Posters asking a community to leave or face Trump-like action emerges
Bareilly: Posters asking a particular community to leave Jiyangala village or else face “Trump-like” action have come up in the village, situated about 70-km from here, police said today. The posters, found pasted on the houses of the members of a particular community, warned that since the BJP has come to power in Uttar Pradesh they will have to leave the village by December 30 or face consequences, Senior Superintendent of Police Jogindra Kumar said. District Magistrate Surendra Singh said that the matter has come under his knowledge and the police have been alerted to maintain a vigil. Soon after getting the information by locals, police teams rushed to the village and took two persons into custody for questioning after lodging an FIR at the Shishgarh police station, he added. The SSP also said that owners of computer typing and printing shops were also being questioned. The posters emerged overnight after the results of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls were announced. They also warned that if the members of the community do not leave the village they will have to face a situation like their community members were facing under the Trump administration in the US. Most of the posters have since been removed by the police and the administration. (PTI)
Dalai Lama describes himself as ‘son of India’
Rajgir: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Thursday described himself as a “son of India” and hailed the secularism prevailing in the country. “I am living in India for the past 58 years and hence, I am a ‘son of India’,” the noble laureate said in his speech after inaugurating an international seminar on Buddhism here in Nalanda district. “In the field of secularism there is no other country like India,” the Dalai Lama said. “When I was in Tibet my thoughts were narrow. But when I moved out of my homeland and came to India, I developed a broader thought about Tibet as well as about the entire world,” he said. The religious leader said the Nalanda school of thought was an important aspect of Buddhism. “Whatever I am today is due to the Nalanda thoughts”, he said. President Pranab Mukherjee is scheduled to attend the seminar on March 19. (PTI)
No cost incurred on PM’s social media presence: PMO
New Delhi: There is no cost to the exchequer on maintaining the social media presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his office has said. The Prime Minister’s official mobile App ‘PMO India’ was designed by students in a contest conducted by MyGov and hence there was no cost except the prize money in developing the application, it has said in response to an RTI filed by AAP leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. “The App is maintained by PMO,” it said. “Website of the Prime Minister’s Office is www.pmindia.gov.in and is developed and maintained by PMO,” it said. The office said the other social media presence of the Prime Minister’s Office is managed by PMO and “as such there is no separate cost on the maintenance of the same”. “No campaign was run by the PMO on any social media,” it added. (PTI)
