26 July 2016 - City Hilights

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THE STRIKE THAT STRUCK
THE CITY HARD
DYSP KALLAPPA’S FAMILY MEETS CM
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SC NOTICE TO MALLYA ON PLEA OF
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2 BAJRANG DAL ACTIVISTS BOOKED FOR
ATTACKING DALITS
Two Bajrang Dal activists,
have been booked on charges
of attacking a Dalit family in
their house at Chickamangaluru for alleged cow slaughter. Police registered a case
against seven locals on a
counter-complaint by three
Dalits. The alleged attack
on Dalits came to light after
‘Komu Souharda Vedike’, a forum for communal harmony,
raised this issue.
“Based on a complaint, we
have booked seven persons,
including two Bajrang Dal
activists, for attacking three
Dalits in their house,” said
Jayapura Sub-Inspector of
Police Chandrashekhar.
A PIECE OF ART, COBRA
SPEWS WATER
Dhanjay Markanja, a resident of Markanja, has created a work of art, where a cobra which is known to spew
venom provides water to
wash clothes, gardening. The
moment one enters the residence in Goliyadka area, one
is bound to fear, but in reality
there is no danger. It appears
from a distance as if a long
venomous cobra is resting
on a washing stone near the
water tank. The artist took
15 days to complete his little
work of art keeping in mind
the natural surroundings.
Trained at Manasa School of
arts in Mangaluru, Dhanajay
has won many awards for
his work in the past. One of
his designs on chickengunya
fancy dress was acclaimed
state-wide.
YOUTH DROWNS
WHILE TAKING BATH IN
A POND
A youth drowned while
taking bath in a pond with
his friends at Neerchal Manya on Sunday. The deceased
Shiyaz (21) was from Yeriyal.
Shiyaz along with his friends
was playing football in the
evening. They soon got into
a nearby pond near Manya
Mundol to have bath where
Shiyaz started drowning.
When friends failed to rescue him, fire personnel and
police arrived at the spot and
succeeded in fishing out the
body from the pond. A case
has been registered at Vidyanagar police station.
STUDENTS FIND NEET-2 EXAM
TOUGHER THAN NEET-1
National
Eligibilitycum-Entrance Test Phase
2, which was conducted on
Sunday, received mixed responses from the students.
Students who are medical
and dental seat aspirants
wrote the exam on Sunday but were disappointed
as they found the paper
tougher than the Common
Entrance Test and NEET
phase 1. NEET phase 2 is
considered the last chance
to fetch a seat and many
medical seat aspirants give
up their NEET Phase 1
seat to prepare for NEET-2.
However, the exam on Sun-
“As anticipated, the difficulty level of the paper was
more than the CET. What
made it harder was that
NEET has negative marking,
which CET doesn’t,” said a
student. Students, who had
failed to bag medical and
dental seats through CET,
are now depending on their
NEET scores. Students who
took up the exam said the
questions in NEET were
more application based
and twisted. Teachers at
coaching centres said that
ONE DIES AFTER BUS
HITS BIKE
In a shocking accident, a
biker died on spot when his
bike was hit by a Tamil Nadu
state-run bus on Monday. The
deceased has been identified
as Deepak Thapa (28), a native of Uttaranchal. According to the police, the incident
took place at 5.30am when
the speeding bus hit Deepak’s bike from the rear side.
A profusely bleeding Deepak
was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared
brought dead. Wilson Garden
police have registered a case.
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an average student is likely
to score above 60 per cent
if they had managed time
effectively. The results of
NEET 1 and 2 will be an-
nounced on August 17.
About 4.75 Lakh students
took up the test in 739 centres across 56 cities.
DISTRICT-IN-CHARGE MINISTER LAYS FOUNDATION
STONE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECTS IN MANGALURU
B. Ramanath Rai, laid
foundation stone for various projects at Alake, Ka-
voor markets, Kavoor
junction On Sunday.
He also inaugurated the first floor of
Kasba-Bazar
night
shelter. Addressing
media persons during
the event, Ramanath
Rai said, “Foundation
stone has been laid
to construct a dining
hall at Town Hall at a
cost of Rs 99.85 lakh
under 13th Finance
Commission. We are also
constructing a full-fledged
market at Alake with an estimated cost of Rs 50 lakh
(first phase) and construction of a market at Kavoor
at estimated cost of 1 crore.
Kavoor Junction will be developed with an estimated
cost of Rs 1.5 crore. The
ground floor of night shelter at Bunder-Kasba will
be constructed at cost of Rs
99.80 lakh.”
Addressing the gathering, MLA J R Lobo said
that the Night shelter at
Kasaba-Bazar is the first in
state and can accommodate
nearly 75 people.
Mayor Harinath said,
“Kavoor Junction will also
be developed at a cost of
Rs 1.50 crore. The development of the junction is to facilitate smooth flow of traffic. Moreover, a public toilet
at a cost of Rs 12 Lakh will
be constructed adjacent to
the junction.” MLC Ivan D’
Souza, Ibrahim Kodijal and
others were present for the
inauguration.
ANTI-CORRUPTION BUREAU LAUNCHES ITS WEBSITE
Lodging a complaint
with the ACB is now easier
than ever. In an effort to encourage public to exchange
any information pertaining
to corruption, Anti-corruption Bureau launched a
website and facebook page
on Monday.
The
website
was
launched by Chief of ACB,
K.V. Gagan Deep in the
presence of senior officers
of ACB Dr. M. A. Saleem and
other senior police officers.
Website:
http://acb.
karnataka.gov.in
Facebook:
https://
www.facebook.com/
AntiCorruptionBureauKarnataka
The website is easy
to visit by clicking on
the above mentioned
URL.
The website
provides information
about ACB, its inception, vision, organization structure and
other information like
District ACB office address and officer’s
contact numbers etc.
The website also helps
visitors on the how to lodge
a complaint with the ACB.
at the function.
Speaking at the launch
ceremony, Dr. Narendra Kumar Shyamsukha, Founder
Chairman, ICA Edu Skills
said, “On the one hand, India has a large number of
educated but unemployed,
and on the other, the industry is desperately short
of skilled employees. With
Bengaluru emerging as a
The State Government
had created Anti Corruption Bureau in the state in
March this year in its effort
to make its administration
transparent and efficient.
hub, we wish to
tap the opportunity to help
students equip
themselves
with the required skill for
a job they wish
to take up. We
are delighted to
launch a centre
in this fast developing city to
train students
to fulfill the
requirements
of skilled manpower in all the major industries and encourage as
many as of them to extract
maximum benefit from the
skill-oriented courses at
ICA Edu Skills.”
“ICA Edu Skills will not only
make students industry
ready with its innovating
courses and cutting-edge
technology, but would also
prepare them to take up
new challenges of today’s
world and help enhance
their employability.” says
Dr. Halageri.
Sharing his opinion and
experience at the launch,
Chief Guest Dr. S.S Halageri,
Principal, KLE Society’s S.
Nijalingappa College said,
Apart from arranging
training and internships
with leading institutes and
organizations as part of the
course work, ICA also organizes tests, group discussions and mock interviews
to prepare students for
placements in the top companies of the country. ICA
has also partnered with the
NSDC and is working jointly with central and state
governments to train and
place candidates in various
other fields such as Stitching, Construction, Manufacturing and Power, etc.
FOUR SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN
GANESH ACHARYA MURDER CASE
Central Crime Bureau
on Saturday arrested four
suspects in relation to the
murder of Ganesh Acharya
in Padil. The arrested persons are Umashankar (39)
from Padil Alape, Shashiraj
(30) from Kannur, Nithin
Kumar from Veeranagara
and Alwyn Sequeira (25)
from Padil. The cops who
started investigations after receiving information
of the murder suspects arrested the four near Kankanady railway station.
On questioning, they
confessed that they assaulted Ganesh Acharya. They
revealed that they committed the heinous crime
because Ganesh Acharya
would insult them and
would use abusive language
with the father of accused
Umashankar. The arrested
have been handed over to
the Mangaluru rural police
station. Inspector Sunil Y
Naik, PSI Shamsunder and
staff participated in the operation. The dead body of
Ganesh Acharya was found
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Shetty have been made
second and third suspects
respectively. Khandya has
been made fourth suspect.” added the CID officials to media.
The investigation team
handling the DySP Kallappa Handbag suicide case
has made another arrest in connection with
the case in Bengaluru on
Sunday. The arrested Joy
Milton is one of the key
accused in the kidnapping case in Chikkamagaluru that led to Deputy
Superintendent of Police
(DySP) of Chikkamagaluru sub-division Kallappa
Handibag’s suicide.
He was arrested from a
house at Anepalya, Bengaluru.
The police had earlier
arrested Abhiram, an associate of main suspect
Praveen Khandya, who
along with his associates
Naveen Shetty, Ashwin
Shetty and Jeeva are still
on the run.
The police are on the
lookout for the suspects
in other states also.
CID has expressed its
disappointment over the
lenient police attitude
towards arrested Hindu leader of Malnad re-
gion, Praveen Khandya
in the abduct case which
prompted the suicide of
Chikkamagaluru
DySP
Kallappa Handibag. It is
learnt that the CID has informed the state government about the same.
“Though
Pravin
Khandya was the main
conspirator in the kidnap
of financier H M Tejas, that
made Kallappa commit
suicide, the local police
were not strict enough to
take action. Tejas had said
that Praveen Khandya is
directly responsible for
the kidnap but the police
have made Khandya the
fourth accused which is
questionable.
Khandya
was justifying police action during peace meetings relating to communal
riots. Therefore some senior Police officials have
gone soft on him. In the
circumstances Abhishek
who helped in the kidnap
has been made first suspect instead of Khandya.
Nataraj who had financial
disputes with Tejas and
Khandya’s friend Navin
Chikkamagaluru police
had arrested Tejas and his
assistants for betting on
the basis of information
given by Praveen Khandya
himself. Though the area
comes under Chikkamagaluru sub division limits
under DySP Kallappa Handibag, the neighborhood
police authorities did not
notify him prior to the assault on the betting den.
The circle inspector had
taken leave for personal
work. In this manner the
raid on betting nook was
led under supervision by
higher authorities without informing the circle
Inspector and the DySP.
Tejas in the police objection against Khandya
expressed that Abhijith
and six others kidnapped
him on June 28 at 2 am,
took him to Bengaluru
and kept him in unlawful
confinement in a godown.
Navin Shetty ordered Tejas to pay Rs 25 lacks to
Nataraj. As Tejas declined
to pay, Navin Shetty ambushed him.
Meanwhile, Handibag’s
family met with the CM
on Monday at his home office Krishna to request the
government to carry out
a fair investigation and
punish the culprits at the
earliest.
BENGALURU BOY SETS RECORD BY
SPELLING 64 WORDS IN A MINUTE
ICA EDU SKILLS LAUNCHES NEW CENTRE IN BENGALURU
ICA Edu Skills announced
the launch of its new centre
and zonal support office in
Bengaluru. The launched
centre was inaugurated by
ICA’s Founder-Chairman
Dr. Narendra Kumar Shyamsukha and its CEO Mr.
Pankaj Jain in the presence
of Dr. S. S Halageri, Principal, KLE Society’s S.Nijalingappa College, Chief Guest
English Daily
ANOTHER ARRESTED IN DYSP
KALLAPPA CASE
day seems to have let down
the students.
WITCH CRAFT ITEMS
FOUND AT GERUKATTE
Items used for witchcraft
were found in a forest near
the house of local resident
Shivarama in Gerukatte. Pop
corn, vermilion and pumpkin were found around the
place dug for treasure. A
sacrificed hen was left at the
spot along with a map which
had details of the surroundings. The villagers had seen
strangers in a car and bike
and they had kept quiet assuming that those in the vehicles might have lost their
way. The footprints of several
people running around were
seen and it is suspected that
a large group had come to
perform the witchcraft. Shivarama has complained to
the Belthangady police.
in a well last week with injury marks. The brother of
the deceased in his police
complaint had expressed
his suspicions with regard
to the death.
Sriganesh Birader, a
four-year-old
Bengaluru
boy has made his entry into
the India Book of Records
(IBR) for spelling 64 words
in a minute on Sunday. The
requirement was to spell
only 51 words in one minute. He also achieved a record for correctly remembering the numbers from 0
to 100 in reverse. The four
year old boy, Sriganesh is
a student of New Horizon
Public School, Indiranagar
and studies in LKG. He ex-
pressed his joy of receiving
lot of gifts and medals for
his feat.
The residents of Vijayapura took the help of
students to put forth their
grievances and voice their
concerns infront of the
District-in-charge minister
when their attempts to find
solutions to their problems
failed even after approaching several authorities several times.
to increase the number of
buses as students find it
hard to go to school regularly as there is a shortage
of transport facility. Many
other students brought to
the minister’s notice, the
civic issues they face in
their locality.
He achieved the feat of
remembering the numbers
in 45.7 seconds. His proud
father said that Sriganesh
could easily do math problems that included additions with double digits.
