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Special court orders judicial custody of Journalist arrested in a fake-letter post case.

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Bengaluru, Apr 30 : The Special court for cases relating to elected representatives had ordered a 10-day judicial custody to a journalist working for a Delhi based Magazine, on the alleged creation of fake-letter case, here on Tuesday.
The CID police, had presented the Journalist, Hemanth Kumar, after a three-day police custody, which ended here today, and the Magistrate Ramachandra D Huddar had remanded the accused for the Judicial custody till May 9.
A bail application submitted by the accused, would come before the court on May 2.
The city police had arrested Hemanth Kumar, during the investigation into the complaint of the creation of the fake-letter registered by the Home minister, M B Patil.
The alleged fake-letter which was purportedly addressed to the Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, had been posted to the social media and also in a section of print media, with regard to the demand for a separate religion status to Lingayaths in Karnataka.
BJP had raised a major protest in the state against the arrest of Hemant saying that it was instigated by Home Minister M B Patil

Befitting reply to be given on charges of Rahul having citizenship of UK: Cong

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New Delhi, Apr 30 : Reacting to the Home Ministry notice to Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his citizenship issue following a complaint by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy, Congress on Tuesday asserted that Rahul is an Indian by birth and said it will give befitting reply on the allegations over his citizenship issue.
Addressing a press conference here , Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said that in 2015 also the same allegations were levelled by the same people over the issue of alleged citizenship.
He said the issue had reached the Supreme Court in the same year, and the apex court had
rejected the allegations.
” Rahul Gandhi is Indian by birth,” he said and termed the allegations as intended to divert from real issues.
” Such malicious allegations will not divert the agenda,” he said.
The party furnished in support of their claim a certificate of incorporation of the UK firm BackOps, in which the Congress president worked as a director.
The Congress spokesperson termed the row over Mr Gandhi’s citizenship as a “baseless charge”
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had sent a notice to Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his citizenship issue following a complaint by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy.
The MHA’s notice, sent by Foreigners Division of Home Ministry on Monday, has requested Mr Gandhi to “intimate factual position on the matter” within 15 days.
A 14-page notice has been served to the Gandhi scion on a complaint by Dr Swamy claiming that Mr Gandhi had, in a British Company’s Annual Returns filed on October 10,2005 and October 31,2006, declared his nationality as British.

High alert in Kodagu district over Sri Lanka serial blasts

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Madikeri, Karnataka, Apr 30 (UNI) The Kodagu district authorities have sounded high alert following the Sri Lanka serial blasts and NIA raiding several parts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
The alert was necessary since, the Kodagu district falls on the Kerala-Karnataka border.
The security personnel have been deployed in the tourist spots and public and religious places across the district. Bomb disposal and dog squads have been pressed into the service.
Similarly high alert has been sounded in Harangi reservoir in neighbouring Hassan district.
All vehicles entering the district are being checked, police added.

After facing a fierce battle Congress in LS polls, Congress leader Kharge focusing on Chincholi by-election

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Kalaburagi, Apr 30 : After facing one of his toughest challenge in his long political career in the just ended Lok Sabha polls in Kalaburgi, Congress stalwart Mallikarjuna Kharge is focusing now on Assembly by-election being held for the Chincholi Assembly seat to be held on May 19.
The by-election to Chincholi was necessitated following the resignation of the incumbent Congress MLA, Umesh Jadhav, who quit the seat and crossed over to candidate to fight Kharge.
With the BJP has fielded Jadhav’s son Avinash Jadhav as its candidate for the Chincholi, the Congress stalwart have got an opportunity to turn the table on Jadhav and settle the political score. Congress has fielded Subhash Rathod, who was till recently with the BJP.
With the Lambani community, forms majority among the SCs in Chincholi reserved constituency, both the parties have chosen their candidates belonging to the Lambani sect.
The voters belonging to the upper caste like Lingayaths, the Muslim Minority, Left and Right communities among the SC community, Kuruba and Koli community plays a key role in ensuring the victory of either of the candidates in Chincholi Taluk, which was once represented in the Assembly, by former Chief minister Virendra Patil and Vyjanath Patil, a leader, who had fought for the cause of conferring special status to the Hyderabad-Karnataka region.
“There would be no better opportunity than now to teach a lesson or two to his BJP opponent in the Lok Sabha elections, to defeat Dr Jadhav both in Chincholi as well as in
Kalaburagi Lok Sabha seat” Shankar Rathod one of the Congress worker in Chincholi taluk, told media.
Dr Sharanaprakash Patil, one of the senior leaders from the district, said that it was also an opportunity to the voters of the Chincholi Assembly, seat to express their resentment against Umesh Jadhav for having ditched the Congress as well as the people by joining the BJP.
In the high pitch Lok Sabha campaign, the BJP candidate, had targeted Kharge and questioned his contribution to the overall development of the district.
To avenge BJP candidate’s tirade made during the Lok Sabha elections, Kharge’s son and Karnataka minister Priyanka Kharge, has taken the lead in ensuring the victory of the party candidate Rathod and was preset when the latter had filed his nomination papers.
The Congress leaders, had organised a huge party workers, rally on the occasion, and almost all the senior Congress leaders were present and pledged their support to the Congress candidate.

