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CITY<br />
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CITY<br />
LIVE ELECTRIC LINE<br />
TURNS FATAL FOR<br />
LABOURER<br />
A labourer was killed instantly<br />
after he fell from the<br />
top of an electric pole while<br />
trying to provide electricity<br />
to the new building of the<br />
town municipal complex as<br />
he came in contact with a live<br />
feeder.<br />
The deceased has been<br />
identified as Subramanya<br />
Dondya (55). Dondya was<br />
working for an electric contractor<br />
since seven years.<br />
Injuries to the head and profound<br />
bleeding are found to<br />
be the main reasons for his<br />
death. Locals alleged that the<br />
inhuman attitude by the contractor<br />
has led to his untimely<br />
death.<br />
He is survived by wife,<br />
three sons. The body has<br />
been shifted to the taluk hospital.<br />
A case has been registered<br />
against the contractor<br />
Arun Sen citing negligence<br />
while executing the electric<br />
works.<br />
TWO KILLED IN BIKE-<br />
CAR COLLISION<br />
Two persons died after<br />
their bike was hit by a car<br />
near Bacchanahalli Bridge on<br />
Thursday. The deceased are<br />
identified as Manjunath (30)<br />
and Mohan (22). Both are<br />
residents of Devavanahalli.<br />
The accident occurred when<br />
they were on their way to<br />
work in Bengaluru. The driver<br />
of the car is absconding<br />
and KIAL police have registered<br />
a case.<br />
PROFS RECRUITMENT<br />
TO BE HALTED AT MY-<br />
SURU VARSITY<br />
The University of Mysore’s<br />
move to carry out<br />
recruitment for more than<br />
200 teaching posts has been<br />
stymied by the State government.<br />
In a letter to the<br />
university’s Vice-Chancellor<br />
K.S. Rangappa, the Additional<br />
Chief Secretary to the Higher<br />
Education Department,<br />
Bharat Lal Meena, has directed<br />
the university to halt the<br />
process of recruitment until<br />
further orders. In a notification<br />
issued on June 24, had<br />
invited applications to fill up<br />
the backlog as well as current<br />
vacancies for teaching posts<br />
in the postgraduate departments,<br />
postgraduate centres<br />
and constituent colleges of<br />
the university.<br />
CAR AND LORRY<br />
COLLISION ON STATE<br />
HIGHWAY 73<br />
A car rammed into a lorry<br />
that was parked on the side<br />
of the road. Three people<br />
have been critically injured<br />
in the accident. One of the<br />
woman commuters in the car<br />
died on the spot due to the<br />
impact of the accident. The<br />
others have been admitted to<br />
a local hospital.<br />
A case has been registered<br />
with the Gandasee police station.<br />
HC tells BBMP to take<br />
action against unauthorized<br />
construction of<br />
temple<br />
The high court on<br />
Wednesday directed BBMP<br />
to take action against the unauthorized<br />
construction of<br />
a temple in the government<br />
primary school premises at<br />
Herohalli village, Bengaluru<br />
Urban district. A division<br />
bench headed by Chief Justice<br />
Subhro Kamal Mukherjee<br />
passed the order while<br />
disposing off a PIL filed by<br />
Hanumantharayappa and<br />
others. In the statement filed<br />
by K D Deshpande, head of<br />
legal cell, BBMP, the civic<br />
body admitted the Basaveshwara<br />
Temple committee had<br />
started building the temple.<br />
But the construction was<br />
stopped after a notice was<br />
issued to the committee on<br />
June 16.<br />
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MYSURU WARRIORS AND KALISU<br />
FOUNDATION DONATE LIBRARY<br />
Mysuru: With a commitment<br />
towards holistic<br />
development of the society,<br />
Karnataka Premier<br />
League’s Mysuru Warriors<br />
in association with<br />
Kalisu Foundation donated<br />
a library to the Sharadavilas<br />
Government<br />
Higher Primary School.<br />
It is the second library to<br />
be donated to a government<br />
school by Mysuru<br />
Warriors, Mysuru’s very<br />
own KPL team. The objective<br />
is to extend support<br />
towards providing<br />
high quality education to<br />
children studying in government<br />
schools.<br />
Kalisu Foundation, the<br />
cause partners of Mysuru<br />
Warriors team played<br />
a pivotal role in conceptualizing<br />
the library. Senior<br />
Journalist Vikram<br />
Muthanna handed over<br />
the library to the school<br />
authorities. R. Guru,<br />
Chairman, NR Group and<br />
Ravish, Principal, Sharadavilas<br />
Government<br />
Higher Primary School,<br />
Mysuru graced the occasion<br />
as Guests of Honour.<br />
R. Guru, Chairman of<br />
NR Group said, “Out of all<br />
the things that can take<br />
our society forward, education<br />
is undoubtedly<br />
the most important. We<br />
are glad to be a catalyst in<br />
bringing about a change<br />
in the lives of children and<br />
thereby build a strong<br />
future for our country,”<br />
added Guru. Speaking<br />
after handing over the library<br />
Vikram Muthanna<br />
said, “This initiative will<br />
not only help kids learn<br />
more than their classroom<br />
education, but also<br />
will help the families gain<br />
knowledge through children.<br />
We congratulate<br />
Mysuru Warriors and Kalisu<br />
Foundation for providing<br />
the students with<br />
this amenity”.<br />
‘MILESTONE 25’ MARKS THE LAND<br />
TRADES BUILDERS SILVER JUBILEE<br />
Mangaluru: The<br />
launching ceremony for<br />
‘Milestone 25’, the latest<br />
project by Land Trades<br />
builders, marking the silver<br />
jubilee milestone of<br />
the company, was held<br />
at Balmatta on Thursday.<br />
The religious rituals<br />
were performed by<br />
Kadri Shankar Bhat and<br />
the ground-breaking<br />
ceremony was done by<br />
Mohan Amin. The dignitaries<br />
also launched the<br />
brochure of the project<br />
on the occasion.<br />
Srinath Hebbar, managing<br />
director of Land<br />
Trades, corporators of<br />
Mangaluru, Lancelot Pinto,<br />
Ashok Kumar DK, former<br />
mayor Shashidhar<br />
Hegde, CA Hariram Shenoy,<br />
Udayavani bureau<br />
chief Manohar Prasad,<br />
industrialist Mahesh<br />
Chandra and others were<br />
present on the occasion.<br />
Situated at the site of the<br />
former ‘Indra Bhavan’,<br />
‘Milestone 25’ is a unique<br />
commercial development<br />
featuring imaginative<br />
design and distinctive<br />
architecture. With an<br />
attractive frontage and<br />
well planned interiors,<br />
the project is poised to be<br />
the cynosure of all eyes in<br />
its part of the town. It is<br />
designed by architect Peter<br />
Mascarenhas of Archi<br />
Technics.<br />
The project is promising<br />
and the premium<br />
spaces have generated<br />
good buyer interest.<br />
MFAR Constructions has<br />
been assigned with the<br />
task of project execution.<br />
The structural work will<br />
be done by Anagha Engineering<br />
Consultants.<br />
Due to its prime location,<br />
excellent features and<br />
facilities, ‘Milestone 25’<br />
appeals to investors and<br />
entrepreneurs alike.<br />
The ground floor is<br />
spacious and ideally suited<br />
for mega showrooms<br />
and retail outlets. The<br />
upper storeys are best<br />
meant for corporate offices<br />
and retailing outlets. A<br />
section of the structure is<br />
being specially developed<br />
to serve as consultation<br />
chambers professionals<br />
like doctors, chartered<br />
accountants and advocates.<br />
Spaces ranging<br />
from 335 square feet<br />
to 3544 square feet are<br />
available in the building<br />
for a variety of users.<br />
DABAK DABAA AISA TO SIZZLE ON<br />
SILVER SCREENS SOON<br />
Mangaluru: A handful<br />
of film makers’ industry,<br />
the Tulu film industry is<br />
all set for another blockbuster?<br />
If the official information<br />
is true then the<br />
much-awaited Tulu film<br />
‘Dabak Dabaa Aisa’ is all<br />
set to hit theatres across<br />
Dakshina Kannada and<br />
Udupi districts on August<br />
5.<br />
The film is produced<br />
under the banner of Jaya<br />
Kirana Films; the movie<br />
is the maiden directorial<br />
venture of Prakash Pandeshwar,<br />
starring Devadas<br />
Kapikad,Naveen D.<br />
Padil, Bhojaraj Vamanjoor<br />
in lead roles. The<br />
film has excellent social<br />
messages besides comedy,<br />
tailor-made for the<br />
entire family. The film has<br />
been produced at a cost<br />
of Rs 60 lakh and shot at<br />
a stretch for 21 days in<br />
the coastal regions of Suratkal,<br />
Bondel and Shakthinagar.<br />
The brilliant cinematography<br />
of Utpal Nayar<br />
continues in this film<br />
with no compromise in<br />
quality. There are four<br />
songs in the film and<br />
music CDs are already in<br />
demand. Namma Kudla’s<br />
talent Rajesh M Mangaluru<br />
has provided the<br />
music. Devadas Kapikad,<br />
Kadri Navaneet Shetty,<br />
Virendra Shetty Kavooru<br />
and Shishiraj Kavoor<br />
have composed lyrics for<br />
the four songs in the film.<br />
Dr. Hansraj Alva and journalist<br />
Manohar Prasad<br />
will also make guest appearances.<br />
Shashiraj Kavoor has<br />
penned the dialogues for<br />
the film. Nayanar is the<br />
man behind the lens and<br />
art by Tamma Nayanar.<br />
Producer and director<br />
Prakash Pandeshwar has<br />
expressed confidence<br />
that the two hour-long<br />
film will provide complete<br />
entertainment to<br />
the audience.<br />
GIRLS PREFERRED OVER BOYS FOR ADOPTION<br />
Bengaluru: There is a<br />
steep increase in adoption<br />
of children. People<br />
wait for even more than<br />
two years to adopt children.<br />
The number of children<br />
available for adoption<br />
is less than 1/4th of<br />
the demand. For the last<br />
two years, that is during<br />
2014-<strong>15</strong> and 20<strong>15</strong>-16<br />
(April to March) 378 babies<br />
were adopted across<br />
the State in which there<br />
were 238 female and 140<br />
males. There are nearly<br />
1284 couples who are<br />
eagerly waiting to adopt<br />
children.<br />
Every year a few orphaned,<br />
abandoned or<br />
surrendered children end<br />
up in orphanages that facilitate<br />
adoption. They<br />
can be adopted by following<br />
the procedures put in<br />
place by the government<br />
of India. In 2014-<strong>15</strong> and<br />
20<strong>15</strong>-16, 204 and 174<br />
children were adopted<br />
in the State respectively.<br />
Not only those who do<br />
not have kids adopt the<br />
children, but even those<br />
who are having their own<br />
kids adopt them. Over<br />
the years, the demand for<br />
adoption has increased.<br />
Young couples in the age<br />
group of 30 to 32 years<br />
are getting registered<br />
their names for adoption.<br />
More female children<br />
are being adopted than<br />
male and more than 80<br />
percent of the adopted<br />
children are in the 0 to 2<br />
years age group.<br />
The eligibility criteria<br />
for a couple to adopt children<br />
are:<br />
• They should be<br />
physically, mentally and<br />
emotional stable and financially<br />
capable.<br />
• No child can be<br />
adopted by a couple unless<br />
they have at least two<br />
years of stable marital relationship.<br />
• Couples in livein<br />
relationship are not<br />
eligible to adopt a child.<br />
• To adopt a child<br />
in the age group of 0-3<br />
years, the maximum<br />
composite age of the parents<br />
should be 90 years,<br />
while the individual age<br />
of the either of the parent<br />
should not be less than<br />
25 years and more than<br />
50 years.<br />
• To adopt children<br />
who are three years<br />
old, the maximum composite<br />
age of the parents<br />
is 105 years.<br />
• In case single<br />
parent desires to adopt,<br />
he or she should not be<br />
of less than 30 years and<br />
above 50 years.<br />
• An unmarried or<br />
single male person is not<br />
permitted to adopt a girl<br />
child.<br />
Apart from the above,<br />
the parents should have<br />
adequate resources to<br />
provide good upbringing<br />
for the child. The parents<br />
should have good health<br />
and should not be suffering<br />
from any contagious<br />
or terminal diseases or<br />
any such mental or physical<br />
condition which may<br />
prevent them from taking<br />
care of the child. Any orphan,<br />
abandoned or surrendered<br />
child can be adopted<br />
following the due<br />
procedure laid down in<br />
the adoption guidelines,<br />
if such child is declared<br />
free for adoption by the<br />
child welfare committee.<br />
Children undergo all<br />
health checkups before<br />
the adoption process.<br />
There are two adoption<br />
centres in Mysuru<br />
region. Both are in Mandya<br />
district. One of them<br />
is Vikasana Jogula Dattu<br />
Seva Kendra on Bannur<br />
Road and the other is<br />
Janapada Seva Trust in<br />
Melkote, Mandya district.<br />
“YOU CANNOT FOOL THE PEOPLE”,<br />
POOJARY DEMANDS CM’S RESIGNATION<br />
Addressing a press<br />
meet in Mangaluru on<br />
Thursday, Poojary addressed<br />
Siddaramaiah<br />
and said, “The people of<br />
this state are fed up with<br />
you, and with the way you<br />
are handling M K Ganapati’s<br />
case.<br />
In a brazen attack on<br />
chief minister Siddaramaiah,<br />
fellow Congress<br />
party leader Janardhan<br />
Poojary on Thursday <strong>July</strong><br />
14 demanded the CM’s<br />
resignation over the suicide<br />
of DySP M K Ganapati,<br />
stating that people of<br />
Karnataka were unhappy<br />
with his administration.<br />
“When a person is<br />
about to die, he does<br />
not cook up stories. The<br />
world has seen the video<br />
in which M K Ganapati<br />
named minister K J<br />
George, officers Pranab<br />
Mohanty and A M Prasad<br />
as being responsible for<br />
his death. Chief Minister,<br />
when three names<br />
are in the dying declaration,<br />
why are you not<br />
registering FIR against<br />
them? Why are you trying<br />
to protect them?” he<br />
questioned. “Is a person<br />
more important to you<br />
than your party? Protests<br />
are happening in every<br />
district and people are<br />
fed up with you. It is also<br />
shameful that you are<br />
also using the electronic<br />
media to taint the image<br />
of Ganapati’s wife Pavana.<br />
You did not register her<br />
statement in the inquest<br />
report, instead you took<br />
his brother’s and father’s<br />
statements. It is your duty<br />
to register the spouse’s<br />
statement when she is<br />
alive. As a lawyer, you are<br />
well aware of it. You are<br />
protecting K J George in a<br />
very shameless manner”.<br />
“As the people have<br />
cast their votes against<br />
you in the SMS campaign,<br />
you must step down from<br />
the CM’s chair. If you have<br />
any sort of belief in the<br />
party and its principles,<br />
you must step down and<br />
resign,” he demanded.<br />
“There are many leaders<br />
in the party who can<br />
become the Chief Minister.<br />
From Gowda caste, along<br />
with S M Krishna there is<br />
DK Shivakumar, from SC<br />
community there are Dr<br />
Parameshwara and Mallikarjuna<br />
Kharge, from<br />
ST community there is<br />
Ugrappa, from Lingayats<br />
there are S R Patil and H K<br />
Patil, and like these there<br />
are many leaders. During<br />
the recent reshuffle of the<br />
cabinet, Siddaramaiah<br />
sacked Vinay Kumar Sorake<br />
for no reason”.<br />
“Let the MLAs decide<br />
and cast their votes to<br />
elect their leader. Let it<br />
not be alleged later that<br />
even though people rejected<br />
you, you continued<br />
to be the CM,” he added.<br />
Urging the Congress<br />
high command to step in,<br />
Poojary said, “If Siddaramaiah<br />
does not resign, I<br />
urge the party high command<br />
to sack him and<br />
make someone else the<br />
chief minister. The high<br />
command must think<br />
about the party’s survival.<br />
The country needs<br />
Congress; this is the party<br />
that brought Independence<br />
to the nation.”<br />
To a question on the<br />
judicial probe ordered<br />
by the Karnataka government<br />
into Ganapati’s<br />
suicide, he said, “I did<br />
not expect you (Siddaramaiah)<br />
to stoop so low<br />
as to appoint a retired<br />
judge, stating there is a<br />
shortage of judges in the<br />
Supreme Court. Have you<br />
requested the Apex Court<br />
for judges? If you had the<br />
guts you could have handed<br />
over the probe to the<br />
sitting judge of the high<br />
court or of the Supreme<br />
Court. This would have<br />
been a proper judicial inquiry<br />
and I would have<br />
appreciated it.<br />
“You cannot fool the<br />
people of the state. Times<br />
have changed. You have<br />
implemented many people-friendly<br />
programmes,<br />
but the black spot of this<br />
case has covered all the<br />
good you have done. If you<br />
continue to do the same,<br />
the people will reject you<br />
in the next elections,” he<br />
told Siddaramaiah.<br />
NGT IMPOSED FINE OF 25 LAKH ON<br />
ASIAN FISHMEAL<br />
Mangaluru: Southern<br />
bench of National<br />
