Thursday, 6 June 2019
Calcutta resident found with throat slit in his bedroom
She then called up her elder sister, who is married and lives at Batanagar. "According to Bijaeeta's statement, her elder sister Jayeeta told her to alert the police. She called the police and officers of Karaya police station went to the spot," said an officer at Lalbazar.The police found the main door bolted from inside. The old wooden door, however, yielded to a hard push. Basu was found sitting on his chair, bleeding profusely from his throat. A blood-soaked vegetable knife was found in the room.The elder daughter arrived soon after with her husband."The family members knew that the wooden door would give way if someone pushed it hard. It's surprising that the victim's younger daughter did not try to open the door when she found her father's phone switched off," an officer at Lalbazar said."She called up her elder sister and then the police but did not alert her neighbours, which is unusual, too.According to the family, the only thing that was missing from the house was the victim's mobile phone.Bijaeeta said in her statement to the police that she later called the number again and the call was answered by a man who said he had got the phone in Park Circus. Officers said they were yet to recover the phone.Basu's elder sister lives next door but the two families apparently are not in touch with each other."The Basus mostly keep to themselves. I last saw Biswajit Basu on Tuesday, when he was hiring a man to pluck jackfruits from a tree in his compound," said a woman who lives behind Basu's house.Next to the Basus' home is a small club where youths from the neighbourhood often gather."Kaku would not talk to anyone. He was a passionate Mohun Bagan supporter," said one of the youths in the club.Apparently, no one heard anything that could have made them suspicious.An officer said they were trying to find out whether the family was in touch with any promoter to develop the two-and-a-half-cottah property.Neighbours said a five-storey building had come up on a plot behind the Basu's house a couple of years ago. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://langleygymnastics.ca/ActivityFeed/tabid/60/ctl/Profile/userId/922627/pageno/3/Default.aspx
Come clean, Jharkhand tells industries
or one year till June 5, 2020, industries have to volunteer to get their pollution levels in their plants assessed. Thereafter it would become mandatory, JSPCB chairman A.K. Rastogi told the audience at the World Environment Day event at forest department headquarters' Palash Auditorium in Doranda.He added: "Experts from the India team of Energy Policy Institute of the University of Chicago (EPIC-India) will help us assess the pollution level of industries. We (the JSPCB) signed an MoU with EPIC-India in Ranchi on March 1 this year. Through the rating system, we want to increase data transparency and limit dangerous particulate material pollution at 17 categories of highly pollutant industries, including rolling mills and big stone crushers."The World Health Organisation says particulate matter pollution, caused by the burning of fossil fuels and industrial activities, should be limited to 10 microgram per cubic metre. But, it is much higher in this country. Just as an instance, on World Environment Day, Ranchi clocked 53 at 3.40pm, not even peak time for traffic. A pollution control board source said that for now, they were focusing on particulate matter, but they soon would widen the ambit to monitor the emission of toxic gases too. On how Tata Steel and Maithon Power would get their pollution levels assessed, pollution control board member secretary Rajiv Lochan Bakshi said both had installed stack analysers to monitor particulate matter and send the collected data online continuously to the board. I.S. Chaturvedi, additional chief secretary in charge of the forest department, said he hoped that with the star rating in place, industrial units that were not fully compliant would put in effort to be so.Contacted for comment, well-known Ranchi-based environmentalist Nitish Priyadarshi welcomed the government's step of monitoring industrial pollution. "Mining areas as a whole, particularly towns such as Dhanbad and Jharia, industrial belts such as Jamshedpur, Bokaro and Ramgarh, and also Pakur and Sahebganj, where a large number of crushers function, have polluted air. Steps to monitor and control rising pollution were long overdue. Great that it's now been taken up on an official level," he said. Not only cities, even villages in Jharkhand have high air pollution, warned Sanjay Kumar, the state's principal chief conservator of forests."With about 97 per cent of our rural population using biomass as cooking fuel, it's a vicious cycle," he said. "We must work smart and hard to get out of this," he admitted. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://www.itsarab.org/UserProfile/tabid/61/userId/55618/Default.aspx
