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he Vice ‘Those walks Presidential nominee of along beach in Democratic Party, Kamala Harris India created on Wednesday (local recalled that her a commitment time) grandfather, P V Gowould often take in me’: Kamala palan her on his morning in India, where Harris recalls walks he would discuss the of fighting her grandfather importance for democracy and civil
rights. “As a young girl, my grandfather would often take me on his morning walks in India, where he’d discuss the importance of fighting for democracy and civil rights. That commitment and that fight for a better future
lives on in me to this day,” she said in a tweet. The tweet contained a 57-second video where she is heard saying: “My grandparents were phenomenal. We would go back to India like, every other year. My grandfather fought for and was a defender of the freedom of India. When I was a young girl, being the eldest grandchild, my grandfather would take me on his morning walk.”Harris said those walks along the beach in India really “planted something in my mind and created a commitment in me.’
“All of his buddies who were also great leaders, they would talk about the importance of fighting for democracy and the importance of fighting for civil rights and that people would be treated equally regardless of where they were born or the circumstance of their birth,” she said. “Those walks along the beach in India really planted something in my mind and created a commitment in me, before I even realised it, that has led to me where I am today,” the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee is heard saying in the video.
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US President Donald Trump has warned his Democratic challenger Joe Biden will "demolish" the American dream if he wins the White House in November.
HiIndia Newsdesk Speaking on the final night of the Republican convention, the president depicted his opponent as "the destroyer of American greatness". He said the Democrats would unleash "violent anarchists" upon US cities. Mr Biden has a steady single-digit lead over Mr Trump with 68 days until voters return their verdict. The end of the Republican convention heralds a 10-week sprint to election day, and the coming campaign is widely expected to be one of the ugliest in living memory. On Thursday night, the president asked
voters for another four years in office, vowing to dispel the coronavirus pandemic that has ravaged the US economy and quell civil strife ignited by police killings of African Americans. Mr Trump accepted his party's renomination on Thursday night from the South Lawn of the White House. "This
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election will decide whether we save t h e A m e r i c an dream," he said, "or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish our cherished destiny."
Steven Spielberg’s dad who was a computer pioneer dies
Steven Spielberg, nominated for best director for his work on "Munich," left, arrives with his father Arnold for the TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer has left the Chinese-owned video 25th annual nominees luncheon hosted by the Academy app firm just three months since joining, and only days of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, since the company sued the administration of US President California on Feb. 13, 2006. Donald Trump.
HiIndia Newsdesk The race to buy TikTok took another turn on Thursday when Walmart said it was teaming up with Microsoft on a potential bid for the popular Chineseowned video app. White House adviser Larry Kudlow said on Monday the Trump administration did not have a view on who purchases TikTok. The discussions are ongoing and other suitors are involved, said two people close to the deal talks, who were not authorised to speak publicly. It is unclear which companies will ultimately secure a deal, though TikTok will make a decision in the coming days.
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence stand on stage on the third day of the Republican National Convention at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Baltimore, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020.
US Vice-President Mike Pence on Wednesday cast the re-election of President Donald Trump as critical to preserving law and order and economic viability, asserting that Democratic rival Joe Biden would set America on a path to socialism and decline. Amid widening protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man, in Wisconsin, Pence and other Republicans at their national convention described the November 3 election between Trump and Biden as a choice between law-and-order and lawlessness. “The hard truth is you won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America,” Pence told a crowd seated in folding chairs at historic Fort McHenry in Baltimore. Accompanied by First Lady Melania Trump, Trump joined Pence on stage after the speech as the crowd chanted: “Four more years.” Police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot Blake, 29, multiple times in the back at close range on Sunday, reigniting protests against racism and police brutality that erupted across the US earlier in the year.
Hurricane Laura slams southwestern Louisiana Residents of Lake Charles heard Laura's winds howling and the sound of breaking glass as the storm passed through the city of 78,000 with winds of 85 miles per hour (137 km per hour) and gusts up to 128 mph (206 kph) in the hour after landfall.
HiIndia Newsdesk Arnold Spielberg, father of filmmaker Steven Spielberg and an innovating engineer whose work helped make the personal computer possible, has died at 103. Spielberg died of natural causes while surrounded by his family in Los Angeles on Tuesday, according to a statement from his four children. Spielberg and Charles Propster designed the GE225 mainframe computer in the late 1950s while working for General Electric. The machine allowed computer scientists at Dartmouth College to develop the programming language BASIC, which would be essential to the rise of personal computers in the 1970s and ‘80s.
Kamala Harris to counter President Trump’s convention speech
HiIndia Newsdesk Democratic Party’s Indian-origin vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris will deliver a speech on Thursday to counter President Donald Trump’s remarks at the Republican National Convention after formally accepting the party’s presidential renomination. Harris will speak on President Trump’s failures to contain COVID-19 and protect working families from the economic fallout and the Biden-Harris plan to contain COVID-19 and build a different path forward in America, The Hill quoted a press release from the Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign as saying. Biden and Harris both railed against Trump’s leadership at last week’s Democratic National Convention.
HiIndia Newsdesk A chemical facility caught fire per hour (137 km per hour) and in Laura’s wake on Thursday gusts up to 128 mph (206 kph) in morning in Westlake, Louisiana, the hour after landfall. 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Lake The windows of the city’s 22-floor Charles, the Lake Charles Police Capital One Tower were blown Department said. Video footage out, street signs were toppled on Twitter showed thick black and pieces of wooden fence and smoke billowing into the sky debris from collapsed buildings over the wind-torn landscape lay scattered in the flooded near Interstate 10. streets, video footage on Twitter The Westlake police were and Snapchat showed. still investigating the incident Lake Charles resident Borden on Thurs d ay mor ning , a W i l s o n , a 3 3 - y e a r - o l d representative said by phone, and pediatrician, was anxiously authorities were blocking traffic anticipating his return home after on the interstate and Highway 90 evacuating to Minden, Louisiana. in the meantime. “I never even boarded up my Residents of Lake Charles heard windows. I didn’t think to do Laura’s winds howling and the that. This is the first hurricane sound of breaking glass as the I’ve experienced. I just hope my storm passed through the city house is fine,” he told Reuters in of 78,000 with winds of 85 miles a telephone interview.
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States shocked at Centre's GST Rhea Chakraborty arrives at DRDO guest house for CBI probe compensation turnaround ‘Act of God’ on lips, dispensation disclaims obligation towards compensation
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman chairs the 41st GST Council meeting in New Delhi, Thursday, August 27, 2020.
HiIndia Newsdesk T he spi r it of c o op e r at ive federalism lay in tatters at the altar of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Thursday
after the Centre disclaimed its constitutional obligation to compensate states for any annual shortfall in tax collections this year. The GST regime had
transformed the country into a single common market in July 2017 and the states had agreed to subsume all their levies under a single tax. The Centre had promised to compensate them if collections failed to record a 14 per cent annual increment in revenues over the base year of 2015-16. At the end of a stormy five-and-ahalf-hour meeting, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman left the states with two stark and disagreeable options: either borrow Rs 97,000 crore from a special window to be created by the Reserve Bank of India to meet a small part of the expected Rs 3 lakh crore shortfall in GST collections this year, or raise the entire uncovered sum of Rs 2.35 lakh crore in the form of debt.
HiIndia Newsdesk Actor Rhea Chakraborty arrived at the DRDO guest house in Mumbai for questioning by the Central Bureau of Investigation
Showik, the watchman of Rajput’s bungalow, his roommate Siddharth Pithani and house keeping staff were questioned throughout the day in connection with the case by the
On Thursday, the actor's brother Showik, the watchman of Rajput's bungalow, his roommate Siddharth Pithani and house keeping staff were probed throughout the day in connection with the case. (CBI) which is probing the Sushant Singh Rajput death case. This is for the first time that the 28-year-old will be questioned by the agency in connection with the case. The actor was summoned by the central agency to appear before its probe team on Friday around 10.30 am, an official told. On Thursday, the actor’s brother
CBI. Sushant’s sister Shweta Singh Kirti took to Twitter to counter Rhea’s claims on the late actor and his family during an interview to a news channel. In response to Rhea’s statement, where she implied that Sushant’s family members were not there for him, Shweta said that the “family was always there standing rock solid for him.”
Sonia Gandhi sets up SC dismisses plea seeking postponement Congress committee of Bihar polls, says Covid-19 no excuse HiIndia Newsdesk Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday set up a 10-member group to look after parliamentary work, with five members each from the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. Although no formal announcement was made, sources said the committee would include Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand
Sharma, Ahmed Patel, K.C. Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh from the Rajya Sabha and Adhir Chowdhury, Gaurav Gogoi, K. Suresh, Manickam Tagore and Ravneet Singh Bittu from the Lok Sabha. Gogoi has been named deputy leader of the Lok Sabha. Bittu, a young MP from Punjab, has been appointed a whip along with Tagore. Azad, who was among the 23 leaders who wrote a controversial letter to Sonia on the drift in the party, on Thursday repeated his demand for elections to appoint a party president and Congress Working Committee members.
The apex court was hearing a petition filed by one Avinash Thakur, who sought direction to the Chief Election Commissioner to postpone the election till the state was free of Covid-19.
HiIndia Newsdesk The Supreme Court Friday refused to entertain a petition seeking postponement of the Bihar Assembly elections due to the coronavirus pandemic. A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan and comprising Justices R S Reddy and M R Shah left it to the Election Commission decide the schedule. The apex court was hearing a petition filed by one Avinash Thakur, who sought direction to
‘Situation in Ladakh as severe as it was during India-China war in 1962’: Shiv Sena The editorial cited External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s recent interview to a news portal stating that the situation on the border is “surely the most serious situation after 1962”.
File photo: Indian Army truck crosses Chang la pass near Pangong Lake in Ladakh region
HiIndia Newsdesk The Shiv Sena on Friday said that the situation in Ladakh is as severe as it was in 1962, referring to the Indo-China war which took place in that year. In an editorial in mouthpiece Saamana, the party said that a “feel-good atmosphere” was created in the country saying that Chinese troops have retreated in the Galwan
valley but the guns are still pointed at each other. It added that the Chinese actions or intentions have not changed. The editorial cited External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s recent interview to a news portal stating that the situation on the border is “surely the most serious situation after 1962”. The editorial said that the army is stationed from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh along the China border. “The army is fully prepared. The Army chief visited all the border areas. The Prime Minister too visited Ladakh and boosted the morale of the jawans.” In an editorial titled, ‘The reality of Ladakh”, it said, “the Chinese dragon’s actions there have not stopped, nor have their intentions changed. The Chinese and Indian Army may be holding discussions, but the guns of the two countries are stacked on each other along the Ladakh border. India is saying that China withdrew from Ladakh, while China is saying that India too should move from ‘finger four’ to its border first, which is naturally unacceptable to India.” the editorial added.
the Chief Election Commissioner to postpone the election till the
state was free of Covid-19. The petitioner had argued that the Representation of People Ac t a l lowe d defer ment in extraordinary situations. The SC, however, said this was not the ground for postponement. The SC also said the petition was premature, as the EC was yet to announce the schedule for the elections. The poll body, however, has announced a slew of guidelines for holding elections during the pandemic.
