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Kolkata: Former Miss India, Uber driver attacked by mob, Fardin Khan, Sheik Rahit, and 5 others arrested

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Kolkata: Former Miss India, Uber driver attacked by mob, Fardin Khan, Sheik Rahit, and 5 others arrested

In a horrific incident in Kolkata, former Miss India Universe Ushoshi Sengupta has been allegedly dragged out of her car and attacked by seven men raising further concerns about the increasingly deteriorating state of law and order in the West Bengal.

Ushoshi Sengupta, a former Miss India Universe, narrated her ordeal in a Facebook post including sharing some videos, where it can be seen that her cab was attacked on Monday night by a group of people.

According to Sengupta’s post, the incident took place at around 11.30pm when some men on a two-wheeler followed and hit the cab in which Sengupta and her colleague were travelling. Within moments, about 15 men appeared at the scene and started banging on the car windows, said Sengupta.

“Last night 17th June 2019 at around 11:40 pm I took an uber from JW Marriott Kolkata. I was accompanied by my colleague. We were taking a left turn from the Exide crossing towards Elgin while few boys in a bike (without helmets) came and hit the Uber. To which they stopped the bike and started yelling at the driver.

“In a fraction of second there were 15 boys and they all started banging the car window and dragging the driver out. They dragged the driver and started beating him up. This is when I stepped out and started shouting taking a video of the incident,” Sengupta wrote in a Facebook post which has gone viral.

“The boys followed us till my colleague’s house and right when we were dropping him near lake gardens govt housing, 6 of the boys in 3 bikes came and stopped my car, threw stones, broke the car. Dragged me out and tried to break my phone to delete the video. My colleague jumped out of fear and I was completely shaken. I came out started shouting by now the locals had come out,” she said.

Shockingly, according to Sengupta’s post, police officials at Maidan police station did not come to her help despite her cry for help as it was not under their jurisdiction and instead asked her to go to Bhawanipore Police station.

“I ran across the street to Maidan Police station, I saw an officer standing and I requested him to come with me, he told me that this is not under them but under the jurisdiction of Bhawanipore Police station. This is when I broke down I begged them to come or else the boys would have killed the driver,” said Sengupta.

In her post, Sengupta has also written about the reluctance of police officials at the Charu Market Police Station to file a report, who said Sengupta to do the same only at Bhawanipore Police Station where the incident had taken place.

“At this point, I gave up and started shouting. 1:30 am. No female police officer at the station. After raising a lot of questions the officer took my complaint but refused to take the uber drivers to complain stating that 2 FIR’s can’t be taken for the same complaint. And he told me that it’s against the law. My Uber driver insisted that he wants to do (file) the complaint but the officers didn’t take it. I am attaching the video of the mob and the picture of the broken car,” she wrote.

After Sengupta’s Facebook post went viral, the Kolkata police finally swung into action and arrested seven men, Sheik Rahit, Fardin Khan, Sk. Sabir Ali, Sk. Gani, Sk. Imran Ali, Sk. Wasim and Atif Khan, for allegedly harassing the complainant, assaulting an Uber driver and vandalising the cab. A detailed inquiry is going on into the case, said Joint Commissioner of Kolkata Police, Crime, Praveen Tripathi said.

Karnataka: Congress suspends senior MLA Roshan Baig with immediate effect for anti-party activities

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Karnataka: Congress suspends senior MLA Roshan Baig with immediate effect for anti-party activities

Senior Congress leader Roshan Baig has been suspended on Tuesday by the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee for anti-party activities.

“All India Congress Committee has approved the proposal sent by KPCC to take action against R Roshan Baig, MLA on account of his anti-party activities. He has been suspended from the party with immediate effect,” Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee said in a press statement.


Roshan Baig had been in news for the past few weeks. He stirred controversy by hitting out on the party in-charge in Karnataka, KC Venugopal, calling him a ‘buffoon’ and training guns at former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, levelling serious allegations that the portfolios in the Karnataka state assembly were ‘sold’.

