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Mortal remains of Hyderabad girl killed in Texas mall shooting to reach India soon

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Hyderabad: The mortal remains of Aishwarya Thatikonda, a Hyderabad girl who was among the victims of the Texas mall shooting, are set to arrive in India soon. Aishwarya was one of the nine people who lost their lives in the tragic incident that took place on May 6, 2023, at the Allen Premium Outlets Mall in Texas.
Aishwarya, who was 27 years old, lived and worked in McKinney, Texas, while her family resided in India. She had been working in Dallas for over two years, according to her LinkedIn profile. Her father, Additional District Judge Tatikonda Narsireddy, is currently working at the Ranga Reddy District Commercial Courts complex.
Texas mall shooting
She was shopping with her friends when the shooting incident occurred. In the shooting, the gunman opened fire at the crowded mall, killing at least eight people before being shot dead by a police officer.

The shooting started around 3:30 pm on Saturday, causing shoppers to panic and flee the area.
Witnesses reported some people sheltered in place for up to two hours while law enforcement cleared the sprawling complex.
Consulate General of India in Houston offers condolences to kin of Hyderabad girl
After knowing about the death of the Hyderabad girl in the Texas mall shooting incident, the Consulate General of India in Houston expressed condolences to her family and stated that they were closely monitoring the situation and rendering all possible assistance.
“We express our deep condolences to the family of Ms Aishwarya Thatikonda who died in the tragic shooting incident in Allen, Texas on May 6. We are in touch with the family of the deceased as well as the local authorities. Our officers are on the ground to render all possible assistance. We are closely monitoring the situation,” the Consulate General of India in Houston tweeted.
We express our deep condolences to the family of Ms. Aishwarya Thatikonda who died in the tragic shooting incident in Allen, Texas on May 6.
We are in touch with the family of the deceased as well as the local authorities. Our officers are on the ground to render all possible…
— India in Houston (@cgihou) May 8, 2023
Mass shootings in the US
This tragic incident is not an isolated case in the United States. According to the gun violence archive, there have been at least 198 mass shootings in 2023 alone, which is a growing concern that requires immediate action to be taken to prevent such incidents from happening in the future.

The loss of Aishwarya and the other victims of the Texas mall shooting is a significant tragedy that highlights the need for stricter gun control laws in the US.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 9, 2023
Opinion poll shows Modi remains charismatic and popular in poll-bound Karnataka

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New Delhi: The final round of an exclusive opinion poll on the Karnataka Assembly elections conducted across the state conducted by C-Voter for ABP News reveals that Prime Minister Narendra Modi retains his charisma and popularity among the voters of the southern state.
While the poll still puts the Congress in the pole position, hectic and energetic campaigning by Modi during the last leg of vote seeking has improved the fortunes of the BJP.
In the opinion polls for the Assembly elections conducted during March and April, the BJP appeared quite far behind the Congress, both in terms of vote share and number of seats. But an intense last leg of campaigning by the Prime Minister has now ensured that the projected vote share of the BJP doesn’t drop below 36 per cent, the same it had garnered in the 2018 Assembly elections.

Even BJP’s projected seat tally is now better than the numbers thrown up in March and April. In fact, in the Greater Bengaluru region, which elects 32 MLAs, the improvement is dramatic. From trailing behind the Congress earlier, the BJP seems to have turned the tables somewhat and is now projected to inch ahead of its rival in the projected seat tally.
While this last-minute effort by Modi may not be enough to help the BJP retain the state (Karnataka has a long history of changing governments), it augurs well for the party ahead of next year’s Lok Sabha elections.
In the 2018 Assembly elections, while the BJP emerged as the single largest party with 104 seats, it was nine short of a simple majority and a post-poll arrangement between the Congress and the JD(S) saw them form the government.
In the Lok Sabha elections a year after that, the BJP and candidates won 26 of the 28 seats in the state. A similar pattern was seen in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan about five years ago. The BJP lost the Assembly elections in all the three states in 2018, but swept all three in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
The 224-member Karnataka Assembly will go to the polls on May 10, and the results will be declared on May 13.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 6, 2023
Despite media hype, Atiq’s widow Shaista Parveen remains an enigma

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After the killing of her husband Atiq Ahmad, brother-in-law Ashraf and son Asad within a span of two days, she has become a subject of infotainment in the media and ‘stories’ about her are tumbling out with alacrity and alarming regularity.
Shaista Parveen, 51, is a woman of many faces.
Many know her as a devoted homemaker and mother while others claim she is an astute businesswoman who has been handling her husband Atiq Ahmad’s finances ever since he was jailed in 2017.

