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Short News Enhance majesty of judge’s office, attract youths to take it up: CJI
New Delhi : Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi rued that the office of the judge in the higher judiciary was losing its aura and majesty and that this was keeping youths away from taking up the job of a judge. Speaking at a farewell hosted by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) for Justice Kurian Joseph, who retired on Thursday, the CJI said, “I’m afraid, I’m apprehensive. The younger lot in the Bar are not willing to become judges. This is something that was happening in the bigger High Courts, Bombay particularly. Today this feeling is spreading to the smaller High Courts. Me and my colleagues in the Collegium are working day in and day out to find the right man. I don’t know how far we are successful.” He added, “At the end of the day, it’s the aura and majesty of the office of the judge that attracts the talent in the Bar.
Narendra Modi, K Chandrasekhar Rao diluted tribal rights law: Rahul Gandhi
Warangal : Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao of “diluting the Tribal Rights Act to the detriment of forest dwellers. Addressing an election meeting at Bhoopalpally in the tribal belt of Telangana, he promised reservations in government jobs and admissions to state-run educational institutions for Scheduled Tribe candidates proportionate to their population in the state. “Prime Minister Modi weakened Adivasi Bill (Tribal Bill) at the centre and KCR diluted it at the state. As soon as we form our government in Telangana we will ensure that you (tribals) get back your land. We have mentioned this in our manifesto also. “We will give reservations too that will be proportionate to your population,” Gandhi told the rally.
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The 16 per cent reservation tabled in the Assembly for the Marathas will sum up to 68 per cent.
Maharashtra Assembly approves 16% quota for Marathas Mumbai : The Maharashtra Assembly Thursday unanimously passed a legislation granting 16 per cent reservation to the Maratha community under the socially and educationally backward category. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had tabled the Bill along with an Action Taken Report (ATR) on Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission’s (MSBCC) recommendations in the Assembly. With the approval of the quota, reservations in the state have surpassed the 50 per cent ceiling set by the Supreme Court for state governments and the Centre. At present, the total reservations in the state is 52 per cent. The 16 per
Separate strategy for power transmission in hilly areas required: CM Thakur
Shimla : A separate strategy is required to be chalked for developing cost-effective and reliable power transmission and distribution system for the hilly areas, Himachal Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said Thursday. Laying transmission lines in the hilly areas is difficult as compared to plain areas and therefore special strategies needed to be chalked out for providing reliable, uninterrupted and cost effective power supply to the consumers, he added. Himachal became fully
electrified way back in 1988, and now the government is focusing on quality and uninterrupted power supply, he said adding that efforts were also being made to promote solar power potential in the state. He was speaking at the national conference on ‘Challenges in Construction of Transmission Lines in the Hilly Region’ organised by Central Board of Irrigation and Power and CIGRE-India and co-organized by Himachal Pradesh Power Transmission Corporation here Thursday.
Navjot Singh Sidhu’s photo with pro-Khalistani leader sparks fresh controversy
Navjot Singh gets more love, respect in Pakistan than in India: Union Minister
TMC will contest elections in neighbouring states: Mamata Banerjee Jamuria: TMC president and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday said her party would contest elections in neighbouring states such as Jharkhand and Assam to protect the people from alleged attacks by the BJP. Accusing the saffron party of attempting to divide the nation on religious lines, she urged the people not to fall prey to any provocation. “Our party will contest elections in the neighbouring states to protect people from saffron attacks,” Banerjee said at a public meeting in the state’s coal belt here in West Burdwan district. She alleged the BJP was bringing in paid goons from Jharkhand to foment trouble in the districts adjacent to the state, and Bengalis and Biharis were being driven away from Assam which was ruled by the saffron party. Accusing the saffron party of attempting to divide the nation on religious lines, Mamata Banerjee urged the people not to fall prey to any provocation.
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Condemning the meeting between the duo, the BJP immediately upped the attack against Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, asking him if he “planned to disturb Punjab again like Indira Gandhi”. New Delhi : Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, who has been facing the heat of opposition leaders for heaping praise on the Pakistan government, landed himself into yet another controversy after a photograph of him with pro-Khalistani activist Gopal Singh Chawla was posted on the latter’s Facebook wall on Thursday. Chawla, who is associated with Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (PSGPC), was allegedly in “regular touch” with a member of terror module busted by Punjab Police earlier this month. Chawla had earlier stopped the Indian High Commission officials from entering gurdwaras in Nankana Sahib in connection with the birthday celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev. In a viral video, the activist was heard telling the officials that there were Khalistani supporters inside.
