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Modi terms minority reservation a betrayal of nation

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 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said attempts to provide reservation to minorities amounted to betrayal of the nation and were an insult to framers of the Indian Constitution.

Addressing an election rally of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he called for efforts to defeat any such move in order to protect the country’s unity.

Hitting out at the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government for its move to increase reservation for minorities to 12 per cent, Modi said he was surprised how the power-hungry were pushing for religion-based quota for the sake of remaining power.

Pointing out that the issue of religion-based reservation was discussed in the Constituent Assembly, the Prime Minister said the great personalities decided against it in the interest of the country’s unity.

Modi wondered from where the reservation for minorities would come when the Supreme Court had already fixed the upper limit of total reservation at 50 per cent.

“They will take away the rights of Dalits, STs and OBCs from backdoor. Will you allow this crime,” he asked the participants in the rally held at L.B. Stadium.

Telangana Assembly had last year passed a resolution to increase reservation for minorities in jobs and education from 4 per cent to 12 per cent and the same was sent to the Central government.

The TRS had blamed Modi for the delay in implementing its poll promise made in 2014.

Modi also came down heavily on TRS, saying it destroyed Telangana the way Congress destroyed the nation.

Countering Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s allegation that TRS was the ‘B’ team of BJP, Modi said TRS and Congress had common nature, character, thinking and policies, making them the natural allies.

The Prime Minister recalled that during the Karnataka Assembly elections, Rahul Gandhi used to the dub JD (S) as ‘B’ team of BJP but after the elections, his party formed the government with JD(S) to keep the BJP out of power.

Modi claimed that TRS and Congress had already started planning to prevent the BJP from coming to power in Telangana.

He described dynasty politics as a threat to the democracy.

He pointed out that barring BJP, all major parties in fray in Telangana elections were parties with dynasty politics and family rule. He said Congress, TRS, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) all were family-centric parties.

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Nepalese women train to join elite British Army Gurhka forces

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 Dozens of young Nepali women who hope to join the elite Gurkha regiment of the British Army took part in a rigorous training and exercise session in Kathmandu on Monday.

Until last summer, such a sight would have been impossible, due to a ban on women serving with elite Gurkha regiments.

But since British Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson announced in July 2017 that training centres would start welcoming female applicants, hundreds of young women had signed up in the hopes of serving in the elite Gurkha squads.

“Since then, we have been receiving a significant number of young women in our training centre,” Ramesh Pandey, manager of Salute Gorkha Training Centre, told Efe news.

“Currently, we are training around 30 women and the numbers are expected to rise,” he said.

The British Army has been recruiting 250 men every year, with hundreds of hopefuls competing to join the elite ranks.

The first women recruits will arrive in Britain for training in 2020. The decision to recruit female aspirants from Nepal for the Brigade of Gurkhas’ infantry regiment followed the British Army’s plans to expand the ranks of 3,000 troops by 800.

The rigorous recruitment process will begin in Pokhara in central Nepal next year and training programs will last up to eight months.

Each male hopeful must be able to perform 14 heaves to the high beam, 75 bench jumps in one minute and 70 sit-ups in two minutes.

The toughest task is “Doko”, in which candidates must run a three-mile race uphill carrying 25 kg of sand in a wicker basket (known as a “doko” in Nepali) strapped across their head in under 48 minutes.

Asked whether the British government will set the same criteria for the selection of female candidates, Pandey said that the centre had not yet been advised of any changes.

“It could be different, as there are two criteria for selecting men and women cadets all over the world,” he said.

“That’s why many women aspiring to join the elite army have started joining the training programmes two years prior to the selection”, he added. “They know it’s difficult and are preparing themselves to become stronger to compete with the men.”

Britain began recruiting Gurkhas in 1815 during the Anglo-Nepal War. Following the Partition of India in 1947, an agreement between Nepal, India and Britain meant four Gurkha regiments from the Indian Army were transferred to the British Army, eventually becoming the Brigade of Gurkhas.

At present, there are around 3,000 Gurkhas in the British Army, mostly in the infantry.

