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  • Yoga guru Ramdev’s Bhartiya Shiksha Board will get pan-India accreditation on traces of CBSE, ICSE

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: The Bhartiya Shiksha Board (BSB) based by yoga guru Ramdev has been designated as a pan-India School Education Board on the traces of different nationwide college boards such because the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the Indian Council of Secondary Education (ICSE).

    In its current round, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), a national-level council for technical schooling, stated that the Bhartiya Shiksha Board is a pan-India college schooling board.

    The round was addressed to all of the Vice Chancellors of technical universities and administrators and principals of AICTE-approved establishments.

    The round issued by Dr Mamta Rani Agarwal stated that the Bhartiya Shiksha Board (BSB) was established on March 9, 2019, and was authorized by the Education Ministry on January 25, 2023.

    “Association of Indian Universities (AIU) accords equivalence to school Boards in India,” the round stated.

    It stated that AIU, via its August 3, 2022 letter, has accorded equivalence for Grade 10 and Grade 12 Board examination {qualifications} of Bhartiya Shiksha Board (BSB) that shall perform as a daily college Board inside India. The round was issued on September 11 however was posted on the AICTE web site on September 14.

    “You are, therefore, requested to consider Bhartiya Shiksha Board as a Pan India School Education Board,” the round stated.

    The government members of the board are headed by Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna, the co-founder of the yoga guru’s FMCG firm Patanjal, an Indian multinational conglomerate holding firm primarily based in Haridwar, Uttarakhand.

    According to its web site, the board goals to offer college students a complete schooling integrating conventional Indian information techniques with trendy science and know-how.

    It stated that the Bhartiya Shiksha Board started as a “movement to re-establish Indian knowledge systems by consciously discarding Macaulay’s toxic legacy that wilfully liquidated our indigenous education and knowledge systems –Bhartiya Gyan Parampara and the Gurukul system and substituted it with the western culture and slave mindset of a colonised nation.”

    It added that “BSB has come into existence with a mandate to devise a genuinely indigenous model of school education that would blend the ancient Indian knowledge heritage with modern scientific knowledge and e-learning. BSB would affiliate government and private schools all over India to disseminate their uniquely ‘Bhartiya’ educational model.”

    It stated that BSB had devised a nationwide schooling system that takes due cognisance of the most recent scientific analysis occurring within the subject of mind growth, youngster growth and learner-centred pedagogy and combines them with qualities of our personal Bhartiya mannequin of education – the Gurukul system and Guru Shishya Parampara.

    The different board members are religious guru Morari Bapu; Swami Govind Giri Ji; Shrinivasa Varakhedi, Vice Chancellor Central Sanskrit University, Delhi; Dr Nagendra Prasad Singh, ex-IAS; Padamshri Dr Punam Suri, Dr. Ved Prakash, former UGC Chairman; Manoj Srivastava, Director, CBSE and Gridhar Malaviya, the chancellor of Banaras Hindu University.

    NEW DELHI: The Bhartiya Shiksha Board (BSB) based by yoga guru Ramdev has been designated as a pan-India School Education Board on the traces of different nationwide college boards such because the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the Indian Council of Secondary Education (ICSE).

    In its current round, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), a national-level council for technical schooling, stated that the Bhartiya Shiksha Board is a pan-India college schooling board.

    The round was addressed to all of the Vice Chancellors of technical universities and administrators and principals of AICTE-approved establishments.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The round issued by Dr Mamta Rani Agarwal stated that the Bhartiya Shiksha Board (BSB) was established on March 9, 2019, and was authorized by the Education Ministry on January 25, 2023.

    “Association of Indian Universities (AIU) accords equivalence to school Boards in India,” the round stated.

    It stated that AIU, via its August 3, 2022 letter, has accorded equivalence for Grade 10 and Grade 12 Board examination {qualifications} of Bhartiya Shiksha Board (BSB) that shall perform as a daily college Board inside India. The round was issued on September 11 however was posted on the AICTE web site on September 14.

    “You are, therefore, requested to consider Bhartiya Shiksha Board as a Pan India School Education Board,” the round stated.

    The government members of the board are headed by Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna, the co-founder of the yoga guru’s FMCG firm Patanjal, an Indian multinational conglomerate holding firm primarily based in Haridwar, Uttarakhand.

