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Man found
dead in car
A man was found dead
in a car in Basavangudi
this morning. The man
was identified as 45 year
old Sunil Kurdekar, a native of Shira,Tumkur. A
cooldrinks bottle too was
found in the car. Prima facie, it looked like the cool
drink was laced with poison and the death might
have occurred due to consumption of the poisoned
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lice who go on leave.
The head of police
force reiterated that
since the Chief Minister
Siddaramaiah
and Home Minister
G Parameshwar have
already assured that
all the concerns and
grievances of the police personnel will be
addressed but only if
they drop the planned
mass leave on June 4.
In the June 4 protest,
only civil police are
taking part while reserve police force, city
reserve police force
and district reserve
police force have decided to abstain from
the protest.
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Director
General
and Inspector General
of Police Om Prakash
has warned the state
police force not to go
ahead with the ‘Mass
Leave’ planned on
June 4. The top cop, in
a stern message to the
police personnel, has
instructed all the senior police officers and
police stations to categorically reject applications for mass leave.
The top cop urged
the police who want to
go on leave en-masse
to come to the discussion table and assured
every step would be
taken to address their
concerns. He said
that compared to other states, Karnataka
is giving good facili-
ties and perks to the
police. The DG & IGP
asked the police to not
involve in such agitations and protesting in
this mode of going on
leave En-Masse must
be stopped.
Om Prakash further
emphasized that maintaining law and order
situation, protecting
public properties and
maintaining peace are
the prime responsibilities of the police and
any deviation from
these will not be tolerated. If the police personnel go ahead with
their planned massleave on June 4, then
strict legal action will
be taken and non-bailable cases will be registered against the po-
2016 CET RESULTS DECLARED
The result of Common
Entrance Test (CET) was
announced today by Minister TB Jayachandra and
Dr Sharan Prakash Patil
in Karnataka Examination Authority in Malleshwaram in Bengaluru.
This year around 1.78
lakh students had appeared for CET exam.
The
students
who
scored outstanding results
are G Ananth, topper in
Medical from Moodabidri’s Alvas PU college, in
second and third position
stands Sanjay M Gowdar
and Bidar’s Vachana Shree
respectively.
Sardar Patel College
student Milind Kumar is
the topper in Engineering
followed by Niranjan and
Divya Jamakhandi.
In Architecture topper
is PNR institut’s CR Mrudula, Aishwarya Mahadevan
second rank and Neha
Sarah Abraham stands as
third rank student.
The results were declared on KEA website:
www.kea.kar.nic.in.
Ministers T B Jayachandra & Dr. Sharana Prakash
Patil announcing CET Results in Bengaluru today
Engineering
1st rank student
Milankumar
Vadiraj
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Cops manhandled garment worker in City
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An interim fact-finding report, People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) on the violence during protests against
changes in Employee Provident Fund rules released on Friday said many persons who protested that day are still
behind bars and haven’t been able to secure bail. The report even alleges that many workers were stripped and
attacked inside police station. Female workers were verbally abused with sexual slurs and beaten by male officers
with their bare hands. Strict action needs to be take who manhandled females garment workers , and also people behind bars must be released depending up on their charge. The report also mentioned the experience of an unnamed
female garment worker who alleged she was stopped by a policeman while returning from a peaceful protest. The
report went on to add that she, along with many other arrested women, were kept at a private NGO, and unsupervised by police. This private detention seems peculiar and unprecedented. This incident has happened after Chief
Minister Siddharamaiah praised the garment workers on their successful worker’s movement.
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DROP JUNE 4 ‘MASS LEAVE’: DG & IGP OM
PRAKASH WARNS POLICE FORCE
A case of death under
suspicious circumstances
has been booked in Shankar Mutt police station
limits. The cops have however not ruled out foul
play. Whether it is a case
of suicide or murder, this
will be ascertained only
after postmortem reports
are out.
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We are protesting for our
rights: V Shashidhar
More than 50,000 police personnel are planning to
take one day mass leave on June 4 as a mark of their
protest against harassment by senior officers, low
wages, unscientific leaves, long working hours and
promotion issues. V Shashidhar, president of Akhila
Karnataka Police Maha Sangha had said that their
protest is not aimed at creating any law and order
situation but it will be a peaceful protest by going
on leave en masse on June 4. With the latest warning
from the DG & IGP Om Prakash issuing stern warning,
it needs to be seen whether June 4 will witness a day
without cops.
gence has reported
that already final strategy for the protest has
been devised in all district head quarters.
The top cop also said
that already a booklet
containing details of
the actions and legal
sanctions that are going to be imposed on
the police personnel if
they take part in this
mass leave protest, has
been sent to all senior
police officers and to
all police stations.
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CITY
Bengaluru to be a part of the smart
city project soon: Union Minister
Venkaiah Naidu
Columbia Asia to felicitate
Good-Samaritans
Columbia Asia Hospitals in collaboration with
the traffic police and a
leading media house has
launched the Good Samaritan Award to recognize
the efforts of those who
come forward to help accident victims and take
them to hospital within
the golden hour. According to the traffic police in
the past five months, 248
people have lost their lives
in road accidents. The reason for people being the
‘bystanders’ is the rigorous legal procedures that
they assume they would
get involved in after lending a helping hand. Hopefully this award will make
them step a foot ahead.
The government can act
on such laws by minimizing the procedure or by
making an alternative cell
for such accidents. Basic
life support goes a long
way in saving lives during
emergencies. The steps
that doctors take while attending to an emergency
should be taught to all citizens, given the steep rise
in accident mortalities.
Google Platform to Enable Educators
in Karnataka
Google groups are
transforming the learning experience of both
educators and students
in Karnataka. It began
with workshops to train
teachers in technology. A
Google group was formed
to connect the trainers
and the teachers to continue the learning process and clarify doubts.
The 22,000 teachers are
now using free and opensource software such as
Stellarium, Geogebra and
Marble. The use of software tools means teachers
have moved ahead from
explaining the ‘what’ of
a concept to encouraging students to look at
the ‘why’. This has not
only made classes more
interesting but also taken the focus away from
rote learning. The Subject
Teacher Forum (STF) comprises Google groups for
Mathematics, Science, So-
cial Science, English, Hindi
and Kannada high school
teachers. Of the 37,000
government school teachers in the state, 22,000
are part of it. The project
is funded by the Centre
and implemented through
the Rashtriya Madhyamik
Shiksha Abhiyaan, Karnataka (RMSA), department
of state educational research and training, Karnataka (DSERT).
