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PAK LOOKS FOR REVENGE WITH TERROR STRIKE Denial of surgical strike gives Pakistani army an opportunity to plan a proxy attack deep inside India at time of its choosing

New Delhi

PAKISTAN is likely to respond with a terrorist attack deep inside

India following this week’s surgical strike across the Line of Control in PoK on jihadis

preparing to infiltrate, according to a high-level assessment by the security establishment. Tensions

between the two neighbouring nations flared up after a deadly Continued on Page 20-21

ISIS chief Baghdadi, 3 top aides poisoned?

DUBAI ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and three of his top aides were seriously ill after being poisoned during lunchtime feast and have been shifted to an unknown location under strict measures, media reports claimed on Monday. Meals prepared for Baghdadi and three other ISIS leaders were allegedly poisoned in Nineveh’s Be’aaj district in Iraq, several Arabic-language and Iranian news sites reported. Citing a source, Iraqi news agency WAA said the four are suffering from “severe poisoning” and “have been transferred to an unknown location under strict measures.” After the incident, ISIS militants were conducting several arrests in order to determine who was behind it.

Baghdadi, who has reportedly been wounded multiple times, carries a $10 million bounty on his head. News of Baghdadi’s poisoning came as Iraqi media claimed some top ISIS

commanders were among 16 militants killed when one of the leaders’ explosive belt exploded during a meeting.

“A number of the ISIS members were wearing explosive belts during the meeting, and the explosion took place due to a defect in one of them,” Al-Sumaria Iraqi media outlet said. There is no problem ... venom can’t make any harm to mister Baghdadi ... after all he is crusader and have some divine power .... hahahaha!”

ISIS or IS is an al-Qaeda splinter group and it has seized hundreds of square miles in Iraq and Syria. Al-Qaida has distanced itself from the group, chiding it for its lack of teamwork in its aggressive, brutal expansion.

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Now we’re called Hindus: Pak’s Afghan refugees feel heat of tension with India

Kabul For Samihullah, a tailor from a family of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, the first indication that it might be time to leave the country was the insults levelled at him in the bazaar.

Born to refugee parents in the northern Pakistani town of Mansehra, he never gained citizenship but was always considered an Afghan, something which began to count against him as local resentment grew over Afghanistan’s deepening ties with India.

Many Pakistanis view India as their enemy at the best of times, and that attitude has hardened in recent months as tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals have risen.

“Afghans used to be called ‘Kabuli’ in Pakistan, but now Pakistanis call them ‘Hindus’ because we signed economic agreements with India,” said Samihullah, who, like many Afghans, goes by one name.

Married with two wives, one Afghan and one Pakistani, the

32-year-old is among thousands of people who have gone to Afghanistan and are housed temporarily in a refugee centre near Kabul.

Even before the latest clashes between Indian and Pakistani soldiers in the disputed Kashmir region, the climate was more hostile.

“They were telling us, we chose India’s friendship so we should go to India. We were hiding in our shops and homes to avoid being arrested,” Samihullah said.

After almost 40 years of war in Afghanistan, Pakistan has some 1.5 million registered refugees, one of the largest such populations in the world, according to the United Nations refugee agency. More than a million others are estimated to live there unregistered.

Islamabad, which announced new repatriation plans last year, has stepped up pressure to send people back and numbers have risen sharply in recent months as Afghan-Indian relations strengthened and those between

India and Pakistan soured.

“These people were our guests, we kept them in our house.

Afghanistan should be grateful to us,” said a Pakistani army official based in the southern city of Quetta. “Instead it ... has become buddies with India, it’s like stabbing us in the back.”

The treatment Samihullah and

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“These returnees are coming back after more than three decades in exile,” said Maya Ameratunga, director of UNHCR’s country office in Kabul.

“It will take a big adjustment.”

The United Nations provides $400 a person in emergency help as well as medical and other assistance, but international funds are drying up in the face of a series of global crises.

Longer term reintegration into a country many never knew as home may be difficult.

Riyadh Saudi government workers will be paid according to the Gregorian calendar instead of the Islamic Hijri calendar, making the working month longer as part of costcutting measures, newspapers reported Monday.

The change, approved by cabinet last week, brings civil service pay in line with the government’s January-December fiscal year, the Arab News and Saudi Gazette reported.

The reports said the latest austerity measure took effect on October 1.

Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, is cutting government spending and re-orienting its economy after a collapse over the past two years of the global oil price which provided most of its revenue.

The Hijri calender consists of 12 months of 29 or 30 days depending on the sighting of the moon, meaning the Islamic year is several days shorter than the

Gregorian calendar, which is widely used in the world.

Saudi abandons Islamic calendar for govt pay

Last week, cabinet also cut by 20 percent the salaries of ministers and froze the wages of lower-ranked civil servants.

Almost twice as many Saudis are employed in the bloated public sector — where hours are shorter and leave longer — than in private firms.

In April, the king’s son, deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, announced the wideranging Vision 2030 plan to diversify the economy.

Among its goals, Vision 2030 aims to boost private sector employment, cutting the government payroll to 40 percent of the budget from 45 percent by 2020.

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Relations between India and Pakistan deteriorate!

It’s becoming increasingly clear that something serious has changed in relations between Pakistan and India as a result of repeated acts of violence in the Indian-controlled region of Kashmir.

It’s clear that each country, in a generational crisis era, is on a trend line to become increasing nationalistic and belligerent towards the other, and it’s also clear that these trend lines will continue on the same path until they result in war.

It’s not a question of ‘if’, but of ‘when’, and with the rapid rise in nationalism on both sides that ‘when’ may not be too far off.

Although relations between the two country leaders, Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif and India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, has never been

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warm, at least there were attempts to appear cordial. As recently as December of last year, Modi attended the wedding of Sharif’s granddaughter in Lahore. Then on Jan. 2 there was a terrorist attack on an Indian air force base in Panthankot, Punjab. India investigated the terrorist attack and blamed Pakistan. Pakistan investigated the attack and said that India has staged the encounter to defame Pakistan. The India-Pakistan “peace dialog” was suspended indefinitely.

Tensions have really soared since July 8 when Burhan Wani, the leader of a separatist group in Kashmir, was killed by the Indian police fire. Massive riots in Kashmir began the next day. Indian police responded with rubber bullets, leaving many protesters wounded or killed or blinded by the pellets. In a speech at the United Nations two weeks ago, Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif incited further violence in Kashmir by glorifying Burhan Wani and demanding independence for Indian-controlled Kashmir. India has accused Pakistan of actively supporting the riots.

As I’ve written in these columns several times in the past, it doesn’t matter whether Pakistan is actively supporting the riots in Kashmir or not because the violence is “organic” or “indigenous,” meaning that it comes from the people rather than from the politicians. India and Pakistan are returning to the massive violence of their last two generational crisis wars, India’s 1857 Rebellion against Britain and the 1947 Partition war between Hindus and Muslims that following the partitioning of the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan.

On September 18, terrorists made a major attack on an Indian army base in Uri in Kashmir. There was a five-hour firefight, and at least 17 soldiers were killed, as were the militants. This was the worst militant terrorist attack in Kashmir in years. Last week, India invaded Pakistani soil in Pakistancontrolled Kashmir, with what Indian officials called a “surgical strike” on militants. This has infuriated the Pakistani population, and some kind of retaliation

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is expected.

India boycotts regional SAARC meeting in order to isolate Pakistan At this point, both the Pakistani and Indian people are furious, and nationalist feelings are soaring on both sides.

Because Indian officials are becoming increasingly aware that any military action might trigger a war between the two nuclear powers, Indian officials are

for development and advancement of the geopolitical region of South Asia but has been largely ineffective, possibly because this region of the world holds 1/5th of the world population but has 2/5th of the world’s poor.

India and Pakistan threaten war over Indus River water rights The Indus Water Treaty (IWT) was signed

by India and Pakistan in 1960 and has

looking for ways to strike at what it calls “the terrorist state” diplomatically. Shortly after the terrorist attack on the Indian army base in Uri, but before India’s “surgical strike” in retaliation, Indian officials made a decision to isolate Pakistan diplomatically.

Pakistan had scheduled on November 910 to host the 19th summit of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in Pakistan’s capital city Islamabad. Indian officials decided to boycott the SAARC. Furthermore, India called the embassies of SAARC countries and demanded that they join the boycott. All the SAARC countries - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Maldives, and Nepal except Pakistan joined the boycott, forcing Pakistan to indefinitely postpone the meeting. The statements issued by these nations indicated how shocked they were by the Uri attack and said that the time was “not conducive” to a summit meeting. SAARC was founded in 1985

been considered one of the most diplomatic achievements in history, a model agreement for sharing water resources between the two countries.

There are several rivers flowing through the vast Indus River Basin, generally from India to Pakistan, and the agreement controls how much water can be used by each country. The IWT has survived three wars between Pakistan and India, but now India’s prime minister Narendra Modi is threatening to revoke the treaty and cut off some of the water flowing from Pakistan to India.

If India cut off the flow of water to Pakistan, it would be a disaster for Pakistan. Ironically, it could also be a disaster for India because the blocked water would flood the Indus Valley.

According to a Pakistan official, any Indian step for disrupting water flow would carry considerable risk of war and hostilities. “If India tries to violate the treaty, there will be a befitting reaction from Pakistan.”

Russia detains Ukrainian journalist for ‘spying’, Kiev calls for his release

Moscow Russia’s FSB security service on Monday said it had detained a Ukrainian journalist for spying, prompting Kiev to call for his immediate release. Journalist Roman Sushchenko who has worked for Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform since 2002 — was detained in Moscow “while conducting espionage activities,” Russia’s FSB told Interfax news agency.

Russia’s security service said that Sushchenko was working for Ukrainian military intelligence and “collecting state secrets... that could damage the defence capability of the state if leaked abroad.”

Sushchenko, Ukrinform’s Paris correspondent, was detained on September 30 upon arriving in Moscow on holiday, the Ukrainian agency said.

Russian lawyer Mark Feigin, who has defended a number of Ukrainian citizens in Russia in high-profile cases, told AFP that Sushchenko was being held at Moscow’s Lefortovo prison.

Kiev has called for Sushchenko’s immediate release and asked Russian authorities to allow him to receive Ukrainian consular assistance. “We demand that our consular officers be immediately provided with access to Roman,” Ukrainian foreign ministry spokeswoman Mariana Betsa told AFP, stressing that minister Pavlo Klimkin was set to address Sushchenko’s

detention at a Council of Europe meeting on Monday.

Moscow’s relations with Kiev are in shambles over Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and its support of a pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine that has claimed nearly 10,000 lives.

The conflict has also seen an unprecedented number of espionage and treason cases reach trial in Russia.

A Russian court last year sentenced an elderly Ukrainian citizen to six years in prison for allegedly attempting to smuggle sensitive missile defence technology out of the country.

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Egyptian al Qaeda leader al Masri killed by US-led strike in Syria Washington/Amman Syria’s militant Jabhat Fateh al Sham, formerly the Nusra Front, said on Monday that Egyptian cleric Abu al Faraj al Masri, a prominent member of the militant group, had been killed in a strike by the USled coalition.

A statement posted to social media said Sheikh Abu al Faraj al Masri, whose real name is Shekih Ahmad Salamah Mabrouk, a member of the group’s religious Shura council, had been killed in a strike in the rebel-held northwestern province of Idlib.

Two jihadi sources had earlier confirmed that Masri was killed when an unidentified drone hit the vehicle he was travelling in a location near Jisr al Shuqour in Idlib, in Syria’s northwest.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed widespread reports on social media that he was

targeted in a drone attack but did not say whether he was killed.

The United States had targeted a prominent al Qaeda member in Syria with an air strike and was still assessing the results of the strike, a US defence department official told Reuters.

“We will not discuss specific operations or release information about air strikes against highvalue targets until we can confirm it was a successful strike,” the defence official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

“Some people are able to go to live with relatives, but others may not have that possibility.

So unfortunately what we are seeing is people becoming displaced,” Ameratunga said.

“Honour and dignity” Ties between Afghanistan and Pakistan have long been clouded by mutual accusations that militant extremists find shelter on

the other side of the border.

But Pakistani officials deny there has been systematic harassment of Afghans living in Pakistan and say their country has demonstrated great generosity to the refugee population, despite severe economic problems of its own.

“We want them to return home in peace with honour and dignity,” said Akhtar Munir, spokesman at the Pakistani embassy in Kabul, adding that there was no connection between the repatriation of Afghan refugees and India.

He said Pakistani police had clear instructions not

into a farming family at Karari village near Jalandhar in Punjab during the British Raj, at a time when it took six weeks to reach India via Suez Canal.

He had an arranged marriage to Kartari and they tied the knot in a Sikh ceremony in 1925. The couple came to Bradford in 1965 when Chand replaced his hard work as a farmer with the city’s woollen mills.

Their now four generationstrong family is huge stretching down from Chand and includes eight children, 27 grandchildren and dozens of greatgrandchildren. “‘Teen rang nai labne, husn, javani te maape’ is what my father would always say, who cherished these three beautiful colours of life,” said Harbhajan Das, 67, Chand’s son, who lives at

Karari village in Jalandhar.

Harbhajan, who retired as a manager from the State Bank of Patiala, said his parents were invited in Buckingham Palace by the Queen two years ago for holding a remarkable record of the longest marriage.

“Eat and drink what you want but in moderation. I have never held back from enjoying my life,” Chand had said previously speaking about his life.

Chand had said he had given up his one cigarette a day – but still enjoyed an occasional tot of whisky.

“We have always eaten good wholesome food, there’s nothing artificial in our diet, but things like butter, milk and fresh yoghurt are what we like,” he had said.

“We know that being married for 86 years is a blessing, but equally we will be ready to go when it’s time. It’s all up to the will of God, but we really have lived a good life,” Chand had said.

Chand’s death last week means his marriage lasted 90 years and 291 days in total. Although this was believed to be the world record, it had never officially been recognised by Guinness World Records.

to harass registered refugees, but added that some Afghans living illegally in Pakistan were involved in crime, and action against criminals should not be seen as mistreatment of refugees.

The spike in the number of returnees has, however, moved in step with escalating friction between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which flared into brief clashes at the Torkham border crossing in June.

A series of economic and political accords with India in recent months and the fanfare around the completion of the Indianfinanced Salma dam in

western Afghanistan in June has also weighed on relations.

According to UNHCR figures, the number of assisted returns jumped from 1,433 in June to 11,416 in July and 60,743 in August. More than 90,000 have been returned to Afghanistan so far this year, almost all from Pakistan, and the number is expected to pass 220,000 for the year.

Although repatriation is not compulsory, many Afghans say life in Pakistan has become so uncomfortable they feel they have little choice. Even in areas like Baluchistan in the south, where authorities have long taken a more lenient view of refugees than in the northwest frontier areas, attitudes have changed, particularly in the wake of recent attacks.

“My son was stopped at a checkpoint and an officer tore up his Afghan citizenship card,” said Bibi Shireen, who moved to

Quetta from the southern Afghan city of Kandahar 30 years ago.

“Now he has no identification and we’re scared he could get picked up any day now and sent away because he isn’t registered,” she said.

Previously, Afghan refugees did not need visas or passports to cross the porous frontier. This has now changed, a step Pakistan says is needed to ensure control of militant extremists on both sides of the border. Despite the problems, many returnees say they are not unhappy to be back, though they need help with food and shelter as harsh winter months approach.

“We did our best over the past 20 years but could not make a living,” said Sheer Banu Ahmadzai, a burqaveiled mother who left her home in the northern province of Baghlan as a child. “I hope we have the chance to make a living in our own country.”

New Delhi Pakistan’s political leadership on Monday warned that any unilateral revocation of the Indus Waters Treaty would amount to “an act of

Thursday.

The statement issued after the meeting focussed mainly on Kashmir and referred to what it described as India’s “interference in Balochistan ” and use of

aggression” as it played down the Indian Army’s surgical strikes across the LoC as a “ludicrous” claim.

Leaders of political parties, during a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad, sought to project the Kashmir issue as the main cause of tensions with India. They also rejected New Delhi’s assertion that Kashmir is an integral part of India.

The political leadership’s stance was similar to the one that emerged when Sharif chaired a meeting of his cabinet a day after the surgical strikes on

“water as a weapon ” against the people of Pakistan.

The leaders said any attempt at unilateral revocation of Indus Waters Treaty would “be taken as an act of aggression”. They asked Sharif to strengthen national unity to deal with external threats.

The statement said the leaders had rejected “ludicrous Indian claims of carrying out ‘surgical strike’ across the LoC as blatantly false and brazen attempts at diverting international attention” from the situation in Kashmir.

The leaders said Pakistan’s people, political

parties and armed forces were “firmly united in supporting the Kashmiri people’s right to selfdetermination”. They repeated Pakistan’s allegations of rights abuses in Kashmir following the killing of militant commander Burhan Wani and condemned “unprovoked Indian aggression and repeated ceasefire violations”.

The leaders rejected “Indian efforts to shift the focus from its brutal atrocities” to “false claims of terrorism across the LoC”. They also rejected India’s “ridiculous claims that Kashmir is an integral part of India”, saying the issue is a “dispute between two sovereign UN members”.

They accused India of “interference in Balochistan” and claimed the capture of former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav had substantiated “attempts to destabilise” the province.

They further accused India of scuttling “all diplomatic efforts for bilateral and multilateral dialogue, including the refusal to engage constructively at the SAARC forum”.

Indian-origin man in world’s longest Pak leaders play down surgical strikes, say Kashmir main cause of tensions marriage dies in London at 110

London An Indian-origin man in the UK, believed to hold the record for the world’s longest marriage, has died.

Karam Chand, 110, died of natural causes in hospital last week – just six weeks short of celebrating his 111th birthday.

Chand and his wife Kartari, 103, became celebrities last year following their 90th wedding anniversary.

The couple never argued, according to their family.

They lived at home in Girlington, near Bradford, West Yorkshire, along with their son Paul – who was devastated at the death of his father, the metro.co.uk reported.

“We’re devastated at his death – not many people live to that age,” Paul said.

Chand was born in 1905

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Dhaka cafe terror attack suspect freed on bail Dhaka Bangladesh has released on bail a student of the University of Toronto who was arrested on suspicion of involvement in a terror attack on a Dhaka restaurant in July in which 20 hostages were killed.

Tahmid Hasib Khan, 22, was released late on Sunday night from Dhaka central jail at Keraniganj after a metropolitan magistrate accepted his bail petition, senior jail superintendent Jahangir Kabir said on Monday.

Khan was arrested on August 3 over his alleged involvement in the gruesome attack, in which 17 foreigners including an Indian student were killed. He was seen on the rooftop with a firearm with an attacker and another top suspect.

At least five Islamist militants attacked Holey Artisan Bakery restaurant on July 1 when many foreigners and local diners were inside at the Gulshan diplomatic zone of Dhaka. The attackers also killed two police officials.

The terrorists released Khan before commandos conducted an operation on July 2 and killed all the five attackers.

Before and after the commando operation, a total of 32 people had either

been released or rescued.

Khan had returned to the country from Canada a day before the attack and went to the restaurant along with two female friends. He was interrogated for two weeks in two spells of police custody as his movements during the attack were highly suspicious. But on Sunday, police filed a report to the magistrate court saying they found no evidence against him. His rich family had earlier claimed

that he was innocent and was just a victim of the situation.

Khan was earlier denied bail as he was kept in custody for questioning along with Hasnat Karim, another Bangladesh origin British citizen who is a top suspect in the case. Khan, an undergraduate student of global health at the University of Toronto, had travelled home with a plan to visit Nepal the next day for an internship programme.

However, he rejected Sidhu’s idea of “Congress without Captain”. “That is not possible because the whole of our campaign is revolving around the Punjab Congress president,” he said.

He opined that “any kind of understanding” with the Sidhu-led front will strengthen the Congress, and that formation of several fronts will benefit the SAD-BJP alliance by dividing the anti-incumbency vote.

Stressing that the party should initiate talks with former BJP MP Sidhu, he reasoned as his “personal views” that it will give us an advantage “perceptionwise and also in terms of seats, as Sidhu’s group is in a position of winning 4-5 assembly seats”. Every seat counts in these crucial assembly elections, he underlined.

On border tension: ‘Raise volunteer force’ In the wake of tension along the IndiaPakistan border after strikes by the Indian army in Pak-occupied Kashmir, Rajya Sabha member Bajwa said a village volunteer force should be raised in Punjab on the lines of such initiatives in Jammu and Kashmir. This force, he said, should be provided paramilitary training and be provided arms and honorarium from the central government.

“Such a force will prove to be a second line of defence for the country and can also help in self-defence of residents and help in stopping smuggling.”

He also questioned the evacuation of residents from border villages in Punjab: “Why is evacuation being done in Punjab but not in states like Rajasthan and Gujarat which too share a border with Pakistan?”

Hoshiarpur The parents of Hoshiarpur boy Abhi Verma, who was kidnapped and murdered for ransom at 16 in February 2005, have welcomed the orders to execute convicts Vikram Walia and Jasvir Singh in the wake of the President’s rejecting their mercy petition. Ravi Verma and his wife, Anita, are relieved that a long legal battle has come good. “Justice will prevail after almost 12 years,” said Ravi Verma. “The execution of the convicts will not bring our child back but it will deter those who play with the lives of others.” Walia and Jasvir Singh will be hanged in Patiala jail at 9am on October 25. The two along with Jasvir’s wife, Sonia, had kidnapped Abhi, a Class 9 student of DAV School here, and killed him with an overdose of anaesthesia. Walia and Jasvir Singh were then in their early twenties.

Walia lived in Model Town here and Jasvir at his aunt’s in Milap Nagar, the house where they kept the boy.

Mastermind Walia was known to goldsmith Ravi Verma. After kidnapping Verma’s son, he even went to his house with Jasvir, and offered fake sympathies. Even after killing the boy, they continued to demand ‘50 lakh ransom from his family. Sonia, Abhi’s former tutor, was involved in everything from the kidnapping and intoxication of the boy to the destruction of evidence. They dumped the body in a field in Jalandhar district, from

His release, however, has triggered some criticism in social media.

“Grandson of a rich man, Tahmid, has proved that money is everything,” wrote Shawan Mahmud, a homemaker from Dhaka, in a Facebook post.

“If money is used, the intelligence’s eyes get blurred despite Tahmid’s standing beside a militant (on the rooftop of the restaurant),” she wrote in reference to a photograph snapped during the siege.

The sunni extremist group Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack but Bangladesh government denied that.

Authorities instead blamed local banned militant group Jamatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh (JMB) for the attack. A video purported to be released by the Islamic State in September featured the attackers.

Karim had lived in Britain for nearly 20 years and returned to Bangladesh a few years ago and started teaching in Dhaka’s North South University.

He faced investigation for his alleged involvement with a banned group Hizbut Tahrir. In 2012, he left the university to join a family business. One of the attackers was his student.

Bajwa wants Congress pact with Hoshiarpur boy’s two killers Sidhu’s team, but ‘not without Captain’ to be hanged on October 25

Bathinda Congress MP Partap Singh Bajwa said here on Monday that he favours an “understanding” with cricketer-turnedpolitician Navjot Singh Sidhu’s front, Awaaz-e-Punjab; but he dismissed Sidhu’s reported idea of an alliance without state Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh on board.

“I had similar views of having an understanding with the People’s Party of Punjab (PPP) before the 2012 assembly polls. We didn’t do that and we had to pay the price,” Bajwa said, talking to reporters before taking part in a cycle rally ‘Jawani Sambhal Yatra’ organised by Congress Legislature Party leader Charanjit Singh Channi.

The PPP led by Manpreet Singh Badal, since merged with the Congress got no seats in 2012 but was seen as a spoiler at several seats for the Congress. Bajwa had been made state unit chief after Congress lost the polls under Amarinder; but Amarinder returned to the post after much acrimony ahead of the polls due next y e a r. H e d i d n o t a n s w e r d i r e c t questions on whether Sidhu’s front can be another PPP.

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where it was recovered on the disclosure statement of Jasvir.

On December 21, 2006, the district and sessions judge gave death penalty to all three. On May 30, 2008, the high court upheld the sentence. In January 2010, the Supreme Court commuted only Sonia’s sentence to life imprisonment.

