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Short News No party has responded to election body on simultaneous polls New Delhi: None of the seven recognised national and 59 state parties have responded to the Law Commission's consultation on the 'working paper' on holding simultaneous Lok Sabha and state Assembly polls, a proposal being pushed by the government. May 8 was the last date of submitting response. BJP, Congress, CPI, CPI-M, Trinamool Congress, BSP and NCP are the national parties recognised by the Election Commission (EC). The Law Commission's internal working paper has recommended holding of simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in two phases beginning 2019.
Kumar Vishwas's sorry accepted by Jaitley New Delhi: As dissident AAP leader Kumar Vishwas apologised to Union finance Minister Arun Jaitley, the Delhi High Court on Monday, disposed off a defamation suit filed by the latter against Vishwas as withdrawn. Vishwas tendered a written apology to Jaitley and his family for causing any harm to their reputation. In his letter, Vishwas said that the remarks made by him and other party leaders against Jaitley were based on information shared by their leader and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. The court disposed of the suit in which Vishwas was the only one against whom the defamation suit remained after Kejriwal and four other AAP leaders Raghav Chadha, Sanjay Singh, Ashutosh and Deepak Bajpai had tendered unequivocal apology to Jaitley in the Rs10 crore defamation suit filed against them by the minister.
'Give us appropriate time to vacate govt bungalows'
New Delhi: Former UP chief ministers Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh Yadav on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking "appropriate time" for vacating their official residences allotted by the Uttar Pradesh government. The top court had on May 7 held that former chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh cannot retain government accommodation after demitting office and said that a chief minister was at par with a common man once his or her term ends. The two former chief ministers had earlier moved the UP government's estate department seeking two years' time to vacate their official residences and shifting to their private accommodations in Lucknow.
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EVMs down with 'heat stroke', poll panel put under scanner
New Delhi: As complaints about malfunctioning electronic voting machines (EVMs) flowed in from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh during the byelections on Monday, the Election Commission said the "severe heat conditions" were interfering with the machines. Kairana, in Uttar Pradesh, where Ajit Singh's RLD lodged a complaint, is one of the most-watched of the 13 bypolls held in four Lok Sabha and nine Assembly seats. The counting is on May 31. Calling the reports of large-scale voting machine malfunction "an exaggeration", the commission also denied
reports of polls being cancelled in 35 booths in the Bhandara-Gondiya parliamentary constituency in Maharashtra as "incorrect". "EVMs didn't work due to severe heat conditions," the poll commission said. Both the Opposition and the ruling BJP, raised their concerns over such largescale malfunctioning of the EVMs. A multi-party Opposition delegation led by the Congress approached the EC on Monday to demand a repoll in the affected booths. "We have demanded that wherever it took more than one and a half hours for the EVMs to be changed,
a repoll should be held on Tuesday or (Wednesday)," Congress leader RPN Singh said. A BJP delegation led by party lawmaker Bhupender Yadav also met the poll panel to say that the Opposition was exaggerating the issue of malfunctioning as they feared defeat. Kairana sees 54% voting In UP, the Noorpur and Kairana bypoll saw 61 per cent and 54.17 per cent voter turnout till 6pm on Monday 55 per cent: In Bihar, Jokihat Assembly seat saw nearly 55 per cent polling 70 per cent: In West Bengal, around 70 per cent of votes were cast for bypoll to the Maheshtala Assembly
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Sunanda Pushkar's email being treated as dying declaration: Delhi Police tells court
New Delhi: Nine days before she was found dead, Sunanda Pushkar had written an email to her husband Shashi Tharoor saying that she has "no desire to live". "I have no desire to live... all I pray for is death," Sunanda had written. Sunanda's emails and messages on social media have been taken as a "dying declaration", Delhi Police told Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal. The Patiala House Court will take cognizance of the chargesheet filed by Delhi Police on June 5. During the hearing today, Delhi Police's lawyer requested the court that the case should be considered under Section 113A of IPC. Delhi Police had on May 14 accused Shashi Tharoor of abetting Sunanda Pushkar's suicide and urged the court that Tharoor be summoned. The police also informed the court that Sunanda Pushkar died of poisoning. The police said that 27 tablets of Alprax were
found in Sunanda's room but it wasn't clear how many tablets she consumed. In a nearly 3,000-page charge sheet, the police have named Tharoor as the only accused while also alleging that he had subjected his wife to cruelty. The couple's domestic servant, Narayan Singh, has been named one of the key witnesses in the case. Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in the suite of a luxury hotel in south Delhi on January 17, 2014. Sunanda Pushkar's husband and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has been charged under sections 498 A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code. Pushkar was married to Tharoor for about three-and-a-half years. According to prosecution sources, the charge sheet has mentioned that Pushkar was allegedly subjected to mental as well as physical cruelty.
BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar booked for conspiracy to frame Unnao rape victim’s father in arms case
Maharashtra Forensic Science Laboratory’s Director General (Legal & Technical) S P Yadav tells Mohamed Thaver the steps taken to clear pending cases, future plans and acquisitions
Lucknow :The CBI on Saturday booked BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar for allegedly being part of a conspiracy to falsely implicate the Unnao rape victim’s father in an Arms Act. The rape victim’s father died on April 9 in judicial custody. A CBI official said call records of the complainant and policemen posted at the police station where the case was lodged suggested they were in touch with the MLA on April 3, the day the case was lodged. A CBI court Saturday sent
the Bangarmau MLA to two days’ police remand and the agency plans to question him with evidence they have gathered and the two policemen arrested earlier, said the official. On Wednesday, CBI arrested former Makhi police station officer Ashok Singh Bhadauriya and SI Kamta Prasad Singh for allegedly framing the rape victim’s father in an Arms Act case and forging government records. They are in a threeday police custody, which ends Monday.
World Menstrual Hygiene Day: Changing the rigid and even irrational narratives around women's menstrual health, Amol Prakash Mane and Anurag Chauhan have found ways to spread awareness and responsibility when it comes to menstruation.
World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2018: Two men’s efforts to spread awareness about women’s personal hygiene New Delhi : “Don’t enter the temple if you are on your periods.” “Don’t touch the pickle if you are menstruating.” “Your mother can’t enter the kitchen, she is ‘dirty’ right now,” these are some of the common things most girls and women across India have heard growing up. While menstruation is a natural body process that women undergo, it is a topic discussed in hushed tones even today, thus contributing to the taboo attached to it. From wrapping sanitary pads in newspapers and brown-paper bags to hiding them in black polythene bags, everything related to menstruation is deemed as the elephant in the room – something
that has been turned a blind eye to, for a bit too long. While Arunachalam Muruganantham, on whom the movie PadMan was based, did his bit to change the narrative, Anurag Chauhan and Amol Prakash Mane are two other men whose contributions towards spreading awareness about menstruation, is no less significant. According to a survey conducted by World Health Organization (WHO), 70 per cent of all reproductive diseases in India are believed to be caused by poor menstrual hygiene. While many women are yet to have proper access to hygienic conditions during menstruation, chemical sanitary pads (that a
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lot of women heavily rely on) are also known to cause various diseases, including serious ones like diabetes, allergies, and skin reactions. Like Muruganantham, the inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad, Chauhan and Mane are among those working towards debunking the taboos around menstruation, spreading awareness and providing sustainable (and healthy) alternatives to cheminal sanitary pads. On the occasion of World Menstruation Day, we bring to you the stories of these two men and their progressive efforts in the arena of women’s health. “Talking about menstruation with women is as difficult as talking
about sex,” said Anurag Chauhan, founder of the NGO Humans For Humanity (HFH). The 23-yearold, who started his NGO in 2014, was moved by an article written about deaths caused due to lack of menstruation hygiene. “I read an article, which said that about 1,50,000 women are dying because of menstrual problems. I wondered that if I today shoot 20 women, it will become world news but here where so many women are dying no one is really bothered about it.” Chauhan who has a Bachelors degree in social work, had to face the harsh reality of how women in rural areas only knew of unhygienic and fatal menstrual customs.
‘We aim to clear all pending cases before 2019’
New Delhi : Pendency of cases — sometimes for years — has been a major issue with the Maharashtra Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL). Has the situation improved? In the first half of 2017, there were over 44,000 samples sent by investigative agencies that were yet to be tested and reported on. However, we went about the problems in a scientific manner and hired temporary staff last year. The pendency now is below 20,000. We have set a target of clearing all the backlog by December this year. Hopefully, from 2019 we will begin with a clean slate and there will be no cases pending with the Maharashtra FSL. What steps were taken to reduce pending cases? Firstly, we studied the number of vacant posts in each of the nine departments at the FSL. Based on this, we gave a proposal that was accepted by the government in November last year for hiring employees on contract for a year to take care of the pendency. Since January, we have 100 per cent sanctioned strength. After having the requisite people, we created an action plan and gave
them monthly targets regarding how many pending cases have to be cleared. While in the past too people had been hired on contract, they were used on an ad hoc basis. The contractual employees would start working on the new samples we receive everyday and the backlog of old cases would remain as it is. We changed this and asked the contractual employees to focus only on the backlog and bring it down. As a result, some departments like prohibition (that checks alcohol content in blood samples) have zero pendency even now. All the cases they are working on are fresh cases. How many days does it now take to conduct a test and submit a report to the police? Our priority is to submit the samples as soon as possible. In some cases where there is urgency, the samples have been sent in two days. However, for all departments we have set a target of 45 days to send a report. From January 2019 onwards, we should be able to submit the samples in that time-frame so that the police can also use the report while filing the chargesheet.
