Wednesday, 2 January 2019
Ramakant Achrekar, the man who made Sachin Tendulkar, dies in Mumbai
Achrekar is best known for being his childhood coach and has always been acknowledged by the celebrated right-hander for the role he played in shaping his career as a child. Tendulkar was coached by Achrekar at the Shivaji Park here. "Sir did not say well-played to me ever, (but) I knew (when) Sir has taken me to have bhelpuri or paani-puri, Sir is happy, I have done something nice on the field," Tendulkar had said last year at an event while recalling Achrekar's contribution in making him the cricketer he became. Achrekar was bestowed with the Padmashri award in 2010. Besides Tendulkar, he also coached many other international players like Vinod Kambli, Pravin Amre, Sameer Dighe, Balwinder Singh Sandhu, Ramesh Powar, Ajit Agarkar, Chandrakant Pandit and current Indian batting coach Sanjay Bangar. Dailyhunthttps://wanelo.co/zeerakeerase
First look of Siddharth, Catherine in Aruvam unveiled
'Aruvam' is the opposite term of 'Uruvam'. Though most of them don't believe in paranormal activities, supernatural happenings make them believe it. Siddharth has a pan-Indian appeal and it was an added advantage as well as more responsibility for me. ' Bankrolled by Ravindhran of Trident Arts, Aruvam has music by SS Thaman. ...Dailyhunthttps://www.mobypicture.com/user/zwikkerjee
Being Baba: What's the one good reason to have a baby?
Fifteen years since that choice, I've not had to fall back on a "real job". 3. Happened by mistake. Good god! What even! You're either too stupid or too careless if that's your reason. So what's the one good reason to have a baby? The answer is "We are ready in every which way, and we really want one." My wife Neha & I got married on 11.11.11. We'd been dating for four years before that, and both of us knew we wanted to have kids someday - but not immediately. We decided to enjoy the first few carefree years of our married life and revisit this important topic sometime in the future. So after we celebrated our 5th anniversary in 2016, we started thinking.is it finally time? The answer was a resounding yes! We were mature enough to take on the mantle of parenthood and equipped for it in every way, but then we started worrying about the world we intended to bring our child into. We discussed the political, socio-economic and environmental situations - and also the increasing lack of kindness and humanity. Did we really want to give our offspring a world like this? Latest Videos Here's what we finally agreed upon. Yes, there are a ton of problems with the world. Yes, things are bleak and people are doing crazy shit - but there's also a whole lot of good left here. Most importantly, one can't give up hope. I have to believe that even one good person can make a change. And good people are the result of good upbringing. So we decided to take on the responsibility of bringing a child into the world and of doing the best that we could to ensure that we add a good human being on this planet. That thought itself was a powerful enough reason for us. and thus came into existence our darling baby boy, Neil Neha Mihir Joshi! I'll tell you the joy of being a father in my next column but I'll end this one with one thought. Having a baby isn't as easy as it may seem. There are a lot of things that one has to consider before bringing a child into this world. Mentally, emotionally, financially and physically, it is a challenging and quite often a draining proposition.not to mention the greatest lifelong commitment.but once you're ready, it is also possibly the most incredible journey you will embark upon. It will be difficult. You will not be prepared. But you'll learn along the way and you will love it! I'm constantly in awe of how Neha is handling being a mom and I'm managing quite all right too as a dad. I've done a lot of interesting things in my life. I've been a singer, an anchor, a talk show host, a WWE commentator but the most amazing thing I've done is - #BeingBaba! (The writer is a singer-his debut album Mumbai Blues won the GIMA Award for Best Rock Album in 2015-hosts his own talk show-The MJ Show and does live Hindi commentary for WWE. Follow him on twitter @mihirjoshimusic) Dailyhunthttps://www.avitop.com/cs/members/zwikkerjee.aspx
'At home with family': UAE releases first picture of 'runaway' princess
