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Arvind Kejriwal named among world’s 50 greatest leaders by Fortune

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Arvind Kejriwal

New York: Arvind Kejriwal has been named among the world’s 50 greatest leaders by Fortune magazine with the Delhi Chief Minister being the sole Indian leader on the list topped by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

Fortune’s third annual ‘World’s 50 Greatest Leaders’ list features men and women from across the globe from the fields of business, government, philanthropy and the arts who are “transforming the world and inspiring others to do the same.”

47-year-old Aam Aadmi Party chief is ranked 42nd on the list and is the sole leader from India.

However, South Carolina’s Indian-American Governor Nikki Haley is also on the list at 17th while another Indian- American Resham Saujani is at the 20th spot.

Fortune credits Kejriwal for his efforts to curb pollution in New Delhi through the scheme of allowing vehicles of odd and even numbers on alternate days on the city’s roads.

“When Kejriwal unveiled a blueprint to tackle the smog in New Delhi — called the world’s most polluted city by the World Health Organization — many were sceptical. A key component: an ‘odd-even’ pilot project in which vehicles were allowed on the roads only on alternate days.

“The uplifting result of the pilot this January: roads were less clogged, hourly particulate air pollution concentrations dropped by 13 per cent, and citizens could breathe deep,” Fortune said.

It said leadership is not “demagoguery, pandering, even populism” but is defined by people across the world “you’ve never heard of who are rallying followers to make life better in ways you never imagined.”

“…the New Delhi ‘government official’ risking his career to fight pollution; the Italian mayor welcoming Middle East migrants to his tiny town—improving its economy and brightening their prospects,” the US-based magazine said in a reference to Kejriwal and Domenico Lucano, the Mayor of the Italian town of Riace, who was ranked 40th on the list.

“The leaders you’ll meet here, known and new, will lift your mood and upgrade your assessment of the world’s future. Some may inspire you to join their followers. And those unheard-ofs, so seemingly ordinary, may even prompt you to rethink your own potential as an inspiring leader,” Fortune said.

Bezos, who topped the list this year, has been on the list all three times, along with Pope Francis who comes in at the 4th position followed by Apple CEO Tim Cook.

The list includes German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2), Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at (3), US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko (22), IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde (36), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Co-chair and CEO Melinda Gates and Susan Desmond-Hellmann (41), Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (48) and Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay (50).

Also on the list is Saujani, Founder and CEO of tech organization ‘Girls Who Code’.

Fortune lauded the 40-year old former Wall Street attorney for her message that girls should be taught to be brave rather than perfect.

Her organization aims to get more women into computer science and by the end of this year, more than 40,000 girls will have gone through its training and internship programmes, Fortune said.

Giving company to Kejriwal from South Asia is Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the number 10 spot.

Fortune said the 68-year -old politician, the only female leader among the Organization of Islamic Cooperation member states, has “deftly navigated the competing demands of Islamic tradition and women’s rights”.

“She has committed Bangladesh, the nation with the world’s fourth-largest Muslim population, to securing legal protections for women and helping them attain more education,FINANCIAL freedom, and political power,” it said, adding that Bangladesh scores better on the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index than any other South Asian country.

(Agencies)

 

Mehbooba Mufti to be J&K’s first woman CM; BJP’s Nirmal Singh to be her deputy

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Jammu: The BJP on Friday elected Nirmal Singh as its leader in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly and nominated him for the deputy chief minister’s post in the new PDP-BJP alliance government to be headed by PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti.

Speaking after BJP legislators met here, state BJP president Sat Pal Sharma said: “The BJP legislature party has elected Nirmal Singh as its leader and nominated him for the deputy chief minister’s post in the new coalition government.”

Mr. Sharma also said the BJP had decided to extend support to Mehbooba Mufti, daughter of former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, to head the PDP-BJP government in the state.

Nirmal Singh also served as the deputy chief minister in the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed-led PDP-BJP coalition that was in office for 10 months till Sayeed died on January 7.

Jammu and Kashmir has been under Governor’s Rule since January 8.

Besides the BJP legislators, Jitendra Singh, the minister of state in the Prime Minister’s Office, and Ram Madhav, general secretary in the Bharatiya Janata Party in charge of Jammu and Kashmir affairs, attended the meeting.

Informed sources said those at the meeting were apprised by Ram Madhav about the recent developments, including the Tuesday meeting in New Delhi between PDP president Mehbooba Mufti and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“The BJP reiterated that no fresh conditions (by PDP) had been accepted and the alliance with the PDP will continue on the basis of the agenda of alliance signed (earlier) by the two parties,” a BJP source told IANS.

