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Uruguayan Writer Eduardo Galeano Dies Age 74 in Montevideo

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The famed Uruguayan writer and journalist authored over 35 books, including the “Open Veins of Latin America.”

Uruguayan writer and journalist Eduardo Galeano died of lung cancer at age 74 in Montevideo. | Photo: teleSUR

Uruguayan writer and journalist Eduardo Galeano died of lung cancer at age 74 in Montevideo. | Photo: teleSUR

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Internationally awarded Uruguayan author and journalist Eduardo Galeano died Monday of lung cancer at age 75 in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, according to local newspaper Subrayado.

The writer of about 35 books, including the “Open Veins of Latin America,” which became a bestseller overnight after the late President Hugo Chavez handed the book over to his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama during the fifth Summit of the Americas in 2009, was born Sept. 3, 1940.

The confirmation of his death was also covered by Spanish daily El Pais and Europe Press.

Galeano is considered to be one of the most notable authors of Latin American literature.

Among his many works are “Memory of Fire Trilogy,” “The Following Days,” and “Guatemala, an Occupied Country.”

Galeano distinguished himself as a writer by transcending orthodox genres and by combining documentary, fiction, journalism, political analysis and history.

He once proclaimed his obsession as a writer, saying, “I’m a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.”

He began his career at a very early age. At 14, he was already drawing political cartoons and began his career as a journalist as an editor for the weekly Marcha and later for the daily Epoca. After the 1973 coup in Uruguay, Galeano was briefly jailed and immediately after fled to Argentina, where he founded a cultural magazine called Crisis.

According to The Most Famous People website, Galeano is one of Latin America’s most cherished and admired literary figures, particularly because he raised his voice incessantly for human rights and social justice.

He was a severe critic of globalization and highlighted the dehumanizing facets of globalization in the contemporary world, the website added.

He was a severe critic of globalization and highlighted the dehumanizing facets of globalization in the contemporary world, the website added. “One of South America’s most renowned writers, he has been an ambassador of Latin American history and has provided the world an insight into their culture, heritage and struggles, through his passionate and honest writing,” they said.

On July 23, 2013, British newspaper The Guardian wrote an extensive story on Galeano, saying he had “become the poet laureate of the anti-globalization movement by adding a laconic, poetic voice to non-fiction.”

The Guardian quoted him as saying that, “This world is not democratic at all. The most powerful institutions, the IMF [International Monetary Fund] and the World Bank, belong to three or four countries. The others are watching. The world is organized by the war economy and the war culture.”

His 1971 book “Open Veins of Latin America,” which is considered fundamental to understand regional politics, was translated to over 20 languages.

Many critics have said his books are a distinctive balance of Latin American history, while his fictional stories also have elements of Latin American culture and antiquity.

In 1978, he published the award-winning book, “Days and Nights of Love and War,” which revolves around the dictatorial regime in Uruguay in the 1970s.

Between 1982 and 1986, he came up with the “Memory of Fire Trilogy,” a collection that consisted of the books “Genesis,” “Faces and Masks” and “Century of the Wind.”

He latest book, “Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History,” was published in 2012 and was shaped like a calendar and had a story for each day. The objective of this book is to reveal moments from the past while contextualising them in the present. According to the Guardian, with this work he achieves “a kind of epigrammatic excavation, uprooting stories that have been mislaid or misappropriated, and presenting them in their full glory, horror or absurdity.”

His entry for July 1, for example, is entitled “One Terrorist Fewer,” and it reads, “In the year 2008, the government of the United States decided to erase Nelson Mandela’s name from its list of dangerous terrorists. The most revered African in the world had featured on that sinister roll for 60 years.”

His entry for Oct. 12 is entitled “Discovery” and starts that, “In 1492 the natives discovered they were Indians, they discovered they lived in America.”

Eduardo Galeano received many prizes for his works throughout his life. His book, “Days and Nights of Love and War” was the recipient of The Casa de las Americas Prize, which is one of the oldest and most prestigious literary awards given in Latin America.

Galeano was also a strident critic of Obama’s foreign policy. However, when he was voted in as president of the U.S., the Uruguayan author said, “I was very happy when he was elected, because this is a country with a fresh tradition of racism.”

