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Ex-RJD MP Md Shahbuddin given life sentence in murder case

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Mohammad Shahabuddin

Siwan: Former RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin was today sentenced to life imprisonment along with three others by a district court in connection with the brutal murder of two brothers by pouring acid on them 11 years ago in Siwan district of Bihar.

Additional District Judge Ajay Kumar Srivastava awarded the life sentence to Shahabuddin and his three accomplices – Rajkumar Sah, Sheikh Aslam and Arif Hussain in connection with the 2004 case.

The same court had on Wednesday found the four guilty of charges under sections 302 (murder), 364A (kidnapping for ransom, etc), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC.

The quantum of punishment was pronounced today in the presence of Shahbuddin and others.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on Mohammad Shahbuddin in the case.
According to the prosecution, three sons of one Chandrashekhar Prasad were abducted from their house at Goshala road by Rajkumar Sah, Sheikh Aslam and Arif Hussain on August 16, 2004 and taken to Pratappur village where acid was poured on Girish and Satish resulting in their death.

One of the sons, Rajeev Raushan, managed to escape.The bodies of the two brothers could not be recovered.The victims’ mother Kalawati Devi had lodged an FIR charging Shahabuddin’s three henchmen with the murder of her sons.

The former RJD MP’s name had cropped up during probe and he too was made an accused for hatching conspiracy for kidnapping of the three siblings.

The lone surviving brother appeared before the judge as an eyewitness in the case, but was subsequently murdered by unidentified assailants on June 16 last year.

Shahabuddin is lodged in the Siwan central jail for the past several years in connection with several cases against him.

He represented Siwan for four times from 1996 to 2009 as member of Lalu Prasad’s party RJD. After his conviction he could not contest Parliamentary elections in 2009 as well the one held in 2014.

His wife Heena Sahab lost the elections on RJD ticket in 2009 as well as in 2014 to Om Prakash Yadav who is now in BJP.

Shabuddin’s electoral career had started in 1989 when he was elected as MLA from Jiradei seat.

(PTI)

The Top 50 Sexiest Women On The Planet List

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Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra holds onto sexiest woman crown in “50 sexiest Asian women list” founded by award winning Entertainment Editor Asjad Nazir for UK based Eastern Eye newspaper.

Amongst all the top 50 sexiest women figuring on the recently revealed Planet list Priyanka Chopra tops the list. The list is founded by none other than Asjad Nazir the award winning Entertainment Editor of UK based Eastern Eye newspaper. The complete list will feature in Eastern Eye on Friday 11th Dec, 2015.

Priyanka Chopra once again beat off tough global competition to retain her title as the sexiest Asian woman in the world this year, as featured in 2015’s “50 Sexiest Asian Women” list.

The singer & actress came out on top following millions of votes pouring in from across the globe for the 2015 edition of the popular annual poll conducted by UK based Eastern Eye newspaper. This is the 3rd time in the past 4 years that Priyanka has topped the long running list of 50 sexiest Asian women on the planet.

The stunning win rounds off another dream year for the actress, which includes winning accolades for her 2014 film Mary Kom, hit Bollywood film Dil Dhadakne Do and American TV serial Quantico.

On the eve of gaining this recognition Priyanka Chopra averred, “Now that’s a title I’m happy to hold on to. I’m bringing sexy back! A big thank you to everyone who’s voted for me. Thank you also to Eastern Eye for making me feel ‘sexy’; well, at least for another year. A piece of advice to the ladies – it’s all in the mind. Remember, sexy is as sexy does.”.

While entertainment editor of Eastern Eye averred, “Priyanka Chopra is doing India proud on the global stage and winning loads of admirers. This was illustrated by the largest ever number of votes by non – Asians that she received from all over the world. She is clearly building bridges internationally through her art and will continue to do so in the coming years. And by excelling in TV, film & music, the multi – talented actress has shown just how far hard work can take you.”

The mass interest in the 12th edition of the list was such that it was trending on Twitter across India & Pakistan during the voting process.

Popular television actress Sanaya Irani rose one place from last year to come 2nd and fellow small screen star Drashti Dhami took the 3rd spot. A – list Bollywood actresses Deepika Padukone (4) & Katrina Kaif (5) completed the top 5. Others in the top 10 are Nia Sharma (6), Kareena Kapoor Khan (7), Gauahar Khan (8), Sonam Kapoor (9) and the highest placed Pakistani, Mahira Khan, (10).

