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Two cabbies held for killing man over affair

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The Electronics City police have arrested two cab drivers for the murder of a 28-year-old man. The deceased was allegedly having an illicit affair with the wife of one of the accused.
The accused are Gangaraju (27), a resident of Doddathoguru, and his cousin Krishna (30), a resident of Pragathinagar. The victim is Chakradhar (28), also a resident of Doddathoguru, on October 23.

Police said Chakradhar’s semi-naked body was found at an isolated place on October 24 and a murder case was registered. Based on the photograph of a woman found in his pocket, the probe was started and it was found that he and the woman lived in the same area. His call records revealed the last call and message to him was from the woman.

“The woman and her husband, Gangaraju were traced to Doddaballapura. Gangaraju said that he had killed Chakradhar. He revealed that his wife and the deceased were working as house keeping staff in a firm and they were leaving for office and returning together for the past few months. One day Chakradhar sent a message to Gangaraju’s wife saying ‘I love you’. Angered, he sent a message from his wife’s phone to Chakradhar asking him to come home on October 23 and killed him.

‘Top in the world’ show by students in Bengaluru

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Cambridge International has conferred an impressive 210 ‘Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards’ on Indian students. The awards recognise exceptional exam performances in 2017-18 in four categories – ‘Top in the World’, ‘Top in the Country’, ‘High Achievement Award’, and ‘Best Across’.

In all, 62 ‘Top in the World’ awards have been won by students of schools across India. Of them, 13 are from Bengaluru schools — Gitanjali Raghavendra and Nitin Nagarkar of National Academy for Learning; Divij Gupta and Teghveer Singh Rekhi of Inventure Academy; Nayantara Ghosh, Aryaan S. Anand, Udayveer Singh Sodhi, and Riddhi Sahima Verma of Mallya Aditi International School; Kathryn Nicole Sam of Ryan Global School; Sannivas Reddy N. of Greenwood High; Sapolnach Prompiengchai of Sarala Birla Academy; Pavan R. Kashyap of Deccan International School; and Vedaant Kuchhal of Head Start Educational Academy.

The ‘Top in the World’ award recognises students who have achieved the highest marks in the world in a Cambridge IGCSE or Cambridge International AS & A Level subject in the November 2016, March 2018 and June 2018 Cambridge exam series.

Ruchira Ghosh, regional director (South Asia), Cambridge International, said Indian students have not only performed well in STEM subjects but also in subjects such as Cambridgeglobal perspectives, environmental management, drama and music.The award-winners will be recognised for their impressive academic achievements at a Cambridge Outstanding Learner Awards ceremony early next year.

Service centre staff allegedly withdrawn 91,000 from Delhi man’s Paytm

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A man in Delhi has been allegedly been duped of more than Rs. 91,000 from his Paytm account after he gave his phone to a service centre without deleting his mobile wallet.

Yusuf Karim, 28, a resident of southeast Delhi’s Kalkaji, has alleged that Rs. 91,000 was withdrawn from his Paytm account allegedly by the staff of a service centre where he had given his mobile phone for repairing.

In his complaint filed, Karim said that when he got back his phone from the service centre, he received an email from Paytm that somebody else had logged into his account.

Later, he received another message that his registered email address on Paytm was changed and Rs. 19,999 were transferred to an unknown account from a different number which was fraudulently registered in his name, police said.

After that, seven transactions were made from the victim’s account and Rs. 80,498 was withdrawn, they said.

The victim alleged the engineers of the mobile service company who were repairing his phone have done such fraudulent transactions. He also claimed that despite several requests, Paytm did not block his account.

A response from the mobile wallet giant is awaited.

 

PTI

Delhi Teacher Shot Dead On Way To School; Husband, Girlfriend Arrested

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A man and two others have been arrested for allegedly killing his wife — a 38-year-old school teacher — in northwest Delhi’s Bawana area, police said Thursday.

The accused were identified as Manjeet (38), husband of the deceased, his girlfriend Angel Gupta alias Shashi Prabha (26) and Rajeev (40), they added.

Manjeet was in a relationship with Angel and his wife, Sunita, objected to it, so they conspired to eliminate her, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Rohini) Rajneesh Gupta said.

Sunita was shot dead on Monday morning by unknown assailants while she was on the way to her school. She was shot thrice and was declared brought dead at the hospital, police said.

She is survived by a 16-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son, they said.

A manhunt is underway to arrest the persons who were hired for the murder, DCP Gupta said.

