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Video and statistics highlights from Bangladesh v West Indies match

What an absolute remarkable win for Bangladesh against the West Indies. The victory has kept the hopes alive for Bangladesh in this tournament. They are now at the 5th position on the points table, ahead of Sri Lanka, West Indies, South Africa, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

After winning the toss, Bangladesh decided to bowl first, on a small ground of Taunton. West Indies started poorly, losing their star batsman Chris Gayle in the 4th over. Gayle could not manage to score a run in 13 balls. A century stand partnership for the 2nd wicket between Lewis and Hope put West Indies back on track. Though Hope scored 96 (off 121 balls) for the team, it was too slow in this kind of situation. Hetmyer and Holder, in particular, smashed few sixes and scored some quick runs which eventually helped the team to score a total of 321 runs on the board.

Watch: West Indies Innings

Bangladesh had to chase the second highest score ever in World Cup history. They started well, as their openers added 52 for the first wicket. Soumya Sarkar was the first wicket to fell, an edge off Andre Russell’s short ball, to Gayle at first slip. This must have made West Indies think tanks believe that bowling short ball will help them. However, Bangladeshi batsmen were ready for this stuff, they have seen West Indian bowlers bowling the same line throughout the match against Australia and England. The batsmen started cutting and pulling the short balls for boundaries on the small ground of Taunton.

Bangladesh lost two wickets in quick succession, but Shakib and Liton Das were determined to pull off a thrilling win against the Caribbeans. The West Indian bowlers kept bowling short and wide to the batsmen, as many as 112 balls in the match of which 177 runs scored by the Bangladesh batsmen. If this wasn’t enough, they bowled 25 wides in the innings, horrifying. There was no plan ‘B’ from the West Indian bowling attack.

Shakib played sensibly and brought up his second hundred of the tournament and also became the highest run scorer during his brilliant knock of 124. On the other hand, Liton Das who was quite severe against the short balls smashed an unbeaten 94 off just 69 balls, and the pair added 189 runs in only 22 overs. Bangladesh won the match with 51 balls left in the innings.

Bangladesh Innings

STATS

  • The first win for Bangladesh against West Indies in the World Cup tournament.
  • 322 is the second highest successful chase in World Cup, Ireland chased down 328 against England in 2011.
  • 322 is also the highest successful run chase for Bangladesh in ODI.
  • Shakib Al Hasan has now 6000 runs and 250 wickets in ODI, and he is the fourth player to make this double after Jayasuriya, Kallis, and Afridi. He is the quickest to reach the double.
  • Shakib has now scored five consecutive ODI scores of 50 or more, equalling the Bangladeshi record. Tamim Iqbal was the first one to score five successive 50 plus score in ODI in 2012.

Egypt’s Islamist ex-President Mohammed Morsi dies in court where he stood trial for his connection with Hamas

Mohammed Morsi, the first democratically elected president of Egypt, collapsed in court and died on Monday while facing trial. Mohammed Morsi who was ousted by the military in 2013 after a year in office.

According to the reports, the 67-year-old Morsi had just addressed the court, speaking from the glass cage, where he was locked during court sessions and had warned that he had “many secrets” he could reveal. Within minutes of that, Morsi collapsed in the cage.

The 67-year-old Morsi was in court for a hearing on charges of espionage emanating from suspected contacts with the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. Morsi was serving a 20-year prison sentence for a conviction after he was convicted for killing protesters during demonstrations in 2012 and a life sentence for espionage in a case related to the Gulf state of Qatar.

According to one of the defence lawyers, Kamel Madour, Morsi continued to insist that he was Egypt’s legitimate president and was demanding a special tribunal to decide his conviction.

As news of his death spread, a group of Morsi’s supporters and human rights groups raised questions about his treatment in prison. The former president was known to have been suffering from several ailments, including diabetes and liver disease.

Last year, a panel of British politicians and lawyers had concluded that Morsi had received “inadequate medical care” and found that the conditions of detention could meet the threshold for “torture.”