Green Tribunal at<br />
Chennai has imposed<br />
fine of Rs 25 lac on a<br />
Fishmeal company at<br />
Ullal and ordered closure<br />
of Asian Fishmeal.<br />
The order was passed<br />
in pursuance with an<br />
application filed by<br />
Muhammed Kabir from<br />
Ullal here against Indian<br />
Fishmeal and 14<br />
other industries functioning<br />
at Ullal.<br />
Industries involved<br />
with manufacture of<br />
fish products were<br />
causing water pollution,<br />
air pollution,<br />
stench, and violation<br />
of Coastal Regulaltory<br />
Zone rules. Mr.<br />
Kabir had prayed for<br />
stopping environmental<br />
damage caused by<br />
these industries.<br />
The Chennai bench<br />
of the tribunal, while<br />
disposing off the petition,<br />
imposed fine of<br />
Rs 25 lakh on Fishmeal<br />
and Oil Manufacturers<br />
Association, named as<br />
24th defendant. The<br />
other industries, Indian<br />
Fishmeal, S M Marine<br />
Products, Indo<br />
Fishmeal Company, Super<br />
Aquatech, Mangalore<br />
Marine products,<br />
Ullal Fishmeal, Mangalore<br />
Fishmeal, Span<br />
Aquatech, and Marine<br />
Products have been ordered<br />
to pay fine of Rs<br />
5 lac each. At the same<br />
time, fines of Rs 8 lac<br />
have been imposed on<br />
Pahad Fishmeal Company,<br />
Mangalore Fishmeal<br />
and Oil Company,<br />
United Marine products,<br />
Harris Marine<br />
Products, and Mangalore<br />
Sea Products.<br />
The bench has ordered<br />
immediate closure<br />
of Asian Fishmeal<br />
and Oil Company. It has<br />
also ordered the pollution<br />
control board to<br />
conduct inspection of<br />
the effluents treatment<br />
plant installed jointly<br />
by these industries and<br />
check whether it has<br />
been installed in tune<br />
with the directions issued<br />
by the board.<br />
tal disputes involving<br />
The National<br />
Green Tribunal has<br />
been established on<br />
18.10.2010 under the<br />
National Green Tribunal<br />
Act 2010 for effective<br />
and expeditious<br />
disposal of cases relating<br />
to environmental<br />
protection and conservation<br />
of forests<br />
and other natural resources<br />
including<br />
enforcement of any<br />
legal right relating<br />
to environment and<br />
giving relief and<br />
compensation for<br />
damages to persons<br />
or property and for<br />
matters connected<br />
therewith or incidental<br />
thereto. It is<br />
a specialized body<br />
equipped with the<br />
necessary expertise to<br />
handle environmen-
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CITY<br />
BMTC to resume feeder<br />
service<br />
The Bangalore Metropolitan<br />
Transport Corporation<br />
(BMTC) will resume its feeder<br />
services along Reach 1 of<br />
Namma Metro, in and around<br />
Indiranagar, to provide lastmile<br />
connectivity to Metro<br />
commuters.<br />
Earlier feeder service was<br />
started to Whitefield from<br />
Swami Vivekananda station.<br />
Man drowns trying to<br />
save Teenager<br />
A man who tried to rescue a<br />
16-year-old boy from drowning,<br />
himself drowned in Kalena Agrahara<br />
lake along Bannerghatta<br />
Road. Hulimavu police said on<br />
Wednesday morning, Hrudayaraj<br />
bought a second hand<br />
tractor. In the evening, he took<br />
it to the lake to wash it. There,<br />
his son John Prakash, 16, tried<br />
to reverse the vehicle. However,<br />
he lost control of the vehicle and<br />
both sank into the water. Seeing<br />
this, passersby informed the Fire<br />
and Emergency services. However,<br />
before they could reach the<br />
scene, Anandappa jumped into<br />
the water to try and rescue John.<br />
But, 10 minutes after he dived<br />
into the water, Anandappa did<br />
not come out. In the meantime,<br />
the fire rescue team arrived at<br />
the spot and found Anandappa.<br />
He was rushed to a nearby hospital<br />
but was declared brought<br />
dead. Although a search operation<br />
for John Prakash continued<br />
till dark, the team was unable to<br />
locate his body. The search will<br />
resume on Thursday morning.<br />
Retired Principal Files<br />
Case against MU Vice<br />
Chancellor<br />
Police have registered a case<br />
of abuse against Mysore University<br />
Vice Chancellor for abusing<br />
a retired principal of one of the<br />
institutions affiliated to Manasagangothri.<br />
In his complaint, S Siddegowda<br />
, a retired principal of<br />
Manasagangothri educational<br />
institution has alleged that he<br />
was abused by the VC in front of<br />
many people on <strong>July</strong> 8th evening.<br />
The complainant said that he<br />
had gone to the VC’s office seeking<br />
a job for his close friend’s son<br />
on temporary basis. He alleged<br />
that the VC made him wait for<br />
more than 2 hours and when<br />
he came out of his office, the VC<br />
abused him in front of many people<br />
saying that the candidate recommended<br />
would destroy the<br />
entire university.<br />
Disturbed by the development,<br />
Siddegowda lodged a<br />
complaint at the Laxmiuram police<br />
station. The police have given<br />
an NCR copy to the complainant<br />
and assured him.<br />
Driver killed by a<br />
speeding Cab<br />
A car driver conversing over<br />
mobile phone on the national<br />
highway met his tragic end after<br />
being hit by a speeding car near<br />
Poinachi petrol bunk on Thursday,<br />
<strong>July</strong> 14. Madhusudan (32)<br />
of Kundakuhi Marunthadka is<br />
the deceased. He was returning<br />
to Kasaragod from temple town<br />
of Kollur with fellow passengers.<br />
He parked his car near the petrol<br />
bunk in Poinachi and took a<br />
stroll to have a conversation on<br />
his mobile phone. At the same<br />
time a speeding car hit him and<br />
he was dragged to couple of meters.<br />
Though he was rushed to a<br />
nearby hospital immediately, he<br />
did not survive and eventually<br />
died due to grievous injuries.<br />
Govt to extend deadlines<br />
for bars and pubs<br />
to 1am<br />
The government is set to extend<br />
the deadline for bars and<br />
pubs till from 11.30 p.m. to 1 a.m.<br />
on all days of the week. While<br />
tipplers are cheering, residents<br />
of Indiranagar and Koramangala<br />
are opposing the move. Both residential<br />
neighbourhoods have<br />
a high concentration of restaurants<br />
and pubs.<br />
Members of RWAs say that<br />
many of the outlets operating in<br />
their neighbourhoods are illegal,<br />
lack trade licenses and have<br />
come up in violation of the BDA<br />
zoning regulations. Earlier in <strong>July</strong>,<br />
14 RWAs across Bengaluru got<br />
together to oppose commercialisation<br />
of their localities.<br />
PREMATURE TERMINATION<br />
Both ruling and opposition<br />
parties had stamped<br />
their feet over the issue<br />
despite an all-party meet-<br />
OF MONSOON SESSION?<br />
ing convened by Assembly<br />
Speaker Koliwad, which<br />
failed to convince opposition<br />
parties to withdraw<br />
the agitation.<br />
If the ongoing tug-of-war<br />
between the ruling party<br />
and the opposition over<br />
DySP Ganapathi suicide<br />
case continues, then the<br />
Monsoon session is likely<br />
to end abruptly by Friday<br />
itself. The opposition parties<br />
have decided to continue<br />
overnight protest inside<br />
assembly hall on Thursday<br />
too, leaving the ruling party<br />
DYSP KALLAPPA CASE: PRAVEEN KHANDYA<br />
TO BE BOOKED UNDER GOONDA ACT<br />
Bengaluru: Chief Minister<br />
Siddaramaiah said that<br />
Praveen Khandya, the Vishwa<br />
Hindu Parishat (VHP)<br />
leader who is one of the<br />
five suspects in the suicide<br />
of Chikkamagalur Deputy<br />
Superintendent of Police<br />
(DySP) Kallappa Handibag<br />
will be booked under the<br />
Goonda Act.<br />
Speaking at the Assembly,<br />
the CM said that the<br />
government had sufficient<br />
evidence to book Khandya<br />
under the Goonda Act (the<br />
Karnataka Prevention of<br />
Dangerous Activities of<br />
Bootleggers, Drug-Offenders,<br />
Gamblers, Goondas,<br />
Immoral Traffic Offenders,<br />
Slum-Grabbers and Video<br />
or Audio Pirates Act).<br />
Khandya has as many as 32<br />
cases pending against him.<br />
Siddaramaiah further<br />
said that the CID is investigating<br />
the case and will<br />
take action against everyone<br />
involved in the case.<br />
The Chief Minister pointed<br />
out that it was not right to<br />
compare Kallappa’s death<br />
with MK Ganapathy’s demise.<br />
Appropriate action<br />
would be taken once the<br />
CID submits the report, he<br />
added.<br />
Praveen Khandya’s anticipatory<br />
bail plea hearing<br />
was put off by the District<br />
Sessions Court at Chikkamagaluru<br />
in the abduction<br />
case of H M Tejas involving<br />
DySP Kallappa Handibag to<br />
<strong>July</strong> 16. Khandya is still absconding.<br />
Meanwhile, Siddaramaiah<br />
has also assured that<br />
they would look into the<br />
possibility of offering a job<br />
on compassionate grounds<br />
to Kallappa’s wife but there<br />
was no provision to give<br />
compensation to the kin of<br />
officers who commit suicide.<br />
Anupama Shenoy case:<br />
On the controversy relating<br />
to the resignation of Anupama<br />
Shenoy as DySP, he<br />
said she had cited personal<br />
reasons for quitting. “If she<br />
was under any kind of pressure<br />
from the liquor lobby,<br />
she could have informed<br />
her senior colleagues and<br />
the government. But she<br />
has not done that. It appears<br />
that she does not<br />
want to serve in the police<br />
KARNATAKA CALLS FLOOD<br />
ALERT AS KRISHNA OVERFLOWS<br />
A flood alert has been<br />
issued in many villages of<br />
two border districts of Karnataka<br />
after excess rain water<br />
was released from Maharashtra<br />
into the Krishna<br />
River that flows through<br />
the state as downstream.<br />
“People living in villages<br />
on the banks of Krishna and<br />
low-lying areas in Bagalkot<br />
and Belagavi districts have<br />
been put on alert after Maharashtra<br />
released excess<br />
water into the river following<br />
heavy rains in its<br />
catchment areas” the official<br />
from the state natural<br />
disaster monitoring centre<br />
said to media.<br />
Bagalkot Deputy Commissioner<br />
P.A. Meghannavar<br />
advised the people in<br />
Jamkhandi and Bilagi taluks<br />
of the district to move<br />
to safer places from the<br />
river banks to avoid being<br />
affected in the event of<br />
DEADLINE EVASION: AADHAR AND RATION<br />
CARD LINKING STILL A DISTANT DREAM<br />
Mysuru: The deadline<br />
for linking ration cards<br />
with Aadhaar numbers extended<br />
a couple of times,<br />
but the Mysuru district is<br />
yet to achieve 100 per cent<br />
linkage.<br />
The Department of Food<br />
and Civil Supplies has made<br />
it compulsory for all ration<br />
card holders in the State,<br />
including those with Above<br />
Poverty Line (APL) cards,<br />
to link the cards with Aadhaar<br />
numbers. This measure<br />
was taken to remove<br />
fake card holders and ensure<br />
that only genuine beneficiaries<br />
avail benefits under<br />
the Public Distribution<br />
System (PDS).<br />
According to the data<br />
provided by the department,<br />
out of 607434 ration<br />
card holders in the district,<br />
588485 have linked their<br />
card with Aadhaar number.<br />
K. Rameshwarappa,<br />
Deputy Director, Food and<br />
in fix.<br />
department,” he added.<br />
Siddaramaiah denied that<br />
the Ballari Superintendent<br />
of Police had refused to<br />
accept her papers for citing<br />
the liquor lobby as the<br />
reason for her resignation.<br />
All efforts made by the government<br />
to contact her and<br />
convince her to withdraw<br />
the resignation went in vain<br />
as she remained inaccessible.<br />
He also turned down<br />
the demand by Opposition<br />
parties to reinstate her.<br />
Shikha case: Siddaramaiah<br />
admitted that Congress<br />
worker Marigowda<br />
flooding.”As 1.7 lakh cusecs<br />
of water has been released<br />
from Koyna Dam in Satara<br />
district in the neighbouing<br />
state into the river, measures<br />
are being taken to<br />
prevent any untoward incident<br />
if more water is released,”<br />
said Meghannavar<br />
to the media from Bagalkot.<br />
As the fourth biggest river<br />
(1,300 km) in terms water<br />
inflows and river basin<br />
area in the country, Krishna<br />
originates in the rich biodiversity<br />
hotspot of Western<br />
Ghats near Mahabaleshwar<br />
in Maharashtra and passes<br />
through Karnataka, Telangana<br />
and Andhra Pradesh,<br />
flowing out into the Bay of<br />
Bengal. It is also a major<br />
source of irrigation in the<br />
four southern states.<br />
Civil Supplies, Mysuru, said<br />
that linking of ration cards<br />
with Aadhaar numbers is<br />
mandatory and those who<br />
The session must have<br />
continued till the month<br />
end, but due to the chaos it<br />
may be ended on Friday.<br />
The opposition has<br />
demanded resignation<br />
of Minister K J George in<br />
connection to Ganapathi<br />
suicide case and has also<br />
pressed for CBI probe, both<br />
of which have been rejected<br />
by the ruling Congress<br />
party. In the interim, the<br />
high command called upon<br />
George.<br />
Meanwhile, the ruling<br />
party managed to pass<br />
three bills amid chaos in<br />
the house.<br />
abusing Mysuru Deputy<br />
Commissioner C Shikha recently<br />
was a mistake. “I<br />
admit it is a mistake. If a<br />
person belongs to my party<br />
or any other, it is not proper<br />
to treat an officer like<br />
that. Many of the opposition<br />
leaders said he is my<br />
close aide. I know him since<br />
1983. I took him to task later”<br />
the Chief Minister said.<br />
He reiterated that Shikha<br />
is a good officer and hence<br />
she has been serving in the<br />
same post for the past three<br />
years.<br />
Bridges across the river<br />
and its tributaries in<br />
low-laying areas are overflowing<br />
with rain water,<br />
disrupting vehicular traffic<br />
in the districts.<br />
Though heavy rains receded<br />
in coastal and south<br />
interior areas of the state<br />
since Tuesday, moderate to<br />
light rains are likely to occur<br />
in north interior parts<br />
of the state during the next<br />
24 hours, while one or two<br />
spells of rain have been<br />
forecast for Bengaluru and<br />
its neighbourhood, with<br />
strong surface winds under<br />
cloudy sky.<br />
Chikkodi recorded 11<br />
cm rainfall, followed by 7<br />
cm each in Kadra in Uttara<br />
Kannada district and Kudachi<br />
in Belagavi district.<br />
have not done it yet need to<br />
do so immediately to avail<br />
their quota of ration. v<br />
TV, BHAJANS RING THE WALLS<br />
OF ASSEMBLY AS OPPOSITION<br />
CONTINUES OVER NIGHT STRIKE<br />
After the opposition<br />
parties declared overnight<br />
strike in the Assembly hall<br />
on Wednesday, the legislators<br />
of BJP and JD(S)<br />
watched television, sang<br />
bhajans and had dinner together<br />
on Wednesday night.<br />
They began their day-night<br />
dharna in both the Houses<br />
of the legislature seeking<br />
resignation of Bengaluru<br />
Development Minister,<br />
K J George on DySP Ganapathi<br />
suicide case.<br />
Bed sheets, blankets,<br />
pillows and dinner were<br />
provided by Secretariats<br />
of the Assembly and Council<br />
for their overnight stay.<br />
The MLC’s were requested<br />
to have dinner which had<br />
chapati, rice dishes and<br />
gravy, at a room adjoining<br />
the Council hall.<br />
The overnight stay at the<br />
assembly hall by legislators<br />
is nothing<br />
new to Karnataka<br />
assembly.<br />
The opposition<br />
had spent a<br />
wholevc night<br />
on March 17,<br />
20<strong>15</strong> seeking a<br />
CBI probe into<br />
the death of<br />
IAS officer D K<br />
Ravi. The then<br />
KJP president B<br />
S Yeddyurappa had staged<br />
an overnight protest in November<br />
2013 demanding<br />
the extension of ‘Shaadi<br />
Baghya’ scheme to all communities.<br />
The session was<br />
then held in Belagavi. Similarly,<br />
opposition parties<br />
had staged overnight protest<br />
on <strong>July</strong> 12, 2010 over<br />
the illegal mining issue.<br />
“NO HOPE OF JUSTICE FROM CID OR THE JUDI-<br />
CIARY” SAYS DYSP’S GANAPATI’S WIDOW<br />
Kodagu: Addressing a<br />
press conference at Kushalnagar<br />
in the district on<br />
Tuesday <strong>July</strong> 13, Pavana<br />
said that she will be writing<br />
to Prime Minister, Narendra<br />
Modi, complaining against<br />
the Congress government<br />
in the state. She accused<br />
the state government of<br />
dithering in the matter of<br />
taking action against those<br />
who were responsible for<br />
the death of Ganapati, who<br />
had served state police department<br />
efficiently and<br />
diligently.<br />
“I have no expectation of<br />
getting justice from either<br />
the criminal investigation<br />
department (CID) probe or<br />
the judicial probe expected<br />
to be ordered by the government.<br />
At the same time,<br />
