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Short News Madras HC restrains parties from erecting digital banners on roadsides in TN Chennai : The Madras High Court Wednesday restrained political parties from erecting digital banners on roadsides across Tamil Nadu till further orders. A division bench of Justices M Sathyanarayanan and P Rajamanickam issued the interim order. The bench was hearing a contempt petition by social activist Traffic Ramasamy seeking to punish officials for ‘failure’ to implement the court orders against unauthorised banners. Unless the state government and the local bodies come out with a clear undertaking that the rules and various orders passed by the court would be strictly implemented and no violation would take place, all political parties shall not put up any digital banners on the sides of the roads across the state till further orders.
Madras HC quashes criminal defamation proceedings against Rajinikanth Chennai : The Madras High Court Tuesday quashed criminal defamation proceedings initiated against actor Rajinikanth by a film financier in a lower court. The court earlier dismissed a civil suit filed by the financier against Rajinikanth with a cost of Rs 25,000, saying it was nothing but an abuse of the process of law to gain cheap publicity and keep a famous person on tenterhooks. Financier Mukuchand Bothra had alleged that Kasturi Raja, the father-in-law of Rajinikanth’s daughter, had borrowed Rs 65 lakh from him with an assurance that if the money was not repaid by him, the actor would repay it. Bothra had filed the criminal defamation complaint in a magistrate court, saying the words used by Rajinikanth that the civil suit was only to extort money and malign his name was per se defamatory. The actor sought quashing of the criminal defamation proceedings.
Amarinder Singh: Pakistan Army trying to revive militancy in Punjab
Chandigarh : Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday reiterated that Pakistan’s decision to open the Kartarpur Corridor was an “ISI game-plan to help forces inimical to India, including the Sikhs For Justice (SFJ)”. Amarinder was reacting to the statement by the SFJ seeking Pakistan’s help to ‘liberate’ Punjab from India. The CM said it has exposed the nefarious designs of the organisation and its nexus with the Pakistani Army and the ISI. He also took exception to SFJ’s plans to hold Kartarpur Sahib Convention, 2019, coinciding with auspicious occasion of 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev. In a statement, Amarinder said, “It has also once again proved that the Pak government had always been, and continues to remain, a puppet regime, working at the behest of the Army there, he added. “The whole affair is a bigger conspiracy by the Pak Army, which is persistently trying to revive militancy in Punjab,” said the chief minister, reiterating his stand on the issue.
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ISRO signs off 2018 with ‘Angry Bird’ GSAT-7A launch to boost defence Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday launched the country’s newest satellite GSAT-7A from the second launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota. The satellite dubbed as ‘Indian Angry Bird’ was launched at 4:10 pm on Wednesday. With the launch of ‘Angry Bird’, ISRO signed off 2018. GSAT-7A, a 2,250-kilogram geostationary communication satellite, is said to boost Defence forces’ communication capabilities. It will provide communication services in Ku Band over the
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aircraft. GSAT-7A will also boost the India Air Force’s network-centric warfare capabilities and enhance its operations globally. The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-F11 (GSLV-F11) successfully launched GSAT-7A into Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit.
Congress became more cunning since Emergency: PM Modi hits back
Chennai: Hitting back at the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday it has humiliated every institution of democracy, be it the Army or the CAG. He said the main opposition party even questioned a Supreme Court verdict just because it did not like it, apparently hinting
at the continued assault by the party on him over the Rafale deal. The prime minister was interacting with booth level workers of Vellore, Kanchipuram, Viluppuram and south Chennai districts of Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry, through video conferencing from New Delhi. “The Congress party has become
more cunning since the days of Emergency,” he said, sharpening his assault on the Congress. Congress president Rahul Gandhi had on Sunday lashed out at the Modi government, saying he will not allow the “destruction” of institutions like the Supreme Court and the Reserve Bank of India. The BJP government believes “only one idea should run India”, Gandhi had told a public rally organised by his party’s southern ally the DMK in Chennai. Modi asked party workers to increase their outreach by creating awareness about his government’s welfare schemes. “From housing to health care, from sanitation to skills, there are schemes for every section of society,” he said, and asked booth level workers to reach out to people about those measures.
The latest letter signed by 83 ex-babus follows Dec 3 killing of Inspector and another man in Bulandshahr following violence.
