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News Brief Ahmednagar child gangrape issue rocks Maharashtra Assembly Agency | Mumbai The gangrape and killing of a minorgirl in Ahmednagar district, on Monday rocked the Maharashtra Assembly, as the monsoon session of state legislature got underway. Making a statement after ruckus by the Opposition in the Lower House, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said the accused in the gangrape and killing of the girl in Kopardi village of Ahmednagar district, have been arrested and the matter will be heard in a fast-track court.Ujjawal Nikam will be the public prosecutor, he said. The state government has given Rs 5 lakh financial help to the victim’s family, Fadnavis said.DNA samples of the victim and the accused have been sent for forensic tests, he said. Raising the issue in the Lower House, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) legislator Ajit Pawar said the Kopardi case was heinous than the Nirbhaya gangrape in Delhi.
Bengal woman’s fingers chopped off, son injured in attack over cattle grazing Agency | Malda A woman’s fingers were chopped off and her son was seriously injured after being attacked allegedly by their neighbour following an argument over the woman’s cattle grazing in the neighbour’s paddy field at Baisnabnagar in Malda district on Sunday.A senior police officer said the woman and her son have been admitted to a hospital after lodging of an FIR against the neighbour Harun Seikh and seven other persons at Baisnabnagar police station.The seven persons had allegedly provoked Sheikh following which he had an altercation with the woman over her cattle grazing in his farmland, the officer said.”Sheikh allegedly attacked the woman with a sharp-edged weapon when she argued,” the woman alleged in her FIR with the police.
If I don’t help, court will provide aid to IS suspects, says Asaduddin Owaisi Agency | Hyderabad MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said on Sunday that the court would provide legal aid to the ISIS terror suspects arrested by the NIA earlier this month if he does not help them. He was while speaking at an antiISIS gathering in Mahbubnagar.Mr Owaisi addressing the gathering at the ZP High School ground on Friday midnight said that the ISIS was like a plague and would destroy the community.He said the youth should not fall prey to their ideology and spoil their future. “Instead of thinking of the such ideologies, youth should focus on their future and their families.
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Don’t deceive nation by holding state govt responsible for J&K unrest: Jaitley Agency | New Delhi The BJP on Monday responded to Congress’ charge that it failed to rein in the unrest in Kashmir after the killing of Hizbul militant Burhan Wani. Arun Jaitley led BJP’s charge in the Rajya Sabha and said the Opposition was deceiving itself and the nation if it believed that the PDP-BJP govt in J&K was responsible for the current situation in the state.”National parties need to work together in the state. The PDPBJP alliance was chosen by the people. We all know that BJP has ideological differences with the PDP, but we made a compromise for the benefit of the state,” said Jaitley. He also urged the youth in the state to stay away from the unrest.Jaitley then went on to slam Pakistan for trying to interfere in the internal affairs of India and accused it of being in denial over the fact
that J&K belonged to India.”Pakistan never reconciled to the fact that J&K is a part of India. Because of their failure to accept this, they continued with their twisted politics. This even led to a war between the two countries. Thrice we fought a ‘conventional war’ with them and each time they lost. After realising that they could not win a war against us, they resorted to using terrorism as a means to their end,’ Jaitley said.Earlier, Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad had hit out at the Centre, accusing it of failing to differentiate between civilians and militants in Kashmir.”Should locals be treated same way we treat militants? Should same bullets that are used on militants be used on innocents?,” asked Nabi.“Governments are run on trust & faith, but people of J&K have a sense of mistrust towards the current Government.
I’m not saying that Kashmiri people had complete faith when Cong was in power, but there was a sense of trust in some corner,” he added. Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hoped that all parties will work shoulder to shoulder in the Monsoon Session of Parliament to take important decisions that will give a new direction to the country. Noting that the session is taking place just ahead of the 70th Independence Day, Modi said he was confident that discussions of the highest standard will be held.Addressing the media outside Parliament at the start of the Monsoon session, the Prime Minister said that based on the talks with all parties over the last few days, the prevailing mood was to take “very good decisions so that the country can move ahead on the path of development with greater speed”.
Modi a saviour, says govt as Mayawati SC accepts Lodha recommendations, no office-bearer in BCCI above 70 plays Dalit card in Rajya Sabha Agency | New Delhi Rajya Sabha on Monday witnessed a brief adjournment on the opening day of the Monsoon session, as Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) members trooped into the well alleging atrocities on Dalits in BJPruled Gujarat.Soon after laying of papers when the Question Hour began, BSP chief Mayawati raked up a recent incident in which some members of the Dalit community, engaged in skinning dead animals, were beaten up in Gujarat.She said some anti-social elements tied their hands, stripped them and beat them up in a
market in broad daylight.The police did not take immediate action and the crowd too did not intervene, the BSP leader alleged and blamed the state government too for not taking prompt action against the culprits.Accusing the ruling BJP of being ‘anti-Dalit’, she said the state police swung into action only after the incident was highlighted by the media.This shows the “anti-Dalit mindset” of the BJP, she said and alleged that such incidents of atrocities against Dalits have increased ever since the BJP-led government has come to power at the Centre. Countering the allegations,
Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the “saviour” of the entire country and said that as per convention, name of any political party should not be taken while raising issues.As Mayawati was speaking on atrocities against Dalits, some BSP members trooped into the well raising slogans.Chairman Hamid Ansari adjourned the House for ten minutes. Earlier, Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M) pointed out that he had given a notice for adjournment of Question Hour for taking up the issue of rising prices.
