The district administration in Uttar Pradesh s Shahjahanpur has fined Nestlé India Rs 45 lakh after its quality tests found the Maggi packets being sold in the area to be sub-standard The Hindu reported. The administration has also asked six company distributors to pay a fine of Rs 17 lakh. Shahjahanpur Additional District Magistrate Jitendra Kumar Sharma said there were seven cases where the product was found to be sub-standard. The samples were tested by the Food and Safety department of the district Sharma told The Hindu.A Nestlé India spokesperson however said the test results appears to be a case of application of incorrect standards and maintained that the popular product was safe to consume. According to the makers the samples tested were collected by the district administration in 2015 after the product was relaunched following a nationwide ban over safety standards. We have been informed that the samples are from 2015 and the issue pertains to ash content in Noodles the spokesperson told The Hindu. The spokesperson said that in 2015 Nestlé India and a few other companies had asked authorities to set specific standards for instant noodles. The standards were introduced and our product complies with these new standards the spokesperson said.The district administration said the fine was being imposed nearly two years later as it was hearing representations from Nestlé officials and distributors NDTV reported.The company said it was yet to receive a notice from the administration but will file an appeal once it does PTI reported.
Voting for the third and final phase of civic bodies polls in Uttar Pradesh will take place on Wednesday in 26 districts amid tight security arrangements. The State Election Commissioner SK Agarwal said that 5 Nagar Nigams 76 Nagar Palikas and 152 Nagar Panchayats will go to polls to elect their mayors and representatives. Tight security arrangements have been made for the final phase of polling. Additional security forces have been deployed in sensitive districts and drone cameras would keep an eye on the sensitive polling booths said the SEC. Districts where polling will be held include Saharnpur Moradabad Bulandshahr Baghpat Sambhal Etah Bareilly Ferozabad Oraiyya Kannauj Jhansi Kanpur Dehat Mahoba Sitapur Rae Bareilly Lakhimpur Kheri Balrampur Bara Banki Maharajganj Siddharthnagar Kushinagar Mau Mirzapur and Chandauli. For the first time all major political parties including the ruling BJP Samajwadi Party BSP and the Congress are contesting polls on their party symbols. The BSP is contesting local bodies polls on party symbols after 17 years. ALSO READ Low turnout marks phase 2 of UP civic polls Generally the Chief Ministers avoid campaigning for the ruling party candidates in local bodies polls but Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath made a whirlwind tour of the state holding more than 40 rallies in support of BJP candidates. For Yogi Adityanath results of local bodies polls will be a referendum on his eight-month rule in the state and it may also impact crucial Gujarat Assembly polls. ALSO READ UP Civic Polls Phase 2: Rajnath s lotus pic at poll booth causes outrage low voter turn-out recorded The counting of votes will take place on December 1 and results would be declared the same day.
A day after reports said that the police in Uttar Pradesh had detained four donkeys for four days and then released them the state police department has denied it. Uttar Pradesh Police has nothing to do with their arrest or custody the department said in a tweet on Tuesday.Dear @ndtv #uppolice has nothing to do with their arrest or custody.We request you to check your facts with us next time. https://t.co/6i9wN0nGZN UP POLICE (@Uppolice) November 28 2017 On Monday reports had said that the animals were detained at the Urai district jail complex for four days for eating expensive plants in the facility.The animals were held after their owner Kamlesh let them loose despite being warned that a senior officer was planning to plant some expensive plants RK Mishra the head constable at Urai jail had told ANI. The plants were reportedly worth Rs 5 lakh.After the police denied Kamlesh s request to free the animals he had sought local Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shakti Gahoi s help reported India Today. Gahoi had then gone to the police along with Kamlesh and persuaded them to let the animals go. The animals not only ate plants they ruined the entire garden and injured the children of the colony Jail Superintendent Sitaram Sharma told PTI. We called the owners several times and each time they said the animals didn t belong to them. Another jail official said that they had made all arrangements for the donkeys and had even fed them two times a day.#WATCH Police release a herd of donkeys from district jail in UP s Jalaun. They had been detained for destroying plants outside jail pic.twitter.com/RkV8Hng0k2 ANI (@ANI) November 27 2017
