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Army camp washed away, 6 soldiers among 15 August 1947: When Nehru talked of tryst with destiny, 25 feared dead in U’khand cloudburst
Agency | Pithoragarh washed away an Army At least five persons camp in the nearby were killed and about Ghatiyabagad area in 25 feared dead, in- Dharchula tehsil of cluding six Army Pithoragarh district personnel, after a of Uttarakhand early massive landslide morning on Monday. hit Malpa village on Among the missing the Kailash Mansa- Army personnel were rovar Yatra route and one Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) and five jawans, who sources said belonged to the Kumaon Scouts regiment of the SC restores lookout Army. The camp lonotice against Karti cated near Tawaghat, which lies on the Mansarovar Yatra route, had almost 100 personnel in it when it was swamped under the waters of Agency | New Delhi the Mangti nullah, Karti Chidam- a rivulet that flows baram, son of ex-fi- nearby. About half a nance minister P dozen Army vehicles Chidambaram, who also got damaged in has avoided facing the deluge. ElaboCBI, ran out of op- rating on the extent tions on Monday with the Supreme Court firmly telling him that he must appear before the agency in connecAgency | Allahabad tion with the probe UP health minister into alleged illegaliSiddharth Nath Singh ty in the FIPB clearance for Rs 305 said on Monday that crore irregular for- a committee would eign direct invest- probe whether disrupment in INX Media tion in oxygen supply in 2007. Respond- at Baba Raghav Das ing to an urgent pe- Medical College and tition by the CBI, a Hospital in Gorakhbench of Chief Jus- pur was due to any tice J S Khehar and `commission-khori’ Justice D Y Chand- (kickbacks). “There rachud stayed the are talks of authorMadras High Court. ities delaying payments to the supplier Mumbai cops of oxygen cylinders arrest four for as they were not receiving kickbacks. GoT leak We will investigate Agency | Mumbai the issue and the role The cyber police of the dealer, buyer probing the on- and the seller,“ Singh line leak of the fourth episode of the hugely popular fantasy TV series `Game of Thrones’ Agency | New Delhi arrested on MonThe Centre, in apday four employpreciation of forces ees of Prime Focus engaged in sustained Technologies -a counter-terror opermediaprocessing ations in Jammu & company tasked Kashmir, on Monday with storing and honoured two CRPF distributing the commandants with digital content on Kirti Chakra for acts Hotstar app, owned of bravery in J&K by Star India. Three and conferred 40 of of them, Abhishek the190 police galGhadiyal, Bhas- lantry medals awardkar Joshi and Alok ed this Independence Sharma, are cur- Day on J&K police and CRPFBSF perrent employees of sonnel deployed in the Prime Focus TechValley. At the same nologies. Mohamtime, 52 personnel of med Suhail is a for- Andhra Pradesh pomer staffer. lice, including Grey
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of damage, C Ravishankar, district magistrate (DM), Pithoragarh, said, “Till late evening, rescue teams had recovered four bodies from Malpa village, while the body of a woman was fished out from the Mangti nullah in Ghatiyabagad. Eight persons including six Armymen are missing in Ghatiyabagad, while four Army personnel were rescued by our teams.” According to district authorities, there could be 15-20 missing per-
sons in Malpa alone, which was the site of one of the worst landslides in the history of the country in 1998 when over 200 people, including danseuse Protima Bedi who was part of a group of Kailash Mansarovar pilgrims, died after getting buried in the debris. The Pithoragarh DM said that “it is not clear yet how many people were present at the landslide-hit area in Malpa village. At least four shops have been totally buried
Will probe if graft was behind oxygen supply disruption: UP
under the debris. While we have official confirmation of 4 persons missing from the village, the numbers could be more”. Meanwhile, rescue operations continued throughout the day on Monday, with teams of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Army being pressed into service. Choppers were also used to search for the missing Army persons although bouts of bad weather hampered rescue operations. Sources said that over 45-meters of the strategic Ta w a g h a t - P a n g l a highway had been wiped out while three walking bridges between Malpa and Pangla had also been washed away.
