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Eastern India focal point of my development plan:Modi

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modiBalasore (Odisha): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said eastern India has remained economically backward but his government has focussed its development plan to uproot poverty from the region.

Addressing a public gathering in this coastal district of Odisha, Modi said the governments were visible in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled western and central states of India and far more developed than their counterparts in the east.

He named Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Haryana as “more developed states” in the country than Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and Odisha,

“Poverty (in the eastern region) is increasing. People from here go to western states for jobs. Why? You have every resource to be self-sufficient. The god has given you everything,” he said.

“But despite that why is the poverty still chasing us. Eastern India needs more development. And that is why all our developmental plans have preferred eastern states including Odisha.”

He said that the policies of his government “related to everyday problems of the poor in India”.

“Who needs government? Do rich people need government. If anybody needs it, its is the poor of the nation. Governments are for the poor…we have to defeat poverty. Get rid of it. And that is why we work towards the empowerment of the poor.”

Modi said that the previous central governments have been shouting slogans to eradicate poverty. “Their intentions may have been right. I am not doubting that. But their path was wrong.”

The prime minister said his government has already electrified more than 18,000 villages in India. “These villages were without power even after nearly 70 years of independence and that is the beginning of empowerment of the poor,” he added.

“We have to take every step scientifically.”

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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May 5, 2022

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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