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Karnataka education minister Tanveer Sait caught watching porn during Tipu Jayanti

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In an embarrassing incident, Karnataka education minister Tanveer Sait was caught watching porn on his phone during Tipu Jayathi celebrations in Raichur.

In a footage shown by local channels, Sait is seen shamelessly browsing through the photographs of skimpily-clad women as other speakers were praising the brave acts of Tipu Sultan.

The opposition BJP has called for his resignation, saying Sait had “no moral authority to continue as a Minister”. Incidentally, in 2012, two BJP MLAs had been caught watching porn on their cell phones in parliament.

Donald Trump’s win sparks protests in New York, Chicago

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Thousands of people opposing president-elect Donald Trump march in Chicago and New York, chanting “not my president”.

A march in Chicago was one of Wednesday's many anti-Trump rallies [Felicia Darnell/Al Jazeera]

A march in Chicago was one of Wednesday’s many anti-Trump rallies [Felicia Darnell/Al Jazeera]

by Al Jazeera

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in several US cities to protest against Republican Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the presidential election, condeming his campaign rhetoric around immigrants, Muslims and other groups.

On Wednesday evening, thousands of protesters thronged streets in midtown Manhattan, New York City. Some burned a US flag as they reached the Trump Tower while other chanted: “Not my president”.

In Chicago, roughly 1,000 people attempted to gather outside the Trump International Hotel and Tower downtown while chanting phrases like “No Trump! No KKK! No racist USA”.

Chicago police closed roads in the area, blocking the demonstrators’ path.

Protesters condemned Trump’s campaign pledge to build a wall along the border with Mexico to keep out undocumented immigrants and other policies perceived as affecting people of colour.

In his victory speech, however, Trump said he would be president for all Americans, saying: “It is time for us to come together as one united people.”

In Chicago, Angie Victoria, 27, told Al Jazeera: “I think [Trump] getting elected is an atrocity. There’s no way he’s qualified to be president, he’s so erratic. There’s no platform; he just appealed to people stewing in bigotry and racism.”

Izzy Mosser, 19, said: “A presidency under Trump is … scary. The only good thing is that people are coming together to stop him. It’s dividing and uniting at the same time.”

In Austin, the Texas capital, about 400 people staged a march through the city’s streets, police said.

Other protests were organised in Washington, DC, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Tennessee and other cities.

Earlier in the day, some 1,500 California students and teachers rallied in the courtyard of Berkeley High School, a San Francisco Bay Area city known for its progressive politics, before marching towards the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.

Hundreds of high school and college students walked out in protest in Seattle, Phoenix, Los Angeles and three other cities in the Bay Area, Richmond, El Cerrito and Oakland.

A predominantly Latino group of about 300 high school students walked out of classes on Wednesday morning in Los Angeles and marched to the steps of City Hall, where they held a brief but energetic rally.

Chanting in Spanish, “The people united will never be defeated,” the group held signs with slogans such as “Not Supporting Racism, Not My President” and “Immigrants Make America Great.”

Many of those students were members of the “Dreamers” generation, children whose parents entered the US with them illegally, school officials said, and who fear deportation under a Trump administration.

Wednesday’s demonstrations followed a night of protests around the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere in the country in response to Trump’s political upset.

In heavily Democrat Washington, DC, hundreds of Trump opponents and a few of his supporters gathered by the White House, chanting in support of immigrants and against the president-elect.

Demonstrators attacked storefront windows and set garbage and tyres ablaze late on Tuesday in the business district of Oakland, California.

