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2<br />
CITY<br />
Cultural policy<br />
deferred<br />
According to those<br />
privy to details of the<br />
policy, the biggest bone<br />
of contention is its recommendation<br />
to decentralize<br />
the Kannada and<br />
culture department.<br />
Till date, the Congress<br />
government,<br />
despite its secular credentials,<br />
seems to have<br />
found no time to give<br />
the draft a read. All ministers<br />
who attended the<br />
cabinet meeting on May<br />
23 admitted to not having<br />
read it. The Karnataka<br />
government seems<br />
to be in no hurry to implement<br />
the state’s culture<br />
policy drafted by<br />
the committee headed<br />
by writer BargurRamachandrappa<br />
which has<br />
recommended a secular<br />
approach towards<br />
the arts.<br />
HC Declines<br />
Interim Relief<br />
to Dep’t of<br />
Transport<br />
A notice is issued to<br />
the principal secretary,<br />
department of transport,<br />
and commissioner<br />
for transport and road<br />
safety in response to a<br />
petition filed by Helion<br />
Technologies Private<br />
Limited, Bengaluru. The<br />
company is engaged in<br />
the business of providing<br />
a digital platform,<br />
akin to a marketplace,<br />
which connects taxi<br />
drivers with validpermits<br />
to passengers. The<br />
high court on Tuesday<br />
declined to grant any<br />
interim order on a plea<br />
seeking quashing of<br />
the Karnataka On-demand<br />
Transportation<br />
Technology Aggregator<br />
Rules, <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
Bengaluru boys<br />
rides for cancer<br />
cause in US<br />
A student of actuarial<br />
science at the University<br />
of Illinois, Shubham<br />
today is embarking on<br />
a journey that he believes<br />
is the first of its<br />
kind by an Indian in<br />
the US -- cycling 4,600<br />
miles over 71 days to<br />
raise funds for cancer.<br />
Beginning May 28,<br />
Bhutra will be riding<br />
from New York City to<br />
San Francisco along<br />
with 19 other youngsters<br />
as part of Illini<br />
4000 <strong>2016</strong> Trek Bike.<br />
Illini 4000 raises funds<br />
for cancer research<br />
and patient support<br />
services and spreads<br />
awareness through annual<br />
cross-country bike<br />
rides. The team of 20-<br />
<strong>25</strong> riders is shortlisted<br />
following an interview,<br />
after which the team is<br />
required to go through<br />
rigorous training for<br />
9 months. The project<br />
raises $100,000 to<br />
1,50,000 annually<br />
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No Truth in HDK’s Charges:<br />
Top Cop N S Megharikh<br />
By our Special<br />
Correspondent:<br />
It appears the issue<br />
of Savitha refuses<br />
to die down. Yesterday<br />
Ex CM H D Kumaraswamy<br />
sternly<br />
warned the state<br />
Gov’t to take action<br />
against the police<br />
who allegedly harassed<br />
the lady. Our<br />
Special Correspondent<br />
spoke with the<br />
city police commissioner<br />
N S Megharikh<br />
in this regard.<br />
The top cop denied<br />
allegations of harassment<br />
against the<br />
lady and categorically<br />
denied that she<br />
was tortured while<br />
in detention. Speaking<br />
with our correspondent<br />
near CM’s<br />
home office Krishna,<br />
the police commissioner<br />
further said<br />
that the charges levelled<br />
by HDK are far<br />
from truth. He said<br />
the lady in question<br />
Savitha was kept in<br />
safe custody as she<br />
was giving confusing<br />
information and<br />
details about her.<br />
The top cop’s reaction<br />
to HDK’s allegations<br />
has given<br />
a new turn to the<br />
story. Savitha, a resident<br />
of Hosahalli,<br />
had gone to CM’s Janata<br />
Darshan to meet<br />
the Chief Minister on<br />
May 17. However, she<br />
was not let to meet<br />
the CM till 8 PM by<br />
the police personnel<br />
present. Later, she<br />
BMTC Launches Pro-People<br />
Megha Chavan & Edwin Raj<br />
The Karnataka<br />
Pradesh KurubaraSangha<br />
today<br />
urged the state<br />
political parties to<br />
give seats to members<br />
of their community<br />
in state politics.<br />
Members of<br />
KurubaraSangha<br />
represented by<br />
President RajendraSannakki,<br />
K M<br />
Ramamchandrappa<br />
and chief secretary<br />
D Venkateshmurthy<br />
said that at present,<br />
the only person<br />
from the community<br />
in politics<br />
is CM Siddharamaiah.<br />
They \urged<br />
the politicians and<br />
political parties in<br />
the state to give<br />
more opportunities<br />
toKurubas in politics.<br />
City Hilights<br />
Follow-up<br />
The community<br />
representatives<br />
appreciated the<br />
recent cast census<br />
conducted in Karnataka<br />
which drew<br />
a lot of flak from<br />
other quarters of<br />
society.This, they<br />
claim would help<br />
in identifying the<br />
true economic and<br />
social conditions<br />
of their community<br />
and also working<br />
towards their political<br />
and economical<br />
development.<br />
The members of<br />
the community said<br />
that there is need<br />
for proper representation<br />
of their<br />
community in the<br />
south and north of<br />
Karnataka.<br />
Programmes
Wednesday, May <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
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CITY<br />
II PU Results Declared – Dakshina<br />
Kannada Tops the List<br />
Minister for Primary<br />
and Secondary<br />
educationKimmane-<br />
Ratnakar today announced<br />
the II PUC<br />
<strong>2016</strong> results. The<br />
minister held a press<br />
conference in the II<br />
PU Education board<br />
office in Malleshwaram<br />
at 10.30 AM<br />
and declared the results.<br />
The results are<br />
available on the PU<br />
board’s official website<br />
today. These results<br />
will be declared<br />
in the colleges and institutions<br />
tomorrow.<br />
This year a total<br />
of 57.20% result has<br />
been achieved.<br />
Girls have once<br />
again scored better<br />
than the boys. District-wise<br />
Dakshina<br />
Kannada has top<br />
scored with a total<br />
pass percentage of<br />
90.48. Udupi and Kodagu<br />
districts have<br />
secured second and<br />
third positions with a<br />
total pass percentage<br />
of 90.35 and 79.35 respectively.<br />
Yadgir district<br />
is last in the list.<br />
THE TOPPERS:<br />
Anita Basappa of<br />
Indu PU College in<br />
Kottur of Bellary<br />
district has secured<br />
the top spot in Arts<br />
while SahanaKulkarni<br />
of Darbar PU College<br />
of Vijayapura<br />
has topped the<br />
Commerece section.<br />
Rakshita of Sardar-<br />
VallabhBhai College,<br />
Bangalore has top<br />
scored in the Science<br />
stream by scoring<br />
596 marks out of 600.<br />
TALE OF INSPIRA-<br />
TION:<br />
Anita Basappa who<br />
has top scored in the<br />
Arts section is the<br />
daughter of a poor<br />
banana fruit vendor.<br />
Poverty didn’t stop<br />
her from achieving<br />
the high results.<br />
She has secured 597<br />
marks out of 600. The<br />
talented girl has the<br />
aspiration of becoming<br />
an IAS officer.<br />
Results are available<br />
on the PU boards’<br />
website only. Click<br />
on this URL to check<br />
your results: http://<br />
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4<br />
NATION<br />
Officials from<br />
Afghanistan to be<br />
trained in Gujarat<br />
based institutes<br />
DhirubhaiAmbani<br />
Institute of Communication<br />
and Technology<br />
(DAIICT) and Sanguine<br />
Management Services<br />
of Ahmedabad in colaborationorganise<br />
a<br />
training Course on Information<br />
and Communication<br />
Technology<br />
Management for Ministry<br />
of Energy and Water<br />
officials,UN’s Food and<br />
Agriculture Organization<br />
(UN-FAO) and of<br />
Afghanistan during May<br />
23 to June 3 <strong>2016</strong> at the<br />
institute. The training<br />
program was inaugurated<br />
by Professor R. Nagaraj,<br />
Director of DAIICT,<br />
on May 23 <strong>2016</strong>. 12 officials<br />
from Afghanistan<br />
