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Fifth ODI: India Register Convincing Win, Series Whitewash Over Lanka

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Colombo: Virat Kohli led the way with a century as India defeated Sri Lanka by six wickets in the fifth and final One-Day International (ODI) here on Sunday evening.

Chasing a target of 239 runs, India crossed the line with 21 balls to spare.

Kohli remained unbeaten on 110 runs off 116 balls, smashing nine boundaries along the way. He was involved in a 108-run partnership with Kedar Jadhav, who scored 63 runs off 73 balls before being caught behind off Wanidu Hasaranga’s bowling a couple of balls before the end.

India thus whitewashed Sri Lanka 5-0 in the series. The visitors, who remained dominant throughout the series, produced another superb performance during Sunday’s match, dominating the Sri Lankans in all departments of the game.

Earlier, pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar returned career best figures of 5/42 as India dismissed Sri Lanka for 238 runs. Lahiru Thirimanne (67) and Angelo Mathews (55) batted well for the hosts.

(IANS)

Trump decides to withdraw DACA, could impact 7k Indians

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[Carlos Barria/Reuters]

Washington: US President Donald Trump is set to withdraw Deferred Action for Children Arrival (DACA) which may impact around 7000 Indian-Americans.

DACA is a program which was introduced by former President Barack Obama in June 2012. DACA grants work permits to immigrants who arrived in the country illegally as children.

India ranks 11th among countries of origin for DACA students, according to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services statistics available till March 31, 2017. The decision is likely to impact more than 7,000 Indian-Americans, says news agency Press trust of India citing a media report.

The White House has planned to delay the enforcement of the President’s decision for six months, giving Congress a window to act, sources said.

This decision is expected to draw widespread criticism including from his own Republican party. In a radio interview Paul Ryan, Speaker of the US House of Representatives said that Trump should not terminate DACA as “these children know no other country than the US”.

(Agencies)

SC Rejects Janardhana Reddy’s Plea to Relax Bail Conditions

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New Delhi/Bellary: Supreme Court on Monday has rejected a plea from business tycoon G Janardhana Reddy which urged the court to relax his bail conditions to return to his native place Bellary. According the Apex Court order on September 04, the bail conditions will continue and can’t be relaxed to visit Bellary. Reddy reportedly urged the Apex Court to grant its permission to stay at his native place, Bellary. However, the court rejected the plea recognising seriousness of the case charged on him.

Reddy, an influential business tycoon from Karnataka is a prime accused in illegal iron ore mining scam in Bellary. Supreme Court on January 20, 2015 had granted bail to Reddy and directed him not to visit his home town Ballary and Kadapa where his Obalapuram Mining Company is situated. The judge had also asked him to pay Rs. 20 lakh cash as surety and directed him to cooperate with the investigations.

(Agencies)

Farrukhabad DM, CMO removed after 49 children die in district hospital

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Farrukhabad/Lucknow: Forty-nine infants died in a month in the Farrukhabad district hospital, most of them from “perinatal asphyxia”, a condition in which the child cannot breathe properly, officials said today.

In a virtual replay of the tragedy in Gorakhpur, where 30 children died in two days in a state-run hospital last month, parents of many of the children in Farrukhabad told officials there was a delay in providing oxygen and medicines.

The hospital recorded 49 deaths — 30 in neo-natal ICU and 19 during delivery — between July 20 and August 21, an official spokesperson said in Lucknow.

The state government today removed Farrukhabad District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar as well as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Umakant Pandey and Chief Medical Superintendent (CMS) Akhilesh Agarwal.

An FIR against the CMO and the CMS was registered last night in Farrukhabad, about 180 km from the state capital.

“A high-level team will be sent to Farrukhabad to probe the deaths and its technical aspects will also be taken care of. Taking note of the incident, the DM, the CMO and the CMS (women’s hospital) have been removed,” the spokesperson said.

He said 468 deliveries took place in the women’s wing of the hospital during the period. Of these, 19 were stillbirths.

City Magistrate Jaynendra Kumar Jain and SDM Ajit Kumar Singh said a probe found that most deaths were due to breathing problems. They also said in the report that the CMO and the CMS did not cooperate with the investigation.

“During the period, 30 children died mostly due to perinatal asphyxia (a condition in which a child does not breathe normally just before, during, or after birth). During probe, the parents informed that there was delay in providing oxygen and medicine due to which the children died due to lack of adquate supply of oxygen,” the report stated.

The report did not mention the remaining 19 deaths. Addressing a hurriedly convened press conference today, Principal Secretary (Health) Prashant Trivedi said the deaths had “nothing to do with oxygen supply”.

“Stating that the deaths were related to oxygen amounts to making the matter unnecessarily sensational without any basis. the Director General Medical Health will give a detailed report on it,” he added.