its report in a week. Singh, however, clarified his statement on high number of de aths at BRD hospital in August was quoted out of context. “I was explaining about the seriousness of Japanese Encephalitis by comparing the figure with that of previous year but it was misinterpreted.“
The auction process of the beleaguered Sahara Gro red Sahara Group’s Aamby Valley City began on Monday with the official liquidator (OL) invi ting bids at a re serve price of Rs 37,392 crore. The development comes three days after the Supreme Court declined to entertain the Sahara Group’s plea to postpone the auction of the prime hill station property located in Pune district.
War on terror gets J&K cops, BSF & CRPF 40 of 190 police medals
Hound commandos, were honoured with police gallantry medals for killing a record 24 Maoists in a single operation along the Andhra-Odisha border in October 2016. The awardees this year include five J&K police bravehearts who in October 2015 had neutralised
Abu Qasim, a Lashkar-e-Taiba divisional commander involved in Udhampur attack on a BSF convoy just weeks back in August and the Hyderpora terror attack of 2013 that killed eight Army personnel. Two commandants of central CRPF , Chetan Singh Cheetah, who
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Eighty-nine years after the British Crown occupied it, India attained freedom at midnight just as the clock ticked 12.00 on August 15, 1947. India’s Legislative Council had taken over the power from the crown through and Act passed by British Parliament on July 4 the same year. The celebrations had begun earlier the previous day. Even at the Parliament building, the official function had started at 11 pm. Vande Mataram was sung as the National Anthem. There was yet no controversy about singing Vande Mataram. Later it was declared as the National Song. There were three
main speakers at the Central Hall of Parliament. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was the third notable speaker at the official event where he delivered his famous the ‘Tryst With Destiny’ speech. The other two were Chaudhary Khaliquzaman and Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. In his speech, Nehru, referring to 1929 Lahore Congress, said, “Long years ago we made a tryst with
destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.” A cabinet of ministers was sworn in with Jawaharlal Nehru as the Prime Minister. His Ministers came from all walks of political philosophy.
The auction is part of the efforts to partly recover the pending dues of the Sahara Group to various lenders. Bombay high court OL Vinod Sharma on Monday issued notices for the public auction of “salelease“ on an “as-is-whereis-whatever-there-is“ of the Aamby Valley City , located around 90km from here. Sharma stated that with the huge quantum of properties to be dispo sed, the auction will be conducted in two phases spread over two days. The
notice stated that the property comprises an integrated hill-city township called Aamby Valley City Development. It was the first-of-its-kind “megalopolis“, spread over 6,761.64 acres. It also includes land measuring 1,409.87 acres surrounding this
project and another 321.66 acres within adjoining Satara district. The notice also clarifies that the properties be ing auctioned are being soldleased along with all the subsisting licences, consents, permissions, registrations, approvals, grants
denied permission to introduce video recording, saying, “These are courts, not stages and sets from The Truman Show.“ Hinting that it is willing to examine the issue afresh, a bench of Justice A K Goel and Justice U U Lalit, which had in March directed HCs to install CCTV cameras inside courtrooms in two districts of every state and Union
territory , asked why shouldn’t the proceedings in tribunals, HCs and the SC be also recorded as is being done in many countries. The bench, which had directed only video recording of lower court proceedings, per mitted audio recording also. Additional solicitor general Maninder Singh, appearing for the Centre, told the bench that the SC e-committee had earlier decided against recording of proceedings in the apex court.
