Polling officials trek through dense forests to return EVMs

The team comprising seven polling officers, three drivers and an observer had to stay back in the village for the night after polling ended. On Friday morning, accompanied by 23 SOG jawans, they trekked 15 km through the hilly forest terrain to reach Baladapada police outpost from where they took a vehicle to reach Phulbani at 11 am. In another incident, two polling parties comprising 14 polling officers of booth 137 in Sirla and 138 under Tumudibandh block had to walk through dense forests and cross streams under the cover of darkness to reach Baliguda on the wee hours of Friday. Following an intelligence input on possibility of Maoist attack after polling on Thursday, the CRPF personnel advised them not to travel by road in the evening. Along with the Central Forces, the polling teams began their journey on foot carrying EVMs and other polling materials through the forests at 9.30 pm and reached Tumudibandha block headquarters around 2.30 am. From Tumudibandha the polling party along with the EVMs reached the strong room in Baliguda in two vehicles later in the day. On Wednesday, besides killing Digal, Maoists had torched the vehicle of a polling party near Mungunipadar under Phringia police limits. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The New Indian Expresshttps://in.usgbc.org/people/eeeew-reeew/0011309289

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5 seats in Northeast to vote tomorrow

he all-women's bike rally began from near S.B. Deorah College and culminated at Lachit Nagar after passing through Ganeshguri, Super Market and Six Mile.Congress candidate for Gauhati, Bobbeeta Sharma, also took out a rally here, accompanied by Assam PCC president Ripun Bora, Independent candidate Junmoni Devi Khaund and Trinamul Congress candidate Manoj Sharma also took out rallies.Former chief minister Tarun Gogoi campaigned for Sharma at Dispur. "The voters of Gauhati are politically conscious and I am confident that they will vote for her," he said.The Assam PCC president claimed that people in Assam are yearning for a change and the Congress would bag eight to 10 seats in the state out of 14.Gogoi and deputy chief minister of Rajasthan, Sachin Pilot, addressed a poll rally for Sharma at Goroimar in Kamrup district.Altogether 17 candidates are in the fray for Gauhati constituency, 15 for Dhubri, nine for Kokrajhar and 13 for Barpeta.Sonowal on Sunday addressed poll rallies at Manikpur in Bongaigaon district, Baghmara Char in Barpeta district and Baranghati in Kamrup district, and Himanta Biswa Sarma at Changsari, Gossaigaon, Bongaigaon, Patacharkuchi and Amingaon.Assam BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass also addressed election rallies at Dhubri, Bilasipara and Bijni.State BJP spokesman Rupam Goswami said the BJP and its allies will win at least 10 of the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state. Campaigning ended at 5pm.For Gauhati constituency, two balloting units will be used as there is a provision for 16 candidates only in single balloting unit and 17 candidates are contesting for Gauhati seat.There will be 147 polling stations with all-women polling personnel and 125 model polling stations in the third phase.Tripura East poll: Campaign for the Tripura East constituency concluded on Sunday. The poll for the Tripura East constituency, scheduled for April 18, was deferred to Tuesday by the Election Commission on grounds of inadequate security arrangements and complaints received from the parties.Ten candidates are in fray, including Rebati Kumar Tripura from the BJP, Narendra Chandra Debbarma from the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT), Jitendra Choudhury from the CPM and Pragya Deb Burman from the Congress.Two greenhorns are contesting from Tripura East (ST) constituency, including BJP candidate Rebati Kumar Tripura and Pragya Deb Burman from Congress.Dhalai superintendent of police (SP) Sudipta Das said adequate security force has been deployed in Dhalai district.IPFT assistant general secretary Mevar Kumar Jamatia told The Telegraph that on Sunday they were campaigning at Dhalai district, where IPFT chief N.C. Debbarma was present.BJP candidate for Tripura East (ST) constituency Rebati Kumar Tripura was served a showcause notice on Wednesday last for exceeding elections funds beyond limit.Pragya Deb Burman, who is a member of Tripura's Manikya dynasty, was unavailable for comments. Tripura chief electoral officer Sriram Taranikanti said strict measures would be taken to ensure free and fair elections.The BJP on Sunday accused the banned insurgent outfits All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) and National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) of campaigning in favour of Congress and demanded the Election Commission to take action against them.Addressing a news conference at the party office, BJP spokesperson Nabendu Bhattacharya alleged that banned insurgent outfits of state are campaigning for the Congress."We lodged a complaint with the Election Commission with records," he said.He also alleged that banned ATTF president Ranjit Debbarma, who was arrested in Bangladesh in 2012, was seen with PCC president Pradyot Kishore Manikya Deb Burman during campaigns."Our party has submitted a complaint about involvement of militants with the Congress with video footage to the Election Commission," the BJP spokesperson said.Deputy inspector-general (DIG) Arindam Nath said a general diary was registered at Champahower police station in Khowai district about threats issued from a self-styled insurgent leader of the NLFT, which was telecast in a local channel." If there is any possibility of attack on them, we shall take necessary measures", the DIG said.Taranikanti said he was aware of a complaint being filed about the involvement of militants in the campaign and said that they would look into it and would take necessary action. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttps://despacitoleen.kinja.com/en-finansieringskalla-for-ditt-foretag-1833832158

