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Match Preview – Bangladesh v Sri Lanka: Another washout expected

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Match Preview – Bangladesh v Sri Lanka: Another washout expected

A wet Tuesday is expected at Bristol as per the weather forecast, which means the third wash-out of the current tournament is on its way. The Pakistan-Sri Lanka and South Africa-West Indies match already washed out due to rain.

Both Bangladesh and Sri Lanka won one match each, but Sri Lanka has a better run rate. Sri Lankan team is more vigorous in bowling while Bangladesh has a better batting order.

But Bangladesh looks better on paper, and are favourites to win this contest. A win here will make the team one step closer to the top 4 sides of the tournament. Shakib Al Hasan has done everything right so far in three matches, and the team would be hoping him to click again in this game.

Sri Lanka, with already one match washed out, would like to see a full game happening to secure 2 points. Malinga is in fine form, and he can rip apart any batting line up. The weather condition will also favour the veteran pace bowler who is playing his 4th World Cup.

Players to watch out

Tamim Iqbal has not a great tournament so far. If Bangladesh needs to do well in batting, he has to deliver at the top. He can score quickly, which can make the base for a big total for Bangladesh.

Angelo Matthews, one of the best all-rounder in recent years, hasn’t delivered anything good for Lanka in the previous two games. He must be eagerly waiting to go out and prove his critics that he can still win matches for Sri Lanka.

Bangladesh v Sri Lanka in ODIs:

Overall: Matches 45, Bangladesh Won 7, Sri Lanka 36 No Result 2

World Cup: Matches 3, Bangladesh won 0, Sri Lanka won 3

Recent Form (most recent first): Bangladesh L L W W W, Sri Lanka NR W L W NR

ICC Rankings: Bangladesh (7), Sri Lanka (9)

Upcoming Records:

Mahmudullah has scored 491 runs in World Cup and needs nine more to reach the 500 runs milestone in the World Cup.

Shakib has taken 26 wickets in World Cup and needs four more to become the 1st Bangladeshi bowler to reach the 30 wickets milestone in the World Cup

Squads:

Bangladesh: Mashrafe Mortaza (capt), Abu Jayed, Liton Das (wk), Mahmudullah, Mehidy Hasan, Mohammad Mithun (wk), Mohammad Saifuddin, Mosaddek Hossain, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Mustafizur Rahman, Rubel Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Shakib Al Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Tamim Iqbal.

Sri Lanka: Dimuth Karunaratne (capt), Avishka Fernando, Suranga Lakmal, Lasith Malinga, Angelo Mathews, Jeevan Mendis, Kusal Mendis (wk), Kusal Perera (wk), Thisara Perera, Nuwan Pradeep, Dhananjaya de Silva, Milinda Siriwardana, Lahiru Thirimanne, Isuru Udana, Jeffrey Vandersay.

Kerala police join hands with Interpol to fight online sexual exploitation of children

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Kerala police join hands with Interpol to fight online sexual exploitation of children

Cybercrime involving sexual attacks on children has become rampant over the years. In order to curb this menace, the Cyberdome, a wing of the Kerala Police, which keeps a tab on all sorts of illegal activities in the cyber world, joined hands with the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) on Monday.


In a meeting which took place on Monday between the Additional Director General of Police Manoj Abraham, who heads Cyberdome and the Interpol officials led by Guillermo Galarza, Director, Law Enforcement Training and Technology, International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children; and Jon Rouse, Senior Detective, Queensland Police Service, Australia, the Interpol offered to help by providing expert training to state police officials on ways to tackle these cases more efficiently.

The association would also lead to the transfer and development of the latest artificial intelligence powered cyber tools, to crack down on a wide range of crimes, especially against children.

This artificial intelligence technology would help the Kerala police track missing persons, especially children.

As per reports the Interpol also gave access to their latest cyber investigation tool, named the Internet Crimes Against Children and Child Online Protective Services (ICACCOPS) programme to the Kerala police.

