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New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS): Addressing the nation for the 9th time from the historic ramparts of Red Fort on the occasion of 75th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for moving India forward with five pledges to achieve the dreams by 2047. PM Modi said that India must be a developed nation in 25 years. As we enter the Amrit Kaal, we must resolve to fulfil the dreams of India’s freedom fighters. “We must resolve to work towards a ‘Viksit Bharat’ (Developed India) and remove any vestiges of colonialism from any corner or in our hearts,” said the Prime Minister.
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“In the coming years, we have to focus on ‘Panchpran’ (5 pledges). First: to move forward with bigger resolutions and resolve of developed India; second: to erase all traces of servitude; third: be proud of our legacy; fourth: the strength of unity; and fifth: the duties of citizens that also includes the PM and CMs,” said PM “WorkingModi. towards a Viksit Bharat, remember the time before Independence... yes, people had different methods of working but the goal was the same and the goal was big - the freedom of India. In this Amrit Kaal we have to come together and work towards another big goal of a Viksit Bharat,” he said. PM Modi urged the youth of the nation from the rampart of Red Forte to dedicate the next 25 years of their lives for the nation’s develop ment. He said that we should work towards the development of the entire “Whenhumanity.thedreams are big, hard work is important. It needs to be inspired by the pledge and the determination of freedom fighters who dreamt of a free India,” PM added in his historic speech. PM Modi said that we have to put India first and this will pave the way for a united India.
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The United Nation has repeatedly said that Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers and refugees is contrary to Australia’s international obligations and is “an affront to the protection of human rights”. What has prompted international criticism has mainly to do with Australia’s neglect of the rights of individuals to not be detained arbitrarily or indefinitely. Data suggest that 1400Australiacondemnationinternationalnotwithstanding,continuestokeepoverpeopleinonshoreimmigration and indefinite detention even today. Moreover, data suggest that in April 2022, the average period for which people were kept in immigration detention in Australia was 726 days. As for those in onshore detention is concerned, 136 have been detained for more than five years. New bill- an opportunity for Australia Therefore Wilkie’s bill is pertinent and timely. The bill proposes abolishing the existing system of mandatory detention. According to the bill, detention of non-citizens without valid visas could only be ordered where it is necessary and proportionate to the circumstances. This would be on the basis of indi vidual assessment. By Indian Abroad Newsdesk New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS): With a view to promote co-production of films, the Union Cabinet has approved signing of ‘Audio Visual Co-Production Treaty’ between India and Australia. The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime signingMinisterNarendraModihasapprovedtheofan‘AudioVisualCo-Production Treaty’.AudioVisualco-productiontreaties areenablingdocumentswhichfacilitate co-production of films between two si-governmentAgreementscountries.SuchagreementsareUmbrellaunderwhichprivate,quaorgovernmentalagencies enter into contracts to produce films Indiatogether.has, so far, signed 15 Audio Visual tries.Co-productionTreatieswithforeigncounAustraliahasemergedasapreferred destinationforshootingIndianfilms.India is fast emerging as a major content hub forfilmmakers looking fornewprojects. Indiahas abundance of exotic locations, talent pool, relatively cheaper cost of Indiaproductionandpostproduction,makingafavoureddestinationofforeign filmmakers. As per the co-production treaty, the ofrespectivecontributionsoftheproducersthetwocountriesmayvaryfrom20per cent to 80 percent of the final total cost of co-production work. The proposed agreement will boost
Announcing the deal on August 12, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen said it was the first change to the objectives in 15 years. He further said, “This is important, it sends a very clear direction to our energy market operators, that they must include emissions reductions in the work that they do … Australia are determined to reduce emissions, and we welcome investment to achieve it and we will provide a stable and certain policy India,framework.”onthe other hand, is riding on Prime Minister NarendraModi’s announcement of five emissions pledges at the global climate meet in Glasgow in October 2021. It was a promise to take steps towards controlling India’s emissions. India has set five new pledges so as to bring net-zero emissions by 2070,
A starry affair: Bollywood celebs flag off Indian Film Festival of Melbourne
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By Indian Abroad Newsdesk Mumbai, Aug 12 (IANS): Bollywood celebrities such as Abhishek Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, Vaani Kapoor, Tamannaah Bhatia, Shefali Shah, among many others, flagged off the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne to its physical form in Australia with its 13th edition. Other personalities who were a part of this include singer Sona Mohapatra, former cricketer and ex captain of India Kapil Dev and filmmakers Anurag Kashyap, Kabir Khan, Aparna Sen, Nikkhil Advani and Shoojit Sircar.
The festival, which kicked off on Friday (August 12), will conclude on August Commenting20. on the occasion, Abhishek Bachchan, who is “abso lutely loving” being in the moment in Melbourne, is excited to watch the screening of his ‘Manmarziyaan’ co-star Taapsee Pannu’s upcoming film ‘Dobaaraa’. He said, “I’m looking forward to watching ‘Dobaaraa’. My almost entire family has represented India here and I’m very proud of it. I’m looking forward to being part of all the celebrations and I thank the government and Mitu for having me here. It feels great to be given the Leadership in Cinema award”.
The actors took to the podium in presence of a special audience to announce this year’s programme schedule with ‘Dobaaraa’ being the opening night film. Other events lined up apart from the screening of over 120 films are the Independence Day Celebrations of India and an array of panel discussions amongst other specially curated events. When asked about the South and Hindi film debate at the festival, actress Tamannaah Bhatia said, “I think this conversation is only unique to India, whenever I travel abroad I never hear people distin guish, they simply call it Indian cinema. And such is the case even here at IFFM.” She feels that the audience wants to see pan India films as more of such content is being made and being admired by all.
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When independent MP Andrew Wilkie reintroduced to federal parliament the Ending Indefinite and Arbitrary Immigration Detention Bill 2022, he was paving the way for Australia to bring its immigration detention regime in conformity with basic international law requirements for the first time since 1992. The bill aims at reform ing an immigration regime that human rights organisations perceive to be “inhumane, unnecessary and unlawful”. Australia’s human rights commitment Australia has a commitment to human rights. This commitment includes protecting refugees and not to arbitrarily or indefinitely detain adults or children. The problem lies in Australia’s current mandatory detention regime, which requires non-citizens without a valid visa to be detained for potentially indefinite periods and without access to review by a court. What compounds the problem is that Australia’s commitments under international law are not enforce able under Australian law till they are legislated upon and implement ed. This implies that in the absence of a law that fully protects the right to liberty, the Australian High Court deems indefinite immigration detention to be lawful under the country’s law.
China announces $181mn aid for Nepal PM Modi Chris Bowen Andrew Wilkie Australia on the verge of making clean energy a key national energy goal
By Indian Abroad Newsdesk Journalism per se is for public interest and is essential to ensure society functions well enough. It keeps the influential on a tight leash without allowing them to become exploitative. This is where public interest journalism assumes Australia’ssignificance.News Media Bargaining Code was the first of its kind in the world which was set up to augment the value of public interest jour nalism. This has made it easier for most Australian news media to deal effectively with global platforms such as Google and Facebook. The Code was formulated by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and was made into a law by the Australian Parliament in 2021. Still Australia has to do more in this area of Inactivity.ahighly complex social media marketplace, platforms like Google and Facebook pick up news contents from various media outlets to increase user traffic thereby increasing the revenue. Moreover as is the trend in business today, each media business needs to be on each platform. This has implications By Indian Abroad Newsdesk When Quad leaders, comprising leaders from Australia, India, the US and Japan, met in Tokyo on May 24, 2022, these countries committed themselves to further advance practical cooperation in a bid to address climate change through implementation of the Paris Agreement and to deliver the outcomes of COP26, building on their ongoing cooperation and progress since their last meeting. While collectively Quad countries are attempting to increase coopera tion among themselves, individually there is a need to reduce emission levels and make a consistent effort towards clean energy adoption. This is precisely what was endeav oured when Australia’s energy ministers on August 12 voted to make emissions reduction a key national energy goal, which is being hailed as a major step towards clean energy transition. In fact, a consensus is not very far-fetched considering the fact that Federal, state and territory energy ministers sat together and agreed to include emissions in the “national energy objectives”. Clean energy transition - need of the hour
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Tejashwi Yadav’s wife Rajshri, former CM Rabri Devi, RJD leader Tej Pratap Yadav and scores of party workers. Bihar anymore as JD(U) knowing the consequence of contesting elections as an alliance partner with theBJP in the state. In the 2020 Assembly election, JD(U) think tank suggested that the party has reached third position due to betrayal by the BJP. The JD(U) workers stood with the candidates of the BJP during the election but the BJP workers stepped back at the right time when JD(U) candidates needed them in their Assembly constituencies. The JD(U), in the 2020 Assembly election contested on 115 seats and managed to win only 43 while the BJP contested on 109 seats and won 74 seats. The JD(U) is an alliance partner of the BJP and its policy makers are well aware of the anti-incumbency against BJP. Moreover, there is also a sense that the BJP has a “tendency and track record to weaken its alliance partners. Shiv Sena and Shiromani Akali Dal are the prime examples of it”. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar also realised that making an alliance with the BJP “would not be a guarantee of winning the election” in future. In fact, Nitish Kumar, who is considered as “one of the most sharpest leaders” of the country, is just doing the opposite to the policies of BJP. Since farmers’ agitation in 2021, there is a sense that the farmers of the country are against the Narendra Modi government. Hence, Nitish Kumar is focussing on the farmers and addressing their issues in Bihar. He has passed an order in the cabinet meeting to increase the diesel subsidy by Rs 15 to Rs 75 per litre payable to the farmers for agriculture purposes. This has come as a major relief for the farmers in the state.
Bihar Oppn sees a Cong revival because of BJP’s ‘dictatorial attitude’
Nitish takes oath as Bihar CM for 8th time as the Bihar Chief Minister for the eighth Tejashwitime.Yadav took oath as the Deputy Chief Minister. Also present at the swearing-in ceremony held at Raj Bhavan were taking on the police personnel during the protest march to the Raj TheBhawan.protest was headed by Madan Mohan Jha, the state president of Congress party of Bihar. Jha says, “We were on the way to the Raj Bhawan to submit a memorandum to Governor Phagu Chauhan but the police had stopped our march. There was no section 144 imposed in the areas which were opted by us for the protest march. We have not breached the Covid protocol as well. It is hard to under stand why the Patna Police stopped us for the march against inflation.”
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Patna, Aug 10 (IANS): A day after announcing a new grand alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal and other opposition parties after breaking away from the BJP, Nitish Kumar on Wednesday took oath
Patna, Aug 7 (IANS): The main opposition party in Bihar, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), believes that the latest actions against the Congress by the Central agencies will benefit the grand old party. According to the RJD, the BJP, which has given the slogan of “Congress Mukt Bharat” is itself providing space to the Congress for its RJDrevival.vicepresident Shivanand Tiwari says, “The way government machinery was used to prevent pre-scheduled programmes of the Congress party, such a situation had not emerged in the country post-Independence. The way the police force was deployed at the residence of Sonia Gandhi, the way it behaved with Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders, and forcibly prevented them to participate in a protest, it all attributes to murdering the democracy.” “In democracy, every political party has the right to demonstrate against the government policies,” Tiwari “BJPsays. government is celebrating ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ and launched ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign in the country but the same RSS and BJP did not recognise the Tricolour for many years. The national flag was hoisted in RSS headquarters in Nagpur only after 2007. And now, they are pretending to be a patriot,” he adds. “On January 26, 1930, the Tricolour was hoisted in every house of the country which attributes to the freedom, democracy, equality and brotherhood. Now, the BJP is trying to mow down the democracy in the country,” Tiwari says. “In a bid to save the democracy, if any government is trying to mow down the protest of opposition par ties, it is our duty to object to the act of the government,” the RJD leader asserts, adding that at present, the BJP is “using the Central agencies as a tool to target leaders of every political party in the country”. Congress party, in a state like Bihar, was losing its ground specially after dismal performance in the 2020 Assembly elections. But now, the same party is getting support from the common people. Moreover, the workers of the grand old party are looking united. The unity was visible in the streets of Patna when the male and female workers were Patna, Aug 10 (IANS): After taking the oath as Bihar Chief Minister for the eighth time, Nitish Kumar called for first cabinet meeting on InWednesday.themeeting with Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, Nitish Kumar passed a proposal to call a special session of the Assembly on August 24 - for him to prove his majority - and the Legislative Council on August 25. Bihar Governor Phagu Chauhan has been intimated of the proposal and his approval is awaited. Leaders of the Mahagathbandhan also brought in a no-confidence motion against Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha, of the BJP. Since he just has support of just 77 MLAs of his own party, it is most likely that he would resign from the post before motion. RJD’s Awadh Bihari Chaudhary is the front runner for the post. On August 25, the Legislative Council will elect a new Chairman as well.
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Pune/Mumbai, Aug 10 (IANS): Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar on Wednesday hailed the move by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to dump his ally Bharatiya Janata Party to form a new government with other opposition Theparties.NCP supremo also accused the BJP of “finishing off its regional allies” after tying up with them to grab power, referring to the recent developments concerning the Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra, earlier with the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab and now the latest with the Janata Dal (U) in Bihar. “The BJP’s speciality is to join hands with a regional party during elec tions, but ensure that the local ally wins fewer seats. We have witnessed this with the SAD in Punjab and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra,” said Pawar. He referred to BJP President J. P. Nadda’s recent assertion that regional or family-led parties have no future and they would cease to exist, with only the ideology-driven BJP surviving in the country. “From this (Nadda’s statement), it’s clear that the BJP eliminates its allies gradually. This was even Nitish Kumar’s complaint,” pointed out Pawar, adding that SAD leader Prakash Singh Badal had allied with the BJP but today his party (SAD) is almost annihilated in Punjab. “Now, the BJP is planning how to weaken the Shiv Sena by creating a rift in the party -- Eknath Shinde (who rebelled in June) became the CM, and others (BJP) helped him,” Pawar said.
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“We are not afraid of the BJP or JD(U). Our fight against the Narendra Modi government will continue and we will do protest marches in the future as well,” he Likeadds.Congress, other political parties are getting back to their political strengths thanks to the investigating Onagencies.July31, Arun Singh, the national general secretary of BJP announced to have an alliance with JD(U) not only till 2025 but also in 2029. However, to this, the JD(U) national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh said that his focus is not on making alliance with the BJP or any other party. “We are currently focusing on strengthening the organisational structure of the party and then think of alliance with any political party. Alliance with the BJP is a question of the future,” Lalan Singh said. Political analysts believe that the BJP wants to stay in power in Bihar till the crucial 2024 Lok Sabha Theelection.statement of Lalan Singh clearly indicates that his party will not give any chance to the BJP to flourish in
The NCP, Shiv Sena and the Congress were allies in the 31-month old MVA government, which crashed on June 29 after the Shinde-led revolt, which now some BJP leaders are claiming credit for. In an apparently pre-emptive decision, Nitish Kumar on Tuesday walked out of the JD(U)’s alliance with the BJP in Bihar, resigned and formed a new government with the support of the Opposition Grand Alliance comprising the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Congress.
China completes military drills around Taiwan for ‘the time being’
The party is protesting against the government over various issues, including inflation, GST and unem ployment from two fronts -- protest march from 24, Akbar road to the Prime Minister’s residence and from Parliament to Raisina Hills. The Delhi Police has denied permis sion to the Congress for holding a protest march in the national capital.
Cong’s protest march to PM’s residence foiled, Priyanka detained China again threatens to take Taiwan by force if necessary N.Korea sends letter to China slamming Pelosi’s Taiwan trip Taiwan’s main oppn party visits China despite recent escalation Intense protest outside Cong HQ in Delhi, Priyanka sits on dharna Beijing, Aug 11 (IANS): China’s military exercises around Taiwan have been “successfully” completed for “the time being”, the eastern command of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) announced, easing a crisis that had escalated fears about the risk of armed conflict. Through joint military operations by the armed forces in the sea and air space around the island, the combat capability of the army had been “effectively tested”, dpa news agency quoted the PLA as saying on Wednesday evening. However, changes in the situation in the Taiwan Strait would continue to receive close attention and “regular patrols” are planned. Military training and other prepa rations will also continue, the PLA command said, adding that it would “resolutely protect” China’s sover eignty and territorial integrit. In response to a visit to Taiwan by the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi last week, China had been conducting large-scale military exercises around the self-governing island. It was originally announced that the “combat exercises” were to end on Sunday, but they were then extended.
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China responded to the visit, which it saw as a provocation by the US, with a series of missile launches and incursions into Taiwanese waters and air space by its military. In a statement on Wednesday, Truss said : “The UK and partners have condemned in the strongest terms China’s escalation in the region around Taiwan, as seen through our recent G7 statement. “I instructed officials to summon the Chinese ambassador to explain his country’s actions.
“We have seen increasingly aggres sive behaviour and rhetoric from Beijing in recent months, which threaten peace and stability in the “Theregion.UK urges China to resolve any differences by peaceful means, without the threat or use of force or Taiwancoercion.”has been self-governing since nationalist forces fled there in 1949 after the communists took control of China, and is considered to be a rebel province by Beijing. China’s military exercises, which began on August 4, have caused extensive disruption to flights and shipping in one of the busiest regions for world trade. A statement issued by Beijing’s Taiwan affairs office said China would continue to work “with the greatest sincerity” to achieve peace ful reunification. It went on: “But we will not renounce the use of force, and we reserve the option of taking all necessary measures. This is to guard against external interference and all separatist activities. “We will always be ready to respond with the use of force or other necessary means to interference by external forces or radical action by separatist elements. “Our ultimate goal is to ensure the prospects of China’s peaceful reuni fication and advance this process.”
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Beijing, Aug 10 (IANS): Amid the continuing tensions over Taiwan, China on Wednesday again threatened to take the democratic self-governing island by military means if necessary. “We will work with the greatest
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previous day, the WPK also called the US House of Representatives’ trip a “serious infringement” of Beijing’s sovereignty, according to Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). The WPK then expressed “full support” for the CPC and the Chinese government in their “just and legitimate” steps to “resolutely repulse the US arbitrariness” and pledged to continue offering full support over the Taiwanese issue, Yonhap News Agency quoted the KCNA as saying in its report. Last week, Pyongyang’s foreign ministry was quick in responding to Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, calling it an “impudent interference” into the internal affairs of another nation. North Korea has recently stressed its strong ties with China amid the heightening Washington-Beijing periodtensions.for the delegation led by Hsia ends on August 21, after which they will return to Taiwan on August 27. The trip has sparked controversy as Taiwan has been under pressure from Beijing’s recent military and economic campaign against Taiwan in retaliation for a visit to Taipei by Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen was upset with the KMT’s trip. “At this moment, the KMT still insisted on going to China, disap pointing our people. The way it acts is sending the wrong message to the international community,” Tsai said on Wednesday afternoon at a meet ing of her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The KMT has traditionally maintained closer contact with the Chinese government than the ruling DPP, which leans more towards independence.
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS): Amid the multi-layered security arrange ments outside the Congress party headquarters in the national capital on Wednesday, the party workers staged an intense protest that was led by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. The police had placed several barricades to stop the Congress workers from taking out any kind of march towards the Prime Minister’s Asresidence.perlatest reports, the party workers, raising slogans against the Central government, are con tinuously attempting to cross those Priyankabarricades.Gandhi, refusing to budge, crossed the 3-feet tall barricade after jumping it. As she tried to move forward, she was stopped by the women police personnel and subsequently the Congress General Secretary sat in the middle of the road in protest. Till now several party leaders, including Sachin Pilot have been detained by the police.
London, Aug 11 (IANS): The UK Foreign Office has summoned China’s ambassador to Britain over Beijing’s “aggressive and wide-rang ing escalation” against Taiwan in recent days. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said she had ordered officials to call in ambassador Zheng Zeguang to explain his country’s actions after Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the self-governing island last week, reports dpa news agency.
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence said late Wednesday that its armed forces will flexibly adjust their stance in accordance with threats posed by the enemy and the New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was on Friday detained from outside the party headquarters as she tried to lead a protest march towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence. Before getting detained, the Congress general secretary crossed the three-feet tall barricade by jump ing it. As she tried to move forward, she was stopped by the women regional Accordingcharacteristics.totheMinistry, as of 5 p.m. Wednesday, 10 Chinese navy warships and 36 warplanes were detected in the region surrounding Taiwan over the course of the day. Among them, 17 Chinese jet fighters crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, it said. Earlier, China had again threatened to take Taiwan by military means if “Wenecessary.willwork with the greatest sincerity and exert our utmost efforts to achieve peaceful reunifi cation,” it said in a white paper on the Taiwan issue published by the Chinese government on Wednesday “Butmorning.wewill not renounce the use of force, and we reserve the option of taking all necessary measures.” China has repeatedly made similar threats regarding Taiwan in the past. “We want to make it clear here that the people of Taiwan hope to see peace. We don’t provoke, We don’t escalate conflicts. Taiwan will never retreat when we defend sovereignty and national security,” Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday afternoon at a meeting of her Democratic Progressive Party The(DPP).Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), Taiwan’s government agency on policy dealings with Beijing, said that the white paper conveyed false police personnel and subsequently the Congress General Secretary sat in the middle of the road in protest. Priyanka Gandhi, who resisted her detention jostling with cops for 20 minutes, was lifted, dragged, shoved into a police car and taken away. Apart from Priyanka Gandhi, several party leaders, including Sachin Pilot, have been detained by the police. statements. The MAC clarified that the fact of the status quo is that Taiwan insists that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are not subordinate to each other and Taiwan rejects the model of “One Country, Two Systems” that Beijing used to bring Hong Kong back under its control. The Council urged Beijing to ac knowledge Taiwan’s constitutional system, which upholds democracy and freedom, and urged it further not to violate Taiwan’s sovereignty. The Council also called on dem ocratic partners in the world to continue to support Taiwan. The Chinese leadership rejects official contact by other countries with Taiwan because it regards the island as part of its territory. Taiwan, on the other hand, has long seen itself as independent.
sincerity and exert our utmost efforts to achieve peaceful reuni fication,” dpa news agency quoted a white paper on the Taiwan issue published by the Chinese govern ment as saying. “But we will not renounce the use of force, and we reserve the option of taking all necessary measures. Use of force would be the last resort taken under compelling circum stances. We will only be forced to take drastic measures to respond to the provocation of separatist elements or external forces should they ever cross our red lines. “Let there be no doubt, we will tolerate no foreign interference in Taiwan, we will thwart any attempt to divide our country, and we will combine as a mighty force for national reunification and “Therejuvenation.historic goal of reuniting our motherland must be realized and will be realised,” it said. China has repeatedly made similar threats regarding Taiwan in the past. The latest tensions were triggered last week by a visit to Taipei by Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, who travelled there despite Beijing’s fierce opposition. In response, China launched war games including live-fire drills in six maritime areas around Taiwan. The Chinese leadership rejects such official contact by other countries with Taiwan because it regards the island as part of its territory. Taiwan, on the other hand, has long seen itself as independent.
Seoul, Aug 10 (IANS): North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party (WPK) sent a formal message to the Communist Party of China denouncing US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit Taipei, Aug 11 (IANS): Taiwan’s main opposition party has sent a delegation to China despite ongoing tensions prompted by military drills by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the region. The delegation led by Andrew Hsia, vice chairman of Taiwan’s opposi tion Kuomintang (KMT), left for a visit to China on Wednesday, reports dpa news agency. to Taiwan last week as a “shameless provocation”, Pyongyang’s state media reported Wednesday. In the “solidarity letter” sent to the party’s central committee the According to the KMT, it was a long-planned trip to meet Taiwanese businessmen and some nationals studying or living in China, pri marily in the south-eastern coastal provinces, such as Fujian and Zhejiang, as well as the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong Province. Appointments in Beijing are not Inplanned.China, the required quarantine
To understand the significance of UPI, consider this: India accounted for the largest number of worldwide digital transactions in 2021 at a whopping 48 billion, a number that is nearly three times bigger than China’s 18 billion, and is at least six times bigger than the transactions of the US, Canada, the UK, France and Germany combined. Voices in the US are saying that we must learn from India which is leapfrogging into the future. Again, Aatmanirbharta at work. The above is not to suggest that everything is rosy. India faces mon umental challenges with regard to eradication of poverty, job creation and investment in health/education/ skills of its vast population. But the lessons are clear: India is sui generis and it is only an “Indian” model that will work for India and Indians. Hence, the capital importance of Aatmanirbharta. After all, as we have seen above, ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ is not just good for India, but also for the world at large. (Dr Mohan Kumar is a former Indian Ambassador who is a full-time academic now. The views expressed are personal)
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The examples of two major films competing against each other are aplenty over the years: ‘Bajirao Mastani’ and ‘Dilwale’, ‘Aitraaz’ and ‘Veer Zaara’, ‘Taare Zameen Par’ and ‘Welcome’, ‘Lagaan’ and ‘Gadar: Ek Prem Katha’, ‘Dil’ and ‘Ghayal’, and many more similar instances. Like others, even the major stars deliver a flop from time to time and the eternal fact remains that it is the film in toto that works, and not because who it stars. The greatest examples in the history of Hindi cinema, to my knowledge, are ‘Sholay’ and ‘Jai Santoshi Maa’, released on the same day, August 15, 1975. Both went on to become blockbusters. The producer of ‘Jai Santoshi Maa’ even went on to become the highest income-tax payer on record for that financial Inyear.such instances where you have films of two top stars, or two renowned makers, releasing on the same day, sometimes both films work and otherwise, one does better than the other. It is the moviegoer who decides finally, not missing the film that interests him more. That may make the difference between the opening collections of one film over the other, but that is not the ultimate. The collections of ‘Jai Santoshi Maa’ were better than ‘Sholay’ initially and so was its acceptance. That is how the film business works and that is how people show their preferences. Of course, the film industry has a sadistic trait and it prevails univer sally, among producers, directors, actors, and down the line. When a film is released on a Friday and flops, the rest of the clan silently rejoices Itcelebrates.andisavicious circle. One who celebrates the other’s flop is at the receiving end when his film is released. Yet, they are all friends on the rest of the days. It has no logic, Thereally.worst is what is happening now when two films of major artistes are due to be released on August 11. It has brought to the fore the indus try’s pettiness. Opposing groups have been formed on the social media, bots are at work, especially on Twitter, where two camps, one for ‘Raksha Bandhan’ and the other for ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’, are busy running down one film or the other. It is a no-holds-barred slugfest and even getting personal. Shouldn’t they be promoting only the film of their own master, instead? But that is the name of the game. Make the other guy look small so you may look better! Both the stars, Aamir Khan and Akshay Kumar, have been in the industry since the last century, delivering films on regular intervals (Akshay’s intervals are shorter, though) and have survived so far. Will bad mouthing each other help their films? The campaign on social media is about why people should not watch the other actor’s film. In the case of ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’, the Aamir Khan film, the appeal (if you may call it that) is to boycott his film be cause he’s anti-national! Aamir Khan promoters call Akshay anti-Hindu because in one of his films, ‘OMG: Oh My God’, it is suggested that milk must not be wasted by pouring it on a deity, and, instead, should be used to nourish the poor and the hungry. In return, Aamir Khan is being accused of doing an anti-Hindu film, ‘PK’! Ironically, both the films were hits. But those who use social media should know that Akshay and Aamir play the roles they are assigned. They cannot be blamed for the characters and the lines written by others for them. There are other issues, like most topics discussed on Aamir Khan’s popular television serial, ‘Satyamev Jayate’, played with the religious sentiments of the masses. Besides that, Aamir’s Turkey visit and meeting the country’s ‘anti-India President’ is held against him and the claim that his film ‘Dangal’ did a business of Rs 1,100 crore is brand ed as money laundering. Netizens are letting their imaginations fly with the worst possible ideas! It is an open secret that actors and filmmakers engage people to promote their cause. That is to say, basically, to lie and spread negative stuff about other stars. The problem with such brigades is that they are not guided as to how to go about their job. You have read one post, you have read them all. The same matter, same fonts and same lack of grammar. And, to add to that, some get so worked up that they start using the filthiest foul words. Is that how the stars want to be represented on social media? The film industry as a whole, and the stars in particular, are not really enjoying people’s support anymore, let alone having a fan following. Idolising a star is a thing of the past. Sad that the stars have to manip ulate vulnerable reporters or pay publications for their promotion. You know, we have a generation of reporters who go to cover a star’s event more to click selfies with him/ her than to do their job! Recently, we have seen big-star films flop in a row, the same stars to see whose films the crowds would throng on the very first day. Akashy Kumar, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan -- all haved failed to work the same magic. Why do the stars and the producers resort to publishing wrong, inflated collection figures even if the film is not doing well? I think that is because they are not in touch with the sentiments of the masses anymore. And they fail to stand by their own tribe in the time of need. People have seen through this and are losing respect for the stars they loved. Take the case of Sushant Singh Rajput or that of Kangna Ranaut. One is dead now and Kangana not only lost her property but also a booming career. Both had the sympathies of the people all around. Only their fellow film folk, especially the stars, let them down by not standing by them! You think your film will run by running down the other film? If you aren’t promoting your own film so that it draws an audience, you are wasting time running down the other’s film! Prediction is a risky business when it comes to films. But that is what I have done all my working life. So here, if any of the two films gets a better opening, ‘Lal Singh Chaddha’ will be it. Boycott or not. (Disclaimer: Miscreants, morchas and stoning cinema theatres have not been taken into account.)| A fan never questions his favourite star’s background. He puts him on a pedestal. What the stars, playing their games on social media, are doing, is showing their true colours, their background, education and upbringing. This may well raise the question: What if they had not become stars?
and by 2030 achieving non-fossil fuel energy capacity of 500 GW, 50% energy requirements from renewable sources. Expert analyses suggests that to meet Australia’s net-zero goals, variable renewable energy capacity must be enhanced nine-fold by 2050. This implies doubling Australia’s renewables capacity every decade. The Albanese gov ernment recently set up Australia’s first offshore wind zone and is close to enshrining an emissions target through legislation. All these devel opments aim at more investmentson net-zero technologies. But there is a deficiency in matters related to policy decisions which need to be addressed. Energy rules must include emis sions reduction In this regard it is noteworthy that the Australian Energy Market Commission, responsible for the making of the rules for the electric ity and gas market, must pay heed to the national energy objectives to guide the formation of these rules. This is pertinent because the exclusion of emissions from the objectives had implications because it meant the commission did not have to consider the long-term consequences of such rules it set on climate without paying attention to emission reduction target. The objectives of the commission mostly catered to the price, quality, safety, reliability and security of energy. It clearly shows some investment decisions by the commission were based on short-term economic grounds. On the contrary, other organizations and institutions worldwide with similar objectives include sustainability objectives in electricity laws. For example, one of the main objectives of the United Kingdom’s Electricity Act 1989 mandates officials to protect the interests of existing and future consumers. The first priority is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electricity supply. While the traditional principles of efficiency and reliability are even now essen tial to energy systems, the energy crisis that is conspicuous by its presence shows there is an urgency to invest in technologies that will pave the way to reach net-zero goals as well as ensure future energy security. However while making a transition towards newer clean technologies, the society’s values and aspirations must also be taken into major consideration.
