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Modi prays at Kashi Vishwanath temple along with Shah and Yogi

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Varanasi, May 27 : Days before taking the oath of PM for the second term on May 30, Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi worshiped at the Kashi Vishwanath temple here on Monday in his parliamentary constituency.
Mr Modi went for a special prayer and with the assistance of 11 priests did ‘ Rurda Abhishek’ of Lord Shiva during his 30 minutes prayer.
BJP president Amit Shah and UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath was also present on the occasion.
Modi offered Gangajal, cow milk and honey on the shivling for Rudra Abhishek, admist chanting of sholakas and hymn by the priests in the background. Later in a special prayer, the PM designated, offered a 108 lotus garland to the Shivling.

It might be mentioned here that Lotus is the election symbol of BJP.

At the end of the Puja, the head priests put Chandan on the forehead of the PM, Shah and Yogi and gave them prasad and Rudraksh mala. PM too gave some dakshina to the priests for performing the prayer for him.
The PM and other dignitaries also went for the parikarma of the temple premises amid raising of Har Har Mahadev and Modi-Modi slogans by the people.

Modi left for Deendayala Hastkala Shakul at Bara Lalpur, after worshiping at the Kashi Vishwanath temple by road where he will address the party workers.

Earlier, Modi was given a rousing welcome on his first arrival to his parliamentary constituency after making a record margin victory in the Lok Sabha polls to get the second term.

During his short travel by SUV throughout the city, the people showered flower petals and raised Modi-Modi slogans amid severe heat wave conditions.
At the airport Mr Modi was welcomed by UP governor Ram Naik, BJP president Amit Shah and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Mr Modi’s arrival in Varanasi is being considered as a thanksgiving visit before taking oath of the PM for the second term on May 30. Mr Modi won the Varanasi parliamentary seat by a huge margin of 4,79,505 votes, defeating his nearest rival Shalini Yadav of the Samajwadi Party.

Modi, Rajnath greets Gadkari on his 62nd birthday

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New Delhi, May 27 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh, who served as Union Home Minister in the previous BJP-led NDA government, on Monday greeted former BJP president Nitin Gadkari on his 62nd birthday.
In the previous BJP-led NDA government, Mr Gadkari was holding the portfolio of Road Transport and Highways.
”Greetings to my valued colleague @nitin_gadkari Ji on his birthday. Gadkari Ji has made a mark as a good organiser, who has strengthened BJP at the grassroots and an effective minister, who has contributed to creating new infrastructure. Praying for his long and healthy life,” Mr Modi tweeted.
”Warm greetings and my best wishes to Shri @nitin_gadkari on his birthday. Known for able administration and result oriented work he is also an amazing person. Nitinji has played an important role in transforming India’s infrastructure. I pray for his good health & long life,” Mr Singh tweeted.

SBI organising ‘Mega Customer Meet’ tomorrow

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Kolkata, May 27 : State Bank of India will organise a ‘Mega Customer Meet’ nationally tomorrow with an objective to engage with customers to further enhance their experience and provide better service delivery.

SBI customers of West Bengal can attend this programme in 33 locations of the state. Through this initiative the bank aims to engage with over one lakh customers through over 500 locations from 17 Local head offices (LHOs) of SBI across the country. Meetings will be attended by senior functionaries of the Bank.

Under this initiative, customers can interact with Bank staff to discuss their concerns and share feedback and suggestions on the banks’ products and services. During this session, SBI officials and employees will educate customers about the use of alternative banking channels for secured and seamless banking experience.

Employees of the bank will also inform/educate customers about the features and convenience of using YONO SBI ? an omni-channel digital banking and lifestyle platform. YONO SBI which was launched in November 2017 has achieved over two crore downloads has continued to witness overwhelming responses from its users.

Mr. P. K. Gupta, MD ? Retail & Digital Banking, SBI said, “We are happy to announce this initiative with a purpose to nurture customers’ trust in the bank by engaging with them at the ground level. We look forward to our customer participating in this Mega Customer Meet and help us in meeting their expectations through an enhanced experience at our branches. SBI is always committed to provide utmost value, satisfaction and experience to its customers.”

Everything You Want To Know About Katrina Kaif’s First Film As A Producer

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Katrina Kaif’s first film as producer is expected to go on the floors by the end of 2019

Everything You Want To Know About Katrina Kaif's First Film As A Producer

Katrina Kaif photographed during the promotions of Bharat.
MUMBAI: 

HIGHLIGHTS

  1. Katrina Kaif will next be seen opposite Salman Khan in Bharat
  2. Katrina bought the rights of French film He Loves Me He Loves Me Not
  3. I would like to put my name for which I feel very strongly about: Katrina

Actress Katrina Kaif who is gearing up for the release of her forthcoming film Bharat, hopes that she will start shooting of the film under her production house by this year. Katrina was interacting with the media to promote Bharat on Friday in Mumbai. There were reports that Katrina Kaif has bought the rights of the French film He Loves Me He Loves Me Not a while ago but the project couldn’t take shape earlier due to undisclosed reasons. However, it has now taken off and is being developed.