Morsi was also put in solitary confinement and was barred from visitors his family, who were allowed to visit only three times during that time.

The chief prosecutor of Egypt has said Morsi’s body would be examined to determine the cause of his death. However, the state TV has said he died after suffering a heart attack.

Mohammed Morsi, with the backing of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s most powerful Islamist group, won the 2012 presidential elections the country, the first free elections the country had ever seen. He was unseated on 3 July by a military coup council led by the then Defense Minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

Part-time politician Rahul Gandhi winks again: The clown Prince cannot be serious even in the face of annihilation

Rahul Gandhi is back. After the crushing defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections where the PM Modi led BJP managed to improve its tally to 303 seats, Rahul Gandhi, post a brief resignation drama shipped himself to London for a vacation, according to reports. Now, he is back in the Parliament after, of course, missing half the afternoon session on the first day of the Parliament session.

The Grand Old Party is going through a crisis. While its senior leaders might be to beholden to Rahul Gandhi to realise, but the party is dying and the match to the funeral pyre is being lit by none other than Rahul Gandhi.

The weight of that realisation might have cast any yuppy-now-a-vacation-now-a-rally politician into serious introspection. But not Rahul Gandhi.

After the resignation drama where he tendered his resignation to a body of which he is the President, which in turn rejected that resignation, Rahul Gandhi is back to his old shenanigans, hell-bent to prove to the world that is mostly unserious about his role as a serious politician.

On the first day of the parliamentary session, Rahul Gandhi was late to the parliament. Just before he arrived, Rahul Gandhi, in an attempt to appear as a serious parliamentarian, tweeted this was his 4th consecutive term as the member of Lok Sabha. He said that he was beginning his new innings as an MP from Wayanad and that he will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India.


The attempt to appear as a serious politician, however, took a massive hit as soon as mr-fourth-time-mp reached the Parliament.

First, while taking the oath, for the fourth time, as Rahul Gandhi himself reminded us, he goofed up. After reading out his oath, he walked off without signing as the newly inducted MP. He had to be stopped by Rajnath Singh, India’s Defence Minister and reminded that there was one little step he forgot. This, after he had done this routine 3 times in the past.

Then, to top it all, he left the parliament and the infamous wink make a reappearance.


The photograph was taken by Indian Express photojournalist Anil Sharma. Sharma managed to capture a moment not just of Rahul Gandhi winking, but a moment that has the potential to remind an entire nation of their reasons for not choosing the clown Prince to lead them into destruction.

One really doesn’t know why Rahul Gandhi does what he does.

One remembers that asinine wink after he created a massive drama hugging Prime Minister Modi inside the Parliament.

And then, while a debate surrounding the Rafale deal was on, he did it again.


While Darbaris refuse to see it, Rahul Gandhi’s constant face-twitch is a worrying sign for the Congress party.

Imagine someone telling you that you have some life-threatening disease, and then, looking to a third person and winking like a mad man. You would either want to beat that fellow up or, you would refuse to take him seriously and go to another ‘serious’ doctor who could tell you exactly what was wrong.

Rahul Gandhi pretended to play the politics of ‘love’. He hugged the Prime Minister. Then, he looked at one of his friends in the Parliament and winked. It was as if he was accepting that all that talk was a farce.

Then, after making a massive hue and cry about some non-existent Rafale scam, while a debate was on, he winked again.

And now, after a massive loss in Amethi and Congress’ loss country-wide, while he was busy with his resignation drama trying to tell the country that he takes their mandate seriously enough to step down, he winks again.

Even if out of pity, one wants to take Rahul Gandhi seriously, he tries every trick in the book to ensure that never happens.

Maybe next Rahul Gandhi can make some Jazz hands while talking about the prospects of the Congress party in the next five years. Or perhaps, the more appropriate gesture would be to scream ‘Bazinga’ in a meeting where the unanimous decision of senior politicians is going to be that Rahul baba can lead the dying party to victory sometime in the future because he has, finally, come of age.

