Bigg Boss 13 new promo: Salman Khan promises major twists, declares finale will be in 4 weeks

Are you ready for #BiggBoss13 with a twist that's super tedha? @vivo_india #BB13 @BiggBoss coming soon!' Television ka blockbuster lekar aa rahe hain the one and only @beingsalmankhan! Are you ready for #BiggBoss13 with a twist that's super tedha? @vivo_india #BB13 @BiggBoss coming soon! Anytime on @justvoot pic.twitter.com/1v9nOehy48 — COLORS (@ColorsTV) September 7, 2019 The makers teased the first promo of the show in August, where Salman turned into a railway station master. In the promo video, Salman, as a station master, can be seen explaining the concept of the game. Salman revealed that the upcoming season would feature only celebrities as contestants and they will get a chance to reach the finale in just four weeks. Adding his quirk to the video, the superstar concluded the clip by saying, 'Yeh season hai mera, bohot hi tedha (This season is mine and quite twisted).' In early September, a second promo was released which featured Naagin actor Surbhi Jyoti and TV actor Karan Wahi, apart from Salman. In the video, we see Salman and Surbhi in a gym. Salman gives Surbhi a bouquet of flowers, telling audiences that only celebs will fight it out this season (the last season's commoners' theme didn't work well). Minutes later, Karan walks in and snatches the bouquet from Surbhi. An angry Surbhi, steps down from the treadmill and both start fighting. Salman, the ringmaster, says the participants will do as he asks them to. As he says 'start and stop' repeatedly, the duo 'begin and stop' in accordance. function catchException() {try{ twitterJSDidLoad(); }catch(e){}} 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. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttps://www.intensedebate.com/people/reetasignaas

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Ratings of three PSU insurers downgraded

The capital infusion required may be just some Rs 5,000 crore which is indeed small compared to the Rs 70,000 crore reportedly given to PSU banks,' said former IRDA Member KK Srinivasan. The downgrade has come after Budget 2019-20 in July proposed the enabling provision for merger of non-life insurance firms by seeking to amend the General Insurance Business Nationalisation Act. AM Best downgraded the financial strength rating of National Insurance to C (weak) from C++ (marginal) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to CCC from B. The company's risk-adjusted capitalisation, as measured by Best's Capital Adequacy Ratio (BCAR), deteriorated to a very weak level at fiscal year-end 2019 due to a combination of significant reserve strengthening for motor third-party liability business and continued large underwriting losses from several other product lines, AM Best said. 'Capital and surplus declined significantly by 51 per cent to Rs 2800 crore as of March 31, 2019, from Rs 5,700 crore in the same prior-year period,' it said. Furthermore, the company's net underwriting leverage and equity investment leverage has surged to a very unhealthy level at 1,091 per cent and 385 per cent, respectively. In the case of United India, AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) to C++ (Marginal) from B (Fair) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to 'B+' from 'BB+' for United India Insurance Company Ltd. The credit rating reflects the company's balance sheet strength, which AM Best categorises as adequate, marginal operating performance, neutral business profile and marginal enterprise risk management. The rating downgrades reflect a deterioration in AM Best's view of United's balance sheet strength and operating performance fundamentals. Capital and surplus declined significantly by 29.1 per cent to Rs 6,400 crore as of March 31, 2019, from Rs 9010 crore in the same prior-year period. The company repeatedly has fallen short of local minimum regulatory solvency requirements in recent years, AM Best said. The rating firm has downgraded the FSR to B+ (Good) from B++ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to BBB- from BBB+ of Oriental Insurance Company. The credit ratings reflect Oriental's balance sheet strength, which AM Best categorises as very strong, marginal operating performance, neutral business profile and marginal enterprise risk management (ERM). DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttp://wiznotes.com/UserProfile/tabid/84/userId/256690/Default.aspx

Perumal Murugan, Paul Zacharia, Sharanya Manivannan in JCB Prize for Literature longlist

