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Congress leader hit back Modi for loan waiver comments

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 State Congress leaders on Friday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for calling the farm loan waiver a “joke” and claiming that it has only benefited 800 farmers. KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao accused the PM of making false statements. 

Rao told reporters that Modi has not taken any pro-farmer initiatives and has no moral right to question the Karnataka government’s scheme. The PM should visit the state for two hours to get correct information about the farm loan waiver scheme being implemented in Karnataka, instead of trying to mislead people with false statements, he said.

Asked about differences among coalition partners over appointments to boards and corporations, the KPCC president said there are minor issues which will be resolved through discussions. The KPCC president advised senior JD(S) leader and PWD Minister H D Revanna not to discuss these intra-coalition issues in public.

Petrol, diesel prices increased after hike in fuel taxes

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The Karnataka government on Friday raised the rate of sales tax on petrol and diesel to 32% and 21% respectively. Petrol will cost Rs 70.8 per litre while diesel will cost Rs 64.6 as the increase in the rates will come into immediate effect. The prices of petrol and diesel was Rs 69 and 62.8 on Friday.

The government cited revenue loss for the state due to the drop in crude oil prices in the international market as the reason for the increase in the rates. 

The CM office clarified in a note that despite the revision of prices, the price of petrol in the state remained lower than neighboring states The price of petrol is Rs 72.87 in Tamil Nadu, Rs 71.16 in Kerala, Rs 72.63 in Andhra Pradesh and Rs 74.06 in Maharashtra. 

The note also added that the union government had reduced central excise on petrol and diesel by Rs 1.50 on October 5, 2018 and also directed oil marketing companies to reduce their margins by Re 1.

The decision by the JD(S)-Congress coalition government is set to have an adverse effect as the Congress party continues its repeated attacks on the central government over rising fuel prices in the country.

This is the third time the coalition government is making a change in the sales tax on petrol and diesel. The government had previously increased sales tax on petrol and diesel from 30 to 32% and 19 to 21% respectively in July 2018, two months after it came into power. The tax was raised in part to help fund the ambitious farm loan waiver scheme laid out by the coalition government. 

However, on September 17, 2018, it reduced the price of petrol by Rs 2 per litre. The reduction came at a time the Congress was putting pressure on the central government over the rising fuel prices in the country.

Married at age of 10 months, Urma ends shackles of child marriage

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Nasheman News : After suffering for 18 long years after being married off at a tender age of 10 months, 19-year-old Urma Bishnoi has finally ended the shackles of child marriage.

Urma, who is from Kaparda village in Jodhpur, was married off to a boy from the same village in 1999 when she was just 10 month old. 

The boy was allegedly involved in criminal activities.

After Urma became an adult, she refused to accept the child marriage. 

But her in-laws started putting pressure on her and her family and allegedly threatened her with physical harm. 

Certain caste ‘panchs’ also threatened to impose penalty and a social boycott of the girl’s family if the child marriage was called off. 

This is when Urma came to know about the child marriage annulment campaign of Dr. Kriti Bharti of Saarthi Trust. 

She contacted Bharti and with her support filed a case to cancel her child marriage in a Family Court in Jodhpur. 

Bharti appeared on behalf of Urma and submitted documents related to her age.

On Friday, judge P.K. Jain passed orders to axe Urma’s child marriage.

Said Urma: “With the help of Kriti didi, my child marriage is over which was done at the age of 10 months. Now I will study and determine my future.” 

Bharti told IANS: “Urma was under tremendous mental pressure due to this child marriage. Now best efforts are being made for her better rehabilitation.”

Bharti’s Trust has annulled 38 child marriages in India and also prevented thousands of child marriages from taking place.

“You’ll Be Finished”: Chandrababu Naidu After BJP Leaders Block Convoy

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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu on Friday vented his anger at a group of BJP workers after they blocked his convoy to protest his comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Mr Naidu was in East Godavari district for the ‘Janmabhoomi maa vooru’ event in Kakinada when BJP leaders, including some corporators, raised slogans against the chief minister saying ‘CM go back’.

“You will get beaten up. Don’t invite unnecessary trouble. You will be finished. Do you support the injustice meted out to AP? If you go on the streets, people will teach you a lesson,” he said.

Mr Naidu has been constantly criticising PM Modi and the BJP, accusing them of betraying the people of Andhra Pradesh by not granting special status to the state.