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Inside track: Plane unfair

One solitary charter company offered a rather outdated model. Banerjee had perforce to use this helicopter on her election trips. In Jalpaiguri, the undependable helicopter broke down and Didi lost her cool, especially when she saw her petrified party workers trying to give the aircraft a manual push as if it was a stalled car. Eventually Banerjee had no option but to go by road to her next destination. She later called up her good friend, TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu, to request for his helicopter, since the elections in Andhra Pradesh are over. Naidu is reportedly taking his own time to respond. Sandalwood Strikes Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy wept copiously at a rally in Mandya. The family has a tradition of bursting into tears when things get tough and the CM fears that his son Nikhil could lose. Pitted against Nikhil in the Mandya parliamentary constituency is film actress Sumalatha Ambareesh, whose late husband actor Ambareesh has a lot of goodwill in the Karnataka film fraternity, nicknamed Sandalwood. Sumalatha is backed totally by Sandalwood and even southern actors from other states, such as Rajinikanth, are pitching in. The BJP is also supporting Sumalatha and has not fielded a candidate in this Vokkaliga belt. Kumaraswamy's fear is that some in the Congress, particularly his old rival Siddaramiah, may secretly be working against Nikhil. The Congress is furious that it had to give up the Mandya seat for the CM's son even though the Gowda family had already appropriated constituencies for two other members, patriarch H D Deve Gowda and his grandson Prajwal Revanna. If Nikhil loses, it bodes ill for the Congress-JD(U) government in the state. Disowning Past K Veeramani, the elderly leader of the Dravida Kazhagam movement, is a headache for DMK president M K Stalin, just as former RSS chief K S Sudarshan was an embarrassment to the late PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee when he spoke out of turn. The DMK is an offspring of the DK rationalist and atheist movement in Tamil Nadu. So when Veeramani speaks, the DMK gets associated with his remarks. Recently Veeramani took a potshot at the way Hindu gods and goddesses are depicted, and referred to Sita dancing and Lord Krishna in the pool with gopis. There was widespread condemnation, since Hindu sentiment in the state is growing. Stalin is now at pains to disown the DMK's anti-religion past. After Veeramani's remark, Stalin declared that leaders should be careful when they speak so as to not offend religious feelings. He denied that the DMK was an anti-Hindu party and pointed out that his wife visited the temple daily. He even issued a press release claiming that 80 per cent of party members are Hindus. Row (tele) Prompted There were many caustic comments on the Internet about a curious video of several SPG men scurrying away from the landing pad at Chitradurga, Karnataka, carrying an enormous black box, after arrival of the PM's helicopter. It was whisked away to a waiting vehicle even as Narendra Modi was still greeting those who had come to receive him. The local DCP and SP clarified that the box only contained 'security and logistics material'. In fact, the box, which is transported on all the PM's trips, contains two large teleprompters and a synchronization unit, plus cables to assist Modi when he makes speeches at rallies. BJP's new Slogan Whether because the electoral campaign is so long drawn out or the BJP feels its advertising material needs to be buttressed, the party has come out with yet another slogan which will be introduced in the later phases of the polls. The earlier slogans centered around Modi. First it was 'Modi Hai Toh Mumkin Hai', later 'Phir Ek Baar Modi Sarkar', and 'Chowkidar Modi'. The new catch line is 'Kaam Ruke Na, Desh Jhuke Na (The work should not stop, the country should not bow)'. This is meant to reinforce two themes. The ongoing development work should be allowed to continue. And that the nation must be strong and not falter, an indirect allusion to the Balakot air strikes. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttps://www.openstreetmap.org/user/reezexregge

