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Breaking News LIVE, October 20, 2021: Hello and welcome to ABP News LIVE Breaking News Blog! Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate India’s 29th international and UP’s third international airport in Kushinagar today in the presence of Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and a 125-member delegation. Kushinagar is the place where Gautam Buddha attained Mahaparinirvana. The grand inauguration ceremony, which is being seen as a major conduit in the Buddhist circuit to boost tourist inflow, will also be attended by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and a host of dignitaries, including ambassadors of around 15 countries to India.
The IMD on Tuesday issued an Orange alert for 11 districts of Kerala indicating heavy rainfall. The weatherman has put 12 districts in the state on Orange alert on Thursday also. The IMD sounded an Orange alert for Thiruvananthapuram, Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Ernakulam, Idukki, Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad, and Kannur districts on October 20. In addition, an Orange alert was issued for all districts other than Kannur and Kasaragod on October 21.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case on Tuesday released pictures of six people standing near an SUV, which was set ablaze during the October 3 incident.
It has assured that details of those giving information will not be revealed besides informers will be given due rewards.
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh had set up the SIT to investigate the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case in which eight people, including four farmers, were killed.
"The SIT team probing the October 3 violence has got some photos and videos. We are releasing photographs and appeal to people to identify them," an SIT official said.
"Six photographs have been released for identification," he said.
The SIT has already issued notices to over three dozen farmers for questioning in a case related to the lynching of BJP workers.
Two FIRs were registered at the Tikonia police station after eight people, including four farmers, were killed in the violence. In the first FIR, MoS Ajay Mishra's son Ashish was named as accused besides 15 to 20 unidentified persons.
Another FIR was lodged at the same police station on the basis of a complaint by Sumit Jaiswal, who has now been arrested.
In the complaint, Jaiswal, a resident of Ayodhyapuri here, identified himself as a BJP worker who was on his way to welcome Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya for a wrestling event at Banbirpur, when the violence broke out.
So far, 10 people, including the MoS' son Ashish Mishra, have been arrested in the case.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Rajkiya Medical College in UP's Kushinagar and said that now whoever wants to study medicine and become a doctor to serve the country can register and the new education policy will ensure that there will be no language barrier for the students. This college will build doctors who will contribute in stopping diseases like encephalitis in the state along with measures taken by the Yogi government to control the spread.
Breaking News LIVE: Sri Lanka Cabinet Minister Gifts Sinhala version of Bhagavad Gita To PM Modi
Sri Lanka's Cabinet Minister Namal Rajapaksa gifts a Sinhala version of Bhagavad Gita to PM Narendra Modi.
Kushinagar, UP | Sri Lanka's Cabinet Minister Namal Rajapaksa gifts a Sinhala version of Bhagavad Gita to PM Narendra Modi. It also carries a message from the Sri Lankan PM Mahinda Rajapaksa pic.twitter.com/COjgKg1bwj
— ANI (@ANI) October 20, 2021
Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said, "When Minister Namal Rajapaksa met our PM, he presented to him a copy of Bhagavad Gita in Sinhala language, in which his father Sri Lankan PM Mahinda Rajapaksa has written a personal message to our PM."
Breaking News LIVE: PM Modi addresses Buddhist monks in Kushinagar
We all know that message of Buddhism in Sri Lanka was first carried from India by Emperor Ashoka's son Mahendra & daughter Sanghamitra. It is believed that on this day 'Arhat Mahinda' came back & told his father that Sri Lanka had accepted Buddha's message: PM Modi addressed the Buddhist Monks in Kushinagar
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