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Trump apologizes to Kavanaugh

The US President’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, took his official oaths on Saturday IANS, WASHINGTON

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S President Donald Trump apologized to Associate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and his family “on behalf of our nation” for what he called a desperate Democrat-led campaign of “lies and deception” intent on derailing his confirmation.

Trump remarks came on Monday night during Kavanaugh’s swearing-in ceremony in the East Room of the White House, reports Fox News.

“On behalf of our nation, I want

Unemployment lowest in US since 1969 NEW YORK: The unemployment rate in the US fell to 3.7 per cent in September, the lowest since December 1969, when hundreds of thousands of working-age Americans were serving in Vietnam, according to a new report by the Labor Department.

The report, which was released last week, said that the American economy was humming with the GDP on pace for its best year since the housing the mid-2000s, reports The New York Times.

Consumers and businesses were the most confident they have been in years with stock market indexes near record highs, it added.

Teenagers, less-educated workers and disabled Americans have also made progress in recent months and anecdotal reports suggest that companies were becoming more willing to hire people with criminal records or to waive drug-testing requirements.

But, the unemployment rates for African-Americans and Hispanics were both near alltime lows, the report said.

Republicans are hoping the strong economy will help them hold off a potential “blue wave” of Democratic victories in next month’s midterm elections.

The report, released on October 5, was one of the last before Election Day, and President Donald Trump hailed the news on Twitter.

“Just out: 3.7 per cent Unemployment is the lowest number since 1969,” he tweeted.

—IANS

to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure,” Trump said.

“Those who step forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation, not a campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception. What happened to the Kavanaugh family violates every notion of fairness, decency, and due process.

“In our country, a man or a woman must always be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty,” he added.

Trump added that “under historic scrutiny”, Kavanaugh had been “proven innocent”.

The President harshly condemned the investigation which Kavanaugh was subjected to, without mentioning the allegations or the name of Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who testified before the Senate that Kavanaugh was going to rape her when they were in high school.

Following Ford’s testimony, Trump ordered the FBI to look into the matter. The FBI interviewed a limited number of witnesses in five days, without ruling on whether the

Associate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh (Photo: Xinhua)

new judge was guilty or innocent of the sexual abuse claims. Taking the podium as the Supreme Court’s newest Justice, Kavanaugh acknowledged the partisan rancor that surrounded his confirmation and gripped the nation over the past two months, Fox News reported.

China calls for cooperation with US IANS, BEIJING

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hinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi this week said that he urged visiting US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to favor bilateral cooperation between the two nations instead of conflict.

During a meeting between Wang and Pompeo in Beijing earlier in the day, the former accused the US of escalating the trade conflict with China, reports Efe news.

He claimed that Washington had adopted measures that had violated China’s rights and damaged its interests on issues such as Taiwan.

He also accused the US of undu-

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi

ly attacking their internal and external policies.

Wang said these issues had damaged the mutual trust between

China and the US, and added that they did not serve the interests of their respective nations.

The Minister urged Pompeo to immediately halt actions that were detrimental to their mutual interests, to avoid conflict and confrontation and instead strengthen bilateral communication and cooperation.

“Such cooperation should be supported by a healthy and stable bilateral relationship,” Wang said, adding that he hoped Pompeo’s visit to Beijing would play a positive role in this regard.

The two diplomats met on the sidelines of Pompeo’s Asia tour, which began in Tokyo.

“I take this office with gratitude and no bitterness,” he said.

“My goal is to be a great justice, for all Americans, and for all of America... I will work very hard to achieve that goal. I was not appointed to serve one party or one interest, but one nation.”

‘Hell’ hurricane Michael kills 2 in US MIAMI: At least two people were killed as Hurricane Michael, one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the continental the US, slammed into the state of Florida, unleashing a trail of destruction by flooding beach towns, peeling off roofs and snapping trees before advancing to the Carolinas.

Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses were left without electricity in Florida, Alabama and Georgia.

Michael made landfall on Wednesday around 2 p.m. near Mexico Beach, Florida, CNN said.

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US sees 33% increase in foreign arms sales IANS, WASHINGTON

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S foreign military sales totalled to $55.66 billion in 2018, a 33 percent increase compared to the nearly $42 billion in weapons sold in 2017, the Defense Cooperation Agency announced.

According to the announcement this week, is the highest annual total for military sales to foreign governments since 2012 when the US conducted upwards of $69 billion in arms deals with allies and partners around the world, reports CNN. The upward trend is due, in part, to the administration’s push to relax restrictions on foreign military sales. Though critics suggest human rights concerns are being

US President Donald Trump (Photo: Xinhua)

relegated in the rush to increase sales. Since taking office, President Donald Trump has demonstrated an insatiable appetite for selling American weaponry abroad — at

times using face-to-face meetings with foreign leaders to make a personal sales pitch.

Trump signed a nearly $110 billion defense deal with Saudi Ara-

bia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in May 2017 in Riyadh, on what was his first stop abroad as President.

In the same month, the US government reauthorized the export of Paveway munitions to Saudi Arabia, ending former President Barack Obama’s December 2016 ban. In April, the administration rolled out its “Buy American” plan to lift — what it views — as selfimposed policy restrictions that limit potential opportunities for business.

“These policy changes advance US national security and foreign policy because they make FMS more attractive in a very competitive market,” DSCA Director LTG Charles W. Hooper said in a statement this week.

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#MeToo: Congress asks Akbar to quit At least six women journalists have accused M.J. Akbar, now the Minister of State for External Affairs, of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior when he was an Editor

M.J. Akbar should respond: Irani

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he Congress on Wednesday asked former Editor and Union Minister M.J. Akbar to either come clean following sexual harassment charges against him or resign. It also sought an independent probe into the charges against Akbar.

“Akbar has a stature as a journalist, apart from being a Minister. He should offer a satisfactory explanation either through a statement or personally, or resign forthwith,” Congress spokesperson S. Jaipal Reddy told the media here.

“How can he be in the Ministry with such serious allegations levelled by responsible journalists who have worked with him. Let there be an inquiry. We demand an inquiry against Akbar,” said Reddy.

At least six women journalists have accused Akbar, now the Minister of State for External Affairs, of

BRIEFS Cyclone Titli claims eight lives in Andhra

Minister of State for External Affairs M.J. Akbar is in the eye of a #MeToo storm in India. (Photo: IANS)

sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior when he was an Editor.

The Congress also targeted the Modi government, including External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, for keeping mum on the issue.

BrahMos scientist held on spying charge IANS, NAGPUR/LUCKNOW

VISAKHAPATNAM: Eight people were killed in a very severe cyclonic storm Titli which wrecked havoc in north coastal Andhra Pradesh on Thursday, officials said.

The cyclone, which made landfall between Andhra Pradesh and Odisha early on Thursday, uprooted trees, electricity poles and communication towers and also damaged crops. Srikakulam and Vijayanagaram districts were affected by the cyclone, which hit the coast near Palasa close to the border with Odisha. Srikakulam district bore the brunt as the strong winds uprooted a large number of coconut trees.

Rupee plunges to new low MUMBAI: The rupee plunged to a fresh low on Thursday, as Indian equities joined a global sell-off amid mounting concerns growth would slow in the face of a trade war between the United States and China.

Concerns that the US Federal Reserve would continue to tighten interest rates amid strengthening economy and labor market also sparked fears about capital outflows, hurting the rupee. —IANS

“We had hoped that women cutting across political lines will come out in support of these brave women who have now come out and revealed their ordeal and tragic stories. Unfortunately, Sushma Swaraj, to whom many look up to for inspiration, has chosen to stay

NEW DELHI: Amid allegations of sexual harassment against former editor and Minister of State for External Affairs M.J. Akbar, Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani on Thursday said the “gentleman in question would be in a better position to answer.”

Irani is the second minister in Prime Minister Modi’s team, after Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi, to react to the allegations against Akbar in the rising #MeToo campaign in India.

Irani said she “appreciated” media for accosting his female colleagues.

On Tuesday, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi also supported the #MeToo movement.

—IANS

quiet,” said Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi.

“It also raises a finger at the government that talks of women empowerment and safety but maintains a dubious silence on the matter,” she said.

While Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday ducked media queries on the allegations against Akbar, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday refused to answer any question other than those pertaining to Cabinet decisions including on Akbar and the #MeToo campaign.

Chaturvedi also demanded an apology from BJP MP Udit Raj, who on Tuesday sought to question why women were coming out with their stories 10 years after the alleged incidents and had dubbed it as the “beginning of wrong practice”.

Meanwhile, three more women journalists came out with allegations of sexual harassment against Akbar.

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n a shocking development, a young scientist working with the BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd (BAPL)’s missile research center in Nagpur was arrested on Monday on alleged charges of spying for Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI and other countries, informed sources said.

Scientist Nishant Pradeep Agrawal has been working for the

last four years in the BAPL, an Indo-Russian Joint Venture, and was nabbed in a joint operation of Uttar Pradesh Police and Maharashtra Police.

The UP-Anti Terrorist Squad (UP-ATS) has also raided two other unidentified persons in Agra and Kanpur in the north India state and seized their laptops, an official statement of the Uttar Pradesh Police said on Monday.

Following a tip-off, he was

Scientist Nishant Agrawal of BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd being taken away by police in Nagpur on October 8. (Photo: IANS)

placed under surveillance for the past few days by the Military Intelligence as well as Uttar Pradesh Police and Maharashtra Police.

The UP-ATS had monitored

fake Facebook accounts originating from Pakistan in the name of women to “honey-trap” key officials working in sensitive defenserelated set-ups in India.