EVM malfunctioning mars bypolls in UP, Maharashtra; Opposition lodges protest New Delhi : Voting for the Kairana Lok Sabha bypoll on Monday witnessed a voter turnout of 54.17 per cent, according to the Election Commission. And 61 per cent votes were cast in the Noorpur Assembly bypoll. The elections were marred by complaints of EVM malfunctioning, with the EC having to replace faulty machines at a few places. The EC assured that a repoll will be ordered in a few booths if necessary. The Samajwadi Party and RLD complained of glitches in the electronic voting machines. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, tweeted, “Receiving reports of problems in EVMs in the bye-elections but still voters should go to cast votes.” RLD spokesman Anil Dubey,
alleging EVM malfunctioning in both Kairana and Noorpur, said, “We (RLD and SP) are going to meet the CEO to lodge a formal complaint in this regard.” This, he claimed, happened especially in regions dominated by the RLDSP. UP Cabinet minister Shrikant Sharma countered the allegations saying, “Government has asked the EC to ensure free, fair and peaceful elections. The opposition’s allegations are baseless, and sensing their defeat they have started playing gimmicks and talking things which are untrue. As far as EVMs are concerned, I am also getting complaints, and the EC will look into it.” Taking note of the uproar over faulty EVMs, UP Chief Electoral
Officer L Venkateswarlu said, “I want to assure political parties that faulty EVMs are being replaced and in case, they cannot be replaced due to shortage, the EC will not hesitate to order repoll.” Today’s election to
the vacant Lok Sabha seat will test the potential of a united opposition in a State which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept in 2014 and 2017. The bypoll is all the more important for the ruling BJP after
its recent loss in the Gorakhpur and Phoolpur bypoll where arch rivals Samajwadi Party tied up with the Bahujan Samaj Party to defeat the saffron party. The Kairana bypoll was necessitated following the death of BJP MP Hukum Singh in February. The BJP fielded his daughter Mriganka in Kairana, while RLD nominated Tabassum Hasan, who was also supported by the BSP, SP and Congress. In Kairana, there are 12 candidates in the fray. The opposition was hoping that by consolidating the anti-BJP votes, they would be able to repeat the results of the Gorakhpur and Phulpur bye-elections, especially after Lok Dal candidate Kanwar Hasan pulled himself out of the
bypoll fray and embraced the RLD (Rashtriya Lok Dal). The ruling BJP, on the other hand, would be making extra effort to retain both Kairana and Noorpur seats after today’s polling. The major issues in this bypoll are law and order and the woes of sugarcane growers. The farmers in the constituency have been losing patience over the delay in payment by the sugar mill owners. The Kairana Lok Sabha seat has some 16 lakh voters, which include an estimated 5.5 lakh Muslims and 1.5 lakh Jats. That, plus 2.5 lakh Dalits (mostly Jatavs, who traditionally vote for the BSP, makes for a formidable combination on paper favouring the RLD candidate.
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Iffy Trump upsets world diplomacy
C apricious US trade and diplomatic policies seem to have dumped world diplomacy in disorder. Countries in Europe and Asia are getting increasingly confused and uncertain about staying 'allied' with the US. With President Donald Trump appearing as a highly unpredictable 'ally' even to traditionally close Britain, Germany and France, nations are confused over a changing diplomatic order. Russia and China have certainly got closer to protecting themselves against US flip-flops in the region. India seems to be at its wits end as the US is pushing hard to block imports from India on one pretext or the other, restrict movement of intellectual persons, move more exports to India and exercise penal restrictions on trade with countries not in sync with US policies. The pressure threatens India's independent trade and diplomatic policy pursuits. India is so fed up with US threats to trade and economy that, last Thursday, it took an unprecedented retaliatory action, raising import duties up to 100% on five products, including wheat, shelled almond, walnut and protein concentrate, imported mostly from the US. It invoked "emergency powers" to increase import duties under Section 8A of the Customs Act. Earlier, India told the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that it proposed to raise duties by up to 100% on 20 products, such as almonds, apples and specific motorcycles imported from the US, if Washington did not roll back high tariffs on certain steel and aluminium items. The US has moved the WTO against India's export schemes. India, along with several countries, such as China and Russia, has dragged the US to the WTO for creating artificial tariff barriers. Under the circumstances, no one is too sure about the possible outcome of a US-India 2+2 dialogue that may be held in July. Meanwhile, the unilateral US pullout of the international nuclear pact with Iran, followed by its threat, last week, to impose sanctions on Tehran and also on foreign companies dealing with Iran are causing new headaches for oil-starved India. Other signatories to the international N-pact with Iran France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China too, are concerned. They disagree with the US and say they will try to salvage the deal and keep Iran's oil trade and investment flowing. India is highly concerned about the US action against Iran, as it is the second-largest oil importer from that country, after China. India is also under agreement with Iran to construct Chabahar port, outside the Strait of Hormuz, near Iran's border with Pakistan, the first part of which was completed in December. The port and road project, when completed, is expected to give India direct access to Afghanistan and oil-and-gas rich central Asia.
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Arjun Rampal and wife Mehr announce separation after 20 years of marriage
IPL 2018: Jacqueline Fernandez, Katrina Kaif and Kartik Aaryan give rocking performances
Shah Rukh and Gauri Khan have the sweetest birthday wishes for son AbRam
Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan’s little one AbRam has turned five today. Taking to Twitter, Shah Rukh posted a sun-kissed picture of AbRam with a heartwarming caption. “My sunshine turns 5 yrs today but he thinks he is 9! Please don’t tell him otherwise if u meet him. Children should hear their own music, sing their own songs & believe in their own lil dreams…& yeah, hug their papa a lot..,” writes Shah Rukh. Gauri Khan also shared two cute clicks with her youngest on Instagram and wrote, “Happy bday, my gorgeous.” In the recent click shared by Gauri, AbRam is seen all smiles on his mother’s lap.
