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Indian communication satellite GSAT-31 set for launch on Wednesday

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C All is set for the launch of India’s 40th communication satellite GSAT-31 early on Wednesday by an Ariane 5 rocket belonging to Arianespace, said the European space agency.

In a statement, Arianespace said the launch will be the first of the planned 12 missions in 2019 using its heavy-lift Ariane 5, medium-lift Soyuz and lightweight Vega rockets.

The Ariane 5 rocket will carry two satellites – Saudi Geostationary Satellite 1/Hellas Sat 4 and the GSAT-31.

According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the 2,535-kg GSAT-31 is the 40th communication satellite and would augment the Ku-band transponder capacity in geostationary orbit.

The ISRO said GSAT-31, with a mission life of 15 years, will be used for supporting VSAT networks, television uplinks, digital satellite news gathering, DTH television services, cellular backhaul connectivity and more.

The two Ku-band beacon downlink signals are transmitted by the satellite for ground tracking purpose, it said.

Bollywood Buzz

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 Bollywood Celebs Unveiled The Crown Of Miss & Mrs. Tiara India. 

 Bollywood celebs like Rahul Roy, Rushad Rana, Jasveer Kaur, Rekha Rana and others came to unveil the crown of Miss & Mrs Tiara. India. Rekha Mirajkar & Rushikesh Mirajkar invited the guestfrom Film & TV Industry to unveil the crown of Miss & Mrs. Tiara India at The Empresa Hotel, Andheri (West) Mumbai. 

Bollywood actors namely Rahul Roy, Rushad Rana, Avinash Mukherjee, Jasveer Kaur, Rekha Khan, Ajay Keswani, Shweta Khanduri et al came especially to be a part of this grand event.

 

More than 45 models took part in the audition round. Dipali Gokhe who is Mrs. Supernational Tiara will represent India for International pageant.Chahat Singh who is Miss Teen Global Tiara will represent India for International pageant. 

The brands who supported the event are Adamo, The Empresa Hotel, B Blunt, Plum Nails, AM Media, Dr. Disha, Madhu Ranjeet Singh Image consultant, Brilante, Wed in India, Dr. Gayatri, Varbi, EDGE,  Raddison MIDC,  SCAN Fitness,  Shutter Juice, Altams Rizwi, Prayas,  Cherlyn Monta & Landmark.  

Adityanath won’t win another election from UP: Mamata

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Nasheman News : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday came down heavily on her Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath, accusing him of abetting lynchings and claiming that the saffron party leader will fail to win another election in his state.

She was responding to a question regarding Adityanath’s public address in Bengal’s Purulia, after the state government denied him permission to land his chopper for a rally in Bengal’s South Dinajpur on Sunday. 

Following this, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minster addressed two rallies over the phone on Sunday and entered the state by road on Tuesday.

His second address at a meeting in Bankura district on Tuesday was cancelled, BJP sources said.

“So many people have been killed, even policemen were murdered. How many people have been lynched in Uttar Pradesh? Let him take care of UP first,” Banerjee said.

“If he fights the election from a UP seat now, he will lose. He has no place in UP, which is why he is coming to Bengal. Let him come,” she said.

Lunches get political ahead of Lok Sabha polls

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Nasheman News :  As the Lok Sabha elections approach, lunches hosted by politicians are getting traction not only for the who’s who attending them but also for the message these apparently send about the host’s political stocks within his party and outside.

There have been quite a few lunches and get-togethers over the past few weeks, most of them being annual events. The events were hosted by leaders from across the political divide including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

The lunch hosted by Union Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal was the talk of the town as it was attended by women leaders of several parties.

There was an evident bonhomie between NCP’s Supriya Sule, DMK’s Kanimozhi, Union Minister Smriti Irani and BJP MP Kirron Kher.

A picture of the event, tweeted by Harsimrat Kaur Badal a day later, showed the women leaders holding each other’s hands.

“Life worked its magic on us yesterday afternoon, when a routine lunch became a trip to childhood,” she said in the tweet. The lunch was held a day for before the day of interim budget.

It was also attended by NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Health Minister J.P. Nadda. The leaders treated themselves to some sumptuous Punjabi dishes.