To prolong the trial, Walia and Jasvir challenged capital punishment awarded under Section 364-A (kidnapping for ransom) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) but, in August 2015, a three-member Supreme Court bench headed by justice TS Thakur dismissed that appeal. Jasvir and Sonia sought conjugal rights from the court to bear a child but that, too, was declined.

Walia and Jasvir filed a mercy petition with the President, which he turned down this August. Issuing death warrants, the Hoshiarpur district and sessions judge has ordered the Patiala Central Jail superintendent to make necessary arrangements for the execution. His legal aid, Maninder Pal Singh, said that the convicts had exhausted all their legal means and their hanging was imminent.

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Lure of Australia’s Uluru hard to resist Teen blogger jailed in Singapore for insulting Muslims, Christians

ULURU The urge to scramble up Uluru, the great red rock rising out of Australia’s desert heart, is difficult to resist for many tourists, despite the risk of

and behaviour. Too many people have died or been hurt causing great sadness.”

The park authorities have long looked to close the climb permanently,

upsetting the local Aboriginal people.

A modest link-chain rail guides visitors up the steepest slopes of the formation once known as Ayers Rock, but the traditional Aboriginal owners, whose connections to the site date back tens of thousands of years, do not welcome climbers.

The locals consider it sacred but more than 35 people have died attempting to scale the monolith since the late 1950s.“Uluru is sacred in our culture. It is a place of great knowledge,” reads a sign from the traditional Anangu owners at the bottom of Uluru. “Under our traditional law climbing is not permitted.“As custodians, we are responsible for your safety

although it is currently left up to visitors to decide whether to tackle the sandstone monolith which soars 348 metres (1,148 feet).

About 300,000 people visit each year and, while there are no official figures on how many climb, their numbers are reported to have declined significantly.

Situated in the remote Outback, Uluru began to be promoted as a place for tourists in the 1940s.

In the years since, attitudes have radically changed and in 1985 the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, was officially handed back to the traditional owners.The park’s majority Anangu board want to be satisfied on three measures before shutting the climbing route down - that the proportion

of visitors climbing has fallen below 20 percent, that adequate new visitor experiences are in place, and that the natural and cultural experiences offered are the critical factor for people visiting the park.

Tour operators say overseas visitors often respect the spiritual significance of the site, but it’s not unusual for Australians such as tourist Katie Lucas to take the opposite attitude. “No, I really think you should have the option,” she said.

“If you want to do it, you should be able to do it. I know it’s aboriginal land but there’s aboriginal land all over Australia and we are doing all sorts of things on their land. “If you’re going to start restricting us from doing everything on their land, well, don’t even come into the park.” Safety is a major concern at Uluru where summer temperatures can hit 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) - and the climb and parts of the base walk are closed in extreme heat.

As if to demonstrate the dangers, three young men got stuck in a crevasse on Uluru on September 19 and had to be lowered to safety in a difficult, all-night rescue operation.

Rescuers battled strong winds and abseiled 320 metres to save the stranded Australians, all aged 22.

Zara Owner Ortega Buys $550 Million Madrid Skyscraper

Madrid Amancio Ortega, Europe’s richest man and founder of global fashion group and Zara owner Inditex, has bought one of Madrid’s most famous skyscrapers for 490 million euros ($551 million) through his property investment arm, a source said.The purchase marks another step in the famously-reclusive billionaire’ s strategy to build a property empire through Pontegadea Inmobiliaria, one of the biggest property companies in Spain, and his holding company Pontegadea Inversiones.

The source said late on Friday that Pontegadea Inmobiliaria had bought the tower from Abu Dhabi tycoon Khadem al-Qubaisi, whose fund had exercised a last-minute purchase option from Spanish lender Bankia, its previous

owner.This Monument Could Be Manhattan’s Answer to the Eiffel Tower Pontegadea Inmobiliaria declined to comment on the reported purchase of the tower—known as “Cepsa Tower” after the oil refiner Cepsa that leases it—which along with three others dominates the skyline of Madrid’s northern district.

Ortega has bought properties in London’s Mayfair and Oxford Street, along with other properties in prime locations in New York, Madrid and Seoul. He rents out much of the space to Inditex stories like Zara, but also to rivals such as H&M .

Ortega, who turned 80 this year, is the second richest man in the world with a fortune totalling $72.7 billion, according to Forbes magazine in July, behindMicrosoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates.

Singapore A 17-year-old blogger in Singapore was jailed on Thursday for six weeks and fined USD 1,465 for insulting Muslims and Christians.Amos Yee, who had last year attacked Singapore’s founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, on?Wednesday pleaded guilty to producing and uploading a photograph and two videos that were deliberately intended to insult Muslims.

Last month, he pleaded guilty to three charges of wounding feelings of Muslims and Christians and two charges for failing to show up at a police station.During his trial, the court heard that 24 police reports had been lodged against Yee, in relation to the total of six counts he faces for wounding religious feelings.Yee left Singapore in December last year after being served a notice for attending a police interview two days later. He travelled to Hong Kong where he published several posts about being served the notice.After he returned in April, the police served another notice on Yee. He tried to leave the country the day before the interview and was arrested

on May 11.Principal district Judge Ong Hian Sun said Yee is not lacking in his mental capacity to make rational choices in the way he conducts himself, adding that he has the capability to do good

added.If Yee, who will start his sentence on October 13, does not pay the fine, he will have to spend another 10 days in jail, according to a report by The Straits Times.The prosecution had sought

or harm with what he does and says.

“He has, on several occasions, deliberately elected to do harm by using offensive and insulting words and profane gestures to hurt the feelings of Christians and Muslims.

His contemptuous and irreverent remarks have the tendency to generate social unrest and undermine the religious harmony in our society,” the judge said.

“It is therefore in the public interest that such conduct by (Yee) should not be condoned or tolerated by this court,” the judge

six weeks in jail and a fine of 2,000 Singapore dollars (USD 1,465) in total, while Yee’s lawyer asked for four weeks’ jail and a fine of 1,000 dollars, in default five days’ jail.The blogger was convicted of similar charges last year and sentenced to four weeks’ jail.Yee first came to attention when he uploaded an expletiveladen video in March last year, four days after the death of Lee Kuan Yew. He was sentenced in July to four weeks in jail but released the same day as the punishment was backdated to include his time in remand.

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China to build high-speed rail station at Great Wall

SHANGHAI China will build the world’s deepest and largest high-speed railway station at a popular section of the country’s Great Wall, as part of its preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympics, state media reported on Thursday.

The station will be at Badaling, the most visited section of the Great Wall which lies about 80 km (50 miles) northwest of Beijing. The site received 30,000 tourists in just one day during the

Chinese New Year holiday week, according to the China National Tourism Administration.“The Badaling station will be located 102 meters (335 feet) below the surface, with an underground construction area of 36,000 square meters (387,501 sq feet), equal to five standard soccer fields, making it the deepest and largest high-speed railway station in the world,” Chen Bin, director in charge of construction for China Railway No 5 Engineering

Schedule of Nobel Prize 2016 announcements

STOCKHOLM Sweden’s annual crop of Nobel Prizes for achievements in science, literature and peace is announced in the coming days, beginning with the medicine prize.

Oct. 3 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (announced in Stockholm at 0930 GMT at the earliest) Oct. 4 Nobel Prize in Physics (announced in Stockholm at 0945 GMT at the earliest) Oct. 5 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (announced in Stockholm at 0945 GMT at the earliest) Oct. 6 (possible date) Nobel Prize in Literature (according to tradition, the exact date for this

prize is only announced shortly before it is presented. However, it very often falls on the Thursday ahead of the peace prize.)

Oct. 7 Nobel Peace Prize (announced in Oslo at 0900 GMT) Oct. 10 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (announced in Stockholm at 0945 GMT at the earliest). The economics prize is often referred to as the Nobel Economics Prize but was only established in 1968 and was not part of the original group of awards set out in dynamite tycoon Alfred Nobel’s 1895 will.

Group, told the People’s Daily newspaper.

The station will sit along a railway network that will link the cities of Beijing and Zhangjiakou, which will host the Winter Olympics.

The Badaling station will run through mountains under the Great Wall, and will require the use of advanced explosion technologies to ensure that the UNESCO World Heritage Site will not be affected, the railway group also said.

Ancient graves found in search for British toddler

ATHENS Ancient graves have been unearthed on the Greek Aegean island of Kos in a new search for a British toddler who went missing over two decades ago, police said Friday.

“We have actually found some archaeological remains, we’ve got four graves which date back at least 1,500 to nearly 2,000 years ago,” Detective Inspector Jon Cousins said in a video released by the South Yorkshire Police. Cousins is part of a team of British experts, supported by Greek police, who are searching outside a Kos farmhouse where Ben Needham, a 21-month-old toddler from the northern English city of Sheffield, went missing in 1991.

Cousins insisted that the discovery of the graves, which must be examined by the Greek archaeological service, “doesn’t hamper what we’re doing, we’re cracking on.”

The search began Monday in a large field with olive and fig trees just outside the farmhouse after “new information” came to light in May, according to Cousins.

“As a direct result of an appeal to the people of Kos in May of this year, an independent witness has given an account to officers and this, along with facts that we already knew, has brought officers back to the farmhouse to conduct targeted searches based on the information that we have now,” the South Yorkshire Police department told AFP this week.

Reports say police are now examining the possibility the toddler, who was been played outside the farmhouse, was crushed by a digger clearing land during renovation works.

In past years there have been suspected sightings of young men believed to resemble Ben in Greece and Cyprus, but DNA tests have come back negative.

Bulgaria bans full face veils in public places Bulgaria’s parliament on Friday banned the wearing of face veils in public in a move which supporters said would boost security in the wake of Islamist militant attacks in Europe.

The “burqa ban” law, pushed by the nationalist Patriotic Front coalition, echoes similar measures in western European countries such as France, Netherlands and Belgium which have various laws banning the wearing of burqas or niqabs.

People who do not follow the ban in Bulgaria face fines of up to 1,500 levs (Rs 57,074) as well as suspension of social benefits.

BAN WOULD INCITE ETHNIC, RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE The ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms refused to take part in the vote, which followed full-face veils ban in public in several Bulgarian towns. It said the ban it would incite ethic and religious intolerance.

The ruling centre-right party said the ban has nothing to do with religious outfits but only aimed at boosting national security and allowing better video surveillance.

“The law is not directed against religious communities and is not repressive,” ruling GERB’s senior lawmaker Krasimir Velchev said. “We made a very good law for the safety of our children.”

According to the law, clothing hiding the face may not be worn in government offices, schools, cultural institutions and places of public recreation, but exceptions are allowed for health or professional reasons.

EUROPEANS FEEL THREATENED BY BURQAS A minority of Muslim women in Europe cover their faces, but their veils have become symbols for some Europeans troubled by security, immigration and Muslim integration.

Muslims make up about 12 per cent of Bulgaria’s 7.2 million population and most belong to a centuries-old community, largely ethnic Turks.

AFRAID OF RELIGIOUS TAKE OVER Muslim women in the country traditionally do not wear niqabs or burqas, except for a small

group in the Roma community who have recently started, sparking tensions in the city of Pazarzhik. Many Bulgarians are concerned that the migrant inflows into Europe may pose a threat to their predominantly Orthodox Christian culture and help radicalise part of the country’s long-established Muslim minority.

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Hate standing in line? Japan Indian worker’s suicide in Qatar now has self-driving chairs raises concern over stranded migrants Doha The death of an Indian labourer in Qatar who had complained about not being paid and later committed suicide on a building

investigation which police have said they are carrying out.

Indian community leaders are appealing to the government to address suicide among low-

site has focused attention on migrant workers struggling amid an economic downturn in the Gulf state ahead of the 2022 World Cup.Scaffolder Ajaya Behara, 44, hanged himself in the basement of the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center on September 7, weeks after asking his employer to pay outstanding wages and renew his expired visa, according to his family and co-workers.

Behara’s employer has said the suicide was not related to work conditions. But his death on a flagship Qatar project has raised concern about how an oil slump is putting pressure on thousands of vulnerable migrants on whom the economy depends.

After pictures of Behara were shared on social media last week hundreds of labourers and taxi drivers held a vigil and signed petitions demanding an

income labourers often driven to despair by abusive employers and the pressure of providing for families back home.

Across the Gulf, companies have halted or slowed projects being built by millions of foreign workers recruited from Asia and Africa and delayed salary payments to cushion the impact of falling energy revenues.

In Saudi Arabia last month thousands of laid-off workers stranded in the kingdom without enough money for food or plane tickets staged rare public protests.

Stranded Qatar has weathered the global oil price slump since mid-2014 better than many of its neighbours partly because of its huge offshore gas reserves and small population.

But the decline in state energy income comes at a time when

NEW DELHI Police in southern India were investigating political activists on Tuesday for killing dogs, tying the corpses to a pole and parading them in public to protest

Saradhi, deputy superintendent of Kottayam police, told AFP. “They killed and paraded five to seven dogs. We have sent the bodies for a post-mortem to ascertain how they were killed,”

against dangerous strays. The protesters from the youth wing of a local party carried the pole with the dogs hanging by their legs through the streets of a town in Kerala state on Monday.

Video of the protest in Kottayam district that saw the dogs being dumped outside local government offices was broadcast on television and sparked public anger. “We have registered a case against the protesters today for cruelty against animals and launched our investigation,” Gireesh P

he added. The protest is the latest incident in a row over feared rising numbers of strays in the state, after a woman was mauled by a pack of dogs last month and later died.Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan sparked anger recently by saying he opposed culling, while animal activists have called for sterilisation and other more humane methods of curbing numbers. Thousands of stray dogs roam the streets in India, with some carrying rabies and other diseases.It was unclear

Doha is pursuing a $200 billion infrastructure upgrade for the 2022 soccer World Cup and building ports and hospitals, squeezing finances and leading to budget cuts. Foreign workers recruited from countries including India, Nepal and Bangladesh, and who make up the bulk of Qatar’s 2.3 million population, have borne the brunt of cutbacks.

Thousands have lost their jobs as the government has sought to shield its citizens from the impact of austerity. Behara, a father of two from India’s Orissa province, was stranded in Qatar on an expired visa along with some 400 other labourers owed a month’s salary by UAE-based construction firm ETA Star and living in a crowded labour camp outside Doha on supplies borrowed from local stores.

Shaukat Mir, CEO of ETA Star, replying to questions from Reuters, declined to comment on the status of Behara’s residency and said his “wages were a month late” which was “common in the industry.”

Qatar has said it is improving conditions for foreign workers who need employers’ permission to leave the country and often pay recruiters back home huge sums that take several years to pay off. “We are looking at them [ETA] and other firms who fail to pay their employees on time... companies have been blacklisted,” said a labour ministry official who declined to be named as he was not authorised to speak publicly.

TOKYO Hate standing in line at your favourite restaurant? Japanese carmaker Nissan claims to have just the thing for those sore legs.

A company video released Tuesday re-enacts a busy restaurant with patrons waiting outside. They’re all sitting in a row of chairs but they won’t have to stand when the next hungry diner is called to a table. Instead, the chairs - equipped with autonomous technology that detects the seat ahead - glide along a path toward the front of

the line. The now empty chair at the front moves out of pole position. The system, which is similar to the kind used in Nissan’s autonomous vehicle technology, will be tested at select restaurants in Japan this year, Nissan said. “(It) appeals to anyone who has queued for hours outside a crowded restaurant: it eliminates the tedium and physical strain of standing in line,” it added.

Although Tokyo has some 160,000 restaurants, long queues are not uncommon.

Out of BJP crease, Sidhu dangles his bat before Cong, AAP

Corpses of stray dogs paraded in India street protest

why the numbers were feared to be a particular problem in Kerala, a popular state with tourists.

Saji Manjakadambil, one of those involved in the protest from the Kerala Congress (M) party, said such killings would continue unless the government acted on the problem.“We have killed these dogs. And it’s a warning that this will continue if the central and state governments do not control the stray dog menace,” Manjakadambil told the NDTV network.In a statement, the Humane Society International branded Monday’s protest disgraceful, saying members of political parties should not be taking the law into their own hands.

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Chandigarh Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu is keeping the Aam Aadmi Party and Congress on tenterhooks over an alliance before next year’s Punjab polls, but his shifting stand may have eroded his bargaining chip.

Politicians think Sidhu, the former BJP parliamentarian for Amritsar who resigned from the party in July, is using his Awaaze-Punjab as bait for a possible tie-up with any of the two rival parties.

But he is apparently losing credibility because of his ambivalence. For a man who calls himself a protector of Punjab’s interests, he remains incommunicado during shootings of his comedy shows in Mumbai and likes to engage the media in a one-way communication, issuing statements.

He meets Congress and AAP leaders alternately, and keeps everybody confused.

But both parties are keeping their doors ajar for him. Congress poll strategist Prashant Kishor is learnt to have told the party that Sidhu may dent the Congress’s prospects if he goes the AAP way.

Many in the rival camp hold a similar view. They feel Sidhu’s popularity can boost the Congress campaign at the cost of the AAP. A lobby within the Congress, which is opposing a move to make Captain Amarinder Singh the party’s nominee for the chief minister’s post, is backing Sidhu.

But Sidhu’s forum, which he launched early this month, has set riders for the Congress, saying there can’t be a truck as long as Captain Amarinder Singh is with the party.

“This game of playing one against the other will not work. Do they think the Congress president will throw me out of the party so that they can ally with the Awaaz-ePunjab?” Amarinder Singh said.

Sidhu’s rivalry with the Captain goes a long way; apparently the former chief minister didn’t play a favourable role when the former batsman was convicted in a road rage death in 2006.

For its part, the AAP is in a similar situation. Its leaders HS Phoolka and Gurpreet Singh Ghuggi want Sidhu, but others such as parliamentarian Bhagwant Mann are not keen.

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Chhotepur floats Aapna Punjab Party, Court issues non-bailable invites Navjot Sidhu for lead role warrant against Dawood

background,” he said. “My party will show to the state how a democratically controlled party works. Every person, down to the last worker, will be given a free hand to work. Give us 15 days and you will see the difference between our and other parties’ working,” he said.

Chhotepur said the party will not ally with the SAD-BJP, Congress or AAP. “These are the parties we are fighting against. We are against the Badals, who have ruined a great regional party.

They run SAD as ‘Badal and company’ and the chief minister had put the interests of his son and daughter-in-law ahead of that of the state. It is unfortunate that his family has progressed economically and Punjab has been ruined,” he said.

Chhotepur lashed out at the Congress, saying the party had left the state feeling cheated.

“They failed to play the role of the opposition and instead sold out the state’s interests to the Akalis,” he said.

He said the AAP had misled the

people to make them believe that they were different. “But in the end, they turned out to be as corrupt and as power hungry.

Arvind Kejriwal (AAP’s national convener) does not trust any Punjabi and he and his team in Delhi have cheated Punjabis. The volunteers who contributed to the AAP in cash and kind for a better tomorrow, a better Punjab, are feeling cheated. They have realised that they have been backing the wrong people,” he said.

He also released the “flag” of the party on the occasion. Leaders of the Rashtriya Lok Swaraj Party, Punjab Dalit Kranti Manch, Jai Jawan Jai Kisan and Indian Labour Party have announced support to Chhotepur. Ranbir Sharma of the Rashtriya Lok Swaraj Party said his party volunteers who were active in Haryana will assist Chhotepur in the elections. “We will propose Chhotepur as the chief ministerial candidate once the PPA is created,” he said.

Chhotepur said the state committee of the new party and district teams will be announced in the days to come, former bureaucrat Hardip Singh Kingra will be the party’s general secretary and former Jalandhar zone in-charge of AAP Dr HS Cheema the treasurer.

Chhotepur had resigned from the AAP after he was sacked as the state convener in August following allegations of his taking money from a supporter had surfaced.

Retired pilot shoots at wife and daughter, kills self

Grandmother of Indian soldier, captured by Pakistan, dies of shock

“He was a pilot with a private airline. Last year, he had taken voluntary retirement on medical grounds,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (east district), Rishi Pal Singh. He added, “Singh’s body has been sent for post-mortem and inquest proceeding under Section 174 of CrPC has been initiated into the matter. His wife and daughter are safe and unhurt. Further investigations are on.”

According to police, the incident took place at 4.10 pm, after Singh had an heated argument with his family.

“He took out his licenced revolver and started firing at his wife Rajlaxmi and daughter Abhilasha.

Mumbai/New Delhi The lone Indian soldier, who strayed across the LoC after the surgical strikes on Wednesday, was identified as 22-year-old Chandu Chavan, who hails from Borvihir village in Dhule district of Maharashtra.

Local Marathi television channel IBN Lokmat reported that his grandmother, Lilabai Patil, died after she heard of his capture by the Pakistan army. It is reported that the maternal grandmother had brought up Chavan since he was a child after his parents were killed.

Home minister Rajnath Singh said, “The government has taken note of media reports that say our soldier is in Pakistan’s captivity… India will take up the matter with Pakistan ,” TV channels reported him as saying. Singh also spoke to the Chavan’s family and assured them of all support.

Chandigarh A day after formally quitting the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), its sacked Punjab convener Sucha Singh Chhotepur launched a new regional political outfit Aapna Punjab Party (APP) that will field or support candidates on all the 117 seats in the forthcoming assembly polls.

Announcing the launch of the party at a press conference here on Saturday, Chhotepur said that all like-minded parties and individuals were welcome to join his party or ally with it for the creation of a “Punjab Progressive Alliance (PPA)” for the polls. He said to begin with, the party was joining hands with the group of suspended AAP MP Dr Dharamvira Gandhi.

Chhotepur said cricketer-turned politician Navjot Singh Sidhu’s group was welcome to join the PPA. “I have been in talks with his group. It is for them to decide now. I have already offered to give Sidhu the lead role in the alliance. For the sake of Punjab, I don’t mind working in the

New Delhi A 61-year-old retired pilot, Anand Kumar Singh, allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself Saturday evening at Mavila Apartments in east Delhi’s Mayur Vihar. Right before his death, Singh shot at his wife and daughter, but they managed to escape unhurt, said police.

No suicide note was found at the spot and police are trying to ascertain the cause of the suicide. Preliminary investigation has revealed that Singh was suffering from depression after undergoing a kidney transplant nearly a year ago, said police.

On Saturday, Singh had an argument with his wife Rajlaxmi and daughter Abhilasha, after which he allegedly shot at them.

Ibrahim, Chhota Shakeel

New Delhi A Delhi court has issued an open non-bailable warrant against underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his aide Chhota Shakeel for allegedly hiring goons to kill a leader of a right-wing outfit.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sumit Dass passed the order based on a plea of the Special Cell of Delhi Police seeking issuance of an NBW against the duo who had allegedly hatched a conspiracy to kill Akhil Bhartiya Hindu Mahasabha leader Swami Chakrapani.

According to the police, Chakrapani had bought a car

owned by Dawood Ibrahim in an auction held by the government in Mumbai last year and later set it on fire in Ghaziabad.

In June this year, four persons -Junaid, Roger, Yunus and Manish -- were arrested as they were allegedly planning to eliminate the right wing leader.

Police claimed that during interrogation, Junaid had disclosed that Shakeel had given them money, asking them to kill Chakrapani to teach him a lesson for setting Dawood’s car on fire.

Two pistols and ten live cartridges were recovered from their possession, police said.

Giant dinosaur footprint discovered in Mongolia desert

One of the biggest dinosaur footprints ever recorded has been unearthed in the Gobi Desert, researchers said Friday, offering a fresh clue about the giant creatures that roamed the earth millions of years ago.

A joint Mongolian-Japanese expedition found the giant print, which measures 106 centimetres (42 inches) long and 77 centimetres wide.

One of several footprints discovered in the vast Mongolian desert, the huge fossil was discovered last month in a geologic layer formed between 70 million and 90 million years ago, researchers said.

It was naturally cast, as sand flowed into dents that had been left by the creature stomping on the once muddy ground.

The footprint is believed to have belonged to Titanosaur, a longnecked dinosaur, and could have

been more than 30 metres long and 20 metres tall, according researchers.

“This is a very rare discovery as it’s a well-preserved fossil footprint that is more than a metre long with imprints of its claws,” said a statement issued

by Okayama University of Science. The Japanese university has been involved in the study with the Mongolian Academy of Science.