Jitendra Singh represents the Kathua-Udhampur Lok Sabha seat for the BJP in the Lok Sabha.

He informed that a BJP-PDP joint coordination committee will meet before the PDP and BJP separately meet Governor N.N. Vohra on Friday.

If and when she takes oath, Mehbooba Mufti will be the first woman chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.

(Agencies)

Pre-University Chemistry paper leak, CID probe soon

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Bengaluru: The rescheduled Pre-University Chemistry examination will see about 2,19,000 students writing the exam on March 29.

Kimmane Ratnakar, Primary and Secondary Education Minister said that because of a handful corrupt officials in the education department, 2,19,000 student will have a re-examination. He also said that as many as 36 of the 37 questions were leaked.

Ratnakar requested the Legislative Council of having the home department conduct a parallel enquiry into the issue.

Scores of parents and students protested at the PU Board office in Malleswaram and confronted Board Director Pallavi Akurathi. Few of the protesters asked not to hold re-exam while others asked for the re-exam. The protesters were asking the culprits to be punished.

Malleswaram police had to intervene and disperse the crowd as there were some tense moments.

On the out-of-syllabus questions in the II PU mathematics paper, the decision to award grace marks will be taken today, said Law Minister T.B. Jayachandra, along with Primary and Secondary Education Minister Kimmane Ratnakar. More than 15 marks questions had come out of syllabus in the paper.

(Agencies)

Uber driver masturbates at traffic signal, case registered

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Photo illustration of logo of car-sharing service app Uber on a smartphone over a reserved lane for taxis in a street in Madrid

Bengaluru: In another instance of reported misbehavior, an Uber driver allegedly masturbated at a traffic signal while ferrying a woman techie passenger from HSR Layout to SG Palya on Tuesday night.

The woman passenger on reaching home confronted the cabbie who denied any wrongdoing. However when she threatened to file a police complaint, he apologized for his behavior and requested her to give him a five-star rating on the Uber app.

As per reports, the woman passenger’s brother has filed a complaint with the police and also wrote to Uber via a post in Twitter stating: “Soon after my sister boarded from HSR Layout sector 7, the accused driver stopped the car multiple times in the slow moving traffic. While waiting at the Silk Board signal, the driver started to touch himself while the car was stationary, and continued the lewd gesture until she reached home.”

However no immediate response was received from Uber regarding the complaint.

The woman techie also took to twitter to write about her traumatic experience. She wrote: “@Uber_BLR – Harassment on roads. You have creepy drivers on board. It is a tough life out there for women. I am sickened.”

A case has been registered with the Bengaluru police who are on the lookout for the driver.

The cab aggregator finally responded to the complaint at around 3pm on Wednesday though they had been alerted about the incident as soon as the incident took place (between 7.30 and 8.15pm on March 22).

It is reported that the driver has been waitlisted and the company is also co-operating with the police.

It may be recalled that in July 2015, another techie was allegedly abused and harassed by an Uber driver as well. She filed a complaint with the police and the driver was then dismissed by Uber.

(Agencies)

UN judges to announce Radovan Karadzic genocide verdict

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Former Bosnian Serb leader to hear verdicts on 11 charges, including over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

Karadzic is accused of orchestrating the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Muslims [File: Michael Kooren/EPA]

Karadzic is accused of orchestrating the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Muslims [File: Michael Kooren/EPA]

by Al Jazeera

UN judges are set to pronounce their verdict in the genocide trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II.

Karadzic is the highest-ranking person to face reckoning before the UN tribunal in The Hague over a war two decades ago in which 100,000 people were killed as rival armies carved up Bosnia along ethnic lines.

He will hear verdicts on Thursday afternoon on 11 charges, including two counts of genocide.

He faces a maximum life sentence if convicted.

Hours ahead of the reading of the verdicts, a former prosecution spokeswoman for the tribunal was detained by court police.

Florence Hartmann, who served under the Swiss former prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, was convicted of contempt of court by the tribunal in 2009 for publishing confidential material from the trial of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic.

The French national was initially fined 7,000 euros, but the fine was later converted to a seven-day prison sentence, which she is not believed to have served.

Protesting his innocence

Karadzic protested his innocence in a rare interview published by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network on Wednesday.

“I know what I wanted, what I did, even what I dreamed of, and there is no reasonable court that would convict me,” he told the website in an email interview.

Karadzic is accused of orchestrating the slaughter of 8,000 Muslims after Serb forces seized the UN’s Srebrenica “safe area” in eastern Bosnia.

