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Mexico opens consulate in Bengaluru

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Bengaluru, Dec 7 Mexico on Friday opened its honorary consulate in this tech hub for Karnataka and the neighbouring state of Telangana.

“Bengaluru-based entrepreneur Sandeep Kumar Maini is our honorary consul for the consulate, with jurisdiction in Karnataka and Telangana,” Mexican Ambassador Melba Pria told reporters on the occasion.

Mexico is geographically located between the US and Central America and is popular for its scenic beaches off the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.

Highlighting the diplomatic contacts between the two nations and Mexican presence in the southern region, Pria said the consulate would promote economic and cultural relations in the two states.

“The consulate will also liaison with the business community in these two states and cater to Mexicans visiting this part of south India,” she said.

Mexico has an embassy in New Delhi and three honorary consulates in Chennai, Kolkata and Mumbai.

With the opening of consulate in Bengaluru, the Chennai consulate will cater to the three other southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Two Mexican firms – Softech and Cinepolis and Fun Cinemas – are based in Bengaluru, while a third one is being set up to build a Theme Park for children in the garden city.

(IANS)

Italy fines Facebook 10 mn euros for misleading users

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London Italian regulators have fined Facebook 10 million euros for selling users’ data without informing them.

The competition watchdog handed Facebook two fines totalling 10 million euros, “also for discouraging users from trying to limit how the company shares their data”, Italian portal The Local reported on Saturday.

Facebook “misleadingly gets people to sign up… without informing them in an immediate and adequate way of how the data they will provide will be harvested for commercial purposes”, read a statement from Italy’s AGCM consumer and market watchdog.

The authority has directed Facebook to publish an apology to users on its website and on its app.

Reacting to this, a Facebook spokesperson said they are reviewing the authority’s decision.

“We hope to work with them to resolve their concerns. This year we made our terms and policies clearer to help people understand how we use data and how our business works,” the spokesperson was quoted as saying.

“We also made our privacy settings easier to find and use, and we’re continuing to improve them. You own and control your personal information on Facebook,” the statement said.

Facebook Italy recently agreed to “make a payment of more than 100 million euros” to end a fiscal fraud dispute with Italian authorities.

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), which is Facebook’s lead privacy regulator in Europe, in October opened a formal investigation into the fresh Facebook data breach which affected 50 million users, that could result in a fine of $1.63 billion.

“The investigation will examine Facebook’s compliance with its obligation under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the security and safeguarding of the personal data it processes,” said DPC.

(IANS)

India dismiss Aussies for 235; take 15-run lead (Lead)

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Adelaide India gained a slender 15-run first innings lead after dismissing Australia for 235 in a truncated first session of Day 3 of the opening Test at the Adelaide Oval here on Saturday.

Resuming the day from their overnight score of 191/7, the hosts managed to add 44 runs before the Indian pace duo of Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami sprang into action to get the final three wickets.

As soon as the new ball was taken this morning, Bumrah got rid of the overnight batsman Mitchell Starc (8) to claim his third wicket, before rain interrupted play for a while.

Coming back after an almost an hour of rain interruption, off-spinner Nathan Lyon (24 not out) came out to bat, in the company of Travis Head (72), the other overnight batsman.

Lyon batted aggressively and had the Indians in knots as the eighth wicket stand yielded 31 runs before India skipper Virat Kohli introduced Shami into the attack.

From there on it was just a matter of time as Shami, who went wicketless on Day 2, ended Head’s 167-ball vigil by getting him nicked behind to stumper Rishabh Pant, for 72.

Shami struck again the very next ball to claim No.11 Josh Hazlewood for a duck to hand India a slim 15-run psychological advantage.

For the visitors, Bumrah and off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin emerged the wrecker-in-chiefs with three wickets apiece while Ishant and Shami bagged two scalps.

With around 15 minutes of play before lunch, the Indian openers — Lokesh Rahul and Murali Vijay stepped out of the dressing room but were sent back as it started drizzling once again.

Brief Scores: India- 1st innings 250 (Cheteshwar Pujara 123, Rohit Sharma 37; Josh Hazlewood 3/52) vs Australia – 1st innings 235 (Travis Head 72, Peter Handscomb 34; Jasprit Bumrah 3/47, Ravichandran Ashwin 3/57).