Centre’s Notice To Rahul Gandhi Over Complaint About Foreign Citizenship

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The complaint is from BJP parliamentarian Subramanian Swamy, who has for years been alleging that Rahul Gandhi is a British citizen.

[Nasheman news] NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi asked to explain “factual position” after a complaint on his citizenship.

Rahul Gandhi has been asked by the Home Ministry to explain within 15 days his “factual position” over a complaint that he has foreign citizenship. The complaint is from BJP parliamentarian Subramanian Swamy, who has for years been alleging that the Congress president declared himself a British citizen in documents.

The home ministry notice comes bang in the middle of the seven-phase national election in which Rahul Gandhi is contesting from the constituencies of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh and Wayanad in Kerala.

“I am directed to say that this ministry has received a representation from Dr Subramanian Swamy, in which it has been brought out that a company named Backops Limited was registered in the United Kingdom in the year 2003, with address 51 Southgate Street, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 9EH and that you were one of the directors and secretary of the said company,” says the letter from BC Joshi, Director, Citizenship, in the Home Ministry.

The ministry refers to the complaint as saying that in the company’s annual returns filed on October 10, 2005 and October 31, 2006, Rahul Gandhi’s date of birth is June 19, 1970 and “you had declared your nationality as British.”

The dissolution application of the company dated February 17, 2009 also refers to Rahul Gandhi’s nationality as British, the letter says.

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The Home Ministry, in its letter to Rahul Gandhi, asked him explain his “factual position” over complaints about his citizenship.

“You are requested to intimate the factual position in the matter to this ministry within a fortnight of the receipt of the communication,” the Home Ministry writes.

Subramanian Swamy, a fierce critic of the Gandhis, raised the allegation first in 2015, in a complaint to the ethics committee of parliament, and has repeated it several times since.

Rahul Gandhi, in his reply to the ethics committee, had accused the BJP leader of misleading the nation and had challenged him to substantiate his claims with documentary proof. Denying ever seeking British citizenship, he also called it an “endeavor to malign my name”.

Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala, “This is BJP in panic mode. For BJP, Rahul Gandhi is the only agenda. They can do whatever they want but they will decisively lose the election.”

The BJP’s Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said it was a “very serious question” for the president of a party. “You should be a citizen of India if you want to vote or fight the election,” said the Union Minister.8

The election will end on May 19 and the results will be declared on May 23.

PewDiePie Ends ‘Subscribe’ Meme After Christchurch Shooter’s Shout-Out

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PewDiePie released a video on Sunday calling for end to the movement.

By Meagan Flynn, The Washington Post | Updated: 30 April 2019 12:06 ISTShare on FacebookTweetShareEmailRedditComment

PewDiePie Ends 'Subscribe' Meme After Christchurch Shooter's Shout-Out

On the day a gunman killed 50 people at two mosques in the worst terrorist attack in New Zealand history, the shooter also ushered PewDiePie, one of YouTube’s biggest stars, onto an unwanted stage: The terrorist invoked his name.

“Remember lads, Subscribe to PewDiePie,” the shooter said during a live stream of the mass shooting last month.