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By VINOD MIRANI On Friday, August 11, two big films will hit the cinemas simultaneously: Akshay Kumar’s ‘Raksha Bandhan’ and Aamir Khan’s ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’. This of course won’t be the first time that two such films will compete with each other or, to put it other wise, vie for the major share of the box office. Earlier, when such an occasion occurred, the makers of the two films, though each wished for the success of his own film, were never known to badmouth each other or their films. The rivalry was never personal and the Hindi adage always worked: Sabka bhala ho lekin mera jyada ho (Let everyone benefit, but may I do a little better).
Whilewere. on the subject of the imagery on display on ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’, on a lighter note, don’t miss out a CGI-enabled cameo of Shah Rukh Khan learning his trademark dance steps from Laal Singh -- a throwback to the ‘Forrest Gump’ scene where Elvis Presley masters his iconic pelvic thrusts by watching the Tom Hanks character. There’s also a cameo of Dawood Ibrahim (played by Vijay Maurya, now in the news for his Lalu Prasad Yadav-inspired on-screen character in ‘Rangbaaz 3’) asking for a drink from Rupa, Kareena’s character, at a party thrown by her gangster lover. No number of trolls will be able to erase memorable vignettes such as these from a movie they have wronged.
It was in May 2020 that Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the clarion call for a Bharat that was ‘Aatmanirbhar’. It is important to clarify what this meant and what it did Whilenot.a rough translation of the word is no doubt ‘self-reliant’, it is nevertheless not the kind of self-reliance that India arguably believed and practiced in the early years of its Independence up until the seventies and eighties. It is easy to state what it is not. It is certainly not autarchy; it is certainly not inward-looking; and it is most certainly not stopping imports and making every product at home. It may be more prudent to think of ‘Aatmanirbharta’ as Self-Reliance 2.0 In this framework of Self-Reliance 2.0, the PM clarified that rather than being self-centred, India will open up even more to the world outside, guided by its motto: ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’, or our Earth is just one Modifamily.went on to say that Aatmanirbharta will stand on five pillars: Economy, infrastructure, technology, demography and de mand. The PM explained the raison d’etre of Aatmanirbharta by saying that this should prepare India for participation in global supply chains and that this is a battle India cannot afford to lose. There is little doubt that the global Covid-19 pandemic played a significant role in India’s push for Self-Reliance 2.0. Take the simple example of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) and N-95 masks. At the beginning of the pandemic, India was not making any N-95 masks. Today, India manufactures at least 200,000 N-95 masks a day, if not more. Even more impressive is India’s own record of vaccinating its mammoth population. When Covid emerged in 2020, almost no one believed India could ever fully vac cinate its population and that such an exercise would take years. Yet, in July 2022, about 18 months after the first vaccination, India completed two billion doses of vaccines for its citizens. The story of how this was achieved is worthy of a case study, which will cover vital issues such as public-private partnership, Centrestate cooperation and not to forget, building awareness among citizens and getting their participation willingly in this exercise. Indeed, the WHO and others have praised India and the best practices here will be emulated the world over. Proving that Self-Reliance 2.0 is not just for Indians, the country also exported a large number of vaccines and PPE kits to countries all over the world. The latest statistics from the MEA website talks of 240 million (approx) vaccines which have been delivered to 101 countries, including developed, developing and least-developed nations. The story of India being the pharmacy of the world is too well known to bear any repetition here. All of this is real Aatmanirbharta at work. The Co-WIN platform that India used for administering vaccines to its mammoth population was remarkable. Co-WIN is essentially a cloud-based IT solution for planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating Covid vaccination in ByIndia.July 2021, India decided to make this open platform available to all countries for their use. In the CoWIN global conclave organised in July 2021, as many as 142 countries expressed interest in adopting it. Again, this is Aatmanirbharta at Thework.war in Ukraine has had a profound impact not just in Europe, but more importantly for developing and least-developed countries. Specifically, the war has impacted food, energy and commodity prices adversely. Wheat shortage in partic ular is expected to affect Africa and the Middle-East quite significantly. At a time like this, it is comforting to know that India’s position when it comes to food security for its huge population is satisfactory. This is yet another manifestation of Self-Reliance 2.0. Indeed, not only was India able to give away foodgrains and lentils to 800 million of its citizens as part of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana, India was also able to carry out modest exports of food-grains to low income countries that needed it. Again, Aatmanirbharta at work. Yet another amazing success story of Aatmanirbharta is the case of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) which is a thatcentralisedgovernment-backeddigitalpaymentgatewayiswidelypopularinIndia.
It is a sad commentary on the divisive times we live in that films get trolled, and the patri otism of their makers questioned, even before they are released. There used to be an adage, ‘Don’t let conclusions jump on you’, and nowhere has it been more appropri ate than in the troll army’s response to ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’. People have gone ahead and delivered their own judgments on the film weeks before its release, causing the voices of sanity, such as the IANS columnist Vinod Mirani, and then model and actor Milind Soman, who has urged the trolls in an interview with IANS to first watch the film and then jump on to conclusions, to speak up. It is too early to say how ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ will be hurt by or benefit from the negativism surrounding it -- its advance booking figures, ac cording to trade analysts, have been more than double of its opposition, Akshay Kumar’s ‘Raksha Bandhan’. But, without doubt, it is a love letter to India. And the supporters of the present political dispensation should be pleased by the occasions in contemporary history and the imagery the film chooses to play up. It start with a celebration of the end of the Emergency, it shows without airbrushing reality the destruction of the Golden Temple during Operation Blue Star, it portrays with heartfelt sincerity the tragedy that befell the ordinary Sikhs because of the riots unleashed by the goon brigade of the Congress in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s Theassassination.pathosof the scene where Mona Singh, who plays Aamir’s on-screen mother cuts off his hair so that the anti-Sikh rioteers do not target him, will make even the eyes of hardened trolls well up with tears. The film even harks back to L.K. Advani’s Ram Rath Yatra without meant it!). How better can India be celebrated without anyone breaking into patriotic speeches? The trolls have now picked on the segment where, during the Kargil War, Laal Singh Chaddha saves a Pakistani soldier, Mohammad Paaji, played by Manav Vij (last seen as Mohammad Ghori in ‘Samrat Prithviraj’). How can an Indian soldier save his Pakistani enemy? The trolls obviously have not idea of the codes of honour at play even on the battlefield. And then, horror of horrors, the same soldier advises Laal Singh and his wartime comrade Bala, played by Naga Chaitanya, about how to make their ‘chaddi-baniyan’ company into a successful business. But then, the same Pakistani makes the point, and it should gladden any ‘deshbhakt’, that he had been fed lies by his superiors about how bad the ‘kaffirs’ rushing into a political judgment. There’s, in fact, a lighter moment in this scene where the Kareena Kapoor character, who turns into a Monica Bedi-type gangster’s moll later, tells Aamir’s Laal Singh Chaddha jokingly, “Iska naam bhi Lal hai (His name is also Lal).” They both had gone to see the Yatra come to Delhi from their alma mater, Hindu College. Aamir also celebrates the Swachh Bharat Campaign. And the backdrop of the scene where Laal Singh runs across Varanasi is dominated by an image of the holy city’s representa tive in Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ draws to an end, images of the beauty of India -- from the glory of the Ganges as seen from Varanasi to Jaisalmer’s ‘night sky with diamonds’ (not of course in the way The Beatles
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Cabinet approves signing of ‘Audio Visual Co-Production Treaty’ between India, Australia ties with Australia, lead to exchange of art and culture, showcase the soft power of our country and lead to generation of employment among artistic, technical as well as non-technical personnel engaged in audio visual co-production, includ ing production and post production work.
Dharamsala, Aug 5 (IANS): Amid the rising tension between Russia and Ukraine, a Russia-origin Israeli has tied the knot in Hindu traditions with his Ukrainian girlfriend in this Himachal Pradesh hill town that is the abode of Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai Lama. Russian national Sergei Novikov, who has been staying here for over a year, married his Ukrainian girlfriend Elona Bramoka in a traditional Hindu ceremony this Wearingweek. a red and gold lehenga, Elona solemnized marriage with Sergei, who was dressed in a ma roon kurta-pyjama and Nehru jacket at a Hindu temple at Kharota village near here. The couple has been living in Dharamkot village, known as mini Tel Aviv, for over a year. At the wedding, the couple had local guests and friend from abroad, who were dancing to local folk music and relished a Kangri Dham (local food). Dharamsala -- the political, cultural and spiritual hub of the Tibetan diaspora -- in Kangra district sup ports around 16,000 exiled Tibetans and an equal number of Indians.
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New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) Addressing the nation for the ninth time from the historic ramparts of Red Fort on the occasion of Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a ‘change in the mentality’ towards the woman. PM Modi said the respect for women is an important pillar of India’s growth and stressed the need to extend support to ‘Nari Shakti’ and appealed to change the mentality
Pradesh police. The competition was tough but I managed to win.” Earlier also, Gagan had tried his luck but could not succeed. In the World Police Games in 2017 in Los Angeles, he was ranked fourth. In the same game in 2019 in China, he bagged the fifth place. Gagan had found himself just a few steps away from the Thesuccess.gamessaw participation of 1,000 players from around 70 countries. Over 150 badminton players from 18 countries took part in the games. To convert his defeat into success, Gagan started practicing for four hours a day (two hours in the morn ing, and another 120 minutes in the evening). In 2019, Gagan sought his posting in Noida from Moradabad as there were not many coaching centres. After shifting to Noida, he was stationed in Civil Lines from where he used to go to a stadium in Delhi for training but that took a backseat during the Covid pandemic as the stadium was closed. He then towards women in everyday life. “I have one request for every Indian. Can we change the mentality towards our women in everyday life. Pride of Nari Shakti will play a vital role in fulfilling the dreams of India. Respect for women is an important pillar for India’s growth. We need to support our Nari Shakti”, said PM HeModi.added, “A distortion has crept in our conduct and we at times insult began attending coaching classes in Sector 104, Noida, without letting his training hinder his professional Withcommitments.anever-say-die attitude and consistent hard work, he finally tasted success. Gagan was accorded a warm welcome by the Gautam Budh Nagar Police as he returned to Noida. He was brought to Civil Lines in a flower-decked car where the police officers felicitated and congratulated Noidahim. Police Commissioner Alok Kumar Singh congratulated Gagan and recommended his name for DGP Disc award. “Gautam Budh Nagar Police is proud of Gagan. We will make every pos sible effort that Gagan is provided with all facilities he requires by the police commissionerate. It’s a proud moment for the Gautam Buddha police and we will encourage all the talented men in uniform and extend all possible cooperation to assist them moving forward,” Singh told IANS. women. Can we take a pledge to get rid of this in our behaviour.” PM Modi urged the people to take a pledge to get rid of everything that humiliates women in everyday life. “It is important that in speech and conduct, we do nothing that lowers the dignity of women”, said PM Modi in his speech. Modi said, “The more opportunities we give to women and to our daughters, the more we will reap the benefits from their contribution.” Lauding the women of the country for coming at the forefront in varied sectors from sports to the military, PM Modi said, “In the coming 25 years, I see a large contribution of the women of the country. I urge everyone to ensure the further empowerment of women”. “Be it education or science, women of the country are at top...Be it sports or battlefield, India’s women are stepping forward with a new capa bility and confidence. I see immense contribution by women in 25 years to come, much more than that in the 75-yr journey.
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Belagavi (Karnataka), Aug 8 (IANS): After a leopard was sighted in Belagavi city, 11 schools were shut on Monday and authorities from the forest and police departments continued their search operation. Locals had spotted a leopard in the Golf Grounds near Club Road on Sunday. There was an incident
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Leopard seen in K’taka city, holiday declared for schools As Jharkhand’s tussar spins its web globally, watch out for ‘ahimsa silk’ Noida, Aug 6 (IANS): A constable posted with Noida Police has brought laurels to the country by winning Bronze medal in Badminton at the World Police and Fire Games in Netherlands’ Rotterdam. Gagan Kumar Paswan’s sporting achievement gave the country another reason to cheer amid the Indian athletes’ remarkable performance at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in ABirmingham.nativeofBihar, Gagan won the medal in the Doubles event of Badminton along with another Indian-origin cop Sunil Dahiya who works with the New Zealand police. Speaking to IANS, Gagan said: “This journey has not been easy... I have been following badminton since the age of seven. My father was stationed in Moradabad PAC. Since that time, I used to watch people practicing and wished to try my hands too. “The games were organised in Rotterdam from July 22-31 and I participated on behalf of Uttar
Bijnor (Uttar Pradesh), Aug 7 (IANS): A six-month-old baby girl, who was sleeping with her mother, has been dragged away by a leopard in a village in Bijnor’s Noorpur Arab village. The girl’s mother, Firoza, did not find the baby when she woke up in the morning. Najibabad divisional forest officer Manoj Shukla said, “Pug marks and the blood drops suggest it was a leopardess along with its cub that took away the infant. “We have been conducting combing operation in the area, but have not been able to trace the child yet.
The Central Silk Board, Jharkhand Silk Textile and Handicraft Development Corporation and Jharkhand State Khadi Board are running separate projects for the production of tussar silk. Indravati Tiriya, a resident of Sudurvarti village in Majhgaon, after taking technical training in silk production under project ‘Silk’ run by JSLPS, is a successful tussar “Iproducer.neverthought that tussar would prove to be so beneficial for me,” Amravati says. “I got training from the government. Last year, our family earned Rs 1,69,000,” Amravati added. Silk messenger Jogen Munda, a resident of Maranghatu of Kuchai, said, “Cultivation of tussar has given a new shine to our life.” A large number of women are involved in tussar production. After working for just two months, thou sands of families are earning 50,000 to 60,000 per year. Many people, especially Jains avoid using silk fabrics as worms are killed during its making. Because of this reason many areas of Jharkhand are now producing “ahimsa silk”. For preparing this silk, instead of killing the worms inside the cocoon, it is allowed to fly in a natural way. After that the thread is prepared from the leftover cocoon. For the past many years, the ‘ahimsa silk’ is being produced in Dumka, Ranchi, among other places.a of leopard attack on a labourer in Jadhavnagar on Friday. Considering the risks involved, the education department declared a holiday for the schools located in surrounding areas of the Golf Grounds. Meanwhile, the sleuths from the forest and police department took up a joint operation to catch the leopard before it strikes another person. The people have been asked to be vigilant during their move ments and they have been directed not to send their children outside. 65-year-old Shanta, the mother of the labourer Siddarayi Mirajkar, who was attacked by a leopard, died of heart attack when she heard the news of attack. The mother thought that her son died, but the victim managed to escape the attack and survived after the medical treatment. The move ment of leopard have been captured by CCTV and fear has gripped the local people. The people of Heggadadevanakote city in Mysuru district of south Karnataka also have been facing a similar problem as two leopards were seen prowling in the lanes of the city. They attacked livestock and people feared to come out of their houses. The forest department has taken up the operation to catch the prowling leopards there.
Ranchi, Aug 7 (IANS): Raksha Bandhan, the festival of tying silk thread will be celebrated on August 11-12, but do you know how it is made and from where it comes? You will get the suitable answer to these questions in Jharkhand as 76.4 per cent of the country’s tussar silk is produced in the state. Of the 3.5 lakh people in the country engaged in the farming, production and trade of tussar silk, a total of 2.2 lakh are from Jharkhand. The climate of the state is favourable for the breeding of the silkworm. For breeding purposes, usually 30 degrees Celsius temperature is required and for around 175-180 days in a year, most parts of the state have that temperature only. Arjun, Asan and Sal trees are considered most suitable for the production of Tasar silkworms and these trees are in abundance in Jharkhand. In the past two decades, the state’s Kuchai silk has made its mark across the world, especially in France, Germany and Japan. Most of the people of the state involved in production of the silk get the maximum technical support from the Central Silk Board. Last week, while laying the foun dation stone for the World Trade Centre, Chief Minister Hamant Soren expressed hope that the sheen of Jharkhand silk will reach far and Sericulturewide. scientist R.B. Sinha said that after Jharkhand became a separate state, silk production increased from 23 to 25 times. Over 2,000 metric tonnes of silk is produced here. As per the figures provided by the Central government in Parliament, in 2017-18 Jharkhand produced 2,217 metric tonnes of silk; in 2018-19 it was 2372 metric tonnes and in 2019-20 2399 metric tonnes were Theproduced.Covid pandemic impacted silk production in the past two years with the state producing 2,185 metric tonnes in 2021 and 1,046 metric tonnes in 2021-22. The special thing about silk pro duced in Jharkhand is that it is 100 per cent natural. Any form of chemi cal is not used in its production. Most of the silk is produced in Saraikela, Kharsawan, West Singhbhum districts of the state. In the first phase, tussar worms are released on Arjuna and Sal trees and then in the second phase, at a scheduled time, these worms form cocoons and in the third phase, threads are extracted by processing the Tussarcocoons.cultivation has made more than two lakh people in tribal areas in the state ‘aatmanirbhar’ (self dependent) to an extent. Since 2017 till now, Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotional society (JSLPS), run under the Department of Rural Development, has connected about 18,000 families in 20 blocks of eight districts with scientific cultivation of silk.
Sydney, Aug 3 (IANS) A new prescribing workflow guideline that aims to allow eligible patients to have quick access to Covid antiviral oral treatments has been rolled out in TheAustralia.guideline, released on Wednesday by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), the country's professional medical body, carried out suit ability assessments of Covid oral treatments in advance of a patient testing positive for the virus. "This is the first time guidelines have been released on how to do pre-emptory assessments for these treatments," said RACGP President Karen Price.
The federal government has ordered 450,000 doses, which are based on a smallpox vaccine, from the Danish pharmaceutical company Bavarian AustralianNordic.
stationsshortage.by 2030. As part of the proposal, the Greens would create a job-for-job guarantee for coal workers which would be supported by a A$10 billion ($7 billion) investment into renewable energy generation and storage. “Our bill would legislate an end date for coal burning and mining and set a more urgent timeline to close our three coal plants, with a just transi tion for workers and communities,” added Read. On August 12, Australia’s energy ministers voted to make emissions reduction a key national energy goal. “It (The energy goal) sends a very clear direction to our energy market operators, that they must include emissions reductions in the work that they do,” said federal Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris EarlierBowen.this month the federal government also gave the greenlight for the nation’s first offshore wind power zone off the coast of Victoria, an indication of a ramping up of renewable projects in the state.
Reserve Bank of Australia proposes centralised digital currency
Canberra, Aug 9 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) on announced that it has embarked on a project to explore the potential uses for a federally backed digital Thecurrency.RBAsaid that, in collaboration with the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC), it would run a year-long, limited-scale trial of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), reports Xinhua news "Theagency.Bank and the DFCRC will select a range of different use cases to participate in the pilot, based on their potential to provide insights into the possible benefits of a CBDC," said the AndreasRBA.Furche, CEO of the DFCRC, said the technology for a digital currency already existed and rather the project was about understanding how a CBDC could help Australia. "The key research questions now are what economic benefits a CBDC could enable, and how it could be designed to maximize those bene fits," he said. Unlike traditional digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, a CBDC would be stabilized and regulated by the government.
Sydney, Aug 5 (IANS) Health author ities in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) will begin the nation's first rollout of monkeypox vaccination on August 8 amid a spike in the number of cases. As of Friday, Australia had 58 confirmed monkeypox cases, 56 of whom caught the virus overseas, and 33 were registered in NSW, reports Xinhua news agency. In response to the escalating crisis, NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said people in high-risk groups, including gay and bisexual men, sex workers and those who are HIV-positive, would be eligible for the first 5,500 doses. Those doses are among a shipment of 22,000 due to arrive in Australia in the coming days with another 30,000 allocated for NSW next month and then hundreds of thou sands more next year.
It identified a lack of opportunities for teachers to be “recognised and remunerated for their expertise”. The higher education sector has proposed having student teachers do more of their training on the job under a paid “degree apprenticeship programme” to help address the
Melbourne, Aug 10 (IANS) Authorities in Australia's Victoria state have announced that free masks will be handed out to the community in an effort to curb the spread of Everyweeks,acrosssitesmunitymasksthanAccordingCovid-19.totheannouncement,3millionfreeN95andKN95wouldbegiventothecomthroughstate-runtestingandcommunityhealthservicesthestatethenextfourtosixreportsXinhuanewsagency.personthatpresentsfor either a free rapid antigen or PCR test will receive one box of 10 N95 masks, along with instructions on how best to wear them to reduce "Wearingtransmission.amask, staying up to date with your vaccinations and ensuring indoor areas are well ventilated are all steps Victorians and businesses can take to manage their own Covid-19 risk this winter and into the future," the state's Minister for Health Mary-Anne Thomas. The policy was well received by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), which represents the nation's general RACGPpractitioners.President Karen Price said the announcement is an indication that the Victoria government is listening to medical experts. "The expert advice is clear that masks limit community transmis sion of Covid-19 and other respira tory illnesses including influenza," she said. "I know that wearing a mask isn't fun and can be slightly uncomfort able but remember that taking this small step can help drive down Covid-19 numbers across Victoria." The state reported 5,898 cases and 52 deaths to the virus in the past 24 hours till 10 a.m. Wednesday, some of which came from historical data over the last week. Since the beginning of the pandem ic, 4,844 people have died in the state, the highest death toll of any Australian state or territory. The RACGP has been urging states across the nation to remain vigilant and fight what it has termed "Covid complacency", especially as many health mandates have been removed.
Canberra, Aug 10 (IANS) The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), the country's largest retail bank, posted a cash net profit after tax of A$9.595 billion ($6 billion) in its end of financial year results released on Wednesday. The 11 per cent jump in profits has represented the bank's best year in net terms since 2017, when the bank posted over A$9.881 billion in profits, reports Xinhua news agency. It also showed a recovery from the pandemic as profits slumped across 2020 and 2021. The bank's margins were predominated by a jump in business and mortgage lending which grew by 13.6 per cent and 7.4 per cent, CBArespectively.CEOMatt Comyn said the results reflected operational improvements to the bank despite the ongoing challenging economic "Weenvironment.havefocused on strengthening our relationships with our cus tomers, which resulted in further growth in our deposit and lending volumes to household and business customers," Comyn said. Commenting on the outlook of the national economy, he said house holds and businesses were well positioned but the high inflation and a rapidly increasing cash rate have brought some impacts.
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Canberra, Aug 8 (IANS): Australian federal Education Minister Jason Clare on Monday called for a meeting with his state and territory counterparts to address a nation wide teacher shortage exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. According to a government mod elling, the demand for secondary school teachers in Australia will
Vice President Bruce Willett said other countries could also benefit from this guideline through out the pandemic, and the RACGP is encouraging all practices to take full advantage of the resource. "With this third wave, we're now seeing the peak number of cases of Covid for the whole of the pandem ic," Willett added. "This is a document that practices can use to make the way they deal with patients more efficient and get those prescriptions out safely and quickly," Willett said
Health Minister Mark Butler said the country had respond ed early to the outbreak, by securing vaccines "in a time of limited supply and significant global demand". "This is an important step towards minimizing the risk and impact of any further monkeypox outbreaks in Australia," he said. Chant, however, has warned that the vaccines, although important for controlling the disease's spread, do not "provide complete protection from the virus". "We urge people to look out for symptoms, especially those who have recently travelled overseas in Britain, Europe and North America." Those symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, sweats and chills, coughing and sore throat. The disease, which usually lasts from two to four weeks, also often causes a painful rash that looks like blisters or pimples with the lesions evolving through stages before falling off.
The guideline resource covers the use and suitability of Lagevrio (molnupiravir) and Paxlovid (nir matrelvir plus ritonavir), the two Covid-antiviral medicines listed on the country's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), Xinhua news agency reported. Both medicines require a prescrip tion from a general practitioner (GP), physician or nurse who meets the prescribing requirements, and they cannot be dispensed prior to a positive Covid result. Under the new prescribing workflow, GPs need to identify and contact patients who may be eligible for these treatments and provide them with an at least 20-minutes phone consultation. It will help practitioners to assess an individual's eligibility for the medicines, determine the appro priate type and dosage of medicine, and avoid drug interactions. Price said the antivirals have to be taken within five days of symptom onset, and they become less effec tive the closer you get to day five. Identifying the eligibility earlier can ensure more patients get the treatments if they subsequently test positive for the virus. "The antiviral drugs prevent vulnerable patient groups, such as older people, those with serious underlying health conditions and the immunocompromised, from suffering severe effects from Covid and ending up in a hospital bed. So, we must enhance awareness of these treatments and ensure that more patients are assessed for eligibility before they contract RACGPCovid."
The three coal plants are currently scheduled to close as late as 2048. The Greens said this is at odds with projections made by the UN that tackling the climate crisis would require the closure of all coal power on Monday that the shortage is a “systemic issue” exacerbated by the Covid-19 “Decliningpandemic.numbers of new grad uate teachers, increasing demand from a growing student population and an ageing teacher and leader ship workforce are all contributing to teacher shortages,” it said. “The existing shortages have been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, with teachers working in a challenging environment and education systems and schools having had to innovate to manage illness and absences.”
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Canberra, Aug 15 (IANS): Australia’s environmentally forward political party, the Greens, is set to introduce a bill that would close the three remaining coal plants in the state of Victoria by 2030. The Energy Legislation Amendment Bill 2022, announced on Monday, would bring forward the timeline for the closure of the state’s remaining coal plants, reports Xinhua news “Theagency.writing is on the wall for Victoria’s brown coal plants which burn Australia’s most polluting coal,” said Victorian Greens acting climate outstrip supply by more than 4,000 over the next three years, reports Xinhua news agency. The Minister has called for the meet ing this week to tackle the shortage and work on a plan. “We have a teacher shortage right across the country,” Clare said. An issues paper released by the Department of Education said spokesperson Tim Read. “They’re old, unreliable and spew toxic pollution that is harming the health of local communities.” The Greens remain a minor party in Australian politics. However, a swing of voters in the nation’s May federal election has increased their influence.
Aus environmental party to introduce bill to close state coal plants by 2030 Aus state to hand out free masks to curb Covid spread
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Afghanistan has been facing extreme economic problems since the US government froze nearly $10 billion assets of the country’s central bank following the August 2021 researchers, the greater its “citation impact”, the Guardian reported. The US accounted for 24.9 per cent of the top 1 per cent most highly cited research studies, while UK research was third at 5.5 per cent. China published a yearly average of 407,181 scientific papers, pulling ahead of the US’s 293,434 journal articles and accounting for 23.4 per cent of the world’s research output, the report found. China accounted for a high to clear his throat. The White House issued a statement after the event, saying that the President tested negative for the coronavirus on Monday and Tuesday morning. Cough is one of the symptoms that those who experience post-Covid conditions commonly report, according to researchers. Fully vaccinated and twice boosted, Biden first tested positive for Covid-19 on July 21, leading to days of isolation and treatment at the White House before receiving a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry here. Besides providing a new batch of economic assistance to Nepal, both sides also reached several other agreements and understanding, the Ministry added. As Nepal is witnessing a crippling shortage of chemical fertiliser, China has agreed to provide it. Upon Nepal’s request, China has as sured that it will positively consider providing chemical fertiliser and to study the feasibility of establishing a chemical fertiliser plant in Nepal, said the Ministry. “The State Councillor agreed to assist Nepal’s agricultural sector. He also agreed to encourage Chinese investment in developing man ufacturing capacity of Nepal and enhance cooperation in the export of Nepali tea and traditional medicinal herbs,” the statement said, adding that Khadka and Wang decided to establish a joint mechanism for Covid-19 control in border ports. They also agreed to open RasuwaKyerung and Tatopani-Jangmu ports for two-way trade which was hit by the pandemic. news agency. The small town of Marhanets was worst hit, with 20 multi-storey buildings damaged including two schools, a dormitory and a cultural centre, Reznichenko said. Ten people were killed in the town and 11 others injured, seven of them seriously, he said. In another village close to Nikopol city, another woman died in her home as a result of the attack and a couple was injured. The two villages are on the north bank of the Dnipro River’s Kakhovka Onreservoir.thesouthern side less than 20 km away is the nuclear plant that has come under fire, sparking international safety fears. Ukraine and Russia both accuse each other of being behind the attacks.
