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Karnataka top generator of bio-medical waste

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Bengaluru: There has been a 16 per cent increase in daily generation of bio-medical waste in 2012-13 as against a marginal increase of 0.33 per cent the year ago, Lok Sabha was informed today.

Karnataka was the highest producer of bio-waste at 83,614 kg per day, followed by Maharashtra, which produced 65,660 kg of bio-wastes every day. These two states also reported the highest numbers of violations of the norms in 2013. Out of total 4,430 incidents of norm violations by health care institutions and common bio-medical waste treatment facilities in 2013, Karnataka alone reported 1,233 cases and Maharashtra 602, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Prakash Javadekar said in the Lok Sabha.

Kerala was the third highest producer of bio-medical waste in 2013 with a generation of 47,223.84 kg per day and the state reported 134 violations.

The overall figure of waste generated throughout the country was 484,271 kg per day in 2013, 416,823.6 kg in 2012 and 415,429 kg in 2011, the minister said, replying to a question on quantum of bio-medical waste generated by various states.

The government has recently framed rules for waste management and has put them on the Environment Ministry’s website to invite public suggestions before giving it a final shape. The draft rules pertain to management of solid, plastic, bio-medical and e-waste. The Ministry provides financial assistance to the states for setting up common bio-medical waste treatment and disposal facilities on public-private partnership and for creating awareness and capacity building programmes on bio-medical waster management. The Central Pollution Control Board has also provided guidelines on certain aspects of bio-medical waste management.

(Agencies)

AAP to pay Rs.10 lakh to farmer's family

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New Delhi: Delhi’s ruling AAP announced on Thursday a compensation of Rs.10 lakh to the family of a Rajasthan farmer who killed himself at a party rally here a day earlier.

Making the announcement, Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh said that his party activists tried but failed to save Gajendra Singh after he hanged himself from a tree at the site.

He added that Delhi Police were very much to blame for the death on Wednesday because they failed to intervene despite repeated appeals from AAP leaders.

“The truth of what happened (yesterday) is captured on your cameras,” Sanjay Singh told the media. “The way the police acted was insensitive and incompetent.”

The AAP leader accused the central government, which controls Delhi Police, of hoisting a concocted case against the AAP over the death of the farmer.

The dramatic suicide took place at a rally in the heart of the capital called by the AAP to denounce the land ordinance.

(IANS)

Government handing over internet to corporates: Rahul Gandhi

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New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday accused the NDA government of trying to hand over the internet to “some corporates”, as he raised the issue of net neutrality in Lok Sabha.

“Every youth should have a right to the net… But the government is trying to hand over the the internet to some corporates,” Gandhi said, raising the issue during zero hour.

He had also served notice to suspend question hour to discuss the issue, but Speaker Sumitra Mahajan did not admit this.

Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad refuted Gandhi’s charge.

“Our government is not under pressure of any corporate…,” he said.

(PTI)

IPL: Gayle dropped, RCB fans shocked

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Bengaluru: Hundreds of die-hard fans of Chris Gayle, the dashing opener of host team Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), were shocked to learn that their hero would not play against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on Wednesday night in the IPL-8 tie at the Chinnaswamy stadium here.

When the team for the game was announced after the toss and the names were displayed on the giant screen, omission of the West Indian southpaw was received with disbelief, as it meant fans would miss his mighty sixes and fours on the home turf.

“I can’t believe Gayle is not playing this time. It’s true he has not been in good form and didn’t score much in the last two games against Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad. But he was a match-winner in the first game this season against Kolkata Knight Riders on April 11 in Kolkata where he scored a scintillating 96 off 56 balls with seven sixes and seven fours,” M.N. Shastri, a government official, told IANS.

The Jamaican made 10 in 24 balls against Mumbai on April 19, without a six or a four, and 21 in 16 balls against Sunrisers on April 13 with three fours and one six.

Though the team also dropped bowlers Abu Nechim and Varun Aaron from the final 11, no explanation was given by the team management about dropping Gayle for the first time in a home game.

Interestingly, many fans have started rooting for AB de Villiers, who played a cameo innings against Mumbai, hitting 41 in just 11 balls with three sixes and five fours and led his South African team to semi-finals in the recent World Cup series in New Zealand.