Taking a dig at Navjot Singh Sidhu over his “good relations” with Pakistan, Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said the Congress leader seems to be getting “more love and respect” from the neighbouring country than in India. Speaking to news agency ANI, the minister Wednesday said, “He (Imran Khan) offered him (Navjot Singh Sidhu) to fight elections from Pakistan. He (Sidhu) seems to have more love and respect in Pakistan than what I noticed over here. He has some good relationships over there.” Badal’s remarks came hours after Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan condemned the scathing criticism faced by the Congress leader for attending the former’s oathtaking ceremony.
cent reservation approved for the Marathas will take the number to 68 per cent. The major recommendations of the MSBCC which justified the reservation to Maratha community are as follows: The Maratha Class of citizens has inadequate representation in the services under the State and having been declared socially and educationally backward class of citizens, they are entitled to reservation benefits and advantages enshrined in the Article 15 (4) (Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth) and 16 (4) (Equality of opportunity in matters of public employment) of the Indian Constitution.
To find Congress in India, one will have to use binoculars, says Amit Shah
New Delhi ; Addressing a rally in pollbound Rajasthan’s Bassi, BJP Chief Amit Shah said, “the Congress party appears to find vote from the infiltrated intruders in the country but for us(BJP) there is no issue beyond the security of the country.” He assured that BJP will come back to power in Rajasthan with full majority. Ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in Telangana and Rajasthan, both the Congress and BJP are addressing a series of rallies today. While Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is in Telangana, BJP chief Amit Shah will address the public in Rajasthan. The two states are slated to go to polls on December 7, the results of which will be announced on December 11. In its manifesto which was released early this morning, the Congress in Rajasthan vowed to waive the loans of the farmers, besides providing free education to women and jobs to the youth. Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot also announced that the party intends to give Rs 3,500 monthly allowance to the unemployed youths of the state.
Maharashtra now second after Tamil Nadu in quota quantum “ranking”
The passage of a bill proposing 16 per cent reservation in education and government jobs for Marathas in Maharashtra Legislature Thursday has now made the state second in the country in terms of quota quantum. Haryana which offers 67 per cent reservations, used to be second in the list, followed by Telangana where the quantum of quota rose to 62 per cent last year, an official said. With the passage of the Maratha quota bill, the reservation quantum in Maharashtra will rise to 68 per cent, just a per cent less than Tamil Nadu, which tops the tally with 69 per cent reservations in various categories.
Gujarat: Lions attack team of forest officials in Gir, kill one
Forest officers said the incident took place at around 11 am when lions suddenly attacked one of the labourers and later attacked other two who came to rescue the first. Rajkot : Two lions killed a lion tracker and injured two others, including a forester, inside Gir Interpretation Zone in Devaliya in Junagadh district on Thursday. As the lions became aggressive, Devaliya Safari Park had to be closed to tourists. Later in the evening, the two lions were caught and kept in captivity. “This is an extremely rare event. We are trying to ascertain in what circumstances the lions attacked the trackers,” Dushyant Vasavada, Chief Conservator of Forests (Junagadh Wildlife Circle), told news aganacy
Forest officers said the incident took place around 11 am when two lions suddenly attacked 33-year-old Rajnish Keshwala while he was keeping a watch on the movement of the animals. Sources said that since the two most experienced lion trackers were on leave, Keshwala was standing by for them. “Another labourer, identified as Dinesh Kacha, tried to rescue Keshwala, but the lions attacked him also. However, Kacha managed to escape and informed other staff members. After being alerted, the staff rushed to the spot and launched a search for Keshwala.
Police said that a “huge quantity of arms and ammunition, including rifles” were recovered from the encounter site.
J-K: Two Hizbul militants killed in Valley encounter
Srinagar : Two Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militants, including a top commander, were killed in an encounter between militants and security forces in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district in the early hours of Thursday. Police said the militants killed in the encounter were close associates of HM operational chief Riyaz Naikoo. The encounter comes a day after top LeT commander Naveed Jatt and another militant were killed in an encounter in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Some top HM
and LeT commanders have been killed by the security forces in the Valley this month. Police said after they received inputs about the presence of militants, a cordon and search operation was launched jointly by J&K Police and security forces in Pulwama
district’s Sharshali area of Khrew. Police said that during the search operation, militants fired at the forces, triggering an encounter. Police said that a “huge quantity of arms and ammunition, including rifles” were recovered from the encounter site. A police statement identified the two militants as Adnan Ahmad Lone, a resident of Braw Bandina in Awantipora and Adil Bilal Bhat, a resident of Malangpora in Pulwama. Lone, according to J&K police was HM district commander for Pulwama.