The police claims that she is a mafia don in her own right and adept at running her husband’s gang. She is perfectly clued in about the loyalty quotient of the gang members and guards her sons against such elements.
Her relatives insist that she is deeply religious and remains behind a veil. They say that she is in ‘iddat’ – a period of mourning after her husband.
“She is fiercely concerned about the welfare of her surviving four sons and will probably surrender when she is sure of the safety of their lives,” said a relative on condition of anonymity.
Shaista’s two sons, Umar and Ali, are in jail while her minor sons Ahzan and Aaban are in police custody in a juvenile home.
Shaista did not attend the funeral of her husband, son and brother-in-law and the police checked all burqa-clad women during the burials.

Police in plain clothes have also been deployed at the Kasari Masari graveyard, where Ahmed, Asad, and Ashraf are buried. Police officials suspect that Shaista Parveen and Zainab, (Ashraf’s wife) may try to visit the graves of their husbands.
Police teams have been frantically searching for Shaista who is now an accused in the Umesh Pal murder. Raids are being carried out across states and the rumour mill is working overtime with stories about her presence, rather absence.
A senior STF official said, “The fact that she has been able to evade dozens of police teams searching for her, shows that she should not be underestimated.”
Born in Damupur village in Allahabad West constituency, Shaista Parveen is the eldest of four sisters and two brothers. She completed her schooling at Kidwai Girls Memorial Inter College in Prayagraj and went to college. Her father Harun Ahmad is a retired police constable, her two brothers are posted as madrasa principals.
In 1996, Shaista was married to Atiq Ahmed. The couple have five sons.
Shaista’s relatives say that she has been a hands-on mother and never missed a single parent-teacher meeting at the top English-medium school where her sons studied.
“With her face covered in veil, she always remained in the background and was rarely seen in public. There are no photographs of her, except a few from family functions,” said the relative.
However, after Atiq and Ashraf went to jail, Shaista gradually started to assert herself. She held press conferences, joined All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) in the presence of its chief Asaduddin Owaisi in September 2021, and later, joined Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in January 2023.
In fact, she was touted to be BSP’s mayoral candidate in 2023 but the party retracted its decision after her involvement in the Umesh Pal murder came to the fore.
Shaista Parveen also took charge of the children as well the business after 2017, when Atiq went to jail.
This is evident from her signatures on academic documents and affidavits which were found in the rented house.
“She got involved in handling the illegal businesses only after Atiq, her brother-in-law Ashraf, and two eldest sons Umar and Ali went to prison in different cases,” said former police officer Lalji Shukla, who served as SP (city) in Prayagraj (then Allahabad) between April 1998 and September 2003 and retired as Inspector General of Police (IG) in 2015.
He added that she remains a revered figure in the family and gang, and commands great respect among Ahmad’s followers. “At a time when all the men in her family are either jailed or dead, Shaista is the only one who has the support and the calibre to take command of the gang and its assets,” he said.
According to police, Shaista Parveen has four criminal cases registered against her at Colonelganj and Dhoomanganj police stations of Prayagraj.
The first three cases filed at Colonelganj police station, date back to 2009. They are filed under different sections of the IPC, including 420, 467, 468 and 471 and section 30 of the Arms Act.
Sources also claim that Shaista is now protecting benami properties (those in someone else’s name) and shell companies worth hundreds of crores for her sons. The exact net worth of the empire is yet to be determined though.
“In the past three years, properties worth over Rs 416.92 crore belonging to Atiq and his kin have been seized. Illegally-constructed properties by the family worth over Rs 752.27 crore have been demolished by the police and other district authorities. Additionally, police have also discovered properties worth over Rs 1,169.20 crore while probing cases against Atiq and his associates,” said a senior police official.
“Till she is arrested, Shaista Parveen will remain an enigma for all. Her story — when it is told — will be on the ‘most wanted’ list,” said the police official.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 30, 2023
Remains found in Lake Mead identified as Las Vegas man missing for 25 years

