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Vivek Oberoi starrer ‘PM Narendra Modi’ got new release date

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‘PM Narendra Modi’ has now got a new release date. The Vivek Oberoi starrer will now be releasing on 24th May- a day after the results of Lok Sabha Polls 2019 are declared. 

The film has been courting controversy ever since the first trailer of the film came out. The makers had initially planned to release the film on 12th April- a day after the first phase of elections began. But certain members of the Congress Party raised an objection and filed petitions in Bombay and Delhi High Court to stall the release of the film. They even appealed to the Election Commission to intervene. 

While the courts gave the film a clean chit, EC stayed the release of the film stating that the contents film flouted the model code of conduct. A special committee was created to watch the film and submit a report to the Supreme Court. The committee too stated that the film could not be released during the election season and would be released only after the elections. 

The Election Commission said that any material which disturbs a level playing field should not be allowed.

Producer Sandip Ssingh said, “As a responsible citizen, we respect the law of the country. After a lot of discussions and given the curiosity and excitement about the film, we have decided to release the film immediately after the Lok Sabha Election results. We will now release our film on 24th May.”

Since the election end on 19th May, Ssingh said it will “only have 4 days promotions before its release”.

“I hope now nobody will have any problem with the film and we are hoping for a smooth release,” he added.

The film has actor Vivek Anand Oberoi playing Modi.

Other cast members include Boman Irani, Manoj Joshi, Prashant Narayanan, Zarina Wahab, Barkha Sengupta, Anjan Shrivastav, Yatin Karyekar, Ramakant Dayma, Akshat R Saluja, Jimesh Patel and Darshan Kumaar.

Directed by Omung Kumar B, and co-produced by Ssingh, Suresh Oberoi and Anand Pandit, the film will traverse the journey of Modi from his humble beginnings to becoming the Prime Minister of India. 

Agencies

Terrorists planning attacks on bridges in Colombo: Police

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Terrorists in Sri Lanka are believed to be planning attacks on bridges in Colombo, authorities said, as they warned several conspirators in the Easter Sunday bombings that killed over 250 people still at large.

Police confirmed they had instructed stations around Colombo to deploy additional officers and asked the navy to deploy more vessels on rivers, following leaks of police intelligence reports warning bridges into the capital were at risk of attack.

Sri Lanka’s military has also set up a special command centre to coordinate anti-jihadist operations, while the army said more troops have been deployed for search operations.

Additional troops conducted searches overnight and seized explosives and weapons from several locations, although these were from criminal groups and not jihadists, official sources said.

“Extensive cordon and search operations of the army and sister services across the country with assistance of the police are continuing in search of terrorists, hideouts, explosives, weapons and other warlike items… with the deployment of more and more troops as required,” the army said in a statement.

Authorities had information about a small group of radicals who may be trying to stage more strikes, said health minister and government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne, who added that the crackdown on extremists after the Easter bombings had been largely successful.

“You can’t say the threat is over, but the situation is well under control… better than what we expected.”

But the government was also still on the hunt for “four terrorists” involved in the Easter attacks who were still at large, Senaratne said.

The Catholic Church announced Thursday that they had called off the resumption of Sunday services following information of a “specific threat” against two of their locations just outside the capital.

Catholic schools which were due to reopen after an extended Easter holiday will now be put off indefinitely.

Public schools are due to reopen on Monday under tight security.

Sri Lankan authorities have admitted that there was a failure to act on advance intelligence warnings of the deadly Easter Sunday attacks against churches and luxury hotels.

Senaratne said the country’s minority Muslim community had helped authorities root out extremists in the weeks since.

“Everyone is giving information. They come forward to give a lot of information,” he said.

Sri Lanka was also receiving international help, with foreign intelligence services working alongside their local counterparts, Senaratne added.

“We have already received foreign assistance from the US, UK and from India. There are other countries also which have offered intelligence services,” he said.

Soon after the attacks, President Maithripala Sirisena said he believed there were 140 Islamic State-inspired jihadists in Sri Lanka and he had ordered security forces to track them down.

Since then, authorities have been carrying out nationwide cordon-and-search operations and have detained hundreds of people. Some have been released after questioning.

The Easter attacks were blamed on the local National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) whose leader was among the suicide bombers. The group had pledged an oath of allegiance to the Islamic State group.

