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Mar 21, 2022 - Week 12

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Russian invasion of Ukraine-26th day, cities sieged,

ceasefires out of favour. India buys Russian oil

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Mar 18, Gujarat

Education Minister Jitu

Vaghani announced the

introduction of the

Shrimad Bhagwad Gita

as a part of the school

syllabus for classes 6th

to 12th, from the

academic year 2022-

2023. The move is

aimed to cultivate a

sense of pride and

connection to tradition

and imbibe Indian

culture.

Various competitions

and creative activities

like Shlokgan,

Shlokpurti, Vaktrutva,

Nibandh, Natya, Chitra,

Quiz etc based on Gita

would be organized in

schools. A government

circular explains that

the Gita will be

introduced from classes

6th to 12th in the form of

stories and recitation

through textbooks. For

Classes 9-12, students

will be offered a deeper

introduction to the

sacred text. Opposition

parties in Gujarat have

also welcomed the

move.

At: IndiaToday, ABPLive

Holi, March 20, image courtesy DreamsTime

China reminds the

US of its word on

dismantling NATO

Mar 20, ‘With the

disintegration of the

Soviet Union, NATO

(North Atlantic Treaty

Organisation) should

have been consigned to

history alongside the

Warsaw Pact,’ China's

Vice Foreign Minister Le

Yucheng said. ‘However,

rather than breaking up,

NATO has kept

strengthening and

expanding. One could

well anticipate the

consequences going

down this path. The

crisis in Ukraine is a

stern warning.’

As the US' Indo-Pacific

strategy gained traction,

China has also stepped

up its attacks especially

on the formation of

Quad comprising the US,

India, Japan, Australia,

saying the grouping is

akin to Asian NATO.

External Affairs Minister

S Jaishankar had

dismissed this notion

saying that there are

‘interested parties’ who

advance such analogies.

At: ZeeNews

Mar 20, Pakistan’s

parliament is to take up

the no-confidence

motion against Prime

Minister (PM) Imran

Khan on Sunday, in what

is shaping up to be his

toughest test since

coming to power in

2018. The opposition

claims Khan has lost his

parliamentary majority

after over a dozen

defected from his party,

leaving it short of the

minimum 172 seats

needed for a majority.

Fearing the fall of his

government, an insecure

Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-

e-Insaf party has asked

the Supreme Court if the

dissident lawmakers

would be disqualified for

voting against the

embattled PM.

The opposition accuses

Khan of mismanaging

the economy and foreign

policy. They also allege

that Khan has fallen out

with Pakistan’s powerful

military. He and the

military deny these. No

Pakistani PM has ever

completed his full term

in office. At: IndianExpress

Pakistan PM Imran

Khan’s toughest

test looms

Mar 17, A Delhi court

rejected the bail petitions

of Gulfisha Fatima and

Tasleem Ahmad in the

Delhi riots 2020 case.

Judge Amitabh Rawat said

the allegations against

them were prima facie

true. The prosecution had

argued that the 2020 sit-in

protests were carefully

planned at strategic sites

closer to 25 mosques. The

protest sites were given

secular names to provide a

legitimate appearance. A

meeting in Dec 2019 which

was attended by Umar

Khalid, Harsh Mander,

members of United

Against Hate and

Swatantra Nagrik

Sangathan had decided the

areas of protest and

strategies to manage

police clashes by keeping

women at the forefront.

The judge also faulted the

counsel of the accused for

relying on a bail granted

by the Delhi High Court to

some student activists on

Jun 15, observing that the

Supreme Court had later

said that the bail order

should not be treated as a

precedent.

At: LiveLaw

Gujarat introduces

Bhagwad Gita in

classes 6th to 12th

Several Ukrainian cities

continue to suffer

heavy Russian air and

artillery bombardment

as a result of Russia’s

invasion. The southern

port city of Mariupol

has been devastated.

Stiff resistance from

Ukraine fighters has

visibly stalled the

Russian advance. The

UN reports that more

than 10 million

Ukrainians are now

internally displaced.

Russia is averse to any

additional ceasefire

declarations as it

believes Ukrainian

radicals use these halts

to regroup and attack.

President Vladimir Putin

on Wednesday declared

that Russia will accept

payment for gas exports

to ‘unfriendly countries’

in rubles only.

India which imports

nearly 80% of its oil, but

only about 3% from

Russia has bought 3

million barrels of

Russian Urals oil at a

discount of $20-$25 a

barrel for delivery in

May through Indian Oil

Corporation . Hindustan

Petroleum bought

another 2 million barrels

of the commodity.