are participating in the<br />
11-day-training course.<br />
Two straphangers<br />
fall into the drain<br />
from train<br />
Two young passengers<br />
died after they<br />
fell off a local train and<br />
landed into a drain<br />
near Bhandup station<br />
on Tuesday. The GRP<br />
received information<br />
about two accidents.<br />
The bodies were fished<br />
out from a drain. One<br />
of the deceased was<br />
identified as Hritik-<br />
Chaudhary, 17, from<br />
Kanjurmarg and the<br />
other was PravinSamudre,<br />
21, from Diva. Police<br />
officials said there’s<br />
a possibility that the<br />
duo was travelling on<br />
the footboard and lost<br />
their balance.The police<br />
examined their belongings<br />
and tracked down<br />
their families.Two accidental<br />
death cases were<br />
recorded.<br />
360 degree virtual<br />
museum<br />
Indian Museum started<br />
exhibiting its galleries<br />
for a 360-degree<br />
panoramic viewing online,<br />
as part of a tie-up<br />
with the Google Cultural<br />
Institute, which allows<br />
art lovers to explore artifacts<br />
from all over the<br />
world on its website.<br />
A team from Google in<br />
the UK and the US have<br />
been working hard with<br />
their specialised and<br />
patented camera technology<br />
to click high-resolution<br />
photos of the<br />
treasures lying in the<br />
museum. The whole job<br />
will be over in a year’s<br />
time.<br />
317 dead due<br />
to heat:<br />
317 heatwave-related<br />
deaths have been<br />
reported in Telenganasince<br />
the onset of<br />
the summer season<br />
till date, state disaster<br />
management department<br />
said on Tuesday.<br />
These deaths were<br />
confirmed by the<br />
three-member committeNalgonda<br />
District<br />
tops the chart with<br />
91 deaths followed by<br />
Mahabubnagar with 4.<br />
Heat wave conditions<br />
are likely to prevail at<br />
isolated places in Adilabad,<br />
Nizamabad, Karimnagar,<br />
Medak, Nalgonda,<br />
Warangal and<br />
Khammam of Telangana<br />
state during next 72<br />
hours.<br />
Alchemist Air Ambulance crash lands in South-West Delhi<br />
The 27-year old<br />
plane belonging<br />
Chandigarh-based<br />
to<br />
private operator Alchemist<br />
Airways had<br />
to force land after<br />
both its engines failed.<br />
Aviation regulator<br />
DGCA has started an<br />
inquiry into the incident.<br />
The six-seater<br />
Beech King Air C-90A<br />
aircraft crash landed<br />
at around 2:40 PM in<br />
a field in Kair village<br />
in Najafgarh, about<br />
10 km from the Indira<br />
Gandhi international<br />
Airpor. The plane was<br />
coming from Patna<br />
with a patient, who<br />
had suffered a brain<br />
stroke, and six others<br />
on board crash landed<br />
in Najafgarh area of<br />
South West Delhi after<br />
both its engines shut<br />
down one after the<br />
other but all passengers<br />
escaped unhurt.<br />
61-year-old patient<br />
VirenderRai, who was<br />
being flown to Delhi,<br />
was rushed to the<br />
Medanta hospital in<br />
Gurgaon immediately<br />
after the mishap.Rai<br />
has been kept in the<br />
ICU of MedantaMedicity,<br />
where he will be<br />
treated for the stroke,<br />
said doctors. “His condition<br />
is stable now.<br />
A multi-disciplinary<br />
team has evaluated<br />
him, and for now he<br />
is being observed for<br />
residual damage from<br />
the stroke. Doctors<br />
will decide on the<br />
next course of action,”<br />
Indian education system<br />
is in danger<br />
JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya<br />
Kumar today hit out at Prime<br />
Minister NarendraModi, saying he<br />
and HRD Minister SmritiIrani are<br />
trying to destroy India’s education<br />
system.<br />
Kanhaiya also alleged that Modi<br />
led Central government was militarising<br />
university campuses in the<br />
name of security.<br />
The 29-year-old researcher said<br />
“the idea of India is being challenged.”<br />
Track student<br />
performance by mid<br />
June: HRD<br />
The Union HRD ministry is planning<br />
to launch a unique scheme to<br />
track the academic performance of<br />
school children across the country<br />
and also identify the dropouts. This<br />
programme next month that would<br />
probably be the world’s largest student<br />
tracking systemThe scheme has<br />
been named ‘Shaala ASMITA’, an acronym<br />
for All School Monitoring Individual<br />
Tracking and Analysis.<br />
Under this online system,<br />
data related to all<br />
schools will be collected<br />
with the assistance of<br />
local and state administration<br />
and their performance<br />
will be monitored,<br />
official sources said.<br />
It is a simple process<br />
under which the Aadhaar<br />
number or a specially<br />
generated number will<br />
be used to track a child’s progress,<br />
officials said.<br />
“People learn from education and<br />
can express dissent and ask questions.<br />
They no longer remain students<br />
but become prospective political<br />
opponents,” he said.<br />
“If SmritiIrani claims to be our<br />
mother, why did she not feel hurt<br />
when students were being arrested,<br />
why did she not come to our rescue.<br />
On the other hand, she seems to have<br />
instigated action against students,”<br />
Kanhaiya added.<br />
The HRD ministry is getting support<br />
of the states for this unique<br />
initiative and it is expected that the<br />
scheme will be launched by mid-June.<br />
It is expected that this new scheme<br />
will also help in providing accurate<br />
data about schools and better monitoring<br />
of different programmes<br />
including the<br />
Mid-Day meal scheme<br />
month<br />
The programme aims<br />
to track the educational<br />
journey of close to <strong>25</strong><br />
crore school students<br />
from Class I to Class XII<br />
across 15 lakh schools<br />
in the country. In other<br />
words, this online database will carry<br />
information about student attendance<br />
and enrolment, mid-day meal<br />
service, learning outcomes and infrastructural<br />
facilities, among other<br />
things, on one platform for both private<br />
and government schools. Asmita<br />
stands for All School Monitoring, Individual<br />
Tracing Analysis.<br />
Ministry officials are learnt to have<br />
made a presentation on SAY at the<br />
Prime Minister’s office. We have the<br />
go-ahead from the PMO and should<br />
launch. The success of the programme<br />
hinges on states participation<br />
as local authorities will have to<br />
feed data on a daily basis in the online<br />
tracking system. The Centre claims<br />
that all states are on board. This system<br />
will, say, help track leakages and<br />
corruption in mid-day meals.<br />
said a hospital official.<br />
The other passengers<br />
were taken to a<br />
nearby government<br />
hospital for medical<br />
examination. The six<br />
other onboard included<br />
Rupesh (doctor),<br />
Jung Bahadur (aircraft<br />
technician), Juhi and<br />
BhagwanRai (both relatives<br />
of the patient),<br />
Amit Kumar (pilot)<br />
and Rohit (co-pilot).<br />
After receiving news<br />
of the crash landing,<br />
Rao Tula Ram Hospital<br />
in Najafgarh had<br />
prepared a 10-bed<br />
emergency bay.<br />
ATC sources said<br />
the first engine of<br />
the plane stopped<br />
working at 2:22 PM,<br />
prompting the commander<br />
to seek emergency<br />
landing. A little<br />
later at 2:35 PM, the<br />
pilot-in command reported<br />
that the second<br />
engine had also<br />
President Pranab Mukherjee<br />
President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Guanzhou<br />
on Tuesday, on a four-day visit to China. The<br />
visit will see significant political and economic<br />
push to bilateral ties while irritants like Beijing’s<br />
opposition to India’s membership of NSG<br />
and the blocking of UN bid to blacklist JeM chief<br />
MasoodAzhar as a global terrorist will also figure.<br />
Bilateral ties have been on an upswing since Xi’s<br />
landmark India visit in September, 2014 during<br />
which both countries had signed 12 agreements<br />
