Thursday, 10 October 2019
Media ban from covering assembly proceedings as per rules: K'tka speaker Kageri
Earlier in the day, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa had said that he would request Kageri to reconsider his decision on barring media from telecasting the house proceedings. "My government is always committed to freedom of media. I will make a sincere effort and request speaker Vishweshwara Hegde Kageri to reconsider his decision on barring media from telecasting the house proceedings," tweeted Chief Minister's Office, Karnataka. As per the order, only Doordarshan cameras are allowed inside the Legislative Assembly. ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttps://justpaste.it/64cdd
More grains, less groans
It also contains manganese, so if you incorporate it in your diet once a day, it will help complete your daily nutrient needs. The rich iron and phosphorus content helps the body to produce blood and aids bone health. Dishes such as amaranth tikki, porridge, and amaranth flour paratha are a few tasty foods with health benefits. Buckwheat: Popularly known as 'kuttu ka atta', it is consumed by people during Navratri. In spite of its name, buckwheat doesn't contain wheat, and is completely gluten-free. It also has various minerals, proteins, and antioxidants. In fact, it is beneficial for diabetic patients too, as the cereal is a good source of fibre which has a low glycaemic index, making it safe for people suffering from type 2 diabetes. Chapatis, dosa, pakoras made of buckwheat are popular during the days of festivities. Quinoa: It is gluten-free, rich in protein and also has a high amount of fibre, vitamin B and E, iron, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, iron, and many antioxidants. The cereal also contains plant compounds such as quercetin and kaempferol. It helps in maintaining metabolic health because of the highly beneficial nutrient content present in it. As quinoa tastes like brown rice and oatmeal, it also serves as a good replacement for rice. So, this festive season, ditch the typical recipes and savour the flavour of quinoa in pulao, salads, pudding, and kheer. Millets: They are one of the superfoods that are being used since time immemorial. They have remarkable nutrient-rich composition and contain high starch levels, Magnesium, Vitamin B, Calcium, Iron and Zinc. Millet is a gluten-free grain. As sweet dishes are a must during the festivals, millets are a good option with which to make delicious south Indian desserts such as laddoos and thinais. ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttp://foxsheets.com/UserProfile/tabid/57/userId/33380/Default.aspx
War movie review: Surrender to the seduction of gorgeous
But this dialogue comes after the interval, after we have spent the first half of the film admiring and ogling at Hrithik — not just at his insane good looks, but also his swing and swag. Junior attempts a knowing half smile. He knows he's being had. Pairing Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff is the sort of casting coup that would have instantly sent YRF producers into uncontrollable, rapturous excitement. And given that both Hrithik and Tiger are stars who rule the box office not with their virtuosity, but their chiselled looks combined with lithe steps and kicks, War had to be an action film. Director Siddharth Anand, who tried his hand at impetuous action-romance in 2014 (Bang Bang! starring Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif) after Salaam Namaste, Ta Ra Rum Pum and Bachna Ae Haseenon, has done here what few would have the daring and skill to do. He has created an action film that embraces and celebrates this dude-dom unabashedly. War draws its power and moxie from racy action, thrilling chases, and it seduces us with sexy, brawny gorgeousness. Its action scenes are more than just sequences inspired from various Hollywood films. Not only are they choreographed, executed and edited lyrically, they continually emit a cute whiff of bromance. As its stunts stun, Junior crushing on Senior makes you smile. Given all this, a story seemed fatuous to War's creators. So, War doesn't have a story. It has a premise wherein a series of fast and fantastic chases followed by thain-thain encounters are required to get the bad guys. If India, a $9.45 trillion economy, needs to feel all macho, bold and brave by flexing its muscles at a neighbour whose economy is worth just $320 billion, then why will Bollywood be far behind? As is the wont of all commercial enterprises, commercial cinema will do more than just ride the wave. It will further embellish, inflame and then ride the zeitgeist to happy profit margins. All the big bad guys in War are Islamic militants who are collectively and separately devoting all their time and energy in trying to hurt India. A sub-plot about gaddars adds mildly secular variety to the baddies. The film's meagre plot draws some heft and seriousness of purpose from nationalistic fervour that the pursuit of jihadis is pivoted on. Repeated shots of the tiranga, dialogue about