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CM Siddaramaiah poses 10 questions to Yeddyurappa : Twitter War

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The war of words between chief minister Siddaramaiah and BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa is getting intense on the social media day by day in poll-bound Karnataka.

On Thursday April 12, B S Yeddyurappa criticized Congress government led by the BJP and tweeted, “The Congress govt in Karnataka has failed miserably on all fronts. 10 Percent CM Siddaramaiah has nothing to go to the voters except his misrule and misgovernance. The state is in dire need of a govt which can fulfill the aspirations of 6.5 Cr Kannadigas.”

Siddaramaiah was quick to reply to the BJP chief reminding him of corruption charges against him when he was the chief minister. He tweeted, “Big words from the man who turned Karnataka into the most corrupt state, Bengaluru into garbage city & ordered goli bar on farmers. Other than baseless allegations what do you have to offer the 6.5Cr Kannadigas?

Manika-Mouma clinch silver in women’s doubles TT : CWG

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Indian paddlers Manika Batra and Mouma Das clinched the silver medal in women’s doubles category at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Friday.

The Indian duo was outplayed 0-3 (5-11, 4-11, 5-11) by Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyu of Singapore in the gold medal clash. Unforced errors and some aggressive game from Singapore kept India on the back foot throughout the match.

Right from the start, Indian paddlers never looked in the contention as Manika and Mouma failed to match the skill and tenacity of the their opponents.

In all the three games, Mouma and Manika were outclassed in every department.

In the other match, Sutirtha Mukherjee and Pooja Saharabudhe lost the bronze medal match 1-3 (13-15, 7-11, 11-8, 7-11) to Ho Ying and Lyne Karen of Malaysia.

The Indian duo, however, put up a fight but failed to match the pace of their opponents.

IPL 2018: Chawla praises spin sensation Markande

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Experienced Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) spinner Piyush Chawla on Friday praised Mumbai Indians’ leg-spinner Mayank Markande who has taken the Indian Premier League (IPL) by storm in the first few matches.

Mumbai Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar bowld by Rajat Bhatia during the Mumbai Indian vs Kolkata Knight Riders match no. 53 of Pepsi IPL-6 Played at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
7 May 2013 – day/night (20-over match)


Markande, picked out as Mumbai’s surprise package, has taken as many as seven wickets in two matches.

“I have seen him for the first time. I think he is doing very well and I wish him luck,” Chawla told reporters on the sidelines of a promotional event.

Markande, who has got an excellent wrong ‘un, is the purple cap holder — given to the bowler with most number of wickets — now and almost bowled Mumbai to victory in the opening two matches against Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad respectively.

While the Punjab tweaker, 20, returned figures of 3/23 against CSK, he was superb against Sunrisers on Thursday with taking four wickets and leaking just 23 runs.

Chinaman Kuldeep Yadav, who was also present, opined that spinners with variation are quite a handful in the shortest version of the game and are more successful.

“As an off-spinner, if you’re getting turn and you have quite a good variation that really makes a difference in T20 format. That’s why the spinners are very successful in this format,” said Yadav who is now a regular in the Indian team setup.

KKR take on SRH at the Eden Gardens on Saturday, looking to bounce back after a five-wicket defeat at the hands of CSK on the road.

EC to hear 20 AAP MLAs in office of profit case on May 17

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The Election Commission on Friday announced that it will grant an oral hearing to the 20 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs in the office of profit case on May 17.

The Commission, in a letter on Friday, has invited the 20 legislators who were earlier disqualified in the office of profit case as well as petitioner Prashant Patel to appear before the Commission “either in person or through authorised legal representative” at 3 p.m. on this date.

The hearing would be conducted in presence of Chief Election Commissioner O.P. Rawat and Election Commissioners Sunil Arora and Ashok Lavasa.

The EC’s decision came after the Delhi High Court on March 23 set aside the disqualification of the 20 AAP MLAs on the grounds that no oral hearing was given to the MLAs before disqualifying them as legislators of the Delhi Assembly and hence there was violation of natural justice.

Quashing the Central government’s notification disqualifying the AAP MLAs, the High Court had directed the Election Commission to hear the matter afresh.

A bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Chander Shekhar had observed that the Election Commission’s recommendation against the legislators was “bad in law” and “vitiated”.