Bids invited for Aamby Valley at Rs 37,000 crore reserve price Agency | Pune
said. The minister said chief secretary Rajiv Kumar would head the committee that would probe the causes of disruption of oxygen supply , if any. “We do not rule out the involvement of corrupt officials in mishandling of the situation,“ he added. The committee is expected to submit
Gandhi warned new ministers
recieved nine bullet injuries during an encounter with terrorists in Bandipora, J&K on February 14 this year and survived, and Pramod Kumar, who was martyred while fighting terrorists in Nowhatta Chowk last Independence Day -have been conferred the country’s second highest gallantry award, Kirti Chakra. “This year’s police gallantry medal list includes 25 personnel of J&K police, apart from 10 CRPF and five BSF personnel deployed in the state.
SC favours audio|video recording of court proceedings, to examine issue
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Shedding its reluctance for years for audiovideo recording of court proceedings, the Supreme Court on Monday favoured installation of CCTV cameras in all courts, including in the apex court itself, to record proceedings after the Centre backed the proposal. In 2015, an SC bench, headed by then CJI H L Dattu, dismissed a PIL seeking its direction for video-recording of court proceedings. Similarly , the Bombay HC last year
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tuesday, 15 august, 2017 For this continent-sized nation, the quest for a place in the sun continues The task of accounting for India’s successes and failures is no mean one due to its bewildering complexity. That it is impossible to pigeonhole or fully comprehend India in all its varieties of experiences and outcomes is a given because we are talking of a continent-sized nation. The American scholar, Arthur Asa Berger, wrote in 2008, that “it is hard to reconcile a country that has atom bombs, millions of highly trained engineers, an extremely high growth rate and, at the same time, has millions of cows wandering around its streets and millions of desperately poor farmers.“ Economically , India has been a disappointment. Overall incidence of poverty has fallen from a high of 70% in 1947 to approximately 22% now. However, the pace at which India has slashed poverty has been maddeningly slow compared to other heavily populated countries like Indonesia and China. Misguided macroeconomic policies driven by socialistic ideology are partly to blame for India’s long post-independence economic stagnation. But even after adoption of market-friendly approaches in the 1990s and record-high GDP growth in recent years, a whopping 300 million Indians remain devoid of basic needs. The United Nations’ Human Development Index, which measures levels of healthcare, education and standard of living, ranked India at 131out of 188 countries in 2016. The stubbornness of poverty and malnutrition concentrated in northern and eastern states of India, in spite of the rise of a massive consuming middle class of some 300 million, is a serious flaw that confirms the narrative of India as a heterogeneous country where riches and privation coexist. To critics on the Left, India can never eliminate poverty if it keeps marching on a `neoliberal’ economic path that concentrates the benefits of growth in the hands of big business houses. On the Right, however, the argument is that parts of India where mass poverty is prevalent are presently left out of the burgeoning market economy and must be drawn into it to taste its benefits. A third perspective is that only continuous reform of governance, repurposing of the state apparatus and infrastructure uplift can deliver the poor out of misery . Since the election of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister in 2014, there has been a surge of expectation and optimism about India overcoming its socio-economic maladies.
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Hollywood-Bollywood Maryam Zakaria excited about her dance song with Kapil Sharma in Firangi Agency | Mumbai
Iranian-Swedish actor and model Maryam Zakaria, who performed to the Bollywood track Dil mera muft ka alongside actor Kareena Kapoor Khan in 2012, is excited about her special dance song in comedian and actor Kapil Sharma’s second film Firangi. “It feels great to be a part of Firangi movie. I have done a special dance song in Firangi movie with my favourite Kapil Sharma. This song is very special for me as after my Grand Masti movie, I am back on the screen with a very big song,” she told said. “I worked very hard to be back in shape and I am happy to come back to Bollyw o o d with
Independence Day 2017
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Whether it is Manoj Kumar trying to change the mindset of people of England about India in his film Purab Aur Paschim or Sunny Deol and his army trying to defend their post in 1997 film Border, Bollywood has a plethora of patriotic movies which instill a feeling of patriotism in the movie buffs. Adding to it are the several songs
which take us back to the era when freedom fighters gave their all to bring freedom to the country. These are the ones with such gut wrenching lyrics that we cannot help but feel proud of being a citizen of the same nation as Bhagat Singh, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Sukhdev, Rani Lakshmibai and Mahatma Gandhi among others. For all those who want to feel that strong sense of pride while indulging in some kite flying on August 15 this year.