Agency | New Delhi The Supreme Court on Monday accepted Lodha Committee recommendations and has given BCCI a deadline of six months to implement them in toto.The apex court accepted one state, one vote; Maharashtra and Gujarat are allowed to have three associations on rotational basis. The parliament will now decide whether the BCCI should come under RTI.However, the court said it will not accept any candidate in BCCI above the age
of 70, neither will the ministers be entertained. The Lodha panel will oversee transition from the old to new regime within these six months.Earlier, a bench of Chief Justice TS Thakur and Justice FMI Kalifulla had reserved its verdict on June 30 after a
marathon session of over a dozen hearings.During the hearing which started in March this year, BCCI had been averse to some of the recommendations of Justice RM Lodha ledpanel and had objected to suggestions like one state-one vote.
21 killed in rain-related incidents Zakir Naik’s school in Chennai across 4 states in India imparts ‘education for both worlds’
Agency | New Delhi At least 21 people were killed in rain-related incidents in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Assam with monsoon gaining momentum in several parts of North and Northeast India.At least 10 people were killed in Uttarakhand in rainrelated incidents. Four persons lost their lives in Tehri district as their car was hit by debris falling from a hillside in the wake of a landslide. Two others were killed in Uttarkashi district when a tree fell on their house following heavy rains in the area.Incessant rains sent the Ganga, Yamuna and
their tributaries into spate with all of them including the Bhagirathi, Alaknanda and Mandakini flowing close to the danger mark, prompting authorities to evacuate people living there. Heavy rains are likely to continue in the state for another 24 hours especially in Udhamsingh Nagar, Haridwar and Dehradun districts where extremely heavy rains are expected at a couple of places during the period, state MeT office said.The national capital witnessed light rains, keeping the mercury within comfortable levels with the maximum temperature at 30.1 degrees Celsius.
Agency | Chennai Mumbai-based Islamic Preacher Zakir Naik is under the scanner of probe agencies after it emerged that some of the Dhaka attackers were inspired by his speeches, but the ventures run by him seem to be unaffected by the raging controversy surrounding him.The Islamic International School, run by the preacher in Chennai, barely resembles the striking campus that is advertised in pamphlets, but the management at the school is proud of what it stands for and is unflinching in their support to Zakir Naik and the Salafist tradition the school is embedded in.“Education for both the worlds,” says a
pamphlet describing the school Basha, the Vice-Principal of the to prospective parents looking to school explained what ‘education enroll their children in the school. for both the worlds’ meant. “Our students take the IGCSE Cambridge International Examinations for which highly qualified teachers coach the students as per the Cambridge syllabus. At the same time, we teach the students the Koran and the Hadith,” he said. The management claims that Zakir Naik visits the campus According to a report, the school’s sometimes and interacts directly curriculum includes teaching of the with the students.There are close Quran and is filled with religious to 100 students in the school and content but the management says 67 teachers to educate them. that everything being taught is The school reportedly has the completely within the framework ‘best student-teacher ratio’ in of the Cambridge syllabus.Dawood Chennai.
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Party against reform IT HAS been almost a decade since the then finance minister P. Chidambaram first proposed April 1, 2010 as the date for introducing a national-level Goods and Services Tax (GST) in his budget speech of 2007-08. As is evident, that was not to be so. Yes, a broad political consensus had evolved over the years. A shift to a clean dual VAT (value added tax) system — with the Centre and states individually taxing both goods and services at similar rates — sounded both plausible and imminent by 2011. Despite the UPA’s political will to see through the complex implementation of what truly is a second generation reform, it could not. GST is referred to as a second generation reform because it required both the Union government and states to be on board. Unfortunately, the BJP single-handedly stalled GST in Parliament then, frustrating and provoking the mild-mannered Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. This is not lost on the Congress today.The Congress’s opposition to GST, which according to Singh could be “an envy of the world”, is out-andout political. The party’s demands are unreasonable — some in the Congress privately describe them as absurd. One, it wants the government to specify the GST rate in the Constitution itself.Extending the logic, there may be demands tomorrow for all other taxes including personal income tax rates and corporate tax rates to be mentioned in the Constitution. If so, every change in taxes will require a constitutional amendment. The ideological underpinning of the Congress’s argument is that indirect taxes are paid by the rich and poor alike and the government’s need to raise revenues will push it to hike tax rates. In India, though, indirect tax rates have evolved over decades and items consumed by the poor and needy are taxed at lower rates. So, 75 per cent of the items that make up the Consumer Price Index basket are either not taxed or are taxed at low rates. Besides, why wouldn’t the Congress itself propose this while in office begs a serious answer. Also, the Congress wants disputes between states or between states and the Union government on GST to be decided by an adjudication authority. This too is bizarre since it amounts to yielding legislative powers of taxation to the judiciary. This, again, needlessly adds a new element to the friction between the courts and the government.Having said this, the Congress itself is facing a strange predicament. How can it hand over the GST legislation to the Narendra Modi government on a platter? Having relentlessly pursued it for eight years and with the BJP stalling it all along, how can it let the mileage of the biggest indirect tax reform accrue to the NDA. This is best explained in Manmohan Singh’s words. On February 16, 2011, a fortnight before the budget for 2011-12 was to be presented, he had a long interaction with editors of the electronic media.