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As institutions change, so does data credibility
The official back data on India’s gross domestic product (GDP), released by the Central Statistical Office (CSO) on Wednesday, runs the risk of denting the market’s trust and conviction in official data released by government agencies. The new data release contradicts the earlier findings of a committee set up by National Statistical Commission to develop a methodology for deriving back data by linking the old series with the new base year of 2011-12. Whenever the base for national accounts is updated—as it should be to incorporate conceptual changes, statistical changes (such as methodological upgrades) or results of new surveys conducted closer to the base year—the old series is routinely linked to the new series for providing comparable data which can then be used by economists, academicians and analysts for creating a viable and comparable time-series. That is now a task riddled with occupational hazards that could throw up numerous contradictory outcomes. The segue from an old base year to a new base year should have ideally been smooth, as it has in the past; unfortunately, it has now become hostage to partisan electoral politics. An economy’s resilience and sustainability is best measured through its institutional strength. And from the credibility of the data it discloses. By releasing data that competes with an earlier study without providing a robust theoretical reasoning to underpin that change, the CSO and the government think tank Niti Aayog may have undermined markets’ faith in official data. The new set of numbers strives to prove that growth under the previous government, led by former prime minister Manmohan Singh, was not as high as was estimated by the National Statistical Commission’s committee. Observers cannot be faulted for thinking that the CSO’s new series—which rejects the commission’s earlier findings without actually explicitly stating so— may have been tasked with neutralizing the earlier data set’s threat to the 2014 election campaign’s claim that the economy had stagnated during 2009-14. The new set also attempts to alter the perception that peak GDP growth occurred between the years 2004-05 and 2007-08; it creates an enabling environment to prove that economic growth under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been comparable with the previous regime.
Bollywood Be resilient, be strong, we shall overcome, writes Ayushmann Khurrana’s wife Tahira as she fights Stage 1a cancer
New Delhi : Ayushmann Khurrana’s wife and actor Tahira Kashyap revealed she was suffering from breast cancer in September this year. She then underwent six sessions of chemotherapy. Now that the actor-turned-director is preparing for the next six sessions, she has once again shared a long Instagram post which she has dedicated to her journey while battling cancer until now. Sharing
a photo of herself clad in a T-shirt that reads “F##k Cancer”, Tahira has written, “That’s what you do when cancer shows up. You show it the way out! It is a tough phase to be in, but then I would have never known my own strength, which is inherent in each one of us, and which we come to know off when tested. Like I said before, let’s choose to be the heroes of our own drama of life.”
Geetanjali Thapa, who hails from Sikkim was seen in films like Tigers, Kuchh Bheege Alfaaz and Bioscopewala released this year
Geetanjali Thapa: Would love to be a part of a script from the northeast
New Delhi : National Awardwinning actress Geetanjali Thapa, who hails from Sikkim, says she was once approached with an “interesting script” by a director from northeast India. However, it didn’t work out. Still, she hopes to work with filmmakers from the region in the near future. The Liar’s Dice actress has starred in Hindi and English films. “If I
Heli Daruwala to play Manbai in COLORS’ Dastaan-E-Mohabbaat Salim Anarkali Mumbai : COLORS’ latest historical fictionsaga Dastaan-E-Mohabbat Salim Anarkali has struck a chord with its viewers with the greatest love story of Salim and Anarkali. The show will soon witness the entry of the young and ravishing actress Heli Daruwala. She’ll be seen essaying the character of Manbaia.k.aMannu , the daughter of Mansingh. Mansingh isJodha’s brother who will soon visit Agra for the occasion of Bhai-dooj, and will get his daughter Manbaialong with him. Manvai is Salim’s childhood friend and will be meeting him after 12 years. Recently, the show captivated the viewers by showing both Salim and Anarkali in an altogether different avatar of Banjaras. The duo dressed as gypsies posed as husband and wife in a nearby village to hide their identities from the goons set loose by Salim’s first mother Ruqaiya. While being in disguise, Salim and Anarkali’s bond grew strong and this made Salim realise that he wants to marry Anarkali.
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After being Crowned as SENORITA MISS INDIA INTERCONTINENTAL 2018
CITY GIRL to represent Country in Miss Intercontinental 2018 at Philippines
Ahmedabad: On 11th September, 2018 Miss Suman Chellani of Ahmedabad, Gujarat was crowned as Senorita Miss Intercontinental India 2018 and now this City Queen who is known for her exuberance and eloquence is all set to represent India on a grand platform of Miss Intercontinental 2018 to be held in Philippines. By being crowned as MISS INDIA INTERCONTINENTAL 2018 by Senorita India, Ms. Suman
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to represent INDIA in Intercontinental. Now Suman will be Representing INDIA amongst 85 other countries on Prestigious Platform of Miss Intercontinental 2018 to be held 0n 26th January, 2019 at Sofitel Philippine Plaza, Manila, Philippines. Mr. Amit Mishra, National Director, Miss Intercontinental India 2018 and Mr. Ajay Jaglan, Director, Senorita India Beauty Pageant shared, “We are Vvery proud to choose Suman Chellani.
get a script from the northeast, I would love to be a part of it. There was an interesting script for which I was approached once by a director from the northeast. However, we couldn’t take it forward due to date issues. I hope to work with filmmakers from the northeast in the near future,” Geetanjali told news agancy a in an email interview.
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Taylor Swift, twitter’s most influential
Sony YAY! throws a 75 days’ non-stop bash for kids!