At: RT-1-2-3, SkyNews, TOI

Image: InterpreterMag, SkyNews

Mar 23, Russian Foreign

Minister Sergey Lavrov

warned NATO, that if it

agreed with a Polish

proposal to deploy

peacekeepers to

Ukraine, the move could

trigger a military conflict

between the US-led bloc

and Moscow. Russia's

deputy UN ambassador

has said the country will

use nuclear weapons 'if

provoked‘.

The UK is set to send

6,000 more missiles to

Ukrainian armed forces

to help in their fight

against Russia. It had

already sent 4,000 anti-

tank weapons earlier.

Lakshya Sen bags runner-up at the

All England Badminton Open 2022

Mar 21, LakshyaSen, bagged the silver medal at the All England Open 2022

badminton championship. Viktor Axelsen of Denmark won the final 10-21, 15-

21. This was the 20-year-old Sen’s third All England Open. Sen is the fifth

Indian to reach the finals of the distinguished event. Only two Indians, Prakash

Padukone (1980) and Pullela Gopichand(2001) have won the championship.

Image and content at: SportzPoint

Mar 16, the Supreme

Court (SC) rejected a

plea for an early hearing

of an appeal against the

Karnataka High Court’s

(HC) hijab verdict. One

day earlier the HC had

upheld the need to

conform to the uniform

prescribed by a state’s

educational institution

thereby upholding the

ban on wearing hijab.

The petitioners accused

the HC of erroneously

concluding that wearing

a hijab may have to do

with culture, but not

religion. The SC will hear

the plea after its Holi

holidays. At: RepublicWorld

Mar 23, Rahamathulla,

an office-bearer of Tamil

Nadu Thowheed Jamath,

Madurai, who had

issued a veiled threat to

the Karnataka HC judges

for barring hijab in the

classroom, has been

remanded to 7 days

police custody in

Bangalore. He had

invoked an incident from

last year where a

Jharkhand district judge

was mowed down by a

vehicle during his

morning walk, in his

threat. An FIR was

registered against him

by the Cubbon Park

police. At: IndianExpress

BJP reinstates all 4

CMs, UCC likely in

Uttarakhand

Mar 23, after the

handsome election wins

that allowed the BJP to

retain power in four

states, Uttar Pradesh

(UP), Uttarakhand,

Manipur and Goa, the BJP

has decided to reinstate

all its four earlier Chief

Ministers (CMs). While

Yogi Adityanath for UP, N

Biren Singh for Manipur,

and Pramod Sawant for

Goa were obvious

choices, as the leaders

had also been victorious

on their respective seats,

the BJP has also decided

to reinstate the

Uttarakhand CM , Pushkar

Singh Dhami despite his

losing his seat. The move

is being seen as a

reposition of the party’s

faith in all four leaders.

On Tuesday, Dhami, who

is to swear-in as the 12th

CM of Uttarakhand,

assured people that the

newly elected BJP

government would

implement the Uniform

Civil Code (UCC) in the hill

state, as he had promised

before the election on

Feb 12.

At: OpIndia,

Shivraj government demolishes illegal

house of murder and rape accused

and Kashmir Omar

Abdullah has said that

'The Kashmir Files' is not

factually accurate. BJP

leader, Amit Malviya

retorted tweeting,

‘Which part of

#KashmirFiles does

Omar find untrue? The

fact that Farooq

Abdullah, his father,

resigned as CM on 18th

Jan 1990, and as if on

cue the genocide was

unleashed on hapless

Kashmiri Hindus starting

19th Jan 1990? That he

ordered the release of

70 ISI trained dreaded

terrorists?’ The film has

brought to the fore, that

justice to the Hindu

hordes that fled the

valley remains elusive.

At: TimesNowNews, DaijiWorld

‘The Kashmir Files’ fires up the

national discourse; Abdullah role

Mar 24, Vivek

Agnihotri's 'The Kashmir

Files' is unstoppable at

the box office, as word

of mouth publicity has

propelled its good run.

The film has entered the

much-coveted ₹200

crore club with ease and

has become the highest-

grossing Hindi film post-

COVID-19 pandemic.

The movie which has

taken a hold on national

discourse also came in

for praise from Prime

Minister Narendra Modi.