Notably, Katrina is the latest leading Bollywood heroine to get into production. Actresses Priyanka Chopra (Purple Pebble Pictures), Anushka Sharma (Clean Slate Films) and Swara Bhasker (Kahaaniwaaley) already have their production houses going, ensuring a greater, better presentation of women in Indian cinema.

Talking about the development, Katrina said, “That French film is a story on which we are working on for quite a sometime. It’s not a French film actually but there were few ideas which had come to me. I really liked it and I might put my name to it as a producer. I would like to put my name for which I feel very strongly about. There are few discussions happening so, hopefully this year will start shooting for the film.”

Katrina is one of the actors who joined social media very recently but in short span of time, she has millions of followers on multiple social media platforms, when asked Katrina how she feels about it, she said, “I am happy. I think it’s been a nice decision for me. I don’t know why I was stressed about it. I was really against coming on social media. I remember when Twitter first came to India, my manager told me that Twitter wants me to join this platform and that time, it was an endorsement kind of a thing and nowadays, everybody is posting on Twitter for free and I was not much interested in coming on this platform and now everybody is on Twitter so, I feel sometimes I lack foresight and the vision.”

Katrina added, “For me, the deciding factor to join social media was there was a phase where everything I was reading about myself, I was like this is not a correct representation of me and I used to feel very helpless about it. Then, I started thinking about why it is happening with me more so than other people then, I realised that everyone has a platform on which they used to speak so that made me join social media.”

Surat Tragedy: Fire Engines Took 45 Minutes To Travel 2 Km, Say Onlookers

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Most of the students are said to be between the ages of 15 and 21. The fire was reportedly triggered by a short circuit.

Surat Tragedy: Fire Engines Took 45 Minutes To Travel 2 Km, Say Onlookers

20 people have died and more than 20 have been injured in the fire.
SURAT: 

At least 20 people, mostly students, have died in the massive fire that broke out at a coaching centre in Gujarat’s Surat on Friday afternoon.Police have arrested the owner of the coaching centre and have registered a case against the coaching centre owner and builders of the complex.

“20 people have died and more than 20 have been injured in the fire that broke out in Surat yesterday. An FIR has been registered against three people,” Satish Sharma, Commissioner of Police Surat, said.

Two of the injured students were on ventilator and five have been admitted to intensive care units (ICU), news agency IANS reported.

The fire reportedly started near the staircase of the interior design coaching centre and quickly spread to the top two floors of the commercial building called Takshashila Arcade in the Sarthana area of the city, officials said. About 50 or 60 people were inside the building when the fire broke out, they added. Some were expecting their Class 12 results today, IANS reported.

“There was smoke. I did not know what to do. I took the ladder and first helped the children get out of the place. I managed to save 8-10 people. Later I managed to rescue two more students,” said an eyewitness.

He said that it took the fire brigade 40-45 minutes to reach the place despite the fire station being just 2 km away from the building. The father of a girl rescued from the building also questioned their response time. “My daughter was inside the building when the fire broke out. The fire brigade from the fire station, which is not more than 2 km away, took almost 45 minutes to come. Even though my daughter got saved, she is in a state of trauma,” Paresh Patel, father of the rescued girl, was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

Another witness, Ajay Patel, whose office is opposite the building that caught fire, said the casualty could have reduced had the fire brigade come prepared. “The pressure of their pipe was too low to douse the flame,” he said. 

Videos posted by witnesses on social media showed several students jumping out of windows on the top floor of the four-storey building to escape the blaze. Most of the students are said to be between the ages of 15 and 21. The fire was reportedly triggered by a short circuit.

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has ordered an investigation and announced financial help of 4 lakh each to the families of students who died in the tragedy.

“Twenty people have lost their lives in the tragedy in spite of our rescue efforts. Students of around 20 years of age were trapped in the coaching centre when a fire broke out in the stairway,” Mr Rupani said.

“We have asked the Urban Development and Urban Housing Department Principal Secretary, Mukesh Puri to immediately investigate and submit a report upon the matter. State Government will provide Rs. 4 lakh financial help to families of kids who died,” he added.

