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Speaking after inauguration and founda"% tion stone laying cere" & %% mony of several key projects in Chennai, the Prime Minister said there are provisions in the Union Budget to ensure extra credit mechanism for fishermen. % IEDs dumped by Naxals seized at Balaghat Safe haven in ‘island of peace’ The Balaghat police have seized a huge amount of IED explosives dumped by Naxalite outfits from the Malajkhand area. Naxalite activities are on the rise in the state as evidenced in the gunning down of two Naxalites, including a woman, in Mandla district. It has now come to light that the Balaghat police have made a huge haul of explosives. SP, Balaghat, Abhishek Tiwari said that, during a search in the Malajkhand area, the police team seized live cartridges of SLRs, AK-47s and other guns, besides material used in manufacture of IED explosives , battery wires and others. Despite the ramped-up po- 1 2'$ 12 2$ ' 1 (-"$ 2'$ 5(2-$11$# 1/302 (- 6 +(2$ "2(4(2($1 2 2$1 +(*$ #(1' '' 22(1& 0' -# ' 0 1'20 ' 4$ 12 02$# $+(,(- 2(-& 6 +1 %0., 2'$(0 1.(+ 1 0$13+2 2'$1$ $620$,(121 5'("' (1 12 02$# $-2$0(-& *-.5- 1 8 1+ -# .% /$ "$9 -2$++(&$-"$ 1.30"$1 1 7 2'$ 6 +(2$1 0$ $4$- /+ --(-& 2. 1$2 3/ 2'$(0 ! 1$ " ,/ (0* '$ 6 +(2$1 -' 0$ +1. /0$/ 0(-& 8 $# .00(#.09 (- 2'$ 12 2$ 5'("' 5(++ 0$ "' , 0* -2 * lice presence in the area, they are facing various odds. The explosives dump is an indication that the Naxalites are preparing to carry out a big strike in the area. % 'Over 67% prison inmates Hindu, 18% Muslim' Over 67 per cent of the 4,78,600 prison inmates in the country are Hindu while nearly 18% Muslim, according to Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) data. The prison statistics presented by Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy last week in Parliament were based on a compilation of data by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) updated till December 31, 2019. ( The data showed that 3,21,155 (or 67.10 per cent) prison inmates were Hindu, 85,307 (or 17.82%) Muslim, 18,001 (or 3.76%) Sikh, 13,782 (or 2.87%) Christian, and 3,557 (or 0.74%) 'others'. A gender-wise break-up of the figures showed that among women, 13,416 prison inmates were Hindus, 3,162 Muslim, 721 Sikh, 784 Christian and 261 'Others'. Among the states and Union Territories, Uttar Pradesh had the largest number of Hindu and Mus- lim prison inmates at 72,512 . and 27,459, respectively The maximum number of Sikh, Christian and 'Others' were imprisoned in jails of Punjab at 12,778, 1,640 and 915, data the respectively, showed. A category-wise break-up of data showed that there were 4,78,600 prisoners across jails in the country of which 3,15,409 (65.90%) belonged to the SC, ST and OBC categories while 1,26,393 fell in the 'Others' group. % Trump acquitted in 2nd impeachment New York: Former US President Donald Trump has been acquitted for a second time by the Senate after Republicans overwhelmingly voted against convicting him on the charge of inciting the January 6 riot at the Capitol, but senior party leader Mitch McConnel blasted him soon afterwards for provoking it. The Senate voted 57 to 43 to convict him on Saturday and although seven Republicans went over to the Democrat's side to convict him, it was 10 votes short of the 67 needed for the two-thirds majority needed for conviction. Other Republicans stood firmly by Trump thwarting his conviction, although after the vote McConnell delivered his harsh criticism pinning on him the blame for the riot that killed at least five people including a police officer. Two other police officers died in its aftermath. In his first trial in February 2020 on the charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress he went free because the Democrats could not muster 67 votes. Petrol price up by Rs 22, diesel by Rs 25 in 3 yrs The upward trend of prices of petrol and diesel is continuing to burn deep holes in the common man’s pocket. Yet, there is no word from the political parties in power or in the Opposition. Madhya in People Pradesh bought petrol at Rs 74.86 and diesel at Rs 62.29 per litre on December 31, 2017. However, after the New Year’s Eve celebrations, the people woke up with a sur- *) ', *) ', *) ', *) ', ', prise in the form of a hike in petrol prices. On Janu1, ary 2018, people paid Rs 74.90 for a litre of petrol and Rs 62.37 for diesel. The upward trend in petroleum prices stopped briefly in 2018 — the year of the Lok Sabha elections. As the elec- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tions ended, the northward trend in prices of petrol and diesel started once again. The opening price of petrol on January 1, 2018, was 74.90 *(-/'-0 *(-/'-0 *(-/'-0 *(-/'-0 *(-/'-0 *(-/'-0 *(-/'-0 *(-/'-0 *(-/'-0 . . . . . . . . . and diesel Rs 62.37, while the closing price on December 31, 2018, was Rs 71.80 and Rs . 