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Election paraphernalia captures the Indian markets this election season

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A genius in full bloom, Lionel Messi lifts Barcelona against Manchester United

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A genius in full bloom, Lionel Messi lifts Barcelona against Manchester United


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SRH vs CSK Predicted Playing 11, IPL 2019 Live Updates: CSK one win away from Playoffs berth

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IPL 2019: Moises Henriques, Mujeeb Ur Rahman injured for Kings XI Punjab

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In Kerala, candidates across parties find poll heat has a whole new meaning

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Spanish election CRISIS: Polls show Pedro Sanchez losing grip on power to right-wing

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 12:42 AM PDT



PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez is barely hanging on to power as the latest polls predict he won't secure a majority in the upcoming Spanish elections.

Mid-air horror as German government jet makes TERRIFYING emergency landing - pictures

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 04:05 PM PDT



A GERMAN government plane was forced to make an emergency landing after a mid-air technical malfunction.

Bible SHOCK claim: ’Jesus Christ spotted’ in images of burning Notre Dame Cathedral

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 01:01 AM PDT



A SILHOUETTE of Jesus Christ has been spotted in the flames of the devastating inferno which engulfed Notre Dame Cathedral, shock claims suggest. 

Indonesia election: Polls close in historic election - what do quick count results show?

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 01:00 AM PDT



THE Indonesia election results are set to be announced with the initial 'quick count' for the presidential and legislative elections first to be called.

Indonesia election 2019: Widodo in BIZARRE Game of Thrones meme as voters head to polls

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 10:18 PM PDT



PRESIDENT Joko Widodo's presidential race in Indonesia has been compared to the HBO series Game of Thrones by social media users.

Trudeau on the BRINK: Canada PM suffers blow after Conservative win in Alberta

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 08:43 PM PDT



JUSTIN TRUDEAU's tenure as Canadian Prime Minister suffered a major blow after an energy industry supporting politician swept to power in the Alberta election.

Trump reveals who he believes will face him in the 2020 election - ‘he should be SCARED’

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 07:13 PM PDT



US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has revealed on Twitter he thinks Bernie Sanders will be a finalist in the 2020 elections.

Trump advisor makes HUGE 2020 election claim - ‘He will DEMOLISH the Democrats’

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 06:52 PM PDT



A MEMBER of Donald Trump's 2020 Presidential campaign has claimed the Republican will once again beat the Democrats in next year's election.

Trump ATTACKS ‘crazy’ Bernie Sanders on his huge income ahead of 2020 election

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 06:55 PM PDT



US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has attacked Bernie Sanders over his huge income on Twitter.

Iran brands US ‘TERRORISTS’ as tensions between sparring nations threaten to EXPLODE

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 06:34 PM PDT



IRAN has branded US army officers in its country "terrorists" in retaliation to its own defence being labelled a terror group.

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China’s Rebounding Economy Strengthens Beijing’s Hand in Trade Talks With the U.S.

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 12:57 AM PDT

China’s economy rebounded through the first quarter, offering the government room for maneuver as trade negotiations with the U.S. enter a crucial stage.

Gross domestic product rose 6.4 percent in the first three months from a year earlier — matching last quarter’s pace and beating economists’ estimates. Factory output in March jumped 8.5 percent from a year earlier, much higher than forecast. Retail sales expanded 8.7 percent while investment was up 6.3 percent in the year to date.

The numbers are a reversal from as recently as January when key readings were pointing to a pronounced downturn. U.S. officials had previously touted such weakness as leverage in their push for a trade agreement.

“President Trump and other U.S. officials spent much of the last year saying that China’s slowdown was making Beijing desperate for a deal,” said Michael Hirson, Practice Head, China and Northeast Asia at Eurasia Group and a former U.S. Treasury Department official. “Now that China’s growth is recovering, Trump and team will be getting more questions from pundits and the media about whether his leverage is slipping away.”

While the better data isn’t likely to radically alter the course of negotiations that are already in their late stages, at the very least they will change the atmosphere, Hirson said.

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, who in January described China’s economy as “very weak,” on Tuesday said the negotiations are making “very good progress.”

The exchange of tit for tat tariffs last year between the world’s two-biggest economies on roughly $360 billion worth of each others goods had dragged on global growth and hammered sentiment before both governments agreed a truce.

What Bloomberg’s Economists Say

“We expect the economy to continue to stabilize in 2Q, but believe continued policy support is warranted. Government-led infrastructure spending has kick started the recovery. What’s needed still — a turnaround in the private sector to drive self-sustaining growth.” Chang Shu, and Qian Wan, Bloomberg Economics

Car production grew in March for the first time since September, showing manufacturers might be more optimistic after the sales slump last year. Aluminum and steel output also reached records in the first quarter as producers ramped up operations amid prospects for better demand in the world’s biggest commodities consumer.

The robust data stoked skepticism as critics said authorities are again relying on cheap credit to stoke lending and demand. Investment by state-owned firms quickened to 6.7 percent and slowed for private firms to 6.4 percent, underscoring the government’s role in supporting growth.

“I think policymakers, who were choosing “deleveraging” over the past two years, are now back to increasing leverage,” said Alex Wolf, head of investment strategy at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Asia.

It wasn’t all good news either: The surveyed jobless rate remained over 5 percent for a third month and the nominal growth rate, which is un-adjusted for price trends, decelerated. That means slower corporate profits. On top of those, some other factors raising concerns about the sustainability of the recovery are:

A sharp slowdown in fixed-asset investment by manufacturers The slowest services sector growth since 1992 The pickup in state investment, probably on the back of efforts to spend more of the budget earlier in the year. As the budget funds run down through the rest of the year, that investment may taper Polluting sectors such as rubber, plastics and mining saw big increases in output, suggesting relaxed pollution controls

The reports led some economists to conclude that the data mean policy makers will scale back stimulus measures that had been penciled in for the year.

“First quarter and March data confirm a cyclical turning point,” Morgan Stanley economists including Robin Xing in Hong Kong wrote in a note. Reserve-ratio cuts “could be fewer amid strong fiscal support. We expect an economic upturn in the second to fourth quarters as fiscal easing fully kicks in, trade tensions ease, and consumer confidence normalizes.”

For the global economy and for China’s trade negotiators, that’s a marked turnaround from the gloomy outlook seen just a few months ago.

“It strengthens China’s hand,” said Cui Li, head of macro research at CCB International Holdings Ltd. in Hong Kong. “With the strong data, it’s easier to make a win-win argument that China will help the global economy to achieve a soft landing, and everyone is better off without the uncertainties as global growth slows.”

The U.S. Is Planning to Allow Lawsuits Over Properties Seized By Castro’s Cuba

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 11:24 PM PDT

(WASHINGTON) — Stepping up pressure on Cuba, the Trump administration will allow lawsuits against foreign companies doing business in properties seized from Americans after the island’s 1959 revolution, a senior administration official said.

The move marks a change in more than two decades of U.S. policy on Cuba.

President Donald Trump has been taking steps to isolate embattled Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro, who is holding power with help from other countries, including Cuba, China and Russia. The new policy against Havana could deal a severe blow to Cuba’s efforts to draw foreign investment, and spawn international trade disputes between the U.S. and Europe.

The administration official who provided details of the shift spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of the official announcement Wednesday by the State Department.

After that announcement, national security adviser John Bolton is expected to discuss the new policy during a midday speech Wednesday in Miami, which is home to thousands of exiles and immigrants from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

The speech at the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association is to be delivered on the 58th anniversary of the United States’ failed 1961 invasion of the island, an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government.

Johana Tablada, Cuba’s deputy director of U.S. affairs, said on Twitter: “Before they try to euphorically ride a wave of wickedness and lies, they should take a dose of reality. The world has told John Bolton and the U.S. government to eliminate the criminal blockade against Cuba and the Helms-Burton Act.”

The 1996 act gave Americans the right to sue the mostly European companies that operate out of hotels, tobacco factories, distilleries and other properties that Cuba nationalized after Fidel Castro took power. The act even allows lawsuits by Cubans who became U.S. citizens years after their properties were taken.

Canada, France, Spain, Great Britain and other countries with large investments in Cuba have ferociously protested the law and threatened to sue in the World Trade Organization if Washington tries to interfere with the business ties between Cuba and another sovereign nation.

“The extraterritorial application of the U.S. embargo is illegal and violates international law,” said Alberto Navarro, the European Union ambassador to Cuba. “I personally consider it immoral. For 60 years the only thing that’s resulted from the embargo is the suffering of the Cuban people.”

U.S. airlines and cruise lines that bring hundreds of thousands of travelers to Cuba each year appear to be exempt from the key provision of the Helms-Burton Act.

Every U.S. president since Bill Clinton has suspended the key clause to avoid those trade clashes and a potential mass of lawsuits that would prevent any future settlement with Cuba over nationalized properties. Cuba has said it is willing to reimburse the owners of confiscated properties, but only if the communist government is also reimbursed for billions of dollars in damages generated by the six-decade U.S. trade embargo.

The announcement comes at a moment of severe economic weakness for Cuba, which is struggling to find enough cash to import basic food and other supplies following a drop in aid from Venezuela, and a string of bad years in other key economic sectors.

Foreign investment in Cuba increased slightly in recent years, but it remains far below the levels needed to recapitalize the island’s dilapidated, often collapsing infrastructure. The Trump administration’s decision is not expected to drive out major foreign players like Pernod-Ricard of France, which makes Havana Club rum, or Spanish hotel chains Melia or Iberostar, but it could prove a major obstacle to new investment from foreign companies.

“It will harm prospective investment in Cuba. It will not cause people who are invested in Cuba already to pull out now,” said Phil Peters, director of the Arlington, Virginia-based Cuba Research Center, who advocated for closer relations with Cuba and has consulted for U.S. companies looking to invest.

Peters said he also believed the new measure could hurt the Trump administration’s effort to force Maduro from power with help from allies like Spain.

“There are plenty of countries that are interested in helping Venezuela find a soft landing after Maduro, but they are not interested in waging an economic war on Cuba,” Peters said.

The U.S. official said the administration also plans to start enforcing the section of the act that allows the U.S. to deny entry visas to Cubans and citizens of other countries involved in trafficking in the confiscated property.

The Director of Human Rights Watch in Israel Is Being Deported

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 08:15 PM PDT

(JERUSALEM) — An Israeli court on Tuesday upheld a deportation order against Human Rights Watch’s local director and gave him two weeks to leave the country.

The Jerusalem District Court rejected an appeal by Omar Shakir to remain in the country, saying that his activities against Israel’s West Bank settlements amount to a boycott of the country.

Israel enacted a law in 2017 barring entry to any foreigner who “knowingly issues a public call for boycotting Israel.” Tuesday’s ruling was the first time the law was applied to someone already residing in the country.

Shakir, a U.S. citizen, has worked as the New York-based group’s Israel and Palestine director since October 2016.

Israel’s interior minister ordered Shakir’s deportation in May 2018, calling him a “boycott activist.”

The court said that Shakir “continues his actions publicly to advance a boycott against Israel, but it’s not on the stages at conferences or in university panels, rather through disseminating his calls to advance boycott primarily through his Twitter account and by other means.”

It cited Shakir’s support on Twitter for AirBnb’s decision to remove postings from Israeli settlements in the West Bank as an example. AirBnb later backtracked on that decision.

Human Rights Watch said neither the organization nor Shakir promotes Israel boycotts, but has called for companies to cease operations in West Bank settlements because they “inherently benefit from and contribute to serious violations of international humanitarian law.”

Israel captured the West Bank, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, in the 1967 Mideast war. Palestinians seek these territories for a future state. Most of the international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal.

The court upheld the law applying to boycotts of “areas under (Israel’s) control,” namely the West Bank, not just of Israel proper.

Human Rights Watch said the court’s ruling “threatens the ability of all Human Rights Watch staff members to access both Israel and the West Bank.”

“The decision sends the chilling message that those who criticize the involvement of businesses in serious abuses in Israeli settlements risk being barred from Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank,” said Tom Porteous, deputy program director at Human Rights Watch.

The court gave Shakir until May 1 to leave the country. The group said it would appeal the decision and seek an injunction blocking the deportation while legal proceedings continue.

Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan, whose ministry leads anti-boycott efforts, praised the ruling. “Boycott activists need to understand that what was will no longer be,” he said.

Indonesian Voters Go to the Polls Today in the World’s Biggest One-Day Election

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 08:01 PM PDT

(JAKARTA, Indonesia) — Voting is underway in presidential and legislative elections Wednesday in Indonesia, the world’s third-biggest democracy, after a campaign that pitted the moderate incumbent against an ultranationalist former general.

The first votes were cast in easternmost provinces after polling booths opened at 7 a.m. followed an hour later by central regions such as Bali and then the capital Jakarta and western provinces. Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago of 17,000 islands, has three time zones.

About 193 million people are eligible to vote in polls that will decide who leads the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation. Indonesians are also voting for Senate and national, provincial and district legislatures.

The presidential race is a choice between five more years of the steady progress achieved under Indonesia’s first president from outside the Jakarta elite, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, or electing Prabowo Subianto, a former general from the era of the Suharto military dictatorship.

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Opinion polls have consistently given a large lead to Widodo of up to 20 percentage points though analysts say the race is likely tighter.

“I’ve voted for Jokowi because five years in office was not enough for him to complete his brilliant programs for infrastructure, health and education,” said Eko Cahya Pratama, 43, after voting in Tangerang on the outskirts of Jakarta.

“For me, this country is better to be managed by a man with a clean track record rather than a dirty one in the past,” he said.

Widodo’s campaign highlighted his progress in poverty reduction and improving Indonesia’s inadequate infrastructure with new ports, toll roads, airports, and mass rapid transit — which became a reality last month in Jakarta, the country’s chronically congested capital.

A strident nationalist, Subianto has run a fear-based campaign, highlighting what he sees as Indonesia’s weakness and the risk of exploitation by foreign powers or disintegration.

“He deserves to get my vote because I was impressed with his commitment to create a clean government and a great nation,” said Anneka Karoine, 43, after she and her husband voted for Subianto and his running mate tycoon Sandiaga Uno. “I believe they will lead our country better than the current leader.”

Voting ends at 1 p.m. and so called “quick count” results are expected after about two hours.

The First Shipment of Red Cross Aid Has Been Distributed in Venezuela

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 07:08 PM PDT

(CARACAS, Venezuela) — Red Cross volunteers distributed the first shipment of badly needed emergency supplies in Venezuela on Tuesday after months of feuding between the government, which has denied the existence of a humanitarian crisis, and opponents who have been seeking to use the delivery of aid to force President Nicolás Maduro from power.

In the working class neighborhood of Catia near downtown Caracas, government supporters fired a half dozen gunshots in the air as a van arrived to distribute water purification tablets and empty plastic jugs, creating a small commotion on a major avenue during rush hour.

“We’re very happy,” Sergio Guerra, a motorcycle taxi driver, said nonchalantly as the sound of the shots cracked overhead. “With these tablets we can defend ourselves a little better by drinking cleaner water.”

A small contingent of police showed up to restore order, and volunteers in blue vests agreed to close the van doors from which they were running the slow-moving distribution operation. Elsewhere, trucks carrying the aid snaked through a Caracas highway, the drivers of several vehicles jubilantly honking in support.

The delivery of international humanitarian aid has become a focal point in Venezuela’s power struggle, now in its third month, after opposition leader Juan Guaidó declared himself interim president. Both the opposition and the government have been accused of politicizing the aid issue as hospitals struggle to provide even basic care.

Guaidó has rallied the international community and amassed several hundred tons of aid, primarily from the United States, at Venezuela’s borders with Colombia, Brazil and the Dutch Caribbean. But Maduro has steadfastly refused to allow it in, blocking opposition activists who in February organized a caravan to deliver the shipments.

“We aren’t beggars,” Maduro said at the time.

On Tuesday evening, Maduro sought to claim credit for the arrival of the first batch of Red Cross aid, saying on national television that his government coordinated it in line with “international protocols.”

As large crowds have taken to the streets to protest his rule this year, Maduro has been pressed to address the nation’s shortages of essential goods like food and medicine. He’s selectively chosen to accept aid from allies like China, framing it as a necessary measure to confront U.S. economic sanctions.

The delivery of any aid is tacit recognition that his country is in a humanitarian crisis, a notion he has long dismissed as opposition propaganda to pave the way for a foreign military intervention.

In recent years, an estimated 3.7 million people have fled the South American nation for neighboring countries like Colombia, some seeking health care for everything from minor infections to cancer treatment they can no longer obtain. Hospitals in Venezuela often operate without essential supplies, asking patients to bring in surgical gear and medicine.

A recent report by Human Rights Watch and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health concluded Venezuela’s health system is in “utter collapse.” It cited increased levels of maternal and infant mortality, the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases and high levels of child malnutrition.

In late March, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies announced it would soon begin delivering assistance to an estimated 650,000 people and vowed that it would not accept interference from either side of the polarized country. Federation President Francesco Rocca said Red Cross workers would focus on the medical needs of hospitals, regardless of whether they are state-run or not — a pledge repeated Tuesday.

“It will be distributed in conformance with the fundamental principles of our movement, especially neutrality, impartiality and independence,” said Mario Villarroel, president of the Venezuelan Red Cross.

Nonetheless, both sides made not-so-subtle inferences seeking to claim the upper hand in the aid’s arrival.

Health Minister Carlos Alvarado, speaking from the airport where the aid landed, said a total of 24 tons was delivered Tuesday, including 14 generators which have become vital as the nation suffers from consistent blackouts.

Guaidó, meanwhile, lashed out at Maduro’s government for letting Venezuela’s health crisis spiral out of control.

“Aid is entering because they destroyed the health system,” he said. “It entered because we demanded it.”

Villarroel said the aid will be distributed to various hospitals around the country and thanked both state and private institutions for their help.

“Our mandate is to help save lives,” he said.

Meet the Luckiest Dog in the World, Rescued While Swimming 135 Miles From Shore

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 06:54 PM PDT

(BANGKOK) — A dog found swimming more than 220 kilometers (135 miles) from shore by workers on an oil rig crew in the Gulf of Thailand has been returned safely to land.

A worker on the rig belonging to Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production, Vitisak Payalaw, said on his Facebook page that they saw the dog swimming toward the platform last Friday. He said they were lucky to spot it because if there had been waves it probably would not have been visible.

The dog made it to the platform, clinging to the support structure below deck without barking or whimpering, Vitisak wrote.

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Vitisak Payalaw—AP In this Friday, April 12, 2019, photo, a dog sits on an oil rig after being rescued in the Gulf of Thailand.

The crew managed to lower a rope and secure it around the dog’s neck and haul it up. Vitisak said they speculated the dog might have fallen off a fishing trawler, and dubbed it Boon Rod, or Survivor.

The dog was delivered by boat to the southern port of Songkhla on Monday and was declared in good shape after being taken to the animal protection group Watchdog Thailand.

Vitisak said if the dog was unclaimed, he would like to take it to his home in northeast Thailand.

President Trump Vetoes Resolution Calling to End U.S. Support in Yemen War

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 04:54 PM PDT

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday vetoed a bill passed by Congress to end U.S. military assistance in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.

In a break with the president, Congress voted for the first time earlier this month to invoke the War Powers Resolution to try to stop U.S. involvement in a foreign conflict.

The veto — the second in Trump’s presidency — was expected. Congress lacks the votes to override him.

“This resolution is an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities, endangering the lives of American citizens and brave service members, both today and in the future,” Trump wrote in explaining his veto.

Congress has grown uneasy with Trump’s close relationship with Saudi Arabia as he tries to further isolate Iran, a regional rival.

Many lawmakers also criticized the president for not condemning Saudi Arabia for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi who lived in the United States and had written critically about the kingdom. Khashoggi went into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last October and never came out. Intelligence agencies said Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was complicit in the killing.

The U.S. provides billions of dollars of arms to the Saudi-led coalition fighting against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen. Members of Congress have expressed concern about the thousands of civilians killed in coalition airstrikes since the conflict began in 2014. The fighting in the Arab world’s poorest country also has left millions suffering from food and medical care shortages and has pushed the country to the brink of famine.

House approval of the resolution came earlier this month on a 247-175 vote. The Senate vote last month was 54-46.

Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, voted to end U.S. military assistance to the war, saying the humanitarian crisis in Yemen triggered “demands moral leadership.”

The top Republican on the committee, Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, acknowledged the dire situation in Yemen for civilians, but spoke out in opposition to the bill. McCaul said it was an abuse of the War Powers Resolution and predicted it could disrupt U.S. security cooperation agreements with more than 100 countries.

Trump issued his first veto last month on legislation related to immigration. Trump had declared a national emergency so he could use more money to construct a border wall. Congress voted to block the emergency declaration and Trump vetoed that measure.

Trump Is Making Yet Another Move to Apply Pressure On Cuba

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 10:48 AM PDT

(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is poised to allow lawsuits against foreign firms that have profited from former U.S. firms that Cuba seized after the 1959 revolution.

The move marks a change in more than two decades of U.S. policy on Cuba.

A senior Trump administration official provided details of the shift, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of the official announcement.

The 1996 Helms-Burton Act gave Americans the right to sue companies profiting from properties confiscated by Cuba. But every U.S. president since Bill Clinton has suspended the key clause because of fears of alienating U.S. allies and complicating relations with Cuba.

The official said going forward, there will be no more waivers.

30 People Questioned After Notre Dame Cathedral Fire, Official Says

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 10:08 AM PDT

(PARIS) — A Paris judicial official says investigators have questioned about 30 people after the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral.

He said most of them were employees working on the renovation of the monument.

The official, speaking anonymously on an ongoing investigation, said the cathedral’s fire alarms sounded twice on Monday evening.

The first time, some people, including a fire official permanently working on the site, went to check under the roof and saw nothing. The second time it was already too late because the fire was too strong, the official said.

He added that 40 to 50 investigators are working on the case but are not allowed to enter the monument yet for safety reasons.

Over $400 Million Pledged To Rebuild Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 10:03 AM PDT

Less than a day after French President Emmanuel Macron made a call for donations to help rebuild the landmark Notre Dame cathedral which was severely damaged in a blaze on Monday night, more than $400 million has been received in pledges.

Experts say that restoring Notre-Dame, which took a century to build after construction started in 1160, will take years, or even decades. Stephane Bern, an expert on Medieval France and government heritage representative, said the rebuilding would take “10 to 20 years minimum,” Agence France Presse reports.

The director of UNESCO, the U.N.’s culture agency, told the Associated Press that work to protect the 12th Century stone and wood structure from water damage should start immediately, saying “the first 24, 48 hours” will be crucial to the building’s future.

The bulk of the money has been promised by France’s wealthiest individuals and companies. François-Henri Pinault, the 56 year-old C.E.O. of Paris-based luxury goods group Kering, which owns brands like Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, said Tuesday morning that his family would give around $113 million.

The largest pledge came from Bernard Arnault, 70, whose family owns the luxury conglomerate LVMH. The Arnault family and LVMH will give $226 million to “show their solidarity at a this time of national tragedy,” the company said in a statement. LMVH, which owns Louis Vuitton, also offered the French state the use of its “creative, architectural and financial specialists” to assist in fundraising and reconstruction efforts.

Fundraising campaigns of all sizes have sprung up online. The Fondation du Patrimoine, which funds French heritage projects, said it had already collected around €2 million (around $2.3 million) by Tuesday lunchtime in France.

Another campaign, on crowdfunding site dartagnans.fr under the title “Notre-Dame de Paris, Je T’aime!” (Notre-Dame de Paris, I love you!) has raised some €54,000 ($61,000).

The New York-based French Heritage Society, a non-profit supporting French heritage in the U.S. and France, also launched a donations page, inviting American lovers of the cathedral to contribute.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called for a Europe-wide effort to rebuild the cathedral, saying that “[Notre-Dame] is not only a great building, it is a great European landmark” and that footage of it burning would “probably leave no one in Europe untouched,” the AP reports. Steinmeier asked Germans to “support” the restoration.

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Huge Electoral Win For Conservative Party In The Oil Rich Canadian Province Of Alberta

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 11:00 PM PDT



CTV News: Jason Kenney's UCP wins majority government in Alberta

Former federal cabinet minister Jason Kenney's United Conservative Party has won a majority in Alberta's provincial election, unseating Rachel Notley and ushering in a return to the centre-right for the province.

Kenney's victory follows an often heated 28-day-long political slugfest, dominated by name calling and personal attacks, allegations of voter fraud and even a last-minute RCMP search of a UCP candidate's office.

Cheers erupted and chants of "UCP! UCP! UCP!" rang out at Kenney's election night headquarters in The Big Four building on the Calgary Stampede grounds when news of his victory flashed on a screen in the room.

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Update:Jason Kenney's UCP wins majority, defeating Rachel Notley's NDP (National Post).

WNU Editor: The election was not even close. With over 50% of the vote, the United Conservative Party has won a massive majority, and will immediately join the growing provincial opposition to Prime Minister Trudeau's climate and economic policies.