Talking about the Lok Sabha debacle, Baig had held Siddaramaiah’s “arrogance” and Dinesh Gundu Rao’s “immaturity” responsible for the “flop show”.

Baig’s name also surfaced in connection with the Rs 15,000 crore IMA Jewels ponzi scam in which thousands of investors are feared to have lost their money after company’ founder and managing director Mansoor Khan disappeared.

Khan, in an audio clip, accused Roshan Baig of arm twisting and refusing to return Rs 400 crore which he had taken after he failed to get a Lok Sabha ticket for the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.

Baig, the seven-time legislator, who had been expressing displeasure against the Congress party leadership on not being included in the coalition cabinet headed by HD Kumaraswamy, had also appealed to the Muslim community to join hands with the BJP as the Congress only treated them as “bonded labour” and a vote bank.

Congress leader from Bengaluru Central, Rizwan Arshad took to Twitter to welcome Congress’ decision to suspend Baig, “Welcome the decision of AICC to suspend Roshan Baig from the Congress Party. He violated party discipline. Worked against the party in Lok Sabah election. Hobnobbed with BJP. Everyone knows that his actions and associations have brought great misery to common people.”


However, Baig could not be reached out for his comment on his suspension immediately.

7 faculty members from Bengal university resign after TMC student wing members hurl casteist abuses against tribal professor

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7 faculty members from Bengal university resign after TMC student wing members hurl casteist abuses against tribal professor

After abuse and harassment of doctors on duty resulted in over a week-long strike bringing the healthcare facilities in West Bengal to a screeching halt, another incident of political elements abusing a University professor has come to light.

As per reports, Dr Saraswati Kerketa, a professor at the Rabindra Bharati University has alleged that a group of students belonging to the TMCP, (Trinamool Chhatra Parishad) had harassed and abused her, hurled casteist and derogatory remarks against her and even threatened her safety and well being. TMCP is the student wing of TMC.


Dr Saraswati Kerketa has mentioned in her letter that several students from the union had visited her at her office and had threatened and abused her. She stated that the students also threw a bottle at her and did not allow her to sit, eat or drink anything for hours, despite her pleading that she has an orthopaedic condition.

They also hurled casteist abuses and insulted her gender, colour, background and her place of birth. After the ordeal, when she was on her way home, she was also allegedly followed by some of those students which had forced her to seek refuge at a friend’s house.

Following Dr Kerketa’s complaint and some other incidents, several faculty members at the university have tendered their resignations protesting against the menace of TMCP members. As per reports, Dr Kerketa was being harassed by TMCP members since late May and when some other faculty members objected to it and protested, the TMCP members had gheraoed them for five hours recently. Following the incident, seven faculty members, 4 HoDs and 3 Deans have decided to resign.

As per reports, the heads of Bengali, Sanskrit, Economics and Political Sciences departments and the Deans of The School of Languages and Culture, Department of Visual Arts and BR Ambedkar Study Centre at the Rabindra Bharti University have tendered their resignations on Monday.

Following the resignations, WB education minister Partha Chatterjee had reportedly visited the university yesterday and met faculty members. He also spoke to VC Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhry who had ordered an inquiry into the incidents. The VC has stated that Dr Saraswati Kerketa’s letter has been submitted to the Executive Council and investigations have already started. He promised that the guilty will not be spared.

Video and statistics highlights from England v Afghanistan match

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Video and statistics highlights from England v Afghanistan match

A crushing victory for England against the minnows at The Old Trafford pushed them to number one in the points table. There was no stopping since the time they won the toss, and now they have four wins in 5 games.

Eoin Morgan would not have imagined that he would create a world record after he chose to bat first against Afghanistan. England got a new opener for this ODI, James Vince, who has replaced an injured Jason Roy. Vince and Bairstow added 46 runs in 9.3 overs before Mujeeb caught Vince off Dawlat Zadran’s bowling.

