17 June 2016 - City Hilights

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BBMP ON
SWACCHATHA ABHIYANA
Lourdes Central School
celebrates Fr Wilson
D’Souza’s birthday
With the desire of good
health and longer life for
Lourdes
Central
School
manager Fr Wilson Vitus L
D’Souza on his 72nd birthday, a programme was organized by the school under
the guidance of the principal
Fr Robert D’Souza.Invoking
God’s blessings on the manager, the choir sang a prayer
song that marked the beginning of the day’s celebration.
The vice principal Belita
Mascarenhas welcomed the
dignitaries and the entire
Lourdite family. Seema Lobo
and Mridula of class XII conveyed their birthday wishes
on behalf of the teachers and
students respectively.
Thieves target temple,
steal items worth Rs
3 lac
Thieves went into Anaru
Goddess
Durgaparameshwari temple at Patrame village in the taluk by breaking
open the rear door of the
temple on the night of Tuesday June 14. The theft came
to light when the priest of
the temple reached the temple premises on Wednesday June 15 morning for
performing morning puja.
Silverarmours of Goddess
Durgaparameshwari
and
Lord Ganapati idols, golden Karimani chain worn
around the neck of presiding deity, two ear lobes, two
nose rings, silver plates,
utensils, silver pitchers,
Aaratis made of bronze etc.
were stolen. The thieves
also broke open the donation box of the temple and
took away contents.
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Health and Family Welfare Minister of State U T Khader sprayes moquito repellent on Thursday as part of cleanliness and awareness drive. The campaign was flaged off by the minister,
Mayor, BBMP opposition leader Padmanabha Reddy.
New Delhi and Bengaluru, among the more polluted cities in the country,
continue to have the highest number of vehicles on
their roads. Chennai with
44.7 lakh vehicles is in
third place, while Kolkata
has 38.6 lakh vehicles. As
on March 31, 2016, Bengaluru has more than 61
lakh vehicles on its roads,
second only to Delhi which
has 88 lakh vehicles.
New Delhi and Bengaluru, among the more polluted cities in the country,
continue to have the highest number of vehicles on
their roads. Despite having the tag of metro cities, Mumbai, Kolkata and
Chennai have far fewer vehicles. Chennai with 44.7
lakh vehicles is in third
place, while Kolkata has
The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) will shut
all the shops of the traders
who are running various
shops in the city without
renewing their licence,”
warns Kavitha Sanil, president of MCC standing committee for health and education, while addressing
The then Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police of Kodagu district have been
held responsible for the violent
incidents in Madikeri last year, in
which two persons including Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Kuttapa
were killed, over the public protest
against the Tipu Sultan Jayanti by
the magisterial inquiry conducted
into the incidents. The violent incidents took place on November
10, 2015 against the Siddaramaiah
ministry’s decision to organise
Tipu Sultan Jayanti.
CM watching proposed BDA project of Six Lane Elevated Road Model Starting from Basaveshwara Circle to Hebbal fly over along with other ministers on at CM Residence Cauvery.
FASHION FOR A CAUSE
on ignored basic needs
like clothing, sanitary pads
for villages and
The State Cabinet which met
in Bengaluru on Wednesday with
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in
the chair, accepted the magisterial
report.
slums in India to help
distribute old
fashion clothes to the
unprivileged.
The absence of two top officials,
when their presence was very
much required in the district, has
been cited as the major reason for
the situation going out of control.
Briefing reporters on the decisions taken at the State Cabinet
meeting, Karnataka’s Law and
Parliamentary Affairs Minister T
B Jayachandra said the report recommended transfer of and non-executive posts for both SP Vartika
Katiyar and the Deputy Commissioner Meer Anees Ahmed.
Katiyar had gone on leave three
days before the Tipu Jayanti celebrations while the then Deputy
Commissioner Ahmed too went
on leave just a day before the event
even though both officers were
well aware of the protest plans and
call for observing bandh given by
VHP and BJP leaders. The Chief Executive Officer of the Kodagu Zilla
Panchayat (ZP) M Kurma Rao was
in charge of district affairs in the
absence of the DC.
lover
likes
seeing
clothes go to waste. We
want to make it as easy as
possible for you to give
Nicole Faria, supermodel, actress and Ms. Earth, 2010 promotes the your garments and share
initiative at VR Bengaluru, Whitefield
fashion with the needy.
Most of the used clothes
end up in landfills; thousands of tonnes of textiles
are
discarded with household waste. Most of those
clothes could have been
re-worn or recycled.
Giving away clothes to
someone who is in need
can reduce
waste and can also give
our old clothes a chance to
take a new life.
As a part of World Environment Day Campaign,
Max, a fashion brand has
installed Drop
Boxes in 17 of its stores
across the city where customers could drop off their
old clothes. Max has
partnered with Goonj, a social enterprise that works
Through this initiative,
fashion becomes pure environment friendly.
After you donate your
clothes with us, it can be
recycled, re-used and
Re-worn.”
the media on MCC premises on Thursday, June 16.
“Around 29,100 persons
or establishments have
been given permission for
various trade activities
within the MCC limits and
out of them 8,799 have
not renewed their trade
licences for the current
financial year. Those who
have not renewed their
licences must file applications to MCC within a week
and must get the licences
renewed by the end of this
month. The shops which
fail to obtain the license
will be shut down by MCC
after end of this month.”
Kavitha added.
She also said that an
outstanding amount of Rs
21.76 lac is yet to be collected. She reminded that
the anti-plastic drive will
continue in the MCC limits
and any shopkeeper possessing plastic carry bags
will be fined. If they repeat
the same, the trade licence
will be cancelled, she said.
Those who visit Mysuru have got one more attractive tourist spot.Forest
department has come out
with ‘Tree Park’ at Yelwala, which is just 10km from
Mysuru bus stand.
In an effort to maintain
green cover and to attract
children towards nature,
the forest department has
developed a ‘Tree Park’
which is spread on a 500
acre land. Many movies
including Kannada, Tamil,
Hindu and even Malayalam
movies are being shot here.
The authorities have
spent nearly Rs 50 lakh
to set up this park. Apart
from various adventurous
events, the park has got
amphitheatres, pergolas,
tunnel cross, tyre-swing,
swimming, easy bezy, horizontal ladder, amphitheater, walking paths, trucking path, Elephant Park
and a pond. The park is also
having a football ground,
basketball court and in
future they have plans to
come out with shuttle and
volleyball court.
now working as a designer-maker in Stoke-on-Trent
city. Another NIFT student,
Roshni Vyam, was the first
runner-up.
the designs become a commercial success, there is potential for students to gain
financial benefit.
The park is ideal place
to relax for not only children but also to everyone.
The ambiance is the perfect
place for all.
BENGALURU GIRL WINS ‘WALLPAPER
DESIGN INDUSTRY BRIEF’ AWARD
3000 clothes have already been collected from
the shoppers at the stores.
Satish Puranam , Vice
President, Retail Operations said, “No true fashion
In Bengaluru, the number of cabs registered at
the 11 RTO offices in the
city has gone up by 24,000
from the previous financial
year. There are 1.08 lakh
cabs registered in the city
RTOs.
MYSURU GETS YET ANOTHER
TOURIST SPOT
The tree park, which
was opened for public on
Wednesday, has got 12 different adventurous gaming
events. Entry is free for the
public.
Magisterial holds DC,
SP responsible for
Madikeri violence
38.6 lakh vehicles. The financial capital of Mumbai
has the fewest vehicles at
27 lakh.
MCC TO SHUT ALL ILLEGAL
SHOPS IN MANGALURU
RIGHT ACTION AT THE WRONG TIME
On one of Bengaluru’s busiest roads BBMP has started to dig up during the rainy season,
which is causing inconvience to the drivers as the roads are being flooded. BBMP authorities’
lack of foresight is increasing the pains of the commuters.
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61 LAKH VEHICLES PLY ON
BENGALURU ROADS
Puttur: Man tries to
rape school-going
girls, stands arrested
In an incident which occurred at Mura in Mogru village near here on Wednesday
June 15, a man tried to rape
two girls going to school and
also posed life threat to them.
Both the girls were 16-yearold, and one among them belongs to scheduled tribe. Uppinangady police, who have
registered the case under
Protection of Children from
Sexual Offences Act, have taken the accused into custody.
The accused has been identified as Saleem (40), son of
Abdurrahman from Alake in
Tannirpantha village. When
the girls were going to school
on Wednesday morning, Saleem reportedly obstructed
them and tried to rape them.
He also threatened them
with murder if they revealed
to their respective families about the incident, it is
learnt.
English Daily
Mallika Gupta, a student from Bengaluru, has
won the ‘Wallpaper Design
Industry Brief based on
Indian Cultural Heritage,’
contest. This was an initiative by High House, a wallpaper design enterprise
of UK-based Staffordshire
University.
The award will be shared
between Gupta, a student
of the National Institute of
Fashion Technology (NIFT)
and Joanna Mathias, a Staffordshire graduate, who is
Mallika’s design, which
was inspired by India’s rich
colour palette of the cities
of Rajasthan, was a blend
of traditional and modern
elements. The two successful wallpaper designs of the
High House India Collection
will be put up for commercial production through
crowd funding. The winners will not only get an opportunity to showcase their
work and themselves as
designers, but will also be
collaborating with a Masters student at Staffordshire University during the
commercialisation of the
design. Moreover, should
“My fashion and design
sense has always persuaded me to take inspiration
from traditional heritage,
art and crafts, not only
from the ones originated
in India, but also from different parts of the world.
It was my inclination towards conventional methods that made me participate in the India Collection
Brief. I have never aspired
for fame, but was always
dedicated to make a mark
and impact through my
work, and winning the High
House India Collection gave
me that platform,” said the
22-year-old Mallika.
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Hublot watch issue:
ACB questions CM’s
doctor friend
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday
recorded the statement of Dr
Girish Chandra Varma, who
had reportedly presented the
Hublot watch to Chief Minister
Siddaramaiah. The CM himself
had claimed earlier that it was
Dr Varma who had presented
the expensive watch to him.
According to ACB sources, Dr
Varma presented himself before the investigating officials
of the ACB and also produced
a bill for the watch which
could confirm that he had indeed presented the watch to
the CM.ACB officials said that
they had summoned the doctor from Dubai who co-operated and recorded hi statement.
Further investigations were
underway.
Voler Launched in
Bengaluru
Self-drive car rental company, ‘Voler’, today launched its
operations here with a plan to
expand to cities like Hyderabad
and Chennai by the year-end.
Adding to company’s successful operations in Delhi, the
announcement makes ‘Voler’
one of the most prominent selfdrive rental service currently in
Bengaluru with a fleet ranging
from mini-hatchbacks to luxury segment, a company release
said. Voler said according to
industry research reports, the
car rental market in India is expected to touch Rs 800 billion
by 2019.
The company claims that its
user base in Delhi has jumped
to 15,000-plus with 50 per cent
traffic coming from its new-age
Android and iOS applications.
Voler said according to industry
research reports, the car rental
market in India is expected to
touch Rs 800 billion by 2019.
Czech Republic Visa
Application Centre now
in Bengaluru
The Czech Republic Visa application centre was opened on
Thursday on Central Street near
Shivajinagar. Milan Hovoroka,
ambdassador of the Czech Republic to India and VFS Global
inaugurated the centre in Prestige Atrium building where VFS
Global already has a visa application centre for USA, UK, Australia too. The centre has started to accept applications from
Thursday.
