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Mission 2019: Amit Shah, Rahul Gandhi target UP

Agencies
July 2, 2018

Lucknow, Jul 2: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi sounded election bugle from Maghar in Sant Kabir Nagar last week, now BJP and Congress presidents will be in Uttar Pradesh to feel the pulse of people and party workers for the crucial 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

While Congress president Rahul Gandhi will be on a two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency Amethi from July 4, during which he is likely to meet party workers and attend several programmes, BJP president Amit Shah will be in Varanasi, Mirzapur and Agra on the same dates.

Gandhi will visit the family of a muslim farmer who died in May while waiting to sell his produce at a government procurement centre.

"The death of farmers showed the apathetic attitude of state government. He died waiting for days to sell his produce. Rahulji will certainly visit his house and meet his family members," Congress MLC Deepak Singh said, adding that not a single BJP leader has visited the farmer's home.

According to BJP leaders, Shah will try to feel the pulse of the state in a meeting with Lok Sabha in-charges of Kashi, Gorakhpur and Awadh regions on July 4.

Shah will also address a social media workers' meet organised by the party's IT cell and give "winning tips" to the workers, a senior BJP leader said.

"Anyone active on social media can attend the meeting. For that, prior registration will continue till today. The party chief will be interacting with the participants," head of BJP's IT cell Sanjay Rai said.

The meet assumes significance as the BJP would be using social media platforms to "aggressively" counter the opposition's propaganda against it.

In Agra on July 5, Shah will attend intellectuals meet and take feedback from Lok Sabha in-charges.

For 2019, BJP does not want to leave any stone unturned as in 2014, it was Uttar Pradesh from where the party got the maximum 73 seats (including two of Apna Dal) out of the total 80 seats.

Shah will also be reviewing the performance of Yogi Adityanath government's ministers as there are talks that the department of some of them might be changed after the visit.

The party has witnessed humiliating defeat in Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's Gorakhpur and Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya's Kaushambi and also in Kairana parliamentary and Noorpur assembly bypolls.

After sounding poll bugle from Maghar (Sant Kabir Nagar), PM Modi is likely to visit UP again on July 14-15, during which he will be attending public meetings in Azamgarh and his constituency, Varanasi, besides laying the foundation of Purvanchal expressway.

The PM's programme is under finalisation and preparations are on for it. Azamgarh parliamentary constituency is represented by senior Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, who will this time contest from Mainpuri.

During his Maghar visit on June 28, PM Modi had slammed the opposition parties, saying some parties want "unrest" by creating doubts in the minds of the people for "political gains" but were cut off from ground reality.

The PM had also taken a swipe at the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party stating that those who always talk of 'Samajwad' and 'Bahujan' are "extremely selfish" and they don't see the welfare of society but only the welfare of themselves and their families.

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June 29,2020

Tehran, Jun 29: Iran has issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for help in detaining President Donald Trump and dozens of others it believes carried out the drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad, a local prosecutor reportedly said Monday.

While Trump faces no danger of arrest, the charges underscore the heightened tensions between Iran and the United States since Trump unilaterally withdrew America from Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers.

Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said Trump and more than 30 others whom Iran accuses of involvement in the Jan. 3 strike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad face “murder and terrorism charges,” the semiofficial ISNA news agency reported.

Alqasimehr did not identify anyone else sought other than Trump, but stressed that Iran would continue to pursue his prosecution even after his presidency ends.

Interpol, based in Lyon, France, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Alqasimehr also was quoted as saying that Iran requested a “red notice” be put out for Trump and the others, which represents the highest level arrest request issued by Interpol. Local authorities end up making the arrests on behalf of the country that request it. The notices cannot force countries to arrest or extradite suspects, but can put government leaders on the spot and limit suspects’ travel.

After receiving a request, Interpol meets by committee and discusses whether or not to share the information with its member states. Interpol has no requirement for making any of the notices public, though some do get published on its website.

It is unlikely Interpol would grant Iran’s request as its guideline for notices forbids it from “undertaking any intervention or activities of a political” nature.

The U.S. killed Soleimani, who oversaw the Revolutionary Guard’s expeditionary Quds Force, and others in the January strike near Baghdad International Airport. It came after months of incidents raising tensions between the two countries and ultimately saw Iran retaliate with a ballistic missile strike targeting American troops in Iraq.

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March 5,2020

New Delhi, Mar 5: A Delhi court Thursday issued fresh death warrants for execution of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case for March 20 at 5.30 am.

Additional Sessions Judge Dharmendra Rana fixed March 20 as the new date of execution after it was told by the Delhi government that the convicts have exhausted all their legal remedies.

The lawyer for the four death row convicts also told the court that there was no legal impediment for the court to proceed in fixing the date of execution.

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July 30,2020

Mumbai, Jul 30: Counterfeiting incidents have increased 24 per cent in the country in 2019 over the previous year, creating an over Rs 1 lakh crore hole in the economy, according to a report.

The report also said counterfeiters are having a free run due to the pandemic-driven disruptions to organised supply chains and the resultant spike in consumer demand.

According to the report by ASPA, a self-regulated industry body of anti-counterfeiting and traceability solutions providers, counterfeiting has risen steadily in the last few years, and exploiting the pandemic as a cover for their activities.

Between February and April 2020, over 150 incidents of counterfeiting cases were reported, mostly about fake PPE kits, sanitisers and masks taking advantage of the high demand for these products, it noted.

"There was a 24 per cent increase in counterfeiting in 2019 over 2018, leading to the loss of more than Rs 1 lakh crore to the overall economy," said Nakul Pasricha, president of Authentication Solution Providers Association.

The association works with global authorities like the International Hologram Manufacturers Association, Counterfeit Intelligence Bureau of the Interpol, and domestic industry lobbies like Ficci, he said.

Counterfeiting is a universal issue and is 3.3 per cent of global trade, according to the OECD data, impacting social and economic development across the world.

The report lists the currency, FMCG, alcohol, pharma, documents, agriculture, infrastructure, automotive, tobacco, lifestyle and apparel, as the 10 sectors impacted most by counterfeiting.

Among these, currency, alcohol and FMCG continue to be the top three sectors with the highest counterfeiting in the last two years. The FMCG sector is most vulnerable, as counterfeit incidents rose 63 per cent between 2018 (79) and 2019 when the reported cases jumped to 129.

Within the states, the fakers have a free run in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bengal, Punjab, Jharkhand, Delhi, Gujarat, and Uttarakhand, calling for urgent actions to frame anti-counterfeiting policy measures.

According to the report, UP continues to be on top followed by Bihar, Rajasthan, and together these three states represent almost 45 per cent of all counterfeiting reported in the last two years.

What is more alarming is that counterfeiting is not limited to high-end luxury items today, as common everyday items as fake cumin seeds, mustard cooking oil, ghee, hair oils, soaps, baby care vaccines and medicines are aplenty in the markets.

"There is an urgent need for building and nurturing authentication ecosystems in the country with the active involvement and active participation of all stakeholders," said Pasricha.

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