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SKELETAL REMAINS
OF MISSING LOVERS
FOUND
The skeletal remains of
missing lovers were found in
a forest at Marvi in Vandaru
on Wednesday. A few months
back, a married woman Babi
and an unmarried man Rama
went missing on the same
day. It was suspected that
both of them had left the village after news spread that
they were into illicit relationship. When some villagers
went to fetch some leaves
from the nearby forest on
Wednesday, they found a
rope hanging from the tree.
They also found clothes and
skeletal remains of two persons beneath the tree. On the
basis of earrings, toe rings
and clothes, it is suspected
that one of the skeletons belonged to Babi and the other
to Rama. A case stands registered at Shankaranarayana
police station.
FORMER MP FM KHAN
PASSES AWAY
Former Rajya Sabha member and Congress party treasurer FM Khan passed away
in Madikeri after prolonged
illness on Thursday. He was
84 and stayed away from politics during the last two years
due to illness. Khan had organised flower shows in New
Delhi when he was the MP
and came under lavish praise
from the parliamentarians
and flower lovers in the past.
ROWDY-SHEETER
KILLED BY RIVAL GANG
A rowdy-sheeter was
hacked to death by members
of rival gang in Rajajinagar
1st stage on Thursday. The
deceased has been identified
as Bharath (32), a resident
of Mahalakshmi layout. According to cops, a gang of five
to six men attacked Bharath
with weapons, while he was
chatting with his friend.
Bharath has several cases
registered against him in two
police stations and was even
sent to jail in attempt to murder case. Subramanyapura
police are investigating the
case.
ORGAN DONATION
AWARENESS PROGRAM
IN MYSURU
An organ donation awareness programme will be organized from July 30. This
programme will be jointly
organized by Confederation
of Indian Industry-Yi, JSS
Hospital, Apollo Hospital,
Columbia Asia Hospital and
Narayana Multi Speciality
Hospital. The main event is
scheduled on August 7th at
JSS Hospital. Speaking on
the occasion Dr. M.D. Ravi,
event chair Organ Donation Campaign & Director,
JSS Hospital said that there
are more than 400 people
have registered for want of
kidney and other organs in
Karnataka.
He also said that due to
lack of awareness, people
are not coming forward to
donate organs. This programme is conducted to create awareness to both the
public and the doctors.
Every year over 10 lakh
people suffer from corneal
blindness and await transplants, 50K people die from
heart related diseases, 2
lakh people die because
of liver diseases, 1.5 lakh
people wait for a kidney
transplant and 5 lakh people across the country die
because of non-availability
of organs. At an average, one
person dies every minute in
the country. As of now most
donated organs come from
& Gift a Life”. Panel discussion on Constrains in Organ
Transplants, Practical difficulties in Brain Death identification and Counseling will
gan donation”.
DrManjunath
Shetty,
HOD-Nephrology, JSS Hospital, Dr Naga Nischal C, Con-
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people in an ICU who are
on ventilator and declared
brain dead by doctors.
Muthukumar, Chairman,
CII said, “To create awareness about organ donation
we will be conducting Poster Competition among students on July 30. Over 200
students are expected to
participate. The theme will
be based on “Life. Pass it on
be held. On the occasion experts will be briefing public
about various transplants,
sharing of experience by the
donor and the recipient. As
part of the awareness program we are also going to
schools, colleges and even
industries. We would like
to achieve over 10K registrations and make a impact
over 3 lakh public about or-
sultant Emergency Medicine
& Chief of Medical Services,
Columbia Asia Hospital, Dr
P Srinivasan, Nephrology,
Apollo Hospital were also
present.
Those interested to
attend the program can
contact 9844785965 /
9986929988.
SHORTAGE OF STAFF IN SCHOOLS,
GOVT TO RECRUIT 13,000 GUEST
TEACHERS
The primary and Secondary Education Minister Tanvir Sait announced
on Thursday that to fill
the shortage of staff in the
government schools, government would appoint
over 13,000 guest teachers
across the state.
“The
government
has
given permission to recruit
only 3,306 teachers for the
year. But there are over
22.000 vacancies,” the minister said while speaking to
media.
He added further that the
there will be change in the
policy of recruitment and
transfer of school teachers.
The government will recruit
the teachers at the district
level and their transfers
would be done within the
same district. They would
work and retire in the same
district, where they are recruited. This would help the
government to handle transfer pressures.
Speaking about the closing issues of the government schools the Minister
said, “We will not close any
government school due to
less students. We will run
the school anyhow. There
are 4164 school in Karnataka that have got only 10 students each. But still we will
not close them.”
COPS BRUTALLY BEATEN UP FOR
CHECKING ILLEGAL MINING
eral hospital.
The duo was ordered by
SI Mohan to investigate the
sand mining place near the
coastal areabecause the SI
had credible information
about sand mafia operating
there. On reaching the place,
when the cops tried to seize
the sand and the boat, they
were attacked brutally by
over 20 men who had already loaded the sand into
their boat. It is alleged that
the men even tried to kill the
officers. However the additional police force rushed to
their rescue and saved them.
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FAILED STUDENTS GET OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND REGULAR CLASSES
Students, who have
failed in 10th and 12th
standard
examinations
held in April, will be able
to attend regular classes.
Students can now attend
regular classes in schools
and PU colleges. They will
be able to study in their
schools and colleges to improve their performance
next time and score better
than their previous marks.
On Thursday, Primary and
Secondary Education Minister, Tanveer Sait told that
the State Government has
amended the rule to benefit
the students which in turn
will improve their results.
He said this option is also
open to students who wish
to improve their SSLC and
PU Marks.
This rule stands applicable to schools and colleges that are affiliated to
the Karnataka Secondary
Education Board and Karnataka Pre-University Certificate Board. Until this
year, failed students used to
prepare for the supplementary examinations being at
home and were stopped
from attending regular
classes.
In the first phase, 20 wards
will be declared open defecation free wards on Independence Day and the rest
will be on Gandhi Jayanthi.
As part of the Swachh
Bharath Campaign, Chairperson of standing committee for Public health,
education and social justice
is trying to ensure the city
is open defecation free. Several measures have been
taken to construct individual and community toilets,
collection of solid waste at
source. According to a survey conducted, around 345
households were found
without toilets. As part of
the initiative, financial assistance would be provided
to build 34 public toilets.
Mangaluru City will be
declared as Open defecation free city on October 2.
According to sources, this
will be done in two phases.
NURSE DUPED OF MONEY BY
TRAVEL AGENCY
A woman has lodged a
complaint alleging that she
has been duped of Rs. 3
Lakh by a travel agency in
Udupi. She alleges that the
travel agency had promised to provide her a visa to
Finland for a job. Archana
George, a nurse by profession, a resident of Shivalli
filed a complaint against
‘Hilarious Tours and Travels’. She stated in her complaint that she came across
an advertisement by Hilarious tours and travels on
Facebook calling for applications for nursing jobs in
Finland. Seeing this Archana decided to apply. She
was asked to submit her
passport and other documents for Visa processing.
She deposited Rs. 3 Lakh in
a bank account as instructed by the agency.
The accused has been
identified as Rahul Patel,
Pranali and Manvi Prar-
so. The agency stopped all
communication with Archana and did not return her
passport and the money.
On realizing the fraud, she
filed a complaint with the
Manipal police who have
registered a case.
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MANGALURU TO BE DECLARED
OPEN-DEFECATION FREE CITY
KSPCB ISSUES NOTICE
TO BBMP OVER WASTE
PROCESSING UNIT
Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB)
chairman Lakshman issued
a notice to BBMP over many
irregularities in the functioning of the solid waste processing unit at Anekal. The
chairman during an inspection found that the unit was
non-operational and also
found huge collection of segregated Refused Derived Fuel
was lying unattended. He instructed BBMP to dispose the
waste and take action against
the contractor.
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Two cops were attacked
brutally by 20 men in Talangere on Thursday. The police
men were checking the sand
mining area after which the
men attacked them.
The police men attached
to Kasargod coastal police
station, Ranjith V K and
Rathish Chandran suffered
severe injuries and are undergoing treatment at a gen-
As many as 20 persons involved in sand mining have
been booked by the police
in connection with the incident.
transferred to the deputy
commissioner’s office to
develop Nehru Maidan as
turf ground and work is
scheduled to start the following month.
Dakshina Kannada District football Association
(DKDFA) kicks off Independence Cup football tournament at Nehru Maidan on
Wednesday. The tournament was inaugurated by
Harinath, Mangaluru city
corporation mayor. D M
Aslam, DKDFA President
welcomed the gathering
and urged the mayor to
pass on the orders to transfer Nehru Maiden over to
the sports department. He
said that Rs.5 lakh has been
Addressing the gathering, Mayor Harinath said,
“The ground would be
handed over to the sports
department. Orders on the
same would be passed and
handed over after the upcoming council meet. I congratulate the organizers on
organizing this tournament
and extend my best wishes to all the players.” Chief
whip former mayor Mahabala Marla, was present at
the programme.
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Chain snatcher and
police escape accident
The Bengaluru’s Central
Crime Branch (CCB) police,
and Iranian chain-snatcher
(and a black belt in Karate)
was apprehended in Pune.
But on their way back by road
with the thief, they met with
an accident in the outskirts
of Tumakuru district. The injured have been identified as
police inspectors Anand Kabburi (seriously injured), KC
Giri (minor injuries) and police constables Zabiulla Gudial
(seriously injured), Kumarswamy, Satish and Mahadev
(minor injuries). Kabburi and
Zabiulla underwent surgery at
NIMHANS and Columbia Asia
hospitals. Others including
Giri, a police constable, and
private travel agency driver
Chetan escaped with minor injuries. The incident happened
near Oorukere on the outskirts of Tumakuru at around
7am. Zabiulla was driving the
Toyota Innova (MUV) when
the accident occurred. According to the police, a truck heading towards city was in the
right lane. When Zabiulla was
about to overtake the truck
from the left, the truck suddenly swerved to the left. In
an attempt to avoid the truck
Zabiulla ran off the road, but
seeing a pit, he swerved and
hit the truck from behind.
At the time of accident, Zabiulla was driving the vehicle
while Chetan was resting in
the back seat. Anand Kabburi was in the front passenger
seat, while Giri and two constables were at the back with
chain snatcher Ali.
NIGHTMARE CONTINUES: HEAD CONSTABLE
COMMITS SUICIDE
was not accepted. He didn’t
exhibit any signs of self-destructive tendency. Subsequent to eating with relatives, he was talking about
different family matters till
midnight and asked his wife
and children to rest in the
room while he himself wanted to rest in the lobby.
Head constable Annarao
Saibanna Gamaga (48), connected to the Indian Reserve
Battalion (IRB) II in Vijayapura, allegedly committed
suicide by hanging at his
KSRP quarters at Taj Sultanpur in the outskirts of Kalaburagi city in the early hours
of Friday.
His relatives found him
hanging in the lobby of
the police quarters and informed the police. Annarao,
who was promoted a year
back as the head constable
and transferred to the IRB,
was not content with this
exchange and wanted to be
deployed back in KSRP, Ka-
laburagi.
According to the spouse
of the deceased, Seethabai,
he was annoyed for few days
after his application for exchange was not considered
while eight different constables of the KSRP regiment
who were exchanged along
with Annarao were successful in exchange back to Kalaburagi only a few days ago.
