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Dr. Shiva Rajkumar Inaugurated Antigravity Fitness Center

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by Faizan Rizwan & Shaheen Raaj

Ms. Mimi Partha Sarathy, Founder & Managing Trustee recently launched internationally renowned Antigravity Fitness from USA with professional certified teachers. The chief guest for the event No. 1 namely Kannada Movie Hatrick star Dr. Shivaraj Kumar inaugurated Exclusive Antigravity Fitness in Malleshwaram at Sri Krishna Wellness, Yoga & Cultural Centre, 9th Cross, 6th Main, Malleshwaram, Bengaluru, The other renowned personalities at the event were Dr. C. N. Ashwathnarayan MLA Malleshwaram, Ms. Reeth Abraham internationally renowned Athlete Arjuna Award & Rajyotsava award Winner, Dr. Mrs. Sita Bhateja Chairman Sita Bhateja Speciality Hospitals, Mrs. Padmini Ravi Founder Padmini Ravi Dance Academy & Mrs. Nita Raval Master Teacher AntiGravity Fitness & Founder CEO Biorythym Pune.

AntiGravity® Fitness is a dramatic & dynamic new form of exercise focused on fitness and would bring in a great amount of diversity to the fitness & wellness activities conducted at Sri Krishna Wellness Yoga & Cultural Centre, Malleshwaram.

AntiGravity® Fitness is a relatively new concept in fitness world that is fast gaining popularity worldwide and is approved by Aerobics & Fitness Association of America, American Council on Exercise, Central YMCA Qualifications & Yoga Alliance US. This concept is the brainchild of Christopher Harrison, a former choreographer, gymnast & aerial performer. Antigravity Fitness combines traditional poses with other exercise forms like Pilates, aerial acrobatics & calisthenics, with the aim of achieving a complete body workout. In Antigravity Fitness, hammock -like suspended gear is used to practice different yoga poses & exercises. These hammocks can support the weight of up to 970 kgs, so be rest assured, you will be safe. Sri Krishna Wellness, Yoga & Cultural Centre, was set up in Jan, 2014, to promote the rich heritage of India Art, Culture & Yoga. Set amongst ancient trees in the heart of Bangalore, with a traditional hall & surroundings, the center currently hosts varied activities such as Holistic & Integrated Yoga, Therapeutic Yoga, Pranayama & Meditation, Classical Dance Classes, Music, Bhajans, Kirtans, Concerts, Shastra Classes, lectures and much more.

Preserving our rich heritage & tradition is a duty, commitment & passion for old Bangaloreans. Mrs. M. A. Vedavalli & her daughter Ms. Mimi Partha Sarathy, founders of Sri Krishna Wellness, Yoga & Cultural Center. The internationally renowned KYM 500 hour Teacher Training Course from Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, Chennai is also conducted at the Centre. Late Sri T. Krishnamacharya is often called the Father of Modern Yoga, and was the teacher to several great Yoga Teachers like Sri B K S Iyengar, Sri Pattabhi Jois, Sri T K V Desikachar & Madame Indra Devi.

India thrash Macau to qualify for 2019 Asian Cup

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Bengaluru: India thrashed Macau 4-1 here on Wednesday to qualify for the 2019 Asian Cup football tournament.

Rowllin Borges (28th minute) put India ahead in the first half before Sunil Chhetri (60th) and Jeje Lalpekhlua (90+2) found the net after the break.
Macau defender Man Fai Ho scored an own goal in the 70th minute while trying to clear a pass into the penalty box by India’s Halicharan Narzary.

Nicholas Mario de Almeida Torrão scored the lone goal for the visitors in the 37th minute.

This is the fourth time that India have qualified for the Asian Cup. The last time they qualified was six years ago when they won the AFC Challenge Cup to book their tickets to the 2011 Asian Cup.

The last time India reached the main stage of Asian football’s showpiece event through the direct qualification route was in 1984.

India’s best result at the Asian Cup came in 1964 when they finished runners-up to hosts Israel.

The Indians have been in impressive form, winning all the four group matches they have played so far to ensure qualification in style.

The men in blue sit at the top of their group with 12 points, having scored eight goals and conceding only one.

Kyrgyzstan are second with four points from three matches, the same as third placed Myanmar. The Central Asians however, are ahead on goal difference. Macau are at the bottom having lost all their four matches.

Even if India lose their remaining two matches, they will still finish among the top two spots in the group which will be enough to book their tickets to the United Arab Emirates for the 2019 edition of Asian football’s showpiece event.

The hosts dominated right from the start, with the Macau defenders struggling to keep up with the red hot pace of the Indian forwards.

The Indians made their domination count when Narayan Das fired in a low cross from the left wing which was met by a Jeje backheel.