In comes the man in form, Joe Root, who added 120 runs for the 2nd wicket. Bairstow was marching towards his first World Cup hundred, but Afghan skipper Gulbadin took the catch off his bowling. A disappointed Bairstow became the first victim of the nervous nineties of this tournament.

After that, it was just Morgan’s show. When he scored his first run of the innings, Root was on 47, by the time Root added 41 more runs to his tally, Morgan has added 142. Yes, 189 runs partnership of which Morgan who destroyed the bowling scored 142 runs. He smashed 17 sixes, the most by any batsman in ODI innings, fastest hundred for England in World Cup and 4th fastest by anyone in World Cup history.

Just after hitting his 17th six, Morgan lost his wicket. But that didn’t change the tempo of innings. Moeen Ali thrashed the bowlers all over the park; he smashed 31 runs off just nine balls with four sixes which helped England to reach 397 in their 50 overs, an English record.

Watch: England Innings (batting)

Afghanistan had nothing to lose in this situation. Although they lost the first wicket in second over, they batted much better compared to their previous four outings in the tournament. Gulbadin Naib (37), Rahmat Shah (46), Hasmatullah Shahidi (76), and Asghar Afghan (44) contributed a significant chunk of runs in Afghanistan’s total of 247. They also added in most sixes in a world cup match record. Jofra and Rashid took three wickets each. England won by 150 runs.

Watch: Afghanistan Innings (batting)

STATS

  • Eoin Morgan belted 17 sixes in the innings, which is a world record for ODI innings. The previous best was 16 – held by Rohit Sharma and AB de Villiers
  • Morgan’s 148 is his highest ODI score and England’s third highest score in World Cups.
  • It took just 57 balls for Morgan to reach the hundred, an English record in the World Cup, and 4th fastest by any batsman in World Cup.
  • A combined of 33 sixes were hit by both the teams (25 by England and eight by Afghanistan), which is a World Cup record.
  • Twenty-five sixes by English batsmen are now the World Record in ODI cricket. England also held the previous record of most sixes by a team in ODI innings.
  • Root and Morgan added 189 runs for the third wicket, the most by any English pair for any wicket in World Cup history.
  • England’s 397 is now the highest World Cup score for them; they surpassed their best score of 386 which was scored in the same edition against Bangladesh.
  • Rashid Khan conceded 110 runs in his nine overs is the most expensive bowling figure in World Cup history. Eleven sixes scored off Rashid is the most ever by a bowler in the history of ODI cricket.

After barring NDTV from accessing capital markets, SEBI imposes penalty of Rs 12 lakh for non-disclosure of information

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After barring NDTV from accessing capital markets, SEBI imposes penalty of Rs 12 lakh for non-disclosure of information

In yet another setback for controversial media group NDTV, SEBI has imposed a penalty of Rs. 12 lakh on New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV) for failing to make timely disclosures to the stock exchanges.

Reportedly, the order comes after the SEBI noticed multiple disclosure lapses by NDTV and noted non-compliance with the Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeover (SAST) Regulations.

SEBI examined that Indiabulls Financial Services in January 2008 had acquired 40 lakh shares of NDTV, amounting to 6.40 per cent of the total share capital of the firm. The promoters of NDTV acquired 20.28 per cent of the total share capital of NDTV in July 2008.

However, the entities were to make requisite disclosures to NDTV under relevant provisions of SAST norms, while NDTV, in turn, was supposed to report the same to BSE as well as NSE. As per the order, the controversial media group delayed in disclosing information related to change in the shareholdings of its promoters and Indiabulls Financial Services.

“The allegation of delayed disclosures under Regulation 7(3) of SAST.. to BSE and NSE against the Notice stands established,” Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said.

Consequently, a penalty of Rs 12 lakh has been imposed on NDTV which shall be payable “jointly and severally” by the media company.

Earlier this week, the SEBI had barred NDTV’s key promoters – Prannoy Roy, Radhika Roy and their holding firm RRPR Holdings from accessing the capital markets for two years and also restrained the two individuals from holding any board or top management role at the company in this period.

However, Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy have now got a stay from Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) against an earlier order passed by SEBI barring NDTV promoters from holding managerial positions at the news television network.

This is not the first time that NDTV is facing charges for indulging in such financial irregularities. Earlier, NDTV had got a show cause notice from the Income Tax Department. The IT Department show cause notice pertained to the IT Department levying a penalty of Rs. 436.80 crores for the assessment year 2009-10.

What you did in that ICU is not journalism, Anjana Om Kashyap, it is insensitive, creating a nuisance and endangering lives

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What you did in that ICU is not journalism, Anjana Om Kashyap, it is insensitive, creating a nuisance and endangering lives

The outbreak of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in the country has become severe taking the death toll in Muzaffarpur and other districts of Bihar over 100. The situation is alarming and losing over 100 children to AES cannot be considered as anything less than a catastrophe. The media, however, in their zeal to cover the disaster seems to be doing exactly what they should be fighting again – endangering the lives of patients who come to the hospital for AES treatment.

A video came to light earlier where Anjana Om Kashyap, a senior journalist from the India Today group was seen heckling and questioning a doctor inside the ICU.

Former Executive of Zee Media, Mohammad Anas uploaded the video by questioning what Anjana Om Kashyap was doing inside the ICU. He also said that she was wasting valuable time of the doctors.


In the video, Anjana Om Kashyap can be seen heckling a doctor and questioning him about the condition of the hospital and the care being provided to the children who come in with Encephalitis. She questions the doctor about the arrangements, why a new patient is not being attended to etc. The doctor, who is visibly agitated tries to explain to Anjana that the patient has just come in and will be attended to.

Being unsatisfied with the TRP that a normal, logical response might create, Anjana presses on. Insensitively, she asks the doctor how many children have died so far on that day. She then points towards a bed with multiple patients on it and tells the doctor to do his job well. She tells him to treat the patients and ensure proper care. Then, she questions why there are multiple patients on one bed and the ‘haalat’ of the care being provided. The doctor had already told her, in an agitated manner, that if the number of beds is limited and the number of patients by accommodating more patients and hence, there are multiple children on one bed.

Anjana Om Kashyap then proceeds to heckle a nurse. She asks her the same set of questions that she annoyed the doctor with. The nurse, agitated, respond to her saying that if there are patients obviously they will be tended to and that the other nurse had just stepped away.

The nurse also tries to explain to Anjana that they are trying to accommodate as many patients as they can to care for them.

Anjana moves on with her arrogant demeanour and starts heckling the previous doctor again. She asks him how many beds there are in that hospital. The doctor, still, gives a calm response which is an achievement in itself after Anjana was being nothing short of crazy.

After she gets an answer she proceeds to give the doctor a lesson in sensitivity and management.

What Anjana Om Kashyap did in that Intensive Care Unit (ICU) was not a journalist by any stretch of the imagination. Firstly, she seems to have gone inside the ICU, which is prohibited for anyone other than the patients and the caretakers. She then proceeded to heckle and agitate the doctor and nurse on duty just for cheap television eyeballs.

The charade of caring for the children who are troubled with Encephalitis has been a rampant scene on television with journalists trying to play their angle through the reportage. Some try to play politics, while others, like Anjana Om Kashyap, try to heckle doctors and nurses to convince the world that she and her channel care about those children.

However, what Anjana ended up doing what wasting precious time that the doctors and nurses should have been spending taking care of the children instead of talking to a hyper, insensitive journalist. When an outbreak happens, every moment of the doctor’s time is precious because that is all that stands between the life and death of the patient. Anjana wasted that time mouthing off useless words and inanities while agitating the doctors who would be working on the patients.

It is possible that Anjana was genuinely upset about the mounting deaths in Bihar and just made an error in judgement. A bad call on what direction was to be taken. However, eventually, the line taken endangered lives and wasted precious time of the doctors.

