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VOL 12 ISSUE 17 ● NEW YORK ● MAY 04 - MAY 10, 2018 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 www.theindianpanorama.news The Sikh Community Takes Out an Impressive Parade to Mark their Birthday

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NEW YORK, NY (TIP): Organized by the Sikh Cultural Society, Richmond Hill, New York, in cooperation with Sikh Temples and Sikh organizations of the Tri-States of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, the 31st Sikh Day Parade on April 28th in Manhattan, New York, attracted, as usual, large crowds of Sikh men, women andchildren. Contingents of Sikhs came from as far as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Maryland. An estimated 30,000 (according to the organizers, 50,000) Sikhs participated. The parade that started from 37th Street and Madison Ave,wound its way through the city and ended up at 26th Street contd on page 7 The surging crowds march behind their Guru, the Holy Shri Guru Granth Sahib. Photos / BJ Video Free press makes for a Harendra Singh files for Trump confirms payment to porn star, denies affair; Says stronger democracy: PM Chapter 13 Bankruptcy his lawyer paid $130,000 to buy Stormy Daniel's silence WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Modi on World Press Donald Trump confirmed on Thursday, May 3 that he reimbursed his personal Freedom Day lawyer $130,000 he had given to adult film contd on page 32 The United Nations General Assembly had declared May 3 as World Press Freedom Day Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen paid Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie to raise awareness about freedom of press. Clifford, the money in 2016 to keep quiet about the alleged sexual encounter before the presidential election. In the picture, from L to R: Michael Cohen, Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, Rudy Giuliani, and President Donald Trump

Harendra Singh, facing a severe financial crisis, has reportedly filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy (File photo / Courtesy Daily News)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi applauded all CENTRAL ISLIP, NY (TIP): Harendra those who have been working tirelessly to Singh, the key witness in the federal uphold the freedom of press. corruption trial of Nassau County's former File Photo / Courtesy PTI executive and Oyster Bay's former town supervisor, has filed for Chapter 13 NEW DELHI (TIP): Multiplicity of ideas bankruptcy in U.S. Eastern District Court in and human expression make us more vibrant Central Islip. as a society and a free press makes for a Court records show that Singh, also a stronger democracy, Prime Minister former Town of Oyster Bay concessionaire, Narendra Modi said on World Press Freedom filed for bankruptcy protection on April 20. Day on Thursday, May 3. contd on page 32 contd on page 32

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NEW YORK CITY (TIP): The Women's Committee, founded in 1983, held their 35th annual Frederick Law Olmsted Awards Luncheon yesterday, Members of Miani Welfare Society at a meeting held on April 29 at liberty Palace. Photo / BJ Video which is also appropriately known as RICHMOND HILL, NY (TIP): On April 29, a meeting of Miani Welfare Society was held at the hat luncheon. The Liberty Palace here to welcome new members. The meeting was attended by a number of Committee's purpose is members who welcomed the idea of expanding the Society with a view to doing good to the to raise money and community through a larger participation. awareness for the Central Park Conservancy. The Indian Panorama was informed of the plans of the Committee for this year. The Committee is planning to raise at least $5 million for a $10 million project to restore the Conservatory Garden, located at 5th Avenue and 105th Street. It was last restored in 1983, the same year the Committee was founded. The upcoming renovation is set to update the paths and plazas throughout the garden, in addition to infrastructural changes. Meera Gandhi with Mayor Bloomberg at the annual Central Park Prior projects made Conservancy Hat Luncheon. Meera has been attending this event possible by the Women's for a decade. Mayor Bloomberg donated $4 million to the park. Now that's generosity! Committee include the Photo / Mohammed Jaffer-SnapsIndia recreation of the urns at Bow Bridge, the reconstruction of the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center and the renovation of Safari Playground. The Women's Committee is responsible for raising 15 percent of the Central Park Conservancy's $67 million budget. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg donated $4 million. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 4 INDIANS ABROAD FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 Indian American Teen Wins $100,000 In College Quiz Championship Indian Origin British Sikh Lawmaker Launches Campaign for Direct Amritsar-London Flights

LONDON (TIP): Britain's first turbaned Indian Origin Sikh MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, along with two NGOs, has started a campaign for the launch of a direct flight between London and Amritsar, a long pending demand of the British-Punjabi community. The Labour party MP for Slough joined hands with the UK-based NGO, Social Education Volunteer Association (SEVA) Trust and the UK chapter of the Amritsar Vikas Manch (AVM), at an event within the House of Commons complex recently to initiate efforts to push for starting of the non-stop flight services with the Indian and Dhruv Gaur upon winning College quiz Championship Punjab governments. "In 2016, even with no direct NEW YORK (TIP): Indian American teenager Dhruv Gaur connectivity, approximately 188,869 has won the $100,000 Jeopardy college quiz championship. passengers (517 per day) travelled The first-year student at Ivy League Brown University between Amritsar and the UK as emerged the champion on April 20thin the two-day final round of transit passengers, via other the college edition of America's most popular quiz show Indian and foreign airports. The Tanmanjit Singh Dhesi (Center) At Golden Temple In Amritsar televised nationwide. demand is there, and we hope the He faced another Indian American, Rishab Jain, in the semi- supply will come soon," Mr Dhesi the India-UK relationship. The Chudasama acknowledged growing final round on April 25th before getting to the finals. said. lawmakers believe that London demand of the Punjabi community Mr. Gaur had scored a perfect score of 1,600 in the national- His campaign has found the Heathrow, one of the world's for the direct flights and assured wide college entrance exam, Scholastic Aptitude Test. backing of other British and biggest aviation transit hubs, will MPs in Britain that their proposal About his plans for the winnings, a Jeopardy news release Indian lawmakers, including fellow open up new onward connections to would be raised with the airline's quoted him as saying, "I'm just going to save it until I need it for Labour Party MP Seema Malhotra Europe, Canada and the US. senior management. grad school or to pursue an opportunity I might really want in and Congress MP for Amritsar, It will also enable farmers and Mr Dhesi's team has also the future." Gurjeet Singh Aujla. businessmen from Amritsar and submitted a memorandum, "My little brother is really interested in investing, so I'll give They believe that in addition to adjoining regions to resume export addressed to Prime Minister him some,so he can give the stock market a go," he added. better connectivity for millions of of dry and perishable goods to the Narendra Modi, to the Indian High passengers, a direct air link UK, noted Sameep Singh Gumtala, Commission in London and the Indian Origin Drug Dealer Jailed in between Punjab and Britain holds Overseas Secretary of Amritsar second one, addressed to Punjab immense potential to boost trade Vikas Manch. An official of India's Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, UK for Conspiring to Supply Cocaine and tourism as well as strengthen flag carrier, Air India, Deepak has been handed over to Mr Aujla. Indian American dentist Amishi Patel sentenced for unnecessary treatment and identity theft

SACRAMENTO (TIP): An Indian of Insurance contacted the Dental Indian origin Gurdip Samra has been jailed for eight years for American dentist, Amishi Patel, from Board, and after an investigation, it dealing in drug Daly City, California, has been was found that Patel was engaged in sentenced to 20 months' imprisonment insurance fraud. LONDON (TIP): An Indian origin drug dealer and partner after she was found guilty of She was charged in February 2017 has been jailed for nearly eight years by a UK court for performing unnecessary dental works and a judge ordered her not to practice conspiring to supply 10 kg of cocaine in London. on several of her patients. dentistry as a condition of her release Gurdip Samra, 44, was arrested in November last year as part According to the court document, on bail. of a joint operation by the UK's National Crime Agency or NCA Amishi Patel has been serving as a But she altered the order to make it and Scotland Yard's Organised Crime Partnerships or OCP. part-time dentist at Campus Heights look like it has been cancelled and The officers first arrested Samra's accomplice, Mark Lammin, Dental Care in the area. During April applied for jobs and even got one in after accosting him as he carried 10 kg of cocaine in a large hold 2014 and May 2014, she was found doing Fremont. During this period, she all in Surrey, south-east England. unnecessary medical treatment to treated four patients, which is a gross A short time later, officers stopped a black Range Rover, which eight of her patients. violation of the court order. was parked in the vicinity of his planned drugs handover and In one instance, the San Mateo According to the Attorney's office, arrested Samra. County District Attorney Steve Patel used the license number of a The duo was sentenced at Kingston Crown Court earlier this Wagstaffe said, a 16-year-old patient dentist who had a similar name week, with Samra jailed for seven years and eight months and was asked to undergo 16 filling. After andapplied for several dentist jobs in Lammin sentenced to six years and six months behind bars. she went through eight painful fillings, Fremont. Just before getting caught the "The supply and trafficking of drugs is a business which her parents became suspicious about second time, she used a fake identity at Patel pleaded no contest in December relies on cash flow the loss of an expensive commodity will stall the treatment given to their daughter. an interview with an undercover to felony insurance fraud, assault, transactions on both sides, creating a lack of trust between On seeking a second opinion from identity theft, and forgery and was officer, prosecutors said. crime groups, Matt McMillan from the Organised Crime another dentist, the parents were subsequently remanded last month San Mateo County Superior Court Partnership said in a statement. shocked to learn that their daughter Judge Donald Ayoob sentenced her on During a search of 44-year-old Lammin's home address in needed no filings at all as she had zero More cases of unnecessary dental May 1st morning to the 20-month jail London, officers found a stun gun and also charged him with cavity. They were also made aware surgeries came to light after the girl's sentence and eight years of probation. possessing a prohibited weapon. He and Samra were both about how poorly Patel performed the family filed a complaint with Dental A restitution hearing in the case has charged with conspiracy to supply Class A drugs. filling, which required replacement. Board of California. The Department been set for June 22, Wagstaffe said. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 ADVERTISEMENT 5 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 6 NEW YORK FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 AMERICA’S SMARTEST FAMILY ATTRACTS BIG AUDIENCES NEW YORK (TIP): Zee TV's original Zee TV. production - Americas' Smartest Family, has "America's Smartest Family" is broadcast been attracting large audience numbers all every Saturday at 9:00 p.m. EST; 9:30 p.m. PST; season. 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George "Indo-Caribbeans in the USA" at St. John's University Abraham at the AICC Plenary session QUEENS, NY (TIP): The Indian Diaspora CouncilInternational(IDC) organized and coordinated the May 3, 2018 conference session on "Indo-Caribbeans in USA: Achievements, Opportunities & Challenges" whichwas part of9thAnnual CLACS Multidisciplinary Symposium on Immigration with the theme "The Rise of Transnational L to R: Ashook Ramsaran; Dr. Alina Camacho- Populism: A Multidisciplinary Approach". Gingerich (SJU/CLACS); Hon. Kiva Clarke The symposium was held on May 2-3, 2018 at St. John's (Consul General,Trinidad & Tobago); Hon. University at the Queens Campus and sponsored by St. Roseann St. Hill-Billouin (Dep. Consul General, John's University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Trinidad & Tobago) Studies (CLACS) and by the Office of the Provost; the Diversity,Equity,and Inclusivity Lecture Series; Office of Student Affairs; Office of Global Studies; Department of Languages and Literatures; and the Graduate School of Health Sciences at Touro College. The session on "Indo-Caribbeans in USA: Achievements, Opportunities & Challenges" was chaired by George Abraham speaking at the AICC Plenary session. Ashook Ramsaran, president of IDC, who made a presentation on historical background, migration to the USA, achievements, opportunities, challenges, issues of interest and concerns, trends and the future. Dr. Ashford NEW YORK (TIP): "Many of the Colonial Nations that gained Maharaj, Accounting and Finance professor at Berkeley College, New York, spoke on compliance with the independence from their Colonial masters faltered because they failed to Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), an important development in U.S. efforts to combat tax evasion build Institutions. However, India under the leadership Nehru, built by U.S. persons holding accounts and other financial assets offshore. Mr. Vishnu Mahadeo, longtime institutions that provided security, safety, and justice for all its community advocate spoke about community needs, voter registration, and becoming more proactive to citizens",said New Yorker George Abraham, Vice-Chairman of the Indian address people's needs and wellbeing. Overseas Congress. He was addressing the All India Congress Committee In an earlier session on May 3, Dr.Sharla Madho-Khargi, a clinical psychologist; director at a New York state Plenary session which was held in New Delhi in March 2018. mental health facility, adjunct professor at the City University of New York, and Director, Community Based "Today, these revered Institutions are under growing threat, and it is time Rehabilitation, Indian Diaspora Council International, made a presentation on "Mental Health Challenges in for us to wake up and deal with it. Freedom of Conscience is fundamental to the Caribbean Community (Guyana, Trinidad, Jamaica etc)". This was part of the session on "Serving all freedoms. It is innate and God-given; nobody has any right to trample it" Increasing Minority Adult Populations in Healthcare Contexts". he was alluding to the growing attacks on people of faith and other On May 2, Hon. Kiva Clarke(Consul General, Trinidad & Tobago), spoke at inaugural session "Distinguished minorities in the country. Diplomats' Roundtable Discussion". Other diplomats participating included: Hon. Roseann St. Hill-Billouin "The NRI community is indeed concerned about these and other issues (Dep. Consul General, Trinidad & Tobago); Hon. Álvaro Rodrigo Pinilla Romero (Consul General of Bolivia in plaguing the country, and we will work together with AICC to coordinate our New York); Hon. Maria Nieto (Consul General of Colombia in New York); Hon. Carlos Castillo (Consul General actions while working as goodwill ambassadors in the U.S. to help to forge of Dominican Republic in New York); Hon. Diego Gomez Pickering (Consul General of Mexico in New York); stronger ties" added Mr. Abraham. Hon. María Teresa Merino de Hart (Consul General of Peru in New York) Mr. Abraham also thanked Sonia Gandhi for inaugurating the Overseas For more information contact: Ashook Ramsaran at [email protected] Mobile (USA) +1 917 519 Congress in 2001 and applauded the appointment of Mr. Sam Pitroda as the 5783 Indian Diaspora Council International (IDC), established in 1997, is an international non-profit Chairman of the newly created 'Overseas Congress Department' under organization with global affiliates and membership in 21 countries with the objective to embrace, engage, and AICC. enhance the shared heritage, aspirations, and interests of persons of Indian origin with optimum inclusivity. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 NEW YORK 7 The Sikh Community Takes Out an Impressive Parade to Mark their Birthday

The Young Sikhs in traditional attire

CONTD FROM PAGE 1 and Madison Ave for the conference on 23rd Street. There were 9 floats depicting Sikh history and religion. Thousands marched in the parade singing hymns from the Holy Sikh Scripture. An interesting feature was participation in parade of NYPD band and police officers. Another impressive feature of the parade was langar (free food). The whole 26th Street between Madison and Park was dedicated to food stalls where free food was served to the thousands who had come for the parade. A conference was held as the closing part of the parade. Those who addressed the gathering included Sikh community leaders and officials from various departments of New York City and New Jersey State. The more prominent among them were New Jersey State Attorney General Gurbir Singh Grewal,James P. O'Neill, Police Commissioner of New York City, Mayor of Hoboken City, Ravinder Singh Bhalla, TLC Commissioner Meera Joshi, and Balbir Singh Freeholder, Burlington. They were honored by organizers of the parade. The event is held annually to mark Vaisakhi, the harvest festival of Punjab that coincides with the day the Tenth Master of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh, created the order of Khalsa in 1699. (Photos / BJ Video) A group of volunteers at one of the scores of stations serving langar (free food)

New Jersey State attorney General Gurbir Singh Grewal is honored Hoboken City Mayor Ravinder Singh Bhalla is honored

NYPD officers being honored 8 THE INDIAN PANORAMA EDITORIAL FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 GUEST AS I SEE IT COMMENT When India and China Meet CAUGHT IN THE VISA The message from Wuhan is: let us give each other space and rationalize our differences in a grown-up way. VICE,INDIAN “The outcome statement from the Indian foreign office and from SPOUSES FACE the Prime Minister's social media network speaks about Mr. Modi and Mr. Xi having forged a common understanding in MORE RESTRICTIONS Wuhan on the future direction of India-China relations "built By Nirupama Rao upon mutual respect for each other's developmental aspirations IN THE US and prudent management of differences with mutual sensitivity" he US Citizens and Immigration he path of India-China frontier with China. Services agency has been taking relations is strewn with the The summit has apparently not Tpositions that make it more and Tghosts of summits past. The yielded (and neither was it more difficult for individuals to migrate. leaders of the two countries have expected to) any significant Indian professionals have long benefited met, expressed the loftiest of reduction of differences on the from the H-1B visas that allow them to sentiments, gone their separate CPEC. The Indian government can work in the US. Persons who get H-1B ways. No doubt, summits are good, ill-afford to give the impression of visas are highly skilled workers. So are nobody has a quarrel with them, any concession on this question to most of their spouses, who are given H-4 the media at least loves them. The China given the Pakistan factor - a visas. President Barak Obama had relationship has often benefited perennial trigger for public liberally allowed such visa holders to work from such meetings. hysteria. The announcement that in the US too, and as a result, many of the A note of hope was therefore China and India will jointly work highly skilled spouses of H-1B visa holders sounded when Prime Minister on a project (details yet to be are now working and contributing to the Narendra Modi flew into the announced) in war-torn US economy. The USCIS is actively Chinese city of Wuhan to meet Afghanistan is a first and unlikely considering revoking the permission to with President Xi Jinping for an Mutual trust and accommodation of interests alone can bring the two to give Pakistan comfort, although work for such individuals, an "informal" summit last week. The countries closer. Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi (left) and China will no doubt provide overwhelming majority of them women. aim, as announced, was to build Chinese President Xi Jinping at BRICS Summit File photo undercover assurances to the An estimated 80,000-1,00,000 persons would strategic communication and former that its interests will not be thus be affected; so would the companies provide a long-term perspective for what is a the 2019 parliamentary elections drawing harmed. and communities that were benefiting complex and adversarial bilateral near, as well as in improving his global A sober prognosis for the future of India- from their expertise, and the taxes that relationship. profile. China relations is warranted despite the they paid. CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM: For the duration The outcome statement from the Indian euphoria of Mr. Modi's visit to Wuhan. The This year, the truncated H-1B visa quota of a day and a half, the leaders of the world's foreign office and from the Prime Minister's potential for tension on the Himalayan was filled up in just four days, even as the two most populous countries held talks social media network speaks about Mr. Modi piedmont is aggravated by the clash of total number of applications has decreased against a classic Chinese landscape of and Mr. Xi having forged a common Chinese and Indian ambition in the maritime significantly. The USCIS has imposed gardens and lakes, with and without aides. understanding in Wuhan on the future environment of the Indo-Pacific. The growing stringent conditions, increased the The optics were reassuring and optimism direction of India-China relations "built upon alignment of interest among three paperwork and also for the first time about the outcome of these conversations was mutual respect for each other's developmental democracies - India, the U.S. (now termed an announced that the initial visa would not implied. Only a year ago, on the high aspirations and prudent management of "indispensable" partner) and Japan - is a be for three years. In some cases, it could Himalayan plateau of Doklam on the borders differences with mutual sensitivity". These source for Chinese insecurity, just as China- be granted for less time too. The initial of Bhutan, India and China, overlooking the are words that can be variously interpreted. Pakistan strategic cooperation and China's hope that President Donald Trump would vital Siliguri Corridor connecting 'mainland' Their distilled essence is: let us give each inroads in South Asia make India uneasy. tone down from the electioneering rhetoric India to the Northeastern States, Indian and other space and let us rationalize our Twenty-first century Asia is not a pacific has been belied. The USCIS has quoted the Chinese troops engaged in a tense stand-off opposition to each other and our differences place. It is multi-polar and multi-aligned and a President's "Buy American, Hire lasting 73 days. The visit of the Dalai Lama, in a grown-up way. The takeaway buzzword testing ground for the security architectures American" Executive Order in its letter on exiled in India for nearly six decades, to from Wuhan appears to be "strategic of the future. the H-4 visas. Protectionism and anti- Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh engendered communication" by both leaderships in order SECURING THE ASIAN CENTURY: immigrant positions have been central to deep Chinese resentment. The voluble Indian to provide a more cogent sense of purpose Decades ago, India's first Prime Minister, the Trump arrangement, but they are both opposition to China's flagship Belt and Road and direction that helps heal the relationship. Jawaharlal Nehru, famously said that the inimical to the principles that shaped the Initiative (BRI), especially the China-Pakistan TWO STATEMENTS: The Indian challenge between India and China "runs most powerful democracy in the world. Economic Corridor (CPEC) being developed statement (the separate statement from the along the spine of Asia". As India and China Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, was also a Chinese foreign ministry is not so full-bodied) re-emerge from the shadows of history, hopes rightly pointed out that H1-B visa holders source of serious friction. China's growing also makes it known that the two leaders have for the so far elusive dream of an Asia united drive innovation and help build and inroads in the form of high-profile projects "issued strategic guidance" to their militaries will be center on the progress and strengthen the US economy. The bond and support for anti-Indian political interests to strengthen communication in order to development of these two nations. At the between the largely Indian H-1B visa in India's South Asian neighborhoodfueled especially "enhance predictability and same time, tension or conflict between the two holders and the US tech companies is Indian distrust. Hawkish and hyper effectiveness in the management of border takes away from the prospects of the Asian strong and one that is mutually beneficial. nationalist voices in both countries raised affairs". The intention is to prevent incidents century that their leaders speak of. Perhaps it The decrease in the number of tensions further, and the specter of armed in border regions of the Doklam variety, it is is this realization that prompted the applications and anecdotal evidence conflict on a shared but disputed frontier presumed. The situation bears watching. rendezvous in Wuhan. The world should have indicate a drop in interest from fresh lurked in the shadows. There are many pockets along the 3,500 km no quarrel with India and China beating Indian visa seekers. As for those who are Last year was an annus horribilis for the border between the two countries where the swords into ploughshares. We need a regular already there, as a general principle, it is India-China relationship. The Wuhan summit Line of Actual Control is disputed. pattern of more informal summits between neither wise nor fair to revoke signaled that the two countries are working Transgressions from both sides occur the leaders of the two countries. The permissions once granted. The spouses of on restoring a much-needed equilibrium in a regularly and military establishments, Indian challenge across the spine of Asia does no one H-1B visa holders are there to stay in the deeply disturbed relationship. This is a and Chinese, are trained not to yield an inch. good. US for the designated period, allowing relationship in therapy. For Mr. Modi, whose Efforts to establish a clearly delineated Line (The author isa former Foreign Secretary of them to contribute both to their individual scorecard on neighborhood policy has been of Actual Control have not succeeded, mainly India and Ambassador to the United States well-being and the society they serve. underwhelming, a detoxifying policy facelift due to Chinese reluctance. The summit at and to China. Twitter: @NMenonRao) with China is certainly advantageous both in Wuhan coincided with news that India will (Tribune, India) terms of his domestic political image, with build 96 more border outposts along the THE INDIAN PANORAMA PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER: Prof. Indrajit S. Saluja Mohammad Shahzad, Zia Khan DELHI BUREAU CHIEF: Ashishpal Singh E-mail [email protected]; Phone: 646-247-9458 VICE PRESIDENT: Chitagam Saluja Nisha Rani CHANDIGARH: Manjit Sidhu www.theindianpanorama.news CHIEF EDITOR: Prof Indrajit S. Saluja Vaaho Photographers LUDHIANA: A.S. 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“The authorities also need to be aware that as various State elections draw near, newer threats are likely to emerge. Among them are cyber threats. India is possibly the third most vulnerable country today from the point of view of cyberattacks. Many experts are of the view that as the digital economy expands, India will confront the specter of cyberattacks."