Principal Secretary (Information) Awanish Awasthi, who was also present, said, “…19 were still born children while 30 others died due to various causes, including perinatal asyphyxia. This may be caused by the umblical cord going around the neck of the child… Our medical team will look at it.”

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s office took prompt notice of the matter after local news channels reported the deaths of 49 children in the hospital and directed the district magistrate to conduct a probe, officials said.

News of the deaths in the Farrukhabad hospital comes after at least 30 children died in a state-run hospital in Gorakhpur on August 10-11 amid allegations of oxygen shortage, a charge stoutly denied by the state government.

(PTI)

India win toss, to bat against Sri Lanka in 4th ODI

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(AFP)

India skipper Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to bat against Sri Lanka in the fourth cricket One-day International, here on Thursday.

With the series already in pocket, India have made three changes to their playing XI. Young pacer Shardul Thakur will make his debut, taking place of Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

Manish Pandey and Chinaman Kuldeep Yadav have also been drafted into the side in place of Kedar Jadhav and Yuzvendra Chahal.

It is 300th ODI for former captain MS Dhoni, only the sixth Indian player to touch the milestone.

Sri Lanka are being led by paceman Lasith Malinga.

Teams:

India: Virat Kohli(c), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Lokesh Rahul, Manish Pandey, MS Dhoni, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah and Shardul Thakur

Sri Lanka: Lasith Malinga (C), Dilshan Munaweera, Niroshan Dickwella, Kusal Mendis, Lahiru Thirimanne, Angelo Mathews, Milinda Siriwardana, Wanidu Hasaranga, Dushmantha Chameera, Akila Dananjaya and Vishwa Fernando.

(PTI)

North East Floods Force Railways to Cancel 7 Services between Bengaluru and North East

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Bengaluru: Following severe flood situation in North East India, Indian Railways has cancelled seven train services from Bengaluru and vice versa in a statement on Thursday.

Accordingly, train number 12504, Kamakhya – Bengaluru Cantt Hamsafar Express journey commencing from Kamakhya on September 05, 2017 is cancelled.

–Train number 12510, Guwahati – Bengaluru Cantt. Express journey commencing from Guwahati on September 3, 4 and 5 is cancelled.

–Train number 12552, Kamakhya – Yesvantpur AC Express journey commencing from Kamakhya on September 6 is cancelled.

–Train number 22502, New Tinsukiya – KSR Bengaluru Express journey commencing from New Tinsukiya on September 1 is cancelled.

–Train number 12551, Yesvantpur – Kamakhya Express journey commencing from Yesvantpur on September 2 is cancelled.

–Train number 12509, Bengaluru Cantt. – Guwahati Express journey commencing from Yesvantpur on September 1 is cancelled. Also, train number 12503, Bengaluru Cantt. – Kamakhya Hamsafar Express journey scheduled from Bengaluru Cantt on September 1 has been cancelled.

(Agencies)

Pakistan’s Musharraf declared fugitive in ex-PM Bhutto’s murder trial

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Rawalpindi: A Pakistan anti-terrorism court has declared former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a fugitive in ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s murder trial, ordering his property confiscated, a court official said Thursday.

Musharraf was charged with Bhutto’s 2007 assassination in 2013 but has been in self-imposed exile in Dubai ever since a travel ban was lifted three years later. The official said he had “absconded”.

The court also acquitted five men who had been accused of being Taliban militants involved in the conspiracy to murder Bhutto, the Muslim world’s first female prime minister, the official said. However it found two police officers guilty of “mishandling the crime scene”, the court official said, adding they had each been sentenced to 17 years imprisonment and fined 500,000 rupees (INR 300,904.68).

The verdicts are the first to be issued in the case and come nearly 10 years after Bhutto was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack during an election rally in Rawalpindi. Musharraf’s government blamed the assassination on Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who denied any involvement. He was killed in a US drone attack in 2009. In 2010, a UN report accused Musharraf’s government of failing to give Bhutto adequate protection and said her death could have been prevented.

(Agencies)

99% of junked Rs 500/1000 notes returned to banks: RBI

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Mumbai: As much as 99 per cent of the junked Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes have returned to the banking system, RBI said Wednesday, prompting opposition to question the efficacy of the government’s unprecedented note ban decision to curb black money and corruption.

The Reserve Bank, which has so far shied away from disclosing the actual number of junked currency deposited after November 8 last year, said in its Annual Report for 2016-17 that Rs 15.28 lakh crore of the junked currency had come back into the banking system, leaving only Rs 16,050 crore out.

As on November 8, 2016 there were 1,716.5 crore pieces of Rs 500 and 685.8 crore pieces of Rs 1,000 in circulation, totalling Rs 15.44 lakh crore.

