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NEWS BRIEF Kotkhai rape: Himachal IGP, 7 other cops arrested by CBI
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Inspector General of Himachal Pradesh Police Zahur Haidar Zaidi and seven other policemen were arrested by the CBI today in connection with the custodial death of a Nepalese labourer, who was a suspect in the rape-and-murder of a minor school girl in Kotkhai area of Shimla, agency officials said here. During the probe of the July 4 rapeand-murder case, the state police had taken custody of six suspects who were lodged at the local police station. Room rent in hospitals exempted from GST
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Rent paid by patients for hospital rooms will be exempted from the Goods and Services Tax (GST), the government said today. Issuing clarifications on levy of GST on the tariff for various accommodation services, the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) said the tax on rooms in the hotel, guest house or inns will be payable on the actual amount charged and not on declared or published tariff. “Declared or published tariff is relevant only for the determination of the tax rate slab,” said.
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Rains wreak havoc in Mumbai; rail, road, air services disrupted Mumbai is experiencing non-stop rainfall over the last two days. On social media, people have taken to tweeting out pictures and videos of the non-stop downpour using MumbaiRains. If you’re stuck in traffic or just sitting by a window and enjoying the rains, send us pictures using MumbaiRains
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Agency | Mumbai Mumbai is experiencing non-stop rainfall over the last two days. On social media, people have taken to tweeting out pictures and videos of the non-stop downpour using #MumbaiRains. If you’re stuck in traffic or just sitting by a window and enjoying the rains, send us pictures using #MumbaiRains To make matters worse, a high tide of 3.32 meters was also headed the city’s way on Tuesday evening. The Navy has sent out
five flood rescue and two diving teams to help people wherever needed. Civic authorities asked people to keep indoors but it was too late for most, for those who had to wade through dirty brown waters to offices. At some places, vehicles could barely be seen above water. There were also the only-too-familiar sites of thick branches nestling on shattered windshields or dented car tops. Traffic crawled on major arterial roads
the whole day while waterlogging was reported from low-lying areas, some right at the heart of the city. Dozens of flights and local train services were cancelled as rains lashed the coastal city of nearly 20 million people. As the meteorological department warned that the Mumbai rains would continue for the next 24 hours many offices sent staff home early, fearing a repeat of 2005 floods that killed more than
at the previous Congress-led state government and said that his government has taken various decisions with courage and have also executed them with conviction. He accused the previous government of leaving the system “crippled” during its regime. “The whole system had been crip-
pled when the NDA government assumed office,”he said. Modi also said that his government has taken all the challenges bravely and said that a weaker government would not have been able to tackle the situation. “Had there been anyone weak in such a situation, he would have been intimidated. But, we are from a different soil. We accept challenges, find solutions and move ahead on the development path,” he said. Speaking about infrastructure develop-
1,000 people. “Areas such as Mumbai, south Gujarat, Konkan, Goa and west Vidarbha will get extremely heavy rainfall in the next 24 to 48 hours. It is a serious situation. We have issued necessary warnings to the departments concerned, including airports,” A K Srivastav, head of climate monitoring and analysis at IMD Pune, told said. “The weather, which has brought heavy showers over the Mumbai region, has been upgraded from ‘well marked low pressure’ to ‘depression’. It means it is set to bring more rains. Hence, we have predicted an extremely heavy rainfall,” he said.
We take decisions with courage, execute them with conviction: PM
Agency | New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Udaipur today to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for various highway projects in Rajasthan, with an outlay of over Rs 15,000 crore. Addressing a massive rally at Khelgaon in Udaipur, the prime minister took a dig
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Chandigarh court rejects bail plea of Vikas Barala, friend
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A Chandigarh court on Tuesday refused to grant bail to Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala’s son Vikas Barala and his friend Ashish Kumar in a stalking case. The bail plea was dismissed by the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Barjinder Pal Singh. Both the accused shall continue to remain in jail. The court had yesterday sought Chandigarh
Police’s reply on the bail application filed by both Vikas and Ashish. The Chandigarh Police today submitted its reply in the court and said both should not be granted bail. The duo shall now have to file the
bail application in the higher court. Both Vikas and Ashish were arrested for allegedly stalking disc jockey Varnika Kundu, who is the daughter of a former IAS officer, on Chandigarh street earlier this month.
ment in the state, the prime minister said that the infrastructure projects will prove of immense benefit to Rajasthan. “We will make efforts to complete the works undertaken by us. We take decisions with courage and execute them with conviction. The infrastructural projects will be game changer for Rajasthan,” said Modi. He also dedicated 11 national highway projects to the nation.
