Uma Bharti To "Stay In Temple" Over Madhya Pradesh's New Liquor Policy

BJP leader Uma Bharti has once again hit the headlines for her move against liquor sale in Madhya Pradesh.

Ms Bharti on Saturday said, "New liquor policy will be introduced on January 31 in the state, till then I will remain in the shelter of God."

Ahead of the introduction of the new liquor policy, Ms Bharti will stay at Panchmukhi Hanuman and Durga temple located in Ayodhya Nagar locality in the state capital Bhopal for the next three days demanding the policy be made more stringent.

Notably, a liquor shop is situated in front of the above-mentioned temple in the city. Ms Bharti said, "The one to be destroyed is in front (liquor shop), the one from whom to gain power is behind (temple). I have come here because I had a lot of trouble. There is a temple of Goddess Durga and Lord Hanuman but in front of it just 50 metres away there is a liquor shop and bar."

"On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti when it was time of Navratri on October 2, 2022, a group of a few women had taken out a march against liquor sale. During this, the state government had made the announcement that they would consult on liquor policy and also said about revenue that would not consider it as a huge basis for recovery. The government also said that they had understood the problem of women and also would try to find a way for taverns," she said.

"I have full faith in CM Chouhan, but there is fear that those whom the government consulted may not have created any trouble. Now, I will hear on January 31, what decision has the government taken in the New Liquor Policy," She added.

"I believe that if the controlled liquor distribution system is implemented at my behest, then as many women will cast a vote that the record of 2003 will be repeated in Madhya Pradesh. Because everything gets washed away in alcohol as even Ladli Laxmiya is not safe to walk on the road and even residential people do not live happily. All the plans get destroyed and washed away in the flow of liquor. Therefore a healthy society has to be built and Madhya Pradesh will become the model state in the controlled liquor distribution system," Ms Bharti added.

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गुरुग्राम के नाइट क्लब में ड्रग्स सेवन करने के संदेह में करीब 300 लोग हिरासत में लिए गए

शहर के उद्योग विहार फेज-3 में स्थित एक नाइट क्लब में मादक पदार्थों का कथित रूप से सेवन करने के आरोप में शनिवार को कुल 288 लोगों को हिरासत में लिया गया. उद्योग विहार थाने में क्लब के तीन मालिकों, तीन प्रबंधकों और अन्य कर्मचारियों के खिलाफ प्राथमिकी दर्ज की गई है. पुलिस के अनुसार, शनिवार को रात करीब दो बजे उद्योग विहार फेज-3 ‘कासा डांजा क्लब' में छापा मारा गया. उद्योग विहार के एसीपी मनोज कुमार ने बताया, ‘‘छापे के दौरान इन 288 लोगों की तलाशी में कोई मादक पदार्थ नहीं मिला है.क्लब खाली करने के बाद टीम ने वहां की सघन तलाशी भी ली.''

पुलिस ने मादक पदार्थों की 14 पुड़िया जब्त की है. उन्होंने बताया, ‘‘प्राथमिकी दर्ज कर ली गई है और आगे की जांच की जा रही है. लोगों के खून के नमूनों को फॉरेंसिक विज्ञान प्रयोगशाला भेजा जाएगा.'' एसीपी ने कहा, ‘‘खून की जांच रिपोर्ट आने के बाद ही कानून के आधार पर कार्रवाई की जाएगी.'' पुलिस ने बताया कि एएसआई सतीश कुमार की शिकायत पर संबंधित धाराओं में मामला दर्ज किया गया है.

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Woman Gives Birth In Haryana Roadways Bus, Premature Baby Dies: Cops

A woman gave birth to a child in a Dehradun-bound Haryana Roadways bus near Mullana on Friday, around 25 kilometers from Ambala, officials said.

However, the child could not survive as it was a premature delivery, doctors said.

The woman complained of severe labour pain when the bus was crossing Mullana. Some women present in the bus helped her give birth to the child, they said.

Bus driver Salim Khan also took the bus to the civil hospital at Mullana. The doctors at the hospital declared the child brought dead while the woman was admitted to the facility.

Salim Khan said the woman along with her husband, two children and brother-in-law boarded the bus for Saharanpur from Ambala.

As soon as the bus reached Mullana, the woman had labour pains, said the bus driver.

Principal medical officer, Mullana Civil Hospital, Kuldeep Singh said the woman's delivery was premature.

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VIDEO: KL Rahul से शादी के बाद पहली स्पॉट हुईं अथिया शेट्टी, सैलून से बाहर निकलती दिखीं एक्ट्रेस

अथिया शेट्टी हाल ही में क्रिकेटर केएल राहुल के साथ शादी के बंधन में बंधी हैं. अपनी शादी के कुछ दिनों बाद शनिवार को वह पहली बार पब्लिक प्लेस पर दिखीं. पैपराजो अकाउंट द्वारा इंस्टाग्राम पर शेयर किए गए एक वीडियो में अथिया सैलून से बाहर निकलती नजर आ रही हैं. क्लिप में पैपराजो ने उन्हें रुकने के लिए कहा, लेकिन वह अपनी कार की तरफ तेजी से बढ़ गईं. जैसे ही फोटोग्राफर्स ने उन्हें बधाई दी, अथिया ने 'धन्यवाद' कहा. फिर 'अलविदा' कहा और अपनी कार में चली गईं. नई दुल्हन ने व्हाइट पैंट और हील्स के साथ लाइनिंग ब्राउन और क्रीम शर्ट पहनी थी.