The shooter was referring to a grass roots movement among PewDiePie’s fans to keep his YouTube channel in the No. 1 slot as an Indian channel threatened his top status. PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg and who has courted controversies involving racism in the past, immediately distanced himself from the terrorist, saying in a since-deleted tweet that he felt “absolutely sickened having my name uttered by this person.”

But until Sunday, he had otherwise remained silent about the entire episode, and about how the worldwide “Subscribe to PewDiePie” fan movement had in some cases been hijacked by those seeking to spread hate.

On Sunday, he released a YouTube video calling for an end to the “subscribe” movement and addressing the New Zealand shooting for the first time on his channel. His message comes just after the accused San Diego synagogue shooter, John Earnest, apparently published a manifesto online in which he also referenced PewDiePie.

“To have my name associated with something so unspeakably vile has affected me in more ways than I might have shown,” the 29-year-old Swedish YouTuber said of the New Zealand attacker. “I just didn’t want to address it right away, and I didn’t want to give the terrorist any more attention. I didn’t want to make it about me. Because I don’t think it has anything to do with me. To put it plainly, I didn’t want hate to win.

“It’s clear to me now,” he added, “the ‘Subscribe to PewDiePie’ movement should have ended then.”

With more than 95 million subscribers, Kjellberg long held claim to the title of YouTube’s most popular channel until recently. But as he promoted an anti-Semitic YouTube channel, produced videos that cracked dark jokes about anti-Semitism and Nazis and once yelled the n-word while playing a video game, critics raised alarms about his influence on the young and impressionable.

The “Subscribe to PewDiePie” movement evoked some of those same concerns – culminating, of course, with its invocation during the Christchurch massacre.

The grass roots effort started harmlessly enough last year, with viral videos and pranks all seeking to promote the channel as the Indian channel T-Series encroached on PewDiePie’s subscriber count. Before long it turned into a full-fledged, worldwide publicity battle for the title. A fellow YouTuber, Mr. Beast, bought billboard ads and radio and television spots to relentlessly promote PewDiePie. A cheerleader squad performed a routine carrying “Subscribe to PewDiePie” signs. People wore “Subscribe to PewDiePie” T-shirts and posted fliers advertising his channel on telephone poles.

But then it started to go awry.

“Something I learned – and hopefully it’s something you can understand – is when you have 90 million people riled up about something, you’re bound to get a few degenerates,” Kjellberg said Sunday.

First, there were the hackers. Some of them hacked printers, managing to spew “Subscribe to PewDiePie” messaging worldwide. Others hacked the Wall Street Journal, publishing a mock apology to PewDiePie, which the newspaper immediately deleted.

Then there were the vandals. In March, a week before the New Zealand shooting, “Subscribe to PewDiePie” appeared scrawled three times on a World War II memorial in Brooklyn.

“Just so disgusting, so disappointing to have my name and community dragged into that,” Kjellberg said Sunday. “I addressed it on Twitter. I disavowed it. We saw that it got removed and donated to the park. I hoped that was going to be it.”

But it wasn’t, of course.

Two weeks after the New Zealand terrorist invoked his name, Kjellberg uploaded a mock music video targeting T-Series that India’s high court found so offensive that it ordered it blocked within the country. The video was one of two “diss tracks” that Kjellberg created during the battle with T-Series over YouTube’s top slot. An Indian judge said a quick perusal of the videos revealed “repeated comments made which are abusive, vulgar and also racist in nature.”

On Sunday, Kjellberg said the videos were just “made in fun, ironic jest,” but also expressed regret, saying it’s “clearly not fun anymore” and has “clearly gone too far.” He said he would comply with the court order.

“This negative rhetoric is something I don’t agree with at all,” he said, “and I want that to stop, and to make it perfectly clear: No, I’m not racist. I don’t support any form of racist comments or hate towards anyone.”

