New Delhi: Amitabh Bachchan’s granddaughter Aaradhya Bachchan has moved the Delhi High Court against a YouTube tabloid for reporting fake news about her health.
Aaradhya (11), the daughter of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan, has sought an injunction against such reporting by the media about her as she is a minor.
A Delhi High Court bench will hear the matter on Thursday. The petition filed by 11-year-old Aaradhya has asked 10 entities to “de-list and deactivate all videos” about her.
Google LLC and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Grievance Cell) have also been made parties in the case.
United Nations: While India’s population at 1.4 billion has surpassed that of China’s, the “latest big news” is that the population growth is below the replacement fertility rate in India and it has a “window of opportunity”, according to Rachel Snow, the lead demographer of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).
The continued trajectory for India is that while the young population entering the reproductive phase will boost overall fertility, “given the fertility pattern already evident, we can start to anticipate the decline, the plateauing and decline”, she said on Wednesday.
The replacement fertility rate is the average number of children a woman must have to keep the population steady and it is considered to be 2.1 children per woman.
The replacement fertility rate for India is 2, with wide variations within the country — between 1.6 for Punjab and West Bengal, and 3 for Bihar among the large states, according to Indian government data.
“You’ve got this big bulge of young people entering both reproductive years which means fertility will keep growing, but (also) entering the age of life for working,” she said, giving India a “window of opportunity”.
The question for India is that with this “window of opportunity”, will it be “able to mobilise the necessary investments in education and job creation, in gender equality, so that there will be an opportunity for that large population to indeed yield a dividend for the economy”, she said.
Snow gave the example of the Asian Tigers — mainly Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore — that had a tremendous spurt in economic growth, which also led to better living standards.
“In the 70s and 80s, the Asian Tigers had an extraordinary economic growth because there was major investment in the health, education, the well being of that cohort of young people who then were able to boost the economy.”
The challenges for India, she said, are “there’s so many people that are in the informal labour market. Again, educational standards are highly uneven — if you go north to south, south to north in India, we see tremendous diversity within such a large country”.
Snow was briefing reporters about the UNFPA’s annual report, which is titled, “8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: The Case for Rights and Choices”.
She said that the population issue should not be seen solely in terms of numbers and goals, but the as to how women are able to freely make their own reproductive choices.
She said that 44 per cent of partnered women and girls do not have the right to make decisions on having children or not.
About 257 million women do not have access to safe, reliable contraception, she added.
Abhishek Bachchan, Aaradhya Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Instagram)
New Delhi: Amitabh Bachchan’s granddaughter Aaradhya Bachchan has moved the Delhi High Court against a YouTube tabloid for reporting fake news about her health.
Aaradhya (11), the daughter of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan, has sought an injunction against such reporting by the media about her as she is a minor.
A Delhi High Court bench will hear the matter on Thursday. The petition filed by 11-year-old Aaradhya has asked 10 entities to “de-list and deactivate all videos” about her.
Google LLC and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Grievance Cell) have also been made parties in the case.
“This is the dream case for any trial judge,” Hudson said, almost — but not quite — as if gushing at an opportunity that had fallen on the lap of a close friend.
After all, this was no run-of-the-mill civil matter. This was Fox News, the behemoth that has emerged as perhaps the most influential network in the American media landscape, facing a $1.6 billion lawsuit for spreading lies about the 2020 election, and in particular a voting-machine company called Dominion. During a key stretch of November and December 2020, when President Joe Biden’s election win was clear but former President Donald Trump’s acolytes couldn’t accept it, Fox broadcasted stories suggesting Dominion was essentially a tool of Hugo Chavez — and that its voting equipment was used to flip untold numbers of votes from Trump to Biden.
None of that was true, and now Fox brass were going to pay — and Hudson wanted in on it.
He had litigated his share of cases in front of Davis, he said, so he knew the judge was up to the job. Davis is a guy “you learn not to test,” Hudson said, repeating the phrase “no-nonsense” more than once.
The dozens of reporters in the scrum itching to get a good spot to hear opening arguments in a case set to feature testimony from Rupert Murdoch and Maria Bartiromo and Tucker Carlson got a taste of that for themselves.