He expressed his full

support for the movie

and said that those who

tried to hide the truth

then are opposing the

film now. The former

Chief Minister of Jammu

Delhi HC refuses

bail to two Delhi

riot accused

Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile approaches Russian MI-34 chopper

TN man remanded

for veiled threat to

hijab row judges

SC refuses urgent

hearing of hijab

plea

Mar 22, taking a cue from the Yogi Adityanathgovernment, the Madhya

Pradesh government has also started demolishing illegal houses of criminals

accused of heinous crimes, to create a formidable deterrence. Tuesday, the

illegal house of the main accused in a gang-rape and murder of a 28-year-

old woman in Shahdol, was demolished on the Chief Minister’s orders.

At: OpIndia, Image: ZeeNews

A bench of Chief Justice

Prakash Shrivastava and

Justice Rajarshi

Bharadwaj ordered

protection of evidence,

crime scene and

vulnerable witnesses.

The state DGP, IGP and

District Magistrate have

been ordered to ensure

witness are protected

against threat or

influence. The court has

ordered the state to

install CCTV cameras

covering all angles of

scene of the incident

and provide continuous

footage until further

orders. Cameras are to

be installed in the

presence of the District

Judge. The HC has also

directed a team from

Central Forensic Science

Laboratory, Delhi to visit

the site to collect

evidence without delay.

A video recording of the

postmortem has been

directed. The petitioners

had asked for a CBI

probe as they claimed

the state SIT is not

impartial.

At: OpIndia

Mar 22, at least eight

people were charred to

death after unidentified

miscreants set a dozen

houses on fire. The

incident took in

Rampurhat, Birbhum

district, West Bengal on

Tuesday. As per reports,

miscreants locked the

houses from outside

before setting them

ablaze, leaving no way

for occupants to escape.

The incident took place

allegedly to avenge the

killing of a Trinamool

Congress (TMC)

functionary, named

Bhadu Sheikh, on

Monday.

The Calcutta High Court

(HC) took sou-motu

cognizance of the

Birbhum massacre and

issued directions to the

state government to

ensure proper probe of

the case. It asked the

state government to

produce the case diary

and a report on the

investigation so far

before the court by

Thursday, 2 PM.

8 burnt to death in Birbhum, West

Bengal; HC takes suo-moto notice

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Telecommunication

Department was brutally

gunned down while he

tried to hide

himself in an empty

drum used for storing

rice. The assailants

climbed the third floor of

his house to catch hold

of him. His wife begged

the murderers to kill her

too but only to receive

the sadist remark, "there

should be someone left

to cry over his dead

body".

The Making Of

Antagonist Bitta Karate

Bitta Karate was one of

the top JKLF militants

who had crossed over to

Pakistan Occupied

Jammu and Kashmir in

1989 and received

training and

indoctrination in the

camps there. In an

interview with a

journalist later, to a

question on who was his

first victim, he said the

following...

“ When asked who was

the first victim of his

bullets he took the name

of one Satish Kumar

Tiku, who was a friend

(and perhaps also a class

fellow) of Bitta Karate,

and occasionally visited

him in his Srinagar

home.“

Bitta then portrayed the

sequences.

Bitta Karate had just

returned after

undergoing training in

terrorist camps and

Satish, not knowing

where his friend Bitta

had disappeared for a

while, went to see him in

his home.

Satish found Bitta

cleaning a gun (AK 47)

there.

Surprised on seeing the

weapon Satish asked him

what it was.

Bitta avoided the

question and said that it

was a toy he played with.

Naive Satish took it

lightly and soon forgot

the incident and left his

friend.

But Bitta was greatly

disturbed and went to

see the ‘commander’.

Narrated to him the

story and asked for

directions.

The commander told

him to finish Satish lest

he discloses it to the

police.

Bitta went to Satish’s

house and called him to

come out of his home.

No sooner did Satish

step out on the street,

Bitta, in a flash of a

moment, aimed his

China-made Kalashnikov

at him and fired shots

that pierced through

Satish’s heart.

He fell down dead in a

pool of blood.

Brandishing the rifle in

the air in broad daylight,

Bitta scared the

pedestrians and walked

away in complete

confidence.

In the interview, he

claimed to have killed

more than 22 Pandits.

Bitta clearly said that

he obeyed the orders of

Ashfaq Wani and

Amanullah Khan (top

leaders of JKLF)

in 1984.

JKLF Background

The Jammu Kashmir

Liberation Front (JKLF),

runs from twin centres -

one in Pakistan

Occupied Jammu and

Kashmir and the other

in the UK. The militant

organisation is

propped by Pakistan's

ISI.

As per the EFSAS

account, the

organisation initiated

armed insurgency in the

Kashmir Valley in the

mid-1980s with the

outright support of ISI.

