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India Gazette
19-05-2025
- Politics
- India Gazette
"Ensure the language is decent & dignified:" UP CM condemn Samajwadi party's DNA remark
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India] May 19 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath criticized the Samajwadi Party over alleged 'indecent and vulgar' statements on social media, stating that while expecting ideal conduct from the Samajwadi party may be futile, civilized society cannot tolerate such language. He urged the Samajwadi Party's top leadership to review its social media handles and ensure the use of decent, restrained, and dignified language. 'Although it is futile to expect any ideal conduct from the Samajwadi Party, but civilized society cannot tolerate their indecent and vulgar statements. The top leadership of the Samajwadi Party should thoroughly review its social media handles and ensure that the language used there is decent, controlled and dignified,' he said in X post. On Saturday, the Bharatiya Janata Party filed an FIR against the media cell of the Samajwadi Party for making 'derogatory remarks' against Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak on the party's social media account on X. Anand Dwivedi, District BJP Chief, lodged the FIR at the Hazratganj police station under several sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the IT Act. Responding to the same, Brajesh Pathak had earlier said that the post reflected poorly on the SP's culture and standards. 'Reading the words used by the SP media cell colleagues while criticising, it does not seem that this party is still the party of Ram Manohar Lohia and Janeshwar Mishra. The so-called 'socialists' have forgotten George Saheb's words that camps should be organised and people should be educated. Akhileshji! Make the SP members read Lohia-JP and make them listen to Pandit Janeshwar ji's speeches, so that socialism is reflected in their behaviour and speech,' he posted on X. 'If you do not have Lohia's books, I can make them available to you... Oh great Lohia, Janeshwarji! Forgive these fools, they have not been taught, educated or explained anything. They do not know what socialism is? They have turned socialism into a laboratory of abuse, arrogance and low-grade comments. If this is their form while in opposition, one can easily guess what they would have done while in power,' his post read. Though the SP media cell has deleted the said post, Pathak has shared its screenshot from his X account. Reacting to the post, Pathak questioned whether Akhilesh Yadav's wife, Dimple Yadav, would endorse such a depraved mentality. 'Akhilesh ji, is this the language of your party? This is the official handle of your party!! Is this the choice of words for someone's deceased parents? In a democracy, agreement-disagreement-allegations-counter-allegations have been going on and will continue to go on, but will you bring your party to this level? Will respected Dimple ji accept this anti-women and degraded mentality?' he captioned with his post. The controversy stems from a now-deleted post allegedly made by the SP media cell on X with a remark targeting Pathak's DNA, prompting a strong reaction from the deputy CM. (ANI)
Time of India
15-05-2025
- Time of India
South Delhi shooting: Man injured after gunmen open fire, linked to personal enmity
NEW DELHI: A man was critically injured after unidentified assailants opened fire on him while he was sitting inside an SUV in South Delhi's Chhatarpur area on Thursday. Police are investigating the incident and suspect that as many as 10 rounds were fired. Initial findings suggest that the attack may be linked to personal enmity. According to the police, the incident occurred around 1pm near CDR Chowk, under the jurisdiction of Mehrauli Police Station. The control room received a call reporting gunfire in the area. Upon reaching the scene, police found a man, later identified as Arun Lohia, a resident of Aya Nagar, with multiple bullet injuries inside his vehicle. Preliminary inquiry revealed that the accused are likely known to the victim, and both parties are believed to be residents of the same village. Police sources said that there is a history of previous disputes between them, indicating that the shooting may have been an act of retaliation or a continuation of an ongoing conflict. "The victim was in his car when he was attacked. It appears to be a case of personal enmity. We have learned that there is a previous history involving both parties," said a senior police officer. Lohia was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital where his condition remains critical. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like These Are The Most Beautiful Women In The World Undo Police have secured the crime scene and are examining CCTV footage from the surrounding area to identify the suspects and reconstruct the sequence of events. A case is being registered under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Arms Act. Multiple teams have been deployed to trace the attackers.
