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RajniKanth announced 2 Lac Compensation for Family who were Killed in Tuticorin

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Superstar Rajinikanth, who is slated to launch his own political party soon, has announced compensation for those who got killed during protests against Vedanta’s Sterlite Copper plant in Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu on May 22.

“The government needs to be careful as the people are watching, it was a huge mistake and a big lesson. I announce Rs 2 lakh each for the kin of victims who died in the protest,” said the superstar.

Rajinikanth made the announcement after he visited the general hospital in Tuticorin to meet those who got injured during the violent protests.

On Tuesday, members of the DMK, including party working president MK Stalin, had attended the Tamil Nadu Assembly wearing black clothes as mark of protest against the killing of people allegedly in police firing on May 22.

The AIADMK government in Tamil Nadu had on Monday ordered the state Pollution Control Board to seal and ‘permanently’ close the Vedanta group’s copper plant in Tuticorin. Soon after the issuance of the Government Order, top Tuticorin district officials sealed the copper smelter unit premises and pasted the order at the main gate.

State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (SIPCOT) land, which was allotted by the Tamil Nadu government to Vedanta Sterlite, for phase 2, was also cancelled.

Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam had asserted that the government would take resolute steps for the permanent closure of Vedanta group’s copper plant. “Today, the main demand of the people is that the copper plant should be permanently closed. In keeping with their demand, it is shut now. I would like to make it clear that Sterlite plant will be permanently shut,” he had said.

Describing the deaths of 13 people in the police firing as an “incident of grief which melted the hearts of everyone,” Panneerselvam had expressed his condolences to the kin of the dead and had wished the injured a speedy recovery. Recalling the steps taken by the government for closing down the plant, he had said that way back in 2013, the copper plant was shut down by late CM J Jayalalithaa.

Banking services across India comes to a halt following nationwide strike

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As apprehended banking services throughout West Bengal like the rest of India, came to a grinding halt this morning in response to a two day nationwide strike from today, (on 30 and 31 May) called by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), a conglomerate of nine bank unions, to press for their demand for a 30 per cent hike in salary with immediate effect.
Informing this All India Bank Employees President Rajen Nagar said here on Wednesday that since this morning all banks and their branches downed their shutters as over 450,000 employees of all Public sector, Private and Regional Rural Banks, and even the security guards of their respective ATMs joined the two day nationwide strike on 30 and 31 May in support of their demand.
Expressing sincere regrets for causing severe inconveniences to millions of bank customers throughout the country because of the two day strike, Nagar squarely blamed the alleged big brother attitudes of the Indian Bankers’ Association by not agreeing to UFBUs demand for a 30 per cent pay hike for all Bank employees in accordance with the previous Tripartite agreement with them, signed in 2012.
Instead of listening to us and seat for a dialogue for a negotiated settlement of the issue,they unanimously decided to offer only a two per cent hike in the Bank employees salary against our demand for 30 per cent, Nagar said adding that in view of the current inflation and hike in prices of all commodities ‘we cannot accept such an offer and have decided to go for a two day All India strike in protest’.
But again when his attention was drawn to the severe inconveniences to people because of their decision to close even all ATMs across the country,including over 21,000 odds in West Bengal alone,and that too at the time of payment of monthly salary and other dues for the employees of both organised and un organised sectors, Nagar claimed that they had no other option but to call the strike to draw the attention of IBA.
He, however, assured the customers that all on line bank transactions would remain open on 30 and 31 May. Meanwhile,though the largest public sector Bank State Bank of India announced yesterday that all efforts would be made to keep their ATMs open and ensured that they would never run out of cash during the next two days, none of their ATMS was found to be open anywhere in the city today.
Apprehending that no cash would be available during the striking period,almost all branches of every public and private sector banks experienced huge turnout of customers both in their branches and outside the ATMs on Tuesday trying to withdraw money.
Incidentally this was for the second time this year such a nationwide bank strike was called by UFBU causing huge trouble to the customers,particularly those living in rural India and in far flung areas.
Hindusthan Samachar/Ankur/Shri Ram Shaw\

WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY 2018: PUFF OFF AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEART

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Dr Sunil Kumar S, Consultant Interventional and Structural Cardiologist & Endovascular Interventionalist&Dr.Hirennappa B Udnur, Consultant – Pulmonology, Columbia Asia Hospital, Hebbal