s 2019 and the general election beckon, the situation within the country Aappears far from reassuring. Several events over the past few months seem to presage that there is worse to follow. Protests and agitations have a life of their own and underestimating their potential could be cause for grief. Hence, it might be worthwhile for the nation's leaders to pay heed to the ancient Chinese proverb, "the wind sweeping through the tower heralds a storm rising in the mountain" and take anticipatory steps. Lowdown on internal security The authorities need to analyze why simultaneous upheavals are taking place on different planes across the country.Each day,a Dalit identity and concerns check the spate of incidents of rape across the There has been no precedent for such a concatenation of events and situations are An even bigger challenge confronts the country. The brutal assaults on young situation. The persistence of such trends is contributing to feelings of deep unease. Take nation today - on how to deal with the issue of children have touched a raw nerve. Demands giving rise to serious concerns as to where the internal security,for instance. The authorities Dalit "self-assertion". This aspect was clearly are being made to ensure that crimes of this nation is headed. may claim that the situation is stable, but the manifest during the April 2 Bharat Bandh nature end and that the administration sheds Cyber concerns daily litany of violence tells a different story. which was sponsored by different Dalit its helplessness and starts taking stringent Jammu and Kashmir is a good example where groups; its pan-India imprint was action. The authorities also need to be aware that the situation has been steadily deteriorating. unprecedented. The bandh was to protest the Today, the place names, Kathua (Jammu) as various State elections draw near, newer The past year has witnessed an increase in judgment of the Supreme Court, amending and Unnao (Uttar Pradesh), have become threats are likely to emerge. Among them are casualties, of civilians and security the Scheduled Castes and Schedules Tribes synonymous with the "epidemic" of rapes. But cyber threats. India is possibly the third most personnel, an upsurge in terrorist violence, a (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The outburst of sexual violence still continues despite public vulnerable country today from the point of rise in cross-border terrorism and increased violence, which resulted in some casualties outrage and the administration is seen to be view of cyberattacks. Many experts are of the infiltration from Pakistan. Despite the and the destruction of property worth crores, helpless in preventing it, which is beginning view that as the digital economy expands, surgical strikes by India, a palpable fear went far beyond this aspect. There was and is to create a crisis of confidence in the ability of India will confront the specter of syndrome prevails in the areas bordering no mistaking the pent-up resentment or the the administration and the government to cyberattacks. Given that it is already Pakistan. degree of mistrust. deal with the situation. Questions are being struggling to deal with threats such as Likewise, claims made latterly of the Anger and resentment have been asked as the administration is unable to fulfil ransomware and cryptojacking, India will eclipse of the Maoist menace - there are building up within the Dalit community for one of its most basic responsibilities - to need to tone up its strategic mindset and reports of scores of Maoists having been quite some time. Growing numbers of protect the honor and the dignity of women increase its homegrown capabilities killed in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district in atrocities against Dalits in recent years, and children. Mere condemnation of rape by expeditiously; a devastating cyberattack could end-April - are clearly unconvincing. Maoist which thanks to modern communications those in authority will not do. undermine public confidence in an election violence is not so prevalent in areas where it systems and social media have gained Cracks in the two pillars year. was once rampant; while the kill-ratio of critical publicity, are undoubtedly the root Finally, given the current resurgence in Maoists to security force personnel appears to cause of the pent-up anger. Instances in Distinct from these issues, but equally communal and caste aspirations, India cannot have gone in favor of the security forces, the 2016, such as Rohith Vemula's death at worrisome, is the extent of disruption seen in afford to overlook the danger of a rise in capacity of Maoists in carrying out selective Hyderabad University, and, separately, in the functioning of Parliament. A disruption of regional subnationalism, of which there are violence has not been significantly blunted, Una, have been triggers for the explosion of parliamentary proceedings is not new, but the already some incipient signs. Such tendencies especially in their strongholds in anger and violence. near total washout of the Budget session has could gain a fillip, if as anticipated, the Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, However, the recent outburst points to a shaken the faith of the nation. coming elections witness bitter electoral Telangana and Maharashtra. As an ideology- new brand of Dalit "rejectionist politics" The view from the Treasury Benches that campaigns based on a variety of based militant movement, Maoism needs to be which should be a matter of utmost concern. the Opposition is to blame for this has gained considerations that include caste and countered by a sustained ideological Appeasement is no longer acceptable. little traction. Most people believe that the community. campaign in rural and urban areas, but this is Moderating or repealing cow protection laws responsibility to ensure the smooth It is not that solutions for all these problems nowhere in evidence. will hardly matter or make a difference. More functioning of Parliament rests equally,if not fall within the purview of the authorities or Next is the growing specter of agrarian reservation in jobs is unlikely to assuage Dalit more, with the ruling dispensation, apart the government. However, it is in the nature of unrest. Over the past year, a series of protest concerns. A group of alumni from the Indian from the Presiding Officers of the two Houses. things that the responsibility for situations movements by farmers have rocked the Institutes of Technology have given up their What the nation is demanding is a resolution tends to devolve on the government. Hence, it country.While the causes are varied, the basic jobs to form a political party to fight for the of the impasse, and not the assigning of is important that the road to 2019 is paved issue remains the same, viz. the neglect of rights of the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled blame. A lack of demonstrable action is only with not only professed good intentions but farmers and the agrarian community by those Tribes and Other Backward Classes. adding to the sense of dismay. also concrete steps to mitigate and "defuse" a in authority. Large-scale protest marches by Violence against children The prevailing dissonance in the higher succession of crises that have the potential to farmers such as the one in Maharashtra in judiciary, the display of divisions within the disturb the political and social equilibrium in March, evoke both concern and fear. More If the authorities have been found wanting highest court of the land, and the charges an election year. protests are in the offing. With cohesive or are being accused of their inept handling of levelled against the Chief Justice of India by (The author is a former National Security leadership, the current peaceful agrarian the April 2 agitation, they are now being Opposition parties which are seeking his Adviser and a former Governor of West Bengal) protests could attain a dangerous dimension. hauled over the coals for their inability to impeachment, are again highly disturbing. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 10 SOUTH ASIA FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 3 security personnel injured in IED explosion in Pakistan ISSUE OF HARASSMENT OF PESHAWAR (TIP): Three security personnel were DIPLOMATS WITH INDIA injured on April 3 in an IED blast in Pakistan's restive northwestern tribal region, officials said. The security personnel were on a patrol duty when their vehicle hit the improvised explosive device (IED) in Jani RESOLVED, PAKISTAN SAYS Khel area of Bannu district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan said on province, they said. May 3 the issue of "harassment" of According to the officials, the IED was being operated by diplomats with India had been the terrorists through a remote control device. successfully resolved through talks, The injured were hospitalised. terming it a "success of diplomacy". Security forces have cordoned off the area and initiated Addressing the weekly media briefing operation to trace the attackers, the officials said. here, foreign office spokesman Mohammad Faisal, however, did not Pakistan opens new Islamabad provide any details about how the two sides addressed the issue. airport after years of delays "The issue of harassment of diplomats has been resolved through ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan's long-awaited new negotiations between foreign offices and airport in the capital Islamabad opened its doors on May 3, diplomatic missions of the both after years of delays and embarrassing setbacks that countries. It is a success of formal exposed the difficulty of building modern infrastructure in diplomacy," he said. the chaotic country. India and Pakistan announced in "The new Islamabad International Airport became fully March that they had agreed to mutually operational from today with the departure and arrival of resolve all issues + about the treatment sentenced to a one-year imprisonment, this matter and hopefully something several domestic and international flights," Pervez George, of diplomats. Faisal said. Faisal said his sentence had good will come out soon," he said. spokesman for Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority, told The agreement followed claims and ended in July 2014 but his national status Faisal also said the Shanghai AFP. counter-claims by the two countries was not confirmed by the Indian High Cooperation Organisation (SCO) had "Flights took off from and landed at the new airport about harassment of each other's Commission until April 4, 2018. Agreement on Conducting Joint Anti- today as scheduled," he added. diplomats. "Jetindaera's case for the repatriation Terrorist Military Exercises among the The new airport is set to be able to handle more than nine India had asked Pakistan to ensure was favourably considered by Pakistan, member states to which both Pakistan million passengers annually as China invests billions of safety and security of its officials + due to his deteriorating medical and India acceded at the time of joining dollars in the country and a vast improvement in security working at the Indian mission in condition and he was repatriated," he the Organization in June 2017. has spurred hopes Pakistan is ripe for development. Islamabad, saying they continue to face said, adding that Shahzad Roy, a social "The exercise 'Peace Mission 2018' is However, the disconcerting number of setbacks delaying its "harassment" and "intimidation". activist and a known singer, had played a being hosted by Russia under this opening since at least 2013 became a perennial joke in the Pakistan had claimed that there had key role in his release. Agreement. We are prepared to share capital, highlighting the government's inability to complete been as many as 26 instances of Faisal said that Track-II initiatives + our experiences with other SCO member high-profile infrastructure projects. Just two weeks ago, the harassment and intimidation of its do take place from time to time and states and work together against this opening of the airport was delayed again after it was diplomats since March 7, following usually former ambassadors, retired common enemy. We hope that SCO will revealed the facility did not have any drinking water or which Islamabad called back its high government officials, journalists and the provide an opportunity for both completed restrooms. The capital's previous Benazir Bhutto commissioner Sohail Mahmood + for people from academia of both countries countries to interact for peace and International Airport was renowned for its long lines and discussions on the issue. He, however, take part, but they do not have any link security in the region," he said. ramshackle ways, doubling as a military base that lacked returned to New Delhi on March 22. with the formal dialogue. He said that a committee constituted any boarding bridges. In 2014 the facility was named the Faisal also said Pakistan repatriated Talking about exchange of prisoners, at the end of 2015 and headed by Sartaj world's worst airport by the online Sleeping in Airports an Indian prisoner Jetindaera he said Pakistan concurred with the Aziz presented its final guide, which compared the operation to a "central prison" Arjanwaran who was handed over to Indian humanitarian proposal recommendations last year about Gilgit plagued by "aggressive-yet-inconsistent security checks", Indian officials at Wagah border today. regarding exchange of lists of prisoners Baltistan reforms. corruption and an overall lack of hygiene and technology. He said Arjanwaran, who was above 70 years of age, women and The Committee's report is in its final (AFP) suffering from a debilitating blood mentally challenged persons. phase and its "comprehensive disease, had completed his sentence in He said Pakistan also proposed recommendations" on implementation Afghanistan rolls out electronic Pakistan. He was apprehended by the exchanging lists of children below 18 would address most, if not all, the Pakistani security agencies in 2014 years and prisoners below 60 years. desires of the people of Gilgit Baltistan, ID cards despite opposition under the Foreigners Act and was "Both countries are actively pursuing he said. (PTI)

