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12 03/08/2017 NEWS ART & CULTURE POLITICS RELIGION LITERATURE FASHION KIDS FILMS www.samajweekly.com NEWS-IN-BRIEF Pakistan PM's ouster raises risk profile for investors: Moody's Islamabad : Nawaz Sharif's disqualification as the Prime Minister of Pakistan could pose risks to continuity of policies and impact adversely on its rating, New York-based credit rating agency Moody's has said. "If heightened political uncertainty and strife among the various branches of government disrupt the administration's economic and fiscal agenda, macro-economic stability and the government's access to external finance could be impaired, weighing on Pakistan's credit profile," the agency suggested on Tuesday. Investigations into the financial affairs of Sharif and his family followed the 2015 publication of the Panama Papers, which disclosed his children's vast and previously unreported wealth, Dawn online reported. "High domestic political risk (is) embedded in Pakistan's credit profile," said Moody's. The agency explained the probability of political events that could affect sovereign credit profile was high and such events would have an impact on policymaking and thereby on the economy and the government's access to finance. The South Asian nation's politics has long been "characterised" by coups and strife between the executive, judiciary and military. The persistence of heightened political risk has weakened government effectiveness and its control over corruption, it maintained. Following the country's first democratic transfer of power in 2013, when the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) secured absolute majority, it appeared that Sharif might become the first premier in the history of the country to complete a full five-year term. Talking about uncertainty regarding policy continuity beyond Sharif's immediate succession, it said political continuity would be maintained in the near term as the former Prime Minister had announced his brother Shahbaz Sharif as his successor and standard bearer of the PML-N. EXPRESS CONCERN OVER DECLINE IN WALKING AND CYCLING Conservatives in Wolverhampton have expressed concern over figures showing that the average length walked by a person in England is down by one fifth compared with 2003, while the number of trips made by bicycle has also shown a steady decline. The figures come from charity Living Streets. Councillor Udey Singh (Conservative, Tettenhall Regis), who is the city’s Conservative spokesman for Children, Young People and Families, and also an ambassador for Cancer Research UK, said local efforts to increase walking and cycling had been very focussed, but that a sustained approach was needed. “There have been many initiatives to increase physical activity in our schools in order to tackle long-term problems associated with obesity, and Wolverhampton has an extensive cycle route network,” said Councillor Singh. “We need to find ways to encourage people to walk or cycle to local shops or for shorter distances, rather than use a motor vehicle, which would not only be healthier but will also save on fuel. Ultimately this can be a win-win situation, with the extra benefit of helping to sustain air quality.” India's 'China threat' is to cover up internal failings : Daily "Taking China as a threat and adopting hostile measures against China, if overdone, may turn China into a real threat, and Indian elites should be careful how far they go" Beijing : India is making up an imaginary "China threat" because of growing threats to its own national unity, a leading Chinese newspaper said on Tuesday. "It is hard to understand India's groundless 'China threat' theory," said a report in the state-run Global Times by Long Xingchun, a research fellow at The Charhar Institute and director of the Centre for Indian Studies at China West Normal University. "India probably just needs an enemy, even an imagined one. With multiple nationalities, religions and languages, plus intense internal conflicts and a strong centrifugal force pushing against national unity, India needs an external enemy as distraction. "The previous arch-enemy Pakistan will no longer suffice as India grows into a big power. China, with large border areas in dispute and the memory of the 1962 war, naturally fills that place," the report said. The report questioned India's decision to send troops into Doklam, which China says is its territory, leading to a dragging stand-off between the two armies. China has repeatedly told India to pull back its troops. The report asked: "Is China really a strategic threat to India?" It said the Siliguri Corridor on India's northeast was on a plain rather than a plateau. "It only resembles a 'chicken's neck' on a map, rather than a 'neck' in a geographical or military sense. "Even if Chinese troops seize the 27-km wide corridor, this could in no way stop the movement of the Indian troops between the main bulk of Indian territory and its northeast. India knows this well enough and dwells on the 'chicken's neck' to find an excuse for its intrusion into Doklam." It said New Delhi was worried that if its dragging border talks with China fail, Beijing will take back the areas claimed by China and held by India by force. "China is naturally seen as a threat." Accusing India of seeing South Asia as its backyard, the report said: "Close ties between China and Pakistan are a threat