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I am not a thief: Tiger Shroff on Micheal Munna stealing allegations
Agency | Mumbai Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff today said “he is not a thief” while rubbishing reports that the script of his upcoming film ‘Micheal Munna’ was stolen. Recently, the 26-yearold actor and director Sabbir Khan announced their third collaboration ‘Michael Munna’. But even before the movie has gone on the floors, city-based writerdirector Kritik Kumar Pandey has filed a police complaint, accusing Tiger of stealing his script to make ‘Munna Michael’, based on
a die-hard Michael Jackson follower. Pandey had alleged that he had shared his film’s script with Tiger, a selfconfessed fan of the King of Pop. “I don’t know the issue. We are here (and) I don’t steal. I am not a thief. I don’t lie, I am not a cheater,” Tiger told reporters here at the trailer launch of ‘A Flying Jatt’ when asked about the allegations.Meanwhile, the ‘Heropanti’ actor expressed concern on the less number of tigers in the country. “It is sad that there are less number of tiger’s today.We should take care of them.
Simi Garewal ‘loves Hyderabad’
Agency | Mumbai One look at Simi Garewal and you feel all these years have not had much effect on her. Appearing as radiant as ever in her trademark white outfit, the actress and celebrity talk show hostess opened up about her thoughts, opinions, her popular talk show Rendezvous with Simi Garewal and her tryst with Bollywood.In the city on Monday to inaugurate ‘The Wall of Hope’, a collage of handprints by eye cancer (retinoblastoma) survivors at the LV Prasad Eye Institute, the diva was excited to be in Hyderabad. “I love the city, it’s culture and the climate. People here are lovely. I visited the Falaknuma Palace; it was beyond magnificent. I haven’t explored the city so much, but would love to,” she says. At the eye institute, where over 2,000 children were treated at the hospital’s ‘Operation Eyesight Universal Institute for Cancer’, little kids, in a strong message of hope and awareness, beautifully showcased their hand-prints on the wall. Simi, who also supported the awareness programme, spoke passionately, “It’s so hard to switch on the news these days; there are so many women being
raped, Dalits tortured, animals abused and killed, making us very depressed. But, there are an army of people working towards the betterment of the society and I want to contribute towards the
titled India’s Rajiv and also a 1988 Hindi feature film Rukhsat starring Mithun Chakraborty, which, incidentally, was her last movie as an actor. Asked why she quit acting, Simi said, “It
cause.”An actress of great talent and style, Simi had quit films to embrace her TV career that got her unparalleled popularity. “I’m returning to TV with my talk show... most probably in January,” she reveals.Unknown to many, she had directed a three-part documentary on Rajiv Gandhi
took me five years to complete India’s Rajiv. I wasn’t getting good offers and didn’t want to randomly take up films. I got offers from down South too. Mollywood director Anil Kumar wanted to work with me, but I didn’t feel like working without a strong role.
Salman Khan misses his flight, gets into a heated argument with airport authorities Agency | Mumbai Seems like Salman Khan and controversies go hand in hand. After his rape comment controversy, the actor is yet again in the midst of another smoky dispute. On Monday (July 18), the actor got into a heated argument with the airport authorities after the actor missed his flight to Delhi. Salman Khan was supposed to fly off to Delhi from Mumbai with Vistara Airlines but the actor reached airport 15 minutes late due to which he was not allowed to board the plane. This left the actor feeling irritated, who then
tried to reason with the airport authorities and asked them to let him board the flight. But rules being rules, Salman was no exception and the actor was not allowed to take the flight. However, in the middle of the argument, Salman burst into laughter as the entire incident felt too comical to him. Apparently, this isn’t the first time that the ‘Dabangg’ actor missed his flight while travelling with Vistara Airlines and such incident has happened before, too.Moving on, the actor then boarded Jet Airways’ next flight to Delhi, leaving the entire drama behind him.
