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16-yr-old girl killed for refusing to marry

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“Three to four years ago, Keerthana’s sister got married to Naveen’s brother. Ever since, Naveen has been pestering Keerthana’s family that once she turns 18, the family would have to get her married to him,” the Doddaballapura Town Police said.

However, Keetrhana staunchly opposed the match and had dreams of pursuing higher studies. “She had refused to marry him multiple times. Every time they would fight about it, Naveen would tell her parents and they would pacify him by saying that she is still a girl. They had planned to get her married to him after she turned 18 years,” the police added.

Keerthana stood her ground and told her parents that she would never marry Naveen. “He began stalking her a few months ago and would constantly harass her and force her to be in a relationship with him. Keerthana felt that he was too old for her and she did not like his behaviour. She had told him that she would never marry him,” the police added.

When the stalking persisted, Keerthana had allegedly approached the Doddaballapura Police three months ago in order to scare Naveen. “She wanted him to stop stalking her and leave her alone. She, however, did not want to file a complaint then. She had requested the police to warn Naveen,” the police said.

Soon after, Keerthana noticed that Naveen would not come by her school every day and the persistent harassment had stopped. “But Naveen had not stopped stalking her. He just did not go up to her and talk or harass her. But the stalking continued. Naveen began to suspect that Keerthana was in a relationship with another man,” the police said.

On Wednesday morning, Naveen followed Keerthana to school and a few meters away from the school gate, he allegedly confronted her and voiced his suspicion. Police say that a loud argument broke out between the two on the street. “According to a few witnesses, Keerthana allegedly told Naveen that she would rather die than get married to him. She also told him that she would never marry him or be in a relationship with him,” the Doddaballapura police said.

Naveen then took out a sickle, which he brought along with him and hacked Keerthana’s neck and ran away. Passers-by noticed the young girl lying face down on the street with blood all over her and immediately called an ambulance.

The police and ambulance arrived and rushed her to a nearby hospital. “Naveen, meanwhile, had gone back home and consumed poison. He was rushed to the hospital and is recovering now. Keerthana was declared brought dead,” the police said.

A case of stalking and murder has been registered at the Doddaballapura Town Police Station.

TNM

Parts of Bengaluru to face power cut problem over 5 days

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The Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (Bescom) has announced that power supply will be interrupted in phases for a maximum of seven hours for five days from November 29 to December 3 between 10am to 5pm in many localities of southeastern part of the city.  Bescom officials attribute this scheduled power cut for quarterly maintenance work to be carried in two sub-stations of Koramangala and Challaghatta Valley and Austin Town areas.
Areas that will be affected will include Ejipura, Nadughatta, Sundari Memorial School area, Vivek Nagar, Rama Temple Road area, Srinivagilu, ST Bed area, Austin Town, Neelasandra, Munegowda Garden, Anepalya and other surrounding locations.
A senior Bescom official said, “All the areas won’t have power cuts at the same time and all the days necessarily. Power outages will be at a transformer level.”
In addition to these seven-hour outages, there are recurrent power outage for 1-2 hours or more across the city for small-scale maintenance work or fixing faults, as announced by Bescom through its social media channels.
Since Wednesday morning, seven such incidents were acknowledged by Bescom affecting areas like HSR Layout 6th sector, AECS Layout, Singasandra, Ramamurthy nagar , Kalkere main road, Hoysala nagar,  Srinivaspur, Kogilu Village, Yelahanka Old Town, Bagalur road, Manjunath Layout, Munekolala among other areas.
Other than 1912 helpline, customers can call these helpline numbers based on their zones.
East – 9480816108, 9480816109, 9480816110
West- 9480816111, 9480816112, 9480816113
North-9480816114, 9480816115, 9480816116
South-9480816117, 9480816118, 9480816119

Former JD(S) MLA HS Prakash passes away

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Hassan Sanniah Prakash, former JD(S) MLA from Hassan died on Tuesday in Bengaluru at the age of 67. He had been admitted to a hospital in the city and was undergoing treatment for a chronic illness. According to reports, the four-time MLA died due to multiple-organ failure.

Prakash began his career in politics in 1980 as a member of the Hassan City Municipal Council (CMC) and was even the president of the same between 1985 and 1987. Later in 1994, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly, when he stood from Hassan. He lost the seat in 1999, but he contested again in 2004 and this time secured his position in the Assembly.

He went on to retain the seat in the 2008 and 2013 polls, but lost the Hassan seat in the May 2018 polls to BJP’s Preetham Gowda. His health problems first began peaking during his fourth term as an MLA, but he recovered soon after and was able to contest the elections earlier this year.