Journalists were — politely! — warned by Davis not to type too loudly on their computers for fear of prejudicing jurors. Prohibitions against sending tweets or any kind of communication from inside the courtroom were emphasized — by Davis and his staff — almost to the point of absurdity, even as the judge quipped with jurors that he would let them have drinks inside the courtroom, just no alcohol. Someone was ejected for taking a picture.
Davis kept his cool during his brief time on the high altar of American media. When a juror threw up his hands and exclaimed “Your honor, I can’t do this,” late in the jury selection process Tuesday morning, he excused the man and replaced him quickly. He may have had literally dozens of attorneys in front of him, may have faced the prospect of every procedural move he made being scrutinized on cable channels and in appellate courts, but he was ready.
Hudson, too, was ready — and pleased to have snagged his spot at the front of the pack (where he met a New York Times columnist) for what were supposed to be opening arguments Tuesday afternoon.
Delaware is the hub of commercial litigation for the legions of companies (including both Dominion and Fox) that are incorporated in the state. But this case was different. “That’s the biggest crowd I’ve ever seen in a Delaware courtroom,” Hudson told me.
Until it wasn’t.
The first sign that a settlement might be brewing was the sheer passage of time. Instead of opening arguments beginning as expected at 1:30 p.m., hordes of attorneys and journalists found themselves packed into a courtroom with no action. One hour. Then two.
There were plenty of plausible reasons the proceedings might be held up, only to proceed in all their glory. Perhaps Judge Davis was still fuming about a dispute with Fox over whether it had properly disclosed materials in the discovery process. Or perhaps the two parties were still beefing over who would say what in their opening statements, and what might be objectionable therein. Or maybe another juror had gone rogue.
The reporter sitting next to me started to grapple with the sick reality of coming so close to witnessing the media news equivalent of a unicorn — Tucker Carlson on a witness stand — before I did. “I’m getting settlement vibes,” he muttered mid-afternoon.
I frantically scanned Twitter — a surefire violation of courtroom rules — and saw a tweet from a CNN reporter indicating Fox and Dominion attorneys had been spotted exchanging notes, a theoretical sign of a deal.
But it couldn’t be, could it? The First Amendment stakes were too great, the implications for the future of libel law too abstract, for this just to be a matter of money. Legal scholars I’d been talking to seemed to think Dominion was in this for ethical reasons, not just financial ones — they wanted to humiliate Fox and send a message after some of their own employees had been made to fear for their lives.
Then Judge Davis made his move.
Finally reentering the courtroom at 3:54 p.m., he seemed to take a moment to revel in the scene. It was almost over before it began.
‘“All well?” he asked Justin Nelson, an attorney for Dominion.
“Yes, your honor.”
Moments later, hopes were dashed — dreams torpedoed. “The parties have resolved their case,” Davis told jurors, before opining about the quality of the lawyering on both sides.
Shocked reporters gasped and raced for the exits. There were stories to file. And for Dominion attorneys, there was a press conference to hold, one in which they would be asked — and not answer — whether, in addition to the $787,500,000 payout they had won, Fox had agreed to apologize to them.
It soon became apparent that there was no apology coming — that Murdoch was not going to record a PSA about election theft mythology and the responsibility of news organizations. Liberal fantasies were toast.
Instead, Dominion took the money and ran. And Bruce Hudson had to make do with a brief spectacle, one he had seemed to anticipate might be too good to be true earlier Tuesday afternoon.
As he put it, “Six weeks is a long time for people to be available.”
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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo), who spent several thousand dollars on Facebook ads in January that touted the Speaker fight as having “fundamentally changed the direction of our country,” reported more than $760,000 in first-quarter receipts. That included just shy of $270,000 from small-dollar donors and $95,000 through a joint fundraising committee. The speaker fight produced several days of above-average fundraising for Boebert in January, although her top fundraising days came later in the quarter.
It’s not rare for each party’s more incendiary members to also be their most prolific fundraisers. In the age of grassroots giving, appeals to the base can generate big bucks. Less common, however, is for lawmakers to organize those appeals around direct challenges to their own party’s leadership.
The effort to capitalize on the Speaker race was not without cost, both reputational and financial. The trio burned through cash at a higher rate than most candidates in the first quarter, a POLITICO analysis found.
