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  • Lok Sabha adjourned for the day amid Oppn uproar over ‘misuse’ of ED

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha lawsuits had been adjourned for the day on Thursday amid sloganering by means of Congress participants in opposition to the alleged misuse of the Enforcement Directorate by means of the federal government.

    As quickly because the Area met at 2 pm, papers had been laid at the desk and two resolutions followed amid persevered sloganeering by means of Congress participants.

    Kirit Solanki, who was once within the chair, asked the protesting participants to return to their seats and make allowance the Area to serve as and then he adjourned the lawsuits for the day.

    Previous within the day, Lok Sabha lawsuits had been adjourned until 2 pm once Congress participants displayed placards to protest in opposition to the movements of the Enforcement Directorate and value upward thrust.

    Amid the sloganeering by means of Opposition participants, the Query Hour went on until round 11:30 am and 5 questions in addition to their comparable supplementaries had been taken up.

    Congress and different Opposition participants protested in opposition to the ED motion, GST on crucial pieces and value upward thrust.

    Then again, at round 11:30 am, once some Congress participants displayed placards status within the Neatly of the Area, Speaker Om Birla adjourned the lawsuits until 2 pm.

    Congress chief within the Area Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was once the primary to show the placards and different participants then introduced placards to the Area.

    Previous this week, when Birla had revoked the suspension of 4 Opposition participants, he had additionally made it transparent that they will have to now not show placards within the Area.

    As quickly because the lawsuits started on Thursday, Opposition participants sought to lift quite a lot of problems and shouted slogans.

    With the Speaker now not permitting them to elevate the problems, Congress participants trooped into the Neatly of the Area whilst the ones from the DMK, NCP and CPI-M, amongst others, protested by means of status at their seats.

    Previous, Birla requested the Congress participants, who had been protesting within the Neatly, to return to their seats.

    The Speaker additionally warned that he would have to do so in the event that they persevered to face within the Neatly. The strains ‘Save Charter, Save Democracy’ and ‘GST hurting not unusual other folks’ had been written at the placards.

    But even so, the participants additionally protested in opposition to worth upward thrust.

    Whilst the protests had been proceeding, DMK member S R Parthiban (DMK Salem) requested a supplementary query and at the moment, Birla and DMK chief T R Baalu had been noticed smiling at each and every different because the Southern birthday party was once additionally protesting.

    All the way through the Query Hour, the Speaker additionally advised Energy, New and Renewable Power Minister R Okay Singh that as a minister he will have to be realizing the foundations and that paperwork should be tabled within the Area and indirectly given to the participants.

    The statement got here after Singh spoke back to a supplementary query associated with renewable power.

    On Wednesday, the ED quickly sealed the administrative center of Younger Indian (YI) corporate housed within the premises of Congress-owned newspaper Nationwide Bring in right here as a part of an ongoing cash laundering investigation.

    Afterward Wednesday, the street to AICC headquarters was once blocked by means of the Delhi police with the Congress pronouncing policemen had been deployed there and claimed the birthday party was once “underneath siege” by means of the Modi govt.

    NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha lawsuits had been adjourned for the day on Thursday amid sloganering by means of Congress participants in opposition to the alleged misuse of the Enforcement Directorate by means of the federal government.

    As quickly because the Area met at 2 pm, papers had been laid at the desk and two resolutions followed amid persevered sloganeering by means of Congress participants.

    Kirit Solanki, who was once within the chair, asked the protesting participants to return to their seats and make allowance the Area to serve as and then he adjourned the lawsuits for the day.

    Previous within the day, Lok Sabha lawsuits had been adjourned until 2 pm once Congress participants displayed placards to protest in opposition to the movements of the Enforcement Directorate and value upward thrust.

    Amid the sloganeering by means of Opposition participants, the Query Hour went on until round 11:30 am and 5 questions in addition to their comparable supplementaries had been taken up.

    Congress and different Opposition participants protested in opposition to the ED motion, GST on crucial pieces and value upward thrust.

    Then again, at round 11:30 am, once some Congress participants displayed placards status within the Neatly of the Area, Speaker Om Birla adjourned the lawsuits until 2 pm.

    Congress chief within the Area Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was once the primary to show the placards and different participants then introduced placards to the Area.

    Previous this week, when Birla had revoked the suspension of 4 Opposition participants, he had additionally made it transparent that they will have to now not show placards within the Area.

    As quickly because the lawsuits started on Thursday, Opposition participants sought to lift quite a lot of problems and shouted slogans.

    With the Speaker now not permitting them to elevate the problems, Congress participants trooped into the Neatly of the Area whilst the ones from the DMK, NCP and CPI-M, amongst others, protested by means of status at their seats.

    Previous, Birla requested the Congress participants, who had been protesting within the Neatly, to return to their seats.

    The Speaker additionally warned that he would have to do so in the event that they persevered to face within the Neatly. The strains ‘Save Charter, Save Democracy’ and ‘GST hurting not unusual other folks’ had been written at the placards.

    But even so, the participants additionally protested in opposition to worth upward thrust.

    Whilst the protests had been proceeding, DMK member S R Parthiban (DMK Salem) requested a supplementary query and at the moment, Birla and DMK chief T R Baalu had been noticed smiling at each and every different because the Southern birthday party was once additionally protesting.

    All the way through the Query Hour, the Speaker additionally advised Energy, New and Renewable Power Minister R Okay Singh that as a minister he will have to be realizing the foundations and that paperwork should be tabled within the Area and indirectly given to the participants.

    The statement got here after Singh spoke back to a supplementary query associated with renewable power.

    On Wednesday, the ED quickly sealed the administrative center of Younger Indian (YI) corporate housed within the premises of Congress-owned newspaper Nationwide Bring in right here as a part of an ongoing cash laundering investigation.

