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News Brief Vyapam effect: DMAT exam in MP cancelled Agency | Bhopal
As Madhya Pradesh battles the ramifications of the multi-crore Vyapam scam, a top state examination body cancelled the July 12 examinations for admissions to private dental and medical colleges, with a whistleblower threatening to names judges allegedly involved in a scandal relating to it. A day after MP high court directed APDMC to scan OMR answer sheets of each of the candidates who will write the Dental and Medical Admission Test (DMAT) on July 12, the apex body on Friday postponed the scheduled examination. “The exam was postponed because of technical reasons,” Dr VK Mahadik said.
US personnel chief resigns on massive data breach
“Indo-Pak relations”
“Modi Accepts Sharif’s Invite For Saarc Meet,” The two leaders took a step forward
Why Modi is smoking the Pak peace pipe There isn’t a single word in the India-Pakistan joint statement with a capital K—let alone a reference to Kashmir
Agency | New Delhi “The invasion of Kashmir”, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote in 1947, as Pakistani irregulars and soldiers raced past Baramulla towards Srinagar, “is not an accidental affair resulting from the fanaticism or exuberance of the tribesmen, but a well organised business with the backing of the state”. “We have in effect”, he went on, “to deal with a state carrying out an informal war, but nonetheless a war”. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Ufa—coming as it does at the end of a tumultuous year that’s seen massive
fire exchanges on the India-Pakistan frontier in Kashmir, breakdowns of talks, and Ministers pretty much threatening war— demonstrates that almost seventy years on, Indian leaders just haven’t figured out what to do with our western neighbour. The gains from the Modi-Nawaz meeting are being loudly advertised by government spokespersons: the promise to talk about how to expedite the 26/11 trial, work on counter-terrorism cooperation, and facilitate people-to-people contact. There isn’t a single word in the India-Pakistan joint statement with a capital K—let alone a reference to Kashmir. Each of
these promises, though, are cut-paste jobs from past declarations. Even as late as July 1, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj insisted there would be no talks until Pakistan jailed 26/11 perpetrator Zaki-ur-Rahman: “If Lakhvi remains out-
Indian-origin families relive Tunisia terror attack horror
Agency | Washington
The head of the US government’s personnel office resigned abruptly on Friday, giving in to bipartisan calls for her to step down following a government data breach that is believed to be the biggest in US history. Katherine Archuleta, director of the federal office of personnel management, submitted her resignation to president Barack Obama. That comes a day after the administration said hackers stole Social Security identification numbers and other highly sensitive data from more than 21 million people.
28 BSF men airlifted from flash floods along IB Agency | Jammu
Indian Air Force today rescued 28 Border Security Force personnel trapped in flash floods on border out posts along International Border in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir and airlifted them to safety. As many as 28 Jawans of BSF were trapped in Border Out Posts due to flash floods in Basantar river triggered by heavy rains in forward areas of IB in Ramgarh sector of Samba district, a defence spokesman said.
Agency | London Two Indian-origin families who escaped a gunman in Tunisia, as he shot 38 tourists dead last month, are still recovering from the aftermath of the horrific terrorist attack. Cambridge-based Pallavi Patel and her husband Naynesh Patel had joined their friends as part of a week-long package holiday in Sousse which was to become the site of a bloody massacre on June 26. A last-minute suggestion by Pallavi to head into town for some shopping instead of their daily routine of relaxing on the beach saved their lives.“The terrorist began shooting exactly from the spot which had been our regular every day. If we hadn’t gone out for shopping that day we would have definitely lost our lives,” said 57-year-old Pallavi, who recounts a series of coincidences that came into play on the fateful day which resulted in the death of 30 British tourists. “It was God that saved our lives that day. When I think back there were so many points where we could have been in the path of the terror-
ists. We made so many friends on the beach and they are all dead today,” Pallavi said. Pallavi, who had suffered a mild stroke last year, was in Tunisia for a recuperating and relaxing holiday. She is now planning to seek medical counseling to try and get over the trauma, which has been giving her sleepless nights. “I just can’t get it out of my mind. I recall all the bodies we saw on the beach covered with beach towels. I feel like we have been given another life,” she said. Her husband, originally from Bhadran in Gujarat, runs a corner shop in Milton area of Cambridgeshire and she continues to be haunted with the feeling of being unsafe even in her home when he leaves for work. “I feel really sorry for the Tunisian people who were just amazing. They stood up like shields to save people and today they are suffering with no jobs,” Pallavi said. The Patels were part of a large group of package holiday-makers from Britain organised by Thomson. They have now been refunded their money and are being offered constant counseling.
