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Karnataka to stop Maharashtra’s health insurance scheme in 865 border villages: Bommai

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Belagav: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday said his government would take measures to stop the Maharashtra government from offering its health insurance scheme in 865 border villages that the neighbouring state is trying to lay claim to.
He was responding to Congress’ criticism over his administration’s alleged inaction over Maharashtra’s Eknath Shinde government recently announcing an additional Rs 54 crore for implementing the ‘Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jan Arogya Yojana’ in the border villages of Karnataka, which the neighbouring state is claiming for itself.
Calling the Maharashtra’s government’s move an “insult” to Karnataka, state Congress President D K Shivakumar and Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Siddaramaiah earlier today demanded Bommai’s resignation, accusing him of having “miserably failed” in protecting the interests of the state and Kannadigas.
In response to a question from reporters about Congress’ demand for his resignation, Bommai said, “If Maharashtra releases (money) here, why should I resign? We too have released funds for places in Maharashtra like Pandharpur, Tuljapur, where people from Karnataka visit.”.
Speaking to the reporters here, he said, “I will look into their fund release, we will take measures to stop it…. I need not learn from D K Shivakumar.” Earlier, warning the Maharashtra government, Shivakumar said not even an inch of Karnataka’s land would be ceded.
“It is our land, our water, and we will protect it. We are ready to sacrifice our lives to protect our land,” he said, as he urged the Karnataka government to take immediate counter measures, stating that it was a mater of the state’s self esteem.
Calling on pro-Kannada organisations, artists and literary figures to come together to express their opposition against Maharashtra’s move with one voice, Shivakumar also questioned Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s silence on the issue.
Meanwhile, speaking to reporters in Hubballi, Siddaramaiah said Maharashtra’s move was a threat to India’s federal structure.

Hitting out at Bommai for having failed to protect Karnataka’s interest, he said he had no right to continue as Chief Minister and should resign immediately.
The decades old border row between the two states had intensified in December last year, with vehicles from either side being targeted, leaders from both the States weighing in, and pro-Kannada and Marathi activists being detained by police amid a tense atmosphere in Belagavi.
Also, both states had passed resolutions against each other in their respective legislatures, putting forward their claim on the border villages.
The border issue dates back to 1957 when States were reorganised on linguistic lines. Maharashtra laid claim to Belagavi, which was part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency, as it has a sizeable Marathi-speaking population. It also laid claim to over 800 Marathi-speaking villages which are currently a part of Karnataka.
Karnataka maintains that the demarcation done on linguistic lines as per the States Reorganisation Act and the 1967 Mahajan Commission Report is final. And, in an assertion about Belagavi being an integral part of the State, Karnataka built the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha there, modelled on the Vidhana Soudha, the seat of the State Legislature and Secretariat, in Bengaluru.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 15, 2023
Elephant herd force Niligiri Mountain train to stop in middle of the track

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Coimbatore: The Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) train, which left from Mettupalayam near here, has to stop in the midway as a herd of elephants was standing across the railway track on Friday.
The train left Mettupalayam at 7.30 AM and stopped between Hilolgrove and Aderley, as the driver noticed five elephants with a calf standing on the track, which had 138 passengers to Coonoor.
The elephants standing on the track has become a regular scene during the summer season, moving in search of water, railway sources said.
The alert driver stopped the train and left after half an hour, they said.
The Forest department is taking measures to prevent the herd of elephants crossing the track, railway sources said.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 10, 2023
WhatsApp says will leave UK market if forced to stop end-to-end protection

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London: Meta-owned WhatsApp has said it will leave the UK market if forced to weaken its end-to-end encryption for users under the upcoming Online Safety Bill.
In a briefing with reporters, WhatsApp Head Will Cathcart slammed the legislation as the most concerning set of online regulations in the western world, reports Wired.
“We’ve recently been blocked in Iran, for example. But we’ve never seen a liberal democracy do that,” Cathcart was quoted as saying in reports.
“Ninety-eight per cent of our users are outside the UK. It would be an odd choice for us to choose to lower the security of the product in a way that would affect those 98 per cent of users,” he categorically said.
Cathcart says he is concerned that the bill could make it harder for WhatsApp and other messaging platforms to provide end-to-end encryption.
“It’s hard to imagine we’re having this conversation about a liberal democracy that might go around people’s ability to communicate privately,” he told reporters.
A provision in the Online Safety Bill requires tech companies to use “accredited technology” to scan users’ messages for child sexual abuse material or CSAM.
According to security researchers, it is impossible to introduce such a measure without breaking end-to-end encryption.