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Pledges To Rebuild The Notre Dame Cathedral Poor In

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 10:00 PM PDT



Business Insider:Here are all the people and companies who have collectively pledged nearly $730 million so far to help rebuild Notre-Dame after the disastrous fire

* France's superrich have pledged to donate millions to help rebuild the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris after a devastating fire.
* The donors include LVMH Chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault, Kering founder François-Henri Pinault, and the Bettencourt Meyers family, which controls L'Oréal.
* Apple CEO Tim Cook said his company will also donate but didn't give a specific amount.
* At least $728 million has been pledged so far.

France's superrich have stepped in and pledged to donate millions to help rebuild Notre-Dame, one of the most recognized sights in Paris, after the centuries-old cathedral was devastated by a fire.

The fire toppled the cathedral's iconic spire and led to the collapse of the roof, but the two bell towers and much of the shell of the structure were saved.

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WNU Editor: While these pledges are impressive, it will really be the small donations that will make the difference. And these donations will be needed .... Rebuilding Notre Dame will be long, fraught and expensive (AP). It will also take a long time before the doors are open to the public again .... Years? Decades? Uncertainty over time needed to rebuild Notre-Dame (AFP).

Picture Of The Day

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 09:30 PM PDT

A view of the damaged roof and debris inside Notre-Dame Cathedral April 16. Christophe Petit Tesson/Pool via REUTERS

WNU Editor: The above picture is from this photo-gallery .... Notre-Dame smolders the morning after blaze (Reuters). Another photo-gallery can be viewed here .... Assessing the damage at Notre Dame Cathedral – in pictures (The Guardian).

Update:
Here is another impressive photo-gallery .... I walked through the gutted cathedral… then the crucifix shone from what remained of the altar, a symbol of defiance in the gloom: ROBERT HARDMAN is among first witnesses inside ravaged Notre Dame (Daily Mail).

The U.S. And Japan Still Can't Find Their Missing F-35

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 09:00 PM PDT

The aircraft, designated AX-6, is the second F-35A assembled at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' F-35 Final Assembly & Check-Out (FACO) facility in Nagoya, Japan and is the first to be assigned to the JASDF's 3rd Air Wing, 302nd Tactical Fighter Squadron, Misawa Air Base, Japan. JASDF's 3rd Air Wing, 302nd Tactical Fighter Squadron, Misawa Air Base, Japan.

Business Insider:The US and Japan still can't find a missing F-35, and its 'secrets' may be in danger

* One week has passed since a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter mysteriously disappeared.
* Japanese authorities believe the fifth-generation stealth fighter crashed in the Pacific.
* The US and Japan have deployed high-end search and rescue and surveillance assets to find the missing pilot and his fighter jet, but so far, the allies have only been able to recover debris.
* "The F-35A is an airplane that contains a significant amount of secrets that need to be protected," Japan's defense minister said recently.

The US and Japan have been conducting a tireless, around-the-clock search for a missing F-35 for a week, but so far, they have yet to recover the downed fighter or its pilot. A life is on the line, and the "secrets" of the most expensive weapon in the world are lost somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.

A Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter flown by 41-year-old Maj. Akinori Hosomi disappeared from radar last Tuesday, April 9. No distress signal was sent out as the aircraft vanished roughly 85 miles east of Misawa Air Base.

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Update:Japan, US struggle to find crashed F-35A stealth fighter jet to protect its high-tech 'secrets' (Straits Times/AFP/Reuters)

WNU Editor: Here are some facts on the F-35 program .... Factbox: The F-35 - stealthy, numerous and expensive (Reuters).

Satellite Images Show Nuclear Reprocessing Activity At North Korea's Nuclear Site

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 08:00 PM PDT

A view of what researchers of Beyond Parallel, a CSIS project, describe as the Radiochemistry Laboratory at the Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center in North Pyongan Province, North Korea, in this commercial satellite image taken April 12, 2019 and released April 16, 2019. CSIS/Beyond Parallel/DigitalGlobe 2019 via REUTERS

Reuters:Satellite images may show reprocessing activity at North Korea nuclear site: U.S. researchers

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellite images from last week show movement at North Korea's main nuclear site that could be associated with the reprocessing of radioactive material into bomb fuel, a U.S. think tank said on Tuesday.

Any new reprocessing activity would underscore the failure of a second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi in late February to make progress toward North Korea's denuclearization.

Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies said in a report that satellite imagery of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear site from April 12 showed five specialized railcars near its Uranium Enrichment Facility and Radiochemistry Laboratory.

It said their movement could indicate the transfer of radioactive material.

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WNU Editor: On a side note, it looks like North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will be meeting Russian President Putin in the coming weeks .... Kim Jong Un to meet Vladimir Putin as North Korea pivots to Russia for help (ABC News).

President Trump Vetoes Congressional Measure To End U.S. Involvement In The Yemen War

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 07:10 PM PDT



CNBC/Reuters: Trump vetoes congressional resolution to end US involvement in Yemen war

* The resolution passed the House of Representatives in April and the Senate in March, marking the first time both chambers of Congress had supported a War Powers resolution, which limits the president's ability to send troops into action.
* Neither the 247-175 tally in the Democratic-majority House nor the 54-46 vote in the Republican-led Senate would be enough to override the veto, which would require two-thirds majorities in both chambers.

President Donald Trump has vetoed a congressional resolution that sought to end U.S. involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, the White House said on Tuesday.

"This resolution is an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities, endangering the lives of American citizens and brave service members, both today and in the future," Trump said in the veto message.

The resolution passed the House of Representatives in April and the Senate in March, marking the first time both chambers of Congress had supported a War Powers resolution, which limits the president's ability to send troops into action.

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WNU Editor: There are not enough votes to overturn this veto.

More News On President Trump Vetoing The Congressional Measure To End U.S. Involvement In The Yemen War

Trump vetoes measure to end US involvement in Yemen war -- AP
Trump vetoes measure ending US support for Saudi-led war in Yemen -- The Hill
Trump vetoes resolution on ending U.S. role in Yemen civil war -- Politico
Trump vetoes bill to end US military support for Saudi-led war in Yemen -- The Guardian
Trump vetoes measure to end US involvement in Yemen war -- Al Jazeera
Trump vetoes congressional resolution to end US support of Saudi-led Yemen war -- RT

Turkey's Defense Minister Makes An Unannounced Visit To The Pentagon

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 06:47 PM PDT

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Daily Mail:Defense Minister Akar, US counterpart Shanahan discuss S-400, Syria in Washington meeting

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Tuesday met with Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan in Washington to discuss the S-400 rift between the two countries and the regional developments in Syria.

According to a statement by the Ministry of National Defense, Akar and Patrick discussed developments in Syria, bilateral relations, other regional security issues, and defense industry cooperation between both countries.

Akar "reiterated Turkey's views and expectations on the proposed Safe Zone in Syria, S-400 procurement, F-35 aircraft and latest developments in the Eastern Mediterranean," according to the statement.

It said Akar underlined the importance of cooperation between Turkey and the U.S. on the basis of strategic partnership that would ensure the stability and security of both countries.

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Update: Turkish Defense Minister makes unannounced visit to Pentagon (AFP)

WNU Editor: This is what Turkey wants .... Turkey eyes Trump protection from any sanctions for Russian defense purchase (Reuters). But it looks like this meeting was a bust .... U.S., Turkey Fail to Break Impasse on Russian Missile-Defense System (The Wall Street Journal).

Islamic State Affiliate Cheers The Destruction Of Notre Dame Cathedral

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 06:23 PM PDT

Image: A poster created by the Al-Muntasir media group - an ISIS affiliated propaganda wing - appeared online on Monday night, according to the Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium

Daily Mail: 'Have a nice day': ISIS fanatics revel in Notre Dame's destruction days before Easter as they describe the inferno as 'retribution and punishment'

* ISIS affiliated propaganda group made a heartless poster of the inferno in Paris
* It was accompanied by a cruel message bidding 'au revoir' to Notre Dame
* The world mourned as the 850-year-old cathedral erupted in flames on Monday
* Prosecutors said they are treating it as an accident, ruling out terror for now

ISIS fanatics are heartlessly revelling in the inferno at Notre Dame Cathedral just days before Easter calling it 'retribution and punishment', according to terror intelligence researchers.

A poster of the blazing cathedral appeared online accompanied by the words, 'Have a good day,' and was created by the ISIS affiliated Al-Muntasir group according to the Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium.

The poster says: 'Its construction began in the year 1163 and ended in 1345. It's time to say goodbye to your oratory polytheism.'

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Update: ISIS Propaganda Group Celebrates Notre Dame Fire as 'Retribution' (Epoch Times)

WNU Editor: Why am I not surprised.

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 16, 2019

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 06:11 PM PDT



Claire Smith and Jordan Ralph, ABC News: Don't despair about Notre Dame — destruction like this can be overcome

The destruction of Notre Dame cathedral is lamentable. A wonderful icon has been largely destroyed by fire. However, we should not despair.

Part of the reason this loss is so upsetting is because we are immersed in a Western way of thinking that equates authenticity with preserving the original materials used to create an object or building.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 16, 2019

Notre Dame's loss is too much to bear -- Douglas Murray, The Spectator

The Notre Dame Fire and the Future of History -- Adam Rogers, Wired

On the Roof of Notre-Dame, Before It Burned -- Lauren Collins, New Yorker

What was lost, what was saved from the Notre Dame fire? -- AP

From France to Mali: Destruction of iconic structures -- DW

Why The Stakes Are So High For Erdogan In Istanbul -- Baris Doster, World Crunch

The Implications of Eastern Mediterranean Gas for Turkey -- Kadri Tastan, GMF

Afghanistan Needs an International Solution -- Sandy Adams, RCW

Kabul, Delhi wary about Afghan peace talks -- M.K. Bhadrakumar, Asia Times

A Cruel April in the Sudan Spring? -- Alex de Waal, African Arguments

NATO's German Problem: Who Needs Soldiers or Weapons? -- Doug Bandow, National Interest

Brexit Will Heighten Division Within the European Union -- Benjamin Woodfinden, National Interest

After years of crisis, Venezuelans wonder what is 'normal' -- Christopher Torchia, AP

Why Isn't Assange Charged with 'Collusion with Russia'? -- Andrew McCarthy, NRO

A trade war between the US and Europe is unlikely to happen. Here's why -- Silvia Amaro, CNBC

World News Briefs -- April 16, 2019 (Evening Edition)

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 05:29 PM PDT

Near disaster: An aerial view shows the vast extent of the damage to the Gothic cathedral's roof, where the fire took hold and raged throughout Monday night

Daily Mail:Bloodied but unbowed, Our Lady of Paris: Stunning aerial image shows scale of destruction to Notre Dame as ROBERT HARDMAN, the first reporter inside the cathedral, reveals sense of 'divine intervention' now uniting an angry France

* France, along with much of the world, has been deeply shocked at the near-demise of 'Our Lady of Paris'
* Yesterday evening, fresh images of the wreckage were released showing the aisle piled high with timbers
* It could have been much worse. The 850-year-old towers which stand guard over entrance are in one piece

Beneath the light rain that greeted a sleepless Parisian dawn yesterday, there was one over-riding emotion: That some sort of miracle had occurred in the early hours as it transpired one of the world's greatest medieval buildings had survived wholesale destruction.

The near-cataclysmic fire which had raged through the Cathedral of Notre Dame for eight hours during the night had finally been brought under control and smothered by first light.

Notre Dame has, without doubt, been horribly damaged. France, along with much of the world, has been deeply shocked at the near-demise of 'Our Lady of Paris'. Yesterday evening, fresh images of the wreckage were released showing the aisle piled high with charred and twisted timbers.

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MIDDLE EAST

Turkey eyes US sanctions waivers on Iran oil, Russia arms.

Erdogan's AK Party appeals for rerun of Istanbul's mayoral poll.

Christianity grows in Syrian town once besieged by Islamic State.

Syria fuel shortages, worsened by US sanctions, spark anger.

Iran's top diplomat in Damascus ahead of Syria talks.

Iran ratifies bill designating US CENTCOM as terrorist group - reports.

Bahrain strips over 100 of nationality on 'terror' charges.

Israeli lawmakers back Netanyahu to form government.

Saudi king hosts Abu Dhabi crown prince amid Sudan turmoil.

ASIA

New Zealand's revises national security threat level to medium.

Satellite images may show reprocessing activity at North Korea nuclear site: think tank.

Indonesians choose president, parliament in world's biggest one-day vote.

Pakistan forces destroy 3-storey building in militant battle.

Kabul announces list of 250 Afghans for talks with Taliban.

Philippines to take legal action against China for clams harvest.

North Korea's stockpile of cryptocurrency worth $700M, analysts say.

'Pompeo lost his mind': Chinese diplomat hits back at US attacks on Beijing's investments in Chile.

AFRICA

Congo's leader sets Ebola outbreak end date after 800 deaths.

Western allies add fuel to Libya's fire with alleged military shipments to warlord.

Late night shelling in Tripoli as Europe, Gulf divided over Haftar's push.

Libya's UN-backed govt appeals to Europe against Haftar.

UN Libya envoy: Haftar offensive on Tripoli 'sounded like a coup'.

Fear of army action as Sudan protesters toughen stand.

African Union gives Sudan military 15 days to establish civil rule.

Algerian military considering all options to end crisis. Army chief says 'time running out' to resolve Algeria crisis.

Nigerian Army destroys major oil smuggling hub.

New UN envoy to work with African Union on Sudan crisis.

Egyptian parliament vote could keep Sisi in power until 2030.

EUROPE

The Latest: Macron wants Notre Dame rebuilt within 5 years.

Notre Dame assessed for structural damage after fire extinguished.

French authorities rule out arson in Notre Dame Cathedral blaze.

France's Macron pledges to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral.

Mutual friends and borrowed cars: how Ukraine's would-be leader is linked to tycoon.

Tory deregulation agenda stalling Brexit talks, says Corbyn.

UK police arrest more than 200 in climate change protests.

Russia's parliament votes to unplug internet from world.

Russia jails Norwegian Frode Berg for spying on submarines.

AMERICAS

Oil workers reveal a Venezuelan region crumbling despite its resources.

Trump expresses Notre Dame 'condolences' to Macron: White House.

Trump says he's not concerned about Mueller report's release. Trump says Russia probe 'con job,' as fuller report looms.

US to allow lawsuits over Cuba property confiscation.

US hands Argentina declassified documents on 'Dirty War'.

Museum cancels event honouring Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro.

Support strong for Guaidó in devastated Venezuelan oil city.

US health officials seek to stem measles outbreaks traced to Israel, Ukraine.

Hundreds of prisoners released in Nicaragua ahead of protests anniversary.

Canada court orders fresh look into Trudeau visit to Aga Khan's island.

TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR

US says Sudan new regime can exit terror list if progress.

US military says it killed ISIS-Somalia deputy in drone strike.

Instagram accounts of Iran Guards commanders blocked.

Iran names U.S. Central Command as terrorist group.

Al Qaeda linked Kashmiri terror chief denounces Pakistan, calls for renewed jihad.

ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS

Stocks rise after solid economic data, earnings.

F1 in talks over second China GP, road race on cards.

Billions at stake as Apple vs Qualcomm trial begins.

Jack Ma defends the 'blessing' of a 12-hour working day.

Does President Trump Listen To CIA Director Gina Haspel?

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 04:42 PM PDT

The C.I.A. director, Gina Haspel, appears to have struck a balance between sticking to her principles while also keeping the C.I.A. mostly free from President Trump's ire. Sarah Silbiger/The New York Times

New York Times:Gina Haspel Relies on Spy Skills to Connect With Trump. He Doesn't Always Listen.

WASHINGTON — Gina Haspel was trying to brief President Trump early in her tenure as the C.I.A. director, but he appeared distracted. Houseflies buzzing around the Oval Office were drawing his attention, and ire.

On returning to her office, Ms. Haspel found a solution, according to two officials familiar with the episode, and sent it to Mr. Trump: flypaper.

Ms. Haspel, who will give only her second public speech as director on Thursday, has taken the reins of the nation's premier intelligence agency at a difficult moment in its 71-year history, under pressure from a president often publicly dismissive of its conclusions and a White House that views national security professionals with deep skepticism.

As she approaches her first full year on the job, Ms. Haspel has proved an adept tactician, charming the president with small gestures and talking to him with a blend of a hardheaded realism and appeals to emotion. A career case officer trained to handle informants, she has relied on the skills of a spy — good listening, empathy and an ability to connect — to make sure her voice is heard at the White House.

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WNU Editor: A puff piece from the New York Times on CIA Director Gina Haspel. As to the her relationship with President Trump .... I suspect that it is good. She is not political, and she clearly has the President's ear.

U.S. Citizens Will Now Be Allowed To Sue Companies Doing Business In Cuba

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 04:22 PM PDT



FOX News:Trump administration to allow lawsuits over seizures of US property in Cuba

The Trump administration intends to announce Wednesday that it will allow U.S. citizens to sue companies doing business in Cuba, according to a senior administration official.

Marking another break from Trump's predecessors that threatens to upend relations with allies, the administration plans to enforce a provision of a 1996 law known as Helms-Burton that allows Cubans who fled Fidel Castro's regime to sue companies that have used their former property on the island.

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WNU Editor: This is going to hurt the Cuban government.

More News On U.S. Citizens Now Being Allowed To Sue Companies Doing Business In Cuba

Trump will allow lawsuits over U.S. properties seized in Cuba -- NBC/AP
In major shift, Trump to allow lawsuits against foreign firms in Cuba -- Reuters
Trump Is Making Yet Another Move to Apply Pressure On Cuba -- Time
Trump to Increase Pressure on Cuba by Lifting Lawsuit Limits -- The New York Times
Trump administration to let Americans sue Cuban companies -- NYPost

The F-35B Is Making 'Mini' Carrier Strike Groups A Viable Option

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 03:46 PM PDT

Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD-2) transits the Gulf of Aden during a vertical replenishment while on a regularly scheduled deployment of Essex Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). US Navy Photo

USNI News:F-35B Allowed Essex ARG to Flex New Blue-Water Capabilities in Absence of Carrier Nearby

ARLINGTON, Virginia – The F-35B Joint Strike Fighter is not only changing the way Marine forces conduct their missions, it is also changing the way the amphibious navy can do its work in the absence of an aircraft carrier, leaders from the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit and Essex Amphibious Ready Group said.

The Essex ARG and 13th MEU were the first to deploy from the United States with the F-35B, and they operated in the Pacific and Middle East from mid-July until their March 1 return home to San Diego. The deployment not only generated lessons learned on how to operate and sustain the F-35B jets as part of the Marine unit and in support of its objectives ashore, but also how to use the new jet to support blue-water Navy missions at sea, 13th MEU Commanding Officer Col. Chandler Nelms and Amphibious Squadron 1 Operations Officer Lt. Cmdr. David Mahoney told the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies on April 12.

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Update: The US is creating 'mini' carrier strike groups, and they are already proving their worth in combat (Business Insider)

WNU Editor: Not all missions require a super-carrier. A smaller version may just be as good.

Has North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un Demoted His Sister?

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 03:30 PM PDT

South Korean President Moon Jae-in talks North Korea's Kim Young Nam and Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un. Seoul, South Korea, February 10, 2018 © Yonhap via / Reuters

Business Insider: Kim Jong Un's 'princess' sister may have been kicked out of North Korea's ruling body, suggesting a fall from favor

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister may have been kicked out of North Korea's top decision-making body, NK News reported, suggesting a fall from favor.

Kim Yo Jong was not listed as an alternate member of the ruling party's politburo during an important party gathering last week, the North Korea news site reported.

She is widely referred to as North Korea's "princess" and has accompanied Kim Jong Un to multiple international events, including the North Korean leader's recent summit with President Donald Trump in Vietnam.

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WNU Editor: She has always been with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un in the past, and she will be in the future. She is not a threat, and she is certainly not a liability. So no .... she has not fallen from favour.

Iran Has Offered To Send Iranian Revolutionary Guard Troops To Venezuela

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 03:00 PM PDT

Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif speaks during a news conference in Istanbul, Turkey October 30, 2018. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

New Arab: Iran could send Revolutionary Guards to Venezuela, foreign minister says

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif offered to send Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops to protect embattled Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro, according to Channel 13 news.

Venezuela has been in crisis since its National Assembly chief Guaido proclaimed himself acting president of Venezuela following a mass opposition rally against incumbent socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

The country has seen two million flee the country following food and medicine shortages.

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WNU Editor: The Iranians already have their "air-bridge" to Venezuela .... New Air Bridge Reflects Iran's Growing Influence in Venezuela (VOA).

Iran's Top Generals Have Lost Their Instagram Acoounts

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 02:46 PM PDT

Major General Qasem Soleimani. © AFP 2019 / HO / KHAMENEI.IR

Al Arabiya: Instagram accounts of IRGC heads, including Qasem Soleimani, get suspended

The Instagram accounts of at least three commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps were suspended on Tuesday, only a day after the US officially designated it as a foreign terrorist organization.

The accounts that were suspended included those of Major-General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force, Major-General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander-in-chief of the IRGC, and Brigadier-General Mohammed Pakpour, the commander of the IRGC Ground Forces.

The reasons for the suspension of the accounts were not immediately clear.

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Update:IRGC General Soleimani's Instagram Page Blocked After US Blacklisting (Sputnik)

WNU Editor: I guess their Facebook accounts will be next.

Iran's Parliament Lables U.S. Forces In The Middle East As Terrorists

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 01:02 PM PDT

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani attends his swearing-in ceremony for a further term, at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, August 5, 2017. President.ir/Handout via REUTERS

The Hill:Iranian lawmakers approve measure labeling US forces in Middle East terrorists

Iranian lawmakers approved a measure Tuesday designating U.S. forces in the Middle East as terrorists, The Associated Press reported.

The bill, which was overwhelmingly approved by the Iranian parliament, comes a day after the U.S.'s terrorism designation for Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officially took effect, the news service noted.

Iranian Defense Minister Gen. Amir Hatami introduced the bill, which accuses U.S. forces of "terrorist actions" and demands authorities use "legal, political and diplomatic" measures to neutralize them, according to the AP.

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Update #1: Iran's parliament labels US troops in Mideast as terrorist -- AP
Update #2: Iran labels all US troops in the Middle East "terrorists" -- VOX

WNU Editor: Iran is following up form what they promised to do last week .... Iran Responds To The U.S. Decision To Designate The Revolutionary Guards As A Terrorist Organization (April 9, 2019).

New Russian Film On The Soviet - Afghan War Stirs Calls For It To Be Banned

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 12:22 PM PDT



The Guardian:'Dirt and filth': Russia attacks film about Red Army in Afghanistan

Portrayal of Soviet withdrawal from country distorts historical facts, claims politician.

A row has broken out in Russia over a film about the Soviet Union's withdrawal from Afghanistan, after politicians and former servicemen criticised its unflattering depiction of Red Army soldiers as unpatriotic.

Leaving Afghanistan, directed by Pavel Lungin, is based on the experiences of Nikolay Kovalyov, a veteran of the Afghan war who went on to lead Russia's FSB spy agency. It tells the story of a group of Red Army soldiers whose departure from Afghanistan is delayed after they are ordered to free a Soviet general's son taken captive by mujahideen fighters. Lungin told Variety magazine last year that the film depicts the "senselessness and cruelty of war".

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WNU Editor: This looks like Russia's version of Platoon.

World News Briefs -- April 16, 2019

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 04:45 PM PDT



Daily Mail:Twenty-three minutes that could have saved Notre Dame? Alarm was raised during mass at 6.20pm but staff could not find the fire until 6.43pm ....when the inferno was raging out of control

* Heroic rescue team charged into the burning cathedral and saved the 850-year-old building from destruction
* Notre Dame's roof and spire collapsed but priceless treasures including reputed crown of Jesus were saved
* Today photos of the cathedral's interior showed debris strewn across the floor and the wooden roof missing
* Police currently interviewing specialist restorers who were carrying out works on the cathedral's iconic spire
* Authorities currently treating blaze as a tragic accident caused by a 'stray flame' and not arson or terrorism
* Two of France's richest men have pledged 300million euros with the total donor tally at over 600million

Officials attending the Notre Dame blaze initially couldn't find any sign of fire despite the alarm being raised 23 minutes before the structure went up in flames.

Paris public prosecutor Rémy Heitz announced on Tuesday that firefighters were called to the world-famous cathedral at 6.20pm CET, almost half an hour before the roof caught fire after a fire alarm was triggered.

But after an initial inspection they said they were unable to find any evidence of fire.

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MIDDLE EAST

Turkey eyes US sanctions waivers on Iran oil, Russia arms.

Erdogan's AK Party appeals for rerun of Istanbul's mayoral poll.

Syria fuel shortages, worsened by US sanctions, spark anger.

Iran's top diplomat in Damascus ahead of Syria talks.

Iran ratifies bill designating US CENTCOM as terrorist group - reports.

Bahrain strips over 100 of nationality on 'terror' charges.

Israeli lawmakers back Netanyahu to form government.

ASIA

Satellite images may show reprocessing activity at North Korea nuclear site: think tank.

Indonesians choose president, parliament in world's biggest one-day vote.

Pakistan forces destroy 3-storey building in militant battle.

Kabul announces list of 250 Afghans for talks with Taliban.