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Hillary Clinton fears nuclear suicide bombers from Pakistan

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has expressed concern over the possibility of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons falling into the hands of jihadists, which she said was “a threatening scenario”, according to a media report.

“Pakistan is running full speed to develop tactical nukes in their continuing hostility with India,” the former secretary of state told a close door fundraiser in Virginia in February, The New York Times reported, citing 50-minute audio audio being hacked from the Democratic Party’s computers.

“But we live in fear that they’re going to have a coup, that jihadists are going to take over the government, they?re going to get access to nuclear weapons, and you? ll have suicide nuclear bombers.

So, this could not be a more threatening scenario,” the daily quoted Clinton as saying in the audio that appeared on The Washington Free Beacon website.

During the fund raiser, responding to a question on modernisation of nuclear weapons, the daily said, Clinton went beyond the question to warn of an emerging

Vijay Mallya says the Indian government is plotting to make him a poster boy of financial crime

New Delhi Vijay Mallya still doesn’t think he has done anything wrong.

On Sept. 29, the beleaguered business tycoon said the Indian government is trying to make him a “poster boy of bad loans and financial crime” and blamed the country’s taxation policies and high fuel prices for the failure of his venture, Kingfisher Airlines, which owes over Rs9,000 crore to 17 banks in India. In November 2015, the country’s largest lender, the State Bank of India, declared Mallya a wilful defaulter.

“As its part of concerted efforts (sic) to make a poster boy of bad loans and financial crime, the government continues to attach properties and threaten other forms of action, all of which, I assure you, my dear friends, will be contested in the courts of law,” Mallya said in a prerecorded video message at the 100th annual general meeting of United Breweries Holding (UBH).

The former liquor baron has been in London since March 02, avoiding summons by Indian courts, and has been criticised for “absconding.”

Mallya is the chairman of UBH whose operations primarily include holding strategic investments and real estate. In its latest annual report, the company had said Mallya also serves as its principal officersince

the company does not have a managing director (MD). “Even after his relocating to London, he has full control over affairs of the company,” it said.

The Bengaluru-based firm has not had an MD since the resignation of V Shashikanth in May 2014.

Calling it a case of “genuine business failure,” Mallya said, the Kingfisher Airlines episode had turned into a “nightmare” for him for no fault of his.

“What started as a genuine business failure of Kingfisher Airlines, which used to be hailed as the queen of Indian skies, has now turned out to be a nightmare despite the fact that the business failed due to high fuel prices, adverse government policies like taxation, and of course one of the engine types,” said the 60-year-old former chairman of United Spirits, one of India’s largest spirits companies, majority owned by British alcoholic beverages firm Diageo.

Kingfisher Airlines, he said, can account for all the expenditure it had incurred.

Even though he has ignored all summons by Indian courts and hasn’t yet disclosed any plans to return to India and settle his cases, Mallya said he has “great faith” in the Indian judicial system.

nuclear arms race, naming Russia and China as well as Pakistan and India.

MOST DANGEROUS DEVELOPMENTS “This is one of the most dangerous developments imaginable,” Clinton said.

Such remarks from the former secretary of state gains significance in view of an interview of Pakistani Defence Minister Khwaja Muhammad Asif to the local TV channel in which he threatened to unleash nukes against India.

“If our safety is threatened, we will annihilate them (India),” Asif had said.

The United States appears to have taken a strong note of Asifs recent statements on use of nuclear weapons.

“Nuclear capable states have the responsibility to exercise restraint regarding nuclear weapons and missile

capabilities,” a state department official told PTI when asked about the statements being made by the Pakistani leader.

NUKES IN PAK ENTANGLED IN TENSIONS Earlier, Defence Secretary Ashton Carter had said while India has generally shown responsible behaviour with nuclear technology, China conducts itself professionally, nuclear weapons in Pakistan are entangled in history of tensions.

Meanwhile, in an opinion Consequences of Pakistani Terrorism: Raids signal that India won?t tolerate more attacks in Kashmir, The Wall Street Journal warned that Pakistan increasingly risks becoming a “pariah state” if it continues with policies.

It said if Pakistan wants to prevent an escalation of violence it needs to shut down the terror groups it continues to support.

“That should start with Jaish-eMohammad and Lashkar-eTaiba, two major jihadist groups that operate openly in Pakistan and are prime suspects in these attacks,” it said.

BOTH GROUPS SUPPORTED

BY MILITARY “Both groups are supported by its military despite being on United Nations lists of terrorist organizations,” the daily said in the hard-hitting opinion piece, a day after India carried out surgical strikes in Pakistanoccupied Kashmir against terrorists planning to sneak into the country.

The Journal noted that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has consistently offered closer economic and diplomatic ties to Pakistan as long as it stops supporting terrorism.

Pakistan, it argued, needs a new vision centered on improving the lives of its people.

Beijing Ties between India and China are set to take a hit after Beijing on Saturday said it has extended the decision to block New Delhi’s appeal to the United Nations to label Pakistan-based Jaish-eMohammed chief Masood Azhar a terrorist.

Beijing’s move to extend the “technical hold” imposed in April comes a day before it was to lapse, giving Azhar – an accused in the Pathankot Indian Air Force base attack in January – another six-month breather.

Earlier this year, China, in collaboration with Pakistan, had blocked India’s bid to ban Azhar.

Reports then said 14 out of 15 countries were willing to designate Azhar but China, with its veto powers, took the decision to block the move.

Beijing’s decision – in the backdrop of the attack in Uri less than two weeks ago – brings into focus its stand on terrorism, on which, it has repeatedly said the West has “double standards”.

Though Beijing argued on Saturday – as before in April – that its decision was based on facts and procedures, the latest decision brings into focus the close ties between China and Pakistan, who consider each other “all-weather allies”.

It is also telling that the decision comes within days of the first ever counter-terrorism and security meet between China and India held in Beijing.

Late on Saturday night, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) shared the statement on extending the technical hold with the Hindustan Times.

“The technical hold on India’s listing application submitted to the 1267 committee in March, 2016 has already been extended,” the English translation of the response said,

using the formal procedural protocol terms under which New Delhi appealed for Azhar to be designated a terrorist.

The MFA said China maintains that countries have to be objective when matters to be

The Chinese government argued that differences of opinion remained on India’s appeal against Azhar.

“There are still different views on India’s listing application. The extended technical hold on it will

decided by the 1267 committee come up. “The 1267 committee of the UN Security Council organises its work as mandated by relevant resolutions of the Security Council,” the MFA said.

“China always maintains that on the listing matter, the 1267 committee should stick to the principles of objectivity, impartiality and professionalism, base its judgements on solid evidence and decide upon consensus among the members of the Security Council,” it said.

allow more time for the Committee to deliberate on the matter and for relevant parties to have further consultations,” the MFA said. This decision coupled with China’s role in blocking India’s Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) bid earlier this year will continue to hamper bilateral ties.

It could also cast a shadow on the BRICS summit to be held in Goa later this month where Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping will meet.

China extends its veto on India’s move for UN blacklisting of Jaish chief

Islamic State’s fall puts US at greater risk, says FBI

The United States is likely to face a higher risk of ISIS-inspired attacks over the next two years as the group loses land in the Middle East, a top official with the Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday.“I’m fairly convinced that 2017 and 2018 in the homeland will be more dangerous than we’ve seen before, because as we shrink ISIS, they’ll lash out,” Michael Steinbach, executive assistant director of the FBI’s national security branch, told a security conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

US DISRUPTED 70 ISIS-INSPIRED ATTACKS IN 2015 ISIS proclaimed a caliphate over parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014 but has lost a significant amount of territory since then to US-backed offensives, though it still controls oil wells on Syrian land.

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What Bhagat Singh wrote on Bose & Nehru AFTER the change in the political setup in Delhi, several other changes followed, as anticipated. Prime Minister Modi took both Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel into his camp and ostracised Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Bhagat Singh and Subhas Babu are now supposed to be of the same school of thought. But was it really so? It is better to find out what Bhagat Singh himself had written on that topic rather than peruse what others have written about him in the past, and those who are talking about him now.

Bhagat Singh’s article, “Naye Netaon ke Alag Alag Vichar”, (Different Thoughts of New Leaders.) was published in Kirti magazine in July 1928. The magazine had a readership in Punjab and North India. In preIndependence days, the Kirti Kisan Party was operating in the same area. The party was leftist, with close relations with the Communist Party. When Subhas Babu went to Germany via Afghanistan, he received the assistance of one Bhagat Ram Talwar, who was an active member of the Kirti Party. Bhagat Singh was a radical. He worked for the upliftment of peasants and workers. He was an avid reader.

The available list of books he read while in detention is simply amazing. He had written several articles, which are the testimony to his lucid writing and thoughts.

In “Naye Netaon ke Alag Alag

Vichar”, Bhagat Singh wrote that the non-cooperation agitation of 1920 had failed, and by 1928 there was resurrection. New leaders were coming forward.

Among them were Subhas Chandra Bose and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, both true patriots and ardent supporters of Independence for India. Bhagat Singh began by appraising the thoughts of some earlier leaders before Bose and Nehru. Thus, beginning with Sadhu Wasvani, he noted that Wasvani had no special place in the then political sphere, eulogy of the ancient times was his only programme; but he wielded influence on the minds of the youths. Bharat Youth Mandal was his creation.

He wrote that Wasvani’s thoughts could be summed up in one sentence, “Go back to the vedas”. The same was the message of the Arya Samaj.

Wasvani had said that because of the sages we have achieved so much progress that there would be no addition henceforward. He believed that the celestial power (shakti) was the need of the hour. Our nationalist movement must become a purifying mass movement; people should go to the villages to give help and medicine to the poor, so as to avert the class struggle.

Noting this, Bhagat Singh observed that Wasvani by nature was a poet, his emotionalism was like that of a mad man, and

BSF allows border farmers to harvest paddy

Attari With the BSF allowing farmers to work in their fields beyond the border fence today, the tension in the border belt seemed to have eased to some extent.The decision to allow the farmers to work in their fields, although for limited time, has come as a relief to them as the paddy harvesting season is on.The early sown paddy varieties have ripened and the harvesting process has already begun. Sarpanch of Ranian village Kehar Singh has demanded that the working hours should be extended.Usually, the farmers are allowed to work in fields between 9 am and 3 pm under the supervision of BSF’s squad named “Kisan Guard”, but now they were only allowed to work between 10 am and 12 noon.“The paddy requires combine machine for harvesting, which is a time consuming exercise. Similarly, those who want to sow vegetables need time to get their fields ready. The timings should be extended,”

Kehar Singh said. Jarnail Singh of Ratoke Havelian village in Tarn Taran said: "At least the farmers got the relief. Many among us from Noorwala, Rasoolpur, Ratoke, Unian who own land a few meters away from the border had taken loan from commission agents on heavy interest rate. Had the ban continued for some more time, they would incurred huge losses." JS Oberoi, BSF Deputy Inspector General, Amritsar Sector, said the ban on farmers had been lifted and there was no restriction on public to witness the Retreat Ceremony.

“The farmers are free to work in their fields beyond the fence along with their machinery within the stipulated time,” he said.

Meanwhile, it is learnt that the spectators’ strength during the Retreat Ceremony at the AttariWagah joint check post was thin despite being weekend. Around 250 tourists watched the ceremony yesterday and a similar number of visitors turned up today against the average of 10,00012,000.

would achieve nothing, as it was all baloney. Turning to Subhas Babu, Bhagat Singh wrote that both Bose and Nehru had adressed some conferences on

Bengali. To Bose, Hindustan had a special spiritual message to give to the world. Bhagat Singh remarked that Bose then leaned to the lunatic realm, living in a

behalf of the Congress.

Independence was the ultimate objective of Bose. He put forth his views in the Maharashtra Congress conference.

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was erudite and had visited Russia.

Because of him and his colleagues, a resolution demanding full Independence was passed in the conference in Madras. We get to know the difference between Bose and Nehru from their speeches in Amritsar and Maharashtra. They both shared the same platform in Bombay. Bose was the speaker, while Nehru presided.

Bhagat Singh felt that Bose’s speech was that of an emotional

cloud cuckoo land, and appealed to the audience to see the Taj Mahal in full moonlight and wonder at the extraordinary greatness of the genius that conceived it. Bose noted that a Bengali novelist had postulated that all our tears had turned into the marble to construct the Taj. Subhas Babu also appealed to the people to go back to the vedas. In his speech at Pune, he said that the internationalists regarded nationalism as very parochial and narrow, but they were wrong. The Indian concept of nationalism was not narrow, selfish or harmful because the source of its inspiration was the edict Satyam, Shivam,

Pathankot police want more CCTVs at Ranjit Sagar dam

Pathankot Amid the escalating tension along the border, the Punjab Police today dispatched a special team comprising senior police officers to review the security arrangements at the Ranjit Sagar dam complex.ADGP (Security) BK Bawa, IG SK Singh and senior officers of the Pathankot police, including SSP Rakesh Kaushal, held a five-hour-long meeting in the complex. The officers inspected all strategic points and check posts in and around the dam.Interestingly, even as the officers were holding deliberations reports filtered in that a “spy” pigeon had flown into the district from across the border.

The SSP immediately directed his subordinates to send hourly reports to him.Ranjit Sagar Dam, also known as Thein Dam, is a hydroelectric project on the Ravi river located near Pathankot city.

The city hosts some high-security entities like the dam, Mamun cantonment, Pathankot-Jammu highway and the Air Force base and all possible measures are being taken by the police and the Army to guard them.

Ever since the airbase witnessed an attack on January 2, the security agencies have been holding regular meetings to ensure that no untoward incident happens. Last month, Punjab Police DGP (Law and Order) HS Dhillon visited the border districts of Pathankot, Gurdaspur and Amritsar to review the situation against the backdrop of the terror attack in Uri. The SSP said he had apprised the ADGP the need to install at least 50 more CCTVs to cover the entire premises of the dam. “At present, we have installed 10 CCTVs after taking permission from the dam authorities. I have formed a committee which will pinpoint the places where the 50 CCTVs can be fixed. The ADGP assured me that funds will not be a problem,” he said.

Already 750 cameras have been installed in Pathankot district at a cost of Rs 25 lakh. Officers say the security of the dam is vital.

“Today the ADGP and the IG visited the complex. In any case we hold regular meetings to review the arrangements,” said the SSP.

Sundaram. Bhagat Singh thought it was a wrong idea. He said that Bose had faith in the greatness of our ancient age.

Bose did not find anything new in the Panchayat Raj and Janata Raj because he believed that they were in existence in India in the olden days, as also was socialism. Bhagat Singh pointed out that Pandit Nehru’s opinions were quite different from those of Bose. Nehru said that in any country you would find people saying that their country had a message for the world, but he did not think so. Nehru wanted youths to have revolutionary thoughts not only in politics but also in social and religious and financial sectors.

Bhagat Singh underlines Nehru’s observation that we should not accept tales from religious books, if they do not stand the test of reason. To Bhagat Singh, Nehru was radical and desired reformation in the society, while Subhas Babu wanted the status quo and believed in everything ancient, whereas Nehru wanted a revolt against it. Nehru said those who believe that they could revive whatever existed a hundred years back, Nehru said, “I want to tell them that it was impossible. The world in our imagination might be still but the real world is not still”.

Bhagat Singh felt that Bose demanded full Independence for India because the British were Western and we were oriental.

Bose was thinking of the political freedom of the country, while Nehru’s demand of freedom was to achieve the radical changes in our social, political and financial status. Bhagat Singh said that Nehru’s thoughts were revolutionary and appealed to the mind as well as to the reason, while Subhas Babu’s appealed only to the mind but not reason.

Bhagat Singh then appealed to the young generation of Punjab not to be guided by emotion but by reason. He noted that Punjabis are emotional, they get excited instantly and then calm down quickly. He wanted to impress on the minds of the Punjab’s youth that they needed intellectual food and not emotional stimulus. At the same time, he cautioned the people that they should not be blind followers. He stated firmly that India would achieve freedom and understand the status of freedom in the context of the world through Pandit Nehru’s school of thoughts. We would then be spared of aimless intellectual wandering and saved from frustration.

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‘Worse than hell’: With shattered dreams, Indian migrants return from Saudi New Delhi They left India for Saudi Arabia with big dreams, but have returned with only harrowing tales after an oil

revenues.“They closed down the mess (canteen) suddenly. For three days, we did not have even water to drink. There was no

price slump threw the economy into turmoil, leaving thousands of poor migrant labourers stranded.The workers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Philippines were left destitute, without enough money to get home or even to buy food after losing their jobs.This week, around 40 workers from the Bihar finally arrived home with stories of being “left to die” by their employer Saudi Oger, the once-mighty firm led by Lebanon’s billionaire and former prime minister Saad Hariri.The company, which at one time had some 50,000 workers on its payroll, was hit by a drop in income from its core construction business after Saudi Arabia delayed or cancelled projects in the face of plummeting oil

power either,” electrician Imam Hussain told AFP after landing in New Delhi this week. “I was even arrested because my identification documents were not renewed by my employer.

The situation there was worse than hell,” said the 27-year-old, who was working on the renovation of Saudi King Salman’s palace in Riyadh.

Hussain was among millions of poor Asians working in the Gulf states, where human rights groups say many suffer exploitation and abuses with no channels for redress.Under the kingdom’s kafala system, most foreign workers are barred from moving to a new job without their boss’s consent before their contracts end, leaving many trapped.It has been criticised by rights groups

as a form of bonded labour or even slavery.Hussain and his fellow migrants had spent several days in Delhi as they waited to go home to Bihar, sleeping on mattresses on the floor of a budget hotel’s garage and eating on a filthy, open terrace.

But their huge relief at coming home meant they barely noticed the discomfort. “We are just so relieved to be back home finally. All we want is to see our family and start our lives afresh,” said Santosh Singh, a low-wage construction labourer as he waited to board a train to his native village.

‘Dreams shattered’ Saudi Arabia is the favoured destination for Indian labourers, with nearly three million working mainly in the construction sector.

A 2014 report by Amnesty said close to a thousand low-wage migrant labourers are provided clearance to travel to Saudi Arabia every day.

Bihar, which has some of the worst rates for poverty, malnutrition and life expectancy in the country, has the highest migration rates, according to a government report in 2007.

Many leave to escape an exploitation-ridden rural economy in the absence of any local enterprise or industry.

Canada looking into India’s concerns on temporary foreign workers New Delhi India’s concerns on Canadian temporary foreign workers entry programme, which has

statement said here following Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s meeting with her Canadiaan counterpart

become more stringent over time and acts as a barrier for Indian IT professionals, are being examined by Canada, the Indian Commerce Ministry said on Friday. “India took up the issues of Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Entry Programme -- which has acted as a barrier for the Indian information technology companies invested in Canada to source Indian IT professionals -- as the norms for temporary entry have become more and more stringent,” the

Chrystia Freeland in Toronto on Thursday.

“The Trade Minister of Canada assured that a parliamentary committee is examining these issues and some of the concerns are likely to be addressed,” it said.Sitharaman is in Toronto for the third IndiaCanada Annual Ministerial Dialogue while Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is slated to visit Canada in the first week of October, the statement added.

Both Sitharaman and Freeland also discussed issues which have stalled

the negotiations of the proposed free-trade agreement between the two nations. The Indian ministry said the Canadian side is looking into issues concerned with the movement of professionals and provisions that could be built into the free-trade pact, also known as the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). Both sides expressed strong commitment to take forward the negotiations in CEPA and Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) and expressed the desire for their early conclusion, the statement said.Besides, the ministers discussed ways to expand trade and having more business-to-business interface with the constitution of a CEOs Forum by Canada. Canada also assured India of moving faster in constituting the Canadian side list of the CEOs Forum, the statement said.

Abu Dhabi airport in a fix over frisking a transgender Abhina Aher is a transgender person but the airport officials at Abu Dhabi were clueless about how to deal with this activist from India.

Female officials at the airport were not ready to frisk Aher who was not comfortable with men frisking her. It led to a situation where Aher felt helpless and harassed.

Aher was travelling to India early Friday morning when she faced uncomfortable questions from the Abu Dhabi airport officials who were seemingly perplexed by her transgender status.

Aher claims that the officials asked her these questions in front of other passengers while they were making up their mind on whether a female or a male official would frisk her.

The spokesperson for UAE embassy in India called the incident unfortunate.

However, no formal statement was received from embassy despite assurance.

WHO IS AHER Aher was travelling to India from Kenya via Abu Dhabi airport. During the security check the metallic detector beeped twice. “Maybe because of the jewellery I

was wearing the metallic detector beeped twice. I was asked to step forward for screening. They took

Aher was very scared and there was no one to contact, and her passport was taken.

“The

my passport and the first thing they asked me what did ‘T’ in the gender column meant. I told them it meant transgender,” she said. The problem began when they officials openly asked Aher if she was a man or a woman.

WHAT HAPPEN “I was embarrassed. I tried to tell them in their own language but instead of being sensitive they started laughing. I told them I would cooperate with them in frisking provided they let a female officer carry out the procedure. To my dismay, the female officials refused after a man said ‘I was a half man and a half woman’.”

passengers were watching and the official was not ready to return my passport. Later, two male officers forcefully tried to enter the box and frisk me after the female officers refused. They were getting suspicious why I was not letting them touch my body because I insisted a woman should do that,” she alleged. With time flying, Aher said that she gave up and wanted to return safely. “I told them that anyone of them could frisk me but then it would be a human rights issue.

A senior official came and asked me to remove all my jewellery and again pass the metal detector. I was all clear.

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Ordinary innings IT’S meant to be all about guts, isn’t it. About how an ordinary guy rises from absolutely nothing to scale the heights as a hero. That is basically the intent of a biopic. Bollywood, however, has shown very little guts while laying bare life stories of the famous. So far, most films that we have seen in the genre have been flat gushy trips that have revealed no inclination of digging deep into the psyche of their famed subjects. The genre meant to celebrate guts is hardly ever handled with guts by Bollywood. M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story could hardly have been different.

Despite the use of the word ‘Untold’ in the title, you somehow knew all along the film would merely be a collage only the good slices of Dhoni’s life. Not much of the ‘untold’ comes out in the open, after all, when the man bankrolling a biopic is the subject of the film himself (for the record, the film is co-produced by Arun Pandey, brain behind Brand Dhoni). Neeraj Pandey’s latest is actually his weakest as a filmmaker and storyteller yet, if you consider he gave you mainstream genrebenders as A Wednesday! and Special 26. Lately, the slant at directing such wacky entertainers has given way to producing gaffe-toasting melodrama as Rustom. Peddling the life story of a man who is undoubtedly among India’s greatest sporting icons ever as

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M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput, Herry Tangri, Kiara Advani, Disha Patani Direction: Neeraj Pandey

standard Bollywood masala would seem to be in sync with Pandey’s Rustom phase of mediocrity.

Anyway, he was probably directing this one to humour a powerful personality of Indian sports and his fans. The overall outcome of all this is neither a good life story on screen, nor an inspiring sporting movie — unless you count the urge with which Dhoni skipped exams for cricket practice, or how low he used to be during his phase as a ticket collector in Indian Railways long before he became a trophy collector as captain of the Indian cricket team. Which brings us to Sushant Singh Rajput trying

Out on DVD Sultan Cast: Salman Khan, Anushka Sharma, Kumud Mishra, Anant Vidhaat Sharma, Amit Sadh, Randeep Hooda Direction: Ali Abbas Zafar SALMAN Khan’s latest release surprised his fans thanks to the way the superstar drastically attempted to change his image.

