On Apr 21, Amritpal’s
wife Kirandeep Kaur
had tried to flee the
country but was
stopped at the Amritsar
airport by the Punjab
Police. She was planning
to board a flight to
London.
Less than 10 days
earlier his closest
associate Pappalpreet
was arrested and
booked under the NSA.
With nine associates
booked under NSA and
lodged in Dibrugarh,
Amritpal’s options were
running thin. Union
Home Minister had
hinted that Amritpal’s
movements were now
increasingly restricted.
At: Republic, IndiaTV, Express
Image: VoiceOnline
Atiq’s killers moved to Pratapgarh
jail; hunt on for mastermind
Surat court
dismisses Rahul
Gandhi’s appeal
Apr 21, a Surat Sessions
Court dismissed Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi’s plea
for suspending his two-
year sentence in the
‘Modi surname’
defamation case. He still
stands sentenced for tw
years and continues to be
disqualified as an MP.
On Apr 13, 2019, while
campaigning for the Lok
Sabha elections, Rahul had
posed at an election rally
in Kolar, Karnataka: “Why
do all thieves, be it Nirav
Modi, Lalit Modi, or
Narendra Modi, have the
surname ‘Modi’?” A BJP
MLA from Surat Modi had
filed a complaint against
Rahul for defaming the
entire Modi community.
As the magistrate also
asked Rahul if he had
accused Prime Minister
Narendra Modi of giving
₹ 30 crore to an
industrialist? The Gandhi-
scion claimed that it was
his right to raise such
issues in the rallies. Rahul
will now approach the
High Court. At: OpIndia
The nation salutes
its brave-hearts
slain in Poonch
Volume 7S-101| Page 1
Yogi Adityanath: UP is now riot free -
fiery speech after Atiq Ahmed killing
Bharat First Visit IndiaWiki.org
Apr 19, observing that a
corruption case can be a
serious threat to society
and must be dealt with an
iron hand, the SC has held
that prior sanction of an
appropriate authority was
not needed for laying a
trap to catch an officer
red-handed and quashed
the anticipatory bail
granted to an income tax
additional commissioner
who was caught for
allegedly taking bribes.
A bench of Justices Surya
Kant and J K Maheshwari
said the court must draw a
delicate balance between
liberty of an individual and
the need for a fair and
free investigation while
deciding a bail plea. It said
the Gujarat HC had
granted bail without
considering the gravity of
the offence as the accused
seemed to be part of an
organised syndicate of IT
officers, businessmen and
hawala traders working in
tandem which needed to
be probed. The accused
had argued that a prior
sanction was needed
under the Prevention of
Corruption Act. At: MSN
Sudan: 270 dead in
army, paramilitary
confrontation
Apr 17, Slovakia, Poland
and Hungary have
imposed a ban on
import of Ukrainian
grain and other food
products, in response to
rising anger of domestic
farmers who face a glut
of grain in their markets.
The bans deepen the
challenge for the EU bloc
as it works to help
Ukraine transport its
grain to world markets.
The EU prevents
member states from
taking unilateral action
on trade. At: CTVNews
Poland, Hungary &
Slovakia refuse
Ukraine grain Apr 12, Twitter CEO
Elon Musk did not
mince words in calling
out a BBC reporter
during a ‘hastily
arranged’ interview by
the channel, for lying.
The BBC journalist failed
to cite specific examples
of hate speech he had
seen on Twitter, despite
claiming that hate
speech had increased
on it since Musk’s
takeover.
Mainstream media, still
uncomfortable with the
idea that Twitter is in
the hands of a
billionaire who has a
different political
leaning from their own,
has tried to position
itself as more reliable
than social media, in
what seems to be an
attempt to muzzle the
latter and eliminate
competition. The BBC
reporter raised the
issue of misinformation
on Twitter. Musk
countered by accusing
BBC of the same as it
did not report on the
side effects of Covid
jabs. At: NYT IndiaToday
At:
RT
Apr 18, Uttar Pradesh
(UP) Chief Minister
(CM) Yogi Adityanath,
known for his fiery
speeches said it was the
BJP government that
has made the state riot-
free.
‘Between 2012 and
2017 there were over
700 riots in UP’,
Adityanath said
referring to the tenure
under the earlier
Samajwadi party
government. Then
describing the state of
affairs under its
predecessor, the
Bahujan Samajwadi
Party government, he
added, ‘Between 2007
and 2012, there were
364 riots in UP.’
Then he went on to
underscore that under
his BJP government
from 2017 to 2023 not
a single riot took place
in UP.
Adityanath remarks
come days after
gangster-turned-
politician Atiq Ahmed,
Government to flag
out fake-news
Musk calls out
BBC reporter’s lie
on BBC interview
Apr 21, The states of
Assam and Arunachal
Pradesh have signed an
agreement for the
settlement of an inter-
state boundary dispute.
This historic agreement
was signed by the Chief
Minister (CM) of Assam
Himanta Biswa Sarma
and the CM of
Arunachal Pradesh
Pema Khandu in
presence of Union
Home Minister (HM)
Amit Shah in New Delhi.
