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s the monsoon continued
to play havoc in Madhya
Pradesh, 11 people died in the
last couple of days. Heavy rains
continued to lash large parts of
the State and around 4,000 people have been shifted to relief
camps. Army moved over 400
affected people in Satna district
to safer places. The State
Government has already closed
the schools in the State and
advised people to stay indoors.
Torrential rains have
refused to take a break, as they
continue to batter flood ravaged
districts of the State. Bhopal has
already received record breaking 175 mm of rain in the last
24 hours, while Hoshangabad
recorded 249.4 mm.
Chief Minister Shivraj
Singh Chouhan told reporters
here on Saturday, "Eight people
have died due to flood and
excessive rainfall in the last
three-four days in the State."
Two persons have died in
Bhopal, one each in Tikamgarh,
Rewa, Jhabua, Betul, Raisen and
Panna, he said.
"One more death was
reported around this noon
when Sourabh Katiyar (21)
was washed away in a swollen
nullah near Shahpur Lake here
while travelling on a motorcycle. His body has been recovered," a police official said.
Earlier, one person died
each in Mandla and Singrauli
districts yesterday after they
were washed away in by a
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he city received recordbreaking rainfall in the past
24 hours. For the first time, 12
inch rainfall was recorded in a
night. Four people died in the
city during the rainfall.
Previously in 1973 on July 22,
23.7 cm rainfall was recorded.
On Friday night the monsoon created havoc in the city as
it recorded 12 inches of rainfall
in a six hours. Not only houses
in the lower areas, but posh
colonies in the city as well got
flooded due to the heavy rainfall.
The electricity supply went
off in more than 50 colonies for
six hours. The rivers and drains
swelled. As per the Met department, Bhopal city recorded
23.4 cm till morning which is
around 10 inches and Bhopal
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airport recorded 17.54 cm
which is around seven inches.
In view of the situation,
CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan
called an emergency meeting
on Saturday in the CM House.
At the meeting, he gave directions to the concerned officials
to keep the situation under
control. He said that in 51 districts 4,000 Home Guards have
been posted. Trained soldiers
and 108 ambulances have been
sent to high alert areas.
With the Friday night rainfall, 85 per cent quota of the
July rainfall has been covered.
In July itself more than 31 cm
rainfall has been recorded.
The level of Narmada river
in Hoshangabad is continuously rising. All the 13 gates of Tawa
dam has been opened due to the
heavy rainfall. All the roads
have been closed in Raisen due
to heavy rains. The BhopalJabalpur Bharna bridge is five feet
under water. Even VidishaRaisen Road has been closed.
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flooded nullah.
The CM said Narmada
river was flowing above the
danger mark in Hoshangabad.
"Anyone in distress can dial
1079 for help," he said, adding,
officials have been instructed to
swiftly act in case of flooding.
CM said he has postponed
the scheduled meeting with his
Cabinet colleagues at Halali
dam near here tomorrow and
asked the Ministers to rush to
their respective districts and
remain there to monitor the situation and help out people in
distress.
"Food packets have been
sent to Bhopal. To deal with any
untoward incident, NDRF
team is also present there. In
these circumstances we are
trying to provide relief and rescue measures so that people
may not suffer," the CM added.
The Army has shifted over
400 people in Raghuraj tehsil of
Satna District to relief camps,
while the district administration has made arrangements
for rehabilitating nearly 300
persons affected by swollen
Tamas, Sone and Mandakini
rivers.
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100 protesters were hurt
and an equal number of security force personnel were
injured in Kashmir Valley during clashes between the people
and the forces on Saturday, a
day after killing of top-ranking
Hizbul Mujahideen militant
Burhan Muzaffar Wani and
his two associates. The entire
Valley remained on the edge as
thousands of people attended
the funeral of slain militant
commander in south Kashmir's
Tral pocket. Home Minister
Rajnath Singh and Chief
Minister Mehbooba Mufti
appealed to the people of
Jammu & Kashmir to remain
calm and maintain peace. The
Centre is working with the
State Government to bring
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24-year-old woman was
found murdered at her
rented accommodation in
Duggal Colony of South Delhi's
Neb Sarai area on Saturday.
Police sources said the motive
was not clear as investigations
were being conducted to identify the killer.
The victim, who was married three years ago, was separated from her husband,
whose movements are also
being tracked. Additional
DCP of South district Nupur
Prasad said that they had
seized the mobile phone of the
deceased.
According to a senior police
officer, the deceased has been
identified as Simran alias Aarti.
Simran, who worked as a beautician, was living alone at a rented flat in Neb Sarai after being
separated from her husband.
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dozen others trapped in the debris of an
illegal multi-storey house, which was
demolished during an anti-encroachment
drive carried out by the Cantonment Board
on Saturday morning.
While four bodies were taken out till
reports last came in, efforts were on to rescue the others who were said to be still
trapped under the debris. Senior police
officers along with heavy police force were
present to ensure peaceful rescue operation. The Chief Engineer responsible for
the demolition drive was arrested.
Reports said that the officials of the
Meerut cantonment area went to demolish Bungalow No 210 during an antiencroachment drive as the building was
declared as ‘Illegal’. Even when the demolition drive was on, a few people were
normalcy in Kashmir Valley,
Rajnath said.
The authorities imposed
curfew in sensitive localities of
Srinagar and south Kashmir's
Pulwama district but that did
not deter protesters who went on
the rampage at several localities,
targeting police stations,
Government buildings and residences of pro-India politicians.
In view of the sensitive situation, the authorities suspended Amarnath Yatra and
train services between Banihal
and Baramulla. Examinations
at the university and college
level have also been postponed.
Meanwhile, Mehbooba
expressed grief over the loss of
life and asked the security
forces to avoid disproportionate use of force
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London: The UK Government
has officially rejected a petition
signed by over 4.1 million people calling for a second referendum for Britain to decide on
its fate in or out of the EU, saying the people’s decision must
be “respected”.
The petition that was the
most-signed Government petition since the process was
introduced in 2011 and built
momentum in the wake of
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Brexit, or Britain’s exit from the
apparently still in the building and had no prior notice was sent to its occupants to European Union (EU), in the
time to escape as the building got reduced vacate the building as it had been illegal- June 23 referendum.
However, in an official
to rubble in a flash.
ly built. The area was marked for demoSoon after the incident, Cantonment lition and the timing of 3 am was already reply, the UK Foreign Office
Board officials as well as local police start- given. We even gave three more hours to said this week 33 million peoed rescue operations but could manage to the occupants to take out their belonging ple had had their say and “the
take out only few persons alive while four and began the demolition at 6 am only.” decision must be respected”.
“We must now prepare for
of the bodies were also removed. The
According to officials, the building was
injured were admitted to hospital.
a disputed property and the High Court the process to exit the EU,” it said.
The petition, which was
According to reports, rescue operation had ordered its demolition. Meanwhile,
is underway as at least six other persons family members of the deceased have reg- ironically set up by a Brexit
are feared trapped under the debris. istered a police complaint against the offi- supporter before the referenAccording to Meerut Cantonment Board's cials of the Board. The bodies have been dum was held, had called for
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Modi on Saturday retraced
Mahatma Gandhi's historic
train journey in South Africa as
he travelled to a railway station
where the Father of the Nation
was thrown out of a train compartment that proved to be a
turning point in his life.
The incident on June 7,
1893 had strongly influenced
Gandhi's decision to fight racial
discrimination in South Africa
and later the freedom struggle
in India.
On the second day of his
visit to South Africa, Modi
boarded a wood-panelled carriage at Pentrich and travelled
to Pietermaritzburg, a distance
of around 15 km, paying tribute to Gandhi’s fight against
racial discrimination.
“This is the place where the
seed was laid for Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi to start
the journey of the Mahatma,”
Modi told reporters at the
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Gandhi, the Prime Minister
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that are significant to Indian
history and Mahatma Gandhi's
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than brief chaddi that Salman Khan
sports for Sultan makes quite a, well, brief
presence, almost like an apology that needs to
buried deep into the quilts of embarrassment.
Just a minute or maybe even less in the
movie and Sallu’s “rape-like” clothing is
done and over with in just two short scenes.
Now, about the film. Surprisingly, this one
is not any of those tapori-mixed I-amsuperstar kind of movies that Sallu habitually
catapults into the 100 crore club just by being
himself.
This one is an all-out performance,
rippling like Salman’s muscles, his journey
from being front benchers’ Sallu to emerging
as Salman Khan, liked by all strata of viewers.
It’s as much director Ali Abbas Zafar’s film
as it is Salman’s, Anushka’s or the support
cast’s. It is a wholesome entertainer, serious
in places, utterly romantic and, of course,
serenading the main topic — wrestling — in
life as much as in the ring, through Salman’s
upturned moustache, deep-thinking eyes
and pehelwan abs, not to mention the innate
swagger in his screen personality.
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directors, despite the blockbuster “Baby ko
base pasand hai” and the earthy slow
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sports all through is brilliantly managed
through a befitting background score.
All the Haryana in the film is delectably
OTT and all the sory, se and kya kehewen hain
ungrejji mein give great sound to the film as
well as ambience. That a two-hour-50minute movie keeps you rooted all through
(except for one or two songs) speaks volumes
about props beyond having Salman as the
centrepiece.
Anushka sizzles in her performance with
and away from Salman despite the mouth and
nose job she’s got done. As an earthy Statelevel wrestling champion, she manages to
balance the Delhi and the Rewari in her
personality with elegance. Her mispronounced
English adds to her persona well.
The romance between Salman and
Anushka pulsates too with becoming
dialogues like (Hamare yahan divorce nahi
hota, ladai jhagde hote hain) and the rude life
lessons that Anushka gives Salman in the film.
Wrestling, too, is dealt with a reality
punch with YRF hiring real-time wrestlers
and live fight artists from all over the world.
Nothing in the ring (which stakes priority in
the second half) gives you ennui even if you
are no sports buff. Contrarily, if you are into
sport, you will find not too many unreal
moments in the fights.
Overall, Sultan is a riveting family
entertainer and a gold rush for Salman fans.
Yet another blockbuster from this Khan, this
Eid, this year. In this one Salman does no
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about all these genres of the domesticated
animal kingdom with loads of fun, attitude,
visual effects and becoming animation.
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Salman Khan’s high octane Sultan, on a
week when most Hollywood films as also
Bollywood ones were postponed for a
quieter less polarised week of moviegoing, this one makes a quiet mark for
all those who are not swayed by Sallu
pyrotechnics.
A little away from Disney type
animation, here the cats are round as balls
and smug too, the dogs are of all shapes
and grooming, the birds and the bees are
there too, not to mention revengeful
bunnies and old hawks who work hard
to give up their predatory instinct just as
you may be fighting to give up on carbs.
The film is full of fun and frolic,
splashed as it is with a lot of wit and
humour in situations as well as dialogues.
The 3D effects are good to be with
specially when it comes to Mr Sinper, the
anaconda on the prowl, hissing away with
the twin tongue reaching your cheeks.
The story comes with a lot of ditties
on pet lovers, owners and the plight of
animals. The good pets need a good
owner and the bad pets can go
everywhere. In its own endearing away,
the movie manages to evoke emotions in
even non-pet loving community and
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of 14. There is a reason why he took these
responsibilities which you will come to know once
the show starts. He is happy if his family is happy. It
is Abhishek’s mother who is concerned about him and
thinks that the only way out is to find him a wife.
The problem is that there are 14 demands.
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reality. I get goosebumps when I am
acting because it is so real. There is
everything that happens in a real
family situation — from fun to
drama to tension.
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small screen after Tu Mera Hero,
what are the challenges?
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because I played Titu in Tu
Mera... People expect me to
make them laugh, which is not
wrong, but I wanted to do
something new and explore
another part of me as an actor.
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Abhishek?
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do in future?
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say that I have done enough of this or
that. I want to do something different.
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function where slide guitarist Pt Vishwa
Mohan Bhatt was also to perform.
When Bhattji came into the auditorium,
the principal asked Suleman to end his
performance. But Bhattji stopped the
principal and asked Suleman to
continue. My son’s performance
touched his heart. He told me that he
wants to recommend Suleman to Pt
Chaurasiyaji. I couldn’t believe
my luck when I got a call from
Mumbai. I brought
Suleman
here
for
workshops,” Pal recounts.
He is proud to be
Suleman’s father. “My son’s
mind is sharp in picking up tunes
and tricks. When he was just
three, he used to wake up early in
the morning and play the tabla
perfectly. I didn’t want to teach him
flute as it’s very tough for a three-yearold child. But he progressed well and
I gained confidence when people
started applauding him at concerts. My
dream to become a famous flute player
never got fulfilled but now when I see
my son, I feel my dream will get
realised through him,” Pal says.
For Pal, things were not so easy. He
had to convince his parents to let him
play the flute. His parents insisted that
he study and wanted him to get a
regular job.
“When I was 20, I heard Pt
Chaurasiaji playing on TV and since
then I knew where my destiny lay. I
bought a flute for C50 and started
playing on my own. My parents were
against it and wanted me to study and
get a job. They thought of music as a
hobby. But I never let go of my passion.
I didn’t have a guru but gradually, I
started understanding how to blow air
into the flute and various other
techniques. In 1992, when my father
passed away, the family’s responsibility
came on my shoulders. That is when I
took up a carpenter’s job. I also started
performing at concerts and would earn
C300 for an hour’s performance in
college and C150 in schools. Soon I
became a music teacher in Cambridge
School,” Pal tells you.
With the winnings of C50,000,
Suleman intends to save the money to
use it in the future. He has also
won the IGT trophy and a
Maruti Suzuki Celerio.
e is shy and doesn’t like to talk
much. He lets his music speak
for him. With the flute in his
hands, he touches everyone’s heart.
Suleman, winner of India’s got Talent
(IGT) Season 7, has carved a niche for
himself at age 13 through sheer hard
work and dedication.
“The best part of IGT was that I
won. It was a beautiful journey of
tough competition. During auditions,
I played Vande Mataram and various
Bollywood medleys. The challenge
for me was that I had to play on
different types of flutes for various
songs and switching from one flute to
another without a breather. I had be
precise and swift so I practised for
hours to master it,” Suleman says. It
was during a concert at an Amritsar
college where a Professor advised him
to audition for IGT.
His best moment on the show he
said was “when Salman sir came on the
show and praised my performance.
That was my fan moment. Kirron
ma’am loved me like her son and said
that she wanted to take me home with
her. Karan sir gave me a golden buzzer
and I am grateful to him for spotting
my talent,” Suleman adds.
Hailing from Amritsar, Suleman, a
Class VII student of Millennium
School, wants to fulfill his father’s
dream to become a famous flute player.
“Since three, my father Suresh Pal
started teaching me to play the flute.
After rigourous training for three
years, I started giving duet
performances with him. There are over
100 ragas but I can play only 40 of them
on any Bollywood song,” he says.
He never dreamt getting an
opportunity to be a disciple of Pt Hari
Prasad Chaurasiaji. “Suleman was
six and performing at a school
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gone through for 24 Season 2?
I have grown a thicker beard.
There is a scene where Jai Singh
Rathore says ‘duniya badal gayi. Sab
kuch badal gaya. Jai Singh Rathore nahi
badla sewai iskey ki usne daadhi bana
li’. Also, he drinks a lot in this season
but tries to quit as he fears becoming
an alcoholic. He has been away from
his family for quite sometime. It’s a
complicated situation. To make all this
real, I had to work much harder.
Q Did you take inspiration from reallife cops to get a hang of their life?
Yes! The life of real life cops is
probably worse than Jai Singh
Rathore’s. It’s a tough life to take on the
responsibility of protecting the nation
and being on your toes 24/7. Our
nation is surrounded by friends and
enemies. Danger lurks for family
members of cops. A real cop has to
sacrifice a lot.
Q What were the challenges for
Season 2?
From advance action scenes,
avoiding night shoots and complicated
shots, to trying to do things in a limited
time, budget and space, there were a
lot of challenges. Being producer and
actor, there was a lot of stress as one
had to finish things on time, especially
with guest actors. You can’t ask them
to extend their time for us. There was
not a single day when you felt
everything was fine and one could take
a breather. Sometimes you felt you’ve
won a war and, at times, you felt you
still had a long way to go.
Q Is it difficult to get into Jai Singh’s
character?
Yes! Jai Singh Rathore is very real
and has his plus and minuses. He can
work out-of-the-box. The way he
behaves and reacts and does things that
are not only dangerous but not done
according to the book was a challenge
to do. He makes snap decisions. This
makes him very exciting but dangerous
and volatile too.
Q What impact did this show have on
your personal life?
My family feels that I am not the
same. Doing such a dramatic and
intense show has been very demanding
physically, mentally and craftwise.
The reel and real have merged and it
does take a toll personally.
Q Tell us about the action scenes.
We have gone a step ahead and
tried difficult action scenes which
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rehearsals. I wanted to do good action
scenes in time and less budget. This
show is no less than a film. Season 2
is definitely better than the prequel. By
God’s grace, I have never got injured
but there were others who did and that
scares me a lot. I feel concerned and
this has made me more careful.
Q Did you have to struggle to become
a star?
Everyday is a struggle. Zindagi har
kadam ek nai jang hai. Kabhi khushi
kabhi gum, yeh toh chalta rehta hai.
Only when you go through pain, then
you enjoy the fun. If everyday is fun,
life will become boring. There are days
when you feel exhausted, angry and
low but I bounce back with the support
of my family. Moreover, the hunger to
do better gives me the strength to face
adversities that come my way.
Q Your upcoming movie Fenny Khan’s
poster is out. Tell us more about it.
This is the first time that I’m doing
a musical film and there is a possibility
that all actors might sing songs in it.
It’s an adaptation of the Oscarnominated Belgian film Everybody’s
Famous. After watching it, I felt that its
Hindi adaptation should be made and
that emotions and relationships are
same all over the world.
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Nagar Deepak Sahu lost his life
while he was trying to save a
woman and a child. In Nehru
Nagar Anas Atal got washed
away in the flood. Two more
people have lost their lives, but
they remain unidentified yet.
The schools have been closed
and the exams of the RGPV
have been postponed.
Due to the heavy rain,
houses in the lower areas got
flooded and people are busy
getting the water out. In the
areas Aishbagh, Barkhedi,
Semra, Hinotiya, Chhola and
Kolar, houses got flooded due
to the Friday night rainfall.
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BMC and alerted the employees. In many areas flood forced
the people to leave their houses. The arrangements made by
the BMC failed to prove its
worth in the hour of need. Met
department issued warning of
heavy rainfall in all the districts
of the State including Bhopal.
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Chouhan has directed for
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effective relief and rescue
arrangements to tackle excessive rain situation in the State.
Disaster management
teams should be ever ready to
meeting any eventuality and act
as soon as information is
received. Chouhan was reviewing situation, that cropped up
in the State due to rains here on
Saturday. Revenue Minister
Umashankar Gupta was also
present on the occasion.
The Chief Minister directed to maintain constant watch
over situation and start operations immediately if any area is
affected by floods. Alert should
be maintained in all districts and
people should be shifted to safer
areas as soon as rivers and nullah start flooding. Disaster management control room should be
kept open 24X7. Besides, water
should not be released from
dams simultaneously.
