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Landslides close Jammu-Srinagar highway

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 Landslides triggered by incessant rains closed the strategic Jammu-Srinagar highway on Saturday, according to a traffic department official.

The landslides were triggered after night-long rains in Ramban district.

“Landslide clearance operation will be started after the rains stop. Intending travellers were advised not to undertake the journey before contacting our control rooms in Jammu and Srinagar,” the official said here.

Heavy snowfall in the Zojila Pass has already closed the Srinagar-Leh highway.

Snowfall in Peer Ki Gali area of the Mughal Road connecting the valley with Jammu’s Rajouri district ohas also resulted in closure of the road.

The Met office has forecast improvement in weather conditions from Saturday onwards.

IANS

Pakistan: Blasphemy protests called off after government deal

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Pakistan’s far-right Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) party has called off protests against the acquittal of a Christian woman accused of blasphemy which have rocked the Muslim-majority South Asian democracy in recent days.

TLP on Friday signed an agreement with the Pakistani government to end the demonstrations, which also involved a number of other religious parties, party spokesperson Zubair Kasuri told Al Jazeera by telephone from Lahore.

According to Kasuri, protesters will be granted legal amnesty under the terms of the deal and Aasia Bibi – the 53-year-old Christian woman at the centre of this week’s furore – will be placed on Pakistan’s Exit Control List.

This means she is effectively barred from leaving the country.

Protests continue for third day after Aasia Bibi’s acquittal

The agreement comes after three days of protests sparked by the landmark acquittal of Bibi byPakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday.

In its judgement, the court declared there were “glaring and stark” contradictions in the case against her.

The original complainant in the case, Muhammad Salim, has filed a review petition against the top court’s verdict, Kasuri said.

But according to Pakistani law, the grounds for review petitions are extremely narrow and such appeals are seldom upheld, meaning the court’s acquittal of Bibi is likely to stand.

Bibi had been on death row for eight years following her arrest in the central Pakistani village of Ithan Wali over an argument with two Muslim women, who refused to drink water from the same vessel as her due to her religion.

The women accused her of having insulted Islam’s Prophet Muhammad during the altercation, a charge Bibi has consistently denied.

Blasphemy is a sensitive subject in Pakistan, where the country’s strict laws prescribe a mandatory death penalty for some forms of the crime.

Increasingly, blasphemy allegations have led to murders and mob lynchings, with at least 74 people killed in such violence since 1990, acccording to media tally.

 

Aljazeera

‘Is that bird dropping?’, Divya Spandana’s tweet on PM Modi sparks controversy

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“Is that bird dropping?”, read the tweet from the chief of Congress’ social media and digital communications, Divya Spandana. The question was accompanied by a photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, wearing a white kurta, at the foot of the newly inaugurated statue of Sardar Patel.

The question incited a sharp response from Twitter users and BJP members in particular who questioned her cryptic tweet and accused her of likening the Prime Minister to bird dropping.
The BJP retorted by saying that “it is the values of the Congress that are dropping.”
Divya later retweeted a message that claimed that her tweet was referring to actual bird droppings. However, she refused to clarify on what she meant by the tweet and appeared to distance the tweet from the Congress party by claiming that it was her views.
While Divya’s tweet has been termed a new low in political discourse by Twitter users, she has had to endure tweets by Twitter users who posted photographs of Divya with distasteful comments.

This is not the first time that one of Divya’s tweets has become a controversy. In September, she was booked for sedition by Lucknow Police for referring to PM Modi as ‘a thief’ in a tweet.

She had tweeted a photoshopped photograph of PM Modi painting the word ‘chor’ on his wax statue with the hashtag “Chor PM Chup Hai”.

Divya took charge of the Congress’ social media cell a year ago to ramp up the party’s fledgling social media presence. She has courted controversy on several occasions for her criticism of the BJP, particularly Prime Minister Modi.
TNM

Parts of Bengaluru to face 7-hour power cut on Nov 3

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Multiple parts of Bengaluru will face a power cut for several hours on Saturday, the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (Bescom) announced on Thursday. Bescom said that there will be a complete shutdown of power supply in parts of east Bengaluru for seven hours on November 3 due to maintenance work. In a press statement, Bescom said, “There will be no power supply in the following areas on 3.11.2018 between 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM to carry out maintenance work of all equipments at 66/11KV K&C Valley Sub-Station.”

The affected areas include Challaghatta, B Nagasandra, NAL Road, SR Layout, NR Layout, PR Layout, Rustum bagh, Koramangala and Challaghatta Valley, Yemalur Logica, Epsilon Layout, Kempapura, Kempapura A K colony, Wind Tunnel road, Vinayaka Nagar, Pearl Paradise Layout, Intel, Mahesh Kethan, Rohan Jharoka, LG Software, Salarpuria Sattva, Konena Agrahara and NAL installation, and surroundings areas.

