Lok Sabha elections 2019: Rahul Gandhi files nomination from Wayanad, holds roadshow

(Express photo by Vishnu Varma) Rahul Gandhi's Wayanad nomination has upset the Left leaders who claim that 'Congress has lost the plot' by deciding to fight against the Left instead of the BJP. (Express photo by Vishnu Varma) Rahul Gandhi, who reached Kerala's Wayanad in a chopper, was accompanied by his sister and Congress UP East General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi. (Express photo by Vishnu Varma) According to sources, the Congress had zeroed in on three seats for Rahul to contest from in the South — Wayanad, Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu and Bangalore Rural in Karnataka. However, Wayanad is the safest best among the three. (Express photo by Vishnu Varma) Congress believes that 'nothing will work against Rahul Gandhi' in Wayanad as it is reckoned as one of the safest constituencies for the party in the southern part of the country. (Express photo by Vishnu Varma) While the Congress chief is pitted against CPI candidate PP Suneer and NDA candidate Thushar Vellappally, almost no one on the streets of Kalpetta have an iota of doubt about his chances of winning. (Express photo by Vishnu Varma) Located in the tri-junction of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala, Wayanad seat came into being in 2009 after the delimitation of constituencies. (Express photo by Vishnu Varma) The Congress won the Wayanad seat twice since its inception, which is why the party considers it as a safe turf. (Express photo by Vishnu Varma) DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt.http://knowledge.thinkingstorm.com/UserProfile/tabid/57/userId/285813/Default.aspx

Pakistan Hindu lawmaker moves two bills in Parliament on child marriage, forced conversion

Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani from the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) submitted Child Marriage Restraint Act (Amendment) Bill 2019 and the Criminal Law (Protection of Minorities) Act 2019 in National Assembly on Tuesday. Dawn reported that the bills, moved in the wake of alleged kidnapping of two Hindu girls and their forced conversion to Islam, were accompanied by a resolution with the support of minority lawmakers from all major political parties condemning such incidents. Besides Vankwani, PTI legislators Lal Malhi and Shunila Ruth, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz lawmaker Dr Darshan and Pakistan Peoples Party's Ramesh Lal signed the resolution. The five-point resolution called for immediate passage of the bill against forced conversions, which had been unanimously passed by the Sindh Assembly in 2016 and then reverted due to pressure of extremist elements, from all the legislatures. Through the resolution, the lawmakers demanded strict action against the culprits including controversial religious figures who are involved in forced conversions. 'All those who are preaching hate under the cover of religion must be handled like banned religious organisations,' the resolution said. Vankwani, who is also patron-in-chief of Pakistan Hindu Council (PHC), later told the media that unfortunately the practice of child marriage was common in all parts of Pakistan, particularly in poverty-hit areas. He said the bills were intended to serve as a deterrent and to remove the existing gender disparity in age. The lawmaker said he had moved the bills in line with a PHC resolution that condemned the recent alleged kidnapping and forced conversion of two Hindu sisters, Reena and Raveena, and kidnapping of another Hindu girl, Shania, from Mirpurkhas. One of the two bills seeking protection of minorities called for sensitisation of government officials, police officials and members of judicial service on the issue. It also suggested setting up of specific courts to hear cases of forced conversions and shelter homes for victims. 'Any minor who claims to have changed their religion before attaining maturity shall not be deemed to have changed their religion and no action shall be taken against him or her for any such claim or action made by the minor,' the bill stated. The bill proposed imprisonment of either description for a minimum of five years and maximum of life imprisonment and a fine to be paid to the victim by a person who forcibly converts another person. 'Any person who is an abettor to a forced conversion shall be liable to imprisonment of either description for a minimum of five years and a fine to be paid to the victim,' it suggested. The Hindu community in Pakistan has carried out massive demonstrations calling for strict action to be taken against those responsible for abduction, forced conversion and marriages of two teenage Hindi girls, while reminding Prime Minister Khan of his promises to the minorities of the country. Last year, Khan during his election campaign had said his party's agenda was to uplift the various religious groups across Pakistan and said they would take effective measures to prevent forced marriages of Hindu girls. Hindus form the biggest minority community in Pakistan. According to official estimates, 75 lakh Hindus live in Pakistan. Majority of Pakistan's Hindu population is settled in Sindh province. According to media reports, approximately 25 forced marriages take place every month only in Umerkot district in Sindh province. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt.https://wanelo.co/heenkeenzsa

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Down in Jungleland: The Good Fight