It's impossible to generalise about these ten books," noted filmmaker Pradip Krishen, the jury chair, said. #TheJCBPrize2019 - longlist out now. pic.twitter.com/VGCuXEwk2O - The JCB Prize for Literature (@TheJCBPrize) September 4, 2019 "Indian fiction today is a richly bewildering category, and this longlist is correspondingly varied and complex. These are novels about working-class struggles and upper-class unease, historical evocations and contemporary conflicts, each written in an absolutely distinctive voice," he added. Noting that the jury was struck by the quantity of historical fiction currently being written, he said: "Indian history is now, like never before, the inspiration for novels that address the concerns of the present - painful memories of colonialism, the costs of nation-building, the divisiveness of caste and religion, and the need to see the world through the eyes of women. As readers, we wondered what this said about the current zeitgeist." According to Krishen, it seemed that the very best of today's novelists are impatient with the old political pieties. "The problems of contemporary Indian life are often too stark and amoral to be resolved in such simple ways. Many of the books we selected for the longlist expressed powerful hopelessness, irrevocable damage. Characters are constantly trying to resist a malevolent reality of which, nonetheless, they are fully a part. It is fascinating that in three of these novels, for instance, narrators get college admissions not on merit but thanks to family members pulling strings," he explained. Krishen also regretted that several fine novels written in other languages were let down by poor translations. "As a jury, it was sad for us to have to reject novels for this reason." The other books on the 2019 longlist are: Ib's Endless Search for Satisfaction by Roshan Ali (Penguin Random House India, 2019) There's Gunpowder in the Air by Manoranjan Byapari, translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha (Westland Publications, 2018) The City and the Sea by Rajkamal Jha (Penguin Random House India, 2019) Milk Teeth by Amrita Mahale (Westland Publications, 2018) The Queen of Jasmine Country by Sharanya Manivannan (HarperCollins India, 2018) A Patchwork Family by Mukta Sathe (Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited, 2018) My Father's Garden by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar (Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited, 2018) The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay (HarperCollins India, 2019) The novels by Roshan Ali, Amrita Mahale, Mukta Sathe and Madhuri Vijay are all debuts. The jury will announce the shortlist of five titles on October 4. The winner will be announced at the awards dinner on November 2. If the winning work is a translation, the translator will receive an additional Rs 10 lakh. Each of the 5 shortlisted authors will receive Rs 1 lakh; if a shortlisted work is a translation, the translator will receive Rs 50,000. "It has been fascinating to watch the five members of the jury read and discuss the very large and varied body of entries we had for the 2019 Prize. All of them have demanding expectations of contemporary literature, and they debated with enormous passion," JCB Prize Literary Director Rana Dasgupta said. "Their search for literary excellence has produced an extremely varied list, which takes us to very different aspects of the contemporary Indian experience. There are many treasures in this list, and I encourage everyone who wishes to understand what 2019 means to spend time exploring it," he added. The other members of the jury were author and critic Anjum Hasan; authors KR Meera and Parvati Sharma; and former Chief Economic Adviser to the Indian government Arvind Subramanian. The longlist was chosen from a vast range of submissions by writers in fourteen states writing in six languages (Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu) published between August 1, 2018 and July 31, 2019. function catchException() {try{ twitterJSDidLoad(); }catch(e){}} 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. Publisher: The New Indian Expresshttps://anotepad.com/notes/ifky3x

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In a time of loss, a bit of cheer on Onam in Kerala

Churches, mosques and temples have all done their bit to make Onam a a little happier for people. According to the legend of Onam, a beloved king Mahabali was so popular that the gods felt threatened and banished him to the netherworld in a deceitful manner. But such was the longing of his subjects to see him again, that he was permitted to return once a year, on Onam when people await him with a grand feast, dressed in new clothes amid festivities such as the famous snake boat races. It is the story of the perennial return of the man who has lost his home and land, something the indomitably courageous Malayalis can take heart from at this time. Kerala has much to celebrate in the manner in which the rescue and relief operations were conducted. Reports of unparalleled generosity from the rich and the poor and the proactive role played by the state government have given people hope in the midst of such devastation and loss. Even the controversy about foreign aid has not got much traction within the state which has been totally preoccupied with getting back on its own feet through its own efforts. The government has done well to divert its Onam celebration funds for flood relief. The extent of loss and deaths have yet to be ascertained accurately but for one day, on Saturday, the people of Kerala set aside their grief in order to put their best face forward for a much loved king on his annual visit to the state. Well played, Kerala. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttps://smaforetagslan.blogspot.com/2019/04/tips-i-att-fa-en-fastighetsmaklare.html

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Preserve unity shown during flood relief works: Pinarayi Vijayan

The Chief Minister said the post-flood reconstruction activities were progressing well. As many as 8,000 of the total 16,058 houses destroyed in the 2018 floods were reconstructed. Works on 5,355 houses are progressing. The new houses are disaster-resilient, he added. As much as Rs 1,557 crore was spent for the repair of three lakh houses that were partly damaged. Kudumbasree provided loans to those who lost livestock, he said. Deputy Speaker V Sasi, V S Sivakumar, MLA, Planning Board member K N Harilal and district panchayat vice-president Shailaja Begum spoke. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The New Indian Expresshttps://anotepad.com/notes/wn3rxk