Uber Writes Letter to
the State Transport
Minister
US-based online taxi-booking app Uber has questioned
Karnataka government’s new
regulations for ride-hailing apps,
terming them as “regressive”
and “practically impossible to
comply”. It had written a letter to state Transport Minister
Ramalinga Reddy, saying a few
mandatory clauses like keeping
a fleet of a minimum of 100 taxis,
generating printed receipts and
capping of charges are “unfortunately redundant and similar to
the radio taxi scheme introduced
by Karnataka way back in 1998”.
The mandatory clauses “are
regressive in nature and not in
line with our business model.”
Uber, which competes with
the likes of Ola and Meru in India, requested the minister’s intervention on the matter.
DENGUE CAUSING SICKNESS AND A
HOLE IN THE POCKET
Most corporate hospitals do not adhere to
the price cap fixed by the
blood transfusion council,
charging exorbitant prices
for both single and random
donor platelets. The high
cost of platelet transfusion
for critical dengue cases
has become a huge burden
on patients. According to
the guidelines set by the
National and State Blood
Transfusion Council, the
cost of single-donor platelets (SDP) cannot exceed
Rs 11,000 per unit and
random donor platelets
(RDP) cannot exceed Rs
600 per unit.
Metro rail corridors in
Bengaluru will support
10,000 new saplings. In
the second phase of its forestation drive, trees will be
planted along the Metro
corridors wherever space
is available like road edges
where no further development is planned. The
Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) has
promised to plant 10 saplings for every tree it cut
for the mega infrastructure
project.
ists and tree officers on a
High Court order.
RDP is obtained by
separating platelets from
whole blood and SDP is exclusive platelet donation.
Generally milder cases can
be managed by RDP.
A protocol by the state
government too puts a cap
on transfusion costs. SDP
is capped at Rs 13,000 and
RDP at Rs 850 per unit.
The Chagaletti Makkala
Granthalaya (Chagaletti Children’s Library), ‘a library of the
kids, by the kids and for the kids’,
was set up as part of the Chagaletti Child Rights Trust, which
marked a decade on Tuesday.
When most of the children of
their age were busy figuring out
life, Shalini CV, Meghana CV, Vedashree CK, Vanishree CK, Manasa V and Karthik N decided to
look beyond. No sooner they got
an opportunity to become child
rights activists and associate
themselves with the trust, these
change makers chalked out a
plan.
As a result, the total cost
of treatment can run into
several lakhs which is becoming a huge burden on
patients and their families.
Recently, a 38-year-old
man suffering from dengue
was charged close to Rs 4
lakh at a private hospital
on Old Airport Road and
the cost of just four units of
platelet transfusion came
The state has been facing a severe shortage of
platelet units for years
now and the need is very
high especially during this
season. This could be one
of the reasons why hospitals have been pushing up
the cost.
Dr Murali Kumar, chief
of casualty, Chinmaya
Mission Hospital, said:
“When a patient’s platelet
count drops, there is an increased risk of nose or internal bleeding. Usually, if
the platelet count is below
20,000 then the patient
could be at an increased
risk of bleeding. Mostly,
we do not take the risk, but
transfuse platelets as soon
as the count goes below
40,000. In most critical
cases such as the dengue
shock syndrome, transfusion of single donor platelet is a must.”
As many as 21,049 saplings were planted for
2,500 trees axed for Namma Metro’s 42.3-km first
phase, according to the BMRCL and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike
(BBMP).. The BMRCL’s first
phase of plantation drive is
being analysed by a committee of environmental-
To begin with, space has
been identified at Peenya, Jalahalli, Magadi Road
and Mysuru Road Metro
stations. The BMRCL is
picking native tree species
from ‘The Flowering Trees
of Bangalore’, a book written by Kartikeyan S, chief
naturalist at the government-run Jungle Lodges
and Resorts.
But the drive hasn’t been
taken seriously. Although
the court has appointed a
committee, it seems more
of a “symbolic” act. The
saplings were planted “for
the heck of it”, Prof T V Ramachandra from the Centre for Ecological Sciences,
IISc, who is in the committee, said.
Plantation was done
at abrupt places like atop
drains and near roofs. Most
of the trees planted were
actually exotic shrubs. In
depots where the BMRCL
claimed to have planted
3,500 saplings, there were
just 1,280 trees, he added.
The committee has prepared a survey report and
will submit it in a week or
two.
A senior official in the
Horticulture Department
also questioned the green
cover. “For a sapling, at
least 1-2 metre of space is
needed. When it grows, a
tree needs 5x5-foot space.
So going by the arithmetic,
over 20,000 acres of Bengaluru should have been
greened. But we do not
see even 10,000 acres,” the
official said. Environmentalist Yellappa Reddy also
questioned the plantation
drive and said the greenery as claimed by the BMRCL wasn’t visible.
Mangaluru
University had planned to launch
thirteen new courses in
PG,UG, diploma and correspondence from the academic year 2016-17. Out
of the thirteen courses,
seven courses are allotted
for Post Graduate courses.
Vice-Chancellor of the University K Byrappa said that
some of the new courses
have already got approval
and framing of regulation
of syllabus will be done
soon. If everything goes as
per the plan, then the new
courses will begin from
this academic year only.
The regular UG and PG
courses will be conducted
reported except few
min or i nju ri es su ffered by a fl ock of
sheep sh el tered beside t he wal l . An au to,
a t ruc k and two oth er
vehic les were damaged in th e i nci dent .
the World Crafts Council, said
“Santhe means market place
and we are proud to organize
this 18TH edition of innovative designs direct from the
artisans. This extravaganza
will be a visual treat featuring our wonderful heritage
through arts and crafts, directly marketed by artisans.”
ket for handicrafts. We offer
traditional crafts designed
and coordinated to suit contemporary lifestyle and taste.
In fact, people eagerly wait
for this event every year and
mark it in their cultural calendar,” She added.
M in ister for Food,
Civil
Su ppl i es
and
Con sumer’s
Affai rs,
Din esh Gu ndu Rao v i sited t he spot on Th u rsday.
TREAT YOUR EYES AND TAKE HOME THE
EXQUISITE OF INDIAN ART
“This event has become
very popular over the years
and has helped tremendously in growing the urban mar“Sampoorn Santhe 2016 –
back to nature” is an 11-day
crafts fair organized at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath.
The fair that kick started on
Thursday is an art and craft
exhibition featuring works of
about 140 craftsmen from 19
states across India.
The exhibition-cum-sale
also includes craft workshops, demonstrations in the
area of clay art, pottery, calligraphy, jewellery and beed
making etc., The fair even has
cultural programmes from
tribal artists from Rajasthan.
Craft lovers can treat
their eyes with the sight of
dokra, silver filigree, ceramic
ware, copperware, lambani
crafts, Afghani jewellery, reed
basket, organic and herbal
products, organic foods and
organic fabrics along with
natural lacquer toys, cane
crafts, bonsais, plants and
garden accessories.
Shalini Sudarshan, Secretary, Sampoorn, a Member of
Sampoorn, a Member of
the World Crafts Council is
an NGO, working for the promotion and development of
crafts and welfare of craftsmen.
on the Mangalagangothri
campus at Konaje as well
as the University College
campus in Hampanakatta.
While 14 students will be
taken for M.Sc. in Medical Physics and M.Sc. in
Geography will have 40
candidates and both the
courses will be offered at
University College campus,
Hampanakatta.
There will be a five year
integrated law course for
the UG section and it will
be held at University College, Hampanakatta with
the aim of creating lawyers
from all branches ready
with management skills.
One year regular diploma
course is also available.
ORGANS OF BRAIN-DEAD WOMAN
SAVES THREE LIVES
Four doctors of Manipal
Hospitals worked for 18
hours to transplant organs
of a brain-dead donor to
save lives of three patients.
The liver, heart, and one
kidney were all transplanted on the same day.
26year-old Keerthi, a nurse
by profession who suffered
cardio-respiratory arrest
and hypoxic brain damage was rushed to Manipal
Hospital. She was declared
brain-dead on May 2.
Keerthi’s husband who
gave his consent for donating his wife’s organs
said that his wife was a
nurse and belonged to a
noble profession. He was
glad that in her death too
she performed her duty by
giving a new life to many
people.
Four doctors Dr Devananda N S, HoD and Consultant
Cardiothoracic
Surgeon, Dr Anand Shenoy,
Consultant Cardiologist, Dr
Vishwanath Siddini, Consultant Nephrologist and
Dr Olithselvan, Chairman
and Hepatalogist, Manipal HospitalsKeerthi’s liver, heart, and one kidney
were transplanted to three
different patients at Manipal Hospitals. The corneas
were allotted to Narayana
Nethralaya and the other
kidney to Victoria Hospital.
MYSURU UNIVERSITY HAS
MORE VISITING FACULTY
the verge of retirement.
The University has three
PG Centres and four composite colleges. There are
57 PG Study Centres under
this university. As many as
20,000 students are pursuing PG and UG courses
here. But, the sad state is
that most of the study centres do not even have a single permanent staff.
WALL COLLAPSES IN OKALIPURAM,
NO CASUALTIES REPORTED
Every t ime heavy
rain s lash Ben galuru,
t rees an d houses are
merc ilessly
brought
down . A f ter a heavy
rain in part s of t he
c it y last n ight , a wall
n ear a mosque in Oka lipuram c ollapsed at
aroun d 8 .3 0 PM on
Wedn esday.
As
t he
st reet was aban don ed
due to heavy rain , n o
c asualt ies have been
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MANGALURU UNIVERSITY TO HAVE
NEW COURSES THIS ACADEMIC YEAR
up to Rs 96,000.
10 SAPLINGS WILL BE PLANTED FOR
EACH TREE AXED: BMRCL
A Library for Kids
When six friends, just into
their teens, started a library in
the small town of Chagaletti,
25km from Bengaluru, in 2010,
their only mission was to bring
children closer to books. For six
years, these ambassadors of child
rights have been promoting education with a difference by encouraging children to read.
But most corporate hospitals seem to be cashing
in on the epidemic and
making huge profits. Even
while the government has
been making tall claims
about keeping the situation under control, there is
absolutely no monitoring
done to keep a check on
fixing the prices for each
unit of platelets. Hospitals
are charging anywhere
between Rs 13,000 and
Rs 26,000 for a single unit
of SDP, and Rs 850 and Rs
6,000 for RDP.
English Daily
Mysuru University is
fighting acute shortage of
permanent teaching and
non-teaching staff. The
100-year-old University is
functioning with the help
of visiting faculties mainly. The 580 visiting staff
functioning at present has
outnumbered the permanent staff here. As far as
permanent teaching staff
is concerned, they would
be working mainly as the
heads of the departments
and most of them are on
The state government,
through an order, has
placed blanket ban on sale
of e-cigarettes containing
nicotine cartridges all over
the state with immediate
effect. This was announced
by health and family welfare minister, U T Khader,
at a press conference organized at Vikasa Soudha on
Wednesday June 15.
that people are using it.
Therefore a decision to
ban it has been taken,”
the minister explained.
The department has been
keeping an eye on websites involved with sale
of e-cigarettes with the
help of cyber crime cell. If
they continue selling, concerned websites will be
closed and legal action will
be initiated against them.
Violators of the ban will
face criminal case and if
the violation is proved, the
concerned can be jailed for
a period up to five years.
The Government has
permitted recruitment to
205 posts including 55
backlogs, but the same
could not be carried forward due to reservation
factors. However, as per
University Vice-Chancellor Prof K S Rangappa, the
hurdles have been cleared
and recruitment will be
done soon.
BENGALURU BANS E-CIGARETTES
“As per the current
norms, there is no provision for use of e-cigarettes
in the state. However, without getting licence from
competent authority, illegally it is being sold even
through internet. Health
department has noticed
E-cigarettes are made
from plastic and metal. Cartridges prepared
by mixing chemicals like
propylene glycol with
banned nicotine are fitted
into e-cigarettes. Electric
chargers provided therein
provide the heat to create smoke that is inhaled.