This program, which can track online searches for child abuse content and identify IP addresses to track the location of those who share child pornography, helped the state police to apprehend 32 people in the last one week.

Investigators said the persons, driven by their sexual interest in children, also widely shared videos and pictures of children in their home, school, beach and leisure park environments more than they traded hardcore mainstream porn featuring juveniles.

Moreover, this programme can also be tweaked to conduct surveillance of persons suspected to have terrorist links and also to detect online fraudsters and a variety of other criminal activities.

Recently India also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the USA to combat online child pornography.

According to the MoU signed between the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) of India and the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), USA, the United States will help India check online child pornography and content related to child sexual exploitation.

The MoU will provide access to more than one lakh Tipline reports available with the NCMEC and enable law enforcement agencies in India.

It will pave the way for setting up of an innovative mechanism for sharing information about child pornography and child sexual abuse material and taking legal action against offenders.

Meanwhile, taking a hard stand against Indian porn websites promoting child pornography and selling rape and gang-rape videos of Indian women and children the NDA government had last year had shut down five such websites which were being operated from India.

In 2015, the ministry of communications and IT, the department of telecommunications and the central government had listed over 800 websites and had issued an order to restrain service providers from transmitting them as their contents were found to be pornographic in nature.

Rahul Gandhi’s hypocrisy: Not a word on journalists being gagged in Karnataka, condemns UP CM for the same

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Rahul Gandhi’s hypocrisy: Not a word on journalists being gagged in Karnataka, condemns UP CM for the same

Congress has just suffered a humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha elections and it was widely publicised that the party leadership is busy ‘introspecting’. However, all the deliberation, thinking and discussions seem to have achieved nothing since the party president, who remains party president despite a long resignation drama continues to be his hypocritical, entitled self.

Taking to Twitter to express his stand over the issue of arrest of some ‘journalists’ in UP, Rahul Gandhi stated that the UP CM is behaving foolishly and needs to release these journalists.


Prashant Kanojia was arrested for spreading rumours and obscene remarks. 2 other persons associated with an unlicensed news channel named Nation Live who had held a panel discussion over the same fake news that Kanojia had shared were arrested too. The said channel allegedly had no permit or license for its operations and was being broadcast illegally.

Kanjojia’s arrest has brought to fore his Twitter account where he is seen consistently and blatantly spreading fake news, Hinduphobia and derogatory tweets. In one tweet, he has compared Dalits to animals. The Supreme Court has however ordered the immediate release of Kanojia.

As expected, left-leaning media portals and India’s pseudo-liberals are up in arms against the UP government over the arrests. However, Congress president Rahul Gandhi condemning the arrests comes from a special level of hypocrisy.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi had not uttered a word over the arrests of journalists in Karnataka, where his party is in power with JDS.

In November 2018, the Congress-JDS government in Karnataka had arrested journalist Santhosh Thammayya for his speech where he had criticised Tipu Sultan for his bigotry and atrocities. Rahul Gandhi did not condemn anyone for their behaviour, foolish or otherwise, at that time.

Recently, an FIR has been filed against journalist Vishweshwar Bhat for publishing a report against CM Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil Kumaraswamy. Rahul Gandhi did not consider it foolish behaviour either. In August 2018, a man was arrested in Karnataka for trolling CM Kumaraswamy on social media. Rahul Gandhi had not spared a single pearl of wisdom over that issue either.

Rahul Gandhi’s entitlement comes from a legacy whose most noteworthy contribution to India is the imposition of emergency and ordering raids and arrests against journalists who were exposing their corruption. An extensive list of Congress and its leadership’s actions against journalists and publishing houses is maintained by scientist and columnist Anand Ranganathan.


If any party has done the most to suffocate and gag freedom of speech, it is the Congress. As recently as last year, It was Congress which was up against the movie The Accidental Prime Minister, Congress had attempted to stop Netflix’s Sacred Games because it called Rajiv Gandhi ‘Fattu’. When Congress wrokers had tried to disrupt the screening of ‘Indu Sarkar’, not a single word was uttered by Rahul gandhi about their behaviour.