Annarao, as per his relatives was a heavy drinker and had health issues.
Seethadevi said he had not
complained of any harassment by higher authorities
and was just vexed that his
application for exchange
Annarao hailed from
Bankur town in Chitapur taluk in Kalaburagi district.
Head constable Annarao
Saibanna Gamaga (48), connected to the Indian Reserve
Battalion (IRB) II in Vijayapura, allegedly committed
suicide by hanging at his
KSRP quarters at Taj Sultanpur in the outskirts of Kalaburagi city in the early hours
of Friday.
His relatives found him
hanging in the lobby of
the police quarters and informed the police. Annarao,
who was promoted a year
back as the head constable
and transferred to the IRB,
was not content with this
exchange and wanted to be
deployed back in KSRP, Ka-
Annarao, as per his relatives was a heavy drinker and had health issues.
Seethadevi said he had not
complained of any harassment by higher authorities
and was just vexed that his
application for exchange
was not accepted. He didn’t
exhibit any signs of self-destructive tendency. Subsequent to eating with relatives, he was talking about
different family matters till
midnight and asked his wife
and children to rest in the
room while he himself wanted to rest in the lobby.
Annarao hailed from
Bankur town in Chitapur taluk in Kalaburagi district.
JD(S) DEMANDS ARREST OF KJ GEORGE
The boys are school dropouts and live near the Jnanappanahalli slum. They were
rushed to Vaidehi Hospital for
treatment before being taken
to Electronics City police station. Later in the night, cops
handed over the minors to
their families after they gave
an undertaking saying they
will counsel their wards and
ensure they don’t repeat the
offence. According to eyewitnesses, the two minors were
standing near Canara Bank bus
stop and were misbehaving
with every woman passing by.
“They were whistling, passing
offensive comments and asking for their phone numbers.
Meanwhile, it started raining
and some women took shelter
inside the bus stop,” eyewitnesses said.
The boys followed them inside the shelter and continued
to harass them till an elderly
woman intervened. “The boys
told her to mind her own business. This enraged some men
at the bus stop, who attacked
the boys,” locals told police.
The men beat up the boys,
dragged them towards an electricity pole and tied them to
it. Passersby took turns to hit
them,” police said.
Karnataka to loss 6Lakh
hectares of forest
Karnataka is likely to
alienate 6 lakh hectares of
forest land by regularizing
encroachments below three
acres, and reconsidering rejected applications for title
deeds.
Seeking a change in regulations for distributing title
deeds to traditional forest
dwellers, ministers are reportedly increasing pressure
and lobbying to allow and
regularize existing small encroachments. There was a
recommendation by a cabinet sub-committee to regularize encroachments below
three acres. It also meant
reconsideration of over 1.31
lakh rejected applications
and gave a new lease of life
to 1.58 lakh pending applications for securing forest land
for personal use.
quake in Nepal, which is an
earthquake prone country,
more than 9000 people lost
their lives. Nepal is not only
known for natural calamity
like earthquake, but also
landslide and floods.
South East Asia Network
on Disaster Management
and Disaster Environmental Engineering (SEAN
DEE) was organized by
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
in association with its Priyamvada Birla Insititute of
Management at BVP premise on Thursday. Basanta
Raj Adhikari, Deputy Di-
rector, Centre for Disaster
Studies, Nepal who also
spoke on the occasion said,
“Earlier people used to tell
natural disasters are godmade but over the years,
we have realized that man
was equally responsible for
natural disasters”. He also
mentioned that last year
due to devastating earth-
Dr. K G Jagadeesh, an
IAS Officer of 2005 batch
has been appointed as new
Deputy Commissioner of
Dakshina Kannada. He is
presently the Managing director of Rajiv Gandhi Rural
Housing Corporation. He
has previously served as DC
of Kalaburagi district, Director of Horticulture and
has also served as Assistant
Commissioner of Kalaburagi sub-division. He was
also the first DC of Yadgir
district.
Gokarana Bahadur Motra, Campus Chief, Pulchowk Campus, IOE, Nepal,
during his speech mentioned that there should
be resilient infrastructure
and society to get rid of
natural calamities. He also
mentioned that Nepal is
more prone to natural calamities and when it comes
to management aspect, it is
lagging.
NEW DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF
DAKSHINA KANNADA APPOINTED
A.B.
Ibrahim,
Deputy
Commissioner of Dakshina
Kannada
district has been
transferred to
Bengaluru. He
has been transferred as Commissioner
of
Transport and
road safety. A B
Ibrahim came to Mangalu-
ru as DC in 2013.
DYSP GANAPATHI CASE: LAST CALL
MADE TO HIS WIFE
Minors thrashed by
public for harassing
women
Two minors paid a price for
harassing women near a bus
stop on Wednesday evening.
Irate members of the public
caught the duo, tied them to an
electricity pole and thrashed
them on Begur Main Road,
Electronics City. They were
later handed over to Hoysala
policemen.
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SEAN DEE WORKSHOP IN MYSURU
laburagi.
According to the spouse
of the deceased, Seethabai,
he was annoyed for few days
after his application for exchange was not considered
while eight different constables of the KSRP regiment
who were exchanged along
with Annarao were successful in exchange back to Kalaburagi only a few days ago.
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mation has risen amid the
preliminary investigation
of CID
The JD(S) has demanded
arrest of former Minister
K J George and has also demanded the Income Tax department to initiate a probe
into his assets and holdings.
JD(S) District representative P S Bharath said that
abdication of George and
FIR against him and two
different IPS officers is not a
response to DySP M K Ganapathi suicide case.
“George must be arrested. A probe must be initiated to expose the secret of
his assets that he amassed
in a very short span, he said
pressing for suspension of
two IPS officer- Pranab Mo-
hanthy and AM Prasad.
The party district unit
also proposes to hold a protest rally in Madikeri on July
29 pressing for the said demands.
68 NEW M-SAND UNITS WOULD BE STARTED
IN TWO-THREE MONTHS: SOURCES
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday directed
officials to clear pending applications before the government seeking permission
to establish manufactured
sand (M-sand) units. CM’s
direction came at a meeting
of top officials from various
departments that was convened here to discuss the
modalities to reduce the demand-supply gap for sand.
Before he committed
suicide, deputy superintendent of police, M K Ganapa-
CM’S WIFE OFFERS PRAYERS TO
GODDESS CHAMUNDESHWARI
The demand for sand
stood at 26 million tonnes,
the supply stood at 14 to 15
million tonnes per annum.
The State Cabinet on
Wednesday had discussed
the issue and had decided
to promote M-sand to meet
the rising demand for sand.
Speaking to media after
Thursday’s meeting, Law
Minister
T B Jayachandra
said that as many as 6,500
applications seeking to establish M-sand units were
pending before deputy
commissioners for various
districts. No permission had
been given for establishing
new M-sand units during the
last one-and-a-half years.
ti’s last conversation over
telephone was with his
spouse, Pavana. This infor-
The CID authoritie have
uncovered that according
to call detail record (CDR),
it has turned out to be clear
that during the one month
time frame before his suicide, Ganapati had not
talked over telephone to
minister, K J George, or two
IPS officers named by him,
Prasad and Pranav Mohanty. The authorities came to
know about the officer’s
last call after they got CDR
details. Ganapati called
his wife at 2 pm on July 7,
and he didn’t call anybody
from that point, the record
shows. Nonetheless, subtle
elements of this last discussion are not accessible
aside from that the couple
was occupied with discussion for around ten minutes. CID sources said they
want to get details from Pavana in a statement.
The total production of
M-sand in the state stood
at 5.2 million tonnes a year.
A target has been set to increase the production to
20 million tonnes by giving
permission to new units, he
said. At present, there were
35 M-sand units in the state
and most of them are located in Bengaluru Rural, Kolar,
Chikkaballapura, m and Tumakuru districts.
The
government
will
provide 5% subsidy on interest on loans taken from
banks to set up the units.
The rules pertaining to allocation of M-sand units will
also be revised, he said. After the meeting, Minister of
State for Mines and Geology
Vinay R Kulkarni said that
only M-sand will be used for
construction of government
buildings, bridges and other
works.
According to sources, 68
new M-sand units would
be started in two-three
months. The government
would offer 10 acres each to
the existing M-sand plants
to double their production.
The price of M-sand would
be 50% less compared to
that of river sand. Quality
testing laboratories would
be strengthened to ensure
production of good quality
M-sand.
AUTO-DRIVER HACKS WIFE TO DEATH FOLLOWING
COUNSELLING AT FAMILY COURT
Bengaluru: A man has
been arrested by the police
for hacking his wife to death
in Kamakshipalya in the city
on Thursday. Incidentally
the couple had filed for a
mutual divorce recently at
the family court.
Pallavi (23) a native
of Sunkadakatte married
Puneeth Kumar, an auto
driver. As the time passed,
there were quarrels and
fights at home between both
of them. Then the couple decided to apply for a divorce
in a family court. The couple attended counselling on
Thursday at the family court
after the hearing. But, on returning home, it is said that
the two picked up a quarrel
and in a fit of rage Puneeth
hacked Pallavi to death.
The cops have nabbed
Puneeth.
Parvathi Siddaramaia,
wife of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who caught in
the eye of storm with the
recent turmoil in the state
and different issues springing up at the political front,
was seeking blessings of
Goddess Chamundeshwari
on Chamundi hills on Friday which is considered
the auspicious day, Ashada. A staunch devotee of
Goddess Chamundeshwari,
Parvathi Siddaramaiah was
seen offering prayers with
fruits,flowers and different
propitious offerings. Sources said that she prayed for
the CM’s prosperity given
the way the CM is facing a
turbulent political pres-
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ent, she is said to have also
prayed for sufficient downpours and flourishing of
farmers.
When media hurried to
take her photos at the temple, policemen present at
the venue requested them
not click her photos and
further grabbed a couple
of cameras. The policemen
likewise demanded to erase
the photos which were put
away in the camera.
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Schools, colleges to remain closed for Kawad
Yatra
All schools and colleges
in the district will remain
closed from July 24 to August
1 in view of the ‘Kawad’ Yatra. District Magistrate DK
Singh said the authorities
have ordered that all schools
and intermediate colleges be
closed from July 24 to August
1.Kawad Yatra is annual pilgrimage of devotees of Shiva
to Haridwar, Gaumukh and
Gangotri in Uttarakhand and
Sultanganj in Bihar to fetch
holy water of Ganga, which
is later offered at their local
Shiva temples. This year the
Yatra started on July 19 and
ends on August 1.
IAF’s transport plane
with 29 on board goes
missing
An Indian Air Force’s AN
32 transport plane went
missing with 29 people on
board, including six crew
members, while it was on its
way from near Chennai to
Port Blair, home to tri-service command. A massive
search and rescue operation
has been launched by the IAF,
Navy and the Coast Guard,
deploying five aircraft and 13
ships for tracking the plane
which made the last radio
contact at 0846 hours, 16
minutes after take off from
Tambaram air base. The
29 people on board the Air
Force’s workhorse for a long
period included two pilots,
a navigator besides personnel from the Navy and the
Army. “The plane, which was
on a routine courier service,
took off at about 0830 hours
from Tambaram and it was
scheduled to land at Port
Blair at 1130 hours but it is
overdue,” IAF spokesperson
Wing Commander Anupam
Banerjee said.
