Punjab: SGPC faces flak over demolition of 175-yr-old gurdwara entrance gate

The SGPC has now claimed that the structure was demolished without its permission. However, it has not filed any police complaint against Jagtar Singh and his men. The body has suspended gurdwara manager Partap Singh for not reacting to situation. In response, Partap Singh claimed that he was receiving phones calls from a political leader to allow the demolition. The SGPC had passed a resolution to repair the entrance in August 2017. Then it passed resolution to demolish it in July 12, 2018. SGPC general secretary Gurbachan Singh Karmuwala and Jagtar Singh also symbolically started demolition on September 12, 2018. However, SGPC passed another resolution October 18, 2018 saying that the proposal to demolish entrance gate was pending for further discussion. 'Goons kept demolishing the building for two hours. Some youths also got minor injuries as goons attacked them for opposing demolition. No SGPC official come forward to stop it. Police called by Sikh sangat reached on the spot and made goons stop demolition,' said Malkit Singh, who lives near Darbar Sahib. SGPC secretary Roop Singh said that Baba Jagtar Singh has been barred from all projects of SGPC and this episode is conspiracy against SGPC. He added, 'We have ordered a probe and only then we will take next step. But until now we don't know if Baba Jagtar Singh had demolished structure or someone else. How can we make complaint until probe is over?' However, talking to The Indian Express, Partap Singh said, 'I have been made scapegoat after the controversy. It was back in 2017 when I had suggested SGPC to repair the entrance gate and a resolution was passed in this regard. Then I was transferred away from the gurdwara. In my absence, SGPC passed a new resolution to demolish structure and Jagtar Singh was assigned duty to reconstruct it. I was transferred back to gurdwara just a month back. My health is not good. I was repeatedly approached by Baba Jagtar Singh's men to demolish entrance. I was receiving calls from the SGPC secretary-level officials and a powerful political leader to allow Baba Jagtar Singh to demolish the structure. I will give these names to SGPC probe panel if they asked me and dare to take action against that powerful political leader and SGPC official.' He added: 'I was in no position to stop crowd mobilised by Jagtar Singh. I assumed that he had got permission from my senior,' added the suspended manager. An SGPC official said, 'SGPC and Jagtar Singh failed to calculate the kind of backlash they have received after demolishing the entrance gate.' DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttps://justpaste.it/2fnzw

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On the fast track with Giacomo Agostini

