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suicide or murder ?

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Ten days after police in Karnataka started investigating the suspected suicide of 26-year-old IT firm executive Shravani TP and her two-year-old son Sai Manas, they have now concluded it to be a murder case. Police had initially thought that the 26-year-old had killed her son first and took her own life in their Vijayapura residence in Devanahalli (near Bengaluru airport). Even Shivani’s parents and husband did not suspect it to be a case of murder, police said as a bottle of poison was found beside the body.

On Thursday, police said they have arrested Hemanth Kumar M, who worked for an internet service provider, for allegedly strangling the mother and son. Hemanth who was in a relationship with Shivani allegedly committed the crime after she refused to leave her husband. Police have now found that on the day of murder, Shivani was on leave and her husband Rajesh S was working as usual in a school in Chikkaballapur.

The police began probing other angles as a towel was found beside the bodies. Traces of poison were also found in Shivani’s hands and face and there was no suicide note either. The suspicion of Doddaballapura Deputy Superintendent R Mohan Kumar and Vijayapura Circle Inspector DR Prakash who were leading the probe was confirmed by the autopsy report.

“But the crime scene suggested foul play, as there were strangulation marks on Shravani’s neck, and the towel used to strangle her was also found around her neck,” police officials told media.

Based on phone call records, police found Hemanth was in contact with Shivani regularly and he was called for questioning when he confessed to the crime. According to police, Hemanth went to Shivani’s residence with a bottle of poison and asked her to kill herself with him. He killed her when she refused to do so by strangling her with the towel. He killed Manas too, fearing he could be a witness to the crime.

 

Former cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin appointed Congress Working President

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The former cricketer was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2009 from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh but lost the 2014 polls
The former cricketer was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2009 from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh but lost the 2014 polls
The Congress today appointed former Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin as the working president of the party’s Telangana unit.

The move is being perceived at placating the former parliamentarian who is said to have been unhappy the way the party was treating him.

He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2009 from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh but lost the 2014 polls from Rajasthan’s Tonk-Sawai Madhopur constituency.

The Congress also announced BM Vinod Kumar and Jaffer Javed as the state unit’s Vice Presidents.

ANI

Hockey India invites Glenn Turner for women’s strikers camp

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 As part of their preparations for the Olympic Qualifiers, Hockey India has invited former Australian striker Glenn Turner to work with the womens hockey team strikers in a special camp starting December 1 at the Sports Authority of India (SAI), Bengaluru, it was announced on Friday.

The Canberra Hockey star who was part of the World Cup-winning Australian squad in 2010 and 2014, will arrive in Bengaluru on Friday night for the eight-day national camp.

Speaking about the camp, coach Sjoerd Marijne said: “It is good for our strikers to use the experience of Glenn Turner. As a striker, his positioning in the circle was critical for his team scoring goals and the positioning of strikers is one of the key areas we want to improve on.”

Marijne further emphasised that the camp will also help build leadership among the players.

“Glenn is someone who has experienced the pressure of performing top level hockey and he was part of the Australia’s leadership group and often worked with younger players in his team. We will ask him to share his experience as a leader too and I am sure our strikers can benefit immensely from this camp,” added Marijne.

The players named for the strikers camp include Skipper Rani, Youth Olympic Games silver medallist Lalremsiami, Navneet Kaur, Navjot Kaur, Rajwinder Kaur, Vandana Katariya, Anupa Barla, Priyanka Wankhede, Preeti Dubey, Mumtaz Khan, Jyoti, Poonam Rani and Leelavathy Mallamada.

IANS

Parrikar to meet BJP legislators amid resignation demands

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 Amid demands of his resignation, ailing Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is expected to meet the ruling BJP legislators at his private residence on Saturday, party sources said on Friday.

“The Chief Minister will be meeting our party MLAs at his residence. He is expected to review works related to MLAs in the presence of key officials of the state administration,” a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) source said.

The former Defence Minister is being treated at his residence for advanced pancreatic cancer.

Parrikar has been in and out of hospitals in Goa, Mumbai, New York and New Delhi for nearly nine months.

He returned from Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on October 14 and has not moved out of his private residence, for any official event since.

The Opposition, as well ruling coalition allies have been demanding the resignation of the Chief Minister, claiming that the administration has come to a standstill due to Parrikar’s absence.

On Thursday, Revenue Minister Rohan Khaunte said that he had stopped visiting his office at the state Secretariat, claiming files were not being cleared by officials in the Chief Minister’s absence.

In the first week of December, the Congress is scheduled to start a state-wide agitation demanding the replacement of Parrikar as Chief Minister, because of his inability to attend office due to his prolonged illness.

