Adorable dog sworn in at state's attorney's office in Chicago

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UP: Bus runs over sleeping footpath dwellers in Lucknow, kills two minor sisters

The bus has been seized. None of the passengers were hurt. Mohammad Ashraf, Station House Officer (SHO) of Jankipuram police station, said the incident took place around 6 am Thursday when the private bus, with an UP number plate (UP43T-8151), lost control and hit an auto-rickshaw before running over the footpath dwellers near Engineering College intersection. 'Around 10 persons were sleeping on the pavement and seven of them were ran over by the bus. While two girls, both sisters aged 13 and 6 years, died on the spot, five others, including their father and four-year-old brother, were seriously injured,' said Mohammad Ashraf. The deceased have been identified as Pooja (6) and her elder sister Khushboo. The injured include their father Dinesh (40) and brother Karan, while their mother, who was also sleeping on the footpath, escaped unhurt. Other injured were identified as Akram (50), Babbu (20) and Saddam (30), all daily-wage workers. They used to sleep on the pavement everyday, the SHO said. While Dinesh, Babbu and Saddam belong to Kamla Nagar area of Sitapur district, Akram is a resident of Lucknow's Hasanganj area. 'There are two possibilities leading to the accident. The driver might have lost control over the vehicle after breaks failed or he fell asleep, but this would be confirmed only after a detailed investigation and arrest of the driver,' added the SHO. 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/77rm0 ailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttps://www.magcloud.com/user/christofaars

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From Saif Ali Khan to Sidharth Malhotra: Bollywood actors who aced traditional wear this Diwali

The look was rounded out with a white pyjama and black footwear. (Photo: Varinder Chawla) Kartik Aaryan looks regal in this bottle green velvet sherwani. The actor completed his look with shiny black shoes, ruffled hair and his new mustache. (Photo: Varinder Chawla) Trust Karan Johar to experiment with trends and designs. So it comes as no surprise that the filmmaker opted for an sequined sherwani by designer duo Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla. Styled by Nikita Jaisinghani, we love how Johar pulled off the look. (Photo: Varinder Chawla) Arjun Kapoor kept it simple yet stylish in a blue ensemble by designer Kunal Rawal. (Photo: Varinder Chawla) Anil Kapoor went for a custom-made sherwani set from designer Raghavendra Rathore. The black sherwani featured intricate sequin design. He pulled his look together with shiny shoes. (Photo: Varinder Chawla) R Madhavan stood out in a royal blue sherwani set which she teamed with matching blue shoes. (Photo: Varinder Chawla) DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttps://www.mobypicture.com/user/subgnehagee

Hyderabad: Police chief holds talks with Muslim leaders

'It is our city and we must ensure that there is no untoward incident,' Mr Kumar stressed at the meeting on Saturday. While all members agreed that they are for peace and were willing to co-operate, Mr Amjedullah Khan of Majlis Bachao Tehreek said, 'We are going to maintain peace but we also conveyed that the government must allow us to have dharnas. Protest is the right of democracy.' Mr Abdul Allam Khan Ameen of Jamat-e-Ahle-Hadees mentioned that those involved in communal issues earlier should be kept under watch. Mr Syed Hamid Hussain Jaffery of he Shia Youth Conference suggested that certain areas with mixed communities of Shahinayathgunj, Begum Bazaar, Nampally and Asifnagar should be closely monitored. There is a need to involve more people and it was insisted that another meeting be called and another round of discussions must take place ahead of the judgment. The members stated that presently there is a lot of concern about Milad-un-Nabia which is the birthday of Prophet Mohammed and they are very keen that it must pass peacefully. ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttps://www.openstreetmap.org/user/bringhamnuck

Sunny Leone is the most gorgeous and bravest superhero 'this Halloween'. Watch video