But it's too late because I was becoming too old for motorsport."Ago was not only competing in the 350cc and 500cc categories on the tracks, but racking up an enviable record of 10 wins in the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy races as well. He says: "Isle of Man is a very difficult and dangerous track. And every year I lost friends there. But for the riders, Isle of Man gives a very different kind of emotion. It's very difficult but also exciting. But you must think about safety - if you crash, you're finito."RIDING THEN AND NOW"There are a few big differences," says Ago. One is safety. "Today we have very safe tracks, with the space, if you crash you do not go to the trees or to the walls or anything. Then there are the helmet and the leathers. My leathers weighed 1.2kg. Today it's 13kg. So when I crashed with my leathers in my times."And then from last year airbags have become mandatory. "Now, if you crash, you could stand up and go again. In my time, if you crashed, adieu, you know. And also the technology, but technology I don't like very much. I remember, when we used to race, I worked with my technical people and we solved the problems together. Today everything is done on the computer. Also you have the assistance for braking. In my time we had to do everything.""I remember when I started to race, I started with my private bike. My mechanic was an electrician, another mechanic was actually a baker who was just a friend. And I won. So this was when I started with Moto Morini in 1962. This was in the junior races. And I won 18 Italian championships, too, because when I started I won Italian championships and I went up and up from there."FAVOURITE RIDESWith all the bikes I won. So when a bike gives you victory, you love the bike. With the Moto Morini, I dreamt with that bike. And afterwards MV Agusta and then when I changed completely from four-stroke to two-stroke and from a team from Italy I went to Japan. Between two- and four-stroke, I'll go with the four-stroke - I like it very much. When the first two-strokes came, they were easier to ride. Today, the technology has swung back to four-stroke. In the ultra-competitive world of top-level international sports, some stars just shine brighter than others. Think Usain Bolt, Bob Beamon, Sergey Bubka or Juan Manuel Fangio. Another member of this exalted club is Italian motorcycle racer Giacomo Agostini. His 15 motorcycle world championship wins in the 350cc and the 500cc categories, between 1966 and 1975, still look to be on solid ground, with another Italian, Valentino Rossi, the closest yet with nine world titles to his name. It gets even more overwhelming when one considers that Agostini won the world championships in both the categories for five years on the trot, from 1968 to 1972.Like most racing drivers and riders, Agostini, 'Ago' to friends, is built small. The man's so unassuming it would be easy to pass him by in a crowd. So it took a few seconds to sink in that I'd just shaken hands with the man whose poster - streaking past crouched low on his MV Agusta - used to be on my wall. For a few seconds I was a fanboy again.THE RECORDDoes he think his record will ever be broken, we ask. Ago doesn't give a straight yes or no. "Freddie Spencer, he wins two titles, 250 and 500; today people are happy to do just one," he says. Spencer was the last racer to race and win in two categories in world championships in both back in 1985.COMPETITION LEVELSWhat about the level of competition? Does he think he had it easier than MotoGP racers have it today? "To win, you always must give 100 per cent. Today, you see, compared to my time, everybody is more close, but the winners are only two during the year. That's like my time. Like I win, or Mike Hailwood wins, or Jim Redman, or Phil Read or Kenny Roberts. Today, the winners are only two - sometimes it's (Marc) Marquez and sometimes it's (Jorge) Lorenzo. Now the difference maybe that the fourth or the fifth rider or the sixth rider is coming to the finish line within five seconds."He thinks today's bikes are closer in performance than in the past. "Everybody has the technology today - the computer, the ECUs (electronic control units), and now everybody finds it easier to be together. In the end, the best rider maybe wins by one or two seconds. But it's always the best rider that wins."Agostini started racing with Moto Morini and then raced with MV Agusta, winning 13 titles. Towards the end of his racing days he moved to Yamaha and won his last two titles.THE JAPANESE QUARTETIn the last 20 years, the MotoGP championship has been won by Japanese bikes on 19 occasions. But it wasn't always like this. Agostini was racing at a time when the quartet of Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki were coming to the fore. In fact, he raced with Yamahas after years with MV Agusta. We ask how different were they from the European bikemakers."We raced with the traditional four-stroke (bikes). And the Japanese came with the two-stroke. These engines were smaller and very light." The four-stroke engines had been tuned and every year the gain in power was very little, he says. But the two-stroke was like a surge because they were easier to ride with the lighter engines. "I decided to change from MV Agusta to Yamaha because I thought that if I wanted to win, it was time to change to a two-stroke engine. After that time, for 20 years, it was only two-stroke engines. After that we have come back again today to four-stroke." DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://echometer.com/UserProfile/tabid/61/userId/527312/Default.aspx

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Brexit on Halloween: Is it a joke? Is it fake news?

Everybody wants to be a Theresa May zombie. Some areworried that the children would laugh at them for tolerating this mess. https://twitter.com/tonyabbit/status/1116137384377085952 Those who believed the news could not believe it was a date set in all seriousness by the EU. https://twitter.com/catherinejebson/status/1116251592678940672 Varadkar smiled while delivering this half-joke, but for too many people the new deadline is neither trick, nor treat.Exasperation was a common emotion as Britain woke up on Thursday to the new deadline. Others chose Halloween memes. https://twitter.com/phillmoog/status/1116215496423170049 https://twitter.com/SWills1990/status/1116227091392073728 That Halloween was trending in the month of April made some wonder if the news alerts were true? Or was it fake news? DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttps://www.edocr.com/user/yozkelvozkeeneens14

