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India U-23 football team enters SAG semis

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Guwahati: India’s U-23 football team stormed into the semi-finals of the South Asian Games (SAG) outclassing the Maldives 3-2 here on Wednesday.

An Udanta Singh brace and a Pritam Kotal strike ensured an Indian win in a topsy-turvy match wherein the Maldives equalised twice, before finally surrendering to India’s attacking prowess.

India took the lead as early as the 4th minute when Udanta Singh steered clear off the Maldivian defence line and blasted home to give the hosts the lead.

Three minutes later, Udanta Singh once again burst onto the goal but hoofed his shot wide. In the 9th minute, the Maldives equalised against the run of play when Muruthala Adnan scored.

Not to be deterred, the Indian contingent took the charge of the match once again as Pritam Kotal’s thunderous header in the 11th minute gave the home side a 2-1 lead.

With India having the lion’s share of possession, opportunities to extend their lead came in plenty.

In the 31st minute, Udanta dashed onto a vacant left flank, however the forward slipped while positing himself for the final shot. Nine minutes later, it was Jerry tried to extend India’s lead, but his shot deflected off the Maldivian defence line.

In the 42nd minute, Maldives equalised again when Kotal scored an own goal. The match was tied 2-2 at halftime.

India once again surged into lead in the 59th minute through Udanta, who slotted his opportunity cheekily past the Maldivian custodian to make it 3-2.

The Maldivian attack pressed for the equaliser for the third time but the Indian defence line kept them at bay.

(IANS)

Those who can’t live without beef should not come to Haryana: Anil Vij

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Chandigarh: Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Tuesday stoked a fresh row saying those who cannot live without eating beef should not visit the state where stringent cow protection law is in place.

Vij said that there were some countries Indians don’t visit because eating habits of that nation did not suit them.

“There are some countries we don’t visit because food and drinking habits there don’t suit us. Likewise, those people who can’t live without eating beef should not come to Haryana,” Vij said.

He was asked to comment if the state government had contemplated issuing licences/special permits to foreigners to consume beef in the state.

Vij said Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had clarified on Monday the issue and ruled out any plan to issue such licences and give relaxation to foreigners to consume beef in the state. Vij had last year pitched for declaring cow as the national animal and launched an online poll on the issue. Khattar had reportedly said earlier he was open to relax the beef ban for foreigners in the state.

Haryana’s ‘Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan Bill, passed by the Assembly in March last year, came into force in November last.

Under the provisions of the law, cow trafficking, slaughtering and eating beef are banned in the state. The law clamps a complete ban on cow slaughter in the state and provides for a rigorous imprisonment ranging from three years to 10 years for killing the animal.

(Agencies)

BCCI revenue may dip from Rs. 2000 crore to Rs. 400 crore

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New Delhi: BCCI is set to suffer a financial loss to the tune of Rs. 1600 crore if Lodha Panel’s recommendations on curtailing the advertisement breaks during the matches is implemented.

It is feared that in the wake of loss of revenue not only the smooth functioning of country’s richest sporting body will be hit but also the development of junior cricket in the country.

According to BCCI balance sheet, the operative revenue currently is approximately Rs. 2000 crore, a large chunk of which comes from broadcasting rights and advertisement revenues.

But if Lodha Panel recommendation, which wants the advertisements only during “lunch, tea or drinks break”, then it would come down to Rs. 400 crore.

According to a reliable source in the board, the Star Sports, which has the broadcasting rights of BCCI’s matches, currently gives Rs. 43 crore per match and such a rule could see BCCI earning as less as Rs. 8-10 crore per match.

“Yes, it is true that we are facing a situation which could lead to a revenue loss of Rs. 1600 crore. Star Sports will renegotiate their deal and may be pay us only 20-25 percent of the amount that we get currently per match. Ditto for IPL broadcasters,” a source in the know of things said on conditions of anonymity.

The far-reaching implication of this could mean that during India’s away tours, the hosts countries such as England, New Zealand or Australia will earn more than India out of the broadcast deals.