His son’s exceptional memory power was recognised
when he was 2 years old.
The most Sriganesh has
spelt is around 800 words
that include the entire
planets and elements of the
solar system.
STUDENTS PUT FORTH GRIEVANCES
INFRONT OF MINISTER
On Saturday, Manjula, a
class 10 student requested
the minister to get a public
toilet constructed in her
locality. Another student
Rahul, urged the minister
After the students expressed their grievances,
a social worker requested
the Minister to establish
a government hospital at
vacant buildings that belonged to the corporation.
SP S N Sidramappa, MLA
Dr Mukbal Bagawan, Mayor
Sangeeta Pol and Assistant
Commissioner Parashuram
Madar were present on the
occasion.
The minister asked the
authorities to prioritize
construction of toilets in
two localities. He also suggested the Deputy Commissioner to conduct public
grievance meetings at the
Taluk level every month.
DC R. Randeep said that
they have received over
140 grievances at the meeting.
25K SAPLINGS TO BE PLANTED IN THE
FINAL PHASE OF PARISARA UTSAV 2016
cushion to the roots.” He
also appreciated the efforts
made in the water harvesting program and lauded the
efforts of social, education
and religious organisations
in promoting the program.
Parisara Utsav program
was launched on June 10
with the aim ‘Each citizen, one sapling and every
house, one water harvesting pit’. In the final phase
of the Parisara Utsav Program, 25,000 saplings will
be planted. Karkala MLA
Sunil Kumar who launched
the final phase on Sunday
said, “instead of planting
new sapling in old pits, it is
better to nurture one-yearold saplings by sprinkling
water and providing soil
Talking to the gathering,
Deputy Conservator of forests, Subramanya, said the
government will lend total
support to the initiative
and opined that this move
will help in the future to
counter severe water shortage faced in most parts of
the state during summer.
Forest department officials,
village panchayat members
, senior members of RSS,
SKDRDP were present on
the ocassion.
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CITY
Feeling less loved by
parents, girl commits
suicide
Sibling rivalry took an ugly
turn in Karnataka’s Udupi district when a teenage girl committed suicide because she felt
her parents loved her younger
sister more.18-year-old Pragati Shetty, was a native of Bidkalkatte in KundapurTaluk of
Udupi district. In her suicide
note, she said that her parents
did not love her enough and
never paid a visit to her in the
hostel where she stayed. She
also mentioned that her parents only loved her younger
sister.
Forensic labs to come
up in state
The state government is
planning to set up forensic
science laboratories in every
district head quarters. Speaking to media, after inspecting
the facilities at state forensic science lab in the city on
Monday, State Minister for
Home Affairs G Parameshwara said that forensic labs
will be established in all districts within a short period.
The forensic science experts
are directed to submit reports within 15 days period.
Adding further, he said that
287 vacant posts in the lab
will be filled up soon.
THE STRIKE THAT STRUCK
THE CITY HARD
Bus
stands
looked
abandoned and employees avoided work as buses
stopped plying in the city
and across Karnataka on
Monday. A similar deserted look was witnessed in
Mysuru, Tumakuru, Bidar, Kolar as an indefinite
strike called by Unions
of State-owned transport
corporation KSRTC, BMTC,
NWKRTC and NEKRTC began on Monday.
Around 23,000 KSRTC,
BMTC and regional RTC
buses were off roads on the
A few associations were
asked to step in and provide additional help during
the strike. Subsequently,
Namma Metro, which typically sees a ridership of
600-700 on opening at 6
a.m. saw 2,204 travelers
take the metro between
6 a.m. and 7 a.m. on the
Purple line (East-West
passageway). An extra 804
individuals took the Green
Line (North line) in the
morning.
The South-Western Railway (SWR) announced that
holidays for schools and
colleges since 90% of the
commuters depend on private buses.
Transport authorities,
meanwhile, stepped in
with alternatives. Minister Ramalinga Reddy said
they have roped in 30,000
private buses and 80,000
maxi-cabs for commuting
in the city .
BJP’s LASHES OUT AT
GOVERNMENT
State BJP President B.S.
es. Some companies had
arranged transportation
while some companies
asked the drivers to make
multiple trips to bring the
staff to the offices.
BUSES DAMAGED
Protestors
damaged
more than 92 buses in the
state. KSRTC endured the
worst as 49 buses were
damaged, 4 BMTC transports, 12 NWKRTC and 27
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IT FIRMS HIT BY BMTC STRIKE
the government lacks in vision and imagination”
Protestors
attacked
three North Eastern Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (NERKTC) buses
woth stones.
English Daily
First day of the BMTC
strike not only affected the
general public at large but
also the IT firms in the city.
Firms that hired BMTC
buses to ferry employees to
and from IT firms had to go
for alternatives like hiring
taxi services.
The BMTC has charted
out 500 buses to various IT
firms and private companies
in the city. Speaking about
this, EkroopCaur, Managing
Director of BMTC said that
all the 500 buses rented for
the IT firms would be off
road during the strike.
As a precaution, many
companies had already informed their employees that
they should make alternative transportation facilities
to reach their work plac-
One of the private companies’ president said that
they lost the hope of renewing the agreement for
the next year over BMTC
buses. Due to the strike,
many companies had to
give either holiday or work
from home option for their
staff.
Meanwhile, many PSUs
using BMTC services had
asked their employees to either use private vehicles or
carpool to reach the workplace. A senior employee of
a PSU in north Bengaluru
said his company was roping in maxi cabs temporarily
instead of BMTC buses.
CM WITH NATIONAL JUNIOR
SWIMMING CHAMPIONS
KEMPEGOWDA BUS STATION LOOKS ABANDONED
KSRTC BUS DAMAGED BY PROTESTORS
AIR takes initiative to
air finance programme
All India Radio (AIR) Bengaluru will broadcast a series
of financial management programmes titled ‘Your Money
Your Life’, sponsored by the
Karnataka Circle of SBI.
Experts
will
answer
questions from listeners on
savings, budgeting, investment, planning for old age,
donating to charity, banking
etc. The programme will be
relayed by all AIR stations in
Karnataka.
Bengaluru is the new
hub for Gold recycling
Muthoot Exim Pvt Ltd, has
opened Muthoot Gold Recycling center in Bangaluru on
Monday. The company also
has plans of opening 14 or 15
such centers in Bengaluru in
the coming years.
Muthoot Gold Point has
the eighth centres in the
country, after Coimbatore,
Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Vijayawada.
The company has claimed
that the scheme has helped
the government cut down the
import of gold, by garnering
and channelising domestic
unused gold to productive
use.
According to estimates, it
said, gold recycling has not
been tapped to its fullest in
India and it mostly happens
in the unorganised sector.
The company through
its centres will buy old and
used gold items directly from
customers, reprocess, refine
and supply refined bars for
domestic consumption, with
the objective of reducing dependence on gold imports, it
added.
After the initiative was
launched in November 2015,
the company was able to recycle 140 kg of used gold.
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ARIAL VIEW OF RTC BUS STAND AT MAJESTIC
first day of strike on Monday. The strike was called
by unions demanding a
30-35 per cent revision of
salaries as against the 10
per cent that the State is
prepared to offer. In any
case, with the administration adhering to its stand
that anything above 10 per
cent would not be plausible, Union leaders say that
they have no other alternative but to go on strike.
In places like Mysuru,
Hassan, Belagavi, Mangaluru and Bengaluru, suburbanites could be seen
struggling to find alternative transport. In Hassan,
private buses saw a chance
to profit and were extracting up to Rs.100 additional
than the cost charged by
the KSRTC.
NAMMA METRO
RECORDS HIGHEST
NUMBER OF PASSENGERS
all mail and express trains
would stop at Baiyappanahalli, Whitefield, Carmelaram, Channasandra
stations in both bearings
other than trains from Bengaluru and Mysuru stopping at the Nayandahalli
station.
CITY STUDENTS
ENJOY HOLIDAY
The Chief Minister had
on Sunday announced a
holiday for schools and
colleges across the state
on Monday and Tuesday ,
but left the final decision
to the Deputy Commissioners. While schools in Bengaluru Urban district will
remain closed on tuesday,
in Bengaluru Rural, it was
decided that they would
be closed only on Monday . Dakshina Kannada
and Udupi administration
has decided not to declare
YESWANTHPUR BUS STAND WEARS DESERTED LOOK
Yeddyurappa once again
seized the opportunity
to criticize the government saying, “The bane of
this government is that it
makes every issue a matter
of prestige and approaches
the problem with ego. This
further vitiates the atmosphere and complicates the
matter”.
Stating that the ‘interest of the common man’ is
of paramount importance,
the BJP President said that
the strike has led untold
hardship to daily wage
workers, students who
solely depended on RTC
buses.
Charging the state government of being flippant
on this issue, Yeddyurappa
added, “The workers had
given notice of their proposed strike about 20 days
ago. The government ought
to have plunged into action
and taken steps to prevent
the strike. This shows that
NEKRTC buses were damaged incurring a loss of
about Rs 8,97,300.
Keeping in view the
damage the protestors
could cause to public property, 3000 police men were
deployed to guarantee law
and order in the state.
A Kalaburgi-Bhalki –Udgir bus was stoned in Bhalki bus stand in the early
morning hours on Monday. While another Bhalki
and Bidar bus was stoned.
NEKRTC authorities suspect protesters damaged
them.
According to NEKRTC
sources, a bus at Aurad
stop was stoned close to
Ballari. The Aurad-Bengaluru bus was halted by
protestor wee hours in the
morning who threw stones
at it.
Bidar bus stand was
empty in the morning excepting a couple of travelers.
METRO FREQUENCY TO BE INCREASED
Due to the BMTC’s strike,
the Bangalore Metro Rail
Corporation Ltd. has decided to increase the number
of trips between the destinations for the convenience of
the commuters in the Garden
City.
is able to carry about 950
commuters, for every six
minutes to accommodate
the increasing passenger
strength on a continuous basis. If there is a need, there
would also be extension of
services upto 11 pm on the
purple line while green line
is already operation till 11
pm”, BMRCL Managing Director Pradeep Singh Kharola
said.
Grief continues to grip
Eknath Shetty’s family, the
Indian Air Force personnel
who disappeared in the
Russian-made IAF air ship
A 32 over Bay of Bengal.
Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police Bhushan Borase met Shetty’s
family on Sunday and guaranteed all possible support
from the department. The
SP spoke to Jayanthi (Shetty’s wife) and tolf her that
they were in constant touch
with the Coastal Guard DIG
Suresh and Chennai Control Room and are collecting information.
family on behalf of the Indian Army and guaranteed all
possible help.
Kannur, Goa and Kanpur
before getting posted at
Port Blair.
“We will run a train, which
“BMRCL will not be able
to provide alternative arrangement for BMTC feeder
services. However, we have
asked Wicked Ride which
runs Metro bike services
at five stations, to provide
more number of vehicles
at the station for the next
two days”, U A Vasanth Rao,
BMRCL spokesperson said.
There would be about 80 extra bikes at Baiyappanahalli
Metro station.
SUPPORT POURS IN FOR MISSING IAF OFFICER’S FAMILY
Apart from the SP Borase, Airforce Wing Commander from Mysuru R G
Hegde visited the grieving
Earlier on Saturday, Captain Ganesh Karnik had met
missing officer’s wife and
gave condolences to her.
Eknath Shetty (48)
joined armed force as
a Subedar in 1985 and
moved to Madras regiment
later. He had served in Jammu and Kashmir, Arunachal
Pradesh and Punjab with a
brief stretch in Sri Lanka. In
spite of the fact that his service in armed force finished
in 2009, he got a call from
the aviation based armed
forces to join its safeguard
security wing. In this unit,
he had served at places like
The Indian Air Force
plane conveying 29 individuals disappeared on Friday on a flight to Port Blair
in the Bay of Bengal. The
Russian-made A 32 was en
route to Port Blair, the capital of Andaman and Nicobar
islands, from Chennai when
it vanished from the radar.
There were 21 military personnel on board including
six group individuals. The
other individuals on board
were regular people, some
relatives of fighters sent on
the islands.
In 1968, the aircraft carrying 98 defence personnel
was just about to land at its
destination when orders
were given out to the pilot
from ground control to turn
back due to bad weather
conditions. On its way back
to Chandigarh, the flight
suddenly lost all contact
with the ground control
while flying over Rohtang
pass.
An extensive search was
carried out hours after the
ground control lost touch
with the aircraft personnel. The search went on for
months,but did not lead to
any success. The fact that
no remains had been found
of such a big plane made
the prospect of a crash
seem unlikely.
The Karnataka State team that won the 25th National Junior Swimming Championship was congratulated and felicitated by the Chief Minister at Krishna on Monday. Also
present at the ceremony with the winning team were Karnataka Swimming Association
members.
PSI ROOPA BOOKED UNDER SECTION 309
A senior cop said on Sunday that Roopa is yet to be
questioned as she is taking
rest at her quarters in Vijayanagar.