The ball was blocked by a Macau defender but Jeje pounced on the rebound and picked out Borges at the top of the box.

Borges did well to make space and fire in a powerful shot which took a lucky deflection off a Macau defender to find the back of the net.

Although Torrao managed to equalise for the visitors before the break, the Indians continued to dominate but the visitors managed to deny them with some desperate defending.

Chhetri doubled the lead following a fast counter-attack that saw the Indians win the ball in their own half before Balwant Singh make a lightning quick run down the right flank and find his captain with a diagonal pass inside the Macau penalty box.

It was the 55th international goal for Chhetri.

The hosts continued to apply the pressure which led to Macau conceding the third goal.

Jeje scored India’s fourth after being fed by Chhetri in the dying minutes.

(IANS)

Trump threatens to revoke licenses of major media networks

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[EPA]

Washington: US President Donald Trump has threatened to take major American news networks off the air over a story about his nuclear policy, accusing them of indulging in spreading “fake news”. Trump and his aides have repeatedly used the term “fake news” to cast doubt on critical media reports, often without providing evidence that the reports were untrue.
Trump was upset after NBC News reported that he wants a ten-fold increase in the nuclear arsenal. He called the news “made up”. “With all of the fake news coming out of NBC and the networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their license? Bad for country!” he said.

“Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked,” Trump said in a tweet last night. The news about him seeking an increase in nuclear arsenal is false, he said. “Not fair to public!” Trump said, referring to the news items in particular carried by news networks which he alleges are not correct.

According to a report in NBC, Trump said he wanted what amounted to a nearly ten-fold increase in the US nuclear arsenal during a gathering this past summer of the nation’s highest-ranking national security leaders, according to three officials who were in the room. The president’s remarks on this issue was reportedly from a meeting in July.

Two officials present said that at multiple points in the discussion, the president expressed a desire not just for more nuclear weapons, but for additional US troops and military equipment, the report said yesterday. In an interaction with reporters later in the day, Trump described it as a “fake news”. “No, I never discussed increasing it. I want it in perfect shape. That was just fake news by NBC, which gives a lot of fake news, lately,” he said.

“I think somebody said I want ten times the nuclear weapons that we have right now. Right now, we have so many nuclear weapons. I want them in perfect condition, perfect shape. That’s the only thing I’ve ever discussed,” Trump said, adding that it is “disgusting” the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write.

(Agencies)

CM Siddaramaiah directs BBMP to fill potholes in 15 days

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Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah directed the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to fix 15,000 potholes across the city in 15 days. The order comes after four people died in accidents caused by bad roads over the past two weeks.

On Tuesday, Siddaramaiah gave the municipal authorities 15 days to fill up all potholes, but the BBMP has said that it is going by the letter of his instruction, and only filling up ditches that technically qualify as potholes.

The new deadline was set by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who inspected Mysuru Road, along with Bengaluru Development Minister K.J. George and BBMP officials on Monday afternoon.

BBMP commissioner N Manjunath Prasad chaired a day-long meeting on Wednesday with mayor Sampath Raj, engineers and corporators.

BBMP has laid clear statement on the issue saying that it will just fill up potholes as defined by the BBMP and will not be working on dug-up roads. Roads that are dug up by Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board and Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Ltd will not be filled by the BBMP.

According to the BBMP, a pothole is a crater that appears on a smooth flowing, tarred road. The crater has to be created by wear and tear, increased vehicular movement or heavy rainfall.

“If a pot-shaped hole or crater shows up on a smooth road, it is termed a pothole,” the mayor said.

Roads that are dug up by Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board and Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Ltd will not be filled by the BBMP.

On Tuesday, Veena (21), pillion rider died after she was flung off a scooter and crushed by a truck near Devanahalli

On Sunday, a 47-year-old woman, Radha Ajanappa, was killed the same way on the Mysuru Road. On October 2, Anthony Joseph, 55, and his wife Sagai Mary, 53, were killed on the Mysuru flyover when a bus knocked down their two-wheeler. Joseph was trying to avoid a pothole.

(Agencies)

Sasikala to Return to Jail in Bengaluru Toady as Parole Ends

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Bengaluru: Deposed AIADMK leader V K Sasikala has left for Bengaluru by road to report at the Parappana Agrahara Prison in the state capital on Thursday as her parole granted for visiting her husband in a hospital in Chennai ended on Wednesday. The 60-year-old leader is expected to reach Bengaluru on time to report at the prison complex by six pm in keeping with the parole condition.