Railways aims to significantly reduce carbon
footprints
Indian Railways, the largest energy consumer in the
country, has set a target of
harnessing 1,000 MW of
solar energy and 15 MW of
wind energy in the next four
years as part of efforts to
reduce its carbon footprint.
“We have undertaken steps
to increase the use of clean
energy to reduce emissions
and in this regard we have set
a target of harnessing 1,000
MW of solar and 150 MW of
wind energy by 2020,” said
Railway Executive Director
Sudhir Garg at the release of
a report on ‘Decarbonisation
Indian Railways’. The Indian Council for Research on
International Economic Relations and the Climate Policy Initiative in their reports
have identified potential
pathways to decarbonise the
Railways by 2030.
Over Rs 8 lakh cr tax
revenue locked up in
appeals
Over Rs 8 lakh crore tax
revenue was locked up in appeals before various courts
and authorities at the end of
last fiscal, government said.
As on March 31, 2016, over
3 lakh cases were pending
before the Commissioner
of Income-Tax (Appeals),
Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), High Courts
and Supreme Court, Minister of State for Finance Santosh Kumar Gangwar said
in a written reply to the Lok
Sabha As on March 31, 2016,
an amount of Rs 8,20,741
crore was locked in appeal
before the CIT (A)/ITAT/HC/
SC,” he said, adding that the
total number of cases were
3,29,269.
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FILM FESTIVAL ON MOTHER TERESA IN
INDIA AND ABROAD
present the best and the
biggest repertoire of films
and documentaries made
on the Nobel laureate and
inspired by her life.
To mark the canonisation of Mother Teresa this
September, a film festival
focusing on her life and
teachings will be held at
over 100 locations in India
and around 50 other countries.
Organised by the World
Catholic Association for
Communication’s
India
chapter, the Mother Teresa
International Film Festival
(MTIFF) will be kicked off
from Kolkata on August 26
after which it will travel all
over the world for the next
six months.
Festival director Sunil
Lucas said they would
“The objective is to
spread the message of
Mother Teresa before the
world. We want to raise
awareness and sensitise
the people,” he told the media
The Roman Catholic nun,
who passed away in 1997
after serving the poor and
sick on the streets of Kolkata for 45 years, will be
declared a saint on September 4 by Pope Francis in the
Vatican City.
Although the complete
list of films to be screened
in the festival is yet to be fi-
SCHOOL FOUNDER ARRESTED FOR
TAKING BRIBE
A school founder was
arrested for taking a bribe
of Rs one lakh from a teacher at Khalapur in Raigadh
district, the ACB said.
Laxman Yeram, the
founder of a school at Umbre in Khalapur, was allegedly caught taking the
money at Nerul branch
of Abyuday Bank in Navi
Mumbai on Thursday evening, Deputy Superintendent of Police Bhagwat
Sonawane, Navi Mumbai
branch of ACB’s Thane unit
said.
The accused had allegedly made a demand of Rs 10
lakh from the complainant
to issue him an appointment order as a teacher, he
said.
After negotiations on
July 21, the school founder
agreed for Rs eight lakh as
bribe. The first instalment
of Rs one lakh was to be
paid to him by the complainant in the bank.
The victim lodged a complaint with the ACB which
laid a trap and nabbed him
while he was allegedly ac-
cepting the bribe, the official said.
Offence under sections
7, 12, 13(1),(d) and 13(2)
of the Prevention of Cor-
ruption Act have been registered against the accused
with the local police station, the ACB added.
While the businessman Ram Ratan Agarwal
and his wife Manju were
found brutally murdered
in their bedroom, their
caretaker Ganesh Ram
for many years now, was
found murdered outside
the main building, they
said.
The matter came to
light when their domes-
tic help came to work on
Friday morning.
As per preliminary
investigation, it appears
that the businessman
and his wife had just returned home when the
incident took place, police said, adding, their
children were not at
home at the time of the
incident as they study
in institutions outside
Malda.
The miscreants had
plundered the house before escaping, the police
said.
When policemen from
English bazar police station arrived on the spot,
agitated locals put up resistance and did not allow
them to take charge of the
bodies. NH-34 was also
blocked for two hours.
Superintendent of police Arnab Ghosh and
senior police personnel rushed to the spot of
crime. A dog squad has
also been pressed into action, the police said.
MANN VIDEOGRAPHY ISSUE ROCKS LS;
SPEAKER ASSURES ACTION
Lok Sabha proceedings
were washed out today
following uproar over
AAP member Bhagwant
Mann’s video of Parliament House by members,
mostly from ruling BJP,
with Speaker Sumitra
Mahajan terming it a “serious issue” and assuring
protesting members that
some action would be taken.
Pandemonium
prevailed soon after the
House assembled for the
day, with members of BJP
and SAD on their feet demanding action against
Mann.
Though members of
other opposition parties like RJD, JD-U and SP
also trooped into the Well
holding placards demanding “right” to reservation
in promotions, most vociferous protests were
from the NDA members
seeking action against
Mann, forcing the Speaker
to adjourn the House for
almost an hour till noon.
Similar
scenes
continued when the
House reassembled
and listed papers
were laid.
A tensed Mann himself
stood up in his seat and
was seen trying to speak
on the issue.
As the uproar continued, proceedings were
adjourned for the day.
In the nearly 12 minute
video, Mann is seen giving
a running commentary as
his vehicle crosses security barricades and enters
Parliament. “I’ll today
show you something you
A communication in
this regard has been received by District Collector Sachindra Pratap
Singh from Central Railway’s Chief Administrative Officer M K Gupta, he
said.
The
ministry
has
also
granted
special
status to the Ahmednagar-Beed-Parli-Vaijnath
new railway line of 261
kms.
According to Yavatmal Deputy Collector and
Land Acquisition Officer
of Road Projects Vijay
Bhakre, the Chief Minister,
on a representation made
by Yavatmal MP Bhavana Gawali, sent a representation to the Railway
Minister and requested
him to allow the state government to go for direct
purchase of land required
for the project, from land
owners.
The CM drew attention
of the Railway Minister towards the urgent need for
improving the connectivity of this under-developed
and farmer suicides-prone
area with other parts of
the state and requested
him to permit the government to acquire the land
required for the project
through direct purchase
policy of Maharashtra, declared on May 12, 2015.
The land admeasuring
722 hectare is required
for the new railway line in
Yavatmal district of which
only 64 hectare has been
acquired so far. If the same
pace continues, the project cost would increase
manifold resulting in delay in construction of the
new railway line which is
the lifeline of the region
“With the new sanction in hand, the acquisition of land for
the railway line can be
expedited and immediate possession of the
land can be achieved,”
Bhakre said, adding
that they intend to
complete land acquisition in one year.
“The direct purchase
policy would enable the
farmers to get competitive
price for their land and
the Railways can save a
lot of amount by avoiding
to contest disputes that
may arise if we go for the
old system of purchase,”
he said.
Over 14 kms track can
be laid immediately in the
district out of 180 kms for
which the land has already
been acquired, he said.
“We have demanded
Rs 307 crore for the acquisition of land through
direct purchase procedure which is yet to be
received,” Bhakre further
said.
The new railway line
stretching between Wardha and Nanded via Yavatmal was a long pending
demand of the people.
It will pass through
six tehsils and 90 villages in Wardha, Yavatmal,
Washim,
Hingoli
and
Nanded districts.
TWO HARDCORE MAOISTS SURRENDER IN
AURANGABAD
A Maoist wanted
in connection with a
landmine blast that
killed eight policemen
in the district along
with another rebel
surrendered before
the Superintendent of
Police in Bihar’s Aurangabad district.
The two Maoists,
who surrendered on
Thursday were identified as Naresh Mistry alias Dadan, one of the
accused in Jehanabad jail
break and Sanjay Singh,
wanted by the police in
connection with a landmine blast in which eight
policemen of the district
were killed, Superintendent of police Babu Ram
said.
While Naresh was a resident of Pratappur village,
Sanjay was a resident of
Ganu village, he said.
Both of them were influenced by the community campaign launched
under ‘Operation Vishwas’
and surrendered before
the police, the SP claimed.
Meanwhile in another
incident, suspected CPI
(Maoist) cadre torched
the camp of a solar power
company at Bakhsividiya
village of the district, the
police said on Friday.
As per the employees
working in the solar power camp, some armed Maoists suddenly appeared at
the camp and put the company’s vehicles on fire,
Kasma police station SHO
Narottam Chandra said.
They put on fire two
JCB machines, two mixer
machines and five tractors
of the company, Chandra
said
No employee or any
other person was injured
in the incident.
Though, they have not
left any pamphlet demanding levy, the SHO
said prima facie it seems
to be the work of the Maoists.
He said that police are
investigating the matter
besides conducting raids
to nab those involved.
SUB-INSPECTOR INJURED AS SUSPECTED
CRIMINALS OPEN FIRE
Amid the din, Mahajan said the matter
was “serious” and
under her consideration.
“Koi na koi karvayee karenge (we will
take some action),”
she said, adding that
13 people had laid down
their lives for the security of Parliament referring
to the terror attack in December 2001.
The Railway Ministry has granted ‘special
project’ status to the
much-awaited new rail
line between Wardha and
Nanded districts via Yavatmal stretching over
284 kms, a senior official
said.
The special status has
been granted on the basis
of a request made by Chief
Minister Devendra Fadnavis to Railway Minister
Suresh Prabhu.
BUSINESSMAN WITH WIFE, CARETAKER
MURDERED IN MALDA
A businessman, his wife
and the caretaker of their
house were today found
murdered at his residence
near NH 34 in English bazar area of Malda, police
said.
totally under-developed, the CM pointed
out in his letter to the
minister.
In Kolkata, the festival
will be held for three days
from August 26 at the staterun Nandan multiplex.
Besides, the film festival
will also travel to around 50
other countries including
the UK, Malaysia, Ireland,
Italy, Australia, Thailand,
Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri
Lanka and China.
4
WARDHA-NANDED RAIL LINE PROJECT
GETS SPECIAL STATUS
nalised, the organisers are
planning around 20 movies
out of which two will have
world premires.
Other
Indian
cities
where the film will be
showcased include Delhi,
Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Udaipur, Guwahati, Patna, Indore, Ranchi and four
cities of Kerala.
English Daily
would not have seen earlier,” he is heard saying.
Mann is then shown entering a room where questions to be taken up inside
Parliament are being sorted and seen describing
the ongoing process.
When the Zero Hour
was taken up after the
adjournment, members,
mainly from the ruling
NDA, demanded action
against Mann with the
Speaker allowing party
leaders to speak on the
matter.
Terming it as a “serious
issue”, Leader of Congress
in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun
Kharge said the House
should come together and
condemn it. It is a problem for members representing 125 crore people
and that of the nation, he
said.
“If we do like this, it
will be a big problem for
democracy,” Kharge said
and sought action against
Mann.
Protesting Mann’s action, R K Singh (BJP), also
a former Home Secretary,
claimed that the member
has said he would do it
again. “Tatkaal barkhast
kariye (remove him immediately),” Singh said.
The
assailants
opened fire when the
Sub-inspector
along
with three other policemen approached
the vehicle, Meena
said, adding, Ladu
Singh was admitted to
a hospital with bullet
injuries.
A police sub-inspector
was injured when some assailants allegedly opened
fire at a police jeep in Rajasthan’s Nagaur district with
the police suspecting that
wanted criminal Anandpal
Singh was behind the incident.