Even if we ignore all the above, Congress manifesto released before the 2019 general elections included a section that said, “Pass regulations to stop the spread of fake news and hate speech and punish those who misuse digital and social media.”  Before issuing advises to the UP government. Rahul Gandhi needs to spend some time actually doing that much publicised ‘introspection’.

As Yuvraj Singh announces his retirement from international cricket, here is a look at his career in numbers

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As Yuvraj Singh announces his retirement from international cricket, here is a look at his career in numbers

The southpaw from Punjab Yuvraj Singh has retired from international cricket after playing for more than 18 years & 402 matches for India. One of the most excellent hitters of a cricket ball and an absolute brilliant fielder was the mainstay of India’s success in World T20 in 2007 and World Cup 2011.

As he announced his retirement on Monday, let’s see his career through the numbers.

Format Mat Runs Avg 100s/50s Wkts Avg ER Cat
Test 40 1900 33.90 3/11 9 60.97 3.52 31
ODI 304 8701 36.55 14/52 111 38.68 5.10 94
T20I 58 1177 28.02 0/8 28 17.82 7.06 12
  • Yuvraj Singh made his International debut against Kenya in the ICC Knock-out tournament (now ICC Champions Trophy) in 2000, he didn’t get a chance to bat, but in his ODI innings in the next game, smashed 80 against Australia. 4th highest score by an Indian in debut ODI innings.
  • 8609 runs scored by Yuvraj Singh in ODIs for India – the seventh most for India in ODI cricket. Only Tendulkar, Ganguly, Kohli, Dravid, Dhoni and Azhar have scored more runs than him.
  • He is the only player to score 300-plus runs and taking 15 or more wickets in a single edition of Cricket World Cup – 363 runs & 15 wickets in the 2011 ICC World Cup.
  • He is the only batsman in T20I to hit 6 SIXES in an over – against Stuart Broad in World T20, 2007
  • Twelve balls, yes that many balls are taken by Yuvraj to score fifty against England in the match mentioned above – the fastest in the history of international cricket across formats and joint fastest in all T20 cricket.
  • He is the only player to win U-19 World Cup (in 2000), World T20 (in 2007) and Cricket World Cup (in 2011).
  • Yuvraj Singh is the only player in history to claim a five haul and also hit a fifty in the same Cricket World Cup match – 5 for 31 and 50* against Ireland in Bangalore, 2011.
  • Yuvraj Singh (2011) and Sachin Tendulkar (2003) are the only Indian players to win the Man of the Tournament in the Cricket World Cup.
  • He won 7 Man of the Series awards for India in ODIs. Second only to Sachin Tendulkar (14) for India and fifth most in ODI cricket alongside Ricky Ponting.
  • 251, the number of sixes Yuvraj Singh smashed in his international cricket career. He is only behind Rohit (355), Dhoni (355) and Tendulkar (264) in the Indian list of most sixes in an International career.
  • Yuvraj Singh played 304 ODI for India but never captained in a match. Only Muralitharan has played more games (350) without leading his team in ODI.
  • Yuvraj Singh (2011) and Kapil Dev (1983) are the only players to hit a hundred and capture a five-fer in World Cup.

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who defended Tarun Tejpal in rape case, spreads misinformation about Aligarh child murder case

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Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who defended Tarun Tejpal in rape case, spreads misinformation about Aligarh child murder case

Anurag Kashyap, the newfound cultural hero of the ultra-left wing, is back with his usual propaganda by spreading misinformation regarding the barbaric Aligarh child rape case.

Anurag Kashyap, like his other ‘secular’ comrades, went on to spread misinformation regarding the brutal killing of a three-year-old Tina (name changed) by Zahid and Aslam in Aligarh. Kashyap, who is reluctant to accept the communal nature of the incident as it destructs their ‘Dara Hua Musalman’ narrative went on to proclaim that there was no rape or any other sort of brutality against the child and accused people of creating an atmosphere of riots using the incident.