S-400 deal: India reasserts independent foreign policy AROONIM BHUYAN, NEW DELHI

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y concluding the S-400 Triumf long-range surface-toair missile system deal with Russia in the face of Washingtons sanctions on Moscow, India reasserted its independence on foreign policy in adherence with New Delhis stated stand that its ties with one country are free of that with a third country.

After the signing of the deal during the course of the 19th IndiaRussia Annual Bilateral Summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin here on Friday, a top source pointed out that India’s negotiations for the S-400 missile system began several years before the current US sanctions on Russia

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Russian President Vladimir Putin in New Delhi, on October 5. (Photo: IANS/PIB)

came into effect. This was basically implying that New Delhi will not give up on its defense cooperation legacy with Moscow in the face of

another country’s actions.

The S-400 missile deal has been an issue of much speculation after the Trump administration’s Coun-

tering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) law came into effect in January.

CAATSA targets countries doing business with Russian, Iranian and North Korean defense companies.

A group of US senators imposed the sanctions on Russia over what they called Moscow’s continued involvement in the wars in Ukraine and Syria and its alleged interference in the 2016 US presidential election.

Following the signing of the S400 deal, the US Embassy spokesperson here said that the intent of her country’s implementation of CAATSA was “to impose costs on Russia for its malign behavior, including by stopping flow of money to Russia’s defense sector”.

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After Mayawati’s imperious scuttling of any chance of an alliance with the Congress in 3 states, the BJP can rest easy AMULYA GANGULI, NEW DELHI

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he advent of the festive season has brought good luck for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). After Mayawati’s imperious scuttling of any chance of an alliance with the Congress in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, the BJP can rest easy with the thought that the projected “mahagathbandhan” (grand alliance) of the national opposition may be now dead and buried.

After several by-election successes in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, the Congress appeared to have taken it for granted that the two states were already in its bag with the possibility of winning in Chhattisgarh as well on the basis of an anti-BJP

wind blowing in from Madhya Pradesh.

But the Congress hadn’t taken into account its own internal fissures along with an ingrained arrogance and deviousness.

One manifestation of the cracks within the party was the palpable gulf between two senior leaders in Madhya Pradesh, the party chief

...the Congress hadn’t taken into account its own internal fissures along with an ingrained arrogance in the state, Kamal Nath, and the former chief minister, Digvijaya Singh.

Even as Kamal Nath teamed up with Jyotiraditya Scindia and “negotiated” with Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), thereby hogging the limelight, Digvijaya Singh, perhaps feeling left out, decided to make his presence

felt by throwing a spanner in the unity efforts.

True, the first chink in the mahagathbandhan was caused by Mayawati when she left the Congress in the lurch in Chhattisgarh, forming an alliance with the breakaway Congress leader, Ajit Jogi, and even announcing contesting 22 seats on her own in Madhya Pradesh.

But there was no immediate need for Digvijaya Singh to see her move as a scared response to the investigations against her by various government agencies.

Although this interpretation was being aired in the media, it was evidently unacceptable to the temperamental BSP czarina to find a senior Congress leader echoing the views of some analysts.

Hence, her huffy departure from any talks with the Congress on the grounds of the party’s arrogance and underhand maneuvres of those like Digvijaya Singh whom she accused of acting at the BJP’s behest.

In changing times, women idol makers make their presence felt Popular female idol-maker Chaina Pal had recently visited China to showcase her work in a museum BINITA DAS, KOLKATA

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alking cautiously along the narrow lanes of Kumartuli, the traditional sculpting hub and potters’ lane in north Kolkata, one can easily locate the few women idol makers who have carved a niche for themselves in a world hitherto dominated by men.

Popular female idol-maker Chaina Pal, who had to tackle “sceptical customers” in the past, recently visited China to showcase her work (two of her idols are displayed in a Chinese museum). Mala Pal, who has a similar story, is now a favorite for her miniature idols.

“I loved visiting my father’s studio as a child, but he never encouraged me as a female was rarely seen in Kumartuli. Later, when he fell ill I could actually fill the gap as my elder brothers were busy doing their jobs. At the age of 14, I took

charge of the workshop after he passed away,” Chaina, who now runs another studio in Baghbazar with eight helpers, told IANS. Explaining her initial hardship, she said: “It was difficult as I did not know the entire process of idolmaking, but my sheer love for the

Sharing her experience of making her path-breaking work, the “Ardhanarishwar Durga idol”, Chaina said: “I made it on request of the transgender community in 2015. A few people didn’t like it, but I do not care. I believe everyone has the right to worship the goddess. I haven’t

Chaina has earned the title Dashabhuja (a reference to Goddess Durga, who has 10 hands) for efficiently managing her workshop, cooking and taking care of her 95-year-old mother art helped me to learn it quickly.”

There has been no turning back for the little girl who took some time to win the confidence of customers.

Chaina has earned the title “Dashabhuja” (a reference to Goddess Durga, who has ten hands) for efficiently managing her workshop, cooking and taking care of her 95-year-old mother.

heard about anyone else making such a figurine.”

She upholds her family’s tradition by only making the “sabeki ekchala-thakur” (traditional Durga idols on a single platform) along with her family of Lord Ganesha, Kartikeya, Lakshmi and Saraswati.

Mala Pal broke stereotypes by not paying heed to “what people said” and joined in 1985. Howev-

Chaina Pal standing beside an unfinished idol. (Photo: IANS)

er, after her father’s death, the 15year-old girl was encouraged by her brother, Gobinda Pal. Pointing to a golden polished idol, the specialist said: “I make detachable miniature idols of both types -- traditional ‘Banglar Mukh’ with large drawn eyes and also the

modern ‘Art’ patterns. They are popular in Europe, as also in Malaysia, Australia and Canada — and US cities like Chicago — where Pujas are held.”

The lack of space is clearly evident in the studio, lined with small and medium sized idols.

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Trump set to meet Kim again The US President said the venue of his second meeting with Kim has been narrowed down to ‘three or four’ locations and that the timing won’t be too far away IANS, WASHINGTON

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S President Donald Trump has said his upcoming meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will be held after the mid-term congressional elections in November.

On a flight to Iowa, while campaigning for the mid-term polls to be held on November 6, Trump told reporters: “I just can’t leave now.”

Earlier on Tuesday in a media interaction at the Oval Office, he said the venue of his second meeting with Kim has been narrowed down to “three or four” locations...timing won’t be too far away”.

Asked if his Mar-a-Lago estate is an option, Trump smiled and said

SHORT TAKES

8 killed in Afghan suicide bombing LASHKAR GAH (AFGHANISTAN): A candidate for the upcoming parliamentary elections in Afghanistan and seven other people were killed on Tuesday in a suicide bombing in Lashkar Gah city, officials said.

Eleven others were wounded in the attack which took place in the afternoon when candidate Saleh Muhammad Achakzai and some of his supporters were holding a gathering inside his campaign office.

“Eight civilians including the candidate himself were martyred and another 11 of the supporters were injured,” Omar Zwak, a provincial government spokesman, told Efe news.

NAB summons Shehbaz Sharif’s son LAHORE: Pakistan’s anti-corruption body has asked PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif’s son Salman Shehbaz to appear before it on Wednesday in an assets beyond means case.

“The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has issued summons to Salman Shehbaz to appear before a joint investigation team in a complaint regarding building assets beyond his known sources of income,” a source was cited as saying by Dawn news.

Salman Shehbaz’s father and former Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif was arrested last week by the NAB for alleged misappropriation in the Ashiana Housing Scheme in Lahore. He was later remanded to 10-day custody.

—IANS

US President Donald Trump (R) earlier met the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore on June 12. (Photo: Yonhap/IANS)

that Kim would “probably like that.

I’d like that, too. I think it would be good. But we’ll see.”

However, Trump might be joking because convincing Kim to take a trip to Florida could be complicat-

‘Turkey can’t stay silent over Saudi journalist’s fate’ IANS, ANKARA

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urkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday expressed concern about the fate of Jamal Khashoggi, the dissident Saudi journalist who disappeared from his country’s consulate in Istanbul last week.

The 59-year-old Saudi national has not been heard from since he entered the consulate building on October 2 for paperwork required to marry his Turkish fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, with Turkish press claiming the journalist was either kidnapped or murdered inside the facility.

Saudi Arabia denies this.

On a flight back from Hungary, Erdogan was cited by media as say-

ing that Turkey could not remain silent over Khashoggi’s disappearance, stressing the authorities were investigating the case in all its Recep Tayyip dimensions.

Erdogan The Turkish leader rejected commenting on allegations that Khashoggi was killed at the consulate, but said he was worried, Efe news reported.

Erdogan added that US President Donald Trump had also voiced his worries over the matter.

The US leader said on Wednesday that he had talked to the Saudi authorities “at the highest level” about Khashoggi.

ed, given that the White House couldn’t convince him to come to Washington for their first summit.

The President though did not specify whether any of the places under consideration are in the US. He said that as the process would go on, “eventually we’re going to have lots of meetings on US soil and on their (North Korea’s) soil by the way.

That’s a two-way street”.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Kim this Sunday in Pyongyang to prepare the second summit between Trump and the North Korean leader, and let it be known that this meeting will take place “as soon as possible.”

Pompeo said that significant progress has been made toward moving forward with denucleariza-

tion talks, but didn’t wish to give any details at the time.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had “good talks” with Kim during his Sunday trip to Pyongyang, Trump said, adding that progress had been made on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

“While there’s still a long way to go and much work to do, we can now see a path to where we’ll achieve the ultimate goal,” Pompeo had said. The first-ever PyongyangWashington summit was held in Singapore on June 12.

According to a joint statement signed by Trump and Kim, the US would provide a security guarantee to North Korea in return for Pyongyang’s commitment to denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.

Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro wins first round of presidential election BRASILIA: Far-right Congressman Jair Bolsonaro pulled off a thumping win in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election but fell short of the majority required to avoid a second round runoff, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal has announced.

