New Delhi,India has made it clear that Pakistan has no say whatsoever on Jinnah House, the sea-facing bungalow in Mumbai of founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali which is in the process of being turned into a cultural and convention centre.
“Pakistan is not in the picture,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said on Thursday in response to a question at a media briefing.
“They have no locus standi as far as this property is concerned,” Kumar said. “It is a government of India property.”
His remarks came after the Pakistan Foreign Office earlier in the day said that Islamabad would not relinquish its claim over the property.
Jinnah’s daughter Dina Wadia had moved the Bombay High Court in August 2007 claiming ownership of the property on the ground that she was sole legal heir of Jinnah.
After she passed away in December last year, her son and Wadia group chairman Nusli Wadia is carrying on the litigation process.
“We are actually in the process of renovating it and putting it to effective use on the lines of what we do with Hyderabad House in New Delhi,” Kumar said.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, in a letter to Mumbai BJP legislator Mangal Prabhat Lodha, said that the Prime Minister’s Office has approved the property to be transferred to her ministry.
Bengaluru CCB cops conducted a search operations on seven history

Seven History-Sheeters House raided,Land records,Pistol seized by Bengaluru CCB Police :
Bengaluru CCB cops conducted a search operations on seven history sheeters houses and offices in and around the city on Wednesday morning.
Eight teams carried out the simultaneous raids to keep the operation under wraps for as long as possible.
Documents, including property deeds, diaries,Pistol,Air gun and loan agreements worth several crores,were seized.
The CCB sleuths conducted raids in Yelahanka,Kodigehalli,K.R.Puram,K.G.Halli,Baiyappanahalli Police station limits and other areas.
During the raids,an airgun,found in Bharath’s house,was confiscated.The licensed pistol of Boxer Manja was also seized.
The raids were conducted on the houses of history sheeters such as,Rohit alias Vonte Rohit,Vediappan alias Market veddi,Sunil alias Silent Sunil,Manjunath alias Thodla Manja,Bharath alias Bangari and Nagaraj alias Boxer Naga’s and Jayakumar’s houses and offices were raided by CCB sleuths under ACPs as,Balaraj and Mohan Kumar and their team.
Alok Kumar,Addl CP Crime,told media persons that,Eight CCB teams under the leadership of DCP Crime,Girish S,under the supervision of ACPs as,Balaraj and Mohan Kumar and their team swung into action and a simultaneous raids were conducted on houses and offices of seven history sheeters in Northeast area and East Bengaluru,
The raids were conducted to keep a check on their criminal activities, especially land grabbing and illegal money lending operations.The properties belonged to Sunil,Rohit,Vediyappa, Manjunatha,Bharath,Nagaraja and Jaya Kumar.As majority of history sheeters in the city have shifted operations from conventional crime to the money lending business,and grabbing land through encroachments or force.
The frequent raids are meant to keep them in check,during the search operations the team seized the documents of illegal assets,Lethal weapons licenced pistol and Air Gun were seized in the raid.The team recovered an air gun from the house of Bharath and licenced pistol along with six rounds of ammunition from the house of Nagaraja. Accompanying documents showed that he had purchased 25 rounds of ammunition. Though the team found a valid licence, Gun licence was issued to him in 2011,as there were no cases against him since 2006.But he is not revealing information about the 19 rounds that are missing and so he has been detained for questioning.His licence will be cancelled if he is unable to give an account about them,as a Air gun was found in Bharath’s house too they both are been detained and has been taken into custody and further investigation is on,other than Boxer Naga and Jayakumar, the remaining five were not present at the house when the raids were going on and a special team is on job to nab the absconding history sheeters and once they are nabbed a detailed investigation will be conducted on them to ascertain the details of illegal assets and documents seized from their possession .
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,T.Suneel Kumar,has appreciated,Additional CP Crime,Alok Kumar,DCP Crime,Girish.S,ACPs as,B.Balaraju,Mohan Kumar,PIs,as,M.R.Harish,Smt.Ayesha, Prakash Rathod,Mohammed Sheriff Ravuthur,Rajeev,Manjunath,R.Prakash, L.K.Ramesh,Keshavmurthy,K.G.Sathish, Ashwath Gowda.J,Niranjan Kumar,Anjan Kumar,PSIs,as,Praveen, K.C.Parameshwarappa,ASI,as,Devaraju and staff as,Shantharaju,Chandregowda,Arun Kumar,Sathish,Umesh,Gurushanth,Anand kumar,Beerappa,Satish Kumar,Srinivas,Anil,Narasimhamurthy, Shetty and Raghavendra with other staff has been appreciated for the commendable job done by them as to curb the illegal activities and bring crime rate down and rowdyism the raids will be continued he added.
Modi now implementing Congress suggestion on GST: Rahul
New Delhi,: Calling the Goods and Services Tax (GST) “Gabbar Singh Tax” again, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said his party has “jolted” Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the issue and Modi now wants to implement what the Congress had suggested earlier.
“The Congress has finally jolted Narendraji from his deep slumber on Gabbar Singh Tax. Though still drowsy, he now wants to implement what he had earlier called the Congress Party’s ‘Grand Stupid Thought’. Better late then never Narendraji!,” Gandhi tweeted.