Shahid and Shraddha Kapoor's Batti Gul Meter Chalu funder to move court for fraud
The much-awaited IPL 2018 trophy was clinched by Chennai Superkings at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium. While cricket lovers were keen to see the final match between Chennai Superkings and Sunrisers Hyderabad,
Bollywood took to the stage to entice the audience. The closing ceremony witnessed sizzling acts by Katrina Kaif, Kriti Sanon, Jacqueline Fernandez, and even Kartik Aaryan. Jacqueline Fernandez has been prepping for the big
event. Interestingly, this Race 3 actor had also been a part of the opening ceremony of the IPL where she danced to her hit numbers, Tan Tana Tan and Unchi Hai Building from her blockbuster film Judwaa 2. Here are a few photos shared by the actor:
Popular South actress Vedhika to make Bollywood debut opposite Emraan Hashmi, read details here
South star Vedhika Kumar is all set to make her Bollywood debut opposite Emraan Hashmi in the film "The Body". The film will be directed by Jeethu Joseph, who is best known for 2013 Mohanlalstarrer "Drishyam". "After a nationwide hunt and several auditions, we finally found what we were looking for. Vedhika's character is of a young college going girl who has this innocence about her. She fits the role beautifully," Joseph said in a statement. Vedhika, a well-known actor in the South, shot to fame with her breakthrough performance as Angamma in Bala's national award-winning period film "Paradesi", for which she earned critical acclaim and awards.
The actor, popularly known for playing Mikesh in the hit TVF web series Permanent Roommates, was seen in Ribbon opposite Kalki Koechlin last year. The actor-writer, who was also a part of TVF Tripling, shared how he got onboard Veere Di Wedding, which has been directed by Shashanka Ghosh. Shashanka had also helmed Sonam’s earlier hit film Khoobsurat, also starring Fawad Khan. “It was a very regular thing. I screen tested and I didn’t know which actors were in this one. I was just screen testing for a part. Later on, I got to know that it’s a big budget thing. But more than everything else, I was really excited to work with Shashanka Ghosh because I’ve followed his work over the years. I really like him as a person. So that was the biggest draw for me. He is a very quirky guy.” In the film, Sumeet has been paired opposite Kareena and we see how the two try to manage their wedding amid a lot of family expectations. Veere Di Wedding also brings Kareena back on screen after 2016 film Udta Punjab. Sharing his experience of working with Kareena, Sumeet said, “It was lovely. She is very professional. She is a star, but after a point when you are working on a set, you are just working with actors and you forget about the whole charade that happens before and after that. So in that sense, I don’t really think of those things on set.” Veere Di Wedding is the story about four childhood friends who meet after a decade only to realise how life has changed for them. On the sidelines of the wedding of one of them, they re-bond. In the trailer, we see how they cling together despite fighting their own personal battles. VDW is an upbeat coming of age story revolving around their challenges towards surviving in the modern day world, marriage and social perceptions.
Alia Bhatt to team up with Bareilly Ki Barfi director Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari for her next
Currently basking in the success of Raazi, looks like there is no stopping Alia Bhatt. It was recently announced that Bareilly Ki Barfi director Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari is also collaborating with the actor for a film
Currently basking in the success of Raazi, looks like there is no stopping Alia Bhatt. While she already has Ayan Mukerji’s Bharhmastra, Karan Johar’s Kalank and Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy in her kitty, it was recently announced that Bareilly Ki Barfi director Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari is also collaborating with the actor for a film. The slice-of-life comedy-drama is said to go on floors next year. Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari had made her debut with Swara Bhasker’s Nil Battey Sannata following it up with the critical and commercial success Bareilly Ki Barfi in 2017. Alia, on the other hand, has won praises for her latest feature in Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi. Looks like this untitled film is going to be one of those rare mainstream films, directed by a female and headlined by a female lead. Talking about her desire to keep doing good work in the future, Alia told indianexpress.com in an earlier interview, “Contentment is very boring. I don’t like to be content. I like to be satisfied with a task and complete it. I then want to be satisfied with a new task. I keep moving on. And, goals are limiting. Once you achieve a goal, it is over. A new goal has to be set. It is better not to set goals. Keep working hard and keep getting better at it. That’s what I believe in.” While no other details have been revealed about Alia’s co-stars in the film, she is all set to share screen space with Ranveer Singh and Ranbir Kapoor in Gully Boy and Brahmastra in the future. Here’s hoping the film is another feather in Alia’s cap.
After 20 years of marriage, Arjun Rampal and wife Mehr have decided to go their own separate ways, as revealed in a statement released by the duo. Though speculations about things not being so well between the two were rife since quite some time, their statement to Bombay Times has finally put the rumours to rest. Arjun and Mehr have two daughters, Mahikaa (16) and Myra (13). Ending their relationship on a cordial note, the couple plans to be there for each other as well as their daughters. Though the two have mot clarified if they have filed for a legal separation, it is apparent that the couple has chosen different paths for their life. “After a 20-year-long beautiful journey filled with love and beautiful memories, we would like to share, that all journeys have different
paths. We feel that it is time for us to move on to different destinations henceforth. We have always been solid when it has come to us, we will continue to be solid for each other and our loved ones, as we embark upon a new journey. We won’t be commenting on this any further,” reads a statement released by the duo. Both of us being extremely private people feel strange to be making this statement, but such are the circumstances of our lives. Where the truth can get distorted and lost. We are a family, our love for each other is forever intact and we shall always be there for one another and most importantly, for our children Mahikaa and Myra. We would therefore appreciate our privacy through this time. Thank all for their support. Relationships can end, but love lives on.