we demand for the judicial<br />
probe to be conducted by<br />
either Justice Santosh Hegde<br />
or Justice Venkatachalaiah,<br />
both of whom are<br />
retired judges,” said DySP<br />
Ganapati’s wife, Pavana.<br />
“Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah,<br />
is not registering<br />
case against Minister<br />
George, and two senior<br />
officers of the police department<br />
who caused the<br />
death of my husband. CID<br />
team, instead of recording<br />
my statement, prepared a<br />
report at their own whims<br />
and fancies and the home<br />
minister read out a report<br />
in the assembly that was an<br />
insult to me” she alleged.<br />
The secretariat also deputed<br />
medical staff, aside<br />
from ensuring medicine<br />
and ambulance services.<br />
Jammers in both<br />
the Houses were<br />
switched off to<br />
facilitate phone<br />
calls by members.<br />
Media was not<br />
allowed into the<br />
lobby. Both the<br />
parties allowed<br />
their women<br />
legislators to go<br />
home.<br />
A majority<br />
of the legislators<br />
went home<br />
to change or<br />
get their night<br />
clothes and returned.<br />
However,<br />
She stated that the entire<br />
family is solidly backing her<br />
in this issue and that she<br />
draws courage and confidence<br />
to complain to the<br />
prime minister based on<br />
this moral support.<br />
George summoned by<br />
high command: It is learnt<br />
that in the light of political<br />
upheavals in the state, Congress<br />
high command has<br />
asked minister, K J George,<br />
to come to New Delhi. As<br />
per information, he is leaving<br />
to meet the leaders on<br />
Thursday morning.<br />
The name of the city<br />
development minister has<br />
emerged prominently in<br />
the suicide case of deputy<br />
superintendent of police,<br />
Ganapati. Opposition parties,<br />
who have been demanding<br />
to drop George<br />
from the ministry, have undertaken<br />
round the clock<br />
dharna in the legislature.<br />
This has come as an embarrassment<br />
both for the party<br />
and its government in Karnataka.<br />
Although the high command<br />
has been briefed<br />
about the development,<br />
the top leaders want to get<br />
explanations from George<br />
personally before taking<br />
a decision in the matter,<br />
highly placed sources in the<br />
party said.<br />
CM misguiding house?<br />
Some sources pointed out<br />
that contrary to chief minister,<br />
Siddaramaiah’s claim<br />
JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy<br />
did not take part in<br />
the overnight dharna as he<br />
left for Mysuru to resume<br />
his son’s film shooting.<br />
In November 2013, B<br />
S Yeddyurappa, who was<br />
then the KJP president had<br />
staged an all-night dharna<br />
for two nights demanding<br />
an extension of ‘Shaadi<br />
Baghya’ scheme to all<br />
communities. Prior to that,<br />
the Opposition parties had<br />
staged a night dharna on<br />
<strong>July</strong> 12, 2010 over the illegal<br />
mining issue.<br />
Dharna may end on Friday:<br />
There was speculation<br />
in political circles on<br />
Wednesday that if the Opposition<br />
continues with its<br />
day-night dharna until Friday,<br />
then the government<br />
may get the budget proposals<br />
and bills passed amid<br />
the din and adjourn both<br />
the Houses sine die. The<br />
budget proposals have to<br />
be passed before <strong>July</strong> 31 as<br />
the legislature had only given<br />
its approval for a fourmonth<br />
vote-on-account in<br />
March.<br />
in the house on Wednesday<br />
that DySP, Ganapati,<br />
had not worked under inspector<br />
general of police,<br />
Pranab Mohanty. But, Ganapati<br />
had in fact worked<br />
under Mohanty twice.<br />
When Mohanty was the<br />
joint commissioner (west)<br />
and additional police commissioner<br />
in Bengaluru,<br />
Ganapati had worked in Yeshwantpur<br />
and Madiwala<br />
police staions as inspector.<br />
When Mohanty was working<br />
as additional police<br />
commissioner (crime), Ganapati<br />
was working in Madiwala<br />
station. During the<br />
encounter death of a rowdy<br />
named Prashant alias<br />
Pachchi at Yeshwantpura in<br />
2010, Pranab Mohanty had<br />
investigated the allegation<br />
that it was a fake encounter.<br />
The case had then gone to<br />
Lokayukta, by which time<br />
Mohanty had been transferred<br />
to Lokayukta. During<br />
the controversial murder of<br />
Rector, Fr Thomas, within<br />
Yeshwantpura station limits,<br />
Ganapati was inspector<br />
of Yeshwantpur station<br />
while Mohanty was joint<br />
police commissioner.<br />
Some claim that misleading<br />
the assembly is<br />
tantamount to breach of<br />
privilege.<br />
PADDY FOR NEEDY; CATHOLIC SABHA<br />
TO GROW FOOD FOR POOR<br />
Udupi: Catholic Sabha unit<br />
at Sacred Heart Church in<br />
Kolalgiri has started a unique<br />
project of growing paddy in a<br />
barren field and distributing<br />
the rice after processing in<br />
the mill among poor people<br />
across all religions. Catholic<br />
Sabha has ventured into such<br />
an experiment for the first<br />
time and intends to continue<br />
it every year.<br />
Nearly 60 members of<br />
Catholic Sabha Kolalgiri led<br />
by President Ashwin Roche<br />
got down in the 55 cents barren<br />
field near Arooru, Kenjebail<br />
belonging to Vijayadas<br />
Shetty on Sunday and planted<br />
paddy saplings. The members<br />
participated with vigour<br />
and enthusiasm. The organization<br />
has spent between Rs.<br />
7,000 to Rs. 10,000 for the<br />
purpose.<br />
The members will participate<br />
in cutting the full grown<br />
paddy. The grass will be distributed<br />
to the needy. After<br />
which, paddy will be sent to<br />
the rice mill for processing<br />
and expected to yield nearly<br />
10 quintals of rice. Udupi<br />
diocese President Valerian<br />
Fernandes, Zonal President<br />
Steven Prakash Louis, visited<br />
the fields and encouraged<br />
the endeavour.
CITY<br />
HILIGHTS<br />
Vol 1, Issue <strong>193</strong> `.1.00/-<br />
Friday, <strong>July</strong> <strong>15</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
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NATION<br />
PM NARENDRA MODI<br />
CONGRATULATES NEW<br />
BRITISH PM<br />
Prime Minister Narendra<br />
Modi on Thursday congratulated<br />
newly appointed British<br />
Prime Minister Theresa<br />
May and said he was looking<br />
forward to working with her<br />
for stronger ties between<br />
the two countries. “Congratulations<br />
to @theresa_may<br />
on taking over as the new<br />
UK PM. Looking forward to<br />
working with her for stronger<br />
India-UK ties,” Modi<br />
tweeted. The Prime Minister<br />
also appreciated former<br />
British Prime Minister David<br />
Cameron for his contribution<br />
towards India-Britain ties.<br />
Theresa May on Wednesday<br />
became Britain’s second female<br />
Prime Minister.<br />
INDIA’S RETAIL<br />
INFLATION SHOOTS UP<br />
TO 1.62 PER CENT<br />
Ballooning prices of food<br />
articles pushed up India’s<br />
annual wholesale price index<br />
sharply to 1.62 per cent<br />
for June from 0.79 per cent<br />
for the month before. This<br />
kept the inflation level in the<br />
positive domain for the third<br />
month after 17 months in the<br />
negative.<br />
The annual inflation for<br />
potatoes, as per data on official<br />
wholesale price index<br />
(WPI) released by the Commerce<br />
and Industry Ministry,<br />
was as much as 64.48 per<br />
cent, while for pulses it was<br />
26.61 per cent. Vegetable<br />
prices were 16.91 per cent<br />
higher. Significantly, the final<br />
wholesale price index for the<br />
month of April was also revised<br />
to suggest a higher annual<br />
inflation rate of 0.79 per<br />
cent against 0.34 per cent as<br />
reported earlier.<br />
PARTLY CLOUDY<br />
MORNING IN THE<br />
CAPITAL<br />
It was a partly cloudy<br />
Thursday morning at Delhi<br />
with the minimum temperature<br />
recorded at 27.4 degrees<br />
Celsius, average for the season,<br />
the weather office said.<br />
On Wednesday, Delhi saw an<br />
average of 16.3 mm rainfall.<br />
However, that failed to afford<br />
Delhiites respite from the<br />
sweltering humidity.<br />
On Thursday, the humidity<br />
at 8.30 a.m. was recorded at<br />
84 per cent. Visibility stood at<br />
3,000 metres. The maximum<br />
temperature on Wednesday<br />
settled at 35.4 degrees Celsius,<br />
average for the season<br />
while the minimum temperature<br />
was recorded at 27.8<br />
degrees Celsius, one notch<br />
below the season’s average.<br />
ZAKIR NAIK AGAIN<br />
CANCELS INTERACTION<br />
WITH MEDIA<br />
Zakir Naik was slated<br />
to interact with media via<br />
Skype on Thursday, for which<br />
arrangements were made at<br />
a small hall in South Mumbai.<br />
Controversial Islamic<br />
preacher Zakir Naik, facing<br />
heat over allegation of inspiring<br />
some of the Dhaka attackers<br />
through his speeches, has<br />
cancelled his press briefing<br />
again, citing pressure from<br />
authorities of the venue.<br />
SATYENDAR JAIN’S<br />
DAUGHTER QUITS AS<br />
ADVISOR<br />
After receiving flak from the<br />
opposition, Delhi Health Minister<br />
Satyendar Jain’s daughter<br />
on Thursday resigned as advisor<br />
to the Delhi government<br />
for its ‘mohalla clinics’ project.<br />
Jain, announcing the resignation<br />
of his daughter Soumya<br />
Jain, denied allegations of<br />
nepotism in her appointment<br />
in a non-executive post, and<br />
said she wasn’t being paid any<br />
money for the job.<br />
A controversy erupted on<br />
Wednesday after Soumya, 26,<br />
was appointed as advisor to<br />
Delhi’s Health Secretary for the<br />
Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clinics.<br />
Addressing media persons in<br />
the national capital, Jain said,<br />
“My daughter has resigned<br />
from the post following the<br />
controversy over her appointment.<br />
Lashing out at the<br />
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)<br />
for criticising her appointment,<br />
Jain said, “There are a number<br />
of examples of BJP’s leaders’<br />
kin on plum posts. They should<br />
also resign.”<br />
KASHMIR VIOLENCE: INDIA TEARS INTO<br />
PAKISTAN’S ULTERIOR MOTIVE AT UN<br />
Tearing into Pakistan’s<br />
ulterior motive to cash<br />
in on the protest-related<br />
deaths in the Kashmir<br />
Valley by racking up the<br />
issue at the UN platform,<br />
India has dubbed it as “an<br />
attempt to misuse the UN<br />
platform by a country that<br />
covets the territory of others<br />
and uses terrorism as<br />
state policy towards that<br />
misguided end”.<br />
Participating in a<br />
high-level thematic debate<br />
on ‘UN@70 Human Rights<br />
at the centre of the global<br />
agenda, India’s Permanent<br />
Representative to U.N. Syed<br />
Akbaruddin said: “Regrettably,<br />
earlier on Thursday,<br />
we have seen an attempt at<br />
misuse of this UN platform.<br />
DADRI LYN<strong>CH</strong>ING: COURT ORDERS REGIS-<br />
TRATION OF FIR AGAINST AKHLAQ’S FAMILY<br />
A court in Noida on<br />
Thursday ordered the police<br />
to file a First Investigation<br />
Report (FIR) against<br />
Mohammad Akhlaq’s family<br />
for alleged cow slaughter.<br />
The Uttar Pradesh Police<br />
had earlier refused to<br />
file a case of cow slaughter<br />
against Akhlaq’s family.<br />
A petition, seeking registration<br />
of an FIR against<br />
the family members of Akhlaq,<br />
who was lynched nine<br />
months ago on suspicion<br />
that his family stored and<br />
ate beef at their house, was<br />
earlier filed in the court.<br />
WOMAN PILOT TAKES IAF TO COURT AFTER<br />
BEING DENIED PERMANENT COMMISSION<br />
Wing Commander Pooja<br />
Thakur moved Armed<br />
BJP DUBS AAP AS SYNONYM OF ‘MISUSING<br />
PUBLIC MONEY AND CORRUPTION’<br />
With the Election Commission<br />
set to commence<br />
hearing of 21 AAP legislators<br />
who were made<br />
parliamentary secretaries<br />
and are facing charges in<br />
the Office of Profit case,<br />
the Bharatiya Janata Party<br />
(BJP) on Thursday said<br />
the Aam Aadmi Party had<br />
become synonymous with<br />
‘misusing public money<br />
and corruption’.<br />
“This government has<br />
become a synonym of misusing<br />
public money, of corruption<br />
and of benefitting<br />
members of the party. In<br />
the case of 21 parliamentary<br />
secretary, public money<br />
has been misused. There<br />
are seven ministers and<br />
you have made 21 parliamentary<br />
secretaries for<br />
them,” BJP leader Satish<br />
The attempt came from Pakistan,<br />
a country that covets<br />
the territory of others; a<br />
country that uses terrorism<br />
as state policy towards that<br />
misguided end; a country<br />
that extols the virtues of<br />
terrorists and that provides<br />
sanctuary to UN-designated<br />
terrorists; and a country<br />
that masquerades its efforts<br />
as support for human<br />
rights and self-determination.”<br />
The petitioner had<br />
urged the court to direct<br />
the police to register an<br />
FIR against Akhlaq’s family<br />
members on charges of<br />
cow slaughter and animal<br />
cruelty.<br />
The petition claims that<br />
two villagers from Bisada<br />
namely Ranvir and Jatan,<br />
saw Akhlaq and his son<br />
Danish beat up a calf on<br />
September 29 last year.<br />
Akhlaq allegedly told them<br />
that since the calf was attacking<br />
the people, he was<br />
going to tie up the animal at<br />
Jaan Mohammed’s house.<br />
The petition said another<br />
villager Prem Singh<br />
while passing by Akhlaq’s<br />
house saw the latter holding<br />
the calf down while his<br />
brother Jaan Mohammad<br />
was slitting the animal’s<br />
throat.<br />
Upadhyay told the media.<br />
“Secondly, there is no<br />
provision for it in the NCT<br />
act. Definitely, the EC has<br />
taken it seriously. I am<br />
hopeful that EC will follow<br />
constitutional norms and<br />
will rule against these 21<br />
MLAs.They should understand<br />
that there is difference<br />
between other states<br />
and Delhi. Delhi is a UT<br />
state and if there is a provision<br />
in the laws let them<br />
show it,” he added.<br />
The EC will from today<br />
begin personal hearing<br />
AAP legislators, who are<br />
facing the risk of disqualification<br />
from the Assembly,<br />
in the Office of Profit case.<br />
According to reports,<br />
the 21 AAP legislators had<br />
sought a personal hearing<br />
Akbaruddin further said,<br />
“Pakistan is the same country<br />
whose track record has<br />
failed to convince the international<br />
community to gain<br />
membership of the Human<br />
Rights Council in this very<br />
Session of the UNGA. The<br />
international community<br />
has long seen through<br />
such designs. Cynical attempts,<br />
like the one this<br />
morning, therefore, find<br />
no resonance in this forum<br />
or elsewhere in the United<br />
Nations.”<br />
Adviser to Pakistan<br />
Prime Minister on Foreign<br />
Affairs Sartaj Aziz had said,<br />
“India cannot suppress the<br />
voice of Kashmiris, who<br />
are struggling for their just<br />
right of self-determination,<br />
by using brutal force and<br />
committing human rights<br />
violations in Kashmir.”<br />
Expressing Pakistan’s<br />
concern over the recent<br />
spate of violence in Kashmir,<br />
Aziz said: “Pakistan is<br />
raising the issue of Indian<br />
forces’ brutalities at international<br />
fora, including<br />
the United Nations Human<br />
Rights Council, Organisation<br />
of Islamic Cooperation,<br />
the European Union and<br />
others.”<br />
According to the petitioner,<br />
Akhlaq was on the<br />
night of September 28<br />
stopped near Bada transformer<br />
by some residents,<br />
while others reached his<br />
house and found a vessel<br />
with remains of some animal<br />
and meat.<br />
The petitioner claimed<br />
Forces Tribunal after being<br />
denied permanent commission<br />
by the Indian Air<br />
Force.<br />
She is the first lady officer<br />
to lead the Inter-Service<br />
Guard of Honour which<br />
was inspected by US President<br />
Barack Obama at<br />
Rashtrapati Bhavan in January<br />
20<strong>15</strong>.<br />
The Armed Forces Tribunal<br />
has admitted the matter<br />
and has sought IAF’s<br />
response within 4 weeks,<br />
Thakur’s Lawyer Sudhanshu<br />
Pandey told the media.<br />
before<br />
the poll<br />
b o d y<br />
in their<br />
reply to<br />
a notice<br />
by the<br />
Election<br />
Commission<br />
in June.<br />
The<br />
Delhi<br />
Government Bill to exclude<br />
the post of Parliamentary<br />
Secretary from the office<br />
of profit has been refused<br />
assent by the President,<br />
raising questions over the<br />
fate of 21 AAP MLAs, who<br />
have been appointed to the<br />
posts.<br />
The AAP Government<br />
had sought an amendment<br />
“The international community<br />
should come forward<br />
and honour their<br />
promises of resolving the<br />
lingering Kashmir ‘dispute’<br />