It opened its account of

killing Hindus with the

kidnapping and

subsequent murder of

Indian Assistant

Commissioner Ravindra

Mhatre in Birmingham

in 1984.

of ₹ 41 cr saw the gross

thinning to ₹ 30 cr on

day 5. But The Kashmir

Files see it's gross

soaring to ₹ 18 cr from

₹ 3.5 cr.

Kashmir Files

Protagonist Real?

The film documents

how

militant commander

Bitta breached Pushkar

Nath's house and shot

at his son who is hiding

in a rice container.

Pushkar and his

daughter-in-law Sharda

pleaded for their lives.

But Bitta impels Sharda

to eat the blood-

soaked rice in

exchange of their lives.

As per a document by

the European

Foundation For South

Asian Studies (EFSAS)

titled 'The Exodus of

Kashmiri Pandits', the

killing of Pushkar

Nath's son strikes a

resemblance with BK

Ganjoo, an engineer in

Telecom Department.

Here are the excerpts

of the book by EFSAS.

"In March 1990, B.K.

Ganjoo, an engineer in

The king and the

Sannyasin stood

there to see what

was going on. The

crier was

proclaiming loudly

that the princess,

daughter of the king

of that country, was

about to choose a

husband from

among those

assembled before

her.

It was an old custom

in India for

princesses to choose

husbands in this

way. Each princess

had certain ideas of

the sort of man she

wanted for a

husband. Some

would have the

handsomest man,

others would have

only the most

learned, others again

the richest, and so

on. All the princes of

the neighborhood

put on their bravest

attire and presented

themselves before

her. Sometimes they

too had their own

criers to enumerate

their advantages and

the reasons why

they hoped the

princess would

choose them. The

princess was taken

round on a throne, in

the most splendid

array, and looked at

and heard about

them. If she was not

pleased with what

she saw and heard,

she said to her

bearers, "Move on,"

and no more notice

was taken of the

rejected suitors. If,

however, the

princess was pleased

with any one of

them, she threw a

garland of flowers

over him and he

became her

husband.

The princess of the

country to which our

king and the

Sannyasin had come

was having one of

these interesting

ceremonies.

Swami Vivekananda

Karma Yoga

a series of extracts

Singh starred) - ₹ 6.7 cr

Pre-Covid Times

- Tanhaji (Ajay Devgn

starred) - ₹ 15.28 cr

- Uri - The Surgical Strike

- ₹ 9.57 cr.

Other trade analysts are

of the opinion that the

way it is raising its

collections each passing

day, the film-

documentary may

create the record of

quickest to enter the ₹

100 cr club. The gross

collection of The

Kashmir Files has

already touched ₹ 60 cr.

As per Taran Adarsh, the

Vivek Agnihotri directed

film is no less than a

tsunami at the box

office. The film's stellar

show despite the

following factors is the

evidence of a tsunami

here.

- Limited promotions

- Non-holiday release

- Mighty Opponent

(Bahubali Star starred

Radhey Shyam)

- Limited screen count

(around 630)

Significantly, Bahubali

after cashing on an

opening day collection

Source – OdishaTV.in

Author – Sanjeev Kumar

Patro

Image Link - TripAdvisor

Yet another surgical

strike. The josh seems to

be high. On Day 5, 'The

Kashmir Files' grossed Rs

18 cr, while 'Uri- the

Surgical Strike' had

netted only Rs 9.57 cr.

Bollywood is in awe.

Because, when Bahubalis

in the box office thins

down with the passage of

time, this file keeps

acquiring on a new top-

shelf each passing day.

The assault and battery

file on the Pandits in the

valley in the 90s have

simply gone epochal.

Tsunami At Box Office

Terming the show of this

film documentary as the

tsunami at the box office,

film trade analyst Taran

Adarsh did some number

crunching. The number-

play is given below.

- The Kashmir Files - ₹ 18

cr on Day 5

- Sooryvanshi (Akshay

Kumar starred) - ₹ 11.22

- Gangubhai Kathiawadi -

₹ 10.01 cr.

- 83 The Film (Ranveer

‘The Kashmir Files’ gets an epochal response at the box office for candidly showing a

brutal genocide that is still to get clousure

In March 1990, B.K.

Ganjoo, an engineer

in the Telecommun-

ication Department

was brutally gunned

down while he tried

to hide himself in an

empty drum used

for storing rice. The

assailants climbed

the third floor of his

house to catch hold

of him. His wife

begged the

murderers to kill her

too, only to receive

the sadist remark,

“There should be

someone left to cry

over his dead body.”