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“The Mangalayaan effect,” Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi tweeted, implying that Modi was trying to take credit for promotion of KVIC like he had allegedly done after India’s spacecraft Mangalayaan landed on the Mars.
PMO sources said in the past also, there was no picture of Mahatma Gandhi on such KVIC material.
“In the calendars and diaries of 1996, 2002, 2005, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, there was no picture of Gandhi. So there is no question of Modi replacing Gandhiji’s picture,” the sources said.
“Those stoking the controversy over the issue should realize that during Congress rule of 50 years, the sale of khadi remained restricted to 2 per cent to 7 per cent but in last two years, the sale has seen an unprecedented jump of 34 per cent. This is because of PM’s efforts to popularise khadi,” they added.
The PMO said the KVIC diary and calendar has photographs of Modi distributing charkha among poor women, they said.
The "unsung heroes" in the dressing room will make sure Boro cope with any setbacks and handle the heat of the Championship promotion run-in, says skipper George Friend.
Boro lost two influential dressing room and training ground lieutenants when club captain Grant Leadbitter and the hugely experienced Danny Batth both left the club in January.
But Friend says Boro boast plenty of big characters who will all need to play a key role as the season approaches crunch time. The importance of experience and leadership, says Friend, can't be overstated, as pressure mounts by the week - with Boro heading for Blackburn on Sunday looking to immediately bounce back...
“I like to think I’ve always been up there as one of the leaders of the group, even if perhaps it’s not been broadcast when Grant was doing stuff," says Friend.
"Grant was superb for the club, and it was great to have him in the dressing room. Danny’s (Batth) gone as well, and you can see the impact he’s had with Stoke because he’s gone straight in and got the armband. But there are some other unsung heroes in the line-up here too that perhaps people don’t really know about.
"There are lots of lads with the experience. John Obi Mikel has come in, and he’s got that presence and an amazing CV. He’s brought that. Everyone knows how much I love the club and want to succeed here every season. I’m just going to try to embrace it. Grant’s gone and he’s not going to be in the changing room any mor...
“Someone like Darren Randolph might not be the loudest, but he’s a calming influence. He’s such a calm character, and the countless saves and great decisions he’s made this season have won us a lot of points. Stewy as well, having him and what’s he done in the game, and of course being local as well, that love for the ...
"The lads that might have to come in from the cold that haven’t been playing, they’ve got to be ready because it’s a squad that gets success."
Paddy McNair could be one of those who comes in from the cold at Ewood Park as Pulis is forced into defensive changes, with Daniel Ayala suspended and Aden Flint having hobbled off injured in midweek.
Friend said: "Someone might have to play out of position or someone might have to come in who’s not been playing, but we say it all the time, it’s a squad that gets promoted or has success. It’s not just 11 players all season.
"Luckily, we’ve got good quality in our squad, and we can call on good players, and most of all, good people. That’s the important thing, and I’m confident we can react from the disappointment of losing those two players. They’ve been excellent for us, and obviously the physicality and the presence they hold is importa...
It's the attack rather than the defence that has caused Pulis sleepless nights this season, with the boss left disappointed in January after failed bids to bolster his forward ranks.
Friend is in no doubt that Boro possess the quality to go up, though, insisting: "I wouldn't swap our squad for any in the league."
He said: "We can change things if we have to. If you’re bringing Britt Assombalonga on, it’s not too bad is it? You’re talking about the club-record signing, and someone who’s pretty much got one goal in every two games right through his career.
"I know the manager doesn’t like a big squad. That’s the way he likes to manage and I think it has its benefits. If you look at Sheffield United, they’ve signed an awful lot of strikers – even bringing in Scott Hogan – and they’re not even getting on the pitch. That creates its own issues. You can have it both ways.
"It’s the manager’s preference I guess, and because we’ve been tending to play with one up front, there’d be a lot of people sitting around if we had too many in that position. Personally, for me, when I see someone like Britt coming on, I think, ‘That’s brilliant, he can change the game here’.
