SRINAGAR: Jindal steel has laid foundation stone of its first investment project in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. A ₹ 150-crore steel processing unit in Pulwama is the first such project being set up after special status to the state under Article 370 of the Constitution was scrapped in 2019.
Sajjan Jindal, chairman of JSW group, tweeted photos of a prayer ceremony of the foundation stone at Lassipora Industrial Estate in Pulwama district.
“Proud to announce that we have laid the foundation stone for our new steel processing unit in Pulwama – the heart of Kashmir. Contributing to the growth of the beautiful state of Jammu and Kashmir,” Jindal tweeted.
Almost two years ago, the Union Territory administration had granted 8.75 acre to JSW Steel.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration has been talking about receiving proposals worth ₹ 70,000 crore for investment. But these have remained largely on paper.
After foundation ceremony by Jindal Steels, the BJP government in the centre is finally walking the talk on development.
“Now development is visible on the ground. To all the leaders who used to say that nothing is visible on the ground, Lassipora is proof. The BJP does what we say we will do,” NDTV quoted BJP spokesperson Abhijeet Jasrotia as having said.
In December, the government told parliament that over ₹ 1,000 crore investment has come to Jammu and Kashmir since 2019.
On Tuesday, the group said one of its balloons was last spotted at 12:48 a.m. on Saturday along an uninhabited island off the coast of Alaska. That tracks with when a U.S. F-22 used a Sidewinder missile to shoot down an object over the Yukon later that same day. Canadian officials have since said the debris will be extremely difficult to retrieve due to the frozen terrain and the remoteness of the site.
The club’s balloon had a long journey, traveling for 123 days and 18 hours of flight before — possibly — being shot out of the sky. “For now we are calling Pico Balloon K9YO Missing in Action,” the club’s website says, without making any accusations or connecting the incident to the military shootdown.
“I have no information for you from NORAD on the objects,” said Air Force Col. Elizabeth Mathias, a spokesperson from the North American Aerospace Defense Command. “I understand FBI spoke with that hobby group, and I expect the [National Security Council] task force to have more on the potential identification of the objects.”
POLITICO has reached out to the club for comment. The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The brigade flies pico balloons, which are filled with hydrogen and carry a transmitter with GPS tracking. The balloons rise to 47,000 feet, the group says on its website. The Yukon object was reported to be floating around 40,000 feet.
“As we travel, our GPS is able to locate our current location, and other information is gathered depending on what chips we have on our transmitter while using other programs to gather other inflight information,” the group says on its website.
In a speech on Thursday, Biden noted that the objects are still being investigated, and he backed up previous comments from U.S. officials who said the objects probably aren’t from China and are most likely “benign.”
“The intelligence community’s current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research,” Biden said.
The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade, which formed two years ago, got its name from the children’s film “Up”. The founders drew inspiration from the Ellie Badge, a grape soda bottle cap on a pin that’s a prized possession for the main character in the movie.
“There were 10 of us to start, aged 11 years old and up, kids, their parents and friends, some licensed in Amateur Radio some having an interest in science and engineering,” according to the website. “We met monthly to research and report and had our first launch on September 25th 2021.”
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MUNICH — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday called out Vladimir Putin for telling him last year that the paramilitary Wagner Group had nothing to do with Russia.
“A year ago I spoke to Putin and he assured me Russia had nothing to do with the Wagner Group,” he told an audience at the Munich Security Conference. “I accepted that,” he said.
The Wagner Group has since provided military services supporting Russia’s war effort. It means Moscow “formalized the fact that Wagner was an explicit, direct, diplomatic-military, neo-mafia medium of Russia around the world,” Macron said.
Macron’s speech comes as country leaders and security officials gathered for a three-day event in the Bavarian capital, a conference dominated by the West’s efforts to allign on how to support Kyiv in its conflict with Russia.
The French president said the time isn’t right for dialogue with Russia and called on Western states to “intensify” their backing of a Ukrainian counter-offensive. But he suggested that — when negotiations would end the war on terms acceptable to Kyiv — Europe and Russia should “create an imperfect balance” on the Continent.
“It’s time for a transition,” he said, suggesting Russia and its adversaries will need to agree on a new regional security architecture, calling it an “imperfect balance.”