in India's eyes although China maintains a neutral stance on the Kashmir conflict and encourages India and Pakistan to solve it in a peaceful manner." It said that while India worried about China's growing naval might, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Seychelles and Mauritius do not see a threat from Beijing. The report said: "By preaching about the 'China threat', New Delhi : The Congress on Wednesday accused the BJP government of using investigative agencies to intimidate the opposition ahead of the Rajya Sabha elections after the Income Tax department searched the residences of a Karnataka minister in Delhi and Bengaluru. "The government is using the state and central investigative agencies by getting such raids conducted. How is this democratic? What sort of democratic values are these," Leader of opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad asked in the Rajya Sabha amid Congress protests. The Income Tax department early morning on politicians gain votes, military officers gain budget, media gain circulation and scholars gain popularity... "Taking China as a threat and adopting hostile measures against China, if overdone, may turn China into a real threat, and Indian elites should be careful how far they go." Government using investigative agencies to intimidate opposition : Congress Wednesday raided the residences of Karnataka Power Minister D.K. Shivakumar and the Eagleton Golf Resort in Bengaluru - where 44 Gujarat MLAs have been lodged s i n c e Saturday after some Congress legislators defected ahead of the polls for the Upper House. The tax department conducted raids at 39 locations across Karnataka and Delhi. Azad questioned why the raids on Shivakumar were conducted now if the government knew he was involved in graft. Azad alleged that the BJP had offered Rs 15 crore in bribes to cross vote in Rajya Sabha polls. China tops in pledging FDI to Nepal Kathmandu : China topped in pledging Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Nepal during the 2016-17 fiscal that ended in mid-July, Nepal's Department of Industry (DoI) has said. China has been topping in investment commitments to Nepal in the last few years, Xinhua news agency cited the DoI data as showing. China pledged 8.35 billion Nepali rupees ($81 million) followed by India with 1.99 billion Nepali rupees, and South Korea pledging 1.88 billion Nepali rupees. Chinese investors pledged more than half of the total FDI commitments Nepal received during the year as the Himalayan country received a total FDI commitments of 15 billion Nepali rupees. Nepali industrialists said the increased investment in Nepal should not be taken as a surprise given that China has been investing heavily across the world. "Chinese investors are seeing a lot of investment opportunities in Nepal and they are coming here," Bhola Nath Pathak, project coordinator of Hongshi Shivam Cement, a Nepal-China joint venture industrial unit, told Xinhua. During the Nepal Investment Summit organised by the Nepal government here in March, Chinese investors pledged the highest amount compared to investors from other countries. The Chinese delegation committed FDI of $8.2 billion against total investment pledges of $13.52 billion from seven countries. Entrepreneurs, however, say the realisation of pledged FDI commitments has remained sluggish. "The investors still have to encounter many bureaucratic hurdles," said Pashupati Murarka, former President of Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI).
www.samajweekly.com NEWS ART & CULTURE POLITICS RELIGION LITERATURE FASHION KIDS FILMS 03/08/2017 13 Whiteley does a Yuvi, hits six sixes in one over WEST INDIES GREAT GARRY SOBERS WAS THE FIRST BATSMAN TO HIT SIX SIXES IN AN OVER IN FIRST-CLASS CRICKET LONDON: Worcestershire’s Ross Whiteley hit six sixes in an over on Sunday to join a select group who’ve performed the feat in senior cricket. Whiteley struck Yorkshire left-arm spinner Karl Carver for six sixes during the 16th over of Worcestershire’s innings in an English Twenty20 match at Headingley. But Worcestershire lost by 37 runs after Yorkshire’s David Willey made a careerbest 118. West Indies great Garry Sobers was the first batsman to hit six sixes in an over in first-class cricket when, playing for Nottinghamshire, he performed the feat against Glamorgan’s Malcolm Nash in a County Championship match at Swansea in 1968. Only three other cricketers have hit six sixes in an over after Sobers’ feat. Ravi Shastri was the other batsman to have achieved this feat when he hit six sixes in one over of Tilak Raj in a Ranji Trophy match between Mumbai and Baroda in 1985. Yuvraj Singh was the first to achieve it in a Twenty20 international when he hammered Stuart Broad for six sixes in an over in the 2007 World T20 against England in Durban. South Africa’s Herschelle Gibbs also achieved the feat of hitting six sixes in an over when he destroyed Dan van Bunge in the 2007 World Cup clash between South Africa and Netherlands. “To understand everything is to forgive everything” -Buddha Wednesbury bank robber Jailed and Hero rewarded for his bravery Om Bhatia who courageously snatched a hammer from a hooded bank robber's grip has been rewarded for his bravery. He tackled drug addict Brian Maughan to the floor, forcing the weapon from his hand as others frantically looked on during the terrifying robbery. The martial arts expert, who runs Walsall