Chandrayaan-3, Anti-Ragging Among Kolkata Durga Puja Themes This Year

As the whole country continues to celebrate Chandrayaan-3's success, a Durga puja committee in Kolkata has decided to design its pandal modelled on lander Vikram which touched down on the lunar south pole on August 23.

Another Puja committee will theme its pandal on the evils of ragging with the message of zero tolerance to such bullying.

Pallir Jubak Brinda Club at Sitaram Ghosh Street in north Kolkata has started work on a jumbo-size Vikram replica which will serve as its pandal.

"Come Pujas and visitors will see Maa Durga sitting in the lander model which will be perched on the ground resembling the lunar surface," a puja committee spokesperson said on Sunday.

He said the organisers will get the puja inaugurated by the father of an ISRO scientist associated with the moon mission.

India scripted history on August 23 when ISRO's ambitious third moon mission Chandrayaan-3's lander module touched down on the lunar surface making it only the fourth country to accomplish the feat and first to reach the uncharted south pole of earth's only natural satellite.

This will be our tribute to ISRO, he said.

In south Kolkata, Naktala Udayan Sangha will theme its pandal on the evils of ragging and how the menace can be eliminated from society.

"We have all been shaken by the death of a Jadavpur University student allegedly due to ragging and physical abuse by seniors. Our puja will highlight the message to prevent any kind of ragging and bullying in educational institutions," Puja committee member Anjan Samaddar said.

A 17-year-old Nadia resident, an under-graduate student of arts in Jadavpur University, died on August 10 after falling off the second-floor balcony of the boys' hostel.  

The student was subjected to intense ragging and alleged physical abuse by his seniors at the hostel a day before his death. 

 

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चंद्रयान-3 मिशन के दो उद्देश्य पूरे हुए, चांद की सतह पर वैज्ञानिक प्रयोग जारी: ISRO

भारतीय अंतरिक्ष अनुसंधान संगठन (ISRO) ने शनिवार को कहा कि चंद्रयान-3 मिशन के तीन में से दो उद्देश्य हासिल कर लिए गए हैं, जबकि तीसरे उद्देश्य के तहत वैज्ञानिक प्रयोग जारी हैं. इसने कहा कि चंद्रयान-3 मिशन के सभी पेलोड सामान्य रूप से काम कर रहे हैं.

इसरो ने एक्स (पूर्व में ट्विटर) पर एक पोस्ट में कहा, ‘‘चंद्रयान-3 मिशन: मिशन के तीन उद्देश्यों में से, चंद्रमा की सतह पर सुरक्षित और सॉफ्ट लैंडिंग का प्रदर्शन पूरा हो गया है. चंद्रमा पर रोवर के घूमने का लक्ष्य हासिल कर लिया गया है. तीसरे उद्देश्य के तहत वैज्ञानिक प्रयोग जारी हैं. सभी पेलोड सामान्य रूप से कार्य कर रहे हैं.''

प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी ने शनिवार को घोषणा की है कि चंद्रयान-3 की ‘सॉफ्ट लैंडिंग' की तारीख 23 अगस्त के दिन को अब राष्ट्रीय अंतरिक्ष दिवस के रूप में मनाया जाएगा और जिस जगह पर इस यान का लैंडर ‘विक्रम' उतरा, उस जगह को अब ‘शिवशक्ति' प्वाइंट के रूप में जाना जाएगा.

उन्होंने यह घोषणा भी की कि 2019 में चंद्रयान-2 ने जिस जगह पर अपने पदचिह्न छोड़े थे, चंद्रमा की उस जगह को अब ‘तिरंगा' प्वाइंट के रूप में जाना जाएगा.

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Madhya Pradesh Cabinet Expansion Today, 4 Ministers Likely To Be Inducted

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will expand his cabinet on Saturday morning with the induction of three to four ministers, the move coming just months ahead of Assembly polls at the end of the year.

The swearing-in ceremony will take place at 8:45am, a Raj Bhavan official told PTI late Friday night.

The names of ex-ministers Rajendra Shukla, a Brahmin leader and MLA from Rewa in the Vindh region, and Gaurishankar Bisen, legislator from Balaghat in the Mahakoshal region and chairman of the MP Backward Class Commission, have almost been finalised for induction in the cabinet, a BJP leader said.

Mr Shukla and Mr Bisen have reached Bhopal.

Deliberations are on between Shivraj Singh Chouhan and senior party functionaries on the names of Rahul Singh Lodhi and Jalam Singh, both from the Other Backward Classes that form 45 per cent of the state's population, he said.