Mrs Dowsons monitors Met Office heat warnings as a gauge of demand, after reaching there in June this year. The 22-year-old, who is a fourtime national gold medallist, was set to participate in the 19th FINA World Championships in Budapest. Akbar checked out of his hotel in Budapest, without informing his roommate, and never returned, Samaa TV reported. and has fortified its supply chain for when temperatures soar later this week. “We’re definitely prepared when it comes to heatwaves like this with drivers and vans and everything,” the spokeswoman said. However, members of one fam ily business are having to work “longer hours” to cope with the orders mounting from wholesale Juliacustomers.Lewis, of Chester-based L Lewis, said: “It’s just an escalation of getting busier, as people are running out of stocks and wanting more supply. “They’ve come to the stage where they need replenishing quicker. There’s more stock going and there’s more orders.” The Met Office has issued an amber heat warning running between Thursday and Sunday, which could see temperatures peak at 36 degrees Celsius across southern England and eastern SupermarketsWales.believe this will fuel demand even further, with Sainsbury’s forecasting a 120 per cent rise in sales of ice cream cones.
Kathmandu, Aug 11 (IANS): China has announced to provide an 800 million yuan ($181 million) aid to Nepal for this year. The announcement was made by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his meeting with his Nepal counterpar Narayan Khadka in Qingdao on Wednesday. Khadka is on a three-day visit to China at the invitation of Wang, who is also the State Councillor. The trip comes at a time during simmering tensions between China and Taiwan following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the self-governing island last week. During the meeting, Khadka reiterated Nepal’s unwavering commitment to ‘One China Policy’ and assured that the Nepali territory will not be allowed to be used for any activity against Beijing. In his address, Wang reiterated China’s continued and uncondition al support to Nepal’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integ rity and assured to support in the country’s development endeavours as per the priority of the govern ment in Kathmandu, according to and injured 13,” the head of the Dnipropetrovsk military administra tion Valentyn Reznichenko said in a Telegram post. Both of the affected areas are on the opposite bank of the Dnipro River to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant, which has been shelled several times in recent days, reports dpa thousands of people would lose their job with the closure of the schools.
The ports are the major trading zones between Nepal and China.
The two sides also agreed to utilise the Hilsa-Pulang port for one way trade which will take place as soon as the fresh wave of Covid-19 pan demic in Tibet is controlled. “In support of people being affected by disasters and natural calamities in different parts of Nepal, Wang announced to provide Nepal with 3 million yuan worth of disaster relief materials as per Nepal’s request. China will also provide Nepal with additional 2 million yuan worth of medical items and logistics,” the Ministry statement said. The State Councillor also announced that China will provide additional Covid-19 vaccines and pandemic related medical assistance as much as Nepal may require Wang announced that China would provide support to the establish ment of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cells (CAR T cells) manufacturing laboratory in Civil Service Hospital to treat blood cancer and provide necessary training to Nepali health Theprofessionals.CivilHospital was built by Chinese assistance. Wng further said that all the remaining Nepali students who wish to return to China can proceed for visa procedures, while fulfilling the health protocols, to resume their Bothstudies.sides agreed to form a bilateral technical committee to do necessary preparation towards the functioning of existing mechanism of NepalChina Joint Boundary Inspection NepalCommittee.andChina have some issues over boundary dispute in some places.
WORLD Islamabad, Aug 10 (IANS): Pakistans boxers Suleman Baloch and Nazeer Ullah Khan have gone missing in Birmingham after the conclusion of the Commonwealth Games, media reports said. The Pakistan Boxing Federation (PBF) is searching for the pugilists with the help of local authorities. Nazeer and Suleman’s travel docu ments are still in possession of PBF, Samaa TV reported. According to sources, the duo went missing from the airport before leaving for Pakistan, the report said. The Pakistan Olympic Association has formed a four-member commit tee to investigate the matter. “We will not allow these boxers to tarnish the name of the country at any cost. British Police will soon find them,” said POA Secretary General Mohammad Khalid Mahmood. It may be noted that heavywight boxer (86-92 kg) Nazeer was knocked out in the Round of 16,
London, Aug 11 (IANS): Ice cream makers have seen their sales double this week as the heatwave sweeping across Britain has fuelled a surge in demand. With the Meteorological Office issuing an extreme weather warning from Thursday onwards with highs above 30 degrees Celsius, supermarkets are gearing up for a mammoth weekend, reports dpa news However,agency.smaller businesses are already struggling to keep up, with at least one family-owned company while Suleman Baloch lost out in the Round of 32 in the light welterweight category (60-63.5 kg) during the recently-concluded Commonwealth Games.
Similarly, Waitrose ice cream buyer Joe Sharkey said its No 1 Colombian Coffee brand had proved a customer favourite over the heatwave.
Missile attack near Ukrainian nuke plant kills 11
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Taliban Accordingtakeover.totheUnicef, an estimat ed 3.7 million children are currently out-of-school in Afghanistan, 60 per cent of which are girls. proportion of research into materials science, chemistry, engineering and mathematics, while US researchers were more prolific in research into clinical medicine, basic life sciences and physics, the Guardian reported. The report was published on the day US President Joe Biden signed the Chips and Science Act, legislation that would authorise $200 billion in research funding over 10 years to make US scientific research more competitive with China. negative test results. He tested positive again on July 30 and had a mild cough but didn’t resume treatment.
Pakistan’s contingent for the Commonwealth Games consisted of five boxers and four officials. Earlier, Pakistani swimmer Faizan Akbar had gone missing in Hungary working longer hours to keep orders flowing. A spokeswoman for Mrs Dowsons Ice Cream said: “We’ve been really busy with orders... a week like this with the heatwave, I’d say they’ve definitely doubled” The manufacturer has seen visitors flocking to its farm shop, which it runs from Blackburn, Lancashire, along with a rise in demand from wholesale customers. “The ice-cream parlour on the site definitely gets busier on hotter days,” the spokeswoman continued “In terms of wholesale customers, you get a lot of customers calling last minute, saying ‘we’re really busy with the weather, can we place last-minute orders?’” Its traditional flavours have proven popular this week, but in a sign of Britons branching out into more experimental choices, so has its black cherry amaretto and peardrop.
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Kabul, Aug 11 (IANS): More than 400 private schools across Afghanistan have closed their doors due to various reasons, including econom ic problems, a local news outlet said in a report on Thursday. The TOLO News report citing Zabihullah Furqani, a member of the Union of Private Schools, said that many students gave up school due to poverty, while girls from grade six to 12 cannot attend classes under the current restriction, reports Xinhua news Zabihullahagency.Mujahid, chief spokes man of the Taliban-run adminis tration, has reportedly said that the restriction on girls attending schools is based on religious reasons. Earlier, the administration’s educa tion ministry said that the closure of girls schools above grade 6th is temporality and would resume within the framework of Sharia, or Islamic laws, in the future. TOLO News quoted Mohammad Daud, the former head of the Union of Private Schools, as saying that Tokyo, Aug 11 (IANS): China has overtaken the US as the world leader in both scientific research output and “high impact” studies, according to a report published by Japans science and technology ministry. The report, which was published by Japan’s National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTP) on Tuesday, found that China now publishes the highest number of scientific research papers yearly, followed by the US and Germany, the Guardian reported. The figures were based on yearly averages between 2018 and 2020, and drawn from data compiled by the analytics firm Clarivate. The Japanese NISTP report also found that Chinese research com prised 27.2 per cent of the world’s top 1 per cent most frequently cited Thepapers.number of citations a research paper receives is a commonly used metric in academia. The more times a study is cited in subsequent papers by other Washington, Aug 10 (IANS): US President Joe Biden coughed throughout his remarks at a bill-signing event outside the White Biden,House.who ended isolation on Sunday after testing negative for Covid-19 in a rebound case, halted the prepared speech multiple times behind the podium on the South Lawn, Xinhua news agency reported. “I’m going to take another sip of water,” he told the audience on Tuesday morning while struggling
Kiev, Aug 10 (IANS): At least 11 people were killed in missile attacks overnight in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region not far from the Russia-occupied Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant, the local military said on Wednesday. “A tragic night in the Nikopol area the Russian army killed 11 people
• Serve with mint chutney
• Half cup whole masoor daal • Half cup whole urad daal (black daal)Half cup rajma (red kidney beans) Three onion fine chopped 6-7 cloves of garlic grated One inch piece of ginger grated 3-4 fresh chillies chopped • 3-4 medium tomatoes
• Now the last step is to mix these spice mixture to your fully cooked daal (I normally add it into the pan full of daal and then simmer for 10 minutes)
Rising preference for Ready to Drink cocktails in India
In our childhood, my mother cooked it very often in a big handi (a big clay pot) which she will put it in hot tandoor (clay oven) overnight and by next morning it would be smooth delicious mixture of five different daal (lentils). That’s why we call it pachrangi daal (five lentils cooked INGREDIENTStogether)(for4-6people) Half cup chana daal STEP TWO (Garnish) INGREDIENTSOnetable spoon oil One tea spoon mustard seeds 1/4 tea spoon hing (aesfotida) Half tea spoon chilli powder (optional) 3-4 fresh chillies cut lengthwise (optional)
• Bring it to boil and then cover and simmer until tender and fully cooked (I normally use pressure cooker for fast cooking) In the meantime heat ghee in a big frying pan • Firstly put bay leaves and cumin seeds, now add chopped onions
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Japanese egg cold chain technology has been introduced in India in June 2022. The eggs are laid in a sterilized environment, machine washed, and disinfected with UV
• Once it’s starting to leave ghee on the sides, turn the heat off
Indian Cooking with Lata Modi
INGREDIENTS for 4-6 people
Hello friends, Today’s recipe is a new invention in our household. In school holidays, Iwanted to make some Indian snacks for kids but I didn’t have alot of fresh ingredients. When I opened mypantry, all I could find was besan, sooji, self-raising flourandsomemoongdal.Therefore, we had to make an interesting snack with the above ingredients. We were all surprised with the end product. Hopefully you will all like it too. We will name this snackmoong dal besan delight. So let’s get started.
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• Two bay leaves One tea spoon cumin seeds One tea spoon turmeric powderTwo tea spoon coriander powderTwo tea spoon cumin powder One tea spoon garam masala powder • Fresh chopped coriander leaves • Lemon juice (optional) METHODMix all the above daals in a mixingWashbowlit a few times, and soak overnight in enough water to cover all daals In the morning give it a rinse again and put it in a big saucepan pan with double the amount of water and salt to taste
STEP ONE • Wash and soak moong dal 5-6 hours or overnight • In the morning, grind dal into a smooth paste. Put it in a mixing bowl
• One cup buttermilk (or yoghurt)
Bacteria have a hard time getting inside a dry unwashed dirty egg. Washing eggs removes the bloom and washing eggs in cool water actually makes a vacuum, drawing unwanted bacteria inside even faster when kept at room temperature or under the sun. Here most people will argue that ‘eggs don’t get spoilt at room temperature- Yes they don’t but the quality sure deteriorates and as we all know it is best for human beings to eat fresh eggs for our health rather than not-rotten eggs. Post-washed eggs from a commercial washing plant need to be kept at a constant temperature only then the eggs are really fresh and safe for consumption. The main challenge is to make supermarkets and shopkeepers understand the importance of keeping eggs in the chiller at stores. Otherwise, all cold chain efforts will be wasted before they reach the consumers.” Why Japanese Tech? The average Japanese person eats around 320 eggs (Tamago) per year and we are very particular about the quality. Mitsuko Takahashi believes that the eggs in Japan are so fresh and safe that they can be eaten raw. This is why Japanese Cold Chain eggs are the best. With new tech nology, eggs are laid in a sterilized environment, are machine washed, and disinfected further with UV. Then the eggs go through rigorous quality testing to ensure that they adhere to a predefined standard. These steps ensure that all traces of bacteria are removed, and the eggs are safe for consumption and are transported via clean and hygienic cold reefer trucks. “The concept of cold chain eggs has been gaining traction in various countries, including India as it stops food waste and also ensures that eggs are more nourishing and freer of harmful bacteria. Once Indian consumers start to understand they need to eat hygienic and fresh eggs, it could be a game changer to advance India’s cold chain concept extending beyond just dairy, bever age, and ice creams. In June 2022, for the first time, we introduced the concept of cold chain logistics in the Indian egg market. It’s all set to take the industry by a storm as more brands realize the benefits. With temperature-controlled trans portation, producers can transport eggs over long distances without worrying about spoilage. Also, it’ll help preserve the nutritional value of the eggs. Moreover, proper hygiene standards will mean that consumers don’t have to worry about food poisoning or bacterial infections. That’ll likely make eggs more popular in the country and escalate sales further,” concludes Mitsuko Takahashi. survey respondents say that they learnt about it from friends and family, while 19 percentsay they heard about them from social media. 84 percent of the men surveyed confirmed drinking an RtD cocktail at least once a week while the same frequency was confirmed by 61 percent of the women. The report also highlights the most popular brands in this category. Bacardi emerges as the most popular brand in preference, and consumption and enjoys high awareness, followed by Magic Moments Electra and Bombay Sapphire Gin & Tonic. Ashish Gupta, Co-founder and CEO of Benori said, “Indian consumers today are ready to experiment and go beyond traditional alcoholic beverages and the RtD category especially is becoming quite popular across the board. Among young drinkers, there are those who are just beginning to consume alcohol and prefer the lower alcohol content and the variety in flavours of RtD over beer, while there are others that are more seasoned yet willing to explore and try new things. Among older drinkers, many choose RTDs over traditional drinks for a convenient drinking experience or when they are looking for beverages to enjoy casually and not consume hard liquor. The popularity of RTDs clearly demonstrates a need for low-alcohol beverages that offer innovative products and flavours.
It is a lower-strength alternative to spirits and millennials find it more convenient
• One cup yello moong dal (the one has no skin) • Half cup besan flour (gram flour) Half cup sooji (semolina) Three table spoon self raising flour
• Add Besan, sooji and self raising flour to the dal paste
• Fry the onions until really golden brown • Now add garlic ginger and fry with onions • Add chopped tomatoes, stir a little and now add all the other spices and fresh chillies
• Salt to taste • Half a tea spoon turmeric powderTwo tea spoon cumin powderOne big spoon oil Half cup toor daal
• Just add two table spoon water for the spices to be mixed together
Garnish with fresh chopped coriander leaves and if you like lemon juice, this is the time to add that Serve with hot chapatis it basmati rice. Enjoy
•choppedTwo table spoon ghee
PACHRANGI DAAL MRS. LATA MODI MOONG DAL AND BESAN STEAMED DELIGHT (in Idli mould)
• Pour all over the steamed delights (photo provided for reference)
•METHODIn a little frying pan heat oil
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• Add salt and spices. Use buttermilk to make a smooth •paste Now take a big saucepan, put one litre water and bring to •boil In the meantime take your Idli stand (if you don’t have Idli stand, you can steam it in a plate and then cut it in squares and serve) Grease Idli mould. Put little mixture on each mould, and steam it for 20 minutes
ByN. Lothungbeni Humtsoe Eggs are an excellent source of essential nutrients, including protein, selenium, zinc, phosphorus, and calcium. They’re affordable, versatile, and lip-smacking. Also, you can easily find them anywhere in the world. The Indian poultry market reached a value of Rs 1,708 Billion in 2021 and it is expected that the market will reach Rs 3,170 Billion by 2027, exhibiting a CAGR of 10.50 percent during Nevertheless,2022-2027.theIndian poultry industry has been plagued with hygiene and quality issues. Mitsuko Takahashi, Chief Operating Officer, Director, Ise-Suzuki Egg India Pvt. Ltd. says, “Eggs are often laid with manure, thus increasing the risk of diseases due to salmonella and other bacteria. Another major constraint affecting the growth of the poultry industry in India is the lack of basic infrastructure such as storage and transportation, including the cold chain. The good news is that Japanese tech innovations can transform the process of producing and transporting eggs in India and have already started doing so. The Japanese technology of cold chain eggs offers immense benefits and opens new possibilities for India’s poultry market.” Why Cold Chain Eggs In tropical weather, an eggs’ quality can quickly deteriorate unless it is stored at a low temperature. But why are eggs not transported in cold chains in the same way that dairy and poultry products are? According to Mitsuko, “Only un washed eggs have a longer shelf life at room temperature. The egg qual ity starts deteriorating the moment they are washed. Egg shells are porous, but nature gave eggs a micro membrane coating called “bloom” to keep potential baby chicks and their environment safe and clean. As the third largest alcoholic beverage market, India represents one of the most compelling spirits opportunities in the world. Within this, the alcoholic ready-to-drink (RtD) segment is experiencing high growth and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 10.3 percent between 2021 and 2026. Its popularity can be attributed to the convenience it offers, and it is a lower-strength alternative to spirits that are being driven by consumer desire for healthier alternatives but is stymied by low availability, finds a Benori Knowledge report and survey with users. In a survey with more than 1000 alcohol consumers, Benori Knowledge, a new-age provider of custom research and analytics solutions, finds that the RtD catego ry has sparked mass appeal, with 78 percent of survey respondents reporting having consumed the pre-mixed beverages. Nearly 55 percent say they prefer RTDs over spirits owing to their lower alcohol strength which makes it the ideal beverage to consume in social settings. Contrary to popular perception, 79 percent of its consumers are male and 21 percent are female. Interestingly, among the 22 percent of non-drinkers, there is a high awareness of RTD cocktails and they also expressed their desire to try them in the future. Awareness of RTD cocktails is primarily driven by word of mouth for most. 66% of
• Put mustard seeds, let them •crackle Now add hing and fresh chillies and chilli powder
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The Trade Promotion Council of India, in collaboration with the Australia India Business Council (AIBC), Australia India Business Enterprise- wholly owned commercial arm of the AIBC-organised a business focused The Australia India Business Council (AIBC) hosted a round table conference recently for the Trade Promotion Council of India (TPIC) delegation. A much targeted Con Livissianis from Australia India Business Enterprise (AIBE) - wholly owned commercial arm of the Australia India Business Council (AIBC), Michael Carter from AIBC, Father Prem Kumar, The Haryana Society of Western Australia in association with India in Australia (Consulate General
On 30 July, the Federation of Indian Communities of Queensland (FICQ) hosted the event “Women’s Wellbeing - Women who inspire” at Holy Spirit Anglican ArchanaChurch.
part of AzadiKaAmritMahotsav to celebrate 75th anniversary of India’s Independence. Affairs & Culture.
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The Consulate General of India, Sydney recently organised an interactive session with the
LathaVikraman gave an interactive presentation on self-care and wellness. PushpaVaghela shared knowledge about the journey of effective leadership and business success whereas Megha Roy Basu showcased techniques to deal with onstress.23July, at the Queensland Multicultural Centre.
Ward, who opened the session, lent their generous support to the event while the Queensland Police Service representatives gave an insightful Onepresentation.oftheguest speakers, Cilna George, discussed Australian Indian Women and mental health while another guest speaker by Simply Human - Superheroes without Capes and Federation of Indian Communities of Queensland pre-scheduled meetings. The Consul General of India highlighted AIBC’s role in taking up leadership on specific issues for importers in Australia and also exporters from India. who expressed their support for further growth in trade between Australia and India, were also present at the conference.
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Singh, Hon Consul of India, Brisbane and Cr Angela Owen - Councillor for Calamvale Ancient Wisdom Modern Solutions was hosted by Brahma Kumaris Brisbane and supported session with Buyer Seller Meet, a tailor-made match-making platform where select international buyers, consisting of retailers, wholesalers and distributors, are introduced to prominent Indian gem and jewellery manufacturers through one-on-one discussion was held on supporting the Indian exporters on the ground with some of the issues experienced for representation and resolutions. Andrew Robb AO and Jodi McKay, and Ben Patton and Diana Quintero from Ocean Phoenix had a very successful meeting with the Tamil Nadu Minister for Fisheries Hon Anitha R Radhakrishnan in Chennai on 19 July. It was a very interactive of India, Perth) and Australian Red Cross Lifeblood organized a blood donation drive recently as Indian Community in honour
and highly engaging session where many bilateral opportunities and priorities in Australia and India were discussed.
Moreover, as per the bill, detention would be authorised in Australia only for certain purposes, and that too only after all alternatives have been considered. For adults the period of detention could only be for a maximum of three months, and for children it would be for seven days. For purposes of extension of detention, independent oversight and judicial review by the courts would be necessary.
Punjabi singer SatinderSartaj re cently appeared in a live concert professional photography art works on national and cultural costumes of culturally diverse groups
Kids and toddlers were seen digging away with great zeal and enthusiasm alongside their parents to plant the saplings. The marking of the locations for planting was a well-thought-out process and commendable too. Many community groups namely Indian Society of Western Australia, in Brisbane. The event held on 31st July was attended by enthusiastic representing India. Seva International, Hindu Council of Australia, ISKCON, Perth; Save Soil, Isha Foundation and NRI Rising Club Inc. WA along with the Consulate General of India, Perth had representatives participating in the fansevent.thatwelcomed and cheered the singer.
The Gold Coast Multicultural Arts organised a multicultural event featuring visual expressions related Samskruthi Perth observed the National Tree Plantation event re cently. The City of Gosnells provided all the necessary tools and saplings while volunteers participated in the event with full enthusiasm, making it a resounding success. Mayor TeressaLynes, City of Gosnells personally witnessed the event.
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The Consul General recently in augurated the Food & Beverages Buyer-Seller Meet organised by the Trade Promotion Council of The Assam Association of Western Australia recently showcased High Commissioner ManpreetVohra in his first visit to South Australia held an Beena Mahesh, President, Club Malayalam Perth and Ann Melbin, Secretary Club Malayalam India (TPIC) in collaboration with Consulate General of India, Sydney and Australia India Business Council Ltd. More than 25 leading industries the rich and vibrant culture of the Indian state of Assam by performing extensive interaction with members of Indian community organizations in Adelaide recently, and discussed Perth visited the Consulate to invite Consul General for the 10th year anniversary celebrations of from different verticals of the Food & Beverages sector participated in the event. a beautiful folk dance. various aspects of bilateral relations and diaspora
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Chennai, Aug 8 (IANS): With the im plementation of Survey of Villages Abadi and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas (SVAMITVA) scheme and work from home culture getting in vogue, there is a spurt in housing loan demand in tier 3 and 4 districts. The growth has been registered more in the female borrowers, said State Bank of India (SBI) in a research report. The number of female housing loan borrowers increased significantly in FY22 in tier 3 and tier 4 districts. Among the top 20 districts with highest share of female borrowers in fresh home loan disbursal in FY22 (which are mostly rural), six districts are from Chhattisgarh and three from Gujarat and Haryana each, SBI Accordingsaid.tothe report, the housing loan portfolio of the banks grew by more than 10 per cent in FY22, with districts in tier 3 and tier 4 areas growing at a much faster rate than tier 1 and tier 2 districts post Furtherpandemic.the housing prices have also shown a significant increase in the tier 3 and 4 cities than in major cities over the last year. The combined share of tier 3 and tier 4 districts in fresh housing loan disbursement, though small, has also been growing steadily over the years. It has now grown to 36 per cent in FY22 compared to 32 per cent in FY19, the SBI said.
Electric scooters, buses steal show at EV Expo in Delhi Adani Group to invest Rs 57,575 crore in Odisha
69% jobs in India under threat by automation in 20 years
In a regulatory filing on Sunday, Tata Motors - the parent of Tata Passenger Electric - said the Ford India’s plant in Sanand in Gujarat includes (i) entire land & buildings; (ii) Vehicle Manufacturing Plant along with machinery and equip ment situated and (iii) transfer of all eligible employees of Ford India’s vehicle manufacturing operations.
The Ford India will continue to operate its powertrain manufactur ing facility by leasing back the land and buildings of the powertrain manufacturing plant from Tata Passenger Electric. The Tata Passenger Electric has agreed to offer employment to the eligible employees of Ford India’s power train unit when the latter stops such operations. Meanwhile, the fate of Ford India’s plant near Chennai continues to be in suspense.
Ford India to sell its Gujarat plant for Rs 725.7 cr to Tatas Housing loan disbursals grow in tier 3, 4 cities with more female borrowers
This rising home loan demand in ru ral districts can be attributed to the SVAMITVA scheme providing rural people with the right to document their residential properties which can then help them to use their property for economic purposes. According to SBI, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, where this scheme has already covered many villages, have more districts where home loan disbursal is increasing at a faster Thepace.Central government schemes like AMRUT, PMAY(U) and Smart Cities Mission have been pivotal in creating a holistic 360 degrees ecosystem that has seen housing demand accelerating in non-metro areas, the SBI report said. The share of ‘Housing Loans’ in ‘Bank Credit’ has increased to 14.4 per cent in June 2022 from 13.1 per cent in March 2020. Housing contributes around 50 per cent of the personal/retail loans. The home buyers’ decisions are increasingly being shaped by significant intangibles viz. locality, facilities offered, distance to essentials/necessities (education, healthcare, financial), common as well as exclusive facilities offered and future growth prospects of the area as housing emerges as a safe and reliable investment option too (in particular, for secondary/tertiary buyers) and not just the property price alone, the report noted. In terms of loan size, the SBI said the growth in loans in Rs 30-50 lakh and Rs 50-100 lakh brackets has been higher in tier 3 and lower districts when compared to the tier 1 districts, albeit their share in total loans is still low in these brackets (combined share of Tier 3 and 4 at 37 per cent and 25 per cent in Rs 30-50 lakh and Rs 50-100 lakh respectively)
China, South Korea, Australia, and Japan will create 28.5 million new jobs in renewable energy, green buildings, smart cities and smart infrastructure, and professional services by 2040. Strategist at Geojit Financial Services. The flows has turned positive in the Indian market nearly after nine months. Foreign investors invested around Rs 4,980 crore in July in the Indian equity markets. This comes after heavy sell-off by these entities of around Rs 50,203 crore in June. According to the data NSDL data, investment of foreign investors in July month stood at Rs 4,989 crore, as compared to over Rs 50,000 crore outflows in June, Rs 39,993 crore in May and Rs 17,144 crore in TheApril.domestic benchmark indices have also risen sharply during the last few days. The Sensex has risen more than 2500 points and Nifty rose 746.65 points in the last 10 days, and is now trading at 59,383.25 and 17,676.25, respectively, till writing of this story.
But even with the creation of new jobs in areas such as the green economy and information and communications technology (ICT) industries, 13.7 million jobs in the region will be lost to automation across wholesale, retail, transport, accommodation, and leisure sectors. By 2040, China will see its working population decline by 11 per cent, and 7 per cent of jobs will be lost to “Jobautomation.growth in the ICT industry will help offset automation job losses, with 3.8 million additional new jobs created by 2040,” said the report. Due to an aging workforce and the country’s low birth rate, between 2020 and 2040, Japan’s working population will contract by 19 per cent. By 2050, it is forecasted to decline by almost one-third. Experts said that the foreign investors have turned buyers in sectors like capital goods, FMCG, construction and power sectors. Meanwhile, the rupee has also appreciated sharply after depreci ating to a record low last month. At 1.30 p.m., in the interbank foreign exchange market, rupee is trading at 79.44 against the US dollar, up 8 paise from its previous close.
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New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS): Around 100 e-vehicle companies -- both domestic and foreign, showcased their latest pollution-free e-vehicles at the three-day ‘EV Expo’, that con cluded on Sunday, at Pragati Maidan in Delhi. The expo also showcased Lithium-ion batteries and the latest charging solutions. The expo also saw some exciting innovations, including electric cars and buses from Lithium Urban
and agriculture, the report noted. “To prepare for the changes brought on by automation, the five largest economies in APAC will have to radically rethink their workforce strategies,” said O’Grady. “While each economy faces its own challenges, common focus areas such as hiring more female workers can help offset working population declines. In addition, investing in STEM education, technology workforce training, and protecting the rights of freelance workers will become of utmost importance,” he India,noted.
