Hyderabad: A delegation comprising industries and trade representatives from Sweden, led by the country’s Ambassador Jan Thesleff, met Telangana’s IT and Industries minister KT Rama Rao at Dr B.R. Ambedkar Telangana State Secretariat on Wednesday.
The Minister said that Telangana is the best investment destination in India and complete support will be provided to the Swedish companies willing to invest in the State. During the course of interaction, The Minister explained to them the Telangana government’s industrial policies and a wide range of investment opportunities in the state, a press note informed.
Welcoming the Swedish companies to Telangana, the industries minister urged them to invest in technology and manufacturing sectors here.
The delegation appreciated the state government’s industry-friendly policies and made a special mention of the infrastructure created in the city in the past eight years, the press note further said.
Ambassador Jan Thesleff assured the minister that he will try to bring in more investments to Telangana. He said that they formed the investment facilitation mechanism to work with the companies willing to invest in India and that it worked with Swedish companies.
The Ambassador informed KTR that their embassy regularly researches investment opportunities in Telangana and extends support to Swedish companies.
Mumbai: A Sweden national was arrested in Mumbai for allegedly molesting a cabin crew member onboard an IndiGo flight from Bangkok, officials said on Saturday.
The accused has been identified as, Klas Erik Harald Jonasm, 63, police said.
The Swedish national was handed over to Mumbai police by the airline staff when the flight landed at Mumbai Airport on Thursday, officials said.
The accused was arrested on Thursday after a complaint by IndiGo Airlines and was produced in the Andheri court on Friday and granted bail the same day, officials said.
A chargesheet was filed by the police, in Andheri court on Friday.
Police said they have started further investigations into the case.
This is the 8th unruly airline passenger arrested in India in the past three months, according to officials.
On March 23, Mumbai’s Sahar Police booked two IndiGo flyers travelling from Dubai to Mumbai for allegedly being drunk and misbehaving with the crew, police said earlier in the month.
The arrested passengers were identified as Dattatreya Bapardekar and John George D’Souza.
“Two Indigo flyers have been booked under section 336 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) & sections 21,22 and 25 of Aircraft rules for being drunk & misbehaving with the crew. Both were arrested formally but as the sections were bailable, they were granted bail from the police station itself”, DCP Dixit Gedam, Mumbai Police told ANI earlier in the month.
According to the police, the incident occurred on March 22. It is alleged that passengers John George D’Souza and Dattatreya Anand Bapardekar started drinking after the flight took off from Dubai on an Indigo flight from Dubai to Mumbai. When the cabin crew found this, they informed them about the ban on drinking alcohol inside the flight. But both the accused got infuriated and stood up from their seat and started walking inside the flight drunk.
Finland’s Eurovision representative Käärijä is third on the betting lists.
Finland Eurovisa representative Wrapper has hurtled to the top of the betting charts. Odds of betting sites combined Eurovision world– website, Finland is third on the list of favorites to win, right after Sweden and Ukraine.
After Saturday’s UMK final, the reading describing the probability of Finland’s victory rose from six to 12 percent. At the top is Sweden, whose Eurovision representative is predicted to be someone who has already won the competition once Lorena. The singer got through with his song Tattoo For the final of Melodifestivalen, which takes place on March 11.
Supplier Tobbe Ek published by a Swedish newspaper on Sunday A detailed analysis on Aftonbladet’s blog Wrapper about the victory with the title: “Finland challenges Loreen – in Cha Cha cha.”
According to the reporter, Finns have previously lacked the confidence to vote for a big hit song in Finnish. Instead, Finns have sent songs in English to the competition.
“That changed yesterday, and Cha Cha Cha it’s exactly the kind of craziness that usually works well in Eurovision.”
According to the editor, the Finnish language suits the song musically well and works to its advantage.
Ukraine apart from the betting lists, the Nordic countries are currently dominating. After Finland, Norway is represented on the list Alessandra with a song Queen of Kings.
Finland’s Eurovision representative UMK’s performance has aroused enthusiasm among viusu fans. For example, there are several fan-made reaction videos to Saturday’s show on YouTube.
Correction 27.2. 4:28 p.m.: Jere Pöyhönen’s name was originally written as Jere Pöyhänen in the main picture.
Turkey condemns burning of Qur’an during far-right protest in Sweden
Turkey has condemned a demonstration involving the burning of Qur’ans in Sweden on Saturday, further inflaming tensions between the two countries amid Stockholm’s Nato bid.