His remarks came two days after Modi said at an event in Mumbai that the government was aiming to bring 99 per cent of items at or below 18 per cent GST slab.
Banks will be closed for 5 days due to holidays, strikes; starting Friday

Ahead of the strike called by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) on December 26, one of the bank officers’ union has called a strike on December 21, demanding an unconditional mandate for the XIth bipartite wage revision talks, officials said on Wednesday.In the wake of strikes and holidays, the banks will remain closed from next Friday to Wednesday, except Monday and the banking services could adversely be affected on these days.The banks will remain closed on December 22 and 23 on account of fourth Saturday and Sunday respectively. December 25 will be a national holiday for Christmas.“We called the strike on December 21 demanding a full and unconditional mandate for the XIth bipartite wage revision talks based on a charter of demands submitted in May, 2017. No headway has been made in the process so far even after 19 months since discussion on wage revision began,” All India Bank Officers Confederation’s (AIBOC) Assistant General Secretary Sajay Das said.According to him, over 3.2 lakh officers of the union would participate in the strike as “no perceptible initiative” was observed from Indian Banks’ Association to impress upon the five banks who have not yet submitted the unconditional mandate”.The union opposed the current move to restrict the salary settlements only up to Scale III by citing non-receipt of the ‘unconditional mandates’ from five banks as a reason whereas 15 banks from the public sector and two private banks have already given ‘unconditional mandates’.“AIBOC believes that it is nothing but a farcical logic to restrict the wage negotiations up to the officers in scale III whereas the entire officer community is covered under unified Service Regulations,” the statement said.During the strike on Friday, services at ATMs are expected to be “normal” while on December 26, ATM services would also be affected.The strike call also features “the burning issue of the announcement proposing to merge three public sector banks – Bank of Baroda, Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank — and the consolidation of Regional Rural Banks, union’s West Bengal unit President Subhujyoti Chattopadahyay said.
Indian Fashion
By : Lubna Rizwan
India is a country with ancient clothing designed tradition form ages men and women have been changing the styles according to the era’s though handful of designers existed prior to the 1980’s the late 80s and 90s emerging spurt of growth this was the result of increasing exposure to global fashion and economic boom after the economic liberalization of the Indian economy in 1990’s the following the decades firmly established as fashion as an industry across India.
By the 1980 the first generation of Indian fashion designers started cropping including Satya Paul, However it was Rohit Khosla (1958 1994) who became a pioneer in the fashion industry. Tarun Tahiliani Abujani Sandeep Khosla and others

Isha Ambani and nita ambani reception dress was designed by Sabyasachi mukerjee and its custom-made outfits especially for them

Ranveer Singh and his family clothes were designed by Rohit Bal exquisti work

Here is a list of the top designers in India
1. Manish Malhotra,2. Tarun Tahiliani, 3.Ritu Beri, 4. J J Valaya
5. Rohit Bal 6. Ritu kumar, 7. Wendell Rodricks, 8. Sabyasachi Mukherjee
9.Vikram Phadnis, 10.Manish Arora, 11.Neetha Lula
Some new designers of this era are Anitha Dongre, Payal Singal, Sanjay Garg, Nishika Lula Anju Modi, Surily Goel, Archana Rao, Gauri and Nainika Rohit Gandhi, Rahul Khanna Namrutha Joshpuri, Ashmitha Marva, Anamika khanna and many more talented designers who are still in the running to make it big.
#MeToo: Genpact AVP commits suicide, was facing sexual harassment charges

