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PM Sheikh Hasina blames BNP for increased terrorism, corruption, nepotism, and exploitation

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PM Sheikh Hasina blames BNP for increased terrorism, corruption, nepotism, and exploitation

PM Sheikh Hasina blames BNP for increased terrorism, corruption, nepotism, and exploitation

DOHA, Qatar (DT) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has stated that the next general election in Bangladesh will be free and fair, upholding democracy and people’s voting rights.

“The people must decide who will lead the country.” It is the power of the people. So, I want to ensure people’s power,” she said on Wednesday during a Qatar Economic Forum session titled “In Conversation with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina” at the Raffles Hotel in Doha.

According to the state-run news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, Haslinda Amin, editor-at-large of QEF, anchored the session in a jam-packed audience hall room at the venue.

“I am not here to seize power.” “Rather, I want to empower our people by giving them the right to choose their government,” she said, according to BSS.

Bangladesh’s next elections are scheduled for either December of this year or the first week of next year.

Hasina criticized the BNP for refusing to participate in elections under her administration, claiming that people suffered “greatly” under the BNP’s rule due to “increased terrorism, corruption, nepotism, and exploitation.”

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“Definitely, elections will be free and fair under our government,” Hasina said as the opposition BNP and its allies resumed street protests calling for the Awami League government to resign and the next election to be held under a neutral caretaker administration.

The prime minister is in Doha for three days to attend the Qatar Economic Forum 2023.

 

India gets new parliament building as Modi remakes capital’s center

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India gets new parliament building as Modi remakes capital’s center

India gets new parliament building as Modi remakes capital’s center

NEW DELHI(Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a new parliament complex on Sunday, the centerpiece of a $2.4 billion project that aims to remake British colonial-era buildings in the capital’s center and give it a distinct Indian identity.

The inauguration, and the ongoing makeover of the heart of New Delhi based on Indian culture, traditions and symbols, comes a year before parliamentary elections in which Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will pitch its strong Hindu nationalist credentials, besides its performance in office over the last decade, to seek a third term.

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The Modi government has also similarly renovated some of Hinduism’s most revered pilgrimage centres since first sweeping to power in 2014.

The new, triangular-shaped parliament complex is just across from the heritage building built by British architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker in 1927, two decades before India’s independence.

The old parliament will be converted into a museum, the government has said.

It has said a new parliament building is badly needed as the existing structure “is highly stressed” for a number of reasons including capacity, infrastructure, technology and safety.

The new building, Modi said when he launched its construction in December 2020 during the pandemic, “would become a witness to the creation of a self-reliant India”, underlining another pet theme.

Besides modern technology, the new parliament has a total of 1,272 seats in two chambers, nearly 500 more than the old building, and at least three times as much space.

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It features four storeys and halls themed according to the national symbols of the peacock, lotus and banyan tree, and murals, sculptures and art from across the country capturing 5,000 years of Indian civilization, said an architect directly involved in the project.

But critics of Modi see the new parliament, designed by an architect from his home state of Gujarat, as an attempt to bolster his brand of nationalism as part of a personal legacy.

Opposition parties have announced a boycott of the inauguration. The president, the highest executive of the country, should open the new parliament and not Modi, the opposition members said.

The president’s office declined to comment. An official in Modi’s office said the prime minister respects the constitutional head of the country.

On Friday, the Supreme Court dismissed a public interest petition that sought a direction from the court to get the president to inaugurate the building instead of Modi.

The overall makeover includes the new parliament, the construction of several government buildings along the lawns of India Gate in the centre of the city and new residences for the vice-president and the prime minister.

The plan has drawn objections from conservationists and urban planners who say it will obliterate the character of the city.

“The decision to build a new parliament building was abrupt and there has been no transparency, probity and frugality in the entire process,” said A.G. Krishna Menon, an architect and conservation consultant.

what people thinks about new parliament building

Since the construction began, however, politicians, environmentalists, and civil society groups have criticized the new building over the cost and lack of consultation. Many have questioned why the government chose not to upgrade the old building instead.

