‘Dharma-Dhamma’ concept has been voice of Indian consciousness: Prez Murmu

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‘Dharma-Dhamma’ concept has been voice of Indian consciousness: Prez Murmu

President Draupadi Murmu said that understanding the cause of the suffering of humanity and showing the way to remove that suffering is the specialty of humanism of the past, which has become more important in today’s era.

Murmu made this statement while addressing the gathering, including foreign delegates on the inaugural day of the seventh International Dharma-Dhamma Conference organized in Madhya Pradesh’s state capital Bhopal on Friday.

She asserted that the concept of ‘Dharma-Dhamma’ has been the basic voice of Indian consciousness.

“It is said in our tradition that the one who holds everyone, is religion. The entire humanity rests on the foundation stone of religion,” Murmu said, adding that the development of individuals and society with the spirit of friendship, compassion, and non-violence, etc. has been the main message of humanism of the East.

Murmu also said that personal conduct and social order based on morality is the practical form of earlier humanism. It has been considered the duty of every person to preserve and strengthen this system based on morality.

“Prayer has been a part of our life. This is the essence of humanism of the past and also the biggest need of today’s era,” she added.

Murmu wished that the entire world community should be benefitted from the humanism of the East.

Meanwhile, she congratulated the Madhya Pradesh government and India Foundation for organizing the ‘Dharma-Dhamma’ conference.

“In India, religion has occupied a central place in the social system and political activities since ancient times. The deep impact of ‘Dharma-Dhamma’ is clearly visible in the democratic system we adopted after independence. This is clearly reflected in our national symbols. Representatives from various countries are participating in the International Dharma-Dhamma Conference, which symbolizes the global appeal of the idea of Dharma-Dhamma,” Murmu said while addressing the inaugural session of the event.

The three-day conference under the theme ‘Eastern Humanism for the New Era’ began on Friday at Bhopal’s Kushabhau Thakre auditorium in a bid to bring together religious, political, and thought leaders from Dharma-Dhamma traditions to ponder over building a philosophical framework for the emerging new world order.

‘Art of listening is powerful’: Rahul Gandhi at Cambridge University

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‘Art of listening is powerful’: Rahul Gandhi at Cambridge University

Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi while speaking to MBA students at the Cambridge Judge Business School on the subject of “Learning to Listen in the 21st Century”, said that people around the world need to find a way of listening compassionately to new concerns in the 21st century that have been transformed by the shift of production away from democratic countries and toward China.

“The art of listening” when done consistently and diligently is “very powerful,” he added.

He said the decline in recent decades of manufacturing in democratic countries, including India and the US, as production has shifted to China, has produced mass inequality and associated anger that need urgent attention and dialogue.

“We simply cannot afford a planet that doesn’t produce under-democratic systems,” he told the MBA students.

“So we need new thinking about how you produce in a democratic environment compared to a coercive environment”, and a “negotiation about this”.

Rahul was introduced to the MBA audience by Kamal Munir, Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cambridge and Professor of Strategy and Policy at the Cambridge Judge Business School, who said the speaker comes from a “long lineage of global leaders”.

Gandhi’s lecture was divided into three parts, starting with an outline of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, a 4,081-km walk he led through 14 Indian states from September 2022 to January 2023 to draw attention to “prejudice, unemployment and growing inequality in India”.

The second part of the lecture focussed on the “two divergent perspectives” of the US and China since World War II and especially since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

The former Congress President said that in addition to shedding manufacturing jobs, the US had become less open after September 11, 2001, while China “idolises harmony” through organization around the Chinese Communist Party.

The final aspect of his lecture was around the theme of “Imperative for a Global Conversation”, in which he knitted the themes together in a call for a new type of receptiveness to various viewpoints — explaining that a ‘yatra’ is a journey or pilgrimage in which people “shut themselves down so they can listen to others”.

Kejriwal forwards names of Atishi, Saurabh Bharadwaj to L-G for appointment to cabinet

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Kejriwal forwards names of Atishi, Saurabh Bharadwaj to L-G for appointment to cabinet

After two jailed ministers of the Aam Aadmi party (AAP) — Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain — stepped down, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has forwarded the names of two party leaders for their appointment to the Cabinet to Lt. Governor V.K. Saxena.