Post-demonetisation RBI spent Rs 7,965 crore in 2016-17 on printing new Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 and other denomination notes, more than double the Rs 3,421 crore spent in the previous year.

The demonetisation was hailed as a step that would curb black money, corruption and check counterfeit currency but RBI said just 7.1 pieces of Rs 500 note per million in circulation and 19.1 pieces of Rs 1,000 notes per million in circulation were found to be fake in its sample survey.

Opposition was quick to seize on the data to attack the government with former finance minister P Chidambaram saying, “RBI ‘gained’ Rs 16000 crore, but ‘lost’ Rs 21000 crore in printing new notes! The economists deserve Nobel Prize.”

“Rs 16,000 cr out of demonetised notes of Rs 15,44,000 cr did not come back to RBI. That is 1 per cent. Shame on RBI which ‘recommended’ demonetisation,” he tweeted.

Chidambaram also wondered if demonetisation was “a scheme designed to convert black money into white?”.

Samajwadi Party leader Naresh Agarwal said his party would move a privilege motion against RBI Governor Urjit Patel for misleading a parliamentary panel on the issue.

RBI said just 8.9 crore pieces of Rs 1,000 notes or 1.3 per cent of the scrapped ones have not returned. It, however, did not give a specific number for the old 500 rupee notes.

“Subject to future corrections based on verification process when completed, the estimated value of specified bank notes (SBNs) received as on June 30, 2017 is Rs 15.28 trillion,” the central bank said.

After the note ban, old notes were allowed to be deposited in banks, with unusual deposits coming under income tax scrutiny.

A collateral damage as a result of rise in printing and other cost was dividend RBI pays to the government.

RBI said its income for 2016-17 decreased by 23.56 per cent while expenditure jumped 107.84 per cent.

“The year ended with an overall surplus of Rs 306.59 billion as against Rs 658.76 billion in the previous year, representing a decline of 53.46 per cent,” it said.

The government replaced old Rs 500 notes with new ones, but no replacement for Rs 1,000 notes have been made. Instead, a new Rs 2,000 note was introduced post note ban.

RBI said there are as many 588.2 crore of Rs 500 notes, both old and new in circulation as of March 31, 2017. As of March 31, 2016, there were 1,570.7 crore Rs 500 notes in circulation.

As many as 328.5 crore pieces of new Rs 2,000 notes were in circulation as on March 31, 2017.

Besides, new Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 notes, the RBI has also circulated new Rs 200 notes last week.

Former RBI Deputy Governor R Gandhi said demonetisation will have long-term impact.

Expectations of various quarters that sizable portion of the demonetised currency won’t return has not been fulfilled.

(PTI)

More than 2 million Muslims begin Haj pilgrimage

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[AP]

Mecca: More than two million Muslims from around the world began the Haj pilgrimage at Islam’s holiest sites Wednesday, a religious duty and an epic multi-stage journey.

This year sees pilgrims from Shiite Iran return to Mecca in Saudi Arabia after a hiatus following a diplomatic spat between the regional rivals and a deadly stampede in 2015.

It also comes with the Gulf mired in a major political crisis that has seen thousands of faithful who would usually make the journey from neighbouring Qatar stay away.

On the esplanade of Mecca’s Grand Mosque, the excitement was palpable as crowds from all four corners of the world gathered for a pilgrimage that all able Muslims are required to perform at least once in their lives.

Tidjani Traore, a public service consultant from Benin, said he was on his 22nd pilgrimage at the age of 53.

“Every time, there are new emotions,” he said. “There are new innovations for organising and hosting the pilgrims. Now, for example, the tents are air-conditioned.”

Wearing the simple garb of the pilgrim, the faithful waited at dawn with their suitcases for buses to take them to Mina five kilometres (three miles) to the east.

There, hundreds of thousands will gather before setting off tomorrow at dawn to climb Mount Arafat, the pinnacle of the Haj.

First, however, they must perform a ritual walk known as the tawaf seven times around the Kaaba, a black masonry cube wrapped in a heavy silk cloth embroidered in gold with Koranic verses at the centre of Mecca’s Grand Mosque.

The shrine is the point towards which Muslims around the world pray.

“I still have to finish the tawaf!” said a breathless Nour, 30, from Saudi Arabia as she rushed past without stopping.

Sitting on a folding chair in the middle of the esplanade, Risvana cradled her six-month-old baby who is accompanying her on the pilgrimage.

“I’ve planned everything for him,” said the young mother, pointing to a bottle of water in her bag.

Saudi authorities have mobilised vast resources including more than 100,000 security personnel to avoid a repeat of the stampede in 2015 in which nearly 2,300 people were killed.

Iran alone reported 464 deaths — the highest toll among foreigners.