‘Arrest MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar’, Allahabad High Court directs CBI

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The Allahabad High Court on Friday directed the CBI to arrest BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, accused in the Unnao rape case.

A bench comprising Chief Justice DB Bhosale and Justice Suneet Kumar gave the direction to the agency after the counsel for the Uttar Pradesh government informed it that Sengar has been detained for interrogation and not arrested yet.
The court directed the CBI to carry out investigation strictly in accordance with law and to consider filing an application for cancellation of bail granted to other accused in the case.
It also directed the CBI to file a status report by May 2.
The bench passed the order on a letter written by senior advocate Gopal Swaroop Chaturvedi demanding a court-monitored investigation of the incident and treated it as a PIL.

Yesterday, the court had asked the Advocate General whether the state government proposes to arrest Sengar. Advocate General Raghvendra Singh had replied that he was not in a position to make any statement in this regard and police will proceed in accordance with the law only after recording the statement of the complainant and witnesses.

The CBI registered three separate cases in connection with the alleged rape and detained Sengar for questioning in the early hours today. The cases pertain to the alleged rape, killing of the girl’s father and a case of arms act which was slapped on her father in which he was arrested by local police. He had subsequently died in judicial custody and the autopsy report showed serious injuries on his body.

Rahul thanks ‘thousands’ for joining him in ‘battle for justice’ : Unnao Rape Case

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Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday thanked the “thousands of men and women” who stood with him in protesting the rising acts of violence against girls and women and said their battle for justice would not be in vain.

Gandhi led a midnight march to India Gate to protest the Kathua and Unnao minor rape cases and said it was time for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to walk the talk on ‘beti bachao’ (save the girl child).

“Thousands of men and women stood up to be counted in the battle for justice and to protest the rising acts of violence against girls and women. “I thank each and every one of you for your support. It shall not be in vain,” he tweeted.

Gandhi was joined last night by his sister Priyanka, her husband Robert Vadra and scores of Congress leaders, party workers and others, some carrying candles and placards against the BJP governments at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir while demanding urgent action against the perpetrators of the two incidents.

In Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir, an eight-year-old girl from the nomadic Bakerwal Muslim community disappeared near her house on January 10. A week later, her body was found in the same area. A Special Investigation Team, formed to probe the incident, has arrested eight people, including two special police officers (SPOs) and a head constable, who was charged with destroying evidence.

In Unnao in Uttar Pradesh, a teen alleged that she was raped by ruling BJP legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who was detained for questioning early today. She alleged she was raped by the MLA at his residence on June 4, 2017, where she had gone with a relative seeking a job. After filing of the case, her father was booked by the police under the arms act on April 3 this year and put in jail on April 5.

National Film Awards 2018: Full list of winners.

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The National Film Awards announced in Delhi on Friday posthumously awarded two icons of Indian cinema – Sridevi for Best Actress for her performance in MOM, the revenge thriller that was her swan song; Vinod Khanna, who died last year, will receive the Dadasaheb Phalke award, India’s highest film honour.

The best actor recognition went to Riddhi Sen for the Bengali film “Nagarkirtan”. “Newton” was named the best Hindi film while S S Rajamauli’s “Baahubali: The Conclusion” was the best popular film providing wholesome entertainment. Khanna died on April 27 last year at the age of 70 after a fight with cancer. Sridevi passed away at the age of 54 on February 25 this year, shocking the country.

Sridevi, whose filmography spanned across 50 years and in 300 films in languages such as Tamil, Telugu and Hindi, was recognised for her role of an angry mother seeking justice for her daughter in rape revenge drama, “Mom”. Her death, at the age of 54 in February this year, had shocked the country.

Three arrested for murdering cook.

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The police have arrested three men for killing their cook over a petty issue and later burnt the body in Marathahalli police headquarters limits.

The accused have been identified as Rami Reddy alias Ram Reddy, 52, who runs a Paying Guest accommodation in Kadubeesanahalli, Vineet, 22, a resident of the same PG and a supervisor of housekeeping branch of a private software company and Mahesh Reddy N, 22, who filled in as a supervisor at the PG. The three had killed, Murali, 25, who filled in as a cook at the same PG and hailed from Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh.