    Afterward Wednesday, the street to AICC headquarters was once blocked by means of the Delhi police with the Congress pronouncing policemen had been deployed there and claimed the birthday party was once “underneath siege” by means of the Modi govt.

  • ‘Now not terrified of Narendra Modi, may not be intimidated’: Rahul Gandhi on ED motion in Nationwide Usher in case

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: Launching a scathing assault at the high minister, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi Thursday stated he’s “now not terrified of Narendra Modi” and may not be “intimidated” by way of the Enforcement Directorate’s motion within the Nationwide Usher in case.

    Gandhi’s response got here an afternoon after the ED sealed the workplace of Younger Indian in Usher in Area within the nationwide capital, and the Delhi police in short barricaded his place of dwelling and the birthday celebration workplace right here.

    Gandhi termed those movements an “strive at intimidation”.

    “We can now not be intimidated. We aren’t terrified of Narendra Modi,” he informed newshounds out of doors Parliament.

    “They’ll do no matter they would like. It does now not topic.”

    “I can proceed to paintings to give protection to the rustic and democracy and deal with team spirit within the nation. I can proceed to do my paintings no matter they’ll do,” he stated in his first reaction after the ED sealed the Younger Indian workplace.

    At the barricading factor, he stated “fact can’t be barricaded”, and added his birthday celebration will proceed to protest.

    The previous Congress leader stated the BJP executive thinks its can “silence us by way of striking some power on us”.

    “However we will be able to now not be silenced,” he stated.

    “What Narendra Modi and Amit Shah are doing on this nation and towards democracy, we will be able to stand towards it no matter they’ll do. It does now not topic.”

    NEW DELHI: Launching a scathing assault at the high minister, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi Thursday stated he’s “now not terrified of Narendra Modi” and may not be “intimidated” by way of the Enforcement Directorate’s motion within the Nationwide Usher in case.

    Gandhi’s response got here an afternoon after the ED sealed the workplace of Younger Indian in Usher in Area within the nationwide capital, and the Delhi police in short barricaded his place of dwelling and the birthday celebration workplace right here.

    Gandhi termed those movements an “strive at intimidation”.

    “We can now not be intimidated. We aren’t terrified of Narendra Modi,” he informed newshounds out of doors Parliament.

    “They’ll do no matter they would like. It does now not topic.”

    “I can proceed to paintings to give protection to the rustic and democracy and deal with team spirit within the nation. I can proceed to do my paintings no matter they’ll do,” he stated in his first reaction after the ED sealed the Younger Indian workplace.

    At the barricading factor, he stated “fact can’t be barricaded”, and added his birthday celebration will proceed to protest.

    The previous Congress leader stated the BJP executive thinks its can “silence us by way of striking some power on us”.

    “However we will be able to now not be silenced,” he stated.

    “What Narendra Modi and Amit Shah are doing on this nation and towards democracy, we will be able to stand towards it no matter they’ll do. It does now not topic.”

  • Gujarat: Two netas give up Congress over Mevani’s rising stature; to sign up for BJP

    By means of Specific Information Carrier

    AHMEDABAD: Unsatisfied with the rising stature of Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani throughout the Congress, the birthday celebration’s senior SC chief and previous Rajya Sabha member Raju Parmar has introduced that he’s quitting the birthday celebration along side former house minister and three-term MLA Naresh Raval. Each are most probably to sign up for the BJP.

    The prominence being accorded to Mevani through the top command, particularly Rahul Gandhi, has unsettled reasonably a couple of leaders within the Gujarat Congress. Parmar claimed that Mevani was once being promoted even supposing he hadn’t achieved a lot for the birthday celebration up to now.

    Any other senior SC chief of the Congress instructed this newspaper that Mevani was once prone to be propped up because the birthday celebration’s Dalit face nationally. The chief mentioned that Mevani’s affiliation with the birthday celebration had now not yielded any sure effects, but he was once made operating president, even supposing he didn’t have any “reference to the grassroots”.

    Mevani was once elected from Vadgam meeting constituency in 2017 as an ‘Unbiased’ can didate after the Congress vacated the seat for him.

    “I and Raju Parmar have determined to renounce from Congress. We will be able to sign up for BJP at a serve as on August 17. A lot of our supporters will even sign up for the BJP on that day,” Raval instructed newshounds in Gandhinagar.

    Parmar, a distinguished Dalit chief in Gujarat Congress, showed that he’ll be leaving the birthday celebration within the subsequent two days.

    He’s going to talk at a joint press convention about long term plans, he added.

    Raval mentioned he was once leaving Congress because of a number of causes together with betrayal through colleagues.

    “I had many sour stories within the birthday celebration within the closing ten years. The birthday celebration now lacks teamwork. Leaders make selections with none inside dialogue and make others really feel inferior. I additionally skilled betrayal,” he mentioned.

    Congress’s beef up stage has long past down enormously in comparison to 2017 when it had received 77 seats within the 182-member Meeting, he claimed.

    He has now not demanded a ballot price ticket from the BJP, Raval added.

    Meeting polls in Gujarat are anticipated to be held in December.

    (With PTI Inputs)

    AHMEDABAD: Unsatisfied with the rising stature of Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani throughout the Congress, the birthday celebration’s senior SC chief and previous Rajya Sabha member Raju Parmar has introduced that he’s quitting the birthday celebration along side former house minister and three-term MLA Naresh Raval. Each are most probably to sign up for the BJP.

    The prominence being accorded to Mevani through the top command, particularly Rahul Gandhi, has unsettled reasonably a couple of leaders within the Gujarat Congress. Parmar claimed that Mevani was once being promoted even supposing he hadn’t achieved a lot for the birthday celebration up to now.

    Any other senior SC chief of the Congress instructed this newspaper that Mevani was once prone to be propped up because the birthday celebration’s Dalit face nationally. The chief mentioned that Mevani’s affiliation with the birthday celebration had now not yielded any sure effects, but he was once made operating president, even supposing he didn’t have any “reference to the grassroots”.