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An exhibition in Qatar celebrates how artist MF Husain embraced the world

'The question before me was how to organise both the material and the kaleidoscopic life of the artist into something that would be legible to the diverse audience in Doha … The main thematic fulcrum for me was Husain's understanding of himself as someone who was profoundly rooted in India but also was a global nomad. He travelled everywhere freely, and yet at the end he became an exile, having to leave his homeland against his will. It was a very tragic turn of events,' says Mumbai-based Hoskote. In curating the collection that features over 90 works, Hoskote reflects on 'home' and 'belonging' — propelling viewers to examine Husain's numerous abodes and sentiments, through exhibits largely categorised into Bait, Manzil and Dar. 'These modes map the three lifelong and contending definitions of home that I identify in his art. Bait is home as a place of intimacy, ancestral memory and childhood. In Manzil, he is on a journey towards a larger framework of belonging and knowledge. Dar is the gateway, expanded sense of home where I present his engagements with different media,' says Hoskote. Through transitional zones, he presents the various engagements of the artist — including his interest in literature. The floating wall text quotes from poets Allama Iqbal and Makhdoom Mohiuddin, among others. 'Husain was not confined to a single art. He wrote in four languages. He was a poet himself and a reader of poetry. He also wrote his memoirs,' says Hoskote. While chronologically the display begins with his 1950 oil painting Dolls' Wedding and ends with his 2011 work Husain and His Horse, rendered in expressionistic strokes using metallic paint (painted less than a month before he passed away), the numerous works in between give a glimpse into Husain's varied engagements, both with medium and subject. If Bait has him revisit his early years in Pandharpur, Indore and Sidhpur, it also features a series dedicated to Yemen, from where his forefathers migrated to India. In a triptych, Husain celebrates the three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and another series of lithographs is dedicated to the world religions, including Humanism. In Manzil we see Last Supper in Red Desert, where the Indian modernist revisits Leonardo da Vinci's iconic work, introducing Arabic references. There is also a lithographic series where he paints Hanuman and a suite of paintings celebrating the achievements of mystics, philosophers and scientists, among others. Among the central pieces of Dar is the 1967 film Through the Eyes of a Painter, where the artist combined painting and cinema. There are experiments with textiles and printmaking. There is also a section of archival material that includes photographs of the building of the Husain-Doshi Gufa in Ahmedabad. 'Husain worked constantly in cycles, shuttling between the ephemeral and the more achieved, between public or provisional material and work that formally belonged inside a gallery. He blurred these distinctions. We don't give him enough credit for that. We just see him as a maker of paintings and forget that there were other incredible dimensions to his work,' says Hoskote. It is perhaps a wall text that best summarises his journey for the uninitiated. Hoskote writes, 'His life story reads like that of the hero in a typical Hindi movie of the 1940s and 1950s: the shoe-shine boy or awkward villager who becomes a successful man of the world. Acclaimed by the early 1960s as India's most recognisable 'national painter', Husain constantly renewed his artistic vision and remained open to collaboration.' The exhibition at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar in on till July 31 DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttps://www.avitop.com/cs/members/zinzaajustinz.aspx