Another lunch hosted by former Union Minister and NCP leader Praful Patel for journalists in the first week of January appeared to be a show of strength of opposition leaders who are coming together with the goal of defeating the BJP and ousting the Narendra Modi government in the coming Lok Sabha election.

Those who attended it included Congress’ Ahmed Patel, BSP’s Satish Chandra Mishra, SP’s Ram Gopal Yadav and Jaya Bachchan, DMK’s Kanimozhi and Tiruchi Siva, Trinamool’s Derek O’Brien and Dinesh Trivedi, CPI-M’s Sitaram Yechury, CPI’s D. Raja, National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah and Lalu Prasad’s daughter Misa Bharti of the RJD. 

They also posed for a group photograph as a message of opposition unity.

On Sunday, BJP President Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh launched party’s campaign seeking suggestions from the voters for the party’s poll manifesto. 

The programme, followed by lunch, was attended by several Union Ministers, besides editors from different media houses.

Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, Radha Mohan Singh, Anupriya Patel, Ashwini Choubey and Vijay Goel, besides former Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy, too, hosted lunches for journalists which were attended by senior party leaders. BJP MP Udit Raj also held a get-together over “Litti Chokha”.

Most of the lunches were held around Makar Sakranti, which is celebrated across the country in different ways. 

Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda hosted lunch on Makar Sakranti at his residence which was attended by several senior Congress leaders including Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mallikarjun Kharge, Ahmed Patel, Motilal Vora and Janardan Dwivedi. 

Apart from Deepender Hooda and his son, several second-generation Congress leaders were present including R.P.N. Singh and Madhu Goud Yaskhi.

Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi also hosted a lunch for media persons in the second week of January which was attended by several party leaders including Ahmed Patel and Dwivedi. 

Couple held for robbing, killing Uber driver

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Nasheman News :A couple in a live-in relationship were arrested for robbing and killing a Uber driver, a police officer said on Monday.

“The accused, Farhat Ali, 34 and his partner Seema Sharma, 30, were arrested on Sunday after they were seen in CCTV footage around the cab of the deceased who was identified as Ram Govind,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Vijayanta Arya said.

The incident was reported to police on January 29 when the victim’s wife, a resident of Shakarpur area of east Delhi, filed a missing complaint of her husband who drove a Uber cab.

“During investigation, we found it was a blind case as there were no witnesses. The last ride of the cab was booked from Madangir to Kapashera border and thereafter the GPS device was found to have stopped working,” Arya said.

“With the help of technical surveillance, the mobile phone of Govind was recovered and the police teams found a couple moving around the cab on the Mehrauli-Gurugram road,” she said.

The police team zeroed in the couple later identified as Ali, of Uttar Pradesh’s Amroha and Sharma, of the state’s Sambhal and arrested them, the DCP said.

“During interrogation, the accused disclosed that they, early on January 29, hired Govind’s cab from MG road to go to Ghaziabad where they were staying on rent. They, on the way, hatched a plan to rob the deceased and as per the plan, took him to their home and offered him tea laced with sedative,” she added.

“They later killed Govind by strangling him. Next day, they arranged a cutter and blades in order to cut the body into small pieces and wrapped it three separates bundles. They later thew them in a drain at Greater Noida,” Arya said.

“The Hyundai Xcent car and Govind’s mobile phones were recovered from the possession of the duo,” the officer said, adding that the motive for the crime was the accused’s dire need of money.

38 Rohingyas, mostly minors, sent to judicial custody in Tripura

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Nasheman News :  In all, 38 Rohingya Muslims, mostly children, detained from different parts of Tripura by the security forces, were on Monday sent to judicial custody and juvenile homes, police said.

A police official said that a local court in Agartala sent 31 Rohingya Muslims, including seven women and 17 children, for another term of judicial custody.

“The court offered bail to the adult foreigners, but they could not submit the bail bond, hence they would be in judicial custody till February 13. The 17 children will stay along with their mothers in the central jail,” the official said.

According to him, the Border Security Force (BSF) had on January 22 handed over 31 Rohingya Muslims, who were stranded along the India-Bangladesh border since January 18, to the Tripura Police. Ever since, they were in the judicial custody and their 14-day judicial custody was ending on Monday.