    According to its web site, the board goals to offer college students a complete schooling integrating conventional Indian information techniques with trendy science and know-how.

    It stated that the Bhartiya Shiksha Board started as a “movement to re-establish Indian knowledge systems by consciously discarding Macaulay’s toxic legacy that wilfully liquidated our indigenous education and knowledge systems –Bhartiya Gyan Parampara and the Gurukul system and substituted it with the western culture and slave mindset of a colonised nation.”

    It added that “BSB has come into existence with a mandate to devise a genuinely indigenous model of school education that would blend the ancient Indian knowledge heritage with modern scientific knowledge and e-learning. BSB would affiliate government and private schools all over India to disseminate their uniquely ‘Bhartiya’ educational model.”

    It stated that BSB had devised a nationwide schooling system that takes due cognisance of the most recent scientific analysis occurring within the subject of mind growth, youngster growth and learner-centred pedagogy and combines them with qualities of our personal Bhartiya mannequin of education – the Gurukul system and Guru Shishya Parampara.

    The different board members are religious guru Morari Bapu; Swami Govind Giri Ji; Shrinivasa Varakhedi, Vice Chancellor Central Sanskrit University, Delhi; Dr Nagendra Prasad Singh, ex-IAS; Padamshri Dr Punam Suri, Dr. Ved Prakash, former UGC Chairman; Manoj Srivastava, Director, CBSE and Gridhar Malaviya, the chancellor of Banaras Hindu University.

  • Haridwar: Two booked for making indecent cartoon of Ramdev primarily based on ‘Besharam Rang’

    Express News Service

    DEHRADUN: Two individuals have been booked for allegedly making cartoons of Baba Ramdev and making them viral on social media.

    A disciple of Baba Ramdev had lodged a case towards a cartoonist and a reporter at Kankhal police station in Haridwar, accusing them of constructing and circulating obscene cartoons. The police have registered a case and began an investigation. 

    The Cartoon in query was primarily based on the controversial tune ‘Besharam Rang’ from Siddharth Anand’s upcoming movie ‘Pathaan’ that includes actors Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone.

    The cartoon reportedly depicts Ramdev carrying saffron underwear and is seen hugging Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a pose just like the one that includes Shah Rukh and Deepika from the music video. 

    Raman Panwar, a resident of Kankhal, had alleged in his grievance to the inspector Mukesh Chauhan {that a} cartoonist named Hemant Malviya had “hurt the sentiments” of yoga guru Baba Ramdev by making “objectionable” and “derogatory” cartoons.

    In his grievance, Pawar accused the duo had been accused of “tarnishing” the picture of the yoga guru by making indecent and obscene posters of him and making them viral on social media.

    They had been booked underneath part 153A of the IPC on the cost of inciting non secular sentiments. SSP City Swatantra Kumar Singh mentioned a case has been registered and an investigation is underway.

    COLUMN | Besharam Rang: Showing our true colors

    DEHRADUN: Two individuals have been booked for allegedly making cartoons of Baba Ramdev and making them viral on social media.

    A disciple of Baba Ramdev had lodged a case towards a cartoonist and a reporter at Kankhal police station in Haridwar, accusing them of constructing and circulating obscene cartoons. The police have registered a case and began an investigation. 

    The Cartoon in query was primarily based on the controversial tune ‘Besharam Rang’ from Siddharth Anand’s upcoming movie ‘Pathaan’ that includes actors Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone.

    The cartoon reportedly depicts Ramdev carrying saffron underwear and is seen hugging Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a pose just like the one that includes Shah Rukh and Deepika from the music video. 

    Raman Panwar, a resident of Kankhal, had alleged in his grievance to the inspector Mukesh Chauhan {that a} cartoonist named Hemant Malviya had “hurt the sentiments” of yoga guru Baba Ramdev by making “objectionable” and “derogatory” cartoons.

    In his grievance, Pawar accused the duo had been accused of “tarnishing” the picture of the yoga guru by making indecent and obscene posters of him and making them viral on social media.

    They had been booked underneath part 153A of the IPC on the cost of inciting non secular sentiments. SSP City Swatantra Kumar Singh mentioned a case has been registered and an investigation is underway.