Nicotine is poisonous for
humans, and it might also
give rise to diseases of the
heart and lungs. This habit
can turn into addiction.
MAN HACKED TO DEATH AT CAFE
COFFEE DAY
People relaxing at Cafe
coffee Day at Vijayanagar
witnessed a shocking
murder at 7:30pm on
Thursday night. 2 miscreants stormed into the cafe
with lethal weapons and
hacked a man to death. The
deceased has been identified as 35 year old Mahesh.
At around 7.30, Mahesh
had gone to the coffee day
in Vijaynagar along with
his friend Rakshit. Two
men who followed the
duo attacked them with
lethal weapons and fled
the scene. Mahesh who
was severely bleeding
was rushed to a private
hospital he was declared
brought dead. Doctors informed that Rakshit is out
of danger.
Police suspect it is an act
of revenge though they are
yet to ascertain the motive
behind murder.
Police have identified
one of the attackers as
one of the regular visitor
of the same the cafe who
was also the accused in a
murder case in 2010. They
are on the lookout for the
killer.
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NATION
Three Indian Fishermen Apprehended by
Lankan Navy
INDIA DOWNPLAYS US SENATE BILL REJECTION
“The 2017 NDAA is in
the process of its formulation and it would be premature to speculate about
its final content,” External
Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said.
Three fishermen were apprehended and a boat was impounded by the Sri Lankan Navy in the
Palk Strai Delft Island in Northern
Sri Lanka Navy. The apprehended fishermen have been taken to
Kankesanthurai Naval Camp for
legal action and were handed over
to the fisheries department.
Pt. Suresh Wadkar
Joins as Faculty at
Mumbai University
Veteran singer Pandit Suresh
Wadkar has been appointed as
the Chairman for Board of studies
in Hindustani Music at Mumbai
University. The new role adds up
to the responsibility of spreading
his musical knowledge, which
Pandit Suresh Wadkar has already
been doing through Ajivasan Music Academy.Pt. Suresh Wadkar
is acclaimed as one of the most
talented and versatile playback
singers. Now, being associated
with the Mumbai University as the
Chairman for Board of studies in
Hindustani Music has just added
another feather to his cap.
Smriti Irani hits back
at Bihar Education
Minister with ‘Aunty
National’ Sermon
Following a twitter tiff with
Bihar Education Minister Ashok
Choudhary
over being addressed as “dear” by him, Union
Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister Smiti
Irani has hit back at the former
with an open letter signed as
‘Aunty National’ on her official
Facebook page while throwing light on the struggles faced
by the feminine gender in the
country. “So while many working women battle this challenge
in confined working spaces,
I spat it out on twitter for my
office travels with me. But then
there are some who say why
talk about yourself at all, surely one day they shall realize the
amount of work you have done,”
she writes.
Maritime terrorism
a big threat, says
Rajnath
Maritime terrorism is a big
threat with huge economic
implications and the government is carrying out a security
audit of all major and non-major ports to identify vulnerable points in coastal security,
Union Home Minister Rajnath
Singh said on Thursday. “The
vulnerability of our coasts
was exposed in 1993 when
explosives were smuggled to
Raigad and then in 2008 when
terrorists attacked Mumbai,”
the HMO tweeted Rajnath as
saying at a meeting to review
coastal security. “We need to
make our coastal security foolproof and impregnable,” he further tweeted.
India
on
Thursday
downplayed the US Senate
rejecting a key amendment
recognising the country
as “global strategic and
defence partner”, saying it
would be “premature” to
speculate about its final
content.
The US had recognised
India as a “major defence
partner” in a joint statement issued during Prime
Minister Narendra Modi’s
visit there last week.
“We have seen media re-
ports about non-inclusion
of an India-related amendment in the consideration
of the National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA)
by the US Senate.
“The preparation of
NDAA in the US Congress
involves approval of different versions in the House
of Representatives and the
Senate, and their reconciliation to evolve a single
consensual text, which is
again put to vote in both
chambers.
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“This was an executive
decision and already announced in the India-US
Joint Statement of June 7.
A number of Senators and
Congressmen have moved
proposals that only seek to
reinforce this decision of
the US Government.
The US Senate failed to
recognise India as a “global
strategic and defence partner” of the US after a key
amendment necessary to
modify its export control
regulations could not be
Top Republican senator
John McCain had moved
an amendment to the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA-17) which
if passed would have recognised India as a global
strategic and defence partner.
The US had recognised
India as a “major defence
partner” in a joint statement issued after Modi
held talks with President
Barack Obama which
supported defence-related trade and technology
transfer to the country
which would now be treated on par with America’s
closest allies.
NDAA was passed by
the Senate with an overwhelming bipartisan vote
of 85-13. But some of the
key amendments including
the (SA 4618) even though
they had bipartisan sup-
GOVT CREATING ‘FAKE CONTROVERSY’ ON
ISHRAT’s AFFIDAVITS : P CHIDAMBARAM
Congress leader and former Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday
accused Modi government
of creating a “fake controversy” over two affidavits
filed in the Ishrat Jahan
case and preparing a “doctored” report on the missing files.
In a statement after a
report suggested that the
panel probing to find the
missing files related to
Ishrat Jahan case “tutored”
a witness, Chidambaram
said to the media “comprehensively exposed the
fake controversy” created
by the NDA government on
the two affidavits filed by
the central government in
the case.
“The moral of the story is that even a doctored
report (of the Inquiry Officer) cannot hide the truth.
The real issue is whether
Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed in a genuine encounter or a fake
encounter. Only the trial
of the case, pending since
July 2013, will bring out
the truth,” he said.
Home Ministry Additional Secretary B K Prasad
led one-man inquiry committee on Wednesday submitted its report where it
said that four of the five
missing documents continue to be untraceable.
The panel said that as
per the then Joint Secretary, the papers were part
of the file which went to
his seniors but not found
when the file returned to
him.
Chidambaram was the
Home Minister then.
The Congress leader
said the news report completely vindicated the position that he had taken on
the two affidavits.
The first affidavit (August 6, 2009) disclosed the
“intelligence inputs” that
had been shared by the
central government with
the state government.
Chidambaram
said
Judge S P Tamang in his report (September 7, 2009)
found that Ishrat Jahan
and three others had been
killed in a “fake encounter”.
“The report caused an
uproar in Gujarat and else-
Despite the international
crude oil prices are down,
the government is increasing their own taxes. This is
just looting. They must understand they have given
a slogan stating that there
will not be any inflation in
the country,” he told media.
Questioning the ‘acche din’ promised by the
Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) during the 2014 Lok
Sabha polls, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)
on Thursday accused
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi-led government of
looting the nation.
NCP leader Nawab Ma-
lik, who was commenting
on the hike in prices of
petrol and diesel, said the
government is going on increasing taxes despite the
falling prices in the international market.
“There was a slogan
given by Mr. Modi ‘Bahaut hui mehengai ki maar,
ab ki bar Modi sarkaar’.
“The prices of vegetables and pulses are going
high. When Modi had taken the charge, dal prices
were somewhere around
77 rupees. Today it has
increased to more than
200 rupees. What is the
government doing? Is this
‘ache din’?” he asked.
Diesel price has been
hiked by one rupee 26
paise a litre and petrol by
just 5 paise including the
VAT. The new rates came
into effect last midnight.
KAMAL NATH’S RESIGNATION APT TO DIVERT ATTENTION
FROM ‘OLD WOUNDS’ OF 1984 RIOTS: CONGRESS
The Congress on Thursday
came to the rescue of senior party
leader Kamal Nath after he resigned as the in-charge of Punjab
affairs and said that it was necessary to divert the people’s attention from ‘old wounds’ of the 1984
anti-Sikh riots to the prevailing
issues at present.
Stating that the 1984 riots,
which was a stigma on the nation,
should never have taken place,
Congress leader Ashwani Kumar
said Kamal Nath’s resignation is a
right step.
“The party has accepted his
resignation, not because Kamal
Nath is guilty but because one
shouldn’t reopen old wound. Today, it is required to forget those
wounds and try to heal them. In
this context, I think his resignation
is right,” he told media.
The former union minister furthersaidthemainissuesinPunjab
today are drugs and unemployment.
“This is clear that there is no
FIR on Kamal Nath or any charges
or any court has convicted him
guilty in the 1984 riots. The issue
of 1984 riots is very sensitive, especially at the time of state assembly elections,” he added.
Resonating similar sentiments, another Congress leader
J.P. Agarwal told that there was no
pressure from the party behind
Kamal Nath’s resignation, adding
the latter himself volunteered not
to remain in the post.
“There was no allegation
against him. He is a very senior
person. He had a wonderful journey in politics. We are clear. We
haven’t done anything wrong,” he
IPS OFFICER DIES OF BULLET INJURY
IN ANDHRA PRADESH
officer, a bachelor, may
have committed suicide
but there is no clarity on it
yet, police sources said.
A bullet sound was
heard from his chamber in
the wee hours on Thursday following which the
sentry rushed in to take a
look, they added.
A 2012 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer,
K Sasikumar, on Thursday
died of a bullet injury under mysterious circumstances inside his office
chambers at Paderu in Visakhapatnam district, police said.
Sasikumar, who hailed
from Tamil Nadu, was
posted as Assistant Superintendent of Police at
Paderu.
“We are not sure whether it happened accidentally
or done intentionally. The
Visakhapatnam
(Rural)
SP has rushed to the spot
and we are examining the
case,” North Coastal Zone
Inspector General of Police
Kumar Vishwajeet told a
reporter
The sentry found the
officer in blood as a bullet
pierced through his right
temple. His service weapon was found on a table.
The staff then tried to rush
Sasikumar in a vehicle to a
hospital but he succumbed
to the injury midway,
sources added.
It is suspected that the
This was Sasikumar’s
second posting after his
first stint at Allagadda in
Kurnool district. He came
to Paderu in January.(PTI)
three daughters, one of
whom has contested in the
recent Assembly elections
in Assam.
Minister handling several departments including
transport, in the state in
the past.
APCC PRESIDENT ANJAN DUTTA
PASSES AWAY
Assam Pradesh Congress Committee president
Anjan Dutta passed away
on Thursday at the AIIMS
hospital following cardiac
failure.
Dutta, 64, was admitted
into the hospital on May
18, and was under treatment at the Department of
Pulmonary Sciences.
where. The first affidavit
was misinterpreted and
misused to defend the encounter. It was, therefore,
necessary to clarify the
first affidavit.
“Hence, a ‘further affidavit’ was filed on September
29, 2009) clarifying that
intelligence inputs ‘do not
constitute conclusive proof
and it is for the state government and the state police to act on such inputs’,”
he said. (PTI)
NCP QUESTIONS PM MODI’S ‘ACCHE DIN’
CLAIM, SAYS STOP LOOTING NATION
Protests against
Sadhvi Prachi
Taking strong objection to
Hindutva leader Sadhvi Prachi’s recent statement calling
for a “Muslim-free” India, the
All India Imams Council on
Thursday staged a protest demanding an FIR against the
VHP leader. Known for courting controversies, Sadhvi had
recently claimed the mission
of a Congress-free India has
already been “accomplished”
and it is now time to rid the
country of Muslims. “The statement was not only unconstitutional and offensive in nature
but will also harm the secular
fabric of our nation and intending to communal polarization
and promoting enmity between two different communities,” Mufti Hanif Abrar Qasmi,
General Secretary of the Imam
council said.
He also noted that
preparation of NDAA is a
process distinct from the
decision of the US Government to recognize India as
a Major Defense Partner.
passed.
