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The BJP will observe the Partition Horror Day on August 14
Ahead of Independence Day 2022, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will observe Partition Horror Memorial Day on August 14 in Uttar Pradesh as part of its national campaign.
“The party would observe the 1918 Partition Horror Memorial Day in all organizational circles in the state in memory of the sad occurrence of the partition of the country in 1947,” said state BJP general secretary and in-charge of the show, Anoop Gupta in a press release. .
Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year called for the day to be observed in memory of those who suffered the excruciating pain of partition.
Independence Day 2022: No parking at Delhi Metro stations from today
Parking facilities at Delhi Metro stations will not be available from Sunday morning to Monday afternoon due to security measures taken for Independence Day, the transporter said.
Metro train services will continue to run as per schedule, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said on Friday.
“Parking facilities will not be available at Delhi Metro stations from 6:00 AM on Sunday i.e. 14th August 2022 to 2:00 PM on Monday i.e. say, August 15, 2022, given the security measures adopted on the occasion of Independence Day,” he said in a notification.
Salman Rushdie on ventilator, likely to lose an eye
Salman Rushdie was on a ventilator with a damaged liver and may lose an eye after the controversial Mumbai-born author was stabbed in the neck and abdomen by a man apparently sympathetic to Shiite extremism and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from Iran
Rushdie, who faced Islamist death threats for years after writing “The Satanic Verses,” was stabbed by a 24-year-old New Jersey resident identified as Hadi Matar, a US citizen of Lebanese descent. on stage Friday as they introduced him. at a Chautauqua Institution literary event in Western New York.
“The news is not good,” the 75-year-old writer’s agent, Andrew Wylie, said of Rushdie’s critical health, sending shockwaves across the literary world condemning the incident as an attack on freedom of expression.