Philippines to take legal action against China for clams harvest.

North Korea's stockpile of cryptocurrency worth $700M, analysts say.

'Pompeo lost his mind': Chinese diplomat hits back at US attacks on Beijing's investments in Chile.

AFRICA

Libya's UN-backed govt appeals to Europe against Haftar.

UN Libya envoy: Haftar offensive on Tripoli 'sounded like a coup'.

Fear of army action as Sudan protesters toughen stand.

African Union gives Sudan military 15 days to establish civil rule.

Algerian military considering all options to end crisis. Army chief says 'time running out' to resolve Algeria crisis.

Nigerian Army destroys major oil smuggling hub.

New UN envoy to work with African Union on Sudan crisis.

Egyptian parliament vote could keep Sisi in power until 2030.

EUROPE

The Latest: Macron wants Notre Dame rebuilt within 5 years.

Notre Dame assessed for structural damage after fire extinguished.

French authorities rule out arson in Notre Dame Cathedral blaze.

France's Macron pledges to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral.

Tory deregulation agenda stalling Brexit talks, says Corbyn.

UK police arrest more than 200 in climate change protests.

Russia's parliament votes to unplug internet from world.

Russia jails Norwegian Frode Berg for spying on submarines.

AMERICAS

Trump expresses Notre Dame 'condolences' to Macron: White House.

Trump says he's not concerned about Mueller report's release. Trump says Russia probe 'con job,' as fuller report looms.

US to allow lawsuits over Cuba property confiscation.

US hands Argentina declassified documents on 'Dirty War'.

Museum cancels event honouring Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro.

Support strong for Guaidó in devastated Venezuelan oil city.

US health officials seek to stem measles outbreaks traced to Israel, Ukraine.

TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR

US military says it killed ISIS-Somalia deputy in drone strike.

Iran names U.S. Central Command as terrorist group.

Al Qaeda linked Kashmiri terror chief denounces Pakistan, calls for renewed jihad.

ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS

F1 in talks over second China GP, road race on cards.

Billions at stake as Apple vs Qualcomm trial begins.

Jack Ma defends the 'blessing' of a 12-hour working day.

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- April 16, 2019

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 10:56 AM PDT



Moscow Times: Russia Has Ceased 'All' Cooperation With NATO, Foreign Ministry Official Says

Russia has stopped all cooperation with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said in an interview with state media on Monday.

The Western alliance suspended military and civilian cooperation with Russia in the spring of 2014 in response to Moscow's annexation of the Crimean peninsula. Several disputes, including a naval standoff in the Kerch Strait and the U.S. withdrawal from a Cold War-era nuclear treaty, have further strained ties between Russia and the 70-year-old bloc.

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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- April 16, 2019

Russia cuts off contact with NATO over worsening relations -- UPI

Military & civil cooperation between Moscow & NATO nonexistent – Russian deputy FM -- RT

'We used to talk during the Cold War': Top US general urges communication with Moscow -- RT

Navies, companies push for torpedo-killing torpedoes -- Defense News

Boeing awarded $21.6M for GBU-57 'bunker buster' bombs -- UPI

Boeing awarded $65M in foreign military sales for small diameter bombs -- UPI

Camo netting, an age-old tool, is being re-engineered for the modern battlefield -- Army Times

US Army is unimpressed with lightweight munition options for unmanned aircraft -- Defense News

Without JEDI, Pentagon's AI Efforts May Be Hindered -- Defense One

Without JEDI, Pentagon's Artificial Intelligence Efforts May Be Hindered -- Nextgov

Could artificial intelligence save the Pentagon $15 billion a year? -- C4ISRNet

Did the Pentagon do enough to convince Congress it needs a Space Force? -- Aaron Mehta and Valerie Insinna, Defense News

Is it already time to worry about the Pentagon budget? -- Joe Gould, Defense News

Net Assessment: The Pentagon Can Count Ships (But Not Much Else) -- War on the Rocks

Why the the days of 'fighter jock culture' may be numbered -- Kyle Rempfer, Air Force Times

Navy, Army See Most Valor Medal Upgrades in Pentagon's Review -- Military.com

Woman Dies in Apparent Suicide at Arlington National Cemetery -- Military.com

Brothers in paws: A list of military-utilized dog breeds -- We Are The Mighty

U.S. approves possible $500 million military sale to Taiwan: Pentagon -- Reuters

USS Ross tracked by Russian fleet after entering Black Sea -- UPI

German air force jet makes rough landing, diverts traffic -- DW

Bad News: The British Army Bought the Wrong Tank -- National Interest

Russia flexes its heavy-lift helo muscles with new Mi-26 test flights -- Defense News

Russia hands Norwegian citizen 14-year jail term for espionage -- DW

Will China's new stealth amphibious drone boats guard its South China Sea outposts? -- SCMP

Chinese military chiefs set to move PLA service branch headquarters out of Beijing -- SCMP

Taiwan to Spend Billions on Bulking Up Island's Defenses Amid China Tensions -- Sputnik

Taiwan 'threatened' but not intimidated by China military drills -- Al Jazeera

US approves F-16 support for Taiwan in face of pressure from Beijing -- SCMP

F-35A crash: Japan's defense minister addresses security concerns, procurement plans -- Defense News

Israel Used 'S-300-Evading' Missile for First Time in Syria Strikes - Reports -- Sputnik

Iranian Air Force to Debut New Homegrown Fighter Jet in Massive Parade – Reports -- Sputnik

The Russian View On The Notre Dame Fire

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 10:00 AM PDT

Firefighters spray water on Notre-Dame Cathedral, April 16. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

Moscow Times:Notre Dame Fire Symbolizes Europe's Decline, Russian Commentators Say

Russian condolences poured in after a fire tore through the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral in the heart of Paris late on Monday, but some commentators in the country said the inferno symbolized the decline of Europe.

Firefighters doused the smoldering ruins of the eight-centuries-old Gothic cathedral with water on Tuesday as investigators tried to establish what started the fire, Reuters reported. The blaze consumed the roof and caused the cathedral's spire to collapse before firefighters brought the flames under control in eight hours, saving its bell towers and outer walls.

Muscovites brought flowers to the French Embassy as a show of support in the wake of the fire. The first red carnations appeared outside the embassy as early as Monday evening, according to the state-run RIA Novosti news agency. At Russia's largest Catholic church, worshippers in Moscow held a service in honor of the badly damaged cathedral.

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WNU Editor: This is my view also. The Notre Dame fire will become a symbol to many on the decline of Western Europe. This is also a good reason on why it should be rebuilt ASAP.

European Churches Are Being Vandalized, Defecated On, And Put On Fire "Every Day"

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 09:53 AM PDT

A firefighter is seen as flames shoot through the front door of St. Sulpice Church in Paris March 17, 2019, in this still image taken from social media. Vandals and arsonists have targeted French churches in a wave of attacks that has lasted nearly two months. (Credit: CNS photo/Instagram@agneswebste via Reuters.)

Gatestone Institute: European Churches: Vandalized, Defecated On, and Torched "Every Day"

* In Germany, four separate churches were vandalized and/or torched in March alone. "In this country," PI-News, a German news site, explained, "there is a creeping war against everything that symbolizes Christianity: attacks on mountain-summit crosses, on sacred statues by the wayside, on churches... and recently also on cemeteries."

* In virtually every instance of church attacks, authorities and media obfuscate the identity of the vandals. In those rare instances when the Muslim (or "migrant") identity of the destroyers is leaked, the desecraters are then presented as suffering from mental health issues.

* "Hardly anyone writes and speaks about the increasing attacks on Christian symbols. There is an eloquent silence in both France and Germany about the scandal of the desecrations and the origin of the perpetrators.... Not a word, not even the slightest hint that could in anyway lead to the suspicion of migrants... It is not the perpetrators who are in danger of being ostracized, but those who dare to associate the desecration of Christian symbols with immigrant imports. They are accused of hatred, hate speech and racism." -- PI News, March 24, 2019

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WNU Editor: With the exception of the "Get Religion" post below, all of these articles were posted before the Notre Dame Cathedral fire.

More News On European Churches Being Targeted Everyday For Vandalism

Churches Desecrated in Ongoing Attacks Across Europe -- CBN
Vandals, arsonists target French Catholic churches -- CRUX
Report warns of 'increasing anti-Christian hostility' in France -- Christian Today
Notre Dame fire was 2nd to hit an iconic French Catholic church in a month -- RT
Vandals Threaten France's Christian Heritage With Arson, Faeces - Report -- Sputnik
Catholic Churches Are Being Desecrated Across France—and Officials Don't Know Why -- Newsweek
Politicians say vandalism at hundreds of French churches is being ignored -- Premier
Catholic churches in France vandalized, set on fire & smeared with excrement (PHOTOS, VIDEO) -- RT
Pakistani Migrant Facing Jail Time Over Damage to Ancient French Basilica -- Sputnik
If churches keep getting vandalized in France, should American news outlets cover the story? -- Clemente Lisi, Get Religion

Could Arson Be Responsible For The Notre Dame Cathedral Fire?

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 09:34 AM PDT

A view of the debris inside Notre-Dame de Paris in the aftermath of a fire that devastated the cathedral, during the visit of French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner (not pictured) in Paris, France, April 16, 2019. Christophe Petit Tesson/Pool via REUTERS

Reuters: No sign of arson in Notre-Dame blaze as nation grieves for symbol

PARIS (Reuters) - The fire that tore through Notre-Dame cathedral was probably caused by accident, French prosecutors said on Tuesday after firefighters doused the last flames in the ruins overnight and the nation grieved for the destruction of one of its symbols.

More than 400 firemen were needed to tame the inferno that consumed the roof and collapsed the spire of the eight-centuries-old cathedral. They worked through the night to extinguish the fire some 14 hours after it began.

Paris public prosecutor Remy Heitz said there was no obvious indication the fire was arson. Fifty people were working on what would be a long and complex investigation. One firefighter was injured but no one else was hurt in the blaze which began after the building was closed to the public for the evening.

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WNU Editor: The political and media rush to deny arson being responsible for the Notre Dame Cathedral fire is quite a sight to see. No one knows what caused the fire, and an investigation has not even started. But the conclusion on every major news network is already been made that this was an "accident".

Will The Release Of The Mueller Report Make Public Those Who Gave 'Damaging' Information On President Trump?

Posted: 16 Apr 2019 09:14 AM PDT



NBC: White House officials concerned about being exposed by Mueller report

Some of the dozen-plus officials interviewed by Mueller are concerned about president's "wrath" if they are seen as a source of damaging information in Thursday's report.

WASHINGTON — Some of the more than dozen current and former White House officials who cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller are worried that the version of his report expected to be made public on Thursday will expose them as the source of damaging information about President Donald Trump, according to multiple witnesses in the investigation.

Some of the officials and their lawyers have sought clarity from the Justice Department on whether the names of those who cooperated with Mueller's team will be redacted or if the public report will be written in a way that makes it obvious who shared certain details of Trump's actions that were part of the obstruction of justice probe, people familiar with the discussions said. But, they said, the Justice Department has refused to elaborate.

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WNU Editor: We will know tomorrow if the Mueller Report names witnesses, and make public their testimonies (which I doubt). As for the release of the report itself. I expect nothing new will be revealed, but it is not going to stop those who have been voicing for two years that the evidence of Trump - Russian collusion is overwhelming to be quiet.

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The Geography Of Online Dating

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A 'Globe Of Death' Motorbike Stunt Show Gone Horribly Wrong

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Cops Are Trying To Stop San Francisco From Banning Face Recognition Surveillance

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How Billie Eilish Became An ASMR Icon

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Bystanders Rush To Save A Blind Man Who Fell Onto The Subway Tracks

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Not In It To Win It: The Dirty Little Secret Of The Democrats' 2020 Battle

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The Cataclysmic Break That (Maybe) Occurred In 1950

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Is Carrying A Sally Rooney Book The New Instagram Status Symbol?

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Private Groups Might Be The Last Good Thing On Facebook

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President Trump Vetoes Resolution Calling To End US Support In Yemen War

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James Corden's Parents Watch 'Game Of Thrones' For The Very First Time

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One Of The Funniest, Cleverest Soccer Goals We've Seen In A Long Time

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Someone Has To Clean Up After Broadway's Creative Destruction

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The World's Biggest Electric Vehicle Company Looks Nothing Like Tesla

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In Anti-Choice Hands, Abortion Clinic Inspections Become A Weapon

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Why The US Government Just Made Its Own Font

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quits Facebook

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 08:18 AM PDT

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a powerful message about the effects of social media. According to the freshman lawmaker, “social media poses a public health risk to everybody.” Read more...

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Dell Outlet sale — save an additional 12% sitewide, including Chromebooks, desktops, and more

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 08:12 AM PDT

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We’ve all heard the three R’s: Reduce, reuse, and recycle. The most effective of the three are reduce and reuse because they cut out some of the need to extract raw materials for new products. 

Earth Day is coming up on April 22 and now until then Dell Outlet is helping you practice reducing by offering an additional 12% off sitewide, giving you extra savings on already-discounted refurbished laptops and desktops. You can help save the earth and save some money at the same time — just enter the code 12sitewide

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Sprint, T-Mobile merger 'unlikely' to be approved by DOJ: report

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 08:09 AM PDT

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Things aren’t looking good for the big merger between Sprint and T-Mobile.

The Department of Justice antitrust enforcement has informed Sprint and T-Mobile that the merger is “unlikely” to receive approval, according to the Wall Street Journal

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Beyonce drops surprise live album

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Beyonce dropped a live album to coincide with the release of her Netflix special, Homecoming. Both feature her historic 2018 Coachella performance, dubbed "Beychella." Read more...

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Samsung Chromebook Pro is on sale for $469.99 at Amazon — that's $120 cheaper than on Samsung's site

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 07:48 AM PDT

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fAmazon is not messing around today: The Samsung Chromebook Pro is $80 off, making it just $469.99. (It's technically $120 off, if you consider that the laptop is $599.99 on Samsung's site.)

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Tucker Carlson says Democrats want to consume Buttigieg like a 'stew ... Yum.'

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 07:43 AM PDT

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Move over, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Tucker Carlson has a new wildly unhealthy obsession with a politician, and that's Mayor Pete Buttigieg.  

On Tucker Carlson Tonight on Tuesday, Carlson accused Democrats of loving the candidate too much, especially after one fan compared Buttigieg to "chicken soup for the soul."

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Hidrate Spark water bottle glows when it's time to take a drink — and it's $10 off on Amazon

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Sophie Turner unleashes her power in thrilling 'Dark Phoenix' trailer

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We know the old adage – absolute power corrupts, and all that. But Fox's Dark Phoenix– the last film currently planned in the X-Men series that began with 2011's First Class– asks what happens when you underestimate that power?

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'Super Smash Bros. Ultimate' update adds stage builder, first DLC character

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In a surprise update, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch is getting its first DLC fighter and stage, a Stage Builder mode, a new video editing feature, and more.

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Persona invades Smash

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The Ultimate Ears WONDERBOOM speaker is reduced by £40, in a range of colours

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Your choice of speaker says a lot about you. If you go for a powerful option with a lot of bass, then it implies that you like to party. If you go for a portable device, then you probably enjoy travelling.

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Apple might launch a new, 4.7-inch iPhone in March 2020

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Small smartphone aficionados, rejoice: Apple is reportedly looking to launch a 4.7-inch version of the iPhone in March next year. 

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Yup, 'Game of Thrones' Season 8 premiere piracy numbers are huge

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 06:43 AM PDT

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When it comes to Game of Thrones and piracy — or, really, any popular piece of media and piracy — the question isn't so much "if" as it is "how many." In Game of Thrones case, how many is... a lot.

New stats from the online piracy data firm Muso suggest that the April 14 season premiere of HBO's hit series was downloaded or watched illegally more than 54 million times in the 24 hours after it aired. For context, Nielsen's tracking puts the total number of legal viewers on Sunday night at 17.4 million.

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Save up to 11% on Dell Alienware laptops and desktops in the UK

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 06:25 AM PDT

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If you're a serious gamer, then you'll know that your hardware can be the difference between victory and defeat.

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Posted: 17 Apr 2019 06:24 AM PDT

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Pitcher pulls off a move straight out of the 'Matrix' to avoid line drive

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 06:21 AM PDT

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Houston Astros pitcher Collin McHugh went full Matrix on Tuesday night, bending backwards to avoid a line drive like Keanu Reeves dodging bullets in a feat of human flexibility. 

McHugh's impressive reflexes not only helped him dodge the line drive hit by Oakland's Kendrys Morales (though the ball did reportedly graze McHugh's hand), it also helped the Astros turn a double play. 

After the game, home plate umpire Bob Guccione recounted what he saw, telling MLB.com, "it reminded me exactly of Keanu Reeves and The Matrix. And so I had to go out there and I told him, 'Man, that was just like The Matrix.'" Read more...

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What your favorite 'Game of Thrones' Season 8 theories say about you

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 06:11 AM PDT

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Heading into Season 8 of Game of Thrones, every fan has their favorite theories on what will happen, when, and to whom. Can Cersei take the Iron Throne? Will Arya finish off her kill list? Does Bran hold the key to ending The Long Night? The list goes on.

Of course, HBO is keeping a tight lid on the final secrets of Thrones' epic saga — and only time will tell which fan predictions, if any, are correct.

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Here's yet another way to add Google Assistant voice control in your car

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 06:00 AM PDT

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OK, Google.

At CES in Las Vegas earlier this year, Google boasted about new ways to use its digital assistant everywhere you go: in the Google Maps app, infotainment systems, and car accessories. Now Google Assistant is available for hardcore users whose cars aren't so "smart" and can't work with Android Auto. It's the first after-market device to bring Google Assistant to the car.

In a partnership with Anker's Roav brand, the Bolt device brings Google Assistant to your car through your smartphone (be sure to download the Google Assistant app if you don't have a Pixel phone) via  car charging socket and stereo. It's optimized for Android devices, so iPhone users will have to wait. Read more...

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Microsoft Surface Studio, Segway Transporter, iPad Pro, Sandisk SSD, and more deals for April 17

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 04:39 AM PDT

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Reinvent the way you create with the Microsoft Surface StudioAmazon has a few renewed ones for a fraction of the price with a 90 day warranty. Renewed items are tested to work and look like brand new. It includes a Surface Pen, Surface Keyboard, Surface Mouse, and a Zero Gravity Hinge, so you have everything you need to start designing from the get-go. The Microsoft Surface Studio all in one desktop offers performance and has a clean, minimalist design to complete your workstation.

Want to see more deals? Keep scrolling as we have gathered more deals from Amazon, Walmart, Home Depot, and Dell for Wednesday, April 17:  Read more...

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Having a long-distance best friend can be tough. Here's how to make it easier.

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 04:00 AM PDT

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Best friends are undoubtedly, well ... the best. They're the first people you want to share exciting news with; the ones who know you better than anyone else. Having a new friend reach "best friend level" is an incredibly special moment that can only be expressed through this GIF: 

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We meet our best friends at different points in our lives, and the longer we have those friends, the more likely it is that the friendship will become a long-distance one at some point, as either or both of you move for school or work or life. Theoretically, modern technology and social media should make being long-distance best friends easy, but there's far more to it than that.  Read more...

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Video game teaches women to operate robots set to take their garment jobs

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 04:00 AM PDT

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Robots are taking over the garment industry in southeast Asia. And while these machines help companies make clothes quickly and cheaply, they also spell doom for a number of garment workers. 

Enter Shimmy Technologies, a company trying to tackle the problem through an unexpected method: a video game that utilizes artificial intelligence. Using the game, the company wants to teach female workers skills that will help them run the technology in place at their jobs, ultimately helping them stay employed — and possibly make more money — even after automation. 

According to a 2016 report from the International Labor Organization, more than half of all workers in five Southeast Asian countries — Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam — face a high risk of job loss due to automation in the coming two decades. Jobs in the garment industry are especially at-risk: 64 percent of Indonesians working in the textile, clothing, or footwear industry are at high risk of losing their jobs to automation, while in Cambodia that number climbs to 88 percent. Read more...

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Dell laptops, Amazon devices, Sony speakers, Philips beard trimmers, and more on sale for April 17 in the UK

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 03:47 AM PDT

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We love a wholesome programme over here in the UK. For years we have fallen deeply in love with the quaint Great British Bake Off, and now it seems that the Great British Sewing Bee is capturing our collective imagination too.

With this in mind, we have tracked down a selection of the best deals on sewing machines, so you too can jump on board the runaway train that is the sewing craze. OK, that might be a slight exaggeration, but still, sewing could be fun, right?

Don't worry if you have absolutely no intention of sewing anything anytime soon, because we have also handpicked the best deals on everything from electric toothbrushes to speakers, including top brands like Sony, Ultimate Ears, eufy, and Philips. Read more...

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Best CBD oil for dogs, according to reviews from pet parents

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 03:00 AM PDT

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All CBD products listed in this story are derived from hemp. Some CBD products, like those derived from marijuana, are only legal in certain states;see hereto determine whether or not you can legally make a purchase. Additionally, THC/CBD edibles and additives are not necessarily FDA-approved.


Despite the fact that CBD is suddenly everywhere, the knowledge gap still isn't closing as fast as new products are coming to the market — and we're not down with that. We've covered the human side, and now it's time for a doggy deep dive. Some 50 hours of research, more than 2,000 customer reviews, and conversations with two industry experts are to thank for this guide on the best CBD for dogs. Read more...

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Who is this alien? Why, it's the psychedelic frogfish.

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 03:00 AM PDT

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"Who is this alien?" is Mashable’s enduring series about the exceptionally peculiar critters that inhabit a relatively small, ocean-dominated world in the outer realms of the Milky Way galaxy, called Earth. Many of these lifeforms, you’ll find, are quite alien.


Hiding in the nooks and crannies of dead piles of Indonesian coral is a pudgy fish, wholly covered in swirls of orange and white. Seen from the right perspective, the critter might be mistaken for a vibrantly colored brain. 

But amid the explosion of whirling lines are cryptic, aquamarine eyes and a camouflaged frown. Inhabiting shallow seas around the tropical Ambon Island, this creature was mostly unknown to the scientific world until 2008.  Read more...

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Ring the alarm: Beyoncé just dropped a new live album

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 02:44 AM PDT

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The moment we've all been waiting for is finally here. Yes, that's right, Beyoncé has just dropped a new album. 

Entitled Homecoming, the live album has been released to coincide with the just-launched Netflix documentary of the same name.

The live album features the full setlist from Beyoncé's iconic Coachella performance, including tracks like "Crazy in Love," "Formation," "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It) and "Drunk in Love." 

And for the Destiny's Child stans among us, there's also "Bug A Boo," "Say My Name," "Lose My Breath," and "Soldier."  Read more...

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James Corden's parents watch 'Game of Thrones' for the first time and it's an absolute riot

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 02:29 AM PDT

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You might not know Malcolm and Margaret Corden — AKA James Corden's mum and dad — personally, but after you've watched this video, you'll wish you did. 

James' parents, who live in High Wycombe in the UK, were tasked with watching the first episode of the new series of Game of Thrones. Having never seen a single episode, the pair haven't the foggiest idea what's going on. And witnessing their reactions is nothing short of hilarious. 

Firstly, Margaret is confused at the mention of Sansa, and thinks they're referring to Santa. Then, Malcolm offers up his thoughts on Daenerys and Jon Snow getting loved up in front of a waterfall.  Read more...

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Here's an important interview with that kid who shaved his siblings' heads

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 02:00 AM PDT

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Children are often adorable, but they can also be little terrors.

Here to perfectly illustrate that dichotomy is the Plucknette Family, who recently went viral on Instagram after little Teddy found an electric razor and decided to give his siblings a trim.

In the clip above from Jimmy Kimmel Live!, they chat through the whole saga again.

And although Teddy swears he's not going to do any more trimming, the fact that he's earned his family a free trip to Disneyland probably won't help his resolve... Read more...

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Learn how to take better photos with these online classes — some as low as $10

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 02:00 AM PDT

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Ever since Instagram stormed onto the scene, people have been all about doing it for the 'gram.

And if you really took the time to compare the overall quality of photos from several years ago compared to now, you'd find there's been a discernible uptick. Not just because people are slapping a filter on their shots, but because they're more aware of basic photography principles nowadays (rule of thirds, asymmetrical balance, et cetera).

Consumer tech companies have been paying attention, and now phone cameras pack a bigger punch than many of yesterday's handheld models. In fact, Apple's next iPhone might come with a third camera (though that still might not top the Nokia 9's five whopping rear cameras). Read more...

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Get to know your dog better: This breed test is on sale for 25% off

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 02:00 AM PDT

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In Legally Blonde 2, Elle Woods solicited the help of Boston's highest-paid and most sought after private investigator to locate the mother of her dog-slash-BFF, Bruiser Woods. The probe led to Elle finding out that Bruiser inherited his mom's high cheekbones and that the poor dog mom was currently housed in a cosmetics testing facility, where she was used as a guinea pig for new products. Luckily, in true Elle fashion, she worked her butt off and lobbied to outlaw animal testing, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Curious about your own dog's genetic history and breed make-up?

