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1st Test: India in promising position after Day 3

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 Skipper Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara came up with a steady partnership as India put themselves in a strong position after the third day of the opening cricket Test against Australia here on Saturday.

The visitors posted 151/3 in their second innings at stumps and have a lead of 166 runs. At the end of the day, Pujara was batting on 40 while Ajinkya Rahane was on 1.

Coming together after the fall of openers Lokesh Rahul (44) and Murali Vijay (18), Pujara and Kohli added 71 runs between them to give India a platform from which they now have the chance to win the Test.

Kohli, who lost his wicket to a somewhat careless shot in the first innings, employed a much more careful approach in his second essay.

The Indian captain was well on his way to what would have been a well deserved half-century when he was outfoxed by some extra turn from off-spinner Natha Lyon just before stumps. This is the sixth time Lyon has dismissed Kohli in the longest format of the game, the most in world cricket.

Kohli, who scored 34 runs off 104 deliveries, had tried to defend on the front foot. But the extra turn saw the ball take the edge of the bat before nestling in the hands of a delighted Aaron Finch at short leg.

Pujara, on the other hand, resumed from where he left in the first innings. The Saurashtra batsman, who was run out after posting a gritty century in the first innings, put on yet another tenacious batting display and looks set to register a big score.

For Australia, apart from Lyon, fast bowlers Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood also picked up a wicket each.

Earlier, India lost both openers after a steady start to reach 86/2 in their second innings and stretch their lead to 101 runs at tea.

At the breather, Pujara (11 not out) and Kohli (2 not out) went back undefeated after the fall of openers Vijay and Rahul.

After gaining a slender 15-run first innings lead, Vijay and Rahul gave the visitors a slow-but-steady 63-run start and more importantly denied the home pacers early inroads on a rain-affected day.

Despite the initial run-rate going at just over 1 run per over, both Vijay and Rahul didn’t attempt any silly shots and played the ball to its merit, until Rahul broke the shackles with a boundary by the 10th over.

The Bengaluru right-hander continued the onslaught by dispatching Pat Cummins for a massive six and a couple of boundaries even as Vijay struggled to find his feet.

The partnership soon flourished past the 50-run mark before left-armer Mitchell Starc got Vijay to drive a wide delivery outside the off-stump, only to find a thick edge that landed into the hands of Peter Handscomb at second slip.

The fall of Vijay brought in the first innings centurion Pujara, who started off in his trademark fashion before getting a life on 8 when a DRS review saved him from caught behind charge from off-spinner Nathan Lyon.

Rahul, on the other hand, failed to cash on the reprieve he got early in his innings, before being dismissed caught behind off Josh Hazlewood.

With just an over to go for the tea break, skipper Kohli joined Pujara in the middle and the pair saw the team to safety before heading to the dressing room.

During the truncated first session, Australia resumed the day at 191/7 but pacers Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami soon cleaned up the remaining three wickets with the addition of just 44 runs to the overnight score.

Travis Head top-scored for the hosts with a gritty 72 before Shami struck twice consecutively to hand India a psychological 15-run edge.

Brief scores:

India: 250 & 151/3 (Cheteshwar Pujara 40 batting, Virat Kohli 34, Lokesh Rahul 44; Mitchell Starc 1/18, Josh Hazlewood 1/25, Nathan Lyon 1/48) vs Australia: 235 (Travis Head 72, Peter Handscomb 34; Jasprit Bumrah 3/47, Ravichandran Ashwin 3/57).

 

IANS

Italy nightclub stampede kills 6

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 At least six people were killed and dozens injured following a stampede at a nightclub in Italy, authorities said.

The stampede happened early Saturday morning at the Lanterna Azzurra nightclub in the town of Corinaldo, about 141 km east of Florence. The club was hosting a concert by rapper Sfera Ebbasta and up to 1,000 people were thought to be inside, the BBC reported.

According to the country’s Civil Protection Agency, the panic began when someone in the club sprayed an “irritant substance”. Five of the victims were minors and the sixth victim was the mother of one of them, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.

Ancona police head Oreste Capocasa told public news service Rai News that 13 of the injured were in a “very serious condition” while another 60 had suffered more minor injuries.

Witnesses said people began panicking and running towards the exits after a noxious substance, possibly pepper spray, was sprayed in the crowd, Efe news reported.

A teenager who was at the concert told ANSA that the emergency exits were locked.

The police official said the casualties were sustained outside of the premises of the nightclub after barricades at the exit fell. Firefighters said that no victims were found inside the nightclub.

The injured were taken to hospitals and the most serious were transferred to the regional capital of Ancona.

The images released by firefighters on Twitter showed dozens of youngsters receiving medical treatment on the side of a road.