Priyanka Chopra throws lavish birthday bash in New York Agency | Mumbai From walking the red carpet at renowned award shows to winning top awards and dining with Obamas, Priyanka Chopra has done it all this year. On work front, Priyanka is all set to make her debut in Hollywood with Dwayne Johnson’s Baywatch next year. She will essay the role of Victoria Leeds in the film directed by Seth Gordon.The actress, who is currently shooting for the second season of ‘Quantico’ in New York, celebrated her 34th birthday on July 18. Several pictures from the celebrations have been shared on social media, take a look.
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My dad wanted me to become a cricketer: Salman Khan
Agency | Mumbai Salman Khan says his father Salim Khan wanted to see him play cricket for the country.Salman, who played a wrestler in his latest film ‘Sultan’, said former Indian cricketer Salim Durani was hired as his coach and he told his father that the actor had a bright future in the field.“My dad wanted me to play cricket. That could have happened easily but I just didn’t see myself going for cricket practice at 5:30 in the morning. This life is as it is difficult for me, cricket would have been very difficult,” Salman said.The actor was speaking at the launch of tennis star Sania Mirza’s autobiography ‘Ace Against Odds’, last evening.The ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ star said he used to play cricket fairly well but the day his father came to see him, he intentionally gave a bad performance.“Salim Durani was hired to be my coach. First day, he saw me play, I played very well. Second day, I did really well so he called my father the third day and said your son has got a very bright future. That is the day I realised, my father came to see me play.
I am pregnant, it is not a national casualty: Kareena Kapoor Khan lashes out
Agency | Mumbai As soon as Saif Ali Khan confirmed his wife Kareena Kapoor Khan’s pregnancy, the news spread like wildfire with several speculations associated to it; but looks like the would be-mommy is disappointed with the news.In an interview to Hindustan Times, the actress expressed her displeasure over the news and the speculations. She said, “I’m pregnant, not a corpse. And what maternity break? It’s the most normal thing on earth to produce a child. It is high time the media back off, and stop treating me any different than I ever was. Anybody who is bothered shouldn’t work with me. But my work goes on as is, like always. Stop making it a national casualty.”She went on to
add, “We are in 2016, not in the 1800s. Probably, even at that time, people were way more civilized and normal than the way the media is behaving and speculating now. I’m just fed up of people making it (her pregnancy) to be a death of some sort. In fact, it should be a message to a lot of people that marriage or having a family has absolutely nothing to do with my career.”For the uninitiated, there were speculations that Kareena, who is due in December, will push forward the shoot of her next ‘Veere Di Wedding’. However, the makers soon released a statement stating that they will begin filming from August. The actress will shoot for some magazine covers by October before she goes on maternity leave.
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Prarthana Thombare is confident
Agency | Mumbai Prarthana Thombare has come a long way from a small town in Barshi, Solapur, to Hyderabad to ply her skills with the cream of women’s lawn tennis players in India. The 22-yearold travelled distances and sacrificed her childhood to make it big in a sport thought to be for elite people.Now she will be fighting the cream of women’s doubles talent worldwide including Wimbledon champions, the Williams sisters (Serena and Venus) for glory at the Rio Olympics partnering the queen of Indian tennis Sania Mirza.
The straight-talking Prarthana isn’t vexed by the gravity of the occasion and promises to try to be an ideal partner for Sania in their quest for an Olympic medal.“We will clash with big names but I am not afraid because I have world no. 1 Sania next to me and I think I am really prepared for it,” she said with confidence.“There are lot of tough opponents. Serena and Venus together representing USA among them. But I don’t need to worry. When you have world No.1 playing alongside, you cannot ask for anything better.”
Agency | Chennai Countless identical twins have taken part at the same Olympics. But for the first time in the history of the Games, identical triplets will be competing in Rio. What is more fascinating is the Luik sisters from Estonia, Leila, Liina and Lily, have qualified for the same event — marathon.There is, however, little chance for the 30-year-old siblings from the northern European country to finish on the podium because none of them has a personal best that is good enough to win a medal.Another set of siblings who will hog the limelight in Rio are Britain’s Brownlee brothers — Alistair and Jonny. Alistair, 28, won the triathlon gold in London four years ago and Jonny, two years younger to the champion, finished third.Although it’s difficult for siblings to win gold medals in individual events at the same Olympics, Leon and Michael Spinks achieved the rare feat in boxing in 1976 as the sport has different weight divisions. Leon clinched gold in the light heavyweight section while his younger brother, Michael, went all the way in middleweight.At the Beijing Games in 2008, three American siblings took part in taekwondo and all of them
went home with a medal. Steven Lopez claimed the bronze while his brother, Mark, and sister, Diana, claimed silver and bronze, respectivelyThe Games have thrown up quite a few medalists from the same family.Australian equestrian legend Bill Roycroft and his son, Wayne, have a record that will be difficult to break — both were part of the team that won a bronze medal in 1968 and 1976. Bill’s two other sons also took part in equestrian at the OlympicsWinning an Olympic hockey medal is a family right for the Kellers of Germany.Andreas Keller emulated his father Carsten’s achievement in 1972 by winning the gold medal in 1992. Andreas’ grandfather, Erwin, was a silver medallist in 1936. The story of the most decorated hockey family in Olympic history isn’t over yet. Andreas’ step sister, Natascha, and step brother, Florian, nailed gold in 2004 and 2008 respectively.At the Helsinki Olympics in 1952, legendary Czech Republic athlete Emil Zatopek and his wife, Dana, clinched a gold medal each on the same day. After Zatopek won the 5,000m on July 24, Dana kept the gold medal in her bag for luck before her event, the javelin.
