leading to power units shutting down this summer due to low coal supply, To ensure the work is of “high quality”, Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia kisses her trophy after beating Angelique Kerber of Germany in their women’s singles final match at the WTA tournament in Singapore. have seven doubles titles as a team, Amte and his family and is also based on various books like ‘Prakashwata’ and ‘Hemalkasa’.

off Jakhau coast in Kutch on Friday night while they were fishing in Indian waters, a Coast Guard official said He said the Pakistani anglers and the seized trawlers were brought to Okha on Saturday and handed over to Marine policewhere they are being quizzed by the state and Central intelligence agencies at the joint interrogation centre In separate operations last month37 Pakistani fishermen had been arrested and their four boats seized by the BSF and Coast Guard near Padala creek off Kutch district and off Mitha Portrespectively For all the latest Ahmedabad News download Indian Express App More Related NewsPublished: March 26 2014 12:14 am Related News THE OLD IMPERIALIST Taking up the issue of the Crimean referendum that favoured Crimea’s joining of the Russian Federation the CPM’s People’s Democracy says the referendum has been “endorsed as free and fair” by many international observers but the US has shown its “double standards on democracy” on the issue “Displaying the height of hypocrisy and its double standards on ‘democracy’ the USA followed by the European Union and Canada have imposed sanctions on Russia unilaterally expelled it from the G-8 group of countries and suspended the ongoing preparations for holding the forthcoming G-8 summit in Russia’s Sochi” it says The editorial claims that “Imperialism however displaying supreme duplicity and double standards” has refused to accept the “democratic decision” of the Crimean people “Imperialism under the USA has repeatedly violated international law and norms established under the UN charter to justify its military invasions like in Iraq or interventions like in Syria [sic]” it adds “Imperialism’s attitude and its actions against Russia over the Ukraine developments once again clearly demonstrate that it shall spare no effort at seeking to strengthen its global hegemony… This is the real face of imperialism This truth must dawn on those misled sections who continue to naively believe that we are living in a single globalised world today where there are no powers of dominance The coming general elections in our country must result in a government that is aware of such dangers and will be prepared to protect and safeguard India’s economic and political sovereignty” it concludes NEOLIBERAL PARTY-HOPPERS The latest issue of the CPI’s New Age has takes up the issue of politicians changing parties The editorial first talks about certain “obvious features” in the candidate selections of most parties except the Left and some others including candidates’ wealth and criminal records It goes on to say “But the most difficult task before the poll-watchers is to trace the political origin of the candidates Party-hopping has become so common that one has to first ascertain the current political affiliations of the bourgeois politicians before making any comment” adding that such shifts have become possible because “the dividing line due to socio-economic policies has got totally blurred” “Earlier there had been a dividing line on the basis of commitment to social plurality and protection of secular fabric of the country Now that is also evaporating” the editorial states concluding that only the Left can present an “alternative to the disastrous course of economic neoliberalism…” NITISH’S HOLLOW CLAIMS The CPI(ML) talks about the development model of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as against that of Gujarat CM Narendra Modi claiming that “the choice between the ‘Nitish model’ and ‘Modi model’ is a dismal and misleading one” “Nitish Kumar’s claims of miraculous development… owe much to a carefully crafted media campaign and the reality check is provided by the unstoppable flow of Bihari youth from the state… And it is ironic that Modi bragging to the people of Bihar about the development model of the ‘western states’ forgets that the Shiv Sena and MNS… are responsible for thrashing the migrant labourers from Bihar and other eastern states…” it says It attacks the “feudal violence” in Bihar giving examples including the killing of a CPI(ML) block secretary in Ara Lok Sabha constituency earlier this week It claims that the continuance of such violence “resonates with the hollowness of Nitish Kumar’s claims of ‘good governance’ and ‘development with justice’ as well his claims of principled aversion to Modi’s politics” Compiled by Ruhi Tewari For all the latest Opinion News download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: September 13 2017 8:59 am The Andheri subway got flooded following heavy rains in Mumbai Few cars were halted for over 20 minutes before being redirected (Source: photo by Pratibha Dixit) Related News Thundershowers and lightening struck Mumbai early Wednesday morning leaving the Andheri subway flooded and bringing vehicles to a halt The spell of showers comes close at the heels of the inundation and floods on August 29 Five people have died so far in rain-related incidents this year in Maharashtra On August 29 the Santacruz observatory of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) registered 3314 mm rainfall the heaviest since July 26 2005 The incessant rains this year slowed down vehicular traffic in the city leaving hundreds stranded and without a way to reach home With most of the railway tracks inundated local trains the lifeline of the city were also affected In 2005 Mumbai had recorded 944 mm of rainfall Hundreds of people and animals were killed in the deluge and several thousand houses and vehicles damaged For all the latest Mumbai News download Indian Express App IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Related NewsWritten by Tanika Sarkar | Updated: October 16 2014 8:07 