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Indian films will not release in Pakistan: Pak govt after Indian air strikes
The Pakistan government on Tuesday said no film from India will release in the country as it has called for a ban on Indian content after the Indian air force destroyed a terror training camp in Balakot. The country's information and broadcasting minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said the country's film exhibitors association will be boycotting the Indian films. He also said that he has instructed the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) to crack down on "made-in-India advertisements". "Cinema Exhibitors Association has boycotted Indian content, no Indian movie will be released in Pakistan. Also have instructed PEMRA to act against Made in India Advertisements. #PakistanTayarHai" Hussain tweeted. The minister's comments came on a day when India bombed and destroyed Jaish-e-Mohammed's (JeM) biggest training camp in Balakot in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, about 80-km from the Line of Control (LoC). The bombing resulted in killing of a "very large ...
Preemptive air strikes cannot be treated as act of aggression: Ashwani Kumar
Former law minister and Congress leader Ashwani Kumar said Tuesday India's "preemptive" air strike on a Jaish terrorist camp cannot be treated as an act of aggression and any provocative military action by Islamabad will legitimize the use of the nation's might in repelling Pakistani misadventure. He lauded the use of "hard power" by India in defence of the nation's security and inviolability of its territorial integrity and said the operation is a befitting response to the martyrdom of soldiers who lost their lives in Pulwama terrorist attack, which was encouraged and sponsored from Pakistani soil. "As per established international practice and rules of public international law, India's preemptive air strikes cannot be treated as an act of aggression and therefore any misadventure and provocative military action by Pakistan will legitimize the use of the nation's might in repelling Pakistan's aggression," he said in a statement. "Punjab and Kashmir who have traditionally borne the ...
Nehru, Sheikh gave away PoK to Pakistan on platter: Jitendra
Union Minister Jitendra Singh Tuesday accused erstwhile Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of giving away Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to the neighbouring country on a platter under the influence of Sheikh Abdullah. He also held the Congress and its allies responsible for the present situation in Kashmir and claimed that past governments' mistakes would be redeemed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "Under the influence of Sheikh Abdullah, erstwhile Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru gave away PoK to Pakistan on a platter," said Singh. "The Congress and its allies are responsible for the present situation in Kashmir," he added. "The mistakes committed by the past governments, however, will be redeemed by the Modi government," he asserted. Addressing a BJP workers meeting at Dayalachak in Kathua district, Singh referred to events post-Pulwama terror attack and accused Kashmir-centric mainstream parties and their leaders of being apologetic about terror outfits like Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) instead .
Hearing impaired youths end stir as govt accepts key demands
The State Level Association of the Deaf (SLAD), which had been spearheading a protest in Pune since Monday over issues related to hearing impaired youths, Tuesday called off the agitation after the Maharashtra government accepted some of its key demands. Maharashtra Minister of State for Social Justice Dilip Kamble Tuesday met the agitators in Pune, and told them that the state government has decided to accept their key demands pertaining to education and jobs. Several hearing-impaired youths, who were staging a demonstration on Monday outside the Social Welfare Commissionerate in Pune for their pending demands, including the right to quality education and provision of trained interpreters for deaf students, were injured after police lathi-charged them. After the lathi-charge, the protesters continued with their protest outside the Social Welfare Commissionerate. Talking to reporters after the meeting, Kamble said, "Chief Minister Devandra Fadnavis said in the ...
Venkaiah Naidu's son celebrates IAF strikes
Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu's son Harshvardhan Naidu participated in the celebrations over the Indian Air Force (IAF) strikes on terrorist camps in Pakistan on Tuesday.
Odisha includes another 10 lakh farmers under Kalia Scheme
Odisha government Tuesday decided to include another 10 lakh farmers in the state under Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (Kalia) scheme. The decision in this regard was taken at the Cabinet Meeting chaired by chief minister Naveen Patnaik. "As the chief minister has announced that no eligible beneficiary under Kalia scheme will be left out, the Cabinet today approved that an additional 10 lakh small farmers/ marginal farmers/ actual cultivators (share croppers)/ landless agricultural households be included in the Kalia scheme during 2018-19," chief secretary A P Padhi said. Padhi said: "No one who is eligible will be left out." Replying a question, Padhi said now the number of Kalia beneficiaries is likely touch 45 lakh from an initial estimation of about 35 lakh farmers. The state government had launched the KALIA scheme last month to provide financial assistance to the farmers. Accordingly, the state has meanwhile released first phase of ...