Far from the invincible masala hero we have seen Salman playing out in most of his career, he essays a more down-to-earth persona in this film. Salman is Sultan, a former wrestler who now has only one dream — to open a blood bank in the name of his still-born child. The tragedy had caused his

his resilient best to accommodate the body language of Dhoni. It is not an easy job to essay Mahi on screen — that odd swagger and moody grin do not necessarily come with practice. Sushant has tried ardently but any resemblance he would bear with Dhoni simply does not exist. In the end you are left wondering if Neeraj Pandey’s decision to cast the actor as Dhoni was simply born from the fact that Sushant was a saleable option within whatever budget the production accorded for the film’s leading man. Pandey and cowriter Dilip Jha have stuffed enough melodrama, especially in the sequences that toast Dhoni’s on-field heroics. You realise after a point the film, like most Bollywood biopics, was only meant to use a real-life hero to create an inordinately long formula tale. Every actor in the cast has thus been moulded to suit Bollywood’s commercial diktats. These are not the hallmarks of good biography, and these make Bollywood’s official tribute to Dhoni a strictly average watch. Perhaps Dhoni needed to wait a few more years for his life to gather more material for a truly great biopic.

marriage with Aarfa (Anushka Sharma), a budding wrestler, to break. When the owner of a WWE-style pro-wrestling contest (Amit Sadh) approaches Sultan with an offer to participate in his tournament, it is time for fresh turmoil in the guy’s life. Sultan works well as a mainstream entertainer, though the film failed to realise Salman’s dream of recording the biggest Bollywood hit of all time.

Sarbjit Cast: Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan, Randeep Hooda, Richa Chadha Direction: Omung Kumar THE film is about Sarabjit Singh, an Indian farmer in a borderside village, who unwittingly crossed over to Pakistan and was arrested on espionage charges. Sarabjit later died in

a Pak prison after slipping into coma on allegedly being beaten up by inmates. For the sake of box-office, director Omung Kumar accords more footage to Aishwarya RaiBachchan, who plays Sarbjit’s sister and who fights for his freedom. The film is mostly seen through her eyes. Sarbjit uses a reallife tragedy to create a mediocre Bollywood melodrama.

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Why daddies always save their sons: Kangana on Hrithik controversy Known to speak her heart out, actor Kangana Ranaut vented her anger publicly on the Roshans questioning that why Hrithik Roshan’s father had to come for his rescue after issues between her and the actor surfaced earlier this year.

Ranaut asked indirectly, “why Indian men cannot stand up for themselves and a father is defending his son”.

On being asked about Rakesh Roshan’s comment that someone is spreading lies against them, the Queen actor replied immediately, “No but I want to know why can’t Indian men stand up for themselves. He is a 43-yearold son. Why his father has to come for his rescue

Why Kareena Kapoor Khan rejected six endorsement deals for baby products

Kareena Kapoor Khan, who is expecting her first child, has rejected offers to endorse six brands that make products for babies and pregnant women.Not only is Kareena Kapoor Khan a desired actor but is also a wanted name for brand

endorsements. The actor has also promoted some brands with her husband, Saif Ali Khan. Recently, Kareena came on board to endorse a pregnancy testing kit. A source reveals that several companies have been approaching the actor to become their brand ambassador. Apparently, she was also asked to be the face of a fashion line for pregnant women. The source says, “Kareena has been flooded with offers. But she has rejected more than six brands in a row. Just because she is going to be a mother soon doesn’t mean she wants to endorse everything related to maternity.”

expressed her views on the book. “I have read the book and it’s a very human take on a working woman. Its lot more meaningful because its coming from a man. When I read it I was in tears because it sounded like a leaf out of my own book,” Kangana added.

She confessed that whenever she got successful, her partner felt jealous and her relationship went wrong.

Chetan also told media how he had become a househusband to be a writer and was looked down by society.

After reading the book’s manuscript Kangana said, “I am definitely playing the lead whenever you turn the book into a film.”

We areliving in hard times, SAYS Ranbir Kapoor Ranbir, however, refrained from directly commenting on the issue and instead urged fans to remain gentleActor Ranbir Kapoor hopes the youthof the country is not “swept away” by the violence that is happening around and continue to steer away from any bitterness.”I don’t want to sound preachy and like a ‘healer talker’ but we are living in some hard times right now. I hope that you guys don’t get swept away with the bitterness and negativity, the violence that’s happening around the world and around us.”The actor’s next, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, seems to be in trouble after MNS demanded a ban on Pakistani artistes in Bollywood after the Uri terror attack.The Karan Johar-directed romantic drama features Fawad Khan in a cameo.Johar had earlier said that banning artistes from across the border is not the solution to stop terrorism.Ranbir, however, refrained from directly commenting

Vidya Balan dubs for Kahaani 2 despite being ill

Vidya Balan, who was diagnosed with dengue in mid-September, was advised complete bed rest. Nevertheless, the National-award winning actor decided to make ample use of this time.

While she was at home, she began preparing for her next film, in which she is playing the late poetess Kamala Surayya,

always?”

“For how long they will keep hiding behind their influential big names of father. He is an adult and he can pretty much handle his own controversies in show business. It is just a simple controversy. Why dadies have to always save their sons, I don’t understand this,” added Kangana.

Kangana Ranaut was present at an event to launch Chetan Bhagat’s new novel One Indian Girl on Saturday.

Chetan said, “The book has been written completely from a woman’s perspective and he interviewed around 100 women for writing it. This book will help men to understand their women better.”

Kangana Ranaut also

aka Kamala Das. Kahaani actor Vidya Balan will be dubbing for her Sujoy Ghosh directorial Kahaani 2, though she is recovering from her illness as the film is scheduled to release next month.

Though the actor hasn’t completely recovered, she is feeling much better now.

Vidya will soon start dubbing for another movie Kahaani 2, which has been directed

by Sujoy Ghosh.

A source says, “Vidya is a thorough professional. She loves her job. As Sujoy’s film will release in November, she wants to fulfill her commitments and stick to the timeline for dubbing the film. She does not wish to cause any inconvenience to the film’s cast and crew. However, she is still recovering from dengue, and won’t start shooting for the movie on Das immediately.”

on the issue and instead urged fans to remain gentle.”I want you guys to stay sweet, gentle, amazing and beautiful. Because even though the world may think that it’s a shitty place to live in, it is beautiful. You guys are the force. And the force is going to be with you, forever.” The actor asked the fans to hug each other as a gesture to spread love and solidarity.He also sang and danced on newly launched track Channa Mereya song from the film, which also stars Aishwarya Rai

Bachchan and Anushka Sharma in lead roles.

Won’t do any fairness ad again: Sonali “I think making jokes about somebody’s skin tone is absolutely wrong. However, I am glad that everybody is becoming conscious of these things. So am I.”sonali bendre, actressActress Sonali Bendre, who has in the past endorsed a fairness cream, is now not willing to be a brand ambassador of any such products which promote bias on skin tone.At an event Sonali was asked to comment on the incident involving Parched actress Tannishtha Chatterjee’s complaint about being ‘roasted’ for her skin tone on a TV comedy show. Sonali said: “I think making jokes about somebody’s skin tone is absolutely wrong.

However, I am glad that everybody is becoming conscious of these things. So am I. I have done a couple of fairness ads in the beginning of my career. Having said that, today if I am offered, I won’t do any fairness ad again.”Initially she endorsed Emami Naturally Fair.

But she says, “I was young and needed money, so I didn’t really think about it.””But I think it is time

we all need to ponder over endorsing products that stereotype women,” added the 41year-old.Commenting on how Pakistani artistes are being banned from working in Bollywood, Sonali said: “Film industry is always a soft target.””There are lot of other things that need to get sorted out.

If you look at it from a business perspective, there are other businesses also. If we are stopping a business with Pakistan, then every business needs to stop. If all dealings are barred and not just film actors, I would respect that decision.”

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Leonardo DiCaprio planning ‘secret eco-friendly wedding’ with Nina Agdal

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who is currently dating model Nina Agdal, is reportedly planning to marry her next year.

According to a source, the “low-key lovers” DiCaprio and Agdal have “a secret wedding in the works” and he is looking forward to marry Agdal next spring, reports Aceshowbiz.com.

“Leo’s been around the block with the ladies and has finally decided he’s found the one,” the source told Life & Style magazine.

“Nina doesn’t even care

about an engagement.

They’re already planning an intimate ceremony for either St. Barts or a private island next to it,” the source shared, adding that DiCaprio really wants the wedding to be “as eco-friendly as possible”.

“Leo has been doing a majority of the planning for the wedding, but has made sure that Nina gets whatever she wants, too,” the source said.

DiCaprio has previously dated celebrities like Gisele Bundchen, Bar Refaeli, Blake Lively and Miranda Kerr.

He saw himself disintegrating: Robin Williams’ wife Losing visual and spatial abilities, finding himself stuck in a frozen stance and unable to move are few of those struggles, which much-loved actor Robin Williams went through in his final months before the suicide, reveals his wife in a heart-wrenching essay.

Williams’ fans haven’t even properly moved on from the actor’s suicide in 2014, and the latest details of his condition before he took his life only deepen those wounds.

In a piece titled, The Terrorist Inside My Husband’s Brain, Susan Schneider chronicles the couple’s battle to arrive at a proper diagnosis.

“Robin was losing his mind and he was aware of it,” Schneider writes in the journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

“Can you imagine the pain he felt as he experienced himself disintegrating?

And not from something he would ever know the name of, or understand?

Neither he, nor anyone

could stop it — no amount of intelligence or love could hold it back.”

“At times, he would find himself stuck in a frozen stance, unable to move, and frustrated when he came out of it. He was beginning to have trouble with visual and spatial abilities in the way of judging distance and depth. His loss of basic reasoning just added to his growing confusion.”

She notes that his conditions were so severe that he said he wanted to “reboot” his brain. “[Robin] kept saying, ‘I just want to reboot my brain.’

Doctor appointments, testing, and psychiatry kept us in perpetual

motion. Countless blood tests, urine tests, plus rechecks of cortisol levels and lymph nodes.

“Everything came back negative, except for high cortisol levels. We wanted to be happy about all the negative test results, but Robin and I both had a deep sense that something was terribly wrong.” Schneider recalls that the actor had trouble “remembering just one line” while filming “Night at the Museum 3.”

“On May 28th, he was diagnosed with Parkinson disease. We had an answer. My heart swelled with hope. But somehow I knew Robin was not buying it.”

It wouldn’t be until the results of the autopsy came in that Schneider would have a diagnosis she felt confident in a littleknown but deadly disorder known as Lewy Body Disease, a type of degenerative dementia closely associated with Parkinson’s disease.

“This likely caused the acute paranoia and out-ofcharacter emotional responses he was having.

How I wish he could have known why he was struggling, that it was not a weakness in his heart, spirit, or character.”

Robin hanged himself on August 11, 2014, at his home in California, dying from asphyxiation, an autopsy report concluded.

He and third wife Susan Schneider Williams were married in 2011. Schneider ends her essay with an appeal to the neurological community. “It is my belief that when healing comes out of Robin’s experience, he will not have battled and died in vain.”

When Harry Potter met What’s cooking between Priyanka Donald Trump back in the day

Harry Potter star, Daniel Radcliffe recently shared a funny anecdote of his first meeting with the present American presidential candidate over ten years ago.

During an appearance on the premiere of British comedy chat show, The Graham Norton Show, the 27-year-old actor recalled his first meeting with the businessman at a press run for Harry Potter where Trump decided to offer a young Radcliffe some tips

to ease his nerves, reports E! Online. "I was like 11 or 12 and it was when we were doing press for the first Potter movie, and they took us to New York and it was sort of the first time doing any of the morning shows in New York," Radcliffe began.

"I was about to do the Today Show and I'd never been American morning TV before, and I was quite nervous," he continued, "Donald Trump had also been on that day. They

walked me over to him because clearly they were like, somebody must have said, 'Hey, you wanna meet the kid who plays Harry Potter?' and he's like 'Sure!' I don't know how that conversation went."

The people in charge apparently walked him over to the politician. The pre-teen Radcliffe confided that he was "quite nervous" as he had never been on TV before.

"You tell them you just met Mr. Trump," said Donald Trump to the actor.

To the child star that definitely must have been "the Everest of selfconfidence."

"Imagine if I'd just been to you, 'When you go on that show, just talk about me.

Don't talk about your stuff," the Swiss Army Man actor added.

Chopra and Tom Hiddleston?

Is something cooking between actor Priyanka Chopra and English actor Tom Hiddleston? Ever since the two presented an award together at the Emmys in Los Angeles, there have been rumours that they are dating. At the ceremony, Hiddleston, known for his portrayal of Loki in the film, Thor, gave a twirl to PeeCee and she couldn’t stop gushing about it.

Reports suggested that the two flirted at the Emmys after-party. “Tom had his arm around her and held her close.

Priyanka fixed his bowtie and the two kissed on both cheeks,” a source was quoted as saying.

Glee actor Lea Michele, too, confirmed on the

Ellen DeGeneres show that the two were dating.

When Ellen asked if Lea would date Hiddleston, she said, “He has got too much going on. I can’t get with that. Now there’s Priyanka Chopra, he loves her, they were flirting.”

Both Tom and Priyanka have remained tight lipped about their supposed link up. Recently, during a

Marriage to Jennifer Aniston has calmed down Justin Theroux While the most steadfast of couples are breaking apart, actor Justin Theroux could not be any happier about his marriage with Friends star Jennifer Aniston. He says getting married to her has had a calming effect on him.

The 45-year-old star revealed that

his year-old marriage with Aniston, 47, has settled him down and he could not be happier, reported FemaleFirst. “I think marriage taught me to settle a little bit. It does have a calming effect. I think it’s at what age you make that commitment,” he said. Citing his grandparents

successful marriage, Theroux said, “When you hear about people in the ‘50s getting married at 20, you’re like, What were they thinking? My grandparents were together for over 50 years. “My grandfather used to write one line everyday in his journal, ‘I love Anne more than ever today.’

question and answer session with fellow actor Benedict Cumberbatch, Hiddleston was asked about his romantic life including his three month romance with Taylor Swift, which ended last month.

Hiddleston said, “I’m not going to get into that. So that door is closed, dear reader,” he said.

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White House petition to declare Pak state 60-year-old woman gives sponsor of terror gets massive response birth to twins in US

Washington An online petition to the White House asking the United States government to designate Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism has gathered over half a million signatures already, just 10 days after it was moved.

Till Sunday morning, over 545,000 signatures were received for the petition that was moved on September 21, well past the threshold of 100,000 needed within 30 days to elicit a response from the White House.

Some reports have called it a record, but that could not be confirmed.

What is clear, however, is that after October 21, the deadline, the White House will have to post a response, under the rules of an initiative started by President Barack Obama. The response could be anything from accepting the demand to merely saying the petition was being referred to the relevant agency, the state department.

The short petition moved by an individual who only gave his initials, RG, possibly an Indian American, said, “Congressman Ted Poe (TX-02), the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, along with

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (CA-48), introduced H.R.6069, the Pakistan State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation Act. “This petition is important to the people of United State of America, India and many other countries which are continuously affected by Pakistan sponsored terrorism.”

There was no mention of the Uri terrorist strike, but the PoeRohrabacher legislation was moved in the aftermath of the attack carried out by Pakistanbased Jaish-e-Muhammad.

Supporters of the “We the People ask the Administration to declare Pakistan, State Sponsor of Terrorism” petition have set a goal of one million signatures.

“We will not stop until we get 1000,000 signatures,” wrote Anju Preet, a scientist at Georgetown University who is associated with the petition on her Facebook Page.

“Its time to act now...let us all join hands in signing the petition with White House. Tag at least 10 of your friends and family if you feel your money should be used for welfare and not terrorism,” she said.

Houston A 60-year-old woman in Indiana in the US gave birth to two babies.

Claudette Cook and her husband had decided to start a family last year and saw an in vitro fertilisation specialist who gave her the go-ahead.

Now, she’s a mother for the first time after her 60th birthday.

“Isaac came out first, and Isaiah came out second,” said Cook.

“I cried. I was like, you know, you look at TV and you see other people in the delivery room and you’re like, oh my goodness. And, it was me. So, joy, it was so sweet,” Cook said while holding her husband, Ross’s hand.

“Everything changed in

that moment. Once they’re born, your life changes.”

Isaac and Isaiah were born last Sunday, each five pounds, almost a month before Cook’s due date. She had a C-section to ensure a healthy delivery.

Claudette and Ross met 10 years ago in church. Nine years ago, doctors told her she would never have children because of her age.

“Doors started opening up, and BAM, here they are,” said Claudette. The couple says, with the power of prayer, anything is possible.

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Egyptian lawmaker’s call of mandatory virginity tests for women draws fire

Cairo An Egyptian lawmaker’s call for mandatory virginity tests for women seeking university admission has irked a women’s rights group, the Al-Masry AlYoum newspaper reported on Sunday.

Head of the state-sanctioned National Council for Women, Maya Morsi in her complaint demanded the expulsion of Ilhami Agena from parliament and a criminal investigation into his actions. She said the lawmaker was harming the reputation of Egyptian women, men and the country itself.

Agena said in an interview last week that virginity tests were needed to combat the proliferation of informal marriages, known as “gawaz orfy”, between students.

Virtually expense free, such marriages have become more popular in recent years because of high youth unemployment and a shortage of affordable housing.

The gawaz orfy is widely viewed as a religiously sanctioned way of having premarital sex, a taboo in mostly conservative and majority Muslim Egypt. Muslim clerics have spoken out against such marriages.

In Egypt, as in other conservative, Muslim countries, a young woman’s virginity is widely seen as a matter of family honour, the loss of which could prevent her from getting married.

The military was alleged to have conducted virginity tests on 19 women arrested after troops violently broke up a protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in March 2011, shortly after longtime President Hosni Mubarak resigned in the face of a popular uprising.

Three months later, Amnesty International said that Egypt’s then-military rulers acknowledged carrying out the tests as a way to protect the army from possible rape allegations. The military pledged

not to conduct the tests again, according to the London-based rights group.

Agena’s comments about women have sparked controversy in the past, including claims that some female lawmakers were not dressing modestly enough.

He sparked an uproar last month by saying that the practice of female genital mutilation, or FGM, was needed to curb women’s sexuality and counterbalance allegedly widespread male impotence in Egypt. He claimed that 64% of Egyptian men suffer from impotence, citing increased sales of Viagra.

“If women are not circumcised, they will become sexually strong and there will be a problem, an imbalance leading to divorce,” he added.

His comments about FGM followed the adoption by the Egyptian parliament of tougher penalties for the practice, allowing for a maximum of 15 years in prison for offenders if a child dies and up to seven years for performing the procedure.

The centuries-old practice, misguidedly believed to reduce a woman’s libido, was criminalised in Egypt in 2008.

However, it remains widespread and an estimated 90% of Egyptian women have undergone some form of the forced procedure.

In a first, China deploys robots as customs officers at ports Beijing In a first, China has deployed 10 intelligent robots who can detect suspicious people and raise an alarm as customs officers at three ports in southern Guangdong Province, after it used robots for security at an airport.

The robots are the first batch of intelligent robots, being used by Chinese customs at the ports of Gongbei, Hengqin in Zhuhai city and Zhongshan.

The robots, named Xiao Hai,

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have state-of-the-art perception technology and are able to listen, speak, learn, see and walk, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Based on a specialised customs database, the robots can answer questions in 28 languages and dialects, including Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Japanese.

There are some particular problems they cannot solve, and customs officials said they will link the robots to their customer service hotline in the future.

With face recognition

technology, the robots can detect suspicious people and raise an alarm, according to Zhao Min, director of Gongbei customs said.

Last month China for the first time deployed a robot to maintain security at one of its busiest airports in Guangdong Province.

The Anbot, a security robot has been hired for its first job at the Shenzhen airport where it can be seen making round-the-clock patrols through the departure hall in Terminal 3, state-run People’s Daily reported.

Woman passenger told to switch seats for ‘Pakistani monks’ in US

San Francisco A woman passenger on board a United Airlines flight has complained of discrimination after her pre-booked seat had been changed for two “Pakistani monks” who did not want to sit next to a woman.

Mary Campos, was leaving California on a plane bound for Houston, said her ticket was given away by the airlines because “She’s a woman, and two men didn’t want to sit next to a woman.”

“I don’t know how to tell you this,” a gate agent said while handing her a new boarding pass. He then explained that due to the two passengers’ “cultural beliefs”, they could not sit next to or talk to a woman, CBS Local reported.

Campos was told the men were Pakistani monks who were wearing long orange shirts.

She says the female flight crew were not allowed to serve the men.

“We can’t discriminate against half the population,” Campos said, “for a belief from another

nation.”

“I thought I lived in a culture where females were equal to men,” she said, adding that she was “shocked”, but had no choice but to take her new seat, the report said.

“What if I were handicapped or transgender? What if your entire crew were female? Any belief that prevents individuals from interacting with females should not travel on commercial aircraft,” she wrote in a letter to United Airlines.

The airline responded to say they would look into the matter, the report said.

“We regret that Ms Campos was unhappy with the handling of the seat assignments on her flight. United holds its employees to the highest standards of professionalism and has zero tolerance for discrimination,” the airlines said in a statement.

Campos said she did not want to sue the airline, but insisted that they apologise to every woman on the plane, including staff.

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Pak may arm terrorists to even scores New Delhi PAKISTAN is likely to respond with a terrorist attack deep inside India following this week’s surgical strike across the Line of Control in PoK on jihadis preparing to infiltrate, according to a high-level assessment by the security establishment. Tensions between the two neighbouring nations flared up after a deadly terror strike last month on an Army base in Jammu and Kashmir’s Uri sector that killed 19 soldiers. Officials at the apex of India’s security architecture told MAIL TODAY that Pakistan is unlikely to let the Indian raid go unavenged, with a terrorist attack likely on a prominent target outside Jammu and Kashmir as government forces are on high alert in the border state.

“We expected that Pakistan would deny the Indian Army’s surgical strike,” a senior government official told MAIL TODAY. “Accepting it would mean that they would have had to retaliate militarily. The denial gives the Pakistani Army an opportunity to plan a proxy strike at a time of their choosing.” In the aftermath of the Special Forces surgical strike, the Indian security apparatus has wargamed multiple retaliatory measures that the Pakistani Army can take to exact retribution. The Indian government is not being lulled by the deep denials coming from Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Six broad options have been identified and contingency measures are being put in place to deal with each of the possible scenarios. “The surgical strike comes weeks ahead of the retirement of General Raheel Sharif,” the government official said.

“His propaganda machine has been working overtime to build an image of Raheel as a superhero. He’s now trapped by that image.” Pakistan has denied that India carried out any strikes and says two of its soldiers were killed in cross-border shelling.

Giving his assessment of “the Sharif who matters in Pakistan”, the government official added, “Raheel Sharif is a professional solider with

India changes stance, continues operation New Delhi MORE than 36 hours after India announced it had carried out precision strikes on terrorist launch pads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK), India remains ‘in operation’. What has changed is basically the nature of it. From offensive, the Indian posture towards Pakistan has turned to defensive.

The armed forces as well as intelligence agencies are closely scrutinising all actions and statements emanating from Pakistan. “Including what cricketerturned-politician Imran Khan’s statement of wanting to teach Nawaz Sharif how to deal with PM Modi,” the source pointed out. INDIA TODAY has learnt that Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar held a slew of meetings with the chiefs of Army and Air Force separately on Saturday in his office.

The Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh also separately briefed Army chief General Dalbir Singh. “A lot many meetings are taking place. Those who have to are very much in touch.

At the start of the day, there were talks about holding a meeting of the

apex-level Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) meeting under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chairmanship but it was never finalised and notified,” said an Ministry of Defence (MoD) official.

Earlier in the day, there were indications that the government would not go public with the ‘proof of its actions’. Reasons given ranged from wanting to ‘not provoke Pakistan further’ to ‘remain mum after having achieved desired task and sending a strong message’. A senior officer

fully in the loop said: “Look at the reaction across the board. The Indian public has accepted what we have said and the international community has accepted what we have said. The only ones doubting are the Pakistanis and we know why so there is no burden on us to prove our point”. He added that the favourable situation meant that India had time and environment on its side. “As and when we feel it right, we will reveal our cards,” he added.

an acute sense of the military legacy of his family. He would not like to retire with a blot at the end of his distinguished career. He is likely to take a cold and calculated decision based on the kind of operation he feels can be pulled off.” The Indian government feels that after the PoK raid on the night of September 28, a new chapter has started in the history of the Indian state. “So far, India and Pakistan were caught in a predictable cycle. The Pakistani

deep state would hurt India. And India would make some angry noises but do nothing,” said the official. “This surgical strike has induced an element of uncertainty in this matrix. The enemy now has to think about the consequences of his actions.” Defence minister Manohar Parrikar described Pakistan as an anaesthetised patient after a surgery and asserted that India loves peace and does not believe in unprovoked aggression

but it won’t take terror lying down. “If you give us pain, then this country’s forces, this country’s people are capable of giving you the same pain),” he said to loud cheers from the crowd at an 12 NEWSSPECIAL REPORT Mail Today, New Delhi / Chandiga Mail Today, New Delhi, Sunday, O rh, Friday, September ctober 2, 2016 30, 2016 event in Uttarakhand. “The surgical strike gave our forces an idea of what they were capable of doing. Pakistan is bewildered following the strike, not quite knowing how to react.” Security officials believe that India’s strike is not a one-off affair or the end of a story, but the beginning of a new journey. The government official said no one can be certain how this chapter will end but he was confident that the new strategy would suit India’s long-term national interests. The strategy behind adopting this new course of action, he said, is to attach costs to Pakistani perfidy and to make it unaffordable in the long run for the rogue neighbour to continue its policy of bleeding India by a thousand cuts.

