
Union Minister Giriraj Singh Singh told Afternoon Voice, “The Citizenship Amendment Bill will protect non-Muslims from other countries; the bill is necessary to protect members of non-Muslim communities from India’s neighbouring countries. The women of the non-Muslim communities in our neighbouring countries are not safe. For the protection of non-Muslim communities from our neighbouring countries, the Citizenship Amendment Bill is going to be tabled in the Parliament. It is our duty to enact this law in the interest of our brethren across the borders.”
AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi said that secularism is a part of the Constitution. He said that the Constitution was violated in the Sarbanand Sonowal and Chakma cases. In a democracy, everybody has the right to protest. But is it not true, that the country’s partition took place on the basis of religion? In India, we accepted the policy of equality of religions. “But in Pakistan and Bangladesh the non-Muslims are being exploited,” he added. Save India from such a law.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor stood to oppose the Bill, asking if religion should be a basis of nationhood. “Those who believed in this ideology formed Pakistan,” he said.
Trinamool Congress leader Saugata Ray rises to oppose the Bill, under rule 72(1) of the rules of the House. He said that the Home Minister being new to the House is not aware of the rules of the House. His statement invites uproar from the Treasury benches. Speaker reads out the names of all those who have opposed the introduction of the Bill on the basis of Articles 5, 10, 14, 15, 25, 26 of the Constitution. Ray called the Bill divisive and unconstitutional. He said that Shah had promised one nation, one law while abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, but the Bill excludes sixth schedule areas and Inner Line Permit areas.
While, leaders owing allegiance to the BJP or to the NDA as allies in the North East have expressed strong reservations against the bill, the BJP leaders in Assam, and those of its ally AGP, have completely chickened out in front of the central leadership of the national party.
It has been construed that those who will be granted citizenship via CAB are those who have either faced ‘religious persecution or fear of religious persecution’ in their parent country. Although the notification talks about ‘Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians’, it is the Bangladeshi Hindus who are residing in Assam without any valid documents who will benefit primarily.
In India, Uniform Civil Code is always debatable, some believe this is need of the hour because in a diverse society like India the laws needed to deal with the disputes related to the issues of marriage, divorce, custody, adoption, inheritance needs to be same for all irrespective of religion, caste or sect. At a time when reforms for strengthening the position of women in the society are being given the utmost significance and attention, there is an urgent need for a new civil code to eliminate discrimination against women in the society. Others believe that in our country, where the principle of equality of all citizens is protected in the constitution, different sets of personal laws for different religious communities go against this very principal of the constitution. Different rules of civil law go against the secular credentials of the democracy and also challenge the concept of unity in diversity. And the concept of the Uniform Civil Code is defined in Article 44 of the Indian Constitution, and comes under the Directive Principle of State policy and Article 37 states that the Directive principle of state policy cannot be enforceable by law.
Almost all the countries of the world have a common civil code for all their citizens. The basic idea behind the formulation of a Uniform Civil Code is to end discrimination based on religions. Personal law of nearly all the religions have acted as a tool of oppression of the women through which they are suppressed most of the time citing religious and social obligations. Personal laws have always played a big role in causing the rise of gender discrimination. Uniform Civil Code guaranteed by the constitution has also become a very sensitive and controversial issue that has always been communalized by people having vested interests. BJP government to give justice to Muslim women at large scrapped one of the controversial religious laws, Triple Talaq. They have scrapped article 370 without keeping a chance for debate, under their rule Uniform Civil Code is also possible, but a country like ours needs to go through the pros and cons of it.
A Uniform Civil Code administers the same set of secular civil laws to govern different people belonging to different religions and regions. This does away with the right of citizens to be governed under different personal laws based on their religion or ethnicity. Uniform Civil Code will, in the long run ensure equality.
It is necessary that law is divorced from religion. With the presentation of a uniform code, secularism will be strengthened; much of the present day separation and divisiveness between various religious groups in the country will disappear, and India will emerge as a much more cohesive and integrated nation.