Ladu Singh, SHO of Jaswantgarh police station,
was injured last night when
some persons sitting in a
Bolero opened fire at the
jeep, while he was on patrolling duty with three
other policemen, Narottam
Lal Meena, Circle officer of
Ladnu, said.
Police
suspect
that
Anandpal Singh, carrying
a reward of Rs one lakh
and wanted in many cases, might have opened fire
from the vehicle, as the incident took place near his
house in Saanvrad village.
“The border of the
village has been sealed
and an intense combing operation is on in
the area,” the Circle Officer
said.
Anandpal Singh had escaped from police custody in September last year
while being taken to Ajmer
prison from a court in Parbatsar in Nagaur.
He is accused in two dozen criminal cases in Didwana, Jaipur, Sikar, Sujangarh,
Churu, Sanganer among
others.
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HILIGHTS
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WORLD
INDIA RANKS 110TH ON SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT INDEX
United Nations: India
is ranked at a low 110 of
149 nations with regard to
achieving the Sustainable
Development Goals, according to a new index topped by
Sweden that shows all countries face major challenges
in achieving these ambitious
goals.
The Sustainable Development Solutions Network
(SDSN) and the Bertelsmann
Stiftung launched a new Sustainable Development Goal
Index and Dashboard to provide a report card for tracking Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) progress
and ensuring accountability.
The index collected avail-
able data for 149 countries
to assess where each country stands in 2016 with regard to achieving the SDGs.
It ranks countries based
on their performance across
the 17 global goals, a set of
ambitious objectives across
the three dimensions of sustainable development economic development, social
inclusion and environmental
sustainability, underpinned
by good governance.
The index helps countries
identify priorities for early
actions and shows that every country faces major challenges in achieving the SDGs.
“The Sustainable Development Goals are stretch
goals, but they are within
reach if countries work towards them with clarity and
determination. The SDG Index and Dashboard can help
each country to chart out a
practical path for achieving
the Goals,” said SDSN Director Jeffrey Sachs.
The countries which are
closest to fulfilling the goals
are not the biggest economies but comparably small,
developed countries. Sweden tops the chart and is
followed by Denmark and
Norway on the top three performing countries.
the top ten performers. The
US ranks 25th on the index,
while Russia and China rank
47th and 76th respectively.
Germany (6) and the
UK(10) are the only G7
countries to be found among
The Central African Republic and Liberia are at the
bottom of the Index and still
have the longest way to go in
achieving the SDGs.
zone.
of that.
IMF HEAD CALLS FOR QUICK END TO BREXIT UNCERTAINTY
Beijing: The head of the
International
Monetary
Fund called Friday to end
uncertainty over Britain’s
vote to leave the European
Union she says is dampening
global economic growth.
The IMF cut this year’s
global growth forecast by
0.1 percentage points to 3.1
per cent in a report released
this week due to the shockwaves of the British vote,
said Christine Lagarde.
Lagarde spoke after meeting with the Chinese premier, Li Keqiang, and leaders
of the World Bank,
the World Trade Organization and other
bodies ahead of this
weekend’s gathering
of finance officials of
the Group of 20 major economies.
“Our first and immediate recommendation is for this uncertainty surrounding the terms
of Brexit to be removed as
quickly as possible so that
we know the terms of trade
and the ways in which the
United Kingdom will continue to operate in the global
economy,” said Lagarde at a
news conference.
Lagarde said that before
the British vote, the IMF had
been preparing to raise its
global growth forecast by
0.1 percentage points due to
improvement in Japan, China and the 17-country euro
“Unfortunately, the United
Kingdom decided to go for
Brexit,” said Lagarde, a former French finance minister.
“This is disappointing.”
Investors are watching
the G20 meeting for any sign
the United States, Germany,
China and other major economies may agree on joint
action to accelerate a weak
global economic recovery.
A similar meeting in February in Shanghai ended
with a joint statement that
said coordinated action was
impossible because major
countries were at different
points in their economic cycles.
Some investors believe
envoys in Shanghai agreed
secretly to weaken the dollar
to spur trade but there has
been no official confirmation
The final statement from
this weekend’s gathering in
Chengdu in China’s southwest “will be under scanner
for any hints of policy coordination monetary or fiscal,”
Citigroup economists said in
a report.
S Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, speaking to reporters in Athens before flying to
China, downplayed the likelihood of joint action.
“I don’t think this is a
moment that calls for the
kind of coordinated action
that occurred during the
Great Recession in 2008 and
2009,” said Lew. “It really is
a moment where we each
need to do what we can to
ensure that where growth is
soft it gets stronger and that
prospects for the mediumand long-term are improved.
PML-N SWEEPS POK ASSEMBLY POLLS
Lahore: Pakistan’s ruling
party PML-N has swept the
PoK’s legislative assembly
elections, bagging 30 of 41
directly elected seats, with a
two-thirds majority to form
the new government.
Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim
League (PML-N) emerged
victorious in the assembly
elections held on Thursday
in which a total of 26 political parties and 423 candidates took part.
Pakistan People’s Party
(PPP), which won the last
polls, could only manage to
win two seats while cricketer-turned- politician Imran
Khan’s Pakistan Tahreek-iInsaf (PTI) also got as many
and Muslim Conference
bagged three.
It was expected that there
would be a stiff competition
between the three mainstream parties Pakistan
Muslim League (PML-N),
PPP and PTI but the PML-N
routed them, stunning the
political pundits.
A total of 2.674 million
Kashmiris exercised their
right to franchise yesterday
to elect members for the PoK
Legislative Assembly, which
will be the ninth since the
parliamentary form of government was introduced in
the region in 1975.
While the region is spread
over 14,245 square kilometres, the polling process is
not restricted to this area
and instead stretches to
entire Pakistan because
members for 12 out of the
41 directly elected seats are
elected by 438,884 voters
living in various parts of the
country.
Some 12 are reserved for
refugees from Kashmir in
Pakistan.
Overall, the election was
held in a peaceful manner
under the supervision of
the army. Clashes between
the PML-N and PTI workers
were reported at a couple of
polling stations. Some five
persons suffered injuries.
Sharif congratulated the
people and the elected members.
“Holding the peaceful
election in Kashmir (PoK) is
a trust of people in democracy. Our government will
fully help the newly elected
government of Kashmir,” he
said.
Sharif said he hoped that
the newly-elected members
of the Legislative Assembly
will “help the freedom struggle of Kashmir”.
“Pakistanis are united to
help their Kashmiri brethren in their struggle for freedom,” he added.
Chief Election Commissioner Justice Ghulam Mustafa Mughal said “no com-
plaint” of mishap or violence
was reported during the
polling from anywhere in the
valley. He thanked the federal government and Pakistan
Army for ensuring the transparent conduct of polls.
The PPP in PoK was
launched by Zulfikar Ali
Bhutto in 1973 and until December 2010, it faced Muslim Conference (MC) as its
arch-opponent, but the situation changed in 2010 when
Sharif launched the PML-N
in the region.
The 2011 polls were a
neck-and-neck fight between the PPP and the
PML-N though the MC was
also in the field. As PoK rarely goes against the Centre,
the PPP secured smooth
victory and formed its government. The PML-N also
did well by winning 10 seats.
The MC, which had ruled for
a long time, was reduced to
four seats.
admitted that most
scholars,
whether
from China or the US,
were wrong about
Trump and they also
ignored the strength
of populism to some
extent.
Beijing: The rise of Donald Trump as the US Republican Party’s presidential candidate has made
Chinese experts wonder
how a businessman who
was often ridiculed could
have bested veteran politicians and is now just one
step away from the presidency, official media said
on Friday.
While Chinese netizens
remain skeptical about
Trump and the US political
system, scholars are surprised with the strength
of the anti-establishment
sentiment, state-run Global Times reported.
“At the very beginning,
we didn’t expect American
disgust with Washington
and WallStreet to have
such a powerful impact on
the US general election,”
said Jin Canrong, deputy
director of the Center of
American Studies at the
Renmin University of China.
Jin said he believed the
growing wealth gap and
the slowing economy in
the US has led to Trump’s
growing support, besides
his brashness which separates him from traditional politicians. Initially
the mainstream in China
believed that the election
would pit members of two
of the US’ elite political
families the Hillary Clinton and Jeff Bush.
Even Chinese officials
have downplayed Trump’s
role, though he has repeatedly made unfriendly
remarks about China. Jin
The hunt for Malaysia
Airlines Flight MH370 will
be suspended if the aircraft
is not found in an area now
being searched, Malaysia,
China and Australia said
in a statement on Friday.
The Boeing 777, with 239
aboard, disappeared in
March 2014 while on a flight
from the Malaysian capital,
Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing.
Almost A$180 million
($135 million) has been
spent since then on an underwater search spanning
120,000 square kilometres
(46,332 square miles) in the
southern Indian Ocean.
“In the absence of new
credible evidence, Malaysia,
Australia and China have
collectively agreed to suspend the search upon completion of the 120,000 sq-km
search,” Malaysian transport
minister LiowTiong Lai told
a news conference at which
he read out the statement
from him and his Chinese
and Australian counterparts.
The families of those on
board, most of whom were
from China, have pressed
hard for answers ever since
the plane went missing, and
they are likely to decry any
suggestion the search will
end.
Liow said the team was
not “giving up on the search
for MH370” even if the less
than 10,000 square kilometres that remains to be
searched did not come up
with anything.
“Should credible new information emerge which can
be used to identify the specific location of the aircraft,
consideration will be given
in determining next steps,”
the ministers said in the
statement.
Investigators
believe
the plane was deliberately
flown thousands of miles off
course before crashing into
the southern Indian Ocean
off Australia.
Malaysian investigators
said in 2015 there was nothing suspicious in the financial, medical or personal histories of pilots or crew.
Several pieces of aircraft
wreckage have washed up
on beaches in Africa and
been positively identified
as coming from MH370 but
they shed little light on the
mystery.
United Nations: Global
temperatures for the first
six months of this year have
shattered previous records,
setting 2016 on track to be
the hottest year ever, the
UN weather agency has
said.
“While
acknowledging
the significance of the debris, ministers noted that to
date, none of it had provided
information that positively
identified the precise location of the aircraft,” the ministers said.
The search has lasted
more than two years but has
found no sign of the main
wreckage.
Searchers at the Dutch
company leading the underwater hunt for MH370
told news reporters they
believed the plane may
have glided down to the sea
rather than dived, meaning
He said all data and information collected from the
flight, search and debris of
MH370 would be released to
the public.
“It is in a very big volume,
so it will take some time,” he
said.
Experts believed that
the middle class played a
role in stabilising society,
but now the middle class
prefers change.This could
be the reason why experts
had not expected Trump
Chinese website guancha.cn, which focuses
on politics, social issues
and Trump-related news
stories, has feedback of
Trump supporters who
believe he “will mess up
the US and allow China to
overtake the US as soon as
possible.”
Wang noted that the US
people hold a very different view as they created
something different in the
political system.
The “Trump Phenomenon” shows that the US
political system is not
controlled by traditional
elites and a person like
Trump, who has no political background, could also
have a chance to compete
against Hillary Clinton,
Wang said.
Song Luzheng, a research fellow at the China
Institute of Fudan University, said it is the democratic system, not Trump,
which should be blamed
for the current mess in the
election.