side and he remains free and Pakistan thinks we will speak, will India ever accept that?” The real question is why a Prime Minister who promised voters to “talk to Pakistan in Pakistan’s language because it won’t learn lessons until then” took
this course. For an understanding of the Prime Minister’s dilemma, it’s useful to place it in context. Following the 26/11 crisis, relations between the two countries came to a grinding halt. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid publicly
linked future dialogue to “being satisfied [on] accountability on the Mumbai outrage” and “specific expectations that we have about dismantling of terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan”. In the summer of 2013, when Sharif took office, he appeared to open the door for rapprochement. He promised to “make sure that the Pakistani soil is not used for any such [terrorist] designs against India”, examine Inter Services Intelligence involvement in 26/11, and promised full disclosure on Kargil. Less than six months on, though, Sharif made an anodyne speech at the United Nations, where he said nothing on terror-
ism—bar some anodyne references to Pakistan’s commitment to end terrorism. He, moreover, reverted back to old polemic on Kashmir, calling on “the international community to give an opportunity to the Kashmiris to decide their future”. This is, parenthetically, a leitmotif of Pakistani official polemic for decades: in 1950, governor-general Khwaja Nazimuddin had provided the cut-andpaste text for countless subsequent speeches, saying “Pakistan would remain incomplete until the whole of Kashmir is liberated”. Prime Minister Singh’s decision to meet with Sharif none the less spoke of desperation.
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Grunt And Bear It
It’s Wimbledon season and female tennis star Victoria Azarenka is in no mood to give up grunting. Despite her loss to Serena Williams in a classic quarterfinal, Vika remained in the zone and served up an ace when asked about the Wimbledon crowd mocking her and her opponent’s high-decibel grunts. Vika asserted that the fans may have knocked back a few glasses too many of Pimm’s while pointing out that male tennis players grunt too. Now the Brits do like to nurse their drink the unkind may even change `nurse’ to `guzzle’. Despite Vika’s reservations no Wimbledon can be complete without Pimm’s. Just ask Brit hope Andy Murray’s mother Judy, whose criticism of the way the iconic beverage was being served at the All England Club forced Pimm’s to change their recipe to less mint and more alcohol. But herbs aside, Vika does have a point about grunting. Prim, proper and slightly prudish Wimbledon might still be getting used to the idea of female players taking their matches seriously . Of course, grunting is par for the course in other sporting arenas. Take football, where grunting and other colourful expressions of effort, delight and disgust have evolved into an art form. Perhaps similarity between the Messi-ness of the beautiful game and international diplomacy is what prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to propose a Brics football tour nament during his Russian sojourn. Now apart from the fact that whoever passed on this idea to the PM belongs in a Russian gulag, no amount of grunting is going to help the lowly ranked Indian football team should such a tournament transpire. In fact, Modi stands a better chance of getting Russian President Vladimir Putin to do the surya namaskar or China’s Xi Jinping to perform the garba with or without grunts than India of not getting plastered in such matches.Of course, it’s easier with Pakistan given our shared cricket heritage.But against the backdrop of currently stormy bilateral ties, Modi’s handshake with Pak PM Nawaz Sharif wouldn’t have been sans a few low-decibel Ufas and Ouches. Back home AAP is at full stretch, like Vika, trying to provide a working government in Delhi. After its Delhi law minister Jitender Tomar was implicated in a fake degree scandal, another MLA Manoj Kumar has now been accused of forging documents to sell a piece of land that did not belong to him. But even if CM Arvind Kejriwal’s trademark cough doesn’t quite match up to the Azarenka grunt, he still has a unique ability to appear disgruntled. He’ll probably get out of this by turning all the scandals into alleged conspiracies. Meanwhile Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has promised to ban the sale of Pimm’s and all other varieties of liquor in his state should he be re-elected in coming assembly polls a move that will generate quite a few grunts. Perhaps Nitish should rope in Vika for his election campaign. Such an inspired doubles matchup could then serve and volley past the opposition and grunt to their hearts’ content.