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS): Nearly 69 per cent of jobs in India are under threat from automation, as the country, with its relatively young workforce, is set to add 160 million new workers over the next 20 years, a new report showed on Monday. The main priority for the country, set to reach a working population of 1.1 billion by 2040, will be job cre ation to accommodate new workers entering the workforce, according to Forrester’s ‘Future Of Jobs Forecast’. “India’s workforce is young, with an average age of 38, and its working population will grow by 160 million over the next 20 years,” said Michael O’Grady, principal forecast analyst at Forrester. In addition, India’s labour force participation rate, which measures the share of the working-age popula tion currently working, has dropped to just 41 per cent, he added. The working populations in the five largest economies in Asia Pacific -India, China, South Korea, Australia, and Japan -- are more at risk due to physical robot automation than Europe and North America. By 2040, 63 million jobs are expected to be lost to automation, with more than 247 million jobs expected to be in jeopardy across industries that are more susceptible to automation, such as construction Mumbai, Aug 11 (IANS:) Foreign Institutional Investors (FII) have invested Rs 12,190 crore in last 10 days in the Indian equity market after remaining sellers in the last few months. However, Domestic Institutional Investors (DII) in the same period have sold stocks worth Rs 2,677 crore. The increase in the amount of money coming into the market has helped benchmark indices to rise sharply and rupee to appreciate against the US. “There is a complete reversal of FPI activity in the Indian stock market. FPI who were relentless sellers in the Indian market from October 2021 to June 2022 turned net buyers in July and the buying continues in August, so far. The change in FPI strategy has imparted strength to the recent market rally,” said Dr V.K. Vijayakumar, Chief Investment
Chennai, Aug 8 (IANS) In line with the earlier announcement, the Tata Passenger Electric Mobility Limited and Ford India Private Limited have inked the Unit Transfer Agreement for the acquisition of the latter’s plant in Gujarat for Rs 725.70 crore.
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Ahmedabad, Aug 11 (IANS): Adani Group, the fastest-growing diversified portfolio of infra, energy and utility businesses in India, will invest Rs 57,575 crore in Odisha. The high-level clearance author ity (HLCA) of Odisha government headed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday approved the Adani Group’s proposal to set up two projects -- a 4 MMTPA integrated alumina refinery and a 30 MMTPA iron ore (value addition) project. “Odisha is one of our most strategic states in which we have continued to invest and we are always appreciative of the support we have received from the Chief Minister Technologies Pvt Ltd, India’s largest zero emission corporate services company. At the same time, there was a an exhibition of Greencell Mobility Electric Buses, which received lots of attention from the Alongpeople.with this, Altius Auto Solutions also introduced a ‘high-speed’ electric two-wheeler with 2,000W motor that claims a maximum speed of 70 kmph and Naveen Patnaik,” said Gautam Adani, Chairman, Adani Group. “Metals are critical commodities in which our nation must be self-reli ant, and these projects are aligned with our vision of ‘Aatmanirbharta’. In addition, being a power intensive business, it is a great adjacency to the renewable energy that we are able to generate and help produce the greenest alumina anywhere. Our capital investment of Rs 57,575 crore will create 9,300 direct jobs and open up tens of thousands of indirect employment opportunities in Odisha,” he added. The 4 MMTPA integrated alumina refinery, to be set up in the vicinity mileage of 110 km per charge. The price of this scooter will be around Rs Apart85,000.from this, two stylish e-scoot ers ‘Habibi’ and ‘e-Noa’ powered by 48V 27Ah Lithium-ion battery by A-One Energy Pvt Ltd which is a Mohali-based start-up in e-mobility space also took part in the expo. This scooter delivers a mileage of 80 km per charge, and its price starts from Rs 60,000. EV Expo 2022 organiser Rajeev Arora said: “We are delighted to have around 100 exhibitors from across India, and are even more excited by the number of visitors on day one. The number of new launches in electric 2 and 3 wheelers as well as battery and charging solutions etc., proves the need of a platform like EV Expo at this juncture which provides a very special opportunity for manufac turers to unveil and showcase their innovations developed over the last 12 months.” of potential bauxite reserves or operational mines, will produce smelter grade (metallurgical grade) alumina, which will help India move towards import substitution. The 30 MMTPA iron ore (value addition) project will comprise an iron ore beneficiation plant produc ing iron ore concentrate, a slurry pipeline for iron ore concentrate slurry and a dewatering/filtration and pellet plant to produce filter cake and pellet. The iron ore beneficiation plant will be located in Deojhar in Keonjhar district, while the pellet plant is to be set up in Dhamra in the adjoining Bhadrak district. The slurry pipeline will run along the utility corridor of the roads between Deojhar and Odisha,Dhamra.long acknowledged as India’s mineral hub, holds over half of the nation’s bauxite and iron ore reserves. The Adani Group’s projects, which are aligned with the Odisha government’s ‘Vision 2030: Development of Downstream Units in Metal Sector’, are expected to strengthen the development and overall socio-economic status of the state.
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BITCOIN UPDATES
New York, Aug 10 (IANS): Bitcoin prices have stabilised around the $23,000 to $24,000 level after plunging below $20,000 in June, media reports said. The prices of ethereum and other leading digital currencies have also rallied in the past two months, leading to hopes that this nascent market may have reached its bot tom, CNN reported. But the optimism could be prema ture, and fleeting. Companies with direct ties to the crypto landscape continue to struggle. Coinbase reported a loss for the second quarter after the closing bell on Tuesday. This follows Monday’s revenue warning from Nvidia, whose graphics cards are a key component in many bitcoin mining rigs, CNN reported. With all this in mind, some experts think that bitcoin may be stuck in a narrow range for the foreseeable Bitcoinfuture. bulls point out that a recent deal between Coinbase and money management giant BlackRock is a promising sign. not worry about the size of the venue. Plus they have the freedom to envision just about any setting they want regardless of the expanse. This is a different scenario from the toughest months of the pandemic, when weddings had to be planned on a smaller scale and it was challenging to find enough helping hands, artisans, craftspeople and to source raw materials.” Practicality and convenience Ambika thinks a lot of couples may use the metaverse to replicate a physical ceremony for those who could not attend. She adds, “Or they may opt for a metaverse ceremony if they are apart and cannot be together due to travel restrictions or some other reason. In such a case, a virtual ceremony could precede a physical one. The convenience of not having to wait till all practical complications have been sorted can prove to be alluring though the legality of metaverse weddings is still a grey area and needs to be examined by couples more Morethoroughly.”immersive excitement For technology geeks, the lure of VR is great and it can unleash a lot of creative possibilities to create an immersive, visually dynamic event unlike any other. For wedding designers too, event platforms built in the metaverse may be the next step. Ambika says, “Anyone in the business arena today has to be familiar with terms like cryptocur rency, blockchain, and NFTs and for wedding designers and event planners, to be future forward is important. It is always good to prepare for inevitable shifts in the wedding industry but as a designer, I can say that nothing beats the joy of putting a physical event together and getting every small detail right.”
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS): More than half a billion dollars have been laundered in crypto assets originat ing from theft, fraud, ransomware and various other types of criminal activity since 2020, a new report has Therevealed.report by Blockchain analysis group Elliptic said one cross-chain bridge in particular -- RenBridge -- has been used to launder at least $540 million in crypto assets by hackers and fraudsters. Cross-chain bridges allow crypto assets to be transferred between blockchains, without going through a centralised service such as a crypto Billionsexchange.ofdollars in assets have been transferred between Bitcoin, Ethereum and other blockchains -using bridge services such as Portal, cBridge and Synapse. “RenBridge has become particu larly popular with those seeking to launder the proceeds of theft,” the report Cryptomentioned.assetsstolen from exchanges and decentralised finance (DeFi) New Delhi, Aug 11: In 1992, when sci ence fiction author Neal Stephenson predicted the metaverse in his book ‘Snow Crash, little did he know that the idea would revolutionize the lives of people three decades later. From ‘Zoom weddings’ in the post-pandemic era, to a U.S. couple conducting the first ever metaverse wedding in 2021, to a couple in Tamil Nadu hosting a virtual recep tion in 2022, we are now on the cusp of a new dimension. A 2021 study by Bloomberg Intelligence in fact states that the metaverse space could be worth more than $800 billion by Luxe2024.wedding designer and founder of The A-Cube Project, Ambika Gupta however thinks that even though the idea of a metaverse wedding is catching on, it will never replace the vibrance and energy of a real-time gathering. She says, “For wedding designers, the metaverse could be a new, exciting idea but I doubt if metaverse weddings will become normative. In today’s fast and hyper-digitized world, weddings are possibly the only occasions
San Francisco/New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS): A group of crypto investors has filed a class-action lawsuit against billionaire investor and Shark Tank icon Mark Cuban, along with his basketball team the Dallas Mavericks, for promoting crypto platform Voyager Digital that went bankrupt, resulted in billions of dollars in loss for its customers. Top cryptocurrency broker Voyager Digital last month filed for bankrupt cy in the US, resulting in more than 3.5 million investors losing $5 billion Accordingcollectively.to Techcrunch, Voyager Digital’s CEO Stephen Ehrlich has also been named as a defendant in the class-action suit filed in Florida federal court. The plaintiffs have described Voyager as “an unregulated and unsustainable fraud, similar to other Ponzi schemes”. The lawsuit alleged that “Cuban and Ehrlich personally reached out to investors both individually and through a partnership with the Dallas Mavericks, to encourage them to invest with the platform”. Voyager Digital had significant
Canberra, Aug 9 (IANS): The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) on announced that it has embarked on a project to explore the potential uses for a federally backed digital currency.
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Blockchain bridges such as RenBridge pose a challenge to regulators, since there is no central service provider that facilitates these cross-chain transactions. Instead, transactions are processed by a network of thousands of pseudonymous validators known as “Darknodes”. Cost-effective celebrations Ambika points out how bud get-friendly it would be to cut down on travel and hospitality expenses in a virtual wedding but of course, a metaverse wedding can be expen sive too, depending on the vision of the couple, the details of the digital theme, the venue, the decor, the avatars, and their outfits. Ambika says, “Wedding designers, I am sure will adapt to this space and come up with innovative design themes to tell the stories that the couples want to share with their loved ones. It would be interesting to reimagine and design events like haldi, mehendi, sangeet, a cocktail brunch, an actual ceremony and a reception in the metaverse. For the guests too, it will be interesting to explore unusual worlds they have never had access to before but I doubt they will enjoy the experience as much as a real ASentimentalwedding.”reasonsweddingbringsup a lot of emotions and the absence of a departed loved one can make the celebrations feel incomplete. Ambika says, “Recently, the muchtalked-about metaverse wedding reception in Tamil Nadu was made extra special by the avatar of the bride’s late father. This idea may not be to everyone’s liking but for many, the possibility of sharing a special day with someone who is no longer present could draw them to the metaverse.” Even loved ones who are located in other countries and may not be able to attend a physical wedding can be ‘present’ at a metaverse reception, meet family members and share the couple’s joy. Limitless space, endless possibilities The metaverse is not bound by constrictions of time and space and hence offers limitless possibilities. Ambika says, “Couples can invite as many guests as they want and
“The partnership between BlackRock and Coinbase is a massive deal,” said Jack Cameron, co-founder of Luna Market, a metaverse advertising and tech company, in an email. Cameron added that since there “is still a stigma” associated with bitcoin, having more companies like BlackRock diving into the digital asset sector is good news, CNN
Reserve Bank of Australia proposes centralised digital currency
services worth at least $267.2 mil lion have been laundered through RenBridge over the past two years. This includes $33.8 million stolen from Japanese crypto exchange Liquid in August 2021. In total, $97 million was stolen from Liquid, in an attack that has been linked to North Korea, said the report. Sometimes, these stolen funds come from other cross-chain bridges. “Just days ago, $156 million was stolen from the Nomad bridge, following the discovery of a bug that was exploited by numerous individuals,” said the team. Hours later, some of the thieves were sending the stolen funds through RenBridge. So far, $2.4 million in crypto assets stolen from Nomad have been sent through “RenBridgeRenBridge.isalsoan important facilitator for Russia-linked ransom ware gangs, with over $153 million in ransom payments laundered through the service to date,” the report noted. when we pause and make time to share our happiness with the people closest to us. Metaverse ceremonies will be more like statements, or niche events that may augment an actual wedding but will never replace it.” For traditionalists, as she points out, it is hard to envision a wedding that can be attended via a laptop, or a smartphone and where people can interact through lenses, and sen sors, and offer NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) as gifts. Ambika adds, “However, it is impossible to foretell the future. Another wave of Covid-19 may disrupt our lives and in a world where climate change is impacting us all, some couples may opt for a zero-wastage, sustainable metaverse wedding with virtually no carbon footprint. I repeat however that it is not possible to replace tradi tional ceremonies as they create tangible memories and unmatched Hereintimacy.”area few reasons why she thinks metaverse weddings could gain some momentum in the near future.
Crypto investors sue Shark Tank icon Mark Cuban over ‘Ponzi scheme’
Hackers exploited crypto platform RenBridge to launder $540 mn
Getting married in the Metaverse
“ThehelpaboutalreadyexistedandrathertheprojectwasunderstandinghowaCBDCcouldAustralia.keyresearchquestionsnowarewhat economic benefits aCBDC could enable, thoseandhowitcouldbedesignedtomaximizebenefits,”hesaid.
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investments in Singapore-based hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), which failed to make pay ments on a loan of 15,250 Bitcoins and $350 million USDCs -- that makes the loan worth more than $650 Voyagermillion.suspended all trading, deposits, withdrawals and loyalty rewards on its platform before filing for Thebankruptcy.DallasMavericks launched their exclusive, five-year partnership with Voyager in October 2021, giving fans cash rewards for making trades on the Accordingplatform.to the lawsuit, Cuban promoted the company “as a Voyager customer himself, in a ploy to dupe investors into believing that Voyager was a safe platform”. Mark Cuban and the Mavericks are yet to comment on the lawsuit. Voyager has said it was actively pursuing all available remedies for recovery from 3AC. It had approximately $1.3 billion of crypto assets on the platform and more than $350 million of cash for customers.
Unlike traditional digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, a CBDC would be stabilized and regulated bythe government.
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New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS): India’s largest Crypto investing app CoinSwitch has announced a Web3 Discovery Fund, which will invest in and incubate early-stage startups building blockchain solutions for the rapidly evolving Web3 landscape. SequoiaGlobal,accessfolioTheWeb3DiscoveryFundwillcurateportstartupsandprovidesingle-windowtomarqueeinvestorpartnersTigerRibbitCapital,CoinbaseVentures,CapitalIndia,WoodstockFund andElevationCapital(ex-SAIFpartners), “ThecompanyandincubationpartnerBuidlersTribe,thesaidinastatement.ventureprogrammeisaresultofour firmbeliefthatIndiawillbethelaunchpad for population-scale Web3 projects. To Singhal,problemstheneurswerealisethisvisionof#MadeinIndiaWeb3,havetoidentifyandenableentrepreandearly-stagestartupsleveragingpotentialofCryptotosolvereal-worlduniquetoIndia,”saidAshishCo-founderandCEO,CoinSwitch.
CoinSwitch’s Web3 Discovery Fund to empower up to 100 Indian startups
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The RBAsaid that, in collaboration with theDigitalFinanceCooperativeResearch Centre(DFCRC),itwouldrunayear-long, limited-scaletrialofacentralbankdigital currency(CBDC), reports Xinhua news agency.
“Thereported.more institutional money [that] joins the space, the better it is for all holders of crypto,” he wrote. Bitcoin, despite the hype from pro ponents about it being digital gold, has turned out not to be an asset that performs well when inflation pressures are mounting and interest rates are spiking, CNN reported.
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“The Bank and the DFCRC will select a rangeofdifferentusecasestoparticipate in the pilot, based on their potential to provideinsightsintothepossiblebenefits of a CBDC,” said the RBA. Andreas Furche, CEO of the DFCRC, said the technology for a digital currency
Senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot said that people should come out and support the cause as, “democracy is being suffocated and now it’s time that people should come out.”
Lucknow, Aug 7 (IANS): In politics, horoscopes are not matched neces sarily but circumstances often bring out similarities between politicians even though they may not tread the same path. Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, general secretary in charge of Congress in Uttar Pradesh, have developed a style of working that is strikingly similar and so is the “Theyoutcome.arealmost twinning when it comes to politics. Both had a sea of opportunities before them but they seem to destroying the legacy they inherited. Their parties are nose diving ever since they took,” said R.K. Singh, a senior political analyst. The most common complaint against Akhilesh and Priyanka is their inaccessibility to party Akhilesh,workers. for reasons best known to him, keep the gates of his home and office firmly shut for party workers and meets only those who are members of his coterie. A senior SP MLA says: “It is much more difficult to meet Akhilesh Yadav than it is to meet Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Even during the Assembly elections, I New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS): It’s an oft-repeated adage that art imitates life. But in the case of the third season of ‘Rangbaaz’, it seems as if life is imitating art, with the plot line of the web series resonating with the rapid-fire political developments in Bihar that have unfolded like an unputdownable thriller since Tuesday, August 9. Uncannily, the Zee5 web series shows the Nitish Kumar-like Rajesh Tailang character Mukul Kumar, constantly at odds with the Lalu Prasad Yadav-inspired Lakhan Rai (Vijay Maurya) over the latter’s refusal to let go of his pet ‘baahub ali’, Haroon Shah Ali Beg, essayed by Vineet Kumar Singh. Beg is modelled after the late former Sivan MP and dreaded don, Mohammad Shahabuddin, who succumbed to Covid-19 last year. Mukul Kumar comes across as meek and submissive in the pres ence of Lakhan Rai, but his eyes tell a different story. And his demeanour changes as soon as he becomes the chief Interestingly,minister.Laloo is not shown to New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS): The Congress is going to hit the streets demanding rollback of the Agnipath scheme of short-term recruitment into the armed forces and unem ployment after August 15. Addressing a press conference here, Congrtess MP Deepender Singh Hooda said that while the party ex tended full support to the ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ campaign launched by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) and to the united front of ex-servicemen, who fought for ‘One rank, one pension’, the Congress will extend full support to the campaign against the Agnipath scheme. “After August 15, we will take to the streets, just like we did in our fight against inflation, to protest against unemployment and demand rollback of the Agnipath scheme,” Hooda said. The Congress had held a nationwide By Saiyed Moziz Imam Zaidi New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS): The Congress protest on Friday was intense in Delhi with the top leadership of the party courting arrest and even Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi being detained. The Congress’s nationwide protest may have resonated with the masses but could not involve them despite the party making a strong pitch over the issues of inflation and rising Formerunemployment.Congress president Rahul Gandhi even rebuked the media and said they are working under duress. “The idea is that people’s issues, whether they are price rise, unemployment, violence in society; people’s issues must not be raised that is the sole agenda of the government and the government is being run to protect the interests of 4 or 5 people, and the government, this dictatorship is being run in the interest of two or three big business people by two people.”
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Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, were detained. don’t want discussion, they can’t face discussion, that’s the truth and this is not only a Congress issue, they cannot face a discussion with any opposition party,” Rahul Gandhi Aftersaid. the Delhi police registered an FIR against Congress workers for allegedly obstructing and injuring police personnel during their protest march in the national capital, the party said that this is the reason people are not coming. However, they will give their mandate to the party which is fighting for the cause. About 65 Congress lawmakers, including Rahul Gandhi, were detained at Vijay Chowk, close to Parliament, while a total of 335 protesters were detained under Section 65 of the Delhi Police Act in order to maintain law and order in the area. the same Food and Civil Supplies Thereportfolio.isunlikely to be much major change in the charges of the JD-U ministers, and most of them are expected to retain their existing Theportfolios.Congress is likely to get four berths and Congress Legislature Party chief Ajit Sharma is a strong contender.
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Rahul Gandhi said that they are attacked because, “I understand one thing very clearly, the more I raise people’s issues, the more I tell the truth in front of you, the more I will be attacked by the government, it is a simple thing.” He said that he will be the happiest person if he is arrested. But the Patna, Aug 9 (IANS): With a Mahagatbandhan government under Nitish Kumar on the cards for the second time, speculation over the contours of the new dispensation has started doing the rounds. According to sources, the new JD-U-led government is likely to have the same shape as the previous one. Tejashwi Yadav is tipped to be Deputy Chief Minister again, and might get a key portfolio such as Road Construction. The RJD is also said to be angling left several messages with his office but was not given time. This kind of behaviour of a political leader, one is leader a political party, is detri mental to party interests and also a major reason for discontent.” Party leaders also blame Akhilesh’s coterie of being arrogant. Recently, Abdullah Azam, son of SP leader Mohd Azam Khan, expressed his displeasure over the comments made by a party spokesman Udaiveer Singh, known for his proximity to Akhilesh. “I have noticed a statement by a spokesperson of the SP. These are the people responsible for SP’s ruin. I request them to comment only as per their level, and not attempt to bring in Azam Khan saheb... or else many things would worsen,” he said in a tweet. If Akhilesh’s ‘coterie’ is in the line of fire in SP, it is Priyanka’s ‘team’ that has led to widespread resentment in the state Congress. Priyanka’s personal secretary Sandeep Singh and others are known for their arrogance and misbehaviour with party workers. Their audio clips where conversa tions are interspersed with abusive language are made viral of the party’s WhatsApp groups with an be the buffoon that the media used to make him out to be. He comes across as someone who knows his politics and understands the mechanics of power. If viewers ever wonder who the two characters are inspired by, there’s a dialogue that is a dead giveaway. In one conversation, Mukul Kumar, talking about Beg, says Lakhan Rai has no ‘chaara’ (option), but to drop him from the party. Lakhan Rai erupts at the mention of the word ‘chaara’ and says he doesn’t like the Obviously,word. the word play is all about ‘chaara’, as in the ‘chaara ghotala’, or fodder scam, which led to Lalu first stepping down as chief minister, and installing his wife Rabri Devi, and then spending an extended time in jail. In real life, Nitish and Lalu (who, being the president of the Patna University Students Union, was the Bihar Chief Minister’s political senior) launched their careers in politics with the Jayaprakash Narayan-led anti-corruption move ment against Indira Gandhi. After
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agitation against inflation and unemployment on August 5 when several party leaders, including point is that inflation is affecting every household but people are not coming with the Congress and have not joined any mass protest. A senior Congress leader said that the masses only connect when they are not afraid, now the situation is that people are afraid of the system, see what happened with the protestors against Agnipath where many are facing legal cases. The Congress said that the party has been asking for a discussion on price rise but no discussion was allowed. Practically no discussion is allowed in Parliament. Chinese troops came into India, they occupied Indian land, no discussion is allowed. The party wants to raise the issue of unemployment, but no discussion is allowed. “We demolish the government every single time we have a discussion in Parliament. You are aware of it. They to get the Home portfolio, while it is expected that the Speaker’s post may go to it. Meanwhile, it is likely the party’s Abdul Bari Siddiqui will get Finance while Sunil Kumar Singh could be the Cooperatives Minister. Like the last time, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad’s eldest son Tej Pratap Yadav could be made a minister, but might not be given a crucial portfolio like Health, as was the case earlier. RJD’s Shyam Rajak is also tipped to be made a minister again, and get alarming frequency. “This team serves as a barrier between Priyanka and party workers. No one can meet Priyanka without the sanction of her team and, therefore, she is completely inaccessible for party workers now. Even in Delhi, she meets only those who have permission form Sandeep Singh. She has not visited UP in recent months,” said a former Congress MLA. Another factor that is common between Akhilesh and Priyanka is their disdain for senior leaders in the Bothparty.have completely sidelined veterans and are pinning their hopes on younger leaders who are not even familiar with the party Inideology.theSP, veterans who belong to the Mulayam Singh era are nowhere to be seen. Leaders like Ambica Chaudhary, Om Prakash Singh, Narad Rai are biding their time in the wings. In the Uttar Pradesh Congress, former UPCC presidents like Nirmal Khatri, Shri Prakash Jaiswal, Arun Kumar Singh Munna, Raj Babbar have been pushed into oblivion and the remaining have been expelled from the party. As a result, the two parties are rapidly losing ground by the day. Under Akhilesh’s leadership, the SP has lost the 2017 Assembly, 2019 Lok Sabha and 2022 Assembly elections. The Congress has already hit rock bottom ever since Priyanka took over the reins in 2019. What worries party workers is the fact that the two leaders refuse to see the writing on the wall. They continue to wage political battles on social media and have disconnected themselves from ground realities. the historic 1977 general elections, Lalu became an MP on a Janata Party ticket from Chapra at the age of 29, and Nitish remained on the Eventually,sidelines. Nitish, who referred to Lalu as his ‘bade bhai’ (elder brother), got elected to the Bihar Assembly from Harnaut in Nalanda district in 1985. In 1989, NItish made his entry into the Lok Sabha from Barh (he won the seat in the 1991 midterm elec tions as well) on a Janata Dal ticket, backed Lalu’s election as Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, and a year later, he supported his good friend’s successful bid to become Chief Minister. At that time, it was known that ‘bade bhai’ always sounded out his ‘chhote bhai’ before taking any major political or admin istrative decision. After this electoral disaster, Nitish and George -- ironically for two former socialists -- hitched their wagons with the BJP-led NDA in 1996 and joined the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. Since then, Nitish has been a Union Minister (1998 to 2004) and Bihar’s Chief Minister (2005 onwards), even as Lalu has seen his political fortunes yo-yo and ended up in jail because of his role in the infamous fodder Nitish,scam. meanwhile, stayed in the BJP fold, then fell out, had a brief hon eymoon with Lalu’s RJD, now led by his son Tejashwi Yadav, and it ended as suddenly as it started. Nitish was back with the BJP till he made his breakup official on Tuesday, August 9. He’s back with Tejashwi and Lalu has returned to his life. Even as the latest chapter of the Nitish saga unfolds itself, the second season of another political drama based on Bihar’s riveting contemporary history is all set to start streaming on SonyLIV from August 25.\ ‘Maharani 2’ will see Huma Qureishi’s Rabri Devi vacate the chief minister’s seat for the Laluinspired Sohum Shah character, even as Amit Sial’s Nitish Kumar hovers in the background, fishing in troubled waters.
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Polio is a very contagious viral disease. About 3 in 4 people infected with polio don’t have symptoms, but they’re still capable of spreading the virus to others, according to the OnlyCDC. a relatively small number, about 1 in 200 infected people, become paralysed. A few of those who are paralysed die because they can’t “Therebreathe.isn’tjust one case of polio if you see a paralytic case. The incidence of paralytic polio is less than 1 per cent,” Dr Patricia Schnabel Ruppert, health commissioner for Rockland County, was quoted as saying to BBC. “Most cases are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic, and those symptoms are often missed. So there are hundreds, perhaps even thousands of cases that have occurred in order for us to see a paralytic case.”
New York, Aug 10 (IANS): Are you among those who gulps down a multivitamin every morning, proba bly with a sip of water? It may be of no use, finds a study. While multivitamins aren’t helpful, at least they’re not harmful. But the money people spend on them could be better spent on purchasing healthy foods, according to Dr. Pieter Cohen, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical ResearchersSchool. analysed 84 studies involving nearly 700,000 people. Their review, published in JAMA, found little or no evidence that taking vitamin and mineral sup plements helps prevent cancer and cardiovascular disease that can lead to heart attacks and stroke, nor do they help prevent an early death. “Most people would be better off just drinking a full glass of water and skipping the vitamin,” said Cohen, an expert in dietary supplementAre search and regulation. “We have good evidence that for the vast majority of people, taking multivitamins won’t help you,” he Thereadded.are some exceptions, however. Highly restrictive diets and gastrointestinal conditions, or certain weight-loss surgeries that cause poor nutrient absorption, are examples of reasons why a multivi tamin or individual vitamins might be recommended. A daily vitamin D supplement may
Meanwhile, UK health officials are set to offer a targeted inactivated be necessary when a person gets insufficient sun exposure. Your doctor may recommend an iron supplement if you have a low red blood cell count (anaemia). Surveys suggest people take vitamins to stay healthy, feel more energetic, or gain peace of mind. These beliefs stem from a powerful narrative about vitamins being healthy and natural that dates back nearly a century. “This narrative appeals to many groups in our population, including people who are progressive vegetar ians and also to conservatives who are suspicious about science and think that doctors are up to no good,” Cohen Vitaminssaid.are very inexpensive to make, so the companies can sink lots of money into advertising, he noted. But because the FDA regulates dietary supplements as food and not as prescription or polio vaccine (IPV) booster dose to all children between the ages of 1 and 9 to limit the spread of the virus’ outbreak in London. This follows the discovery of Type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus in sewage in north and east London. According to the UK Health Security Agency, 116 samples of vaccine-like poliovirus have been detected in the sewage water in London between February and July 2022. over-the-counter drugs, the agency only monitors claims regarding the treatment of disease. For example, supplement makers cannot say that their product “lowers heart disease risk”. But their labels are allowed to include phrases such as “promotes a healthy heart” or “supports immunity”, as well as vague promises about improving fatigue and low motivation. “Supplement manufacturers are allowed to market their products as if they have benefits when no benefit actually exists. It’s enshrined into the law,” Cohen said. It’s wise to note the legally required disclaimer on each product: “These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease,” he advised.
Low vitamin D could be behind chronic inflammation
New York, Aug 12 (IANS): There must be several hundred cases of undiagnosed polio circulating in the US, according to a senior official with the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This follows the news of an unvac cinated man paralysed by the virus in New York, last month, a first in nearly a decade in the country. The last known case was in 2013. The New York case is “just the very, very tip of the iceberg” and an indication there “must be several hundred cases in the community circulating”, Dr. Jose Romero, di rector of the CDC’s National Centre for Immunisation and Respiratory Diseases, was quoted as saying to “ThereCNN. are a number of individuals in the community that have been infected with poliovirus. They are shedding the virus,” he said. “The spread is always a possibility because the spread is going to be silent.”