Harteji Bharatesh, a
law graduate, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s
Lymphoma - a type of
cancer which originates
from white blood cells
called lymphocytes - in
the fourth year of college.
After years of chemotherapy, this is the first
time he has stepped out
of home to explore the
country. In all the cities
he has crossed so far, Bharatesh has visited cancer
hospitals and interacted
with patients. He was in
the fourth year of his integrated law course in Noida when the killer disease
struck. He was diagnosed
with third-stage cancer
after undergoing a biopsy in Hyderabad. He em-
barked on the solo ride
on May 1, 2016 and aims
to clock 30,000km in five
months. Starting the journey on his Kawasaki Ninja
300 from Raipur in Chhattisgarh and he reached
Bengaluru on May 25th.
Through his campaign
Ride of Hope, he wants
to tell people that cancer
can be cured.
Hope on wheels
Soon Namma Bengaluru will be included in the
Prime Minister’s ambitious Smart City Project.
Union Urban Development
Minister Venkaiah Naidu
made this announcement
that Bengaluru will be
soon included in the smart
city project.
Naidu said “The state
government failed to recommend Bengaluru. But
people here should not
lose out for no fault of
theirs. We have decided to
include Bengaluru in the
Smart City list.”
Mangaluru, Shivamogga, Davangere, Hubballi-Dharwad, Belagavi and
Tumakuru are the six
cities included under the
Smart City project.
Naidu also informed
that the other cities under
the Smart City programme
will have round-the-clock
supply of water and electricity, improved public
transportation
system,
modern amenities, e-governance, clean and green
environment, among others.
Bengaluru was not in-
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cluded in the initial list
as the State government
had failed to adhere to
the required parameters
while recommending it,
said Naidu at BJP’s public
function.
It does come as a huge
releif when we hear about
medical treatments being
reasonable. Affordable and
world class treatment facilities have nudged Bengaluru in
the global medical treatment
platform. Since January 2014,
88 thousand foreign nationals have opted for Bengaluru
hospitals making the city the
most preferred medical destination in the country. Most patients around the globe come
for Cancer, Organ transplants,
Cardiovascular, Urology and
Orthopedics. A large number
of medical tourists are from
Nigeria, Indonesia, Iraq, Yemen, Maldives and Kenya.The
medical visa to India is prescribed to a foreign national
under serious ailments. When
taking India as a medical alternative is majorly the alternative therapies offered like
ayurveda, yoga and therapeutic massages. And the financial
costs being less by 60-80% as
compared to the west.
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NATION
Swaraj seeks report
over attack on Nigerian student
TN takes precautionary measures against bird flu
er departments including
health and family welfare,
district
administration,
Southern Railway and
Forest department in this
connection, it said.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today
sought an urgent report
from the Telangana government over an attack
on a 23-year-old Nigerian
student in Hyderabad, an
incident that took place
amid outrage by African
envoys here over killing of
a Congolese youth.
All District Collectors
are directed to take adequate preventive measures to protect against
spread of the virus, the
release said.
Nigerian student Ghazeem sustained head injuries after a man in his
neighbourhood hit him
with a rod following a dispute over car parking on
Wednesday night.
External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas
Swarup said Swaraj has
urgently sought a report
from the Telangana government on the incident.
“I have also asked Shri
Amar Sinha Secretary ER
(Economic Relations) of
my Ministry to speak to
Chief Secretary Telangana
and monitor this,” Swaraj
tweeted.
No conflict between
judiciary and executive: Gowda
Monitoring of chicken
farms is being conducted on a daily basis while
a control room has also
been set up in the office
of Animal Husbandry, it
added.
Tamil Nadu government today ordered officials to take preventive
measures to ensure that
the disease did not spread
to the state.
Animal
Husbandry
Minister
Balakrishna
Reddy, who held a review
meeting with department
officials here, directed
them to take up preventive measures, including
setting up of check posts
at district borders, besides
sending back vehicles carrying chicken and eggs, an
official release said.
The Ministry has also
sought the support of oth-
Farooq Abdullah disrespecting national anthem
is breach of propriety: Subramaniam Swamy
Ruling out any confrontation between the
judiciary and executive
as implied by Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley,
Union Law Minister D V
Sadananda Gowda today
said both these pillars of
democracy are working
together to resolve issues
concerning the appointment of judges.
“The government is not
waiting for the new practise of collegium (Memorandum of Procedure)
but has started appointing
judges in high courts and
the Supreme Court,” Gowda told a meet-the-press
programme.
The memorandum of
procedure regarding appointment of judges to
HCs and SC was sent to
Chief Justice T S Thakur
by Gowda in March.
Mega event to mark
two years of Modi
govt; Big B to host
small segment
A mega event will be
organised at India Gate
here on Saturday evening
to mark the completion of
two years of the BJP-led
NDA government at the
Centre.Prime Minister Narendra Modi and most of
his ministerial colleagues
are expected to attend the
event. Besides this, the
government has launched
a series of events to highlight its achievements.
The highlight of the celebrations will be a mega
show at India Gate titled
‘Ek Nayi Subah’ or ‘A New
Dawn’ beginning 5 p.m.
onwards.
‘Were you talking to
separatists during
national anthem’, BJP
asks Farooq Abdullah
With National Conference (NC) patron Farooq
Abdullah caught on camera talking over mobile
phone while the national
anthem was being played
after the swearing-in ceremony of Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata, the Bharatiya Janata
Party on Saturday questioned Abdullah ‘if he was
talking to separatists to
figure out their national anthem.’”Obviously he
was more interested in
talking on the telephone
than being attentive to the
national anthem. I almost
question whether he was
talking to separatists to
figure out
what their national
anthem is because if you
can disrespect Jana Gana
Mana, it is most disrespectful to our great country as well,” BJP leaders
Shaina
Rajasthan home to
RTI memorial
Weird it may be, there
was a unique memorial celebration in the
Beawar town of Rajasthan — where the RTI
movement had started
20 years ago — at a time
when the Bharatiya Janata
Party government in the
State had opted to delete
chapters on the evolution
of RTI campaign and law
from its school textbooks.
Hundreds of people
from all walks of life, who
gathered at Chang Gate
in Beawar on Thursday
night to commemorate the
historic 40-day dharna of
1996 for RTI, witnessed
unveiling of the graceful-built memorial and
demanded
restoration
of chapters dealing with
common people’s contribution to RTI in the textbooks.