IANS

Soldier allegedly involved in Bulandshahr firing detained

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A soldier allegedly involved in the Bulandshahr firing in Uttar Pradesh in which a police Inspector and a civilian were killed was detained by his unit in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, Army sources said.

Jitendra Malik alias Jeetu Fauji was detained by the 22 Rashtriya Rifles in Sopore town.

A special investigation team (SIT) of the Uttar Pradesh Police was expected to reach here later to take him into custody.

Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and a civilian, Sumit Kumar, were shot dead in Bulandshahr in mob violence last week.

IANS

Maharashtra man kills son-in-law

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 Enraged after his daughter was severely beaten, a man tied up and killed his son-in-law in a village in Maharashtra on Saturday, police said.

According to an official of the Kupwad MIDC Police Station, the incident occurred at around midnight where Geetanjali and her husband Dnyaneshwar Bamne had come from Basargi village to attend a carnival coinciding with some religious festivities.

Suddenly, a quarrel ensued between the couple, following which Bamne started brutally assaulting Geetanjali.

Her father Anna Shinde intervened, caught hold of Bamne, tied him to a pole and started kicking, punching and assaulting him with a stick.

Unable to defend himself, Bamne collapsed and died soon after, while Geetanjali was rushed to a hospital in critical condition, the police official said.

Shinde will be produced before a local court for remand later in the day.

Voting underway for 8th phase of J&K panchayat polls

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 Voting was underway on Saturday for the eighth phase of the panchayat polls across Jammu and Kashmir amid tight security.

Voting is being held at 2,633 polling stations — 550 in Kashmir and 2,083 in Jammu.

Polling started at 8 a.m. and will end at 2 p.m.

At least 361 polling stations have been categorised as hypersensitive — 171 in Kashmir and 190 in Jammu.

A total of 6304 candidates are in the fray for 331 sarpanch and 2,007 panch seats in this phase while 43 sarpanchs and 681 panchs have been elected unopposed.

Photo Voter Slips have been distributed among the people to inform them of their polling station.

By the end of the seventh phase that took place on December 4, an overall voter turnout of 73.8 per cent had been recorded across the state, with a poll percentage of 44.4 per cent in the Kashmir and 83.2 per cent in the Jammu.

The last election of the nine-phased polls will be held on December 11.

Panchayat polls were last held in Jammu and Kashmir in 2011.

IANS

 

Yogi most incompetent CM, only expert at communal polarisation: Samajwadi Party

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Yogi most incompetent CM, only expert at communal polarisation: Samajwadi Party
The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Saturday called Yogi Adityanath the “most incompetent Chief Minister” and accused him of only trying to fan communal passions in Uttar Pradesh.

Referring to Adityanath’s statement on the Bulandshahr violence which he termed as an “accident”, party spokesman Abdul Hafiz Gandhi said it showed how callous the Chief Minister has been in treating the incident in which two persons, including a police inspector were killed.

“The Chief Minister is blatantly polarising the polity in the state ahead of the Lok Sabha 2019 elections,” the SP leader said.

He also pointed out how neither the government nor the police were interested in arresting the main conspirator, Yogesh Raj, who was named in the First Information Report (FIR).

“The message is clear from the top that no harm would come to the BJP cadres, its affiliates and its ideological mentor the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) even if they take law into their own hands,” he added.

Talk of development and slogans like ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas’ were all hollow and the agenda of this government is communal polarisation and dividing the society on religious lines, the SP spokesman said.

The state government is under attack from various quarters for its failure to arrest the Bajrang Dal district convener Yogesh Raj, who not only unleashed chaos in the name of alleged cow slaughter but also incited violence, many feel.

Nine other accused have been arrested so far out of the 25 named in the FIR. The state government on Saturday moved out the Bulandshahr district police chief and two other police officials for not taking timely action.

IANS

 

‘Indian city’ Brampton to have Canada’s first world-class cricket stadium

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Toronto With its population of cricket-loving immigrants increasing rapidly, the Indian-dominated city of Brampton on the outskirts of Toronto will soon build the first world-class cricket stadium in Canada.

Announcing this while addressing members of the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce here on Friday, Brampton’s newly elected Mayor Patrick Brown said cricket is a passion in India as he has witnessed during his visits.

“That’s why we will build a world-class cricket stadium in Brampton during my term,” so that anyone coming from India to do business or live in his city doesn’t miss what they love, the Mayor told the Indo-Canadian gathering.

Known as a friend of India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Indo-Canadian community here, Brown, a former MP, has been to India 18 times during the past 11 years.

In fact, he started this year in India by doing a puja in Varanasi and offering prayers at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

The Indo-Canadian community accounts for a huge portion of the city’s population of over 600,000, with Punjabis alone making up over 20 per cent of its population.

To make the huge Indian community feel at home in his city, the Mayor said: “We will also have the first outdoor ‘garba’ this year out on the streets.”