You don't have to hire a private investigator like Elle did. All you need is a DNA My Dog Breed Identification Test to gain deeper insight as to who your pooch really is. You can pick up a kit right now for 25% off. (Want to learn more about DNA test kits for dogs? Check out our guide here.) Read more...

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How to donate your credit card points or reward miles to charity

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 02:00 AM PDT

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If you have a rewards credit card, and specifically sought out a card with super cool perks, it's likely that you have a stockpile of miles or points sitting in your account. While you can usually tap into those points for travel or cash back, another option allows you to donate your rewards to a favorite charity.

Unlike a monetary donation to a charity using your credit card, where a small processing charge is taken out of your gift, in most cases donating your rewards ensures your nonprofit of choice gets the full value of your donation. (If you want to read about how to use a credit card to help offset your carbon footprint, check out this story we did.)  Read more...

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Elon Musk explains why you shouldn't charge your Tesla battery to 100%

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 01:04 AM PDT

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Electric car batteries should not, generally, be charged to 100%. Long-term, this reduces the battery's longevity, and Tesla cars actually charge up to 90% by default.

But if you're pressed for range, should you change this and charge up to 100%? Well, unless you absolutely must squeeze every bit of range out of your battery, the answer is still no. 

It's not just about battery degradation. In a recent Twitter exchange, Tesla CEO Elon Musk explained that regenerative braking does not kick in at full charge, meaning the car is less energy efficient. 

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30 Beautiful Resume Designs For Your Inspiration

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 08:23 AM PDT

It’s a competitive job market we hunt jobs in and sorry to say, resumes created in MSWord are just not going to cut it anymore. These days, particularly if you are creative, you need an outstanding resume to make an impression on potential employers. When a prospective client looks at your resume, everything you put into your resume is doing all the selling for you.

Not only do you have to ensure that what you put into your resume convinces them that you are the best candidate for the job, you need to create a resume that not only shows them what you can do, but how you are not afraid to break boundaries, and try out new ideas.

Today, I’d like to share with you a collection of 30 outstanding resume designs that come in many forms: infographic designs, booklets, business cards, postcards, personal branding material, posters, website designs and more. Feeling the pressure yet? Perhaps it is time to spruce up your own resume design.

If you need more design ideas, check out some of our published posts below:

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10+ Free Multi-Purpose Vector Icon Sets for Designers

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 06:17 AM PDT

Any web-related project requires the use of icons. Creating icons for each project you have is not only impractical because it is time-consuming work but also insane! There are already tons of amazing icons sets available for free download, all over the Web. All you have to do is locate those high-quality enough to make it into your project.

Well, we’ve gone and done the legwork for you – all you have to do is take your pick. Below, are 20 free vector icon sets that will fit any kind of project you might have in mind. You will be able to find icon sets perfect for business, fashion, food, mobile apps, weather, flat design and more.

To download the icon set you want, click into the link. Can’t find what you want? Here are 70 more icon sets you can download for free.

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Creating CSS Image Sprite with Compass

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 03:19 AM PDT

CSS Image Sprite is a method of combining several images into one image file to reduce HTTP requests and optimize web load performance. There are many ways and handy tools to do this, or else you can also do it traditionally with Photoshop.

But, through all my experience of dealing with CSS Image Sprite, there is no other way that much easier than using Sprite Function for Compass. So, let’s take a look at how it works.

Starting Compass

Before working with Compass codes, we need to create Compass project watch it. So, every time there is a change in the project including the images and the .scss, Compass will compile it into the proper form.

Let’s open your Terminal or Command Prompt (if you are on Windows), and run the following commands.

  compass create /path/to/project  cd /path/to/project  compass watch  

Combining Images

As we mentioned above, you can use Photoshop to manually join the images or you can also use some handy tools, such as SpriteBox. Compass integrates this feature in the Function. Let’s say we have the following icons under images/browsers/<images>.png folders.

To join those icons in Compass, we can use @import rule and then direct it to the image folders followed by the image extension through the .scss stylesheet, like so

  @import "browsers/*.png";  

After saving the file, Compass will combine those images and generate new image files, as follows.

image sprite
Layout Orientation

Furthermore, we can also set the sprite orientation. As you can see in the screenshot above, the images are arranged vertically by default. In case vertical orientation does not fit the circumstances, we can direct them horizontally or diagonally with the following variable $<map>-layout: horizontal; or $<map>-layout: horizontal; replace the <map> with the folder name where you saved the images.

Horizontal

  $browsers-layout:horizontal;  @import "browsers/*.png";  
image sprite horizontal

Diagonal

  $browsers-layout:vertical;  @import "browsers/*.png";  
image sprite diagonal

Adding Image in the Stylesheet

Once we have done combining the image, we add the image in the stylesheet through background image. Traditionally we will do it this way.

  .chrome {   	background-position: 0 0; width: 128px; height: 128px;   }   .firefox {   	background-position: 0 -133px; width: 128px; height: 128px;   }   .ie {   	background-position: 0 -266px; width: 128px; height: 128px;   }   .opera {   	background-position: 0 -399px; width: 128px; height: 128px;   }   .safari {   	background-position: 0 -532px; width: 128px; height: 128px;   }   

In Compass, we have a couple of ways that are much simpler. First, we can generate something like those CSS rules with this syntax @include all-<map>-sprites;. Replace the <map> with the folders where we store the images.

  @include  all-browsers-sprites;  

This line above when compiled to regular CSS generates the background image definition as well as each of the position, as shown below.

  .browsers-sprite, .browsers-chrome, .browsers-firefox, .browsers-ie, .browsers-opera, .browsers-safari {    background: url('/images/browsers-sad8e949931.png') no-repeat;  }  .browsers-chrome {  	background-position: 0 0;  }  .browsers-firefox {  	background-position: 0 -128px;  }  .browsers-ie {  	background-position: 0 -256px;  }  .browsers-opera {  	background-position: 0 -384px;  }  .browsers-safari {  	background-position: 0 -512px;  }  

Or, we can also add background image individually to particular selectors with this syntax @include <map>-sprite(image-naem);; as in previous codes replace the <map> with the folder where we store these images. Here is an example.

  li {  	@include browsers-sprite(safari);  }  

Then, Compass is clever enough to identify the background position, without us having to specify it explicitly. In regular CSS, that line above will turn into

  .browsers-sprite, li {    background: url('/images/browsers-sad8e949931.png') no-repeat;  }  li {  	background-position: 0 -512px;  }  

Specifying Container Dimension

The last thing we need to do is specifying the container height and width that contain the image. We commonly do it in traditional way by manually inspecting the image width and height (most likely through image info or image properties).

With Compass, we can utilize this function <map>-sprite-height(image-name) or <map>-sprite-width(image-name) to retrieve the image width and height. In this example, we will retrieve one of the image width and height and store the value variables as well assign the background image with @include directive.

  $height: browsers-sprite-height(safari);  $width: browsers-sprite-width(safari);  li {  	display: inline-block;  	height: $height;  	width: $width;  	@include browsers-sprite(safari);  }  

When we compile these codes above, it turns into the following in regular CSS.

  .browsers-sprite, li {  	background: url('/images/browsers-sad8e949931.png') no-repeat;  }  li {  	display: inline-block;  	height: 128px;  	width: 128px;  	background-position: 0 -512px;  }  

Conclusion

There are actually a few other useful functions from Compass to use along with, but these are all the essential functions to create CSS Image Sprite with Compass. Still, if you are unfamiliar with this subject, we reccommend you to follow our previous post series about Sass and Compass. We hope you find this post to be useful.

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12 Eye-candy Multipurpose WordPress Themes to Choose From

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 03:19 AM PDT

How many web designers have dismissed everything they’ve heard about multipurpose themes? They did so under the assumption that a multipurpose theme is like the proverbial Jack of all Trades. It may be able to do anything you ask of it, but none of it never well.

That assumption may or may not have been true when multipurpose themes first came on the scene. We really don’t know. But it’s certainly a false assumption today.

There are situations where a specialized theme may serve you better. But in most cases, a multipurpose theme will not only get the job done but absolutely nail it.

Select one of the themes presented here for your next project and what do you think will happen?

It will absolutely nail it.

These 12 multipurpose website-building solutions are not only that good. They’re the best.

1. Be Theme

be theme

Every multipurpose theme has its own set of special features and tools that enables it to successfully take on virtually any website-building project a web designer puts it to use. Be Theme has them in spades. With 40+ powerful core features including the newly-minted Header Builder this, the biggest WordPress theme ever, also boasts an outstanding collection of over 400 pre-build websites.

These pre-built websites cover more than 30 different business and industry sectors and niches together with every website type and style you’re apt to encounter. They’re responsive, customizable, and include functional design elements that guarantee the finished product will feature a UX that will engage users and successfully guide them to the website owner’s goal.

Other notable core features include the Muffin Builder/Editor, and advanced options panel, shortcode generator, layout generator, and a host of design elements, options, fonts, and special effects.

Select a pre-built website (you can upload it with a single click), start customizing, add your own content, and you can create a ready-to-go website in as little as 4 hours.

2. Jupiter

jupiter

Jupiter X is another multipurpose theme that can handle virtually anything you can throw at it. Go down its list of website-building features, and you’ll likely agree that the claim that Jupiter X enables you to build the unbuildable has merit.

You won’t have to worry about working around header and footer-building limitations common to most themes. You can build your own. You’ll also be able to customize online shop features like carts and checkout pages that many themes don’t allow you to do.

Creating customized popups, special forms, and out-of-the-ordinary menu styles will never be a problem either.

It should not come as a surprise to anyone that this scalable, developer-friendly theme is attracting so many new fans. Jupiter X is a total makeover of Jupiter, a creation of a member of the Power Elite Envato Hall of Fame, Artbees.

3. Uncode — Creative Multiuse WordPress Theme

uncode

Uncode owes it exceptional flexibility in large part to an adaptive grid system that’s by far the most advanced system of its type. This creative theme, one of ThemeForest’s all-time bestsellers, also features an impressive adaptive images system that detects a visitor’s screen size and rescales your images accordingly.

There are 200+ option-rich design modules to work with plus 28 powerful Visual Composer modules. Its hierarchical theme options feature gives you incredible control over your layout and content, a feature you’ll genuinely appreciate whenever you’re tasked with creating a portfolio that’s a cut above average.

Rather than go down the full list of features, we suggest you visit the Uncode site and browse its showcase of user-build websites. You’ll definitely be impressed to see what others have been able to accomplish using Uncode, and most probably inspired as well.

4. Kalium

kalium

This remarkably easy to use multipurpose theme sports an outstanding selection of theme options, layout designs, high-quality full-content design demos. Coupled with its drag and drop page building feature, Kalium gives you the flexibility you need to be able to create websites of any type or style.

You’ll get periodic updates for the life of the product, and you can rely on top-notch customer support as well.

5. TheGem — Creative Multi-Purpose High-Performance WordPress Theme

thegem

A very large Swiss Army knife may or may not have been on TheGem’s authors mind when they created it, but they certainly came up with a software equivalent — a multipurpose theme that many look upon as the ultimate in website-building toolboxes.

Its 150+ demo pages, 50 and counting multipurpose design concepts and flexible page layouts help you get any project for any startup, business niche, or creative agency, off to a quick start.

6. Brook — Creative Multipurpose WordPress Theme

brook

Any listing of Brook’s features in so tight a space is going to miss out of everything this best-selling multipurpose creative theme can offer. The best approach is to visit Brook’s website and see for yourself.

Remarkably worth mentioning here is the bunch of premium plugins namely WPBakery Page Builder, Revolution Slider, Font Awesome 5 Pro, the excellent collection of homepage, blog, portfolio layouts, hundreds of custom shortcodes, mega menu, parallax scrolling, and so on.

7. KLEO — Pro Community Focused, Multi-Purpose BuddyPress Theme

kleo

This community-focused multipurpose theme lets you put a working site in place in minutes. Easy setup, drag and drop page building, and a 1-click demo import are part of the reason. Another part of the reason could be that Kleo is a plugin’s best friend.

If you have a special plugin or two that you need to get the job done, you won’t have to worry about whether it’s compatible with Kleo. Unlimited possibilities await.

8. Bridge

bridge

Bridge is an ideal choice for creating a website for any business niche. It’s more than 110,000 happy customers will attest to that.

The WP Bakery page builder, Revolution Slider, Layer slider and other plugins in combination with Bridge’s open-ended customizability and its library of 370+ pre-made websites will get your project off to a fast start and take you anywhere you want to go.

9. Pofo — Creative Portfolio, Blog and eCommerce WordPress Theme

pofo

If you’re looking for a modern, crazy-fast, and SEO optimized theme for your creative agency or business website endeavors you should consider giving Pofo more than a casual glance.

Pofo’s great selection of 1-click demo pages, ready-to-go home pages, and 150+ pre-built design elements will give you all the flexibility and customization options you’re ever likely to need — whether its for a blog, portfolio, or an eCommerce application.

10. Crocal — Premium WordPress Theme

crocal

Crocal is brand-spankin’ new; and like any new kid on the block it’s eager to show its stuff. Crocal was created by a #1-rated ThemeForest author, which should tell you a lot about it.

This new multipurpose theme features an advanced grid system (i.e.,it’s extremely flexible), its Gutenberg optimized, fully compatible with the latest version of WordPress, and GDPR requirements compliant.

11. Schema

schema

If your website creations are stunning but don’t seem to get much traffic, Schema will solve the problem. Not only is it an outstanding website-building theme, But Schema will also guide search engines through your site, element by element, it will load your website fast, and it will add clean code to your website.

12. Movedo — We DO MOVE Your World

movedo

You won’t find a magic want in any multipurpose themes. You won’t find one in MOVEDO either, although you might think there’s one hidden in there somewhere.

This top-rated theme’s ultra-dynamic parallax effects, unique animations, and ability to make things appear to move that actually don’t, might be just what you need to give your websites that extra dose of spark and pizzazz.

Conclusion

We’ve tried to make your search for a better multipurpose WordPress builder a little easier. Enjoy this selection of the best of the best. You’re not quite done yet, however. You still need to find which one suits your needs best, and that can take a little extra time.

Don’t worry too much about getting hung up on making a decision. You really can’t make a wrong one in this group.

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ಗೆಳತಿ ಬಾಳ ‘ಸಂಗಾತಿ’ಯಾದ್ರೆ….

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 09:34 AM PDT

ಮಾಜಿ ಪ್ರೇಮಿ ಒಳ್ಳೆ ಗೆಳೆಯ ಅಥವಾ ಗೆಳತಿಯಾಗೋಕೆ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ. ಆದ್ರೆ ಒಬ್ಬ ಸ್ನೇಹಿತ ಒಳ್ಳೆ ಪ್ರೇಮಿ ಆಗಬಹುದು. ಗೆಳತಿಯನ್ನು ಜೊತೆಯಲ್ಲಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡು ಸಂಗಾತಿಗಾಗಿ ಹುಡುಕಾಟ ನಡೆಸುವ ಹುಡುಗರಿಗೊಂದು ಸಲಹೆ.

ಪರಿಚಯವಿಲ್ಲದ ಹುಡುಗಿಗೆ ಯಾರೂ ತಾಳಿ ಕಟ್ಟುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಆಕೆ ಸ್ವಭಾವ, ಅವಳ ಇಷ್ಟ-ಕಷ್ಟಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮೊದಲೇ ತಿಳಿದುಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಎಲ್ಲ ಹುಡುಗರೂ ಬಯಸ್ತಾರೆ. ನಂತರ ಮದುವೆ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಅಂತಿಮ ತೀರ್ಮಾನ ಕೈಗೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಮದುವೆಗಾಗಿ ಹುಡುಗಿ ಹುಡುಕಿ, ಆಕೆ ಸರಿಯಾಗ್ತಾಳೆ ಎಂಬುದನ್ನು ನಿರ್ಧರಿಸಿ ಮದುವೆ ಆಗುವ ಬದಲು, ನಿಮ್ಮ ಸ್ನೇಹಿತೆಗೆ ಮೊದಲು ಪ್ರಿಫರೆನ್ಸ್ ನೀಡಿ. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಗೆಳತಿಯನ್ನು ಕೇಳಿ ನೋಡಿ. ಆಕೆ ಬೇಡ ಎಂದರೆ ಮಾತ್ರ ಬೇರೆ ಹುಡುಗಿಯನ್ನು ಮದುವೆ ಆಗಿ. ಗೆಳತಿಯಷ್ಟು ಒಳ್ಳೆ ಬಾಳ ಸಂಗಾತಿ ನಿಮಗೆ ಸಿಗೋದು ಕಷ್ಟ.

ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬರಲ್ಲೂ ಒಂದು ಒಳ್ಳೆ ಗುಣ, ಒಂದು ಕೆಟ್ಟ ಗುಣ ಇದ್ದೇ ಇರುತ್ತೆ. ಒಳ್ಳೆ ಗುಣ ಎಲ್ಲರ ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಕಾಣುತ್ತೆ. ಹಾಗೆ ಕೆಟ್ಟ ಗುಣ ಬೇಗ ಎಲ್ಲರ ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಬೀಳುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಅದು ಗೊತ್ತಾದಾಗ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಸಂಗಾತಿ ನಿಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಹೋಗಬಹುದು. ಆದ್ರೆ ಸ್ನೇಹಿತೆ ಹಾಗಲ್ಲ. ಆಕೆಗೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಎರಡೂ ಮುಖಗಳು ಗೊತ್ತಿರುತ್ತೆ. ಎರಡನ್ನೂ ಸಮಾನವಾಗಿ ಸ್ವೀಕರಿಸ್ತಾಳೆ. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಬೆನ್ನಿಗೆ ನಿಲ್ತಾಳೆ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಸ್ನೇಹಿತೆಗಿಂತ ಉತ್ತಮ ಬಾಳಸಂಗಾತಿ ನಿಮಗೆ ಸಿಗಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ.

ನಿಮ್ಮನ್ನು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಗೆಳತಿ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ಅರ್ಥ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡಿರುತ್ತಾಳೆ. ನೀವೂ ಕೂಡ ಆಕೆಯನ್ನು ಅರ್ಥ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡಿರುತ್ತೀರಿ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಮದುವೆಯಾದ ನಂತರ ಮತ್ತೆ ಆಕೆಯನ್ನು ನೀವು, ನಿಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಆಕೆ ಅರ್ಥ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಅವಶ್ಯಕತೆ ಇಲ್ಲ. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಬೇಕು, ಬೇಡ, ವ್ಯವಹಾರಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಆಕೆಗೆ ತಿಳಿದಿರುವುದರಿಂದ ಮತ್ತಷ್ಟು ಹೊಂದಿ ನಡೆಯಲು ಆಕೆ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಿಸುತ್ತಾಳೆ.

ಕಿರಿ ವಯಸ್ಸಿಲ್ಲೇ ʼವರ್ಜಿನಿಟಿʼ ಕಳೆದುಕೊಂಡ್ರಂತೆ ಈ ನಟ

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 09:09 AM PDT

ಬಾಲಿವುಡ್ ನಟ, ನಿರ್ಮಾಪಕ ಹಾಗೂ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕ ಕರಣ್ ಜೋಹರ್ ಅಭಿಮಾನಿಗಳು ಆಶ್ಚರ್ಯಪಡುವಂತಹ ವಿಷಯವೊಂದನ್ನು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದರು. ಕರಣ್ ತಮ್ಮ 26ನೇ ವಯಸ್ಸಿನಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ವರ್ಜಿನಿಟಿ ಕಳೆದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದರಂತೆ.

ಲೇಖನವೊಂದರಲ್ಲಿ ಕರಣ್ ಈ ವಿಷಯವನ್ನು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ‘ಕುಚ್ ಕುಚ್ ಹೋತಾ ಹೈ’ ಚಿತ್ರೀಕರಣದ ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಕರಣ್ 26ರ ಹರೆಯದಲ್ಲಿದ್ದರಂತೆ. ಈ ವೇಳೆ ವರ್ಜಿನಿಟಿ ಕಳೆದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದೆ ಎಂದಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇಷ್ಟೇ ಅಲ್ಲ ಇನ್ನೂ ಕೆಲ ವೈಯಕ್ತಿಕ ವಿಚಾರಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಕರಣ್ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದರು.

ಕರಣ್ ಗೆ ಪೋರ್ನ್ ವಿಡಿಯೋಗಳು ಇಷ್ಟವಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲವಂತೆ. ಇಂತಹ ವಿಡಿಯೋಗಳನ್ನು ಜನರು ಯಾಕೆ ಇಷ್ಟಪಡ್ತಾರೆಂಬುದು ಕೂಡ ಅವರಿಗೆ ತಿಳಿಯುವುದಿಲ್ಲವಂತೆ.  47 ವರ್ಷದ ಕರಣ್ ಗೆ ತಮ್ಮ ದೇಹದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಖುಷಿಯಿರಲಿಲ್ಲಂತೆ. ಅವರನ್ನು ಅವರೇ ಇಷ್ಟ ಪಡ್ತಾ ಇರಲಿಲ್ಲವಂತೆ. ಯಾವಾಗ ಆತ್ಮವಿಶ್ವಾಸ ಬಂತೋ ಆಗ ಸಮಯ ಕಳೆದಿತ್ತು ಎಂದಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಕರಣ್. ಬೊಜ್ಜು ಮಗುವೊಂದು ಈ ಹಂತಕ್ಕೆ ತಲುಪಿದ್ದು ಸುಲಭದ ಕೆಲಸವಲ್ಲ. ಇದರ ಹಿಂದೆ ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು ಪರಿಶ್ರಮವಿದೆ ಎಂದಿದ್ದರು ಕರಣ್.

ಬಾಲಕಿಯರ ಮೇಲೆ ಹಾಸ್ಟೆಲ್‌ ಮೇಲ್ವಿಚಾರಕನಿಂದಲೇ ಅತ್ಯಾಚಾರ

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 08:55 AM PDT

ಇಬ್ಬರು ಬುಡಕಟ್ಟು ಸಮಾಜಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿದ ಬಾಲಕಿಯರನ್ನ ಬಲಾತ್ಕಾರ ಮಾಡಿರುವ ಘಟನೆ ಮಹಾರಾಷ್ಟ್ರದ ಚಂದ್ರಾಪುರ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದಿದೆ.

ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಮಾಜಿ ಶಾಸಕರಿಗೆ ಸೇರಿದ ವಸತಿ ಶಾಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ವ್ಯಾಸಂಗ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವ 8 ವರ್ಷ ಹಾಗೂ 10 ವರ್ಷದ ಬಾಲಕಿಯರನ್ನ ಅದೇ ಶಾಲೆಯ ಹಾಸ್ಟೆಲ್ ಮೇಲ್ಚಿಚಾರಕರಾದ ಚಬನ್ ಪಚಾರೆ ಹಾಗೂ ನರೇಂದ್ರ ವಿರುತ್ಕರ್ ಬಲಾತ್ಕಾರ ನಡೆಸಿರುವ ಆರೋಪ ಕೇಳಿಬಂದಿದ್ದು ಅವರನ್ನ ಪೊಲೀಸರು ಬಂಧಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಬಲಾತ್ಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಒಳಗಾದ ಇಬ್ಬರು ಬಾಲಕಿಯರನ್ನ ಚಂದ್ರಾಪುರದ ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ವೈದ್ಯಕೀಯ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಕಾಲೇಜು ಹಾಗೂ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ದಾಖಲಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಇಬ್ಬರನ್ನೂ ವೈದ್ಯಕೀಯ ತಪಾಸಣೆ ನಡೆಸಿದ ವೈದ್ಯರು, ಬಾಲಕಿಯರಿಗೆ ಪ್ರಲೋಭನೆ ಮಾತ್ರೆ ನೀಡಿ ನಂತರ ಬಲಾತ್ಕಾರ ಮಾಡಿರುವುದಾಗಿ ತಿಳಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಆರೋಪಿಗಳಾದ ಹಾಸ್ಟೆಲ್ ಮೇಲ್ವಿಚಾರಕ ಪಚಾರೆ ಮತ್ತು ವಿರುತ್ಕರ್ ಅವರ ವಿರುದ್ದ ಪೋಸ್ಕೊ ಕಾಯ್ದೆ, ಜಾತಿನಿಂದನೆ ಪ್ರಕರಣ ಹಾಗೂ ಆರ್ಟಿಕಲ್ 376 ಕಾಯ್ದೆಯ ಅಡಿ ಬಂಧಿಸಲಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಇವರನ್ನ ನ್ಯಾಯಾಲಯ ಏ.20 ವರೆಗೆ ಪೊಲೀಸ್ ವಶಕ್ಕೆ ನೀಡಿದೆ.

ಪ್ರಕರಣವನ್ನ ಕೈಗೆತ್ತಿಕೊಂಡ ಪೊಲೀಸರು ತಪಾಸಣೆ ನಡೆಸಿದಾಗ ಆಘಾತಕಾರಿ ವಿಷಯ ಬೆಳಕಿಗೆ ಬಂದಿದೆ. ತಪಾಸಣೆ ವೇಳೆ ಹಾಸ್ಟಲ್ ನ ಮೇಲ್ವಿಚಾರಕನ ಕಛೇರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ದೊಡ್ಡ ಪ್ರಮಾಣದಲ್ಲಿ ವಯಗ್ರಾ ಮತ್ತು ಕಾಂಡೋಮ್ಸ್ ದೊರೆತಿದೆ.