[IANS]

59.63% voting in Rajasthan till 3 p.m

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 Nearly 60 per cent voting was recorded in Rajasthan till 3 p.m on Friday to elect a new Rajasthan Assembly, an election official said.

The polling will continue till 5 p.m and long queues were seen in different polling stations of the state.

The polling was largely peaceful barring a clash between Congress and BJP workers in Subhash school in Fatehpur where the two groups indulged in stone pelting. Two bikes were also torched during the violence. However, timely intervention by the police brought the situation under control.

The polling percentage was reported 6.42 till 9 a.m. and 22.85 till 11 a.m. But it picked up rapidly in the next two hours as long queues were seen outside the polling units, Chief Electoral Officer Anand Kumar said.

About 4.74 crore people will decide the fate of 2,274 candidates in the fray for the 200-member Assembly. Of them, 189 women are contesting in 199 constituencies. There are also 20,20,156 first time voters in the state.

Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje voted at a polling booth in her Jhalrapatan constituency in Jhalawar district, while Union Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Congress leader Sachin Pilot voted at a polling booth in Jaipur.

“I think people have seen the kind of work that has taken place in Rajasthan and I think they will go out and vote for development,” Raje said after casting her ballot.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is fighting anti-incumbency is contesting on all seats while the Congress has left six seats for its allies.

The Mayawati-led BSP has fielded 190 candidates, the Communist Party of India-Marxist 28 and the Communist Party of India 16 candidates. There are 830 Independent candidates.

The election in Alwar district’s Ramgarh constituency has been postponed due to the death of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate Laxman Singh.

The Congress’ key candidate, Pilot, who is fighting an assembly poll for the first time said: “There are people who never visited the state and have come only for campaigning. The state has suffered a lot under Raje.”

Polling that began at 8 a.m. will continue till 5 p.m. Counting of votes will take place on December 11 along with four other states — Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana.
Also, there were reports of technical hitch being reported in some of the polling stations.

According to BL Kothari, district collector, Jalore, around four EVM machines had technical glitch in Ahore constituency. However, with a few minutes, these machines were replaced and smooth polling started in the region. This was in early morning owing to poor connections but they were rectified immediately as we had extra machines at the centre, he confirmed.

However, in contrast of the facts promised by election commission of various facilities being made available at different poll stations for physically handicapped, there are cases being reported where people have to bring the physically challenged people on their back in the absence of any wheel chair.

One amongst such scene was seen at Kishanpura polling booth in Jaipur where a 105-year-old woman Shajha had come to cast her votes on the back of her family member.

Further, one Gajanand Sharma, who came from Pakistan after 36 years in jail, also cast his vote here in Jaipur

Sharma was found in Pakistan border by the authorities and hence was imprisoned for a lack of papers. However recently he was brought back to India with the timely intervention of external affairs ministry. “Things have changed in all these years. Earlier, the voting process was quite different,” he said.

Meanwhile, most of the leaders including Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje went along with their families to cast their votes. While Raje was seen with her son Dushyant Singh and daughter-in-law Niharika Singh, Sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore went to cast his vote in Vaishali Nagar constituency in Jaipur along with his wife Gayatri Rathore.

Speaking on the occasion, he gave a call to all voters to cast their votes. Mentioning PM Narendra Modi’s speech, he said that one vote has enormous power and can change the nation.

Similarly, Union minister of state Gajendra Singh Shekhawat also went to polling booth to cast his vote along with his wife and daughter.

DGP O.P. Galhotra went along with his wife Sunita Galhotra to cast his vote.

EVMs have mysterious powers in Modi’s India: Rahul

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 Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday urged his party workers to be vigilant against “EVM tampering” as voting came to an end in Telangana and Rajasthan, cautioning them that “in Modis India, EVMs have mysterious powers”.

“Congress party workers, be vigilant after polls close today. In MP, EVM’s behaved strangely after polling: Some stole a bus and vanished for two days! Others slipped away and were found drinking in a hotel,” tweeted Gandhi.

The Congress chief was referring to the incident in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar where electronic voting machines (EVMs) were transported in a vehicle without any registration number and reached the collection centre 48 hours after the voting ended.

In another incident, two polling officers were “found drunk” along with EVMs inside a hotel owned by a Bharatiya Janata Party functionary.

Reporting the incidents to the Election Commission, the Congress on Tuesday had demanded a probe alleging that the BJP was “in collusion with the local administration” in attempting to tamper with EVMs during the November 28 Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls.

