President of the Wrestling Federation of India, BJP. MP Brij Bhushan Charan Singh, 66 years old, and some coaches accused of sexually harassing and psychologically harassing young female wrestlers, led a dharna protest in Delhi’s Jandar Mandar last January to demand action against him. Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur, who brought the 3-day-long protest to an amicable end, constituted a 6-member monitoring committee headed by boxer Mary Kom to inquire into the allegation. He also ordered that Brij Bhushan be removed from the post of chairman until the investigation is over. Brij Bhushan categorically denied the complaints against him and said that he will not step down from the post of president. At the same time, he announced that he will not contest again for the post of the president of the wrestling federation, which will be held next month. Meanwhile, the six-member committee that probed the allegations against Brij Bhushan and the wrestlers concerned has recently submitted its report to the Union Sports Ministry. But the details of the report are yet to be released by the sports ministry. No case has yet been registered against Brij Bhushan Charan Singh. In this case, the president of the Wrestling Federation of India, who is involved in the sexual complaint, and the BJP. The male and female wrestlers started protesting yesterday to file a case against MP Brij Bhushan Charan Singh. The protest that started yesterday continued into the night. The players and players have said that anyone can support their protest as the protest continues even today. In this regard, Vinish Phogat, a gold medalist in the Commonwealth and Asian Games, said, “We don’t trust anyone blindly. Last time we were misled. We hope that this time there will be no politics in this case. Similarly, Olympic medalist Bajrang Punia said that this time any party like Congress and BJP can participate in our protest. We have no connection with any party’ he said.
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Owaisi targets Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his promise to end Muslim quota
Hyderabad: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has slammed Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his promise that if the BJP is voted to power in Telangana, it will scrap reservation for Muslims in the state.
Owaisi said while Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks of reaching out to backward Muslims, Shah is promising to remove their reservation.
“Modi allegedly says reach out to pasmanda Muslims, Amit Shah complies by promising to remove their reservation,” tweeted Owaisi
The Hyderabad MP also reminded Shah that reservations for backward Muslim groups are based on empirical data.
“Please read the Sudhir Commission report. If you cannot, please ask someone who can. Reservations for Muslims are continuing under a stay from SC,” Owaisi wrote.
Addressing a public meeting at Chevella near Hyderabad on Sunday evening, Shah had promised to do away with reservations for Muslims.
He called the quota for Muslims “anti-Constitutional” and said that reservation is the right of the Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC).
“After the BJP government is formed in Telangana, we will end Muslim reservation. This is the right of SCs, STs, OBCs,” he said.
Owaisi said if Shah was serious about justice for SCs, STs and OBCs, then he should introduce a Constitutional amendment to remove the 50 per cent quota ceiling.
This is not the first time that Shah has spoken about removing reservations for Muslims in Telangana.
He made the promise on several occasions in the past and reiterated this in view of Assembly elections scheduled later this year.
The BJP government in Karnataka last month scrapped 4 per cent quota for OBC Muslims.
Backward Muslims in Telangana also enjoy 4 per cent reservation in education and jobs. This was introduced by the Congress government in undivided Andhra Pradesh about 15 years ago.
The state’s incumbent Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS)-led government has promised to increase the Muslim quota to 12 per cent.
A resolution to this effect was passed in Telangana Assembly and sent to the Centre five years ago but the proposal has been rejected by the BJP-led government.
Owaisi also took a dig at Shah for repeatedly naming him in his speech while targeting the BRS government.
“Ye ‘Owaisi Owaisi’ ka rona kab tak chalega? Khaali khattey dialog’aan maarte rehte. Please sometimes speak about record-breaking inflation & unemployment also. Telangana has the highest per capita income in the country,” tweeted Owaisi.
The AIMIM chief alleged that except anti-Muslim hate speech, the BJP has no vision for Telangana.
“All they can offer is fake encounters, surgical strikes on Hyderabad, curfews, releasing criminals & bulldozers. Why do you hate people of Telangana so much?,” he asked.
Shah had alleged in his speech that the steering of the ‘car’ (poll symbol of BRS) is in the hands of Owaisi.
He also alleged that the BRS is not celebrating Telangana Liberation Day as it is afraid of Owaisi.
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Family who lost son on Eid donates his organs to save two lives in Delhi
NEW DELHI: A grieving family of Muslim labourers gave a life-changing gift to a boy and a young man on Eid. They donated the organs of their nine-year-old son who was declared brain dead on April 21 after an accident.
Doctors tried to revive the boy, who was brought to AIIMS on April 15 with severe head injuries after a two-wheeler accident. They couldn’t.
After the AIIMS organ retrieval banking organisation spoke to the family, they signed the consent forms on April 22. The boy was the youngest of the five children of the couple who did not have the heart to speak about the donation. The family is from Mewat in Haryana.