Arctic sea ice melted
early and fast, another indicator of climate change
and carbon dioxide levels,
which are driving global
warming, have reached
new highs, World Meteorological
Organization
(WMO) said on Thursday.
“Another month, another record. And another.
And another.Decades-long
trends of climate change
are reaching new climaxes, fuelled by the strong
2015/2016 El Nino,” said
WMO
Secretary-General
Petteri Taalas.
The El Nino event,
which turned up the
Earth’s thermostat, has
now disappeared, but “climate change, caused by
heat-trapping greenhouse
gases, will not,” Taalas said.
He said it will result in
more heatwaves, more extreme rainfall and potential
The average temperature in the first
six months of 2016
was 1.3 degrees Celsius warmer than the
pre-industrial era in
the late 19th century,
according to NASA.
To calculate global
temperature statistics
for its annual state
of the climate report,
WMO uses datasets from
the US National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United
States National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Institute for
Space Studies (NASA GISS)
and the UK’s Met Office and
reanalysis data from the
European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF).
NOAA said the global
land and ocean average
temperature for January
June was 1.05 degrees Celsius above the 20th century
average, beating the previous record set in 2015 by
0.20 degree Celsius.
Each month in 2016 was
record warm. Most of the
world’s land and ocean
surfaces had warmer to
much-warmer-than-average conditions.
The El Nino event which
developed in 2015 and was
one of the most powerful
on record contributed to
the record temperatures in
the first half of 2016. It dissipated in May.
June 2016 marked the
14th consecutive month of
record heat for land and
oceans and marked the
378th consecutive month
with temperatures above
the 20th century average.
The last month with
temperatures below the
20th century average was
December 1984.
Carbon dioxide concentrations have passed the
symbolic milestone of 400
parts per million in the atmosphere so far this year
and CO2 levels vary according to the season, but
the underlying trend is upwards, the report said.
They showed a surprising increase for the first
half of 2016, rising in June
2016 to nearly 407 ppm,
4 ppm greater than June
2015, the agency said.
“This underlines more
starkly than ever the need
to approve and implement
the Paris Agreement on climate change, and to speed
up the shift to low carbon
economies and renewable
energy,” Taalas said.
FIVE CHARGED OVER THE NICE ATTACK
ja Z. who holds both
French and Albanian
nationality.
That was the first time
officials directly involved in
the search have lent some
support to contested theories that someone was in
control during the flight’s
final moments.
Liow told the news
conference there was not
enough evidence to confirm
a controlled ditching, and
added that he was confident
the search was in the right
place.
Wang Yiwei, a senior
fellow of international
relations at the Renmin
University of China, said
experts did not expect
globalisation to have an
effect on Western countries’ middle class political views.
Chinese netizens still
consider Trump’s rise a
comedy show.
for higher impact tropical cyclones.
they have been scouring the
wrong patch of ocean.
The glide theory is not
supported by the investigating agencies, which includes
Boeing Co, France’s Thales
SA British satellite company
Inmarsat PLC and officials
from the United States, Britain and Australia.
He said that observers
thought
Trump’s base revolved around undereducated,
lower-class and radical
white people. “But
now we discovered Trump
could also attract many
voters from the silent
majority who found his
outspoken style and negativity make him look very
different from traditional
politicians,” Jin said.
to go this far, the report
said.
2016 ON TRACK TO BE HOTTEST YEAR EVER: UN
SEARCH FOR MISSING MALAYSIAN MH370 TO BE SUSPENDED – JOINT PANEL
The hunt for Malaysia
Airlines Flight MH370 will
be suspended if the aircraft
is not found in an area now
being searched, Malaysia,
China and Australia said in a
statement on Friday.
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TRUMP’S RISE BAFFLES CHINESE
SCHOLARS: REPORT
India ranks 110th on the
list followed by Lesotho on
113th position, Pakistan
(115), Myanmar (117), Bangladesh (118) and Afghanistan (139).
Poor and developing
countries understandably
score lowest on the SDG Index as they often have comparably little resources at
their disposal.
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Five suspects have been
formally charged over the
truck attack in the French
Riveria city of Nice that
killed 84 people, the Paris
prosecutor has said.
Mohamed
Lahouaiej
Bouhlel, who mowed down
crowds of people enjoying a
Bastille Day fireworks display, had long plotted the
carnage, prosecutor Francois Molins said. The revelations come as the French
government continues to
be plagued by questions
over possible security failings, prompting authorities
to launch an investigation
into potential oversights.
Molins said photos on
Bouhlel’s phone showed he
had likely already staked
out the same July 14 event
in 2015. It also emerged
that one of the five suspects in custody, a Tunisian
named Mohamed Oualid
G., had filmed the scene
the day after the carnage,
as it crawled with paramedics and journalists.The
five were brought before
anti-terrorism judges on
Thursday and charged.
They are 22-year-old
Franco-Tunisian
Ramzi
A., 37-year-old Tunisian
Chokri C., 40-year-old Tunisian Mohamed Oualid G.,
38-year-old Albanian Artan
H., and his wife Enkeled-
None were known
to intelligence services, and only Ramzi
A., who was born in
Nice, had a criminal
record, for robbery
and drug offences. He
led police to discover a Kalashnikov and
a bag of ammunition
on Thursday, however the purpose of the
weapons was unclear.
Ramzi, Chokri and Oualid were charged with being
accomplices to murder by a
terror group.
Ramzi and the Albanian couple faced a second
charge, of breaking the
law on firearms in relation
to a terrorist crime. They
are accused of providing
Bouhlel with the gun he
fired at police officers before he was shot dead.
More than 400 investigators have been poring over
evidence since the grisly attack last Thursday, the third
in France in 18 months, and
it was analyses of Bouhlel’s
telephone records that led
them to the five suspects.
While the Islamic State
group claimed the attack,
describing Bouhlel as a
“soldier”, investigators have
not found direct proof of his
allegiance to the jihadists.
Many people interviewed by investigators described the Tunisian father
of three as “someone who
did not practise the Muslim
religion, ate pork, drank alcohol, took drugs and had
an unbridled sexual activity”, Molins said earlier this
week.
However initial details of
the investigation revealed
Bouhlel had been fascinated with jihad for a while.
In May last year, he took a
photo of an article about
the drug Captagon, an amphetamine used by jihadists in Syria. In July 2015 he
took photos of the crowd at
the Bastille Day fireworks
display, as well as another
crowd watching a concert
on Nice’s Promenade Des
Anglais three days later.
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HEALTH
Consider Heat or Ice
Other Health Benefits
Nutrition
Eating about 23 almonds a day is an easy
way to incorporate many
crucial nutrients into
your diet. Almonds are
rich in vitamin E, calcium,
magnesium and potassium. Additionally, almonds
are a significant source of
protein and fiber, while
being naturally low in
sugar. One 23-almond
serving packs 13 grams
of healthy unsaturated
fats, 1 gram of saturated
fat and no cholesterol or
salt. Of all tree nuts, almonds rank highest in
protein, fiber, calcium,
vitamin E, riboflavin and
niacin content by weight.
There are 160 calories in
23 almonds. While many
of these calories come
from fat, it is primarily
the healthy unsaturated
fats and not the unhealthy
saturated kind.
Heart Health
According to the FDA,
eating 1.5 ounces a day of
most nuts, like almonds,
may reduce the risk of
heart disease. Many of the
nutrients in almonds help
contribute to increased
heart health. For one, almonds are rich in magnesium, which is critical in
preventing heart attacks
and hypertension. Several
clinical studies have also
shown almonds can be
effective in reducing bad
cholesterol and preserv-
BUSINESS
ing healthy cholesterol,
which plays a major role
in heart health.
Weight Maintenance
Nuts, like almonds, are
also beneficial for maintaining a healthy weight.
The fiber, protein and fat
content of almonds means
it only takes a handful to
keep you feeling full and
satisfied so you won’t
have the urge to overeat.
According to “Fitness”
magazine, the magnesium
in almonds helps regulate
blood sugar, which is key
in reducing food cravings.
Almonds may even be
able to block the body’s
absorption of calories,
making them the ultimate weight-loss-friendly
snack. Because almonds
are naturally high in calories, it’s important to limit your serving size to the
recommended 1 ounce, or
23 nuts.
Almonds may also promote
gastrointestinal
health and even combat
diabetes. The high fiber
content of almonds gives
them prebiotic properties, which contributes to
health in the gastrointestinal tract. Prebiotics are
non-digestible food substances, which serve as
food for the good bacteria
in the intestinal tract and
help maintain a healthy
balance. According to a
study by the American
Diabetes Association, a
Mediterranean diet incorporating nuts, such as
almonds, helps fight diabetes even without significant changes to weight,
physical activity or caloric intake.
Raw Vs Roasted
Almonds are available
in a variety of preparations and it can be tough
to know which is healthiest. Raw, unsalted almonds are a safe bet,
but some people prefer
the roasted taste. Both
raw and roasted almonds
pack a high dose of nutrients and minerals. Raw
almonds have more naturally occurring beneficial
fats, as some are lost in
the roasting process. Dry
roasted almonds have the
same amount of calories
as raw almonds, while
almonds roasted in oil
contain slightly more calories.
SENSEX RECOVERS 54 POINTS IN EARLY TRADE
ON CORPORATE EARNINGS
auto, consumer durables
and healthcare, rising by up
to 0.75 per cent.
Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty was trading
15.30 points or 0.17 per
cent higher at 8,525.40.
Mumbai: The BSE Sensex recovered by about 54
points in early trade on
Friday on fresh buying by
investors after ITC Ltd reported better-than-expected earnings.
The 30-share index,
which had lost 205.37
points in the previous session, rebounded 53.67
points or 0.19 per cent to
27,764.19 with stocks of
FMCG, power, capital goods,
Buying activity emerged
after FMCG major ITC Ltd
on Friday reported posted
an over 10 per cent rise in
standalone net profit at Rs
2,384.67 crore for AprilJune quarter.
Shares of ITC Ltd
climbed 1.04 per cent to Rs
253.25 in early trade.
Other gainers that supported the recovery were
GAIL, Power Grid, Asian
paints, Tata Motors, M&M,
NTPC, L&T and RIL.
Traders said, however, a
weak trend in other Asian
bourses following overnight weakness in the US,
restricted the rise on the
domestic market.
In Asian, Japan’s Nikkei fell 0.89 per cent while
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng
was down 0.40 per cent in
early trade.
Shanghai Composite was
0.31 per cent down.
The US Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 0.42
per cent lower on Friday.
ZENSAR TECH POSTS FLAT PROFIT OF
RS 76.2 CR FOR APR-JUN
2.6 per cent to USD 114
million in the said quarter
compared to the year-ago
period.
“Internally, at Zensar,
several new initiatives are
at play to make Zensar a
business that runs fully on
Digital.
New Delhi:Zensar Technologies on Friday posted
a flat net profit of Rs 76.2
crore for the quarter ended
June 30, 2016 compared to
that of Rs 76.1 crore in the
year-ago period.
Its revenue grew by 8.2
per cent to Rs 762.4 crore
in the reported quarter
from Rs 704.6 crore in the
year-ago period.