    COLUMN | Besharam Rang: Showing our true colors

  • Two media homes get Press Council discover for carrying deceptive Patanjali advertisements

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: The Press Council of India (PCI) has issued present trigger notices to 2 outstanding media homes for carrying deceptive ads claiming a treatment for diabetes, blood stress, and different illnesses, launched by Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali group. 

    The present trigger notices to nationwide and regional teams of publications got here on complaints filed by a Kerala-based RTI activist Dr Ok V Babu, an ophthalmologist, who objected to the ads claiming them to violate the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act.

    Divya Pharmacy, a advertising arm of the Patanjali group, issued the ads. Before PCI swung into motion, Uttarakhand state drug controller and the central authorities authorities had taken critical observe of the violations.

    The present trigger was issued in accordance with Regulation 5(1) of the Press Council (Procedure for Inquiry) Regulations.

    Dr Babu instructed TNIE although it’s clear that the commercial carried violated the norms of journalistic conduct, 2020, which says ads that offend the provisions of the DMR (Objectionable Advertisement) Act as amended in 2002, or some other statute ought to be rejected, many print media are persevering with the violation. 

    “This is in opposition to the curiosity of sufferers and public well being. I’m positive it will act as a deterrent sooner or later. I welcome the discover despatched by PCI to the editors of the 2 Indian dailies,” he instructed TNIE. 

    The media homes have been given two weeks to reply. The Divya pharmacy had marketed Divya Lipidom, Divya Livogrit, Divya Livamrit Advance, Divya Madhunashini Vati, and Divya Madhunshini tablets as a treatment for coronary heart illnesses and different illnesses.

    NEW DELHI: The Press Council of India (PCI) has issued present trigger notices to 2 outstanding media homes for carrying deceptive ads claiming a treatment for diabetes, blood stress, and different illnesses, launched by Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali group. 

    The present trigger notices to nationwide and regional teams of publications got here on complaints filed by a Kerala-based RTI activist Dr Ok V Babu, an ophthalmologist, who objected to the ads claiming them to violate the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act.

    Divya Pharmacy, a advertising arm of the Patanjali group, issued the ads. Before PCI swung into motion, Uttarakhand state drug controller and the central authorities authorities had taken critical observe of the violations.

    The present trigger was issued in accordance with Regulation 5(1) of the Press Council (Procedure for Inquiry) Regulations.

    Dr Babu instructed TNIE although it’s clear that the commercial carried violated the norms of journalistic conduct, 2020, which says ads that offend the provisions of the DMR (Objectionable Advertisement) Act as amended in 2002, or some other statute ought to be rejected, many print media are persevering with the violation. 

    “This is in opposition to the curiosity of sufferers and public well being. I’m positive it will act as a deterrent sooner or later. I welcome the discover despatched by PCI to the editors of the 2 Indian dailies,” he instructed TNIE. 

    The media homes have been given two weeks to reply. The Divya pharmacy had marketed Divya Lipidom, Divya Livogrit, Divya Livamrit Advance, Divya Madhunashini Vati, and Divya Madhunshini tablets as a treatment for coronary heart illnesses and different illnesses.

  • Ayush ministry makes a U-turn on motion in opposition to Ramdev’s pharmacy for deceptive adverts

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: The Ayush ministry has made a U-turn on deceptive ads of Ayush merchandise contradicting its stand and the minister’s assertion in Parliament, an RTI reply has revealed.

    After Kannur-based ophthalmologist Dr Okay V Babu complained in opposition to doubtful and deceptive ads by Baba Ramdev’s Haridwar-based Patanjali Ayurved, the Ayush ministry requested Uttarakhand licensing authority to take motion.

    Instead of taking motion, the state licensing authority cited Rule 170 beneath the Drugs and Cosmetic Act 1945, which they stated prevented them from penalising the Patanjali group’s Divya Pharmacy and claimed the supply’s software was subjudice and pending earlier than the Mumbai High Court.

    Despite understanding that motion might be taken beneath the Magic Remedies Act, the Ayush ministry didn’t appropriate the state licensing authority, stated Babu.

    In its reply to Babu on November 22, the ministry reiterated the identical stand taken by the state licensing authority, and stated, “the matter is under sub judice and pending” earlier than the Mumbai High Court and the “necessary action may be taken subject to the final decision of the court.”

