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Biden’s Border Action, Elections in India, Ecstasy and PTSD

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The Biden administration is expected to issue an executive order that could restrict crossings at the U.S. southern border. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to win a third term. A panel of FDA experts examines whether MDMA, found in the party drug ecstasy, could treat post-traumatic stress disorder.

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The Sunday Story: An Indian Political Scandal

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Starting in 2018, sixteen people were arrested in India for allegedly plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They included professors, a poet, trade unionists and members of an improv acting troupe. Even an elderly Jesuit priest.

The evidence against them, discovered on their electronic devices, appears damning: minutes of terror cell meetings, emails to banned Maoist rebels and a letter suggesting a suicide attack on Modi.

Today, fifteen defendants continue to await trial. They all say they were falsely accused and that the evidence against them was fabricated and planted by hackers in order to silence them. Digital forensic investigators not only agree but say Modi’s own government may be involved.

In this episode of The Sunday Story, NPR’s Lauren Frayer follows the twists and turns of what Indian police say was a complex plot to sabotage Modi’s government, and that defendants say was a setup. One of the defendants, the Rev. Stan Swamy, died while fighting to clear his name.

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DeSantis Drops Out, Hindu Temple Consecration, Abortion Rights Campaign

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Ron DeSantis endorses Donald Trump ahead of New Hampshire primary. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates a Hindu temple on the site of a historic mosque. And Democrats launch an abortion rights campaign tour.

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Clarification: In this episode, we say that abortion used to be a constitutional right. To be precise, abortion used to be a fundamental right protected under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court ruled in 2022 in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case that abortion was as not a constitutional right nor a fundamental right protected by the Constitution.

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Western India hospital inferno claims ten newborns lives

Angella Semu
This frame grab from video provided by KK Productions shows women grieving at District General Hospital where a fire broke out in Bhandara, about 70 kilometres from Nagpur, India, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. A fire broke out in the intensive care unit of a government-run hospital in western India early Saturday, killing 10 infants, police and news reports said. Firefighters rescued seven babies from the newborn care unit of the hospital. (KK Productions via AP)

MAHARASHTRA-(MaraviPost)-Ten newborns were killed on Saturday in a massive fire at a hospital in Maharashtra, India’s richest state.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi confirmed the tragedy on Saturday, January 9.

Narendra Modi on twitter said, “Heart-wrenching tragedy in Bhandara, Maharashtra, where we have lost precious young lives.

“Heart-wrenching tragedy in Bhandara, Maharashtra, where we have lost precious young lives”.

A report by Reuters indicated that the massive blaze broke out around 2am on Saturday at the hospital in Maharashtra in Care Unit for newborns.

According to the civil surgeon at Bhandara District General Hospital Pramod Khandate, the care unit had about 17 infants the time of the incident and seven were rescued.

Other reports revealed that the victims of the inferno were between one and three months old.

Several other politicians in the country including the opposition leader Rahul Gandhi have expressed their grief.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thakre has ordered a probe into the incident.

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How TB Joshua Prophesied Deadly Indian Bridge Collapse!

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TB Joshua
The [South African] currency that is going up and down will soon be stable,” Joshua told congregants at The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) on 3rd January 2016
Amidst the ongoing rescue mission and steadily mounting death toll in the tragic bridge collapse that struck Kolkata in eastern India, a video has surfaced online claiming the event had – yet again – been ‘foretold’ by Nigerian ‘Prophet’ T.B. Joshua.

 

Another calamity, another prophecy. Just a day after he allegedly predicted the hijacking of an EgyptAir plane, Joshua’s media team have released another controversial YouTube clip with a purported ‘prophecy’.

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