vatan parasti, about serving and saving the nation give War emotional zing. But added to that is a dash of obsequious bigotry. In dinon, if a film claiming to be patriotic has to be considered honourable and acceptable, there seems to be a prerequisite — it must express distrust of Muslims, if not hate. In War, Islamophobia reigns. A Muslim Indian is told to prove his loyalty to desh. That eventually, a Hindu disguised as a Muslim turns out to be the gaddar is the film's attempt at redeeming itself. But, well, Sab kuch luta ke hosh mein aaye toh kya kiya…In War, a hierarchy is in place — of men and women entrusted to safeguard the nation from jihadis. On top sits the mantri, a Patel. Then comes Colonel Luthra (Ashutosh Rana), followed by Major Kabir (Roshan) who heads a special unit whose specialist members are trained to carry out kill-desh-ke-dushman ops with stealth, cunning and finesse. Though we are not properly introduced to all the specialists, they stride across the screen with the cultivated nonchalance that desh ke deadly and macho rakshaks have imbibed from Top Gun predecessors. War opens with a scene that seems like stock affair. A senior Bharat sarkar official is talking to a sharpshooter about a target — a jihadi salesman. But as he presses the trigger, the story twists. In War, friends become foes, and foes must be taken out. An officer has gone rogue and to take him out, his own student steps up. In flashback, we see how young Khalid (Tiger Shroff), an eager beaver keen to wash off a parental daag, was told that he can't be trusted because of his gaddar baap. And when he persisted, he was told to prove his loyalty. War, a series of stunning frames serving as backdrops to fights and chases, is vapid but stunning. The film has few dialogues, but every few minutes one seete-maro line comes our way. Thankfully, its action sequences — almost funny in their daring and execution — talk. There's one dizzy hatha-pai in a plane, a cool bike sequence, cars dancing and swerving on snow, gun fights, knife fights, bombs going off and, of course, much leaping about on other people's terraces in foreign locales. There is also one sequence, a la Mr & Mrs Smith, in which Hrithik and Tiger treat us to an amorous, gun-toting tango. Cinematographer Benjamin Jasper and editor Aarif Sheikh are the devoted custodians of this all, lovingly shooting and cutting to heighten the thrill. As the special people of the special unit lurch from one jihadi in one location to another, from Tikrit to Marakesh, Portugal to the Arctic Circle, the twists and turns provided by neurotoxins, a plastic surgeon and the pursuit of desh drohis keeps all the riding, fighting, blowing up from getting repetitive and boring. In the pursuit of one Feroze Contractor, a money-laundering diamond merchant, one Naina (Vaani Kapoor) enters the plot to express love for Major Kabir. However, the sensibility shown in creating her character — she's a mother and a club entertainer — amounts to nothing. Sad. It's a very clever ploy to cast a current star, Tiger Shroff, opposite a star who has been feted, scarred and mulled by life's experiences and the passage of time. And it's to War's credit that it dares to stick its neck out for the veteran. When Tiger and Hrithik are together on the screen, War's hot quotient is very high. At times, especially during the chase and fight sequences, the music is cool, as if the whole enterprise of Yash Raj Films is serenading the two heroes, celebrating their cracking chemistry. But there is never any doubt for whom War's heart throbs. Grand backdrops are created — a ball of fire, a large glass dome crashing... — for Hrithik to drive upon or walk away from. Hrithik returns all that love in good measure as he owns the film, garnishing every scene with the slightly detached smile of a master. But the real reason War exists is to showcase, with a generous application of bronzer on his face and a hint of salt-and-pepper in his crew cut, god's very special gift to celluloid. Tiger Shroff is cute, but also stiff. He begins all awkward here, but over the passage of the film, relaxes and settles into his character. His USP is that he matches the speed of his fist work with his footwork. Tiger's action and dance steps have the precision of an eager and brilliant student, but there is also a dull seriousness to it all. They are like perfect but self-conscious routines honed over sweaty, laborious rehearsals. On the other hand, Hrithik's entire being is made of cool, swag and chutzpah. Hrithik Roshan is not a great actor. He's adequate. But his action and dance steps have masti, melody. There's a playful rhythm, lightness and ease to them that comes with age and experience. Tiger as Khalid, a starry-eyed bachcha, a rookie admiring the vet, fangirls Hrithik rather sweetly, humbly. You can almost see his eyes emitting flighty little hearts whenever Hrithik is around. In fact, at one point in War, the smart girl from the specialist unit is pulled off from her shaadi mandap to confab about an urgent desh-ki-suraksha matter. Before returning to her groom, she looks at Hrithik and says, 'Abhi bhi bolo sir, bhaag ke shaadi kar loongi'. Captain Khalid, all shy and blushing, looks at her with a half smile and mutters with his threaded eyebrow half raised, 'Get in line, ya'. I just want to know, ye line hai kahan? ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttp://www.trakyadans.com/UserProfile/tabid/57/userId/190357/Default.aspx