The meeting was informed
that situation is now under
control in flood affected areas
of Rewa, Sagar and Bhopal divisions. In Satna district, 600 persons have been kept in relief
camps. In Satna, five persons
have been rescued from flood
affected areas by helicopter. In
entire state, 4,000 persons have
been rescued by disaster management teams during last 3
days. Bhopal has recorded 175
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night due to which there are
reports about inundation of
low-lying areas.
Administrative teams are
undertaking relief and rescue
operations since night. From
Tawa reservoir 2 lakh cusec
water is being released due to
which water level of Narmada
will rise at Hoshangabad. As precaution, low-lying areas there are
being evacuated. So far, 8 persons have died due to rains in the
state so far include 2 in Bhopal
and one each in Tikamgarh,
Rewa, Jhabua, Betul, Panna and
Raisen. Control rooms 1079
and 0755-2441419 working
round the clock.
The meeting was attended
by Additional Chief Secretary
Home BP Singh, DGP Rishi
Kumar Shukla, Director
General of Police Home Guards
Maithilisharan Gupta, Principal
Secretary Revenue KK Singh,
Principal Secretary Urban
Development
Malay
Shrivastava,
Principal
Secretaries to CM Shri Iqbal
Singh Bains and SK Mishra,
Principal Secretary Agriculture
Rajesh Rajora, Commissioner
Urban Development Vivek
Agrawal, Bhopal Collector
Nishant Warware, Municipal
Commissioner
Chhavi
Bhardwaj and concerning officers.
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ation of heavy rains in the State capital Bhopal.
Walking on foot in inundated localities, the Chief
Minister met affected people and assured assistance to them.
First the Chief Minister visited Pul Patra nullah area near the railway station. Talking to
affected people, he said that all necessary assistance would be given to them. Via Coach Factory
road, Chandbad, Khushipura and Ashoka
Garden, the Chief Minister reached the slum
near Aashima Mall. People informed that difficulties were caused due to sudden heavy rains
in the night.
The Chief Minister visited affected houses
in Bagh Mugaliya. On affected people’s demand,
he said that presently food packets will be provided to them. Temporary shelter will also be
arranged. Survey of property loss will be conducted and relief will be provided to affected
people.
Chouhan said that in view of forecast of
heavy rains in next some hours, it is most
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important to keep lives safe. Survey of loss of
goods will be conducted and relief provided.
He said that some localities of Bhopal have
been inundated due to heavy rains. Some people have b een rescued by b oats.
Administration is fully engaged in relief and
rescue operations.
The Chief Minister was accompanied by
Minister of state for Cooperatives Vishwas
Sarang. MP Alok Sanjar, Collector Nishant
Warwade, Municipal Commissioner Chhavi
Bhardwaj and administrative staff.
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Corporation (BMC) squad
remained on toes since late
night on Friday, after it rained
in torrents in the whole city.
The BMC employees rescued
hundreds of people from low
lying and flooded areas and
shifted them to safe places.
BMC used its resources and
manpower extensively and collected 65,000 food packets. As
many as 40,000 have already
been distributed, while the
remaining packets were being
distributed during Saturday
night.
Mayor Alok Sharma along
with Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief
and Rehabilitation Minister
Vishvas Sarang inspected
Disaster Management Cell and
directed the officials concerned
to get the citizens immediate
help. The Mayor has demanded Rs 100 crore from the disaster relief fund and also directed to bring Bhopal City Link
Limited (BCLL) buses to help
the stranded people.
BMC Commissioner
Chhavi Bharadwaj had also
reached the affected areas on
Friday night and directed the
squad to help citizens.
On Friday night, the BMC
squad not only tried to clear
water logging, but also helped
citizens using ropes, tyre tubes
and other equipments. As many
as 25,000 food packets were distributed in the afternoon and
40,000 in the evening. The
squad also responded to the
complaints regarding the street
lights and electricity. Fallen
trees were cleared from roads at
different places. Mayor, in spite
of being out of city collected
information on the situation
and as soon as he came back he
reached among the affected
people and visited the disaster
management cell of the BMC
along with Minister Vishwas
Sarang.
There, he directed the officials concerned to assist the citizens in any kind of difficulty
and in case of flooding respond
at the earliest and supply food
to the people stuck in flood.
As soon as the heavy rainfall started on Friday night,
Bharadwaj went on inspecting
the city at 1 am. She continued
to inspect and directed the
BMC squad to assist people
stuck in flood. The addition
Commissioners Chandramauli
Shukla, GP Mali, BK
Chaturvedi, MP Singh and
other officials of the BMC were
also present in the field directing the squad to help the citizens.
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Ashoka garden, Mahamai much in spate that many housand rescue vans, fire fighters and Rural Development Ka Bagh, Dwarika Nagar, es were marooned and were
and tree cutting machines were Vishwas Sarang started visit- Shankar Nagar, Chanakyapuri rescued by boats.
pressed in service.
Similarly, people were also
ing rain affected areas since 2 crossing, Kammo Ka Bagh,
Till now, 300 complaints am in the night and made all- Garam
Gadda, rescued by boats in Padmanabh
have been registered in the out efforts to rescue affected Shankarachar ya Nagar, Nagar and Dwarika Nagar.
disaster management cell and people.
Chhola, Vijay Nagar, Khushi Sarang was actively engrossed
they were received from Lalita
He not only got boats oper- Pura, Semra, Station Bajariya, throughout relief and rescue
Nagar, Chhan, Ganesh Nagar, ational to rescue people, but Padmanabh Nagar, Anna operations. In the morning,
Mahamai Ka Baag, Jat Khedi, also distributed food, milk Nagar, Subhash Nagar and Sarang distributed khichadi,
Chhola, Dwarka Nagar, Punjabi also. On getting information Subhash Nagar Phatak area bread and milk to affected
Bagh, Shahpura, Banganga, late on Friday night itself, have been worst affected by people and food packets in
Devki Nagar, Sharda Nagar, Sarang rushed to Old Bhopal excessive rains.
lunch.
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Sarang’s intensive visits
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Ashoka
Garden
and undertake relief and rescue round these areas since 2 am in came as a major relief to affectGovindpura industrial area, operations till late in the night the night. He rescued two ed people. Their morale was
Atyantoday Nagar, Semra, to next day. Sarang himself small girls and their parents boosted much to deal with the
Khushipura, Chandband, Rajiv boarded a boat, visited from a marooned house in disaster due to visits of their
Nagar, Data Colony, Nehru marooned houses and rescued Mahamai Ka Bagh.
public representatives.
Nagar and Bairagarh.
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green cover in the Field Firing Ranges of
Hema and Berchha has been undertaken by the
Infantry School. This project will be undertaken in phases and completed over a period of two
planting seasons.
In the first phase a total of 5000 trees will
be planted and the process will be completed
over the next two weeks. The Commandant,
Infantry School Lt Gen KH Singh UYSM,
AVSM, YSM, and Deputy Commandant, Maj
Gen AS Rawat, YSM, SM, VSM and 500
Officers, men, defence civilian staff, ladies
including school children and teachers of the
Bayonet School, participated in the curtain raises event on the 08 Jul 2016.
A total of eleven varieties of locally hardened species are being planted to ensure maximum survivability. A mix of green, flowering
plants and shrubs have been selected to ensure
maximum beautification as well as aesthetics.
The area of Hema range has already become
greener than the previous years due to the per-
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who have managed to stop trespassing and cutting of shrubs. The effort was appreciated by the
locals who actively supported the effort. On
completion of the plantation, Mhow will boast
of having added more than 20 square kilometres of green cover to its environs. Lt Gen KH
Singh while addressing the participants commended the soldiers, families and the school
children and encouraged them to be ever
forthcoming for all future green initiatives.
Pradesh,
has
signed
Memorandum
of
Understanding (MOU) for
the year 2016-17 at Faridabad
on Saturday with NHPC
Limited, India’s Premier
Hydropower utility and a
Scheduled ‘A’ Mini Ratna
Enterprise of the Government
of India.
The MOU was signed by
KM Singh, Chairman and
Managing Director, NHPC and
Dhiman Parija, Executive
Director, NHDC in the presence of RS Mina, Managing
Director, NHDC and Director
(Personnel), NHPC, AK Sarkar,
Executive Director (Planning),
NHPC and BP Rao, Chief
Engineer (Planning), NHPC.
In the signed MOU for
NHDC, Generation Target for
FY 2016-17 under ‘Excellent’
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as against last year (FY 201516) Actual Generation of
2932.89 MU; Excellent Target
for Revenue from Operations
as Rs 1082 crores and
Operating Profit as Rs 565
crores.
Further to ensure optimum utilisation of budget,
CAPEX Programme of NHDC
has been assigned 15 per cent
weightage in the MOU 201617. In addition, targets regarding Reduction in Auxiliary
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unicipal Corporation of
Gwalior has not decided
any agency for the treatment of
garbage, that has been dumped
at landfill site. Two months ago,
two agencies had given the presentation in front of officers but
it didn’t work out.
Now this matter has
reached to Bhopal to decide
about the treatment of garbage
and which company will be
given the responsibility. In
Gwalior, the landfill site is situated at Shivpuri link road
where 20,000 tonnes garbage
has to be managed and for this
agency should be contacted to
take the responsibility. Agency
will do the agreement to manage the garbage at the landfill
site of Dabra, Bhitarwar along
with Gwalior itself.
With the presence of
20,000 tonnes of garbage, the
area is getting polluted and at
the same time, it is polluting
the underground water.
Municipal Corporation of
Gwalior is trying hard for last
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four years to start the procedure. Also in Gwalior city
where there is not approved for
dumping the garbage people
used to dumped it. All this led
to big pollution in air and
water.
Municipal Corporation
was informed time to time
because new agency has to go
for new work of landfill site
management. In the city
around 250 tonnes of garbage
is coming out daily and during
festivals it increases up to 400
tonnes. For the transportation
of garbage vehicles were purchased to dump the garbage at
landfill site.
Municipal Corporation of
Gwalior will manage garbage
soon of big hotels of city and
it will be use by composed
plant.
When landfill site become
congested for the garbage due
to continuous dumping of filth
then it was stopped and then
nearby areas was used to dump
the garbage. In city also where
there is empty space or pit the
garbage was dumped.
I
Zakir Naik, the Centre has
constituted as many as nine
teams from the Intelligence
and investigative agencies like
the Intelligence Bureau (IB),
National Investigation Agency
(NIA) and others to scan his
speeches, social media posts
and video footages that are suspected to be an inspiration for
terror outfits.
The Home Ministry has
constituted four teams to scan
the video footages and CDs of
Naik’s speeches, three for scanning his writings on social
networking sites even as two
other teams are monitoring his
Facebook posts, official sources
said. A preliminary probe by
the IB suggests Naik's speeches and posts are provocative
and inciting in nature. The
probe so far also suggests the
dubious role of his NGO
Islamic Research Foundation
that is suspected to be misusing the funds received for charitable purposes. The Home
Ministry is running a check on
the clearances granted to his
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reports that the 15 people
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— 11 from Kasaragod and four
from Palakkad — who had
gone missing mysteriously in
the past two months might
have joined the Islamic State
(ISIS) and could now be in its
camps in Afghanistan or Syria,
various Central and State agencies have started probing the
matter, while complaints came
up on Saturday about the mysterious disappearance of two
more persons from Kasaragod.
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NGO under the Foreign
Contribution Regulation Act
(FCRA) and any possible irregularities.
The agencies are also tracking his phone calls and emails, the sponsors for funding
his tours abroad and his meetings with the nefarious elements here, sources said.
Meanwhile,
the
Government is also mulling to
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ban Peace TV through which
the hardline Salafist leader is
said to be spreading venom in
the guise of Islamic preaching.
The Government has sought a
fresh legal opinion to make a
strong case against the controversial preacher.
The Centre is also planning
to soon amend the Unlawful
Activities Prevention Act
(UAPA) so that individuals
can also be banned as is the
case with outfits.
The provision when incorporated under the UAPA will
empower the Government to
ban provocative or controversial speakers whose speeches
have the potential to inspire
people towards terror.
Power
Consumption,
Reduction in claims against the
Company, Trade Receivables,
Dividend/PAT, PAT/Net
Worth, Omkareshwar Project
Reservoir filling up to MDDL
i.e. EL 193.54 M, have also
been included.
NHDC Limited, incorporated in the year 2000, is the
largest Hydropower producing
Company in the State of Madhya
Pradesh having its 2 Projects 1000 MW Indira Sagar and 520
MW Omkareshwar.
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Asserting that the Centre
has taken cognisance of Naik's
controversial comments
regarding terrorism, Union
Home Minister Rajnath Singh
had earlier assured that a proper probe would be conducted
into the issue.
“We have taken cognisance
of Zakir Naik's speeches and
necessary instructions have
been issued in this regard. His
(Zakir Naik) speeches, CDs are
being examined and whatever
is justified will be done,”
Rajnath told reporters here.
He added that the
Government would not compromise on the grave issue of
terrorism at any cost.
The
Bangladesh
Government has alleged that
one of the terrorists who
attacked an upscale restaurant
in the diplomatic zone earlier
this month was inspired by
Naik's
speeches.
The
Bangladesh Government is also
reportedly mulling to ban the
Peace TV.
The Salafist orator and
founder of Mumbai-based
Islamic Research Foundation is
banned in the UK, Canada and
Malaysia for his hate speeches.
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Badal on Saturday dubbed Aam Aadmi
Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal’s
visit to Harmandar Sahib on July 18 for
performing ‘Sewa’ as a sham saying it
would not absolve him and his party in any
case from the heinous sin committed by
publishing the picture of Darbar Sahib
along with broom — their election symbol — on the party’s youth manifesto.
Talking to reporters on the on the sidelines of his Sangat Darshan programme in
Ropar Assembly Constituency, the Chief
Minister said that Kejriwal and his party
now stood fully exposed as their mind-set
had clearly revealed their innermost psy-
che that how ‘scant respect they show
towards the religious sentiments of other
communities may be Sikh, Hindu or
Muslim.’
He, however, said that anyone could
offer prayer and perform ‘sewa’ at Sri
Darbar Sahib as a true devotee who has a
feeling of repentance but people like
Kejriwal and his accomplices were only
indulged in politicking as there was a world
of difference between their words and
actions. He said that the proposed visit of
AAP convener was nothing more than a
political stunt to salvage his image and
party’s swiftly falling graph of popularity.
“The sole aim of his party was to wrest
power in Punjab by hook or crook to pursue their political ambitions, thereby
throwing all the norms of decency and
morality to winds,” he added.
On a query on rising unemployment,
the Chief Minister said that it was not feasible for any Government to provide
Government jobs to the entire unemployed
youth although the State Government has
already launched a massive recruitment
drive to provide employment to the youth
in Education, Health, Power and Police
departments.
Badal said the State Government had
already set up a skill development mission
through which several skill development centres have been opened to impart vocational training to our youth in different trades
so as to enable them to be gainfully employed
in private sector or set up their own ventures.
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for crowd control that
results in loss of precious
lives and grave injuries. She
asked the police and the
paramilitary forces to use
Standard
Operating
Procedures (SOP) while dealing with protesters.
Urging
for
calm,
Mehbooba sought the people's
cooperation in restoration of
normalcy in the Valley.
“Violence only brings miseries
to the people and tragedies for
the victim families,” she said
and appealed to the people,
especially the youth not to fall
prey to the machinations of the
vested interests, who play politics over the dead bodies of
Kashmiris.
Most of the casualties have
been reported in south
Kashmir's Anantnag and
Kulgam districts. “At a few
places during crowd control, 12
people have died,” Additional
Director General of Police Shiv
Murari Sahai said at a Press
conference. He said at many
places the mobs forcibly tried
to enter security force establishments with the intention to
seize weapons and harm force
personnel.
The situation went out of
control since Saturday morning
when tens of thousands of
people began marching
towards Tral town to attend the
funeral of the slain militant.
Sources said that a group of
militants also attended the
funeral prayers of the slain militant.
Wani, 22, was killed on
Friday in a gunf ight at
Bamdooru village of south
Kashmir's Kokernag area. He
was the most wanted commander of the outfit and carried a bounty of Rs 10 lakh
over his head.
Wani was instrumental
in introducing new-age militancy in Kashmir that attracted hundreds of youngsters
towards the militancy in
recent years. His pictures and
videos, along with his colleagues donning army
fatigues, were widely circulated on social media.
In Srinagar, curfew was
imposed in old city areas. The
Government also blocked
mobile internet services except
the broadband services in the
region since Friday night to
avoid spread of rumours.
Violent incidents of arson
and stone-p elting were
reported from Achabal,
Kokernag, Kund, Qazigund,
Damhal hanjipora, Vessu,
Dooru, Sangam, Awantipora,
Pulwama, Bomai, Sopore,
Baramulla, Palhalan, Pattan,
Delina, Gantmulla, Sheeri,
Kreeri, lalpora, bandipora,
Narbal, Lasjan, Barzulla,
Nowgam, Tengp ora and
Batamaloo areas, Inspector
General of Police (Kashmir
range) Javed Gilani said.
He said the mob looted
weapons from police station
Damhal Hanjipora and police
personnel were fired upon.
“Three policemen are missing,”
Gilani said, adding that 96
personnel have been wounded
in the clashes. “The police and
security force personnel used
tear gas to disperse the crowds,”
he said.
Sources said that around 70
people, who had received bullet wounds, were admitted to
hospitals.
Meanwhile, shops, private
offices, business establishments
and petrol pumps were shut,
while Government offices and
banks witnessed thin attendance. Public transport was off
the roads.
Educational institutions in
the Valley are closed on
account of the summer vaca-
tions. The Jammu & Kashmir
Board of School Education
and Central University of
Kashmir have postponed
examinations scheduled for
Saturday.
Giving details about the
encounter at Kokernag, Sahai
said that the encounter took
place and there was an
exchange of fire. “The fact that
two policemen were wounded
in the encounter explains that
the encounter took place,” he
said while dispelling notion
that Burhan and his associates
were killed in custody or were
not given a chance to surrender.
Sahai said that Mehbooba
Mufti being the Home Minister
of the State was in the know of
the operation that killed
Burhan Wani and his associates.
He said it would be
analysed as to why people in
large numbers turned to streets
after the killing of militants. He
said the Amarnath yatra would
be resumed as soon as the situation improves.
Meanwhile, sources said
that additional troops are being
sent in to Kashmir in chartered
flights to reinforce the deployments.
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"Army has shifted 400
flood affected persons to relief
camps in Raghuraj Nagar tehsil
of Satna district yesterday," an
official of Public Relation
department said on Saturday.
Moreover, most of the districts, particularly in West
Madhya Pradesh, have been
continuously recording heavy
showers since Saturday morning. Several villages have been
cut off due to inundated streets
and highways. Army personnel
have been deployed across the
State for relief operations.
These rains can be attributed to the westward movement of low pressure area
over Madhya Pradesh, which
had earlier battered East
Madhya Pradesh. According
to meteorological office situation will continue to be grim
as heavy to very heavy showers are likely to lash West
Madhya Pradesh that includes
Betul, Bhopal, Hoshangabad,
Dewas, Ujjain, Guna, Ratlam
and Indore districts. A few
parts of East Madhya Pradesh
may also receive isolated
heavy rains.