Mumbai : Sony YAY!the Ultimate Destination of Happiness for kids has already entrenched its position asone of the favourite TV channels for kids.To rejoice in the happy and celebratory months that the festive season rings in, the channel is bringing a bundle of special gifts for all their little fans to look forward to! ‘Party 75’ - a party on TV, that unveils all new episodes and movies until new yeargiving kids a total of 75 days of non-stop party and
unlimited entertainment! Having kicked-off on 15th October, the festivities will carry on with the party spirit till January 1. The channel aims to add a dash of fun to the upcoming festivals i.e.Diwali, Christmas and the New Year and make them more memorable for kids.Party 75, will bring in new episodes of the popular show KickO and Super Speedo, where KickOwill continue with his fight for the right with new deadlyvillains.
los angeles : Taylor Swift has been named as the most influential person! The popstar has topped the list of the most influential people on Twitter in an analysis carried out by social media analysis company Brandwatch, reports JustJared.com. Swift received an “influencer score” of 98 points out of a possible 100. The score was based on the a variety of Twitter metrics with a focus on how much genuine engagement individual accounts created. It is interesting to notice that Taylor tweeted only 13 times in the entire year. The Delicate hitmmaker was closely followed by by Liam Payne, with a score of 97, while Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian, Demi Lovato and Donald Trump tied at 96 points.
‘MUBU TV’ Team visit Ahmedabad with 3 new entertainment show MUBU TV- shows and ARTISTS
Ajab Saas ki Gajab Bahu - Himani Shivpuri, Ankita Khare, Vidyut Saha, Damini Dave, Yatin Parmar, Sumit Arora, Himanshu UpadhayaReturn of School Days– Komal Kundar, Amit Das, Thakur Mayank Shekar, Manjari Mishra, Vishmita D’souza, Apeksha Deshmukh, Ketan Rathod, Akhilesh yadav, Viyakant jha Gujarat Bhavan - Dharmesh Mehta ( Director ), Rajendra Gupta, Sheela Sharma, Soniya Shah, Dhramesh Vyas, Rajiv Thakkar, Pratik Limbachiya Ahmedabad: A new Hindi entertainment channel, MUBU TV is on-air from July 31st which have the tagline of being the dream of every Indian. Today MUBU TV team visited Ahmedabad in Karnavati club with introduced its 3 new show, ‘Ajab Saas ki Gajab Bahu’, ‘Return of School Days’, ‘Gujarat Bhavan’. All artists and directors have present on this press conference. After Gujrat Bhavan, MUBU TV to launch ‘Return Of School Days’. We recently reported about MUBU TV launching a comedy show titled Gujrat Bhavan. Channel to launch another show Titled ‘Return of School Days’, the show produced by Nootan Entertainment and will star faces such as Amit Das, Komal Kundar, Mayank Thakur, Apeksha Deshmukh and Manjari Mishra. Return of School Days go
on-air on the same day as Gujrat Bhavan i.e. 26 November and having air from 9 to 9.30 pm, prior to Gujrat Bhavan. Take a look at the exclusive poster of Return Of School Days. The show is directed by Manish Shrivastava and written by Prem Ingle and him. The Channel Creative Producer of the show is Prem Ingle. The channel directors of MUBU TV are Manish Srivastava and Narshi Vasani. Prem Ingle is the Creative Producer of the shows that air on the channel. The dream of every Indian is the tag line of MUBU TV. Founder Directors Manish Srivastava, Narshi Vasani and Naim Warsi assure that MUBU TV will create a different identity in the Hindi Channel Industry.MUBU TV is launching with selected shows. ‘Return of School Days’ being the first show of MUBU TV. The story of the ‘Return of School
Days’ is of students who return to school leaving their bright careers to fulfill their commitment for their friendship. Komal Kundar, Amit Das, Apeksha Deshmukh, Vishmitha Dsouza, Manjari Mishra and Mayank Shekhar are the artists playing vital roles in the serial. Manish Srivastava is the Writer and Director of this show.MUBU TV is coming with one more flattering, light-hearted comedy show ‘Ajab Saas Ki Gajab Bahu’. The sarcastic comedy of a Punjabi Saas and South Indian Bahu can be seen in the show. Himani Shivpuri, Ankita Khare and Vishal Nayak are the artists playing vital roles. The Grand Inauguration ceremony of MUBU TV had done on July 31 in Mumbai. Bollywood celebrities, business tycoons, politicians and officials was join the Inaugural Ceremony of MUBU TV. Comedian Krushna Abhishek, Singer Sugandha Mishra and Sudesh Lahiri had host the inaugural function of MUBU TV.
MUBU TV – team : Founder director - Manish Srivastava :-
Manish srivastava has an experience of more than 17 years in media, including working at Dooradarshan for 4 years, Zee Entertainment LTD for 2.5 years, and was the managing director of Voice of India group of channels.
