Conflict pitch for elite panel

t was assumed that the Supreme Court would give clarifications on the conflict clause but the matter didn't come up for hearing on Wednesday. The apex court has now deferred the hearing to December 4.The apex council of the Board will meet in Mumbai on Saturday, the eve of the AGM, and that meeting is expected to throw some light on the issue.Sourav Ganguly, the Board president, had himself been a part of the CAC along with Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman. After the trio refused to be part of the process for selecting the women's coach last year, they were replaced by Kapil Dev, Anshuman Gaekwad and Shantha Rangaswamy.All three resigned once conflict of interest complaints surfaced against them.However, there's a move to reinstate Sachin and Laxman without disturbing their current commitments."The CAC is an elite panel and has to include stalwarts. Sachin and Laxman haven't been approached yet but they obviously wouldn't wish to get embroiled in fresh controversies. Only once they get the 'all clear' from the Board will they give their consent," said someone in the know of things.This could even mean bringing about certain changes to the conflict of interest clause."This is a very delicate issue. As it is, the CAC consists honorary members. You cannot expect them to sacrifice their livelihood for an honorary post," said a Board member."Even the Committee of Administrators had recommended changes to the conflict of interest clause in the constitution. We have to go back to the Supreme Court on the practical difficulties faced."A section in the Board is also of the view that the members could authorise Sourav to choose the selectors."We've never had a former captain as Board president in the past several decades. He is the best man to handle such things when there's a problem. The AGM can authorise him to form the selection committee," a member said.There's another school of thought that with no team selection due immediately, the Board could wait for the Supreme Court hearing on December 4 and then decide on the formation of the CAC and the subsequent naming of the selectors. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttps://onmogul.com/meekumarks

Flipkart will launch Nokia branded Smart TVs on December 5

Flipkart also has smart TVs under its own MarQ TV brand. The invite does not reveal much about the products, the company will be launching at the event. It only reveals the date and the venue. Flipkart has already announced that the Nokia branded smart TVs will be made in India by them and will sell exclusively on the eCommerce platform. Apart from this we already know that the aforementioned Nokia branded smart TVs will come with JBL powered audio systems. Other than this details are scarce and will be revealed at the time of the launch. Nokia smartphones are about experience, less about specs: HMD Global India head This is a similar arrangement as to the one Nokia has entered in with HMD Global for its smartphones. Nokia will be licensing its name to Flipkart for manufacturing and selling its TVs for a fee. This will be a comeback for Nokia in the television market, to recall, the company did foray into the line of widescreen TVs back in the mid-90s, however, its efforts did not manage to go mainstream. Nokia is not the only brand from the mobile world, which is jumping into the smart TV business. OnePlus introduced its OnePlus TV Q1 Pro and TV Q1 back in September. Motorola also partnered with Flipkart to allow the use of its brand name for Smart TVs. One smartphone player which has done exceedingly well in the Smart TV space in India is Xiaomi, which has managed to capture a big chunk of the market in India thanks to its aggressive prices and back-to-back launches. With regard to Nokia TVs, Flipkart could introduce a number of Smart TVs at different prices and screen sizes, similar to how it did with Motorola. 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/740ob

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Trump visits Afghanistan, says he reopened talks with Taliban

he scope and prospects of any renewed negotiations remained unclear, and White House officials gave few details beyond Trump's sudden revelation. On the flight to Afghanistan, Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary, had insisted that the secret trip was "truly about Thanksgiving and supporting the troops" and "nothing about the peace process" with the Taliban.The Taliban made no official comment immediately after the late-night visit and Ghani said little afterward about any peace talks.But while the Afghan government has long demanded that the Taliban agree to a cease-fire, no evidence has emerged that the group was willing to grant one. Instead, it has said it would discuss the possibility in negotiations with Afghanistan's political leaders over the future of the country once the Americans agree to leave.Trump carried out the traditional role of feeding turkey and mashed potatoes to troops in fatigues, then dined, mingled and posed for photographs before delivering remarks celebrating the US military before about 1,500 troops in an aircraft hangar.But his visit also had an important political dimension. Trump, who angrily called off talks with the Taliban in September just as the sides appeared close to an accord, is searching for foreign policy achievements he can celebrate on the campaign trail over the next year. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttps://visual.ly/users/jeffmattyhardayhappy/portfolio