Kjellberg came under fire in 2017 after the Wall Street Journal reported on nine inflammatory videos that, with a combined 23 million views, contained content seen as insensitive, racist and anti-Semitic. In one, two men laughed as they held a sign that said, “Death to all Jews.” In another, a man dressed as Jesus said, “Hitler did absolutely nothing wrong,” and in another Kjellberg threw out the “Sieg Heil” Nazi salute during a mock video. A neo-Nazi website, The Daily Stormer, endorsed his videos. Whether Kjellberg intended to be racist or was kidding, they wrote, “The effect is the same; it normalizes Nazism, and marginalizes our enemies,” as the New York Times reported.

Disney, which owned a firm that operated Kjellberg’s business, severed ties with Kjellberg over the videos the Journal unearthed. YouTube pulled a reality show series in which Kjellberg starred, TechCrunch reported.

At the time, Kjellberg disavowed hate groups in a statement as well.

“I think it’s important to say something and I want to make one thing clear: I am in no way supporting any kind of hateful attitudes,” he said in a statement posted to his Tumblr account in February 2017. “I make videos for my audience. I think of the content that I create as entertainment, and not a place for any serious political commentary. I know my audience understand that and that is why they come to my channel. Though this was not my intention, I understand that these jokes were ultimately offensive.”

On Sunday, Kjellberg rejected the idea that the “Subscribe to PewDiePie” movement had anything to do with politics, race or nationality, and said he hoped that gaining more followers will stop being simply about “beating another channel.”

73.7 Per Cent Students Pass Karnataka SSLC Exam

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Karnataka SSLC results 2019 have been published on the official website, karresults.nic.in.

73.7 Per Cent Students Pass Karnataka SSLC Exam

Karnataka SSLC result has been released on the official website, karresults.nic.in.
Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board or KSEEB has announced the SSLC results for the examinations held from March 21 to April 4. A total of 825468 students have cleared the exam this year. The overall pass percentage stands at 73.7%. TheKarnataka SSLC results have been announced for 8.41 lakh students who had appeared for the exams in last two months across the state. The Karnataka SSLC results have been published on the official website, karresults.nic.in. The evaluation of answer sheets started on April second week and more than 70 thousand officials participated in the process. The SSLC results 2019 can be accessed after entering the registration details of the candidates on the official website.

The PUC second year results (equivalent to Class 12) were announced recently.

Sri Lanka bans face veils after Easter bombings

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Sri Lanka bans face veils after Easter bombings

Muslim religious body welcomes short-term move amid fears a prolonged ban could fuel tensions in multi-faith nation.

Authorities in Sri Lanka on Monday announced a ban on face coverings under an emergency law passed in the wake of the deadly Easter Sunday attacks that killed over 250 people.

The measures would help security forces to identify people as a hunt for any remaining attackers and their support network continues across the Indian Ocean island, authorities said.

“The ban is to ensure national security… No one should obscure their faces to make identification difficult,” said a statement from President Maithripala Sirisena.

The law that takes effect from Monday did not specifically name veils worn by many Muslim women.

But there are concerns within the Muslim community that a prolonged ban could fuel tensions in the religiously-diverse nation that emerged from a civil war with ethnic minority Tamil separatists a decade ago.

Officials have warned that those behind the April 21 suicide bombings on hotels and churches were planning more attacks, using a van and bombers disguised in military uniforms.

“It is a presidential order to ban any dress covering faces with immediate effect,” Dharmasri Bandara Ekanayake, a spokesman for President Sirisena, told Reuters.

Separately, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is feuding with Sirisena, issued a statement saying he had asked the justice minister to draft regulations to ban face veils worn by many Muslim women.

Muslim body backs the ban

The All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU), the top body of Islamic scholars in Sri Lanka, said they supported a short-term ban on security grounds, but opposed any attempt to legislate against face veils.

“We have given guidance to the Muslim women to not to cover their faces in this emergency situation,” ACJU assistant manager Farhan Faris said, after the scholars asked the government to drop plans for a law against the veils.

“If you make it a law, people will become emotional and this will bring another bad impact … it is their religious right,” he told Reuters.

About 9.7 percent of Sri Lanka’s roughly 22 million people are Muslim. Only a small minority of women, usually in Muslim areas, fully hide their faces.

Human Rights Watch condemned the ban.

“That needless restriction means that Muslim women whose practice leads them to cover up now won’t be able to leave home,” the group’s executive director Kenneth Roth tweeted.

