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Bengaluru Bulls thrash UP Yoddha in PKL tie

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Pune: Rohit Kumar created history as he scored 32 raid points to help Bengaluru Bulls hammer UP Yoddha 64-24 in their penultimate match of the fifth Pro Kabaddi League (PKL)here on Tuesday.

This was the most raid points scored by a raider in the history of PKL. Bengaluru also created the record for most points scored by a team in the fifth season.

This was a rescheduled match after it was postponed due to heavy rains in Mumbai earlier in the season.

Rohit Kumar was in sublime raiding form and led his team to victory. It was a slightly depleted UP Yoddha team and Bengaluru made them suffer. Surender Singh scored 11 points for UP Yoddha.

Bengaluru now have 54 points from 21 matches and are fourth in Zone B. UP Yoddha are third with 60 points from 22 matches.

For the first five minutes, it was a close affair as both teams exchanged raid and tackle points. Bengaluru went on a blistering run after the fifth minute and scored 14 straight points as UP Yoddha crumbled.

Rohit Kumar led from the front for Bulls as he scored 12 raid points in the first half. Bengaluru inflicted the first all out of the match in the eighth minute to lead 11-3.

In the 12th minute, Bengaluru inflicted another all out to lead 20-4. Surender Singh scored two raid points in two minutes as UP Yoddha trailed 7-24 after 16 minutes.

Bengaluru ended the first half with a 17-point gap.

UP Yoddha began the second half in better form as Mahesh Goud scored four raid points in five minutes as they trailed 15-32 after 25 minutes.

Bengaluru then scored six straight points in the next four minutes to lead 38-15. An all out was inflicted by Bengaluru Bulls in the 29th minute as they led 42-17.

Bengaluru were dominant in the last 10 minutes as they inflicted two more all outs. They scored 22 points compared to just three by UP Yoddha as they romped to a 64-24 victory.

(IANS)

Gauri murder: SIT extracts picture of bike-borne man on recce before incident

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Bengaluru: A special investigation team (SIT) probing the killing of noted journalist Gauri Lankesh outside her house in Bengaluru has extracted an enlarged picture of a motorcycle-borne youth, who is suspected to have conducted a recce of the area before the incident.

A police officer, who is part of the team, confirmed that the picture had been extracted from one of the two video clips they had obtained from a CCTV camera.

Police took the assistance of a forensic science laboratory abroad to stretch the picture.

The face of the suspect was not clear because he was wearing a helmet, the officer said.

The SIT has already released three sketches of two suspects, made based on eyewitness accounts.

Gauri Lankesh, known for her strong anti-right wing stand, was shot dead on September 5 evening outside her residence in Bengaluru.

The incident had triggered widespread outrage, leading to protest rallies across the country.

The Karnataka government has formed a 21-member SIT, led by Inspector General of Police B K Singh, to investigate the case.

(PTI)

Girl dies at Patna AIIMS for lack of treatment, RJD demands probe

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Patna: As a 9-year-old girl died at Patna AIIMS while her poor father completed the formalities for her treatment and an official posted at the counter refused to help him, the opposition RJD on Wednesday demanded a high-level probe into the matter.

Raushan Kumari, suffering from high fever for six days, died near the Outdoor Patient Department of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here on Tuesday.

Her father Rambalak and his wife, residents of Kajra village in Lakhisarai district, brought her to AIIMS, following which he was directed by the staff to get a ‘parcha’ (registration card) made at the OPD counter.

As Rambalak, a daily wager, stood in the queue at the counter, his wife told him the girl’s condition had deteriorated. As Rambalak pleaded with people standing in a long queue to allow him to get the formalities completed out of turn, no one paid heed. He even pleaded with the clerk deployed at the counter, but was asked to come in queue.

“By the time Rambalak left the counter after getting the registration done, his daughter had died,” a staff of a private agency contracted for cleaning operations at the hospital said on condition of anonymity.

To add to his agony, the distraught man was allegedly not even provided an ambulance by AIIMS officials to ferry the body to his village. With little money on his person, he carried his daughter’s body on his shoulder for nearly four km to an auto-rickshaw stand at Phulwari Sharif here.

