Bengalis must show family tree to get passport?

However, as per recent accounts of city denizens hailing from West Bengal, it was not only their own nationality that they had to prove but also that of their parents. Recently, a passport holder from the city was asked by the police to furnish his father's valid ID proof, in addition to a proof of employment - such as a pension card. The police had even enquired about the religion and caste of the applicant. Speaking to Express, P Ravikiran of the Passport Verification Cell of City Police's Special Branch, said, "Ascertaining a person's nationality and whether they have a criminal record are the most important aspects of passport verification. We are checking the nationality of Bengalis and those from the North-Eastern states by also verifying their family tree." Ravikiran says that they only verify the family tree in 'suspected cases' - if the individual has been in the city for four years or less and also has an accepted identification card that they have procured locally. "It is very easy to get an identification card here," he said. This level of verification comes as a consequence of, as Ravikiran says, an influx of Rohingyas and illegal Bangladeshi migrants, especially in the Old City area of Hyderabad. It was initiated also because three to four passports were mistakenly issued to illegal immigrants in the city, a police official says. According to a police official, Bangladeshi migrants and Rohingya refugees enter through West Bengal. They then allegedly make their way to Hyderabad, where they stay for a certain period of time. Following that, the official says, these immigrants apply for passport from the city and travel to other countries. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The New Indian Expresshttps://www.magcloud.com/user/besantreddy

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Out of nowhere Samsung reveals exciting new Galaxy smartphone

This will go on to set the bar for 2020 smartphone as it would provide rivals with enough impetus to upgrade their flagships to 5G technology, including Apple that will feature wide-band support. The second revelation from Samsung isn't that great as the brand has revealed that the Galaxy S11 will only be capable of supporting a maximum fast-charging speed of 25W. Although this is a step-up from the 15W fast-charging found on the Galaxy S10, it pales in comparison with the Note 10 Plus that boasts 45W fast-charging speeds. A related report by Forbes states, 'I suspect the reality is Samsung will again save 45W charging for the larger Galaxy S11 Plus, but with big rivals like OnePlus, Honor and Huawei all offering phones with 40W+ charge capabilities, it's surprising to see Samsung be so unambitious with Galaxy S11. It also confirms that revolutionary new battery tech Samsung is working on will not make it into the phone.' Apart from this step-back, Samsung is fitting the Galaxy S11 with class-leading features as they will be adding a ground-breaking camera that's codenamed Hubble because of its extreme zoom capabilities. The handset will also come with new shooting modes, a brand new design, big performance upgrades, enhanced memory, as well as a super-sized fingerprint sensor. Lastly, it will also come with much larger batteries, which is sure to be a crowd-pleaser. ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttp://hax.netserwer.pl/member.php?action=profile&uid=157

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Nimish Pilankar passes away; Akshay Kumar, Richa Chadha mourn loss of sound technician

My heart goes out to his family at this difficult time.' Very sad to learn about the passing away of Nimish Pilankar, that too at such a young age. My heart goes out to his family at this difficult time  — Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) November 25, 2019 Actor Vipin Sharma also took to social media to share his condolences. 'Many techs work over time n rarely get paid for that. Its terrible. Afraid to loose work they stay quiet n keep working. Many times they may not get fully paid as well while they already accept to work for less money in the first place. Rest in Peace Nimish Pilankar,' he wrote on Twitter. Tragic! Condolences to family. Technicians ARE the backbone. But they aren&dhapos;t treated at par with others, even though their jobs are both technical and creative! Even &dhapos;technical awards&dhapos; are held sooner, or on another date, as though they should be grateful for them. Sigh. https://t.co/MTbWPLMp77 — TheRichaChadha (@RichaChadha) November 24, 2019 Inside Edge 2's Richa Chadha shared on Twitter, 'Tragic! Condolences to family. Technicians ARE the backbone. But they aren't treated at par with others, even though their jobs are both technical and creative! Even 'technical awards' are held sooner, or on another date, as though they should be grateful for them. Sigh.' Censor Board member and director Mrunalinni Patil posted on Twitter, 'Sound technician, Nimish Pilankar, aged 29, has passed away…of high blood pressure leading to brain haemorrhage. Point is; does anyone care? Technicians contribute silently n immeasurably to Bollywood cinema. They work long hours coz they love cinema. Do they get credit?' 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://lookbook.nu/kaufenposter

India beat Bangladesh in Day-Night Test to record 12th successive series win at home

ith the resounding win, India also extended their lead in the World Test Championship by collecting 120 points from the two-match series. India had hammered Bangladesh by an innings and 130 runs in the series opener in Indore.Eden Gardens played the perfect host for the historic game with packed crowds on all three days bringing back memories of the times when Test cricket was more popular. However, the lack of competition on the field was nowhere close to the hype surrounding the game.The SG pink ball, which had not been tested in a competitive game before the big game, expectedly assisted India's lethal pace attack which took all the wickets on offer. An evidence of their menacing form was the amount of concussion subs Bangladesh had to use after the batsmen received heavy blows.While Ishant Sharma took a five-wicket haul in the first innings, Umesh Yadav did the same in the second.The game will also be remembered for Virat Kohli's 27th Test ton, extending his overall tally to 70 international hundreds. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttps://www.theverge.com/users/rampagearjuns