PTI

Akbar denies rape allegations, says relationship ‘consensual’

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Former Union Minister M.J. Akbar on Friday termed allegations of rape by US-based journalist Pallavi Gogoi a “lie” and claimed they had entered into a “consensual relationship”.

Akbar in a statement to ANI said Gogoi’s November 2 article in the Washington Post had detailed “false allegations of rape and violence against me”.

“I have had occasion to read this article and it has become necessary, at this point in time, to bring certain facts to light. Somewhere around 1994, Pallavi Gogoi and I entered into consensual relationship that spanned several months.

“This relationship gave rise to talk and would later cause strife in my home life as well. This consensual relationship ended, perhaps not on best note,” he said.

“People who worked with me and knew both of us have indicated that they would be happy to bear testimony to what is stated above and at no stage did the behaviour of Pallavi Gogoi give any one of them impression that she was working under duress,” he said.

Akbar also said on October 29 the Washington Post forwarded to his lawyers a “series of cryptic and non-specific questions, regarding incidents alleged to have taken place approximately 23 years ago”.

“These allegations were false and were consequently denied,” he added.

IANS

Sensex shoots past 35,000, with 600 points gain

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 Amid firm global cues the key equity indices gained over one per cent during the afternoon trade session on Friday. The Sensex jumped over 600 points to cross the 35,000-mark and the Nifty traded above the 10,500-mark.

Healthy buying was witnessed across all the sectors on the BSE, led by banking, finance and auto counters.

However, the IT stocks traded lower owing to a weak rupee. The domestic currency traded at Rs 72.87 a US dollar from its previous close of 73.45.

The investors sentiments were boosted on the back of declining crude oil prices, as the benchmark brent crude prices eased below $74 (73.30) per barrel along with signs of easing trade tension between US and China.

At 12.12 p.m., the S&P BSE Sensex traded 595.19 points up at 35,027.16. It had opened at 34,743.95 from its previous close of 34,431.97.

The NSE Nifty50 traded at 10,561.80, up 181.35 points or 1.75 per cent. It opened at 10,462.30 from its previous close of 10,380.45.

IANS

Radicals call for strike to protest Asia Bibi’s acquittal

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The leader of the protests against the acquittal of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, on blasphemy charges urged his followers on Friday to go on strike as negotiations with the Pakistan government to end the demonstrations failed.

Cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi of the radical Islamist Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) party — which supports strong blasphemy laws and had earlier threatened the judges with dire consequences if Asia Bibi was acquitted — said talks with the government had failed, Efe news reported.

It said the government and the country’s main intelligence agency had threatened to open fire on them. “All the lovers of the Prophet and Ahle Sunnat public should gear up to embrace martyrdom for the honour of the Prophet,” Rizvi said on Twitter.

The Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday set off violent protests and sit-ins by hardliners. The government led by Prime Minister Imran Khan decided on Thursday to engage in talks with the TLP, a day after urging the radicals not to go against the state.

Army spokesperson Asif Ghafoor, in an interview with state broadcaster PTV, urged the protesters not to defy the law.

“It is a legal matter and it will be better if the law is allowed to run its course on the matter,” Ghafoor said.

Pakistan on Friday faced another day of protests with several roads cut-off throughout the country, most educational institutions closed, and mobile services suspended.

Thousands of TLP members continued to protest on the streets.

Asia Bibi, a mother of five, was accused by two women of insulting Prophet Muhammad in 2009 and a court sentenced her to death in 2010, with the verdict being upheld four years later by the Lahore High Court.

The anti-blasphemy law was introduced in British colonial times to avoid religious clashes, but in the 1980s several reforms promoted by the dictator Zia-ul-Haq led to the abuse of the law.

Since then, there have been around 1,000 accusations of blasphemy, a crime that in Pakistan can lead to capital punishment, although nobody has ever been executed for it.

IANS

RSS hints at another ‘mass agitation’ for Ram temple

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RSS hints at another ‘mass agitation’ for Ram temple

Building further pressure on the government, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Friday hinted at a fresh “mass agitation” akin to 1992 for constructing a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh.

“We are confident that the Ram Mandir will be built soon… We have already waited too long for it and cannot wait indefinitely… If necessary, we shall launch a ‘jan andolan’ (mass agitation),” declared RSS General Secretary (Sarakaryavyah) Suresh ‘Bhaiyyaji’ Joshi.

He urged the courts to take up sensitive cases like the Ram temple on priority and expressed confidence that all legal hurdles would be removed soon in this regard.