A day after she was
discharge from hospital,
Vijayanagar police sub-inspector Roopa Tambad has
been booked for attempting suicide.
In spite of the fact that
her relatives said that Roopa has been advised by
doctors to take rest for one
week before coming back
to work, the office could be
transferred and also will be
held under suspension as
she has been booked under
a criminal case, Section 309
of the Indian Penal Code.
T h i r t y- t w o - ye a r - o l d
Roopa had overdosed on
tablets after a heated contention with the station Inspector over a row.
Roopa, had told Assistant Commissioner of Police that provocation and
mortification by inspector
Sanjeev Gowda had provoked her to attempt suicide.
KARNATAKA MILK REGULATORY
COMMISSION TO BE FORMED
body will keep a check in
order to protect the interest of the milk consumers.
The state government
is all set to form the Karnataka Milk Regulatory
Commission which will be
on the lines of Karnataka
Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC).
Milk consumers and
dairy farmers will be regulated to ensure fair deal
is made to customers and
producers. The governing
A Manju, Animal husbandry Minister said ,
“There is no mechanism
to seek the views of consumers. In contrast, KERC
conducts public hearing
to seek the opinion of the
electricity consumers before taking any decision on
the request for power tariff
hike by ESCOMS. The milk
regulatory commission will
ensure level playing field
for consumers and producers”.
This commission has
been in-force in eight states
- Kerala, Madhya Pradesh,
Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Bihar,
Rajasthan, Punjab, Maharashtra. Officials of the
Animal Husbandry department have been instructed
to study the functioning of
the body in these states and
submit a report.
The state which has a
daily production of around
70 lakh liters of milk with
around 23 lakh dairy
ranchers, has chosen to act
in the light of regular hikes
in milk cost by Karnataka
Milk Federation (KMF),
which, as a rule, draws protests from buyers. KMF has
milk co-agents in around
22,000 towns in the state
associated to it.
WATER SUPPLY TO BE AFFECTED FOR TWO DAYS
close Ideal Homes, Rajarajeshwarinagar on Tuesday.
Pumping of water from
Cauvery IV Stage Phase I
will be ceased for 12 hours
from 8 a.m. on Tuesday.
Water supply will be
affected in a few areas on
Tuesday and Wednesday
as BWSSB is taking up
maintenance work at Gubbalala and Hegganahalli
ground-level
repository
As indicated by a BWSSB
discharge, water supply will
be affected in Nagarabhavi, Hosahalli, Vijayanagar,
RPC Layout, Chandra Layout,
Govindarajanagar,
Moodalapalya, Rajarajeshwarinagar, Ideal Homes,
Kengeri and encompassing
zones of the west division;
J.P. Nagar, fourth, fifth, sixth,
seventh and ninth stages,
Jaraganahalli,
Kottanur
Dinne, Konanakunte, BEL
Layout, Bannerghatta I and
II arranges and encompassing territories, HSR Layout
first to fourth and sixth and
seventh areas, Parangipalya, Agara, Rajeev Gandhi
Nagar, Mangammanapalya,
Madinanagar, Somasundarapalya, Hosapalya, Bandepalya, Koramangala first
to fourth squares, Chikkasandra, Kuduremukha
Colony, KSRP Colony, Venkatapura, Bellanduru, and
Ibluru of southeast division, and Okalipura first
and second stages.
Water supply will be
influenced in part in Subramanyanagar,
Mallasandara, Dasarahalli, and
Bagalgunte.
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NATION
Woman kills alcoholic
husband
A man died after his wife
allegedly threw boiling water on him and assaulted him
with a cricket bat while he was
asleep in Sadar Kotwali area.
Bhure Singh (40), who was
an alcoholic, had a fight with
his wife Rekha and went off to
sleep outside the house. While
he was asleep, she threw boiling water on him and attacked
him with cricket bat, SSP Sunil
Saxena said on Monday. Hearing his cries, the neighbours
and Singh’s brother rushed to
his help. Singh was taken to
hospital where he succumbed
to his injuries later in the evening, the SSP said. The woman
has been taken into custody.
The body which bore burn
marks on the face and neck
has been sent for post mortem, the SSP added.
RS 7 LAKH CR SET ASIDE TO BUILD
50,000 KMS OF NH
About Rs seven lakh
crore would be spent to
develop around 50,000 kilometres of national highways over the next five
years, Government said.
During Question Hour in
Rajya Sabha, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said the
Government has allocated
a total Gross Budgetary
support of Rs 46,834 crores
including cess and toll remittance for 2016-17 for
the Road, Transport and
Highways Ministry.
In addition, internal and
extra budgetary resources of Rs 59.279 crores
have also been allowed to
80 sheep die after
drinking poisonous
water
Nearly 80 sheep have died
allegedly after drinking poisonous water in Dhaneli village in the past two days, officials said. Joint Director of the
Animal Husbandry Department Malkhan Singh Meena
said, “Nearly 8O sheep have
died and 200 are sick after
drinking contaminated water
from a tank. As per post-mortem reports, the cause of the
deaths is intake of poisonous
water.” A medical team has
been formed and sent to the
village, he said.
5 criminals among 8
killed as jeep collides
with another
Eight persons, including
five alleged criminals, were
killed and six others injured
when two jeeps collided in
Rajasthan’s Churu district,
police said. The incident
occurred on Sunday when
the alleged criminals were
fleeing after opening fire at
a police party in Bhaleri police station area. Their jeep
collided head-on with another resulting in the death of
eight persons, Bhaleri Circle
Officer Rajendra Prasad said.
While five of the deceased
reportedly have criminal
record, three others were
passengers of the second
jeep, he said. “The criminals,
hailing from Haryana, were
called by one Manroop Singh
of Kohina village to a resolve
a land-related dispute with
his (Manroop’s) cousin Jai
Singh,” Prasad said.
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be raised for highways in
2016-17.
For the Ministry of Shipping, the Government has
allocated a total gross budgetary support of Rs 1,531
crore. In addition, an internal and extra budgetary
resource of Rs 3,183 crores
has also been allowed.
“There is a proposal to
spend around Rs 7 lakh
crores to develop National
Highways of around 50,000
kilometres in the next 5
years. For Sagarmala port
development, the project
cost is Rs 73,375 crore and
in respect of Sagarmala
port modernisation it is Rs
9,891 crore,” he said.
TMC WALK OUT OF RS OVER GROWING ATTACKS ON DALITS
regarding the Constitution
and rising protests across
the country over attacks of
dalits and minorities.
Deputy Chairman P J
Kurien said the notice has
been disallowed.
Cong wants Portuguese
as 2nd lang. in Goa
schools
Adding new dimension to
the vexed issue of Medium
of Instruction in Goa, Leader
of Opposition in Legislative
Assembly Pratapsingh Rane
demanded that Portuguese
be made second language in
schools. “We should have no
problem with any language.
I learnt Portuguese because
our own documents are in
Portuguese,” the Congress
leader said during the discussion on the ‘Demands for
Grants’ on first day of Monsoon Session of Assembly.
“It (Portuguese) should be
second language for the students to learn. If you want
to know the history of what
happened in past, you should
know this language also,” the
former chief minister said.
Sukhendu Sekhar Roy
(TMC) said rights of dalits
and minorities are being
curtailed in direct disregard to the Constitution.
Trinamool Congress
staged a walk out of Rajya
Sabha demanding a statement from Prime Minister
Narendra Modi over growing attacks on dalits.
Raising the issue, Derek
O’Brien (TMC) said he has
given a notice under rule
267 seeking adjournment
of business to take up a discussion on the trend of dis-
Observing that the government set up NIA to curb
anti- national activities, he
said these attacks were also
anti-national.
Vijay Mallya has not
disclosed his full assets
including USD 45 million
received by him from a
British firm, Attorney
General Mukul Rohatgi on
Monday told the Supreme
Court which issued notice
to the liquor baron.
the court and he has not
disclosed all the details
about his assets. He has
also not disclosed the
amount of USD 45 million
received by him from Diageo (British liquor major),” Rohatgi told a bench
of Justices Kurian Joseph
and R F Nariman.
of contempt proceedings against
him.
“The Prime Minister has
to come and make a statement on growing atrocities
on SCs and STs,” he said.
As Kurien said though
the subject was important,
the notice under rule 267
has been disallowed, TMC
members started shouting
slogans.
“Pradhan Mantri bayan
do, bayan do (Prime Minister should make statement),” they shouted.
As Kurien firmly held on
to his position that their
notice cannot be taken up,
TMC members walked out
of the Rajya Sabha.
SC NOTICE TO MALLYA ON PLEA OF CONSORTIUM OF BANKS
The Attorney General
said that Mallya has not
disclosed full details of
his assets and he is accountable to the public
money.
“This gentleman (Mallya) has not complied
fully with the orders of
The apex court, after
noting the submissions
by Attorney General, issued notice to Mallya and
asked him to respond
within four weeks on the
plea of consortium of
banks led by State Bank
of India seeking initiation
On July 14, Rohatgi claimed that
Mallya had provided wrong details of his assets
in a sealed cover
to the apex court.
He further said a lot
of information had also
been concealed, including a cash transaction to
the tune of Rs 2500 crore,
which amounted to contempt of court.
Earlier, the court had
Shiv Sena chief Uddhav
Thackeray kept up his attack on the Centre alleging
it has failed to live up to
the promise of tackling the
menace of “terror” with an
iron-hand but said he was
optimistic that the Narendra Modi government will
“rectify everything” as it
was the “last hope” of the
country.
Suggesting that the government is “going soft on
terror”, Uddhav said though
he was not an expert on
the issue, he could feel the
pulse of the people and the
nation.
“Whatever is unfolding
nowadays in terms of terror
attacks or extremism (in
To a query on developments in Kashmir and “Pakistan’s increasing intervention in India’s internal
affairs,” Uddhav said, “We
all know the reason behind
this. At this stage, I remember the words of our sages...
Practice what you preach.
People who do so are revered. Unfortunately, India
has not got such a ruler till
now, who can walk the talk
(on wiping out terror).”
Asked why he keeps attacking the government
when his party itself shares
power in Maharashtra and
the Centre, the 56-yearold leader said, “Our stand
about this government is
very honest. We wish this
government runs smoothly so that it can fulfill the
promises it made to the
people of the country.
However, whenever we
feel that the government is
deviating from its course,
we have all the right to ring
the bell.”
“Modi government is the
last hope of the country,
therefore, irrespective of
whether we are in touch
or not, this government
should prove itself by doing
good work.”
Uddhav dismissed the
suggestion that there were
differences between the
Shiv Sena and BJP over
the allocation of portfolios
both in the state and at the
Centre.
“Who says we have not
The mini bus of Tenderheart School in Ghosiya
township, carrying students of six villages in the
age group of six to 14 years,
was hit by Varanasi-Allahabad passenger train at
gate number 26 between
Katka and Madhosingh
Railway stations, police
said.
The
mini-bus
was
thrown up in the air due to
the impact of the crash and
landed in an agriculture
field, police said.
A ‘Gate Mitra’ was available at the time of accident
but sadly the van driver
ignored his warning which
resulted in this tragic incident, Railway Minister
Suresh Prabhu said, while
expressing grief over the
loss of lives.
According to the ‘Gate
Mitra’, he tried to show a
red flag to the driver to
warn him of the approaching train.
Police said that the driver, who had earphones on,
did not pay heed to the
warning.
The children, who survived the mishap, also said
that they tried to draw the
driver’s attention but he
was in a hurry to clear the
crossing, police said.
Seven children and the
driver who were injured
have been admitted to different hospitals. Those
suffering serious injuries
have been referred to BHU
hospital in Varanasi, police
said adding that senior administration and police officials were on the spot.
PRIVILEGE MOTION MOVED AGAINST
JAIRAM, RENUKA
first allowed introduction
of a private member bills
and “so did not allow the
minister to speak.”
The Minister, he said,
had a valid point to make
and if a discussion comes
up again, she will be free to
express herself.
Shiromani Akali Dal
(SAD) moved a privilege
motion in Rajya Sabha
against Congress leaders
Jairam Ramesh and Renuka Chowdhury for allegedly misbehaving with SAD
member and union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal.
Raising the issue of an
alleged spat between the
Congress leaders and the
Food Processing Minister
after Rajya Sabha was adjourned on Friday afternoon due to ruckus over
AAP MP Bhagwant Mann’s
controversial filming of
Parliament House, Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa (SAD)
demanded that the two
should apologise for their
behaviour or face privilege
motion.
A minister, he said, has
the right to speak in any
House and the permission
for the same was strictly between the Chair and
minister.
Badal had sought permission of the Chair to
speak on Mann’s act, he
said and asked “What right
do they have to obstruct.”
Dhindsa also alleged that
the two had misbehaved
with Badal outside the
House.
As the Congress members including the two in
question strongly contested Dhindsa’s remarks, Deputy Chairman P K Kurien
said, a minister or a member can speak only with the
permission of the Chair.
