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Cricketer Khalid Abdul Qaiyum returns to Hyderabad; searching for city’s soul

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Over the last three decades the size of Hyderabad has expanded massively but the soul of the city has shrunk in inverse proportion, feels former Hyderabad cricketer Khalid Abdul Qaiyum who represented Hyderabad in the Ranji trophy for 14 years before he went off to the USA in 1990.
“Now the people of the city are very keen to make money. But they have become more self-centered. They care less for the rest of humanity. The pursuit of wealth is the only thing that matters. The bonhomie and camaraderie that I had seen in my youth, has disappeared from the ambience of the twin cities,” he said.
Khalid has returned to Hyderabad for an extended stay to set up a cricket coaching centre named K & S Residential Academy at CBR ground in Gollur near Shamshabad along with another former Ranji trophy player Salamath Ali Khan. Before leaving for the USA, Khalid had already trained several youngsters at the All Saints school premises who later played in the Ranji trophy. The new academy will have all the latest facilities and the enterprising duo of Khalid and Salamath hope to produce more top level cricketers.

Khalid belonged to the golden period of Hyderabad cricket of the 1980s. He made his debut in 1976 in the Ranji trophy. He was a sound middle order batsman and a reliable bowler. His best moment was when he won the Ranji trophy as a member of the Hyderabad team in the 1986-1987 season. And his most cherished knock was the century that he scored for Hyderabad against the Rest of India team in the Irani Trophy in the same year. That was the season, when under the leadership of Hyderabad’s most successful captain M. V. Narasimha (Bobby) Rao, Hyderabad won the Ranji as well as Irani trophy tournaments.
In 1990 Khalid left his hometown and settled in Atlanta in the USA where he worked in the IT sector. There he also coached about 100 boys who were interested in cricket. Mostly these boys were from Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Australian and English backgrounds. So as a coach Khalid has had a huge amount of experience.
The way things are being done in Hyderabad has left him disappointed. “This is not the Hyderabad that I used to know in my student life. People were caring and social life was easy going. There was a sense of pride in being a Hyderabadi. We were different and there was a feeling of harmony with nature. Life in Hyderabad was not a rat race. We had time to sit and chat endlessly in Irani hotels over a cup of tea. But now many of those famous old cafes have been demolished. They have been replaced by posh shopping malls. Life has become very fast paced and centered on money. Nobody has time for friends like we used to have,” said Khalid.
“Hyderabad cricket too has taken a turn for the worse. Although I live in the USA, I get news of what is happening in my home town. I have heard that these days players can buy a place in Hyderabad’s teams — right from the age group tournaments to senior level Ranji trophy. This was unimaginable during my time. Even if someone wanted to do it, he would not have the money. When I started playing for Hyderabad in 1976, we were paid Rs 50 per match. When I left the game in 1990 we used to get Rs 500 per match. I am extremely sad that my beloved Hyderabad has degenerated to this level. We need a top-to-bottom overhaul of the system to root out the evil and restore the old glory of Hyderabad,” concluded Khalid.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 29, 2023
Peace returns to old city, thousands converge at Jamia Masjid, observe ‘Laylat-al-Qadr’ in Srinagar

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Srinagar, April 21: Thousands of people from different parts of Kashmir converged at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar’s old city to observe ‘Laylat-al-Qadr or the Night of Power’ earlier this week.
It was for the first time in the past three years the authorities allowed night-long prayers at Srinagar’s grand mosque.
One of the holiest nights in Islam falls between the nights of 26-27 of Ramzan passed off peacefully. No untoward incident was reported and devotees offered prayers in peace.
Pertinently, until 1990 thousands of people converged at Srinagar’s grand mosque every Friday and on occasions like Shab-e-Mehraj, Shab-e-Baraat and Shab-e-Qadr to offer congregational prayers.
However, after the Pakistan-sponsored insurgency broke out in J&K in 1990, separatists and militancy hijacked this important religious centre to preach separatism and sedition.
People in large numbers coming to the grand mosque for congregation prayers provided separatists with a readymade audience to deliver anti-national sermons to appease their masters in the neighbouring country.
The three-decade-long Pakistan-sponsored militancy in J&K saw henchmen of separatists’ orchestrating protests and stone-pelting around Jamia Masjid.
Frequent disruptions led to a decline in the number of people visiting the grand mosque. Many shopkeepers closed down their establishments due to uncertainty and chaos.

