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CM criticises Modi over his remarks on Rajiv

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Puducherry, May 6 : Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Monday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks on former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in an election meeting few days ago.

Talking to news persons here, Mr Narayanasamy said Mr Modi had termed Rajiv Gandhi as “corrupt” and added that when charges were leveled against him in the Bofors issue, Rajiv Gandhi ordered for an inquiry by a Parliamentary Committee.

The Committee conducted an inquiry and termed him as innocent. Even then, a petition was filed in the Court against him and his innocence was proven in the court too.

However, Mr Modi hiding all these facts termed Rajiv Gandhi as ‘corrupt’ in the election meeting to malign his name which need to be condemned and the people of the country will not accept it .

He said as per the Indian culture we will not criticize a leader who is no more. But lowering himself and forgetting that he is the Prime Minister, Mr Modi leveled a baseless allegation against Rajiv Gandhi with which he himself paved the way for the people of the country to ask whether he is fit to continue as the Prime minster.

The Chief Minister said all political party leaders had condemned this remarks of Modi against Rajiv and added that as Mr Modi is gripped by fear of defeat he is speaking as he wish and levelling ‘false’ allegations against political party leaders in election meetings.

This is the end of the road for Mr Modi, he said, adding that the BJP and its alliance partners will face a massive defeat in the Lok Sabha Election.

Indian Navy launches fourth Scorpene class submarine Vela

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Scorpene class submarine Vela, equipped with modern machinery and technology to guard the seas, was launched on Monday in Mumbai, an official said.
 
It will undergo a number of tests by the Indian Navy before it getscommissioned in the defence fleet, the official added.
 
It is the fourth submarine to be launched by the state-owned Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) after entering into a contract for the construction and transfer of technology for six Scorpene class submarines with French collaborator Ms Naval Group (formerly known as DCNS).

“Today, we are bringing the new Vela with modern machinery and technology to guard the seas,” an official from MDL said.

INS Vela was first commissioned on August 31, 1973 in the Indian Naval service and continued to serve for 37 years. It was the oldest submarine of the country when it was decommissioned on June 25, 2010, MDL said in a statement.

The fifth Scorpene class submarine will also be launched soon, he said.

MDL recently reported an annual turnover of Rs 4,500 crore, the official added.

It is the fourth submarine to be launched by the state-owned Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders

Despite violence, West Bengal churns out 50% turnout; overall at 40% till 2p m : Lok Sabha Polls 2019

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Voters display their voter identity cards while stand in a queue to cast their votes for the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019 at a polling station in Hajipur on Monday.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni casts his vote at a polling booth in Jawahar Vidya Mandir in Ranchi, Jharkhand.

dhoni

Total voter turnout till 2pm: 40.75%

Bihar – 32.27%

Jammu and Kashmir – 11.35%

Madhya Pradesh – 43.85%

Rajasthan – 42.77%

Uttar Pradesh – 35.15%

West Bengal – 50.78%

Jharkhand – 45.98%

Narsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh: Actor Ashutosh Rana after casting his vote at polling booth number 105 in Gadarwara.

Ashutosh Rana

Smriti Irani: I tweeted an alert to administration and EC(alleging booth capturing in Amethi), hope they take action. People of the country have to decide whether this kind of politics of Rahul Gandhi should be punished or not.

Smriti Irani

Polls in Uttar Pradesh

Nearly 23 per cent turnout was recorded Monday in the first four hours of polling in 14 Lok Sabha seats of UP where Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Smriti Irani, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi are in the fray.

Among early voters in the state capital included Home Minister Singh, BSP supremo Mayawati, Deputy CM Dinesh Sharma, BSP General Secretary Satish Chandra Mishra, DGP OP Singh and Principal Secretary (Home) Arvind Kumar.

Election officials here said polling was going on smoothly, barring some complaints of EVM malfunctioning, which were attended to immediately.

Union minister and the BJP’s Amethi candidate Smriti Irani alleged that Congress president Rahul Gandhi was “ensuring booth capturing” in the constituency.

Polling in Madhya Pradesh

An average 29.76 per cent polling was recorded till noon in seven Lok Sabha seats of Madhya Pradesh on Monday, an election official said.

Polling was underway since 7 am in the seven constituencies – Tikamgarh, Damoh, Khajuraho, Satna, Rewa, Hoshangabad and Betul.

Long queues of voters were seen at some polling booths, the official said.

Voting figures till noon were as follows: Tikamgarh 28.81 per cent, Damoh- 28.23 per cent, Khajuraho- 29.73 per cent, Satna- 28.25 per cent, Rewa- 28.13 per cent, Hoshangabad- 31.14 per cent and Betul- 33.14 per cent.

All these seats are currently held by the BJP.

