The recent Pulwama Terror attack on the Jammu-Srinagar highway on 14th February 2019, killed around 40 CRPF jawans from different Indian states, including two jawans from Tamilnadu. This terror attack is considered as the worst attack in the last 3 decades in India. Tamilandu lost G. Subramanian (Savalapperi village, Tuticorin district) and C. Sivachandran (Karugudi village, near Ariyalur), who were brave-hearted and always encouraged the youth in their villages to join CRPF. Here is a list of soldiers fallen in the attack.

A List of CRPF Jawans Killed in Pulwama Terror Attack

1. Subramanian G (Tamilnadu)
2. Sivachandran C (Tamilnadu)
3. Naseer Ahmad (Jammu and Kashmir)
4. Jaimal Singh (Punjab)
5. Sukhjinder Singh (Punjab)
6. Tilak Raj (Himachal Pradesh)
7. Rohitash Lamba (Rajasthan)
8. Vijay Soreng (Jharkhand)
9. Vasantha Kumar VV (Kerala)
10. Manoja Kumar Behera (Odisha)
11. GD Guru H (Karnataka)
12. Narayan Lal Gurjar (Rajasthan)
13. Mahesh Kumar (Uttar Pradesh)
14. Pradeep Kumar (Uttar Pradesh)
15. Hemraj Meena (Rajasthan)
16. PK Sahoo (Odisha)
17. Ramesh Yadav (Uttar Pradesh)
18. Sanjay Rajput (Maharashtra)
19. Koushal Kumar Rawat (Uttar Pradesh)
20. Pradeep Singh (Uttar Pradesh)
21. Shyam Babu (Uttar Pradesh)
22. Ajit Kumar Azad (Uttar Pradesh)
23. Maninder Singh Attri (Punjab)
24. Bablu Santra (West Bengal)
25. Ashvni Kumar Kaochi (Madhya Pradesh)
26. Rathod Nitin Shivaji (Maharashtra)
27. Bhagirathi Singh (Rajasthan)
28. Virendra Singh (Uttarakhand)
29. Awadhesh Kumar Yadav (Uttar Pradesh)
30. Ratan Kumar Thakur (Bihar)
31. Kankaj Kumar Tripathi (Uttar Pradesh)
32. Jeet Ram (Rajasthan)
33. Amit Kumar (Uttar Pradesh)
34. Vijay Kr. Mourya (Uttar Pradesh)
35. Kulwinder Singh (Punjab)
36. Maneswar Bsumatari (Assam)
37. Mohan Lal (Uttarakhand)
38. Sanjay Kumar Sinha (Bihar)
39. Ram Vakeel (Uttar Pradesh)

Tamilnadu government has announced 20 lakhs to their families as compensation. This reward may not compensate their sacrifice to our nation. However, paying tribute to these soldiers is the duty of every Indian. May their souls rest in peace.

Jai Hind!

Still most of the SIM cards activation are being done through Aadhaar numbers

Supreme Court recently ordered that Aadhaar card is not mandatory to get the services from private companies, including private banks, telecom companies and online retailers. However, the private companies such as Paytm, Reliance Jio, Amazon and Flipkart are still demanding Aadhaar card from the customers. Still most of the SIM cards activation are being done through Aadhaar numbers in many rural places, due to lack of awareness on the Supreme court’s order. The order says that the private companies should not demand Aadhaar numbers from their customers, until the government pass an appropriate rule regarding the use of Aadhaar numbers by these companies.

The businesses and these private companies still continue against the Supreme court’s rule, since the authorities of various departments remained silent on implementing the rule. UIDAI mentioned that the private companies must delink the Aadhaar numbers from users. However, they refused to accept that and claimed for new legislation for using Aadhaar numbers. Since the personal information of the users can be taken by the companies, people must avoid Aadhaar card number for authentication purpose, until a passing a new legislation regarding this issue.

WhatsApp appointed grievance officer to remove fake messages from circulation in India. Very soon the WhatsApp users can inform or arise complaints on fake messages through the application. The users can find options to make a complaint or send information regarding the fake messages in the settings tab. There is also an option to directly reach the grievance officer.
WhatsApp has been under pressure from the government officials to develop tools to identify and reduce fake message circulation. On the result of this, WhatsApp has appointed Komal Lahiri as the grievance officer for India. Lahiri is the senior director of Global consumer operations and localisation in WhatsApp. There are more than 200 million WhatsApp users in India. WhatsApp has already restricted message forwards to five chats at a time. WhatsApp also introduced ‘forward’ label to indicate the forward messages. In order to discourage mass forwarding, the quick forward button also removed from the application. With all these actions, the appointment of new grievance officer for India added value to curb fake messages.