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  • Fashionable to oppose whatever Modi govt does; no intolerance in country: E Sreedharan

    Hailing from Kerala, the 88-year-old technocrat said that he wants to do things for the benefit of the state and those can be done by entering politics.

  • Country has turned bankrupt under Modi government: Congress MP Manish Tiwari

    By PTI
    MOHALI: The country has turned bankrupt under the Modi government and its image has been dented on social, political and international fronts, Congress MP Manish Tiwari alleged here on Friday.

    Addressing a rally in support of party candidates for Mohali municipal body elections slated for February 14, he said there is a debt of Rs 18 lakh crore now on the central government.

    “The country’s economy that grew at 8 percent every year during Manmohan Singh as PM has now fallen to minus 7.7 percent,” he said.

    “The Modi government has dented the country on social, political and international fronts by turning it bankrupt,” he asserted.

  • Modi govt allocated 438% more budget to agri compared to UPA: Union Minister Giriraj Singh

    By PTI
    PANAJI: Union minister Giriraj Singh on Saturday said the budgetary allocation made by the Modi government for the agriculture sector during 2014-2020 was 438 per cent more than what it was during the previous UPA rule.

    He also accused the Leftists and the “tukde-tukde gang” of defaming the Modi government’s achievements in the farm sector.

    The Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying was speaking to reporters here.

    “I want to stress on the budget (allocation) for the agriculture sector.

    The budget allocation for agriculture was Rs 88,811 crore between 2009 and 2014, which was increased to Rs 4,87,238 crore between 2014 and 2020, registering a growth of 438 per cent,” he said.

    “The Leftists and the ‘tukde-tukde gang’ are defaming the achievements of the Modi-led government in the farm sector,” he alleged.

    He said the agriculture credit during 2013-14 was Rs seven lakh crore, which has gone up to Rs 16.5 lakh crore during the FY 2021-22, reporting an increase of 135 per cent.

    Singh said that wheat worth Rs 33,000 crore was procured during 2013-14, which increased to Rs 62,000 crore during the 2019-2020 fiscal, with a growth of 87 per cent.

    Similarly, paddy worth Rs 63,298 crore was procured between 2013-14 which went up to Rs 1.41 lakh crore in 2019-2020, he added.

    Singh said that 106 lakh farmers in the country have benefited through the Direct Bank Transfer (DBT) of Rs 6,000 each.

  • Modi government acts in haste, repents in leisure: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi

    By Express News Service
    HYDERABAD: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi who attended the all-party meeting held by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla raised the issues of China and its incursion into the Indian territory, farm laws and minority affairs.

    “I demanded that a discussion be held on continuous Chinese intrusions on our territories in Sikkim, Ladakh, and Arunachal Pradesh. It’s not acceptable to say Chinese occupation is a sensitive matter and no discussion can happen. There are adequate protections in parliamentary procedure to allow a discussion. We have seen many images & reports in media. As MPs we have a right to seek answers from government,” Owaisi said.

    On minority affairs, the Hyderabad MP pointed out that there has only been one discussion on the subject since he was been elected as an MP. On farm laws, Owaisi said, “When farm laws were proposed we had demanded that they be sent to the Standing Committee. If BJP had followed these processes, it wouldn’t have been so surprised by the backlash.”

    “Now looking at the opposition, it’s decided to suspend the laws for one-and-a-half years. This attitude of acting in haste & repenting in leisure not only harms citizens but also damages sanctity of Parliament. Learn to listen to public representatives, learn to respect democractic process,” he added.

  • Sonia Gandhi tells Centre there is still time to drop arrogance, withdraw farm laws unconditionally

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday accused the Centre of being apathetic towards farmers protesting the new farm laws in harsh weather conditions, with party chief Sonia Gandhi saying that for the first time since independence such an “arrogant” government has come to power that cannot see the sufferings of ‘annadatas’.

    She also demanded that the new farm laws be immediately withdrawn unconditionally.