and China pledged an investment of USD 20 billion<br />
in India’s infrastructure sector. Prime Minister<br />
NarendraModi had visited China in May last year<br />
during which both sides had resolved to further<br />
deepen ties in a range of areas. However, irritants<br />
in ties cropped recently after China blocked India’s<br />
move to get a UN ban on Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)<br />
chief Azhar and opposed granting India membership<br />
of NSG, saying it must sign the Non-Proliferation<br />
Treaty (NPT) to get an entry into the 48-member<br />
group.Mukherjee, who is making his first visit<br />
to China as President, has made a number of trips<br />
to this country in various capacities including as<br />
Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission and<br />
Defence Minister.<br />
India had countered the Chinese contention of<br />
signing NPT before becoming a member of NSG<br />
as “confusion” as NPT allows civil nuclear cooperation<br />
with non-NPT countries. Ahead of his state<br />
visit to China, Mukherjee had told the Chinese<br />
state-run television that India seeks a fair, reasonable<br />
and mutually acceptable settlement of the<br />
boundary question which will help in achieving<br />
full potential of Sino-India relationship. “We seek<br />
a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable settlement<br />
of the boundary question and, pending the<br />
boundary settlement, to maintain peace and tranquillity<br />
in border areas. Both sides should strive to<br />
ensure that outstanding issues are addressed in a<br />
manner that demonstrates mutual sensitivity to<br />
each other’s concerns, interests and aspirations,”<br />
he had said last week. He had also said China joining<br />
hands with India in the fight against terrorism<br />
will have “its own impact”, indicating that the two<br />
countries must comer together to deal with the<br />
challenge. The comments came against the backdrop<br />
of Beijing blocking India’s bid to put Azhar on<br />
the UN list of proscribed terrorists.<br />
In Guangzhou, the highly industrialised city<br />
in China<br />
failed.<br />
Two minutes later,<br />
the aircraft lost radar<br />
and VHF contact as<br />
well, the sources said,<br />
adding the ATC received<br />
a phone call at<br />
2:40 PM that the aircraft<br />
had crash landed.<br />
In a similar incident<br />
in December last yeara<br />
small 20-year-old BSF<br />
plane had crashed<br />
near Dwarkain which<br />
all 10 on board were<br />
killed.<br />
A DGCA official said<br />
the final investigation<br />
will be conducted by<br />
the Aircraft Accident<br />
Investigation Bureau<br />
(AAIB).<br />
in China, Mukherjee will address the India-China<br />
Business Forum in which some top Indian industrialists<br />
will also be present.Guangzhou is the<br />
capital of Guangdong province in southern coastal<br />
China that contributes 12 per cent of the country’s<br />
GDP and is home to a wide-ranging set of multinational<br />
and Chinese corporations.<br />
President Pranab Mukherjee will arrive in Beijing<br />
on Thursday where he will meet with President<br />
Xi Jinping and other top Chinese leadership<br />
including Premier Li Keqiang and National People’s<br />
Congress Chairman Zhang Dejiang.<br />
In discussions with the Chinese leadership, the<br />
issues of Chinese reservations on India’s membership<br />
in the Nuclear Supplier Group and the UN ban<br />
on Azhar are expected to figure prominently. Ahead<br />
of his state visit to China, Mukherjee had told the<br />
Chinese state-run television that India seeks a fair,<br />
reasonable and mutually acceptable settlement of<br />
the boundary question which will help in achieving<br />
full potential of Sino-India relationship.<br />
Bilateral ties have been on an upswing since Xi’s<br />
landmark India visit in September, 2014 during<br />
which both countries had signed 12 agreements<br />
and China pledged an investment of USD 20 billion<br />
in India’s infrastructure sector.<br />
Prime Minister NarendraModi had visited China<br />
in May last year during which both sides had<br />
resolved to further deepen ties in a range of areas.However,<br />
irritants in ties cropped recently<br />
after China blocked India’s move to get a UN ban<br />
on Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Azhar and opposed<br />
granting India membership of NSG, saying<br />
it must sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to<br />
get an entry into the 48-member group.<br />
India had countered the Chinese contention of<br />
signing NPT before becoming a member of NSG as<br />
“confusion” as NPT allows civil nuclear cooperation<br />
with non-NPT countries.<br />
The issues of Chinese reservations on India’s<br />
membership in the Nuclear Supplier Group, and<br />
the UN ban on Azhar are expected to be discussed<br />
with the leaders.<br />
Mukherjee is accompanied by Textiles Minister<br />
SantoshGangwar, four Members of Parliament and<br />
Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar.
Wednesday, May <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
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WORLD<br />
Greek police<br />
move immigrants<br />
Greek police transferred<br />
some two thousand<br />
migrants out of<br />
the overcrowded camp<br />
of Idomeni, launching<br />
a major operation to<br />
clear up the squalid<br />
tent city where thousands<br />
fleeing war and<br />
poverty have lived for<br />
months. By evening<br />
the officials had put<br />
2,031 people on buses<br />
to newly opened camps<br />
near Greece’s second<br />
city Thessaloniki, about<br />
80 kilometres to the<br />
south. The group transferred<br />
yesterday included<br />
662 Syrians, 1,273<br />
Kurds and 96 Yazidis.<br />
The transfer comes after<br />
a brutal winter of<br />
freezing rain and mud<br />
which saw many people<br />
trying to force their<br />
way across the border,<br />
sometimes resulting in<br />
violent encounters with<br />
Macedonian police.<br />
Hilary chooses<br />
NeeraTanden<br />
Indian-American<br />
NeeraTanden, president<br />
of the Centre for American<br />
Progress (CAP) and<br />
a long-time associate of<br />
presidential frontrunner<br />
Hillary Clinton, has<br />
been nominated to the<br />
Democratic platform<br />
committee that will<br />
draft the party’s policy<br />
agenda for approval by<br />
the national convention<br />
in July.Mr. Sanders,<br />
himself a Jew, was the<br />
only presidential candidate<br />
to skip the annual<br />
meeting of the powerful<br />
American-Israel Public<br />
Affairs Committee recently.<br />
Ms. Clinton had<br />
said at the event that<br />
the onus was on Palestinians<br />
to seek peace<br />
with Israel. Meanwhile,<br />
Ms. Clinton has turned<br />
down Mr. Sanders’s demand<br />
for another debate<br />
in California before<br />
the State primary on<br />
June 7.<br />
DIY Abortion<br />
in texas<br />
Restrictive laws took<br />
hold in Texas in 2013,<br />
forcing so many clinic<br />
closings that fewer than<br />
20 remain to serve 5.4<br />
million women of reproductive<br />
age.<br />
Experts say that if the<br />
U.S. Supreme Court upholds<br />
Texas’s restrictive<br />
abortion laws, the numbers<br />
of self-induced<br />
abortions will escalate.<br />
So far, the number of<br />
Texas women who have<br />
taken that option could<br />
be as high as 1,00,000<br />
to 2,40,000, depending<br />
on how it is calculated.<br />
External Affairs<br />
ministry bring<br />
back Indian boy<br />
The External Affairs<br />
Ministry is trying to<br />
bring back an Indian<br />
boy from Jessore in<br />
Bangladesh, after he<br />
was said to be missing<br />
from Delhi in 2010.A<br />
senior official in the Indian<br />
High Commission<br />
in Dhaka is travelling<br />
to Jessore in southwestern<br />
Bangladesh to<br />
meet 12-year-old Sonu<br />
on the directive of External<br />
Affairs Minister<br />
SushmaSwara.<br />
Egyptian<br />
forensics<br />
officials have<br />
examined the human<br />
remain retrieved from<br />
the crash site of Egypt<br />
Air flight 804. They<br />
suggest that there must<br />
