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BJP releases first list for Karnataka assembly election

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The BJP on Sunday released the first list of 72 candidates to contest in the May 12 Karnataka assembly elections for the 224 seats across the southern state.

“The central election committee of the party has decided the first 72 names for the ensuing Karnataka legislative assembly elections,” said the BJP in a statement released by its state unit here.

The committee met under the party’s national president Amit Shah and among its members, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj attended it at the party’s head office in New Delhi.

Among the candidates are many of the party’s 48 sitting or outgoing legislators from the state’s northern, central and southern region, including Bengaluru, which has 28 assembly constituencies.

Prominent nominees are the party’s chief ministerial face B.S. Yeddyurappa from Shikaripura, K.S. Eshwarappa from Shivamogga, Jagadish Shettar from Hubli-Dharwad Central, Basavaraj Bommai from Shiggaon, C.M. Udasi from Hangal, K.V. Hegde from Sirsi and B. Sriramulu from Molakalmuru (reserved).

Of the 224 assembly segments across the state, 173 are general, 36 reserved for the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and 15 for the Scheduled Tribes (STs).

Only three women figure among the 72 contestants – Sashikala Jolle from Nippani assembly segment in the state’s north-west region, Roopali Naik from Karwar in the coastal area and Poornima Srinivas from Hiriyur in central part.

Sashikala is re-contesting from the same seat, while Roopali is a former civic corporator in Bengaluru and Poornima is the party’s women wing’s secretary.

In the outgoing assembly, the BJP has 48 legislators, including four from the Karnataka Janata Party, a regional outfit, Yeddyurappa floated in December 2012 after he left the party owing to his removal as its first Chief Minister in the state following his indictment by the state ombudsman in the multi-crore mining scam that also rocked its first government in south India.

Sriramulu is the party’s Lok Sabha member from Bellari reserved (ST) constituency in the state’s northwest region, which has rich iron ore mines.

Among defectors who recently joined the party from the ruling Congress or the rival Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) are Malikaiah Guttedar from Afzalpur and Subhash Guttedar from Aland in Kalaburgi district, Mallikarjun Khuba from Basavakalyan in Bidar district, B.S. Yatnal from Bijapur city in Vijayapura district and C.P. Yogishwar from Channapatna in Ramanagara district.

Yatnal, a former minister of state for railways in the Vajpayee government, re-joined the party ahead of the hustings.

Party’s former state ministers S. Suresh Kumar, V. Somanna and Arvind Limbavalli are among the contestants from Bengaluru seats.

(IANS)

4 die in Delhi fire

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Four labourers were killed in a fire that broke out in a shoe factory here on Monday, said a fire officer.

The blaze started at the Raja Park factory in Sultanpuri at around 6.35 a.m. There were around a dozen labourers inside the factory when the fire broke out, the Delhi Fire Service officer said.

Nine fire tenders were rushed to the spot.

“Four labourers, who were trapped inside it, died due to suffocation and burnt injuries. They were rushed to the Sanjay Gandhi hospital. Efforts are on to identify the deceased,” he added.

The fire which broke out due to a short circuit, was doused at 9.50 a.m., the officer added.

Syria chemical attack: ‘It was like my lungs were shutting down’

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Survivors and activists share their stories of horror and shock after a chemical attack in Eastern Ghouta’s Douma.

By his third frantic dash down the stairs, with a wet piece of cloth over his mouth and a little girl in each arm, everything went dark for Khaled Abu Jaafar.

“I lost consciousness. I couldn’t breathe any more; it was like my lungs were shutting down,” recalled the resident of Douma, in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta.

“I woke up about 30 minutes later and they had undressed me and were washing my body with water,” Abu Jaafar told Al Jazeera on Sunday. “They were trying to make me vomit as my mouth was emitting a yellow substance.”

Abu Jaafar is one of the survivors struggling to cope with the effects of a chemical attack on Saturday in the besieged town of Douma, the last rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital, Damascus.

Rescue workers and medical staff have said at least 85 people were killed in the chlorine gas attack – an accusation dismissed by the Syrian government as “farcical”.

Among those killed, witnesses said, were many women and children who had sought refuge in the basements of buildings to escape heavy bombardment by pro-government forces.

Abu Jaafar, a radio station worker, said that as panicked residents started running around after the attack, he rushed to one of these hideouts to check on his friends and help get people out.

“While people were in the shelters, some on the roof managed to see the gas bombs as they dropped from the planes,” Abu Jaafar said, describing what he said was green gas emanating from the canisters falling from the sky.