am ‘Love jihad’ became a tool of open political mobilisation in the Uttar Pradesh bypolls in September It reopened some old and fundamental questions about individual choice community lines and the politics of identity and anxiety in a fast-changing young country Related News The prohibition against inter-community marriages is not an invention of Hindutva But Hindutva articulates and disseminates it most systematically writes Tanika Sarkar Religious communities sometimes behave like sovereign states — self-legislating and self-governing for all practical purposes Much of the time they exercise greater power over their people’s loyalties that even states can muster For their rules and penalties are based on scriptural sanction There can be alternative interpretations of scripture that question the authorised version but these lack the weight of sanctified tradition Of course when we speak of religious communities we mostly refer to powerful groups who claim to represent an entire religious population In the case of Hindus today for instance the Vishwa Hindu Parishad the ecclesiastical wing of the RSS combine with its multiple affiliates and sub-affiliates demands to speak on behalf of all Hindus Since the electoral wing of the same combine the BJP holds power at the Centre community and government have now merged to a considerable extent Like states communities also perform two vital functions One is to enforce internal power lines and the other is to police inter-community boundaries The greater the internal tensions such as class or caste the more the focus will be deliberately turned on external enmities real or imagined V Savarkar had said that the enemy figure unites a nation as nothing else can Hindutva followers cherish his message Nothing threatens inter-community boundaries more than men and women who cross these artificial borders and meet in mutual love and desire for they expose the communal myth that no true intimacy is possible between the two religious species They assert the common humanity of Hindus and Muslims Penalties for such border-crossing are therefore ferocious States can sometimes also offer the promise of a different kind of citizenship based on the equality of all religions and on the freedom of individual conscience and decision This is what happened when BR Ambedkar reformed Hindu personal law after Independence to liberate marriages from traditional caste and community restrictions that the colonial state had not really challenged While feminists Communists and liberal Congress members supported his reforms the Hindu Mahasabha was outraged Hindutva has given such relationships a new name: “love jihad” wherein love between a Hindu girl and a non-Hindu man is seen as a political conspiracy a plan for conquering Hindus by subjugating their women The ABVP claims that the love of Muslim men for Hindu women is always politically motivated and hence unnatural Multiple Hindutva discourses have long asserted that Muslim dynasties did not rule India because all empires want to expand but because Muslims wanted to capture Hindu queens; that during Partition only Hindu women were abducted by Muslims whereas all evidence indicates that men from both communities abducted and raped in equal numbers Hindutva disseminates a weird arithmetic — each Muslim man marries four wives and therefore produces innumerable children whereas Hindu men legally condemned to monogamy produce several times less the number This discounts the fact that no matter the number of wives each man has he can only impregnate one woman at a time and polygamy cannot make a difference to the total population The VHP haunts registration offices in civil courts If they find an advance notice for a cross-community marriage they try to dissuade the families against it Often consensual relationships are entered into police records as rape Horrifying websites have been started to caution Hindus against inter-community love Though jihad signifies Muslims the prohibition is effectively extended with police help against legal marriage between Hindus and Christians as well The love jihad campaign diligently perpetuates the myth of the insatiably lustful Muslim man Hindu women in contrast are made out to be so helpless and innocent that they cannot understand their own feelings and become prone to seduction So neither Hindu nor Muslim can ever be capable of genuine love for each other So-called Muslim lust is also represented as a covert terrorist act By enticing Hindu girls into marriage Muslims supposedly expand their numbers filling Hindu wombs with Muslim progeny and destroying Hindu honour whose symbols and carriers their women supposedly are Note that in this discourse the Hindu girl is always without a real mind of her own; she needs community vigilance No doubt communal stereotypes abound among all communities but those of the majority community enjoying state power carry far greater import But there is a larger agenda As more and more men and women assert their legal right to decide on relationships and marriages on their own terms with or without familial consent there is an urgent reassertion of patriarchal discipline in the name of dangers that allegedly lie in wait if they cross the lakshmanrekha of prescriptive alliances mandated by families Forbidding inter-community marriage is a first and very important step in preserving family control Inter-community relationships are policed and penalised with special ruthlessness by families because they involve great social courage They declare the independence and self-assertion of the couple more forcefully than other kinds of love marriages Proscribing them is only the beginning of reclaiming a totalitarian authority over the autonomy of children So the love jihad campaign is ultimately a safeguard against love and individual decision-making in order to produce and reproduce unthinkingly submissive generations This is part of a larger package that also attacks Valentine’s Day celebrations — expressions of premarital romances and friendships — and non-heterosexual love The prohibition is not