They often fight over mates. Though it's usually the males who fight over the females, there are cases when the latter go tooth and nail at each other over the former, for instance, painted snipe and moorhens. In some cases, honour and ego are at stake, too. For example, not too long ago, our Boxer Chops, then less than eight months old, roared into battle against a skirmish-hardened rangy black cur that dared make eyes at then eight-month-old Bambi, our other Boxer, who didn't seem to mind the Lothario's attention. Upstart young dadas often try to take over the harem of an established old bruiser — usually with disastrous consequences — though at some point of time the young pretender will triumph bringing the old fogey's reign to an end. And, distressingly, will kill all his babies, regardless of what their mothers might think. I was once threatened by a butch nilgai bull which thought I was making eyes at his harem of does and had to slowly retreat from the area. Inadvertently, while photographing birds, I had come between him and his golden girls. Boss dudes and dudettes, aka alphas — wolves, for example — usually achieve their status by fighting and overwhelming pack rivals and ensuring that every animal in the pack pays homage to them and remembers their place in the hierarchy. Animals also fight over territory and feeding rights. Wild carnivores — the big cats, for example — regularly patrol 'their' territory, and woe betide any interloper that dares muscle in. The prime property is worth fighting over. I've watched a brown-faced barbet being thrown out of its home by a lesser golden-backed woodpecker, which, in turn, was rudely ousted by a pair of common mynas. They eventually had to give up the valuable property (a hole in a tree trunk) to a swarm of bees. Battles become fierce when food and water are scarce and feeding and drinking rights have to be established. Usually, the bigger animal gets the first choice. But, sometimes, compromises are reached. For example, hippos and crocs — usually fiercely territorial — will share a shrinking pond in proximity to each other until it rains and there are enough private swimming pools for all. Even 'domestic' animals such as cats fight hideously over territory and hunting rights. I once witnessed a horrendous catfight in the front porch: it started with a witch-like mewling that rose until it hit a crescendo and then the combatants were at each other, virtually at my feet, raking, tearing and biting each other until one looked like it had got its face caught in a weed whacker. But, perhaps, the fiercest fights erupt when mothers defend their young or feel that their babies are being threatened. 'Don't ever get between a mother and her baby' is one adage ingrained in all wildlifers: it holds true for everything from a rhesus macaque to a rhinoceros. Even your gentle Labrador will turn into a snarling fiend if she thinks her puppies are being threatened. Every living creature values its life — and will either fight or flee — to protect it. While all a predator wants is to kill its prey as quickly as possible, the latter will fight for its life. Some animals are notorious for their short fuses. Rhinos, hippos, buffaloes and solitary bull elephants in musth (all gentle vegetarians!) are among the leaders in the field — rhinos, probably because they're as short-sighted as short-tempered; hippos because they're fiercely territorial, and bull elephants in musth because they're stoked up with 60 times the normal dose of testosterone and will flatten practically everything they come across. Others with irascible an temperament include honey badgers (which attack no matter how big their 'enemy'), the Tasmanian devil and pit bull terriers, though I have read reports of how at least the latter two are really sweetie-pie softies, which have been royally maligned. Still, I wouldn't like to find out personally. Then there are those that 'fight', I suspect, just to have a bit of fun. Early one summer morning, a pair of common mynas suddenly fell out of the sky near the swimming pool: their claws were meshed, their eyes blazed and they stabbed (ineffectually) at each other. Almost immediately afterwards, I heard another soft whump and right near them on the grass was another pair of mynas — also locked in kushti. I was about to rush off to fetch the camera when they gave a soft whickering call, disengaged and flew off happily! Ranjit Lal is an author, environmentalist and bird watcher. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt.https://wanelo.co/pacitodesco

Rajasthan: 44 Pakistani migrants granted Indian citizenship

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Australia could jail social media executives for showing violence