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Kannada Film Producer Murdered for asking rent in Bengaluru

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By : Pramesh S Jain
The Kengeri police on Friday arrested seven persons, including two women,for allegedly killing a businessman, who was also a Kannada film producer, over a property dispute.
A,62 year old Kannada movie producer who is even a business man and a close aide of BJP leader V.Somanna was brutally murdered by his tenant over a property dispute in Bengaluru.
The deceased has been identified as,R. Ramesh Kumar Jain resident of RPC layout and native of Rajasthan,was strangled to death on Wednesday, after which the assailants threw his body in an open drain near Kengeri.
The accused have been identified as Nazeer, his wife Shabeena Taj, daughter Heena,Islam Khan, Abdul Hashim, Syed Ahmed, and Mohammad Zuber.
According to investigation officer the autopsy, says Ramesh died of asphyxiation.He was strangled to death and his body was dumped in the storm water drain on November 27.We found the body two days later. It has came to light that Nazeer had rented the house in Deepanjali Nagar,which was owned by Ramesh.He has confessed to killing Ramesh with the help of the others he added.
Senior officer told media persons that, A missing persons complaint was filed by Ramesh’s son Rakesk on the night of November 27 at the Vijayanagar Police Station. In his complaint, Rakesh has alleged that his father left home on the morning of November 27 and had informed the family that he was heading towards Deepanjalinagar to collect the rent from his tenants, who had reportedly not paid it.My father did not return home and it was late into the night.We were worried as his phone was switched off.I called Nazeer to inquire about my father.Nazeer told me that my father had informed him that he was coming but did not turn up,Rakesh’s complaint states.Rakesh then approached the Vijayanagar Police and lodged a missing persons complaint.As soon as the complaint was registered in vijayanagar police Station a special team was formed by DCP west,
Ravi.D.Channanavar under the leadership of ACPs as,Manjuanth and Parameshwar Hegde,Inspectors as,Nagesh,Ramappa Gutter,Veerendra Prasad swung into action they visited the tenant house it was door locked and at around 8 pm on November 29, a passer by  saw the body was found in a storm drain at the Kengeri Railway Station.He immediately informed the Kengeri police Station inspector that someone body is floating near Kengeri Railway Station the cops immediately rushed to spot and during searching our team found driving licence in drain and based on it the station officials informed deceased son Rakesh and based on the driver’s licence found in the drain,
The police were able to identify him as Ramesh Kumar Jain.We had brought in Nazeer for questioning as Ramesh had told his family that he was going to collect rent.He confessed to his involvement in the murder and also named the other accused who has helped in this crime and based on his statement we have arrested all the seven persons and a detailed investigation by the team the accused spilled the beans They took Jain inside a room and smothered him on the bed. They later carried the body in Islam’s auto-rickshaw to Dubasipalya near Kengeri to throw it into Rajakaluve and it was came to light as Nazeer, who runs a furniture shop in Deepanjali Nagar, has been friend with Ramesh for 25 years. He had rented the house from Ramesh 10 years ago.Over the past few months, Ramesh and Nazeer had many fights as Nazeer would not pay rent on time.This time, Ramesh confronted him and warned him that he would have Nazeer evicted if he did not pay the rent on time.Nazeer claims that he felt betrayed by his friend and when the argument got heated, he and his family ended up strangling Ramesh. The other accused, who are his associates are believed to have helped him in dumping the body he added.All the seven accused has been arrested and we have produced them before the court and the court has remanded them to police custody to ascertain more details he added.

Father kills 6-month-old girl child over domestic fight

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A father in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district killed his 6-month-old girl child over a domestic fight, police said on Monday.

“Farha Sultana was the second girl child. Her mother lodged a complaint on Sunday against her husband for throwing their baby girl on the ground while fighting with her,” an official of Salar police station said.

The child was admitted in Burdwan Medical College and Hospital in a critical condition.

“The girl was injured on Thursday and was shifted to our hospital, but she succumbed on Saturday,” said Amitava Saha, deputy superintendent of the hospital.

The husband has been arrested, police said.

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SEBI releases cyber security framework for brokers, depositories

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 The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Monday came out with a cyber security framework for stock brokers and depositories.

The guidelines would come into force on April 1, 2019, SEBI said in a circular.

“As part of the operational risk management framework to manage risk to systems, networks and databases from cyber attacks and threats, stock brokers/depository participants should formulate a comprehensive cyber security and cyber resilience policy document encompassing the framework,” the circular said.

In case of deviations from the suggested framework, reasons for such deviations, technical or otherwise, should be provided in the policy document, it added.

As per the guidelines, stock brokers or depository participants should designate a senior official or management personnel whose function would be to assess and identify cyber security risks, respond to incidents, establish appropriate standards and controls.

The board or proprietors of the stock brokers or depository participants would have to constitute an internal “technology committee” comprising experts, which would, on a half-yearly basis review the implementation of the cyber security and cyber resilience policy of the organisation.