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Yasir Shah scripts Pakistan’s historic win at Lord’s Agency | London Yasir Shah marked his first Test outside of Asia and the United Arab Emirates by taking 10 wickets in the match as Pakistan beat England by 75 runs in their series opener at Lord’s on Sunday. Leg-spinner Shah took 10 for 141, including a second-innings haul of four for 69 on Sunday’s fourth day. His return, which surpassed Waqar Younis’s previous Testmatch best for Pakistan at Lord’s of eight for 154, was central to the tourists going 1-0 up in this four-match series. Mohammad Amir in his first Test appearance since he was given a five-year ban for his part in the 2010 spotfixing scandal at Lord’s -- Pakistan’s last Test at ‘the home of cricket’ -ended the match when he bowled last man Jake Ball.Victory prompted the whole Pakistan team to perform several press-ups in front of the Lord’s Pavilion – a reference to their pretour military boot camp. England, set 283 for victory, were all out for 207.They were holding
firm at 195 for six thanks to a determined stand of 56 between Jonny Bairstow (48) and Chris Woakes (23). But Bairstow’s three-and-ahalf hour innings ended when he was bowled trying to whip a Shah leg-break.England were soon 196 for eight when left-arm quick Amir bowled Stuart Broad. Shah then had Woakes, who took 11 wickets in the match, caught at slip before Amir ended the contest.It was Pakistan’s unheralded left-arm quick Rahat Ali who removed England’s top three to reduce the hosts to 47 for three. His back-off-a-length ball had England captain Alastair Cook (eight) edging through to wicket-keeper Sarfraz Ahmed.Cook’s opening partner Alex Hales (16) then carelessly chased a wide Rahat ball outside off stump, with Mohammad Hafeez holding a good catch at first slip. Joe Root struck two superb cover-driven fours off Rahat but the star batsman fell into a hooking trap on nine when he paddled a Rahat short ball to Shah, set back at deep square leg.
Chennai in awe
Agency | Chennai Having landed in the city five days ago, former two-time Ballon d’Or winner Ronaldinho Gaucho was finally unveiled to the waiting and expectant media on Sunday. For someone who once had the entire world at his feet and complete mastery over anything that is spherical in shape — be it football or the world, Ronaldinho still has his fans in awe, long after his descent from the lofty pedestal.This was the man who had the knack of leaving both his fans and bewildered opponents dazed when he ruled the turf. Currently this veritable dose of Brazilian flavour has been creating a rage across Chennai, since the time he blew kisses to his adoring supporters on arrival in the city.A World Cup winner Ronaldinho, droopy eyes and the famous toothy grin intact, said the current Brazilian team was a trifle short on luck. “Brazil always had a profusion of great talent. The current team is not as bad as it’s being made out to be,” said the 36-year-old, in the city to take part in the Premier Futsal tournament. He is the captain of the Goa 5’s franchisee.Quizzed on what went through the mind of a genius before attempting ‘that’ free-kick against England at the 2002 World Cup quarterfinal, Ronaldinho, with the aid of an interpreter, provided revealing insights into his attention to detail.
Agency | Mumbai Tennis ace Sania Mirza will be busy slugging it out in the mixed doubles and women’s doubles at Rio Olympics to earn a medal for India, but the Hyderabadi player revealed that she will root for the national hockey team whenever she gets an opportunity from her busy schedule.“I will definitely like to watch Indian hockey team in action. We didn’t make into Olympics last time (at Beijing). I am a huge fan of hockey and will love to see them do well,” she said.Although World No. 1 women’s doubles player sees her partnership with Rohan Bopanna as the best bet to win a medal in the mixed doubles, she isn’t taking her partnership with lowerranked Prarthana Thombare in the women’s doubles event lightly.“Me and Prarthana from a good partnership. We won together a medal in the (Incheon)
Asian Games. She is a young girl and has lot of prospect. She comes from Barshi, plays in the Sania Mirza Academy since last year-and-a-half. It will be a good experience for her. Hopefully, we will see a lot from her,” Sania said at an event here to promote her autobiography Ace Against Odds, with Bollywood star Salman Khan.Sania said there could be no replacement for her partner Martina Hingis in India, but she hoped Prarthana could take the mantle from her. “We hope she can become really good and have someone to take the mantle from me. Because I am close to 30 and have done three surgeries, my body feels like 50 and I am not playing forever. She can become good. There are also Ankita Raina and Karman Kaur Thandi, who is good, and one of these girls probably and hopefully will be that next girl after me,” she said.
