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  • KIIT to support footballers of Boudh and Kandhamal districts for 2 years: Achyuta Samanta

    KIIT to support footballers of Boudh and Kandhamal districts for 2 years: Achyuta Samanta

    Phulnbani: The Bhubaneswar-based Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University will support the football players of Boudh and Kandhamal districts for the next two years, informed Kandhamal MP and KIIT & KISS founder Achyuta Samanta.

    Samanta’s announcement came following the entry of Kandhamal into the final of the 62nd Senior Men Inter-District Football Championship for Sahani Cup. The Kandhamal football team entered the final for the first time after defeating Bargarh 2-1 at Bidanasi Ground in Cuttack.

    Apart from making the announcement, the Kandhamal MP also congratulated and felicitated the players. With the aim to boost the morale of the players, he also announced to give cash award of Rs 2 lakh to the team if they become the champion of the tournament and Rs 1 lakh if they become the runners-up.

    He hoped that Kandhamal will become the winner of the final match which is slated to be played on May 17 at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar. The Senior Men Inter-District Football Championship for Sahani Cup is jointly being organised by the Football Association of Odisha and the State Sports & Youth Service Department.

    Moreover, Samanta said that a number of decisions have been taken for the promotion of sports in Boudh and Kandhamal districts. As part of this, the KIIT University will support the footballers of Boudh and Kandhamal districts for two years.

    The football players of Boudh and Kandhamal if want can stay in KIIT University and continue their practice at the high-performance centre, Samanta said adding that coaching will be provided at the grassroot level.

    He further said that decision will be taken for the development of the football grounds in Boudh and Kandhamal districts. Besides, floodlights will be installed in 5-6 football grounds.

    “Special coaching camps will be organised for the players or athletes of Boudh and Kandhamal districts who will be taking part in the district or national level competitions. Special (even financial) help will also be provided to the players who make it to the national teams. If they want to pursue their studies, they also can take admission and complete their education free of cost,” said the Kandhamal MP.

  • Odisha DGP Visits Koraput To Review Maoist Situation

    Odisha DGP Visits Koraput To Review Maoist Situation

    Koraput: Odisha’s Director General of Police (DGP) Sunil Bansal visited Koraput and reviewed crime as well as left wing extremism (LWE) situation in the district on Saturday.

    During his visit, Bansal held discussion with senior officials of the district Police and Border Security Force (BSF) to take stock of the overall situation.

    He was accompanied by Director Intelligence Sanjeeb Panda, IG (Southern Range) Satyabrata Bhoi and SP Kandhamal Shri Suvendhu Patra.

    DIG (South West Range) Rajesh Pandit and DIG BSF Shailesh Kumar were also present, sources said.

    The DGP gave s number of instructions to the officers on tackling the naxal menace as well as crime and law & order situation.

    After the visit, the senior officials led by the DGP returned to Bhubaneswar. BSF and District Police would be following up on the instructions in coordination, the sources added.

  • Student consumed poison, took steps after failing in 10th

    Student consumed poison, took steps after failing in 10th

    Dhamtari. After the declaration of exam results, many students take suicidal steps in tension. A similar case has come to the fore from Dhamtari, where a Class 10 student consumed poison after failing. Whose treatment is going on in the Community Health Center.

    It is being told that 16-year-old Dhatri Sahu, a resident of village Khairjhiti of Magarlod police station area, is a student of class Davsi, who failed after the results came. Due to mental pressure due to this, the student consumed poison at her home. Seeing the condition of the student, she was immediately admitted to the hospital for treatment, the same student is now being told out of danger.

  • List of councilors won in Municipal Corporation Mathura-Vrindavan

    List of councilors won in Municipal Corporation Mathura-Vrindavan

    UP. In Mathura, BJP candidate Vinod Agarwal has won the mayoral election by one lakh 10 thousand votes. On this victory, the District Election Officer has given him a certificate.