“This has been a quarter
of good growth. Manufacturing, which saw some
softness in the previous
quarter, saw a comeback
with 6.3 per cent quar-
ter-on-quarter growth (in
constant currency). There
was a significant traction
in digital commerce and Infrastructure Management
services in the first quarter,” Zensar Technologies
Chief Executive Officer and
MD Sandeep Kishore told
reporters.
The applications business has also achieved significant growth enabled by
key digital levers, he added.
In dollar terms, the company’s net profit declined
4.9 per cent to USD 11.4
million, while revenue grew
These initiatives will
help deliver value to our
clients and associates,
through enhanced transparency, agility and efficiency in the way we run
our business,” he said.
Digital
Services
remained stable and contributed 27.3 per cent of
the revenues in the first
quarter of 2016-17. Talking
about geographies, he said
the US was a bit “soft”,
while business in Europe
did well.
The US accounted for
74.9 per cent of the company’s revenues in the said
quarter, while Europe and
Africa contributed 10.5 per
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ICE OR HEAT
HEALTH BENEFITS OF
ALMONDS
Natural, unsalted almonds are a tasty and nutritious snack with plenty
of health benefits. Loaded
with minerals, they are
also among the healthiest of tree nuts. Just a
handful of nutrient-rich
almonds a day helps promote heart health and
prevent weight gain, and
it may even help fight diseases like diabetes and
Alzheimer’s.
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cent and 8 per cent, respectively. On Brexit, Kishore
said the company was
“watching” the situation
closely.
“Our exposure to Europe
is small at about 10 per
cent, so it’s not as high as
some of the larger players.
However, we are closely
watching the situation. We
are talking to our customers,” he added.
Its total headcount stood
at 8,238 people at the end
of June, 2016. While the
company saw a gross hiring of 662, its headcount
was lower compared to the
March fiscal, when Zensar
had 8,256 people.
Its attrition rate stood at
17.6 per cent in the quarter
under review. The results
were announced after the
markets closed for the
day. Shares of the company closed at Rs 1,010.60
apiece, up 0.39 per cent on
BSE.
Heat helps soothe stiff
joints and relax muscles.
Cold helps numb sharp pain
and reduce inflammation.
Use temperature therapy to
complement meds and selfcare. It’s simple, affordable,
soothing -- and you have to
sit down to use either one.
Packs
For short-term pain relief, make a pack from items
such as:
* An electric heating pad
* A gel pack that can be microwaved or frozen
* A bag of ice or frozen vegetables
Whether hot or cold,
wrap the pack in a pillow
case to help protect your
skin.
Or make a compress -- a
washcloth or small towel
soaked in hot or cold water,
wrung out, and folded.
Apply to the painful area
for 15-20 minutes several
times daily.
Don’t Overdo It
It’s normal for your skin
to look a little pinker after
using cold or heat. Before
adding new ice or turning
the heat back on, let your
skin return to its normal color and temperature.
If you see any of these
signs after removing the
warm or cold pack, call your
doctor. These are signs the
temperature was too extreme and may indicate skin
damage.
* Purplish-red, dark red, or
spotty red and white color
* Hives
*Swelling
*Blisters
Heated Wax Therapy
Another way to apply
heat, especially to hands,
elbows, and feet, is warm,
melted paraffin.
A
heated
container
(available at drugstores and
beauty supply stores) safely
melts paraffin and mineral
oil to make a paraffin bath.
Dip the painful body part
several times to build up
a warm layer. Then cover
it with plastic and wrap in
a towel for 10-15 minutes
until the wax cools. Unwrap
and peel the wax away.
To avoid irritation and
pain, make sure the skin
where you treat has no cuts
or sores.
Low-Level Heat
If you find that heat helps
ease your pain, try a continuous low-level heat wrap,
available at drugstores. It’s
a convenient way to keep
painful areas warm. You can
wear a heat wrap for up to 8
hours, even while you sleep.
Follow the directions care-
fully.
Studies suggest that
low-level, long-term heat
applied directly on the skin
can significantly reduce
stiffness and tension and
increase flexibility. Positive
effects can last for 48 hours
or longer.
Hydrotherapy
Showers and baths aren’t
just for mornings. When
you’re hurting, stand under
or settle into warm water for
a few minutes to help soothe
and relax you. (If you’re over
70 or have heart problems,
check with your doctor before getting into a hot tub.)
Try a warm shower or
bath before you exercise to
help loosen joints and muscles.
Use cool water after exercise to help calm deep, burning pain and reduce inflammation.
Keep in mind, a bath can
be for your whole body or
just a part.
Warm Clothes
Want an easier -- and less
painful -- start to your day?
Tumble your clothes in the
dryer for a few minutes before you put them on. The
warm clothes will heat you
up and may help ease morning pain and stiffness.
Better yet: Ask your mate
to put your clothes in the
dryer while you rest for a
few extra minutes in bed.
Contrast Baths
Get 2 tubs or containers
large enough for your painful area ready with warm
and cold water. Soak in the
warm tub for about 5 minutes then plunge into the
cold tub for about 1 minute.
Go back to the warm for a
few more minutes, then the
cold for a minute. Repeat 4-5
times.
While in the cold bath,
have someone add water to
the warm one to bring the
temperature up.
Contrast baths increase
blood flow to help reduce
swelling and pain and promote healing.
RUPEE WEAKENS 3 PAISE AGAINST DOLLAR IN
EARLY TRADE
Mumbai: Rupee was trading lower by 3 paise at 67.20
against the dollar in early
trade at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market today
on increased demand for the
US currency from importers.
Besides, strength in dollar
against some other currencies overseas also weighed
on the rupee but a higher
opening in the domestic equity market capped the fall,
dealers said.
The rupee had ended
marginally higher by 3 paise
at 67.17 in yesterday’s trade
on mild dollar selling by
banks and exporters.
Shanghai: India has underlined the need for a judicious mix of fiscal, monetary and structural policies
by major economies to deal
with the heightened uncertainty on account of Brexit.
hai yesterday, as Jaitley
could not attend it because
of the ongoing Parliament
session back home.
mies (EMDE)
continue
to
affect
their
growth.
Meanwhile, the bench-
mark BSE Sensex recovered
by 53.67 points or 0.19 per
cent to 27,764.19 in early
deals.
NEED MIX OF FISCAL, MONETARY POLICIES TO
DEAL WITH BREXIT: FM
“Governments, Central
Banks and regulators have
to mitigate the pressure of
such vulnerabilities through
judicious mix of fiscal, monetary and structural policies,”
Jaitley said in his speech at
the meeting of the Board of
Governors of the New Development Bank (NDB).
In his speech, read out
by Joint Secretary in the Finance Ministry Raj Kumar,
Jaitley said that Britain’s
decision to exit from the
European Union, commonly
termed as Brexit has further heightened uncertainty,
market volatility and riskaverse behaviour.
Kumar represented India
at the first annual general
body and board of governors meetings of the NDB
which took place in Shang-
Outlining the challenges,
he said the current global
economic context is far from
being robust and is marked
by a modest pickup in some
advanced economies from
their low levels of growth.
He also said that decline
in growth in emerging markets and developing economies, increased financial
sector volatility, and, in general, a downward revision of
global growth projections by
the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) also pose challenges.
IMF earlier this week has
cut global growth forecast
for 2017 by 0.1 percentage
point to 3.4 per cent citing
“substantial” increase in
economic, political, institutional uncertainty on account of Brexit.
Jaitley said the structural
problems of emerging markets and developing econo-
“The sluggish
global
trade and low
commodity
prices
have
also adversely
affected commodity-exporting EMDEs,
by aggravating their corporate and other economic
vulnerabilities,” he added.
India, Jaitley stressed,
is following the approach
of ‘Reform to Transform’
through far reaching structural reforms.
“We have taken several
initiatives to boost investment climate and improve
the ease of doing business,”
he said.
Referring to the initiates,
he said setting up National
Infrastructure Investment
Fund would stimulate investment in infrastructure
and Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016, for easier
exit of companies have been
passed by Parliament.
Besides,
programmes
such as Make in India, Startup India, and Skill India are
focused on encouraging innovation, entrepreneurship
and job creation.
The government has
launched a massive financial
inclusion programme and
more than 20 crore bank accounts have been opened for
the unbanked persons.
“We are now using Aadhaar, a unique identification
system with statutory backing, as backbone for targeted delivery of financial and
other subsidies, benefits and
service,” Jaitley said
TELANGANA GOVT. FOCUSING ON IRRIGATION PROJECTS: CM
Hyderabad:Telangana
government on Friday said
it is determined to provide
water to one crore acres
of land through the existing and proposed irrigation projects and will also
continue with free power
scheme for farmers.
The government made
the assertion during a meet-
ing presided over by Chief
Minister K Chandrasekhar
Rao.
During the meet, the CM
reviewed Kaleswaram, Palamuru, Dindi and Sitarama Irrigation Projects with senior
officials of Irrigation Department and Energy Minister
Jagadish Reddy, an official
release said.
“The government is allotting Rs 25,000 crore every year in the budget for
irrigation projects. Every
month Rs 2,100 crore will
be allotted to the Irrigation
Department for spending on
various projects.
“The Government is also
determined to continue free
power scheme, which is
costing Rs 4,000 crore per
annum to the exchequer, for
farmers,” Rao said.
By redesigning some of
the irrigation projects, the
Government will be able to
use at least 1,000 tmc water
from Krishna and Godavari
rivers which flows into the
sea and gets wasted, the
Chief Minister said.
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TO DO WELL, YOU NEED BIG HEART AND WADA ASKS IOC TO RECONSIDER RUSSIA BAN
CAPTAIN’S BACKING: DHAWAN
appointed that I got out especially when I was set and
scoring runs. I had spent
enough time out there in
the middle and came so
close to scoring a hundred,”
he lamented.
“At the same time, I am
happy that I started on a
good note and would like
to carry on my good performances in coming matches.
I want to use the form I am
in.”
North Sound (Antigua):ShikharDhawan has always
had the uncanny knack of
producing goods when the
chips are down which he
attributes to his “big heart”
and the “backing” he has
got from skipper ViratKohli
and coach Anil Kumble.
Dhawan scored a polished 84 and is certainly
feeling a bit less pressure
after there were unconfirmed reports that KL
Rahul, with back-to-back
half-centuries in practice
games will replace him in
the playing XI.
“I feel it is important for
any player if the captain
and the coach are backing
you and it gives a lot of confidence. That’s what matters and you also need to
have self-belief that you can
do that and it is a mixture
of everything,” Dhawan told
mediapersons after the
first day’s play.
“Opening is the toughest
job and you need a big heart
for it, when facing the new
ball on a new (fresh) wicket. Bowlers also bowl with
full energy and as opener
your technique should also
be good because you have
to leave a lot of balls and
you need patience as well,”
said Dhawan.
“The middle order needs
it too but a new ball has its
own challenge. Vijay got a
good ball and it was a very
quick ball. I was luckier in
that sense as Gabriel was
bowling really well,” he
added.
The Delhi left-hander
was however a touch disappointed that he couldn’t
get to a coveted three-figure mark as he was trapped
leg-before by leg-spinner
DevendraBishoo. “I felt dis-
Dhawan did well to survive the first session when
pacer Shannon Gabriel was
extracting a lot of bounce
from the strip.
Along with CheteshwarPujara, the southpaw saw
off the session adding 60
runs.
“I feel that in the first
session the wicket was
fresh and the bowling was
very good. So I was respecting the good balls and knew
that I cannot afford to take
a chance because there was
extra bounce on the wicket.