The opposition leaders have also criticized the inauguration date, which coincides with the anniversary of the birth of VD Savarkar, a divisive figure for his connection to the 1948 assassination of the freedom fighter, Mahatma Gandhi. The BJP hails Savarkar as a hero for birthing the nationalist idea of Hindutva, or ‘Hindu-ness’.

Reporting by Rupam Jain, Editing by Miral Fahmy, YP Rajesh and Raju Gopalakrishnan

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Serbia orders army to Kosovo border after protest clashes

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Serbia orders army to Kosovo border after protest clashes

Serbia orders army to Kosovo border after protest clashes

ZVECAN, Kosovo(Reuters) – Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic placed the country’s army on full combat alert and ordered its units to move closer to the border with Kosovo on Friday, after protesters and police clashed in a majority Serb town in Kosovo.

“An urgent movement (of troops) to the Kosovo border has been ordered,” defence minister Milos Vucevic said in a live TV broadcast. “It is clear that the terror against the Serb community in Kosovo is happening,” he said.

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Police and protesters clashed in the town of Zvecan in Kosovo after a crowd gathered in front of the municipality building, trying to prevent a newly-elected ethnic Albanian mayor from entering his office. Police fired tear gas to disperse protestors.

A police car was set ablaze, a Reuters reporter said.

Four people have been injured in the clashes, the Tanjug news agency reported. It also said several vehicles from the NATO peacekeeping mission to Kosovo arrived in the centre of Zvecan.

ELECTION BOYCOTT IN KOSOVO

The protests follow widely-boycotted local elections.

Some 50,000 Serbs living in four north Kosovo municipalities, including Zvecan, shunned the April 23 vote in protest that their demands for more autonomy had not been met – a new setback for a March peace deal between Kosovo and Serbia.

The election turnout was 3.47% and local Serbs said they would not work with the new mayors in the four municipalities – all from ethnic Albanian parties – because they do not represent them.

Earlier, police in the Kosovan capital of Pristina issued a statement saying that they were assisting the newly-elected mayors so they could enter municipal offices in the four northern municipalities.

The mayor in Zvecan was successfully escorted into his office, a Reuters reporter heard on a police radio.

Serbs in Kosovo’s northern region do not accept Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia, almost a decade after the end of a war there, and still see Belgrade as their capital.

By Fatos Bytyci

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UN peacekeeping on 75th anniversary: Successes, failures and many challenges

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UN peacekeeping on 75th anniversary: Successes, failures and many challenges

UN peacekeeping on 75th anniversary: Successes, failures and many challenges

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Over the past 75 years, the United Nations has sent more than 2 million peacekeepers to help countries move away from conflict, with successes from Liberia to Cambodia and major failures in former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Today, it faces new challenges in the dozen hotspots where U.N. peacekeeping has operations, including more violent environments, fake news campaigns and a divided world that is preventing its ultimate goal: successfully restoring stable governments.

The organization marked the 75th anniversary of U.N. peacekeeping and observed the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on Thursday with a solemn ceremony honoring the more than 4,200 peacekeepers who have died since 1948, when a historic decision was made by the U.N. Security Council to send military observers to the Middle East to supervise implementation of Israeli-Arab armistice agreements. For the 103 peacekeepers added to the list in 2022, medals were accepted by ambassadors from their 39 home countries.

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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asked the hundreds of uniformed military officers and diplomats at the ceremony to stand for a moment of silence in their memory. And at the start of a U.N. Security Council meeting on peace in Africa, all those in the chamber stood in silent tribute to the fallen peacekeepers.

The secretary-general told the ceremony after laying a wreath at the Peacekeepers Memorial that what began 75 years ago “as a bold experiment” in the Mideast “is now a flagship enterprise of our organization.” For civilians caught in conflict, he said, peacekeepers are “a beacon of hope and protection.”

U.N. peacekeeping operations have grown dramatically. At the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, there were 11,000 U.N. peacekeepers. By 2014, there were 130,000 in 16 far-flung peacekeeping operations. Today, 87,000 men and women serve in 12 conflict areas in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

There have been two kinds of successes, U.N. peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press. Those are the long list of countries that have returned to a reasonable degree of stability with the support of U.N. peacekeeping, including Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Angola and Cambodia, and the countries where peacekeepers are not only monitoring but preserving cease-fires like in southern Lebanon and Cyprus.