The protest in Stockholm, which took place under heavy police protection in front of Turkey’s embassy, gathered about 100 people and a crowd of reporters, Agence France-Presse reported.
Far-right politician Rasmus Paludan, who staged the event, gave an hour-long speech against Islam and immigration before setting fire to a copy of the Qur’an.
Far-right politician Rasmus Paludan gave an hour-long speech against Islam and immigration before setting fire to a copy of the Qur’an. Photograph: Fredrik Sandberg/TT/EPA
A day prior, Turkey’s foreign ministry summoned Sweden’s ambassador over the permission granted to Paludan’s protest. It was the second time Sweden’s ambassador to Turkey has been summoned this month, after having had to answer for a 12 January stunt during which a Kurdish group hung an effigy of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in Stockholm.
Worldwide condemnations pour in over Sweden allowing Quran burning
On Sunday, several countries worldwide continued to condemn Sweden allowing a politician to burn a copy of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, under police protection in Stockholm.
With permission from the government, Rasmus Paludan, the leader of the Hard Line party, burned a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm on Saturday.
“Saudi Arabia calls for spreading the values of dialogue, tolerance and coexistence and rejects hatred and extremism,” the Saudi Foreign Ministry said.
People protest Sweden in front of the Taksim Mosque in Istanbul, Türkiye, Jan.22, 2023 (AA Photo)
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirms the State of Qatar’s total rejection of all forms of hate speech based on religion or race and rejecting the involvement of sanctities in political disputes. Furthermore, the ministry warns that hate campaigns against Islam and the discourse of Islamophobia witnessed a dangerous escalation through the continued frequent calls for repeated targeting of Muslims worldwide,” Qatar said.
The incident “hurts Muslims’ sentiments across the world and marks serious provocation,” Kuwait’s foreign minister, Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al Jaber Al Sabah, said in statements cited by the state-run Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).
He called the international community “to shoulder responsibility by stopping such unacceptable acts and denouncing all forms of hatred and extremism and bringing the perpetrators to accountability.”
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry decried the Quran burning as a “disgraceful act.”
A ministry statement warned that this “disgraceful act provokes the feelings of hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide.”
“These extremist practices are inconsistent with the values of respect for others, freedom of belief, human rights and fundamental human freedoms,” it added.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said some European countries, under the false pretext of advocating Freedom of speech, “allow extremist and radical elements to spread hatred against Islamic sanctities and values.”
Kanaani said despite the strong emphasis on human rights in Islam, Europeans continue to “institutionalize anti-Islam sentiment and Islamophobia” in their societies.
Pakistan also condemned the burning of the Holy Quran in Sweden, describing it as a “senseless and provocative Islamophobic act.”
“This senseless and provocative Islamophobic act hurts the religious sensitivities of over 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide,” said the Pakistani Foreign Ministry.
Islamabad urged the international community to show a “common resolve” against Islamophobia, xenophobia, intolerance and incitement to violence based on religion or belief and work together to promote inter-faith harmony and peaceful coexistence.
Morocco said it was “astonished” the authorities had allowed it to take place “in front of the Swedish forces of order.”
(With Inputs From News Agencies)
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Ankara: Turkey has cancelled the upcoming visit of Swedish Defense Minister Pal Johnson to the country, in response to Stockholm police giving permission to burn a copy of the Holy Quran during a planned protest in the Swedish capital.
Johnson was planning to visit Turkey on January 27 at the invitation of his Turkish counterpart, as the Scandinavian country hopes to urge Turkey to ratify its bid to join NATO.
“Swedish Defense Minister Pal Johnson’s visit to Turkey on January 27 lost its significance, so we cancelled the visit,” Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said, Anadolu Agency reported.
On Saturday, January 21, Swedish right-wing leader Rasmus Paludan burned a copy of the Holy Quran, with the permission of the Swedish government.
Paludan set fire to the Holy Quran surrounded by the police with a lighter after a long sermon, which lasted about an hour, in which he attacked Islam and immigration in Sweden.
Sweden has given far-right Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan the green light to burn a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm on January 21.
Here’s a look at why some extremist groups in Europe burn copies of the Quran and what they gain from it pic.twitter.com/WQQ4eV8eNr
On Friday, January 20, Ankara summoned Sweden’s ambassador and informed him of its condemnation in the strongest terms.
This is the second time in a few days that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the Swedish ambassador to Ankara. The first took place after a video clip was broadcast last week showing a hanged doll in the image of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