Paytm hits transaction milestone
he company added that apart from promoting the use of its payment app, it has focused on building tools for merchants to simplify their day-to-day business needs. Large merchants, who are now well equipped with new technologies to accept all payment modes such as cards, wallet, and unified payments interface (UPI), are accepting Paytm payments.Focus on user easePaytm is now focusing on adopting artificial intelligence and improving the user interface. The company feels that its initiatives will lead a 2 times growth with transactions crossing the 12 billion mark by the end of this fiscal."It is exciting to witness an increasing number new users are availing themselves of the convenience and benefits of digital payments on our platform."We are focused on developing tech-driven solutions, integrated customer lifecycle management, enhancing user experience and expanding to tier 4-5 cities. We are confident to achieve 12 billion transactions by the end of this financial year," Deepak Abbot, senior vice-president of Paytm, said. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://www.justhelicopters.com/UserProfile/tabid/519/userId/41434/Default.aspx
Amarinder Singh clips Navjot Singh Sidhu's wings, feud escalates
While several ministers had their assignments shuffled, Sidhu is certain to see his portfolio changes as a demotion.Sidhu, who has publicly objected to being singled out for the Congress's poorer-than-expected Lok Sabha results from Punjab, had argued against any change of portfolios by presenting his own report card before the media on Thursday.People who know him say the feisty cricketer turned television celebrity turned politician would not swallow the punishment silently unless the central leadership persuades him to. On his own, they said, Sidhu would prefer to resign from the cabinet and mount an attack on Amarinder.Sidhu had declared his aggressive intent by defiantly holding a news conference while the cabinet meeting was under way. There, he challenged the perception that he had harmed the Congress's prospects in the general election and presented a report on the performances of the departments under his charge."I cannot be taken for granted.. I have been singled out in spite of collective responsibility," he said. Amarinder had publicly blamed Sidhu for the party's defeats in certain seats in the state. While Sidhu had chosen to campaign for the Congress outside Punjab, he had highlighted that he had not been called on to canvass for party candidates in his own state.Sidhu had been miffed as his wife, Navjot Kaur, had been denied a nomination to contest the Lok Sabha elections.Amarinder had conveyed his displeasure at Sidhu's indiscipline to the party central leadership and sought punishment for him. But the high command has not acted so far, letting the feud in the state escalate.With Rahul Gandhi offering to resign as Congress president, the entire high command structure has virtually been in a state of paralysis, anyway.Rahul begins a three-day visit to his constituency, Wayanad in Kerala, from Friday but there is no clarity on his resignation. The party insists that he is still the president.Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar too resigned after his defeat to actor Sunny Deol from the Gurdaspur seat. State-in-charge Asha Kumari lacks the stature to control Amarinder or Sindhu, who report directly to the Nehru-Gandhi family.Asked why the crisis was being allowed to deepen by the day, a senior state Congress politician said: "The problem is simple - one of them is Navjot Singh Sidhu and the other is behaving like Navjot Singh Sidhu. How can you solve the problem if neither behaves sensibly?"Within the central leadership, most of the seniors back Amarinder and believe that Sidhu should learn to accept the chief minister's authority instead of "flaunting his rapport with Rahul and Priyanka".While Amarinder too has expressed his disapproval of Sidhu's conduct several times, the maverick minister has refused to curb his rebellious instincts.Using his flare for the telling phrase, he has made it clear through his tweets over the past few days that he is not going to take a step back.His latest tweet said: "Bahadur kab kisi ka asra ehsan lete hain/ Usi ko kar gujaraten hain jo man mein than lete hain (When do the brave seek help from others? They do whatever they choose to)."Sidhu cited several Urdu couplets to suggest he was being targeted without reason and tried to portray Amarinder as the tormentor without mentioning names. 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/538896/Default.aspx
