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Stewards produced evidence that on the day in question, one of Sydney's leading bookmakers, Colin Tidy, placed a wager with Waterhouse on a race at Sale. Unlike McCoy, Tidy received the odds being displayed on on-course monitors. |
In regards to the 13 bets, Murrihy said: "Stewards were satisfied that the entries were not legitimate because they cannot be supported by logic of justification." |
The first charge of misleading evidence arose from a reply Waterhouse gave at the opening inquiry when asked by stewards: "Are your staff there?" |
He replied: "They have gone home with the settling bag." |
Stewards found that "at the relevant time ... at least two of his staff, Kate and Tom Waterhouse, were in his car in the car park". |
The second charge of misleading evidence also stemmed from the first inquiry, when stewards asked Waterhouse for an "address for McCoy". |
Waterhouse replied: "I will get the address and give it to you tomorrow. It is in Braidwood somewhere." |
"Such evidence was given by Mr Robert Waterhouse in the knowledge that at the relevant time he was aware that Mr Peter McCoy lived in Suva, Fiji," Murrihy said yesterday. |
On both those charges stewards found "that Mr Waterhouse knew that this was misleading and intended it to be so". |
McCoy and his wife, Sylvia, were two of four people to give evidence on behalf of Waterhouse, with the bookmaker later reading a 42-page submission into evidence. Waterhouse believed the particulars of the charges were "materially and substantially wrong". |
He said the bets were legitimate, "they were binding" and that "no-one was disadvantaged", while the "market was not affected" and "no-one lost any money". |
"The image of racing is done no harm by what is permitted," he said. "I cannot be held acceptable for speculation and criticism before the full facts were known." |
To the end Waterhouse maintained the bets in the name of McCoy were recorded so the latter, a former bankrupt also warned off for his involvement in Fine Cotton, could pay off a $500,000 debt owed to the Waterhouse family. |
At one point Waterhouse mentioned a $120,000 loan forwarded to McCoy, who was looking into a $20 million business deal in Nigeria. |
In closing his submission he said: "Every one of these charges should be dismissed, I'm not guilty of any of them." |
Under American election laws, political action committees (PACs) formed to support an individual candidate cannot coordinate their efforts with those of that candidate's campaign. That line has been frequently crossed. In the instance of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election in support of President Tru... |
President Trump himself perhaps could not be indicted given the evidence available to Mueller or under current American law, but I find it impossible to believe that he was not personally cognizant of and supportive in the blatant involvement of his campaign with Russians who wanted him to win. |
Congress’ 26% job approval rating is the highest it has been in over two years. Congress last had a higher reading — 28% approval — in February 2017, shortly after Donald Trump became president and began working with Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. |
Congress’ ratings have typically not been stellar, averaging 30% since 1974. The full trend can be found here. |
Democrats are more likely than Republicans to approve of the job Congress is doing, 30% to 18%. |
Since December, prior to the Democratic Party becoming the majority party in the House, Democrats’ approval of Congress has surged and Republicans’ has declined slightly. |
Thus, while neither party group is highly satisfied with the job Congress is doing, it has increasingly come to be viewed as a Democratic institution since the new Congress took office in January. |
Independents’ opinions about Congress are now slightly more positive than they were in December, but they have improved more substantially since dipping in January during the partial federal government shutdown. |
While the survey was in the field, Congress considered measures to halt President Trump’s attempt to divert federal monies to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border by declaring the situation there a national emergency. |
Enough Republican senators voted with their Democratic colleagues to pass the measure, but not enough where Congress will be able to override the veto of the measure Trump issued last week. |
It is unclear to what extent that mixed outcome affected party groups’ approval of Congress since the last survey, including modest increases among independents and Republicans and no change among Democrats. |
EVEN in the mythical wars, supposedly conducted in accordance with certain codes of conduct, ways were found to get around them to ensure victory. In a modern war it is foolish even to think that there would be some parameters. |
WITH the UN-brokered ceasefire coming into force on Monday morning in Lebanon, the month-long fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah guerrillas has come to an end. The guns have fallen silent despite Israel saying that it will withdraw from the areas it has captured only after international peacekeepers and Leba... |
UNFORTUNATELY, there is no political consensus as yet on the issue of providing 27 per cent reservation to the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in educational institutions. There are divisions within the Congress, the United Progressive Alliance and the National Democratic Alliance over the issue. Even on the interim repo... |
POLITICIANS, like the rest of us, are human beings, and to err, it has been said, is human. But the manner in which two high-profile politicians have erred in recent times holds lessons for us all. |
SOMETIMES charity can put you in great trouble! A person requested my son to book a ticket online through his credit card. My computer savvy son guided him to book through travel agents. But the man boasted about his influential position and insisted for help. My son finally relented. |