The dark blue memorial, is percahnce the only
structure of its kind in the
country, giving recognition to peasants and labourers who launched the
campaign for their right to
know about the way the
government functions and
spent the public money.
Students can check
their results on the
board’s results website
With National conference (NC) patron Farooq Abdullah caught on
camera talking on mobile phone while the national anthem was being
played after the swearing-in ceremony of Chief
Minister Mamta Banerjee in Kolkata, Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) leader
Subramanian Swamy on
Friday termed the act
as “breach of propriety”
and sought apology from
the leader.
“It is a breach of propriety and I believe Farooq Abdullah has done a
mistake and therefore he
should apologize for it.
This way you disrespect
the nation too. When the
national anthem is being
played all stood in respect without indulging
in other activity at that
time,” Swamy told
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Man murders his friend to blackmail
& extort money from another man
A man allegedly murdered his friend in northwest Delhi’s Bhalswa
Dairy area so that he
could blackmail and extort money from another
person in Bulandshahr
framing him for the murder, police said today.
The accused, identified
as Dhirender, has been arrested.
During interrogation, it
emerged that he was earlier involved in two murders. Dhirender, a native
of Bulandshahr, is married and has two children.
On Tuesday, Dhirender called his friend Sonu
for a party at a secluded
area and made him drink
whiskey for long. Once
drunk, he made Sonu call
up a woman known to
him and say inappropriate things to her. Dhirender made sure that Sonu
switches on his phone recorder before making the
call, police said.
The woman handed
over the phone to her
husband, Surender, who
could easily make out
that a drunken man was
harassing his wife over
phone. Surender threatened Sonu of dire consequences if he called up his
wife again.
During interrogation,
it came to light that it
was Surender who accused Dhirender’s actual target, a senior police
official said.
Once the call was disconnected,
Dhirender
allegedly hacked Sonu
to death, skillfully took
out his mobile’s memory card, which contained
the phone recording, and
left in his pocket a letter
expressing love for the
woman (Surender’s wife)
whom he had just called.
Police found Sonu’s
body the next morning
and registered a case of
murder. Sonu’s brother
told police that he had
left home for a meeting
with his friend Dhirender.
A police team was sent for
Dhirender and it emerged
that he was missing, police said.
A team was sent to
Bulandshahr too and it
emerged that Dhirender
had come home that day
but did not stay there.
He was finally arrested
yesterday from Swaroop
nagar area, DCP (northwest) Vijay Singh said.
During interrogation,
he told police that he possessed the audio recording of the last telephonic conversation among
Sonu, Surrender and his
wife, which includes the
threat given to Sonu.
With the help of that,
he was trying to extort
money from Surrender
and his brother, also
residents of Bulandshahr and known to him
for years, but did not
succeed so far.
School children take out a rally against drug abuse
“I can never forget those
40 days when we sat on a
dharnaorganised by the
MazdoorKisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) at Chang
Gate. I was preserving every moment of it through
my camera without a clue
that we were making history,” said Ashok Sain, an
activist.
The dharna, which lasted 40 days, went on to
become a movement for
transparency,
accountability and participatory
democracy and led to the
establishment of the National Campaign for People’s Right to Information
(NCPRI).
The movement forced
the Rajasthan government
to pass the State RTI Act in
2000, after which Parliament enacted the RTI Act
in 2005. Justice S.N. Bhargava, former Chief Justice
of Sikkim High Court, who
unveiled the memorial,
dedicated it to the people.
Holding placards bearing messages against drug
abuse, hundreds of school
children, along with members of judiciary, police
and administration, took
out a rally against the
menace on Friday.
Talking about drug
abuse in Punjab, Justice
Gurbir Singh, district and
sessions judge, said sen-
Class 10th CBSC
results out
The Central Board of
Secondary
Education
(CBSE) announced the
class X Board exam results today. The results
of all regions were declared simultaneously.
Earlier this month, Karnataka had sounded the
bird flu alert after it confirmed that the avian influenza (H5N1) virus caused
the death of thousands of
chickens in a farm in Bidar district and ordered
culling of about 1,30,000
chickens there.
English Daily
(http://cbseresults.nic.
in/)
Around 70% of the
students have opted for
the school-based exam.
With 2,91,371
candidates, Delhi has the highest number of registrations.
Students who opt-
ed for board-based
scheme appeared for
the examination between March 1 and
March 28 and those
who opted for schoolbased
examination
took the exams from
March 10 onwards.
sitising people about drug
abuse is one of the methods to keep them away
from this menace.
“This may be a small
effort; but like every drop
of water fills a pot, such efforts would certainly help
create a drug-free society,”
he added.
Appreciating
the
awareness programme,
Dr. P.D. Garg said, “Indeed,
Punjab is worst affected
by drug abuse, but besides
rehabilitating abusers, efforts should be made to
change their mindset.” He
President of the District
Bar Association Pardeep
Saini said the rally was
organised by the District
Legal Services Authority
(DLSA).
Lakhbir Singh said,
“Drug menace has gripped
the state badly and it is
high time that people
come forward to save society and state from its
clutches.”
Some of the participants opined that police
should break the nexus
between smugglers and
politicians to stop drug
smuggling from Pakistan.
While appreciating the
effort, Police Commissioner A.S. Chahal said, “Police
have not only been nabbing drug paddlers, are
also working on a comprehensive plan to offer assistance in rehabilitation of
drug abusers
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North Korea warns
South Korea
The North’s military
General Staff said from
now on would open fire
without warning at any
South Korean ships if they
intrude “even 0.001 millimetres” into disputed waters in the Yellow Sea. In
recent weeks, Pyongyang
has been urging Seoul to
accept leader Kim JongUn’s proposal for military talks aimed at easing
cross-border tensions.
Seoul has flatly rejected the offer, insisting that
the North should first take
a tangible step towards
ending its nuclear weapons programmes.
A South Korean naval
vessel fired warning shots
yesterday after a patrol
boat from the North and
a fishing boat crossed
the disputed sea border.
The North’s boats swiftly retreated. Both sides
complain of frequent incursions by the other and
there were minor naval
clashes in 1999, 2002 and
2009.
Anti-Donald rallies
in US
Waving U.S. and Mexican flags, more than
1,000 people turned out
for anti-trump rallies in
San Diego, a city on the
U.S.-Mexico border whose
San Ysidro port of entry
sees nearly 300,000 people a day cross legally
between the countries
Donald trump brought his
message of walls and deportations to the doorstep
of America’s busiest border crossing on Friday as
the presumptive Republican presidential nominee
greeted supporters in San
Diego, amid one of the
largest counter-protests
organized against him.
