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T20 against South Africa: MS Dhoni unlikely as selectors ready to persist with Rishabh Pant

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T20 against South Africa: MS Dhoni unlikely as selectors ready to persist with Rishabh Pant

New Delhi, Aug 28: Mahendra Singh Dhoni may have put his international retirement on hold but he is unlikely to be selected for India’s three-match T20 home series against South Africa starting September 15 in Dharamsala.

The team for the series is expected to be picked on September 4. The remaining two games will be played at Mohali (September 18) and Bengaluru (September 22).

In all likelihood, the squad that blanked West Indies 3-0 is likely to be retained (subject to fitness) and the selection committee wants to continue building towards World T20 in Australia in October 2020.

“There are only 22 T20 Internationals before India play their first World T20 game and selectors are clear in their vision that it’s time to move forward,” a senior BCCI official privy to developments in selection committee told PTI on Wednesday.

“They are planning on getting a pool of three keepers ready for limited overs, especially T20s,” he added.

It is still not clear whether the BCCI brass or the selection committee will speak to Dhoni to enquire about his plans like they did before the West Indies tour when the former captain informed that he would be taking a break to serve his regiment in Territorial Army.

“Retirement is an individual decision and selectors or for that matter, no one has any right to decide on that front. But they have every right to decide the roadmap for the 2020 World T20 and that’s to give Rishabh Pant maximum chances,” the official explained.

It is learnt that the second and third option for the selection committee is Sanju Samson, whose batting is considered to be on par with Pant and India A regular Ishan Kishan. 

While Pant remains the first choice across formats, the selectors are also factoring in the fitness and workload management.

A few members of the selection committee will be in Thiruvananthapuram for the A series and Samson’s performance will be keenly watched as he has made the squad for the last two List A games.

As far as batting is concerned, the selection committee believes that Samson is ready for top level cricket but his wicket-keeping is still work in progress.

“Pant scored a fifty in the last T20 that he played. Ishan Kishan is in the A set-up. Do we even have an option of looking back when we need consistent big hitters on big Australian grounds?” the official questioned.

Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar also quoted besides Rahul Gandhi in Pak letter to UN

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Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar also quoted besides Rahul Gandhi in Pak letter to UN

NEW DELHI: Pakistan has not just used Congress’s Rahul Gandhi’s name in its letter to the United Nations, alleging massive human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir. It has also referred to the ruling BJP; the document also names Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and BJP MLA from Uttar Pradesh Vikram Saini, citing their remarks on Kashmiri women.

Under a section ‘Gender-based Violence as a weapon of war”, the letter from Pakistan mentions a video showing Mr Saini. “Muslim party workers should rejoice in the new provisions. They can now marry the white-skinned women of Kashmir,” the letter quoted him as saying.

Mr Khattar’s remarks, referring to similar comments, were also quoted. “Some people are now saying that as Kashmir is open, brides will be brought from there. But jokes apart, if (the gender) ratio is improved, then there will be right balance in society,” the letter quoted him as saying.

The BJP leaders’ remarks about Kashmiri women were severely criticised by the opposition and rights activists.

Mayawati had called Mr Khattar’s remarks an example of “mean mentality”. Rahul Gandhi had tweeted: “Haryana CM, Khattar’s comment on Kashmiri women is despicable and shows what years of RSS training does to the mind of a weak, insecure and pathetic man. Women are not assets to be owned by men.”

On Wednesday, the BJP shredded Rahul Gandhi, saying his comments on Kashmir shamed the nation and were “used” by Pakistan.

“The Pakistani application to the UN mentions remarks made by Rahul Gandhi. The application states that acts of violence have been acknowledged by mainstream party leaders such as Rahul Gandhi,” said union minister Prakash Javadekar.

Demanding an apology from Mr Gandhi and the Congress, Mr Javadekar added, “Rahul Gandhi said that things in Jammu and Kashmir were going wrong, there were reports of people dying in J&K. You were wrong, Rahul Gandhi. Things are fine in J&K, there is no violence as you imagined”.

The Congress has called Pakistan’s move a “mischievous” attempt to drag Mr Gandhi’s name into the matter. Mr Gandhi set the record straight in tweets, calling Pakistan a “prime supporter of terrorism”.

“I disagree with this Govt. on many issues. But, let me make this absolutely clear: Kashmir is India’s internal issue & there is no room for Pakistan or any other foreign country to interfere in it,” another tweet read.

courtesy: NDTV

Indrani dubs Chidambaram’s arrest as ‘good news’

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Indrani dubs Chidambaram's arrest as 'good news'

Mumbai: Jailed media baron Indrani Mukerjea, the prime accused in the killing of her daughter, on Thursday termed the arrest of former Union finance minister P Chidambaram in the INX media money laundering case as “good news”.