Agencies

Cyclonic storm Fani wreaks havoc in coastal Odisha

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Bhubaneswar, May 3 : The extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani over Odisha coast, about 20 km to the north of Puri and 25 km to south of Bhubaneswar with wind speed over 170 kmph, caused extensive damages in the coastal Odisha after its landfall near Puri coast on Friday morning.

The pilgrim town of Puri sustained wind speed of 175 kms and the cyclone Fani wreaked havoc for hours uprooting trees and electric poles and damaging several houses as its impact continued for several hours.

The capital city of Bhubaneswar also experienced the severity of the cyclonic storm for hours.

The maximum effect of the cyclone was felt in the coastal Odisha more, particularly in Puri, Khordha and Jagatsinghpur districts, where heavy to extremely heavy rainfall with the gale wind speed exceeding 100 kmph continued for more than two hours.

Road communication was disrupted at many places and power connection snapped. Heavy rains still continued in many parts of coastal Odisha.

Details are awaited.

Eds pls pick up suitably from earlier series.

BSF seizes a large quantity of cannabis from Tripura border

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Agartala, May 3 : The BSF jawans have seized a large quantity of Cannabis in two different raids at bordering Kalsimura area under Sepahijala district of West Tripura yesterday.
According to report, based on specific information, a contingent of BSF deployed at Kalsimura Border Out Post (BOP) carried out special operation and recovered six packets of plastic bags containing 68 Kgs of Ganja worth Rs 3.4 lakh.
The packets were concealed under the bushes to be smuggled out to Bangladesh.
In another case of seizure, BSF troops deployed on Khan Border Out Post during their course of routine border patrolling observed some miscreants approaching international border. BSF party challenged them to stop but they continued with illegal activities of smuggling.
Troops on duty used non-lethal strategy to apprehend them but miscreants managed to escape from the spot taking advantage of darkness and thick forest. During search operation, BSF troops recovered and seized 9 Kgs of Ganja worth Rs. 45,000 and 6 bottles of liquor from the spot.

Congress leader Ramesh Jarakiholi predicts political change in Karnataka after LS polls

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Belagavi, May 02 : Former minister and dissident Congress MLA, Ramesh Jarakiholi, has predicted a change of government in Karnataka after the Lok Sabha elections results are out.
Speaking to newsmen in his hometown Gokak here on Thursday, the rebel Congress MLA, said that “There will be a polarisation of politics in Karnataka in the aftermath of the Lok Sabha elections, and ”those who are enjoying the privileges of a cabinet ministers, will lose their status”.
He was speaking at a felicitation programme organised by the supporters of his Amaranath, who was elected unanimously to the Board of the Karnataka Milk Federation from Belagavi district.
Stating that the Dairy activities in Belagavi district, was not as stubborn as it is in Kolar, Shivamogga and Dakshina Kannada district, and felt that there is a great potential to tap resources in the Animal Husbandry in the district.
Meanwhile, sources said Chikkodi Congress MLA, Mahesh Kamatalli met Ramesh and discussed political developments in the state.
Kamatalli, however said that he had met Ramesh Jarakiholi to discuss about drinking water shortage in his Assembly constituency and should not attach any political importance to their meeting.

Decide By Monday, Top Court Tells Election Body On Complaints Against PM

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All Congress complaints against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah will have to be resolved by Monday, the Supreme Court has told the Election Commission. The Congress had appealed to the top court last week, accusing the Commission of delaying its decision in cases involving the Prime Minister and the BJP chief, while handing out prompt penalties to opposition leaders.

Congress’s Abhishek Manu Singhvi argued that 11 complaints have been made against the Prime Minister and Amit Shah, but till today, the Commission has taken decision on only two.

In both cases, the Commission has given a clean chit to the Prime Minister. Mr Singhvi argued that even in these cases, the Congress did not get a reasoned order.

The Commission told the court that it hopes to take a decision on the rest of the cases by Wednesday. A report, it said, could be submitted to the court on Thursday.  But the bench, led by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, refused to give it extra time.  

The Commission contended that it needs more time as it has to get the entire transcript from the ground – and has to conduct the elections at the same time, but the court did not budge.

The top court has repeatedly prodded the Commission through this election to take action on the alleged Model Code violations.

At a hearing last month, upset by a series of violations of the Model Code of Conduct, the court had pulled up the Commission. When the Commission claimed it was “toothless” and “powerless” to act against hate speeches, the court had questioned whether it was even aware of its powers.