But he emphasized the time isn’t right for negotiations, noting it’s “too early” to formulate such a Europe-Russia understanding.
The comments reflect Macron’s long-held view that security guarantees for Russia are an “essential” component of any peace talks. Moscow has to be satisfied with how the war ends, or else any deal would be no more than a ceasefire and not a treaty, he argues.
Laura Kayali contributed reporting.
CORRECTION: This article was updated to correctly reflect Macron compared the Wagner group to the mafia.
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The Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has admitted that his mercenary group is facing difficulties in Ukraine and will soon decrease in size, amid growing evidence that his political influence in the Kremlin is waning.
“The number of Wagner units will decrease, and we will also not be able to carry out the scope of tasks that we would like to,” Prigozhin told a group of pro-war bloggers and state journalists gathered at an army barracks in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday.
“You have all heard that the recruitment of prisoners to our ranks has stopped,” he added.
His comments followed a recent announcement that the mercenary group will no longer recruit prisoners to fight in the war, ending a months-long campaign in which Wagner signed up about 40,000 convicts from Russian prisons. The businessman has offered no explanation, but observers say the move is part of growing backlash against him from the Russian security services.
Prigozhin, a catering magnate who last year admitted to founding the Wagner group after years of obfuscation, has assumed an increasingly prominent role in the war, with his troops engaged in some of Russia’s most gruelling battles in eastern Ukraine.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, seen at the funeral of a Wagner group fighter in St Petersburg on 24 December 2022. Photograph: Aleksey Smagin/Kommersant/Sipa USA/Alamy
Last month, Wagner, which is now largely made up of convicts, captured the Ukrainian town of Soledar, Moscow’s first territorial gain in the war since the summer.
The mercenary group has also been at the forefront in the months-long fight to seize neighbouring Bakhmut, a battle that Prigozhin on Wednesday said was “not going as quickly as we would like”.
In a thinly veiled criticism of the Russian ministry of defence, he said “horrendous military bureaucracy” had prevented Wagner from taking Bakhmut by the new year.
“Other units are not showing the activity that they should be [showing]. If there were three to five groups like Wagner, we would already be dipping our feet in the Dnipro river,” he said.
Since the start of the war, Prigozhin has repeatedly clashed with army leadership, including the chief of staff, Valery Gerasimov, and the defence minister, Sergei Shoigu. His willingness to take on the defence establishment has catapulted him to become a leading figure among pro-war ultranationalists who have similarly criticised the army leadership.
However, there are growing signs the Kremlin has moved to curb what it considers the excessive political clout of the magnate. Last month, Russia appointed Gerasimov as its overall commander for the war in Ukraine, replacing Sergey Surovikin, who is believed to be a close ally of Prigozhin.
Several prominent human rights groups have reported that the ministry of defence has now taken over Wagner’s role of recruiting inmates – effectively depriving the group of its main source of manpower.
“Prigozhin has no shortage of enemies,” said Tatiana Stanovaya, head of political analysis firm R.Politik. “The businessman’s attacks on officials, parliamentary deputies and political parties have not won him any favour within the elite, which considers Prigozhin’s autonomy, ambition and rhetoric nothing short of a threat to the state.”
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According to Stanovaya, Prigozhin’s Wagner group has been a convenient asset for Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, but the businessman was now risking his position by overplaying his ambitions.
“Wagner should operate exclusively in the state’s interests and avoid the limelight. It should not undertake its own initiatives, and it certainly should not have a political agenda,” Stanovaya said. “Until recently, that’s how Prigozhin operated. But now, he hasn’t just become a public figure, he is visibly transforming into a full-fledged politician with his own views.”
Earlier this week, Prigozhin caused further controversy after a Telegram channel linked to him shared a gruesome video appearing to show the sledgehammer execution of a former Russian mercenary who fled the Wagner group while fighting in Ukraine.
Prigozhin later said that Dmitry Yakushchenko was actually pardoned and on Wednesday, the two men appeared together. “This is to answer your question, whether he was actually killed with a sledgehammer,” Prigozhin said.