London, Aug 7 (IANS): Record levels of obesity and physical inactivity among children mean they are set to bear the brunt of poorer health effects from rising global tempera tures, warns a new comprehensive review of studies. While physical fitness is key to toler ating higher temperatures, children are more obese and less fit than ever before, argues Dr Shawnda Morrison, an environmental exer cise physiologist, from Slovenia’s University of Ljubljana. This could put them at greater risk of suffering heat-related health problems, such as dehydration, heat cramps, heat exhaustion or heat Shestroke.noted that current climate change policies fail to adequately address child health needs and New York, Aug 10 (IANS): People with exposure to a synthetic chemical found widely in a range of consumer and industrial products were 4.5 times more likely to suffer from non-viral hepatocellular carcinoma -- the most common type of liver cancer, according to a new study. The chemical, called perfluooctane sulfate or PFOS, is one of a class of man-made chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or ThesePFAS.chemicals are also called for ever chemicals because they break that encouraging children to make exercise part of their everyday lives must be prioritised if they are to cope with living in a hotter world. In the peer-reviewed journal Temperature, her team assessed a comprehensive review of over 150 medical and scientific studies into how children maintain physical activity, exercise, cope with heat, and how this might change as global temperatures rise. The research, she highlights in cludes a study of 457 primary school 5-12 year old boys in Thailand, which found that overweight youngsters were more than twice as likely to have difficulty regulating their body temperature as those of normal weight when exercising outdoors. In another study, data from emergency departments at down very slowly and accumulate in the environment and human tissue, including the liver. Researchers from the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine found evidence that PFOS appears to alter the normal process of glucose metabolism, bile acid metabolism and the metabolism of a type of amino acid called branched chain amino acids in the liver. The disruption of normal metabolic processes in the liver can cause more fat to accumulate in the liver, a condition known as non-alco holic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD. There has been a dramatic and unexplained rise in NAFLD around the globe in recent years, which is concerning because people with NAFLD have a much higher risk of developing liver cancer. Prior research in animals has suggested that PFOS exposure increases the risk of liver cancer, but this is the first study to confirm an association using human samples.
The study analysed blood samples from over 4,000 middle-aged levels of C-reactive protein,” Zhou Thesaid.study also raises the possibility that having adequate vitamin D concentrations may mitigate com plications arising from obesity and reduce the risk or severity of chron ic illnesses with an inflammatory component, such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and autoimmune “Boostingdiseases. vitamin D in people with deficiencies may reduce chronic inflammation, helping them avoid a number of related diseases,” Zhou Thesesaid. results are important and provide an explanation for some of the controversies in reported associations with vitamin D. “We have repeatedly seen evidence for health benefits for increasing vitamin D concentrations in indi viduals with very low levels, while for others, there appears to be little to no benefit,” said Professor Elina Hypponen, Director at the varsity’s Australian Centre for Precision Health. “These findings highlight the impor tance of avoiding clinical vitamin D deficiency, and provide further evidence for the wide-ranging effects of hormonal vitamin D,” she noted. Swedish adults that were taken over a decade ago. After adjusting for potential confounding factors including age, sex and waist circumference, smoking and drinking habits, LDLcholesterol, systolic blood pressure, and anti-hypertensive medication, elevated prostasin levels were found to be positively associated with the presence of diabetes, with those in the highest prostasin quartile almost twice as likely to have diabetes compared to the lowest. Over an average 22-year follow-up, 702 participants developed diabetes. During average follow-up of 24 years, 651 participants died from cancer. Researchers said that the findings are observational and may need further studies.
London, Aug 8 (IANS): Researchers have identified a blood protein whose elevated levels may raise risk of developing diabetes and death from Prostasincancer.isa stimulator of epithe lial sodium channels that regulate sodium balance, blood volume and blood pressure. The protein has been found to suppress high blood sugar-induced tumour growth and is associated with glucose metabolism. The findings, published in Diabetologia, people with prostasin were 76 per cent more likely to develop Prostasindiabetes.levelswere also found to be a better predictor of diabetes in younger participants, and those with lower blood glucose levels and better kidney function. Further, researchers found that prostasin was significantly associ ated with both cancer mortality and all-cause mortality. People with prostasin blood levels were 43 per cent more likely to die from cancer. For each doubling of prostasin concentration, risk of cancer mortal ity increased by 139 per cent and 24 per cent, respectively, among par ticipants with and without elevated levels of blood glucose (impaired fasting glucose). No association was found for chronic “Inflammationinflammation.isyour body’s way of protecting your tissues if you’ve been injured or have an infection,” Zhou said. The study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, examined the genetic data of 294?,970 participants to show the association between vitamin D and C-reactive protein levels, an indicator of inflammation. The team found a one-way relation ship between low levels of vitamin D and high levels of C-reactive protein. “High levels of C-reactive protein are generated by the liver in response to inflammation, so when your body is experiencing chronic inflammation, it also shows higher cardiovascular mortality. “Prostasin may be just an indicator that disease might occur, or could be causally relevant, which is exciting because it raises the possibility of targeting this protein with future treatments for both diabetes and cancer,” said Professor Gunnar Engstrom from Lund University in Malmo, “ProstasinSweden.isanew potential risk marker for the development of diabetes and for cancer mortality, especially in individuals with high blood glucose levels,” added Dr Xue Bao from The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School in Nanjing, China. “It is easily accessible, which enhances its potential to serve as a warning marker in the future.”
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children’s hospitals in the US, found attendance was higher during hotter days. Younger children were partic ularly likely to need emergency care. The research also found children’s aerobic fitness is 30 per cent lower than that of their parents at the same Thereage. are rapid declines in chil dren’s physical activity globally, especially over the last 30 years. Most children are not meeting the World Health Organization’s guide line of performing an average of at least 60 minutes of physical activity each Physicalday inactivity was accelerated, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic when schools and other societal infrastructures were closed. Higher temperatures and changes in weather patterns are projected to also lead to outbreaks of new diseases entering the human popu lation. If there are more movement restrictions put in place to contain the novel diseases, this will have potentially devastating consequenc es to children’s physical fitness, mental and physical health. “Yet, as the world warms, children are the least fit they have ever been. It is imperative that children are encouraged to do daily physical activity to build up, and maintain, their fitness, so that they enjoy moving their bodies and it doesn’t feel like ‘work’ or ‘a chore’ to them,” Morrison said. “This builds on the existing research, but takes it one step further,” said Jesse Goodrich, Postdoctoral scholar at University of Southern California’s Keck School of “LiverMedicine.cancer is one of the most serious endpoints in liver disease and this is the first study in humans to show that PFAS are associated with this disease,” she added. The team involved 50 participants who developed liver cancer, evaluated their blood samples taken prior to their cancer diagnosis and compared it with 50 people who did not develop cancer from the same Researchersstudy. found several types of PFOS in the blood samples that were taken before the participant developed liver cancer. The partici pants in the top 10 per cent of PFOS exposure were 4.5 times more likely to develop liver cancer than those with the lowest levels of PFOS in their blood.
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Daily multivitamin may be an unnecessary habit
Sydney, Aug 8 (IANS): Researchers have found a direct link between low levels of vitamin D and high levels of inflammation. The findings, led by a team from University of South Australia, provides an important biomarker to identify people at higher risk of or severity of chronic illnesses with an inflammatory component. Inflammation is an essential part of the body’s healing process. But when it persists, it can contribute to a wide range of complex diseases including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and autoimmune diseases. According to lead researcher Ang Zhou, from the varsity, the study suggest that boosting vitamin D in people with a deficiency may reduce
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Australia know how to win, I felt bad that India lost the gold medal match at CWG
CWG 2022: Sagar Ahlawat wins silver as India end up with seven medals in boxing Birmingham, Aug 8 (IANS) India ended its campaign in boxing at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games with super heavyweight pugilist Sagar Ahlawat settling for a silver medal after losing to England's Delicious Orie in the over 92 kg division final. Sagar, who was the fourth Indian to reach the boxing finals, was last in the ring and tried his best against an older boxer but came up short. The 23-year-old from Chandigarh started well against the 25-year-old Orie, the England national champi on, as he won the first round, getting the nod from all five judges. But he could not keep up the momentum in the second and third rounds as the English pugilist came back strongly. Orie won the second round on all five judges' scoring cards and though Sagar tried to counter him in the third and final round, it was too late. Orie was adjudged by all five judges, getting a unanimous 5-0 decision. This was Sagar's first Commonwealth Games medal as the Indians rarely do well in the heavier weight divisions. To his credit, he managed to reach the final. India ended the boxing competitions at Birmingham with seven medals (three gold, one silver and three bronze). They had bagged nine medals with three gold in 2018 in Gold Coast, so it is a bit of a let down for Indian boxers. One sureshot medal that India lost was from Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain who went out in the early Northernrounds.Ireland was the most successful team in Birmingham 2022 boxing, winning seven medals, the same as India but with five gold.
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Dubai, Aug 10 (IANS) Pakistan captain Babar Azam has managed to hang on to his No.1 batting spot in T20Is despite the fact that several India stars have made giant strides on the latest ICC Men's Player Rankings released on Wednesday. India cruised to a 4-1 series triumph in the recently-completed T20I series against the West Indies and several of their best performers cut into Babar's lead at the top of the batter Shreyasrankings.Iyerand Rishabh Pant were among the biggest movers as the race for the top ranking hots up ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup in Australia later this year. Iyer hit an impressive half-century during the fifth and final match of the series in Florida and was duly rewarded by jumping six places to 19th overall on the batter rankings. Pant finished the series as the equal second leading run-scorer on 115 runs, with his quick-fire 44 in the fourth match seeing the left-hander jump seven places to 59th. Emerging opener Suryakumar Yadav was the leading run-scorer during the series with 135 runs, but the decision to rest him for the final match meant he missed out on the chance to overtake Babar at the head of Yadavproceedings.remainsin second place on the T20I rankings, with Babar now holding a lead of 13 rating points ahead of the eagerly awaited meeting between India and Pakistan at the Asia Cup in Dubai later this Themonth.series against West Indies also saw a group of India's bowlers rewarded with big moves up the latest T20I rankings for bowlers. Young spinner Ravi Bishnoi was India's leading wicket-taker during the series with eight scalps and that helped the 21-year-old jump 50 places to 44th overall on the most recent list for bowlers. Team-mates Avesh Khan, Axar Patel, and Kuldeep Yadav were also big movers, while veteran quick Bhuvneshwar Kumar dropped one place to ninth after just three wick ets during the West Indies series. South Africa's recent 2-0 series triumph over Ireland away from home also saw a host of their players rewarded on the latest set of T20I rankings, with in-form opener Reeza Hendricks moving up two spots to 13th on the list for batters. Spinner Keshav Maharaj moves up 10 spots to 18th overall on the bowler rankings, while South Africa team-mate Dwaine Pretorius jumps seven places to 26th on the list for Thereall-rounders.wereno changes to the Test rankings with no red-ball matches held over the last week, while there were some minor movements in the ODI ranks following the opening two matches of the series between Zimbabwe and Bangladesh. In-form all-rounder Sikandar Raza has been a shining light for Zimbabwe in recent times and the experienced 36-year-old has made some eye-catching moves on the latest ODI rankings. Raza has scored consecutive un beaten centuries against Bangladesh and that has seen the right-hander jump 10 spots to 29th on the batter rankings and an impressive seven places to fourth on the list of all-rounders.
Jemimah Rodrigues and Harmanpreet Kaur took time to settle in before taking three bound aries off Darcie in the final over of powerplay. While Jemimah made room to slice over cover-point, Harmanpreet pulled over mid-wick et and creamed a drive down on one knee to pierce through cover. Jemimah continued to impress with her glorious off-side drives while Harmanpreet paddled for four and smoked a six down the ground to keep India afloat in the chase. Harmanpreet’s fascination for leg-side boundaries continued as she swung, swiped, and reached her fifty in 34 balls with a flick through mid-wicket. Post reaching her fifty, Harmanpreet smashed Alana for two more boundaries through the leg-side. Jemimah upped the ante with a slog off Megan, but the pacer had the last laugh on the third ball as she up rooted the right-hander’s leg-stump. India were plunged into deep trouble in the 16th over as Pooja Vastrakar holed out to deep mid-wicket off Ashleigh and Harmanpreet fell immediately as the edge off a premeditated scoop was caught by Alyssa Healy diving to her right. From there, despite coming neck and neck, India couldn’t get over the line, leaving Harmanpreet & Co heartbroken, yet again as they lost their last eight wickets for 34 runs. Earlier, a terrific fightback from India’s bowlers in the last five overs meant Australia finished at 161-8. Apart from the 74-run stand between Beth and captain Meg Lanning, Australia wasn’t allowed to break free as India conceded only 36 runs in the last five overs, taking five scalps. India were splendid in their fielding, making tight stops, taking brilliant catches and effecting terrific runouts. With the ball, Renuka Thakur and Sneh Rana took two wickets each while Deepti Sharma and Radha Yadav had a wicket apiece. Renuka and Meghna Singh built pressure on Australia as nine runs came off the first two overs, with an edgy four for Alyssa. That worked wonders for India as a last moment review showed Alyssa was trapped lbw by an inswinger from Renuka while going for a swipe across the line in the third over. Beth got going with boundaries through drive and flick while Meg nailed a drive through off-side and then hit an effortless six over long-off as Australia reached 39-1 in power-play. Beth and Meg continued to rotate strike and hit occasional boundaries before the duo took 17 runs off Harmanpreet’s first over, with the Australia skipper hitting three fours off her Indian Butcounterpart.herpromising knock was cut short by Radha flicking a sharp underarm throw to non-striker’s end on Beth pushing back the ball to bowler, catching Meg inches short of her crease. Tahlia McGrath, playing despite testing positive for Covid-19, fell cheaply as Radha dived full length to her left at backward point to take a stunning catch off Deepti. Ashleigh had hit a few boundaries, including a towering six over longon off Radha. But Sneh deceived her with flight and loop to be stumped easily by Taniyaa Bhatia. Beth got her fifty by thumping a juicy full toss over long-off. But India continued to take scalps as Grace Harris miscued to mid-on off Renuka. In the next over, Beth tried to clear long-on off Sneh. But Deepti back tracked from mid-on and stuck out her right arm even as she was losing balance to complete a one-handed blinder. India’s impressive fielding show continued as Meghna took a sharp catch at mid-wicket to send Alana King back while Jess Jonassen was caught short of her crease by a direct hit from Smriti. 161-8 was enough for Australia to continue their title-winning juggernaut. Brief Scores: Australia 161-8 in 20 overs (Beth Mooney 61, Meg Lanning 36; Renuka Singh 2-25, Sneh Rana 2-38) beat India 152 all out in 19.3 overs (Harmanpreet Kaur 65, Jemimah Rodrigues 33; Ashleigh Gardner 3-16, Megan Schutt 2-27) by nine runs
Huge boost for India cricketers in latest ICC T20I rankings; Babar Azam stays No.1 batter
Birmingham, Aug 8 (IANS): A captain’s knock from Harmanpreet Kaur and some terrific bowling as well as fielding performance wasn’t enough for India to get the gold medal in 2022 Commonwealth Games at Edgbaston on Sunday. Harmanpreet made 65 off 43 balls and also shared a 96-run stand for third wicket with Jemimah ButRodrigues.theinability of recovering from losing a flurry of wickets taken by Ashleigh Gardner and Megan Schutt meant India clinched the silver medal in their maiden outing in the multi-nation games, losing by nine runs, the exact same margin by which they had lost the 2017 ODI World Cup final to England at Lord’s. Shafali Verma began by smashing Megan Schutt for a brace of bound aries in the 12-run opening over. But in the next over, Smriti Mandhana’s shuffle caused her downfall as Darcie Brown uprooted her legstump. Shafali was then dropped at cover off Ashleigh Gardner at the start of third over. But on the fourth ball, she miscued again and was caught at mid-on.
New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS) The Indian badminton contingent is back home after a brilliant perfor mance at the recently concluded 2022 Commonwealth Games in PVBirmingham.Sindhu,Kidambi Srikanth and Chirag Shetty were on Wednesday welcomed by supporters and fam ily members with bouquets at the Hyderabad airport early after they returned from Birmingham. India finished its Commonwealth Games 2022 campaign at fourth position with 61 medals (22 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze). Sindhu clinched India's first gold medal in badminton at the CWG 2022 and the first women's singles CWG gold medal of her career. Sindhu defeated Canada's Michelle. Whereas, Satwik Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty bagged gold in the badminton men's doubles. Srikanth won the bronze medal in the men's singles final after defeat ing Jia Heng Teh of Singapore 21-15, Meanwhile,21-18. the World Championships bronze medallist Lakshya Sen came from behind against Ng Tze Yong of Malaysia to win the gold medal in the men's singles final. The event marked 20-year-old Lakshya's maiden appearance at the Commonwealth Games. The Indian lost the opening game 19-21 after a hard fought battle but bounced back to win a memora ble gold on the closing day.
Bhavani Devi bags gold at Commonwealth Fencing Championship New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS) Indian ace fencer CA Bhavani Devi on Wednesday won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Fencing Championship 2022 in the Senior Women's Sabre Individual category. According to information received here, she defeated Veronika Vasileva of Australia 15-10 to win the title in London. "BHAVANI DEVI IS COMMONWEALTH FENCING CHAMPION @IamBhavaniDevi wins GOLD at Commonwealth #Fencing Championship 2022 in Senior Women's Sabre Individual category. She won 15-10 against Vasileva in the Sabre final. Hearty congratulations, Bhavani.#IndianSports," the Sports Authority of India (SAI) wrote on Twitter. Bhavani Devi scripted history by becoming the lone Indian fencer to qualify for Tokyo Olympics after she reached the quarter-final of the 2020 Fencing World Cup in Hungary. She qualified through the adjusted Official Ranking Method (AOR). At Tokyo Olympics 2020, she won her opening match against Tunisia's Nadia Ben Azizi.
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We must always find a reason to celebrate- our country’s presence and achievements at the world stage. That’s what the sport teaches us and that is why we compete in the sports field. Whenever India is up against Australia in any discipline; we always know it will be a good con test. Australia gave us a drubbing in Men’s Hockey at the Commonwealth Games and a day earlier our women’s cricket team learnt another loss the hard way from the World Champions. Australia is a strong force in the field of sport and each time we face them there is a lesson; a lesson to improve holistically. To be fair, the Indian women cricket teams have known this right through decades and generations. Australia know how to win. If you match their skill level; then their belief and confidence takes over; that pulls them ahead of their Harmanpreet,competition.the senior most member in this Indian side; since making her debut in 2009 has been involved in many semi-finals and now finals too where the final lap is still unconquered. And she knows it better than the rest that the last one is the toughest lap. During the medal ceremony while the Indian contingent acknowledged the crowd with silver medals around their neck; Harman stood still. It will be anyone’s guess that she was still in disbelief, still searching those answers with many thoughts rushing through her mind- of what more will give India the winners’ pedestal. Playing as a professional in international cricket leagues has certainly opened up the mindset, en hanced the skill levels and more so given a player a massive opportunity to learn and know their individual game. Jemimah has succeeded in the UK leagues, Smriti and Harman have been successful in both UK and Australia. Deepti Sharma and Radha Yadav have also had good outings. But it’s just the beginning. It is a long, time-consuming process. Just to give an idea- for a male crick eter; a journey from India Under-19 to becoming a consistent member or match winner for the senior men’s team takes approximately 5-7 years or more. Leaving aside the pathway to becoming an India U19 player; this male player from there on will continuously be playing in the IPL, domestic tournaments, India A tours and will be busy throughout the Whereas,year. an Indian woman crick eter would play half the number of days of that in comparison. So; the development cannot be at the same pace keeping all parameters common. For a 5 feet 4inch average height of team to match 5’8’ average height team will require a lot of skill and strength. As a player I have always liked competing against the good teams who are probably better than us too. And in that preparation to succeed the mindset is also to win that battle (individually against the bowler and collectively as a team). A lot has not changed over a decade. India still looks to beat Australia/ England. Whereas these teams look to create their own new paths to succeed. While we play catch up, they are progressing to another height. Good for the ones behind as a pathway is already made; but how quickly you cross it remains an individual’s effort. I felt bad that India lost the gold medal match at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Similar flaws came to the forefront for India. But reflecting back on the areas that had shown improvement; it gave me solace that we are progressing. Harman acknowledged that she required another batter alongside her to finish that final lap. We have one and very soon will have more than one for India. Sport is all about progressing... (Anjum Chopra is a former captain of the Indian women’s cricket team. The views expressed here are personal)
The Mixed Doubles gold medal was an even better tribute to the adapt ability of a 40-year-old player who could forge a successful partnership with around 16 years younger than him and that too after training with Sreeja Akula for 2-3 days.
Malaysia were bowled out for just 27 in that game which Thailand won by 87 Here,runs.India struck early in the second innings while defending 188. Axar Patel had Jason Holder, promoted to open the batting, dismissed for a duck. He followed it up with two more wickets in the fifth over to complete the powerplay with figures of 3-1-15-3. Kuldeep Yadav sent back Nicholas Pooran and Ravi Bishnoi struck twice in an over to remove Rovman Powell and Keemo Paul. He added two more later in the game to finish with career-best figures of 4/16. With the win, India completed a 4-1 series rout, winning both matches in the USA leg of the T20I series. Brief scores: India 188 for 7 (Iyer 64, Hooda 38, Smith 3-33) beat West Indies 100 (Hetmyer 56, Bishnoi 4-16, Kuldeep 3-12, Axar 3-15) by 88 runs
Birmingham, Aug 9 (IANS) As the day started at its usual time on a busy Tuesday, the city of Birmingham woke up with a huge hangover caused by competition, celebrations, disappointments, heartbreaks, and emotional outbursts caused by an overdose of sports, sports, and more sports as the 22nd Commonwealth Games came to an end. The venues wore a deserted look with only workers toiling hard to get them back to their pre-CWG roles or get them ready for the next event. Also absent were the friendly, but often clueless, volunteers that at most times went out of their way to help the sportspersons and the visitors that came out for the Games. As life in Birmingham returns to normal, the athletes that were the centre of attraction for the last 11 days of sports extravaganza are on their way back -- and some of them have already returned. The Indian contingent, whatever is remaining of it as the weightlifting, wrestling, athletics, and judo squads have already reached India, will leave Birmingham basking in glory as they pulled off some great performances to finish fourth in the medals table with 61 medals -- 22 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze. Australia as expected topped the table with 178 medals (67-57-54) but were run close by hosts England, who produced their best-ever performance ending with 176 medals (57-66-53) while Canada were a distant third with 92 medals (26-32-34). The Indians have all the reasons to be proud of their Birmingham show as they managed to win these many medals without contribution from shooting, which had earned us 16 medals in Gold Coast when India had finished with 66 medals and a third place in the standings. India’s best performance at the Commonwealth Games was in 2010 as hosts -- a second place finished with 101 medals (38-27-36). But the 2010 edition had more sports besides shooting like archery and tennis in which India won medals. So, if we take those things into consideration, Birmingham 2022 was huge success for India. There were gains for India at these Games which augurs well taking into account next year’s Asian Games and the 2024 Olympics in Paris. The most heartening aspect of India’s performance in Birmingham was the eight medals won in track and field with youngsters like steeplechase Avinash Sable, triple jumpers Eldhose Paul and Abdulla Aboobacker, walkers Priyanka Goswami and Sandeep Kumar, jave lin thrower Annu Rani, long jumper Murali Sreeshankar and Tejaswin Shankar stealing the show. India claimed eight medals in athletics including gold in the triple jump by Eldhose Paul, the first gold medal in that discipline by an Indian the silver won by Mohinderpal Singh Gill in 1974 was our best in TJ. The undoubted star for India in track and field was Avinash Sable who challenged the Kenyan hegemony in the 3000m steeplechase, finishing second, losing the gold medal by 500th of a second. Abraham Kibiwot, the gold medallist, present ed a brave front but it was sure he had his heart in his mouth for a few seconds as Sable made a late charge to the finish line virtually hanging onto the Kenyan runner’s shoulder as he crossed the finish line. It was a tactically a brilliant race as sable broke to the front early and forced to Kenyans to speed up and exert energy early so as to keep ahead and thus they could not produce a strong finishing kick. Sable found some hidden reserves somewhere in his body and pro duced a deadline finishing kick. His timing of 8:11.20 is a new personal best and the national record while Kibiwot took gold in 8:11.15 with his compatriot Amos Serem taking bronze in 8:16.83. Eldhose Paul, who led a 1-2 finish in triple jump, was the other big gain for India from track and field, one who could be further groomed into a medal winner at Paris. He hopped, skipped and jumped into history books as India’s first gold medallist in the triple jump finishing ahead of Abdulla Aboobacker. Paul had the best effort of 17.03 metres for gold while Aboobacker finished with 17.02 to take silver. India’s Praveen Chithravel finished fourth, narrowly missing the bronze medal. Though Paul’s effort is nowhere close to the distance of 17.98 that Pedro Pichardo of Portugal but he sure is a good prospect considering his Theage.wrestlers and weightlifters, as expected, dominated the show, winning 22 of the 61 medals that India bagged. Wrestlers won 12 medals while weightlifters 10 but that was expected as the competi tion in both these sports is not tough at the Commonwealth Games level. Still, the manner in which Bajrang Punia, Shakshi Malik, Deepak Punia, Ravi Kumar Dahiya and Vinesh Phogat won their gold medals was a treat to the eye. They were dominant and did not give others the chance to come closer. Rio Olympic bronze medallist Sakshi Malik won her first medal in Commonwealth Games would have boosted her confidence ahead of the World Championships and Asian Games. She trailed her Canadian opponent but came back strongly to pin her down after a brilliant double-leg attack. In weightlifting, Mirabai Chanu, Jeremy Lalrinnunga and Achinta Shauli won gold with impressive performance despite the poor standard. Sanket Sargar won the silver medal, injuring himself in the processing needing surgery.
India at Birmingham 2022: Wrestlers, lifters and athletes steal the show; paddler Sharath the top performer
The other gains for India were from the lawn bowl rinks where the team of Lovely Choubey, Rupa Rani Tirkey, Pinki, and Nayanmoni Saika won an unexpected gold in Women’s Fours while the Men’s Fours of Sunil Bahadur, Chandan Singh, Navneet Singh and Dinesh Kuma claimed a silver. India also came close to winning a medal in the Men’s Pairs Onevent.the individual front, the veteran table tennis star, Achanta Sharath Kamal surprised everyone by winning four medals -- three of them including the Men’s Team -- gold medals. Sharath was in brilliant form, playing his role as India defended the Men’s Team gold. But the medals that were more satisfying were the Men’s Singles gold and the one in Mixed Doubles in the company of youngster Sreeja SharathAkula. turned the clock back by 16 years to win the singles gold medal beating Liam Pitchford of England, ranked 20th in the world, 4-1. It was a comfortable win for someone that had played the last match on the previous evening and must have reached his dwellings around midnight. He had played six matches daily in the last couple of days and his victory in the singles gives an insight into this physical and mental strength that makes one excel in such a schedule.
Bishnoi, Axar, Kuldeep share all ten wickets as India seal 4-1 series victory
Lauderhill, Florida, Aug 8 (IANS) Indian spinners took all ten wickets as they thrashed West Indies in the fifth and final T20I of the series here to complete a 4-1 series victory. Ravi Bishnoi took four wickets while Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav shared three apiece to bowl West Indies out for 100 and give India a thumping 88-run win. It was the first instance of spinners taking all 10 wickets in a men's T20I innings. There have been seven other instances of spinners taking as many as nine wickets in a men's T20I innings with the latest occurrence coming in Austria's T20I against Hungary in June, 2022. It also occurred in the T20 World Cup last year when Afghanistan spinners took nine wickets against Scotland. This has, however, happened before in women's T20Is with Thailand spinners taking all 10 wickets against Malaysia in Bangkok in 2019.
CWG 2022, badminton: Kidambi Srikanth wins bronze in men’s singles; Treesa Jolly, Gayatri Gopichand clinch bronze in women’s doubles Birmingham, Aug 8 (IANS) World championships silver medallist India's Kidambi Srikanth clinched bronze medal in the men's singles on the penultimate day of Commonwealth Games Badminton action here on Sunday. The Indian pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand clinched a bronze medal in the badminton women's singles after defeating Australia's Chen Hsuan-Yu Wendy and Gronya Somerville 21-15, 21-19 in straight games. This is Srikanth's second singles medal at the Games as he won the silver in 2018 Gold Coast, and fourth overall. Additionally, this is the Indian's second medal at the ongoing Games; he had won a silver medal in the mixed team event as Thewell.29-year-old defeated Singapore's Jason Teh with a 21-15, 21-18 win to record his second medal of the Games, following Tuesday's mixed team silver - and fourth Commonwealth medal in total - on Sunday evening. Known to be one of the fastest movers in the badminton court, Teh had been in a gruelling encounter earlier in the day against India's Lakshya Sen, who is later scheduled to play the final match against Malaysia's Tze Yong Ng. Earlier, World championships silver medallist Srikanth suffered a 21-13, 19-21, 10-21 defeat against 42nd-ranked Tze Yong NG in the other men's singles semifinal. The 29-year-old was dominant in the first game but was upstaged in the next two games by the Malaysian opponent. After securing a 21-13 win in the first game, Srikanth lost a closely-fought second game 21-19 before the Malaysia eventu ally dominated Srikanth to win the decider 21-10. Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand made it two third-place finishes for India with a 2-0 victory over Australia's Chen Hsuan-yu and Gronya Somerville in the women's doubles. The pair of Treesa and Gopichand cruised to a 21-15 win in the first game and had an emphatic start to the second, racing away to a 11-5 lead at the break. Singapore's Yeo Jia Min added women's singles bronze to the mixed team bronze she won on Tuesday after a 2-0 victory over Kirsty Gilmour of Scotland. The 23-year-old claimed a 21-14 win in the first game against the Gold Coast 2018 bronze medallist before a hard-fought second game was settled 22-20. In the mixed doubles, Malaysia's Tan Kian Meng and Lai Pei Jing added bronze to their mixed team gold medal as they saw off Adam Hall and Julie MacPherson of Scotland 2-0. In the final match of the day at the NEC, Olympic bronze medallists Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik - who took mixed team gold in Birmingham last week alongside Sunday night's opponents - claimed a narrow 2-1 victory in an all-Ma laysian bronze medal match against Chan Peng Soon and Tan Kian Meng.