The Gaetz campaign spent more than $490,000 over the course of the quarter, including more than $100,000 on fundraising expenses, according to his filing. He still had more than $700,000 left in the bank due to cash left over from his 2022 campaign. In response to questions from POLITICO about the link between the Speaker battle and fundraising, Gaetz defended his fight against McCarthy’s ascension, saying that he started “firing back” after “shadow groups” peppered his district with calls asking him to support the California Republican.
Biggs’ campaign spent $168,000 over the period, including $53,000 on list rentals — a common fundraising expense — as well as $38,000 on direct mail and $14,000 on fundraising consulting.
Boebert’s campaign also spent more than $500,000 over the quarter, with direct mail, digital advertising and fundraising consulting as her biggest expenses. The Colorado Republican, who won reelection in 2022 by fewer than 600 votes, was one of the few lawmakers who opposed McCarthy’s ascension who faces a potentially competitive election in 2024. Boebert was outraised in the first quarter by Democratic challenger Adam Frisch. She did not address questions from POLITICO about whether the Speaker fight drove fundraising but said in a statement that there was “no doubt Democrats will raise more and spend more to try and steal” her seat.
While McCarthy was ultimately elected to the speakership on the 15th ballot, the fundraising successes of those lawmakers who opposed him along the way, underscore just how tenuous his hold on the majority actually is. The insight into fundraising comes as the House GOP faces new internal conflict with a high-stakes standoff over the debt ceiling approaching, where McCarthy once again will need to keep nearly all of the members of his caucus in line.
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Mumbai: The popular show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ with megastar Amitabh Bachchan is all set to return with its 15th season.
The makers have dropped the promo making an announcement that registration for the show will start from April 29.
In the promo, Big B can be seen sitting on the host’s seat while a woman looks at the map to find a way to reach the hotseat. Finally, she reaches the hotseat by digging into the ground. She asks Big B to play the game to which he responds, “hotseat par pahuchne ke liye ulool-julool haathkande mat apnaayiye”.
He says just pick up the phone as this is the only way with registration starting from 9 p.m. on April 29.
“Answer my question and your registration will begin,” says the host.
The 14th season had started on August 7, 2022 which marked the celebration of 75 years of Independence. It was attended by Aamir Khan, sports icons including Mary Kom and Sunil Chhetri along with Mithali Madhumita, the first female officer to win the Gallantry Award and Major D.P. Singh, India’s first blade runner.
It wrapped up on December 30, 2022. From Akshay Kumar and Padma Shree D.G. Prakash Singh, Vicky Kaushal, Kiara Advani, and the melodious Shilpa Rao among many others graced the show.
Dubai: Eid Al Fitr, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, could fall on Saturday, April 22, 2023, according to the International Astronomy Centre.
The exact date will only be confirmed based on the moon sighting, with countries across the Islamic world set to investigate the crescent of the month of Shawwal on Thursday, April 20.
The International Astronomy Centre said in a Twitter post that sighting the crescent on Thursday is nearly impossible with the naked eye or a telescope in most Arab and Islamic countries, except parts of West Africa. Specific conditions, such as an accurate telescope, a professional observer, and exceptional weather, are required for the sighting to be possible.
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Based on this principle, the centre predicts Eid Al Fitr to fall on Saturday, April 22. The center also clarified that these predictions are based on “astronomical information” and that criteria for the beginning of the month vary across the Islamic world.
هل العيد الجمعة أم السبت؟
المختصر حول موعد عيد الفطر 1444 هـ
ستتحرى دول العالم الإسلامي هلال شهر شوال (عيد الفطر 1444 هـ) يوم الخميس 20 إبريل/نيسان 2023م.
رؤية الهلال يوم الخميس غير ممكنة بالعين المجردة من أي مكان في العالم العربي والإسلامي.
The GCC countries, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, and Kuwait, have already announced Eid Al Fitr holidays for public and private sectors. UAE and Saudi Arabia have declared a four-day weekend, while Qatar has announced an 11-day holiday. Oman and Kuwait will observe a five-day weekend.