“That day, the Minister
stood up requesting she be
allowed to speak,” he said,
adding the House was in
pandemonium at that time.
Kurien, who was in the
Chair on Friday, said he
Kurien said Chairman
Hamid Ansari was seized
of the matter and if he desired, the concerned parties will be called.
The alleged incident
happened soon after Rajya Sabha was adjourned
on Friday afternoon after ruckus was created by
the treasury benches on
Mann’s actions.
Anand Sharma (Cong)
said the minister has every right to speak in either
House of Parliament on a
bill or a discussion.
But the issue was whether a minister, who is not a
member of this House, can
raise an issue during zero
hour, he asked.
“Can a minister who is
not a member of this house
have the same privileges
as other members of the
House” and that too “about
a person who is a member
of the other House,” he
asked.
class).
sought details of assets
from Mallya in a sealed
cover.
Recently, the consortium of banks had alleged
that Mallya was not cooperating in the investigation of cases against him
and was averse to disclosing his foreign assets.
got proper portfolios. It is
media which is unnecessarily beating this drum,”
he said.
He said there is no bad
blood between him and
Chief Minister Devendra
Fadnavis, “but BJP should
do something to establish a
better co-ordination among
bosses of BJP (in Delhi), the
CM and us.”
The Sena leader also
defended the Modi government’s move to go all out to
advertise the work it has
done in last two years.
“It is okay up to a certain
extent to advertise its (government’s) achievements
so that people of the country know where they are
headed to,” he said.
Yadav had described the
police action against him as
a “conspiracy.”
Police had claimed that
Vijay had met the MLA before the incident and calls
were also exchanged between them.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)
MLA Naresh Yadav was
remanded in police custody for two days by a local
court in connection with
an incident of alleged sacrilege last month, a day after
the Delhi legislator was arrested in the case by Punjab
police.
Malerkotla Additional
Civil Judge Preeti Sukheja sent Yadav to two days’
police custody after he was
produced before her by police.
Punjab Police had last
night arrested Yadav who
was booked in connection with the alleged sacrilege incident on June 24
in Malerkotla after one of
the accused arrested in
connection with the case
claimed he had acted at the
behest of the AAP MLA.
He has been charged
with IPC sections 109 (punishment for abetment if the
act abetted is committed in
consequence and where no
express provision is made
for its punishment), 153
A (promoting enmity between different groups on
grounds of religion, race,
place of birth etc and doing
acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony) and 295
(injury or defiling place of
worship with an intent to
insult the religion of any
Superintendent of Police Arvind Bhushan Pandey said that an FIR will be
lodged against the school
management.
Seven of the deceased
have been identified as
Naitik (6), Abhishek (10),
Shubham (6), Pradumn
Tewari (14), Swati Misra
(10), Sakshi (7) and Rinku
(8), police said.
Chief Minister Akhilesh
Yadav has announced an
ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh to the
families of the deceased
and free treatment for the
injured, District Magistrate
Prakash Vindu said.
The Mehrauli MLA and
his party have denied the
charges and alleged it was
a “political conspiracy” to
malign AAP’s image ahead
of Assembly polls in Punjab.
Meanwhile, AAP’s Punjab in charge Sanjay Singh
condemned the arrest of
MLA.
“Whatever is being done
with the AAP MLA is under
a conspiracy to malign the
party and it is not correct,”
he said outside the court.
He announced that the
party will stage protest
across Punjab for three
hours in front of the offices
of the Deputy Commissioners to protest the arrest of
its MLA.
RICE MILL OWNER KILLED
BY 7 POLICEMEN IN RAMPUR
The incident sparked
protests in the area as
scores of residents of Kemri town and adjoining areas gathered and started
raising slogans against the
accused.
“But this (advertisement) can continue only
for some time. Ultimately,
if you do not perform today,
then tomorrow you can be
in trouble,” Uddhav said.
8 CHILDREN KILLED AS TRAIN HITS VAN, DRIVER
IGNORED WARNING
In a tragic incident, eight
children were killed and
14 others injured when a
school mini-bus was hit
by a train at an unmanned
railway crossing on Monday morning due to alleged
negligence of the bus driver
who ignored warning.
4
AAP MLA REMANDED IN TWO DAYS
POLICE CUSTODY IN SACRILEGE CASE
NDA GOVT FAILED TO TACKLE TERROR,
BUT MODI STILL ‘LAST HOPE’: SHIV SENA
the country), I think
it could have been
countered very well
by this government
especially when it
has completed two
years in power. But
I am optimistic that
Modi will rectify everything,” Uddhav said in
the second part of an interview to party mouthpiece
‘Saamana’.
English Daily
A rice mill owner was
battered to death allegedly
by seven police personnel
including two sub-inspectors who had raided the
premises over suspicion of
gambling, prompting authorities to order a magisterial probe.
Jalal Ahmad, 40, was
killed by the seven police
personnel who punched
and assaulted him with rifle buts, according to a police complaint filed at the
Kemri police station.
Ahmad’s family alleged
that the seven policemen
entered the mill and started abusing him late on Saturday. They demanded Rs
one lakh, saying they could
implicate him in a false
case.
When Ahmad refused,
the policemen mercilessly thrashed him, causing
severe injuries to him, his
family told the media.
He was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors
declared him brought dead.
The accused policemen
have been taken off active
duty and sent to the police
lines by Rampur Superintendent of Police (SP) Sanjeev Tyagi. Acting collector
Madan Singh Garbial has
ordered a magisterial inquiry into the incident, police sources said on Monday.
As tensions prevailed,
authorities deployed a
large contingent of police
personnel to bring the situation under control.
The SP and District Magistrate intervened and mollified the agitating mob and
assured them of appropriate actions.
Meanwhile, an accused
sub-inspector has filed a
complaint alleging that illegal activities like gambling
were being organised in the
mill by its owner and that
Rs 6,700 has also been recovered from the premises.
The accused policemen
claimed in the complaint
that they did not beat mill
owner Ahmad but he died
in a stampede that took
place after police raided
the premises following a
tip-off about gambling activities.
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Source of arms used
in Bangla cafe attack
traced
Dhaka: Bangladeshi police
on Monday said they have
succeeded in tracing the
source of the not-so-modern
weaponry used by terrorists
to attack an upscale cafe here
that killed 22 people, including an Indian girl.
SYRIAN MIGRANT SETS OFF EXPLOSION AT
GERMAN BAR WOUNDING DOZENS
the area and emergency
services were at the scene.
Bomb experts were also
sent to determine the cause
of the blast.
Ansbach Deputy Police
Chief, Roman Fertinger
said, there were “indications” that pieces of metal
had been added to the explosive device.
The police said they were
now trying to arrest the suppliers of the weapons and
have sought “help of the general people”.
“We have been able to
trace the source of the weapons. We are trying to arrest
those who supplied the
weapons,” Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul
Haque told reporters.
“The arms used in the attacks were not very modern.
We have found the source
from where the attackers
got them [arms]. The mastermind of the attacks have
been identified and they are
under surveillance.”
He said the police were
trying to combat militancy
by awareness and prevention
and needed “help of the general people” in bringing the
masterminds of the 12-hourlong carnage to book.
Two dead in Florida
nightclub shooting
Houston/Fort
Myers:
At least two persons were
killed and 17 others injured
on Monday in a shooting at a
night club hosting a teen party in Florida, over a month
after a gunman killed 49 people in the state in the worst
mass shooting incident in US
history.
The shooting occurred
around 12.30 am in the parking lot of Club Blu Bar and
Grill in Fort Myers, Florida.
Three suspect has been detained, the police said.
“The numbers, they’re
sort of fluctuating. We have
multiple hospitals calling in.
We’re trying to confirm. So,
15 to 17. We do have two
confirmed dead,” Captain Jim
Mulligan of the Fort Myers
Police Department said.
“Officers arrived on scene.
Found multiple people suffering from various levels
of gunshot wounds. EMS
was called, multiple units
responded. Helped triage
transport multiple people
from the scene,” he said.
China, North Korea envoys hold talks in Laos
Vientiane: Top envoys
from China and North Korea
held talks on Monday on the
sidelines of a regional summit in Laos as tensions run
high on the Korean peninsula over Pyongyang’s nuclear
programme.
North Korea’s newly minted Foreign Minister Ri YongHo, a former nuclear negotiator for the hermit state,
and his Chinese counterpart
Wang Yi met in the capital
Vientiane.
It is the first time Ri has
attended a major diplomatic
gathering since his appointment in May. A phalanx of security guards from both Laos
and North Korea guarded the
room where the meeting was
taking place.
Relations between Beijing
and Pyongyang have frayed
this year after North Korea’s
fourth nuclear test and a series of missile launches put
the region on edge.
In response to the new
tests the most recent of which
was last Tuesday Washington
and Seoul announced plans
to deploy a US missile defence system in South Korea,
sparking fury in Pyongyang
and concern in Beijing.
In the face of continued
North Korean provocation,
the United States spearheaded the drafting of a new UN
resolution adopted unanimously in March by Security
Council members, including
China North Korea’s main
diplomatic protector and
economic benefactor.
Berlin: A Syrian migrant
set off an explosion at a bar
in southern Germany killing himself and wounding
a dozen others, authorities
said. This is the third attack
to hit Bavaria in a week.
The 27-year-old, who
had a stint at a psychiatric facility, had intended to
target a music festival in
the city of Ansbach but was
turned away because he
did not have a ticket.
“Unfortunately, this is a
terrible attack which will
surely increase people’s
anxiety,” Regional Interior
Minister Joachim Herrmann said, adding that in-
vestigators “have not ruled
out” he had an Islamist motive.
Hermann said, he was
worried “the right to asylum would be undermined”
by the events of the past
week, which has seen attacks on a train and shopping mall in the southern
German state.
The explosion happened
just outside a bar in Ansbach city centre, not far
from where more than
2,000 people had gathered
for the concert, at around
10:00 pm on Sunday.
Police have blocked off
The perpetrator was
killed in the explosion, police said in a statement,
and a spokeswoman said
12 people were wounded,
three of them seriously.
Herrmann said the attacker, who came to Germany two years ago but had
his asylum claim rejected
after a year, had tried to kill
himself twice in the past
and had spent time in a
psychiatric clinic.
Europe has been on edge
for months after a string of
deadly attacks claimed by
the Islamic State jihadist
group, including bombings
in Brussels and carnage at
Bastille Day celebrations in
the southern French city of
Nice.
In Bavaria, which has
been a gateway for thousands of Syrian refugees,
nine died in a shooting
rampage in Munich on
Friday and several people
were wounded in an axe attack on a train near Wuerzburg.
Police released more details of Munich attacker David Ali Sonboly on Sunday,
saying the 18-year-old was
depressed and had spent
two months in a psychiatric
unit last year.
The teen was obsessed
with mass killings and
spent a year preparing for
the gun attack that killed
nine people, most of them
foreigners.
At least 35 people were
also wounded during Sonboly’s shooting spree,
which began at a McDonald’s branch and ended
with him turning his 9mm
Glock pistol on himself.
Investigators have ruled
out any link with the jihadists, though he appears to
have planned the assault
with chilling precision.
AFGHAN CIVILIAN CASUALTIES SOAR
TO RECORD HIGH: UN
Kabul: Civilian casualties in Afghanistan soared
to a record high in the first
half of 2016, the UN said on
Monday, with children in
particular paying a heavy
price as insurgents step
up fighting and insecurity
grows.
The UN report, which
comes two days after the
deadliest attack in Kabul
since 2001, cited ground
combat between militants
and NATO-backed Afghan
forces as the leading cause
of casualties.
Between January and
June, 1,601 civilians were
killed and 3,565 were
wounded a four percent
increase in casualties compared to the same period
last year, the United Nations Assistance Mission in
Afghanistan (UNAMA) said.
The casualties have
reached their highest level
since the UN began issuing
its authoritative reports in
2009.
The casualties include
1,509 children roughly
one-third of the total a figure the UN described as
“alarming and shameful”.
The statistics are a grim
indicator of growing insecurity in Afghanistan as
the Taliban step up their
nationwide
insurgency
and the Islamic State group
seeks to expand their foothold in the east of the country.
“Every single casualty
documented in this report
people killed while praying,
working, studying, fetching
water, recovering in hospitals every civilian casualty
represents a failure of commitment and should be a
call to action for parties to
the conflict to take meaningful steps to reduce civilians’ suffering,” UNAMA
chief Tadamichi Yamamoto
said.
“Platitudes not backed
by meaningful action ring
hollow over time. History
and the collective memory
of the Afghan people will
judge leaders of all parties
to this conflict by their actual conduct.”
The UN report said insurgent groups including
the Taliban were responsible for the majority 60 percent of civilian casualties.
But it also reported a
47 percent increase in
the number of casualties
caused by pro-government
forces, compared to the
same period last year.
“The testimony of vic-
tims and their families
brings into agonising focus
the tragedy of this protracted conflict since 2009,” said
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the
UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights.