64.03, respectively % In a move that took everyone by surprise and shock, the Delhi police arrested 21-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi from her north Bengaluru residence over a Google document she allegedly shared on farmers’ protests by international Greta activist climate Thunberg. She was flown to Delhi where a local court sent her to police custody for five days even as she broke down when the sentence was pronounced. Disha was arrested on Saturday evening for allegedly 'editing' the Google was which document shared as a “toolkit” for the protests and flown to Delhi by a late evening flight. Her arrest marks the first in the case registered by the Delhi police over the controversial ‘toolkit.’ In Delhi, the Public Prosecutor alleged that the Bengaluru activist was part of a larger conspiracy against the Indian government, with links to Khalistani separatists. Disha stoutly denied the links with Khalis- .-&0$11 +$ #$0 ' 1'( ' 0..0 ' 1 0$ "2$# 1' 0/+7 2. 2'$ 00$12 .% 4( %.0 '$0 ++$&$# (1' (-4.+4$,$-2 (- 1' 0(-& 2'$ 2..+*(2 0$+ 2$# 2. 2'$ % 0,$01 /0.2$121 ' 0..0 1' 0$# /("230$ .% #(1&0 "$# 4(-#$0 (-&' 5'. (1 .32 .- ! (+ 1 7(-& "2(4(121 () (+ 5'(+$ ""31$# 2$00.0(121 0$ .- ! (+ SKM condemns activist's arrest ".-#$,-$# 2'$ 00$12 .% (1' ,73*2 (1 - .0"' #30(-& /0.!$ (-2. 2..+*(2 #."3,$-2 " 1$ -# #$, -#$# '$0 (,,$#( 2$ 0$+$ 1$ 2 +1. ".-#$,-$# 07 - &0("3+230$ + + 1 ".,,$-2 .- #$ 2' .% % 0,$01 /0.2$12(-& (-(12$0 2'$ 2'0$$ ".-2$-2(.31 % 0, + 51 -# 5 0-$# 2' 2 /$./+$ 5.3+# 2$ "' '(, +$11.- %.0 13"' 00.& -"$ 'Disha collaborated with Poetic Justice Foundation' '$ ".++ !.0 2$# 5(2' /0. ' +(12 -( .$2(" 312("$ .3-# 2(.- 2. 1/0$ # #(1 %%$"2(.- & (-12 2'$ -#( - 12 2$ (1' 5 1 2'$ .-$ 5'. 1' 0$# 2'$ ..+*(2 ." 5(2' 0$2 '3-!$0& 1 (# $+'( .+("$ tani separatists and said she does not know any such group. "I was just supporting farmers. I supported farmers because they are our future and we all need to eat, " she told the court adding that she did not create the toolkit. She, however, admitted that she made two edits to the documents. Later, in a statement, Delhi police said that Disha was “one of the Editors of the Toolkit Google Doc and a key conspirator in the formulation document's dissemination.” and Though the ‘toolkit’ shared by Greta has triggered a big row, it has documents that contain basic information on any issue, tweet suggestions and information on what hashtags to use and whom to tag on social media, and are a regular inventory while organising protests online. % Jammu: A major terrorist plan to set off an explosion at a crowded place here on the second anniversary of the Pulwama attack was scuttled with the recovery of a powerful IED from a nursing student who was arrested along with three others, a top police officer . said on Sunday IGP, Jammu Range, Mukesh Singh also said six pistols and 15 small IEDs were seized from Samba district in a separate operation. "Over the past four days we were on high alert because there was general intelligence input that terror groups want to trigger a major blast in Jammu city on the second anniversary of the Pulwama attack. The security around all imporwere locations tant strengthened and checking intensified," he told reporters here. Singh said a youth was found moving in suspicious manner along with a bag in the general bus stand area and it led to the recovery of nearly 7 kg of IED which was, however, not activated as yet. The IGP identified him as Suhail Bashir Shah, of Newa village of Pulwama, who was pursuing nursing course in Chandigarh and was assigned the task to plant IED in Jammu by his Pak-based handler affiliated with Al-Badr.