The Supreme Court of Saudi Arabia has called on Muslims to sight the Shawwal crescent on Thursday evening, April 20, and report any sightings to the nearest court or contact center. Muslims with the ability to do so are encouraged to join the committees formed for this purpose and participate in the process of sighting the crescent. (Gulf News)
The results could also serve as a renewed warning to Republican presidential hopefuls like Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis: General election voters are less interested in crusades against critical race theory and transgender students than they are in funding schools and ensuring they are safe.
“Where culture war issues were being waged by some school board candidates, those issues fell flat with voters,” said Kim Anderson, executive director of the National Education Association labor union. “The takeaway for us is that parents and community members and voters want candidates who are focused on strengthening our public schools, not abandoning them.”
The results from the Milwaukee and Chicago areas are hardly the last word on the matter. Thousands more local school elections are set for later this year in some two dozen states. They are often low turnout, low profile, and officially nonpartisan affairs, and conservatives say they are competing aggressively.
“We lost more than we won” earlier this month, said Ryan Girdusky, founder of the conservative 1776 Project political action committee, which has ties to GOP megadonor and billionaire Richard Uihlein and endorsed an array of school board candidates this spring and during the 2022 midterms.
“But we didn’t lose everything. We didn’t get obliterated,” Girdusky told POLITICO of his group’s performance. “We still pulled our weight through, and we just have to keep on pushing forward on this.”
Labor groups and Democratic operatives are nevertheless flexing over the defeat of candidates they opposed during races that took place near Chicago, which received hundreds of thousands of dollars in support from state Democrats and the attention of Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker, and in Wisconsin. Conservative board hopefuls also saw mixed results in Missouri and Oklahoma.
Democrats hope the spring school election season validates their playbook: Coordinate with local party officials, educator unions and allied community members to identify and support candidates who wield an affirming pro-public education message — and depict competitors as hard-right extremists.
Yet despite victories in one reliably blue state and one notorious battleground, liberals are still confronting Republican momentum this year that could resemble November’s stalemated midterm results for schools and keep the state of education divided along partisan lines.
Conservative states are already carrying out sharp restrictions on classroom lessons, LGBTQ students, and library books. And they are beginning to refine their message to appeal to moderates.
Trump, DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and other Republican presidential hopefuls are leaning on school-based wedge issues to court primary voters in a crowded White House campaign.
That rhetoric, combined with Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s ability to harness voter frustration with education as part of his upset victory in 2021, has inspired a wave of conservative challengers to run for school board seats.
Once the domain for everyday academic concerns, mild-mannered bureaucracy, and the occasional controversy, school boards became a lightning rod for the right during pandemic lockdowns plus a national reckoning with gender identity and race.
Critical race theory was an obscure academic legal framework used to examine racism in American institutions. But it has been reframed by conservative activists to encompass broad complaints about issues related to diversity.
Conservatives have also seized on transgender students to rejuvenate a social agenda that includes a push to restrict transgender athletes in sports, gender-affirming medical care and access to LGBTQ-affirming library materials.
“What I was most surprised by was just the sheer prevalence of these Republican candidates,” said Ben Hardin, executive director of the Democratic Party of Illinois, after his party made an unprecedented decision to endorse dozens of local school and library board candidates and funnel nearly $300,000 into those elections.
“Obviously this is not a new phenomenon,” Hardin said in an interview. “But to see it so widespread here in Illinois, across the state in regions that are across the partisanship spectrum, was what was most interesting to me.”
In Oswego, Ill., a small community in Chicago’s far southwestern suburbs, the 1776 Project supported four candidates running as part of a “We The Parents” slate on a platform aligned with the conservative parental rights movement. Each of those candidates lost, including to one candidate endorsed by a local Illinois Federation of Teachers affiliate.
The race, like many others across the region, featured core concerns that are often splitting school communities today.
The Chicago Tribune reported Oswego’s We The Parents slate received support from the local Stamp Act political action committee, which proclaims it will “fight to preserve our cultural and religious heritage” and “resist attempts by the Left to transform and reshape American society.”
The conservative Awake Illinois group, which has opposed critical race theory and gender-affirming medical care for children, weighed in too.
A group of conservative candidates in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Barrington who were backed by the 1776 PAC, Moms For America Action and Awake Illinois also lost their school board bids.