Clinton has shown no interest in debating Sanders
before the California primary, which will be part of
a final slate of nominating
contests. It is possible she
will clinch the nomination
by winning New Jersey
earlier that day, making
the outcome in California
superfluous.
The former U.S. secretary of state has said she
is looking forward to debating Trump later this
year ahead of the Nov. 8
general election.
Clinton leads Trump
by 4 percentage points in
the most recent Reuters/
Ipsos poll. Democrats nationally remain evenly
split between Clinton and
Sanders.
El Chapo appeals
extradition to US
Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman
has appealed the government’s decision to extradite him to the United
States to face narcotics
and murdercharges, officials and his lawyers.
Court documents said the
appeal was filed Thursday in Mexico City by two
lawyers for Guzman, who
is considered the world’s
most wanted drug boss
as leader of the Sinaloa
cartel.
“We have filed an appeal against the unconstitutional decision by the
ministry of foreign affairs,
against those who are in
a big hurry for ‘El Chapo’
Guzman to leave for the
United States,” said one
of the lawyers, Jose Luis
Gonzalez, in a press conference yesterday.
The government has 48
hours to respond, officials
said.
The appeal comes a
week after the foreign
ministry announced it had
agreed to extradite Guzman, who escaped from a
maximum-security prison
in July 2015 -- his second
dramatic jailbreak -- and
was recaptured in January.
EgyptAir flight MS804: No new signal from
jet since day of crash, search intensifies
Reports about the crash of the EgyptAir jet are
turning to be gloomy. No new radio signal has
been received from the EgyptAir jet since the day
it crashed in the Mediterranean on May 19, sources close to the investigation said on Friday.
According to reports on Thursday, it was said
that a new signal had allowed officials to further
get a lead on where the black box recorders might
be. But they said that nothing new had been detected since a radio signal picked up on the day
of the crash from the plane’s emergency locator
transmitter (ELT) that allowed officials to determine a broadly defined search zone of five km in
radius. “There has been nothing since day one,”
one of the sources said.
More than a week after the Airbus A320 crashed
with 66 people on board, including 30 Egyptians
and 15 from France, investigators have no
clear picture of its final moments. Search
teams were working against the clock to
recover the two flight recorders that will
offer vital clues on the fate of flight 804. The
acoustic signals that help locate them in deep
water stop transmitting after about 30 days.
Egypt’s ministry of civil aviation signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday with the
Mauritius-based Deep Ocean Search to help with
the search and retrieval process, according to a
ministry statement. It did not state when it would
Barack Obama Calls for a World
without Nukes from Hiroshima
A French official said the vessel would arrive
on Sunday or Monday. The vessel contains equipment from ALSEAMAR, a subsidiary of French industrial group Alcen, which can pick up black-box
pinger signals over long distances up to five km,
according to the company’s website.
These are separate from the signals transmitted
by the ELT, which sends a radio signal upon impact
that is not designed to continue emitting once the
plane is submerged underwater, said one of the
sources close to the investigation. The French vessel will conduct a deep-water search in
“four or five” areas within
the 5
k m
search
zone
where it’s believed to contain
the two black boxes, with the possibility of expanding the zone if nothing is to be detected, said
another of the sources.
President
Barack
Obama stood on the
hallowed ground of
Hiroshima on Friday
and declared it a fitting place to summon
people everywhere to
embrace the vision of a
world without nuclear
weapons in peace.
As the first American president to visit
the city where the U.S.
dropped the first atomic bomb, Obama came
to acknowledge, but
not apologize for an act
many Americans see as
a justified end to a brutal war that Japan started with a sneak attack
at Pearl Harbor.
Some 140,000 people died after a U.S.
warplane targeted wartime Hiroshima on Aug.
6, 1945, and 70,000
more perished in Nagasaki, where a second
bomb was dropped
three days later. Japan
soon surrendered to
them.
In a statement released
through state media, the General Staff of North Korea’s Korean
People’s Army called the South’s
action a “reckless military provocation” meant to kill the chances for dialogue between the
countries.
The KPA said that the North
Korean ships repelled by the
South Korean navy were unarmed and said it will directly
fire without warning at South
Korean warships if they intrude
the sea border by even 0.001
millimetres.
“This reckless military provocation was evidently prompted
by a premeditated sinister plot
to bedevil the North-South relations and further aggravate the
tension on the Korean Peninsula,” the KPA said about Friday’s
incident. South Korea’s navy on
Friday morning fired five rounds
of warning shots to chase away
a North Korean military vessel
and a fishing boat that briefly
crossed into South Korea-controlled waters. The South had
also fired warning shots after a
North Korean patrol boat moved
south of the boundary in February.
Minor incidents are not unusual on the western sea border,
which was drawn unilaterally
by the American-led U.N. command at the end of the 195053 Korean War and which the
North does not recognize. How-
ever, the Koreas have also fought
three bloody naval skirmishes in
the area since 1999.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of
Staff released a statement saying that the country’s military
followed proper procedures to
chase away the North Korean
ships and called the KPA’s claim
of the response being a military
provocation “ridiculous.”
Since North Korea held a rare
ruling party congress earlier
this month, it has been demanding the South accept its calls to
resume talks after months of animosities touched off by Pyongyang’s nuclear test in January
and long-range rocket launch in
February. South Korea has rejected the overture, saying the
North must show tangible commitment to nuclear disarmament first.
Colombian rebels free Spanish journalist
Salud Hernandez-Mora
is a journalist of Spain’s El
Mundo newspaper.
Spanish journalist Salud
Hernandez Mora who was kidnapped by left-wing National
Liberation Army, or ELNon may
21 in Catatumbu of Colombia
has been released.
The journalist was released
after a group of Roman Catholic
Church members mediated for
her release. The journalist was
handed over to the mediators in
the town of Ocana
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join the search. France’s BEA air crash investigation agency said French naval survey vessel Laplace had left Corsica on Thursday and was heading toward the search zone north of the Egyptian
port of Alexandria.
North Korea threatens South Korean ships
after sea border chase
South Korea has threatened
to fire at south Korean warships
if they cross a disputed western sea border a day after the
South’s navy fired warning shots
to chase away two North Korean ships that briefly crossed the
boundary.