The highest placed newcomer in this year’s list is young Indian television actress Niti Taylor (15), who thanked her fans for all their love, support & blessing, which elevated her into the list for the 1st time.

Just like in the past few years, the biggest surprise was the dominance of television stars. Sanaya Irani (2), Drashti Dhami (3), Nia Sharma (6) & Gauahar Khan (8) all retained their places in the top 10. Other small screen actresses in the list included Preetika Rao (11), Shakti Mohan (12), Asha Negi (13), Surbhi Jyoti (17), Charlie Chauhan (22), Hina Khan (26), Anita Hassanandani (28), Sukiriti Kandpal (31) & Mohena Singh (43).

Asjad Nazir further averred, “There are 27 small screen stars in the list this year, which once again shows television has become the most powerful & popular medium of all. Even the winner, Priyanka Chopra, made her television debut with Quantico this year. This shows that TV plays arguably the biggest part in the lives of people around the world. It also illustrates why so many movie producers are now signing TV actresses for big film projects and why movie stars are venturing into TV.”

The highest placed British woman is once again Jasmin Walia (28) & Canadian actress Hannah Simone (35), a newcomer in the list, is the highest placed North American. At 48 years of age, Madhuri Dixit (44) is the oldest lady in the 2015 countdown & 20 year old actress Radhika Madan (24) is the youngest.

Others in the 2015 list include Shraddha Kapoor (19), Bipasha Basu (25), Alia Bhatt (27), Parineeti Chopra (33), Mehreen Syed (38) & Kanika Kapoor (48).

The full countdown of 2015’s 50 Sexiest Asian Women will be published in the UK’s most established & popular Asian newspaper, Eastern Eye, on 11th Dec, 2015.

Asjad Nazir concluded by explaining, “What continues to make this list really special is the strong presence of ‘real women’ who the public can relate to. Most fans look at the all – round qualities of those they are voting for and that is why more women than men vote annually.”

With a 47 year heritage, The Asian Media & Marketing Group, publishes a stable of market leading magazines for the Asian community in UK & USA. The company hosts a number of hugely successful events & award dinners affiliated with its magazines. AMG is now Britain’s biggest Asian publishing house and its titles includes Eastern Eye newspaper, Garavi Gujarat newsweekly, Asian Trader, Pharmacy Business, Asian Hospitality, the Asian Rich List, the Asian Rich List Midlands and the GG2 Power List.”

Fortis Hospital, Vadapalani reaches out to conservation workers

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Fortis Medical Team with conservation workers.

Fortis Medical Team with conservation workers.

Chennai: While the city is limping back to normalcy and mass scale conservation work is going on, cleaning the city and unclogging the waterways, it goes without saying that, the people who are working towards this are exposed to various health hazards. The rains and flooding have created ideal situations for a host of waterborne diseases like Malaria, Cholera, and Leptospirosis to spread. The disaster management team at Fortis Health Care, Vadapalani wanted to address this issue at its early stages and started reaching out to people who are the most exposed to infections.

The cleaning and conservation workers as well as numerous volunteers who have involved themselves in these activities, to get the city back in shape, are in constant contact with sewage that has mixed with rain water, highly infectious waste material and carcasses of animals that died in the flooding. As the old adage goes ‘prevention is better than cure’ it is sensible that we prevent them from getting infections.

The medical team at Fortis has been going around the city, and is administering TT (Tetanus Toxoid) vaccination to all the conservation workers as a social responsibility. Doxycyclin is also being provided to the workers as a precaution against other water borne infections. The Fortis Healthcare team is also educating them on safety precautions like wearing hand-gloves, footwear, face masks etc., while working. The hospital team has already vaccinated more than 100 conservation workers in Jafferkhanpet and Vadapalani. The team will also be covering other parts of the city like T.Nagar, Saidapet, Tambaram, Velachery and Perungudi in the coming days.

Dr. Abhijit Sinha Roy, Head of Medical services, Fortis Healthcare, Vadapalani said “When a disaster of this scale, which hasn’t been seen in over a century happens, it leaves us with problems unknown and unaddressed and with no literature whatsoever, especially when it comes to new challenges in community healthcare. Fortis Health Care has adopted a prophylaxis model in addressing this issue and it focused more on high-risk areas, namely conservation work, and is trying to prevent diseases from being spread”.