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English Daily
With this, diesel will
cost 55 rupees 19 paise in
Delhi, 57 rupees 39 paise
in Kolkata, 60 rupees 55
paise in Mumbai and 56
rupees 78 paise in Chennai.
For petrol, the consumer
will have to pay 65 rupees
65 paise per litre in Delhi,
68 rupees 50 paise in Kolkata, 70 rupees 23 paise in
Mumbai and 65 rupees 15
paise in Chennai.
The Indian Oil Corporation in a statement said
the international prices of
petrol and diesel and rupee- dollar exchange rate
warrant an increase in petrol and diesel prices.
The prices of petrol and
diesel had been hiked last
on May 16 and May 31 respectively.(ANI)
added.
Kamal Nath, whose appointment had drawn sharp criticisms
from the Shiromani Akali Dal
(SAD) and the Aam Aadmi Party
(AAP),yesterdaysteppeddownas
the general secretary in-charge of
the party’s Punjab Affairs following a controversy over his alleged
role in the 1984 anti- Sikh riots.
In a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Kamal Nath
requested her to relieve him from
his duties so that the attention of
the party is not diverted from real
issues such as the ‘rampant drug
trade’ in Punjab.
“Certain elements are raking up these issues now only for
political gains. I am touched by
the support shown by our party
workers and leaders in Punjab
in rejecting the false accusations.
I am a practitioner of Nehruvian
politics and maligning of the Congress party using false accusations
is unacceptable to me,” Nath said
in the letter.
Hoping that the party focuses
on the upcoming elections rather
than the furore over his appointment, he added the Congress
must highlight the issues of misgovernance, misery of farmers
and youth, break down of law and
order and rampant drug trade in
Punjab.
“Given this, I request that I may
be relieved of my charge to ensure
that the attention is not diverted
from the real issues faced byPunjab,” he said.
He was initially admitted into the Apollo Hospital in New Delhi on May 12
with complaints of severe
chest infection.
He died of cardiac failure at 7:11 this morning,
Dutta’s close relative Geetartha Darshan Baruah
said.
The Congress leader
leaves behind his wife and
Congress Vice-President
Rahul Gandhi had met him
on May 25.
Dutta, a close confidante
of former Chief Minister
Tarun Gogoi, was a Cabinet
He was appointed as
the APCC President on December 13, 2014 and had
been holding the post ever
since. (PTI)
LIONS CAPTURED NEAR GIR IDENTIFIED AS ‘MAN-EATER’
One of the 17 lions, cap- male lion attacked, killed and
The pride of 17 lions was
tured last month for killing
three persons near the Gir
sanctuary, has been identified as a ‘man-eater’ and
shifted to the Sakkarbaug
Zoo in Gujarat.
“A man was killed by a
pride of 15 lions. We captured one and found it to be
a man-eater. We have now
sent the lion to Sakkarbaug
Zoo. We have decided to capture the entire pride and shift
them. Till now, we have captured 13 lions and kept them
in a rescue centre. A scat
analysis will be conducted
there,” A.P. Singh, Chief Conservator of Forest (Junagadh
division) told media.
He further said that out
of the 17 lions captured by
them last month, one was a
male adult, and it turned out
to be the main culprit.
“We found considerable
amount of human remains in
that lion’s faeces, while very
small amount was found
from the faeces of two subadult females. It brought us
to the conclusion that the
ate humans, while two other sub-adults only ate some
leftover body parts. These
sub-adults were not involved
in attacking and killing humans, as they only ate the
leftover parts,” said Singh.
Singh added the male lion
would be kept in a cage at
the zoo for its entire life on
the outskirts of Junagadh
city, while the two lionesses
would be kept locked in any
of forest department’s rescue
centre.
“All the three lions have to
spend their lives in captivity
now. The other 16 lions of
the pride, including several
cubs, will be released in the
(Gir) sanctuary. As a precaution, they will be released in
deeper pockets of the sanctuary, far away from where
they were captured,” he said.
caged last month outside
the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary in
Dhari taluka of Amreli district, on the border of the Gir
Wildlife Sanctuary.
A major portion of the Gir
sanctuary falls in the adjoining Junagadh district and
Dhari taluka lies on the border of the sanctuary.
The forest department
had started the drive to cage
the lions after three persons - a 14-year-old boy, a
woman aged around 50 and
a 61-year-old man - were
mauled to death by the felines in the same region in
April and May.
Prior to these incidents,
the man-lion conflict was
rare in and around Gir, the
only abode of Asiatic lions
where there are around 523
lions, as per the last census.
These incidents sparked
anger among the locals, who
along with some political
leaders, including former
Amreli MLA Dilip Sanghani,
demanded action against the
man-eater lions.(ANI)
RAMAKRISHNA MISSION STAFF IN
B’DESH RECEIVES DEATH THREAT
In a latest stint
of threats and attacks in Bangladesh, a Ramkarishna Mission staff
in Dhaka has received a threat letter allegedly sent
by the militants.
According to
sources the mission
authorities
have on receiving
the threat letter
filed a complaint
with the Wari Police Station,
Meanwhile, security has been beefed up at
the mission.
A countrywide mass crackdown has been
launched by the government in the wake of
rising attacks in the region.
So far, the authorities have detained over
11,000 people, mostly warranted criminals.
(ANI)
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Influential Lawmaker
Allegedly Attacks a
Women Rights Activists
An influential lawmaker of Pakistan’s ruling coalition has been
booked for allegedly verbally abusing and trying to physically attack a
woman rights activist during a live
TV debate on honour killing.
The ugly incident happened
during a private TV talk show last
week when Hafiz Hamdullah of
Jamiat Ulema-e-Isla Fazal (JUI-F)
became furious at Marvi Sarmad
for speaking against honour killing.
According to the footage widely circulated on social media, the
bearded lawmaker used foul language against the activist and tried
to attack her.
Marvi lodged a complaint with
the Margalla police station and the
case was registered on Tuesday, a
police official said.
Painting on Water
Watched more than 9
million times
Garip Ay, a Turkish blog
about this art form, describes it
thus: Essentially, a basin of water is taken and made thicker,
more viscous, by adding things
to it, so when you go to paint
on it, patterns are formed on
the surface of water.
The artists take these patterns that are formed and
transfer it to paper, destroying
the work on water in the process. The results of this process
are unique, literally, as it is impossible to achieve the same
pattern more than once. It will
always be different.
The web site says Ebru was
probably born in Turkistan in
Central Asia, and from the 17th
century on, came to be known
as ‘Turkish Paper’ in Europe.
The video of a Turkish artist
replicating Vincent Van Gogh’s
Starry Night by painting it on
water has been watched more
than 9 million times in just 24
hours.
Shanghai Disney
resort finally opened to
public
The Shanghai Disney Resort, with a unique blend of
Disney magic and Chinese culture, officially opened to public
Thursday. Located in Pudong
district, the 3.9 sq.km resort is
the first Disney destination on
the Chinese mainland and the
sixth globally. The resort includes the theme park Shanghai Disneyland; two themed
hotels; Disney Town, a shopping, dining and entertainment
district; and the recreational
Wishing Star Park.
The resort took five years to
build and it will be further expanded. Among the first group
of visitors, Shanghai resident
Wan Wenqiang visited the
theme park with her mother
and seven-year-old son.
Prince will on the cover of Gay magazine
Prince William has appeared on the cover of the
UK gay magazine, “Attitude”
to speak out against bullying
people because of their sexuality. The second-in-line to the
throne is the first member of
the royal family to appear on
the cover of a gay publication.
William called on young people being bullied for their sexuality to seek help. William had
revealed his magazine appearance on Tuesday after signing a
book of condolence for victims
of the gay nightclub shooting in
Orlando which left 49 people
dead and dozens wounded.
Lyrics in Canadian
Anthem to go Gender
Neutral
Canadian lawmakers voted on Wednesday to alter the
country’s national anthem to
make the lyrics gender neutral, a move that comes as the
new Liberal government focuses on being more inclusive
toward women. Some Conservative lawmakers opposed the
change, which they said was
being made without adequate
consultation with Canadians.
The former Conservative government suggested changes
to the anthem’s lyrics in 2010,
but backed off after a public
outcry. The song was composed in 1880 and the original
lyrics were in French. The English-language version, which
is not a direct translation from
French, was penned in 1908
and tweaked over the years. It
was adopted as Canada’s official anthem in 1980.
India and Thailand are
set to firm up cooperation
to combat terrorism, and
boost maritime security, defence ties and trade
during Thai Prime Minister
Acknowledging that India
is “inching closer” to get
membership of the Nuclear
Suppliers Group, Chinese
official media today said if
New Delhi is admitted into
the elite grouping, “nuclear
balance” between India and
Pakistan will be broken.
Stating that India’s entry into Nuclear Suppliers
Group (NSG) will “shake
strategic balance in South
Asia and even cast a cloud
over peace and stability in
the entire Asia-Pacific region”, an article in the staterun ‘Global Times’ however
said China could support
India’s inclusion in the 48
member nuclear club if it
“played by rules”.
Written by Fu Xiaoqiang
research fellow with the
state-run think tank China
Institutes of Contemporary
International Relations, the
article a second in as many
days by the same daily
highlights China’s strident
and vocal opposition to
India’s entry into NSG and
concerns that it’s all weather ally Pakistan will be left
behind because “entry into
the NSG will make it (India)
a ‘legitimate nuclear power’.”
“New Delhi seems to
have inched closer to NSG
membership after Indian
Modi gained backing from
the US, Swiss and Mexico
in its bid to join the elite
nuclear club earlier this
month,” the article said
mentioning for the first
time India’s progress in
getting support from Mexico and Switzerland.
“Becoming a member of
the NSG, a bloc that governs civilian nuclear trade
worldwide, will grant India
global acceptance as a legitimate nuclear power,” said
the article titled “Beijing
could support India’s NSG
accession path if it plays by
rules”.
“If it joins the group,
New Delhi will be able to
import civilian nuclear
technology and fuels from
the international market
more conveniently, while
saving its domestic nuclear
materials for military use,”
said the article in the Global Times, a tabloid daily
which is part of the ruling
Communist Party of China
group of publications headed by People’s Daily.
“The major goal for India’s NSG ambition is to
obtain an edge over Islamabad in nuclear capabilities. Once New Delhi gets
the membership first, the
nuclear balance between
India and Pakistan will be
broken,” it said.
“As a result, Pakistan’s
strategic interests will be
threatened, which will
in turn shake the strategic balance in South Asia,
and even cast a cloud over
peace and stability in the
entire Asia-Pacific region,”
it said.
The reason why India
has scored a big win in garnering support for its NSG
membership from some
countries is because Washington has started to treat
New Delhi as part of the US
alliance, the write-up said.
“It was only several
years ago that Modi could
not even get a US visa, but
now he has visited the US
more often than any other country during his two
years in office,” it said.The
Thai premier will hold
talks with Prime Minister
Narendra Modi during his
three-day visit beginning
tomorrow.
The two countries will
issue a joint statement
later, expressing their expectations to increase
maritime security, double
trade in five years, push
the
India-Myanmar-Thai
road project, cooperate in
civil aviation, fight cybercrime and promote people-to-people cooperation,
said Maj-General Werachon
Sukondhapatipak, a deputy
Thai government spokesman.
Werachon said talks
with India will focus on issues such as trade, support
for Thai agricultural products and cooperation on
education and tourism.
He said Gen Prayuth has
said to put all items high on
agenda. A high-level delegation will discuss boosting cultural exchanges between the two nations.
India and Thailand will
also look for joint projects
in solar energy, space applications and space technology sectors.
“Thailand is an extremely important partner and
the two sides attach a lot of
importance to this visit,” India’s Ambassador to Thai-
land Bhagwant Bishnoi .