Fashion Round Up

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Prachi Desai Walked The Ramp In Dubai
Tefla’s which is known for conceptualizing, planning & organizing research-based industry-specific conference & Exhibition in tandem with industry leaders & associations organized the 
“Indie Fashion & Lifestyle Confluence” at Hotel Al Habtoor Polo Resort in Dubai on 29th Apr, 2019. Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Executive Chairman, DMCC was the esteemed Chief Guest for the event. The 1 day confluence celebrated, acknowledged & also awarded the stalwarts within India’s Fashion, Jewellery, Lifestyle & Entertainment segment. 

With the intent to diversify & create a dynamic platform for Indie designers, IFLC has been strategically designed to act as a Launchpad for the upcoming talents & brands who wish to reach out to a broader consumer base. Having curated 5 editions in the mega metro cities – Mumbai, Delhi & Dubai, IFLC brought forth a glamorous showcase by some of the most promising designers, focused networking opportunities & enigmatic performances by celebrities & entertainers.
To name a few eminent designers associated with the confluence were Asma Suleman, Gagan Kumar, Bani Pasricha, Binal Shah, Sonali Jain et al. The participating designers brought forth an eclectic showcase influenced by a beautiful blend of modern & ethnic designs from culturally rich destinations such as India & the Middle East.
At IFLC Dubai 2019, the gorgeous & the versatile Bollywood actress Prachi Desai walked the ramp & also felicitated the participating brands. Apart from this, the confluence also witnessed a mesmerizing live performance by Bollywood playback singer & India’s 1st Rawstar – Rituraj Mohanty.
Aseem Singh, Director – Tefla’s & Organizer IFLC is of the view, “I am happy to take this initiative ahead & go International within a very short span of time. Every participant gets a chance to showcase their talents in front of the industry & this platform intends to assist emerging artists to market themselves through varied routes & keep growing.”

The show is ideal for Celebrities, Traditional, Contemporary & Modern Designers, Jewelers, Makeup Artist, Hairstylist, Wedding Planners, accessories manufacturer, Elite & Affluent Buyers with an Eye for Art & Stylists & Experts from India to visit. 

Hollywood Round Up

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‘Crawl’ Opens In Theaters On 12TH Jul 2019

If the storm doesn’t get you, they will. From The hills Have Eyes director Alexandre Aja & producer Sam Raimi comes Crawl, a nail-biting horror thriller crawling into cinemas this summer! So Crawl opens in theaters on 12th Jul, 2019 & it is exclusively distributed in India by Viacom18 Motion Pictures.

When a massive hurricane hits her Florida hometown, Haley Pepper (Kaya Scodelario) ignores evacuation orders to search for her missing father (Barry Pepper). Finding him gravely injured in the Crawl space of their family home, the 2 become trapped by quickly encroaching floodwaters. As time runs out to escape the strengthening storm, Haley Pepper & her father discover that the rising water level is the least of their fears. From director Alexandre Aja (of The Hills Have Eyes fame) & producers Craig Flores (of 300 fame), Sam Raimi (of Don’t Breathe & Evil Dead fame) & Alexandre Aja, Crawl is indeed a nail-biting horror thriller releasing in theaters on 12th Jul, 2019.

The Killer Alligator Facts

They are like living dinosaurs

Alligators 1st ever appeared some 37 million years ago, making them the officially living dinosaurs.

Alligators see you first

Alligators have a built in night vision, giving them the ability to track their prey even in total darkness.

Alligators are everywhere

Over 5 mm alligators & crocodiles live in the world

Alligators have got quite the bite

An alligator’s jaw exerts 1342 kg Of pressure, giving them the most powerful bite ever recorded in a living animal.

Even Oympian’s can’t out-swim alligators

An alligator can swim at the speed of 32.18km / Hr.

The credits of the film are directed by Alexandre Aja, written by Michael Rasmussen & Shawn Rasmussen, produced by Craig Flores, P.G.A., Sam Raimi, P.G.A. & Alexandre Aja, P.G.A. & executive produced by Gregory Levasseur, Justin Bursch & Lauren Selig. Crawl stars Kaya Scodelario & Barry Pepper 

Nearly 365 north Karnataka students miss NEET due to 7-hour train delay

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Bengaluru: Nearly 365 students from north Karnataka missed appearing for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) here on Sunday, as the train in which they were travelling reached Bengaluru over seven hours late, an official said.

“The Hampi Express (train No. 16591) from Hubli to Mysuru via Koppal, Hospet and Bellary reached Bengaluru over seven hours late at 2:36 p.m. instead of the scheduled 7 a.m. arrival. As the test began at 2 p.m., the candidates could not reach the examination centres across the city in time,” South Western Railway (SWR) spokesperson E. Vijaya said in a statement here.