On Tuesday, Mr Naidu had claimed that he bowed down to satisfy the ego of Prime Minister Modi for getting things done for his state, yet the central government did not cooperate in the last four years.

Chandrababu Naidu’s party, TDP, walked out of the NDA alliance in March last year, claiming that the promises made by the centre during the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh were not kept. 

Since then he has constantly flayed the central government over denial of Special Category Status or SCS to the state and ‘failure’ to implement provisions of the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014 and accused the Prime Minister of seeking to create a wedge between the two Telugu states

PM Modi was scheduled to visit the state on January 6 but subsequently postponed his visit to later this month.

6 killed in Himachal road accident

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Nasheman News : Six persons, including five students, were killed on Saturday when a school bus skidded off the road and rolled into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district, an official said.

The victims were going to DAV Public School when the accident happened near Renukaji, a famous Hindu shrine about 40 km from district headquarter Nahan and 150 km from the state capital.

The bus driver was also killed while seven-eight students were injured and are hospitalised, Deputy Commissioner Lalit Jain told IANS over phone.

Eyewitnesses said the administration had a tough time extricating the victims from the badly-mangled bus.

Prima facie the accident happened due to negligence of the bus driver, the police said.


Be ready to face ‘constitutional consequences’ of violence, BJP warns Kerala CM

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Nasheman News : The BJP on Saturday warned the Kerala government to be ready to face the “constitutional consequences” for the violence unleashed against its workers and leaders in the state over the Sabarimala issue.

“We advise, warn and caution the Chief Minister to stop this violence. failing which the CPI-M government will have to face constitutional consequences,” Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesman G.V.L. Narasimha Rao said here.

Alleging that BJP activists and leaders were being targeted by the Kerala government under the garb of implementing the Supreme Court judgment permitting entry of all women to the Sabarimala temple, Rao accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of giving a free hand to CPI-M workers to perpetuate violence against BJP supporters.

Rao contested the Chief Minister’s claim that a BJP worker at the Sabarimala temple died of cardiac failure, insisting that he passed away due to injuries caused by stones pelted by CPI-M activists.

Pakistan, UAE finalise $6.2bn support package

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Nasheman News : Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have finalised a $6.2 billion support package to help Islamabad address its balance of payments challenge, the media reported on Saturday.

The package involves $3.2 billion worth of oil supplies on deferred payment, besides a $3 billion cash deposit. It is expected to be announced by Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan during his visit to the country starting Sunday, Dawn reported. 

According to a government official, the package was finalised on Thursday evening and was similar to that given by Saudi Arabia. 

With this, Pakistan would get a total saving of about $7.9 billion on oil and gas imports from the two countries, accounting for more than 60 per cent of annual oil import bill of about $12-13 billion, he said. 

This included about $3.2 billion each of oil supplies on deferred payments from the UAE and Saudi Arabia and about $1.5 billion trade finance from the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC).

The total financing support from the UAE and Saudi Arabia, including the ITFC’s trade finance, would be around $14 billion when cash deposits of $3 billion each from the two countries were also included, the official said.

This is in addition to a deep-conversion oil refinery to be set up by Parco — a joint venture of Pakistan and Abu Dhabi — worth $5-6 billion and an expected petro-chemical complex by Saudi Arabia.

The government also started backchannel discussions with Qatar for some relief in terms of reduction in LNG prices or a relaxed payment schedule, but that was at an early stage, the daily said.

Pakistan has already received $2 billion in cash deposit from Saudi Arabia at an interest rate of 3.18 per cent while the third tranche of $1 billion was due in the first week of February. The Saudi oil facility would also start rolling out this month with an average $274 million per month.

The daily said that with support from Qatar, Pakistan was expecting about $9 billion cushion in total oil and gas import bill.

4th Test: Indian bowlers dominate 3rd day, Australia 236/6

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Sydney, Jan 5 (IANS) Australia were left struggling at 236/6 in their first innings, trailing India by 386 runs at stumps on the third day of the fourth cricket Test here on Saturday.

At the close of the day’s play, Peter Handscomb was batting on a patient 28 while Pat Cummins was on 25 at the other end.

The day belonged to the Indian bowlers as they completely dominated the Australian batsmen, putting the visitors in a very good position to push ahead for a win.