In a hurry to express his sympathy towards the accused, Anurag Kashyap claims that the dismembering of the body of the child and gouging out of the eyes of the child “did not happen” at all despite the fact that the post-mortem report said that vital parts from the body of the child victim body were missing. The initial post-mortem had also revealed that the right arm of the child was amputated.

Addition to that the post mortem has not yet ruled out the chances of sexual assault on the minor child as they are not able to ascertain the rape as vital parts of the child are missing. The post-mortem report was inconclusive of sexual assault. However, the case has also been filed under the relevant sections of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Therefore, it would be inaccurate to say at this point in time that the child was not raped.

Meanwhile, a ground report by journalist Swati Goel Sharma of Swarajya reveals more bitter truth about the Aligarh case. The report reveals that Aslam, the second accused in the case, has been booked twice under POCSO, of which once was for allegedly raping his own daughter (2014) and second time in 2017 for molesting a minor girl. The local villagers also revealed how Aslam had allegedly assaulted a minor boy for two weeks. The barbarity of the murder was such that the doctor who conducted the post-mortem even said that this was one of the most brutal murders.

Kashyap also deliberately conceals the fact regarding the mutilated body of the three-year-old child being found in the garbage after the child was assaulted repeatedly. The body was found with a fracture in ribs, left leg and critical head injuries. However, Kashyap alone is not to blame since even self-proclaimed fact-checkers have resorted to whitewashing the crime and basing their ‘fact-checks’ on police statements instead of scientific evidence.

In fact, Kashyap has chosen to remain deaf to the allegations of victim’s mother who has now accused Aslam, a co-accused in the case, of previously raping his own daughter after which his wife has taken their daughter away to her parent’s house.

Anurag Kashyap further resorts to misinformation by stating that a riot-like situation has been created in Aligarh following the heinous incident despite the fact that there is not even single incidence of violence or destruction of property has been reported from Aligarh.

Interestingly, Anurag Kashyap who has now found time to outrage against the killing of a three-year-old minor child has in the past defended Tarun Tejpal, who was accused of molesting his junior colleague, declaring that the accusations against Tejpal were untrue.

Anurag Kashyap, a member of ‘liberal-secular’ outrage factory, and regularly likes to make false anti-Modi statements on social media. He had once also revealed a mobile number of a journalist on Twitter, following which she got harassed by trolls. He is also quick to label people he disagrees with on social media as ‘radicals’.

Amitabh Bachchan’s Twitter account hacked by pro-Pak Turkish hackers, hackers tweet anti-India tweets

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Amitabh Bachchan’s Twitter account hacked by pro-Pak Turkish hackers, hackers tweet anti-India tweets

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan’s Twitter account was hacked on Monday night by pro-Pakistani Turkish hacker group Ayyildiz Tim, reports ANI.

Reportedly, the hacker group replaced Bachchan’s profile picture with a photo of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and also changed the bio, adding “Love Pakistan” and an emoji of the Turkish flag. The account has now been recovered.

Image Source: Twitter
Twitter account of Bachchan hacked by a Turkish hacker group.

Ayyildiz Tim also tweeted multiple messages, including an anti-India post, from Amitabh Bachchan’s Twitter account. “This is an important call to the whole world! We do condemn the irrespective behaviours of Iceland republic towards Turkish footballers. We speak softly but carry a big stick and inform you about the big Cyber attack here. As Ayyıldız Tim Turkish Cyber Armny +++”.

The second post read, “The Indian State, who mercilessly attacks the Muslims fasting in the month of Ramadan, is attacking the Ummah Muhammad in this age! Indian Muslims are entrusted to us by Abdulhamid”.

A series of anti-India tweets made by hackers from the Twitter account of Amitabh Bachchan

In another tweeted the hacker posted a messaging saying ‘Love Pakistan’ with an image of Pakistani PM Imran Khan.