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अथिया और केएल राहुल ने मंगलवार को खंडाला में अपने सुनील शेट्टी के फार्महाउस पर शादी की. शादी के बाद सुनील ने फोटोग्राफर्स से बात की और उनका शुक्रिया अदा किया. सुनील ने यह भी खुलासा किया कि दोनों की शादी का रिसेप्शन आईपीएल सीजन के बाद होगा. शादी में शामिल होने वाले चुनिंदा दोस्तों में पति आदित्य सील के साथ डायना पेंटी, कृष्णा श्रॉफ, अंशुला कपूर और अनुष्का रंजन शामिल हुई थीं. क्रिकेटर वरुण आरोन और ईशांत शर्मा, पत्नी प्रतिमा सिंह के साथ भी शामिल हुए.

फेरे लेने के कुछ घंटों बाद अथिया और केएल राहुल ने तस्वीरें पोस्ट कीं. शनिवार को अथिया ने अपने शादी समारोह से कुछ और खूबसूरत तस्वीरें साझा कीं. इंस्टाग्राम पर, उसने तस्वीरों की एक सेट में वह अपने दोस्तों और परिवार के सदस्यों के साथ जमकर मस्ती करते देखे गए. अथिया ने एक गुलाबी ब्लाउज के साथ एक गोल्डन साड़ी पहनी थी और भारी गहनों के साथ अपने लुक को एक्सेसराइज़ किया था.
 
 

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UN General Assembly President's 3-Day India Visit Begins Tomorrow

President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Csaba Korosi will arrive in India on a three-day visit on Sunday, during which he is expected to discuss with his Indian interlocutors ways to deal with various challenges facing the globe.

It will be Csaba Korosi's first bilateral visit to any country since he assumed the UNGA presidency in September 2022, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said, announcing his trip.

Csaba Korosi is scheduled to witness the "Beating the Retreat" ceremony at the historic Vijay Chowk in the heart of New Delhi.

The president of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly (PGA) will hold talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on key multilateral and regional issues of mutual interest.

"The PGA's visit to India will be an opportunity to exchange views on global challenges that the United Nations is currently seized with," the MEA said in a statement.

"It would help reinforce India's abiding commitment to multilateralism, including through its ongoing G20 Presidency, and how it would address these global challenges meaningfully for a better future for the Global South," it added.

Csaba Korosi has already outlined five priorities for his UNGA presidency, which include standing firm on basic principles of the UN charter, making significant and measurable progress in sustainability transformation, enhancing the role of science in decision making and increasing solidarity to better endure new chapters of crises facing the world.

"Given the PGA's strong interest in India's expertise in water management and experience in SDGs (sustainable development goals), he would also be interacting with senior officials of NITI Aayog and India's G20 Presidency team to explore the scaling up of India's best practices," the MEA said.

On January 30, Csaba Korosi will deliver a public address at the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) on his presidency theme of "Solutions through Solidarity, Sustainability and Science in the UN".

The UNGA president will travel to Bengaluru on January 31, where his engagements include an interaction with scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and a field visit to an IISc-led water conservation project.

Csaba Korosi is also expected to visit development projects in and around Bengaluru and interact with the UN-India country team, the MEA said.

The governor of Karnataka would be hosting a dinner in his honour, it added.

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This Padma Shri Awardee Is Wood Art Trainer, 'Counsellor' For Jail Inmates

 Ajay Kumar Mandavi, one of the three persons chosen from Chhattisgarh for the Padma Shri awards this year, has for more than a decade been teaching Kanker jail inmates, several of them arrested in cases related to the outlawed Maoist movement, wooden calligraphy art.

Speaking about the honour, the 55-year-old on Friday said he becomes more of a counsellor than a wood art trainer when he enters the jail premises as many inmates recount their pain and problems to him even without being prodded about their past.

Mr Mandavi, who hails from Kanker district, said making toys out of wood and clay was a childhood interest, which turned him into an artist later in life, resulting in him training youth, several of them victims of Naxalite violence, from 2005.

He was asked by the then collector of Kanker to teach wood art to jail inmates in 2010, when the Maoist menace was at its peak in the district.

He began his classes with a dozen inmates, all of them held for alleged Maoist links, a journey that has been instrumental in motivating many of them to understand the futility of violence and the need to live fulfilling, peaceful lives.

