Bengaluru: Asia Jewels Fair ’17, one of South India’s most Glamourous Jewellery Exhibition is hosting its 11th edition in Bengaluru city from 12th to 14th April. The Grand jewellery fair will take place at the Ritz-Carlton situated at 99, Residency Road in Bengaluru from 10.30 a.m to 8 p.m. This show is a very exclusive one as for the first time the expo will showcase never seen before best jewellery designs from top handpicked jewelers from across India..all under one roof.

His Highness Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, the 27th and present titular Maharaja of Mysore and head of the former ruling Wadiyar dynasty & His wife Ms Trishika Kumari will grace the occasion of Inaugurating “Asia Jewels Fair 2017”

Asia Jewels Fair ‘17 is a niche event exhibiting exclusive and high-end branded gold and diamond Jewellery among others. The event showcased some of the latest collection from, Fine gold Jewellery, Diamond Jewellery, Platinum Jewellery, Traditional Jewellery, Wedding Jewellery, Precious stone Jewellery, Kundan Jewellery to name a few.

“Asia Jewels Fair is one of the finest jewellery exhibitions in the city. Pre book your jewellery for the upcoming Akshay Tritya festival & for all the prospective grooms and brides, a fair like this is a one stop-shop that brings some of the best jewellery, design and precious stones under one roof. It is the perfect destination to buy exquisite and world class jewellery in South India.”

On display were luxury jewellery designs from top leading brands of Bangalore, New Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur, Surat, Kokata , Hyderabad creating the most glamorous & spectacular platform for all branded jewellery. Adding to the exquisite display was a dazzling array of International jewellery designs, from top most brands all over India like:

· Creations Jewellery
· AVR Swarna Mahal Jewelry
· Sri Ganesh Diamonds & Jewellery
· Nikhaar Jewels
· Yoube Jewellery (Mumbai)
· Davanam Jewellers
· Diamond Mantra
· Orra Fine Jewellery
· Ananya Jewels
· Entice Bengaluru
· Design Source By Archana Aggarwal ( Delhi)
· Sehgal Jewellers Delhi
· Shrians Jewels (Delhi)
· YS18 (Jaipur )
· Enshine ( Surat )
· Bond Forever (Kolkata)
· Manepally Jewellers (Secunderabad)
· Vummdi Bangaru Kannan & Sons (Chennai)
· Sanghvi Dhanrupji Devaji & Co (Mumbai)
· K Jewels & More (Delhi)

Bengaluru: Various Kannada organisations have called for a state-wide bandh on May 6 demanding that the state government implement permanent irrigation projects in the state to solve existing water crisis amid prevailing drought conditions.

The organisations have stressed that irrigation projects be implemented in Kolar, Chikkaballapur and other areas of Karnataka as several regions have been witnessing severe water scarcity.

(Agencies)

Mumbai: A 20-year-old student from Bengaluru committed suicide by jumping from the 19th floor of a top hotel here after posting a video on social networking sites describing the step he was taking to end his life, police said on Monday.

The victim, who succumbed to the fall instantly, has been identified as Arjun Bhardwaj, who was studying in a prominent Mumbai college.

Initial investigations reveal that he hails from Bengaluru and is son of a businessman.

“We have recovered a suicide note which indicates that he was disturbed. We are investigating further,” Joint Police Commissioner Deven Bharti told IANS.

The social media profile of the youth is being checked by police to asertain the motives behind the drastic measure while his family has been informed of the tragedy.

(PTI)

Mumbai: Rakhi Sawant, the controversial TV and Bollywood actor, was today arrested for allegedly hurting Valmiki community sentiments.

Sawant had reportedly made some objectionable remark against Valmiki, the mythological sage who wrote Ramayana.

Rakhi Sawant was arrested following a warrant which was issued by a Ludhiana court on March 9 on the basis of a complaint filed against her for allegedly hurting religious sentiments of Valmiki community with her comments on a programme on a private television channel last year.

Rakhi Sawant had failed to appear before the court during the last hearing held on March 9 despite the court issuing her repeated summons.

The next hearing of the case is scheduled for April 10.

(Agencies)

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has cleared senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Indresh Kumar, radical Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and two others of all charges in the 2007 Ajmer dargah terror attack case in which three persons were killed. The NIA said no evidence was found against them.

In its supplementary closure report filed in the NIA Special Court here on Monday, the agency said it did not find any role of Mr. Kumar, Sadhvi Pragya, Ramesh Venkatrao and Samandar alias Rajendra Chaudhary in carrying out the blast at the 13th century shrine of Sufi mystic Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti.

Special judge Dinesh Gupta fixed April 17 for deciding whether the court would accept or reject the closure report.

NIA’s failure

The court also expressed displeasure over the NIA’s inability to arrest three absconding accused, who figure in the agency’s list of most-wanted people with cash rewards against them.

The suspects on the run are Sandeep Dange, Suresh Nair and Ram Chandra Kalsangra. The court asked the NIA Director-General to file a progress report on the efforts to arrest the three fugitives.

