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Big B, SRK, Aamir join other Bollywood celebs to grieve Pam Chopra’s death

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Mumbai: A panoply of Bollywood celebrities came together throughout Wednesday to mourn the death of producer-singer-writer Pamela Chopra, who was also the wife and brains trust of celebrated filmmaker Yash Chopra, founder of Yash Raj Films.
After she was cremated in the morning hours on Thursday, members of the Hindi film fraternity made a beeline to the Chopra mansion on the Juhu-Tara Road area of Mumbai to pay their respects to the departed soul.
Among the industry stalwarts who came calling were Amitabh Bachchan, whose association with the Chopras dates back to the days of the blockbuster ‘Deewar’, followed by son Abhishek and daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, who came with son Aryan, Aamir Khan and his ex-wife Kiran Rao, and Shabana Azmi. They were all received by Yash and Pamela Chopra’s younger son, Uday Chopra.

SRK recently delivered the blockbuster ‘Pathaan’ for YRF, just as he had done with ‘Darr’ and ‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge’, for which Pamela Chopra sang the number ‘Ichak Dana’. His DDLJ co-star, Kajol, who’s the first cousin of Rani Mukherji, Yash and :Pamela Chopra’s daughter-in-law.
Out of respect for Pamela Chopra, Salman Khan has cancelled the pre-release special screening of ‘Kisi Ka Bhai, Kisi Ki Jaan’, which is scheduled to hit the big screen on Friday.
Other members of the film frat to visit the Chopra home and pay their respects were Hrithik Roshan, Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone, John Abraham, Boman Irani, Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif, Shraddha Kapoor, Poonam Dhillon, Neil Nitin Mukesh, and composer Salim Merchant of the Salim-Sulaiman duo, who have worked on YRF productions such as ‘Fanaa’, ‘Mardaani’, ‘Ladies vs Ricky Bahl’ and ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’.
Pamela Chopra had been admitted to Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital two weeks ago due to an age-related illness. She was reportedly put on a ventilator by the doctors, but her health deteriorated.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 21, 2023
Four soldiers charred to death in Poonch

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Srinagar, April 20: at least four soldiers were charred to death as their vehicle caught fire in the BG Gulley area of Poonch district in Jammu.
An official told Kashmir Scroll that a vehicle in which four soldiers were present caught fire.
He said that they were charred to death on the spot.
Their identification is being ascertained while further investigation along proceedings have been taken up
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( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

April 20, 2023
Four soldiers charred to death in Poonch

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Srinagar, April 20: at least four soldiers were charred to death as their vehicle caught fire in the BG Gulley area of Poonch district in Jammu.
An official told Kashmir Scroll that a vehicle in which four soldiers were present caught fire.
He said that they were charred to death on the spot.
Their identification is being ascertained while further investigation along proceedings have been taken up
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( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

April 20, 2023
J&K Reports 56 Fresh Covid-19 Cases, No Death

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Srinagar, April 19 (GNS): Jammu and Kashmir reported 56 fresh covid-19 cases while there was no death due to the virus during the last 24 hours, officials said on Wednesday.
They said that 19 cases were reported from Jammu division and 37 from Kashmir Valley, taking the overall tally to 481064. Among the cases, 174695 are from Jammu division and 306425 from Kashmir Valley.
Providing district wise details of the cases, they told GNS, Jammu reported 14, Udhampur 2, Rajouri 1, Doda 2, Kathua 0, Samba 0, Poonch 0, Ramban 0, Reasi 0, Srinagar 2, Baramulla 6, Budgam 9, Pulwama 3, Kupwara 5, Anantnag 6, Bandipora 4, Ganderbal 0, Kulgam 2 and Shopian 0.
There was no death either from Jammu division or Kashmir Valley during the time. So far 4789 people have succumbed to the virus and among them include 2356 from Jammu division and 2433 from the Valley.
Besides, they said, 140 Covid-19 patients recovered during the last 24 hours—90 from Jammu division and 50 from Kashmir Valley. There are now 639 active cases— 274 in Jammu and 365 in Kashmir. (GNS)
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April 19, 2023
JK Reports 56 Fresh Covid-19 Cases, No Death

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SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir reported 56 fresh covid-19 cases while there was no death due to the virus during the last 24 hours, officials said on Wednesday.
They said that 19 cases were reported from Jammu division and 37 from Kashmir Valley, taking the overall tally to 481064. Among the cases, 174695 are from Jammu division and 306425 from Kashmir Valley.
Providing district wise details of the cases, they told GNS, Jammu reported 14, Udhampur 2, Rajouri 1, Doda 2, Kathua 0, Samba 0, Poonch 0, Ramban 0, Reasi 0, Srinagar 2, Baramulla 6, Budgam 9, Pulwama 3, Kupwara 5, Anantnag 6, Bandipora 4, Ganderbal 0, Kulgam 2 and Shopian 0.
There was no death either from Jammu division or Kashmir Valley during the time. So far 4789 people have succumbed to the virus and among them include 2356 from Jammu division and 2433 from the Valley.
Besides, they said, 140 Covid-19 patients recovered during the last 24 hours, 90 from Jammu division and 50 from Kashmir Valley. There are now 639 active cases— 274 in Jammu and 365 in Kashmir. (GNS)

