Soumya Reddy of the Indian National Congress has triumphed from Jayanagar Assembly constituency by defeating BN Prahlad Babu of the BJP in a straight fight following the retirement of Janata Dal-Secular candidate from the electoral fray.
Soumya Reddy,daughter of R Ramalingareddy,former Home Minister and BTM layout Congress MLA won the prestigious seat dominated by middle-class people.She bagged 54,457 votes while BN Prahlad Babu could manage 51,568 votes after 16 rounds of counting got over.Soumya Reddy defeated the BJP candidate by a slender margin of 2,889 votes.
Ravikrishna Reddy who parted ways with the Aam Adami Party and contested as an Independent candidate could get a meager 1,591 votes and lost his deposit.808 people preferred NOTA.
It may be recalled that R Ramalingareddy had represented Jayanagar constituency for four terms till delimitation.After that he switched over to neighboring BTM layout constituency.He is representing that constituency successively for the second time.
The strength of the Congress party has increased from 78 to 80 with the party winning in the deferred elections in Rajarajeshwarinagar Assembly constituency and now in the countermanded Jayanagar constituency as well.
Ramanagar in Ramanaga district and Jamakhandi in Bagalkote district will soon be facing bye-elections.HD Kumaraswamy resigned to Ramanagar after retaining the neighboring Channapatna constituency in Ramanagar district.
Siddu Nyamagouda,Jamakhandi Congress MLA passed away in a fatal road accident while he was returning from Goa.He had been to New Delhi to lobby for a ministerial berth in the alliance government.
Hindusthan Samachar/Manohar Yadavatti
16 people killed in Mainpuri road mishap
At least 16 people were killed near Kiratpur village in Mainpuri district of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday morning.
Thirteen passengers were severely injured in the accident. They have been admitted to the district hospital of Mainpuri. Three of the passengers seriously injured have been shifted to Safai hospital in Etawah district.
According to police, the accident took place when a private tourist bus lost control and rammed into the road divider this morning.
The bus was traveling from Jaipur to Farukkhabad in UP.
Senior police officials from Mainpuri are at the accident spot and cranes have been pressed into action to lift the turtled bus lying on divider.
Hindusthan Samachar/Shri Ram Shaw
Four BSF personnel martyred in Pak firing
Four BSF personnel including an Assistant Commandant were martyred in firing by Pakistani forces in Samba district last night. Five jawans were severely injured in Pak shelling.
Pakistani troops from across the border resorted to unprovoked firing targeting Chamliyal and Narayanpur BSF posts in Ramgarh sector around 10 PM Tuesday night.
Pakistan Rangers’ sniper shots resulted in casualties and injuries to the BSF men deployed at the Indian positions. The BSF troops guarding the border retaliated and exchange of fire continued 2 AM.
Hindusthan Samachar/Shri Ram Shaw
Eid Special Recipe – Lukmi Ala Galawat
It gives us great pleasure to welcome onboard and introduce our new Head Chef, Mani
Mohan Pathak.
He is a veteran of the industry and specializes in progressive Indian food.
For this Eid, Chef Pathak is happy to share the following recipe.
Kindly publish the same along with Chef Pathak’s photograph. Also attached are photos of
the dish.
LUKMI ALA GALAWAT
This recipe is giving a different look to a most Famous dish(snacks) of Hyderabad.
The traditional dish is re-shaped to in savory crispy cornetto shell and filled with Authentic
lamb Galawat.
To make Lukmi cornetto
Samosa Patti or phyllo sheet—4 sheet
Butter- 30 gram
Cornetto mold -4 no
Method
Take the Samosa Patti or phyllo sheet.
Slightly apply butter on it
Roll it on all cornetto cone mold individually
Bake it in oven at 160 degree centigrade for 12 minutes till golden brawn
Take out from oven, allow it to get cold. Demold and keep a side.
Your empty cornetto shell is ready.
For Lamb Galawat
Fine minced mutton – 200 Grms
Ghee 50 grams
Fried Onion- 30 grams
Green chillies 10 grams
Fresh coriander chopped 20 grams
Red chili powder 05 grams
Garam masala powder 05 grams
Raw Papaya mince 05 grams
Rose petal powder 02 grams
Mint leaves few sprig
Rose petals 1 rose
Salt to taste
Method
Take a bowl and place minced mutton in it. Combine all the ingredients with it except half
Ghee, mix well.
Make bay in center and smoke it with hot charcoal in bowl with ghee, clove n garlic to infuse
aroma
Now galawat mixture is ready to shallow fry in small ball or cook it with bit ghee n cream to
make creamy pouring consistency.
Spoon out creamy mixture in cornetto.
Garnish with rose petal. Serve hot.