Postpone NEET, JEE: Congress pickets outside education ministry The protests were held following a call by former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, urging students to unite and demand that NEET and JEE be postponed due to the pandemic
HiIndia Newsdesk Over 50 Congress supporters and party members on Friday camped outside Shastri Bhawan, the office of the Union ministry of education, demanding that the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) and the Joint Entrance Exams (JEE)-Main be postponed because of the nationwide raging coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak. The National Testing
Authority (NTA), the nodal body to conduct examinations, and the central government are adamant to hold JEE-Main and NEET between September 1 and 6 and on September 13, respectively. JEE-Main and NEET are for undergraduate engineering and medical aspirants, respectively. Delhi C ongress chief Anil C h a u d h a r y, w h o l e d t h e demonstration, said that the party was in solidarity with millions of students, who would have to risk their safety and future to appear for these competitive examinations. The Congress has organised nationwide protests on Friday against the centre’s decision to hold these examinations amid the viral outbreak.
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New Delhi [India], (ANI): Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Friday took charge as chairman of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Executive Board. HiIndia Newsdesk Board comprises 34 The Executive members elected Chinese troops have beentechnically continuing qualified construction work, including for three-year The chairman’s building of roads and additional camps, interms. the “occupied” zones in Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducts an aerial survey of cycloneeastern AmphanLadakh affecteddespite areas Beijing post and is held rotation formaintaining one year New by Delhi last week The towards main during diplomatic talks thatamong the two regional sides wouldgroups. keep working agriculture, telecommunication and possible. A team will be sent by the functions of the Board are to implement complete disengagement along the Line of Actual Control. power, besides assessing damage to central government and it will conduct the decisions and policies of the Health Defence” ministry Wednesday hinted that the two sides were houses and infrastructure as soon as a survey in these sectors, he said. sources on Assembly and facilitate itsweek work.to initiate planning to hold another round of military talks next HiIndia Newsdesk the stalled disengagement process. India has registered 75,760 coronavirus infections to 1.83 per cent. The active cases comprise of 21.93 Defence ministry sources hint at another round of military and 1,023 deaths in the last 24 hours ending 8 am on per cent of the total caseload. The Indian Council Thursday. Today’s jump of cases is the highest that any of Medical Research (ICMR) has said a cumulative talks next week to initiate the stalled disengagement country has ever recorded on a single day since the start total of 3,85,76,510 samples have been tested up to process of the outbreak. With this, the total number of cases went August 26 with 9,24,998 samples being tested on “The stalemate continues after seriesOCI of talks, and those the disengagement past 33 lakh, of which 60,472 people have succumbed towho Wednesday. Meanwhile, two male volunteers were Chinese had interfered with normal whoa hold cards; who want process at the multiple friction points has completely stalled. What given thebyfirst shot of in theactivity ‘Covishield’ vaccine, being the pandemic, 7,25,991 are active cases while 25,23,771 Indian patrolling engaging to travel for family emergencies andis more worrying is that the Chinese troops have not budged from their manufactured by on Pune-based have recovered so far, according to the Ministry in of Health the area. China had TuesdaySerum Institute of university students who are OCI card occupied zones and continue building roads and military camps inside and Family Welfare. Now, the recovery rate hasaccused risen to the India (SII), at Bharti Vidyapeeth’s Medical College Indian Army of crossing holders but whose parents are Indian India-claimed lines amid the ongoing dialogue, ” said a security official 76.24 per cent while the fatality rate has furtherinto declined and Hospital on Wednesday its territory and blocking its patrols citizens living in India. attached to the home ministry. in an attempt to “unilaterally change The announcement was made by the The latest diplomatic talksministry between of India and affairs China last the status” on the LAC in Sikkim and home on Thursday Friday, had failed to achieve a breakthrough but close both sides hadheels agreedofto Ladakh. The recent escalation of tension and it comes on the carry forward the dialoguethe andcountry communication through military and along the LAC is the most serious since widening its expatriates’ HiIndia Newsdesk HiIndia Newsdesk the 2017 Doklam face-off at the Indiaextraction programme called Vande diplomatic channels. Bharat Mission the third In the the five talks, in to addition to phase. the diplomatic India on Thursday rejected China’s claim China-Bhutan tri-junction. The governmentSooffar, India on rounds Fridayof military HiIndia In a statement, China had also asked allowed certain categories second which started on May 16, discussions, failed to break thephase, logjam. that Indian troops had crossed the LineNewsdesk ofhave Overseas Congress Kapilto immediately withdraw Citizens of India (OCI) card holders India in a special operation, is bringing India of Actual Control (LAC) that resultedleader Sibal, who was among personnel across the line, restore status to travel to India. These include minor back around 32,000 citizens on more in the recent skirmishes in Sikkim and Newsdesk whothe wrotequo a letter To receive replica of thefrom hi INDiA in to relevant areas, restrict frontline. HiIndia 160 flights 47 countries . Ladakh, in turn saying that those it were children born to Indian nationals abroad a than party chief Sonia Gandhi B ol ly wo o d ac tor News Updates on WhatsApp for Free, seeking organisational Rhea Chakraborty send a ‘hi’ to our official WhatsApp No overhaul, on Thursday took to Instagram 773 338 0222 alleged that party leader to share a video that Jitin Prasada is being targeted in Uttar Pradesh and shows her father termed it as “unfortunate”.Prasada, a former union being surrounded minister, was among the signatories to the letter that by media persons at sought an active and Newsdesk full-time party president. Prasad is entrance of their HiIndia RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das saidthe also a special invitee to the CWC. residence. global economy is heading intoIn the caption, Rhea “Unfortunate that Jitin Prasada is being officiallythe targeted in UP.Congress needs to target the BJP withrecession surgical and inflation outlook is mentioned that strikes instead of wasting its energy by targeting‘highly its own,”uncertain’. she and her family Sibal said on Twitter.Reacting to it, another Congress are willing to co-operate with the ongoing Newsdeskin Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case, leader, Manish Tewari who was also a signatory to the HiIndia investigation letter, posted a single word “Prescient” on Twitter. the commotion outside the house has limited hebut Reserve Bank on India the family’s movement. (RBI) on Friday said India’s Rhea Chakraborty “There is a threat to my gross domestic wrote, product life andgrowth my family’s life.”be Theinactor also mentioned (GDP) will Even by a simple model, at least 14-29 lakh negative territory that she has local police station” and in “informed 2020-21 the as the coronavirus cases and between 37,000 outbreak of coronavirus has disrupted the investigative authorities, but no help has come and 71,000 deaths have been averted, economic activities. from their side. HiIndia Newsdesk said the Centre Friday, highlighting In a televised address, RBI Governor Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das addresses a press conference, at She added that they are “only askingRBI forheadquarters assistance, in Mumbai. Bollywood actor Anushka how India has been able to contain the Shaktikanta Das said withthe theglobal various agencies that have Sharma on Thursday to cooperate second half of this year and taking in virus through early implementation economy heading recession. He inPolice demand, us.” into She also tagged Mumbai so theyand there is a plunge in consideration favourable base effect, shared that she and isasked of nationwide lockdown. In a routine also said outlook is “highly demand for electricity and petroleum can provide protection to the family who wants husband Virat Kohli are inflation it is expected that combined fiscal, press briefing to apprise media about uncertain”. to “cooperate with these investigation productions. agencies. ” The biggest blow is to monetary and administrative measures expecting their first child the coronavirus situation in the country, “Domestic economic activity has been private consumption that accounts for currently undertaken by both the “In COVID together. 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Live Law quoted the AG as saying that “it is not necessary to punish him (Bhushan)”. Venugopal further said that the lawyer has filed several PILs rime Minister Narendra Modi for the benefit of people and court should consider on Friday announced an his public work. immediate relief package of Rs “We have serious statements made by former judges 1,000 crore to the West Bengal about Supreme Court having failed democracy. government to deal with the aftermath I also have a complete list of former SC judges of the cyclone Amphan, which has left making comments about corruption in judiciary,” New Delhi [India], (ANI): Union Health at least 77 dead in the state. he said, adding that he will read out two-three such Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Friday The Prime Minister also said Rs 2 lakh statements. “These statements are telling the court took charge as chairman of the World will be given to the kin of the deceased to reform the court. They seek the improvement of Health Organisation (WHO) Executive and up to Rs 50,000 to those injured administration of justice. This a case where your The 500 bed Covid hospital Board.in Patna will be inaugurated from the PM Relief Fund. lordships should forgive him (Bhushan) or perhaps Board comprises 34 Expressing said his grief the hardships today and the 500 bedThe CovidExecutive hospital at Muzaffarpur will Venugopal that over Prashant Bhushan has filed warn him,” he further said. technically qualified members elected faced byPILs thefor citizens of the state, Modiand court be inaugurated very soon several the benefit of people Justice Mishra noted that a lawyer “of a standing for three-year terms. The chairman’s said that a team sent by the Centre will Prime Minister Narendragoing Modito conducts an aerial surveycarries of cyclone Amphan affected areas post is held by rotation for one year of Bhushan, press, making a tweet, should consider his public work. conduct a detailed survey in affected HiIndiaregional Newsdesk groups. The main among some weight”. He said it affects the public. sectors of the state. agriculture, telecommunication and possible. Athe team will be sent by the functions of the Board are to implement The judge said that it is “painful” to read all Prime Narendra Modi on Monday announced that PM Newsdesk “We have decidedHiIndia to conduct a detailed power, besides assessing damage to central government and itMinister will conduct the decisions and policies the Health statements of the Bhushan and his justifications. CARES would fund two 500-bed makeshift Covid-19ofhospitals in survey for various sectors, including houses and infrastructure as soon as a survey in these sectors,” he said. Hearing a 2020 contempt case against Prashant Assembly and facilitate its work. “This is not the way a senior lawyer like Prashant Bihar, scheduled to go to polls later this year. Bhushan, Attorney General KK Venugopal requested Bhushan over 30 years of experience should behave,” Making the announcement on Twitter, the Prime Minister’s Office Supreme Court on Tuesday to forgive the activist-lawyer, Mishra noted. said the hospitals, set up by DRDO (Defence Research & Development saying that he should be “given a warning and let off ”. Organisation), would be located in Patna’s Bihta and Muzaffarpur. “The 500 bed hospital at Bihta, Patna will be inaugurated today and the 500 bed hospital at Muzaffarpur will be inaugurated very soon,” one of the tweets said. The announcement came a day after the BJP Chinese who had interfered with normal who hold OCI cards; thoseforwho want held a meeting of the party’s Bihar executive to prepare the polls. Indian patrolling by engaging in activity to travel for family emergencies and Addressing the meeting, BJP chief J.P. Nadda said the NDA would in the area. China had on Tuesday university students whoNitish are OCI card face the polls under the leadership of chief minister Kumar. accused the Indian Army of crossing but whose parents are Indian The BJP is expected to useholders the hospitals as a prominent campaign into its territory and blocking its patrols citizens in India. the US. Ami was director in few tool, underlining how the party and living the Modi government care for the HiIndia Newsdesk in an attempt to “unilaterally change announcement waswith made by the companies which were allegedly Biharis. Bihar is among theThe The Interpol has issued a red worst-hit Covid-19 states a pathetic the status” on the LAC in Sikkim and ministry of home affairs on Friday, used by Nirav Modi for laundering Covid care infrastructure. The new makeshift hospitals will appear notice against the wife of Nirav Ladakh. The recent escalation of tension andoutitthe comes onminister the heels of money. The ED had named Ami as oases in a desert and bring Modi, the prime accused in the failuresclose of chief Nitish along the LAC is the mostasserious sincein the PNB money- Kumar. Voters will give BJPthe country widening its expatriates’ an accused Rs 13,500 HiIndia crore Punjab National credit for the hospitals and not Nitish. Newsdesk HiIndia Newsdesk the 2017 Doklam face-offlaundering at the Indiaprogramme called Vande case for the first time “This (2 hospitals) will goextraction Bank (PNB) fraud case. a long way in improving Covid care in China-Bhutan tri-junction. Bharat Mission to the third phase. In the Indianotice on Thursday rejected China’s claim of India on Friday in March last year.The governmentBihar, The has been issued ” the PMO stressed. The hospitals will have 150 ICU beds with In a statement, China had also asked second phase, which started on May 16, that Indian troops had crossed the Line allowed certain categories of Overseas Nirav Modi was arrested in in connection with money and 350 normalIndia beds in with oxygen operation, support. is bringing India to immediately withdraw Citizens of Indiaventilators a special of Actual Control (LAC) that resulted (OCI) card holders London by the Scotland Yard laundering case registered against restore status to travel to India. These include minor back around 32,000 citizens on more in the recent skirmishes in Sikkim and personnel across the line, authorities in March 2019. He was Ami Modi in India. A red corner quo in relevant areas, restrict frontline. children born to Indian nationals abroad than 160 flights from 47 countries . members in first week of January, Ladakh, saying that it were the declared an “economic fugitive notice actsinasturn international arrest 2018, just before agencies started offender” under the Fugitive warrant. Ami had left India with investigations in the PNB scam. Economic Offenders Act in Nirav Modi and other family It is alleged that she had gone to December last year.