The NIA Special Court had on March 22 sentenced RSS activists Bhavesh Patel and Devendra Gupta to life imprisonment after convicting them of carrying out the explosion inside the dargah during the month of Ramadan on October 11, 2007. Seven accused, including former RSS activist Aseemanand, were acquitted in the case.

(Agencies)

New Delhi: Former spokesperson of Samajwadi Party (SP) Gaurav Bhatia, who had quit the party five days before the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, formally joined the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday.

Once a prominent party face on the television batting for his erstwhile SP, Bhatia joined the saffron party in the presence of BJP national secretary Bhupendra Yadav and national general secretary Arun Singh at the party headquarters in New Delhi.

Bhatia also met BJP president Amit Shah later during the day.

The BJP, however, remained mum on the role of Bhatia in the party.

On Sunday, Bhatia said, “The SP was moving away from the ideals of Ram Manohar Lohia. There is no value of loyalty and sincerity and it has been surrendered to dynastic politics.”

A Supreme Court lawyer, Bhatia, who was appointed as additional advocate general of the UP government led by then chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah for inspiring him to join the party.

He was also the national president of the legal cell of the SP.

BJP swept the UP assembly elections and returned to power after 14 years by winning 312 seats while the SP-Congress alliance got 54 seats.

Bhatia, however, refrained from launching any personal attack on former UP chief minister or his father Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Bhatia resigned from all posts of the SP on February 5 in the run up to the elections saying that it was becoming difficult for him to continue serving the party.

He then accused the SP of compromising the very principles of democracy, secularism and socialism that he had had strong belief in.

At the time of his resignation, Bhatia refused to disclose the reason why he was leaving the party.

(Agencies)

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government Friday amended the state’s Animal Preservation Bill to entail a maximum punishment of life imprisonment and a minimum of 10 years for cow slaughter after it was passed in the assembly in the absence of the Opposition Congress and with the visitors’ gallery packed with saffron-clad Hindu priests.

Speaking on the amendment, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said that while he was “not against any food”, he wanted to make Gujarat “shakahari (vegetarian)”, “We do not want Jersey cows, but Gir and Kankreji cows instead,” he said.

Rupani also described Gujarat as a “unique state”, which followed the tenets of Mahatma Gandhi — “non-violence and truth”. “This is Gandhi’s Gujarat, Sardar’s (Vallabhbhai Patel) Gujarat and (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi’s Gujarat,” said Rupani.

The passage of the Gujarat Animal Preservation (Amendment) Bill, 2017 came eight months after seven Dalits were beaten by self-styled cow vigilantes for alleged cow slaughter in Una.

The punishment for cow slaughter under the earlier law was imprisonment ranging from three to seven years. The new law also makes offences under the amended Act non-bailable.

The amendment was cleared after the Speaker suspended members of the Congress for creating a ruckus before the Bill was passed.

When the amendment Bill was introduced over a month ago, it had a maximum punishment of ten years imprisonment. On Friday, however, the ruling BJP moved to enhance the punishment to a life-term.

In another major amendment, the Bill included a provision that vehicles caught in transporting cows, beef or beef products illegally will be forfeited to the state government. The maximum fine for the offence has also been increased from Rs 50,000 to one ranging from Rs 1 lakh-Rs 5 lakh.

Besides, the punishment for conviction for illegal transportation of cow, beef or beef products has been increased from three years imprisonment to seven years.

The Act allows transportation of animals of cow progeny with permission, but not between 7 pm and 5 am.

The statement of the Bill reads, “In the year 2011, the State Government had made certain amendments in the said Act for better implementation of the Act. It is, however, experienced while implementing the said Act that still more stringent provisions are required to be made by amending the said Act for curbing the menace of illegal slaughtering of the animals covered under the said Act to provide for more stringent punishment and effectively check the rampant use of vehicles for transporting such animals.”

During the discussion on the Bill, Minister of State for Home Pradeepsinh Jadeja said, “This is not a Bill, but a feeling of crores of Indians. It is my humble attempt to give voice to the cows being killed by butchers. A single drop of cow blood falling on earth pains Hindus. With this law, Vijaybhai Rupani’s government will make Gujarat cow-slaughter-free.”

Jadeja also offered his respects to the “Hindu saints” in the visitors gallery, and said that he was “feeling proud as a Hindu” to introduce the Bill in the House.

One of those present in the gallery, Kaniramji Bapu of Dudhrej in Surendranagar district, an important religious seat of the maldhari community (cattle herders) in Gujarat, said, “We oppose cow slaughter and believe in its preservation. And so, we came here in support of the Act. Cows should be preserved and their slaughtering must end.”

Another religious figure, Mahant Vikramgiri from Ghela-Somnath of Jasdan in Rajkot district, said, “Around 300 sadhu-sants have come to Assembly. Since the government had announced that they will bring the Bill, we knew it in advance and are here to support it.”

In 2011, when Narendra Modi was chief minister of Gujarat, the state government had imposed a complete ban on slaughter of cows, transportation and selling of cow meat by amending the Act.

(Agencies)