"I never asked them (jail inmates) about their past. However, they often share their pain and problems with me and I listen to them patiently. Gradually my role became that of a counsellor than just an art trainer. I too started enjoying counselling them," Mr Mandavi said.

"One of the inmates, who was subjected to rigorous interrogation post arrest in a Naxalite-related case, once said he wanted to observe the nine-day Navratri fast but wanted me to suggest some wish he could seek from the goddess," he said.

On being told he should forgive all the security personnel involved in his custodial interrogation, the inmate readily agreed, resulting in him admitting to being relaxed and stress free at the end of the nine-day fast, Mr Mandavi claimed.

"He told me he has forgiven all those who interrogated him. So far, I have taught around 400 inmates of Kanker jail, of which 250 were arrested for Naxalite-related incidents. Nearly all of them have walked out of jail after completing prison terms, while some have been released on bail," Mr Mandavi, fondly called 'Guruji' by his students, said.

Mr Mandavi said these students have not only continued practising wooden calligraphy art after being released from jail, but they also claim to be more attentive while engaged in various works, including farming.

"What can be a bigger achievement than this for me if a person who once wielded rifles returns to the mainstream and leads a peaceful life," Mr Mandavi, who founded self help group 'Shanta Art' in 2015 in remote Bhaisasur village in Kanker, said.

Sanjeet Kumar Yadav, who was lodged in Kanker Jail in 2020 and learnt wooden calligraphy from Mr Mandavi, said his meeting with the latter gave a him a new purpose in life.

"After meeting guruji in jail, I found a new purpose in life. I never imagined I would learn an art," Yadav, hailing from the district's Charama area, said.

"I was in jail for six to seven months. After I was acquitted, I requested guruji to let met stay with him as I wanted to take up woodcraft as a profession," said Yadav, who has been living in Mr Mandavi's house for the past two years.

The 'Shanta Art' group, which includes several former Naxalites, makes nameplates, key rings, pen case and other items for sale from wood, with Mr Mandavi often sending his students to fairs across the country to earn revenue from their craft.

Apart from Mr Mandavi, eminent Pandvani singer Usha Barle and Nacha artiste Domar Singh Kunvar have been selected for the Padma Shri awards from the state.

Ms Barle hails from Durg district and learnt Pandwani, a traditional performing art form, from Padma Vibhushan awardee Teejan Bai, a legendary exponent of the traditional performing art form. Ms Barle has performed in London and New York.

Mr Kunvar, who belongs to Balod district, has been widely recognised for his fight against the social ill of child marriage.

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अभियान को अंजाम देते समय सबूत के बारे में नहीं सोचती सेना: लेफ्टिनेंट जनरल कालिता

पाकिस्तान में 2016 में किए गए सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक के सबूत की कुछ विपक्षी नेताओं की मांग के बीच थलसेना की पूर्वी कमान के जीओसी-इन-सी लेफ्टिनेंट जनरल आर पी कालिता ने शुक्रवार को कहा कि किसी भी अभियान को अंजाम देते समय सेना कभी भी कोई सबूत रखने के बारे में नहीं सोचती. सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक के सबूत की मांग कर रहे कुछ विपक्षी नेताओं की हाल की मांगों पर यहां पत्रकारों के एक राजनीतिक सवाल का जवाब देने से इनकार करते हुए उन्होंने कहा कि देश भारतीय बलों पर भरोसा करता है.

उन्होंने कहा कि यह एक राजनीतिक सवाल है. इसलिए मैं इस पर टिप्पणी करना पसंद नहीं करता. मुझे लगता है कि देश भारतीय सशस्त्र बलों पर भरोसा करता है. यह पूछे जाने पर कि क्या अभियान के दौरान सेना कोई सबूत रखती है, उन्होंने ‘न' में जवाब दिया. जब हम कोई अभियान करने जाते हैं, तो हम उस अभियान का कोई सबूत नहीं रखते. बता दें कि कांग्रेस के वरिष्ठ नेता दिग्विजय सिंह ने हाल में जम्मू में राहुल गांधी के नेतृत्व वाली ‘भारत जोड़ो यात्रा' के दौरान सीमा पार सैन्य अभियान पर संदेह व्यक्त किया था.

उन्होंने कहा था कि केंद्र सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक और कई लोगों को मारने की बात करते हैं, लेकिन इसका कोई सबूत नहीं है. वे झूठ का पुलिंदा दिखाकर शासन कर रहे हैं.  हालांकि, कांग्रेस ने इस टिप्पणी से खुद को अलग कर लिया और कहा कि यह उसके रुख को प्रतिबिंबित नहीं करती तथा पार्टी देश के हित में सभी सैन्य कार्रवाइयों का समर्थन करती है.

कांग्रेस नेता राहुल गांधी ने सिंह की टिप्पणियों को 'हास्यास्पद' करार दिया था और कहा था कि सशस्त्र बल अपना काम 'असाधारण तरीके से' कर रहे हैं और उन्हें कोई सबूत देने की आवश्यकता नहीं है.

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