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Trump supporters produce video ad targeting Indian Americans
HiIndia Newsdesk New York– US President Donald Trump’s supporters have produced a video ad targeting Indian-Americans as he campaigns against the Democratic Party ticket that has Kamala Harris, who is of partial Indian descent, as the Vice-Presidential candidate. The ad has clips from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Howdy Mody” rally in Texas last year and Trump’s Ahmedabad “Namaste Trump” meeting this year, with both leaders proclaiming their and their nations’ close ties and friendship. “We have come to know the splendour of four million Indian Americans. They are truly spectacular people. Thank you all for the contributions you have made to my beloved country,” Trump says in a clip from the Ahmedabad meeting. “I have the honour to introduce you to my family,” Modi says in the Houston clip. Credit for the ad’s concept is given to Al Mason, the co-chair of the Trump Victory Indian American Finance Committee. Mason, who described himself as a consultant on educational institutions, hospitals and global real estate investments, tweeted: “Trump Power: 50% + Indian American Democrats In Each of The Battle Ground State Are Crossing Over To ReElect President @realDonaldTrump.”
becoming the first Black and IndianAmerican woman to be chosen for a major party’s presidential ticket. Harris is the Democratic nominee for Vice President in the 2020 US election. In a her speech, Haley, the former South Carolina Governor, said that “in much of the Democratic Party, it’s now fashionable to say that America is racist”. She recounted how states like her native South Carolina have risen up from racist violence, saying: “America is not a racist country”. Rebutting the idea that Trump is racist is among the core messages the President’s campaign is pushing on the RNC platform all week. “America is not a racist country. This is personal for me. I am the proud daughter of Indian immigrants. My parents never gave in to grievance and hate. My father wore a turban. I was a brown girl in a black and white world,” Haley said, seeking to weave an upbeat immigration theme into the Trump re-election pitch. “America is a story that is a work in progress.” Haley took the audience back to the 2015 shooting of nine Bible study attendees by a white man at a historic Black church in Charleston.
They showed the changing face of America, a multicultural amalgam with non-White immigrants of different religions from around the world being the majority of immigrants.
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HiIndia Newsdesk New York– In a show of his support for legal immigration, US President Donald Trump dramatically welcomed an Indian software developer to “the great American family of citizens” in a White House ceremony during the Republican National Convention. He introduced Sundari Narayanan “a talented software developer” who is a “phenomenal success” after she was swornin as a citizen on Tuesday. Trump said that Narayanan had been in the US for 13 years and she and her husband have “two beautiful, wonderful children”.
Facebook AI system can teach you original dance moves
HiIndia Newsdesk Indian-origin researchers at Facebook AI have developed a system that enables a machine to generate a dance for any input music, creating original, creative dance routines for any music that you feed it. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) system uses finely-tuned search procedures to stay synchronised and surprising, the two main
criteria of a creative dance. The system co-created by research scientist Devi Parikh analyses a music track from nearly any genre and, just moments later, cooks up some synchronised moves. The system's code, which is now available for download, works by detecting similarities in a song at two different points in time and then searches for similar patterns in dance move sequences. Since the system's only computational constraint is ensuring that its movements synchronize with the music, "it is able to generate novel dance routines, which human judges have evaluated as highly creative in comparison to other generated dances," Facebook said. "The AI generates new sequences of movements that might not have come naturally to people," Parikh said. "It adds a layer of creativity, because you can visualize a dance in a different form."
UAE Honours Indian Businessman For Philanthropic Work HiIndia Newsdesk Dubai: T h e UA E h a s honoured an Indian bu s i n e ss m an for helping debt-ridden migrant prisoners by assisting them to repay their debts and providing them free air travel back to their respective countries, according to a media report. Shaikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior,
on Wednesday presented Firoz Goulam Merchant with an excellence certificate and a citation, the Gulf News reported on Thursday. Mr Merchant, who is the proprietor of Pure Gold Jewellers, has been carrying out the work since the launch of his philanthropic movement- Forgotten Society. He has been working with several correctional institutions in the country to identify debt-ridden prisoners and assisted them in repaying debts, thereby securing their release and providing free air passage to their respective countries, the report said.
Turning to her, he asked, “They are the apple of your life, right?” She nodded, “Yes.” Clad in a bright pink sari with bright gold border, she added a dash of colour to the ceremony in which Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf administered the oath of office to her and to four others, including a hijab-wearing veterinarian from Sudan. The others were from Bolivia, Lebanon and Ghana. They showed the changing face of America, a multicultural amalgam with non-White immigrants of different religions from around the world being the majority of immigrants. Criticised by Democrats and immigration activists who conflate legal and illegal immigrants and cite Trumps opposition to illegal migration to assert that he is anti-immigrant, the president was using the ceremony to empahsise the difference and show his support for legal immgration.
If talks fail with China, then military options on table: Gen Bipin Rawat
HiIndia Newsdesk New Delhi: Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said on Monday that if diplomatic talks with China over the border issue fail, then military options are on the table. “The military option to deal with the transgressions by the Chinese is still on but will be considered only if the talks at the diplomatic and military level fail,” said General Bipin Rawat. He however, refused to share what military options India is looking upon. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops are sitting at various disputed and friction points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). They have refused to disengage since mid-July and have started construction work on those disputed junctions. Apart from that they have been raising unacceptable points before India. To deal with the emerging situation, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday held a meeting with National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and the top military brass to discuss the situation at the border with China. Talks between India and China remain deadlocked.
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Iran to grant IAEA inspectors access Singapore Expat Jobs Under Threat in Recession, Local Hire Push to suspected ex-nuclear sites Iran has agreed to give International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors access to two suspected former nuclear sites.
The agreement came during a visit to Tehran by the IAEA's director general
HiIndia Newsdesk A joint statement said Iran was doing so in good faith to resolve
outstanding issues related to nuclear safeguards. The agreement came during a visit
to Tehran by the IAEA's director general. The global watchdog has criticised Iran for not answering its questions about possible undeclared nuclear material and nuclear-related activities at the two locations, and denying it access. It is thought the activities took place long before 2015, when Iran struck a landmark deal with world powers that placed limits on its nuclear programme. Iran insists it has never sought nuclear weapons, but evidence previously collected by the IAEA suggests that until 2003 it conducted "a range of activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device".
PLA fires ‘aircraft-carrier killer’ missile into South China Sea China is engaged in hotly contested territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas
Shinzo Abe, Japan's PM, to resign for health reasons He has suffered from the disease ulcerative colitis for many years but his condition is thought to have worsened recently. Public broadcaster NHK said Mr Abe, 65, wanted to avoid causing problems for his government. Earlier this week, he became Japan's longest continuously serving prime minister, after taking office in 2012.
HiIndia Newsdesk For the first time, China has fired its “aircraft-carrier killer” missile into the South China Sea as part of the naval drills being carried out by the military in the disputed region amid aerial reconnaissance by US spy planes. China is engaged in hotly contested territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas. Beijing has also made substantial progress in militarising its man-made islands
in the past few years, which it says it has the right to defend. Beijing claims sovereignty over all of the South China Sea. But Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei and Taiwan have counterclaims. In the East China Sea, China has territorial disputes with Japan. The South China Sea and the East China Sea are stated to be rich in minerals, oil and other natural resources. They are also vital to global trade.
South Korea stops short of toughest coronavirus measures despite case rise
Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun instead said the government would extend the current Phase 2 social distancing, which was due to expire this weekend, for at least another week.
New Zealand mosque shooter can serve life term in homeland: Australian PM Morrison
Bamako, Mali : Soldiers arrive at Independence Square in Bamako after rebel troops seized the Malian president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and prime minister Boubou Cisse in a dramatic escalation of a months-long crisis.
Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 29, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to the Christchurch massacre in March last year.
The Singapore government has added to their angst by taking steps to promote local hiring, raising concern that it will come at the expense of expats.
HiIndia Newsdesk Singapore has long been the city of choice for Western expats wanting an easy entree into Asia. Clean, efficient, with low tax rates, it’s often seen as rivaling Hong Kong, especially with that city hit by street protests and unrest over China’s new national security law. Yet just when Singapore should be a magnet for global talent, some recruiters say the barriers to entry are mounting. The city is facing the worst recession in its history,
forcing a rethink for some firms on expansion and hiring plans. Alongside soaring unemployment has come a spike in rhetoric against foreigners, seen by some Singaporeans as taking jobs from locals. An experienced nurse from New Zealand is finding out how tough it can be. She seemed, on paper at least, the ideal expat — arriving right before Covid-19. But 11 months and over 200 failed applications later, she says she’s on the verge of going home, unable to land a work pass.
Putin says he could send police to Belarus
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he has formed a police reserve force to intervene in Belarus if necessary, but that point has not yet been reached. HiIndia Newsdesk Speaking on Russian state TV, he said Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko "asked me to set up a certain police reserve" and "I have done so". "We also agreed that it won't be used until the situation gets out of control," he told Rossiya 1TV. Mr Lukashenko's disputed 9 August re-election triggered huge protests. Separately, at least 13 journalists - including a BBC team - were detained in the centre of the capital, Minsk, ahead of a planned opposition protest. The interior ministry said they ha d b e e n t a ke n to a police station for identity checks, but the BBC's Steve Rosenberg
said it was a "clear attempt to interfere with coverage of events". Mr Putin said Russia had an obligation to help Belarus with its security under the two countries' close alliance, and he stressed the deep cultural, ethnic and linguistic ties between the two nations. He said the new reserve force would not go into Belarus unless "extremist elements using political slogans as cover cross a certain boundary and start armed robbery, setting fire to cars, houses, banks, try to seize government buildings and so forth". He added that "on the whole, though, the situation now is levelling out"
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ACB raids officials’ Donated lungs airlifted from homes in Bengaluru Kolkata for transplant in Hyderabad The traffic police wings of Hyderabad and Cyberabad commissionerates jointly and Mysuru facilitated a green channel to make way for an ambulance carrying the donor lungs In Mysuru, ACB officials raided the residence of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Zone-6 Zonal Officer Nagaraj at Kuvempunagar in the city for allegedly amassing wealth beyond his known sources of income.
from the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport to a private hospital in Begumpet.