"At the request of the family, on 15th December 2018, Mary Robinson... met with Her Highness Sheikha Latifa in Dubai," the foreign ministry said in a statement published by the state-run WAM news agency. "During her visit to Dubai, Mary Robinson was reassured that HH Sheikha Latifa is receiving the necessary care and support she requires." It was not immediately possible to confirm details of the meeting with a spokesperson for Robinson, who served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002. Sheikha Latifa, a daughter of Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, appeared in a YouTube video in March in which she announced she was about to flee. The video, in which she said she was leaving because of restrictions imposed on her family, was distributed after it became clear that her attempt to get away had failed. Accounts by people involved in the escape attempt said that Sheikha Latifa fled first to Oman, before boarding a yacht which was surrounded by the Indian navy and then towed back to the UAE. A source close to the Dubai government told AFP in April the princess had been "brought back" to Dubai. The UAE said Monday its announcement "rebuts false allegations and provided evidence that Her Highness Sheikha Latifa was at home and living with her family in Dubai." The foreign ministry said the statement was initially delivered on Friday to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Following Sheikha Latifa's disappearance, the UK-based advocacy group Detained in Dubai took up her case and alerted the UN human rights commission. ... Dailyhunthttps://forums.ubi.com/member.php/3481464-zeerakeerase
Built to last: The FTR 1200 series
The 1200 series, however, has been engineered to deliver that performance from a new liquid-cooled 1,203 cc V-Twin engine that delivers 120 horsepower. The FTR series bikes come with the latest technology on board that includes Bosch stability control, six-axis inertial sensors, multiple riding modes and a 4.3-inch colour touchscreen dash for easy control. Being sports bikes, the FTR 1200 series bikes are touted to be extremely agile for their size and the ride experience is said to be nothing short of thrilling. The bikes boast an upright riding position that makes it easy to handle as the commanding riding position also ensures you have maximum control of the bike through corners or on long hauls. The Indian FTR 1200S and FTR 1200S Race Replica are set to make their debut in April next year in India. Dailyhunthttp://www.penninetroutfarmandfishery.co.uk/UserProfile/tabid/61/userId/1770813/Default.aspx
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Time to honour the battles of Indians with disabilities
Glaring deficiencies caused inconveniences to these voters in the poll-bound states. Several polling booths in Telangana were not disabled-friendly either. The Election Commission had announced special guidelines to encourage disabled voters. Yet, there was a lukewarm response to the 'Chunavana' app, which sought to encourage differently-abled voters to book transportation online in order to go out and vote in Karnataka. The number of EVMs with Braille were insufficient, as were wheelchairs and other basic amenities. There are numerous other instances of initiatives aimed at the differently abled faltering. 'Sugamya', an app that seeks to provide welfare services to senior citizens and differently-abled people, is not functioning properly. The campaign to press for equal opportunities and rights has taken a back seat and access to education, employment, health and commerce remains unsatisfactory.Tellingly, the Indian media have remained indifferent to the plight of this marginalized segment that constitutes 2.21 per cent of the population, even though the fourth pillar of society has the responsibility of safeguarding the interests of the socially and economically backward. The coverage of issues concerning people with special needs is sporadic. Disability makes it to the pages mostly in the month of December because of International Day of Persons with Disabilities that falls on the third of the month. Even then, events, rather than the violation of rights for the differently abled, are prioritized. It is pertinent to mention that a report by Human Rights revealed that sexual assault of the differently abled are seldom talked about in the media.An additional problem is the lack of training and sensitivity among journalists who report on disability. This is manifest in the insensitivity of the language - 'blind', 'lame' or 'deaf and dumb' - that is used in stories on disability. Differently-abled women from villages suffer from a double invisibility - for being women from India's hinterland. Incidentally, the Press Council of India apparently does not have a specific guideline when it comes to covering disability. Even though India is a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Indian media are not paying attention to the directives brought out by the International Labour Organization while reporting on disability .The media should adopt a holistic approach when it comes to covering or discussing the needs and rights of the differently abled. Such an approach could foster a spirit of inclusion and ensure that India meets its SDGs in the days to come. 1677331 Dailyhunthttps://www.sbnation.com/users/zeekrpheek
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Imran Re-engages India and us