In 1976, when he married for the third time to Helena Villagra, the regime of dictator Jorge Rafael Videla (1976-1981) took power in Argentina in a bloody military coup and Galeano’s name was added to the lists of those condemned by the death squads, forcing the Uruguayan writer to flee again. On this occasion he went to Spain, where he wrote his famous trilogy: “Memory of Fire.”

In early 1985, Galeano returned to Uruguay and founded yet another publication, the weekly Brecha. And following the victory of Tabare Vazquez (who recently won the presidential elections again) and the Broad Front alliance in the 2004 Uruguayan elections marking the first left-wing government in Uruguayan history, he wrote a piece for The Progressive titled “Where the People Voted Against Fear.”

Following the creation in 2005 of TeleSUR, a pan-Latin American television station based in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2005 Galeano along with other left-wing intellectuals such as Tariq Ali and Adolfo Perez Esquivel joined the network’s 36 member advisory committee.

His anthology “Women” is scheduled to be publicly presented in Spain on Thursday.

India claim Sultan Azlan Shah bronze beating South Korea on penalties

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India continued their dominance over South Korea and claimed a podium finish at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia with a 4-1 win on penalties in the bronze-medal playoff.

After the regulation period ended in a 2-2 draw identical to the result of the league phase encounter between the two, India outclassed the Koreans in penalty shootout, where PR Sreejesh once again turned out to be the hero making as many as three saves.

For India, Akashdeep Singh, Sardar Singh, Rupinderpal Singh and Birender Lakra scored in the shootout to give India the win.

Earlier, the last two quarters following half-time failed to produce any goals as the teams went into the breather at the end of 30 minutes locked 2-2.

Nikkin Thimmaiah (10th min) and Satbir Singh (22nd) were the scorers for India during the regulation period. South Korea drew level twice through goals by Hyosik You (19th) and Hyunwoo Nam (28th) to take the match to a shootout.

India scored both their goals though field strikes while Korea scored from penalty corners.

For India, who had earlier drawn 1-1 with Korea in the league stages, the victory came on the back of a stunning 4-2 win over world champions and title holders Australia yesterday at the Azlan Shah Stadium.

India’s vice-captain and goalkeeper Sreejesh had a fantastic day under the bar as he not only made numerous saves in the entire 60 minutes, but also turned out to be India’s hero in the shoot-out, denying two Korean efforts to help his side register the much-needed victory.

The only blemish for India was penalty corners. The Sardar Singh-led side failed to secure a single set piece but their back-line as usual crumbled under pressure and gave away seven short corners.

Both the teams were slow to get off the block and were sloppy in the initial few minutes.

It was India who had the first shy at the goal in the sixth minute but Akashdeep Singh shot wide after a scramble inside the circle.

Three minutes later, Korea secured their first penalty corner but Nam Hyunwoo’s effort couldn’t get past the defence of an agile Indian goalkeeper, Sreejesh.

The Indians took the lead in the next minute through last match’s hero Nikkin. Dharamvir Singh started the move and passed the ball to SK Uthappa, who beat a few Malaysian defenders to enter the circle from the right flank and then neatly pushed the ball towards Nikkin and he made no mistake in slapping the ball home from close range.

After a relatively sedate start, the Indians started to get into the groove as time passed by.

Five minutes into the second quarter Korea got their second penalty corner and You Hyosik scored from a rebound with a reverse shot after Jang Jonghyun’s dragflick was well saved by Sreejesh.

India restored their lead two minutes later through Satbir’s fine field effort. After stealing the ball at the midline, Satbir played a delightful one two with Dharmvir Singh before tapping in the ball pass Korean keeper Hong Doo Pyo.

But an unnecessary foul by Ramandeep Singh reduced India to 10-man in the last two minutes of the second quarter and that cost them dearly.

With India one man short, the Koreans piled on the pressure and managed to earn three penalty corners in succession, the last of which was converted by Hyunwoo with a powerful flick that beat Sreejesh all ends up as both the teams went into halfway break locked a 2-2.

After the change of ends, Korea had the first shot at the goal but Hyosik’s reverse hit sailed over the bar.

Then Satbir was denied in the 39th minute when his reverse hit was blocked by the Korean goalkeeper.

Korea went on the offensive in the fourth and final quarter and earned two more penalty corners but India custodian Sreejesh was up to the task.

In the 50th minute, Satbir once again came close to ensuring the lead for his side but his gentle touch from Birendra Lakra’s cross was well anticipated by the Korean goalkeeper.