in accordance with<br />
the United Nations resolutions,”<br />
he added.<br />
However, brushing aside<br />
Aziz’s contention and firmly<br />
asserting India’s commitment<br />
to human rights,<br />
Akbaruddin said, “As a<br />
diverse, pluralistic and<br />
tolerant society, India’s<br />
commitment to the rule of<br />
law, democracy and human<br />
rights is enshrined in its<br />
founding principles and we<br />
remain strongly committed<br />
to the promotion and protection<br />
of all human rights<br />
for all through pursuit of<br />
dialogue and cooperation.”<br />
Meanwhile, Pakistan<br />
Foreign Secretary Aizaz<br />
Ahmad Chaudhry briefed<br />
the Islamabad-based Ambassadors<br />
of the member<br />
countries of the OIC<br />
Contact Group on Jammu<br />
and Kashmir - Azerbaijan,<br />
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and<br />
Niger - through its capital<br />
on Wednesday morning<br />
over the tense situation<br />
in Kashmir and conveyed<br />
Pakistan’s serious concern<br />
over the killings of civilians<br />
and violation of their<br />
fundamental human rights<br />
by Indian Security Forces.<br />
(ANI)<br />
the mob got out of control<br />
and beat up Akhlaq and<br />
his son Danish. Akhlaq was<br />
beaten to death.<br />
The petitioner had also<br />
cited forensic report by<br />
the Mathura forensic lab,<br />
which said the meat samples,<br />
were of an animal of<br />
the cow progeny. (ANI)<br />
The officer in her petition<br />
says that the IAF’s<br />
decision to reject her permanent<br />
commission is “biased,<br />
discriminatory, arbitrary<br />
and unreasonable”.<br />
The incident comes after<br />
the Air Force recently allowed<br />
women fighter pilots<br />
for short service commission.<br />
Last month, the IAF<br />
scripted history by formally<br />
commissioning its first<br />
three women fighter pilots.<br />
(ANI)<br />
to the Delhi Members of<br />
Legislative Assembly (Removal<br />
of Disqualification)<br />
Act, 1997 through which it<br />
had sought “retrospective”<br />
exemption for the parliamentary<br />
secretaries from<br />
disqualification provisions.<br />
Lieutenant Governor<br />
Najeeb Jung forwarded the<br />
Bill to the Centre, which in<br />
turn was sent to the President<br />
with comments. (ANI)<br />
SC TO HEAR BANKS PLEA AGAINST<br />
VIJAY MALLYA ON JULY 18<br />
The Supreme Court said<br />
on Thursday that it would<br />
hear the contempt petition<br />
filed by a consortium of<br />
banks against businessman<br />
Vijay Mallya on <strong>July</strong> 18.<br />
It may be recalled that in<br />
April, the apex court had directed<br />
Mallya to disclose all<br />
of his assets held by him and<br />
his family. The consortium<br />
of banks had also rejected<br />
his offer to repay Rs 4,000<br />
crores as settlement of all<br />
debts. The one-time owner<br />
of Kingfisher Airlines owes<br />
17 banks, including the State<br />
Bank of India, over Rs 9,000<br />
crore, including interest.<br />
One time Member of<br />
Parliament, Mallya is under<br />
investigation by various<br />
agencies, including the Enforcement<br />
Directorate (ED)<br />
and the Serious Fraud Investigation<br />
Office (SFIO), which<br />
probes white collar crimes.<br />
Last month, a special<br />
Prevention of Money Laundering<br />
Act (PMLA) court in<br />
Mumbai had declared Mallya<br />
a proclaimed offender in a<br />
loan default case.<br />
On March 13, Mallya<br />
claimed that the consortium<br />
had already recovered Rs 2,<br />
494 crore from Kingfisher<br />
Airlines since 2013. On June<br />
11, the Enforcement Directorate<br />
had attached properties<br />
worth Rs 1,411 crore of<br />
Mallya and UB Ltd in connection<br />
with its money laundering<br />
probe in the IDBI Bank<br />
loan default case.<br />
Mallya left for the United<br />
Kingdom on March 2 using<br />
his diplomatic passport<br />
which was later revoked by<br />
the Ministry of External Affairs.<br />
(ANI)<br />
OWAISI ACCEPTS LAPSES ON AIMIM’S PART IN<br />
FILING DOCUMENTS WITH MAHA EC<br />
All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul<br />
Muslimeen (AIMIM)<br />
chief Asaduddin Owaisi had<br />
accepted the lapses on part<br />
of his party in filing the requisite<br />
documents with the<br />
state election commission,<br />
which led the latter to cancel<br />
AIMIM’s registration as a political<br />
party in Maharashtra.<br />
“The norms are that a<br />
political party must submit<br />
regular accounts and other<br />
details. Unfortunately, there<br />
have been lapses on our part.<br />
After we received a show<br />
cause notice, we had given<br />
a notice to the Maharashtra<br />
Owaisi said there was a<br />
delay by the AIMIM to submit<br />
the documents and they<br />
have written to the commission<br />
to ‘condone their lapses’.<br />
state election<br />
commission<br />
requesting<br />
them<br />
to condone<br />
our lapses,<br />
“Owaisi told<br />
the media.<br />
“Then we<br />
also submitted<br />
our documents,<br />
but<br />
I think it was<br />
too late. We will definitely<br />
appeal to the commission<br />
and in future we will abide<br />
by all prescribed norms,” he<br />
added.<br />
The Maharashtra Election<br />
Commission earlier in<br />
the day cancelled AIMIM’s<br />
registration as a state political<br />
party for failing to file its<br />
income tax and funds details.<br />
The State Election Commission<br />
reportedly took this<br />
decision after the AIMIM did<br />
not respond to notices sent<br />
to the party asking it to submit<br />
the reports.<br />
The cancelation of its registration<br />
essentially means<br />
that the commission has<br />
barred AIMIM from contesting<br />
the state civic polls. (ANI)<br />
SC VERDICT A LESSON FOR GOVERNORS TO<br />
NOT ACT AS BJP, RSS MEMBERS: CONGRESS<br />
Asserting that Prime<br />
Minister Narendra Modi<br />
-led BJP was running the<br />
government in a ‘dictatorial’<br />
and ‘anti-democratic’<br />
manner, the Congress party<br />
on Thursday said the<br />
Supreme Court verdict to<br />
restore Nabam Tuki-led<br />
Government in Arunachal<br />
Pradesh was a lesson for<br />
the Governors to abide<br />
by the Constitution and<br />
not behave like BJP or RSS<br />
workers.<br />
“The Modi Government<br />
is a dictatorial government.<br />
Modi Government does not<br />
believe in democracy. What<br />
happened in Arunachal and<br />
Uttarakhand was killing<br />
the very idea of democracy.<br />
Now, the Supreme Court<br />
has given relief. This clearly<br />
shows that the Modi Government<br />
is anti-democratic<br />
and the SC has forced<br />
this government to leave<br />
its dictatorial fashion of<br />
working,” Congress leader<br />
Shobha Oza told the media.<br />
“It has reminded them<br />
the Constitutional position<br />
of Governors, and that they<br />
should behave as expected,<br />
and not as a BJP or RSS<br />
member,” she added.<br />
Nabam Tuki on Wednesday<br />
evening took charge as<br />
Chief Minister of the state<br />
at Arunachal Bhavan here<br />
in Delhi.<br />
Hours after the Supreme<br />
Court ordered the restoration<br />
of his government, a<br />
jubilant Tuki met Congress<br />
president Sonia Gandhi<br />
at her official 10, Janpath<br />
residence on Wednesday<br />
evening.<br />
The Congress president<br />
during the meeting, which<br />
was also attended by party<br />
vice-president Rahul<br />
Gandhi, asked Tuki to take<br />
everybody on board and<br />
strengthen the grand old<br />
party in the northeastern<br />
state.<br />
In a major setback to the<br />
BJP-ruled Centre, the apex<br />
court earlier on Thursday<br />
quashed “message<br />
and direction” issued by<br />
Arunachal Pradesh Governor<br />
Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa<br />
and restored status quo as<br />
on December <strong>15</strong> when Congress’<br />
Nabam Tuki was the<br />
chief minister. The Bharatiya<br />
Janata Party (BJP),<br />
on the other hand, downplayed<br />
the Congress’ accusations<br />
of toppling elected<br />
governments and said the<br />
Arunachal Pradesh verdict<br />
is not a setback for the Centre.<br />
A five-judge constitution<br />
bench pronounced the verdict<br />
on a bunch of petitions<br />
dealing with discretionary<br />
powers of the governor to<br />
summon or advance the assembly<br />
session.<br />
Stating the governor’s<br />
direction on conducting<br />
assembly proceedings is<br />
unconstitutional, the apex<br />
court set aside all steps and<br />
decision taken by the legislative<br />
assembly pursuant to<br />
the governor’s December<br />
9th last year order and said<br />
they are unsustainable.<br />
Arunachal Pradesh had<br />
been under President’s<br />
Rule since January 26.<br />
Tuki-led Congress government<br />
was dismissed following<br />
days of turmoil after<br />
21 of its 47 lawmakers<br />
rebelled against the chief<br />
minister.<br />
The Congress, which<br />
had 47 MLAs seats in the<br />
60-member assembly, suffered<br />
a jolt when 21 of its<br />
lawmakers rebelled. Eleven<br />
BJP MLAs backed the rebels<br />
in the bid to upstage the<br />
government. Later, 14 rebel<br />
Congress MLAs were disqualified.<br />
(ANI)<br />
GYM INSTRUCTOR ARRESTED FOR STABBING<br />
LIVE-IN PARTNER<br />
A gym instructor allegedly<br />
stabbed his live-in<br />
partner 32 times in a house<br />
in sector 73, leaving her in<br />
a critical condition, police<br />
said on Thursday.<br />
The accused Varun Goyal<br />
(28), who runs a gym in<br />
Ghaziabad, has been arrested.<br />
Varun had heated arguments<br />
with the woman, a<br />
divorcee, as she was apparently<br />
pressurising him for<br />
marriage.<br />
SHO Dinesh Yadav said<br />
Varun stabbed her 32<br />
times with a kitchen knife.<br />
The neighbours heard her<br />
screams of help and informed<br />
police. The police<br />
team found the woman in<br />
a pool of blood and rushed<br />
her to a Noida hospital<br />
from where she was rushed<br />
to LNJP in New Delhi in a<br />
critical condition.<br />
The victim is five years<br />
younger to Varun and had<br />
rented the house a year<br />
ago. Varun had moved in<br />
the house as a live in partner,<br />
police said.<br />
The woman’s home town<br />
is in Gorakhpur and she<br />
works in private company<br />
at sector 63. She was earlier<br />
living with her brother in<br />
Indirapuram. She befriended<br />
Varun in the gym and<br />
thereafter shifted to the<br />
Noida sector 73 house.<br />
An attempt to murder<br />
case has been filed against<br />
Varun on the basis of a<br />
complaint of the woman’s<br />
brother. (PTI)
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UKRAINE CRISIS: IM-<br />
PUNITY ‘PERVASIVE’ IN<br />
EAST, SAYS UN<br />
A climate of “pervasive<br />
impunity” in eastern<br />
Ukraine has meant very<br />
few people have been held<br />
accountable for a catalogue<br />
of alleged summary executions,<br />
the UN says. The<br />
Office of the High Commissioner<br />
for Human Rights<br />
(OH<strong>CH</strong>R) says some of the<br />
cases could amount to war<br />
crimes. It investigated the<br />
disappearances and deaths<br />
of at least 47 people in areas<br />
held by Russian-backed<br />
separatists. The report also<br />
lists 29 cases in government-controlled<br />
territory.<br />
Almost 9,500 people have<br />
died in eastern Ukraine<br />
since conflict broke out in<br />
2014. Pro-Russian rebels<br />
seized swathes of Ukraine’s<br />
eastern regions of Donetsk<br />
and Luhansk, after Russia<br />
annexed the Ukrainian peninsula<br />
of Crimea, weeks after<br />
the ousting of Ukraine’s<br />
President, Viktor Yanukovych.<br />
NO TALKS WITH RUS-<br />
SIA ABOUT LEAVING<br />
POWER: ASSAD<br />
Syrian President Bashar<br />
al-Assad has said Russia<br />
has never talked to him<br />
about leaving power. “They<br />
never said a single word<br />
regarding this,” Mr. Assad<br />
told NBC News, referring<br />
to conversations with President<br />
Vladimir Putin and<br />
officials. He said “only the<br />
Syrian people” would decide<br />
“when to come and<br />
when to go”. The US, which<br />
accuses Syria’s leader of responsibility<br />
for atrocities,<br />
says he must go as part of<br />
a political transition to end<br />
the conflict there. Russia<br />
has given the Syrian government<br />
strong diplomatic<br />
and military backing in its<br />
fight against rebels, but Mr.<br />
Putin has said only a political<br />
solution can resolve the<br />
conflict.<br />
<strong>CH</strong>INA SHOULD RE-<br />
SPECT SOUTH <strong>CH</strong>INA<br />
SEA RULING:<br />
PHILIPPINES<br />
The Philippines has said<br />
China should respect an<br />
international tribunal’s<br />
rejection of its claims in<br />
the South China Sea. In a<br />
statement, it said Foreign<br />
Affairs Secretary Perfecto<br />
Yasay would raise the issue<br />
at a major two-day Asia-Europe<br />
summit starting on<br />
Friday, attended by China’s<br />
Premier Li Keqiang. A UNbacked<br />
tribunal ruled on<br />
Thursday that there was no<br />
legal basis to China’s claims<br />
in the South China Sea. China<br />
has vowed to ignore the<br />
ruling. It says the panel has<br />
no jurisdiction and its activities<br />
in the region will<br />
not be affected.<br />
US SENTENCES<br />
<strong>CH</strong>INESE HACKER FOR<br />
STEALING MILITARY<br />
INFORMATION<br />
A Chinese businessman<br />
who pleaded guilty to<br />
hacking sensitive military<br />
information has been sentenced<br />
to nearly four years<br />
in prison in the US. Su Bin<br />
admitted collaborating<br />
with hackers in the Chinese<br />
military to steal data from<br />
US defence companies between<br />
2008 and 2014. He<br />
was arrested in Canada<br />
in 2014 and extradited to<br />
the US. The Chinese government<br />
has repeatedly<br />
denied any involvement in<br />
hacking foreign companies<br />
or governments. “Su Bin’s<br />
sentence is a just punishment<br />
for his admitted role<br />
in a conspiracy with hackers<br />
from the People’s Liberation<br />
Army Air Force to<br />
illegally access and steal<br />
sensitive US military information,”<br />
assistant attorney<br />
general John Carlin said in<br />
a statement.<br />
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U.S. CONGRESS PANEL DEMANDS<br />
CUTTING OF ALL ASSISTANCE TO PAKISTAN<br />
A U.S. congressional panel<br />
has demanded cutting off all<br />
U.S. assistance to Pakistan to<br />
persuade Islamabad to act<br />
against the Afghan Taliban<br />
groups, who allegedly uses the<br />
country’s territory to launch<br />
operations into Afghanistan.<br />
Reports suggest that some<br />
U.S. lawmakers and witnesses<br />
also suggested declaring<br />
Islamabad, a state sponsor of<br />
terrorism and imposing economic<br />
sanctions if it does not<br />
eliminate the alleged terrorist<br />
safe havens on its territory.<br />
At Tuesday’s hearing - “Pakistan:<br />
Friend or foe?” the discussions<br />
produced more heat<br />
than expected.<br />
Congressman Matt Salmon,<br />
Chairman of the Asia<br />
and Pacific Subcommittee of<br />
House Foreign Affairs Committee<br />
said Pakistan is making<br />
ISIS CONFIRMS ‘OMAR, THE <strong>CH</strong>E<strong>CH</strong>EN’ IS DEAD<br />
The ISIS has confirmed that<br />
its senior leader Abu Omar<br />
al-Shishani known as ‘Omar,<br />
20-YEAR-OLD MAN SODOMISED IN PAKISTAN<br />
A 20-year-old man was<br />
sodomised by a taxi driver in<br />
Pakistan.<br />
The accused identified as<br />
Menhaj (40), a resident of<br />
Landi Akhun Ahmad has been<br />
arrested by the police and has<br />
confessed to the crime, after<br />
the victim filed an FIR with the<br />
Pishtakhara police.<br />
“The accused has been arrested<br />
in a raid conducted by<br />
the Pishtakhara police soon<br />
after registering the FIR. The<br />
victim has been sent for medical<br />
examination,” source said.<br />
SANKAT MO<strong>CH</strong>AN: RESCUE TEAM LANDS IN<br />
JUBA, SWARAJ CALLS ON INDIANS TO MOVE<br />
OUT IMMEDIATELY<br />
With the ‘Sankat Mochan’rescue<br />
team landing in<br />
Juba, External Affairs Sushma<br />
Swaraj on Thursday called on<br />
all the stranded Indian nationals<br />
to move out quickly, adding<br />
that the evacuation might not<br />
be possible if the situation deteriorates.<br />
“South Sudan - My colleague<br />
@Gen_VKSingh has<br />
landed in Juba to evacuate<br />
Indian nationals from there.<br />
All Indian nationals - We have<br />
sent two aircrafts. This is the<br />
right time. Pls move out of<br />
South Sudan,” Swaraj said in a<br />
series of tweets.<br />
Adding that in case the situation<br />
deteriorates the Indian<br />
nationals will not be evacuated,<br />
she reiterated her call to<br />
move out as quickly as possible,<br />
adding that two aircrafts<br />
are waiting to carry them out.<br />
chumps out of us.<br />
“They see us we are being<br />
so stupid. It seems like paying<br />
the mafia.” Dawn quoted<br />
Salmon as saying.<br />
“Patsies chumps. Most<br />
Americans see out of this and<br />
yet our so-called leaders do<br />
not really get it,” he added.<br />