Captain America and Black Widow will have a bigger role in sequel: Avengers Infinity War writers Marvel fans are still suffering from the repercussions of Avengers: Infinity War. It was not what happened as much as how it happened. Half of the superheroes were wiped out of existence by Thanos and except Spider-Man, their friends did not even get time to process what was happening. It was not the stab or bullet wound that heroes typically get and then it takes half an hour for them to die while their loved ones crowd around them and make the viewers emotional. More than a dozen well-developed characters disappeared into thin air, quite literally. Apart from all these deaths (we actually do not know if they are deaths), even some
of the living ones did not get the screentime they deserved. Captain America, the First Avenger, and the only female Avenger in the old
guard, Black Widow, did little more than just being there. Sure, they had a badass entry scene when they fought off Thanos’s Black Order to
save Vision and Scarlet Witch, and engaged in a hand-to-hand combat against the army of Outriders, it was still pretty underwhelming as compared to, say, Iron Man and Doctor Strange who duelled with the Mad Titan himself. It seems like fans of Cap and Black Widow will be happy with Avengers 4 since the writers have confirmed that they will have a bigger role in the sequel. While speaking to The New York Times, Christopher Markus, one of the writers with the other being Stephen McFeely, said Cap and Black Widow “have a much bigger role to play in that second film.” Recently, the synopsis of Avengers 4 was released.
Bhavesh Joshi Superhero director Vikramaditya Motwane: He’s a cottage-industry superhero
My whole life, really. It started with Tinkle and Amar Chitra Katha. Growing up, Tinkle was a part of my life, of an entire generation, actually. The way we waited for a new issue every fortnight. And I think the only version of Ramayana I’ve ever read is the Amar Chitra Katha version (laughs). They were also quite graphic, you know, with Krishna lopping off heads with his Sudarshan chakra. If we go back to the birth of Superman and Batman in America in the ’30s, they were created because of events like the Great Depression.
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Being dropped from ODIs gives me more time to prepare for England Tests: Ajinkya Rahane
Mumbai: Ajinkya Rahane is an eternal optimist, who is ready to find a silver lining in everything, including his rejection from India’s limited overs team. He believes that being overlooked for the limited overs leg of the UK tour will give him more time to do his homework for the big-ticket five-match Test series against England, starting August 1. “It is important that you get time to prepare yourself and clarity is important, when you know that you are not in ODI squad and you just going to play Test matches in England. I will get good amount of time for the Afghanistan Test and after that for the England tour,” Rahane told reporters on the sidelines of the CEAT
Cricket Awards. Even if there is an element of frustration, Rahane doesn’t want to show that. “No, I am not at all frustrated; actually the thing is I can tell you this is actually motivating me, because I am actually looking to make a comeback. Right now, my focus is on Test cricket. I still believe that I can come back and do well in shorter formats with
World Cup (2019) coming up.” While there are enough indications that he has fallen off the radar as far as India’s limited overs scheme of things are concerned, Rahane is still hopeful that he can turn the table. “I still believe in myself. I did well in ODI cricket whenever I got my opportunities. In West Indies, I got man-ofthe-series award (with four half-centuries).
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Michael Atherton ‘highly sceptical’ of spot-fixing claims New Delhi: Former England captain Michael Atherton is “highly sceptical” of claims made in a television programme that players for England and Australia may have been involved in ‘spot-fixing’ activities during test matches in South Asia. The Al Jazeera programme “Cricket’s Match Fixers”, broadcast on Sunday, alleged incidents of spot-fixing in a Chennai match between England and India in December 2016 and the Australia-India test in Ranchi in March 2017. Matchfixing has become a major concern for the sport in recent years and the International Cricket Council (ICC) has launched an investigation. ‘Spot-fixing’ refers to manipulation of part of a game to deliver a given outcome for betting purposes. The documentary also made allegations that the stadium manager at Galle in Sri Lanka may have doctored the pitch at the behest of fixers and suggested minor Twenty20 competitions had also been targetted. In his column for The Times newspaper, Atherton said he felt it unlikely that top test players would engage in such activity given the risks to their careers.
Mohammed Shami replaces Hardik Pandya in ICC World XI squad
Mohammed Shami replaced fellow Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya, who had to withdraw himself from the encounter, after falling ill due to a viral infection. New Delhi: India seamer Mohammed Shami has been added to the ICC World XI squad which is set to compete against West Indies at Lord’s. Shami replaced fellow Indian allrounder Hardik Pandya, who had to withdraw himself from the encounter, after falling ill due to a viral infection. Dinesh Karthik is the only other Indian player who will be representing India in the WXI side. England leg-spinner Adil Rashid has also been included in the team. The highly anticipated contest between defending champions West Indies and WXI will be played on May 31st to raise funds for the two stadiums in the Caribbean that were damaged following Hurricanes Irma and Maria last year. England skipper Eoin Morgan will be leading the World XI side. Expressing delight over being handed the opportunity Morgan said, “I am delighted to captain the ICC World XI at Lord’s in May against the West Indies.”