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Marital Rape As Crime Will Hit Institution Of Marriage: Centre To Court Agency | New Delhi Making marital rape a criminal offence will make men vulnerable to harassment by their wives, the Central government told the Delhi High Court today in response to a clutch of petitions by women’s organisations who want marital rape to be legally recognized and penalized. The Centre said in an affidavit that marital rape may become an easy tool for harassing the husband and that there can be no lasting evidence in the case of sexual acts between a man and his own wife. It has argued for status quo, also saying that making criminalising marital rape would “destabilise the institution of marriage”. Women’s
organisations have sought that Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code, the law that defines rape, should be declared unconstitutional, arguing that it discriminates against married women being sexually assaulted by their husbands. Section 375 has an “exception provision” which states that the rape law will not apply to assault or sexual intercourse by a husband on his wife who is above the age of 15 years. The exception
clause in the law was brought by way of an amendment in 2013, as more stringent rape laws were framed months after the brutal gangrape of a medical student in a moving bus on December 16, 2012. For years, women’s organisations have been demanding that the rape of a woman by a husband be recognized as a criminal act that carries penalties. The High Court had asked the Centre to spell out its stand on the petitions it is hearing.
Rampal has been acquitted in the two criminal case. He has been acquitted in the two cases (426 and 427). It’s a victory of truth.” Rampal has been cleared of two charges — obstructing government servants from performing their duty and wrongful confinement of people. He will, however, continue to remain in jail as he faces
charges in at least eight other cases, one of which dates back to 2005 where a villager was shot dead in Hisar. Public prosecutor Rajesh Chaudhary said, “Besides these two FIRs, there are few more criminal cases yet pending against him that includes heinous crimes. Thus, he shall continue to stay in jail”. Rampal is currently lodged in Hisar Central jail. Judicial Magistrate First Class Mukesh Kumar held the court inside the jail premises and pronounced the verdict.
Sant Rampal acquitted in two cases, awaits judgment in at least eight more
Agency | New Delhi A Hisar court on Tuesday acquitted self-styled godman Sant Rampal in two cases registered against him, after both eyewitnesses and the complainant turned hostile. Briefing reporters outside Hisar Central Jail, where a special court was set up to pronounce the verdict, Rampal’s lawyer A P Singh said: “Sant
Benami properties case: Income Tax department questions Rabri Devi, Tejashwi Yadav
The two were questioned about the alleged benami assets that the department thinks were created by members of the Yadav family Agency | New Delhi
RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s wife Rabri Devi and son Tejashwi Yadav were questioned by the Income Tax department on Tuesday in connection with its alleged benami properties probe against the Yadavs and others in land deals worth Rs 1,000 crore. Their statements were recorded by the Investigating Officer of the case after the mother and son appeared at the IT office in Patna after being sum-
moned by the department. The two were questioned about the alleged benami assets that the department thinks were created by members of the Yadav family. Officials from the IT department told PTI that a special IT team has reached Bihar from Delhi to help the Investigating Officer of the case and to take the probe forward. The department had earlier also questioned Lalu Yadav’s daughter and MP Misa Bharti and her husband Shailesh
Kumar in connection with the same case. Notices of attachment of assets had also been served to Lalu, Rabri, Tejashwi and Lalu’s daughters Chanda, Ragini Yadav, Bharti and son-in-law Kumar in June. The department had attached about a dozen plots and buildings in Delhi and Bihar including a
farm house and land in the Palam Vihar area, a residential building in South Delhi’s upmarket New Friends Colony area, nine plots on a 256.75 decimal land area in Phulwari Sharif area in Patna, where a shopping mall was being constructed, among few others in the same area in Bihar’s capital.