“The unnecessary killing of a single man is horrifying, let alone certainly several hundred at least… Those who did it are the enemies of the Serbs first, then enemies of those families, then of the Muslim community,” Karadzic said.

 

To Bosnian Muslims and Croats, Karadzic – who also faces charges over the shooting of civilians in Sarajevo, capital of the former Yugoslavia – is synonymous with war, death and destruction.

Bosnian Serbs, however, view him as a national hero who created a Serb Republic – a state within a state, which survived under the 1995 Dayton peace agreement.

Such sentiments are widely shared across the border in Serbia.

Debris ‘almost certainly’ from Malaysian Airlines MH370

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Australian minister says pieces washed up in southern Africa consistent with panels from missing Malaysian Airlines jet.

A piece of debris bearing identification marks was found on the coast in Mozambique in late December [Candace Lotter via AP]

A piece of debris bearing identification marks was found on the coast in Mozambique in late December [Candace Lotter via AP]

by Al Jazeera

Australia’s transport minister has said debris found off the coast off Mozambique “almost certainly” comes from the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.

In a statement on Thursday, Darren Chester said analysis by Malaysian investigation teams had concluded that the pieces of debris found were consistent with panels from the plane that went missing in March 2014.

“The analysis has concluded the debris is almost certainly from MH370,” Chester said.

“That such debris has been found on the east coast of Africa is consistent with drift modelling performed by CSIRO [an Australian science agency] and further affirms our search efforts in the southern Indian Ocean.”

Chester said that the search for the missing plane will continue.

“There are 25,000 square kilometres of the underwater search area still to be searched. We are focused on completing this task and remain hopeful the aircraft will be found.”

The Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200ER plane vanished from radar screens shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, bound for Beijing, early on March 8, 2014, becoming one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history.

Investigators believe the plane, with 239 passengers and crew on board, was flown thousands of kilometres off course before crashing into the ocean off Australia.

Wreckage and impact information are being considered based on the discovery of a wing part, known as a flaperon, in July last year, investigators said.

The flaperon, washed up on Reunion, an island off Madagascar, had been the only confirmed piece of wreckage from the aircraft to be found up until Thursday.

Earlier this month, on the two-year anniversary of the flight, international investigators said they were yet to arrive at a conclusion over what happened to the jet.

Mehbooba Mufti set to be next chief minister of J&K

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Srinagar: Mehbooba Mufti is all set to become the first woman chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, after she was unanimously nominated as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the post, sources said.

The PDP nominated Mehbooba, 56, as the legislature party leader and thus cleared decks for her to succeed her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, who died in January, as the chief minister of the state.

The sources said Mehbooba’s name to head the PDP in the state assembly was proposed by senior party leader Muzaffar Hussain Beigh and was seconded by his senior colleague Abdur Rehman Veeri.

The decision came as the party held a crucial meeting of its lawmakers who had gathered to discuss the government formation in the state. It was a constitutional requirement before Mehbooba stakes claim to power in India’s only Muslim majority state.

She presently represents south Kashmir’s Anantnag constituency in the Lok Sabha. She will now have to get elected to either house of the state’s bicameral legislature and also resign her Lok Sabha seat.

Jammu and Kashmir has been without an elected government after Mehbooba’s father died in a Delhi hospital on January 7.

She was tipped to take over the reins soon but she dragged her feet on continuing to ally with the BJP and wanted it to redraw the alliance terms that had father had authored. After remaining entrenched in their respective positions for more than two months, the two partners warmed up to each other following Mufti’s meeting with Prime Minister Modi on Tuesday in Delhi.

(IANS)

World T20: Dhoni’s last ball sprint helps India beat Bangladesh by one run

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Bengaluru: India beat Bangladesh by one run in the group stage Super 10 World Twenty20 match at Chinnaswamy Stadium here in a humdinger of a contest on Wednesday.

Replying to India’s 146/7 in 20 overs, Bangladesh managed to hit 145/9 in the same number of overs.

The final over of the match witnessed some heart stopping moments where India, facing a defeat, snatched a victory with the help of two superb catches by Shikhar Dhawan and Ravindra Jadeja on Hardik Pandya’s deliveries and Captain Dhoni’s last ball sprint to run out Mustafizur Rahman with the batsmen centimetres away from the crease.

Requiring 11 runs of six balls in the last over, Bangladesh hit a single, two fours and lost three wickets to finally lose by a run.

Chasing a target of 146 runs, Tamim Iqbal top scored with 35 runs of 32 balls hitting five fours for Bangladesh. Sabbir Rahman (26), Shakib Al Hasan (22), Mahmudullah (18), Soumya Sarkar (21) and Mushfiqur Rahim (11) also chipped in with the bat.

