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PM Modi BBC documentary row: Congress-BJP workers clash during screening in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram | WATCH

BJP activists and Kerala Youth Congress workers clashed in Pothencode area of Thiruvananthapuram after the latter tried to screen the controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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BJP activists and Kerala Youth Congress workers clashed in Pothencode area of Thiruvananthapuram after the latter tried to screen the controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Kerala unit of the Congress on Thursday screened the two-part BBC series in the state on Thursday.

The ruling CPM has denied Centre’s effort to ban the documentary in the state, even though the Congress is the opposition, it has decided to side with ruling party and said it will organize screenings of the contentious series across Kerala.

However, Congress faced dissension among its own ranks as former Union Defence Minister and veteran Congress leader AK Antony’s son Anil Antony resigned following a tweet condemning the BBC documentary on PM Modi.

Anil Antony, in his resignation letter posted on Twitter, claimed he was quitting the Congress because of “intolerant calls to retract a tweet” wherein he had condemned the controversial BBC documentary on PM Modi.

Anil Antony, who was part of Congress’s social media cell in Kerala, also took a jibe at Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. In his tweet, Antony wrote that he was received abuses by “ones supporting a trek to promote love.”

In his resignation letter, the Congress veteran’s son lashed out at the party leadership saying that he was well aware that only criterion of merit in the party is become a yes man who is at the beck and call of the party’s top brass.

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The controversial documentary, which questions Modi’s role during the infamous 2002 Godhra riots and his affect on the rise of militant Hindu nationalism in the country, has been banned by the Centre YouTube and other social media platforms and posts containing any links to the series on social media are actively being taken down.

Opposition parties, led by the Congress, have condemned the ban, dubbing as an attack on free press and free speech. The Congress has said it will organize screenings of the piece in various states.

Jamia Millia Islamia University students screened the BBC Documentary on Wednesday. The move by the Jamia Millia Islamia students to screen the BBC documentary comes days after JNU’s screening of the documentary. According to reports, the police thwarted the screening and detained dozens of students.

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Quake felt in Delhi again, tremors of magnitude 2.7 jolts the national capital

The quake on Wednesday comes after another earthquake that jolted parts of India on Tuesday night. As per the reports, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook up parts of Northern India. It was also reported that at least 11 people died and over 160 others were injured in neighboring Pakistan.

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Another earthquake shook up the national capital on Wednesday after parts of India witnessed a 6.6 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday night. As per the reports, the quake was of 2.7 magnitudes and took place 5 km below the national capital.

The National Center for Seismology also tweeted informing the same as they wrote that an earthquake of Magnitude 2.7 occurred on 22 March at 4:42 pm. The latitude was 28.66 and the Long was 77.03. The depth of the tremor was 5 Km. The epicenter of the quake is reported to be west Delhi.

The quake on Wednesday comes after another earthquake that jolted parts of India on Tuesday night. As per the reports, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook up parts of Northern India. It was also reported that at least 11 people died and over 160 others were injured in neighboring Pakistan.

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A statement by the international Seismological Center reported that apart from Pakistan, tremors were also felt in India, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, China, and Kyrgyzstan.

The quake jolted several parts of India at around 10:17 pm on Tuesday night. As per the reports, the tremors were felt across Northern India including Delhi-NCR, Chandigarh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Uttar Pradesh. The epicenter of the earthquake that hit northern parts of India and various other countries was Afghanistan.

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7 dead as massive blaze engulfs firecracker unit in Tamil Nadu’s Kanchipuram

A massive fire engulfed a firecracker unit in Tamil Nadu’s Kanchipuram district on Wednesday leaving at least seven people dead while 15 others received severe burn injuries, reports said.

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A massive fire engulfed a firecracker unit in Tamil Nadu’s Kanchipuram district on Wednesday leaving at least seven people dead while 15 others received severe burn injuries, reports said.

As per reports, an enormous blaze consumed a firecracker making unit at Vazhathottam, 10 kilometers from Kanchipuram, killing at least seven people and leaving fifteen others wounded.

A report quoted Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services DGP, Abhash Kumar as saying that the building collapsed due to the gigantic inferno and many people are still feared trapped inside. The officer said that a joint rescue operation was launched by the firemen, the Kanchipuram district police along with Rescue Services personnel and local residents to pull out survivors from the torched building.

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DGP Kumar said the firecracker unit had a valid license and that an investigation has been launched to ascertain the exact cause of the fire.

Local reports said that the injured, who suffered burn injuries, have been rushed nearby hospital for medical attention.

More details are awaited.

In a similar incident, ten people, including three children, were injured after a fire erupted at a seven-storey residential building in Mumbai’s Mulund West last week. The incident happened at around 2:55 pm at the Jagruti Society in Vithhal Nagar.

Rescue services and firemen successfully had rescued 80 people trapped in the burning building.

Officials at the time had said that the fire out in the electric meter room on the ground floor of the building and the smoke from the meter room spread to all its seven floors.

Fire brigade chief Sanjay Manjrekar said it was not a major fire but the smoke had spread to all the floors. He had said that people got scared of the smoke, came running and got trapped.

The official said that the fire was confined to electric wiring, electric installation, electric main cables, all meters, all switches, etc. in a common electric meter cabin on the ground floor plus the upper seven floored residential building.

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Man checks into Delhi hotel, dies by suicide after overdosing on oxygen

As per the Police, Nitesh researched painless ways to end his life and used a method which he learned during his research.

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A harrowing story has come to light from Delhi where the body of a 24-year-old man was recovered from inside a hotel in the national capital. As per the reports, the man allegedly died by suicide after overdosing on oxygen.

As per the reports, the victim, identified as Nitesh, stayed in the hotel in Adarsh Nagar with his friend and checked out the next day. However, subsequently the same day, Nitesh checked back into the hotel again.

As per the reports, the victim had been under stress from the increasing cost of the treatment for his illness which drove the man to take the drastic decision. Nitesh had entered the room with a small bag, said reports.

The body of the man was recovered from inside his hotel, according to the reports, Nitesh’s face was covered with a plastic bag that was connected to a small oxygen cylinder. It was reported that the 24-year-old man learned about this method online. When one takes in excess oxygen, the heart rate drops which leads to oxygen poisoning.

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It was also reported that a suicide note was recovered near where his body was found. In the letter, Nitesh talked about the struggles to pay for his treatment due to his prolonged illness. Nitesh, in his suicide note, also wrote about how he didn’t want his family to pay for his treatment anymore.

As per the Police, Nitesh researched painless ways to end his life and used a method which he learned during his research.

Another case of a similar nature came to the fore when a woman died by suicide subsequently after her husband committed suicide in South Delhi. It was reported that the 32-year-old woman was a resident of Hudco place in South Delhi.

The friend of the husband. who informed the police about the woman, told the media that the 32-year-old woman died by suicide after learning about the suicide of her husband.

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