Another local court in northern Tripura’s Dharmanagar, 190 km north of the state capital, also sent seven more children of Rohingya Muslims to the juvenile home in the northern Tripura’s district headquarters.

“The seven children would be in juvenile home till their cases are settled,” an official of Government Railway Police (GRP) said.

The Railway Protection Force (RPF) of the Northeast Frontier Railways on Sunday detained six girls and a boy, belonging to the Rohingya community, at the Dharmanagar Railway Station adjoining Assam.

The children, aged between 13 to 17 years, were subsequently handed over to the GRP.

“The GRP on Monday produced the children in the local court and the court sent them to juvenile home,” the official said.

He said that these children accompanied by touts reached Dharmanagar from Agartala by bus and intended to go to Badarpur in southern Assam by train. But, before the detention of these children, the touts fled.

With this, 68 Rohingya Muslims, mostly children, have been apprehended in Tripura and Assam-Tripura border in the last two weeks.

Tripura has a 856 km-long international border with Bangladesh, most of which is fenced except a stretch of nearly 20 km.


India aim to carry ODI momentum to T20I vs New Zealand

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Nasheman News :  After clinching the five match One-Day International (ODI) series, a confident India will aim to carry the momentum to the three match Twenty20 International (T20I) series when they face New Zealand in the opening match at the Westpac Stadium here on Wednesday.

In the ODIs, India comprehensively outplayed the hosts to clinch the series 4-1. India looked out of sorts only in Hamilton but they bounced back in style in the last match and will aim to carry the momentum to the shortest format with some more promising players joining the squad.

“We would be looking to win the series and carry the momentum back home for the Australia series,” Shikhar Dhawan told reporters on Tuesday. 

This T20I series will also be a good opportunity for youngsters like Krunal Pandya, Rishabh Pant, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, Shubman Gill to rise to the occasion and stake a claim for a World Cup spot.

Veteran India wicketkeeper-batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni also returned to the T20I squad after a long hiatus. The Ranchi stumper last featured in a T20 match in July.

In the absence of regular skipper Virat Kohli who has been rested, Rohit Sharma will lead the squad and will be aiming to repeat the result of the ODI series. 

Apart from that, India’s batting seemed settled with the likes of opener Shikhar Dhawan, swashbuckling batsman Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, Kedar Jadhav and Dhoni in the squad.

In the bowling department, India will miss the services of pacer Jasprit Bumrah, who has also been rested.

Pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar will lead the pace attack which comprises of Mohammad Siraj, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed and all-rounder Hardik Pandya.

The spin department will consist of chinaman Kuldeep Yadav and Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal. Part-time spinners Kedar Jadhav and Krunal Pandya might come into the picture as well.

New Zealand, on the other hand, will miss the services of opener Martin Guptill. Failing to recover from a back injury, the experienced batsman was ruled out of the series.

Guptill had sustained the injury while throwing a ball during fielding practice on the eve of the fifth ODI after which he was forced to miss that contest.

The Kiwi opener underwent a fitness test on Monday morning where he continued to feel pain in his lower back. Later, New Zealand coach Gary Stead confirmed that Guptill will miss the series.

Bowling all-rounder James Neesham, who was earlier left out of the T20I squad, has now been included as Guptill’s replacement.

A lot will depend on the top-four batsmen — Kane Williamson, Doug Bracewell, Colin de Grandhomme and Lockie Ferguson. They need to click for New Zealand to have the upper hand.

The middle-order consists of youngsters Scott Kuggeleijn and Daryl Mitchell. The duo will be supported by veteran batsman Ross Taylor.

In the bowling department, it will be interesting to see the performances of debutant all-rounder Daryl Mitchell and pacer Blair Tickner in the absence of star pacer Trent Boult, who has been rested. 

Spinners Ish Sodhi and Mitchell Santner have also been included in the squad.

Squads:

New Zealand: Kane Williamson (c), Doug Bracewell, Colin de Grandhomme, Lockie Ferguson, Scott Kuggeleijn, Colin Munro, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner, Tim Seifert, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, Blair Tickner, James Neesham.