The seven-hour outage comes after regularly power cuts for 1-2 hours across the city for small-scale maintenance work or fixing faults, as announced by Bescom through its social media channels.

BESCOM said that out of 9,207 complaints registered on Wednesday, 8,957 complaints were resolved.

Other than 1912 helpline, customers can call these helpline numbers based on their zones.

East – 9480816108, 9480816109, 9480816110

West- 9480816111, 9480816112, 9480816113

North-9480816114, 9480816115, 9480816116

South-9480816117, 9480816118, 9480816119

Despite, a paucity of coal supply from Centre, both BESCOM and the state government have claimed that there is no need for loadshedding in Bengaluru city or elsewhere in surrounding areas. In a press conference on October 25, Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said the demand-supply gap in the state was between 200 MW and 400 MW from 5 pm to 10 pm every day, and reiterated that the government will avoid load shedding and look for increasing power generation through hydroelectric power plants.

TNM

Amritsar train tragedy: Sidhu fails to appear before inquiry commission

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Punjab Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday failed to appear before the one-man commission conducting an inquiry into the Amritsar train tragedy in which 60 people were killed on October 19.

Sidhu’s wife, Navjot Kaur, who was also summoned by the commission, however, appeared on Friday and gave her statement.

Sidhu, who was present in Amritsar on Friday, later held a press conference and justified his absence.

“I wrote to him (probe commissioner) that I was not in Punjab from October 16-20. So there are no inputs that can actually add to your proceedings,” Sidhu told the media.

Senior IAS officer B. Purushartha, who is conducting the magisterial inquiry in Amritsar, had asked the Sidhu couple to appear before the commission on November 2.

Regarding Sidhu not appearing before the inquiry commission, Navjot Kaur told the media after appearing before the commission at the Improvement Trust building that “He is at home only. He had a programme to distribute cheques (to families of victims of the train tragedy). He has sent whatever statement he wanted to make (to the commission).”

Navjot Kaur, a former legislator and ex chief parliamentary secretary, was the chief guest at the Dussehra festival near Joda Phatak when the DMU (diesel multiple unit) train crushed those standing on the railway tracks.

Sixty people lost their lives and an equal number were injured in the train tragedy.

Opposition leaders and locals alleged that Navjot Kaur fled the scene after the train mowed down the people.

There are allegations that the event was organised without mandatory permissions, which had to be given by the municipal corporation which falls under the local government department headed by Sidhu.

The main organiser of the event, Saurabh Madan Mithoo, is a close political aide of the Sidhu couple.

Mithoo, his family members and other organisers were questioned by the inquiry commission in Amritsar, over 250 km from here, on Tuesday for over four hours.

The commission has been asked to submit its report within four weeks.

BJP asks EC to postpone Ramanagara bye-poll

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State Election Commission sources, however, told media it is highly unlikely that the poll would be countermanded.

The BJP in Karnataka, which was stumped on Thursday by the withdrawal of its candidate in the Ramanagara Assembly bye-poll just two days ahead of the election, has now sought the polling to be postponed in the seat. To this effect, its leader Chi Na Ramu, the party’s National General Secretary of SC Morcha, wrote to the Election Commission of India. The party also sought action against its candidate L Chandrashekar, son of Congress MLC CM Lingappa.

However, a top state Election Commission officer told media it is highly unlikely that the poll would be countermanded.

“We have not received any instructions from ECI. I don’t think there is a chance of elections being countermanded. The withdrawal from polls by a candidate after the notified date of withdrawal (October 20) is unofficial. His (Chandrashekar’s) name and symbols will be in the EVMs. His party had supported till the last day of withdrawal of candidature and that is why his name is already in the ballot,” the officer told media.

Other than Ramanagara, bye-polls will be held at Assembly segment of Jamakhandi and three Lok Sabha segments – Shimoga, Ballari and Mandya on Saturday as a precursor of sorts to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The results will be declared on November 6. The Congress-JD(S) have decided to put up a united front against the BJP after forming a post-poll alliance in May.

On Thursday, in a major embarrassment for the opposition party in the state, Chandrashekar retired from the elections in an unprecedented move and announced that he is rejoining the Congress. “I take back my nomination and I support Congress-JDS candidate Anita Kumaraswamy,” Chandrashekar stated in a letter. He said the “disinterest” shown by BJP’s state president BS Yeddyurappa for campaigning in the constituency forced him to quit.

The bye-poll in this seat was necessitated as Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy won both the seats of Ramanagara and Channapatna in the May state polls, but chose to vacate this seat. Chandrashekar was the BJP’s choice against JD(S)’s Anitha Kumaraswamy, the wife of the CM. The Congress has decided to lend support to the JD(S) as part of the continuing alliance since the Assembly elections.