According to insiders, there are chances that BCCI’s age-group structure, which is one of the most robust in world cricket, will be badly hit if this recommendation comes to effect.

BCCI spends around Rs. 750 crore (approx) on subsidies to state associations, Rs. 400-450 crore (approx) on match-fees and allowances of players right from U-16 to the senior teams.

Save this, another Rs. 350 crore (approx) is spent to conduct around 2000 BCCI matches from U-16, U-19, U-22 to Ranji Trophy across the country.

The former first-class cricketers and international cricketers get monthly pension for which another Rs. 25 crore is spent by the board.

When the BCCI source was asked about the implications of the possible hit in revenue structure, he replied, “The biggest hit could be the age-group matches, U-16, U-19s and the various camps that are organised. The money generated through IPL and international broadcasting rights is used for development of junior cricket which will not be possible then.”

(PTI)

Siachen survivor’s condition remains critical: Army hospital

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New Delhi: The condition of Lance Naik Hanamanthappa Koppad of 19 Madras regiment, who was rescued alive six days after being buried under tonnes of ice in Siachen Glacier, remains very critical, the army said today.

“He continues to battle the odds and his medical condition remains very critical,” a medical bulletin issued by Army Research and Referral Hospital here said.

Hanamanthappa remains ventilator-dependent since arrival in the hospital yesterday, it said. The medical team at R&R Hospital is monitoring his situation continuously and is treating him with best expertise and resources available in the world, the bulletin said.

The hospital has said he is expected to have a stormy course in the “next 24 hours” due to the complications caused by re-warming and establishment of blood flow to the cold parts of the body.

Hanamanthappa was flown out by a helicopter yesterday from the site of the avalanche that hit his post at Siachen Glacier along with a medical specialist to the base camp at the glacier, from where he was brought to the Thois air base.

He was then transferred to Delhi by a fixed-wing aircraft of IAF along with a critical care specialist of the force and a medical specialist from the base camp.

Hanamanthappa is being treated by a team of intensivists, neurologist, nephrologist, endocrinologist and surgeons. He has been administered fluids, drugs to bring up his blood pressure, besides antibiotics.

(Agencies)

No leopard in Bengaluru school: Official

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Bengaluru: Fears of another leopard prowling in and around a private school on Tuesday night were unfounded and its so-called sighting was a speculation, a top official said on Wednesday.

“No leopard was seen or traced in and around the school by our forest staff after a night-long search operation though the school remains shut as a precaution,” Karnataka chief wildlife warden Ravi Ralph told IANS here.

As rumours of another leopard sighting spread causing panic, the Vibgyor International School declared a holiday for its over 1,000 students and faculty members to ensure their safety.

“We decided to shut the school for the day (Wednesday). Those who turned up with their wards were advised to return home,” a school official told reporters.

A surprise entry of an eight-year-old leopard into the school early on Sunday and its rescue after a 12-hour operation in which five people were injured has shocked people in Bengaluru.

“We are launching an online platform to spread awareness on leopards and other animals who may enter villages, towns or cities stealthily but do not harm them as they are not man-eaters like tigers,” Ralph said.

“With forest fringes, lakes and other water bodies disappearing for various reasons, wild animals are finding it difficult to hunt for prey and get water to sustain,” Ralph said.

The leopard which was tranquilised and captured had strayed into the city’s eastern suburb on Sunday through bushes, boulders, hills and thick plantations across the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border in search of prey and water.

As it was a holiday, students and teachers were lucky to have escaped from being attacked by the wild animal.

The leopard was put in an iron cage and shifted to the Bannarghatta national zoo park.

(IANS)

Wipro Consumer Care announces Santoor Scholarships for financially disadvantaged Girl Students Pursuing Higher Education

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Hyderabad: In an endeavor to encourage underprivileged girl students who wish to pursue their higher education after Grade 12, Wipro Consumer Care in association with “Wipro Cares” has announced Santoor Scholarship programme, an initiative which will provide free scholarships. The scholarship programme will be a recurring annual programme. It will be rolled out in 2016-17 and will initially cover the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The grant given to each of the beneficiaries could be utilized for tuition fees or other expenses incidental only to education.