An Interview With Producer Jeeten Dutt Sinha of Launda Naach

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Jeeten Dutt Sinha, more popularly known as Jay, happens to be the son of Bollywood’s most popular veteran actor Vishal Dutt aka Rajkumar Sinha. Incidentally speaking Jeeten is a multifaceted persona in his own right having achieved a finesse in the handling of his own varied portfolio’s like Construction & Minining (Chairman of Supreme Group of Companies), Fashion & Films (Platinum Pictures Pvt Ltd & S. Cube Entertainment). In fact he has achieved the distinction of being a film financier for almost a decade. And now Jeeten has added one more feather in his illustrious cap adorned with crowning glories galore by turning over a new leaf of donning a producer’s hat with the production of a short film named Launda Naach, which has already garnered a lot of critical acclaim & awards galore in the Global Film Festival circuit. Shaheen Raaj recently caught up with Jeeten, a philanthropist at heart, unassuming, down to earth & a very practical guy, in his office at Lady London Building in Andheri. Tune in.

What has been your main as a Chairman of Supreme Group of Companies?

Frankly speaking over the years my main aim has been to run a successful business enterprise and I have successfully achieved that feat without even an iota of doubt. But having done this I also wanted to be of some help to the society and my vast real estate experience has enabled me to create an impactful developments which also includes Low Income Housing Projects all over India. That apart I also try to create equal opportunity upon unequal grounds and raise the standards every time.

You have also been known as a philanthropist in the real sense of the term. Comment!

I am very grateful to everyone for having such a high opinion about me and I humbly accept their gratitude for honoring me with such kind words. Yes indeed I am associated with several NGO’s for underprivileged and other such organizations for mentally challenged & physically handicapped which are found worldwide. And I am leaving no stone unturned to help & support them to the best of my ability & capability.

Having grown up in a Bollywoodian environment how come you never thought of donning the grease paint & facing the arc lights?

Yes I consider myself lucky enough to have been brought up in such an environment. But I never considered myself or never even thought of being creatively involved. I think I was more imbibed with business acumen since as far as I can remember. But I did think of getting involved in the Bollywoodian affair in some way or the other. Hence since last one decade I have been quietly financing a lot Bollyood movies.

And now after donning the mantle of a producer how come you thought of making a short film, based on a sensitive topic, and not a full fledged feature film?

Since this was my 1st attempt at producing a film I purposely decided to start a small project, no not a small budget feature film but a short film to gain more knowledge & experience of film making and then gradually move on to making more of message oriented meaningful films based in the range of small budget. And of course my further stop over destination would be big budget movie but once again I would like to stress on the fact that I will go on producing films more of message oriented meaningful films then be it a small budget, big budget or a short film like my current & highly raved about film Launda Naach.

Ok time to enlighten us about your current short film titled Launda Naach?

Actually speaking Launda Naach is a film steeped in an art form. Where men dress up as a women and dance to entertain at social functions & festivals. Well nothing wrong in that you would say as such practice is prevalent since time immorial. What is more surprising is that what was once a folk art has now become a degrading line of work wherein rich men now hire these Launda’s (male dancers) to dance for their own perverse pleasures. Such events now end up in sexual abuse to be more precise the rape of these Laundas.

Could you narrate the actual story of Landa Nach in brief?

One such Launda named Bhuvan is also a popular dancer. But he is also a husband and a father to a 9 year old boy named Ghungroo. Bhuvan hides his ugly truth from his son in order to protect his image, but this in itself leads to his son’s growing fascination with becoming such a Launda himself. Fearing that soon his son may discover his truth for worse and suffer like him, Bhuvan decides to retire from dancing, but not before performing one last gig in a nearby village. A gig that he reluctantly agrees to, tempted only by the money he desperately needs for his pregnant wife. On the day of the gig, Bhuvan’s wife delivers a baby boy and Ghungroo uses the good news as an excuse to run to his father and see him perform. As he joyfully runs to the village where his father is, little did he know that his entry fee to his father’s world is more than what he had bargained for.

Landa Naach it seems has garnered a lot of critical acclaim & awards galore in the global film festival circuit. Can you throw some more light on it.

