Even months after the Supreme Court's pathbreaking verdict abolishing the Section 377 of the IPC, India, it seems, is not a safe place for homosexuals. In yet another hate crime against lesbians, two women, in their early twenties, on July 28, were allegedly thrown out of a hotel in Chennai. There were allegations that the behaviour of the young couple led to the discomfort of other guests present in the hotel.The incident comes to light after one of the girls named Rasika Gopalakrishnan took to social media to narrate the ordeal she and her friend Shivangi Singh faced last month. In a hard hitting Facebook post, Gopalakrishnan said, "My friend and I decided to go to a bar called The Slate Hotels on a Saturday night. While dancing, there were 4 to 5 men who were standing at the bar and were constantly staring at us, making us very uncomfortable".
Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha, the son in law of former Karnataka Chief Minister SM Krishna, was found dead on Wednesday morning, 36 hours after he went missing from a bridge near Mangaluru in Karnataka. A massive search operation involving multiple agencies was on since Monday evening, when Mr Siddhartha went missing. The body had washed ashore the Netravati river near Ullal in Mangaluru and was found by fishermen at around 6:30 in the morning.
Shares of Coffee Day Enterprises plunged 20% in the early trading session on Tuesday after Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha was reported missing.VG Siddhartha, who's the founder of India's largest coffee chain Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) and who also happens to be the son in law of senior BJP leader SM Krishna, has reportedly gone missing from the Netravati dam site in Karnataka since Monday evening.
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A day after Adoor Gopalakrishnan and others raised voice against violence in the name of religion, a BJP leader in Kerala on Thursday hit out at the renowned auteur saying he was free to shift to the Moon or any other planet if he was unable to tolerate those chanting "Jai Sri Ram."
Yathin S Krishnappa Wikimedia Commons Licensed under CC BY 3.0 Jul 13, 2019 middot; 01:30 pm Aathira Perinchery Share Tweet Email Reddit Print Share Tweet Email Reddit Print Matriarch grandmas, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews: elephants, much like us, have complex social lives. But Asian elephants from Southern India could be changing their social lives, to adapt to human use landscapes that are fast replacing their natural habitats.Young male elephants, which are typically solitary, are now forming unusually large and more long term, all male herds, finds a study published in Scientific Reports last week. This adaptation could be an effort to learn the ropes from older, more knowledgeable males on how to avoid getting killed in these areas that pose unnaturally high risks to elephants.
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As IBM closes its $34bn slurpage of Red Hat, the IT giant has seen fit to issue instructions to its soon to be purple wearing employees on what all those complicated words spurted from its marketing orifice actually mean.In a staff memo seen by The Register, IBM luminaries Arvind Krishna (senior veep of IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software), Mark Foster (senior veep of IBM Services and Global Business Services) and Michelle Peluso (senior veep of IBM Digital Sales and chief marketing officer) define "Cloud terms you should know".
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Muddukrishna, an employee with the Indian Bank, had quit the job to involve himself in theatre activities. He was active with Samudaya , one of oldest amateur theatre groups of the city. He was also involved in various theatre movements.Muddukrishna, who served as a member of Karnataka Nataka Academy, had opposed a hike in the ticket prices of Bahuroopi Natakotsava 2015. His wife Indrani was a scientist with Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) and was due for retirement this year.
NEW DELHI: A day before the Union Budget is presented, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today tabled the Economic Survey 2018 19, prepared by Chief Economic Adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian, in the Parliament. The Economic Survey projects the state of health of the Indian economy and outlines the challenges.The Indian economy is at a 5 year low of 6.8% in 2018 19 and the fourth quarter growth has slumped to 5.8% which is a 17 quarter low.
The Economic Survey is nothing but an annual document prepared by advisers to the finance minister and tabled in the Parliament a day before the Union budget. This year the Economic Survey has been prepared by the new Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian who will roll out his first official survey on July 4.A flagship document of the finance ministry, the Economic Survey is a review of the developments in the Indian economy over the previous 12 months.
A month after the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat did it, five other members from the top brass of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) have also now joined the social media site Twitter. Suresh Bhaiyyaji Joshi (@SureshBJoshi), Krishna Gopal (@KGopalRSS), V Bhagaiah, Aniruddh Deshpande (@AniruddhaRSS), Arun Kumar (@ArunKumRSS), and Suresh Soni (SureshSoni1925) too now have a verified Twitter account with blue tick .