As for failures, he pointed to the failure of U.N. peacekeepers to prevent the 1994 Rwanda genocide, which killed at least 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and Hutus, and the 1995 massacre of at least 8,000 mostly Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica during the war in Bosnia, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust during World War II.

The U.N.’s reputation has also been tarnished by numerous allegations that peacekeepers charged with protecting civilians sexually abused women and children, including in Central African Republic and Congo. Another high-profile blunder was the cholera epidemic in Haiti that began in 2010 after U.N. peacekeepers introduced the bacteria into the country’s largest river by sewage runoff from their base.

The Crisis Group’s Gowan told AP it’s pretty clear that the U.N. is “trapped” in some countries like Mali and Congo where there aren’t enough peacekeepers to halt recurring cycles of violence. Some African governments, including Mali’s, are turning to private security providers like Russia’s Wagner Group to fight insurgents, he said.

“I think we should be wary of dumping U.N. operations outright,” Gowan said. “We have learned the hard way in cases like Afghanistan that even heavily armed Western forces cannot impose peace. The U.N.’s track record may not be perfect, but nobody else is much better at building stability in turbulent states.”

By Edith M. Lederer

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Iran unveils latest version of ballistic missile amid wider tensions over nuclear program

Dr Mohd Ramzan Ali
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Iran unveils latest version of ballistic missile amid wider tensions over nuclear program

Iran unveils latest version of ballistic missile amid wider tensions over nuclear program

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran unveiled on Thursday what it called the latest iteration of its liquid-fueled Khorramshahr ballistic missile amid wider tensions with the West over its nuclear program.

Authorities showed off the Khorramshahr-4 to journalists at an event in Tehran, with the missile on a truck-mounted launcher.

Defense Minister Gen. Mohammad Reza Ashtiani said the missile could be prepared for launch in a short period.

“One of the prominent characteristics of this missile is its ability to evade radar detection and penetrate enemy air defense systems, thanks to its low radar signature,” the general told journalists. “This missile has the capability to utilize various warheads for different missions.”

Iranian officials described the missile as having a 2,000-kilometer (1,240-mile) range with a 1,500-kilogram (3,300-pound) warhead. They also released undated video footage purportedly showing a successful launch of the missile.

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The Khorramshahr has the heaviest payload of Iran’s ballistic missile fleet, which analysts say may be designed to keep the weapon under a 2,000-kilometer range limit imposed by the country’s supreme leader. That puts most of the Mideast in range, but falls short of Western Europe.

The Khorramshahr-4 is named after an Iranian city that was the scene of heavy fighting during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s. Iraq seized the city in the oil-rich southwestern province of Khuzestan at the start of the war, but Iran retook it over a year later.

During the event, loudspeakers blared the “Symphony of the Epic of Khorramshahr,” an orchestral composition marking Iranian soldiers ending the Iraqi siege of the city during the war.

Tehran created its ballistic missile program after suffering through Iraqi Scud missile attacks in the conflict — and as a hedge against its Western-armed neighbors as embargoes have kept it from accessing modern attack aircraft.

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The missile also is called Kheibar, after a Jewish fortress conquered by the Muslims in the 7th century — in what is now Saudi Arabia.

Regional tensions likely played a role in Iran’s missile display Thursday. A miniature example of Jerusalem’s golden Dome of the Rock on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, a holy site in both Islam and Judaism that Jews call the Temple Mount, stood next to the mobile launcher.

Iran views Israel as its archenemy and arming anti-Israeli militant groups in the Palestinian territories and surrounding countries. Tensions between the two nations are high, particularly as Iran enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels. The Khorramshahr would be able to reach Israel.

Iran made a point, however, to keep the truck that transports the missile covered up during the event. Its missile program has been targeted for sabotage in the past — and Iran has previously used foreign-sourced vehicles to tow such massive missile systems.

