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PM Modi’s Reply after Bulgarian President praises ‘brave’ Indian Navy for ‘MV Ruen’ rescue mission.

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Narendra Modi stated that India is dedicated to maintaining freedom of navigation while tackling piracy and terrorism in the Indian Ocean.

PM Modi's Reply after Bulgarian President

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that India is dedicated to defending freedom of navigation and tackling piracy and terrorism in the Indian Ocean region, after Bulgarian President Rumen Radev congratulated him for the Indian Navy’s rescue of his country’s ship and crew.

Rumen Radev wrote on X (formerly Twitter): “My sincere gratitude to PM Narendra Modi for the brave action of the India Navy in rescuing the hijacked Bulgarian ship ‘Ruen’ and its crew, including seven Bulgarian citizens.”

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Modi replied that he liked the message.

“We are relieved that seven Bulgarian nationals are safe and will be coming home shortly. “India is committed to protecting freedom of navigation and combating piracy and terrorism in the Indian Ocean region,” Modi stated.

Earlier on Sunday, Bulgaria’s deputy prime minister hailed India, Modi, and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar for successfully retrieving the hijacked MV Ruen.

“I thank the navy for a successful operation to free the hijacked vessel Ruen and its crew members, including seven Bulgarian nationals. Thank you for your support and hard work. “We continue to work together to protect the crew’s lives,” Bulgarian Minister Mariya Gabriel wrote on X. “That’s what friends are for,” Jaishankar responded.

On Saturday, the Indian Navy forced 35 pirates to surrender and successfully recovered the MV Ruen, which Somali pirates had seized on December 14, last year. The seizure of the Bulgarian-owned MV Ruen was the first time Somali pirates boarded a commercial vessel since 2017. On Saturday, all crew members were safely retrieved, with no injuries.

The Indian Navy claimed that INS Kolkata led the operation. The Navy used its P-8I maritime patrol aircraft, together with frontline ships INS Kolkata and INS Subhadra, as well as a high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicle. On Saturday, the Indian Air Force’s C-17 aircraft dropped two boats alongside Indian Navy MARCOS in the Arabian Sea to support the ongoing anti-piracy effort ‘Operation Sankalp’.

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During the 40-hour rescue mission, INS Kolkata intercepted the pirate ship MV Ruen, which was under attack over 2600 kilometres from the Indian coast. Through smart maneuvers, INS Kolkata forced the pirate ship to halt its voyage.

“On March 16, INS Kolkata, a mission deployed in the Arabian Sea, intercepted the pirate ship MV Ruen, thwarting Somali pirates’ plans to capture ships sailing through the region. The commerce vessel was hijacked in December 2023 and has since been under the custody of Somali pirates, according to an Indian Navy statement.

Since December, when Somali pirates hijacked the MV Ruen 380 nautical miles east of Yemen’s Socotra island, the Indian navy has been watching it. At that time, the pirates handed over one injured Bulgarian sailor to the Indian Navy.

They then transported the MV Ruen and its 17 crew members to Somalia’s semi-autonomous province of Puntland, where the Indian navy claimed it was anchored near Bosaso.

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Delhi Again Emerged As World’s Most Polluted Capital City, India Ranks at…

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Delhi’s PM2.5 levels worsened from 89.1 micrograms per cubic metre in 2022 to 92.7 micrograms per cubic metre in 2023.The national capital was ranked the most polluted capital city in the world four times on the trot starting 2018.

Bihar’s Begusarai emerged as the world’s most polluted metropolitan area while Delhi was identified as the capital city with the poorest air quality, according to a new report. With an average annual PM2.5 concentration of 54.4 micrograms per cubic metre, India had the third worst air quality out of 134 countries in 2023 after Bangladesh (79.9 micrograms per cubic metre) and Pakistan (73.7 micrograms per cubic metre), according to the World Air Quality Report 2023 by Swiss organisation IQAir.

In 2022, India was ranked as the eighth most polluted country with an average PM2.5 concentration of 53.3 micrograms per cubic metre. Begusarai stood out as the most polluted metropolitan area globally with an average PM2.5 concentration of 118.9 micrograms per cubic metre. The city did not even figure in the 2022 rankings.

Delhi’s PM2.5 levels worsened from 89.1 micrograms per cubic metre in 2022 to 92.7 micrograms per cubic metre in 2023.The national capital was ranked the most polluted capital city in the world four times on the trot starting 2018.