New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat and six other national level functionaries of the organisation have joined Twitter.Besides Bhagwat, Suresh Joshi, Suresh Soni, Krishna Gopal, V Bhagaiah, Arun Kumar and Aniruddh Deshpande have joined the micro blogging site and their handles have also been verified.
”Two more children died today due to AES at the Sri Krishna Medical College Hospital (SKMCH), Muzaffarpur, taking the death toll up to 37, ” said Bihar 's principal secretary, health, Sanjay Kumar. He, however, conceded he did not have figures of the Kejriwal Maternity Clinic (KMC), Muzaffarpur, where many children with symptoms of AES are undergoing treatment. ”Till Monday, 28 children had died of AES at the SKMCH and seven at the KMC. ”So far 143 cases of AES have been reported from 11 districts of Vaishali, Sitamarhi, Sheohar, East Champaran, Patna, Nalanda, Muzaffarpur, Jehanabad, Gaya, Bhojpur and Aurangabad.
A committee, headed by Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, a former chief of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), on Friday submitted a draft National Education Policy to the Modi government recommending teaching of Hindi, English and one regional language in the non Hindi states. For Hindi speaking states, the committee recommended teaching of Hindi, English and one of the modern Indian languages from other parts of the country. HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Submits New Education Policy Draft On First Day, Revival of Academic Sector Expected. The Draft National Education Policy 2019, says while the "three language formula" followed in a section of schools since 1968 should be continued, "children will now be immersed in three languages early on, starting from the Foundational Stage onwards." Many saw the recommendation as an effort to impose Hindi as a mandatory language in schools till Class 8 across the country, including in non Hindi speaking states. Don't Impose Hindi on Tamil Nadu: DMK Leader T Siva Warns Modi Government of Protests.
Top sources in the BJP say the Modi 2.0 Cabinet will be a lot younger than the earlier one and nearly half the ministers would be fresh entrants. It is expected that 45 47 ministers will take oath with the Prime Minister. The new entrants will not only bring energy but also determine the party's new priorities in terms of caste equations and geography. It will also accommodate partners like the JD(U), the AIADMK and the Shiv Sena (its sitting Cabinet minister has lost in these elections).Six ministers including Anant Geete (Heavy Industries Minister), Hardeep Puri (Urban Development Minister), Pon Radhakrishna (Minister of State for Finance), Manoj Sinha (Minister of State for Railways) and Alphons Kannanthanam (Minister of State for Tourism) have lost in the recent posts.
The biggest democratic election in the history of the world has concluded, and Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi has been given a second five year term by voters. Since the time when Jawaharlal Nehru, riding on the aura of Mahatma Gandhi, whose chosen candidate for the most important job in India he was, ruled hearts across the country for about fifteen years before the 1962 war with China created waves of disillusionment with his performance in office. Before that, Nehru was given a sheaf of blank cheques on policy by the people of India. Although much of his party wanted to nourish a strong private sector, especially C. Rajagopalachari and Sardar Patel, the first Prime Minister of the Republic of India moved the country in the same direction the Soviet Union had taken after 1917. The commanding heights of the economy were reserved for the public sector, and as a consequence, Korean and Japanese companies (not to mention several others) rapidly outstripped their Indian peers as a consequence of the severe constraints that were placed on their growth. Indeed, under the Industrial Development and Regulation Act enacted by his daughter Indira Gandhi, it became a criminal act for a company to produce beyond its registered capacity. Efficiency and the economies of scale created by size became taboo. Small wonder that India became known for products such as the Hindustan Motors Ambassador, a copy of a UK car that had lapsed into unpopularity in its home country. All that changed in the Mark II model seemed to be the grille, while there was a saying that the only part of many cars that did not make any noise was the horn. Taxes rose and rose and rose, touching a marginal rate of 97%, again under Indira Gandhi, who chose a youthful and very loyal and socialistic Pranab Mukherjee to be her Finance Minister. Economist Raj Krishna termed the growth rate under the years of Nehruvian economic policies as the Hindu Rate of Growth (of about 2%), but it should more properly have been called the Nehru Rate of Growth . In foreign policy, Nehru took an idealistic