“The cricket family always comes together to support worthwhile causes and this oneoff T20I, featuring some of the best players in the world will be a great spectacle at the Home of Cricket,” lords.org quoted Morgan as saying. “I am sure the sporting public will come out in force and help raise money and awareness towards restoring parts of the Caribbean hit by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September last year, which ripped through many communities in this beautiful part of the world,” he added. ICC World XI squad: Eoin Morgan (captain) (England), Shahid Afridi (Pakistan), Tamim Iqbal (Bangladesh), Dinesh Karthik (India), Rashid Khan (Afghanistan), Sandeep Lamichhane (Nepal), Mitchell McClenaghan (New Zealand), Shoaib Malik (Pakistan), Thisara Perera (Sri Lanka), Luke Ronchi (New Zealand), Adil Rashid (England) and Mohammed Shami (India)
Despite lukewarm response for women’s T20, Diana Edulji promises more for next IPL New Delhi: The experimental women’s T20 ahead of IPL play-offs did not attract a sizeable crowd but CoA member Diana Edulji insists the one-off game was a positive step and will lead to “something substantial” next season. There was not much crowd support for the match played on a sultry Mumbai afternoon ahead of the IPL Qualifier 1 between eventual IPL champions Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad on May 22. Top Indian and overseas players including Harmanpreet Kaur, Mithali Raj, Suzie Bates and Meg Lanning were part of the game which went down to the wire. “In my view, the match was a success and many followed it on television. Yes, there were not
Top Indian and overseas players including Harmanpreet Kaur, Mithali Raj, Suzie Bates and Meg Lanning were part of the game which went down to the wire
many spectators but that was also the case during the 2016 Women’s World T20 (when the event was held simultaneously with the men’s competition),” Edulji told said. “So, I am not so sure if the BCCI could have
scheduled the game better but considering it was accommodated during the IPL, the board did the best it could. I am sure more games like these will be played next season, if not a full-fledged IPL, ” the former India captain said. Irrespective of the response, the one-off fixture has fuelled the demand of a women’s IPL. Considering the dearth of quality Indian players, the league can be started with even four teams, something that has already been suggested by India T20 captain Harmanpreet and opener Smriti Mandhana. “Well, we cannot have eight teams right now, but yes,three or four teams. To start with it would be a good initiative because when the men’s IPL began (in
2008), only foreigners did well in the first two seasons. Later on, we started developing India’s bench strength,” Mandhana had said of the exhibition match at Wankhede. Australia already has a Women’s Big Bash and England Kia Super League (UK version of women’s T20 league), which was introduced in 2016. Edulji had a long chat with the players from England, Australia and New Zealand ahead of the match. “The foreigners were very excited being part of this one off game and they have already told me that they are looking forward to being here next year. They also appreciated the BCCI offer to get them over here at such a short notice,” she added.
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Gujarat GSEB SSC result 2018 declared, poor performance by Gujarati medium students
Ahmedabad: With a slight decline of nearly 0.74 per cent, the Class 10 results of Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) announced Monday recorded a pass percentage of 67.50 per cent. The pass percentage of regular students in the academic session 2017-18 was 68.24 per cent. Though a large gap in the number of students appearing in Gujarati and English mediums while Gujarati medium students performed the worst in all nine mediums with the lowest pass percentage of 65.16 per cent against their counterparts in English medium recorded a pass percentage of 90.12. Against 6.99 lakh students who appeared in Gujarati medium, 66,696 appeared in English medium, this year. “There is no comparison of two (Gujarati and English)
mediums. As compared to previous years, Gujarati medium result is getting better each year,” ruling out any reason for concern for low Gujarati medium results, Gujarat Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama said. However, the pass percentage of 37,725 ‘private and external’ candidates, which till 2015 was clubbed in the overall results itself, was maintained at 6.94 per cent. The previous year, it was recorded as 6.98 per cent. This
'Robots won't render people jobless'
London: Even in a "runaway Artificial Intelligence (AI)" scenario, robots will not render people completely jobless, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told The Sunday Telegraph in an interview. People will always want a job as it gives them "dignity", Nadella said, adding that the focus should instead be on applying AI technology ethically. "What I think needs to be done in 2018 is more dialogue around the ethics, the principles that we can use for the engineers and companies that are building AI, so that the choices we make don't cause us to create systems with bias that's the tangible thing we should be working on," he was quoted as saying. According to a report in MIT Technology Review on May 25, Microsoft is building a tool to automate the identification of bias in a range of different AI algorithms. The Microsoft tool has the potential to help businesses make use of AI without inadvertently discriminating against certain groups of people Microsoft says, focus should instead be on applying AI technology ethically Even in a "runaway Artificial Intelligence (AI)" scenario, robots will not render people completely jobless, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told The Sunday Telegraph in an interview. People will always want a job as it gives them "dignity", Nadella said, adding that the focus should instead be on applying AI technology ethically.
