Tuesday, 28 August 2018

Asian Games: Sindhu bags memorable silver in women's singles

Jakarta [Indonesia], Aug 28 Ace shuttler PV Sindhu on Tuesday secured a noteworthy silver decoration in Women's Singles Badminton occasion as she turned into the primary Indian to complete second on the podium in the Asian Games.

The 23-year-old went down 13-21, 16-21 against Chinese Taipei player Tai Tzu Ying in the final clash that lasted 34 minutes.

Sindhu, who had thrashed Tzu Ying in the pre-quarters of the Rio Olympics, neglected to replicate the magic this time and had to settle for silver at the event.

The Chinese Taipei player, who is widely famous for her deceptive game, had earlier kicked-out the Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal from the progressing competition after she enrolled a ruling 21-17, 21-14 win in the semi-final round of the event.

Earlier this month, the Olympic bronze-medalist had to settle for a second consecutive silver in Badminton World Championship in the wake of losing to Spanish shuttler Carolina Marin in the final of the tournament.

In archery, India bagged a silver medal in Men's Compound Team event in a shoot-off round after they played a 229-229 draw against Korea the last match.

Subsequent to asserting the primary set 60-56, India surrendered a 54-58 annihilation to the Korean side. Making a solid rebound the Indian side won the third set 58-56 yet drooped to a 57-59 misfortune in the fourth set, bringing about a shoot-off.

The national side missed the yellow metal as they neglected to underwrite in the shoot-off round.

India's total medal tally in the ongoing 18th edition of the Asian Games now stands at 44-eight gold, sixteen silver and twenty bronze.

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MK Stalin chose DMK president, Duraimurugan treasurer

Chennai, Aug 28 The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's (DMK) general chamber chose M K Stalin as the gathering president here on Tuesday.

"As nobody else filed nomination, Mr. Stalin is chosen for the post," said party general secretary K. Anbazhagan.

Meanwhile, principal secretary Duraimurugan was named as the new treasurer of the party.

A total of 1907 party leaders and workers had either proposed or favored Stalin's name for the post. Duraimurugan collected help of 252 people.

Stalin had recorded his nomination papers on Sunday. He was appointed'working president' of the party in 2017.

This elevation comes when ousted party leader and Karunanidhi's elder child, MK Alagiri, asserted that the loyal supporters of his dad are behind him.

Alagiri, who was ousted by the previous party president Karunanidhi in 2014 for libelous assaults on senior members of the association and carrying out anti-party activities, had mixed a war of progression by naming Stalin's initiative as inadequate.

During the meeting, two minutes of quietness was observed for those who died during Kerala floods and Thoothukudi protest.

A compensation of Rs 2 lakh was announced for the family of the 248 people who passed due to shock after hearing the news of Karunanidhi's death on August 7.

During the meeting, DMK supporters also urged the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government to after death give Bharat Ratna to Karunanidhi.

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Saturday, 25 August 2018

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Ashish Khetan: Stop AAP on personal grounds

New Delhi, Aug 25 Journalist-turned-politician Ashish Khetan, who is the most recent to join the rundown of leaders who stepped down from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), has said that he went separate ways from the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-drove party on personal grounds.

Khetan resigned from the party on August 22. Kejriwal, however, is yet to accept it.

On being asked if he is joining some other gathering, Khetan declared that he has no such plans. "I am unable to devote my time and efforts for the uplifment of the party as I have joined the Bar Council. I would prefer not to proceed with the association only for name purpose."

"Early this year I made my decision to quit dynamic legislative issues after much pondering and in meeting with family and dear companions. Be that as it may, since both the party and the government were beset with a series of crises, I waited for an opportune time to formalize my choice. I had also informed the party leadership about my decision, on more than one occasion," he added.

Kehtan's resignation came a couple of days after Ashutosh, who was one of the establishing individuals from the AAP quit the gathering. Both the leaders, Khetan and Ashutosh, imparted a decent affinity to Kejriwal.

Khetan stepped into the world of politics in 2014 by joining AAP. He additionally battled 2014 general races from New Delhi against Bharatiya Janata Party's Meenakshi Lekhi however lost by an edge of 1,62,708 votes.

Prior this year, the gathering's two unmistakable faces Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav were sacked from the association for their divergent views. Later, both the leaders formed their own political outfit named the Swaraj Abhiyan.