Shah Rukh Khan had the sweetest reply to Anupam Kher and fans are nostalgic

As it happened, Kher who is busy with his US series New Amsterdam in New York, was missing King Khan aka his on-screen son. He shared a moment from their film on the microblogging site. 'Mere Pyaare @iamsrk !! bas aise hi !! New York mein tumhari achanak yaad ayi (My dearest SRK, just like that, I was missing you in New York) We have had some great times together. And then we all grew up!! Love and prayers always.#DilwaleDulhaniyaLeJayenge,' the senior actor tweeted. मेरे प्यारे @iamsrk !! बस ऐसे ही!! न्यू यॉर्क में तुम्हारी अचानक याद आयी। We have had some great times together. And then we all grew up!! Love and prayers always.#DilwaleDulhaniyaLeJayenge pic.twitter.com/GDrJnZCKca — Anupam Kher (@AnupamPKher) April 17, 2019 Seeing the iconic scene from the hit 1995 film, King Khan was left emotional. In his response, SRK had a sweet reply referring him as 'Daddy Cool' and tweeted, 'Arre nahi Daddy Cool! 'Grow up' hon aapke dushman. Hum dono ka dil to baccha hai ji (Our hearts are still young). Come back home let's start with snakes and ladders and we can move to making sand castles in the air. Miss you.' Arre nahi Daddy Cool! &dhapos;Grow up&dhapos; hon aapke dushman. Hum dono ka dil to baccha hai ji. Come back home let&dhapos;s start with snakes and ladders and we can move to making sand castles in the air. Miss you. https://t.co/asgWd1N5Cb — Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) April 18, 2019 The actor promised to meet as soon as he's back. आते ही मिलता हूँ। बहुत बहुत प्यार।邏 https://t.co/2zqP6a1UGR — Anupam Kher (@AnupamPKher) April 18, 2019 The duo have worked on numerous films like Darr, Chahaat, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Veer-Zaara and Pehli among others, as father and son. With the hilarious gif of 'Raj and his Pops' doing the signature high-fiving and hugging, Tweeple loved it. O Pochi O Koka O Bobi O Lola  https://t.co/EmViWjNJVs — sahil ali (ساحل علی) (@IMShutterBug_) April 19, 2019  pic.twitter.com/feke8ukRO1 — Petra Schoenweiss (@pbs_tweety) April 18, 2019 Love #DDLJ Also love everytime you and Anupam Sir work together! #KKHH #PAHELI #HNY #Mohabbatein #CHAAHAT #VeerZaara #JTHJ ❤️ — Maryam Khan (@Devoted2SRK) April 18, 2019 AWWWW…Soooo adorable.. @AnupamPKher Sir &dhapos;O Pochi O Koka O Bobi O Lola&dhapos; ❤ — Ayushi Sharma (@AyushiS96622915) April 18, 2019 This is the most wholesome Twitter exchange in Bollywood history. https://t.co/JVPQVodZWm — Rosemina Nazarali (@RoseminaN) April 18, 2019 Sir sand castles to thik hai. Ek do movies bhi banaoge Na!?? https://t.co/VV32hpaOWx — Anamika (@Mann_Baawra) April 18, 2019 The Coolest Craziest and Funniest Dad and Son  .. We Miss U Both. Can We See U Together Again in A Movie? Lotsa Love To All of U. — Sanaa❤SRK (@sanaamaroc) April 18, 2019 This reply to Anupam Kher from SRK is really COOL  https://t.co/WEonZ5tLQu — Nawaz Shaik نواز شیخ (@NawazShaik29) April 18, 2019 100 % Suddh Desi Ghee se bane hue Pitaji aur Putra. https://t.co/OGDk1Xaci7 — Shreyas Gawande (@ShreyGawande) April 18, 2019 Somebody bring back 90s SRK :( https://t.co/soAJV4Q9k0 — Tejas (@t_bopes) April 18, 2019 OMG of my favourite scenes he he still love daddy cool n Rahul Duo https://t.co/ljHZzcnOoe — sumita pandey (@sosweetsumi) April 18, 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 Indian Expresshttps://issuu.com/meetupperse

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Asian Athletics Championship: Annu Rani, Avinash Sable win silver medal; MR Poovamma, Parul Chaudhary secure bronze