In November, a Wagner-linked Telegram channel published a similar video that showed the sledgehammer killing of Yevgeny Nuzhin, a convicted murderer recruited by Wagner who surrendered to Ukrainian forces but was later allegedly handed over to Russia. Nuzhin’s relatives later confirmed his death.
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Hyderabad: Muslim Students Federation (MSF), a student organisation at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) has alleged that the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) employed Islamophobic slogans against them at the University’s general body meeting on Wednesday.
Speaking to Siasat.com, Mohammed Muhsin said that after protests from the ABVP, the yearly held University General Body Meet (UGBM) which sheds light on the work done by the UoH Students Union, was cancelled. As all students present were leaving the Amphitheatre on campus, MSF claims to have been attacked by cadres of the ABVP.
“There were around 100 of us and around 300 ABVP members. They started shouting slogans like Goli maaron saalon ko (Shoot the traitors) and also asked us to ‘Go to Pakistan’,” said Muhsin, the president of MSF and a PhD Management studies student at the university.
MSF is the student organisation of the Indian Union Muslim League party.
The MSF also issued a statement titled “Stand against ABVP hooliganism in HCU” in which they stated that despite the hate, the campus security did nothing to deescalate the situation.
Despite repeated attempts, Siasat.com received no response from the ABVP.
Mumbai: A student collective at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay on Wednesday demanded the resignation of the premier institute’s director in the backdrop of alleged suicide by a first-year Dalit student and allegations he was facing caste discrimination.
The Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle (APPSC) also sought that a report of the SC/ST Cell of the IIT Bombay, which it claimed talks about lack of institutional support for Dalit and tribal students in the campus, be made public.
The student, Darshan Solanki (18), died allegedly after jumping off the seventh floor of a hostel building on the Powai campus of the premier institute on Sunday. Solanki, who hailed from Ahmedabad, was a first-year student of BTech (Chemical).
The IIT Bombay on Tuesday rejected charges of caste bias in the institute and said initial inputs from the deceased’s friends suggested there was no discrimination.
In a statement, the APPSC, a student body within the campus, said, “We demand resignation of the institute director (Prof Subhasis Chaudhuri) in the light of these new facts and hope the administration will start the much needed learning process, at least now. Data prepared by the SC/ST Cell points towards the lack of institutional support for SC/ST students at the IIT B.”
The student body alleged the IIT-B administration has not appointed any SC/ST counsellors even after its complaints and said this shows blatant disregards towards the pupils.
“Despite all the detailed testimonies and data which is available with the institute, the director kept reiterating that ‘there is no discrimination’ on the campus. We demand his resignation,” the statement said.
The APPSC said past reports of the SC/ST Cell as well as others be made public.
“We want the administration to stop hiding the reports of the surveys conducted by the SC/ST Cell as well as others, and release them for public discussion as soon as possible. The structural issues at the IIT B faced by the students have been pointed out time and again to the administration in the last several years. Even the surveys conducted by the SC/ST Cell, and an open house on caste conducted last year detailed the kind of everyday discrimination that our students face on campus,” the statement said.
However, the institute on Tuesday said it takes utmost precautions to make the campus as inclusive as possible and it has a zero tolerance for any discrimination by faculty.
Caste identity is never disclosed to any one (whether students or faculty) once the admission is done and the institute sensitises students to not seek proxy information such as ranks in entrance exams, it said in a statement.
The institute gives strong warnings against discrimination right from the time students enter the IIT campus. While no steps can be 100 per cent effective, discrimination by students, if at all it occurs, is an exception, the statement said.
The IIT Bombay has an SC/ST Cell which students can approach in case they face any issues, including discrimination. There have been very few complaints to the cell, whether against faculty or other students, over the past many years, and only one case was found to have substance and strict action has been taken, it said in the statement.
Hyderabad: The Shiya Youth Conference has announced that no one should celebrate Valentine’s Day near Koh-e-Imam-e-Zamin and Koh-e-Maula-Ali.
In a letter to the City Police Commissioner, the president of Shia Youth Conference Syed Hamid Hussain Jaffary requested an arrangement for a police picket to stop any kind of Valentine’s Day celebrations near the religious spaces.
While Koh-e-Imam-e-Zamin comes under the Tilmilgri police limits, Koh-e-Maula-Ali comes under Malkajgiri police limits.