When the candidates staged a protest outside the railway station for missing the test for no fault of theirs, the SWR agreed to write to the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development (HRD) for re-conducting the test for them at the earliest.


ABVP demands NEET re-exam

“We will write to the Ministry on Monday with details of the candidates who missed the test due to the train delay for re-conducting it soon,” said Vijaya.

The Railways, however, attributed the delay due to the diversion of the train route from the normal route due to doubling of line work and operational reasons since May 3.

“The diverted route is 120 km longer and involved reversing the train engine at Bellary. The train departed Hubli on Saturday night 2 hours late at 8:20 p.m. instead of 6:20 p.m. and got further delayed enroute for operational reasons,” the official admitted.

One of the candidates also tweeted to HRD Minister Prakash Javdekar that the train was running behind schedule by seven hours and that they would miss the test for no fault of theirs.

Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy also urged Javdekar and Railway Minister Piyush Goyal to ensure that the students who missed the test get another chance to write the NEET.

Hundreds of students from North Karnataka districts have missed the #NEET Exam being held today at Bengaluru due to a 7-hour delay of the Hampi Express. A last-minute change in the exam centres and lack of proper communication of the same has created confusion among students.

“Hundreds of students from north Karnataka districts have missed the #NEET being held in Bengaluru due to 7-hour delay of the Hampi Express,” tweeted Kumaraswamy.

The HRD ministry conducts the NEET every year in May for securing admission to state-run and private medical and dental colleges across the country for graduate and post-graduate courses.

Agencies

Man get 2-yr RI in molestation case

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Thane, May 6 : A local court has sentenced a 57-year-old man to two rigorous imprisonment on charge of molesting a teenager here.
District Judge Ms SA Sinha on Saturday, also fined Arif Ahmed Memon a sum of Rs 500 under section 354A of the IPC.

Appearing for prosecution, APP Vijay Munde told the court that on May 17, 2017 around 2000 hrs, when the victim (12) was sitting outside her house, the accused made indecent gestures and touched her inappropriately.

The accused was earlier convicted for an offence of rape punishable under section 376 of the IPC in 2010 and was out after serving seven years RI in the jail.

Focus TV chief arrested for allegedly blackmailing BJP MLA Aravind Limbavali

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Hemanth had allegedly demanded Rs 50 lakh claiming he had a sex tape of the legislator.

The Bengaluru Police have arrested the Managing Director of Kannada news channel Focus TV on Sunday for allegedly blackmailing a BJP MLA. The Central Crime Branch sleuths arrested Hemanth M Kammar for allegedly blackmailing Mahadevapura MLA Aravind Limbavali by alleging he had a sex tape of the legislator.

According to the CCB sleuths, Hemanth had demanded Rs 50 lakh from the legislator. A resident of Yelahanka New Town, he had launched the channel in 2018.

Police say that on May 2, Girish Bharadwaj MLA Limbavali’s assistant filed a complaint with DCP Whitefield Abdul Ahad. Bengaluru Police Commissioner T Suneel Kumar transferred the case to CCB.
According to CCB sources, Hemanth had shut down the channel a few months ago due to severe losses. However, Hemanth had allegedly been blackmailing MLA Limbavali since February 10 this year.

“There was an explicit and morphed video of the MLA which was uploaded by a man named Raghu Mourya on Facebook in May 2018. He took it down but in February this year, Hemanth called up MLA Limbavali and told him that he had a video that would compromise his reputation and that the Chief Minister’s office was pressuring him to give them copies of the video,” the police said.

Police suspect that Hemanth was trying to extort money from the MLA in order to be able to pay off the people he owed money to as the news channel was running under severe loss.

“He told the MLA that a man named Satish from the CMO wanted the video and that the BBMP corporators from Congress and JD(S) and even the Anti-Corruption Bureau sleuths wanted copies of the video so it could be leaked to the media. He blackmailed MLA Limbavali and told him that he would destroy the video if he paid up Rs 50 lakh,” the police added.

Police say that MLA Limbavali’s assistant called Hemanth on February 11 and asked him why he needed the money. However, Hemanth allegedly told Girish that he had obligations to fulfil. “Girish has claimed that the video is morphed. We have arrested Hemanth and are currently questioning him. However, we suspect that he wanted the money to start the channel once again and so he decided to blackmail the MLA,” the police added.

Hemanth has been booked under sections 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 384 (extortion), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 204 (destruction of documents) of the Indian Penal Code and also under various sections of the IT Act. He was produced before the magistrate and is currently in police custody. 

Agencies

Police close sexual harassment case against Asianet News COO, citing lack of evidence

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The Bengaluru police probing the sexual harassment allegations against Chief Operating Officer of ARG Outlier Asianet News, Abhinav Khare, has filed a B report alleging that the charge sheet could not be filed due to lack of evidence.