Making three changes in the team, RCB brought in Sarfaraz Khan, Harshal Patel and Aussie speedster Mitchell Starc, who was Man of the Tournament in the World Cup for his record 22 wickets at an average of 10.18 runs.

(IANS)

District Court stays search warrant for Manohar Parrikar's official residence

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Panaji: In a late development, South Goa additional District and Sessions judge P Sawaikar on Wednesday stayed the warrant issued by a trial court to search the official residence of Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar at 10 Akbar Road in New Delhi for a former Goa minister, who has been reported missing for over a fortnight.

The order staying the search warrant was issued late on Wednesday night according to chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar.

“It was been stayed. The police had gone in appeal against the (lower) court’s direction to issue search warrant,” Parsekar confirmed to IANS over telephone.

Following the stay granted late on Wednesday, the Additional District Sessions court is expected to hear arguments over issue of the search warrant on Thursday.

Earlier in the day, the Judicial Magistrate First Class (Margao) Bosco Roberts, was conducting proceedings related to the formal arrest of former Archives and Archaeology minister Pacheco, whose conviction for an assault was upheld by the Supreme Court earlier this month.

Pacheco has been untraceable and missing for over two weeks.

The search warrant had directed police to search Parrikar’s official residence in Delhi to trace Pacheco after the petitioner, lawyer-activist Aires Rodrigues, told the trial court that Pacheco was seen in the vicinity of 10, Akbar Road in New Delhi, Parrikar’s official residence.

In his reply submitted to the court, police officer Uttam Rautdessai, in charge of the Colva police station which has been tasked with serving the arrest warrant on Pacheco, said the investigation revealed that the former minister had left Goa for Delhi on April 8. He was booked at Hotel Royal Plaza at Ashoka Road in the national capital till April 12.

Rautdessai, however, conceded that his team was unable to arrest the former minister when in Delhi. He also said that police were in the process of tracking down the bank accounts of the former minister and trying to track down his recent expenses.

Pacheco, who faces six-month imprisonment and a fine of Rs.1,500 for assaulting a junior engineer of the state electricity department in 2006, has been missing and untraceable ever since the Supreme Court upheld his conviction earlier this month.

(IANS)

Tipu Sultan's arms collection sold for over 6 million pounds

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Tipu Sultan's headgear. Photo: Indian Express

Tipu Sultan’s headgear. File Photo: Indian Express

New Delhi: A collection of arms and armour once owned by Tipu Sultan, was sold for a total of over 6 million pounds in a London auction by Bonhams.

The 30 items in the ‘Bonhams Islamic and Indian Art Sale’ held on April 21 come from a single collection.

The top lot was a rare gem-set sword with tiger’s head pommel from Tipu Sultan’s royal regalia went under the hammer for 2,154,500 pounds. It was estimated at to fetch between 60,000 pounds to 80,000 pounds.

Tipu Sultan, the last king of Mysore adorned both objects of art and instruments of war with images of the tiger and with the tiger-stripe design, earning the nickname of “Tiger of Mysore”.

A three-pounder cannon with field carriage sold for 1,426,500 pounds against an estimate of 40,000 pounds to 60,000 pounds and a two shot flintlock sporting gun from Tipu Sultan’s personal armoury was sold for 722,500 pounds. It had been estimated at 100,000 pounds to 150,000 pounds.

“Bonhams is absolutely delighted with the outcome of the sale,” Claire Penhallurick said in a statement.

“We were fielding bids from all around the world. Clearly connoisseurs recognised that these treasures from Tipu’s armoury are astonishing works of art – and they were prepared to do what it took to acquire them” Penhallurick said.

The collection, which was exhibited and published, featured sabres, gem-set trophy swords, embroidered arrow quivers, exquisite quilted helmets, blunderbusses, fowling pieces, sporting guns, pistols, and a three-pounder bronze cannon.

The Islamic and Indian sale as a whole achieved 7.4 million pounds, auctioneers said.