It may be recalled that in 1990, Hizbul Mujahideen militants murdered Kashmir’s chief cleric, Mirwaiz Mohammad Farooq at his residence at Nageen in Srinagar outskirts.
The cold-blooded murder of the late Mirwaiz was carried out at the behest of Pakistan.
The message was clear that Srinagar’s grand mosque would be controlled by the hardliners and anyone opposing the move will have to face the consequences.
In June 2017, when the son of the late Mirwaiz Moulana Mohammad Farooq, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was delivering a sermon on the revered night of ‘Laylat-al-Qadr’ an unruly mob lynched, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mohammad Ayub Pandit and stoned him to death outside the historic Jamia Masjid at Nowahata.
DySP Pandit was posted outside the mosque during ‘Shab-e-Qadr’ and was doing his duty standing at the access control of the mosque when he was attacked and killed.
The brutal murder of the police officer evoked widespread condemnation from every section of society.
J&K Police later arrested the accused persons who led the attack to lynch DySP Pandit.
In December 2018, a group of masked young men stormed into the Jamia Masjid with ISIS flags and created a ruckus.
The incident occurred after the Friday congregational prayers.
The group carrying ISIS flags barged into the mosque and rushed to the pulpit. One of them stood atop the pulpit with his shoes on, shouting slogans.
Till August 5, 2019 – when the Centre announced its decision to abrogate J&K’s special status and bifurcate it into two Union Territories – Srinagar’s grand mosque was considered to be the citadel of the separatists.
Chairman of his faction of the so-called Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who also heads the Anjuman Auqaf Jamia Masjid (managing committee of the grand mosque), acted as a spectator and couldn’t do much to uphold the integrity of this historic religious institution.
Kashmir-based politicians, who ruled Jammu and Kashmir after 1990, made half-hearted attempts to stabilize the situation as they didn’t want to annoy Pakistan and their stooges in the Himalayan region.
After 2019 the security agencies tightened the noose around the anti-national elements. A massive crackdown was launched to nab the henchmen of Pakistan stooges in the old city.
These elements are used to lure the youngsters by offering them Rs 500 to pelt stones on the security personnel and disrupt normal life.
Efforts put in by Jammu and Kashmir Police and the paramilitary forces have yielded results.
The participation of thousands of people in “Shab-e-Qadr (Night of Power)’ recently is ample proof of the fact that peace has been established in the volatile old city of Srinagar.
Ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr this year markets around Jamia Masjid are abuzz with activities and people are thronging the area without any fear of getting caught in stone-pelting or facing any harassment at the hands of miscreants.
Peace has returned to Srinagar’s old city. The government has succeeded in restoring the pristine glory of the 610-year-old grand mosque, which can accommodate more than 33,000 people at one time.
The Jamia Masjid known for its peaceful and tranquil ambience is glittering again.
The message is loud and clear that no one in J&K would be allowed to use religious centres for promoting vested interests. People converge at religious places to seek solace and pray in peace, and they are least interested in politics. In the past three years, Srinagar has changed.
Its youth have given up the path of violence. No one is being arrested for indulging in stone pelting as no stone pelters are left. Militancy is on its last legs with the number of terrorists falling below the 70-mark.
The beginning of the end of the Pakistan-sponsored proxy war has commenced.
J&K residents are heaving a sigh of relief in the militant and tension-free atmosphere.
Peace returning to the old city is an indication that the era of bloodshed is over and a new dawn has broken out in Jammu and Kashmir.–(ANI)
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( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

April 21, 2023
Pak Prez returns bill seeking to curb powers of CJ without assent for second time

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Islamabad: Pakistan President Arif Alvi on Wednesday returned a bill seeking to curb the powers of the chief justice of the Supreme Court to parliament for a second time, saying that the matter was now subjudice.
“The matter of competency of legislation and validity of the bill is subjudice now before the highest judicial forum of the country. In deference to the same, thereto no further action is desirable,” the President was quoted as saying in his reply by the Dawn newspaper.
The bill, titled the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Bill 2023, is aimed at depriving the office of the CJP of powers to take suo motu notice in an individual capacity and form a panel of judges for hearing of cases.