Sunidhi Chauhan is one name that has become the very definition of versatility in the Bollywood playback singing scene. Brimming with talent, she has made her own place with panache in an industry where everything inclines towards males, and that includes playback singing too. Very few people
know that Sunidhi Chauhan was the joint winner of the first singing reality show Meri Awaz Suno hosted by Anu Kapoor and telecast on Doordarshan. This girl, who was at the tender age of just 13 then, never looked back.
such an amazing song. Thanks to Kapil Sharma and the director Rajiv Dhingra who felt that I was the right one for this song,” she added. The song has been choreographed by Chinni Prakash. Directed by Rajiv Dhingra, Firangi stars Kapil Sharma, Ishita Dutta and Monica Gill in the lead roles. In the
film, Kapil Sharma plays the character of a local boy who falls for an NRI girl. While Monica Gill plays his love interest, Ishita Dutta also plays a significant part in the movie. Few reports also suggested that Kapil had to lose a lot of weight to look his part in the film.
Shama Sikander dons a bikini Agency | Bengaluru
Shama Sikander has lately been in news for her glam look and for slaying with her hotness quotient at frequent intervals. The actor is now on a holiday and is sharing multiple clicks on her Instagram, which also includes one in a pink bikini. Well the actor is not only a good poser but also good with words as all her picture captions are deep. She is having a gala time in Switzerland, giving vacation goals to all. Shama Sikander is a known name on television and is yet again making her fans jealous with her latest clicks. Shama has never shied away from flaunting a toned body and she is doing the same yet again. She posted a picture where she is seen in a relaxed mode in the backdrop of a beautiful scenery, donning a bikini and soaking in the sun.
Bigg Boss Tamil
Shakti gets evicted, Kamal Haasan says there will be new entrants. Is Oviya coming back?
by the housemates. As the con- had faced an unceremonious exit Actor Shakti, known as testants had not substantiated earlier. Nobody had tried to in‘Trigger Shakti’ in the their nominations with prop- tervene when the latter had tried meme world due to his er answers, all contestants ex- to jump the wall in order to get Explainfrequent usage of the cept Raiza were nominated by out of the show. s ay ing this, word, was evicted on the Bigg Boss. However, lated 50 d k r a er during the m Sunday from Bigg Boss l Shaksode i a p m e a y K a . d ti said w Tamil. The episode il’s Sun lity sho r m a a a e l r T u s e p s h o that he also marked the 50th Bigg Bo yet p ts in t l n a i a t s s r e e w t ov ne a n d con day for contestants e contr will be h for the t e r s e t s h t o Sneat ho h in the house. This nced th u o aasan w n H n h a n a e week’s elimination hous , has e w h o t h s n i y s had heard was unique in a way, realit entrant Bharani say “I’m coming out as Shakti himself had week Vai- Bigg Boss” and thus had thought mentioned, the conyapoori and Gayathri were this was an arrangement betestants who were saved through their performanc- tween the producers and Bhanominated were not es in the tasks. In the customary rani. Shakti had also defended chosen chat after his elimination, Shakti Gayathri, who has been facing said that he had earned the rec- a lot of hate on social media for ognition for which he had partic- her behaviour towards Oviya. ipated in the show. When asked He said that while she might if he would he come back if giv- be temperamental, she doesn’t en an opportunity, Shakti gave a hold grudges. Gayathri, who diplomatic yet firm no. The actor was Shakti’s closest friend on also defended the housemates’ the show, was morose about his behaviour toward Bharani who exit. Agency | Chennai
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MCX records Rs. 7,596.98 crore turnover in session 1
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Cong meets guv over MBBS seats SS News | Ahmedabad
The Gujarat Congress has demanded that there should be separate quotas for students of Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board and the Central Board of Secondary Education in medical seats. The party demanded that if the government cannot fix such quotas they should normalize the marks as was done in case of All India Institute of Medical Sciences among others. Congress leaders led by Gujarat Pradesh Congress president, Bharatsinh Solanki met the governor and said
that of the 3,630 medical seats, 162 seats are reserved for All India quota and the remaining 3,468 seats were available for Gujarat students. The Congress claimed that of these 3,468 seats which were available only 500-odd students from Gujarati medium got admissions, while the remaining were from English medium. In government colleges, of the 918 medical seats, only 50 Gujarati medium students got admission. The Congress demanded that the Gujarat government should bring a legislation on the lines of Tamil Nadu government.