The boy’s cousin told TOI that the decision was a tough one for the entire family. He was the youngest, and they lost him at the time of the festival, he said. “If his organs can save the lives of others, then it’s the best gift to him,” the cousin said.
The boy was born with one kidney, which AIIMS confirmed after a CT scan and a USG of his abdomen. It was retrieved to be donated to a 20-year-old youth from Haryana’s Bahadurgarh, admitted to AIIMS.
His liver has been given to a 16-year-old boy at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, according to allocation by the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO), doctors in AIIMS said.
Both his corneas were retrieved by the RP Centre Eye Bank and will be given to patients in AIIMS in the near future. The boy’s heart valves were also retrieved to be used later. However, his heart and lungs were not found suitable for transplant by experts from NOTTO.
AIIMS doctors said this was the fifth paediatric donation in the age group of 1-12 years of the 19 donations at the JPN Apex Trauma Centre since April 2022.
Dr Deepak Gupta, professor of neurosurgery and faculty in-charge of the organ procurement team, trauma centre, said there is a myth that organs can be extracted for donation only from patients only between 18 years and 60 years of age. Organ donation can be done after brain death of a patient, irrespective of their age, he said.
“A set of two tests are conducted (repeated at interval of six hours in adults and 12 hours in children) by a team of four doctors for brain death certification according to the Transplantation of Human Organs & Tissues Act (THOTA),” he said. A brain-dead patient can give a new lease of life to an average of eight patients after consent is given by the patient’s family.
He said that in the case of neonatal donors, they are too small to recover organs for transplantation, especially those younger than one year of age. Finding suitable recipients for such young donors can be a challenge too. -
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik performed Akhi Muthi friendly ritual on Akshaya Tritiya
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday launched several people-oriented programmes on the occasion of Akshay Tritiya.
On this occasion, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik participated in a special programme organised by the Department of Agriculture at the Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) farm in Bhubaneswar.
CM Naveen also performed the ritual of Akhi Muthi Anukula and Bhumi Pujana during the programme. Agriculture Minister Ranendra Pratap Swain and other officials were present during the occasion.
On this occasion, the Chief Minister also inaugurated an ‘Agricultural Review Centre’, which will function as a ‘central command and control system’ in the state agriculture building.
In the application of computer and information technology, it can help in decision-making by obtaining real-time information from the field level. The center will play an important role in the successful implementation of various schemes and support to the farmers.
Chief Minister also inaugurated a creche ‘Kalika’ for the children of the employees working in Lok Seva Bhavan. Currently, it can accommodate 20 children in the initial phase.
Agriculture and Farmers Empowerment Minister Ranendra Pratap Swain, Women and Child Development Minister Basanti Hembram, Chief Secretary Pradeep Kumar Jena, Development Commissioner Anu Garg, Secretary Mission Shakti Sujatha Karthikeyan Pandian and Secretary for Women and Child Development Shubha Sharma were present at this event.
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Rain and storm: Orange alert issued for 11 districts
Bhubaneswar: The Meteorological Centre here today issued an orange warning for rain accompanied by thunderstorms with lightning over 11 districts of Odisha.
Thunderstorms with lightning and gusty surface wind speed reaching 40-50 kmph with hailstorms very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Kalahandi, Rayagada, Koraput, Kandhamal, Ganjam, Cuttack, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Dhenkanal, Angul, Boudh till tomorrow morning, informed the weatherman.
Meanwhile, the people of the above-mentioned districts have been advised to keep watch on the weather and take safe shelter during the thunderstorm activity to protect from lightning and follow traffic advisories in urban areas. Harvesting of Rabi crops may be regulated judicially.
Likewise, yellow warning for thunderstorms with lighting and gusty surface wind speed reaching 40-50 very likely to occur at one or two places over the districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Khurda, Nayagarh, Ganjam, Gajapati, Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Dhenkanal, Angul, Boudh, Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Kandhamal, Koraput, Rayagada, Nuapada till 8.30 AM tomorrow.
Similarly, thunderstorm with lightning is very likely to occur at one or two places over the rest districts of Odisha.
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Clash at cinema hall over car parking in Odisha’s Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar: Tension prevailed on the premises of Maharaja Cinema Hall between two groups on Saturday night.
Report says, two groups had come to watch a movie at Maharaja cinema hall. They had an intense argument regrading car parking and later it turned to a physical altercation.
As per the video, a girl was seen sitting on top of the car bonnet and started hitting it. A youth who was along with the girl broke the windows of the car.Later, the opponent group then dragged the girl down from the car and had physical fight.
Following which, a large number of people who had come to watch movie gathered at the spot for nearly half an hour
On getting information, police rushed to the spot and detained several members of both the groups.