The Australians will thank the weather gods for some respite as poor light and rain forced the umpires to take the players off the field before calling it a day around an hour before the scheduled close of play.

After a somewhat quiet opening session, the Indians took the upper hand after lunch as the Australians lost wickets at regular intervals.

Kuldeep Yadav was the most successful bowler for India with figures of 3/71.

Fellow Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja also took two wickets.

Resuming the day at the overnight score of 24/0, Australia lost their first wicket when Usman Khawaja was dismissed by Yadav.

Khawaja, who was batting slowly and steadily, scored 27 runs off 71 balls with three hits to the fence.

He gave good support to fellow opener Marcus Harris who was in good form at the other end.

The two of them put together an opening partnership of 72 runs to give the Australian innings a steady start.

The Australians were forced onto the back foot in the second session as the Indian bowlers started to dominate.

Harris was the first to depart after lunch when he was bowled by Jadeja.

Harris scored 79 runs with eight boundaries studding his 120-ball stay in the middle.

Jadeja bagged his second wicket soon after when he sent Shaun Marsh back to the pavilion.

Marnus Labuschagne seemed to be in good touch before Ajinkya Rahane pulled off an excellent catch off Mohammed Shami’s bowling.

Travis Head fell to a superb caught and bowled effort by Yadav shortly before tea as the hosts plunged into further trouble.

The Australians ran into even deeper trouble in the very first over after tea as Tim Paine was bowled by a flights delivery by Yadav.

But Cummins and Handscomb ensured that the Australians lost no more wickets before the close of play.

Brief scores:

Australia (first innings): 198/5 (Marcus Harris 79; Kuldeep Yadav 2/50, Ravindra Jadeja 2/51) vs India (first innings): 622/7 declared at tea on Day 3.

Fog disrupts normal life in UP, vehicular-rail-air traffic crippled

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[Nasheman news] Lucknow  Fog continued to wreak havoc in most parts of Uttar Pradesh for the second consecutive day on Saturday, officials said.

According to the regional Met Office, a layer of fog has engulfed most parts of eastern, western and central Uttar Pradesh, leading to disruption of rail, vehicular and air traffic.

More than a dozen trains, including Poorva Express, Purushottam Express and the Farakka Exress, were running behind schedule due to fog and intense cold wave. 

An official of the Northern Railway (NR) however claimed that due to installation of ‘fog pass’ devices, the situation was much better than previous years.

As many as 6,940 such devices have been fitted in trains all over India, of which NR has 2,648, an official said.

Vehicular traffic has been adversely impacted due to the fog and inclement weather across the state, especially on the national highways, the Yamuna Expressway and the Agra-Lucknow Expressway.

There is report of a car pile up on the Eastern Peripheral Expressway at Khekhda in Baghpat district, leaving a dozen injured. 

Snowfall in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jammu & Kashmir has also contributed to the sharp fall of mercury in Uttar Pradesh.

People were left shivering on Saturday and morning walkers gave their routine a brief adieu due to drop in temperature.

According to sources, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi also cancelled his two-day trip to Amethi, his parliamentary constituency, due to poor visibility and bad weather late on Friday.

The weatherman said the cold wave is here to stay and foggy conditions will prevail for the next few days.

Karnataka Minister’s staffer caught with Rs 14-lakh cash

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Bengaluru, Jan 5 (IANS) A staffer of Karnataka Congress Minister C. Puttaranga Shetty was caught with unaccounted Rs 14 lakh in cash at the entrance of the state secretariat in the city centre, police said on Friday.

“We have detained the Minister’s staffer Mohan and seized the cash (Rs 14 lakh) from him at the secretariat, as he could not explain its source or account for it,” city central Deputy Commissioner of Police Devaraj told reporters here.

Shetty, a legislator from Chamarajanagar Assembly segment in the southwest old Mysuru region, is the Social Welfare Minister in the JD(S)-Congress coalition government in the southern state.

Vidhana Soudha Police Station Inspector Shankarachar registered a case against the accused and detained him for questioning on the cash he was carrying in a bag and had come to the secretariat on a two-wheeler.

“We are interrogating Mohan to explain why he was carrying so much of cash and its source as he didn’t have documentary support for it,” a police officer told IANS on the condition of anonymity.

According to unconfirmed reports, an additional Rs 11.76 lakh was also found with Mohan when the police carried a search on him and his bike.

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