The desi versions of the 'Gonna Tell My Kids' meme has people cracking up

Here are some of the funniest Indian version of the viral meme: Gonna tell my kids these were the Google Maps in our times pic.twitter.com/RrhSEjQLNx — Pakchikpak Raja Babu (@HaramiParindey) November 21, 2019 Gonna tell my kids that these are AK-47s.. pic.twitter.com/bttssCVDjI — N I T I N (@theNitinWalke) November 21, 2019 gonna tell my kids that he was the winning captain of cricket worldcup 2019 pic.twitter.com/Cnqovxrr0f — Godman Chikna (@Madan_Chikna) November 20, 2019 Gonna tell my kids, I refused this offer. pic.twitter.com/EoYlr4KknQ — Satya (@absolutesatya) November 20, 2019 Gonna tell my kids that this is Aishwarya Rai reacting after winning Miss World pageant… pic.twitter.com/BEs0aS0QEB — Arjun.. (@iamZoomie) November 20, 2019 Gonna tell my kids he was an astrologer  @JofraArcher pic.twitter.com/n0P5VfqMiB — Manan Gattani (@GattaniManan) November 20, 2019 Gonna tell my kids he Discovered Gravity pic.twitter.com/SKZlQsMwoH — सौम् Yeah (@soumyastic) November 20, 2019 Gonna tell my kids he was the best Chief Minister of Maharashtra. pic.twitter.com/9eIFiqNXCI — Rishav Mishra  (@theNormieGuy) November 20, 2019 Gonna tell my kids this was Jon Snow #TanhajiTheUnsungWarrior pic.twitter.com/rHRDHGMQab — d J (@djaywalebabu) November 20, 2019 gonna tell my kids this was the real superman-spiderman movie & DC comics copied us &dhndash; pic.twitter.com/dIv7o7QH6m — Ujala Arora (@WhereIsMy_Food) November 20, 2019 Gonna tell my kids this team has won 4 IPL trophies pic.twitter.com/QpaVgvHaBY — 32/52 (@Marvellous_Capt) November 20, 2019 gonna tell my kids he was iron man pic.twitter.com/XtQtyz98XC — kar (@donpenguinii) November 20, 2019 gonna tell my kids this is dora pic.twitter.com/7oTeOJp8Lx — Falak Abbasakoor (@FalakAbbasakoor) November 19, 2019 Gonna tell my kids these two were Messi and Ronaldo. pic.twitter.com/j6FVmzS4QD — Fat Uncle Flex (@grumpstarisborn) November 19, 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://www.intensedebate.com/people/neutosgotham

Leopard-prey balance will help cut people's economic losses, says study

And they say this new understanding of carnivore ecology and recognising the benefits that leopard presence offers, could help in managing their populations and helping people to live peacefully on forest fringes. The patterns and drivers of leopard occurrence and livestock/human attacks were determined by conservation ecologists Mahi Puri, Arjun Srivathsa, Krithi Karanth, Imran Patel and N Samba Kumar which was published in the international journal 'Ecological Indicators'. Mahi Puri, the lead author of this paper, says, "Our study provides evidence for maintaining forest cover and prey- abundance as crucial to ensuring leopard persistence in the landscape. An important management implication is that an imbalance caused by the decline in either leopard or wild prey populations could result in an increase in crop loss (to wild herbivores) or livestock depredation (by leopards) respectively, ensuing financial losses to local residents." Krithi Karanth, Chief Conservation Scientist, CWS, adds, "Leopards' co-occurrence amongst people is well known, but they are increasingly being persecuted in rural and urban areas. An informed understanding of carnivore ecology offers in human-dominated landscapes could help in managing their populations and in facilitating coexistence with people." Researchers evaluated the role of wild prey in leopard diet and the extent to which prey offset leopard attacks on domestic livestock. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The New Indian Expresshttps://www.openstreetmap.org/user/musksmelaan

Hussain, Mohajirs, and an India-Pakistan storyHussain, Mohajirs, and an India-Pakistan story