    In a scathing attack on the Centre over the farmers’ protests, Gandhi said governments and their leaders who ignore public sentiments in a democracy cannot govern for long and it is now quite clear that the protesting farmers will not bow in the face of the Centre’s policy of “tire and pushover”.

    “There is still time, the Modi government should leave the arrogance of power and immediately withdraw the three black laws unconditionally to end the agitation of the farmers who are dying in the cold and rain. This is Rajdharma and a true tribute to the farmers who have lost their lives,” she said in a statement in Hindi.

    The Modi government should remember that democracy means protecting the interests of the people and the farmers-workers, the Congress president said.

    In the wake of the government’s “apathy”, so far, more than 50 farmers have lost their lives with some even taking the extreme step due to the government’s neglect, she said.

    “But neither the heartless Modi government relented nor the Prime Minister or any other minister uttered a word of consolation till today.

    I pay my respects to all the deceased farmer brothers and pray to God to give their families the strength to bear this sorrow,” Gandhi said.

    Earlier, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi compared the ongoing farmers’ protests against the three new Central agriculture-related laws with the Champaran agitation during the British rule and said every farmer-labourer part of the current movement is a ‘satyagrahi’ and they will take their rights back.

    “The country is going to face a Champaran-like tragedy. British were ‘company Bahadur’ back then and now Modi-friends are ‘company Bahadur’,” he alleged in a tweet in Hindi.

    “But, every farmer-labourer of the movement is a ‘satyagrahi’ who will take back their rights,” the former Congress chief said.

    The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was led by Mahatma Gandhi and is considered a historic event in India’s independence movement.

    It was a farmer’s uprising that took place in Champaran district of Bihar during the British colonial period when the farmers protested having to grow indigo with barely any payment for it.

    In another tweet, Rahul Gandhi alleged that the Modi government which is “unable to give the legal guarantee of minimum support price (MSP) to farmers” is giving “fixed price to its industrialist friends to run foodgrain godowns”.

    Government Mandis are either being closed down or foodgrains are not being purchased, he alleged.

    “Why the lack of attention to farmers and sympathy for suit-boot friends,” Rahul Gandhi said in the tweet in Hindi.

    Congress’ chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala also hit out at the government over the farmers’ plight, saying that at the Tikri border amid nearly zero degree temperature and torrential rains, farmers were forced to protest in a semi-naked state.

    “When will those in power feel ashamed, who have crossed the limits of autocracy by calling this movement of the farmers ‘event’,” he said in a tweet in Hindi.

    At a press briefing, Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh urged the government to show empathy towards protesting farmers, repeal the three laws and provide a legal guarantee of MSP.

    He said the government agreeing to make amendments to the farm laws showed that there was a problem in them and they should be repealed.

    Vallabh alleged that the government was deliberately delaying talks over the new farm laws, which he demanded should be repealed and new ones brought in after thorough consultation with the agriculturists and following proper parliamentary procedure.

    Hitting out at the government for holding talks with farmers with intervals of days and not heeding to Chhattisgarh’s repeated requests for procurement, the Congress leader said, “The government is in New Year, will talk to farmers on January 4 because ‘we remain in New Year hangover on January 1, 2 and 3′.”

    The Congress has been seeking the repeal of the three new farm laws, alleging that they will ruin farming and the farmers.

    The Congress is also supporting the farmers’ agitation against the legislations.

    After the sixth round of formal negotiations on Wednesday, the government and farm unions reached some common ground to resolve protesting farmers’ concerns over rise in power tariff and penalties for stubble burning, but the two sides remained deadlocked over the main contentious issues of the repeal of the new farm laws and a legal guarantee for MSP.

    Braving the cold, thousands of farmers, mainly from Punjab and Haryana, are protesting at various borders of the national capital for more than a month against these laws.

    The government has presented these laws as major agriculture sector reforms aimed at helping farmers and increasing their income, but the protesting unions fear that the new legislations will leave them at the mercy of big corporates by weakening the MSP and mandi systems.