KABUL (TIP): Afghanistan is rolling out long-delayed electronic ID cards as a measure President Ashraf Ghani Myanmar ready to take back verified Double Kabul suicide insists is "important to help fight terrorist attacks." Ghani and some senior officials were the first to receive their Rohingyas: Suu Kyi bombing kills 25, cards in Kabul on May 4. Last December, the Afghan parliament approved Ghani's NAY PYI TAW (TIP): Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi told a visiting including eight journalists decree on the ID card, which unlike its simple predecessors UN delegation that the country was ready to allow the return of Rohingya made of paper has a chip that will be tied to the country's refugees after they complete a verification process, her office said on Tuesday. KABUL (TIP): A coordinated double electronic database. Militants have often used fake ID cards On May 1, Suu Kyi, also the State Counsellor, met a delegation of the UN suicide bombing by the Islamic State group to pass through security checkpoints and enter big urban Security Council tasked with investigating the humanitarian crisis, which hit central Kabul on May 1 morning, killing centers to stage attacks there. erupted in August last year after an offensive by the Myanmar military led to at least 25 people, including eight journalists, But some in the government of Chief Executive the exodus of around 700,000 Rohingya, an ethnic minority group, to officials said. An AFP photographer and a Abdullah Abdullah have voiced opposition to the cards neighbouring Bangladesh, reports Efe news. cameraman for a local TV station were because they denote a person's ethnicity and religion -- and "During the call, the State Counsellor underscored Myanmar's readiness to among the fatalities, the police said. as such could be used to discriminate against ethnic receive the verified returnees and necessary cooperation of Bangladesh to At least 45 people were wounded in the Hazaras and other minorities. (AP) expedite the repatriation process quickly," the office said in a Facebook post. twin attacks, according to Kabul police The UN delegation, which arrived here after visiting refugee camps in spokesman, Hashmat Stanekzai, who also Lanka President Sirisena's chief Bangladesh, also met General Min Aung Hlaing, the commander-in-chief of added that four policemen were among those the armed forces of Myanmar, and other government officials. killed. of staff arrested for bribery On Tuesday, the 15-member delegation - led by Peru's Ambassador to the UN The attack was the latest in a relentless Gustavo Meza-Cuadra whose country currently holds the rotating presidency string of deadly large-scale bombings and COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lankan President Maithripala of the UNSC - is set to visit Rakhine province in western Myanmar, where the assaults that have struck Kabul and Sirisena's Chief of Staff was arrested today for soliciting a Myanmar Army had unleashed the offensive following a series of attacks on elsewhere in Afghanistan so far this year. bribe from an Indian investor, Bribery Commission government posts by Rohingya rebels. In a statement posted on an IS-affiliated officials said. IK Mahanama, the chief of staff at Last December, Doctors Without Borders had said that around 6,700 website, the Islamic State group said two of presidential secretariat, along with P Dissanayake, who Rohingyas were killed in the military campaign, which the UN High its martyrdom seekers carried out the double was heading the state-owned Timber Corporation, were Commissioner for Human Rights and other countries had described as ethnic bombing, targeting the headquarters of the arrested when they were accepting a bribe of 20 million Sri cleansing. The UN delegation also visited refugee camps in Bangladesh ``renegade'' Afghan intelligence services in Lankan rupees, officials said. The Indian firm was to situated at the border with Myanmar and talked to the refugees to gauge the Kabul. The blasts took place in the central revive the eastern province's Kantalai state sugar factory magnitude of the humanitarian crisis. Myanmar authorities, who signed an Shash Darak area, home to NATO owned by the state and was seeking approval for the agreement with Bangladesh in November to repatriate the refugees, have headquarters and a number of embassies project, officials said. (PTI) denied allegations of human rights abuses in the military offensive and and foreign offices _ as well as the Afghan justified it as a legitimate response to terror. (IANS) intelligence service. (AP) THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 ADVERTISEMENT 11 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 12 US FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 US, China begin trade talks centred around tech rivalry US May Day immigration protests WASHINGTON (TIP): : Chinese and US officials met face-to-face on May 3 in an attempt to resolve a dispute over technology that has taken the world’s target Trump, fall elections two largest economies the closest they’ve ever come to a trade war. NEW YORK (TIP): Immigrants say A high-powered US delegation arrived in Beijing President Donald Trump's for talks with Chinese officials aimed at defusing the administration has become almost tensions, though analysts say they appear unlikely to everything they feared, but while they yield a breakthrough given the two sides’ rally across the United States on May intensifying rivalry in strategic technologies, where Day, their focus is less on huge turnout China lags behind the US. Tuesday than on the first Tuesday in US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin is leading November. the group, which includes commerce secretary Marches and other demonstrations for Wilbur Ross and US trade representative Robert labor and immigrant rights were Lighthizer. Liu He, President Xi Jinping’s top planned from Florida to New York to economic adviser, headed the Chinese side in the California on International Workers' talks, which are expected to end on Friday. Day and come amid similar actions The dispute has deepened as China has stepped up worldwide. efforts to overtake western industry leaders in "The Trump administration has made advanced technologies, especially for very clear that they've declared war on semiconductors, the silicon brains required to run the immigrant community on all levels," smartphones, connected cars, cloud computing and said Javier Valdez, co-executive director Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights needed for national security and artificial intelligence. of the advocacy group Make the Road in Los Angeles. economic benefits. Some of the new Ahead of the talks, US President Trump praised New York. "Elections have consequences, and the policies have gotten tangled up in court, his relationship with China’s Xi Jinping. “Our great Immigrant rights groups have joined consequences for our community have and Trump hasn't secured funding for financial team is in China trying to negotiate a level in May Day activities for more than a been dire, and if we do not change the his coveted border wall with Mexico. playing field on trade! I look forward to being with decade, initially to push back against balance of power, we question our ability After the rallies, immigrant rights President Xi in the not too distant future. We will harsh legislative proposals and later to to remain free in this country," she said. groups will join LGBTQ, African- always have a good (great) relationship!” (AP) clamor for reform and legal status for Protesters still are taking aim at American and women's organizations immigrants in the country illegally who policy changes under Trump, including this summer to push for the election of 17 Reps nominate Trump for were brought to the U.S. as children or a country-specific travel ban, the end of new leaders, Salas said, adding that they overstayed their visas. the Deferred Action for Childhood hope to see more support from Nobel Peace Prize Now, they want to drive turnout in the Arrivals program, high-profile Americans who aren't immigrants. midterm elections. Advocates hope detention and deportation efforts, and "It is really a fundamental question WASHINGTON (TIP): Seventeen Republican voters target lawmakers who have proposals to cut back the overall about what kind of a country we're lawmakers have nominated US President Donald pushed for measures that hurt numbers of people allowed to immigrate going to be," she said. "For us, the Trump for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize in immigrants and replace them with permanently. question of immigration is a question recognition of his work to end the Korean War, immigrant-friendly policymakers, said Trump and his supporters say the about race, and it is also a question denuclearise the Korean peninsula and bring peace Angelica Salas, executive director of the enforcement and policy changes are about real equality in this country." (AP) to the region. “Since taking office, President Trump has worked tirelessly to apply maximum pressure on North Korea to end its illicit weapons program and bring peace to the region. His administration successfully Iran has robust, clandestine nuclear united the international community, including China, to impose one of the most successful international sanctions regimes in history,” the weapons programme: White House letter said. The sanctions have decimated the North Korean WASHINGTON (TIP): Iran has a robust, economy and have been largely credited for bringing clandestine nuclear weapons programme North Korea to the negotiating table, the that it tried but failed to hide from the world Congressmen said in a letter to Berit Reiss-Andersen, and from its own people, a top White House Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. official has alleged. “President Moon Jae-in of South Korea recently White House Press Secretary Sarah said, ‘President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Sanders said the recent information Prize’,” the lawmakers wrote. The White House did released by Israel provided new and not respond to any question related to the letter. (PTI) compelling details about Iran's efforts to develop missile-deliverable nuclear Naked Donald Trump statue weapons. Sanders and US Secretary of State Mike goes for $28,000 at auction Pompeo issued strong statements yesterday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin LOS ANGELES (TIP): A naked statue of Donald Netanyahu accused Iran of having secretly Trump, complete with a distended belly and jowly pursued a nuclear weapons programme. sneer, is to go on display at a Haunted Museum after Netanyahu said he had conclusive proof a paranormal investigator bought it at auction. that Iran had lied about its nuclear weapons Julien's Auctions announced Wednesday it sold the programme. "These facts are consistent artwork -- believed to be the last of the controversial with what the United States has long authentic," Pompeo said. deal. statues not vandalized or destroyed -- for $28,000 known: Iran has a robust, clandestine The documents show that Iran had a He said what it meant was the deal was (23,000 euros) at its biannual auction in Los Angeles. nuclear weapons programme that it has secret nuclear weapons programme for not constructed on a foundation of good The infamous statue by a West Coast anarchist tried and failed to hide from the world and years. It sought to develop nuclear weapons faith or transparency and was built on Iran's collective is one of a series depicting the 45th from its own people," Sanders said. and missile delivery systems and hid a vast lies. president in the nude, but without testicles. "The Iranian regime has shown it will use atomic archive from the world and from the Iran's nuclear deception is inconsistent In August 2016 -- during Trump's then improbable destructive weapons against its neighbours International Atomic Energy Agency with Iran's pledge in the nuclear deal "that bid for the White House -- the statues appeared in and others. Iran must never have nuclear (IAEA), he alleged. under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, public spaces in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New weapons," she said. Pompeo said that among the flaws of the develop or acquire any nuclear weapons," he York, Seattle and Cleveland, garnering international Pompeo said the documents obtained by Iran nuclear deal was the whitewashing of alleged. attention. Israel from inside of Iran showed beyond Tehran's illicit activities related to its "We are therefore assessing what the The four other naked Trumps -- titled "The any doubt that the Iranian regime was not military nuclear programme. discovery of Iran's secret nuclear files Emperor Has No Balls" were confiscated or telling the truth. Iran had many opportunities over the means for the future of the The Joint destroyed. In one cheeky response, New York "I have personally reviewed many of the years to turn over its files to international Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). officials pointed to regulations banning "any Iranian files. Our nonproliferation and inspectors from the IAEA and admit its "Allowing restrictions on Iran's nuclear unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter intelligence officials have been analysing nuclear weapons work. Instead, they lied to programme to sunset was a mistake. One how small." The sole surviving copy was rescued tens of thousands of pages and translating the IAEA repeatedly,he alleged. has to ask: Why exactly was Iran hiding half by La Luz de Jesus Gallery on Hollywood them from Farsi. This analytical work will Pompeo also alleged that Tehran had lied a ton of nuclear weaponisation files while Boulevard before it could be taken and melted continue for many months. We assess that about their nuclear programme to the six implementing the Iran deal?" Pompeo said. down. (AFP) the documents we have reviewed are nations who negotiated the Iran nuclear (PTI) THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 INDIANS ABROAD 13 Three Indian Americans die in Indian American Cancer Queens, NY, house fire QUEENS VILLAGE, NY (TIP): Indian Scientist Put on Leave after American mom and grandparentsdied in Queens Village, NY, as a house was gutted by a fast-spreading fire. Two children were rescued by firefighters. Harassment Allegations The New York City Fire Department Deputy Chief Michael Gala identified the WASHINGTON (TIP): Top Indian journal. deceased as Harleen "Manni" Maggo and American scientist Inder Verma, Mr Verma, who has denied the her paternal grandparents Ragvir Kaur- considered as one of the world's allegations, told that the leave had Kainth, 82, and Pyara Kainth, 87. leading authorities on gene therapy stemmed from the lawsuits that Salk He said that Maggo's 8-year-old girl and and cancer, has been placed on professors filed against the Institute in a 6-year-old boy were trapped in the Harleen Kaur died in administrative leave following July. building but were rescued. fire while her two allegations of "inappropriate conduct" "I have never used my position at The girl remains in critical condition, children were rescued against him. the Salk Institute to take advantage of while the boy's condition is stable. Both are currently receiving Mr. Verma, 70, a scientist at the others. I have also never engaged in medical treatment at Nassau University Medical Center, said fire prestigious Salk Institute for any sort of intimate relationship with officials. Biological Studies in California, has anyone affiliated with the Salk According to media reports, the fire broke just before midnight been placed on administrative leave, Institute, he said in a statement to on Saturday.There were seven other relatives of the family inside pending the outcome of the Science through his attorney. the home, who were there to celebrate an upcoming wedding in investigation into the allegations "I have never inappropriately the family. against him. touched, nor have I made any sexually Further the media report stated that the second floor of the The institute did not give any Inder Verma has been placed on charged comments, to anyone house was completely engulfed in flames as people ran out of the reason for suspending Mr. Verma. administrative leave following affiliated with the Salk Institute. I building. Voices of people who were still trapped could be heard allegations of "inappropriate conduct" The institute has hired The Rose have never allowed any offensive or from outside. against him. Group, a San Diego-based sexually charged conversations, jokes, One of the eyewitnesses told the media that he saw one international employment law and Lewis, chairman of the Salk Institute material, etc. to occur at the Salk occupant jumping out from the second floor of the burning consulting firm, to investigate for Biological Studies said in a Institute, said Mr Verma who earned building. allegations, not yet made public, that statement. Mr Verma has been placed his MSc in Biochemistry from the The other relatives who were inside the building are reportedly were reported to the institute in on administrative leave, pending the Lucknow University. out of danger, though some of them suffered serious injuries. February. outcome of the investigation. He will COMMENTS: Denying misconduct Maggo, who lived with her husband in their newly bought Mr. Verma, who is also on the not be performing scientific or allegations Mr Verma said, "I believe house in Hollis, was visiting her grandparents as the family was boards of several Indian scientific administrative roles on behalf of the that it is inappropriate for an celebrating an upcoming marriage of one of their relatives. institutes, has denied the allegations. institute during this period," he said, individual in a position of authority to According to Param Singh, brother of Maggo, she came out of "Recently, the institute became without referring to the nature of the engage in any intimate relationship the burning house but decided to make a re-entry after knowing aware of allegations concerning Inder investigation. with a direct report or to use that that her grandparents are still trapped inside. Verma. Consistent with Salk's policies The action against Mr Verma comes position of authority to take He also added that her children were doing better with one still governing workplace conduct, the nearly four months after he was placed advantage of others." breathing with assistance on April 29thafternoon. institute has undertaken a formal on temporary leave as editor of the In 2005, he was appointed as foreign investigation that is being led by an Proceedings of the National Academy fellow by the Indian national Science Indian American founder of independent outside party," Dan of Sciences, a prestigious scientific Academy. technology firm fined for Indian American physician Pranav Indian American youths underpaying H-1B workers Patel in Illinois indicted for health receive Prudential Spirit of SACRAMENTO (TIP): Indian American Mani care fraud Community Awards Chhabra, founder of a technology firm in East CHICAGO (TIP): An Bay, California, has been Indian American asked by the US physician, Pranav Patel, Department of Labor to has been indicated by the pay $175,000 to 12 Indian Northern District of H-1B employees after the Mani Chhabra, the founder and CEO Illinois' U.S. Attorney's federal agency found that of Cloudwick Technologies, was Office for stealing $1 they were hugely quoted saying that the Department million through his underpaid. of Labor misinterpreted some facts medical company. According to an official about how the company uses its H- According to the release from the 1B workers. indictment report, Pranav WASHINGTON D. C. (TIP): Six Indian American department, Cloudwick Technologies, founded by Mani Chhabra, Patel, 51, submitted bogus teenagers were among winners of the 23rd annual hired Indian workers on H-1B visas, offering guaranteed salaries insurance claims through Prudential Spirit of Community Awards in of up to $8,300 per month. The department alleged that the his southwest suburban Washington, DC, on April 30th. The Indian Americans company paid them just $800 per month, which is a violation of medical firm named Palos honored were Aditya Sidapara, who is a resident of the work visa program. "Investigators found that the company Indicted for stealing $1 million Heights. Phoenix, AZ; Sivani Arvapalli, of South Windsor, CT; paid impacted employees well below the wage levels required through his medical company, Patel, Patel, a resident of the Vani Sharma, Fishers, IN; Anjali Chadha, Louisville, under the H-1B program based on job skill level, and also made if convicted, may get up to 17 years Chicago suburb of Burr KY; Praneeth Alla, Exton, PA; and Shrey Pothini, 14, of illegal deductions from workers' salaries," the department said. in jail. Ridge, allegedly created Savage, MN. In all, 100 top youth volunteers from "As a result, some of the H-1B employees that Cloudwick brought receipts of medical tests in across the country were honored at the event. from India with promised salaries of up to $8,300 per month the name of his patients without their knowledge. According to Each recipient received $1,000 in cash prize and instead received as little as $800 net per month." Northern District of Illinois's U.S. Attorney's Office, the accused personal congratulations from Olympic gold "Cloudwick has never brought resources from India," he said. committed the malpractice from 2008 to 2013, during which he medalist and World Cup champion Lindsey Vonn. "All the resources are master'sstudents that have educated in U.S. obtained at least $950,000 in fraudulent payments from Medicare The award ceremony and gala dinner reception and then we hired and trained them," Chhabra said. and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois. was held the Smithsonian's National Museum of Chhabra added that the issue came under the radar of the The attorney's office said that Patel submitted many fake Natural History. Sidapara, 18, a senior at BASIS department only because there was changes in visa categories insurance claims for a non-invasive "duplex scans" of his patients Scottsdale, co-founded an educational initiative that that it imposed. He said that $800 was paid to employees during that where not actually performed. He even fabricated a seven- is teaching computer coding to students living in their training period. He also acknowledged that Cloudwick page medical document of one of his patients and added up details four refugee camps in East Africa, aiming to lift Technologies had deducted money for four of its H-1B employees of a follow-up examination that never happened. In reality, Patel them out of poverty and help meet the worldwide for advanced training, which is illegal. just refilled the prescription of the patient during the visit. The demand for skilled software engineers. Arvapalli, 13, "This is not allowed for H-1B and we paid them back wages," indictment report has leveled 12 charges against Patel - three an eighth-grader at Timothy Edwards Middle School, Chhabra said. The Department of Labor is yet to reveal how the counts of making false statements, two counts of aggravated was nominated by the Indian Valley Family YMCA. H-1B abuse came to it notice, nor has it provided details about identity theft and seven counts of healthcare fraud. He volunteers with a group that has raised nearly how long the Indian H-1B workers have been employed with If found guilty of all the charges, Patel will have to spend up to $94,000 for child-focused charities by conducting Cloudwick Technologies. 17 years in jail. Identity theft is punishable by a mandatory two- talent shows and organizing benefit dinners and According to the official website of Cloudwick, it is a provider year sentence, healthcare fraud carries a maximum of 10 years, entertainment events. of bimodal digital business services and provides solutions to the and making false statements carries five years. Global 1000 companies. Read full story on www.theindianpanorama.news THE INDIAN PANORAMA 14 INDIA FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 27 KILLED IN BLAZE AFTER KARNATAKA ELECTION BUS OVERTURNS IN BIHAR Congress turned Bengaluru from PATNA (TIP): At least 27 people were reportedly reduced to ashes after a bus, which overturned and fell into a ditch, caught fire near Bangra village on National Highway 28 in Motihari, Bihar, on May 3. The locals are said to have rescued five persons. Silicon Valley to valley of sin, says PM The bus was going to Delhi from Muzaffarpur. At least 32 people were onboard the air-conditioned bus. The accident BENGALURU (TIP): Prime Minister occurred at Kotwa police station area about 35 km southwest Narendra Modi on May 3 took aim at the of Motihari town. Congress government of Karnataka and The injured were taken to Sri Krishna Medical College and accused it of having reduced Bengaluru Hospital. The speeding bus overturned while trying to save a to a valley of sin from Silicon Valley. biker before it caught fire, a local claimed. Modi also attacked the Janata Dal Locals claimed that the was bus reduced to ashes when it (Secular), another contender in the May caught fire after falling into a ditch as the fire tender failed to 12 assembly election, and its leader HD reach at the spot even in an hour. Police officials claimed that Deve Gowda. over a dozen have been killed but the exact death toll was yet Addressing a rally in Bengaluru, his to be ascertained. Source: The Tribune sixth in the state ahead of the polls, Modi listed a slew of alleged lapses by India doing extremely well on the Congress government, saying it had given the city many “gifts”. The PM said electrification: World Bank report the city had been changed from a garden city to garbage city,and its cosmopolitan Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public rally for the Karnataka assembly elections, in Bengaluru on May 3. Pic courtesy: PTI WASHINGTON (TIP): India is doing “extremely well” on culture had been changed to a culture of electrification with nearly 85% of the country’s population chaos. From computer city, it had having access to electricity, the World Bank has said. become crime city, and from a start-up Karnataka elections a battle of ideologies, Between 2010 and 2016, India providing electricity to 30 hub, it had changed to a pothole club, million people each year, more than any other country, the Modi said. not personalities, says Rahul Gandhi World Bank said in its latest report released this week. Modi said the city of lakes had been While challenges still remain to provide electricity to the turned into a city of burning lakes. BENGALURU (TIP): Congress president rest of the 15 per cent of the 1.25 billion population, India is “Photos of the Bellandur lake with froth Rahul Gandhi on May 3 said Prime Minister all set to achieve the target of universal access to electricity and fire showed the misrule of the Narendra Modi’s “attacks aimed at him” will not before the 2030 target date, Vivien Foster, Lead Energy government,” he said. The PM also pay off because the Karnataka assembly elections Economist at the World Bank here told PTI. attacked the Congress over the aborted was a battle of ideologies, not personalities. The report comes less than a week after Prime Minister steel flyover plan that was opposed by Gandhi, who embarked on the eighth leg of his Narendra Modi announced that all the villages in the country environmental activists. “It was not a ‘Jana Ashirwada Yatre’ by addressing three have been electrified. steel flyover, it was a steal flyover,” he rallies at Aurad, Bhalki and Humnabad in Bidar The report said that nearly 85 per cent of the country’s said referring to allegations of graft in district, said his party has always unified people population has access to electricity. the project. and worked for their development. Criticising “India is doing extremely well on electrification. We are Just two days after he accused CM Modi for getting personal with his attacks, he reporting India about 85 per cent of the population has access Siddaramaiah of having disrespected said: “This election is about the future of to electricity,” said Foster, lead World Bank author of the former prime minister Deve Gowda, Karnataka. Unable to target us on issues like education, roads or farmer welfare, latest report on Energy Progress. Modi said all pre-poll surveys and he goes after Rahul Gandhi.” This figure, she pointed out, is higher than that of the pundits had already predicted that the He went on to claim that the Prime Minister makes personal attacks whenever Indian government. “That might surprise you. The Janata Dal (Secular)would finish a he is afraid. “But we won’t reciprocate, because we believe in a culture where we government is currently reporting in low 80s,” she said. distant third in the polls. “All the treat opponents with respect. Why doesn’t the PM tell small businesses why he While the World Bank’s methodology is based on surveys and pundits are clear that JD(S) couldn’t save them from the Gabbar Singh Tax (GST) Instead of that, he keeps household survey, which includes even those who are off will hobble to a distant third with much attacking me. It won’t benefit him.” grid, while the figures of the government is based on official difficulty. But in its lust for power, that Gandhi asked Modi to follow Lingayat statesman Basavanna’s principle of utility connection, she said. party has tied up with dynastic parties ‘Nudditante Nade’ (practice what you preach) instead of pointing fingers at others. “In absolute terms, India is doing more on electrification and those who support terrorists,” he “He promised to deposit Rs 15 lakh each in poor citizens’ bank accounts (by than any other countries. Thirty million a year, is really an said. The JD(S) has tied up with Bahujan bringing back black money). Did he do it? He promised two crore jobs to the youth astounding performance and it stands out from the crowd,” Samaj Party, Telangana Rashtra Samiti every year. Did he do it? He said he would ensure higher minimum support price Foster said. However, India is not the fastest country in and the All India Majlis Ittehadul for farmers. But he did none of this,” he said. electrification. Bangladesh and Kenya, for example are faster Muslimeen. Source: HT in electrification than India, she noted. Source: PTI India among top 5 defense spenders in world NEW DELHI (TIP): India is a country used of other expenses of the defense forces. where there has time and again been a lack of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had adequate funds for the upgradation of armed allocated Rs 3,59,894 crore to the Defense forces weapons. Ministry in this year's budget session. The Yet, Sweden based think tank, Stockholm issue of inadequate defense budget had been International Peace Research Institute raised repeatedly by several officials in (SIPRI) has come out with a report on global defense services. Vice Chief of Army Staff military spending, in which India features also told the Parliamentary committee that among the top five defense spenders in the the defense had "dashed their hopes". Vice world! As of 2017, India's defense spending has Chief of Army Staff Lt General Sarath Chand increased by 5.5 per cent amounting to a total also went on record to term 65 per cent of the of $63.9 billion. arms with India to be in "Vintage Category". The report suggested that India stood fifth in the list after US, China, Saudi and Russia. The increase in world expenditure and The total defense spending of the world stands especially defense spending in the Asia and at $1739 billion with a marginal increase of 1.1 West Asia is due to increasing security issues per cent since 2016. However, the list of world's in the region. Experts suggest that with largest military spenders has remained respect to India, the growing border tensions consistent over the years with the US topping with China, and with issues of terrorism and the list. a cross-border threat from Pakistan, has The defense spending of India which has resulted in increased defense spending in increased by 5.5 per cent has put behind Despite being on the top of defense spenders Budget 2017-18: An Analysis, suggests that, out India. Nevertheless, reports from the countries like France, U.K. and Japan. Earlier and importers list, India still does not have the of the total defense expenditure, 42 per cent parliamentary committee and several other reports had also suggested that India was also adequate budget required to modernize its goes to pay and allowance, 40 per cent goes to expert groups continue to question the lack of the largest importer of arms in the world. arsenal. An IDSA paper titled 'India's Defense modernization & stores and rest 18 per cent is funds being allocated for defense purposes. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 INDIA 15 SUPERSTORMS KILL OVER SC/ST Act judgment has govt, apex 100 ACROSS INDIA court arguing over reasons for deaths