IANS

Warning gets louder of massive Himalayan temblor

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 Growing warnings by scientists of an impending high-magnitude earthquake in the Himalayas have got further credence from yet another study by Indian researchers.

The new study, led by seismologist C.P. Rajendran of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bengaluru, says the “enormous stacking up of strain in the region portends at least one earthquake of magnitude 8.5 or more in one of the overlapping segments of the central Himalayas anytime in the future”.

According to the study, published in “Geological Journal”, the researchers critically evaluated existing databases along with the data from two newly explored locales — Mohana Khola in far western Nepal and Chorgalia, which falls within the Indian border, to determine the timing of the last faulting event on the frontal thrust of the central Himalayas.

The researchers followed the local geology and structural map published by the Geological Survey of India, besides using Google Earth and imagery from Indian space agency ISRO’s Cartosat-1 satellite.

The analysis, the researchers say, “compels us to conclude that a great earthquake of magnitude 8.5 or more that occurred between 1315 and 1440 had unzipped a stretch of about 600 km (the length of central seismic gap from Bhatpur to beyond Mohana Khola) in the central Himalayas with an average slip (or displacement) of 15 metres”.

The present study underlines the fact after this massive earthquake, the frontal thrust in the central Himalayas (covering parts of India and eastern Nepal) has remained seismically quiet for 600 to 700 years, implying enormous build-up of strain in the region.

“An earthquake of magnitude 8.5 or more is overdue in this part of the Himalayas, given the long-elapsed time.

“Considering this potentially high seismic risk, this will be particularly catastrophic for a region marked by an ever-growing population and unhindered expansion of the built-up environment, to be contrasted with poor preparedness to meet this contingency,” Rajendran told this correspondent.

Roger Bilham, a US geophysicist at the University of Colorado whose years of work laid the basis for the current knowledge about earthquakes in the Himalayan region, fully supports the Indian researchers’ findings.

“They are undeniably correct in concluding that should an earthquake occur now, its magnitude could equal 8.5,” Bilham told this correspondent in an email.

“My own evaluation of the available evidence suggests their estimate is conservative, and should the rupture zone extend from east of Almora to west of Pockara (Nepal) the earthquake will exceed 8.7,” he added

The findings by Rajendran and his team confirm two other studies by Indian geophysicists — one led by K.M. Sreejith at the Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad, and another led by Vineet Gahalaut, director of the National Centre for Seismology in New Delhi.

Analysing data from a network of 36 Global positioning System (GPS) stations and using a geodetic method called InSAR (Interferometric synthetic aperture radar) Sreejit and his team reported (in the journal Scientific Reports) that an earthquake of a magnitude similar to or greater than that of 2015 Gorkha earthquake (7.8) is due in the central Himalayas.

Gahalaut and his team, who analysed the continuous GPS measurements of crustal deformation from 28 sites reported (in Earth & Planetary Science Letters) that the next major earthquake is likely to occur in the Garhwal-Kumaun segment of the northwest Himalayas.

Arun Bapat, a Pune-based research seismologist who correctly predicted the December 26, 2004, Indian Ocean tsunami, told this correspondent: “The predicted large magnitude earthquake in the Himalayas could occur most probably in 2018 or its proximity.”

IANS

Fish import ban causing huge losses to Karnataka: Kumaraswamy to Parrikar

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 Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy has requested his Goa counterpart Manohar Parrikar to lift the blanket ban on fish import, claiming that the crackdown has caused “huge losses” to the fishermen from the southern state.

In a letter, Kumaraswamy said: “I request you to kindly permit transportation and trading activities of fish between the two states and the ban order issued by the state of Goa may be kept on hold till we comply with FDA regulation.

“It is requested that this blanket ban may be withdrawn… Karnataka will ensure that the fish traders comply with the FDA regulations and obtain a certificate after meeting the required standards.”

The letter, which was received by Parrikar’s office on Thursday, also said fisherfolk from three coastal districts in Karnataka — Uttara Kannada, Dakshina Kannada, Udupi — who harvest a catch of nearly 4.10 lakh tonne every year, were now facing huge losses on account of the ban.

“The fishermen have been taken by surprise by the sudden ban on fish trade to the state of Goa. This has resulted in huge losses by the coastal fishermen and lot of unrest among the fishermen community.”

The controversy involving use of formalin in fish erupted in July after a Food and Drugs Administration team found traces of the carcinogenic cadaver preservative in fish sold in Goa.

