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LS polls: 21 candidates file nominations in Haryana
As many as 21 candidates filed their nomination papers from nine Lok Sabha seats in Haryana on Friday. With this, the number of candidates filing nominations rose to 39 so far, said Joint Chief Electoral Officer,Haryana, Inder Jeet in a release here. Among those who filed nominations included BJP's Ratan Lal Kataria from Ambala parliamentary constituency, BJP's Sunita Duggal from Sirsa, BJP's Ramesh Chander from Sonipat, BJP's Krishan Pal from Faridabad and BJP's Inderjeet Singh from Gurgaon. He said Ram Narayan of Bhartiya Jan Samman Party filed his nomination from Kurukshetra parliamentary constituency, while Vinod Kumar and Ashwani Sharma filed their nominations as independents from the same seat. The last day for filling nominations is April 23. The polling in Haryana is scheduled to take place in a single phase on May 12.
KKR win toss, opt to bowl against RCB
Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and opted to bowl against Royal Challengers Bangalore here Friday. Henrich Klaasen replaced an unwell AB de VIlliers while Dale Steyn made his return to RCB after nine years. The Knight Riders are playing an unchanged side. Teams: Kolkata Knight Riders: Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana, Robin Uthappa, Dinesh Karthik (capt), Shubman Gill, Andre Russell, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Harry Gurney Royal Challengers Bangalore: Parthiv Patel, Virat Kohli (capt), Moeen Ali, Marcus Stoinis, Heinrich Klaasen, Akshdeep Nath, Pawan Negi, Dale Steyn, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal, Navdeep Saini.
Japan using emperor, first lady's birthday to court
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is scheduling a rushed visit to Washington to meet with President Donald Trump and celebrate first lady Melania Trump's birthday, and then is inviting him to be first foreign leader to meet Japan's new emperor, the two countries announced Friday. Without close friends in Asia, Abe is seen as using every opportunity, even the emperor's accession, to court Trump. Tokyo and Washington said Friday that Trump and the first lady will make a state visit to Japan at the end of May, just weeks after Crown Prince Naruhito ascends Japan's Chrysanthemum throne. Naruhito's 85-year-old father, Emperor Akihito, is ending his three-decade reign on April 30 by abdicating. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said receiving Trump as the first state guest of the new imperial era would "symbolize the unshakable bond of the Japan-U.S. alliance." Japanese officials are also arranging for Trump to watch the final day of a sumo wrestling tournament on May 26 so he can ...
Japan using emperor, first lady's birthday to court Trump
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is scheduling a rushed visit to Washington to meet with President Donald Trump and celebrate first lady Melania Trump's birthday, and then is inviting him to be first foreign leader to meet Japan's new emperor. Without close friends in Asia, Abe is seen as using every opportunity, even the emperor's accession, to court Trump. Tokyo and Washington said Friday that Trump and the first lady will make a state visit to Japan at the end of May, just weeks after Crown Prince Naruhito ascends Japan's Chrysanthemum throne. Naruhito's 85-year-old father, Emperor Akihito, is ending his three-decade reign on April 30 by abdicating.
Pragya Thakur's comment on Karkare her personal view, Karkare a martyr: BJP
The BJP Friday distanced itself from Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur's controversial comment that IPS officer Hemant Karkare died in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks as she had cursed him, saying it was her personal view which she might have made "due to years of physical and mental torture". "The BJP believes that Karkare died while bravely fighting terrorists. The BJP has always considered him a martyr, " the party said in a damage-control exercise. The party, which has fielded Malegaon blast accused Thakur from Bhopal in the Lok Sabha election, claimed she had suffered "physical and mental torture" for years in police custody that might have caused her to make such a statement. The comment is her "personal view", it added. Karkare, who headed the Mumbai anti-terror squad, had died in the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008. Addressing BJP workers in Bhopal, Thakur claimed Karkare died as she "cursed" him for "torturing" her in custody.
He doesn't belong to any party: SP Mahendra Baghedia on the man who slapped Hardik Patel
Mahendra Baghedia, Superintendent of Police Surendranagar, on Friday, clarified that Tarun Gajjar, the man who slapped Hardik Patel, is not related to any party but is just a common man."The man is not affiliated to any party, he is a common man. Law is taking its own course," said Mahendra.Earlier, Tarun Gajjar had said that he had his own grievances with Hardik, for disrupting normal life in Gujarat during the Patidar agitation, which caused him to go through a great deal of hardship. Gajjar stated that he had made up his mind to teach him a lesson a long time back."My wife was pregnant when Patidar agitation happened, she was undergoing treatment at a hospital, I had faced problems then, I had decided then, I'll hit him. I have to teach him a lesson anyhow.""Then again during his rally in Ahmedabad when I had gone to get medicine for my child, everything was shut down. He shuts down the roads, he shuts down Gujarat whenever he wants to, What is he? Gujarat's Hitler," said ...