Ex-bureaucrats demand Yogi’s resignation over Bulandshahr violence
New Delhi: A group of former civil servants has written an open letter criticising the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh government for failing to take action on the killing of a policeman in Bulandshahr and demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The letter, signed by 83 former bureaucrats on Tuesday, asked citizens to
unite in a “crusade against the politics of hate and division - a politics which aims to destroy the fundamental principles on which our Republic is founded”. “It is a measure of the rapid erosion of constitutional values that we, as a group, have felt a compelling need to speak out as many as nine times in the last eighteen months,” the letter read. The
latest letter follows the December 3 killing of Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and another man in Bulandshahr following mob violence over alleged cow slaughter. The main accused in the case is a leader of right-wing group Bajrang Dal. PTI had earlier reported that local BJP leaders had demanded his transfer after accusing him of creating obstacles for
Rahul has moved quickly to take credit for any potential farm loan waiver the govt may plan ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
religious functions. According to the letter, the violence in Bulandshahr was a deliberate attempt to display majoritarian muscle and send a message to the Muslim communities living in the region that they “have to live in fear, accept their subordinate status and conform to the cultural diktats of the majority community”.
Following Padmanabhan’s arrest, BJP leader Sobha Surendran to continue relay hunger strike.
Woke up Chief Ministers, next is Sabarimala row: BJP leader on hunger strike arrested, shifted to hospital ‘sleeping’ PM, tweets Rahul Gandhi New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said his party had managed to wake up the chief ministers of Assam and Gujarat to grant farm loan waivers and will rouse a “sleeping” Prime Minister Narendra Modi too. Gandhi’s comment came a day after he said he would not let PM Modi sleep till a loan waiver is given to all farmers. “The Congress party has managed to wake
the CMs of Assam & Gujarat from their deep slumber. PM is still asleep. We will wake him up too,” Gandhi said on Twitter. The Congress party has managed to wake the CM’s of
Assam & Gujarat from their deep slumber. PM is still asleep. We will wake him up too. The Congress president has moved quickly to take credit for any potential farm loan waiver the government may plan ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. There are reports the PM Modiled BJP dispensation is mulling major relief for farmers but the contours of such relief are not yet known.
‘Mahagathbandhan does not exist anywhere. We’ve fought all in 2014 and defeated them to form govt,’ Amit Shah said.
Oppn ‘mahagathbandhan’ illusion, BJP will retain power in 2019: Amit Shah
Mumbai: BJP president Amit Shah on Wednesday made light of the Opposition ‘mahagathbandhan’ (grand alliance), calling it an illusion and expressed confidence that the BJP will retain power after the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Speaking at the Republic Summit in Mumbai, Shah also said he was sure that the Shiv Sena will be with the BJP in the next Lok Sabha elections. Talks are on (with them), he added. “The reality of the Opposition
‘mahagathbandhan’ is different. It (the opposition alliance) doesn’t exist and is a ‘bhranti’ (illusion),” Shah said. “The mahagathbandhan does not exist anywhere. We have fought against all of them in
2014 and defeated them to form the government. They are all regional leaders, they can’t help each other,” the BJP president said. Shah said the BJP will gain in West Bengal, North-East and Odisha in 2019.
Trivandrum: BJP leader C K Padmanabhan, who had been observing indefinite hunger strike for the past 10 days outside the Secretariat in Kerala on the Sabarimala issue, was arrested and admitted to the hospital on Wednesday. Padmanabhan sat on the hunger strike after BJP state general secretary A N Radhakrishnan was arrested and shifted to the hospital as his health got deteriorated while continuing the fast. The hunger strike was launched by the BJP on December 3 to protest against the imposition of curfew under Section
144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) at Sabarimala and surrounding areas. Section 144 prohibits assembly of more than four people in an area. Following Padmanabhan’s arrest, BJP leader Sobha Surendran will continue the BJP relay hunger strike. Around 69 people were arrested in November after they allegedly violated Section 144 imposed in the vicinity of the temple. A string of protests was witnessed in the state after the September 28 Supreme Court’s verdict allowing women of all age groups to enter the Lord Ayappa shrine.
Delhi BJP President Manoj Tiwari with party supporters during a protest against Congress President Rahul Gandhi over the alleged scam in Rafale deal, outside the AICC office in New Delhi.