Former U.S. ambassador to<br />
Kabul, Baghdad and the United<br />
Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad<br />
said, “If I may use an undiplomatic<br />
term, we have been<br />
patsies.”<br />
Khalilzad, who is an ethnic<br />
Afghan, said that Pakistani<br />
leaders had gamed the American<br />
system for decades.<br />
the Chechen’ is dead, months<br />
after the Pentagon and a British-based<br />
monitoring group<br />
As per the report, the victim<br />
had hired a taxi from<br />
Karkhano Market when the<br />
driver stopped the vehicle<br />
near a CNG pump on Ring<br />
Road and forced him out of<br />
the car.<br />
The accused then took him<br />
to an empty plot where he<br />
raped him.<br />
“We have registered an FIR<br />
in the case under Section 377<br />
of the PPC and the matter is<br />
being investigated,” the official<br />
said and added that the<br />
incident took place the night<br />
“Indians in South Sudan<br />
- Pls move out. We have<br />
sent two aircrafts for you. If<br />
situation worsens, we will<br />
not be able to evacuate you.<br />
Please ask all your relatives<br />
and friends in South Sudan to<br />
please make use of this opportunity<br />
and move,” she further<br />
tweeted.<br />
Meanwhile, Operation<br />
Sankat Mochan is in full swing<br />
as the rescue team headed by<br />
Minister of State for External<br />
Affairs V.K. Singh landed here<br />
and the process for the evacuation<br />
of the stranded Indians<br />
began.<br />
“Check-in formalities begin<br />
for evacuation as the first C-17<br />
expected to land in Juba soon,”<br />
MEA spokesperson Vikas<br />
Swarup tweeted.<br />
The first IAF C17 Globemaster<br />
aircraft landed in Juba<br />
along with VK Singh, who met<br />
South Sudanese foreign affairs<br />
minister, Deng Alor Kuol.<br />
“Indian Blue Berets posted<br />
in South Sudan as part of<br />
UNMISS lend a helping hand<br />
in evac’n effort. Close co-ord’n<br />
with local authorities. MOS<br />
@Gen_VKSingh meets with<br />
S Sudan FM Deng Alor Kuol,”<br />
Swarup added.<br />
Sushma Swaraj thanked<br />
Defence Minister Manohar<br />
Parrikar for the support towards<br />
the endeavour and<br />
also extended her best wishes<br />
Following the comment,<br />
which was broadcast live on<br />
the internet, the Pakistan embassy<br />
in Washington clarified<br />
that Washington and Islamabad<br />
were still allies and there<br />
is “positive<br />
Counter terrorism cooperation<br />
between the two countries”.<br />
Ambassador Khalilzad and<br />
Bill Roggio, senior editor of<br />
the Long War Journal, called<br />
for cutting aid to Islamabad<br />
and placing it on the list of<br />
state sponsor of terrorism.<br />
said that he was killed in Syria.<br />
Regarded by Pentagon as<br />
Islamic State’s “minister of<br />
war”, Abu Omar al-Shishani is<br />
said to have died in a U.S. air<br />
strike in Syria.<br />
During that time, the report<br />
was confirmed by both<br />
the high-level officials in<br />
Washington as well as the Syrian<br />
Observatory for Human<br />
Rights.<br />
The ISIS propaganda<br />
agency Amaq on Wednesday<br />
claimed that Shishani had<br />
been killed in combat operation<br />
in the Iraqi city of Shirqat,<br />
before and<br />
the FIR<br />
was registered<br />
on<br />
Tuesday.<br />
Hayatabad<br />
ASP<br />
Hassan<br />
Afzal said<br />
the man<br />
(victim)<br />
provided<br />
enough clues for the police to<br />
nab the suspect within a short<br />
period.<br />
“Later, the victim identified<br />
to the Indian Air Force (IAF)<br />
who will be carrying out the<br />
operation.<br />
“We are launching OP<br />
#SankatMochan to evacuate<br />
Indian nationals from South<br />
Sudan. My colleague @Gen_<br />
VKSingh is leading this operation.He<br />
will be accompanied<br />
by Secretary Amar Sinha, JS<br />
Satbir Singh and Director Anjani<br />
Kumar. Our Ambassador<br />
is South Sudan Srikumar Menon<br />
and his team is organising<br />
this operation on the ground,”<br />
External Affairs Minister<br />
Sushma Swaraj said in a series<br />
of tweets.<br />
Two IAF C17’s departed for<br />
South Sudan around 5 am today<br />
with VK Singh leading the<br />
operation.<br />
The developments were<br />
set in motion after Bollywood<br />
actor Akshay Kumar appealed<br />
to Swaraj to help the Indian<br />
nationals stuck in the warstruck<br />
area.<br />
“.@SushmaSwaraj Ma’am<br />
request for speedy measures<br />
and actions to evacuate Indians<br />
stranded in Sudan.<br />
Prayers with them. #SaveIndiansInJuba,”<br />
Kumar said in a<br />
tweet.<br />
In response to this, Swaraj<br />
said, “Akshay Kumar ji - Pl do<br />
not worry. We are evacuating<br />
Indian nationals from Juba<br />
(South Sudan).”<br />
“At the end they are treating<br />
us like chumps. And we<br />
are more than willing to keep<br />
on handing out money to Pakistan,”<br />
Roggio said.<br />
He added that Pakistan’s<br />
ability to manipulate U.S. legislators<br />
and policy makers<br />
ensured assistance to Islamabad.<br />
(ANI)<br />
south of Mosul, source said.<br />
Meanwhile, the officials at<br />
the Pentagon said that they<br />
were aware of the report, but<br />
could not confirm or deny it.<br />
Head of the British-based<br />
Syrian Observatory for Human<br />
Rights, Rami Abdelrahman,<br />
said that Shishani had<br />
been wounded in March and<br />
died soon after in the countryside<br />
east of Raqqa.<br />
Shishani was one of the<br />
most wanted militants under<br />
a U.S. programme that offered<br />
up to $5 million bounty on<br />
him. (ANI)<br />
the offender and the latter<br />
also confessed to the crime<br />
during initial interrogation”<br />
Afzal added. (ANI)<br />
Swaraj said the evacuation<br />
scheme is fully ready and if<br />
the situation worsens then<br />
the government will not delay<br />
and immediately evacuate Indians<br />
from there.<br />
“The situation in South Sudan<br />
deteriorated suddenly in<br />
the past three days. We have<br />
constituted a task force to constantly<br />
study the emerging situation<br />
in South Sudan and to<br />
closely tab on the occurrences<br />
there. The task force held<br />
a meeting in the morning,”<br />
Swaraj told the media.<br />
“There are around 600 Indians<br />
in South Sudan, of them<br />
450 are in Juba (capital city of<br />
South Sudan) and nearly <strong>15</strong>0<br />
are outside Juba. At present,<br />
the fighting is taking place in<br />
Juba,” she added.<br />
South Sudan’s President<br />
Salva Kiir has ordered a ceasefire<br />
after days of intense fighting<br />
in Juba left more than <strong>15</strong>0<br />
dead and many more injured<br />
since fighting broke out on<br />
Thursday.<br />
The ceasefire announcement<br />
came as United Nations<br />
Secretary General Ban Ki-<br />
Moon called on the Security<br />
Council to impose an “immediate<br />
arms embargo” and<br />
targeted sanctions on leaders<br />
and commanders blocking<br />
implementation of the peace<br />
deal.<br />
There was renewed fighting<br />
between the government<br />
and former rebel forces since<br />
Thursday in Juba.<br />
The latest exchanges were<br />
apparently sparked by a<br />
shootout between President<br />
Kiir’s and Vice President Riek<br />
Machar’s bodyguards. (ANI)<br />
WE PAKISTANIS SHOULD SUPPORT OUR<br />
KASHMIRI BROTHERS: HAFIZ SAEED<br />
Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief<br />
Hafiz Saeed said that the<br />
ongoing protests on the Indian<br />
side of Kashmir would<br />
be intensified and warned<br />
that the deaths in the region<br />
would not be in vain.<br />
Addressing a meet in<br />
Lahore on Tuesday, Saeed<br />
said, “This time the people<br />
in Kashmir are on streets.<br />
This protest has become a<br />
mass movement. All groups<br />
in Kashmir have united. All<br />
the wings of the Hurriyat<br />
have become one. The Muttahida<br />
Jihad Council and<br />
all other groups have come<br />
on to the same platform.<br />
Those who have died in<br />
Kashmir, their deaths will<br />
not be in vain.”<br />
More than 30 people<br />
were killed and several<br />
others injured, with both<br />
people and security forces<br />
turning hostile in protest-related<br />
violence in the<br />
Kashmir Valley, after Kashmiris<br />
took to the streets to<br />
condemn the killing of Hizbul<br />
Mujahideen commander<br />
Burhan Muzaffar Wani.<br />
Saeed asserted that the<br />
people in Pakistan should<br />
support Kashmiris.<br />
“We Pakistani should<br />
support our Kashmiri<br />
brothers. Their sweat,<br />
blood is our sweat and<br />
blood. Their way of thinking<br />
is also our way of thinking,”<br />
he said.<br />
“We in Pakistan will<br />
intensify the movement<br />
which is taking place in<br />
Kashmir. When Pakistan<br />
join hands in this movement<br />
with Kashmir then<br />
Kashmir will become part<br />
of Pakistan,” he added.<br />
Saeed, who is the prime<br />
accused in the 26/11 Mumbai<br />
terror attack case, told<br />
people here to make the<br />
movement a national one.<br />
“We have to take the<br />
movement to national level<br />
so that even the government<br />
of Pakistan understands<br />
the matter,” he said.<br />
(ANI)<br />
UK GETS SECOND WOMAN PRIME<br />
MINISTER- THERESA MAY<br />
Theresa May emerged<br />
from the Buckingham Palace<br />
on Thursday as United<br />
Kingdom’s second female<br />
Prime Minister, shortly<br />
after David Cameron tendered<br />
his resignation.<br />
According to the sources,<br />
May paid the traditional<br />
visit to the Queen to be<br />
invited to form a government<br />
and went to the palace<br />
to “kiss hands” with the<br />
Queen, as the ceremony is<br />
known.<br />
Cameron, had earlier<br />
congratulated May as he<br />
left 10 Downing Street for<br />
the last time with his wife<br />
and children.<br />
Addressing the waiting<br />
media outside No 10<br />
before heading to Buckingham<br />
Palace to formally<br />
resign, Cameron said, “It’s<br />
not been easy journey, and<br />
of course we’ve not got every<br />
decision right,” he said,<br />
alongside his wife, Samantha,<br />
and children Nancy, Elwen<br />
and Florence.<br />
Meanwhile, in her first<br />
address as Prime Minister,<br />
May said that the mission<br />
of her government is to<br />
forge a positive role for UK<br />
in the world as it leaves the<br />
European Union.<br />
“When we take the big<br />
calls, we will not listen to<br />
the mighty but you. We<br />
will do everything we can<br />
to help everyone. We’ll<br />
make Britain a country that<br />
doesn’t work for privileged<br />
few but everyone of us. And<br />
together we’ll build a better<br />
Britain. When it comes<br />
to taxes, we’ll prioritise not<br />
the wealthy, but you. When<br />
it comes to opportunity, we<br />
won’t entrench the advantages<br />
of the fortunate few,<br />
we will do everything we<br />
can to help anybody, whatever<br />
your background, to<br />
go as far as your talents will<br />
take you,” she said. (ANI)<br />
INDIAN-US COUPLE TO PAY USD<br />
7.75 MN FOR HEALTHCARE<br />
An Indian-American<br />
couple, who owned a mobile<br />
diagnostic testing company<br />
in New Jersey, has<br />
been ordered by a US court<br />
to pay USD 7.75 million for<br />
committing a multi-million<br />
health care fraud.<br />
Kirtish N Patel and Nita<br />
K Patel, both aged 53, had<br />
earlier pleaded guilty to<br />
healthcare fraud.<br />
The government’s civil<br />
complaint had alleged that<br />
they created fraudulent<br />
diagnostic test reports,<br />
forged physician signatures<br />
on these reports and<br />
then billed Medicare for the<br />
fraudulent reports.<br />
They also billed Medicare<br />
for neurological tests<br />
that they conducted without<br />
the required physician<br />
supervision, the Justice Department<br />
said.<br />
The lawsuit was filed<br />
under whistleblower, provisions<br />
of the False Claims<br />
Act, which allows private<br />
citizens with knowledge of<br />
fraud to bring civil actions<br />
on behalf of the government<br />
and to share in any<br />
recovery.<br />
The False Claims Act also<br />
permits the government to<br />
intervene in such lawsuits,<br />
as it has done in this case.<br />
The whistleblower who<br />
brought the misconduct to<br />
the government’s attention<br />
will receive <strong>15</strong> to 25 per<br />
cent of the more than USD<br />
7.7 million recovered by<br />
the government.<br />
According to the documents<br />
filed in the case and<br />
statements made in the<br />
court<br />
f r o m<br />
2006<br />
through<br />
J u n e<br />
2014,<br />
N i t a<br />
a n d<br />
Kirtish<br />
owned<br />
and operated<br />
Biosound Medical Services<br />
Inc and Heart Solutions in<br />
New Jersey, which were<br />
mobile diagnostic companies<br />
and approved medicare<br />
providers.<br />
As per court documents,<br />
Biosound technicians<br />
would travel to the office<br />
of a primary care physician<br />
in the New York and New<br />
Jersey area to conduct diagnostic<br />
testing.<br />
Biosound was responsible<br />
for sending the tests<br />
to a reading physician, an<br />
appropriate specialist who<br />
would interpret the results.<br />
“After the reading physician<br />
prepared a report, Biosound<br />
was responsible for<br />
providing it to the referring<br />
physician.<br />
Biosound was paid millions<br />
of dollars by Medicare<br />
and other payors for<br />
the diagnostic testing, the<br />
reading physician’s interpretation<br />
of the results and<br />
the reports, the prosecutors<br />
said.<br />
Kirtish admitted to<br />
fraudulently interpreting<br />
and writing diagnostic<br />
reports produced by Biosound<br />
despite having no<br />
medical license and knowing<br />
that the reports would<br />
be used by the referring<br />
physicians to make important<br />
patient treatment decisions.<br />
Nita assisted her husband<br />
in forging physician<br />
signatures on the fraudulently<br />
produced reports to<br />
make them appear legitimate.<br />
The couple admitted<br />
falsely representing to<br />
Medicare that the neurological<br />
testing performed<br />
by Biosound was being supervised<br />
by a licensed neurologist,<br />
the Justice Department<br />
said.<br />
According to reports,<br />
more than half of the diagnostic<br />
reports generated by<br />
Biosound between October<br />
2008 and June 2014 were<br />
never actually reviewed or<br />
interpreted by a physician.<br />
Nita and Kirtish were<br />
paid more than USD<br />
4,386,133.75 by Medicare<br />
and private insurance companies<br />
for the fraudulent<br />
reports, which they used<br />
for personal expenses, including<br />
multiple residences<br />
and luxury vehicles, it said<br />
(PTI)
CITY<br />
HILIGHTS<br />
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Friday, <strong>July</strong> <strong>15</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
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NADA CONFIRMS NO DOPING VIOLATION<br />
FROM INDIAN ATHLETES IN RIO OLYMPICS<br />
National Anti-Doping<br />
Agency (Nada) Director<br />
General Navin Agarwal on<br />
Wednesday said that all<br />
the Rio Olympics bound<br />
sportspersons have undergone<br />
testing for banned<br />
substances and they are<br />
dope-free.<br />
Agarwal, however, conceded<br />
that there were issues<br />
regarding testing of a<br />
few Rio-bound sportspersons<br />
as they were not available<br />
at their “whereabouts”<br />
provided by them as mandated<br />
under the Anti-Doping<br />
Administration Management<br />
System (ADAMS)<br />
of the World Anti-Doping<br />
Agency but Nada was able<br />
to get their testing done later<br />
on.<br />
“All Rio-bound athletes<br />
have been tested. Some of<br />
the athletes have been tested<br />
at least once, some have<br />
been tested twice and some<br />
thrice. Some athletes could<br />
not be tested on the second<br />
occasion because they were<br />
training abroad and in their<br />
case they have been tested<br />
at least once,” Agarwal, who<br />
joined last month, told the<br />
media.<br />
“For those training<br />
abroad, we have hired some<br />
agencies to collect samples<br />
there (abroad) and we have<br />
tested the samples of all<br />
these athletes,” he said.<br />
“I am quite confident<br />
that the Indian contingent<br />
at the Rio Olympics will<br />
have no doping violation<br />
by any of them this time.<br />
We also hope there will be<br />
no doping violation from<br />
other countries. Since we<br />
are very strict as far as our<br />
athletes are concerned, we<br />
also expect same strictness<br />
from other countries so that<br />
there is fair play,” said the<br />
1986 batch senior IPS officer<br />
of Jammu and Kashmir<br />
cadre.<br />
The Indian contingent<br />
at the 2004 Olympics was<br />
rocked by doping as two<br />
weightlifters -- Sanamacha<br />
Chanu and Pratima Kumari<br />
-- tested positive for<br />
banned substances while<br />
another lifter Monika Devi<br />
was barred from leaving<br />
for 2008 Olympics just a<br />