ರಾಜ್ಯದ ಹಣಕಾಸು ಸಚಿವ ಸುಧೀರ್ ಮುಂಗಂತಿವಾರ್ ಪ್ರಕರಣದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ ತನಿಖೆ ನಡೆಸಲು ಆದೇಶಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಶಾಲೆಗೆ ನೀಡಲಾಗಿರುವ ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ಮಾನ್ಯತೆಯನ್ನ ರದ್ದುಪಡಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ಇವಿಎಂ ಕುರಿತು ವಿವಾದಾತ್ಮಕ ಹೇಳಿಕೆ ನೀಡಿದ್ದ ʼಕೈʼ ಸಚಿವರಿಗೆ ಚುನಾವಣಾ ಆಯೋಗದ ಶಾಕ್

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 08:51 AM PDT

ಇವಿಎಂ ಯಂತ್ರದ ಕುರಿತು ಆಧಾರ ರಹಿತವಾಗಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದ ಛತ್ತೀಸ್ ಘಡ್ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಶಾಸಕ ಕವಾಸಿ ಲಕ್ಮಾರಿಗೆ ಚುನಾವಣೆ ಆಯೋಗ ನೋಟೀಸ್ ನೀಡಿದೆ.

ಮತದಾರರು ಇವಿಎಂನಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಪಕ್ಷ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಬೇರೆ ಪಕ್ಷದ ಬಟನ್ ಒತ್ತಿದರೆ ಅದು ವಿದ್ಯುತ್ ಶಾಕ್ ನ ಅನುಭವ ನೀಡುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿರುವ ಹೇಳಿಕೆಗೆ ಕಾರಣ ಕೇಳಿ ನೋಟೀಸ್ ನೀಡಿರುವ ಚುನಾವಣಾ ಆಯೋಗ ಮೂರು ದಿನಗಳ ಒಳಗೆ ಉತ್ತರ ನೀಡುವಂತೆ ತಿಳಿಸಿದೆ.

ಛತ್ತೀಸ್ ಘಡ್ ರಾಜ್ಯದ ವಾಣಿಜ್ಯ ಹಾಗೂ ಕೈಗಾರಿಕಾ ಸಚಿವರಾಗಿರುವ ಕವಾಸಿ ಲಕ್ಮಾ ಕನೆಕರ್ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಕೊನಾರ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಏ.16 ರಂದು ನಡೆದ ಚುನಾವಣಾ ಪ್ರಚಾರದಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ರೀತಿ ಭಾಷಣ ಮಾಡಿದ ಹಿನ್ನಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆಯೋಗ ನೋಟೀಸ್ ನೀಡಿದೆ. ರಾಜ್ಯ ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಘಟಕ ಚುನಾವಣೆ ಆಯೋಗಕ್ಕೆ ದೂರು ನೀಡಿದ ಪರಿಣಾಮ ಆಯೋಗ ಗಂಭೀರವಾಗಿ ಪರಿಗಣಿಸಿ ನೋಟೀಸ್ ನೀಡಿದೆ.

ಸುಕ್ಮಾ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಕೊಂಟಾ ವಿಧಾನಸಭಾ‌ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದಿಂದ ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಆಗಿರುವ ಲಕ್ಮಾ 2013 ರಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ನಕ್ಸಲ್ ದಾಳಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಗಂಭೀರವಾಗಿ ಗಾಯಗೊಂಡು ಬದುಕುಳಿದಿದ್ದರು. ಈ ಘಟನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ 27 ಜನರು ಮೃತಪಟ್ಟಿದ್ದರು.

ಚುನಾವಣೆ ಆಯೋಗ ಈ ರೀತಿ ಮಾತನಾಡುವ ರಾಜಕೀಯ ಪಕ್ಷದ ನಾಯಕರನ್ನ ಮಾದರಿ ನೀತಿ ಸಂಹಿತೆ ಉಲ್ಲಂಘನೆ ಎಂದು ಪರಿಗಣಿಸಿ ಸೂಕ್ತ ಕ್ರಮ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಂಡಿದೆ. ಉತ್ತರ ಪ್ರದೇಶದ ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿ ಯೋಗಿ ಆದಿತ್ಯನಾಥ್, ಬಿ.ಎಸ್.ಪಿ. ನಾಯಕಿ ಮಾಯಾವತಿ, ಸಚಿವೆ ಮೇನಕಾ ಗಾಂಧಿ, ಎಸ್.ಪಿ. ಮುಖಂಡ ಅಜಂ ಖಾನ್ ಮಾಡಿರುವ ಭಾಷಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಚುನಾವಣಾ ನೀತಿ ಸಂಹಿತೆ ಉಲ್ಲಂಘನೆ ಕಂಡುಬಂದ ಹಿನ್ನಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರ ಚುನಾವಣಾ ಭಾಷಣಕ್ಕೆ 48 ಗಂಟೆ ಹಾಗೂ 72 ಗಂಟೆಗಳ ಕಾಲ ಆಯೋಗ ಬ್ಯಾನ್ ಮಾಡಿದೆ.

ಬಿರುಗಾಳಿ ಮಳೆಗೆ ಗೋಡೆ ಕುಸಿದು ಇಬ್ಬರ ಸಾವು

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 08:28 AM PDT

ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು:ಬಿರುಗಾಳಿ ಸಹಿತ ಸುರಿದ ಮಳೆಗೆ ಮನೆ ಗೋಡೆ ಕುಸಿದು ಇಬ್ಬರು ಸಾವು ಕಂಡ ಘಟನೆ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಗ್ರಾಮಾಂತರದ ದೊಡ್ಡಬಳ್ಳಾಪುರ ತಾಲೂಕಿನ ಹೊಸಹಳ್ಳಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದಿದೆ.

ಹೊಸಹಳ್ಳಿ ನಿವಾಸಿಗಳಾದ ಭಾಗ್ಯಮ್ಮ(45), ವೆಂಕಿ(7) ಮೃತಪಟ್ಟವರೆಂದು ಗುರುತಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಶ್ರೀನಿವಾಸ್, ಮುನಿರತ್ನಮ್ಮ ಗಂಭೀರವಾಗಿ ಗಾಯಗೊಂಡಿದ್ದು, ಗಾಯಾಳುಗಳನ್ನು ದೊಡ್ಡಬಳ್ಳಾಪುರ ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಗೆ ದಾಖಲಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ಸ್ಥಳಕ್ಕೆ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಗಳು, ಪೊಲೀಸರು ಭೇಟಿ ನೀಡಿ ಪರಿಶೀಲನೆ ನಡೆಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

‘ಸಿಎಂ ಪುತ್ರನ ಚುನಾವಣೆಗೆ ನೂರಾರು ಕೋಟಿ ಕಮಿಷನ್ ಹಣ’

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 08:26 AM PDT

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ಗದಗ:ಲೋಕೋಪಯೋಗಿ ಇಲಾಖೆಯಿಂದ ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿಯವರು ಭಾರಿ ಕಮಿಷನ್ ಪಡೆದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎಂದು ಮೊಳಕಾಲ್ಮೂರು ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದ ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಶಾಸಕ ಬಿ. ಶ್ರೀರಾಮುಲು ಗಂಭೀರ ಆರೋಪ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಗದಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಸುದ್ದಿಗಾರರೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದ ಅವರು, ಲೋಕೋಪಯೋಗಿ ಇಲಾಖೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕೆಲಸ ಆಗದಿದ್ದರೂ, ನಕಲಿ ಬಿಲ್ ಸೃಷ್ಠಿಸಿ ಹಣ ಬಿಡುಗಡೆ ಮಾಡಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಗುತ್ತಿಗೆದಾರರಿಂದ ನೂರಾರು ಕೋಟಿ ರೂ. ಕಮಿಷನ್ ಪಡೆದು ಚುನಾವಣೆ ನಡೆಸಲಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಆರೋಪಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ತಮ್ಮ ಪುತ್ರನನ್ನು ಗೆಲ್ಲಿಸಲು ಸಿಎಂ ಕಾಮಗಾರಿಗೆ ಮೊದಲೇ ಹಣ ಪಡೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಸಚಿವ ರೇವಣ್ಣರ ಪುತ್ರ ಮತ್ತು ಸಿಎಂ ಪುತ್ರನ ಚುನಾವಣೆಗೆ ನೂರಾರು ಕೋಟಿ ಹಣವನ್ನು ಗುತ್ತಿಗೆದಾರರಿಂದ ಪಡೆಯಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಲೋಕೋಪಯೋಗಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಕಲಿ ಬಿಲ್ ಸೃಷ್ಠಿಸಿ ಹಣ ಪಡೆಯಲಾಗಿದೆ ಎಂದು ದೂರಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಲೋಕಸಭೆ ಚುನಾವಣೆ ಆದ ಬಳಿಕ ನಮ್ಮ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಅಧಿಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಬರಲಿದ್ದು, ಸಿಎಂ ಮತ್ತು ಸಚಿವ ರೇವಣ್ಣ ಅವರ ವಿರುದ್ಧ ತನಿಖೆ ನಡೆಸಲಾಗುವುದು ಎಂದು ಶ್ರೀರಾಮುಲು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ತಂಗಿಯನ್ನೇ ಪ್ರೀತಿಸಿದ ಅಣ್ಣ ಮದುವೆಗೆ ಒಪ್ಪದ ಪೋಷಕರಿಗೆ ಇರಿದ

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 07:36 AM PDT

ಹೈದರಾಬಾದ್:ಸಂಬಂಧದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಹೋದರಿಯಾಗಬೇಕಾದ ಯುವತಿಯನ್ನು ಪ್ರೀತಿಸಿದ ಯುವಕನೊಬ್ಬ ಮದುವೆಗೆ ಒಪ್ಪದ ಆಕೆಯ ಪೋಷಕರ ಮೇಲೆ ಹಲ್ಲೆ ನಡೆಸಿ, ಚಾಕುವಿನಿಂದ ಇರಿದಿದ್ದಾನೆ.

ಹೈದರಾಬಾದ್ ನ ಶಂಷಾಬಾದ್ ನಿವಾಸಿ 26 ವರ್ಷದ ರಮೇಶ್ ಎಂಬಾತನೇ ಇಂತಹ ಕೃತ್ಯವೆಸಗಿದ ಆರೋಪಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದಾನೆ. ರಮೇಶ್ ದೊಡ್ಡಪ್ಪನ ಮಗಳನ್ನೇ ಪ್ರೀತಿಸಿದ್ದಾನೆ. ಸಂಬಂಧದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಹೋದರಿ ಆಗಿದ್ದರೂ ಕೂಡ ಆಕೆಯನ್ನು ನಾನು ಪ್ರೀತಿಸಿದ್ದು ಮದುವೆ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಡಬೇಕೆಂದು ದೊಡ್ಡಪ್ಪನಿಗೆ ಕೇಳಿದ್ದಾನೆ. ಆದರೆ, ಪೋಷಕರು ಅವನಿಗೆ ಬುದ್ಧಿಮಾತು ಹೇಳಿ ಕಳುಹಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಇದರಿಂದ ಆಕ್ರೋಶಗೊಂಡ ರಮೇಶ್, ಯುವತಿಯ ತಾಯಿ ಮೇಲೆ ಚಾಕುವಿನಿಂದ ದಾಳಿ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದು, ಗಂಭೀರವಾಗಿ ಗಾಯಗೊಂಡಿರುವ ಅವರನ್ನು ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಗೆ ದಾಖಲಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಆರೋಪಿ ರಮೇಶ್ ಪರಾರಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಬಂಧನಕ್ಕೆ ಪೊಲೀಸರು ಬಲೆ ಬೀಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ನಾಳೆ ಮತದಾನ ಮಾಡಲಿರುವ ಪ್ರಮುಖರ್ಯಾರ್ಯಾರು ಗೊತ್ತಾ….?

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 07:33 AM PDT

ರಾಜ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಎರಡು ಹಂತದಲ್ಲಿ ಲೋಕಸಭಾ ಚುನಾವಣೆಗೆ ಮತದಾನ ನಡೆಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದು, ನಾಳೆ ಮೊದಲ ಹಂತದ ಮತದಾನ ನಡೆಯಲಿದೆ. ಮೊದಲ ಹಂತದಲ್ಲಿ ರಾಜ್ಯದ 14 ಲೋಕಸಭಾ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರಗಳಾದ ಮಂಡ್ಯ, ಹಾಸನ, ತುಮಕೂರು, ಚಿಕ್ಕಬಳ್ಳಾಪುರ, ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಉತ್ತರ, ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ದಕ್ಷಿಣ, ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಕೇಂದ್ರ, ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಗ್ರಾಮಾಂತರ, ಕೋಲಾರ, ಚಾಮರಾಜನಗರ, ಮೈಸೂರು-ಕೊಡಗು, ಚಿತ್ರದುರ್ಗ, ಉಡುಪಿ-ಚಿಕ್ಕಮಗಳೂರು ಹಾಗೂ ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಕನ್ನಡ ಲೋಕಸಭಾ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರಗಳಿಗೆ ಚುನಾವಣೆ ನಡೆಯಲಿದೆ.

ಸುಸೂತ್ರವಾಗಿ ಚುನಾವಣೆ ನಡೆಸಲು ಚುನಾವಣಾ ಆಯೋಗ ಸಕಲ ಸಿದ್ದತೆ ಕೈಗೊಂಡಿದ್ದು, ವ್ಯಾಪಕ ಭದ್ರತೆ ಕೈಗೊಳ್ಳಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಇದರ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಈ ಬಾರಿಯ ಲೋಕಸಭಾ ಚುನಾವಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮತದಾರರು ಸಕ್ರಿಯವಾಗಿ ಮತದಾನದಲ್ಲಿ ಪಾಲ್ಗೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕೆಂಬ ಕಾರಣಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಜಾಗೃತಿ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಗಳನ್ನು ಹಮ್ಮಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ಇದರ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಸೆಲೆಬ್ರಿಟಿಗಳೂ ಈ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಕೈ ಜೋಡಿಸಿದ್ದು, ಮತದಾನ ಪ್ರಕ್ರಿಯೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪಾಲ್ಗೊಳ್ಳಲು ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿರಲ್ಲಿ ಮನವಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಅಂದ ಹಾಗೇ ನಾಳಿನ ಚುನಾವಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮತದಾನ ಮಾಡಲಿರುವ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಕೆಲ ಸೆಲೆಬ್ರಿಟಿಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ ಇಲ್ಲಿದೆ.

ಸದಾಶಿವನಗರ
ಪುನೀತ್ ರಾಜ್‌ಕುಮಾರ್
ರಾಘವೇಂದ್ರ ರಾಜ್‌ಕುಮಾರ್

ನಾಗವಾರದ ಮತಗಟ್ಟೆ
ಶಿವರಾಜ್‌ಕುಮಾರ್
ಗೀತಾ ಶಿವರಾಜ್ ಕುಮಾರ್

ವಿಜಯನಗರ
ರಕ್ಷಿತಾ ಪ್ರೇಮ್
ಪ್ರೇಮ್

ಹೊಸಕೆರೆಹಳ್ಳಿ
ನಟ ಯಶ್

ಕತ್ರಿಗುಪ್ಪೆ
ನಟ ವಿಜಯ್
ಚಂದ್ರಶೇಖರ ಕಂಬಾರ ದಂಪತಿ

ಜೆಪಿ ನಗರದ ಆಕ್ಸ್‌ಫರ್ಡ್ ಕಾಲೇಜು
ಸುದೀಪ್ ದಂಪತಿ

ಬನಶಂಕರಿ ಎರಡನೇ ಹಂತ
ನಟ ರಮೇಶ್ ಅರವಿಂದ್
ಪಿ.ಸಿ.ಮೋಹನ್

ಬನಶಂಕರಿ
ಪ್ರಣೀತಾ

ಡಾಲರ್ಸ್‌ ಕಾಲೋನಿ
ಜಯಮಾಲಾ

ಬಸವೇಶ್ವರ ನಗರ
ಶ್ರುತಿ

ರಾಜರಾಜೇಶ್ವರಿ ನಗರ
ನಟ ದರ್ಶನ್

ಮಲ್ಲೇಶ್ವರಂ
ನಟ ಜಗ್ಗೇಶ್ ಕುಟುಂಬ

ಆರ್ ಟಿ ನಗರ
ನಟಿ ಹೇಮಾ ಚೌಧರಿ

ಎಚ್.ಎಸ್.ಆರ್. ಲೇಔಟ್‌
ನಟ ದ್ವಾರಕೀಶ್

ಆರ್‌.ಆರ್‌.‌ ನಗರ
ದಿಗಂತ್

ಹಲಸೂರು ಚಿನ್ಮಯ ವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ
ನಟಿ ಐಂದ್ರಿತಾ ರೇ

ಜೆ.ಪಿ ನಗರ
ತಾರಾ ದಂಪತಿ
ನಟ ಗಣೇಶ್ ದಂಪತಿ

ಜಯನಗರದ ಎನ್.ಆರ್.ಎನ್ ಕಾಲೇಜು
ಹೆಚ್.ಎಸ್.‌ ದೊರೆಸ್ವಾಮಿ
ಸುಧಾಮೂರ್ತಿ

ಜಯನಗರ
ಭಾರತಿ ವಿಷ್ಣವರ್ಧನ್

ಜಯನಗರ ಮೂರನೇ ಬ್ಲಾಕ್‌ನ ಆರ್.ವಿ.ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರ ಕಾಲೇಜು

ತೇಜಸ್ವಿನಿ ಅನಂತ್‌ಕುಮಾರ್

ಜಯನಗರದ ಎನ್‌ಎಂಕೆಆರ್‌ವಿ ಕಾಲೇಜು

ರೆಹಮಾನ್ ಖಾನ್

ಕೋರಮಂಗಲದ ರೆಡ್ಡಿ ಜನ ಸಂಘ ಕಾಲೇಜು

ನಂದನ್ ನಿಲೇಕಣಿ ದಂಪತಿ

ಸಂಜಯ್‌ನಗರ
ಸಿ. ನಾರಾಯಣಸ್ವಾಮಿ

ಯುನೈಟೆಡ್ ಥಿಯೊಲಾಜಿಕಲ್ ಕಾಲೇಜು
ರಿಜ್ವಾನ್ ಅರ್ಷದ್

ಮಲ್ಲೇಶ್ವರ ಸರಕಾರಿ ಕಾಲೇಜಿನಲ್ಲಿ
ಬಿ.ಕೆ. ಹರಿಪ್ರಸಾದ್

ಮಲ್ಲೇಶ್ವರ ಸರಕಾರಿ ಬಾಲಕಿಯರ ಶಾಲೆ
ವೆಂಕಯ್ಯ ನಾಯ್ಡು

ಜಾಲಹಳ್ಳಿ
ಮಾಜಿ ಸಚಿವ ಆರ್. ಅಶೋಕ್

ರಾಜಾಜಿನಗರ
ಸುರೇಶ್‌ಕುಮಾರ್

ಆರ್.ಟಿ. ನಗರ
ಡಿ.ಬಿ. ಚಂದ್ರೇಗೌಡರು.

‘ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಅಸ್ಥಿರಗೊಳಿಸಲು ಬಿ.ಎಸ್.ವೈ. ಯತ್ನ’

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 06:55 AM PDT

ಶಿವಮೊಗ್ಗ:ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸಮ್ಮಿಶ್ರ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಅಸ್ಥಿರಗೊಳಿಸಲು ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ರಾಜ್ಯಾಧ್ಯಕ್ಷ ಬಿ.ಎಸ್. ಯಡಿಯೂರಪ್ಪ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ ನಡೆಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎಂದು ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿ ಹೆಚ್.ಡಿ. ಕುಮಾರಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಆರೋಪಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಶಿಕಾರಿಪುರದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ಚುನಾವಣಾ ಪ್ರಚಾರ ಸಭೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದ ಅವರು, ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ರಚನೆಯಾದಾಗಿನಿಂದಲೂ ಯಡಿಯೂರಪ್ಪ ಅಸ್ಥಿರಗೊಳಿಸಲು ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಸರಕಾರವನ್ನು ಬೀಳಿಸಿ ತಾವು ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿಯಾಗಬೇಕು ಎಂದು ಅವರು ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ ನಡೆಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎಂದು ಸಿಎಂ ಆರೋಪಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಜೆಡಿಎಸ್ – ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಮೈತ್ರಿಕೂಟದ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿ ಮಧು ಬಂಗಾರಪ್ಪ ಪರವಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಚಾರ ನಡೆಸಿದ ಸಿಎಂ, ರಾಜ್ಯ ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ನಾಯಕರು ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ ಮೋದಿ ಅವರ ಮುಖ ನೋಡಿ ಮತ ಹಾಕಿ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಕರ್ನಾಟಕಕ್ಕೆ ಮೋದಿ ನೀಡಿರುವ ಕೊಡುಗೆ ಏನು ಎಂದು ಸಿಎಂ ಪ್ರಶ್ನಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಈ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಏಕಾಂಗಿಯಾದ್ರಾ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿ…?

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 06:41 AM PDT

ಬಳ್ಳಾರಿ:ಗಡಿನಾಡು ಬಳ್ಳಾರಿ ಲೋಕಸಭೆ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಇತ್ತೀಚೆಗೆ ನಡೆದ ಉಪ ಚುನಾವಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಜಯಭೇರಿ ಬಾರಿಸಿದ್ದ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿ ವಿ.ಎಸ್. ಉಗ್ರಪ್ಪ ಅವರು ಈ ಬಾರಿ ಸಾರ್ವತ್ರಿಕ ಲೋಕಸಭೆ ಚುನಾವಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಏಕಾಂಗಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎಂಬ ಮಾತುಗಳು ಕೇಳಿ ಬರುತ್ತಿವೆ.

ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಮುಖಂಡರ ಬಣವೊಂದು ತಟಸ್ಥವಾಗಿ ಉಳಿದಿದ್ದು, ಉಪ ಚುನಾವಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡಿದಂತೆ ಈ ಚುನಾವಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ. ಕಂಪ್ಲಿ ಶಾಸಕ ಜೆ.ಎನ್. ಗಣೇಶ್ ಜೈಲಿಗೆ ಹೋಗಿದ್ದು, ಕಂಪ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಉಗ್ರಪ್ಪ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಪ್ರಚಾರಕ್ಕೆ ನಿರೀಕ್ಷಿತ ಬೆಂಬಲ ಸಿಗುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ. ಇನ್ನು ಜಿಲ್ಲಾ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಬಣವೊಂದು ತಟಸ್ಥವಾಗಿ ಉಳಿದಿದೆ ಎನ್ನಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ಸಚಿವ ಡಿ.ಕೆ. ಶಿವಕುಮಾರ್ ಹೊರತಾಗಿ ಯಾವ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ನಾಯಕರು ಕೂಡ ಬಳ್ಳಾರಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಗೆ ಆಗಮಿಸಿಲ್ಲ. ಉಗ್ರಪ್ಪ ಏಕಾಂಗಿ ಹೋರಾಟ ನಡೆಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಮಾಜಿ ಸಿಎಂ ಸಿದ್ದರಾಮಯ್ಯ ನಾಳೆ ಬಳ್ಳಾರಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಗೆ ಆಗಮಿಸಲಿದ್ದು, ಕುರುಗೋಡು ಮತ್ತು ಬಳ್ಳಾರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಚಾರ ನಡೆಸಲಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇದರೊಂದಿಗೆ ವಿ.ಎಸ್. ಉಗ್ರಪ್ಪ ಅವರ ಪ್ರಚಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಬಲ ತುಂಬಲಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎನ್ನಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ಇಂದು ರಾತ್ರಿಯಿಂದಲೇ ‘ಬಂದ್’ ಆಗಲಿದೆ ಜೆಟ್ ಏರ್ ವೇಸ್ ಸೇವೆ

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 06:19 AM PDT

ನವದೆಹಲಿ:ತೀವ್ರ ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ಬಿಕ್ಕಟ್ಟಿನಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಜೆಟ್ ಏರ್ ವೇಸ್ ಸೇವೆಯನ್ನು ಇಂದು ರಾತ್ರಿಯಿಂದ ಬಂದ್ ಮಾಡಲಾಗುವುದು.