Aussie doctors bestowed Thai royal honours for cave rescue
Two Australian doctors in Thailand to receive royal honours for helping rescue a boys soccer team from a flooded cave say they are looking forward to a reunion with the people they helped save. Richard Harris and Craig Challen were given the award at a ceremony Friday presided over by Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha. Four Australian officials involved with the rescue effort were also honoured. Both highly skilled divers, the doctors played key roles in rescuing members of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach in Chiang Rai province last July. They said before the award ceremony they were looking forward to going to the northern province Monday to see how the boys are faring.
It's absurd and you should be fired: Justin Bieber slams Laura Ingraham
Justin Bieber has slammed Fox News host Laura Ingraham for mocking late rapper Nipsey Hussle, asserting that the host should be fired for her 'absurd' comment.Taking to Instagram, the 25-year-old called out to Laura for 'disrespecting' Nipsey, who was shot dead in front of his clothing store in Los Angeles on March 31."Laura Ingraham absolutely disgusting what you did on national television. How dare you laugh in the face of a person who has passed on," Bieber wrote. "Doesn't matter who it is. But disrespecting someone's who was a pillar in the community and did right by people?"Hitting out at Laura, Bieber asked, "Did you not think about the family who just lost a loved one and now have to see you mock him on national television? It's absurd and you should be fired period."According to People, Laura, while speaking at Hussle's memorial service, was seen laughing."Yesterday in L.A., thousands lined the streets to say goodbye to rapper Nipsey Hussle," Laura began. "Now this dear artist
Rajesh Tailang's car stolen in Delhi
"Delhi Crime" actor Rajesh Tailang on Friday called the police after his five-month-old car that was parked near his house here got stolen.
Anne Hathaway reflects upon her no-alcohol rule
Oscar-winning actress Anne Hathaway says she quit drinking because it was making her "unavailable" for her son.
'World's smallest baby boy' set to go home in Japan
The world's smallest baby boy, who was born in October in Japan weighing as much as an apple, is now ready for the outside world, his doctor said Friday. Ryusuke Sekiya was delivered via emergency Caesarean section, after 24 weeks and five days of pregnancy as his mother Toshiko experienced hypertension. At 258 grams (9.1 ounces) he was even lighter than the previous record holder, another Japanese boy who weighed just 268 grams when he was born last year. That baby was discharged from a Tokyo hospital in February. When Ryusuke was born on October 1, 2018, he measured 22 centimetres (8.66 inches) tall, and medical staff kept him in a neonatal intensive care unit. They used tubes to feed him, sometimes taking cotton swabs to apply his mother's milk to his mouth. Nearly seven months later, the boy has grown 13 times in weight, now weighing over three kilogrammes. He will be released from Nagano Children's Hospital in central Japan over the weekend. "When he was born, he was so small, ...
Hardik Patel slapped at poll rally in Gujarat
Congress leader Hardik Patel was slapped by an unidentified man while addressing a poll rally on Friday in a village in Gujarat's Surendranagar district. The incident was captured on cameras of news channels covering the rally in the district, around 130 km from here. As soon as Hardik Patel started his speech at Baldana village under Wadhwan taluka, a man suddenly came on the stage and slapped him. The man, who looked angry and was seen saying something to Hardik Patel after slapping him, was overpowered by Congress workers, who also beat him up and took him away from the venue. The unidentified man was later handed over to the police. Congress candidate for the Surendranagar Lok Sabha seat, Soma Patel, was present on the dais when Hardik Patel was assaulted. According to Surendranagar SP, Mahendra Bagadia, the man is yet to be identified. "We are yet to investigate who the man was and why he slapped Hardik. No one has lodged a complaint with us yet. We are investigating the matter,"
Trump to be first foreign leader to meet Japan's new emperor: White House
US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania will be the first foreign state guests to visit Japan and meet with Crown Prince Naruhito after his elevation to emperor, the White House said Thursday. Trump will travel to Japan from May 25 to 28 "as the country's first state guests following the enthronement of His Majesty Emperor Naruhito on May 1, 2019," Trump spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement. Trump will also hold talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in addition to a visit by Abe to Washington on April 26-27, Sanders said.