year too, despite grace marks and counting repeaters and private candidates separately, the overall pass percentage of over 10.61 lakh students in Gujarat who had appeared for Class 10 GSHSEB examinations including 7.90 lakh regular, 2.33 lakh repeaters and 37,725 external or private candidates stands at 53.62 per cent, almost similar to 53.10 per cent recorded in the year 2017. The individual pass percentage of these three categories was recorded as
67.50, 14.18 and 6.94 per cent for regular, repeaters and external or private candidates, respectively. At 908 total examination centres across the state, a total of 790240 regular students appeared for the Class 10 exams. Out of this, 5,33,414 have been declared as successful and eligible for qualifying certificate (EQC) of secondary examination. As students are not awarded marks but grades, to qualify in a subject a candidate must obtain a minimum of grade D (33 till 40 marks) in all subjects. Expressing satisfaction over the results, Gujarat Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama said while congratulating the students said that those who could not clear exams this year should not feel let down try to remove all shortcomings with more hard work and clear in the next attempt.
After a decline in Class 12 Science results, now Class 10 results too witnessed a dip in schools recording 100 per cent results. From 451 in 2017, this number declined to 368 this year. Education Minister expressed his concerns for the downfall in this number and said, “On lesser schools getting 100 per cent results is very serious. Notices will be served to schools with poor results.” On awarding grace marks, GSHSEB officer on special duty (OSD) for senior secondary MA Pathan said, “The grace marks has been as per the rules. This could be awarded in one or more subjects to one student.” However, sources revealed that the grace marks awarded were much higher than the stipulated norm of 5 marks using the discretionary powers to ministers.
Gujarat High Court extends relief from arrest to activist Teesta Setalvad till June 13
Ahmedabad : The Gujarat High Court on Monday extended the protection from arrest to activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand till June 13, in a Rs 1.4 crore fund embezzlement case. Earlier in the day, Justice AY Kogje, in whose court the matter was listed, recused himself from hearing it saying “not before me.” The matter was then taken up by the court of Justice Biren Vaishnav, who extended the activists’ interim protection from arrest till June 13. The court has listed the case for next hearing on June 12. The Supreme Court had last month granted temporary relief to Setalvad and Anand, extending their interim protection from arrest and transit anticipatory bail from May 2 to May 31, granted to them by the Bombay High Court. The apex court had said the duo will not be arrested
till May 31, but before that they would have to approach the competent court in Gujarat which will decide the matter on merits. Setalvad and Anand had moved the Gujarat High Court after a lower court rejected their anticipatory bail plea in the Rs 1.4 crore fund embezzlement case related to their NGO Sabrang Trust. The duo had moved the plea for anticipatory bail after an FIR lodged against them on March 30 this year by complainant Raees Khan Pathan. Opposing the bail plea in the lower court, the Crime Branch had claimed that the couple misused the money granted to their NGO by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development between 2010 and 2013 for their “personal and political cause”. In its submission, the Crime Branch said the accused misused the funds “to
pay witnesses in serious cases in Gujarat (2002 riot cases) to make false deposition.” During this period, Setalvad worked as the field cocoordinator for her NGO – Citizen for Justice and Peace, while her husband Javed Anand worked as the trustee of the Sabrang Trust. The ministry had granted Rs 1.4 crore between 2010 and 2013 to the NGO for a scheme under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. Under the ‘Khoj project’, the Sabrang Trust had published literature and pamphlets that spread communal enmity which is “dangerous for the
country’s unity”, the police said. In their defence, Setalvad and Anand had told the court that the books published by them were written by some renowned writers, like Govind Pansare and Savitriben Phule, and were approved by the HRD Ministry. They also provided details of bank accounts related to the fund, saying all payments were made through cheques and were transparent. They claimed the police wanted their custody on “false complaint” and that the complainant, Pathan, had a “personal grudge” against them.
Now, Railways to tell you if your ticket stands a chance of being confirmed
New Delhi: Passengers may not get confirmed berths each time they book a train ticket, but now, thanks to a predictive service on the IRCTC website, they would get to know their chances of getting one, officials said on Monday. Come midnight, when the new, refurbished Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) website will go live, it
would let the passengers know the probability of confirmation of wait-listed tickets, based on a new algorithm developed by the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS). "According to the new feature of wait-list prediction, one can predict the chances of a waitlisted or an RAC ticket getting confirmed on the basis of booking trends.
We will mine our own data of passenger operations and booking patterns for the first time," a senior official said. The idea, the officials said, came from railway minister Piyush Goyal, who had given a one-year deadline last year to complete the process of inducting the predictive service on the IRCTC website. The algorithm will take into account last
13 years' data to arrive at a "robust, workable model", officials of the railway ministry said ahead of the website's revamp. will help people know if their waitlisted tickets are likely to be confirmed Features of new IRCTC website  A user does not even have to log in to the new website to enquire or search for trains and check on availability of seats, while the older version
only allowed access to the registered users  'While booking tickets, separate cards for each passenger have been provided to fill in their details. Pre-filled particulars will ensure a quick booking experience. The user can manage the payment options by marking six banks as preferred banks under the 'My Profile' section,' an official said.
Khandwa : A 42-year-old farmer allegedly committed suicide on May 3 after he failed to repay the farm loan he had borrowed from a credit society in Madhya Pradesh's Burhanpur district, his brother claimed today. The Madhya Pradesh government has ordered a probe into the incident.