“Those who saw them rushed to tell everyone in the basement to evacuate,” he added. “I went up and down the stairs about three times to help evacuate children from the building.”

Evacuation deals
The attack came on the second day of a fierce ground and air push by pro-government forces after a period of relative calm.

The Syrian army said the offensive was in response to deadly shelling by Jaish al-Islam, the last remaining opposition group in Eastern Ghouta, on residential areas in Damascus. Jaish al-Islam denied the allegation.

The group is currently in negotiations with the Russian army, a major ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, over a possible evacuation deal, according to reports carried by state media and pro-Syrian opposition Orient TV.

Last week, two other rebel groups reached evacuation agreements with the Russians, which resulted in about 19,000 people leaving for the northern province of Idlib.

They included fighters from the Faylaq al-Rahman and Ahrar al-Sham groups, their relatives and other locals.

Rebel groups argued that the evacuation amounts to forced displacement, but gave in after weeks of intense bombardment.

Meanwhile, remaining civilians continue to endure a bombing campaign and the effects of a crippling government siege that has been in place since 2013.

‘Unbearable scenes’
The chemical attack in Douma is the largest of its kind in Syria since April last year, when nerve agent sarin or a sarin-like substance was dropped onto the town of Khan Sheikhoun, killing at least 85 people.

Symptoms of a chlorine attack include dyspnea and coughing, as well as intensive irritation of the mucous membrane and breathing difficulties.

On Saturday evening, rescue workers posted videos on social media of people appearing to show symptoms consistent with a gas attack. Some appeared to have white foam around their mouths and noses.

Abu Jaafar said that those who did not manage to evacuate their shelters died instantly.

“There were basements in other buildings with people who didn’t see the gas in time. We entered those buildings and found bodies on the staircases and on the floor – they died while attempting to exit,” he said.

Although some Douma residents rushed to various medical points, a shortage of supplies and doctors meant that treatment options were limited.

Activists said that several of Douma’s clinics and ambulance teams had been hit during the bombardment campaign, largely disrupting the town’s medical assistance capacity.

When we arrived to the roof of the building I was helping at, I saw the lifeless bodies of a mother in her 50s, with two of her adult daughters and a child with their arms around each other, all foaming at the mouth
ALAA ABU YASSER

Local activist Alaa Abu Yasser was also among those who tried to help evacuate people.

“I went to a building where about 35 people had died as a result of this attack; the scenes I saw were unbearable, it’s like nothing I have ever seen even in the movies,” he told Al Jazeera, describing the aftermath of the attack.

“As I approached the building, a father was crying hysterically as he dragged his feet towards us carrying his two children … he was hugging them, smelling and kissing them after they suffocated to death,” Abu Yasser added.

Several witnesses speaking to Al Jazeera said that during a chemical attack it is common practice for people to rush to the top floors and on the roofs of buildings in a bid to avoid inhaling the gas that tends to “stick to the ground”.

“When we arrived to the roof of the building I was helping at, I saw the lifeless bodies of a mother in her 50s, with two of her adult daughters and a child with their arms around each other, all foaming at the mouth,” said Abu Yasser.

“I mostly saw bodies of women and children in three separate rooms; they’ve been placed there to isolate the smell of the gas from those who survived,” he added.

Although the White Helmets, a group of rescuers operating in opposition-held areas in Syria, and Syrian American Medical Society have given a death toll of at least 85, there are fears that the number of people killed in the attack could be higher.

“The rescue teams have not been able to document all the cases,” local activist Mansour Abu al-Khair told Al Jazeera. “They’re overwhelmed and cannot deal with the impact of the attack.”

He explained many of those who lost their lives were still under destroyed buildings and have not yet been pulled from the rubble.

“Others are instantly being buried by their families, so they aren’t accounted for in terms of registered numbers,” al-Khair said.

“We expect the death toll to surpass 100,” he added.

Aljazeera

Ambareesh’s silence leaves Congress confused

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MLA Ambareesh has not reacted to the due date given by K C Venugopal, the Congress in-charge for the state and this has left the Congress High Command in state of confusion. The due date lapsed on April 8.

As he was obvious by his nonattendance amid the visit of AICC president Rahul Gandhi to the state, the party high command asked that he illuminate his stand on challenging from Mandya constituency. There were gossipy tidbits that his wife Sumalatha and his nearby associates could challenge from Mandya. In any case, Ambareesh has kept up hush over the issue giving rise to guess works.