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Hernandez-Mora was
reported missing after
she travelled to Catatumbo with the intention of
getting a story on the
country’s National Liberation Army (ELN) armed
group.
The journalist stated
categorically that she was kidnapped. “I would not voluntarily
have my family suffering for 10
days,” she said, acknowledging
that while she might be temporarily out of touch due to technical problems or the demands of
a story, she would not willingly
spend six days isolated.
“I got on a motorcycle. I have
always been reckless. A reporter
has to be reckless, but relatively
reckless,” she said, adding “We
changed motorcycles several
times looking for the rebels.”
After the rebels appeared
“They told me ‘you’re going to
stay with us a few days’ and they
took all my things,” Hernandez-Mora continued.
She said she was in five different locations during the six days
she spent with the ELN fighters.
When asked about the two
Noticias RCN correspondents
who were also abducted by
the ELN while in Catatumbo to
report on her disappearance,
Hernandez-Mora said she was
unable to see them during her
captivity.
The two journalists were
however released within few
hours of her release.
`Their
s o u l s
s p e a k
to
us,’’
Obama
said
of
the dead.
``They ask
us to look
inward, to
take stock
of who we
are and
who we
might become.’’
With a noble speech
and a warm embrace
for an elderly survivor,
Obama renewed the
call for a nuclear-free
future that he had
first laid out in a 2009
speech in Prague.
This time, Obama
spoke as a far more
experienced president
than the one who had
employed his upbeat
``Yes, we can’’ campaign
slogan on the first goround.
The president, who
has made uneven progress on his nuclear
agenda over the past
seven years, spoke of
``the courage to escape
the logic of fear’’ as he
held out hope for assiduous, incremental
steps to reduce nuclear
stockpiles.
``We may not realize
this goal in my lifetime,
but persistent effort
can roll back the possibility of catastrophe,’’
he said.
Obama spent less
than two hours in Hiroshima but seemed
to accomplish what he
came for. It was a motive meant to close old
wounds without inflaming new passions
on a subject still fraught
after all these years.
In a solemn ceremony
on a sunny afternoon,
Obama and Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe placed wreaths
before the cenotaph,
a simple arched stone
monument at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial
Park. Only the clicking
of camera shutters intruded the moment as
Obama closed his eyes
and briefly bowed his
head.
Then, after each leader gave a brief remark,
Obama approached the
two aging survivors of
the bombing who were
seated in the front row.
Ninety-one-year-old
SunaoTsuboi, the head
of a survivors group,
enthusiastically
engaged the president in
conversation,
telling
Obama he would be
remembered as someone who listened to the
voice of a few survivors.
He urged him to come
back and meet more.
``He was holding
my hands until the
end,’’ Tsuboi said. ``I
was almost about to
ask him to stop holding my hands, but he
wouldn’t.’’
Obama
stepped
over to meet historian Shigeaki Mori, Just
8 when the bomb hit,
Mori had to hold back
tears at the emotion of
the moment.
Obama patted him on
the back and wrapped
him in a warm embrace.
From there, Obama and
Abe walked along a
tree-lined path toward
a river that flows by the
iconic A-bomb dome,
the skeletal remains of
an exhibition hall that
stands as silent testimony to the awful power of the bomb blast 71
years ago and as a symbol for international
peace.
Abe welcomed the
president’s
message
and offered his own determination ``to realize
a world free of nuclear
weapons, no matter
how long or how difficult the road will be.’’
Obama received a
Nobel Peace Prize early in his presidency for
his anti-nuclear agenda
but has seen fluctuating progress. The president can point to last
year’s Iran nuclear deal
and a weapons treaty
with Russia. But North
Korea’s nuclear program still looms as a
threat, hopes for a pact
for further weapons
reductions with Russia have stalled. Critics
also blame the administration for planning
big and costly program
to upgrade U.S. nuclear
stockpiles.
Just as Obama had
delicate
sensitivities
to manage in Hiroshima, Abe did too. The
Japanese leader made
a point to dismiss any
suggestion that he pay
a reciprocal visit to
Pearl Harbor.
Abe did not rule
out coming to Hawaii
someday, but clearly
wanted to avoid any
notion of moral equivalence.
In
Japan, Pearl
Harbor
is
not seen as
a parallel for
the
bombings of Hiroshima
and
Nagasaki, but
as an attack
on a military
installation
that did not
target civilians.
Bomb
survivor
Kinuyo Ikegami, 82
paid her own respects
at the cenotaph early
Friday, before the politicians arrived.
``I could hear school
children
screaming:
`Help me! Help me!’’’
she said, tears running
down her face. ``It was
too pitiful, too horrible. Even now it fills me
with emotion.’’
Obama went out of
his way, in speaking
of the dead, to mention that thousands
of Koreans and a dozen American prisoners were among those
who died. It was a nod
to advocates for both
groups who had publicly warned the president not to forget about
them in Hiroshima.
In a brief visit to the
museum at the peace
park, Obama visited a
display about a young
girl who survived the
bombing but died
several years later of
Leukaemia. She folded paper cranes in the
hospital until she was
alive and is the inspiration for the story of Sadako and the thousand
cranes.
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SPORTS
Injury Scare for Lionel Messi
Messi was taken to hospital after suffering an injury
scare on Friday as Argentina defeated Honduras
1-0 in their only warm-up
game before next month’s
Copa America Centenario
in the United States.
A first-half goal from
in-form Napoli striker
Gonzalo Higuain settled a
low-key encounter in San
Juan, with two-time world
champions Argentina
dominating possession and
shots, the result was overshadowed by
an alarming
incident involving Messi
midway
through the
second half
that forced
the Barcelona
superstar to leave the field
clutching his lower back in
pain. The five-time FIFA
World Player of the Year
appeared to be hurt after a
heavy aerial collision with
an opposing player in the
59th minute.
Messi was taken to hospital to assess the nature of
the injury, the Argentina
Football Association.
Messi has suffered trauma
to his lower back on the
left side and ribcage in
the same area. He is being
examined in a local hospital for a more thorough
diagnosis.
However, any injury to
Messi will be a huge blow
to Argentina as they
prepare for their opening
Copa America Centenario match against Chile in
California on June 6.
The 28-year-old Argentina captain missed two
months of last season’s club
campaign for Barcelona after suffering a serious knee
injury in September.
Messi is also due to return
to Spain this weekend to
attend a hearing in his tax
fraud trial, before then
jetting off to California to
reunite with the Argentina
squad.