NEW DELHI (TIP): The Centre told personal liberty - has been read in the the Supreme Court that its judgment SC/ST Act.” diluting a stringent provision of the Justice Lalit said what has been put SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act by the court is a “filter” before a has “seriously affected their (SCs/STs) complaint is acted upon. morale and confidence”. “It is not that the judgment says no Attorney General KK Venugopal on registration of crime. It is not that the Thursday told a bench of Justice Adarsh perpetrators of crime should not be Kumar Goel and Justice Uday Umesh punished. Let there be a filter” before a Lalit that their March 20 judgment complaint is acted upon and an accused NEW DELHI (TIP): A severe dust storm followed by holding that arrest on a complaint under is arrested, he said. thunder showers hit parts of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan the law was not mandatory has shaken As the Attorney General cited the overnight, killing more than 100 people and leaving a trail of the confidence of Scheduled Castes and “Don’t stay (it), it will send a wrong instances of an 83-year-old Dalit woman destruction. Scheduled Tribes “in the ability of the message” that by taking to the streets, burnt alive and Thakur community Houses collapsed and trees and poles were uprooted in the state to protect them”. the top court’s judgment can be bent, he members not allowing a Dalit storm that also led to power outages. He added that it resulted in the death argued. bridegroom to mount a horse as his In Uttar Pradesh, the high-intensity dust storm left 64 of eight people during protests as well as Telling the court that its judgment wedding party goes to the bride’s home, people dead and 47 injured. an increase in the instances of attack on amounted to an exercise in law making, Justice Goel asked: “Why it is that action In Rajasthan, 33 were killed, taking the combined death toll the SCs and STs. the Attorney General urged the bench to is not being taken. There has to be quick to 97. About 100 people were injured in the state, officials The bench however questioned the refer to a larger bench the question punishment.” said. submission saying its judgment did not whether the top court can issue The judge also said the burning of the In UP, Agra district was the worst hit, accounting for 36 lead to the deaths. directions, guidelines or mandamus Dalit woman was murder. deaths and injuries to 35 others, officials said. “Our judgment did not incite any one contrary to the provision of existing As Venugopal argued that only 13 to 15 Besides Agra, the other affected UP districts were Bijnor, to commit crime. Our judgment has been laws. per cent of the complaints were found to Bareli, Saharanpur, Pilibhit, Firozabad, Chitrakoot, wrongly understood. The SC/ST He said that directions issued in the be false, the court observed that does not Muzaffarnagar, Rae Bareli and Unnao. community has full protection of this March 20 judgment which the Central mean that remaining 85 per cent were In Rajasthan, Dholpur district was the worst affected with court,” said Justice Goel refuting government is seeking to be reviewed true. 17 killed. Venugopal’s argument. were contrary to the provision of the Act The court fixed May 16 for further Two of those killed in Dholpur were from Agra in Uttar Amicus curiae Amarendra Sharan and amounted to whittling down of the hearing of the matter when Sharan Pradesh. opposed the plea by the Attorney stringent provisions. would respond to the Attorney General’s "A few people are undergoing primary treatment while General urging the court to stay the Citing several instances from the submissions. others were discharged. One critical patient from Dholpur operation of its March 20 judgment by court’s past pronouncements including The Central government moved the was referred to Jaipur," Hemant Kumar Gera, Secretary, which it had issued several directions that of collegium system, appointment top court for the review of its March 20 Disaster Management and Relief, said. providing for preliminary inquiry of judges, Justice Goel said: “The court judgment that generated a lot of protests A detailed report of the disaster is awaited even as relief before an FIR is lodged and action is has stepped in to fill the gaps in law. including by lawmakers, who felt that and rescue teams have been pressed into service to clear taken on a complaint alleging atrocities (Constitution’s) Article 21 - the Supreme Court verdict had diluted debris and restore power supply, Rajasthan he said. under the Act. guaranteeing protection of life and the provisions of the Act. Gera said contigency funds have been released to the respective district administration. He said Rs 4 lakh will be given to family members of deceased, Rs 2 lakh to persons NATIONAL FILM AWARDS ROW sustaining 60 per cent injuries and Rs 60,000 to people with 40 to 50 per cent injuries. Expressing sorrow at the loss of lives due to dust storms in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, Prime Minister Narendra 65 awardees skip ceremony for Modi today directed officials to coordinate with states to ensure speedy relief and rehabilitation of those affected. "Saddened by the loss of lives due to dust storms in various parts of India. Condolences to the bereaved families. May the injured recover soon," the Prime Minister's Office tweeted not being honoured by Prez quoting Modi. Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje expressed NEW DELHI (TIP): Controversy grief over the calamity and said authorities concerned in the marred the 65th National Film Awards districts have been directed to ensure all possible help to ceremony here on May 3 with several victims. "Condolence for families who lost their loved ones," awardees protesting against the whittling she said on Twitter. Source: PTI down of the number of those to be honoured by the President to a select 11. Chhota Rajan found guilty of Upset over breaking from the long-held tradition of the President giving away all journalist J. Dey's murder the awards, around 60 awardees wrote to the Directorate of Film Festivals, MUMBAI (TIP): Gangster Chhota Rajan and eight others President’s office and Ministry of were today (May 2) handed life imprisonment by special Information and Broadcasting, over the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) “discrimination”. court here for killing senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey in The nameplates of the absentee 2011. winners were placed facing down at the Judge Sameer Adkar, however, acquitted former journalist Vigyan Bhawan, where several others Jigna Vora, who was charged with instigating Rajan to carry from across the length and breadth of the out the killing. country congregated to celebrate the The judge also acquitted Paulson Joseph, who was accused diversity of India and Indian cinema. of handling the financial operations concerned with the Celebrated names conspiracy. like KJ Yesudas and AR Rahman, apart President Ram Nath Kovind confers Best Actress Award on veteran Bollywood Vora broke down in the court soon after her acquittal was from actors Riddhi Sen, Divya Dutta and actress Sridevi (posthumously), being received by her husband Boney Kapoor and announced by the judge. Pankaj Tripathi and a host of others daughters Janhvi and Khushi, during the 65th National Film Awards function at Rajan, who was witnessing proceedings from New Delhi’s attended the gala. Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on May 3. Tihar jail via video conferencing, said “theek hai (alright)”, Information and Broadcasting The prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Sridevi, whose powerful performance when the judge read out the sentence and asked the gangster Minister Smriti Irani and Minister of Award — the country’s highest cinema in her last film “Mom” fetched her the if he wanted to say anything. State for Information and Broadcasting honour — was given posthumously to Best Actress Award. Her husband This is the first major conviction for Rajan since he was Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore handed Vinod Khanna, whose wife Kavita Boney Kapoor and two daughters — deported to India following his arrest at Bali airport in out the remainder of the 125 awards at Khanna and son Akshaye Khanna Jahnvi and Khushi — took the stage Indonesia in 2015. the event, which was also devoid of a received it. It was an “emotional and together to receive what was Sridevi’s Earlier last year, Rajan was convicted by a court in Delhi musical performance unlike every proud moment,” Akshaye said. first National Award in a career of 50 and sentenced to seven years imprisonment in a case of fake year. Another posthumous honour went to years. passports. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 16 FEATURE FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018

other’s Day is a holiday honoring Mothers Day is celebrated in USA in a big motherhood that is observed in way and has been commercialized to a great Mdifferent forms throughout the extent. It is considered as the next big day world, and Mother’s Day 2018 occurs on after Christmas and Valentines Day. Phone Sunday, May 13, in the United States. The MOTHER’S DAY: A lines record a heavy traffic and card sales American incarnation of Mother’s Day was reaches its peak. Restaurants are filled to created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 and became an their maximum capacity as children don't official U.S. holiday in 1914. Jarvis would later want their mothers to cook on their special denounce the holiday’s commercialization day. and spent the latter part of her life trying to SALUTE TO MOM At home children express love for their remove it from the calendar. While dates and mother by treating their moms with celebrations vary, Mother’s Day traditionally breakfast in the bed or making a sumptuous involves presenting moms with flowers, cards lunch. Tradition of gifting flowers and gifts and other gifts. is also rampant. More commonly gifted flowers are carnations are these are the HISTORY OF MOTHER’S DAY official flower of Mothers Day.People buy red Celebrations of mothers and motherhood or pink carnations for the mothers who are can be traced back to the ancient Greeks and living and place white carnations on the Romans, who held festivals in honor of the grave of the mothers who are dead. Children mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele, but the also present skits, plays and song in honor of clearest modern precedent for Mother’s Day is their mother. Some also make cards and gifts the early Christian festival known as at home to show their gratitude for their “Mothering Sunday.” mother. Once a major tradition in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe, this Mother’s Day in UK celebration fell on the fourth Sunday in Lent Mothers Day in UK is celebrated with great and was originally seen as a time when the excitement and verve but it does not fall on faithful would return to their “mother the same date as in US. In UK, Mother's Day church”—the main church in the vicinity of celebrations takes place on the fourth their home—for a special service. Sunday in the month of Lent. Since the Lent Over time the Mothering Sunday tradition days are not fixed, the date for mothers Day shifted into a more secular holiday, and changes every year. children would present their mothers with The tradition of celebrating Mothers Day flowers and other tokens of appreciation. This began much earlier in England than it started custom eventually faded in popularity before in USA. In fact England was the first country merging with the American Mother’s Day in in the world to dedicate a day for mothers as the 1930s and 1940s. early as 1600s. They called this day for Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the 28th mothers as 'Mothering Sunday'. The festival President of the United States, on May 9, 1914, has its roots in the practice wherein poor signed a proclamation following untiring people in England send their little children to efforts by Anna Marie Jarvis. The United work as domestic servants or apprentice with States, then declared the second Sunday of the rich. At that time it was considered May a national holiday "as a public expression important by the people that these children, of our love and reverence for the mothers of staying away from their families be allowed to our country". visit their homes once in a year. The time decided for the annual visit to home was Who Was Anna Marie Jarvis? middle Sunday of the fasting period of Lent Anna Marie Jarvis, seen as founder of (which lasts from Ash Wednesday to Easter). Mother's Day, was the daughter of Ann Maria For this reason, the day was called Reeves Jarvis, a social activist who organized 'Refreshment Sunday' or 'Mid-Lent Sunday'. events called Mothers' Day Work Clubs to reduce infant mortality. At the events doctors Mother's Day in Canada were invited to hold discussions with mothers In North American country of Canada, on how to keep their children healthy and Mothers Day is a the most popular festival educate them with latest practices of hygiene after Christmas and Valentines Day. Just as and sanitation. in USA, Mothers Day in Canada is celebrated It was the elder Jarvis who had inspired her in the second Sunday in the month of May. daughter to lead the movement of observing People pay tribute to their mothers on the Mother's Day day and thank them for their constant Anna Marie Jarvis has been quoted saying support and love. In Canada, cards and that in 1876 she heard her mother recite the flowers are the most commonly used methods following prayer after teaching a Sunday of expressing love for moms. School lesson: "I hope and pray that someone, sometime, Mother’s Day In India will found a memorial mother's day The concept of celebrating Mothers Day on commemorating her for the matchless service the second Sunday of May is very new in she renders to humanity in every field of life." India and it can be said that in a time span of less than a decade, Mothers Day has been a How Was The First Mother’s great success. In the presence of umpteenth Day Observed? number of existing festivals, it is a After the death of Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis remarkable achievement for a foreign festival in 1905 , Anna Maria Jarvis vowed to fulfill to make its presence felt in the vast and her mother's dream. culturally diverse country like India. On May 10, 1908, Anna Jarvis held a public Globalisation, to a great extent has helped service at Andrews Methodist Church, where to make this Western, or mainly American her mother taught Sunday School for 25 years. festival to make its presence felt in India. She sent a donation of 500 white carnations Besides interaction of Indians with the West for all those who attended and that is how the is at an all time high. A lot many people have first official Mother's Day was observed. been in US or have their relatives staying there. Internet and satellite revolution has MOTHER'S DAY AROUND Day around the world, the spirit is the same and is celebrated with a lot of enthusiasm made information about other cultures more THE WORLD everywhere. Everywhere in the world mothers and gaiety. On this day people reflect on the accessible than ever. But the reason behind A special day in the honor of mothers, are respected for their extreme devotion importance of mothers in their life and the success of Mothers Day in India can be Mothers Day is celebrated in several countries towards their kids. And on Mother's Day thank them for their unconditional love and attributed to the emotions which are around the world though on different dates. In children pay their humblest tribute to their support. Mothers and children in USA look attached to the festival. Mothers are mothers a large number of countries including US, mothers and thank them for giving them birth forward to celebrate the day with each other. everywhere, they are as much loved and Mothers Day is celebrated on the second and providing them with the best of care and Besides, in United States the national flag is respected in India as in any other part of the Sunday in the month of May, but in many upbringing. hoisted on every house and important world. Perhaps Indians have always felt the other countries Mothers Day is celebrated in buildings on the occasion of Mother's Day to need of such a day which is devoted solely to an entirely different time of the year. Mother’s Day USA honor motherhood and the mothers of the mothers. Mothers Day gives them all the But what ever may be the date of Mother's In USA Mothers Day is a national holiday country. opportunity to celebrate such a day. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 ADVERTISEMENT 17 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 18 BOLLYWOOD FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 IT’S OFFICIAL, SONAM KAPOOR, ANAND AHUJA ARE GETTING MARRIED ON MAY 8 ctress Sonam Kapoor will marry Delhi-based businessman Anand AAhuja in Mumbai on May 8, the family has confirmed following weeks of speculation around their union. A statement on behalf of the Kapoor and Ahuja families was issued on Tuesday. “The Kapoor and Ahuja families take great joy and pride in announcing the marriage of Sonam and Anand. The ANUSHKA SHARMA wedding will take place on May 8 in Mumbai,” read the statement. THANKS VIRAT KOHLI “Thank you for all your blessings and love, as we celebrate this special moment in FOR MAKING HER our lives,” the statement read. Kapoor and Ahuja have been dating for a BIRTHDAY SPECIAL number of years, but it is only in the past nushka Sharma turned a year older on few months that they have been open about Tuesday with husband Virat Kohli by their relationship and travels together on Aher side. The much-sought-after couple social media. was in Bengaluru as Kohli had a match against The lighting and decorations outside the Mumbai Indians there and Anushka took a Kapoor residence in Mumbai added fuel to break from work to be with him. The day the speculation about the wedding. became even more special with Virat’s team Veteran actor Anil Kapoor, Sonam’s Royal Challengers Bangalore winning the father, reportedly commented at an event match. Post-match, the two celebrated together last week: “Media has always been with me and the Sui Dhaaga actor shared a photo from and my family when we began our careers. the celebration. She thanked the “bestest, We will share everything at the right time. kindest, bravest man in the world” for making You all will know very soon. We won’t hide the day a memorable one for her. these details. You will know why there is “Best birthday with the bestest, kindest, lighting outside the house.” bravest man in the world . Love you for making Kapoor, after debuting in Bollywood with it so special my love!” read the caption of Saawariya in 2008, has featured in movies Anushka’s Instagram post. Being a loving such as Delhi-6, Aisha, and Khoobsurat. Her Anand Ahuja is a Delhi-based University of Pennsylvania. He interned at husband that he is, Virat wished his lovely wife performance in Neerja won her a Special businessman and the CEO and co-founder of Amazon.com in America before moving on social media with the sweetest message. He Mention at the Indian National Film Bhane, an apparel manufacturing company. back to Delhi and joining his dad, Harish wrote, “Happy B’day my love. The most positive Awards. He also owns Veg Non-veg, a multi-brand Ahuja, in his business ventures. and honest person I know. Love you ??” Not only Now, just weeks before her next film sneaker boutique in Delhi. Anand is also the Anand is rumoured to have met Sonam in this, he even dedicated RCB’s win on Tuesday to Veere Di Wedding releases in India on June managing director at Shahi Exports which 2014 through fashion designer Prernia Anushka. In the post-match presentation, the 1 (May 31 in the UAE), she is busy preparing reportedly has an annual turnover of Rs Qureshi, who is Sonam’s stylist. He is said Indian skipper said, “My wife is here, it’s her for her own wedding. 3,000 crore. to have proposed Sonam within a month of birthday and it’s a little birthday gift for her. I’m A week after her wedding day,Kapoor will Anand studied at American Embassy their first meeting. Anand often shares glad she could enjoy the win watching from here walk the red carpet at the 71st Cannes Film School and later completed his post- Sonam’s pictures and promotes her films & it’s very special to achieve 2 points in front of Festival. graduation from Wharton School at the and projects on Instagram. her.” ‘He wanted to see how I looked in a nightie’: Mahie Gill reveals shocking details about a director who harassed her

fter the shocking BBC documentary know who was right and who was wrong. that was aimed to expose the dirty And when people know you are new in the A secrets of the casting couch in the industry and struggling while they’ve been industry, Actress Mahie Gill has now sitting in Mumbai for so many years, you opened up about her own experience of tend to listen to them. I mean, I actually getting sexually harassed in Bollywood. started to think that ‘achha, aisa hota The star has revealed in shocking details hai ki suit pehnne se role nahi milte aur koi to Hindustan Times how a director wanted kaam nahi dega?’ So, with everyone trying to see her in a 'nightie'. to give you free advice, it’s very difficult to “It happened with me a few times. I don’t meet the right kind of people,” added even remember the name of the directors. I Mahie. had to meet a director, so I wore a salwar The actor admits that “it really affects” suit and went, and he told me, ‘If you wear one’s state of mind. a suit and come, nobody is going to cast you “After all this, you don’t know who to in a film.’ Then, I met another director and meet, how to meet. There was a point when he tells me, ‘I want to see how you look in a I stopped meeting people in their offices nightie’. So, you see, there are idiots all and I even used to take a friend along with around.” Mahie adds in the same me so that people don’t try to act smart. But interview that such incidents made her then, you want money also, so, I started confused about how things worked in the doing some serials also on Doordarshan industry. just to earn,” says Mahie in the interview “I was so new to Mumbai, so, I didn’t to Hindustan Times. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 HOLLYWOOD 19 ASHLEY JUDD SUES HARVEY WEINSTEIN FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT ollywood actor Ashley Judd on Monday filed a defamation and Hsexual harassment lawsuit against film producer Harvey Weinstein, alleging that he damaged her movie career after she refused his sexual advances. The civil lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in Santa Monica, accuses Weinstein of causing Judd to lose a part in 1998 in the film, The Lord of the Rings, by making “baseless smears” against her. The lawsuit, reviewed by Reuters, alleges that Weinstein “was retaliating against Ms Judd for rejecting his sexual demands approximately one year earlier, when he cornered her in a hotel room under the guise of discussing business.” “Weinstein used his power in the entertainment industry to damage Ms. CHARLIZE THERON Judd’s reputation and limit her ability to find work,” the lawsuit added. FED UP OF HER A representative for Weinstein issued a statement hours later saying the onetime WEIGHT GAIN STORY film studio chieftain had “neither defamed Ms Judd nor ever interfered with Ms Judd’s Actress Charlize Theron believes too much career.” focus has been put on her body transformation Instead, the statement said, Weinstein for the film 'Tully'. “championed” Judd’s work and According to reports, in an interview, she “repeatedly approved her casting for two says gaining weight was not a big deal for her. of his movies” - Frida in 2002 starring "Women gain that amount, if not more, every Salma Hayek, and Crossing Over with time they get pregnant. So it's not that big of a Harrison Ford in 2009. It also said he had deal," Theron said. “fought for Ms Judd as his first choice for sexual harassment and assault. The representative did not immediately The award-winning actress put on weight to a lead role in Good Will Hunting.” Oscar-winning producer has since been return a call for comment. play a pregnant and tired mother of three in The statement did not address Judd’s accused of sexual impropriety by more The actress said in a statement to the 'Tully', which has received rave reviews. allegations that she was sexually than 70 women. New York Times that any financial "I was playing this woman and I wanted to get harassed by Weinstein. He has denied having non-consensual recuperation from the lawsuit would be closer to her. I don't think when an actress does Judd was one of the first women in sex with anyone. donated to Time’s Up “so that women and that we have to get so focused on it," she added. October 2017 to make an on-the-record Judd, a leading member of the Time’s men in all professions may have legal Theron, who has two adopted children, had allegation of sexual misconduct against Up movement against sexual harassment redress for sexual harassment, economic previously said that gaining weight for the role Weinstein, which soon evolved into the in the workplace, is seeking unspecified retaliation and damage to their careers.” made her depressed. social media #MeToo movement against damages and a jury trial. Judd’s Source: Reuters Source: IANS