AIIMS Director Dr Prabhat Kumar Singh said he had no information that a critical patient had died due to lack of treatment.

“As far as a ‘parcha’ is concerned, doctors treat critical patients without it and later their registration is done. But I will inquire into this case if it has happened,” he said.

Interestingly, Patna AIIMS does not have an Emergency Ward.

Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad flayed the Nitish Kumar government for its “apathy towards the poorest of the poor” which, he claimed, led to the girl’s death, and demanded a high-level probe.

“Everything has collapsed in Bihar, including law and order, education, and health. The latest incident of the girl’s death at Patna AIIMS vindicates our stand. There is no facility for the poor for treatment — they have been left to die, as happened in this case.”

He also took a dig at Union Minister of State for Health Ashwani Kumar Choubey, who last week reportedly suggested that patients from Bihar should be treated at Patna’s AIIMS and not in AIIMS at Delhi.

Choubey’s alleged remark about Biharis “crowding” AIIMS at Delhi even for minor ailments had drawn criticism from opposition parties.

Lalu Prasad said: “Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi have no time for genuine health issues. Both are busy showing their faces in the media, more or less on the lines of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”

“Girls are dying for want of ‘bhat'(rice) in Jharkhand and lack of treatment in Bihar,” the RJD chief remarked while referring to the death of 11-year-old Santoshi Kumari in Simdega district in neighbouring Jharkhand due to starvation.

(IANS)

George Saunders Wins the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

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London: The “unique” and “extraordinary” novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” by noted American short story writer George Saunders that tells the story of Abraham Lincoln’s grief after the death of his young son has been declared as the winner of 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Saunders’ win was announced by Lola Baroness Young, the chair of the judging committee, at a dinner at London’s Guildhall late on Tuesday night. He was presented with a trophy by the Duchess of Cornwall and a 50,000 pounds cheque by Luke Ellis, Chief Executive of the Man Group. Saunders also received a designer-bound edition of his book and a further 2,500 pounds for being shortlisted.

“The form and style of this utterly original novel reveals a witty, intelligent and deeply moving narrative. This tale of the haunting and haunted souls in the afterlife of Abraham Lincoln’s young son paradoxically creates a vivid and lively evocation of the characters that populate this other world. Lincoln in the Bardo is both rooted in, and plays with history, and explores the meaning and experience of empathy,” commented Young.

Her fellow judges this year were writer and critic Lila Azam Zanganeh, novelist and poet Sarah Hall, artist and author Tom Phillips and travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron.

Saunders thanked his wife, Paula, referring to her as his “precious friend and artistic hero” for supporting him to achieve the “wonderful honour”.

“If you haven’t noticed, we live in a strange time. So the question at the heart of the matter is pretty simple: Do we respond to fear with exclusion and negative projection and violence? Or do we take that ancient great leap of faith and do our best to respond with love? And with faith in the idea that what seems other is actually not other at all, but just us on a different day.

“In the US we’re hearing a lot about the need to protect culture. Well this tonight is culture, it is international culture, it is compassionate culture, it is activist culture. It is a room full of believers in the word, in beauty and ambiguity and in trying to see the other person’s point of view, even when that is hard,” Saunders said on receiving the prize.

The 58-year-old New York resident, born in Texas, is only the second American author to win the prize in its 49-year history. He was in contention for the prize with two British, one British-Pakistani and two American writers.

The novel is published by Bloomsbury, making it the third consecutive year the prize has been won by an independent publisher, following Oneworld Publications’ success in 2015 with Marlon James and 2016 with Paul Beatty. Bloomsbury has won the prize thrice before, with Howard Jacobson (2010), Margaret Atwood (2000) and Michael Ondaatje (1992).

The widely-read novel, which has now thrust Saunders into the limelight, focuses on a single night in the life of Abraham Lincoln: an actual moment in 1862 when the body of his 11-year-old son was laid to rest in a Washington cemetery. Strangely and brilliantly, Saunders activates this graveyard with the spirits of its dead.