Dear Smokers, Smoking Kills. Smoking causes cancer. But of course you aren’t oblivious to that! But do you know which of your organs is the greatest victim of smoking? Lungs? Well, you couldn’t have got it more wrong. It is your heart that tobacco smoking affects the worst! In the early stages it is the lungs that gets affected and every smoker literally feels the repercussions of smoking on their lungs as they pant for breath and are divested of certain degree of vigour and stamina. Then takes over the regular bouts of morning wheezes. However, it is the cardiovascular disorders triggered by smoking that eventually acts as a sneaking assassin!
May 31 has been denominated as the annual World No Tobacco Day (WNTD)by the World Health Organization (WHO). The theme for this year’s WNTD is “Tobacco and heart disease”.The cynosure of the WNTD 2018 will be how tobacco impacts the cardiovascular health. Tobacco use is known to be lethal factor inducing cardiovascular diseases (CVD), that ranges from coronary heart disease and peripheral vascular disease to stroke. According to the reports by WHO, CVD is one of the majorcausesof the deathsin India and over 12% of all the deaths related to CVD are credited to smoking, either active or passive. Yet the awareness of the public about the impact of tobacco on the heart and the circulatory system is almost negligible.
Carbon monoxide, emitted during smoking tobacco, binds to haemoglobin- with an affinity that is 200-250 times greater than that of oxygen- and forms carboxyhaemoglobin and stays in the blood stream even two to four hours after smoking. This not only deprives the body of the necessary oxygen but its nocuous properties damage the smooth endothelium lining of blood vessels. Nicotine present in tobacco also damages the endothelium and trigger inflammatory reactions. This leads to deposition of cholesterol and narrowing of the arteries.Eventually absolute blockage occurs due to which all downstream tissues which are to be supplied with oxygen by the blood vessel starts to suffocate and die. The most common site of circulatory tissue death for a smoker is the heart muscle that leads to a heart attack, followed by the brain leading to a stroke.
Tobacco consumption disrupts the normal blood flow and harms the circulatory system more markedly than it does to the pulmonary system. Studies show that, while lung cancer is accountable for 28% of the deaths related to tobacco smoking, CVDs are culpable of around 43% of the fatalities related to tobacco consumption.
By designating “Tobacco and heart disease” as the theme of WNTD 2018, WHO aims to promote awareness on the stark connection between tobacco and heart diseases, and on the viable measures that can be undertaken by the government and the public health organizations to reduce tobacco induced heart health hazards.Tobacco is consumed in multifarious ways such as cigarettes, bidis, cigars, pipes, creamy snuff (tooth paste), kreteks and gutkha. The day is celebrated across the worldwith the objective to encourage tobacco consumers to quit consumption of tobacco in all forms. It is of utmost necessity to ban the use of tobacco globally since it fosters many ailments that are fatal like Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Heart attacks, emphysema, and stroke, apart from the well chronicledlung cancer, throat cancer and oral cancer.
In India, approximately 10 lakh people die every year due to tobacco consumption.Tobacco smoke contains about 4000 chemicals in every puff, of this at least 250 are known to be hazardous and more than 50 are recognized as lethal carcinogens. In every form, tobacco is toxic, noxious and malignant. Even non-smokers today, are not immune from this bane. In grown-ups, passive smokingleads to chronic cardiovascular and respiratory ailments like coronary heart disease and lung cancer. In infants, it can be fatal. Pregnant women are at high risk too, since passive smoking can lead the neonate to suffer from low birth weight. Children daily breathe in air tobacco smoke in public places. WHO data has corroborated that, children constitute almost 28% of the deaths due to passive smoking.

Tobacco consumption ranks as the second leading cause of CVD, after hypertension. This is indeed a matter of consequence, that demands our attention and firm action. Government should come forward with initiatives to ban smoking. It is high time we realise that we are sitting on a ticking bomb, which if not diffused timely would be fatal for the entire society. Let us create a tobacco free world!

HD Kumaraswamy buys15 days for farmers loan waiver,tries to ‘fix’ Rahul Gandhi over the issue