Never received this kind of attention: Mamatha Poojary Agency | Bengaluru ‘Kabaddi Queen’ Mamatha Poojary, is a world cup winning captain and a wellknown athlete but not a household name. The Arjuna awardee with 11 international golds in her kitty along with five Asian Games triumphs has come a long way in her journey in the little-acknowledged male-dominated sport.Following 12 long years in the game and closer to the end of her career, a tiresome, yet relieved smile is etched on the 30-year-old as she gets her dose of recognition, which has been long overdue.Witnessing one of India’s finest players fighting it out, in a packed stadium cheered on by the likes of Abhishek Bachchan, is a rare but
refreshing sight. Leading the Fire Birds team in the women’s Kabaddi challenge, a certain sense of gratitude mixed with overwhelming emotions can be heard in the Karnataka player’s voice as she opens up about her journey from the dust to the glamour.Finally becoming a household name, Mamatha takes a walk down memory lane. “I want to give my example. I have been playing for around 12 years now and I have never received that kind of attention. People didn’t know us. Women’s Kabaddi Challenge is a platform via which people all over the world will know about us. Now people know who Mamatha Poojari is and what we have achieved. The respect we see in people’s
eyes is all thanks to this tournament.”“We can take an example from the men’s league. Earlier, we used to play at the nationals together. But now after the Pro Kabaddi league we have become their fans. And the women are also starting to get that recognition. Nowadays the game has become very popular. Children now have a future if they take up this game,” added Mamatha.With the Women’s challenge tournament just in its inaugural season and the matches being aired live on television for the first time ever, it’s a whole new feeling for the players.“At the beginning we were quite nervous. We have always played outdoors. But at the back of our minds
we know now people all over can sit and watch our game at home. NPlaying a male-dominated sport, Mamatha Poojary & Co. have battled on despite several hardships. World Cup and Asian Games triumphs have fetched them only fleeting success but the inaugural Women’s Kabaddi Challenge is giving them the recognition they have always deservedow we are absolutely confident. The feeling is great.”Moreover, the players have started feeling the burden of expectation. “Now everyone is seeing us and there is a lot of expectation. So when I don’t perform I am letting them down as well. So our responsibility has increased as well as the pressure.”
Agency | CHENNAI “Sorry, please come again?” was the near unanimous reaction of a few of the scribes who converged at a plush hotel in Chennai on Sunday, when told they would have their first major brush with divinity.Up until then, they were readying themselves to pack their belongings and leave the place unsure of whether they would get to meet the one individual they had been chasing like a pack of greyhounds for days. It was then time for them to suspend their disbelief when they received a timely alert that they would indeed get to meet the man who once had the entire world at
his feet.Perhaps that someone in question has complete mastery over anything that is spherical in shape, be it football or the world that he so often set on fire.This was a man who, when he hit the glorious heights of pomp and splendour, had an uncanny knack of leaving both his devout followers and bewildered opponents dazed. When it was time for those journalists to rid themselves of the web of awe they were merrily trapped in, there he was the preeminent showstopper of this era or any other — Ronaldinho Gaucho, from the land that gave ‘Beautiful Football’ to the world at large. He is this veritable dose
of Brazilian flavour that has been creating quite a rage across Chennai, since the time he blew kisses to his adoring supporters on his arrival in the city five days ago.We could sense that not all is well with the world we inhabit seeing the travails of the Selecao, who, it seemed were born only to win, yet are now struggling to stitch together a good sequence of wins.Himself being a World Cup winner, and the proud owner of two Ballon d’Or trophies, Ronaldinho, with droopy eyes and that famous toothy grin intact, said the current generation were a trifle short on luck.“Brazil always had a profusion of great talent. The current team
is not as bad as it’s being made out to be,” said the 36-year-old, who is in the city to take part in the Premier Futsal tournament. He is the captain of the Goa 5’s franchisee. Quizzed on what went through the mind of a genius before attempting ‘that’ free-kick against England at the 2002 World Cup quarterfinal, Ronaldinho, with the aid of an interpreter, provided revealing insights into his attention to detail. “We watched a lot of videos of David Seaman (the then England goalkeeper) in the lead-up to that quarterfinal. We figured out that he had this tendency to stand a few feet ahead at the time of a free-kick being taken.
Wizard Ronaldinho casts a spell
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Gujarat High Court reserves order on 10 per cent EWS reservation
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Congress leader attempts suicide citing lack of action Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
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The Gujarat High Court today reserved its order on four petitions challenging the state government’s ordinance providing 10 per cent reservation to members of the economically weaker sections from unreserved ca tegory.The order was reserved by a division bench of Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy and Justice V M Pancholi after concluding the hearing.Petitioners Dayaram Verma, Ravjibhai Manani, Dulari Basarge and Gujarat Parents’ Association had separately challenged the May 1 ordinance announcing reservation
of ten per cent seats to candidates belonging to the unreserved category with family income cap of Rs 6 lakh annually in government jobs and educational institutions. The petitioners submitted that the reservation violates the Supreme Court’s order providing 50 per cent ceiling for reservation as per the Indra Sawhney vs Union of India case.They said that additional 10 per cent reservation further reduced the number of seats in educational institutions for candidates from unreserved category with annual family income of more than Rs 6 lakh.
