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10 16-10-2019 to 31-10-2019 ASIA www.theasianindependent.co.uk Springfield, Ohio Culture Fest 2019 ~ Sikhs Tied Colorful Turbans Hundreds sat down at Sikhs in America booth to experience turban, learn more about Sikhs & Identity New Delhi : One person was arrested on Sunday for robbing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's niece Damyanti Ben Modi, the police said. The Civil Lines police managed to nab Gaurav alias Nonu from Haryana's Sonepat on Sunday, who along with another Dayton, Ohio USA: Thousands gathered to explore offerings of numerous diverse cultures in the 23th Annual Culture Fest of Springfield, Ohio held at the Springfield City Hall Plaza. It was once again time to celebrate, discover the tastes of many different cultures from all over the World and enjoy interactive activities for all ages, wonderful entertainment and strolling musicians on the plaza, buying merchandize from ethnic vendors, and learn about the world at information booths. Sikhs are living in many countries all over the World. They have been achieving big successes while maintaining their unique identity. In the US, this identity is also sometimes becoming the reason for racial attacks. Despite this, Sikhs all over the country are organizing and participating in various events to improve awareness about them. One such effort is made every year by Sikhs from Springfield and neighboring areas of Dayton, Cincinnati by participating in the annual program held at the City Hall Plaza. A resident of Springfield and organizer for event participation by Sikhs Avtar Singh and his wife Sarabjit Kaur informed that we have been participating in the event for almost 18 years, with the aim of spreading awareness among Americans, and other nationalities about the Sikhs, especially the turban, which has been mistaken and misidentified as being associated with terrorism particularly after the 9/11 attacks. Hundreds of visitors sat down all day at the Sikh booth to experience the turban on their head. “Culture Festivals are organized all over the USA in many cities to create an association among people living in the US from different parts of the World. This offers an opportunity for us to create awareness about Sikhs in the USA. It is important for our community to participate in such events to meet other people, learn about their culture and also tell them about our culture, Sikhs and its identity, especially about the Turban”, said Sameep Singh Gumtala, a resident of Dayton. Springfield police chief Lee Graf also visited the Sikh booth. Gumtala informed that in an interaction with him, the chief paid tribute to the Sikh police officer Deputy Sheriff Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal killed in Houston, Texas. Police chief invited the Sikhs to join the Springfield police and said, “City of Springfield police will be happy to have a first Sikh police officer with turban and beard”. Deputy Dhaliwal was the first Sikh in Texas to get accommodation to serve in police with turban and beard. There are only few cities in the USA that allows Sikhs to serve in police with turban and beard. An exhibition was also organized at the Sikh booth with posters about “Significance of Uncut Hair”, “Tying of the Hair and Turban”, “Sikh Turbans”, “Sikhs in US One arrested for robbing PM's niece in Delhi accused robbed Damyanti Ben Modi when she arrived here from Amritsar on Saturday morning. "We have arrested Nonu from Sonepat and recovered cash, ATM card and other documents belonging to Damyanti Ben," the police said. Police also recovered the scooty which was used to target the victim. According to the police, the second accused in from Delhi's Sultanpuri area. He is yet to be arrested. Police said that they got clues from the CCTV footage of nearby areas about the two accused persons. According to reports, Damyanti Ben arrived here from Amritsar on Saturday morning. She took an auto-rickshaw to the Civil Lines in North Delhi. At around 7 a.m. she reached the Gujarati Samaj Bhawan. While she was getting off from the three-wheeler, two miscreants riding a scooty snatched away her purse, which contained Rs 50,000 in cash, two mobile phones and some documents, she had told IANS. Army”. Books such as “The Sikhs”, “Harmandir Sahib”, “Warrior Saints”, “Sikh Wedding” and others were also displayed. Bhangra and Giddha performance by the youth and adults also made a colorful presence at the festival. Many onlookers were seen trying to dance at the rhythm of the Punjabi beats. Sameep Singh Gumtala Dayton, Ohio USA Email: sameep.singh@gmail.com Ph.: +1-937-654-8873 Kathmandu : Nepal is looking forward to a boost in export of piggery products to China, during the two-day state visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Kathmandu from Saturday. The Pig Industrial Park, set up in Pokhara, targets to export pork meat to neighbouring China. The park was established with 70 per cent investment from the government and 30 per cent from the farmers, for exporting pork. Currently, the industrial park has more than 10,000 pigs and also a modern slaughter house to produce quality pork meat, according to Pig Breeder Agriculture Cooperatives Ltd Chairman Krishna Bahadur Gurung, who is also a former Member of Parliament. China has already announced support for expansion of research and technology in the agriculture sector of Nepal. An agreement has been reached to run potato, green fodder, poultry, mushroom, vegetables and trout fish production plants in Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Sindhupalchok districts, the Himalayan Times reported. The park that was launched on December 19, 2018, will run until December 18, 2021. The government of China has UAE-based Indian expat's visa case goes viral online NEPAL looks to BOOST PORK products to China Dubai : A Dubai-based Indian expat's plea regarding his passport taken away from him and being kept as a collateral against a bank loan has gone viral on Twitter According to Jahir Sarkar's tweets to the Dubai Police, he said that he had been brought to Dubai by an Egyptian and got his visa stamped for a period of two years. It was after getting the visa stamped that the man took a loan for Jahir, but took all of the money instead, the Khaleej Times reported on Saturday. The Egyptian placed Jahir's passport as a collateral/guarantee against the bank loan. Jahir also told Dubai Police that his United Arab Emiares (UAE) visa had expired more than a year ago and that he was grave trouble because of the situation that he was caught in. Dubai Police responded to man's plea by reaching out to the UAE's Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation. The Ministry has asked Sarkar to give them an elaborate explanation about his problem and confirm the fact as to whether his passport has been held by his employer, and that he can raise a complaint in such a case. announced the support of RNB 27 million for the project. As part of the project, 60 farmers and technicians will be taken to China for training while another 240 farmers will be trained in Nepal itself, according to Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development Chakrapani Khanal. The support has been heartily welcomed by the 13,000 pig farmers in Nepal, who believe that skilled technical human resource would help produce quality pork meat and open the door for export, said Pig Entrepreneurs' Association Chair Umesh Kumar Rai. 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www.theasianindependent.co.uk ASIA 16-10-2019 to 31-10-2019 11 Mehul Choksi cheated Punjab & Sind Bank of Rs 441 mn Mumbai, The public sector Punjab & Sind Bank (PSB) has revealed around Rs 441 million loan exposure to the absconding diamantaire Mehul Chinubhai Choksi, here on Saturday. This is the first time the 111-year-old bank has come clean on the default perpetrated by Choksi, who has now settled as a citizen of Antigua & Barbados, the West Indies. The New Delhi-based PSB has issued notices proclaiming him as a “willful defaulter” who owes the bank the amount for which it has initiated recovery proceedings against him. According to PSB, Choksi’s company, Gitanjali Gems Ltd., including its merged entity Gitanjali Exports Ltd., had availed the loan from the bank. Choksi is a director plus a guarantor in the company and legal heir to Guniyal Choksi in the loan account. However, since they failed to clear the loan amount, the PSB declared it as a ‘non-performing asset’ on March 31, 2018, days after it dawned that Choksi and his family had already fled the country in February that year. The bank has now demanded that Choksi cough out the loan amount plus interest and other costs with effect from October 23, 2018 onwards. As he failed to comply, the PSB on September 17, 2019 declared him as a ‘wilful defaulter’. With this, Choksi joins the bank’s band of 27 other defaulters from different fields, based mainly in New Delhi, Punjab and Chandigarh, one in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh and two in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, against whom it has filed recovery suits. The latest development makes PSB the third prominent governmentowned bank to reveal its exposure after Oriental Bank of Commerce came clean of loan defaults by Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi totaling to around Rs 289 crore. (IANS story, September 6, 2019). The ‘mama-bhanja’ diamantaire duo shot into limelight in February 2018 after the Punjab