    List of councilors who won in Municipal Corporation Mathura-Vrindavan

    1- Kiran Devi-Azad Samaj Party

    3- Mago Devi-Independent

    5-Hanuman Gurjar-BJP

    6-Rabuda-RLD

    7-Pushpa Prajapati-BSP

    8-Sonia-Independent

    9-Sumit Gautam-BJP

    10-Babit Saini-Independent

    11-Shashi Rajawat-Independent

    12-Pooja Aheria-BJP

    14-Yatendra Kumar-Independent

    15-Jitendra Singh-BJP

    17- Brajesh Khare-BJP

    20-Devendra Kumar-BJP

    26-Puneet Baghel-Congress

    28-Krishna Chowdhary-BJP

    30-Chandan Ahuja-Independent

    33- Abhijeet alias Anil Chowdhary = BJP

    36-Rakesh Bhatia-BJP

    37-Rajeev Kumar-BJP

    38-Suresh Nishad-BSP

    41-Doli Poonia-Independent

    43-Leela Pradhan-RLD

    45-Uma Dixit-BJP

    46- Rajveer Chowdhary-BJP

    47-Renu Chowdhary- INC

    48-Laxman Saini-Independent

    49- Manoj Sharma-Independent

    50-Shashank Sharma-BJP

    51-Mukesh Saraswat-BJP

    56-Neenu Verma-BJP

    57-Priyanka Chowdhary-Independent

    58-Neelam Aggarwal-BJP

    59-Pushpa Devi-BJP (Unopposed)

    60-Neeraj Vashisht-BJP (Unopposed)

    61-Rachna Pathak-BJP

    64-Balkishan Chaturvedi-BJP

    66-Pankaj Arora-Independent

    67-Radhakrishna Pathak-BJP

    70- Vaibhav Agarwal-BJP

  • State office celebrated BJP’s victory in UP municipal elections

    State office celebrated BJP’s victory in UP municipal elections

    UP. Workers feeding each other sweets by beating drums at the BJP state office in Lucknow expressed their happiness over BJP’s landslide victory in the municipal elections in Uttar Pradesh. Somewhere BJP is winning in civic elections and sometimes BJP and SP candidates are ahead and sometimes behind each other. But BJP workers say that BJP is winning 17 municipal corporations.
    Cameraman Gautam Sharma’s report from Lucknow related to public

  • Allahabad High Court orders ‘scientific survey’ of ‘shivling’ in Gyanvapi mosque

    Allahabad High Court orders ‘scientific survey’ of ‘shivling’ in Gyanvapi mosque

    The Allahabad High Court Friday set aside a lower court order and ordered a “scientific survey”, including carbon dating of the “shivling” said to have been found in the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi.

    On May 16 last year, the court-ordered videographic survey of the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque was completed by a Commission appointed by a local court. During the survey proceedings, a structure claimed to be a “shivling” by the Hindu side and a “fountain” by the Muslim side was found to be inside the mosque premises. The videographic survey was conducted on orders from Civil Judge (Senior Division), Varanasi, Ravi Kumar Diwakar on April 8, 2022.

    In their petition filed before the Allahabad High Court in November last year, the Hindu petitioners – Laxmi Devi and three others – had challenged the order of Varanasi District Judge on October 14, 2022 rejecting their application for a scientific survey and carbon dating of the “shivling”.

    In their plea before the Allahabad High Court, the petitioners had prayed “to make appropriate survey or undertake Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and/or excavation associating the petitioners to find out the nature of construction beneath the Shivlingam discovered on 16.05.2022”.

    The petition had further prayed that “to make scientific investigation by carbon dating or otherwise to determine the age, nature and other constituents of the Shivlingam”.

    Speaking to The Indian Express on Friday evening, Advocate Hari Shankar Jain, who was representing the Hindu side, said, “The High Court has agreed to our prayer for a scientific probe of the shivling which was found inside the so-called mosque complex. The Muslim side says it is a fountain. We say that it is a shivling. The court has ordered that without any damages to the shivling, analysis and study of the shivling be done.”

    The order on Friday was passed by Justice Arvind Kumar Mishra-I.

    “The court has set aside the order passed by the District Judge, Varanasi on October 14, 2022. The district judge, in his order, had rejected our prayer for carbon dating analysis and other scientific survey of the shivling,” added Jain.