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Rahul Gandhi checks in with his populist card
Inspired by the success of his party’s election victories in the just-concluded Assembly elections, Congress president Rahul Gandhi has made the call that all farmer loans should be written off. It is clear that Gandhi is proposing to make it central to his party’s electoral agenda ahead of the 2019 general election. In short, Gandhi has given short shrift to economic logic and embraced populism as his primary weapon to prevent Prime Minister Narendra Modi from claiming a second term. The bigger risk is that this desperate gamble may set in motion an aggressive round of competitive populism. The timing of the remarks too are suspect, given that it comes with the Congress very clearly on the back foot and could well be designed as a distraction from its present troubles. First, the Supreme Court verdict on Friday dismissed the writ charging the government with mala fide in the deal for buying Rafale aircraft. Effectively, it blew a hole in Gandhi’s claims, made rather shrilly during the just-concluded electioneering, that the Modi regime was embroiled in corruption. Second, and probably more damaging for the party, a high court verdict indicted a senior Congress leader, Sajjan Kumar, and awarded him a life sentence for his role in the pogrom that led to the murder of 3,000 Sikhs in 1984. The party will find it difficult to shake off this taint, especially since the high court scrutiny of the riots is yet to conclude and the fear is that more skeletons will tumble out of the Congress cupboard. Even if this were not the case, the call for a nation wide loan waiver is fiscally preposterous. The Union government, which is already under pressure to meet its fiscal targets for the year, is in no position to bear this load. State governments are in an even worse place; in fact, states such as Karnataka and Punjab—both ruled by the Congress— are struggling to fund the electoral promise. Worse there is no evidence that such write-offs contribute in improving the lot of farmers; at best they provide stop-gap help and that too only to a section of the farmers. Politically too, there is no clear evidence that populism carves out an electoral advantage. Even in the just-concluded election to Madhya Pradesh, the Congress, despite its promise of a farm loan waiver, fell just short of a majority—the Bharatiya Janata Party, which had not promised such a palliative, ended up a close second. However, there is every chance that the opposition parties, unbridled by the burden of office, will up the ante on populist promises in the run-up to the electoral showdown next year.
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Mumbai: Navrangi Re! is the story of a lively mohalla in a town in Uttar Pradesh full of real, but quirky and endearing characters. It is the laugha-minute story of a community living on the edge, teetering from one challenge to another and coming together to arrive at solutions. Aamir Ali will be making a comeback on the small screen after one year and plays the lead protagonist Vishwaas in the show. He plays a struggling TV journalist in a local news channel in UP always scouting for a breaking news story to keep his job going. He
is a good-hearted person, intelligent and witty and always has ears for everyone in the mohalla. He has an interesting love-hate relationship with the lead actress in the show. Aamir Ali states, “I am returning to the small screen after a year and a half and I am really excited about the character of a TV journalist which I am playing in Navrangi Re! I have been tuning into all the news channels to get my mannerisms and diction right. Thanks to this show, I am completely updated on current affairs.”
Bollywood Chhapaak: Deepika welcomes Vikrant Massey on board
Mumbai: The Meghna Gulzar directorial based on the life of acid attack survivor Laxmi Agarwal has finally got a title. The film starring Deepika Padukone in the lead role is titled Chhapaak. Also, it has been confirmed that Vikrant Massey will be seen opposite Deepika in the film. He will play the role of Laxmi’s partner in the movie. Trade analyst Taran Adarsh confirmed the news in his latest tweet. “IT’S OFFICIAL… Deepika Padukone and Meghna Gulzar join hands… Their first film together is titled #Chhapaak… Based on the life of
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KGF has just unveiled its new groovy track Gali Gali starring Mouni Roy and the song is one of the hottest number
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Felt a sense of responsibility, says Mouni on her item number ‘Gali Gali’ Mumbai: As the new year is coming closer, KGF has just unveiled its new groovy track Gali Gali starring Mouni Roy and the song is one of the hottest number. The film stars Yash alongside the debutante Srinidhi Shetty. The song is a remake of the ’80s song Gali Gali Mein Phirta Hain from the film Tridev and is a perfect match to the film, which revolves around the ’70s and ’80s era. The yash-starrer action period drama is a true story
based on Kolar Gold Fields located in Karnataka. The film that is set against the backdrop of a different era revolves around Kolar Gold Fields and is a two-part series. The song is shot exclusively at Goregaon studio in suburban Mumbai and Mouni has been featured in multiple looks. The song will also star the leading man Yash along with Mouni and has been recreated by Tanishq Bagchi.