As per the police, on April 7 around 7:30 pm, the police got a data that a half burnt body was found on the Challaghatta road and went to the spot. Investigation uncovered that he was killed as his body was burnt to destroy evidence.

The police then checked more than 200 CCTV cameras in the surrounding areas and the one from the close-by petrol pump helped them focus in on the executioners.

The accused had supposedly acquired petroleum to burn the body. The police had additionally dissected the cell phone signs of the considerable number of suspects and limited on Mahesh. The police kept him and during cross examination he admitted to his crime. Based on his statements, the police arrested the other two. Examinations uncovered that Mahesh, who was the supervisor of the PG, was furious that Murali was taking frequent holidays.

On April 6, Mahesh, alongside Murali, Ram Reddy and Vineet were drinking liquor at the PG. A contention broke out amongst Murali and Mahesh with respect to his regular absence and in rage Murali attacked Mahesh.

Murali breathed his last in the attack. The trio hired a car to dispose the body. They tied his hands and legs and stuffed his body in a plastic sack. They conveyed his body in the rented car, threw it in near the Airway compound on Challaghatta road and burnt it down. They left the place and later came back to the some point to check whether his face was recognizable or not.

The Marathahalli police, led by inspector Sadiq Pasha, solved the case inside three days.

3 Indian social entrepreneurs among global competition winners

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3 Three Indian inventors have been named the regional grand prize winners of the 2018 ASME Innovation Showcase (ISHOW), a global competition that offers monetary and technical support to help bring design prototypes of social entrepreneurs to populations in need.

The three inventors were judged and selected out of the eight finalists who travelled to Bengaluru to vie for a share of the $500,000 in awards and technical support, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) said in a statement on Friday.

The three winners are Sanskriti Dawle of Thinkerbell Labs in Bengaluru, Balaji Teegala of Brun Health in New Delhi, and Vinayak Nandalike of Yostra Labs in Bengaluru.

ThinkerBell Labs has won the award for Annie, an affordable audio-tactile device that makes self-learning and classroom teaching of Braille possible.

The device can help improve literacy rates among the visually impaired who cannot afford a Braille display that can cost up to $4,000.

Annie runs on a Raspberry Pi and consists of hardware components such as a refreshable braille display, a digital braille slate, and a braille keyboard — all in one device.

This combination thus helps students learn how to read, write and type, with all modules complementing one another.

Brun Health has been recognised for its labour detection tool, Brun CG, which has the potential to reduce neonatal mortality rates in India. The tool helps in monitoring vital signs and communicating foetal data with clinicians for timely interventions in distant, hard-to-access locations.

Yostra Labs created Sparsh, a portable, hand-held medical device to help clinicians screen diabetic patients for symptoms of peripheral neuropathy, the permanent damage to nerves in the feet, owing to diabetes.

India has approximately 69 million diabetic patients, of which 30 per cent develop diabetic peripheral neuropathy.

The poor are significantly at risk because of inadequate management of their condition, while conventional diabetic peripheral neuropathy screening devices are bulky, not portable, expensive and need trained healthcare workers to operate the device.

Sparsh addresses these issues and can help the poor get adequate treatment for the condition.

Former PM of Pakistan, barred form holding office for life : Nawaz Sharif

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Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif has been barred from holding office for life after the Supreme Court today ruled that disqualification of a lawmaker under the Constitution is for life. The verdict was issued unanimously by all five judges of the bench while hearing a case related to the determination of time duration for disqualification of a lawmaker under the Constitution, the Dawn reported.

The court had grappled with Article 62(1)(f) which only stated that a lawmaker is disqualified under specified conditions but did not set out the duration of the disqualification. Article 62, which sets the precondition for a member of parliament to be “sadiq and ameen” (honest and righteous), is the same provision under which Sharif, 68, was disqualified on July 28, 2017, in the Panama Papers case.

Likewise, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Tareen was disqualified on December 15 last year by a separate bench of the apex court under the same provision. Following the verdict, both Sharif and Tareen have become ineligible to ever hold public office.

It has been stated in the decision read out by Justice Umar Ata Bandial that the disqualification of any member of parliament or a public servant under Article 62 in the future will be permanent. Such a person cannot contest elections or become a member of parliament.

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