Trump and Kim sign agreement after historic summit
US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un signed an agreement on Tuesday pledging to support a peaceful resolution to seven decades of hostilities between the two countries and a de-escalation of nuclear tensions.
Under the agreement, the US committed to providing security guarantees to its old enemy while North Korea “commits to working towards complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula”.
That provision falls short of the hoped-for “complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearisation” of North Korea that had been urged by the US and its allies in the build-up to Tuesday’s talks.
Trump defended the agreement at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, saying both he and Kim are committed to its provisions.
“Today is the beginning of an arduous process,” Trump told reporters. “Our eyes are wide open, but peace is always worth the effort, especially in this case.”
Trump said economic sanctions against the country will remain in effect until North Korea reverses its nuclear programme, and added there are no short-term plans to reduce the number of US troops – some 28,500 – stationed in South Korea.
Trump and Kim capped a one-day peace summit by signing the agreement without immediately disclosing the terms. Trump stayed on to detail the agreement at a later news conference while Kim left the summit for a return flight to Pyongyang.
Four major points covered in the Trump-Kim agreement:
The US and North Korea will pursue better relations “in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity”.
The US and North Korea “will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace” on the Korean Peninsula.
North Korea commits to “work towards denuclearisation”.
The countries agree to recover and repatriate POW/MIA remains to date back to the Korean War.
Earlier, at a signing ceremony, Kim said: “We had a historic meeting and decided to leave the past behind. The world will see a major change.”
Trump added: “A lot of work and a lot of preparation went into this. The meeting went better than expected and no one could’ve expected this.”
As both leaders stood on a hotel veranda to say their final goodbyes, Trump said: “We’ll meet again. We will meet many times.”
Analysts are divided over the agreement, with some saying it does nothing to avoid repeating past mistakes in similar attempts at a denuclearization deal.
Others see the summit as a welcome reversal to decades of hostility and harsh language between the US and North Korea.
“An important first step has been taken with the historic agreement even if it is scant on details,” said Eugene Tan, associate professor of law at Singapore Management University.
“Much work remains to be done and there will be obstacles ahead for sure given what is at stake for all stakeholders.”
‘Short on details’
Geoffrey See, a founder of the Choson Exchange, a Singapore-based non-profit that organizes business workshops in North Korea, said: “The summit is still short on details on how both sides will achieve their objectives. But the summit has reversed a process [by] putting trust, relationship and aspiration at the start rather than at the end.”
Tuesday’s summit, which began about 9 am local time and ended with the signing shortly before 2 pm (06:00 GMT), was punctuated by handshakes, smiles and upbeat comments from both Trump and Kim.
Trump met Kim on Singapore’s Sentosa Island at the Capella Hotel, a former British colonial barracks converted into a high-end hotel, starting with a carefully choreographed handshake greeting against a backdrop of US and North Korean flags.
Following initial comments to reporters Tuesday morning, Trump and Kim went into a private meeting accompanied solely by their translators, then a larger meeting with aides to both men, and finally a working lunch.
Before heading into the private meeting with Trump, Kim said: “The way to come to here was not easy. The old prejudices and practices worked as obstacles on our way forward, but we overcame all of them and we are here today.”
CM HD Kumaraswamy Tells Father and Brother No Need to Interference in Governmental Affairs
It is learned that Karnataka CM, H D Kumaraswamy, who has been tired by the impedance by his father and brother in each aspect of the governance, has told them that their habit of poking nose in all governmental issues is unwelcome.
Kumaraswamy is learned to have spilled out his sentiments in front of his closed ones in which he disclosed that he rose to be the Chief Minister of Karnataka under peculiar conditions and that he has been experiencing pressure from Congress on different issues. He wonders how he can work if relatives too try to have their say in all parts of the government.
Sources expressed that the CM told his brother H D Revanna, and father, H D Deve Gowda, that he doesn’t need the interference of his family members, brothers and all others in the governmental affairs and that he must be without given free hands in these issues.
It is learned that after Kumaraswamy won the trust vote in the assembly, Deve Gowda had held meetings with the chief secretary of the administration, K Ratna Prabha, additional chief secretary, Laxminarayana, director general of police, Neelamani N Raju, city police commissioner, T Sunil Kumar and others. At the point when Kumaraswamy held meetings of officials from departments of horticulture, agriculture and so forth in the Vidhana Soudha, Revanna had assembled a meeting of Karnataka Milk Federation despite the fact that he isn’t associated with it. In addition, when Kumaraswamy was tending to a press meet, Revanna had intervened, which had raged Kumaraswamy.
By virtue of these reasons, Kumaraswamy has advised his family members to stay away from things with which they are not concerned with, reports expressed.
Spiritual guru Bhayyu Maharaj commits suicide in MP
Spiritual guru Bhayyu Maharaj, who had refused to accept ministerial rank granted by the Madhya Pradesh government over two months back, today allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself here, police said.