The name of former state minister Lalsingh Arya, who is the president of the BJP SC Morcha, is also doing the rounds for a ministerial berth.

Mr Lodhi, a first-time MLA from Khargapur in Tikamgarh district in the Bundelkhand region, is the nephew of senior BJP leader and former Chief Minister Uma Bharti.

Jalam Singh, the MLA from Narsinghpur in the Mahakoshal region, is the younger brother of Union Minister Prahlad Patel.

Currently, the state has 31 ministers, including the Chief Minister, while the figure can go up to 35, or 15 per cent of the strength of the state Assembly, which has 230 members.

The last expansion of the Chouhan cabinet took place in January 2021.

According to party insiders, the expansion is being done on the recommendation of the BJP's central leadership to beat any anti-incumbency, balance caste equations and address regional aspirations.

Manish Gupta, resident editor of a leading Hindi daily, said anti-incumbency is palpable in Mahakoshal, Vindh and Bundelkhand regions of eastern Madhya Pradesh.

The BJP had put up a good show in Vindh and Bundelkhand regions in the 2018 polls, but its performance was below par in Mahakoshal, he said.

Representation of MLAs from Mahakoshal and Vindh was negligible in the cabinet, he said.

"People are feeling their regions have been neglected as far as cabinet representation is concerned. Inclusion of MLAs from Mahakoshal and Bundelkhand in the ministry would prove useful for the BJP in the Assembly polls," Mr Gupta claimed.

Shivraj Singh Chouhan became the Chief Minister in March 2020 after a revolt by MLAs loyal to Jyotiraditya Scindia brought down the then Congress government under Kamal Nath, which had come to power in December 2018 after the Assembly polls.

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हिमाचल में लैंडस्लाइड के बाद सड़कों पर गुजर रही रात, पीड़िता ने कहा- इससे बेहतर मौत होगी

हिमाचल प्रदेश में भूस्खलन (लैंडस्लाइड) से पीड़ित लोग इस बुरे अनुभव को कभी न भूलने वाला बुरा सपना करार दे रहे हैं. भूस्खलन से प्रभावित प्रोमिला ने कहा, ‘‘इस बुरे वक्त से गुजरने से बेहतर मौत होगी, क्योंकि जीवन में उम्मीद की कोई किरण नजर नहीं आ रही है.'' प्रोमिला यहां भूस्खलन का शिकार हुई एक इमारत में रहती थीं, जहां उनका एक कमरा ढह जाने से उन्होंने अपना सब कुछ खो दिया.

23 अगस्त की सुबह हुए भूस्खलन से एक इमारत आंशिक रूप से क्षतिग्रस्त हो गई, जिसमें प्रोमिला अपनी बीमार मां के साथ रहती थीं. यह इमारत इंदिरा गांधी मेडिकल कॉलेज अस्पताल (आईजीएमसीएच) के नजदीक है.

शुक्रवार को पीटीआई-भाषा से अपना दर्द बयां करते हुए उन्होंने कहा, ‘‘मैं अपनी 75 वर्षीय मां के साथ रहती हूं. वो कैंसर से पीड़ित हैं. 2016 से उनका इलाज जारी है. मैं राम नगर के बाजार में एक दुकान में नौकरी करती थी, जहां पिछले सप्ताह मुझे हटा दिया गया, क्योंकि मंदी के कारण ग्राहक नहीं थे.''

प्रोमिला कहती हैं, ‘‘मैं बृहस्पतिवार की रात आईजीएमसीएच में सोई क्योंकि मेरे पास जाने के लिए कोई जगह नहीं थी.''प्रोमिला के भाई-बहन या पिता नहीं हैं और वह अपने पति से भी अलग हो चुकी हैं.

उन्होंने कहा, ‘‘मैं नौकरी की तलाश में हूं और यहां तक कि मैं साफ-सफाई और झाड़ू-पोछा भी करने को तैयार हूं, क्योंकि मुझे अपनी मां के इलाज के लिए पैसे की बहुत जरूरत है.' प्रोमिला ने 10वीं कक्षा तक पढ़ाई की है.

एक अन्य भूस्खलन पीड़ित सुमन, जिसका कमरा प्रोमिला के कमरे के बगल में था, ने कहा, ‘‘हम अपना सामान नहीं बचा सके और केवल वही कपड़े बचे हैं जो हमने ढहे हुए घर से बाहर निकलते समय पहने थे.''