"That’s what happened at West Brom. He came on at Sheffield United, had a great shot with his left foot, and the keeper has made an incredible save. We’re strong. We’re experienced and we’ve got people emerging through as well like Lewis and Tav, when he’s come in."
Despite the midweek loss, Friend is calling for perspective and is still looking up.
He said: “I think you have to believe we can finish in the top two. I’m not one to say, ‘Until it’s mathematically possible’ or anything like that but we’ve really got a good chance of still pushing for that. Teams will wobble, this is the business end, and luckily we’ve got a lot of experience, not just with the manag...
“We’ve shown the importance of that experience. When it’s come to the crunch in January and February, we’ve had some decent results. We were unbeaten in the league in the whole of the year before Wednesday. It’s a knock, but you dust yourself down and get on with it, and I like the Championship because of that reason. ...
"There’s 15 games left. Anyone who knows this league – and I know, unfortunately, the Boro fans know this league quite well now – they’ll know that anything can happen in 15 games. There’ll be lots of twists and turns, and we’re still in there. It’s a huge game against Blackburn, but we’ll go with a good spirit because...
Barriers in life come and go but 8,350 is acting as a tough one since the third week of April. This consolidation at the bottom has taken shape of a bullish H&S pattern. A move above the same could result in reversal of the trend.
Whoever said Sell in May and go away, must have been right many time during the week as indices swung between red and green almost everyday. What lies ahead is something to speculate for sure but let’s take a look at what the charts are telling us for now.
-BankNifty the apple of traders’ eye besides the Nifty, has fallen from higher levels. However, weekly chart indicates that it is moving higher along supported by its 50-WMA. So there is light at the end of the tunnel.
- Leadership sectors (BankNifty & CNX Auto) are at historic support levels. Uptrending sectors tend to provide pullback from strong support levels. So watch the space for action.
-CNX PSU Bank index has negated a bearish H&S pattern around 3,300. Whenever such pattern is voided, implications of the same tend to be extremely positive.
-Should the market reverse from current levels, traders should be able to make the most of this opportunity by focusing on bottoming out stocks.
CESC: In 2015, it has lost 15% so far, as it revisited levels of May 2014. However, it found support at its previous breakout point of May 14 and appears to have bottomed out. CESC built a flat base last month before attempting a breakout in Friday’s trade. CESC looks set to recover lost ground.
Colpal: Bullish consolidation in uptrending stock always breaks on the upside. Colpal, after a low of Rs1,441 in October 2014, has rallied sharply making a peak of Rs2,198. Thereafter, its movement is restricted to a triangle pattern. A close above 2,080 could see the stock attempting its previous peak.
That’s it for this week. Watch this space every week or whenever the charts demand extra attention.
A trial date in 2014 was set Wednesday in a case brought by town lawyers against the designers and builders of the failed Hope Mills Lake dam.
Town lawyers say they hope the case can be settled before the trial, scheduled for July 28, 2014. The dam failed in June 2010 and emptied the town's centerpiece lake on Main Street.
"Ninety five percent of all civil cases settle. Only five percent are tried," said Nick Herman, a lawyer with the Brough Law Firm, which represents the town. "This case should be settled."
The hourlong hearing was held before trial court administrator Ellen Hancox and included lawyers for the town and the six firms named in the suit.
Reporters were not permitted in the conference room at the Cumberland County Courthouse where the hearing was held. Hancox said there wasn't enough space in the conference room to accommodate the media, and she briefed reporters after the hearing.
Mike Tadych, a lawyer with the law firm of Stevens, Martin, Vaughn and Tadych, counsel to the N.C. Press Association, said the meeting should have been open to the media. He said a bigger room should have been used to accommodate the public.
"The offer to recap what happened after it happened is not a proper substitute," Tadych said.
Hancox said after the hearing that the parties requested the jury trial be held before Erwin Spainhour, senior resident Superior Court judge for Judicial District 19-A. She said Chief Justice Sarah Parker will have to approve the request.
"He has done this kind of case," said Hancox, citing Spainhour's work on a case over the 2000 collapse of a pedestrian walkway at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
Hancox said the lawyers estimated the case would last from four to six weeks if it reaches trial. She said the lawyers agreed that all discovery in the case be completed by March 3, 2014. A mediation deadline was set for April 30, 2014.