India’s Ravichandran Ashwin produced a splendid bowling of 2/20 in four overs with an economy rate of just five runs. He was adjudged the player of the match.

Almost emulating Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja also produced a bowling performance of 2/22 in four overs.

Winning the toss, Bangladesh captain Masrafe Bin Mortaza put India to bat first. Interestingly, all toss winning captains at Bengaluru have chosen to field first.

India started off slowly with only two fours in the first three overs. Many times the ball went straight into fielders hands and India India were 27/0 in the first five overs.

Both the openers, Rohit Sharma and Shikar Dhawan hit a six each to satiate the spectators’ hunger for big hits even as they roared “We want six”.

Suresh Raina top scored for India with 30 runs in 23 balls, including two sixes and a four.

Virat Kohli (24), Dhawan (23), Sharma (18), Hardik Pandya (15), M.S. Dhoni (13) and Ravindra Jadeja contributed their bit to build a decent total for India.

Though Al-Amin Hossain and Mustafizur Rahman took two wickets each, both proved expensive for Bangladesh by letting 37 and 34 runs each in their quota of four overs.

Bowling only one over, Mahmudullah claimed a wicket allowing just four runs.

With the latest victory, India climbed to the second spot in Group two with four points and a net run rate of -0.546 while Bangladesh continued to stay at the bottom with zero points.

Brief Scores: India 146/7 in 20 overs (Suresh Raina 30, Virat Kohli 24; Al-Amin Hossain 2/37, Mustafizur Rahman 2/34) beat Bangladesh 145/9 in 20 overs (Tamim Iqbal 35, Sabbir Rahman 26; Ravichandran Ashwin 2/20, Ravindra Jadeja 2/22).

(IANS)

Singer cum music director Praveen Bhardwaj croons a sufiana song for Raju Bajrangi

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Praveen Bhardwaj

Praveen Bhardwaj, an extremely versatile Singer cum music director, recently crooned a melodious number “Jindagi Dene Wale Thodi Aur Saanse Dede…Thode Aur Din De De…Thodi Aur Raaten De De” for an upcoming film named Raju Bajrangi.

Speaking about the song Praveen Bhardwaj avers, “The sweet & melancholic song, has been composed by myself and it sensitively, borders on happiness albeit tinged with just that little bit of sadness. Being a sufi song the mood was just right.”

Incidentally speaking Raju Bajrangi is based on a very sensitive & emotional relationship between a father and a son and their tussle over Lord Hanuman. When the song was recorded in LM Studio, Andheri – Mumbai the entire gathering was speechlessly stunned. It was a very heart touching scenario.

Raju Bajrangi, a bilingual film in Hindi & Tamil, is being directed by Manoj Sharma & produced by Shiv Narayan Rawat.

A point to be noted here is that Praveen Bhardwaj had gained instantly recognised international limelight, beating the likes of International singers of his ilk like Justin Bieber & Enrique Iglasius to name just two, with his 1st ever musical album as singer & composer namely “Mohabbat Mein Tujhe Kya Milega”.

And now he is waiting to conquer many more such musical milestones.

Movie Review: ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ is a spellbindingly spectacular movie

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Producers: Charles Roven & Deborah Snyder
Director: Zack Snyder
Star Cast: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter & Gal Gadot
Genre: Sci-fi Oriented Action & Adventure
Verdict: GOOD

Director Zack Synder in his latest outing Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice has done full justice to DC Comics characters, Batman & Superman. And apart from being a follow up to Man of Steel it also happens to be the 2nd instalment in the DC Extended Universe.

Plot: Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice follows the immediate events after Man Of Steel in which Gotham City based vigilante Batman (Ben Afleck) travels to Metropolis to pre-emptively combat Superman (Henry Cavill), with constant fear lurking in his heart as to what would happen if Superman is kept unchecked, while another threat of the most vicious kind endangers humankind.

Aces: Director Zack Synder succeeds in making a suspense oriented edge of the seat thriller especially in the 2nd half of the movie. Besides he has also maintained its grandeur & glory. That apart all the actors have done a good job but a special well – deserved mention goes to the credit of Ben Afleck as Batman & Henry Cavill as Superman. Both the actors have delivered a flawlessly impeccable performance.

Minuses: Some of the yawn inducing mayhem & disaster oriented violent sequences which could have been easily sniped off from its two and a half hours excessive length.

Last Word: Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice is certainly a not to be missed film. And please don’t be a spoil sport by revealing its climax nay anticlimax.

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