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can turn out to be lethal, especially in case of those suffering with diabetes, QUOTE “Painkillers hypertension, high cholesterol and kidney diseases. Painkillers and fever-reducing drugs OF THE -which are often easily available over the counter in India -increase the chance of a heart attack or stroke, either of which can lead to death” - The US drug regulator has warned. DAY
Playing a mother on-screen was easy: Shriya
Shriya Saran says it was not tough to portray the role of a mother on-screen in her upcoming film “Drishyam” Agency | Mumbai Actress Shriya Saran says it was not tough to portray the role of a mother on-screen in her upcoming film “Drishyam”.
“Drishyam” is an upcoming thriller drama film directed by Nishikant Kamat where Shriya is paired opposite Ajay Devgn. The 32-year-old actress is
playing a mother of two girls in the movie set in a small coastal village. “It was not tough to play the role of a mother. It is an interesting role. I feel any-
Actress Halle Berry wants to star as Storm in her own “X-Men” spinoff movie. The 48-yearold Oscar-winning actress, who appeared as the superhero character in the “X-Men” franchise earlier in her career, said she is open to the possibility of reprising the role of Storm, reported Deadline. “If it’s before I’m 65-years-old, I would ab-
solutely do it. In a heartbeat I would do a Storm movie. I love that character through and through. So, if that ever became an opportunity for me if it’s before I’m 65-years old I would absolutely do that,” she said. However, the “Monster’s Ball” actress admitted that the project could only go ahead if the studio was confident that it would become a commercial success.
one can connect with the film, the characters and the situation,” Shriya told reporters here at the trailer launch of “Drishyam”. “I enjoyed working on
Shah Rukh Khan’s lively, educative trip with his ‘li’l ones’ Aryan and Suhana
the film. I am a big fan of Ajay. I have admired him. He is a giving actor and it is easy working with him. I like Tabu a lot… She is adorable,” she said. The
film is a remake of the Malayalam film of the same name. It is directed by Nishikant Kamath and is scheduled for release on July 31.
Agency | Mumbai
ager told the inspector that the employee didn’t know Grande, 22, had licked the donuts and “placed them back in display case for sale.” Wolfee Donuts has been given a week to correct the problems but will not be closed as a result. The “Problem” singer hasn’t commented on the issue yet. Grande had earlier issued an apology for her “I hate America” remarks, saying, “I am EXTREMELY proud to be an American and I’ve always made it clear that I love my country. What I said in a private moment with my friend, who was buying the donuts, was taken out of context and I am sorry for not using more discretion with my choice of words.”
Donut Shop visited by Ariana Grande fails health inspection
Agency | Mumbai
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan can’t be tracked down easily. While earlier, in a rare sighting, he was seen in Bulgaria enjoying a meal with Ajay Devgn, yesterday, he spent the whole day with his children Aryan and Suhana in USA. Yesterday, the teaser of SRK’s upcoming movie ‘Fan’ was revealed that showed the larger-than-life stardom of the superstar. The teaser also solved the mystery behind the notorious ‘fan’ of SRK who painted the compound wall been busy with the shoot While ‘Dilwale’ releases ‘Raess’ clashes with Salof his bungalow Mannat of three movies ‘Fan’, this December, ‘Fan’ hits man Khan’s ‘Sultan’ on with a graffitti. SRK has ‘Raees’ and ‘Dilwale’. theatres in April 2016 and Eid of 2016.
Radhika Apte wore contact lenses for short film Agency | Mumbai
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Actress Radhika Apte had to wear contact lens for the first time for her role in Sujoy Ghosh’s short film titled “Ahilya”. The short 20-minute film, which also stars Tota Roy Choudhury and Soumitra Chatterjee, will feature Radhika in the lead role, and she had to wear contact lenses for this, a statement said. “There is a certain kind of significance that Radhika’s eyes play in the short film, leading to Radhika who had to wear the lenses for the very first time,” said Radhika’s spokesperson. According to a source, the “Badlapur” actress never
usually wears lenses, but in the film her eyes play a significant element and therefore the actress had
to wear honey brown colour lenses for same. The actress donned the lenses for the very first time for
The donut shop where singer Ariana Grande was filmed licking un-purchased donuts on display trays and saying, “I hate America,” has failed a health inspection. Riverside County’s Department of Environmental Health has downgraded Wolfee Donuts’ rating from “A” to “B”, reported Ace Showbiz. According to the inspection report, Wolfee Donuts in Lake Elsinore, California was told one of the reasons for it not passing the inspection was due to “customers licking donuts incorrectly placed on counter.” The report said the film, which will re- the donut tray should not lease this week. On the have been put on top of big screen, the actress was display case where anyone could touch it. A manlast seen in “Hunterrr”.
