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[00:00:09] Hello, this is your Daily Dose of News from Onmanorama. I'm your host, Deepa Soman and these are the major news stories of Wednesday, September 4, 2024.
[00:00:20] Braceless Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Delhi.
[00:00:26] It speculated the grapplers would be filtered in the harianna assembly polls by the Congress.
[00:00:32] North Korea's Kim Jong Un ordered the execution of 30 officials for failing to prevent floods.
[00:00:39] The National Medical Commission of India reintroduced Sordomi and less-beenism as a natural sexual offences in the forensic medicine and toxicology curriculum
[00:00:48] for undergraduate medical students. This is despite the Supreme Court decriminalizing homosexuality as an offense in 2018.
[00:00:58] Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Singapore for a two-day visit to strengthen bilateral ties.
[00:01:03] This is a visit after six years and the country's leaders will review the India Singapore strategic partnership.
[00:01:10] Activities political party Tamil vet Rickaragam to hold its first public meeting zone, Rahul Gandhi and Pineray Vijayan,
[00:01:18] extended invites. Let's get into the details.
[00:01:22] Braceless Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat met former Congress President Rahul Gandhi in Delhi on Wednesday,
[00:01:28] amid speculation that the two-star grapplers could be filtered in the harianna assembly polls by the party.
[00:01:35] The Congress has remained tight-lipped about whether Punia and Phogat could be filtered.
[00:01:40] Harianna's AICC General Secretary in charge Deepak Babaraya said on Tuesday that there will be clarity on it by Thursday.
[00:01:47] The Congress put out a photograph of Gandhi with Bhagat and Punia on its official ex-handle.
[00:01:53] Both the wrestlers were part of the protest of a sexual harassment allegations against former BJP MP
[00:01:59] and then wrestling Federation of India chief bridge-pushan Sharan Singh in 2023.
[00:02:05] North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the execution of 30 officials for their alleged failure to prevent flooding and landslides
[00:02:14] that claimed thousand lives local media reported. Around 20 to 30 leaders charged with corruption and their election of duty
[00:02:22] have been sentenced to capital punishment TV chosen reported, according a North Korean official.
[00:02:29] Similarly, around 20 to 30 kHz in the flood-stricken area were executed at the same time last month, the official told the television network.
[00:02:38] Earlier, Kim had ordered authorities to strictly punish the officials after the floods and landslides caused high mortality
[00:02:46] and displaced over 15,000 as per the North Korean Central News Agency.
[00:02:52] The National Medical Commission has reintroduced sodomy and lesbianism as unnatural sexual offenses in the forensic medicine and tax ecology curriculum for undergraduate medical students.
[00:03:04] The NMC's move has come under the fire as a Supreme Court of India in its 2018 landmark ruling,
[00:03:11] decriminalized homosexuality as an offense by striking down Section 377 of the Indian penal court.
[00:03:19] NMC has also brought back topics such as the Hyman and its type and its medical legal importance besides defining virginity and defloration,
[00:03:28] legitumacy and its medical legal importance. These subjects were done away with in 2022 in accordance with a Madras Hycoord directive.
[00:03:37] In 2018, the Supreme Court decriminalized homosexuality by upholding the rights of the LGBTQ community.
[00:03:44] With this order, India joined 17 Commonwealth nations that struck down laws of the criminalizing homosexuality.
[00:03:52] Prime Minister Narayan Ramodhi has reached Singapore for his official two-day visit to further strengthen bilateral ties between the two nations.
[00:04:01] His visit to Singapore comes after a historic visit to Brunei as part of New Delhi's act-aste policy.
[00:04:08] The country's share as strategic alliance in the region and Modi's visit aims to deepen the partnership.
[00:04:14] Modi's visiting Singapore at the invitation of his counterpart Lauren Swang and the visit comes after six years.
[00:04:19] The leaders will review the progress of India's Singapore's strategic partnership and exchange views on regional and global issues of mutual interest,
[00:04:29] a minister of external affairs statement said ahead of his departure.
[00:04:33] Modi is also scheduled to meet three generations of Singapore's leaders and CEOs.
[00:04:38] Active Vijay's Tamil-Vetri Karagam is making arrangements to include contrast leader Rahul Gandhi and Kerala Chief Minister Pineray Vijayan in its first public meeting.
[00:04:48] According to sources within TVK Vijay is keen on extending invitations to both leaders.
[00:04:54] In addition to these prominent figures, the chief ministers of Andhra Padesh and Telangana, Enchandra Babunai-Dhu and A.R.I.R.1 3D and Karadaka Deputy Chief Minister B.K. Shiv Kumar are also expected to be invited.
[00:05:08] TVK appears to be positioning itself as a significant political force by engaging these key political personalities with a particular focus on Rahul Gandhi.
[00:05:17] Top leaders and ministers from major political parties such as the DMK AIIDMK and BJP are anticipated to attend.
[00:05:26] The public meeting is planned for September 23rd in Vikramandhi, Willu Pram district.
[00:05:32] Police clearance for the event is still pending.
[00:05:35] That brings us to the end of this episode, thanks for listening to Daily News Toes hosted by me, Deepa Soman and produced by Vishnu Murilithran,
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