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Nevada officials have identified remains found in Lake Mead as those of a Las Vegas man missing for 25 years, the latest development in a quest to identify a series of bodies discovered in America’s largest reservoir last year.
On three different days last summer, visitors at a beach on the lake discovered skeletal remains along the shoreline. The Clark county coroner’s office announced on Thursday that those remains belonged to the same person, now identified as as Claude Russell Pensinger, who disappeared on 14 July 1998 at the age of 52.
Pensinger is the third person the office has identified after several sets of remains emerged from the lake amid a devastating drought that has severely depleted the reservoir.
Water levels at Lake Mead, a popular recreation site that hosted more than 7 million visitors last year, have been at record lows due to a drought that has gripped the region for nearly two decades. The dry spell in the Colorado River basin, along with overextraction, extreme heat and decreased snowmelt, has uncovered large swaths of the lake bed.
Beginning last spring, human remains surfaced at Lake Mead in quick succession: a body with a gunshot wound in a barrel in May, a jawbone in the sand the following week, and in July, partial skeletal remains encased in mud along the shoreline. In October, contractors working near a marina found more remains.
The back-to-back discoveries were not an indication of a serial killer, experts cautioned, but rather the consequence of the environmental disaster draining the lake and uncovering bodies that had once been lost to the water. Most are suspected to be accidental deaths but one case, the remains found in a barrel, is being investigated as a homicide. The local mob museum said a barrel was historically a mob method for disposing of bodies.
The coroner’s office team have identified two other sets of remains, both Las Vegas-area men who are believed to have drowned – Donald P Smith, a 39-year-old last seen in April 1974, and Thomas Erndt, a 42-year-old last seen at the lake in August 2002. All three identifications were made using DNA analysis.
The cause and manner of Pensinger’s death is undetermined, the coroner’s office said. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Pensinger was fishing on the lake when he disappeared and his boat was later found running in circles in the water.

Pensinger’s brother said the pair were fishing together on the lake that day, in separate boats, when Pensinger failed to show up at a meeting point later, 8NewsNow reported. His brother reportedly described him as a good swimmer and a navy and coast guard veteran.
The remains of a man who died of a gunshot wound discovered in a barrel have not yet been identified.
Dealing with skeletal remains is particularly challenging, Melanie Rouse, the Clark county coroner, told the Guardian last year, due to the delay from the time of death to the time of recovery and the lack of key physical identifiers. But the office remains dedicated to investigating the cases and providing answers to families, she said.
“That’s one of the reasons why we continue to do what we do – being able to provide closure and being able to return these unidentified individuals back to their families and provide them with a name,” she said.
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( With inputs from : www.theguardian.com )

April 28, 2023
Odisha: Mortal remains of soldier killed in Poonch attack consigned to flames

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Bhubaneswar: The mortal remains of Indian Army jawan Debashish Biswal, who was among the five soldiers killed in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch, were consigned to flames with full military honours at his native village in Odisha’s Puri district on Saturday.
Thousands of people gathered at the crematorium in Khandayat Sahi in Sakhigopal area as Biswal’s elder brother lit the pyre.
His body reached the Biju Patnaik International Airport in Bhubaneswar on a special Indian Air Force plane. The body was then taken to Puri in an Army convoy.

Governor Ganeshi Lal and other dignitaries paid their tributes to Biswal at the airport.
‘Debashish Amar Rahe’ slogans rented the air as the convoy with Biswal’s body travelled from Bhubaneswar to Puri.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced an ex-gratia of Rs 25 lakh for Biswal’s family. He is survived by his wife Sushree Sangeeta and seven-month-old daughter.
Five Army personnel were killed and another was seriously injured on Thursday after their vehicle caught fire following the attack in the dense forest area of Bata Doriya in Poonch. The soldiers were from a Rashtriya Rifles unit deployed for counter-terror operations.