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HD Kumaraswamy,JDS-Congress Chief Minister today made an attempt to win over the farming community by seeking 15 more days to take a decision in the vexed farmers loan waiver scheme.He also submitted that he would also appraise the problem to Rahul Gandhi,Congress President in order to take his concurrence before taking any decision.
The chief minister had called a meeting of representatives of all farmers associations in the 30 districts in Vidhana Soudha to take their suggestions with regard to the issue of waiver of loans.
It may be recalled here that the Janata Dal Secular had promised to waive off all farm loans in its manifesto and HD Kumaraswamy,state party president had gone one step ahead by pronouncing that he would waive all loans including one’s borrowed from the nationalized banks as well within 24 hours of assuming office or will throw the resignation letter and exit.
With a mere strength of 37 party legislators the JDS is heavily dependent upon the 77 member strong Indian National Congress party to make a living first before taking any major decision benefiting the farmers across the state.
So its quite but natural that HD Kumaraswamy is trying to find as many valid reasons as possible to drag a resolution over the subject.For instance he claimed today:I am committed to waiving off all loans of farmers.Let there be no doubt on the subject.But you also need to cooperate with me as I am running an alliance government.
He also gave reasons like:Rahul Gandhi is a great person.He has given me an opportunity to become the chief minister although the people never gave me an verdict to govern.The farmers loans waiver issue also needs to be brought to his notice before arriving at any conclusion.
Dr G Parameshwar,Deputy Chief Minister and KPCC President was also found sitting besides the CM as the lone Congress representative.But his presence was more formal with less of impact as it was HD Kumaraswamy who literally stole the show by claiming:May be our’s is an alliance party government.But we are committed for the betterment of farmers at large and let there be no doubt on this factor.
By and large Dr G Parameshwar appeared to be a mute spectator but for giving his comments when invited to do so.On the other hand HD Kumaraswamy also made an attempt to confuse the peasant community by asserting:I need your valuable opinion on whether coffee planters,officials and politicians of the state who have borrowed to the tune of crores together in the name of farm loans should also be waived?
He also hinted of enhancing the budgetary outlay to the extent of around 2,00,000 crores in order to waive the farmers loan to the proportion of 55,000 crores.
BS Yeddyurappa,state BJP president soon after the meeting got over lambasted the chief minister for failing to keep up his promise.He also declared:The BJP legislature party will soon meet to continue its movement for pressing the state government to waive farmers loan.
Probably HD Kumaraswamy had never thought that he may have to literally take a decision on farm loans in this way.But now he’s no escape as the BJP is doing all possible to denigrate him as much as possible.In fact the farm loans waiver issue has become like ‘hot ghee’,difficult to gulp nor spit out.
Hindusthan Samachar/Manohar Yadavatti

650 pages charge sheet submitted in Gauri Lankesh murder case

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The Special Investigating Team(SIT) investigating the brutal killing of Gauri Lankesh,journalist and activist today submitted a charge sheet stretching to 650 pages to the 3rd Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court here.
The SIT team took around eight months before examining and interrogating about 131 people in this connection.It may be recalled here that the Editor of a Kannada tabloid was shot dead while she was entering her home in the evening.She was also an activist and an vocal critic of Sangh Pariwar activities.
Recently one Naveen has been arrested in connection with the murder case.It is said that it was he who showed her house to the assailants but however not disclosing their names.The police also gave a try in vain for lie detector test as he is refusing to undergo the same.
Hindusthan Samachar/Manohar Yadavatti

What a relief! Petrol, diesel prices down 1 paise after 16-day continuous surge

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Prices of petrol and diesel were cut by one paise on Wednesday after the Indian Oil Corp’s (IOC) website initially showed a fall of around 50-60 paise per litre of the fuels.

IOC described the incident as a “technical glitch” and clarified that actual price cut was of one paise a litre.

“There was a technical glitch in posting the selling prices of petrol and diesel on our website today. The selling prices of petrol and diesel w.e.f. (with effect from) May 30, 2018 have been rectified on our website,” a spokesperson with company said, adding: “Today, there is a minor reduction in fuel prices.”

This price cut of “one paise” in petrol and diesel prices across the four metros on Wednesday, came after a daily hike for the last 16 days.

This cut in price, contrasts against nearly Rs 4 per litre rise during May 14-29, with daily hike in prices varying around 15-30 paise a litre.

In Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai petrol prices on Wednesday were at Rs 78.42, Rs 81.05, Rs 86.23 and Rs 81.42 per litre respectively, all prices down one paise from Tuesday, according to the revised data on the IOC website.

Further fall in domestic fuel prices is expected as crude oil prices internationally eased recently.

Prices of petrol in Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai reached record levels during last two weeks and were scaling new highs everyday. In Kolkata, the fuel was sold near four-year high levels.

In tandem with the trend in petrol, diesel prices on Wednesday were at Rs 69.50, Rs 71.85, Rs 73.78 and Rs 73.17 per litre in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai respectively, again declining byone paise in the four cities.

Kannada Film Round UP

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Film director Santoshkumar Shetty Left For His Heavenly Abode

Santshkumar Shetty, a Kannada film director has recently met with a tragic death early in the morning while trying for a photo shoot of the Yermay falls amidst the dense forests of Belthangadi taluk in South Canara district. He had directed the film Kanasu.

This is the 3rd death due to the heavy downpour in South Canara & Udupi coastal districts recently. It is said that the director had gone to the picturesque spot for a photo shoot along with 3 other members including a lady member of the unit.

As Santoshkumar Shetty was busy shooting the inflow from the falls increased by multiple times and he is said to have slipped and had an accidental fall.
According to an eyewitness

Santoshkumar Shetty was the only person who knew swimming.But he had tied robots to his legs weighing around 7 kgs altogether and when he fell in the falls he couldn’t swim due to the heavy weight on his legs.