Young Sreeja was another gain for Indian table tennis as she showed great composure and grit to come back and play Mixed Doubles after suffering two heartbreak defeats in However,singles. Manika Batra, who dazzled her way to victory in the women’s singles title at Gold Coast in 2018, turned out to be a big disappointment as she returned from Birmingham without a single medal even though she participated in four Overall,disciplines.thetabletennis contingent, which had bagged eight medals in Gold Coast, could manage only five medals in Birmingham 2022 while para-TT star Bhavina Patel and Sonal Patel contributed gold and bronze to make the tally look more healthy. Bhavina showed that she is one of the best in her category in the world with easy wins in the entire Thetournament.Indians did well in badminton too though the defeat in the Mixed Team final to Malaysia was a big dampener. PV Sindhu, the two-time medallist at the Olympics and a former World /Champion, was the highest-ranked female player in the fray and duly won the women’s singles title despite being troubled by a niggle in her Achilles, which restricted her movement and speed in the semis and final. She managed to claim her first singles gold at the Commonwealth Games. The men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty too won their maiden gold medal in individual competitions as they came up with a superb display to beat the English pair of Ben Lane and Sean Vendy in straight games. Lakshya Sen showed class and determination in coming back from a game down to beat a strong oppo nent and claim his maiden Men’s Singles title. Kidambi Srikanth, who had won silver four years ago, had to be satisfied with a bronze medal. India failed to repeat its Gold Coast success in boxing too. In 2018, India had won nine medals in boxing, topping the table with three gold, three silver and as many bronze. In Birmingham, India won three gold medals with World Champion Nikhat Zareen, Nitu Ghanghas and Amit Panghal triumphing in their respective weight categories. But Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain was a huge disappoint ment as she made an early exit despite kicking up a storm on social media by complaining about her coach not getting the proper accred itation to be with her in the village. Mohit Ahlawat got In squash, Saurav Ghosal won his first individual medal -- a bronze in men’s singles beating a strong opponent in James Wilstrop of England in three straight games in the final. He also partnered with Dipika Pallikal Karthik for the bronze medal in mixed doubles. However, the big squash contingent was a bit of a letdown that it was only a few months back that India had emerged world champions in both the Mixed Doubles (Ghosal/ Dipika) and Women’s Doubles (Dipika/Joshna Chinnappa) with excellent performance at the World TheDoubles.hockey teams was happy to win medals at the Commonwealth Games after going medalless at Gold Coast in 2018, though the women’s team could have won a silver or even gold while the men could have avoided slumping to another humil iating defeat to World No 1 Australia in the final. The Australians turned out to be the stumbling blocks for the women’s team too as they lost their semifinal 3-0 in the shootout after coming back from a goal deficit to level things up in the last-four stage match. But the shootout could have been better managed as the officials lacked coordination and made Australia take their first attempt again despite Indian goalkeeper Savita saving it, because the timer had not started. Australia scored off that retaken penalty shootout. The Indians were rattled by the turn of events and could not convert any of their three attempts. The Indian women’s cricket team, which was hosted in a hostel as they usually do instead of the various Games village, bagged the silver medal as cricket returned to the sport for the first time after 1998. India did well in the T20 format to beat hosts England in the semifinal and just fell short against Australia in the final. However, the Aussies once again benefitted as they were allowed to play all-rounder Tahlia McGrath despite testing positive for Covid. The women’s cricketers like Harmanpreet Kaur, Sneha Rana, Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma and Renuka Singh Thakur gave a good account of their talent as the sport looks to get further international recognition by making it to the WhetherOlympics.the T20 version of cricket makes it to the Olympics or not, it sure was a hit at Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. It sure helps the Game in becoming more relevant by introducing newage sports. But the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) still needs to do a lot if the Games have to become more appropriate to current times and relevant.
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Birmingham, Aug 8 (IANS): At age of 40, Sharath Kamal turned the clock back to win the Men’s Singles title after 16 years to cap a memorable four-medal haul; badminton star PV Sindhu and men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy added a gold medal to the silver they won four years back while Lakshya Sen won the men’s singles for complete domination of the individual competitions as India ended the Commonwealth Games here with a flourish on Monday. The men’s hockey team’s disastrous 0-7 thrashing by World No 1 Australia was a bit of a dampener but the silver they won was still a gain as India had failed to win a single medal in hockey at the Gold Coast edition in 2018. G Sathiyan, India’s highest-ranked table tennis player picked up a bronze medal in men’s singles to add to the gold in Men’s Team competition and silver in Men’s IndiaDoubles.thus ended its campaign in the 22nd edition of the Commonwealth Games with a total of 61 medals -- 22 gold, 16 silver, and 23 bronze Themedals.61medals that its sportspersons bagged in Birmingham meant
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women’s cricket. “Congratulations to Australia on winning the first ever Commonwealth Games gold medal for women’s cricket. It has been a fantastic ten days of competition at Edgbaston with packed out crowds getting behind the world’s best “Everyplayers.”game has felt like a home game with fans of all eight compet ing nations turning out in force to watch top quality cricket and some hard-fought games, including the final was a superb advert for the women’s game.” “I’d like to thank the Commonwealth Games Federation and Birmingham 2022 for giving cricket the oppor tunity to be part of a multi-sport Games, the players and match officials have thoroughly enjoyed the Theexperience.”nine-run win on Sunday continues Australia’s dominance in the women’s cricketing circuit after being reigning champions in 20over and 50-over cricket. Electing to bat first, opener Beth Mooney top-scored with 61 while India made a fightback in the last five overs as Australia made 161-8 in their 20 Despiteovers. captain Harmanpreet Kaur making 65 and sharing a 96-run stand with Jemimah Rodrigues, Australia made a late comeback to bowl out India for 152 with three deliveries left in innings and halt all chances of a memorable winning run chase for the eventual silver medallists. Under captain Meg Lanning and interim coach Shelley Nitschke, Australia were undefeated in the tournament which culminated in a wonderfully hard-fought final. “Huge congratulations to Shelley, Meg and the players and support staff. Winning a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games is a historic moment for Australian cricket and thoroughly deserved. This team has arguably been the most dominant in world sport over past few years and we are incredibly proud of their achievements,” said Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley. form as they also won gold in ApartBirmingham.fromthem, few familiar names continued their dominant run, youngsters shot to the limelight, and old guards successfully sought redemption in Birmingham. Sakshi Malik scripted a superb comeback after she was written off following her failure to qualify for Tokyo Olympics. Deepak Punia dethroned two-time gold medallist from Pakistan, Muhammad Inam, to win Gold. Young Anshu Malik lost her final but finished with a silver in her maiden Commonwealth Games appearance. Vinesh Phogat overcame the lows of Tokyo Olympics and her battle with mental health to become the first Indian woman to win three successive Gold medals at the Commonwealth Games. Ravi Kumar Dahiya needed a little less than seven minutes to win his maiden Commonwealth Games gold medal as the Tokyo Olympics silver medallist was at his dominant best in the men’s 57kg category. On the other hand, the 19-year-old Naveen won Gold, beating Pakistan’s Mohammed Sharif in the final. The WFI would be feeling proud with all the wrestlers coming home with medals in their hands.
Birmingham, Aug 8 (IANS): For most members of the men’s hockey team at the Commonwealth Games here India gained a silver medal in Birmingham, for goalkeeper PR Sreejesh the team lost a gold. It is a matter of perception -- if you want to see the glass as half-filled or the hall empty. Sreejesh chose to see it as an opportunity lost. India did well to reach the final of the men’s hockey competition here in a strong competition that involved World No 1 Australia, England, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, Malaysia, and Pakistan. However, the 0-7 thrashing India received at the hands of Australia in the final proved a dampener on the team’s celebrations. The Tokyo Olympic bronze medallists were happy to win a medal, having gone medal-less from Gold Coast in 2018. “We didn’t win a silver medal, we lost gold. It’s disappointing, but in a tournament like the Commonwealth Games, getting into the finals is a great “Therething.area lot of youngsters in this team, so this is going to be a good lesson for them. If you want to win the major medals you need to meet top teams like Australia in the finals or semifinals. You have to mentally and physically prepare for that,” Sreejesh said after the match. “As the most senior [in the team] this is my second time losing in the final (after 2014), so it’s quite hard, but for the youngsters, this is going to be great learning.” Sreejesh said the team will learn from this event and play better in bigger events like next year’s World Cup in Odisha and the Asian Games that India finished fourth in the medals table, behind Australia (178), England (176), and Canada (92). India’s total haul in Birmingham was five less than the 66 that India had won four years back in the Gold Coast and points to a significant improvement by the country’s sportspersons as India lost out on a number of medals because of the absence of shooting, a sport that it dominated in 2018. Going by India’s record at Gold Coast, India’s medal haul would have been much higher if shooting and archery, another sport that it dominates at the Commonwealth level, were included in the programme The day, however, belonged to Sharath Kamal as he managed to turn back the clock and win his second gold medal in men’s singles, 16 years after he won the first. On Monday, Sharath defeated England’s Liam Pitchford 4-1 in the final to bag his fourth medal at Birmingham -- gold in men’s team competition, gold in mixed doubles with Sreeja Akula and the silver in men’s dou bles with G Sathiyan. Sathiyan redeemed himself by winning the bronze medal by beating Paul Drinkhall in a pulsating encounter that went to the wire as Australia on winning the inaugural Commonwealth Games women’s cricket gold medal in Birmingham, beating India by nine runs in a tense New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS): The Indian badminton contingent is back home after a brilliant perfor mance at the recently concluded 2022 Commonwealth Games in PVBirmingham.Sindhu,Kidambi Srikanth and Chirag Shetty were on Wednesday welcomed by supporters and fam ily members with bouquets at the Hyderabad airport early after they returned from Birmingham. India finished its Commonwealth Games 2022 campaign at fourth position with 61 medals (22 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze). Sindhu clinched India’s first gold medal in badminton at the CWG 2022 and the first women’s singles CWG gold medal of her career. Sindhu defeated Canada’s Michelle. Whereas, Satwik Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty bagged gold in the badminton men’s Srikanthdoubles.wonthe bronze medal in the men’s singles final after defeating Jia Heng Teh of Singapore 21-15, Meanwhile,21-18. the World Championships bronze medallist this time. Asked ‘if it is enough?’ Wrestling ‘gurus’ have their opinions. “Gold medallists are fine, because they can’t go beyond gold (laughs). But that doesn’t mean they should not work on their weaknesses. Like the margin of win can be improved. But whoever loses gold, will have to work hard as the level of competi tion will go up from here to Asiad, Worlds and then the Paris Olympics. “I was impressed with many wins by fall. This is good for wrestling,” a former coach told IANS. Another coach said, “Women could have won five gold medals. Not impressed with the number frankly. Nothing less than gold in CWG excites me. Paris is too far, so WFI (Wrestling Federation of India) must plan accordingly and grapplers need to give everything in training.” the Indian won 4-3 (11-9, 11-3, 11-5, 8-11, 9-11, 10-12, 9 - 11). Two-time Olympics medallist Sindhu bagged her maiden Women’s Singles gold at the Commonwealth Games as she defeated Michelle Li of Canada 21-15, 21-13 in a rather one-sided final despite not being fully fit as she had suffered an Achilles niggle during the semifinal win. Sindhu, the highest-seeded player here, was not tested much in Birmingham as she won all of her matches rather comfortably. Her only regret for her would be the mixed team’s defeat to Malaysia in the final. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty too claimed a maiden Men’s Doubles gold, living up to their ranking as the World’s seventh best pair. They defeated Ben Lane and Sean Vendy of England in straight games -- 21-15, 21-13. Lakshya Sen claimed the men’s sin gles title in Commonwealth Games for India after 14 when Paupalli Kashyap won what was India’s third title in this category. Sen, the highest-ranked Indian player in the BWF rankings Sen came back after losing the first set to prevail over Tze Yong Ng of Malaysia, 19-21, 21-9, 21-16 to win his second medal at Overall,Birmingham.itwas a good performance by the Indians at Birmingham. The medal count was expected to be lower than the previous edition because of the absence of shooting from the programme but in the end other sports like athletics, lawn bowls, and judo made up for the deficit. Wrestling and Weightlifting remained the major medal winners for India while badminton and table tennis too contributed to the total tally. final at Edgbaston. In an official statement, Allardice also called Sunday’s gold medal match as a superb advertisement for Lakshya Sen came from behind against Ng Tze Yong of Malaysia to win the gold medal in the men’s singles final. The event marked 20-year-old Lakshya’s maiden appearance at the Commonwealth Games. The Indian lost the opening game 19-21 after a hard fought battle but bounced back to win a memora ble gold on the closing day.
Birmingham, Aug 8 (IANS): Geoff Allardice, the Chief Executive of the International Cricket Council (ICC), on Monday, congratulated New Delhi, Aug 14 (IANS): As expected Indian wrestlers had a medal rush as they got a perfect 12 at the Commonwealth Games from their contingent. However, a tougher test awaits them at Asiad, World Championships and Paris Olympics. Before the start of the Birmingham Games, IANS had said that the Indian grapplers had a great oppor tunity to bag 12 medals in all their weight categories. And the results are in front of everybody to see. Well, there is no rocket science to it. Actually, the past records have suggested that the CWG have always been a happy hunting ground for the Indian wrestlers. And the reason is the level of competition in CWG. In 2022, the nation ruled the wres tling mat in a depleted field, getting medals in all 12 weight categories and also improving the gold tally from previous editions’ five to six
India’s badminton contingent returns home, Sindhu, Shetty receive warm welcome Perfect 12 from Indian wrestlers at CWG 2022, but tougher tests await them
With a good show at CWG 2022, wrestling fans would be upset with the news that the sports will not be part of the 2026 Games as the host nation Victoria has decided to exclude shooting and wrestling. Focusing on India’s ‘Road to Paris’ blog, if one checks records, the country has so far won seven med als in wrestling in Olympics.
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The first Indian wrestler to win an Olympic medal was K.D. Jadhav, who won bronze way back in the 1952 Helsinki Games. Though India’s next triumph came after a long wait of 56 years with Sushil Kumar’s bronze at Beijing 2008. From there on, India has won at least one wrestling medal in each of the last four Olympics. The latest Olympics medallists in wrestling are Ravi Dahiya (Silver) and Bajrang Punia (Bronze) from Tokyo 2020. Both are in prime in Hangzhou in /China.
“These sorts of tournaments give us more experience - how to handle the pressure, how to come up, how to push yourself high when you’re down or when you prepare for a “Nowmatch.the players are getting the rhythm, getting into the semis and finals. Once you learn how to get there then they’re going to be the champions,” Sreejesh said. India captain Manpreet Singh said it was one of those days when his team could not play its game. “”They played a good game, but we didn’t play our own game. We made a couple of mistakes and they took advantage and scored against us. “This is the best hockey in the world, they are one of the best teams in the world. You can’t make mistakes against these kinds of teams.”. Manpreet said silver was not the medal they come here for. “This was not the result we wanted. A good fight, a closer result... then we would be happy, but this is not the result we wanted. We could have done something more, we could have created more opportunity, but we didn’t play our best game,” said Manpreet Singh.
Overall, the performances were satisfactory but this is just beginning
Birmingham, Aug 8 (IANS): Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem on Sunday became the first javelin thrower from the sub-continent to cross the 90 metre mark to win the gold medal at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games here. Nadeem, who is in a regular battle with India’s Tokyo Olympics gold medallist Neeraj Chopra and at times even uses his javelin during competitions, won the bragging rights with the Indian as he became the first to cross the 90-metre mark. On Sunday at the Alexander Stadium here, Nadeem came up with a massive personal best of 90.18m for a Games Record in his fifth throw, Birmingham, Aug 8 (IANS): India’s Sharath Kamal and Sreeja Akula won the gold medal in the mixed doubles table tennis event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, here on TheSunday.Indiaduo of Sharath and Sreeja, with a solid combination of experience and youth, beat Javen Choong and Karen Lyne of Malaysia 11-4, 9-11, 11-5, 11-6 to win the elusive gold medal. This was India’s 18th gold in Birmingham and fifth of the day after medals in boxing and athletics. This was also Sharath Kamal’s third medal at the CWG 2022 after a gold in men’s team event and silver in continue her career in boxing. That effort and dedication was rewarded on Sunday as she won her first gold in Commonwealth Games with an easy win. “I’m so happy after winning this gold medal. I want to dedicate this medal to the people of my country. I want to thank the Govt of India, SAI, and BFI for all the support. I’d also like to thank my coaches & my family as because of their support i was able to win this gold medal. Thank you to NCOE Rohtak too where I had trained for many years,” Nitu said after winning the gold Amitmedal.Panghal was next into the ring and came out triumphant, adding the gold medal to his Asian Championship wins, beating Kiaran Macdonald 5-0 on points in another unanimous decision in the Men’s Flyweight (over 48-51kg) division. Panghal dominated the scores on all five judges’ cards with as he got a perfect 10 from each of them. He continued his dominant show as he landed some good punches in the in second too and did not allow Macdonald many chances to take control of the bout. The English boxer made some last-ditch attacks in the third and final round and even managed to be adjudged a closer winner by one of the five judges but Amit had done enough even in this round to get a unanimous decision. Nikhat made it three out of three jumping to the top of the standings and setting himself up for a medal.
The chief minister said on Wednesday that under the new sports policy, the government had recently announced that players who win medals at international events would be given ‘due respect and position.’
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Besides eight medallists, five other players from Uttar Pradesh will get Rs 5 lakh each from the government for participation in the Commonwealth Games, Sehgal said. The five sportspersons are Meerut’s Seema Poonia (discus throw), Varanasi’s weightlifters Poonam Yadav and Poornima Yadav, Jaunpur’s Rohit Yadav (javelin throw) and Sambhal’s Sarita Yadav (hammer throw. The 2022 Commonwealth Games were held in Birmingham, England from July 28 to August 8.
won medals in the Commonwealth Games are Priyanka Goswami who won a silver medal in 10-kilometre walk, Deepti Sharma of Meerut and Meghna Singh of Bijnor as well as Lalit Upadhyay of Varanasi who bagged silver medals in women’s cricket and hockey, respectively.
UP to honour sportspersons from CWG
Lucknow, Aug 10 (IANS) Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced that the Uttar Pradesh government will honour eight sportspersons who have made the state and the country proud by winning medals at Commonwealth Games (CWG) in Birmingham.
Nikhat Zareen leads Indian boxers’ charge as India win three gold in boxing ring Arshad Nadeem, Neeraj Chopra’s Pakistan friend, wins javelin gold with 90-metre throw
Similarly, Vijay Kumar Yadav of Varanasi, Divya Kakran of Muzaffarnagar, Annu Rani of Meerut and Vandana Kataria have bagged bronze medals for the country in judo, wrestling, javelin throw and women’s hockey, respectively. men’s doubles alongside Sathiyan Gnanasekaran. This was Sharath Kamal’s first ever gold-medal win in a mixed doubles event in his illustrious career while for young Sreeja, she had bagged the prestigious medal in her maiden appearance at the CWG.
Birmingham, Aug 7 (IANS): World Champion Nikhat Zareen led from the front an Indian charge in the boxing ring as the country won three gold medals in Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and were poised for their best-ever performance in terms of gold count. India had won three gold medals in the 2018 edition at Gold Coast and they matched it on Sunday with Nikhat, Nitu, and Amit Panghal winning their respective finals. In all India had won nine gold medals in 2018, the same as England but the former were the top team as they won five gold medals. In the 2022 edition, the roles seemed to have reversed as India have won three gold medals and three bronze thus far while England have no gold in the five medals they bagged so far. The solid performance coming in the absence of a proven champion like MC Mary Kom, who pulled out of the trials because of an injury, augurs well for Indian boxing as the new back of champions is taking shape. And fittingly, it was a youngster Nitu Ganghas that started the show for India when she beat R. Damie-Jade 5-0 in a unanimous decision, putting up an authoritative performance. She was quick on her feet and dominated her opponent in the bout to emerge the winner. The 22-year-old southpaw from Bhiwani in Haryana is one of the quickest boxers in her category and had to fight a lot of taboos to
“The government will honour the sportspersons of the state who participated in the CWG. As per the sports policy, the government will give jobs and additional benefits to those who won medals,” he tweeted. Under the new policy, a cash prize of Rs 1 crore would be given to the gold medallist, Rs 75 lakh to the silver medallist and Rs 50 lakh to the bronze medal winner. Additional Chief Secretary Navneet Sehgal said all the medallists will also get the rank of a gazetted officer. The felicitation ceremony is likely to be held in the first week of September, Sehgal added. Those from Uttar Pradesh who for India with a solid performance despite participating in a new weight category. She had won the world championship gold in 52 kg but as that weight category has been in cluded neither in CWG nor in Asian Games, Nikhat decided to come down to 50kg. She was as effective in this division too as she dominated Carly McNaul of Northern Ireland to win a unanimous 5-0 verdict in the 50kg final on Sunday. Nikhat had sparred with McNaul during a training camp in Belfast with the Irish national team and had already sorted out the Irish national Aschampion.theNorthern Ireland boxer is good at clutching and counter-at tacking, Nikhat decided to keep her distance and did not allow her to come close. She blocked her rival’s attack with her right and used jabs to counter-attack. She dominated the bout and had perfect scores from all five judges. “It feels great to be a Commonwealth Games champion, especially after becoming a world champion earlier this year. It feels good to win another gold medal for my country. It was a really good fight. She was an experi enced fighter, but my only focus was to win this bout,” said Nikhat after her Askedbout.about the three gold medals won by India on Sunday, Nikhat said, “It’s a good day for Indian boxing. This is our third gold medal so far, and hopefully, we get the fourth one in the evening session when Sagar fights.” Asked about the growth of women’s boxing in India and Mary Kom’s role in that, Nikhat said, “Women’s boxing is growing in India since Mary Kom won a bronze medal at the Olympics (London 2012). She has been a great inspiration for every boxer in India. “I have always looked up to her and she inspired me in so many ways. Now I want to enjoy this gold medal but, because of her, I will soon work hard for my next competition,” she Itsaid.isnot only Nikhat but the other Indian medal winners that have to continue to work hard in the next two years if India are to win a gold medal at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
beat Neeraj Chopra’s Tokyo Olympic throw of 87.58m, which had fetched the Indian a gold medal, and the World Athletics Championship throw of 88.13m. Nadeem had finished behind Chopra in both these events. Besides being rivals on the field, both Nadeem and Chopra are good friends, encouraging and praising each other for their performances. Their bromance is a matter of discussion on the social media circles of both the neighbours. Now with Nadam going past Chopra, it sure will spice up the rivalry as Chopra has always aimed to cross the 90m mark.
World Champion Anderson Peters of Grenada was placed second with a best throw of 88.64 metres. It was also a record of sorts, the furthest-ever second place throw in the history of the Commonwealth Games. Kenya’s Julius Yego threw out of his skin to get a season’s best of 85.70m and take the bronze medal. In Chopra’s absence, India’s D.P. Manu finished fifth with a best throw of 82.28 while Rohit Yadav was placed sixth with an effort of 82.22 metres. With his effort on Sunday, Nadeem
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The couple, who will be performing live at HCL Concerts ‘Maati Baani - The new sound of Fusion on August 5 at Little Theatre Group in New Delhi says corporates like HCL and Taj Mahal Tea are pro-actively working for classical music. “It is important that more organisations come forward as it is our classical and traditional music that differ entiates us a country from others. Indian classical music is extremely wholesome. It touches the soul and helps us evolve as human beings,” says Nirali. The duo who put out an EP titled ‘Nomad Songs’ that featured artists from different countries like Iran, Ukraine, Israel, Russia etc remotely during the Pandemic say that while that period spelt several personal challenges, it was the music that kept them going. “Also, while Kartik composed for a few web shows and other mediums, I released a classical album ‘Navyaa’ during this time. We were, fortunately, able to use the pandemic time creatively.” Excited that things have opened up now and physical concerts are back, she says that the band is now bigger and better. “We have been perform ing at some of the biggest festivals and organizations and have added new sounds and elements to make our songs more groovy and fun, at the same time ensuring that they do not lose their original essence. The energy of the live audience and a concert cannot be compared with performance behind a screen.” We do our individual projects and come back to it. Of course, there are creative differences but with some patience and perspective, anything can be resolved.” Golden sands
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Bollywood is leaning towards independent artists: Kartik and Nirali
ByN. Lothungbeni Humtsoe Despite our ignorant vices, the earth continues to provide and nurture mankind in the same way that a mother does. Shalu Juneja, has been an artist for over 13 years, her works focus on figurative and the abstract, they allude to the female form and the What served as the impetus for your most recent art series, “The Earth Shalu:Stories”? My practice is largely con cerned with themes of womanhood, motherhood, and the continuous changes that we experience as hu mans over time. My interest in these themes is motivated by my memo ries, experiences, and interactions in daily life - questioning the impact of words and actions on a mother, in the form of a female body or the earth as a whole. The Earth Stories is an extension of these ideas where I, for the first time, break away from figurative representation to explore abstract forms and compositions. Why is motherhood in particular a source of inspiration? There are so many incredible things to be Shaluinspired : We call the Earth a mother.
Iconic music festival Lollapalooza sets to breach a new frontier in what will be the eighth desti nation of the festival in Mumbai, India, bringing with it - its brand of unique, diverse and exciting flavours from the world of music. With the inaugural, first-ever edition in Asia, Lollapalooza finally brings its multi-genre music experience to Indian shores, with a world-class experience that’s never been seen before in the BookMyShow,subcontinent.willspearhead
“And through the existing links we have with art galleries, I want to reach out to India’s celebrated artists and collaborate on bringing their art into the public sphere, whether it be through murals on a prominent wall or sculptures in a public building,” she concludes.
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: All these paintings speak of changing topography that we experience through documented satellite imagery. This imagery captures changes over time and my paintings are an attempt to capture those changes while addressing humanity’s role in them. Just as we humans take certain actions that his early career, his band was head ed for a brief hiatus with a farewell festival tour in July 1991 which soon became the global iconic platform destined to change the landscape of live music forever. 31 years later, itis globally synon ymous with alternative lifestyle, music and culture. It has travelled the world, with seven locations across three continents that annual ly host the event. Everyone feels at home here, a festival that celebrates the culture of music, with inclusivity and unique experiences at the centre of Followingit. many years as a touring festival, the festival found its home in Chicago, U.S.A, and has grown to include annual editions across various culturally-rich countries including Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, France and Sweden with more than 66 editions of the festival so far, before it comes to India in Amongst2023. the biggest globally, this multi-genre music festival carries the legacy of having changed the course of alternative-rock music on the global stage. From introducing communities. That seemed to be the golden thread tying all these artworks together and it has since become the goal of Open Canvas. It’s because of this that I’ve spent days navigating through long winding lanes in Delhi’s low-income neighborhoods, knocking on doors and asking for permission to create art on nearby walls – and it’s also why I’ve come up against reluctance at the start. Some residents will smile and shake their heads. Others have slammed their doors.” Stressing that she has been noticing that more and more, visuals in our country’s public spaces are limited to advertising, religious messaging, and political propaganda – rather than art, she adds, “At the same time, art in the formalized, institu tionalized sense is often perceived as a sphere of high culture inaccessible to many. So yes, I think we have lost sight of what public art can be, and how it can transform Shaluwhole.speaks to IANSlife about her most recent art series, “The Earth Stories”, an observation of the chaos she finds within nature resulting in accidents within her works, which are a direct reference to the acciden tal experiences of real-life - good or bad.often harm the earth, I take actions in my painting that don’t necessarily harm my paintings, but metaphor ically suggest the same aggression and violence that we often use against the earth. With your most recent collection, what message are you conveying to Shalu:people?My works generally talk of changing patterns and textures around me, observed from the mi cro to the macro level. My process is based on such visual changes. Each time I make a mark, burn or add a layer to my canvas I speak of the transformation that occurs within nature in relation to humanity. So these works are an attempt to make us conscious about our actions on Earth considering the grave dangers we now face because of climate change, war, waste, and more.