It also said: “No person by virtue of rank or position should have any intrinsic right to access confidential data, applications, system resources or facilities.”

Any access to systems, applications, networks, databases and so on, should be for a defined purpose and for a defined period, the regulator added.

“All critical systems of the stock broker/depository participant accessible over the Internet should have two-factor security (such as VPNs, Firewall controls etc).”

It mandated the brokers and depositories to ensure that records of user access to critical systems, wherever possible, are uniquely identified and logged for audit and review purposes and also ordered for storing logs in a secure location for at least two years.

The guidelines further said that physical access to the critical systems should be restricted only to authorised officials.

For algorithmic trading facilities, SEBI ordered that adequate measures should be taken to isolate and secure the perimeter and connectivity to the servers running algorithmic trading applications.

“Critical data must be identified and encrypted in motion and at rest by using strong encryption methods,” the circular said.

 

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Indian fleet draw appreciation on Navy Day

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New Delhi The Indian maritime forces on Tuesday was celebrated for their role in the 1971 India-Pakistan War as leaders from across party lines hailed its men and women on Indian Navy Day.

President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were among the firsts on Twitter to pay their tributes to the naval force.

“On Navy Day, my good wishes to all men and women of the Indian Navy. Nation is proud of your commitment to protecting our maritime frontiers, securing our trade routes, and providing assistance in times of humanitarian emergencies,” their Commander-in-Chief tweeted.

“Navy Day greetings to all valorous personnel of the Indian Navy and their families. India is grateful to our Navy for protecting the nation and the commendable role the Navy plays during disaster relief,” Modi said.

In the attack in 1971, the Indian Navy sank four Pakistani vessels and ravaged the Karachi harbour fuel fields killing over 500 Pakistani Navy personnel.

Three missile boats of the Indian Navy, INS Nipat, INS Nirghat, and INS Veer played a pivotal role in the attack. Navy Day is celebrated annually on December 4 every year to honour that maritime operation.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said Navy Day “serves as a reminder to our enemies, of our strength and valour when the hour beckons”.

“Navy Day is celebrated to honour the victorious, martyrs and veterans of the Indian Navy. This day also serves as a reminder to our enemies, of our strength and valour when the hour beckons. My best wishes to all ranks of the Indian Navy. Jai Hind,” he tweeted.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Minister of Railways and Coal Piyush Goyal and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad also paid their tributes to the Navy.

(IANS)

Chinese province Yunnan wooing Indian tourists By Aroonim Bhuyan

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Kunming (China) The southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan has got down to actively wooing Indian tourists, the inflow of whom has been limited till now, showcasing its scenic beauty, natural wonders and salubrious climate.

With Yunnan’s capital Kunming hosting the 65th convention of the Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) last week, Director General of Yunnan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism He Ligui said that his office is now focusing on Indian tourists.

“Yunnan is very close to India, particularly to northeastern India,” He said in an interaction with a group of visiting Indian journalists here.

“Indian tourist flow to Yunnan has been very limited but now we are focusing on this,” he added.

Kunming is just a four-hour flight away from Delhi and two-and-a-half-hour flight from Kolkata.

Stating that India and China are entering a “golden period” of tourism, He said: “India has become a very important source country for tourism in China and China too has become so for India — and Yunnan would like to play a leading role in this.”

Li Bijian, Minister in the Chinese Embassy in India, said that this is coming in the backdrop of the informal summit between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Wuhan in China in April this year during which the two leaders agreed to enhance people-to-people contacts between the two countries.

“We think that India and China are the largest neighbours, the largest developing countries and the largest emerging economies,” Li said.

“The decisions taken during the Wuhan summit are described as the Wuhan Spirit by your side while our side calls its Wuhan Consensus.”

Stating that two-way exchange of people stands around 1.08 million people annually, which is very low, Li said: “Educational, sports and cultural tourism are what we are looking.”

To increase the inflow of Chinese tourists to India, he said that there should be more Mandarin-fluent Indian guides holding official permits.

“Though there are many five-star and four-star hotels in India, there are very limited business hotels in India,” Li said.

“Also, there should be more Chinese restaurants in places like Kerala, Goa, Varanasi and Bodh Gaya.”

According to He, there are plans to launch more flights to Kolkata and other Indian cities to boost two-way flow of tourists.