    The ministry didn’t appropriate the state authority that motion might be taken beneath Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) 1954, 3 (d) and Drugs and Cosmetic Rules 1945, 106 (1). Under these sections, ads of medication for 54 and 51 ailments which can be beneath the schedule are prohibited. 

    The criticism was in opposition to an commercial claiming that Divya Pharmacy’s Lipidom may scale back ldl cholesterol.

    “In my complaint in February this year, I had sought action against the misleading advertisement under Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) 1954. I made no complaint under Rule 170. They knowingly cited Rule 170, which they knew could not be used, and flagged it to state that the matter is sub-judice,” Babu advised The New Indian Express.

    “The Drug Policy Section of the Ministry of AYUSH is misinterpreting the stay on Rule 170, which was added just to reinforce the existing Acts, as a stay on the whole of DMR (OA) 1954 section 3(d) and D & C Act 1945, section 106(1), which prohibits the advertisements of the drugs under schedule.”

    Babu stated he has now written to the Ayush minister Sarbananda Sonowal for “wrong interpretation of the sub-judice nature of Rule 170 of D & C Rules 1945, thereby exonerating the violators of DMR (OA) 1954” and requested him to intervene on the matter.

    The RTI activist stated the U-turn by the ministry is contradictory to the assertion of the minister within the Parliament in March 2022 and their communications to the state licensing authority in April after which in September, asking them to provoke motion in opposition to Divya Pharmacy beneath DMR (OA) 1954.

    Even the file notings of the Ayush ministry point out that although Rule 170 is subjudice, motion might be taken beneath DMR (OA) 1954.

    “If the present position of the Ministry of Ayush, which is contradictory to the rules of the land, is implemented, it will lead to flooding of the media with misleading advertisements and will prove a public health disaster,” Babu added.

    Sonowal within the parliament had stated that “the protocol or pointers are in pressure to limit Ayush merchandise of medicinal use with doubtful claims and for promoting sure medicines beneath medical supervision.”

    “The Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954 and Rules there beneath embody the provisions for prohibition of deceptive ads and exaggerated claims of medication and medicinal substances, together with Ayush medicines and for the penalty to be imposed on the defaulters,” he had stated within the Rajya Sabha on March 22.

    “The State/UT Governments are empowered to enforce the legal provisions under Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940 and the Drugs & Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954, and rules made thereunder,” he added.

    The minister had additionally stated that media regulators have additionally been approached to stop the publication of inappropriate ads selling sale of Ayurvedic and different such medicines in public curiosity.

    Despite the minister’s assertion, Patanjali Ayurved merchandise proceed to promote in newspapers, Babu stated.

    NEW DELHI: The Ayush ministry has made a U-turn on deceptive ads of Ayush merchandise contradicting its stand and the minister’s assertion in Parliament, an RTI reply has revealed.

    After Kannur-based ophthalmologist Dr Okay V Babu complained in opposition to doubtful and deceptive ads by Baba Ramdev’s Haridwar-based Patanjali Ayurved, the Ayush ministry requested Uttarakhand licensing authority to take motion.

    Instead of taking motion, the state licensing authority cited Rule 170 beneath the Drugs and Cosmetic Act 1945, which they stated prevented them from penalising the Patanjali group’s Divya Pharmacy and claimed the supply’s software was subjudice and pending earlier than the Mumbai High Court.

    Despite understanding that motion might be taken beneath the Magic Remedies Act, the Ayush ministry didn’t appropriate the state licensing authority, stated Babu.

    In its reply to Babu on November 22, the ministry reiterated the identical stand taken by the state licensing authority, and stated, “the matter is under sub judice and pending” earlier than the Mumbai High Court and the “necessary action may be taken subject to the final decision of the court.”

    The ministry didn’t appropriate the state authority that motion might be taken beneath Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) 1954, 3 (d) and Drugs and Cosmetic Rules 1945, 106 (1). Under these sections, ads of medication for 54 and 51 ailments which can be beneath the schedule are prohibited. 

    The criticism was in opposition to an commercial claiming that Divya Pharmacy’s Lipidom may scale back ldl cholesterol.