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April 19, 2023
Maharashtra: Muslim siblings harassed by three men, minor brother hanged to death

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In a heartbreaking incident, a 15-year-old Muslim boy was allegedly hanged to death after he and his sister were harassed in Beed district of Maharashtra.
The incident came to light on Wednesday. In a complaint filed by the deceased – Hafiz Murtaza Shaikh’s – parents, it is stated that Hafiz and his sister had gone to collect firewood when they were surrounded by three men who started harassing and beating them.
Somehow, the sister managed to escape and get help for her brother. However, when she returned it was too late as Hafiz’s lifeless body was found hanging from a tree.

Siasat.com contacted Beed police who said that Hafiz’s autopsy report stated that he died by hanging. When asked if Hafiz’s death was part of a religious hate crime, the police officer denied it. “It is too early to comment on the case as of now as the investigation is in its initial stages,” Siasat.com was told.
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April 19, 2023
Maharashtra: Muslim siblings harassed by three men, teen brother hanged to death

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In a heartbreaking incident, a 15-year-old Muslim boy was allegedly hanged to death after he and his sister were harassed in Beed district of Maharashtra.
The incident came to light on Wednesday. In a complaint filed by the deceased – Hafiz Murtaza Shaikh’s – parents, it is stated that Hafiz and his sister had gone to collect firewood when they were surrounded by three men who started harassing and beating them.
Somehow, the sister managed to escape and get help for her brother. However, when she returned it was too late as Hafiz’s lifeless body was found hanging from a tree.

Siasat.com contacted Beed police who said that Hafiz’s autopsy report stated that he died by hanging. When asked if Hafiz’s death was part of a religious hate crime, the police officer denied it. “It is too early to comment on the case as of now as the investigation is in its initial stages,” Siasat.com was told.
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April 19, 2023
Irrfan Khan’s last movie ‘The Song of Scorpions’ to hit theatres ahead of his third death anniversary

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Mumbai: Legendary actor Irrfan Khan left the world on April 29, 2020, leaving millions of fans mourning. But still, the dream of witnessing his iconic acting once again on the big screen can be possible. The movie ‘Songs of Scorpions’ is set to hit the theatres on April 28 ahead of the actor’s third death anniversary.
Irrfan’s son Babil took to his Instagram on Tuesday in order to share the news with the world. Babil shared a poster and wrote, “Love, deception and a song #TheSongsofScorpionS Trailer Releasing Tomorrow.
The film which also features veteran actress Waheeda Rehman and Golshiteh Farahani in important roles is produced by Zeeshan Ahmad who said, “It is my honour that my name has been associated with this film as a co-producer and one of the presenter of the film. We are glad that Irrfan Khan’s last onscreen appearance in a film is soon going to be released in cinemas across the country and his fans will get to see him one last time on the big screen. Trust me, Irrfan’s character and performance in the film is going to leave you spellbound.”

The plot of the story is all about a tribal woman Nooran who is carefree and defiantly independent and is learning the ancient art of healing from her grandmother, a revered scorpion singer. When Aadam, a camel trader in the Rajasthan desert, listens to her sing, he falls completely in love. But even before they can get to know each other better, Nooran is poisoned by a brutal perfidy that sets her on a vulnerable journey to avenge herself and find her song.
‘The Song of Scorpions’ premiered at Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival. The film is directed by Anup Singh. The trailer will be released on April 19.
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April 19, 2023
My Friend Vladimir Is in a Death Struggle with Vladimir Putin