day before she was to board<br />
the Beijing flight. There was,<br />
however, no such incident<br />
prior and during the 2012<br />
London Olympics.<br />
Asked specifically if some<br />
sportspersons have resisted<br />
from undergoing tests<br />
by not being present at their<br />
“whereabouts”, Agarwal answered<br />
in the affirmative.<br />
“There have been a few<br />
cases, though I cannot disclose<br />
them. In such cases<br />
we issue notices and three<br />
such whereabouts failure<br />
is treated as a doping violation.<br />
“There have been instances<br />
of one or two<br />
whereabouts failures regarding<br />
a few Rio-bound<br />
sportspersons but till now<br />
there is no instance of three<br />
whereabouts failures and<br />
so there is no doping violation<br />
so far,” he said.<br />
Sportspersons included<br />
in the reserve testing<br />
pool need to provide their<br />
‘whereabouts’ and they<br />
will have to be available for<br />
dope testing at specified<br />
times.<br />
Agarwal also confirmed<br />
that discus thrower Seema<br />
Punia had undergone dope<br />
test recently at her “hometown”.<br />
Seema had recently<br />
cancelled a press conference<br />
citing an impending<br />
BUSINESS<br />
dope test.<br />
“She (Seema) had given<br />
her consent for a dope<br />
test and it was organized<br />
in one of those days in her<br />
hometown. I don’t want<br />
to say further on this but a<br />
dope test was conducted<br />
on her. A dope test does not<br />
take much time and there<br />
was nothing extraordinary<br />
in conducting a dope test,”<br />
said the Nada chief who<br />
had been Director General<br />
Youth Services and Sports<br />
in Jammu and Kashmir.<br />
India was recently<br />
named as the third most<br />
doped country in the world<br />
in a report published by<br />
Wada for cases related to<br />
2014 and Agarwal said it<br />
was not a happy situation<br />
and he would work to get<br />
the country rid of that tag.<br />
“Nada is still in its infancy<br />
and some of our procedures<br />
have been copied<br />
from WADA. As a national<br />
agency, there is still a lot<br />
to do. We also want to get<br />
rid of this tag of third most<br />
doped country in the world.<br />
We are not happy with this<br />
situation. As a national policy,<br />
we are committed to<br />
dope-free sports,” he said.<br />
“First, we have to spread<br />
awareness that athletes<br />
should not use doping as<br />
shortcut to success. It is<br />
harmful to their health as<br />
well to their career. We<br />
want to educate the athletes<br />
regarding this on a massive<br />
scale and bring awareness<br />
so that we can prevent doping,”<br />
he said.<br />
“Secondly, we want to<br />
establish regional offices of<br />
the Nada so that it covers<br />
the length and breadth of<br />
the country to have meaningful<br />
impact of anti-doping<br />
programs.<br />
PREZ ASKS DARJEELING TEA INDUSTRY<br />
TO MAINTAIN QUALITY<br />
President Pranab<br />
Mukherjee on Thursday<br />
asked the exporters of<br />
Darjeeling tea to maintain<br />
quality and its brand name<br />
while complying with global<br />
norms.<br />
Addressing the annual<br />
general meeting of Darjeeling<br />
Tea Association, he<br />
said tea production is an<br />
important element of the<br />
country’s planned economic<br />
development.<br />
“Currently India is the<br />
second largest producer of<br />
tea next to China. There are<br />
many other countries like<br />
Kenya and Sri Lanka which<br />
produce tea.<br />
“Among all teas, Darjeeling<br />
tea requires a special<br />
mention as it occupies a<br />
very unique place particularly<br />
for the connoisseurs,”<br />
Mukherjee said as he asked<br />
the producers to uphold<br />
the quality and brand name<br />
of Darjeeling tea.<br />
The total tea production<br />
in India is nine lakh tons<br />
annually in comparison<br />
with China that produces a<br />
million tons of tea.<br />
The President said, Darjeeling<br />
Tea has the Geographical<br />
Indication (GI)<br />
tag, which is to protect the<br />
rights of special products in<br />
specified countries, and it<br />
was essential that producers<br />
comply with the formalities<br />
as it would be advantageous<br />
for them.<br />
The tea estates in Darjeeling<br />
have reportedly<br />
been ailing for long and<br />
incurring losses due to various<br />
accounts. The Darjeeling<br />
tea industry provides<br />
employment to one lakh<br />
workers, including 40,000<br />
seasonal workers.<br />
He complemented the<br />
Darjeeling Tea Association<br />
for having upheld the<br />
unique brand name of ‘Darjeeling<br />
Tea’ which is a welcome<br />
item on the breakfast<br />
tables of many people.<br />
Mukherjee, who is on a<br />
three-day visit to Darjeeling,<br />
also appreciated that<br />
PREZ ASKS DARJEELING TEA<br />
INDUSTRY TO MAINTAIN QUALITY<br />
A digital student incubator,<br />
claimed to be the world’s first,<br />
has gone online with Chief Minister<br />
Pinarayi Vijayan unveiling<br />
SV.CO, the digital makeover of<br />
Startup Village, designed to help<br />
college-goers take their first step<br />
in entrepreneurship.<br />
“The government’s allocation<br />
for startups at Rs 300 crore is<br />
the highest to date in Kerala and<br />
higher than that of the Centre’s<br />
Department of Science and Technology,”<br />
the Chief Minister said at<br />
a function on Wednesday.<br />
Vijayan also announced a fivestep<br />
strategy for students, world<br />
class infrastructure on par with<br />
Silicon Valley, world class communication<br />
infrastructure, world<br />
class talent pipeline, world class<br />
funding infrastructure and world<br />
class incubators in PPP model<br />
like Startup Village.<br />
“The state will fund 1,000<br />
startups every year with Rs two<br />
lakh for converting ideas to prototypes.<br />
The best prototypes will<br />
be given Rs one crore interest<br />
free loan to convert the prototype<br />
into a successful startup,” he said.<br />
SV.CO, the world’s first digital<br />
business incubation platform<br />
that constitutes the second phase<br />
of Startup Village, is India’s first<br />
PPP model technology incubator<br />
set up in Kochi in 2012.<br />
During its first phase 2012-<br />
<strong>15</strong>, it supported more than 500<br />
startups and helped create 3,000<br />
jobs.<br />
With SV.CO, the Startup Village<br />
will scale up its activities<br />
massively by reaching out to<br />
five million students in 3,500<br />
engineering colleges across the<br />
country by providing them a<br />
completely digital incubation<br />
framework, ranging from application<br />
for admission to teaching,<br />
mentoring and graduation, said<br />
Currently, sportspersons<br />
from the eastern and southern<br />
region of the country<br />
faced inconvenience while<br />
coming to appear before<br />
the disciplinary and appeal<br />
panels of the Nada in New<br />
Delhi.<br />
“Thirdly, we want to<br />
make Nada the hub of dope<br />
testing and anti-doping<br />
activities in South Asian<br />
region. Currently also samples<br />
come to Nada from<br />
neighboring countries for<br />
testing. We want to be leader<br />
in South Asia in eliminating<br />
doping.”<br />
Agarwal was candid in<br />
admitting that to realize<br />
these aims a drastic increase<br />
in budgetary allocation<br />
will be required.<br />
“The organization needs<br />
a lot of expansion and budgetary<br />
allocation is very<br />
meager. Earlier, the NADA<br />
was testing 2000 samples<br />
a year and now the target<br />
is 5000 samples a year. But<br />
the budget is still the same<br />
and how will it be possible.<br />
This needs to be changed.<br />
“Nutrition supplement<br />
per se is not harmful if it<br />
contains proteins, minerals<br />
and vitamins. Certainly, an<br />
athlete needs nutritional<br />
supplement. But it should<br />
not contain the doping substances<br />
and willy-nilly an<br />
athlete may take it thinking<br />
that it may strengthen<br />
his muscles but actually he<br />
is getting these dope substances<br />
artificially.<br />
“If he gets tested he will<br />
test positive but he will say<br />
he has never used banned<br />
substances and that the test<br />
may be wrong. He is not<br />
even aware that these products<br />
may contain banned<br />
substances. The culprit is<br />
the contaminated supplement<br />
which has not been<br />
declared in the label which<br />
substance it contains.”<br />
(PTI)<br />
various cultural, minority<br />
and linguistic groups are<br />
living together in Darjeeling.<br />
“The essence of Indian<br />
culture and civilisation is<br />
synthesis. Acceptance of<br />
diversity and celebrating<br />
plurality, underlining the<br />
unity amidst rich diversity<br />
are the true of characteristics<br />
of India.<br />
“I find that Darjeeling is<br />
being melted in a pot and<br />
emerging as a symbol of<br />
this process of synthesis<br />
action,” he said.<br />
West Bengal, Governor<br />
Keshari Nath Tripathi and<br />
other dignitaries were<br />
present during the function.<br />
(PTI)<br />
to the media.<br />
It will thus provide opportunities<br />
to brilliant students in<br />
far-flung cities and towns who<br />
may not have access to physical<br />
infrastructure or the mentoring<br />
they need in the early stages of<br />
entrepreneurship, it said.<br />
In tune with the Prime Minister’s<br />
Startup India initiative and<br />
with a go ahead from the Department<br />
of Science and Technology,<br />
SV.CO provides one month free<br />
training to students in entrepreneurship<br />
on its online platform,<br />
it said.(PTI)<br />
DAVIS CUP HIT BY STAR PULLOUT<br />
The Davis Cup quarter-finals<br />
take place this weekend<br />
but are missing the<br />
superstar pulling power of<br />
Novak Djokovic and Andy<br />
Murray and potentially<br />
overshadowed by Rafael<br />
Nadal’s last-ditch attempt<br />
to get to the Rio Olympics.<br />
World number one<br />
Djokovic and newly<br />
crowned Wimbledon winner<br />
Murray had been expected<br />
to play in the quarter-final<br />
between Serbia<br />
and defending champions<br />
Great Britain.<br />
But Djokovic pulled out<br />
of the tie after his shock<br />
Wimbledon third-round<br />
exit to America’s Sam Querrey,<br />
the Serb’s earliest loss at<br />
a Grand Slam event in nine<br />
years.<br />
Murray, the world number<br />
two, is still officially<br />
listed in the British team<br />
for the Friday-Sunday tie on<br />
outdoor clay in Belgrade.<br />
However, the 29-yearold<br />
is expected to watch<br />
from the sidelines as he<br />
rests after his Wimbledon<br />
triumph and ahead of a<br />
packed summer schedule<br />
which includes the Olympics<br />
next month as well as<br />
the US Open.<br />
“Andy has to look after<br />
his body and his mind. He’s<br />
got his eyes set on getting<br />
some rest and really making<br />
a big push<br />
for the Olympics,<br />
US Open and<br />
beyond,” Britain<br />
team captain<br />
Leon Smith told<br />
the media.<br />
The British<br />
challenge will be led instead<br />
by world number 67 Kyle<br />
Edmund and the 240thranked<br />
James Ward.<br />
In the absence of Djokovic<br />
and Serb number two<br />
Viktor Troicki, world number<br />
81 Dusan Lajovic will<br />
lead 2010 champions Serbia.<br />
Fourteen-time major<br />
winner Nadal and his Spanish<br />
team do not feature in<br />
the World Group quarter-finals,<br />
but the 30-year-old<br />
still faces a key weekend as<br />
he hears whether or not the<br />
International Tennis Federation<br />
(ITF) will give him the<br />
go-ahead to take part in Rio.<br />
Nadal hasn’t travelled<br />
to Romania for the Euro/<br />
Africa zone play-off as he<br />
continues to recover from<br />
a wrist injury which forced<br />
a withdrawal from the<br />
French Open and caused<br />
him to Miss Wimbledon.<br />
TENNIS ON GRASS MORE TE<strong>CH</strong>NICAL, TEAM THAT<br />
ADAPTS QUICKER WILL HAVE EDGE: LEANDER PAES<br />
With wet conditions<br />
caused by incessant rain<br />
adding to the challenge,<br />
veteran Indian tennis star<br />
Leander Paes today said the<br />
team which adapts quicker<br />
will have the edge in the<br />
Davis Cup Asia-Oceania<br />
Group-I tie between India<br />
and South Korea starting<br />
here tomorrow.<br />
“I think that tennis on<br />
grass is more technical, so<br />
TRIPURA ASKS IOC TO DISPAT<strong>CH</strong> FUEL<br />
BY FREIGHT TRAIN<br />
Facing acute crisis of<br />
petrol and diesel due to the<br />
damaged Assam-Agartala<br />
National Highway (NH8)<br />
following heavy rains and<br />
water logging, the Tripura<br />
government has proposed<br />
IOC to dispatch fuel by<br />
freight train.<br />
“NH8 is damaged in a<br />
long stretch at Karimganj<br />
in the neighbouring Assam<br />
due to rain and water<br />
logging. It is closed since<br />
almost two months as a<br />
result of which oil tankers<br />
cannot enter the state. So,<br />
we have sent a proposal<br />
to IOCL to dispatch fuel by<br />
freight trains,” state Food<br />
and Civil supply minister<br />
the one who adjusts to these<br />
conditions faster, is going to<br />
have a big advantage,” Paes<br />
said after the draw ceremony<br />
on Thursday.<br />
The weather was inclement<br />
in Chandigarh on<br />
Thursday and according to<br />
the local MeT Department’s<br />
Director, Surinder Paul;<br />
more rains are likely to occur<br />
in the city over the next<br />
2-3 days. Ram Kumar Ramnathan<br />
will take on Seong-<br />
Chan Hong, ranked more<br />
than 200 places below him,<br />
in the first singles match on<br />
Friday.<br />
“We were hoping that<br />
JEWELLERY STOCKS GET SHINE BACK,<br />
GAIN UPTO 10%<br />
Jewellery stocks on<br />
Thursday jumped by up to<br />
10 per cent after the government<br />
increased excise<br />
duty exemption limit for<br />
the small scale industry to<br />
Rs 10 crore from Rs 6 crore<br />
that could bring relief to<br />
gold jewelers.<br />
On Wednesday, it also<br />
decided to waive the levy<br />
on sale of traded goods and<br />
relaxed other procedural<br />
norms.<br />
Bhanulal Saha told the media.<br />
He requested IOCL to<br />
take up the matter with the<br />
NF Railway and arrange to<br />
send fuel without delay as<br />
the state was facing acute<br />
crisis.<br />
Earlier last month, Tripura<br />
PWD minister Badal<br />
Chowdhury requested the<br />
Centre and the Assam government<br />
expedite the repair<br />
work of a portion of<br />
the highway as thousands<br />
of trucks carrying essential<br />
commodities for Tripura<br />
were stranded there.<br />
Shares of Tara Jewels<br />
soared 10.21 per cent,<br />
Shree Ganesh Jewellery<br />
House 9.5 per cent and Gitanjali<br />
Gems 4.53 per cent<br />
on BSE.<br />
Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri<br />
rose 4.3 per cent, PC<br />
Jeweller 3.53 per cent and<br />
Titan Company 2.77 per<br />
cent.<br />
Accepting the recommendations<br />
of a panel, the<br />
Finance Ministry yesterday<br />
said no excise audit will be<br />
carried out for the first two<br />
years for units whose duty<br />
payment is less than Rs 1<br />
crore (that is turnover of<br />
manufactured goods less<br />
than Rs 100 crore).<br />
Nadal is keen<br />
to play in Rio after<br />
being unable<br />
to defend his gold<br />
medal at London<br />
in 2012 due to a<br />
knee injury but<br />
he hasn’t fulfilled<br />
the qualifying criteria.<br />
In other quarter-finals<br />
this weekend, Italy host Argentina<br />
in Pesaro.<br />
Juan Martin Del Potro,<br />
the 2009 US Open winner, is<br />
back in the Argentina squad<br />
after a four-year absence.<br />
Federico Delbonis, the<br />
world number 40, is the<br />
South Americans’ top<br />
player while Fabio Fognini,<br />
ranked 36, leads Italy’s<br />
challenge.<br />
Only once since returning<br />
to the World Group in<br />
2002 have Argentina failed<br />
to have at least made the<br />
it would turn out like this<br />
where Ram gets to play the<br />
first match. Also, we were<br />
thinking about whether<br />
Lim would play doubles or<br />
not. It will be interesting to<br />
see how the weather holds<br />
out and how the matches<br />
eventually get played. But<br />
as a team, we are ready for<br />
any situation that arises,”<br />
Paes said.<br />
In view<br />
of largescale<br />
protests<br />
by<br />
jewellers<br />
following<br />
Budget<br />
proposal<br />
of 1 per<br />
cent excise duty on non-silver<br />
Jewellery, the government<br />
had set up a sub-committee<br />
to interact with the<br />
industry on issues relating<br />
to compliance, maintenance<br />
of records and other<br />
administrative matters.<br />
The government has also<br />
quarter-finals and that was<br />
in 2014 when Italy beat<br />
them in the first round.<br />
In Trinec, the 2012 and<br />
2013 champions Czech Republic<br />
face nine-time winners<br />
France, whose last title<br />
came in 2001.<br />
The Czechs will miss<br />
their number one, eighthranked<br />
Wimbledon semi-finalist<br />