New Delhi: Security agencies have arrested a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh for planning a terrorist strike in the city and carrying out reconnaissance of vital installations like Army camps and power projects in Jammu and Kashmir an official said on Tuesday.The alleged terrorist identified as Abdul Naeem Sheikh was arrested two weeks ago in a joint operation conducted by the security agencies along with state police an official said adding that he was being tailed by the security agencies for a few months.Representational image. AFPA number of videos and photographs of vital installations of Army camps and power projects in Jammu and Kashmir have been recovered from Sheikh s possession which proved that he did recce of these places the official said.Other officials close to the case claimed that Sheikh had also done recce of Kasol in Himachal Pradesh as well as some nearby areas which are frequently visited by Israeli nationals and other foreign tourists.The security agencies have dubbed Sheikh as David Coleman Headley as he had been working on his footprints and did recce of the same areas. Headley a Pakistan-American is serving a prison sentence of 35 years in a US jail for his involvement in terror activities and the 26/11 Mumbai attacks of 2008.Officials close to the case said that Sheikh was wanted by security agencies in various cases including the Mumbai train attacks of 2006-2007. Sheikh was nabbed by the security agencies at that time and was under trial. In August 2014 he managed to give the slip to security agencies and escaped when he was being taken from Dum Dum Central jail (Kolkata) to Mumbai to appear in court. He fled while the train was passing through the deep forests in Chhattisgarh the official said.After fleeing from custody Sheikh established a new sleeper cell under instruction from his LeT handler Amjad the official said. Sheikh then had done a number of reconnaissance operations in Jammu and Kashmir Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh following the instructions of Amjad. He had targeted high profile tourist sites including Taj Mahal in Uttar Pradesh. The case has been handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for further probe added the official.
On Wednesday a Muslim cleric and his two relative were assaulted and stabbed on a train in western Uttar Pradesh. This was a hate crime the victims were picked out for their religion. Mohammad Israr one of the victims who had received stab wounds from an ice pick on his back head and hands said that their Muslim appearance with namaaz caps and scarves had irked the attackers. While the men were being assaulted the attackers said repeatedly You wear caps? We will teach you to wear caps. This is not the only incident of Muslims in Uttar Pradesh becoming the focus because of their clothing. On November 21 a Muslim woman was instructed to remove her burqa by the police in a rally by Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath. A couple of days after this the Bharatiya Janata Party made a formal demand to the Election Commission of India asking for special verification of voters in burqas. Women sporting the veil should be verified if needed the BJP said. For this women security personnel or women election officers should be deployed at booths. From these incidents it would almost seem that there is an attempt to erase from public view the typical dress of North Indian Muslims kurta-pyjama and caps for men burquas for women. It s as if Hindutva forces want to create a public sphere that if not literally devoid of Muslims is certainly devoid of Muslimness.Hindutva risingThe issue of looking Muslim is not a new one or for that matter only confined to Uttar Pradesh. In 2015 for example a Muslim man s beard was pulled even as he was assaulted and robbed on a train in western Uttar Pradesh. Like the namaaz cap and kurta the beard is also a prominent symbol of Muslimness.In 2014 a Muslim man Mohsin Shaikh was lynched in Pune by around 25 members of a group called the Hindu Rashtra Sena. The members of the Hindu Rashtra Sena were angry about morphed images they had seen circulating on social media. When they stepped out they spotted Shaikh who had a beard and was wearing a green Pathan suit slotting him as Muslim. In June this year a 15-year old boy named Junaid was singled out as Muslim for the cap he was wearing and stabbed to death in a train in Haryana. In Junaid s village in Faridabad a district in Haryana that borders Uttar Pradesh men are trying to look less Muslim dropping obvious articles of clothing such as namaaz caps or shaving off their beard. The Telegraph found that symbols of Muslimness are now found less visible on the train route on which Junaid was murdered. Muslims think it too risky to wear their namaaz caps while commuting.Airbrushing realityIn his 2004 essay On representing the Musalman historian Shahid Amin deftly critiques the Nehruvian Unity in diversity dictum that represented Muslims and other minorities using blunt stereotypes. In government unity in diversity