In October 2017, Abhinav Khare was accused of sexually harassing Sonam Mahajan who had joined as a strategy consultant at Namma Bengaluru Foundation. BJP MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar is the Founder Trustee and Chairman of Namma Bengaluru Foundation (NBF) and former board member of ARG Outlier Asianet News. The NBF, Asianet and Rajeev’s venture capital firm Jupiter Capital Private Limited work out of the same building in Bengaluru.

Though Sonam had joined the team as a strategy consultant to help Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s political office, she was told that she would be under the payrolls of NBF. Abhinav Khare was the person to whom she was reporting.

A few days later, she complained that Abhinav Khare was harassing her and wanted Rajeev’s office to reassign her to a new team. But instead of a transfer, what followed was a long process of inquiry, rounds of talks and finally a gag order on the woman.

Meanwhile, in June 2018, an ad-hoc committee of three members gave its final report. The report found that most of the allegations made by Sonam were true and Khare should tender a written apology to her.

The police, however say that they interviewed 15 employees of Namma Bengaluru Foundation and Jupiter Capital India Pvt Ltd in connection with the case.

“None of the firm’s employees spoke in favour of the complainant. We interviewed 15 employees who worked with the woman and the accused but not one person’s testimony had anything to back the complainant’s claims. In fact many of them alleged she behaved inappropriately. Some said her performance was not satisfactory and the complaint was vendetta,” the police said. At least one employee has changed her version, after initially supporting Sonam.

The police further claimed that when the FIR was registered, the complainant had informed them that she had screenshots of WhatsApp messages and also a few recorded calls, which she would produce as proof of the sexual harassment that she allegedly faced from Abhinav. However, the police alleged that the complainant did not furnish any of these documents and did not cooperate with the police during the investigation.

However, speaking to media, Sonam denied the police’s claims.

“This is blatantly false. The police contacted me and told me that my husband should give a statement. I informed them that I was not in town and that my husband and I would come down to the station a week later. In between, the police kept sending me messages to appear for questioning. I called DCP Annamalai and he informed me that my husband’s statement is not required and only my statement is needed. Besides, I had told the police that I did not have any screenshots. I don’t know why they are making such claims. The entire investigation is one-sided and I am going to move the court against the B report,” the complainant said.

The woman has also filed a complaint against the Basavanagudi Women’s Police with DCP Annamalai, stating that the investigation was not conducted properly. “DCP Annamalai told me that the B report has already been filed and the next step is to challenge it in the court. That’s the only thing I can do now, which I will,” she added.

Abhinav Khare in a statement called the woman an extortionist. “In the last 18 months she has changed her lie 4 times from “borderline harassment” to “Verbal harassment” to “sexual assault” and now back to “verbal harassment”. Despite 18 months long smear campaign and media trial by her, not a single witness or evidence had corroborated her lies. If I’m a serial offender as she falsely claims, I challenge her openly through your media to produce any “complainant/past victim” against me. On the other hand, multiple victims of her extortion have come forward. I’m relieved that Police after extensive investigation of 6 months and recording statements from dozens of witnesses have submitted a B-report. I was treated as criminal even without an iota of evidence that could be produced by Mrs. Mahajan. I’m still trying to recover from the pain, humiliation, character assassination that she had done with the help of some media platforms. I’d like to thank my present and past female colleagues for their support in my fight.”

Agencies

Pakistani doctor arrested after 90 infected by HIV syringe

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Officials say they traced the outbreak to a doctor, who allegedly used a contaminated syringe on patients.

Authorities were first alerted last week after 18 children tested positive for the HIV [Shakil Adil/AP]

At least 90 people, including 65 children, are believed to have been infected with HIV in Pakistanby a doctor using a contaminated syringe, officials said.

“We have arrested a doctor after receiving complaints from the health authorities,” said Kamran Nawaz, the local police chief heading the case in the southern city of Larkana, on Friday.

“We are told that the doctor also has HIV,” he said.

Authorities were first alerted last week after 18 children living on the outskirts of the city tested positive for the virus, which causes AIDS, prompting health officials to carry out wider screenings. Dozens of more infections were found.

“More than 90 people have tested HIV-positive and the number of children is around 65,” Dr Abdul Rehaman, a district health official in Larkana, told AFP news agency.

A second official confirmed the outbreak, although gave slightly different figures.

Authorities said they traced the outbreak to a single doctor, who appears to have been using a contaminated syringe on patients.

Azra Pechuho, Sindh province’s health minister, confirmed his arrest. “The blood of the parents of the infected children was also tested, but their results were negative,” he said.

Officials have since launched an even larger testing and education drive.

Pakistan is considered a low prevalence country for HIV, but the disease is expanding – mostly among intravenous drug users, sex workers and migrant labourers returning from the Gulf.

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