‘Bharti convinced me to do Khatron Ke Khiladi, I was extremely scared’, says Harsh Limbachiyaa Mumbai: COLORS’ is back with another euphoric season of Khatron Ke Khiladi filled with stunts, action, fears and triumph. This season, Khatron Ke Khiladi creates ‘Jigaar Pe Trigger’ and has been shot in the scenic locales of Argentina.12 daredevil uprooted themselves from their comfort zones and found themselves facing their fears through bewildering stunts One of the interesting contestant pair this season was comedy queen Bharti Singh and her beau Harsh Limbachiyaa. However, Harsh was very reluctant to join the show as it involved nerve wrecking stunts and creepy
crawlies. Harsh is extremely phobic of snakes and hence was skeptical but finally decided to be part of the show because of his wife Bharti Singh.His wife Bharti Singh convinced him to join the show to overcome his fears. Commenting about his experience, Harsh said, “ When I was offered the show I wasn’t quite sure and had second thoughts about taking it up. My wife Bharti always encourags me to take up different challenges offscreen and onscreen. Because of her motivation, I could also perform a lot of stunts including the ones involving reptiles which was my biggest fear.
Sushant Singh Rajput happy with Kedarnath Mumbai: Kedarnath has crossed the Rs 50 crore barrier at the box office and Sushant Singh Rajput is happy with the pace the film is going. Despite getting mixed reviews, the film has turned out to be a decent grosser at the turnstiles, and with a couple more days to go before the big ticket Zero hits the box office, the film is expected to fetch a few dollars more. Ostensibly, Sushant Singh Rajput is elated that Kedarnath did not go the Raabta way. “It feels good when people tell you that they liked the film. It is good when all the nuances in the film that we as actors and filmmakers have tried to show, have been understood and liked by the audience,” says the actor. “When an actor’s work is liked and appreciated, it really feels good,” says Sushant. Kedarnath also ran into controversies with certain individuals and bodies who claimed that the film sought to create trouble and the director Abhishek Kapoor came down heavily on them.
Baaghi 3 will be directed by Ahmed Khan.
First Look: Tiger Shroff announces release date of ‘Baaghi 3’ in the teaser poster
Mumbai: Sajid Nadiadwala and Tiger Shroff’s most famous and successful action franchise Baaghi has announced their third instalment which is set to release on 6th March 2020. Today the official announcement poster has been launched by Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment on their official Twitter handle. Tiger Shroff also shared the franchise to be very close to his heart. Tiger also twitted about this special announcement, “And round 3 is on! #SajidNadiadwala’s #Baaghi3 will be out on 6th March 2020. This one’s for you Baaghians. @khan_ahmedasas @foxstarhindi @NGEMovies @ WardaNadiadwala”. And round 3 is on! #SajidNadiadwala’s #Baaghi3 will be out on 6th March 2020. This one’s for
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acid attack survivor Laxmi Agarwal… Vikrant Massey has been signed to enact the lead opposite Deepika,” he wrote. Vikrant was last seen in AltBalaji’s web series Broken But Beautiful where he played the role of a heartbroken husband who lost the love of his life in a car accident. Speaking about signing Vikrant for her film, Meghna, in a statement, said, “We will start the film in the third week of March 2019, and the cast is still coming together. Vikrant is somebody who I wanted to work with since Raazi.
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WardaNadiadwala pic.twitter.com/ yivYiONFij — Tiger Shroff (@ iTIGERSHROFF) December 19, 2018 Born in 2016, Ronnie the rebel won hearts with the action-packed avatar. In 2018, the Baaghi made a smashing entry offering action sequences a notch higher turning out to be a blockbuster hit at the box office. Now, the much-loved character of Ronnie is all set to roar again in 2020. Even before the release of Baaghi 2, Sajid Nadiadwala announced Baaghi 3 instilling immense faith in his hero Tiger and director Ahmed Khan. Emerging as one of the highest grosser films of 2018, Baaghi 2 turned Tiger Shroff into the youngest Superstar of Bollywood.
los angeles : Penny Marshall, who starred in Laverne & Shirley before becoming one of the top-grossing female directors in Hollywood, has died. She was 75. Marshall’s publicist, Michelle Bega, said Marshall died in her Los Angeles home on Monday due to complications from diabetes. “Our family is heartbroken,” the Marshall family said in a statement. Marshall starred as Laverne DeFazio, the Milwaukee brewery worker, alongside Cindy Williams in the hit ABC comedy Laverne & Shirley. The series, which aired from 1976 to 1983, was among the biggest hits of its era. It also gave Marshall her start as a filmmaker. She directed several episodes of Laverne & Shirley before making her feature film directorial debut in Jumpin’ Jack Flash, the 1986 comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg. Her next film made Marshall the first woman to direct a film that grossed more than $100 million.