We at Platinum Pictures Pvt Ltd have been working predominantly even to the extent of burning our mid – night oil to get it circulated in the global film festival circuit and the critical appreciation & awards journey first started when we got the news that Launda Naach was officially selected for premiere screening in The Other Venice Film Festival, California (OVFF) in its 13th Edition. And then on 9th Oct, 2016 OVFF bestowed us with “Best International Short Film” award. Then came the official news of selection for Human District Festival in Serbia. The next stopover destination was when Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival (MIFF) officially selected Launda Naach for official screening. The MIFF then nominated Launda Naach under 2 categories “Best Dramatic Short Film” & “Best Cinematography”. We even tried the official screening slot in the forthcoming International Film Festival of India (IFFI Goa) but we were late so better luck to us for next year.

Such a sensitive subject has been directed by a woman director. How come?

Why not? I feel that as a woman director Shafaq Khan was not at all biased towards such a sensitive subject. In fact her directorial treatment speaks a lot about her finesse in her directorial treatment. She has done full justice to the sensitive subject at hand without in anyway taking refuge in eroticism or titillation. She has not only worked with many big production houses but has also dabbled with making of many musical videos. And as a feature film director she already has 2 films to her credit namely Desi Romeos & Prince Of Punjab. And with Launda Naach she has also forayed into the Short Films arena.

Do you have any directorial ambition? If yes when will you make your directorial debut?

I will certainly wield the megaphone to ultimately make my directorial debut but not so soon. Let me gain more experience as a producer and only then will I focus my attention towards direction.

Ok to round it off tell us what is your next agenda on filmmaking?

Right now I am planning to make 3 feature film, all untitled as of now, on Indian Warrior, it will be far more superior than Hollywood movies, the 2nd on is also in the planning stage and my hat trick film will be based on the journalist tribe. It will showcase the real & the true aspects of their profession life. I feel that the journalists tribe is the most underrated & underpaid. Sometimes It is really saddening to note that their’s is a most thankless job which they keep on perfoming day in & day out.

Ishaat Hussain replaces Cyrus Mistry as TCS chairman

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Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Thursday announced that Ishaat Hussain will be the new Chairman of the board of directors of the company in place of Cyrus Mistry with immediate effect.

Tata Sons has also issued a special notice under Section 169 (read with Section 115) of the Companies Act, 2013, and made a requisition for an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders to consider the removal of Mistry as a director of TCS.

“Hussain shall hold office as Chairman of the company until a new chairman is appointed in his place,” the company said in a regulatory filing.

Tata Sons had removed Mistry, 48, as chairman of Tata Sons last month saying he had lost the confidence of the board due to several factors and that the trustees were increasingly concerned with the growing trust deficit.

Ratan Tata, who had made room for Mistry four years ago, was reinstated as the chair in an interim capacity.

Hussain, 69, took over as director finance of Tata Sons in July 2000. Earlier, he joined the board as an executive director in July 1999. He is also a director of several Tata firms — Tata Industries, Tata Steel and Voltas. Besides, he is the chairman of Voltas and Tata Sky.

Prior to joining Tata Sons, Hussain was senior vice president and executive director of finance at Tata Steel for almost 10 years. He joined the board of the Indian Tube Company (a Tata Steel associate) in 1981 and moved to Tata Steel in 1983 after the company was merged with Tata Steel.

A chartered accountant by training from Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, he graduated in economics from St. Stephens College in New Delhi.

(Agencies)

England 537 all out on day 2

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Rajkot: England were all out for 537 in their first innings on day 2 of the opening cricket Test against India here Thursday.

England opted to bat after winning the toss in the first of the five-match series.
Brief scores:

England 1st innings: 537 all out in 159.3 overs (Ben Stokes 128, Joe Root 124, Moeen Ali 117; Ravindra Jadeja 3/86, Mohammed Shami 2/65).

(Agencies)

Long queues at banks to exchange old notes

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New Delhi: Long queues were seen outside banks across the country and also at RBI counters for replacement of old Rs 500 and 1,000 notes as banks opened today after demonatisation of such bills by the government on Tuesday.

Following the decision, banks were shut yesterday to stock lower denomination cash and new security-featured Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 notes. Banks have made additional arrangements for exchanging cash and deposit of old high denomination notes in order to handle heavy rush.