Image Source: Twitter

Following the cyber attack, Mumbai Police PRO said, “We have informed our cyber unit and Maharashtra Cyber about the hacked Twitter account of Amitabh Bachchan. They are investigating the matter.”

Amitabh Bachchan’s Twitter account was restored around 12:20 am on Tuesday.

Sushma Swaraj denies reports of being appointed as Andhra Pradesh governor after minister Harsh Vardhan congratulates her for the same

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Sushma Swaraj denies reports of being appointed as Andhra Pradesh governor after minister Harsh Vardhan congratulates her for the same

Senior BJP leader and former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has denied rumours that she is being appointed as the governor of Andhra Pradesh. Reacting to the rumour which was being circulated on social media, Swaraj took to Twitter to inform that no such thing is happening.


In a tweet with sarcastic tone, she said that she called on Vice president Venkaiah Naidu on demitting her office, and this was enough for Twitter to appoint her as the Governor of Andhra Pradesh.


In the evening of 10th June Twitter was abuzz with reports that Sushma Swaraj appointed as the governor of Andhra Pradesh. Apart from Twitter users, few Telugu media houses and portals had speculated that she was being considered for the post of Governor of AP.

The rumour was further fuelled when union minister Harsh Vardhan congratulated Swaraj on her appointment. In the Hindi tweet, he had said that people of Andhra Pradesh will be benefited by the appointment of Sushma Swaraj as the governor of the state. Although Vardhan later deleted the tweet, news agency ANI had posted a screenshot of his tweet.


Later ANI posted another tweet informing that Harsh Vardhan has deleted his tweet congratulating Sushma Swaraj.


But all the speculations were put to end very soon by the Tweet of Sushma Swaraj. Before the tweets of Sushma Swaraj, home ministry sources also had denied the reports. The Home Ministry is the nodal authority for affairs related to Governors and Lieutenant Governors of states and Union territories.

Sushma Swaraj didn’t contest the 2019 Lok Sabha election on health grounds as she was recovering from a kidney transplant, and didn’t join the second government of Narendra Modi. It may be noted that her husband Swaraj Kaushal was the governor of Mizoram from 1990 to 1993.

12 senior govt officials ordered compulsory retirement by the Finance ministry over various charges.

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12 senior govt officials ordered compulsory retirement by the Finance ministry over various charges.

In a major crackdown on corruption, as many as 12 government officials, including the Chief Commissioner, Principal Commissioners and the Commissioner of Income Tax Department have been ordered to retire early under Rule FR 56 (J) of the Central Civil Services (CCS) on Monday. The order was issued by Finance Ministry.

As per reports, some of these officers are said to be guilty of sexual assaults, illegal and disproportionate assets, and corruption.


“12 senior officers of ranks of Chief Commissioner, Principal Commissioners and Commissioner of Income Tax Department compulsorily retired under Rule 56 by the Finance Ministry,” news agency ANI reported quoting Finance Ministry sources.

The development comes within days after the Cabinet Secretariat and the Central Vigilance Commission had instructed the vigilance heads across departments to speed up the process of identifying officers eligible for compulsory retirement under Fundamental Rule 56(j) of Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972.

The decision was taken to weed out the corrupt officials sitting atop bureaucratic ranks and non-performing officials over the next few months.

Under 56 (j), the performance of an officer who has turned 50 or 55 or has completed 30 years of service is reviewed to determine if he/she is accountable for compulsory retirement.

Though 56(j) has been in existence for several decades, however, it is the Narendra Modi led government that decided to act upon this rule. The Modi government has been instrumental in forcing various government employees to retire ahead of their tenure of attaining superannuation based on their non-performance or lack of integrity.