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UP Board Exam 2020: Center list to be announced next month
As per the official, the respective DIoSs would verify details about infrastructure and other basic facilities of around 10,000 schools out of the total around 28,520 affiliated to the board, accurate information regarding which could not be received from schools earlier. 'The board is also preparing a list of schools where use of unfair means was reported in 2019 exams and reexamination had to be carried out. All such schools would be blacklisted,' he said. As many as 56,01,034 examinees would appear in 2020 high school and intermediate examinations scheduled from February 18. Out of this, a total of 30,33,961 students, including 30,12,855 regular and 21,106 private candidates, will take high school examination while 25,67,073 examinees-- 24,96,531 regular candidates and 70,542 private candidates-- would appear in intermediate examinations. Records revealed in 2018 exams, a total of 66,39,269 examinees appeared, including 36,56,272 in high school and 29,82,996 intermediate at 8444 centres while in 2019, a total of 57,95,756 students appeared, including 31, 92,587 in high school and 26, 03,169 students in intermediate exam at 8291 centres. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttp://www.lasvegasice.com/ActivityFeed/MyProfile/tabid/62/UserId/58327/Default.aspx
Flipkart Big Billion Days 2019, Amazon Great Indian Festival: Best TVs deals you should check out
The Samsung 7-in-1 UA32N4305ARXXL is a 32-inch Smart TV that Samsung recently launched in India. It is priced at Rs 14,999 during the sale. The device usually sells at Rs 17,999. It comes with an HD Ready display, which is 720p in resolution. The Samsung 7-in-1 series comes with a lot of unique features like support for HDR10 content, Micro Dimming Pro technology, Live Cast and more. It also comes with a Personal Computer Mode, which allows consumers to convert their TV into a quintessential PC. Xiaomi Mi TV 4A Pro is one of the cheapest Smart LED TVs you can get as of now at Rs 10,999. The TV sports a 32-inch HD-Ready panel. The TV comes with Google's Android TV certification. It comes with support for Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. While purchasing customers can also avail an additional discount of up to Rs 6,500 on exchange. Vu 40GA is a 40-inch full HD Certified Android LED TV. It is currently selling at Rs 18,499, down from its regular price of Rs 27,000. It comes with support for Dolby Audio and DTS Studio Sound. The device sports a full HD 40-inch panel and runs Google's Android 9 Pie TV OS. Amazon is offering customers up to Rs 7,399.00 off on exchange. Xiaomi Mi TV 4X Pro is a 55-inch 4K LED TV with support for HDR10 content. It is currently available at Rs 37,999. The device runs Google's Android TV OS with the company's own PatchWall interface on top. The TV can also integrate the cable TV interface and its own interface into one, providing users with a seamless experience. Samsung The Frame also launched alongside the company's 7-in-1 lineup of Smart TVs. It sports a 55-inch 4K QLED panel and is currently available at Rs 84,999. The TV has a refresh rate of 120Hz and it runs the company's own Tizen OS paired with Bixby and Google Assistant. When the TV is turned off it will act as a photo frame and display a number of pictures in a timed manner. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttp://www.trakyadans.com/UserProfile/tabid/57/userId/188241/Default.aspx
Jan Dhan Yojana hasn't catered to the credit and insurance needs of the people
Nor do they know about them now.The question of publicity of the scheme arose. Information was sought under the Right to Information Act from the ministry of finance to know about the quantitative aspect. The department of financial services has informed that Rs 15.4 million had been spent on two exclusive advertisements on the scheme in the print media during April, July and August of 2018. The first appeal, as per RTI, to know the anticipated expenses around the time of launching the scheme or thereafter did not elicit any response.Significantly, the banks had given the scheme a premature burial much before its extension. The reasons for this are two-fold. The scheme could not provide the required business to the banks. The average deposit in such accounts looks meagre - Rs 2,790 till August 2019. During the initial phase of the scheme when they were given harsh targets of opening new accounts, desperate bank officials had taken unprecedented measures. Reportedly, people were advised to even close an existing, but dormant, bank account to open a new one under the