A source said that CM Kejriwal has recommended the names of party MLA Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj for induction into the cabinet to L-G Saxena. Atishi and Bharadwaj are supposed to take the seat of Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain in the Delhi Cabinet.

Meanwhile, upon request from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to accept the resignations of ministers who quit on Tuesday, Delhi Lt. Governor Saxena on Wednesday recommended the resignations to President Droupadi Murmu.

Of the 18 departments headed by Sisodia, the responsibilities of eight departments, including Finance and PWD, have been given to Kailash Gahlot, while the remaining ten, including Education and Health, have been assigned to Raaj Kumar Anand for the time being till new ministers are inducted into the cabinet.

Delhi L-G recommends AAP ministers’ resignations to Prez

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Delhi L-G recommends AAP ministers’ resignations to Prez

After two jailed ministers of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) – Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain – stepped down, Delhi Lt Governor V.K. Saxena on Wednesday recommended the resignations to President Droupadi Murmu.

Upon request from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to accept the resignations of ministers who quit on Tuesday, the L-G Saxena recommended the same to the President.

Meanwhile, after Sisodia’s resignation, the AAP government has decided to assign his departments to two of his cabinet colleagues – Kailash Gahlot and Raaj Kumar Anand – till new ministers are inducted.

Of the 18 departments headed by Sisodia, the responsibilities of eight departments, including Finance and PWD, have been given to Gahlot, while the remaining ten which include Education and Health have been assigned to Anand.

With the new responsibilities handed over to Gehlot and Anand, both ministers will now have 14 departments each.

Gahlot was already handling six departments that included Law, Justice and Legislative Affairs, Transportation, Administrative Reforms, Information Technology, Revenue, and Women and Child Development.

Rajkumar Anand was the minister of four departments – Gurudwara Elections, SC & ST, Social Welfare, and Cooperative.

Karnataka Congress denounces the Modi’s Meet; Kannadiags clearly realize Frauds of modi.

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Karnataka Congress denounces the Modi’s Meet; Kannadiags clearly realize Frauds of modi.

Karnataka Congress fired on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday to visit the state. He has given statements for the duplicity of state people. Other parties and Congress State President D.K. Shivakumar arraigned on the PM with different styles.

Siddaramaiah attacked Modi and said that While the state had in the worst situation with floods Modi did give any help to the people and Modi was not given any statement about the compensation for people.

Remembering the bank merger, He said that state banks had merged with other banks, and Modi have to take responsibility.

Affiliation banks were 70,000 employees and deposited worth almost Rs 317 lakh crore. They offered jobs to local Kannada people. After the combination of the banks, where did the jobs offered to Kannada students? was this not fraud much for kannada?

Siddaramaiah said, “Karnakata government is giving the Rs 18 lakh crore tax for the central government since 8 years back. The state needs to get 42 percent of the share. with a worth of Rs 5,495 crore special package issued by the 15 Finance commission to the state. The finance minister should take responsibility for this, but Narender Modi stops the package.”

Congress pledges laws to rein in hate crimes

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Congress pledges laws to rein in hate crimes

The Congress, in its draft political resolution, on Saturday pledged to bring in laws to prevent hate crimes in the country, if voted to power.

This comes against the backdrop of rising incidents of hate crimes and lynching, the latest being the burning alive of two people in Rajasthan.

The resolution said, “In the last eight-and-a-half years under the BJP Government, the politics of hate has assumed alarming proportions and religious polarisation has reached its peak. Hate crimes and atrocities have increased manifold.

“Vigilante right-wing groups incite violence on various trivial issues. These groups operate with impunity and have started acting like police, spreading anarchy and fear. This fear in the minds of minorities is the aim of the BJP/RSS regime.”

During the course of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, it was clear that the majority of Indians yearn for love, peace, and harmony, it added.

The Congress said it believes in our civilizational principle of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ which means “The World Is One Family”. Minorities form about a
fifth of India’s population. Neglecting, marginalizing, and alienating them is
inhuman, and hits at the unity and integrity of India.

“The culture of hatred nurtured and propagated by BJP, RSS and their acolytes violates the tenets of all religions. We need to create a sense of security among each and every Indian, regardless of their region, religion, caste, class or gender,” it further said.