The judges considered 144 submissions for this year’s prize. The books losing out on the prize were “4321” by Paul Auster (US), “Elmet” by Fiona Mozley (UK), “Exit West” by Mohsin Hamid (UK-Pakistan), “History of Wolves” by Emily Fridlund (US) and “Autumn” by Ali Smith (UK).

(IANS)

Modi should accept note ban was wrong move: Kamal Hassan

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Chennai: Apologizing for supporting demonetisation, actor Kamal Hassan said he will again salute Prime Minister Narendra Modi if he also accepts that the note ban was a mistake.

In an article in the Tamil magazine Anandavikatan, the actor said accepting and correcting mistakes is a marker for great leaders which Mahatma Gandhi was able to do.

Hassan said Modi should not be stubborn in arguing that the rabbit he had caught has three legs.

On his initial support for the demonetisation of 1,000 and 500 rupee notes, Hassan said he had welcomed the move and tweeted that it should be supported regardless of party affiliation.

“I thought people should bear with minor irritants in the goal to eradicate black money,” he wrote.

The actor said his friends and those who know economics had called him and criticised his support for demonetisation.

Hassan said he later thought that demonetisation was good but the manner in which it was implemented was wrong.

He said now there were voices saying demonetisation was a deception and the weak response from the government raises serious doubts about the scheme.

(IANS)

Compulsory Kannada education in schools across all boards

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Bengaluru: The Education Department of Karnataka released compulsory guidelines, stating that Kannada language should be taught in all schools across all boards.

The Guidelines directed saying students from Class 1 to Class 10 will be taught Kannada in all the schools from the 2018-19 academic year.

In the rules released on October 12, the department has said that students from classes 1 to 4 will begin to learn the language at an introductory level. Textbooks such as Nali Kali Kannada and Kali Nali Kannada will be used to teach them. From class 5, the subject will have to be compulsorily chosen as either first or second language.

For a student migrating to Karnataka from another state between classes 2 and 8, teachers will have to begin teaching the subject at an introductory level, using class 1 textbooks. However, the secondary education department is yet to determine how the subject will be taught for students of classes 9 and 10.

(Agencies)

Journalist who reported on Panama Papers killed in bomb blast

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Valletta: A journalist who led the Panama Papers probe into corruption in Malta was killed on Monday in a car bomb near her residence, the media reported.

Daphne Caruana Galizia died on Monday when her car, a Peugeot 108, was destroyed by a powerful explosive device, reports the Guardian.

A blogger whose posts often attracted more readers than the combined circulation of the country’s newspapers, Caruana Galizia was recently described by the American news outlet Politico as a “one-woman WikiLeaks”.

Her latest revelations accused Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and two of his closest aides, connecting offshore companies linked to the three men with the sale of Maltese passports and payments from the government of Azerbaijan.

No group or individual claimed responsibility for the attack, the Guardian reported.

Malta’s President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, called for calm. “In these moments, when the country is shocked by such a vicious attack, I call on everyone to measure their words, to not pass judgement and to show solidarity.”

In a statement, Muscat condemned the “barbaric attack”.

“Everyone knows Caruana Galizia was a harsh critic of mine,” said Muscat, adding “Both politically and personally, but nobody can justify this barbaric act in any way.”

He announced in parliament later on Monday that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officers were on their way to Malta to assist with the investigation, following his request for help from the US government.

According to local media reports, Caruana Galizia filed a police report 15 days ago to say that she had been receiving death threats.

The journalist posted her final blog on her Running Commentary website at 2.35 p.m. on Monday, and the explosion, which occurred near her home, was reported to police just after 3 p.m.

Over the last two years, her reporting had largely focused on revelations from the Panama Papers, a cache of 11.5 million documents leaked from the internal database of the world’s fourth largest offshore law firm, Mossack Fonseca.

(IANS)

Announcing the 6th Edition of the Bangalore Literature Festival

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28-29 October 2017 | The Lalit Ashok Kumara Krupa High Grounds

130 speakers, unique literary events, plenty of children’s programming, interactive art installation, The Red Couch for informal author interactions, music programmes, LitMart for aspiring authors, workshops and more ~

Bangalore Literature Festival, Bengaluru’s flagship community funded literary event on the cultural calendar of the city, is all set for a sixth edition on October 28 and 29 at the Hotel Lalit Ashok lawns in Kumara Krupa High Grounds, Bengaluru.