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US sprinter Allyson Felix breaks Usain Bolt’s record for most medals won in IAAF World Championships
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SPORTS ROUNDUP India consolidate no.1 position in ICC Test rankings after Sri Lanka whitewash
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American sprinter Allyson Felix has surpassed Jamaican great Usain Bolt for number of medals won at the IAAF World Championships. Felix was part of the US team that won the women’s 4x400m relay. It was Felix’s 16th career medal at the Championships. Bolt’s career came to an unceremonious end as he was unable to finish the men’s 4x400m relay final due to a hamstring in-
jury that he sustained shortly after collecting the baton. Bolt still leads the charts for most career gold medals in the World Championships. Allyson Felix broke Usain Bolt’s record of winning the most medals in IAAF World Championships. Felix is only one behind Bolt for number of gold medals won in the competition. Over half of Felix’s medals have come in 4x100m and 4x400m relays. She could also have
equalled the record for most Golds had she won the 400m finals. Compatriot Phyllis Francis won that race and she had to settle for a Bronze. Usain Bolt ended his glittering career in a rather unceremonious fashion at the 2017 World Championships. He could only manage a brozne in the 100m final with Justin Gatlin winning Gold. In the 4x400m final, Bolt was the final man to take the baton for Jamaica.
Yuvraj Singh has been rested for Sri Lanka series Agency | Mumbai
Selection committee chief MSK Prasad clarified that Yuvraj Singh’s exclusion from the ODI squad that faces Sri Lanka is not a death knell for the 36-year-old’s ODI career. Prasad said that Yuvraj has been “rested” and that doors are “never closed for anybody.” “Everybody has got a right to play cricket,” Prasad is quoted as saying by said, “It’s their passion. They are chasing their passion. In terms of selection, we try to select the best possible team. Discussions happen about everybody. It is not just MS
Dhoni (or anybody else). When we pick, when we talk about combinations, we talk about everybody.” Prasad said that Yuvraj has a chance at making it to the squad if he delivers. “Whenever a player keeps ageing, for example, I was just reading Agassi’s book, Open, his life actually started after 30 years. Till then he won two or three titles. His actual life started after that.
“He lived with media pressure, ‘When are you going to retire?’ But he played till 36 and he won so many Grand Slams. So you never know,” the former India stumper said, “We don’t say it is an automatic thing but we are all stakeholders. We all want the Indian team to do well. If he is delivering, why not? If he is not, we will have to look at alternatives,” Prasad added.
Happy Independence Day 2017: SMSes, WhatsApp and Facebook messages for August 15
capsulate this struggle After a long-drawn and the consequent struggle, on August euphoria of indepen15, 1947, India finally dence. Every year, on freed itself from the this day, people from clutches of the British different walks of life rule and emerged as and from different an independent entity. This year marks 70th anniversary of Indian independence, and a just occasion to remember the thousands of people who sacrificed their lives as well as the numerous movements that went of the in to securing a free strata society come together India. The immortal words of Pt Jawa- and celebrate. On this harlal Nehru, “At the occasion we bring to stroke of the midnight you a collection of hour, when the world SMSes, WhatsApp sleeps, India will and Facebook mesawake to life and free- sages that you can dom,” perfectly en- share with your near Agency | New Delhi
and dear ones to mark this day. * It is time for you to show your independence. Let yourself be heard and don’t follow the footsteps of others. Be yourself, fly free, and be independent. * On this 15 August, may you enjoy the freedom not only the one enshrined in our constitution; but may you be blessed with the freedom of mind, thought and spirit! Happy Independence Day! * Let your heart bask in free spirit, let your soul soar high with the essence of freedom. Happy Independence Day!
