Day: January 19, 2022

New Delhi, January 19, 2022 (PPI-OT):Three Indian Navy personnel were killed and ten others were injured in an explosion in Mumbai. The explosion occurred in an internal compartment of INS Ranvir at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai, the Indian Navy said.

All three dead were sailors. Ten others on board were injured and are being treated at the Mumbai naval hospital. An “internal compartment” would mean one of the many compartments on the ship. It is yet to be ascertained what caused the blast.

INS Ranvir has been on operational deployment since November 2021. Its home base is on the East Coast and it was due to return to its base shortly. The 147-metre-long warship, when fully loaded, has a displacement of 4,900 tonnes. The fourth of the five Rajput-class destroyers, INS Ranvir was commissioned into the Indian Navy in 1986.

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Karnataka, January 19, 2022 (PPI-OT):Two Muslim youth Sameer (19) and Shamsheer (21) from Naragund in Karnataka’s Gadag district were brutally attacked by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) members on Monday evening. 19-year-old Sameer succumbed to injuries on Tuesday morning at Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) hospital in Hubli. Shamsheer is still in critical condition.

Hussain, a local resident told Maktoob that the RSS men stabbed Sameer’s chest with a knife. They also attacked Shamsheer with a deadly weapon. Hussain also said that this deadly attack against Muslim men happened soon after a gathering organised by Bajrang Dal on Monday in Naragund where slogans were raised against Muslims. Videos showed Naragund Taluk’s former secretary Sanju Nalvade is delivering a genocidal speech against Muslims. He was speaking in the presence of police officers. Both Sameer and Shamsheer were returning home, Hussain said.

A CCTV footage showed the men who were waiting at Naragund State Bank near Sangarwara, stopped the bike of Sameer and Shamsheer and attacked them with deadly weapons. Following an FIR has been lodged at Naragund police station, four men belonging to Bajrang Dal and RSS have been arrested. Details of the deceased are unknown. We will update the story once we get the story. Phone calls to the police station went unanswered.

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Odisha, January 19, 2022 (PPI-OT):People of Dhinkia in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district barricaded their village entrance following the violent police crackdown on Friday for protesting against a proposed steel plant. A faceoff between villagers and police turned violent, leading to nearly 50 villagers sustaining injuries. Male policemen were caught on camera attacking women during the crackdown. Activists claims that injured children and women have not even received medical assistance due to the hostile situation. 15 policemen sustaining injuries and five villagers were arrested, Indian Express reported.

After winning a decade-long battle to evict POSCO, the South Korean global steel company in 2017, the villagers renewed their protest last month after government planned to hand over the land to JSW Utkal Steel Limited. JSW Steel has proposed to establish a 13.2 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) capacity steel plant at an estimated cost of around Rs 55,000 crore. Government claims that the land was transferred to JSW Steel in 2017.

The villagers alleged that since Thursday, police had been forcibly destroying their betel vines to set up the steel plant. The crackdown sparked outrage from activists across India. The land acquisition process is stopped due to the hostile situation in the locality.

The village has been protesting since December last year after the demarcation of Mahala, a newly created revenue village in the panchayat. The villagers accuse that the demarcation was done to divide the village and scatter the villagers in order to derail the movement against the proposed steel plant.

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Srinagar, January 19, 2022 (PPI-OT):Three Kashmiri students suffered injuries after they were thrashed in the Mohali city of Indian Punjab. Jammu and Kashmir Students’ Association spokesperson, Nasir Khuehami, in a tweet said that the Kashmiri students pursuing professional courses were thrashed at Kharar in Mohali.

He said, two students are studying at Rameshwar Institute of Management and Information Technology (RIMIT) while another one is studying at Guru Gobind Singh College of Management and Technology (GGSCMT). Mohammad Saqlain, a student, told media men in Srinagar over phone that some goons knocked on the door of the students and dragged them out before beating them mercilessly.

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Raipur, January 19, 2022 (PPI-OT):Indian forces killed five Maoists including two women in Chhattisgarh state. According to Kashmir Media Service, a woman was killed by the Indian army and paramilitary personnel during an operation in Sukma district, police said. The bodies of four including a woman were recovered from the forests along the border of Chhattisgarh and Telangana, the police said. The killed persons were the Divisional Committee Members of CPI (Maoist), the police claimed.

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Jammu, January 19, 2022 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President, Mehbooba Mufti, has said that the existence of Jammu and Kashmir is in danger under the rule of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Addressing a gathering of youth from border belt R S Pura at the in Jammu, Mehbooba Mufti said the BJP led government has turned entire IIOJK into a laboratory where experiments are conducted on daily basis.

“Our youth have been pushed into hopelessness. They (BJP) have connived with big corporate houses and industrialists to exploit and loot the resources of Jammu and Kashmir. Big corporate houses coming to J and K are hiring people from outside while our unemployed youth are moving from pillar to post for livelihood. They want us to become so poor that we become totally dependent on other states,” the PDP President said.

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Srinagar, January 19, 2022 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the incarcerated APHC Vice Chairman, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, has expressed grave concern over the deteriorating human rights situation in territory.

Shabbir Ahmad Shah in a message from New Delhi’s infamous Tihar jail said that after the illegal and unilateral measures taken by the Narendra Modi-led fascist Indian government on August 5, 2019, the human rights situation in IIOJK had deteriorated to an alarming proportion. He termed the Indian actions as a blatant violation of UN resolutions and said that August 5 was a dark chapter in Kashmir’s history which Kashmiris would never forget.

The APHC leader made it clear that the Kashmiris would not hesitate to render any sacrifice to take their just struggle for securing their right to self-determination to its logical end. He deplored the ongoing Indian state terrorism in the occupied territory and said if the Indian rulers think that they will succeed in suppressing the Kashmiris’ freedom sentiment through the violence and oppression then they are mistaken.

Shabbir Shah said that the Kashmiris have neither accepted India’s illegal occupation of their homeland nor will they recognize its undemocratic and illegal measures of August 5, 2019. He urged New Delhi to give up its stubborn and unrealistic behaviour and create a conducive environment to settle the Kashmir dispute.

The APHC Vice Chairman said hundreds of thousands of Kashmiris have sacrificed their lives for the Kashmir cause in the last 73 years and India cannot deprive the Kashmiri people of their birth right, the right to self-determination.

He said that the day is not far away when the great sacrifices of Kashmiris will pay off and they will get freedom from Indian yoke. He said that at a time when the fascist Modi government is hell bent upon eroding the Kashmiris’ political, historical and religious identity, the people of IIOJK must forge greater unity among their ranks to frustrate its nefarious designs.

Shabbir Shah maintained that permanent peace cannot be established in South Asia without resolving the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the Kashmiris’ aspirations. He urged the Indian intellectuals to play their role in finding a peaceful solution to the dispute, which is the main cause of tension, arms race, political and economic instability, hunger and unemployment in the region.

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