Rajya Sabha MP Dr Subhash Chandra on Tuesday extended his support for the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) 2019 adding that the Bill is in the interest of the country. He also criticised Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's remark on the Bill, asserting that it was aimed at diverting the attention from the condition of the Pakistani people. Speaking exclusively to Zee News, the Rajya Sabha MP said that the image of India, worldwide, is that it is duty-bound to providing shelter to the persecuted minorities of its neighbouring countries is according to India's culture. "It is my personal opinion that this Bill is in the interest of the country. The image of India, all over the world, is that it is the duty of this country to give shelter to the minorities of those countries who have suffered. This is in line with the culture of the country," he said. Reacting to Pakistan PM's comment on the Bill, he condemned it saying it was meant to create a diversion from the people of Pakistan. He … [Read more...] about Rajya Sabha MP Dr Subhash Chandra flays Pak PM’s remark on Citizenship Amendment Bill
Netaji subhash chandra bose
Why content on Vivekananda, Bose reduced in NCERT books: CIC
NEW DELHI: The CIC has pulled up NCERT for chopping out content on national leaders like Subhas Chandra Bose and revolutionaries from its text books and directed it to suo-moto disclose the reasons behind such decisions. In a terse order, the Commission asked NCERT to disclose why content on Swami Vivekananda was reduced from 1250 to 37 words in Class XII history books and completely removed from Class VIII books. The case reached Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu through a plea of Jaipur-based Suryapratap Singh Rajawat, who criticised non-inclusion of history of eminent personalities and revolutionaries in the NCERT books. Through a series of RTI applications and public grievance application, Rajawat claimed content on 36 national leaders and revolutionaries like Chandra Shekhar Azad, Ashfaqullah Khan, Batukeshwar Dutt, Ram Prasad Bismil among others was completely missing from history text books of NCERT. Not getting a satisfactory reply, he approached the transparency … [Read more...] about Why content on Vivekananda, Bose reduced in NCERT books: CIC
Bose market reconstruction to begin shortly
TIRUNELVELI Work on the reconstruction of the 100-year-old Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Market in Tirunelveli Town under the ‘Smart City Programme’ on an outlay of ₹ 10.98 crore is all set to begin within a month as the traders of 350 shops in the market have agreed to shift their business establishments to the temporary market being created at Exhibition Grounds.Since the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Market close to Swami Nellaiyappar Temple is very old and is in dilapidated condition, the Corporation proposed to reconstruct it into a ‘user-friendly market’ with sufficient space and modern facilities for the visitors and parking area.As the traders having their shops at this cramped market, who were given just a few days to vacate their shops to give way for the demolition of 350 age-old shops and subsequent reconstruction of the market under the Union Government-funded ‘Smart City’ programme, the shopkeepers refused. Though the Corporation … [Read more...] about Bose market reconstruction to begin shortly
Decorated Tamil Nadu cop wants to be hangman to execute Nirbhaya’s rapists
A hangman’s job is an unenviable one. But a police head constable in Tamil Nadu’s Ramanathapuram district has volunteered to carry out the executions of Nirbhaya’s rapists after learning that Delhi’s Tihar jail does not have a hangman.Attached to the In-Service Training Centre in the district, 42-year-old S Subash Srinivasan has offered himself to be a hangman to execute the four convicts who were awarded capital punishment two years ago.In a letter to the Tihar jail authorities on December 6, the head constable had said that he was making the offer after learning from a Tamil daily that there was no hangman at Tihar to carry out the executions.“The rape and murder of Nirbhaya was an unforgivable gruesome crime and a heinous one. Hence, I am volunteering to be the hangman so that the punishment is not postponed for want of a person to carry out the execution,” says Subash, who joined the police force in 1997.A post … [Read more...] about Decorated Tamil Nadu cop wants to be hangman to execute Nirbhaya’s rapists