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April 22, 2023
UK home secy remains defiant over remarks on British Pakistani men

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London: UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman remains defiant amid accusations of being racist after she said that an overwhelming majority of sexual grooming gang members in parts of England were British Pakistani men, reiterating that the “truth” cannot be classed as racist.
In an article for The Spectator’ magazine this week, the Indian-origin Cabinet minister stressed that it was necessary to acknowledge the role that ethnicity played in covering up the grooming gangs scandal.
Targeting the Opposition Labour Party, Braverman said “unfashionable facts” such as the ethnicity of those behind such scandals in parts of England were being countered by “fashionable fictions.”

“If we are to address the injustice of the grooming gangs scandal, we must be willing to acknowledge the role that ethnicity played in covering it up,” Braverman writes in the article entitled The truth can’t be racist’.
“To say that the overwhelming majority of perpetrators in towns such as Rotherham, Telford, and Rochdale were British Pakistani and that their victims were white girls is not to say that most British Pakistanis are perpetrators of sexual abuse. The former is a truth, one that made authorities reluctant to confront the issue. The latter is a lie, the speaking of which would be a disgraceful prejudice,” she writes.
She lamented the “politician’s lot” as she admitted that her motives for making the statement will be questioned, but hit back at those “casually” accusing her of racism for speaking plain truths.
“There is something peculiar about this political moment, where those of us advancing unfashionable facts are beaten over the head with fashionable fictions. I suppose the ethnicity of grooming gang perpetrators in a string of cases is the sort of fact that has simply become unfashionable in some quarters. Like the fact that 100 per cent of women do not have a penis,” she notes, alluding to another emotive debate around transgender access to female spaces.
Her intervention comes in the wake of strong objections from within the British Pakistani community, including claims that it has led many to distance themselves from the governing Conservatives since Braverman’s comments earlier this month for the launch of the government’s new Grooming Gangs Taskforce.

Last week, the British Pakistani Foundation (BPF), which claims to represent 18,000 Pakistani heritage members, wrote to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to ask his cabinet minister to withdraw her “irresponsible words” as it would be perceived as normalising bigotry against the community.
Similar letters were also issued by other British Pakistani groups, with Tory peer Baroness Sayeeda Warsi warning that she feared a backlash against British Muslims due to the remarks.
In a series of television interviews earlier this month, Braverman said that the perpetrators of sexual crimes via grooming gangs are “groups of men, almost all British Pakistani”.
Led by the police and supported by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), Downing Street says that data analysts will work alongside the government’s new Grooming Gangs Taskforce using cutting-edge data and intelligence to identify the types of criminals who carry out these offences, including police recorded ethnicity data.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 20, 2023
Hyderabad girl dies in accident in UK, family awaits mortal remains

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Hyderabad: A girl from Hyderabad, who went to the United Kingdom (UK) to pursue higher studies, met with an accident and died in a sea wave.
Informing about the incident, the girl’s father, who resides in Hyderabad, said she went to the UK to pursue a Master’s in space engineering and met with the tragic accident last Tuesday.
However, the family in Hyderabad is still awaiting her mortal remains.

The mortal remains of Sai Tejaswi Kommareddy will be brought to Hyderabad on Friday.
Speaking to ANI, the father of the deceased girl, Shashidhar Reddy, said, “My daughter went to the UK to study for a Master’s in space engineering. She died accidentally in a sea wave there. Union Minister Kishan Reddy and others helped us a lot in clearing procedural hurdles to bringing back her last remains to India. The incident took place last Tuesday (April 11).”
“As per our information, they went to the place to relax after finishing the exams but unfortunately she died,” he said.
“It is said that 3 others also died there but our daughter’s body was found first and two others were found the next day. The deceased body will reach here by Friday night,” the father of the girl told ANI.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 20, 2023
Private agencies to remove animal remains from roads in Hyderabad