    Mevani was once elected from Vadgam meeting constituency in 2017 as an ‘Unbiased’ can didate after the Congress vacated the seat for him.

    “I and Raju Parmar have determined to renounce from Congress. We will be able to sign up for BJP at a serve as on August 17. A lot of our supporters will even sign up for the BJP on that day,” Raval instructed newshounds in Gandhinagar.

    Parmar, a distinguished Dalit chief in Gujarat Congress, showed that he’ll be leaving the birthday celebration within the subsequent two days.

    He’s going to talk at a joint press convention about long term plans, he added.

    Raval mentioned he was once leaving Congress because of a number of causes together with betrayal through colleagues.

    “I had many sour stories within the birthday celebration within the closing ten years. The birthday celebration now lacks teamwork. Leaders make selections with none inside dialogue and make others really feel inferior. I additionally skilled betrayal,” he mentioned.

    Congress’s beef up stage has long past down enormously in comparison to 2017 when it had received 77 seats within the 182-member Meeting, he claimed.

    He has now not demanded a ballot price ticket from the BJP, Raval added.

    Meeting polls in Gujarat are anticipated to be held in December.

    (With PTI Inputs)

  • ‘Congress beneath siege’: Celebration leaders rush to AICC HQ amid heavy police presence

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate(ED) on Wednesday quickly sealed the place of job of Younger Indian (YI) corporate housed within the premises of Congress-owned newspaper Nationwide Usher in right here as a part of an ongoing cash laundering investigation, legitimate resources stated.

    In a while after the ED motion, the street to AICC headquarters was once blocked by way of the Delhi police with the Congress announcing policemen have been deployed there and in addition across the apartments of celebration leader Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi within sight as though they have been “terrorists”, and claimed the celebration was once “beneath siege” by way of the Modi executive.

    However the police stated barricades have been erected and its workforce deputed to steer clear of any untoward scenario. The barricades have been later got rid of.

    Addressing a hurriedly convened press convention on the celebration place of job, Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh, Ajay Maken and Abhishek Singhvi stated the Congress celebration may not be intimidated by way of this type of “affordable and petty politics” and can proceed to boost other people’s problems.

    The seal within the place of job of YI was once put so as to “maintain the proof” which might no longer be accumulated as permitted representatives of the corporate weren’t provide all the way through the raids that have been introduced on Tuesday, legitimate resources stated.

    ALSO READ | Cash laundering probe: ED seals Younger Indian Ltd. place of job in Nationwide Usher in premises in Delhi

    The remainder of the Nationwide Usher in place of job at the best ground of the four-storey ‘Usher in Space’ construction and different places of work are open to be used, the resources added.

    The passport place of job may be housed within the ‘Usher in Space’ positioned at Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg.

    A understand affixed beneath the signature of the ED investigating officer out of doors the YI place of job house stated it can’t be opened “with out prior permission” from the company.

    Officers stated the ED crew had emailed the summons to the predominant officer/in-charge of YI, who occurs to be senior Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, looking for their attendance to open the cabins for it to hold out raids however they’ve no longer gained any reaction, up to now.

    The ED on Tuesday raided a dozen places, together with the Nationwide Usher in newspaper and internet portal place of job in Usher in Space as a part of its cash laundering probe within the Nationwide Usher in-AJL-Younger Indian deal.

    The company sleuths left the premises within the wee hours of Wednesday when they accumulated some paperwork, virtual information and puzzled some staffers.

    Kharge, the chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, had visited the ‘Usher in Space’ construction on Tuesday night along side celebration colleague Pawan Bansal however he left and the hunt may no longer be performed, officers stated.

    ALSO READ | ED raids Nationwide Usher in place of job, different places in Delhi days after Sonia Gandhi’s wondering

    As and when the permitted particular person (for YI) gifts themselves for concluding the hunt, the seal will likely be got rid of, they added.

    In his tweet, Ramesh shared a video appearing heavy police presence out of doors the AICC headquarters at Akbar street and the street sealed for visitors, alleging it was once “vendetta politics”.

    “Delhi Police blockading the street to AICC Headquarters has grow to be a norm slightly than an exception! Why have they only carried out so is mysterious,” Ramesh tweeted.

    “The Congress is beneath siege. Delhi police has surrounded our HQs, and houses of INC President and ex-President. That is the worst type of vendetta politics. We will be able to no longer put up! We will be able to no longer be silenced! We will be able to proceed to boost our voice towards injustices and screw ups of Modi Sarkar!,” he stated in every other tweet.

    A senior Delhi police officer stated it had gained inputs from its particular department that some protesters may collect on the AICC Place of work. “So, as a safety measure, now we have put barricades and deputed our workforce to steer clear of any untoward scenario,” he added.

    In a tweet in Hindi, the Congress stated, “The voice of fact may not be scared of police guards. Gandhi’s fans will struggle and win from this darkness. Sealing the place of job of the Nationwide Usher in, bringing the Congress headquarters beneath police guards display each the “worry and frustration of the dictator”, the celebration stated, including questions of inflation and unemployment will nonetheless be requested.

    Congress leaders alleged the only purpose of this “siege mentality” of the “frightened” Modi regime is humiliation, insult and intimidation at one degree and diversion, digression and sensationalism at every other degree.

    “As of late you might have created a siege mentality, a local weather of worry. All of the nation watches as investigative businesses are deployed mindlessly towards the management of India’s oldest political celebration.

    “You might be treating this establishment, this celebration, those leaders as terrorists. Is it no longer the worst type of petty politics and to the contrary you blame us,” Singhvi stated, alleging that platoons of law enforcement officials had been deployed all over the Congress places of work and apartments of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi.