Riyadh and Tehran cut ties months later, after the execution of a Shiite cleric in Saudi Arabia sparked attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran.

Iranian pilgrims were absent from last year’s Haj for the first time in decades after the regional rivals failed to agree on security and logistics.

This year’s pilgrimage comes amid a diplomatic crisis between a Saudi-led bloc of Arab countries and Qatar, accused of supporting extremist groups and being too close to Riyadh’s arch-rival Tehran.

A blockade imposed on Qatar since June 5 has seen sea and air links shut down, preventing many Qataris from making the Haj.

Although Saudi Arabia relaxed entry restrictions across its land border with the emirate two weeks before the Haj, Qatar said only a few dozen of its nationals were able to join the pilgrimage.

This year the colossal religious gathering comes with the Islamic State group under growing pressure having lost swathes of territory it controlled in Iraq and Syria

But the jihadist group continues to claim attacks in the Middle East and Europe.

On the esplanade of the Grand Mosque, Saudi authorities had placed misting fans to take the edge off the intense heat.

On the eve of the first rites of the pilgrimage, the walkways thronged with people and the smell of musk wafted through the air.

(PTI)

Bengaluru International Arts Festival 2017 – BIAF 10th year celebrations

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Bengaluru: Our city’s largest acclaimed festival is now celebrating its 10th year and epitomizing “Celebration of Harmony through Arts”. Thought provoking and well curetted art presentations by artists from both India and abroad have been the benchmark of BIAF for 9 years.

Internationally acclaimed artists are featured in BIAF every year. The last nine successive years have been successful and in each year we have had a minimum of 8 venues and the event spread over 9 days. About 1500 artists have been showcased at BIAF. During the press conference on 31st August 2017 at the Press Club this happy information was shared by the directors of Festival Dr.Suma Sudhindra & Dr.Veena Murthy Vijay.

The 10th year festival of art & culture is being presented at various different venues to reach out every connoisseur. We are featuring the program at various auditoriums spread across the city and also at places like park, malls etc. All these performances will run through 11 days and at 10 different venues.

We are presenting Music and dance troupes from countries like Mexico, Isreal, Serbia, U.K. Austria, Netherland, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Belgium, Malaysia by collaborating with the respective cultural departments of those countries. In addition folk groups are coming from Odissa, Telangana, Rajasthan, Assam, Jharkand, Manipur and an international group from Rwanda.

For Fitness awareness we are dedicating one morning session for Yoga to reach out to Fitness freaks and also to the un initiated.

On the first day of the festival on Sept 6th 2017, after a brief inauguration formality the activity will unfold at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat Open Air Auditorium situated at Kumara Krupa Road Bengaluru.

There will be a Sufi & Ghazal concert under the full moon light with stars over looking, followed by the traditional popular Rajasthan folk music program from Manganiyars. Entry for these events is through donor passes. An additional attraction at the venue is a food stall exclusively serving organic cuisine.

“BIAF was conceived & envisaged keeping in mind the need for an International flavor to the Arts Festival in our country. Our endeavor is to showcase world class performances from legendary artists to the generation next. Over the last nine years we have built this large scale festival, which is recognized as one of the top annual global festivals today. Artists from over 25 countries have performed at our festival. Harmony through Arts has been our objective and we hope to continue to carry this message across, especially in these turbulent times. The support of the people of Bengaluru is vital to keep festivals like BIAF alive and there have been magnanimous all these years and I once again take this opportunity to invite the citizens of our city to come & enjoy the wonderful artists from across the globe over the next three weekends. Your support is invaluable to us.” added Dr. Suma Sudhindra – Director of BIAF.

Dr. Veena Murthy Vijay, Director of BIAF, says It’s hard to sustain a large festival for so many years and we have been successfully conducting this year after year. For this we thank Ministry of Culture and other corporates that have had faith in us and have continued to sponsor all these years. “The power of the arts which brings harmony and sustains of our ancient culture across the world has inspired us to conduct Bengaluru International Arts Festival continuously, establishing BIAF as an annual global festival for the 10th year with true international standards”

About AIM
AIM is headed by Dr. Suma Sudhindra and Dr. Veena Murthy Vijay. With their vision to establish a sustainable large international arts festival in Bengaluru, the duo have conceived, curetted and successfully hosted the past 9 editions of the BIAF.

The 10th year of BIAF is a valuable addition to International arts festivals in the cultural map of India. Other than the directors mentioned above AIM consists of an organising team with progressive open attitude to arts and they have built up a rich treasure of culture documentation for many years. Other than providing a value added platform to artists, they also reach different localities of Bengaluru to spread fine arts.

Their “GO GREEN” campaign is one of the social awareness program trying to improve the garden city’s environment and limit pollution levels.

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