The Tribunal said Bolsonaro of the Social Liberal Party won Sunday’s poll with 46 per cent of the vote, ahead of leftwing former Sao Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad of the Workers’ Party on 29 per cent, reports CNN. Behind Haddad came the Democratic Labor party’s Ciro Gomes with 12.5 per cent.

Bolsonaro will face Haddad in the second round on October 28.

“We indeed are able to change the destiny of Brazil,” Bolsonaro, 63,

Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro (Photo: Xinhua)

told the media late on Sunday night.

“We cannot continue flirting with socialism or communism.”

Throughout his 27-year career as a congressman, Bolsonaro has stirred controversy by making misogynistic, racist and homophobic remarks and has often been compared to United States President Donald Trump and the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte.

—IANS

Grenade attack in Bangladesh: 2 ex-ministers get death IANS, DHAKA

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Bangladesh court on Wednesday sentenced 19 people, including two former ministers, to death and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s son Tarique Rahman to life imprisonment for their role in the 2004 grenade attack on a political rally that killed 24 people and injured 500.

Former Minister of State for Home Lutfozzaman Babar and former Deputy Minister for Education Abdus Salam Pintu were among those sentenced to death. Both were the leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) which was

Prisoners are transferred after the verdict in Dhaka. (Photo: Xinhua)

then in power, bdnews24.com reported.

The August 2004 attack targeted

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s rally, who was the opposition leader at the time. A series of grenades

exploded as she was stepping off a truck, which was used as a dais for the Awami League party rally on Bangabandhu Avenue. She survived with partial hearing loss.

Khaleda Zia’s son Tarique Rahman, the acting chairman of the current opposition BNP and her former political secretary Harris Chowdhury were among 19 sentenced to life imprisonment. The sentence also included jail terms for 11 other people.

Declaring the verdict in the case, Judge Shahed Nuruddin said a conspiracy was underway to obliterate the Awami League.

The BNP said the court verdict was “dictated” by the government.

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Karti is facing probes by the ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in several cases. (File photo: IANS)

The properties include a bungalow worth Rs 50 lakh and another one worth Rs 3.75 crore in Ooty and an agricultural land worth Rs 25 lakh in Kodaikanal IANS, NEW DELHI

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n a significant move, the Enforcement Directorate on Thursday said that it has attached properties worth Rs 54 crore of former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram and the company Advantage Strategic Consulting Pvt Ltd (ASCPL) in connection with its ongoing probe into

‘Nakkheeran’ Gopal arrested CHENNAI: Senior journalist and Tamil weekly “Nakkheeran” Editor R.R. Gopal was arrested here, triggering widespread condemnation from leaders of political parties.

The police said “Nakkheeran Gopal” — as he is widely known -was arrested on a complaint from Raj Bhavan for allegedly publishing articles defamatory of Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit.

The arrest drew condemnation — IANS from opposition parties.

the INX media money laundering case.

A senior official of the financial probe agency told IANS: “We have attached six properties of Karti worth Rs 54 crore.”

The properties attached include a cottage worth Rs 8.67 crore in the UK’s Somerset, a tennis club and land located in Spain’s Gava worth Rs 14 crore.

The Enforcement Directorate

also attached land and properties worth Rs 16 crore in New Delhi’s Jor Bagh area (Karti’s mother Nalini Chidambaram is also a stake holder of 50 per cent in the land), a bungalow in Tamil Nadu’s Ooty worth Rs 50 lakh and another one worth Rs 3.75 crore in Ooty and an agricultural land worth Rs 25 lakh in Kodaikanal.

The ED has also attached properties belonging to Peter and

Indrani Mukerjea in connection with the same case.

The properties were attached under the section of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

Karti is facing probes by the ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in several cases, including alleged irregularities in the Foreign Investment Promotion Board clearance to then INX Media for FDI in 2007 and the

Mystery on Parrikar’s health: Congress IANS, PANAJI

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oa Governor Mridula Sinha did not respond to questions about Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s failing health, Congress MLA Chandrakant Kavlekar said after a meeting at Raj Bhavan here this week.

“We have been repeatedly seeking an update on the Chief Minis-

ter’s health but nothing has come from anyone. Today, again we asked the Governor but there was no response to our query from her side,” Kavlekar told reporters outside the Governor’s House.

The Leader of Opposition also said there was “so much confusion” about the health status of the former Defense Minister, who is currently being treated for advanced

Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar.

pancreatic cancer at New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Science, where he was admitted last month.

Aircel-Maxis case in 2006 and a money laundering case.

The ED and the CBI are probing how Karti managed to get clearance from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) when his father was in office.

Karti was arrested on February 28 by the CBI for allegedly taking money to facilitate the FIPB clearance to INX Media in 2007. He was later granted bail.

“From the government side some are saying that the Chief Minister’s health is fine, but if that were the case, why is there practically no government in Goa? Why is law and order going bad, why is corruption on the rise?” Kavlekar said.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Rajesh Patnekar after a meeting with Parrikar in Delhi, said that the Chief Minister had assured him that he would be celebrating Diwali in Goa. A day earlier, another BJP MLA Michael Lobo had maintained that there was “no positivity” about Parrikar’s health.

10-day Mysuru Dussehra festival kicks off with Vedic hymns IANS, MYSURU

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he famed 10-day Dussehra festival began this week with pomp and piety in Karnataka’s cultural capital Mysuru.

The festival began on a grand note with a prayer at the Chamundeshwari temple, followed by its inauguration at the royal Amba Vilas Palace.

Infosys Foundation Chairperson Sudha Murthy inaugurated the 408th year of the festival by worshipping the deity amid chanting of Vedic hymns and rendering of devotional music.

Sudha’s husband and Infosys co-

Scion of erstwhile royal family of Mysuru, Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, during the inauguration of Dussehra 2018, in Mysuru. (Photo: IANS)

founder N.R. Narayana Murthy, Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, his ministers, offi-

cials and hundreds of others were present at the temple and later at the palace. “I am blessed to inaugurate

the Dussehra festival. It is an honor and privilege,” said Sudha.

As the festival has historical relevance dating back to the 16th century when the Wodiyar kings used to celebrate it, Sudha said the state government should include it in school curriculum to inspire the younger generations.

A replica of the deity was taken in a procession to the royal palace from the temple atop the Chamundi hill on the outskirts of Mysuru.

Meanwhile, the royal dynasty’s adopted scion and titular head Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja held a private audience by ascending the Golden Throne in the

Palace durbar hall at the auspicious time (around noon).

“Yaduveer will hold the khasagi (private) durbar for nine days (navarathri) in line with the Yadu dynasty’s 600-year-old tradition, worship (ayudha puja) the armory and other objects in the Palace on October 18 and witness the victory parade on Vijayadashmi day,” said a Palace official, The priests also performed Hindu rituals in the Palace in the presence of an elephant, a camel, horse and a cow.

Priests from 23 temples in the old Mysuru region made offerings to Hindu gods and goddesses and sprinkled holy water on the scion.

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NIKKI HALEY RESIGNS Haley quits as Ambassador to the United Nations, says that despite speculations, she was not planning to run for President in 2020 IANS, WASHINGTON

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ikki Haley, the first American of Indian descent to hold a cabinet-level position in the US, resigned as Ambassador to the UN this week and said that despite speculations she was not planning to run for President in 2020.

CNN said that Haley sent her resignation directly to President Donald Trump, who told reporters in the Oval Office that she would be leaving the post at the end of the year after doing “an incredible job”.

Joined by the former South Carolina Governor in the Oval Office, Trump invited her to come back in a different role. “You can have your pick,” he said.

According to reports, the President said that Haley had told him six months ago she wanted to take some time off. She was confirmed as US envoy to the UN in January 2017.

The daughter of Indian immigrants, Haley was a frequent and early critic of Trump during his election campaign while she served as South Carolina Governor.

In December 2017, she said that

Indian expat wins 7 million dirhams ABU DHABI: An Indian expatriate has hit a jackpot by winning 7 million dirhams in an Abu Dhabi raffle draw. Mohammed Kunhi Mayyala, who hails from Kerala and is currently working as a salesman in the capital, was declared the latest winner of Big Ticket Abu Dhabi’s “Super 7 Series” draw this week, the Gulf News reported.

Mayyala joins a long list of expatriates who turned multi-millionaires overnight after betting on the popular raffle draw. He said he was surprised to receive a call from the raffle organizers and initially thought it to be a prank.

“I could not believe it. I thought it’s just a fake call but it was my lucky day,” Mayyala said, adding that he will use part of the money for the treatment of his friend whose kidneys have failed.

He will spend rest of the money for renovating his house in Kerala and start a business, the report said.

The winner in September also hailed from India and won 12 million dirhams through the monthly jackpot draw.

—IANS

Nikki Haley with US President Donald Trump at the UN Headquarters in New York. (File photo: Xinhua/Li Muzi/IANS)

the women who had accused Trump of sexual assault “should be heard”. At one point she suggested that Trump’s rhetoric could trigger a world war.

Talking to reporters, Haley said that despite speculation, she was not planning to run for the White

House and would be campaigning for Trump, who has already announced his re-election bid.

Her exit came after she served as the temporary President of the UN Security Council for one month.

Haley’s Twitter bio has already removed all references to her role

as UN Ambassador.

From the beginning of her tenure, Haley stood out as a fierce advocate of Trump administration’s policies, announcing the US would be “taking names” of countries that did not support US votes, the Washington Post said.

She spoke often of the need for reform within the UN and its peacekeeping forces as well as frequently chastised UN agencies for taking anti-Israel stances.

Haley pushed for Security Council resolutions imposing tougher sanctions on North Korea and chastised members who the administration suspected had been cheating.