    He stated what’s being witnessed is an “an open ended investigation” on occasions that happened over 10 years in the past.

    “What we’re seeing nowadays is a siege mentality within the center of the nationwide capital,” he stated, including the sector is gazing this unlucky scenario in India, which is a proud democracy of the sector.

    “The one sole object of this workout is humiliation, insult and intimidation at one degree and diversion, digression and sensationalism at every other degree. They don’t want the problems of worth upward push, unemployment and GST to be raised within the media,” Singhvi stated, including that worry isn’t there within the dictionary of the Congress and its management.

    Congress MPs additionally walked out from the Rajya Sabha against the tip of the day’s court cases after the Chair didn’t allow Kharge to boost the problem of alleged barricading of apartments of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi by way of the police.

    Whilst Sports activities and Adolescence Affairs Minister Anurag Thakur was once replying to a debate at the Nationwide Anti-Doping Invoice, 2022, Kharge stood as much as say that the apartments of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi had been surrounded by way of Delhi Police.

    On the other hand, Deputy Chairman Harivansh didn’t permit him to boost the problem. To this, Kharge stated: “If I don’t discuss within the Space, the place else I can discuss?”.

    NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate(ED) on Wednesday quickly sealed the place of job of Younger Indian (YI) corporate housed within the premises of Congress-owned newspaper Nationwide Usher in right here as a part of an ongoing cash laundering investigation, legitimate resources stated.

    In a while after the ED motion, the street to AICC headquarters was once blocked by way of the Delhi police with the Congress announcing policemen have been deployed there and in addition across the apartments of celebration leader Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi within sight as though they have been “terrorists”, and claimed the celebration was once “beneath siege” by way of the Modi executive.

    However the police stated barricades have been erected and its workforce deputed to steer clear of any untoward scenario. The barricades have been later got rid of.

    Addressing a hurriedly convened press convention on the celebration place of job, Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh, Ajay Maken and Abhishek Singhvi stated the Congress celebration may not be intimidated by way of this type of “affordable and petty politics” and can proceed to boost other people’s problems.

    The seal within the place of job of YI was once put so as to “maintain the proof” which might no longer be accumulated as permitted representatives of the corporate weren’t provide all the way through the raids that have been introduced on Tuesday, legitimate resources stated.

    ALSO READ | Cash laundering probe: ED seals Younger Indian Ltd. place of job in Nationwide Usher in premises in Delhi

    The remainder of the Nationwide Usher in place of job at the best ground of the four-storey ‘Usher in Space’ construction and different places of work are open to be used, the resources added.

    The passport place of job may be housed within the ‘Usher in Space’ positioned at Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg.

    A understand affixed beneath the signature of the ED investigating officer out of doors the YI place of job house stated it can’t be opened “with out prior permission” from the company.

    Officers stated the ED crew had emailed the summons to the predominant officer/in-charge of YI, who occurs to be senior Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, looking for their attendance to open the cabins for it to hold out raids however they’ve no longer gained any reaction, up to now.

    The ED on Tuesday raided a dozen places, together with the Nationwide Usher in newspaper and internet portal place of job in Usher in Space as a part of its cash laundering probe within the Nationwide Usher in-AJL-Younger Indian deal.

    The company sleuths left the premises within the wee hours of Wednesday when they accumulated some paperwork, virtual information and puzzled some staffers.

    Kharge, the chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, had visited the ‘Usher in Space’ construction on Tuesday night along side celebration colleague Pawan Bansal however he left and the hunt may no longer be performed, officers stated.

    ALSO READ | ED raids Nationwide Usher in place of job, different places in Delhi days after Sonia Gandhi’s wondering

    As and when the permitted particular person (for YI) gifts themselves for concluding the hunt, the seal will likely be got rid of, they added.

    In his tweet, Ramesh shared a video appearing heavy police presence out of doors the AICC headquarters at Akbar street and the street sealed for visitors, alleging it was once “vendetta politics”.

    “Delhi Police blockading the street to AICC Headquarters has grow to be a norm slightly than an exception! Why have they only carried out so is mysterious,” Ramesh tweeted.

    “The Congress is beneath siege. Delhi police has surrounded our HQs, and houses of INC President and ex-President. That is the worst type of vendetta politics. We will be able to no longer put up! We will be able to no longer be silenced! We will be able to proceed to boost our voice towards injustices and screw ups of Modi Sarkar!,” he stated in every other tweet.

    A senior Delhi police officer stated it had gained inputs from its particular department that some protesters may collect on the AICC Place of work. “So, as a safety measure, now we have put barricades and deputed our workforce to steer clear of any untoward scenario,” he added.

    In a tweet in Hindi, the Congress stated, “The voice of fact may not be scared of police guards. Gandhi’s fans will struggle and win from this darkness. Sealing the place of job of the Nationwide Usher in, bringing the Congress headquarters beneath police guards display each the “worry and frustration of the dictator”, the celebration stated, including questions of inflation and unemployment will nonetheless be requested.

    Congress leaders alleged the only purpose of this “siege mentality” of the “frightened” Modi regime is humiliation, insult and intimidation at one degree and diversion, digression and sensationalism at every other degree.

    “As of late you might have created a siege mentality, a local weather of worry. All of the nation watches as investigative businesses are deployed mindlessly towards the management of India’s oldest political celebration.

    “You might be treating this establishment, this celebration, those leaders as terrorists. Is it no longer the worst type of petty politics and to the contrary you blame us,” Singhvi stated, alleging that platoons of law enforcement officials had been deployed all over the Congress places of work and apartments of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi.

    He stated what’s being witnessed is an “an open ended investigation” on occasions that happened over 10 years in the past.

    “What we’re seeing nowadays is a siege mentality within the center of the nationwide capital,” he stated, including the sector is gazing this unlucky scenario in India, which is a proud democracy of the sector.