Besides, State Capital
Bhopal that recorded 175 mm
of rains during the past 24
hours and Hoshangabad that
recorded highest rainfall of
249.4 mm in the State during
past 24 hours, Pachmari
recorded 219 mm, Damoh 104,
Seoni 59, Khandwa 55, Ujjain
49 and Chhindwara recorded
47 mm of rains during the past
24 hours.
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Pietermaritzburg had
altered the course of India's history.
On June 7, 1893, while a
young Gandhi was on his way
to Pretoria from Durban, a
white man objected to his presence in a first-class carriage,
and Gandhi was ordered to
move to the third-class compartment.
Gandhi had a valid firstclass ticket and refused to
obey the orders following
which he was thrown out of
the train at Pietermaritzburg
station in the dead of a cold
winter night.
Gandhi was forced to stay
at the station that night in the
biting cold and the bitter incident played a major role in
Gandhi's decision to stay on in
South Africa and fight racial
discrimination against Indians
there.
Modi will also visit the
Phoenix Settlement, which is
very closely associated with
Gandhi. He also planted a
sapling there.
The Prime Minister also
inaugurated an exhibition at
the waiting hall of the railway
station where Gandhi had
spent the night after being
thrown out of the train.
“PM travels from Pentrich
Railway
Station
to
Pietermaritzburg. Train resembles the one on which
Mahatma Gandhi travelled,”
the PMO tweeted.
After talks with South
African President Jacob Zuma,
the Prime Minister on Friday
had paid glowing tributes to
Mahatma Gandhi as well as
Nelson Mandela.
“For me personally, this
visit is an opportunity to pay
homage to two of the greatest
human souls to have ever
walked this Earth - Mahatma
Gandhi and Nelson Mandela,”
Modi had said.
He further said, “We stood
together in our common fight
against racial subjugation and
colonialism. It was in South
Africa that Gandhi found his
true calling. He belongs as
much to India as to South
Africa.”
Modi also talked about
Gandhi's fight against racial
discrimination and how he
tolerated pain in fighting
against injustices.
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From Page 1
the Government to annul
the results if the Remain or
Leave vote won by less than 60
per cent on a turnout of less
than 75 per cent. In the wake
of the Brexit vote, the petition
was shared widely on social
media by Remain supporters.
British Government petitions
which reach over 1,00,000 signatures must be considered
for debate in Parliament.
“The EU Referendum Act
received Royal Assent in
December 2015. The Act was
scrutinised and debated in
Parliament during its passage
and agreed by both the House
of Commons and the House of
Lords,” the Foreign Office said.
The Act set out the terms
under which the referendum
would take place, including
provisions for setting the date,
franchise and the question that
would appear on the ballot
paper. The Act did not set a
threshold for the result or for
minimum turnout, it said.
“As the Prime Minister made
clear in his statement to the
House of Commons on June 27,
the referendum was one of the
biggest democratic exercises in
British history with over 33 million people having their say,” the
Foreign Office said.
“The Prime Minister and
Government have been clear
that this was a once in a generation vote and, as the Prime
Minister has said, the decision
must be respected. We must
now prepare for the process to
exit the EU and the
Government is committed to
ensuring the best possible outcome for the British people in
the negotiations,” it said.
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noose around Himachal
IPradesh
Chief Minister
Virbhadra Singh, the
Enforcement Directorate on
Saturday arrested LIC agent
Anand Chauhan who is alleged
to have laundered the former’s
tainted cash. This is the first
arrest in the ongoing case so far.
Both Singh and Chauhan
are accused in a case under
Prevention of Money
Laundering Act (PMLA).
Chauhan’s custodial interrogation is likely to further unravel the nexus between them and
the modus operandi of illicit
investments made by the agent
on behalf of the CM.
Chauhan was arrested
from Chandigarh under the
provisions of PMLA as he was
not cooperating with the investigating officer of the case, officials said, adding his custodial interrogation is necessary.
He will produced before a
designated court on Sunday.
The LIC agent is a crucial
figure in this case as both the
Enforcement Directorate and
the CBI have earlier found that
Chauhan was the one who
allegedly invested the tainted
funds of the CM in life insurance policies.
The ED had earlier questioned him a number of times
in connection with the probe of
this case. The agency has also
attached assets worth about C
crore of the Chief Minister earlier this year. The agency has
filed a case under criminal provisions of money laundering
laws after taking cognisance of
a CBI FIR in this connection in
September last year.
ED had also conducted
searches in this case last year
in three States of Delhi,
Maharashtra and West Bengal.
The agency is probing the
allegation that Singh and his
family members allegedly
amassed wealth of C6.1 crore
between 2009 and 2011, disproportionate to his known
sources of income, while serving as the Union Minister of
Steel.
The CBI FIR had named
Singh, his wife Pratibha Singh,
Chauhan and his brother CL
Chauhan and they were
charged under the Prevention
of Corruption Act.
CBI suspects that during
the 2009-11 period, Singh
allegedly invested C6.1 crore in
life insurance policies in his
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Chief Minister Rajendra Kumar
in a bribery case, the agency on
Saturday nabbed a serving and
former MD of a PSU for
allegedly favouring a private
company in award of tenders.
Both RS Kaushik and his
predecessor GK Nanda, present and former Managing
Directors of Intelligent
Communication Systems India
Ltd (ICSIL), a Delhi
Government undertaking,
which is a joint venture of
Te l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n
Consultants India Ltd (TCIL)
and Delhi State Industrial and
Infrastructure Development
Corporation, were arrested.
The duo has been arrested
as both remained evasive during their questioning. They will
be produced before a competent court on Sunday.
With these fresh arrests,
the number of persons nabbed
by the CBI has gone up to six.
Besides Kumar, Deputy
Secretary in Kejriwal’s officer
Tarun Sharma and two owners
of Endeavour Systems Pvt Ltd
— Sandeep Kumar and Dinesh
Gupta — have been arrested by
the agency.
All of them have been
named in the FIR by the CBI
for allegedly abusing official
position by “favouring a particular firm in the last few years
in getting tenders from Delhi
Government departments”.
The case has been registered under 120-B of IPC
(criminal conspiracy), and
13(2), 13(1)(d) of the
and his family members’
names through Chauhan
claiming this money to be his
agricultural income.
It alleged that Singh
attempted to legitimise the
lose on the heels of CBI
arresting now suspended
C
Principal Secretary to the Delhi
Prevention of Corruption Act
(Criminal conspiracy, criminal
misconduct etc) for allegedly
favouring a private company in
five contracts worth C9.5 crore
during 2007-14.
The CBI had also conducted searches at six premises in Delhi, Noida and Agra —
including office of Kumar’s
Chartered Accountant (CA) in
the national capital — during
which they claimed to have
recovered C27 lakh in cash.
The CBI claimed that
investigation so far show that
the money from the accounts
of ESPL was routed to a Noidabased firm and a real-estate
company and a publication
house in Agra.
The four other arrested
persons, including Kumar, are
presently undergoing police
custody.
same as agricultural income by
filing revised Income-Tax
returns in 2012.
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train Talgo on
Saturday commenced its secSondpanish
phase trial from Mathura to
Palwal at 120 km per hour
speed with senior officials from
Spain and Railways onboard.
The train with nine coaches started the journey at 12.40
pm from Mathura and reached
Palwal at 1.33 pm covering the
84 km distance in about 53
minutes, said a senior railway
official who is part of the testing team.
The trial between Mathura
and Palwal will go on for 25
days and the speed will go up
to 180 kmph this time, he said.
Asked about the trial results,
he said, “Prima facie it seems to
be okay. But it will be known
only after the examination of the
various datas being recorded
during the trial journey.”
Earlier, the speed was ranging between 80-115 km per
hour during the first trial
between Bareilly and Moradabad stations last month.
Hauled by a 4,500 HP
diesel engine, Talgo coaches are
lightweight and designed in a
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without decelerating the speed.
A team of Spanish officials
along with railways officials and
experts from Research Designs
& Standards Organisation
(RDSO) were present onboard
during the trial.
The train consists of two
Executive Class cars, four Chair
Cars, a cafeteria, a power car
and a tail-end coach for staff
and equipment. Shipped from
Barcelona, the Talgo aluminium coaches anchored at
Mumbai port on April 21.
Besides speed, testing team
will also take note of vibration,
safety and stability of lightweight coaches during the trial
and these technical parameters
were vital for high speed run.
There will also be a final trial
between Mumbai-Delhi route
before finalising the report.
After the successful launch
of semi-high speed (160 kmph)
Gatimaan Express on the DelhiAgra route in April, Talgo trial
is being conducted as part of
railways strategy to increase the
speed of trains.
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sharing intelligence inputs
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and facilitating easy travel by
each other’s citizens would be
high on the agenda during the
five-day visit of Home Minister
Rajnath Singh to the US beginning July 17.
He will lead the Indian delegation at the India-US
Homeland Security Dialogue to
be held in Washington with the
US team to be headed by
Secretar y of Homeland
Security Jeh Charles Johnson.
Further cementing antiterror cooperation, real-time
sharing of intelligence inputs,
cyber security and critical
infrastructure protection,
countering illicit finance, global supply chain security, megacity policing and science and
technology are some of the
other key issues to be discussed at the strategic meeting.
This senior-level exchange
between India and the US will
reinforce the strategic homeland security partnership and
enhance operational cooperation in investigations, capacity
building, and countering
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Upcoming law enforcement engagement proposals
include sharing lessons learned
and best practices in police
training and responding to
mass casualty exercises,
improving both nations' capabilities to respond to terrorist
incidents and natural disasters.
Besides, there will be discussions on two key recentlysigned agreements—Global
Entry, a US Customs and
Border Protection programme
that permits speedy clearance
for pre-approved, low-risk travellers upon arrival in America;
and the Homeland Security
Presidential Directive-6
(HSPD-6), which allows access
to information on terrorists.
The US has been pressing
for India’s inclusion in the
Global Entry so that high dignitaries like former presidents,
former prime ministers, former
Union ministers, film stars,
top industrialists and frequent
flyers could visit America without any hassle.
There will be extensive discussion on the Global Entry during the dialogue, the official said.
Initially, the names of
around 2,000 prominent
Indians could figure in the
coveted list, which would be
expanded gradually after proper background checks of each
individual.
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in death of 12 civilians and
caused critical injuries to over
90 security personnel.
After curfew was imposed
in parts of Srinagar and
Pulwama ahead of last rites of
militant commander Burhan
told The Pioneer.
Those moving on the highway were advised to stay put in
safe locations across different
district headquarters along the
yatra route.
In Jammu, the State
he Congress on Saturday
termed the protests in
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Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani as “unfortunate”, saying people should not
mourn for militants who are
eteriorating law and order
situation in Kashmir valley
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Saturday forced senior
Government functionaries posted in Jammu region to take adequate measures in advance to
contain the spread of violence
in other parts of the State.
To crush the over enthusiastic brigade indulging in
rumour mongering on social
networking sites the authorities
in Jammu region decided to
temporarily suspend the
mobile internet services besides
halting Amarnath Yatra at
Jammu base camp.
In addition all out efforts
were being made to deploy
additional force on ground
zero to prevent any violent
clashes with the security forces
in retaliation to firing on protesters in different parts of
Kashmir valley which resulted
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Wani the Govt decided to suspend the Amarnath yatra to
prevent any fresh attack on the
pilgrims. “On saturday no passenger vehicle was allowed to
ferry Amarnath bound pilgrims from the yatri niwas
base camp” district authorities
Tourism Department was
directed to rope in pilgrims to
visit border areas. They were ferried in SRTC buses to the octroi
post in RS Pura sector and
introduced to the life of border
residents and soldiers close to
the International border.
responsible for killing of innocent citizens.
“As far as Burhan is concerned, he was a terrorist.
There is no doubt that he was
not an innocent and was a terrorist. It is unfortunate that
people in Kashmir mourn
when a terrorist dies. People
should not condole the death
of terrorists, who are responsible for killing hundreds of
innocent people,” Congress
senior leader Ghulam Nabi
Azad said on Saturday.
Burhan Wani was shot
dead in an encounter by security forces along with two of his
accomplices in JammuKashmir on Friday which led
to violent protests in several
parts of Kashmir. Protesters
pelted stones and attacked
police posts, security personnel
in several areas and targeted the
BJP office in Kulgam.
Meanwhile, the Congress
has asked the Central
Government to explain the
details of the Peace Accord
signed with the NSCN (IM) of
T Muivah. The party also questioned Muivah’s statement following the accord in which he
had reportedly talked about
Nagas getting their own separate passport and flag.
Congress leaders including former Arunachal Pradesh Chief
Minister Nabam Tuki and
party spokesperson Randeep
Surjewala urged Government
to clear air on such a statement.
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new
BJP-led
Government in Assam
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might face rough weather soon
as the Bodo and Karbi statehood demand committees have
chalked out strategies to intensify their agitation for separate
States in their respective areas.
While the All Bodo
Students’ Union, the pro-talk
faction of the National
Democratic Front of Bodoland
(NDFB) are going to start fresh
agitation to demand a separate
State for Bodo people, Karbi
Anglong based organisations
have also decided to intensify its
agitation from August this year.
“The BJP came to power at
the Centre in 2014 on its
promises of statehood to smaller ethnic groups. However, two
years have passed since the
formation of National
Democratic Alliance (NDA)
Government at the Centre. But
nothing was done to grant
statehood to the smaller ethnic
groups demanding separate
States,” said president of All
Bodo Students Union (Absu),
Promod Bodo on Satuday.
“The BJP had mentioned
in its manifesto ahead of the
2014 Lok Sabha elections that
the party will ‘sympathetically
examine and appropriately
consider the long-pending
demands of the Gorkhas, the
Adivasis and other people of
Darjeeling and Dooars region,
Kamatapuri, Rajbongshis and
other people of North Bengal;
and will take initiative for the
permanent solution of long
pending isues of Bodos and
other tribals of Assam, the
people of Sikkim, Leh,
Laddakh, Andaman &
Nocobar, Lakshadeep and
other such neglected regions’,”
said Bodo while ruing the
Central Government’s attitude
towards the problem now.
“We have been trying to
find a solution sans bloodshed
and sand violence to our problem. However, the Government
is not paying any heed to us.
The BJP had also assured the
same before the Assam
Assembly elections but nothing
was done,” he said.
Bodo said that they are
going to hold a mass rally in
Guwahati on August 15 to
demand statehood for the
Bodoland. “We are going to
hold indefinite hunger strike
from first week of September to
press for our demands,” he
added.
Echoing Bodo, Khorsing
Teron of the Joint Action
Committee for Autonomous
State (JACAS), spearheading
the movement for autonomous
State in Karbi Anglong and
Dima hasao districts, said the
although several rounds of
meetings had taken place with
the representatives of Central
Government, nothing was
done so far to fulfil the aspirations of the people.
Teron said that the people
of Karbi Anglong is only
demanding more autonomy
under Section 244 (A) of the
Indian Constitution. “It is not
difficult as the Constitution has
provision for this. However, we
are going to restart the agitation
soon and the Government of
Assam and Centre will only be
responsible if there is any untoward situation after the agitation,” Teron said.
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mechanism at the Central and
State level to ensure safe, efficacious and quality standards
drugs continues to remain a
non-starter with the Union
Finance Ministry yet to release
the fund of C200 crore meant for
the purpose for 2015-16.
The undue delay will only
compromise the health of the
patients in the country, said a
senior Health Ministry official
which supervises the functioning of the DCGI.
The proposed financial outlay is meant to be utilised for
manpower augmentation, creation and upgradation of labs,
setting up of new offices of drugs
regulatory control, strengthening pharmacovigilance and cre-
ating awareness among people
both care givers and receivers
regarding safe drugs both at the
Centre and in the States, the official said.
Keeping in view the recommendations of various committees and reports and based
on the DCGI needs, it is important that the Finance Ministry
releases the funds at the earliest
for infrastructural development,
both physical and human
resource, at the Centre as well as
in the States.
“We have been repeatedly
reminding the Finance Ministry
to hasten the release of funds for
strengthening of drugs regulatory mechanisms, but in vain,”
said the official asserting that
delay in release will only delay
proposed tasks.
He said, expecting funds, as
many as 18 States have already
signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with the
DCGI to strengthen the existing
set-up of surveillance system
and increase consumer aware-
ness about current and new
drugs safety and quality related
threats in their region.
“However, with no fund
coming from the Centre, now all
their plans are in limbo,” the official said.
The funds will also be utilized for providing financial
and human resource support to
the States, as under the Centrally
sponsored scheme.
This is the first time that
States have signed such a pact
with the centre. So far around 18
states and Union Territories
have done so including Haryana,
Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Andhra
Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
The proposed financial outlay also aims for manpower
augmentation, creation and
upgradation of labs, setting up
of new offices of drugs regulatory control and strengthening
pharmacovigilance at the Centre
and in the States.
The MoU is the part of a
new centrally sponsored scheme
under National Health Mission
(NHM) umbrella wherein fund
has been proposed with 75:25
sharing pattern for providing
financial and human resource
support to the States / UTs. This
is also for the first time that the
Central Government will monitor the fund utilsation in the
states quarterly.
Under the Scheme there
would be requirement of C1079
crores spread over next five
years, in which the States share
would be of C229 crores and the
Central Government share
would be of C850 crores. The
components of expense heads
approved relates to up-gradation
of State Labs, expansion of existing offices, manpower accommodation and creation of new
labs or mobile labs.
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angladesh Government has
assured prospective Indian
travellers that security issues
would be properly looked into
following the recent terror
attacks in that country.
“It is unfortunate that such
attacks have taken place in
Bangladesh. Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina has categorically stated the country will convert
this grief into strength to fight
these forces,” Jyotirmoy Burman,
joint secretary to the Ministry of
Civil Aviation and Tourism of
Bangladesh said at the ‘Travel
and Trade Fair’ here on Saturday.
Burman said that tourists
visiting the country should
feel safe and secure as these
were stray incidents which the
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tourists,
Bangladesh
Government with the help of
tour operators is planning to
arrange a three-day programme to mark the occasion
of February 21 International
Mother Language Day.
The visit would start from
February 20 and end on
February 22 during which
Indian tourists would be assisted to visit various places of
interest in Bangladesh and also
taste a variety of cuisines.
The
Bangladesh
Government would make
reservations by train and buses
from the entry points of
Kolkata, Siliguri, Agartala and
Guwahati, he said adding many
tourists could directly take
flights from Delhi.
Japanese tourists account
for the maximum number of
visitors from foreign countries
to Bangladesh followed by
those from Italy, he added.
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Spirits on Saturday
disclosed fund diversion and
improper transactions worth
C1,225.3 crore involving entities linked to the embattled
former Chairman, including
Kingfisher Airlines and his
Formula One team.
The company, acquired
by the British liquor giant
from Mallya’s UB Group in
2013 in a multi-billion dollar
deal, made it clear that the earlier settlement reached with
the Indian businessman would
not absolve him of the claims
arising out of the latest findings of an internal ‘Additional
Inquiry’.