In this picture released by the Iranian Defense Ministry on Thursday, May 25, 2023, Khorramshahr-4 missile is launched at an undisclosed location, Iran. Iran unveiled on Thursday what it dubbed the latest iteration of its liquid-fueled Khorramshahr ballistic missile amid wider tensions with the West over its nuclear program.

It remains unclear, however, why the missile has been called Khorramshahr-4 as only two other variants of the missile are publicly known. It is modeled after North Korea’s Musudan ballistic missile, which is believed to have up to a 4,000-kilometer (2,485-mile) range with a 500-kilogram (1,100 pound) payload.

By Jon Gambrell and Mehdi Fattahi
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Russia signs deal to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

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Russia signs deal to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

Russia signs deal to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russia and Belarus signed a deal Thursday formalizing the deployment of Moscow’s tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of its ally, although control of the weapons remains in the Kremlin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the deployment of the shorter-range weapons in Belarus earlier this year in a move widely seen as a warning to the West as it stepped up military support for Ukraine.

When the weapons would be deployed wasn’t announced, but Putin has said the construction of storage facilities in Belarus for them would be completed by July 1.

Also unclear is how many nuclear weapons would be kept in Belarus. The U.S. government believes Russia has about 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons, which include bombs that can be carried by aircraft, warheads for short-range missiles and artillery rounds.

Tactical nuclear weapons are intended to destroy enemy troops and weapons on the battlefield. They have a relatively short range and a much lower yield than nuclear warheads fitted to long-range strategic missiles that are capable of obliterating whole cities.

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Speaking in Moscow, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said “the movement of the nuclear weapons has begun,” but was not clear whether any actually had arrived in his country. Lukashenko, who sparked rumors of being seriously ill when he cut short a Victory Day appearance in Red Square on May 9 before resurfacing in public May 15, was attending a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council with Putin and leaders of Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

The signing of the deal came as Russia prepared for a counteroffensive by Ukraine. Both Russian and Belarusian officials also framed the step as driven by hostilities from the West.

“Deployment of nonstrategic nuclear weapons is an effective response to the aggressive policy of countries unfriendly to us,” Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said in Minsk at a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu.

“In the context of an extremely sharp escalation of threats on the western borders of Russia and Belarus, a decision was made to take countermeasures in the military-nuclear sphere,” Shoigu added.

Putin has argued that by deploying its tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Russia was following the lead of the United States, noting that the U.S. has nuclear weapons based in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.

Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya condemned the move.

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“We must do everything to prevent Putin’s plan to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus, as this will ensure Russia’s control over Belarus for years to come,” Tsikhanouskaya told The Associated Press. “This will further jeopardize the security of Ukraine and all of Europe.”

Independent Belarusian military analyst Aliaksandr Alesin said about two-thirds of Russia’s arsenal of medium-range nuclear-tipped missiles were held in Belarus during the Cold War, adding that there are dozens of Soviet-era storage facilities that could still be used.

Soviet nuclear weapons stationed in Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan were moved to Russia in a U.S.-brokered deal after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

“Documents in Minsk on the return of nuclear weapons were defiantly signed just at the moment when Ukraine declared a counteroffensive and Western countries are handing over weapons to Kyiv,” Alesin told the AP.

“This Belarusian nuclear balcony should spoil the mood for politicians in the West, since nuclear missiles are capable of covering Ukraine, all of Poland, the Baltic states and parts of Germany.”

Khrenin also announced plans to “build up the combat potential of the regional grouping of Russia and Belarusian troops,” including the transfer to Minsk of the Iskander-M missile system, capable of carrying a nuclear charge, and the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system.

Russia and Belarus have an alliance agreement under which the Kremlin subsidizes the Belarusian economy, via loans and discounted Russian oil and gas. Russia used Belarusian territory as a staging ground for invading neighboring Ukraine and has maintained a contingent of troops and weapons there.