Incidentally, CM HD Kumaraswamy has won for the fourth straight time from Ramanagara since 2004. According to poll analysts, with the Congress and JD(S) joining hands, it was realistically impossible for the BJP to manage a victory despite the rivalry between the grassroot workers of the JD(S) and Congress.

TNM

Two cabbies held for killing man over affair

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The Electronics City police have arrested two cab drivers for the murder of a 28-year-old man. The deceased was allegedly having an illicit affair with the wife of one of the accused.
The accused are Gangaraju (27), a resident of Doddathoguru, and his cousin Krishna (30), a resident of Pragathinagar. The victim is Chakradhar (28), also a resident of Doddathoguru, on October 23.

Police said Chakradhar’s semi-naked body was found at an isolated place on October 24 and a murder case was registered. Based on the photograph of a woman found in his pocket, the probe was started and it was found that he and the woman lived in the same area. His call records revealed the last call and message to him was from the woman.

“The woman and her husband, Gangaraju were traced to Doddaballapura. Gangaraju said that he had killed Chakradhar. He revealed that his wife and the deceased were working as house keeping staff in a firm and they were leaving for office and returning together for the past few months. One day Chakradhar sent a message to Gangaraju’s wife saying ‘I love you’. Angered, he sent a message from his wife’s phone to Chakradhar asking him to come home on October 23 and killed him.

‘Top in the world’ show by students in Bengaluru

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Cambridge International has conferred an impressive 210 ‘Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards’ on Indian students. The awards recognise exceptional exam performances in 2017-18 in four categories – ‘Top in the World’, ‘Top in the Country’, ‘High Achievement Award’, and ‘Best Across’.

In all, 62 ‘Top in the World’ awards have been won by students of schools across India. Of them, 13 are from Bengaluru schools — Gitanjali Raghavendra and Nitin Nagarkar of National Academy for Learning; Divij Gupta and Teghveer Singh Rekhi of Inventure Academy; Nayantara Ghosh, Aryaan S. Anand, Udayveer Singh Sodhi, and Riddhi Sahima Verma of Mallya Aditi International School; Kathryn Nicole Sam of Ryan Global School; Sannivas Reddy N. of Greenwood High; Sapolnach Prompiengchai of Sarala Birla Academy; Pavan R. Kashyap of Deccan International School; and Vedaant Kuchhal of Head Start Educational Academy.

The ‘Top in the World’ award recognises students who have achieved the highest marks in the world in a Cambridge IGCSE or Cambridge International AS & A Level subject in the November 2016, March 2018 and June 2018 Cambridge exam series.

Ruchira Ghosh, regional director (South Asia), Cambridge International, said Indian students have not only performed well in STEM subjects but also in subjects such as Cambridgeglobal perspectives, environmental management, drama and music.The award-winners will be recognised for their impressive academic achievements at a Cambridge Outstanding Learner Awards ceremony early next year.

Service centre staff allegedly withdrawn 91,000 from Delhi man’s Paytm

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A man in Delhi has been allegedly been duped of more than Rs. 91,000 from his Paytm account after he gave his phone to a service centre without deleting his mobile wallet.

Yusuf Karim, 28, a resident of southeast Delhi’s Kalkaji, has alleged that Rs. 91,000 was withdrawn from his Paytm account allegedly by the staff of a service centre where he had given his mobile phone for repairing.

In his complaint filed, Karim said that when he got back his phone from the service centre, he received an email from Paytm that somebody else had logged into his account.

Later, he received another message that his registered email address on Paytm was changed and Rs. 19,999 were transferred to an unknown account from a different number which was fraudulently registered in his name, police said.

After that, seven transactions were made from the victim’s account and Rs. 80,498 was withdrawn, they said.

The victim alleged the engineers of the mobile service company who were repairing his phone have done such fraudulent transactions. He also claimed that despite several requests, Paytm did not block his account.

A response from the mobile wallet giant is awaited.

 

PTI

Delhi Teacher Shot Dead On Way To School; Husband, Girlfriend Arrested

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A man and two others have been arrested for allegedly killing his wife — a 38-year-old school teacher — in northwest Delhi’s Bawana area, police said Thursday.

The accused were identified as Manjeet (38), husband of the deceased, his girlfriend Angel Gupta alias Shashi Prabha (26) and Rajeev (40), they added.

Manjeet was in a relationship with Angel and his wife, Sunita, objected to it, so they conspired to eliminate her, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Rohini) Rajneesh Gupta said.

Sunita was shot dead on Monday morning by unknown assailants while she was on the way to her school. She was shot thrice and was declared brought dead at the hospital, police said.

She is survived by a 16-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son, they said.

A manhunt is underway to arrest the persons who were hired for the murder, DCP Gupta said.

PTI

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