Barnsley likely to be in play-off final
The Reds return to Wembley for the second time this
season, after winning the
Johnston’s Paint Trophy in
April, and caretaker boss
Paul Heckingbottom has
a strong squad to choose
from. Barnsley has no fresh
selection concerns as they
aim to win promotion to
the Sky Bet Championship
via the League One playoff final against Millwall.
He has picked the same
side for the last five match-
es and is likely to keep
faith again, though James
Bree, George Smith (both
hamstring) and Marley Watkins is fit again.
Millwall defender Byron
Webster is a major doubt
after he limped off in the
second leg of their tie
against Bradford. Webster
suffered a hamstring strain
and will be given as long as
possible to prove his fitness.
Club captain Tony Craig
or youngster Sid Nelson
will step in at centre-half if
Webster does not make it.
Veteran Carlos Edwards
will continue at rightback as Mahlon Romeo is still suspended.
BUSINESS
Bank of Queensland
Director resigns
Bank of Queensland non-executive director Neil Berkett,
has resigned.
The bank did not disclose the details of Mr Berkett's
resignation, which takes effect from May 31, but
said the former Virgin Media chief executive
provided the board with important insight across a range of issues that have
impacted over the past three years.
Bank of Queensland announced a $15 million
structural review in
February involving
organised operations to
erase out
duplication
of roles,
following
its assets
over the
past three
years.
Telstra customers demand
discount after outage
Telstra customers prefer a discount on
their phone bill rather than ‘free data day’
after recent outage in the service.
Telstra customers have declined an offer
of a free data day in compensation for yet
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STRUTTING INTO FINALS
The most watched local league in T20, the
Indian Premier League (IPL) 2016, is on
its way to the finals. The Royal Challengers Bangalore
will be facing
the
Sunrisers
Hyderabad.
The Sunrisers
Hyderabad triumphed over
the Gujarat Lions last Friday.
I n i t i a l ly, fans were
keen to witness which team’s strength
will prove to be more powerful.
On the other side, Royal Challengers
Bangalore made good on their promise to make it to the IPL Final 2016. Captain Virat Kohli’s dreams of winning the
IPL 2016 title may not have been futile.
Peppered with losses, Kohli remained
defiant and brought his cricket game
to a new level. Leading the team, they
have succeeded to get over the 5 losses and settling in the seventh place.
Defeated
the
Gujarat
Lions
before securing
their final spot
at the IPL Finals.
If the finals will
be a one-man
show for both
teams,
stats
show that SRH
captain
Warner may bow down to RCB’s Kohli. Warner has clocked in 779 runs for 16 games
while Kohli has 919 runs in 15 games.
The IPL Final 2016 match between Royal
Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad is set to be around 1:00AM NSW
Monday, 30 May (8:00PM IST, Sunday 29
May) at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Risen star in the french open
A French Open that had promised so much
for rising star Nick Kyrgios ended with the
fiery Australian
conceding
he
was “absolutely
destroyed” by
French
nemesis
Richard
Gasquet.The
17th seed entered the clay
court grand slam
as a dark horse
on the back of promising performances on
clay in reaching the semi-finals in Estoril
and quarter-finals at the Madrid Masters.
He also walked into Roland Garros with
the second-best record against top-10 players in 2016, behind only raging
hot favourite and
world number one
Novak Djokovic.
But the 6-2, 7-6
(9/7), 6-2 thumping at the hands
of Gasquet highlights that the talented 21-year-old
still has another level he needs to reach
before grand slam glory will come his way.
Google overrides Oracle in copyright case
Google saves $9b in a major case
against Oracle Corp over Java
development platforms in the Android software stream.
A US jury has handed Google a
major victory in a long-running
copyright battle with Oracle Corp
over Android software which is
used to run most of the world’s
smartphones.
The jury on Thursday without opposition upheld claims by Google
that its use of Oracle’s Java development platform to create Android
was protected under the fair-use
provision of copyright law, bringing trial to a close without Oracle
winning any of the $9 billion
($A12.47 billion) in damages it
requested for.
Oracle said it saw many factors to
another network outage, preferring instead
for a discount on their phone bill.
‘Our feedback from the customers was they
weren’t that interested in another data free
day so we won’t be doing that,’ chief operating officer Kate McKenzie said.
‘But we are having individual conversations
with individual customers who have been
impacted, and we’ll talk to them about an
appropriate apology.’
Some Telstra customers have received a
$25 credit on their phone bill, Ms McKenzie said, and some customers still affected
by the outage have been offered free modems as compensation.
The latest problems began on the evening
appeal and would do so.
‘We strongly believe that Google
developed Android by illegally
copying core Java technology to
rush into the mobile device market,’ Oracle general counsel Dorian
Daley said in a statement.
Alphabet Inc’s Google in a statement called the verdict a win for
the Android ecosystem, for the
Java programming community,
and for software developers who
rely on open and free programming languages to build innovative
consumer products.
The trial was closely observed by
software developers, who feared
an Oracle victory could spur more
software copyright lawsuits in the
later run.
Google relied on high-profile
witnesses like Alphabet executive
chairman Eric Schmidt to convince
jurors, it used Java to create its own
innovative product, rather than
steal another company’s intellectual property, as Oracle claimed.
A trial in 2012 ended in a deadlocked jury. In the retrial at US
of May 19, Restricting NBN and ADSL
users from connecting to the internet.
At the peak of the outage early the following morning, some 370,000 customers were affected. By the weekend, about
15,000 customers were still experiencing
problems, according to Telstra.
The outage was Telstra’s fourth since February 9 and subsequently, Telstra suffered
a smaller network issue on the morning of
May 22, which was blamed on a piece of
faulty hardware.
Telstra, which claims to have the best network in the country, said the cause of the
latest major outage was ‘extremely complex’.
District Court in San Francisco,
Oracle said Google’s Android operating system violated its copyright
on parts of Java. Alphabet’s Google
unit said it should be able to use
Java without paying a fee under
fair use.
After the first trial, US District
Judge William Alsup ruled that the
elements of Java at issue were not
entitled for copyright protection at
all.
A federal appeals court disagreed
in 2014, ruling that computer
language that connects programs
- known as application programming interfaces, or APIs - can be
copyrighted.
A flood of copyright lawsuits has
failed to transpire in the two years
since that federal appeals court ruling, suggesting Oracle’s lawsuit will
not ultimately have a wide impact
on the sector.