It is estimated that 1.36 billion people in India experience PM2.5 concentrations exceeding the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended annual guideline level of 5 micrograms per cubic metre, the report said.

Also, 1.33 billion people, 96 per cent of the Indian population, experience PM2.5 levels more than seven times the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline. This trend is reflected in city-level data, with more than 66 per cent of the country’s cities reporting annual averages greater than 35 micrograms per cubic metre.

IQAir said the data utilised to create this report was aggregated from the global distribution of more than 30,000 regulatory air quality monitoring stations and low-cost air quality sensors operated by research institutions, governmental bodies, universities and educational facilities, non-profit non-governmental organisations, private companies and citizen scientists.

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The 2022 World Air Quality Report included data from 7,323 locations in 131 countries, regions and territories. In 2023, those numbers have grown to include 7,812 locations in 134 countries, regions and territories.

Causing an estimated one in every nine deaths worldwide, air pollution is the greatest environmental threat to human health.According to the WHO, air pollution is responsible for an estimated seven million premature deaths worldwide every year.

Exposure to PM2.5 air pollution leads to and exacerbates numerous health conditions, including but not limited to asthma, cancer, stroke and lung disease. Exposure to elevated levels of fine particles can impair cognitive development in children, lead to mental health issues, and complicate existing illnesses, including diabetes.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by our staff and is published from ANI/Reuters/PTI)

Today, key Congress members will gather to approve the manifesto; the poll panel may clear more names.

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The party’s highest executive body will also debate and vote on a motion regarding electoral bond data.

The Congress Working Committee (CWC) will meet on Tuesday morning for the last time before the general election to approve the party’s poll manifesto, among other things. In the evening, the central election committee is expected to clear the candidate list for the first phase of the polls scheduled on April 19, functionaries said.

Congress members will gather

The working committee meeting, set for 10 a.m., is expected to focus on endorsing the manifesto. The gathering is also anticipated to approve a resolution recognizing former party head Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, which began in Manipur on January 14 and finished in Mumbai on March 17.

“There are numerous pressing concerns before the party. However, the CWC may be strained for time to examine all contentious issues because the major goal of the conference is to endorse the Congress manifesto,” a committee member said on the condition of anonymity.

The party’s highest executive body will also meet to examine and vote on the electoral bond data. The changes occurred a day after the Election Commission uploaded the data, which was one day before the Supreme Court’s deadline in the high-profile case. Between April 12, 2019, and February 15, 2024, around 1,260 corporations and individuals purchased 22,217 bonds valued at ₹12,155.51 crore.

During this period, 23 political parties redeemed 20,421 bonds worth ₹12,769.09 crore. The Bharatiya Janata Party led the pack with ₹6,061 crore (47.5% of total redeemed value), followed by the Trinamool Congress with ₹1,610 crore (12.6%) and Congress with ₹1,422 crore (11.1%).

The Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra is set to be another highlight of the gathering, after Gandhi completed the east-to-west part of the march last year.

The party’s poll panel is anticipated to clear the remaining candidates for the first round of the election in 18 states and three Union Territories. The meeting was originally set for March 15, but was canceled because the main leaders were participating in the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.

The Congress has cleared 82 individuals in two poll committee meetings. On Tuesday, it will focus on Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Bihar, Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, and other states.

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Snatchers target encounter specialist cop in Delhi. This happened next

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Two snatchers found themselves in trouble when they mistakenly targeted an encounter specialist in Delhi’s Chanakyapuri.

In Short

  • Two snatchers mistakenly target encounter specialist in Delhi
  • Injured cop overpowers, arrests both accused
  • Cop recipient of the President’s award for his bravery

When two snatchers in Delhi’s Chanakyapuri targeted a man, little did they know what they got themselves into.

Vinod Badola, an encounter specialist from the Delhi Police Special Cell was out for an evening walk in Nehru Park, when he was attacked by two miscreants.

One of them punched Badola on the nose, causing him to fall and bleed. It was then the other accused snatched the chain around the cop’s neck.

Things took a turn when Vinod Badola, injured, managed to overpower one of the snatchers, Gaurav, who was armed with a pistol and called the police. The other, however, managed to escape from the scene.