By Yuras Karmanau

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South Korea, US troops hold large live-fire drills near border with North Korea

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South Korea, US troops hold large live-fire drills near border with North Korea

South Korea, US troops hold large live-fire drills near border with North Korea

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) —The South Korean and U.S. militaries conducted large live-fire drills near the border with North Korea on Thursday, despite the North’s warning that it won’t tolerate what it calls an invasion rehearsal on its doorstep.

The drills, the first of five rounds of live-fire exercises through mid-June, mark 70 years since the establishment of the military alliance between Seoul and Washington. North Korea typically reacts to such major South Korean-U.S. exercises with missile and other weapons tests.

Since the start of 2022, North Korea has test-launched more than 100 missiles, but none since it fired a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile in mid-April. It says the tests are a response to expanded military drills between the U.S. and South Korea, but observers say North Korea aims to advance its weapons development and then wrest greater concessions from its rivals in eventual diplomacy.

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The U.S.-South Korean firing exercises, called “Combined annihilation firepower drills,” are the biggest of their kind. The drills have been held 11 times since they began in 1977, according to the South Korean Defense Ministry.

The drills involved 2,500 troops and 610 weapons systems such as fighter jets, attack helicopters, drones, tanks and artillery from South Korea and the United States, according to the South Korean Defense Ministry. The most recent exercises in 2017 drew about 2,000 soldiers and 250 weapons assets from both countries.

The drills simulated artillery and aerial strikes on front-line North Korean military facilities in response to an attack. The troops later practiced precision-guided attacks on simulated targets in the rear areas to “completely annihilate” North Korean military threats, according to a ministry statement.

It said South Korea will seek to establish “peace through overwhelming strengthen” to counter North Korean threats.

North Korea didn’t immediately respond to the start of the drills. Last Friday, its state media called the drills “a typical North Korea-targeted war rehearsal,” saying it “cannot but take a more serious note of the fact” that the exercises are held a few kilometers (miles) from its frontier.

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The North’s Korean Central News Agency said the U.S. and South Korea would face unspecified consequences over “their madcap nuclear war racket.”

Earlier this year, the South Korean and U.S. militaries conducted their biggest field exercises in five years. The U.S. also sent the nuclear-powered USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and nuclear-capable bombers for joint exercises with South Korea.

Moon Seong Mook, an analyst for the Seoul-based Korea Research Institute for National Strategy, said North Korea could use the South Korea-U.S. drills as a pretext to resume testing activities. He said domestic issues such as North Korea’s push to increase agricultural production during the rice-planting season could still affect its decision on weapons tests.

“North Korea can’t help feeling some burdens over the South Korea-U.S. joint firepower drills being held for the first time in six years and in the strongest manner,” Moon said.

In a meeting last month, U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced steps to reinforce their deterrence capabilities such as the periodic docking of U.S. nuclear-armed submarines in South Korea, strengthened joint training exercises and establishment of a new nuclear consultative group. Biden also issued a blunt warning that any North Korean nuclear attack on the U.S. or its allies would “result in the end of whatever regime” took such action.

Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said the Biden-Yoon agreement revealed the two countries’ “most hostile and aggressive will of action” against the North. She threatened to further strengthen her country’s nuclear doctrine, saying, “The pipe dream of the U.S. and South Korea will henceforth be faced with the entity of more powerful strength.”

Worries about North Korea’s nuclear program grew after the North last year passed a law authorizing preemptive use of nuclear weapons. Many foreign experts say North Korea does not yet possess functioning nuclear-armed missiles.

By Hyung-Jin Kim

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3 years old Indian girl S. Jaanvi achieved World Records

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3 years old Indian girl S. Jaanvi achieved World Records

3 years old Indian girl S. Jaanvi achieved World Records

CHENNAI (DT)- A three-year-old India girl S. Jaanvi has earned a India book of World Record for Maximum Rotations of Silambam Performed in one minute by a blindfolded kid.

A lot of children enjoy reading and writing from a very young age. Many of them are voracious readers and exceptionally good writers. But this little girl from Chennai(Tamil Nadu) has taken it to the next level, She make surprised to all their family members and relatives with her mind blowing skills.

According to her mom P. Nithya who serving government teacher, She made 3 international records.