Petition filed against Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and Bihar Health Minister Mangal Pandey for failure to contain AES breakout

As more and more children are losing their lives in Bihar’s Muzzafarpur due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES), a case has been filed against Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and Bihar Health Minister Mangal Pandey.


The petition has been filed by Social Activist Tamanna Hashmi in the court of Muzaffarpur Chief Judicial Magistrate, holding the Ministers responsible for failing to control the outbreak of the disease. The petition stated that the Ministers failed to fulfil their duties to control the outburst of the AES. It alleged that both Harsh Vardhan and Mangal Pandey did nothing to create awareness among the people in the affected areas despite the fact that the disease has been claiming children’s lives for several years.

The petition has been filed under Sections 323 (Voluntarily causing hurt), 308 (Attempt to commit culpable homicide) and 504 (Intentional insult to provoke breach of peace) of the IPC. “A large number of children died due to negligence and lack of infrastructure to give them timely proper treatment”, said Hashmi.

Union Health Minister Vardhan and Union Minister for Health Ashwani Kumar Choubey and the Bihar Health Minister Pandey had visited the State-owned Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital in Muzaffarpur yesterday. Harsh Vardhan had taken oath as the new health minister of the country on 30th May. JP Nadda, who was selected as working president of BJP today, was the union health minister in the first Modi government.

The AES breakout is becoming severe every day taking the death toll higher. In the last 24 hours, 20 children have lost their lives to the deadly fever taking the number of total deaths in Muzaffarpur and other districts close to 100.

Junior Doctors in West Bengal call off week-long strike after amicable meeting with CM Mamata Banerjee

The week-long strike by the junior doctors in West Bengal has been called off after a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. After 7 days of protests, the CM finally met with representatives of the junior doctors protesting over the mob attack at the NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on the 10th June. The discussion was fruitful, the Chief Minister of Bengal said at the end of the meeting. After the meeting, the junior doctors announced the end of the strike.


During the meeting, Mamata Banerjee proposed assigning a nodal officer exclusively for the security at medical institutions. The students also demanded the setting up of Grievance Redressal Cells at every Hospital, to which Banerjee consented. She also agreed that the visibility of these cells be increased so that aggrieved patients and their relatives register their concerns and complaints at the proper place instead of threatening doctors.

Mamata Banerjee also suggested that a third party be appointed at every hospital to serve as a public relations officer of sorts. The sole duty of the individual will be to mediate between the patient parties and the doctors and be the purveyor of any negative news. It was also suggested by the CM that collapsible gates be constructed in front of the Emergency section at Hospital to enhance the security of the place.

The students also brought to the Chief Minister’s notice the Police inaction on the night of the attack that triggered it all. Her aides present at the meeting told the students that an inquiry has been initiated and appropriate action will be taken. The representatives were also informed that no cases have been registered against any doctor. Banerjee said, “Why will we file cases against you? You’re our future!”

Overall, the meeting was very amicable and Mamata Banerjee would be extremely pleased with how the meeting went. She was very effective with her words and the representatives heaped praises on her and said that they have great faith that she will solve the issue. At the end of it, Banerjee was hailed with claps by the representatives.

The only moment of friction came towards the end when one representative said, “We, doctors, don’t treat patients on the basis of their surname.” The junior doctor was referring to one of Banerjee’s earlier statements where she had alleged that doctors were being told to treat only Hindu patients and not Muslims. Banerjee, for a brief moment, appeared to lose her calm and said, “You shouldn’t as well.” When she refused to budge, the representatives sharply changed the subject.

There was another moment when Banerjee claimed that the protesting doctors did not talk with her when she attempted to initiate a discussion with them through a call on the Health Minister’s phone. Her claim was not rebutted by the doctors. All in all, it was a clear-cut victory for the Chief Minister in terms of a PR exercise. Her answer to various demands involved a lot of “Sheta Dekhey Nebo (We will look into that)” and “Dekhey Nao (Look into that)”. Although her responses were vague, the representatives did not register any opinions to the contrary.