The BJP-led coalition government has been on the back-foot ever since, after several of its ministers were accused of allegedly protecting fish traders who were reportedly importing formalin-laced fish consignments into Goa from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

Under public pressure to crackdown on the “fish mafia”, Goa on November 12 banned the import of fish from traders who were unregistered with the state’s FDA.

The ban has also hiked prices of fish in Goa.

IANS

Bollywood Actors & Director Get Candid At Iffi Goa 2018

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Actors Jim Sarbh & Chitrangada Singh & Director Rakyesh Omprekash Mehra Get Candid About Their Acting & Directing Process Respectively

After raking in accolades for his performance in films like Neerja, Padmaavat & Sanju, Jim Sarbh is finding himself in the news for all the right reasons. The actor was seen in an In-Conversation session with the gorgeous & talented actress Chitrangada Singh to talk about ‘Unmasking the character actors’.

When asked if it has been an overwhelming experience to have made a mark for himself in a relatively short span of time in mainstream cinema, Jim Sarbh said, “I have acted in the theatre in the States & Mumbai for 4 years before I was cast in Neerja. The journey of acting has been an ongoing process. Getting cast in movies was just a matter of time. When I got cast in Neerja & the role was enough to sink my teeth in, I was very grateful. Sometimes, it is overwhelming – not because of acting, but because of the people that I suddenly had to deal with. It’s about managing this whole new world of egos, hierarchy which is not prevalent in theatre. I enjoy the acting part, I would like to be cast in everything always.”

Recalling the incident when popular filmmaker Ketan Mehta showered praises on Chitrangada for her performance in her debut film, Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, by saying that she reminds him of the legendary actress Smita Patil, Chitrangada said, “Till date I remember exactly how he said it. He was very close to Smita ji and he was very moved after watching the film. I couldn’t say anything at that point. But it was very special. It was one of the best compliments I have ever received.”

When asked to talk about character actors, Jim said, “Aren’t we all character actors? I don’t understand any difference between character actors or any other actors. In general, we make this clear distinction between, hero, villain, damsel in distress, character actor – it makes no sense to me! Heroes can be women, villains can be women, damsel in distress could be men and usually all people all 3 of those things at different times in their lives. I don’t know why we make these clear archetypes & continue to force people into certain gender stereotypes that really do not exist in the world.”

When asked Chitrangada Singh about her process of understanding the character that she plays on screen, the model-turned-actress said, “I don’t know much about a process. I try & get the energy of the character that I’m going to play. In Bazaar, I play this very rich woman who doesn’t understand things like ambition, creed – she doesn’t understand these things because she was born in so much luxury. I start from trying to understand the energy of that person & the lines then just come, after which I get an idea of the mannerisms & the body language that the character will have.”

Filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra regales the IFFI audience with stories from his colourful journey

One of the most interesting sessions of the day had filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra talk to a hall full of interested participants & share nuggets of wisdom from his long filmmaking journey.

“You make films the same way you live your life. You can’t fake it.” Mehra started with how he’s drawn from his life for every film of his. His first film Aks spoke about how good & evil are 2 sides of the same coin. This he said was based on the teachings of his grandmom who would narrate mythological stories to him & his cousins and stress on the 2 faced nature of good & evil.

“I used to study in this school in Delhi where most of the students came from Air Force families. My teacher’s husband was a Commander in the Air Force. We would run around MiG’s while playing. And then I went to Delhi University. The main characters in the film Rang De Basanti are all based on my closest friends. I borrowed from each of them for my characters.”

Even for Delhi-6 he borrowed from his childhood. He spoke about how he’s spent many days in old Delhi where all the communities lived next to each other. “There was a temple next to a mosque & a gurudwara. We would attend the Ram Lila events 1 day & then sit for qawwali sessions the next day. I wanted to bring this alive on the big screen and that’s what I did with Delhi-6.”

The packed hall threw questions at the filmmaker who answered each of them with patience. He exhorted the young crowd of filmmakers to draw from their lives and not be afraid to be brave. He said, “Every time I start a film I think it’s going to be a big disaster. That somehow frees me up. I feel less fearful. I feel braver.”

Another Glance At IFFI GOA 2018

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Directors Of Rare Language Films In Indian Panorama Section Address The Media In IFFI Goa 2018.

Selected for the ICFT GANDHI UNESCO Medal competition, Walking With The Wind by Praveen Morchhale is also a national award winning film. “We did beautiful exploration of Ladakh for choosing the cast.  We chose non-actors for our script. Role of carpenters, poets & other professionals were performed by local people in the region who were involved in respective professions, he added. He also pointed out that no background music was used in this film. Surround sound along with other natural sounds of winds & water breeze alone were used. Even then, it won national award for “Best Sound Design” & “Best Sound Mixing”, shared Praveen.