In Kattankudy, the Muslim-majority hometown of Hashim Zahran, the suspected leader of the Muslim group behind the attacks, there were few women in the streets and none had their faces covered.

Two women declined to be interviewed by Reuters. Residents said only a small percentage of women in the town wear face veils.

Owais Ibrahim, a Muslim shopkeeper, said he supported a ban on face coverings for security reasons.

“If it is not allowed it is not a problem,” he told Reuters. “If we are living in Sri Lanka, we must respect their rules.”

Agencies

Undeterred voters brave violence in West Bengal, blazing heat in Rajasthan; turnout at 51% till 5pm

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Mumbai: Actors Vivek Oberoi and Suresh Oberoi after casting their vote at a polling booth at Gandhigram school in Juhu.

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Total voter turnout till 5pm

Bihar – 45.18%
Jammu and Kashmir – 9.37%
Madhya Pradesh – 57.96%
Maharashtra – 43.19%
Odisha – 54.41%
Rajasthan – 54.75%
Uttar Pradesh – 46.19%
West Bengal – 66.46%
Jharkhand – 57.13%

West Bengal braves violent marred polls

A Union Minister was attacked, Central forces fired in the air after Trinamool Congress backed villagers vandalised a booth, while there were reports of clashes, intimidation and booth capturing as violence overshadowed all other developments in the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal on Monday.

Clashes erupted between Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers and security forces at polling booths in Asansol, West Bengal on Monday during the fourth phase of polling in the area.

BJP MP candidate from Asansol, Babul Supriyo’s car was also vandalised outside the polling station.

Voters at a polling booth in Asansol had refused to vote in the absence of security forces, media reports said.

During the second phase of polling, violence had occurred in Raiganj Parliamentary constituency with BJP candidate Debasree Chaudhuri alleging that TMC workers tried to capture a polling booth in the constituency. The third phase was also not devoid of unrest.  

Mumbai: Shah Rukh Khan and his wife Gauri Khan leave after casting their votes at a polling booth in Bandra. 

Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was spotted along with his family after he casted vote in Mumbai on Monday. 

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Polls in Mumbai, Maharashtra

Long queues were seen in some areas of Mumbai like Powai and Chanidwali as voting was being recorded slowly.

4th phase polls in Rajasthan

RajasthanRajasthan Monday recorded about 54 per cent voter turn out till 4 pm from among its 2.57 crore electorates in the ongoing polling for 13 Lok Sabha seats in the state, said officials.

Barmer, the state’s largest parliamentary constituency area-wise, witnessed the highest turnout at 60.36 per cent till 3 pm. 

The second highest voter turnout after Barmer was reported from tribal population-dominated seat Banswara, where 57.63 per cent electors cast their votes till 3 pm.

Agencies

Heena Sidhu, Ankur Mittal nominated for Rajeev Gandhi Khel Ratna

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The national shooting federation Monday recommended pistol ace Heena Sidhu and trap shooter Ankur Mittal for the Rajeev Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, the country’s highest sporting honour. 

Anjum Moudgil (rifle), Shahzar Rizvi (pistol) and Om Prakash Mitharwal (pistol) have been nominated for the Arjuna Awards.

The first Indian pistol shooter to reach number one in the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) world rankings, the 29-year-old Sidhu is a multiple gold medallist at the World Cup, Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth and Asian Championships.

She also held the world record in the 10 metre air pistol event with a final score of 203.8.

Mittal has been one of the most consistent Indian shooters in shotgun, having won silver and gold medals at the World Cups in 2017.

The double trap exponent continued his impressive showing the following year, bagging gold medals at the Asian Championships and Commonwealth Championships. He then claimed silver at the ISSF World Shotgun Championship and became the world No 1 in double trap.

Moudgil was the first Indian to secure a quota place in shooting for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics when she won the women’s air rifle silver in style in the World Championship last September.

The 23-year-old Mitharwal was a smashing success in the last World Championship, winning the men’s 50m gold medal in Changwon, Korea.

Having lost his place in the national squad despite winning World Cup gold and silver medals – with a world record to boot – in 2018, Rizvi fought his way back in for the World Cups in Beijing and Munich.

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