(PTI)

Congress, BJP protest against farmer's suicide in Delhi

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New Delhi: A day after a farmer committed suicide at an AAP rally , Youth Congress workers today staged a demonstration at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence while BJP workers protested at Delhi Police headquarters demanding action against the rally organisers.

Scores of slogan shouting Youth Congress protesters, who were carrying placards demanding Kejriwal’s resignation , reached the Chief Minister’s Flagstaff Road residence at Civil Lines in North Delhi here around 10 AM.

After they were stopped by the police which had erected barricades, the protesters burnt an effigy of Kejriwal.

“They (AAP) should have stopped the rally and must have tried to save the farmer. The Chief Minister should resign from his post,” said one of the protesters.

The Delhi BJP, which had planned a protest march from ITO to Kejriwal’s residence around the same time, staged a protest at Delhi Police Headquarters in central Delhi where police used water canons to disperse them.

Delhi BJP Chief Satish Upadhyay alleged that there was a conspiracy behind the incident and demanded that the organisers of the rally be booked for murder.

BJP workers including Upadhyay and senior leader Jagdish Mukhi were detained by the police and taken to the nearby police station in a bus.

“It is not a suicide but a conspiracy. People there instigated him to commit suicide. He had joined AAP six months ago. Manish Sisodia had invited him here. One of the AAP MLAs tweeted a condolence message 20 minutes before his death,” Upadhyay alleged.

“You continued your rally for 45 minutes even after the death of the farmer. You did not stop your rally. This is a motivated murder and everybody responsible in this case should be booked under charges of murder,” he added.

(PTI)

 

Asked him to field carefully after Keshri incident: Injured cricketer Rahul Ghosh's mother

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Rahul Ghosh, 19, complained of nausea after being hit on the head by a ball while fielding for Kolkata Police against local side Vijay Sporting Club during a game in Salt Lake in Kolkata. (Photo via Facebook)

Rahul Ghosh, 19, complained of nausea after being hit on the head by a ball while fielding for Kolkata Police against local side Vijay Sporting Club during a game in Salt Lake in Kolkata. (Photo via Facebook)

Injured Bengal cricketer Rahul Ghosh’s mother said on Tuesday she had asked her son to “field carefully” while playing following the tragic death of former Bengal Under-19 captain Ankit Keshri on Monday.

Ghosh was hospitalised here with a head injury sustained while fielding during a local league game on Tuesday.

“I had asked him to field carefully”, an inconsolable Sharmila Ghosh said.

Rahul, nearing 20 years of age, picked up the injury a day after the death of Keshri due to a fielding collision.

The injured cricketer’s father, Amitava, said he was “conscious” post being admitted to a private hospital here and was undergoing a series of tests to ascertain the extent of his injury on the left side of the head.

The picture at the hospital entrance was gloomy as his tense parents and concerned family members waited agonisingly for more updates.

“I didn’t have a good feeling about his going out to play today. I called him up before the match and told him to field carefully. Why did he go to play today despite what happened to the other cricketer yesterday,” questioned Ghosh’s mother.

An attending doctor said he is in a “stable” condition but the words hardly offered any relief to the family, particularly in the wake of Keshri’s death.

Keshri, a former Bengal Under-19 cricket captain, died at the same private city hospital on Monday following the head injury he picked up in a collision with a fellow fielder Sourav Mondal while taking a catch during a local knockout tournament Friday last.

His tragic fate invoked the memories of the unfortunate death of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes who was fatally hit by a bouncer during a domestic match on November 25 last year, and died from the injuries two days later.

(IANS)

Former Odisha chief minister J B Patnaik dead

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Bhubaneswar: Three-time Odisha chief minister and former Assam governor Janaki Ballabh Patnaik died at Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, said family sources.

Patnaik, 89, passed away at a private hospital at 3 a.m.

Patnaik had arrived at Tirupati on Monday to attend the convocation of Tirupati Rashtriya Sanskruta University as the chief guest.

Patnaik was the university’s chancellor.

Later, he was admitted in a hospital after he complained of severe chest pain, said Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, the former chief minister’s son-in-law.

Patnaik, a veteran Congress leader, is survived by his wife Jayanti Patnaik, son Pruthvi Ballav Patnaik and two daughters — Sudatta Patnaik and Supriya Patnaik.