ARMY CHIEF REVIEWS SECURITY IN J&K

Indian Army chief General Dalbir Singh on Saturday arrived at the northern command headquarters in Udhampur, Jammu, on his first

visit after Wednesday’s surgical strike across the Line of Control (LoC) and took stock of the Army’s preparedness. “The Army chief interacted with the troops who participated in the surgical strike operation and conveyed his appreciation and best wishes to them,” Udhampur-based defence spokesman said. The Chief of Army Staff was accompanied by Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Planning & System). “The General was briefed by Lieutenant General DS Hooda, on the overall security situation in the Command theatre,” the spokesman said.

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MALDIVES BOYCOTTS SAARC CHINA BLOCKS INDIA AGAIN Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and now Maldives. The Indian campaign to isolate Pakistan in the aftermath of the Uri attack has worked with the Maldives becoming the fifth country on Saturday to confirm that it will not participate in the SAARC summit which was scheduled in November this year in Islamabad. Pakistan on Friday had formally postponed the SAARC Summit.

China said on Saturday it will extend its technical hold on India’s move to get Pakistan-based Jaish-eMohammed chief Masood Azhar designated as a terrorist by the United Nations, days before the hold was to be expired. China had placed the hold in March and it was set to expire on Monday. Now it will be extended by another six months, dealing a blow to India’s efforts to freeze the assets of Azhar.

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EVEN a year ago, our conversations hardly ever featured Balochistan, unless it was a foreign policy experts’ gathering.

It is suddenly all over social media, in pub banter, office watercooler talk. Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi did a political kamikaze supporting the Baloch cause from the Red Fort on August 15, ordinary Indians have not stopped talking about it. Balochistan is the open wound Pakistan has inflicted upon itself, on land it controversially occupied overriding a commitment of autonomy. There is an outbreak of newfound curiosity around it in India. So much so that when you type the name of the once-forgotten province in Google search, the first option that appears is ‘Balochistan India’. Posts by Balochistan activists like Brahumdagh Bugti, Mehran Marri and Karima Baloch are all over our social media timelines.

They are fast becoming familiar names.

Those who knew or cared little about the vast province squeezed between Persian and Indian civilisations are rallying for Indian asylum to its activists in exile.

Indians and the Baloch today regularly

How Balochistan is now everybody’s war exchange greetings during festivals, share tweets, Insta photos and Facebook posts on Pakistani killings and atrocities. More and more TV time is being devoted to the subject. Civilisational connects like the Hinglaj Devi temple are being dug up and celebrated. There are strong currents on the ground as well. Protests by the Balochistan diaspora and activists in exile across the world have seen NRIs participating, shouting slogans, holding up placards, sharing photos from Geneva, Berlin, New York or Toronto. This morning, London will see protests against the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, which the Baloch see as a tool of ethnic

Indians join Baloch to unleash global info blitzkrieg on ground and social media to corner Pakistan cleansing and repression. Indians are likely to join. One of the biggest drivers of this information war is Modi’s growing PR machinery of overseas Indians. The Overseas Friends of the BJP (OFBJP) are a potent force in this onslaught to bring Pakistani atrocities in Balochistan in global focus. While demonstrations

are spearheaded by Baloch people against Pakistan’s human rights violations, OFBJP is supporting them and participating in their cause across the world, according to Vijai Chauthaiwale, a former microbiologist who looks after foreign affairs for the BJP. Many mocked Modi for his grand gigs

Indian medicines, Afghan Sims recovered in raids in Pakistan Islamabad A large number of Indian medicines and Afghani mobile Sim cards were reportedly recovered in a raid from different shops along the volatile Pakistan- Afghanistan border, according to a media report on Sunday.

The Sim cards and medicines were recovered in Arandu village in Chitral district, police said.

Deputy commissioner Chitral Osama Ahmed Warraich said many traders had been arrested for selling Afghan Sims

and Indian medicines. He said keeping in view the volatile situation in the neighbouring area of Afghanistan, surveillance had been stepped up in the

areas of Chitral, which borders Afghanistan. Acting on a tip-off, the raid was conducted in Arandu town, Warraich was quoted as saying by Dawn News.

The shopkeepers had been earlier warned to surrender Afghan Sims and mobile cards as well as Indian medicines, failing which action would be taken against them, he said.

The other border villages are also under strict surveillance to check the use of Afghan mobiles which can be used in subversive activities.

involving NRIs from New York’s Madison Square Garden to Dubai’s cricket stadium. But it seems to have awakened the sleeping soft power of our great diaspora, transforming it into a formidable public relations driver for the nation. Although it is ostensibly a spontaneous friendship and collaboration at a local level in each city, it is difficult not to see the determined, relentless activity going on in the backdrop to make Pakistan’s best-kept secret a raging, global embarrassment.

Peaceful protests and an information war lend a formidable moral force to any movement. It elevates a ragtag local militant resistant to a full-blown, legitimate freedom struggle. Peaceful struggles are much more likely to succeed than armed, bloody ones.

Mahatma Gandhi’s India, Nelson Mandela’s South Africa, Aung San Suu Kyi’s Myanmar are just a few cases in point. There is now a rising spectre that Pakistan may lose Balochistan, which comprises nearly half of Pakistan’s territory. With help from extremely wellconnected Indians and a vibrant social media, the world is watching how the people of a mineral-rich region have been kept poor, tortured and killed by its illegitimate masters. The Balochistan information onslaught, now fully and openly backed by not just the Indian government but by its people, is far more lethal than guns and tankers. Pakistan should worry.

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PRESIDENTIAL candidate Donald Trump appeared in a softcore porn video in 2000, it’s been revealed. Just hours after he lashed out at former Miss Universe Alicia Machado for a ‘disgusting’ sex tape which does not appear to exist, videos surfaced of Trump popping a bottle of champagne in a Playboy video. While Trump remains fully clothed in Playboy Video Centerfold 2000, other scenes in the tape include naked women posing in sexual positions, touching themselves, rubbing honey on their bodies and caressing each other.

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Trumped by a porn video secretary Nick Merrill, who has not seen the video, said: “There’s been a lot of talk about sex tapes today and in a strange turn of events only one adult film has emerged today and its star is Donald Trump.” The video, obtained by Buzzfeed from an online adult video store called Cinema Cornucopia, features Trump welcoming the Playmates to New York during a bus tour in 2000. Trump can be seen popping a bottle of champagne, which splashes onto a Playboy logo as women can be heard cheering in the background. “Beauty is beauty, and let’s see what happens with New York,” Trump

says. The VHS cover states: “From luxuriating in a warm, soapy tub, to revelling at an exclusive night club, Carol and Darlene bare their sex appeal and lead you on a sensual journey of discovery.” Ironically, the American-born twin sisters Darlene and Carol Bernaola, grew up in Peru before moving to Miami, according to the Playboy website. They overcame ‘poverty, isolation, terrorism, and language barriers’ to become ‘Playmates of the new millennium’, according to the website. In a profile on the twins, they both expressed their pride in being both Latin and

American, with Carol saying: “Now is the time to recognise our differences. The year 2000 is not about whether you are white, black, yellow, brown or blue. It’s about a mix of cultures.” Trump’s porn appearance surfaced just hours after he launched additional attacks on Machado, who won Miss Universe in 1996 while Trump owned the company producing the pageants. During the first presidential debate on Monday, Clinton excoriated Trump for calling Machado ‘Miss Piggy’ and ‘Miss Housekeeping’ due to her Venezuelan roots.

Daughter’s diktat: No younger dates DONALD Trump once made a pact with his daughter Ivanka never to date anyone younger than her. In a recently unearthed interview on The Howard Stern Show in 1999, Trump joked about how he was attending fashion events to meet a model to be his next wife. When he was asked how that affects his daughter, Trump responded: “I have a deal with her. She’s just 17 and she’s doing great, Ivanka, and she made me promise her to swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her. So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.” Stern responded: “Yeah, I mean the nerve of her, now you can’t go out with 16-yearolds.” At the time of the interview, Trump had already started dating his future

wife number three, Melania, who is actually closer in age to Ivanka. Trump is 70 years old, while his wife and eldest daughter are 46 and 34. The interview was unearthed by a Democratic strategist who shared it with the New York Daily News. The interview just adds to plethora of uncomfortable comments the Republican nominee has made about his eldest daughter. In another Howard Stern interview from 2003, Trump bragged about his daughter’s figure, saying: “You know who’s one of the great beauties of the world, according to everybody?

And I helped create her. Ivanka.

My daughter, Ivanka. She’s 6 feet tall, she’s got the best body. She made a lot money as a model.”

UN NEWS AGENCY SCRUBS ‘DEFEAT TRUMP’ TWEET The ‘rigged system’ working against Donald Trump may even include the bureaucrats and blue helmets of the United Nations – or at least one of them involved in the institution’s Twitter account.

The United Nations Information Centre tweeted out a link to a campaign seeking to ‘end Trump’ by drumming up the vote among Americans living abroad.

The tweet directed users to the site of an international organisation called Avaaz, which seeks to ‘organise citizens of all

nations to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want.’ “WE CAN DEFEAT TRUMP... IF 8 MILLION AMERICANS ABROAD VOTE,” said the link, urging people to pass on information to get Americans living outside the U.S. to send in their

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ballots. “8 million Americans abroad could defeat Trump... if they vote! I wanted to make sure you saw this new overseas registration tool that makes voting deadeasy. It literally takes a few minutes,” said the online message. Politico reported that the message was sent at 9:14 pm on Thursday, and then taken down about 20 minutes later with

no explanation. The group labels the effort ‘The October surprise that will end Trump.’ “At a time when Trump is trying to divide us, we could help defeat him if we all share this page with EVERYONE. Let’s reach every US voter abroad.” A UN spokeswoman told the publication that the tweet didn’t ‘originate’

from the UN’s media arm.

“That tweet did not originate from the UN News Centre and this was the reason for it being taken down. We’re looking into its provenance,” Ari Gaitanis, chief of the U.N. News Services Section told the publication.

According to the appeal, “Only 12% of Americans abroad vote, because the process is so complex. But not this year! Avaaz has launched a dead-simple tool to meet all your voting needs — registration, ballots, and reminders. Welcome to a whole new era in US politics!”

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Loss or defeat at this point is illusory and needs to be viewed from a higher perspective. Favorable times and opportunities await you. Be patient in family situations that seem like endless ego battles.

Professional changes may involve new designations and systems. Business management or control is likely to shift and new methods adopted for greater benefit and profit.

Personal relationships need to be assessed and attitudes transformed as you need more clarity and commitment therein. Some business plans may change or be postponed due to lack of funds.

You tend to dwell on the past and rake up old issues, which open old wounds and bring fresh pain in relationships. Bid good-bye to the past and move into the new and positive current for the future. Avoid a negative, melancholic and destructive person who can bring unhappiness and discord in the family.

There can be disruption and strife at work if promises are not fulfilled and targets not met.

Delay in completion of projects cannot be ruled out this week, to work harder. There is honesty in money transactions and business deals as you come to the end of a project.

Progressive changes are on the cards this week as personal and business plans actualise. There is a positive and hopeful outlook in family and traditional relationships as you are loyal and supportive. You can expect faithful friends to stand by you. Good health and energy enable you to cope with busy schedules. Success in a current venture brings you gain and professional stability.

Beware of a family member who is into maintaining traditional ideas at much cost. You are highly emotional and can sacrifice your own priorities for others. Personal relationships are full of fun and romance as you celebrate with loved ones.

You shine this eventful and interesting week with true self-esteem and confidence in professional and personal situations.

You can expect visitors and communications that are positive and helpful. Forgive a friend for an error of judgment that may have incurred a loss to you. You are likely to work for some time with groups and support institutions. Don’t have great expectations in any aspect or you could be disappointed. You can be dreamy and romantic in personal relationships.

You have a broad perspective and need to leave details to others. Delegating responsibility with others is worth considering.

Make sure you are not stuck in a head trip this week which blocks you from seeing different points of view and options. You are mentally stressed and in danger of getting caught in destructive logic which makes you stern and revengeful. It is time to lighten up and use your great practical wisdom to achieve your own goals without competing with others. You manage finances and business affairs with dexterity and can be firm or aggressive when you need to make a point. You need to inculcate more trust, space and freedom in loving relationships to allow them depth, growth and maturity.

You are likely to redecorate living and working spaces to change energy around you as there has been a subtle and deep change inside. You are in control and create a new atmosphere around you at work and at home. You are ambitious in professional aspects with targets lined up to be met. You entertain with charm and exude warmth to friends and family. A higher perspective takes you towards spiritual growth, meditation and inner tranquility. A woman supports you when you have extra responsibilities and chores. Guard against depleting your energy as you tend to take on too much upon yourself.

You tend to be romantic, dreamy and sentimental and arrange cozy evenings with family and old friends. Beware of deluding yourself about certain situations as emotions cloud your vision and obscure the truth. It’s best to view life with your heart, as well as, with your head before taking a stand or a decision. People, atmosphere and forces around you can influence you, as you are open and receptive. Avoid being dependent on family and associates but encourage interdependence. Synergy and harmony help you to achieve success and happiness. Sensitivity, compassion and intuition are the qualities that shine forth now and dissolve barriers.

Karmic situations and patterns come to the fore and there is no more deception or illusion in personal and professional matters. You are able to face truths, deal with emotional choices or difficult situations and come out of them without being harmed in any way. You are likely to be surrounded by people who swing from one mood to another and act out of false perceptions. A mystical experience over the week end is exciting. Personal relationships are packed with emotion. End of the week ‘the Sun’ shines through with light, joy and happiness. Old habits like smoking and drinking can be kicked now.

Unlimited new possibilities are available to you if you are open and receptive. You arrive at a synthesis of the whole problem facing you at this point and take a final step towards a new professional opportunity.

Overseas travel is possible and visitors or good news may surprise you on the weekend. Good health and energy enable you to participate in hectic social festivities. Listen to your heart and intuition when making decisions regarding family.

Beware of judgments as they keep you trapped in illusions, habits or patterns. Love and romance in relationships is reassuring.

This is a time to get on with your business rather than be caught up in emotional or ego conflicts. You become aware and feel disturbed about a young man who is subtle and crafty in the work area. He seems caring intensely for power and achieving his own aims. Ruthless people with overweening ambition need to be avoided. Remain centered and witnessing within rather than over reacting to situations outside. Deep feelings of love in emotional relationships are countered by negative attitudes at work. Trust your intuition and use a light approach to deal with negative or traditional people.

Take a quantum leap towards the future with a new vision about personal and professional situations. New business opportunities and progressive developments in family matters take place when you least expect them. Unpredictable happenings are on the cards this week! You celebrate spontaneously; have much fun in an unplanned surprise party with loved ones, friends and family. Enemies become friends and friends become enemies during a surprising turn of events.

A breakthrough or turnaround is possible in personal, family and professional situations that may have been stuck or blocked for some time.

You feel free and unfettered this week and you go beyond standard practice and regulations in the work area. You are creative, original and have the courage to be different in a prestigious project. You may invite a mixed lot of reactions and responses, a few negative and others mostly positive and flattering in nature. New opportunties for expansion are on the cards! Trust your intuition in personal relationships and gut feelings in business matters and act accordingly even if your actions appear to be foolish to others.

At this point trust and innocence are your guides rather than skepticism and past experience.

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Technology Twitter moving closer Are two cameras in a to sale: possible suitors phone better than one?

Salesforce, Google Twitter Inc is moving closer to a sale and has received expressions of interest, CNBC reported on Friday, sending the microblogger‘s shares up more than 19 percent in their biggest gain in over

two years.

CNBC, citing unnamed sources, said possible suitors include Alphabet‘s Google and Salesforce.com. No sale is imminent.

Twitter, Salesforce and Alphabet could not be reached immediately for comment. Salesforce shares fell more than 3 percent, while Alphabet dipped around 0.25 percent.

Twitter has been a nearconstant focus of takeover speculation amid persistently disappointing sales and user engagement. In its most recent quarterly report, it

posted its slowest revenue growth since going public in 2013 and issued a lackluster outlook.

As rivals such as Facebook‘s Instagram and privately held Snapchat gain traction with advertisers and social media users, investors have questioned how long Twitter could persist as a stand-alone company.

Co-founder Jack Dorsey returned to the company as chief executive in 2015, but his plan for reviving Twitter is at best seen as unfinished.

The CNBC report sent Twitter shares to their highest since early January. It last traded around $22.30 a share.

Twitter‘s stock regularly jumps on rumors that a bid is afoot, none of which have so far developed into a deal.

Coming soon! Facebook At Work Know what it means

New York Facebook is set to launch its enterprise communication and collaboration network “Facebook At Work” globally in a few weeks on a per seat pricing model for businesses to make it easier for employees to exchange ideas easily, a media report said on Wednesday.

“Facebook believes it can keep individual employees engaged with the product, so it is betting on a pricing plan that charges companies per monthly active user instead of charging a flat rate per company,” Tech Crunch quoted “Facebook At Work” director Julien Codorniou as saying. “Facebook At Work” is a platform where subscribers can use the product`s special Work Feed of posts from

colleagues to exchange ideas and assume tasks.

According to the report, Facebook will launch integrations or partnerships with other Software-as-aService (SaaS) tool providers making it lucrative for Facebook to get every single member of a company signed up.

“Facebook At Work” will also offer Groups as well as Messenger, which includes audio and video calling options that could compete with Slack and Skype. Plus it provides the social network`s profiles, Events and Live video features, the report noted. As far as pricing is concerned, the exact figures for “Facebook At Work” have not been announced but the 400-plus beta testers, who have been testing the product for a while will get a few additional months of comped subscriptions to test it out. The product has been in the making since 2014 and the first tests were officially unveiled in 2015. Since then, Facebook has been busy signing up huge international customers like the 100,000-employee Royal Bank Of Scotland, the report added.

THERE is a trend that is emerging in the phone market. Even as the cameras inside these little devices get better, they are also running into the walls of physics.

There is only so much you can do in a device that is so small. But to fix the problems that users face, and to enable better photos from the phones, the phone makers are trying some noble approaches. One of these is the dual-camera trick.

What started as gimmick around a year ago has become some sort of serious feature this year with even Apple jumping on the bandwagon with its iPhone 7 Plus. So are the two rear cameras really better than one? It actually depends on the approach the phone maker has taken. But for now the answer is more or less no. When the two rear cameras appeared in mobile phones, they were more of a gimmick. The idea was to use one camera for solely capturing the depth field and then allow people to change the focus point after the images have been clicked. This means if you were clicking the photo of your friend, you

could change the focus after the image has been clicked, highlight her and blur the background. This would make the photo look better. But since then, this other camera has been used for various purposes.

The iPhone 7 Plus, for example, uses this second

camera to offer consumers a telephoto lens with 2X optical zoom for better portrait photos. The LG G5, meanwhile, goes in the other direction and uses its second camera to offer consumers a wideangle lens for better landscape photos. But the better approach is the one taken

by Huawei, which uses the second camera in its Honor P9 and Honor P8, which will be launched soon in India, to capture more details in monochrome and

then combine those detail with whatever main camera captures, to create an image that has more finer details and better contrast. But even as they are interesting and innovative, the dual camera setups in phones, including the one in the iPhone 7 Plus, don't yet compellingly score over the good single camera in phones. This is the reason why the Huawei Honor P9, although good, can't beat the Huawei Nexus 6P that has one camera but with better photography hardware.

The same is the case with the other dual camera phones. So next time when you see dual cameras in a phone, keep in mind that this feature looks good on paper, but it doesn't beat the one good camera that phones likes the Galaxy S7, HTC 10 and Nexus 6P have.

Google to provide public wi-fi hotspots in malls, universities New Delhi Google has launched Google Station in India, a service that aims to deepen its reach across the country, as the search giant seeks to bring more people on to its Google platform.

Under the service, Google will roll-out Wi-Fi hot spots in places frequented by a large number of people, such as malls and transit stations, and in social hangout locations such as cafes and universities, the company said on Tuesday.

“The goal is to give people many hot spots within a few minutes walk from their home, university, or workplace, unified by a

simple login process that works across all of them,” Caesar Sengupta, VicePresident, Next Billion Users at Google was quoted as saying in the statement.

Google currently offers free Wi-Fi access at 53 railway stations across India and plans to scale up the

service to 100 by yearend, the company said.

Sengupta also said the company is also looking at monetising the service it offers at railway stations.

Google Station will also be launched in Indonesia and Philippines in future, the company said.

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In PoK, residents protest against Global trade in African atrocities by Pakistan Army and ISI grey parrots banned Muzaffarabad Kotli residents in Pakistanoccupied Kashmir (PoK) took to the streets to protest against the atrocities committed against them by the Pakistan Army and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

The agitation was launched

against extra-judicial killings, fake encounters and brutalities committed on pro-Azadi leaders, who disagree with Pakistan.

The angry mob raised slogans such as “Butcher of Kashmiris, Pakistan Army”, “Dogs are more loyal than ISI”.

The protesters demand an independent investigation into the murder of Arif Shahid, a Kashmiri nationalist leader, chairman of the All Parties National Alliance (APNA), and

president of the Jammu Kashmir National Liberation Conference (JKNLC).

Shahid fought against Pakistan’s oppression in PoK before he was shot outside his residence in Rawalpindi on May 14, 2013. He was 62.

Investigation into Shahid’s

murder is still inconclusive, and there is no conclusion in the murder probe so far. The ISI has been accused of for conspiring and executing Shahid’s murder.

According to an estimate by the All Party National Alliance based in Muzaffarabad, more than one hundred pro-freedom political activists have been killed by the ISI over the past two years.

There is growing resentment among PoK residents over the

killings as well as the continued army clampdown.

Earlier, PoK witnessed a series of protests by residents against rigged polls that saw Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s party, the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), coming to power.

The United States’ State Department has recently also expressed concern over human rights violation in PoK, maintaining that it has always been urging parties in Pakistan to settle their differences “peacefully and through a valid political process”.

US State Department spokesperson Mark Toner said he could not agree with the view that nobody knew about human rights violations in PoK before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted that in his Independence Day speech.

“Sure, Well, I would respectfully beg to differ. We do have concerns about the human rights situation there, have reported it for several years in our human rights report, and we’ve obviously are always urging all parties in Pakistan to work out their differences peacefully and through a valid political process. And with respect to Kashmir, our policy there is well known,” he said.

JOHANNESBURG The United Nations has banned global trade in wild African Grey Parrots, prized for their ability to imitate human speech, to help counter a decline in numbers caused by trafficking and the loss of forests.

The highly coveted species was placed on the convention’s “Appendix I”, which prohibits any cross-border movement in the birds or their body parts for commercial purposes.

The decision, made when members of the UN’s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) held a secret ballot for the first time ever, came at a two week-long convention in Johannesburg.

“Inclusion in Appendix I is in the best interests of the conservation of the species as it faces both habitat loss and rampant illegal and unsustainable trade for the international pet trade,” said vice president and head of the Wildlife Conservation Society delegation Susan Lieberman.

The African Grey Parrot, usually bred in captivity and sold as a pet, was listed on “Appendix II” in 1981, which includes species whose trade must be limited, after concerns over the impact on its numbers.

High levels or deforestation, poor regulation of trade and increased trafficking for the pet industry have led to the decline of the African Grey Parrot, which was once widespread across its natural habitat in central and western Africa.