It was nerve-wrecking final three minutes as Korea went all out in search of the winner, but the Indian defence did enough to hold the rampaging Koreans and take the match into shoot-out.

In the shoot-out, the Indians were clinical and converted their tries with consummate ease.

But credit should go to Sreejesh as he pulled off two brilliant saves to deny Kim Kihoon and Kim Juhun, and secure the third place finish for India.

(Agencies)

Renowned German author Günter Grass dies, aged 87

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Nobel Prize winner and taboo breaker: The German writer was an unruly spirit throughout his life. Grass was an engaged citizen seen by some as a “moral authority,” by others as a hypocrite. He passed away on April 13.

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by Cornelia Rabitz, Deutsche Welle

Günter Grass died of a lung infection on Monday, April 13, in the northern German city of Lübeck, the Steidl publishing house announced.

His life, full of ups and downs, moments of triumph and turmoil, began on October 16, 1927. Günter Grass grew up in a rather humble home: His parents ran a grocery store in Gdansk (then known as Danzig), but their customers were so poor that they couldn’t always pay the bills. The Catholic family lived in a very small apartment.

“A childhood between the Holy Spirit and Hitler,” is how biographer Michael Jürgs sums up the environment in which Grass spent his childhood. At the age of just 17, he witnessed the horrors of World War II as a member of the Hitler Youth. He later joined the Waffen-SS, a Nazi special forces unit. It would be decades until he would be able to talk openly about these experiences – which later caused a scandal. During his years as a teenager and a young man, he focused on how to survive the war.

Beginnings of a bestselling author

1952: the Federal Republic of Germany was still in its infancy, and so was the intellectual development of Grass. He was interested in art, studied sculpture and graphic design, joined a jazz band, and traveled a lot. In 1956, he settled down in Paris for some time, where he lived a rather modest life together with his first wife.

That’s where his brilliant career as an author began. Grass produced his first novel “The Tin Drum” in 1959, sparking an uproar in the rather conservative society of the former West Germany before it became a huge international success. The book was translated into numerous languages and adapted into a movie. Exactly four decades later, its writer received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Creative and productive

Günter Grass wrote dramas, poems, and especially fiction, the list of his works is very long, among them “Cat and Mouse” and “Dog Years,” which, together with “The Tin Drum” were part of his famous “Gdansk Trilogy;” “Local Anesthetic,” “The Flounder,” “The Rat,” “The Call of the Toad,” and “Crabwalk.” Most of his works dealt with political conditions and social upheaval, like the sinking of a refugee ship in the Baltic Sea in 1945, the role of intellectuals in the uprising in former East Germany in 1953, the student protests of 1968, federal election campaigns and political relations between the East and West.

As a native of Danzig, reconciliation between Germany and Poland always remained a particularly important topic to Grass. Despite some critics lamenting that Grass’ books were too heavy and political in nature, all of his works became very successful and sparked heated debates among literary circles in Germany. Yet none of them ever managed to match the enthusiasm created by the drumming Oskar Matzerath of Grass’ very first novel, “The Tin Drum.”

Morality and politics

Günter Grass was a multi-talented artist, not only a novelist and poet, but also a sculptor and designer who occasionally also designed the covers of his own books. Considered by some as a moral authority and by others as a radical leftist, his political views divided the nation. Since 1961, he committed himself to the Social Democrats (SPD) without being a party member, and he supported Willy Brandt in his election campaign in 1969. Later on, he did join the SPD – only to give up his membership a few years later in a row over alterations of the right to asylum.

Grass always remained a very critical observer, an independent leftist who, making use of his reputation, interfered in political issues now and then. He spoke out against the deportation of Kurds, for the compensation of former forced laborers during the Nazi era, for human rights, for persecuted writers and against wars.

In 2006, he saw himself forced to admit that, during the Second World War, he himself had not been altogether innocent. His former membership in the notorious Waffen-SS, mentioned in his 2006 autobiography “Peeling the Onion,” caused a stir both in Germany and abroad, besmirching his reputation as a moral authority. Suddenly he who had always advocated stringently dealing with Germany’s Nazi past was accused of being a hypocrite.