Earlier the hospital has sent out mobile medical teams to various flood affected parts of the city to conduct preliminary screening to affected people. So far over 1500 people have been screened in places like Irumbiliyur, Mudichur, Tambaram etc. People have also been provided with prescription medicines free of cost, as and when required. The hospital has plans to continue this activity and reach out to other areas in the city.

CSR at Fortis Healthcare Limited

The CSR initiatives are driven by our vision, philosophy and the need of the community, with health remaining our main focus; we however, occasionally modify our programmes to suit our intended beneficiaries. We also promote awareness and educational programmes on preventive care and training people on several health related problems including emergency care. We have approximately 300 employees volunteering in our CSR initiatives and community development and they are allowed to take out time from their work schedule for these initiatives.

The organisation is committed to creating robust mechanisms to implement, record, review and measure outcomes of the initiatives for the community at large. This not only ensures the efficacy of our programmes but goes a long way in guaranteeing that they continue to be significant, relevant and sustainable so that the beneficiaries derive maximum benefit from our effort and equally importantly, we become proud of our contributions to the community. There is a regular feedback from the Fortis hospitals about running of the programmes and after appropriate review from time to time, necessary modifications (if required) are made to better the programme. All CSR initiatives are reported in the company’s annual report for information of our stakeholders. We also have specific programs to protect the environment through our work, like taking care of our biomedical waste, X-ray exposure, and so on which ensures cleaner environment and safety for our patients, attendants and employees.

Erdogan: Turkish troops in Iraq on PM Abadi’s request

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Turkish president tells Al Jazeera troops have been in northern Iraq since 2014, blames Iraq and Iran of sectarianism.

Turkey says its troops are in Iraq to train Iraqi forces, but Baghdad calls the deployment "an invasion".

Turkey says its troops are in Iraq to train Iraqi forces, but Baghdad calls the deployment “an invasion”.

by Al Jazeera

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Turkish troops are in Iraq at the request of Haider al-Abadi, Iraqi prime minister, since 2014.

The arrival of a heavily armed Turkish contingent near the front line close to Mosul has added yet another controversial deployment to a war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group that has drawn in most of the world’s major powers.

“Turkish soldiers are in Basheeqa camp at the request of Haider al-Abadi in 2014. Now I am asking why he was silent since 2014,” Erdogan said in an interview with Al Jazeera on Wednesday.

Turkey says its troops are in Iraq to train Iraqi forces as Baghdad calls the deployment “an invasion”.

Iraq asked NATO on Tuesday to put pressure on alliance member Turkey to withdraw its troops immediately from northern Iraq after Ankara said it would not deploy any more but refused to pull out those already there.

In the Al Jazeera interview, Erdogan also said that Iraq and Iran’s governments pursue sectarian policies both in Syria and Iraq.

“What will happen to Sunnis? There are Sunni Arabs, Sunni Turkmen and Sunni Kurds? What will happen to their security? They need sense of security,” Erdogan said, criticising the Shia-dominated Iraqi government.

“For a long time mainly due to the regional governance in northern Iraq, people lost their rights.

“They need their rights back. A lot of Arabs in the region have lost their rights. Unfortunately we cannot see fair governance in Iraq. That’s why people there are so worried,” he said.

‘Beef festival’ row: 8 organisers detained, BJP MLA arrested

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Hyderabad: Eight organisers of the controversial ‘beef festival’ on Osmania University campus were detained while BJP MLA T Raja Singh, who was opposing the the event, was arrested here this morning, police said.

A ‘curfew-like’ situation prevailed on the campus with heavy police security being deployed to prevent any untoward incident.

A students’ group had earlier declared that it would hold a ‘beef festival’ on the campus today, coinciding with the World Human Rights Day, while another group also announced its plan to organise a ‘pork festival’ the same day, which raised the possibility of confrontation.

“We detained last night eight key members of the group which announced the beef festival today. As per court order, we will not allow any festivals on the Osmania University campus,” a police official told PTI.

Assistant Commissioner of Police K Ram Bhupal Rao told PTI that they arrested BJP MLA from Goshamahal, T Raja Singh, as a preventive measure to maintain law and order.
The legislator had vowed to stop the ‘beef festival’ and also announced that he along with other groups would perform a “Gau Puja” (cow worship) today.

A city civil court had passed the status quo order three days back, which amounts to staying the holding of the festivals, on a petition filed by an advocate.

The petition contended that these events are in violation of Cruelty Towards Animal Act and Cow Slaughter Act, and hurt the religious sentiments of the people.