    “The one sole object of this workout is humiliation, insult and intimidation at one degree and diversion, digression and sensationalism at every other degree. They don’t want the problems of worth upward push, unemployment and GST to be raised within the media,” Singhvi stated, including that worry isn’t there within the dictionary of the Congress and its management.

    Congress MPs additionally walked out from the Rajya Sabha against the tip of the day’s court cases after the Chair didn’t allow Kharge to boost the problem of alleged barricading of apartments of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi by way of the police.

    Whilst Sports activities and Adolescence Affairs Minister Anurag Thakur was once replying to a debate at the Nationwide Anti-Doping Invoice, 2022, Kharge stood as much as say that the apartments of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi had been surrounded by way of Delhi Police.

    On the other hand, Deputy Chairman Harivansh didn’t permit him to boost the problem. To this, Kharge stated: “If I don’t discuss within the Space, the place else I can discuss?”.

  • Congress, its leaders exchange social media show pics to Nehru protecting tricolour

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Congress and a number of its leaders, together with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, on Wednesday modified their social media show photos to a picture of India’s first high minister Jawaharlal Nehru protecting the nationwide flag.

    An afternoon after Top Minister Narendra Modi and several other BJP leaders made the ‘tiranga’ their profile image on social media platforms, Congress leaders and the occasion’s authentic handles put {a photograph} of Nehru with the tricolour as their show image on Twitter and different social media platforms The picture, most probably photoshopped, was once the similar — a black and white {photograph} of Nehru having a look on the flag, in color, in his hand.

    “Our tiranga is the satisfaction of our nation, the tiranga is within the middle of each and every Indian,” former Congress leader Rahul Gandhi stated in a tweet as he modified the show image of his social media accounts.

    His colleague Jairam Ramesh took a dig on the high minister, asking if the organisation that didn’t hoist the nationwide flag at its headquarters in Nagpur for 52 years will comply together with his message to make the ‘tiranga’ the profile image of social media accounts.

    “Within the Lahore consultation of 1929, whilst hoisting the flag at the banks of river Ravi, Pandit Nehru stated, ‘As soon as once more you must needless to say this flag has now been hoisted.

    So long as there’s a unmarried Indian guy, lady, kid alive, the status of this tricolour will have to now not be decreased,” Ramesh tweeted in Hindi.

    “We’re striking the DP of our chief Nehru with tricolour in hand. However it sort of feels that the message of the Top Minister didn’t succeed in his personal circle of relatives. Those that didn’t hoist the flag of their headquarters in Nagpur for 52 years, will they apply the Top Minister’s message?” Ramesh stated in an evident connection with the RSS.

    He used the hashtag ‘MyTirangaMyPride’.

    “विजयी विश्व तिरंगा प्यारा,
    झंडा ऊँचा रहे हमारा” %.twitter.com/KiWa7EP5qM

    — Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) August 3, 2022

    In a jibe on the BJP over the exchange in flag code to permit for polyester flags, Ramesh tagged a tweet with Nehru’s image protecting the flag and stated, “and that’s in Khadi”.

    Congress’ media division head Pawan Khera in addition to every other occasion leaders shared screenshots of the Twitter handles of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its leader Mohan Bhagwat and identified that they’d now not modified their profile image to replicate the Tricolour.

    “Other people of the Sangh, a minimum of now undertake the tricolour,” Khera tweeted.

    A number of the different occasion leaders who modified their DPs within the run-up to Independence Day had been Sachin Pilot, Shashi Tharoor, Pawan Khera and Supriya Shrinate.

    The authentic Twitter deal with of the occasion in addition to that of the Congress Seva Dal and different party-related organisations additionally modified their profile photos on more than a few social media platforms akin to Twitter, Fb and Instagram.

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    “The tricolour is in our hearts, it’s in our veins as blood. Allow us to all make this tricolour which provides the message of solidarity, our identification. Jai Hind,” the Congress stated on Twitter.

    On Tuesday, Modi modified his show image on social media accounts to the nationwide flag and instructed other people to do the similar as a part of a collective motion to have fun the tricolour.

    Different senior BJP leaders, together with Union ministers and leader ministers, adopted go well with.

    Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari and leader ministers Yogi Adityanath and Shivraj Singh Chouhan had been amongst a lot of occasion participants who switched their profile photos on Twitter to the nationwide flag.

    In his Mann ki Baat radio broadcast on Sunday, Modi stated the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ is popping right into a mass motion and instructed other people to place the ‘tiranga’ because the profile image in their social media accounts between August 2 and 15.

    NEW DELHI: The Congress and a number of its leaders, together with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, on Wednesday modified their social media show photos to a picture of India’s first high minister Jawaharlal Nehru protecting the nationwide flag.

    An afternoon after Top Minister Narendra Modi and several other BJP leaders made the ‘tiranga’ their profile image on social media platforms, Congress leaders and the occasion’s authentic handles put {a photograph} of Nehru with the tricolour as their show image on Twitter and different social media platforms The picture, most probably photoshopped, was once the similar — a black and white {photograph} of Nehru having a look on the flag, in color, in his hand.

    “Our tiranga is the satisfaction of our nation, the tiranga is within the middle of each and every Indian,” former Congress leader Rahul Gandhi stated in a tweet as he modified the show image of his social media accounts.

    His colleague Jairam Ramesh took a dig on the high minister, asking if the organisation that didn’t hoist the nationwide flag at its headquarters in Nagpur for 52 years will comply together with his message to make the ‘tiranga’ the profile image of social media accounts.

    “Within the Lahore consultation of 1929, whilst hoisting the flag at the banks of river Ravi, Pandit Nehru stated, ‘As soon as once more you must needless to say this flag has now been hoisted.

    So long as there’s a unmarried Indian guy, lady, kid alive, the status of this tricolour will have to now not be decreased,” Ramesh tweeted in Hindi.