About S. Jaanvi ‘s Family background

Name. S. Jaanvi, Date of Birth 23-5-2019 Birth Place. Adambakkam, Chennai,
Father’s name P. Siva(Senior manager, working in a bank) Mother’s name is P. Nithya(Teacher and Social Worker). Brother name is S. Anish (11 years old). Currently living in Velachery, Chennai, Jaanvi studing in Nursery class.

Awards List

1.India Book of Records(Maximum Rotations of Silambam Performed in one minute by a blindfolded kid),2.Asia Book of Records(Maximum Rotations of Silambam Performed in one minute by blindfolded kid),3.Nepal Book of Records(Maximum Rotations of Silambam Performed in one minute by a blindfolded Standing on Pot),4.Hope International World Record(Fastest telling Tamil letters),5.Forever Star Book of Records,6.Great Indian Book of Records(Unique talent activity in kids).7.Jetlee Book of Records.8.The Tribune International World Records(Youngest Ambassador& Social activist of the nation). 9.Phoneix International World Records (Youngest kid to recite ABC rhymes song).10.Genius Book of World Records (one minute 8 yogasana).11.Gladiator Book of Records (youngest kid to recite numeric numbers).12.World Book of Records-London(India’s biggest Virtual Run- 1.5km 1-2-2022).13.National Records (Maximum rotations of silambam performed by blindfolded kid standing on pot). My Stamp published (India Post).Social Activist awards. 1.National Record Holder Pride Award (Navabharat Rashtriya Gyanpeeth-Pune).2.Best Social activist award (Thai Art’s Achiever’s Award -2021).3. World Environment Council New Delhi (certificate of Appreciation).4.Make Green our world -Odisha.5.INDIA STAR REPUBLIC AWARD -2022.6.Youngest Ambassador Award (Iqra foundation).7. World Summit -Mexico(World peace Leader -2022)-Recognition.8. Euphoria Achiever’s Award (INDIA BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS).9. World Best Child Award( Tamil America TV).10.Young Achievers award-2022-Jetlee Book of Records.11.Rising Star Award -2022(Lincoln Book of Records).12.The Real Super Heroes-2021(Jaimaa Bhavani Charitable Trust).13.Yoga Certification Board- Young Volunteers (27.3.2023 to 26.3.2028).14.Natchatira Tamizan Award-2022(Best Student and Achievers Award).15.Hair Donated to Cancer Patient (Certificate of Appreciation – Adyar Cancer institute, Chennai).16.United Nature International Peace- Agaram foundation, Srilanka (Certificate of Honour).17.Talent Iconic Star Award(Jackie Book of World Records).18.The International Association of Lions club (Best Feature Sculptor Award -2022).Tree plantation, food donated to orphan peoples, beach cleaning, hair donated to cancer patient, organ Donor registered in government. She has also involved herself in fashion.

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Ron DeSantis to make 2024 US presidential bid official with Musk on Twitter

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Ron DeSantis to make 2024 US presidential bid official with Musk on Twitter

Ron DeSantis to make 2024 US presidential bid official with Musk on Twitter

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to make his long-awaited foray into the 2024 presidential race on Wednesday in an unusual manner – at an event with billionaire Elon Musk on Twitter.

His entry changes the shape of the contest for the Republican nomination, as he likely will emerge as former President Donald Trump’s biggest rival. The nominee will face President Joe Biden, a Democrat, in the November 2024 general election.

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DeSantis, 44, also plans to file paperwork declaring his candidacy with the Federal Election Commission, aides said.

Musk, the CEO of Tesla and Twitter with 140 million Twitter followers, said his own appearance will not constitute an endorsement but will reflect his desire to make the service more of a town square.

The Twitter event is at 6 p.m. ET (2200 GMT).

DeSantis on Wednesday will also convene a meeting of his top donors at a Miami hotel, where they will immediately launch his fundraising efforts.

DeSantis’ central argument for his candidacy likely will be that he is the only Republican who can defeat Biden, the winner over Trump in the 2020 election.

“We must reject the culture of losing that has impacted our party in recent years. The time for excuses is over,” DeSantis said at an event in Iowa earlier this month.