“Bhayyu Maharaj has committed suicide by shooting himself,” Indore’s Deputy Inspector General (DIG) H C Mishra said.
He shot himself at his home, Mishra said.
A large number of his supporters gathered in front of the hospital where the 50-year-old ‘godman’ was rushed after the shooting incident.
Bhayyu Maharaj, whose original name was Uday Singh Deshmukh, was one of the five ‘saints’ to whom the Shivraj Singh government of Madhya Pradesh had granted Minister of State (MoS) rank in April.
However, he had refused to accept it, saying “a post holds no importance for a saint”.
Prior to becoming the spiritual guru, he had done a modeling stint, his disciples said.
He enjoyed a large following among politicians and film stars.
Mostly all Mahrashtra Chief Ministers including the incumbent, Devendra Fadnavis and former President Pratibha Patil used to pay obeisance to him.
When India Against Corruption (IAC) movement led by Anna Hazare was at its peak some years back, he had negotiated with the agitators to break their fast
Former CM Siddaramaiah gets Speaker Ramesh Kumar’s office
The plush office meant for Karnataka speaker K R Ramesh Kumar has been given to former chief minister Siddaramaiah, even though he has no constitutional post in the newly formed H D Kumaraswamy government.
Kumar had worked out of the office on the first floor of the complex for the past two weeks. However, he vacated it for Siddaramaiah.
Siddaramaiah was unanimously elected as the leader of the Congress Legislative Party in May and is also the chairman of the JD(S)-Congress government coordination committee.
The new office of Siddaramaiah has high-end wooden furniture, including luxurious sofas, chairs, LED TV and other comforts.
Former Karnataka speaker K B Koliwad had renovated this office at a cost of Rs 68 lakh expanding the single-room space into two during his term. The lavish expenditure was severely criticized by the BJP, which termed it unnecessary when farmers are committing suicide.
However, Koliwad citied space crunch, difficulty in organizing meetings and justified the renovation activity.
While Siddaramaiah was blamed by some of his party leaders for Congress defeat and rumours making rounds of him being sidelined in the new government, the swanky office allotted to him which was actually meant to be that of the Speaker’s has raised eyebrows.
Case registered against TL BJP MLA for ‘inflammatory’ video on Iftar
A case was registered against controversial Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh Lodh for allegedly posting an “inflammatory” video on the social networking site over ‘Iftar’ parties, police said today.
The city police suo-moto registered the case under IPC section 153A (promoting enmity among people on grounds of religion) against him last night, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Falaknuma Division) Syed Fiyaz.
The MLA from Goshamahal constituency, known for making contentious statements, had posted the video message on a social networking site saying many legislators including from Telangana are busy hosting ‘Iftar’ parties, and declared he would neither host nor attend such events.
“Those who sit with them (those attending Iftar) are ‘vote ke bhikhari’ (beggars for a vote). My thinking is different,” he said in it.
Singh said his religion Hinduism taught him to give respect to everyone.
“But some religions and their religious books preach to kill Hindus as they are ‘Kafir’ (a term literally meaning non-believers but often construed as insulting to followers of other religions). How can I attend an Iftar or host one for those who talk of killing Hindus?” he asked.
In support of his claim, the MLA said it was mentioned in the “green book.”
“This green book is responsible for the spread of terrorism in India and it should be banned. I will fight to get it banned,” he had said.
Singh had also accused Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao of hosting Iftar at different mosques in the state to “appease” the minorities.
The MLA has been booked by the Hyderabad police several times over alleged provocative speeches and statements.
Pakistan continues to back infiltration into Kashmir: Army
Pakistan continues to help infiltration of militants into the Kashmir Valley though the Ramadan ceasefire has brought a modicum of peace into the lives of ordinary Kashmiris, a senior Army commander said on Tuesday.
Lt General A.K. Bhatt, Commander of the Srinagar headquartered 15 Corps, told IANS on the sidelines of a function: “The Ramadan ceasefire has brought in some modicum of peace into the lives of the common Kashmiris who have appreciated the gesture.
“We are happy that no civilian casualty has taken place during the holy month of Ramadan, but Pakistan has been continuing its efforts to help infiltration into the state,” he said.
Lt Gen Bhatt was here to inaugurate free residential coaching for aspirants of NEET medical entrance test.
He said that troops on the Line of Control (LoC), which divides Jammu and Kashmir between India and Pakistan, were deployed to meet the challenge of infiltration.
But the officer said that there were no indications suggesting that infiltration attempts would increase in the coming months.
Lt Gen Bhatt said the decision to extend or call off the Ramadan ceasefire was for the government to take.
“In both cases, the Army will continue to enforce the decision taken by the government.”