So only 34% are 'General' candidates in this year's Civil Services selection. Down from 76% in 1988! In complete reversal, now 76% are entitled, one way or other. We celebrate Nadella, Pichai, Banga and Nooyi, little realising that we r celebrating loss of excellence in India.
Pained to see the footage of lynching of a hapless person, for what is hardly a 'sacrilege'. He should have been talked to, fed Langar and allowed to go. That's how Guru's Sikhs are supposed to conduct themselves as per Rahit maryada. Not lynching a disturbed soul.
This city will host Olympics in 6 weeks! Had it been a third world city, it wud have been declared too dangerous to host even an international conference!
The radicaI left is using the election results as an excuse to loot and cause chaos in France.
Imagine what will happen when Trump wins on Nov 5th. They will lose their minds
🔊
Coming from Bengal, I wud say the most stunning result is not halving of BJP seats. It is loss of Adhir Chowdhury from Baharampur to rank outsider Yusuf Pathan. It means in this border district the scale has finally tipped.
I have this picture saved for sharing with Police officer trainees as ab example of Police restraint in the wake of ultimate provocation. In the US, for instance, this guy would have been neutralized.
This is how
@TheQuint
describes
#DelhiRiots
accused Shahrukh Pathan “dispersing a crowd”.
No, don’t laugh at The Quint or feel sorry for the rag. You should worry.
Issue is not whether Pak Army lacks courage. The fact is they are continuing with an asymmetric war against our armed forces in what they have avowedly called to "bleed us by a thousand cuts". And that's a military strategy. It has to be countered by a strategy, not rhetoric.
Pak Army sends terrorists to Kashmir because it does not have courage to face Indian Army on the battlefield.
Pak soldiers ran away in 1971.
Pak Army Chief Pervez Musharraf ran away and was declared an offender by Pak Supreme Court in 2017.
Sipahi aur General dono bhagode.
Repeal of AFSPA has to be contingent upon sparing Army for internal security duty. Army unlike police doesn't have non-lethal tools like tear gas, water canons & batons to tackle violent Civil unrest. Army's only option is to open fire. AFSPA is thus required to protect Army Ops.
Coordination btw the four, contraption for shoes to carry non metallic cannisters, multiple recce trips. Knowledge of frisking procedures, patient planning and execution. The expenses and time spent by them do not reflect either poverty or unemployment.
@IlhanMN
While making this huge effort of standing up, do stand up for minorities in Pakistan and Bangladesh too. From 12% in 1947, the percentage of minorities has fallen to less than 2% in Pak and less than 5% in Bangladesh, while in India minority population has grown from 12% to 20%.
On 31st Oct 1984, returning from my NTPC office at 6pm, was stopped by a Delhi police cop short of Delhi Cantt flyover. He curtly directed me away from the flyover as Sikhs were being flung on to the tracks beneath. His firm direction saved my life. And got me to join the IPS!
Too simplistic. First stab in democratic polity was inflicted when an elected Congress President, Netaji Bose, was unseated from the office in 1939 at the behest of no less than, Mahatama Gandhi. Since then, the Congress has not cared two hoots for either secularism or democracy!
Do sovereign governments issue rebuttals to news stories? NYT is not International Criminal Court and neither does the subject matter fall under the purview of Rome statute.
Modi government must rebut New York Times revelations today that It did indeed subscribe by payment from tax payers money of ₹ 300 crores to spyware Pegasus sold by Israeli NSO company. This implies prima facie our Govt misled Supreme Court and Parliament. Watergate ?
If your best bowler bowls 4 wides and concedes 19 in penultimate over, do you, seriously, have any chance even against a half decent team? Defending any score? And 181 shud have been enuf. Any day except Sunday the 4th Sept!
The point is to have affirmative action for EWS only, regardless of what caste or religion they belong to. In my 35 years in Civil Service, I came across more SCs/ STs who came from 2nd generation of civil servants or from well off 'creamy layer' than most General category ones.
This must rank as the most iconic picture of police restraint anywhere in the face of grave provocation. Well done Delhi Police for using minimum force in the wake of extreme incitement.
Another year passes without any terrorist incident in the entire country (except in Kashmir valley and in small & shrinking Maoist affected territory) during myriad of religious festivities & political events. Kudos to security & intelligence agencies & sacrifices made by them.
This shouldn't come from an ex-army officer. To be a POW is not a disgrace, if you have fought well. And it certainly doesn't deserve being parodied. Whether in case of Abhimanyu or this Qureshi fella.