If one surveys the six decades of Indian Independence, the picture that emerges is highly enigmatic. One would not be sure whether to entertain hopes or fears about country’s future. |
MBONG, Cameroon: Ask the villagers here, and they are unanimous: They hunt monkeys and other animals to feed their families, selling only the occasional catch to people passing through this part of west-central Africa. |
The Capital was converted into a virtual fortress following the US embassy’s warning of a possible terrorist strike in Delhi and Mumbai. Security was beefed up at all vulnerable places — from airports and rail and metro stations to markets. |
EVEN in the mythical wars, supposedly conducted in accordance with certain codes of conduct, ways were found to get around them to ensure victory. In a modern war it is foolish even to think that there would be some parameters. Seen against this backdrop, it is only proper that a parliamentary committee has asked the D... |
If a country can cobble together nuclear weapons and missiles using smuggled technology and fissile material from sources as heterogeneous as North Korea and China, surely it can make weapons better than the ones Saddam Hussein used against the Kurds in his heyday and the US dropped on what was then North Vietnam in th... |
It was only a few years ago that the Indian Army was caught unawares by the Pakistani incursion in Kargil. For once, the Army commanders realised that the jawans, who had the onerous duty of liberating one hill after another in an area the size of Delhi, did not have even proper snow boots and night-vision equipment. E... |
WITH the UN-brokered ceasefire coming into force on Monday morning in Lebanon, the month-long fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah guerrillas has come to an end. The guns have fallen silent despite Israel saying that it will withdraw from the areas it has captured only after international peacekeepers and Leba... |
At the end of it all, the volatile West Asian region remains as tense as it has ever been. Israel should realise that it made a blunder in trying to militarily achieve its objective of weakening the Hezbollah militia, a state within a state, on the pretext of getting its two captured soldiers freed. A resort to diploma... |
At the same time, the world must prevail upon Israel to prevent it from displaying its military might to achieve its objectives, right or wrong. Such an approach only further complicates the situation. This is necessary in view of the fact that the Israeli military drive in Lebanon was also aimed at indirectly telling ... |
UNFORTUNATELY, there is no political consensus as yet on the issue of providing 27 per cent reservation to the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in educational institutions. There are divisions within the Congress, the United Progressive Alliance and the National Democratic Alliance over the issue. Even on the interim repo... |
The government seems to be in favour of matching quotas with gradually increasing the number of general seats. However, the UPA allies like the DMK, the PMK and the Rashtriya Janata Dal want the quota for the OBCs in one go, ostensibly to keep their vote banks intact. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK chief M. Karunani... |
Mr Moily’s interim report mentions the constraints in implementing the quota in one go and the imperative need to phase it out over a period from three to five years. All political parties, especially the UPA allies, would do well to appreciate these problems and rise above partisan ends. They must understand the gover... |
Let us take Mr Jaswant Singh first, a man who had the unique distinction of holding the Foreign, Defence and Finance portfolios at different times in the Vajpayee government. He decided, perhaps against his better judgment, that he should write his political memoir, disregarding the wisdom of Henry Kissinger and Strobe... |
A man still active in politics and in the Bharatiya Janata Party and presumably ambitious about his political future sought to present his version of facts in his chequered career as External Affairs Minister. He stirred a hornet’s nest not merely by alleging that there was a mole in the Narasimha Rao government — a mo... |
A low point in Mr Jaswant Singh’s stewardship of the External Affairs Ministry was his decision to take imprisoned Pakistani terrorists to Afghanistan in his plane in exchange for the hostages taken in an Indian Airlines aircraft that ultimately found its way to an Afghanistan then ruled by the Taliban. His explanation... |
The misfortunes of Mr Natwar Singh, who is penning his memoir, are in a different category, perhaps influenced by hubris and conceit. After the Volcker committee linked his name to the United Nations’ oil-for-food programme in Iraq, he went to town declaring his innocence, in the process publicly repudiating the countr... |
After the Pathak committee, appointed to investigate the Volcker committee’s findings, indicted him for using his position as the then Congress party functionary to secure an oil deal for his son Jagat’s friend Andaleeb Sehgal, he went ballistic hurling insults at the Prime Minister and abusing all those who chose to d... |
Mr Jaswant Singh has only himself to blame for the controversies surrounding the interesting book he has written in fluent, if sometimes ponderous, prose revealing unsuspected aspects of his personality and wider interests. His feudal background and service in the Army were defining moments in his life. He showed deter... |
Mr Natwar Singh was an ambitious Foreign Service officer who graduated to politics via Indira Gandhi’s Prime Minister’s Office. Having hitched his wagon to the Nehru-Gandhi family, he ultimately occupied the perch of the head of the Congress party’s Foreign Affairs Cell, and he was happy to provide such assistance as h... |