It will end the dispute
relating to 123 villages
along the 700 km inter-
state border and it has
been done keeping in
view the historical
perspective,
Apr 23, in a massive
success for the Punjab
Police and Central
Intelligence, radical
Khalistani preacher
Amritpal Singh, who has
on the run since Mar 18
has been arrested after
36 days of fleeing, from
Rode village of Moga
district. Amritpal , the
head of the 'Waris Punjab
De' group had been on
the run since he and his
supporters broke into the
Ajnala Police Station
brandishing swords and
sticks to force the cops to
release of one of their
associates.
Charged under the
stringent NSA Amritpal
has been taken to the
Dibrugarh jail in Assam.
Akshay Tritiya, Shri Krishna with Draupadi, Pandavs and the Akshay Patra, Apr 22, image – Top5Listicls; ParushramJanmotsav, Apr 22, image courtesy - Cloudinary
Punjab cops nab Khalistani
Amritpal Singh; invoke NSA
Apr 17, 2023 - Week 16
Apr 7, the Centre has
proposed amendments to
the Information
Technology Rules enabling
the Press Information
Bureau (PIB) to identify
any false or misleading
content related to the
government. The PIB can
then ask the social media
platform such as Twitter or
Facebook, to take it down.
An appeal against PIB’s
decision will lie in court,
however, an intermediary
choosing to go to court will
lose its safe harbour of
being a mere platform for
that piece. At: IndiaToday
and his brother were
shot dead in Prayagraj.
Two days earlier,
Ahmed’s son Asad was
killed in an encounter
with the UP Police. All of
them were accused in
Umesh Pal’s murder case.
On Apr 23, UP Deputy CM
Keshav P Maurya visited
Pal’s residence and met
the deceased’s family and
addressed their concerns.
At: ABPLive, News9, Tribune, Postsen
Apr 19, fighting between
the Sudanese Army and
the paramilitary Rapid
Support Forces (RSF) in
Sudan has killed about
270 people and
wounded more than
2,600, with gunfire and
explosions still heard
here across the city.
The military and RSF,
which experts say is
100,000 strong, have
been competing for
power as political
factions negotiate
forming a transitional
government after a 2021
military coup. The
fighting that broke out
on Saturday between
army units loyal to
General Abdel Fattah al-
Burhan, and the RSF –
led by deputy leader,
Mohamed Hamdan
Dagalo, known as
Hemedti – is the first
such outbreak since
both joined forces to
oust president Omar al-
Bashir earlier in 2019.
The battle to control the
Khartoum airport was
underway. At: TheNewDaily
Apr 19, about 850
migrants from Myanmar
have allegedly arrived in
Mizoram's Champhai
district in recent days,
escaping their country's
brutal civil conflict and
aerial bombing of
communities by the
military regime. They
have taken asylum in
Mizoram’s villages. The
Village-Level Committee
on Myanmar Refugees
has verified it.
At: MSN
Over 800 arrive
from Myanmar to
India post airstrike
CBI grills Delhi CM
Kejriwal for 9 hours
Apr 16, Delhi Chief Minister
(CM) appeared before the
Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) for
questioning in the liquor
excise policy scam. Kejriwal
reached the CBI office
about 11 am and was
grilled by the Central
agency for almost nine
hours. He claimed the CBI
had asked him 56 questions
about the case and stuck to
his assertion that the liquor
scam was a fake and the
AAP, a 'kattar imaandaar
(honest) party' . At: TimesNow
SC: No prior
sanction needed to
trap corrupt officer
Apr 23, the motive and
mastermind of the Atiq
Ahmed murder still
evades cops. The three
shooters Lavlesh Tiwari,
Arun Kumar Maurya and
Mohit Singh had checked
into a Prayagraj hotel,
Stay Inn, two days before
the killing, on Apr 13 with
fake Aadhar cards. Two
mobile phones without
SIMs have been siezed
from the inn.
The killers did not use a
mobile at the murder site.
They used a Zigana semi-
automatic pistol from
Turkey or a lookalike from
Pakistan. The assassins
were not able to name
each other correctly when
asked separately and they
were coached on how to
act as journalists by three
others who have been
arrested. At: MSN, Republic,
TimesNow, IndiaToday, TOI
demographic profile,
administrative ease,
proximity to the border,
and the aspirations of the
residents. Both the state
governments have agreed
that this agreement will
be final with regard to
these disputed villages
and neither will make any
new claim related to any
area or village in the
future. After the
agreement, a detailed
survey will be carried out
by the Survey of India to
determine the boundaries
of both states. The HM
attributed the accord to
the Prime Minister’s
vision of a developed and
peaceful north-east.
At: NewsOnAir
Apr 17, RSS held route marches at 45 locations in
Tamil Nadu after the Supreme Court ordered the
MK Stalin-led DMK government to give permission
to hold marches. Image: Twitter
Apr 21, an incredible encounter caught on camera
between an Indian black bear and a leopard in
Tadoba. The two eventually went their own ways
without attacking each other. Image: Jeswin Kingsley
Assam and Arunachal Pradesh
sign historic border accord
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