Noting that India’s ‘Act
East’ and Thailand’s ‘Look
West’ policies were complementary to each other, Bishnoi said India was
looking forward to signing several agreements,
MoUs on narcotics, cultural exchange with Thailand
during the visit.
A Thailand-India Free
Trade Agreement will be
discussed.
“We are looking forward
to a substantial joint statement which would talk of
other agreements in the
pipeline,” Bishnoi said, and
added that Thailand is also
keen on India’s ‘Make in India’ programme.
He said India appreciated the fact that Thailand
was “very sensitive” to India’s security concerns and
ensured that Thai territory
was not used by forces inimical to India.
The Thai delegation will
discuss cultural links by
travelling to Bodh Gaya for
prayers.
The Indian Ambassador
here said an agreement will
be signed by Nagaland and
Thailand’s Chiang Mai universities to conduct Thai
and Indian courses respectively.
India courses have been
important to Thailand and
centres at Chulalongkorn,
Thammasat, and Silpakorn
universities have had Sanskrit and Tamil classes for
61 years, Bishnoi said.
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INDIA’S ENTRY INTO NSG WILL BREAK INDIA-PAK
NUCLEAR BALANCE: CHINESE DAILY
Acknowledging that India is “inching closer” to get
membership of the Nuclear
Suppliers Group, Chinese
official media today said if
New Delhi is admitted into
the elite grouping, “nuclear
balance” between India and
Pakistan will be broken.
Stating that India’s entry into Nuclear Suppliers
Group (NSG) will “shake
strategic balance in South
Asia and even cast a cloud
over peace and stability in
the entire Asia-Pacific region”, an article in the staterun ‘Global Times’ however
said China could support
India’s inclusion in the 48
member nuclear club if it
“played by rules”.
Written by Fu Xiaoqiang
research fellow with the
state-run think tank China
Institutes of Contemporary
International Relations, the
article, a second in as many
days by the same daily
highlights China’s strident
and vocal opposition to
India’s entry into NSG and
concerns that it’s all weather ally Pakistan will be left
behind because “entry into
the NSG will make it (India)
a ‘legitimate nuclear power’.”
“New Delhi seems to
have inched closer to NSG
membership after Indian
Modi gained backing from
the US, Swiss and Mexico
in its bid to join the elite
nuclear club earlier this
month,” the article said
mentioning for the first
time India’s progress in
getting support from Mexico and Switzerland.
“Becoming a member of
the NSG, a bloc that governs civilian nuclear trade
worldwide, will grant India
global acceptance as a legitimate nuclear power,” said
the article titled “Beijing
could support India’s NSG
accession path if it plays by
rules”.
A commentary in the
same daily on June 14 had
said that India’s admission into NSG would “jeopardise” China’s national
interest and touch a “raw
nerve” in Pakistan.
“If it joins the group,
New Delhi will be able to
import civilian nuclear
technology and fuels from
the international market
more conveniently, while
saving its domestic nuclear
materials for military use,”
said to the reporters.
“The major goal for India’s NSG ambition is to
obtain an edge over Islam-
“It makes a difference
and it makes a big difference because unless you’re
willing to discuss and talk
about the real nature of the
problem and the name of
the problem, radical Islamic terrorism, you’re never
going to solve the problem,”
Trump said at a campaign
rally in Atlanta, Georgia.
He was responding to
the allegations of Obama
that the use of controversial term ‘radical Islam’
would do more harm than
resolving the issue.
“We’re trying to be nice.
We have a President who
wants to be so politically correct that he doesn’t
want to use the term radical Islamic terrorism,
doesn’t want to use it,” said
Trump, who is known for
his anti-Muslim rhetorics.
“He gives a speech yesterday, a long speech that at
the end of it, nobody knew
what the hell he was talking
about.
Nobody knew. He’s trying to justify why he won’t
use it and he said radical Is-
The wife of Orlando
shooter Omar Mateen may
face criminal charges after
reports emerged that she
was aware of his plots to attack a gay nightclub and was
with him when he bought
ammunition.
Noor Zahi Salman told
the FBI that she was with
him when he bought ammunition and a holster and she
once drove him to the gay
nightclub, Pulse, because he
wanted to scope it out, a report in the NBC News quoted several officials familiar
with the case as saying.
30-year-old
Salman,
Mateen’s second wife, told
federal agents that she tried
to talk her husband out of
carrying out the attack, the
news website said.
The report said authorities are considering filing
criminal charges against
Salman for failing to tell
them what she knew before
the brutal attack but no decision has been made.
Officials said Salman is
cooperating with investigators.
Early
Sunday,
the
29-year-old Mateen opened
fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, leaving 49
people dead and 53 wounded, the worst mass shooting
in modern US history.
Federal prosecutors have
convened a grand jury to
investigate Mateen’s wife
seeking to charge her as an
accessory to 49 counts of
murder and 53 counts of
attempted murder as well
as with failure to notify
law enforcement about the
pending terrorist attack
and lying to federal agents,
a federal law enforcement
source told Fox News.
L a w
enforcement officials said
Salman
accompanied
Mateen
on trips
to scout
potential
targets, though it is unclear
how much she knew about
his intentions, it said.
Salman told investigators that Mateen shared his
plans with her to carry out
an attack and the shooter
may have even called her
from the gay club Pulse
during the slaughter, a
source told Fox News.
US Senator Angus King,
who as a member of the
Senate Intelligence Committee was briefed on the
investigation, told CNN that
“it appears she (Salman)
had some knowledge of
what was going on, visiting
some of the other sites.”
“We don’t know whether
she was involved and knew
about the purchase of the
guns, which took place only
about a week before the
attack. But she definitely
is, I guess you would say, a
person of interest right now
and appears to be cooperating and can provide us
with some important information on who this guy is,
what his motivations were
and what his plans were,”
King said.
Earlier, Mateen’s former
wife Sitora Yusufiy had said
that he himself might have
been gay but chose to hide
his true identity out of anger and shame.
Yusufiy said in media reports that her ex-husband
had told her that he frequented nightclubs before
their marriage, but that he
did not tell her they were
gay clubs.
She said Mateen had
been abusive and their
short-lived marriage was
marred by violence and isolation.
OBAMA URGES CONG TO REINSTATE ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN
abad in nuclear capabilities. Once New Delhi gets
the membership first, the
nuclear balance between
India and Pakistan will be
broken,” it said.
“As a result, Pakistan’s
strategic interests will be
threatened, which will
in turn shake the strategic balance in South Asia,
and even cast a cloud over
peace and stability in the
entire Asia-Pacific region,”
it said.
The reason why India
has scored a big win in garnering support for its NSG
membership from some
countries is because Washington has started to treat
New Delhi as part of the US
alliance, the write-up said.
“It was only several
years ago that Modi could
not even get a US visa, but
now he has visited the US
more often than any other country during his two
years in office,” it said.
PHRASEOLOGY MAKES “BIG DIFFERENCE” IN
WAR AGAINST TERRORISM: TRUMP
A day after US President
Barack Obama criticised
him for using the term
“radical Islam”, Republican
presumptive presidential
nominee Donald Trump
today vehemently defended his stand arguing that
the phraseology makes a
“big difference” in the war
against terrorism.
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ORLANDO SHOOTER’S
WIFE MAY FACE
CRIMINAL CHARGES
INDIA, THAILAND TO TIE UP FOR
MARITIME SECURITY
A commentary in the
same daily on June 14 had
said that India’s admission
into NSG would “jeopardise” China’s national
interest and touch a “raw
nerve” in Pakistan.
English Daily
lam because he didn’t want
to use the word terrorism,”
he said.
“Why he won’t use that
term or why he doesn’t use
it and how it doesn’t
make difference, but
it does make a difference,” Trump argued
and alleged that his
Democratic rival Hillary Clinton is blindly
following the US President.
“Then crooked Hillary Clinton gets up
the other day, and she
wouldn’t use the term.
She wouldn’t use it.
But I was hitting her
hard on it. Very hard.
And finally, she gets up
and she said, ‘I would
use it.’ And by the way, the
press didn’t report this.
They said she used the
term. They didn’t say about
Trump,” he said.
“Clinton gets up and she
sort of acted like, no problem using the term. And
she said, ‘I would use the
term.’ But she didn’t use it.
But she didn’t call it radical
Islamic terrorism. She said
radical Islamism. And I’m
not saying that’s wrong.
Let’s see how much she
uses it,” he said.
“She’ll basically do whatever Obama wants her to
do. You understand why,
because that whole thing is
just ridiculous what is going on there. That’s just ridiculous. How that can happen in our country today is
absolutely one of the great
insults to law enforcement.
And let’s see what happens.
But she’s being totally protected. She is being 100
per cent protected,” Trump
said.
President Barack Obama
has challenged Congress to
reinstate the assault weapons ban and make it harder
for terrorist to kill Americans.
Obama spoke yesterday after meeting with his
National Security Council.
Democrat Hillary Clinton
has called for a similar ban,
while Republican Donald
Trump is opposing reinstatement of the ban.
The shooter in the Orlando attack, Omar Mateen,
used a military-style assault
weapon to blast away at an
Orlando nightclub, killing
49 people.
The ban on semi-automatic assault weapons that
expired in 2004. The large
majority of Republicans in
Congress and some pro-gun
Democrats have opposed
reinstatement of the ban.
AP
SOUTH KOREA HOLDS NAVY
DRILL NEAR BORDER
South Korea on Thursday kicked off a live-fire naval exercise near its disputed sea border with North
Korea , a move likely to fan
already elevated military
tensions with Pyongyang.
The three-day exercise in
the Yellow Sea is aimed at
practising responses to simulated incursions by North
Korean vessels and aircraft,
the
South’s
navy said in a
statement.
The
manoeuvres will
involve
20
naval
ships,
including an
Aegis destroyer, as well as 10 aircraft
including anti-submarine
helicopters.
“If the enemy commits
provocative acts again in the
Yellow Sea, we are prepared
to act swiftly, precisely and
sufficiently in order to turn
the site of provocation into
their own tombs,” the navy
statement said.
The two Koreas fought
bloody naval battles near
the sea border known as the
Northern Limit Line (NLL)
in 1999, 2002 and 2009.
The North refuses to
recognise the NLL, which
was drawn unilaterally by
the US-led United Nations
Command at the end of the
1950-53 Korean War.
In 2010, South Korea
blamed North
Korea for the
sinking of one
of its warships
near the Yellow Sea border, in which
46
sailors
died.
Live-fire drills in the area
invariably spark an angry
reaction from the North.
Cross-border
tensions
have been running high ever
since North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test in
January and a long-range
rocket launch the following
month.
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BUSINESS
SENSEX OPENS 183 POINTS
DOWN ON PROFIT-BOOKING
Market benchmark BSE
Sensex tanked almost 183
points and the NSE Nifty
broke below the crucial
8,200-mark in early trade
today due to profit-booking by investors after yesterday’s gains amid weak
global cues.
The 30-share barometer declined by 182.71
points or 0.68 per cent to
26,543.63 with sectoral
indices banking, teck, auto,
IT, capital goods and metal,
leading the fall. The index
had gained 330.63 points
in the last session.
The NSE Nifty was also
trading lower by 60.90
points, or 0.74 per cent,
at 8,145.70. Brokers said
apart from profit-booking in yesterday’s gainers,
weak trend in other Asian
bourses as US Federal
Reserve Chair Janet Yellen highlighted concerns
about Britain’s upcoming
vote on whether to exit the
European Union, mainly
dampened the sentiment.
The Federal Reserve has
left interest rates on hold.
In the Asian region, Japan’s Nikkei shed 1.10 per
cent, while China’s Shanghai Composite Index fell
0.27 per cent in early trade
today. Hong Kong’s Hang
Seng was down 1.89 per
cent.