    Senior Advocate Syed Farman Ahmad Naqvi, who represented the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee (AIMC), said that after discussions with the mosque committee and others, a decision will be reached whether the High Court’s order should be challenged in the Supreme Court. “We will decide it soon,” he said.
    “The court has allowed the Hindu side’s petition and has ordered that a scientific investigation, including carbon dating be done on the object found in the mosque premises. The court had earlier sought the opinion of the Archaeological Survey of India, which told the court with some reservations that carbon dating can be done through a new method where the structure won’t be damaged,” added Naqvi.

  • SC willing to grant 3 more months to SEBI for probing Adani-Hindenburg issue

    SC willing to grant 3 more months to SEBI for probing Adani-Hindenburg issue

    The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Securities and Exchange Board of India to show some “alacrity” in completing its probe within three months into the controversy surrounding the Hindenburg Research report on the Adani Group of companies.

    The court said it may grant additional time of three months instead of six months for the purpose.

    The group was accused of “accounting fraud” and “brazen stock manipulation” as per January 25 report by the US short seller firm Hindenburg.

    Taking up the SEBI’s plea, a bench of Chief Justice of India  D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala showed its disinclination to accept a contention by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that the plea for six more months was a compressed time, looking into very scope and expanse of the probe.

    “You complete your investigation in three months and come back to us, because there has to be some alacrity. We cannot say that you need a minimum six months,” the bench told Mehta, representing SEBI.

    The court scheduled the matter for Monday for passing the order on SEBI’s application for more time.

    The bench also said it has received report of the Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre committee appointed by it. 

    The court said the report filed in sealed cover would also be dealt with on Monday as the bench could not read it due to paucity of time.

    During the hearing, the bench indicated to Mehta it will give SEBI further time of  three months’ only and fix the matter for consideration on August 14.

    Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the petitioners, opposed the SEBI’s plea for six months additional time.

    He said that they should have disclosed to the court the information on the investigation conducted so far. 

    “What investigations have been done so far on this matter, because the Hindenburg was not making these allegations for the first time,” he said.

    The bench, however, did not agree.

    “Suppose they were to tell us what they have learnt so far in the investigation then to ask them to disclose this would be affect their probe. It is not a criminal investigation that we are looking at the case diary. It would not be proper at this stage,” the bench said.

    Mehta, for his part, insisted, “I have taken instruction from the highest administrative level. Six months are also a compressed period and I am saying it with a degree of sincerity. I will not be promising something, which we also know is something not achievable”.

    On April 29, the SEBI moved the court seeking six-months extension to complete its probe into Hindenburg allegations of “stock manipulation” by the Adani group.

    In its application, the market regulator said, “For ascertaining possible violations related to mis-representation of financials, circumvention of Regulations and/or fraudulent nature of transactions in respect of 12 suspicious transactions…..given the complexity of the matter, SEBI in the normal course would take at least 15 months for completion of the investigation of these transactions, but is making all reasonable endeavours to conclude the same within six months”.

    It submitted that in order to conduct a proper investigation and arrive at verified findings, it would be just, expedient and in the interest of justice that the apex court extends time to conclude the investigations by at least 6 months.

    In an order passed on March 2, the top court had set a deadline to submit a status report on May 2, while asking Sebi to expeditiously conclude the investigation and file a status report.

    The court had set up the committee headed by the top court’s retired judge Justice Sapre to investigate if there has been regulatory failure in dealing with the alleged contravention of laws pertaining to the securities market in relation to the Adani Group or other companies.

    It had directed the SEBI to look into whether there has been a failure to disclose transactions with related parties and other relevant information and whether there was any manipulation of stock prices in contravention of existing laws.

  • On eve of counting day, both BJP and Cong strategise on keeping flock together; approaching independents

    On eve of counting day, both BJP and Cong strategise on keeping flock together; approaching independents

    A day before counting of votes polled in the Karnataka Assembly elections, both the ruling BJP and the Congress on Friday went into huddles and held strategy sessions on ways to keep the flock together. They also considered reaching out to independent candidates who are likely to win, as most exit polls predicted a tight contest between the two parties.

    Hectic parleys were on at Congress president M Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence here, with AICC general secretary and in-charge of Karnataka Randeep Singh Surjewala, party’s state unit chief D K Shivakumar and former Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara among others.

