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Hindu politician offers cash rewards for attacks on Christian leaders

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Hindu Indian politician Gopichand Padalkar has offered large cash rewards for violent attacks on Christian missionaries and leaders. Padalkar called missionaries “pythons” and said bulldozers should be used to crush them. His comments come against a backdrop of rising Hindu violence against India’s Christian minority. From 2014 to 2025, violence attacks against Christians and Christian churches in India have risen 555%, according to the United Christian Forum. 834 violent attacks were recorded in 2024 and 378 for the first half of 2025. The Hindu government of India ignores or encourages the violence. For example, in March 2025, 20 tribal Christians from Sukma District in Chhattisgarh filed a petition detailing systematic violence and intimidation, but the High Court ultimately dismissed their case. Furthermore, conversion laws across states are used to punish Christians for evangelism or publicly professing their faith. India currently has 12 state-level anti-conversion laws in place, including in Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Arunachal Pradesh. Follow:

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Corruption is Everywhere > Ukrainian politicians getting 30% kickbacks on military contracts

Ukrainian officials busted in ‘large-scale’

military bribery scheme

Several high-ranking suspects pocketed up to 30% in kickbacks on drone and electronic warfare contracts, anti-corruption watchdogs claim

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Several senior Ukrainian officials have been detained on suspicion of receiving up to 30% in kickbacks from military contracts, anti-corruption agencies have announced. The arrests came just days after Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky was forced to abandon his attempts to restrict the independence of the anti-graft agencies.

In a statement on Saturday, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) said they had uncovered a “large-scale” corruption scheme involving contracts for the purchase of drones and electronic warfare systems for the Ukrainian army.

Ukrainian media has identified three of the four suspects – Aleksey Kuznetsov, an MP with Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, former Lugansk Governor Sergey Gayday, and Rubezhansky district head Andrey Yurchenko.

Between 2024 and 2025, the group allegedly created a scheme to steal budget funds allocated by local governments for defense needs. One part of the scheme involved awarding a contract for electronic warfare systems at an intentionally inflated price, with the group receiving illegal benefits worth 30% of the contract amount.

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A separate contract for FPV drones, worth around $240,000, was allegedly overpriced by around $80,000, with the company’s officials later handing over kickbacks to members of the group, the investigators said.

The same day, Zelensky stated that he had met with the heads of NABU and SAPO to discuss the scandal, calling it “absolutely immoral” and thanked the agencies for their good work.

Two weeks earlier Zelensky had attempted to bring both bodies under government control only for street protests to force him to sign off on their independence last week.

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