The Dow Jones Industri-
After almost doubling
between February and last
week, WTI has plunged
eight percent from an
11-month high, while
Brent has lost more than
six percent from an eightmonth peak.
Oil prices sank for a
sixth straight session today in Asia, tracking a selloff across equities with an
expected pick-up in output
adding to worries about
the global economy and a
weaker-than-forecast fall
in US stockpiles.
The Department of Energy said commercial inventories fell by 900,000
barrels in the week ending
June 10, far fewer than the
2.33 million predicted in
a Bloomberg survey, suggesting demand is easing
in the world’s top oil consumer.
The news sent the commodity tumbling and at
about 0320 GMT today in
Asia US benchmark West
Texas Intermediate slipped
46 cents, or 0.96 per cent,
to USD 47.55 while Brent
Supply-side fears have
increased, with Canada’s
output likely to normalise
as wildfires that hit its oil
region subside while Nigerian rebels, who have been
attacking crude installations, consider peace talks
with the government.
“We still, when you think
about it, have a surplus of
supply because it has really only been disruptions
that have seen that surplus
disappear,” David Lennox,
an analyst at Fat Prophets
in Sydney, told Bloomberg
al Average ended 0.20 per
cent lower in yesterday’s
trade.
PTI
News.
He added: “The market
is now starting to suggest
that once the disruptions
are behind us, surplus will
re-appear and the rally
that we have seen in the
prices will evaporate.”
Selling pressure has
been inflamed by turmoil
on stock markets as traders grow increasingly fearful that Britain will vote
next week to leave the European Union, which many
warn could precipitate another global rout.
Federal Reserve boss
Janet Yellen on Wednesday
sounded a warning about
the possible impact of a
“Leave” vote as the US central bank lowered its economic growth and interest
rate projections over the
next few years.
RUPEE PARES EARLY GAINS,
SLIPS 6 PAISE VS USD TO 67.21
The rupee pared its initial gains to depreciate by
6 paise to 67.21 against the
American currency in late
morning deals following
fresh bouts of dollar demand from importers and
banks amid lower domestic equities.
The rupee opened higher by 67.12 against yesterday’s closing level of 67.15
at the Interbank Foreign
Exchange (Forex) market
here today.
Later, it hovered between 67.12 and Rs 67.23
during morning deals, before quoting at 67.21 at
1030 hrs.
Meanwhile, the dollar
index was down 0.30 per
cent at 94.31 against the
basket of six global currencies.
Overseas, the US dollar
was on defensive
against its major rivals in early Asian trade,
while sliding to
a 21-month low
against the yen
after the Bank
of Japan held off
from
expanding its monetary
stimulus.
Meanwhile, the bench-
mark Sensex was trading
lower by 326.58 points, or
1.22 per cent, to 26,399.76
at 1050 hrs.
CHICKEN LOLLYPOPS
Red chilli paste - 1 tbsp.
Egg - 1
Ajinomoto - 1/8 tsp.
Celery - 1 tsp.
salt - to taste
water - as required
Method
1. First, dry out the chicken
pieces on a muslin cloth to
remove out excess water.
2. Marinate the chicken
with all the ingredients
under ‘for marination’ for
at least 2 hours.
3. Mix all the ingredients
under “for batter” with
enough water to make a
thick batter.
4. Dip the lollypops in batter and deep fry.
5. Serve as a starter with
Schezuan sauce.
Tip
Keep the lollypops inverted in the frying pan to
get a rounded shape.
Ujjivan Financial falls
after RBI restricts FII buying, the stock dipped 5%
to Rs 372 on the BSE in
early morning trade after
the Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) notified that the aggregate foreign shareholdings in the company has
crossed the permissible
limit, which means overseas investors will not be
able to buy further equity
in the company.
“The aggregate foreign
shareholdings
through
Foreign Institutional Investors (FII)/Registered
Foreign Portfolios Inves-
CRISPY FRIED CHICKEN
Ingredients
Coating - 1
All-purpose Flour-1/2 Cup
Coating - 2
Eggs (beaten) - 2
Milk - 1 1/2 cups
Soy sauce - 1/2 tsp.
Freshly chopped parsley 1 tbsp.
Garlic (minced) - 2 large
cloves
Coating - 3
All-purpose flour - 1 cup
Fine bread crumbs - 3/4
cup
Salt - 1/2 tsp.
Garlic powder - 1/2 tsp.
(not salt)
Onion powder - 1/4 tsp.
(not salt)
Paprika - 1/2 tsp.
Black pepper - 2 tsp.
Frying
Cooking oil - 5-6 cups
Chicken – 1kg (cut in pieces)
Method
Mix each coating ingredients in separate bowls.
Heat oil in a kadai put in
medium heat (to cook the
chicken)
Coat the chicken pieces in
first flour coating and dip
in milk egg coating and
in final coating of bread
crumbs.
Deep fry the chicken in oil.
The oil should not be too
hot otherwise the outside
gets browned before the
inside gets cooked.
Check if it’s cooked properly and its light brown in
color.
Put in paper towel.
tors (RFPIs)/Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)/
Non-Resident
Indians
(NRI)/American Depository Receipts (ADR)/Global Depository Receipts
(GDR)/Persons of Indian
Origin (PIO) in M/s Ujjivan
Financial Services Ltd. has
crossed the permissible
limit,” RBI said in notification dated June 15, 2016.
Hence it may please
be noted that no further
purchase of shares of this
company would be allowed
through Stock Exchanges
in India on behalf of FII/
RFPI/FDI/NRI/ADR/GDR/
PIO, it added.
Meanwhile, post listings
on May 10, this year, the
stock had outperformed
the market by surging 69%
from Rs 232 to Rs 391 till
yesterday. The S&P BSE
Sensex was gained 3.7%
during the same period.
The company had risen
around Rs 900 crore by issuing shares at Rs price of
Rs 210 per share.
At 09:26 AM, the stock
was down 4% at Rs 377
on the BSE. A combined
792,964 shares changed
hands on the counter on
the BSE and NSE so far.
COAI CONTESTS TRAI ON DIFFERENTIAL DATA PRICING
book’s FreeBasics, which
offered free access to select websites for subscribers of Airtel and Reliance
Communications, respectively. Net neutrality activists had rallied against the
move.
The Cellular Operators
Association of India (COAI)
has written to the telecom
regulator, asking it to reconsider the ban on differential data pricing rules.
The lobby group argues
differential data pricing
was allowed for years and
there is no evidence to suggest any harm to anyone by
offering these.
COAI has also said the
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai)
had “inadvertently mixed
up unrestricted physical
or technical access with
non-discriminatory commercial access”.
In February, Trai had
banned operators from offering data at differential
prices. The ruling was in
response to the criticism
on Airtel Zero and Face-
The department of telecom has asked Trai for a
pre-consultation paper on
net neutrality that encompasses all the principles.
COAI says Trai assumed
differential data pricing is
equivalent to denying access to the internet or any
website to end-consumers.
Net neutrality activists
say by creating a platform
offering free access to select websites, telcos would
be shaping consumer preferences and behaviour towards free data.
COAI also contends pric-
ing innovation has played a
key role in the sector’s evolution and allowed rates to
stay low.
As differential pricing
is allowed in voice, messaging and value added
services, these should be
allowed for data as well.
Pricing flexibility is a core
tenet of marketing and innovation.
Citing the need to give
consumers lower prices
for products/services of
their choice, COAI has argued that customers do
not understand megabytes
and gigabytes. Therefore,
to offer data prices only
around megabytes and gigabytes is not consumer
friendly.
Also, says COAI, even
globally, forbearance on
rates has been considered
the best regulation.
JAPANESE TELECOMMUNICATIONS MARKET SLATED
TO GROW: KEN RESEARCH
According to a report on Ken
Research’s latest publication,
Mobile data revenue in Japan
is expected to grow as more
investments keep pouring in
along with the advent of 5G
technology. The increase in mobile data revenue is further expected to drive expansion of the
Japanese telecommunications
market. Forecasts say that the
industry is expected to report
a CAGR of 1.7% during 20152020. The findings of the report
are based upon the Pyramid Research’s databases.
The report delivers in-depth
qualitative and quantitative
information regarding the
telecom industry in Japan by
analyzing the market forces
and evaluating the near-term
opportunities and assessing
risk factors. The telecommunications industry in Japan has
been growing exponentially
The
greenback was already
under pressure
after the US Federal Reserve lowered its econom-
FOOD
Ingredients
Chicken Lollypops
(Wings deskinned) - 500
gms.
For Marination
corn flour - 2 tbsp.
Soya sauce - 2 tbsp.
vinegar - 1 tsp.
Red chilli paste - 1 tsp.
Ginger paste - 2 tsp.
Garlic paste - 1 tsp.
Ajinomoto - ¼ tsp.
salt - to taste
For Batter
Maida - 6 tbsp.
Cornflour - 6 tbsp.
Coriander - 1 tbsp.
Garlic - 1 tbsp.
Ginger - 1tbsp.
Vinegar - 1 tbsp.
ic growth forecasts and
scaled back its rate hike
projections.
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UJJIVAN FINANCIAL SERVICES HAS
DIPPED 5% TO RS 372 ON THE BSE
OIL PRICES DIP IN ASIA
shed 34 cents, or 0.69 per
cent, to USD 48.63.
English Daily
over the past few years. As
per the statistics, the industry
generated service revenue of
USD 118.8 billion in 2015 and
is further expected to report of
CAGR of 1.7% between 2015
and 2020. Within the industry,
mobile data is expected to be
the fastest-growing segment
with a CAGR of 7.2% between
2015and 2020. In fact, mobile
revenue is expected to account
for 60.4% of total telecom revenue in 2020. Pay-TV is not far
behind with a CAGR of 2.2%
driven by increased innovation
and consumer interest.
The operators in the Japanese telecom industry are
predicted to focus more on
boosting the broadband uptake
in order to offset the decline in
traditional fixed, mobile voice
and messaging revenue. In this
regard, the increased internet
access for fixed services reve-
NUTTY CHICKEN
Method
Wash the chicken and cut
into a thin layer 1 inch
thick.
Ingredients
Boneless Chicken – 500
grams
Oil - 2 tbsp.
Eggs - 2
Salt - to taste
Nuts - 1/2 Cup (crushed/
ground) almond, cashew
nut, walnut etc...
For Marination
Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp.
Ginger-Garlic Paste - 2 tsp.
Lemon Juice - 2 tsp.
Garam Masala Powder /
Chicken masala - 1/4 tsp.
Oil - 2 tbsp.
Chilly Powder - 2 tsp.
Salt - to taste
Combine the chicken with
marinade ingredients to
coat all the sides and keep
it in fridge for at least 1
hour. Even overnight marination will be good.
Beat the eggs with a pinch
of salt.
Roll the chicken in the egg
mixture and coat it with
the nuts. Any nuts like almond, cashew nut, walnut
etc. can be used.
Fry the chicken in oil or
bake it. For baking, preheat the oven to 300 degrees and bake the chicken
pieces for approximately
20-25 minutes.
Garnish with parsley and
lemon slices.
nue to increase from 43.0% in
2016 to 49.0% by 2020, driven
by the up-sell strategy of the operators.
tinue its past record of growth,
disruption and innovation. As
mobile devices and related
broadband services are increasingly becoming an essential aspect of the society today, they
are also playing a crucial role in
driving momentum in telecom
industry. The telecom operators worldwide are now on a
lookout for opportunities for increasing their revenue through
core value propositions such as
sale of network devices and better network connectivity.