    “We’re striking the DP of our chief Nehru with tricolour in hand. However it sort of feels that the message of the Top Minister didn’t succeed in his personal circle of relatives. Those that didn’t hoist the flag of their headquarters in Nagpur for 52 years, will they apply the Top Minister’s message?” Ramesh stated in an evident connection with the RSS.

    He used the hashtag ‘MyTirangaMyPride’.

    “विजयी विश्व तिरंगा प्यारा,
    झंडा ऊँचा रहे हमारा” %.twitter.com/KiWa7EP5qM
    — Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) August 3, 2022
    In a jibe on the BJP over the exchange in flag code to permit for polyester flags, Ramesh tagged a tweet with Nehru’s image protecting the flag and stated, “and that’s in Khadi”.

    Congress’ media division head Pawan Khera in addition to every other occasion leaders shared screenshots of the Twitter handles of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its leader Mohan Bhagwat and identified that they’d now not modified their profile image to replicate the Tricolour.

    “Other people of the Sangh, a minimum of now undertake the tricolour,” Khera tweeted.

    A number of the different occasion leaders who modified their DPs within the run-up to Independence Day had been Sachin Pilot, Shashi Tharoor, Pawan Khera and Supriya Shrinate.

    The authentic Twitter deal with of the occasion in addition to that of the Congress Seva Dal and different party-related organisations additionally modified their profile photos on more than a few social media platforms akin to Twitter, Fb and Instagram.

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    “The tricolour is in our hearts, it’s in our veins as blood. Allow us to all make this tricolour which provides the message of solidarity, our identification. Jai Hind,” the Congress stated on Twitter.

    On Tuesday, Modi modified his show image on social media accounts to the nationwide flag and instructed other people to do the similar as a part of a collective motion to have fun the tricolour.

    Different senior BJP leaders, together with Union ministers and leader ministers, adopted go well with.

    Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari and leader ministers Yogi Adityanath and Shivraj Singh Chouhan had been amongst a lot of occasion participants who switched their profile photos on Twitter to the nationwide flag.

    In his Mann ki Baat radio broadcast on Sunday, Modi stated the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ is popping right into a mass motion and instructed other people to place the ‘tiranga’ because the profile image in their social media accounts between August 2 and 15.

  • China ratchets up army and financial force on Taiwan as Pelosi starts her discuss with

    WASHINGTON — Area Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan’s capital of Taipei on Tuesday evening, kicking off a debatable discuss with that had already strained the testy dating between Beijing and Washington prior to it even started.

    China has spent weeks caution Pelosi to not come to the disputed territory, which Beijing considers a province of China, however which considers itself an impartial country.

    Those warnings escalated into movements all over the hours forward of Pelosi’s arrival, which marked the primary time in 25 years that an American Area speaker has visited Taiwan. The discuss with will reportedly closing virtually 24 hours.

    Hua Chunying, China’s assistant minister of overseas affairs, stated in a string of tweets Tuesday that Pelosi’s discuss with to Taiwan was once a “main political provocation.”

    On Tuesday, China reportedly levied new import bans on greater than 100 Taiwanese merchandise, an obvious effort to impose a snappy financial price on Taipei for its position in Pelosi’s high-profile discuss with.

    The Chinese language army additionally flexed its muscle via retaining live-fire workout routines all day Saturday, simply 80 miles from Taiwan.

    On Tuesday, as Pelosi’s discuss with drew close to, the Other people’s Liberation Military deployed fighter jets to the Taiwan Strait that flew very on the subject of the middle line of the strait, which is never crossed.

    As Pelosi landed Tuesday evening, Chinese language state-affiliated media introduced that extra live-fire workout routines could be performed over the approaching weekend — particularly, after Pelosi has left the world.

    For China mavens, those army drills and bellicose public statements come as little wonder.

    “That is simply one thing they have got to do,” stated Andrew Mertha, director of the China World Analysis Middle on the Johns Hopkins College of Complex Global Research.

    “I’d frankly be very stunned if Beijing does anything else bodily threatening in any significant approach. I imply, it isn’t out of the query, however I’d in point of fact be stunned,” he stated in an interview with CNBC.

    “What’s prone to occur is a few form of next movements to display that China can do one thing if it needs to,” stated Mertha. “And that will probably be one thing as a lot for the home target market inside China as for the world one.”

    Later this yr, Chinese language chief Xi Jinping is predicted to start out an extraordinary 3rd time period as chief of the Chinese language Communist Birthday celebration.

    Xi’s want to consolidate public improve and tool inside his birthday celebration are the lens by which we will have to be having a look at China’s geopolitical movements, diplomats and mavens say.

    And that is precisely what makes Pelosi’s discuss with so provocative.

    After weeks of refusing to substantiate or deny or talk about the Taiwan discuss with, Pelosi printed a scathing op-ed in The Washington Submit simply as she landed Tuesday.

    Taiwan, she wrote, “is below risk” from Beijing, which she painted as an existential threat to unfastened folks in every single place.

    “We take this go back and forth at a time when the arena faces a call between autocracy and democracy,” she stated. “We can not stand via because the CCP proceeds to threaten Taiwan — and democracy itself.”

    “Our congressional delegation’s discuss with will have to be observed as an unequivocal observation that The united states stands with Taiwan, our democratic spouse, because it defends itself and its freedom.”

    However whilst Pelosi’s op-ed was once aimed squarely at Xi, this isn’t the similar technique that President Joe Biden, her fellow Democrat, has selected to pursue.

    Biden’s technique to China is one who seeks to care for a solid, predictable dating with The united states’s largest buying and selling spouse, whilst additionally acknowledging that Washington and Beijing are strategic adversaries.