    “In my complaint in February this year, I had sought action against the misleading advertisement under Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) 1954. I made no complaint under Rule 170. They knowingly cited Rule 170, which they knew could not be used, and flagged it to state that the matter is sub-judice,” Babu advised The New Indian Express.

    “The Drug Policy Section of the Ministry of AYUSH is misinterpreting the stay on Rule 170, which was added just to reinforce the existing Acts, as a stay on the whole of DMR (OA) 1954 section 3(d) and D & C Act 1945, section 106(1), which prohibits the advertisements of the drugs under schedule.”

    Babu stated he has now written to the Ayush minister Sarbananda Sonowal for “wrong interpretation of the sub-judice nature of Rule 170 of D & C Rules 1945, thereby exonerating the violators of DMR (OA) 1954” and requested him to intervene on the matter.

    The RTI activist stated the U-turn by the ministry is contradictory to the assertion of the minister within the Parliament in March 2022 and their communications to the state licensing authority in April after which in September, asking them to provoke motion in opposition to Divya Pharmacy beneath DMR (OA) 1954.

    Even the file notings of the Ayush ministry point out that although Rule 170 is subjudice, motion might be taken beneath DMR (OA) 1954.

    “If the present position of the Ministry of Ayush, which is contradictory to the rules of the land, is implemented, it will lead to flooding of the media with misleading advertisements and will prove a public health disaster,” Babu added.

    Sonowal within the parliament had stated that “the protocol or pointers are in pressure to limit Ayush merchandise of medicinal use with doubtful claims and for promoting sure medicines beneath medical supervision.”

    “The Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954 and Rules there beneath embody the provisions for prohibition of deceptive ads and exaggerated claims of medication and medicinal substances, together with Ayush medicines and for the penalty to be imposed on the defaulters,” he had stated within the Rajya Sabha on March 22.

    “The State/UT Governments are empowered to enforce the legal provisions under Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940 and the Drugs & Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954, and rules made thereunder,” he added.

    The minister had additionally stated that media regulators have additionally been approached to stop the publication of inappropriate ads selling sale of Ayurvedic and different such medicines in public curiosity.

    Despite the minister’s assertion, Patanjali Ayurved merchandise proceed to promote in newspapers, Babu stated.

  • Baba Ramdev Launches Scathing Attack On Bollywood | This Is What He Said

    Moradabad: Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev on Saturday launched an all-out assault on Bollywood as he charged the Hindi movie trade with being within the grip of medication. He alleged that high Bollywood actors eat medication. “Salman Khan takes drugs, I do not know about Aamir Khan. Shah Rukh Khan`s son was caught taking drugs and remained in jail. As far as actresses are concerned, God alone knows about them,” he stated.Also Read – Shah Rukh Khan, Rani Mukerji, Kajol Starrer Blockbuster Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Turns 24; Karan Johar Shares Video | WATCH

    Baba Ramdev was talking on the Aryaveer and Veerangana convention in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh. Also Read – Viral: Huge Python Crawls Inside School Bus In UP, Rescued By Forest Officials | Watch Video

    “There are drugs all around the film industry, there are drugs in politics too. Liquor is distributed during elections. We should take a resolution that India must be free from every drug addiction. For this, we will launch a movement,” he stated. Also Read – Bigg Boss 16: Uttaran Fame Sreejita De is First Contestant to be Eliminated on ‘Shanivaar Ka Vaar’

  • Modiji didn’t divide the nation: Baba Ramdev on Rahul Gandhi’s ‘two Indias’ comment

    A day after Congress chief Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of dividing the nation and creating two sorts of individuals, Baba Ramdev stated Modiji didn’t divide the nation.

    While addressing a public rally as part of the Congress’s Bharat Jodo marketing campaign at Aluva in Kerala’s Ernakulam district, Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of dividing the nation and creating two sorts of individuals.

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    “Two types of India have been created under Modi rule. One India of a few billionaires control the whole India’s business, and they can fulfil their dreams easily. There is another India of millions of people who are farmers, labourers, small business owners, tea shop owners, IT professionals and none of them are able to fulfil their dreams,” Rahul stated.

    Reacting to Rahul Gandhi’s assertion, Baba Ramdev stated, “Modiji did not divide the country and no one person can unite India. Uniting a country means the country is broken, but India is already united.”