IANS

Scared Mamata is having sleepless nights so she is throttling democracy: Amit Shah

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is scared that the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) is growing its support base in the state, said BJP president Amit Shah, a day after the Calcutta High Court refused to grant permission for his rath yatra that was to kick start from Cooch Behar today (December 7).

Shah accused Mamata of “throttling” democracy because her government denied permission for his planned yatras in the state.

After the state government refused permission, the BJP approached the high court, which in turn refused to set aside the government’s decision. As a result, the BJP had to postpone the three rath yatras.

“We will definitely carry out the yatras, nobody can stop us. The BJP is committed to bring change in West Bengal,” Shah said.

He said the yatras have not been cancelled, “just postponed” and that the BJP will follow the judicial process to get permission. The BJP has meanwhile moved an appeal before a division bench.

Training his guns on Banerjee and the Trinamool Congress government, the BJP president said people in the state are ready for change and asserted that the party will win a majority of seats in the Lok Sabha polls.

Amit Shah said the BJP’s expansion in the state and win in over 7,000 seats in the panchayat polls has “rattled” Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee. “It is giving her sleepless nights and left her scared,” Shah said.

“She knows these yatras will lay the foundation for change. That is why she is trying to stop them,” he said.

According to Shah, the state government often denied permission to his party’s programmes. It had kept writing to the home department and the director general of police to seek their nod for the yatras but in vain, Shah alleged.

“The way Mamata Banerjee is using her government to trample upon democratic norms is very undemocratic and is throttling democracy,” he said.

In his view, his party’s campaign in the state against the “misgovernance” of the Trinamool Congress has resulted in people rising against it.

Announcing that he would visit the state on Saturday, Shah said he would give the chief minister “unsolicited” advice — that the more her government tries to suppress the BJP, the more will anger spread among people.

 

 

 

Over 56% polling in Telangana by 3 p.m

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 Heavy polling was recorded in the Telangana Assembly election on Friday, with officials reporting over 56 per cent voter turnout by 3 p.m.

According to information reaching Hyderabad, 56.17 per cent of over 2.8 crore voters had cast their votes by 3 p.m.

Polling came to an end in 13 Left Wing Extremism affected constituencies at 4 p.m, while in the remaining 106 segments the process will continue till 5 p.m.

The polling, which began on a dull note at 7 a.m, picked up after 9 a.m. Long queues of voters including women were seen especially in rural areas.

Chief Electoral Officer Rajath Kumar said barring sporadic incidents the polling was peaceful and smooth in all 32,815 polling stations spread across 31 districts.

In some polling centres, the process started late due to technical glitches in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).

Of the total electorate, nearly half are women. There are 1,821 candidates, including Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao and his 14 cabinet colleagues.

Congress candidate Vamshichand Reddy was injured in stone pelting by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers in Nagarkurnool district. He was admitted to a hospital.

Tension prevailed in Kodangal constituency where the midnight arrest of Congress Working President Revanth Reddy on December 4 had triggered a huge row, leading to transfer of Vikarabad District Superintendent of Police by the Election Commission.

Voters at several places complained that their names were missing from the voter list. Some voters staged protest over officials not allowing them to cast their votes in the absence of voter slips.

The prominent whose names were missing from voter list include the family members of Finance Minister E. Rajender. Shuttler Jwala Gutta tweeted that her name was also missing from the list.

Many celebrities including superstar Chiranjeevi, Nagarjuna, Junior NTR, tennis star Sania Mirza and ace shuttler P.V. Sindhu cast their votes but this failed to enthuse the voters as overall turnout remained less than 40 per cent by 3 p.m.

Chief Minister and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) President cast his vote in his village in Siddipet district and exuded confidence that his party will retain power with a huge majority.

Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan and his wife exercised the franchise near Raj Bhavan.

Congress Telangana unit chief Uttam Kumar Reddy voted in Kodad constituency. BJP’s state unit chief K. Laxman and AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi did so in Hyderabad.

Over 50,000 security personnel, including 18,860 from neighbouring states and central forces, were deployed as part of the security arrangements.

Over 1.50 lakh polling personnel were on duty to conduct the polling process. As many as 55,329 EVMs and 39,763 control units were in use.

For the first time, Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) were installed across the state. The authorities have arranged 42,751 VVPATs, which are attached to the EVMs and will display for seven seconds the choice made by the voter.