Kim, Trump arrive in Hanoi ahead of nuclear summit
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump arrived in Hanoi Tuesday, ahead of a second summit closely watched for concrete steps to dismantle Pyongyang's nuclear programme. After an initial historic meeting in Singapore in June that produced only a vague statement about denuclearisation, analysts say the second date must deliver more in the way of tangible progress. The summit itself is shrouded in secrecy and there was still no official word even on the venue when Trump touched down in Air Force One late Tuesday. The two leaders were expected to have an informal dinner on Wednesday before more formal talks on Thursday. Trump made no comment to reporters on his aircraft but had previously tweeted his hopes for a "very productive" meeting, reiterating that North Korea could enjoy economic riches if it gave up its nuclear weapons. "With complete Denuclearization, North Korea will rapidly become an Economic Powerhouse," tweeted Trump. "Without it, just more of the ...
NIA raids houses of separatists, including Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, in Kashmir
The National Investigation Agency on Tuesday carried out searches at premises of separatists, including Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, in connection with a case related to funding to terror and separatists groups in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The NIA team, accompanied by local police and CRPF personnel, swooped at residences of some of the separatist leaders, including the Mirwaiz, Naseem Geelani, son of pro-Pakistan separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani, and chairman of Tehrek-e-Hurriyat Ashraf Sehrai, they said. There was no word about the recoveries made from these residences during the day-long searches. Besides these, the houses of JKLF leader Yaseen Malik, Shabir Shah, Zaffar Bhat and Masarat Alam were also raided. Barring the Mirwaiz and Sehrai, all other leaders were inside jail for quite some time now. The NIA had questioned two maternal uncles of the Mirwaiz Maulvi Manzoor and Maulvi Shafat and his close aides last year. Both of them are retired senior government officers. The ...
Pak media stick to official line on IAF's air strikes on JeM training camp
Pakistani media gave extensive coverage to the Indian Air Force's (IAF) pre-dawn operation to destroy a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror camp in the country and most of them stuck to the official line that the Indian fighter jets entered the Pakistani territory by 3 to 4-km without doing any damage. Hours after the strike, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale told the media in New Delhi that a very large number of JeM terrorists, trainers, senior commanders and groups of jihadis who were being trained for fidayeen action were eliminated. Official sources also said the IAF jets used a number of laser-guided bombs, each weighing over 1,000 kg, to destroy the the JeM training facility in Balakot, around 80-KM from the Line of Control. All major Pakistani TV channels, including the state-run PTV, Geo, Dawn, Express, SAMAA, ARY broadcast throughout the day that Indian jets violated the Line of Control in early hours of Tuesday, but did not talk much about India's claim of having destroyed JeM camps in ..
Air strikes carried out in tune with Bharatiya culture: RSS
The RSS on Tuesday hailed the Indian Air Force's air strike on the Jaish-e-Mohammed's (JeM) biggest training camp at Balakot killing "a very large number" of terrorists, saying it was carried out in tune with the "Bharatiya culture".
Army, Navy, IAF chiefs meet PM, NSA
Hours after the IAF warplanes struck a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist training camp in Pakistan, the three service chiefs met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and apprised him about the country's preparedness to deal with any possible retaliatory action by Islamabad, official sources said Tuesday. They said Modi congratulated the service chiefs, particularly Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa for the successful operation. Separately, the three chiefs met National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and discussed overall preparation of the forces to deal with any eventualities, the sources said. The air strike on the JeM terrorist training camp in Balakot, 80 km from the Line of Control, was the first operation inside Pakistan by India since the 1971 war.
Nothing more ignorant than cheering for war: Mahira Khan
In the wake of escalating tension between India and Pakistan, Pakistani actress Mahira Khan says there is nothing uglier than a war, and hopes better sense will prevail.
CM seeks speedy action on setting up new railway zone at Vizag
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has written to the Centre seeking expeditious action on setting up a new railway zone at Visakhapatnam in accordance with the provisions of the State Reorganisation Act, 2014. BJP leaders from the State had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Railway Minister Piyush Goyal in New Delhi two days ago and requested that a positive decision be taken on the railway zone. Against this backdrop, the Chief Minister wrote to Goyal on February 25, a copy of which was released to the media Tuesday. "Keeping in view the State Reorganisation Act-2014, I had already requested to expedite the action required for formation of new railway zone in the successor state of Andhra Pradesh at Visakhapatnam bringing the four divisions Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Guntur and Guntakal under the purview of Visakhapatnam zone," the chief minister said. Visakhapatnam (Waltair Division) was currently under East Coast Railway with headquarters at ...