    There has been a fall within the costs of oil within the nation, however the costs of ghee are touching the sky. On this, Patanjali Group founder Baba Ramdev stated, “Oil prices have come down all over the country, this is a good sign for the consumers, but it is a different matter that ghee has become expensive.”

    Baba Ramdev was at a non-public firm’s programme in an area resort in Agra.

    Baba Ramdev, nonetheless, refused to just accept that there’s a worry of recession within the nation. Denying the potential of a recession in India, he stated, “Elections are still too far in 2024, but India is moving ahead with its unity, integrity, and sovereignty. There was no big challenge before India. It is a different matter that in the whole world, there is a phase of recession, and countries all over the world are trying to get out of this recession. But there is no major impact of the recession in India yet.”

    Speaking on non secular sabotage, Baba Ramdev stated, “Temples are being razed in England. This sabotage is being done by some nefarious people of Pakistan who call themselves Islamic leaders. These people are doing it in Britain because they can’t do it in India. Religious sabotage should end all over the world.”

    — ENDS —

  • Ruchi Soya Industries Ltd now turns into Patanjali Foods Ltd

    Edible oil agency Ruchi Soya Industries Ltd on Tuesday stated the title of the corporate has been modified to Patanjali Foods Ltd with impact from June 24.

    In 2019, Baba Ramdev-led Patanjali Ayurved acquired Ruchi Soya for Rs 4,350 crore by an insolvency course of.

    In a regulatory submitting, Ruchi Soya knowledgeable that it has “received an e-mail dated June 27, 2022, from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs mentioning that a fresh ‘Certificate of Incorporation pursuant to change of name’ dated June 24, 2022, was issued by the Registrar of Companies, Maharashtra, Mumbai”.

    Accordingly, the title of the corporate stands modified from Ruchi Soya Industries Ltd to Patanjali Foods Ltd with impact from June 24, 2022.

    Ruchi Soya is submitting the required paperwork in respect of the change of title to inventory exchanges individually.

    Last month, Patanjali Ayurved Ltd offered its meals retail enterprise to group agency Ruchi Soya Industries Ltd for Rs 690 crore as a part of its technique to deal with non-food, conventional medication and wellness enterprise.

    Ruchi Soya not too long ago raised Rs 4,300 crore by its follow-on public provide (FPO) primarily to clear its debt.

    The firm’s internet revenue elevated to Rs 806.3 crore in 2021-22 from Rs 680.77 crore a 12 months in the past.

    Total earnings jumped to Rs 24,284.38 crore over the last fiscal from Rs 16,382.97 crore in 2020-21.

    Ruchi Soya sells its merchandise below manufacturers like Ruchi Gold, Mahakosh, Sunrich, Nutrela, Ruchi Star and Ruchi Sunlight.

    It can also be into oil palm plantations and renewable wind power enterprise.

     

  • Some folks ‘spreading anarchy’ to ‘take away’ PM Narendra Modi: Ramdev on Agnipath protests

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Terming protests in opposition to the Agnipath army recruitment scheme as “meaningless politics”, yoga guru Swami Ramdev on Wednesday alleged that just a few individuals are “spreading anarchy” within the nation to “remove” Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah from energy.

    Addressing a yoga occasion at Delhi University, Ramdev stated that there ought to be yoga in politics, however there ought to be no politics in yoga.

    “If they (protesters) had done yoga, they wouldn’t have resorted to arson. They should also perform yoga. It (protests against Agnipath) is a meaningless politics. Basically, a few people are running an agenda to spread anarchy in the country. They want to spread anarchy to remove Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah from power,” he stated.

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    The Agnipath scheme, introduced by the Centre on June 14, proposes to recruit troopers into the armed forces on a short-term contractual foundation. The scheme envisages retiring 75 per cent of the recruits after 4 years of service with out pension and well being advantages, however with a payout package deal of practically Rs 11.70 lakh.

    Following the announcement, violent protests broke out in a number of components of the nation. Ramdev was the chief visitor on the second day of Yoga Week organized by the University of Delhi to commemorate the eighth International Day of Yoga.

    Union Culture and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal was additionally current with him as a particular visitor. The programme was presided over by DU Vice-Chancellor Prof Yogesh Singh. “Yoga should be in politics also, but politics should not be in yoga,” Ramdev stated.