be a blast in the plain.<br />
Egypt Air 804 allegedly<br />
considered got<br />
disappeared in the beginning<br />
still remains<br />
a mystery. After the<br />
intense joint search<br />
of the both the governments<br />
in the Mediterranean<br />
seal, they<br />
found the wreckage<br />
floating some 500 km<br />
away from the shore.<br />
Much later the rescue<br />
team recovered<br />
some human remains<br />
and brought them for<br />
test. There seems to<br />
be occurrences that<br />
suggest the symptoms<br />
of blast in the flight.<br />
EgyptAir 804 human remains suggest explosion:<br />
Forensics expert<br />
The flight samples also<br />
point towards this.<br />
This confirms the official<br />
version which said<br />
the logical explanation<br />
was that an explosion<br />
brought it down.<br />
The special investigating<br />
team on Egyptian<br />
flight could not<br />
reveal much information<br />
because they<br />
were not authorized to<br />
release. But still they<br />
analysed the findings<br />
and said that there<br />
was a blast in the plain.<br />
They could only retrieve<br />
some small pieces<br />
of flesh. They did<br />
not even get a full part<br />
a leg or hand. It lead<br />
them to analyse the accident<br />
in a partial manner.<br />
One of the officials<br />
said that they would<br />
Sri Lanka floods: Death toll rises to 101 as waters recede<br />
Pakistan, China<br />
Presidents vow to<br />
cement all weather ties<br />
China and Pakistan<br />
today vowed to deepen<br />
their “all-weather” strategic<br />
partnership and<br />
underlined that bilateral<br />
ties had stood the<br />
test of the changing international<br />
and domestic<br />
situations in the past<br />
65 years.<br />
On the occasion of<br />
65th anniversary of<br />
the establishment of<br />
diplomatic relations<br />
between China and Pakistan,<br />
Chinese President<br />
Xi Jinping and his<br />
Pakistani counterpart<br />
MamnoonHussain exchanged<br />
greetings and<br />
pledged to deepen their<br />
bilateral relations.<br />
Xi said in a message<br />
that China and Pakistan<br />
are all- weather<br />
strategic partners and<br />
that China-Pakistan<br />
ties have stood the test<br />
of the changing international<br />
and domestic<br />
situations in the past<br />
65 years.<br />
In recent years, China-Pakistan<br />
relations<br />
have maintained a<br />
strong momentum and<br />
the two countries have<br />
witnessed progress in<br />
practical cooperation<br />
and people-to-people<br />
and cultural exchanges,<br />
Xi said.<br />
China regards Pakistan<br />
as an important<br />
partner in the Belt and<br />
Road Initiative, and the<br />
construction of the USD<br />
46 billion China-Pakistan<br />
Economic Corridor<br />
will lay a solid foundation<br />
for the shaping of<br />
a community of shared<br />
destiny for the two nations,<br />
he said.<br />
“I attach great importance<br />
to China-Pakistan<br />
relations, and would<br />
work with you to create<br />
a better future for China-<br />
Pakistan relations,”<br />
Xi said in his message<br />
to Hussain. (PTI)<br />
not be<br />
able to say what could<br />
have caused the blast.<br />
Egyptian authorities<br />
could not link<br />
the accident with the<br />
terror act. The blast<br />
might have happened<br />
due to equipment<br />
failure too. So far no<br />
hard evidence is found<br />
to come to a conclusion<br />
of the accident.<br />
According to Cairo<br />
Daily, a newspaper in<br />
Cairo quoted an unnamed<br />
forensics official<br />
in its Tuesday edition<br />
as saying the plane<br />
blew up in midair but<br />
that it has yet to be<br />
determined whether<br />
the blast was caused<br />
by the an explosive<br />
device or something<br />
else. They are finding<br />
it difficult to test with<br />
samples<br />
Sri Lanka gets flooded that caused landslides<br />
and much damage to the properties.<br />
Death toll rises to more than 100.<br />
According to the Disaster Management<br />
Center (DMC) the death toll crossed more<br />
than 100. Even after the week of time still<br />
100 people are missing in the most affected<br />
area of Kegalle. The rain also damaged<br />
properties across the island. The normal life<br />
in many part of the country is affected.<br />
The landslide caused more fear trap. People<br />
are still hoping to find someone alive<br />
under the heap of mud. The government yet<br />
to remove more than 100 tons of mud to recover<br />
bodies and alive people if anyone left.<br />
The flood water have receded across the<br />
country. As the result the DMC found more<br />
than 530 houses have been completely destroyed<br />
and another 4000 partly damaged.<br />
People taken to the rescue places started<br />
to return to their homes. They are still worried<br />
about their new start. Some lost all of<br />
their belongings and hard earned treasures.<br />
collected.<br />
Family members<br />
of the passengers too<br />
were invited to give<br />
DNA samples. Thus<br />
they wanted to identify<br />
the remains of<br />
their kin. But this is<br />
also to be noted that<br />
no bodies have been<br />
recovered so far as<br />
whole. When asked to<br />
the officials regarding<br />
if a body recovered<br />
they refused to<br />
give information on it.<br />
Egypt has already<br />
sent a submarine to<br />
search for the flight’s<br />
black box. Analyzing<br />
the black box they can<br />
take a final decision<br />
what could have happened<br />
in reality. This<br />
is also important to<br />
know that the backup<br />
power in the black<br />
box remains only for<br />
30 days. After that the<br />
black box stops sending<br />
signals. Locating<br />
it would be a problem<br />
if the search delayed.<br />
Other countries<br />
like Britan, Cyprus,<br />
France, Greece and the<br />
United States are also<br />
extended their help<br />
in the search of debris<br />
and black boxes.<br />
According to the officials figures, one<br />
third of Colombo’s 650000 residents were<br />
driven out of their homes due to the flood.<br />
The Sri Lankan Government has estimated<br />
the loss and promised people to compensate<br />
their loss. No detailed amounts has<br />
been announced yet. Sri Lanka’s parliament<br />
has been called before the scheduled time<br />
to discuss about the flood relief. This is the<br />
highest record of rain in last <strong>25</strong> years.<br />
Soldiers and relief workers were seen<br />
distributing essential supplies to people<br />
cleaning up their homes in low-lying areas<br />
of Colombo.<br />
The flood water flowing to the Indian<br />
Ocean across the Colombo brought all the<br />
garbage and sewage along with it. People<br />
fear outbreak of new disease. The government<br />
has already sent the hospital crew to<br />
examine the situation and to take care of the<br />
people.<br />
US Lawmakers question India’s<br />
plans for Chabahar port<br />
US senators addressed on<br />
Tuesday whether India’s development<br />
of a port in southern<br />
Iran for exchange access gambled<br />
disregarding global assents<br />
and a state department official<br />
guaranteed them the organization<br />
would closely examine the<br />
project. US lawmakers question<br />
“We need to inspect the points<br />
of interest of the chabahar declaration<br />
to see where it falls in that<br />
place,” she vouched for the senate<br />
foreign Relations Committee.<br />
US lawmakers question<br />
“we have been clear with the<br />
Indians about proceeding with<br />
limitations on exercises as for<br />
Iran,” Nisha Desai Biswal, Assistant<br />
secretary of state for south<br />
and central Asian Affairs, said on<br />
Tuesday.<br />
Prime Minister Narendra<br />
Modi on Monday pledged up to<br />
$500 million to develop the Iranian<br />
port of Chabahar, to give<br />
India a trade access to Iran, Afghanistan<br />
and central Asia.<br />
The United States and Europe<br />
had lifted sanctions in January<br />
under a deal with Iran to limit<br />
its nuclear program but some<br />
restrictions to trade remain, tied<br />
to issues such as human rights<br />
and terrorism.