Bethenny Frankel shares near-death experience
los angeles : The Real Housewives of New York star Bethenny Frankel is feeling grateful to be alive. On Monday, Frankel revealed she was hospitalised after suffering from a nearly fatal allergic reaction to fish over the weekend. “I have a rare fish allergy. Sunday, I had soup, itched & was unconscious for 15 mins then to ER & ICU for 2 days w BP of 60/40 (sic),” Frankel tweeted, reports EOnline.com. She added, “I couldn’t talk, see, thought I had a stroke & dying & told if 5 mins later I’d be dead. 911 & EPI saved me. I’ll never not carry an #epipen. Frankel also thanked Newton Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts by tagging them on Twitter and writing, “xo (sic).”
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Lewis Hamilton says he made a mistake with slum comments
The Briton, his country’s most successful racing driver, said on national television at Sunday’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards that it had been a dream for him and his family “to get out of the slums”. London : Five-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has apologised to residents of his boyhood home town Stevenage for suggesting he grew up in a slum. The Briton, his country’s most successful racing driver, said on national television at Sunday’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards that it had been a dream for him and his family “to get out of the slums”. “Well, not the slums, but to get out of somewhere and do something,” the Mercedes driver, who is now a multimillionaire with homes in Monaco and the United States, added immediately after. The comment drew condemnation from
offended civic authorities and on social media. Hamilton, who speaks often about his journey from an underprivileged background to the pinnacle of motor racing, said in an Instagram post on Tuesday that he had made a mistake. The 33-year-old, only the third driver to win five championships, said he was “super proud” to come from the commuter town some 40km north of London where he was born and raised. “Nobody is perfect and I definitely make mistakes quite often, particularly when you are up in front of a crowd trying to find the right words to express the long journey you’ve had in life,” he said.
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The Barcelona forward scored 34 times in La Liga last season to claim his fifth Golden Shoe award, which is one more than Juventus’s Ronaldo has won.
I never expected so much success, says Lionel Messi
Madrid : Lionel Messi said he never expected to have such a successful career after receiving his fifth Golden Shoe on Tuesday, for being the top goalscorer in Europe last season. The Barcelona forward scored 34 times in La Liga last season to claim his fifth Golden Shoe award, which is one more than Juventus’s Cristiano Ronaldo has won. Messi pipped Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah to the prize after the Egyptian netted 32 times in the Premier League. “When I started playing I did not expect all this. My dream was, obviously, to be a professional, but I didn’t imagine so much,” Messi said at a gala in Barcelona on Tuesday. “This is thanks to hard work and effort and, above all, my team mates. I have the best players in the world in their positions playing beside me and
that makes everything easier and lets me win these prizes.” Messi, who also earned the Golden Shoe in 2009-10, 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2016-17, led Barcelona to a league and cup domestic double last season. The forward leads La Liga’s top scorers chart with 14
goals in this campaign, more than any other player in the top five European leagues. The Barcelona forward scored 34 times in La Liga last season to claim his fifth Golden Shoe award, which is one more than Juventus’s Ronaldo has won.
BCCI trying to ensure all IPL games take place in India: Board’s acting secretary
Jaipur: BCCI acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary on Monday said the board is trying its best to ensure all matches of the 2019 IPL take place in India. The dates and venues of the IPL are not announced yet as the BCCI is awaiting the schedule of the 2019 general elections which could clash with the T20 league. “We are trying our best to ensure that not a single
game is taken out of India,” said Choudhary during the IPL auction here on Tuesday. Due to the World Cup in England from May 30-July 14, the IPL is likely to run from last week of March to mid-May. The BCCI had hosted the tournament in South Africa during the 2009 elections before partially hosting it in the UAE during the 2014 elections.
India skipper Kohli and his Australian counterpart Paine clashed on the field in Perth a few times and exchanged a lot of words.