stance, refusing for example to accept the offer of the Ranas to secede to India, or the Sultan of Oman to take control of Gwadar, or the US offer to replace China with India as a permanent member of the UN Security Council. Later, the Soviet Union suggested that a sixth permanent UNSC seat could be decided upon, that could get filled by India. Again, the offer was turned down. Although more than 270, 000 Hindus were killed by mobs in East Pakistan throughout 1951, Nehru chose to keep silent, so as to avoid provoking the anger of the genocidal leadership of Pakistan.Despite such a legacy, history books almost glow in the dark with chapters on the genius of Nehru and his successor s successor, Indira Gandhi. Roads, bridges, schools, colleges, hospitals and multiple other structures and institutions are named after the family. It is therefore small wonder that there may be a sense of entitlement and privilege in some of the descendants of Motilal Nehru, who ensured (again through the Mahatma) that Jawaharlal took over as All India Congress Committee President. Neither Lal Bahadur Shastri or P.V. Narasimha Rao were blind followers of Nehruvian policies, and both paid for such effrontery by being sharply attacked, in the case of Shastri by Vijaylakshmi Pandit (sister of Nehru) publicly and by Indira Gandhi (who was then a minister in the Shastri Council of Ministers) privately. In Rao s case, senior Congress leaders were encouraged to split the Congress, and Sheila Dixit, Arjun Singh and Narain Dutt Tiwari led the rebels in attacking the Congress government of which till recently they were a part in merciless terms. The consequence was the rise of the BJP, which under Atal Behari Vajpayee was open in its respect for the Nehru legacy. Prime Minister Vajpayee adopted a policy of familial benevolence towards the Nehru family, and was much loved by their supporters as a consequence. It is only in 2014 that the shadow of the Nehru legacy began to move away from the centres of power, a shift that has become complete with the victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha campaign of Narendra Modi. The stunning victory of the PM has resulted in a tectonic shift in the polity of India that has been created by the societal change correctly discerned by PM Modi. The country can now be said to have moved fully from the Nehruvian era to the Modified era. Just as Nehru was given the freedom by an adoring public to fashion the policies of his choice, and to populate his government with people to his liking, PM Modi too has the freedom to change personnel and adopt the policies of his choice. Such is the support for Modi within the public that he has even more authority than Indira Gandhi did in her time. He has the same level of authority as Nehru in the 1950s. The people are looking for Modified India to move into double digit growth, to seize the geopolitical choices on offer and to ensure that all citizens and their institutions are treated the same, unlike when rules and laws, such as those involving freedom of movement and settlement throughout India are applied only to some. Sabka saath sabka vikas is the motto of PM Modi, and he will need to continue to work tirelessly in order to achieve this lofty goal.
The poll watchdog also said that Congress president Rahul Gandhi has asked for time till May 7 to file a reply to the show cause notice issued on May 1 for a speech at Shahdol in Madhya Pradesh on April 23. ”They snatch away your land, jungle and water hellip;and then, say that the tribal people can be shot at, ” Gandhi was quoted as saying in the speech.Modi, who has been cleared on three previous occasions for speeches made in election rallies, was facing two more complaints for an address in his home constituency of Varanasi on April 25 and for another speech in Maharashtra 's Nanded on April 6. Shah faced complaints for his speeches in West Bengal 's Krishnanagar on April 22 and in Maharashtra 's Nagpur on April 9.
The two had met each other at a party and cupid struck. Priyanka was seen playing Ayush Agarwal s sister on the show. She is also a wedding planner and a blogger. Friends from the industry have been congratulating the happy couple on her post. Anita Hassanandani, Shikha Singh, Rajsingh Arora, Ankita Bhargava and Krishna Mukherjee have all been congratulating the actress on this new phase in her life. The photos of her flaunting the baby bump are indeed adorable to look at. Though we still don t know when the baby is due, we are pretty excited for the big day.Check out these photos of Priyanka flaunting her baby bump right here.
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Interestingly the Congress has fielded a seer Acharya Pramod Krishnam from the seat.Shatrughan, who joined his wife's roadshow in the state capital before she filed her nomination papers on Thursday, invited criticism from Krishnam for 'preferring' wife to the party.