Alleging that authorities did not take action as per their demand against those accused of lynching Dalits in Una taluka of Gir Somnath district of Gujarat, a Congress councillor and four other Dalits attempted suicide by allegedly consuming phenyl in Gondal town of Rajkot district on Monday morning. Police said that the five Dalit men came in a car at Ambedkar statue in Kadiya Line area of Gondal town at 11:10 AM. While getting out of their car, they started drinking something from separate bottles that they had been carrying. Policemen who had been deployed in anticipation of the act, snatched away bottles from the five and a team of paramedics, which
had been stationed there, started treating them on the spot.The five were identified as Anil Madhad, Jagdish Rathod, Bharat Solanki, Raju Parmar and Ramesh Parghi— all residents of Gondal town. Of the five, Madhad is a sitting Congress councillor of Gondal municipality, presently ruled by BJP. Later on, the five were shifted to a government hospital in the town where their condition was reported to be out of danger. Police said the five drank phenyl. “They were carrying separate bottles of phenyl. But our team stationed on the spot prevented them from drinking it. However, as a precautionary measure, doctors are performing stomach-wash. The five are normal and can be
discharged from hospital any moment,” Gondal city police inspector Vijay Chaudhary told Said. Madhad had intimated authorities of their planned suicide bid and, therefore, police had been deployed near the Ambedkar statue. Two days after seven Dalits were allegedly brutally assaulted and flogged publicly in Una taluka of Gir Somnath district, Madhad had written a letter to Rajkot district collector on July 13 demanding those accused of lynching Dalits in Una be booked under the Gujarat Prevention of Antisocial Activities Act. The Congress councillor again wrote to the collector on July 15, noting he had not received any response to his previous
letter and threatened to commit suicide near Ambedkar statue on July 18.“For the last three days, we were looking for these five persons. As soon as they arrived in a car this morning and started drinking phenyl, they were prevented by police,” Chaudhady further said.Rajkot collector Vikrant Pandey could not be reached immediately for a comment.Meanwhile, a group of Dalits camped outside the office of district collector in Surendrangar with animal carcasses loaded in five vehicles. They also demanded strict action against those who subjected Una Dalits to atrocities and threatened that they will stop disposing of carcasses if attacks continued
Gujarat CM orders CID Crime probe into Una Professor held by ACB incident, chargesheet in 60 days, designated court for taking bribe from Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar
Gujarat government today said the Chief Minister has decided to hand over the probe of Una Dalit atrocity case to CID Crime. The case will be heard by designated court. Special prosecutor will be appointed in this case. Charge sheet will be filed in 60 days. The state government will
bear the cost of treatment of all those affected. State Social Justice minister Ramanlal Vora in a statement said that all 8 accused in this incident were arrested immediately and cases were filed against them under section 307, 395, 323, 324 and atrocity act. All accused are in jail. Four police men including
police inspector, two ASIs and one head constable are suspended for negligence in performing duty. Each of those affected has been paid Rs 1 lakh assistance.The probe has been handed over to CID Crime. Charge sheet will be produced in 60 days and case will be conducted in designated court. A special prosecutor will be
appointed in this case. The state government will bear entire cost of treatment of those affected.Vora siad the state government has always taken strict actions when atrocity has been committed over Dalits. In this case while orders have been issued directly from Chief Minister level, Dalit community and others should maintain peace and restraint.
student in SP University Sunvilla News | Anand
Professor Hitesh Patel who is head of the department in Sardar Patel University in Central Gujarat has been caught by Anti Corruption Bureau(ACB) for receiving Rs 90,000 installment of alleged bribe from his students today.Patel had
demanded total Rs 3 lakh amount for allowing completion of PhD of his student.Accused Dr Hiteshkumar N Patel is Professor and head of Sociology department in Sardar Patel University in Vallabh Vidyanagar with subject specialization on Sociology of (Old Age) Weaker Section.