Apple working on new tracking hardware to merge Find My iPhone, Find My Friends
Apple is working on a new smartphone app that will merge the functionalities of its existing 'Find My Friends' and Find My Friends apps.The app is codenamed GreenTorch, and it is currently under beta. As 9to5Mac reports, the new app will combine the same features as the two existing apps into a unified and improved version.It will be available on both iOS and macOS as a Marzipan app.In addition to the app, Apple is also working on a new hardware product, known internally as 'B389'.It will work like a product tag that can be paired to an iCloud account by proximity to an iPhone, such as AirPods. Users will be notified if their device gets too far away from the tag, preventing them from forgetting the item.
Missing woman's case in Delhi: Probe officer blames 'stars'
Astrology has come in the way of preventing closure on a missing person's case in the capital. In a bizarre turn of events, a probe into the disappearance of Air India official Sulakshana Narula, missing since September 2018, cannot be completed because of what is called 'Maha Dosh' in astrological terms.
Police officers awarded for writing book on Constitution in poetry
A Delhi Police officer has been awarded "Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant Award" for his book "Samvidhan Kavya", police said Thursday. Bureau of Police Research and Development under Union Home Ministry, gave the award to Special Commissioner of Police (Operations) Sunil Kumar Gautam for 2018-19, they said. The book, written for ordinary citizens and police personnel, presents the provisions of the Constitution in a simple and poetic form. The entire Constitution of India has been written in 238 verses, also mentioning the number of articles, they said, adding it took six months for the officer to write the book. The book was released by Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi on October 5, 2016. Gautam was then posted as Puducherrys police chief.
Delhi Police lets off man who hurled shoe at BJP's GVL Narasimha Rao during press meet
Delhi Police on Thursday said that the man who hurled a shoe at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao at a press conference earlier on Thursday was let off after a joint interrogation.Police said, the motive of the man identified as Shakti Bhargava, was to "gain media's attention" and "nothing incriminating was found from him."No complaint was received against him, police said.A shoe was hurled at GVL Narasimha Rao today while he was addressing a media briefing.Rao had a narrow escape as the shoe did not hit him.At the time of the incident, the BJP spokesperson was talking about fielding Sadhvi Pragya from Bhopal constituency and was criticising Congress for allegedly defaming Hindus.Rao termed the incident a "condemnable act" by a "Congress-inspired" person."This is yet another attempt by a Congress inspired person who comes in here to show the same kind of mentality. We won't get deterred by these criminal elements in society. We condemn this action," ..
Trump labels Mueller's investigation "greatest hoax of all time"
Ahead of the release of Mueller Report, United States President Donald Trump on Thursday labelled Robert Mueller's investigation as the "greatest hoax of all time."Trump wrote on his official Twitter handle, "The Greatest Political Hoax of all time! Crimes were committed by Crooked, Dirty Cops and DNC/The Democrats."Alluding to the said report, the US President in a separate tweet wrote, "PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!"The US Justice Department will release a redacted version of Mueller's report on Thursday.The report includes the Special Counsel's findings from the 22-month long investigation into alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 Presidential elections, which saw incumbent US President Donald Trump rise to power. .
Joint team of Delhi Police and IB interrogates man who flung shoes at BJP leaders
A joint team of Delhi Police and the Intelligence Bureau is interrogating the man who hurled shoes at BJP leaders addressing a press conference at the party's headquarters Thursday, police said. The man identified himself as Shakti Bhargava, a doctor by profession and a resident of Kanpur, they said. His identity is being verified and a medical examination has been carried out, police said. "A joint team of Intelligence Bureau and Delhi Police's Special Cell and Security Wing is questioning him to ascertain how he gained entry, the purpose of his visit and why he threw shoes at the BJP leaders," a senior police officer said. No complaint has been received from BJP as of now, police said, adding, no case has been registered yet. Police are also scanning CCTV footage to ascertain the sequence of events. At the time of the incident, BJP leaders Bhupendra Yadav and G V L Narsimha Rao were addressing the media with Rao attacking the Congress for defaming Hindus by foisting "false cases" on
Cipla chairman Hamied receives UK Royal Society honour
Prominent scientist and businessman Yusuf Hamied is among a host of Indian-origin experts honoured in the 2019 list of new fellows of the UK's Royal Society. The 82-year-old chairman of pharmaceutical major Cipla has been made an Honorary Fellow of the prestigious body, comprising of many of the world's most eminent scientists. The Royal Society is an independent scientific academy of the UK and the Commonwealth, dedicated to promoting excellence in science. His honorary fellowship of the world's oldest scientific academy came alongside 51 new fellows and 10 new foreign members as part of the 2019 cohort unveiled earlier this week. "Over the course of the Royal Society's vast history, it is our Fellowship that has remained a constant thread and the substance from which our purpose has been realised: to use science for the benefit of humanity, said Prof Venki Ramakrishnan, the Nobel Prize-winning Indian-origin President of the Royal Society. "This year's newly-elected Fellows and ...