Around 500 of his supporters met him in Bengaluru and welcomed him to the region. In spite of this, Ambareesh did not issue statements which left the party confounded.

It is said that Ambareesh told his followers on Sunday that he would take an approach the issue by Monday. There are bits of gossip that Ambareesh hosts been requesting the party to hand more than five ‘B’ structures to him for five constituencies, excluding Malavalli and Nagamangala.

Rahul Gandhi’s Day In BengaluruSelfies : Selfies,Metro Ride, Book Shopping

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Congress leader also took public transport – at least between the seat of government, Vidhana Soudha, to the Mahatma Gandhi road. He travelled by the Metro, Bengaluru’s Namma Metro.
Bengaluru city has 28 assembly constituencies – a good number of seats in the total of 224 that will elect their MLAs in next month’s Karnataka Assembly. So little wonder that Congress president Rahul Gandhi not just decided to spend a day in the city but also pulled out all the stops to make his presence felt.

As he moved from one place to another, the Congress leader also took public transport – at least between the seat of government, Vidhana Soudha, to the Mahatma Gandhi road. He travelled by the Metro, Bengaluru’s Namma Metro, shared a joke with passengers and took selfies with them.

Rahul Gandhi is also set to address a rally at Palace Grounds later in the evening. Since it is a Sunday, the normally traffic-choked city was spared traffic snarls as a result of the visit for much of the day. But that changed later in the evening due to the large number of people who turned up at the rally.

His day began with an informal meet with journalists – where he talked of the battle of ideologies in the state and how Karnataka could teach the country because of its synthetic culture. He said it was a battle between Bengaluru and Nagpur – a reference to the location of the RSS headquarters, the ideological mentor of the BJP.

Rahul Gandhi interacted with Pourakarmikas at Jakkarayanakere in Central Bengaluru

From the five-star hotel where that meet was held, Mr Gandhi then went to a lower income group area – to meet corporation workers of the BBMP, or pourakarmikas, at a location near an open drain.

Optics are of course important in any campaign and he pulled his chair from the small stage that had been erected and dragged it down to the same level as the workers. The gesture earned him a loud round of cheers. The workers – who had clearly been specially chosen, largely spoke of support from the Congress government. Some of them even spoke to Mr Gandhi in a language not their mother tongue – Hindi.

Jayamma took the microphone to say that she had been a contract worker for 25 years and wanted to be made a permanent employee. Her stand was echoed by Muthyalappa, who said, without a guaranteed salary, it was difficult to raise children.

Rahul Gandhi at a luncheon interaction with ‘women of Bengaluru’

The next event was for the well- heeled – as the Congress president met members of the business community at the Jnana Jyothi Auditorium. He also had a session described as a ‘Conversation with women of Bengaluru’ that was closed to the media.

COMMENTSIn between, Rahul Gandhi took a break from his schedule to visit the Bengaluru home of veteran Congresswoman Margaret Alva to pay his condolences. Ms Alva had lost her husband, Niranjan Thomas Alva, on Saturday morning.

And the Congress president also stopped off at a bookshop where he bought books including Karen Armstrong’s ‘A History of God’ two books by Thich Nhat Hanh’s, including ‘The Art of Living,’ and Perumal Murugan’s ‘The Goat Thief’.

The Congress chief made a stop at a bookstore in Bengaluru’s Church Street.

And the Congress president also stopped off at a bookshop where he bought books including Karen Armstrong’s ‘A History of God’ two books by Thich Nhat Hanh’s, including ‘The Art of Living,’ and Perumal Murugan’s ‘The Goat Thief’.

Rahul says Shah, Modi only 2 non-animals in country

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Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday slammed BJP chief Amit Shah’s remarks equating the Opposition parties with animals, saying that the “disrespectful statement” reflected his “mentality” that considered Dalits, tribals, minorities and even his own party leaders “worthless”.

Mysuru : AICC President Rahul Gandhi speaks during his Janashirvada Yatra in Srirangapatna town on Sundday. PTI Photo by Shailendra Bhojak(PTI3_25_2018_000158B)


“Calling the entire Opposition animals…see according to Amit Shah and the basic vision of the BJP, RSS – there are only two non-animals in this country. There is Mr Narendra Modi and there is Mr Amit Shah,” Rahul told reporters here.

“Everybody else as far as they are concerned are animals. That’s fine, that is the way they look at the world. It is a disrespectful statement, but we don’t take what Mr Amit Shah says with too much seriousness,” he said.