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3 killed, thousands of Amarnath pilgrims stranded SPORTS ROUNDUP as rain plays havoc along the International border Agency | Jammu
Three people including two women were killed, while Indian Air Force choppers evacuated nearly 35 BSF jawans from different places along the international border as incessant rains since last night disrupted normal life across Jammu region. Meanwhile, thousands of people including Amarnath pilgrims were stranded following the closure of 300 kmlong Jammu-Srinagar national highway this morning. Police said that three members of a family, including two women, were killed and three others were injured as a
car skidded off the road and fell into a nullah near Basohli. Identifying one of the deceased as Ashok Kumar, Assistant Accounts Officer in PWD, Basohli, police said the victims were on their way from Lakhanpur to Basohli at that time. Meanwhile, IAF airlifted nearly three dozen BSF jawans who were deployed at two border outposts marooned in the flashfloods along the international border in Ramgarh sector. The IAF chopper dropped the rescued jawans on the nearby road in the area. Nearly 2,500 Amarnath pilgrims were stranded as Jammu-Kashmir nation-
Kerala: LDF to move court against clean chit to KM Mani Agency | New Delhi
A day after the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) submitted a final report in the court giving a clean chit to Finance Minister KM Mani in the bar bribery case, the Opposition LDF decided to move the court. After a meeting of the LDF leaders, its convener Vaikkom Vishwan said the Opposition would legally confront the Vigilance decision to scuttle the probe.
Sachin Tendulkar surprises budding cricketers at Lord’s
al highway was blocked by landslides near Ramsu on Friday morning. “The road has closed near Ramsu due to landslides triggered by incessant rains for the last 48 hours,” said
the traffic control room at Ramban. Efforts were on to clear the blockade. Meanwhile, incessant rains have disrupted normal life in many parts of Jammu. With rivers and
nullahs across the region in spate, the traffic at various low lying areas was disrupted due to waterlogging. There were also reAgency | New Delhi ports of collapsed houses Sachin Tendulkar gave from some places. twenty students from Pathways Schools the surprise of their lives when the Little Master visited
Land bill: Parliament panel likely to seek more time Agency | New Delhi
Opposition leader V S Achuthanandan would implead in the court to consider the Vigilance report seeking closure of the bribery case for want of evidence. The Vigilance had registered the FIR against Mani based on the complaint from the Opposition leader.
With no political consensus in sight, the Joint Committee of Parliament examining the land bill is likely to seek more time to submit its report to the House, which may not see the bill coming up for consideration in the Monsoon Session beginning July 21. A number of panel members has indicated their willingness to further extend the deadline for submission of its
them at the Lord’s cricket ground, London. Pathways Schools, in collaboration with Yuvraj Singh Centre of Excellence (YSCE), organised a U-17
cricket tour to London and Birmingham for its students. Sachin visited the kids on the request of his former India colleague, and good friend, Yuvraj.
self. “Enjoy your Kilimanjaro Moment.” Kilimanjaro Moment. Capital ‘K’, capital ‘M’. Otherwise defined as a stellar anomaly that occurs only here in Africa. A present tense that breaks all relations from its immediate past and immediate future. Just like this monolith rising and falling exponentially, bang in the middle of a barren bush. More to the point, just like an African cricket team knocking out giants with
regularity, bang in the middle of a most irregular and torrid decade. To fully understand why a fortnight of cricket that occurred five years ago in Zimbabwe was the country’s Kilimanjaro Moment, consider the following. Between July 10, 2005 and today, July 9, 2015 — a full decade — the nation won all of seven one-day internationals against other full-member ICC countries; not counting Bangladesh that is.
India tour of Zimbabwe: Reserves game for African safari Agency | Harare
report. The committee, headed by BJP member S S Ahluwalia, had earlier decided in favour of extending the deadline from July 21 to July 28, for
which Parliament’s nod would be sought when the Monsoon Session begins. Sources in the government as well as in the panel did not rule out further extensions to the Joint Committee. While the government is yet to take a call on convening a Joint Session of Parliament to ensure the passage of the bill, there seems to be no sign of an agreement in the panel. There is a view within the government that the opposition Congress will not relent on its demands even if the government agrees to some changes.