Since then, the Commission has handed temporary bans to a string of leaders and ministers caught violating the Model Code. It, however, gave a clean chit to PM Modi for two of his speeches, where the Congress alleged Model Code violation.5

In an appeal to the top court, Congress’s Sushmita Dev said PM Modi and Mr Shah used “hate speech” at rallies to polarise voters, and referred to the operations by the armed forces in their “political propaganda” despite the poll body’s ban.

Agencies

PM Modi holds high-level meeting to review preparedness for cyclone Fani

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a high-level meeting in the Capital to review preparedness for cyclone Fani. 

The meeting was attended by Cabinet Secretary PK Sinha, Principal Secretary to the PM Nripendra Mishra, Additional Principal Secretary to the PM Pramod Kumar Mishra, Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba, and other senior officials from the India Meteorological Department (IMD), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the Prime Minister`s Office.

Severe cyclonic storm “Fani” was centred in the west of the Bay of Bengal, the India Meteorological Office said. The south coast of Odisha was also expected to get heavy to very heavy rainfall on Thursday, it said in a bulletin.

The Prime Minister was briefed on the likely path of the cyclone, and the ongoing precautionary and preparatory measures being undertaken, said a statement. 

“These include provision of adequate resources; deployment of teams from NDRF and the Armed Forces; arrangements to provide drinking water; and standby systems to restore power and telecom services.”

After reviewing the emerging situation, PM instructed senior officials of the Union government to maintain close coordination with officers of the affected states, to ensure preventive measures, and also to take effective steps for relief and rescue operations, as required. 

Meanwhile, people at Puri beach were warned against venturing into the sea as cyclone Fani is expected to make landfall in Puri district on Friday.

Agencies

New Zealand Open:Manu, Sumeeth and Praneeth knocked out

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New Delhi, May 2 : India’s Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy in men’s doubles while B Sai Praneeth in men’s single lost their matches in second round of the New Zealand Open in Auckland on Thursday.
In men’s singles 12th world rank Lin Dan took 37 minutes to defeat Praneeth 21-12, 21-12. Dan has now 2-0 record against Praneeth. The duo last played in 2017.
While in the men’s doubles also it was heartbreak for Indian pair after being edged out by Malaysia’s 7th seed Goh V Shem and Tan Wee Kiong 21-17, 21-19 in 60 minutes. The Indian pair has 2-2 record against the Malaysian’s.
Earlier, on Wednesday Indian campaign ended in women’s single as Olympic medallist Saina Nehwal and Anura Prabhudesai both crashed out in the first round.

Hamas-Islamic Jihad delegation visits Egypt to discuss truce with Israel

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Gaza, May 2 : A delegation, including Islamic Hamas movement and Islamic Jihad movement, on Thursday left Gaza Strip through Rafah border to Egypt to discuss the understanding of the truce with Israel, according to officials of the two movements.
Khader Habib, the leader of Islamic Jihad, told Xinhua that the visit is upon to the call of Egypt to discuss the improvements of the Palestinian situations and the understandings of truce with Israel.
Habib accused Israel of trying to shirk its obligations on the understandings to break the blockade that has been imposed on Gaza Strip since 2007, adding “Israel is responsible for any escalation will be launched in the Strip.”
Egypt, the United Nations and Qatar have been in talks for several months between the Palestinian factions in Gaza and Israel to promote the truce following the protests of March 30, 2018 rallies demanding the lifting of the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip since mid-2007.
Meanwhile, Bassem Na’im, the leader of Islamic Hamas movement, said “Israel is looking for any justifications to shirk its obligations on the understanding to break its blockade, what was committed to the United Nations and Egyptian mediator.”
Na’im added “the Palestinian people will not allow Israel in any way to continue its blockade against them or keep its shirking from the understandings to install the truce, under pretexts of flimsy.”
The Hamas and Islamic Jihad delegation is going to Egypt following field tensions with Israel after weeks of relative calm.
The Israeli army announced on Thursday that two rockets were fired from Gaza Strip toward the Israeli cities, with no injuries or damages reported.
No Palestinian factions claimed the responsibility for the shells.
The rockets were fired from Gaza in response to the Israeli air strikes that targeted a Hamas post in northern Gaza strip.

Millions missing from electoral roll in India’s elections

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Activists say millions of people registered to vote in India’s elections find names removed from the list.

Watchdog organisations say around 120 million voters appear to be missing from the electoral roll as elections continue in India.

They accuse some politicians of deliberately leaving out their rival parties’ supporters

But a new app is making it easier for voters to get back on the list.

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