The crusade for the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code should get the support of all progressive and right-thinking citizens of the country. It is the need of the hour. There is also a need for a political consensus to implement the Uniform Civil Code.
We have a secular government that says that all humans are equal, which protects the right of the citizens to practice their religion as it may. People will argue that both points are synonymous with each other but there are certain differences. You have personal law boards for religions, which put them in the grey area of constitutional law. Our Constitution has guaranteed that under Article 44, “The state shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a Uniform Civil Code throughout the territory of India” and the honourable Supreme Court and its eminent jurists have noted on multiple occasions the need for a civil code applicable to all citizens [Shah Bano, Sarala Mugdal]. Article 44 is one of the many logical, rational, good-intentioned, pious doctrines enshrined in the Constitution, but only enshrined, as in a marble tomb. There have been no laws made by our Governments, rather, they have moved in the opposite direction many times. Why most of the feminist organisations have been pushing for this code to be created and implemented is because most of the Indian personal laws were (and are) patriarchal in nature that promotes the imbalance of powers between the genders. This is a very endemic problem that causes most of the surficial gender related issues that we see today being rampantly discussed by the media.
Indirectly fights vote-bank politics, by creating a unified civil law system that treats citizens the same regardless of religion. Every modern nation has it, and that will achieve the grand vision, which was envisioned at the time of framing our constitution. In Shah Bano Case Supreme Court held that the government should implement the Uniform Civil Code and in Sarla Mudgal case. Supreme Court has also advocated the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code and one of the major problems behind the implementation of Uniform Civil Code is that whether the directive principle of state policy can not supersede over the fundamental right because fundamental right is justifiable right. While Directive principle of state policy cannot be enforceable by a court but the Uniform Civil Code can be enforceable by legislature and according to Article 245 Parliament has the right to frame a law throughout the whole territory of India.
Directive principle of state policy can over ride over the fundamental right if it violates the other fundamental right of any individual for example if any tradition of any religion violates the Article 14, Article 15, Article 21 then these traditions cannot be defended as the name of right to freedom of religion.
In conclusion, I would like to say that the Uniform Civil Code is not against any religion. It is about gender justice, equality which has already been mentioned in our constitution and in the state of Goa there is one common law system irrespective of all religions which consists of 65 per cent Hindus and 25 per cent Christians. So if it can be implemented in Goa then why not whole part of the country. In a nutshell, the Uniform Civil Code is necessary to effect an integration of a country as diversified as India by bringing all the communities into a common platform which do not form the essence of a single particular religion. A Uniform Civil Code will also enforce the idea of secularism enshrined in the Indian constitution more forcefully. Now the problem where it comes is here:-
India is a secular democratic republic, which, by its definition means that one should treat all its citizens the same.
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A 32-year-old man arrested by police for allegedly killing and raping a 5-year-old girl by smashing her head with a stone on December 8, police said on Monday. According to police, the minor girl was missing from December 6 found dead on an agriculture farm in Linga village in Kalmeshwar district.
The arrested accuse identified as Sanjay Dev Puri was remanded in police custody till December 13 by the local court
The police said, “The girl went missing on Friday evening. Initially, her parents assumed that she might have gone to the house of her grandmother. However, they lodged a missing person complaint on Saturday afternoon after realising that she was not traceable.”
Reportedly, the resident of Kalmeshwar organised rallies, and called for a “Bandh” to protest after the brutal murder and rape of the girl.The main markets of the area remained shut since morning after people has taken to streets to condemn the incident and demanded speedy justice.
The accuse has booked under Sections 376, 363, 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act.
Maharashtra BJP leader Pankaja Munde, who is reportedly sulking since her defeat in the October 21 Assembly polls, on Monday remained absent for the party’s regional level meeting in Aurangabad.
According to State BJP president Chandrakant Patil , Pankaja remained absent with a prior permission as she was unwell. And he would meet Pankaja in her hometown Parli in Beed district after two days.