A poem as a provocation

A rift seemed to grow between the writer and the public, a moral authority holding up a mirror to the Germans was no longer needed. Grass caused yet another international uproar in April 2012 after publishing a text entitled “What must be said.” The text, which he labeled a poem, contained thinly veiled criticism of Israeli policy with Grass warning of an Israeli nuclear strike against Iran and calling the state of Israel, its nuclear capabilities and its occupation policy a threat to world peace.

The pamphlet sparked outrage. Grass, accused of anti-Semitism, became persona non grata in Israel. Nevertheless, he remained a role model throughout his lifetime – not least for his younger fellow writers. Author and critic Uwe Tellkamp considered him “one of the strongest narrative powers in German literature,” while fellow author Moritz Rinke casually referred to him as “perhaps the most interesting and most versatile dinosaur.”

Four policemen die as Maoists trigger blast in Chhattisgarh

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Dantewada: Four policemen were killed and seven injured on Monday when Maoists triggered a massive explosion in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district, police said.

The terror strike took place just hours after a trooper was killed when armed Maoists attacked a BSF camp in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district.

In the latest attack, four Chhattisgarh Armed Forces (CAF) personnel were killed and seven others were wounded in the deafening blast that targeted their anti-landmine vehicle.

The attack took place at Cholnar camp of the CAF in Dantewada district, some 400 km south of state capital Raipur.

“It’s a massive blast. I guess it could be about 50 kg IED (Improvised Explosive Device) used to trigger a blast near a bridge. The anti-landmine vehicle was shaken up by the blast and 4 CAF jawans succumbed to injuries,” Kamal Lochan Kashyap, superintendent of police, Dantewada, told reporters at the attack site.

The policemen were returning back to the Cholnar camp after area domination drive. The injured policemen were rushed to NMDC Ltd-owned hospital at Bacheli.

Chhattisgarh has witnessed a string of attacks since April 11.

(Agencies)

Indian growth engine re-energised: Modi

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Hannover: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said his government had “re-energised” the Indian growth engine and that the country wants to become a manufacturing hub to serve its domestic market as well as exports.

“We have re-energised the Indian growth engine. The credibility of our economy has been restored. India is once again poised for rapid growth and development. It is the only emerging economy where growth rate is rising. The prospects are even better,” Modi said in an Op-Ed piece in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

He said that “Make in India” requires urgent creation of new infrastructure. “The substantial enhancement in financing in the federal budget for highways, railways and energy is a step in this direction. Work has begun on the development of Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor.”

Modi, who is on a two-day visit to Germany, said that through “our ‘Act East’ and ‘Link West’ policy, India has the potential of becoming the middle ground for East and West as a manufacturing hub that serves both our vast domestic market and becomes a base for global exports and general well-being”.

He said: “My government has pledged a stable and transparent tax regime, reducing corporate taxes and implementing a single Goods and Services Tax in 2016.”

The prime minister said he visualised India as a “key engine of global growth”.

Modi said: “Our democratic principles and practices are guarantors of stability. We have a free media and an independent judiciary that allows all opinions to be aired without fear.”

The prime minister said that India believed in “Rahein Saath Badhe Saath” (stay together-grow together).

“There is no other way forward. Mankind’s progress in this century depends on cooperation and collaboration. Conflict is unthinkable. So is poverty which (Mahatma) Gandhi called the worst form of violence,” he said.

The Indian prime minister, who is in Germany as part of his three-nation sojourn, said: “Our focus is not merely economic growth but an inclusive development.”

Observing that international support and collaboration are equally critical to achieving India’s objectives, he said: “I have therefore sought to build a foreign policy which is an integral part of our national development strategy.”

“My interactions with leaders of United States, Russia, France, Japan and China have all aimed at creating enduring partnerships with shared stakes in global development and well-being.”

(IANS)

Hillary Clinton announces 2016 US Presidential bid

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Former US secretary of state announces 2016 White House bid to become the first female president of the country.

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by Ted Regencia, Al Jazeera

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has declared that she is running for president in 2016, seeking to become the first female to occupy the seat that her husband Bill Clinton held for eight years, and setting up what could be the most expensive campaign in history.

Clinton made the announcement on Sunday in a video published on her website, saying “the deck is still stacked in favour of those at the top” as she sought to highlight the theme of economic inequality.

It is the second time that Clinton has run for presidency.

On Saturday, President Barack Obama, who defeated her in the 2008 Democratic nomination, said Clinton “would be an excellent president”.