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The medical team received the organ at the airport at 6.39 A distance of 36.8 km between RGI Airport in Shamshabad am and reached the hospital at 7.09 am to KIMS Hospital in Begumpet was covered in 30 minutes, said the police.
HiIndia Newsdesk The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials conducted simultaneous raids on the premises of an assistant executive engineer, BBMP, brokers, and a TDR applicant in Bengaluru and in Mysuru, ACB officials raided the house of an officer attached to Mysuru City Corporation here on Wednesday. In Bengaluru, raids were conducted at AEE M N Devaraju’s residence in HSR
Layout, broker K P Nagaraj’s house in Kannuru village, another broker B Nagaraju’s house in Yerappanahalli, and at the residence of Subba Rao, landowner and Transferable Development Rights (TDR) applicant. In Mysuru, ACB officials raided the residence of MCC Zone-6 Zonal Officer Nagaraj at Kuvempunagar in the city for allegedly amassing wealth beyond his known sources of income.
According to the hospital, the recipient was an individual suffering from end-stage lung disease dependent on oxygen supply, and currently undergoing treatment. Telangana State’s Jeevandan foundation and the Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (ROTTO) in Kolkata coordinated and facilitated the process. After the doctors at the Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata (INK) certified the donor brain dead on Saturday, the relatives collectively took a decision which was conveyed to ROTTO. Lungs are the most
sensitive tissues in the list of transplantable organs because they are prone to damage and exposed to the atmosphere, said the hospital. On August 16, in a similar coordinated effort, a pair of donor lungs was flown to the city from Pune. The patient on whom it was transplanted is recovering well now, said the doctors from KIMS Heart and Lung Transplant Institute. He is expected to be discharged from the centre shortly in good health and is under the supervision of the treating team and family members. The Hyderabad Traffic Police said it has facilitated a green channel for organ transport five times in 2020.
Two Chennai hospitals in Yediyurappa to seek funds Covishield vaccine human trials for flood relief from Centre HiIndia Newsdesk
Two hospitals in Chennai, Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital and Sri Ramachandra Hospital, will join the Oxford University in conducting human clinical trials of ‘Covishield’ on nearly 300 health volunteers aged 18 and above. This will be part of the multi-centric clinical trial in India, according to state Health Minister Dr C Vijayabaskar .
This vaccine, developed in collaboration with AstraZeneca, is considered the most promising, and is undergoing phase-3 trials in some other countries. Both phase-2 and phase-3 trials will take place in India. Stating that Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has issued orders for the trial, Vijayabaskar told reporters in Chennai that it will commence soon. The Director of public health (Dr T S Selvavinayagam) will be the principal investigator for the project, he said. “After the successful phase two and three clinical trials, the vaccine would be brought for public use. This pro-people initiative of the Chief Minister will strengthen his efforts in containing the coronavirus,” Dr Vijayabaskar said.
HiIndia Newsdesk Karnataka C M B S Yediyurappa is likely to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting financial assistance from the central government towards flood relief activities. After conducting an aerial survey of flood-hit areas in Belagavi and Bagalkote and meeting in-charge ministers and officials of the districts, he said, “Even
while the Centre and the State is not in a satisfactory financial position in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, I will try mobilising funds for the State. Discussions with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for Karnataka’s share of Rs 13,000 crore in the GST are already underway.” Sources close to the CMO said that the CM is likely to meet PM Modi to discuss the same after September 12 as well. Meanwhile, preparations to resume inter-state bus services from Karnataka are on, Transport Minister Laxman Savadi confirmed. “We are yet to get a green signal from the other states as our transport corporations are ready to resume operations to Goa, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Telangana,” he said in a statement.
Karnataka launches AI-driven movable hospitals to contain Covid-19 HiIndia Newsdesk Karnataka Thursday launched an Artificial Intelligence-(AI) driven movable hospital, designed in the form of pods to contain the spread of contagious diseases such as Covid-19 and prevent crosscontamination at hospitals. Developed by Vevra, a Bengalurubased startup, the movable hospital, named Vevra Pods, was e-launched by Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar. “AI has the potential to transform the healthcare sector. More technology start-ups should focus on developing low-cost
solutions to make healthcare more require a minimum space of 500 accessible and affordable,” he said. sqft, these pods can be annexed to The government has so far not hospital buildings, parking lots or open spaces on the hospital The pods can be annexed to other premises, the company claimed. hospital buildings, parking “The pods come in five variants: lots or other open spaces on General pod, ICU pod, doctors stay operation theatre pod, and the hospital premises, the pod, scanning room pod. Each pod can company claimed. accommodate four to five beds,” a specified where the pod hospitals Vevra representative said. will be placed. Vevra has tied up The company added that the pods with InnoWave Group, a Portugal- are re-usable after the Covid-19 based IoT (Internet of Things) firm, pandemic, with 15 to 20 years’ to develop the pods. While they structural warranty.
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James Anderson, who's already England’s leading Test wicket-taker, is only behind three spinners — Muttiah Muralitharan (800), Shane Warne (708), and Anil Kumble (619).
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For England cricket, there is another reason to remember August 25. On the first anniversary of the Headingley heist, James Anderson became the first-ever fast bowler to enroll in the rarefied 600-Test wicket club, when he removed Azhar Ali off the second ball of his third over of the day. The only highlight of a truncated final day, which saw the match trundle into a stalemate. Only three greats of the game gleam over him — Muttiah Muralitharan, Shane Warne, and Anil Kumble. All three are spinners, which contextualises the significance of Anderson’s feat. Not that the game has not seen better fast bowlers than Anderson or it would not see an upgrade of him in future, but like Fred Trueman, the first fast bowler to pick 300 wickets said: “Aye, but whoever does will be bloody tired!” It’s incredibly tough for a fast bowler, even for swing bowlers who supposedly don’t stretch the outer limits of their body like Anderson, to dare a dream like Anderson’s. Add to that the toll it takes on his mind
Which medal should I win to receive Arjuna Award
Sakshi Malik asks PM Modi
Lionel Messi informs Barcelona he wants to leave
Lionel Messi, who joined Barcelona in 2000, has helped the club win ten La Liga titles and four UEFA Champions League crowns.
Sakshi Malik expressed her disappointment over the Sports Ministry's decision to exclude her from the list of Arjuna Awards recipients this year. HiIndia Newsdesk A day after the Sports Ministry decided wrote. against bestowing the Arjuna award on “What more medal do former Khel Ratna winners Sakshi Malik I get for the country that I be and Mirabai Chanu, the Indian wrestler honoured with the Arjuna award. wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Or in this wrestling life, I would asking what medal she should bring to never have the good luck of receive the prestigious award. winning this award?” Sakshi, The sports ministry pruned the list from who has also won Padma Shri, 29 to 27, removing Sakshi and Mirabai’s fourth highest civilian award of name from the list. Sakshi won the Khel India, said. Ratna in 2016 for her bronze in Rio S a k s h i w o n g o l d a t t h e Olympics. C o m m o nw e a l t h Wr e s t l i n g Not satisfied by the Sports Ministry’s Championships in 2017 and explanation, Sakshi wrote a letter a silver at the Asian Wrestling addressed to PM Modi and Sports Championship in New Delhi. She Minister Kiren Rijiju, asking if she would also won a bronze at the 2018 win the Award ever in her career. Commonwealth Games in Gold “I am proud to have been conferred Coast. with the Khel Ratna. Every sportsperson The Sports Ministry accepted dreams of winning all the awards. A a n u n p r e c e d e n t e d f i v e sportsperson puts her life at risk for it. I recommendations for t he also dream of seeing Arjuna award winner country’s highest sporting against my name,” the 27-year old wrestler honour this year.
and the sacrifice of staying away from his family and little daughters. Among his contemporaries, there is his peer, accomplice and friend Stuart Broad, who has collected 514 wickets. But at 35, it would not be long before he wraps up the whites, unless he rips a page off Anderson’s how-to-ripen-with-age manual. The rest of the pack is daylights behind them. The next pacer in the queue is Ishant Sharma, who is three shy of his 300th wicket. That, though, is a narrative for another day.
HiIndia Newsdesk Lionel Messi has told Barcelona he wants to leave the club after nearly two decades with the Spanish giants. The club confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday that the Argentina great sent a document expressing his desire to leave. The announcement comes 11 days after Barcelona’s humiliating 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarterfinals, one of the worst defeats in the player’s career and in the club’s history. The defeat capped a difficult season for Barcelona — the first without a
title since 2007-08 — and ignited one of its worst crises ever. The 33-year-old Messi has won a record six Ballon d’Or awards during his time at Barcelona as the top player in the world, and has helped the club win 10 La Liga titles and four UEFA Champions League crowns. However, his attempt to exit the club could now lead to a legal battle between the two sides over a clause in his contract. Barcelona said the document sent by Messi referenced a clause allowing him to leave for free at the end of the season. However, the club said the deadline for triggering that clause expired in June and that it would seek legal advice. If Messi can leave for free, he will have no shortage of suitors.
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Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut has made her social media debut. She joined Twitter on Friday after she saw “the power of social media� in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case.
Kangana Ranaut joined Twitter on Friday after she saw "the power of social media" in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case. Releasing a video on Twitter, Kangana shared how she never felt the need to join social media as she said what she had to say in “artistic� ways instead of saying it in a “rudimentary way�. The actor also revealed how she lost deals worth crores because she was not ready to join social media. In the video, Kangana Ranaut said, “It has been 15 years since I have been working in films. In these years, there have been many occasions when there has been immense pressure on me to join social media. My agents and several brands know that I have let go deals worth crores where there was just one clause that I should be on social media. I have been called a witch and people have taken advantage of the fact that I am not on social media. Still, I chose to stay away from social media as I never felt distant from my audience.� She added, “I have always felt that if I have to say anything, why should I do so in a rudimentary way; through films, I have talked about women empowerment and nationalism. I believed that I would do so in an artistic way. That has been my stance always.� The Panga actor is excited to start this new journey and seeks the love and support of her fans. She also believes social media has the “power to bring reforms we want for a new India� “This year, I have seen the power of social media. I have seen how the entire world came together to fight for Sushant Singh Rajput and have won. So, this makes me feel positive about its power to bring the reforms we want for a new India. So, this is why I have joined social media. I need your support in this journey, and I am looking forward to this journey to build new relationships,� Kangana Ranaut concluded.