Meanwhile, Chaudhry and the police were locked in a stand-off at the airport. That day, when the MQM sealed its long alliance with military ruler General Pervez Musharraf in blood, was a turning point from which neither the party nor its leader Altaf Hussain managed to recover. A dozen years later, the plaintive appeal by Hussain to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give him asylum in India — 'because my grandfather is buried there, my grandmother is buried, thousands of my relatives are buried there, in India, I want to go there, to their graves, I want to pray' — came on the heels of other attention-seeking statements by him over the last few months, such as blaming Pakistan's ISI for the attacks in Pulwama, Kashmir, or praise for the Supreme Court's Ayodhya judgment, at perhaps the lowest point of his political life. The MQM is fragmented, what is left of it, and its leadership has broken away from Hussain's hold. Where the party could once bring Pakistan's financial and business hub to a halt with just one dog whistle from London, it is now only fighting to stay relevant. It has no patrons in the establishment, and none abroad. Her Majesty's government, which gave Hussain asylum as he fled a violent party feud and an imminent military crackdown in Karachi, and was happy to host him for nearly 30 years, is now going to put him on trial on terrorism charges, over a speech he made in August 2016, to his followers in Pakistan, inciting them to violence. And even if there is some truth to the allegations that R&AW used the MQM to further Indian interests in Pakistan, the recent changes in India's own policy towards its complex and difficult western neighbour, and the MQM's diminished influence, mean it carries little value for Delhi. What Hussain says against Pakistan may be good for the media feeding frenzy in Delhi and rattle Pakistan's cage now and then, but it has little value on the ground. For the first time, Pakistan's most enduring political personality (other than the army), its cat o' nine lives, seems to have no friends or saviours on the horizon. At least not as yet. But for the four decades he has been active in Pakistan's public life, Hussain's politics and his ability to make the MQM count without being physically present to lead it, is one of the more fascinating stories of the sub-continent. Karachi was the city where Hussain built his political fortunes and his, and the MQM's, notoriety. From his self-exile, he had absolute hold until 2016 over his party, which in turn dominated Karachi through a combination of Mohajir nationalism; instilling fear in dissidents,critics and political rivals; and cadres built on blind faith in the leader. His theatrical speeches over the phone to rallies of the faithful across cities in Sindh were comical and absurd to the uninitiated, but they were never without political meaning. Hussain's emergence at the end of the 1970s as a student leader grew out of a nascent Urdu-speakers' nationalism. In the years after Partition, the educated Urdu-speaking migrants had filled leadership roles in the new country's government, politics and business. But with Punjabi reassertion, and with Ayub Khan's decision to shift the seat of government to the newly created capital of Islamabad, Mohajirs had seen loss of their influence. The MQM was successful in turning that loss into a politics of victimhood of those who had left their lives in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Bihar and elsewhere, but were marginalised even in the promised land. It has been said that the party, which pit itself against Sindhi elites and the significant Pashtun population of Karachi in its claim to represent the Mohajirs, was a creation of General Zia ul Haq, as he believed it could take on Benazir Bhutto and the PPP more effectively than the Jamat-e-Islami. Whatever be the truth of that, the promise and hope Hussain held out for Urdu-speakers of Pakistan won the MQM enough votes for it to become Pakistan's third-largest party by the 1990s, until 2013. While the MQM's politics was all in Karachi, its success in elections gave it leverage as a 'king maker' both at the provincial and at the national level. In 1999, in an effort to grow of its ethnic skin and cast a wider net, it replaced 'Mohajir' in its name with 'Muttahida (united)'. Efforts to dislodge it from the city by the PPP, representing Sindhis, and the ANP, claiming Pashtuns, were futile, but resulted in spiralling violence, from which the MQM was no shrinking violet. Hussain's strongest and most glorious phase was between 1999 and 2008, when General Pervez Musharraf, a Mohajir himself from Delhi, was in power. But, even at that time, Hussain did not dare return to Pakistan, fearful of the many enemies he had made at home. He candidly admitted that, in Pakistan, you had to do business with the army to survive. 'The choice before us in Pakistan today is not Musharraf or democracy but between army and even more army,' he had said at a media conclave in 2004, on his first and last visit to Delhi. On that visit, he told journalist Sheela Bhatt in an interview that he felt so much at home that he had never felt like that anywhere else — 'Aisa apna laga jaise apna kahin aur kabhi nahin laga'. His parents were from Agra and had migrated to Pakistan only reluctantly, he said. He won hearts in Delhi by saying that Muslims were killing Muslims in Pakistan and '[p]erhaps the idea of Pakistan was dead at its inception, when the majority of Muslims chose to stay back after Partition, a truism reiterated in the creation of Bangladesh in 1971'. The MQM has always had an acute consciousness of its Mohajir links to India, and has frequently given voice to it, which has in turn fuelled talk that Mohajirs are an Indian fifth column in Pakistan. In Pakistan Punjab, consequently, the revulsion for the MQM borders on the extreme. P.S.: In the intervening night of May 6 and 7, 2007, this correspondent, stuck outside Karachi airport because of the blockade mentioned earlier, dialled the MQM for help. A party functionary soon arrived and asked me to get in the car. We met several blockades, and at every one of them, this MQM leader got out, introduced himself as a high party official, me as an 'important guest from India', and got the 'boys' to open a way for the car to go through. The next day, some of those blockades were sites of violent clashes. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. 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