“She was an outstanding secretary of state. She is my friend. I think she would be an excellent president,” Obama said from Panama, where he attended the Summit of the Americas and held a historic meeting with the Cuban leader Raul Castro.

With her first candidacy in 2008, Clinton made history as the first ever spouse of an American president to seek the highest elective office in the US.

In the biography section of her website, Clinton, a Democrat, talked about her bipartisan record as senator, crossing party lines to work with Republicans, who now control the US Congress.

But during her husband’s presidency from 1993 to 2001, both Clintons repeatedly clashed with the Republicans, who tried to remove the 42nd president from office. She became a lightning-rod for Republican criticism, from her handling of the Clinton administration’s failed healthcare reform to the investigations into their private lives.

$2.5bn campaign

Although a native of Chicago, Clinton has set up her campaign headquarters in New York, where she served as senator after her husband left office.

Clinton is expected to make her first campaign stop in the US state of Iowa, which will hold the first nominating process in early 2016.

Clinton is not the only high-profile US politician in the running for president. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, son of the 41st US President George HW Bush and brother of another former president, George W Bush is also expected to declare his candidacy for the Republican Party.

Not long after Clinton announced her bid on Sunday night, Jeb Bush responded on Twitter, saying: “We must do better than Hillary.”

That sets up a potential Clinton-Bush matchup and a repeat of the 1992 elections, when the elderly President Bush lost to Bill Clinton, then a governor of the small southern US state of Arkansas.

According to a New York Times report, Clinton and her allies are trying to raise as much as $2.5bn to finance her campaign. The eventual Republican candidate is also expected to match that amount.

In anticipation of her announcement, the Republican Party posted on its website a 31-second video questioning Clinton’s candidacy, from her role in the deadly US consulate attack in Benghazi to her decision to delete a large cache of emails from her time as the US top diplomat.

While Clinton tries to steer her campaign mostly on domestic issues, it is likely that her foreign policy record as the secretary of state during Obama’s first four years, would be put under scrutiny.

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Ibrahim Sharqieh, foreign policy fellow at Brookings Doha Center, said that as secretary of state, Clinton “lacked serious commitment” in resolving many of the issues affecting the Middle East, particularly the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Given her record, Sharqieh said that he is “not very optimistic that she is going to make a difference on US foreign policy towards the Middle East”.

He said that Clinton “failed miserably” in putting pressure on Israel and the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to address the Palestine issue.

However, he said that he expects Clinton to be more “hawkish” than President Obama, whom he called as “the most passive American president in decades” on Middle East issues.

Chittoor encounter case: Two survivors to appear before NHRC

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New Delhi: The two survivors, who escaped the fierce exchange of fire between Andhra Police and alleged woodcutters in Chittoor district last week, are likely to appear before the National Human Rights Commission in Delhi on Monday, April 13.

According to reports, the two eyewitnesses boarded the evening flight to Delhi from Chennai to meet the NHRC. However, the third survivor, due to lack ID documents, could not travel.

The third survivor, Illango, had claimed that he was pulled out of a bus along with other villagers near Tiruttani by Andhra police before being detained.

Meanwhile, Andhra Police in Nellore has arrested 63 Tamil smugglers suspected to b part of the 20-member group killed in Seshachalam forest, as per ANI.

National Human Rights Commission on Thursday issued a notice to Telangana government seeking

a report over the killing of five under-trials, who were allegedly associated with SIMI and other radical groups, in police custody.

“Prima facie, it appears that this is an instance of blatant use of disproportionate force resulting in loss of lives of 5 undertrials who were in judicial custody and gross violation of human rights”, NHRC said in a statement.

The Commission has issued notices to the Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police, Telengana, calling for reports within two weeks.

It will further take up the matter in its camp sitting to be held at Hyderabad on April 23.

The notices were issued after the Commission took suo motu cognizance of media reports that Telengana police have shot dead five undertrials alleged to be associated with SIMI and other radical outfits when they were being brought by them to Hyderabad in connection with a court case on April 7.

According to media reports, the incident took place when the vehicle carrying the undertrials crossed Warangal district border and reached the outskirts of Tangupuru village in Aler Mandal of Nalgonda district.