Pak Air Force (PAF) pilot Parvaiz Mehdi Qureshi’s plane was shot down in 1971. He was saved by an Indian captain & was PoW in India. In 1997, he was appointed Pak Air Force Chief.
27 Feb is coming. Pakistanis will make memes on Abhinandan. This one is a meme goldmine. Go for it.
@Ram_Guha
Mr Guha, because they are non-kashmiris pl don't presume they can't speak Kashmiri. My batchmates who have been SPs in different cadres speak local lingo as natives. Want to have Bengali competition w me? Or Tamil w Sanjay Arora or Sunil Kumar or Malayalam w Anil Kant, All IPS.
The real war is inside. And it has not relented. Another four CRPF men martyred at Kupwara fighting holed up terrorists. They were no less heroic than Abhinandan. Raucous celebrations should not be order of the day.
This is so vicious and personal. The concerned security personnel shud be dismissed summarily under General exceptions to Art 311(2) of Constitution 'in the interest of security of state and appointing authority being satisfied that it is expedient not to hold an enquiry'.
To put Aditi Ashok's 4th place in perspective, she is world no. 200 and finished 4th. Our shooters, archers, wrestlers and boxers are all ranked within top 10. Aditi has shown tremenduous grit and skill in physically and mentally draining 4 days of competitive golfing.
Due to Gandhi ji's hypocrisy, his eldest son Harilal converted to Islam and became Abdullah Gandhi. Later, on his mother's insistence, he reconverted. In fact, the kind of stuff Kasturba, had to go thru bcoz of G's whims, wud have invited a case under Sec 498A, in present times.
No Punjabi left West Punjab of his own volition too. They had to leave rich Canal Colonies that first ushered in green revolution in 1900-1920. The sins of ideologues of United Provinces who conceived and delivered Pakistan continue to be expiated for by Punjabis and Bengalis.
No
#Hindu
Bengali left East Bengal ‘out of choice’. We lost our homes, culture, language. We had no option but to seek shelter in
#India
much against PM Nehru’s wish. We were labelled ‘Permanent Liability’ by Nehru who kept insisting Bengali Hindus must be stopped from coming in.
Some people may argue that let Army too carry non- lethal weapons. This is not possible for two reasons. One, it will dilute Military doctrine of 'eliminating enemy in combat'. Two, it will make mockery of 'rule of law' as Military can't keep up with constant judicial oversight.
Beats me totally. Only explanation is that the current leadership of both Akali dal and Congress belongs to East Punjab- The Malwa and Doaba region. Hardly any leader is a "refugee" from West Punjab who actually lost big time including their wealth and women during partition.
Absolutely. The tribute to Harmandir Sahib should not be seen thru any other lens. All our Bengali friends have been to Golden Temple abd are full of awe and reverence.
Manjinderji, seems you have not met *our* Sardarjis of
#Bengal
who celebrate both Durga Puja and Gurpurab. Have you heard of Amrik Singh Arora, the finest singer of Shyama Sangeet? We revere Harmandir Sahib and matha theko there.
As for 'blasphemy', we're
#India
not
#Pakistan
.
Why is
@RanaAyyub
not in prison! And why does
@nytimes
and
@washingtonpost
keep drumming her side of story even as her story is one of glaring breach of trust and defalcation! Like, who siphons off Rs 50 Lakh of public funds in her father's account as Fixed deposit!
@thehawkeyex
@madhukishwar
@auldtimer
@ShekharGupta
My batchmate Rashmi Awasthi Shukla is Pune top cop. She has impeccable credentials and under her watch profanity such as manufacturing evidence for political reasons cannot happen. A threat to PM cannot be dealt as dismissively as
@ShekharGupta
seems to be insinuating.
In
@Vikram_Sood
's words 'Narratives are not truth, rather they nudge you to understand truth in a particular way'. So far the Bollywood & liberals' led narrative had made heroes out of terrorists.
#TheKashmiriFiles
is a timely & brave attempt to correct the narrative on Kashmir.
Nailed it. Self styled liberals have zero sense of history. CAB wud have been infructuous if demographic ratio of 1947 had not altered in Afg, Pak & Bangladesh and their minorities not hounded out. Israel protects Jews everywhere, yet remains secular. Right?
Annamalai takes opposition to cleaners in Kerala with renewed energy after coimbatore elections.
Exposes Congress-When in power, manipulated CBI, Used Art 356 (president rule) 91 times, snatched power from many state govts, The myth called INDI alliance
How stupid can pseudos be! Mirabai had full time Coach and support staff paid by government. Her diet, travel, equipment too. In 5 years she was made to train so hard that on her own admission, she cud go home for only 5 days. Immense talent needs solid support. And she got that!