“The family that lost a
breadwinner, forcing the
children to leave school
and struggle to make ends
meet; the driver who lost
his limbs, depriving him
of his livelihood; the man
who went to the bazaar to
shop for his children only
to return home to find them
dead.
London: Britain’s Prince
Harry has expressed regret
that he did not speak about
his mother Princess Diana’s
death until years later.
The 31-year-old, fifth
in line to Britain’s throne,
spoke out about the loss of
his mother in a car crash in
Paris in 1997 at an event he
hosted at Kensington Palace in London last week for
the mental health charity,
Heads Together.
Ferdinand, a father of
three who lost his wife to
cancer last year, said of the
prince: “He’s gone through
different stages in his life
that my kids are going to
be going towards.So to get
some of his experiences is
very rewarding for me and
very educational in many
ways.”
Harry was just 12-yearold when Diana - Princess of
Wales, died suddenly in the
tragic accident, leading to
an outpour of public grief.
On 31 August 1997, Diana
was killed in a car crash in
Paris, which also caused the
deaths of her companion
Dodi Fayed and the driver.
Vientiane: Southeast
Asian nations have delivered a watered-down rebuke to China for its territorial expansion in the
South China Sea, in a diplomatic victory for China.
After deadlocked negotiations among the 10
members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the grouping issued
a joint statement on Monday expressing concern
over China’s activities, but
repeating much of what it
has said before.
It also failed to mention
a recent ruling by an international arbitration panel
that said China’s claims
over virtually the entire
South China Sea was illegal. China’s claims overlap
with those of the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam
and Brunei.
Attempts to rebuke
China within ASEAN were
stymied by its ally Cambo-
dia, and to some extent
Laos.
In its statement, the
AESAN ministers said
that they “remain seriously concerned over
recent and ongoing developments.”
They also said, “We
reaffirmed the importance of maintaining
and promoting peace,
security, stability, safety
and freedom of navigation
in and over-flight above
the South China Sea.”
The statement is a victory for China, which has
used every diplomatic
muscle in its power to
prevent criticism of its actions.
It came after a highly anticipated meeting between
Southeast Asian foreign
ministers and their Chinese counterpart ended
amid expectations that the
two sides discussed China’s territorial expansion
The royal told the BBC
the charity event was an
opportunity to highlight
that anyone can suffer from
mental health issues.
“It is OK to suffer, but as
long as you talk about it. It is
not a weakness. Weakness
is having a problem and not
recognising it and not solving that problem,” he said.
Prince Harry had formed
Heads Together in May this
year with his brother William, Duke of Cambridge,
and sister-in-law Kate,
Duchess of Cambridge, to
“A lot of people think if
you’ve got a job, if you’ve got
financial security, if you’ve
got a family, you’ve got a
house, all that sort of stuff,
everyone seems to think
that is all you need and you
are absolutely fine to deal
with stuff,” the prince said.
in the South China Sea.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi did not speak
to reporters after the
meeting on Monday with
ministers and officials
from the 10 countries that
make up the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations.
ASEAN is divided on
whether to rebuke China
for its territorial ambitions, which infringes on
areas claimed by four AESAN member nations. Most
of them want to, but Cambodia, a key Beijing ally,
and Laos do not want to be
critical of China.
MANY CHINESE ONLINE NEWSPAPERS
SHUT DOWN, INTERNET PROTOCOL
Beijing: China has shut
down several online news
operations after authorities blasted them for independently reporting and
publishing articles about
potentially sensitive subjects, on Monday.
Major
Chinese-language portals including
Sina, Sohu, Netease and
iFeng have closed some
of their freewheeling political and social news
sites and social network
accounts after Beijing’s
internet control department “harshly criticised”
their “huge amount of activities violating the law
and regulations”, the Beijing News reported.
The programmes “uploaded and published a
large number of news reports gathered and edited
by themselves”, causing
“particularly vile impact”,
it said, citing an unnamed
official with the department.
The sites are also facing
fines, the official added,
without giving details.
Journalists at privately
operated Chinese news
portals are only accredited to cover sports or
entertainment
events,
and are required to use
reports
released
by
state-controlled
media
such as the official Xinhua news agency for more
sensitive news related to
politics and society.
But some sites, largely driven by commercial
interests, have formed
their own news gathering
or even investigative reporting teams to compete
in a high-tech era where
self-reporting is flourishing and hot social issues
are changing day by day.
China’s Communist Party brooks no opposition to
its rule and the country’s
newspapers,
websites,
and broadcast media are
strictly controlled by the
government, while an
army of censors patrol social media to delete comments deemed taboo.
Many Western news
websites are blocked
within the country. Controls have tightened considerably since President
Xi Jinping took office in
2013.
Last February, the leader made a pointed visit to
state broadcaster CCTV,
where he said that media
should focus on “positive
reporting”, and “speak the
Party’s will and protect
the Party’s authority and
unity”.
In the second quarter
of 2016 alone, the government shut down or revoked the licence of 1,475
websites and deleted
more than 12,000 internet accounts in a crackdown on “illegal online
information”, the Cyberspace Administration said
in a statement on Friday.
TRUMP LEADS CLINTON IN
NEW NATIONAL POLL
nominate Clinton as party’s presidential nominee.
In RealClearPolitics.Com,
which keeps track of all
major polls, in an average
of recent major national
polls, Clinton leads Trump
by 1.9 per cent.
bring together leading mental health charities.
The event was attended by a number of British
sports stars, including athletes Dame Kelly Holmes
and Iwan Thomas, and cyclist Victoria Pendleton, to
show that “unflappable”
sporting personalities can
suffer from mental health
problems like everyone
else, including members of
the royal family.
5
SE ASIA NATIONS GIVE WATERED-DOWN
CHINA REBUKE
PRINCE HARRY REGRETS NOT SPEAKING
ABOUT PRINCESS DIANA’S DEATH
“I really regret not ever
talking about it. For the
first 28 years of my life,
I never talked about it,”
he told former England
captain Rio Ferdinand in
a programme aired in the
UK on Monday.
English Daily
Clinton’s lead over
Trump has been reducing
every passing week.
Washington: Republican presidential candidate
Donald Trump has taken
a lead albeit a small one
and within margin of error over his Democratic
rival Hillary Clinton in a
new national poll, the first
after last week’s Republican National Convention
in Cleveland.
Trump (48 per cent)
leads Clinton (45 per cent)
by three per cent in a twoway match up, CNN/ORC
said.
In a four-way contest
with two other presidential candidates from minor
parties, Trump is leading
Clinton by five percentage
points. Post conventions,
presidential candidates do
get a major jump in their
popularity ratings.
Democratic
National Convention begins in
Philadelphia on Tuesday,
which would formally
CNN/ORC said after
the Cleveland Convention,
Trump has received major
jump in support from independents.
Cleveland also helped
Trump make strides in his
personal image, the poll
said.
A majority (52 per cent)
now say Trump is running
for president for the good
of the country rather than
personal gain, just 44 per
cent say the same about
Clinton.
TURNBULL SEEKS TIGHTENING SECURITY LAWS IN AUSTRALIA
Melbourne: Australian
Prime Minister Malcolm
Turnbull, on Monday termed
as “real” the threat of terrorism in Australia while proposing to tighten security
laws which will also pave the
way to indefinitely extend
detention of “high-risk” terrorists.
Turnbull said “the recent
attacks in Nice and Orlando
show an increase in the frequency and severity of ter-
rorism in the West or against
Western interests. And the
weekend terrorist attack on
civilians in Kabul was the
deadliest in 15 years”.
Turnbull wrote to state
premiers and chief ministers, asking them to agree on
the design of nationally consistent laws for the indefinite
detention of terrorists who
pose a threat to the public at
the end of their sentence.
“This system will enable a
continuing period of imprisonment for high-risk terrorist offenders,” Turnbull said.
“It will be supervised by
the courts similarly to the
arrangements that apply in a
number of our jurisdictions
for sex offenders and extremely violent individuals,”
he said.
“Our law enforcement
and security agencies are
among the best in the world
but we have to ensure they
have the powers they need,”
he said, adding that new
counter-terrorism legislation amendment would be
introduced in the Parliament.
The bill, originally introduced in 2015, would also
extend juvenile control orders from 16-year-olds to
children as young as 14. It
would also introduce a new
offence of advocating genocide to further respond to
the negative impact on our
community of people who
preach hate.
The Parliamentary Joint
Committee on Intelligence
and Security (PJCIS) had
made 21 recommendations
on the original Bill.
“Following consultation
with the States and Territories, the Government accepts all of the PJCIS recommendations, and they will be
reflected in the Bill,” the PM
said.
The Attorney-General
will also convene a meeting of all the State and
Territory Attorneys-General as soon as practicable
to ensure post-sentence
preventative detention
legislation can be introduced quickly, he said.
This legislation will enable additional periods of
imprisonment for terrorist
offenders who have served
their sentences but are still
judged to present an unacceptable risk to the community,” he further added.
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SPORTS
BUSINESS
THERE IS NO EASY
MATCH IN OLYMPICS:
SREEJESH
IOC BOWS TO PUTIN AND
RUSSIAN DOPERS
utes. Bishoo hit straight to
midwicket off Ashwin in
the 78th over, and three
balls later bowled Shannon
Gabriel (4) to wrap up the
proceedings with a day to
spare.
It paid off with 33 medals for Russia, 11 of them
gold.The country led the
medal standings, and Russian pride surged with every big win.
Moscow: Once again, the
people who run the Olympics just can’t say no to
Vladimir Putin.
Bengaluru: Newly-appointed Indian men’s
hockey team captain PR
Sreejesh said there is no
“easy match” in a sporting extravaganza like
the Olympics, and all 12
teams will fancy their
chances of qualifying for
the quarterfinals in Rio.
“It is Olympics and
there is nothing easy.
Every match will be serious affair,” he said before departing for Spain
en route to Rio.
“In each group there
are six teams out of
which four will qualify for the quarterfinals.
Therefore, it is very important for us to garner as many points as
possible to increase our
chances because the new
format gives an opportunity to every team,” he
said.
Unlike previous editions, the International
Hockey Federation (FIH)
has introduced a new
competition format in
this year’s Olympics.
As per the new format
12 teams have been divided into two pools of
six with each team initially playing round-robin games within their
pool. Following the completion of the round-robin games, the top four
teams from each pool
will advance to the quarterfinals.
Previously, after completion of round robin
games top two teams
from each pool used to
directly qualify for the
semifinals.
Sreejesh,
who took over the captaincy
mantle
from
long-standing
Sardar
Singh just ahead of the
Olympics, said they are
ready to face any side in
the quarterfinals.
“We are ready to meet
anybody in the quarterfinals. We cannot say we
want this team or that
team. We will give our
100 per cent against any
side, be it world world
champions Australia,” he
said.
Sreejesh said hockey
is a team and a captain
hardly has any role on
the pitch.
“Hockey is a team
game and all 11 players
on the field are captains.
They have specific responsibilities to shoulder.We are going to Rio
as a team,” he said.
The experienced goalkeeper said a few practice matches in Spain before heading to Rio will
hold India is good stead
in the Olympics.
“We are going to Spain
mainly for acclimatisation. We need a break
from here. We will play
a couple of practice
matches there and know
where we stand. The climate of Rio during the
Games will be to similar Spain. So, it is a good
decision to go to Spain
before landing at Rio,”
Sreejesh said.
FAILED DRUG TEST OF NARSINGH’S
ROOMMATE RAISES SUSPICION
Not when he spends
more than USD 50 billion to
host a winter Olympics to
show off a resurgent Russia. Not when he talks darkly about returning to the
days of Olympic boycotts in
1980 and 1984.
Certainly not when he
suggests that doping officials of one powerful country can you guess which
one? are behind efforts to
ban Russia from the Rio
Olympics.
When Putin talks, Olympic officials listen. And
that’s the biggest reason
why Russian athletes at
least some of them will
march in opening ceremonies less than two weeks
from now in Brazil.
With Russian prestige
on the line, the executive
board of the International Olympic Committee
“The fact that Narisngh’s
teammate at the camp has
also tested positive for the
same substance, it clearly
looks to be a foul play. Both
the wrestlers were consuming the same supplements as they were roommates. It arises suspicion,”
WFI Assistant Secretary
Vinod Tomar said.
“There was a high quantity of steroid in the sample,
which is hard to believe. It
seems like a deliberate
thing.Why would anyone
take such high dose,” he
Asked if anyone else in
the camp has also failed the
dope test, the official replied in negative.
“No. Only these two guys
have failed it and this clearly indicates that something
is wrong.”
NADA Director General
Navin Agarwal on Sunday
confirmed that Narsingh’s
‘B’ sample tested positive
for a banned substance.
Sources said that he had returned positive for methandienone, a banned anabolic
steroid.
With his Olympic dreams
in jeopardy after a failed
dope test, Narsingh had
claimed innocence, saying
that the entire episode was
a conspiracy against him.