घरेलू सहायिका के रूप में काम करने वाली सुमन का कहना है कि उन्होंने भूस्खलन में अपना सब कुछ खो दिया है और उनके पास अपने बेटे की स्कूल फीस देने के लिए भी पैसे नहीं हैं.

उन्होंने कहा, ‘‘हमारी स्थिति दयनीय है लेकिन अधिकारियों ने ध्यान नहीं दिया, क्योंकि इस भूस्खलन में किसी के हताहत होने की सूचना नहीं थी, अगर राज्य सरकार आपदा पीड़ितों की मदद नहीं कर सकती तो इतना सारा दान लेने का क्या फायदा.''

सुमन ने कहा, ‘‘हमने गुरुद्वारे में खाना खाया और अपने रिश्तेदारों के घरों में रह रहे हैं, लेकिन हमें कोई मदद या राहत नहीं मिली है.''शिमला में पिछले हफ्तों में कई भूस्खलन हुए हैं और पिछले 10 दिनों में जिले में बारिश से संबंधित घटनाओं में मरने वालों की संख्या बढ़कर 26 हो गई है.

इस महीने राज्य में बारिश से संबंधित घटनाओं में कम से कम 120 लोगों की मौत हो गई है, जबकि 24 जून को हिमाचल प्रदेश में मॉनसून की शुरुआत के बाद से कुल 238 लोगों की मौत हो गई और 40 लोग अभी भी लापता हैं.

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Pestering Son-in-law To Abandon His Parents Amounts To Cruelty: High Court

Pestering a son-in-law to abandon his parents and start living with his in-laws as 'ghar jamai' amounts to cruelty, the Delhi High Court has held while granting a divorce decree in favour of a man.

A bench of Justices Suresh Kumar Kait and Neena Bansal Krishna set aside an order of a family court, which had dismissed the husband's divorce petition, and granted divorce to the couple on the ground of cruelty and desertion by the wife.

The man said in his plea that he got married in May 2001 and, within a few months of the marriage, his wife left her matrimonial home and went back to her parents in Delhi during pregnancy.

He said he made sincere efforts to convince her to return to the matrimonial home but she refused, while she and her family members insisted that he shift from Gujarat to Delhi and stay in their house as 'ghar jamai' (resident son-in-law), a proposal to which he did not agree as he had aged parents to take care of.

The woman, however, claimed she was harassed for dowry and that the man was a drunkard and used to beat her up and treat her with cruelty after which she left her matrimonial home in March 2002.

The high court referred to a judgment of the Supreme Court wherein it had observed that asking a son to separate from his family amounts to cruelty. The judgement said for a Hindu son in India, it is not a common practice or desirable culture to get separated from his family after marriage and that he has a moral and legal obligation to take care of his parents when they become old and have negligible or no income.

"Thus, the insistence of the family of respondent (wife) for the appellant (husband) to abandon his parents and become a 'Ghar Jamai' and live in their house amounts to cruelty," the high court held.

The bench said it needs no reiteration that the bedrock of any matrimonial relationship is cohabitation and conjugal relationship, and the gravamen (the most essential part) of any marriage is the succour and peace that the couple derive from the company of each other.

"The very fact that the parties were able to live together barely for six months and since February 2002, they have been living separately proves that the parties were unable to sustain their matrimonial relationship. For a couple to be deprived of each other's company, proves that the marriage cannot survive, and such deprivation of conjugal relationship is an act of extreme cruelty," it said.

The high court noted that the man was acquitted in the criminal case lodged by his wife for allegedly treating her cruelly and breaching her trust.

It said the woman claimed she was beaten and subjected to cruelty but she was not been able to substantiate any of her allegations.

"The making of false complaints in itself is an act of cruelty. Though the acquittal under Section 498A/406 IPC in itself may not be an act of cruelty, the onus was on the respondent to establish that she was subjected to cruelty or had any cogent reason to live separately from the appellant/ husband," it said, adding that the the false complaints filed by the wife against the husband constituted mental cruelty against him.

While the man alleged the woman was in a live-in relationship with someone else, the high court noted she has alleged that her husband had re-married during the subsistence of their marriage in 2015, and also has a child from his second marriage.

The court said the husband admitted to having a child outside marriage from a live-in relationship, while the woman claimed the man she was accused of having an affair with was her "muhbola bhai", a person who she treated as brother though he was not a blood relation.

"Here is the case where long separation has forced both the appellant and respondent to apparently find companionship in a third person. Be that as it may, it is evident that the evidence on record sufficiently proves that the respondent had withdrawn from the company of the appellant for which she has not been able to give any cogent reason," the high court said.

The high court said the woman had withdrawn herself from the company of her husband without any cogent reason.