The representatives also demanded that the decisions taken in the meeting be given to them in writing. OpIndia.com has accessed the entire list in full.

While Mamata Banerjee would be delighted with how the meeting went and the representatives would be grateful for the opportunity of meeting the Chief Minister, the prevailing sentiment among a lot of people in the medical fraternity is that the meeting was ‘farcical’, although they do hope that constructive steps will be taken now to prevent such a situation in the future.

According to reliable sources, the chatter is that the core agenda of the meeting was severely diluted and a lot of issues were not raised. While some believe that the representatives got severely intimidated, others believe that the main issue was diluted in a planned manner. There was also the sentiment that personal concerns overshadowed core demands in the meeting.

Various issues which served as a focal point in the protests till now did not find a place in the meeting. The spate of attacks that have been carried out at medical institutions across the state since Monday was not brought up, the allegations that people associated with the Trinamool Congress were threatening junior doctors with rape and worse was not brought to the Chief Minister’s notice. Many doctors feel let down by the fact that these issues were not raised. However, others were of the opinion that it would have been playing with fire.

However, everyone is of the opinion that it was the most that could be expected in the current situation and it would have been too much to expect anything more from Mamata Banerjee. They also had sympathies for the representatives who they believed got intimidated in the situation. There’s also great pride that the movement was able to garner much public support and highlight the issue of assault against doctors. There’s also a genuine belief that at least some constructive steps will be taken now that the administration has experienced the wrath of the medical fraternity.

In the end, however, the biggest highlight of the meeting would be the fact that representatives of protesting doctors who Mamata Banerjee had called ‘Outsiders’ and labelled the entire series of protests a ‘BJP Conspiracy’ ended the meeting by clapping loudly for her. In that, Mamata Banerjee has registered a thumping PR victory.

The medical fraternity, too, although disappointed with certain aspects, were overall pleased with the outcome. In the end, both parties should be pleased with how things went. There was also the joy that from being called threatened and being called ‘Outsiders’, they were treated with great respect by Mamata Banerjee and requested profusely by her to restart their services.

BJP youth wing leader SG Suryah comes under attack from DMK for sharing news about land grab by DMK MP’s relative

The DMK Advocates Wing of Coimbatore District met Coimbatore Police Commissioner today seeking action “to block” BJP Youth Wing Leader SG Suryah’s social media accounts & also demanding his arrest. They did this on behalf of K Shanmugasundaram, the Lok Sabha MP of DMK from Pollachi.

The reason for this demand is that he had shared a news item that exposed DMK MP’s relatives land grab. The news item was released by a leading Tamil news portal and later it was picked up by other media houses.

Reacting to the development, SG Suryah said, “I had just shared the content of the news that was reported in various news websites, dailies, web portals & hundreds of other social media handles over the past one week and I wonder why the DMK instead seeking action against the people who reported the news is trying to prosecute me who had just shared it”. He added, “the DMK MP notoriously included my mobile phone number in his complaint and has asked his members to circulate the copy of the letter, thereby breaching my privacy; I’ve been already getting abusive calls from DMK cadres”.

SG Suryah has been under attack from top DMK leaders & online DMK supporters repeatedly for his relentless expose of DMK members’ anti-social activities. DMK Leader MK Stalin who once followed SG Suryah on Twitter blocked him after he called out his lies point by point on “Hindi Imposition” in 2017 via articles in The Hindu and other portals.

The complaint by K Shanmugasundaram

 

DMK President’s MK Stalin’s son Udhayanithi Stalin picked up an online fight with SG Suryah when he exposed his dynastic entry straight to the top position.  Udhayanithi had challenged that he will join BJP if SG Suryah proves he is a Trustee in Murasoli Trust that controls various properties and assets of DMK. However, after SG Suryah proved his association with Murasoli Trust, the DMK Leader Udhay chose to block SG Suryah on Twitter instead of standing by his words of joining BJP.