Taking a swipe at Shah, the Congress chief said it was the mentality that there were only two or three people in this country “who are worth anything, who understand everything and everybody else is a worthless person”.

“It’s not only Dalits, it’s tribals, it’s minorities. It doesn’t stop there. It’s Mr Advani, Mr Manohar Joshi, even Mr Gadkari, it’s everybody. The thing is that the BJP people internally don’t have guts to say it to you. They say it to us,” he said.

At a rally in Mumbai to mark the BJP’s foundation day on Friday, Shah had equated Opposition parties to ‘snakes’ and mongoose’ and ‘dogs’ and ‘cats’, who are seeking to unite despite their inherent differences to take on the BJP in next year’s Lok Sabha polls.

Later, Shah said his intention was not to equate Opposition parties with animals.

Record-breaking Jitu Rai wins gold : CWG 2018

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Jitu Rai won gold and Om bronze in 10m Air Pistol final.

Indian shooting ace Jitu Rai claimed the gold medal in men’s 10m air pistol event by creating a new games record while compatriot Om Prakash Mitharval bagged a bronze at the 21st Commonwealth Games here today. World Championship silver medallist Rai shot 235.1 to comfortably finish top of the podium.

Mitharval, who had established a new qualification record with 584, eventually finished with the bronze medal after aggregating 214.3 in the eight-man finals at the Belmont Shooting Centre. Australia’s Kerry Bell managed to secure the silver medal with 233.5.

In the finals, Jitu led with 100.4 at the end of stage 1, while Mitharval was third with 98.1. In stage 2 elimination, Rai started with 10.3 and 10.3 to lead the pecking order, even as his compatriot moved up and displaced Bell at second place with two 10.1s. Championship

SC asks Centre to file draft scheme by May 3: Cauvery Issue

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The apex court also directed the authorities in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to maintain peace in the states.

The Central government was reprimanded by the Supreme Court today for ignoring its orders on the Cauvery River, which ask for more water to be given to Karnataka and has upset Tamil Nadu.

Judges of the apex court on Monday suggested that the Centre is acting in guile; “the Centre knows what the scheme means”, the judges said, as they ordered the governments of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to ensure peace in their states till the court finalises the scheme for implementation of its judgment.

The Centre was asked to file its draft scheme by May 3 in pursuance of its judgment in the Cauvery water dispute case.

The distribution of water between neighbouring southern states has been a contentious issue for decades and has turned politically volatile ahead of the assembly elections in Karnataka which will vote on May 12.

The Centre had argued for more time to work out the modalities of water-sharing, citing the Karnataka election.

The apex court said it considered the CWDT (Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal) award and decided the water share for states, which has to be complied with.

Upset Tamil Nadu leaders including actors-turned-politicians Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan have expressed their disappointment over the delay in the setting up of the Cauvery Management Board by the government, as directed by the Supreme Court.

Based on the information gathered from District Election Officers and Superintendent of Police, The following information on Model Code of Conduct violation and Law & Order enforcement is provided:

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Model Code of Conduct:
As on date there are 1156 Flying Squads and 1255 Static Surveillance Teams have been activated. Flying Squads and other Model Code of Conduct Teams constituted for the purpose of enforcement on Model Code of Conduct have cumulatively removed 12537 number of Wall Writing, 17693 numbers of posters and 7711 number of banners from public property and have lodged 06 Cases under Karnataka Open Places (Provisions of disfigurement) act 1981. From Private Property cumulatively 6866 number of Wall Writing, 7949 number of posters and 2543 number of banners were removed.
Further, Static Surveillance Teams have seized Cash worth
Rs.60,18,000/- and 01 vehicle in last 24 hours. Cumulatively, the Static Surveillance Teams have seized
Rs. 3,93,68,880/- cash, 4.5 litres of Liquor and vehicles & other items worth Rs. 1,18,66,272/-.
Further, Flying Squads Teams have seized Rs. 7,48,000/- Cash, dustbin, buckets , lunchbox about 300 types in godown in 1000 carton box valued Rs.8,00,00,000/-, 58.46 litres of Liquor worth Rs. 2396/-, house old articles worth 11 lakhs,24 mixer/grinder worth Rs.36,000/-, 03 vehicles worth Rs.6,05,850/- in last 24 hours. Cumulatively, the Flying Squads Teams have seized Rs.54 ,52,100/- cash, 328.925 litres of liquor, other items worth Rs.9,96,52,100/-, 22 vehicles worth
Rs. 82,96,560/-. Other Police authorities they have seized cash worth Rs. 7,00,000/- & 10 Sarees, 160 Laptops and 485 Litres of Liquor.