Virat Kohli-Tim Paine banter humorous, not abusive: Justin Langer Perth: Australian coach Justin Langer says he quite liked India’s aggressive yet notcrossing-the-line approach in the second Test and insisted that the heated exchanges between Virat Kohli and Tim Paine were humorous not abusive. India skipper Kohli and his Australian counterpart Paine clashed on the field a few times and exchanged a lot of words, with physical contact almost becoming a reality at one point. However, Langer said that he enjoyed the confrontation. “I thought it was brilliant. As the two captains and they’re trying to stamp their authority on the game
and I don’t think at any point there was any abuse or any real aggression to it,” Langer told ‘Fox Cricket’. “In fact there was a bit of humour and there’s been a lot of talk about banter. There’s got to be some in a Test match. It’s a great part of the game, and there was actually a bit of humour, a bit of Aussie humour as well. “That’s what we pride ourselves on we’ve got a bad reputation in a lot of ways, but when there’s a bit of humour in it I thought it was a good exchange,” he said. Langer said he was happy that his team could stand its ground against an aggressive India during the Test.
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Rupee strengthens 50 paise Indian drug inspectors seize Johnson & Johnson baby powder: source against US dollar
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Mumbai: Continuing its rising spree, the rupee appreciated another 50 paise to breach the 70 per dollar-mark in opening trade on Wednesday on persistent drop in crude prices amid fresh foreign fund inflows and sustained selling of the American currency by exporters and banks. Besides, the dollar’s weakness against some currencies overseas ahead of US Federal Reserve’s
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policy meet outcome later in the day also supported the rupee. The domestic unit opened with strength at Rs 70.05 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange and advanced further to 69.87 against the US dollar. Brent crude, an international benchmark, dropped 4.2 per cent lower to USD 57.07 per barrel Tuesday, a 14-month low. The rupee on Tuesday rallied by a whopping 112 paise, its best single-
day gains in over five years, to settle at 70.44 against the US dollar as softening crude oil prices eased concerns over India’s current account deficit expansion. Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) bought shares worth Rs 144.76 crore on Tuesday, as per provisional data. Meanwhile, the benchmark BSE Sensex rose 112.32 points, or 0.31 per cent, to 36,459.09 in opening trade.
The finance minister said in Rajya Sabha that four people died during the demonetisation drive in 2016-17.
Currency printing cost rose to Rs 8,000 cr in demonetisation year: Jaitley
New Delhi: The cost of printing currency notes escalated to Rs 7,965 crore in 2016-17, the year when the government had banned the high-value 500 and 1,000 rupee bills, the government informed parliament on Tuesday. Also, the printing cost came down to a substantial Rs 4,912 crore in the following year 2017-18 when the RBI had sufficed the shortage of bank notes which was caused due to the government’s demonetisation move. The expenditure on pri nting of notes during 2015-16
(the year prior to demonetisation) was Rs 3,421 crore, finance minister Arun Jaitley said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha. “Rs 79.65 billion (Rs 7,965 crore) and Rs
49.12 billion (Rs 4,912 crore) were spent on printing of banknotes in the year 201617 and 2017-18, respectively. In addition, Rs 1.09 billion (Rs 109 crore), Rs 1.47 billion ( Rs 147 crore) and Rs 1.15 billion (Rs 115 crore) were spent on remittance of currency in the year 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18, respectively,” Parliament was informed.The minister’s reply was in regard to details sought on expenditure incurred by the reserve bank for calling back Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes and destroying them.
New Delhi: Indian drug inspectors have seized samples of Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder from a plant in Himachal Pradesh, an industry source said on Wednesday, following a Reuters report the company knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos lurked in the product. The source, who declined to be named, said the samples were taken from the Baddi plant in Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday night. J&J India did not have any immediate comment on the reports of sample seizures by Indian authorities. On Tuesday the company said in a statement that the Reuters article, which was published on Friday, “is one-sided, false and inflammatory”. “Johnson
& Johnson’s baby powder is safe and asbestos free,” it added. “Studies of more than 100,000 men and women show that talc does not cause cancer or asbestosrelated disease. Thousands of independent tests by regulators and the world’s leading labs prove our baby powder has never contained asbestos,” the company said. Surendranath Sai, a drug officer in Telangana, said he was instructing drug inspectors to seize samples there. “On the basis of the news reports we are alerting to pick up samples. We will test them in a drug control lab here,” said Sai. “We will take action accordingly. Certainly we are worried because millions of babies may be affected.”