Tomas Berdych, while<br />
France will be led by 10thranked<br />
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.<br />
France can also call upon<br />
Wimbledon doubles champions<br />
Nicolas Mahut and<br />
Pierre-Hugues Herbert.<br />
The weekend’s remaining<br />
quarter-final sees 32-<br />
time champions United<br />
States host Croatia in Portland.<br />
Both sides boast two top-<br />
20 players — John Isner for<br />
the home side and former<br />
US Open champion Marin<br />
Cilic for 2005 champions<br />
Croatia.<br />
Croatia has won all three<br />
of the nations’ previous ties,<br />
with Cilic also starring in<br />
the most recent encounter,<br />
a quarter-final in 2009.<br />
About wet conditions<br />
here, Paes said, “We have<br />
played in wet conditions<br />
before, especially when we<br />
played against Switzerland<br />
in Kolkata. We had rain literally<br />
all through Thursday<br />
night and on Friday morning<br />
when we got out there<br />
the court was really soft and<br />
damp. Being grass, we need<br />
to take care of that court really<br />
well”.<br />
The tie will be played<br />
out at the grass-courts of<br />
Chandigarh Club here and<br />
Paes said the Indians are<br />
ready for the challenge. “As<br />
a team, we are all ready for<br />
the tie and hopefully we<br />
can start on time tomorrow,<br />
but if that doesn’t happen, I<br />
believe we might be able to<br />
play three matches on Saturday<br />
-- two singles and a<br />
doubles -- which means we<br />
might have an earlier start<br />
on Saturday.<br />
He said about two<br />
months ago, Tripura Governor<br />
Tathagata Roy himself<br />
visited the area and<br />
informed the Union Road<br />
Transport and Highways<br />
Minister Nitin Gadkari<br />
about the situation, and<br />
Chief Minister Manik Sarkar<br />
had also spoken to him<br />
but things have not improved.<br />
Government officials<br />
said a few trucks carrying<br />
essential commodities<br />
were entering the state<br />
through an alternative road<br />
which could not meet the<br />
demands of the state. (PTI)<br />
decided independent of the<br />
committee’s recommendations<br />
to increase for Jewellery<br />
manufacturers “the SSI<br />
eligibility limit from Rs 12<br />
crore to Rs <strong>15</strong> crore and the<br />
SSI exemption limit from<br />
Rs 6 crore to Rs 10 crore in<br />
a financial year and Rs 85<br />
lakh for March <strong>2016</strong>”.(PTI)
CITY<br />
HILIGHTS<br />
Vol 1, Issue <strong>193</strong> `.1.00/-<br />
Friday, <strong>July</strong> <strong>15</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
www.ibcworldnews.com www.cityhilights.news<br />
English Daily 7<br />
BUSINESS FOOD<br />
PASTA DELIGHT<br />
CRANBERRY BARS<br />
SOUTH INDIAN<br />
YOGURT SOUP<br />
Ingredients<br />
Uncooked pasta shells......................2 C<br />
Olive oil............................................2 Tbsp Asafetida<br />
powder.............................½ Tsp Italian<br />
seasonings..............................½ Tsp Dried<br />
oregano...................................½ Tsp Dried basil.........................................½<br />
Tsp Dried celery<br />
stalks.............................1 Tsp (or fresh celery<br />
stalk....1)<br />
Zucchini chopped in small cubes........1<br />
Bell pepper chopped.......1 C Carrot<br />
shredded..............1 Broccoli florets.................½<br />
C Black pepper...................½<br />
Tsp Salt.............................1 Tsp Tomato<br />
chopped ............1 Cream cheese.................1<br />
Tbsp Sour cream.....................1 Tsp<br />
Preparation<br />
1) Cook the pasta shells in water according<br />
to the directions. Drain the pasta<br />
and keep aside.<br />
2) Heat oil in a pan; add asafetida powder,<br />
all the dried herbs and sauté for 30<br />
seconds. Add zucchini, bell pepper,<br />
carrot, broccoli and stir fry until they<br />
are tender-crisp. Add the black pepper<br />
and salt. Turn off the heat source and fold<br />
in the tomatoes and cooked pasta.<br />
3) Combine the cream cheese and sour<br />
cream until smooth; add to the pasta and<br />
mix well.<br />
Serves: Four-Five<br />
Recipe<br />
Ingredients & Preparation<br />
12 oz fresh cranberries 1 ½ cup flour<br />
¾ cup old-fashioned oats ¾ cup brown sugar<br />
1/8 tsp nutmeg<br />
½ tsp baking powder ¼ tsp salt<br />
½ cupbuttr, softened 1/3 cup orange juice<br />
1 tsp orange zest<br />
14 oz condensed milk<br />
3 tsp egg replacer, mixed with 4 tbsp warm<br />
water ½ tsp vanilla extract<br />
¼ cup sliced almonds<br />
Preparation<br />
Line a 13” x 9” baking pan with foil, with<br />
overhang on the sides. Butter the foil. Preheat<br />
oven to 350F.<br />
Combine flour, oats, sugar, nutmeg, baking<br />
powered and salt in a bowl. With fingers,<br />
work in butter until evenly distributed.<br />
Reserve about 1 cup of mixture for topping.<br />
Press mixture evenly into the bottom of the<br />
pan. Bake for 12 minutes.<br />
Meanwhile, combine 1/3 cup orange juice,<br />
condensed milk, egg replacer mixture, vanilla,<br />
and orange zest well in a bowl.<br />
Sprinkle cranberries evenly over hot crust.<br />
Pour orange mixture over berries. Spread<br />
gently to evenly distribute cranberries over<br />
crust. Bake for 7 minutes.<br />
Remove the pan from oven. Sprinkle evenly<br />
with reserved topping. Sprinkle almonds<br />
evenly over top. Bake for 30 minutes.<br />
Cool on wire rack for an hour. Gently lift out<br />
of pan and cool completely on wire rack. Cut<br />
into 24 bars.<br />
Serves: 24 pieces<br />
Ingredients<br />
Yogurt...........................<br />
C Seasoning : Oi<br />
l.................................... 2 Tsp<br />
Water............................ C<br />
Mustard Seeds.................. 1<br />
Tsp Rice..............................1<br />
Tbsp<br />
Fresh Curry<br />
leaves............ 8-10 Grated<br />
Coconut............ Tbsp<br />
Green Chilly................. Dry<br />
Red Chilly............. 1<br />
Cumin Seeds................1 ½<br />
Tsp Turmeric.......................½<br />
Tsp Asafetida Powder.........<br />
Tsp Salt............................... Tsp<br />
Preparation<br />
1. Soak the rice in water for<br />
<strong>15</strong>-20 minutes.<br />
2. Whisk the curd and keep<br />
aside. Now, grind together<br />
the soaked rice, coconut,<br />
green chilly, red chilly and<br />
cumin seeds to a smooth<br />
paste.<br />
3. Combine the grinded<br />
paste of spices, yogurt,<br />
turmeric, asafetida and<br />
salt. Pour this mixture into<br />
a saucepan and stirring<br />
constantly, bring it to a boil<br />
over moderate heat. Then,<br />
reduce the heat to low and<br />
continue to cook for<br />
<strong>15</strong>-20 minutes or till the<br />
soup becomes thick. Turn<br />
off the heat source. 4. Heat<br />
oil in a small pan; add<br />
mustard seeds, when they<br />
crackle, add curry leaves<br />
sauté till the leaves darken.<br />
Add it to the soup.<br />
5. Serve it with coconut<br />
rice and papad for a tasty<br />
treat!<br />
Serves : Four<br />
TRAVEL<br />
JAGANNATHA RATHA<br />
YATRA, JULY <strong>2016</strong><br />
Puri is one of the four holy dhamas of<br />
India (The others are Dvaraka, Badarinath<br />
and Rameshvaram). It is located 60km<br />
from Bhubaneshwar, on the coast of the<br />
Bay of Bengal.<br />
Puri is called Sri Purushottama Dhama,<br />
the abode of the Lord Vishnu on earth. Other<br />
names are Sri Kshetra, Nilachala-dhama,<br />
Jagannatha-dhama, Yamanika-tirtha,<br />
Martya Vaikuntha, Nilagiri, Shankha-kshetra,<br />
Dasha-avatara-kshetra and Narasimha-kshetra.<br />
Puri is about 2 km wide and 4<br />
km long.<br />
The name Jagannath literally means the<br />
Lord of the Universe. King Indradyumna<br />
first established the temple of Lord Jagannath<br />
here on the Nilachala hill with the Deity<br />
being installed by Lord Brahma himself.<br />
The construction of the present temple<br />
was begun by King Chora Ganga deva and<br />
finished by his descendant Ananga Bhima<br />
Deva during 12th century. The temple complex<br />
comprises an area of 10.7 acres and is<br />
enclosed by 2 rectangular walls. The outer<br />
enclosure is called Meghanada Prachira.<br />
The walls are 20ft high. The inner wall is<br />
called Kurma bheda. The walls were built<br />
during <strong>15</strong>th or 16th century.<br />
This temple has the largest kitchen in<br />
the world, and feeds thousands of devotees<br />
daily. The kitchen can prepare food for 1,<br />
00,000 people on a festival day and 25,000<br />
is not unusual on a normal day.<br />
There are 36 traditional communities<br />
who render a specific hereditary service<br />
to the Deities. The temple has as many as<br />
6000 priests. There is a wheel on the top<br />
of the Jagannath temple made of an alloy<br />
of 8 metals. It is called Nila-Chakra (blue<br />
wheel). Everyday, a different flag is tied to<br />
a mast attached to the Nila-Chakra. Every<br />
Ekadashi, a lamp is lit on the top of the temple<br />
near the wheel.<br />
Thirty different smaller temples surround<br />
the main temple. The Lord Narasimha<br />
temple adjacent to western side of the<br />
Mukti-Mandapa, was constructed before<br />
the present temple. In front of the main<br />
gate, there is an 11 m pillar known as Aruna<br />
Sthambha. This pillar was once in front<br />
of the Sun Temple in Konark. It was bought<br />
to puri during 18th Century. The figure on<br />
the pillar is Aruna, the Sun god’s charioteer.<br />
In the passage room of this gate is a<br />
Deity of Lord Jagannath known as Patita<br />
Pavana (Savior of the Fallen). This deity is<br />
visible from the road, so non-Hindus may<br />
take His Darshan.<br />
There are 4 gates:<br />
The Eastern Simhadwara (Lion Gate).<br />
The Southern Ashwadwara (House Gate).<br />
The Western Vyaghradwara (The Tiger<br />
Gate).<br />
The Northern Hastidwara (Elephant Gate).<br />
There is a carving of each form by the<br />
entrance of each gate. The Lion gate, which<br />
is the main gate, is located on the Grand<br />
side of the road.<br />
The main Deities in the temple are Lord<br />
Jagannath, His brother Lord Baladeva, and<br />
his sister Subhadra. Some of the other temples<br />
within the walls of the temple house<br />
Deities of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Lord<br />
Rama Chandra, Sakshi Gopal, Hanuman,<br />
Lord Narasimha, Lord Varaha and others.<br />
Lord Krishna’s father Nanda Maharaja once<br />
inquired from his brother Upananda about<br />
how Govardhana Hill had appeared in the sacred<br />
land of Vrndavana. Upananda replied that<br />
King Pandu, father of the Pandavas, had asked<br />
this very question to Grandfather Bhisma, who<br />
had narrated the following story from the Garga<br />
Samhita:<br />
One day in Goloka Vrndavana Lord Krishna<br />
informed Srimati Radharani that she should<br />
now appear on the earth as it was time for them<br />
to perform their transcendental pastimes within<br />
the material world. Radharani replied that unless<br />
Vraja Dhama, the Yamuna and Govardhana<br />
Hill were present there, she would not be very<br />
happy. Krishna then told Radharani that she<br />
need not worry, as Vraja Dhama, along with the<br />
Yamuna and Govardhana Hill had already appeared<br />
on the earth.<br />
Many years before this incident, in the land<br />
of Salmali dvipa, the wife of the great mountain<br />
Dronacal gave birth to a son named Govardhana.<br />
At the time of Govardhana’s birth all the demigods<br />
appeared in the sky and showered flowers<br />
upon him. The great mountains, led by the Himalayas<br />
and Sumeru, came there to offer their<br />
respects. They then performed parikrama of Govardhana<br />
and accepted him as their king. They<br />
offered very nice prayers praising Govardhana<br />
for having descended from Goloka Vrndavana,<br />
describing him as the “crown jewel of Vraja.”<br />
Some years later, at the beginning of Satya-yuga,<br />
the great sage Pulastya Muni paid a visit to<br />
Salmali dvipa. Upon seeing the beautiful Govardhana<br />
Hill covered with many lovely creepers,<br />
flowers, rivers, caves and chirping birds, the sage<br />
felt that this hill was capable of giving liberation.<br />
He then went to<br />
meet Dronacal,<br />
who immediately<br />
offered his<br />
respects and<br />
inquired from<br />
the sage what<br />
service he could<br />
render.<br />
Pulastya<br />
Muni informed<br />
Dronacal that he<br />
was from Kasi<br />
(Benares) and<br />
was on pilgrimage<br />
to all the<br />
holy places. And<br />
he said that even though the sacred<br />
river Ganges flows through<br />
Kasi, there is no beautiful hill. He<br />
then asked Dronacal to give Govardhana<br />
to him so that he could<br />
perform his austerities sitting on<br />
top of the hill.<br />
On hearing the sage’s request,<br />
Dronacal, who was not willing to<br />
part with his son, started to shed<br />
tears in thought of separation<br />
from his beloved Govardhana.<br />
Not wanting to see Pulastya<br />
Muni become angry and curse<br />
his father, Govardhana asked the sage how he<br />
would carry him all the way to Kasi. The sage replied<br />
that he would carry him in his right hand.<br />
Govardhana then agreed to go with the sage on<br />
one condition — that if the sage put him down<br />
anywhere during the course of the journey, he<br />
would not be able to lift him again. Pulastya<br />
Muni agreed. Carrying Govardhana in his right<br />
hand he left for Kasi.<br />
By the will of providence Pulastya Muni<br />
passed through Vraja on his way to Kasi. On arriving<br />
in Vraja, Govardhana thought that now he<br />
was here he should remain in the holy dhama. By<br />
his mystic power he was able to influence Pulastya<br />
Muni to attend to the call of nature. Unmindful,<br />
the sage put Govardhana down and went off<br />
to answer the call. But when he returned, he was<br />
unable to lift Govardhana again. Trying with all<br />
his might, using both hands, he could not lift Govardhana<br />
even slightly.<br />
In great anger Pulastya Muni cursed Govardhana<br />
to sink into the ground by the measurement<br />
of one mustard seed every day. When Govardhana<br />
first came to Vraja in the beginning of<br />
Satya-yuga, he was eight yojanas long (64 miles);<br />
five yojanas wide (40 miles) and two yojanas<br />
high (16 miles). It is said that after ten thousand<br />
years of the Kali-yuga, Govardhana will have<br />
completely disappeared.<br />
After narrating the wonderful story of Govardhana’s<br />
appearance, Sunanda informed Nanda<br />
Maharaja that as long as Govardhana Hill and<br />
the river Yamuna remained manifest, Kali-yuga<br />
would not take its full effect. Sunanda also said<br />
that anyone who is fortunate enough to hear the<br />
description of the appearance of Govardhana<br />
Hill would be freed from all sins.<br />
SRI MANDIR -<br />
PURI JAGANNATH<br />
Sri Mandir: All of the renowned<br />
acharyas including<br />
Madhvacharya have been<br />
known to visit Sri Mandir. Adi<br />
Shankara established his Govardhana<br />
matha here. There is<br />
also evidence that Guru Nanak,<br />
Kabir, Tulsidas, Ramanujacharya,<br />
and Nimbarkacharya had<br />
visited this place. Sri Chaitanya<br />
Mahaprabhu of Gaudiya<br />
Vaishnavism stayed here for<br />
24 years, establishing that<br />
the love of god can be spread<br />
by chanting the Hare Krishna<br />
mantra. Srimad Vallabhacharya<br />
visited Jagannath Puri<br />
and performed a 7-day recitation<br />
of Srimad Bhagvat. His<br />
sitting place is still famous as<br />
“baithakji.” It confirms his visit<br />
to Puri. A famous incident took<br />
place when Vallabhachrya<br />
visited. There was a discourse<br />
being held between the Brahmins<br />
and 4 questions<br />
were asked.<br />
Who is the highest<br />
of Gods, What<br />
is the highest of<br />
mantras, what is<br />
the highest scripture<br />
and what is<br />
the highest service.<br />
The discourse<br />
went on for many<br />
days with many<br />
schools of thought.<br />
Finally Shri Vallabh<br />
said to ask Lord Jagannath<br />
to confirm<br />
Shri Vallabh’s answers.<br />
A pen and<br />
paper were left in<br />
the inner sanctum.<br />
After some time,<br />
the doors were<br />
opened and 4 answers<br />
were written. 1) The<br />
Son of Devaki (Krishna) is the<br />
God of Gods 2) His name is<br />
the highest of mantras 3) His<br />
song is the highest scripture<br />
(Bhagavat Geeta) 4) Service to<br />
Him is the highest service. The<br />
king was very much pleased<br />
on Vallabhacharya.<br />
Gundicha Temple : It is a<br />
temple, situated in the town of<br />
Puri in the state of Orissa,India.<br />
It is significant for being the<br />
destination of the celebrated<br />
annual Rath Yatra of Puri.<br />
While it remains vacant most<br />
of the year, the temple is occupied<br />
by images of the deities<br />
of Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra<br />
and sister Subhadra<br />
for seven complete days (total<br />
9 days including the start and<br />
concluding day of Ratha Yatra)<br />
every year during the annual<br />
Rath Yatra festival.