Under US copyright law, ‘fair use’
allows limited use of material without acquiring permission from the
rights holder for purposes such as
research.
It said there was a fault with the hardware
that manages the interaction between its
network and all of the different types of
customer modems.
No customers have left Telstra because
of network outages, Ms McKenzie said.
Amid calls for the company to increase its
spending on its network, she said Telstra’s
multi-billion dollar network investment is
sufficient for now.
‘Obviously we will do a review of all of this,
if we think we need to spend more money
we will, but mostly this is not a money issue,’ Ms McKenzie said. Telstra earlier this
month pledged to spend an additional $50
million on improving its network.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Priyanka Chopra
to announce her
next big
Hollywood
Project
director for
Director Neeraj Vohra
who would have done the
project “Hera Pheri 3”
with John Abraham and
Akshay Kumar, but the
two didn’t agree to do the
project.
But still ‘Hera Pheri’ is
coming back again on Theatres, directed by Ahmed
“Superstar”,
which
was written by the rapper, just released a week
before the big event’s
“It’s an honour to team
up with Copa America
Centenario and an upcoming superstar like
America soccer tournament a Latin flavour.
“Music is the universal
language, and soccer is
the world’s sport,” said
Pitbull.
HERA PHERI 3
khan as ‘Hera Pheri 3”. Akshay Kumar , Sunil Shetty
and Paresh Rawal as Raju,
Ghyanshyam and Baburao
Ganpatrao Apte will besharing the screen.
A source close to the
film told a newspaper
that other issues around
the movie have been re-
solved. He said, “All issues
including the ones Akshay
had with the producer
Firoz Nadiadwala have
been sorted. Neeraj will
focus on the screenplay
and script while Ahmed
is directing it. The film
will roll from October this
year. The script that was
written around Abhishek
and John earlier has also
been drastically modified
to suit Akshay, Sunil and
Paresh. The film will begin from where ‘Phir Hera
Pheri’ ended with Raju
fleeing with the gun. Now
Baburao and Ghyanshyam
will be searching for him.”
Careful What You Wish For!
First trailer is out
Careful What You Wish For! The 23-year-old
actor/singer Nick Jonas first new trailer is out.
According to the report film might reach theatres on June 10. Dermot Mulroney, Isabel Lucas
is also on the main lead with Nick Jonas.
The trailer shows that the film follows a guy
who gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker.
Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life
insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.
The trailer has created a curiosity on the
viewers made increased expectations.
2016 gets its soccer anthem
kick-off at Levi’s Stadium
in Santa Clara, California,
reported Contactmusic.
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Ahmed Khan replaces Neeraj Vohra as
Priyanka Chopra who has established herself as a leading actress of
Indian cinema. She made her Bollywood debut in 2003 spy thriller The
Hero.
The same year, Chopra’s role
in the box-office hit musical
Andaaz won her the Filmfare
Award for Best Female Debut
and also Priyanka Chopra was
the first Indian artist to majorly
cross over to the West and to feature
in a prime time American show .
She is all set in making her Hollywood
debut with ‘Baywatch’
with
superstars
D w a y n e
Johnsonand
Zac Effron
. Baywatch
is the film
version of the
popular 1990s
TV series of the
same name. And Priyanka, who has garnered
success in the international fiction TV
space with Quantico, will
be seen in a negative role in the
movie.
And now,
the rumour
is spreading
that
Priyanka is
in talks for
her second
H o l ly wo o d
film,
which
will again see
her in a pivotal role.
As opposed to rumours
of Priyanka being part of the Bond
franchise, official sources clarify that
the actress has not auditioned for the
film at all.
Pitbull and Becky G
come together to make
the official anthem of the
100th anniversary of the
Copa
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Becky G, who I’m very
proud of.”
This isn’t Pitbull’s first
soccer anthem - he has
shared the stage with
Jennifer Lopez and Claudia Leite at the 2014
World Cup opening ceremony in Brazil, singing
“We Are One (Ole Ola).”
Meanwhile, his new
singing partner Becky G,
who is reportedly dating Los Angeles-based
soccer star Sebastian
Lletget, said, “I grew up
watching the Copa America with my grandfather,
so to say I’m excited to
perform at this worldclass soccer event, in my
home country, is an understatement.
Kendasampige wins 10 Nominations
In the South Indian International
Movie Awards (SIIMA), Suri directed Kemdasampige has bagged 10
nominations which is the highest
for any Kannada film until now.
The awards function is scheduled for June 30 and July 1 in Singapore. Films from south Indian
languages participate in this film
awards. Apart from Kendasampige
other films which have bagged high
number of nominations are Baahubali and Srimanthudu in Telugu, Oh
Kanmani in Tamil and Premam in
Malayalam.
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HOME DECOR
Terrariums!
Terrariums first came into existence in the Victorian era and now
they are enjoying a newfound resurgence fueled in the part by their
affordability and their simplicity.
In the midst of thriving greenery, if only could be nurture a plant
successfully perhaps a “self-watering plant”. These are nothing
but Terrariums, partially of fully
closed. This creates a dynamic exchange between oxygen and carbon dioxide, evaporation and condensation.
How to create a Terrariums:
This is a fun and easy way to
make at the same time very easy
to maintain. Irrespective of the climate and the space it could be for a
large expansive house or your teeny tiny apartment.
Before you begin: Know your
plants and have them according
to their environmental needs (eg
succulents or cacti). If you plan
to
plant
sun
loving plants
make sure
you use an
open bowl
or container. If you
choose for
more
humid plants
then
opt
for closed
bowls
or
bowls with
a considerably smaller opening
or
simple
closed glass
containers.
Be sure to
opt for slow
growing
plants.
• Remove your plant from the old
container and brush off the loose
soil around the roots.
• Begin by placing drainage at the
bottom of the container,( small
stones and crushed charcoal to
help keep soil fresh.
• Mist your terrariums daily to
provide ample humidity.
Materials you need: Clean Glass
containers or bowls large enough
openings to place plants, small
stones, sand, soil, plats, crushed
charcoals and landscaping accessories.
• Pour a layer of sand across the
top of the pebbles.
• Add soil making sure to create a
hole large enough for the roots of
each plant. But remember that creating sand and soil uneven layers
look great. But pay close attentions
to the levels around the edges as
this is what you will see from outside the terrariums.
• Step 1-3 should equal about onethird the height if your selected
container with the soil layer being
the thickest.
• Place your plant in your new
terrariums be careful not to over
plant!.