Cumulatively, Flying Squads, SSTs and other police authorities have seized Cash worth Rs. 4,55,20,980/-.

Flying Squad Teams & other Police authorities have booked FIRs in 32 Cases of Cash/other items related to seizure and other MCC related violations in the last 24 hours. Cumulatively, Flying Squads they have registered FIRs in 175 Cases. SSTs they have registered FIRs in 10 cases of Cash/other items related to seizure in last 24 hours. Cumulatively, Static Surveillance Teams have registered FIRs in 43 Cases.
While Excise department have seized 1,080.53 litres of IML & other liquor worth Rs. 4,62,835/- and booked 44 Heinous cases,
95 cases for Breach of Licence conditions and 116 cases under Section 15 (a) of Karnataka Excise act 1965 in last 24 hours. Cumulatively, 9257.642 litres of IML & other liquor worth
Rs. 40,96,908.20/- and booked 357 Heinous cases, 559 cases for Breach of Licence Conditions, 02 NDPS case and 944 cases under Section 15 (a) of Karnataka Excise act 1965. And also 137 different types of Vehicles have been seized.
LAW & ORDER:
1721 arms have been got deposited, licenses of 2 arms were cancelled, 994 persons were bounded over under preventive sections of CRPC, and 1851 Non-bailable warrants were executed, preventive sections of CRPC booked in 627 cases, 795 Nakas made operational in the last 24 hours. Cumulatively, 60648 arms have been got deposited since the date of enforcement of Model Code of Conduct and out of total 95,329 arms 91,925 arms have been deposited till date, 50 arms were impounded, 4 armed license have been cancelled, preventive sections of CRPC are booked in 9471 cases, 7576 persons were bounded over under preventive sections of CRPC and 15879 Non-bailable warrants were executed from the date of enforcement of elections.

Rohingya crisis: Supreme Court to hold final hearing on deportation of refugees today

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“As India has ratified the Convention, it will be the violation of Articles 2, 6, 7, 19, 20, 22, 31 and 37 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,” the lawyer said.

FILE – In this June 24 2014, file photo, Rohingya children gather at the Dar Paing camp for Muslim refugees, north of Sittwe, western Rakhine state, Myanmar. Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the Somali-born student who carried out a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University on Monday, reported railed on his Facebook account against U.S. interference in countries with Muslim communities. But he specifically protested the killing of Muslims in Myanmar _ also known as Burma _ where the Rohingya ethnic minority faces discrimination and occasional violence from the Buddhist majority and the army and bureaucracy. The Rohingya draw occasional international attention when the violence against them becomes too large to ignore, or when they seek foreign shores as boatpeople in great numbers, but their plight is generally ignored. (AP Photo/ Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)


The Supreme Court on Monday is likely to hear a petition related to deportation of Rohingya refugees who had fled the persecution in Myanmar last year. A top court bench, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra, will hear the matter wherein the Centre has questioned the credentials of the petitioners seeking to block the deportation of Rohingya refugees, saying the genesis of the PILs threaten to change the country’s demography and destabilise it.

Last month, a bench comprising Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud had directed the Centre to file a comprehensive report on the conditions in Rohingya refugee camps across various states, particularly Haryana, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir. The order came after senior advocate Colin Gonsalves claimed that the conditions at the camp are unhygienic and “filthiest to say the least”.

Appearing for petitioner Zaffar Ullah, Gonsalves said the poor and unhygienic conditions had led to several deaths of refugees living in these camps. The senior lawyer urged the apex court to direct the Centre and states to provide better hygienic facilities in these camps.

Earlier this year, the Centre had urged the top court to leave the issue of securing the country’s border to the executive. It also rejected charges that Border Security Force personnel are using “chilli and stun grenades” to turn away Rohingya refugees.

Responding to a petition filed by two Rohingya refugees who accused the BSF of using chilli and stun grenades to push back refugees at the border, the affidavit said the MHA had sought a report from the BSF following this and found that the charges were “false, incorrect and far from truth.” The MHA stated, “it is submitted that no such devices are used either as alleged or otherwise.”

In October last year, SC said the Rohingya refugee problem was of a “great magnitude” and the state would have to play a “big role” while dealing with the contentious issue.

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