“This is a conspiracy
against me. I have never
It was just a little more
than two years ago that Putin was the face of a winter
Olympics that he saw as far
more than just a sporting
event. He cheered Russian
athletes in arenas and in
the mountains, and celebrated with them as they
added to the host country’s
medal haul.
Meanwhile, his agents
were working late into the
night at the Sochi doping
lab, exchanging urine samples taken from the coun-
Yet Russian athletes will
still compete in Rio. The
official explanation for just
why came from IOC President Thomas Bach, who
said it would be unfair to
ban all Russians when it
has not been proven that all
of them cheat.
“At the end of the day,
we have to be able to look
in the eye of the individual
athletes concerned by this
decision,” Bach said. The
unofficial explanation was
more telling.
“The IOC decision was
to be expected. You can’t
behave improperly toward
a power like Russia,” said
Gennady Alyoshin, a Russian Olympic Committee
official.
North Sound (Antigua):
West Indies’ skipper Jason
Holder conceded that his side
were always playing “catchup” game throughout the first
Test against India, which they
surrendered meekly losing
by an innings and 92 runs.
“It is always tough to play
catch-up cricket. We never
bowled well in the first innings. Yes, we had some good
bowling partnerships but not
for long sessions. Going forward we definitely need to
improve, to string together
better bowling partnerships,
and bowl more maidens.
Having said that we were not
able to create enough pressure in their first innings,”
Holder said after the defeat.
“In hindsight, you can say
a lot of things. The combination we played had four
bowlers and an all-rounder
in Roston Chase who bowls
some off-spin. But execution
is the name of the game. I
don’t think we executed well
enough,” he added.
taken any banned substance,” said Narsingh.
questioned.
Spineless, yes, but that’s
to be expected. No reason
to let a little doping scandal
get in the way of a cozy relationship that serves both
sides so well.
WE WERE PLAYING A TOUGH CATCH-UP
GAME THROUGHOUT: HOLDER
Holder said that the current Test side is a young one
and they also have their pride
New Delhi: With Narsingh Yadav’s roommate
Sandeep Yadav at the SAI
Sonepat camp also testing positive for the same
banned substance, WFI
said that it strengthens the
conspiracy theory and indicates at a clear case of sabotage.
caved in. Instead of banning Russia from Rio for
running a state-sanctioned
doping operation, the IOC
members decided instead
Sunday to allow individual sports federations to
decide which Russians can
compete.
Narsingh, who was
picked ahead of the double
Olympic medallist Sushil
Kumar to represent India
at the Rio Games in 74kg
Freestyle category, has
been handed provisional
suspension and virtually
ruled out of next month’s
Olympics.
The 26-year-old wrestler’s Olympics accreditation has also been withheld.
The WFI also cried foul,
claiming that Narsingh has
a clean history and it was a
clear case of sabotage.
On the basis of Narsingh
bagging the 74kg Olympic
quota berth with a World
Championships bronze last
year, WFI had named him
to represent India at the
Rio Games and Sushil’s demands for a trial were rejected by the Federation as
well as the Delhi High Court
after a lengthy legal battle.
at stake.
“I think it boils down to
personal pride. Roston, Shane
Dowrich and RajendraChandrika, myself, Jermaine Blackwood, we are all quite young
players. We are all looking to
make a mark in the international circuit,” he said.
“For us its just personal
glory, personal pride. That’s
what each person coming to
Test cricket is looking to do.
I think all of us want to do
that. I think we need to come
up with a strong collective effort,” said the skipper.
There were only two
three-centuries in the match
from the hosts, and they
needed to do better to even
have a hope of saving the
match. Clearly, the team
needed more from its experienced batsmen, Darren Bravo (11 and 10) and Marlon
Samuels (1 and 50).
“Ideally, that’s what we
would expect from top-order batsmen. To be fair, they
have to carry the demands of
this young batting side. Unfortunately, Bravo didn’t get
any runs in this Test. Marlon
showed some form in the
second innings and it is important for those two guys to
carry the batting and lay the
foundation. The onus is on
them, but we also have more
enough capable batsmen,”
said Holder.
NARSINGH DEMANDS
CBI PROBE INTO DOPING
SCANDAL
New Delhi: A defiant Narsingh Yadav on
Monday demanded a CBI
probe into the doping
scandal which has jeopardised his participation
in the Olympics, alleging
that a conspiracy has
been hatched to scuttle
his Rio dream.
“There should be a CBI
inquiry. The whole episode relating to my selection had gone to court.
There was a CID report
that my life is under
threat. All this makes it
clear, I have been framed
so that I am stopped from
going to Rio,” Narsingh
said.
“I have given my complaint to the federation
in which I have made
it clear that something
could have been mixed
in the food that was prepared at the mess. It is a
conspiracy against me,”
he added.
Narsingh has returned
positive for a banned
substance
barely
10
days before the start of
the Olympics and that
has cast a doubt on his
participation in the Rio
Games.
The
26-year-old,
who would be pleading innocence in front
of the NADA panel that
is scheduled to meet on
Wednesday, is hopeful
that he would be able to
convince the committee
members that the entire
episode is a conspiracy.
“I am hopeful that everything will be clear
soon. I have got the 100
per cent backing of everyone. I am still hopeful
of going to Rio,” 26-yearold wrestler said.
6
INDIA RECORD BIGGEST TEST WIN
OUTSIDE ASIA
try’s athletes for clean ones
in an elaborate scheme to
escape detection.
That much of it was a
scam wouldn’t be uncovered until many months
later. When it was, it was
clear the scope of the
cheating effort was so great
that it couldn’t have been
pulled off without cooperation and approval from the
highest levels of the Russian government.
English Daily
North Sound (Antigua):
India recorded their biggest
win outside the sub-continent as they thrashed a
listless West Indies by an
innings and 92 runs in the
opening cricket Test, riding
on a fantastic seven-wicket
haul by off-spinner RavichandranAshwin.
Ashwin produced an offspin bowling master class
to grab 7/83 and triggered
a second-innings slide that
saw the hosts collapse from
88/2 to 132/8 on the fourth
and penultimate day.
A defiant ninth-wicket
stand of 95, West Indies’
highest in the game, between Carlos Brathwaite
(51 not out) and DevendraBishoo (45) delayed the
inevitable before Ashwin
came back to seal the issue
by bowling the hosts out for
231.
This was also the Tamil Nadu spinner’s first
five-wicket haul outside the
Asian continent.
India bowled out the
West Indies for 243 in
their first innings, having
amassed 566 for eight declared after opting to bat.
Forced to follow-on after
conceding a massive lead of
323, the hosts failed to cope
up with intense pressure
created by Ashwin and Co
on a pitch that offered assistance to slow bowlers.
At the Sir Vivian Richards
Stadium, the visitors shot
out the hosts in three hours
over the post lunch and tea
session to finish their two
innings at 243 and 231.
After tea, Brathwaite
reached his third Test fifty,
but the rest of the innings
folded in just over 40 min-
Post lunch, it was an
extended session of play
which proved enough for
India to force a win. But first
they had to break through
the 67-run partnership between Rajendra Chandrika
(31) and Marlon Samuels
(50). The two batsmen began again in the same vein,
trying to play for time,
and in doing so, the latter
crossed the 50-mark off 74
balls raising hopes of a fight
back.
But it was short-lived as
Chandrika had a faint inside-edge off Ashwin in the
36th over, judged accurately
by the umpire and caught
on the third attempt by
WriddhimanSaha.
It started the slide
for West Indies and the
off-spinner barged into the
opening he had found.
In the very next over, he
removed Jermaine Blackwood (0) for a second duck
in the match, with skipper Virat Kohli holding a
magnificent diving catch at
midwicket to aid in the dismissal.
IT’S GOOD TO HAVE CONTAGIOUS
WINNING HABIT: KOHLI
North Sound: Winning
is “contagious” and Indian Test captain Virat Kohli
feels that it is a “good habit”
that his boys can create in
order to become a formidable Test team anywhere in
the world.
India trounced West Indies by an innings and 92
runs well inside four days
in the first cricket Test of
the four-match series.
“We want to create winning habits, good habits.
And you know, winning
is contagious. If we learn
to win Test matches, then
we’ll learn how to win
Tests everywhere. We will
learn how to play in different situations and we will
know exactly what to do
when a certain situation is
going a certain way,” Kohli
told mediapersons after a
thumping victory against
the hosts.
“We want to be consistent side, we need to set
ourselves goals and look
to execute that rather than
looking at the opposition
which I think this team is
willing to do,” said Kohli after the win.
“That for me is a very
pleasing thing as a captain
and for the team as well.
Everyone understands the
way we want to play on
the field, where we need to
bat, how we need to bowl,
etc. We need to be comfortable with what the team
requires and I think that’s
the most important for this
team going forward,” he
added.
It was an all-round effort
from the bowlers with pacers Mohammed Shami and
Umesh Yadav snaring eight
scalps among themselves
in the first innings and premier spinner Ravichandran
Ashwin with his 7 for 83
singlehandedly decimating
the opposition in the second innings.
“It was a very good effort from the bowlers. The
good thing was that we
did not bowl that much
in the first innings, so everyone’s mindset in the
second innings was, yes,
we can bowl again. I think
the first innings ended at a
perfect time for us last evening, and then we got 1314 overs and got a wicket
again.So it was good to get
some rest in the evening,
and the bowlers’ attitude
was very good, all of them
voluntarily said, yes, we
will bowl, and the spinners
took the responsibility,”
said the skipper.
NARSINGH IS INNOCENT, IT’S A CONSPIRACY: WFI
New Delhi: The Wrestling Federation of India
(WFI)on Monday threw its
weight behind NarsinghYadav, whose Olympic participation is in serious doubt
after a failed dope test, saying the grappler is a victim
of conspiracy.
Doubting foul play, WFI
president BrijBhushanSharan Singh said the federation believes Narisingh is
innocent and will support
him to the hilt.
“The federation believes
Narsingh is innocent. Injustice has happened with him
and we are hopeful he will
get justice.
I will try my level best to
help Narsingh get out of this
problem so that he can represent India in 74kg in the
Olympics and win a medal,”
BrijBhushanSharan Singh
told a press conference on
Monday.
The WFI chief said Narsingh has a clean record and
would be foolish to jeopardise his career by taking a
banned substance just days
before the Olympics.
“It is our duty to
protect
Narsingh
and all our wrestlers.
Narsingh’s record is
clean. He is someone who never shied
away from dope
tests,” BrijBhushan
said.
“Narsingh complained in writing to
us that a conspiracy
has been hatched against
him and I and the entire nation believe him because he
has nothing to do with the
substance.”
Narsingh,
who
was
picked ahead of the double
Olympic
medallistSushil
Kumar to represent India at
the Rio Games in, has been
handed provisional suspension after he tested positive
for a banned substance.
On the basis of Narsingh
bagging the 74kg Olympic
quota berth with a World
Championships bronze last
year, WFI had named him
to represent India at the
Rio Games and Sushil’s de-
mands for a trial were rejected by the Federation as
well as the Delhi High Court
after a lengthy legal battle.
BrijBhushan hoped Narsingh would get a clean chit
in the final NADA hearing
on Wednesday, the result of
which is expected the next
day.
“The NADA committee
formed to hear the case
will hold its final hearing on
Wednesday. I hope they will
examine all aspects and on
Thursday I hope we will get
the clear picture,” he said.
For the time being, the
26-year-old
wrestler’s
Olympics accreditation has
also been withheld.
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BUSINESS
CRUDE PALM OIL FUTURES UP
0.77 PC ON SPOT DEMAND
GOVT TO PROVIDE BENEFITS TO SMALL
TEA GROWERS: NIRMALA SITHARAMAN
New Delhi: To encourage small tea growers and give them better
price for their products,
the government has proposed to amend a 2003
order to define mini and
micro factories and provide various benefits to
them.
New Delhi: Crude palm
oil prices moved up by 0.77
per cent to Rs 497.30 per
10 kg in futures market
on Monday as speculators
indulged in creating positions coupled with rising
demand in spot market.
At the Multi Commodity
Exchange, crude palm oil
for delivery in August rose
Rs 3.80, or 0.77 per cent,
to Rs 497.30 per 10 kg, in
a business turnover of 323
lots.
Similarly, oil for delivery
in July edged up by Rs 2.60,
or 0.49 per cent, to Rs 524
per 10 kg in 63 lots.
Analysts said fresh positions built-up by speculators supported by rising
demand in the spot market, mainly led to the rise
in crude palm oil prices at
futures trade.
GUARSEED FUTURES SLIPS
ON PROFIT BOOKING
per quintal,
with an open
interest
of
10,580 lots.
New Delhi: Guarseed
prices were down by Rs 34
to Rs 3,956 per quintal in
futures trading on Monday
on profit booking by speculators amid a weak trend at
the spot markets.