RCom shares plunge on report of government blocking Jio deal
New Delhi: Shares of Indian telecom company Reliance Communications Ltd plunged as much as 13 percent on Wednesday after the Economic Times reported that Department of Telecommunications (DoT) rejected a proposed spectrum sale to Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. The DoT rejected the deal to trade airwaves as it did not conform to its guidelines, the paper said, adding that as per the trading norms, the buyer is liable for dues that are not recovered from the seller. Jio
informed the DoT that it won’t be held liable for RCom’s past dues
related to airwaves, according to the report.The DoT move comes as a surprise as the it was widely expected to approve the transaction, though a day later than the original timeline due to last-minute paperwork, ET reported on Tuesday.
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Patel’s statement came in the wake of the Congress party writing off farmers’ debts in the three states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhatishgrah and Rajasthan, fulfilling a promise made by the party ahead of the Assembly polls.
‘No immediate plans to waive off farm loans in Gujarat,’ says deputy CM Nitin Patel
Ahmedabad : Terming the farm loan waiver a one time relief, the Gujarat government on Wednesday hinted that there is no immediate plans to waive off farm loans. Gujarat deputy chief minister Nitin Patel said the government would instead continue to meet the fundamental requirements for farmers. Patel’s statement came in the wake of the Congress party writing off farmers’ debts in the three states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhatishgrah and Rajasthan, fulfilling a promise made by the party ahead of the Assembly polls. “Our style is different. We aim at overall development of agriculture and make it sustainable. We want to make farmers happy, and not just through loan waiver ’’, said the minister adding, “Not 8, but the Gujarat government provides 10 hours electricity to farmers and recently we have provided new 1 lakh
farm electricity connections. Gujarat is leading in providing drip irrigation infrastructure and irrigation supply has been maintained in Narmada canal command area. All these at the cost of Rs 900 crore. Loan waiver is one time relief. Gujarat government has been meeting all the requirements to offer a permanent solution to
the farmers.’’ Earlier in the day, chief minister Vijay Rupani, replying to a tweet by Congress president Rahul Gandhi, said, “Under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi, Gujarat has always taken steps in favour of farmers. For the same reason, Gujarat farmers for one more time gave the BJP a chance to serve them. Farmers
have rejected the Congress for the seventh consecutive time’’. The tweet by Gandhi read, ‘’The Congress party has managed to wake the CMs of Assam and Gujarat from their deep slumber. PM is still asleep. We will wake him up too(sic)’’’ Rupani was referring to the BJP victory in 2017 assembly elections.
An official release by the central government did not to mention Rajkot, or any city in Gujarat for that matter, for the set up of the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences despite political leaders in Gujarat claiming that the Centre has cleared their proposal.
No AIIMS for Gujarat? As BJP Leaders Pitch for Their Cities, Centre Yet to Give Its Nod Ahmedabad: An official release by the central government did not to mention Rajkot, or any city in Gujarat for that matter, for the set up of the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences. Political leaders in Gujarat have claimed however, that the Centre has cleared a proposal to set up AIIMS in the city. Senior BJP leaders, including the party’s state unit chief Jitu Vaghani and Energy Minister Saurabh Patel congratulated the people of Rajkot saying the Centre has given a clearance to establish an AIIMS in the city. “In Ahmedabad, the state government has provided various medical facilities. In Surat also world-class medical facilities are available. In such
circumstances it is good that an institute like AIIMS is being established in Rajkot,” Vaghani told reporters in Jasdan in Rajkot district. Energy Minister Saurabh Patel even went so far as to to thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi for giving
Flexible working may cut CO2 emissions by 214 million tonnes: Study
Dubai : Switching to flexible working, that allows employees to work from closer to home and cut commute time, may reduce the levels of carbon dioxide emissions by 214 million tonnes per year by 2030, a new study has revealed. The study, carried out by independent researchers at Regus, found that if the growth in flexible workspace continues to increase, people around the world would save over 3.53 billion hours commuting every year by 2030. The amount of carbon dioxide saved by this reduction is equivalent to the amount of carbon sequestered by 5.5 billion trees over ten years. According to the report, the UK is set to save 7.8 million tonnes of CO2 by 2030, based on commuters saving 115 million hours from a turn to flexible working. The US could see the largest annual carbon emission saving by 2030. It is predicted to save nearly 960 million hours in commuting time, and with US commuters relying heavily on cars, this time saved translates to over 100 million tons of CO2.