Karvy ban review

arvy had moved the SAT on Thursday challenging the curbs on using PoAs, and Friday's order by the two-members SAT bench is seen as an interim relief for Karvy. At the hearing on Friday, Karvy said not being able to use PoAs was creating problems in settling trades with the clearing houses and, hence, it became necessary to seek clarifications from the regulator. "As clients of Karvy are trading online, they are unable to transfer the securities from the clients' demat accounts to the pool account for the purpose of clearing the trades," the SAT noted. However, the counsel appearing for Sebi said they had serious apprehension in allowing the plea of the brokerage as it might lead to further misuse of the power of attorney given to them by their clients.SAT also directed Sebi to consider Karvy's requests made in three letters to the regulator since the order was passed. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttps://www.magcloud.com/user/meekumarks

Newborn deaths in UP trigger blame game

This suggests a neonatal mortality rate of 492 per 1,000 births, against a state average of 49 per 1,000 and a national average of 25 per 1,000, health department officials said.Senior officials have been quick to blame the Asha (Accredited Social Health Activist) workers of the Dhaurahra, Bijua, Mohammadi, Ramiyabehar and Bankeganj blocks of Lakhimpur Kheri, about 130km north of Lucknow."It's the responsibility of Asha workers (under the central government's Home-Based Newborn Care programme) to regularly visit newborns' homes every alternate day for four weeks in case of institutional delivery and six weeks in case of home-based delivery," a health directorate official said on the condition of anonymity."It seems they didn't make the visits. We'll soon act against them for dereliction of duty."Asha workers --- trained community health workers aged 25 to 45 and educated at least up to Class X --- are appointed under the National Rural Health Mission. Apart from providing basic medical help, they are tasked with imparting health awareness and guidance. They are expected to advise institutional delivery but help with home-based delivery if a family chooses that option.Arvind Singh, chief development officer of Lakhimpur Kheri, said health department officials who are supposed to monitor Asha workers' functioning were to blame too."The implementation of the Home-Based Newborn Care programme has been very poor in the district. Asha workers and health department officials have been insensitive towards the care of the newborn, resulting in the death of many babies," he said."We have convened a meeting of the department on December 4 to fix responsibility," he said.An Asha worker from Lakhimpur Kheri told The Telegraph the government denied them the required supplies, burdened them with errands that prevented them carrying out their assigned duties --- and then blamed them when a health programme failed."If even a government clerk visits a local health department office or anganwadi centre, we are expected to be there to serve them tea, breakfast or lunch," she said, asking not to be named."We are also expected to support NGO officials whenever they visit our area, apart from training the auxiliary midwives. And then we have to visit the home of every newborn every alternate day. And we are punished for any lapse in any of these tasks."She said the government's chronic failure to equip the Asha workers with medical supplies made their home visits almost meaningless and exposed them to villagers' anger."We become the target of the families, who hold us responsible for any tragedy at their homes. They don't question the government, which rarely provides us the medicines and other stuff that the newborns and their mothers need. The villagers accuse us of selling these supplies in the market," she said.The health directorate official, however, said: "Some systemic problems certainly exist but that doesn't mean the Asha workers are honest and the department is corrupt. As recently as September, 30 Asha workers of Lakhimpur Kheri were suspended when they were found working at private nursing homes."He added: "Most Asha workers are appointed on the recommendation of politicians."In Uttar Pradesh, Asha workers receive a monthly pay of Rs 2,000 apart from Rs 200 for vaccinating a mother and her baby and Rs 150 for attending a block-level meeting. They are paid Rs 150 for each meeting of pregnant women they hold in their village.In Kerala, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Asha workers receive a monthly salary of Rs 10,000 besides other benefits for participating in vaccination programmes and maintaining records. Kerala also gives retired Asha workers a pension.The September-November survey was conducted across five districts of Uttar Pradesh but apart from five of Lakhimpur Kheri's 15 blocks, the rest of these areas reflected normal neonatal mortality rates, officials said. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://knowledge.thinkingstorm.com/UserProfile/tabid/57/userId/432094/Default.aspx