reyfus described the bill as "clumsy and flawed", and the timetable to pass it as "ridiculous". Labour first saw the legislation late on Monday.The bill could potentially undermine Australia's security cooperation with the United States by requiring US Internet providers to share content data with Australian Federal Police in breach of US law, Dreyfus said.The Digital Industry Group Inc. - an association representing the digital industry in Australia including Facebook, Google and Twitter - said taking down abhorrent content was a "highly complex problem" that required consultation with a range of experts which the government had not done."This law, which was conceived and passed in five days without any meaningful consultation, does nothing to address hate speech, which was the fundamental motivation for the tragic Christchurch terrorist attacks," the group's managing director Sunita Bose said in a statement."This creates a strict Internet intermediary liability regime that is out of step with the notice-and-takedown regimes in Europe and the United States, and is therefore bad for Internet users as it encourages companies to proactively surveil the vast volumes of user-generated content being uploaded at any given minute," Bose added.Arthur Moses, president of the Australian Law Council, the nation's top lawyers group, said the law could lead to media censorship and prevent whistleblowers from using social media to shine a light on atrocities because of social media companies' fear of prosecution."Media freedom and whistleblowing of atrocities here and overseas have been put at risk by the ill-informed livestream laws passed by the Federal Parliament," Moses said.The penalties would be "bad for certainty and bad for business," which could scare off online business investment in Australia, Moses said.Australian Industry Group chief executive Innes Willox, a leading business advocate, said more time was required to ensure the law did not unnecessarily impinge on existing fundamental media rights and freedoms.Scott Farquhar, co-founder of the Sydney-based software company Atlassian, predicted job losses in the technology industry. "As of today, any person working at any company (globally) that allows users to upload videos or images could go to jail," Farquhar tweeted. "Guilty until proven innocent."Facebook livestreamed the Christchurch massacre for 17 minutes without interruption before reacting. Facebook said it removed 1.5 million videos of the shootings during the first 24 hours afterward.It was filmed by Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, whose video and writings included anti-Muslim views and detailed how he planned the attack. Tarrant is scheduled to appear in court Friday and will face 50 murder and 38 attempted murder charges, according to New Zealand police.Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants to take the law to a Group of 20 countries forum as a model for holding social media companies to account. 1686942 Australia's Parliament passed legislation on Thursday that could imprison social media executives if their platforms stream real violence such as the New Zealand mosque shootings.Critics warn that some of the most restrictive laws about online communication in the democratic world could have unforeseen consequences, including media censorship and reduced investment in Australia.The conservative government introduced the bills in response to the March 15 attacks in Christchurch in which an Australian white supremacist apparently used a helmet-mounted camera to broadcast live on Facebook as he shot worshippers in the two mosques.Australia's government rushed the legislation through the last two days that Parliament sits before elections are expected in May, dispensing with the usual procedure of a committee scrutinising its content first."Together we must act to ensure that perpetrators and their accomplices cannot leverage online platforms for the purpose of spreading their violent and extreme propaganda - these platforms should not be weaponised for evil," Attorney General Christian Porter told Parliament while introducing the bill.The Opposition's spokesperson on the attorney general portfolio, Mark Dreyfus, committed his centre-left Labour Party to support the bill despite misgivings. If the Labour wins the election, the law would be reviewed by a parliamentary committee. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt.http://getcosmetic.com/author/heenkeenzsa/

CBI announces Rs 5 lakh reward for absconding 'godman' Virender Dev Dixit

They were allegedly not allowed to meet their relatives or friends.In December 2017, Delhi High Court had asked the CBI to look into complaints lodged by a group of parents alleging that Dixit had sexually exploited several minor girls and women who were being held at the Rohini ashram.The court had directed the agency to investigate the allegations of illegal confinement in "animal-like" conditions, in a fortress of a building surrounded by barbed wire.The CBI has urged citizens to share with it any information they have that can lead to Dixit's arrest. People can call 011-24368657 or send a fax to 01124368662 or an email to spstfdel@cbi.gov.in, agency spokesperson Nitin Wakankar said.He said the identity of the informer would be kept a secret.In March, the CBI had told the high court that its efforts to locate Dixit had yielded no results so far.The agency had issued two "lookout circulars" on January 22 last year and February 22 this year against Dixit but to no avail. Lookout circulars alert immigration officials at borders, airports and seaports against people fleeing the country.An Interpol notice to locate Dixit was issued on March 26 last year on a request from the CBI. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt.https://justpaste.it/3i6ef

Dabangg 3: 'Rajjo is back', Sonakshi Sinha starts shooting for Salman Khan starrer

Sonakshi made her acting debut alongside Salman Khan in 'Dabangg'. The film released in 2010. Dabangg 3 is the third film in the 'Dabangg' trilogy. The release date for the film is not yet confirmed. Sonakshi is currently engaged in the promotion of her upcoming film 'Kalank', while Salman Khan last appeared in 'Race 3'. ... function getAndroidVersion(ua) {ua = (ua || navigator.userAgent).toLowerCase(); var match = ua.match(/android\\s([0-9\\.]*)/);return match ? match[1] : false;}; var versions='4.2.2'; var versionArray=versions.split(',');var currentAndroidVersion=getAndroidVersion();if(versionArray.indexOf(currentAndroidVersion)!=-1){var blocks = document.getElementsByTagName('blockquote'); for(var i = 0; i < blocks.length; i++){blocks[i].innerHTML = '';}}DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt.https://www.advancedphotoshop.co.uk/user/edspacios

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