In the weeks leading up to his presidential bid, DeSantis has toured the country, visiting states such as Iowa and New Hampshire that will hold early nominating contests. He has boasted of his record as Florida’s governor, including his battles with the federal government over pandemic policies.

 

His decision to wait until now to jump in has given Trump space to batter DeSantis with a series of attacks, costing the governor standing in national polls and frustrating some allies who might have preferred DeSantis step into the ring earlier.

DeSantis and his advisers were determined to wait to enter the race until the Florida Legislature could hand him a series of policy victories – and lawmakers have done just that.

He signed measures that severely restricted abortions in the state, made it easier for residents to carry concealed weapons, expanded a voucher program to allow students to attend private schools, and eliminated funding for diversity programs at public universities, among other things.

DeSantis remains in a pitched battle with Walt Disney Co over the company’s criticism of laws prohibiting the teaching of gender identity concepts in public schools. The company has filed a federal lawsuit accusing DeSantis of weaponizing state government to punish its operations.

Other declared Republican candidates include Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and Tim Scott, a U.S. senator from South Carolina.

Background of Ron DeSantis

Ronald Dion DeSantis, born September 14, 1978 is an American politician and former military officer serving as the 46th governor of Florida since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, DeSantis represented Florida’s 6th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2013 to 2018.

Born in Jacksonville, DeSantis spent most of his childhood in Dunedin, Florida. He graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School.

DeSantis joined the United States Navy in 2004 and was promoted to lieutenant before serving as a legal advisor to SEAL Team One. He was stationed at Joint Task Force Guantanamo in 2006, and was deployed to Iraq in 2007. When he returned to the U.S. about eight months later, the U.S. Department of Justice appointed DeSantis to serve as a Special Assistant U.S. attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Florida, a position he held until his honorable discharge from active military duty in 2010.

Ron DeSantis Family 

Casey and Ron DeSantis with their children Mamie (left), Mason (center), and Madison (right).Executive Office of the Governor, State of Florida

His wife name is Casey DeSantis, is a former newscaster who has helped him refine his public image.

Reporting by James Oliphant; Editing by Howard Goller

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Why the President of India Should Inaugurate the New Parliament Building

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Why the President of India Should Inaugurate the New Parliament Building

Why the President of India Should Inaugurate the New Parliament Building

NEW DELHI (TW)- In response to a statement issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat on May 18 that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the new parliament building symbolising the spirit of a self-reliant India (Atmanirbhar Bharat) on May 28, several leaders of opposition parties including Rahul Gandhi have demanded that instead of the prime minister, President of India Droupadi Murmu should do the honour of inaugurating it. May 28 is the birth anniversary of V.D. Savarkar, who submitted multiple mercy petitions to British authorities for his release from the Cellular Jail in the Andamans, and the Congress has sharply attacked the Modi government for choosing this date for the inauguration and described it as a “complete insult” to freedom fighters and their legacy.

While RJD leader Manoj Jha asked in his tweet, “Shouldn’t the honorable Rashtrapati be inaugurating the new ‘Sansad Bhavan’?”, CPI’s D. Raja in his tweet sharply observed, “Obsession with self-image and cameras trumps decency and norms when it comes to Modi Ji.” Stating that, “PM leads the executive organ of the State and Parliament is the legislative organ” he opined that, “It would have been appropriate for Smt. Droupadi Murmu as Head of the State to inaugurate the new Parliament.”

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi had objected to Modi inaugurating the Parliament building by saying, “We have separation of powers and Hon’ble Lok Sabha Speaker and Rajya Sabha Chair could have inaugurated (it).” He also sarcastically observed, “It’s made with public money, why is PM behaving like his ‘friends’ have sponsored it from their private funds.”

Congress head Mallikarjun Kharge said the president “alone represents government, opposition, and every citizen alike” and “The Modi Govt has repeatedly disrespected propriety.”