Founder director Narshi Vasani :-
Narshi vasani is a real estate businessman, a producer, a proprietor and managing director of Nootan Group of companies and MUBU entertainment TV Pvt Ltd. He established Nootan Group of companies in the year 2000 and boundlessly established Nootan associates, Nootan venture, Nootan real estate, Nootan entertainment, Nootan infrastructure. He has produced 2 Marathi movies, Vatsalya and Kaul manacha and a Hindi movie titled ‘DARE YOU’. Director - Priyank Vasani, Charmi wadiya.
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SPORTS ROUNDUP
KL Rahul is finding new ways to get himself out, says Sanjay Bangar
KL Rahul was the only prominent batsman to miss out on a significant score in India’s 358 all out on day two of the four-day tour game. Sydney : KL Rahul is a strong contender for the opening slots for India’s first Test against Australia next week but his knack of “finding new ways to get himself out” has not gone down well with assistant coach Sanjay Bangar. Rahul was the only prominent batsman to miss out on a significant score in India’s 358 all out on day two of the fourday tour game. He was out for three runs while playing a loose drive on the up and was caught at mid off within the first
hour of play. As many as five different Indian batsmen, including Virat Kohli and Prithvi Shaw, scored halfcenturies in what Bangar termed as a satisfactory outing. Bangar said Rahul was no longer an inexperienced player and he ought to shoulder more responsibility. “He (Rahul) has been looking in good shape, including today. It is just that he is finding new ways to get out. Even today, the ball was quite afar when he played it away from his body and lost his wicket.
Business
Paytm offers instant, on-demand settlement to partner merchants
New Delhi: Digital payment firm Paytm on Thursday said it would settle payment with merchants either immediately or at a time desired by them. “Earlier, we offered next-day settlement to our partner merchants. They can now enjoy instant and on-demand settlement into their bank accounts via Paytm,” Paytm Chief Operating Officer Kiran Vasireddy said in a statement. The company has introduced an ‘instant bank settlement’ option in ‘Paytm for Business’ app in which the merchants can choose their
preferred time to settle the payment collected or can also do an instant settlement as and when they want, directly into their bank accounts. The merchants can also track all their payments and settlements on a real-time basis, Paytm said. With this solution, the company aims to benefit over 9.8 million partner merchants who accept payments using Paytm at their offline stores. The company has rolled out this functionality to over 1 million merchants across India and is currently in the process of extending it to all of its 9.8 million offline merchants.
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Magnus Carlsen, who collected a winner’s prize of 550,000 euros ($626,065), and his bespectacled opponent had drawn 12 out of 12 classical games through November.
Norway’s Magnus Carlsen wins World Chess Championship for fourth time
London : Norwegian Magnus Carlsen won the world chess championship for a fourth time on Wednesday after winning three tie-breakers against US rival and world number two Fabiano Caruana. The 27-yearold defending champion, who collected a winner’s prize of 550,000 euros ($626,065), and his bespectacled opponent had drawn 12 out of 12 classical games through November. That stalemate forced the pair into the faster-paced, bestof-four rapid tie-breakers. “Frankly speaking, in the last couple of years my game hasn’t been great,” Carlsen told a news conference. “In that sense, this match and the classical portion was a step in the right direction. “I think I played relatively well and Fabiano is just a very strong player…I feel like I have things to work on, clearly.”
The failure of Caruana, 26, to defeat Carlsen means the United States has not won the chess title since the enigmatic and volatile Bobby Fischer beat Russia’s Boris Spassky at the height of the Cold War in 1972. “I have some regrets about the classical portion but I
don’t think I can really be upset about it,” said the American. “I was hoping to play my best chess today but I didn’t even come close to that. “I felt a lot of pressure but I don’t think I had added pressure because I was the first American challenger in a long time,” he added.
Ben Stokes hits back at Sanjay Manjrekar’s ‘garnish chef’ jibe
New Delhi : Former India player and now commentator, Sanjay Manjrekar came down on Ben Stokes while suggesting the England all-rounder hogged the limelight in their 3-0 clean sweep of Sri Lanka. Manjrekar compared the situation to that of a garnish chef taking the credit for the dish instead of the “poor chefs” who did the hard work. In
this case, Manjrekar labelled Moeen Ali, Jack Leach and Ben Foakes as the poor chefs. In his assessment of the series, Manjrekar had earlier claimed, “While enjoying the success, Eng would be better served for its long term improvement by acknowledging that this SL side is a pretty weak side. This is currently the easiest subcontinental challenge.
Mithali Raj was accused by head coach of India women’s team Ramesh Powar of “blackmailing” and “pressurising coaches”, and playing for her own milestones.