At the National Commodity and Derivative Exchange, guarseed for delivery in November month
contract declined by Rs 34,
or 0.85 per cent to Rs 3,956
A l s o ,
guarseed for
delivery in
far-month
October
dropped by
Rs 27, or
0.69 per cent
to Rs 3,906 per quintal,
having an open interest of
1,03,200 lots.
Marketmen said offlaoding of participants at
existing levels amid a weak
trend at the domestic spot
markets on increased arrivals from growing regions,
mainly weighed on guarseed prices at futures trade.
Minister of State for
Commerce Nirmala Sitharaman said in Lok Sabha that a
proposal has been mooted to
amend the Tea (Marketing)
Control Order 2003 so as to
define mini and micro factories and exempt them from
obtaining no objection certificate for manufacturing tea.
Listing out various benefits and assistance being
provided to the small tea
S ingapore:S ufferi ng
from back pain? A robotic
massage therapist developed by a Singapore-based
startup may help relieve
muscle strains and injuries.
Emma, or Short for Expert Manipulative Massage
Automation, a robotic arm
with a 3D-printed massage
tip, can resolve some of the
challenges faced by sports
therapy clinics, such as a
shortage of trained therapists and a need to deliver
high quality therapy consistently.
Developed by AiTreat, a
start-up company founded
by Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) graduate Albert
Zhang, Emma is undergoing user trials at a medical institution that offers
sports injury rehabilitation
and pain management.
“We have designed
Emma as a clinically precise tool that can automatically carry out treatment
for patients as prescribed
by a physiotherapist or
Chinese physician,” said
Zhang, who graduated in
2010 from NTU.
“This is probably the
first such robot in the
world developed specifically for use by Traditional
Chinese Medicine (TCM)
physicians and sports therapists,” said Zhang.
“Our aim is not to replace the therapists who
are skilled in sports massage and acupoint therapy,
The Tea Development and Promotion
Scheme implemented
by the Tea Board has a
separate component for
development of small
tea growers.
growers, Sitharaman said
during Question Hour that in
order to ensure better price
to small tea growers, who
supply tea leaves to factories,
price sharing formulas have
been notified for different tea
growing states.
Payment of green leaf to
the growers is closely monitored by the district green
leaf price monitoring committees, she said.
The scheme aims
at addressing the special needs of small tea
growers, particularly in
the area of improving production and productivity and
establishing processing factories with special focus on
enhancing quality.
Financial assistance of
around Rs 55.56 crore has
so far been extended to the
small tea growers in the XII
plan, she said.
RBI ASKS BOB TO COUGH UP RS 5 CR AS PENALTY
New Delhi: The Reserve
Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a penalty of Rs 5 crore
on Bank of Baroda (BoB) after it found irregularities in
the Rs 6,100-crore scam that
was unearthed last year.
“The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a penalty
of INR 50 million on Bank
of Baroda. Pursuant to the
internal audit of the Bank of
Baroda, the Reserve Bank of
India and investigative agencies in October 2015 were
advised by the Bank of certain irregularities observed,”
Bank of Baroda said in a BSE
filing.
It further said: “The RBI
carried out the investigation
and noted the deficiencies
which were reflective of
weaknesses and failures in
internal control mechanisms
in respect of certain AML
provisions such as monitoring of transactions, timely re-
SCIENCE & TECH
NOW, ROBOT THERAPIST TO HELP
RELIEVE MUSCLE STRAINS
porting to FIU, and
assigning of UCIC to
customers”.
Bank of Baroda
said it has implemented a comprehensive corrective
action plan, to
strengthen internal controls
and to ensure that such incidents do not recur.
Various irregularities by
bank such as non-submission and inordinate delays in
filing of Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs), besides
opening of accounts by several entities without fulfilling
KYC norms, were noticed by
Reserve Bank of India.
The observation came as
part of inspection done by
the central bank after last
year’s Bank of Baroda case in
which Rs 6,100-crore import
remittances were effected by
its Ashok Vihar branch.
Both CBI and the Enforce-
ment Directorate are probing the huge remittances to
Hong Kong from the bank.
The amount was allegedly
transferred in the garb of
payments for imports that
never took place, investigators say.
After the BoB case, RBI
wrote a confidential letter
to chairmen and chief executives of all commercial banks
asking them to review existing policies and effect necessary improvements where
warranted to avoid recurrence of such irregularities.
Shares of Bank of Baroda
were trading 1.92 per cent at
Rs 153.80 apiece on the BSE.
‘POKEMON GO’ PLAYERS
STUMBLE ON HIDDEN HISTORY
English Daily
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GLENMARK GETS FDA NOD
FOR SKIN OINTMENT
New Delhi: Glenmark
Pharmaceuticals has received final approval from
the US health regulator
USFDA for triamcinolone
acetonide ointment, used
in treatment of various skin
conditions.
“Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc, USA has been granted final approval by the US
Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) for triamcinolone acetonide ointment
USP, 0.5 per cent,” it said in
a BSE filing.
Approval has been grant-
ed for generic version of
triamcinolone acetonide
ointment USP, 0.5 per cent
of Perrigo New York, Inc.
This ointment is used to
treat various skin conditions including eczema,
dermatitis, allergies and
rash.
Quoting IMS sales data
for the 12 months to May,
Glenmark said Triamcinolone Acetonide Ointment
achieved annual sales of`
around USD 4.4 million.
The company’s current
portfolio consists of 116
products authorised for distribution in the US and 61
Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) pending
approval with the USFDA.
Shares of Glenmark
Pharmaceuticals were trading 0.38 per cent up at Rs
868.35 in the morning trade
on BSE.
RICOH INDIA CHAIRMAN
TETSUYA TAKANO RESIGNS
New Delhi: A week after
admitting its accounts appear to have been “falsified”,
Ricoh India on Monday said
its Chairman and Director
Tetsuya Takano has resigned
from the company. The company has appointed Ian Peter Winham as its Director/
Chairman with immediate
effect.
“Mr Tetsuya Takano has
resigned as Director/Chairman of the company with
effect from July 25, 2016.
The Board of Directors of the
company has accepted his
resignation with immediate
effect,” Ricoh India said in a
BSE filing.
Winham joined the Ricoh
Group in Europe, Middle East
and Africa (EMEA) in 2002 as
CFO and was appointed Executive Vice President, CIO and
CFO of Ricoh Europe in 2007.
In 2014, he took on a global
role as head of Global Capital
Management. In April 2016,
board after being asked to go
on leave amid an audit in the
company by a committee.
he was appointed Corporate
Vice President of Ricoh Company, Ltd.
Winham has worked extensively in India over the last
six years, the company said.
Last week, Ricoh India
said its accounts appear to
be have been “falsified” and
estimated to incur a loss of Rs
1,123 crore for the fiscal ended March 31, 2016.
It had said the disclosure
follows an internal investigation it had been carrying out
to ascertain its financial position and probable roles of few
officials of the company.
In April, the company’s
India’s MD and CEO Manoj
Kumar had resigned from the
However, Ricoh Company
Ltd, a promoter entity of the
Indian subsidiary of Japanese imaging and electronics major, has proposed to
recapitalise the company for
the loss.
The disclosure by the Indian unit also prompted the
promoter to approach National Company Law Tribunal
(NCLT) against the BSE-listed
firm and its certain officials
suspected to have indulged
in “mismanagement”.
In its petition, the promoter sought to restrain the
statutory authorities from
taking any coercing measures against Ricoh India Ltd
and restore its share trading,
which has been suspended
for penal reasons even as a
probe is already on by various agencies and regulators
including Sebi into its affairs.
MARS ROVER CURIOSITY CAN
NOW FIRE LASER ON ITS OWN
but to improve productivity by enabling one therapist to treat multiple patients with the help of our
robots,” he said.
Emma has a user-friendly interface and recommended guidelines for various sports injuries.
The robot consists of a
single, 6-axis robotic arm
capable of highly articulated movements, a 3D-stereoscopic camera for vision, and a customised,
fully rotatable 3D-printed
massage tip.
Safety features which
work in tandem with advanced pressure sensors
are also in-built, to ensure
the comfort and the safety
of its patients. Emma has
treated 50 patients with
different conditions, such
as tennis elbows, stiff neck
and shoulders, lower back
pain, as well as muscle
pulls.
To ensure a consistent
quality of therapy, Emma
has sensors and diagnostic
functions that will measure the progress of the
patient and the exact stiffness of a particular muscle
or tendon. These detailed
diagnostics are uploaded to the cloud where the
progress of each patient
can be analysed and generated into a performance
report.
For the first time in TCM
treatment, patients can
accurately measure their
recovery progress using
precise empirical data.
Providence: Historical
markers have long dotted the landscape, often
barely noticed by passers-by until they became
treasure-filled stops this
month on the “Pokemon
Go” trail.
Players hunting for
fictional creatures on
their smartphones are
now visiting real-life
memorial plaques, statues, mosaics and landmarks, ranging from a
Civil War battlefield in
Chancellorsville, Virginia, to a Hells Angels clubhouse on New Zealand’s
North Island.
Some
don’t
bother to linger at these
Pokestops, staying just
long enough to stock
up on the virtual balls
they’ll use to bonk
and capture the next
Pokemon.
But for others, the
GPS-powered
“augmented reality” game is
heightening awareness
of the history and geography of their neigh-
bourhoods.
“Before I was just going from Point A to Point
B, but now I’m learning
things,” said 15-year-old
Jaiden Cruz as he walked
by a plaque Wednesday in downtown Providence, Rhode Island,
marking where Abraham
Lincoln spoke at an old
railroad hall in 1860.
The plaque is a
Pokestop, and shortly
before Cruz arrived, another player dropped a
“lure module” that attracts Pokemon to the
site.
The 380-year-old city
abounds with Pokestops,
including the nation’s
oldest Baptist church,
founded by religious dissident Roger Williams in
1638, and a stone marking where French troops
camped during the Revolutionary War.
“It gets you to learn
about your surroundings,” said 59-year-old
Cheryl DiMarzio, who
on the advice of her
daughter ventured into
an urban park to capture
an owl-like Pidgey and
some purple rodent Rattatas. “Different landmarks, the statues and
historical places.”
How such markers
became the backbone of
the wildly popular video
game that launched this
month is a story that goes
back at least five years,
when tech giant Google
signed a licensing agreement to use The Historical Marker Database, a
volunteer-run website
that has tracked the geographic coordinates of
more than 80,000 historical markers around
the world, most of them
in the United States.
JJ Prats, founder and
publisher of the Virginia-based marker database, said many but not
all the Pokestops and
Pokemon gyms, where
players send their creatures into battle, are
from his website. He’s
thrilled.
Washington: For the first
time, NASA’s Mars Curiosity
rover can fire its onboard
laser all by itself, mission
scientists say.
New software is enabling Chem Cam, the laser
spectrometer on Curiosity,
to select rock targets autonomously the first time
autonomous target selection is available for an instrument of this kind on
any robotic planetary mission.
The Chem Cam (chemistry and camera) instrument aboard Curiosity
“zaps” rocks on Mars and
analyses their chemical
make-up. While most Chem
Cam targets are still selected by scientists, the rover
itself now chooses multiple
targets per week.
“This new capability will
give us a chance to analyse even more rock and
soil samples on Mars,” said
Roger Wiens, principal investigator for ChemCam at
Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US.
“The science team is not
always available to pick
samples for analysis. Having a smarter rover that
can pick its own samples
is completely in line with
self-driving cars and other
smart technologies being
implemented on Earth,”
said Wiens.
more than 350,000 total
laser shots at about 10,000
points in all.The autonomous software is called
AEGIS (Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science) and was
developed by engineers at
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
ChemCam’s spectrometers record the wavelengths
seen through a telescope
while the laser is firing.
This information enables
scientists to identify chemical composition of the
targets.Through the same
telescope, the instrument
on the rover’s mast takes
images that are of the highest resolution available.
From the top of Curiosity’s mast, the instrument
can analyse the composition of a rock or soil target
from up to about seven meters away.
To select a target autonomously, the software uses
adjustable criteria specified by scientists, such as
identifying rocks based on
their size or brightness.The
criteria can be changed depending on the rover’s surroundings and the scientific
goals of the measurements.
In nearly four years since
landing on Mars, ChemCam
has analysed roughly 1,500
rock and soil samples with
The most frequent application of AEGIS uses
onboard computer analysis
of images from Curiosity’s
stereo Navigation Camera
(Navcam), which are taken
routinely at each location
where the rover ends a
drive.
The rover’s extended
mission is analysing evidence about how the environment on Mars changed
billions of years ago from
conditions well-suited to
microbial life, if any life
has ever existed on Mars,
to dry, inhospitable conditions.
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ENTERTAINMENT
KAREENA KAPOOR UPSET
WITH DEEPIKA PADUKONE
SALMAN KHAN ACQUITTED IN
CHINKARA POACHING CASES
Bollywood actor Salman Khan was on Monday
acquitted by the Rajasthan High Court in two
cases related to poaching
of Chinkaras in Jodhpur in
1998.
Deepika
Padukone’s
recent statement saying,
“I am not getting married
and I am not pregnant,”
may have been innocent.