India: Rohit Sharma(c), Shikhar Dhawan, Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, Kedar Jadhav, M.S. Dhoni, Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, Shubman Gill, Vijay Shankar, Hardik Pandya, Mohammad Siraj. 


Indian cricket fever to get on Netflix in March

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Nasheman News : Online streaming website Netflix has announced its first Indian sports documentary “Cricket Fever: Mumbai Indians”, which will premiere on March 1.

The docu-series, produced by Conde Nast Entertainment, will follow the Mumbai Indians on the road through the course of the 2018 Indian Premier League (IPL) season as they sought to defend their 2017 IPL crown, read a statement. 

The series documents the unseen action, both on and off the field, starting with the 2018 IPL auction, when the entire team was re-organised, and closes with the end of their IPL campaign. It charts the emotional arc of the team, including the intense pressure the team faces. 

It documents highly personal journeys of the young and talented team, led by captain Rohit Sharma, owners Nita and Akash Ambani as well as the brilliance of their coach – Sri Lankan legend Mahela Jayawardene.

I-League: Indian Arrows hope to leapfrog defending champions Minerva Punjab

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Nasheman News : Indian Arrows will look to leapfrog defending champions Minerva Punjab FC when the two sides meet in an I-League encounter here on Tuesday.

Miverva had overcome the Arrows by a solitary goal in the first leg fixture more than two months back, but the youngsters under the able stewardship of coach Floyd Pinto, have found a semblance of consistency in performance since then.

The Arrows lie ninth on the table with 13 points from 15 games and if they can pull off a win on Tuesday, they would move clear of seventh-placed Minerva and eighth-placed Aizawl, both of whom have 14 points from the same number of games.

Minerva’s problems have been compounded by the fact that they have not won in eight games in two months, and have scored just once in that period. They go into Tuesday’s game after shock losses to Aizawl and bottom-placed Shillong at home.

Their Irish coach Paul Munster said in the pre-match press conference: “The mood has been very good and training has been very positive. We are over here with a positive attitude and ready for the game tomorrow.”

“It’s a very important match for us and we know we have a chance of winning the away game. After this game, we are again travelling for AFC. So this game is a moral and confidence booster for us to get three points for the players.

“We know that Indian Arrows are all young players, full of energy and they are very committed. We have a lot of young players, and they too are just as energetic and perhaps a bit more experienced in the mix. Hoping that to be the turning point for tomorrow,” he added.

The Arrows, on the other hand, have fought every game of the league and have an eager eye for goal and easily last 90 minutes.

Floyd Pinto’s young guns trounced Shillong 3-0 before giving tough fights in losses against the likes of Quess East Bengal, Churchill Brothers and Neroca FC, all firm title contenders at this stage. They also scored six times in that four-game period.

Arrows’ coach Pinto was upbeat before match day, saying “Every match for us is a challenge. We take every match with the aim of winning. The last few matches, we have been on the wrong side of a one goal game. We are reasonably happy with our effort.”

“It is high time we score some points. It is a tough game tomorrow — a 90-min battle. Last match in Chandigarh, we were not able to convert our chances. We have always been a team very difficult to beat. Our conversion rate has improved. It’s now the time to take the right decisions at this point in the league,” said Pinto.

Minerva have eased in the likes of Juan Quero and Mahmoud Al Amna in their previous game and will be banking heavily on their class and experience to put it across the Arrows.

Cricketer Bhajji to promote Punjab fitness campaign

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Nasheman News : Former Indian Test spinner Harbhajan Singh on Monday offered to voluntarily promote the Punjab government’s ‘Tandarust Punjab Mission’, a state minister said here.

Punjab Sports Minister Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi lauded the cricketer for offering to contribute towards promoting health and fitness in the state under the government’s flagship mission. Popularly known as ‘Bhajji’, Singh met the minister here and expressed his willingness to participate in the campaign.

Sodhi asked Singh to leverage his appeal with youngsters in supporting the state government drive to eradicate drug menace from Punjab.

“It is Punjab’s good luck that a sportsman like Rana Sodhi is at the helm of affairs. Being an athlete, Sodhi knows the needs of a sportsperson, which is the best thing for the sporting ecosystem to evolve,” Singh said.

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