India are now 15 rating points clear of South Africa at the top of the ICC Test rankings. India benefitted from South Africa’s defeat away from home to England in the recently concluded Test series. It was shortly followed by India recording a thumping 3-0 series whitewash over Sri Lanka in the latter’s own backyard. India have thus consolidated their top position. They have been the no.1 Test team in the world since October 2016. India have been on a roll in Test cricket since their win over West Indies in 2016. They played 13 matches at home spread across the latter half of 2016 and
early 2017 of which they lost only one and drew two. They defeated New Zealand 3-0, England 4-0, Bangladesh in a lone Test and Australia 2-1. The Sri Lanka series was their first away Test tour since they travelled to West Indies. India won the first Test by 304 runs. Both the second and third Tests were innings victories for Virat Kohli’s side with one being by an innings and 53 runs and the other being by an innings and 171 runs.
But India’s lead can be curtailed as, apart from a scheduled visit by Sri Lanka, they don’t play a Test series for the rest of the year. India’s next Test series is set to be away to South Africa. Virat Kohli’s men can consolidate their top position further if they manage to get a good result out of the series. The series is set to extend over three matches. South Africa lost 3-1 to England in the recently concluded Test series at the latter’s home ground.
Krishna Janmashtami 2017: Date, pooja mahurat, story and significance of Lord Krishna’s birthday
SS News | Ahmedabad
Janmashtami 2017 Puja Vidhi: Janmashtami, also known as Krishna Janmashtami, is a religious festival to celebrate the birthday of Lord Krishna. Janmashtami is one of the most important festivals in Hindu religion. Janmashtami falls on August 14 this year, as per Indianexpress.com. According to the Hindu lunar calendar, Lord Shri Krishna was born on ‘Ashtami’ or the ‘eighth day’ at midnight in the holy month of Shravana. The festival is celebrated across the nation. However, in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura
DATE AND PUJA MAHURAT
A devotee should break the fast during Parana time in the midnight. Nishita Puja time is known as Nishita for Vaishnava Sampradaya followers, the festival falls on August 15 and their Parana starts at 5:54 am. Nishita Puja Time: 12:03 am to 12:47 am Midnight time of Nishita phase is 12:25 am On August 15, Parana Time: After 5:39 pm Ashtami Tithi End Time: 5:39 pm Dahi handi on August 15 (birthplace of Lord Krishna), Gujarat, and Rajasthan the festival holds a special significance and is celebrated with great zeal by the devotees. Significance and Story of Janmashtami 2017: Janmashtami is marked by a number of special activities. Devotees perform Raas Leela
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or Krishna Leela — special dance-drama enactments of Krishna’s life as per the Bhagavata Purana. In addition to Raas Lila, a night vigil or Jagarana, fasting (upavasa) and Dahi-Handi Mahotsav are also celebrated across the country. Lord Krishna is believed to be the eighth avatar of God Vishnu.