Stating that Yunnan is expecting around 700 million tourists this year, he said: “In the first 10 months, the number has touched 601 million, out of which 595 million were domestic tourists and the rest seven million were from neighbouring countries like Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam and Singapore. Yunnan is earning around 700 billion yuan (over $100 billion) annually through tourism, making it a strategic pillar of the provincial economy.”

Extolling what Yunnan has to offer to tourists, He said that the province is a great variety of weather — “not too hot in summer and not too cold in winter” — due to its unique geographical location.

“Kunming enjoys spring-like weather throughout the year,” he said.

Yunnan is home to 26 ethnic Chinese groups with a population of over 47 million.

Stating that Yunnan has become a very important tourism destination in China, He said that the province now has 856 star-rated hotels, 958 travel agents and 65 tourist bus companies.

The Yunnan official also said that a mobile app has also been developed to help people travelling in Yunnan.

“The app was launched on October 1 and we are working to further develop it,” he said. “We will make better use of WeChat, Facebook and Google to boost tourism in Yunnan.”

He also stated that Yunnan is a very important region for Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as it is the only province that can link China with South Asia and Southeast Asia.

(IANS)

3 astronauts set to launch to space station on Monday

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Washington Three space travellers, including two astronauts on their first flight, are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday for a six-and-a-half month mission, NASA said.

The launch comes less than two months after a booster failure forced a Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague to make an emergency landing.

The incident became the first failure of a manned space launch in modern Russian history.

The three new space travellers — Anne McClain of NASA, David Saint-Jacquesof the Canadian Space Agency and Oleg Kononenko of Russian space agency Roscosmos – are preparing to launch aboard the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft at 5.31 p.m. from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan.

Following a six-hour journey making four orbits of Earth, the crew will dock the Soyuz to the station’s Poisk module to begin their mission on the orbital laboratory.

It will be the first flight for both McClain and Saint-Jacques and the fourth for Kononenko.

Less than two hours after docking, hatches between the Soyuz and the station will open, and the current crew, Expedition 57 Commander Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency), NASA Flight Engineer Serena Aunon-Chancellor and Roscosmos Flight Engineer Sergey Prokopyev, who have been in orbit since June, will greet them.

Kononenko, McClain and Saint-Jacques will officially become the Expedition 58 crew when Gerst, Aunon-Chancellor and Prokopyev depart the station for home on December 20.

(IANS)

Google brings eSIM to Pixel 3 in India with Jio, Airtel

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New Delhi Google on Tuesday announced eSIM wireless service on its Pixel 3 smartphone with Reliance Jio and Airtel telecom carriers in India.

Google was the first smartphone vendor to support built-in eSIMs with its Project Fi — now called Google Fi — network last year.

“Sprint in the US, EE in the UK, Airtel and Reliance Jio in India, and Truphone and Gigsky in various countries will also roll out eSIM support for Pixel 3 in the coming months,” Kerrie Lenhart Hogan, Director, Partnerships at Google, said in a statement.

“If you’re in Germany, look out for the ability to purchase Pixel 3 with eSIM functionality from Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone soon.”

Pixel 2 was the first major smartphone with eSIM — an embedded SIM that lets you instantly connect to a carrier network with the tap of a button.

With eSIM, users can connect across devices in the Google ecosystem — from Android smartphones to Chromebooks to Wear OS smartwatches.

“To enable a consistent and simple experience across the ecosystem, we’re also creating a programme that allows Android device makers to build eSIM-capable smartphones,” said Google.

Launched in October, “Pixel 3” costs Rs 71,000 for the 64GB variant in India and up to Rs 80,000 for the 128GB storage variant.

The “Pixel 3 XL” is available at Rs 83,000 for the 64GB variant and up to Rs 92,000 for the 128GB model.

(IANS)

Mercury dips to minus 3.2 in Srinagar

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Srinagar Minimum temperatures continued falling across Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday with Srinagar recording its coldest night of the season so far at minus 3.2 degrees Celsius, a weather office said.

The minimum temperatures were likely to drop further due to clear night sky as mainly dry weather was expected in the next seven days in the state, he said.

Pahalgam was at minus 5.5, Gulmarg minus 4.0, Leh minus 10.6, Kargil minus 9.7, Jammu city 8.9, Katra 8.6, Batote 3.4, Bannihil 2.5 and Bhaderwah 1.3 degrees Celsius.

“Drass town in Kargil district which is the second coldest inhabited place in the world had recorded minus 14 as the minimum temperature on Monday,” he added.

(IANS)

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