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On Monday, Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in a “strict regime” prison colony. This is likely the longest sentence ever meted out for political activity in post-Soviet Russia, where the maximum term for murder is 15 years and the punishment for rape is the same. His sentence combines penalties for all these “crimes”: seven years for the first, three for the second, and 15 years (apparently “reduced” from eighteen) for the third.
This punishment is much harsher than the ones to which the regime’s vengeance has lately subjected members of the opposition. The two other leading opponents of the Kremlin, Alexei Navalny and Ilya Yashin, were sentenced to nine years and eight-and-a-half years respectively.
Heightened repression is always a sign of fear. Could Kara-Murza’s punishment have had something to do with the fact that Navalny was sentenced a year ago and Yashin last December, when the war in Ukraine may not have looked to the Kremlin as much of an endless bloody slog as it appears today? And also when its prosecution of the war, while dealing with harsh Western sanctions, was not as much fraught with the possibility of popular discontent over gradual impoverishment and casualties in the hundreds of thousands? It seems that the reason the sentence is so harsh is to scare civil society and preclude any chance of organized resistance.
Even in the post-Stalin Soviet Union, the authorities generally avoided charging dissidents with crimes like “high treason,” most often espionage. (The 1977 case of the Jewish refusenik Anatoly Sharansky was an exception.) As Kara-Murza, whom the Kremlin almost certainly tried to poison twice before, pointed out to the kangaroo court this week, his sentence harkens back not just to Soviet times but to the 1930s Stalinist purges of “enemies of the people.”
Kara-Murza is a Cambridge-trained historian, and he was right. Putin’s regime is descending into Stalinism. Sustained by indiscriminate ruthlessness, such regimes do not “evolve”— witness North Korea or Cuba. They can only be destroyed either by an invasion, like Pol Pot’s Cambodia or Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, or exploded from within by a miraculous leader like Mikhail Gorbachev.
Neither outcome is likely in Russia so long as Putin lives. And so the struggle is very personal now between the two Vladimirs, Putin and Kara-Murza, even biological: Only Putin’s death can free my friend Vladimir. Putin is 70, Kara-Murza is 41. But the effective age gap will narrow steadily as Kara-Murza’s jailers will undoubtedly begin grinding him down from day one.
Yet Kara-Murza was defiant and hopeful even as his sentence came down. “I know that the day will come when the darkness over our country will be gone,” he said in his final statement before the court. “When the war will be called a war, and the usurper [in the Kremlin] will be called a usurper; when those who have ignited this war will be called criminals instead of those who tried to stop it… And then our people will open their eyes and shudder at the sight of the horrific crimes committed in their names.”

“I know that the day will come when the darkness over our country will be gone,” Kara-Murza said before the court as his final sentence came down.
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And that is how Russia’s road back to the community of civilized states will commence, Kara-Murza told the court. Even as he sat in the steel cage in the courtroom, he said he believed that Russia would travel this road.
“Because,” he concluded, despite everything, “I love my country and I have trust in our people.”

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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

April 18, 2023
Mumbai train blasts: HC quashes death row convict’s plea seeking info under RTI

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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition by a death row convict in the 2006 Mumbai train blast case seeking disclosure of information pertaining to the ban imposed on terrorist outfit Indian Mujahideen.
Ehtesham Qutubuddin Siddique had filed an application under the RTI Act seeking “background notes” of the Centre and reports of state governments of Gujarat, Delhi and Andhra Pradesh in relation to the ban on the organisation, which was stated to have carried out the blast. The outfit was proscribed under the stringent anti-terror law Unlawful Activities(Prevention) Act (UAPA).
The petitioner challenged in the high court an order passed by the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) on June 13, 2019 denying him the information on the ground that it was covered under the exemptions provided in the RTI Act.

While refusing to interfere with the CIC’s decision, Justice Prathiba M Singh said the information sought by the petitioner has far reaching consequences and has to be seen from the “larger issue of safety and security of the public and the nation”. It said the information Siddique has sought, if provided, will have a bearing on sovereignty and security of the country.
“A perusal of the information shows that the same has far reaching consequences. The same organisation is stated to be involved in various unfortunate incidents since 2005, some resulting in severe loss of life and property,” said the court.
It observed that the disclosure of the information sought by the petitioner can “jeopardize the sources” of the government in relation to the ban on Indian Mujahideen and the CIC’s opinion that sharing the information would endanger the sources is “correct and does not require interference”.
“In view of the above, the writ petition is devoid of merit and is dismissed,” ruled the court.
Advocate Arpit Bhargava, representing the petitioner, contended the information sought in the RTI application was needed to prove the innocence of the petitioner in the criminal case and there was no further need to maintain confidentiality in relation to the “background notes” and the reports of the states as Indian Mujahideen has already been declared a banned organisation under UAPA.

The counsel for the Centre said the information in question cannot be disclosed as it is confidential and disclosure will be against public interest.
Siddique was awarded capital punishment for the July 11, 2006 serial blasts when seven bombs packed with RDX ripped through many western line local trains in Mumbai killing 189 peeople and injuring 829.
The petitioner, currently lodged in a prison, claimed in his plea he was falsely implicated by the Anti-Terrorism Squad of Mumbai in the train blasts case.
The trial court’s order of sentence is still pending confirmation by the Bombay High Court and the reports of the state governments and the Centre’s background notes would prove the innocence of the petitioner as well as violation of his human rights, the plea said.
Last year, the high court had dismissed another petition by Siddique challenging a CIC order denying disclosure of certain information pertaining to the sanction granted by the Maharashtra government for his prosecution under UAPA.
The high court had earlier this year rejected his petition seeking reports submitted by the Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh governments regarding investigation into the train bombings.
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April 18, 2023