If Anjana had to find answers and pin the burden of negligence on anyone, she should have been heckling the Chief Minister of the state. She should have asked questions of the Health Minister of Bihar who recently made a terribly insensitive comment. At most, she should have been questioning the management of the hospital. Why she felt the need to heckle doctors and nurses, who seem to be trying their best to save lives despite limited capacity, is beyond the realm of imagination. What Anjana Om Kashyap did in that ICU was the pinnacle of irresponsible journalism driven by emotions.

ED attaches 6170 vehicles worth ₹1610 crore from logistics firm in a bank fraud case

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ED attaches 6170 vehicles worth ₹1610 crore from logistics firm in a bank fraud case

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached the movable properties worth Rs 1609.78 crores belonging to M/S Siddhi Vinayak Logistics Ltd (SVLL), Mumbai, in a bank fraud case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. The official Twitter handle of ED informed that 6170 road vehicles have been attached by the agency.


In 2016, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had registered a case of cheating against Roopchand Baid, the owner of SVLL, and others. In April 2017, Baid was sent to ED custody on the charges of aiding the laundering of the money taken on loan from Bank of Maharashtra on account of helping truck drivers in the name of a scheme called ‘Chalak se Malak’. This scheme was supposed to help the drivers their own vehicles, and the SVLL had signed tripartite agreements with the bank and drivers.

According to this scheme, Bank of Maharashtra had sanctioned huge sums of money for the purchase of vehicles. But later Baid had diverted the money as his shell companies were listed as vendors of vehicles in the agreements. This was done on the basis of forged documents, including vehicle registration.

Canara Bank and Bank of India had also reportedly lodged a criminal complaint against SVLL before the CBI for a loan amount of Rs 600 crore. However, ED concentrated only on the Bank of Maharashtra case waiting for the CBI to file its first prosecution complaint against SVLL.

Launch of the fraudulent Chalak se Malak scheme by SVLL

In the preliminary investigation conducted by the ED under PMLA, it was found that SVLL had created various dubious companies or fake automobile vendors for getting loans from banks. The SVLL provided the list of the names of fake vendors to Bank of Maharashtra to get the loan amount disbursed to them in the name of purchasing vehicles. The loan amount so disbursed went to the accounts of fake vendors and was later diverted to SVLL. In some cases, names of real vehicle dealers were provided and the bank had issued the loan in the name of such dealers. But later the company had cancelled the orders got the amount refunded into SVLL account from the dealers.

During the meetings with the Bank authorities, Baid would misrepresent to them that the money was being utilised for the intended purpose while actually the actually it was deposited into SVLL bank accounts via the bank accounts of the vendors.

The CBI submitted the charge sheet against the SVLL and 20 others in February 2018. The charge sheet contained the names of Roopchand Baid, and his three family members, Deepak, Raj and Laxmi and the companies associated with them.

Earlier, the ED had attached assets worth Rs 19.62 crore from the company in the same case in 2017. This included several real estate properties, luxury cars and bank balances.

While Kejriwal plans woman safety with ‘free rides’, Delhi streetlights may go dark as power bill remains unpaid

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While Kejriwal plans woman safety with ‘free rides’, Delhi streetlights may go dark as power bill remains unpaid

Arvind Kejriwal’s futile attempt to play his populist stunts by declaring ‘free rides for women’ might not help him, as Delhiites may have to pay a heavier price for his unpreparedness. The private power distribution company, Tata Power-DDL has threatened the AAP government to stop electricity supply to 50,000 streetlights in unauthorised areas in north Delhi as the government agencies have not yet paid dues amounting to as much as Rs 7 crore for over a year now.

Tata Power-DDL, which supplies power to over seven million people in North Delhi, has stressed that it spends Rs 68 lakh each month on the maintenance of these street lights for which it has not yet been remunerated by the government agencies as per the signed contract.

Sanjay Banga, chief executive officer, Tata Power-DDL said, “Time and again, both the North Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIIDC) have denied the ownership of these streetlights, resulting in accumulation of huge arrears. The company has also written to the chief secretary of the Delhi government for intervention.”