In April, she clashed with the White House when a Trump aide suggested she had prematurely announced a new round of sanctions against Russia.

Haley also acknowledged her policy disagreements with the President in an op-ed in the Washington Post in September when she slammed an anonymous senior administration official who penned an opinion piece in The New York Times, describing a chaotic administration in which many of Trump’s aides disagreed with their boss.

“I don’t agree with the President on everything... When there is disagreement, there is a right way and a wrong way to address it. I pick up the phone and call him or meet with him in person,” she wrote in the op-ed.

Haley leaves top job with head held high ARUL LOUIS, UNITED NATIONS

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ikki Haley is leaving President Donald Trump’s cabinet at the height of her career as the US Permanent Representative to the UN having put a firm mark on the office.

A strong personality known for independence and strength to stand up to Trump, she left on her own terms and the president put on a spectacle of respect and friendship while they jointly announced her resignation this week — a marked contrast to some of the other departures from the administration like that of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who was fired while abroad, and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster.

Before the media at the White House, Trump praised her for “a fantastic job” in a “very dangerous” world and said: “Hopefully, you’ll be coming back at some point ... in maybe a different capacity. You can have your pick.”

She was not a Trumpist, having supported his rival Marco Rubio in the Republican Party primaries.

Nikki Haley has added international experience to her domestic portfolio of actually running a state. (Photo: IANS)

But a party loyalist, she backed Trump once he got the nomination.

Her independent streak shone through when she said that women accusing Trump should be heard and in her strong stand on Russia that is unlike the president’s.

Not one to be bullied, she publicly chastised White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow who had said she may have had “momentary confusion” on Russia sanctions. The child of Sikh immi-

grants from Amritsar in India, she has recalled that as a five-year-old she was rejected by the Miss Bamberg contest in her native town in the deep south because she did not fit into the category of Black or White. That and other experiences like that inoculated her against adversities and toughened her spirit of independence that led her to become the first woman and first non-white to become the governor of South Carolina.

As for her future, she has nearly

three months to chart her shortterm plans. For the long-term, she is very popular among the Republican rank-and-file — countering the stereotype of racism thrust on them; after all it was they who elected her governor.

She has now added international experience to her domestic portfolio of actually running a state.

Leaving the Trump administration with her head held high and without antagonizing him or his base gives her a strong measure of political viability with an appeal to the more moderate Republicans.

With the Republican base, she may even benefit from the virulent opposition that she evokes from many of the liberals and Democrats.

For them a non-white — and a woman at that — could have no independent ideology and should only bow to the Democratic Party; she not only mocked the idea, but went on to a stellar Republican career. Some Indians also joined in and put her on the “Desi Wall of Shame” — and trolled her with it.

(They also falsely said on their website that she was among “casteprivileged Hindus.”)

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Marin, Sindhu bag hefty deals World Champion Carolina Marin and Rio silver medallist P.V. Sindhu were the most sought after ‘Icon Players’ for the 4th edition of Premier Badminton League (PBL) IANS, NEW DELHI

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orld Champion Carolina Marin and Rio silver medallist P.V.Sindhu were expectedly the most sought after “Icon Players” as the two 2018 world championship finalists were picked by Pune 7 Aces and defending champions Hyderabad Hunters respectively in the players’ auction for the fourth edition of the Vodafone Premier Badminton League (PBL) this week.

The fourth season of PBL, organized by Sportzlive under the aegis of the Badminton Association of India (BAI), will kick off in Mumbai from December 22.

With no retention or Right to Match (RTM) card at disposal, the auction was always going to be a keen contest for teams to get the combination right while looking for that one icon player who can inspire them to bigger glory.

Indonesia’s Tommy Sugiarto became the highest paid non-icon player with the Delhi Dashers

BRIEFS: Para Asian Games: 7 Gold for India so far JAKARTA: Archer Harvinder Singh extended India’s gold tally to seven as he finished first in the Men’s Individual Recurve Open W2/ST event at the Para Asian Games this week.

In the finals, Harvinder, 27, outclassed China’s Zhao Lixue 6-0 to stand first at the podium.

The W2 category of impairment covers athletes with paraplegia, diplegia or double leg amputation below the knee, requiring wheelchair.

Nadal stays top of ATP rankings MADRID: Spain’s Rafael Nadal continued to lead the men’s Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world singles rankings released this week with 8,260 points, ahead of Switzerland’s Roger Federer.

This week’s top 10 remained unchanged except for Kevin Anderson of South Africa and Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria, who exchanged places to be ranked eighth and ninth, respectively.

Meanwhile, Georgia’s Nikoloz Basilashvili jumped 11 positions up to the 23rd, after claiming China Open title on last week. —IANS

Carolina Marin

P.V.Sindhu

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splurging Rs 70 lakh for his services. The Delhi outfit won a tense battle with two other teams to acquire the World No 11, paying more than double his base price (Rs 40 lakh above his base price).

Among the Indians, rising doubles star Satwiksairaj Rankireddy was the top draw and Ahmedabad Smash Masters outbid the Hyder-

abad Hunters to secure the youngster for Rs 52 lakh, a massive jump from his base price of Rs 15 lakh.

Given the strong pool of players in the auction, it was interesting to see the strategies the teams implemented to build their squad as three of these players could be retained for the next two seasons as well.

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At least four teams raised the prize purse to Rs 80 lakh, the maximum limit a team can bid for a player, before the players got assigned to the teams by a draw of lots.

The Spaniard, who played a major role in helping Hyderabad win the title last year, would now shift base to Pune. The new outfit

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ndian shooter Saurabh Chaudhary won the gold in the boys’ 10 metre air pistol event at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG).

The reigning Asian Games champion scored 244.2 points in the final. Sung Yunho of South Korea was a distant second with 236.7 points. Switzerland’s Jason

Solari took the bronze medal with a score of 215.6.

This was India’s third gold medal at the Games. This edition has turned out to be a historic one for the Indian contingent as previously India had never won gold at the YOG. Earlier, India’s Archana Girish Kamath had to summon all her skills, energy and nerves to over-

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come Azerbaijans Nign Jing 13-11, 8-11, 6-11, 11-3, 6-11, 12-10, 117 to enter the women’s singles table tennis semi-finals.

was clearly gunning for the threetime world champion and was understandably delighted when the announcer pulled out a chit of their name in a draw of lots.

“I am very excited to be part of Pune team. Hyderabad has been like a second home for me. But now I am excited to be part of the Pune team and explore this part of India,” said Marin after learning about the bid.

While the Hunters lost their star performer from last year, they would be delighted to welcome home Rio Olympics silver medallist Sindhu.

The 23-year-old Sindhu, who was playing for Chennai Smashers for the last two seasons, will be playing for the home city for the first time and couldn’t hide her excitement.

Two times CWG gold winner Saina Nehwal will be seen plying her trade for the North-Eastern Warriors in the upcoming edition.

“It’s a great opportunity for me to get associated with the North Eastern Warriors,” Nehwal said.

She will take on China’s Yingsha Sun in the semi-finals. A win will put her into the medal round straightaway, failing which the Indian will have a shot at the playoff for the bronze medal.

After taking the extended first game, Archana was hit back by Ning Jing, a Chinese origin player turning out for Azerbaijan, who went 2-1 up to mount pressure on the Indian.

But Archana was up to the task and levelled at 3-3 before dropping the next. At this junction, the 18-yearold had to muster courage to keep her nerves calm and approach the match with composure.

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ontinuing their unbeaten run in the 8th Sultan of Johor Cup, the Indian junior mens hockey team edged past defending champions Australia 5-4 this week to secure a place in the top four stage of the tournament.

This was India’s fourth successive win in the tournament and it helped the team top the Pool table.

India made a dominating start with their best attack in the opening quarter. Though their initial chance of scoring from a PC went amiss, Gursahibjit Singh scored a fine field goal to give India a 1-0 lead in the 5th minute.

This was India’s fourth successive win in the tournament and it helped the team top the Pool table. (Photo: Pexels.com)

The team built on a good start to score three more back-to-back goals in the 11th, 14th and 15th minutes through Haspreet Singh,

Mandeep Mor and Vishnukant Singh. The 4-0 lead at the end of the first quarter was a major setback for the defending champions.

However, India faltered in their defense in the second quarter, only to give away an easy goal through a penalty stroke in the 18th minute.

Damon Steffens, who scored the first goal for Australia, ended up scoring the second goal too when an Indian infringement inside the circle saw them concede a PC in the 35th minute, narrowing the goal deficit to 4-2.

Though Shilanand Lakra scored in the 43rd minute to take India’s lead to 5-3, Australia put India through some tense moments as they appeared to make a late recovery, by stretching India’s defense.

The Indians will next take on Britain in their fifth match on October 12.

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New ML tool to predict human BP: Study NEW YORK: Researchers, including one of an Indian-origin, have developed a wearable off-the-shelf and machine learning technology that can predict an individual’s blood pressure and provide personalized recommendations to lower it.

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ter, lower their salt intake etc. — it can be overwhelming, and compliance is not very high, Sujit Dey, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California in the US, said in a statement.

“What if we could pinpoint the one health behavior that most impacts an individual’s blood pressure, and have them focus on that one goal instead,”

Dey said.

The study affirmed the importance of personalized data over generalized information as the former was more effective.

The team collected sleep, exercise and blood pressure data from eight patients over 90 days.

Using machine learning and the data from existing wearable devices, they developed an algorithm to predict

the users’ blood pressure and show which particular health behaviors affected it most.

“This research shows that using wireless wearables and other devices to collect and analyse personal data can help transition patients from reactive to continuous care,” Dey said.

“Instead of saying ‘My blood pressure is high, therefore I’ll go to the doctor to get medicine’, giving patients and doctors access to this type of system can allow them to manage their symptoms on a continuous basis,” he noted.