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Sonu Sood offers accommodation to 20,000 migrant workers Actor Sonu Sood continues to help migrant workers. After helping thousands to reach their home states during the lockdown, Sood promises to offer accommodation too. On Monday, the actor shared on Instagram that 20,000 migrant workers, who have secured jobs in Noida, will now be offered accommodation with the help of Noida Apparel Export Cluster (NAEC). Sharing the news on Instagram, Sood wrote, “I am delighted to now offer accommodation for 20,000 migrated workers who have also been provided jobs in garment units in #Noida through #PravasiRojgar. With the support of #NAEC President Shri Lalit Thukral, we will collectively work round the clock for this noble cause đ&#x;˜‡đ&#x;˜‡đ&#x;˜‡ đ&#x;˜‡đ&#x;˜‡đ&#x;˜‡đ&#x;˜‡đ&#x;˜‡đ&#x;˜‡đ&#x;˜‡đ&#x;˜‡đ&#x;˜‡đ&#x;˜‡đ&#x;˜‡đ&#x;˜‡đ&#x;˜‡đ&#x;˜‡đ&#x;˜‡ Earlier this month, Sonu Sood revealed the number of ‘HELP messages’ he receives daily. In a tweet, he mentioned, “1137 mails. 19000 FB messages.
4812 Insta messages. 6741 twitter messages. Today’s HELP messages. On average, these are the number of requests I get for HELP. It is humanly impossible to reach out to everyone. I still try my best. Apologies if I missed your message.� On the work front, Sonu Sood will next be seen in Akshay Kumar starrer Prithviraj.
he will pursue treatment at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre." Dutt's mother Nargis, who battled pancreatic cancer between 1980 and 1981, had been admitted to the same hospital. In the recent past, late Rishi Kapoor, Manisha Koirala and Sonali Bendre too put their faith in the hospital, which is the world's oldest private cancer centre. Sanjay Dutt's eldest daughter Trishala lives in the Big Apple.
Looking forward to celebrate Sooryavanshi and 83 release with audience at cinemas: Reliance Entertainment The actor, 61, has since been undergoing preliminary treatment for stage three lung cancer at the Andheri hospital. In the latest development, it is heard that Dutt has procured a US visa and will soon be headed to New York for further treatment. A source reveals, "Sanju had applied for the visa as soon as
he learnt of the diagnosis. However, initially, it wasn't easy to get the clearance since the actor was among those convicted in the 1993 Bombay blasts. Fortunately, one of his close friends helped the actor secure a five-year visa on medical grounds. He is expected to fly to New York with Maanayata and Priya, where
Nargis, Rishi Kapoor, Manisha Koirala and Sonali Bendre had sought treatment at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre
Maanayata, Priya and Namrata are expected to fly to and from New York during his treatment. The source adds, "Sanju was considering travelling to Singapore if the US plan did not materialise. Thankfully, everything has worked out swiftly, and he is expected to leave at the earliest."
Reliance Entertainment on Sunday assured their fans that upcoming films 83 and Sooryavanshi will release in theaters as and when the situation will improve. Reliance Enter tainment, the production house of the upcoming big-ticket films Sooryavanshi and 83, said it is looking forward to releasing the films at the theaters. On Sunday morning, Reliance Entertainment tweeted they “are very confident that the ongoing theatrical exhibition situation will
improve much in time for the release of our awaited films, Sooryavanshi and 83, this Diwali and Christmas, respectively.� The production house added that they are “looking forward to celebrating the blockbusters in cinemas with audiences everywhere.�
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After Netflix movie Class of ’83, actor Bobby Deol is looking forward to the release of his next OTT project, MX original series Aashram. Directed and produced by Prakash Jha, the web series’ plot will focus on the rise and fall of godman Baba Nirala. In a recent interaction Bobby spoke about what drew him to the project, reinventing himself for the new generation and more.
What drew you to Aashram?
The most attractive thing about Aashram was that it gave me a chance to work with Prakash ji (director Prakash Jha). All these years, I had been watching his movies, waiting to work with him one day. I was so excited the day he called me to his office, and when he narrated the idea to me, I was like ‘wow’. I was amazed because as an actor, I am always trying to look for different kinds of characters to play, and it is not easy to catch hold of good parts. The last project that I did for an OTT platform, I was not the first choice. But for this project, I was happy to hear that I was Prakash ji’s first choice. This was a very challenging role because now in my career, I am looking for roles that would push me to give my best. I am trying to portray characters that people would not imagine me playing on screen.
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Bobby Deol Want to create a new image of an actor who does different kinds of roles
Were there any blueprints you had in mind for playing this character?
I didn’t want to get influenced by anything. I merely followed what Prakash ji said. He said, ‘Just read your script, go through your lines properly and do your workshop.’ So that’s what I did. I didn’t try to imitate anyone. I would sit and go through my lines for 3-4 hours to get a grasp of the language that this man spoke. His Hindi was so ‘shudh’ (pure).
Bobby Deol is excited about his new web series Aashram
kinds of roles.
According to you, what would attract What drives you to make the career choices that you have been people to watch Aashram? The nature of the show itself. Prakash ji has making of late? always picked topical issues, and I think the As you know, I was away for sometime, and the young generation is not so aware of who Bobby Deol is. So I have a chance to start from a clean slate and create a new image for myself as an actor who does different
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Naina Singh, Nishant Malkani and Pavitra Punia approached for Bigg Boss 14
thought behind this is to create awareness.
Netflix cancels Hasan Minhaj’s ‘Patriot Act’ Fans urge the online streaming platform to reconsider
The Bigg Boss team has approached actors Nishant Malkani, Naina Singh and Pavitra Punia for the latest season. While the contracts are yet to be signed, all of them are in advanced stages of discussion.
Bhakharwadi to go off air on August 28 Deven Bhojani starrer Bhakharwadi will be replaced by Tera Yaar Hoon Main on SAB TV.
Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah actors Gurucharan Singh and Neha Mehta quit the show While a new actor has already been roped in to play the role of Roshan Singh, hunt for Neha's replacement to play Anjali is currently underway.
"Patriot Act has come to an end... what a run," Hasan Minhaj wrote on Twitter, adding his thanks to "everyone who watched". It was the first weekly US talk show to be fronted by an Indian American. One viewer praised the "truly innovative" show, with another saying "South Asians definitely needed something like" it. When Hasan Minhaj’s Patriot Act got renewed for another season in May 2020—after being postponed in March because of the pandemic— fans all over the world rejoiced. In the season that was entirely remotely produced because of pandemic restrictions, he talked about the eviction crisis, the legal marijuana industry, whether college is worth it, and the death of the news industry, among other things, and fans were happy they at least had the show, even if there was James Wan has said that the sequel to his 2018 superhero movie Aquaman will be “a little more serious”. He also said it will be “more relevant to the world we’re living today.” According to Collider, Wan said at Aquaman’s DC FanDome panel, “The second one is a little bit more serious, a little bit more relevant to the world we’re living in today. That’s where it wants to go.” Aquaman was a great departure from most DCEU movies then, with its colourful and bright cinematography, a goofy tone and loads of jokes. It was also noted for its action scenes. The film, starring Jason Momoa in the role of halfAtlantean, half-human superhero Arthur Curry, became the highest grossing DC movie ever, beating out The Dark Knight and its followup The Dark Knight Rises.
a pandemic ruining their lives. Until yesterday. In a tweet on August 18, the first Muslim Indian-American TV news-meetscomedy host announced that his Peabody award-winning show has come to an end, after almost three years and six seasons. Fans, of course, were devastated to receive this news—be they news enthusiasts, pop culture lovers, or students who used to cite the show as their source for school projects. n June 2020, however, the show got into a controversy after an Indian-American journalist accused it of breeding a hostile work environment for women of colour.
James Wan says Aquaman 2 will be ‘more serious
It was also confirmed during the panel that Patrick Wilson will make a comeback as Orm or Ocean Master in James Wan's Aquaman 2.
Aquaman featured Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya AbdulMateen II, Ludi Lin, Temuera Morrison, and Nicole Kidman in supporting roles. It was also confirmed during the panel that Wilson will make a comeback as Orm or Ocean Master. Wilson said while talking with Wan, “I’m excited for some new worlds. I know you love world-building, and I’d like to see some of that. I’d like to see where else we can go. Because I know you’re going to push that ocean. There’s a lot of unexplored ocean! We only know five percent of the ocean, and that’s people!” An Aquaman spinoff, The Trench, is also in development. This film will lean towards the horror genre.
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Decoding Kamala Harris’ style Her practical, fuss-free approach to dressing reflects her go-getter vibe
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S Senator Kamala Harris (of Indian and Jamaican parents) became the first Black and South Asian American woman chosen for national office by a major political party, when former Vice President Joe Biden named her to be his running mate this fall. What makes Kamala’s personal style such a compelling study is the fact that it’s rooted in practicality, comfort and youthfulness. Also, it speaks volumes about her politics and who she is as an individual. If Jacqueline Kennedy had a penchant for tweed lunch suits, Michelle Obama lent her support to American designers, Madeleine Albright has been known for her collection of brooches and pins, Kamala is being talked about for owning an impressive collection of converse sneakers. “She has been wearing pearls around her neck since the last 34 years - the first signature style she acquired at Howard in 1986 which conveys a sense of reliability and loyalty. Conforming fully to traditions seems a bit outdated in today’s day and age and this is where her second symbolic look of sporting comfortable sneakers adds value to her signature style,” observes designer Pria Kataaria Puri. So far her style graph shows her liking for black, navy and grey pant suits and skirt suits in classic pin-stripes, windowpane checks and tartan which she offsets with blow-dried mane, natural makeup and pearl necklaces.
She has been wearing pearls around her neck since the last 34 years - the first signature style she acquired at Howard in 1986 which conveys a sense of reliability and loyalty.
Ganesh Chaturthi: Sonali Bendre, Adding millet to Bappa’s Shilpa Shetty add to the festive cheer favourite modaks
Ingredients: (for 20 modaks)
Like every year, everybody has united in the celebrations of Ganesh Chaturthi. The scale might be limited this year, but the festivity is in the air and much like every year, celebrities are partaking in the festivals. Many took to social media to share pictures and we cannot help but be impressed with their ethnic apparels. Shilpa Shetty Kundra was seen in a traditional ensemble. The fuchsia colour really worked and how. Sonali Bendre looked stunning in this sari. She kept things traditional, right from the hairdo to the jewellery.
For the outer covering: ½ cup little millet (soaked for 6-8 hours) 2 cups water to boil 1 tsp cow ghee or oil A few strands of saffron mixed with 2 tbsp warm milk ½ tsp salt (optional) For the stuffing: 1 cup grated fresh coconut 1/2 cup organic powdered jaggery 1 tbsp sliced almonds (optional) 1 tbsp sliced pistachios (optional) ½ tsp cardamom powder 1.5 tbsp cow ghee
Method:
< Wash the soaked millet thoroughly. < In a deep pan, allow 2 cups of water to boil. Add salt, ghee (or oil) and washed millet grains. Cover it and boil till millet soaks up all the water. <Once boiled and tender, allow it cool down a bit. Add saffron and
milk mixture. Give it a nice whisk and transfer the mixture onto a flat tray to allow the boiled millet set and dry up a bit. < Now for the stuffing, heat 1 tbsp cow ghee in a pan. <Add grated coconut and let it cook till it starts to get crispier. Add nuts followed by jaggery powder. <To help jaggery mix well, add a little more ghee. You can even avoid this step. <Add cardamom powder and allow the mixture to cook for 2-3 minutes with continuous stirring. Transfer it in a bowl. <Now to start making the modaks, you need a modak mould. If you don’t have a modak mould, divide the mixture in 20 equal gooseberry sized balls. <With the help of your greased palms, make an evenly shaped round puri. The edges have to be thinner than the centre. Now with the help of thumb and index finger, gently pinch the mixture to make a pleat. As you learn the skill, you get better at it. Place a teaspoonful of cooled coconut jaggery stuffing in the centre. Bring together the pleats and gently make a good shape. Keep them aside on a greased plate. <Steam the shaped modaks for 7 minutes. <Allow them to cool and offer it to the deity and everyone else in the family.