Really happy to win my first medal for country.' Earlier in the day, Dutee Chand qualified for the 100m semi-finals following a national record-breaking performance. Meanwhile, there was heartbreak for Hima Das who picked up an injury during her 400m heats. Annu Rani had won a bronze medal at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championship in Bhubaneswar with a throw of 57.32 metres. On Sunday she bettered that throw with 60.22 metres in her first throw. Huihui Lyu of China won the gold medal with a throw of 65.83 in her second attempt. The Chinese athlete had multiple 60.0+ metre throws going 64.92 metres in her first throw, 62.37m in her third attempt and 62.27m in the sixth throw. Rani, meanwhile, couldn't improve on her 60.22m with 58.86 metres in the second throw the closest possible. Annu's performance was, however, more than 2m short of her national record-shattering effort of 62.34m during Federation Cup last month which gave her a berth in the World Championships to be held in September-October. The other Indian in the fray, Sharmila Kumari finished seventh with a best throw of 54.48m. Congrats Annu Rani and Parul Chaudhary, for getting silver and bronze on the first day of #AsianAthleticsChampionship2019 #AsianAthletics #IndianAthletics @kaypeem @BhutaniRahul @afiindia @India_AllSports @India_Olym2020 pic.twitter.com/jZyy74uZ8t — Joby George (@JobyGeo19345834) 21 April 2019 Congratulations Parul Chaudhary for the Bronze in Women&dhapos;s 5000m and to Annu Rani for clinching the Silver medal in Women&dhapos;s Javelin Throw.#AsianAthleticsChampionship2019 . Very proud of the wonderful effort. pic.twitter.com/tjU8MDOeMC — Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) 21 April 2019 Natta Nachan of Thailand set her personal best with throw of 56.01 metres to clinch the bronze medal. In the 5000m race, Parul claimed bronze medal with time of 15:36.03 to stand behind gold medallist Winfred Mutile Yavi (15:28.87) and Bontu Rebitu (15:29.60) of Bahrain. She bettered her earlier personal best of 15:58.35 which she had clocked during the Federation Cup last month. The other Indian in the fray, Sanjivani Jadhav finished fourth with a time of 15:41.12. In the evening session, Saritaben Gayakwad (58.17s) and M Arpitha (58.20s) qualified for women's 400m hurdles finals from their respective heats while M P Jabir (50.17s) did the same in men's 400m hurdles. Dutee, 23, clocked 11.28 seconds to win the heat number four of the women's 100m race and qualify for the semifinals. He bettered her earlier national record of 11.29 seconds which she set last year in Guwahati. The Odisha runner, however, could not touch the 11.24-second qualification mark for the World Championships, to be held here in September-October. Other top Indian athletes like Jinson Johnson (men's 800m), Muhammed Anas and Arokia Rajiv (both men's 400m), Praveen Chitravel (men's triple jump) and Gomathi Marimuthu (women's 1500m) expectedly advanced to the next round of their respective events. 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 Indian Expresshttp://foretagslanse.simplesite.com/

In Rajasthan, PM Modi hits at Pakistan: Are our nukes for Diwali?

In Barmer, Modi brought up the air strike to say that 'we killed terrorists in their home'. In Chittorgarh, he asked voters to remember that they are 'voting against terrorism when they press the Lotus', the BJP's party symbol, on voting day. In Barmer, Modi said: 'Bharat ne Pakistan ki dhamki se darne ki neeti ko chod diya. Yeh theek kiya na maine? Warna aaye din, 'humare paas nuclear button hai, nuclear button hai'. Yehi kehte thhe? Humare akbaarwale bhi likthe thhe, Pakistan ke paas bhi nuclear hai. Toh humare paas kya hai, bhai, yeh Diwali ke liye rakha hai kya?' '(India has discarded the policy of being scared of Pakistan's threats. I did right, didn't I? Because every other day, they would say, 'we have the nuclear button'. Isn't that what they used to say? Our newspapers also wrote, 'Pakistan, too, has a nuclear weapon'. So what do we have, is it kept for Diwali?)' Attacking the Congress party, he said that in the 1971 India-Pak war, 'we had a massive chunk of Pakistan with us, 90,000 Pakistani soldiers were in our custody. But what did the government do in Shimla, it forsake all that our jawans had earned. There was pressure from the world and the government was so shaken that it laid the matter to rest by signing (the Shimla agreement). Had Modi been there at that time….?' The Prime Minister said that having 90,000 prisoners of war 'was a golden opportunity, a trump card, to solve the Kashmir issue'. 'But the opportunity was missed and the entire country is suffering now,' he said. Referring again to Diwali, Modi said he spends the festival with soldiers on the border. 'During last Diwali, I was in the Himalayas. Then, a senior Sikh soldier, with a few white hair, sidestepped discipline and approached me. He said, 'I am a humble soldier and will retire soon, so I have a request'. When I asked what it was, he said he doesn't want to retire 'just like this… send me to a place where I get a chance to kill the enemies bravely. I have a few months left for retirement, send me to the biggest den of terrorists, I want to retire after doing something for the nation'.' Click for more election news In Chittorgarh earlier, Modi referred to the blasts in Sri Lanka and said, 'With all its strength, India stands with Sri Lankans today. India is ready to help Sri Lanka in its hour of crisis.' He went on to invoke Maharana Pratap and Rani Padmini, and said, 'Do you want to see a strong Bharat or a helpless Bharat. Do you want an India that gives a befitting reply to Pakistan and terrorists or one that is subdued by it and sits quietly after a terror attack?' DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttps://vimeo.com/user97422383/about