The police arrived at the scene and arrested Gaurav. Subsequently, Vinod, with the help of local police, chased and arrested the other accused, Pawan.

During the interrogation, it was found that both the accused have several cases registered against them. Meanwhile, Vinod Badola is a recipient of the President’s award for his bravery and has also dismantled various terror modules.

[With direct inputs from India Today]

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Mamata Banerjee’s head injury: Doctor Clarifies His ‘push from behind’ Statement!

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The West Bengal Chief Minister bled from her forehead and suffered a cut on the nose after falling at her Kalighat residence on Thursday.

The doctor, whose statement sparked speculation that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was “pushed from behind” at her south Kolkata residence on Thursday evening, resulting in a head injury, sought to clear the air today, claiming that her fall was caused by a “sensation of being pushed from behind.”

Banerjee bled from her forehead and had a cut on her nose after collapsing at her Kalighat home, her brother Kartick Banerjee told reporters. She was brought to the state-run SSKM Hospital around 7.30pm and released at 9.30pm, with three stitches on her forehead and one on her nose. A battery of tests determined that her status was stable.

Dr. Manimoy Bandopadhyay, head of the Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research at SSKM Hospital, briefed the media late Thursday night, according to the medical bulletin. “West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reported to our hospital today about 7.30 p.m. with a history of falling near her home due to a push from behind. She had a severe concussion and a deep cut on her forehead that was bleeding profusely…”

On Friday, Dr. Bandopadhyay stated, “This is not an issue.” Perhaps our statement was misconstrued. It felt like I was being shoved from behind, which caused me to tumble. It occurs when an individual falls.”

Kajari Banerjee, a Trinamool Congress councillor and Kartick’s wife, told reporters something similar. “We don’t know what exactly happened, but we heard that someone pushed from behind,” she went on to say.

The statements sparked speculation of a scheme to attack the chief minister before of the Lok Sabha elections, similar to the 2021 West Bengal assembly elections, when she fractured her leg.

Despite the fact that the chief minister is protected by Z-Plus security, the Kolkata Police Department has remained silent on the issue.

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Electoral Bonds: Decoding Congress’s little pockets of resistance

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While the BJP maintained a stark dominance in electoral bond encashments overall, data reviewed by India Today shows the Congress performed comparatively better in small pockets where its chances of winning elections were higher.

Electoral Bonds

In Short

  • BJP received Rs 6,060 crore through electoral bonds, Congress got Rs 1,422 crore
  • Congress drew more money in phases 15 and 17, coinciding with Tamil Nadu polls
  • Congress’s highest encashment in October 2023 before assembly polls in 5 states.

The prominence of a Tamil Nadu-based lottery company and a Hyderabad-based business conglomerate as top donors, alongside the ruling BJP emerging as the primary beneficiary of electoral bonds, is not the only takeaway from the electoral bonds data published by the Election Commission.

Since April 2019, the BJP has garnered a significant Rs 6,060 crore through electoral bonds, compared to the Congress’s Rs 1,422 crore. But notable exceptions occurred when the Congress had a higher chance of winning elections.

On average, the BJP encashed 42.7% of the total encashment against Congress’ 9.1% between phases 9 and 30, data for which was released on Thursday. However, little pockets of resistance from the Congress were seen in some phases.

For instance, Congress managed to draw more money than BJP in phases 15 and 17 corresponding to January 2021 and July 2021 respectively, as per data released by the Election Commission and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). Interestingly, these instances coincide with the assembly elections in states like Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Kerala, where the Congress’s position was notably firm.

In phase 15, Congress encashed Rs 7.1 crore against BJP’s Rs 1.5 crore, whereas in phase 17 it redeemed bonds worth Rs 24.7 crore against Rs 18 crore by the BJP. Interestingly, Congress party’s highest numbers were reported around October 2023, when it encashed Rs 401.9 crore against BJP’s Rs 359 crore in the same phase.

States expecting polls during this period were Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram, where the party was either in power or was expected to make a comeback.

Congress’s second highest encashment during a single phase was reported in April 2023, before the Karnataka polls with Rs 190.6 crore. The incumbent BJP redeemed Rs 334 crore in the same phase, but lost the southern state. Another small phase that saw the grand old party outstripping the BJP was in July 2022, when it encashed Rs 57.5 crore against the latter’s Rs 12.5 crore.