“One of the undertrials asked the police to halt the vehicle for a toilet break. While getting back to the van, he allegedly snatched an INSAS rifle from a policeman and fired two bullets at a Sub-Inspector sitting in the front row, who ducked and escaped. Sensing danger, other Constables immediately opened fire resulting in the instant death of five undertrials,” the statement said.

The Commission has also observed that from the news report, it transpires that at the time of the incident, at least four of the undertrials were inside the van guarded by the accompanying policemen.

(Agencies)

Karnataka state government drops ordinance on BBMP

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Bengaluru: Following a meeting with various ministers from Bengaluru, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has decided to drop it’s controversial ordinance for constituting three new municipal bodies in Bengaluru in place of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).

According to the media reports the ministerial panel has decided not to re-submit the controversial ordinance to the Governor but have decided to convince the court.

The ordinance sought to constitute three new local bodies in Bengaluru to replace the BBMP by amending the Karnataka Municipal Corporation Act.

The opposition parties including BJP and JD(S) opposed the bill stating the ordinance was aimed at delaying the polls to the civic body.

It is said that the Governor Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala denied giving consent to the ordinance keeping in mind the upcoming BBMP elections.

A single judge bench of Karnataka High Court had ordered to hold BBMP polls before May 30. Now the government has filed a writ appeal against the order before a divisional bench.

(Agencies)

Police launch search operations to hunt down convict who walked out of jail

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Bengaluru: Search operations were launched by the police to hunt down the 29-year-old murder convict who walked out of the highly secured Bangalore Central Prison at Parappana Agrahara on Friday after eluding security personnel.

Manjunath, housed in the D2 barracks, walked out of the prison by posing as a visitor.

Based on the complaint filed by the Prisons Department, the South division police have formed a team to arrest Manjunath. Police suspect that he could have escaped to Chitradurga, his home town.

Police have also questioned Manjunath’s relatives. “We have some clues on his whereabouts and are tracking him,” said Rohini Katoch Sepat, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast d ivision).

Suspecting the involvement of insiders, a police officer said that another convict, Anand Kumar, who attacked a policeman in NIMHANS on Saturday, had procured a knife and chilli powder from inside the prison.

(Agencies)

Kings XI Punjab fend off Harbhajan's heroics to beat Mumbai Indians by 18 runs

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New Delhi: Kings XI Punjab survived a late scare by Harbhajan Singh as they sealed their first win of the eighth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) with an 18-run win over Mumbai Indians on Sunday at Wankhede Stadium.

Put into bat first, Kings XI Punjab posted a challenging total of 177 runs in their allotted 20 overs for the loss of five wickets.

Explosive opener Virender Sehwag and Murali Vijay provided the initial thrust for the team as they built a 60-run partnership for the first wicket.

Sehwag scored 36 runs off 19 balls before he was dismissed by Harbhajan, who also claimed the wicket of Vijay (35).

Though swashbuckling all-rounder Glenn Maxwell (6) couldn’t contribute much to the total, skipper George Bailey smacked a brisk 61, along with David Miller’s 24 to help their side post a daunting total.

Chasing the target, Mumbai Indians failed to get a good start as they stuttered from the start of their innings.

Skipper Rohit Sharma couldn’t open his account as he was trapped lbw off Sandeep Sharma’s delivery for a duck.

While Aaron Finch was bowled by Mitchell Johnson for mere eight runs, Aditya Tare trudged back to the pavilion for his individual seven runs before the dismissal of Corey Anderson (5).

Subsequently, Ambati Rayadu (13) and Kieron Pollard (20) tried to steady the innings but failed to build on their respective starts.

Rohit’s men were reeling at 59-6 before Harbhajan found an able ally in Jagadeesha Suchit (34 not out) as they piled up 100 runs for the seventh wicket.

Harbhajan battled past a hovering run-rate as he smacked a quickfire 64, including 6 sixes and five fours, off just 24 balls before his dismissal at the penultimate ball of the match.

Finally, Mumbai Indians could only score 159-7 in their allotted 20 overs, and Kings XI Punjab skipper Bailey was named Man-of-the-Match for his stellar 61-run knock.

Axar Patel, Johnson and Anureet Singh were the pick of the bowlers for the Kings XI Punjab as they scalped two wickets each.

With the win, Kings XI Punjab are fifth in the points table while Mumbai Indians haven’t been able to secure a point yet from their previous two games.

(ANI)

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