Sunny's superhero saves the world from evil and douses fire as if she simply sucked it all. Safety is just a call away this #Halloween!#Kore, not from this planet but ready to save the world from Evil Kore: Suncity Media and Entertainment Pvt LtdProduced by @SunnyLeone and @DanielWeber99 pic.twitter.com/DKmk1Ia9fV — Sunny Leone (@SunnyLeone) November 2, 2019 While Sunny looks gorgeous in the black getup, the VFX is rather amateurish and resembles a video game. Whether it is a film, or some other project is yet to be known. The YouTube description says it is produced by Suncity Media and Entertainment Pvt Ltd and Sunny Leone - Daniel Weber. While the music is credited to Daniel Weber and Ken Wallace, Sunny Rajani is named as the creative director. Shah Rukh Khan greets fans outside Mannat on his birthday with son AbRam. See pics The video was flooded with fans praising Sunny. 'Wow amazing trailer Amazing visual effects Amazing VFX with Amazing song with amazing actress sunny Leone you are looking Amazing superb cool,' wrote one user. Another one wrote, 'So gorgeous ma'am I love you so much.' A fan even recalled Matrix after watching the video and tweeted, 'You seems like Total Hollywood matrix girl.' Another fan tweeted, 'Wow it's amazing trailer Amazing visual effects Amazing VFX with Amazing song with amazing actress @SunnyLeone I just love this video my hotty you are looking damn gorgeous stunning sizzling cute Amazing superb cool outstanding in this avatar.' Recently, Sunny came up with a unique idea for Halloween and dressed up as Frida Kahlo for the occasion. Her husband Daniel Weber also joined her for a Halloween celebration. Sharing their picture on Instagram, Sunny wrote, 'Happy Halloween gouls and goblins!! Love Frida and Sid!!' View this post on Instagram Happy Halloween gouls and goblins!! Love Frida and Sid!! A post shared by Sunny Leone (@sunnyleone) on Oct 31, 2019 at 9:55am PDT 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 = '';}} 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 Timeshttp://knowledge.thinkingstorm.com/UserProfile/tabid/57/userId/393406/Default.aspx

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North Korea, US say nuclear talks to resume this weekend

It is my expectation that the working-level negotiations would accelerate the positive development of the DPRK-US relations," Choe said in the statement, using an abbreviation for North Korea's formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.The U.S. confirmed the talks."I can confirm that US and DPRK officials plan to meet within the next week. I do not have further details to share on the meeting," said state department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus, who is traveling with secretary of state Mike Pompeo in Rome.Nuclear negotiations have been at a standstill for months following a February summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump in Hanoi, Vietnam. Those talks broke down after the US rejected North Korean demands for broad sanctions relief in exchange for partially surrendering its nuclear capabilities.North Korea followed the summit with belligerent rhetoric and a slew of short-range weapons tests that were widely seen as an attempt to gain leverage ahead of a possible resumption of negotiations.Choe's announcement came after North Korea praised Trump last month for suggesting that Washington may pursue an unspecified "new method" in nuclear negotiations with the North. North Korea also has welcomed Trump's decision to fire hawkish former national security adviser John Bolton, who advocated a "Libya model" of unilateral denuclearisation as a template for North Korea.The 2004 disarmament of Libya is seen by Pyongyang as a deeply provocative comparison because Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was killed following US-supported military action in his country seven years after giving up a rudimentary nuclear program that was far less advanced than North Korea's.The office of South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who lobbied hard to set up the first summit between Kim and Trump last year in Singapore, welcomed Choe's announcement and expressed hope that the resumed talks would result in "substantial progress" in denuclearisation and stabilization of peace.Under the high-stakes diplomacy between Trump and Kim, which has been driven chiefly by the personalities of the leaders rather than an established diplomatic process, working-level meetings have been useful for fleshing out the logistics of summits but unproductive in hammering out the details of a nuclear deal that has eluded the countries for decades.The stalemate of past months has revealed fundamental differences between the two sides. North Korea says it will never unilaterally surrender its nuclear weapons and missiles and insists that US-led sanctions against it should be lifted first before any progress in negotiations.The Trump administration has vowed to maintain robust economic pressure until the North takes real steps toward fully and verifiably relinquishing its nuclear program.Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul, said progress in working-level negotiations would depend on several factors, including whether Kim empowers his officials to negotiate concrete steps and whether the Trump administration embraces "a phased approach where summits and sanctions relief must be earned, butdenuclearisation is not decided all at once."There are doubts about whether Kim would ever voluntarily deal away an arsenal that he may see as his strongest guarantee of survival.In his first public appearance since his departure from the White House, Bolton on Monday gave a characteristically pessimistic outlook on the prospects for nuclear negotiations with the North and challenged Trump's foreign policy without directly mentioning the president.At a forum in Washington hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Bolton said Kim has made a "strategic decision" to do whatever he can to keep his country's nuclear weapons and that is an "unacceptable" threat to the world."Under current circumstances, he will never give up nuclear weapons voluntarily," Bolton said. "This is a government that has essentially violated every international agreement it has ever made."After their Singapore summit in June 2018, Trump and Kim issued a vague statement calling for a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula without describing how or when it would occur.The lack of substance and fruitless working-level talks set up the failure in Hanoi, which the Americans blamed on what they said were excessive North Korean demands for sanctions relief in exchange for dismantling an aging nuclear facility in Yongbyon. Trump and Kim met for the third time at the inter-Korean border on June 30 and agreed that working-level talks between the countries should resume. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttps://anotepad.com/notes/djyc7ei