VK Sasikala was granted emergency parole from October 7 to 11, and had asked to adhere to several conditions, including a gag order on interacting with the media. She had visited her husband M Natarajan, who underwent liver and kidney transplantation at the hospital, on all five days of her parole period. According to Gleneagles Global Health City, where Natarajan (74) underwent organ transplantations on October 4 and a tracheotomy two days later, he is recovering well.

The AIADMK leader, who was removed from the party last month by Chief Minister K Palaniswami-led camp, is travelling by a car to reach Bengaluru, which had to halt at several locations here like the Trade Centre point as the area was teeming with party cadres to greet and wish her well.

Also, as was witnessed in the past five days, several women cadres carried their newborns in their arms and requested Sasikala to name them. After halting at several locations, her convoy took the Bengaluru highway.

(Agencies)

SC says sex with minor wife amounts to rape

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down the provision of criminal law that permitted sex by a husband with his minor wife between the age of 15 to 18 years in a child marriage case.

Section 375 of the Indian Panel Code made an exception on the question of sex with minor wife by the husband in child marriage cases.

A bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta — in separate but concurring judgements — said the exception was “arbitrary, discriminatory and capricious”.

Justice Lokur said the exception has no rational nexus with the objective sought to be achieved by the different statutes.

(IANS)

BJP has lost its high moral ground: Yashwant Sinha on Jay Shah episode

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Patna: BJP veteran Yashwant Sinha Wednesday criticised his party’s strong defence of its president Amit Shah’s son, saying the high moral ground it had acquired all these years appears to have been lost.

The former finance minister, who has turned a strong critic of the Modi government’s economic policies, also objected to the filing of a Rs 100 crore defamation suit against The Wire, which carried a story on Jay Shah’s business.

Such an attempt to suppress the voice of the media was avoidable, he told reporters here.

“I will certainly like to say that the manner in which a central minister jumped into fray in defence of Jay Shah was not called for. He is a central minister not a chartered accountant of Jay Shah,” Sinha said, in an apparent reference to Union minister Piyush Goyal’s defence of Amit Shah’s son.

He also expressed his reservations over the “very special circumstances” under which Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta was cleared to fight Jay Shah’s defamation case against The Wire.

“Perhaps, the high moral ground we have acquired all these months and years appears to have been lost,” Sinha said.

He, however, insisted that he did not want to comment on the merit of the story, which said that there was a huge rise in the turnover of Jay Shah’s company after the BJP came to power in 2014.

It is a matter of inquiry and investigation, and any government agency can do it, Sinha said.

The BJP has accused Sinha of having a link with the opposition Congress.

(PTI)

Congress bags 16 seats, BJP trailing in Nanded

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Nanded: The Congress on Thursday appeared set to retain the Nanded-Waghala City Municipal Corporation (NWCMC), a stronghold of state party chief Ashok Chavan, bagging 15 of the 16 results announced so far for the 81-seat civic body.

The Congress has also built strong leads in 33 seats in the NWCMC, which is now one of the last surviving bastions of the party in the state. Election to the civic body were held on Wednesday.

Its main rival, Bharatiya Janata Party trailed far behind – bagging just one seat and notching leads in another four.

The Shiv Sena was leading in two and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) was ahead in one seat.

The Congress’ partner National Congress Party failed to secure any lead as per the ongoing vote count at 1 p.m., a State Election Commission (SEC) official said.

Both, the Congress and BJP had made it a battle of prestige to wrest control over the civic body in the city renowned for the Hazoor Sahib Gurudwara, which is one of the five holy Sikh Takhts and the resting place of the legendary Sikh spiritual leader, Guru Gobind Singh.

For the first time in the state, the SEC has deployed VVPAT (voter-verified paper audit trail) voting machines in 31 polling centres in Ward No. 2 as a pilot project in the elections which recorded a 65 per cent turnout on Wednesday.

(IANS)

Hamas, Fatah open reconciliation talks in Cairo

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by Al Jazeera

The talks come a week after PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah visited Gaza to kick-start the process of transferring administrative responsibility from Hamas to the national consensus government [Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images]

Representatives from the Palestinian political parties of Hamas and Fatah are meeting on Tuesday for reconciliation talks in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

The talks come a week after Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah visited the Gaza Strip to kick-start the process of transferring administrative responsibility for the besieged territory from Hamas to the national consensus government.

The meetings in Cairo are centred around implementing the 2011 Cairo Agreement between the two political parties, in hopes of ending a 10-year political schism.

Leading the delegations are the deputy head of Hamas’s political office, Saleh al-Arouri, and a member of the Fatah Central Committee, Azzam al-Ahmad.

A member of Hamas in the occupied West Bank, Hassan Yousef, said that Israel blocked a delegation from travelling to Cairo through Jordan to participate in the talks.