So I was playing close to my
body and was not in a hurry
and relaxed at the crease.
It helped me later in the
innings in both my partnerships with Pujara and
Virat,” Dhawan explained.
KOHLI CRUISES TO 12TH TEST TON AS INDIA END DAY ONE
North Sound (Antigua):Virat Kohli continued his
sublime form to ease to a
12th hundred and lead India to 302 for four on day
one of the first cricket Test,
here against the West Indies .
The away side had a rather quiet first session where
it managed 72 for one in 27
overs before Kohli arrived
at the crease and stepped
up the tempo. By stumps,
India had a decent run rate
of 3.35 runs per over.
The pitch was flat and
the West Indies bowling
lacked depth to trouble the
visitors who found it tough
early on after Kohli opted
to bat.
Starting at 65 after tea,
Kohli put on 57 runs with
AjinkyaRahane (22) as the
duo looked to build after
losing both Dhawan and
CheteshwarPujara
(16)
in the second session of
play. Rahane was nearly
dismissed cheaply, for 5
runs, as Shannon Gabriel (1-43) induced an edge
that fell short of slips. But
thereafter the vice-captain
tightened up his game and
didn’t give another chance
until his eventual dismissal.
In the meantime, the duo
kept the run-rate flowing,
bringing up the 200-mark
in the 61st over. Then, five
overs later, they brought
up their 50-partnership,
coming off only 65 balls.
Kohli was looking particu-
larly good in this period, as
cover drives and on-drives
started booming off his
blade.
Perhaps
Carlos
Brathwaite (0-46) was the
only bowled who troubled
him a bit, but even was not
able to create a straightforward wicket-taking opportunity.
Just as they were looking good, Rahane was dismissed, a loose stroke off
DevendraBishoo (3-108)
lobbing up and he was
caught at midwicket. It was
yet another loose dismissal
for India, with only Murali Vijay (7) getting out to a
good delivery earlier in the
morning.
Thereafter, with 22 overs
remaining in the day’s play,
it was surprising to see
Ashwin come out to bat
ahead of WriddhimanSaha.
But he did an immaculate job, including some
silken drives down the
ground, and the two batsmen stayed unbeaten until
the end of play, bringing up
the 300-mark in the 88th
over. Kohli and Ashwin’s
stand partnership rescued
India from what looked like
a disappointing first outing
for the five top-order batsmen theory.
RAMKUMAR ADVANCES TO QUARTERFINALS OF US CHALLENGER
ter making it one-set apiece,
Ramkumar made a fiery
start to the deciding set by
sending down four consecutive aces to hold at love.
He then broke Statham,
ranked as low as 472, in
the third game to create a
lead. He served a double
fault to face a breakpoint in
the fourth but wriggled out
with an ace to lead 3-1.
Binghamton
(USA):
Young Indian Davis Cupper
Ramkumar
Ramanathan
fought past Jose Statham in
a three-setter to make it to
the singles quarterfinals of
the USD 50,000 ATP Challenger tournament.
The 214-ranked 21-yearold Indian, who made his
Davis Cup debut last week
in Chandigarh against Korea, rallied to beat his Kiwi
opponent 2-6 6-4 7-6(3) in
two hours and 22 minutes
A statement from WADA
said the global anti-doping
group was “satisfied” with
the Court of Arbitration
for Sport (CAS) decision on
Friday to deny an appeal by
Russian track and field athletes for Rio reinstatement,
saying it helps ensure a
“level” playing field at next
month’s Games.
“It is now up to other
international federations
to consider their responsibilities under the World
Anti-Doping Code as it re-
and booked a last-eight
berth in the hard court
event.
Ramkumar said it was a
relief to win a tie-breaker after losing quite a few in the
last few weeks. It was the
first tie-breaker that Ramkumar managed to win having lost five in a row since
Wimbledon Qualifiers.
“It was a close match.
The guy had great returns
and passing hots. I had to
go for my serve and shots.
In the third set I broke him
but was broken back. I was
serving for the match at 6-5
but could not seal it. It was
a good tie-breaker to win
after losing a few in the past
few months. I am looking
forward to playing the next
match,” Ramkumar told reporters after his match.
Ramkumar took a while
to settle on hard courts after
playing on grass last week
and found his rhythm from
the second set onwards. Af-
However, the New Zealander broke back in the
sixth game to level it 3-3 and
eventually it all boiled down
to the tie-breaker.
The Indian kept playing
aggressively to reach the
quarterfinals, where he faces British giant killer Brydan Klein, who had knocked
out top seed Quentin Halys
in the opening round.
Ramkumar’s compatriot Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan
suffered a shock first round
defeat in doubles along with
third seed partner Andrey
Golubev. They lost 6-7(10)
2-6 to unseeded pair of
Liam Broady Guilherme
Clezar.
lates to their Russian national federations and up
to the International Olympic Committee to consider
its responsibilities under
the Olympic Charter,” the
WADA statement said.
Evidence of a state-supported doping scheme by
Russia at the 2014 Winter
Olympics and other events
was unveiled Monday
when the findings of a WADA-commissioned report
were released.
IOC executives talked
Tuesday about a ban on all
Russians competing at Rio
but set aside a decision to
check legal issues and see
what CAS would rule on
the IAAF ban appeal. Under IAAF Rules, Russian
track and field athletes are
ineligible to compete in international competitions
unless they satisfy specific
criteria.
“WADA firmly believes
this is not about punish-
ing some athletes for the
actions of others,” WADA
president Craig Reedie said.
“It is about the IAAF requiring its member national federation (from Russia)
to live up to the IAAF’s
World Anti-Doping Code
compliant rules by enforcing them effectively in their
jurisdiction. This is vital to
ensure that all athletes are
competing on a level playing field.
BOWLERS NEED TO BE PATIENT AS IT’S A
BATTING PITCH: BISHOO
North Sound (Antigua):
West Indies leg spinner
Devendra Bishoo has said
the pitch at the Sir Vivian
Richards Stadium is batting
friendly where the bowlers
need to be patient in order
to get wickets.
Courtesy
ViratKohli’s
attacking unbeaten 143,
India have reached 302 for
4 with Bishoo emerging as
the most successful bowler
with figures of 3 for 108.
“I think this is a very good
pitch. It’s a batting pitch,”
Bishoo said after the day’s
play.
“We, as bowlers, have to
be patient as much as possible and take it one ball
at a time. Day one pitches
don’t turn that much. On
days three, four and maybe day five, it’s going to
turn more,” the pint-sized
leg-spinner added.
Kohli (143 batting) led
from the front to lay a solid
platform for his team with
the other major contribution coming from opener
ShikharDhawan (84).
The Indian captain, who
also crossed the 3000-run
mark in his 42nd Test, had
the support of RavichandranAshwin (22 batting)
at close of play as the two
shared an unbeaten 66-run
stand.
Montreal: The World
Anti-Doping Agency on
Friday asked the International Olympic Committee
to “consider its responsibilities” as it debates whether
or not to ban all Russian
competitors from the Rio
Games.
“We could have been in
a better position probably.
At the end of the day, it’s a
good pitch and the Indian
batsmen kept relishing it.
We just didn’t put the ball
in the areas as much, but
we bowled well in patches.
“We just have to take it
one over at a time and take
it session by session. Put
the ball in the right areas
for as long as possible, and
make it hard for them. At
the end of it, we have to be
patient,” he added.
While he finished with
three wickets, it was pacer Shannon Gabriel who
bowled the best on day one,
putting openers ShikharDhawan and Murali Vijay in
a spot of bother. He looked
dangerous in every spell.
“I think Shannon bowled
really good upfront today
and he started off very well.
He bowled with great pace.
The rest of the bowlers, as I
said, bowled well in patches. We need to be a bit more
patient because the wicket
is good,” said Bishoo.
When asked if West Indies missed a trick by picking only four bowlers plus
debutant Roston Chase, he
replied in negative. “No. At
the end of day, whatever
team we have to play with
as a team, we have to play.
We support each other and
give our 100 percent. I’m
not going to put anything
on anybody. To play good
cricket, bowlers have to do
their job and batsmen have
to do theirs.”
Bishoo didn’t speak
much about Kohli’s hundred, only outlining that
the hosts can fight back in
the days to come.
“It’s not challenging (to
bowl at him). At the end
of the day, it’s cricket. We
have to be patient. It’s just
the start of the series and
there is a long way to go.
Everybody has good and
bad days, we just have to
move forward as a team,”
he signed off.
SUNNY WAS IN CONFUSED STATE WHILE
SINGING NATIONAL ANTHEM
Sunny Leone is the latest
to join the bandwagon of
actresses, who have turned
singers, after she sang the
national anthem at a Pro
Kabaddi league match on
Thursday.
Sunny was proud but
was nervous to sing the anthem at one of the matches
of the on-going Pro Kabaddi
League. The League is aired
on Star Sports channel.
“It’s a proud moment for
me. I had never ever desired
or thought that I would get
to sing the national anthem.
I feel blessed and honored.
I was very nervous,” Sunny
said.
The “Jism 2” actress rehearsed a lot for the big
event.
“I am thankful to my
team and husband for helping with this (getting national anthem right). I did
rehearse for quite some
time,” she added.
Sunny reveals her father
always took efforts to make
her learn kabaddi, but
destiny had other plans in
store for her.
“My father always took
efforts in making me learn
kabaddi but that did not
happen. I have an emotional connect with the game.”
The 35-year-old actress
who was last seen in “One
Night Stand” is gearing
up for her two films like
“Beiimaan Love” and “Tina
and Lolo”.
NO MORE TENURE AFTER NINE YEARS IN OFFICE:
LODHA PANEL TO STATE ASSOCIATIONS
New Delhi: The Supreme
Court-appointed
Lodha
Committee on Thursday
clarified to the state associations that any office-bearer who has cumulatively
or separately completed
nine years in office before
or after July 18 will be disqualified from contesting
elections.
Sources told reporters that the committee on
Thursday sent an e-mail
communication to BCCI
President Anurag Thakur
and secretary Ajay Shirke
asking them to inform the
state associations with
queries in this regard.
The two questions asked
by a number of state associations are:
1) Are individuals who
have cumulatively completed nine years as Office
Bearers of a State Association disqualified from again
becoming office bearers?
2) Is the 9-year disqualification period to be reckoned only commencing
from the date of the judgment (18.07.2016) or does
it include tenures as office
bearers prior to that date?
The committee in their
clarification pointed out:
1) Any individual who
has cumulatively completed a period of nine years as
an Office Bearer of a State
Association stands disqualified from contesting elections or holding a post in
the Association.
2) This will apply to any
person as of the date of the
election, and will include
periods prior to the date of
the judgment (18.07.2016).
“So that there is no
doubt, if any individual
has completed 9 years as
an office bearer (wheth-
er through consecutive or
separate terms; whether in
one post or another) of the
State Association by or before 18.07.2016, that individual stands disqualified,”
it stated.
The committee also requested BCCI to ensure
that state associations are
informed in this regard.
“This clarification may
be kindly intimated to the
various State and Member
Associations, so that individual missives to either
the BCCI or this Committee
on this count may be avoided. This is in addition to the
direction sent on Wednesday that the BCCI and the
State Associations put on
hold all elections and electoral processes,” it concluded.