Genpact 35-year-old AVP Swaroop Raj has committed suicide after facing sexual harassment charges by two women of the same company. Interestingly his wife also works in the same company. Wife also works in Genpact and found the body of her hubby hanging on the ceiling fan in their flat in Paramount Floraville society in Noida’s sector 137. She had returned from her work at 11.30 PM and found Swaroop’s body hanging from the ceiling fan.
Swaroop Raj got married just two years back and his wife was working in the same company.
Two female employees from the company had accused Swaroop of sexual harassment on December 12 and the company had suspended him on December 18. The investigations are still on and he was to remain suspended till in the case were complete. In his purported suicide note, he denied the allegations. He said that it was difficult to work in the same office even if he was proven innocent. He felt his reputation had been tarnished for life and he wouldn’t be able to return to the office. He also added that he loved his wife dearly and that she should be strong and live with respect.
“The company in his suspension letter said he would be barred from participating in any official work until the investigation against him was completed. In his note, the man denied all allegations and wrote that even if he is proven innocent, his reputation has been tarnished,” Munish Chauhan, station house officer, Surajpur police station informed.
BMP constable shot dead in Bihar

Patna, A constable of Bihar Military Police has been shot dead by a colleague with his service rifle in Muzaffarpur district, police said on Thursday.
Premchand Kumar, a BMP constable shot dead Manish Kumar late on Wednesday when he was sleeping in the barrack.
The accused was depressed and mentally disturbed for the last few days, according to BMP officials.
He was arrested soon after and his service rifle was also seized, Muzaffarpur Senior Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar said.
Dalit girl dies of burn injuries in Delhi hospital

Agra, A 15-year-old Dalit girl, who was set on fire by two unidentified men in Uttar Pradesh here, has succumbed to her injuries in a Delhi hospital after struggling for life for 36 hours, police said on Thursday.
The Class 10 student, identified as Sanjali, died late on Wednesday in Safdarjung Hospital, authorities said.
On Tuesday afternoon, two bike-borne attackers stopped the student on her way home in Lalau village, 20 kms from here, and emptied a bottle of petrol on her and set her ablaze.
She was rushed to the SN Medical College with 75 per cent burns and then referred to the Safdarjang Hospital in the national capital.
The accused have not been traced yet, police said.
PBL associates with CRY to promote children’s cause

Mumbai, The Premier Badminton League (PBL) on Wednesday announced its association with Child Rights and You (CRY), an NGO working for child rights for the last four decades to use it as a vehicle to promote children’s cause through sports.
With this association and the world’s leading badminton stars advocating every child’s ‘Right to Play’ through PBL, the idea is to help empower children who are victims of child labour, dropping out of school and child marriage.
Speaking about the initiative, Prasad Mangipudi, Executive Director of SportzLive, organisers of PBL, opined: “We are on the same page as CRY, sharing their concern and vision and would be elated to put forth a helping hand for the betterment of these children.”
“PBL has been intrinsic in inspiring youngsters and tying up with CRY allows this generous opportunity to reach out to the less privileged children and empower them for a journey of a champion,” he added.
Former India skipper Anup Kumar retires from Kabaddi
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Panchkula (Haryana), India’s former World Cup winning captain Anup Kumar on Wednesday announced his retirement from Kabaddi, ending a 15-year iconic career.
Anup announced his retirement ahead of a Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) season 6 match, where he represents the Jaipur Pink Panthers.
A veteran in his sport, Arjuna Awardee, Anup began his international career in 2006 at the South Asian Games in Sri Lanka. He was part of the national team that won gold medals in 2010 and 2014.
Thereafter, he captained the national team in 2014 and it was during his tenure that the team won 2 gold medals at the Incheon Asian Games in 2014 and the Kabaddi World Cup in 2016.
In season 2 of the Pro Kabaddi League, Anup captained U Mumba and led the team to victory.
Announcing his retirement, Anup said: “I started playing kabaddi because I liked it and it was a great hobby, over the years a hobby became the most important part of my life.”
“The day I took to playing kabaddi professionally, I had one dream, to represent my country and bring back a gold medal, I am one of the few lucky people who had the opportunity to accomplish the most important dream of my life.”
“Today, with the PKL, the magnitude of the sport has grown leaps and bounds and I could not be happier than to watch and grow and be a part of this journey. This platform is an extremely important aspect of my life and that is why today I use the platform to make this announcement,” an emotional Anup added.
Anup further said that he will aim to be associated with the sport even after he hangs his boots.
“Coincidentally, today is also the 10th birthday of my son, and that makes this date even more memorable. Going forward, if there is anything I am confident about, it is knowing that I will always want to be connected to the sport,” he said.
Reacting to the announcement, PKL League Commissioner Anupam Goswami said: “This is a great decision by a great player from a great stage of kabaddi. It is also for the first time a senior player has announced his retirement of his playing career during an ongoing season of Pro Kabaddi.”
“Just shows the importance kabaddi players attach to a league like Pro Kabaddi. Anup of course has been a senior player and a role model athlete for this sport. We totally respect his decision,” Goswami added.