Patil told reporters, “I have spoken to Pankaja Munde before coming to Aurangabad for the meeting. She is ill. Moreover, preparations are going on for the December 12 rally. She remained absent with a prior permission.”
Pankaja, daughter of BJP stalwart late Gopinath Munde, had caused a flutter with her social media post on her future political journey in view of the “altered political scenario” in Maharashtra, where the Shiv Sena formed a government with the support of the NCP and Congress after snapping ties with former ally BJP.
Pankaja, a former minister, had also appealed to her supporters to assemble at Gopinathgad a memorial of her late father in Beed district on December 12 on the occasion of his birth anniversary.
Earlier Pankaja had also removed the word “BJP” from her twitter bio, triggering speculation about her future in the BJP. But the leader later clarified that she was not leaving the BJP and that defection was not in her blood.
“Veep” star Julia Louis-Dreyfus has opened up about her time at “Saturday Night Live”, which she says was very sexist, brutal but informative.
Louis-Dreyfus says being miserable on the comedy show taught her to value the “fun-meter” of her subsequent jobs and that helped her a lot in navigating her showbiz career, reported a leading website.
“I was unbelievably naive and I didn’t really understand how the dynamics of the place worked. It was very sexist, very sexist. People were doing crazy drugs at the time. I was oblivious. I just thought, Oh wow. He’s got a lot of energy’,” she told Stephen Colbert during a Q&A at the Montclair Film Festival held in Montclair, New Jersey.
Louis-Dreyfus joined the variety show in 1982, becoming SNL’s youngest female cast member at that time. She went on to share the stage with the likes of Eddie Murphy, Martin Short, and Billy Crystal.
“It was a pretty brutal time, but it was a very informative time for me,” she said.
“I learned I wasn’t going to do any more of this show-business crap unless it was fun. I don’t have to walk and crawl through this kind of nasty glass if it’s not ultimately going to be fulfilling, and so that’s how I sort of moved forward from that moment. I sort of applied that fun-meter’ to every job I’ve had since and that has been very helpful,” she added.
Interestingly, her time on SNL helped her land one of the most iconic comedy shows of all time.
A few years after she left the show, writer Larry David sent her a script for a show titled “The Seinfeld Chronicles”.
“Jerry’s laughing the whole time. I mean he can’t act at all and so he’s got a huge smile on his face when anyone is saying anything. And if I looked at him and saw him doing that, then I would [crack] up. Anyway, it took a long time to shoot those things because I was ruining all the takes. And so that was my favorite thing,” she recalled.
Australian actor and writer Rebel Wilson opened up about her drinking habits when and revealed that she’s never actually been drunk in her life.
The 39-year-old actor visited ‘The Late Late Show with James Corden’ to talk about her upcoming musical fantasy film ‘Cats,’ where she opened up about her drinking habits, reported a news channel.
While getting candid in the show Wilson said, “Fun fact, I’ve never been drunk in my whole entire life.”
American singer and songwriter Kacey Musgraves, who was also present at the show said, “Wait, no,” while the show’s host Corden’s jaw dropped.
Wilson also admitted the fact as she said, “I cultivate this ‘party girl’ image, like, on Instagram and stuff, but it’s not true, It’s just, like, me with bottles. It’s an internal joke with myself.”
According to a website, ‘The Hustle’ actor learned a fact about alcohol in her school that it killed brain cells, so she never tried it before she was 25. Also in the actor’s home country Australia, the legal drinking age is 18.
Wilson’s new movie, ‘Cats,’ also features actor James Corden, singers Taylor Swift, Jason Derulo and more. The movie is slated to arrive in theatres on 20 December.
Singer and songwriter Miley Cyrus has added one more tattoo to her body art collection amid her ongoing divorce from ex and American actor ex Liam Hemsworth.
The 27-year-old singer got inked with two new tattoos over the weekend by celebrity tattoo artist Daniel Winter, aka Winter Stone, reported a leading magazine.