In 2021, Apple introduced plans to scan users’ messages for CSAM but shelved those after facing criticism from the security researchers.
The Online Safety Bill also puts the onus on Big Tech and firms that fail to comply with the new rules could face fines of up to 18 million pounds, or 10 per cent of their annual global turnover, whichever is highest.
New measures in the law include tougher and quicker criminal sanctions for tech bosses and new criminal offences for falsifying and destroying data.
The Online Safety Bill will require social media platforms, search engines and other apps and websites allowing people to post their own content to protect children, tackle illegal activity and uphold their stated terms and conditions.
“The Bill will strengthen people’s rights to express themselves freely online and ensure social media companies are not removing legal free speech. For the first time, users will have the right to appeal if they feel their post has been taken down unfairly,” former Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries had said last year.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 10, 2023
Woman kills husband, tries to burn body at home; electrifies door to stop police

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Jamshedpur: A woman killed her husband and tried to burn his body inside their house in Old Subhash Colony in Jharkhand’s Jamshedpur. The accused locked herself inside and electrified the door to prevent the police from breaking in.
The incident took place on Thursday night.
The deceased has been identified as Amarnath Singh, who was associated with the transport and real estate business. The couple has two children, who live in different cities for job and studies.
The accused, Meera Singh has been arrested.
The police entered the house with great difficulty after cutting off the power supply to the area and seized the half-burnt body.
Neighbours alleged that Meera is mentally unsound and that the couple fought frequently.
The murder came to light when a foul smell began emanating from the house, following which the neighbours alerted the couple’s son, who lives in Pune.
The woman climbed the roof with a stick and threatened people when the police reached the spot.

According to the neighbours, the deceased had not come out of the house since the last four-five days.
The body has been sent for post-mortem.
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March 10, 2023
AP: TDP will go to court if baseless charges doesn’t stop, MLA warns govt

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Amaravati: Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and Telugu Desam Party MLA Payyavula Keshav attacked the state government for leveling baseless charges with regard to the skill development project. He said his party is ready to take the legal route.
The Crime Investigation Department (CID) had earlier alleged that funds for the Skill Development project were being deposited into the accounts of TDP leaders
Talking to media persons through Zoom on Wednesday, Keshav said, “I would like to ask the CID to give details of their accused TDP leaders. The Skill Development project which was introduced by the TDP government for the bright future of young people of Andhra Pradesh has been destroyed by the current state government.”
“When TDP was in power, it along with six other state governments entered into an MoU with the conglomerate corporation Siemens. Are you telling em that the chief minister of all these six states are involved in corruption charges?” Keshav questioned.
Mentioning a report that stated the chairman of Siemens Suman Bose had benefited some politicians Keshav challenged how is Chandrababu Naidu related to it.
Keshav warned the state government that if the baseless charges continue, the latter has to pay a heavy price.
He further alleged that the Skill Development project issue is just a diversion from the ongoing investigation into the murder of Vivekananda Reddy (paternal uncle of CM Jagan Mohan Reddy).
“The Chief Minister is now worried as their MP Avinash Reddy was summoned by the CBI. Hence they have created baseless charges against the TDP to divert public and media attention,” Keshav alleged.

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March 8, 2023
China urges US to stop trying to mislead the world on Taiwan

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Beijing: The Taiwan question is purely China’s internal affair. It is time for the US to stop walking on the edge, stop using the salami tactics, stop pushing the envelope, and stop sowing confusion and trying to mislead the world on Taiwan, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
If the US refuses to change course and goes down that wrong path, there will be real consequences and it will come at real costs to the US, Spokesperson Mao Ning made the comment in response to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent ‘erroneous’ remarks on Taiwan.
“Secretary Blinken’s remarks are absolutely irresponsible and absurd. China firmly opposes that,” Mao said, adding that it seems that some history lessons are in order for the top US diplomat on the Taiwan question, Xinhua news agency reported.
“Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. The one-China principle is a universally recognised basic norm in international relations and the important political prerequisite and foundation for China’s diplomatic relations with countries in the world,” the Spokesperson stressed.
In 1972, the US stated in the Shanghai Communique that “The US acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The US government does not challenge that position,” Mao said.
In 1978, the US stated in the Joint Communique on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the US and China that “The US recognises the Government of theRepublic of China as the sole legal government of China. The US government acknowledges the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is part of China,” he added.
She also mentioned in 1982, the US stated in the August 17 Communique that “the US recognised the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal Government of China, and it acknowledged the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is part of China. The US government…reiterates that it has no intention of infringing on Chinese sovereignty and territorial integrity, or interfering in China’s internal affairs, or pursuing a policy of ‘two Chinas’ or ‘one China, one Taiwan’.”
“For some time, the US made those political commitments to China on the Taiwan question, which are written down in black and white,” the Spokesperson said.