But the initial foray has been anything but reassuring, if not outright frustrating to him. His initiative on reactivating the Kartarpur border crossing with India and ensuring a visa-free entry into Pakistani territory for Sikh pilgrims to the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib did force New Delhi to reciprocate-in fact, pre-empt the Pakistani move. However, the gambit didn't quite go the full length as Imran may have hoped for. Imran may have been overly sanguine about melting the long frost in relations between the two countries. His optimism gushed from his belief that he was unlike his predecessors in power. He wasn't a traditional politician with little else but politics under his belt. He had a constituency among the Indians because of his previous career in cricket, which made millions in India his fans. He stood a better chance than them to cut the Gordian knot with India. Imran wasn't alone in that rosy assessment of his chances with India. The Indian journalist Barkha Dutt shared his optimism. Writing in the Washington Post after her visit to the Kartarpur Corridor's foundation-laying ceremony on the Pakistani side, she said: "If there is to be even incremental progress between the two nuclear-armed nations. Khan is presently India's best bet." That the Modi government isn't inclined, at present, to bet its money on Imran is frustrating to the Pakistani PM. Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj lost no time in dousing cold water on any expectations in Pakistan that Imran's Kartarpur initiative would lead to early resumption of the long-stalled dialogue with India. Sushma was brutally frank in telling Pakistan that Kartarpur or no Kartarpur, her government wasn't going to rush into talks with Imran's Pakistan. So a reality check hasn't taken long to sink in with Imran. India will not play ball with Pakistan because Modi sarkar has all its energies riveted on the upcoming elections in India, a few months from now. A South Asian cold war with a 'nettlesome' Pakistan will be a good card to wield in the election campaign. As the going gets tough for its prospects to gain another five years in power, the BJP may well have concluded that normalcy with Pakistan will not be an election-winning ploy. Imran must wait for the impending 2019 election outcome to rekindle any hope of a breakthrough with India. But serendipity may have suddenly brightened up chances of administering a healing touch to Pakistan's frustratingly long-moribund, roller-coaster relations with Washington. It would be an understatement to say that since Donald Trump's innings started in Washington, Pakistan has had one humiliation and frustration after another with his administration. It was only last month that a Twitter-addicted Trump administered another tongue-lashing to Pakistan. In a tweet out of the blue he accused Pakistan of being ungrateful and not doing "a damn" for Washington in return for billions poured into its coffers. But unlike his predecessors in power-who mostly meekly lumped Trump's brazen insults and slurs-Imran refused to buckle under Trump's verbal assault and gave it back, straight out, to him in his own medium. In several of his own tweets, Imran told Trump that Pakistan on his watch will do what was good for Pakistan and not what may please others.Although Imran denied in a recent interview with the Washington Post that he was in a Twitter war with Trump, his standing up to Trump's bullying seems to have paid off, handsomely. Trump has unexpectedly decided to sue for peace with Imran. In a letter to him-which took Pakistani and American pundits by surprise-Trump has sought Pakistan's help to find a negotiated end to the Afghanistan imbroglio. He has asked Imran to help by prevailing upon the Taliban to engage themselves in a dialogue to bring the long-festering episode to an end. Zalmay Khalilzad, Trump's point man for Afghanistan, has visited Islamabad thrice in recent weeks to get Pakistan completely on board in the bid to get the Taliban fully engaged in the peace process. Pakistan is ready to use its influence with the Taliban to further peace prospects in Afghanistan. But Imran would play ball on a wicket that doesn't bruise Pakistan's self-respect. In his Post interview, he minced no words in telling Trump and his power brokers that Pakistan will not be a "hired gun." Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has added another dimension to it: He would like to have India also involved in the peace process as a "shared responsibility" of regional countries. To the naysayers, Pakistan may seek to kill two birds with one stone. But the realists see a genuine effort by Imran to re-engage both India and US, constructively. It may not be a bad wish. Dailyhunthttps://vimeo.com/user91674555/about
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