RACHEL MCADAMS FELT ‘FREE’ SHOOTING LESBIAN SEX SCENE Blake Lively deletes all her Instagram posts WITH RACHEL WEISZ ctors Rachel McAdams and Rachel ctor Blake Lively has deleted all her Weisz worked closely with their Instagram posts and is now following Adirector Sebastian Lelio to ensure their Aonly 27 people named Emily Nelson. sex scene in Disobedience was perfect. The The 30-year-old actor's social media account three were in agreement that there would be no has been a fan favourite with over 20.4 million nudity in the movie’s sex scene as it was not followers courtesy her fashion posts and essential to the story,reports femalefirst.co.uk. pranks on husband Ryan Reynolds, but users Lelio told Den of Geek magazine: “That was were left stunned when they found her official very organic. It was a long conversation. I page completely blank. always knew that the hotel scene, the big love Her last, now-deleted, post was a photo of a scene, was the heart of the film. I knew it had completed game of Hangman, the answer to to be long. It was all about duration, I mean which was: ''What happened to Emily?'' screen time.” The cryptic question is now Lively's “At the same time, I really wanted to explore Instagram biography. She has also removed the possibility of portraying a very erotic and her display picture. urgent encounter without nudity, so how to do Lively's blank Instagram and sudden that. Then I storyboarded everything, and I obsession with Emily Nelson hints at her presented the idea to them, and we were all in upcoming film, 'A Simple Favor'. agreement. I had this idea of instead of The movie, directed by Paul Feig and also showing skin we would find very specific acts starring Anna Kendrick, is an adaptation of a that we rarely see on screen or in these kind of book by the same name in which a woman films and go for them,” he added. named Emily Nelson mysteriously vanishes. Leilo also believes the scene gives the Some of the Emily Nelsons on social media "Does anyone want to tell me why Blake said. audience a greater insight into McAdams’ and were left wondering, publicly, why the Lively followed me and had this as a bio. She quickly tweeted again, noticing that Weisz’s characters, who had a relationship Hollywood star has suddenly started following Goodbye cruel world some hacker is anti- Reynolds, 41, had liked her tweet. while growing up in an extremely conservative them. Emily, my time has come," one Emily Nelson Source: PTI orthodox Jewish community. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 20 ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 PERSPECTIVE 21 Karnataka election: voters to choose between tainted leadership and clean governance

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By George Abraham

“In contrast to the BJP rule, the Congress Party under the leadership of Siddaramaiah has fulfilled many of the promises that were made to the people of Karnataka. Key among them is the government's social welfare policy", says the author.

nteracting with media during a tour of Lingayat and Dalit mutts in central Karnataka, Amit Shah, the national IPresident of BJP began making allegations against the current Siddaramaiah government. "Recently,a Supreme Court judge said if ever there was a competition for the most corrupt government, then Yeddyurappa government will get number one," shocking Yeddyurappa who was seated near him. It may have been a faux pas by Mr. Shah who immediately tried to control the damage. Congress Party wasted no time in seizing the original quote and expressing their total agreement. A few weeks later, Karnataka has witnessed the tainted Reddy brothers sharing a dais with Yeddyurappa and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan at a rally in justice. Now Modi is trying to take 8 of them from jail, into the weaker sections to Rs. 120,000 per unit from Rs. 75,000 under the Molakalmur. It appears that Mr. Janardhana Reddy who came Vidhan Sabha. This is an insult to every honest citizen, to Rajiv Gandhi Housing Corporation. out of jail on bail from the noxious mining scam is back along Karnataka and to the spirit of Basavanna." Programs and projects like the opening of the Indira with the Bellary gang asking people to vote for BJP. The party Congress High Command appears to be following a 'Captain Canteens, the introduction of the new economic policy that has also given tickets to his two brothers Somashekhara Reddy Model,' strategy in Karnataka giving Chief Minister focused on Industries, construction of Medakettu Dam, and Karunakara Reddy despite the statement by Mr. Shah that Siddaramaiah, enormous latitude in decision making as in Introduction of Bike Ambulance and the Scheme for Organ BJP has no links with Reddy brothers. regards the running of the election campaign. The decision Donation etc. have shown the people of Karnataka that a In 2012, India's Supreme Court ordered the CBI to probe may be based on the premise that strong regional and local government committed to the service of its people could still charges of corruption against B S Yeddyurappa. That order leadership is critical in winning elections as in Punjab where deliver results. Most importantly, there have been no followed a court-appointed committee's suggestion that Mr. Captain Amarinder Singh wrested away the power from Akali significant financial scandals during its tenure that stands in Yeddyurappa be investigated for alleged abuse of power. The Dal in the last election where his charisma, leadership and stark contrast to the Yeddyurappa rule. anti-corruption report had indicted him in a mining scandal independent decision making were all at full display. Siddaramaiah in his tweet recently challenged Prime that cost the exchequer more than 3 Billion dollars. He also In contrast to the BJP rule, the Congress Party under the Minister Modi to walk the talk when it comes to dealing with holds the distinction of being the first sitting Chief Minister of leadership of Siddaramaiah has fulfilled many of the promises corruption. He called on Modi to "appoint Lok Pal, investigate a State to spend time in jail. that were made to the people of Karnataka. Key among them is Judge Loya's death, investigate the astronomical rise of Jay All the BJP talk about corruption in the opposition camps the government's social welfare policy. Within an hour of oath- Shah, and appoint an untainted person as your CM candidate." seem to fly in the face of what has happened under BJP rule in taking as Chief Minister, he has implemented the food subsidy The fate of Karnataka is said to be hanging on the swing Karnataka. With openly courting the Bellary gang, scheme to give 30kg rice per month at Re 1 per kg to 10.2 million voters who are actively weighing in on the promises made on Yeddyurappa is once again signaling to the Karnataka voters families below poverty line across the State with a plan outlay the campaign trail. Janata Dal (S), the third party in the puzzle that nothing has been changed regarding their attitude towards of Rs.4300 crore. The State later on added Wheat, Ragi, and may yet to play a critical role if there is a hung Assembly. For corruption or abuse of power. Mr. Shivraj Chouhan, whose Jowar to the scheme. The State also started distributing 150ml the Congress Party, stakes are very high in Karnataka. A win administration was embroiled in the VYPAM scandal in milk thrice a week to 6.5 million children studying in state-run by the party in Karnataka will provide a huge momentum Madhya Pradesh, sharing the dais with Yeddyurappa and and aided schools across the state to check malnutrition and towards the upcoming elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Janardhana Reddy may only reinforce the notion that prevent dropouts. and Chhattisgarh and eventually towards the 2019 general corruption is endemic in the system and across the country and Under the Bhagyalakshmi and Kuteer Jyoti schemes, the election. However, the party may require a better post-election BJP pays merely lip service in countering it. state government waived off Rs.268 crore arrears due from two strategy to prevent a repeat of what has been transpired in Goa, Rahul Gandhi, President of the All India Congress million energy consumers in the rural areas. It also waived off Manipur, and Meghalaya! Committee, tweeted the following in response to the latest Rs. 1340 crore loans with interest borrowed by a million SCs, (The author is a former Chief Technology Officer at the developments: "When in power, Yeddyurappa and Reddy STs and OBCs and minorities for various economic activities United Nations and Vice-Chairman of the Indian Brothers looted Karnataka. Our government brought them to and increased the housing subsidized loan to economically Overseas Congress, USA) Air India’s Pragmatism before Sale

was an economist, he thought the emancipation was in its By Harjap Singh Aujla disinvestment. But most within the corridors of power thought otherwise. This has been happening for half a century. erhaps the most exploited airline in the world is our Air Some of the redundant staff has retired long ago. Some are India. The powerful politicians and influential still on the payrolls and adding to the losses. Pbureaucrats of our country have been overburdening The routes of operation were not as a result of legitimate this commercial venture with unqualified people of their research and analysis. The government made politically choice far over and above the needs of the airline. Their correct, but most of the time financially ruinous decisions and emoluments were also on the higher end. This resulted in Air India was made to tamely implement and face the music. overstaffing of the venture. In addition, all the bigwigs in Due to the political decisions, some of the most profitable politics and bureaucracy were getting free rides in premium routes were discontinued in favor of populous loss-making class at the expense of this national flag carrier. The routes. The justification invariably was that all routes were cumulative losses kept mounting and at one point the losing money. Even the routes with 90% passenger load were government started toying with the idea of its privatization. dubbed unprofitable. No one went into the reasons of such But the lobby of the exploiters was so powerful, that every losses. The primary reason was terrible overstaffing and an time, the government floated this idea, it was shot down by Perhaps the most exploited airline in the world, Air India today army of free travelers. Some minor decisions with cumulative those very folks, who floated the idea. Such developments gave faces hard choices effect included expensive food from well-known places rather birth to indiscipline. The pilots frequently went on strike and casualty. No one ever cared for the elusive profitability. Every than cheaper, but more delicious food from lesser known so did the air crew and the ground staff. Accountability was a exploiter posed as a God father. The previous prime minister contd on Page 32 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 22 WORLD FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 UK parties face judgment of public in local UK investigation to go on despite elections Cambridge Analytica shutdown LONDON (TIP): Voters in England are LONDON (TIP): British authorities on casting ballots in local elections considered a May 3 said that their investigation into test of the public mood less than a year before the data breach scandal involving the UK leaves the European Union. Cambridge Analytica will not be impacted Voting is taking place Thursday to fill more with the shutdown of the political than 4,000 seats on 150 local councils in towns consulting firm. and cities across England, including all of Cambridge Analytica (CA) is accused of London's 32 boroughs. acquiring data from up to 87 million The Conservatives, who have been in power Facebook profiles for use in political nationally since 2010, are bracing for losses as campaigns around the world. It denies some voters express anger over unsteady Brexit wrongdoing and yesterday announced negotiations, an explosive immigration scandal that the company and its parent, SCL and years of public spending cuts. Group, would be wound down due to loss The main opposition Labour Party is hoping of business as a result of the scandal. to pick up hundreds of seats, but has been This could have an impact on the tarnished by allegations that its leadership group's Indian arm, headquartered in failed to clamp down on anti-Semitism in party Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh. According to ranks. documents made public on social media in Polls are open until 10 p.m. (2100GMT), with March, SCL India has regional offices in results expected on May 4 Friday. (AP) Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Cuttack, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kolkata, Sex scandal may delay Patna and Pune. A spokesperson for Information Damian Collins, chair of the House of said: "We hope that he (Zuckerberg) will Literature Nobel this year Commissioner's Office (ICO) said Commons select committee for Digital, respond positively to our request, but if investigators will "examine closely" the Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) which not the Committee will resolve to issue a STOCKH OLM (TIP): The Swedish Academy details of the closure and will "closely is conducting its own investigation as part formal summons for him to appear when will announce on May 4 whether or not it will monitor any successor companies". of a wider inquiry in fake news, said: he is next in the UK." postpone awarding the Nobel Prize for She said: "The ICO has been "Cambridge Analytica and (parent Facebook has apologised to users for a Literature this year following a controversy investigating the SCL Group and company) SCL Group cannot be allowed to "breach of trust" and claims to have over alleged sexual misconduct that has seen a Cambridge Analytica as part of a wider delete their data history by closing." tightened its privacy restrictions. string of board members leave the prestigious investigation into the use of personal data "The investigations into their work are Cambridge Analytica yesterday said it institution. and analytics by political campaigns, vital," Collins said. had been the subject of "numerous It is very rare for the award of Nobel prizes to social media companies and others." He said the committee is determined to unfounded accusations" and had been be cancelled or postponed. The last time the "The ICO will continue its civil and ensure that the closure is not an attempt "vilified" for activities that were both literature prize was not awarded was in 1943, at criminal investigations and will seek to to "run and hide" and that the companies legal and accepted as a "standard the height of World War II. pursue individuals and directors as are not closing down to try to avoid them component of online advertising in both The date for this year’s award has not yet appropriate and necessary even where being rigorously investigated over the the political and commercial arenas". been announced, though it always occurs in the companies may no longer be operating," allegations that are being made against It blamed a "siege of media coverage" first half of October in conjunction with the she said. them. Earlier in the week, Collins for driving away customers, meaning the presentation of winners in other fields. The company is accused of mapping the repeated a request for Facebook chief company's continued operation was no The Swedish Academy, a council of behaviour of voters in the run-up to the Mark Zuckerberg to appear before the longer viable, leaving it "with no realistic prestigious authors and linguists tasked with 2016 US election and European Union (EU) committee, saying evidence provided by alternative to placing the company into furthering the Swedish language, has been referendum. The company also allegedly the company's chief technology officer administration". dealing with the fallout of allegations of sexual did election-related work in India for the Mike Schroepfer last week "failed to The company said that its parent misconduct by the husband of one of its Congress and JD(U) parties, according to answer fully" MPs' questions. company, SCL Elections, would also be members and leaks of names of some revelations by former CA employee- In a firmly worded letter to Facebook's commencing bankruptcy proceedings. prizewinners ahead of the formal turned-whistleblower Christopher Wylie. public policy chief, Rebecca Stimson, he (PTI) announcements. Photographer and cultural figure Jean-Claude Arnault, who is married to Academy member and author Katarina Frostenson, has denied all allegations, both of sexual misconduct and of Russian fighter jet crashes off leaking the names of the laureates. Six of the Academy’s 18 members have stepped down following the controversy that Syria, both pilots killed surfaced late last year while two other members were already not participating in the Academy’s BEIRUT (TIP): A Russian fighter jet work for other reasons. (Reuters) crashed today off the coast of Syria, killing both pilots, according to Russia's Boat with 53 Iraqis, Defense Ministry,which said the plane did not come under fire and that the crash Syrians runs aground in may have been caused by a bird getting sucked into one of the engines. northern Greece State news agency Tass cited the ministry as saying the Su-30 crashed THESSALONIKI (GREECE) (TIP): Greek shortly after takeoff from the Russian air authorities say they have picked up 53 people, base at Hemeimeem in Syria. Russia has all believed to be from Iraq and Syria, after the been waging an air campaign in support boat smuggling them into the country ran of President Bashar Assad's forces since The government-controlled Syrian April 19, 112 soldiers and pro-government aground on a remote beach off the mainland of 2015. Central Military Media said troops today gunmen as well as 91 IS fighters have been northeastern Greece. In March, a Russian military cargo cut off IS fighters based in the Palestinian killed. Dozens of civilians have been Authorities said on May 3 the boat, a 12-metre plane crashed as it was descending to land refugee camp of Yarmouk from those in killed as well in the fighting, according to (40-foot) Turkish-flagged yacht, ran aground on at Hemeimeem, killing all 39 people on the Hajar al-Aswad neighbourhood to the the war monitor. Molyvoti beach in the northeastern Rodopi board. The military blamed the crash on a south. Yarmouk and Hajar al-Aswad are Near Hajar al-Aswad, preparations region, far from any of the usual smuggling technical error and insisted the plane was the last two areas outside government were underway to evacuate thousands of routes used to ferry migrants and refugees from not shot down. control in Damascus. opposition fighters and civilians from Turkey to Greece. Russia leases the Hemeimeem military Syrian troops began a major offensive three southern suburbs following a deal The group comprised 19 men, 11 women and 23 base in Syria, near the Mediterranean two weeks ago to retake the area under the reached last week to hand over the area to children aged between 2 and 8. coast. cover of airstrikes. The fighting led to the government forces. Hundreds of migrants continue to pass from In the capital Damascus, Syrian troops displacement of thousands of Palestinian State TV said buses started entering the Turkey into Greece. Nearly all cross either from managed to capture more areas from the refugees and others to neighbouring southern suburbs of Babila, Beit Sahem the Turkish coast to nearby Greek islands or Islamic State group on the southern edge areas. The Britain-based Syrian and Yalda to evacuate some 5,000 fighters forge across a river along the Greek-Turkish of the city cutting the region held by Observatory for Human Rights said that and their families, while those who decide land border. (AP) extremists into two parts. since the government offensive began on to stay are eligible for amnesty. (AP) THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 WORLD 23 China deploys missiles in Tough road for Iraq’s female South China Sea, says it has candidates in May 12 elections 'indisputable sovereignty' BEIJING (TIP): China on May 3 defended the BAGHDAD (TIP): Iraqi women running deployment of anti-ship cruise missiles and for parliament this month are undaunted, surface-to-air missile systems in the disputed South despite many challenges they face ahead of China Sea, saying it has "indisputable sovereignty" the May 12 elections - including over the area. unprecedented smear campaigns complete China is engaged in hotly contested territorial with sex videos that have forced some to disputes in both the South China Sea and the East withdraw from the race. China Sea. China claims almost all of South China Many see the vote as a chance to push Sea. Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and women's issues to the fore in this Taiwan have counter claims. traditionally male-dominated society, "China has indisputable sovereignty over the where women still find it hard to win a Nansha (known as Spartly) islands and its powerful place in politics. affiliated islands," foreign ministry spokesperson There are concerns that women's rights Hua Chunying told a media briefing here when are being eroded, 15 years after the US-led asked about the reported of deployment of the invasion toppled dictator Saddam Hussein missiles. with hopes of bringing democracy to a Vietnam and Taiwan have rival claims over nation long staggering under wars, Spratly islands. oppression and countless economic and "China's activities in the South China Sea is to social problems. uphold our sovereignty and territorial integrity. It Nearly 2,600 female candidates are vying is our right," she said. for a quarter - a quota allotted to women Virtually confirming the deployment of the under the constitution - of parliament's 329 missiles, Hua said, "relevant deployment is not seats in these elections, the fourth since directed against any country. The relevant parties Saddam's 2003 ouster. but also militancy and extremism. In Iraq's southern Najaf province, tribal should not be concerned about this and should Fatin Rasheed Hameed, a candidate with In 2014, Islamic State militants seized arbitration was held over a video showing view this in an objective way." (PTI) the Baghdad Alliance party dominated by human rights lawyer Samira Salih al- a young man kissing the poster of a female the country's minority Sunnis, says there Nuaimi when she was at home with her candidate from another tribe. The Chinese FM met Kim Jong would be fewer women in parliament if it husband and three children in the outcome: he apologized, the apology was were not for the 25 percent quota. northern city of Mosul. The extremists accepted and the female candidate's tribe Un in North Korea: Chinese "One of the most important women's tortured and then publicly killed her after even declined compensation for the insult. issues in Iraq that needs to be urgently their self-proclaimed religious court ruled Alarmed by the unseen level of foreign ministry addressed is marginalization," said the that she had abandoned Islam. harassment, the U.N. chief's special mother of two and a university professor Those harrowing images may still haunt representative for Iraq, Jan Kubis met last BEIJING (TIP): Chinese foreign minister Wang with a doctorate in biology. "Our society Iraqi women ahead of the elections - the month with several women candidates Yi met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un still allows men to dominate in all areas first since U.S.-backed Iraqi forces defeated over the "alarming situation" and "vulgar during a rare visit to Pyongyang, China's foreign and fields." "Even this quota is unfair," she IS, declaring last December that the war acts" targeting women, which he said only ministry said Thursday on its official social media added. "Half of any society's success against the Islamic State group had been undermines the democratic process. account. depends on women; therefore the won. In the streets of Baghdad and "Those behind defamation, cyber bullying The two-day visit by Wang Yi -- the highest- representation should be ... at least half of elsewhere, posters of women candidates and harassment are trying to scare you ranking Chinese official to travel to North Korea in the seats." have been plastered on electricity poles off," Kubis told them, adding that the years -- follows a landmark inter-Korean summit Iraqi women account for 57 per cent of and buildings, alongside those of men. perpetrators are "afraid of educated, and precedes a planned meeting between Kim and Iraq's population of over 37 million, Some depict veil-framed faces while dynamic, qualified, courageous and open- US President Donald Trump in the coming weeks. according to the UN Development others show candidates with make-up and minded women candidates that rightfully The meeting with Kim followed talks Wednesday Programme, and despite government without the traditional Islamic headscarf, claim their space and meaningful role in between Wang and his North Korean counterpart efforts to address gender inequality, the or hijab. Both provoked a harsh response - political life of Iraq." Baydaa Salim al- Ri Yong Ho, where the two discussed issues situation for Iraqi women has declined many posters were splattered with mud, Najar, who was at the meeting, said the including the denuclearisation of the Korean steadily since 2003. defaced with beards drawn on or attacks "systemically target candidates peninsula. According to the UNDP, one in every 10 completely torn up. without the hijab, to knock you down." Wang, who arrived in Pyongyang Wednesday, is Iraqi households is headed by a widow. In For the first time, harassment and She is one of 45 candidates from Iraq's the first Chinese foreign minister to visit the North recent years, Iraqi women suffered further smear campaigns against women running minority Yazidis - an ethnic group since 2007, a lapse that highlights the rough patch economic, social and political for a seat in parliament moved online. Sex particularly targeted by IS in horrific in relations between the allies in recent years. marginalization due to decades of wars, videos have been widely circulated on attacks. Al-Najar accused Iraq's dominant China -- North Korea's sole diplomatic ally and conflict, violence and sanctions. social media purporting to show female parties of being behind the harassment of economic benefactor -- has supported a series of In the 1950s, Iraq had a liberal society, candidates in bed with men, as well as women - mainly as a campaign against new United Nations sanctions against Pyongyang over becoming the first Arab country to name a photos allegedly showing candidates faces. The Baghdad-based lawyer is its nuclear and missile programmes. (AFP) female minister and adopt progressive posing in underwear or revealing outfits. making her priority to raise the voice of laws for women and the family. But, the One such video - which she dismissed as Yazidis, especially Yazidi women, many of Israel's parliament approves situation started to decline during a "fabrication aimed at pushing her out" - whom were enslaved by IS militants in Saddam's era and became further forced Intidhar Ahmed Jassim, allied with their self-proclaimed caliphate. Sunni bill allowing PM Benjamin complicated after 2003, mainly due to the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's Victory extremists consider non-Muslims infidels rise of the country's religious institutions Alliance party, to withdraw from the race. who deserve to be killed. (AP) Netanyahu to declare war