Made in language Tulu, spoken by only 2 lakh people film Paddayi directed by Abhaya Simha focuses on the perishing community system in Goa. “People survive on community living for their livelihood. With the growing ambition & greed in every community, the cracking of community system is reflected in the film. They lose their livelihood in changing political & cultural scenario. Paddayi (meaning western direction) symbolises the westernisation of culture eating the local culture. Involving emotions of ambition & greed, the story is a modern-day adaption of Shakespeare’s classic Macbeth & is applied to Tulu culture of fishing communities in South India.”

Laura Delli Coli, VP, Rome film festival, Francesca Via, General Manager Rome Film Festival & Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, eminent Indian director also interacted with the Media.

Addressing the press conference in IFFI 18, Laura Delli Coli, Vice President, Fondazione Cinema per Roma Foundation expressed to media the desire to collaborate with the International Film Festival of India. “Indian movies have a very special place in world cinema and that the Indian film industry has much to discover in Italy” said Laura.

Ms. Francesca Via, General Manager, Fondazione Cinema per Roma Foundation said that it is really important for Italy to make an engagement with the Indian Film Festival. “Rome Film Festival is supported by public & private institutions. We have a special section for the youth & films for student community. The public participation is going up by 2% – 3 % every year. Asia & Asian films are really important for us,” she said.

“I didn’t attend any film school; neither did I assist any director at the sets. There was a point when I didn’t even know who the world directors were. I discovered them while I was doing some edits. Since then they have been my masters”, said Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, remembering the Italian film maker Bernardo Bertolucci, who passed away on 26thNovember 2018.

The cast of closing film ‘Sealed Lips’ addresses the media Bernd Bohlich director of the film Sealed lips along with the cinematographer Thomas Plenert  was present with the actress Barbara Schnitzlerother, “The inspiration of the film comes from the boundary that came into being after second world war. The partition of the country into 2 part East & West Germany changed life of people drastically. It talks about how the partition affected the lives of the people then. Those true incidents that took place in people’s lives inspired him to make the film sealed lips”, said the director Bernd Bohilch who has made the movie on his mother’s life.

“I was happy to shoot this movie because I am also from Germany and this is a story close to my heart. That time wasn’t easy & the story also talks about the emotions of people then. I am glad to work with him”, said Thomas Plenert, cinematographer of the film.

The Indian filmmakers from Non-feature film category of Indian Panorama then interacted with the media.

Directors of 3 non-feature films in Indian Panorama section of the International Film Festival of India addressed a press conference in Panaji, Goa. Jainendra Dost Director of Naach Bhikari Naach, Prasanna Ponde, Director of Silent Scream & Suhas Jahagirdar, Director of Yes I am Mauli attended the press conference.

Addressing the media, Jainendra Dost said that his film captures the lives of four Launda Naach performers, originally a part of Bhikhari Thakur’s legendary Naach troupe in Bihar. While researching for the film it was revealed that even dance forms in India have a class & caste divide. He also shared the difficulties faced while shooting for the film in village, “Though everywhere we met with problems, the attitude of the villagers was heart touching. They supported us with open mind”, he said.

Prasanna Ponde, Director of Silent Scream said that his film tries to portray the impact of divorce on children & the inner conflict it cause them. “After certain period of time & witnessing the emotional turmoil of their children, some parents even think that the divorce should have been avoided. The film is targeted at the parents but the theme presented may touch children too”, he said.

Narrating the experience of turning a personal experience on cell phone to a film, Suhas Jahagirdar said that he had no intention of making this documentary.  “When I proceeded on the spiritual journey from Alandi to Pandharpur, many exciting things come up in between & they are all recorded in mobile. After coming back, the videos are shown to some friends & get a good reception. It was upon their suggestion that those videos are edited together to make a film”, he said.

The directors from the World Panorama section of IFFI 2018 also addressed the media.

Directors of the 5 films in the International Cinema category of the 49th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2018 – Iro, The Manslayer/The Virgin/The Shadow, Rage, Los Silencious & The Load also addressed a press conference.

Beatriz Seigner recalled her Indian films connection.  She informed that she is one of the organisers of the Indian film festival in Brazil. Her 1st ever feature film   Bollywood Dream – O Sonho Bollywoodiano (2009) was the 1st ever Indian- Brazilian film co-production. She  had worked with Indian directors like Anurag Kashyap who  helped her in getting co-producers from France & Columbia during the Cannes film screening of his film Gangs of Wasseypur.