Unpopular opinion but I will say this - She won the medal.
Not India, not the ministry, nor any politicians, nor any one of us.
She did, with her hard work against all the odds and with very little from us or govt.
So this is her victory and just hers. Not everyone else’s.
Social media has lost it. "Respect" is out of fashion. One set of people routinely abuse government in power in Centre and another at State govts. No one recognizes that crisis can become bigger than any means at disposal to tackling it. That's called "unprecedented".
Fatal police shootings of unarmed black people during traffic stops in the U.S.: "American police officers, over the previous five years, had killed more than 400 motorists who were not wielding a gun or knife or under pursuit for a violent crime."
@ShekharGupta
VGS was a bully. He rigged Coffee auctions by posting armed henchmen who terrorized auctioners into accepting his bid. He used his father in law, then a Congressman to keep lenders terrorized so that loans need not be paid. His FiL even joined BJP- But, "times, they r a changin".
For the first time in this century India has had 30 consecutive months without a single major Islamic terrorism incident outside J&K. The last major Islamic terrorism incident was on January 2nd 2016 in Pathankot
It is a personal loss to everyone who has served in uniform! We all have feared it and lived it in our nightmares some time or other. RIP family Tripathi.
Never compare w Sikhs, General. Was keeping beard a choice for you in Army? For a Sikh however, Turban is not a choice. You, a retired Army Commander, know this. Nor is it a choice in Sikh regiment or SikhLi. Wud you demand Hijab as a choice for Muslim women officers in Army?
This girl has proved that the Hijab covers the head not the brain. I am not a votary of the Hijab but I feel that the choice of head gear should be left to the choice of the students, just like it is for Sikhs. The colour can be in conformity with the colour of school uniform
Strongly condemn the horrific incident of attempted sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji at Darbar Sahib.
Govt must get to the bottom of what led this man to act in such a despicable manner!
Speaking of politicization, Lt Gen B.M. Kaul, an ASC officer, was made Chief of General Staff in NEFA against recommendation of CoAS Gen Thimayya that Kaul had no prior combat experience and had never commanded a fighting unit. This, one political appointment,led to 1962 debacle.
I have reported on the soldiering Community for nearly 25 years now. If I were a soldier today I'd be horrified at the politicization in the name of my uniform and the absolute rubbish on TV news that passes off as patriotism. And I know many many honorable men are deeply angry
On Republic day we must recall that "Socialist & Secular" were added to Preamble during Emergency. India was neither theocratic nor Capitalist till then. It became Capitalist post 80s and theocratic in the eyes of Nations whose own polity was never Secular, de facto or de jure.
The educated illiterates. Just spent two weeks in Jharkhand as Observer for elections, and marvelled at the truly symbiotic relation btw the tribals and the trees. And just look at this!
This is a senior bureaucrats wife living on Pandara road. A habitual offender. As per the gate keeper at Sundar Nursery. A sapling costs just Rs 50 but takes years to grow. Shame.
Stuff gone seriously wrong with Punjabis at psychic level! In the land of Gurus, who incidentally were part of the progressive Bhakti movement in India, this is clearly retrograde, bordering illiteracy.
Such is the doublespeak of SGPC that the moment Akali Dal comes to power, they will shut all these "Shaheeds" back to attic. In 10 years of Badal rule, not even once did the SGPC comeout w honouring the martyrs.
I confronted SGPC chief Bibi Jagir Kour with direct & pointed question: " How come a person whose activities led Army launch Operation Blue Star be your Hero...?"
AIMIM of Owaisi wins 5 seats, and "secular"
@sardesairajdeep
is claiming that " consolidation of muslim votes" could not take place bcoz of AIMIM contesting. This is so damn preposterous for a journalist to be suggesting "consolidation" along communal lines without any qualms!
@smitaprakash
Since the terrorists' game is nearly up in Kashmir, Congress, to survive has to create a new wave of terrorists. So infusing new motivation.
To the Congress Emergency was like a purification ritual. No Congressi has ever regretted it. Mrs Gandhi inducted "Socialist" in the preamble and Congress became exact mirror image of Hitler's National Socialist German Workers' Party or Nazi.
This is the saddest news of 2021. Of 9 judges of Afghanistan Supreme Court, both women judges have been killed. This coincides with drawdown of troops, release of thousands of IS & Taliban prisoners and talks of power sharing with Taliban which has already accorded it legitimacy.