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Tathagata Satpathy’s ‘I am independent, not in BJD’ comment sparks political debate
Bhubaneswar: Former Dhenkanal MP Tathagata Satpathy sparked a political debate in Odisha politics after he said, ‘I am independent, not in BJD.’
While speaking to the media persons on the occasion of the inauguration of the Sankha Bhavan, the new office building of BJD in Bhubaneswar, Satpathy said, “I am independent, not in BJD and have come here as a journalist. I came because the BJD president invited me. The Sankha Bhavan is looking great.”
“I have no interest to contest in the 2024 elections,” he added.
It is to be noted here that Tathagata Satpathy was a member of the 12th, 14th, 15th and 16th Lok Sabha. He represented the Dhenkanal constituency and was re-elected for the fourth time in 2014. He was also the Biju Janata Dal’s chief whip in the lower house of the Parliament. He did not contest the 2019 election and had announced not to stay away from politics and work as a journalist. Since then he was not seen in any of the programs of the State ruling party.
However, his attendance at the inauguration of the Sankha Bhavan today has now become a subject of discussion in Odisha politics.
Several senior politicians and BJD leaders and workers from across the State attended the inauguration of the Sankha Bhavan.
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Naveen Patnaik inaugurated Bajra Shakti Cafe at Lok Seva Bhawan
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister inaugurated various people-centric projects including a Millet Shakti Cafe at Lok Seva Bhawan on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya and Krushak Divas today.
With the inauguration of the Millet Shakti Cafe at Lok Seva Bhawan, till now as many as 142 millet outlets have been opened across the state.
The state government has implemented the Millet Mission after realising the importance of Mandia and other millet food grains in controlling malnutrition.
Later, the Chief Minister also inaugurated the Krushi Samiksha Kendra (KSK) virtually. The KSK, which is India’s first integrated command & control centre in the agriculture domain, has been set up under the 5T approach of the state government on the premises of Krushi Bhavan.
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Sheetal Shashthi 2023: Thala Utha ritual completed in Sambalpur
Sambalpur: The Thala Utha ritual for this years’ Sital Sasthi festival, which commemorates divine marriage of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati, concluded in Odisha’s Sambalpur.
According to sources, the Thala Utha ritual had begun as per the tradition in the temples on the occasion of the Akshaya Tritiya and Krushak Divas today. Special puja was held at Nandapada, Jhaduapada and Mudipada of the Sambalpur, added the sources.
The wedding of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati is slated to be held on May 24 and while the grand procession of the newly married divine couple will be held on May 25 and May 26, following which they will enter the temple.
Thousands of devotees and visitors gathered to have a glimpse of the divine couple during the Sital Sasthi festival.
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PM Modi To Lay Foundation Stone Of India’s First Digital Science Park In Kerala
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is scheduled to visit Kerala on a two-day trip on April 24, will lay the foundation stone for the country’s first Digital Science Park, a Rs-1,500-crore project, here on Tuesday, April 25.
The third-generation Science Park (they are located in bustling city centres) will come up close to the Digital University of Kerala at Technopark Phase IV – Technocity, a government release said.
Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, CPrime Minister Narendra Modi, who is scheduled to visit Kerala on a two-day trip on April 24, will lay the foundation stone for the country’s first Digital Science Park, a Rs-1,500-crore project, here on Tuesday, April 25.
The third-generation Science Park (they are located in bustling city centres) will come up close to the Digital University of Kerala at Technopark Phase IV – Technocity, a government release said.
Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw, various ministers of the Left government and Congress’s Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor would be attending the event, the release said.The Digital Science Park project had been conceived as a multidisciplinary cluster-based interactive-innovation zone focused on digital technologies and is expected to be completed in two years, it said.
In the 2022-23 budget, the state government had announced the establishment of a Digital Science Park in an area of 10 lakh square feet in two blocks, the release added. “The park will initially have two buildings with a total area of 2,00,000 square feet. The first one in 1,50,000 square feet will have five floors, housing the Centre of Excellence (CoE) including research labs and digital incubator, while the second building will house the administrative as well as Digital Experience centre.”
The Digital Science Park will start its operations from a 10,000 square feet space in Kabani located at Technopark Phase IV within the next couple of months, it added. Out of the total project outlay of over Rs 1,500 crore, Rs 200 crore has already been allotted by the state government and the remaining amount will be generated from other sources including industry partners, the release said.
Initially, Digital Science Park will facilitate industry and business units as well as technology startups from the domains of Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, electronics, smart hardware, sustainable and smart materials. “UK-based semiconductor and software design company ARM has signed an agreement with Digital University Kerala on academic, research and startup-related activities as part of this centre.
“Similarly, the centre for AI will focus on both the hardware and software aspects of responsible AI, where the leading multinational technology company NVIDIA is expected to join as a partner,” the release said.
hief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw, various ministers of the Left government and Congress’s Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor would be attending the event, the release said.