The pilot has spoken in rhymes. The dull in-flight entertainment has been sacrificed. And all passengers aboard the Ethiopia-Zambia-Zimbabwe carrier have slid one way to catch a glimpse of the tallest structure in Africa. The tallest free-standing mountain in the world. Mt. Kilimanjaro. There it stands, a black beauty with an icy head, between what we know to be Kenya and Tanzania. Alone and daunting, like a pimple on an otherwise freckle-free face. Alone and daunting, like a recital of poetry on a plane. “Great day to fly. Not a cloud in the sky. Happens only in July,” the captain adds, laughing a jazz laugh to
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Amreli MLA continues his fast-unto-death for second day Sunvilla News | Amreli
As the state government did not announce any relief package for flood-hit Amreli district within the deadline he had set, Congress MLA Paresh Dhanani started his fastunto-death as he had announced earlier, in Amreli on Thursday. Dhanani, who is MLA from Amreli, started his hunger strike at a samiana set up in Jivraj Mehta Chowk of Amreli on Thursday morning as state government did not declare any relief package for the district by the deadline of Wednesday he had set. The fast-unto-death follows his token fast for three days which he had observed from Monday
to Wednesday to “warn” the government and press for his demand of a relief package. “People of Amreli hit by flash floods of June 24 are in distress but it is deeply painful that the government is in deep slumber. I have written eight letters to Chief Minister demanding relief for the flood-victims. However, there is no response from the CM so far for any of those letters nor has any minister or government has visited people agitating with us till date and enquired about their situation,” Dhanani. Zaver Rangholiya, secretary of Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee and Nandalal Bhadkan of Amreli District Farmers
Rights Protection Committee also started their indefinite hunger strike alongside Dhanani on Thursday. Hundreds of flood-affected people and local Congress leaders were observing token fast with the Congress MLA. Dhanani, who is also secretary of All India Congress Commitee, warned that if the government did come up with relief package for Amreli by July 11, his party will launch agitation in other districts of Saurashtra. “There were reports of a lion and a buffalo saving their lives by confining themselves in a shed in a village of Liliya taluka of the district during the flash floods. Animals can come to-
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200 noodle variants under Gujarat food authority scanner Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar
gether in time of distress. But I am surprised that human beings, who are most intelligent are not
relating to the pain of fellow-human-beings,” the MLA said while taking a dig at the government.
The Gujarat food and drugs authority, which launched a massive drive to check the food safety standards of packaged products after lead and monosodium glutamate (MSG) were found beyond permissible limits in the samples of Nestle’s Maggi, has sent to laboratories as many as 200 variants of more than 20 instant noodle brands and the results would likely be disclosed in a week. The manufactures of the instant noodle brands would be sent notices for withdrawal, if their products do not conform with the set standards, said the
Food and Drugs Control Administration (FDCA). However, the manufacturers of all top brands as well as locally made icecreams and soft drinks would only get notices to lift the safety standards from the FDCA, if their products fail the tests. It is likely that by the time results would be out, the batch from
which samples were taken might be sold out in the market. “Two hundred samples of variants of more than 20 instant noodle brands have been taken and sent for multiple tests, including MSG and lead, to laboratories located at Vadodara, Rajkot and Bhuj,” said Dr H G Koshiya, the commissioner of FDCA.
ing the order of a sessions court that had recently refused to modify the bail terms. Justice ZK Saiyed on Wednesday passed the order while granting relief to Chhagan Patel. The court ordered to remove the conditions of not leaving Gujarat without the nod of the court and release of his passport. This was the first case of Sharma in the HC. Chhagan had been released on bail by the sessions court in 2006 with these two conditions. While his brothers Raman and Dashrath were granted bail by the HC with same conditions which were later modified. The case against Patel brothers were reg-
istered by Sarkhej police in 2004, the same year in which two gunmen had opened fire at their office in Navrangpura. The Ahmedabad police lodged an FIR naming two of the brothers — Dashrath and Raman — among others as accused, including Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his associates. Subsequently, Raman and Dashrath figured as witnesses in Sohrabuddin case.
Land grab case: Popular Builder owner gets relief from HC Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The Gujarat High Court has allowed a petition of bail modification moved by one of the brothers who own Popular Builders, a real estate firm which figures in Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauserbi’s fake encounter case. The petitioner Chhagan Bholidas Patel, who was arrested by Sarkhej Police in 2004, in an alleged land grab case moved HC through his lawyer Rahul Sharma, an ex-IPS officer. In this case apart from Chhagan, his brothers Dashrath and Ram Patel are co-accused. Sharma moved the HC challeng-
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