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1 in 6 Indians need mental-health help To compound the problem, India has just about 5,000 psychiatrists and less than 2,000 clinical psychologists. And this is just the tip of the iceberg!

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ndia is standing on the threshold of a mental health epidemic with a greater number of people affected by mental health issues in the country than the entire population of Japan.

According to 2015-16 National Mental Health Survey (NMHS) survey, every sixth person in India needs mental-health help. To compound the problem, India has just about 5,000 psychiatrists and less than 2,000 clinical psychologists.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg!

According to the NMHS survey, people in the lower income group suffer more from mental health problems and these are the people with least access to mental health treatment. Have you ever thought that the maid who works in your

Aspirin may reduce liver cancer risk

health problems can affect all agegroups. What is really worrying is that, today, India’s children and youth are more stressed and suffer from anxiety and panic attacks and performance issues more than ever before. If our children and youth are not mentally strong, how can we build a strong nation?

Also, the common man is over-stressed Another point with family responsibilities and work is that mental pressure, and has health less time to socialproblems ize and de-stress.

The survey suggests that people in the lower income group Road rage is can affect all suffer more from mental health problems. (Photo: Pexels) becoming common. age-groups Couples in unhappy home, the sweeper who keeps your drug addiction and lane clean, and the rickshaw-puller the very stigma of marriages are growing who takes you places needs mental being underprivileged takes a but never go to a marriage health treatment support? Poverty, toll on these people. counsellor. Children are growing domestic violence, alcohol and Another point is that mental up with both parents working,

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NEW YORK: Taking two or more aspirin tablets a week can help reduce the risk of developing primary liver cancer, also called hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), according to a research.

HCC is usually diagnosed at a late stage, leading to an average survival time of less than a year and is considered the second leading cause of cancer deaths globally.

Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital in the US have found that regular aspirin use — taking two or more 325 mg tablets a week for five years or more — led to a significantly reduced risk of developing HCC. —IANS

sometimes in different cities, and the close knit joint family system is dying out. Family counselling is an unheard of concept in India.

While social media keeps people connected, it builds additional pressure to project only the best.

Despite this alarming scenario, mental health continues to be a taboo topic with immense stigma attached to it. While people brag about their medical conditions like heart disease, surgeries, ICU stays and the like, they treat a mental health problem like a guilty secret to be pushed under the carpet.

People do not know the difference between a mental health issue and madness. Also, our films and comedy shows have stereotyped mental health as something that is either dangerous or something to be ridiculed.

hile lack of proper sleep has been known to affect health, a new study has showed that people who sleep less or more than an average of seven to eight hours per night are more likely to develop impairments in their mental skills.

The findings showed that sleep affected all adults equally.

The amount of sleep associated with highly functional cognitive behavior was the same for everyone (seven to eight hours), regardless of age.

Also, the impairment associated with too little or too much sleep did not depend on the age of the participants, the researchers said.

“We found that the optimum amount of sleep to keep your brain performing its best is seven to eight hours every night and that corre-

The researchers said that the impairment associated with too little or too much sleep did not depend on the age of the participants. (Photo: Pexels)

sponds to what the doctors will tell you need to keep your body in tiptop shape, as well,” said lead author Conor Wild, Research Associate at the University of

Western Ontario in Canada.

“We also found that people that slept more than that amount were equally impaired as those who slept too little,” Wild added.

For the study, published in the journal SLEEP, the team examined more than 40,000 participants.

Nearly half of all participants reported typically sleeping less than 6.3 hours per night, about an hour less than the study’s recommended amount.

Most participants who slept four hours or less performed as if they were almost nine years older.

Importantly, the participants’ reasoning and verbal abilities were two of the actions most strongly affected by sleep while short-term memory performance was relatively unaffected.

On the other hand, even a single night’s sleep can affect a person’s ability to think. Participants who slept more than usual the night before participating in the study performed better than those who slept their usual amount or less, the researchers said.

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ctor-producer Rana Daggubati says there is a huge appetite for cinema, but very few people understand that if there is a need for cinema then there will also be a need for literature. And if literature is not taken as the base of films, then it would be “very difficult” to tell stories.

According to the “Baahubali” star, born in the illustrious Daggubati-Akkineni family, literature plays an important role in making a film or telling stories on the big screen. “If we look at the movie business 50 or 60 years ago, majority of the content came from literature writers or scholars of that time. Today, that ecosystem is kind of breaking. There is a need for more cinema, but a few understand that if there is need for cinema, there is need for literature as well,” Rana told IANS.

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ctress Sonakshi Sinha turns showstopper this week for a show sponsored by Nexa at the Lotus MakeUp India Fashion Week Spring Summer 2019 (LMIFW SS’19).

Designers Ashish N Soni, Rajesh Pratap Singh and Rohit Gandhi-Rahul Khanna showcased their creations as a part of the show.

“Sonakshi is coming for the Nexa show at 9.30 p.m.,” Sunil Sethi, President of LMIFW’s organizing body Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), told IANS. The theme this year is a spectrum of hues comprising monochromes. Other celebrities who attended the fashion week this week were Diana Penty, Sophie Choudry and Sushmita Sen.

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ollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez took over 8 million petition signatures to the UN Headquarters in New York City, voicing her opinion against animal testing on World Animal Day. The actress attended a special event for the occasion on Thursday as brand ambassador of The Body Shop, which is ‘Forever Against Animal Testing’. She along with The Body Shop and Cruelty Free International took 8.3 million signatures against cosmetic animal testing to create a global framework to end animal testing while advancing the UN’s sustainable development agenda.“I personally believe that real beauty cannot be achieved at the cost of harming anyone, especially animals,” she said.

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ctor Kay Kay Menon says cases of sexual harassment need to be dealt with seriously. The actor, who is gearing up for his debut web series “The Great Indian Dysfunctional Family”, interacted with the media at a special show this week.

The #MeToo movement in India exploded after Tanushree Dutta renewed a decade-old complaint of harassment against actor Nana Patekar two weeks ago. Filmmaker Vikas Bahl, singer Kailash Kher and actors Rajat Kapoor and Alok Nath have also been named in separate allegations.

Kay Kay said: "If there is any kind of harassment in the society, then we have to take it to its logical end.”

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odel-actress Gauhar Khan is proud of the decisions that she has taken so far and considers herself to be the hero of her life.

As a model, she has walked for various designers, including Manish Malhotra. She has shown her acting skills in films like “Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year”, “Ishaqzaade” and “Begum Jaan”. She has also explored the TV space and web world.

“I have always been the hero of my life. No matter what I did, the decisions that I made, the career options that I took... I always felt that I wanted to do it because I knew I would stand out in it,” Gauhar told IANS in a telephonic interview. The actress has featured in films, but there are very few that presented her as the lead actress.

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#MeToo: More accusations, denials, legal actions in showbiz Nana Patekar accused of sexually harassing Tanushree Dutta; actor Alok Nath allegedly raped writer-producer Vinta Nanda and director Vikas Bahl ‘sexually harassed’ a female colleague

Aamir Khan steps away from film MUMBAI: Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan this week stepped away from a film, as “someone” associated with it has been accused of sexual misconduct.

Aamir and his wife Kiran Rao, who run production company Aamir Khan Productions, issued a statement late on October 10.

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he dark underbelly of showbiz continued to shine bright this week as well-known women like actors Sandhya Mridul and Amyra Dastur and singer Sona Mohapatra came out about their unsavoury harassment experiences, even as the IFTDA sent a notice to actor Alok Nath who has been accused of rape by writer-producer Vinta Nanda.

A day after Nanda addressed a press conference here, claiming Alok sexually violated her around 19 years ago, Sandhya came out and supported her voice, recounting her own experience with the actor who is known for his sanskaari on-screen image.

Sandhya took the social media route to describe her ordeal with Alok during an outdoor shoot, where he would trouble her in an inebriated state.

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Notices to Nana Patekar, Vikas Bahl, Alok Nath MUMBAI: Taking a firm stand against cases of alleged sexual harassment in the film industry, the Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) has sent notices to Nana Patekar, Vikas Bahl and Alok Nath, who have been accused of indulging in such acts.

Going a step further, the Federation also announced to stop working with these people if they fail to respond to the notices.

Speaking to the press on Wednesday evening, Chief Advisor of FWICE Ashok Pandit said: “We have sent

tion. I come from a time when nobody wanted to hear. I was a nobody. When I tried to speak I was labelled arrogant and difficult. And replaced from work. And there was

Priety’s molestation case against Ness Wadia quashed MUMBAI: In a major development, the Bombay High Court on October 10 quashed a case of molestation and harassment filed by Bollywood actress Preity Zinta against her exboyfriend and business tycoon Ness Wadia.

Zinta had levelled the allegations against the Wadia scion during an IPL match on May 30, 2014 at the Wankhede Stadium when they were co-owners of the King XI Punjab team which was playing against Chennai Super Kings.

The matter came up in the chamber of Justice Ranjit More and Justice Bharati Dangre when both Zinta and Wadia were also present.

A Wadia Group official, while confirming the developments to

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IANS, declined to comment on the matter.

As per Zinta's complaint, Wadia allegedly abused the IPL team staffers over ticket distribution and that she urged him to remain calm as their team was winning that evening.

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notices to Nana Patekar, Vikas Bahl and Alok Nath,” “They have to respond within a week. If they don’t respond on time, the five lakh members of our federation in different bodies will stop working with them. In a way, they will be banned by the entertainment industry.”

When asked about the content of notice, Pandit said it calls accused’s version with regard to the charges slapped against them. “The idea is to hear both sides of the story and then take a legal recourse.”

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no social media to make ourselves heard, directly. It has taken me years to lay those demons to rest and move on,” said Sandhya.