Herman said the town's lawyers got what they wanted in the timeline.
"We had preferred a trial date in May, June or July (2014)," he said. "From the town's standpoint, we wanted to move this case along, and that's what we accomplished."
Town Commissioner Jerry Legge was one of several Hope Mills residents at the courthouse for the hearing. Legge and Town Manager John Ellis were allowed in the conference room.
"I feel good about the decisions that were made," Legge said. "But I hate it for our town and residents that the trial date is so far down the road."
Repair plans for the dam were approved by state Dam Safety in January. The approval is good for a year. Town Attorney T.C. Morphis Jr. said it's likely the deadline could be extended.
"The short answer is we're going to have to cross that bridge when we come to it," Morphis said.
DUBAI: These women are changing the face of rap in the Middle East with their bold lyrics and powerful prose.
This Moroccan female rapper champions women’s rights and uses bold lyrics to tackle social issues. True to her feisty form, Soultana’s hit “Sawt Nissa” addresses sexual harassment in her home country.
The British-Palestinian rapper uses hip-hop to highlight the Palestinian struggle. Mansour sees music as a medium for expressing dissent.
The Egyptian rapper, who has been featured on CNN and the BBC for her efforts to advance women’s rights and combat sexual harassment, is making a name for herself on the rap scene.
The music of the Montreal-based songwriter of Algerian origin ranges from soulful R&B and jazz to reggae and hip-hop. Saci’s mixtape, “On My Way,” is a testament to her eclectic sound.
The self-proclaimed “Queen of Arabic hip-hop” has established herself as one of the most important musicians in Lebanon and beyond with hard-hitting lyrics. She even opened the show for Snoop Dog in Abu Dhabi in 2011.
It makes no sense trying to measure the joy which our grandchildren Jacob and Zoey give to my wife and I. They, and all like them, are the promise in all our futures.
If tomorrow any man designed and built a computer infinitely more powerful and complex than whatever super machine is currently in the works a triple Nobel Prize could not nearly measure the magnitude of the achievement.
Or if any man constructed a pump that could run without stopping, beating 80 times a minute, without repair, without a hitch, for 80 years and more he would be honoured as the greatest engineer, the greatest inventor, the world has seen.
Any birth involves a thousand miracles. Whatever any man or woman achieves in life pales into insignificance beside the creation of a child. Mothers know this best, it is their unshakable secret. But a man can feel it too when a child of his is born and suddenly, for a blinding moment, he claims an insight into one of ...
Quite apart from anything else, one feels that small but triumphant satisfaction that here is proof that one has found a way to outlive mortality. Thomas Hardy put it exactly in his poem ‘Heredity’.
That heeds no call to die.
The older one gets the more one thinks of children, the originality of children, their infinite promise, and the more one believes in the overwhelming importance in families, in schools, in nations of teaching children properly, of educating them in the true sense of the word, of realizing their potential, of never stu...
fill her eyes with tears. Forgive me, Lord.
Sole watchman of the wise and single stars.
There is a simple poem – hardly a poem, more an articulation of the heart on paper – by the great cellist Pablo Casals which he once jotted down for the children he loved beyond even his great art.
When will we teach our children what they are?
Do you know what you are? You are a marvel!
And look at your body, what a wonder it is!
a Michelangelo, a Beethoven, a Mother Teresa.
You have the capacity for anything.
Can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?
No, hurt no one, bring only the joy you can!
“No, hurt no one, bring only the joy you can!” It is the best refrain I know for bringing up any child. And we should for sure take every chance to press the children to our hearts and praise them and in this new year and years to come bring them whatever joy you can and seek out in them and encourage the very best the...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Iran’s central bank governor and an Iraq-based bank for “moving millions of dollars” for Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard, as Washington seeks to cut off funding it says Tehran is using to fund militant activities overseas.
The move cuts off Iran’s use of a critical banking network, he said. The United States classifies Lebanon’s Shi’ite Muslim movement Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, as a terrorist organization.