The elections were expected to be a close contest between the ruling TRS, which is contesting all seats on its own, and the Congress-led People’s Front that includes Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Communist Party of India and Telangana Jana Samithi (TJS).

The BJP is the third key force in some constituencies. The Bahujan Left Front led by the Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) are also contesting majority of the seats.

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) is contesting eight seats in Hyderabad.

The TRS opted for dissolution of the Assembly in September, eight months before its term was to end.

 

IANS

Krishnamurthy Subramanian Appointed as Chief Economic Adviser

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 The government on Friday appointed Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business (ISB) Associate Professor Krishnamurthy Subramanian as the Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) in the Finance Ministry for a period of three years.

Subramanian fills the position lying vacant for about six months since Arvind Subramanian left in June.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved the appointment of Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Executive Director (Centre For Analytical Finance), ISB, to the post of CEA, the Department of Personnel and Training said.

A PhD (Financial Economics) from the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, and an alumnus of IIM Calcutta and IIT Kanpur, Subramanian is an expert in banking, corporate governance and economic policy.

His services on the expert committees on corporate governance for Securities and Exchange Board of India and on governance of banks for the Reserve Bank of India have established him as one of the chief architects of corporate governance and banking reforms in India, the ISB website says.

IANS

 

SC notice to ED on Mallya’s plea against proceedings to declare him fugitive

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The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Enforcement
Directorate (ED) on industrialist Vijay Mallya’s plea challenging the ongoing proceedings in a Mumbai court to declare him fugitive economic offender.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice S K Kaul sought the probe agency’s response on the plea against the ongoing trial before a special court
under the money laundering act.

The ED moved the special court seeking to declare the London based industrialist a fugitive economic offender under the Fugitive Economic Offender Act 2018. The apex
court issued notice on Mallya’s plea but refused to stay the proceedings before the Mumbai special court.

The Bombay High Court recently dismissed Mallya’s appeal. The industrialist has filed an appeal against the high court order.

IANS

IISc blast: 2 professors booked for negligence, police say security protocol breached

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A day after the explosion at the IISc’s Aerospace Engineering Department’s Laboratory for Hypersonic and Shock Wave Research in Bengaluru, the police have booked two professors for criminal negligence.

On Thursday, the security chief of IISc, Chandrashekhar, filed a complaint with the Sadashivnagar Police against professors G Jagadeesh and KPJ Reddy, claiming that they were in charge of the lab and were responsible for ensuring that the equipment being used was safe.

“The family members complained that the institute should have ensured that experiments were being conducted in a safe environment. He (Chandrashekhar) has also stated that several faculty members were of the opinion that the expansion of gases in the cylinder caused the blast. The two professors were supposed to ensure that such incidents do not happen. There was also evidence of breach of security protocol while handling the equipment,” the Sadashivnagar Police said.

Professors Jagadeesh and Reddy have been booked under 304A (causing death by negligence) and 338 (Causing grievous hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others) of the IPC.

32-year-old research intern Manoj Kumar died in the gas explosion at the IISc laboratory on Wednesday afternoon.

Meanwhile, the three other victims; Karthik Shenoy, Naresh Kumar and Athulya Uday Kumar, are in a critical condition and are undergoing treatment at MS Ramaiah Hospital. Officials with the hospital said that Naresh Kumar is on the ventilator. “He is stable right now but the next few days are crucial for his recovery. Another patient Athulya has facial injuries. He is stable right now and is also conscious. Karthik Shenoy is also on ventilator and his condition is critical,” hospital officials said.

According to the police, four interns, who were M.Tech students, were conducting an experiment in the lab when the incident occurred. The four men, interning with Superwave Technology Private Limited, were handling pressurised hydrogen, oxygen, helium and nitrogen gases.

The victim, Manoj Kumar, a native of Mysuru’s Kollegal area, was standing close to the hydrogen cylinder, which is said to have burst. He died immediately due to the impact. His co-workers – Karthik Shenoy, Naresh Kumar and Athulya Uday Kumar – were grievously injured and were rushed to MS Ramaiah Hospital.

IISc on Friday released ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh to wife of Mr Manoj. A team from the institute headed by the Director – Prof Anurad Kumar visited the MS Ramaiah Hospital on Friday, where the injured vitims are undergoing treatment. The Director has assured the relatives of the injured that IISc would cover the medical expenses.

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