“During the past 25 years, more than 1.5 million wild African Greys have been taken from their native habitats, making them one of the most traded of all CITES-listed parrots,” said US Fish and Wildlife Service Director and head of the US delegation, Dan Ashe. The African Grey Parrot joins the highly endangered pangolin, a scaly animal with the dubious distinction of being the world’s most poached mammal, on the Appendix I list after global trade in it was banned last week..

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California toughens rape laws after infamous Stanford case minimum sentence critics often say that these measures dispropor-tionately affect minority and low-income defendants, and result in prison overcrowding. Brown also signed into law a bill expanding the legal definition of rape to include all forms of nonconsensual sexual assault. The judge who handled the Turner case, Aaron Persky - himself a Stanford alum -- set off a firestorm of outrage in June when he sentenced the

Los Angeles California’s governor on Friday signed a measure mandating prison time for people who rape unconscious or intoxicated victims, the fallout in the case of an ex-Stanford student athlete that sparked widespread outrage.Governor Jerry Brown signed the legislation just weeks after 21-year-old Brock Turner, formerly on the Stanford swim team, was released from jail.

Turner served just three months of his six-month sentence for raping an intoxicated and unconscious 22-year-old woman behind a dumpster at a fraternity house.Brown said in a statement that he is generally “opposed to adding more mandatory sentences.” However he believes this legislation “brings a measure of parity to sentencing for criminal acts that are substantially similar,” he said in a statement. Mandatory

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swimmer to just six months in prison followed by three years of probation, ignoring prosecutors’ call for a six-year prison term.The case threw a spotlight on the problem of rape and sexual assault on US college campuses, amid criticism that handling of these cases is often lax and has given rise to a climate of impunity. Turner’s victim, identified as “Emily Doe,” made a powerful statement at his sentencing that drew

international attention. “Rapists like Brock Turner shouldn’t be let off with a slap on the wrist,” said Evan Low, a state assemblyman and co-author of the legislation, in a statement.“Judge Persky’s ruling was unjustifiable and morally wrong,” the lawmaker said. “However, under current state law it was within his discretion.”“While we can’t go back and change what happened, we can make sure it never happens again.”

Indian jailed for killing pregnant girlfriend in New Zealand

Wellington An Indian student who killed his pregnant girlfriend in a frenzied knife attack in New Zealand after she told him the baby was not his was sentenced to life imprisonment Tuesday.

The man, who goes by the single name Akash, displayed “cruelty, brutality and callousness” in murdering 22-year-old Gurpreet Kaur, Auckland high court judge Matthew Palmer said.

The judge said the pair were secretly dating for 12 months but Akash, 24, snapped on April 7 this year when Kaur told him the baby was not his and she wanted to end the relationship.

High on methamphetamine, he stabbed her 29 times and dumped the body in roadside bushes south of Auckland.

He initially pleaded not guilty, arguing the stab wounds were self inflicted, but admitted his guilt in August, four months after being arrested.

Palmer said the fact that Kaur was 7 to 10 weeks pregnant exacerbated the crime and made her death even more painful for her family.

“Not only did you murder Gurpreet Kaur and deprive her family of her existence, but you deprived her and her family of the potential of another life,” the judge said.

Akash was sentenced to life with a minimum of 17 years behind bars.

Prosecutors want crackdown on websites selling illegal sex

WASHINGTON Seven types of bees once found in abundance in Hawaii but now facing extinction on Friday became the first bees to be added to the federal list of endangered and threatened species, according to US wildlife managers.

The listing decision, published on Friday in the Federal Register, classifies seven varieties of yellow-faced or masked bees as endangered, due to such factors as habitat loss, wildfires and the invasion of nonnative plants and insects.The bees, so named for yellow-to-white facial markings,

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once crowded Hawaii and Maui but recent surveys found their populations have plunged in the same fashion as other types of wild bees - and some commercial ones - elsewhere in the United States, federal wildlife managers said. Pollinators like bees are crucial for the production of fruits, nuts and vegetables and they represent billions of dollars in value each year to the nation’s agricultural economy, US officials said.

Placing yellow-faced bees under federal safeguards comes just over a week since the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed adding the imperiled rusty patched bumble bee, a prized but vanishing pollinator once found in the upper Midwest and Northeastern United States, to the endangered and threatened species list.

One of several wild bee species seen declining over the past two decades, the rusty patched bumble bee is the first in the continental United States formally proposed for protections.

Honululu Prosecutors from around the world say the fight against sex trafficking is moving online as traffickers use popular websites to advertise sexual services.

They talked Friday about how they can crack down on the problem at an international sex trafficking summit in Waikiki that drew prosecutors from Asia, the US and Canada.

The challenges each nation faces are similar, and victims are often unwilling to cooperate with investigators because they’ve endured a history of abuse, said Jackie Lacey, Los Angeles County’s district attorney. ”Most of this is underground,” Lacey said. “It’s not like in the ‘80s and ‘90s where women were on the street. It’s all done by social media, cellphones, emails, text messages.”

Michael Ramos, president of the National District Attorneys Association, said he plans to push for legislation in the United States to make it illegal to use websites to solicit illegal sex and to hold internet companies accountable for sex trafficking that occurs on their platforms.

“There should be some place that says you need to do a better job with the content that’s on your promotional site,” Ramos said. “It’s just so easy right now

little enforcement. She said online reviews of establishments are out in the open, and she pulled up one on her phone.

“If we go on the internet site, we

… Instead of having prostitutes out on the corner like they used to in a red light district, now they just go online, they hit a button, and it’s like ordering a pizza.”

Other law enforcement officers, such as Honolulu Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro, said websites that allow sex ads have helped officers catch traffickers by identifying locations where there’s a problem.

Sonia Paquet, a Canadian prosecutor, talked about how prostitution is illegal but there’s

see the girls naked,” Paquet said.

“They are from everywhere around the world.” Prosecutors form Canada, China, Japan, Palau, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand attended the summit. American prosecutors attended from more than a dozen states including Arkansas, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, Nevada, Oregon, Virginia, Washington and Washington DC.

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Philippines’ Duterte likens himself to Hitler, wants to kill 3 mn drug users Philippines Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte raised the rhetoric over his bloody anti-crime war to a new level Friday, comparing it to Hitler and the Holocaust and saying he would be “happy to slaughter” 3 million addicts.

Duterte issued his latest threat

against drug dealers and users early Friday on returning to his hometown in southern Davao city after visiting Vietnam, where he discussed his anti-drug campaign with Vietnamese leaders and ways for their governments to fight transnational crimes, including illegal drugs.Duterte has said his public death threats against drug suspects are designed to scare them into stop selling drugs and to discourage would-be users.

But his latest remarks took that crime-busting approach to a different level.“Hitler massacred 3 million Jews ... there’s 3 million

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drug addicts. There are. I’d be happy to slaughter them,” Duterte said, referring to a Philippine government estimate of the number of drug addicts in the country. Historians say that 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis under Hitler before and during World War II.During the

presidential election campaign earlier this year and during the three months he had held office, the tough-talking Duterte has threatened to drown drug suspects to fatten the fish in Manila Bay. He also threatened to execute drug traffickers by hanging because he didn’t want to waste electricity on them until their heads were severed from their bodies.While Hitler victims were innocent people, Duterte said his targets are “all criminals” and that getting rid of them would “finish the (drug) problem of my country and save the next generation from perdition.”

The comparisons with Hitler were criticized by Phil Robertson, the Asia deputy director for Human Rights Watch, who said it was baffling why anyone would want to compare themselves to “one of the largest mass murderers in human history.”

Robertson said that in today’s context, Hitler would be accused of crimes against humanity, charges that often end up at the International Court of Justice in the Hague.

Clinton’s name misspelled on souvenir debate tickets

HEMPSTEAD The first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump may be one of the most hyped events in US politics, but the hosts managed overlook one small detail. The name of the Democratic nominee, the first woman in American history to win a major party nomination for president, was misspelled on souvenir tickets handed out to students at Hofstra University. The tickets

given to 350 students who won coveted seats in a lottery to attend the debate misspelled Clinton’s first name - “Hilary” TV networks NBC and CBS reported. “These tickets are not official tickets to the debate,” Hofstra University spokeswoman Karla Schuster told AFP in a statement. “They were printed at the last minute to create a souvenir for the students who won the ticket lottery,” she added. “We will reprint them.”

“Is that what Duterte wants? Does he want to be sent to the international criminal court, because he’s working his way there,” Robertson said.

Duterte’s campaign promise to end corruption and crimes, especially illegal drugs, within six months of taking office on June 30 carried him to an overwhelming victory in the presidential election.And since he won the election in May, more than 3,000 suspected drug dealers and users have been killed and nearly 700,000 others have surrendered in his crackdown, but he has asked for a six-month extension to finish the job.His supporters and many Filipinos exasperated with widespread crime have welcomed his tough approach, but a growing number of critics, including UN officials, the European Union and the United States, have voiced concerns over the widespread killings and human rights violations.

He reacted Friday by calling critics from the European Union a “group of idiots in the purest form.”Duterte lashed out at the US, his country’s longtime treaty ally, and the E.U. for finding fault with his methods, saying European countries were hypocrites for not doing enough to help the large numbers of refugees fleeing from the violence in the Middle East.

Born in India? Can’t donate blood in Northern Ireland

London More than 150 members of the Indian community in Northern Ireland were left frustrated after being told they couldn’t donate blood during a camp in Belfast because they were born in India and would need to undergo a malaria test.

The camp was organised on September 23 by the charity organisation Sudarshanam after nine months of planning and discussions with the Northern Ireland Transfusion Service (NITS). Organisers told Hindustan Times the issue of place of birth or the malaria test was never raised during the preparations. Trustee Srikant Ganapati said on Wednesday: “People came from various parts of Northern Ireland, some also from England. It was the first such effort by any Asian organisation here but at the last moment, we were asked if we were born in India, or had visited India. “Even a 62-year-old Indian

who never visited India for the last 58 years was prevented from donating blood. Everyone was so enthusiastic, took time off work.

Most of them were IT professionals and doctors, but had to go away without donating blood.”

There was no response from NITS but some reports said it was investigating the incident.

“It was very frustrating, but we will not give up. They often say that 97% people don’t donate blood, but when we wanted to, they prevented us. We will wait for the investigation’s outcome,” Ganapati said.

Donor eligibility criteria were not clear, the organisers said. There was no mention in correspondence over nine months or on the NITS website that people born in India cannot donate blood.

Belfast-based Sudarshanam, founded in 2012, is registered with Britain’s Charity Commission.

gangs and dubbed the “doner (kebab) murders” -- were in fact committed by a far-right cell with xenophobic motives.

Prosecutors charge that Zschaepe was an NSU member

prison, insisted she was involved “neither in the planning nor the execution” of any crimes, and that she was “horrified” to learn about them afterwards.

In her 2015 deposition, Zschaepe

and aided the crimes, also including two bomb attacks and 15 bank robberies, by covering the men’s tracks, handling finances and providing a safe retreat in their shared home.

Zschaepe told the Munich court on Thursday: “I condemn what Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Boehnhardt did to the victims.”

In December last year, Zschaepe had for the first time addressed the court through a 53-page statement read out by her lawyers, in which she described herself as a passive and innocent bystander to the bloody crimes.

At the time Zschaepe, who faces a maximum sentence of life in

also insisted she had stayed with Mundlos and Boehnhardt because she feared going to jail and because she was financially and emotionally dependent on them.

She has admitted only to an arson charge, having torched their home after the men died, and of then distributing a DVD in which the group boasted about the killings in a video set to a comical Pink Panther theme.

The random discovery of the NSU in 2011 deeply embarrassed German authorities, exposing police and domestic intelligence flaws and raising uncomfortable questions about how the cell went undetected for 13 years.

German woman on trial over neo-Nazi murders breaks silence, ‘regrets misconduct’ Munich, Germany The surviving member of a German neo-Nazi trio accused of a string of racist killings broke her silence in court for the first time on Thursday, claiming she no longer held far-right views.

More than three years into her trial, Beate Zschaepe condemned the murders carried out by the other two members -Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Boehnhardt -- of the self-styled National Socialist Underground (NSU).

Nervously reading out a short statement in a soft voice, the 41year-old admitted that as a youth in the former communist east Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, she “indeed identified with nationalist ideology”.

But she insisted that “today I judge people not by their origin and political affiliation but by their behaviour” and told the court, “I regret my own misconduct”.

Zschaepe for years lived in hiding with Mundlos and Boehnhardt, who shot dead eight men with Turkish roots, a Greek migrant and a German policewoman between 2000 and 2007, before the two died in an apparent murder-suicide in 2011.After the men’s deaths, Germany was shocked to discover that the killings -- long blamed by police and media on migrant crime

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Two stolen Van Gogh masterpieces recovered in Italy NAPLES, Italy Two Van Gogh masterpieces stolen in Amsterdam 14 years ago have been recoved from the home of a notorious Italian drug boss near Naples, Italian and museum officials announced on Friday.

The 1882 “Seascape at Scheveningen” and 1884/85 “Congregation leaving the Reformed Church at Nuenen” were “recovered during a massive, continuing investigation... conducted by a specialised Italian prosecutions team investigating organised crime,” the Van Gogh Museum said in a statement. Italian investigators raided a home belonging to infamous drug baron Raffaele Imperiale, who was arrested 10 years ago at the same location at Castellammare di Stabia, some 34 kilometres (21 miles) southeast of Naples, a notorious hotspot for Neapolitan mafia activity.

Imperiale, who belongs to the Amato-Pagana clan, is believed to have subsequently fled to Dubai, where he owns a construction company, the Neapolitan edition of Italian daily La Republica reported. A new arrest warrant had been issued against him earlier this year, the newspaper added.

“The investigation confirms that

criminal organisations are interested in art works that are both used as a form of investment as well as a source of funding,” Italian Cultural Minister Dario Franceschini said.

Van Gogh Museum officials said they were overjoyed that the paintings had been recovered.

“The curator who inspected the authenticity and provenance of the works at the request of the Italian Public Prosecutions Department drew a firm conclusion: ‘they are the real paintings!’,” said the museum, which houses hundreds of paintings, drawings and sketches by Vincent van Gogh made up to his suicide in 1890.

Despite a 14-year journey, the two paintings “appear to be in fairly good condition,” the museum said. “But it can be assumed they were not preserved under suitable conditions” and their frames had been removed, the museum added. Paint has also broken away from the bottom left corner of the “Seascape” painting.

Dutch police opened an international hunt back in 2002 after thieves apparently used a simple ladder and a length of rope to steal the two works, worth millions of dollars.

The criminals broke into the museum in downtown

Glass loos with a view open in China

Beijing China’s recent obsession with glass tourist attractions has gone round the U-bend with the opening of some see-through treetop public toilets.

The loos, near Shiyan Lake in southern Hunan province, have fabulous views of both the forest below and other people using the facilities.Cubicle walls, even those between the men’s and women’s sections, are only separated by lightly frosted glass. But state media said few visitors dared use the loos on their opening day.Despite a boom in the construction of glass bridges and walkways in scenic locations in China in recent years - in some cases so popular they had to be closed these are thought to be the first entirely glass public bathrooms in the country. However, it not the first time those busting to go have been exposed a little more than they might like by the enthusiasm for glass.There were reports recently of some male

toilets in a university dorm in Hunan which included one very public cubicle. News of the wideview WCs at Shiyan Lake sparked a range of reactions online.

Responding to a Facebook post about it by state television channel CCTV, Ejike Nnadi summed up the feelings of many: “Hell no.” Others were more taken by the idea. “You’ll be surprised by what you can tolerate when you really, really need to go,” said one post.

Another nodded towards another modern use for restrooms: “I’d be in there ‘til my battery hit zero if there was signal in there!”

Tina Chen took a dimmer view of all such projects though. “(It) is not about being shy, just again someone had extra money to waste.”

Awkward or not, it is hoped that these bathrooms for the brave will encourage tourists to visit the countryside around Changsha city and admire the spectacular autumn colours of its forests.

Amsterdam on December 7 that year using the ladder to climb onto the roof, where they broke through a window and used a rope to get in and out of the heavily fortified building.

The daring heist left Dutch police flabbergasted at the time. The paintings’ whereabouts were unknown until being recovered in the Naples area, the Van Gogh Museum said.

“After all those years you no longer dare to count on a possible return,” said the museum’s director, Axel Rueger, who has travelled to Naples to view the missing Vincents. “The paintings have been found. That I would ever be able to pronounce these words is something that I no longer dared to hope for,” he said.

“The art historical value of the paintings for the collection is huge,” said the museum.

“Seascape at Scheveningen” is the only painting in the museum’s collection dating from Van Gogh’s period in The Hague between 1881-83.

It’s also one of only two seascapes that he painted during his years in The Netherlands and is a “striking example of Van Gogh’s early style of painting, already showing his individual character”.

The “Congregation leaving the Reformed Church at Nuenen” is a small canvas Van Gogh painted for his mother in early 1884 of the church where his father was the minister.

At least 200 inmates escape Brazil prison, many recaptured

SAO PAULO At least 200 prisoners escaped from a minimum-security Brazil prison during an uprising on Thursday, with about half recaptured within hours of the prison break, state prison officials said.

The inmates fled from the Jardinopolis prison, about 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Sao Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city.

There was no immediate word on possible deaths or injuries among guards or inmates.

Sao Paulo state penitentiary officials said the inmates had set fire to several cells in one wing of the prison during a routine morning role call.

Amid the chaos that ensued, scores of prisoners knocked down a 13-foot (4 metre) tall mesh security fence, allowing them to flee into surrounding sugar cane fields and along a nearby river.

The Folha de S.Paulo newspaper, citing penitentiary

officials, said the prison housed over 1,800 inmates, although it was built to hold just over 1,000.

State authorities declined to comment on reported overcrowding at the facility and did not respond to a request for information about the type of crimes committed by prisoners housed there.

Prison uprisings and escapes are frequent in Brazil, which has long been criticized by human rights organizations for its prison conditions.

a private capacity.

AFP was unable to reach local police or court officials for comment.

While many freedoms have flourished since Myanmar’s army started rolling back its power in 2011, activists say authoritarian legislation is still

network, was also used frequently by the former regime to punish critics.

Despite sky-high hopes Suu Kyi’s government will usher in a new era of free expression, several people have been prosecuted for defamation since her party took over in late March

being used to silence criticism of the government.

The telecommunications law was passed in 2013 as part of a push by the former army-backed transitional government to open the sector to foreign investment.

But the broadly worded law, which bans defaming people through any telecommunications

after winning the first democratic elections in a generation.In July a local official in central Magway region was charged with defamation for referring to Suu Kyi with a slur on Facebook.Last month a Myanmar actor was sentenced to nearly three years for scribbling curse-laden insults about the army across his car.

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Myanmar man jailed for calling President Htin Kyaw ‘crazy’ on Facebook Yangon A man has been jailed for nine months after calling Myanmar’s President “crazy” in a Facebook post, his wife said Friday, in the latest use of a junta-era defamation law under the new civilian government.

Aung Win Hlaing was convicted under Myanmar’s telecommunications law for calling President Htin Kyaw an “idiot” and “crazy” in online posts, his wife Hnin Hnin Win told AFP.“He was sentenced to nine months on 23 September,” Hnin Hnin Win said, adding the case was brought by a local member of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD), the party led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. “One of the NLD’s people complained about him to the court... Now he is in Taung Kalay prison in Karen state,” she said.

Her husband wrote the comments after a presidential order shut down a committee on which he worked, she added.

An NLD MP from the Karen regional parliament, Thant Zin Aung, confirmed a local member from the party had brought the case, but emphasised it was in

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Flint’s water getting cleaner - but not yet safe CHICAGO New tests show water quality improving in Flint, the Midwestern US city hit by a massive lead contamination scandal, officials said

Wednesday, but it is not yet cleared of the toxin. It has been more than two years since lead from aging pipes first began to leach into the drinking water of the hard-scrabble city, when officials switched the water source to a more corrosive one as a cost saving effort. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder told a press conference that 95 percent of recent tests of the most problematic areas showed lead levels considered safe under federal guidelines. But he stopped short of declaring Flint’s

water safe to drink without lead filters, and would not offer a timeline of when it would be.

“Frankly, without filters, I don’t think anyone in the US should trust water from a lead pipe,”

said Marc Edwards, a professor of environmental engineering at Virginia Tech university, who is assisting Michigan with the Flint response.

“This is a national lesson that we are learning and we have to think about,” he said. Snyder on Wednesday urged federal lawmakers to send longdelayed aid money to the embattled city. “I highly encourage the federal government to move forward and to get the aid done for Flint,” said the Republican governor.

Pak chief justice cancels visit to India due to ‘present conditions’

Islamabad Chief Justice of Pakistan Anwar Zaheer Jamali has cancelled his visit to India next month, citing “present conditions”, media reports said on Monday.

Jamali has refused to attend the global conference slated to be held in India from October 21-23, Radio Pakistan reported. In July, Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bambawale had personally invited CJP Jamali to the conference on national initiative to strengthen arbitration and enforcement.In a letter to the Indian Supreme Court, Jamali said that in the “present conditions” he could not attend

the meeting, the News International reported. The decision was made due to tense situation between the two countries, the report said.A senior Supreme Court official said that though the Foreign Office recommended that the CJP may attend the conference, Jamali has refused to visit India in light of prevailing circumstances, the Express Tribune reported. Earlier this week, India officially pulled out of the upcoming South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) conference to be held in Islamabad.

Aid for the city has become a major bone of contention as the US Congress wrangles over a federal government funding bill, with lawmakers scrambling to stave off a shutdown at week’s end.

Lawmakers settled on a compromise Wednesday, that would allocate $170 million for infrastructure funds for cities with water contamination.

State officials want to replace all the lead pipes in Flint and in Michigan, but that process could take years. City residents have complained about the slow pace of the recovery, and filed several lawsuits.

Officials in Michigan had initially denied that there was a problem with Flint’s water. Those denials lead to a criminal investigation, and charges against nine current and former state employees.

For its part, the state has sued two consulting firms - a French and a Texas company accusing them of negligence and fraud. Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam of Texas have responded by saying their suggestions and concerns were ignored by the state.

World’s Longest, Highest Glass Bridge In China Reopens

BEIJING The world’s longest and highest glass bridge in China’s Hunan province has been reopened for the public.With a capacity to hold 10,000 people a day, the glass bridge saw a trial operation in late August this year, but was closed 12 days later due to “overwhelming demand”.

Local Cili county magistrate Gao Jingsheng said the glass bridge was not closed for safety reasons as rumours had suggested. It cleared security inspection and its construction was up to standard, said the official.

“We want to be responsible to the tourists, the local government and the scenic resorts. We thought we should perfect its

surrounding facilities and environment, and tackle the problems we discovered in the trial period,” he was quoted as saying by state-run People’s Daily.According to some reports, some deficiencies of the soft and hard facilities seen during the trial period was the main reason behind its closure.

Designed by architect Haim Dotan, the 430-meter-long structure is believed to be the world’s longest and tallest glass pedestrian bridge.

It offers a panoramic view of the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon.

During its trial operation, the bridge held no more than 800 people at a time. Each day, 8,000 visitors had the opportunity to walk on it.

other design changes.

The twin-engine MRJ marks a new chapter in the country’s aviation sector, which last built a commercial airliner in 1962 the YS-11 turboprop that was

jet - is competing with other regional passenger jet manufacturers such as Brazil’s Embraer and Canada’s Bombardier.

Mitsubishi Heavy unveiled the jet

discontinued about a decade later.

After being barred from developing aircraft following World War II, Japan - and its MRJ

- which is about 35 metres (115feet) long and seats about 80 passengers - in October last year and has received more than 400 orders.

Japan’s new passenger plane completes US flight

TOKYO Japan’s problem-plagued new passenger jet on Thursday completed a flight to the United States for testing, its maker said, after aborting two earlier attempts. The Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) touched down at Grant County international airport in Washington state after flying from Anchorage. The first domestically made passenger jet, which left Nagoya airport on Monday, also stopped in Japan’s northernmost Hokkaido, Russia and Alaska for fuelling. The plane’s maker Mitsubishi Heavy said it will carry out multiple flight tests in the US to get a certificate necessary for starting commercial flights in 2018.