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New leaked images may have the first look at the Google Pixel 5 and the Pixel 4A 5G. The image showing what could be the Pixel 5 in black and the Pixel 4A 5G in white came from a since-deleted post on Reddit. They also include details about the phones’ specs which seem to match up with previously leaked information, according to XDA Developers. Google launched the Pixel 4A earlier this month and announced the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4A 5G would be coming sometime this fall, likely early October.
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This could be the first real picture of the Pixel 5 Renders of the Pixel 5 leaked last week, showing a fingerprint sensor on the rear of the device, a square-shaped camera array with two cameras, a flash, and a hole-punch front-facing camera. If the new Reddit image is legit, it would also seem to confirm those specs to be accurate, and agrees with rumors the Pixel 5 would have a Snapdragon 765G processor. The new information also indicates it will have a 4,000 mAh battery, 8GB of RAM, and a 90Hz display. The back will be plastic, and there’s no 3.5mm headphone jack, if this information is correct. Like the Pixel 4, the Pixel 5 should have a 0.5x wide-angle lens, as well as a 12.2MP main camera.
With the usual caveats about leaked specs, the latest seems to confirm what’s already out there
Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force Google’s Android TV dongle the free app to add purchases after all
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wo new Google hardware devices have shown up in FCC filings, and as 9to5Google notes, it seems likely that they’re related to the new Android TV product that’s reportedly been in the works for a while. If so, the filings could suggest that Google is finally gearing up to release it soon. An XDA Developers report in June said that Google was preparing a TV dongle codenamed “Sabrina” that would use Android TV and a traditional remote-driven UI, unlike smartphone-controlled Chromecast devices. One of the new FCC filings refers to an “Interactive Media Streaming Device” with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, while the other is for a “Wireless Device” with Bluetooth and a power cover, which 9to5Google speculates could be Sabrina and its remote control respectively. Unless you buy a TV with the software built in, there aren’t too many options for Android TV right now. There’s the highend Nvidia Shield range, which starts at $149.99, or the $59.99 Xiaomi Mi Box S that Google itself promoted a couple of years ago, but that’s about it. Xiaomi did also just release a $40-ish Mi TV Stick in India and Europe, which is currently the only way to get Android TV in that form factor. We’ll have to see whether Google has something more compelling on the way. XDA Developers initially reported that the launch was planned for this summer, so there’s still time for Google to hit that window.
Apple’s contract manufacturing partner Wistron has started assembling the currentgeneration iPhone SE at its Bengaluru facility. With the iPhone SE (2020) now being assembled in India, consumers can expect the phone to hit retail shelves and online channels soon. Wistron also assembles iPhone XR in its Bangalore plant. Taiwan-based Wistron, first began assembling previous-generation iPhone models in 2017. The local production of the secondgeneration iPhone SE indicates that Apple’s seriousness towards India, which is the world’s second-largest smartphone market. By assembling iPhone SE locally in India will help Apple avoid 20 per cent of import duty that the Indian government levies on imported smartphone units. First introduced in April this year, the
On Friday, the internet erupted in a small way to learn that Apple had successfully forced WordPress to monetize its free app — forcing it to sell premium plans and custom domain names seemingly just so that Apple could get its traditional 30 percent cut. But
one afternoon and evening of surprise and outrage later, Apple is backing off. The company is issuing a rare on-the-record apology, and it says that WordPress will no longer have to add in-app purchases now that all is said and done.
Here’s Apple’s full statement: We believe the issue with the WordPress app has been resolved. Since the developer removed the display of their service payment options from the app, it is now a free stand-alone app and does not have to offer in-app purchases. We have informed the developer and apologize for any confusion that we have caused. Yo u ’ l l n o t i c e t h at Appl e i s positioning this as the developer — WordPress — having done the rig ht thing and removed the “display of their ser vice payment options from the app,” and to my knowledge that is technically true. But as far as I’m aware, that didn’t happen today: it happened weeks or months ago.
Apple begins assembling its affordable iPhone SE (2020) in India Apple's iPhone SE (2020) is now being assembled in India. The smartphone retails for Rs 42,500.
iPhone SE (2020) is Apple’s most affordable smartphone in its current iPhone lineup. It starts at Rs 42,500, making it far more accessible to users compared to the iPhone 11 which is priced over Rs 60,000. The iPhone SE has many features as the expensive
While as of yesterday, the WordPress app didn’t sell a single thing and didn’t so much as mention a paid “Wordpress. com” plan unless you followed an unlikely workaround, I was able to track down a fellow journalist this weekend who had a much older version of the app, one with a dedicated “Plans” tab that listed some of the different plans available to premium customers: this isn’t WordPress caving yet again. Apple simply seems to have decided that trying to extract its cut from a free app — by forcing in-app purchases — isn’t a hill worth dying on today. iPhone 11, but the design language is similar to the iPhone 8. It is powered by Apple’s A13 processor, which is used in the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro Max. The faster processor means the phone will run all apps and games that the company’s flagships are capable of. Other features of the iPhone SE include a home button with Touch ID, IP67 water and dust resistance, wireless charging, and a single camera. Apple currently commands less than 2 per cent of market share in India’s smartphone market, though its performance in the highend segment has been on the upswing. The company plans to launch its first flagship store in India in the coming months. In addition, Apple is expected to launch its first online store this year.
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The infants who had been in a different mood when learning than when recalling what they’d learned could not imitate the actions with the puppet: the memory performance was two and a half times higher if they were in the same mood when learning and when recalling what they’d learned.
Social connection is strongest protective factor for
n a recent study, researchers have explored and analysed the relation between mood and memory developments in infants. The fact what babies have learned when feeling calm is inaccessible when they’re active and vice versa has been shown in a study conducted by developmental psychologists at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB) with 96 children aged nine months. The results of the study were published in the journal Child Development. The mood of infants is unpredictable: they may be playing happily one moment and be completely inconsolable the next. “Surprisingly, it hadn’t yet been understood whether these changes in mood affect learning and memory in babies,” said Professor Sabine Seehagen, Head of the Developmental Psychology research group at RUB. Studies with adults have shown that moods affect thinking. We remember experiences that we had in a certain mood, especially when we are in the same mood again. In order to find out whether this phenomenon, which is known as statedependent memory, also exists in babies, the researchers studied 96 children aged nine months. In the first step, the babies either performed quiet activities with their parents, such as looking at picture books, or they went wild by hopping around; then, they watched an experimenter performing actions with a hand puppet, thus learning how to do this. “The aspect that interested us was whether or not the children were able to imitate the observed actions a quarter of an hour later,” as Sabine Seehagen outlines the experiment. Just before the test started, some of the babies were put into the same state as when they were learning, while others were put into a different mood by playing the opposite games. The infants who had been in a different mood when learning than when recalling what they’d learned could not imitate the actions with the puppet: the memory performance was two and a half times higher if they were in the same mood when learning and when recalling what they’d learned. “This shows that fluctuations in internal state at this age can prevent access to memory content,” points out Seehagen.
This 4-minute meditation is the secret to a better morning
Far and away the most prominent of these factors was the frequency of confiding in others, but also visits with family and friends, all of which highlighted the important protective effect of social connection and social cohesion Social connection may be termed as the strongest protective factor for depression, suggests a recent study by a team of researchers. The study suggested that reducing sedentary activities such as TV watching and daytime napping could also help lower the risk of depression. Researchers have identified a set of modifiable factors from a field of over 100 that could represent valuable targets for preventing depression in adults. The study was published in The American Journal of Psychiatry. “Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, but until now researchers have focused on only a handful of risk and protective factors, often in just one or two domains,” says Karmel Choi, Ph.D., an investigator in the Department of Psychiatry and the Harvard T.H. Chan School
of Public Health, and lead author of the paper. “Our study provides the most comprehensive picture to date of modifiable factors that could impact depression risk.” To that end, researchers took a two-stage approach. The first stage drew on a database of over 100,000 participants in the UK Biobank — a world-renowned cohort study of adults — to systematically scan a wide range of modifiable factors that might be associated with the risk of developing depression, including social interaction, media use, sleep patterns, diet, physical activity, and environmental exposures. This method, known as an exposure-wide association scan (ExWAS), is analogous to genomewide association studies (GWAS) that have been widely used to identify genetic risk factors for disease.
Many people have been struggling throughout the quarantine to get into a good groove, or worse, they’ve been experiencing bouts of stress, anxiety, depression or ‘crisis fatigue.’ There may be a simple solution that can help you regain your focus, boost your mood and help you feel centered again. It only takes a few minutes — and you can do it from your bed. Meditation guide Rebekah Borucki is determined to prove that we all have time to meditate, even if only for a few minutes. Her book, "You Have 4 Minutes to Change Your Life," focuses on just that: four-minute meditations.
Step 1: Affirmation
Instead of lunging for your smartphone the second you wake up, stay in bed and do this instead: Repeat "thank you" three times. "You would do this first thing in the morning before you do anything else," Borucki said. "What this does is set the tone of gratitude for the day. You're grateful to have a brand-new day in front of you."
Step 2: Breathe
It's (almost) that simple. Focus on your breaths and think "inhale" on your inhale, and "exhale" on your exhale. Focusing on the words helps deter
distracting thoughts. Do this for 10 breath cycles. (Tip: You can use your fingers to keep track of the count.)Then start sending the breath to different parts of your body. "Inhale and fill up your lungs and imagine the breath going all the way to your fingertips," Borucki said. "You go through all the different parts of the body until the breath reaches down to the toes. It should take about five breath cycles for the breath to circle through the entire body."
Step 3: Intention
The final step is to set your intention for the day. To encourage a great morning, Borucki suggests this one: "I am energized and ready for the day." Repeat that three times. "This invigorates you and wakes you up to possibility and sets a tone of optimism," she said. Or, you can always come up with your own intention. "When you repeat it over and over again, it seals the thought into your subconscious and you can carry it with you for the rest of the day," Borucki said. And that’s it! The morning meditation should take between three and four minutes, depending on how long your breaths are. The best part? You don't even have to get out of bed
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stress managing techniques like meditation and relaxation techniques of breathing in and out. Using online mindfulness techniques is yet another way of dealing with stress. 4. Changing the way one talks to self affects the mental well-being and one’s perception of self. According to the Los Angeles Times, replacing negative self-talk with an optimistic approach and viewing the setbacks as temporary is an effective way to deal with stress. 5. Focusing on things that one has and being grateful is a great way of driving away negativity. According to the Los Angeles Times, psychology professor, Barbara Fredrickson from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill states that one needs three positive events for one negative event to be on the positive side. Besides the abovementioned techniques, another effective way to deal with mental issues during the coronavirus pandemic is to seek professional help.