Alok this week had addressed

“Two weeks ago, when traumatic #MeToo stories began emerging, it was brought to our attention that someone we were about to begin work with has been accused of sexual misconduct. Upon enquiry we found that this particular case is sub judice, and that the legal process is in motion.

I’m not a harasser: Chetan Bhagat NEW DELHI: Bestselling author Chetan Bhagat, who has been facing a lot of flack after screenshots of his WhatsApp conversations were leaked on social media, asserted this week that he is being “attacked and vilified”.

“I want you to know that I am suffering because my name is being dragged into needless controver-

Nanda’s claim, calling it “absurd”.

His lawyer Ashok Sarogi on October 10 said the accusations against Alok were false.

On its part, the Indian Film and Television Directors Association (IFTDA) this week said it has drafted a notice to be sent to Alok, and it has already sent a notice to Vikas Bahl.

Bahl was last year accused of sexual harassment by a former employee of the film collective Phantom Films, for an incident that took place in 2015 in Goa. The allegation

sies, and my family and I are being harassed. In the garb of the #MeToo movement, which definitely has genuine cases, I am being attacked and vilified. Let me tell you upfront — I am not a harasser.

Never was, never will be,” Bhagat said in an elaborate four-page statement.

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resurfaced as the #MeToo movement garnered steam in India.

Kashyap last week came out in support of the allegations in a HuffPost India report and also tweeted about it, while Motwane called Bahl a “sexual offender”.

Bahl, known for Queen, has sent a legal notice to his former Phantom Films partners Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane, whom he has called “opportunists” for making “defamatory allegations” in the wake of the ongoing #MeToo movement.

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ake a deep breath. Now, brace yourself for an experience that simultaneously defies and defines all the rules of the suspense genre.

The last time director Sriram Raghavan took us on a similarly clenched suspenseful roller-coaster ride in Ek Haseena Thi, the moral compass was far less askew.

Here in Andhadhun, every character barring Radhika Apte’s, is prone to bouts of shrill moral discrepancy that leaves us stunned.

Now where did that come from?

I found myself asking this question at least a dozen times as I sat frozen in my seat resigned to the frenzied flurry of fate and serendipity that guides this utterly unpredictable tale of unhampered hankerings and unstoppable calamities.

Film: “Andhadhun”; Director: Sriram Raghavan; Cast: Tabu, Ayushmann Khurrana, Radhika Apte, Zakhir Hussain, Ashwini Kalsekar, Manav Vij, Chaya Kadam, Anil Dhawan, Gopal K. Singh; Rating: ****

Starcast of ‘Andhadhun’ Ayushmann Khurrana and Tabu. (Photo: IANS)

But hang on. How do I review this film without giving away the plot? Andhadhun is a spoiler’s paradise. There are so many twists in

the plot that a more apt title according to me, would be Aao Twist Karen (for the record, the director confirms this was a title seriously considered). And none of these twists and turns in this sharply curved thriller is a red herring. Everything and nothing makes sense in the morally unhinged world of Sriram Raghavan. People kill, maim, hoodwink and betray the unsuspecting at the drop of a hat.

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rom dungarees, pleated skirts, flannel shirts, flared pants and slip dresses to accessories like chokers, claw clips, bandanas and fanny packs -- which were a rage in the 1990s -- have made a comeback and are being readily endorsed by celebrities and commoners alike.

The 1990s made many a fashion statement, and Bollywood celebrities like Deepika Padukone, Alia Bhatt, Sonakshi Sinha, Kriti Sanon and Kangana Ranaut, among many others, are digging into the looks from the era and

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MUMBAI: As corporate culture and entrepreneurship are booming in India, sipping coffee and working out of a cafe is becoming an essential part of the new generation’s lifestyle and becoming a form of self-expression, says a Starbucks official.

Veetika Deoras, a coffee connoisseur and Chief Marketing Officer, Marketing at Tata Starbucks, believes that with more customized coffee and experiential service the beverage has found a place in the lifestyle of a common global citizen.

In India, apart from the south Indian filter coffee, acceptance towards other variants has happened only few years ago.

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Malhotra told IANS. sporting them with aplomb.

Malhotra, who has designed Ace fashion designer and coucostumes for films like turier Manish Malhotra, who has "Kuch Kuch Hota been in the industry for over Hai", "Ae Dil two decades, says fashion Designer duo Hai Mushkil" thrives on relevance.

Sonam and a n d “Some fashion trends Paras Modi from " Dh a d a k " , are so relatable and noslabel SVA say said today talgic that you can pick Bollywood up from where you left change is a off. It reminds me of my constant thing in stars are now often flaunting days in costume styling in fashion these trends. He the 90s, whether it was Kajol’s dungrees from ‘Kuch added: “the beauty Kuch Hota Hai’, Karisma Kapoor of fashion is that it thrives on relin cold shoulder dresses and chok- evance and reinvention -- and so it ers in ‘Raja Hindustani’ or Urmila continues to make comebacks in denim skirts from ‘Rangeela’,” when it comes to trends.”

Chemicals in sunscreen may cause birth defects, infertility cientists have detected chemicals in sunscreen that can cause birth defects and infertility.

In the study, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, the team from the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), found that the chemicals in sunscreen caused abnormalities in Zebrafish and killed their offspring.

After human use, the organic or chemical ultra-violet (UV) filters in sunscreens are discharged into the sea, either directly by being washed off with sea water or indirectly through discharge of wastewater, thereby threatening the marine life. They could also enter

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the food chain to humans and affect our health, the researchers said. “UV light increases the risk of premature skin ageing, freckles and triggers skin cancer. Organic or chemical UV filters that can absorb or block UV radiation, are extensively applied in personal care products including sunscreens,” said Kelvin Leung Szeyin, Associate Professor at the HKBU.

arents, take note. If your child is getting proper education then it can enhance their economic decision-making quality, a new study has found.

The study found that those who took part in the education intervention had higher scores of economic rationality, suggesting that education is a tool for enhancing an individual’s economic decisionmaking quality.

“While we know that schooling has been shown in previous work to have positive effects on a wide range of outcomes, such as income and health, our work provides evidence of potentially additional benefits coming from improvements in people’s decision-making abilities,” said lead author Hyun-

People receiving proper education have good rationality and decision-making quality. (Photo, Courtesy, Pexels.com)

cheol Bryant Kim, assistant professor at Cornell University.

“Using a randomized controlled trial of education support and laboratory experiments that mimic real-life examples, we established casual evidence that an education

intervention increases not only educational outcomes but also economic rationality in terms of measuring how consistently people make decisions to seek economic goals,” Kim said in the study, published in the journal Science.

Ways to get paid while traveling around the world IANS, NEW DELHI

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rom high-altitude places to spots near the waters, densely populated cities to the dense jungles — there are a lot of travel lovers who wish to explore every corner of the world but arent able to do so due to financial constraints. But there’s a solution.

There are some top tips and tricks with which people can earn a living and get their trips sponsored while travelling peacefully around the globe. Viswanath Raju, Cofounder of Mojhi.com lists how. * Put your language skills to use: If you possess leadership qualities, and have commendable knowledge

Travel lovers wish to explore every corner of the world. (Credits: Pixabay.com)

of two or more foreign languages, you will find many opportunities to put all of that to work. You can work as a tour guide for travellers

and earn a pretty hefty sum of money in exchange.

Another way to put your language skills to good use is by teach-

ing English online. There are lots of portals where you can teach the language online while you are still travelling the globe, all you need is an Internet connection. * Click! Click! to earn big: The scenic beauty of the places close to nature, away from the daily hustlebustle of the city amplifies many times more from the pictures clicked by an avid photographer.

Find the right portals, be it travel magazines, newspapers, or even websites, share the pictures and get ready to earn handsome bucks to travel more and more. Thanks to digitalized platforms that makes it easier to share stories with travel lovers around the world.

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Hawking’s final paper released The work was completed in the days before Stephen Hawking’s death in March IANS, LONDON

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tephen Hawkings final scientific paper has been released by physicists who worked with the late British cosmologist on his career-long effort to understand what happens to information when objects fall into black holes.

The work, which tackles what theoretical physicists call “the information paradox”, was completed in the days before Hawking’s death in March. It has now been written up by his colleagues at Cambridge and Harvard universities and posted online, the Guardian reported this week.

Malcolm Perry, a professor of theoretical physics at Cambridge and a co-author on the paper, “Black Hole Entropy and Soft Hair”, said the information paradox was “at the centre of Hawking’s life” for more than 40 years.

The origins of the puzzle can be

In the latest paper, Hawking and his colleagues show how some information at least may be preserved. (Photo: IANS)

traced back to Albert Einstein.

In 1915, Einstein published his theory of general relativity, a tourde-force that described how gravity arises from the spacetime-bending

effects of matter, and so why the planets circle the sun.

But Einstein’s theory made important predictions about black holes too, notably that a black hole

can be completely defined by only three features: its mass, charge, and spin.

Nearly 60 years later, Hawking argued that black holes also have a

temperature and because hot objects lose heat into space, the ultimate fate of a black hole is to evaporate out of existence.

“The difficulty is that if you throw something into a black hole it looks like it disappears,” said Perry.

“How could the information in that object ever be recovered if the black hole then disappears itself?”

In the latest paper, Hawking and his colleagues show how some information at least may be preserved.

The physicists show that a black hole’s entropy may be recorded by photons that surround the black hole’s event horizon, the point at which light cannot escape the intense gravitational pull. They call this sheen of photons “soft hair”.

Among the unknowns that Perry and his colleagues must now explore are how information associated with entropy is physically stored in soft hair and how that information comes out of a black hole when it evaporates.

