Modi slams Rahul’s ‘north-south’ remarks
Puducherry, Feb. 25: Attacking Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his recent 'north-south' remarks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday alleged the party's policy was to “divide, lie and rule.”
Not mincing words, he said the Congress culture of feudal politics, dynasty politics, patronage politics was ending and people all over the country were rejecting the party.
He also expressed shock over Gandhi’s contention that there was no ‘dedicated’ fisheries ministry.
“They are gold, silver and bronze medal winners in telling lies,” Modi said addressing a public meeting in poll-bound Puducherry, as he said people of the union territory were celebrating the “freedom from misgovernance of Congress.” Modi hit out at former Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy, implying he headed a ‘high command’ government that served the interests of a few Congress leaders in Delhi.
He also slammed him for “lying” about the complaint made by a woman against the government during the Congress leader’s visit here a fortnight ago.
Pitching Puducherry as a region with potential in various sectors, he said the NDA wanted to make it the BEST, saying the acronym meant the UT being a hub of Business, Education, Spirituality and Tourism.
Training his guns against the Congress, whose partyled government fell on
Monday after it was reduced to minority in the wake of resignations, he said “the Congress culture you saw in Puducherry for five years is how the party works nationally.”
“Our colonial rulers had the policy of divide and rule. Congress has a policy of divide, lie and rule. Sometimes their leaders put region against region, sometimes they put community against community.” Gandhi had said he was used to a “different type of politics” in north India and coming to the southern state was “very refreshing” as people are interested in “issues”, which drew condemnation from the BJP, whose leaders accused him of an opportunistic antiNorth bias.
New Delhi, Feb. 25: The CBI on Thursday termed the judgement of a UK court in the Nirav Modi's case as “significant” and said it should serve as a reminder to all fugitives, who have indulged in large value frauds, that they cannot escape the law merely by changing their countries of residence.
The CBI said the court order vindicated the painstaking probe carried out by the agency especially since Modi had raised various issues on admissibility of evidence, fairness of investigation, trial, prison conditions, availability of health facilities in India and extraneous consideration, with a view to divert attention from his own acts.
Yangon, Feb. 25: Social media giant Facebook announced Thursday it was banning all accounts linked to Myanmar's military as well as ads from military-controlled companies in the wake of the army's seizure of power on Feb. 1.
It said in a statement that it was treating the post-coup situation in Myanmar as an “emergency,” explaining that the ban was precipitated by events since the coup, including “deadly violence.” Facebook already has banned several militarylinked accounts since the coup, including army-controlled Myawaddy TV and state television broadcaster MRTV. The bans are also being applied on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.
Facebook and other social media platforms came under enormous criticism in 2017 when right groups said they failed to act enough to stop hate speech against Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority.
The army launched a brutal counterinsurgency operation that year that drove more than 700,000 Rohingya to to seek safety in neighbouring Bangladesh, where they remain in refugee camps.