Chidambaram was arrested on August 21 by the CBI in the INX Media corruption and money laundering case. Indrani Mukerjea and her husband Peter Mukerjea are former promoters of the INX Media Group.

“His (Chidambaram) arrest is good news. He is now cornered from all sides,” Indrani Mukerjea told reporters in a sessions court where she was produced to attend trial in the case of killing of her daughter Sheena Bora.

She further said the bail granted to the former Union minister’s son Karti Chidambaram in the INX Media case should also be cancelled.

Indrani Mukerjea had earlier recorded her statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), claiming she and her husband met P Chidambaram at the latter’s office in Delhi’s North Block.

She also claimed in her statement that the former Union minister had asked her to help his son Karti Chidambaram in his business and make overseas remittances in lieu of granting Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval to INX Media.

Rupee falls 17 paise against US dollar in early trade

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Rupee falls 17 paise against US dollar in early trade

Mumbai: The rupee depreciated by 17 paise to 71.95 against the US dollar in early trade on Thursday, tracking weak domestic equity market and persistent foreign fund outflows.

Pessimism over US-China trade talks also put pressure on the domestic unit, forex dealers said. However, a weak dollar against other major currencies overseas and softening crude prices restricted the rupee’s fall, they added. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened weak at 71.96 and fell further to 72.05 against the US dollar. The domestic currency, however, pared some losses and was trading at 71.95.

The rupee fell 29 paise to close at 71.77 against the US dollar on Wednesday. The BSE Sensex was trading 215.51 points, or 0.58 per cent, lower at 37,236.33, while the broader Nifty fell 58.90 points, or 0.53 per cent, to 10,987.20 in early trade.

Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) remained net sellers in the capital markets, pulling out Rs 935.27 crore on Wednesday, as per provisional data.

Meanwhile, investors remained edgy over concerns about developments in the China-US trade talks. Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark, declined 0.63 per cent to USD 60.11 per barrel.

The dollar index, which gauges the greenback’s strength against a basket of six currencies, fell 0.02 per cent to 98.19. The 10-year government bond yield was up at 6.57 per cent in morning trade.

Mangaluru: MCC demolishes illegal building at Kankanady Junction

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Mangaluru: MCC demolishes illegal building at Kankanady Junction

credit: Varthabharati

Mangaluru: Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) officials on Thursday morning demolished an illegal building at Kankanady Junction after receiving Court orders for the same.

The demolition drive was done with the help police officials.

The building had vegetable and fruit shops. The building was in dispute with MCC from several years now and the officials had urged the vendors to move their shops elsewhere.

The vendors had then moved to court against MCC, where the Court delivered judgment in MCC’s favor and ordered demolition of building.

Video shows students cleaning school toilet ‘for marks’

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Video shows students cleaning school toilet ‘for marks’

Video shows students cleaning school toilet ‘for marks’
Screen grab from the video


Khandwa: A video showing two students cleaning the toilet of a government school in Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa district went viral on Wednesday, with some reports claiming that they had been promised additional marks.

According to local sources, a family member of a student shot the video on Monday when he found two boys cleaning the toilet of the school at village Sihada near here.

One of the students reportedly told him that the school principal had asked them to clean the toilet, promising them additional five marks in the examination.

District Education Officer J S Raghuvanshi said an official has been sent to the village to conduct an inquiry.

District Collector Tanvi Soundriyal, however, said there was nothing wrong if students did such jobs.

“It would have been wrong if the teacher had asked students from a particular community to clean up the toilet.

There is nothing wrong if all the children are doing it,” she told reporters.

Kota: Depressed over death of grandchildren, woman commits suicide

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Kota: Depressed over death of grandchildren, woman commits suicide

Kota: A 69-year old woman committed suicide by jumping into a river allegedly depressed over deaths of her three grandchildren due to multiple organs ailments.

According to the reports Belaku Poojarthi, went missing on August 25 and her body was found on Wednesday from Seethanadi near Nancharu village in Hebbarabettu.

A case has been registered at Kota Police Station.

People, parties should have been consulted before abrogation of Art 370: Siddaramaiah

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People, parties should have been consulted before abrogation of Art 370: Siddaramaiah 

Former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah addresses a press conference, in Bengaluru

Bengaluru: Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said the people of Jammu and Kashmir as well as all other political parties should have been taken into confidence before abrogating the provisions of Article 370, that gave special status to the state.

Siddaramaiah, who is on a tour of flood hit regions of north Karnataka, especially Belagavi and Bagalkot, tweeted: “The Central government neither convened an all-party meeting nor spoke to the people of the state before the abrogation of the provisions of Article 370.”

The senior Congress leader felt the government should have spoken to the all concerned before abolishing the provisions in the Constitution as per the then prevailing political situation.

He said that the government “shouldn’t have thought of deriving political mileage out of it”.