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wednesday, 30 august, 2017 How Does Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu Get To Keep His Job Even After 3 Accidents In 10 Days?
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Heads have rolled for far less, but Suresh Prabhu stays railway minister, in spite of 3 major accidents under his watch in the last 10 days alone. India’s third railway minister Lal Bahadur Shastri resigned in 1956 after the Ariyalur train accident in Tamil Nadu, in which 142 people died. In 1999, railway minister Nitish Kumar quit office after nearly 300 were killed in a mishap in Assam. And a year later, Mamata Banerjee, Kumar’s successor, left her position as well after twin railway tragedies in 2000. To give Prabhu credit, he did offer to resign after the second disaster but Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked him to wait. Why? No one seems to know for sure, so perhaps it’s safe to guess there is no candidate more suitable than Prabhu to don the mantle of the Union railways minister at the moment. Or maybe we can expect better performance from him in the days to come. But that’s no comfort to the dead and dying. Early this morning, the engine and seven coaches of the Nagpur-Mumbai Duronto Express derailed in Kalyan in Maharashtra. Several people were injured, though there were no reports of major casualties. Only days ago, the Delhi-bound Kaifiyat Express had derailed in Uttar Pradesh’s Auraiya district on 23 August, leaving at least 81 people injured. On 19 August, the Kalinga Utkal Express also derailed in Muzaffarnagar, again in Uttar Pradesh, killing 22 people and injuring over 200. In India estimated that around 238 persons to have lost their lives in “consequential train accidents” during the year 2016-17. Of these, 193 deaths were from derailments alone, the highest-ever number of deaths from such a cause in the 17 years for which data is available. Before we get carried away by the data, let’s remind ourselves of the plain truth: Indians have been dying in droves for years now, or getting grievously injured, because the State is unable to deliver a safe public transport network, one that is, ironically, funded by the taxpayers’ money. The reasons for such abysmal failure are well-rehearsed. Much noise is made about decades-old tracks that need replacing, faulty signalling system and unmanned level crossings every time an accident happens. But everything goes back to business as usual before the dust on the wreckage has fully settled.
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You must be living under a rock if you haven’t been blown away by the massive media speculation over Taylor Swift’s latest music video, Look What You Made Me Do. The much-talkedabout track is the first single from her upcoming album, Reputation, and the bellicose lyrics of the track have already garnered huge attention, while stirring up almost a decade old feud with rapper Kanye West. Taylor and Kanye have not been on good terms, to put it mildly, and we don’t see this altercation coming to an end any time soon. For the uninitiated, this is the how the drama between the Country singer and the rapper unfolded over the years: Taylor Swift wins an award at the MTV Video Music Awards for the Best Video of the Year for You Belong With Me. An excited
But a lot has changed now for the Baba, who has been convicted in a 15-yearold rape case and awarded 20 years in jail by a CBI court on Monday. The Dera
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The trailer of Rajkummar Rao’s much-talked about movie Newton has finally been unveiled by the makers of the film. The three-minute trailer begins with Newton (Rajkummar) looking for a match but the girl turns out to be a minor (16-year-old) so he declines the proposal. The trailer proceeds to show how Newton is assigned election duty in a naxalite area where people don’t turn up to vote as they fear losing their lives. However, he is determined and
decides to bring a change. “Jab tak hum kucch nahi badaloge na dost, tab tak kucch nahi badlega,” says Newton. Pankaj Tripathi also features in the trailer. He will be portraying the role of local commander of a paramilitary troop. Newton has been directed by Amit V Masurkar, who previously helmed 2013 film Sulemani Keeda and produced by Manish Mundra. The film had its world premiere in the Forum section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.