On Video, Muslim Couple Among 4 Beaten Over Beef Rumour In Madhya Pradesh

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Madhya Pradesh: The police said five men have been arrested from Seoni city, 350 km from state capital Bhopal, after they thrashed four people for allegedly carrying beef

On Video, Muslim Couple Among 4 Beaten Over Beef Rumour In Madhya Pradesh

A man is thrashed by a group for allegedly carrying beef in Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni city
BHOPAL: 

A Muslim couple and two men were thrashed by a group for allegedly carrying beef in an autorickshaw at a village in Madhya Pradesh. In a video of the incident shot by an eyewitness on a mobile phone, the woman was seen being hit repeatedly with a slipper on her head, covered with a piece of cloth, as she curled up on the gravel and took the blows in silence from the attacker who was heard yelling at her, “Jai Shri Ram”. The three men were also tied to a tree one by one and thrashed by the group.

The police said five men have been arrested from Seoni city, 350 km from state capital Bhopal.

“The video is four days old and four people have been arrested. They have been sent to jail by a local court. One more accused has been arrested. He will appear in court today,” local police officer Lalit Shakyavar said.

One of the accused, Shubham Singh, who calls himself a member of “Ram Sena”, posted the video on his Facebook account on May 23; he deleted it later. In a photo he uploaded in April, he is seen standing next to BJP parliamentarian and Malegaon blasts accused Pragya Thakur and a group of men.

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A man is thrashed for allegedly carrying beef in Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni

On May 22, the three men and the woman, all Muslims, were travelling in an autorickshaw when they were intercepted by the group of vigilantes, who accused them of carrying beef, the police said.

Instead of informing the police, the men took matters on their own hands and held the passengers hostage and interrogated them, witnesses said.

In the video, the group is heard chanting “Jai Shri Ram” as they landed blows after blows on the men who were tied to a tree. One of them is untied and pushed to the ground as more sticks landed on his body, the video shows.

People who gathered about where the beatings happened said no one called the police when the incident was unfolding.COMMENT

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti condemned the incident. “Horrified to see cow vigilantes thrash an innocent Muslim with such impunity in MP. Hope Kamal Nath takes swift action against these goons,” she tweeted.

Delhi Elects Only One Woman To Lok Sabha, Again

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Since the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, it has been a pattern of electing only one woman, which was followed in 2004, 2009 and 2014.

Delhi Elects Only One Woman To Lok Sabha, Again

Of the 16 women candidates who contested from Delhi, only Meenakshi Lekhi of the BJP has got elected.
NEW DELHI: 

Delhi has elected only one woman to enter the Lok Sabha, yet again. Of the 16 women candidates who contested from seven Lok Sabha constituencies of Delhi, only Meenakshi Lekhi of the Bharatiya Janata Party has got elected.

There were 164 candidates in total.

Out of the total 16 general elections held in Delhi since Independence, it has been seven times that only one woman candidate was elected.

Since the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, it has been a pattern of electing only one woman, which was followed in 2004, 2009 and 2014.

The same has been repeated this time.

Delhi did not elect any female candidate six times and only thrice, out of 16 Lok Sabha elections, it elected more than one woman candidate. 

Two women were elected from Delhi each in the fifth (1971), 11th (1996) and the 12th (1988) Lok Sabha elections.

In the 1996 and 1998 elections, BJP’s Sushma Swaraj and Congress’ Meira Kumar were elected from Delhi.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha, on all the seven seats, there was a triangular contest between Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party, the BJP in power at the Centre and the Congress.

While all the three parties are vocal about woman empowerment, each of them had named only one female candidate among their seven candidates.

The Congress fielded its three-time Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who came second in the North East Delhi seat as BJP’s Manoj Tiwari won.

The AAP named 37-year-old Atishi from the East Delhi Lok Sabha seat. She came third.

In New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency, BJP’s 51-year-old Meenakashi Lekhi was among the two woman candidates out of 27 people in the fray.

The number of women to contest the 2019 elections in the national capital saw an increase compared to 2014 but down from that in 2009.

In 2014, out of 150 candidates, 13 were women; while in 2009, out of 160 candidates, 18 women contested the elections. However, only one woman each time managed to reach the Lower House.

In 2009, Congress’ Krishna Tirath and in 2014, BJP’s Meenakshi Lekhi became the sole females to be elected to the House from the city.

Krishna Tirath was also the single woman elected from Delhi in 2004, while in 1999, BJP’s Anita Arya was elected from the Karol Bagh seat.COMMENT

Delhi has also elected a single woman parliamentarian in the first, second and eighth Lok Sabha. No female was elected from the city in the third, fourth, sixth, seventh, ninth and 10th Lok Sabha.

PM Modi credits LK Advani for historic win, calls Murli Manohar Joshi his mentor

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A day after a historic sweep in the Lok Sabha elections that brought the BJP-led NDA government to power a second time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday credited party veteran LK Advani for the win.
PM Modi, LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Mentor

A day after a historic sweep in the Lok Sabha elections that brought the BJP-led NDA government to power a second time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called on party veterans LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi at their respective residences.