Building on the success of over the past five years, this year Bangalore Literature Festival (#blrlitfest) has a “Speak Up, Speak Out” theme and will feature a host of distinguished authors, speakers and artistes including Ramachandra Guha, Perumal Murugan, Paul Zacharia, Ambai, Hardeep Singh Puri, Suketu Mehta, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, NS Madhavan, Girish Karnad, Sonal Mansingh, Gideon Haigh, Twinkle Khanna and others.

Over the years the Bangalore Literature Festival has become the most sought after and must-attend event for readers and writers, with its enriching and stimulating literary sessions, interviews and panel discussions. This year the Festival will witness authors engaging the audi­ences with diverse themes. Highlights include “Jingoism Vs. Patriotism”, “Death by Litigation – The Perils of Business Reporting”, “How India’s T-20 World Cup Win Changed Indian and World Cricket”, “Mrs. Funnybones” and “Chasing Bin Laden”.

This year too Bangalore Literature Festival sticks to its promise of something for every reader. This includes two full days of children’s programming called ‘Children | Literature | Fun (C | L | F)’ with workshops, storytelling sessions, creative games and more – with a theme that embraces the environment – Every Day Earth Day. C | L | F highlights include sessions by renowned authors such as Ranjit Lal, Reena Puri, Roopa Pai, Anjana Basu and Leela Broome. Workshops and Performances by Kirtana Kumar’s Theatre Lab and Namkampeni Interactive Theatre. Painstakingly curated by Vikram Sridhar, this promises to take not just children but the little kid in every adult too by storm.

International authors at the Festival this year include Australian cricket writer Gideon Haigh, acclaimed South African writer Imraan Coovadia, Sri Lankan humourist Chhimi Tenduf-La and British journalist Adrian Levy. Young authors will be represented by Kanhaiya Kumar, Savi Sharma, Varun Agarwal and others.

The 2017 edition of the Festival will have diverse media personalities and journalists participating, including Bachi Karkaria, Manu Joseph, Jagannathan, Meenal Baghel, Rajdeep Sardesai, Nidhi Razdan, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Sindhu S, Sagarika Ghose, Naresh Fernandes, Dhanya Rajendran and Baradwaj Rangan.

This sixth edition of the Festival showcases young talent in Kannada writing with Sahitya Yuva Puraskar winners Shanthi K Appanna, Vikram Hathwar and Abdul Rasheed. Eminent historian Dr. S. Settar will discuss the origin of the Kannada language, and a panel of eminent women autobiographers, including Bhargavi Narayan, Indira Lankesh and the evergreen Dr. Vijaya promise to enthral audiences with their insights.

True to the Festival’s moorings, several city authors are supporting the event and participating in the Festival. Leading names include Ammu Joseph, Rohini Mohan, Harish Bijoor and more.

The Festival has lined up interesting performances including a piano recital by Natallia Kopylova and Liudmila Alizarchyk, music by German poet Jessy James with a band and a sarod concert by Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash.

The Bangalore Literature Festival and Atta Galatta, the city-based bookstore and art-literature space, will also present the Atta Galatta–Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize to honour the best of English writing. Watch out for the shortlist!

The Festival opens at 10 am on Oct 28 and 29. Entry is free, open to all and registration is recommended.

For registration, complete schedule of events, participating author bios and other information check

www.bangaloreliteraturefestival.org or follow blrlitfest on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

“Every year the festival returns in a new way. This time too we promise you the previously unsaid. Honest, direct conversations coming your way,” says festival director Shinie Antony.

This year too the Festival is anchored by Friends of BLF – a group of eminent citizens of Bengaluru, who firmly believe that the city comes alive in its public spaces, in its arts and culture events that foster meaningful dialogue, enriching discussions and healthy debates; a group whose support has laid the foundation for an independent, community-funded literary event that the city of Bangalore can be proud of and can claim as ‘nammadu‘. Friends of BLF help create – with their generosity, energy and time – this world of words.