8000 ಕೋಟಿ ರೂ. ಸಾಲದ ಹೊರೆಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಜೆಟ್ ಏರ್ ವೇಸ್ ಷೇರು ಮಾರಾಟಕ್ಕೆ ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ ಗಳಿಂದ ಶತ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ ನಡೆಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಸಂಬಳ ಕೊಡದ ಸ್ಥಿತಿಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಜೆಟ್ ಏರ್ ವೇಸ್ ನಷ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿದೆ. ನಿತ್ಯದ ಹಾರಾಟ, ನಿರ್ವಹಣೆ, ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿ ವೇತನ ಮೊದಲಾದ ವೆಚ್ಚಗಳನ್ನು ಭರಿಸಲು ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗೆ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ.

ಸಂಕಷ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಜೆಟ್ ಏರ್ ವೇಸ್ ಪುನಶ್ಚೇತನಕ್ಕೆ ಪ್ರಧಾನಿಯವರು ಮಧ್ಯ ಪ್ರವೇಶಿಸಬೇಕೆಂದು ಪೈಲೆಟ್ ಗಳು ಮನವಿ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದರು. ತಾತ್ಕಾಲಿಕ ಕ್ರಮವಾಗಿ ಇಂದು ರಾತ್ರಿಯಿಂದ ವಿಮಾನಯಾನ ಸೇವೆಯನ್ನು ಬಂದ್ ಮಾಡಲು ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ ಮುಂದಾಗಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ಬಿಗ್ ನ್ಯೂಸ್: ಅಪಘಾತದಲ್ಲಿ ನಟಿಯರಿಬ್ಬರ ಸಾವು

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 05:51 AM PDT

ವಿಕಾರಾಬಾದ್ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ಭೀಕರ ರಸ್ತೆ ಅಪಘಾತದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಿರುತೆರೆ ನಟಿಯರಿಬ್ಬರು ಸಾವನ್ನಪ್ಪಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಅನುಷಾ ಮತ್ತು ಭಾರ್ಗವಿ ಮೃತಪಟ್ಟ ನಟಿಯರೆಂದು ಗುರುತಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ತೆಲುಗು ಕಿರುತೆರೆ ವಾಹಿನಿಯ ನಟಿಯರಾಗಿದ್ದ ಅನುಷಾ ಮತ್ತು ಭಾರ್ಗವಿ ವಿಕಾರಾಬಾದ್ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಯಾಣಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಪಘಾತ ಸಂಭವಿಸಿದೆ.

ಎದುರಿನಿಂದ ಬಂದ ಲಾರಿ ಡಿಕ್ಕಿ ಆಗುವುದನ್ನು ತಪ್ಪಿಸುವ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಚಾಲಕನ ನಿಯಂತ್ರಣ ತಪ್ಪಿದ ಕಾರು, ಮರಕ್ಕೆ ಡಿಕ್ಕಿ ಹೊಡೆದಿದ್ದು, ಈ ಅಪಘಾತದಲ್ಲಿ ಅನುಷಾ ಮತ್ತು ಭಾರ್ಗವಿ ಸ್ಥಳದಲ್ಲೇ ಸಾವನ್ನಪ್ಪಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

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Posted: 17 Apr 2019 05:39 AM PDT

ಚಿತ್ರದುರ್ಗ:ಚಿತ್ರದುರ್ಗ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ ಹೊಸದುರ್ಗ ತಾಲ್ಲೂಕಿನ ಬೆಲಗೂರು ಗ್ರಾಮದ ಬಳಿ ಡೀಸೆಲ್ ಟ್ಯಾಂಕರ್ ಪಲ್ಟಿಯಾಗಿದೆ.

ಪಲ್ಟಿಯಾದ ಟ್ಯಾಂಕರ್ ನಿಂದ ಡೀಸೆಲ್ ಸೋರಿಕೆಯಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಡೀಸೆಲ್ ತುಂಬಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಜನ ಮುಗಿಬಿದ್ದಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಬೆಲಗೂರು ಗ್ರಾಮದ ಬಳಿ ಚಾಲಕನ ನಿಯಂತ್ರಣ ತಪ್ಪಿ, ಟ್ಯಾಂಕರ್ ಪಲ್ಟಿಯಾಗಿ, ಡೀಸೆಲ್ ಸೋರಿಕೆಯಾಗಿದೆ. ಇದನ್ನು ತಿಳಿದ ಸುತ್ತಮುತ್ತಲಿನ ಜನ ಕೊಡ, ಕ್ಯಾನ್, ಬಕೆಟ್, ಬಾಟಲಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಡೀಸೆಲ್ ತುಂಬಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಮುಗಿಬಿದ್ದಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಮಾಹಿತಿ ತಿಳಿದು ಸ್ಥಳಕ್ಕೆ ಆಗಮಿಸಿದ ಪೊಲೀಸರು ಹಾಗೂ ಅಗ್ನಿಶಾಮಕ ದಳದ ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿ ಡೀಸೆಲ್ ಸೋರಿಕೆಗೆ ತಡೆ ಹಾಕಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಪಲ್ಟಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದ ಟ್ಯಾಂಕರ್ ನಿಲ್ಲಿಸಿ ಜನರನ್ನು ಚದುರಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಗಾಯಗೊಂಡಿರುವ ಟ್ಯಾಂಕರ್ ಚಾಲಕ ಹಾಗೂ ಸಹಾಯಕನನ್ನು ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಗೆ ಸೇರಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಶ್ರೀರಾಂಪುರ ಪೊಲೀಸ್ ಠಾಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಕರಣ ದಾಖಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿ ಪ್ರಶ್ನಿಸಿದ್ದ ಯುವಕನಿಗೆ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಸನ್ಮಾನ

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 05:29 AM PDT

ದಾವಣಗೆರೆ:ದಾವಣಗೆರೆ ತಾಲೂಕಿನ ನಾಗನೂರ ಗ್ರಾಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿಯನ್ನು ಪ್ರಶ್ನಿಸಿ, ತರಾಟೆಗೆ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದ ಯುವಕನಿಗೆ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ವತಿಯಿಂದ ಸನ್ಮಾನಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿ ಜಿ.ಎಂ. ಸಿದ್ದೇಶ್ವರ ಏಪ್ರಿಲ್ 8 ರಂದು ನಾಗನೂರ ಗ್ರಾಮಕ್ಕೆ ಪ್ರಚಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಬಂದಿದ್ದ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಗ್ರಾಮದ ಯುವಕ ಕಾರ್ತಿಕ್, ನೀವು ಏನು ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ ಮಾಡಿಲ್ಲ. ಈಗ ಮತ ಕೇಳಲು ಬಂದಿದ್ದೀರಿ ಎಂದು ತರಾಟೆಗೆ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದನೆನ್ನಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ಇಂದು ಇದೇ ಗ್ರಾಮಕ್ಕೆ ಪ್ರಚಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಆಗಮಿಸಿದ್ದ ಶಾಸಕ ಶಾಮನೂರು ಶಿವಶಂಕರಪ್ಪ ಹಾಗೂ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಮುಖಂಡರು, ಕಾರ್ತಿಕ್ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮೆಚ್ಚುಗೆ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಪಡಿಸಿ ಸನ್ಮಾನಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾರಿ ಮಳೆ, ಮರ ಬಿದ್ದು ಬೈಕ್ ಸವಾರ ಸಾವು

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 05:28 AM PDT

ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು:ಬಿಸಿಲಿನಿಂದ ಕಂಗೆಟ್ಟಿದ್ದ ಜನರಿಗೆ ದಿಢೀರ್ ಸುರಿದ ಮಳೆ ತಂಪಿನ ಅನುಭವ ನೀಡಿದೆ. ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಸೇರಿದಂತೆ ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಒಳನಾಡಿನ ಹಲವು ಕಡೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮಳೆಯಾಗಿದೆ.

ಸಂಜೆ ವೇಳೆಗೆ ಗುಡುಗು-ಸಿಡಿಲಿನ ಆರ್ಭಟದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಭಾರಿ ಮಳೆಯಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಮರ ಬಿದ್ದು ಬೈಕ್ ಸವಾರ ಮೃತಪಟ್ಟಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಒಳನಾಡಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಶುಕ್ರವಾರದವರೆಗೂ ಗುಡುಗು ಸಹಿತ ಮಳೆಯಾಗುವ ನಿರೀಕ್ಷೆ ಇದೆ ಎಂದು ಹವಾಮಾನ ಇಲಾಖೆ ಮುನ್ಸೂಚನೆ ನೀಡಿದೆ.

ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಶಾಂತಿನಗರ, ಗಂಗಾನಗರ, ಕಮಲಾನಗರ, ಬನ್ನೇರುಘಟ್ಟ ರಸ್ತೆ, ಪುಲಿಕೇಶಿ ನಗರ, ವಿಧಾನಸೌಧ, ಆಡುಗೋಡಿ, ಎಂಜಿ ರಸ್ತೆ ಮೊದಲಾದ ಪ್ರದೇಶಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮಳೆಯಾಗಿದೆ. ದಿಢೀರ್ ಮಳೆಯಿಂದಾಗಿ ವಾಹನ ಸವಾರರು ಪರದಾಡುವಂತಾಗಿದೆ.

ಮಳೆ ನೀರಿನಿಂದಾಗಿ ಅನೇಕ ರಸ್ತೆಗಳು ಹೊಳೆಯಂತಾಗಿವೆ. ರಸ್ತೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ, ಅಂಡರ್ ಪಾಸ್ ಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ನೀರು ಹರಿದಿದೆ. ಅನೇಕ ರಸ್ತೆಗಳು ಜಲಾವೃತಗೊಂಡಿದ್ದು, ಬೈಕ್, ಆಟೋ, ಕಾರುಗಳಿಗೆ ನೀರು ಸುತ್ತುವರೆದು ಸವಾರರು ತೊಂದರೆ ಅನುಭವಿಸುವಂತಾಗಿದೆ. ಲುಂಬಿನಿ ಗಾರ್ಡನ್ ರಸ್ತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮರ ಬಿದ್ದು ಬೈಕ್ ಸವಾರರೊಬ್ಬರು ಮೃತಪಟ್ಟಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಮೃತರ ವಿವರ ಗೊತ್ತಾಗಿಲ್ಲ.

ಜೇಬಿನಿಂದ ನಾಣ್ಯ ಬಿದ್ರೆ ಏನಾಗುತ್ತೆ ಗೊತ್ತಾ….?

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 04:49 AM PDT

ಜೇಬಿನಿಂದ ಪೆನ್ ಅಥವಾ ಮತ್ತ್ಯಾವುದೋ ಚೀಟಿ ತೆಗೆಯುವಾಗ ನಾಣ್ಯ ಅಥವಾ ನೋಟು ಕೆಲವೊಮ್ಮೆ ಕೆಳಗೆ ಬೀಳುತ್ತದೆ. ಕೆಳಗೆ ಬಿದ್ದ ನೋಟನ್ನು ಅನೇಕರು ಕೋಪ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡು ಕಿರಿಕಿರಿ ಮಾಡ್ತಾ ಎತ್ತಿಕೊಳ್ತಾರೆ. ಆದ್ರೆ ಇನ್ಮುಂದೆ ಹಾಗೆ ಮಾಡಬೇಡಿ. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಜೇಬಿನಿಂದ ಕೆಳಗೆ ಬಿದ್ದ ಹಣವನ್ನು ಖುಷಿಯಿಂದ ಎತ್ತಿಕೊಳ್ಳಿ. ಜೇಬಿನಿಂದ ಹಣ ಬೀಳೋದು ಯಾವುದರ ಮುನ್ಸೂಚನೆ ಎಂಬುದನ್ನು ತಿಳಿದುಕೊಂಡ್ರೆ ಯಾವಾಗ ಜೇಬಿನಿಂದ ಹಣ ಬೀಳುತ್ತೆ ಅಂತಾ ನೀವು ಕಾಯೋದ್ರಲ್ಲಿ ಸಂಶಯವಿಲ್ಲ.

ನಿಮ್ಮ ಜೇಬಿನಿಂದ ಬಿದ್ದ ನಾಣ್ಯವನ್ನು ಎತ್ತಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಮೊದಲು ಅದ್ರಿಂದಾಗುವ ಶುಭ ಸಂಕೇತದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ತಿಳಿದುಕೊಳ್ಳಿ. ಒಂದು ವೇಳೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಜೇಬಿನಿಂದ ನಾಣ್ಯ ಬಿದ್ದರೆ ಅದು ಶುಭ ಸಂಕೇತ. ಶುಭ ಅಂತಾ ಉದ್ದೇಶಪೂರ್ವಕವಾಗಿ ಕೆಳಗೆ ಬೀಳಿಸಬೇಡಿ. ತಾನಾಗಿಯೇ ಕೆಳಗೆ ಬಿದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತ್ರ ಅದು ಶುಭ.

ಒಂದು ವೇಳೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಜೇಬಿನಿಂದ ನಾಣ್ಯ ಅಥವಾ ನೋಟು ಕೆಳಗೆ ಬಿದ್ದರೆ ಶೀಘ್ರದಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಧನ ಲಾಭವಾಗಲಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಅರ್ಥ. ಧನ ವೃದ್ಧಿ ಎಷ್ಟು ವೇಗದಲ್ಲಾಗಲಿದೆಯೆಂದ್ರೆ ಅದ್ರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ನೀವು ಕಲ್ಪನೆ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲೂ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ. ಧನದ ವೃದ್ಧಿಗೆ ಯಾವುದೇ ಸಮಯದ ಮಿತಿಯಿಲ್ಲ. ಆದ್ರೆ ಅಪರಿಚಿತ ಮೂಲಗಳಿಂದ ಧನ ಪ್ರಾಪ್ತಿಯಾಗಲಿದೆ ಎಂಬುದು ಮಾತ್ರ ಸತ್ಯ.

ಸುವಾಸನೆಯುಕ್ತ ‘ಸ್ಯಾನಿಟರಿ ಪ್ಯಾಡ್’ ಬಳಸುವ ಮುನ್ನ ಎಚ್ಚರ…!

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 04:25 AM PDT

ಪ್ಯಾಡ್ ಮ್ಯಾನ್ ಚಿತ್ರದ ನಂತ್ರ ಮಹಿಳೆಯರ ಸ್ಯಾನಿಟರಿ ಪ್ಯಾಡ್ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಸುದ್ದಿಗೆ ಬಂದಿದೆ. ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆಗೆ ವಿವಿಧ ಬ್ರ್ಯಾಂಡ್ ನ ಸ್ಯಾನಿಟರಿ ಪ್ಯಾಡ್ ಲಗ್ಗೆಯಿಟ್ಟಿದೆ. ರಕ್ತದ ವಾಸನೆ ಮರೆಮಾಚಲು ಸುವಾಸನೆಯುಕ್ತ ಪ್ಯಾಡ್ ಗಳು ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆಗೆ ಬಂದಿವೆ. ಈ ಪ್ಯಾಡ್ ಬಳಸಿದ್ರೆ ಅನೇಕ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಯಾಗೋದು ನಿಶ್ಚಿತ.

ಮುಟ್ಟಿನ ವೇಳೆ ಸಹಿಸಲಾಗದ ನೋವು ಕಾಣಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತದೆ. ಸುವಾಸನೆಯುಕ್ತ ಪ್ಯಾಡ್ ಬಳಸುವುದ್ರಿಂದ ಯೋನಿ ಸುತ್ತಮುತ್ತ ತುರಿಕೆ ಕಾಣಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತದೆ. ಮುಟ್ಟಿನ ನೋವಿನ ಜೊತೆ ತುರಿಕೆ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ಮಹಿಳೆಯರಿಗೆ ಮತ್ತಷ್ಟು ಕಿರಿಕಿರಿಯುಂಟು ಮಾಡುತ್ತದೆ.

ಪ್ಯಾಡನ್ನು ಸುವಾಸನೆಯುಕ್ತಗೊಳಿಸಲು ಕೆಮಿಕಲ್ ಬಳಸಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಇದ್ರಿಂದ ವಾಸನೆ ಬರುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಆದ್ರೆ ಅಲರ್ಜಿಯಾಗುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆಯಿರುತ್ತದೆ. ಸುವಾಸನೆಯುಕ್ತ ಪ್ಯಾಡ್ ಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಬಳಸುವ ಕೆಮಿಕಲ್ ಯೋನಿ ಸುತ್ತಮುತ್ತ ಇರುವ ಉತ್ತಮ ಬ್ಯಾಕ್ಟೀರಿಯಾಗಳನ್ನು ನಾಶಪಡಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಇದ್ರ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಕೆಟ್ಟ ಬ್ಯಾಕ್ಟೀರಿಯಾ ಯೋನಿ ಸೇರುತ್ತದೆ. ಇದು ಸೋಂಕುಂಟು ಮಾಡುತ್ತದೆ.

ಸೋಂಕಿನಿಂದ ಕೆಟ್ಟ ವಾಸನೆಯ ನೀರು ಯೋನಿಯಿಂದ ಹೊರ ಬರುತ್ತದೆ. ಮೂತ್ರ ವಿಸರ್ಜನೆ ವೇಳೆ ಕಿರಿಕಿರಿ, ನೋವು ಕಾಡುತ್ತದೆ. ತುರಿಕೆಯಿಂದ ಚರ್ಮದ ಮೇಲೆ ಗಾಯಗಳಾಗಿ ನಡೆಯಲು ತೊಂದರೆಯಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.

ಮುಟ್ಟಿನ ವೇಳೆ ಶುಚಿತ್ವದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಗಮನವಿರಲಿ. ದೀರ್ಘಕಾಲ ಒಂದೇ ಪ್ಯಾಡ್ ಬಳಸಬೇಡಿ. ಪ್ಯಾಡ್ ತುಂಬಾ ಒದ್ದೆಯಾಗಲು ಬಿಡಬೇಡಿ. ಇದು ಸೋಂಕು, ತುರಿಕೆಗೆ ಕಾರಣವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.

ಚರ್ಮದ ಸೌಂದರ್ಯ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿಸುತ್ತೆ ಈ ಎಣ್ಣೆ

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 02:52 AM PDT

ಇತ್ತೀಚಿನ ದಿನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಯು ಮಾಲಿನ್ಯ ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿದೆ. ಧೂಳಿನಿಂದಾಗಿ ಚರ್ಮಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಒಂದೊಂದೇ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ಕಾಡಲು ಶುರುವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಸುಂದರ ಚರ್ಮವುಳ್ಳ ಮುಖ ಪಡೆಯಲು ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬರೂ ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿಗುವ ಮೇಕಪ್ ಸಾಮಗ್ರಿಗಳ ಮೊರೆ ಹೋಗ್ತಾರೆ. ಆದ್ರೆ ಪ್ರಯೋಜನ ಶೂನ್ಯ. ಧೂಳಿನ ನಡುವೆಯೂ ಸುಂದರ ಲುಕ್ ಪಡೆಯುವ ಆಸೆ ನಿಮಗಿದ್ದರೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮೇಕಪ್ ಪಟ್ಟಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕರ್ಪೂರ ಹಾಗೂ ಕೊಬ್ಬರಿ ಎಣ್ಣೆಯನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಿ.

ಕರ್ಪೂರ ಹಾಗೂ ತೆಂಗಿನ ಎಣ್ಣೆಯನ್ನು ಮಿಕ್ಸ್ ಮಾಡಿ ಮುಖಕ್ಕೆ ಹಚ್ಚುವುದರಿಂದ ಮೊಡವೆ ಕಡಿಮೆಯಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಇದ್ರಿಂದ ಮುಖ ಸ್ವಚ್ಛವಾಗಿ ಕಾಣುತ್ತದೆ.

ಬಿಸಿ ನೀರಿಗೆ ಕರ್ಪೂರ ಸೇರಿಸಿ ಇದನ್ನು ಕಾಲಿನ ಹಿಮ್ಮಡಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಹಚ್ಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದರಿಂದ ಒಡೆದ ಪಾದದ ನೋವು ಕಡಿಮೆಯಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.

ಕರ್ಪೂರದ ಎಣ್ಣೆಯನ್ನು ತಲೆಗೆ ಹಚ್ಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದರಿಂದ ಕೂದಲು ಉದುರುವುದು ಕಡಿಮೆಯಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಕೂದಲು ಬಲಗೊಳ್ಳತ್ತದೆ. ಮೊಸರು, ಮೊಟ್ಟೆ ಮಿಶ್ರಣಕ್ಕೆ ಕರ್ಪೂರದ ಎಣ್ಣೆ ಹಾಕಿ. ಇದನ್ನು ಕೂದಲಿಗೆ ಹಚ್ಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಿ. ಮಿಶ್ರಣ ಒಣಗಿದ ನಂತ್ರ ತೊಳೆಯಿರಿ.

100 ಗ್ರಾಂ ತೆಂಗಿನ ಎಣ್ಣೆಗೆ ಚಿಟಕಿ ಕರ್ಪೂರವನ್ನು ಹಾಕಿ ಮಿಕ್ಸ್ ಮಾಡಿ. ಸ್ನಾನವಾದ ನಂತ್ರ ಇದನ್ನು ದೇಹಕ್ಕೆ ಹಚ್ಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಿ. ಚರ್ಮ ಸಂಬಂಧಿ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗಳು ಕಡಿಮೆಯಾಗುತ್ತವೆ.

ಮೊಡವೆ ನಂತ್ರ ಕೆಲವರಿಗೆ ಕಪ್ಪು ಕಲೆ ಹಾಗೆ ಉಳಿದುಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತದೆ. ಅಂತವರು ಕೂಡ ತೆಂಗಿನ ಎಣ್ಣೆ ಜೊತೆ ಕರ್ಪೂರ ಮಿಕ್ಸ್ ಮಾಡಿ ಹಚ್ಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕು.

ಸುಟ್ಟ ಅಥವಾ ಇನ್ನಾವುದೋ ಕಾರಣದಿಂದ ಕೆಲವರ ಚರ್ಮದ ಮೇಲೆ ಕಲೆ ಉಳಿದಿರುತ್ತದೆ. ಅದು ನೋಡಲು ಕೆಟ್ಟದಾಗಿ ಕಾಣುತ್ತದೆ. ಅಂತ ಕಲೆ ಇದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ಕರ್ಪೂರವನ್ನು ನೀರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಒದ್ದೆ ಮಾಡಿ ಅದನ್ನು ಕಲೆಯ ಜಾಗಕ್ಕೆ ಹಚ್ಚುತ್ತ ಬಂದರೆ ಕಲೆ ಮಾಯವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.

ಮತ ಜಾಗೃತಿಗಾಗಿ ಸೈಕಲ್‌ ತುಳಿಯುತ್ತಿರುವ ಸ್ನಾಕ್ಸ್‌ ಮಾರಾಟಗಾರ

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 02:32 AM PDT

ಮೈತುಂಬಾ ಮತ ಚಲಾವಣೆ ಮಾಡಿ ಎಂಬ ಬ್ಯಾನರ್ ಹಾಕಿಕೊಂಡ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ, ಬಿಹಾರದ ಪಾಟ್ನಾ ನಗರದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೀದಿ ಬೀದಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸೈಕಲ್ ತುಳಿದುಕೊಂಡು ಮತ ಚಲಾವಣೆ ಮಾಡಿ ಎನ್ನುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾನೆ.

ಈತ ಚುನಾವಣೆ ಆಯೋಗದ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಯಲ್ಲ, ನೌಕರನೂ ಅಲ್ಲ ಒಬ್ಬ ಸ್ನಾಕ್ಸ್ ಮಾರುವ ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ವ್ಯಾಪಾರಿ. ಪ್ರತಿ ದಿನ ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆ ಬಿಹಾರದ ಪಾಟ್ನಾ ರೈಲ್ವೆ ನಿಲ್ದಾಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಗೂ ನಗರದ ಇತರೆ ಭಾಗಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮತ ಚಲಾಯಿಸಿ ಎಂದು ಸೈಕಲ್ ಮೇಲೆ ಸವಾರಿ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡು ಜನರ ಬಳಿ ಹೋಗುವ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ ಹೆಸರು ಲಾಲ್ ಮಣಿ ದಾಸ್ ಎಂದು.

ಈತ ಕೇವಲ ಮತ ಚಲಾಯಿಸಿ ಎಂದು ಜಾಗೃತಿ ಮೂಡಿಸುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ. ಒಳ್ಳೆಯ, ಕ್ಲೀನ್ ಹ್ಯಾಂಡ್ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿಯನ್ನ ಆರಿಸಲು ಮತ ಚಲಾಯಿಸಿ ಎಂದು ಜನರಿಗೆ ಕಿವಿಮಾತನ್ನೂ ಹೇಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಬೆಳಗ್ಗೆಯಿಂದ ಪ್ರಚಾರ ಮಾಡುವ ದಾಸ್ ಸಂಜೆ ಮೇಲೆ ಸ್ನಾಕ್ಸ್ ಮಾರುತ್ತಾರೆ. 90 ಕೋಟಿ ಮತದಾರರು 543 ಸಂಸದರ ಸ್ಥಾನಕ್ಕೆ ಮತಹಾಕುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಇದು ಪ್ರಜಾಪ್ರಭುತ್ವದ ಸೌಂದರ್ಯತೆ ಕೂಡ. ಆದರೆ ಸೀಟಿಗಾಗಿ ರಾಜಕೀಯ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಗಳು ಕಾದಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ ಇದು ಹಾಸ್ಯಾಸ್ಪದವಾಗಿದೆ ಎಂದು ದಾಸ್ ವ್ಯಂಗ್ಯವಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ.

ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದೋ ಪಕ್ಷವನ್ನ ನೋಡಿ ಮತ ಹಾಕುತ್ತಾರೆ ಇಲ್ಲಾ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ ನೋಡಿ ಮತ ನೀಡುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಯಾರೂ ಅರ್ಹತೆ ಮೇರೆಗೆ ಮತ ಹಾಕುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಇದೇ ಬೇಸರದ ಸಂಗತಿ ಎನ್ನುವ ದಾಸ್, ಇನ್ನೂ ಒಂದು ಹೆಜ್ಜೆ ಮುಂದೆ ಹೋಗಿ ಜಾಗೃತಿ ವೇಳೆ ಸಿಗುವ ಅಪರಿಚಿತ ಮತದಾರರಿಗೆ ಪ್ರಜಾಪ್ರಭುತ್ವದ ಬಗ್ಗೆನೂ ವಿವರಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ.

ಗಂಟೆಗಟ್ಟಲೆ ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತ ರಾಜಕೀಯ ವಿದ್ಯಮಾನಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡುವ ದಾಸ್ ಸೈಕಲ್ ಮೂಲಕ ಪ್ರಜಾಪ್ರಭುತ್ವದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಜಾಗೃತಿ ಮೂಡಿಸಲು ತನ್ನ ಜೇಬಿನಿಂದ 10 ಸಾವಿರ ರೂ. ಹಣ ಖರ್ಚು ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಹೊಸ 50 ರೂ. ನೋಟಿನ ವಿಶೇಷತೆ ಏನು ಗೊತ್ತಾ…?

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 02:05 AM PDT

ಭಾರತೀಯ ರಿಸರ್ವ್ ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ ಇಂದಿನಿಂದ 50 ರೂ. ಮುಖಬೆಲೆಯ ಹೊಸ ನೋಟುಗಳನ್ನು ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆಗೆ ಬಿಡುಗಡೆ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದು, ಇದು ಈ ಹಿಂದೆ ಬಿಡುಗಡೆ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದ ನೋಟುಗಳಿಗಿಂತ ವಿಭಿನ್ನವಾಗಿದೆ.

ಹೊಸ ನೋಟು ಅಳತೆ ಮತ್ತು ಗಾತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಹಳೆ ಐವತ್ತು ರೂ. ನೋಟಿಗಿಂತ ವಿಭಿನ್ನವಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಹೊಸ ನೋಟಿನ ಮೇಲೆ ರಿಸರ್ವ್ ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ ಆಫ್ ಇಂಡಿಯಾದ ನೂತನ ಗವರ್ನರ್ ಶಕ್ತಿಕಾಂತ್ ದಾಸ್ ಅವರ ಸಹಿ ಇದೆ.

ಈಗ ಚಲಾವಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಹಳೆಯ ನೋಟುಗಳನ್ನು ಹಿಂಪಡೆಯುವುದಿಲ್ಲವೆಂದು ಭಾರತೀಯ ರಿಸರ್ವ್ ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟಪಡಿಸಿದ್ದು, ಅವುಗಳು ಎಂದಿನಂತೆ ಚಲಾವಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿರಲಿವೆ. ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಹೊಸ ನೋಟುಗಳನ್ನು ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಪ್ರಮಾಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಮುದ್ರಿಸಿ ಬಿಡುಗಡೆ ಮಾಡುವುದಾಗಿ ಹೇಳಿದೆ.

 

ಟೀ – ಕಾಫಿ ಸೇವಿಸುವ ಮೊದಲು ಈ ʼಕೆಲಸʼ ಮಾಡಿ

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 01:53 AM PDT

ಟೀ ಅಥವಾ ಕಾಫಿ ಕುಡಿಯುವ ಅಭ್ಯಾಸ ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಇದ್ದೇ ಇರುತ್ತದೆ. ಆದರೆ ಇದನ್ನು ಸೇವಿಸುವ ಮೊದಲು ನೀರು ಕುಡಿದರೆ ಆಗುವ ಪ್ರಯೋಜನ ಇನ್ನೂ ಜಾಸ್ತಿ.

ಹಲ್ಲು ಕೊಳೆಯಾಗಲ್ಲ

ಕಡು ಬಣ್ಣದ ಕಾಫಿ, ಟೀ ಕುಡಿಯುವುದರಿಂದ ಬಿಳಿ ಹಲ್ಲು ಹಳದಿಗಟ್ಟುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆಯಿದೆ. ಹೀಗಾಗಿ ಮೊದಲು ನೀರು ಕುಡಿದು ಬಳಿಕ ಕಾಫಿ-ಟೀ ಕುಡಿದರೆ ಈ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಯಿರದು.

ಅಸಿಡಿಟಿ

ಏನೇ ಸೇವಿಸುವ ಮೊದಲು ನೀರು ಕುಡಿದರೆ ಅಸಿಡಿಟಿ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ಬರದು. ಕಾಫಿ ಅಥವಾ ಟೀ ಸೇವನೆ ಕೆಲವರಿಗೆ ಗ್ಯಾಸ್ಟ್ರಿಕ್ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ತರಬಹುದು. ಇಂತಹ ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಮೊದಲು ನೀರು ಕುಡಿದು ನಂತರ ಕಾಫಿ ಟೀ ಸೇವಿಸಿದರೆ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಯಾಗದು.

ಹೊಟ್ಟೆ ಹುಣ್ಣು

ಕೆಲವರಿಗೆ ಕಾಫಿ-ಟೀ ಸೇವನೆ ಹೊಟ್ಟೆ ಹುಣ್ಣಿನಂತಹ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ತರುತ್ತದೆ. ಇಂತಹವರು ಮೊದಲು ನೀರು ಕುಡಿದು ನಂತರ ಕಾಫಿ-ಟೀ ಸೇವಿಸಬಹುದು.

ಅಡ್ಡ ಪರಿಣಾಮ ಕಡಿಮೆ

ಕಾಫಿ-ಟೀ ಸೇವನೆ ಆರೋಗ್ಯದ ದೃಷ್ಟಿಯಿಂದ ಉತ್ತಮವಲ್ಲ. ಹಾಗಿದ್ದರೂ ನಮಗೆ ಚಟವಾಗಿಬಿಟ್ಟಿರುತ್ತದೆ. ಇಂತಹ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಮೊದಲು ನೀರು ಕುಡಿದು ನಂತರ ಪಾನೀಯ ಸೇವಿಸುವುದರಿಂದ ಅಡ್ಡ ಪರಿಣಾಮಗಳು ಕೊಂಚ ಕಡಿಮೆಯಾಗುತ್ತವೆ.

ಕೇವಲ 16 ರೂ. ಗೆ ಸಿಗ್ತಿದೆ 1 ಜಿಬಿ ಡೇಟಾ…!

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 01:51 AM PDT

ಮೊಬೈಲ್ ಪ್ರಿಯರಿಗೆ ಫುಲ್ ಖುಷಿ ನ್ಯೂಸ್. ಜೇಬಿನಲ್ಲಿ 16 ರೂಪಾಯಿ ದುಡ್ಡು ಇದ್ಯಾ? ಹಾಗಾದ್ರೆ ಇಡೀ ದಿನ ಇಂಟರ್ನೆಟ್‌ ಬಳಸಿ.

ಹೀಗಂತಾ ಹೇಳ್ತಾ ಇರೋದು ವೋಡಾಫೋನ್ ಕಂಪನಿ. 16 ರೂಪಾಯಿಗೆ ಒಂದು ಜಿಬಿ ಆಫರ್ ನೀಡಿರುವ ವೋಡಾಫೋನ್, ಅದನ್ನು ಖಾಲಿ ಮಾಡೋಕೆ 24 ಗಂಟೆ ಗಡುವು ನೀಡಿದೆ.

ಫಿಲ್ಮಿ ರೀಚಾಜ್೯’ ಎಂಬ ಪ್ಲಾನ್ ಹೆಸರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಆಫರ್ ಬಿಟ್ಟಿದ್ದು, ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ, ಮಹಾರಾಷ್ಟ್ರ, ಅಸ್ಸಾಂ, ಗೋವಾ, ಗುಜರಾತ್ ರಾಜ್ಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮೊದಲ ಬಾರಿಗೆ ಈ ಪ್ಲಾನ್ ಪರಿಚಯಿಸುತ್ತಿದೆ.

ಮೈ ವೋಡಾಫೋನ್ ಆಪ್ ನಲ್ಲೂ ಈ ಸೇವೆ ಲಭ್ಯ. ಸಿನಿಮಾ ಮತ್ತು ವಿಡಿಯೋಗಳನ್ನು ಡೌನ್ ಲೋಡ್ ಮಾಡೋ ಗ್ರಾಹಕರಿಗೆ ಇದು ಇನ್ನೂ ಒಳ್ಳೆ ಸುದ್ದಿ.

ಖಳನಾಯಕನಂತೆ ಪೋಷಾಕು ಧರಿಸಿ ಅಪರಾಧ ಕೃತ್ಯ

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 01:47 AM PDT

ಜಗತ್ತಿನ ಅತ್ಯಂತ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧ ಟಿವಿ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ‘ಗೇಮ್ ಆಫ್ ಥ್ರೋನ್ಸ್’ ಇದೀಗ ತನ್ನ ಕೊನೆಯ ಸೀಸನ್ ಹಂತಕ್ಕೆ ಬಂದಿದ್ದು ಜಗತ್ತಿನಲ್ಲೆಡೆ ಸುದ್ದಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದೆ.

ಆದರೀಗ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಯೊಬ್ಬ ನಾರ್ವೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದ ಖಳನಾಯಕ ‘ನೈಟ್ ಕಿಂಗ್’ನ ಪೋಷಾಕು ಧರಿಸಿ ವಿವಿಧ ಅಪರಾಧ ಕೃತ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಎಸಗಿದ್ದು ಇದೀಗ ಪೊಲೀಸ್ ಅತಿಥಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದಾನೆ.

ನಾರ್ವೆ ಪೊಲೀಸ್ ತಮ್ಮ ಫೇಸ್ ಬುಕ್ ಖಾತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹಂಚಿಕೊಂಡಂತೆ ಈ ಅನಾಮಧೇಯ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ ಮೇಲೆ ಪ್ರಾಣಿ ಹಿಂಸೆ, ಆಸ್ತಿ ಹಾನಿ ಹೀಗೆ ವಿವಿಧ ಪ್ರಕರಣಗಳು ದಾಖಲಾಗಿವೆಯಂತೆ.

ಈ ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ ಇದೀಗ ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಜಾಲತಾಣಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹರಿದಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದು 34000 ಸಾವಿರಕ್ಕೂ ಅಧಿಕ ಮೆಚ್ಚುಗೆ ಪಡೆದಿದೆ.

 

ಬಿಜೆಪಿಯನ್ನು ಬೆಂಬಲಿಸಿದ್ದಕ್ಕೆ ಟ್ರೋಲ್ ಆದ ಕ್ರಿಕೆಟಿಗ

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 01:21 AM PDT

ಬಿಜೆಪಿಗೆ ಬೆಂಬಲಿಸುವುದಾಗಿ ಹೇಳಿ ಕ್ರಿಕೆಟಿಗ ರವೀಂದ್ರ ಜಡೇಜಾ ಮಾಡಿರುವ ಟ್ವೀಟ್‍ ಗೆ ಪ್ರತಿಯಾಗಿ ಟ್ವಿಟಿಗರು ತೀವ್ರ ಅಸಮಾಧಾನ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಪಡಿಸಿ ಟ್ರೋಲ್ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ರವೀಂದ್ರ ಜಡೇಜಾ ಪತ್ನಿ ರಿವಾಬಾ ಜಡೇಜಾ ಇತ್ತೀಜೆಗೆ ಬಿಜೆಪಿಗೆ ಸೇರಿದ್ದು, ಈ ಹಿನ್ನೆಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರು “ಐ ಸಪೋರ್ಟ್ ಬಿಜೆಪಿ” ಎಂದು ಟ್ವೀಟ್ ಮಾಡಿ ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ ನರೇಂದ್ರ ಮೋದಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಅವರ ಪತ್ನಿಯ ಟ್ವಿಟರ್ ಹ್ಯಾಂಡಲ್ ಮೆನ್ಷನ್ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದರು.

ಇದರಿಂದಾಗಿ ಅಸಮಾಧಾನಗೊಂಡ ಹಲವರು ಅವರ ವಿರುದ್ಧ ಟೀಕೆಗಳ ಸುರಿಮಳೆಯನ್ನೇ ಹರಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. “ನೀವು ದೇಶವನ್ನು ಪ್ರತಿನಿಧಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದೀರಿ, ರಾಜಕೀಯೇತರವಾಗಿರಿ” ಎಂದು ಕೆಲವರು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದರೆ, ಇನ್ನು ಕೆಲವರು “ಜಡೇಜಾ ವಿಶ್ವಕಪ್‍ ಟೀಮ್‍ನಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಗೆ ಸೇರಿಕೊಂಡರು ಎಂಬುದು ನಿಮಗೆ ಗೊತ್ತಾಗಿರಬೇಕು” ಎಂದೂ ಟೀಕಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಪತ್ನಿಯ ಶೀಲ ಶಂಕಿಸಿ ಕೊಚ್ಚಿಕೊಂದ ಪತಿ

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 01:18 AM PDT

ಹೆಂಡತಿಯನ್ನು ಗಂಡನೇ ಕೊಚ್ಚಿ ಕೊಂದಿರುವ ಪ್ರಕರಣವೊಂದು ತಮಿಳುನಾಡಿನಿಂದ ವರದಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಹೆಂಡತಿಯ ಶವವನ್ನು ನಾಲೆಗೆ ಎಸೆಯಬೇಕು ಎಂಬ ಯೋಜನೆ ಪೊಲೀಸರ ಮಧ್ಯಪ್ರವೇಶದಿಂದ ತಪ್ಪಿದಂತಾಗಿ ಆರೋಪಿ ಬಂಧನಕ್ಕೀಡಾಗಿದ್ದಾನೆ.

ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಶಿವಮೊಗ್ಗದ ಮೂಲದ ಮುನಿಯಪ್ಪನ್(28) ಹಾಗೂ ನಿವೇದಿತ(19) ಎಂಟು ತಿಂಗಳ ಹಿಂದೆ ಮದುವೆಯಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಆ ಬಳಿಕ ತಮಿಳುನಾಡಿನ ಮೆಟ್ಟುಕಡ್ಡಯಿ ಬಳಿ ನೆಲೆಸಿದ್ದರು. ಮುನಿಯಪ್ಪನ್ ಪತ್ನಿಯ ಶೀಲ ಶಂಕಿಸಿ ಆಗಾಗ ಜಗಳ ತೆಗೆಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಎನ್ನಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ಸೋಮವಾರವೂ ಅಂಥದ್ದೇ ಒಂದು ಜಗಳವಾಗಿದ್ದು, ರೊಚ್ಚಿಗೆದ್ದ ಆತ ಹೆಂಡತಿಗೆ ಇರಿದು ತಲೆಯನ್ನೇ ಕೊಚ್ಚಿ ಹಾಕಿದ್ದಾನೆ. ಬಳಿಕ ಶವವನ್ನು ಒಂದು ಚೀಲದಲ್ಲಿ ತುಂಬಿಸಿ ಬೈಕ್‍ ನಲ್ಲಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡು ಪೆರುಂದುರೈ ಬಳಿಯ ನಾಲೆಗೆ ಎಸೆಯಲು ಹೊರಟಿದ್ದ.

ಆದರೆ ಶವದ ಕಾಲು ಚೀಲದ ಹೊರಕ್ಕೆ ಕಾಣಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದರಿಂದ ಕೆಲವರು ಆತನನ್ನು ಹಿಂಬಾಲಿಸಿ ಪೊಲೀಸರಿಗೆ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ನೀಡಿದ್ದು. ಪೊಲೀಸರಿಂದ ತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಆತ ನಾಲೆಗೆ ಹಾರಿದ್ದರೂ ಪೊಲೀಸರು ಆತನನ್ನು ಬಂಧಿಸಿ ವಿಚಾರಣೆಗೆ ಒಳಪಡಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಬ್ರೇಕ್ ಫಾಸ್ಟ್ ಸೇವಿಸಲು ಬೆಸ್ಟ್ ಟೈಮ್ ಯಾವುದು ಗೊತ್ತಾ…?

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 01:16 AM PDT

ರಜಾ ದಿನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಲೇಟಾಗಿ ಏಳುವುದು, ಬ್ರೇಕ್ ಫಾಸ್ಟ್ ಮಿಸ್ ಮಾಡುವುದು, ಇದು ನಗರ ವಾಸಿಗಳ ಲೈಫ್ ಸ್ಟೈಲ್. ಆದರೆ ಆಫೀಸ್ ಗೆ ಹೋಗುವಾಗ ಗಡಿಬಿಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆಳ್ಳಂಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆಯೇ ಅರೆಬರೆ ಬ್ರೇಕ್ ಫಾಸ್ಟ್ ಸೇವಿಸಿ ಓಡುವುದು ಎಲ್ಲರ ಜಾಯಮಾನ.

ಹಾಗಿದ್ದರೆ ಬ್ರೇಕ್ ಫಾಸ್ಟ್ ಸೇವಿಸಲು ಸೂಕ್ತ ಸಮಯ ಯಾವುದು ಅಂತೀರಾ…?ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ತಜ್ಞರ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಬೆಳಗ್ಗೆ ಎದ್ದ ಒಂದರಿಂದ ಎರಡು ಗಂಟೆಯೊಳಗೆ ಉಪಾಹಾರ ಸೇವಿಸುವುದು ಸೂಕ್ತ. ಎದ್ದ ತಕ್ಷಣವೇ ಸೇವಿಸುವುದು ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದಲ್ಲ.

ಹಾಗೆಯೇ ತುಂಬಾ ಹೊತ್ತು ಹಸಿದು ಕೂರುವುದೂ ಅಸಿಡಿಟಿಯಂತಹ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ತರುತ್ತದೆ. ಈ ರೀತಿ ಮಾಡುವುದರಿಂದ ಹೊತ್ತಲ್ಲದ ಹೊತ್ತಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಹಸಿವು, ಬೇಡದ ಆಹಾರದ ಕಡೆಗೆ ಆಕರ್ಷಣೆ ಬೆಳೆಯುವುದಿಲ್ಲ ಎನ್ನುವುದು ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ತಜ್ಞರ ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯ.

ಪ್ರೇಮ ವಿವಾಹಕ್ಕೆ ಅಡ್ಡಿಪಡಿಸಿದ ಪಾಲಕರನ್ನೇ ಕೊಂದ ಪುತ್ರಿ

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 01:10 AM PDT

ಪ್ರೇಮವಿವಾಹಕ್ಕೆ ಅಡ್ಡಿಪಡಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆಂದು ಪುತ್ರಿಯೊಬ್ಬಳು ತನ್ನ ಪ್ರಿಯತಮನ ಜೊತೆ ಸೇರಿ ತಂದೆ-ತಾಯಿಯನ್ನೇ ಕೊಲೆ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾಳೆ. ಕೊಲೆಗಡುಕರಿಬ್ಬರೂ ಈಗ ಪೊಲೀಸರ ಬಂಧನದಲ್ಲಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ನಾಗಪುರದ ಸಾಫ್ಟ್ ವೇರ್ ಇಂಜಿನಿಯರ್ ಪ್ರಿಯಾಂಕಾ ಮತ್ತು ರಾಜ್ಯ‌ ಮಟ್ಟದ ಕ್ರಿಕೆಟಿಗ ಮೊಹಮ್ಮದ್ ಅಕ್ಲಾಕ್ ಪರಸ್ಪರ ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದು, ಮದುವೆಯಾಗಲು ನಿರ್ಧರಿಸಿದ್ದರು. ಆದರೆ ಪ್ರಿಯಾಂಕಾ ತಂದೆ ಶಂಕರ್ ಚಂಪತಿ(72) ಮತ್ತು ತಾಯಿ ಸೀಮಾ(64) ಈ ಅಂತರ್ಧರ್ಮೀಯ ವಿವಾಹಕ್ಕೆ ವಿರೋಧ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಪಡಿಸಿದ್ದರು.

ಇದರಿಂದ ಸಿಟ್ಟಾದ ಪ್ರಿಯಾಂಕಾ ತನ್ನ ಪ್ರಿಯತಮ ಅಕ್ಲಾಕ್ ಜೊತೆ ಸೇರಿ ತಂದೆ-ತಾಯಿಯನ್ನು ಸಾಯಿಸಿದ್ದಾಳೆ. ಭಾನುವಾರ ಮತ್ತು ಬರಿಸುವ ಔಷಧ ಕೊಟ್ಟು ಬಳಿಕ ಕತ್ತುಹಿಸುಕಿ, ತಲೆಗೆ ಹೊಡೆದು ಸಾಯಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಈ ಸಂಬಂಧ ಪೊಲೀಸರ ವಿಚಾರಣೆ ವೇಳೆ ಪುತ್ರಿ ಕೊಲೆಯ ವಿಷಯ ಬಾಯಿಬಿಟ್ಟಿದ್ದು, ಇದರಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಿಯತಮ ಕೂಡ ಭಾಗಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದಾನೆಂದು ತಿಳಿಸಿದ್ದರಿಂದ ಅಕ್ಲಾಕ್‍ ನನ್ನೂ ಪೊಲೀಸರು ಬಂಧಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಹ್ಯಾಕ್‌ ಬೆದರಿಕೆ ಒಡ್ಡಿದ್ದ ಟೆಕ್ಕಿಗೆ ದುಬೈನಲ್ಲಿ ಜೈಲು

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 01:08 AM PDT

ದುಬೈ: 33 ವರ್ಷದ ಭಾರತೀಯ ಮೂಲದ ಐಟಿ ಉದ್ಯೋಗಿಯೊಬ್ಬನಿಗೆ ದುಬೈ ನ್ಯಾಯಾಲಯ ಮೂರು ತಿಂಗಳು ಜೈಲು ಶಿಕ್ಷೆ ವಿಧಿಸಿದೆ. ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಗಡೀಪಾರು ಆದೇಶ ಕೂಡ ಮಾಡಿದೆ.

ತನ್ನ 15 ಮಂದಿ ಗ್ರಾಹಕರ ವೆಬ್ ಸೈಟ್ ಗಳನ್ನು ಹ್ಯಾಕ್ ಮಾಡುವುದಾಗಿ ಬೆದರಿಕೆ ಒಡ್ಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಐಟಿ ಉದ್ಯೋಗಿಗೆ ದುಬೈ ನ್ಯಾಯಾಲಯ ಈ ಶಿಕ್ಷೆ ವಿಧಿಸಿದೆ. ಮೀಡಿಯಾ ಕಂಪನಿಯ ಉದ್ಯೋಗಕ್ಕೆ ರಾಜೀನಾಮೆ ಕೊಟ್ಟ ಬಳಿಕ, ತನ್ನ ಸಂಬಳದಲ್ಲಿ ಹಿಡಿದಿರುವ ಹಣ ವಾಪಸ್ ನೀಡದಿದ್ದರೇ ಹ್ಯಾಕ್ ಮಾಡುವುದಾಗಿ ಬೆದರಿಸಿದ್ದ ಆರೋಪ ಆ ಐಟಿ ಉದ್ಯೋಗಿಯ ಮೇಲಿದೆ.

ಅದೇ ಕಂಪನಿಯ ಮತ್ತೊಬ್ಬ ಉದ್ಯೋಗಿಯ ವಾಟ್ಸಾಪ್ ಗೆ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಕಳುಹಿಸಿದ್ದು, ತನ್ನ ಸಂಬಳದಲ್ಲಿ ಹಿಡಿದಿರುವ ನಾಲ್ಕು ಸಾವಿರ ರಿದಮ್ ಹಣ ಪಾವತಿ ಮಾಡದಿದ್ದರೇ ಹ್ಯಾಕ್ ಮಾಡುವುದಾಗಿ ಬೆದರಿಸಿದ್ದ ಎಂದು ಗಲ್ಫ್ ನ್ಯೂಸ್ ವರದಿ ಮಾಡಿದೆ.

3 ಡಿ ಗ್ಲಾಸ್ ಗೆ ಆರ್ಡರ್ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾರಂತೆ ರಾಯಡು…!