Shedding light on the power and love of motherhood through the personification of mother earth
Nirali has been trained in Hindustani Classical while Kartik is completely selftaught with not even a single lesson taken from anyone. Optimistic that the meeting of these polar ends will create magic, the independent band Maati Baani was conceived. “Nirali came up with the name which translates to ‘the sound of the earth’, and that is what we have pursued. Maati Baani is much more than us two, it is a platform for global musicians to collaborate with Hindustani music,” Kartik tells IANS about the independent music band. Adding that Bollywood will always be the mainstream, but looking at how things have changed over the last decade, there is no better time to be an independent group in India than now, Kartik says, “Even they are leaning towards independent artists for the scores and songs. Back when we started, the main thought was to innovate and do something new. We used to think of ambitious ideas and commission our own jobs. We could not have imagined going to a New York subway station and recording musicians, or to create music with musicians from Ukraine amidst an ongoing war, if it were for a Bollywood film.” “We get a high when faced with a challenge to make a global collabora tion make sense in terms of an audio aesthetic. And we are proud we have discovered artists from across the world and given them a stage. Innovation and discovery have been the main motivation why we make music,” he says.
Lollapalooza India as the promoter and co-producer for the festival’s Indian edition along with global producers, Perry Farrell, WME and C3 OverPresents.threedecades of pioneering and putting alternative culture on the map, Lollapalooza is a force, amongst the foremost music festivals that have been celebrated by multiple generations of fans. Founder of the festival and Jane’s Addiction front man Perry Farrell was always ahead of the times, creating a sound for the alternative generation that came of age in the 1990s. After some great success in BySukant Deepak For this 17-year-old, it all started at a government school in Sarojini Nagar. The school’s principal, who was going to retire wanted to leave behind something unique on the front wall. “When I heard about the opportunity through the NGO Each One Teach One, my head was abuzz with ideas. I spent the next week in a flurry of anticipation as I rallied to organize scaffolding, paint, rollers, hand sanitizers, and slingshots -- to scare away monkeys – and work with a college art student on a mural design,” remembers Anika Somaia, who founded ‘Open Canvas’, a Public Arts Project in 2019. To date, the project has painted murals at 50 sites across Delhi, engaged over 200 volunteers, hosted 15 artist-led mural painting workshops to attract young talent, and received funding and support from Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kailash Satyarthi and Nature Morte. With the recently concluded ‘Sanjay Camp’ held last week where they worked the wall outside an urban slum in Delhi where Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation (KSCF) runs its Bal Mitra Mandal (BMM) program, Somaia says that after her first project years ago she realized that public creation was not just a testament to the importance of creating beautiful things; but high lights the need for art to be liberated from behind gallery walls. “So I sat down and reflected on what was compelling me towards mural creation, and I came to realize it was this idea of bringing art into public space and using it to uplift earth as the mother. Juneja is also the director and co-founder of Uno Lona Academy. Her interest in these themes stems from her daily memories, experienc es, and interactions, in which she questions the impact of words and actions on a mother, in the form of a female body, or on the earth as a Always giving, nurturing, and pro tecting. She goes through a million changes physically and emotionally. The Earth gives us in abundance and we take to that point of greediness as a result, the whole ecosystem stands disturbed. I wish to address that fea ture - especially the change - caused due to the constant abuse and greed that humanity has brought upon the Earth. Could you give us a brief descrip tion of each of the four paintings in the Shaluseries?
Iconic international music festival comes to India
genre-defining acts and artists to the world, making them household names, Lollapalooza is a melting pot of myriad genres comprising pop, rock, metal, punk rock and hip-hop as well as indie, Electronic Dance Music (EDM) and techno. Following a philosophy of ‘Mix the music, generations, Reunite the most advanced music experts and a Neophyte public’, Lollapalooza India aims to bring together music aficionados across genres, enter tainment enthusiasts, global and Indian audiences that are seeking marquee, unique experiences at par with international standards. Amongst the boldest, brightest, most colourful and diverse festivals around the world, it is a festival that offers everyone something to take back home through its music, ethos, vibe and unparalleled experience. The inaugural Lollapalooza India will be open to over 60,000 fans each day and will be a treat for Indians and Asians all across. Featuring four stages with over 20 hours of unforgettable live music performed by some of the biggest names globally and locally, the festival is truly an experience of a lifetime with innovative culinary selections, art, fashion and much more to be witnessed in India. “The music of India is transcenden tal, it draws our spirits East,” said Perry Farrell, Founder, Lollapalooza, ahead of the festival’s first India edition. “Lollapalooza is an instru ment for unity, peace, and education utilizing the universal languages of music and art to find common ground. You may be excited, and we are equally as excited!” Limited Early Bird tickets for pre-registered users go live on August 1st, 2022. Early Bird tickets for Lollapalooza India’s first ever edition start Rs7,000/- onwards. The star-studded artist line-up for the first-ever India edition of the coveted festival will be announced later this year. Registrations for Lollapalooza India will be live on lollaindia.com starting today, July 27th until July 31st. Fans can register themselves for this musical extravaganza right now! communal spaces.” Not limiting her work to the capital, one of their partners, ‘Each One Teach One’, has ties with government agencies and schools in Mumbai, and that is where they are taking their murals next. “I am also in the process of recruiting a team of core volunteers who will then be able to execute more projects, specifical murals in other states,” she Lookingsays.forward to establishing more partnerships, particularly with government agencies and paint companies as this would enable Open Canvas to secure more sites and expand its output.
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An attempted whistleblowing gone wrong saw Aman Singh Maharaj spend three months in the doghouse and resulted in a 1,200-word manuscript that took him 16 years to whittle down to 400 pages. The outcome is ‘A Dalliance with Destiny’, a novel that dissects the human condition with extraor dinary attention, with the fourth generation South African of Indian descent lamenting that though universal suffrage was achieved in 1994, its remnants still exist in the country’s social structure. “I have always been an avid reader, as I grew up in a small town, and the only choice of entertainment in the eighties was either sports or reading. I was not good at sports. I knew that there was a book for me; writing has always been a passion, but it doesn’t pay the bills. This has only happened now,” the Durbanbased 49-year-old Maharaj, a civil engineer, MBA, PhD in development economics and a businessman, told IANS in an interview. “In the year 2006 I became a whistleblower of some grave discrepancies at work. In the end, it blew up on my face, and I was charged with gross insubordination. I was suspended for three months and that was when I put pen to paper. I wrote some 1,200 pages in those three months, and thereafter it took 16 years to edit it down to about 400 “Thepages.rounds of self-editing were a painstaking process, and there were times during those 16 years that I really got tired of it. My publishers in the UK, Austin Macauley, liked what I sent them and it’s now out for the world to read. I am a little overwhelmed with all the attention it’s getting and I am loving it. A writer, I believe, never quite finishes a book and just abandons the book into the public realm,” Maharaj Spanningadded. a century, and set in South Africa and India, the novel captures the odyssey of a seemingly brash man in his thirties, who fights to remain lucid in what appears to be an irrational world. While everyone around him is still celebrating the euphoric entry of his country into the rest of the democratic world, he is at odds with it. After a series of distressing experiences, he attempts to extinguish the raison d’etre of his angst by embarking on an increas ingly mystical journey to India with an unconventional best friend. The novel touches upon the subject of racism and casteism in South Africa. What is the situation today? “Legislated racism in South Africa was done away with in 1994. But I honestly believe that there are still remnants of it in the social
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Russia’s Holmes: Inside the world of Erast Petrovich Fandorin Vishnu Makhijani Vikas Datta
The course of human history can be quite irreversible, whether we like it or not. Some may hanker for a golden past of homogeneity and tradition (usually imagined), but at best, they can only replicate its essence -- and in part only, for it is impossible to recreate conditions of even a year back, leave alone centuries. Take Tsarist Russia, for example. It may be argued that Russia, under President Vladimir Putin, is as autocratic, expansionist, and opaque as Imperial Russia under the Romanovs, but there have been important changes down the years. This was not at least due to the Bolsheviks, who wiped out the ‘ancien regime’ and they were pretty thorough. Time and changing circumstances and political, social, economic, and technological norms did the rest. The Russia of the Tsars, of the opulent aristocracy, the unbounded despotism, the wide social and economic gulf, which fuelled fatal ism, nihilism, and an unquenchable revolutionary fervour manifesting itself in a spate of assassinations, bombings, and conspiracies, can now only be found in the annals of Yet,history.human ingenuity has ensured another way to relive the past -- through the medium of historical Afiction.flavour of Tsarist Russia can be found in the period’s abundant literature -- the Golden Age of Aleksandr Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, down on to Count Leo Tolstoy and Boris Pasternak, but there are many writers -- both Russian and non-Russian -- who have also dealt engagingly with the period, in all genres, especially in historical detective fiction. Prominent among the Russian writ ers is the Soviet/Russian language expert of Georgian descent, Grigori Shalvovich Chkhartishvili, aka Boris Akunin, creator of the Fandorin series of historical detective fiction. Detective fiction had always been a favourite of Russian readers in all periods -- Sherlock Holmes was most popular -- but in the turmoil of the post-Soviet period, it descended into typically pulp -- full of sex and gore, yet still popular. Chkhartishvili’s wife was also an aficionado of these, but had to read them surreptitiously. It was a desire to give a quality boost to the detective genre and write books that no one would be chary of, reading that inspired him, otherwise a Japanese language and culture expert, to turn his hand to it. Chkhartishvili -- a name quite unpronounceable for the English reader -- chose the pen name Akunin (Japanese for ‘great evil man’ but modified by the author to mean a ‘bad man who makes his own rules’) for the series, which includes 13 full-length books, two structure,” Maharaj said, adding that in his city, Durban, the four racesIndian, White, African and Coloured - don’t mix up much in comparison to those in Johannesburg and Cape “InTown.that sense, Durban is very much a backwater. We have petty incidents of, perhaps, racism, where, during Diwali, when some White people lose their cool during the bursting of fireworks, as they believe it causes harm to their pets, and they may sometimes pass racist remarks. “Prior to the dismantling of apart heid, when Indians were staying in their own segregated areas, there was no outcry against fireworks during Diwali, as we, as Indians, were tolerant of each other’s cul tures. So, it may be more a question of learning to be more accepting of other people’s customs,” Maharaj Inexplained.termsof caste, he said, this died in South Africa around the early “Prior1990s. to that, it was especially the norm for Brahmins and Kshatriyas to marry within their own commu nities or between these two commu nities. I think that emancipation and education have pretty much made people aware that caste is not a birthright, but based on the life that one lives. However, Indians do still generally marry within their own linguistic groups, with people from Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat generally maintaining that. “Even amongst the Muslims, there is still a tendency for a Memon to marry within his own community, or a Surti Muslim to do the same. However, there are increasing cases of cross-religious and even cross-ra cial marriages happening. I think you may have a similar situation in the cities in India, but it’s mainly the villages that maintain issues of caste,” Maharaj elaborated. The book traces the Indian ancestry in South Africa and then a century later sees the protagonist trying to trace his roots back to India. How much of this came from the author’s personal experience? “Well, from the research of my own ancestry, taking into account the history of Indians that came to SA between 1860 and 1911, my ancestors came from seven different villages of UP and Bihar. The ship records of Indians who came to South Africa are still stored in the archives. And that is where I managed to trace the villages in India of my various “Iancestors.havevisited my paternal and maternal grandfather’s villages. It wasn’t easy finding these villages, as in India in any particular district, there could be up to five villages collections of short stories, and one stage play spanning nearly five decades, from the last quarter of the 19th century to the Russian Revolution and the consequent Civil War. The eloquent writing (which comes out well in the translations too), the singular characters, the intelligent and intricately plotted mysteries, and host of references to Russian history and literature, would have made the series a surefire winner in any case, but Akunin went one step further. Each of the 16 books pays homage to one particular sub-set of the detective mystery genre -- which he estimated at the same number -- terrorist conspiracy, spy hunt, closed circle murder, serial killer, government conspiracy, political crime, and the like. Before we see some of the oeuvre, let’s look at our hero -- Erast Petrovich Fandorin. We first meet him in “Azazel/The Winter Queen” (1998), when he is a junior -- yet en terprising and energetic -- operative in the Moscow CID. We learn he is of an affluent-turned-impoverished background, with his father having done well during the railroad boom and then losing everything in the banking boom, leading him to quit the Fandorin,world. however, is born lucky, and suspects it’s fate’s way of compensating for his father’s very bad luck. He is handsome (save for the hair at his temples going grey at the end of the first book, after its sudden, shocking denouement), and always fashionably turned-out and Onattired.the other hand, he has a tendency to stutter (caused by the same reason as why his temples go grey) but this disappears in the critical moments, unnerving those he is talking with, or when he is very angry. And then, he does not have a particular catchphrase, but instead, has the habit of listing his deduc tions, as “that’s one, that’s two and that’s three”. Later, he also acquires the habit of clicking on a jade rosary while thinking or agitated. “The Winter Queen” is about how his dogged investigation of a young Moscow playboy leads to an un earthing of a diabolical conspiracy -- and brings him great personal tragedy. “The Turkish Gambit” (1998, English 2005) has Fandorin, still over wrought from the loss he suffered at the end of Book No. 1, enlisting as a volunteer in Bulgaria during the Russian-Turkish War of 1877, but getting drawn into a counterintelli gence operation to stop an effective Turkish spy. “Murder on the Leviathan” (1998; English 2004), set in 1877, is a pure mystery beginning with the gruesome murder of an English lord, seven of his servants and two children of servants in Paris -- all bludgeoned with an ancient Indian idol. with the same name, so I had to trace them through the police stations or thanas. Added to this, the British corrupted the spellings of village names, so even that needed to be reaffirmed. “In my paternal grandfather’s village, I assisted with the mainte nance of the village temple, whilst at my maternal grandfather’s village, I am currently working on a project to convert the land where he was born into a library-cum-clinic, powered by solar. But, the book is a work of fiction and therefore doesn’t trace my personal journey but my experience definitely lends itself to visualisation,” Maharaj said. With a large number of those in South Africa of Indian origin, have the customs and cultures continued or have been influenced by that of South Africans? “I would say that the customs and rituals have definitely continued. All Hindu and Muslim religious festivals are celebrated, although I think it’s certainly decreased in the last generation. For instance, my parents’ generation could speak Hindi, but my generation largely can’t. I am an exception. “We eat with our hands, and still enjoy the simple foods that our forefathers brought back from India, including bhindi, karela, lokhi, bhaaji, etc. You don’t find these in restaurants in India, and I get tired of eating paneer at restaurants when I am in India. We have many Hindu and Muslim priests in the community. For instance, my paternal family were pundits, going back many generations and while I can perform the basic Hindu rituals, I don’t see it passing on to the next generation,” Maharaj maintained. Linked to this, the book also moves into seeking spiritual awakening alongside finding one’s roots. Is this an intentional trend followed by writers when talking about India in their Contendingbooks?that the idea of “running back to India for spiritual awakening” was a cliche, Maharaj said: “One cannot deny that it’s used by writers to plot novels around. But here is where my book is different as the story does not just look at the religious side of India, but also sets itself in the modern India of new age relationships and sexual preferences. Yes, writers do tend to overplay the whole ‘India is my spiritual saviour’ bit. However, I think it’s also about how you approach it.” It definitely makes for a que sera sera moment! (Vishnu Makhijani can be reached at vishnu.makhijani@ians.in)
One clue is found from the spot, showing the perpetrator is a firstclass passenger on a ship sailing to Calcutta. A bombastic French police man (aptly named Gauche) boards the ship and stumbles upon a rich range of suspects -- a scatterbrained English aristocrat, the pregnant wife of a Swiss banker, a mysterious Japanese man, a spendthrift English spinster, an expert in Indian antiqui ties and a young Russian en route to a diplomatic post in Japan. The last, who is our hero, debunks the inept policeman’s theories of the murderer’s identity and is forced to find the killer himself -- when the policeman and some others join the list of victims. The ending is not what you might expect. The next “The Death of Achilles” (1998; English 2005) has Fandorin back in Moscow from his Japan stint and he he gets embroiled in investigating the death of a celebrated general, found dead in his hotel room, but with some foul play suspected -- identifying the sub-genre will be a spoiler. What he did in Japan and what happened to him only comes to be known in the latter part of Book 10, the very dark “The Diamond Chariot” (2003; English 2011). Among the rest of the series, political themes show up in “The State Counsellor” (1999; English 2008), which is one of the best expositions of revolutionary activity in pre-1917 Russia and the murky atmosphere in which they operated; “The Coronation” (2000, English 2009), related to the accession of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, lays bare his weaknesses that would doom him, his family and dynasty around two decades hence; “Black City” (2012; English 2018) again brings in the Bolsheviks and other revolution aries and ends a bit tragically too, as does “Not Saying Goodbye” (2018; English 2020), which brings the series to an end literally with a bang. Pure crime is the focus of “Special Assignments” (1999), basically two novellas about a clever gang of conmen and Jack the Ripper in Moscow, “She Lover of Death” (2001; English 2009) and “He Lover of Death” (2001; English 2010), both in tertwined and influenced by Charles Dickens, and “All the World’s a Stage” (2009; English 2018), with its tip to “The Phantom of the Opera”, is perhaps the only one which ends happily for our hero. What is inexplicable is that the two collections of short stories and novellas -- “The Jade Rosary” (2006) and “Planet Water” (2015), which fill gaps in his life, as well as his adven tures in the US and an encounter with Sherlock Holmes -- have never been translated into English. We can just hope that this shortcoming will be rectified soon. (Vikas Datta can be contacted at vikas.d@ians.in)
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Located in downtown Denver, a short walk from Ball Arena, The Crawford Hotel at Union Station is right above the iconic Denver Union Station. The landmark station opened in 1881 and has been Just a short walk from the beach, Hapuku Carriages Kaikōura offers a unique overnight experience in a restored railway carriage. Built-in 1921, the carriage was situated on a farm in Waiau for many years and Agoda, a digital travel platform, has revealed the top trending holiday destinations today, as international travel is slowly regaining popularity. Explorers are dusting off their suitcases and getting ready to celebrate the holi day season after a two-year hiatus. Indians are increasingly crossing borders to satisfy their wanderlust and seek new experiences.
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Travel during childhood or early years was almost incom plete without a train journey with our parents. The scenic routes, Chanakya BNR Hotel is an idyllic getaway, located just 200 meters from Puri’s pristine coastline. Staying at Orissa’s only heritage hotel is like going back in time and witnessing India’s magnificent
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• Kuala Lumpur enable even more people to travel by providing best-in-class travel options both on the website and app, with great deals on accommodation, and flights along with great things to do as travel continue to get back to normal.” said Omri Morgenshtern, CEO, SummerAgoda.travel facts: Indian travelers are excited to re-visit Thailand, followed by Indonesia, Singapore, France and Switzerland this summer holiday season
According to Agoda Booking Data, the top five current preferences are South-East Asian countries such as Thailand, Indonesia, and Singapore, as well as European destinations such as France and Switzerland. Indians are looking for scenic views, rich culture, and places where they can enjoy the best of both worlds [mountains and beaches]. Interestingly, Thailand, Indonesia, original train station feeling. The property is facing the old rail tracks, and its beautiful gift shop used to be the station’s ticket office. The iconic red brick, three-story station is close to little shops, cafes, and restaurants, as well as to the Amsterdamse Bos (Amsterdam to spend time with one another as a family and embrace the value of slow travel. luxuries offered by Chanakya BNR is something to be cherished and appreciated. Without a doubt, this hotel offers a stay that is warm yet memorable. before visiting the beautiful market town of Petworth or enjoy a 20-minute drive through the British countryside to discover the nearby Amberley Castle, a 900-year-old West Sussex castle within medieval walls. a different story, with some rooms recreating the romance of train travel, while others hosting beautiful “Colorado-curated” collections of art and bathtubartifacts.overlooking the mountains and the kiwi blue sky while listening to the sounds of nearby trains passing by and the ocean lapping at the nearby shore. and Singapore have consistently topped the list of top destinations, and they were also the most popular pre-pandemic destinations [2019 Booking DomesticData].travel booking data show that the lively metropolises of New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Chennai are the most popular choices within the country. It is un surprising that Goa remains a strong contender, ranking alongside the bustling metropolises as the ideal beach destination for unwinding. Bangkok will be the world’s most populous city in 2022. The bustling city has embraced the holiday season, offering nightlife, beaches, temples, culture, and cuisine, with almost entirely relaxed travel rules.
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Situated in the town of Amstelveen, just a short drive from the city center of Amsterdam, this charming bed and breakfast is a former historic train station from 1915. Featuring rustic, cozy, and comfort able rooms, this Travel Sustainable property managed to keep the Forest), Amsterdam’s largest park and recreational area. If the weather is nice travelers can bike to the vibrant city of Amsterdam to visit its world-famous museums and enjoy a variety of activities like a canal cruise or cheese tasting. meals, munchies during the journey, and conversations with fellow passengers made the journey even better. It gave us the opportunity railway legacy. This hotel is a small piece of heaven, with all 37 sea-fac ing rooms featuring customized artwork from the wonderful Indian Railways. The timeless grace of oldworld charm with all the modern Permanently stationed on the historic Selati Bridge, high above the Sabie River in South Africa’s iconic Kruger National Park, this stunning train has been transformed to aunique lodgewith Instagrammableglass-walledtrainroomsandmarvelouspooloverlookingthe park’s crocodiles, hippos, buffaloes and elephants.Offeringthesameexperience travelers had about 100 years ago when their train would park overnight in the exact spot, this unforgettable stay is a must-do experience for everyone. which was built in the Victorian times, and will spend the night in a historic train carriage, which is now modernly designed from the inside. If the weather is good, guests can start their day with a delicious breakfast on the station platform, restored to be the heart and soul of downtown Denver. Guests can enter the hotel through the once again bustling railway station and spend the night at the vibrant transit hub. Each of the hotel rooms tells carefully restored into this cozy place to stay, which now also has a Booking.com Travel Sustainable badge for the measures taken to offer its guests a more sustainable stay. Guests can relax at the outdoor
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Other Asian treasures that make the top five are Jeju Island, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, and Seoul.
Featuring authentically-converted Pullman railway carriages, this unique bed and breakfast is a former Petworth Railway Station, built in 1892, in the South Downs National Park. Guests arrive at the restored wooden station building,
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ISRO do the necessary simulation studies and how was this missed? A faulty sensor triggered the logic,” the expert said but ruled out the question of sabotage.
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Another space sector expert, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity, told IANS: “The altitude is acquired in stages. Further while the rocket is at the required altitude, it should also have the necessary ve locity. At 356 km altitude, the rocket should have necessary velocity for a circular orbit failing which the orbit will be elliptical.”
The statement said that of the 45 international offers, 11 had come from Rakuten Mobile Inc and companies like Glean, Honda R and D, Accenture Japan, Uber, and Micron Technologies also made international offers. As many as 61 students of MBA from the IIT- Madras were placed leading to 100 per cent placement for the department of management studies. artificial-intelligence-based analysis of health data. Rather than working like a typical computer, the chip, which is called a neuromorphic computing chip, functions more like a human brain that is able to both store and analyse data in an integrated way. To test the utility of their new device, Wang’s group used it to analyse electrocardiogram (ECG) data representing the electrical activity of the human heart. They trained the device to classify ECGs into five categories -- healthy or four types of abnormal signals. Then, they tested it on new ECGs. Whether or not the chip was stretched or bent, they showed, it could accurately classify the Moreheartbeats.work is needed to test the power of the device in deducing patterns of health and disease. But eventually, it could be used either to send patients or clinicians alerts, or to automatically tweak “Ifmedications.youcanget real-time information on blood pressure, for instance, this device could very intelligently make decisions about when to adjust the patient’s blood pressure medication levels,” said Wang. That kind of automatic feedback loop is already used by some im plantable insulin pumps, he added. of Indian independence. They fly as high as skyscrapers, birds and I’d like to believe the sun!” India officially became a democratic country, ending nearly two hundred years of British rule on August 15, The1947.lengthy struggle for freedom resulted in the birth of the largest democracy in the world. Heroic freedom fighters, such as Mahatma Gandhi, led the country’s independence movement through civil disobedience and non-violent Onprotests.August 15, 1947, the Indian national flag was raised for the first time at the Red Fort in Delhi. The biggest annual celebration takes place at the Red Fort in Delhi, where the Prime Minister raises the saf fron, white and green national flag in synchronisation with a 21-gun salute. After the Prime Minister delivers his televised speech, a patriotic parade honours members of the Indian armed forces and police. People also celebrate by flying kites -- a longstanding symbol of independence. Indian revolutionaries once flew kites with slogans to protest British rule. Since then, recreational and competitive kite flying have become one of Independence Day’s most popular traditions.
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Chennai, Aug 8 (IANS): Students of IIT-Madras received record job offers for the 2021-22 placement season, a statement from the pre mier institute said. As many as 380 companies have provided 1,199 job offers to the students of IIT-Madras, it read. Students also received 231 New York, Aug 7 (IANS): A team of US researchers have developed a flexible, stretchable computing chip that processes information by mimicking the human brain. The device, described in the journal Matter, aims to change the way health data is processed. “With this work we’ve bridged wearable technology with artificial intelligence and machine learning to create a powerful device which can analyse health data right on our own bodies,” said Sihong Wang, a materials scientist and Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. Currently, getting an in-depth profile about your health requires a visit to a hospital or clinic. In the future, Wang said, people’s health could be tracked continuously by wearable New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday extended wishes to Indians on the occasion of the country’s 75th Independence Day with a Google TheDoodle.Doodle, illustrated by Keralabased guest artist Neethi, celebrates India’s 75th Independence Day by showcasing the age-old tradition of flying kites. “Happy Independence Day, India! We’re commemorating 75 years with a special #GoogleDoodle celebrating family, community and the colourful kites that float in the skies every August 15,” the Indian-American CEO wrote on Twitter. “One of our fondest memories,A By Venkatachari Jagannathan Sriharikota (AP) Aug 7 (IANS): The placing of two satellites in a wrong orbit, resulting in their total loss, by the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) brand new rocket Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) on Sunday has raised several questions. The about Rs 56 crore SSLV rocket with a capacity to carry satellites weighing 500kg or less is meant for commercial as well as for country’s strategic needs, a space sector expert, not wanting to be identified, told IANS. The Sunday space mission failure also puts the focus on the safety of India’s human space mission that will be carried out by Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mk III (GSLV-Mk III) with the tricky cryogenic engine stage. On the mission failure, ISRO Chairman S. Somanath said: “SSLV-D1 placed the satellites into 356 km x 76 km elliptical orbit instead of 356 km circular orbit. The 76 km is the lowest point close to the surface of the earth.” He said when the satellites are placed in such an orbit, they will not stay there for long and will come down. “The two satellites have already come down from that orbit and they are no longer usable,” Somanath said. According to the ISRO, “failure of logic to identify a sensor failure and go for salvage action caused the deviation. A committee would analyse and recommend. With the implementation of the recommen dations, ISRO will come back soon with SSLV-D2”. New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) The current foldable smartphone sales in India is nearly 3,00,000 which is likely to grow to 10 lakh units by 2026, new data showed on Monday.
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“I have drawn kites depicting our national colours, a message of love and commemorating the 75 years Somanath also said that that a set of experts will look into the failure and identify why it went into an unac ceptable orbit. After carrying out the small corrections and revalidation of the corrections, ISRO will go for the next SSLV launch soon. He also said the rocket’s three stages/engines and all other systems performed well. However, the expert queried: “If the rocket’s propulsion had performed well, then it should have attained the required altitude and the intended orbit would have been obtained, is it not Theso?”expert also said the sensor that failed was sourced from industry and had been used as the redundant sensor in ISRO’s other rockets like the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle “Didn’t(PSLV).
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The country is expected to see 20 times growth in foldable smart phone shipments in the country by 2026 -- around 64 per cent growth in compound annual growth rate (CAGR) terms, according to market research firm CyberMedia Research (CMR). Led by Samsung, its foldable phones have grown four times since 2020 in the country, with Fold device garnering 61 per cent market share while its Flip foldable model reach ing 39 per cent market share in the “Ascountry.Samsung steers foldable phone innovation, and gets ready to debut its fourth generation of foldable phones, it is important to note that foldable phones are reaching an inflection point in terms of shipments as well as consumer acceptance,” Prabhu Ram, HeadIndustry Intelligence Group (IIG), CMR, told IANS. The research around foldable phones shows a very positive outlook, “with an almost 20 times New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS): In anoth er thrust to his electric vehicle (EV) dream, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that the country needs to be ‘Aatmanirbhar’ (self-reliant) in its energy sector. Addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 75th Independence Day, Modi said that from solar energy and bio fuels to adoption to electric vehicles (EVs), the country needs to “reach the next level for energy independence”. Modi’s push for EVs came as the electric two-wheeler industry is facing scrutiny over battery explo sions and fire incidents that has led to several government probes. In a recent webinar on ‘Make in India for the World’, the prime minister asked the industry to tap growing opportunities in areas like semiconductors and EVs. “Aatmanirbharta is all the more im portant if we see from the prism of national security. The private sector needs to be more ‘vocal for local’,” he pre-placement offers through internships thus taking the total number of job offers to 1,430. The highest pay package was Rs 1.98 crore while the average pay package was Rs 21.5 lakh per annum. A total of 14 companies have given 45 international job offers to stu dents and 131 startups had made 199 electronics that can detect diseases even before symptoms appear. Wang’s team designed a chip that could collect data from multiple bio sensors and draw conclusions about a person’s health using cutting-edge machine learning approaches. Importantly, they wanted it to be wearable on the body and integrate seamlessly with skin. “With a smart watch, there’s always a gap,” said Wang. “We wanted something that can achieve very intimate contact and accommodate the movement of skin.” Wang and his team turned to polymers, which can be used to build semiconductors and electro chemical transistors but also have the ability to stretch and bend. They assembled polymers into a device that allowed the the age-old tradition of kite-flying, has been integral to the Indian Independence Day festivities,” Neethi said in a statement “The artwork (Doodle) depicts the culture around kites- from the craft of creating bright beautiful kites to the cheerful experience of a community coming together.” She stated that “soaring kites” is also symbolic of “the great heights we have achieved” as a nation. Neethi noted that “kites are also an outlet for artistic expression- many of them carry trendy motifs or even social messages”.