About Bangalore Literature Festival

The Bangalore Literature Festival celebrates the creative spirit of Bengaluru and commemorates the literary diversity it offers, bringing it in conversation with the best minds in the world of literature. The 2017 edition of the Bangalore Literature Festival is a two-day literary extravaganza that will bring together some of the biggest names in literature – within and outside India.

The objective of the Bangalore Literature Festival is to put together a literary experience that brings writers – both established and aspiring, readers, publishers, students and young professionals and other stakeholders of the city together on a common platform and create a compelling space for engaging and thought-provoking discussions on literature and life.

The Bangalore Literature Festival is a non-profit run by an eclectic pro bono team of Shinie Antony, V. Ravichandar, Srikrishna Ramamoorthy, Subodh Sankar and Vikram Sridhar, supported by advisors and volunteers.

More information at: www.bangaloreliteraturefestival.org //blrlitfest

Leading Intra-city Logistics Player Porter Launches Multilingual Interface For Benefit of Driver Partners

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Bengaluru: Chill maadi! Namma Porter now speaks Kannada. Porter, India’s leading app-enabled intra-city logistics player, will now speak in your language as the company celebrates the festival season with new add-ons and attractive offers for drivers on the platform.

Porter’s new Kannada interface is a tech solution to a frequent problem associated with local logistics— language barrier. Porter’s language feature will help the team of drivers to operate in the language they are comfortable with, which means smoother trips and faster delivery for you.

“If you are new to Bangalore, navigating on and off the road can be tough. Besides the traffic, you have to navigate the language barrier too. Our driver partners also need to navigate the language besides the traffic. Porter helps you with both,” said Mr Pranav Goel, the co-founder of Porter.

“Most of the partners on our platform are comfortable using Kannada and the app will act as a bridge to users, ensuring smoother work flow and faster delivery,” said Mr Goel.

Rolling out the local language interface simultaneously in Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai, the multilingual function of the app will ensure easy communication between the partner driver and customer, leading to a better understanding of the requirement and delivery.

Keeping up with the festive spirit, Porter had also rolled out special schemes for the driver partners earlier last month to better their profit margins. Driver partners who login for 250 hours during the period September 7 to October 17 were entitled to festival incentives which ranged from 45k to 55k depending on the city. The objective was to promote better work-life balance as well as to help the driver community maximise their profits during the festive season.

Pranav further added, “Porter is constantly striving to create opportunities that benefit our driver partners. We want to empower more individuals and create an ecosystem that will help create new business owners”.

About Porter:
Founded in 2014 by IIT alumni Pranav Goel, Uttam Digga and Vikas Chaudhary, the company aims to provide economical, efficient and reliable logistics solutions to its customers, while empowering partnered drivers, by utilising technology.

Porter currently has 6500+ vehicles on its platform and has done 15,00,000 deliveries in the last 3 years. The company currently operates in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai & Hyderabad and plans to expand to 15 other cities including Pune, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Lucknow and Coimbatore.

Times Su-doku Championship 2017 announces National Winners

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Winners of this round to represent India at the International Su-doku Championship 2017to be held in Bengaluru

After their triumph at regional rounds in various cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru and Kolkata, the national round of the Times Su-doku Championship was held in Mumbai on 1st October 2017. Following a grueling 2-hour long competition, during the national level rounds, 4 winners have been selected to represent India on the global level. The four selected winners include Harmeet Singh (42, Bengaluru); Pranav Kamesh (17, Chennai), Kishore Kumar Sridharan (28, Chennai) and Hemant Kumar Malani (19, Kolkata).

The team consists of two experienced and two next-genparticipants. Among the four finalists, Pranav and Kishore have previously represented India at the World Su-doku Championship; Pranav has qualified for the third time. Harmeet and Hemant will be representing India for the first time.

Speaking on the occasion 42-year-oldHarmeet Singh, a software engineer from Bengaluru, who has qualified for the first time said, ”Su-doku is my hobby, I practice it online on a daily basis and I make sure that I am in touch regularly. I am excited about the World Championship, in my free time I participate in competition that keeps me motivated.”

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