Posted: 17 Apr 2019 01:05 AM PDT

ವಿಶ್ವ ಕಪ್ ಗೆ ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಭಾರತೀಯ ಕ್ರಿಕೆಟ್ ತಂಡ ಪ್ರಕಟಗೊಂಡಿದ್ದು, ತಂಡದಲ್ಲಿ ನಾಲ್ಕನೇ ಕ್ರಮಾಂಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಆಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಅಂಬಾಟಿ ರಾಯಡು ಬದಲಾಗಿ ಆಲ್ ರೌಂಡರ್ ವಿಜಯ್ ಶಂಕರ್ ಸ್ಥಾನ‌ ಪಡೆದಿರುವುದು ಬಹಳ ಚರ್ಚೆಗೆ ಗ್ರಾಸವಾಗಿದೆ.

ಆಸ್ಟ್ರೇಲಿಯಾ ತಂಡದ ವಿರುದ್ದ ಆಡಿದ ಐದು ಪಂದ್ಯಾವಳಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮೂರು ಪಂದ್ಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ರಾಯಡು ವಿಫಲವಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಇಂಡಿಯನ್ ಪ್ರೀಮಿಯರ್ ಲೀಗ್ ನಲ್ಲೂ ಬ್ಯಾಟಿಂಗ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಯಶಸ್ವಿಯಾಗದ ಕಾರಣ‌ ವಿಶ್ವಕಪ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ಥಾನ ಪಡೆಯಲು ಅವರಿಗೆ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗಿಲ್ಲ.

ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಸಮಿತಿಯ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥಾಪಕ ಎಂ.ಎಸ್.ಕೆ. ಪ್ರಸಾದ್, ರಾಯಡುಗೆ ಇನ್ನಷ್ಟು ಅವಕಾಶ ನೀಡಬಹುದು. ಆದರೆ ವಿಜಯ್ ಶಂಕರ್ ರನ್ನ ತಂಡಕ್ಕೆ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದರಿಂದ ಓರ್ವ ಬ್ಯಾಟ್ ಮ್ಯಾನ್, ಓರ್ವ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರ ರಕ್ಷಕ ಹಾಗೂ ಬೌಲರ್ ಸಿಕ್ಕ ಹಾಗೆ ಆಗಲಿದೆ. ಯಾವ ಪರಿಸ್ಥಿತಿಯಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ರಾಯಡು ಅವರನ್ನ ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಬಳಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದೆಂಬುದು ಅವರ ಲೆಕ್ಕಾಚಾರ. ಅವರ ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯಕ್ಕೆ ಸುನೀಲ್ ಗವಾಸ್ಕರ್ ಸಹ ಸಹಮತ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಪಡಿಸಿದ್ದು, ವಿಜಯ ಶಂಕರ್ ಓರ್ವ ಉತ್ತಮ ಆಟಗಾರ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಕಳೆದ ವರ್ಷ ಏಷಿಯನ್ ಕಪ್ ಪಂದ್ಯಾವಳಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಉತ್ತಮ ಆಟ ಪ್ರದರ್ಶಿಸಿದ ರಾಯಡು ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲಿ ಆಟವಾಡಿದ ಆಸ್ಟ್ರೇಲಿಯಾ ವಿರುದ್ದದ ಪ್ರತಿ ಪಂದ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಐವತ್ತು ರನ್ ಹೊಡೆದಿದ್ದರು. ನ್ಯೂಜಿಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್ ವಿರುದ್ದದ ಪಂದ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ 90 ಎಸೆತಕ್ಕೆ 113 ರನ್ ಗಳಿಸಿ ಅತ್ಯುತ್ತಮ ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನ ನೀಡಿದ್ದರು. ನ್ಯೂಜಿಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್ ಪ್ರವಾಸದಲ್ಲಿ ರಾಯಡು ಐದು ಮ್ಯಾಚ್ ಆಡಿ ಶೇ.63.33 ರನ್ ಸರಾಸರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ 190 ರನ್ ಗಳಿಸಿದ್ದರು. ಆಗ ಅವರ ಸ್ಟ್ರೈಕ್ ರೇಟ್ ಶೇ. 82.25 ರಷ್ಟಿತ್ತು.

ಆಸ್ಟ್ರೇಲಿಯಾ ಪಂದ್ಯಾವಳಿ ಆಡುವವರೆಗೂ ಉತ್ತಮ ರನ್ ರೇಟ್ ಕಾಯ್ದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದರು. 55 ಪಂದ್ಯ ಆಡಿದ ರಾಯಡು ಶೇ.47.05 ರನ್ ಸರಾಸರಿ ಕಾಪಾಡಿಕೊಂಡು ಬಂದಿದ್ದರು. ಆಸ್ಟ್ರೇಲಿಯಾದ ಪಂದ್ಯಾವಳಿ ಆಡಿದ ಮೇಲೆ ಈ ರನ್ ರೇಟ್ ಕುಸಿದಿದೆ.

ಭಾರತೀಯ ತಂಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ಥಾನ ಪಡೆಯುವಲ್ಲಿ ಸಫಲರಾಗದ ರಾಯಡು ಇತ್ತೀಚೆಗೆ ಟ್ವೀಟ್ ಮಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ತಾನು ವಿಶ್ವಕಪ್ ಪಂದ್ಯಾವಳಿ ವೀಕ್ಷಿಸಲು 3ಡಿ ಗ್ಲಾಸ್ ವುಳ್ಳ ಕೂಲಿಂಗ್ ಗ್ಲಾಸ್ ಆರ್ಡರ್ ಮಾಡಿರುವುದಾಗಿ ಟ್ವೀಟ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಳುವ ಮೂಲಕ ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಸಮಿತಿ ತೀರ್ಮಾನಕ್ಕೆ ವ್ಯಂಗ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

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ಮೂರೇ ವರ್ಷದಲ್ಲಿ ದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ 50 ಲಕ್ಷ ಮಂದಿ ಉದ್ಯೋಗ ಕಳೆದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎಂದು ದ ಸ್ಟೇಟ್ ಆಫ್ ವರ್ಕಿಂಗ್ ಇಂಡಿಯಾ(ಎಸ್‍ಡಬ್ಲುಐ) 2019 ವರದಿ ಹೇಳಿದೆ. ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಮೂಲದ ಅಜೀಮ್ ಪ್ರೇಮ್‍ಜಿ ಯುನಿವರ್ಸಿಟಿ ನಡೆಸಿದ ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ವಿಷಯ ಕಂಡು ಬಂದಿದೆ.

ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆ ಪ್ರಕಾರ 2016ರಿಂದ 2018ರವರೆಗೆ ದೇಶಾದ್ಯಂತ ಒಟ್ಟು 50 ಲಕ್ಷ ಮಂದಿ ಉದ್ಯೋಗ ಕಳೆದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ. 2016ರಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ಡಿಮಾನಿಟೈಸೇಷನ್ ಬಳಿಕ ಈ ವಿದ್ಯಮಾನ ಉಂಟಾಗಿದ್ದರೂ ಇದು ಕಾಕತಾಳೀಯ ಇರಬಹುದು ಎಂದು ವರದಿ ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯ ಪಟ್ಟಿದೆ.

ಇನ್ನು ಹೆಚ್ಚು ವಿದ್ಯಾವಂತರಷ್ಟೇ ಈ ನಿರುದ್ಯೋಗ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ಎದುರಿಸುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ. ಕಡಿಮೆ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಹತೆ ಇರುವವರೂ ಉದ್ಯೋಗ ಕಳೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದು, ವಿರಳ ಉದ್ಯೋಗಾವಕಾಶಗಳನ್ನು ಎದುರಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎಂಬುದನ್ನೂ ವರದಿ ಕಂಡುಕೊಂಡಿದೆ. ಸೆಂಟರ್ ಫಾರ್ ಮಾನಿಟರಿಂಗ್ ದಿ ಇಂಡಿಯನ್ ಎಕಾನಮಿಯ ಕನ್‍ ಸ್ಯೂಮರ್ ಪಿರಮಿಡ್ಸ್ ಸರ್ವೇ ಆಧರಿಸಿ ಈ ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆ ನಡೆಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.

Why Tatas are no match for Amazon, Flipkart - economic news of india - world economic news - economics news for students - indian economy news

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Why Tatas are no match for Amazon, Flipkart
KOLKATA: The investment by Tatas into their e-commerce venture Tata CLiQ pales in comparison to Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart. Latest regulatory filings show Tatas invested Rs 292 crore in FY19 in Tata UniStore, the entity which owns the ecommerce marketplace. Though investment was up by 30% from FY18 (Rs 224 crore) as per the filings made to the Registrar of Companies (RoC), analysts said with such low investment it might be difficult for Tata CLiQ to win market share in the Indian e-commerce market with the cash-rich Reliance Retail, too, planning a mega entry.In calendar 2018, Amazon India received Rs 9,450 crore, the highest ever capital infusion into the Indian entity in a single year. After Walmart acquired a controlling 77% in Flipkart last August, Flipkart Internet received over Rs 3,463 crore while the wholesale arm Flipkart India received Rs 2,190 crore. Flipkart India received another Rs 1,431 crore in January.Analysts said Flipkart and Amazon together control over 90% of the Indian ecommerce market.“A significant portion of Amazon and Flipkart’s capital infusion has gone into market acquisition. If that’s stripped out, then it’s possible to build an ecommerce business with lower investment. But the way it is now, anybody who wants a significant chunk of ecommerce needs to consider bring deep pockets to the business,” said Devangshu Dutta, chief executive at consultancy firm Third Eyesight.The capital infusion into Tata UniStore was made by its two shareholders — Tata Industries, which owns 90%, and the group’s retail arm, Trent, which owns the balance 10% — through allotment of equity shares. The investment was made in various tranches while the last one was done on February 25, 2019, for Rs 38.6 crore, as per RoC documents.In response to an email, Tata Industries executive director KRS Jamwal said Tata CLiQ’s strategic goal is sustainable profitable growth and the investments are in line with the demands of this industry. He said the company has taken a long-term perspective and wants to build a differentiated brand in the consumer’s mind with robust investments.“Our enhanced product offering has received positive customer feedback. Along with our 'phygital' model, this has led to healthy growth last year.We continue to focus on delivering unique brand experience backed by authenticity and quality,” said Jamwal.A senior executive with a leading online focussed appliance maker said Tata CLiQ is creating conflict in the consumer’s mind with Tataowned Croma online storefront for smartphones and electronics.“In fact, both the Tata online ventures are competing against each other,” he said. As per RoC filings, Tata UniStore’s total income in FY18 trebled to Rs 41.7 crore from Rs 13.5 crore, while loss increased more than 28% to Rs 208.4 crore from Rs 162.1 crore.
Source: ET

How to crash a business: The Jet story explained - economic news of india - world economic news - economics news for students - indian economy news

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How to crash a business: The Jet story explained
As Jet Airways shuts down operations, the beginning of its end, at least in its current form, can be traced back to many events. Perhaps the most consequential of those events happened on a Sunday afternoon around last Diwali.Naresh Goyal, along with his financial advisers, drove to Deepak Parekh’s Mumbai residence to seek advice on how to save Jet. Around that time, the Tatas were evaluating the option of buying Goyal’s troubled carrier. There was also a private equity consortium led by TPG Capital and Indigo Partners LLC, a specialist aviation investor.HDFC’s avuncular chairman Parekh — key adviser to the Abu Dhabi government, the same Emirate where Etihad, Jet’s partner, is the state-owned carrier — advised Goyal to step back and make way for a new investor.Goyal has many such important friends on speed dial — politicians, policymakers, chief executives, airline lessors and manufacturers. He talks to them all, but finally listens only to himself. So he refused to relent or cede control last year, believing instead that he would pull a rabbit out of his hat, like always. But he couldn’t. Tata Sons, the only suitor with a comprehensive offer for Jet, walked off never to return. 68930971 ET spoke to multiple persons for this story. Many spoke off the record. A Jet spokesperson termed a detailed set of emailed queries sent earlier “speculative.” The Tata group said it won’t comment. Parekh too declined to comment.“In retrospect, perhaps Goyal ought to have put more faith in the people he hired to help run the airline,” said Shukor Yusof, founder of Malaysian research firm Endau Analytics. “He does bear responsibility for many of the carrier’s strategic mistakes. He finds it hard to let go, and this has worsened the situation.”“Goyal has failed his company, his employees and his shareholders,” a top airline executive told ET. “He had a readymade investment opportunity from Tata Sons, which he squandered. Jet was sailing till January. Then it all went downhill.”By recent estimates, Jet Airways is making a daily loss of Rs 21 crore and has debt and dues of at least Rs 15,000 crore.Jet’s fall is a story of the fall of its founder. Few business failures are so inseparable from the failings of their promoters. Industry insiders often quote a line attributed to Goyal, “I am the person in Jet. When people look at Jet Airways, they look at me.” The garrulous founder of the airline, admired by some for his quicksilver wit, was once its biggest asset. Today, he has proved to be its biggest liability.Even with Etihad on board, Goyal repeatedly flirted with Delta Air Lines. With an FY18 net income of close to $4 billion, annual cash flows of over $7 billion and almost no presence in the big Indian market, Delta could have been Jet’s richest suitor. It offered Rs 300 per share. But Goyal wanted over Rs 400.All this when his airline’s shares price had hovered between Rs 182 and Rs 347 for the past six months.“Delta executives said, ‘Don’t just come to us for money. Come if you want us to help you turn around your airline’,” said the executive cited above. Delta declined to comment to ET.POWER COUPLE’S DARBARSAirlines have always had flamboyant founders/chief executives known as much for their love of the high life as for their hospitality. Goyal is no exception. He is self-admittedly inspired as much by CP Krishnan Nair of the Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts and PRS Oberoi of the Oberoi Group as by any successful airline CEO or founder. He wanted Jet’s Mumbai-London passengers to get a five-star hotel experience.Goyal would hold meetings at his Mumbai and London homes and almost no one was allowed to leave without breaking bread with the family. When in London, the food would often come from Taj’s Bombay Brasserie, which also provided meals on Jet’s international flights.Problems arose when Goyal blurred the personal with the professional. And when he fell totally out of sync with industry disruptions, feel his peers.He would hold meetings that employees termed “darbars.” His room on the fifth floor of Siroya Centre, Jet’s corporate office in Mumbai, has a large round table with phones but no computers — Goyal, until recently, used fax, read printouts of emails and has joined WhatsApp in the past year, said a Jet executive. Facing this table are couches where executives sat.Goyal would come into office post 1 pm, often summon heads of various departments, sermonise for hours and even take them to task publicly, caring little for designations such as head of planning and strategy. In Jet, Goyal was the sole planner and strategist. He liked to repeat things thrice for emphasis. His benchmark for efficiency was “like a Swiss clock” and he often cited Singapore Airlines and Lufthansa.On the other hand, Goyal was also extremely emotional about his staff, showing reluctance and sadness in laying off almost any employee.His wife Anita, also called Neeta, (a board member who resigned with him on March 25) held similar darbars one floor down. She was kinder, though just as exacting, and kept tabs on how much every Jet flight earned or lost. She was known to informally call up the heads of other airlines — Rahul Bhatia of IndiGo, Ajay Singh of SpiceJet and Jeh Wadia of GoAir (Naresh Goyal called chairman Nusli Wadia) — when they cut prices too much. Her associates called her sense of revenue management “reactive.”Goyal and his wife would often differ on many aspects of the airline business but they agreed on one thing always: total control. At the end of 2018, for instance, when the cash crunch was deepening, Jet announced a slew of discounted offerings to fill its planes — a move that was objected to by CEO Vinay Dube.An executive from Delta, Dube didn’t find the model sustainable for a full-service carrier already burdened by costs. However, Anita Goyal shot down Dube’s objection and asked him not to interfere, as it was “her airline.”Numbers tell the rest of the story — those forward bookings gave the airline interim cash, but have now become a liability of Rs 3,500 crore worth of cancellations for around 3.2 million passengers. It has indeed been Dube who has kept the airline running in the past few months, pacifying angry creditors and encouraging distressed staff. Former executives say the Goyals’ biggest mistake has been placing too much trust in a handful of individuals.There were “camps” close to Goyal and his wife. The company was “too personality-driven.” The couple frequently changed management decisions. For instance, the management would enforce additional duties on pilots or crew. But sometimes, a crew member would call up Goyal directly, and decisions would be overturned.As Jet plunged financially, the darbars became infrequent, and stopped completely after September. But the Jet story isn’t just about Mr and Mrs Goyal. There was the son, Nivaan, too.FATHER’S BURDENNivaan was mentored at Jet by former chief executive Cramer Ball and then Jayaraj Shanmugam, currently executive vice-president of products and services. He worked with various departments before joining the business transformation team set up to turn around the airline and finally became a close aide of his father.Former colleagues have said Nivaan never threw his weight around. Yet, many often found him detached. “Ball used to call assessment meetings with the top management. Nivaan would attend every meeting, but never said anything relevant,” said an executive who was part of these meetings. 68931023 Unlike his parents, Nivaan was more amenable to giving the management a free hand. Sometimes, he would be the ‘nicer’ Goyal when his father upbraided an executive. But his parents didn’t let him take any key decisions.Following Goyal’s cardiac ailment, Nivaan asked his father to allow him, Anita and the management to run the airline. Even then, Naresh Goyal didn’t budge. A few weeks ago (around March 18), when Etihad said it didn’t want to be part of Jet’s revival plan, father and son flew to Qatar to give presentations to Qatar Airways’ global chief executive Akbar Al Baker. They weren’t able to garner interest. It was a sorry end to a great entrepreneurship story.TAKE-OFF TO CRASH-LANDThe beginning of Goyal’s entrepreneurial journey — from a cashier at his uncle Charandas Ramlal’s travel company East-West Agencies to an independent general sales agent (GSA) building connections with airline executives across the world — has been told many times.GSAs in the 1990s were powerful. They worked as international airlines’ representatives in the local market and were several notches higher in the pecking order than travel agents.At its peak, Jet Air Transport’s office was aligned with 17 desks, each representing a different global airline.Always a sharp networker, Goyal once took a visiting official from lobbying body International Air Transport Association (IATA) to Agra, and bought him and his team marble-topped furniture worth?5 lakh. Then, over lunch and subsequent cups of tea, he had a threehour discussion on buying some smaller aircraft. This was a strategy meeting minus corporate frills.Jet started as an air taxi service operator in 1993 and went on to become India’s biggest airline, offering top-class international services. It started with a 20% equity partnership with Kuwait Airways and Gulf Air, both of whom exited later. Its overseas operations kicked off with a Chennai-Colombo route in 2004. Its successful initial public offer (IPO) was in 2005. Nothing was going wrong. But then, something big did.TWO MISTAKESMany observers argue that Jet’s financial problems started with Goyal buying out rival Air Sahara in 2007 for Rs 1,450 crore, This was a deal that gave Jet endless problems – financial, legal and human resource-related.Goyal bought Sahara to take on Kingfisher Airlines and low-fare carriers Air Deccan, IndiGo and SpiceJet. But the deal reduced Jet’s ability to spend extra money to take on the competition effectively. Jet wasted IPO funds that remained after placing plane orders.“After that, the smallest of bumps affected Jet more than its peers.Over the years, it has depended more and more on external positive factors such as fares going up and fuel prices coming down,” another industry executive pointed out.Kingfisher shut down operations in 2012. IndiGo quietly grew to topple Jet from its leadership position. Then came the second big mistake.Goyal decided to buy a mixed fleet of 10 wide-bodied Airbus A330 and Boeing 777 planes. Mixing in such a small fleet was impractical as it increased cost of resources. Also, Goyal decided to configure them “like palaces,” building in only 308 seats, much lower than the global standard of about 400. He lost a fourth of the potential revenue in the process, executives said.Even when the configuration changed to 348 seats, Goyal insisted on retaining eight first class seats long after it was proven that they were not earning anything. He didn’t listen to advice from his then commerce chief Sudheer Raghavan and longtime associate, CEO Nikos Kardassis. At 250 kg each, the seats added an unnecessary 8 tonne to aircraft weight that earned nothing for the flight. What’s more, there was never a proper network planned for the aircraft.Since 2008, Jet had to lease out up to 70% of its wide-bodies to the likes of Turkish Airlines, Oman Air, Thai Airways, Gulf Air and Etihad. “Jet wasn’t a leasing company, but was forced to behave like one,” said one of the people cited above. “At least two executives from the top management used to travel for weeks every month in search of airlines that would take the aircraft on lease. It took up to six months to find an interested lessee. This, when fuel prices were rising, competition was getting brutal and the management should have focused on running the airline.”AUSSIE FROM ABU DHABIJet faced its first serious financial distress in 2011-12. Goyal responded by pretty much single-handedly leading negotiations with Etihad, run by hardnosed Australian James Hogan. Close to 50 meetings later, Goyal managed to sell Etihad 24% for $379 million, a nearimpossible price given the precarious state Jet was in. But the miracle came at a price — Goyal soon saw his beloved company slipping out of his hands.“Etihad’s entry was the first instance that filled him with fear of losing control,” recalls an executive. The Gulf carrier came in with 15 men and an aim to ‘professionalise’ Jet, though also to make a feeder airline of it. Weekly meetings with department heads were organised, routes changed, branding overhauled and cost discrepancies flagged.But Goyal soon took back charge. The Etihad men left. Almost as a retaliatory move, Jet shifted its global hub to Amsterdam, from Brussels, and in November 2017, signed deep commercial agreements with the Air France-KLM combine. This was an opportunity Goyal had squandered in 2010 by wooing Star Alliance, a global airline group that chose Air India as its member instead.Again, Goyal stitched together the new agreement almost single-handedly, with trusted lieutenant Gaurang Shetty. That was perhaps his last big win for Jet, the ultimate proof of his superlative networking skills.Meanwhile, the fear of losing control had taken deep root. “In many meetings last year, when he took the top management to task for the airline losing money, he often ended the tirades with, ‘What should I do? Dilute stake in the airline that I have built? Exit?’” recalled a former executive who was present at many of those meetings.Mistakes piled up as Goyal started to run the airline again. In 2013-14, Jet had the opportunity to offload all the costly A330-200s to several potential buyers, including Turkish Airlines. But Goyal bargained over the price and lost the deal.Again in 2016, Jet had the opportunity to sell its entire ATR fleet, which was incurring an annual loss of over $100 million, to Etihad Regional or Air Serbia. And again, Goyal baulked. These lost opportunities returned to haunt Jet. Over the last 12 months, it has searched for and failed to find buyers for its Airbus A330s and ATRs.From London last week, Goyal again bid for his airline after the lenders put it under the auctioneer’s hammer. His offer was rejected. In between, he continued to bicker with the lenders, saying they weren’t doing a proper job of reviving Jet. On multiple occasions in the past few months, potential investors Etihad and TPG threatened to walk out if Goyal remained at the airline. Ultimately, by the time the Goyals left Jet, it didn’t make a difference at all.Naresh Goyal, who built an airline from nothing, left behind a lesson for entrepreneurs — no founder is bigger than the company he runs.Mallya Sympathises with GoyalsLONDON: Erstwhile liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya on Wednesday took to social media once again, this time to express his solidarity with Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal. “Even though Jet was a major competitor to Kingfisher at the time, I feel sorry to see such a large private airline on the brink of failure when government used Rs 35,000 crore of public funds to bail out Air India. Just being a PSU is no excuse for discrimination,” Mallya tweeted. “I have offered to pay back 100% but am being criminally charged instead. Airline Karma?” The UB Group chief expressed his sympathy for the troubles being faced by Goyal and his wife Neeta. “Even though we were fierce competitors, my sympathies go out to Naresh and Neeta Goyal, who built Jet Airways, that India should be extremely proud of. Fine airline providing vital connectivity and class service. Sad that so many airlines have bitten the dust in India. Why?” Mallya asked. - PTI
Source: ET

How much does a house cost in Mumbai?

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A property price depends on various factors such as location, neighbourhood, quality of construction, amenities and age of building, among others.If you are planning to buy a property for self-use, our compilation of property prices of prominent localities in major cities may help you compare and make an informed decision
Source: LM

Travelling abroad? Load your cash on forex cards

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You may need to carry a little bit of cash, but use forex cards for other needs as they are safer to carry than cash and cheaper than debit and credit cards.The biggest advantage of using a forex card is that you know the exact exchange rate you are paying
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No interest-free window to repay cash withdrawn from ATM using credit card

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If you need to withdraw cash using your credit card, repay it at the earliest as you are charged the interest right from the day you make the withdrawal.If the amount is high and unmanageable, you can also approach your bank to convert the credit card dues into a personal loan
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Clues to help decode if an FMP is good for you

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Know the risk associated with FMPs and how it can affect your returns.A well-researched and carefully selected FMP bond portfolio will give investors a lower risk debt fund option
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Products that guarantee returns are, typically, conservative in nature

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Switch to mutual fund SIPs for your long-term investing needs, and increase your monthly investment considerably to get to your target.For the allocation to small-cap, consider adding HDFC Small Cap Fund into the mix and splitting the allocation with the Reliance Small Cap Fund, which you already have
Source: LM

Berhampur civic body to train ragpickers

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Berhampur civic body to train ragpickers
To help them earn more, improve cleanliness in the city

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