In addition, the ongoing investment in network enhancements and advanced 5G technology will enable operators to
support bandwidth intensive
value-added services, such as
mobile money, multimedia
browsing, OTT, mobile TV and
e-commerce apps, etc. Operators are focusing on diversifying their revenue streams
via expanding their offerings
in IoT/M2M and enterprise
markets. Talking in terms of
leading players, telecom market will be dominated by NTT
as the leading mobile and fixed
operator, followed by KDDI and
Soft Bank.
Some of the projected trends
for the global telecom industry
include:
• Exponential increase in the
overall internet traffic
• Rapid increase in the number of players in the telecom
industry
Global Telecom Industry
• The advent of Internet of
Things (IoT)
The global telecom will con-
Iftar Special
FISH CUTLET
Ingredients
Fish fillets - 3-4
Onion - 1/2 (grated)
Garlic - 3 cloves (grated)
Ginger - 1”slice (grated)
Egg - 2
Garam masala - 1 tsp.
Chilly powder - 1 tsp.
Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp.
Bread Crumbs - 1/2 cup
Oil - for frying
Method
Take water in a pan and
bring it to a boil. Add the fish
fillets to the water and let it
cook nicely
Remove the fish from the
water and shred it into small
pieces.
Heat oil in a small skillet and
sauté the onions, ginger and
garlic in it till the raw smell
vanishes.
Add the shredded fish to it
along with garam masala,
salt, chilly powder, cumin
powder and cilantro.
Keep stirring the mixture until it becomes very dry. This
is essential for the cutlets to
bind together very well.
Once the above mixture is
cool enough to handle, add
one raw egg to it. Mix everything nicely with hands. (The
egg is mainly used for binding. You can also use a handful of cooked rice or a boiled
and mashed potato instead.)
Beat another egg in a bowl.
Make small round balls out
of the cutlet mixture and
shape it into patties. You
can make any shape - round,
oval, heart shape, cylindrical
etc.
Dip the patties in the beaten
egg then coat it with bread
crumbs. Now you can deep
fry, shallow fry or bake these
cutlets.
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SPORTS
BUSINESS
INDIA TROUNCE ZIMBABWE
BY 10 WICKETS
(this match) and Ambati
Rayudu -- got a decent hit
in the middle.
The entire middle-order
-- skipper himself, Kedar
Jadhav, and Manish Pandey
(two balls) -- did not get a
chance to bat, thanks to the
impressive effort by the
bowlers led by Jasprit Bumrah with 9 wickets from 3
games.
A dominant India predictably completed a 3-0
whitewash by bulldozing a sub-par Zimbabwe
by 10 wickets in the final
ODI cricket match in what
turned out to be one of the
most one-sided series in recent times.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s
boys outclassed the hosts
in all departments by first
bowling them out for their
lowest total of 123 in the
series with Jasprit Bumrah
grabbing 4/22 and then
romping home in 21.5
overs.
Openers KL Rahul (63
not out) and debutant Faiz
Fazal (55 not out) flayed
with what seemed like a
club-level bowling attack to
guide India home.
India also completed a
hat-trick of whitewashes
against the hosts, having
won earlier ODI series by
5-0 and 3-0 margin in 2013
and 2015 when Virat Kohli
and Ajinkya Rahane led the
sides respectively.
For Dhoni, there were
two milestones that he
achieved from the series.
With 107 wins as captain,
he equalled Allan Border
for the second highest
number of wins in ODI history behind Ricky Ponting
(165).
Also he became the first
Indian wicketkeeper-batsman to complete 350 dismissals in 50-overs cricket.
However, there wasn’t
much else to draw from the
three matches as it was one
rare series where only four
batsmen -- namely openers
Rahul, Karun Nair, Fazal
The nature of the contest
has been of very poor quality as there was only one
team which had its foot on
the pedal.
While chasing, Rahul enjoyed the pedestrian bowling attack helping himself
to a half-century, his second 50 plus score after a
hundred on debut while
old domestic warhorse Faiz
Fazal celebrated his maiden India cap with a polished knock.
With only 124 to get,
the Indian openers did not
need to take any risks yet
scored runs at a quick clip
to finish off the formalities
with minimum fuss.
Left-handed
looked elegant as he hit
a few gorgeous shots
through the cover as well as
back past the bowler. Fazal
lifted skipper and leg-spinner Graeme Cremer for a
straight six.
While Fazal’s innings
had seven fours and a six
in 61 balls, Rahul was more
partial towards the cut shot
and he also hit some cover
drives.
When Cremer tried to
flight the ball, the Mangalore-lad was quick to
pounce on it hitting him
into the sightscreen for a
six. He hit another six off
Chamu Chibhabha over
long-on. In all, he hit four
boundaries and two sixes
in 70 balls.
The century stand came
in 113 balls while Fazal
finished the match with a
pulled boundary.
Rahul finished the series
with 196 runs from three
innings that had a century
and a half-century.
PTI
Fazal
Although France were in
possession throughout the
match, they still struggled
hard to open their account.
After a goalless first
half, France finally manage
to break the deadlock via
striker Griezmann’s header in the last minute of the
match before Payet struck
a stoppage-time curler to
hand the hosts with a second consecutive win in the
tournament.
France, who are currently leading the point
table, began their quest for
a maiden Euro title in 16
years with a battling 2-1
win over Romania, Sport24
reported.
Meanwhile,
Albania,
who lost their opening
game against Switzerland,
have to beat Romania in
their next match in order to
stand any chance of qualifying.
(ANI)
ILYA ILYIN AMONG FOUR OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS
Four Olympic weightlifting champions from
Kazakhstan, including the
sport’s most celebrated figure Ilya Ilyin, are among 10
lifters to have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs at the London 2012 Olympics after
their samples were reanalysed.
Ilyin, the men’s 94kg
gold medallist, and three
women champions, Zulfiya
Chinshanlo (53kg), Maiya
Maneza (63kg) and Svetlana Podobedova (75kg),
failed tests, the International Weightlifting Federation
(IWF) said on Wednesday.
The 10 lifters, who include seven London medallists in total and a current
world champion who were
expected to be medal con-
tenders at the Rio de Janeiro Games in August, have
all been provisionally suspended, the IWF said.
Double Olympic champion Ilyin, 28, is to weightlifting what Usain Bolt is
to athletics. He has nearly
400,000 followers on social media far more than
anyone else in the sport
and has been named male
weightlifter of the year four
times.
A winner of the sport’s
leading accolade in 2005,
2006, 2014 and 2015, fourtime world champion Ilyin
is a national hero and also a
personal friend of Kazakhstan President Nursultan
Nazarbayev.
His victory in London
followed his triumph in
Beijing in 2008. A multiple
world record holder, he
was confident of winning a
third gold, at 105kg, in Rio.
Ilyin, who turned vegetarian and took a break
from competition after the
London Games, set his latest world records at the
President’s Cup in Moscow
in December. He had never
failed a test before.
Of the Kazakh women
gold medallists, Chinshanlo, in 2012, and Podobedova, 2010, are both former
IWF female weightlifters of
the year.
The other 2012 medallists who tested positive were Russian men’s
85kg silver medallist, Apti
Aukhadov and two women’s bronze medallists,
Ukrainian Yuliya Kalina
(58kg) and Belarus’s Mary-
The reigning women’s
58kg world champion Boyanka Kostova, a Bulgarian
who now competes for
Azerbaijan and finished
fifth in London, was also
among the positive tests.
Two other athletes from
Belarus failed tests Yauheni Zharnasek (ninth in the
men’s +105kg) and Dzina
Sazanavets (fourth in the
FEDERER BACK ON COURT, WINNING
START IN HALLE
Roger Federer stepped
up his bid for a record ninth
Halle grasscourt title with a
straight sets victory over
Germany’s
Jan-Lennard
Struff in the opening round
on Wednesday. The 17-time
Grand Slam champion, who
underwent a knee surgery
in February, is yet to win
a title this year. He was
forced to miss the French
Open due to a back injury.
Federer also lost to Dominic Thiem in the semi-finals of the Stuttgart grasscourt event last week.
The 34-year-old Federer, who has now won 52
matches in his Halle career, has yet to win a title in
2016, his longest drought
to start a year since he went
title-less in 2000.
exander Zverev made the
quarter-finals when compatriot Benjamin Becker,
16 years his senior, withdrew with an injury at 7-5,
3-0 down.
Nishikori, seeded two in
Germany behind Federer
and a semi-finalist in 2014
and 2015, was to play Florian Mayer, who was given
a walkover into the quarter-finals.
Philipp Kohlschreiber,
the Stuttgart runner-up, enjoyed a 6-2, 7-6 (7/4) win
over Spanish clay courter
Marcel Granollers.
Japan’s world No 6
Kei Nishikori suffered a
pre-Wimbledon blow when
he was forced to pull out of
the Halle tournament with
a rib injury.
“I’m very sad to not be
able to go on playing,” said
Nishikori, whose status for
Wimbledon is not yet certain.
German
teenager
Al-
No one can deny that
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has
a sense of humour and one
got a taste of it at the postmatch presentation after
the completion of the third
ODI when he was asked
about the long forced break
that he will have post this
ongoing series.
Dhoni will be next seen
in October during the limited overs leg of the series
against New Zealand.
“I think after a long
time, I will take some time
off cricket after this series
Zverev will next meet Cypriot veteran Marco Baghdatis who put out Dustin
Brown, also of Germany,
7-5, 7-6 (10/8).
The Gerry Weber Open
in Halle is a tune-up event
for Wimbledon, where Federer will be aiming to win
his eighth title when the
third Grand Slam tournament of the season starts
on June 27.
women’s 69kg).
All four of Kazakhstan’s
gold medallists in London
are now set to be stripped
of their titles.
The World Anti-Doping
Authority (WDA) carried
out the retests on athletes’ samples in a range
of sports at the 2008 and
2012 Games, after advances in science and detection
methods.
(T20Is). Don’t think my
daughter (15-month old
Ziva) still recognizes me. I
will make my daughter feel
that I am her dad and spend
time with family,” the skipper said with his tongue
firmly in cheek.
On a serious note, he
was satisfied with the effort
put in by the bowlers, who
dismissed Zimbabwe in all
the three ODIs -- 168 (49.5
overs), 126 (34.3 overs) and
123 (42.2 overs) respectively -- and then chased down
the total with consummate
ease.
“I think the execution
has been really good, and
that’s the key factor. The fast
bowlers and the spinners
have taken wickets at some
point of time and put pressure on the opposition, so I
am happy with the bowling
performance,” Dhoni said
after the match.
“I don’t mind winning
games easily, that’s what
you are supposed to do. It
would have been nice if a
few of the other batsmen
would have had a break.
PTI
ALWAYS KNEW I’VE THE
ABILITY TO DO WELL: RAHUL
The only Indian batsman
to get a chance to shine in
the lop-sided ODI series
against Zimbabwe, opener
Lokesh Rahul today said
he always knew he had the
ability to do well in every
format.
The 24-year-old from
Karnataka, who amassed
196 runs in the series from
three innings which included an unbeaten century and
a half-century, was adjudged
the Player of the Match and
the Man of the series.
“I always knew I had the
game to do well in every format.
It was just a matter of
time. The last couple of
months have been really good,” said Rahul, who
cracked an unbeaten 63 off
70 balls today to guide India
to a 3-0 whitewash of Zimbabwe.
na Shkermankova (69kg).
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BREAK WILL HELP MY DAUGHTER
RECOGNISE HER DAD: DHONI
GRIEZMANN, PAYET’S LATE STRIKES FIRE
FRANCE INTO EURO 2016 KNOCKOUTS
Antoine Griezmann netted a late goal before Dimitri Payet added second in
injury time as hosts France
secured their place in the
last 16 of the European
Championship with a 2-0
win over Albania in their
second Group A clash in
Marseille on Thursday.