Mallya, who has been in
UK for months evading an
arrest warrant in India while
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IT services firm Tata Consultancy
Services (TCS) on Saturday said
its Non-Executive Director
Phiroz Vandrevala resigned from
the company. “Phiroz Vandrevala
has relinquished office of NonExecutive Director of the company, due to personal reasons,
with effect from July 8, 2016,”
TCS said in a filing to BSE. PTI
him ‘wilful defaulter’ for nonpayment of dues worth over
C9,000 crore by his nowdefunct Kingfisher, had struck
a settlement with USL in
February.
Under the ‘sweetheart deal’,
he was promised an over C500crore payout to leave the company and was also absolved of
any ‘personal liability’ at that
time. At a meeting on Saturday,
USL Board discussed findings
of the ‘additional inquiry’ it had
ordered to plug gaps found in
an initial probe launched in
April 2015 that showed improprieties in loans worth C1,337
crore given by USL to the entities linked to its erstwhile promoters, the Mallya-led UB
Group.
“The additional inquiry
prima facie reveals further
instances of actual or potential
fund diversions amounting to
approximately C913.5 crore
(using exchange rate as on
March 31, 2015) as well as
other potentially improper
transaction involved USL and
its Indian and overseas subsidiaries amounting approximately C311.8 crore,” USL said
in a BSE filing.
The transactions occurred
during the review period covered by the additional inquiry
-- from October 2010 to July
2014 -- although certain transactions appear to have been initiated in years prior to the
review period, it added.
“These improper transactions identified in the additional inquiry involved, in
most cases, the diversion of
fund to overseas and Indian
entities that appear to be
affiliated or associated with
USL’s former non-executive
Chairman, Dr Vijay Mallya,”
the USL filing said.
The company said its
mutual release agreement
with Mallya in February this
year, under which Diageo
agreed to pay him $75 million
dollars, will not cover the
matters arising out of the
‘additional inquiry’.
While the matter is already
being probed by markets regulator Sebi and Corporate
Affairs Ministry among others,
the latest findings of the internal probe are also being reported to the concerned regulators
for any further action.
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investment yet to pick up,
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
on Saturday wondered whether
it is desirable to continue offering high interest rates on savings that translate into higher
cost of lending and sluggishness in the economy. India, he
said, has ‘peculiar’ characteristics of having ‘quite high’ percentage of domestic savings.
“Now, whether domestic
savings are only to be used by
such instruments which give
you a higher return and create an
interest regime which is extremely costly and makes the economy sluggish, or higher returns
are to be got from such instruments as funds, bonds, shares
(that finance projects and economic activity),” he asked.
Speaking at a function here to
unveil a commemorative postage
stamp to mark 140 years of BSE,
he said the essence of all economic
activity is investment which is
going to come from where
resources are available.
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functionary on Saturday said
it is a ‘sensible suggestion’ and
talks will continue with the
opposition party.
The Congress, which
originally mooted a Goods
and Services Tax (GST) in
2009 to replace all indirect
taxes, has been demanding
that the overall rate be capped
at 18 per cent and scrapping
of an additional 1 per cent tax
designed to compensate manufacturing states that fear
losing out revenue.
Anand Sharma, Congress'
Deputy Leader in Rajya
Sabha where the GST Bill is
stuck, is reported to have
said that his party is open to
discussing its demand of
including the tax rate in the
Constitutional Amendment
Bill if the Government were
to come out with a suggestion
to ring-fence the tax rate.
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of 18 per cent should be mentioned in the Constitutional
Amendment Bill, the 1 per
cent additional tax abolished
and a GST Disputes
Settlement Authority formed
to settle state disputes.
Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley has, however, consistently maintained that
nowhere in the world tax rates
are put in the Constitution and
the Government needs to have
flexibility to change the rates
in case of contingencies like a
natural calamity.
The Government is keen
to get the GST Bill cleared in
the upcoming Monsoon session of Parliament and there is
a buzz that it may table the Bill
in the Upper House on the
very first day of the session on
July 18. Jaitley is also said to be
open to talking to the senior
leadership of the Congress
before the session begins.
The Government is banking on support from smaller
regional parties to pass the
national sales tax legislation in
the Upper House of Parliament
and then get supporting laws
enacted by the year-end so that
GST is introduced from April
2017.
GST Bill, which intends to
convert 29 states into a single
market through a new indirect
tax regime, was earlier planned
to be introduced from April 1
this year, but the deadline was
missed as the Bill to roll it out
remains in a limbo in the
Opposition-dominated Rajya
Sabha. After Parliament
approves the constitutional
amendment to allow GST, it
needs to be ratified by more
than half of the states. Then,
Parliament must pass another
Bill to implement GST.
After the Constitution
Amendment Bill is passed in
Parliament, there are three more
legislations - Central GST
(CGST), State GST (SGST) and
Integrated GST (iGST) - which
are required to be passed.
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help create a single national sales
tax to replace several state and
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approved by the Lok Sabha and
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the House of Representatives
by a bipartisan group of US
lawmakers which if passed by
the Congress would prevent
Indian companies from hiring
IT professionals on H-1B and
L1 visas. The ‘H-1B and L-1
Visa Reform Act of 2016’
introduced by New Jersey’s
Democratic Congressman Bill
Pascrell and Republican Dana
Rohrabacher from California
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hiring H-1B employees if
they employ more than 50
people and over 50 per cent
of their staff are H-1B and
L-1 visa holders.
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a majority of big Indian IT
companies is heavily dependent
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Convention. But some of
America’s biggest corporations
are bailing on the party. Apple
recently became the latest
company to give the GOP’s
presumptive nominee the cold
shoulder; it won’t contribute
money or products to the
Republicans’ big shindig in
Cleveland this month.
HP Inc is also withholding
support, while Microsoft is
giving products only, not cash.
Beyond the tech industry,
Ford, JPMorgan Chase and
United Parcel Service have
opted to withhold support.
Most of these companies
are also taking a pass on
donating to the 2016
Democratic convention. In
previous election cycles,
though, several of them have
given Republican organisers
more sometimes far more in
cash or donated products than
they have the Democrats,
making their pullback from
the Republican gathering this
year more dramatic.
The reasons aren’t completely clear. None of these
companies publicly described
its decisions as a repudiation
of Trump. Several declined to
discuss their thinking, while
others said their sponsorship
plans were decided months
before Trump emerged as the
front-runner for the GOP
nomination.
In many cases, however,
their decisions became known
after civil rights groups
launched a public effort
including billboards, letters
and online messages aimed at
persuading companies to
withhold support for an event
celebrating a candidate who’s
campaigned with incendiary
proposals, racial rhetoric and
harsh comments about immigrants and women.
“Of course it’s because of
Trump,” said Larry Sabato, a
University of Virginia political scientist who has studied party conventions for
more than 30 years. Business
executives, he said, don’t
want to alienate customers
who may be offended by
Trump’s statements.
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UK business sale
amid Brexit uncertainty, Tata Steel
on Saturday decided to explore other
alternatives including joint venture
with German giant
ThyssenKrupp
AG.
Tata Steel after its
board meeting
announced that it
has decided to look
at alternative and
more sustainable
portfolio solutions
for the European
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were evacuated in China
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as typhoon Nepartak on
Saturday lashed the country’s
eastern coast with powerful
winds and heavy rains, disrupting air, rail and road traffic and prompting authorities
to issue this year’s first red alert.
The first typhoon of the
season landed at 1:45 pm (local
time) in Fujian province’s
Shishi city, packing winds of up
to about 100-km per hour.
Officials have evacuated
and urgently relocated more
than 4,20,000 lakh people from
low-lying areas in four cities,
including the provincial capital of Fuzhou and ordered
33,200 fishing boats to return
to ports.
Forty-three people in a
residential area were rescued by
firefighters after floodwaters
submersed two buildings.
Many buildings have collapsed
and landslides were reported in
rural and mountainous areas.
Five airports were closed,
resulting in the cancellation of
nearly 400 flights. A total of 341
high-speed trains had to be
canceled. Nearly 5,000 buses
were off the roads, State-run
Xinhua news agency reported.
Air-passenger services
and passenger ships to Taiwan
across strait have all been
suspended.
Over 100 trains have been
canceled this weekend and
road traffic has been disrupted, the report said.
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he sniper who shot 12
police officers in the US
city of Dallas, killing five and
injuring many, during a protest
decrying police killings of black
men this week, has been identified as a former Army
reservist equipped for war.
Micah Xavier Johnson, 25,
was wearing body armour and
totting an SKS semi-automatic assault rifle and a handgun
when he started picking off
cops in downtown Dallas on
Thursday night during a “Black
Lives Matter” protest, law
enforcement sources said.
Police on Friday found
bomb-making material, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition
and a journal detailing combat
tactics during a search at the
Implementation Action Plan
that the Government had introduced recently and endorsement of the budget announced
for the next fiscal year, he said.
The decision to hold the
meeting came after UCPNMaoist Centre chairman
Prachanda claimed that the
next government would be
formed soon after the new
budget is endorsed by the
Parliament. According to
media reports, the Maoists and
the CPN-UML led by Oli had
firmed the identity of the gunman and said he was described
as a “loner” by some who
knew him. Detectives were in
the process of analysing the
information in the journal, the
statement said.
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Johnson was well-trained
in using the weapons of war. He
served as a reservist for six
years until 2015 and was
deployed in Afghanistan
between November 2013 and
July 2014, authorities said.
He was a carpentry and
masonry specialist, with a rank
of private first class, and was
awarded the Army Achievement
Medal. But he didn’t have an
especially glowing reputation
among members of his unit.
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Washington: The ISIS group’s
Twitter traffic has plunged 45
per cent in the past two years,
the Obama administration
says, as the US and its allies
have countered messages of
jehadi glorification with a flood
of online images and statements about suffering and
enslavement at the hands of the
extremist organisation.
Among the images: A
teddy bear with Arabic writing
and messages saying ISIS
“slaughters childhood,” “kills
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Kathmandu: As cracks
appeared in Nepal’s ruling
alliance, Prime Minister KP Oli
on Saturday called a joint meeting of the coalition partners in
an attempt to avert any possible political crisis.
The Prime Minister called
the meeting at his official residence Baluwatar to discuss
various contemporary issues,
his Press Adviser Pramod
Dahal said. Leaders in the
meeting will discuss implementation of the Constitution
home of Johnson, who told
negotiators during the “ambush”
that he “wanted to kill white
people” as he went on a shooting rampage killing five cops.
In a statement on Friday
afternoon, Dallas police con-
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reached a gentleman’s agreement last month in this regard.
During a meeting with the
PM, Prachanda is understood
to have asked Oli to honour
nine-point agreement reached
between the two big parties in
May. Prachanda also told Oli
that his party is concerned
about the formation of national unity Government with the
involvement of Nepali
Congress, the main opposition
party, according to sources
close to Prachanda.
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innocence,” “lashes purity”
or “humiliates children.” A
male hand covering a
female’s mouth, saying ISIS “deprives
woman her voice.”
A woman in a black
niqab (veil), bloody tears coming from a bruised eye, and the
caption: “Women under ISIS.
Enslaved. Battered. Beaten.
Humiliated. Flogged.”
US officials cite the drop in
Twitter traffic as a sign of
progress toward eliminating
propaganda they blame
for inspiring attacks
around the world. When
the US formed an international coalition
in September 2014
to fight ISIS, the administration outlined multiple
goals: military action and cutting off foreign fighters and
finances, confronting the
group’s extremist ideology and
stemming the militants’ growing popularity in the Arab
world and beyond.
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philanthropist Abdul Sattar
Edhi, who had dedicated his life to
humanity and serving the poor, has
died from renal failure. Edhi, 92, died
late Friday night
after facing respiratory problem during dialysis due to
his frail health.
He was accorded a state
funeral with tens of thousands
of people, including President
Mamnoon Hussain
and army chief
General Raheel Sharif
attending his funeral.
Edhi, who had
dedicated his life to
humanity and serving the poor, was
widely respected in
Pakistan due to his
humanitarian and social welfare works.
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conducted combat
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drills in the South China
Sea (SCS) in a show of
strength ahead of the
July 12 verdict of an
international tribunal on
a dispute with the
Philippines over the
strategic waters.
The exercises were
held in the waters adjacent to south China’s
Hainan Island and Xisha
Islands also known as
Parcel islands which are
claimed by Vietnam in
the SCS. The Nanhai
Fleet, as well as some forces of
the Beihai Fleet and Donghai
Fleet, took part in the navy’s
annual routine military exercise
that covered all sorts of combat platforms, including the air
arm, submarine, surface vessel
and coastal defence force, staterun Xinhua news agency
reported on Saturday.
Vietnam has protested to
China over the drills. The exer-
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has been shot dead for pointing his gun at two police officers here, a day after five officers were killed and seven others injured by snipers during a
protest rally against the fatal
shootings of black men in the
US city of Dallas.
The pair of officers were on
patrol yesterday when they
saw a man standing on the
street, waving a gun in the air.
When the cops asked the
man to put the weapon down,
he aimed it at them — and the
two officers opened fire.
Police have not identified
the man and the officers
involved in the shooting.
One of the officers involved
is a 10-year veteran of the
Houston Police Department.
The other is a 13-year veteran.
Both officers are under investigation. The shooting comes a
day after five Dallas police
officers were shot and killed
during a protest against the
fatal police shootings of black
men, in the deadliest attacks on
law enforcers in America since
9/11.
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Valencia died on Saturday after
being gored in a late-night
bull run near the southern
Spanish town of Alicante, while
two men were gored and 12
others injured in the more
popular morning bull-run race
in Pamplona.
The deadly goring
occurred about 1 AM during
festivities at the small village of
Pedreguera, where the Red
Cross said the heifer gored the
29-year-old man through the
thorax and abdomen. He was
taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital and pronounced
dead an hour later.
The town suspended all
bull-related festivities for the
day.
At the famed San Fermin
festival, the bull run was unusually long on Saturday, with
one bull left stranded at the
starting gate, where he proceeded to charge and strike a
couple of runners. Many other
participants fell and were stampeded by the head of the pack
in the 850-meter race.
Another of the six bulls in
the run got separated from the
pack early in the race, did a Uturn and gored a nearby runner, lifting his body off the
ground and flipping him over.
A government statement said a
33-year-old Japanese man and
a 24-year-old Spaniard were
gored.
The Navarra hospital said
one of them had suffered a thorax wound.
The regional government
said a dozen others were also
taken to city hospitals for trauma care, including a 37-yearold from Barcelona and another 33-year-old Japanese man.
More than 1,000 people
took part in the run, which lasted just over four minutes,
about 1 and a half times longer
than usual.
Meanwhile, a judge in
Pamplona today ordered five
men accused of sexually
assaulting a woman Thursday
during the festival to be jailed
without bail. The assault had
triggered protests in Pamplona.
Bull runs are a traditional
part of summer festivals across
Spain. The nine-day San
Fermin fiesta became world
famous
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people have died from gorings at
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Williams had been stuck on 21 Grand
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Serena was pushed hard by Kerber in a
high-quality clash lasting 81 minutes on
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eventually crumbled under a barrage of 39
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match,” said Kerber.
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on Centre Court and a great
feeling.”
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loss against Kerber in the
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member of the team management confirmed that Ritu has left the ongoing
national camp in Bangalore.
“It’s correct Ritu
is not in the
Olympic team. Her
exclusion is solely
on two counts - her
(poor) performance
and second is her
attitude,” he said.
“It has been
explained to her
time and again that
she needs to lift her
performance but
she couldn’t do so. The camp is still going
on in Bangalore. It will disperse today
and tomorrow we are reaching Delhi.
Ritu left the camp day before yesterday.”
Under Ritu’s leadership the Indian
women’s team qualified for the Olympics
for the first time in 36 years since 1980.
The 24-year-old has been at the forefront of Indian women’s hockey for more
than a decade and has been the key to
the midfield. In her absence, the leadership role could fall on Rani Rampal.
she has reestablished her
supremacy at a time when
doubters were beginning to
question the 34-year-old’s
hunger for more silverware after
consecutive Slam final defeats this
year.
In a testament to her remarkable
longevity as the sport’s preeminent
force, Serena is once again Wimbledon’s
queen 14 years after her first success at
the All England Club.
Equalling Margaret Court’s alltime record of 24 Grand Slam titles will
be Serena’s next goal.
The 71st singles title of Williams’
astonishing career also moved her within two of Martina Navratilova’s all-time
record of nine Wimbledon triumphs.
Showing signs of cracking under the
pressure of her bid for tennis immortality,
Williams had cut a grumpy figure for
much of the tournament, earning a fine for
effect during his playing career
can help steer him to a third
Grand Slam title on Sunday.
The world number two
tackles Canada’s Milos
Raonic, looking to add this
year’s All England Club crown
to his 2012 US Open and
2013 Wimbledon titles, both
of which were won when
Lendl was first working with
the 29-year-old.
“I do think it helps. I do
think in these situations it can
make a difference,” said
Murray as he analysed the
influence of Lendl who won
eight majors in his own playing career although never triumphed at Wimbledon.
“I don’t think he’d be
doing this job if he didn’t
believe in me and believe
that I could win these events,
because he doesn’t need to.
That helps.
“The information I get
from him, the psychological
help that I get from having
him around, being able to
chat to him at these events,
before the big matches, you
know, makes a difference.
That’s why I think we’ve been
a good team. I think we both
trust each other.”
Murray reunited with
Lendl this summer after the
two originally went their separate ways after two years
together in 2014.
The British star has
already been runner-up at
the Australian and French
Opens this year, losing on
both occasions to world number one Novak Djokovic.
Now with Lendl back in
his team, Murray appreciates
that the Czech could prove to
be the key difference on
Sunday where he will start as
favourite in the Final.
his heartbreaking loss to Milos
Raonic in the semi-finals.
The seven-time champion suffered a shock 6-3, 6-7 (3/7), 4-6, 75, 6-3 defeat in a match where he
crucially failed to convert break
points in the fifth and ninth games
of the fourth set.
The great Swiss, who won the
last of his 17 majors at Wimbledon
four years ago, looked heavy and
flat-footed in the final set against a
player who is nine years his junior.
He even stumbled and fell in
the fifth set, lying face down in the
turf of Centre Court where he has
enjoyed his greatest moments.
“I hope to be back on Centre
Court, to be very clear for you,” said
Federer, whose lengthy wave to all
parts of the arena prompted speculation that it was indeed goodbye.
“I was looking at Centre Court
as in thank you for the crowd. That’s
what I was going through, not
thinking about this might be my last
Wimbledon.”
Had Federer made Sunday’s
final he would have been the oldest finalist since 39-year-old Ken
Rosewall finished runner-up to
Jimmy Connors in 1974.
His loss on Friday, in his 10th
Wimbledon semi-final, followed a
marathon five-set win from two sets
down to beat Marin Cilic in the
quarter-finals.
This year’s Wimbledon represented the 15th anniversary of his
stunning win over Pete Sampras —
when Raonic was just 10 years old
— although his first All England
Club title only arrived two years later.
But Federer is enduring the
toughest year of his career.
Injury forced him to skip the
French Open ending a streak of 65
successive appearances at the Slams
stretching back to 1999.
He has now failed to add to his
88 titles this year, his longest
drought since 2000, and he arrived
at Wimbledon having suffered
back-to-back semi-final losses in
Stuttgart and Halle, both on grass
which has been his preferred surface of domination.