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Piyush Goyal flags off Naini-Doon Janshatabdi

New Delhi, Aug 25 Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday hailed off Kathgodam-Dehradun Naini-Doon Janshatabdi Express by means of video conferencing from Rail Bhavan.

The new train will be providing direct availability between two important hill stations of Uttarakhand- - Mussoorie and Nainital. It will work five days seven days aside from Thursday and Sunday, making five stops between the source and destination.

The traveler prepare will begin its voyage from Kathgodam at 5:15 toward the beginning of the day and will cover a separation of 334 kilometers to reach Dehradun in 7 hours 20 minutes.

It will make a return journey on the same time, departing from Dehradun at 4:15 pm to reach back Kathgodam at 11:50 pm. Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani was also present during the event.

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Gold rakhis with PM Modi's face engraved hit market

Surat, Aug 25 With Raksha Bandhan only multi day away, a gem retailer in Gujarat's Surat city is offering rakhis made of gold with profile photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani engraved on them.

This year the jeweler made 50 such rakhis, which ranges from Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 70,000 for each rakhi and every one of them have been sold out.

Jewellery shop owner Milan stated, "Our Prime Minister Modi, Chief Ministers of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh have done great work for our nation and they rouse millions over the world." The characteristics of the leaders have been engraved with a laser machine on gold plate.

He further stated, "Women are visiting our store to buy these rakhis as they feel propelled from these leaders. They feel that their siblings will also earn name and fame in their respective fields."

The jeweler further informed informed that out of 50 gold rakhis which have been designed for this present year, 47 of them have been sold out. He included that more requests are as yet pouring in.

Meanwhile, a client stated, "By tying this Narendra Modi rakhi, I would favor my sibling to accomplish something extraordinary like Prime Minister Modi."

In a comparable case, a shop in Gujarat's Surat named '24 Carats Mithai Magic' is offering desserts for an astounding Rs 9,000 for each kg.

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Swamy on National Herald case: About time Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi are proved guilty

New Delhi, Aug 25 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament Subramanian Swamy, on Saturday, recorded his statement before a Delhi court regarding the National Herald case.

Swamy who filed the case against Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his mom Sonia Gandhi in 2012 while tending to the media, here said that it is in regards to time that the charged Congress leaders are brought to book.

"The arrangement is significantly more unmistakable in light of the fact that the workplace bearers of the Congress party are same as the Board of Directors of Associated Journals Limited (AJL) and as same the executives of Young Indians (YI) as well," he said.

"The vast property of the AJL was allowed to swallowed by YI without paying anything. It is a wrongdoing and I have built up it by all appearances. It's opportunity that they (Rahul, Sonia) are proved guilty," he added.

The Delhi High Court on August 8 declined to grant relief to Rahul Gandhi in regard with the case.

Rahul had challenged Income Tax authority's request to revive his tax assessment related to the National Herald and Young India transactions.

The Income Tax office educated the High Court that the AICC gave Rs 99 crores to Associate Journal Ltd and included that Rahul unshakably picked not to unveil that he held the executive's post at the Young India.

To which the court said that it'll decide if he was under a commitment to uncover these subtle elements or not.

Be that as it may, then again, the Congress President's legal advisor attested that Rahul did not get any pay from the source, henceforth he isn't subject for any assessment.

Rahul's direction additionally requested that the Court control media from distributing the issue, notwithstanding, the High Court declined to stay media announcing.

For those unversed, the National Herald trick is a continuous case recorded by Bharatiya Janata Party pioneer Subramanian Swamy against Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, their organizations and related people.

On January 20, the court of metropolitan justice Ambika Singh had requested the archives put together by the solicitor for the situation, Swamy, to be kept in a fixed cover till next hearing.

Swamy, in his plea, charged that the Congress party conceded an intrigue free credit of Rs. 90.25 crore to Associated Journals Limited (AJL), proprietor of the National Herald newspaper.

In November a year ago, the two Congress leaders filed their reaction to the application recorded by Swamy.

In the response, they stated that the application recorded by Swamy was not bonafide and loaded up with the sole protest of "deferring the procedures in a dormant case".

The alleged National Herald scam grabbed features after Swamy documented a body of evidence in 2012 against the Congress, specifically against Congress President Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi

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PM Modi: Congress insulted voters by questioning BJP's huge win

New Delhi, June 26 Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday blamed the Congress for offending voters of the nation by questioning the massive ...