Viswanathan Anand loses to Carlsen in Armageddon
Interestingly, the elite chess players were probably drawn to the idea of fighting it out in the shorter format as the Classical games saw only brief spells of fighting chess and Carlsen was the only one seriously pushing for a win against Anand. Chinese Ding Liren was the first to score a brilliant victory over Wesley So of United States and his compatriot Yu Yangyi followed suit when Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France failed to spot an intermittent check with the queen and instead landed in complications. Azeri Shakhriyar Mamedyarov accounted for American Fabiano Caruana whose reputation in the faster version of the game suffered another setback. In a wild chase on the clock, Levon Aronian won on time in a hopeless situation against Alexander Grischuk of Russia where pieces flew all over the board as the players tried to match each other with only seconds remaining on the clock. Carlsen, Aronian, Mamedyarov, Liren and Yangyi have 1.5 points apiece and enjoy a full point lead over the other five contestants who all have a half point in their kitty. Anand could have done better but Carlsen pressed harder in the Armageddon game. The middle game was fierce when Carlsen launched an attack but the world champion missed a checkmate on his way to victory. Results round 1: Magnus Carlsen (Nor) beat V Anand (Ind) 1.5-0.5; Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze) beat Fabiano Caruana (Usa) 1.5-0.5; Levon Aronian (Arm) beat Alexander Grischuk (Rus) 1.5-0.5; Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Fra) lost to Yu Yangyi (Chn) 0.5-1.5; Ding Liren (Chn) beat Wesley So (Usa) 1.5-0.5. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttp://www.itsarab.org/UserProfile/tabid/61/userId/55618/Default.aspx
Lok Sabha elections 2019: In Madhya Pradesh, near sweep by BJP
This was the first time Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts, had contested in an election.A controversial figure, Thakur was issued notices by the Election Commission of India for her statements over police officer Hemant Karkare, who was killed in the terror attack in Mumbai in 2008. Thakur apologised for her remarks. Former Congress state president Kantilal Bhuria has lost to GS Damor of BJP in Ratlam by 90,636 votes. Former leader of Opposition Ajay Singh, who contested from Sidhi, lost to BJP's Riti Pathak, and former state president Arun Yadav lost too. . Lok Sabha results 2019: 'Will take everyone along, even opponents': PM Modi after big win Lok Sabha Election Results 2019:Decoding the role BJP chief Amit Shah played in PM Modi's epic victory DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttp://benoit.gaillard.aricie.net/UserProfile/tabid/2042/userId/7643/Default.aspx
RBI cuts repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.75%
BI governor Shaktikanta Das told reporters that "the accommodative stance would basically mean that a rate increase is off the table" but refused to confirm that the central bank would cut rates further."There is room for a further rate cut," said Ficci president Sandip Somany. "The third consecutive rate cut will encourage banks to lower their lending rates for both retail and corporate credit."Governor Das hoped that the transmission of the policy rate cut would be "higher and faster" from now on.Banks have been slow to respond to the earlier rate cuts. The RBI said the two earlier rate cuts had cut the repo by 50 basis points (half of a percentage point) but the banks had trimmed their weighted average lending rate by only 21 basis points.Growth rate cutThe central bank lowered its growth forecast to 7 per cent in 2019-20, down from the 7.2 per cent projection made in April.It also marginally revised the inflation forecast upward in the first half of the year (April-September) to 3-3.1 per cent from 2.9-3 per cent earlier. However, it cut the inflation forecast for the second half (October-March) to 3.4-3.7 per cent from 3.5-3.8 per cent.The markets were deeply disappointed with the monetary policy largely because the central bank had failed to adequately address liquidity concerns and prepare an action plan to tackle a snowballing NBFC crisis. The Sensex sank 553.82 points, or 1.38 per cent, to close at 39,529.72.Das said the liquidity in the system had gone into a surplus mode, putting the average daily surplus at Rs 66,000 crore in early June against a deficit in the previous two months. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://www.boxboardproducts.com/UserProfile/tabid/61/userId/400314/Default.aspx
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