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Hyderabad: Taking cognisance of the inconvenience caused to citizens by the foul smell that comes out of animal carcasses, frequently seen lying on roadsides, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to direct private agencies to remove dead animals in all six GHMC zones.
GHMC has asked the agencies to remove the animal carcasses within 24 hours of receiving a complaint, failing which a penalty of Rs 5,000 per day will be imposed.
Stray dogs, cats, and other animals often get crushed by speeding vehicles on the roadsides, and dead birds, mostly pigeons, are left unattended for hours until stray dogs consume their leftovers. Presently, all the dead animals from GHMC limits are brought to the Carcass Utilisation Centre at Autonagar and disposed of through deep burial methods to prevent pollution and the spread of communicable diseases.
The work of lifting dead animals and their safe disposal at Autonagar will be assigned to the agencies at the zonal level.
To bring this move to effect, tenders have been invited by the corporation for all the zones, including Charminar, L B Nagar, Serilingampally, Kukatpally, Secunderabad, and Khairatabad.
An agency that gets selected will use covered four-wheeler vehicles, each fitted with a GPS for lifting the dead animals.
It was further directed by GHMC officials that the agencies should bury the carcasses deep in trenches and sprinkle lime over them before covering them with soil.
The contractor is not permitted to extract oil from the carcasses.

The contractor should possess a high-configuration mobile for receiving complaints round-the-clock and will be responsible for lifting all types of dead animals in the city area, including cattle, horses, cats, dogs, and dead animals from Animal Care Centres.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 31, 2023
DeSantis’ anti-woke law remains blocked in Florida colleges

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Breaking it down: In a two-paragraph order, a three-judge panel of the appeals court denied the state’s request for a stay of the injunction from U.S. District Judge Mark Walker, who determined the anti-woke law is “positively dystopian.”
Florida’s Republican-led Legislature approved the legislation, FL HB 7 (22R), or the Individual Freedom Act, in 2022 to expand anti-discrimination laws to prohibit schools and companies from leveling guilt or blame to students and employees based on race or sex. Inspired by DeSantis, it takes aim at lessons over issues like “white privilege” by creating new protections for students and workers, including that a person should not be instructed to “feel guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress” due to their race, color, sex or national origin.
The law was challenged in several lawsuits, including one by FIRE and another by the ACLU, ACLU of Florida and Legal Defense Fund, both of which sued the state on behalf of students and educators. Despite the legal challenges, the DeSantis administration expects the policies to be found lawful.
“The Court did not rule on the merits of our appeal,” Bryan Griffin, press secretary for DeSantis, said in a statement. “The appeal is ongoing, and we remain confident that the law is constitutional.”
What’s next: There is no hearing currently scheduled in the case.
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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

March 17, 2023
Man dead, 6 injured after massive landslides Jmu-Sgr highway in Ramban, traffic remains suspended

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Ramban, Mar 07: A man was killed and six others were injured when two massive landslides struck Jammu-Srinagar national highway at Seri area of Ramban district on Tuesday, officials said.
An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that two landslides hit the highway at Siri area of Ramban within an hour, resulting in the death of a crane driver working at the site, while six members of a family, travelling in a private car, were injured when their vehicle plunged into a gorge after being hit by a rolling boulder.
He said the highway was completely blocked from both sides after the landslides, adding that a rescue operation is underway to make the road traffic worthy. He said two vehicles, an earthmover and a private car were also damaged in the incident.
“Deputy commissioner Ramban Mussrat-ul-Islam and senior superintendent of police (SSP) Mohita Sharma also visited the spot and supervised the rescue operation”, he said.
Official identified the deceased as Surjeet Singh son of Sher Singh, a resident of Sumber, while as injured were identified as Mohd Taj son of Mohd Ishaq of Kalakote Rajouri, Hamid son of Suba, Rubeena Begum wife of Mohd Shafiq, Sakeena Begum wife of Reyaz Ahmed; Salma Banii daughter of Reyaz Ahmed and Amir son of Mohd Shafeeq all residents of Munglu Rajouri.
All the six injured were shifted to the district hospital Ramban. Five of them were later referred to the Government Medical College (GMC) hospital in Jammu for specialized treatment, officials added—(KNO)

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( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

March 7, 2023