Delhi seeks details from Dassault on Pakistan's Rafale pilot training

They received the training in November 2017, it said.Pakistani pilots flying Rafale aircraft before India receives its first jet from Dassault Aviation would bring under pressure the Narendra Modi government's insistence on secrecy on the deal and its argument that rivals (Pakistan) could exploit the sensitive information.The French ambassador to India, Alexandre Ziegler, denied the reports. "I can confirm that it is fake news," Ziegler tweeted in response to several posts on the subject.Neither India's air force nor its defence ministry has yet denied the US-based defence portal's February report, which a Pakistani defence website highlighted on Wednesday.Qatar had signed a deal for 24 Rafale aircraft in May 2015 and ordered an additional 12 in December 2017."If the (ainonline.com) report is true, it raises serious doubts about the secrecy claim by the Modi government," the defence ministry official said."The bigger question is, did India know that Pakistani pilots were flying Rafale aircraft well before India's air force is to receive its first jet? If India knew, why did it not stop it?"A retired Indian Air Force official, however, played the controversy down, saying that Qatar's Rafale jets would be available to Pakistani pilots during exchange programmes, anyway."It's no big deal. Many pilots doing joint training or exchange programmes with foreign air forces fly their planes," he said.The controversy coincides with the Supreme Court's rejection on Wednesday of the Centre's argument that the classified documents the Indian media had published on the Rafale deal could not be admitted as evidence. The top court also agreed to review its December order that had dismissed pleas seeking a probe into the deal.Congress veteran P. Chidambaram tweeted: "The order of the Supreme Court in the Rafale review petition case is a huge rebuff to the central government which raised the specious plea of 'stolen documents'.." DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://www.feedbooks.com/user/4994944/profile

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David Harbour on fighting giants as Hellboy

hat was your first thought when you got to know that Neil Marshall is directing the new Hellboy?Neil has a real horror background. I loved the movie The Descent that he made, he clearly understands gory and horror, and the sort of Gothic world of monsters. So I think what he's bringing in that realm is terrific and he really specialises in it.How was the experience of shooting the film's most elaborate and action-filled set pieces - Hellboy's epic fight against the giants?I'm in prosthetics and this big suit running around, rolling on the floor, throwing guys off horses, punching people, the sweat under the mask was intense. There are only certain places where it can escape, like out of my eyes, underneath the brow, out of the horns and through the nose. My face would just be squishy with all of this sweat pouring out. I'd get so hot that they'd put me in an air-conditioned tent and unzip the back of my suit. I'd sit there panting like a dog, trying to get cold air in. Then, we'd zip up, go back and do it again.How was the experience of working with Milla Jovovich?I enjoyed working with Milla, she's such a pro and especially in terms of these genre movies. She really understands this world and she just goes for it. At the end of the day it's all dress up. It's the greatest game of dress up you could ever play with your friends. I'm dressing a demon and she's like a witch and we're casting spell and chopping each other's head off. The other thing about Milla that I love is that she knows how to make a movie, she understands all the elements. So while we are on sets and we are rehearsing, she understands camera, blocking, lighting and how to get the best shot.How did you find Daniel Dae Kim and Sasha Lane on the sets?Daniel is terrific. Of all the people on the set, I do feel like Daniel is a colleague. I sort of view all these people in different ways and Daniel and I have a similar trajectory. We have a lot of similarities, a lot of common friends, we see things with a similar kind of perspective, I just enjoy hanging out with him a lot. Sasha is just great. She is a kid, like a 12-year-old or something. But she has a quality, on camera she is just as luminous, she has these big eyes and very beautiful features. And I don't mean this only physically, she has this inner quality to her.How did you prepare for the physical demands of the role?My body couldn't change that much because of the prosthetics that I'm wearing, I needed to fit into the mould, but I got a lot stronger, and worked on a lot of power moves and power lifting, to physically be able to do these things. I'm 42 years old; it's not like 22 any more. Your body isn't just able to do certain things. So I did have to go back to the gym and literally train to develop this body which is more powerful. Then I got to Bulgaria and for a couple weeks I did a lot of stunt training with the guys here.Tell us about your experience of working with the veteran stunt coordinator Markos Rounthwaite?The toughest elements for me have been these stunt sequences. I think they are really fun too. The fights are crazy, there is really a sense that things are being killed, giants or monsters, and heads are being chopped off. You're bathed in their blood, and you're feeling the complex emotions of actually cutting the heart out of another being. All of that goes toward the issue that Hellboy is a killer, truly, a weapon.What was your encounter like with Hellboy's tail?The tail is a pain in the ass. I remember, we had this day on set. I'd done this big scene, with fighting and stunts, and I'm slumped over, and the camera guys are like, 'Um, well, your tail.' I'm dealing with the hand, I'm dealing with the suit, I'm dealing with this whole thing! And my tail doesn't look right?! I know you all think you want a tail. You really. Don't. Want. A. Tail. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://actionangler.net/ActivityFeed/tabid/61/ctl/Profile/userId/171240/pageno/3/Default.asp