The BJP, on the other hand, scored its highest in the run-up to the previous Lok Sabha elections, encashing Rs 1,064 crore against Congress’s Rs 118 crore in April 2019, corresponding to phase 9 of the electoral bonds.

The saffron party went on to redeem bonds worth Rs 707 crore in the next month against Congress’s Rs 50 crore during that phase. The data released after the Supreme Court’s order only covers details of electoral bonds sold and encashed since April 12, 2019, although phase 9 started on April 1, 2019, as per ADR.

This article was published on India Today.

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Check The Latest Update: Petrol, diesel price cut in Delhi , Mumbai & Kolkata!

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The Center declared on Thursday that the national price of gasoline and diesel has been reduced by ₹2. Here is a link to the updated fuel prices for your city.

Petrol price

On Thursday, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Puri declared that the country’s gasoline and diesel rates have been slashed by ₹2. The fuel price reduction occurs just a few days before the Lok Sabha election declaration.

The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas declared that the new fuel rates will take effect nationwide on March 15 at six in the morning when it published the updated prices on its official X account. “Price reductions for gasoline and diesel will increase consumer spending and lower operating costs for over 58 lakh heavy goods vehicles running on diesel, 6 crore cars, and 27 crore two-wheelers,” the ministry tweeted.

“The country’s illustrious Prime Minister Modi has once again proved that the welfare and convenience of his family of crores of Indians is always his goal,” Puri wrote on X, praising the national government’s decision.

The central government added that the lower prices for gasoline and diesel will help Indians in numerous ways, including as increased travel and tourism, increased discretionary income, lower costs for farmers using tractors, and many more.

In addition, Hardeep Puri stated that when compared to other significant European countries, India now has some of the lowest fuel prices due to rate reductions. “On March 14, 2024, petrol costs, in rupee terms, ₹94 per litre in India, but ₹168.01, or 79% more, in Italy; ₹166.87, or 78% more, in France; ₹159.57, or 70% more; and ₹145.13, or 54% more, in Germany,” he stated.

Petrol, diesel prices on March 15: City-wise rates

CityPetrol price per litreDiesel price per litre
Delhi₹94.72₹87.62
Mumbai₹104.21₹92.15
Kolkata₹103.94₹90.76
Chennai₹100.75₹92.34


There were rumors in January of this year that the union administration intended to significantly lower the price of gasoline and diesel. Puri, however, dispelled these rumors, stating that with the current high price of crude oil, there will not be any gasoline rate reductions anytime soon.

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The BJP has removed twenty-one sitting members from their seats on the list of candidates for the Lok Sabha election.

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In its second list of 72 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP dismissed 28 incumbent Members and nominated nine Union ministers and three former chief governments.

After announcing 267 candidates thus far, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unveiled its second list of 72 candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections on Wednesday. NDTV stated that approximately 21% of current Members of Parliament have not been re-elected from their respective seats.

Out of the 195 candidates listed, only 33 MPs were replaced in the first list, whilst 30 MPs were replaced in the second list of 72 names. In all, 140 incumbent Members of Parliament have been replicated, and 67—two of whom chose not to run—have not received tickets.

Twenty applicants from each of the states of Maharashtra and Karnataka, seven from Gujarat, six from Telangana and Haryana, five from Madhya Pradesh, two from Delhi, Uttarakhand, and Himachal Pradesh, and one from Dadra and Nagar Haveli are included in the second list.

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New Delhi
All but one sitting member of parliament, Manoj Tiwari of North East Delhi, was replaced by the party in the nation’s capital. This time, five out of the six MPs removed were incumbents since 2014: Harsh Vardhan, Meenakshi Lekhi, Pravesh Sahib Singh, and Ramesh Bidhuri.

The Maharashtra
For twenty of the twenty-three seats the BJP won in the 2019 Maharashtra elections, candidates have been announced by the party. Piyush Goyal, Raosaheb Danve, and Nitin Gadkari, all union ministers, are among the names who were revealed on Wednesday. Five MPs had their tickets canceled, and 14 of the 20 names that were announced were repeated. In place of her sister Pritam Munde, Pankaja Munde was sent from the Beed family stronghold.

Of the seven current MPs in Gujarat, just three were re-elected. Notable exclusions included Darshana Jardosh in Surat, which fielded Mukesh Bhai Chandrakant Dalal.