scheme. The precondition of the scheme to not have a bank account could thereby be satisfied with such a false declaration. Secondly, new targets came to them for disbursing collateral-free 'Mudra' loans; the scheme was launched in April 2015 to promote non-farm self-employment. Mudra appeared to be the second-most highlighted scheme at the time of the last general election after Ayushman Bharat, the health protection initiative launched by the government for people belonging to the economically weaker sections.Banks are mum on Jan Dhan accounts even now. The government has boasted of the scheme's success on the eve of its completion of five years. It was reported that 365 million accounts have been opened, 289.1 million Rupay cards issued, and more than 1 trillion of deposits garnered under the scheme.However, the scheme has not been able to cater to the credit and insurance needs of the people. A survey, conducted under the guidance of Ashok Banerjee, a professor at IIM Calcutta, has shown that in West Bengal only a handful of people are aware of the special benefits of the scheme. Only one respondent out of 1,000 surveyed mentioned the overdraft - the jewel in the scheme - to be the reason behind opening a bank account. No one has reportedly heard of the automatic life insurance cover as an early-bird benefit. About 80 per cent of the respondents made it clear that the new bank account was being offered for enabling the transfer of government subsidies. The Rupay card, automatically available with the bank account, had not even been activated by many of them. Thus, the beneficiaries remained deprived - unknowingly - of the accidental insurance benefit. An all-India survey published in the Economic and Political Weekly in 2018 stated that only 3.539 million people - 1 per cent of account holders - could avail the overdraft and that 4,500 beneficiaries - less than 0.5 per cent of the estimated eligible population - could receive life insurance claims.Bank account ownership in the United States of America (93.1 per cent) is ahead by about 13 per cent from that in India (79.9 per cent) according to the 2017 Findex report. Surprisingly, during the same time, only one American family out of 15 - about 8 million families in that country - did not have a bank account (The Wall Street Journal). However, 38.5 per cent of the accounts remained dormant in India in 2017 as against only 2.9 per cent in the US. The government confronted the observation by revising the definition of dormancy. Taking the new criterion of at least one customer-induced transaction in the preceding two years to treat a bank account as active, the government claimed in Parliament that more than 75 per cent of bank accounts (256 million) are active.Since its inception, the Mudra Yojana seems to be stealing publicity from the Jan Dhan scheme. But the new self-employment scheme is plagued with the problem of non-performing assets. The ministry was cautioned about the provision of the collateral-free loan of up to Rs 1 million in the scheme as per an IANS report published on January 13. Under the norms of the Reserve Bank of India, an account is classified as NPA if it is not serviced for 90 days. NPAs have jumped by Rs 92.04 billion or 126 per cent from Rs 72.77 billion in March 2018 to Rs 164.81 billion in March 2019. The total amount of sanctioned loans increased by 26.82 per cent, from Rs 2.53 thousand billion to Rs 3.21 thousand billion in March 2019, the number of loans also jumping by 24.39 per cent from 48 million to 59 million. Finance ministry sources estimate that the sanctioned loan crossing over Rs 3,000 billion in the current fiscal as advocated by the government has been left as the only resort to come out of unemployment.According to bank officials, the Jan Dhan Yojana could satisfy the social objective of financial inclusion, but without any hope of profitability. An enquiry of the scheme resulted in officials raising their eyebrows and offering a pessimistic assessment. Yet, they seem powerless to see the dire future of their organizations creaking under the increasing pressure of bad loans, such as those fuelled by the Mudra scheme. 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Mayank Agarwal: Living by the sword
After all, he has still not taken his Test match count into double figures. Rather such instances only fuelled him, like a shot of caffeine. Take for example the away-from-the-body push off Vernon Philander that eluded gully's outstretched grasp. Agarwal winced, admitting the flashiness of the stroke. But crucially, he didn't let the incident play subconsciously in his mind. Mayank Agarwal: Sehwag lite So despite the bowler sensing a vulnerability, and probing it, Agarwal didn't shy away from the stroke. The next time the ball was in a similar zone, he punched it off the back-foot. Only that, he made a few fundamental adjustments. He made contact closer to the body, was not looking to feel the ball, played with softer hands and the back-foot went more across. Thus rather than being reactive, and shrinking into a shell