Mitsubishi added that about 2,500 flying hours would be needed to land the registration.

It is planning three more “ferry” flights to the US, where it said it can accelerate its testing schedule. Last month, the jet turned back twice due to air conditioning problems detected after take off. The development of the MRJ, Japan’s first domestically produced passenger jet for over half a century, has suffered a series of delays.

In December Mitsubishi Heavy said it was postponing delivery of the planes by one year to the second quarter of 2018 for system software upgrades and

Dead Frenchwoman Hit With Tax Demand - In Her Grave Combining the old adage about death and taxes, French authorities have sent a demand for property duties to a dead woman -- addressed to her grave in a small town in Brittany.The mayor of the seaside town of Sarzeau said he had received a letter from the public finance offices to a dead resident, addressed to “grave 24, row E, cemetery road”, his secretary told AFP on Saturday. The town’s treasurer Christophe Libre told the Ouest France regional newspaper it was a demand for property taxes.“Unfortunately it’s not the first time we’ve had this sort of letter from the public finance centre in Vannes,” Libre told the paper. Vannes is the nearest large town to Sarzeau.

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Democracy has not been tailored to Pak environment: Musharraf Washington The army has often played a prominent role in the governance of Pakistan as democracy has not been tailored to its

system. The constitution doesn’t provide those checks and balances.”

“Therefore, the military is forced and pulled, sucked into the

environment, the country’s former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf said.

“Army has always had a role since our independence. It has played a very prominent role in the governance of Pakistan, mainly because of misgovernance by all the socalled democratically-elected governments,” Musharraf said in an interview at the Washington Ideas Forum on Thursday.

He said the “inherent weakness” of Pakistan is that democracy in the country has not been tailored in accordance with the dictates of the environment. “There are no checks and balances within the

political environment, especially when misgovernance is going on and Pakistan is going down in all socioeconomic indicators.

The public and the people massively run towards the army chief, and that is how the army gets involved,” Musharraf said, justifying the frequent military coups in the country.

He said this was the reason for Pakistan having military governments and the army enjoying high stature.

“The people of Pakistan love the army and demand a lot from it.

So I’m very proud of the fact that army has backed me because I’ve been with them for over 40

years. I fought wars with them, I’ve fought two wars and I’ve fought a number of actions with them. So I know they are my constituency,” he said in response to a question.

“So, therefore, we have to maybe tailor the political structure in accordance with the dictates of Pakistan, introduce checks and balances so that misgovernance does not take place and the army does not have to come into politics,” Musharraf said.

The former president also said that if he was in power, he would be “counter-threatening” India in the wake of the recent surgical strikes in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. “...they are threatening us that they are going to strike us at the time and place of their choosing.

Now, this has been said by nobody less than Prime Minister, defence minister and the director general of military operations.

This is a very serious matter,” he said.

“I think the war hysteria that is being created in India, I repeat, India, not in Pakistan, is an issue. They do that always. This is not the only time. Every time they do that,” Musharraf said He further alleged that the United States has used his country at its convenience and ditched it.

Woman held after baby found in suitcase next to infant’s skeleton

Berlin 22-year-old woman is under investigation for manslaughter after German police found a suitcase in her apartment with a newborn baby girl inside along with the skeleton of a second infant, Hannover prosecutors said Friday. A 19-year-old man living with the woman in the northern city discovered the case on Thursday and reported it to police. Authorities rushed the newborn to the hospital, and she is now in stable condition.

Hannover prosecutors’

spokesperson Kathrin Soefker told The Associated Press investigators are now trying to determine who the father of the babies is, and an autopsy is being done to determine the cause of death of the second infant.

The woman, whose name wasn’t released in line with German privacy laws, has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and attempted manslaughter.

Soefker would not say whether she had made any statements to investigators.

Pak media regulator to crack down on airing of ‘Indian content’ on TV Islamabad Pakistan’s electronic media regulator has warned it will begin cracking down on satellite TV channels and cable networks airing “excessive Indian content” and the beaming of Indian channels on illegal direct-tohome (DTH) platforms.

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) said in a statement issued on Thursday that it had received numerous complaints against Indian content.PEMRA chief Absar Alam said after October 15, the regulator will start a drive against Indian channels airing in Pakistan and give exemplary punishment.

PEMRA said all satellite TV channels and distribution networks should follow the law of the land and “voluntarily discontinue all illegal activities immediately”.

The move came a day after cinema exhibitors announced they would not screen Indian movies for the foreseeable future to express unity with Pakistan’s armed forces amid a tense standoff with India.

Nadeem Mandviwalla, head of the exhibitors union, told reporters that it was taking some time to bring everyone on the same page since the ban was an initiative by cinema owners and not the government.

The crackdown on Indian movies and serials comes against the backdrop of heightened tensions between the two countries. India said on Thursday its special

forces had carried out surgical strikes on terrorists across the Line of Control in Kashmir.

Pakistan denied the raids but said two of its soldiers were killed in cross-LoC firing.

PEMRA said it was receiving

Indian movies followed a move by the Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association (IMPPA) to prohibit Pakistani actors and technicians from working on Bollywood sets.

“It is deeply regrettable that a film

Cinema employees in Karachi were seen removing giant posters advertising Indian films over the weekend and replacing them with banners for Pakistani and Hollywood movies.

Film exhibitors demanded the

numerous complaints on “illegal Indian content” on TV channels and cable networks. The removal of Indian content will send a “positive signal” to the public about commitment to rule of law, it said.

The spike in tensions has had an impact on the film and television industries in both countries. Pakistani actors in India received threats from hardline groups and were asked to return home. Some Indian channels have taken Pakistani content off the air.

The ban on the screening of

trade body, the IMPPA, has passed a resolution to ban Pakistani stars and technicians from working in India,” said a statement from Pakistan’s Film Exhibitors and Distributors group. It added the screening of Indian films would be suspended “until normalcy returns”.

“We were taking things lightly initially, since the so-called ban (on Pakistani artists in India) was just a few mischief-mongers hurling anti-Pakistan slogans” Mandviwalla said. “But things have gotten serious after the official (IMPPA) declaration.”

ban be expanded to TV channels.

“A ban won’t be effective if confined to just cinemas. Going to a cinema is a choice, but TV channels air content from India all the time,” said one exhibitor.

“We must completely black out Indian content. Remove it from TV channels and from DVD shops. Otherwise, there’s no point.”

Cinema owners said the ban should continue until the Indian government offers Pakistani films a level playing field and Pakistani artists complete protection.

Pakistan’s largest network of cinemas, Cinepax, announced on Friday it had decided to feature only Pakistani content in October. “Cinepax believes art transcends boundaries and that Pakistani artists should not be held hostage to political events.

To support our artists and the defenders of the nation, we are only exhibiting the best of Pakistani content,” said a statement on its Facebook page.

Cinepax will celebrate Pakistani cinema in partnership with the army’s media wing, the statement added.

Indian movies are screened in a majority of Pakistani cinemas as the country’s filmmakers produce far fewer movies. Indian content is also aired on cable channels in most Pakistani cities and pirated copies of Bollywood movies are usually available in Islamabad and Lahore within days of their release.

Indian DTH dishes and set top boxes, which are smuggled into Pakistan, are sold at a premium in most cities.

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In Bali’s deaf village, silence is golden BENGKALA Balinese women dressed in gold bodices dance to rhythmic drumming while waving fans as men in purple outfits sit cross legged around them, jiggling their arms and chanting.

It appears to be just another show on the Indonesian resort island, known for its ancient culture and rituals, but there is a key difference - the dancers are all deaf and cannot hear the beat.

They perform the moves, learnt over months of hard training, from memory.

The village of Bengkala has been home to an unusually large number of deaf people for generations, and nowadays about 40 out of its approximately 3000 residents have severe hearing loss.

But unlike in other parts of Indonesia where they could face mistreatment, local people have taken the deaf residents to their

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hearts. In many ways, life in the small hamlet has come to revolve around them. As well as the dance project, a unique sign language called Kata Kolok has been developed in the isolated village which has been mastered by those with hearing impairment, as well as many of those who can hear, prompting interest from scientists around the world.

In addition, deaf villagers are trained in skills such as making handicrafts that can be sold in the heaving tourist resorts of the island, and they work side by side with other villagers in the rice fields.

“Human rights are the same everywhere. So I thought, why should the deaf be ostracised?” said Ketut Kanta, who heads a community group for the village’s deaf residents.

The approach is relatively unique in Indonesia, where the disabled often suffer harsh discrimination.

Bengkala, in northern Bali, has existed for about eight centuries.

Residents often scrape a living tending to the surrounding rice fields and education levels are generally low.

In the past villagers thought the high incidence of deafness was due to a curse but those superstitions - and the prejudices they created - have largely been abandoned after experts concluded it was due to a recessive gene common among

Chinese user says new Samsung Note 7 exploded

BEIJING A Chinese user of the Samsung Note 7 said Tuesday his device exploded while charging, raising fears of fresh battery issues hitting the South Korean company’s phones after a massive recall. The news comes after Samsung was forced to recall 2.5 million Note 7 handsets shipped to the US, South Korea and other markets, following complaints that faulty batteries caused the phones to explode while charging. Samsung currently sources batteries from a number of companies. The electronics giant has not named the maker behind the faulty battery but uses a different supplier for the Chinese market, where sales were not suspended. Earlier this month, the company investigated two claims that Note 7 phones bought online in China had exploded, but found that the problem was caused by an external heat source, Bloomberg

News reported. In the latest incident on Sunday morning, a Chinese customer who goes by the name Hui complained that his Note 7 “phablet” - purchased on Saturday - exploded and scorched his Macbook nearby.

Footage provided to AFP by Hui shows the phone, attached to a USB charger, melting as smoke wafts off of it. Samsung representatives offered to refund Hui’s money and compensate him for the ruined laptop if he turns in the phone, he said, but he has refused to hand it over because he wants the company “to make a statement about the issue”. A Samsung statement said it was “in contact with the customer and will conduct a thorough examination of the device in question once we receive it”. The Note 7 was meant to kick start growth this year as Samsung struggles to boost sales, squeezed by Apple in the highend sector and Chinese rivals in the low-end market.

the local population.

It was not until the 1960s that the village began to make efforts to better integrate its deaf

villagers.

It is different to international and Indonesian sign language. It has grown organically over the

residents and nowadays everyone is treated equally, according to village head I Made Arpana.

“We don’t differentiate between deaf villagers and non-deaf villagers,” he said, adding that the community did not want the hard of hearing residents to feel “inferior”.

A key factor in creating this peaceful co-existence has been Kata Kolok, which literally translates as “talk of the deaf”, and is used to varying degrees by around 80 percent of the

decades and has its own unique signs created by villagers to reflect how they see the world.

Attempts to ensure harmony in the village start at a young age, with a Bengkala elementary school teaching all children side by side. The 77 students are all given lessons in the local sign language, and are introduced to elements of Indonesian and international signing.

Made Budiasih, whose sevenyear-old son goes to the school, said she was worried for his future when they discovered he

was deaf at birth, but said the inclusive educational centre had made all the difference.

“I was despairing, but then I found out about this school,” she said.

Still, it is not always easy teaching deaf students as they often become frustrated and act out, according to teacher I Made Wisnu, who has been working at the school for a decade.

There are no junior high schools equipped to teach deaf students, so most have to drop out of the system once they’ve graduated from elementary classes.

Despite the challenges, village chief Arpana is determined to safeguard the unique culture of the hamlet’s deaf community, saying he would be a “sinner” if he did not.

The clearest expression of the village’s warm embrace of its hard of hearing population is the unique project “dance of the deaf”, which has started to draw a trickle of foreign visitors to the out-of-the-way village, giving residents hope for a brighter future. Tambourine player I Wayan Getar, speaking in sign language through an interpreter, told AFP: “Tourists from China and Europe are coming to watch us, and they really enjoy it.”

UAE to introduce new laws soon to regulate drones ABU DHABI The United Arab Emirates will finalise laws to more heavily regulate the sale of drones and their operations soon, aiming to minimize risks posed by unmanned aerial vehicles, an official at the aviation regulator said on Monday. Dubai International Airport was closed for more than an hour on June 12 due to unauthorized drone activity in the surrounding airspace that resulted in millions of dollars of losses for the economy. “Several incidents have happened and to integrate them (drones) safely into the commercial airspace is a challenge,” Mohammed Faisal al-Dossari, director, air navigation & aerodromes department, UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), said.

Current regulations on drones in the UAE, introduced in April 2015, relate mainly to commercial licensing and approving how companies use drones and are under constant

development, al Dossari told reporters at a regional conference on drones in the UAE capital. “The Emirates Authority for Standardisation & Metrology (Esma) is working on laws that will have a framework for the UAE for imports, sales and performance of drones,” he said.

Abu Dhabi has banned the sale

are issued, saying they posed a risk to aviation. The new laws will also address air-worthiness for heavier drones, standards for pilotless aircraft and pilot training among other issues, al Dossari said. At least 400 drones, mostly commercial, are registered with the GCAA. Drones are used for commercial operations such as

of recreational drones since March last year until new laws

mapping, security surveillance, wildlife surveys as well as for environment, transport, agricultural and maritime purposes, among others in the UAE. As a regional aviation hub with two of the busiest airports in the world, the UAE’s airspace is congested. And with drones becoming increasingly relevant, there are safety and security risks, Gulf area manager at IATA, the global body of airlines, Michael Herrero, said. “The big question is how to integrate drones into commercial airspace in future, governments need to put it high on the agenda with enforceable legislation,” he said.

Japan’s male politicians are experiencing pregnancy to urge dads to do more housework In Japan, women do about five times as much housework as men.

To encourage Japan’s salarymen to help out at home, the Kyushu Yamaguchi Work Life Promotion Campaign created a video that showed three male governors in Japan experiencing a day in the life of a pregnant woman.

In the video, the politicians strap on a 16-pound vest to simulate pregnancy. Very quickly, they learn how even simple household tasks can be a major pain when carrying around that extra weight.

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US prepares to give up key role as overseer of the internet Washington The US government is set to cut the final thread of its oversight of the internet, yielding a largely symbolic but nevertheless significant role over the online address system.

Barring any last-minute glitches, the transition will occur at midnight Friday (0400 GMT Saturday), when the US contract expires for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which manages the internet’s so-called “root zone.”

When the agreement with the US Commerce Department runs out, ICANN will become a selfregulating non-profit international entity managing the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, the system for online “domains” such as .com.

US and ICANN officials say the change is part of a longstanding plan to “privatize” those functions, but some critics complain about a “giveaway” that could threaten the internet’s integrity.

Christopher Mondini, ICANN’s vice president for global business engagement, said the change

will have no impact on day-today internet use, and will assure the global community that the system is free from government regulation and interference.

“This is a new kind of governance model,” he told AFP. The system will be managed through a “multi-stakeholder” model in which engineers, businesses, non-government groups and government bodies serve as checks against any single entity.

If any of the groups that make up ICANN see the organization veering away from its mission, Mondini said, “they can initiate measures to self-correct.”

‘Byzantine’ structure Some US lawmakers who see risks with the model have sought to stop the transition, arguing it would allow authoritarian regimes to have greater control over the internet.

Republican Senator Ted Cruz has been seeking to block what he calls a “radical” plan to give away control of the internet.

ICANN “is not a democratic body,” Cruz told a hearing earlier this month.

“It is a corporation with a

Explicit porn film plays on Jakarta billboard, police investigate

Jakarta An explicit pornographic video was broadcast on a public billboard in broad daylight in Jakarta, with police and cyber crime specialists on Saturday searching for the culprit behind the gaffe.

The offending clip of a couple engaged in a steamy tryst beamed at peak hour on Friday, shocking and amusing motorists in equal measure as they crawled along the major road in heavy traffic.

The power was quickly shut off to the “videotron” -- as the giant advertising screens are locally known -- but not before the whole scandalous incident was captured on motorists’ phones and sent viral on social media.

The hashtag “videotron” was quickly trending, with much speculation about who was responsible for the X-rated gaffe, which broadcast just a stone’s throw from the South Jakarta mayor’s office.

The video file -- titled “Watch Tokyo Hot” -- appeared to be streaming from a personal computer, prompting suggestions that someone’s week was about to take a turn for the worse.

But police were still searching for a motive behind the “videotron” scandal, Jakarta metropolitan police said in a statement Saturday.

A specialist cyber crime unit had joined the investigation to determine whether the broadcast was deliberate or hacking was involved, the police’s head of public relations Awi Setiyono said.

Police have seized a computer from the offices of a private company as part of their investigation, he added.

Access to pornographic websites is blocked in Muslimmajority Indonesia, and romantic scenes in films and television programs are heavily blurred or cut altogether by state censors.

Byzantine governing structure designed to blur lines of accountability that is run by global bureaucrats who are supposedly accountable to the

almost 20 years through multiple administrations,” said Kathryn Brown, president of the Internet Society, which was created by some of the internet’s founders.

technocrats, to multinational corporations, to governments, including some of the most oppressive regimes in the world like China, Iran, and Russia.”

Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint echoed that sentiment, saying in a tweet that President Barack Obama “wants to cede US control of our free, secure internet to foreign regimes who don’t value freedom of speech.”

‘Strengthening’ internet Supporters of the plan counter that critics’ harsh rhetoric fails to recognize how the internet has functioned and thrived over the years.

“This transition has been built upon a bipartisan consensus for

“The transition will further strengthen the internet as a stable, resilient and secure tool for empowering billions of people across the globe for decades to come.”

Google senior vice president Kent Walker also endorsed the shift, saying it would “fulfill a promise the United States made almost two decades ago: that the internet could and should be governed by everyone with a stake in its continued growth.”

Six Democratic US lawmakers meanwhile warned of the dangers if Washington fails to follow through on its pledge to disengage. “The internet belongs to the world, not to Ted Cruz,” Senators Brian Schatz and Chris

Coons, and Representatives Anna Eshoo, Doris Matsui, Frank Pallone and Mike Doyle said in an article for the TechCrunch news site.

“If the Republicans successfully delay the transition, America’s enemies are sure to pounce.

Russia and its allies could push to shift control of the internet’s core functions to a government body like the UN where they have more influence.”

Any delay could fuel interest in a rival numbering system that could fragment the internet into possibly unconnected networks, they added.

Cruz and his allies have unsuccessfully sought to attach an amendment to a government funding bill aimed at halting the transition. The transition should go forward even if it is “imperfect,” said Daniel Castro, vice president at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. “US government interference at this point would undermine global consensus and reduce confidence in the multistakeholder model at a time when these attributes are needed most,” he said in a blog post. The transition “marks a key ‘constitutional moment’ for internet governance,” he added, “and the United States should ensure it is on the right side of history.”

South Carolina shooting: 14-year-old boy charged in father’s killing at school Carolina A 14-year-old South Carolina boy was charged as a juvenile Friday with murder and three counts of attempted murder after authorities say he killed his father and opened fire on students at a school playground, wounding three people.

The boy did not show any emotion as he walked into the courtroom wearing a yellow jumpsuit. He was unrestrained, not wearing handcuffs or leg shackles.

His lawyer, Frank Epps, noted that the teen has given a statement to law enforcement and asked that investigators not question him again without his lawyer present. The judge agreed to that, and ordered the teen to be held in jail.

The boy’s mother sat on the front row during the brief hearing and left the courtroom sobbing and leaning on another woman.

The Associated Press typically does not identify juveniles charged with crimes and therefore is not identifying his family members. Authorities have not released a motive for the school shooting or killing.

Authorities say the teen shot his 47-year-old father at their home on Wednesday afternoon before driving a pickup truck 3 miles down a country road to Townville Elementary. The teen _ who is not old enough to have a driver’s

license _ had to make only two turns to arrive at the red brick school, where he crashed the truck, got out and started firing during recess.

missed. A teacher who heard the first gunshot was able to get those students safely inside, Avery said.

Relatives of one of the wounded,

Bullets struck two students and a first-grade teacher, and the building was immediately placed on lock down.

Anderson 4 Superintendent Joanne Avery said staff saved lives by flawlessly implementing active-shooter training drills conducted with students at Townville Elementary, most recently as just last week.

Though shot in the shoulder, the teacher “was with-it enough” to close the door, lock it and barricade the students, Avery said.

“If he’d gotten in the school, it would’ve been a different scenario,” she said.

The shooter then fired toward students on the playground but

6-year-old Jacob Hall, said he remained on life support in a hospital. His family issued a statement late Thursday saying the boy sustained a major brain injury due to the amount of blood he lost after being shot in the leg.

His older brother, Gerald Gambrell, told The Greenville News that the family is “hoping for a miracle.”

A sign outside a diner conveyed the sentiments of an entire community: “Pray for Jacob.

Pray for Townville.”

The shot teacher and another student who was hit in the foot were treated and released from a hospital, officials said. Classes are scheduled to resume at the school Monday.

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Trump injects Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky sex scandal into 2016 race Bedford Donald Trump is warning voters that a Hillary Clinton victory would bring her husband’s sex scandal back to the White House.Injecting Clinton’s marital troubles into the 2016 campaign was Trump’s latest effort to bounce back from Monday night’s debate performance, which has been widely panned as lackluster. In contrast, Clinton has delivered a mostly positive message in the days since her debate performance reenergized her candidacy.

Clinton is stressing that her plans will solve the kind of kitchen-sink problems facing American families — the high cost of childcare, mounting student debt and unpaid family leave. Trump, though promising lower taxes and “jobs, jobs, jobs,” has intensified the dire warnings and personal attacks that have defined his outsider presidential bid.He took it a step further on Thursday.

“The American people have had it with years and decades of Clinton corruption and scandal.

Corruption and scandal,” Trump charged. “An impeachment for lying. An impeachment for lying.

Remember that? Impeach.”

That was a reference to former President Bill Clinton. After an investigation by an independent counsel, the House approved formal impeachment charges in late 1998 in connection with Clinton’s testimony about his affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, and other matters. He was acquitted of the

charges by the Senate.And on Friday morning, the billionaire real estate mogul renewed his harsh criticism of 1996 Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado, going on Twitter to say that she was “My worst Miss U.” In a verified tweet, he maintained that “crooked Hillary was duped.” He went on to say that Clinton “floated her as an ‘angel’ without checking her past, which is terrible.” In another tweet, he questioned whether Clinton had helped Machado to “become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?”

“Using Alicia M. in the debate as a paragon of virtue just shows that Crooked Hillary suffers from BAD JUDGEMENT! Hillary was set up by a con,” he tweeted.

Trump’s team said he had been prepared to bring up the Lewinsky scandal during Monday night’s debate but decided otherwise because the Clintons’ daughter, Chelsea, was in the room.

Trump did not bring up Lewinsky by name on Thursday.

Shortly before Trump’s remarks, Clinton offered a more optimistic message to supporters in Iowa’s capital city.“I want this election to be about something, not just against somebody,” she said in Des Moines.

Asked about the possibility that Trump would raise her husband’s infidelities, Clinton said: “He can run his campaign however he chooses. That’s up to him. I’m going to keep talking about the stakes in this election.”

Her aides argue that a summer

It’s official: Wonder Woman is bisexual

Los Angeles Wonder Woman comics writer Greg Rucka says that the superhuman of Themyscira island, Diana Prince, has had relationships with other women.

The 46-year-old novelist said that Diana is “obviously” bisexual, reported Variety.When asked the sexual orientation of the popular fictional character of DC comics, Rucka said, “When you start to think about giving the concept of Themyscira its due, the answer is, ‘How can they not all be in samesex relationships?’ Right? It makes no logical sense otherwise.”Rucka went on to discuss the character’s origins on the female-only island as well as the romantic relationships between the Amazons. “It’s supposed to be paradise. You’re supposed to be able to live happily

and part of what an individual needs for that happiness is to have a partner - to have a fulfilling, romantic and sexual relationship.”“And the only options are women. But an Amazon doesn’t look at another Amazon and say, ‘You’re gay.’ They don’t.

The concept doesn’t exist.”He continued, “Now, are we saying Diana has been in love and had relationships with other women?

As Nicola (Scott) and I approach it, the answer is obviously yes.“But perhaps foremost among them is, if no, then she leaves paradise only because of a potential romantic relationship with Steve (Trevor).”

