BALLIA, India, 5 April, 2021 (TON): Uttar Pradesh minister Anand Swaroop Shukla on Sunday claimed that gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari received foreign funding as he presented himself as “savior of Muslims”.

Speaking to reporters here, the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs hit out at the former regimes of the SP, BSP and Congress for not doing enough to punish people like Ansari.

“The former governments of the state used to shield him (Ansari) for Muslim appeasement. As a result of this, his ‘mafia raj' continued. The Yogi Adityanath government is making efforts to punish him, and has broken his financial empire,” he said.

"Time has come for Ansari to get the punishment for the crimes he has committed. That is why he is feeling afraid now. He got foreign funding as he used to present himself as savior of Muslims," Shukla said but failed to give any proof for his claim.

Punjab's home department had recently asked the Uttar Pradesh government to take Ansari's custody from Rupnagar jail on April 8, with BSP MP Afzal Ansari on Sunday saying that his brother's "safety" is now the responsibility of the judiciary and the Adityanath dispensation.

The Uttar Pradesh Police has also set up a SIT to probe into the issue of fake documents of the ambulance which was used to ferry Ansari from the Rupnagar jail to a Mohali court recently.

NEW DEHLI, 4 April, 2021 (TON): Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted people on the occasion of Easter on Sunday. 

“Greetings on Easter! On this day, we remember the pious teachings of Jesus Christ. His emphasis on social empowerment inspires millions across the world,” he tweeted.

Easter is celebrated by Christians all over the world in the belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

DHAKA, 28 March, 2021, (TON): Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina on Saturday and discussed the progress achieved in areas like connectivity, energy, trade, health, and developmental cooperation following which the two countries signed five MoUs covering a number of areas of bilateral cooperation.

Modi, who is visiting Bangladesh on his first trip to a foreign country since the outbreak of the coronavirus, held one-on-one talks with Hasina which was followed by a delegation-level meeting that continued for over an hour.

The two sides signed five Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) covering areas such as connectivity, commerce, information technology, and sports. In a humanitarian gesture, PM Modi handed over a representational key of 109 ambulances to his counterpart Hasina. He also handed over a representational box to her as a symbol of India’s gift of 1.2 million Covid vaccine doses to Bangladesh.

NEW DEHLI, 28 March, 2021, (TON): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said his government will build a road along the Indo-Nepal border, starting from Maharajganj district in the state and reaching up to Uttarakhand.

Chief Minister also announced his government's plan to build a medical college in the Bahraich district. Further, he announced these decisions while inaugurating and laying foundation stones for various projects worth nearly Rs 280 cr in the neighboring Maharajganj district and projects worth Rs 333 cr for Bahraich district.

 "We are going to build a border road along the Indo-Nepal border. The work on it will be started from the Maharajganj district. The road will take you to Pilibhit and also connect to Uttarakhand," he said in Maharjganj where he also inaugurated a Nagar Panchayat office.

  In Bahraich, Adityanath also unveiled a statue of Maharana Pratap.

 "Maharana Pratap was born in Rajasthan when the country and religion both were in danger. The foreign invaders were eager to crush India's religion, culture and freedom. At that time, Maharana Pratap launched the 'yagya' of freedom and every Indian feels grateful for what he did for the country,” the chief minister said.        

­­NEW DEHLI, 28 March, 2021, (TON): Taking into account impending celebrations, Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava instructed his officials on Saturday to ensure ideal perceptibility of the power and follow security rules while carefully implementing the DDMA orders in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

A crime review meeting was held by the Delhi Police chief with senior officers of the force through a video-conference to discuss the law-and-order situation and take stock of the action taken against incidents of crime and criminals.

In view of consecutive festivals in the coming week, Shrivastava directed the officers to ensure optimal visibility of the force. He stressed on the Delhi Disaster Management Authority’s (DDMA) guidelines regarding Covid-appropriate behavior and said it should be strictly adhered to and enforced on the ground.

The Police Commissioner also instructed his staff to follow safety guidelines while enforcing the DDMA orders.

“The police commissioner reviewed the action taken regarding the enforcement of the DDMA’s Covid guidelines and directed all to remain extra alert to ensure that public celebrations and gatherings, congregations during upcoming festivals such as Holi and Shab-e-Barat shall not to be allowed at public places, public grounds, public parks, markets and religious places,” said Anil Mittal, the Additional Public Relation Officer (APRO) of Delhi Police.

 “An appraisal of the listing of criminals and the strategy to keep a vigil on them were discussed, along with an action plan to keep a tab on jail/bail released criminals and their activities. Emphasis was laid on taking legal remedies to speed up the investigation of the pending cases,” he added.