The mortal remains of the late leader will be flown to Bhubaneswar by a special flight in the afternoon for cremation at Swargadwara in Puri.

Patnaik had returned to Odisha in December last year after serving as governor of Assam.

He was born at Rameswar village in Khordha district on January 3, 1927.

He was the chief minister of Odisha for two terms – from 1980 to 1989 and from 1995 to 1999 and from He was also the leader of opposition in Odisha assembly from 2004 to 2009.

The veteran Congress leader was also an eminent litterateur and journalist and has written several books.

As a mark of respect, the Odisha government on Tuesday announced a state holiday and a seven-day state mourning.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Governor S.C. Jamir, several ministers and many political leaders expressed their condolence.

(IANS)

Pakistani actress Sadia refuses to kiss Indian actor Kapil Sharma

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Here is the latest buzz doing the round of the inner circles of Bollywood. It’s been reported of late about Balaji Telefilm’s Ekta Kapoor’s diktat on the ‘nudity clause’, in her upcoming film ‘XXX’ as a mandatory clause in all the contract, and it seems that director Sanjay Sharma is the biggest supporter of the initiative taken by the Czarina of Bollywood.

And now according to the reliable sources associated with the controversial gay love story ‘Dunno Y2……..Life is a moment’, director Sanjay Sharma was so aghast at the attitude of his leading lady, the Pakistani heroine Sadia whilst shooting the film and wished he too would have had the liberty of such a clause as that of Ekta Kapoor. Apparently, Sadia created quite an uproar when she had to just do a kissing scene in the film.  Sadia refused to kiss the Indian actor Kapil Sharma in the film, and backed out in the last moment as she was scared of the backlash in Pakistan.

The shooting came to a halt as the director was heard saying that, “if Aishwarya Rai, Kareena Kapoor, Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit et al could do it, why can’t Sadia do it, as it was an important scene in the film, which drives it ahead. it was very unprofessional on her part”

The source added, “Even Sadia had her point of view and tried explaining to the unit that even though India is an open country, the celebrities involved in the kissing scenes had to face legal notices by the hardline fringe elements here too. And Pakistan is a much more conservative Muslim country. Besides once it get viral, will be difficult to digitally erase it, and the bigoted lobbies in Pakistan will exploit it for eternity”

But the source also bitchily added, “What Sadia didn’t actually say is that her boyfriend in Pakistan will not approve of the Kissing scene.”

Well, well maybe Ekta Kapoor has a relevant point here on her ‘nudity’ clause in contract what with actress developing cold feet whilst shooting after agreeing at the script narration.

Like they say in Hindi, picture abtak baki hai, seems like the ‘Kissa Kiss Ka’ will unravel more secrets.

Ekta Kapoor’s Adds a clause of “Nudity” for the prospective actors of ‘XXX’

Balaji Telefilms head honcho Ekta Kapoor has recently added a strict clause of “nudity” for the prospective débutante Actors Of ‘XXX’
Incidentally speaking Ekta Kapoor indeed seems to have made a bold move by adding the ‘nudity clause’ for actors who will be seen in her upcoming film ‘XXX’. This clause also pertains to actors belonging to Balaji Stable, mainly the ones who will be playing the leads in her upcoming erotica ‘XXX’. Already the film’s posters are making news for their bold approach but the producer without any inhibitions has decided to go ahead with the addition of the clause.

Considering the theme of the film, it is obvious that it will have a lot of sequences related to sex and other provocative elements. In order to avoid any kind of compromise, Mademoiselle Ekta Kapoor is now making sure that her actors don’t back out and hence have decided to include the “nudity” clause’ so that they do not reject any intimate scenes or dialogues at the last moment. Ken Ghosh, who will be directing ‘XXX’, mentioned that this is a techno-legal clause that was put on paper after many discussions. He further added that ‘XXX’ is a straight forward erotica which is not pushed under the pretext of any other genre. As far as the cast of ‘XXX’ is concerned, the makers are planning to rope in new faces. This erotica is a blend of 5 stories that explore sexuality in a different way in each story.

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