On Saturday, Cyrus got the word ‘freedom’ delicately written across her hand, above her knuckles. Tattoo artist Winter revealed in a post on Instagram that it was accomplished by using a single needle.
And on Sunday, Winter shared the second tattoo which is a sentimental note she received from Japanese-American artist and singer Yoko Ono. “I’m proud of U, Yoko,” the tattoo read in Ono’s handwriting on Cyrus’ left shoulder.
The ‘Party in the USA’ crooner’s newest tattoo comes months after her ex-husband Hemsworth filed for divorce from Cyrus in August, shortly after the couple announced that they were ending their seven-month marriage.
Shortly after getting apart from the actor, Cyrus went on to date Reality TV star Kaitlynn Carter, and they ended their romance in late September. After Carter, the ‘7 things’ singer began dating Australian musician Cody Simpson.
The duo, in October, got inked together at the celebrity tattoo artist Nico Bassill’s private studio where Simpson got a skull and crossbones line drawing, backed by the grim reaper’s signature scythe tattooed on his right chest, while Cyrus got a bleeding heart with a knife pierced through it tattooed on the back of her right arm.
Actor Kriti Sanon says it was nearly impossible for the team of “Panipat” to trim down its run-time because when one deals with history, it’s difficult to cut a lot of events.
Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, “Panipat” released last on Friday. The Arjun Kapoor-Kriti starrer historical drama has a duration of nearly two hours fifty minutes.
When pointed out that there has been some criticism with regards to its length, Kriti told reporters, “When you’re dealing with history, it’s difficult to cut a lot of things because you’ve to show facts. When there are a lot of characters, which there were in Panipat war, it takes time to establish them.”
The actor said a period love story is comparatively easier to trim as the story revolves around just those characters.
“The pace in historical, period films is always slow in the beginning, unless it’s a love story, which is easier with just a few characters and life revolving around them. Here, there’s so much that’s happening. I don’t think there was anything which we could’ve let go, which wasn’t important or relevant to the times,” the actor said at the red carpet of Star Screen Awards on Sunday.
There were reports that Kriti might feature in Farah Khan’s “Satte Pe Satta” but the actor said, “I’d love to but there’s nothing that I know of, to be very honest.”
“The year started with ‘Luka Chuppi’, then ‘Housefull 4’ and now ‘Panipat’ is getting such amazing reviews. I’ve been getting great response for my character and it took me a while to sink it in! Because it was my first historical, I wanted to make sure it’s convincing and people don’t see Kriti in it,” she added.
An unidentified decomposed body of a man who would be around 35 year old was found inside a rexine suitcase near the stream that lies between Harigram and Panvel.
Lok Sabha voted in favour of the introduction of Citizenship Amendment Bill after a division was ordered, 293 MPs voted in favour of introducing the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha, while 82 MPs voted against it.
A 32-year-old man arrested by police for allegedly killing and raping a 5-year-old girl by smashing her head with a stone on December 8, police said on Monday. According to police, the minor girl was missing from December 6 found dead on an agriculture farm in Linga village in Kalmeshwar district.
Maharashtra BJP leader Pankaja Munde, who is reportedly sulking since her defeat in the October 21 Assembly polls, on Monday remained absent for the party’s regional level meeting in Aurangabad.
“Veep” star Julia Louis-Dreyfus has opened up about her time at “Saturday Night Live”, which she says was very sexist, brutal but informative.
Australian actor and writer Rebel Wilson opened up about her drinking habits when and revealed that she’s never actually been drunk in her life.
Singer and songwriter Miley Cyrus has added one more tattoo to her body art collection amid her ongoing divorce from ex and American actor ex Liam Hemsworth.
Bollywood’s dimple queen Deepika Padukone was seen slaying the social media on Sunday with a hair makeover.
Actor Kriti Sanon says it was nearly impossible for the team of “Panipat” to trim down its run-time because when one deals with history, it’s difficult to cut a lot of events.