  • Modi meets foreign investors today as India looks to attract investments for infrastructure

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi will woo the world’s 20 largest pension and sovereign wealth funds at a virtual round table Thursday as India looks to attract investments for its ambitious Rs 111 lakh crore infrastructure investment pipeline for the next five years.

    The Modi government’s efforts to attract foreign investments into the infrastructure space comes at a time when around half of the proposed infrastructure investments by 2025 will have to come from private and foreign investors.

    To attract these funds to invest in India, it has already announced tax exemptions in this year’s budget to these long-term funds investing in infrastructure, making their income exempt from long-term capital gains, interest and dividend tax.

    The call for investment

    The virtual global investor roundtable, organised by the Ministry of Finance and the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund, will be attended by global investors who represent regions like the US, Europe, Canada, Korea, Japan, Middle East, Australia and Singapore, and have an asset under management of $6 trillion, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.

    The roundtable will also be attended by Indian business leaders like Mukesh Ambani, Ratan Tata, Deepak Parekh, Nandan Nilekani and Uday Kotak, and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das.

    It will be followed by individual meetings of the investors with the PM over the next couple of weeks.

    Repeated efforts

    This is not the government’s first attempt to woo foreign investors.

    Just ahead of PM Modi’s visit to the US last year, his government had announced a massive reduction in corporate tax rates to make India competitive vis-a-vis other Southeast Asian economies. The rates were brought down to as low as 15 per cent (effective tax rate of around 17 per cent) for new companies in the manufacturing sector.

  • Opportunity to buy cheap gold, this scheme of Modi government is starting again

    For the last few years, the Narendra Modi government of the Center has been running a special scheme to reduce the demand for physical gold. Its name is Gold Bond Scheme. Under this scheme, the Narendra Modi government of the Center is selling gold once again. 

    Let me tell you here that the government sells gold in the form of bonds. The price of this gold is decided by the Reserve Bank. The Reserve Bank issues the price of this gold from time to time, which is cheaper and safer than the physical gold present in the market. Let us know about the new price of gold under this scheme.   

    The Reserve Bank has kept the price of gold bond at Rs 5,117 per gram this time. There will be a rebate of 50 rupees per gram on digital payment for the purchase of gold bonds. The bond price for such investors will be Rs 5,067 per gram.   

    The scheme will open on August 31 and close on September 4. This means that you can shop for gold during this period. At least one gram can be purchased. To buy it, you have to contact your bank, BSE, NSE website or post office.

    It can be purchased digitally from here. This is a kind of secure investment because there is neither a concern for purity nor a problem of security.    

    Let us tell you that in the financial year 2019-20, the Reserve Bank issued gold bonds worth Rs 2,316.37 crore i.e. 6.13 tonnes in ten installments. At the same time, bonds are being issued for 6 consecutive months in the Corona period. 

    This is to say that this time you may have to wait a few months if you miss the investment. Explain that the purpose of launching the government’s scheme was to reduce the demand for imports and physical gold. 

  • Modi government gives relief to traders, now GST exemption on annual earnings up to 40 lakhs

    The central government has given huge relief to taxpayers on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) front. The Finance Ministry has doubled the GST exemption given to traders. Now, businessmen earning up to Rs 40 lakhs will be exempted from GST. Whereas earlier this limit was 20 lakh rupees. Not only this, the traders whose annual turnover is up to Rs 1.5 crore can opt for composition scheme. They only have to pay tax at the rate of one percent. 

    According to the Finance Ministry, the taxpayer base has almost doubled since the introduction of GST. When GST came into force, the number of assessees covered by GST at that time was around 65 lakhs, which has now increased to over 1.24 crore. Also all processes in GST are fully automated.
    On the first death anniversary of former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, the Finance Ministry said that before GST, value-added tax (VAT), excise and sales tax had to be paid. These collectively led to the standard tax rate of 31 per cent. The ministry said, ‘It is now widely believed that GST is favorable to both consumers and taxpayers. Prior to GST, people were encouraged to pay taxes due to high rate of tax. But lower rates under GST have increased tax compliance.