The Nehruvian sentiment: "if not a blade of grass grows, its useless to fuss over" is ingrained in our psyche. Primacy must be given to military success. Diplomatic success follows. Military is the dog and diplomacy is the tail. Not vice versa. Who wags whom, China knows better.
India declared the 2017 Doklam disengagement a tactical victory. It then turned a blind eye as China built permanent structures and seized control of much of Doklam. As
@VishnuNDTV
reveals, Chinese construction activity is now moving toward India border.
True. But hardly crying. They meticulously got after our premier agency. One of our asset is rotting in Prague jail and many of our 'station operatives' either got their cover blown up or got PNG-ed. All bcoz of unprofessional conduct of one officer, since named
Ten years ago, even if a country like Pakistan brought a city like Mumbai to its knees, it would only receive a "dossier" from India. Today the Americans are crying like little babies on the pages of an establishment newspaper about Indians going rogue on their soil 🥲
Never forget! State Governments were dismissed. Thousands detained without due process under hastily conjured laws like MISA. The police, judiciary & Presidency fell in line to allow Mrs Gandhi to stay in power by subverting Constitution. It was actually worse than martial law!
On this day in 1975, Indira Gandhi proclaimed
#Emergency
.
Fundamental Rights were suspended.
Civil Liberties were scrapped.
Opposition was put behind bars.
Press censorship was imposed.
Democracy was wounded.
We lived in fear of the midnight knock. n1
#NeverForgetNeverForgive
First the dimwits who run Kendriya Vidayalaya Sangathan (KVS) tinkered w KV uniform. From elegant White shirt Navy blue pant/Skirt to a clumsy check shirt and salwar for girls. And now SC, no less, is examining a prayer adopted 50 yrs ago for its secular credentials. Quo Vadis?
India ably steered UNSC resolution on Martime Security. PM emphasised on primacy of legal framework of UNCLOS to settle both Maritime Boundary disputes and tackling illicit activities at sea like piracy, narco trade, terrorism and illegal fishing. Kudos to Indian diplomacy.
True. In fact most British colonies anyway got their independence btw 1945 & 1962. The sacrifices of revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh and Netaji, the men British refused to deal with, need proper place in history. Not just those who broke bread w them on Round or square tables.
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's statue at India Gate will serve as an antidote to India's founding myth that it won independence through non-violence. As I wrote earlier, that costly myth is at the root of India's twin problems relating to China and Pakistan.
Zakir Naik, the bigot and hatemonger, to be extradited from Malaysia. A huge victory for the law-enforcement for making a water-tight case and Indian diplomacy for following up with the new Malaysian government.
ITC is not just Cigrettes. ITC makes best packaged and frozen foods from Naan to Veg and Non veg snacks. ITC owns brands like Savlon, Sunfeast and Aashirwad and ITC runs great hotels and is a stakeholder in India's IT revolution as ITC infotech is a multi-national IT Company.
Govt is the biggest shareholder of ITC
They claim that they are Anti-Tobacco.
From the Govt, LIC is the Biggest Shareholder in ITC
What does LIC sell?- Life insurance
What does ITC sell? -Cancer
This is called Hedging
Zindagi ke saath bhi - ITC
Zindagi ke baad bhi - LIC
One unexpected positive takeaway from current Air engagement btw India and Pak has been vulnerability of nearly 100% Pak Civilian Air space in case of hostilities. On the other hand a mere 20% of Indian Air space gets blocked.
Old Congress doublespeak. Use religion as a riot for retribution against minorities. And use religion as an argument to appease minorities and keep their votes.
The Congress will try to spin its LoP's atrocious statement in Parliament a different way, but i was there and heard him clearly.
He said "those who call themselves Hindus indulge in violence 24x7."
Here it is, verbatim.
No apologies, no remorse, just brazenness, accompanied by
Very appropriately described. Delhi police actually put service before self in using minimum and proportionate force despite severe provocation and in the process taken the sting and sympathy out of the "movement".
An entire ecosystem was waiting for one bullet to be fired.
By not firing it, despite being battered, broken and bruised, the
@delhipolice
has delivered a unique victory.
🙏🏻
Two important lessons from Sri Lanka bombings by the Islamists.
1. Keep close tabs on remittances to religious organizations from middle east and desi rich
2. Intelligence collection from Police Station level on activities of TNTJ and clones esp related to settling of "outsiders"
My column in HT: In terms of sophisticated methods and synchronized lethality, the Sri Lanka attacks on Easter Sunday were eerily similar to the 1993 Bombay bombings. This should come as no surprise: Jihadists have long used India as a terror laboratory.