The Kohe Imam-e-Zamin is an Ashoorkhana named after Imam Musa Ar-Reza.
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SRINAGAR: The University of Kashmir is set to host a two-day C20 Working Group Meeting on ‘Gender Equality and Disability’, a mega event that draws national and international experts to formulate Policy White Papers for discussions on the G20 platform.
Civil-20 or C20 is the Official Engagement Group of G20 providing a platform for civil society organisations, NGOs and policy-planners to engage important stakeholders and address the root causes of “gender inequality and disability”.
The event being held at KU’s Gandhi Bhawan on February 13-14 comes amid the University’s selection from amongst 15 premier institutions in the country to host Youth20 events as part of India’s G20 Presidency, a significant milestone in the varsity’s imprint and visibility on the national academic landscape.
The C20 GED WG Meeting focuses on policy dialogues concerning two sub-themes including “Women’s Safety” and “Engaging Men and Boys”, besides highlighting ‘Udharaan’ as a successful intervention to address gender inequality. It also envisions evolving a grassroots approach to create pathways for improving women’s access to legal aid and other social support systems. A special focus of deliberations will also be on gender concerns related to specially-abled women.
National and international Coordinators and Co-Coordinators of C20 GED Working Group are among 50 delegates expected to join deliberations in both online and offline modes. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is coordinating the event.
Vice-Chancellor KU Prof Nilofer Khan, who is personally monitoring the arrangements, said it is a historic occassion for the University to be associated with events related to the country’s G20 Presidency.
“It is recognition of the University’s commitment to not only promote our national policies and programmes but also to advance the country’s G20 goals and objectives,” she said.
The Vice-Chancellor has already constituted a task force of academics and officers to oversee arrangements for the February 13-14 event.
Notably, the University of Kashmir has been chosen amongst 15 premier institutions in the country to host a Youth20 event, marking a significant moment in its history and transition to come up as an institution of excellence in the country. Youth delegates from G20 countries are scheduled to attend the Youth20 event in the second week of May 2023 at the University’s main campus.
Delhi: In partnership with renowned Indian chef and restaurateur Rahul Akerkar, the Aditya Birla Group has announced its entry into the fast-growing premium casual dining industry.
Aditya Birla New Age (ABNA), the group’s hospitality division, plans to establish luxury casual dining restaurant chains all throughout India. The goal of ABNA, a company-sponsored by Aryaman Vikram Birla, is to build the most favoured house of food and beverage brands in India.
Commenting on the foray, Aryaman Vikram Birla, Director, Aditya Birla Management Corporation Private Limited and Founder, ABNA, said, “The dynamism and buoyancy of the Indian consumption story is driving a preference for premium experiences. High disposable income among the rising middle class in India, and the expansion of the urban cosmopolitan lifestyle is driving the boom in dining out behaviour.
Therefore, the demand for premium casual dining restaurants (PCDR) is expected to increase across India as consumers seek new dining experiences. Our vision is to build the best F&B Brands, with a clear focus on both quality and value for customers. Our partnership with Rahul Akerkar, who has a unique culinary style, is a step in this direction. We are excited at the prospect of developing a distinct PCDR chain. We are in advanced stages of project execution and aim to launch the first restaurant in Mumbai next quarter.”
One of India’s first successful chef-restaurateur entrepreneurs, Rahul Akerkar is renowned for setting industry trends with his innovative, ingredient-driven cuisine and friendly, attentive service. He is now a Creative Director and Director Cuisine for the wholly owned subsidiary of ABNA, where he will be in charge of the restaurant’s idea and culinary direction.
Commenting on the partnership, Rahul Akerkar said, “I am thrilled to join the team at ABNA and introduce our latest concept – a casual, neighbourhood, restaurant for all seasons, weeknight dates, or lunches with a co-worker.
The food with a European backbone, is an ode to my mixed Indian & European parentage and my travels across the globe. Much of the cooking will be over live fire with bold, clean flavours, demonstrating a commitment to the freshest ingredients available & an impeccable flair for combining them.”
ABNA presently runs Jolie’s, a members-only club in Mumbai’s Worli neighbourhood that is equivalent to the best in the world and covers 30,000 square feet.