    Formally, the Biden management was once cautious in fresh weeks to steer clear of without delay pronouncing whether or not the president agreed with Pelosi’s resolution to discuss with Taiwan. However unofficially, the White Area and the Pentagon made little secret in their opposition to it.

  • Pelosi’s Taiwan travel is a brand new headache for Biden, will increase rigidity with China

    WASHINGTON — As Space Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan on Tuesday night native time for a long-rumored respectable discuss with, her travel has uncovered a unprecedented schism between the Biden White Space and essentially the most tough Democrat in Congress.

    Formally, the Biden management has been cautious to keep away from at once answering questions on whether or not it is of the same opinion with Pelosi’s resolution to make the travel.

    However unofficially, the White Space and the Pentagon have made little secret in their opposition to one of these discuss with, which comes at a time when U.S.-China members of the family are the poorest they have got been in many years.

    In past due July, Biden replied to a query about Pelosi’s then-rumored forestall in Taiwan through pronouncing, “The army thinks it isn’t a good suggestion at this time. However I have no idea what the standing of it’s.”

    For weeks, American officers from the president on down have tied themselves into knots attempting to discuss Pelosi’s option to discuss with Taiwan, and stressing that it used to be her resolution, and hers by myself.

    Lacking the purpose

    Now, mavens say it is turning into transparent that this effort ignored the purpose. That is as a result of schisms in Washington are successfully meaningless to the remainder of the arena, which has discovered to view American presidents and their best allies in Congress as interchangeable stand-ins for one every other on overseas coverage issues.

    The truth that U.S. coverage towards Taiwan is intentionally ambiguous handiest serves to make it that a lot more tough to attract any significant difference between what Pelosi is doing and what the White Home is pronouncing.

    Pelosi, an established China hawk, has no longer formally introduced that she is going to discuss with the self-ruled island off the coast of mainland China, which Beijing considers a renegade province.

    I feel what you actually see from China’s aspect, and it isn’t unreasonable, is that we are roughly pushing the envelope of the One China coverage.

    Andrew Mertha

    China International Analysis Middle, Johns Hopkins College of Complex Global Research

    However after weeks of Pelosi and her place of business refusing to substantiate the discuss with, mentioning safety considerations, Taiwanese media reported Monday that Pelosi and a congressional delegation of 5 different Space Democrats deliberate to spend Tuesday night time within the capital, Taipei, and meet with Taiwanese leaders and contributors of the island’s legislature on Wednesday.

    Beijing has been livid for months over the reported discuss with, which might mark the primary time in 25 years that an American Space Speaker visited the island.

    Any travel through Pelosi “will a great deal threaten peace and balance around the Taiwan Strait, critically undermine China-US members of the family and result in an overly severe state of affairs and grave penalties,” senior Chinese language diplomat Liu Xiaoming tweeted past due Monday night time. Liu’s observation mirrored the tone and tenor of weeks’ value of warnings and threats that experience emanated from Beijing.

    On Tuesday, China escalated this rhetoric with a sequence of movements, beginning with the announcement of recent import bans on positive Taiwanese merchandise. In a while later on, Reuters reported that a number of Chinese language warplanes had flown just about the median line of the Taiwan Strait.

    Hours later, a big Taiwanese media outlet reported that the island’s personal army could be on heightened alert in accordance with Chinese language reside fireplace workouts being held in anticipation of Pelosi’s reported discuss with.

    For the reason that Pelosi is touring aboard a U.S. army airplane for the whole thing of her travel to Asia this week, the temporarily escalating army tensions between China and Taiwan lift particularly top dangers.

    In addition they underscore what a hard place Pelosi’s travel has positioned the Biden White Space into.

    ‘Unbiased department of presidency’

    As stories of the travel solidified in fresh days, Biden’s best spokespeople had been pressured to mention again and again that they can not ascertain or deny the life of any upcoming travel, and on the similar time downplay its importance.

    “I need to reaffirm that the Speaker has no longer showed any shuttle plans,” Nationwide Safety Council spokesman John Kirby informed journalists Monday, “So we would possibly not be commenting or speculating concerning the stops on her travel.”

    Nonetheless, Kirby showed moments later that Biden had particularly raised the subject of Pelosi’s unconfirmed travel with Chinese language President Xi Jinping ultimate week, all the way through a video name that lasted greater than two hours.

    Biden “made transparent that Congress is an impartial department of presidency and that Speaker Pelosi makes her personal selections, as different contributors of Congress do, about their out of the country shuttle,” stated Kirby. “That used to be made transparent.”

    Moments after pronouncing Biden and Xi had for my part mentioned the travel, Kirby once more sought to downplay its significance.

    “I feel we now have laid out very obviously that if she is going — if she is going — it isn’t with out precedent. It isn’t new. It does not trade anything else,” he stated. “We have no longer ramped up the rhetoric. We have no longer modified our habits.”

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    To overseas coverage mavens, the White Space’s effort to persuade Beijing that it should distinguish between the habits of the highest Democrat in Congress and the intent of the Democratic management is a futile one.

    “Pronouncing that this can be a good deal of not anything or that the Chinese language should not learn into it … Smartly, anyone who has spent part a minute having a look at China is aware of that they connect some form of intentionality to the whole thing we do,” stated Andrew Mertha, the director of the China International Analysis Middle on the Johns Hopkins College of Complex Global Research.

    Any recommendation {that a} discuss with through anyone as essential as Pelosi could be noticed through Beijing as anything else however an in-person expression of American toughen for Taiwanese independence, he stated, is inconceivable.

    That is very true after Biden himself stated, on 3 separate events, that the U.S. would come to the protection of Taiwan if China had been to invade the island.

    The ones statements, stated Mertha, undermined many years of assurances from Washington that the U.S. would take care of a coverage of strategic ambiguity at the query of who controls Taiwan.