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PSG eager to grab second chance to wrap up French title

Against their nearest challengers, the task is a simple one -- PSG are a massive 20 points clear with a game in hand on Lille, who have seven matches left. A draw will, therefore, suffice for a Paris side who have lost just one league game all season, otherwise, they will get another opportunity at Nantes next Wednesday. One thing is for sure, Kylian Mbappe is likely to be back in the PSG starting line-up after being rested last weekend, a decision that eventually backfired. "We use him too much. He has played nine matches in a row, always with the responsibility to score goals," explained Tuchel of the decision to hold back the 20-year-old World Cup winner. "The players need to be protected. This was the last chance to protect him. It is not possible to always play Kylian." PSG could finish the campaign with a domestic double, as they face Rennes in the French Cup final at the end of the month, although their season will still be best remembered for their Champions League last-16 defeat at the hands of Manchester United. Fabregas targeting Champions League Meanwhile, Lille are looking to hold on to second place and secure a return to the Champions League next season, with the gap to Lyon below them five points. Lyon can switch the pressure onto Lille with a win at Nantes on Friday, but they come into that game off the back of successive defeats. That form has decreased the prospect of coach Bruno Genesio being offered a new deal to remain next season, with recent speculation linking Laurent Blanc and even Jose Mourinho with the job -- Genesio said he laughed when he heard the rumours the latter had been spotted at Lyon airport. Further down the table, Monaco's improvement since sacking Thierry Henry in January has led them to the brink of safety. They are now seven points clear of the bottom three before Saturday's game with Reims, and thoughts are slowly turning towards next season when the principality side will hope to be challenging at the top once again. "For next season the objective set by the club is clear, we are not here for a good time. We are here to take Monaco to the Champions League, it's my dream," said Cesc Fabregas, brought to the Stade Louis II from Chelsea by Henry. "That means the objective is to compete with the best. The club knows what it has to do to get there. "No doubt there will be changes. Personally, I feel that I have the strength to play for a few seasons yet at the top level." DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The New Indian Expresshttp://forums.powwows.com/members/273113.html

Pakistan PM Imran Khan hopes for PM Modi's return

India maintains that the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of the country and Pakistan is in illegal occupation of a part of the state's territory. Reacting to this Congress and other Opposition parties said on Wednesday that a vote for Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a vote for Pakistan.In a scathing attack, the Congress also said Pakistani premier Khan's remarks reflect that Pakistan has 'officially allied' with Modi. Congress's chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala launched a blistering attack on Modi over Khan's comments. 'Pak has officially allied with Modi! A vote for Modi is a vote for Pakistan!' Mr Surjewala tweeted. 'Modi ji, first there was love for Nawaz Sharif and now Imran Khan is your dear friend,' he added in a tweet in Hindi. The truth is out in the open, Mr Surjewala claimed. Prime Minister Modi has been accusing the Congress of being supportive of Pakistan's narrative following the Balakot air strikes. CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury lashed out at Prime Minister Modi over Khan's remarks, saying now it was known who Pakistan wants as PM. 'Pakistan has been the only issue of Modi's election campaign, where he has scurrilously tried to link it to Opposition. Now we know who Pakistan actually wants as PM, the only Indian PM to have invited ISI to a military base, and the only one who went to Pakistan uninvited,' he said. 'We have serious concerns about foreign governments influencing our democratic election proce-ss. Last year, it was reported that ISI wants Modi as PM. Now Pakistani PM says it,' Mr Yechury said. —PTI ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttps://www.goodreads.com/user/show/95300881-yo-zk-elv-ozk-eeneen-sgmail-com