However, the police is yet to issue a statement. Sitaram, the brother of deceased Karkund, also claimed that the farmer had put his 17-year-old son as a "kamdar" with a camel rearer in Patoda village in the district to borrow Rs 2.5 lakh for settle the debt. "The (credit) society had
recently served Karkund a notice asking him to repay the loan along with the accrued interest amounting to Rs 1.5 lakh. However, as he was unable to pay it, he killed himself by consuming a poisonous substance on May 3," Sitaram claimed. Karkund tore the notice in front of his family members
and asked them to deal with it, before killing himself, he said. Kamdari is a system wherein needy farmers keep a family member as "security" for borrowing money from a well-off farmer for a certain period of time. Madhya Pradesh Women and Child Development Minister Archana Chitnis
said Karkund had dues of Rs 90,000, which were reduced to Rs 34,000 under the chief minister's loan adjustment scheme. Chitnis, who reached Patoda village soon after the incident came to light, assured that the dues of Rs 34,000, too, would be paid soon from the "minister's fund and through
international 'Hurt and unhappy' Jay Panda quits BJD before 2019 Odisha elections
Bhubaneswar: Ending a year-long acrimonious relationship with party president and Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, Kendrapara's suspended Member of Parliament Baijayant Panda on Monday resigned from the BJD, leading to speculation the industrialistturned-politician could join the BJP. In his three-page-long resignation letter to Patnaik, Panda said he was "hurt and unhappy" that members of the ruling party did not attend the funeral of his industrialist father Bansidhar Panda who passed away on May 22. "It has plumbed the absolute depths of inhumanity when neither you nor anyone from the BJD
turned up to pay their last respects to my father Bansidhar Panda, who as everyone knows was a very close friend, supporter and associate of Biju uncle (Biju Patnaik) for decades," he wrote. Was elected to RS twice Panda was elected to Rajya Sabha twice from 2000 to 2009 and later to Lok Sabha from Kendrapara segment in 2009 and 2014. Former president of BJD Kendrapara district minority cell Salim Khan and student leader Prafulla Swain also tendered their resignations on Monday. Panda's political secretary Jyoti Prakash Ghose also tendered his resignation from primary membership of the party.
Shimla: People in Shimla, once a village that served as the summer capital of British India between 1864 and 1939, are craving for a glass of water, while their woes and anger are pouring on micro-blogging platforms, literally! A majority of localities are facing a severe water supply crisis, getting potable water only once a week. The reason: All water channels in Shimla and its suburbs, which normally quench the thirst of the people, have dried up this summer owing to less snowfall in the
past winter and less rains thereafter. City residents say the problem has aggravated ever since the mercury shot up and the sweeping heat wave across north India has led to an influx of tourists to this popular destination to seek refuge in its cooler climes. "Today every Shimlaite is crying for a glass of water," BD Sharma, a former press secretary to the chief minister, said. He said he remembered that there were a number of natural water resources in Shimla about four decades ago.
Today, every Shimla'ite is crying for a glass of water
Imran Khan eyes victory as Pakistan announces elections on July 25
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani cricket star-turnedpolitician Imran Khan's party vowed Sunday to oust the country's "corrupt" rulers, as the nuclear-armed state announced it will hold general elections on July 25. The poll will bring to a head political tensions that have been building since former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was ousted by the Supreme Court on corruption charges and later barred from politics for life. Khan is hoping to achieve a years-long dream of leading the country as its prime minister, and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party is the main challenger to the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N),
which was headed by Sharif until his ban. "The Pakistani nation... can see the dawn of a new Pakistan, which will not be ruled by the corrupt," the party said in a statement posted Sunday on Twitter along with a graphic that read "Mafia's Game Over". "Stop us if you can," it said in another tweet. The bullish comments came after Pakistan's president Mamnoon Hussain on Saturday approved July 25 as the date for the elections, which offer the prospect of what would be only the second-ever democratic transfer of power in the South Asian country. The current government, led by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, is expected to hand over power to a
caretaker administration in the coming days. Despite Sharif's ouster, the ruling party says it has invested in improving Pakistan's rickety infrastructure and attracted billions of dollars in Chinese investment. It has also denied allegations of graft against its leadership by opponents like Khan. has vowed to fight corruption, presenting itself as a polar opposite of what it calls status-quo politicians. Since he was ousted, Sharif and the PML-N have become increasingly vocal in their confrontation with the country's powerful military establishment and the courts, claiming there is a conspiracy afoot to reduce the party's power.
cooperation of the people". She directed Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Sohan Kanash to provide relief to the family of the farmer under various government schemes. Karkund's 17-yearold son is still working with the camel rearer. He is with the rearer since the last one year. Leader of Opposition in
Madhya Pradesh Assembly Ajay Singh said, "A farmer was forced to commit suicide and mortgage his son for repaying the loan. What happened to the claims about the higher agriculture growth rate; providing farm loans at zero per cent interest rate?... Everything is hollow and an attempt to gain publicity".
He also demanded a compensation of Rs 10 lakh from the state government for the victim's family so that they can "free" their son. State unit Congress president Kamal Nath said incidents like suicides by farmers are taking place on a daily basis, but very few of them are reported.
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