The Santoor Scholarship programme was announced in Hyderabad today in the presence of Shri. Kadiam Srihari, Hon. Deputy Chief Minister and Minister of Education, Govt. of Telangana, Shri. R Kishore Babu, Minister for Social and Tribal Welfare, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, Shri Benhur Mahesh Dutt Ekka, IAS, Secretary, SC development department, Govt. of Telangana, Dr. R. S. Praveen Kumar, IPS, Secretary, Telangana Social Welfare Residential Institutions Society, Dr. Vijayakumar, Secretary, Social welfare Department, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, Dr. M. Padma, IAS, Director (TW Dept.), Principal Secretary to Govt., TW Dept., Govt. of Andhra Pradesh and Col V. Ramulu, I.Po.S., Secretary, Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential Institutions Society.

Santoor scholarships are open to girls from underprivileged and disadvantaged backgrounds who wish to pursue their diploma/degree. To qualify, the student must have passed her grade 10 and 12 from a government school/college. Applications will be available with the government junior college principals. Students interested are required to go through the application process and meet the eligibility criteria to be considered for the scholarship. The scholarship shall be Rs. 36,000 per annum if the diploma/degree college is located in a large city and Rs. 24,000 otherwise. Sixty percent of the scholarships is earmarked for students who wish to pursue higher education in the fields of humanities, liberal arts and sciences. The remaining forty percent can be availed by students pursuing professional courses.

Mr. Anil Chugh, Chief Executive – Wipro Consumer Care said, “As a responsible corporate, we believe in creating opportunities for the growing generation and offer support and confidence to those in need. The Santoor Scholarship Programme in association with “Wipro Cares” is dedicated to provide the much-needed breakthrough in the education of underprivileged girls and support them to continue their higher studies.”

Bollywood Films Round Up

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Rajniesh Duggall, Nidhi Subbaiah, Swati Sharrma, Karan Vahi & Sugandha Mishra On The Sets Of Comedy Classes

Actors Rajniesh Duggall & Nidhi Subbaiah & singer Swati Sharrma along with actors Sugandha Mishra & Karan Wahi went to Comedy classes to promote their film Direct Ishq releasing on 19th Feb, 2016.

The film is produced by Pradeep Sharma of Baba Motion Pictures Pvt ltd. Karan Vahi & Sugandha Mishra hosted the show which will be aired on valentine’s day 14th Feb, on Life OK Channel. Rajniesh Duggall & Nidhi Subbaiah performed on different songs in the show.

JNU erupts over ‘Shaheed Afzal Guru’, ‘Azad Kashmir’; rival student groups clash, police deployed

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New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Tuesday night witnessed clashes between two student groups over Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, who was hanged on February 09, 2013 in Tihar Jail.

The incident happened after a group of students organised a programme and termed the hanging of the Parliament attack convict as “judicial killing”.

The students allegedly shouted slogans hailing ‘Shaeed Afzal Guru’ and also chanted anti-India slogans. They also expressed solidarity with “struggle” of Kashmiri migrants and advocated for ‘Azad Kashmir’.

Notably, the university authorities had not give permission to hold any programme supporting Afzal Guru as they “feared” the same might “disrupt” peace on campus.

Student organisers had pasted posters across the campus inviting them to gather for a protest march against “judicial killing of Afzal Guru” and in solidarity with “struggle” of Kashmiri migrants, at varsity’s Sabarmati dhaba.

Members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) affiliated ABVP objected to such a program and complained to the Vice Chancellor.

However, when the other group didn’t relent and went ahead with the event, the ABVP supporters went ahead and protested, which led to the scuffle between the two student groups.

The authorities later called the police in order to restore law and order in the campus.

JNU VC Jagdeesh Kumar told PTI, “Earlier we were told that it is going to be a cultural programme. When I got to know that it is a protest, we decided to cancel the programme as it is administration’s responsibility to ensure peace and calm on campus.”