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    Explaining yoga, Ramdev stated that yoga is self-discipline and self-motivation, and it has many dimensions with self-analysis. Being bodily and mentally match and preserving your thoughts, ideas and feelings below management is yoga, he stated.

    Speaking on the event, Meghwal stated asanas, pranayam and meditation are full yoga which feeds the primary 4 organs of the physique. “This eliminates negative thoughts and brings excellence. The meaning of yoga is to unite the mind, intellect and soul. When this addition is completed, then yoga takes place according to the Indian system,” he stated.

  • Contributions to Patanjali Research Foundation to be eligible for I-T aid

    The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has notified Patanjali Research Foundation Trust as a ‘research association’ for scientific analysis, implying donations to the Trust can be eligible for revenue tax deduction. The CBDT has granted the standing beneath Section 35(1)(ii) of the Income-tax Act for 5 years with impact from monetary 12 months 2021-22.
    Section 35 of the Income-tax Act supplies for deduction of expenditure of an quantity equal to one-and-one-half occasions of any sum paid to a analysis affiliation which has as its object the endeavor of scientific analysis or to a college, school or different establishment for use for scientific analysis. A enterprise entity that pays any quantity to the Trust for scientific analysis shall be eligible to say the expense as deduction from enterprise revenue beneath Section 35, thereby decreasing their tax outgo.
    A taxpayer is permitted to deduct any quantity paid to an ‘approved scientific research association’ for endeavor scientific analysis in computing the revenue beneath the pinnacle of enterprise and occupation.
    The beforehand notified standing beneath Section 35 (1) was granted to Bennett University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh beneath the class of ‘University, College or other institution’ for Scientific Research and Research in Social Science and Statistical Research on March 9, 2021. Before that, within the final one 12 months, related notified standing was granted to Institute of Pesticide Formulation Technology, Gurgaon, on January 28, 2020 and to Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad on January 3, 2020.

    Neha Malhotra, director, Nangia Andersen LLP, mentioned such provisions function tax incentives for spending on scientific analysis. “Tax breaks in the form of deduction of expenses incurred for specified purposes channelises the funds of the taxpayers in the desired area of investment, that is scientific research in this case. Such provisions serve as a tax incentive for the taxpayer spending on scientific research and source of funds for the research association.”

  • FIR towards Ramdev for spreading ‘false information’ on allopathy

    Police in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur have registered an FIR towards yoga guru Ramdev for allegedly spreading “false” details about the medicines being utilized by the medical fraternity for the therapy of Covid-19, police official stated on Thursday.
    The case was filed on Wednesday evening towards Ramkrishna Yadav alias Baba Ramdev based mostly on a criticism filed by the Chhattisgarh’s unit of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Raipur’s Senior Superintendent of Police Ajay Yadav stated.
    Ramdev has been booked beneath sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 269 (negligent act more likely to unfold an infection of illness harmful to life), 504 (intentional insult with intent to impress breach of the peace) and others of the IPC and provisions of Disaster Management Act, 2005, he stated.

    Further investigation into the matter is underway, he added.
    Chairman of Hospital Board IMA (CG) Dr Rakesh Gupta, IMA’s Raipur President and Vikas Agrawal have been amongst docs who had earlier lodged the criticism.
    As per the criticism, since over the past one yr, Ramdev has been allegedly propagating false data and his threatening statements on social media towards medicines being utilized by medical fraternity, Government of India, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and different frontline organisations in therapy of coronavirus an infection.
    There are a number of movies of him on social media by which he had allegedly made such deceptive remarks, it stated.
    At a time when docs, paramedical employees and all branches of presidency and administration have been collectively battling COVID-19, Ramdev has been allegedly deceptive individuals about established and accredited therapy strategies, the criticism stated.
    Ramdev’s remarks on trendy medical services and allopathy medicines, which have been curing over 90 p.c of the sufferers, would put the lives of individuals at risk, it alleged.
    “During the investigation of the complaint, it was found that his statements amount to violation of the notification of the Chhattisgarh government dated March 13 last year,” the official stated.

    The notification states that no particular person/establishment/organisation will use any print or digital media for data concerning COVID-19 with out prior permission of the state’s Health Department. This is to keep away from unfold of any hearsay or unauthenticated data concerning COVID-19.