It also said that crimes against weaker sections of society have also increased. Atrocities against Scheduled Castes (SCs) have increased by 1.2 percent in 2021, according to the NCRB. Violence against Dalit and Adivasi women has also risen. Cases of rape against SC women, including shockingly, minors, account for 7.64 percent and ST women account for 15 percent of the total cases reported.

“Congress will pass a new law to prevent and punish hate crimes,” it concluded.

After full-blown chaos, MCD’s Standing Committee to be re-elected on Monday

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After full-blown chaos, MCD’s Standing Committee to be re-elected on Monday

Following ruckus for the third straight day, the House of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) was on Friday adjourned till Monday morning with Mayor Shelly Oberoi announcing that re-election to pick the Standing Committee members will be held at 11 am on February 27.

All hell broke loose on Friday after Oberoi stalled the recounting of votes for electing the members of the all-powerful MCD Standing Committee following objections raised by AAP.

It was free for all in the MCD House with BJP and AAP councilors trading blows at each other, showing scant disregard for the sanctity of the House.

Protesting against the Mayor’s decision to stall the recounting process, BJP councilors started breaking mikes, tearing ballot papers, and even damaging the polling booths amid sloganeering.

“The poll to elect the members of the Standing Committee will be held on February 27,” Oberoi said amid sloganeering by councilors from both sides in the House.

“Today is a most unfortunate day. The House’s reputation was not taken care of. Before the Standing Committee election, we heard BJP’s demands and made sure that they were met. But when the counting started and they (BJP) realized that they are losing, BJP councilors created a ruckus,” Oberoi said while addressing the media after the House was adjourned.

“They have not just targeted me, but other women councilors were also targeted. They are not just disrespecting the House, but the Chair of the Mayor too. Today, I want to appeal to the BJP to accept defeat,” said Oberoi.

AAP leader Atishi said, “I appeal to the BJP to accept the mandate of the people of Delhi. The people have thrown them away and let AAP run the show. If the Mayor is not safe, how can the other women feel safe?”

On BJP’s allegations, Atishi showed a video and said, “You can see all the videos chronologically and you’ll see who started the ruckus. AAP councilors who were standing up, I was trying to back them off. After this presser, we will go to the Kamla Market police station and file an FIR against the BJP for the ‘murder attempt’ on a women councilor of AAP.”

Oberoi later tweeted: “Requested an urgent appointment with the @DelhiPolice Commissioner tomorrow regarding the attack on me by BJP Councillors in the MCD House.”

Earlier, Oberoi had said while stalling the recounting process that one party is ready for the process, while the other is not.

“So I am stopping the recounting process,” Oberoi said.

PM Modi terms Yediyurappa’s farewell speech ‘inspirational’

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PM Modi terms Yediyurappa’s farewell speech ‘inspirational’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hailed the spirit and farewell speech of former chief minister and BJP Central Parliamentary Committee Member B.S Yediyurappa in the Karnataka Assembly.

“Being a karyakarta (active member) of BJP, I felt that this speech (by Yediyurappa) is inspirational. The speech imbibes the ethics of the party. This will definitely give inspiration to other party workers,” Narendra Modi stated on his social media handle.

He also shared the post by BJP Karnataka’s social media handle containing Yediyurappa’s speech.

On February 22, the former CM declared on the floor of the House that he will never contest elections in the future and that this would be his last session. “This is my last speech. You can also consider this as my farewell speech. I have already declared that I won’t contest elections. I will not come back to this session,” an emotional Yediyurappa reiterated.

He was participating in the discussion on the budget and stated that in political circles, opposition parties are claiming that Yediyurappa is sidelined and neglected. “I have not been neglected either by the BJP or by the Prime Minister,” he maintained.

The party has given him good opportunities, he asserted, adding that he will work for the party until his last breath. “BJP has also given me an opportunity to become Chief Minister four times. It is not possible to silence Yediyurappa. We will come back to power,” he stated.

BJP is coming to power in the state for sure, he said. “I will take up a state-wide tour. After this session, I will go across Karnataka. I will have to convey to the people the schemes of the BJP. The ruling BJP government has given more programs than any other government,” Yediyurappa stated.

Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka attend wedding of Jitendra Singh’s daughter in Alwar

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Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka attend wedding of Jitendra Singh’s daughter in Alwar

Hundreds of members of erstwhile royal families and prominent politicians including Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, as well as Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, attended the wedding celebrations of former Union Minister Jitendra Singh’s daughter in Alwar.

Jitendra Singh’s daughter Manavika got married to Avijit Singh, a member of the former royal family of Pali, on Wednesday night.

In view of the ceremony, police security was increased outside the Circuit House, helipad and the wedding venue Phool Bagh.

Prominent guests from India and abroad reached Alwar for the royal wedding.

A helipad was prepared at Kendriya Vidyalaya. A large number of policemen were deployed from here to Phool Bagh. Most of the hotels in the city were booked for the wedding.

Preparations for the wedding were made at Phool Bagh Palace, also the residence of Jitendra Singh. The procession of Avijit Singh reached Alwar on Tuesday.

The erstwhile royal family members who attended the marriage were from Nepal, Tripura, Nabha (Patiala), Rajkot (Gujarat), Datia (Madhya Pradesh), Pathankot (Punjab), Jodhpur, Karauli, Dholpur, Ratlam (Madhya Pradesh), Jaisalmer, Kishangarh (Ajmer).

While Raje arrived at 12 noon on Wednesday to attend the wedding ceremony. Priyanka Gandhi reached with her entire family at around 4.30 p.m.

Meanwhile, Gehlot reached at around 6 p.m. He was accompanied by several MLAs and leaders including Assembly Speaker C.P. Joshi, Cabinet Ministers Tikaram Julie, and Shakuntala Yadav.

Goa CM welcomes Mhadei PRAWAH, opposition terms it ‘farce’

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Goa CM welcomes Mhadei PRAWAH, opposition terms it ‘farce’

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has welcomed the union cabinet’s decision to approve the creation of Mhadei PRAWAH (Mhadei Water Authority). However, the opposition called it a gimmick to divert attention.

“I thank the Union Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for approving the establishment of the PRAWAH in the cabinet meeting. This has been one of our primary demands and we wholeheartedly welcome the decision,” Sawant said.

Sawant said that the establishment of the authority will help in preventing the illegal diversion of water. “It also reaffirms the fact that the Centre will not allow any injustice on Goa,” he said.

Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat had tweeted “PM Sh. @narendramodi led cabinet today has approved the creation of Mahadayi PRAWAH. This will enable the compliance and implementation of the award & decisions of the Mahadayi Water Dispute Tribunal.”

“It will also aid in building mutual trust and understanding among party states Goa, Karnataka & Maharashtra thereby ensuring the right use of water resources of this region for its overall development.”Shekhawat further said.

However, Congress Goa chief Amit Patkar reacting to the new development said that it is a move of the BJP to give all powers to authority controlled by the central government.

“With the creation of Mhadei PRAWAH Authority, this BJP government is only willing to give all powers and control to an Authority controlled by the Central government, where every Goan will suffer and they will sell and destroy our state sitting in Delhi,” Patkar said.

“By this move, the Goa government has accepted that there will be an illegal diversion of Mhadei and the setting up of Authority is a farce only meant to deviate, Goans who are trying to stop the diversion,” Patkar said.

Goa Forward Party MLA Vijai Sardesai said that while Karnataka is diverting water from Mhadei, the central government is diverting attention. “Chief Minister Pramod Sawant is complicit in both. No Mhadei Water Authority will distract us from our non-negotiable demand. Government should withdraw permission given to the Detailed Project Report of Karnataka. All else you do is a smokescreen designed to buy time and delay justice to Goa,” Sardesai said.

Ever since Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai announced that the Centre has cleared the much-disputed Kalasa-Banduri dam project in his state, people have started holding public meetings against the Central government’s decision.

Goa and Karnataka are currently battling out a dispute over the Kalasa-Banduri dam project across the water of the Mhadei river at a central tribunal.

Mhadei originates in Karnataka and meets the Arabian Sea in Panaji. While the river traverses 28.8 km in Karnataka, it is 81.2 km in length in Goa.

Karnataka plans to construct dams on the river, aimed at diverting the water into its water-starved Malaprabha basin in North Karnataka.

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