"Considering the entire evidence, it is proved that the parties had drifted away and that respondent has deserted the petitioner/ appellant without any reasonable cause," it said, and passed the decree for dissolution of the marriage.

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Probe Agency Files Chargesheet Against Supertech Chairman RK Arora

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday filed a prosecution complaint (chargesheet) against Supertech chairman RK Arora in connection with a money laundering case in Delhi's Patiala House Court.

The chargesheet filed on Thursday was filed before Special Judge Devender Kumar Jangala, stating that there was sufficient evidence to prosecute Arora for laundering money. The court fixed August 28, 2023, for arguments on the cognisance point of the chargesheet.

Arora was arrested on June 27 under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The Chargesheet has been filed by ED's counsels, Naveen Kumar Matta and Mohd Faizan Khan.

Earlier, while sending Arora to ED remand, the Court said that "the power to seek remand is essentially a part of the power of arrest and to conduct investigation in respect to the commission of the alleged offence of money laundering, and this power has necessarily to be inferred with the help of the above Section as Section 65 of the PMLA, 2002, does not prohibit remand of an accused under the said act to ED custody".

The court also said that when it comes to the power of the ED officers to seek ED custody of the accused, it has been observed that though Section 19 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) does not confer any specific power in this regard, but this power has to be inferred with the help of provisions contained in Section 65 of the PMLA, 2002, and Section 167 of the CrPC, as Section 65 of the PMLA provides that the provisions of the CrPC shall apply, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, to arrest, search and seizure, attachment, confiscation, investigation, prosecution, and all other proceedings.

"It is contended on behalf of the accused that the present ECIR was registered in the year 2021, and the applicant has been repeatedly examined by the investigating agency. After completion of the investigation, a provisional attachment order dated April 11, 2023, has been issued, and hence there is no requirement for arrest. The issuance of a provisional attachment order by the competent authority does not mean that the investigation into the offences defined under Section 3 punishable under Section 4 of PMLA has been completed," the court noted.

It has been specifically stated by the ED that the investigation for the commission of an offence punishable under Section 3/4 of PMLA is not yet complete; therefore, the Enforcement Directorate is justified in seeking custody of the applicant/accused, the court said.

However, the court had earlier directed that his interrogation be conducted at some place with CCTV coverage in accordance with the guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court and also in accordance with all the other applicable rules, directions, and guidelines on the subject, and the said CCTV footage shall be preserved.

Earlier, ED apprised the court that 26 FIRS were registered by EOW, Delhi Police, Haryana Police, and UP Police against Supertech Limited and its group companies under Section 120B (criminal conspiracy), read with Sections 406 (criminal breach of trust)/420 (cheating)/467/471 IPC, with allegations of cheating at least 670 home buyers for an amount of Rs. 164 crore.

ED also alleged that the amount collected by Supertech Ltd. was diverted to their group companies for the purchase of properties, with the company with land having a much lesser value. ED alleged that the accused persons have acquired properties and made illegal/wrongful gains arising out of the said proceeds of crime by involving, indulging in, and commissioning criminal activities related to scheduled offences. It is stated that the prima facie case for the commission of an offence punishable under Section 3 and punishable under Section 4 of the PML Act has been made out.

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Lesbian Woman's Family Directed To Take Counselling By Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has directed the parents and maternal uncle of a 22-year-old lesbian woman to undergo counselling in order to prepare themselves to accept her "as per her wishes".

The court's order came on a habeas corpus petition by the woman's friend who claimed that she was "missing".

After interacting with the parties involved, a bench headed by Justice Suresh Kumar Kait directed the police to take the woman to a shelter home and make necessary arrangements for her boarding and lodging there.

While asking the director of the shelter home to provide "counselling session" to the woman, the court observed that her family members should also be counselled on alternate days.

The bench, also comprising Justice Neena Bansal Krishna, further directed the "parents and all other concerned" to "not to extend any kind of threat or undue pressure upon" their daughter and the petitioner.

"It is further directed that parents of (the woman) shall also be counselled at least on an alternative day to prepare them to accept (her) as per her wishes. The parents and maternal uncle are directed to approach the aforesaid shelter home for counselling, who shall be counselled by the Director and if they wish for further counselling, they shall be counselled accordingly, on the alternate days, thereafter," said the court in a recent order.

The parents of the woman "agreed" before the court that she should be sent to the shelter home in order to "reflect and introspect about her future".

The woman told the court that she was not willing to accompany her parents or any of the relatives and would either go with the petitioner or to the shelter home.

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