Time of India
12-05-2025
- Time of India
Three arrested for 60L armed robbery
Jaipur: Three persons, including a woman, were arrested by city police Monday for their involvement in a Rs 60 lakh armed robbery that took place in the Murlipura area last week. Police recovered Rs 44 lakh in cash from one of the accused in New Delhi, where he was (West) Amit Kumar said the arrested accused include the gang's alleged mastermind Tilak Lohia, a habitual offender with multiple cases of murder and robbery registered against him in different districts. He was nabbed near a metro station in Delhi. The other two arrested were identified as Ajay Dan, a resident of Sikar, and Archana Singh from Uttar to the police, the gang gained the trust of the victim, Chandrashekhar, by renting a flat from him and offering him a 10% commission to help collect and deposit cash. On May 9, the accused visited his residence in Vikas Nagar under the pretext of initiating an RTGS transaction. Kumar said the gang used this as a cover to execute a well-planned robbery. "Once inside the flat, one of the accused opened the cash-filled bag and brandished a pistol, threatening the victim. The gang fled with the bag in a car bearing a UP registration number," he the incident, the victim approached the Murlipura police station with details including ID proofs and documents submitted by the accused while renting the flat. Using CCTV footage, technical surveillance, and informant inputs, a team was dispatched to Delhi, leading to Lohia's arrest. Police said that based on Lohia's interrogation, the two others were subsequently apprehended. tnn
Indian Express
25-04-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
Opinion More regulation on private schools is bad idea
In 1959, a wonderful essay by Ram Manohar Lohia suggested that powerful people have caste, wealth, and English education. The logical antidote to the problem posed by Lohia was improving India's free K-12 school education. But this opportunity has been sabotaged by flailing government schools; the share of India's children attending a government school has now declined to 45 per cent. This number is 85 per cent in the US, 90 per cent in the UK, and 95 per cent in Japan. Policymakers redirecting the anger at free government schools to self-funded private schools through higher regulatory cholesterol must proceed with caution — the most expensive school is no school. Good K-12 schools not only represent our best bet for improving social mobility but are also imperative in the new world of education, skills, work, and jobs. In the old world of education, Google knew everything. In the new world, AI is learning everything. In the old world of skills, the objective was to prepare, in the new world, the objective is to repair and upgrade. In the old world of work, employment was a lifetime contract. In the new world, employment is a short, intense, and taxicab relationship. In the old world of jobs, policymakers and educators could predict where jobs would be in the next decade; in the new world, all market predictions seem to have the efficacy of palm reading. More importantly, in the new world of work, dangerous, dirty, repetitive, and uncomplicated jobs will increasingly be done by software and machines. The low student enrolment share of government schools was choice, not fate. It was a blind spot for the central and state governments in the first 45 years after Independence, and the next 35 years were lost to tactical changes like smaller class sizes, higher teacher salaries, and higher teacher qualifications. This second miss is a warning against the overselling of randomised control trials by economists — they offer solutions that are often correct but rarely scalable, generalisable, or replicable. Some of the tactical changes were necessary but insufficient without systematic reform of governance and teacher performance management. Performance management is often equated with teacher attendance, yet a teacher needs to be evaluated on outputs (skills and scores) and inputs (competence and classroom management). Scores can be measured based on continuous assessments or end-of-year exams. Skills and concepts are harder in a world where soft skills — being curious, courageous, confident, risk-taking, collaborative and communicative — are also hard skills. Judging teacher competence involves evaluating student interaction, knowledge, planning capacity, communication, feedback abilities, collaboration, and a drive towards excellence. Classroom management needs assessment through observation of teaching and learning (teaching often occurs without learning), classroom setup, instructional differentiation (for process, product, and learning styles), and communication (clarity, questioning, and responsiveness). Governance is mainly about controlling resources, but it should also be about learning, planning, design, responsiveness to students, parent involvement, teacher management, integrity, faculty growth planning, feedback capability (both formal and informal), role modelling, and fair decision-making. Currently, government school governance confuses school buildings with building schools; almost 4 lakh of our 15 lakh schools have fewer than 50 students (70 per cent of schools in Rajasthan, Karnataka, J&K and Uttarakhand). China has a similar number of students to India, but it has 30 per cent of our schools. State governments must consolidate schools (this will reduce the teacher shortage and multi-grade teaching), dump opaque transfer policies (in a system where tenure and compensation are off the table, location is a potent tool for performance management), grant budget flexibility and delegate funds, functions and functionaries away from state capitals. Excellence in government schools requires substantive performance management. In other words, a fear of falling and hope of rising, rather than the current box-ticking best captured by the Tamil aphorism, Naan adducha maadri addikyeren, nee arrara maadri aru (I will pretend as if I am beating you, you pretend as if you are crying). Bureaucrats and incompetent teachers, benefiting from the status quo of government schools, insist that progress requires more patience, time, and money. But the current system will fail our children just like Indian socialism failed its poor. My yearning for better government schools is not an argument against private schools (I attended one). Without this market response to demand, the post-1947 policy errors in primary education would have been catastrophic for India's human capital, the software industry, and corporate India. The notion that the failure of government schools can be overcome by higher regulatory cholesterol for private schools ignores rising costs, including higher teacher salaries, skyrocketing construction costs, and increasing land prices. The cynical confiscation of capacity from private entrepreneurs (RTE takes away 25 per cent) feels like a policy surrender to a tragedy where poor people are paying money to avoid something that is free. It should, instead, be a catalyst for adding quality to what is free. The challenges of government schools are hardly unique to India or new; Abraham Lincoln filled out an election form describing his education as 'defective'. But it's time to take on the vested interests in government schools that steal the future of our young. Children have only one chance to grow up.