Taylor’s award acceptance speech is disrupted by an over-zealous Kanye, who barges onto the stage, snatches the mic from a baffled Taylor, and goes on to say that Beyonce’s music track, Single Ladies, has the best video of the year. A year after the whole incident, Kanye takes to Twitter to send out a tirade of tweets offering an apology to Taylor. He tweets, “I am sorry, Taylor”, and talks about a song he has written for Taylor as a form of an apology for his actions. Swift releases a song, You’re Just An Innocent, and the world senses the tone of forgiveness in it. It is assumed that the two have buried the hatchet, finally. The Telegraph reported that West was quoted saying, “Taylor never came to my defense in any interview. And [she] rode the wave and rode it and rode it.” Swift’s revelatory interview from Rolling Stone magazine quotes, “Above the fireplace, which is emblazoned with a small heart, there’s even a photo of the moment Kanye stormed her VMA stage (captioned, “Life is full of little interruptions,” a phrase that’s also in the liner notes of her last album), right next to what is presumably the actual award in question under glass”.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim case: Kiku With Taylor’s Sharda and Twinkle Khanna’s tweets about ‘MSG’ are unmissable latest into judicial custody for ‘hurting the sentiments’ of Dera music video followers. Here’s an excerpt from Twintargeting kle’s blog – “Anyway, all this monkey the Wests, business reminds me of a certain cheeky Agency | Mumbai Chief was convicted monkey and old colthis league, Kiku Sharda Actor Kiku Sharda in the case on Friday and soon reac- who was jailed for controversy was sent to 14-days tions started pouring mimicking the Love judicial custody for in. Twinkle Khanna, Charger. I think he mimicking Dera Sais far from cha Sauda head Gur- wife of superstar Ak- should immediateshay Kumar, who is ly go to the nearest meet Ram Rahim an author and colum- Chinese restaurant over Singh Insan last year. nist too had penned to celebrate, or-
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a piece on Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh for said. In the blog titled ‘When the Love Charger ran out of battery’, Twinkle had mentioned Kiku, who had been taken
der a beer and tell the waiter, ‘I don’t want any monosodium glutamate in my Schezwan chicken, you people should lock away your MSG too.”
Race 3: Salman KhanJacqueline Fernandez starrer to hit the floors in October
2 fans misbehave with Jacqueline at recent event, Varun comes to her rescue Agency | Mumbai
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After the box office debacle of his last release ‘Tubelight’, superstar Salman Khan is all set to begin shooting for his next project ‘Race 3’. According to the media reports, the movie will hit the floors in October and will feature Jacqueline Fernandez opposite Khan in the lead. Interestingly, a lot of
speculations were being made about the movie regarding its cast and shooting. However, producer Ramesh Turani has cleared the air that while Salman-Jacqueline will be the lead pair, the first schedule of Race 3 will be shot in Mumbai. “As of now, Salman and Jacqueline have been finalised for the lead while Remo D’Sou-
za is directing it. We are yet to lock the rest of the cast and crew. We start shooting on a set in Mumbai in October, followed by a long international schedule. We are currently figuring out the dates and foreign locations. The story is set abroad and will be completely different instead of taking off from the previous two films,”.
It seems that fans have suddenly got the audacity to come too close to actresses’ comfort of late. Ileana D’Cruz had recently opened on an incident where six men harassed her when she was in her car by banging on the window and even climbing on top of it. Few months ago, Vidya Balan had also revealed how a fan tried to come too close to her on the pretext
of a selfie. And now Jacqueline Fernandez has also faced a similar situation recently. The incident took place a day before the trailer launch of her film ‘Judwaa 2’ on 21 August. 50 pairs of twins, after winning a contest, were invited for the event with Varun Dhawan’s dual avatars playing a crucial part of the plot. As part of their prize, all of them were also promised that they would
get to spend time with the leads Varun Dhawan, Jacqueline and Taapsee Paanu. However, all plans went kaput when a pair of twins tried to misbehave with Jacqueline, according to a report in midday. “The plan was amended after a few male contestants from the group crossed the line of decency. An over-enthusiastic pair barged past the security, nudging aside the bodyguards.