of self-doubt, the opener was adaptive, showing that the edge was an aberration, thus killing the psychological advantage the bowler might have been enjoying, making a case that he couldn't be bullied into submission. To not let doubts creep into his mind and remain unaltered in his approach is a rare gift. More insightful into his icy psyche was how he dealt with Andre Nortje after the latter had struck him on the helmet, a vicious blow that had the batsman on his knees and the support staff rushing to the ground. Agarwal grimaced, admitting he had taken his eyes off the ball. But if the South Africans thought they'd inflicted a mortal wound, they were sorely mistaken. The follow-up delivery, a searing 148kmph full-length ball, was crunched through the covers, his favourite shot. It was as if he had read the strapping fast bowler's intentions. Nortje was never the same again, went entirely off-kilter and ended up as South Africa's most expensive fast bowler of the day. Mayank Agarwal has learnt art of conversion from domestic cricket, says Cheteshwar Pujara Driven Two overs later, he aggravated his agony with three delicious boundaries — a handsome straight drive, and a brace of crisp cover drives. After lunch, Nortje tried the bouncer trick again, only to be ferociously pulled, one of Agarwal's staple stokes. The second of those was dragged from outside off-stump, an authority-stamping shot. This time, his eyes were unblinkingly on the ball, the wrists firmly over it. The tearaway was torn apart. The other instance was when an edged drive off Philander to a delivery that wasn't quite of drivable length. It didn't deter him from driving again. In fact, he drove adroitly whenever the pacers erred on the fuller side, sometimes even good-length ones were resolutely driven on the rise. The bounce of the strip aided him too, as it was neither too bouncy to have made the shot a high-risk one nor dual-bounced to keep him wary of the one that scuds along the strip. It didn't matter either that the bowlers were trying to bait him into a false stroke. For the airy drive, Faf du Plessis had posted a short cover, to cut the cover boundaries, the sweepers prowled. There was a fine-leg for the miscued pull, there was a long-off (sometimes long-on too) for spinner Keshav Maharaj. Yet, they could neither stop him from playing shots through these regions not deny him the boundaries. Maharaj was smoked for a pair of successive sixes to move from 87 to 99. No matter the plots and ploys, baits and bluffs, Agarwal wouldn't compromise on his percentage strokes. In the unabashed belief in his stroke-play, he was a bit like Virender Sehwag, without the latter's flamboyance and edge-of-the-seat derring-do. Rather, he's a toned-down Sehwag, Sehwagian in mentality rather than stroke-making grandeur. Agarwal goes about his job more quietly, more judiciously even, doesn't get his runs at a breakneck pace, doesn't give the kicks of watching Sehwag, but demoralises bowlers nonetheless. How to turn fans away from Test cricket? Leave them out to bake in sun, MCA style Like Sehwag, he can score through unusual areas and split the most claustrophobic of gaps. Like in Vizag where he threaded short cover and short extra-cover with immaculate precision. Like Sehwag, and most other good batsmen, he's difficult to plan against, to even keep quiet. If it's marginally full, he will cheerfully drive, if's it's minimally short, he would pull and cut. And even if it's neither full nor short, he can still punish bowlers. Maharaj would admit, as some of his deliveries on the stumps were slapped behind point. Some of his flatter, fuller ones were drilled through long-on. When the mood seizes him, Agarwal can sweep and reverse-sweep. A batsman with such repertoire, and an unhindered mindset to use it efficiently, promises long hard days under the sun for hapless bowlers. What his approach predominantly ensures is that the tempo never drops. It was assumed that once Kagiso Rabada had nailed Rohit Sharma, the run rate would plunge. Sensing this, South Africa attacked more aggressively, only for Agarwal to keep the impetus intact. It was a ropey phase of the game, more with Cheteshwar Pujara's slow-starting reputation. It was an ideal opportunity for the tourists to exert pressure. But Agarwal didn't buckle down. It could be that he is in such a positive frame of mind that everything that he tries come off — batting, as the truism goes, is an extension of the mindset. Agarwal's on the back of a terrific last two years, has transformed from a domestic outlier to a phenomenon and transitioned into Test cricket, where he has looked every bit the part, scoring a double hundred in his previous Test. Even still, the ability to eliminate doubts and keep his game unchanged is noteworthy, and a better indicator of his promise than his delightful range of strokes. Those thick edges and the helmet blow narrate the story. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttps://www.intensedebate.com/people/veenkeenswik
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