Zero tolerance towards terrorism, will go to any extent for country's security: Amit Shah
Asserting that India has zero tolerance for terrorist and terrorism, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah on Tuesday said that the surgical strike and air strikes have given clear message that for country's security India can go to any extent.Addressing a public gathering at the launch of BJP's Kamal Jyoti event here, Shah said, " Be it terrorist attacks, terrorist organisation or terrorists themselves, we have zero tolerance for all. We are proud that a surgical strike was conducted at a place which was spreading terrorism in India since long."Hailing Prime Minister Modi's leadership and governance, he further added, "In 2014, PM Modi had promised a safe and secure India. Surgical strikes after Uri and now air strikes in self-defence, both have given the message to the world that for the security of the country, India's soldiers and government can go to any extent."He also spoke about various schemes of the Central Government including Ujjwala scheme, Swacch Bharat, ...
Vizag: Preparations underway ahead of PM's March 1 visit
Preparations are in full swing ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit here on March 1.Andhra University administration had denied permission to give its grounds for the Prime Minister's public meeting, after which BJP leader and MLC Madhav claimed that they have approached the university authorities to seek permission to use the ground."TDP is spreading lies and that is why our Prime Minister is coming here to tell the truth. This could also be a reason due to which there are complications in getting the permission," alleged the BJP leader.Later BJP also sought permission from railway authorities for railway exhibition ground near to which the authorities agreed.Ties are frosty between BJP and TDP in the state and TDP has announced that they will stop the meeting on March 1 for demanding reorganisation acts promises.Senior police officials have been visiting the ground to ensure that there is no lapse in the Prime Minister's security.The officials include SPG IG Namgyal, ...
Jaish chief Masood Azhar: An overweight blue-eyed boy of ISI
Masood Azhar, the Jaish-e-Mohammed's chief whose terror academy in Balakot faced a blitzkrieg from Indian Air Force jets early Tuesday, is an overweight fugitive released by India in exchange for passengers of a hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 1999 and has since been a blue-eyed boy of Pakistan's external snooping agency ISI. Nearly 20 years after his release, during which he staged some audacious terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir and hinterland, his Balakot camp where he trained terrorists to carry out suicide attacks, was in the cross hairs of Mirage 2000 jets, which achieved a spectacular success by destroying the resort-like facility and possibly killing up to 350 inmates. For all his reputation, Azhar was not a hard nut to crack when he was in the custody of Indian forces, according to officials. A former police officer, who interrogated Azhar after his arrest in 1994, said he got shaken up on the first "slap" from an army jawan, prompting him to blurt out details of his ...
Common Minimum Programme dropped as agenda for opposition meet, air strikes to be discussed now
The opposition parties have decided to drop the formulation of the Common Minimum Programme as the agenda for their meeting on Wednesday and will now discuss the strikes against the terror camps in Pakistan instead, sources said. Senior leaders in the opposition confirmed that in a discussion with the Congress, the CPI(M) and the CPI said that they will only be part of the meeting if Common Minimum Programme is off the table. With the change in agenda, sources said Left parties are now on board. Opposition leaders who are set to attend meeting are Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, among others. Sources indicated that through out the day Congress was in two minds about the meeting as they felt that it would be bad optics to criticise the government or Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon after the strikes in Pakistan which ...
IAF airstrikes: Pak summons acting Indian High Commissioner
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned India's Acting High Commissioner over the airstrikes carried out at the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror camp in Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.Pakistan's Acting Foreign Secretary told Acting High Commissioner of India that Islamabad would give a "befitting response at a time and place of its choosing" to India's action, according to a statement issued by the foreign ministry.Sending out a huge message, India today carried out air strikes deep inside Pakistan, destroying a major camp of JeM and eliminating a "large number" of terrorists, including top commanders, of the terror group which attacked a CRPF convoy in Pulwama 12 days back.In the swift operation, launched at around 3.30 am and completed within minutes, 12 Mirage-2000 fighter jets pounded the training centre, housing around 300 terrorists, in Balakot area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province with six bombs while SU-30 combat aircraft maintained air superiority to ...
Divine force with us in fight against humanity's enemies: Modi
Making a veiled reference to Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the divine force was always with him in fight against the enemies of humanity and it was a message that India wanted to send with complete authority to "asuras" (demons) and evil forces.
Curfew revoked in Arunachal Pradesh
Curfew was revoked on Tuesday here in Arunachal Pradesh imposed three days ago after violence erupted over the government's move to grant permanent residence certificate (PRC) to six non-Arunachal Pradesh Scheduled Tribes communities.