Mr Natwar Singh found his fall from grace after the Volcker report hard to take. As his public indiscretions mounted, he grew more enraged, and the dam of his anger burst after the Pathak committee’s verdict. Judging by the level to which he took his criticism of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, one wonders whether the E... |
Mr Jaswant Singh has probably more political mileage left than Mr Natwar Singh, but the predicament of both of them is a reminder of the pitfalls of conceit. The former did not wish to tarry in giving his version of his years in high office and the latter seemed consumed by his own importance in his inability to respon... |
Writing memoirs by holders of high office is to be welcomed because they provide an insight into the process of governance and how and why specific decisions are made. To an extent, such endeavours are self-serving, as Kissinger’s memoirs have dramatically illustrated, but they are nevertheless revealing of how leaders... |
Of one thing Mr Natwar Singh can be assured. His memoir will sell like hot cakes. Mr Jaswant Singh has discovered that controversies surrounding his tale have led to healthy sales. The memoir of a former Prime Minister, Mr V.P. Singh, thus far available only in Hindi, has also raised dust. One must thank our leaders fo... |
When his threats became a nuisance, my son contacted Papa dear. My husband is as cool as a cucumber in the face of adversity. He invited the complainant home to talk it over a cup of tea. “If my son is at fault you’ll get your money, but if you’re lying what punishment do I give you?” he asked. |
“Oh, everybody knows me in Chandigarh. I am a well-respected person,” he claimed. However, after an hour of arguments involving allegations and counter-allegations things did not quell, while the statement went from one hand to another. |
I thought it was time to put in. “Let us sort out this issue amicably. I know my son won’t cheat.” I said a bit warily. “Madam,” he warned, “Don’t take guarantee for your son. Nowadays no son is reliable.” I was about to ask him whether his own mother also thought so about him, but abandoned the idea. |
This VIP (very immature person) kept on threatening my visibly traumatised son. I took the statement to see for myself what transactions took place. To my horror the Rs 2000 debit was clearly there! And below it there was a credit given for the same amount! I burst into an uproarious laughter as I picked up the bone of... |
“Now how do I punish you? Will you pay for the mental agony you gave to us?” my husband asked while seeing them off. |
“All is well that ends in the well,” I said mischievously as we collectively forgave him. |
In many respects, we are better placed than we were at the dawn of Independence. The average life expectancy of the people has increased substantially. The country has been largely free from famines, the recurrence of which was its fate earlier. We have witnessed a ‘green’ as well as a ‘white’ revolution. Sardar Patel’... |
Likewise, the remarkable contribution made by stalwarts like Jawaharlal, Govind Ballabh Pant, Dr Rajendra Prasad and the like, particularly in the field of planning, advancement of science, and construction of new temples of development, remain some of the most pleasing green vistas that have been created in the course... |
Of late, the average rate of growth of economy has been impressive — about 7 per cent. Market capitalisation of about one hundred companies have crossed the billion-dollar mark. The outsourcing business of software establishments has increased from a few hundred dollars annually to about $ 20 billion, and India is fast... |
“The country has now the third largest pool of scientists and technologists in the world. It has, at present, about 3.3 million science students on the rolls of its 260 universities. A large section of its youth is showing initiative, enterprise and dynamism that has never been seen before. India seems to be on a thres... |
If, however, the picture is viewed from a different angle, it turns grim and gloomy. Even today, India has the largest number of poor, the largest number of illiterate and the largest number of malnourished people in the world. On account of low purchasing power, over 250 million men, women and children go to bed hungr... |
57 million children of this age are undernourished; its percentage (48 per cent) in this regard is even worse than that of Ethiopia (47 per cent). Out of 150 million children in the world who do not attend school, 130 million are Indians. Six out of seven Indian women are illiterate. About 640 million Indians do not ha... |
The diseases of poverty and deprivation continue to take a heavy toll. With about 40 million cases, India is home to the largest number of active TB patient in the world. The danger of the AIDS epidemic looms large already; one Indian is getting infected every minute. On account of rural economic distress, about 1 lakh... |
In the cities, the slums and squatters’ settlements have been proliferating, growing 250 per cent faster than overall population. Mumbai, with about 12 million living in such settlements, has become the global capital of slum dwellings. Apart from it, Indian cities have earned the dubious distinction of being the most ... |
India’s ranking on UNDP’s Human Development Index continues to be poor. According to its latest report, even Bangladesh has done better than India in the arena of infant and maternal mortality and school enrolment. Out of its population of about one billion, only 12 million are taxpayers. India is still reckoned as one... |
What is more disconcerting is the growing loss of whatever little is left of India’s ancient wisdom, its basic nobility, its sense of balance and harmony and its understanding of the essential oneness of all elements of universe. I have little doubt that if the present trends persist and India’s cultural values continu... |