Banks have been asked to be open on weekends including Sunday to deal with the situation. It may be noted that ATMs are not functional today.

In order to meet the demand of new currency notes, the government has imposed a limit on withdrawal of Rs 10,000 per day and Rs 20,000 per week. This limit, however, will be increased in the coming days.

People have been allowed to exchange old notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 at any bank or head post office or sub-post office with a daily limit of Rs 4,000 while showing ID proof up to November 24.

Withdrawal from ATM will be a restricted to Rs 2,000 per day per card in the first few days, which will later be raised to Rs 4,000 later.

People, however, can deposit the old notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 in banks or post office accounts from November 10, till December 30, 2016 without any limit.

(PTI)

Note ban: Depositing cash above Rs 2.5L to face tax, 200% penalty on mismatch

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New Delhi: Further dangling the stick, government last night warned that cash deposits above Rs 2.5 lakh threshold under the 50-day window could attract tax plus a 200 percent penalty in case of income mismatch.

“We would be getting reports of all cash deposited during the period of November 10 to December 30, 2016, above a threshold of Rs 2.5 lakh in every account. The (tax) department would do matching of this with income returns filed by the depositors. And suitable action may follow,” Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia said.

Any mismatch with income declared by the account holder will be treated as a case of tax evasion. “This would be treated as a case of tax evasion and the tax amount plus a penalty of 200 percent of the tax payable would be levied as per the Section 270(A) of the Income Tax Act,” he said.

The government has allowed citizens to deposit in their bank accounts old currency of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denominations, which had been declared invalid in the nation’s biggest crackdown on black money, corruption and counterfeit notes, between November 10 and December 30.

Adhia said small businessmen, housewives, artisans and workers who had some cash lying as their savings at home should not be worried about any tax department scrutiny. “Such group of people… need not worry about such small amount of deposits up to Rs 1.5 or 2 lakh since it would be below the taxable income. There will be no harassment by the Income Tax Department for such small deposits made,” he said.

On people resorting to buying of jewelery, he said persons buying jewelery has to provide the PAN number. “We are issuing instructions to the field authorities to check with all the jewellers to ensure this requirement is not compromised. Action will be taken against those jewellers who fail to take PAN numbers from such buyers. When the cash deposits of the jewellers would be scrutinised against the sales made, whether they have taken the PAN number of the buyer or not will also be checked,” he added.

(Agencies)

Banks to remain open this Saturday Sunday; new notes from Nov 10

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New Delhi: Having junked 86 per cent of total currency in circulation with the demonitisation decision, government today sought to assuage anxious public saying banks and post offices would start giving out high denomination replacement notes from tomorrow even as it expanded the list of exempt public utilities.

Besides, it expanded the list of areas where the withdrawn notes will be accepted till November 11 midnight. They include payments for metro rail tickets, highway and road toll, purchase of medicines on doctor prescription from government and private pharmacies, LPG gas cylinders, railway catering and ASI monuments entry tickets.

A 72-hour relaxation for use of such notes was given yesterday for government hospitals, railway ticketing, public transport, airline ticketing counters at airports, milk booths, crematoria/burial grounds and petrol pumps.

Banks and ATMs were shut today to remove old Rs 500/1000 notes and stock them with lower denomination and new hard-to- fake Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 currency notes. Banks will open tomorrow as RBI has sent truckloads of new notes throughout the country, while some ATMs will begin dispensing cash.

“Through RBI’s currency chest, adequate currency is (being) provided in all banks and post offices. But it would require 2-3 weeks for full adequate replacement. It would begin tomorrow morning,” Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters here.

Withdrawal limitations – Rs 2,000 a day from ATM per card and Rs 10,000 through bank account on a day and Rs 20,000 in a week, will continue for some time, he said. “As and when more currency comes into banking system, there will be a rethink on those limitations.”