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out as to the sensor that failed and why it had failed and whether it is related to the component quality. It is time ISRO gets its basics right, that is, its three rockets - SSLV, PSLV and Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV)- before looking at other ambitious missions, the experts added. “ISRO Chairman Somanath is taking forward the space agency. As regards the human space mission he has also said more tests will be done the crew safety and is not in a hurry to go ahead with the mission,” Dr Tapan Misra, retired senior official of ISRO and Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Sisir Radar Private Ltd, told IANS. (Venkatachari Jagannathan can be reached at v.jagannathan@ians.in) He said that the upcoming ‘Galaxy Unpacked’ on August 10, “you’ll see that the impact of our innovation is not only about what technology can Thedo”. next-generation foldable smart phones, Galaxy Z Flip 4 and Galaxy Z Fold 4, are expected to be showcased during the ‘Galaxy Unpacked’ onlineevent.cutthe intensity of greenhouse gas emission by 45 per cent of what it was in 2005. NITI Aayog has forecast that by 2030, nearly 80 per cent of the twoand three-wheelers, 40 per cent of buses and 30-70 per cent of the cars will run on electricity. India’s transition to the electric mobility system can save Rs 20 lakh crore by 2030 on oil imports alone.
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“If the sensor shuts off the rocket’s engine, then the additional velocity will be absent and there will not be a circular but only an elliptical orbit. The small satellites will not have onboard thrusters or have them for any major work,” the expert said. They also said ISRO should come potential market growth until 2026 since their market debut,” he added. According to Samsung, the world saw nearly 10 million foldable smartphones being shipped worldwide last year -- an industry increase of more than 300 per cent from 2020. TM Roh, President and Head of Mobile Business at Samsung, recently said that this fast-paced growth will emphasised,continue.askingthe industry to boost domestic manufacturing in the EV sector. In his recent meeting with Suzuki Motor Corporation’s senior advisor Osamu Suzuki in Tokyo, Modi discussed investment opportunities in India, including setting up pro duction facilities for electric vehicles and batteries. The prime minister has emphasised that by 2030, India’s economy would job offers during phase I and phase II of the campus placements, the statement said. The previous high, according to the IIT-Madras, was in 2018-19 when students received 1,151 job offers. Eighty per cent of the students who opted for campus placements received job offers during the 202122 placements, the statement said. C.S. Shankar Ram, advisor (place ment) IIT-Madras in the statement said: “We are thrilled that our students have done exceptionally well in the placements that have led to record high job offers.”
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But once they choose, they are very dependable and will never leave their friends in times of need.
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New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Gyan Mandir, Asia’s first and tallest temple to be based on the teaching of Bhagavad Gita, is being construct ed on the banks of Brahma Sarovar in Haryana’s Kurukshetra.
• On the negative side, these people can be dogmatic, impatient, boring and inflexible.
REPORT THIS AD According to the Natyashastra, the Bhavas that appear in the audience are derived from the interrelated Vibhavas and Anubhavas. That is, the Bhavas are the logical result of the joint impact of the props, the costumes, the movements and the sounds associated with the performance. Unlike the Bhavas, the Vibhavas and the Anubhavas are under the control of the performers. The Bhavas can only be suggested to the audience but may not be seen or heard by the performers themselves. The aim is to evoke the desired Bhavas in the audience’s heart. The desired outcome can be contentment, amusement, pleasure, etc. Bharatamuni states that the Natyashastra is a form of moral knowledge. The emotions one experiences when enjoying art have a positive impact on the enjoyer. This enjoyment can be used to provide insight into the purpose of life. Thus while the direct impact of the Rasa is transient, the indirect impact is more long Bharatamuniterm.describes in detail how different type of speech, gestures, actions, and costumes can lead to different emotions. For example, he states that, in dance facial expressions, hand gestures and movement of the limbs are the most important.
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• They are logical and always take decisions based on logic instead of •impulse.Anumber 4 person will never cheat. They believe in the institution and sanctity of marriage. They will never commit to marriage unless they are 100% sure of it.
• No 4 people are big time risk takers. They don’t like to play safe, be it career or otherwise.
Career Since the number 4 natives are dedicated, methodical in nature, and don’t believe in leaving anything halfway, therefore, they perform exceptionally well in the jobs like IT professional, real estate, managers, astrology, teachers, engineers etc that require attention to detail.
Love compatibility The number 4 natives make prac tical partners and amazing friends who are always there for you. They might not believe in the public displays of affection but they will make you understand how much you mean to them. Numbers 1, 8, 5, and 6 are most compatible with them. Health They need to take care against stress, indigestion and back pain. In my next article we will discuss about number 5. Till then enjoy and have a great week ahead.
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then his/ her birth number becomes 4. Number 4 is ruled by the planet Rahu (Uranus). These people want everything in order and organised or they will just go mad. Personality traits
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• They are punctual and don’t believe in wasting people’s time.
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• They are very choosy in friends.
• They value accomplishments more than money in life.
Asia’s tallest temple based on Gita’s teaching to come up in Kurukshetra
By Paddy Krishnan The word Rasa means taste or flavour and covers sweetness, sourness, bitterness, being salty, being astringent, or being insipid. The Rig Veda uses Rasa to denote the juice of plants that can be mixed with milk, water, etc. and used to create magic potions. Such magic potions were called Amrita. They were also called Rasas. The basic idea of taste was then lifted to other domains. For instance, the Natyashastra uses Rasa to describe dramatic emotions. The key ideas in the Natyashastra are explained in detail in a commentary by Abhinavagupta. According to Abhinavagupta, the aim of a dramatic performance is to provide joy to the audience. In this article I will provide a very high level view of Rasa as described in the Natyashastra as well as in the commentaries of writers such as Abhinavagupta. Bharatamuni, the author of Natyashastra, explains how the Devas approached Brahma to create something that was moral and that they could enjoy. This request was made towards the end of Krtayuga (or the Satyayuga) and the start of the Tretayuga as the Devas were concerned about the rise of chaos and immorality. This request was to have a category of pleasure that need not be looked down upon as purely hedonistic. Brahma, responding to this request, created theatre and drama. Brahma states that theatre and drama are extraor dinary. This is because, their focus is Kama (or pleasure) that is consistent with Dharma. When used properly it can also address Artha and Moksha. Some people even call the Natyashastra the fifth Veda, as it is a scholarly text that covers all the Purusharthas (aims of human living). At a high level, the Natyashastra is about audio-visual perfor mances. It covers dance, drama, and poetry. It describes different types of human emotions including laughter, sorry, anger, heroism, fear, disgust, astonish ment, love, pity, and mystery. The actors and dancers aim to provoke these emotions in their audience. Abhinavagupta states that a performance is pointless if it does not provoke emotions in the audience. The audience needs to taste the emotions (hence the use of the word Rasa). He recognised that these emotions may not last after the performance. Abhinavagupta’s focus was on the mind of the viewer or spectator. He wanted to understand how and why people respond to particular works of art. He called this the Rasa-dhvani which makes the spectator central to the play. The Natyashastras provide detailed instructions to the performers, so that they can invoke the desired response from the audience. It develops a three level system. The first is the cause, called Vibhavas. This is related to using the right props, make-up, and costumes. An example of Vibhava is as follows. A child who is using a stick and pretending to ride a horse. The use of the stick as a horse is Vibhava. The second is manifestations or reactions, called Anubhavas. This is related to how the speech, and move ments on stage are performed. The Anubhavas include all the physical changes, e.g., facial ex pressions and body language that arise because of the Vibhavas. It is the combination of the Vibhava and Anubhava that creates a theatrical image. The final level is the emotions or Bhava. They are reactions of the audience to the theatrical image. As noted earlier the Bhavas are valid only for a limited time and often called transitory emotions. Because Rasa is related to Ananda (also translated as bliss), the experi ence of transient Bhavas at the Vyavharika (material world) level is the stepping-stone towards the experience of eternal Bhava at the Paramarthika (spiritual) level.
• They cannot be fooled easily. They have this great ability of catching •dishonesty.Theylikepeople who are organised in their work.
Gyan Mandir will be a monument dedicated to Indic knowledge, ethos, and wisdom. The temple is supposed to be the first of its own kind based on the teachings of the holy Gita. It will be a eighteen-storied temple with a height of 260 feet. On the eve of 75th MandirAnniversaryofIndia’sindependence,Gyanisalsogoingtocelebrate“Azadi ka Amir Mahotasav” on August 13 in its Thepremises.temple is being constructed by Sri These need to be properly combined with lyrics. For instance, certain movements are associated with each word while other movements are associated with an entire stanza. The Natyashastras states that there are eight dominant Bhavas. The are Rati (love), Hasya (comic/ funny), Shokha (sorrow), Krodha (anger), Utsahah (energy), Bhayam (fear), Jigupsa (disgust), and Vismaya or Adbutha (wonder). Bharatamuni explains how these can generated. For instance, Hasya arises from Sringara (or something that is delightful), Karuna (compassion) from Raudra (being furious), Adbhuta (marvel) from the Vira (heroic), and, Bhayanaka (fear some or terrible) from Bhibhatsa (disgust). Abhinavagupta explains that Rasa is, by definition pleasurable, also called Ananda. Hence even if the drama has sad or horror elements, the audience must experience happiness. This is similar to one enjoying a horror movie. As the theatre is not aimed at a single person, the Bhava has to be generated via impersonal generalisation that applies to anyone who is present. Abhinavagupta places the spectator at the centre of the experience. He also demanded that the audience need to be educated to appreciate the art from. Without an educated appre ciation, all the hard work of the actors will not be able to generate the desired enjoyment. A healthy participation is an essential part of the educated appreciation. This appreciation will also help the member of the audience to develop their own imaginative Abhinavaguptapower. also explains how something that is artificial can also provide Rasa. He uses the example of a painting of a horse. Everyone knows that a painted horse is not a real horse. But a good painting evokes different emotions. Thus a horse in good painting is both real and unreal. That is, a painting of a horse is not a horse; no one mistakes the painting for the real horse. However, the representation of a horse does give the spectator a pleasurable experience (e.g., of riding to a far away land). The art ist creates the experience of the original object. Abhinavagupta recognises that art cannot reproduce all the qualities of the original subject. But the artist, by relying on the powers of inference of the audience, is able to provide a direct pleasurable emotion even if the horse is not Itreal.ispossible for both the actors and the audience to experience Rasa but they will not feel the original emotions. For example, Rama’s love for Sita and the pain he feels when Sita is kidnapped is located only in Rama. The actors can help reproduce this. They may or may not experience the Rasa as they are imitating Rama. But it is important that the audience feel the Rasa of Rama’s love and Abhinavaguptapain. expands the basic notions of Rasa in the Natyashastra to include Bhakti. In Bhakti, the “theatre” is not restricted to a small place. Bhakti is an emotion that can arise anywhere and the main actor is God. It has other dimensions such as Asadharana (extraordi nary) experience and Camatkara (special pleasure) that all lead to eternal Ananda. In summary, while Rasa is often translated as aesthetics, it also covers things like mood, emotions, sentiments etc. Rasa, the experience for the spectator is the final result of any dramatic performance. It is related to the creative intuition of the artists that gives pure joy (Ananda) to the spectator. Paddy Krishnan is a computer scientist, who got his BTech degree from IIT-Kanpur and PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Being very interested in Hindu philosophy, he maintains a blog at wordpress.comwww.goldcoasthindu.
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• They make excellent partners and are devoted to their families and •relations.Theyare not interested in sexual relationships devoid of emotions.
• These people cannot sit idle. They will find some work to keep them selves busy.
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LANGUAGE: Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam & Kannada PRODUCER: Dharma Productions, Fox Star DIRECTOR:StudiosAyan Mukerji CAST: Amitabh Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Mouni Roy and Nagarjuna SYNOPSIS:AkkineniBRAHMASTRA - the Trilogy, is a 3-part film franchise and India’s ‘first modern mythology’. It is an original cinematic universe inspired by deeply rooted concepts and tales in Indian mythology with epic storytelling of fantasy, adventure, good vs evil, love and hope; all told using cutting edge technology and never-seen-before visual spectacles. Our story is set in modern-day India, against the premise of a secret society called the Brahmansh; who generation after generation have protected many divine ‘Astras’ (weapons) that were created in ancient India, and safe-guarded from the eyes of the world. The most powerful and the most deadly amongst these divine weapons; the Lord of all the Other Astras - named after the most powerful weapon of the Gods, the BRAHMASTRA, is now waking up. And it threatens to completely destroy the universe we know today.
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BRAHMASTRA: PART ONE, is the story of SHIVA - a young man and our protagonist, who is on the brink of an epic love, with a girl named... Isha. But their world is turned upside down, because Shiva learns that he has a mysterious connection to the Brahmastra... and a great power within him that he doesn’t understand just yet - the power of Fire. In this movie, we experience Shiva’s adventures as he journeys into the world of Astras and in turn, discovers his destiny as the DIVINE HERO of the universe.
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VIKRAM VEDHA BRAHMASTRA
YadavCAST:DivyenduSharma,GajrajRao,Rajpal
AGENT DURGA
LANGUAGE: Hindi (With English Subtitles)
RELEASE DATE: 30 September 2022
THAI MASSAGE
LANGUAGE: Hindi (With English Subtitles)
RELEASE DATE: 26 August 2022
PRODUCER: Reliance Entertainment DIRECTOR: Ribhu Das Gupta CAST:ParineetiChopra,HarrdySandhu&
PRODUCER: Reliance Entertainment, DIRECTOR:Tseries Mangesh Hadawale
RELEASE DATE: 9 September 2022
SYNOPSIS: A tough police officer who sets out to track down and kill an equally tough gangster. Others
RadhikaCAST:DIRECTOR:PRODUCER:S.Sashikanth,BhushanKumarGayathri,PushkarHrithikRoshan,SaifAliKhan,Apte
RELEASE DATE: 15 September 2022
currentKingBimbisaraaswellashisavatarintheera. has‘Baahubali’and‘RRR’fameM.M.Keeravanicomposedthemusicfor‘Bimbisara’, oppositeCatherineActressestionwhileitisbankrolledbyNTRArtsproduchouse.SamyukthaMenonandTressaarethefemaleleadsNandamuriKalyanRamin ‘Bimbisara’. 22, but that date was later changed to August 12. As the producers are now required to reschedule the release for October starting on this date. The actor admitted, “The powerless situation made me cry.” Nikhil, a rising star in Tollywood, has a number of intriguing projects planned for the future. He will star in the ‘Karthikeya 2’, the sequel to his super hit movie ‘Karthikeya’, as well as the suspense thriller ‘118’ alongside Anupama Parameswaran. With their intriguing concept art and trailers, both of these movies have generated a lot of talk, but have been facing issues related to their release Adates.few producers in the Telugu Film Industry seem to be involved in power politics, which has resulted in a problematic atmosphere for most of the small-budget movies in the last few years. Despite being con tent-driven, movies like ‘Karthikeya 2’ have been facing release-related delays due to other movies.
Makers of Telugu historical epic ‘Bimbisara’ lock runtime at 146 minutes
Sonakshi to star in her brother Kussh S. Sinha’s directorial debut
Nikhil Siddhartha says industry politics makes him cry out of helplessness
timethatdeliveredtitleNandamuriKalyanRam,whoplayedtheroleintherecentlyreleasedtrailer,someinterestingdialogueswoulddrawviewersin.Throughtravel,heportraystheferociousNikhilstatedthathenowrealisedhowchallengingitistosetareleasedateandthencarryitout.
Annu Kapoor: If I hadn’t done ‘Crash Course’ I would’ve regretted it
Shilpa Shinde replaces injured Shubhangi Atre in ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 10’
Mumbai, July 30 (IANS) Actress Shubhangi Atre who was all set to participate in the upcoming season of ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa’ has opted out from the show due to her injury, is now being replaced by Shilpa Interestingly,Shinde. Shubhangi had replaced Shilpa Shinde for the titular role of Bhabiji in popular sitcom ‘Bhabiji Ghar Par Hai’. Now Shilpa has joined the dance reality show in Shubhangi’s place. Shilpa had earlier also won ‘Bigg Boss 11’ in 2018. Co-incidentally Shubhangi and Shilpa have been replacing each other a number of times. Even in the popular drama ‘Chidiya Ghar’, Shubhangi replaced Shilpa for the role of ShubhangiKoyal.previously told media: “I suffered a serious injury in 2010, and even now, the injury bothers me. When I lift something heavy by accident, I get muscular spasms and friction in my back. I attempted to move my hydraulic bed a few days ago when I realised the spring had broken. As a result, the entire bed weight fell on my back, causing immense pain.” “I couldn’t move for three or four hours, and the pain became unbearable. Later, I saw a doctor, who advised three days of bed rest Mumbai, July 29 (IANS): Actor Annu Kapoor is coming out as a whole new character in the upcoming series ‘Crash Course’. While talking about the show, he said that if he had not played this character he would have regretted it. While sharing his insights, Annu shared: “I always tried to play different types of roles and in that process, I heard the script of Crash Course which is so unique, perfect, and well-written that I got attracted to it and I think that if I had not played this character I would have regretted it.” “I believe that with time, the educa tion system has also changed a lot and the coaching institutes play an important role.” ‘Crash Course’ will premiere exclu sively on Amazon Prime Video from August Created5.by Manish Hariprasad and directed by Vijay Maurya, ‘Crash Course’ is produced by Owlet Films. The Amazon original stars eight fresh faces, including names such Mumbai, July 27 (IANS) Actress Sonakshi Sinha is all set to star in her brother Kussh S. Sinha’s directo rial debut titled ‘Nikita Roy and The Book of Darkness’. The film also stars Paresh Rawal and Suhail Nayyar in pivotal roles. ‘Nikita Roy and The Book of Darkness’ is produced by NVB Films headed by Nicky Bhagnani, Vicky Bhagnani and Ankur Takrani, Kussh S. Sinha’s Kratos Entertainment and Kinjal Ghone of Nikita Pai Films. Talking about the film, Sonakshi says, “Kussh and I wanted to collab orate for the right kind of project. Finally, we found something that we both liked and were excited about.” Kussh calls his sister Sonakshi a “talented actor”. “I have always admired her for doing films which she entirely believed in. I have seen her grow as an actor and her journey in cinema. Now, I am going to be a part of it, too. When I found this script, I asked Sonakshi to take a look at it. We both felt drawn to the subject and that’s when we decided to take the plunge and work Hetogether.”sayshe is looking forward to working with talented artistes such as Paresh Rawal, Sonakshi and Suhail Nayyar. “It’s also a fabulous opportunity for my team at Kratos Entertainment to collaborate with Nicky Bhagnani and Vicky Bhagnani. They’ve been our friends for years and this project is a natural extension of that relation ship. It’s a complete win-win for all They were then asked to choose between Priyanka and Deepika Padukone for a new Captain Marvel. The filmmakers chose Priyanka without a second thought. In the clip they are heard saying: “We have to pick Priyanka. We are huge fans and we are very good friends... We are working on a project. We are producing a show. A series.”
Mumbai, July 29 (IANS): Filmmaker duo Joe and Anthony Russo have made their choice for the new Captain Marvel and Thor from the Indian film industry. The filmmaker duo chose their “good friend” Priyanka Chopra Jonas while they found it difficult to make a choice between Hrithik Roshan and Ranveer Singh for the demigod Thor. The two were recently asked about who would they cast as the famous super heroes from the Indian film industry by social media influencer Awez Zaidi during the global pre miere of “The Gray Man” in Mumbai. The two were first shown pictures of Ranveer and Hrithik and were asked to pick one for Thor. Anthony and Joe said that the two stars look like Thor but then settled for Ranveer.
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Priyanka as Captain Marvel, Ranveer as Thor: Russo Brothers pick their superheroes
as Mohit Solanki, Hridhu Haroon, Anushka Kaushik, Riddhi Kumar, Bhavesh Balchandani, Aryan Singh, Hetal Gada, and Anvesha Vij. and provided painkillers and other medicines. He advised me to be extremely cautious and to never lift of us.” NVBF (Nicky and Vicky Bhagnani Films) is a fast-growing production house helmed by brothers, Nicky and Vicky Bhagnani and Ankur ‘NikitaTakrani.Roy and The Book of anything heavy ever in my life”. Darkness’ is produced by NVB Films, Kratos Entertainment and Nikita Pai Films. The film’s directed by Kussh S. Sinha, stars Sonakshi Sinha, Paresh Rawal and Suhail Nayyar and is expected to release in 2023. Nandamuri Kalyan Ram-starrer epic movie ‘Bimbisara’ is gearing up for its grand release soon.The makers of the movie, who have been busy promoting this mythology-based drama, have revealed the final run-time prior to its release. Accordingtothe‘Bimbisara’team,thefinal run-time for the movie is locked at two forhoursand26minutes,whichisafairone,thegenre.Theteam,however,awaits Hyderabad, Aug 1 (IANS): The much-anticipated premiere of ‘Karthikeya 2’ has caused issues for the young actor, Nikhil Siddhartha though. In a recent media interview, to get the censorship certificate for the movie. costliestConsideredasNandamuriKalyanRam’smovieventure,‘Bimbisara’isall set to hit the screens on August 5, and is helmed by Mallidi Vashist.
According to him, ‘Karthikeya 2’ was initially slated to hit theatres on July
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After featuring in Ekta Kapoor’s popular series, ‘Gandi Baat’ the actress now wants to explore reality TV shows. She shares: “I’m very fond of reality TV shows. I enjoy taking up challenges and that is why I feel I can survive for long or even win a show like ‘Bigg Boss’ or ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi’. I would love doing ‘Bigg Boss’ also because I’m a huge fan of Salman Khan and the show will easily allow me to impress him. Apart from that I’m a trained dancer so would love to even do a dance reality TV show.”
Kangana Ranaut’s upcoming movie, Emergency, has been doing the rounds on internet. The trailer for the political drama was dropped recently and now, we’re getting more insights into Kangana’s directorial venture. Kangana Ranaut’s upcoming movie, Emergency, has been doing the rounds on internet. The trailer for the political drama was dropped recently and now, we’re getting more insights into Kangana’s direc torial Shreyasventure.Talpade, too, shared the new look on his Instagram and Twitter handles with a long caption, talking about the man whose role he will be portraying on the big screen. He wrote, “Honoured and happy to play one of the most loved, visionary, a true patriot and man of the masses…Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji. I hope I live up to the expectations. [sic]” He also tagged director and produc er Kangana Ranaut in his post and penned a thank you note. “Kangana Ranaut, thank you for seeing me as Atal ji. You are undoubtedly one of the most talented and versatile actresses of our country but you are an equally good actor’s director,” he wrote.
The film is the official Hindi adap tation of Tom Hanks’ iconic movie ‘Forrest Gump’. It is scheduled to hit the screens on August 11.
Bihari Vajpayee in the movie TV actress Taniya Chatterjee makes singing debut with ‘Mera Watan Mujhse Hai’
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Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS): Known for shows such as ‘Kasak’ and ‘Jaal’, actress Taniya Chatterjee is all set to make her singing debut with a patriotic song ‘Mera Watan Mujhse SheHai’. says: “I’m really excited to sing a song and pay tribute to my country. As Independence Day is around the corner, I feel my song will allow peo ple to enjoy patriotism. I have been preparing for this song for a long time and it is finally coming out.”
Anubhav Sinha’s ‘Middle Class Love’ trailer addresses serious issue in lighter vein
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Mumbai, Aug 8 (IANS): Being born in a middle class family where it is always taught to think twice before spending makes a college boy looking out for the ways to come out of his present situation and how he does it is all about ‘Middle Class Love’. Director Ratnaa Sinha’s film deals with the issues faced by middle class youth in a very interesting and light way. The trailer of the movie is out and with all the new faces, the director has made all attempts to make it worth watching. It stars Prit Kamani, Kavya Thapar and Eisha Singh. The trailer shows that the entire film is set in Mussoorie and revolves around Prit, who plays a young college boy and is shown always frustrated with his father as he keeps asking him to spend less. He keeps complaining about it to his mother and friends. Later, to get out of his middle class life, he starts following a rich girl on the campus. Interestingly, he keeps saying that being middle class is a disease and in fact he has a special term for it, ‘Middleclassiosis’. In a very hilarious way, the movie touches on the issues faced by middle class families, youth and campus life.
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Mumbai, Aug 3 (IANS): Bollywood actress Janhvi Kapoor has cemented her position as a star with five diverse films in her journey of four years which started with “Dhadak”, the Hindi remake of Nagraj Manjule’s popular Marathi musical But,“Sairaat”.despite all the noise around nepotism, she has had her fair share of emotionally taxing experiences that have added to her performances on a subconscious level in her Theopinion.actress, who made her digital debut with her second anthology “Ghost Stories”, has recently come out with yet another streaming film titled “Good Luck Jerry” which like her debut, is a remake of a Tamil film “Kolamaavu Kokila” starring Nayanthara, who recently got married to Vignesh Shivan. Janhvi spoke to IANS about her journey, so far, the emotionally draining moments and her vision towards her filmography. The actress wants her filmography to be defined by scripts that appeal to the audience on an emotional level, as she said: “The kind of films that I gravitate towards, have an emotional connect (sic), I want to make people laugh and cry but more than anything, it’s important for me that I move people with my ability as an actor. “I try to include those films in my filmography that can move people and I choose my scripts, according ly. Having said that, I really want to do a full fledged front footed “Goodcomedy.”Luck Jerry” tells the story of a girl who’s trying to make it in a not so easy world and wishes that she has a bit of luck by her side. So how much does Janhvi herself believe in luck or for her hardwork is the only vehicle to move forward in life? A thoughtful Janhvi said: “You can’t only rely on luck, it makes you complacent. Luck does play a part in a person’s life and success but, hard work is something that materialises the success, also your outlook is an important factor.”
Janhvi reveals how her films have helped her cultivate self-confidence
The firmness in her voice soon kicks back in: “There was so much chatter around nepotism and how I don’t deserve the opportunity that I have got. While shooting for ‘Roohi’, I felt like I needed people to take care of me, then finally realised that independence is of true essence as she goes on to marry herself. So yeah it all has been closely inter linked for me.” Her character in “Good Luck Jerry” seems to have rubbed off on her to a great extent as she said: “Earlier, I used to play down in complicated or confrontational scenarios. But, with time I realised that I am a person with opinions, who stands by them. “I don’t mind people not taking that in their stride with me putting forth my opinion. Through the course of this film, I have changed from a people pleaser to the one who stands by what I truly believe in,” she signed off with a heartwarming smile.
Talking about the song, she adds: “The song narrates the importance of women in the society. And high lights the issues a woman faces even today. It is very important to respect every woman and give them equal opportunities in society.”
Mumbai, Aug 3 (IANS): Actress Kangana Ranaut has targeted Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan, whom she tagged as a “mastermind” for skillfully creating negativity around his upcoming release ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’, and that he made “Hinduphobic” film ‘PK’. Kangana took to her Instagram Story where she lashed out at Aamir and asked him to stop “making it about religion or ideology”. She wrote: “I think all the negativity around upcoming release ‘Laal Singh Chadda’ is skill fully curated by mastermind Aamir Khan Ji “Ihimself.”thinkall the negativity around upcoming release ‘Laal Singh Chadda’ is skillfully curated by mastermind Aamir Khan Ji himself, this year no Hindi films have worked (barring one exception of a comedy “Onlysequel).south films deeply rooted in Indian culture or with local flavour have worked, a Hollywood remake would have not worked anyway.” She added: “But now they will call India intolerant, Hindi films need to understand the pulse of audiences it’s not about being a Hindu or “EvenMuslim.”after Aamir Khan ji made Hinduphobic ‘PK’ or called India intolerant he gave biggest hits of his life please stop making it about religion or ideology, it’s takes away from their bad acting and bad films.”
For her, “art imitating life happens all the time - consciously or subconsciously”. She opines that one can’t make something that they don’t know anything about. People won’t watch it unless they feel that it relates to them. Also, with every film that she has done, the characters go through the same journey she has on a personal Takinglevel. a slight pause, she men tioned: “With ‘Dhadak’ as everyone knows, there was a huge loss in my personal life similar to my character in the film, for ‘Gunjan Saxena’ she also faced the problem where everyone told her that she doesn’t belong to a place where she wishes to be in.”
Kangana says negativity around ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ is created by ‘Mastermind’
Directed by Advait Chandan, ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ stars Kareena Kapoor Khan alongside Aamir Khan.
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