It was initially passed by both houses of parliament and sent to the president for his assent. However, the president sent it back, saying that the proposed law travelled “beyond the competence of parliament”.
The bill was, however, passed again by a joint sitting of parliament with certain amendments on April 10 and sent to the president.
But three days after the passing of the bill by the joint parliament session, an eight-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC), including CJP Umar Ata Bandial, issued an order that bars the government from implementing the bill after it becomes a law.
The bench observed that prima facie the proposed law infringed the powers of the apex court to frame its own rules and it merits a hearing by the court.
The court in its order after hearing stated that any intrusion in its practice and the procedure, even on the most tentative of assessments, would appear to be “inimical to the independence of the judiciary, no matter how innocuous, benign or even desirable the regulation may facially appear to be”.

“It is therefore hereby directed and ordered as follows. The moment that the bill receives the assent of the president or (as the case may be) it is deemed that such assent has been given, then from that very moment onwards and till further orders, the act that comes into being shall not have, take or be given any effect nor be acted upon in any manner,” the court stated.
The parliament passed a resolution calling for the dissolution of the eight-judge larger bench. The resolution tabled by the Pakistan Peoples Party lawmaker Agha Rafiullah was approved by a majority vote.
Pakistan is witnessing a rift between the judiciary and the government after a three-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Bandial fixed May 14 as the date for elections to the Punjab Assembly and quashed the Election Commission’s decision to extend the date of the poll from April 10 to October 8.
The bill states that every cause, matter, or appeal before the apex court would be heard and disposed of by a bench constituted by a committee comprising the chief justice and the two senior-most judges. It added that the decisions of the committee would be taken by a majority.
On exercising the apex court’s original jurisdiction, called suo motu powers, the bill said that any matter invoking the use of Article 184(3) would first be placed before the committee.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 19, 2023
Biden, Harris release 2022 tax returns

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Washington: US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have released their 2022 federal income tax returns.
Biden and his wife filed their income tax return jointly and reported federal adjusted gross income of $579,514, Xinhua news agency reported, citing the White House.
The first couple paid $169,820 in combined federal, Delaware, and Virginia income taxes. And their 2022 effective federal income tax rate is 23.8 per cent.

Harris and her husband reported federal adjusted gross income of $456,918 and paid $93,570 in federal income tax.
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April 19, 2023
The Bidens made $579K last year, and paid a 23.8 percent tax rate, their returns show

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The numbers closely mirrored those from last year, when the Bidens reported paying $150,439 in federal income taxes on $610,702 for an effective tax rate of 24.6 percent.
White House officials again released copies of the first family’s tax returns on Tax Day as a demonstration of transparency. Former President Donald Trump had refused to do so while in office and during the 2016 presidential campaign, claiming repeatedly that he was under government audit. With the release of their 2022 taxes, Biden has shared 25 years worth of tax returns that include his years as vice president and an earlier presidential run, according to the White House.
Much of the couple’s income was via the president’s $400,000 salary. Jill Biden was paid $82,335 for her teaching position at Northern Virginia Community College.
The Bidens, who filed their returns jointly, also reported paying $29,023 in state income tax in Delaware, where they have two homes. The first lady reported paying $3,139 in Virginia income tax.
The Bidens hit the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions, called SALT, a product of Trump’s tax law and derided by Democrats in high-cost states. They also paid more than $2,000 in additional federal taxes imposed by the Affordable Care Act.
Other charitable donations include $4,000 to Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors; $2,000 to the Fraternal Order of Police Foundation; $1,680 to St. Joseph on the Brandywine (the Bidens’ home parish); $1,125 to Westminster Presbyterian Church; $1,000 each to Cranston Heights Fire Company and Ministry of Caring.
Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, paid $93,570 in federal income taxes last year, with an effective tax rate of 20.5 percent.
Their combined federal earnings were $456,918, including Harris’ vice presidential salary and a reported $169,665 from Georgetown University, where Emhoff, an intellectual property and business lawyer, joined the Law Center’s teaching ranks in January 2021.