IIT-KGP launches AI drive Facebook to bring Safety for Next-Gen engineers Check to ‘Workplace’ KHARAGPUR (WEST BENGAL): Close to 1,100 budding engineers interacted with industry experts, researchers and entrepreneurs at the twin Artificial Intelligence (AI) summits organized by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kharagpur and its alumni simultaneously here and at Bengaluru, the premier institute said this week.

The summits, spread over October 6-7, brought together stakeholders engaged in cutting edge developments in AI or making use of AI applications in their field of work, an IIT-Kharagpur release said.

“Close to 1,100 budding engineers from these two cities delved into the challenges pertaining to illiteracy, hunger, disease, natural disasters, speech recognition, advanced transportation, consumer behavior, market analytics etc. - and how AI can be used to solve them,” the release said.

The summits belong to the genre of outreach programmes conducted by the institute focused towards challenges and applications of AI which are directly going to impact people’s lives significantly in the near future.

The AI Centre of Excellence was launched at the institute earlier in 2018.

Experts feel that following the IT wave of the 90s and the 21st century, AI could turn out to be the next key element for the economic

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o help organizations locate their people in a crisis, Facebook is planning to introduce the Safety Check feature in “Workplace”, the social network’s messaging service for businesses.

“With Safety Check, if a crisis arises, organizations can identify who may be affected, send multiple modes of notification, and monitor employee responses. And they can do it fast,” Facebook said in a blog post this week.

Facebook launched Safety Check

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development of India.

“Adopting to AI on a large scale and for the masses is quite possible in India, given that the country already has a lot going for it by way of digital penetration, its huge talent pool, and its proven ability to scale up new technology. India stands to benefit from AI in a big way,” said Pallab Dasgupta, Dean, Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy (SRIC), IIT-Kharagpur.

In the AI summit organized by the department of computer science and engineering and the Centre for AI here, researchers and industry experts demonstrated how AI was being used in their respective fields be it retail, banking, healthcare, transport or education.

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in 2014 to provide its users a simple and easy way to let friends and family know they are safe in a crisis, and check on others in the affected area. In the last four years, millions of people have used Safety Check.

“Safety Check for Workplace will be available in early 2019,” said the blog post.

The announcement of the Safety Check tool for Workplace was made this week at the Flow, the inaugural leadership summit from Workplace by Facebook held at Menlo Park, California.

Along with Safety Check, Face-

book announced a number of new features designed to make work better, smarter, and faster for people on Workplace.

Among those features was the “Do Not Disturb” status that allows users to turn off notifications in Workplace and Workplace Chat to let colleagues know when they are not available.

‘Traffickers use social media to target victims’ IANS, NEW YORK

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uman traffickers are exploiting social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram or SnapChat, as well as dating apps such as Tinder, Blendr and Yellow to hunt for potential underage victims, reveals a new study.

Traffickers educate themselves by studying what the victim posts on these sites to build trust, said the study by the Human Trafficking and Social Justice Institute of the University of Toledo in Ohio, US. The study, which was requested by the Ohio Attorney General’s Human Trafficking Commission, revealed how traffickers quickly

Technology offers traffickers ease in advertising multiple victims at one time.

target and connect with vulnerable children on the Internet through social media.

Grooming children for sex trafficking consists of convincing someone to send a risky picture and then using it to extort them.

The traffickers use fear of reper-

cussions as a way to compel the youth to move from a monitored page to a less monitored page by saying, “You don’t want your parents to find out what we’re talking about”, the study suggested.

Technology offers traffickers ease in advertising multiple victims at one time.

“It is vitally important to educate parents, professionals and youth — especially our middle school or teenage daughters who may be insecure — about the dangers of online predatory practices used by master manipulators,” Celia Williamson, Professor of Social Work at the University of Toledo, said in a statement released by the university.

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Penalties for Committing Immigration Marriage Fraud

BY A STAFF WRITER HICAGO,IL- Marriage fraud can take several forms. The immigrant might pay a U.S. citizen to marry or offer to perform a favor in exchange for marrying. There are “mail-order” marriages, where the couple have no preexisting relationship and either or both know the marriage is a fraud.

Sometimes an immigrant defrauds a U.S. citizen who believes the marriage is legitimate, while the immigrant knows it is not.

The law pretty much speaks for itself on what happens to immigrants who commit marriage fraud. The relevant law (Immigration and Nationality Act § 275(c); 8 U.S. Code § 1325(c)) states that perpetrators can face prison, a fine, or both, as follows: Any individual who knowingly enters into a marriage for the purpose of evading any provision of the immigration laws shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or fined not more than $250,000, or both.

Those charged with marriage fraud may also be charged with visa fraud, harboring an alien, conspiracy, or making false statements; each charge carries additional prison sentences and financial penalties.

The extent to which these penalties are applied depends on the specifics of each case. The government tends to reserve the highest penalties for U.S. citizens or residents engaged in major conspiracy operations, such as systematically arranging fraudulent marriages.

But that doesn’t mean that small-time participants in marriage fraud can count on a soft punishment. Ferreting out sham marriages is a top enforcement priority of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Even if the immigrants themselves are not prosecuted criminally, they will in all likelihood simply be

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deported (removed) and never allowed to return to the U.S.—not even if they later enter into a real marriage with a U.S. citizen.

Indians arrested in fake marriage scam: In May 2018 Immigration police have arrested eight Indian men for using fake marriage registration certificates to seek resident visas, deputy tourist police chief Maj Gen Surachate Hakpan said on Wednesday.

The eight suspects were identified as Prabhakar Singh, Ritesh Kumar, Manjeet Mallah, Suraj Prakash Singh, Raju Sharma, Shailesh

Kumar Tripathi, Vijendra Nishad and Bhajan Nishad. The arrests followed earlier legal action against an assistant district chief of Wang Muang district and two district officials for allegedly using some 2,000 Thai women’s names to fake marriage registration certificates to sell to an Indian crime ring. The three were arrested after a number of Thai women found their names recorded married to Indian men that they had never met in the household registration database of the Provincial Administration Department.

Surachate said arrest warrants were issued after police found 300 of the 2,000 Indians

registered as married to Thais in the Wang Muang district were fake. He added that police have yet to check a further 1,700 marriages of Indians to Thai women.

Aboutus About us epaper Epaper Advertise Advertise Archive Archive Calender Calendar Calender Rss US attorney gets jail for marriage fraud of Indian: In Aug 2018 a US attorney, who got an Indian-origin naturalised American citizen ‘married’ to his Pakistani assistant so that she could obtain a Green Card, has been sentenced to six months in a federal prison.

Bilal Ahmed Khaleeq, 48, who was an immigration attorney in Dallas, conspired with others to unlawfully facilitate a marriage between 38-year old Pakistani national Amna Cheema and the Indian-origin US citizen, identified only as ‘Person A’, to evade immigration laws, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.

Cheema had previously pleaded guilty to her role in the scheme and was sentenced to time served.

According to the plea agreement, Cheema and the US citizen were married in Dallas County in June 2015 and subsequently filed permanent residence application with US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in July 2015.

In exchange for agreeing to marry Cheema, ‘Person A’ was paid US$ 745 Mark Siegl, director of the USCIS Houston Field Office. “We will continue to work tirelessly with our law enforcement partners to uphold the integrity of our law enforcement system and investigate any leads connected to fraud marriage and immigration fraud.”

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Showcasing the Impact of Faith and Music in Greater St. Louis Region

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Dasara And Deepavali Celebrations on Sat 27th Oct- 2:00 PM at Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago, 10915 Rd, Lemont, IL 60439 Tkts: Memberes FREE, Non Members $15, Non Members kids: $15. Dinner at 6:00 pm.

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BY A STAFF WRITER T LOUIS, MO- One of the famous quotes of Plato is “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” The quote has a very deep meaning and has withstood the test of generations. Arts & Faith St. Louis hosts an annual interfaith commemoration in music at the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis every year since the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Faith can be a very powerful too. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase” This year’s concert focused on “Great Music of Many Faiths” and was held on September 16, 2018.

The concert included various groups who sang their cultural and religious songs.

Each song had a very unique tune and beat that kept the audience glued to their seats.

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Unlike other years, this year, Arts & Faith St. Louis gave the audiences an elevated taste of the impact various inter-faith groups have had in the Greater St. Louis region. The groups showcased past interfaith events and promoting the upcoming ones. Each inter-faith group had setup a booth where they showcased how their faith and community is helping uplift the spirits and giving back to the wider society.

Bal Vihar’s booth focused on various inter-faith activities it has been participating in recent years. This included CANstruction, community service projects (walk for water, poverty simulation), visits to other places of worships. Bal Vihar Youths were beaming with confidence and pride as they shared all the activities they have been involved in. The youths shared information on Hinduism, their religious beliefs, and the impact they have had on the community.

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BY DR. NILESH D. MEHTA HICAGO,IL- All over the world, breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed malignancy, accounting for over a million cases each year. It continues to be the leading cause of cancer death in women worldwide. Value of mammography in lowering the risk of death from breast cancer has been well known for decades.

While the recommendations for screening women for this disease have gone through some changes, screening mammography is recommended every 1–2 years for women 40–74 years of age at average risk. It is imperative for the patients to engage in a dialogue and discussion with their physician about the latest in screening guidelines. In the field of Medicine, “one size fits all” does not always work and individualizing recommendations based on risk factors is the key. Those women who have a family history or a higher risk for developing breast cancer need to be screened more frequently than the general population and average risk women.Screening should continue as long as a woman is in good health and is expected to live 10 more years or longer. Discussions between patient and their health care provider should occur on a regular basis.