Wednesday, May <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
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BUSINESS<br />
South Korea’s Mando plans to supply<br />
parts for Tesla’s Model 3<br />
Sony’s profit shakes as<br />
earthquakes hit Japan<br />
Volkswagen to<br />
update emisson<br />
settlement<br />
Mando Corp<br />
(204320.KS) is in talks<br />
with Tesla Motors (TS-<br />
LA.O) to supply parts<br />
for its Model 3 car as<br />
it seeks to join other<br />
South Korean firms<br />
supplying modules for<br />
Tesla’s more affordable<br />
electric cars, an industry<br />
source said.<br />
Mando, which makes<br />
steering, brake and<br />
suspension parts, currently<br />
supplies steering<br />
racks for Tesla’s Model<br />
S vehicles.<br />
The source did not<br />
provide any details on<br />
the parts that Mando<br />
would supply for the<br />
cheaper Model 3, citing<br />
confidentiality. While<br />
Tesla spokesperson<br />
was not immediately<br />
available for comment,<br />
Mando spokesman declined<br />
to comment.<br />
South Korea’s Maeil<br />
Business Newspaper<br />
reported on Monday<br />
that Mando had been<br />
chosen by Tesla to<br />
develop and supply<br />
self-driving car technology<br />
and parts, pushing<br />
up Mando’s share price.<br />
Asked to comment, a<br />
Tesla spokesperson in<br />
San Francisco said “The<br />
rumors are not true.<br />
Tesla currently sources<br />
steering racks for its<br />
Model S vehicles from<br />
Mando. It does not supply<br />
autonomous technology<br />
systems.”<br />
Mando has two U.S.<br />
factories in Alabama<br />
and Georgia, catering<br />
to demand from Hyundai<br />
Motor (005380.KS),<br />
General Motors (GM.N)<br />
and Chrysler.<br />
By 2020, the company<br />
aims to generate<br />
half of its revenue from<br />
next-generation products,<br />
including semi-automated<br />
driver assistant<br />
systems similar to<br />
Hyundai Motor’s Genesis<br />
G90 luxury sedan.<br />
“Tesla is turning to<br />
South Korean parts<br />
makers, which are<br />
more cost-competitive<br />
than Japanese rivals, as<br />
the electric car start-up<br />
plans to drastically cut<br />
costs for the cheaper<br />
Model 3,” said Eim Eunyoung,<br />
an auto analyst<br />
at Samsung Securities.<br />
LG Display (034220.<br />
KS) and Hankook Tire<br />
(161390.KS) are among<br />
the few South Korean<br />
firms which plan to<br />
supply their products<br />
for the Model 3, sources<br />
have said.<br />
Tesla has taken<br />
373,000 orders for<br />
the Model 3 - which<br />
has a starting price of<br />
$35,000, about half the<br />
cost of its Model S - and<br />
has said it will begin delivering<br />
in late 2017.<br />
Sony forecasts<br />
weak profit growth<br />
after an earthquake<br />
in April halted production<br />
at a key manufacturing<br />
plant.<br />
The Japanese<br />
tech-giant expects a<br />
2% rise in operating<br />
profits to 300bn yen<br />
($2.75bn; £1.89bn) for<br />
the year to March 2017.<br />
However, this was well<br />
below the estimated<br />
figure of 409bn yen.<br />
Sony delayed its<br />
forecasts by about a<br />
month to gauge the impact<br />
of the earthquake<br />
in the city of Kumamoto.<br />
The Kumamoto<br />
plant is one of five<br />
factories that makes<br />
the image sensors for<br />
Sony’s smartphones.<br />
Sony estimated the<br />
impact of that the<br />
quake would cut operating<br />
profits at its<br />
image sensor and digital<br />
camera productions<br />
by about 105bn<br />
yen. The company also<br />
predicted that net income<br />
would sink by<br />
nearly 46% to 80bn<br />
yen, mainly due to an<br />
exceptional gain in the<br />
previous year from<br />
the sale of Olympus<br />
shares and the changes<br />
in taxation. Earnings<br />
at Sony have been revived<br />
in recent quarters,<br />
helped by strong<br />
sales of its famous line<br />
of PlayStation 4 video<br />
games. The company<br />
has also reversed losses<br />
at its mobile communications<br />
division<br />
after improvements in<br />
its product mix and restructuring<br />
measures.<br />
Spotify paves more loss as<br />
revenue rise<br />
A federal judge is<br />
to get an update on<br />
ongoing settlement<br />
talks in the Volkswagen<br />
emissions cheating<br />
scandal after announcing<br />
a indefinite<br />
deal last month for<br />
nearly half a million<br />
polluting Volkswagens<br />
in the U.S.<br />
Attorneys for Volkswagen<br />
and Volkswagen<br />
owners filed<br />
a schedule for Tuesday’s<br />
hearing before<br />
Senior U.S. District<br />
Court Judge Charles<br />
Breyer that includes<br />
reports on discussions<br />
over roughly<br />
482,000 Volkswagens<br />
with 2-liter, four-cylinder<br />
diesel engines.<br />
The agenda does<br />
not stipulate whether<br />
the parties have<br />
reached agreement on<br />
more terms that will<br />
be disclosed in court.<br />
The judge has put the<br />
attorneys order on restrain<br />
that prevents<br />
them from discussing<br />
the settlement talks.<br />
The judge set a June<br />
21 deadline for attorneys<br />
from the U.S. Justice<br />
Department and<br />
for Volkswagen owners<br />
to file additional<br />
paperwork about the<br />
tentative agreement.<br />
The deal that was<br />
announced did not<br />
cover Volkswagen,<br />
Audi and Porsche<br />
diesel vehicles with<br />
3-liter, six-cylinder<br />
engines an additional<br />
90,000 or so<br />
vehicles. It also did<br />
not cover potential<br />
fines and penalties.<br />
The misconduct<br />
erupted in September<br />
when it was<br />
learned that the German<br />
automaker had<br />
equipped many of its<br />
cars with software to<br />
fool emissions tests<br />
and had put dirty vehicles<br />
on the road.<br />
Spotify witnessed<br />
revenues reaching<br />
upto €1.95bn ($2.2bn;<br />
£1.5bn) over the past<br />
year, but the Swedish<br />
music streaming<br />
platform has still<br />
not made a profit.<br />
Losses intensified<br />
as the industry leader,<br />
offered music over the<br />
internet for free with<br />
advertisements for<br />
a fixed monthly rate.<br />
Revenue increased<br />
by 80% over the past<br />
year, beating the 45%<br />
growth rate of 2014<br />
by a wide margin but<br />
Net losses increased<br />
by 7% from the previous<br />
year to €173m.<br />
Spotify’s main expenses<br />
are royalties<br />
paid to artists. It said<br />
its revenue from advertisements<br />
had<br />
nearly doubled while<br />
its user base had also<br />
grown significantly.<br />
It had 89 million<br />
active monthly users<br />
by the end of 2015, 28<br />
million of which were<br />
paid subscribers. Spotify,<br />
long at the forefront<br />
of online music<br />
streaming, said it was<br />
prioritizing investment,<br />
as it faces increasing<br />
competition.<br />
Apple had launched<br />
its own music streaming<br />
service in 2015,<br />
while Rhapsody and<br />
Deezer who were two<br />
other companies offering<br />
a similar service.<br />
As the industry<br />
leader, the firm has received<br />
a lot of criticism<br />
from artists who argue<br />
that the royalties they<br />
receive from streaming<br />
are not fair enough,<br />
and that streaming<br />
platforms fail to<br />
support new artists.<br />
It has led to some<br />
big names like Taylor<br />
Swift, Adele and<br />
Radiohead keeping<br />
some or all of their<br />
music off the service<br />