“Who will address issues like unemployment,poverty, illiteracy and hunger if politics is played around emotional issues? The government’s job is not to gain sympathy, seek publicity and mislead people on emotional matters.

The tragedy, however, is that the Union government is doing nothing other than this,” Siddaramaiah said.

The Union government had on August 5 abrogated the provisions of Article 370 giving special status to Jammu and Kashmir.

The Congress leader also slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not visiting flood affected areas of Karnataka.

“The Prime Minister, who frequently visits foreign countries, has no time to tour flood affected areas.

Going abroad cannot be avoided, but shouldn’t one take note of the sufferings of the people of the country?” Siddaramaiah tweeted.

He flayed Modi for “focusing only on those areas where he got maximum publicity”.

Since he would not get due publicity, he did not travel to the flood affected areas, Siddaramaiah claimed.

The heavy rains which hit parts of Karnataka in the first fortnight of August, wreaked havoc with almost all the rivers in spate.

As many as 82 people lost their lives in flood and rain related incidents. About five lakh people were displaced.

According to the state government, 103 taluks of 22 districts were affected.

The flood damaged 7.5 lakh hectares of land and 75,317 houses.

Army man pushed out of moving train in Bengaluru, in serious condition

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Army man pushed out of moving train in Bengaluru, in serious condition

Bengaluru, Aug 28: A 28-year old Army man was seriously injured after being allegedly pushed out of a moving train here by a gang of robbers when he resisted their attempt to snatch his mobile phone, Railway police said.

Made Gowda, hailing from Mandya in Karnataka, suffered grave injuries in his head in the incident that occurred on Sunday near Nayandahalli here and was in “a serious condition” at the Army Command Hospital here, his wife Deepa said.

The Government Railway Police, who have registered a case in connection with the incident, said there was no breakthrough so far.

Our investigation is on but we have not got any clue yet.

Made Gowda, posted in Bathinda in Punjab, was on his way home in Mandya by the train along with his wife and three-year-old daughter when the robbers tried to snatch his mobile phone near a toilet on Sunday morning.

As he fought with them, they attacked him and pushed him out of the train, Deepa, who is with her husband at the hospital, told PTI.

He has still not recovered. There are serious injuries in his head as he was pushed out of the train. Today there was some improvement as he moved his hands and legs, she added.

According to her, a boy who saw Gowda him falling from the train immediately alerted her and they pulled the emergency chain and brought the train to a halt.

We walked almost two kilometres and found him lying in the middle of the adjacent track, she added.

Karnataka cabinet allotment: BJP’s got assembly polls on its mind

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Appointment of three DyCMs an indication of the move while surprise-inclusion Laxman Savadi has a sore point with BJP leaders.

(From left) BS Yeddyurappa, Govind Karjol, Umesh Katti, V Somanna and Jagadish Shettar taking part in the debate on trust vote in the Assembly, in Bengaluru, on Monday

BENGALURU: By inducting three Deputy Chief Ministers in the BS Yediyurappa cabinet, the government has accommodated three leaders representing Lingayats, Vokkaligas and Schedule Caste, which constitute a large section of the state’s population. It could be an indication that the BJP is gearing up for ‘’early assembly elections’’. 

While fifth-time MLA Govind Karjol represents Schedule Caste, three-time MLA Ashwathnarayan represent Vokkaligas and Savadi, Lingayats.  The three names were doing the rounds for the past three days, which did not come as a surprise for many BJP leaders. Karjol has been associated with Yediyurappa from the beginning, while Savadi has BJP National Secretary BL Santhosh’s support. Ashwathnarayan played an important role in Operation Kamala, and got his due, said BJP sources. 

However, Savadi’s inclusion in the cabinet and elevation to deputy CM is more surprising as he lost the Assembly poll in 2018. “We don’t know why our leaders included him and gave him the DyCM post, it was unexpected,’’ said a senior BJP leader. 

Objecting to Savadi’s elevation, eight-time MLA Umesh Katti said, “The decision of the BJP leadership to appoint Savadi as DyCM was opposed by Yediyurappa. He is not happy with Savadi’s appointment.” Katti said he could not comment on the party leaders’ decision as he was just an MLA. “I can only say that it was the national leadership which decided to appoint Savadi as DyCM and not Yediyurappa,’’ he said. Asked whether he still expected the party to include him in the cabinet, he said, “I will wait and see how things unfold.’’  

Sources said the BJP appears to be readying for assembly elections. “If they go to polls, BJP can confidently say they have give second position to these castes and get votes. This matters a lot during polls,’’ the source said. This apart, by giving two slots to North Karnataka and one to the capital, BJP also attempted to reach more regions. The party has already appointed Nalin Kumar Kateel, from coastal Karnataka, as party chief.

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