    The GST contains 17 local charges. GST was implemented in the country on 1 July 2017. Arun Jaitley was the Finance Minister in the first term of the Narendra Modi government. The Ministry tweeted, ‘Today we are remembering Arun Jaitley. He was instrumental in the implementation of GST. It will be counted as the most fundamental historical reform of Indian taxation in history. ‘

    The ministry said that the rate at which people used to pay taxes has decreased in the GST regime. According to the Revenue Neutral Rate (RNR) committee, the revenue neutral rate is 15.3 per cent. At the same time, according to the Reserve Bank, the weighted rate of GST is just 11.6 percent. 

  • Editorial :- Development VS Havoc

    This is what the development says is to interpret it with today’s news.

    Today’s news is: China overturned, India topped the sector for the first time in 20 years.

    Today’s second news is: 17 of the world’s fastest growing cities will be 17.

    What is known as destruction is found in a news from today: Imran Khan targets BJP, told Modi Government, ANTI MUSLIMS, ANTI PAKISTAN.

    Now China has started constructing a 36-kilometer long road in Shakesham Valley in PoK. Pakistan had gifted this valley to China. Here, with the help of the road, the Chinese army will be able to reach the Line of Actual Control (LAC) near Siachen.

    Slowly, the Indian PoK, which India has been grabbed in a vision, will give complete gift to China.

    China is consistently increasing its activities on the pretext of borders with India and the pretext of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

    The CPI has become a genius of Pakistan. Like snake charmer, he is not able to swallow it or leave it. He is completely immersed in China’s debt.

    In the same way, China is fasting with other neighboring countries, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal etc., on the pretext of financial aid.

    In the elections that have taken place in the Maldives, power has come into the hands of those who have tried to get rid of China. Lanka is also trying the same way.

    Now the results of the assembly elections will be on December 11, but excited by the exit polls, the Congress is thinking that in the near future, it will be able to regain India again.

    Her thinking is a sign of destruction. The way terrorism is in Pakistan and the way it is in the hands of China, it is a symbol of destruction.

    India will never go towards destruction any time in the near future. We know what happened in 1962 by placing slogans of Chinese Hindi Bhai-Bhai through Comrade Krishna Menon.

    India was partitioned in 1947. In India, the merger of the state of Kashmir was done by Maharaja Hari Singh, father of Karna Singh of that time. Immediately after that Pakistan had penetrated its army in the garb of tribal. The Indian army was pushing it away. There was only some escape. It is known to us that at the same time how Nehru took a POK gift to Pakistan.

    The move of the Congress is to handover the Kashmir to Pakistan and to the PoK to China and friendship with Pakistan and China, with the help of Modi Government to be removed.

    Mani Shankar’s visit to Pakistan, he demanded the removal of the Modi government from the ISI by him and now, on the instructions of Rahul Gandhi, he should go to Pakistan of Sidhu. Meeting the army chief of Pakistan and hugging Khalistani militant Gopal Chawla indicates that in connection with Punjab, Congress has done some kind of secret agreement in connection with Punjab.

    Now we have to think that India, which is going towards development now, has to give more speed or to go towards destruction is stuck in the crooked move of China and Pakistan.

  • Article :- Jaanie Kaun Hai Krishchiyan Jems Mishel Aur Unaka Pratinidhitv Karane Vaale Vakeel Se Milen: Kaangres Neta Aljo Ke Joseph

    Central Government was finally successful in bringing Christian Mitchell to India for interrogation of alleged scandal in VVIP helicopter deal with Italian company Agusta Westland to go to high altitude places like Siachen. The Modi government is looking at the form of big success for the extradition of a politically sensitive sensitive scandal. The Modi government, surrounded by Raphael, hopes that this intermediary will reveal such information that can make the journey of 2019 easier for him.