on this platform.<br />
TECHNOLOGY<br />
Google to introduce Password-Free Logins<br />
on Android Platform<br />
Google is planning<br />
to bring Password-Free<br />
Logins to<br />
Android by <strong>2016</strong> End.<br />
Google at its annual<br />
developer conference<br />
last year disclosed plans<br />
to get rid of passwords<br />
in favour of a new system<br />
dubbed ‘Project<br />
Abacus’ that will verify<br />
user’s identity based on<br />
various patterns. At I/O<br />
<strong>2016</strong>, Dan Kaufman,<br />
Director of Google’s<br />
ATAP team, in a low<br />
profile announcement<br />
updated about the project<br />
saying that it will<br />
be available to developers<br />
by end of <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
To recall, ‘Project<br />
Abacus’ was initially<br />
introduced by Google<br />
last year and was<br />
seen as an improvement<br />
over two-factor<br />
authentication. Google<br />
had announced that<br />
the project was in trials<br />
and it tied up with 33<br />
universities to test this<br />
feature. The company<br />
had stressed that passwords<br />
are hard to remember<br />
and the ‘Project<br />
Abacus’ was said to<br />
be aimed at learning<br />
the user patters such<br />
as typing, walking, location,<br />
and much more.<br />
According to a report<br />
by TechCrunch,<br />
Kaufman has confirmed<br />
that with ‘Project<br />
Abacus’, users can<br />
unlock a device or<br />
sign-in to an app based<br />
on “Trust Score.” The<br />
score is calculated by<br />
various user patterns.<br />
Detailing about the<br />
project, Kaufman said,<br />
“We have a phone, and<br />
these phones have all<br />
these sensors in them.<br />
Why couldn’t it just<br />
know who I was, so I<br />
don’t need a password?<br />
I should just be able to<br />
work.” He added that<br />
engineers at Google<br />
have turned the “Trust<br />
Score” to “Trust API.”<br />
Google will test the<br />
“Trust API” with “several<br />
very large financial<br />
institutions” next<br />
month. “And assuming<br />
it goes well, this should<br />
become available to every<br />
Android developer<br />
around the world by the<br />
end of the year,” the report<br />
quoted Kaufman.<br />
Launch of HTC 10 in India<br />
on 26 May <strong>2016</strong><br />
It is widely expected<br />
that the HTC will be<br />
launching its latest flagship<br />
smartphone, the<br />
HTC 10, in India.<br />
The HTC 10 smartphone<br />
was announced<br />
globally in April, powered<br />
by a Snapdragon<br />
820. However, the<br />
company listed another<br />
smartp<br />
h o n e<br />
called HTC<br />
10 Lifestyle<br />
in India,<br />
which<br />
houses a<br />
Snapdragon<br />
652<br />
SoC under<br />
the hood.<br />
This created<br />
quite<br />
s o m e<br />
noise. The<br />
company<br />
later<br />
attempted<br />
to clarify that the<br />
‘global variant’ will be<br />
headed to India - but it<br />
is still imprecise what<br />
that means. It is not<br />
known whether HTC<br />
will be looking forward<br />
to launch the HTC 10 or<br />
HTC 10 Lifestyle variant<br />
in India, or both.<br />
The HTC 10 runs on<br />
Android 6.0 Marshmallow<br />
out-of-the-box,<br />
alongside 4GB of RAM<br />
(3GB on the HTC 10<br />
Lifestyle). The smartphone<br />
sports a 5.2-inch<br />
Quad HD (1440x<strong>25</strong>60<br />
pixels) Super LCD 5 display<br />
with a pixel density<br />
of 564ppi. It is powered<br />
by a Snapdragon<br />
820 SoC (Snapdragon<br />
652 on the HTC 10 Lifestyle)<br />
The smartphone<br />
sports a 12-UltraPixel<br />
laser autofocus camera<br />
with dual tone LED<br />
flash with BSI sensor,<br />
and optical image stabilization<br />
(OIS). The<br />
HTC 10 Lifestyle bears<br />
a sapphire lens for the<br />
rear camera in addition.<br />
It has a sportive<br />
5-megapixel front-facing<br />
camera featuring<br />
autofocus with BSI sensor,<br />
optical image stabilization<br />
(OIS) and auto<br />
selfie.<br />
The HTC 10 will be<br />
available<br />
in 32GB<br />
and 64GB<br />
(only 32GB<br />
available<br />
on HTC 10<br />
Lifestyle)<br />
inbuilt<br />
storage<br />
options<br />
with an expandable<br />
feature via<br />
microSD<br />
card (up<br />
to 2TB).<br />
It houses<br />
a mega<br />
3000mAh battery, includes<br />
Bluetooth 4.2,<br />
NFC, DLNA and 4G connectivity<br />
options. The<br />
HTC 10 comes in Glacier<br />
Silver, and Carbon<br />
Grey colour variants.<br />
The Taiwanese manufacturer<br />
has launched<br />
several smartphones
Wednesday, May <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
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ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Bhujanga is ready to hit the silver<br />
screen on May 27<br />
Bhujanga, An Indian Kannada Local Love Story film written by BA Madhu<br />
and directed by Jeeva. It is produced by VarunaMahesh under his production<br />
company, Nagamale Movies.<br />
With PrajwalDevraj<br />
and Meghana Raj in<br />
the Lead roles, the supporting<br />
cast features<br />
Sadhu Kokila, Bullet<br />
Prakash, Jai Jagadish,<br />
TablaNani, Santhosh<br />
and Padma Vasanthi.<br />
PoornaChandraTejasvi<br />
has composed the film’s<br />
soundtrack and score.<br />
The Cinematography is<br />
done by Gundlupete-<br />
Suresh alongside Mass<br />
Mada for the stunts.<br />
Choreographed by Kalai,<br />
Ramu, and Thribhuvan,<br />
the film was edited<br />
by Soundar Raj.<br />
The songs have been<br />
released and have got<br />
quite a response with<br />
the crowd rating it 4 out<br />
of 5 stars.<br />
REAL STAR IN<br />
HORROR THRILLER<br />
KALPANA-2<br />
TITHI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES TO<br />
BE RELEASED ON JUNE 3<br />
Producer ShilpaSrinivas who produced the<br />
movie “Upendra” will be back with Kalpana 2, the<br />
rights of which were bought by actor Upendra.<br />
Upendrawill soon star in Kalpana 2, a horror<br />
thriller directed byNaganna. Kalpana 2 is a<br />
remake of Kanchana 2, a horror-comedy franchise<br />
by actor-filmmaker,RaghavaLawerence.<br />
Upendra who enjoyed working in part<br />
1 of the franchise in Kannada, directed by<br />
Ramnarayan is gearing up for Kalpana 2.<br />
With this film, Naganna who was appreciated<br />
for his directorial film KrantiVeeraSangoliRayanna<br />
with Darshan is<br />
collaborating with Upendra for the fifth<br />
time. The previous filmswere Kutumba,<br />
Gokarna, Gowramma and Dubai Babu.<br />
“Currently, the director is doing his<br />
preparations from his end and plans to<br />
officially announce the project in the<br />
days to come,” our sources tells us.This<br />
horror film will be yet another experimental<br />
outing for the actor-director.<br />
Tithi written by Ere Gowda and co-written<br />
by Raam, Thithi is a dramatic comedy<br />
about how three generations of sons react to<br />
the death of the oldest in their clan, a man<br />
named Century Gowda: a locally renowned,<br />
highly cantankerous 101-year-old man.<br />
Produced by Pratap Reddy and Sunmin Park,<br />
Thithi was screened in over 12 prestigious<br />
international and national film festivals and<br />
won 13 awards. The movie started its journey<br />
at the prestigious Work-in-Progress Lab<br />
(WIP) at the NFDC Film Bazaar, 2014 where<br />
it was declared the Best WIP Fiction Feature.<br />
Set in a small village in Karnataka, the<br />
three storylines intertwine before converging<br />
at Century Gowda’s “thithi” the final<br />