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MCX records Rs. 8,333.96 crore turnover in session 1
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India’s Multi Commodity Exchange has recorded a daily turnover of Rs. 8333.96 crore in session 1 on Thursday, August 24, 2017.MCX Comdex – The composite index of metals, energy and agri-commodities was down by 5.71 point to 3250.21 point, MCX Metal index was reached at 4907.75 and MCX Energy index was reached at 2292.25 while MCX Agri index reached at 2501.11 point. BULLION GOLD Oct17 contract was down by 0.32% to Rs. 29070.00 per 10 gram. GOLD Dec17 contract was down by 0.23% to Rs. 29179.00 per 10 gram. GOLDM Sep17 contract was down by 0.28% to Rs. 29009.00 per 10 gram. GOLDM Oct17 contract was down by 0.31% to Rs. 29081.00 per 10 gram. GOLDGUINEA Aug17 contract was down by 0.16% to Rs. 23033.00 per 8 gram. GOLDPETAL Aug17 contract was down by 0.14% to Rs. 2869.00 per gram. SILVER Sep17 contract was down by 0.87% to Rs. 38734.00 per kg. SILVER Dec17 contract was down by 0.88% to Rs. 39359.00 per kg. SILVERM Aug17 contract was down by 0.83% to Rs. 38752.00 per kg. SILVERM Nov17
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Even as the Sri Lankan cricket team endures a rather painful period of transition after the retirement of several superstars in quick succession, the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) chief Thilanga Sumathipala is set on ignoring the calls for his resignation from former captain Arjuna Ranatunga. Sri Lanka have had a torrid time at home, with the worst display coming against the rampaging Indian team, as the hosts have lost all three Tests and also three One-day Internationals (ODI) played so far, two from a po-
Uber, the world’s largest ridesharing company, today announced a range of initiatives and partnerships for driver partners in India. Among them was the country’s first ridesharing insurance program. In partnership with ICICI Lombard General Insurance, the policy provides driver partners (aged 18 to 65) of four-wheeled vehicles intended to carry passengers with free coverage for accidental death and disablement,
After MS Dhoni’s BackTo-Back Hits, Fans Mock Chief Selector MSK Prasad sition of strength. “There is no need to resign, the administration is not at fault for the team’s poor showing,” Sumathipala said on Tuesday. Ranatunga, the current minister of Petroleum, said he had written to both the President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that
they should intervene to put Sri Lanka’s cricketing fortunes back in order. He demanded the sacking of the Sumathipala administration and appointment of an interim committee to run SLC. Sri Lanka lost the Test series 0-3 to India and are currently 0-3 down in the five-match ODI series.
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Chief selector MSK Prasad has endured a rough ride after his recent comments about MS Dhoni’s future. Speaking after India’s limited-overs cricket squad was announced for the ongoing Sri Lanka series, Prasad said the selection committee would have to look at alternatives if the former India captain failed to deliver. “You never know. We don’t say it is an automatic thing (selection) but we will see. 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 had said. Enraged Dhoni fans hit back at Prasad after the wicketkeeper-batsman played two crucial knocks against Sri Lanka to help India seal the ODI series. In the 2nd ODI, Dhoni and Bhuvneshwar Kumar put on an unbeaten 100-run stand for the
8th wicket to take India home. Dhoni followed that up with another unbeaten century partnership with Rohit Sharma to guide the visitors to a 6-wicket win in the 3rd ODI. On both occasions, Dhoni rescued the team from a difficult situation thereby highlighting the value he brings to the side.
against India. The selection panel headed by former batting legend Sanath Jayasuriya took office on May 1, 2016. The other members of the panel are Romesh Kaluwitharana, Ranjit Madurusinghe, Eric Upasantha and Asanka Gurusinha. During this period, Sri Lanka defeated Australia 3-0 in a home Test series and won 2-1 in the
T20I series in Australia. However, the lows were more pronounced where they suffered a first-round elimination in Champions Trophy and lost an ODI series to Zimbabwe for the first time, at home. This was not the first time Jayasuriya held the post, having performed the duties from January 2013 to March 2015 during his first stint.