JERUSALEM (TIP): The Israeli parliament has Earthquake rattles southern Iran, SYRIANS HELD BY REBELS approved a law empowering the country's prime minister and defense minister to declare war 31 injured FREED AS PART OF DEAL WITH without full Cabinet approval in "extreme circumstances." TEHRAN (TIP): A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck a remote, GOVERNMENT While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mountainous region in southern Iran on May 3, injuring at least delivered a presentation showcasing intelligence on 31 people and disrupting power and communication lines, state BEIRUT (TIP): Syrian state-run media say 42 people who Iran's nuclear program on live television, his media reported. were held for years by al-Qaida-linked insurgents in the coalition quietly pushed through a bill on May 1 It says the temblor rocked the town of Sisakht, some 700 country's northwest have been released as part of a deal to hand expanding his authority to order military kilometres south of Tehran, causing people to rush out into the over areas around Damascus back to the government. operations. streets. The town has a population of 10,000. Footage showed Al-Ikhbariya TV broadcast images Tuesday of the released, The measure was passed amid heightened cracks in the walls of buildings. including women and children, arriving by bus at a government- tensions with Iran over its involvement in Syria. It The semi-official ISNA news agency quoted Jalal Pouranfard, controlled checkpoint, kissing and hugging Syrian soldiers. was approved less than a day after warplanes, the head of provincial emergency services, as saying 18 people The 42 are the first batch of more than 80 who are to be believed to be Israeli, carried out an airstrike were transferred to medical centres and another 13 received released. Syrian military facility, killing 26 pro-government treatment. According to the deal, al-Qaida-linked fighters are to evacuate fighters, most of them Iranians. Iran is prone to near-daily earthquakes as it sits on major fault from a Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus while some Israel is believed to have been responsible for lines. In November, a magnitude 7.2 quake hit western Iran, 5,000 people in two northwestern villages besieged by insurgents several strikes on Iranian positions in Syria in killing more than 600. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 quake flattened will be allowed to move to government-held areas. (AP) recent months. Israeli officials typically neither the historic city of Bam, killing 26,000 people. (AP) confirm nor deny such reports. (AP) THE INDIAN PANORAMA 24 WOMEN FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 BEAUTY BENEFITS OF HUMBLE BANANA

hile it is known that this humble fruit may have a host of health Wbenefits, bananas also offer several beauty benefits. Available HIDE YOUR GREY HAIR throughout the year, bananas are a powerhouse of nutrients and are great for aving a grey hair problem? Try applying grey hair your skin and hair as well. chalk or braid a section of your hair with colourful The fruit contains generous Hthreads, says an expert. amounts of vitamin C and B6, Hair chalk which ensure that your skin remains supple and elastic. Apart You can apply hair chalk as it is easily available and you from that, bananas also have will get stylish and colourful hair. Hair chalks are not antioxidants that protect your skin harmful for hair as it is an instant application to hide your from premature ageing. grey hair. The water content present in Colourful threads bananas keeps your skin well hydrated so that it doesn't get flaky Braid a section of your hair with colourful threads and and dry.It works as a great include the discoloured area in it. It will add a funky look to moisturiser as well. This is because it your hairstyle. comprises vitamin A, which helps Sleek side parted ponytail your skin recover the moisture. One of the best ways to moisturise Hide white hair of your middle part by making sleek side your skin is to use a mashed banana parted pony tail. It is very easy to do, if you are in hurry you and liberally rub it all over your face can go for this stylish hairdo. and neck. After leaving the pulp on Light accessories your face for about half an hour, wash it off. There are so many accessories that can be used to hide the You also treat pigmented skin with grey hairs. Like artificial flowers, transparent stone beads in bananas. Simply add a tablespoon of various colours, transparent head bands and bandanas. honey to banana pulp and apply it on Curls your skin. Have to go to an important function TOP BENEFITS OF BANANA Use curling rollers or an iron to curl your hair or a and don't have time to visit the particular section of it and hide grey areas. Curls are best SKIN MOISTURIZER: Rich in potassium and moisture, it will hydrate and parlour? Simply take a banana and styling trick, because you can move and mould them easily, moisturizes dry skin, making it soft and supple. If your skin is peeling and dry, add yogurt, honey and almonds to it. and will be spread in different sections of your hair. simply apply a banana face mask on your face. Get a small bowl, mash up a ripe Make a paste and apply it all over banana with the back of your fork, and apply to your face, avoiding the area around Side swept heavy bangs your face. Not only will this your eye and mouth. Rinse with cold water after 10 to 15 minutes and enjoy the soft moisturise your face but also remove feel of your skin. This hairstyle will take care of those hairs which have excess oil and add a glow to your turned white bang on top of your head and all kinds of OIL CONTROL: If you've got oily greasy skin, use a simple banana face mask with skin. For those who want to get rid of lemon juice and honey. Banana is a great exfoliator which helps slough off excess parting will expose them out. A heavy bang brought from marks and scars left on the skin due sebum on skin surface. It also contains and contains moisture, potassium, and behind and swept cleverly to one side will do the trick. to acne and pimples, bananas are a vitamins E and C, which all promote clear glowing skin. Mash a ripe banana with Bun it all up helpful aid. The vitamin C they the back of a fork and combine 1 tablespoon of raw honey and 1/2 teaspoon lemon contain lightens blemishes caused by juice to make an amazing face mask. Rinse off with a wet cloth or cold water. If you have grey hair in and around the crown area, you skin aggravation. ANTI-AGING EFFECTS: Bananas, also known as nature's botox, contain super can gather all your hair into an elegant bun and glam this Bananas also work as great wrinkle fighting nutrients that helps fade age spots and prevent fine lines and bun up with bling accessories. There shouldn't be any parting exfoliators. Simply mix jaggery and wrinkles from forming. Coupled with other wrinkle-busting kitchen ingredients, you in the front otherwise there are chances that white hair mashed bananas together and use can gently nourish, exfoliate and protect mature skin. Slather on a thick coat of a would be visible from there. For a casual day out, instead of a the paste as a scrub on your face powerful anti aging banana face mask containing one mashed banana, 1 teaspoon sleek neat bun go for messy buns, they will give your overall and neck. orange juice, and 1 teaspoon thick yogurt. personality an edge and compliment your casual attire. FOOD CORNER TANDOORI POMFRET EGG SALAD SANDWICH A delicious dish, Egg Salad Ingredients Sandwich is a healthy recipe 8 Pomfret fish made using tomatoes, onions and 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder mayonnaise with bread slices 2 tbsp Red chilli powder and eggs! This breakfast recipe is 1 tsp Garam masala powder a great sandwich and is a kids 1/2 tsp Carom seeds/ ajwain favourite! Try out this simple and 1 tbsp Roasted gram flour/ Besan easy to make recipe. 1/2 cup Hung Curd Salt to taste INGREDIENTS 4 tbsp Mustard oil 4 bread slices, 4 teaspoon mayonnaise, 1 pinch salt, 2 Juice of 1 lemon teaspoon ghee, 1/4 cup finely chopped spring onions, 1 handful 2 tbsp Coriander paste chopped lettuce loose-leaf, 2 boiled,finely chopped egg, 1/2 1 tsp Ginger-garlic paste teaspoon chilli flakes, 1 dash spice black pepper, 1 sliced tomato, 1 sliced Red onion. Directions Trim tails, fins and other unnecessary things. Then Method wash it thoroughly. Mix the eggs, mayonnaise, red chilli flakes, salt and pepper Make incisions on a clean fish. Keep it aside. powder in a bowl. Spread this on 2 bread slices. Top it up with In a bowl, add all the ingredients mentioned in the Preheat the oven to 180 Degree Celsius (356 Degree the tomato, spring onions, red onion and lettuce leaves. Cover ingredient list. Adjust the amount of besan and yogurt Fahrenheit). with the remaining slices. Heat a tawa over low flame. Place to get a nice thick paste. Grease the pan or rack. Place the fish on grill rack and the sandwiches and apply little ghee around the edges. Cook Apply this marinade to the fish on both sides very well. cook it for 15-20 minutes until golden brown. for 30 seconds on each side and remove. Serve with french Keep it for at least 30 minutes in the fridge. Serve with Onion rings and lemon. fries. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 HEALTH & FITNESS 25 RICE, PASTA-HEAVY DIET MAY HASTEN MENOPAUSE LONDON (TIP): High consumption of refined white pasta and rice may advance the onset of menopause by about one-and-a-half years, a UK study warns. The study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, also showed that high intake of healthy foods, such as oily fish and fresh legumes, such as peas and green beans is associated with a later onset of the menopause. Researchers from the University of Leeds examined the link between diet and the onset of menopause in 14,150 women living in the UK. “This study is the first to investigate SMOKING, DRINKING MAY the links between individual nutrients and a wide variety of food groups and UP ‘HEART FLUTTE’ RISK age at natural menopause in a large BOSTON (TIP): Smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol cohort of British women,” said Yashvee The average age at the start of the likely to occur one and a half years may significantly increase the risk of irregular heartbeats or Dunneram, a postdoctoral researcher at menopause for women in the UK is 51 earlier than average, they said. atrial fibrillation, a study has found. University of Leeds. years.Over 900 women between the ages “The age at which menopause begins Lifetime risk is a useful method to quantify risk of atrial “Further studies are needed to of 40 and 65 had experienced a natural can have serious health implications for fibrillation over a person's lifetime. However, data are scarce improve understanding on how this may start of their menopause at the time of some women,” said Janet Cade, a with respect to the lifetime risk of atrial fibrillation in the impact health and wellbeing,” the follow-up survey. professor at the University of Leeds. presence of one or multiple risk factors such as obesity and Dunneram said. They had not had menstrual periods “A clear understanding of how diet smoking. Along with a detailed diet for at least 12 consecutive months and affects the start of natural menopause Researchers from Boston University in the US found that questionnaire, an initial survey collected menopause had not been brought on by will be very beneficial to those who may among individuals aged 55 years or older, the overall lifetime information on reproductive history and such things as cancer, surgery or already be at risk or have a family risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) was 37 per cent and was health. pharmaceutical treatments. history of certain complications related influenced by the burden of risk factors. When a follow up survey and Analysis of their diet showed that to menopause,” Cade said. "We examined the lifetime risk of atrial fibrillation, which questionnaire were conducted four years high intake of oily fish was associated Previous studies have suggested that measures the cumulative risk of developing a disease during later, researchers were able to assess the with a delayed start to menopause by earlier onset of menopause is associated the remainder of an individual's life," said Ludovic diets of the women who had experienced nearly three years, researchers said. with lower bone density, osteoporosis Trinquart, an assistant professor at Boston University. the onset of a natural menopause in the A diet with lots of refined pasta and and increased risk of cardiovascular "It is essential to look at lifetime risks in addition to short- interim. rice showed that menopause was more diseases. Source: PTI term risks, because it may enable early identification of individuals at higher long-term risk and facilitate lifestyle change counselling," said Trinquart. Established risk factors for developing atrial fibrillation within 10 years include cigarette smoking, alcohol misuse, Drinking baking soda may help hypertension, obesity, diabetes, myocardial infarction, and heart failure. However, prior research has provided little insight on the lifetime risk of atrial fibrillation. "By contrast with the relative risk of atrial fibrillation, combat rheumatoid arthritis lifetime risk is an easy way for clinicians to communicate future risk of atrial fibrillation to individuals," researchers rinking baking soda daily may wrote in a study published in the journal BMJ. help reduce the destructive "Estimating the lifetime risk of atrial fibrillation in Dinflammation of autoimmune various subgroups with one or multiple elevated or diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, say borderline-elevated risk factors might also help to design scientists. While the immune system preventive strategies," they said. normally protects us from disease and The researchers assessed 5,338 participants from the infection, in someone who has an Framingham Heart Study who did not have atrial fibrillation autoimmune disease the immune at one or more of the index ages of 55, 65, and 75 years. system attacks healthy cells in the body They identified smoking, alcohol consumption, body mass by mistake. index, blood pressure, diabetes, and history of myocardial Drinking baking soda, or sodium infarction or heart failure at an index age as risk factors. bicarbonate, tells the spleen — which is Then, they categorised risk factor burdens as optimal (all part of the immune system — to go easy risk factors were optimal), elevated (at least one risk factor on the immune response, the study said. elevated), and borderline, and compared the lifetime risk “Certainly drinking bicarbonate affects estimates according to those levels of risk factor burden. the spleen and we think it’s through the Source: PTI mesothelial cells,” said study co-author Paul O’Connor from Augusta University in Georgia, US. PAGE SPONSORED BY The findings, published in the Journal of Immunology, showed that when rats DR. SATISH AND GITANJLI ANAND or healthy people drink a solution of baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, it DR. SATISH ANAND becomes a trigger for the stomach to Drinking baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, tells the Former Chairman, Board of make more acid to digest the next meal. spleen, which is part of the immune system, to go easy Trustees, AAPI National And for the mesothelial cells sitting on on the immune response, the study says E-Mail: the spleen, it tells that there is no need to [email protected] mount a protective immune response. called macrophages, shifted from now we see it in the peripheral blood.” “It’s most likely a hamburger not a primarily those that promote The shifting landscape is likely due to bacterial infection,” is basically the inflammation, called M1, to those that increased conversion of some of the GITANJLI ANAND message, O’Connor said. reduce it, called M2. proinflammatory cells to anti- Former President, India In the spleen, as well as the blood and “The shift from inflammatory to an inflammatory ones coupled with actual Association of Long Island kidneys, the researchers found after anti-inflammatory profile is happening production of more anti-inflammatory (IALI) drinking water with baking soda for two everywhere,” O’Connor said. “We saw it macrophages, he added. E-mail: weeks, the population of immune cells in the kidneys, we saw it in the spleen, Source: IANS [email protected] THE INDIAN PANORAMA 26 SCIENCE & TECH FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 TURNING SMOKE INTO INK? ENGINEERS;NOVEL APPROACH NEW FACEBOOK TOOL TO CHECK AIR POLLUTION ALERTS WEBSITE OWNERS ABOUT PHISHING ATTACKS SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): Facebook has announced a new tool for website BETS BIG ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE owners and developers that will alert them about phishing attacks on their platforms. "We are extending the capabilities of our 'Certificate Transparency Monitoring' tool to make it easier for A device created by company Chakr Innovation to remove developers to learn about new domains soot from diesel general exhaust, to clean the air and to that are maliciously created to allow ink to be created from soot. implement phishing attacks," security engineer David Huang and software NEW DELHI (TIP): As the pre-monsoon summer heat engineers Bartosz Niemczura and Amy takes hold in the National Capital, two things are as Xu said in a blog post late on Wednesday. inevitable as 40-degree-Celsius days: power cuts and air Phishing websites try to trick people pollution from the diesel generators that then kick in. into revealing their passwords, credit But a team of Indian engineers has figured out away to card numbers, or other sensitive bring some good from choking generator exhaust: They are information. capturing it and turning it into ink. The tool, announced during the F8 “The alarming thing about diesel generators is they are annual developer conference in San located in the heart of densely populated areas. It’s spitting Jose, alerts website owners of these smoke right there,” said Kushagra Srivastava, one of the scams so that they can take action to After making deep investments in teams at Facebook have successfully three engineers who developed the technology, now installed protect their domain and the people who Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, trained an image recognition system Facebook has announced the next on a dataset of 3.5 billion publicly in Gurgaon, a satellite city of New Delhi, and in the southern use their websites. version of its open-source AI available photos, using the hashtags city of Chennai. "Certificate Transparency Logs" are framework for developers. on those photos in place of human The idea, Srivastava said, came about when he and his co- designed to keep a record of all valid annotations. founders stopped at a sugarcane juice stall on a hot day. security certificates issued by publicly- Called "PyTorch 1.0", the framework provides everyone in the AI research "This new technique will allow our They noticed a wall that had turned black behind the trusted Certificate Authorities. community with a fast, seamless path researchers to scale their work much stand’s diesel generator, where exhaust emerged from a pipe. "We have been using these logs to for building a broad range of AI more quickly, and they've already They wondered if diesel exhaust might be used to produce monitor certificates issued for domains projects. "The technology in PyTorch used it to score a record-high 85.4 per paint — and set out to try. owned by Facebook and have created 1.0 is already being used at scale, cent accuracy on the widely used The device they came up with, which attaches to tools to help developers take advantage including performing nearly 6 billion 'ImageNet' benchmark," Facebook generators, captures 90 per cent of the soot particles from of the same approach," the post said. text translations per day for the 48 said. cooled diesel exhaust. The material can then be sold to ink Using these tools, developers can most commonly used languages on The "PyTorch 1.0" toolkit will be manufacturers.Their company, Chakr Innovation, has so far learn about certificates that are mis- Facebook," the company announced available in beta within the next few installed 50 of the devices for government firms such as issued for the domains they control. during its F8 developer conference in months, making Facebook's state-of- San Jose on Wednesday. Indian Oil, real estate developers and other state government "We are extending the capabilities of the-art AI research tools available to offices, earning more than 11 million rupees ($2,00,000) in our tool to send alerts when certificates The AI research and engineering everyone. revenue in the first year, Srivastava said. are issued for potential phishing The company has plans to install another 50 devices over domains," the post added. Source: IANS the coming year, he said. It has so far sold 500 kg of collected soot, which has been used to create 20,000 litres of ink, he added. Source: Thomson Reuters Life-size holograms for 3D World’s smallest implantable video-conferences developed device can control brain patterns TORONTO (TIP): Scientists have developed the world's first truly holographic video-conference system, which TOKYO (TIP): Scientists have allows people in different locations to appear before one developed the world's smallest another in life-size 3D, as if they were in the same room. implantable device - no bigger than the Using a ring of intelligent projectors mounted above and width of a coin - that can be used to around a retro-reflective, human-sized cylindrical pod, control brain patterns. researchers from Queen's University in Canada were able to The device converts infrared light into project objects as light fields that can be walked around and blue light to control neural activity and viewed from all sides simultaneously by multiple users - is both the smallest and lightest wireless much like Star Trek's famed, fictional 'holodeck'. optical biodevice to be reported. Capturing the remote 3D image with an array of depth For centuries, it has been known that cameras, the team has 'teleported' live, 3D images of a human chemicals can change neural behaviour. from one room to another - a feat that is set to revolutionise The field of optogenetics proved that human telepresence. neural behavior can also be changed Due to the display projects a light field with many images, with mere light. one for every degree of angle, users need not wear a headset It is now known that light can activate or 3D glasses to experience each other in augmented reality. certain proteins in the brain to change "Face-to-face interaction transfers an immense amount of brain patterns. Accordingly, scientists non-verbal information," said Roel Vertegaal, a professor at have implanted optical devices to the Queen's University. successfully control the behavior of miniaturise implantable optical devices. remains unchanged as size is reduced. "This information is lost in online tools, promoting poor rodents using nothing more than light of "Size is always the challenge. No one The new device made by Tokuda's online behaviours. Users miss the proxemics, gestures, facial specific wavelengths as the stimulus. likes having large implants," he said. research team uses a complementary expressions, and eye contact that bring nuance, emotional However, the devices are often bulky, The miniaturisation of implantable metal-oxide semiconductor that controls connotation and ultimately empathy to a conversation," akin to wearing a football helmet or devices has been hindered by a photovoltaic power. Vertegaal said. "TeleHuman 2 injects these missing elements something heavier, and cause discomfort dependency on electromagnetics. In "We integrated two sets of into long-distance conversations with a realism that cannot and distress to the animals. such devices, both the voltage and the photovoltaic cells onto semiconductor be achieved with a Skype or Facetime video chat," he said. Takashi Tokuda, an associate current decrease with a reduction in chips. Ten cells were integrated for Vertegaal first debuted the TeleHuman technology in 2012, professor at the Nara Institute of size, thus limiting the power. powering, and seven cells for biasing," but at that time the device only allowed for a single viewer to Science and Technology (NAIST) in On the other hand, in devices that he said. see the holographic projection correctly. Source: PTI Japan, has been investigating ways to depend on photovoltaics, voltage Source: PTI THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 BIZ & FINANCE 27 Apple surprises with solid iPhone India’s gold demand falls by 12% to 115.6 sales, announces $100 bn buyback ton in Q1: WGC SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): Apple Inc on Tuesday reported resilient iPhone sales in the face of waning global demand and promised $100 billion in additional stock buybacks, reassuring investors that its decade-old smartphone invention had life in it yet. Apple’s quarterly results topped Wall Street forecasts, which dropped ahead of the report on growing concern over the iPhone. The Cupertino, California-based company also was more optimistic about the current quarter than most financial MUMBAI (TIP): The gold demand in India declined by 12 analysts, driving shares up 3.6 per cent to per cent in the first quarter of this year to 115.6 tonne $175.25 after hours. compared to the same period last year due to high local gold Suppliers around the globe had price, the World Gold Council (WGC) said in a report. warned of smartphone weakness, Apple shareholder Capital Investment Analysts had feared the high price was The total demand stood at 131.2 tonne in the January- playing into fears that the company Counsel. “I assume Apple can’t find a muting demand for the iPhone X, but March period in 2017, WGC said in its ‘Gold Demand Trends’ known for popularizing personal strategic investment at the current Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said it report for Q1 2018. computers, tablets and smartphones had prices that will move the needle for them. was the most popular iPhone model In terms of value, the gold demand fell by 8 per cent to Rs become too reliant on the iPhone. The $100 billion buyback is good for right every week in the March quarter. 31,800 crore, compared to Rs 34,440 crore in the same period of Sales of 52.2 million iPhones against a now but it’s not exactly looking to the “This is the first cycle that we’ve ever 2017. Wall Street target of 52.3 million was a future.” The cash Apple earmarked for had where the top of the line iPhone “The decline in demand can be attributed to a number of comfort and up from 50.7 million last stock buybacks is about twice the $50 model has also been the most popular,” reasons, including the rising local gold prices, a substantial year, according to data from Thomson billion market capitalization of electric Cook said during the company’s drop in the number of auspicious wedding days during the Reuters I/B/E/S. car maker Tesla Inc. earnings call. period compared to the previous year, and anticipation of an Apple bought $23.5 billion of stock in Apple posted revenue for its March “It’s one of those things like when a import duty cut in the Union Budget,” WGC, India, Managing the March quarter, and said it planned to quarter of $61.1 billion, up from $52.9 team wins the Super Bowl, maybe you Director P R Somasundaram told PTI here. hike its dividend 16 percent, compared billion last year. Wall Street expected want them to win by a few more points. “The transition to GST, especially by the unorganised with a 10.5 percent increase last year. $60.8 billion, according to Thomson But it’s a Super Bowl winner and that’s sector, also affected demand to a certain extent,” he said. Analysts believe the heavy emphasis on Reuters I/B/E/S. how we feel about it.” The iPhone X has Also, the trade sentiment was subdued following the (PNB) buybacks will bolster share prices, but Average selling prices for iPhones shaped up to be “a good, not a great bank scam, which continued till ‘Akshaya Tritiya’, he added. some investors wished Apple had found were $728, compared with Wall Street product. There was a time prior to its The jewellery demand in India for the first quarter dipped different uses for the cash. expectations of $742. The figure is up introduction that investors expected it to by 12 per cent to 87.7 tonne, compared to 99.2 tonne in the “I’d hoped for more on the dividend more than 10 percent from $655 a year be a great product,” said Thomas Forte, same period of 2017. side or maybe a strategic investment,” ago, suggesting Apple’s iPhone X, which an analyst with D.A. Davidson In value terms, the jewellery demand during the period said Hal Eddins, chief economist for starts at $999, has helped boost prices. Companies. Source: Reuters dropped by 7 per cent to Rs 24,130 crore, from Rs 26,050 crore in the corresponding period last year. The total investment demand for January-March was down HCL POISED TO REPLACE by 13 per cent at 27.9 tonne against 32 tonne in the same UK supermarket giants quarter last year. Source: PTI WIPRO AS INDIA’S THIRD 23,000 BANK FRAUDS OF Asda, Sainsbury’s BIGGEST IT FIRM RS 1 LAKH CR IN 5 YEARS: RBI agree to merge BENGALURU (TIP): HCL Technologies Ltd is set to NEW DELHI surpass Wipro Ltd to become India’s third biggest (TIP): Over 23,000 software services provider in the three months to 30 cases of fraud June, marking the first change in the pecking order of involving a whopping the country’s $167 billion information technology Rs 1 lakh crore have outsourcing industry in six years. been reported in the Billionaire Shiv Nadar-led HCL Technologies past five years in expects its dollar revenue to grow by as much as 12.5% various banks, in the current financial year, implying that the according to the company will race past Azim Premji-led Wipro. Reserve Bank of HCL Technologies’s rise has come on the back of India (RBI). years of underperformance by Wipro. Until a few years A total of 5,152 ago, both companies used to generate significant cases of fraud, up from over 5,000 cases in 2016-17, were business from managing data centres or offering reported in banks from April 2017 to March 1, 2018, it said in infrastructure services to their clients. That revenue reply to an RTI query. disappeared with the rise of cloud computing or The highest ever amount of Rs 28,459 crore is said to have offerings of computing power by the hour by firms been involved in these cases of fraud reported from April such as Amazon Web Services. 2017 to March 1, 2018, the Central bank said. To mitigate this, HCL Technologies has invested In 2016-17, banks had reported 5,076 cases of fraud over $1.3 billion over the past two years in licensing involving Rs 23,933 crore. LONDON (TIP): Britain’s second and third biggest supermarket intellectual properties (IPs) from companies and then From 2013 to March 1, 2018, as many as 23,866 cases of chains Sainsbury’s and Walmart-owned rival Asda have agreed to building products around them for clients. This has fraud, of Rs 1 lakh or above in each case, were reported. A merge, both said on Monday, creating a retail king that would leapfrog proved financially lucrative for the company in the total of Rs 1,00,718 crore was involved in all the cases put current leader Tesco. short run.Noida-based HCL Technologies reported together, according to the RTI reply. The blockbuster deal comes as the UK retail sector faces squeezed 2.5% sequential dollar revenue growth in the quarter Giving the break-up, the RBI said 4,693 such cases profit margins due to fierce competition from German-owned ended March to end with $2.038 billion in revenue, a (involving Rs 18,698 crore) and 4,639 cases (involving Rs 19,455 discounters Aldi and Lidl — as well as major online players like US mere $24 million less than Wipro’s $2.062 billion. crore) were reported in 2015-16 and 2014-15, respectively. titan Amazon. Wipro does not provide full-year revenue forecast but In 2013-14, banks reported 4,306 cases of fraud, involving “Sainsbury’s and Walmart Inc. are pleased to announce that they expects its quarterly revenue to be between a decline of Rs 10,170 crore, the Central bank said. have agreed terms in relation to a proposed combination of 2% and growth of 0.2% in constant currency terms in “The reported fraud cases are processed and action is Sainsbury’s and Asda Group Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the April-June period from the preceding quarter. If taken according to the facts and circumstances of individual Walmart, to create an enlarged business,” they said. The transaction Wipro manages to retain its revenue in constant cases,” the RBI said. values Asda at $10 billion. Walmart will own 42% of the combined currency terms and gains from favourable currency The data assumes significance as Central investigating business and also receive 2.97 billion in cash. movements, it will mean reporting at best 1% dollar agencies such as the CBI and the ED are looking into various The combined business would have a network of 2,800 Sainsbury’s, revenue growth, according to Mint’s calculations. big-ticket fraud cases in banks involving industrialists and Asda and Argos stores. Source: AFP Source: HT others. Source: PTI THE INDIAN PANORAMA 28 ASTROLOGY FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018