funeral celebration, 11 days after a death.<br />
The film was released by Suresh Movies<br />
in Karnataka on May 6 and has got a tremendous<br />
response in its home territory.<br />
Johnny Depp on<br />
Jimmy Kimmel<br />
Live Show<br />
Raam Reddy’s National Award-winning<br />
feature film Tithi is now set to hit<br />
screens in major cities on June 3, after<br />
winning international acclaim and a successful<br />
theatrical release in Karnataka.<br />
“Now in its third week, Thithi is still<br />
running housefull in urban centers and I<br />
couldn’t be happier with the response. Hollywood<br />
and Bollywood have dubbed Thithi<br />
as a universal ‘world film’. After seeing the<br />
unprecedented response to Sairat, running<br />
with English subtitles for national audiences,<br />
I can’t wait to see the response to<br />
Thithi nationally,” Raam said in a statement.<br />
Surprisingly this Kannada film will be releasing<br />
with English subtitles on June 3.<br />
“Thithi has seen amazing organic growth<br />
and has grown from strength to strength.<br />
National support and praise from people<br />
like AnuragKashyap and other top national<br />
industry leaders has been incredibly<br />
encouraging,” the film-maker has said.<br />
One of the most<br />
noted heartthrobs of<br />
his generation, Johnny<br />
Depp was looking<br />
smoking hot as he<br />
puffed away on a cigarillo<br />
as he arrived for<br />
an interview on Jimmy<br />
Kimmel Live in Los<br />
Angeles on Monday.<br />
The caribbean star<br />
looked in a fine mood<br />
as he pranced around<br />
the parking lot as he<br />
headed into the bustling<br />
studio inside the<br />
famous Hollywood<br />
Masonic Temple.<br />
The actor, who became<br />
a teen idol for<br />
his turn in hit TV<br />
show 21 Jump Street,<br />
was looking good for a<br />
52-year-old in a stylish<br />
leather jacket, black<br />
shirt, baggy jeans<br />
and leather boots.<br />
He enhanced his<br />
look by wearing a variety<br />
of exotic necklaces,<br />
a few dishevelled<br />
neckerchiefs<br />
and a pair of stylish<br />
aviator sunglasses.<br />
Johnny was greeted<br />
by some friends as he<br />
appeared out from his<br />
vehicle puffing away<br />
on his cigarillo, and<br />
saluted the fans before<br />
heading inside.<br />
Given his corrosive<br />
style, viewers will be<br />
hoping Jimmy quizzes<br />
his guest on his infamous<br />
speech on the<br />
dangers of bringing<br />
unquarantined animals<br />
into Australia.<br />
Last month his much<br />
younger wife Amber<br />
Heard, 30, was let off<br />
with a good behaviour<br />
bond last month after<br />
she pleaded guilty<br />
to falsifying travel<br />
documents to sneak<br />
their two Yorkshire<br />
Terriers, Pistol and<br />
Boo, into the country<br />
when Depp was filming<br />
the latest Pirates<br />
of the Caribbean film.<br />
KimKardashian Steals the Show at<br />
Vogue 100 Gala Dinner<br />
The Keeping up<br />
with the Kardashians<br />
star has been turning<br />
heads in the past<br />
few days during her<br />
whirlwind European<br />
tour and the<br />
brunette beauty<br />
once more stole the<br />
show at the Vogue<br />
100 Gala Dinner in<br />
an absolute sheer<br />
embroidered gown.<br />
The mother of<br />
two certainly left<br />
all to their imagination<br />
in her skin<br />
baring dress, which<br />
she enhanced with<br />
a khaki belt, platform<br />
sandals, neutral<br />
makeup and<br />
slicked-back hair.<br />
Kim attended the<br />
event at London’s<br />
Kensington Gardens<br />
with husband Kanye<br />
West who stuck to<br />
all black to allow his<br />
wife’s lively look to<br />
steal the spotlight.
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8<br />
SPORTS<br />
RCB Tames Gujarat Lions: AB De<br />
Villiers Heroics Enthrall Fans<br />
Chris Gayle will not be part of<br />
the Melbourne Renegades for<br />
the <strong>2016</strong>/17<br />
Chris Gayle not<br />
signed by Melbourne<br />
Renegades for the<br />
<strong>2016</strong>/17 season of the<br />
Big Bash League, after<br />
Gayle was involved in a<br />
fresh sexism row.<br />
The decision was<br />
confirmed by Melbourne<br />
Renegades’<br />
chief executive Stuart<br />
Coventry.<br />
Gayle also faces<br />
possible condemnation<br />
from his English<br />
county club Somerset<br />
when he arrives in the<br />
UK following his latest<br />
controversial remarks<br />
to a female journalist<br />
in that country. He has<br />
since said the comments<br />
were made in<br />
jest to have a bit of fun.<br />
At one point in the<br />
interview, Gayle told<br />
the journalist he has<br />
“a very, very big bat,<br />
the biggest in the<br />
wooooorld,” adding:<br />
“You think you could<br />
lift it? You’d need two<br />
hands.”<br />
“We’ll unveil our international<br />
signings<br />
soon but Chris isn’t<br />
part of those plans,”<br />
Coventry was quoted<br />
as saying by cricket.<br />
com<br />
Gayle is currently<br />
playing for Royal<br />
Challengers Bangalore<br />
in the Indian Premier<br />
League.<br />
The only ones hurted<br />
in Bangalore last<br />
night were the Gujarat<br />
Lions. Or probably<br />
AB had just left them<br />
numb and lifeless.<br />
The elation in the<br />
RCB camp though was<br />
justified. De Villiers<br />
had pulled one out of<br />
the hat for his team<br />
after all, yet again,<br />
with a masterful unbeaten<br />
47-ball 79. At<br />
29/5, chasing 159 and<br />
with DhawalKulkarni<br />
having sent every big<br />
name sans de Villiers<br />
back to the dug-out.<br />
Lions seemed to<br />
have more than one<br />
paw into the final.<br />
No team in IPL history<br />
had recovered<br />
After an intense<br />
battle of more than<br />
30 days and a grueling<br />
schedule, these<br />
teams have managed<br />
to make it so far. The<br />
journey so far wasn’t<br />
by any means a cake<br />
walk with most teams<br />
making it by the skin<br />
of their teeth.<br />
Hunger, desire and<br />
will to win were the<br />
determining factors<br />
in the end in a contest<br />
of evenly-matched<br />
outfits, as teams who<br />
needed it the most<br />
have survived to leave<br />
another day.<br />
As the IPL takes a<br />
breather ahead of the<br />
play-offs, we look back<br />
at the factors that<br />
made these two teams<br />
from such a hole to<br />
win a match before.<br />
Over the last few<br />
weeks, ViratKohli has<br />
been the only topic<br />
that’s mattered with<br />
regards to RCB or<br />
maybe the IPL on the<br />
whole. But throughout,<br />
like always, he’s<br />
continued to maintain<br />
that he was still only<br />
second-best to his Bangalore<br />
teammate he<br />
A d o r e s .<br />
In the first playoff<br />
between the top two<br />
teams in IPL 9, AB gave<br />
Kohli enough reason to<br />
gush and jump about<br />
in the dug-out by playing<br />
one of the more<br />
remarkable comefrom-behind<br />
innings<br />
the IPL has witnessed.<br />
The abundance of<br />
wickets lost meant<br />
that AB simply couldn’t<br />
get out but the increasing<br />
required run-rate<br />
meant that calculated<br />
risks still had to be<br />
attempted. And he did<br />
just that rather nonchalantly.<br />
He always<br />
seemed to know which<br />
ball deserved to be hit<br />
to the fence-which he<br />
did duly-and when it<br />
was prudent to simply<br />
push it into the outer<br />
reaches of the Chinnaswamy<br />
Stadium to<br />
steal a quick two. In<br />