‘It’s the darkest day of my life’: Mithali Raj responds to Ramesh Powar’s report New Delhi : Veteran Indian women’s cricketer Mithali Raj on Thursday responded to coach Ramesh Powar’s stinging accusations in a report submitted to the BCCI, saying that all her hard work through her career had been in vain. Powar in his report to BCCI CEO Rahul Johri and General Manager of Cricket Operations Saba Karim, had accused the batswoman
Gold remains subdued on muted demand; silver recovers
New Delhi: Gold remained weak for the second straight day as the price fell by Rs 20 to Rs 31,540 per 10 gram at the bullion market on Thursday on tepid demand from local jewellers amid appreciating rupee, ignoring a firm trend overseas. On the other hand, silver recovered by Rs 60 to Rs 37,160 per kg on scattered enquiries from industrial units amid better global cues. Traders said muted demand from local jewellers as well as retailers largely dragged down gold prices, but a firm trend overseas capped the fall. The appreciating rupee, making imports cheaper, also weighed on gold prices, they added. The rupee jumped 74 paise to breach the 70 per dollar mark and touched 69.88, a threemonth high level, in intra-day trade in the forex market on Thursday. In the national capital, gold of 99.9 per cent and 99.5 per cent purity fell further by Rs 20 each to Rs 31,540 and Rs 31,390 per 10 gram, respectively. The precious metal had lost Rs 290 on Wednesday. Sovereign gold, however, held steady at Rs 24,700 per piece of 8 gram. Globally, gold rose 0.36 per cent to USD 1,225.10 an ounce, while silver edged up 0.32 per cent to USD 14.33 an ounce
of “blackmailing” and “pressurising coaches”. “I’m deeply saddened & hurt by the aspersions cast on me. My commitment to the game & 20yrs of playing for my country. The hard work, sweat, in vain,” Raj wrote in a tweet. The cricketer said that it was the darkest day of her life. “Today, my patriotism doubted, my skill set questioned & all the mud
slinging- it’s the darkest day of my life. May god give strength,” she said. In the 10-page report written to the BCCI officials on Thursday, the head coach of India Women’s team Powar accused Raj of not playing for the team and chasing after “own milestones” during the recently concluded World T20 tournament.
India grew by 7.1 per cent in 2016-17 and 6.7 per cent in 2017-18.
India needs more reforms to grow over 8 per cent: Rajiv Kumar
New Delhi: More reforms, low interest rates and greater availability of funds are needed to push India’s economy to higher growth trajectory of over 8 per cent, Niti Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar said on Thursday. India grew by 7.1 per cent in 2016-17 and 6.7 per cent in 2017-18. “Breaching the 8 per cent growth ceiling is not easy, we have to try much harder and undertake the reforms at the level where it matters,” he said at an event organised by Pahle India Foundation. Kumar said that the two major constraints being faced by the investors are less availability of finance and high interest rates. He observed that while the infaltion is hovering around
4 per cent, the marginal credit rate of banks is over 7 per cent. “The cost of capital can not be equal to rate of returns, it (rate of returns) must be higher than cost of capital in the long run. So, this is where I think we need to have a very
good look. “...Otherwise, I am afraid despite the promise, growth rates may not be sustained,” Kumar noted. He also expressed displeasure at politicisation of release of back-series GDP data Wednesday at a joint press
conference addressed by him and Chief Statistician Pravin Srivastava. Kumar said that the former Finance Minister P Chidambaram has done great disfavour to officers of CSO by criticising backseries GDP data released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). “I am deeply pained at people who politicised it for no reason at all,” he said. The vice-chairman also pointed out that the government needs to invest more in the country’s statistical system. “The allocations to our statistical systems must increase many folds,” he stressed. Noting that invest climate and capacity utilisations are improving, Kumar said, “Domestic investments is going to drive the Indian economy”.
Hon’ble CM Shri Vijay Rupani and Shri Shripad Naik to inaugurate the International AROGYA EXPO at the World Ayurveda Congress
8th World Ayurveda Congress to be held in Ahmedabad from 14th to 17th December Ahmedabad : The 8th World Ayurveda Congress (WAC) will be held from 14th – 17th December, 2018 Gujarat University Convention and Exhibition Center, Ahmedabad. The mega event is being organized by the World Ayurveda Foundation with support of Ministry of AYUSH, and the State Government of Gujarat. Hon’ble Minister Shri Vijay Rupani and Ayush Ministry would be inaugurating the arogya Expo. Mayor Smt Bijal Patel,Prof Dr K S Dhiman (DG CCRAS & Chair of National Organising
Committee 8th WAC),Shri Jayant Sahasrabudhhe (Organising Secretary),Vigyan Bharti (Prof Dr Pawankumar Godatwar, Secretary General of 8th WAC), Dr Punarvasu Agnihotri,Chair(International Arogya Expo, 2018), Shri. KA.Chandrasekharan Niar(Chief Coordinator, 8th WAC), Dr Bhavdeep Ganatra,(Secretary of 8th WAC) were present during the curtain raiser.The focus of this 8th World Ayurveda Congress is – ‘Strengthening the Ayurveda Ecosystem’ and the congregation
will bring together stakeholders in the Ayurveda sector from India and abroad. There are major components of the program this year
would be Policy makers Conclave, Teaching & Research Methodology workshop, UG Students orientation charakuhan, NYASYA Conclave,
Practitioners Capacity building workshop, Buyer Seller Meet, international delegates assembly, International medicinal plants seminar etc. The 8th WAC will hold 5 plenary sessions, 96 parallel sessions and a large number of paper presentations, complemented by a series of associated events.This year’s World Ayurveda Congress will be the largest ever as compared to the earlier World Ayurveda Congress at Kochi, Pune, Jaipur, Bengaluru, Bhopal and Delhi. Over 4000+ delegates, including
over 300 international delegates from 32 countries representing the Global Ayurveda fraternity are expected to participate. Other participants would be Students, Ayurvedic practitioners, traditional healers, academics, research scientists, policy makers, industry, cultivators and collectors of medicinal plants, agricultural and forestry experts, buyers from overseas, regulators from developed nations and members of society in and around Ahmedabad interested in Ayurveda.