Officials said that while honest tax payers as well as housewives and farmers with genuine savings have nothing to worry if they deposit old currencies in their bank accounts and take out replacement ones, tax authorities would keep a close watch on high-value deposits made from illicit sources, black money or crime money.

Housewives, farmers and those whose annual income is within the tax exemption limit may not be hounded by tax authorities for depositing up to Rs 2.5 lakh of the now- defunct higher denomination currency notes in bank accounts.

“It should be clear that it is no immunity scheme. This (deposit) does not provide any relief from taxation. The law of land will apply (on source of fund),” he said. “If the money is legitimate which had been previously withdrawn from bank or earned legally and saved and had been disclosed, there is nothing to worry about”.

(Agencies)

 

Donald Trump beats Hillary Clinton to win US presidency

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by Al Jazeera

Donald Trump is the next president of the US after a long, bitter and divisive election campaign.

Projections early on Wednesday showed that Trump clinched victory over Hillary Clinton to become the 45th US president-elect after securing the 270 electoral votes needed to win.

Speaking to his supporters in New York after clinching victory, Trump said that Clinton had congratulated him on his win.

“I have just received a call from Secretary Clinton. She congratulated us on our victory … and I congratulated her and her family on a very very hard-fought campaign.”

Trump said it was “time for us to come together”, pledging to be president “for all Americans”.

Clinton’s campaign team said the Democratic candidate would speak on Wednesday morning.

Al Jazeera’s James Bays, reporting from New York, described the result as “a political bombshell that we haven’t seen in modern history”.

The 2016 US election caught the attention of hundreds of millions around the world with dramatic moments in the campaign grabbing headlines for more than a year.

Trump was seen as the least probable candidate to win in what was an extremely a tight race. A former reality TV star, he announced his candidacy in June 2015.

Since then, the billionaire businessman from New York has consistently alienated minority groups, refused to release his tax returns and remained seemingly unapologetic for leaked tapes in which he brags about sexually assaulting women.

Global markets fell as the projected results emerged amid fears that a Trump presidency could cause financial turmoil.

The dollar lost value against other currencies, and the Mexican peso saw its steepest dive in more than 20 years, plummeting 8 percent at one point. Oil futures also declined.

Clinton had a slim lead in the polls but no one was ruling out a Trump victory.

A polling average by tracker site RealClearPolitics gave Clinton a 3.3-percentage point national lead.

The 69-year-old former first lady, senator, and secretary of state – who was backed by incumbent President Barack Obama – on Monday urged the country to unite and vote for “a hopeful, inclusive, big-hearted America” in her last effort to woo voters.

Trump pressed his message with voters who feel left behind by globalisation and social change, wrapping up with a flourish on his protectionist slogan of “America first”.

Promising to end “years of betrayal,” tear up free trade deals, seal the border, halt the drug trade and subject Syrian refugees to “extreme vetting”, Trump told his supporters in New Hampshire: “I am with you and I will fight for you and we will win.”

Clinton had pushed a more optimistic vision, despite a wobble in the final weeks of her campaign when the FBI reopened an investigation into whether she had put US secrets at risk by using a private email server – only to close the probe again on Sunday.

The email investigation allowed Trump to recover ground lost in a series of recent scandals.

As Trump celebrated his victory in New York, congratulations from world leaders poured in, with Egypt and Russian among the first nations to reach out to the president-elect.

The Kremlin said in a statement that Russian President Vladimir Putin was hoping to work with Trump to improve relations.

Putin “expressed hope for mutual work on bringing US-Russia relations out of their critical condition as well as on working out outstanding issues on the international agenda” in his congratulatory telegram, the Kremlin said.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi spoke to Trump by telephone, seeking to foster closer diplomatic ties, an Egyptian presidency statement said.

“The US President-elect Donald Trump expressed his utmost appreciation to the president, pointing out that his was the first international call he had received to congratulate him on winning the election,” the statement said.

Binali Yildirim, Turkish prime minister, expressed hopes that bilateral ties would strengthen under new US leadership.