“It is appalling, but not surprising, that Iran’s senior-most banking official would conspire with the IRGC-QF to facilitate funding of terror groups like Hezbollah, and it undermines any credibility he could claim in protecting the integrity of the institution as a central bank governor,” Mnuchin said in a statement.
Speaking in Brussels, Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif called the sanctions against Seif illegal.
The U.S. Treasury also blacklisted Ali Tarzali, assistant director of the international department of Iran’s central bank, and the chairman of Al-Bilad Islamic Bank, Aras Habib.
The department said the sanctions would not immediately affect central bank transactions. It said, however, that sanctions being reimposed after the withdrawal of the United States from the Iran nuclear deal would affect certain U.S. dollar transactions by the central bank starting from Aug. 7, 2018.
Last week, two days after U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions against six individuals and three companies it said were funneling millions of dollars to the IRGC-QF.
British, French and German foreign ministers met in Brussels on Tuesday to try to find a way to save the nuclear deal without the United States, but appeared hard-pressed over how their companies could continue doing business with Iran once Washington begins to reimpose sanctions.
The IRGC is by far Iran’s most powerful security organization and has control over large stakes in Iran’s economy and huge influence in its political system. The Quds Force is an elite unit in charge of the IRGC overseas operations.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- One man waited years to see the Royals play in the World Series, and to him, this trip is “priceless." FOX 4 photojournalist Jon Haiduk caught up with a man you've already spotted on the small screen this week.
DALLAS (Reuters) - Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel has agreed to take an anger management course and be treated for substance abuse under a deal that could lead to the dismissal of a charge that he assaulted his ex-girlfriend earlier this year.
Under the agreement with the Dallas district attorney's office, Manziel must complete the course and enroll in either the NFL's substance abuse program or a court-approved rehabilitation facility, court records show. He must also a attend a panel on the impact of domestic violence and have no contact with former girlfr...
Manziel, a star player at Texas A&M University before he entered the National Football League, was charged with a misdemeanor after Crowley accused him of hitting, kidnapping and threatening to kill her during an incident in January.
Manziel, 23, has one year to complete the requirements or the district attorney's office said it would prosecute the charge.
"A conditional dismissal agreement is only the beginning of the process of educating an individual on how to make better choices when facing conflict," the office said on Friday in a statement. "Success or failure will depend upon one's commitment to the treatment programs included."
"My client is pleased to be able to put this part of the situation behind him and is eager to satisfy the terms of the agreement," his attorney Jim Darnell said in a statement.
Manziel has not spoken to the media about the indictment.
The Dallas incident was another setback for the former Heisman Trophy winner, whose erratic play and partying prompted the Browns to cut him in March after two seasons with the team. Manziel, nicknamed "Johnny Football," won the Heisman as the most outstanding college player in 2012.
Manziel is also facing a lawsuit filed this week in Travis County, Texas, after an employee of an Austin bar accused the former NFL quarterback of punching him and breaking his nose. Austin police have said they are investigating the September incident but have not filed any charges.
The agreement announced on Friday stipulates that prosecutors will pursue the charge that Manziel assaulted his ex-girlfriend if he is charged with any other crime in the next 12 months.
The UPA government today released details of the consultation process held with the state governments on the issue of FDI in retail to blunt criticism from the Opposition that the government did not honour its commitment to forge a consensus on the issue.
The latest entrant on Indian political scene, Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was formally launched today in the presence of thousands of supporters amid voluntary donations and offers of premises for party offices by newly-inducted members.
A Prime Minister's Office (PMO) official today identified in a Delhi court the letters exchanged between former Telecom Minister A Raja and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in November-December 2007 on the issue of 2G spectrum allocation.
Striking down applicable provisions in government regulations, the Armed Forces Tribunal has ordered that all officers and men of the Territorial Army (TA) would be at par with regular Army personnel for the purpose of post-retirement benefits.
The Indian judicial system continues to reel under massive vacancies leading to delay in justice delivery and mounting case load. As many as 281 sanctioned posts of high court judges are lying vacant across the country, amounting to a whopping one third of the total sanctioned strength.

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