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Our immunity can be solidified and enhanced by adding ayurvedic ingredients that help cleanse the body along with aiding digestion, metabolism, absorption of nutrients and more.
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Respiratory Complications Haunt Covid-19 Recovered Patients: Study byt Team of Health Expert
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BY A STAFF WRITER NEW YORK NY – A team of health experts, including two Indian Americans, has found that people who recovered from the Covid-19 disease are being commonly readmitted to the hospital within 14 days of being discharged majorly for respiratory complications. Researchers found the most common cause for a patient’s early hospital readmission after discharge was for respiratory distress. These patients were also more likely to have other ailments including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and hypertension, said Girish Nadkarni and Anuradha Lala from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. “This study shows that many patients have lingering effects from hospitalization for Covid-19 and thus, there is opportunity for longitudinal studies that could further assess the long-term effects of Covid on patient outcomes when they are discharged,” Nadkarni said. Of the nearly 2,900 discharged patients, more than 100 returned for emergency care after about 4.5 days and 56 of those returning patients required readmittance into the hospital. Half the patients returned for respiratory complications. Compared to patients who did not return, those returning had higher rates of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and hypertension. Patients who returned also had a shorter length hospital stay during treatment, lower rates of anticoagulation treatment, and were less likely to require intensive care. Age, sex, and race/ethnicity were no different among readmitted patients compared to those who did not return. “As we move into a phase where Covid-19 is no longer a novel disease, we must transition our attention to the post-acute phase to understand how to keep patients well and out of the hospital,” Lala said. The findings provide insight that can potentially lead to improved care for patients hospitalized with Covid-19 to reduce both complications after discharge and hospital readmissions, the authors wrote in a paper published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
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State Sen. Villivalam Reassuring Drivers 75 and Older Get Automatic One-Year License Extension BY A STAFF WRITER CHICAGO, IL – With the health and safety of older Illinoisans in mind, State Senator Ram Villivalam (D-Chicago) is reassuring drivers aged 75 and older that they now have an extra year to renew their driver’s licenses. “This year-long extension is here to save our seniors from having to take a trip to the Driver Services facility at this critical juncture of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Villivalam said. “Your own vehicle remains the safest way to travel during this pandemic, and older adults shouldn’t have to choose between their safety and a valid driver’s license.” Residents aged 75 years or older must currently hold a valid license. Drivers whose licenses have been suspended or revoked do not qualify for the one-year extension. All eligible drivers will be receiving a letter from the Illinois Secretary of State’s office confirming their eligibility. For all drivers under the age of 75, expiration dates for driver’s licenses, ID cards,
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and license plate stickers have been extended until November 1, 2020. Residents who choose to renew their license at a DMV are required to wear a face covering. Drivers are
encouraged to be patient due to a heavy volume of requests and must be prepared to wait outside for an extended period of time in all weather conditions.
Former India’s Athlete Iqbal Singh Charged with Double Murder of Wife and Mother BY A STAFF WRITER NEWTOWN SQUAR, PA- Charged with murdering his wife and mother in Pennsylvania, former Indian shot-putter Iqbal Singh’s contemporaries remember him as a fiercely competitive athlete and are bewildered by the turn of events in the 1983 Asian bronze-medallist’s life. The 62-year-old Iqbal was on Monday charged with first and third-degree murder after he admitted to killing his wife and mother in Pennsylvania. Iqbal Singh Boparai has been arrested in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania for killing his wife and mother. Citing local media reports in the US, the ToI reported that the 63-year-old was charged on Monday for “killing his wife and mother”. Singh, who hailed from Urmar Tanda in Hoshiarpur district, was one of India’s top shot
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putters in the 80s. He won a bronze medal at the 1983 Asian Athletics Championships, then migrated to the USA and working as a cab driver. According to the report, Singh confessed to
police officers Sunday morning following a call to 911, that he had killed his wife and mother. “Singh advised officers that he had killed his wife and mother and they were inside the residence,” the delcotimes.com reported, quoting a release from the police. The report added that police found an elderly woman’s Naseeb Kaur’s body on the first-floor bedroom and the second victim’s, wife Jaspal Kaur’s body on the second-floor bedroom. Both victims, the police said, had stab wounds. “An affidavit written by a detective indicates both victims had their throats slit. Police recovered a knife covered in blood from the kitchen counter,” the report said. It’s also reported that Singh told his son before calling the police, “I killed your mother and grandmother. Call the police to come and get me”.
Buffalo Breweries Apologize and Discontinue Lord Shiva Beer Within BY A STAFF WRITER BUFFALO, NY- Buffalo (New York) based breweries— Pressure Drop Brewing and Big Ditch Brewing Company—apologized and discontinued their collaboration beer “Aqua Shiva” named after Hindu deity; within few hours of Hindu protest, who had called it “highly inappropriate”. Matt Kahn, President & Co-Founder of Big Ditch Brewing Company, in a “joint response” email to Hindu statesman Rajan Zed (who spearheaded the protest), wrote: We very recently became aware that our collaborative beer, Aqua Shiva, was offensive to Hindus. We deeply apologize to the Hindu community for this poor choice of our beer name and artwork. We simply did not put enough time into thinking about this beer name and artwork and what the use of the name Shiva means to the Hindu community. This beer is discontinued and will never be made again… Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention, as we will learn from it. Again, we deeply apologize to you and to the Hindu community; we meant no harm; Kahn added. Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, in a statement in Nevada today, thanked Pressure Drop Brewing and Big Ditch Brewing Company for understanding the concerns of Hindu community, which thought
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that placing image of Lord Shiva on a beer can was quite insensitive. Breweries should not be in the business of religious appropriation, sacrilege, and ridiculing entire communities. It was deeply trivializing of divine Hindu deity to be displayed on a beer can, Zed had emphasized. “Aqua Shiva” (8.5% ABV), both on tap and in cans, was described as “a hazy NE-style double IPA…with strong citrus, passion fruit
and pineapple flavor and aroma, with a touch of underlying dank and a soft mouthfeel”. Awards-winning Pressure Drop Brewing, opened 2017, claims to be a “West coast inspired brewery”; and Karl Kolbe is its CEO and Head Brewer. Big Ditch Brewing Company, a craft beer microbrewery opened in 2014 and whose tagline is “The spirit of the Erie Canal”; claims that its “beers are innovative, flavorful and drinkable… glass after glass”.
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Vehicles are driven along interstate 80 as flames from the LNU Lighting Complex fire burn on the outskirts of Vacaville.
Wuhan, China : People watch a performance at a water park music festival in Wuhan. Chinese state media defended Wuhan residents after photographs and videos of a huge pool party went viral this week, saying complaints by foreigners were â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;sour grapesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.
Decade old five-storey building collapsed in Mahad town of Raigad district on August 24 evening. While a few managed to move to safer places when the incident took place, 25 people were feared trapped under the debris from the collapse.
From Hrithik Roshan to Salman Khan, many celebrities have bid goodbye to Lord Ganesha. This year, the actors performed Ganesh Visarjan at home.
Anger over the shooting of a Black man by police spilled into the streets of Kenosha for a second night Monday, with police again firing tear gas at hundreds of protesters who defied a curfew, threw bottles and shot fireworks at law enforcement guarding the courthouse.
James Anderson became the first pacer ever to take 600 Test wickets when he dismissed Azhar Ali on 31. The match ended in a draw as Pakistan ended the final day on 187/4
Big B is sure leaving the newer generation of actors inspired. On Instagram, Bhumi Pednekar commented, "Sir you are the ultimate example of passion and love for work. So inspired"
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US India Security Council Organized Fund Raiser for Congressman Joe Kennedy BY A STAFF WRITER CHICAGO, IL- The US India Security council had a video conference and Fund Raiser with Congressman Joe Kennedy (Massachusetts’s 4th congressional district) on August 23rd. The conference was attended by Ramesh Kapur, Koty Srinivasa, Bharat Barai, Anil Deshpande, Rajendar Dichpally, Ravi Hotchandani, Anup Vashist , Vijay Nalamada, and staff of Congressman Joe Kennedy III. Congressman Joe Kennedy a lawyer by profession and scion of the famous Kennedy family, grandson of U.S. Senator and U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, a grandnephew of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, and a great-grandson of U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Joe Spoke about his vision for Massachusetts’s and how he plans to tackle the various issues that confront the state. He said that rebuilding the businesses in the state, with emphasis on small business is his main priority. He also said that the recent attacks against the minority community did not reflect the great values and ethos of America. He said restoring the pride of American and the respect it commands in the comity of nations would he his highest priority as Senator in addition to tacking the local issues of the state. Ramesh Kapur who is a long time friend of the Kennedy family said that the Indian American community has a great friend in Joe
Kennedy and urged the future Senator to be a member of the Armed Service committee of the senate so that he can help USA and India face the many challenges that the two democracies face. He also said the Ed Markey who is the incumbent Senator is Anti-India and has not endeared himself to the Indian American Community. Bharat Barai said that he will ensure that Joe Kennedy III will get a congratulation letter from the Indian Prime Minister once he wins the senate race and assured all support to the congressman. Anil Deshpande said that he would like the future Senator to visit India officially as a senator and understand the country and its people for a long-lasting partnership. Ravi Hotchandani wished that Joe Kennedy tackle the poverty issues the same way and with the same passion that his late Grandfather addressed them and earned a
permanent place in the hearts of the poor and under privileged people. Koty Krishna asked the Congressman about he plans to tackle China which is a major issue to USA because of its military and economic threat to the country. Ajay Nalamada wanted Joe Kennedy to reform the immigration policies and ensure that America removed the present quota system so that the country can benefit from the best talent from countries like India. Rajendar Dichpally said that the Kennedy’s and India enjoy a special relationship and quoted the example of the late President John F Kennedy (JFK) who broke protocol to go inside the Air India Aircraft to receive the first Indian Prime Minister – Jawahar Lal Nehru who had come on a state visit to the USA. He wished that the special relationship be carried forward with the future Senator - Joe Kennedy.