He had also been a chairman of the Sanjeevini Co-operative Hospital in Hassan’s KR Puram since 2001.

Having been a loyal JD(S) member throughout his political career, Prakash is known to be a close associate of JD(S) National President, HD Deve Gowda. Deve Gowda and his wife, Chennamma, paid their last respects to Prakash in Bengaluru on Tuesday following Prakash’s death. Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy is expected to visit Hassan on Wednesday to pay homage to the late, former MLA.

His mortal remains have been kept at the Deputy Commissioner’s office for those wanting to visit him and pay their respects. Prakash’s last rites will be conducted on Wednesday afternoon.

Prakash is survived by his wife, Lalithamani and their three children. His brother, HS Anil Kumar is the former president of the Hassan City Municipal Council (CMC).

TNM

India not to attend Saarc Summit in Pakistan

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India won’t attend the proposed Saarc Summit in Pakistan and there will be no dialogue with Islamabad until it stops sponsoring terrorism, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj announced on Wednesday.

Sushma Swaraj made it clear that New Delhi will not participate in the Saarc summit and it was not responding to an invite from Pakistan for Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the gathering of South Asian leaders.

“As I said, unless and until Pakistan stops terrorist activities in India, there will be no dialogue and we will not participate in Saarc,” she told the media here.

Modi will be invited to Pakistan for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) Summit, Foreign Office spokesman Mohammed Faisal said on Tuesday.

The Saarc Summit of 2016 which was to be held in Pakistan was cancelled after India boycotted the event, triggering a pullout by Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan.

Sushma Swaraj said on Wednesday that talks and terror cannot go together.

She said that although India welcomed the development of the Kartarpur corridor for Sikh pilgrims, it would not have any dialogue with Islamabad till it stopped sponsoring terrorism.

“Bilateral dialogues and Kartarpur corridor are two different things. I am very happy that for the last 20 years, rather many years, the government of India has been asking for this Kartarpur corridor and for the first time Pakistan responded positively,” she said.

“But that doesn’t mean that bilateral dialogue will start… We always say terror and talks can’t go together. The moment Pakistan stops terrorist activities in India, the dialogue can start. The dialogue is not connected with only Kartarpur corridor,” she added.

Sushma Swaraj said she could not attend Kartarpur ceremony because she was tied up with a visit to Telangana.

She refused to comment on Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu’s participation in the ceremony related to the corridor opening and referred to his statement that he was going there in his personal capacity.

The Minister said it was for the Punjab Chief Minister and Congress party to comment on Sidhu’s participation.

Union Ministers Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Hardeep Puri are in Pakistan to attend the ceremony. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will perform the ground breaking ceremony for the project near the Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara, where Sikhism’s founder, Guru Nanak Dev, spent the last 18 years of his life.

IANS

Jaswant’s son banks on father’s legacy to trump CM Raje in battle royale

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 Pitted against Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bastion of Jhalrapatan, former Union Minister Jaswant Singh’s son Manvendra Singh is banking on Rajput “anger” and his father’s legacy to win the toughest electoral battle of his life.

A former Lok Sabha member and now an MLA from Sheo constituency in Barmer, he was nominated within a month of joining the Congress to fight Raje, a decision that surprised many — including the candidate himself.

“I wanted to contest the (2019) Lok Sabha polls but have been fielded by the party to contest the assembly polls. It is indeed a tough battle for the fact that I am new to Jhalrapatan while Raje has been winning the seat since 2003,” Singh, a colonel in the Territorial Army who saw action during the 1999 Kargil war, told IANS in an interview.

A small town in Jhalawar district, Jhalrapatan is among the most keenly-watched seats where the contest is as much personal as political.

Besides Muslims and Dalits, who form the bulk of voters in Jhalrapatan, the Congress by fielding Singh, is eyeing the sizable Rajput electorate which has traditionally voted for the BJP but has been increasingly growing disenchanted with the ruling party.

The Rajput discontent against Raje stems from the denial in 2014 of a ticket to BJP stalwart Jaswant Singh — a former foreign, finance and defence minister, party vice president and a close confidante of late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee — to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Barmer, his home district. The BJP had then fielded Congress turncoat and Jat leader Sonaram Chaudhary, who won the seat.

Jaswant Singh, 80, who lost contesting as an independent in the 2014, has virtually faded into political oblivion after a stroke after a fall.

The Singh family holds Raje responsible for denying Jaswant Singh a ticket in 2014 and by defeating the Chief Minister, it is hoping to “avenge the insult and humiliation” of the Rajputs by the BJP.