In an indication of changing
times, his last-four loss in Stuttgart
to Alexander Zverev was his first
against a teenager in 10 years.
The defeat to Raonic still leaves
Arthur Ashe as the oldest
Wimbledon men’s champion —
and the American achieved that feat
a month shy of his 32nd birthday
in 1975.
Federer, who under went
surgery earlier this year on the same
knee he hurt on Friday, will be 35
next month.
As the benchmark in the sport,
Federer hasn’t defeated the Serb at
a Slam since the Wimbledon semifinals in 2012.
Wimbledon has always been
Federer’s home-from-home even if
his first two visits as a pony-tailed
contender with a short fuse and
dream one-handed backhand
ended in first round losses.
But his fourth round defeat of
seven-time winner Sampras in 2001
marked him out as the American’s
natural heir even if 2002 saw a woeful first round exit to Mario Ancic.
Since then, he has enjoyed
more successes than setbacks.
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sprinter Dutee Chand on Saturday
said she is working hard to
improve her speed endurance so
that she doesn’t taper off in the last
40 metres of the 100m event during next month’s Olympics.
“I am too good in first 60
meters, but my speeds slows down
in the last 40 meters dash. I agree.
I have to improve on my speed
endurance, and I am working on
it. Ramesh sir is giving lot of attention on it and I am also reciprocating it,” she told reporters.
Dutee became the first Indian
woman athlete in 36 years to
qualify for 100 metres race in an
Olympics after legendary PT Usha
competed in the blue-riband event
in the 1980 Moscow Games.
Asked whether she is better
placed than Usha to win an
Olympic medal, Dutee said it is
not easy because the level of performances of athletes have
improved over the years.
“It is not easy to win the medal
because times have changed, and
there is a lot of competition,
besides athletes’ performances
have been improving over the
years,” she said.
Dutee said her rivalry with
Kazakhstan’s Viktoriya Zyabkina, a
semifinalist at World championship
in Beijing last year, at the Kosanov
memorial athletics meet in
Kazakhstan, has done a world of
good to her ahead of the mega event.
“I did not face any competition from any sprinter in India.
Running against Viktoriya has
helped me a lot,” she said.
N Ramesh, coach of Dutee,
praised the Odisha sprinter, saying
she has the fighting spirit of a
lioness, which stems from the hardships she faced in various stages of
life, including the harsh ban
imposed on her for having higher
level of testosterone than was permissible in a woman athlete.
“She is like a lioness. The good
the competition, the better is her
performance. She has been bettering her performance from the
junior level till the international
competition where she qualified
for Rio Olympics.
“That is her range. So, wherever she goes she fights like a
lioness,” Ramesh told reporters.
Ramesh was in the city along
with Dutee to attend meet-thepress event held by Kalinga
Institute of Industrial Technology
and Kalinga Institute of Social
Sciences here.
Ramesh said in his 20
years of coaching stint, he hasn’t seen any athlete more passionate about running than
Dutee and probably it stems from
the hardships she faced in her life,
including the gender ban.
“I have not seen in my 20 years
of coaching stint, an athlete like
Dutee. Probably the hardships she
faced in her life made her a tough
person. People may run for winning but she runs for life,” he said.
Dutee achieved a great deal by
making the Olympics cut as she
was banned in 2014 and dropped
from CWG as she was found to
have a higher level of testosterone
than was permissible in a woman
athlete, according to the IAAF
hyperandrogenism policy. PTI
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sprint champion Usain Bolt,
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who suffered a torn hamstring at
the Jamaican Olympic trials, will be
named to Jamaica’s team for the Rio
Olympics on Monday, the Gleaner
newspaper reported.
Citing unnamed sources, the
Kingston newspaper reported the
Jamaica Olympic Association will
list Bolt after the Jamaica Athletics
Administrative Association (JAAA)
entered him among four runners
for the 100 and 200 metres after a
meeting of the JAAA selection
committee.
Only three runners can represent Jamaica in each event at Brazil,
leaving the final decision to team
management in Rio to choose the
final lineup.
Bolt withdrew from the
Jamaican championships last week
after winning his 100m semi-final
heat, saying he had a low-grade torn
hamstring and later tweeting a
photo of work being done on the
back of his left leg.
That makes the third-place
finisher in the 100 and 200 at the
Jamaican trials a provisional qualifier with Bolt’s fitness to decide
their fates.
at the majors, Williams had a golden opportunity to seize the initiative in Kerber’s first service game, but the German showed her mettle as she nervelessly saved three break points.
Given Williams’ pursuit of Graf’s historic
landmark, it was a delicious twist that the
47-year-old had played a role in Kerber’s
recent rise after advising her compatriot.
Showing she has heeded Graf ’s words of
wisdom, Kerber had sprinted to the final
without dropping a set in her six matches
and she matched Serena blow for blow.
Kerber, in her first Wimbledon final and
second major title match, was moving
Williams into awkward positions with her
left-handed ground-strokes.
Kerber was competing gamely in the second set, but when she finally earned a first
break point in the seventh game, Williams got
out of trouble with a pair of imperious aces.
The German’s look of resignation suggested the end was in sight and so it proved
as Serena broke in next game.
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sangfroid of a champion and the
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enthusiasm of a rookie when he shrugged
off intense pressure and expectation to take
pole position in the British Grand Prix on
Saturday.
Knowing he had only one chance with
just three minutes remaining, Hamilton
responded with a spectacular lap in the
final seconds of a dramatic qualifying session. After his first flying run in Q3 was
deleted because he went off the track, he
edged Formula One leader and Mercedes
teammate Nico Rosberg by three-tenths of
a second.
That lifted him to his fourth pole at
his home grand prix, his sixth pole this
season, and the 55th of his career, a week
after his and Rosberg’s last-lap crash in
Austria, where Hamilton seized a controversial victory and sent their team into
damage-limitation mode.
“Those moments are when I am most
excited,” Hamilton said.
Meanwhile, Rosberg was called to the
stewards’ office to
explain an irregular slow lap. He
may
have
breached sporting
regulations for a
nearly 2 1/2minute lap during
Q1. The FIA race
director Charlie
Whiting sent the
teams a note on
Friday stating the permitted maximum
time was 1 minute, 45 seconds.
The rule exists to help reduce the risk
of accidents caused by slow drivers interfering with others on fast laps.
The FIA said in a statement that
Rosberg exceeded the permitted maximum time between two safety car lines at
the start of Q1. He faces a grid penalty, reprimand or fine.
Dutch teenager Max Verstappen was
third fastest, followed by Red Bull teammate Daniel Ricciardo, Kimi Raikkonen
and Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari, and
Valtteri Bottas of Williams.
Rosberg, who leads Hamilton by 11
points after nine of this year’s 21 races, was
terse in his replies to questions.
Was it all clear now between him and
Hamilton? “Very clear,” he said without a
smile. While Vettel was sixth in qualifying, he will start 11th after taking a fiveplace penalty for a gearbox change for a
second straight race.
Nico Hulkenberg was eighth for Force
India, then the two Spaniards, Carlos Sainz
of Toro Rosso and two-time champion
Fernando Alonso in the resurgent McLaren
Honda. Like Hamilton, Alonso had his best
lap deleted for going off the track, an action
that dropped him from eighth to 10th.
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it is the ability to grasp intelligently and articulate innovatively. That is also how a good
comedian stands apart from the
crowd, for his merits of discernment. To be humorous is not easy and to master
this art is hence an arduous feat. Actor and
comedian Vir Das, 37, — although he says he
still does not think he is humourous — has a
laborious body of work from the past 10 years
in which his style of comedy has entertained his
viewers all over the world. His Unbelievable
comedy tour ends today in Kolkata after performing in multiple cities from Delhi to Surat.
If you, like me, thought that comedy as an
art form in India, particularly the English
comic scene, was elitist and the Indian audience has not graduated to a point where they
could understand it, Das clarifies: “I don’t
think it’s either one of those things as I believe
the Indian audience is very intelligent and they
understand good comedy. For example, last
year, our basis of selecting cities for the
Unbelievable tour was to look at a map and see
where stand-up comedy is not popular and go
there. So we went to Jaipur, Shimla, Vadodara,
Surat, Coimbatore, Kochi etc. In fact, we did
big shows there, the 1,000-2,000 seaters. And it
was tremendous, such an intelligent and
nuanced crowd as well. That’s why I’m doing a
second run of the show. We did 19 regions in
30 days last time. This time, we’re doing 11
cities because the response was so great. I hope
to include Northeast India in the future too.”
Das has donned numerous hats whatsoever.
Besides his Hindi films, he has written and performed in several comic plays, done over 100
stand-up comedy shows, hosted sports, entertainment and news shows on TV. He has also
written comedic columns for leading media
publications. His Weirdass Comedy (The Vir
Das Comedy Company) is India’s first and only
comedy consultancy. His Alien Chutney is
India’s premiere comedy rock band. Reportedly,
he will also been seen on the first episode of an
American comedy show soon. But there’s a fascinating history to his journey till this point.
Born in Dehradun, the comedian grew up in
Africa, where he had moved with his parents
when he was around 11 months old. His father
managed a poultry farm in Uttar Pradesh after
which he joined a food processing company in
Lagos, Nigeria. In Nigeria, the legal system was
in a chaos and his family witnessed much political mayhem. His parents moved back to Delhi
after the fifth President in Nigeria was assassinated. He recalls, “I was studying here in India
but my parents stayed there till I was 17. I start-
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ed studying in boarding schools in India — The
Lawrence School at Sanawar in Kasauli, DPS etc
— since I was nine. Back in Nigeria, we were
part of an expatriate community that was largely
well insulated. But at the same time, we also had
to be cautious. I believe it is a country that saw
at least eight or nine Governments change in the
17 years that we were there.”
I ask him if that political instability shaped
his understanding of humour; humour after all,
is not only an effective defence mechanism but
Das has also said in the past, “Comedy comes
from confusion.” However, he says, “I think that
the one thing Africa does for you is that it gives
you an outside perspective on the world, which
might not be a very privileged perspective at the
same time. About whether it made me humorous, well, I wouldn’t be able to tell you if I was
indeed humorous!”
He also studied for over a year in Delhi
University’s Sri Venkateswara College but headed
to Knox County in Illinois to pursue theatre.
During his time there, he wrote his thesis ‘Brown
Men Can’t Hump’ as an act of rebellion.
Rebellion against? He answers, “I was rebelling
against conventional old theatre. I had done
Anton Chekhov and Shakespeare, lots of other
old playwrights and it had become monotonous.
So I thought let me try something new, edgy,
vulgar and fun. I wanted something that was a
little more organic, improvisational and rebellious. And so I did stand-up comedy because I’ve
always been a fan of stand-up for a long time
and that’s when I ended up writing that show.”
But that was not all. He has also done a lot
of odd jobs like being a security guard, building
painter, dishwasher. So when he was exposed to
such different circumstances and people at
work, did it shape the comedian in him? He
says, “It’s a very deep philosophical way of looking at things. Actually, if I had to paint a building or drive a girl home as a security guard, I
would just drive her and try to strike up a conversation. Now if that defined who I am, a
comedian, I really can’t say.”
But that’s hard to believe, given that a comedian is, at least ostensibly, someone very observant and is required to remember and document
his experiences so that they can help him write
better. He explains, “I’ve done a lot of odd jobs
which involved being on my own. Whether I was
working in a paint factory or as a security guard
late at night, you just have your own thoughts to
accompany. I’ve always been a daydreamer and
had conversations with myself. So in that sense
yes, it heavily contributed to who I am.”
So what triggers an idea in him? Does he
write down anything fascinating that he notices
about people, places, or objects? He says, “It
varies depending on the show I’m writing. I
think for the first few years when you’re a standup comedian, you try to write what people will
like. So that requires a heavy amount of research
on news, Bollywood and cricket. You’re always
on social media, trying to write that kind of
catered material to people that they lap up.
“After that phase is over, you start writing
what you like. For instance, I’m a history buff,
so I did a lot of research and wrote a show
called History of India. I’m also a science buff, so
I bought biology textbooks, and did a lot of
research to write another show. Likewise, in the
case of Unbelievable, it’s the 10th year of my
career, and I think that’s when you start writing
about stuff that scares you. I realised in the 10
years as a comedian, I’ve never said a word
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performing for an audience that has
championed me for 10 years and made me
who I am, but they don’t know a thing about
me, and that’s kind of ironic.
“So it is a show about major milestones in
my life. And I think people will relate to them
as it covers things like getting arrested, having
sex, doing drugs, getting high, getting fired,
breaking up, cheating, getting married, settling
down, all of those things.”
He says that it all started when he was a
dishwasher at Granola Cafe in Chicago and it
was two blocks away from a place called Mike
that hosted comedy nights. He recalls, “I
remember watching these comedians go up and
do four or five minutes of comedy and they
would get free drinks and pretty girls would talk
to them once they got off stage. So I decided to
try it too.” And today, he says, to make people
laugh is not just his job but also a privilege:
“The soundtrack to my life is thousands of
laughs. That’s positive energy, it’s good for your
health and it’s great. And I feel when you’re able
to make a person laugh, that’s the strongest connection you’ll ever share with another human
being.” And about what in turn makes him
laugh, he says, “Little things make me laugh, I
don’t really talk about big things. I’m more
about smiles and burps and farts and whistles!”
Although Das tries to simplify his
approach to hilarity, it cannot be so conveniently uncomplicated; nothing is. His sense of
comedy has often gravitated towards a moral
compass. It may be satirical but not hurtful,
farcical but not uncouth, sentimental but not
self-righteous. He says, “I think it’s whatever
feels right or wrong to you. The rule is: Don’t
punch down, punch up. Don’t make fun of
somebody who can’t defend themselves. If
you’re ridiculing somebody or something,
make sure they’ve done something to deserve
it. Stay within the bounds of intelligence.
You’ll never see me making fun of the aged or
the sick or children because that doesn’t feel
right to me. I don’t censor myself beyond that.
I assume that I’m a moral, intelligent person
and I try to think about what I would want to
hear about if I were sitting in the audience.”
He says his style is similar to that of
George Carlin, Eddie Izzard, early Woody
Allen, and Lenny Bruce. Interestingly, he has
also had his share of criticism when he was
accused of hypocrisy recently. As he mocked
the obscene objectification of women in brand
advertisements, his critics countered by pointing out that his latest film Mastizaade was
filled with vulgar innuendos.
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come across new-age
parents being clueless
and panicking about their
child? What their baby did,
ate, how he/she burped, if the
cereal they’re using will work
its charm on the child? And
this is only the tip of an iceberg. It’s tough raising a child.
The new-age parent normally turns to the best advice
available on the go. And
among what’s conveniently
available — and emerging
strongly than ever — are
guidebooks for parents. All it
needs is a run to bookstore
and there it is, the ‘parenting
guides’. Books that are supposed to tell you what to do:
If you should train the child
in the tiger mommy style for
‘guaranteed success in life’ or
the gurukul teaching as prescribed by actress Sonali
Bendre, who debuted as a
writer with The Modern
Gurukul.
So let’s take a look at the
trending parenting books
and understand what they
have to say to the Gen X parent. But first, the basic reasons there has been such a
rise in authors writing more
in this segment are:
„More women can relate to
the need for advice as there is
rise in the percentage of working mothers.
„They constantly have to
juggle work pressure and
pressure on the home front —
managing the household and
bringing up children.
„Women are good at multitasking but they need to learn
how to prioritise.
„Parents also want to excel at
raising a child and therefore
want to look out for any new
parenting trends that might
work for them.
„Parenting advice is also
being sought out by individuals with different parenting
dynamics such as single
fathers and mothers, two
fat hers, two mot hers,
divorcee parents, stay-athome dads etc.
„The fact that our society has
changed drastically over the
last decade with most emphasis being given to an individualistic identity.
„There are plenty of anxious
parents, and parenting books
are an important segment of
the ‘insecurity economy’.
Keeping the same in
mind, leading publishing
house Rupa recently introduced its parenting series
that consists of different
books giving advice on how
to bring up children. Some of
the books in this series are:
Parenting in the Age of
Anxiety by Zirak Marker,
Parenting in the Age of
Facebook by Marzia Hassan,
and Parenting in the Age of
McDonald’s by Tanuja Sodhi.
This series comes as a sign
of reassurance to parents as we
live in times that drive us not
only to depression but also
make us gravitate towards
health issues as we can almost
never say no to junk food.
What is more worrisome is the
overexposure to endless media
and internet sources that
impact our opinions.
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automotive writers over the
past decade and a half have
had the pleasure of knowing Adil Jal Darukhanawala.
This doyen of Pune’s Parsi community has been a fixture in many of our lives
and I can genuinely say that I have had
enjoyable drives with Adil all over this
country and abroad. His wealth of automotive knowledge — not just the deep
technical knowledge he possesses, but
also the mnemonic details he has about
historical races from the very early days
of car racing — is incredible.
This attention to detail that Adil has
comes to the fore in the early chapters
of his coffee-table book, MercedesBenz: Winning. For any fan of car racing, to call this a book would be grossly unfair, because this is a literal treasure
trove of facts. Despite living in the age
of Google and Wikipedia, when we can
ask a hand-held contraption to pull up
details that are stored on servers, there
is a clear need for something like this.
The early chapters detail how the
future Mercedes-Benz was forged in the
crucible of automotive racing. The
company we know did not exist; Carl
Benz had invented the automobile yet
it were Daimler engines that powered
the early days of automotive racing in
the 1890s. Gottlieb Daimler and Carl
Benz, the two brilliant engineers who
lent their names to the company today,
never met each other despite living in
the same region of Southern Germany.
One could argue that the archival
details of many of these early races are
available on the internet, which they
well might be. Yet, it is impossible to
imagine that such fine archival pictures
are available. And there are details to
some incidents that are really illuminating, like how the first crash of a
Daimler car at a race was to give birth
to the name Mercedes. Some of us
already knew of the tragic life of
Mercedes Jellinek, the daughter of
Austro-Hungarian nobleman Emil
Jellinek, whose determination kept
Daimler racing, but Adil produces a
wealth of new details. One also learns
of the Daimler-Mercedes of 1901,
dubbed the world’s first sports car.
As the chapters progress, one gets
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to learn how the early racing pioneers
in Europe and America started out, how
the sport of motor-racing itself developed and which innovations were made.
The earliest cars, for example, used chain
drives much like motorcycles. Some of
the early races had massive circuits,
often more than 50 km long, and a riding mechanic sat beside the drivers in
order to be able to repair the cars which
had huge engines over 20,000cc.
You learn how motor racing became
a focus of nationalists in an extremely
charged Europe, and MercedesDaimler’s win at the 1914 French Grand
Prix was highly significant.
The inter-war period is also covered in great detail as manufacturers
started manufacturing for a larger
base of buyers, they continued to
show off their wares. As Mercedes-
Daimler and Benz unified their forces
in a Germany that was still suffering the
effects of defeat, they made their countrymen proud by winning races.