The couple paid $17,612 in California income taxes, and Emhoff paid $9,697 in District of Columbia income tax.
The couple contributed $23,000 to charity during the year. They owed $611 to the IRS.
The income figures for Harris and Emhoff were far below what they reported in prior years when Emhoff was still practicing law. When Harris campaigned for president in 2019, they released 15 years of tax returns, including earning about $2 million in 2018.
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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

April 19, 2023
Big B returns to host ‘KBC’ Season 15; registration from April 29

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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.
The show airs on Sony Entertainment Television.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 18, 2023
MP: Man declared ‘dead’ due to COVID-19 returns home after 2 years

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Dhar: A man whose last rites were performed by his family members after he was declared “dead” due to COVID-19 at a hospital has returned home after two years in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district.
The family members of Kamlesh Patidar, 35, were taken by surprise on Saturday when he knocked the door of his maternal aunt’s house in Karodkala village at around 6 am, almost two years after they performed his last rites, a family member said.
Kamlesh Patidar had fallen ill during the second COVID-19 wave. He was admitted to a hospital and later doctors declared him dead. After the hospital handed over the “body” to them, the family members performed his last rites, his cousin Mukesh Patidar told reporters on Saturday.

“Now, he has returned home but he has not revealed anything about where he stayed during this period,” the cousin said.
Kanwan police station in-charge Ram Singh Rathore said according to the family members, Kamlesh Patidar suffered from the coronavirus infection in 2021 and was admitted to a hospital in Vadodara (Gujarat).
The doctors declared him dead due to COVID-19 infection, following which the family members performed last rites of the body given by the hospital in Vadodara and then returned to their village, he said.
The family members came to know that he was alive when he returned home on Saturday, Rathore said.
The matter will be clear after recording statement of Kamlesh Patidar, the official said.

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April 16, 2023
Air India flight to London returns to Delhi after passenger ‘harms’ cabin crew

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New Delhi: An Air India flight to London returned to Delhi on Monday due to the “serious unruly behaviour” of a passenger onboard.
The Air India flight AI 111 scheduled to operate on the Delhi-London-Heathrow route returned shortly after departure.
An FIR was lodged as the accused person allegedly misbehaved and caused physical harm to two of the cabin crew members.

Officials said that the accused person continued to create a scene even after verbal and written warnings and the pilot-in-command had to return to Delhi. Subsequently, the accused person was handed over to the concerned security authorities and adequate action was initiated.
“Not heeding to verbal and written warnings, the passenger continued with unruly behaviour including causing physical harm to two of the cabin crew members. The pilot in command decided to return to Delhi and the passenger was handed over to the security personnel upon landing,” said an Air India spokesperson on Monday.
An FIR has also been lodged with the police. “Safety, security and dignity of all on board is important to us at Air India. We are providing all possible support to the affected crew members. We regret the inconvenience caused to the passengers and have rescheduled the flight to depart for London this afternoon,” added the spokesperson.
Airlines have witnessed many such incidents of unruly behaviour by some air passengers in the last few months.
Last week, a drunk flyer on board an Indigo flight from Delhi to Bengaluru tried to open the flap of the emergency doors. Subsequently, the matter was reported to the concerned agencies and appropriate action was initiated.