Joshi reiterated the RSS demand that the government should consider enacting a law or promulgating an ordinance to pave the way for constructing the temple.

His remarks came at the end of a three-day long RSS Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal conclave held near Uttan Beach of Bhayander town.

IANS

Modi won’t survive if Rafale is probed: Rahul

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Alleging French defence major Dassault Aviation of paying “kickback” to secure the Rafale deal, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would not survive if the “huge corruption” in the purchase was probed.

“If an inquiry starts on this (Rafale deal), Modi is not going to survive it, guaranteed,” Gandhi said at a press conference at the party headquarters here.

Citing two reasons for his claims, he said: “One, because of corruption. Two, because it is very clear who the decision maker was… Nobody would be able to say that some general in the Air Force or the Defence Minister or some bureaucrat from the Defence Ministry. It was a deal done by Narendra Modi to give Anil Ambani Rs 30,000 crore,” he said.

Gandhi also said that if there was nothing to hide, Modi would have ordered an inquiry into the decision to purchase the fighter jets from France.

“If the Prime Minister was not involved, he would have said ‘let there be an enquiry by the CBI or the Supreme Court’. But he is silent. He has lost his sleep because of tension because he knows he will be caught.”

Referring to Dassault Aviation investing Rs 284 crore in a “loss making” Indian company, Gandhi said it was the “first instalment of kickback” that was paid by the French defence major to secure the deal.

“Dassault CEO (Eric Trappier) had claimed his company chose Reliance as its offsets partner because it had land available next to an airport. But now it has been revealed that the land was bought by the money that was invested by Dassault.

“The CEO is lying. The big question is why a firm would invest Rs 284 crore in a company with a capital of just over Rs 8 lakh and is loss making? It is clear cut that this (investment) is the first instalment of kickback given by Dassault,” said Gandhi.

The Congress President alleged that Trappier was “lying” to save Modi who in April 2015 had announced the inter-governmental deal to buy 36 Rafale jets in “complete violation” of defence procurement policies.

He also alleged that Central Bureau of Investigation Director Alok Kumar Verma was “removed” because he was looking into documents pertaining to the deal that could nail the Prime Minister.

“The CBI chief was looking into all these papers it is obvious that there is enough material in public domain to nail Modi,” said Gandhi, alleging that Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s recent visit to France was a part of a cover-up which the Modi government was indulging in to prevent the truth from coming out.

While asserting that his party would continue demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the deal, Gandhi said: “Modi is terrified and will never agree for a JPC.”

Reiterating that French President Emmanuel Macron had told him that there was no secrecy clause about the price factor in the Rafale deal, Gandhi said: “Pricing cannot be part of the secrecy clause.

IANS

I’m a big believer in India, weak currency just speed bumps: Tim Cook

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Admitting that his business in India in the fiscal fourth quarter of 2018 was flat and weak currency trends are just speed bumps, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he is a big believer in the country and can’t wait for the future there.

In an earnings call after announcing Apple’s Q4 results late Thursday, Cook said he has had really great productive discussions with the Indian government.

“We’ve had really great productive discussions with the Indian government, and I fully expect that at some point, they will agree to allow us to bring our stores into the country,” Cook responded to a question.

“We’ve been in discussions with them, and the discussions are going quite well,” the Apple CEO added.

Cook noted that the currency weakness has been part of our challenge in India.

“But I view these as speed bumps along a very long journey, though. And the long term I think is very, very strong there,” the Apple CEO said.

The iPhone maker is seeking tax relief and other incentives from the government to begin assembling more handsets in the country and its proposal to set up a manufacturing unit is reportedly being evaluated.

According to Cook, “there are import duties in some or most of the product categories that we’re in and in some cases, they compound.

“This is an area that we’re giving lots of feedback on. We do manufacture some of the entry iPhones in India, and that project has gone well,” Cook told analysts.

Apple is currently assembling iPhone 6S in India with its partner Wistron.

“I am a big believer in India. I am very bullish on the country and the people and our ability to do well there,” Cook added.

According to industry experts, India is the fastest-growing among the top 20 smartphone markets globally, with a large untapped user base potential in Tier 5 and 6 cities and beyond.

The current smartphone user base in India is around 450 million which is set to grow by leaps and bounds.

Cook is aware of the tremendous growth opportunity in India.

“There’s a huge number of people that will move into the middle class. The government has really focused on reform in a major way and made some very bold moves.

“I applaud them for doing that and I can’t wait for the future there,” Cook said.

IANS

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