English Daily
“I got the opportunity
to play for RCB and then
getting a call up to play for
India has always been a
dream. And then to come
out here and perform the
way I have is really pleasing.
Rahul gave credit to the
bowlers, who came up with
a stupendous performance
in the series.
“Lot of credit goes to our
bowlers for making our job
easy. I knew I could go out
there, take my time and play
proper
cricketing
shots and
not
get
carried
away,” he
said.
“ O b viously
after getting the
h u n d re d
and when you are in good
form, it is easy to go out
there and try to hit sixes
and finish the game early.
So it was a challenge for me
to remain calm and play my
natural game and give the
ball and the bowlers the
respect. That was the plan
for me and I am happy the
way I batted in this series,”
he added.
Rahul is the only player in the side, who will be
touring West Indies along
with India’s Test squad next
month but Rahul said he is
not thinking about it now.
Asked if it would be easy
to switch to the Test mode,
Rahul said:”I don’t know,
once I go there and see the
red ball swinging, I will
know. Obviously playing
here, the ball is swinging a
bit but it is not like the red
ball. I am not thinking about
West Indies yet.
“What’s on my mind right
now is to switch to the T20
format, to prepare for the
next two days and come out
all guns blazing,” he said.
Zimbabwe
captain
Graeme Cremer said failure
to rotate the strikes by the
batsmen affected his team’s
chances of posting a good
total on board.
“We didn’t see through
the new ball to put up 260270 which we thought was
par. We got stuck in middle
period, and then lost grip.
We just couldn’t rotate
strike, and that put pressure
on our batsmen,” he said.
“We have a T20I squad,
and we know we can challenge good teams on our
day. We’ll have to pick ourselves up to try and compete in that series.”
Spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, who took six wickets in
the series, said: “There was
a bit of pressure initially,
but things settled down after that. The wickets were a
touch slow, and the outfield
was big, so that helped.
PTI
EURO 2016: ENGLAND MEET WALES
Wayne Rooney’s England
and Gareth Bale’s Wales meet
in Lens on Thursday with
their Euro 2016 ambitions on
the line and fears that their
followers could spoil the day.
With England at risk of disqualification after fan violence
erupted in Marseille at the
weekend and amid provocative comments from Welsh
star Gareth Bale, focus in the
build-up has been on anything but football. But with the
neighbours’ first meeting at a
major tournament looming,
thoughts have turned to the
pitch, where Wales manager
Chris Coleman believes England’s tactical tinkering could
give his side an edge.
“If you’re looking at England from afar, it’s either
going to work for them or
it’s not, the fact that they’ve
played different formations,”
he said on Wednesday.
“So we look at that. Maybe
they’re not settled or maybe
they’re a bit more settled than
we think they are.”
While Wales’s 3-5-1-1 system has been a staple since
the start of the qualifying
campaign, England manager Roy Hodgson has seemed
caught between using a 4-3-3
formation and a 4-4-2 with a
midfield diamond.
The 4-3-3 got an outing in
Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Russia in Marseille, but withEn-
gland’s failure to kill off the
game having come back to
bite them in injury time,
change could be afoot.
Bale, who set the tone for
his team’s 2-1 win over Slovakia with a stunning free-kick,
has been the
Welsh antagoniser-in-chief,
accusing
England of arrogance and saying that none
of their players
would get into
the Wales team.
H o w e v e r,
Coleman
described the pre-match sniping
as “irrelevant” and his words
were echoed by Hodgson,
who said: “Talk is talk and action on the field is action on
the field.”
More used to doing battle
on the rugby pitch, England
and Wales are facing off in a
major football championship
for the first time and the results of the opening round of
games have put the Welsh in
the driving seat.
Victory will take them into
the last 16 and leave Hodgson’s men clinging on for dear
life in Group B, but despite the
high stakes, Wayne Rooney
says England will go about
their task calmly.
England captain Wayne
Rooney produced a sharp
turn of foot on Wednesday
when asked how many Wales
players would get into his
team.
When Gareth Bale was
asked how many players
from England would get into
the Wales side, ahead of the
neighbours’ Euro 2016 showdown in Lens on Thursday,
the grinning Welsh star had
replied: “None.”
CITY
HILIGHTS
Vol 1, Issue 168 `.1.00/-
ENTERTAINMENT
2M INSTA LOVE`
MAKES MADHURI
GO `DHAK DHAK`
With two million
followers on Instagram, Bollywood’s
dhak dhak girl, Madhuri Dixit, has joined
the list of celebrities
who have a huge fan
base on the social
media.
Expressing
her
delight, the ‘Hum
Aapke Hain Koun..!’
actress shared a
video, wherein she
expressed her grati-
JAY Z, BEYONCE’S MARRIAGE
DOING WELL POST ‘LEMONADE’
relationship made the
headlines after Queen B
dropped her ‘Lemonade’
project, but now, there
have been reports that
the two are doing really
well.
tude to her fans and
wrote, “Thank you
guys for all your love
& support. #2MillionOnInstagram.”
“Hii Guys 2million
on Instagram. Oh my
God. I am so thrilled
and excited. Thank
you for all your love
and support. You
made my heart go
dhak dhak today,”
said Madhuri in the
video.
English Daily
8
SRIDEVI TO
RECEIVE OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT
AWARD AT IIFA
The 49-year-old
actress, who has given many Bollywood
hits like, ‘Hum Aapke
Hain Kaun’ ‘’Devdas,’
‘Dil To Pagal Hai’ and
‘Koyla,’ is currently
seen hosting a dance
reality show, ‘So You
Think You Can Dance
- Ab India Ki Baari,’
along with ace choreographer Terence
Lewis.
`BLEEDING LOVE`
SINGER DROPPED FROM
LABEL FOR LOW SALES?
According to sources,
the couple is really working on their marriage; in
fact, the 46-year-old rapper is making time for
Queen B and his family
more.
The insiders added
that Jay’s joining the
34-year-old pop-star on
her current tour.
Multiple speculations
over Jay Z and Beyonce’s
Reportedly, the two
are enjoying date nights,
when the ‘Halo’ singer is
not entertaining people
on stage.
T-SWIFT ENJOYS BEACH OUTING
WITH TOM HIDDLESTON
Pop star Taylor Swift
seems to have moved on
from her ex-boyfriend
Calvin Harris as she was
photographed
getting
cozy with “Thor” star
Tom Hiddleston.
Swift was caught on
camera
kissing
and
holding hands with actor Hiddleston during a
romantic outing on the
beach near her mansion
in Watch Hill, Rhode Island.
The 26-year-old “Bad
Blood” singer wore a
brown sweater and blue
skirt while Hiddleston,
35, donned a jacket, blue
button-down and dark
jeans.
At one point in a sweet
gesture, he took off his
jacket and put it around
her shoulder to keep her
warm.
The couple looked
smitten in pictures. They
land. She made a great
record and the label really championed her but
something just didn’t
click.”
It is being said that the
singer’s first single ‘Fire
Under My Feet’ from her
fifth studio album was
released under Island
Records , was a commercial flop as it sold a mere
8 500 copies in its first
week.
Additionally, the Label
executives might hold a
meeting with Lewis in
the coming days to discuss her future, as they
don’t want to cut ties
with her completely.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE
WANTS TO SEE ‘HARRY
POTTER’ PLAY
took a stroll together
and sat on one of the big
rocks scattered on the
beach while enjoying the
beautiful scenery. They
also took selfies.
Last month, Swift and
brella”
singer’s
perfume
is the second in her
namesake
RiRi Collection.
The 28-year-old “Um-
According to sources
the 31-year-old singer,
who signed to Island
Records last year following her split from Simon
Cowell’s Syco, experienced a bumpy ride in
the charts, despite their
best efforts to propel her
career
Confirming the news,
a source said, “It simply
didn’t work out with Is-
T h e
star’s latest
f ra g ra n c e
is “undeniably fun”
with a “feminine twist”
according to an official
statement, and includes
sensual woody notes
Sridevi is all set to
receive an award for
outstanding achievement in Indian cinema at the 2016 International Indian Film
Academy (IIFA) gala.
The Award will be
presented to the actor at the NEXA IIFA
Awards to be held
during the four day
long Videocon D2h
IIFA Weekend from
23rd to 26th June
2016
in
Madrid,
Spain.
A longtime friend of
IIFA, the actress previously performed on
the IIFA stage and this
time, fans will once
again get to see her
at Madrid as she receives the IIFA Award
honoring her past
work and the lasting
imprint it has left on
Indian Cinema.
The IIFA 2013 stage
saw Sridevi take on
dance guru, Prabhu
Deva, and the two
enthralled audiences
with their fancy footwork to some of the
icon’s biggest hits.
Sridevi has had a
long and impactful
career in the Indian
film industry with a
number of her films
receiving cult classic
status. Her work in
films has been recognized and applauded
in not only the Hindi
film genre but also for
her work in the South
Film Industry and is
appreciated by the Indian diasporas across
the world.
A true veteran, she
is one of the few actresses to have made a
successful comeback
even after getting
married and landed a
lead role, and continues to make an impact
in the film industry
through her films like
‘English Vinglish’.
If sources are to be
believed, then Pakistani
actor Fawad Khan, who
is basking in the success
of his film ‘Kapoor and
sons,’ has bagged the lead
role in Zoya Akhtar’s next
directorial venture.
will meet soon and take
their discussion forward,
Hrithik Roshan for the
film. However, when the
‘Bang Bang’ actor turned
down the offer, she approached the ‘Khoobsurat’ star.
FAWAD KHAN TO REPLACE HRITHIK
ROSHAN IN ZOYA AKHTAR’S NEXT?
Hiddleston were pictured dancing up a storm
at MET Gala. She still
dated Calvin Harris back
then but she showed up
alone sans the Swedish
DJ at the event.
RIHANNA LAUNCHES
NEW PERFUME
R&B star Rihanna has
unveiled her fragrance
Crush, which is an empowering scent.
Leona Lewis, who
broke the records with
her debut single ‘Bleeding Love’, has been
dropped by her record
label Island Records just
weeks before her debut
in the musical cats.
which have been paired
with red fruits and pink
musks to create a perfume
which “feels empowering,
strong, confident, and unapologetic”.
The hands-on star also
designed the bottle in
which her latest fragrance
comes.
Rihanna released her
last fragrance, Riri by Rihanna, a year ago, four
years after her debut fragrance, Reb’l Fleur.
Crush by Rihanna will
be available from August.
Actor Daniel Radcliffe
has confirmed he is not
yet seen play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”,
but he would like to, in the
future.
The only problem is,
the actor will have to wait
until fan hysteria over the
play dies down, so he can
view it in a more relaxed
setting, sources said
“I feel like I want to see
the show. I am genuinely
intrigued and I’ve heard
it’s fantastic. But I just feel
sitting in an audience of
what will for the most of
the near future be very
enthusiastic Harry Potter
fans might be like not a relaxing way to see a show,”
he said.
“So not for the time being, but I’ve heard it’s fantastic.”
The 26-year-old also
sung praises of actor Jamie Parker, who is playing
the grown-up Potter.
“He’s a wonderful actor. I’m very happy to see
him play me. He can do all
the Harry questions now,”
Radcliffe said.
According to a source,
Zoya has briefed Fawad
about the basic premise
of the film and the two
The insider also revealed that Zoya loved
the 34-year-old actor in
‘Kapoor & Sons,’ following which she decided to
work with him.
Earlier, it was reported
that the 43-year-old film
director had approached
Fawad will be also seen
in Karan Johar’s directorial ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’
featuring Ranbir Kapoor,
Anushka Sharma and
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
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