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[00:00:10] Hello, this is your daily dose of news from Onmanorama. I am Maho Stamino and these are the major news stories of Saturday, September 7th, 2024.
[00:00:19] Former WFI chief, Brijbushan Sharan Singh said that congras used Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia as pawns in accounts preceded to take control of the wrestler's body.
[00:00:30] Five people were killed in fresh violence in Manipu's Jiribam district.
[00:00:35] The Boeing Starliner spacecraft landed safely on Earth but uncrewed, leaving astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams at the International Space Station.
[00:00:45] At least 13 Palestinians were killed and 15 wounded in Israeli strikes on a school, sheltering refugees and a residential building in Gaza.
[00:00:53] A special branch report revealed senior IPS official M.R. Ajit Kumar's visit to RSS leader Ram Madhav shortly after the co-op admitted his meeting with RSS General Secretary Dhadraya Hosebali.
[00:01:07] Let's get into the details.
[00:01:09] Former WFI chief, Brijbushan Sharan Singh said on Saturday, Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia were used by the Congress as pawns in accounts preceded to take control of the wrestling federation of India and attack the BJP.
[00:01:21] Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia, who were at the forefront of the wrestler's protest, against Brijbushan Sharan Singh last year, joined the Congress on Friday.
[00:01:31] Hours later, Phogat was announced as a candidate from the Jolana Assembly accounts to join the Congress while Punia was appointed working president of the All India Kisan Congress.
[00:01:41] Five people were killed in fresh violence in Manipur's Jarebam district on Saturday. One person was shot dead in his sleep while four others were killed in a subsequent exchange of fire between people of two firing communities, said a police officer.
[00:01:56] More than 200 people have been killed and thousands rendered homeless in ethnic violence between Infile Valley-based, Métis and Adjoining Hills-based Cookies or Groups since May last year.
[00:02:09] Ethnically diverse Jarebam, which was largely untouched by ethnic violence in Infile Valley and Adjoining Hills, raptured in violence after a 59-year-old man belonging to one community, was killed allegedly by militants of another community in June this year.
[00:02:26] Boeing's first astronaut mission Starliner returned to Earth from the International Space Station without astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore.
[00:02:35] The gumdrop-shaped capsule landed gently at the White Sand Space Harbour in New Mexico at approximately 9.30 am, as disons lolled by parachutes and cushioned by airbags. It had departed the ISS around six hours earlier.
[00:02:51] After years of delays, Starliner launched in June for what was meant to be roughly week-long test mission, a final shakedown before it could be certified to ferry crew to and from the orbital laboratory.
[00:03:05] But unexpected thruster malfunctions and helium leaks on its way up the railed those plants, and NASA ultimately decided it was safer to bring Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams back on arrival SpaceX Crew Dragon though they will have to wait until February 2025.
[00:03:25] At least 13 Palestinians were killed and 15 wounded in Israeli strikes on a school shelter
[00:03:31] in refugees and a residential building in Gaza.
[00:03:34] The Palestinian authorities official news agency Wafa reported early on Saturday.
[00:03:39] At least eight of the dead were in refugee tents at a school in Zipali in northern Gaza
[00:03:46] At least 40,939 Palestinians have been killed and 94,616 others injured in Israel's military
[00:03:55] offensive on Gaza since October 7.
[00:03:59] Gaza's health ministry said on Saturday.
[00:04:02] A special branch report on Saturday revealed that law and order ADC PM Rajid Kumar had
[00:04:07] met B.J.P. leader Ramadha in December 2023.
[00:04:11] RSS Khairi Pramukh Khayimani Jai Kumar facilitated the meeting which was held at a private hotel
[00:04:17] at Kovala, M.Tirvendapuram.
[00:04:19] The ADCP was on his visit for a Chindan Shiva then said the report.
[00:04:24] Earlier on Saturday, Rajid Kumar in an explanation submitted to the Chief Minister's office
[00:04:29] also admitted that he met RSS General Secretary Dattatraya Huzibala in Trishur in May.
[00:04:36] It was a personal visit said the IPS official.
[00:04:39] It was Jai Kumar who arranged that meeting too.