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Diagnosis delay spurs H1N1 surge SS News | Ahmedabad
As the deadly H1N1virus killed 11more people on Monday , the swine flu toll touched 201in the state. In Ahmedabad, 51 new swine flu cases were detected on Monday and one more person died of the disease, taking the toll to 44 in the city . Of 33 districts, swine flu has been detected in 20. The history of a few patients has revealed
that delayed detection of H1N1 is landing people in hospitals. The condition of many turned critical after their doctors, mostly small-time private practitioners, did not suspect
H1N1. An Asarwa resident, Anish Verma, whose 25-yearold wife is in a critical condition at the Civil Hospital, said that when she felt ill she took medication from the neighbour-
Doctor ends life with suspected anaesthetic SS News | Ahmedabad
A 26-year-old resident doctor with the VS Hospital was found dead from her hostel room on Monday morning. Dr Meghavi Patel, 26, an MD (paediatrics) student, had injected self with a compound, suspected to be anaesthetic agent. Police said that a note found from her pin-board mentioned stress related to work and study along with her ailment as reason for her extreme
step. According to Ellisbridge police, the sweeper at the residential hostel for PG students of NHL Medical College had approached Meghavi’s room as per routine at 9.30am on Monday. When she did not respond after repeated banging, the nearby residents were called on the spot and
the door was forced open when Meghavi was found on her bed unconscious. She was taken to the VS Hospital where she was declared dead. “Meghavi had done her MBBS from the same institution. Daughter of a senior government official, she had got married to Dr Vishal Patel, an MD (radiologist) currently working in Surendranagar, eight months ago.They had got engaged three years ago.
Woman booked for concocting braid story
The woman who fabricated braid cutting story in Kim village of Surat district has been booked for spreading rumour that created fear among people on Monday . The woman confessed to police on Sunday that she had fabricated the story and thus was booked in a first-of-itskind action here. Rinkudevi Raju Bhagat, 21, a resident of Kudsad in Kim village, was booked under Indian Penal Code section 505 1(b) for spreading ru mour with the intent to cause fear
are circulating on social media. Mufti Imran from Fatima Zohra School at Panigate and Mufti Aarif Hakim, rector at Darul-uloom at Tandalja are also seen singing the National Anthem. “It is being widely propagated SS News | Vadodara that Muslims don’t celebrate or acknowl- Almost a year after edge India’s Indepen- the Una Dalit flogging, another incidence. dent of Dalits being subjected to brutality has rocked Gujarat; this time in the prosperous Anand district. For nearly 20 minutes, a Dalit man and his mother, who were skinning dead cattle, were allegedly beaten up by a group of Darbar (Kshatriya) community members in Kasor village of and taluka. In Rajkot, Sojitra taluka on Satthe city police raided urday night. The vicfour gambling dens tim, Shailesh Rohit, early morning on 21, and his mother Sunday and arrested Maniben, 45, were 30 people for gam- subjected to verbal bling. Police recov- abuse first and then ered Rs 82,400 cash thrashed with sticks from them. by nearly 20 people.
Shailesh lodged a complaint on Saturday night naming five persons. “On Friday , Darbar community members threatened me to stop the skinning work saying it was raising a stink in their locality. To avoid any trouble, I had left for my house. But on Saturday night, we were attacked by the mob at our house in Rohitvaas,“ said Shailesh. Around 25 families living in Rohitvaas support their li velihood by skinning dead animals. Since there is no dedicated space for skinning in the village, they carry out the job on a plot on the village outskirts.
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Una rerun: Dalits skinning dead cattle thrashed
The video was shot at Darul-uloom, Tandalja, Juma Masjid, Jamia Riyzul Uloom, Nagina Masjid at Panigate and Darwaje wali masjid near Panigate. Twelve kids from Darululoom and 18 from Jamia Riyzul Uloom near Jama Masjid at Mandvi have participated in the video which the community leaders
132 people arrested in gambling raids at Rajkot SS News | Rajkot
As many as 132 people have been arrested for gambling in raids conducted at various places across Saurashtra in the past 24 hours. In Jamnagar district, police conducted raids at 10 different places and arrested 56 persons for gambling. Police recovered Rs 2,91,730 cash from them. In Thangadh taluka, police raided a gambling den in
condition at the Civil Hospital, said: “My mother was treated for viral symptoms at private a hospital for five days.“ He said doctors never suspected she had swine flu.“She was referred to Civil Hospital on August 9 after she went into respiratory distress,“ he said. Dr Asha Shah, the head of the medicine department at the Civil Hospital, said that 66 patients have been kept in isolated wards. “Fifty-five of them have swine flu and 11 re ports are awaited,“
among people. The police registered her statement and subjected her to intense questioning. Her house was examined by FSL experts who failed to find the presence of any outsider. The woman told the police that she trimmed her hair and then fabricated a story to get publicity. “We have booked the woman for spreading rumour. A strict action was needed since rumour-mongering has taken a dangerous shape in the region,“ said Nirlipt Raid, superintendent of police, Surat.