Haryana police is in the dock for framing an innocent bus conductor for a murder he did not even know about, for planting evidence to indict the hapless man and keep him incarcerated for months.
@IPS_Association
must condemn unequivocally. Now.
My two pennies on Sanju: Sublime glorification of vice. A knight in shining armour has the world to blame for his woes. Mumbai underworld can be identified by a saffron tika against which actors hv to stock up AK 56s. And filmi wives r coy being 351st hunt of their husbands!
Policemen beating up poor and stranded people is bad policing. Quite clearly the cops on ground have not been briefed well. Senior officers must brief men on the ground before deployment for the shift.
The 30 minute long Jalianwala bagh massacre is possibly first ever faithful reproduction of how it all happened, stark and in all its gory details. Remember Schindler's List or the more recent, The Pianist. That kind of unapologetic cinematic faithfulness.
Exceptionally brilliant cinematography. Not one music note out of place.
So proud that our story is told by our own…
Thank you
#ShoojitSircar
.
@vickykaushal09
for a powerfully nuanced performance.
#UdhamSingh
@Joydas
@nihang
"Victimhood" stories spread disaffection. Lynching like terrorism has no religion. I have seen more lynchings of errant drivers, small time thieves, suspect rag pickers, women branded as witches than lynching on religious grounds. Aside from communal riots, of course
There were so many communal riots during Congress rule that it created mini Bangladeshs and Pakistans everywhere by encouraging ghettos after every riot.
@suhasinih
To fly journos for free goes against the grain of free press. Favour gets embedded in the system. Journos end up becoming mere official scribes. Better fly empty or fly a few students and teachers !
Why is
@gurgaonpolice
facilitating namaaz in the open when there are mosques? Have been caught upto 20 minutes in these traffic jams. With tempers running high it’s an incendiary situation & should not be encouraged.
This is absurd. Why should police 'ask' a CM ! Directives on use of force are transparent and decision making does not go beyond senior most officer in charge of the situation. And why lathi charge? What happened to use of tear gas / water cannons, the less than lethal means.
Disgraceful and insensitive. No mayor or cop can tell his constituents that they shud expect to be stabbed on the road. Citizens of a thousand big cities like Calcutta, Mumbai, Delhi or NYC don’t leave their homes dressed in invisible shrouds. For over a decade now.
Just to put it in perspective, Indira Gandhi dismissed elected governments in different States 39 times between 1966- 1975. And then she imposed Emergency, with most draconian laws like MISA under which any dissenting voice, be it politicians or journalists were incarcerated.
As I pointed out in the Lok Sabha debate on article 370 in October 2019, a dangerous precedent has been set which the Supreme Court has now ratified. Tomorrow, a government at the Centre can declare any state to be under President’s Rule, and then get its parliamentary majority
Dogras were nominal "rulers" at the pleasure of the British Resident, and paid Rs 75 lakh tribute, arranged by exploiting Kashmiri peasant. Hence denies being Kashmiri. Last independent ruler of Kashmir was Maharaja Ranjit Singh. How Dogras became nominal rulers is another story.
This is happening in the State that gave us 'Grey hounds'. The harbinger of death knell for Maoists of Central India. Congress thrives on giving space to terrorists of all hues.
Telangana: Congress State Minister Seethakka visited the house of Naxal/Maoist leader Siripelli Sudhakar alias Sankaranna, who died in an encounter with security forces in Kanker, and also paid tribute to his portrait
The homeopaths may writhe in anger, but that's the bitter pill they know they have to swallow. For major diseases, even the hardcore believer will not rely on these chill-pills. And sardi-zukaam anyway go after running their course. And homeos claim victory.
I've been very harsh on Homeopathy this year
This has caused Homeopaths great social/career damage
They complained to modern med ethics committee to take action against me
This is my 2 mins APOLOGY🙏 video
with
@LOLrakshak
via
@KhulKeOfficial
Full:
@AdityaMenon22
Jathedar ji is mistaken. Sikhism is not monotheistic in the sense of Abrahmic religions. Our monotheism is akin to Vedic Hinduism's "unimaginable god", also akin to Confucianism as it focuses on knowledge and wisdom, as exemplified by status of "living Guru" to Guru Granth Sahib.
Classic! That Congress, which under Shiela Dixit ruled Delhi for 10 years, will be decimated is not of concern to Congis, but that BJP may lose is giving them their newest high!