between, AB and Iqbal<br />
Abdulla, who came<br />
to the fore as an able<br />
and more importantly<br />
composed ally, even<br />
played out two overs<br />
from RavindraJadeja<br />
and Dwayne Bravo<br />
that went for seven in<br />
all. ShadabJakati had<br />
bowled two shocking<br />
overs and gone for 29<br />
runs. Suresh Raina<br />
still had to complete<br />
that quota. AB lay in<br />
wait for the Lions’<br />
skipper to throw him<br />
the gauntlet. It first<br />
came in the form of<br />
Dwayne Smith, who<br />
had earlier been the<br />
singular reason for Gujarat<br />
making a match<br />
of it with the bat after<br />
their early collapse.<br />
Time for finals:<br />
sail through, Sunrisers<br />
Hyderabad and Kolkata<br />
Knight Riders who<br />
will fight it out in the<br />
play-offs to take another<br />
crucial step towards<br />
the trophy.<br />
Failing to qualify<br />
for the play-offs for<br />
two straight seasons<br />
meant Sunrisers Hyderabad<br />
were often<br />
overlooked when possible<br />
candidates for<br />
the play-offs in IPL 9<br />
were discussed. They<br />
did little to change<br />
that belief after starting<br />
off with two defeats,<br />
firstly to a Kohli-<br />
De Villiers inspired<br />
RCB and secondly to<br />
the seasoned Kolkata<br />
Knight Riders.<br />
However,<br />
sometimes<br />
greater challenges<br />
seem to bring<br />
out the best in teams,<br />
and that’s what happened<br />
with Sunrisers,<br />
suddenly SRH had a<br />
winning equation.<br />
Eight wins in ten<br />
games had Sunrisers<br />
on the brink of the<br />
play-offs after a long<br />
wait, before Nehra’s<br />
injury slightly affected<br />
the rhythm of<br />
the Sunrisers. For all<br />
their consistency, SRH<br />
had to settle for third<br />
place for perhaps letting<br />
their foot off the<br />
gas a bit in the end.<br />
The IPL is quite unforgiving<br />
and Sunrisers<br />
must pull their socks<br />
up again, before the<br />
eliminator.<br />
Kolkata Knight Riders<br />
Been there, done<br />
that! It was normal<br />
business for Kolkata<br />
Knight Riders as they<br />
geared up for the 9th<br />
edition of the IPL.<br />
Strong, well-balanced<br />
squad, experience of<br />
winning the trophy<br />
and a favourites tag.<br />
That was all that the<br />
Knight Riders were so<br />
used to.<br />
And the season<br />
began in spectacular<br />
fashion, as KKR<br />
trumped Delhi Daredevils<br />
at fortress Eden<br />
Gardens and justify<br />
their favourites tag<br />
straight away. Twin<br />
defeats to Mumbai<br />
Indians meant that<br />
His pace was best<br />
suited for AB to launch,<br />
which he did, taking<br />
him for 14 runs.<br />
KKR’s momentum was<br />
broken twice, still the<br />
2014 champions were<br />
still well-placed to<br />
make the play-offs after<br />
six games.<br />
However, KKR’s<br />
season failed to hit<br />
top gear, as constant<br />
speed-breakers hurt<br />
their progress. Two<br />
defeats, at first to Gujarat<br />
Lions, and then<br />
Royal Challengers<br />
Bangalore threatened<br />
to leave KKR too far<br />
behind in the race for<br />
the play-offs. But every<br />
time GautamGambhir’s<br />
men had their<br />
backs to the wall, they<br />
managed to produce<br />
the goods.<br />
At this point, with a<br />
drizzle in the air, RCB<br />
were 16 runs adrift<br />
of their DL score. The<br />
next over with 49 requiring<br />
of the last five,<br />
Raina went to Jakati.<br />
Checkmate Lions.<br />
AB and Abdulla took<br />
the left-arm spinner<br />
apart, taking him for<br />
16 runs. AB started<br />
the next over from<br />
Praveen Kumar with<br />
a brutal strike over<br />
the deep mid-wicket<br />
fence before delicately<br />
reverse-sweeping<br />
an attempted yorker<br />
through the point region<br />
for four. Raina<br />
and his Lions just<br />
stood in shock, staring<br />
into the floodlights<br />
as if they didn’t know<br />
what had hit them.<br />
At one point his<br />
figures read 4/6. But<br />
unfortunately, not for<br />
the first time, Kulkarni<br />
didn’t quite finish<br />
as the highlight of the<br />
evening. Instead as<br />
the match drew to a<br />
close, he lay prone in<br />
front of the RCB dugout<br />
trying in vain to<br />
stop one of Abdulla’s<br />
three boundaries.<br />
By then he and<br />
his team had been silenced<br />
for good and<br />
the only thing reverberating<br />
around Chinnaswamy<br />
were manic<br />
chants of ABD, ABD.<br />
KKR were in a spot<br />
of bother while chasing<br />
a target of 66 from<br />
nine overs in a rain-affected<br />
clash with Rising<br />
Pune Supergiants.<br />
Last year, they<br />
fluffed it in the end<br />
when play-offs spot<br />
seemed like a cakewalk,<br />
this time, they<br />
made sure the mistake<br />
wasn’t repeated.<br />
It’s been a thrilling<br />
ride for both these<br />
teams. A real test of<br />
their physical as well<br />
as mental character.<br />
Rio winners will be considered<br />
for KhelRatna, Arjuna<br />
Often flayed for acting<br />
too late to reward<br />
athletes breaking their<br />
backs in sports other<br />
than cricket, the<br />
sports Ministry has<br />
announced on Tuesday<br />
that winners at the Rio<br />
Olympics will immediately<br />
be considered for<br />
this year’s KhelRatna<br />
and Arjuna Awards.<br />
The ministry said<br />
the decision has been<br />
taken so that athletes<br />
need not wait for one<br />
full year after their<br />
medal-winning performances<br />
at the Olympic<br />
Games.<br />
The medal winners<br />
in individual events<br />
who have already not<br />
been conferred with<br />
Rajiv Gandhi Khel-<br />
Ratna in the past will<br />
be considered for the<br />
highest sporting honour.<br />
“Medal winners in<br />
team events, who have<br />
played stellar roles in<br />
the medal won by the<br />
team for the country<br />
in Rio Olympics <strong>2016</strong><br />
such as number of<br />
goals scored, number<br />
of goals saved etc., and<br />
who have already not<br />
been conferred with<br />
Arjuna Award in the<br />
past will be considered<br />
for Arjuna Awards,” the<br />
Ministry said.<br />
Ben Stokes undergoes<br />
Surgery on Knee<br />
Ben Stokes, the England<br />
All-rounder has<br />
undergone a surgery<br />
on his left knee, the<br />
England and Wales<br />
Cricket Board (ECB)<br />
confirmed on Tuesday<br />
(May 24).<br />
Stokes had injured<br />
himself during the first<br />
Test match against<br />
Sri Lanka earlier this<br />
month. Injured midway,<br />
he played very<br />
little part in the rest of<br />
the test and was ruled<br />
out of the series.<br />
The all-rounder had<br />
featured in 18 of England’s<br />
previous Tests<br />
running onto the first<br />
against Sri Lanka and<br />
had forged himself to<br />
be an integral part of<br />
Alastair Cook’s squad.<br />
The injury to the 24-<br />
year old will be a<br />
cause of worry for all<br />
invested parties including<br />
his country<br />
team, Durham, where<br />
the Test against Sri<br />
Lanka will be played.<br />
The nature of the<br />
torn cartilage in his<br />
left knee is yet to be<br />
known fully. “Full details<br />
on the length of<br />
his rehabitation will<br />
be confirmed in due<br />
course,” said a statement<br />
from ECB.<br />
England will be hoping<br />
that Stokes’ rehabitation<br />
will be quick<br />
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