Muslims junk UP clerics’ appeal on nat’l anthem
At a time when many Muslim clerics in Uttar Pradesh have appealed to the members of the community to refrain from singing the National Anthem or record videos claiming that they are against Islam, members of the Muslim community in Vadodara have recorded a video to mark 71st Independence Day celebrations. In the video, which has gone viral on social media, community leaders too have sung the National Anthem.
hood chemist for two days. “Then a local doctor with a BAMS degree treated her for a week but never said anything about swine flu,“ Verma said. “Only after she suffered from acute breathlessness were we advised to take her to Civil Hospital where H1N1 was detected. On Saturday , the oxygen supply had stopped for 10 minutes and she was given oxygen manually .“ A Vastral resident, Pavansingh Chauhan, whose 50-year-old mother is in a critical
Rampar village and arrested 32 persons with Rs 2,55,690 cash. In Morbi, police raided as many as 20 gambling dens and arrested14 gamblers with Rs 1.35 lakh cash in Morbi city
Shah said. According to the state government statement, 145 cases of swine flu were detected on Monday which include 51 cases in the periphery of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and 32 registered by the Vadodara Municipal Corporation. Besides, nine
cases each were registered in Gandhinagar and Surat city. Shah stressed that most patients came to the hospital after taking treatment at private hospitals for four to five days. “According to our audit of 22 patients, 18 were first treated at private hospitals and then shifted to
Civil Hospital after their condition worsened,“ she said. “Swine flu treatment started only after they were hospitalized here.“Dr S T Malhan, the superintendent of the AMCrun VS Hospital, said that the hospital has been recording four to five cases every day.
and educational institutes on Monday morning at Polo Ground.But as soon as he left the venue at around 1.45 pm, thousands of students rushed to the adjacent `shamiana’ to collect the e-tablets from the counters put up by the universities. While police was nowhere to be seen, students
standing in the queue ran out of patientce and many others wanted to avoid the muck spread around the `shamiana’ due to Sunday’s rainfall.Even as security staff of M S University tried hard to control the crowd, the students, many of whom had come from far-flung areas since early morning, started barging into the shamiana, jumping queue and even broke a couple of fibre-plastic made counters.
all major temples and public places will have security arrangements to prevent any untoward incident. Swami Jaganmohan Krishna Das, president, Hare Krishna Movement, said that the Hare Krishna temple at Bhadaj will remain open the whole day on Tuesday as there will be Krishna Lila
and Bhajan event at the temple. In a first, a golden chariot, prepared by artisans of Madurai, Tamil Nadu, will be offered to Lord Krishna at the temple. At ISKCON temple on SG Road, the event will start from 6pm and continue till midnight, when the birth of Lord Krishna will be celebrated.
Chaos, ruckus mar NAMO tab distribution programme SS News | Vadodara
Utter chaos marred the state government’s programme to distribute NAMO e-tablets to students on Monday as seven girl students complained of nausea, vomiting, suffocation and uneasiness in the stampede-like situation that prevailed at the Polo Ground. Chief minister Vijay Rupani had launched the programme to distribute the e-tablets to students from various universities
Chants of `Nand Gher Anand Bhayo’ to echo in city SS News | Ahmedabad
At the stroke of midnight on Tuesday , the city will reverberate with chants of `Nand Gher Anand Bhayo...’ as devotees celebrate the birth of Lord Krishna in myriad ways ranging from organizing matki fod to midnight prayers and cradling the deity. City cops said that
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