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Playing in her first grand slam after a 15-month doping ban and limited to just one hard court warmup match, Maria Sharapova conceded she had no right to come away with a first round win over second seed Simona Halep at the U.S. Open on Monday. However, the 30-year-old Russia belied her own self-doubt with an impressive threeset win over the Romanian to thrust the former world number one back into the spotlight as the toast
of the Big Apple. “Not playing a lot of matches coming into this, it almost seemed like I had no right to win this match today,” the 2006 U.S. Open champion told reporters after her 6-4 4-6 6-3 victory. “And I somehow did and I’m proud of that.” It had been three years since Sharapova last appeared at Flushing Meadows and by the end of Monday’s three-hour thriller, both the sellout crowd and the five-time grand slam winner were aware of just how much
they had missed each other. When Halep’s return sailed long to give Sharapova the victory she dropped to court and covered her eyes while the Arthur Ashe crowd stood and roared. “When I found out that I received the wild card, I was obviously extremely excited,” said Sharapova, who had been denied a similar entry into the French Open and missed Wimbledon due to injury. “I realised how long it had been since I played at the U.S. Open.
Sri Lanka’s selectors are set to step down after the current series against India, sources told Cricbuzz on Tuesday (August 29). Their decision comes in the aftermath of Sri Lanka’s humiliating defeat in recent times, during which they lost the Test series 0-3 and have already conceded an unassailable lead of 3-0 to India in the ongoing five-match ODI series. The decision will come to effect at the conclusion of the solitary Twenty20 International on September 6, which rounds off the home series
65% polling in PV Sindhu will have many golds by the end of her career, says Pullela Gopichand Kakinada Municipal Agency | New Delhi
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On return from World Badminton Championships at Glasgow, Scotland, PV Sindhu and coach Pullela Gopinath said that they were proud of the final game on Sunday as the head coach appreciated the entire team for a good performance adding that Sindhu will win many golds by the end of her career. Sindhu, who returned with silver from the tournament after losing in the final to Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara, said that there is no such thing as Chinese dominance. “I played my game
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and gave my best. Everyone has their own style of play. It is not that Chinese have a different style of play, although they played really well in the tournament but everyone has a different style of play,” said Sindhu. “Fought hard but it was just not my day.” “We have been practicing really hard. We don’t have much
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time between the tournaments. Before the World Championships, however, we had one and a half months. So in a way, it was nice that we got so much time to prepare.” “Mentally and physically, it is tiring but at that time, we just think that we have to get that point. Even I was just thinking that we just need to play at the court.
It was a good match. From the first point, there were long rallies. It was not like I could have saved my energy. Every rally was equally tough,” she added. On the fans cheering the players mid-rally, Sindhu said, “I never felt that fans cheering was disturbing. It felt good that there were so many fans to cheer me on.
About 65 per cent polling was reported in the elections to the Kakinada Municipal Corporation (KMC) today. Barring stray incidents of violence in a couple of wards, the polling process ended smoothly under the direct supervision of north coastal zone IG Kumar Viswajeet. In one division, YSR Congress workers had a face-off with BJP men and they allegedly tried to attack BJP MLC Somu Veerraju, an official said. Police resorted to cane charge and dispersed
the mob, a deputy superintendent of police said over phone. Viswajeet rushed to the scene and ensured the situation did not escalate. In another division, TDP and YSRC workers clashed but police immediately intervened and brought the situation under control. Kakinada, a Smart City under the Smart Cities Mission, went to polls after a gap of seven years. Of the total 50 divisions in the KMC, polls were conducted in 48 only while the remaining were stayed by a court order.
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Zorba launches its first premium yoga studio in Ahmedabad SS News | Ahmedabad
Zorba – A Renaissance studio, a renowned brand name and the largest and happiest chain of yoga studios in India has expanded its footprints to the city of Ahmedabad. Zorba – A Renaissance studio is situated in the premises of Talwalkars fitness club at Judges Bungalow Road. The studios are open to all from 6 AM to 8.45 PM. The premium yoga experience can be
availed at the rates of Rs. 2999/- plus taxes for a month, Rs. 7999/- plus taxes for three months & Rs. 14,999/- plus taxes for six months. One can also log on to www.wearezorba. com or call on 079 4003 8556 for further details. Zorba is the brain child of Sarvesh Shashi, all of 25 years Sarvesh is
the youngest CEO in the yoga & wellness category of India. On the rapid & vast expansion of Zorba he shared, “Yoga is unification of mind, body and soul, with Zorba we envision to take this unification and experience to all. Today we are the largest chain of yoga studios in the country; with three studios in early 2016 Zorba will reach 80 studios across more than 46 cities by September end.