an invention of Hindutva it enjoys hegemonic social consensus Hindutva articulates and disseminates it most efficiently and systematically Society also punishes inter-caste marriages — another form of border-crossing But there is a difference It is politically most embarrassing for community guardians to admit in public that there are “others” inside the community who are untouchable in matters of love and marriage Cases of inter-caste love are therefore met with immediate andbrutal violence but without that elaborate political discourse that frames inter-community marriages Sarkar a professor of history at Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi is author of ‘Hindu Wife Hindu Nation’ For all the latest Opinion News download Indian Express App Inter-community relationships are policed and penalised with special ruthlessness by families because they involve great social courage More Related NewsWritten by A Kameshwari | New Delhi | Published: February 13 2017 5:08 pm Jhanvi Kapoor and Akshat Ranjan click together with family Top News Sridevi’s daughter Jhanvi Kapoor has yet again made news and this time it is for a family picture that’s going viral In the picture we see Boney Kapoor Sridevi and the beautiful Jhanvi but there is someone else in the frame too Well this boy is Akshat Rajan Jhanvi’s close friend and by calling him a friend we are playing it safe The star kid has been often spotted with Akshat and in fact they regularly share pictures together And if buzz is to be believed the two are dating With Akshat being present at a lot of family events of Boney and Sridevi the speculation is just getting stronger More from the world of Entertainment: Akshat is studying International Relations with Entrepreneurial Leadership and Film and Media Studies at Tufts University His sister is a filmmaker who is prepping up for her film Irada’s release The film stars Naseeruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi in the lead roles Earlier Akshat was confused with Jhanvi’s ex-boyfriend Shikhar Pahariya who is related to politician Sushil Kumar Shinde Check out more pictures of Jhanvi Kapoor: Jhanvi Kapoor has been making news ever since she has been attending B-town parties and making regular social appearances The starkid is nothing less than a diva just like her star mom Sridevi And we truly can’t wait for her to make her big Bollywood debut Earlier Boney Kapoor had spoken about her debut with Karan Johar’s directorial He said “Yes Karan has been talking to us about a film for Jhanvi and we’ve given consent But we don’t know which project it would be Since Karan has recently acquired the remake rights of Sairat it is being presumed that our daughter would be launched in this project” For all the latest Entertainment News download Indian Express App IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Top NewsBy: Express News Service | New Delhi | Published: April 10 2017 4:15 am An AAP hoarding in the city Express Related News In an attempt to divert attention from the new Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari — who has promised ‘new faces’ in the upcoming municipal polls — and play up on BJP’s anti-incumbency the AAP through its hoardings and advertisement campaign has pitted Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal against Delhi Assembly Leader of Opposition Vijender Gupta The party will seek votes on Kejriwal’s ‘clean’ governance as opposed to ‘failures’ of Gupta who has remained a municipal councillor and chairman of the MCD Standing Committee As part of its campaign the AAP has put up hoardings across the capital that read “MCD ki baagdor kisko (who will be given the responsibility of MCD)” pitting Kejriwal against Gupta The campaign is similar to what AAP attempted in Goa pitting its CM candidate Elvis Gomes against then CM Laxmikant Parsekar and seeking votes on the promise of “corruption-free governance” “The Delhi voters know who to trust They trust Kejriwal who kept his word on electricity and water and will again do so on abolishing house tax making Delhi garbage-free and MCD corruption-free” said Ashish Talwar AAP Delhi in-charge “By pitting Gupta against Kejriwal we are making the civic polls what it should be local and personal” an AAP leader said In the 2013 Assembly polls Gupta finished third behind Kejriwal and Sheila Dikshit while in 2015 he was elected MLA from Rohini For all the latest Delhi News download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: Express Web Desk | Published: August 6 2017 3:40 pm Neymar watches the match at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris (Source: AP) Related News Neymar’s transfer from Barcelona to PSG has been the biggest football news in the recent times – not only because of how crucial the Brazilian was for the Spanish club but also for the whooping world record 222 million euros transfer In just one day the Ligue 1 club has already recovered around a million euros on their world record investment by selling more than 10000 shirts bearing Neymar’s name The 25-year old watched from the stands in the opening game for the French club He was not allowed to play as the transfer certificate was not lodged with the French league by the midnight deadline on Friday PSG said on Saturday that more than 10000 shirts with his name and No 10 were sold on the first day Each shirt was sold at an average of 100 euros each generating one million euros even before the forward had kicked a ball In a video bidding goodbye to his former club Barcelona Neymar had insisted that money had nothing to do with the record move “I want something bigger a greater challenge I am here to give my best and help the club win titles” said Neymar who signed a five-year contract with the Qatar-owned club” he had said “It was one of my most difficult decisions In Barcelona I had adapted well to the city and the team I had friends there and it has not been easy” he said “It was a tense time thinking about what I should do in my life I have left behind a lot of friends but things go very fast in football” For all the latest Sports