But the Begum of Bollywood who is currently
pregnant for some reason thinks it is a dig at
her. Blame her pregnancy
hormones or just being
extra sensitive but Kareena Kapoor Khan has taken
this comment very personally. Says an insider,
“While it makes sense for
Dips to deny her engagement and marriage rumours, which have been
doing the rounds, Bebo
can’t understand why she
denied being pregnant,
because no one said she
was! KKK is also annoyed
at the unsaid implication
that actresses who are
in the family way are no
longer serious about the
career or scare producers
away. Kareena is gearing
up to begin shooting for
her next film and with big
belly and all, she will rock
it.” We have no doubt she
will.
Not to forget, an angry
Kareena had recently even
lashed out at the news
mongers for discussing
her pregnancy like a ‘national casualty.’ She had
said, “I’m pregnant, not a
corpse. And what maternity break? It’s the most
normal thing on earth to
produce a child. It is high
time the media back off,
and stop treating me any
different than I ever was.
Anybody who is bothered
shouldn’t work with me…
but my work goes on as
is, like always. Stop making it a national casualty.
We are in 2016, not in
the 1800s. Probably, even
at that time, people were
way more civilised and
normal than the way the
media is behaving and
speculating now,” Says
Kareena, adding, “I’m just
fed-up of people making
it (her pregnancy) to be a
death of some sort. In fact,
it should be a message to
a lot of people that marriage or having a family
has absolutely nothing to
do with my career.”
SALMAN KHAN AND PRABHU
DHEVA TO REUNITE AFTER
SEVEN YEARS
The driver of the jeep
that was used by Khan
and his co- stars on their
alleged hunting mission
has been missing, weakening the prosecution’s
case against the movie
star.
Khan, 50, was jailed in
2007 for nearly a week for
shooting an endangered
gazelle in 1998.
Appeals of Khan against
sentence in the two cases relating to poaching of
Chinkaras in Bhawad and
Mathania were allowed
by the high court which
acquitted him in both the
cases.
Justice Nirmal Jit Kaur
rejected the plea of the
state government against
the actor.
Two separate cases had
been registered against
Khan under section 51 of
Wildlife Protection Act for
poaching of two chinkaras
in village Bhawad on 2627 September, 1998 and
one chinkara in Mathania
(Ghoda Farm) on 28-29
September, 1998.
The trial court (CJM)
had convicted him in both
the cases sentencing him
to one year and 5 year
imprisonment on February 17, 2006 and April 10,
2006 respectivel.
The convictions were
challenged by Khan in the
session’s court, which dismissed appeal in Mathania s case and transferred
appeal to high court in
Bhawad s case, where already two appeals by the
state government had
been pending.
Hearing on both these
petition in high court had
begun on November 16,
2015 and were completed on May 13, 2016, after which justice Nirmal
Jit Kaur had reserved her
judgement.
While arguing the case
in the high court, defence
counsel Mahesh Bora
had contended that Khan
had been falsely framed
in these cases, merely on
the statements of a key
witness Harish Dulani,
the driver of the vehicle,
which was allegedly used
in poaching in both these
cases.
Bora argued that Dulani was never available to
them for cross examination and hence his statements could not be relied upon in conviction of
Khan. He also argued that
both of these cases have
been built on circumstantial evidences and there
was no eye-witness or any
material evidence against
Khan.
Besides this, the major
observation by the court
was that it did not find the
pellets recovered from
the vehicle matching with
those, recovered from the
possession of Khan.
ANISTON GIVES EMPOWERING
SPEECH AT ITALIAN FILM FEST
was.
“There are not enough
fingers and a toe in this
entire room to count how
many times that moment
has happened to me,”
Aniston confessed as she
wiped tears from her eyes.
“We’re all human beings at the end of the day,
whether we’re a waitress
or a baker or a student or
whatever we are, at the
end of the day you kind of
hit walls and think I kind
of can’t go any farther. Or
this is too much.
It’s been seven years
since Wanted. Now it
looks like director Prabhu
Dheva and Salman Khan
are ready to reunite for
another film together.
So far, all attempts to
encore Wanted’s success
hadn’t worked. Now Prabhu has found a script
that he feels would justify
their coming together.
Says Prabhu, “When
you work with Salman Sir,
you can’t just do it just for
the heck of it. Or because
you have access to his
dates. Wanted was a very
important film in my career. It marked my debut
as director in Bollywood.
It was also an important film for Salman Sir.”
Wanted started the new
power-packed phase in
“My heart can’t take it
or the pain is too great, or
am I good enough? Will
I survive? And you just
have to sort of somehow
miraculously overcome.
You just go, ‘I can’t, yes I
can, yes you can.’
Salman’s career. Prabhu
concludes, “We have to
make sure that our next
project together packs in
a greater punch.”
Currently Sultan hero
is busy with his next film
Tubelight director by
Kabir Khan. The film is
based on Sino-Indian war.
The film was supposed
to roll from July end in
Kashmir. But the latest
reports suggest that the
shooting in Kashmir has
been on hold due to the
ongoing political situation
there. The makers have
been suggested to stay
away from the heated environment for now. Well
it was Bajrangi Bhaijaan
star who had insisted his
buddy Kabir to shoot in
Kashmir.
REAL HOUSEWIVES
REUNITE FOR A CAUSE
Former “Friends” star
Jennifer Aniston gave an
empowering speech to
young girls as she was
honoured for her television and film career at the
46th Annual Giffoni Film
Festival in Italy.
The 47-year-old actress
was the guest of honour
at the Amalfi Coast event
and she spoke to the attendees of the children’s
festival to talk about her
career in Hollywood.
When Aniston was
asked to suggest a solution for more female-centred stories to be told
in Hollywood, the star
encouraged the aspiring
writers and filmmakers in
the audience to step away
It’s safe to say Jill Zarin
still runs with a fabulous
circle of people.
As the Real Housewives
of New York City alumna
celebrated another summer in the Hamptons,
the reality star decided
to host a party for all of
her Bravo friends who
showed up.
The O.G. of the O.C. Vic-
from the obsession with
social media and create
projects grounded in the
real world, source said.
“I think we need to
empower women to not
just be about dresses and
beauty and selfies. We
need to start having conversations and put our
phones down and get out
of social media, take social media breaks. That’s
why we’re not seeing the
right stories being told,
because everyone is stuck
in their phones,” she said.
The actress was also
moved to tears by one
teen, who asked the A-lister if she ever woke up in
the morning and didn’t
recognise who she really
ki Gunvalson represented the West Coast while
Cynthia Bailey made the
trip from Atlanta. Kathy
Wakile from New Jersey
arrived for a quick weekend stay.
As for Big Apple
fans, you certainly had
a handful of cast members in town. Kelly Bensimon,Kristen Taekman,
“And also know that
your actors, your idols,
your icons, whatever you
call them, have all had
that experience in their
lives many, many times.
Aniston added, “There’s
nothing that separates us
from you, because we all
started at the same place.
We all came out of nowhere. Don’t punish yourself if you feel that. Go talk
to people and seek help
and always find something to inspire you.”
Aniston’s speech at Giffoni echoed similar sentiments in an emotional
letter she penned earlier
this month hitting out at
the constant media furore
surrounding her private
life.
Cindy Barshop and Ramona Singer came together to attend Jill’s charity
event benefiting St. Jude
Children’s Hospital.
“Love my Bobby and
my REAL girlfriends,” the
hostess wrote on Instagram with a group photo.
“Love you and thank you
all for coming to my #jillzarinluxlunch.”
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WOULD LOVE TO STAR IN A BOLLYWOOD FILM: RICK HOFFMAN
Actor Rick Hoffman,
currently seen on American legal drama “Suits”,
says he wishes to feature
in a Bollywood movie one
day.
According to the sources the actor said “I honestly haven’t, but have heard
that they’re great and,
of course, I’d love to be a
part of an Indian movie
one day.”
The court held that the
pellets recovered from the
Chinkaras were not fired
from Khan’s licensed gun.
English Daily
Meanwhile, the actor is
all geared up for the upcoming season of “Suits”,
currently being aired on
Comedy Central.
Hoffman plays the popular role of lawyer Louis
Litt on the drama “Suits”.
If there is one thing
which his popular onscreen character likes the
most it is a good mudbath but Hoffman says he
does not enjoy them at all
in real life.
“I do not like mud baths
at all. To add to that, unlike
Louis, I’m deathly allergic
to cats and am a die-hard
New York sports fan. As
for what rejuvenates me -
deep tissue massages.
I am addicted to massages,” Hoffman said.
“Suits” chronicles the
lives of talented college
dropout Mike Ross (Patrick J Adams) who initially
works as a law associate
for Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) despite never actually attending law
school.
Hoffman’s
character
swings between jealous,
highly suspicious and
snobbish and has a rivalry
with their law firm’s topnotch lawyer, Specter.
During the season five
finale, it was shown that
Mike turned himself in
for a two-year prison sen-
tence for faking to be a
lawyer, thus casuing trouble in the law firm.
Hoffman, 46, says his
character will now be on
his toes after the events
on the series.
“He’ll be quite intense
about it and if anyone
eats, sleeps, breathes the
firm, it’s Louis. He’s very
loyal to the firm, so you
can only imagine what
his blood pressure is like
at the moment - he’ll be
quite excitable.”
The actor also said fans
“shouldn’t put their expectations too high” with
regards to his on and off
love-track with Shiela.
ROHIT BAL’S FUSION OF BLING,
ROYALTY AT ICW
With combination of
rose motifs and embellishments as the mainstay,
ace designer Rohit Bal’s
Kashmir and Russia inspired line, “Kehkashaan”
closed India Couture
Week 2016.
Bal, 55, made his love
for roses more apparent
with the line as the outfits
featured flower embroidery in almost every outfit on display.
Gold embroidery with
mirror-work was another
highlight of the show.
Perhaps, in an attempt
to balance the heavy embellishment on tops, jackets, maxi tops and capes,
the designer kept his lehengas, sarees and gowns
extremely simple with
least to no work on it.
The flair of his silhouettes, however, added a
regal touch to the clothes.
In terms of colour palette, the designer kept
himself restricted to bold
tones of white, black and
burgundy.
Bal’s collection began
on a ‘white’ note as models sashayed down the
ramp in simple traditional
wear, which had Kashmiri
designs.
With similar work on
every outfit in the section
and lack of innovation, it
seemed the designer ran
out of ideas while designing the ensembles.
Then came the all-in
black section, which had
interesting combinations
like gypsy tops and jackets with lehengas and sarees, and capes with evening gowns.
An embellished cold
shoulder top worn over a
long skirt was a highlight
of this section.
A few men’s jackets
with different gold embroideries drew applause
from the audience.
Bal went with the ‘save
the best for the last’ say-
ing as some of the most
wonderful and creative
pieces from his collection
turned up towards the
end of the show.
The closing outfit, a
burgundy colour lehenga worn with a red choli
and a short jacket, also in
burgundy, was among the
best on the show.
Crown-like headgears
complemented the overall
feel of the collection.
The show had other designers like JJ Vallaya and
Varun Bahl cheering Bal
on from the sidelines.
The designer chose
not to speak to the media about his collection
post the show and instead
chose to stay by the side
of his close ones.
BONO VISITS MEMORIAL FOR NICE
ATTACK VICTIMS
He concluded the poignant note by adding,
“With respect for lives lost
here on 14/7/16.”
Following the attack,
the group had posted on
the U2 Twitter page, “Love
is bigger than anything
in its way - Bono, Edge,
Adam, Larry.”
Rocker Bono has returned to the site of the
Bastille Day attack in
Nice, France to honour the
memory of those killed
with a floral tribute.
The U2 frontman was
at a restaurant nearby
on July 14, when a driver
drove a truck filled with
weapons and explosives
into a crowd watching
a fireworks display on
Promenade des Anglais,
leaving 84 people dead.
Bono and his fellow diners at La Petite Maison reportedly had to be rescued
by armed police after the
attack, which prompted
staff at the eatery to pull
down the venue’s shutters
and lock themselves inside
for safety.
The 56-year-old singer,
who owns a home in the
nearby town of Eze, headed back to Promenade des
Anglais to join mourners
as they marked the tragedy with a minute of silence, source said.
Bono, who was dressed
in all-black, was photographed laying flowers at
the crash site, and in the
accompanying message,
he wrote, “There is no end
to grief, that’s how I know
there is no end to love” words are borrowed from
the lyrics to U2’s song California (There Is No End To
Love).
Bono and his bandmates were also close
to the atrocities in Paris,
France in November last
year, when 89 people were
killed in a series of co-ordinated bomb and gun
attacks, one of which took
place at the Bataclan concert hall.
The stars were in the
city rehearsing for their
concert the following day,
but they cancelled their
shows due to safety fears
and rescheduled them for
December.
The rockers also offered
their private jet to the Eagles of Death Metal, who
had been playing at the
Bataclan at the time of the
attack.
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