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March 1-15, 2021 - Vol 1, Issue 17
Man who climbed the ramparts of Red fort arrested New Delhi, Feb 25 ( IANS ): The Delhi Police have arrested another accused wanted in the Red fort violence on 26 January identified as Jaspreet Singh, a resident of Swaroop Nagar in Delhi. The police said Jaspreet’s name came up during the interrogation of the arrested accused Maninder Singh who was seen brandishing swords at the Red fort. “Jaspreet Singh was also present at the Red Fort and later climbed up on one of the arcades located on the ramparts of the Red Fort. He is the person standing behind accused Maninder Singh and climbed one of the tombs located on both the sides of Rampart, Red Fort,” said Chinmoy Biswal, PRO Delhi police. The accused Jaspreet was arrested on February 20. “He is also seen in offensive gesture holding steel tensile installed at Red Fort,” the officer added.
The Delhi Police have arrested 149 people in connection with the Kisan Andolan till now. Punjabiactivist Deep Sidhu, arrested in Haryana on February 9, has been touted by Delhi Police as the ‘main instigator’ of the violence which took place on the Republic Day in which many protesters and policemen were injured. The Delhi Police have also announced a cash reward of Rs 1 lakh for information leading
Meanwhile a Delhi court on Monday sent climate activist Disha Ravi to one-day police custody in connection with the ‘Toolkit’ case, during which she will be confronted with co-accused Nikita Jacob and Shantanu Muluk who appeared before the Cyber Cell of Delhi police to join probe on Monday.
both Pfizer and Moderna have either cut or delayed shipments to Canada which has got only 1.1 million doses so far.
Toronto, Feb 11 (IANS): The IndoCanada Chamber of Commerce (ICCC) and many other IndoCanadian organisations have welcomed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modis promise to provide Covid-19 vaccine to Canada. Modi made this promise to his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau who called him on
Wednesday to discuss various issues, including the pandemic, the economic recovery and climate change. In a tweet, Modi said that he “assured him (Trudeau) that India would do its best to facilitate supplies of COVID vaccines sought by Canada”. Trudeau is facing a public backlash because of the lack of the availability of vaccines as
Happy that she got bail, says Disha Ravi’s mother
to the arrest of another key accused Lakhbir Singh alias Lakha Sidhana.
Modi’s vaccine promise to Canada breaks irritants: Indo-Canada Chamber
By Gurmukh Singh
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Bengaluru, Feb 25 (IANS): Expressing happiness over a Delhi court granting bail to her daughter on Tuesday, climate change activist Disha Ravi’s mother expressed her gratitude to all those who had supported her.
underwent questioning in police custody.
“I am happy that she got bail. I don’t know how to say thanks to all the people who supported her and came out for her,” Manjula told reporters here.
“Considering ‘scanty and sketchy’ evidence on record, I do not find any palpable reason to breach rule of bail for a 22-year-old girl who has absolutely no criminal antecedents,” the judge said.
Family friend and lawyer R. Prasanna told IANS that he was very happy that she got bail.
Indo-Canadian trade bodies welcomed the initiative by Trudeau to call Modi in the wake of the setback to bilateral relations after Trudeau issued a statement in December in support of the farmers’ stir in India.
Accused by Delhi Police of creating and spreading the “toolkit” linked to the farmers’ protest against the new central agriculture laws, Disha was arrested by police from Bengaluru in February 13 and charged with sedition and conspiracy. She
Calling it a big development in bilateral ties, Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce President Vijay Thomas said: “India’s promise to deliver Covid vaccine to Canada is welcome news in the wake of some recent headwinds in our relationship. A big barrier has been broken.”
better trade too can lead to a better political relationship. This development will help remove all irritants between our two countries.”
Thomas said the phone discussion between the two Prime Minister could be the beginning of a new partnership. “Sometimes politics leads to a better trade relationship, but
Shiv Bhasker, President of the Ottawa-based Overseas Friends of India and Canada (OFIC) said: “This is an excellent development. Any irritants caused by recent Canadian statements about the farmers’ stir in India can now be smoothed out. India is a big market for Canadian goods, agriculture, urea, aerospace parts,
Hearing her bail plea on Tuesday, Delhi Additional Sessions Judge Dharmendra Rana called the evidence against her “scanty and sketchy”.
Disha, who earlier this month told the court she had only edited two lines of the document and not created it, has said she only “wanted to support the farmers” in their campaign to get the controversial laws - which they say endangers their livelihoods scrapped. water technology, and we should focus on trade rather than issue statements on India’s internal affairs.” Winnipeg businessman Hemant Shah, who has worked for four decades on India-Canada trade, said: “Trudeau has done the right thing by calling Modi. It has taken decades, efforts, and taxpayers’ money to build our bilateral trade relationship with India. We must not harm it with negative statements.”
We are lucky to be in India during pandemic, say expats in Jaipur By Archana Sharma Jaipur, Feb 21 (IANS): This is the story of young expats who left their countries years ago and stayed back in Jaipur, making the Pink City their new home. Happily settled in the capital of the desert state for over a decade now, Marie-Anne Oudejans and Barbara Miolini love India and consider themselves lucky to be in this country at a time when the world has turned upside down due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Both of them have not gone back to their families in Europe for over a year due to the Covid induced restrictions, though they are eager to meet them now.
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“It has been quite a long time,” said Swiss born Barbara.
owing to work reasons. Since then I have stayed here.”
“People in Europe and many other parts of the world have been affected mentally due to the strict restrictions imposed there. However, we are lucky to be here as we are moving ahead with day to day life. We have not been affected mentally as those people have,” she said, adding, “I came here on a sabbatical and had planned to travel six months in India and six months in Africa. I travelled to Gujarat, Varanasi and south India but I really loved Rajasthan. I also stayed in Jaisalmer for some time before I landed in Jaipur 14 years back
“It was not planned at all,” she added with a smile on her face. Shedding light on her background, Barbara said, “I did my hotel management from Switzerland, then had a factory doing production for Armani and other Italian brands. Then I started with a hotel here and now I am working on a new project.” Barbara, who is half Swiss and half Italian, grew up in Switzerland and has been in India for the past 15 years. Presently, she owns one of the city’s finest restaurants, Bar Pallidio, which is a blend of the beauty and history
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of Asolo, a town in Italy, and merges the grandeur and culture of Jaipur. “I love taking up new things. India is a land with a lot of
opportunities. It is a wonderful place if you want to do something. Everything is possible here, but one needs to be patient to make things possible,” she said.
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