News download Indian Express App IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Related NewsWritten by Radhika Singh | Mumbai | Updated: February 1 2017 8:58 am Long-billed Dowitcher (Source: Satyajit Shinde) Top News It was January 21 2017 6:30 in the morning and birdwatcher Ronit Datta was expecting an ordinary boat ride He was at Thane Creek trying to spot some common shelducks a pretty white bird with a black head After the group he was travelling with had seen their fill of the ducks they started to turn the boat around On his way back however Datta spotted something a little out of the ordinary Standing erect on a mudslab was smallish bird with a long bill greenish at the base with a white lower back and yellow-green legs Watch What Else Is Making News: Datta immediately realised it was a type of dowitcher and started telling people excitedly what he’d seen No one quite knew what he was talking about never having heard of this rather rare bird except for the photographers Satyajeet Shinde and Sivaramakrishnan Sivasubramanian They quickly snapped shots of the solitary bird Once the boat reached the shore the trio looked through a field guide and later sent their photos to a few bird experts The verdict: the bird was a Long-billed Dowitcher This would be the first record of its sighting in Maharashtra The Long-billed Dowitcher is a vagrant bird that belongs to the Scolopaidae family Its genus name Limnodromus comes from the ancient Greek word limne meaning marsh and dromos which means racer They nest on the ground usually near water bodies Thane Creek was probably an ideal habitat for it according to Omkar Dilip Adhikari an avid birdwatcher who leads Thane Creek birdtrails It forages in shallow water or wet mud for insects mollusks crustaceans and marine worms jabbing its head up and down like a sewing machine From time to time it enjoys some plant material too “This Dowitcher species is a migrant from US though its breeding area is in the far north of North America and in eastern Siberia” says Datta “It winters in areas as south as Central America That means that this particular Long-billed Dowitcher of Thane Creek was a vagrant or a bird that has strayed far outside its expected breeding migrating or wintering range” Bird vagrancy is a relatively new area of research Some birds become vagrants because they have been blown off-course Others simply have a faulty navigation system and become confused about the direction they are supposed to travel in It seems that this Long-billed Dowitcher belongs to the latter category; it is not unusual to find this sort of behavior in passerines such as the sparrow or shore birds like the dowitcher But whenever a bird wings its way into new territory it’s sure to excite hordes of birdwatchers This weekend the boats on Bilipadhikari’s birding trails at Thane Creek are bound to be packed with enthusiasts; they will be hoping to spot some more disoriented dowichers sitting calmly on mudflats ignorant of the spectacle they’re creating Have a comment or suggestion for Wild Side Write to [email protected] with subject line: Wild Side For all the latest Mumbai News download Indian Express App More Top NewsBy: Express News Service | Ahmedabad | Updated: July 5 2017 4:18 am Gujarat High Court (File) Related News A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Gujarat High Court against the closure of Mohandas Gandhi Vidyalaya Mahatma Gandhi’s alma mater in Rajkot The PIL is likely to be taken up on Wednesday before a division bench headed by Chief Justice R Subhash Ready The government ordered complete closure of the school established in 1853 as Alfred High School in May and the students were given school-leaving certificates (SLCs) amid protests by the parents Gandhi attained his secondary education in the school from 1880 to 1887 Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) had sent a proposal to the state government in 2016 to convert the school into a museum and dedicate it to Gandhi Officials term poor results and low enrolment as reasons behind the move Following the government’s nod the students were were transferred to other schools The students were first moved into the building of Karansinhji High School last year and this year they were finally handed over SLCs For all the latest Ahmedabad News download Indian Express App More Related News Last week, both captain and coach were not seen interacting with each other. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan,counsel of the state government, 2012 3:40 am Top News Two years ago when Bajaj Electricals Ltd (BEL) took a count of their smoking staff members,but they were not ready to leave my husband, she said For all the latest Delhi News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Faisal Fareed | Lucknow | Published: November 21 2013 6:25 am Related News After setting up a colonyJamiat Nagarfor Muzaffarnagar riot victims at Khampurthe Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind is said to be now facing stiff opposition from local khap panchayat for its another proposed colony for riot victims The Baliyan Khapin its panchayat held last Mondayreportedly opposed Jamiats move to set up the colony near Palda village The panchayat has allegedly threatened that nearly 500 Hindus of nearby Palda village will resort to mass exodus if Jamiat Nagar comes up near their village Villagers from nearby 12 villages attended the panchayat at Kutba village in protest against the setting up of Jamiat Nagar near their village We already have Muslim population in surrounding villages These colonies are being set up strategically for Muslims The one coming up near Palda village is on the road which connects Shahpur It is the only road and now Hindus will avoid using it after a Muslim colony comes up It will result in tension for whole life? "These statements do not represent who I am nor the values on which I was raised,” said Kiran Dighavkar, Pant’s inclusion to the T20 squad was a reward for his stroke-play and consistency in the Ranji Trophy.

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