National Bank revealed a massive fraud perpetrated by them running into over Rs 13,500 crore, sending shudders in the country’s banking industry. “Besides PSB, which has been a perpetually loss-making entity, several other banks have exposure to Choksi- Modi and their group companies. Why can’t all the government banks come clean and jointly take legal action to recover their dues,” former and Trade Unions Joint Action Committee (TUJAC), Maharashtra Convenor Vishwas Utagi told IANS. Utagi said the other bigger questions are: what action has been taken against the departments and officers dealing in foreign exchange in Reserve Bank of India and other affected banks, how much of the outstandings from (Nirav Modi-Choksi and others) accused have been recovered so far and whether the details emerging now are under pressure’ before the upcoming merger of banks. He has demanded a ‘forensic audit’ into all the accounts in all Indian banks held by the realty, gems & jewellery sectors on priority to reveal the extent of defaults and the collateral damage to society in the public interest. Earlier this year, the State Bank of India (SBI) had first bared its chest on a Rs 405 crore outstanding loan from Choksi and his family members. The SBI’s disclosure had come barely two days after it became public that Choksi had surrendered his Indian citizenship and taken the nationality of Antigua & Barbados Islands. In March this year, millions in India were stunned to see a relaxed and well-dressed Nirav Modi sauntering down a street in London, and the subseqeunt furore led to his arrest by the United Kingdom authorities. Currently, India is making all-out efforts to get the uncle-nephew extradited from Antigua & Barbados, and UK to face the laws here. Wearing BJP T-shirt, Maharashtra farmer hangs himself Buldhana (Maharashtra) : In a huge embarrassment for Maharashtra's ruling BJP, a distressed farmer sporting a a party poll campaign T-shirt hanged himself on a tree in the state's Buldhana district early on Sunday. The body of the farmer, identified as 38-year old Raju Talware, was found hanging from a tree branch at his Khatkhed village in the district, around 8.30 a.m. He was sporting a Bharatiya Janata Party colourful T-shirt with a symbol of the 'Lotus' and the campaign slogan "Punha Aanuya Aaple Sarkar" (Let's Re-elect Our Government) distributed by the party to activists ahead of the October 21 assembly elections. The development came on a critical day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a poll rally in the Vidarbha, BJP President Amit Shah was on a poll tour of Western Maharashtra, and the Opposition Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Marathwada and Mumbai. Incidentally, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis hails from Nagpur in the Vidarbha region. Shiv Sena farmers' leader Kishore Tiwari warned that the development was "extremely grave" and urged all parties to take serious note of the stress plaguing the state's farmlands. "Such symbolic suicides point to a very deep-rooted catastrophe confronting the peasantry. Unless concrete measures are taken by the next government that comes to power, it will go out of hand," Tiwari told IANS. According to police, Talware had run into huge farm debts which he could not clear, which may have prompted him to take the extreme step. On Saturday, Fadnavis had targeted the Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar, blaming the agrarian crises and farmers' suicides on "the sins of the erstwhile Congress- NCP government". 75-year-old woman delivers baby girl in Kota Jaipur : A 75-year-old woman has delivered a baby girl in Kota via IVF late on Saturday night, doctors confirmed on Sunday. The underweight child, weighing 600 gm, has been shifted to the newborn intensive care unit (NICU) of another hospital while the woman was in Kinkar Hospital in Kota. A team of pediatricians is monitoring the child. The woman, who had earlier adopted a kid, wanted to have her own child and hence had consulted the doctors about the possibilities of her becoming a mother. She wanted to try IVF, said Abhilasha Kinkar, a doctor at a private hospital. The baby had to be delivered prematurely via C-section after 6.5 months of pregnancy given the age of the mother, who was medically and physically weak. Moreover, the woman had only one lung, which was a challenge for the medical team. The woman, who belongs to a farmer's family with a rural background, had insisted to have her own baby which left the medicos surprised, said Kinkar. On kanshi TV channel 772. SATURDAY at 6 :00 pm SUNDAY at 6 :00 pm Ambedkarites News and Views by BUDDHIST INTERNATIONAL MEDIA Mob : 07411 251 804, 07847 307 059
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