You learn of the ‘Silberfeile’ (Silver
Arrows) that was created by
Mercedes-Benz on their W25 racecar
— German cars raced in white, but
the W25 racecars subsidised by Adolf
Hitler, who wanted the team to win
international events, did away with
the paint to lose weight. The pictures
vividly show the intense racing rivalry between Mercedes-Benz and Auto
Union (the future Audi).
Even the post-war period is covered
in great detail. Despite suffering
immensely from the war, Germany and
Mercedes came back to racing by the
early-1950s until the tragedy that struck
at Le Mans in 1955, when the Mercedes
300SL driven by Frenchman Pierre
Levegh lost control and careened into
the crowds in what became the worst
auto racing accident in history.
This incident led to Mercedes withdrawing from motorsport for four
decades with occasional forays into rallyracing and through Swiss firm Sauber
made a return to the World Endurance
Championships and then to Formula 1.
First in 1993 but then the famous
association with British firm Mclaren
whose Finnish driver Mika Hakkinen
won the F1 Drivers Championship in
1998 and 1999. Mercedes won further
success with Lewis Hamilton in 2008
and with Jenson Button of the BrawnMercedes team in 2009. Mercedes
bought out the Brawn team and
made a triumphant return to being
their own team with stunning wins in
the 2014 and 2015 Formula 1 seasons
with Hamilton adding two more
titles. Much like their success a century ago, Mercedes-Benz’s current
success, Adil argues, is predicated on
their engineering excellence.
In a chat with Adil, we talk of the
incident at the Austrian Grand Prix last
Sunday when Nico Rosberg crashed
into his Mercedes team-mate Hamilton.
Shenanigans have always taken place in
motor racing, Adil explains, even in the
early days, the will to win supersedes
everything else. Adil promises to detailing car and automotive history. This
book while expensive is something that
any fan of motor-racing should consider buying, just for the detail.
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Similarly, Parenting in the
Age of Sexposure authored by
Dr Vandita Dubey talks about
how there is an exponential
rise in terms of sexually
explicit media content available today, but also how
adversely it affects kids as old
as two to four. They might not
be mature enough to understand what is being said, but
clearly understand the gist of
it. It is, therefore, important to
have an open line of communication with the kids.
On the other hand, Babies
and Bylines (Harper Collins
Publication) by Pallavi Aiyar
is a take on what the modern
woman goes through when
she becomes a mother. The
author, apart from the relatable moments all mothers go
through, also talks about
other issues such as that even
fathers deserve ample leave as
bringing up a child is an
equal responsibility in today’s
gender equivalent society,
cultural differences, equality,
care and choice.
She writes: “Childbirth
might be a biological norm,
yet there was little that had felt
‘natural’ about the experience.” A journalist herself,
Aiyar has created a wonderful read for anyone who needs
a perspective to relate to and
smile at the fact that even
though it’s overwhelming,
they’re not alone when it
comes to raising a kid.
Right From the Start is
written by Mandira Kumar,
the founder-director of
Sutradhar, an early childhood
resource centre based in
Bangalore. She has worked
extensively with various childrelated organisations for over
three decades. Her book
addresses parents and caregivers who enjoy hands-on
experience of child-rearing,
but wish to do so in an
informed way. The book
walks the reader through the
domains and milestones of
child development in the first
four years and offers a rationale for selecting playthings
and activities appropriate for
each stage. The tips on childcare and stimulation are suited to the Indian context.
In an age where we are
probably surrounded by too
much information, it’s scary
to decide what is right for
your child. We hope that
these books are useful and
help you raise better kids.
And remember if the question is what’s best for your
kids, the answer is you.
Because the very fact that
you’re reading this article in
the first place shows that
you’re a concerned parent.
And as Bendre says: “I
believe that there are no right
or wrong ways of raising a
child. Parenthood is an experience, and as long as it’s
heartfelt, it’s great.”
offended because you look
down on your own official
language. Hindi allows for sarcasm, irony, being edgy, all of
those things. You just have to
play it safe in that language.”
He says he reads, interacts, and researches online to
write new material. “I have
been the most comfortable
with a book in my hand. For
example, currently I am reading The Essential Rock
Discography, which is just the
history of rock and roll and is
nice to read. The more information you can put in your
head, the better.”
It can take months at
times to write one hour of
impeccable stand-up comedy.
So what does he do when he
finds hecklers in the audience? “When somebody heckles you, you’ve got to be 90
seconds ahead and smarter
than the heckler. You have to
take them down. You must.”
He continues with a chuckle, “I
haven’t had very bad hecklers
because people are usually
intimidated when they come
for a show. There’s a certain
advantage to being the most
expensive comedian in the
country — typically people
who heckle are somewhere in
the first five rows. And those
people have paid C5,000 to
come and see me. So when you
spend that kind of cash, I don’t
think you’re going to try and
consciously mess up the show!”
That’s agreeable and in
the same spirit, I ask him if he
has to pick any incident from
the recent times that he would
love to ridicule on stage, what
it would be? Pat comes the
reply, “Any 9 pm bulletin on
any news channel right now is
a ridiculous exercise in theatre. Any debate for that matter is how magicians do magic
through misdirection. I think
Indian news these days is
misdirection.”
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media to clarify that
he was only playing a
character and things should
be placed in context, but I
wonder if that same argument applies to all the item
song performers and obscene
ad endorsers — that they are
just enacting a script and it’s
their job to do so. He disagrees, “You have to be an
intelligent enough audience
to allow fiction. See, I’ve
murdered nine people in all
of my movies, but that doesn’t make me a murderer.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui is an
extraordinarily nice man and
not a serial killer; he’s only
playing one in Raman
Raghav 2.0. As an actor, the
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mission is to challenge yourself and to play roles that are
a complete opposite of who
you are and to test the
bounds of what emotions you
can and cannot access. The
art of stand-up comedy, on
the other hand, is completely
to be yourself and to parody
and represent yourself.” I still
find it difficult to accept his
defence of Mastizaade but of
course, moral judgement
should not be anyone’s preserve and it’s appreciable to
find an actor not disowning
his team after their film is
amidst any controversy. But
there’s still a larger question.
In this attempt to parody,
can being deliberately coarse
and sensationalising issues in
a titillating way to generate
shock value instead of wit
and laughter still be considered comedy? He says, “You
can’t always stay in the box
that people want you to stay
in. You will have to dare to
crack the jokes. Say, the AIB
Roast, it was an early format
and people didn’t get it; all
those boys are extremely
intelligent in their own right.
At the end of the day, if you
don’t like something you’ve
seen, you won’t laugh. You
don’t need protests, PILs,
notices. If you don’t like a
comedian’s work, you’ll never
watch him again and that’s
the worst thing that can happen to a comedian. That’s
punishment enough.”
He also adds that there is
no topic that he would ever
shy away from. “I believe in
my artistic voice. For example, in History of India, we
talked about the Ramayana,
Mahabharata, the Gandhis,
Nehru, holy cows, and yet we
sold a quarter of a million
tickets of that show over six
years because it’s an intelligent show and comes from a
patriotic place. There is legitimate parody and satire in it.
“Having said that, there’s
also a certain hypocrisy
attached to Hindi and English
as well. Say, you’ll watch a
comedian in English do
doggy style jokes, sex jokes,
jokes about b**bs and ba**s
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I’ve written a novel. You see, fiction and
non-fiction are two different genres and I
like to keep my mind open. My tastes in
music are varied, too. I love Indian classical
music and Bharatanatyam, but I also listen to
Western rock. There is a misconception that if
you are a philosopher, you should be square and
serious. In my view, if you are a philosopher you
should be joyful and happy. If not, your philosophy is negative philosophy directing you towards
depression. Vedanta is positive philosophy.
This was a story that was going round and
round in my mind. It is a novel, yes, but it is
largely about Ashok’s spiritual quest. In many
ways, Ashok could be my alter ego — what
my life could have been had I not been born
into a situation where my life was already, as
it were, in the public domain. My birthday
was a public holiday for 16 years in Jammu
and Kashmir! Being a Shiva bhakt, I had to
bring Him into the novel.
The setting of the novel was not unfamiliar;
it was Kashmir — the place where I lived. My
house is on the Mountain of Shiva, right at the
foot. All the places I’ve mentioned in the book
are real places. The novel is set in the early
1960s, the Kashmir I’ve described is the preinsurgency, pre-militancy valley famous for its
romance with the snow-clad peaks. The places I
have mentioned still exist, like the Martand
ruins, Pahalgam, but the ambience has changed
considerably. Quite a few readers have asked me
why have I not dealt with the issue of terror in
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most sought after honeymoon destination. And
no, my novel is not escapist. It describes a situation that used to exist previously. I had written
the novel three decades ago, the description is
true to its times. I had no intention of bringing
nostalgia into the way I wrote about the locations. Many have asked me if I miss Kashmir.
Well, yes and no. I go back to Kashmir for two
or three weeks every summer but it’s not like I
pine for the place. I have been living in Delhi
for almost half a century and I feel quite comfortably at home here.
The thing is, I have never looked back, either
in anger or in regret. Regretting about the glori-
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ous past will only pollute your present consciousness. It is very important to count your
blessings and keep moving forward.
Soon after I wrote this novel, I got deeply
involved in politics. At the age of 36 when I
entered the cabinet, I became fully engrossed
and so the question of writing another novel
didn’t arise. I had been, of course, writing
other books. And when Bhaskar Roy (CEO,
Palimpsest) said that I must give him another
book, I revisited the novel and added the epilogue. Often, a professional novelist is judged
by the number of pages he has written but I
had no such constraints. This book could have
been spun out into three times of its size, but
I didn’t really want to pad it up. All I wanted
to do was tell a story. My writing style is not
very verbose; I like to keep my sentences
short, simple and crisp. While the book
delves deep into Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy, I
have also incorporated quite a few poems
through the course of the narrative. The epilogue too, is short but dramatic.
Spirituality is not an escape; you can in no
way run away from your responsibilities. It is a
fallacy to think otherwise, which many unfortunately do. Ashok, in his letter to Ramesh says, “I
now know why I came to Kashmir. Before I
could plunge seriously into the spiritual quest I
had to work out my relationship with the only
two people I have ever loved…” As long as your
emotional relationships are unresolved, it is
exceedingly difficult to make any progress on
the spiritual front.
Like Ashok, I am also on a spiritual quest,
I have also met Maharaj, who in the novel is
Ashok’s guru. The character is loosely based on
the teachings of Sri Krishna Prem, an extraordinary Englishman.
I am happy that I have the epilogue off my
chest now. Without it, the novel seemed rather
incomplete. Earlier the book ended with
Ashok’s letter but I was not very satisfied with
that ending. Ashok becoming a swami gives
the novel a better sense of closure. To me, it is
more like wish fulfillment. I also wish to meet
Lord Shiva one day.
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I live in Trinidad; it’s an island in the Caribbean.
I’m the director of Safari Publications over there.
But with regard to writing a book, this is my first
book and I haven’t written anything before.
QWhere did you get your inspiration for
this book?
I always had the idea of writing a book at the
back of my mind. I studied literature, but not
creative writing. When I first read A Tale of Two
Cities by Charles dickens, I was envious of his
writing, because it was so amazing. That’s when I felt the need
of an idea to write. And when I
got the idea I did.
So I thought about it further, and in the story
the father has four daughters, he adopts a boy
and the whole family turns against him. What is
going to become of that? So that was the idea I
worked with, how family and religion impacts
the life of the younger daughter.
QHow far do you think your personal
experience has found its way to the book?
I grew up in a very normal, moderate kind of
environment. Because in Trinidad there isn’t
really much differentiation among Muslims,
Hindus, Christians and
Catholics, we have so many
races and religions and they all
peacefully co exist. So it was
weird for me that all of a sudden Muslims started to become
so much stricter in their ideologies and sort of fundamentalist sometimes.
Because I’ve seen it with a
few individuals how they take
the words of the holy texts too
literally, and even if they have
to choose between doing something they’ve learnt and doing
something good, there is a conflict while choosing something
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good regardless.
QWhat was the central theme
of the book? As there are many
issues you’ve talked about in
the book.
Where I grew up in Trinidad
and was exposed to the culture,
there were a lot of things I
wanted to talk about. Like
adoption or an Indo-Muslim
culture as seen in the book. For
example, being a Muslim
woman you are expected to
cover your head. So if you have
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such stereotypes, Muslims are
fundamentalist, they
apparently discouraged from
take to the old testament
adopting. I was unaware and
and say that certain things are forbidden
this was news to me. And that was the idea that
and tend to be so firm with their ideology
what if a father wants to adopt a child, and if he
that it becomes difficult for humanity and they
did so, what will be the consequences and
forget how to treat people. And to me when you
actions given the circumstances?
start thinking about it that way and when you
start hurting people, that’s when you have to
draw a line with religion. But I’m just addressing
this from a minority point of view how this has
an impact on others.
QWho is your favourite character?
I like the character of Maya because she’s so
wicked and funny and I just like her spirit.
QAre there any characters/moments which
were shaped by your personal experience?
The yard actually does exist. I didn’t live in it,
but my father did and I remember as a kid he
would take us there to show us how his cousins
lived and there was a very beautiful tree. So the
yard is a real place but I wasn’t brought up
here. And the historical background of the
family, coming from India and becoming a
native of Trinidad. That’s also real and that is
my family. As my great grandfather came here
as an indentured labourer back in the day and
that’s where it all began.
QIn the story, the character of Behrooz
does not have a history or an identity. His
identity is formed later by his experiences.
So how important is it for a person to
have an identity and history?
On the issue of history, I kind of did touch on
that when grandmother Sakina asks how they
can adopt someone just like that. She’s worried
because they do not know his family or the background he comes from. So that was one of the
reasons I experimented with it because in East
Indian families, every family has a history and
origin, but with him it was a problem of history.
QAnd what made you decide that Behrooz
should not have a history at all?
I’m a big fan of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering
Heights. Heathcliff in the novel was brought
up as a gypsy boy and did not have a history.
So part of my influence is Wuthering Heights
and also because I wanted part of Behrooz’s
identity to be wrapped with Maya as part
of the love story.
And that’s how they forged the bond because
she’s a loner and he has nothing. No history, no
identity. And she also has issues because she and
her family could never see eye to eye. So they
were both alone and that’s how they came close.
Their personalities blend well and also because
they were loners, together.
QWhat message do you want to convey
through the love story?
I wanted to show how religious interference in
their lives keeps them apart. As a result their
lives take different directions as a result of this
interference and it brings them back as well. So
there is some sort of redemption and some sort
of acceptance at the end of the story.
QHow did the character of Maya develop
over the course of the story?
Maya really grows up. She comes back, takes
care of her mother, so there was al lot of growing
up, pain because of their troubles.
QWhat do you think about disillusionment?
I will answer it using Behrooz’s example. When
Behrooz married Sara, that kind of changed the
whole trajectory because he is not the kind of
guy who gives up. So he sticks with his decision,
even if it causes a lot of disappointment. So, the
story also ends with acceptance and hope, rather
than disillusionment.
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media had published a
news story, filed by PTI,
that reflected the extent to which
the papier mache Indian state has
been corroded by vote-bank pandering. At another level, it showed
the mainstreaming, if that’s the
right word, of odious and regressive Sharia’h practices in the wondrous Sovereign, Socialist, Secular,
Democratic Republic of India.
I reproduce here the PTI story,
or the version of it which was
published in The Indian Express:
In the wake of objections by a
Muslim body, the Uttar Pradesh
Government late Friday night
revoked its decision to bar men
having two or move wives from
appointment as Urdu teachers. The
State Government said the appointments would be made as per the
rules and regulation in the past
and there will be no change.
“While signing the government
order today, I saw that there is no
such clause in it and, therefore, we
have issued a clarification in this
regard,” Minister for Basic Education Ahmed Hasan said. “We are
not able to understand how such a
thing has surfaced… it is a wrong
propaganda against the Government,” he claimed.
According to a recent Government order, candidates applying for
the post must reveal their marital
status and all those with two living
wives would not be eligible. Women
candidates married to a man with
two surviving wives have also been
barred from applying.
The notice for appointment of
3,500 Urdu teachers in primary
schools was issued recently. The
Muslim Personal Law Board had
strongly opposed it, saying the
order was violative of Islamic law
and rights of Muslims.
“Government cannot impose
such conditions when it comes to
recruitment of staff. There is a provision for four marriages in Islam,
even though just about one per cent
of Muslim men have two wives.
Even so, such conditions should not
become part of the job application
process,” Imam of Lucknow’s Eidgah
Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangi
Mahali had said.
Three conclusions can be safely drawn from this story.
First, we have now reached a
stage where Government decisions
and orders compliant with the
Constitution of India, laws and
rules are contested if they are seen
to be not Sharia’h compliant.
Instead of sticking to that which is
legally and morally correct,
Government or its agencies
capitulate at the slightest push,
choosing political expediency over
the lofty principles of secularism
that, in any case, now lie in tatters
after being subjected to
mind-numbing perversities.
Second, the inalienable right,
choice and freedom of taxpayers
to decide how their money should
be spent by Government is treated
with unabashed contempt by
politicians in power and their
feckless lackeys in the bureaucracy. An otherwise activist judiciary
eager to lay down rules of conduct
for cricket administrators and
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given to asking profound questions as to why Parliament cannot
select the Indian cricket team, has
neither the time nor the inclination to protect the taxpayers right,
choice and freedom.
Third, Urdu may have been
patronised by the Muslim elite in
its salad days, it was never an
exclusive ‘Muslims only’ language.
This appropriation of Urdu as an
element of Muslim identity not
only communalises a community
and legitimises its separateness, it
also makes it hostage to the dangerous machinations of a clergy
inimical to change and progress.
In fact, Urdu becomes an instrument of aggressive — as opposed
to surreptitious, as was the case
earlier — Sharia’h propagation
and implementation, ironically
with the Indian state partnering
this reprehensible exercise.
So why am I drawing upon a
story reported in January while
writing in July? What prompted
me to revisit the story, which I
had flagged and filed for reference, is the ongoing chatter on
Radical Islamist preacher and teleevangelist Zakir Naik. His television channel, ridiculously and
offensively named Peace TV, is
prohibited from being broadcast
in India, and for good reasons too.
But prohibition by law is rarely
if ever effective in India where
laws exist in abundance but are
disdainfully more honoured in the
breach than in the observance.
Direct to home service providers
do not beam Peace TV, yet that
does not mean it is inaccessible.
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Across the country in ghettos,
from Kashmir to Kanyakumari
and Kutch to Kamrup, cable operators bring Zakir Naik;s vile
teachings to believers eager to
believe every twisted
interpretation of Islam.
A friend from Mumbai
recounted how in a nearby slum
inhabited by Bangladeshi illegal
immigrants Zakir Naik’s sermons
would be amplified for weekly and
festive gatherings. Beat your wife,
kill gays, demonise the West,
repudiate modern education... and
more would be listened to in awe
and silence, to be practiced in real
life at a latter date or possibly now
and then.
It would be wrong to surmise
that Zakir Naik panders to the
underclass, the poor and the
disadvantaged. His appeal cuts
across class and country. The
Bangladeshi jihadis who committed the recent carnage at a fashionable Dhaka cafe came from
elite families, attended the most
expensive and exclusive schools,
and lived the high life till they
discovered the road to ‘martyrdom’. At least two of the mass
murderers, it now transpires, were
radicalised by the hate speech of
Zakir Naik. How many in India
would have been similarly
radicalised by his bunk?