Even though he insists the “battle of Jhalrapatan” is a political fight between the Congress and the BJP, Singh, he, nonetheless, says it is “Rajput pride” — which made him quit the BJP and embrace the Congress — that is at stake.

“We have been consistently targeted by Raje and the BJP. My joining the Congress was not a personal decision but of the people of not only of Jhalrapatan but entire Rajasthan who are angry over the nature and culture of governance, years of misrule and humiliation,” he said.

Singh had in September announced quitting the BJP during a “swabhiman” (self-respect) rally in Barmer, where he had said “Kamal Ka Phool, Hamaari Bhool” (choosing the BJP symbol lotus was our mistake).

While conceding it was an “unequal contest”, Singh said it was also a battle against “favouritism and vindictiveness” and his weapons were the people’s anger against BJP, and his father’s legacy.

“No doubt it is an unequal battle, but sentiments of the people are equally important. It is a battle against years of vindictiveness, of humiliation. It is the anger against years of neglect and corruption — also, my father’s legacy — which will bring Raje’s downfall,” said Singh, asserting that Congress coming to power in the state was a forgone conclusion.

Over 600 km from his family turf Barmer, Singh, accompanied by his wife Chitra, has been actively campaigning in his constituency against Raje’s “incompetent and corrupt” government. Going from door to door, he has been trying to convince the voters about his “honest politics” as against the all-pervasive corruption of the Raje government.

The Congress campaign also revolves around stoking the anger of Rajputs who are deeply anguished at the Raje government over the killing of gangster Anandpal Singh in a police gunfight in 2017.

Alleging it to be staged, Rajput bodies like the Rajput Karni Sena and Shri Rajput Sabha had staged multiple demonstrations demanding a CBI probe.

The Rajputs are also miffed over Raje preventing Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat from becoming the Rajasthan BJP chief. Currently, Rajya Sabha member and OBC leader Madanlal Saini is the state party chief.

Jhalrapatan, along with 199 other constituencies, goes to polls on December 7 to elect a new assembly.

The results of the Rajasthan Assembly, along with that of Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana, will be declared on December 11.

The current round of Assembly polls is being perceived a “semi-final” before the country plunges into the 2019 Lok Sabha battle.

IANS

Singapore returns 50 smuggled Indian tortoises to Karnataka

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 About 50 Indian star tortoises were flown to Bengaluru on Monday, two years after they were allegedly smuggled from India to Singapore, an animal welfare organisation said on Tuesday.

“The tortoises were smuggled two years ago into Singapore illegally where they were confiscated by the authorities. With the cooperation from Indian and Singapore governments, the tortoises have returned to Karnataka,” Delhi-based Wildlife SOS said in a statement here.

Even though the star tortoises, which are native to India and Sri Lanka, Awere allegedly smuggled two years ago, they have been kept under the protection of Singapore-based Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES), a non-governmental animal welfare body, till they could be returned to India.

“It took two years to get required permissions from the government authorities to fly these tortoises back to Karnataka, from where they were smuggled according to the investigation by authorities,” Wildlife SOS press officer Arinita Sandilya told IANS.

The animal welfare organisation worked with the Indian Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Karnataka’s Forest Department, Customs officials from Singapore and India and ACRES so as to bring these tortoises back.

The star tortoises have been kept in isolation (quarantined) at the Bannerghatta National Park in the city’s southern suburb and will remain there for three months before being released into the southern state’s forests.

Wildlife SOS, however, did not disclose the name of the forest the tortoises will be released to, so as to keep the poachers away.

Once the tortoises complete their three-month quarantine period, Wildlife SOS plans to radio tag (attaching radio transmitters to track location) and monitor the animals for their survival.

The Indian star tortoise, which is protected under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, is among one of the most trafficked tortoise species in the world owing to the unique star-like radiating pattern on their shell.

It is poached for its meat and use of body parts in traditional medicine and for exotic pet trade.

“We are relieved that the tortoises have returned to where they belong,” the co-founder of Wildlife SOS Kartick Satyanarayan said in a statement.

“This landmark project not only helps augment the endangered populations in India, but will also demonstrate the commitment from the governments of India and Singapore and their zero tolerance to illegal wildlife trade,” it added.

The tortoises were transported in specially designed boxes for the five-hour-long flight journey from Singapore to India.

Singapore Airlines had transported the tortoises for free, the statement said.

IANS

 

Shakhtar beat Hoffenheim 3-2 in UEFA Champions League

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 A last-gasp goal from Taison helped Shakhtar Donetsk defeat resilient 10-men Hoffenheim 3-2 in Champions League Group F, keeping alive the Ukrainian side’s hopes of reaching the tournament’s knockout stages.