Mammography modalities: One of the major improvements in screening mammography was the transition from films and images to digital mammography. Another recent major technologic advance has been the availability of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis ( DBT) which is referred to as a pseudo “threedimensional” mammography technique in

which multiple low-dose mammographic images are acquired from multiple angles and are then reconstructed into overlapping thin slices. DBT is being increasingly used as a screening tool for the detection of breast cancer. Two-dimensional (2D) mammography and tomosynthesis can be obtained in a single compression, and synthesized 2D projection images can also be reconstructed from the dbt information.

One of the facts that we need to remember is that the radiation dose that a woman

would receive is nearly double that of digital mammography alone. However, it remains within the established safe dose limits for radiation exposure caused by the screening test. I would recommend to discuss with your physician to find out what type of mammography is being offered at your hospital. Comparison with previous mammograms is undeniably one of the most important issues before Radiologists issue their reports. Obviously, if there are any new findings or any

13th Annual CRY Charity Walk Held in Chicago

BY A STAFF WRITER HICAGO,IL— CRY, Child Rights and You America Inc. (CRY America), a 501c3 non profit that works towards ensuring children their basic rights to live, learn, grow and play, organizes it’s 13th annual CRY Walk for Child Rights across 16 cities. The annual walk brings together people from varied walks of life, who feel passionately for the cause.

The event provides a platform for people to help children secure a better future and reinforces the belief that “change is possible.”

Walkers and runners alike in Chicago participated in 5k walks and runs on September 15th at Busse Woods on a beautiful sunny day. The walk lead, Avani Shah, along with volunteers held a successful walk, raising up to $3,500. The day consisted of a 5k Walk/Run with many activities for participants, which included food, henna, watermelon eating contest, musical chairs, and a lemon race. The event had 75 participants. The event was a space for families to have an outing and ensure opportunities for underprivileged children.

CRY America would like to thank Star TV, TV Asia, Air India, Shani International, Patel Brothers, Swad, DJ Oza, Radio Zindagi, New York Life, Hi India, and Asia Times. CRY America appreciates the generous support of Patel Brothers, Mr. Nimish Jani, Hetal Patel, Anuja Gupta,

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changes that are suspicious, they would require further testing including possibly a biopsy.

Ultrasound and MRI : Other modalities which are not screening tests but are often used as adjuncts if a woman is found to have an abnormal screening mammogram. Ultrasound is particularly helpful when fluid filled breast abnormalities ( cysts ) need to be confirmed.

Ultrasound does not have any radiation exposure and has the ability to detect solid abnormalities from cysts. However, it should not be used as the only test for screening purposes. Magnetic Resonance Imaging ( MRI ) of breast is not a screening test for breast cancer. Depending on the clinical situation, breast cancer specialists may resort to getting additional testing with MRI. If a woman is found to have an abnormal mammogram or ultrasound or MRI, further testing with a diagnostic biopsy procedure is performed.

Mark your calendar : One tip that I often give patients is to mark your calendar either around birthday, anniversary, or another important event to ensure that screening tests are performed on a timely basis with regularity. In addition to breast cancer screening in the appropriate population, women should also discuss with their physicians about their PAP smear ( for screening cervix cancer) and colonoscopy ( for screening of colon cancer).

Bottom Line: Screening with mammography saves lives. As a reminder for all of us, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and serves to highlight the importance of prevention and early detection of Breast cancer.

Indian Boy Breaks Barriers with Bharatnatyam Dance

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Cognizant, all our event sponsors, media partners, and donors in making this event a success. A special shout out also goes out to the dedicated volunteers, fundraisers and team leaders who have relentlessly worked to organize this event.

Shefali Sunderlal, President, CRY America stated, “Only when children are given the right opportunities, can they realize their full potential and dreams.

Raising awareness and funds through the CRY Walk is a step forward in ensuring that children get a chance to be educated, healthy and happy.”

CRY America has thus far ensured that 695,077 children living across 3,676 villages and slums have access to education, healthcare and are protected from violations through support to 73 Projects in India and the USA.

AMPA, FL— Parth Iyyangar Madabhushi, a sophomore at Carrollwood Day School, was reportedly one of the first boys in Florida to complete his classical dance debut, on September 16th during the 150th Bharatanatyam Arangetram of Guru Geetha Raaj’s Nritya Academy at the India Cultural Center.

Parth is a third generation Bharatanatyam dancer.

Parth Madabhushi, the son of Prahlad and Sabrina Madabhushi, has completed his certification course in Bharatanatyam and is currently pursuing his Associate Arts Degree through Alagappa University, according to the family.

Parth also holds a third degree black belt in the Shito-Ryu martial arts field and will represent Team USA at the World Karate Championships for the fourth time in Dublin, Ireland, this year.

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Chicago Youth Leaders Driving Successful Fundraiser for Pratham

Pratham Youth Leaders and their director, Vineeta Salvi (fifth from left)

Chicago Pratham Youth Leaders (L-R), Vinayaka Amin, Vikas Reddy and Avanti Parkhe, presenting their findings & raising funds for science project

BY A STAFF WRITER HICAGO, IL - Pratham, a charity organization is helping educate underprivileged children in India.

Of the 250 million children in India, 50% don’t have access to a good education. As India ushers into the future, it is critical that these education needs are met in a cost-effective way. This is where Pratham comes in. Over the last two decades, Pratham has developed methods to teach language and math skills to these kids in different corners of India. Not only has Pratham developed innovative teaching methods that leverage on-the-ground 250,000 teachers but they are expanding the reach by leveraging technology.

They are putting small computers with preloaded videos and lessons in the hands of children to expand reach. By some estimates, Pratham has impacted the lives of 50 million children over the last 20 years.

A ley part of the program is to raise funds through charity events across the world.

Recently, a large event was held in Venue Six 10, S. Michigan Ave, Chicago IL 60605 that was attended by 300 donors with Indian roots. The keynote speaker was Stephen D. Levitt, William B Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and co-author of the bestseller, Freakonomics. He recounted his

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own experiences in taking charities to India and underscored the difficulty of large scale implementation. He was very congratulatory of the massive impact Pratham has every year as it touches the lives of 6 million children.

Fundraising at this evening’s event gathered enough funds to support 5,400 children in India for one year!

For the American Indian diaspora, it is important to get their youth involved in this impactful program and pass their passion to the next generation. Children born to

Stephen D. Levitt, William B Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and co-author of the bestseller, Freakonomics.

parents of Indian origin don’t have the same exposure to the magnitude of the problem as their parents do since they did not grow up in India. This year, Pratham started a program to allow these young adults to spend a few weeks in India with Pratham. They went to Aurangabad at a Pratham facility, worked with children in local villages and came back with a goal to continue supporting them.

They learnt first-hand the differences between their privileged upbringing in the US and that of kids in Indian villages. Three Youth Leaders from the Chicagoland area—Vikas

Reddy, Avanti Parkhe and Vinayaka Amin— presented their findings very effectively at the fundraiser in Chicago.

Since they have come back from India, they have raised more than $3,000 to support a science project in the Aurangabad Pratham center. Most importantly, they are committed to spreading the word and getting more of their generation involved.

Pratham conducts multiple such events in approximately 10 US cities every year to raise funds to support Indian children.

Pratham Gala event took place on Oct. 6th at Venue Six 10, S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605

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Successful Garba and Faishon Bazaar event by AAA Entertainment

BY A STAFF WRITER ENSENVILLE , IL: Huge crowd attended the spectacular Garba organized by AAA Entertainment on September 28 at Monty’s Elegant Banquets in Bensenville, Illinois.

Beautifully decorated with colorful lights, beautiful Bollywood music and the fashion bazaar were the special attractions of the event.

AAA Founder and President Amit Vatal accompanied, Anoop Mamtani of Atlantic travels and Hemi Patel and other community leaders started the program with traditional lamp lighting followed by musical performances. AAA Entertainment and Atlantic Travels team, began the evening by offering a prayer. The starting was with famous garba songs along with remixes byHitesh Master Nayak and his team.

After the brief break and Aarti, the festive music of Dandiya-Raas commenced with the participants that lasted beyond midnight.

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Another attraction of the event was the hours long fashion bazaar. There were various booths at the bazaar ranging from designer apparel and jewelry to satellite services,

banking products Speaking at the event, Amit Vatal of AAA Entertainment said that such festivities carry a message of unity and brotherhood to a new generation born in this country.

He also thanked theaudience and volunteers for their hard work and dedication.

Indian Gas Station Owner Puts ‘Do Not Warm Urine’ Sign on Microwave

BY A STAFF WRITER ACKSONVILLE, FL— An Indian American gas station owner in Florida had no choice but to put up a sign reading “Only for food use. Do not warm urine,” on her microwave.

Parul Patel, the owner of BP gas station and convenience store in Jacksonville, Florida said that she is “sick and tired” of random people walking into her On the Fly convenience store to heat up their urine in her microwave.

The problem occurs on a daily basis and it got to a point where one person even became aggressive, asking to see a sign that prevents them from warming up urine in the microwave.

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BY A STAFF WRITER ESTFORD, MS— The jogger killed after he was struck by a Toyota SUV on the night of September 21st has been identified by the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office and Westford Chief Police Thomas McEnaney as Ulhas Kudva, 45, of Westford.

Police responded to Route 110, in the vicinity of Technology Park Drive, around 9 p.m. on September 21st for a report of a pedestrian crash.

“Upon arrival, authorities learned that the operator of a Toyota Highlander had apparently struck a jogger,” authorities said.

“The jogger was pronounced dead on scene.

The driver remained on scene.”

As per the report, no charges have been filed as of Sept. 23. The investigation is ongoing.

He is survived by his wife Sheela, 14-year-old son Tejas, and 8-year-old daughter Tanvi.

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The three men, who pleaded guilty to computer fraud charges in December, also were ordered to pay $127,000 in restitution and gave up what authorities said was a significant amount of cryptocurrency.

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