The PM credited Advani for the win and said that the 91-year-old BJP veteran “spent decades building the party”.

“Called on respected Advani Ji. The BJP’s successes today are possible because greats like him spent decades building the party and providing a fresh ideological narrative to the people,” Modi tweeted after meeting Advani at the latter’s residence on Friday.View image on Twitter

Called on respected Advani Ji. The BJP’s successes today are possible because greats like him spent decades building the party and providing a fresh ideological narrative to the people.

Modi visited Advani’s residence where the two leaders engaged in a conversation. Modi also touched Advani’s feet.

Accompanied by BJP president Amit Shah, who replaced five-time MP Advani from Gandhinagar constituency, was also present at the meeting. Shah won the seat by a margin of 557014 votes.

After his meeting with Advani, PM Modi also met party veteran Murli Manohar Joshi at the latter’s residence.

The PM praised Joshi for his contribution to the Indian education system.

“Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi is a scholar and intellectual par excellence. His contribution towards improving Indian education is remarkable. He has always worked to strengthen the BJP and mentor several Karyakartas, including me. Met him this morning and sought his blessings,” he said in a tweet.

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The BJP on Thursday recorded a stunning victory in the Lok Sabha elections.

PM Modi returned to power with a historic mandate, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sweeping over 300 seats on its own.

Modi thus became only the third Prime Minister in India and the first non-Congress leader to be elected for a second consecutive time after completing a five-year term.

Addressing supporters at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on Thursday, the PM thanked the people of India and BJP workers in his victory speech

“We went to the people of the country for a new mandate in the 2019 Lok Sabha. Today we can see that the crores of people in the country have filled the sack of this fakir,” he said amid ‘Modi-Modi’ chants.

Before the PM’s speech, Amit Shah hailed the victory as a victory of the people.

Beginning his speech with ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’, Shah said that the mandate reflected the victory of the policy of ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’ and PM Modi’s popularity.

Agencies

KPCC Campaign Committee Chairman H K Patil steps down due following Congress debacle in LS polls

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Hubballi, May 24 (UNI) Karnataka Congress Campaign Committee Chairman H K Patil has decided to step down owing moral responsibility for the debacle the party suffered in in the just concluded Lok Sabha election in the State.
The Congress could win only one seat out of 21 seats it contested after allocating seven seats to its coalition partner JD(S) 7 seats. But the two parties could manage to win a mere one seat each with sitting Congress member D K Suresh, brother of Minister D K Shivakumar, retaining Bengaluru Rural and Prajwal Revanna of JD(S) winning from Hassan.
Speaking to newsmen here on Friday, Patil said that “we have to accept the people’s verdict and I own moral responsibility for the defeat of my party in the polls and will be sending my resignation letter to AICC President Rahul Gandhi and KPCC President Dinesh Gundurao.”
AICC President Rahul Gandhi had appointed Patil as KPCC Campaign Committee Chairman before the party launched its campaign in a bid to muster power at the Centre, but the calculations went wrong as Congress could win only one seat against nine seats it had won it had won in Karnataka, in 2014 Lok Sabha election.
In his resignation letter addressed to Rahul Gandhi, he stated that “as a President of the KPCC Campaign Committee, I had the privilege to take policy decisions and sent message of my esteemed party to the people. In view of the debacle, I feel it my moral duty to own-up the responsibility. Hence, with all humility I submit my resignation to the post of President of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Campaign Committee.”
Patil further stated that “this is crucial and delicate time for the party and to the polity. I pledge to the party to plut in my sincere efforts to build and bring back the glory of our great party.”

Ramzan festival suspended in Kashmir till Monday

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Srinagar, May 24 : The 15-day Ramzan Festival, which started earlier this week, has been suspended till Monday due to inclement weather conditions, an official Spokesperson said here on Friday.

Organised by the State Department of Industries and Commerce, in collaboration with the State Department of Culture, the festival aims to relive the spirit of festivity of this holy month, he added.

However, sources said that the festival was suspended, following tense situation in the valley in view of the death of chief of Ansar Gazwatul Hind Zakir Musa in an encounter with security forces in Pulwama on Thursday night.
Meanwhile, curfew was clamped in this summer capital, while restrictions were imposed in other parts of Kashmir valley, as a precautionary measure on Friday.

Musa was killed in a 12-hour-long encounter with security forces at Tral in south Kashmir district of Pulwama, triggering spontaneous protests and clashes across the valley, including in many areas of Srinagar, Pulwama, Shopian, Anantnag and Awantipora.

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