    According to party sources, they discussed ways to keep the flock (newly elected MLAs) together, and also regarding reaching out to independents to muster numbers in case there was no clear mandate.

    The state recorded its highest-ever voting (73.19 per cent) in Wednesday’s polling to the 224-member Assembly.

    A majority of exit polls have given an edge to the Congress over the ruling BJP, while indicating the possibility of a hung Assembly.

    “We will be careful this time,” Parameshwara told reporters in response to a question on whether the Congress faced the threat of its MLAs being poached.

    Congress Legislature Party leader and former CM Siddaramaiah, who is down swelling in his hand and is being treated by doctors, was in touch with the party leaders from his residence.

    In the BJP camp, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai met veteran leader B S Yediyurappa along with other party leaders, including ministers Murugesh Nirani, Byrathi Basavaraj, party MP Lehar Singh Siroya and A T Ramaswamy, at the former chief minister’s residence.

    Bommai expressed confidence about the BJP crossing the “magic figure” with a clear majority, and said the question of coalition talks with other political parties does not arise now.

    BJP leaders too are said to have planned a strategy to keep its newly-elected legislators together, and are making attempts to contact independents, mostly BJP rebels, as well as “winning” candidates of smaller parties.

    JD(S) too is expecting a hung verdict, which would enable it to play a role in government formation, and is making all efforts to keep its MLAs together.

    In the absence of JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy, who is in Singapore for a health checkup and is expected to return tomorrow morning, party patriarch and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda has reportedly contacted party leaders and candidates who may win, over the phone and asked them to stay loyal to the party and its leadership, and to not to fall prey to allurements by other parties.

    The three parties are also said to have contacted some independents who have chances of winning the polls, to get them on their side, keeping in mind the possibility of a fractured verdict.

  • No night duty for house surgeons; committee formed to study issues raised by protesters

    No night duty for house surgeons; committee formed to study issues raised by protesters

    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It has been decided to form a committee headed by the Secretary of the Medical Education Department to study and resolve the issues raised by the PG students and house surgeons following the murder of Dr. Vandana Das. The health minister gave the instructions to the officials in this regard in a discussion held with the PG students and house surgeons.
    The government accepted the demands such as cancelling night duty for house surgeons until the completion of a safety audit and properly allowing one day off per week. While two bystanders will be allowed in ICU, only one bystander will be allowed in the wards, the minister said. The committee will submit its report within a month. The minister also said that the AOP will be issued soon for those going to other hospitals as part of the medical residency program.The committee will also look into the issues of house surgeons and strictly implement the residency manual. DME will issue a circular for this urgently. The minister also directed that the heads of the departments should ensure the leave of the students. The minister, who said that the government is with the doctors, added that the doctors should not protest in a way that causes difficulties to the people.

  • Maoists Call Bandh For Their 12-Point Charter Of Demands In Odisha’s 7 Districts On May 15

    Maoists Call Bandh For Their 12-Point Charter Of Demands In Odisha’s 7 Districts On May 15

    Rayagada: The Maoists have called for bandh in support of their 12-point charter of demands in Odisha’s 7 districts on May 15.

    In an audio release on Friday, the banned outfit has announced that it would enforce bandh in Rayagada, Kandhamal, Ganjam, Kalahandi, Boudh, Gajapati and Nayagarh districts to press its demands. However, essential services including hospital, ambulances, medical stores and examination centres would be exempted from the bandh, it added.

    Their demanded included allotment of houses to deserving beneficiaries under PM Awas Yojana or Biju Awas Yojana in 6 months, free supply of oil, dal, salt along with PDS rice, construction of roads, drinking water supply and power connection to all villages and construction of hospitals in every panchayat.

    Stating that education has been most neglected in the backward areas of these districts, the Maoists demanded establishment of Adarsh Schools in every panchayat, reopening of the schools closed for lack of sufficient number of students, appointment of teachers in vacant posts and monthly scholarship of Rs 3,000 to tribal students.

    Highlighting the unemployment problems in the area, the Maoists demanded payment of monthly unemployment allowance of Rs 3,000, Besides, increasing the old age and widow pension to Rs 3,000 was also demanded by them.