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President along with Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha constitute the parliament

The views of opposition party leaders that the president and not prime minister should inaugurate the new parliament building makes eminent sense as that is consistent with Article 79 of the Constitution, defining the constitution of parliament: “There shall be a Parliament for the Union which shall consist of the President and two Houses to be known respectively as the Council of States and the House of the People.”

So when the Constitution itself provides that the parliament consists of the president of India and the two Houses of the apex legislature, the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha, how is it that the prime minister, who does not form part of the constitutionally ordained definition of what constitutes parliament, can inaugurate the new parliament building?

There are other provisions prescribed in the Constitution that the president may address either House or both Houses assembled together (Article 86) and at the commencement of the first session after each general election to the House of the People and at the commencement of the first session of each year the president shall address both Houses assembled together and inform parliament of the causes of its summons (Article 87). Besides, it is required by the Constitution that no Bill passed by both the Houses of Parliament can become an Act without the assent of the president (Article 111).

In the legislative domain, the president and parliament are, thus, closely woven together by elaborate provisions enshrined in the Constitution. Therefore, these factors constitute the categorical imperative for the president to inaugurate the new parliament building.

The president, as the head of the State and Republic, occupies an exalted position far surpassing the position of the prime minister who is only the head of the executive, which is only limited in scope vis-a-vis the State. The president takes oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and be above all partisan considerations, unlike the office prime minister, and is always looked up to by all political parties, be it of the ruling or opposition camp, to defend republican and constitutional values.

Lessons from the laying of foundation of Parliament House Building Annexe and its inauguration

Another cogent reason why President Murmu and not Prime Minister Modi should inaugurate the new parliament building can be traced to a past precedent associated with the laying of the foundation of the Parliament House Annexe building and its inauguration during 1970 and 1975.

According to the Lok Sabha Secretariat publication, “Parliament House Estate” brought out in 2019, while the foundation of the annexe building was laid on August 3, 1970 by V.V. Giri, then president, it was inaugurated on October 24, 1975 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

This example offers a vital lesson – that neither the president nor prime minister appropriated both the foundation laying and inaugural ceremonies. As Modi laid the foundation stone of the new parliament building and participated in the Bhoomi Pujan ceremony on December 10, 2020, his involvement in its inauguration would mean that he wants to monopolise the honour of doing both programmes. It is contrary to the norms of propriety and proportionality. Therefore, in all fairness Murmu should inaugurate the new parliament.

President K.R. Narayanan inaugurated parliament library building

Just 20 one years ago in 2002, when the newly constructed Sansadiya Gyanpeeth, the Parliament Library Building, was ready for inauguration, President of India K.R. Narayanan was invited to inaugurate it and he did so on May 7 that year. If President Narayanan was requested to inaugurate the new parliament library, then the new parliament building should be inaugurated by none other than President Murmu. By following that example set by Narayanan, the Lok Sabha Secretariat, through the speaker of the Lok Sabha, should extend an invitation to President Murmu for this purpose.

President Kovind was excluded from inauguration of war memorial by Modi

In the past, President Ramnath Kovind, with his status defined by Article 53 of the Constitution as the Supreme Commander of the defence forces, was not involved in Modi’s programme when he inaugurated the National War Memorial in New Delhi on February 25, 2019. It is well known that it is the president and not the prime minister who confers medals and battle honours on defence personnel, at investiture ceremonies conducted in Rashtrapati Bhavan.

During the march past along Raj Path on Republic Day every year, the president receives the salute from those who participate in the parade and confers battle honours like the Param Vir Chakra and the Ashok Chakra to defence personnel for their excellence in defending our nation. Yet tragically, the president was excluded from the inauguration of the National War Memorial, instituted to celebrate the glorious tradition of service and sacrifice of the defence forces. That event required mature handling and the disrespect shown to the president could have been avoided by asking Kovind to inaugurate the memorial.

The egregious blunder committed in 2019 by excluding the president should not be repeated while inaugurating the new parliament building. It is President Murmu who should lead the country in inaugurating it.

S.N. Sahu served as Officer on Special Duty to President of India K R Narayanan.

Disclaimer: This report is auto generated from the THEWIRE. Diplomat Times holds no responsibility for its content.

 

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