The Load which is basically a road movie has different flavours like mystery, war scenes, drama, informed Ognjen Glavonic, director of the film.  The story revolves around a man Vlada who works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by the war.

Directed by Sulev Keedus, The Manslayer/The Virgin/The Shadow is a bilingual film in Estonian & Spanish based on 3 novella’s having characterisation of young women.  The Director recalled that Estonian people used to watch Indian movies in Soviet times & continue to have connection to Indian films that are screened through film festivals.

Sérgio Tréfaut, Director of the Portuguese film Rage informed that his film is beautiful & intense visual story about people living under a dictatorship in southern Portugal’s countryside. It potrays hunger, misery & exploitation in 1950’s and the growing rage building up among the people against the exploitative regime.  He said he portrayed the country-side totally in black & white to pay the tribute to the cinema & love of the people who are fighting against tyranny of adverse laws. It is a film about injustice & abusiveness of power, he added.

Hadi Mohaghegh director of Persian film Iro (Here) also narrated his experience about the film shooting in Iran. He also praised Indian talent in the film-making industry.

Government can’t survive without farmers, says HDD

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No government can survive without the support of farmers, former prime minister H D Deve Gowda said Thursday, assuring the agitating peasants here that he stood by them in their struggle.

Thousands of farmers from across the country converged Thursday at the historic Ramlila Ground after journeys that took some as long as 36 hours to complete to press for their demands, including debt relief and remunerative prices for their produce.

Addressing the massive gathering of farmers, Gowda said, he understood their pain and problems as, “I, myself am a son of a farmer.”

“I have come to assure you (farmers) that we stand with you in this hour of struggle. I understand your pains and as a prime minister truer to do whatever I could for farmers,” he said.

Later, interacting with reporters at the Ramlila Maidan, he asked the Union government to listen to the demands of farmers.

“No government can survive without (the support of) farmers. The Union government must listen to their demands. The farmers of this country has awakened and they cannot be fooled,” Gowda said.

The historic ground, known for hosting big political events over the years, resonated with slogans like ‘Ayodhya nahi, karz maafi chahiye’ earlier in the day.

They are spending the night at the ground before marching to Parliament on Friday to put forward their demands.

PTI

 

KPCC chief said that Ministry expansion before legislature winter session

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The H D Kumaraswamy-led JDS-Congress ministry in Karnataka would be expanded before the winter session of the state legislature commencing on December 10, state Congress chief Dinesh Gundu Rao said Thursday.

Speaking to reporters here, he said the Congress and the JDS would decide on their respective nominees to the six-month-old cabinet, whose expansion was expected last month itself.

“I had said cabinet expansion will be done before the assembly session. Session begins on 10th (December), before that cabinet expansion will happen we will do it,” Rao said.

His statement came amid speculation that the expansion was likely to be delayed further.

Recent comments by Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara and former chief minister Siddaramaiah that they were waiting for appointment to meet Congress President Rahul Gandhi, who is busy with elections in five states, to discuss the expansion had triggered the speculation.

There is growing clamour from legislators, especially of Congress, for the expansion at the earliest.

According to the pact reached between the two partners at the time of formation of the coalition government in May, there are now six vacant ministerial positions left for the Congress and two for the JD(S).

This will be the second expansion of Kumaraswamy’s ministry, who currently heads the 26-member cabinet.

Meanwhile, several Congress leaders from Hassan district, reportedly upset over the style of functioning of Kumaraswamy’sbrother and District in-charge Minister H D Revanna, Thursday met senior leaders including KPCC chief Rao and Siddaramaiah here, requesting them to “save” the party in the district.

“We have been fighting against JD(S) and Revanna (Minister) over years, we remained silent (on joining hands) obeying high command’s orders… now we are being targeted.

Their intention is to suppress Congress for their survival in Hassan,” Congress leader Putte Gowda told reporters.

According to sources, the leaders have petitioned the Congress leadership against Revanna.

However, Rao said, they had come to explain about the party and political situation in the district and not to complain against anyone.

“They had come with issues relating to party workers and seeking more representation for them in any government-related nominations,” he added.

Revanna, on his part, said, “let Siddaramaiah or Parameshwara speak to me if there are such issues. I don’t do hate politics….there is no such thing.”

Hassan, the hometown of H D Deve Gowda and his sons Kumaraswamy and Revanna, is a JD(S) stronghold and Congress had been fighting the party bitterly over the years.

Both parties joined hands to form government in the state after the May 12 assembly polls threw up a hung verdict.

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