Digital media under government scanner

nder the extant law, only print newspapers are required to follow this code."The publishers of news on digital media shall register themselves with the Registrar of Newspapers of India in such manner and giving such particulars as may be prescribed," reads part VIII of the proposed bill.The bill proposes cancellation of such registration, if, among other reasons, the "publisher" is found to be convicted of any "terrorist act" or "unlawful activity", or for doing anything against the "security of the state".The bill doesn't spell out how grave an offence must be to come under the ambit of "unlawful activity" or jeopardising the "security of the state".While the bill seeks to control the web space, it fails to address the problems of hate speech, fake news, and incendiary content which proliferate on digital media.Siddharth Varadarajan of The Wire was fairly sure that there would be repercussions to these measures. "There's no reason to add to the layer of requirements to the registration for digital news given there are literally hundreds of thousands of digital platforms. And the way that the draft will define the digital news, this would include your mother's Facebook page, your uncle's blog, websites in different languages, a tweet trend on twitter, anything that is news oriented and conveyed digitally," he told Telegraph Online.Varadarajan said that the government was trying to create some kind of an obstacle. "This is a way of controlling and regulating... No democratic country in the world insists on this kind of registration of digital news platforms. The entire move is mala fide," he said.A media law expert The Telegraph Online spoke to expressed concern at the motive behind the provision, prophesying that such a measure would only render digital media "toothless"."Here everything is being done in the name of national interest or nationalism or something like that. Elsewhere, it would be for things to protect privacy or individual rights."The focus is altogether wrong. If it is about regulating the digital media, it should be talked about in terms of curbing the hate speech and propaganda and things like that, for which digital media is used more, instead of for the kind of things it is now being proposed. It is bound to serve more for other interests than public interest," said the central university professor requesting anonymity.The academic cited instances of arresting of people on the basis of their cyber activities as a form of harassment. "It will be people of certain stripes, human rights champions largely, who will face the most heat if the provision comes into force."The professor termed the provision regressive and as running counter to prevailing sentiments across the western democracies, where the call for liberalizing digital media is only increasing.Significantly, a day before the draft was revealed in the public domain for suggestions, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the internet, launched an initiative to emancipate the web and give more power to the people. "Contract for Web", endorsed by 80 corporations, proposed nine principles to that end, at least three of which are meant to require governments' support.One such principle, "keep all of the internet available, all of the time" already stands violated by the government of India, which has snapped internet connections in Kashmir for close to four months now.Similarly, the credentials of India as a democracy with robust digital privacy norms was somewhat undermined when it was accused of spying on its citizens by some of the members of Parliaments on Thursday.Speaking in the Rajya Sabha, Congress MP Digvijaya Singh levelled a charge of spying on people, including politicians and judges, against the current government.The charge came in the wake of a covert snooping exercise, unearthed when Whatsapp informed the Indian government that Israeli-made spyware Pegasus was used against 121 Indians between April and May to breach their private communication on phone.The spyware is made by NSO, an Israeli cyber surveillance firm, which claims to sells it only to governments. The Indian government has not spelled out whether it bought the spyware from NSO. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://euryka.rdi.uoc.edu/forums/user/guessy-league ailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttps://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/profile/0052T00000C9Lmb?language=en_US

'We aim to be in top ten in US Olympics 2028': Kiren Rijiju

Rijiju congratulated the winners and lauded the spirit of the participants. He said that we are moving forward with new thinking for sports and for their promotion, the Government of India has started the "Khelo India programme" in 2016-17. Under the programme, the government is planning to organise four types of games next year, namely university games, youth games, school games and indigenous games, the Minister said. Rijiju said the government is vociferous in improving the conditions of sports and the economic status of the sportsperson in the country. The Guest of Honour, Anoop Kumar, Dronacharya Awardee in Boxing, said boxing is a wonderful science of self-defence. Day by day the government is promoting sports and providing a platform for sports. Technique or tactics, fitness and fighting spirit are essential to excel in any sport. For the year 2019-20, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, District Karnal, Haryana was selected as a venue for the organisation of 65th SGFI National Boxing Championship, under category-U14(boys). There were around 300 participants from 31 states/UTs across the country. It was organised from November 25 to 29. 11 gold, 11 silver and 22 bronze medals were distributed to the winners in different weight categories on the occasion. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttp://raptorx3.uchicago.edu/bbs/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=975&extra=