The Congress says the UPA
Government it headed prohibited
the beaming of Peace TV but the
NDA Government led by BJP did
nothing to stop its re-emergence.
That’s poppycock. Peace TV was
always accessible through cable
operators. That the BJP regime,
which tirelessly parrots its commitment to halt radicalisation of
Muslims, has singularly failed in
matching deed with word is another story to be told another day.
Vacuous, platitudinous statements by the Prime Minister and
his Ministers on how terror and
terrorists have no religion, and
importuning India to the world
community, asking others to fight
a global war on terror in which we,
of course, shall not participate, are
no substitute for action. I do wish
the Prime Minister and his Ministers spare a few moments to listen
to what the ‘headmaster’ father of
chocolate-faced Burhan Wani, a
ruthless Kashmiri terrorist killed
by security forces on Friday, has to
say in response to his son’s death.
Frankly, Zakir Naik is a symptom, one of the many puss-filled
festering sores that have come to
represent the wider malaise of
radical Islamism in India and
abroad. A state that fails to stand
by principles of secularism, like
the Indian state falters and falls
repeatedly, is no less a symptom.
Zakir Naik teaches that it is a
Muslim’s duty to have four wives
and it is his right to beat them
into subservience and submission
as per Sharia’h. The Indian state
plays a complicit role in making
that teaching into reality as the
Government order on the appointment of Urdu teachers shows.
Where do we start? Where do
we end?
(The writer is a current affairs
analyst based in NCR)
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Reader response to
Swapan Dasgupta’s column,
Usual Suspects, published
on July 3:
Discussing issues: In a
recent article entitled, “‘One
country’ which has not been
nice” (June 30) by Claude
Arpi, the writer spoke about
the misdeeds of former
Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru and the Congress, in
previous decades, in dealing
with China.
The same forces are at
work which still undermines the foundation of our
country. To deal with
China, issues such as
imports of goods from the
Middle Kingdom, Tibet and
South China Sea, support to
the jihadi nation etc ought
to be discussed in public
forum. People should not
feed the snake, which keeps
biting us. No wonder the
media in China disdains
Indian nationalists.
Premolal
Overcoming barriers: The
fact that when the Congress
was in power, it did not
even apply for the Nuclear
Suppliers Group membership, speaks volumes about
how the grand old party
looked at NSG.
Apologists of China, sitting in New Delhi, Kolkota
and elsewhere should know
that China is the only
country that stands between
India and its rightful
place in NSG.
Jitendra
Fighting for NSG: India is
facing a diplomatic challenge and Prime Minister
Narendra Modi is doing his
best to get India its
deserved membership
Nuclear Suppliers Group.
Way back in 1950,
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, in
his letter to former Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru,
had indicated that even
though we regard ourselves
as friends of China, the
Chinese do not regard us as
their friends; there is unlimited scope of infiltration
from the Chinese border; he
had suggested an appraisement of the strength of our
forces and, if necessary,
reconsideration of our
retrenchment plans for the
Army. He had also warned
that we have been championing the cause of Chinese
entry into the UN.
Modi’s achievement is
that he has made an attempt
to fight for India’s NSG
membership which previous
Governments failed to do.
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„How has the coaching mafia in
Bihar tried to affect Super 30?
I have been threatened by gangsters for a long time now. But it has
lessened of late and I should thank
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for
offering us security. Some years
ago, I was told that a gangster was
paid by a local politician and
bureaucrats to intimidate me. In
fact, an attempt on my life was
made just outside my home in
2003. Munna, my staffer, tried to
stop it and was stabbed multiple
times. Hearing his screams, the
students came out of their rooms
to intervene. Threats have not
deterred Super 30 and we will
hopefully keep going strong. They
can’t stop the poor from learning.
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Kumar filled up an application for
Cambridge University — arguably
the best university in the world —
to pursue his higher studies in
Mathematics. After a month, the university wrote back to him, and he qualified to chase his dream there. His parents, Rajendra Prasad and Jayanti Devi,
were jubilant; their joy was unparalleled
and a crowd had gathered at their home
in Patna to celebrate.
Prasad, a clerk at a post office,
remembered wearing cotton clothes in
winter while studying because that’s all
he could afford and to ensure that his
son does not face the brutality of winter
in England, he got his only coat altered
so it could fit Anand. Except Anand’s
dream never came true because the
family did not have the financial means
to support him.
Worse, later that year, Prasad died.
Not only did Anand lose his biggest
dream but also his inspiration — his
father, who had cultivated curiosity in
him, who taught him the value of education and who never got tired of
ensuring that his son could study without any hurdle. After his death, Anand
took an oath that he will not wear his
father’s coat until he earns the right to
do so after establishing his merit.
After his Cambridge dream shattered, there also came a time in the
family when the hugely talented and
educated Anand decided to be a papad
seller to make ends meet. There were
days when he would gulp down cold
water in an attempt to suppress his
appetite. Although what remained consistent in these days of trauma was his
zeal to not give up his love for
Mathematics and set up an institute for
students (which came to be known as
the Ramanujan Institute of
Mathematics) however excruciatingly
difficult it might be initially.
Today, the same Anand has been
invited to teach Mathematics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) and Harvard University, a documentary film has been made on him by
the Discovery Channel, he’s featured on
the BBC, a biopic by Vikas Bahl is due,
he has delivered a speech at Standford
University, and Time magazine picked
his institute, Super 30, as one of Asia’s
best institutes (2010). In fact, Amitabh
Bachchan’s character in Aarakshan was
inspired by him.
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„But why do they want to stop
the poor from learning?
You may call it feudal mentality. If
the poor are empowered, who will
be the rich people’s servants, drivers, and so on? Not all rich people, but many want to feel powerful by crushing others.
„Your late father never wanted to
compromise on your education.
He always encouraged you to be
inquisitive about learning new
things. You had vowed to not
wear your father’s coat till you
were worthy of it. So when was
that moment when you wore it?
Actually, I have still not worn it!
revolutionary ideas such Anand’s Super
30. Authored by Dr Biju Mathew, a consultant psychiatrist and a clinical associate professor at the University of
British Columbia, Super 30: Changing
the World 30 Students at a Time is an
inspiring biography of Anand and the
journey of Super 30. It is a podium of
hope for the hopeless, bounty of contentment for the marginalised, channel
of empowerment for the unsung,
underprivileged, and this book on its
success is a must-read for all, in India
and around the world.
Anand is a messiah of optimism for
the innumerable deprived students in
this country, even if he doesn’t wish to
be so. His programme, Super 30 started
in Patna in 2002, selects 30 students
every year and trains them for the arduous IIT-JEE entrance exam. It started
when Anand once saw an aspiring IITJEE candidate study under a streetlight
and sleep under a staircase while
preparing for the exam. Today, each of
his students comes from the poorest of
the poor families and is mostly from
the so-called lower castes.
Super 30 also sponsors their accommodation and food during the course of
the programme. Almost every year at
least 25 students from this institute man-
age to clear the tough exam and others
get through to good institutions as well.
In fact, in 2008, all 30 students of the
programme had made it to the IITs!
Mathew’s book documents the
growth of the institute, how Anand and
his family manage it, how they select
the students, as well as varied experiences they have had in its running
whatsoever — from the sentimental to
the macabre! It also includes testimonies of students who have passed out
from the programme and are currently
either studying in the top institutions of
the country or are well placed in reputed companies.
The book also furnishes an insight
into how coaching mafia and unscrupulous political musclemen have tried to
bury Anand’s dreams, and while there
have been dire consequences, Super 30
has only continued to soar higher with
flourishing colours year after year. In
fact, US President Barack Obama’s special envoy Rashad Hussain, who had also
visited it, called it Asia’s best institute.
Journalist Uttam Sengupta, editor of
the Patna edition of The Times of India,
finds special mention in the book as
one of the first people to have promoted
the programme and who tried to connect Anand to other influential people
who may be able to help him. Although
till date, Anand does not accept funding
from private enterprises as he wants to
steer clear of probable controversies.
At the moment, Bihar is mired in an
unfortunate controversy about the fake
State toppers Ruby Rai and (allegedly)
Saurabh Shrestha. While the recent
events certainly censure the State and
bring it under a judgmental purview,
let’s not forget that it is the same State
that has also given India a revolutionary
educator like Anand Kumar.
„Super 30’s revolutionary success
surely merits you to wear it...
I wanted to study at Cambridge
University but could not go even
after qualifying for it because I
could not arrange funding for it.
Today, I am living my dream of
educating the needy but I still don’t
think I am worthy of it. My larger
dream is to see education spreading to every corner, every village,
every district in India. Until every
child, especially the underprivileged lot, has access to indiscriminating, quality education, I wouldn’t say that all my dreams have
come true. Keeping this in mind,
we are also contemplating expansion of Super 30 to reach more
regions and maybe take in at least
10-20 more students.
„But you never accept private
sponsorship for the institute.
No, never. Even when the biggest
entrepreneurs of the country have
offered financial help, we have
politely declined. Though they
mean well, we just want to avoid
any possibility of a controversy. So
Super 30 is run by whatever
money we make from our other
coaching institute, Ramanujan
Institute of Mathematics.
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Well apart from the institute, we
will have to find ways of generating revenue from other sources.
For example, there is an edX, a
Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOCs) provider, and an initiative of MIT and Harvard
University, that has invited me to
teach. And then if we offer online
courses, not only can we generate
revenue that way but also it can
reach any corner of the world —
from Bihar to Israel, Russia etc!
Also, a biopic is being made on me
by Vikas Bahl and I am hoping
that will be helpful too.
„What is the secret behind
the entrance test to Super 30
that selects the final 30 students?
The questions are generally from
the 9th and 10th NCERT syllabus,
but of course, we modify or twist
them so that we can discern which
student has the real potential to
make it, beyond the prescribed
syllabus. My wife is also an IITian,
so she helps us as well.
„As an educator, your comment
on the recent controversy about
the fake toppers in Bihar?
That’s a really unfortunate incident
but I am hopeful that Bihar is being
stern with such malpractices.
I hope there is strict investigation
and would request the
Government to strengthen its academic integrity. More importantly, I
would urge teachers to focus
uncompromisingly on elementary
education. Bihar needs quality education right from the primary level.
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he term Autism Spectrum
Disorder is relatively new in our
society, although it has existed for
many years. Children with autism
struggle to manage their daily routine.
For a long time they were considered to
be careless, adamant, irresponsible, and
lazy. About 10 years ago, most people
would have considered autism to be a
fancy name for mental retardation, and
unfortunately many professionals and
people still consider it the same.
Did you notice your child shying
away from social interactions at an early
age or having difficulty learning language? Did you note your child having
trouble making eye contact while conversing or making repetitive behavioural
actions? These little signs, which are
usually overlooked during early childhood, can be early indicators of a bigger
issue which the child might be facing.
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of development usually referred to as
Triad of Impairments:
„Social interaction and understanding.
„All aspects of communication —
verbal and non-verbal.
„Flexibility of thinking and behaviour,
including problems with imagination.
Though basic features are common
in many children, it is important to
remember the fact that autism is a spectrum disorder — no two (or 10 or 20)
children with autism will be completely
alike. Every child will be at a different
point on the spectrum. Similarly, each
child’s development would be at a differ-
ent rate and the severity of each area
would also differ. Thus a child’s chronological age may be four but he/she may
function at three years when it comes to
their language and 1.5 years with regard
to his/her social skills. It is also possible
that their cognitive skills may be age
appropriate at four years. Thus one may
not find uniform development in all
areas for a child with autism.
Many children with autism would
have intellectual disabilities, but many
may have average to above average
IQ as well. Thus intellectual disabilities
do not form a part of diagnostic criteria
in children with autism.
Aspergers Syndrome is a form of
autism in which the person/child has
average or above average intelligence.
They have fewer problems with speech
but may still have difficulties with
understanding and processing language.
People with autism may also experience
over- or under-sensitivity to sounds,
touch, tastes, smells, light or colours.
Some people with autism are able
to live relatively independent lives but
others may have accompanying learning disabilities and would need a lifetime of specialist support.
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Intellectual disability, which was earlier
known as mental retardation (MR), is
characterised by below average intelligence or mental ability and a lack of
skills necessary for day-to-day living.
Children with intellectual disabilities can and do learn new skills, but
they learn them more slowly. They tend
to function at a level which is below
their actual age and the functioning
level will depend on the mental level at
which the child is functioning. The
degree of intellectual disability varies
from mild to profound.
A child with intellectual disability
has limitations in these areas:
„Intellectual functioning refers to a
child’s ability to learn reason, make
decisions, and solve problems.
„Adaptive behaviours. These are skills
necessary for day-to-day life, such as being
able to communicate effectively, interact
with others, and take care of oneself.
Children with intellectual disability
learn more slowly than a typical child.
Children may take longer to learn language, develop social skills, and take care
of their personal needs, such as dressing
or eating. Learning will take them longer,
require more repetition, and skills may
need to be adapted to their learning levels. Nevertheless, virtually every child is
able to learn, develop and become a participating member of the community.
IQ (intelligence quotient) is measured by an IQ test. The average IQ
is 100, with the majority of people
scoring between 85 and 115. A child
is considered intellectually disabled
if he or she has an IQ of less than 70
to 75. There can be varying degrees
of intellectual disability ranging from
mild to severe.
In early childhood, mild intellectual disability (IQ 50-69) may not be
identified until the child begins
school. Even when the child is having
poor academic performance, it may
take expert assessment to identify
mild intellectual disability. People
with mild intellectual disability are
capable of learning reading and
Mathematics skills to approximately
the level of a typical child.
Moderate intellectual disability
(IQ 35-49) is visible within the first
years of life. Speech delays are particularly common signs of moderate
intellectual disability. People with
moderate intellectual disability need
considerable support in school, at
home, and socially. While their academic potential is limited, they can
learn simple tasks related to daily living and do simple activities.
People with severe intellectual disability need more intensive support and
supervision their entire lives. They may
learn some activities of daily living. Some
require full-time care by an attendant.
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Spectre helped make the latest
instalment in the James Bond
franchise the most complained about
film of 2015, British film censors have
said. The offending scene, set in a villain’s
conference room, shows a henchman
banging his victim’s head on a table
before getting to work on his eyes, and
had been toned down before the film’s
release on the advice of the British Board
of Film Classification. But that did not
stop the arrival of 40 complaints about
the film’s age rating, the highest number
for any film last year, the BBFC said.
The chief executive of the BBFC,
David Austin, said: “By our standards
it is quite a lot of complaints, but the
box office for Spectre is £94m, so in
context it is a tiny proportion.”
Complainants also thought the
torture scene, when Christoph Waltz’s
Blofeld inserts a micro-drill into
Bond’s head, was too much for the
movie’s 12A rating. The BBFC’s annual
report points out that there was no
blood and no sign of injury and the
film “instead uses sound and Bond’s
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audience expectation that Bond will
inevitably escape and survive such
threats, the scene is within the BBFC
guidelines’ allowance for depictions of
violence at 12A,” it says. Austin admitted he was surprised that Spectre was
the most complained about film and
said the BBFC had worked with the
film’s distributors on what would make
it a 12A, rather than 15, film.
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he consequences of the recent
EU referendum are still unfolding for most of the country, but
for one Northamptonshire town, the
decision to vote ‘leave’ has already had
an unexpected perk. Kettering found
itself on the receiving end of a “fierce
and offensive tweet” by Lindsay
Lohan on election night, as she criticised its voters for backing Brexit.
But in a turnaround, the American
actor said she would accept an invitation from the local MP, Philip
Hollobone, and the Commons leader,
Chris Grayling, to turn on the town’s
Christmas lights. Lohan had tweeted
strong support for Britain to remain in
the EU and singled out areas that had
voted leave, writing: “Sorry #Kettering,
but where are you?”Hollobone was so
offended that his constituency had been
“slagged off ” by the Mean Girls star that
he took the issue up in Parliament, and
listed the town’s distinctive qualities.
“Apart from the fact it might be
the most average town in the country,
everyone knows where Kettering is. It’s
famous as the home of Weetabix
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find it rather appalling how in
most places except for France
and perhaps Italy, fashion is still
considered the F word for anything intellectual. Dress is a topic
of great interest amongst French academia because of the large contribution
of apparel, textiles, luxury goods to the
French economy, as well as fashion’s
anthropological and cultural value.
This is hardly the case elsewhere,
despite the global apparel market valued at about $3 trillion, accounting for
2 per cent of the world’s GDP.
The shows I went to at last month’s
Paris fashion week for men, SpringSummer 2017, were youth-driven in
style and looked to the street for inspiration. There were as many men’s
designers and a few for women.
Besides the usual styles of the big fashion houses like Versace and Hermes, it
was a delight to watch the creativity
spill off a couple of designers from
Africa in venues around the city.
The London fashion week for men
had also taken place just the week
before, adding to a feverish coverage in
European press of fashion on the ramp
and off it, despite the dominant postBrexit gloom.
But these writings on garments
from the shows last month had a general oblique, distorted character. They
were often hysterically in praise of a
designer and almost never in criticism.
The same vocabulary, it seemed, was
recycled in different fashion reviews
that was seldom not superficial
descriptions of just the clothes.
Fashion is not frivolous. I remember reading fantastic clothes criticism
by the late Kennedy Fraser of The New
Yorker. There are some thoughtful
pieces by Laurence Benaïm in Le
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exceptions, good literary or analytical
writing on fashion hardly exists. The
long-term effect of this is to keep fashion looking silly while actually it is not.
What a man or woman wears on
the street is a powerful medium of
individual choice, societal values, and
aesthetics — and it is this that I feel
has defined fashion through the ages.
Influenced less by high society, fashion
in my opinion is defined far more by
the demands of industrial production
and societal needs.
Processes of social, cultural, and
historical transformation are reflected
in changing dress forms, such that
introspecting on fashion, I think, makes
for a riveting read of social history. In
fact, social revolutions, political trends,
and wars leave a mark on how we dress.
For example, the combination of
student protests, contraceptives and
second-wave feminism in the US and
Europe during the 1960s and 1970s did
away with gendered roles in society and
also in fashion. Young women could
now choose when to be mothers and
also how to express themselves. They
rebelled against the demure scarf and
stockings, and instead brought to the
world the mini skirt for the first time.
Even earlier, the fascinating postWorld War II era in the UK created
knickers made of military-issue silk
maps and air-raid outfits. This was
when British women buried their
corsets and gowns, and instead began
to wear garments that gave them more
mobility, yet while maintaining a sense
of elegance and style in the face of
bombings and rationing.
In the European continent, too,
clothing reflected the many ways in
which the war affected countries,
socially and economically.
Today, while there is a perception
that Americans tend to follow fashion
trends more, French girls don’t bother
their heads so much. The hair is a bit
dishevelled and the dress is always
slightly askew and never perfect, even
if the handbag is well-chosen and
teamed with a perfect pair of shoes —
it is indeed a cultivated art of effortless
chic by the girls in a country that takes
fashion very seriously.
In large part they owe their chic
to King Louis XIV who reigned in the
17th Century. Recognising the importance of luxury goods to the national
economy, he had brought a number of
artistic industries, including textiles,
under the control of the royal court to
make France the worldwide arbiter of
style. He ensured that the highest
quality fabric and materials
were to be found here.