DC’s upcoming Wonder Woman film stars Gal Gadot in the titular role alongside Chris Pine and Robin Wright.Directed by Patty Jenkins, the film will hit theatres next year in June.

barrage of attack ads against Trump, along with the candidate’s own controversial statements, has driven his negative ratings to historic levels, leaving them little ability to do more. That leaves her the choice of trying to win over undecided

intend to do in the job.”

With Election Day less than six weeks away, early voting already is underway in Iowa and some other states. Trump and Clinton remain locked in a tight contest.

Trump has included hopeful lines in his own remarks. But the New

voters and Republicans concerned about Trump by emphasizing a positive vision for America.Indeed, at her Des Moines rally, Clinton offered a hopeful message to contrast with the doom-and-gloom themes that have been staples of Trump’s campaign. As she often does, she recounted her own background of working on children’s issues and her father’s struggles as a small businessman.“I know so much of this campaign has been about, you know, whatever my opponent said and who he attacked and who he denigrates and the list is long,” Clinton said.

“But it’s not about that, it’s about you. It’s about your families and your future, and each of us should be telling you what we

York businessman has not deviated far from his aggressive approach defined by insults that helped him win a crowded Republican primary election.

In recent days, Trump and his supporters have raised anew a number of deeply personal attacks against Clinton, questioning her role in her husband’s infidelities and casting her as a corrupt tool of political donors and special interests. Trump has also assailed a 1996 Miss Universe pageant winner for her weight gain an incident Clinton used in this week’s debate to portray Trump as sexist.“The Clintons are the sordid past. We will be the bright and very clean future,” Trump declared in New Hampshire.Trump and Clinton

meet again on the debate stage in 10 days, this time in St. Louis.

In a nod to the concerns expressed by some Trump allies that he was insufficiently prepared for the first faceoff, Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee released a survey intended to engage supporters online. It asks whether he should use the second debate to criticize Clinton for her policies on terrorism, economics and trade. Absent is any inquiry about whether Trump should bring up her husband’s infidelities.In another reminder of how far this year’s campaign has veered into baffling territory, thirdparty candidate Gary Johnson, the former New Mexico governor, was being ridiculed after he was unable, in a television appearance, to name a single world leader he admired. The awkward moment drew immediate comparisons — including by Johnson himself — to his “Aleppo moment” earlier this month when he didn’t recognize the besieged city in Syria.Perhaps no state knows Clinton better than Iowa, where she campaigned on Thursday, but she has consistently struggled to connect.

Her campaign is banking on the state’s in-person early voting, which started on Thursday, reflecting the premium that Democrats are placing this year on trying to get their voters to turn out long before Nov. 8.

Democrats are concerned that a lack of enthusiasm will keep their voters from showing up in the same numbers that led to Barack Obama’s victories in the past two elections.

WASHINGTON Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson’s longshot bid for the White House appears to have grown even more remote. The former New Mexico governor who asked “What is Aleppo?” in an interview earlier this month was stumped Wednesday night when asked to name his favorite foreign leader during an appearance on MSNBC television. In the cringeworthy minute-long segment, Johnson sat speechless as host Chris Matthews posed the question: “Who’s your favorite foreign leader? Any one of the continents, any country, name one foreign leader that you respect and look up to, anybody.”

Johnson’s running mate William Weld, sitting alongside him in the townhall style interview, offered, “Mine was Shimon Peres.” “I’m talking about living,” Matthews responded. “Go ahead,” he said, gesturing to Johnson. “You gotta do this. Anywhere, any continent. Canada, Mexico, Europe, over there, Asia, South America, Africa, name a foreign leader that you respect.”

Johnson’s answer: “I guess I’m having an Aleppo moment.”

He then said “the former president of Mexico,” but was

unable to give a name, blaming a “brain freeze.”Weld prompted

generally plays on the fringes of American politics, Johnson is

“Fox,” referring to Vicente Fox, who served from 2000 to 2006.

“Fox! He was terrific,” Johnson said, but Matthews had already moved on to Weld, who had no problems in answering that German Chancellor Angela Merkel was his favorite foreign leader.Johnson was mocked mercilessly on Twitter earlier this month for asking an interviewer “What is Aleppo?” in response to a question about the ravaged Syrian city that is a flashpoint in the civil war that has ravaged the country for more than five years.

He later explained that he understands the dynamics of the Syrian conflict but in the moment blanked and thought Aleppo was an acronym.While his party

expected to be the choice of at least some Americans disillusioned by the historically unpopular major party candidates, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.

White House candidate Johnson unable to name any foreign leader

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Kolkata Test: India defeat New Zealand by 178 runs, claim No.1 ranking

Kolkata India regained their No.1 position in Tests with a massive 178-run victory against New Zealand on a tricky pitch that gave them an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.

A confident innings from Tom Latham saw New Zealand start strong but without their best batsman and captain Kane Williamson, saving the Test was always going to be tough. India’s bowling craft was its best too.

As expected from a fourth day pitch, the spinners finally came into play but pacers played a vital part as well. Add to that Wridhhiman Saha’s gritty unbeaten knocks before an outstanding stint with the gloves and India never looked in danger of losing their way despite the visitors being 104/1 at one time.

And then there was Virat Kohli’s instinct that is making him slowly look the captain India long needed to harness their talent.

This win has come off a combined effort but for Saha, it will be special. Two unbeaten fifties have firmly established his credentials as a No.7 who can buttress the innings when needed. He isn’t the most graceful batsman, especially against pacers who have often jarred his hands and other parts of his body, but Saha has shown the courage to ride out the initial attacks and slowly make his presence felt. And when he

Lodha Committee directs banks to halt BCCI disbursements New Delhi Fuming at the defiance of its recommendations , the Supreme Court-appointed Lodha Committee has “directed” banks, where the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) holds accounts, not to disburse any funds for the financial decisions taken by the Board at its Special General Meeting (SGM) on September 30. “It has come to the notice of this Committee that certain decisions have been taken at the ‘Emergent Working Committee’ meeting of the BCCI on 30th September 2016 to disburse large funds to the various member associations,” the Committee stated in a letter to the banks. The letter has also been addressed to the BCCI secretary, Ajay Shirke, CEO Rahul Johri and Treasurer Anirudh Choudhary.

“You are aware that by way of this

Committee’s direction dated 31.8.2016, no further decisions were to be taken regarding the future apart from routine matters.

The disbursement of these amounts are not routine, and in any case, not emergent,” the Committee said. “You are also aware that the BCCI has chosen to breach the judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court as well as the first set of Timelines set out by this Committee which includes the Fund Disbursement policy to be framed by 30.9.2016. “As the status report is to be taken up for

directions by the Hon’ble Court on Thursday, 6.10.2016, you are hereby directed not to take any steps towards financial disbursement of the amounts as resolved/approved after the direction dated 31.8.2016. Any violation of this direction will be placed before the Hon’ble Supreme Court for appropriate directions,” it added. The panel also cited the July 18 Supreme Court verdict, which had told the BCCI to “cooperate and act in aid of the Committee and its directives”. The BCCI is on the backfoot in the ongoing tussle with the Lodha Committee, which has filed a status report in the Apex court asking for the removal of the Board’s entire top brass for violating its recommendations in the September 30 SGM.

backs his batting with the kind of catching that got Tom Latham out after a stubborn innings, India know they have the right person at the right position.

Only after the dismissal of Latham — in the first over after tea — did India look likely to repeat their Eden feat of 2001 where they got the last seven wickets in the last session on Day 5. Here, another grueling day awaited New Zealand if they could get past the fourth.

Still they showed some fight with the bat in a series that hasn’t been dominated by batsmen.

Both teams are yet to score 400.

And it took four innings for a team to put up a 50-run opening partnership in this Test. It could have been broken earlier though.

Mohammed Shami hit Martin Guptill plumb on his pad but his appeal was turned down. Next time he appealed again, against Mitchell Santner, there was no ambiguity.

Guptill however couldn’t utilise his second life. First over after lunch, he was done in by the dip of R Ashwin and ended legbefore. Henry Nicholls stitched a good 49-run partnership before edging Ravindra Jadeja to Ajinkya Rahane at slip. By the time Ross Taylor was snared by Ashwin, hopes of an early finish to the Test were on the rise.

After the close of play, Kohli said he didn’t want to wake up 6.30 am on Tuesday. Home boy Saha made his wish come true and also ensured Kolkata wasn’t distracted from another day of Puja buildup. Despite producing one of the best innings of the series, Latham was bound to run out of patience one time.

Ashwin’s drift was an entrapment, inviting him to drive but spinning viciously in the last second to take a faintest edge that Saha pouched superbly.

Another home boy Shami kept his end of the deal too. With the pitch showing signs of slowing down, Jadeja and Ashwin were primed for long spells. But Kohli hardly adheres to convention. He brought Shami from the clubhouse end for a six-over spell. Santner already sent home, Shami beat BJ Watling’s outer edge to shatter his offstump.

Visibly tired, Shami was given a break by Kohli who put Jadeja and Bhuvneshwar Kumar in charge of the bowling. That too worked like a charm with Luke Ronchi and Jeetan Patel being dismissed in consecutive overs.

The next two wickets took some time to come but with the right bowlers at their disposal, India were never short on patience.

Rafael Nadal slams possible match format change in tennis “The kind of matches that stay on (in) the memory and on the history of our sport are a little bit long matches and dramatic matches that become emotional,” Nadal told reporters in Beijing.

Women’s tennis boss Steve Simon told AFP last week the WTA was considering introducing super tie-breakers and no-ad scoring for singles matches.

Beijing Rafael Nadal slammed changes being mulled by tennis governing bodies to shorten matches and make them more TV-friendly, saying Sunday that the move goes against the sport’s “values”.

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Health Healthy lifestyle reduces Ovarian removal should be avoided end-of-life disability in premenopausal women

New York Leading a healthy lifestyle can shorten the time that is spent disabled near the end of one’s life by nearly two years, says a study.

Older adults with the healthiest lifestyles could expect to spend about 1.7 fewer years disabled at the end of their lives, compared to their unhealthiest counterparts, the findings showed.

“The duration of the disabled period near the end of one’s life has enormous personal and societal implications, ranging from quality of life to health care costs,” said senior author Anne Newman, Professor at University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health in the US. “We discovered that, fortunately, by improving lifestyle we can postpone both death and disability. In fact, it turns out that we’re compressing that

disabled end-of-life period,” Newman noted. The findings, published online in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, are based on analysis of a quarter century of data.

Newman and her colleagues examined data collected by the Cardiovascular Health Study, which followed 5,888 US adults for 25 years.

All of the participants were aged 65 or older and were not institutionalised or wheelchair-dependent when they enrolled.

The participants reported or were assessed for various lifestyle factors, including smoking habits, alcohol consumption, physical activity, diet, weight and their social support system.

The researchers took into account and adjusted results for such factors as participants’ age, sex, race, education, income, marital status and chronic health conditions.

Across all the participants, the average number of disabled years directly preceding death — years when the person had difficulty eating, bathing, toileting, dressing, getting out of bed or a chair, or walking around the home — averaged 4.5 years for women and 2.9 years for men.

For each gender, those with the healthiest lifestyle (those who were nonsmokers of a healthy weight and diet and getting regular exercise) not only lived longer, but had fewer disabled years at the end of their lives, the study said.

New York Oophorectomy or removal of ovaries in premenopausal women who are not at a high risk of cancer should not be considered as they may become prone to chronic health conditions, researchers suggested.

The study showed that women under 46 who had both ovaries removed have high risk of getting diagnosed with multiple chronic health conditions like depression, hyperlipidemia, cardiac arrhythmias, coronary artery disease, arthritis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and osteoporosis.

Bilateral oophorectomy is the formal term for removal of both ovaries, often used as a preventive measure against ovarian cancer.

“Bilateral oophorectomy should not be considered an ethically acceptable option for the prevention of ovarian cancer in the majority of women who do not carry a high-risk

genetic variant,” said Walter Rocca, Managing Director at Mayo Clinic, in Rochester of Minnesota in the US. The study, published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings followed two groups of women for a period of approximately 14 years.

There were 1,653 women who underwent bilateral oophorectomy and an equal number of women of the same age who did not.

Results showed that women under 46 who underwent bilateral oophorectomy experienced a higher incidence of the 18 chronic conditions except cancer and an accelerated rate of

accumulation of combined conditions, or multimorbidity.

The investigators suggest that the premature loss of estrogen caused by the oophorectomy may affect a series of aging mechanisms at the cellular and tissue level across the whole body leading to diseases in multiple systems and organs.

“The clinical recommendation is simple and clear. In the absence of a documented high-risk genetic variant, bilateral oophorectomy before the age of 50 years (or before menopause) is never to be considered and should not be offered as an option to women,” Rocca added.

The body then produces such a strong response that it also starts to target healthy cells,” Harkema said. According to Harkema, the DHA could be changing the way these cells, also known as macrophages, react to the silica in the lungs and somehow alter the immune system’s response.

One theory is the DHA

helps cells send an antiinflammatory signal to the body so it doesn’t overcompensate and trigger an autoimmune response.

Another thought is somehow the DHA allows the cells to swallow up and remove the toxic silica from the lung without dying, preventing any inflammatory signals from being sent, the

researchers explained.

“The study is a clear indication that eating DHA can prevent this one type of environmental triggering of lupus. It can suppress many of the disease’s signalling pathways, which current drugs on the market now try to target and treat,” Pestka said in the findings published in PLOS ONE.

Omega-3 fatty acid can suppress lupus, autoimmune disorders New York Consuming an omega-3 fatty acid called DHA, or docosahexaenoic acid commonly found in fatty, cold-water fish, has the potential to suppress signalling pathways of lupus as well as other autoimmune disorders, researchers have found.

Lupus is an inflammatory disease caused when the immune system attacks its own tissues and it can damage any part of the body including skin, joints and organs.

The study found that when lupus was triggered by crystalline silica, a toxic mineral also known as quartz that is linked to

human autoimmunity, DHA blocked the activation of the disease.

The preclinical study, conducted by researchers from the Michigan State University, in the US, looked at the effect of DHA on lupus lesions in the lungs and kidneys of female mice that were already genetically predisposed to the disease. Their results were overwhelmingly positive.

“Ninety-six per cent of the lung lesions were stopped with DHA after being triggered by the silica,” said Jack Harkema, pathologist at the Michigan State University.

Lupus is considered a

genetic disease and is triggered not only by inhaling crystalline silica toxicants, but also by other environmental factors such as sun exposure.

Quartz is the most common, and most dangerous, form of crystalline silica and is often found in the agriculture, construction and mining industries where workers can breathe in the mineral dust.

“Cells in the lung can gobble up the silica, but it’s so toxic, it kills these cells. When these cells die, signals are sent out to the immune system that something is wrong.

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Fathers’s moking may up asthma-risk in kids London Men who indulge in smoking since their adolescence may put their future children at more than three times higher risk of an early-onset of asthma, a finding suggests.

In the study, the researchers included more than 24,000 children and showed that both a father’s early smoking debut and a father’s longer smoking duration before conception increased non-allergic early-onset asthma in kids. “The greatest increased risk for their children having asthma was found for fathers having their smoking debut before age 15.

Interestingly, time of quitting before conception was not independently associated with offspring asthma,” said Cecilie Svanes, Professor at the University of Bergen,

Norway.

Concerning mother’s smoking, the research found more offspring asthma if the mother smoked around pregnancy, consistent with previous studies.

However, no effect of maternal smoking only prior to conception was identified. The difference from father’s smoking suggests effects through male sperm cells.

“Smoking is known to cause genetic and epigenetic damage to spermatozoa, which are transmissible to offspring and have the potential to induce developmental abnormalities,” Svanes added. It is previously known that nutritional, hormonal and psychological environment provided by the mother permanently alters organ structure, cellular response

and gene expression in her offspring. Father’s lifestyle and age appear, however, to be reflected in molecules that control gene function.

Svanes and her team also investigated whether parental exposure to welding influenced asthma risk in offspring, with a particular focus on exposures in fathers prior to conception.

The study showed that paternal welding increased offspring asthma risk even if the welding stopped prior to conception. Smoking and welding independently increased offspring asthma risk, and mutual adjustment did not alter the estimates of either. “For smoking and welding starting after puberty, exposure duration appeared to be the most important determinant for the asthma risk in offspring,” the author added.

New Delhi We all suffer from the agonizing menstrual cramps which makes our lives hell during that time of the month.

Though there are medicine to ease the pain, it just provides short-term relief. And consuming too many medicines is just not good for health. But a certain yoga moves actually can help ease cramps in the abdomen and back caused by period cramps.

Matsyasana or Fish pose Matsyasana or Fish pose helps in easing the

from your shoulders and neck.

Ustrasana or Camel pose This pose stretches your torso, abdomen, chest and groin, opens up your shoulders and improves back muscles. It also helps ease period pains and lowers discomfort.

Dhanurasana or Bow pose Bow pose is beneficial for the reproductive organs and relief menstrual discomfort. It also strengthens the abdominal muscles and opens up your chest and shoulders.

Janu Sirsasana or Forward bend It lowers the discomfort caused by montly period.

This asana stretches your back, shoulders and hamstrings.

New York Moderate physical activities like walking can help older adults recover from a major disability more quickly and maintain their independence over time, according to a new study. According to the study published by the Annals of Internal Medicine, the researchers compared the effects of a structured physical activity

physical limitations.

The activity programme consisted mainly of walking, in addition to strength, flexibility and balance training exercises.

Over three-and-half years, the participants were assessed for major mobility disability, which was defined as the inability to walk a quarter mile.

Older adults need to be able to walk this distance to

programme reduced the total time that older adults suffered from major disability by 25 per cent.

The participants were less likely to experience disability in the first place, more likely to recover if they did suffer a disability, and less likely to have a subsequent episode, said the researchers. “Our report strengthens the evidence supporting the

programme to those of a health education programme on more than 1,600 adults between the ages of 70 and 89.

The study participants were not disabled but were sedentary and had some

participate in many activities and maintain their independence, the researchers said. The research team found that compared to the health education programme, the physical activity

benefit and long-term value of physical activity in promoting independent mobility among a growing population of vulnerable older persons,” said Thomas Gill, Professor, Yale University.

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Pasasana or Noose pose Being an excellent asana to stretch your spine and groin, this pose helps relieve menstrual discomfort and tension

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New Delhi Are you addicted to caffeine or coffee?

Everyone, young and old alike loves to drink coffee or some other form of caffeine.

But many of us are not aware that this drink when consumed in excess harms our health. So, one should quit drinking caffeine to lead a healthy lifestyle.

Here are some benefits of quitting caffeine which we all should know: Better sleep If you are drinking lots of caffeine drinks then you

won’t be able to get the required quality sleep. But once you quit drinking it, you will get to sleep properly.

Reduce anxiety Quitting coffee or caffeine helps decrease anxious, especially if you are prone to anxiety issues. Many have reported that caffeine increases their anxiety levels.

Fewer headaches Caffeine is a major trigger for headaches. Any alteration in your normal daily caffeine consumption can result in a caffeine

withdrawal headache.

Caffeine can also be a migraine trigger.

Helps reduce weight If you want to reduce weight then quit consuming coffee or other form of caffeine. Caffeine drinks helps in adding empty calories to our diets that we don’t really need that leads to weight gain.

Makes your teeth healthy Quitting coffee and caffeine beverages will results in whiter and healthier teeth as they were the caused of tooth decay.

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Classic Butter Chicken

RECIPE Boneless chicken, cubed 250 gm Chop Onion 2 nos Tomato Puree 1 Tomato paste 1 tbsp Butter 1 tbsp Chop garlic 1 tsp Chop ginger 1 tsp Coriander powder 2 tsp Kashmiri Chilli Powder 1 tsp Garam Masala 1 tsp

Dried Fenugreek Leaves 1 Pinch Milk 1 Cup Cream 3 Tbsp Salt 1-2 tsp Turmeric Powder Âź tsp Coriander Leaves 1 small bunch METHOD * Heat the butter in a pan and add the minced onions. Fry until golden brown.

* Add the ginger, garlic, coriander, chilli powder, turmeric, and salt. Fry for a minute until fragrant. * Add the pureed tomato and tomato paste and cook for 3-4 mins until the mixture bubbles uniformly. * Thrown in the kasurimethi, milk, and the cubed chicken.

Cook covered for 8-10 mins until the chicken is soft. The chicken will let out more water, just check once or twice in between and give the curry a stir. Keep the flame on sim. * When the chicken is cooked soft, open the lid and cook for a further minute or two. If the gravy is too thick, add some water at this stage. * When done, add the garam masala or chicken masala and the cream. Give it a good stir, but don’t boil. * Adjust salt, garnish with the coriander leaves, and remove from fire. * Serve hot with tawa naan, vegetable pulao, or jeera rice.

The Great Butter Chicken Masala Chicken breast boneless 300 gms MARINATE Hung thick curd 1 -2 tsp Salt 1 tsp Red chilli powder 1/2 tsp Tandoori masala 1 tsp CURRY Butter 2 tbsp Garlic paste 2 tsp Green chilly sliced 1 Cumin powder 1/2 tsp Red chilly powder 1/2 tsp Salt 1 tsp Tomato 6 or 1/2 kg Cashewnuts 10 Tomato Base Gravy 1 big tbsp Sugar 1/2 tsp Water 1/4 cup Milk 1/2 cup Cream 2 tbsp Garam masala 1/4 tsp Fenugreek crushed 1 tsp Finely chopped coriander leaves METHOD * In a bowl, take all the ingredients under the marinate head and the chicken pieces.The chicken pieces should be 1" inch in size. Mix well and keep aside for atleast 2 - 3 hrs * Blanch, peel and puree the tomatoes. Keep aside. * Soak the cashewnuts for 2 3 hrs in hot water and then strain and grind the cashewnuts into a fine paste.

Cold Macaroni and Tuna Salad

Ingredients: 3 eggs 3 cups macaroni 1/2 (10 ounce) package frozen green peas 2 (6 ounce) cans tuna, drained 1/4 cup mayonnaise 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon black pepper Directions: Place eggs in a saucepan and cover with cold water.

Over medium heat, bring water to a full boil. Lower heat and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes. Immediately plunge eggs into cold water. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a

boil. Add macaroni pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain and rinse under cold water. Put frozen peas into a colander and rinse with hot water; drain well. In a large bowl place the macaroni and peas. Peel eggs and dice them into the bowl.

Put the tuna in the bowl, flaking it apart.

Stir mayonnaise into the mixture a little at a time, so the mixture is moist but not soggy. Sprinkle the salt and pepper and mix one last time. Cover and refrigerate for a least one hour or overnight.

Thai Chicken Balls

* For the curry heat the pan and add butter and immediately add the garlic paste. * Now add the sliced green chilly. Also add cumin powder, red chilly powder and salt. Add 1 tblsp water and mix well. * Add the tomato puree and cook till the gravy leaves the side. * Lower the flame and add the cashewnut paste and stir constantly. * Now add the tomato ketchup, sugar and 1/4 cup water. * Meanwhile in a separate pan shallow fry the marinated chicken pieces for 4 - 5 minutes. If overcooked then the chicken will get hard and stiff.

Keep aside.

* Once the gravy comes to a boil add the chicken pieces.

And cook for a minute. * Now lower the flame add the milk and stir well. Cook for another minute and then add the cream. Mix well * Now add the garam masala and crushed fenugreek leaves.

Mix well. * Transfer the chicken to a serving bowl and garnish with chopped coriander leaves, crushed fenugreek leaves and swirls of cream. * Restaurant style Indian butter chicken is ready to be served with naan or tandoori roti.

Authentic butter chicken is a very high calorie dish yet very very tasty.

Ingredients: 2 pounds ground chicken 1 cup dry bread crumbs 4 green onions, sliced 1 tablespoon ground coriander seed 1 cup chopped fresh cilantro 1/4 cup sweet chili sauce 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice oil for frying Directions: In a large bowl, mix together the chicken and bread crumbs. Season

with green onion, ground coriander, cilantro, chili sauce and lemon juice; mix well.

Using damp hands, form mixture into evenly shaped balls that are either small enough to eat with your fingers, or large enough to use as burgers.

Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Fry the chicken balls in batches until well browned all over.

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