Largescale violence was witnessed when beef festival was organised on the campus by a section of students in 2011, 2012 and 2014, said the petition.

On the University premises, police imposed restrictions on movement of people and vehicles.

Barricades were put up at all the vantage points of the institution and heavy police security was deployed.

Police did not allow even regular morning walkers in the university today.

Osmania University, one of the oldest educational institutions of higher learning, has already clarified that activities unrelated to academics, including ‘beef festival’, ‘pork festival’ and ‘gau-puja’ would not be permitted on the campus.

(PTI)

2002 hit-and-run case: Bombay High Court acquits Salman Khan

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Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today acquitted Bollywood star Salman Khan of all charges in the 2002 hit-and-run case in which he was convicted and sentenced to five years imprisonment by a sessions court.

While acquitting the 49-year-old actor in a jampacked courtroom, Justice A R Joshi said, “The appeal is allowed. The trial court’s verdict is quashed and set aside. Salman is acquitted of all charges.”

On hearing the verdict, Salman broke down.

The actor, who wore a blue-white check shirt, arrived in the court at 1.30 PM even as the police made a tight bandobast around the high court premises.

He was accompanied by his bodyguard Shera, brother-in-law Ayush, sister Alvira and his manager.

Justice Joshi, who started dictating the verdict on Monday, said the prosecution failed to establish its case against the appellant accused (Salman) on all charges.

On September 28, 2002, Salman’s car had rammed into a bakery shop in suburban Bandra. One person was killed and four others were injured in the mishap.

Lawyers, litigants and many others had gathered in and around the court to have a glimpse of Salman as he came rushing from a studio in Karjat on the outskirts of Mumbai where he was shooting.

The judge said the burden is on the prosecution to establish the guilt of the accused and this needs to be done beyond reasonable doubt.

There are various shortcomings by the prosecution like not recording evidence of necessary and important witnesses and omissions and contradictions in the evidence of injured witnesses, which definitely create a doubt about the involvement of Salman for offences for which he has been charged, the court said.

On the basis of such evidence, Salman cannot be convicted, it said.

The judge further said that the investigation was conducted in a faulty manner with many loose ends and as such benefit of this had to be given in favour of the accused.

It is the duty of the court to analyse the evidence submitted to it and to see that the offence is proved beyond reasonable doubt, Justice Joshi said.

He said he is of the considered view that the appreciation of evidence done by the trial court while convicting the appellant was not proper and legal, as per the principles of criminal jurisprudence.

Consequently it must be said that this is not a case where the prosecution has successfully established its charges, he observed, adding that the entire evidence of the prosecution was circumstantial in nature.

On the main aspects as to driving and drunkenness, the prosecution has not brought any material evidence which spells out the offence of the accused, the court said.

The trial court erred in accepting bills (of Rain Bar and Restaurant where Salman had gone before the mishap) without a panchnama, the judge said while dictating the verdict.

(Agencies)

Innovative training format for students who are in small towns and cannot access classroom programs

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Bengaluru: Educational technology has been a debatable topic for almost a decade and while many were skeptical about its positive effects in the early days, gradually we saw educational institutes embrace technology in education. Eventually, its positives outnumbered the negatives and now, with technology, education has taken a whole new meaning that it leaves us with no doubt that our educational system has been transformed owing to the ever-advancing technology.

The concept of teaching has seen a paradigm shift from traditional classroom teaching, home tutoring, studying fundamentals through piles of books, after-class tutoring, to processing vital concepts with the help of animated graphics- one thing has remained constant- our perseverance for knowledge and curiosity. No matter the medium, form or tools, the pursuit for learning has only grown empowering us to tap into our potential and helped us discover new possibilities in the era of technology.

Technology aids parents, teachers and students access and use the variety of options at their disposal. The transformation has not only revolutionized the way the concept of learning is looked at, but also offers alternatives to approach a concept with the help of colourful tools such as quizzes, tests, video lectures, animation, exercises, fun activities, etc that completely renew the sense of classroom teaching.

BASE has always been at the forefront of leveraging technology to train students effectively. Riding on its success of BASE@Home & Distance Learning Programs, BASE, the Bangalore based premier training organization has now launched an innovative format called BASEonTab, that would enable young aspirants have easy access to BASE’s premium preparatory courses without the use of internet. Through BASEonTab students can learn digitally through powerful visual effects, engaging content, interactive interface, mock tests, etc that will help the student to assimilate their progress and understanding of the concepts. The tab would also resolve any doubts much easily than before. The tab will also enable a student to take a timed test helping to practice under real time environment.