CITY
HILIGHTS
Vol 1, Issue 200 `.1.00/-
ENTERTAINMENT
‘KABALI’ RELEASES ACROSS THE
COUNTRY AMID FAN FRENZY
Bengaluru and
across Kerala.
cities
In some places, fans
complained of lack of
availability of tickets as
they were bulk-booked
by individuals and companies well in advance
but there was an overall
mood of joy outside the
theatres that screened the
multi-crore film produced
by Kalaippuli S Thanu.
Frenzied fans poured
thousands of litres of
milk on huge cut outs of
megastar Rajinikanth and
sang and danced outside
theatres at 4AM where
they gathered to catch
the first show of his latest
film “Kabali” that released
in about 5,000 screens
across India besides US,
UK, Malaysia and Singapore.
At least, 1,000 screens
launched the film in
Tamil Nadu, home to Rajinikanth ever since he
made his debut in the mid
‘70s.
Cut outs and banners
of the actor were erected
outside theatres, as the
film had created much
buzz among the his die
hard fans, including those
from Japan, who had
flown specially to witness
the drama typical of a Rajinikanth release.
Fans made merry re-
producing his famous
punch line ‘kabali da’ and
other dialogues after the
show with some of them
carrying tickets for more
screenings the same day
as they had missed some
parts because of the
cheering and shouting inside theatres.
The Tamil drama, which
has also been dubbed in
Hindi and Telugu, ran to
packed houses in metros
like Mumbai, Hyderabad,
Rajinikanth had a special screening of the Pa
Ranjith- directed movie
in the US where he is holidaying.
The ‘Neruppuda’ song
from the film is already
a chartbuster. Santosh
Narayanan has scored
the music for the film,
which also stars Radhika
Apte, Dhanshika and Kalaiarasan in key roles.
Rajinikanth’s last two
releases “Lingaa” and “Kochadaiyaan” had bombed
at the box office but fans
are happy to see the ‘Rajini magic’ back in “Kabali”.
They say it has washed
away the disappointment
of his last two films.
The film released to
packed houses across
Kerala, where tickets
were sold in advance and
many of theatres showed
‘houseful’ boards. It was
released in over 300
screens across the Kerala.
Meanwhile, fans who
had flown from Bengaluru
to watch a special screening as part of an arrangement with Air Asia, complained of a rescheduling
of timing and screening
place.
They insisted that they
wanted to watch the movie along with the actor’s
fans in a Chennai theatre
as promised but were
offered a screening elsewhere.
The company said
there was a mistake on its
part in not informing the
rescheduling and assured
to compensate the fans.
MY LIFE INFLUENCED BY WOMEN IN
FAMILY AND INDUSTRY: SRK
Superstar Shah Rukh
Khan says his life has
been shaped up by
the women in his life,
including his grandmother, wife, daughter
and those with whom he
has worked in the film
industry.
“My life has been
completely shaped by
women, starting from
my grandmother to my
daughter now and in
between my wife, aunts,
didis in colonies, my
leading ladies and women directors with whom
I have worked,” the
50-year-old actor told to
the media.
“They have helped
me achieve 100 per cent
of what I am today. I
wouldn’t be half a man
without these women. I
owe my life to them,” the
“Dilwale” star said.
He was speaking at
the launch of a book “She Walks, She Leads”
- by debutante author
Gunjan Jain at an event
last evening. The book
profiles 24 women from
all walks of life, including Nita Ambani, Chanda
Kochhar and Swati Piramal.
The “Fan” actor, who
previously shared that
he, was penning his autobiography, expressed
hope to write a book
about the women who
have influenced him in
his life.
“The amount of sensitivity I have, the goodness in me has been led
by the women in my
life, about whom I will
one day perhaps write
a book,” he said.
“...for girls who have
made mistakes, and
had regrets galore, the
girls who may not win
but always get up from
the floor. The girls who
take life as it comes, the
girls who have broken
the code.
“For the girls who
hope that it will get better somewhere down the
road, let your steps be a
dance and jump into this
world. You are beautiful,
because you fight like a
girl...,” he recited.
SUNNY WAS NERVOUS TO SING NATIONAL ANTHEM
Sunny Leone is the latest to join the bandwagon of actresses, turning
to singing, after she sang
the national anthem at
a Pro Kabaddi league
match.
Sunny was proud but
was nervous to sing the
anthem last night at one
of the matches of the
on-going Pro Kabaddi
League held at a stadium
here. The League is aired
on Star Sports channel.
“It’s a proud moment
for me. I had never ever
desired or thought that
I would get to sing the
national anthem. I feel
blessed and honored. I
was very nervous,” Sunny told the media.
di, but destiny had other
plans in store for her.
“I am thankful to my
team and husband for
helping with this (getting national anthem
right). I did rehearse for
quite some time,” she
added.
The 35-year-old actress who was last seen
in “One Night Stand” is
gearing up for her two
films like “Beiimaan
Love” and “Tina and
Lolo”.
The “Jism 2” actress
rehearsed a lot for the
big event.
Sunny reveals her father always took efforts
to make her learn kabad-
“My father always
took efforts in making
me learn kabaddi but
that did not happen. I
have an emotional connect with the game.”
HOW TOM HIDDLESTON FEELS ABOUT THE DRAMA
SURROUNDING TAYLOR SWIFT AND KIM KARDASHIAN
annoyed by the negative media attached to
Taylor,” the insider tells
us. “He knew that would
come with the course of
dating her. He has been
supporting her and enjoying the time he’s
having with her. They’re
having a great time and
are always laughing.”
Taylor Swift and Tom
Hiddleston are heating
up on all fronts With the
aftermath from Kim Kardashian’s Snapchat Videos continuing to unfold,
a source said that Tom
is helping his girlfriend
feel better. “Tom is not
Actor Ranveer Singh
got irked when actress
Deepika Padukone was
quizzed about their rumoured engagement, and
requested media persons
to ask good questions.
There have been rumours about the wedding
of Ranveer and Deepika
since last one month,
with some reports suggesting that the “Bajirao
Mastani” co-stars are already engaged.
On Thursday night, the
duo was attending a special screening of Irrfan
Khan-starrer “Madaari”.
When Deepika was
asked about her rumoured
engagement,
Ranveer
looked at her and said,
“Let’s go.”
The “Piku” actress said
“Thanks, bye”, to reporters
before walking away.
Ranveer then told reporters, “Jis type ki film
(referring to ‘Madaari’)
dekhi hai, uska toh lihaaz
As for how the “Style”
songstress is feeling
about everything that
happened with Kim and
Kanye West the source
adds, “Taylor is not happy about what happened
with Kim and Kanye. She
thinks they are using her
to get even more publicity.”
Although the videos
made it clear that Taylor
approved certain lyrics in Kanye’s song “Famous,” our source tells
us that she has no intentions of partnering with
him again. “She is not a
fan of Kanye and won’t
ever work with him or
talk to him again at this
point,” the source says.
karen, is type ki fizool ki
baatein na karen (show
some regard for the film
that is being screened here,
do not talk nonsense).”
The
31-year-old
“Lootera” actor then went
to see off Deepika. He later
came back and said, “Jaise
type ki film hai, toh achche achche sawaal karna,
meri request hai aapse
(Ask good questions, as is
the film, it is my request to
you).”
Earlier, Deepika had
refuted reports of her impending marriage, saying
she has no plans to tie the
knot anytime soon.
Deepika, who was the
showstopper at ace designer Manish Malhotra’s
couture show in Delhi recently, took the opportunity to set the record straight
about her personal life.
“I think this is the right
opportunity to clarify for
everyone, there is no such
plan (to get married). I
am not pregnant, I am not
having a baby, I am not
engaged. I am not married and I am not planning
to get married any time
soon,” the 30-year-old actress said.
ROBBIN WILLIAMS’ DAUGHTER
REMEMBERS HIM ON ANNIVERSARY
Oscar-winning actor
Robin Williams’ actress
daughter Zelda paid him
a touching tribute on his
65th birth anniversary.
The
26-year-old
“Where the World Mine”
star shared her childhood picture with her
late father and siblings on
Instagram and wrote an
emotional post.
“Still not really sure
what to do on days like
today... I know I can’t give
you a present anymore, but
I guess that means I’ll just
have to keep giving them
in your name instead,” she
wrote.
The poem celebrates
a girl who has made
mistakes, regrets, secrets and dreams, one,
who falls but never
gives up.
8
ASK GOOD QUESTIONS: RANVEER TO
SCRIBES ON WEDDING RUMOURS
The
American-born
actress turned nostalgic
while writing series of
messages along with the
photograph.
Shah Rukh also narrated a poem, which
he wrote after being
inspired by a comment
he read of former “One
Direction” band member Zayn Malik.
English Daily
While mentioning about
the noble causes, she had
donated for in the name
of her father, the actress
wrote, “This year, I tried
to help three causes you
cared about in one; rescue dogs, people suffering
from disabilities, and our
nation’s wounded veterans, so I donated to freedomservicedogs.org.”
“They rescue pups from
shelters and train them
so that they can be paired
with someone in dire need
of their help and companionship,” Zelda continued.
In a hope to fulfill Robin’s wishes, she went on
writing, “Thought you’d
get a kick out of furry, four
legged friends helping
change the world, one warrior in need at a time.
rescue dogs, people
suffering from disabilities,
and our nation’s wounded
warriors.”
She ended her post by
wishing her father with
a sweet message, “Happy
birthday Poppo. Shasha,
Zakky, Codeman and I all
love you and miss you like
crazy.
CÉLINE DION FLAWLESSLY IMITATES RIHANNA, MICHAEL JACKSON
AND MORE IN WHEEL OF MUSICAL IMPRESSIONS
There’s no denying Celine Dion’s status as a musical legend, but her own
musical talents aside, it
seems like she has a knack
for impressions.
The “My Heart Will Go
On” songstress appeared
on The Tonight Show
Thursday night and played
Wheel of Musical Impressions with host Jimmy Fallon. Ariana Grande previously slayed in the game in
which the guest has to perform a random selection of
songs in the voice of other
famous singers, but Dion
might have stolen the victory crown right out from
under her!
Dion’s first time spinning the wheel resulted
in her having to perform
“Frère Jacques” in Cher”s
voice, and although Dion
has prominent vocals of
her own, she was able to
nail down Cher’s iconic vocals without a problem—
like the legend that she is!
Despite the random and
hilarious song selection,
Dion made the children’s
tune sound like an amazing song.
For
her
next
cover,
Drake’s “One Dance,” she
enlisted Fallon to join her
in a Michael Jackson-style
version. Dion flawlessly
combined “Smooth Criminal” with Fallon’s cover of
the Drake tune, and somehow viewers ended up
with the duet of the century they never knew they
needed.
SELENA GOMEZ TURNS 24: HOW SHE’S BECOMING ONE OF THE
SAVVIEST STARS IN THE BUSINESS
We’ve always known
Selena Gomez can sing, act,
and model, but this past
year she added another
item to her already impressive resume—super-savvy
businesswoman.
The Revival artist, who
was diagnosed with lupus
less than a year ago, has
pushed through adversity
and proven to be unstoppable. Between securing
endorsement deals with
world-renowned
com-
panies, performing at the 2015
Victoria’s Secret
Fashion Show, and
coming out on top
as the most followed person on
Instagram (in the
world!), 23 was
a whirlwind of a
year for the former Disney Channel star.
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