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  • Afghan-returned ITBP canines to now serve in anti-Naxal operations in Chhattisgarh

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Three combat canines who were part of the ITBP commando security contingent in Afghanistan will soon be deployed with the border guarding forces’ anti-Naxal operations unit operating in Chhattisgarh, officials said on Wednesday.

    The three dogs — Roobi (a female Belgian Malinois breed), Maya (female Labrador) and Bobby (male Doberman) — have been sent to a special dog kennel at the ITBP camp in south-west Delhi’s Chhawla area after they landed at the Hindon airbase in Ghaziabad on Tuesday onboard a special military evacuation flight from the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

    The dogs served for about three years with the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) commando contingent that guarded the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan capital Kabul and its diplomatic staff.

    “The three dogs detected many improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and protected the lives of not only Indian diplomats but also the local Afghan civilians working in the embassy. They will soon be deployed with ITBP units undertaking anti-Maoist operations in Chhattisgarh,” an official source said.

    The dogs were raised and trained at the ITBP national training centre for dogs (NTCD) in Bhanu near Chandigarh before being sent for the overseas duty.

    The dogs were part of the 150 member Indian contingent, including 99 ITBP commandos, that took an IAF aircraft on Tuesday morning from the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul to reach Hindon via a refuelling halt at Jamnagar in Gujarat.

    With this de-induction, the entire strength of the force, that is primarily tasked to guard the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China, has been withdrawn from that country including all the diplomats and Embassy staffers.

    India had deployed over 300 ITBP commandos for securing its Embassy, consulates and diplomats in Afghanistan. It was first deployed to secure the premises of the Kabul Embassy and its residents in November, 2002.

    It later sent its additional detachments to similarly guard Indian consulates located in Jalalabad, Kandhar, Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat.

    The detachments from the consulates have already been withdrawn after they were shut recently due to the current crisis in the country and also due to negligible footfall as the coronavirus pandemic gripped the globe.

    Some of the commandos came back from Kabul in earlier flights.

  • Mayawati questions timing, intention of Yogi Adityanath govt’s proposed population control bill

    By Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: Three days after the Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission uploaded the draft of the proposed population control law, inviting public suggestions, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati questioned the timing and real intention of the proposed legislation of the Yogi Adityanath government.

    In a series of tweets on Tuesday, the ex-UP CM said the timing of bringing the legislation has put a question mark on the seriousness and actual intentions of the proposed Bill. The Bill’s timing suggests that it is intended more for electoral gains and less for addressing the actual national issue of rising population.

    “If the BJP government in UP was really serious about population control, it should have begun work on it just after assuming power in the state by proactively creating public awareness over the issue. Had it been done just after the BJP government was formed in the state, its results could well have started trickling in by the time of the Vidhan Sabha polls,” she tweeted.

    “Failing to empower the people by ushering education and employment to them, the BJP government, just like the Congress governments of the past, is putting forth punitive measures to force most families to control population,” Mayawati tweeted further.

    The BSP president’s tweets against the UP government’s proposed Population (Control, Stabilization and Welfare) Bill 2021 came just a day after the BJP’s allied right wing outfit, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), wrote to the UP State Law Commission, suggesting reconsideration of the provisions pertaining to incentivising public servants and others to have only one child in the family.

    On Saturday, the UP State Law Commission had come up with the first draft of the UP Population (Control, Stabilization and Welfare) Bill 2021, containing a series of incentives/disincentives for those following/violating the two-child norm.

    The Commission came up with the first draft of the population control bill, inviting suggestions from people through e-mail at [email protected] or by post, latest by July 19.

    The proposed law’s first draft contains a slew of incentives/disincentives for following the two-child norm, including debarring violators from contesting local authority/local self-government elections.

    The proposed Bill’s first draft also proposes that after the commencement of the Act, those violating the two-child norm by procreating more than two kids won’t be eligible to apply for state government jobs, will be ineligible to get promotion in state government service and ineligible to receive any kind of government subsidy. Also, the other disincentives include the limit of ration card units up to four and debarring from the benefit of government-sponsored welfare schemes.