Srivastava likewise inspected the situation with the objections in the Integrated Complaints Management System and coordinated the officials for an expedient removal of the protests, authorities said.

RAIPUR, India, 21 March, 2021, (TON): In the virtual presence of Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel will move 1,000 104 crores 27 lakh rupees in the records of 18 lakh 43 thousand farmers of the State, as the fourth portion of Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojana and a sum of Rs. 7 crores 55 lakhs as the fifteenth and sixteenth portions of the Gordhan Nyay Yojana, in the records of dairy cattle reapers, on March 21. Every one of the individuals from the bureau will be available in this program booked to be held in the Chief Minister's home office at 11 am.

Under the Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojana, farmers have been paid 4500 crore rupees in three portions. Likewise, 23 crores 62 lakh rupees have been paid in three portions to 4777 farmers of confirmed seed makers, and Rs 74 crore 24 lakh have been paid to sugarcane producer 34 thousand 292 ranchers as extra motivators and information sources. Up until this point, Rs 4597 crore 86 lakh has been paid to the ranchers under the Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojana. Boss Minister Mr. Baghel will move Rs. 3 crore 75 lakh as the fifteenth portion of the Gordhan Nyaya Yojana and Rs. 3 crore 80 lakh as the sixteenth portion in the records of the cow's reapers, in this program to be hung on March 21.

KOCHI, India, 21 March, 2021, (TON): The Pinarayi Vijayan-drove Kerala Government is on the run from the hands of law, as indicated by Anurag Thakur, Union Minister of State for Finance and Corporate issues. He said the Kerala Government's activity of documenting a criminal body of evidence against the authorities of the Enforcement Directorate for purportedly undermining and recording a bogus assertion of Swapna Suresh, the gold carrying blamed, is an until now unheard charge from a State Government against the Central Government's office.

The Crime Branch of the Kerala Government had recorded an FIR against the ED authorities examining the gold sneaking case that the last constrained and pressured Swapna Suresh that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was engaged with the wrongdoing. The FIR depended on articulation by ladies police cops who were guarding Swapna while she was the authority of the ED in the last's office at Kochi.

But the FIR is silent about the ED officials who were involved in the case.

“This kind of allegation is unheard of in the history of India. The FIR against the ED is that they forced to extract a confession from the accused and make her name Pinarayi Vijayan as an accomplice in the case,” Thakur told in the sidelines of an election campaign in Perumbavoor on Saturday.                

NEW DEHLI, 20 March, 2021, (TON): Smoke was identified in the baggage van of Lucknow-bound Shatabdi Express at Ghaziabad station on Saturday, authorities said.

All passengers on board are safe, railways said.

The train showed up at Ghaziabad station at around 6:41 am and fire detachment was called to the spot after fire quenchers neglected to control the smoke, the authorities said.

The train left for its objective at 8:20 am after the influenced mentor was disconnected, they said.

NEW DEHLI, 20 March, 2021, (TON): The CBI on Friday charge sheeted four of its own authorities in a payoff for-help body of evidence including the investigation against Frost International that had purportedly dedicated a bank misrepresentation of more than '4,300 crores.

Prior, the office had booked its agent administrators of police R K Rishi and RK Sangwan and Inspector Kapil Dhankad alongside a backer regarding a supposed bribery ring run by them inside the office to help organizations blamed for redirecting bank advance assets, authorities had said Wednesday.

The three accused CBI officials were arrested in January this year. They were booked for allegedly "compromising the integrity of investigation of certain cases on extraneous pecuniary considerations".

The FIR had likewise named Additional Director of Shree Shyam Pulp and Board Mills Mandeep Kaur Dhillon and heads of Frost International Sujay Desai and Uday Desai in the bribery case.

NEW DEHLI, 18 March, 2021, (TON):  Indian National security advisor Ajit Doval and American Defence Secretary General Lloyd Austin are likely to discuss China and important regional security issues including Afghanistan during the first visit by a top Biden administration official to India starting this Friday.

Austin is visiting India from March 19 to 21 in which he will be meeting the top political and military leadership of the country.

"The American Defence Secretary and national security advisor Ajit Doval are likely to meet on Friday itself during which they are expected to set the stage for the visit by discussing all important security issues including China," government sources told.

India and America have been working closely with each other after the Chinese attempts to change the status quo in the eastern Ladakh area in April May time frame last year.

The American side also helped by providing timely defense hardware supplies during the conflict apart from sharing important satellite feed and inputs.