Hardik Patel, aide arrested in Gujarat on charges of assault, dacoity
The police on Monday night detained Patidar quota leader Hardik Patel and his close aide Dinesh Bambhania in an “assault” case registered against them in Patan town of North Gujarat on Saturday. One Narendra Patel had filed a complaint against Hardik, Bambhania and four others at Patan B Division police station on Saturday. On the basis of the complaint,
the police had registered a case against them under IPC sections 395 (dacoity), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt). “Hardik Patel was detained from Anand district on Monday by the police and he will be handed over the Patan police, who will then formally arrest him in a case registered on Saturday against
among other charges. The elder sister, in her complaint against Asaram, had accused him of repeated sexual assaults between 2001 and 2006 when she was staying at his ashram near Ahmedabad. In the case in
Rajasthan, a teenage girl had accused him of sexual assault at his ashram in Manai village near Jodhpur. The girl, who belonged to Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh, was a student living in the ashram. The
apex court had noted that trial in the matter was unnecessarily prolonged and the prosecution witnesses were being attacked, which led to the death of two witnesses. The apex court had on November 18 last year sought the response of the Centre and five states on a plea seeking a CBI probe into the alleged murder of children and attacks on ten witnesses in the Asaram rape cases.
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Banaskantha and Patan. President of Surat District Panchayat Mr. Sureshbhai Patel and the office bearers handed over the cheque on behalf of District Panchayat in the presence of Minster of State for Forest
and Tribal Department Mr. Ganpatsinh Vasava handed over the cheque to Mr. Vijay Rupani. Mr. Rupani appreciated the initiative taken by the Surat District Panchayat for the rehabilitation of the flood victims.
stance, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was fielded from Rampur in Uttar Pradesh. Likewise in Delhi, where the Muslim population declined from 33% in 1941 to less than 6% in 1951 – it took a quarter of a century before any national party fielded a Muslim candidate in 1977 – Sikandar Bhakt of the Janata Party. Since 1985, no major party has nominated Muslims from any Lok Sabha seat from the capital. In 1977, the Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Mas-
jid controversially ‘directed’ Muslims to vote en bloc against the Congress in retaliation to Indira Gandhi’s over-enthusiastic forced-sterilisation programme during Emergency. In 1983, Indira used communal tactics in Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls and enlisted the ‘Hindu’ Jammu region while the ‘Muslim’ Valley was swept by the National Conference. Yet, such tactics were subtle – even Rajiv Gandhi in 1984 talked about borders advancing to people’s doorsteps and framed the party’s slogans against the background of turbaned men. But Narendra Modi’s first electoral campaign in 2002 changed all that: for the first time the leader of a party.
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SC questions Gujarat Govt over slow trial in rape case against Asaram Bapu
Agency | New Delhi
The Supreme Court today questioned the Gujarat government over the slow pace of trial in the rape case involving self-styled godman Asaram Bapu. A bench comprising justices N V Ramanna and Amitava Roy asked the state government why the victim has not been examined till now. It asked the state government to file an affidavit in this regard and posted the matter for further hearing after Diwali. The apex court had on April 12 asked the trial court in Gujarat to expedite the recording of evidence of prosecution witnesses in a sexual assault case lodged by two Surat-based sisters against the selfstyled godman. The court had asked the Surat trial court to re-
cord the testimonies of 46 remaining prosecution witnesses including the alleged rape victims. Earlier, the top court had refused to grant bail to Asaram on various grounds including his poor health in two separate sexual assault cases lodged in Rajasthan and Gujarat. The apex court, while dismissing his bail plea on January 30, had observed that Asaram had placed a “fictitious document” to persuade the court to grant him bail and had ordered registration of an FIR against those responsible for preparing and filing the alleged fake papers. The two Surat-based sisters had lodged separate complaints against Asaram and his son Narayan Sai, accusing them of rape and illegal confinement,
For Gujarat Fortunegiants, Iran has been the flavour this season Agency | Mumbai
Beginner’s luck, the cynics might say, but debutants Gujarat Fortunegiants’ table-topping run in the fifth Pro Kabaddi League season is by no means a fluke. Seven wins in 10 matches, two draws and a solitary loss makes them the team to beat this season. At the heart of their success are two Iranian defenders, Fazel Atrachali and Abozar Mohajer Mighani. At a time when teams are yet to fully embrace the involvement of foreign players (not many make the first team), the two Central Asians have overshadowed their Indian counterparts this season. Individually, Mighani has notched up 30
successful tackles, making him the joint highest with Surender Nada, while Atrachali trails on 26 – 56 of the team’s 100 tackles have come from the two. As specialist corner defenders, they flank the Gujarat defence and have devastated opposition raiders. Yet the charm and brutality of their work rate lies in the chemistry the duo share, along with the language barrier that has now become a boon. “We keep talking to each other in Persian and it confuses the raider,” says Atrachali, smiling. “We tell each other to stay back, or go for an ankle hold. We don’t have to hide it because the raider doesn’t know what we’re saying.”