    The Bill’s primary draft also proposes a series of incentives for government servants as well as the general public, including two additional increments during entire service, subsidy towards purchase of plot or house site or built house from Housing Board or Development Authority, soft loan for construction or purchasing a house on nominal rates of interest, rebate on charges for utilities such as water, electricity, water, house tax, maternity or paternity leave of 12 months with full salary and allowances.

    It also proposes a three per cent increase in the employer‘s contribution fund under the national pension scheme, free health care facility and insurance coverage to spouses for those strictly following the two-child norm.

    It also has additional benefits for public servants, such as free health care facility and insurance coverage to the single child till the age of 20 years, preference to single child in admission in all educational institutions, including but not limited to Indian Institute of Management, All India Institute of Medical Science etc.; free education up to graduation level, scholarship for higher studies in case of a girl child and preference to single child in government jobs.

    The proposed law’s first draft provides for special benefits to below poverty line (BPL) couples having only one child and undergoing voluntary sterilization. Such a couple would be eligible for payment from the government for a one-time lump sum of Rs 80,000 if the single child is a boy and Rs 1 lakh if the single child is a girl. 

  • Draft population control bill raises questions about BJP govt’s intentions: Mayawati

    The BSP chief #39;s reaction comes in the wake of the Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission (UPSLC) posting the draft of the population control bill on its website.

  • Edirorial :- Peeem Pad kee Daud Mein Maaya Aage Raahul Peechhe

    After considering some of today’s news related to SP-BSP, we can reveal the possibility that the maya has overthrown Rahul Gandhi on behalf of the Opposition in the race for the prime minister’s post. Akhilesh has already kneeled.
    Today, in Rahul Jhansi, Rahul said the young brigade of the SP will be shocked by the false promises of BJP. This implies that Rahul and his Congress are now zero in Uttar Pradesh. The nephew Akhilesh has already been bowed before Bua Mayawati.
    Today the BSP has made big bets. In 2019, the party has taken the resolution to make Mayawati a PM.
    On Monday, there was a meeting of co-ordinators and senior workers in Lucknow, in which Mayawati’s name was kept under the single-point agenda, it was clearly stated that after the 2019 general elections, Mayawati is to be the Prime Minister of the country. This is the first time that thousands of workers gathered in Lucknow’s largest auditorium Indira Gandhi Foundation, but Mayawati was not on the stage.
    This made it clear that Mayawati could not compromise with Rahul Gandhi in any way for the post of Prime Minister. If the BSP will get the support of the Congress, as it is being seen in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, it will impose its condition on Congress. Even if they do not disclose this condition in the media.
    Right now Rahul Gandhi is desperate from the Congress, Madhya Pradesh and other provinces in the Congress that is going on in the heat and poster. This is the reason that in the manner in which the announcement of the Prime Minister’s post in the US during Karnataka assembly elections and now he is quiet. On the contrary, BSP has turned the tables for making Maya a candidate for the post of prime minister.
    During the UPA regime, a banner in the stage at a Congress program was a picture of Robert Vadra, besides Manmohan Singh.
    This was the story of Gandhi Vadra family. Prior to this, Robert Vadra had once said that whatever he is, he is not due to Priyanka Gandhi, because of his ability and ability.
    Prior to Uttar Pradesh, there was a poster war between the supporters of Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. Today’s news is that poster war between Jyotiraditya Scindia and Kamal Nath supporters has started.
    There is a poster on the Facebook page of the Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress Idea Forum, on which Kamal Nath has been asked to make the next Chief Minister of the state. This poster has written ‘Rahul Bhaiya’s message, Kamal Nath Sahela Territory’.
    Right now, there is a poster on Facebook about Scindia. In the poster, Scindia has been projected as the Chief Minister’s candidate and has written, “The next Chief Minister will bring a storm of development in Madhya Pradesh”. This poster of Scindia has been posted on the Facebook page of ‘Shrimant Scindia Fan Club’. It is written on this poster: ‘There will be a storm of development in the country, Scindia in the state, Rahul Gandhi in the center’.
    Today’s news in Loksakti’s first page is the news: The accusation of harassing the CM Swamy, imposed by the former Assembly Speaker, in the Karnataka Congress. This is also the situation of Rajasthan.
    It seems that until the coming assembly elections, at least Rahul Gandhi will remain silent on the issue of PM candidate and SP will continue to bounce to present Maya as a PM candidate.