As India stands today, three courses for the future are open to her. She could put herself in a deeper trap of divisive forces and expose herself to a more serious risk of getting disintegrated. Or she may continue to live, like other Third World countries, with her contrasts and contradictions and with illusions of pr... |
The writer is a former Union Minister. |
Villagers blame the declining numbers of monkeys, antelope-like duikers and other creatures squarely on commercial poachers who supply bushmeat to consumers in the cities and, to a surprising extent, around the world. |
“I’m worried,”’ said Olivier Minko, who has noticed a decline in the number of animals in the past decade. “We’re trying to conserve what’s in the forest. My great-grandparents did not finish the bushmeat. That’s why we’re trying to preserve the meat, so our children and their children”’ can hunt as well. |
But hunters like Minko are part of the problem, say wildlife advocates and experts. Subsistence does not mean sustainability, and over-hunting in this region has led in many places to a phenomenon known as “empty forest”’ syndrome. |
The Wildlife Conservation Society estimates that a million metric tons of bushmeat are taken from African forests every year. |
Logging roads have opened up areas previously inaccessible to hunters, and growing urbanisation provides a ready market. There is also worldwide demand from African expatriates. University of California conservation ecologist Justin Brashares found that 13,000 pounds of bushmeat a month move through underground markets... |
The Wildlife Conversation Society is involved in projects in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo to allow hunting in some areas while putting others off-limit. But even bushmeat hunting opponents acknowledge the powerful motivation behind such hunting. |
“If you have to eat today because there are no other alternatives, either for money or for actual protein, those are the decisions people are going to make,” Eves said. In the case of Mbong and neighboring villages, the lack of alternative food sources explains why the Cameroonian authorities permit bushmeat hunting wi... |
Animal husbandry requires land and feed that most villagers lack. And tsetse flies can infect cattle with trypanosomiasis, a fatal disease. |
Etom is supposed to educate villagers about what they can hunt. Some species — chimpanzee, gorilla, elephant, giant pangolin, mandrill — are banned to hunters. |
The city’s religious places were particularly under the scanner. Devotees visiting the Sai Baba temple on Lodhi Road found themselves being subjected to stringent checks. They were not allowed to carry flower baskets or handbags inside the temple; garlands and other offerings were also being scanned while shopkeepers o... |
The security personnel apparently did not want to take any chances because militants in the past had targeted temples in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir. |
Faced with a tough Assembly elections early next year, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has reasons to worry. Besides battling anti-incumbency, the Centre’s decision to extend tax concessions to neighbouring Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal till 2010 has further added to his woes. |
The Centre’s recent announcement hiking the MSP of paddy and cotton has also failed to provide the necessary relief. Describing the hike as “meagre”, the Akali Dal-BJP combine is using this issue to put the ruling Congress in the dock and, from all reports, is succeeding in this mission. The Agriculture Ministry’s clar... |
With nobility in thoughts may you live long”. |
In return, President Kalam asked his visitors to take a pledge that they will help out at least five persons in distress. |
The decision of the Congress bosses to hold its next chief ministers’ conclave in Nainital is a victory for Uttaranchal Chief Minister N.D. Tiwari and a setback for his bete noire, PCC chief Harish Rawat. Tiwari, who is perennially locked in a factional fight with Rawat, was apparently keen that the meeting be held in ... |
New Delhi, Aug. 14. Great enthusiasm and scenes which could hardly be forgotten were witnessed tonight when the Constituent Assembly held its midnight session for the assumption of power. |
Members attended in full strength. The hall was brilliantly flood-lit and the empty panels of the portraits on the walls were covered with bright national flags. Few of the members wore European costume and all were in Dhoti and Kurta or Achkans. |
There were traffic jams in Parliament Street and other main roads leading to the Council Hall long before the House met at 11 P.M. |
At 11 the Presdient, Dr Rajendra Prasad, dressed in white khadi, took the chair. There was hushed silence and members took their seats. |
Above in the galleries visitors were crowded, while on either side of the President sat the members of the Diplomatic Corps with their wives and members of the Government, who will be sworn in tomorrow morning. |
The lobbies of the House were crammed with distinguished visitors and while a battery of cameramen moved about, flashlights played. The House was filmed. |
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life. |
Coach Inc reported better-than-expected profit and sales for the fourth quarter, helped by the acquisition of luxury shoe brand Stuart Weitzman Holdings LLC in May. |
Shares of the maker of Poppy handbags rose about 8 percent in premarket trading on Tuesday. |
Coach, which is losing customers to newer entrants such as Michael Kors Holdings Ltd, Kate Spade & Co and Tory Burch LLC, is trying to revive sales by consolidating its stores and diversifying into other product categories. |
Coach's North America same-store sales fell 19 percent in the fourth quarter. Analysts on average had expected a 20.8 percent drop, according to research firm Consensus Metrix. |
The region accounts for more than half of the company's total sales. |
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