“Fortunately, the voters saw through the hidden extremists who were running for school board — across the [Chicago] suburbs especially,” Pritzker told reporters after last week’s election. “I’m glad that those folks were shown up and, frankly, tossed out.”
Overall, the 1776 Project PAC endorsed 14 candidates but won six races in Illinois. Other conservatives also notched wins in Illinois, including two candidates who claimed seats in a suburban high school district in Lockport Township, Ill. over two union-endorsed aspirants.
The Democratic Party of Illinois said 84 of 117 candidates the party recommended won their April 4 races. The Illinois Education Association, the state affiliate of the National Education Association, said it won nearly 90 percent of the races where it endorsed candidates.
“Part of the reason we did so well is because of how we are organized,” said Kathi Griffin, president of the Illinois Education Association. “The state organization does not tell the local affiliates who to support. It is the local affiliates that do the interviewing of candidates, have relationships with the community and with the parents. They are the ones that make the decision, then they reach out to us” to ask for support.
Teacher unions are also celebrating a school board victory in a bellwether community in suburban Milwaukee.
Brian Schimming, chair of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, described the Wauwatosa School Board election last month as “an important race for the whole state.”
Schimming promoted candidates known as the “Three Tosa Dads” who emphasized a platform centered on school safety and academic performance after the Republican National Committee last year encouraged candidates to broaden their message beyond culture wars and court independent voters with a more nuanced message focused on parental involvement and student educational development.
Wauwatosa’s GOP-backed aspirants still lost by wide margins to teacher union-supported candidates. The 1776 Project won slightly less than half of the nearly 50 Wisconsin races it endorsed candidates in.
Other efforts led by Wisconsin Republicans were more successful.
In Waukesha County, where voters heavily favored Trump in the 2020 election, the local party successfully endorsed dozens of area school board candidates as part of a “WisRed Initiative” to dominate local government races.
But Moms For Liberty, a newly prominent conservative group that helps train and endorse school board candidates, said just eight of its candidates won races in Wisconsin last week. The group had endorsed candidates in another 20 elections, its founders said.
“We are hopeful that as more people learn about Moms For Liberty and contribute to our PAC, we will be able to win more races,” organization co-founders Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich said in a statement. “The majority of those [endorsements] were first time candidates who did not win, and that just gives us a great bench of folks to have trained and ready to run again to fight for parental rights in future elections.”
The results offer lessons to both parties as they eye even more board elections this year.
Education was central to Youngkin’s win, though his political advisers have stressed the campaign’s success was based on building custom messaging models targeted at different groups of voters instead of relying on a single message.
Conservative school campaigns should heed similar advice, Girdusky argued.
“Don’t assume that a blanket message on critical race theory or transgender issues is going to claim every district — it’s very personalized,” he said. “If it’s happening in that district, speak to it in volumes. But don’t tell parents something is happening if it’s not happening, because then it doesn’t look like you’re running a serious operation.”
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Hyderabad: All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday said that the murders of mafia turned politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed is a perfect example of UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s big failure on law and order in Uttar Pradesh.
In the aftermath of the killings of Gangster Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed, Asaduddin Owaisi took to Twitter and said, “Atiq and his brother were killed while in police custody and were handcuffed. Slogans of JSR were also raised. Their murder is a perfect example of Yogi’s big failure of law and order. Those celebrating encounter-raj are equally responsible for this murder”.
He further stated there if murderers are celebrated as heroes then what is the function of the judicial system in society?
“In a society where murderers are heroes, what is the function of the court and justice system in that society?” Owaisi tweeted.
Days after Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad was killed in an encounter in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi, the mafia-turned-politician and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were killed on Saturday while being taken for a medical in Prayagraj.
Atiq Ahmed was accused in the 2005 BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case and also in the Umesh Pal murder case which happened in February this year.
Shortly after mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead in Prayagraj, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said crime has reached its peak in the state and the morale of the “criminals” has grown by leaps and bounds.
“Crime has reached its peak in UP and the morale of the criminals is high. When someone can be killed openly despite being surrounded by a security cordon, one can imagine the state of the general public. Due to this (alleged encounter killings), an ambience of fear is being created among the public. It seems that some people are deliberately creating such an ambience,” Akhilesh Yadav tweeted.