BJP may counter AAP's freebies with sop for unauthorised colonies

What connection women's safety and the freebie have is beyond logic but nonetheless, the move is likely to fetch votes for the AAP. In quick succession came the announcement on free water, free power up to 200 units and free ride in buses, again for women only. The hope is that these freebies will get votes, the adverse consequences on the Delhi government's finances be damned. The slew of measures appears to have spurred the AAP's main opponent, the Bharatiya Janata Party, into action. Not only has it been forced to think of ways to counter the AAP, it also seems to have driven home the point that its spectacular performance in the Lok Sabha elections does not necessarily mean it will have an easy passage in the Assembly polls. Just three months back, the BJP did exceedingly well in the national elections. Not only did it sweep the polls, winning all the seven seats, each of its candidates even increased their winning margin by up to 1 lakh votes. On the face of it, Delhi BJP leaders say they don't face any competition even from the AAP. But privately, they expect Kejriwal's party to give them a tough fight. Their fears may not be totally unfounded. In the recent parliamentary elections, the AAP performed poorly in the face of a resurgent Congress. The strong Congress performance ensured that the anti-BJP votes got split, enabling the saffron party to win at a canter.But BJP leaders feel the same may not happen in the Assembly elections due in January-February 2020. This is because the Congress is in disarray at the moment following a prolonged spell of uncertainty at the top. The party has also lost its tallest leader in Delhi, Sheila Dikshit, who passed away in July. A senior Congress leader said while the Muslims voted en bloc for his party in the Lok Sabha elections, helping the party to perform beyond expectation, he expected the community to switch their allegiance back to the AAP in the Assembly elections. This could spell trouble for the BJP. BJP leaders are also acutely aware of the strong hold the AAP has among the weaker sections in Delhi, especially the lower middle class and the poor. A large chunk of this section lives in the myriad unauthorised colonies that are spread across the city. To break this hold, which the BJP feels will guarantee it success in the elections, the party appears to be working on a plan to unveil a scheme for the unauthorised colonies. It is unclear what this scheme or sop will be,but Delhi BJP leaders remain hopeful the Centre will announce it before the elections. The Congress, which ruled Delhi for 15 continuous years, is in a shambles. A senior party leader who has been active in Delhi politics since the nineties, admitted as much. He said not only has the party failed to take up issues facing the voters, it has not even mobilized its own workers. To make matters worse, the Delhi Congress is currently headless following Dikshit's death. To buttress his point he said the Congress vote share in the 2017 municipal corporation elections and the recent parliamentary polls were the same, 22 per cent. In his view, the fact that the party performed better than the AAP in the Lok Sabha polls was nothing to crow about.With the Congress weakened, it is clear that the coming elections will be a direct fight between the BJP and the AAP. H Khogen Singh Resident Editor, New Delhi Email: khogensingh@newindianexpress.com DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The New Indian Expresshttp://ariscool.com/ledienems

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CPM, Congress oppose 'stringent' Motor Vehicles Act

There are chances of offenders settling for lesser fine upon mutual agreement with officers and the same won't come to the government coffers," CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan told reporters. "Effective interventions should be made for reducing rising road mishaps. But imposition of hefty fines will only lead to corruption and put additional burden on the common man. Necessary changes should be made in the MV Act considering all these factors," he said. A high-level meet convened by the chief minister the other day decided not to strictly enforce the revised penalties at least till the end of the Onam festive season. "We've directed the MVD to study the amendments and suggest possible measures for changes in the amended Act.Will request the state government to suspend implementation of the new provisions till the shortcomings are addressed," Mr Balakrishnan said. Meanwhile, Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala attacked the state government for implementing the amended Act. "Instead of implementing existing motor vehicles rules effectively, the government is penalising people by imposing hefty fines, which cannot be accepted.States like Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and West Bengal have already announced they will not implement the amended MV Act.," he said in a statement. The Parliament passed the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which imposed stricter penalties in an attempt to improve road safety, in July and the same came into effect from September 1. Under the new law, people will be fined Rs 10,000 for drunken driving, which was earlier Rs 2,000. The fine for dangerous driving has gone up from Rs 1,000 to Rs 5,000. ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttps://about.me/nyemeen