    “I feel what you actually see from China’s aspect, and it isn’t unreasonable, is that we are roughly pushing the envelope of the One China coverage,” stated Mertha, relating to the longstanding U.S. place of spotting Beijing as the only prison govt of China, however no longer officially spotting Taiwan as matter to the federal government in Beijing.

    “They are alarmed,” Mertha stated of Beijing, “and I do not blame them.”

  • Cash in ownership of J’khand MLAs had supply in Kolkata, trio a part of larger sport plan: CID officer

    CID officer, then again, didn’t expose a lot in regards to the sport plan that he was once relating to however published that the cash was once only a “fraction of the quantity that was once concerned within the higher scheme of items”

  • BJP government’s selections have hit 25 crore families, widened divide between wealthy and the deficient: Congress

    Whilst the selection of billionaires in India higher from 100 to 142 in those years, the source of revenue of the ones within the decrease strata has been reducing day-to-day, Manish Tewari stated.

  • Ruckus continues in Parliament as Opposition protests over Sanjay Raut arrest, Congress MPs’ suspension

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha court cases on Monday had been adjourned for roughly an hour after protests over arrest of Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut and different problems.

    Whilst officers papers had been being laid, Shiv Sena MPs had been up on their toes protesting towards the arrest of Raut.

    Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu mentioned the subject has not anything to do with the Area and requested them to return to their seats.

    Different opposition MPs additionally joined in elevating problems reminiscent of worth upward push.

    The Shiv Sena in addition to TMC MPs then moved into the smartly of the Area.

    “Return in your seats. You can’t use the Area to settle the rankings out of doors,” Naidu mentioned earlier than adjourning the court cases until 12 midday.

    The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Raut in a cash laundering case related to alleged irregularities within the redevelopment of a Mumbai ‘chawl’ after accomplishing a nine-hour seek at his place of abode.

    The Lok Sabha used to be on Monday adjourned until 12 midday after a couple of mins of commercial following protests by way of opposition leaders tough withdrawal of suspension of 4 Congress MPs.

    Because the Area met at 11 am after the weekend smash, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla congratulated Indian sportspersons who’ve introduced laurels to the rustic within the ongoing Commonwealth Video games.

    Whilst Mirabai Chanu, Jeremy Lalrinnunga and Achinta Sheuli have bagged gold, Bindyarani Devi and Sanket Sargar were given silver and Gururaja Poojary were given bronze, he famous.

    Birla congratulated the medal winners and all gamers taking part within the wearing match and mentioned they’re the muse for the adolescence of the rustic.

    When he took up questions associated with other ministries, Congress participants began protests tough the withdrawal of suspension of 4 in their colleagues.

    To start with, they protested status on the aisles however later got here to the smartly of the Area.

    The speaker appealed to them to return to their seats and make allowance the Area to run.

    Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal accused the opposition of disrupting the court cases and no longer permitting the Area to serve as by way of their protests.

    Birla mentioned such protests weren’t just right because it used to be reducing the honour of the Area.

    The opposition didn’t heed to the appeals following which the speaker adjourned the Area until 12 midday.

    4 Congress MPs — Manickam Tagore, Ramya Haridas, TN Prathapan and S Jothimani — had been suspended ultimate Monday for the remainder of the consultation for protests and wearing placards within the Area.

    Lok Sabha court cases had been disrupted most commonly because of the opposition protests, in the hunt for a dialogue on worth upward push and GST price hike on some meals pieces, even for the reason that Monsoon Consultation started on July 18.

    NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha court cases on Monday had been adjourned for roughly an hour after protests over arrest of Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut and different problems.

    Whilst officers papers had been being laid, Shiv Sena MPs had been up on their toes protesting towards the arrest of Raut.

    Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu mentioned the subject has not anything to do with the Area and requested them to return to their seats.

    Different opposition MPs additionally joined in elevating problems reminiscent of worth upward push.

    The Shiv Sena in addition to TMC MPs then moved into the smartly of the Area.

    “Return in your seats. You can’t use the Area to settle the rankings out of doors,” Naidu mentioned earlier than adjourning the court cases until 12 midday.

    The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Raut in a cash laundering case related to alleged irregularities within the redevelopment of a Mumbai ‘chawl’ after accomplishing a nine-hour seek at his place of abode.

    The Lok Sabha used to be on Monday adjourned until 12 midday after a couple of mins of commercial following protests by way of opposition leaders tough withdrawal of suspension of 4 Congress MPs.

    Because the Area met at 11 am after the weekend smash, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla congratulated Indian sportspersons who’ve introduced laurels to the rustic within the ongoing Commonwealth Video games.

    Whilst Mirabai Chanu, Jeremy Lalrinnunga and Achinta Sheuli have bagged gold, Bindyarani Devi and Sanket Sargar were given silver and Gururaja Poojary were given bronze, he famous.

    Birla congratulated the medal winners and all gamers taking part within the wearing match and mentioned they’re the muse for the adolescence of the rustic.

    When he took up questions associated with other ministries, Congress participants began protests tough the withdrawal of suspension of 4 in their colleagues.

    To start with, they protested status on the aisles however later got here to the smartly of the Area.

    The speaker appealed to them to return to their seats and make allowance the Area to run.

    Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal accused the opposition of disrupting the court cases and no longer permitting the Area to serve as by way of their protests.

    Birla mentioned such protests weren’t just right because it used to be reducing the honour of the Area.

    The opposition didn’t heed to the appeals following which the speaker adjourned the Area until 12 midday.

    4 Congress MPs — Manickam Tagore, Ramya Haridas, TN Prathapan and S Jothimani — had been suspended ultimate Monday for the remainder of the consultation for protests and wearing placards within the Area.

    Lok Sabha court cases had been disrupted most commonly because of the opposition protests, in the hunt for a dialogue on worth upward push and GST price hike on some meals pieces, even for the reason that Monsoon Consultation started on July 18.