    Agosta Westland’s intermediary Christian Mitchell was extradited from India in Dubai last night, he was presented in Patiala House Court in Delhi. The CBI sought Mitchell’s custody, and the court sent Mitchell to CBI for five days custody. Agosta Westland’s intermediary Christian Mitchell was extradited from India in Dubai last night, he was presented in Patiala House Court in Delhi. The CBI sought Mitchell’s custody, and the court sent Mitchell to CBI for five days custody. In the court, Christian Mitchell was represented by lawyer Alojo Joseph.

    In the case of alleged scandal in Agusta Westland helicopter deal, the middleman Christian Michelle may prove to be a serious link. It is expected that through him there may be some important clues about the transaction of money in the deal. Whose investigating agencies have been searching for a long time. In order to explore the option of MI-8S helicopter, the work was started on the proposal of Rs 3,600 crore VVIP helicopter deal in 1999.

    The then NDA Government, led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, had requested a request for the acquisition of 12 VVI helicopters in March 2002. Four companies had shown interest in it. The technical evaluation committee selected three companies. Agasta’s rival company EH 101 did not participate in the assessment as it was not certified for flying at an altitude of 6000 meters. After the Flight Investigation Assay, the EU-225 of the Eurocopter of France was found to be suitable for the acquisition of the government.
    There was a meeting held on November 19, 2003 under the chairmanship of Vajpayee’s Principal Secretary. It was said in this stutter that VVIP barely travels helicopter at an altitude of 6,000 meters, so this limit should be reduced to 4500 meters. This can provide adequate options in selection of companies. Meanwhile, a strong letter was written to the Chief of the Air Force from the Principal Secretary, stating that the advice of the SPG posted in the security of the Prime Minister’s Office and the Prime Minister while consulting the criteria for VVIP helicopter was not consulted.

    After this, the Congress-led Sprangan government signed the agreement for the helicopter deal in 2010. To reduce the flight limit, it is the primary allegation of corruption in this deal. The UPA Government presented another proposal, in which three companies showed interest. Later America’s Sikorsky and Britain’s Agusta Westland remained in the race. Augusta Westland was selected after the flight test.
    The CBI claimed that the then Chief of the Indian Air Force, SP Tyagi, played an important role in reducing the flying altitude from 6,000 meters to 4500 meters, due to which Agusta remained in the Westland deal. He claimed that the Air Force had opposed the change of boundaries, but when Tyagi became Air Force Chief, he recommended it.

    According to the agency, with the help of three intermediaries including Michelle on the gestures of Finmeccanica and AgustaWestland officials, Tyagi and his relatives Rajiv, Sandeep and Julie were allegedly bribed. Christian Michael is one of the three middlemen involved in this deal. Apart from this, Guido Haschke and Carlo Gerosa are.

    The official said that although full information about the transaction of money is not yet received and Michelle’s statements and inquiries for linking different bills in the case of payments made to the CBI on behalf of Finmeccanica and AgustaWestland of the CBI Will be required.
    Michelle has alleged that the CBI team wants to name the Gandhi family in this case. However, the agency has rejected the charge. CBI had accused Tyagi and his nephews, Indian middlemen and companies of corruption in their chargesheet filed last year.

    Apart from this, the names of five other foreigners were also included in this. A CBI spokesman said that after the case was registered in 2012, Mitchell had escaped from India and was not cooperating in the investigation. Following a non-bailable warrant issued by a special court in Delhi, the Interpol Red Corner Notice was issued in 2015, after which Mitchell was arrested in February 2017 in Dubai. After the grant of Mitchell extradition by a Dubai court, the United Arab Emirates government also approved, after which the CBI team brought him back to India.

    Interestingly, Alijo Joseph is the leader of the Congress party, and he is the national in charge of the party’s youth wing, legal department of the Indian Youth Congress. Their Twitter and Facebook profiles clearly indicate their official relationship with the party. By visiting his social media posts, he is an active member of the Congress Party, because he regularly posts on topics related to politics and party.
    In July this year, Joseph of Aljos was given the National Inquiry of the Youth Incharge of the Legal Department.