Various DMK leaders and their kin have been accused of land grab in the past and when Late CM Jayalalithaa constituted an exclusive Land Grab Cell in 2011, thousands of complaints were registered which are in various stages of investigation as of now. As late as 2018 December, Chennai Corporation got back the possession of Rs.100 Crore worth land of 1.4 acres in Anna Nagar Chennai that was grabbed by Senior DMK Leader Arcot Veerasamy’s brother Devaraj since 1987 after a long legal fight.

JP Nadda appointed as the working President of BJP after Amit Shah moved to the central govt as Home Minister

Ending weeks of speculation, BJP leader JP Nadda has been appointed as the working president of BJP.


Rajnath Singh has said, “BJP won several elections under the leadership of Amit Shah Ji. But since PM appointed him Home Minister, Amit Shah Ji himself said the responsibility of party president should be given to someone else. BJP Parliamentary board has selected JP Nadda as working president”.

The move comes after Amit Shah moved to the Central Government and has been given the charge of the Home Ministry under Modi government 2.0.

Amit Shah had won elections from the Gandhinagar seat in Gujarat with a thumping margin.

Amit Shah had won the Gandhinagar seat with a margin of 5.57 lakh votes against his nearest Congress rival C J Chavda.

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Shah polled 8.94 lakh votes, while Chavda secured 3.37 lakh votes.

Jagat Prakash Nadda is from the state of Himachal Pradesh, though he was born and brought up in Patna, and studied there up to his graduation, where his father was a professor, and later became VC of Patna University. He was also active in ABVP in his student days.

He shifted his base to New Delhi in national politics in 2010 and was elected as Rajyasabha MP in 2012. He was inducted as Minister for Health and Family Welfare, in the first reshuffle of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet.

 

Watch: Congress leader misbehaves with Indore police after being denied entry into a meeting

Congress leader, Sunny Rajpal, Monday, was caught on camera misbehaving with a police officer in Indore. He allegedly assaulted the cop after being denied entry into a meeting which was being chaired by the Public Works Department minister, Sajjan Singh Verma.

In the video, Rajpal, who looks visibly irked, can be seen shouting and pushing the officer on duty, who in-turn politely requests the leader to cooperate. The officer can be heard saying “mein aapse nivedan karta hoon” (I am requesting you).


Despite being clearly caught misbehaving, Sunny Rajput, brazenly denied the allegations, “There was no such assault. I was just not allowed to enter the meeting,” said the Congress leader, furthering “I was in the meeting. I went to the washroom for five minutes. When I reached the gate, I was denied to re-enter”.

Rajpal stated that complaining to the authorities was out of the question since there was no assault. He furthered that he was later allowed to get inside the meeting venue.

However, this particular incident does not come as a surprise. Such acts of arrogance are very much an integral part of the Congress ecosystem. Recently we reported how Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, former CM in the state of Punjab, had slapped a young man at the Bussehra village during a public event.

In April, Tripura Congress President Pradyot Kishore Deb Burman reportedly slapped a man inside Khowai police station in Tripura after he had allegedly obstructed the convoy of Pradyot Kishore’s sister Pragya Deb Burman who is also Tripura Congress candidate.

In the CCTV footage, Pradyot and his men were seen entering the police station and resorting to vandalism against a man in a red shirt sitting on a bench in a police station. The man rises to his feet and greets the Congress chief but Pradyot suddenly slaps him across the face. Police officials present at the spot separate them immediately, following which Pradyot Dev Burman can be seen threatening him.

In a similar incident of high-headedness, Congress leader DK Shivakumar, was last year, seen slapping a young man who was trying to take a selfie with him. However, this was not the only incident. The year before last also he was caught doing something similar.