Khalil al-Haya, a member of the Hamas delegation, said the mission would discuss forming a national unity government with the participation of all Palestinian political parties and preparing for legislative, presidential and national council elections.

Haya said the negotiations would focus on ending Palestinian division “to confront intransigence and the Israeli project”.

The 2011 agreement stipulated that legislative, presidential and national council elections should be conducted within one year of its signing. The deal would see both Hamas and Fatah form a Palestinian government to appoint the prime minister and ministerial positions.

Fatah spokesman Osama al-Qawasmeh told the official PA radio that the Egyptian-brokered talks would stretch for three days and would focus on enabling the national consensus government to exercise its political, security and economic functions in Gaza.

Other issues on the agenda include Gaza’s electricity crisis, the salaries of PA employees in the coastal enclave, security and the administration of border crossings.

Over the last few months, Hamas has been under heavy pressure from PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ measures against Gaza, aimed at pressuring Hamas to relinquish control of the territory. Punitive measures included cutting the salaries of PA employees living in Gaza and requesting Israel to reduce the electricity supply to the territory.

If the reconciliation efforts are successful, they could temporarily ease Gaza’s dire humanitarian situation.

Sticking points
Despite the latest Egyptian initiative to end the divide between the West Bank-based PA, led by Fatah, and the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, several potential obstacles could cause a national unity government to falter.

Hamas’ preferred method of armed resistance in facing Israel is among the main obstacles, analysts say.

Last week, Abbas called on Hamas to surrender its weapons. Speaking to Egyptian television, Abbas called for “one state, one regime, one law and one weapon”.

Hamas, on several occasions, has stressed that the issue of armed resistance is not up for discussion. “The resistance’s weapons are legal,” spokesperson Hazem Qassem told the local Maan News Agency. “They are here to protect Palestinians and free their lands [from Israeli occupation].”

Hamas has been Gaza’s de facto ruler since 2007, when the party defeated Abbas’ long-dominant Fatah party in parliamentary elections.

Hamas then pushed Fatah out of Gaza in a bloody conflict. Hamas and Fatah have ruled the Gaza Strip and the West Bank respectively ever since.

Hamas’ control over security and its nature as an armed resistance movement have constituted an obstacle for the PA, which cooperates with Israel on security-related matters as per the Oslo Accords.

Ibrahim Abrash, a political analyst and Gaza’s former culture minister, said some issues, such as Hamas’ recognition of Israel and the 1967 borders, “will take time to iron out … but the dire situation in Gaza cannot withhold waiting any longer”.

Abrash told Al Jazeera that, while he believes Fatah is serious about carrying out presidential elections, the fear is that Israel will get involved.

Abbas’ term expired in 2009, and presidential elections have not been held since.

“The last time Hamas joined elections in 2006, Israel carried out a campaign of arrests against Hamas parliamentarians. There needs to be some Arab and international guarantees that things would go smoothly,” said Abrash.

On the issue of armed resistance, Abrash said Israel would make it “very difficult” for the unity government to carry out its duties. “This would mean that the political system would be faulty, with some factions carrying weapons and others not. I think these issues will not be opened now, but in the end, this issue will explode if the root of it is not solved.”

Obesity-related diseases to cost India $13 bn by 2025: Report

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New Delhi: The annual cost of treating the consequences of obesity such as heart disease, diabetes, liver disease, depression and many types of cancer will reach a staggering $13 billion in India by 2025, according to a new experts estimate.

The global annual medical cost of treating these serious consequences of obesity is expected to reach $1.2 trillion per year by 2025, data from the World Obesity Federation released on Tuesday showed.

In India, the annual cost of treating these consequences is estimated to reach $13 billion or cumulative costs of $90 billion between now and 2025.

The percentage of Indian adults living with obesity is set to jump to around 10 per cent (3.1 per cent male and 6.9 per cent female) by 2025 from 7.5 per cent (2.3 per cent male and 5.2 per cent female) in 2014, the new analysis, ahead of World Obesity Day on Wednesday, revealed.

The data demonstrated how investing in the prevention, early intervention and treatment of obesity is a cost-effective action for governments and health services.

Investment can also help to achieve the 2025 targets set by the World Health Organisation to halt the rise in obesity and to achieve a 25 per cent relative reduction in mortality from noncommunicable diseases. “Obesity is now a worldwide epidemic which absorbs a vast amount of our healthcare resources.

The annual medical costs of treating the consequences of obesity such as diabetes and heart disease is truly alarming,” said Ian Caterson, President of World Obesity Federation.

“With an estimated 177 million adults suffering severe obesity by 2025, it is clear that governments need to act now to reduce this burden on their national economies,” Caterson added.

(IANS)

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