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According to Panara, they told the Commission’s chairperson to first conduct a suvey of the Patidar community and then decide on its own, if to give the community separate reservation or to include them within the 27 per cent OBC quota.
Gujarat: PAAS leaders meet OBC panel chief, seek survey of Patidars
Ghandinagar : A delegation of Patidar Anamat Andolan Saimiti (PAAS) on Thursday met Sugnya Bhatt, the chairperson of Gujarat Other Backward Class Commission in the state capital. This was the first meeting between Bhatt and PAAS leaders after the latter had formally submitted an application seeking OBC reservation for Patidar community last week.“When we had submitted the application last week, the Commission’s chairperson had told us she will call a delegation of PAAS to hold discussions regarding our application within a week’s time. And accordingly, she called us today,” said
PAAS leader Manoj Panara who was accompanied by other PAAS leaders like Geeta Patel, Jayesh Patel, Uday Patel and Gopal Italia. “Today, the Commission sought various details related to Patidar community in Gujarat like our general identity, places of our faith, number of sub-castes, sub-groups
and various surnames used by Patidars. The chairperson also sought to know the population of our community… She wanted to know all this before holding a formal survey of the community,” said Panara. PAAS convener Geeta Patel said that they have sought two weeks’ time to furnish the details.
Fire at Reliance rubber plant in Vadodara, three dead
Vadodara : Three people were killed after a fire broke out at a Polybutadiene Rubber (PBR) plant in Reliance Industries, Vadodara, early Thursday morning. According to sources, the accident took place around 3 am when other employees of the plant had gone out for snacks, while the three were inside. The deceased identified as Arun Dabhi (49), Pritesh Patel and Mahendra Jadav (42) have been taken to SSG hospital for the postmortem examination. According to Arun’s sister Hina Dabhi, she was informed about
the accident around 8:30 am. “He had been working at the same factory for the last 20 years on contractual basis as a plant operator and supervisor. He had evening shift yesterday but had continued a night shift because a friend of his wanted to switch shifts,” said
Hina. Mahendra Jadav, survived by his wife and two sons, was also working as a plant operator. According to his brother Mukesh Jadav, who also works at the warehouses at Reliance, the plant has 16 workers including 13 labourers, one in charge and two plant operators.
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Saurashtra: After poor monsoon, lack of Narmada water fuels farmers’ protests
Rajkot : Farmers’ protests have erupted in Saurashtra over lack of water for irrigation as authorities clamped on “illegal siphoning” of water from Narmada canal and deployed security forces along the canal network.Farmers in Morbi district have been sitting on a dharna for the last one week, demanding water to irrigate their crops following deficient rainfall in the area this monsoon. In the neighbouring Surendranagar district, farmers enforced a bandh in Lakhtar taluka on Wednesday after officials from Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited (SSNNL) removed at least 45 pipes which were installed by farmers to drain water from the Saurashtra branch canal (SBC) for irrigation purposes. Farmers have been drawing water from the canal to Motisar talav in the village, from where it is pumped to ponds in downstream villages like Talvani, Kadu, Kadam, Aniyari among others for irrigating farms.
A mob had attacked the Dalit man accusing him to be responsible for the elopement of a girl from their community.
Gujarat: 11 get life term for burning alive Dalit man in Una
Rajkot : Six years after they burnt a Dalit man alive over an alleged affair, 11 men from Koli community were convicted for murder, criminal conspiracy and committing atrocities against Dalits and sentenced to life imprisonment by a special court in Una town of Gir Somnath district on Thursday. The court specified that life
imprisonment in this case means imprisonment till death of the convicts. The court of additional sessions judge SL Thakker pronounced all the 11 accused guilty of murdering Lalji Sarvaiya, a Dalit man in Ankolali village of Una taluka in Gir Somnath district on September 13, 2012 by setting him on fire inside his house. The court also found the accused guilty
of subjecting a member of scheduled caste to atrocity as well as of rioting and criminal conspiracy. “We had demanded capital punishment for the accused stating this was a rarest of the rare case and that the guilty should pay the full price of their offence so that people’s trust in judiciary will remain intact. The court agreed that this indeed was a rarest of the rare case.