He was speaking to media at a college in Belgaum when a student standing behind him tried to take a selfie with his mobile phone. Shivkumar got agitated and suddenly hit the student on his arm. Following this, the student lost control of his phone and it crashed on the ground. The student was then seen rushing to retrieve his mobile, while Shivakumar nonchalantly went back to addressing media. When confronted by media persons, Shivkumar brazenly termed the incident as ‘normal’ and went back to talking to media persons as if nothing happened.

Sonia Gandhi gets miffed with Kerala MP who started to take oath in Hindi, 2 other MPs change their mind and take oath in English instead

Today, a Congress MP from Kerala, Kodikunnil Suresh, took oath in Hindi as a member of the 17th Lok Sabha. He chose Hindi instead of his mother tongue Malayalam. Reportedly, Sonia Gandhi scolds him for doing so. Hearing this, two other Kerala MP’s change their mind to give their oath in Hindi.

Kodikunnil Suresh is a Member of Parliament who was elected from the Mavelikkara constituency. In September 2018 he was elected as the working president of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC).

He surprised everyone by taking the oath in Hindi. This was welcomed by the BJP with a loud thumping of desks. However, this had irked Sonia Gandhi. She reportedly got miffed and asked why he couldn’t take the oath in his mother tongue or English.

As per reports, Congress MP Rajmohan Unnithan and V K Sreekantan, both from Kerala, had also decided to give the oath in Hindi. After Sonia Gandhi lost her cool with the MP, both of them change their mind and took oath in English

Today, Rahul Gandhi who was absent from Parliament for the whole day arrived at Lok Sabha today after 3 PM, just in time for his turn to take oath as the MP from Wayanad constituency in Kerala. BJP MPs from Bengal took oath as Members of Lok Sabha amidst chants of “Jai Shri Ram” making a statement against the oppressive policies of the TMC. Smriti Irani while taking oath as the MP of Amethi, gets the longest applause by members of Parliament for slaying dynastic politics at Amethi.

Opposition MPs create ruckus in parliament over Sadhvi Pragya Singh’s name as she took oath as Lok Sabha MP

The newly elected BJP MP from Bhopal Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur again made news today while taking oath as a Lok Sabha MP, when objections were raised on her name.

While taking oath of duty in Sanskrit, Pragya Singh mentioned her name as “I, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Swamy Poorna Chetanandand Avdheshanand Giri”, including the name of her Guru. But before she completes hare oath, the officials of Lok Sabha interrupted her saying that she has to take oath in the name of God or Constitution, as they thought she was taking oath in her Guru’s name.


To this, the Sadhvi objected saying that she was merely taking her name, and she had written the same in the forms also. But the Pro-term Speaker Videndra Kumar intervened at this point, reiterating the objections by the Lok Sabha officials. He said it is clearly mentioned in the rules that you have to take oath either in the name of the god or in the name of the constitution. To this Sadhvi stuck to her point insisting that it is her full name.

After this, the speaker asked her to say her full name, and she against started the oath with her full name as the first time, but this time the Congress MPs started shouting, objecting to the ‘wrong’ name used by the MP to take oath. The speaker asked them to keep quiet, saying that he will get the records checked. He asked the officials for a copy of the victory certification issued by the Election Commission to check the correct name. He said that the name mentioned in the certificate will be considered as the official name which will go in records.

Amid this ruckus, Sadhvi Pragya Singh said ‘first let me take oath in the name of God’, and the speaker stood up from his chair and silenced the Congress MPs. In this opportunity, Pragya Singh restarted her oath for the third time and completed without any further interruptions. But the opposition MPs again started shouting after she had finished, and the speaker again had to reassure them only the official name as per the Election Commission certificate will be kept in the records of the parliament.

It may be noted that her name is mentioned as Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur on the Election Commission website, and her affidavit also mentioned this name. Pragya Singh Thakur was elected to the Lok Sabha from Bhopal parliamentary constituency defeating Congress veteran leader and two-time Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh. She is an accused in Malegaon blast case of Maharashtra in which six people were killed more than 10 years ago.