Haryana
Likewise, of the six announced candidates in Haryana, three incumbent Members of Parliament were re-elected. The late leader of the BJP and former Member of Parliament Rattan Lal Kataria’s wife, Banto Kataria, was fielded.

In Telangana

Most of the Telangana candidates who received Lok Sabha tickets from the BJP are former members of the Congress and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).

Ten of the fifteen MP candidates that have been finalized thus far are former members of other parties who left during the last four to five years. Under condition of anonymity, a BJP leader stated, “The true and faithful leaders have been disregarded.

State of Madhya Pradesh
Two MPs from the five Madhya Pradesh candidates listed in the second list have been added again, and two others have been removed, according to NDTV. Ten sitting Members of Parliament, including Pragya Thakur of Bhopal, were removed from the first list.

karnataka
Out of the 20 announced candidates, 11 MPs in Karnataka were replaced. In a noteworthy shift, Pratap Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar of the Mysuru Royal family has taken Simha’s seat in the Mysuru constituency. Shobha Karandlaje, a Vokkaliga leader, has been transferred to the Bengaluru North constituency. Former BJP state president Nalin Kumar Kateel has also been removed from the list, and Dakshina Kannada candidate Captain Brijesh Chowta is now running.

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Rules are become merely formalities; CAA cannot be reclaimed: Amit Shah rips apart Oppn!

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Only a few weeks before the general elections, the Union home ministry announced the implementation of CAA and on Tuesday established an online site.

Amit Shah

Amit Shah, the union home minister, declared that the government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would never back down from the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

In an interview with ANI, the top BJP leader declared, “This is our sovereign right to ensure Indian citizenship in our country; we will never compromise on it and CAA will never be taken back.”

The opposition parties criticized the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act, or CAA, when its rules were made public earlier this week.

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The home minister responded that even the opposition is aware of its slim prospects of winning power when questioned about the remarks made by the INDIA bloc leaders regarding the repeal of the law if they were to win office.

“Even the INDI coalition is aware that it will not gain control. The BJP, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, introduced CAA. It cannot be reversed.

it. In order to deny a platform to those who wish to repeal it, we will raise awareness of it throughout the entire country, Shah declared.

He laughed aside the opposition’s claims that the controversial law is enabling the Bharatiya Janata Party to acquire new supporters.

“The opposition is unemployed. They’ve been known to say one thing and do another in the past. But the BJP’s and Prime Minister Modi’s histories are distinct. What the BJP or Prime Minister Modi say is indelible. “All of Modi’s promises have come true,” stated Shah.

Shah cited the opposition’s comparable objections to important national security issues in response to the accusation that the BJP is exploiting CAA for political purposes.

They went so far as to claim that airstrikes and surgical attacks had political benefits. Thus, ought we to do something to combat terrorism?” Shah asked.

“All opposition parties, including Rahul Gandhi, Mamata, or Kejriwal, are indulging in politics of lies, so the question of timing does not arise,” the minister responded to questions on the timing of the CAA notification.

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Shah reaffirmed that the BJP has made clear what it intended to do with the CAA well in advance. He drew attention to the fact that the party’s 2019 manifesto included a pledge to implementing the CAA and granting Indian citizenship to refugees from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was approved by both chambers of Parliament in 2019 as part of the BJP’s well-defined goal. It was postponed. because of Covid. Long before the party won a mandate in the elections, the BJP had cleared its agenda.”

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West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee to lead roadshow against CAA implementation in Siliguri today!

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Mamata Banerjee, who has been vocal against its implementation, on Tuesday claimed that the rules notified were “unconstitutional and discriminatory”.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will on Wednesday lead a roadshow in Siliguri against the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019.    

Banerjee, who has been vocal against its implementation, on Tuesday claimed that the rules notified were “unconstitutional and discriminatory”.    

“TMC will hold a roadshow against CAA-NRC in Siliguri. Our chairperson Mamata Banerjee will lead the roadshow,” the party said in a statement.   

Addressing an official programme at Habra in North 24 Parganas district, Banerjee maintained she would not allow the implementation of the CAA in West Bengal, and urged people to think “several times” before applying for citizenship under the law.    

The Union government had on Monday implemented the CAA, notifying the rules to fast-track citizenship for undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who came to India before December 31, 2014.

This article is originally published on Hindustantimes.News!

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