According to government officials, the move, largely focussed on four districts, will not only result in 30 per cent water savings, but will help Narmada water reach the “last farm located at the tail-end of the 60,000 kilometer-long canal network”.
Gujarat: Government resorts to rotational supply of Narmada water
Ahmedabad : Faced with water shortage and numerous complaints of water not reaching farmers in various parts of Gujarat this rabi season, the state government for the first time is implementing rotational water supply (RWS) in the Narmada canal network. According to government officials, the move, largely focussed on four districts, will not only result in 30 per cent water savings, but will help Narmada water reach the “last farm located at the tailend of the 60,000 kilometerlong canal network”. Gujarat is implementing Rotational Water Supply (RWS) for the first time this rabi season on the 60,000 km Narmada canal network. RWS will ensure
that the 19,000 cusecs of Narmada water being released for irrigation is provided in a staggered manner to the minor and sub-minor canals. Once crops get their first irrigation, water in the canal passing through the region will be stopped for 7-10 days, and will instead be diverted to
irrigate crops in neighbouring regions. Officials say RWS will help address complaints from farmers, especially those at the fag end of the network, that Narmada waters do not reach their fields. It is targeted in particular at Saurashtra’s Surendranagar and Morbi districts, and North Gujarat’s
Banaskantha and Patan districts. “This year, water is limited. Today, the situation is such that groundwater may not be available in certain areas as there was little rainfall during monsoon. So, people are largely dependent on Narmada water. We have started implementing RWS for the first time from November 12 ( the day the government began providing Narmada water for irrigating rabi crop). A fortnight has passed and the results are positive,” said M B Joshi, general manager (technical and coordination) of Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited (SSNNL), the state government body that manages and Sardar Sarovar dam and the canal networks.
China says 8,000-strong UN peacekeeping standby force ready
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko: Putin wants my whole country Berlin : Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of seeking to annex his entire country and called in interviews with German media for Chancellor Angela Merkel to come to Kiev’s aid in the crisis. Russia seized three Ukrainian navy ships and their crews on Sunday near the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014, over what it said was their illegal entry into Russian waters – a charge Ukraine strongly refutes. In interviews with Germany’s Bild newspaper and the Funke newspaper group on Thursday, Poroshenko rejected Russia’s charge that the
vessels’ entry into the Azov Sea – a body of water shared by Ukraine and Russia on which the Ukrainian ports of Mariupol and Berdyansk sit – was a provocation. “Don’t believe Putin’s lies,” he told Bild, Germany’s biggest-selling paper, comparing Russia’s protestations of innocence in the affair to Moscow’s 2014 denial that it had soldiers in Crimea even as they moved to annex it. “Putin wants the old Russian empire back,” he said. “Crimea, Donbass, the whole country. As Russian Tsar, as he sees himself, his empire can’t function without Ukraine. He sees us as his colony.”
Beijing : China says it has assembled a standby force of thousands of United Nations peacekeepers, furthering its leading role in the global body’s efforts to tamp down conflicts worldwide. Defense Ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiagn told reporters Thursday that the 8,000-member force had passed an assessment last month approved by UN UndersecretaryGeneral for Peacekeeping Operations JeanPierre Lacroix.That fulfils a pledge made at the UN three years ago by Chinese President Xi Jinping. China provides the most peacekeepers of any permanent UN Security Council member and is the second-largest contributor to the operations’ multi-billion dollar budget, at slightly over 10 per cent.Ren says China has also trained more than 1,500 peacekeepers from more than a dozen countries. The UN currently runs 15 peacekeeping missions, the bulk of them in Africa.
Senators send rebuke to Saudis, Trump over Khashoggi killing
Washington : Defying President Donald Trump, senators sent a strong signal that they want to punish Saudi Arabia for its role in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. By a bipartisan 63-37 vote, the Senate opted to move forward with legislation calling for an end to US involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The vote on Wednesday was a rebuke not only to Saudi Arabia but also to Trump’s administration, which has made clear it does not want to torpedo the long-standing US relationship with Riyadh over the killing. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis both came to Capitol
Hill to urgently lobby against the resolution, which would call for an end to US military assistance for the conflict that human rights advocates say is wreaking havoc on Yemen and subjecting civilians to indiscriminate bombing. The vote showed a significant number of Republicans were willing to break with Trump to express their deep dissatisfaction with Saudi Arabia and with the US response to Khashoggi’s brutal killing in Turkey last month. US intelligence officials have concluded that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, must have at least known of the plot, but Trump has equivocated over who was to blame.
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