The locals also admit that this is the 3rd tragedy in the same spot. One person had died about 4-5 months ago and one more a year back. Many tourists neglect the advice to not venture out into the slippery falls leading to avoidable tragedies.

Gauri Murder Case : 4 More Arrested

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The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Gauri Lankesh murder case will soon arrest Praveen alias Sujith as the second accused. Praveen was arrested by Upparpet police in Bengaluru in an illegal arms case on May 19, and will soon be arrested in the Gauri Lankesh case on Wednesday.

Praveen and K.T. Naveen Kumar are alleged to have conducted a reconnaissance of Gauri’s house prior to her murder. Naveen was arrested by the SIT on March 9 and Praveen was named as the second accused in the case then. Senior SIT officials confirmed that the Praveen arrested by Upparpet police was the one they were looking for. The SIT will also file a charge sheet against Naveen Kumar in a city court on Wednesday, since a considerable amount of evidence had been gathered to support his role in Lankesh’s murder.

Along with Praveen, three other people hailing from Maharastra were arrested. They have been identified as Amit Degwekar, Manohar Dundappa Evade and Amol Kale and are said to be sharpshooters, though their role in the murder is still not clear. SIT sources said that Naveen and Praveen were the locals providing information and support while the persons who shot Gauri came from another State, probably Maharastra. Their first target was rational thinker K.S. Bhagwan in Mysuru, for which they had even had a shooting practice in the Chamarajanagar forests. Later, when security was tightened around Bhagwan, the target shifted to Gauri Lankesh, said SIT.

CRICKET FIRST, PROJECT WORKS NEXT: By Joseph Hoover

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The Karnataks State Cricket Association managing committee says it does not have money to increase the lunch allowance of active cricket clubs, but it holds a press conference to announce that KSCA wants to create rain-water harvesting system in all its centres.

Wow!

Where does this money come from for these projects?

When it can be done inhouse, why is an agency being entrusted with the works?

Approximately 70 to 80 crore has been spent on building infrastructure in Hubli, Belgaum, Shimoga and Alur. The MC gets the Finance Committee (FC) clearance without any hesitation.

But MC can’t convince the FC to raise the lunch allowance of clubs which are the backbone of the association and cricket ecosystem. A parsley Rs 2500 is doled out as allowance.

Clubs play matches as far away as 35 to 50km from the City. The facilities at these distant grounds are pathetic. The tarpaulin covers provided are often torn/ ripped apart by gusty winds and dogs. Matches get delayed often because of this issue. There is no medical aid (especially ice cubes/ packs) in these grounds. Hospitals are far away. But we don’t complain as we want Karnataka cricket to thrive!!!

We appreciate KSCA has created sub-air system at the M Chinnaswany stadium.

It doesn’t matter who made how much money from this project. The work cost KSCA over Rs 6 crore we are told.

But, we want to know how many league matches have been played at the main stadium? Dear MC, Please furnish the details of the number of local matches played after this humongously costly project was completed.

Instead of paying huge sums to private grounds, matches could very well be played at the home of Karnataka cricket. Cricketers would be happy to play in an environment where greats like GR Vishwanath, EAS Prasanna, B S Chandrashekar, Syed Kirmani, Brijesh Patel, Roger Binny, Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid, Javagal Srinath… Among others have played, mastered their skills and showcased their talent in international cricket.

Club secretaries met your nominated member Santosh Menon, at a meeting organised by KSCA, and requested him to take the grievances of cricket clubs to the MC/FC.

But when we asked Menon, he said the allowance has not been increased. It has remained Rs 2500 for the past several years, despite inflation and price rise.

But the costs of project works have escalated! There is no objections we presume when it relates to project works.

Somebody must be smiling all the way to the bank!

As an interim committee, which has long overstayed it’s tenure, it should not take up any projects. Let the new committee, which should be place in a couple of months time, take the decision to spend money on rain water harvesting system.

We wish to remind the MC that the primary duty, as in the preamble of the MOA, is to promote cricket. Sadly, cricket has been the last priority of this committee.

So before the MC takes up any more projects, let it care for its cricket clubs, cricketers, office staff, ground staff (who are paid measly salaries despite KSCA being one of the richest associations in the country) and the fans who have made cricket what it is today. In Cricket Service

FKCCI Delegation met Hon’ble Chief Minister of Karnataka.

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Shri K Ravi, President, FKCCI along with delegation from FKCCI paid a courtesy call on the Hon’ble Chief Minister today and requested for extending special attention for the development of the Trade, Industry and Services by the Government.

He assured the delegation that he would bestow his full attention to the Industrial sector for the development of the State.

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