Shree Ganeshaya Namah

Bejan Daruwalla is world's most famous astrologertoday. He appears regularly on world wide TV shows. Bejan who has been a professor in English, hasauthored a number of books on astrology. India'sPrime Minister Narendra Modi , on March 29, 2012,lunched one of Bejan's books, '2012- End of theWorld? Bejan contributes to a number of journals andnewspapers in many parts of the world which includeBerkley Communications (London) Times of India(Delhi, Mumbai, Bejan Daruwalla is available for astrological Kolkata, Chennai) and The IndianPanorama ( consultations. He can be reached at New York and Texas). Bejan's [email protected] predictionshave mostly been correct and and on phone 011-91-8141234275 people the world overrely on his predictions. www.bejandaruwalla.com WEEKLY HOROSCOPE MAY 07- MAY 13, 2018 Aries: Leo:- Sagittarius:

Ganesha says you rope in your associates in Once the finances are worked out, you get to You give your best to work and your relationships your dealings and this proves to be a good spending the money which you believe is hard and there is great intensity in whatever you do. move. The attention also shifts from the work earned. There are many expenses and, for a You extend your hand towards humanity, front to home and family and there are many change, your creative instincts blossom. You do undertake social work and spend quality time domestic responsibilities and joys to handle well at work and there is recognition. You may with your children and/or parents. You are and enjoy.You also have to invest some time in even get an award for something you have done. endowed now with a new vision and charisma your housing society or community and you You love the limelight and the appreciation that and look at the future with immense possibilities can't get away from all this. Nor do you want to. it all brings. You are the toast of the office, and in mind. You are riding the crest of a wave and There are other responsibilities to attend to as may get a promotion, if not more. If you are on feel that the world is yours to conquer. well. Plus, there may be demands from your own, you make tangible expansion of the siblings, co-workers, immediate and distant business/enterprise. A tremendous sense of Capricorn: family and neighbors. aestheticism, of beauty, now grips you. You see yourself in a new light and are Taurus:- Virgo: empowered by your success. The early part of the year was hectic and now you try to enjoy yourself Love and money are the twin themes of the You have achieved a lot, but you don't want to and ride on the momentum generated in the period. You also find time to relax, and there stop here. You are prepared to stick your neck previous months. There is a welcome change in could perhaps be a home away from home as a out like a platoon commander flushing out your perspective and the way you are looking at kind of holiday retreat or period getaway. terrorists. This works as you break new ground the world. There is a new you eyeballing the world There will be loans, joint accounts, bonds, and make many startling discoveries. Your new and whatever it has to offer. But, at the same time, insurance and funds of all kinds to deal with interests include religion and spirituality, while all this is hunky dory, avoid unnecessary on the money front, along with soaring travel and education. You have to kept money show downs and run-ins with friends, family, expenses. You do a juggling act and manage it aside for the family and for a nest egg, and so colleagues and the law. all well. You will also be spending a lot of time monetary issues are not the real focus this with loved ones and that will give you many period. You look for harmony and try to smooth Aquarius: - happy moments. The family is important. the feathers you have rustled in the past. You are busier than ever before and highly Gemini:- Libra:- motivated in all that you undertake - and it shows in the results. You spend quality time with loved Your people skills will be at their best and you Your conciliatory moves and work success are ones and there are possibilities of exciting travel. will get the support of both colleagues and highly appreciated. There is enhanced income But there are pinpricks like unexpected expenses, loved ones. Partnerships and collaborations and prestige. You party a lot now and look at ill-health in the family, and a frittering away of are vital and most beneficial in this period. finances in the form of inheritance and valuable resources on issues that are of no You surmount many obstacles and ride the legacies. You are a social butterfly and spend relevance to you; in other words, there is highly wave to glorious times. You worry about your time at various gatherings enjoying yourself avoidable wastage of both time and money.There image and there may be legal issues that could thoroughly. You are ebullient and enthusiastic, may also be a brush with the law. Don't put your tarnish it. You confide in family and form a and your happy mood is contagious. faith in people without ascertaining their strong team to battle these challenges. You find credentials. great support and strength in your association. Scorpio: Pisces: Cancer:- You are again on the work track. You are confident, pragmatic and determined and will There are many distractions at play here. There Money and its jingle appeal to you more than forge ahead furiously. You earn plaudits for are partnerships, religious ceremonies, meetings ever before. You look at finances in a big way, your achievements and decide to expand and interviews and several as that is the main theme of this period. further and make more money, which is never business/collaborations/connections, all of Personal and work related finances hog the out of your sights for long. You look at holistic which lead you into a profitable, upward spiral. limelight. There are tax issues and all sorts of progress and make the necessary adjustments This is a good time to spread your wings and meet monetary developments that will take up your to your personal and work life so that both as many people as possible. There will be time. You have to solve it all and spend time show steady progress and harmony. There are journeys and conferences and you will benefit behind closed doors getting to the nitty gritty expenses and minor delays to your plans greatly from them. There is romance in the air of your finances and its implications. including some medical expenses. and, if married, there will be dealings with close family,yourspouse, even your in-laws. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 SPIRITUALITY 29 THE PANCHANANA ASPECTS AND FORMS OF LORD SHIVA hiva occupies a prominent place in gestures of offering protection (abhaya), Hinduism. He is one of the Trimurthis, and granting boons (varada) respectively. Sor the three highest manifestations of RUDRA, THE DESTROYER: He is also Brahman. As the destroyer, in his function as known Aghora (the non-fearful one), who is Time (Kala) or Death, he represents the battle-ready, and who is mentioned in the disintegration and dispersing mode of Tamas. Vedas as the howler and father of the war However, in Shaivism, Shiva occupies the gods Maruts and Rudras. His main function highest place and represents purity and is destruction (samhara). He represents the auspiciousness (shivam). As Brahman element fire, the power of desire (iccha- (Mahesvara) himself, and Lord of the shakti), the punitive power of the law Universe (Isvara), he performs five functions. (dharma), the power of discrimination The five functions of Shiva (buddhi), the sense of hearing, and the organ of speech. All these faculties are used CREATION, SRISHTI: He creates all the in dispensing justice and enforcing the law worlds and beings, manifesting himself as the as the lord of Dharma. His color is black or individual souls or pure consciousness in the dark red. In the panchanana form he bodies and in the materiality of all existence. represents the southern face. In individual PRESERVATION, STHITHI: As preserver, images he is shown as a fierce god with four Shiva is responsible for the continuation of all faces and nine hands, holding ax, shield, the worlds and beings. In the body he is the elephant hook, noose, spear, skull, drum and sustaining power of breath (praneswara) and rosary respectively. the digestive power of fire (jatharagni). He is The fivefold aspect of Shiva plays an the source of all food and water for gods and important role in our lives, minds and beings. bodies, and in our spiritual transformation. CONCEALMENT, TIROBHAVA: As the The five functions of Shiva are responsible concealer, Shiva casts the net of delusion for our existence, continuation, (maya) upon the whole creation and keeps the transformation, purification and liberation. beings deluded, so that the order and Therefore, contemplation upon the five regularity of the worlds are not disrupted. forms will have a beneficial effect. Because of his deluding power (maya-shakti) Nataraja, The Lord of the Cosmic Dance beings cannot perceive him or realize their own essential nature, which remains Nataraja literally means lord of the suppressed or hidden behind a veil of dance. Siva is the lord, the ultimate and impurities. effective cause of all creation and the dance REVELATION, ANUGRAHA: As the is his act of creation, a dynamic rhythmic revealer of truth, source of knowledge, and movement. His dance is a guided action, grace, Shiva is responsible for the liberation under his complete mastery, not an act of of beings. None can achieve liberation chaotic, random movements. The lord and without his grace. In Shaivism individual the dance together constitute the projection effort and good karma are important, but the of the Paramasiva, the highest eternal and grace of Shiva is even more important to formless Nirguna Brahman on the canvas of achieve liberation, for which the path of his own awakened state as Saguna knowledge is the prescribed method. Brahman. DESTRUCTION, LAYA OR SAMHARA: Every aspect in the image of Nataraja At the end of each cycle of creation, Shiva elephant hook, a noose, hatchet, skull, drum, Sada Shiva, the eternal being, who represents an aspect of creation. The lord is withdraws all worlds and beings into himself rosary,trident, one hand showing the gestures manifests spontaneously (sad yojata), and surrounded on all sides by a circular ring of and goes into a temporary restful mode. As of protection (abhaya) and another that of who is described as the granter of grace, fire. The ring represents the whole of Death and lord of destruction, he is also offering boons (varada). leader of delight (nanda) and enjoyment creation. It is finite, cyclical and filled with responsible for the renewal of life and rebirth TAT-PURUSHA, THE COSMIC BEING: (sunanda). He represents the power of energy or Shakti shown here as flames. It of beings. He is Vishnu, the lord of preservation, cosmic liberating knowledge (jnana shakti), and the ensues from the hands and limbs of the Lord Panchanana Shiva egg (Hiranyagarbha), the enjoyer, nourisher, element of space. In the body he represents suggestive of the fact that he is the primal and the chief priest of the cosmic sacrifice the mind, the sense of taste, and according and effective cause of all creation. The five functions of Shiva are represented who represents bliss (ananda shakti), the to some the sex organ. His color is white, the Nataraja holds a tongue of flame in his in the panchanana (pancanana) or the fivefold rising sun, liberating knowledge, the material color sattva, or purity. In the panchanana upper left hand. The fire represents the aspect of Shiva. In the iconography, he is abundance (Sri Siva tattva), and the element form he represents the northern face. In the energy that is responsible for creation and depicted as the five faced deity (pancha muka of water. Among the sense organs he is the individual images he is shown as white also the dissolution of the worlds at the end Shiva), each face representing one of his five sense of smell, and in the bodily organs, the colored, holding the Vedas and rosary in two of creation. As a creator he creates, upholds functions. The fivefold aspect of Shiva also anus. In the iconography he represents the hands and the other two showing the and also destroys the worlds. represents the fivefold aspect of creation, the eastward face and golden color. In individual five bodies (kosas) in the human beings, five images he is shown with three eyes and four PAGE SPONSORED BY breaths, five directions, five elements, five faces, wearing yellow garments, and standing senses, five colors, five energies, five divisions in the company of Gayathri. ARISH K. SAHANI of time, and five human races. Significance of VAMADEVA, THE CONCEALER: He is the panchanana form of Shiva is explained in the suppressor who conceals Tatpurusha Serving Since 1972 the Linga Purana. A reference to it is also behind a veil of delusion. He is the opposite Please Call or Write for Your Insurance Needs found in the Mahabharata. The five aspects of (tirobhava) of Tatpurusha, who is described Shiva as represented in the five faced deity are as west faced, evening sun, and the left-hand Arish K Sahani (Father) described below. (vama) deity. His color is red. In the body he ISHANA, THE LORD: He is Brahma, the represents egoism (anava), the power of Shiv Sahani (Son) lord of creation and represents the mind action (kriya-shakti), and the element of air. power (chit-shakti), the element earth (or air Among the senses he is the sense of sight, and Priya Sahani Sood (Daughter) according to some), the ritual knowledge of in the bodily organs, the feet. 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CONTD FROM PAGE 1 Trump confirms payment to porn Russia's 2016 election meddling and any possible coordination with the Trump campaign to an end. Free press makes for a stronger star, denies affair; Says his lawyer "He (Trump) paid him back. No campaign finance violations, no crime of any kind. Michael had discretion to democracy: PM Modi on World paid $130,000 to buy Stormy solve these," Giuliani told The Wall Street Journal in another interview. Press Freedom Day Daniel's silence When the daily asked whether the fact that Trump had repaid his lawyer conflicted with the President's previous "Today on #WorldPressFreedomDay, let us reaffirm our star Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 election to buy her statements that he was unaware of the payment, Giuliani said commitment towards steadfastly supporting a free press. It is silence over an alleged affair with the then presidential it was "not [an] issue". the multiplicity of ideas and human expression that makes us candidate. "Cohen was his lawyer and had discretion to settle, as I have more vibrant as a society," he said in a series of tweets. Trump's confirmation came hours after his new legal aide had for clients ultimately paying for it,' he said. Trump was and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani revealed that "probably not aware" of the payment at the time it was made, Narendra Modi the President had personally repaid Michael Cohen $130,000 he said. @narendramodi that was used to buy Daniels's silence through a non-disclosure Giuliani said Trump repaid Cohen "over several months" by agreement. putting him on a "retainer of $35,000 when he was doing no A free press makes a stronger democracy! Today on In an early morning tweet, Trump, 71, said his personal work for the President". Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, told #WorldPressFreedomDay, let us reaffirm our commitment attorney, Cohen, was paid via a monthly retainer and that the CNBC: "This is exactly what we predicted would ultimately be towards steadfastly supporting a free press. It is the hush agreement into which Cohen entered with Daniels had shown. Every American, regardless of their politics, should be "nothing to do with the campaign". outraged." multiplicity of ideas and human expression that makes us The President had previously denied knowledge of the more vibrant as a society. payment, which has prompted complaints to the Justice 2:56 AM - May 3, 2018 Department and Federal Election Commission over potential Harendra Singh files for Chapter violations of campaign finance law. Prime Minister Narendra Modi applauded all those who Trump had told reporters on Air Force One last month that 13 Bankruptcy have been working tirelessly to uphold the freedom of press. he did not know about the payment to Daniels or the source of "It is due to these countless women and men that the spirit the money. Singh, 59, of Laurel Hollow, asked in the voluntary of a free press is significantly enhanced...would once again The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist bankruptcy filing to make installment payments on the filing like to appreciate the proactive role of everyone on social accusations made by her about an affair despite already fees. The fee for filing a Chapter 13 bankruptcy is $310, media for their commendable work towards safeguarding the having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no according to the website for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the freedom of press and expression," the Prime Minister tweeted. affair," Trump said. Eastern District. Singh's bankruptcy petition, filed without an He added, "Prior to its violation by Ms Clifford and her attorney, listed two creditors, CIT Bank, N.A. of Kalamazoo, Narendra Modi attorney, this was a private agreement. Money from the Michigan, and LoanCare LLC, a mortgage servicer based in @narendramodi campaign, or campaign contributions, played no role in this Virginia Beach, Virginia. transaction." CIT Bank sued Singh in August 2016 in New York State I applaud all those who have been working tirelessly to Speaking on Fox News on Wednesday, May 2, Giuliani said Supreme Court in Mineola alleging he had stopped making uphold freedom of press. It is due to these countless the reimbursement to Cohen was "not campaign money" and mortgage payments on his Laurel Hollow home beginning Oct. women and men that the spirit of a free press is that the payment was "perfectly legal". Cohen had admitted to 1, 2014 and owed $2.5 million plus interest. On July 20, 2017, paying Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, out of New York State Judge Thomas Adams granted summary significantly enhanced. #WorldPressFreedomDay his own pocket through a private LLC. judgment in favor of the bank. On Jan. 9, Adams ordered the 2:56 AM - May 3, 2018 Daniels has sued Trump and Cohen, saying the property foreclosed and to be put up for sale and awarded CIT nondisclosure agreement is void because Trump did not sign Bank $2.9 million plus interest and fees. The United Nations General Assembly had declared May 3 it. The White House has said Trump denies the affair. Under a Chapter 13 bankruptcy, the debtor seeks a payment as World Press Freedom Day to raise awareness about freedom Giuliani recently joined Trump's legal team in an effort to plan to repay his or her debts. In October 2016, Singh pleaded of press. (Source: PTI) bring special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into guilty to bribing former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto. Mangano, his wife, Linda, and Venditto are currently on trial in federal court in Central Islip. They have pleaded not guilty. (Source: Newsday) CONTD FROM PAGE 21 Air India’s Pragmatism before Sale places. It takes two hours between New Delhi and Mumbai, many times a full meal was served on this route too. Food from expensive cities was served even to passengers from cities known for their food. Most airlines run special cargo flights to business-friendly cities, which are profitable. Air India never explored such innovative ventures. On some of the important flights the routes were longer than required. As an example, the Bombay-Frankfurt-Los Angeles flight completed one way in 22 hours. Due to customary late flying by Air India the 24- hour cycle was always exceeded, this resulted in cancellation of a good profitable flight. Air India was on the route of self destruction. In the most expensive cities like New York, there was excessive staff. The government too has finally realized the writing on the wall. When reality dawned on Air India that its sale price may not be enough to stay afloat. A long overdue course correction has started. But the all-powerful government was still in populous mode. Finally,it appears that Air India is putting its foot down and making decisions conducive to profitability. Some routes are being altered to touch load centers. Some routes on which profitable business was witnessed for six days a week, but there was scope for more flights, those routes are seeing augmentation of frequency. The hub and spoke system is not suitable for countries like India, there is scope for a change. Several flights have more passengers from specific spoke stations than hubs, they may get justice now. Such stations were so far ignored, and the hub system was brutally enforced. Now there is a scope for change. There is a possibility of Air India turning the corner during the period leading up to the fall of hammer. Such a scenario can potentially fetch a good price. There is plenty of real estate owned by Air India in the most expensive areas of India. That will help too. Let us keep our fingers crossed. Best of luck to Air India. (The author is a regular contributor to The Indian Panorama. He writes on diverse issues with equal felicity. He can be reached at [email protected]) THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 TRAVEL 33 MIZORAM: HIDDEN GEM OF THE NORTH-EAST izoram is one of the states of of the prominent towns in Mizoram and is at a Northeast India, with Aizawl as its distance of 131 miles from Aizawl. Rich in flora Mcapital. The name is derived from and fauna, Lunglei is at an altitude of 1222 Mi (people), Zo (hill) and Ram (land), and meters. There is a Buddha engrave stone in thus Mizoram implies "land of the hill Lunglei for which it is famous. people". In the northeast, it is the southern most landlocked state sharing borders with Kolasib three of the seven sister states, Located at a distance of 83 kms from Aizawl, namelyTripura, Assam, Manipur. The state Kolasib is a town which is at the north of also shares a 722 kilometer border with the Mizoram. The Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) neighbouring countries ofBangladesh and which is a concept for farmers here by Myanmar. National Agricultural Research system is Like several other northeastern states of located in the town of Kolasib itself. Kolasib is India, Mizoram was previously part of worth visiting due to its agriculture dominated Assam until 1972, when it was carved out as a state. So rich is its agricultural production that Union Territory. It became the 23rd state of the state of Mizoram yields a lot from it. India, a step above Union Territory, on 20 February 1987. Vairengte This state is bounded by natural beauty in A town in the district of Kolasib, Vairengte the form of wildlife sanctuaries like Dampa is located at a distance of 130 kms from the Wildlife Sanctuary, Khawnglung Wildlife capital city of Aizawl. Surrounded by green Sanctuary, Thorangtlang Wildlife Sanctuary lush and mountains, Vairengte is a postcard and Lengteng National park to name a few. destination of Mizoram. One of those places There are also many caves in Mizoram like which stays unexplored and virgin. It is the Kungawrhi Puk, Mura Puk, Lamsial Puk and perfect place for adventurers who look out for waterfalls in Mizoram like Vantawng Falls surprises and excitement. across the state. Mizoram also has tourist complexes, shopping joints and few Mamit architectural structures like the Mizoram Mamit town is located in the district of State Museum and Luangmual Handicrafts Mamit about 89 kms from Aizawl and easily Centre. accessible via bus and jeep services. Mamit is In addition to these tourist places, there mostly covered in dense forest and mountains are naturally beautiful tourist places like and rivers. One can get a sense of visual as well Lianchhiari Lunglentlang, Thasiama Seno as physical satisfaction just by driving through Neihna, Mangkhaia Lung, Fiara Tui and this place and enjoying the sceneries around. Sikpui Lung for tourists to look out for. Further more, adventure activities can be Serchhip also enjoyed here in Mizoram. The headquarter town of Serchhip district, the town is located in the central part of Aizawl Mizoram. It is at a distance of 112 kms away Aizawl, a 112 year old city is the capital of from the town of Aizawl. The Serchhip district Mizoram and it is the largest city in the state has the highest literacy rate in the whole of with a population of 291,822. It is the centre India. Filled with grassy landscape, the town of of the administration of the entire state with Serchhip is the location to one of the all the government offices within and spectacular waterfalls of Mizoram, Vantawng secretariat. Tourists can easily access the Khawhthla. The sounds of the fall in one’s ears place via flights, buses and train. The main is nothing less than melody. tourist attraction in Aizawl is Aizawl Zoological Park, State Museum in Mc Donald Saiha Hill, Science center, Handloom and A census town in the district of Saiha handicrafts showroom, Horticulture Centre district, the town is the headquarters of Mara and Martyr’s memorial. Natural attractions Autonomous District Council which is one of in the area are the Durtlang hills, KV the three councils within Mizoram. The town Paradise and Muthi Hilltop. is located in the south central part of the state. It is the third most populated and Champhai developed town in Mizoram. Tourism With beautiful butterflies, tribal traditions attractions in Saiha are Tipo Lake and Mt. and other cultural richness, the city of Mawma. The missionary houses built 100 Champhai takes pride in a wonderful view of years back are still present here which are the Myanmar hills. The population in the worth witnessing. city is 108,392 and covers an area of 3,185.83 sq km. It is a commercial town in Mizoram Sanctuaries in Mizoram strewn with mesmerizing scenery around it. Mizoram is a state in North east India which It is a great place for trekkers for hills and is thickly wooded and hence it has a lots of peaks surround the place where one can pack flora and fauna. The range of flora and fauna bags and go. Main tourist attractions of the here is diverse and hence, different specimen place are Rih Dil Lake and other ancient of these entities can be found here. Ranging ruins and stones such as Lamsial Puk, Mura from varied colored birds to a variety of Puk, Sikpui Lung, Fiara Tui. animals and plants, the forests in Mizoram are a thing of wildlife sanctuaries in Thenzawl Mizorambeauty for the tourists. Spread across A town in Serchhip district, Thenzawl is the whole of Mizoram, the sanctuaries here an important town in Mizoram which is include Phawngpui National Park, Murlen famous for traditional handloom industry. It National Park, Tawi Wildlife Sanctuary, is 43 kms. away from Aizawl. Tourists can Ngengpui Wildlife Sanctuary, Khawnglung visit the place and buy the best of handloom Wildlife Sanctuary, Lengteng Wildlife products. Tourist attractions here are Sanctuary, Thorangtlang Wildlife Sanctuary, Vantawng waterfall, Chawngchilhi Cave and Lunglei Mizoram, Lunglei is also often spelled as Palak Wildlife Sanctuary and Dampa Wildlife the Thenzawl Deer park. Situated in the south central part of Lungleh which means ‘bridge of rock’. It is one Sanctuary. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 34 SPORTS FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 Justin Langer is Australia’s Narine, Gill power KKR to easy new head coach MELBOURNE (TIP): Newly appointed Australia coach Justin Langer will charge his win over Chennai Super Kings players with winning back the “respect” of KOLKATA (TIP): Young Shubman Gill the cricket world after a came of age on an evening that was supposed ball-tampering scandal to be all about someone twice his age. MS left the team’s Dhoni’s arrival at the crease added to the reputation in ruins. luminous intensity at Eden because torches Long touted as head in mobile phones increased the coach-in-waiting, incandescence. Just before that, the IPL’s Langer was named as equivalent of a clothed ‘Jimmy Jump’ had Darren Lehmann’s streaked into the Chennai Super Kings’ replacement on Thursday, his predecessor (CSK) dugout. having resigned in the wake of the Cape Town But it ended with Gill making the journey scandal even though he was cleared of from boy to man as Kolkata Knight Riders wrongdoing. (KKR) easily won by six wickets, reaching A gritty opening batsman who played in some 180/4 in 17.4 overs in reply to CSK’s 177/5. of Australia’s greatest-ever teams, Langer takes Gill made 57 from 36 balls and was over a depleted side, with disgraced former involved in a fifth-wicket unbeaten stand of captain Steve Smith and his deputy David 83 in 36 balls with skipper Dinesh Karthik Warner serving year-long bans in the fall-out (45). This was after Gill and Rinku Singh from South Africa. steadied the innings following an early “For me, I think one of the things that’s really wobble, with a 33-run stand for the third important is we keep looking to earn respect,” wicket. Gill anchored KKR’s chase of 178, Shubman Gill blasted his maiden fifty as Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Chennai Super Kings said the 47-year-old on Thursday. “To me, eschewing risks without letting any loose by six wickets in the IPL 2018 clash at the Eden Gardens. respect’s worth more than all the gold in the balls go unpunished. It was he who got the world. It’s not just about how we play our cricket, Eden to roar the home team’s name after it six, who played an important part in that. powerplay hoodoo when Piyush Chawla’s it’s about being good citizens and good spent most of the evening chanting ‘CSK, After CSK ended the first 10 on 90/1, KKR googly foxed Faf du Plessis. Australians,” he said. CSK’. Gill hit three fours off Shane Watson, took control and never let it slip. They Before his customary cameo that was Perth-born Langer scored more than 7,500 adjusting the pull for the first, edging the dismissed Shane Watson, Suresh Raina and helped by Ravindra Jadeja dropping him off runs in 105 Tests, including 23 centuries, before second and cutting the third. Ambati Rayudu between the 11th and the successive Asif deliveries when on six, Sunil retiring with a slew of greats at the end of the So sure was Gill’s batting that Karthik 15th overs conceding 31 runs. Dhoni made 43 Narine too broke a barren run finishing with 2006/07 Ashes series. played second fiddle. Gill greeted K Asif in helping CSK take 15 off the 17th over bowled 2/20. Young Shivam Mavi was impressive too He has had success coaching Western the 15th over with a superb pull for six. That by Mitchell Johnson, who had also gone for when CSK batted and then Gill showed that Australia state since 2012, guiding Perth over yielded 21 runs and turned the match 19 in the innings’ fifth. the Dad’s Army led by Daddy Cool may still Scorchers to three domestic T20 titles in the ‘Big around. And it was Gill, who had dropped Yet, KKR would be happy that CSK were be ahead, but T20 is usually a young man’s Bash’, making them the most successful Dhoni on 29 letting the ball slip through for restricted to 177/5. En route, KKR broke the game. franchise in the tournament’s short history. Virat Kohli officially India refuse pink ball day & signs for Surrey, set to night Test on Australia tour NEW DELHI (TIP): India have refused to play a day-night Test during the tour of miss Afghanistan Test Australia later this year because of doubts over the quality of the pink ball, their cricket NEW DELHI (TIP): India captain Virat board said on May 3. Kohli on May 3 officially inked his deal with "Yes, it's pretty clear that we are not playing top English county side Surrey in his bid to a day-night Test in Australia, no doubt about prepare for the tour of England, starting in it," BCCI administrator Vinod Rai said. July. Cricket Australia (CA) had wanted the first While Kohli joining the London-based team Test in Adelaide from December 6 played was an open secret, the county officially under lights to tap on the growing popularity announced the deal today on their official of pink-ball cricket. Rai, who heads a special committee website. But the Board of Control for Cricket in appointed by India's Supreme Court to run the “Surrey County Cricket Club are delighted India (BCCI) said they did not want to get BCCI, said India would not be forced into to announce the signing of India captain Virat involved in an experiment in a high-profile playing a day-night Test. Kohli for the month of June,” the club series. "We have been saying this all along that "Nobody can put a gun on to our head and announced on their website we are experimenting with pink ball cricket in say play (day-night cricket). There have been www.kiaoval.com. the Duleep Trophy (India's domestic doubts about the pink ball itself in Duke and Speaking after signing for the club, Kohli competition) and that's it for now," said Rai. Kookaburra," Rai said, referring to the said: “It has long been an ambition of mine to CA chief executive James Sutherland has English and Australian ball manufacturers. play county cricket and I am thankful to Alec lobbied hard for top-ranked India to play a day- The powerful BCCI are one of the few Stewart and Surrey for allowing me the night match, but hinted the tourists were national governing bodies to have avoided opportunity to join them during their 2018 scared of conceding an advantage to playing pink ball cricket at the international season. I can’t wait to get to the Kia Oval.” Australia, who have won all three pink ball level.India experimented with pink ball Alec Stewart, Surrey’s Director of Cricket, Tests at Adelaide. cricket in its Duleep Trophy domestic added: “We are thrilled to have signed the "I think everyone in world cricket knows championship in 2016 but administrators and biggest name in world cricket for the month of that, to be frank, I think they want to come out top players are wary about playing at June. here and beat us," said Sutherland. international level. “Playing and training alongside Virat will captain said. "There's a sense, or a reality, that Australia India are will tour Australia from be a massive benefit for our players who will With Kohli playing three county has won each of the pink-ball Test matches November 21 to January 19 with four Tests, have the opportunity to learn so much from championship matches in June, he is all set to that have played in Australia and there may be three Twenty20 internationals and three one- him. miss the historic first-ever Test match against a sense that it gives us a bit of an advantage," day games on the schedule. “At a time when there is much discussion Afghanistan scheduled in Bengaluru from Sutherland told SEN Radio Wednesday. Australia, after playing the first floodlit Test around the future of county cricket, the June 14-18. The Committee of Administrators Observers believe the tour could be one of at the Adelaide Oval in 2015 against New arrival of Virat should give our domestic chief Vinod Rai has already said that Kohli India's best chance to record a first Test series Zealand, also hosted South Africa the game a massive boost and positive exposure will be encouraged to play county in his bid to win in Australia as the hosts' star players following year and England last November in around the cricketing world which in turn prepare for the Test series in August. Steve Smith and David Warner are serving 12- day-night Tests. They won all the three games. can benefit every county,”the former England Source: PTI month bans for ball tampering. Source: AFP THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 ADVERTISEMENT 35 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 36 ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018