During the end of March, two passengers travelling on an Indigo flight from Dubai to Mumbai continued consuming alcohol onboard despite multiple warnings from the crew. They verbally abused the crew and co-passengers.
In order to deal withnunruly behaviour, DGCA has issued CAR, Section 3- Air Transport, Series M, and Part VI titled ‘Handling of unruly/ disruptive passengers’.
As per the procedure defined in the CAR, airlines are required to follow a prescribed procedure for holding passengers accountable before they are placed in the ‘No Fly List’ by the airline. Based on the information provided by the airlines, ‘No Fly List’ is maintained by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
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April 10, 2023
Johnny Depp returns to the screen after 3 years with ‘Jeanne du Barry’ at Cannes

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Paris: French filmmaker-actress Maiwenn’s historical drama “Jeanne du Barry”, starring Johnny Depp as the French king Louis XV, is slated for a world premiere on the opening night of the Cannes Film Festival’s 76th edition, ‘Variety’ has confirmed.
The movie marks Depp’s acting comeback after a three-year hiatus following his long legal battle with ex-wife Amber Heard that culminated in a defamation trial won by Depp in December.
Maiwenn’s sixth feature, the period movie revolves around the tumultuous relationship of the French king and his lover, Jeanne du Barry (played by Maiwenn), whom he brought into the Versailles Palace to live near him even though she wasn’t a noble.

Louis XV, who was nicknamed “the beloved”, ultimately died as an unpopular king after being accused of corruption. He reigned for 59 years, the longest in the history of France after that of Louis XIV.
Depp, according to ‘Variety’, barely spoke French before the start of filming, so it will be interesting to see how he pulls it off without an accent.
Maiwenn was previously at Cannes in 2011 with “Polisse”, which won the Jury Prize, and in 2015 with “My King”, which earned Emmanuelle Bercot a best actress award. “Jeanne du Barry” is also expected to play in competition.
The Cannes Film Festival will unveil its Official Selection on April 13, notes ‘Variety’. It has meanwhile confirmed a pair of anticipated U.S. movies, Martin Scorsese’s Leo DiCaprio-starrer “Killers of the Flower Moon” and Disney’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”, which marks the return of Harrison Ford to the famous franchise.
Ruben Ostlund, the two-time Palme d’Or director of “The Square” and “Triangle of Sadness”, will preside over the jury.

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April 6, 2023
Woman returns from Canada to meet lover who murders, buries her in Sonipat

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Chandigarh: A young woman from Haryana’s Rohtak who had gone to Canada last year to pursue higher studies was allegedly murdered and buried in a field in Sonipat by her lover in June 2022 when she came to meet him, police said Wednesday.
The Crime Investigation Agency of Bhiwani, which is investigating the case, found her skeletal remains on Tuesday along the Garhi Jhanjhara road in Ganaur. The accused, who allegedly shot the women dead, was arrested from Uttar Pradesh on April 2.
CIA-II Bhiwani in-charge Ravindra Kumar told PTI over the phone accused Sunil was already married to another woman when he got involved with the victim, Monica (23). He also had two kids with the other woman.

Sunil and Monica got married at a Ghaziabad temple in May last year when the woman returned from Canada, the officer said, adding she had gone to Canada on a student visa in January 2022 after clearing the IELTS exam.
“During our investigations, it came to the fore that between January 2022 and May 2022, the woman made a couple of trips to India,” he added.
Police said Sunil murdered Monica in June 2022 and buried her body in a 10-foot-deep ditch in the fields of a farmhouse on June 29.
Kumar said the woman’s family was unaware of her return to the country. They had last year lodged a missing person complaint after failing to contact her.
“Their marriage was also registered before a court, where the accused concealed the fact that he was already married,” he said.

Kumar said as the woman was a neighbour of the accused in Gumad village in Sonipat, where she was living with her aunt, she was aware of the man’s marital status.
On why Sunil killed her, the police officer said, “Sunil did not enjoy a good marital relation with his wife and wanted to settle abroad. He had thought if Monica gets Permanent Residency (PR) in Canada, he too could move there… However, when he felt his plan was not materialising, he murdered Monica.”
He said preliminary investigations revealed that the farmhouse belongs to the accused, but it was being verified.
The police officer said the skeletal remains have been sent for post-mortem examination to Sonipat Civil Hospital, while procedure for conducting a DNA test was also underway.
A murder case has been registered against the accused. He has also been booked under other charges, including concealing before a court that he was already married, he said.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 6, 2023