This in turn attracted
talented couturiers
or seamsters to France.
While the engagement of fashion
with history is central, an anthropological approach understands dress also
within a contemporary comparative
cross-cultural and transnational framework. How can we not view fashion
this way when the different parts of the
entire system of production, marketing, representation and wearing of
clothes these days extends its reach
around the world?
It has been fascinating how imperialists intervened in local dress practices through trade and education in
the past, and it continues to be as
intriguing how even today dress is
influenced by international economic
and political pressures that go on to
then play a role in reworking regional
and national identities.
Sometimes as a culmination of factors, an individual’s dress in the public
space such as workplace or in the private space of one’s home holds its own
significance with connotations of
clichés, appropriateness and desirability.
For instance, we can not forget
Steve Jobs’s rejection of the clichéd
corporate suit, and his unvarying signature look of a black turtleneck, blue
jeans and New Balance sneakers.
Perhaps we could speculate that Jobs
used his unique dress to convey a consistency in who he was and what he
enjoyed. But what we do know is that
his dress was his deliberate decision
that became an important aspect of
Jobs’s personal brand. He took his
fashion seriously.
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breakfast cereal, Cheaney’s and Loake’s
shoes, and Kettering Town football
club has scored more goals in the history of the FA Cup than any other
football team in the country,” he said.
“So would you support my invitation to Lindsay Lohan to come and
switch on the Christmas lights in
Kettering this Christmas, thus
redeeming her political reputation
and raising money for good causes?”
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ext year, students at the
London School of Economics
will welcome new professor
Angelina Jolie, who will teach a class
on the impact of war on women
alongside William Hague. But over in
Texas, a star teacher has already started work: Matthew McConaughey,
who co-ran a film course at the
University of Texas at Austin this
spring. A repeat of the seminars starts
in autumn.
Offered to 30 students of the
Moody College of Communications,
the class is a collaboration between
lecturer Scott Rice, McConaughey and
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his Free State of Jones director Gary
Ross. It aims to teach pupils filmmaking through focusing on behindthe-scenes processes on the Free State
of Jones, a moderately-rated awards
hopeful about a southern soldier who
ended up fighting the Confederacy. It
opened in the US recently.
A spokesperson for the school
said the course revolves around
pre-taped videos featuring the
film-makers, but also includes “at
least one on-campus visit” from
McConaughey, who graduated from
the university in 1993 with a BA in
radio, television and film studies.
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down a bikini-clad woman
accused of carrying out at least
two home burglaries.
The Los Angeles County
Sheriff ’s Office last Tuesday
released images of the suspect
captured by home surveillance
cameras.
The woman took valuables
from two homes north of downtown LA earlier this month,
according to the Santa Clarita
Sheriff ’s Station.
Authorities did not say what
items the suspect took.
A statement from the Santa
Clarita Sheriff ’s Station said the
woman seen in the CCTV images
was “wanted for questioning”.
She is described as white, in
her late 30s, and approximately 5ft
5in and 120lbs.
Police said a witness saw the
suspect driving away in a tancoloured sedan.
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perfume which smells like the
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surface of a comet has been
by a British firm.
Samples of the aroma of
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko,
as sniffed by the Philae lander on
the Rosetta mission, will be dished
out at an event in London soon.
But you might not want to splash
it on before a big date because it
smells like rotten eggs, cat
urine and bitter almonds.
The New Scientist’s
Jacob Aron, who had a sneak
preview of the scent, wrote: “I
almost feel the smell as a physical
presence inside my skull. The full
heft of 67P’s bouquet hits me in the
face. Surprisingly, it’s not actually as
foul as my first impression led me to
believe — somehow a few floral notes
are now coming through.”
The scent was commissioned by
Colin Snodgrass from the Open
University in Milton Keynes, and
was created by The Aroma Company.
The smell comes from the presence of
hydrogen sulphide, ammonia and
hydrogen cyanide
— but as some of
those are poisonous, the creators had
to improvise to create
the scent. The compounds were detected in readings from
the Philae lander, which landed on the
comet in November 2014 — more than
a decade after it departed earth. The
European Space Agency vehicle partially
completed some experiments, but lost
power because its solar-driven batteries
were in the shade.
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he owner of a California movie theater
is apologising after a trailer for an RT
rated upcoming Seth Rogen comedy was
shown ahead of a screening of Disney’s
Finding Dory. The East Bay Times reports
moviegoers eager to see the PG-rated Dory
at a Brenden theater in the Bay Area city
of Concord were surprised earlier this
month with a preview of Rogen’s Sausage
Party, animated film with dark themes
about what happens to food after it’s taken
home from the supermarket.
Brenden vice-president Walter
Eichinger said it was a one-time
mishap due to the theater “moving
screens around in effort to accommodate several large last-minute groups
wanting to see Dory.” He says the wrong
movie was started by mistake and insists
it won’t happen again.
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Kentucky man attempted to rob a
local Chuck E. Cheese while particiA
pating in a job interview. Police Lt Andrew
Daughtery told the Lexington HeraldLeader that the manager of the Chuck E.
Cheese said the man came into the
Lexington location to get a job application
at 2 pm and returned at 4 pm for an interview. Daughtery said the man announced
that he wanted to rob the restaurant and
implied that he had a firearm.
The manager reportedly told the
man that he did not have access to the
safe and advised the would-be robber to
leave the premises. According to WTVQ,
police said the man apologised to Chuck
E. Cheese employees and began to cry.
Police continued their search for the
unidentified man and hoped to track
him down with the information provided
in his interview if it was truthful.
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principal has been suspended after
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rapper Fetty Wap recorded a music
video featuring drug references and
a pole dancer at a New Jersey
high school, according to a
report. Zatiti Moody, principal of operations at East
Side High School in
Paterson, was placed on
leave pending an
investigation into
the video for the
single Wake Up.
The video, released
on April 20, includes
numerous drug references and features a
scantily clad woman
dancing on a pole inside
a classroom.
Banners and
posters seen in the
video say “Go Team Kush”, a reference to a
strain of marijuana. Fetty Wap dropped
out of the same school as a teenager. In a
statement, he defended his actions. He
said: “I went back to my old high school
because I love my city. I wanted to show
the students of Paterson that someone
who walked those same hallways they
walk every day and sat in the same classrooms shown in the video has become
successful. If I can do it they can do it too.”
Terry Corallo, a spokeswoman for
the Paterson school
district, told NJ.com
that the district
was investigating
whether proper
procedures were followed in
allowing parts of the video to be
recorded at the school. It was shot
outside lesson times and does not
include any students.
Community leaders say the
video glamourises negative behaviours. Kenneth Simmons, a school
board member, said: “I’m from
Paterson and I’m proud of his success, but as a parent and school
board member I think it sends
the wrong message.”
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uch water has flown down the Thames since
the British people voted for the exit of their
country from European Union (EU), the
decision popularly named Brexit. The explanation is
that it is a referendum in which the majority voted for
Brexit. This majority was 52 per cent over 48 per cent.
So, the fact of the matter is that only four per cent
more people wanted the Brexit. If this is democracy
then God can only save the system.
Majority can mean anything from 50.01 per cent
to 99.99. But the point is can 50.01 per cent decide the
fate of the remaining 49.99? And is it fair? Democracy
is a system of governance where the view of the
majority prevails. However, this does not mean that
the majority has absolute right to decide the fate of the
minority. If that happens, then the system cannot run.
It is in this light that the referendum for Brexit
and the whole idea of democracy has to be viewed.
Exercise of direct franchise through referendum is
thus a risky affair and may have serious implications. The essence of a democracy is lost when referendums are resorted to for settling critical issues
because they require more considered opinions, and
referendum may not be that.
Particularly when matters of larger interest involving the entire populace are in question. The stability
and success of a democracy cannot just depend on the
opinion of the majority. If that starts happening
democracies may become anarchies.
Going back to the Brexit issue, let us talk of a
hypothetical test. What will happen if the Brexit referendum is held again today? Well, anything may happen and chances are that the figures would certainly
change. The strength of a democratic system lies in its
representativeness, its spirit to represent and protect
the interests of every segment of the populace. It is a
system in which the golden rule is ‘equal rights to all,
special privileges to none’. Even the majority. That is
the reason why democratic systems need to be supported by other mechanisms which act as checks and
balances against the tyranny of majoritarianism.
So there is a Constitution, there are institutions
to protect the Constitution and there are watchdogs
to keep democracy from going astray. It is erroneous
to view referendums as the best means to exercise
democratic right. Though voters are voting directly,
it is fraught with several dangers. Sometimes the vote
may be exercised without due consideration, sometimes out of ignorance or naivety, and sometimes due
to peer pressure or popular perception created
though media hype.
The slim margin of difference in the Brexit case
reflects all three. Democracy has to be more stable and
the subjects responsible and mature. Popular vote may
not always reflect the right position. Sometimes it is
the herd mentality that is reflected in popular opinion,
which may be a prescription for doom. Democracy
needs to be resistant to cheap populism and false propaganda. Relying on the common man’s opinion for
every issue, significant or trivial may not always be
prudent. It is this that leaders need to understand.
Popular vote on crucial issues are best avoided as
there is a difference between mobocracy and democracy. You cannot leave critical issues on the opinion of
the masses. Or else, you may even justify xenophobia.
Democracy is more about value-based leadership.
Referendum is sometimes abdicating leadership
responsibility. It is important to understand the crucial
difference between referendum and democratic values.
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of Sigmund
Freud on the
horizon of modern knowledge,
our ancient Indian sages
had interpreted the meaning of dreams in the minutest possible explanations.
And Indian interpretation
of dreams is far wide and
possibly accurate. Whereas
the Western concept of
interpretation of dreams is
based on expectations, the
ancient Indian interpretation is based upon desires
and their fulfillment.
Dreams are the manifestation of unfulfilled desires
of persons in their lives,
which the dream suggests
can be fulfilled after following certain rituals. An altogether different science culminated for enabling the fulfillment of one’s dreams.
Here the good omen,
bad omen, shagun and apshagun, timing of dreams,
duration of dreams, specific
condition of the dreamer,
weather, planetary positions, nakshatra etc and very
important, also are the
adjunct sign at the time of
the particular dream, the
ancient Indian scriptures tell
like singing of a bird, rattling of snake, barking of
dogs, howling of jackals,
crying of family women, the
sound of chantings from a
temple, rains outside etc to
mention a few of the innumerable signs.
These all have a very significant meaning for a
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or other a
person
dreams of
being late
for a project or a
destination
or for an exam. It symbolises
a needed change in life or a
hope of change in life.
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This is the
most frequent
dream
people
around the
world
have, and
naturally always remain
curious to know its outcome.
But they seldom get satisfactory answers. Foremost is
sexual cravings, and the
ambition for personal recognition. It may also indicate a
change of ambience and
inconclusive life.
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about sexual fantasies by
humans of
either gender and of every age
is a natural phenomenon; it
had no boundaries of inhibitions. Foremost is about having intercourse with someone
other than one’s spouse,
which suggests dissatisfaction
ord Krishna has guided us about
these in the fourth chapter of the
Bhagavad Gita. Let us understand
them with the help of some common
examples. “Because one should be cognisant about proper action, and should
also be aware of wrong action. And one
should know about inaction. The intricacy of action is very difficult to understand.” (4.17)
We begin with proper action or
karma. We are all responsible for a few
things. For example, parents must pay
attention to their children in order that
children grow up well. Similarly, a head
of a family must earn sufficiently for his
family’s maintenance. A son is responsible to learn such that he can independently be able to support himself later, ie
in his youth.
The next proper action is to appreciate the circumstances one is placed in
and act in a proper way. For example, a
son, whose parents have passed away,
must look after the welfare of his sister
till she gets married, and even subsequently also, if warranted.
Any action can only be called proper if it is according to dharma. I have
written about dharma in my articles
earlier, therefore, I will not repeat it
here. However, we generally know what
is according to dharma and if there is
any doubt one should check with
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in matrimony otherwise
sexual dreams indicate
creation and propagation.
dream. The ancient Indian
wisdom tells that all dreams
can fructify if certain remedial measures and rituals are
followed by us.
Some dreams can make
you happy, refresh you, energise you, give you a new lead
and set you on a new course
of action when you wake up.
But some dreams can puzzle
you, even frighten you. The
worrisome ones you can dismiss as just dreams.
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Dreaming
of snakes
mean differently
for different
genders.
In men,
it represents fear, concern,
sense of probable danger. In
women, it signifies the phallus, sexual desire and longing
for an orgasm.
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Having
dreams
about flying
expresses
desire for
freedom
and to
attain the
height of worldly success.
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Dreams of people who have
died is an indication of influences of those people,
whether good or bad.
Dreaming
of living
people,
specific or
known,
relate to
existing
relationships and characteristics to be developed.
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After sexual fantasies,
dreams of
death are
very regular among
humans. Though death
dreams are scary and fearful,
they could be a premonition
of one’s own imminent death.
Dreams of dead relatives,
friends and loved ones
remind of the incidents
related to them.
I hope that through these
examples of a few common
dreams, I have been able to
show the extent to which
common dreams can put us.
Very often, people think they
are somebody else while
dreaming and believe they
have a different personality
and don’t want to accept the
truth seen in dreams.
But a quick simple
analysis will show that
it’s not the case at all
because basically the person
is weak and frightened, a
mass of complexes. Plenty
of dreams initiate the beginning of new lives.
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knowledgeable persons.
Everyone of us must be useful and
cooperate with others so that all of us
flourish. This is what God expects us to
do. (Bhagavad Gita 3.10)
Then, all of us must try to optimise
whatever ability we possess. The
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money, knowledge, etc should be put to
the best use possible; we should attempt
to work at our peak efficiency, circumstances permitting.
Next let us understand what inaction
or akarma is. The direct meaning is not
doing anything, but it is much more than
that. Not doing one’s duties is inaction
too. For example, a wife is not well and
the husband does not pay proper attention to her by not taking her to a doctor
on the pretext of being busy is inaction.
Similarly, not shouldering one’s responsibility, like leaving the care of children in
the hands of servants by any mother
because she prefers to spend time with
her friends partying, etc is also inaction.
Lastly, not attuning oneself to the circumstances like a student from a poor
family not paying attention in school and
expecting his parents to provide him
with a tutor is also inaction.
Now we come to improper action, ie
vikarma. We all know that becoming
drunkard, indulging in illicit acts, gambling, ending up as a drug addict, etc are
all improper actions. However, there is a
larger meaning of this word. These
examples will illustrate. One who abandons his wife and children before they
are settled is doing vikarma. One who
deprives others of their rights by illegal
means is doing vikarma.
Also one who breaches maryada, like
disrespecting saintly persons, is also
doing vikarma. Knowledgeable persons
should be honoured and one should get
wise counsel from them.
What is the conclusion then? That
one should not only know what karma,
akarma and vikarma are but also do
proper action. According to the
Bhagavad Gita, this can be done by not
necessarily doing what others are doing
but find out what is appropriate to do.
For example, it has become fashionable
to avoid God. No one should ignore God
at least after one has turned 50. One
should vanquish by the fire of superior
knowledge the desire for sensuous enjoyments prior to one’s death. (4.19)
Similarly, before leaving one’s
body, one should stop taking shelter
in material enjoyments. (4.20) One
should do all acts in a mood of sacrifice only. (4.23) One should also not
be attached to fruits of action. (4.21)
This way one will be satisfied, and his
or her life will be well lived.
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volutionary potential intrinsic to
fundamental elements of creation,
spontaneously led them progressively evolve into the manifest world,
with all its enormity and diversity. Since
the cause has to find its imprint in the
effect, the urge to evolve further has to
be there in the human construct as well.
No wonder, it remains our common urge
to successfully keep progressing in life
with ease and comfort. Also, get better
empowered, mentally, intellectually,
emotionally, materially and otherwise.
The paradox, however, is that
whereas in nature, the whole course of
creation chain progressively evolved
involuntarily. The human beings, on
the contrary, need to put in conscious
efforts, as they enjoy choice option.
This is the real challenge in human
life. For, the choice option happens to
be a double-edged weapon, as it carries
as much probability of misuse as rightful use. Evidently, if this option is not
used carefully, it could very well serve
as a trickster, often stalling the evolutionary momentum.
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ingrained in human nature. If anyway
it gets compromised, the void there
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after would unnerve a being from
within. The irony, however, is that one
would not know why mind has
become restive. Following which, the
scattered mind though remains live to
their desire for material gains. It, however, seldom remains conscious about
servicing one’s inlaid empowerment
tools, but for which, it would be difficult to do justice to the callings of
one’s desire. And if one’s fail to make
to make it to the desired destination,
he/she tries to assuage oneself by subscribing it to the callings of destiny.
Seldom does one realise that one’s
own impoverished empowerment tool
holds the key to failure.
Often our sense of ego plays the
devil in the whole game plan. For, it is
susceptible to identify itself with
indwelling tendencies and unmindfully
makes it the defining principle. Also, it
also remains vulnerable to get caught up
to the tempting influences of seeming
world, and sets it as the dream destination. Entrapped thus, it fails to remain
alert about invoking one’s discriminating faculty for due diligence. Having
thus ignored the most profound
empowerment tool of mind, its sense of
orderliness gets compromised. It then
becomes vulnerable to unmindfully pick
up inappropriate leads, and with obvious consequences.
It, therefore, becomes incumbent
upon us to override all the chaotic influences playing in the mind through conscious efforts, and ensure holistic development of the self. Otherwise, we will
be subject to unwanted twists and turns
in life. See how the inflated ego of a
man keen to grow spiritually, materially,
and otherwise, is not able to register any
significant progress.
Let us look at his astrological pointers. The person is born in Aries lagna, a
fiery and movable sign, with its lord
Mars in the 9th house, incidentally
again a fiery sign. It speaks of a highly
ambitious person, by nature impulsive,
aggressive, and the one who jumps into
action without applying proper forethought. Mars locks horns with expansive Jupiter, intelligence signifying
Mercury, and mind indicating Moon. In
the first place, it speaks loud of being
high on ego, who is stuck to his own
self-assumed parameters. Also, he may
not pay heed to advice and counsel of
others. Second, he has a restive mind
not allowing him to remain focused for
long. Also, he would be over critical of
others especially if their opinion would
be at variance with his. Third, he is temperamental, whereby he is not able to
gel well with others. Moon opposed to
Mercury and Jupiter accounts for his
impaired reasoning and judgment, as
well his volatile emotionality.
Accordingly, he was advised to get
over his mental maladies first if at all he
wishes to evolve, as would the following
Indian maxim suggest: “A man may have
received grace of God, of the teacher and
the holy man; but if he does not have the
grace of mind, the journey of life shall be
full of unwanted twists and turns”.
Fact remains that his mental infirmities often land him into serious problems because of his own indiscretions.
Once he asked me, how to work upon
his ego. He was advised to repose faith
in Guru and follow his instructions in
right earnest. Immediately, he shot back,
my heart is inclined to accept your
advice, but my buddhi does not let me
surrender my identity. I had to explain
that what he perceives as his buddhi, is
actually his ego playing the devil.
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