Income Tax joint commissioner Ashok Agarwal commissioner Homi Rajvansh has been fired on charges of corruption. I-T Commissioner (Appeal) had a sexual harassment case filed by two lady IRS officers. Other officers in the list are BB Rajendra Prasad, Ajoy Kumar Singh, Alok Kumar Mitra, Chander Saini Bharti, Andasu Ravindar, Vivek Batra, Swetabh Suman and Ram Kumar Bhargava.

This move by the BJP government is expected to improve the administrative efficiency of officials, reduce corruption and open jobs avenues across departments such as railways, armed forces, postal department, and central schools over the next few years.

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad urges Muslim community to initiate solutions to pave way for a magnificent Ram Temple in Ayodhya

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Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad urges Muslim community to initiate solutions to pave way for a magnificent Ram Temple in Ayodhya

Ravi Shankar Prasad, Law and Justice, and Electronics and Information Technology Minister in Modi government 2.0 has urged the Muslim community in India to take the initiatives to resolve the Ayodhya issue.

In an interview to Aaj Tak, the Union Minister and MP from Patna Sahib Lok Sabha constituency talked about a variety of issues and made distinct assertions on the Ram Janmabhoomi issue by batting for its expedition.

Speaking to Aaj Tak’s Sweta Singh, Prasad claimed that Ayodhya issue was not a ‘chunavi mudda’ (political concern) but a subject close to the peoples’ emotions. He reiterated that the Supreme Court of India should expedite the Ram Janmabhoomi Case.

Prasad requested the Muslim community to not treat this issue as a political case, instead urged them to initiate solutions to pave way for a magnificent Ram Temple in Ayodhya.


Prasad added that in the past, as a senior advocate, he has represented Ram Lalla and the Hindus in the Allahabad High court and could, therefore, confirm there was enough evidence to substantiate and expedite the decision on the Ram Janmabhoomi dispute.

Earlier too Prasad had said that the Supreme Court should fast-track the hearing in the Ayodhya title suit.

Speaking at the Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad in Lucknow on December 24, 2018, he had said if the apex court could hear the Sabarimala petitions on an urgent basis, same can be done with the Ayodhya case, which has been pending for a very long time.

Clarifying that he was making this comment in his personal capacity and not as a minister in the central government, he said, “I appeal to the Supreme Court in my personal capacity to hear the Ram Janmabhoomi issue like fast-track court for prompt disposal of the case.”

“When the Supreme Court can give its verdict on the Sabarimala Temple case promptly, why is the Ram Janmabhoomi issue pending for the past 70 years?” he questioned.

Rahul Gandhi’s official bungalow included in the Lok Sabha list of vacant houses: Reports

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As the former MPs of Lok Sabha who were not re-elected vacate their government allotted bungalows in Delhi and newly elected MPs wait for accommodation, the Lok Sabha secretariat has published a list of vacant bungalows. And surprisingly, this list includes 12, Tughlaq Lane, the official residence of Congress president Rahul Gandhi who has been re-elected to the lower house from Wayanad in Kerala, according to a report by ANI. Rahul Gandhi is occupying the residence since he was allotted the same after he became a member of Lok Sabha from Amethi in 2004.

The report says that the circular issued by the secretariat mentions the addresses of various bungalows which will be allotted to the MPs of the current Lok Sabha. The 12 Tughlaq Lane is a ‘Type 8’ category house, which is the highest category among the Lutyens bungalows.

According to rules, a list of vacant bungalows and flats is given to the MPs by the Lok Sabha secretariat from which they can choose and apply their desired accommodation. The list circulated this year has a list of 517 bungalows and flats, where the Rahul Gandhi’s bungalow also has been included.

Although Rahul Gandhi lost the elections from his seat Amethi, he was elected from Wayanad. He is president of the Congress party, which the largest opposition party. Besides this, he is also provided SPG protection on the basis of the threat assessment of the members of the Gandhi family. It is not sure whether Rahul Gandhi will be provided with a different bungalow, or his house was listed by mistake. The ANI report says that Rahul Gandhi’s office has no knowledge about the circular.

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