USCIS Implements DHS Guidance on DACA USCIS NEWS RELEASE WASHINGTON, DC- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today provided guidance on how it will implement Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf ’s July 28 memorandum (PDF) regarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. Under USCIS’ implementing guidance (PDF, 1.7 MB), we will reject all initial DACA requests from aliens who have never previously received DACA and return all fees. The rejections will be without prejudice, meaning aliens will be able to reapply should USCIS begin accepting new requests in the future from aliens who never before received DACA. USCIS will continue to accept requests from aliens who had been granted DACA at any time in the past and will also accept requests for advance parole that are properly submitted to the address specified on the Direct Filing Addresses for Form I-131 webpage. For approvable DACA renewal requests, USCIS will limit grants of deferred action and employment authorization under DACA to no more than one year, but will not rescind any currently valid two-year grants of DACA or associated employment authorization documents (EADs), unless USCIS terminates an alien’s DACA for failure to continue to meet the DACA criteria (see 2012 Memorandum), including failure to warrant a favorable exercise of prosecutorial discretion. USCIS will replace two-year EADs that are lost, stolen or damaged with the same facial twoyear validity period assuming the EAD replacement application is otherwise approvable. USCIS will generally reject requests
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received more than 150 days before the current grant of DACA expires. DACA recipients should file their renewal request between 150 and 120 days before their current grant of DACA expires. USCIS will only grant advance parole for travel outside the United States to DACA recipients pursuant to the new guidance, which provides for a determination that parole of the alien is for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit in keeping with the governing statute. The agency will not rescind any previously granted advance parole documents unless there is another legal reason to do so. However, as has always been the case, parole into the United States is not guaranteed. In all cases, aliens are still subject to immigration inspection at a port-of-entry to determine whether they are eligible to come into the United States. The determination whether to grant advance parole to an alien is entirely within the discretion of USCIS and must be made on a case-by-case basis. USCIS will review all the factors presented in individual cases before determining whether to approve advance
parole for a DACA recipient based on the new guidance. Some examples of circumstances that may warrant approval include, but are not limited to, situations such as: * Travel to support the national security interests of the United States; * Travel to support U.S. federal law enforcement interests; * Travel to obtain life-sustaining medical treatment that is not otherwise available to the alien in the United States; or * Travel needed to support the immediate safety, wellbeing or care of an immediate relative, particularly minor children of the alien. Even if a requestor establishes that their situation meets one of the examples above, USCIS may still deny the request for advance parole in discretion under the totality of the circumstances. CAUTION: If you travel outside the United States on or after Aug. 15, 2012, without first receiving advance parole, your departure automatically terminates your deferred action under DACA.
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Oakton and Evanston Fire Department Collaborate to Create Tuition-Free Firefighter Apprenticeship Program
BY A STAFF WRITER DES PLAINES, IL – Oakton Community College has established its first public service apprenticeship program, a partnership with the Evanston Fire Department, allowing residents of Evanston to gain a career path in fire services tuition-free. Evanston residents who are at least 17 years of age are eligible to apply for the three-year apprenticeship program. They will work, train and learn in preparation to test for a full-time appointment as an Evanston firefighter/ paramedic. Students from Evanston Township High School are encouraged to apply. Upon successful completion of the program, apprentices will have approximately 3,000 hours of work experience. Students that fulfill the firefighter apprenticeship requirements will receive a Basics of Fire Fighting Certificate, Fire Science Technology Certificate, Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Certificate and an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Fire Science Technology from Oakton. In addition, students will earn a Candidate Physical Ability Test Card and Ladder Climb Certification from a third-party provider. The City of Evanston will cover tuition and training costs. Oakton’s partnership with EFD is just one example of the full range of cost-effective, high-quality training solutions developed by Oakton’s Workforce Solutions team that can be delivered at a variety of locations. Oakton has an experienced team of consultants, trainers and program managers who develop customized training programs enhancing employee skills and knowledge to drive business results. According to Ruben Howard II, Ph.D., Oakton’s director of Workforce and Strategic Partnerships, one apprenticeship is expected to be offered before the end of the year. “This program will help better educate, train and prepare Evanston youth for a career in the fire service,” EFD Chief Brian Scott adds. “It’s also our hope that at the end of the process, participants will be given preference points on any participating agency’s firefighter eligibility list, significantly increasing their chances for appointment.” Jobs for firefighters and paramedics are in demand. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median annual wage for firefighters was $50,850 in May 2019. Employment of firefighters is projected to grow 5% through 2028. In addition, the BLS reports that the median annual wage for paramedics was $35,400 in May 2019. The need for paramedics is expected to grow 7% through 2028, faster than the average for all occupations. For more details regarding the firefighter apprenticeship program, an information session is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m. To RSVP, email apprenticeships@ oakton.edu.
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USCIS Policy Update on CW-1 Departure Requirement USCIS NEWS RELEASE WASHINGTON, DC -U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is modifying its policy on implementing the requirement that aliens leave the United States for at least 30 days after two renewals of their CNMI-Only Transitional Worker (CW1) visa classification. Effective immediately, USCIS will only consider CW-1 petitions approved on or after June 18, 2020, when we apply the requirement that certain CW-1 nonimmigrant workers depart the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) for a period of at least 30 continuous days. For example, any alien approved on or after June 18, 2020, for a one-year CW-1 validity period beginning Oct. 1, 2020, will be eligible for two more consecutive petition validity periods after the first period of validity expires on Sept. 30, 2021. Previously, USCIS counted all consecutive petition validity periods, even those approved prior to June 18, 2020, when determining which CW-1 nonimmigrant workers are subject to the temporary departure requirement.
USCIS is making this change in response to stakeholder feedback and disruptions caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Although DHS stated in the IFR that the Workforce Act is “best read” to include pre-enactment renewals, DHS also believes this is not the only permissible reading of the Workforce Act or the interim final rule. Through this announcement, DHS will implement the temporary departure requirement in a manner that best protects the interests of CW-1 employers and workers who may
be affected by potential travel disruptions and delays beyond their control. This change also minimizes the likely negative impact on other U.S. businesses and prevents further damage to the CNMI economy. On May 14, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security published an interim final rule (IFR) implementing the Northern Mariana Islands U.S. Workforce Act of 2018. The Workforce Act required DHS to promulgate an IFR to amend its regulations governing the CW-1 program to implement the statutory changes provided by the Workforce Act. The IFR took effect on June 18, 2020. The Workforce Act required that following expiration of the second CW-1 renewal period, an alien may not again be eligible for CW-1 status until after the alien has remained outside of the United States for a continuous period of at least 30 days before the submission of a renewal petition on their behalf. CW-1 long-term workers, as defined in the IFR, are exempted from the departure requirement.
UCSF’s ‘AeroNabs’ Indian American Co-inventor Engineers Promising Inhalable Protection Against COVID-19 BY A STAFF WRITER SAN FRANCISCO, CA- An invention by a team at U.C. San Francisco, including Indian American Aashish Manglik, is promising powerful inhalable protection against COVID-19. The UCSF scientists have devised a novel approach to halting the spread of SARSCoV-2, the virus that causes the disease, according to a university report. The team engineered a completely synthetic, production-ready molecule that straitjackets the crucial SARS-CoV-2 machinery that allows the virus to infect the cells. As reported in a new paper, now available on the preprint server bioRxiv, experiments using live virus show that the molecule is among the most potent SARSCoV-2 antivirals yet discovered, according to the university. In an aerosol formulation they tested, dubbed “AeroNabs” by the researchers, these molecules could be self-administered with a nasal spray or inhaler. Used once a day, AeroNabs could provide powerful, reliable protection against SARS-CoV-2 until a vaccine becomes available. Though engineered entirely in the lab, AeroNabs were inspired by nanobodies, antibody-like immune proteins that naturally occur in llamas, camels and related animals.
Aashish Manglik (Photo by pharmacy.ucsf.edu)
“Though they function much like the antibodies found in the human immune system, nanobodies offer a number of unique advantages for effective therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2,” explained co-inventor Aashish Manglik, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry who frequently employs nanobodies as a tool in his research on the structure and function of proteins that send and receive signals across the cell’s membrane, the report said. SARS-CoV-2 relies on its so-called spike proteins to infect cells. These spikes stud the surface of the virus and impart a crown-like appearance when viewed through an electron
microscope – hence the name “coronavirus” for the viral family that includes SARSCoV-2, the UCSF report said. Through a lock-and-key-like interaction between an ACE2 receptor and a spike RBD, the virus gains entry into the cell, where it then transforms its new host into a coronavirus manufacturer. The researchers believed that if they could find nanobodies that impede spikeACE2 interactions, they could prevent the virus from infecting cells, it said. Their experiments showed that the most potent nanobodies blocked spikeACE2 interactions by strongly attaching themselves directly to the spike RBDs. These nanobodies function a bit like a sheath that covers the RBD “key” and prevents it from being inserted into an ACE2 “lock,” the report added. In a final set of experiments, the researchers put three-part nanobodies through a series of stress tests, and making an aerosol. Each of these processes is highly damaging to most proteins, but the scientists confirmed that, thanks to the inherent stability of nanobodies, there was no loss of antiviral potency in the aerosolized form, suggesting that AeroNabs are a potent SARS-CoV-2 antiviral that could be practical to administer via a shelf-stable inhaler or nasal spray.
20% NYC Coronavirus Cases Linked To Travel, Mayor Says BY A STAFF WRITER NEWYORK, NY — Roughly 20 percent of New York City’s coronavirus cases are linked to travelers, Mayor Bill de Blasio said. De Blasio dropped the travel revelation Wednesday during an update on the city’s COVID-19 quarantine checkpoints. Those checkpoints at the city’s major bridge and tunnel crossing aim to find motorists from and New Yorkers who visited 31 states with high coronavirus infection rates and must follow New York’s 14-day quarantine. City sheriff ’s officers have so far conducted 3,000 stops, de Blasio said.
Mayor Bill de Blasio (Photo by NYC Mayor’s Office)
“They’re getting a lot of compliance from motorists,” he said. “I want to commend
everyone, everyone is paying attention and doing the right thing. There’s only been a need so far for two summonses.” De Blasio and, especially, Gov. Andrew Cuomo have raised concerns that another wave of coronavirus infection could reach New York from other states. The numbers linked to out-of-travel that de Blasio revealed seem to confirm the fear. Jay Varma, a city health official, said the 20 percent rate has been determined through interviews with new coronavirus patients. “It’s been at that rate for the last few weeks,” he said.
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CMU, Facebook AI Research Team Included Indian American Student Develops Common Sense Robots
Devendra S. Chaplot (Photo by cs.cmu.edu photo)
USCIS NEWS RELEASE PITTSBURGH, PA- A research team from Carnegie Mellon University and Facebook AI Research, which included CMU Machine Learning Department doctoral student Devendra S. Chaplot, has developed a common-sense robot. A robot travelling from point A to point B is more efficient if it understands that point A is the living room couch and point B is a refrigerator, even if it’s in an unfamiliar place, the CMU report said. That navigation system, called SemExp, in June won the Habitat ObjectNav Challenge during the virtual Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference, edging out a team from Samsung Research China, CMU said. It was the second consecutive first-place finish for the CMU team in the annual challenge, it said. SemExp, or Goal-Oriented Semantic Exploration, uses machine learning to train a robot to recognize objects — knowing the difference between a kitchen table and an end table, for instance — and to understand where in a home such objects are likely to be found, the CMU report said. This enables the system to think strategically about how to search for something, said Chaplot in the report. “Common sense says that if you’re looking for a refrigerator, you’d better go to the kitchen,” the Indian American researcher said. Classical robotic navigation systems, by contrast, explore a space by building a map showing obstacles. The robot eventually gets to where it needs to go, but the route can be circuitous, CMU said. Previous attempts to use machine learning to train semantic navigation systems have been hampered because they tend to memorize objects and their locations in specific environments, according to the report. Not only are these environments complex, but the system often has difficulty generalizing what it has learned to different environments, it said. Chaplot — working with FAIR’s Dhiraj Gandhi, along with Abhinav Gupta, associate professor in the Robotics Institute; and Ruslan Salakhutdinov, professor in the Machine Learning Department — sidestepped that problem by making SemExp a modular system, according to the CMU report. The system uses its semantic insights to determine the best places to look for a specific object, Chaplot said. “Once you decide where to go, you can just use classical planning to get you there.
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