DIY in West Bromwich Street, is set to receive £200 for taking on the crook at Wednesbury's Lloyds Bank. Sitting at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday, Judge Paul Farrer QC praised the father-of-four for valiantly stepping in during the ordeal. He added: "Om Bhatia plainly acted in an extremely courageous way and in doing so, placed himself in considerable personal risk. He deserves recognition for that." Maughan was locked up for six years for robbing the Walsall Street branch as well as Ladbrokes at The Arcadian, Birmingham. The court heard the robber strolled into the bank, donning a grey hooded jacket, before threatening branch manager Elaine Grimley while brandishing the claw hammer. The 26-year-old forced her to hand over £300 before demanding more cash from the petrified woman on April 27. Mr Bhatia, who was standing at the counter, then bravely jumped in and wrestled the weapon away from the unsuspecting criminal before onlookers tripped Maughan up. Om Bhatia with his wife. BURTON FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT 2017 WATCHED BY THOUSANDS Turmeric can be used to fight cancer in children, find US scientists Bengaluru : Medical scientists in the US have found yet another use for curcumin, the bioactive component of turmeric that is widely used in Indian cuisine, this time to cure cancer in children. Researchers at Nemours Children's Hospital and the University of Central Florida (UCF) have found that nanoparticles loaded with curcumin can offer a novel treatment to target and destroy neuroblastoma tumour cells. Neuroblastoma is the most common cancer in children younger than five years old. High-risk neuroblastoma can be resistant to traditional therapy, and survival can be poor. The cancers start in early nerve cells and commonly form in the tissue of the adrenal glands, near the kidneys. They are also associated with developmental delays, hearing loss, or other disabilities even after traditional treatments have ended. In their study, the researchers attached curcumin to cerium oxide nanoparticles and tested the nano-curcumin formulation in cell lines of a high-risk form of neuroblastoma. "This formulation induced substantial cell death in neuroblastoma cells while producing no or only minor toxicity in healthy cells," says their report in the journal Nanoscale. Curcumin has been shown to have substantial anti-cancer ability, but its low solubility and poor stability have restricted its use in therapeutic applications. According to a statement from UCF, the study conducted by its scientists demonstrates a novel method of treating this tumour "without the toxicity of aggressive therapy" and shows that nanoparticles can be "an effective delivery vehicle" for cancer drugs. JD-U-BJP alliance unfortunate, says Sharad Yadav New Delhi : Breaking his silence on the JD-U's new tie-up with the BJP in Bihar, senior Janata Dal- United leader Sharad Yadav on Monday described it as "unfortunate" and said he did not agree with the decision taken by JD- U President and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. "I don't agree with the decision in Bihar. It is unfortunate," Yadav told reporters outside Parliament. "The mandate of the people (2015 Bihar assembly polls) was not for this," the Rajya Sabha member said on the JD-U breaking its alliance the Grand Alliance of RJD and Congress in the state. The last of the Khalsa Football Federation Football Tournament of 2017 was held at Shobnall Leisure Complex, Shobnall Road, Burton-upon- Trent on 29 and 30 July in which 52 senior teams and 39 junior teams participated. It was watched by thousands of football fans. In the Junior Section, Smethwick FC were winners of the Under 8s and Punjab United Derby won the Under 11 group. The overall winners of all the 5 tournaments of the Under 13s were Punjab United Derby and Under 15s overall winners were Sikh Hunters. GNG Leicester Panthers Under 9s played particularly well in all the tournaments and won the first tournament at Walsall, then Leicester, Derby, Birmingham and Burton. In the Senior section GSA Res. won the Division 1 final. The final of the Premier Division began at 3.30 pm and was played by Khalsa Sports West Brom and F C Khalsa Leicester - both teams contesting their second Premier Division final as West Brom were finalists at the Walsall tournament and F C Khalsa were runners-up at Derby. The East Midland side went into the lead after just 8 minutes and West Brom equalised 17 minutes later who also scored 7 minutes after the 2nd half started which turned out to be the winning goal. The referee's final whistle sent their players, supporters and management jumping up and down with great happiness and excitement. It was very disappointing that the Premier Division final was not watched for most of the match by the official organisers of the tournament. GSA were the only team to win two Premier Division finals - at Walsall and Birmingham and were also the finalists at Leicester. Greg from Derbyshire who has been to nearly 3000 football grounds commented " I am very impressed with the organisation, quality of football played and the friendly atmosphere at these tournaments. So that even greater number of football fans watch these great tournaments there needs to be extra media coverage in newspapers such as Samaj weekly which is published in English and Punjabi.
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