The tablet will be equipped with study material to help students train for Karnataka CET. This will be followed by the launch of other programs like IIT Achiever, Medical Excel soon.

BASEonTab is like a complete course available in a pdf format, equivalent to attending the classroom, but at the student’s own pace and convenience. The lectures are available in video form, and more than 17,000 questions with answers are available. It will be accompanied by a set of presentations, synopsis of chapters, test papers, answer sheets, video synopses, e-books, and analytics. The targeted consumers are mostly students who cannot access BASE’s classroom programs and buying a tablet will be more affordable.

In addition, the cost of this programme is much lower than that of a classroom programme.

Sushma Swaraj calls on Nawaz Sharif

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Islamabad: Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday called on Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the Heart of Asia Conference here.

“Conveying India’s commitment to good neighbourly relations, EAM @SushmaSwaraj calls on PM Nawaz Sharif,” external affairs ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup tweeted after the meeting along with pictures of the two leaders.

Dawn online, in a report, said that Sharif and Sushma Swaraj discussed bilateral issues during the meeting.

Earlier on Wednesday, Sushma Swaraj extended India’s hand of friendship to Pakistan at the conference.

“It is time that we display the maturity and self-confidence to do business with each other and strengthen regional trade and cooperation,” she said in her address at the conference.

“For its part, India is prepared to move our cooperation at a pace which Pakistan is comfortable with,” she added.

The Heart of Asia Conference engages “heart of Asia” countries in sincere and result-oriented cooperation for a peaceful and stable Afghanistan.

Later, the Indian minister attended a lunch hosted by Sharif for the Heart of Asia conference delegates.

This is the first ministerial visit from India to Pakistan since then external affairs minister S.M. Krishna visited the South Asian neighbour in 2012.

(IANS)

Ruckus in Rajya Sabha over National Herald case

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New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday witnessed a ruckus for the second successive day over the National Herald case as Congress members stalled the proceedings, forcing two brief adjournments during zero hour.

Soon after the house assembled for the day, Congress members stormed the chairman’s podium raising the issue of summons to party president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case.

The Congress members shouted slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Members of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) also protested against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on the Polavaram project, a multi-purpose dam in Andhra Pradesh whose reservoir spreads into parts of Odisha and Chhattisgarh.

Amid the din, Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien adjourned the house till 11.30 a.m.

When the house reassembled, Congress and BJD members trooped near the podium.

Meanwhile, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said: “The Congress party is stalling the development of the county. Whistleblowers protection bill and the ST/SC (prevention of atrocities) amendment bill are listed in today’s business.”

He said that government is ready to discuss any issue.

“If the Congress party feels any kind of discrimination, we are ready to discuss. They are protesting inside and outside parliament,” he said.

Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad said: “We want discussions against Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh governments.”

As the ruckus continued, Kurien adjourned the house till 12 noon.

(IANS)

Salman case: HC finds bodyguards testimony ‘unreliable’

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Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today doubted the evidence of Ravindra Patil, former police bodyguard of Bollywood star Salman Khan and witness in the 2002 hit-and-run case, observing that he was ‘wholly unreliable’.

Justice AR Joshi said this while dictating the verdict in the appeal filed by the actor against the five-year sentence awarded to him by a Mumbai sessions court on May 6 this year.

Patil had lodged the FIR in this case on September 28, 2002, hours after the mishap occurred. In the FIR, he did not mention whether Salman was driving the car under the influence of liquor.

However, on October 1, 2002, after the receipt of Salman’s blood test report, Patil gave a statement before a Magistrate saying that the actor had taken drinks on the ill-fated day and he had warned him not to drive rashly or else he would meet with an accident but Salman did not pay heed to his advice.

The Judge observed today that the evidence of Patil was doubtful because he had made improvements in his version later when his statement was recorded. “In view of this, he (Patil) is wholly unreliable witness”, the Judge noted while dictating his order in the court for the third consecutive day.

“Even if his statement has to be considered as partially reliable, there has to be corroboration in evidence which is not existing in this case,” said the Judge in the court jampacked with lawyers, reporters and law students.

Ravindra Patil passed away in 2007 and was not available during the trial in the sessions court. However, the prosecution had produced Patil’s statement recorded by a Magistrate earlier in which he had implicated Salman.

(IANS)

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