(PTI)

 

Sri Lanka overwhelm India in 1st T20I

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Pune: Sri Lanka rode on a strong bowling performance to defeat India by five wickets in their first Twenty20 International (T20I) at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium here on Tuesday.

Chasing a meagre target of 102 runs, the Lankans were boosted by a 39-run partnership by Dinesh Chandimal (35) and Chamara Kapugedera (25) to romp home with two overs to spare.

Earlier, rookie pacers Kasun Rajitha (3/29) and Dasun Shanaka (3/16) played a crucial role for the visitors with a three-wicket haul each.

Rajitha enjoyed a memorable debut, bagging two wickets in his very first over in international cricket.

Fast bowler Dushmantha Chameera (2/14) also bowled well, picking up a couple of wickets, including that of star batsman Yuvraj Singh.

Ravichandran Ashwin scored an unbeaten 31 to be the highest scorer for India.

Asked to bat first on a green wicket, the Indian batsmen struggled to cope with the appreciable swing and off-the-pitch movement generated by the Lankan pacers.

Rajitha handed Sri Lanka the advantage right at the start by dismissing Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Raane in the opening over.

Sharma virtually gifted away his wicket, placing a lofted drive off Rajitha neatly into the hands of Chameera at long-off.

Rahane also fell to a careless shot, offering and easy upper edge to Chandimal at short extra cover while attempting to play across the line.

The right-arm pacer should have bagged another wicket in his second over when Suresh Raina was surprised by the extra bounce of a short pitched delivery. The upper edge carried to third man where Danushka Gunathilaka dropped a sitter.

Shikhar Dhawan enjoyed no such luck a short while later when he attempted to smash a slightly outgoing delivery to the leg side. The ball took the flew off the top edge to third man where Gunathilaka made amends for his previous error.

When Shanaka sent back Raina and India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni with a couple of beautiful deliveries in the ninth over, India were in deep trouble at 51/5.

Ashwin tried to produce a late fight-back lower down the order, but rapidly ran out of partners as wickets continued to fall at the other end.

Defending a small total, the hosts had a glimmer of hope when veteran pacer Ashish Nehra dismissed debutant opener Niroshan Dickwella in the third ball of the Sri Lankan innings. Gunathilaka — the other opener — went cheaply as well, miscueing a pull off a short pitched delivery by Nehra.

Chandimal and Kapugedera then took charge, ably negotiating the Indian bowling despite a couple of close calls.

The introduction of Ashwin into the attack paid rich dividends for India as the off-spinner put Lankans in some trouble by bagging two wickets for just 13 runs in his three overs.

But Milinda Siriwardana (21 not out) played a spirited innings lower down the order to guide the visitors to victory with 12 balls to spare.

(IANS)

Bengaluru police bust child trafficking racket, 16 arrested

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Bengaluru: City police on Monday claimed to have unearthed a crime syndicate allegedly involved in the illegal transportation of children to the US with 16 people, including the suspected kingpin, being taken into custody.

In a crackdown, 14 teams of officers conducted raids in various police stations in Bengaluru City Commissionerate and registered about 13 cases and “secured” 16 persons including Uday Prathap Singh who was identified as the kingpin, and two women for various offenses.

Police said on the basis of information collected, it was found that Singh along with his other syndicate members lured a couple or a single male/female and projected them as real husband and wife, and accordingly documents were prepared to obtain passport and other travel documents.

They said Singh through his agents in Gujarat, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and other places brought children under the age of 10 years and paired them with the couples in Bengaluru who acted as family.

While the couple and the children got trained about behaving like a family, other team members prepared documents like rental agreement, birth certificate, voter cards, ration cards and applied for obtaining passport as family members.

After obtaining passport through “fraudulent means”, another team in Tamil Nadu used to assist the “family” to get Non-immigration B1/B2 VISA (Business and pleasure visa) from the US consulate at Chennai.

Police said based on credible information, collection of actionable intelligence and preliminary inquiry, SIT has made prima facie case about human trafficking of children to US in which 16 couples were shortlisted and their antecedents verified clandestinely.

(IANS)

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