Hyderabad: ‘What is death’, wonders 8-year-old who kicked junior to death
Agency | Hyderabad A day after the death of a class I student in a scuffle with his senior, the eight-year-old, accused of bullying the junior does not understand what the hue and cry around him is all about. “What is death?” he asks, perturbed. Mohammed Ibrahim, a six-year-old Class I student at Promising Scholars High School at Toli Chowki died on Saturday of injuries he had reportedly suffered in a quarrel with another student, two years older than him, on the school campus on Tuesday.The quarrel broke out between the children after the eight-year-old teased Ibrahim for a runny nose.Infuriated, he verbally abused his senior, triggering a scuffle,
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which ended with the eight-yearold kicking Ibrahim in his stomach and private parts multiple times. Ibrahim collapsed immediately after receiving the brutal blows, and was rushed to the hospital by the school staff, where he was administered first aide and sent back home.But he was rushed to the hospital for a second time after complaining of severe pain in his private parts. The doctors at the Niloufer Hospital performed two surgeries on Ibrahim, but he succumbed to his injuries on Saturday. Banjara Hills police on Sunday questioned the student accused of harassing Ibrahim, and his classmates and the teachers at the school to find
out how the incident happened.When police questioned the older boy about the murder, he asked, “Mar gaya matlab kya hai?” (What does it mean he has died?) He claimed that Ibrahim had beaten him and he retaliated. Ibrahim was the son of Mohammed Abdul Majeed, a Meru Cabs driver from Toli Chowki.Majeed said Ibrahim had complained of pain in the groin area and had said that a student from Class II had kicked him. Majeed found the testicles swollen, and took him to the hospital, where doctors performed two surgeries on his abdomen and testicles.“He had said that the boy would beat him often. That day, when he kicked my son, Ibrahim said he walked away. But the
boy came after him and kicked him four times,” Majeed said.Police has registered a case for culpable homicide not amounting to murder under 304(II) of IPC against the Class II student. “As he is a minor, we will inquire into the case and proceed as per the guidelines of the Juvenile Justice Act,” Banjara Hills inspector K Srinivas said.Police said that CCTVs in the school could not record the incident as there was a power cut at that time. wThe police is yet to establish whether the incident happened inside a classroom or outside.Meanwhile, Ibrahim’s parents alleged that the school’s careless attitude on children’s safety led to the incident.
on their community members. Five men, identifying themselves as gaurakshaks or cow protection activists, had allegedly assaulted seven Dalits in Mota Samadhiyala village of Una taluka in Gir Somnath district on July 11. The gaurakshaks alleged that the Dalits were slaughtering an cow and attacked them with sticks, iron pipes and knife even as the victims pleaded with them that they were merely skinning a dead cow.Later, the gaurakshaks took four of the Dalits to Una, tied them to their car and publicly flogged them all the way to police station in the town. After police arrived on the spot, the assailants sped away in their car.
Una atrocity protest: 3 ST buses set ablaze, BRTS station targetted, 5 km long jam Sunvilla News | Rajkot
Three buses of the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) more commonly known as ST buses were set ablaze by the alleged protestors of Dalit community in two separate incidents near Bhuki Chowkdi of Dhoraji in Rajkot district and Latipur Chowkadi in Dhrol in Jamnagar district this evening. The dalit community members protesting against the said atrocities over youths of their community in Una taluka of Gir Somnath district also targetted and damaged a BRTS bus station near Nana Mahuva area on ring road in Rajkot city. A mob of over a thousand people had jammed the Rajkot-Gondal highway highway near Shapar causing major traffic jam of around five kms. Another such jam has
also been reported from near Giriraj hospital on the Kalavad road. Meanwhile security has been beefed up in the areas to check the violent protest which somewhat resembles the demonstrations of Patidar quota stir supporters in August last year.A mob targetted two ST buses near Bhuki Chowkdi in Dhoraji in Rajkot district and one near Latipur chowkdi in Dhrol taluka of Jamnagar district and burnt them. However no loss of life was reported as the buses were empty. One of the bus set ablaze near Bhuki Chowkdi was going to Porbandar from Rajkot while the other one was reportedly coming to Rajkot from Morabi. There were unconfirmed reports of stone pelting on the vehicle of a senior police officer of Gir Somnath district as well.
Obama denounces Baton Rouge police shooting as ‘work of cowards’ Agency | Washington President Barack Obama condemned as “cowardly” a shooting that killed three police officers and wounded three more in the Louisiana capital of Baton Rouge on Sunday.“For the second time in two weeks, police officers who put their lives on the line for ours every day were doing
their job when they were killed in a cowardly and reprehensible assault,” Obama said in a statement.“These are attacks on public servants, on the rule of law and on civilized society, and they have to stop.”A separate shooting in Dallas, Texas earlier this month killed five police officers during a demonstration triggered by
the fatal police shooting of two African American men whose dying moments were captured in shocking video footage that went viral online.Obama said he had offered his “full support” and that of the federal government to authorities in Baton Rouge and to Louisiana state as a whole.“And make no mistake -- justice will be
done,” the President added.“We may not yet know the motives for this attack, but I want to be clear: there is no justification for violence against law enforcement. None. These attacks are the work of cowards who speak for no one. They right no wrongs. They advance no causes.”Obama stressed that the police officers
in Baton Rouge, like those in Dallas before them, “were our fellow Americans, part of our community, part of our country, with people who loved and needed them, and who need us now -- all of us -- to be at our best.”The first African American president of the United States, Obama has made repeated calls for racial unity.
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