posters Muslims are represented by a man wearing a fez cap.Thirteen years after this essay things have moved from bad to worse. Earlier Muslims were stereotyped yet small mercies they were still part of government propaganda. Yet now with Hindutva rising there is pressure for Muslims to remove markers that are visually distinct. This trend is particularly acute in Uttar Pradesh. Looking Muslim has resulted in a range of penalties ranging from chastisement by the police to outright assault. This behaviour is backed up by the administration led by a chief minister who is not only accused of communal rioting but has gone on record claiming that secularism a constitutional principle is a lie.Two Nation theoryThis airbrushing of Muslims from the public sphere is not unexpected. Vinayak Savarkar the man who coined the word Hindutva was a firm believer in the Two-Nation Theory and postulated that in India Muslims must subordinate themselves to Hindus.The expectation that Muslims should be made politically irrelevant in India finds deep resonance with the BJP charge of vote banks the notion that minority communities are pandered to by politians for electoral gain. But the fact of Indians voting as groups is a banal reality: voting along caste geographical or gender lines is a common way for groups to pressure leaders to act. Patels in Gujarat might vote for reservations or a village for a new tubewell. None of this attracts censure till the group in question happens to be members of minority communities.Vote banksAs a result the BJP rarely courts Muslims preferring to rely solely on Hindu votes. In the March landslide in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for example the BJP stitched together a remarkable multi-caste Hindu alliance winning 40% of the vote.Even when the BJP desires Muslim votes its methods don t rely on the quid pro quo that characterises India s transactional democracy. For example in one recent case civic polls in Uttar Pradesh saw a BJP leader threaten Muslims to vote for the BJP. Even while asking for their votes the BJP does not see Muslims as legitimate players in the political space. While other voters could ask for say roads or water works in return for their ballots Muslims in Uttar Pradesh are not worthy of even such a transaction.So successful has the BJP s pitch been on this score than even some Muslim leaders now agree that it would be better if Muslims strategically excused themselves from the political space given that it would polarise society .
By: Express News Service | Noida | Updated: November 29 2017 8:48 am A 32-year-old man from Greater Noida was arrested for allegedly providing bank accounts for transfer of money (Representational Image) Top News Uber hacking scandal could force loyalists to other ride-hailing servicesUC Browser app with updated settings now back on Google Play StoreAmazon Echo Plus and Amazon Alexa review: The smartest speaker aroundIn an effort to crack the nexus through which online financial fraud takes place the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) arrested a 32-year-old man from Greater Noida for allegedly providing bank accounts for transfer of money collected by duping banks and insurance policy customers police said. The accused has been identified as Rahul Singh. We have seized mobile phones and documents including letter pads under BIOLO Services and other documents relating to this company. Singh used to live in Ecotech area of Gautam Buddh Nagar district. During questioning he revealed that he has been providing bank accounts to various call centres in Noida Ghaziabad and Delhi for a few years. Investigation till now has revealed that Rs 1.5 crore is deposited across five bank accounts. The accounts were used for money transfers said Triveni Singh SP UP STF. The incident came to light in March this year when a retired Lt. Colonel based in Fatehpur district approached the police with a complaint. The complainant had been duped of Rs 86 77 010. On the promise of a bonus in a life insurance policy that had reached the maturity date as well as the maturity amount they duped him of this money. BIOLO Services was among the companies which were behind the fraud. The accused would charge 10-20 per cent for every transaction from those running the fake call centres Singh said. Explaining the modus operandi of the alleged nexus Singh said The entire process of online fraud is such that criminals largely remain anonymous. The nexus starts with people who hack database which has customers details such as insurance policies bank account details etc. This information is then sold to people who run fake call centres and who use this information to dupe people through phone calls. For all the latest City Others News download Indian Express App More Top News Samsung working to integrate devices appliances through IoT Cloud platform Cop who alleged preferential treatment to Sasikala in jail faces Rs 20 cr defamation suit
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