The non-payment of dues by the AAP government is severely hampering the regular maintenance of the streetlights which are crucial in preventing robberies, accidents and most importantly crimes against women.

In July 2014, the company had threatened to blackout streets in north and northwest Delhi after the north corporation allegedly failed to pay it Rs 62.53 crores in electricity bills.

However, an official from the Tata Power-DDL maintained that as of now they did not want to point out the particular areas where streetlights might go off after dark, or when the company plans to initiate the action.

“We realise that this is an essential service and is crucial to prevent accidents, robberies and crimes against women. Hence, we do not wish to name areas. This is all the more reason that this issue must be resolved at the earliest,” he said.

Its time Delhi CM, Arvind Kejriwal realises that ‘free travelling’ might not contribute as much towards women safety as probably proper well-lit streets would. The women of Delhi would not mind paying for their travelling only if they felt secured walking through unobscured streets.

Moreover, if Tata Power-DDL goes ahead with their plans of withdrawing power supply it would become difficult for Arvind Kejriwal, who has a habit of lying from his teeth, to keep up to his false claims of Delhi being the only city in the country to enjoy uninterrupted 24×7 power supply.

Pakistani cricket fan files petition in court seeking ban on the cricket team after humiliating defeat to India

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Pakistani cricket fan files petition in court seeking ban on the cricket team after humiliating defeat to India

There is no end to various kind of reactions by Pakistani Cricket fans after the disastrous performance of their team at the Cricket World Cup. The Pakistani Twitter users had earned accolades after their unabashed criticism of their team on social media after the humiliating defeated of the team against India on 16th June at Old Trafford.

But one Pakistani cricket fan has decided to take the matter in his own hand, and instead of slamming the players of not being athletic, being lazy, or eating junk food ahead of the game, he has decided to take the legal route. According to a report by Samaa TV, a person has filed a petition at the Gujranwala Civil Court seeking a ban on the Pakistani cricket team. The petitioner, who has not been named, has also requested that the former captain Inzamam-ul-Haq led selection committee should be dissolved.

In response to the petition, the civil judge has summoned the relevant Pakistan Cricket Board officials.

In the meanwhile, Pakistani media has reported that PCB’s Governing Board is expected to decide on major changes to the team’s management during its meeting scheduled for Wednesday in Lahore. It is speculated that several members of the team, including coaches and selectors, may be sacked. A report by Geo TV states that Coach Mickey Arthur’s contract will not be renewed by the PCB. Team manager Talat Ali, bowling coach Azhar Mahmood and the entire selection committee including Inzamam-ul-Haq can also be dismissed, the report says.

After the loss against India, Pakistan is at ninth place in the points table of the world cup, just ahead of Bangladesh. The team has won just one match in the world cup so far. To reach the semi-finales, Pakistan will have to win all four remaining games. But entry into semi-finals will also depend on the results of matches between other teams.

Government of India restores ration in kind for defence forces posted in peace areas

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Government of India restores ration in kind for defence forces posted in peace areas

Accepting the proposal of the Ministry of Defence, Government of India has approved the restoration of ‘Ration in kind’ to the defence officers posted in peace areas.


In 2017 the government had stopped the ration for the officers posted in peace locations and had instead started paying them Rs 117. The decision had attracted a lot of criticism. A notice was sent by a Judge Advocate General (JAG) officer to the Central government seeking the reversal of the decision within 60 days of its implementation.


The government had earlier put an end to the ration-in-kind for security personnel posted in peace areas on the recommendation of the Seventh Central Pay Commission with came into effect from July 1, 2017. The government had cited the reason that it was working out costlier than free ration. According to reports, the free ration cost around Rs 100 per day while ration-in-kind cost around Rs 205 per day.

The provision regarding ration in kind for security personnel posted in peace areas was started in 1983. But initially, it was applicable only to junior officers. Later, it was extended to all ranks.

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