• Once the plant is placed slightly
pat the soil.
• And your beautiful terrarium is
done!
Maintenance:
• Water 1-2 times per week, water only the live plants and avoid
the mosses. For an open terrarium,
the soil should always remain barel moist, never bone dry.
• Closed terrariums should almost never need watering (depending on the plantyou have opted)
• Prune back dead foliage or
overgrown plants as needed to
prevent rotting.
• Terrariums thrive natural indirect light. Avoid placing in the
direct sunlight or other hot areas
as you can actually cook the plants
or burn foliage that is touching the
edges of the vessel.
Types of plants that can be used
for terrariums:
•
Moon valley friendship
plants: Provides delicate patterning with deeply textured craters
and valleys on two toned leaves,
which are tined on the underside.
(Scientific
vcrata)
name:
pileainvolu-
• Variegated Spider Fern: seems
to glow in a terrarium, thanks to
the shine of its glossy leaves. A
broad yellow center band on each
leaf supplies visual interest for
the easy-growing fern. (Scientific
name: ArachnoidesSimlicior var-
iegate)
• Starfish plant : it is
a member of the bromeliad family. The straplike
leaves nearly glow with
iridescent strips, which
range from red to maroon, white, and deep
green. ;the plant also has
tiny flowers. The colour
of the leaf changes with
the intensity of the sunlight and its slow growing nature. (Scientific
name :CryptanthusBivittatus)
• Nerve Plant: Nerve
plant is a tropical choice
with distinctively patterned leaves in burgundy and green. It thrives
under the moist, warm
air of a terrarium and
will only reach 12 inches when fully mature.
(Scientific name: FittoniaVerschaffeltuvar. Argyroneura)
• Variegata: its foillage
has a little colour variation, but the textured ripples or wrinkles on the
leaves of peperomiuacaperata ‘variegata’ provide welcome contrast
to terrarium plants that
may be patterned with
colour.It can be divide
easily by cutting a leaf.
(Scientific name: PeperomiaCaperata ‘variegata’)
TRAVEL
UNSEEN PARADISE: AULI
The morning we woke
up early to go to Auli, a very
well known skiing destination. As we stepped outside we were greeted by
the morning sun shining on
the snow clad peaks giving
them a golden hue.
Auli is a steep 17 km uphill climb from Joshimath
that takes one from an elevation of 6500 feet above
sea level to an elevation of
10200 feet above sea level.
The road was narrow, steep
and winding with sharp
curves and bends. The drive
takes one through the establishment of the Indian
Army’s Ibex Brigade who
are specialists in high altitude warfare. Men from this
brigade did wonders in the
Kargil war.
After passing through
the Army establishment we
entered the local unit area
of the Indo Tibetian Border
Police(ITBP) who are designated with the task of being
the Sentinels of the Himalayas. It is incredible that
the mighty Himalayas who
have faithfully guarded India against invasions from
the north since forever also
need sentinels. The road
to Auli is a good one and is
maintained by the Army.
The chill in the air increased sharply as we
steadily gained in altitude
and devoured kilometer
after kilometer. The road
passes through a temperate coniferous forest comprising mostly Deodar and
Golden Oak. With every
meter gained in altitude
the road offers fascinating
views of the greatest physical feature on the face of the
Earth.
After about 40 minutes
of driving we reached Cliff
Top Inn the terminal point
of the road. The place was
just awesome. We have all
seen the Alpine meadows
of Europe in Bollywood
movies
A trip to the Uttarakhand
Himalayas had been in the
offing for a long time. It was
realized during the long
Easter weekend.The destination agreed upon was
Auli, a well known skiing
resort in the Garhwal Himalayas. The Garhwal roads
and soon we were speeding
up the long and winding NH
58 that terminates at Mana,
the last human settlement
on the Indian side of the
Indo Tibetian border.
Mana is 4 kilometers
north of the holy shrine of
Badrinath. The climb became steeper after Rishikesh which is 24 km from
Haridwar. The highway follows the Ganga by keeping
on the sides of the valley
that the river has carved in
the rocky landscape of the
Garhwal Himalayas over
millions of years. The Ganga
in the Himalayas is a sight to
behold-youthful and pure,
she is the embodiment of
everything that is pure and
beautiful.
The emerald green waters give the impression of
extreme serenity but the
impetuous nature of the
current is exposed at the
many rapids that she encounters throughout the Himalayan leg of her journey.
The white sand banks are
a stark contrast to the dark
rocky cliffs that rise almost
vertically from her banks.
. The NH is cut through
the mountains that rise
from the right banks of the
Ganga and afford some of
the most inspiring views of
the river. The sight of the
water shimmering as the
first rays of the Sun touch
the waters of river goddess
is a treat to the eyes of the
city dweller. It is almost as if
the day is seeking blessings
from her. The highway consistently gains in altitude
after Byasi but the Ganga is
never out of sight.
Over centuries she has
guided many a pilgrim to
the holy temples that are
nestled deep in the Himalayas. After about 90 minutes
of continuous driving we
reached the holy settlement
of Devprayag where the
two holy streams of the Bhagirathi and the Alaknanda
meet to form the river that
provides life, nourishment
and salvation to a billion people. The two
streams give into
each other and the
combined
stream
created is officially
known as the Ganga.
The confluence of the
sparkling green waters of the Bhagirathi
and the muddy green
waters of the Alaknanda is a sight to
behold. Legend has it
that when the Ganga
descended upon the Earth
her stream got distributed into two currents,i.e,
the Bhagirathi and the Alaknanda. The Bhagirathi
flows out from the snout of
the Gangotri glacier which
is widely recognized as the
source of the Ganga. The Alaknanda rises from the Satopanth and Bhagirath glaciers a little above the holy
shrine of Badrinath. It must
be noted that the Alaknanda carries a greater volume
of water than the Bhagirathi and the all the holy
Panch Prayags(Devparayag,
Rudraprayag,
Karnprayag, Nandprayag and Vishnuprayag) are confluences
of the Alaknanda with other
streams. The famous Tehri
Dam is constructed on the
Bhagirathi.
Legend has it that the
town was founded by the
Shankaracharya in the 8th
century AD. Joshimath is
also the winter abode of
Lord Badrinath and is also
the base for some of the
most beautiful Himalayan
treks which include the Valley of Flowers, Hemkund
Sahib Auli and Badrinath.
We spent the evening and
the night at Joshimath before leaving for Auli the next
morning.
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