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ENTERTAINMENT<br />
KAMAL HAASAN<br />
FRACTURES LEG,<br />
HOSPITALIZED<br />
Tamil superstar Kamal<br />
Haasan has been hospitalised<br />
after he fell in<br />
his office and suffered a<br />
fractured leg.<br />
A close associate of<br />
the actor said that the<br />
61-year-old “Papanasam”<br />
star sustained a<br />
fracture on his right leg<br />
when he slipped and<br />
hurt himself at his office<br />
in Alwarpet on Thursday<br />
morning.<br />
“He has been admitted<br />
to a private hospital<br />
where he is doing well.<br />
He has been advised a<br />
weeks’ rest,” his associate<br />
told the media.<br />
“The actor had no professional<br />
commitments<br />
today,” he added.<br />
KYLIE JENNER MADE<br />
IT ‘TOO BIG’ DURING<br />
LIP SURGERY<br />
Do you know Kylie Jenner<br />
went too far to plump<br />
her pout.<br />
Known for her cosmetically<br />
enhanced lips,<br />
the 18-year-old model,<br />
in an interview with Allure<br />
magazine said her<br />
lips were “too big” when<br />
she started using fillers,<br />
source said.<br />
“I definitely made my<br />
lips a little too big at one<br />
point,” Jenner said.<br />
“I got excited and felt<br />
like I needed to do a lot.<br />
And then you guys were<br />
like, ‘Kylie, you need to<br />
chill,” she continued.<br />
“And then I had to go<br />
back and have it fixed, and<br />
it was a crazy process,”<br />
added the star.<br />
Jenner joked that she<br />
was relieved she didn’t<br />
end up on ‘Botched’ reality<br />
series about bad cosmetic<br />
surgery.<br />
Kylie, who launched a<br />
lucrative line of lipsticks,<br />
liners and glosses under<br />
her Kylie Cometics brand,<br />
admitted to having her<br />
lips plumped last year.<br />
“I have temporary lip<br />
fillers. It’s just an insecurity<br />
of mine and it’s what<br />
I wanted to do,” she said,<br />
on ‘Keeping Up With The<br />
FILM ON SANIA MIRZA WILL BE<br />
VERY INSPIRING: SHAH RUKH<br />
SALMAN FINALLY FILES RESPONSE<br />
FOR HIS RAPE METAPHOR TO MSCW<br />
‘SUITS’ STAR MARKLE KEEN TO<br />
WORK WITH PRIYANKA <strong>CH</strong>OPRA<br />
Meghan Markle might be<br />
one of the most sought-after<br />
names in Hollywood owing<br />
to her popular TV series<br />
“Suits”, but the actress has<br />
a secret dream to feature<br />
Bollywood superstar Shah<br />
Rukh Khan feels any movie<br />
made on tennis star Sania<br />
Mirza will be inspiring and<br />
he may like to produce it.<br />
“Whenever there is a movie<br />
made on Sania, I think it<br />
will be very inspiring and it<br />
will be fantastic,” Khan told<br />
the media after formally<br />
launching Sania’s autobiography,<br />
titled ‘Ace against Odds’.<br />
“And I don’t know... ask her<br />
if she will let me play her love<br />
interest. But, I will produce it<br />
for sure,” he said in a lighter<br />
vein.<br />
Shah Rukh also expressed<br />
hope that Indian sports films<br />
will soon be able to make a<br />
mark on international platform.<br />
“Somewhere down the<br />
line when sportswomen and<br />
sportsmen films are made we<br />
feel extremely patriotic also<br />
from whichever part of the<br />
world they are made. When<br />
it’s an Indian sportsperson<br />
you will feel for the country,”<br />
he noted.<br />
“We have a country somehow<br />
perhaps apart from a<br />
few sports, we have never<br />
made a mark internationally.<br />
Inshah Allah...that will happen<br />
very soon...as things are<br />
Bollywood actor Salman<br />
Khan has finally filed his response<br />
with regard to his<br />
much-controversial “raped<br />
woman” analogy before the<br />
Maharashtra State Commission<br />
for Women on Thursday.<br />
“Salman Khan has filed<br />
his response to the notice<br />
issued by Maharashtra State<br />
Commission for Women on<br />
Wednesday” said MSCW<br />
chief Vijaya Rahatkar.<br />
Rahatkar further said the<br />
commission is going through<br />
the contents of his reply, adding<br />
the next course of action<br />
will be decided accordingly.<br />
in a Bollywood movie with<br />
her “good friend” Priyanka<br />
Chopra.<br />
Meghan, best known for<br />
her role as Rachel Zane on<br />
the legal-drama, and Priyanka<br />
recently hung out with<br />
each other and shared pictures<br />
of their “poolside biryani<br />
date.”<br />
Meghan, 34, says she<br />
would love to work with the<br />
“Bajirao Mastani” star in a<br />
Bollywood movie, something<br />
which even Priyanka suggested<br />
her to do.<br />
“I would love to work<br />
with her on a film one day! I<br />
told her specifically that my<br />
dream is to work with her<br />
on a Bollywood film because<br />
I think it would be so much<br />
fun - she said I should do it!,”<br />
Meghan told the media.<br />
The actress sent fans in<br />
a frenzy when she, along<br />
with Priyanka, shared selfies<br />
on her social media page.<br />
Meghan says she has become<br />
good friends with Priyanka<br />
since their first meet and<br />
progressing,” Khan said.<br />
He said Sania’s book will<br />
be quite inspirational.<br />
“I think the book like this<br />
will obviously inspire a lot of<br />
us. Nothing can come in the<br />
way and there can be no obstacles<br />
when you have determination.<br />
I genuinely believe<br />
this. I have always followed<br />
her (Sania’s) career and she<br />
has brought so much freshness<br />
and so much beauty to<br />
all the sports lovers like me,”<br />
the 50-year-old actor said.<br />
Appreciating Sania’s grit,<br />
determination and love for<br />
the sport to rise to the top<br />
ranking in doubles game despite<br />
her injury, he said, “She<br />
(Sania) had an injury and she<br />
could not continue with the<br />
singles career but she twisted<br />
“Maharashtra State Commission<br />
for Women is going<br />
through the contents of Salman’s<br />
reply and will soon decide<br />
its next course of action,”<br />
she said.<br />
The 50-year-old actor had<br />
failed to appear before the<br />
Commission twice earlier after<br />
being summoned.<br />
On June 22, the MSCW had<br />
issued a notice asking Salman<br />
to appear before it on June 29<br />
to explain his position on the<br />
‘raped woman’ analogy.<br />
When he failed to appear,<br />
the MSCW had issued summons<br />
to him on June 29 asking<br />
the actor to appear before<br />
it on <strong>July</strong> 7.<br />
The actor after being summoned<br />
for the first time had<br />
sent a letter to the MSCW<br />
panel through his lawyer in<br />
which he stated that the case<br />
was already being heard by<br />
hails the “Quantico” star as<br />
“unbelievable.”<br />
“Priyanka is unbelievable,<br />
she has become a really good<br />
friend. ELLE Magazine in the<br />
US hosted a dinner celebrating<br />
Women in TV (Priyanka<br />
was on one of their covers)<br />
and we met that night -<br />
turns out that she really likes<br />
‘Suits’.”<br />
Priyanka, 33, is currently<br />
shooting for season two of<br />
her hit TV show “Quantico”<br />
and also has Hollywood movie<br />
“Baywatch” in her kitty.<br />
Meghan says she instantly<br />
connected with Priyanka and<br />
the duo keep in touch while<br />
also trying to meet each<br />
other if they are in the same<br />
town.<br />
“And you know when you<br />
meet someone and you just<br />
‘click’... It was just an easy,<br />
natural progression. We’ve<br />
managed to keep in touch via<br />
email and text and try to see<br />
each other whenever we’re<br />
both in the same town,” she<br />
said.<br />
it around and she became the<br />
No.1 in doubles.<br />
“All this stuff means she<br />
is not giving up the love for<br />
sports...and that connects<br />
me to great sportsperson like<br />
Sania and every time Sania<br />
loses somewhere...she represents<br />
our country...I think<br />
all of us lose a little bit,” Khan<br />
said.<br />
“We all will take away<br />
something fantastic from this<br />
book...we all will have some<br />
learning lesson. Her experiences<br />
are very vital and to<br />
understand how you fight<br />
against things which are going<br />
against you,” he said, adding<br />
that she’s just truly absolutely<br />
inspiring and there<br />
should also be a part-two of<br />
this book.<br />
the National Commission for<br />
Women (NCW), adding the<br />
matter cannot be heard simultaneously<br />
at two places.<br />
However, Salman later<br />
defied the NCW’s summons<br />
and failed to appear before it<br />
on <strong>July</strong> 8 to clarify his remark.<br />
The ‘Dabangg’ actor<br />
landed in a soup last month<br />
during the promotion of the<br />
recent blockbuster movie<br />
‘Sultan’.<br />
“When I used to walk out<br />
of the ring, after the shoot, I<br />
used to feel like a raped woman.<br />
I couldn’t walk straight,”<br />
he said.<br />
Although Salman was<br />
quick to apologise immediately<br />
after the comment,<br />
his statement irked women<br />
activists and other human<br />
rights groups, who demanded<br />
an apology from the actor.<br />
The actor’s father Salim<br />
Khan and brother Arbaaz<br />
Khan had earlier come out in<br />
his support along with some<br />
other B-Town celebs stating<br />
that the intention behind the<br />
‘rape’ remark was not wrong.<br />
`BRUISED` SONAKSHI FEELS<br />
BATTLE SCARS` ARE MEANT TO<br />
BE WORN WITH PRIDE<br />
Bollywood’s Dabangg girl<br />
Sonakshi Sinha, who will be<br />
seen doing hard core action<br />
scenes in the upcoming movie<br />
‘Akira’, recently, got bruised<br />
while shooting an action sequence.<br />
Posting a picture of her<br />
bruised arm on Instagram,<br />
Sonakshi, 29, wrote, “Nope,<br />
I dint tattoo the map of USA<br />
on my arm. That is an actual<br />
bruise from shooting action<br />
for #Akira. From kicking<br />
ass. Black and blue for real.<br />
Bruised and battered but<br />
never given up. (It’s gone now,<br />
dont worry) #nopain,nogain<br />
#battlescars #toughgirl<br />
#bossgirl #throwback.”<br />
Sharing the same picture<br />
on Twitter, she shared, “Battlescars<br />
r meant to be worn<br />
with pride! A memento from<br />
when i was shooting an action<br />
scene for #Akira!”<br />
Instead of cribbing about<br />
the injury, brave Sona wore<br />
her battle-scars like victory<br />
medals.<br />
Directed by A.R Murugadoss,<br />
‘Akira’ is being produced<br />
by Fox Star Studios<br />
and will hit theatres on September<br />
2.<br />
‘KABALI’ PRODUCER MOVES HC<br />
TO PREVENT ‘DOWNLOADS’<br />
Tamil film producer S Thanu<br />
on Thursday moved the<br />
Madras High Court seeking<br />
to prevent illegal downloads<br />
of superstar Rajnikanth’s upcoming<br />
film ‘Kabali’ through<br />
about 180 websites and<br />
“countless unknown sites”.<br />
The producer of the film,<br />
in his writ petition, sought<br />
a direction to Telecom Regulatory<br />
Authority of India<br />
(TRAI) to issue instructions<br />
to all service providers to<br />
block websites offering illegal<br />
download of the film.<br />
Senior Counsel for the producer<br />
included Tamil Nadu<br />
Anti-Piracy Cell as a respondent<br />
to ensure compliance.<br />
The petitioner enclosed<br />
the screenshot of a site which<br />
claimed that visitors could<br />
access 30 films at the rate of<br />
12,000 downloads.<br />
The counsel said they had<br />
arranged a live demo of another<br />
website to the court, to<br />
show that an entire feature<br />
film could be downloaded for<br />
as little as Rs 10.<br />
From that single copy several<br />
thousand copies could<br />
be made and sold in the black<br />
market, he added.<br />
While the pirates make Rs<br />
20 to 30 a copy, the total loss<br />
is incurred by the producers,<br />
artists and others involved in<br />
the making of a multi-crore<br />
film, he contended.<br />
‘SUICIDE SQUAD’: MARGOT ROBBIE WAS<br />
ACTUALLY SCARED OF JARED LETO<br />
Margot Robbie once<br />
felt method actor Jared<br />
Leto , who portrays the<br />
Joker, might “beat her up”<br />
on ‘Suicide Squad’ set.<br />
According to the<br />
26-year-old actress, who<br />
plays the Joker’s accomplice<br />
and on-off lover<br />
Harley Quinn in David<br />
Ayer’s super-villain movie,<br />
was worried about the<br />
“abusive relationship”<br />
between their characters,<br />
sources said.<br />
“When I first heard<br />
that he was method and<br />
that we couldn’t refer to<br />
him as Jared and things<br />
like that, I started to panic<br />
a bit because I’m in an<br />
abusive relationship with<br />
this guy who<br />
thinks he is<br />
the character,”<br />
Robbie told.<br />
“I was worried<br />
I’d get<br />
beat up on set,”<br />
she added.<br />
Reportedly,<br />
much has been heard<br />
about the 44-year-old actor’s<br />
method acting- from<br />
sending live rats, dead<br />
pigs and used condoms<br />
to his co-stars to insisting<br />
that no-one call him Jared<br />
between takes.<br />
However, ‘The Wolf of<br />
wall Street’ star also stated<br />
that Leto was “really<br />
lovely” and far from being<br />
abusive to her.<br />
According to Robbie,<br />
she was relieved to find<br />
the Oscarwinning actor<br />
“respectful, professional<br />
and incredible to watch”.<br />
“He’s very conscientious<br />
on set. He’s not completely<br />
lost in the character<br />
that he’s violent or<br />
anything. Between every<br />
take he asks if I’m okay,”<br />
she added.<br />
THE ROCK IS ‘OFFICIALLY’ HIGHEST<br />
PAID ACTOR IN THE WORLD<br />
‘The Rock’ aka Dwayne<br />
Johnson is now officially<br />
the highest paid actor in the<br />
world says the recently published<br />
‘Forbes World’s Highest-Paid<br />
Celebrities Of <strong>2016</strong>.’<br />
Johnson, who has garnered<br />
quite a tally of<br />
top-grossing films in recent<br />
years, has brought in a total of<br />
64.5million dollar-earnings<br />
in the <strong>15</strong> years since his silver<br />
screen debut in ‘The Mummy<br />
Returns, source said<br />
However, he is ranked<br />
19th on Forbes’ coveted list,<br />
on which he first appeared<br />
in 2012.<br />
In an announcement on<br />
Instagram his Instagram account,<br />
the “Baywatch” actor<br />
said, “Receiving news like this<br />
will always serve as my anchoring<br />
reminder to continue<br />
to work even harder. We<br />
not only want to ‘embrace<br />
the grind’, but take the grind<br />
to new levels.”<br />
The 44-year-old professional<br />
wrestler turned actor<br />
has<br />
starred<br />
in seven<br />
films<br />
that have<br />
grossed<br />
more than<br />
100 million<br />
dollars<br />
since<br />
he first<br />
appeared<br />
in the fifth<br />
installment<br />
of<br />
the Fast<br />
and the<br />
Furious<br />
saga in<br />
2011.<br />
T h e<br />
news of<br />
Johnson’s<br />
global<br />
top-earning status comes<br />
days before the premiere of<br />
the second season of the HBO<br />
series ‘Ballers,’ produced by<br />
Seven Bucks Productions,<br />
the production company he<br />
founded with partner and<br />
former-wife Dany Garcia.<br />
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