FIRs against Azam, Amit Shah
CRPF, poll personnel among 14 killed in Maoist strikes
Relief over the relatively peaceful April 10 polling in Bastar evaporated on Saturday as Maoists blew up a bus taken by polling officials and an ambulance used by Central Reserve Police Force personnel, killing 14 and injuring several others in Chhattisgarh.
Chief Minister Raman Singh condemned the attack, and said the Maoists were enemies of democracy.
Dadasaheb Phalke Award for Gulzar
Lyricist-filmmaker Gulzar was on Saturday chosen for the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award, the highest official recognition for film personalities in India.
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2013 Awardee: Pran
Gulzar has vast knowledge of Urdu Poetry. He is creator of a new type of stanza named as Triveni.
Triveni is a form of Hindi/Urdu poetry initiated by the poet Gulzar. Unlike sher, a triveni consists of three "hemistichs" (misras). The first two are complete in themselves but the addition of the third misra gives a new dimension.
A beautiful example of Gulzar's Triveni:
ज़ुल्फ़ में यूँ चमक रही है बूँद
जैसे बेरी में तनहा एक जुगनू
क्या बुरा है जो छत टपकती है
Gulzar's actual name: Sampooran Singh Kalra
The Supreme Court issued notice to the Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports on Friday on a petition challenging the withdrawal of the Arjuna Award from a triple jump athlete, Renjith Maheswary, hours before the presentation ceremony based on a news report that he failed a doping test in 2008.
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Its not related to this news but since it was in news in Jan so sharing
New guidelines for Arjuna Award
- 90 per cent weightage would be given to winners of medals at various international championships and sports events of disciplines covered in Olympics (Summer, Winter and Paralympics), Asian Games and the Commonwealth Games. The new guidelines will come into effect from this year.
- Winners of medals in Olympics and Paralympics will automatically be considered for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna or Arjuna Awards, depending on the type of medal won, if they have already not been conferred with either of the two top awards.
- The sports ministry has worked out its own formula according to which 90 marks will be given to the sportsperson getting maximum points. Rest of the sportspersons will be given marks proportionately.
For example, if a sportsperson 'A' has got highest points, say 45 points as per the formula, and another sportsperson 'B' has got 40 points, then 'A' will get 90 marks and 'B' will get (90x40/45) 80 marks.
- The sports ministry has also decided to give 10 percent weightage to the marks given by the selection committee for assessment of the eligible sportsperson keeping in view factors like profile and standard of the sports events in which he/she has won medals and qualities like leadership, sportsmanship, team sprit, fair play, sense of discipline.
- For cricket and indigenous games, not included in Olympic, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games disciplines, the selection committee will recommend the number of awards, (not exceeding two), taking into consideration their individuals performances and qualities of sportsman spirit, leadership, sense of discipline etc.
- Ordinarily, not more than one award will be given in each discipline in a particular year, subject to deserving sportspersons being available. Adequate representation would be insured for physically challenged and women.
The principle of one award per discipline will not be applicable in case of team sports and across gender. The selection committee may recommend, in deserving cases with proper justification, more than one sportsperson in respect of team sports and sportspersons of both the genders.
- Normally not more than 15 awards could be given in any calendar year.
However, keeping in view the performance of Indian sportspersons in the Commonwealth, Asian Games and Olympic Games during a particular year, the selection committee may recommend more than 15 sportspersons for Arjuna Award.
- In a particular sports discipline, names of not more than four sportspersons (two each for male and female) with the highest marks will be considered by the Selection Committee.
- Sometimes, the Selection committee may feel that as per the given criteria, a very deserving sportsperson may not get Arjuna Award. In such a situation, it may recommend such name giving full justification in writing.
- The selection committee will recommend the final list of sportspersons for Arjuna Awards as per the marks obtained in terms of the criteria indicated. The recommendations of Selection Committee will be placed before the sports minister for the final decision.
Alarmed at growing use of international SIM cards by insurgents in the north-east and poor mobile connectivity affecting the maintenance of law and order, the Assam government has asked the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to install more mobile towers in the State, particularly along the international borders and in remote areas.
China on Saturday lodged protests with Japan over the visit by a Cabinet minister to the Yasukuni war shrine, with differences over wartime history continuing to strain ties amid rising maritime tensions.
On Saturday, Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshitaka Shindo visited the shrine, which honours Japan’s civilian war dead but also includes 14 class-A war criminals.
World’s largest swarm of genetically modified mosquitoes released in Brazil
The world’s largest-ever swarm of genetically modified mosquitoes has been released in Brazil to combat infectious disease, according to reports.
Jacobina, a farming town in Bahia, has been plagued for years by dengue fever, a mosquito-borne tropical disease and a leading cause of illness and fatality in Brazil.
According to the Global Post , the newly-hatched Aedes aegypti mosquitoes have been engineered to wipe out their own species, The Independent reported.
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