He also mentioned that Brampton already allows the Indo-Canadian community to celebrate Diwali with fireworks.

The Mayor said that since creating jobs tops his agenda, he would take every step to make Brampton attractive for businesses and investors from anywhere, including India, by keeping the cost of doing business in his city low.

“There won’t be any tax increase during my term,” he said.

Describing Indian and other diaspora communities of his city as its biggest assets, the Mayor said he would use the huge Indian community to pitch his city to businesses in India.

“The Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce can open doors for Brampton in India. I have been India 18 times in 11 years and I will do now as Mayor to pitch Brampton to businesses in India,” he said.

Assuring the Indian-friendly Mayor of all support, Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce President Pramod Goyal said the chamber has been building business bridges between the two countries for over 40 years and creating jobs.

(IANS)

Google announces ‘Journalism AI’ project

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London To help news industry use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in more innovative ways, Google has announced a partnership with Polis, the international journalism think-tank at London School of Economics and Political Science, to create “Journalism AI”.

Part of the Google News Initiative (GNI), the “Journalism AI” project will focus on research and training for newsrooms on the intersection of AI and journalism.

“As part of ‘Journalism AI’, next year, we’ll publish a global survey about how the media is currently using — and could further benefit from — this technology,” Google said in a statement on Friday as it organised GNI Innovation Forum here.

“We’ll also collaborate with newsrooms and academic institutions to create a best practices handbook and produce free online training on how to use AI in the newsroom for journalists worldwide,” informed Matt Cooke, Head of Partnerships and Training, Google News Lab.

After testing with partners over the last two years, Google also introduced a new tool called Google Earth Studio which is an animation tool for Google Earth’s satellite and 3D imagery.

The tool empowers graphics specialists with new ways to leverage Google Earth imagery for storytelling.

“We’re inviting newsrooms around the world to start using the product for the first time,” said Google.

According to the company, it has provided free training to journalists on a range of tools reaching more than 140,000 people in-person.

“Our training on Google tools for journalists are now available in 16 languages — including Indonesian Bahasa, Thai and Turkish,” said Cooke.

Google News in November launched a new innovation challenge to help scribes and publishers in the Asia-Pacific region produce quality journalism in the digital age.

The Asia-Pacific Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge will fund selected projects up to $300,000 and finance up to 70 per cent of the total project cost, that inject new ideas into the news industry.

According to Google, in Asia-Pacific, journalists and publishers are increasingly grappling with questions over how quality journalism can thrive in the digital age.

“From Yangon to Manila, Sydney to New Delhi, they are experimenting with fresh approaches to reporting and new business models,” said the company.

(IANS)

Cold Saturday morning in Delhi, ‘very poor’ air

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New Delhi It was a cold Saturday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 7.6 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average, while the air quality remained in the ‘very poor’ category, the weather office said.

The average PM2.5 readings at 9 a.m. was recorded at 191 micrograms per cubic metre while the average PM10 readings at the time were 346 micrograms per cubic metre.

The humidity at 8.30 a.m. was 95 per cent, while visibility was 1,000 metres.

“The sky will remain clear throughout the day, with mist or shallow fog in the morning and haze or smog thereafter,” an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said.

The maximum temperature was likely to hover around 24 degrees Celsius.

On Friday, the maximum temperature settled at 24 degrees Celsius while the minimum temperature was recorded at 8.8 degree Celsius, both were the season’s average.

(IANS)

Noida airport to be built on PPP mode

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Noida The construction of the Noida International Airport at Jewar will be done on a public-private-partnership (PPP) mode, Uttar Pradesh authorities said on Saturday.

A government order has been issued by the Civil Aviation Department after a nod from the state cabinet.

At a cabinet meeting held earlier this week, it was decided that acquired land will be given on a 90-year lease to the Noida International Airport Limited (NAIL) and that it be vested the powers of selecting the developer.

Six villages — Bajauta Rajawaha, Rajwaha, Dayanatpur Rajawah, Kishrepur Alpika and Pathvaya Nala — are likely to be shifted for the purpose. The irrigation department will oversee and facilitate the shifting process, an official told IANS.

The state government has also ratified the financial and administrative clearance of Rs 4,500 crore required for acquisition of 1,239.14 hectares of land at a price of Rs 2,300 per square metres.

The government land that comes in the ambit of the airport will, however, be transferred free of cost to the airport.

The state government has also asked the officials to construct new primary, secondary schools for children who will be shifted to new places after the land where they live and study would be acquired for the project.

Chief Secretary Anoop Chandra Pandey has also directed officials of the Women and Child Welfare Department to build a new ‘aanganwadi’ centre.

Officials have also be instructed to get the barren lands converted into cultivable land for use of agriculture purposes against all the agriculture land that is set to be acquired for the purpose of construction of the airport.

(IANS)

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