AIIMS to Rajkot.” However, a Press Information Bureau (PIB) release issued on Monday only listed Tamil Nadu and Telangana as states where the Union cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister had approved for the establishment for the institute.
A victory will help the ruling party further its goal of retaining all the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat, a loss could put it on the back foot in the Saurasthra region
Pak activist Asma Jahangir honoured with top UN human rights award
London : Pakistan’s renowned social activist Asma Jahangir was posthumously honoured by the UN with a prestigious human rights award. Jahangir, an outspoken critic of Pakistan’s powerful military establishment, fought against religious extremism and for the rights of oppressed minorities in Pakistan. She died of cardiac arrest at the age of 66 in February. She was honoured with the 2018 United Nations Human Rights Prize, an award given every five years since 1968 Jahangir’s daughter Munizae Jahangir received the award on her
behalf from President of the UN General Assembly María Fernanda Espinosa at a special ceremony here Tuesday. Among others who won the award include girls’ education rights activist Rebeca Gyumi of Tanzania, Brazil’s first indigenous woman lawyer Joenia Batista de Carvalho and Front Line Defenders from Ireland, working to protect human rights defenders at risk. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the work of the honorees and that of other human rights defenders around the world is essential for the collective efforts to sustain
Gujarat: Jasdan bypoll could be litmus test for BJP ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha election
Ahmedabad: The high-stakes assembly bypolls in Jasdan on 20 December will put to test the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) strategy in the crucial Saurasthra region ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. It will also be a test for candidates who switched sides. While a victory will help the ruling party further its goal of retaining all the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat, a loss could put it on the back foot in the Saurasthra region where it suffered a major setback in the 2017 assembly elections. The Jasdan assembly seat fell vacant in July after sitting member of legislative assembly (MLA) Kunvarji Bavaliya quit the Congress to join the BJP.
international US plans complete withdrawal of troops from Syria
Washington : The United States is considering a total withdrawal of US forces from Syria as it nears the end of its campaign to retake all of the territory once held by Islamic State, US officials told Reuters on Wednesday. Such a decision, if confirmed, would upend assumptions about a longer-term US military presence in Syria, which US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis and other senior US officials had advocated to help ensure Islamic State cannot re-emerge. Still, President Donald Trump has previously expressed a strong desire to bring troops home from Syria when possible. The timing of the withdrawal was not immediately clear and US officials
who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity did not disclose details about the deliberations, including who was involved. It was unclear how soon a decision could be announced. The Pentagon and White House declined to comment. The United States still has about 2,000 troops in Syria, many of the special operations forces working closely with an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF. The partnership with the SDF over the past several years has led to the defeat of Islamic State in Syria but outraged NATO ally Turkey, which views Kurdish YPG forces in the alliance as an extension of a militant group fighting inside Turkey.
‘Perfect name’: Blind amphibian that buries its head in ground named after Donald Trump
London : A newly-discovered blind amphibian from Panama will be named after Donald Trump in recognition of the US president’s stance on climate change, according to a media report. EnviroBuild, a UK-based sustainable building materials company, announced on Tuesday that it would be using Dermophis donaldtrumpi as the name for the amphibian with no legs and poor eyesight. The company says
the name still will need to undergo peer review, but that other animals have been named after presidents in the past. The name was chosen by Aidan Bell, the boss of the firm which paid thousands at an auction for the right, The Guardian reported. Trump in June last year withdrew the US from the Paris climate change agreement, which commits countries to keeping a limit on rising global temperatures.
Yemeni mom wins fight to fly to US to give dying son kiss
London : All Shaima Swileh wants is to give her son one more kiss before he dies. The Yemeni woman is about to get her to wish after winning her fight for a waiver from the Trump administration’s travel ban so she can fly to California where her 2-year-old son is on life support. The State Department granted Swileh the waiver on Tuesday after lawyers with the Council on
American-Islamic Relations sued this week, ending a year-long battle for the family. Swileh is planning to fly to San Francisco on Wednesday to see Abdullah at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland. “This will allow us to mourn with dignity,” the boy’s father, Ali Hassan, said in a statement provided by the Sacramento chapter of the Council on American-Islamic
Relations.Hassan, who is a US citizen and lives in Stockton, brought Abdullah to California in the fall to get treatment for a genetic brain disorder. “My wife is calling me every day wanting to kiss and hold her son for the one last time,” Hassan said, choking up as he made a public plea at a news conference Monday, a day before the government granted the visa.
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