The US has been deliberately ignoring and twisting the history and sending the wrong message on the Taiwan question. The US has significantly relaxed its restraint on official interactions and reinforced military contact with Taiwan and touted “Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow.” It has even been revealed by the media that the US government has a plan for “the destruction of Taiwan,” Mao said.
“We cannot help but ask what exactly is the US trying to achieve?”
The Taiwan question is purely China’s internal affair. It is at the very core of China’s core interests. It is the political foundation of China-US relations, and the first red line that must not be crossed in this relationship. China will never allow any external force to interfere in our internal affairs, Mao added.
“We have a clear message for the US: It is time to stop — stop walking on the edge, stop using the salami tactics, stop pushing the envelope, and stop sowing confusion and trying to mislead the world on Taiwan,” she said.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 28, 2023
Sánchez, on the ‘Mediator case’: «We stop corruption»

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The President of the Government defends the diligence of his party by expelling the Socialists involved in the plot
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Monday, February 27, 2023, 10:20 p.m.
Pedro Sánchez spoke this Monday night for the first time, in his capacity both as President of the Government and as leader of the PSOE, on the ‘Mediator case’ that questions the party when it is being investigated, at the epicenter of the plot for alleged purchase of favors and extortion to businessmen, the former socialist deputy, expelled for the case, Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo. Asked about the investigations in Telecinco, Sánchez assured that he is taking them “very seriously” because he came to power after a motion of censure for the irregularities of ‘Gürtel’, even stressing that if this scourge has fallen on the concerns of the citizens is because of the “clear and forceful” way in which the PSOE, with him at the helm, reacts to illegal conduct.
“We stop corruption, we do not cover it up,” replied the socialist general secretary when pointed out by the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who cursed if Sánchez has taken part in Fuentes’ business. “‘Tito Berni’ is going to bring down this government,” Ayuso came to predict, alluding to the family name of the former deputy under investigation. The PP began this Monday to tighten the siege on the PSOE for the ‘Meditor case’ by announcing that it will appear in the case opened in the Canary Islands for the “possible ‘bites’”, according to the censure of the popular campaign spokesman, Borja Semper. His party believes the response of the socialists is insufficient.
Vox went one step further and took advantage of the record of his motion of censure to justify it, too, because “they have turned Congress into a brothel.”
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( With inputs from : pledgetimes.com )

February 28, 2023
Sri Lanka plans stop fuel rationing based on QR code

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Colombo: Sri Lanka is planning to do away with the rationing of fuel using a QR code ahead of the National New Year, the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) announced on Monday.
The CPC said that it plans to stop issuing fuel on limited basis starting from April 10 ahead of the New Year falls on April 13 and 14.
The decision was taken as the Corporation was receiving sufficient amount of fuel and country’s largest oil refinery is in operation producing nearly 50,000 barrels of fuel per day.
“Plans are underway to ensure continuous supply of crude oil for the refinery,” a CPC spokesman said.
Faced by the worst-ever economic crisis since Independence in 1948, the islanders faced severe shortages of fuel halting transportation and power generation.
Sri Lankans had to queue up for days to purchase fuel and over 15 deaths were reported at the fuel queues.
To ease the congestion, government initially introduced rationing system by issuing fuel based on the vehicle registration number and later in August 2022 introduced a QR code system issuing 20 litres of fuel for light vehicles and 4 litres for petrol for motorbikes.
In addition to CPC, the Indian Oil’s subsidiary Lanka IOC has been operating as the sole private oil company for last 20 years.

It operates over 200 retail petrol and diesel stations around Sri Lanka while owning one-third share in Ceylon Petroleum Storage Terminals Limited — a joint venture of Lanka IOC and CPC which operates 13 oil terminals across the island nation.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 27, 2023
Chuck Schumer met with Pakistan’s prime minister on Thursday, another stop in a recess spate of globetrotting that also included India and Israel.

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Chuck Schumer met with Pakistan’s prime minister on Thursday, another stop in a recess spate of globetrotting that also included India and Israel.

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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

February 24, 2023
Overheating wheel detected too late to stop Ohio train before it derailed

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By then, the engineer was already trying to slow the train. Upon hearing the alarm, the engineer increased the application of the brakes, and then automatic emergency brakes initiated, bringing the train to a stop.
When it stopped, the crew “observed fire and smoke and notified the Cleveland East dispatcher of a possible derailment,” the report said.
Thirty-eight cars derailed and 12 more were damaged in the ensuing fire.
NTSB is continuing to investigate the wheelset and bearing, the design of the tank cars themselves, the accident response, including the venting and burning of the vinyl chloride, railcar design and maintenance procedures and practices, Norfolk Southern’s use of wayside defect detectors, and Norfolk Southern’s railcar inspection practices.
NTSB will brief reporters Thursday afternoon about the report.
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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

February 23, 2023