Cheque of Rs.1 Crore 20 Lakh handed over by Surat District Panchayat for Chief Minster’s Relief Fund
Gujarat Chief Minister Mr. Vijay Rupani today was handed over a cheque for the Chief Minster’s Relief Fund of worth Rs. 1 Crore 20 Lakh for the rehabilitation of the flood victims of
Ahmedabad
six people, including him,” police sources said. Bambhania was detained from Rajkot by the crime branch of that city. “We detained Dinesh Bambhania from the Gita Mandir area of the city in connection with the case registered in Patan. We will hand him over to the Patan police,” Rajkot city crime branch police inspector HM Gadhvi said. In the
complaint, Narendra, a former activist of Hardik-led Patidar Anamant Andolan Samiti (PAAS), had alleged that the quota stir spearhead and others roughed him up at Navjivan Hotel in Patan when he had gone to meet them on Saturday. Hardik had held a public meeting in Patan on that day and as per Narendra’s complaint, he had gone to meet
the PAAS leader before the rally. During the rally, Hardik had indirectly urged the Patidar community to give a chance to the Congress in the upcoming state assembly elections. The Patidar community has been a loyal vote bank for the BJP in Gujarat. However, Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel on Monday slammed Hardik over his appeal and dubbed him as an “agent of the Congress”. “These people (BJP) used us too much. It happened so because, I assume, we did not have any option.
Supreme Court junks Gujarat High Court order asking state to rebuild mosques, shrines damaged in 2002 riots
In 2013, the Gujarat High Court had pulled up the state government for its “inaction and negligence” during the 2002 riots, which had led to large-scale damages to various religious structures. Agency | New Delhi
The Supreme Court today set aside the Gujarat High Court order asking the state government to rebuild and repair mosques and shrines damaged during the statewide communal carnage in 2002. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice PC Pant allowed the Gujarat government’s appeal challenging the High Court verdict that it should pay for reconstruction and repair works of the religious structures. Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who had repre-
sented the state government, said that “our plea has been allowed”. Moreover, he said, the state government had told the court that it was willing to pay from ex-gratia amount for repair and reconstruction works of various structures, shops and houses which were damaged. “This scheme (of the government) has been accepted,” Mehta said. In 2013, the Gujarat High Court had pulled up
the state government for its “inaction and negligence” during the 2002 riots, which had led to large-scale damages to various religious structures. The court had ordered compensation for over 500 places of worships in the state on a plea by Islamic Relief Committee of Gujarat (IRCG), an NGO, which contended that 535 religious places were affected, of which 37 were yet to be repaired.
How Communal Political Campaigning Changed Post Gujarat 2002
SS News | Ahmedabad
Fifteen years ago, almost to the date, for the first time, India witnessed an electoral campaign in which majoritarian pride and identity were harnessed by a political party and its principal leaders brazenly. Religion or the R-factor played a role in elections from the first general polls in 1952. Back then, even the Congress put up its Muslim stalwarts only from constituencies with a fair minority presence. For in-
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