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Don't impair the integrity of the UPSC exam system

It is also not clear what is meant by 'our cultural practices'. Do these words refer to the culture of the different religious communities, or states and regions, or to Indian culture as a collective entity? It would have been better, in that case, to have used the word 'Indian culture' instead of 'our culture'. Indeed, other questions relating to culture in the same question paper do not cause these difficulties in interpretation for they are not obtuse in referring to the culture involved. Secularism, as defined in the Indian context, denotes equal respect for all religions. It is this concept that enjoins the State not to discriminate against any person on the basis of faith. The mainstream of Indian cultural traditions flowing from ancient times has always carried the belief that freedom of faith cannot be denied to any person. Secularism cannot, therefore, per se pose a challenge to Indian cultural traditions. The public culture of the Indian Republic has largely drawn inspiration from the country's past. Its symbols go back to that period as illustrated by the dharmachakra, the Sarnath lions, and the national motto (Satyameva Jayate). The practice of lighting the lamp, and even bhoomi puja, has found no serious critics. Certainly, no one seems to have seriously invoked secularism per se, or in name, to denounce all or any of this. Hence, where are the challenges to our cultural practices from secularism? The commission conducts numerous competitive examinations in accordance with its mandate specified in Article 320 (1) of the Constitution. It does so year on year, impartially, soberly and conscientiously, without any leakage of question papers. Clearly, it has an excellent system in place that enables it to maintain secrecy; nothing should ever be done to impair the integrity of the processes and procedures set by this system. At the same time, the commission has to take ownership of the questions posed to candidates. The UPSC cannot shrug off the responsibility of even one poor question or a question that gives rise to concerns in any section of the public. Like any other institution, it is accountable to the people through Parliament. And, like any other institution, it must find ways of addressing legitimate popular concerns. If it ignores these matters, it will dent its well-deserved reputation. Thus, in this case, the UPSC must, at an appropriate time and in an appropriate manner, set at rest the misgivings that this question has raised about its intent. The commission also needs to evolve systems to conduct appraisals of question papers, perhaps as post-mortem exercises to examine if the examinations are bringing out the qualities needed in candidates it recommends for selection to different services and posts. While doing so it must ask itself if it wants to put a premium on speed. The current focus, at least in the general studies section of the civil services examination, seems to be on speed as can be seen in the number of questions that candidates has to answer. For instance, in the general studies paper in which this question on secularism was included, 20 questions had to be answered in 4,000 words (some in 150 words while others in 250 words) in a period of three hours. Thus, on an average, a candidate had between seven to nine minutes to write an answer. It is difficult to envisage that a candidate would have sufficient time to consider all the implications of a question, especially one worded as the one on secularism and cogently respond. Is it because of this emphasis on speed that candidates generally attend coaching centres where they are trained how to crack the examination system through the retention of copious information and reproducing it rapidly? At least this seems to the case for the civil services main examination's general studies portion. Notwithstanding the challenges to 'our cultural practices' in the name of secularism, question 5 in the general studies paper 2 this year asked candidates: 'What can France learn from the Indian Constitution's approach to secularism?' After all, there is some merit in Indian secularism, which provides for a plural society. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttps://issuu.com/subgnehagee