The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has had strained relations with Barack Obama’s Democratic administration but Yildirim welcomed in the new Republican flagbearer.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in a statement that he “congratulates the elected American president, Donald Trump, and hopes that peace will be achieved during his term”.

An Abbas aide, Saeb Erekat, said he does not expect US positions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to change under Trump.

Erekat said the Republican and Democratic parties are both committed to a two-state solution of the conflict and “I think this will not change with the coming administration”.

“I Struggled for 11 years before I got Prem Ankat.” – Datta Mirkutte

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Director Datta Mirkute has made his debut as a 1st time director in a Marathi film named Prem Sankat which got released on 14th Oct, 2016 and the distributors Drishyam Films had booked more than 100 cinemas all over Mumbai & Maharashtra. Meet Datta Mirkute who waited for almost more than a decade for wielding the megaphone.

First things first tell us about your struggling phase before you got a break as an independent director?

To be very frank I had to struggle for almost 11 years before I could become an independent director. I started making my rounds to production offices for work and one common friend introduced me to one of the production managers of Balaji Tele Films. I was called everyday at 9 am to the office of Balaji and I used to wait out till 6 pm every day for at least 1 month. Then I was called in the office at 9 pm one day by the production manager who told me to watch the shooting of several serials made by Balaji. I was not paid any money but was given food on the sets.

And what happened then?

Then I joined director Rajiv Ruia and worked as his assistant in 3 films namely Chor Bazaari, Direct Ishq and one Marathi serial YUDH. But it was director Dinesh Anand of Mr & Mrs. Unwanted who indeed took me very seriously and taught me the left & right of camera as well as varied other angles while taking a shot and I became fully trained.

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And then a producer named Yuvraj Surwade, a business man from Mulund wanted to make a Marathi film and once again I was introduced to him and his wife Diksha Surwade by a common friend. I narrated to him the story of a boy who loves a girl and how the villain wants to enter her life and destroys the family of the boy. The girls also loses her memory and how she regains her memory as well as the love of the hero which is told in a gripping & emotional manner. The producer called his other family members, well wishers for another narration and everybody liked this subject. Thus, I got my 1st chance to direct a Marathi film named Prem Sankat.

So how was the experience of directing your debut directorial film Prem Sankat?

We went to Silvassa for the shooting of the film for 25 days and I completed the entire shooting in one non – stop shooting stint. I prefer to shoot the entire film in one shooting spell as it helps the producer to save both money & time. If I had 2 or 3 schedules, then getting the combined dates of busy actors like Nishigandha Wad & Satish Pulekar who play the parents of the hero Raj Surwade could have been difficult and the film would have been delayed a lot. In Marathi films, normally the budgets are very tight and the producer can not afford a wastage of even a single rupee as ultimately he has also to release the film himself by putting another 40 to 50 lakhs of rupees to get the P & A and booking the cinemas which is the toughest part nowadays. Luckily for me & the producers, we got Drishyam Films who are experienced people of the distribution section and they launched a huge publicity campaign for the film 15 days before the release. From 7th Oct, onwards, Zee Music telecast all the six songs of the film. Music director Vishal Wankhede has given me very peppy musical score and they will be liked by the youth mainly who are the biggest 1st 3 days audiences for Marathi films these days.

What are your expectations from the film Prem Sankat?

The youth will love the sacrifices done by the hero to get his love till the very end of the film. Monalisa Bagal who plays the lady love of the hero Raj Surwade has done a fantastic job. Then the other actors like Rahul Bhise, Ankita Parmar, Damini Dolas, Rajendra Sisatkar, Yatin Kryekar, Latika Gore, Rohini, Satish Pulekar & Nishigandha Wad have also done very well in the supporting cast. Cameraman ravi Bhatt,action master Bunty and editor Sundar Pathuri have gone out of the way to make PREM SANKAT a very big family entertainer.

So what is next in store?.

I have been signed to direct a Hindi film which is again youth based and a love story with action & music which I will launch shortly after the successful run of Prem Sankat.

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