Hosts Hoffenheim on Tuesday got off to the worst possible start as Ismaily broke the deadlock in the 14th minute following a one-two with Taison, reports Xinhua news agency.

Shakhtar then gained momentum and raced into a 2-0 lead moments later as Junior Moraes’ pass allowed Taison to beat onrushing Hoffenheim goalkeeper Oliver Baumann with a strike into the far corner.

However, Hoffenheim hit back almost immediately, as Andrej Kramaric capitalized on a through ball from Ishak Belfodil to chip Shakhtar keeper Andriy Pyatov in the 17th minute.

Buoyed by their goal, the German side equalized before the break as Shakhtar failed to clear the ball following a corner, allowing Steven Zuber to head home from inside the box.

Into the second half, and Hoffenheim suffered a setback as Adam Szalai received his marching orders after committing his second bookable offence in the 59th minute.

Even though the German side had a numerical disadvantage they still created chances, as Steven Zuber rattled the crossbar on 70 minutes before Nico Schulz missed an open goal from inside the box nine minutes later.

The visitors nevertheless remained dangerous and hit the woodwork in the 83rd minute when Taison unleashed an effort from 12 meters.

The Brazilian remained in the thick of things and scored the winner from close range following good build-up work from Ismaily in the dying seconds.

The result sees Hoffenheim crash out of the Champions League group stage after slumping to fourth place with three points from five games.

Shakhtar’s win sees them move up to third place with five points, meaning the Ukrainian side still has a chance to progress to the knockout stage if they can win their final group match at home to Lyon.

IANS

 

 

Petrol pumps bonanza: Dealers to move court

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 Barely 72 hours after the Centre announced a pre-election bonanza of distributing a staggering 55,649 new petrol pumps in the country, the apex body of their dealers plan to challenge the move in court, a top office-bearer said here on Wednesday.

The All India Petrol Dealers Association (AIPDA) President Ajay Bansal said that the government’s latest move (of November 25) appeared contrary to its own policy and the dealers would question its legal validity.

“On one hand, the Centre has announced the closure of petrol pumps in India replacing them with alternative fuels by 2025. But, now they are publishing advertisements for allotting the second string of new petrol pumps. So what exactly is this policy?” Bansal said.

Presently, India has 56,000 retail petrol bunks of the three government oil marketing companies — Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL), and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL), besides another 6,000 outlets owned by private companies.

From these fuel stations, the average monthly sales for the three Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) are between 120-130 lilolitre with an average increase in demand on petrol-diesel of around four per cent per annum.

SC entrusts all Bihar shelter home probes to CBI

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 The Supreme Court on Wednesday handed over the investigation into all the 17 cases of sexual abuse and exploitation of children at shelter homes in Bihar to the CBI.

Handing over the investigation, the court said: “If the state government had done its job properly, the cases may not have gone to the CBI.”

A bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur, Justice S. Abdul Nazeer and Justice Deepak Gupta directed the Bihar government to provide all the manpower, resources and logistical support to the Central Bureau of Investigation even as counsel for the state government made a last ditch bid to keep the investigation with the Bihar Police.

Permitting the CBI to expand its existing team of investigators that was already probed the Muzaffarpur horror, the court said that none of the member of the investigating team would be withdrawn without the permission of the court.

IANS

Sensex gains close to 300 points, Nifty at 10,752

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 The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex advanced close to 300 points during the afternoon trade session on Wednesday, extending its third straight session of gains led by strong gains in the IT stocks.

In addition, the markets also took cues from an appreciating rupee and retreating foreign fund inflow as India’s macro-economic conditions improved largely owing to declining crude oil prices.

However, the Brent Crude prices logged a slight increase which comes ahead of the OPEC meeting next week. The benchmark crude price traded at $61 a barrel.

The local currency strengthened to Rs 70.66 against a US dollar from its previous close of 70.76.

IT stocks led the gains on Sensex as it rose over 3 per cent, followed by Teck (technology, entertainment and media).

In contrast, healthcare, oil and gas stocks witnessed selling pressure.

At 12.53 p.m., the Sensex traded 290.40 points higher at 35,803.54 from its previous close of 35,513.14. The benchmark index touched a high of 35,822.16 and a low of 35,605.34 while the NSE’s Nifty50 traded 66.30 points higher at 10,751.90.

On Tuesday, provisional data with the exchanges showed that foreign institutional investors bought stocks worth Rs 811.52 crore.

IANS

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