Thursday 27 July 2017

BILL GATES IS NO MORE THE RICHEST PERSON ON EARTH

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The founder of Amazon has overtaken Microsoft’s Bill Gates to claim the title of world’s richest person.

Jeff Bezos leapfrogged Gates, who has been the richest man on the planet since 2013, after a rise in the share price of Amazon ahead of its latest results due later on Thursday.

According to a real-time billionaires index compiled by Forbes, the rise pushed the value of Bezos’s fortune to $91bn (£69bn) - compared with Gates’ wealth of $90bn. Their riches are calculated on the share prices of their respective companies.

Bezos – born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1964 – has already used the wealth he has amassed to buy the Washington Post and invest in space travel through Blue Origin, a company he founded in 2000.

He founded Amazon in 1994 when he sold books from his garage in Seattle before its business lines expanded in to a wide range of other products and captured the global mood for online shopping. Amazon now accounts for 43% of everything sold online in the US.

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos becomes world's richest man
Share price jump of 40% in 2017 makes founder worth $91bn leapfrogging Bill Gates with company now selling 43% of everything sold online in the US

Jill Treanor
Thursday 27 July 2017 17.20 BST Last modified on Thursday 27 July 2017 17.46 BST

The founder of Amazon has overtaken Microsoft’s Bill Gates to claim the title of world’s richest person.

Jeff Bezos leapfrogged Gates, who has been the richest man on the planet since 2013, after a rise in the share price of Amazon ahead of its latest results due later on Thursday.

According to a real-time billionaires index compiled by Forbes, the rise pushed the value of Bezos’s fortune to $91bn (£69bn) - compared with Gates’ wealth of $90bn. Their riches are calculated on the share prices of their respective companies.

Bezos – born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1964 – has already used the wealth he has amassed to buy the Washington Post and invest in space travel through Blue Origin, a company he founded in 2000.

He founded Amazon in 1994 when he sold books from his garage in Seattle before its business lines expanded in to a wide range of other products and captured the global mood for online shopping. Amazon now accounts for 43% of everything sold online in the US.

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Its shares have soared this year, gaining 40% – which helps to boost Bezos’s wealth as he owns 17% of the company.

At the start of 2017, Bezos was ranked fourth richest in the world, behind Gates, the investor Warren Buffett and Amancio Ortega, who founded Inditex, the company behind retailer Zara.

The share price rally comes despite accusations by Donald Trump during the US election campaign when he accused Amazon of “getting away with murder, tax-wise”. He said Bezos was using the Washington Post for “political influence”.

Amazon floated on the stock market in 1997. Bezos reprints the letter he sent to shareholders that year in every annual report, insisting it is only Day 1 for the company and pledging to focus on the long-term and being the market leader and not short term.

Tuesday 6 June 2017

CBI RAID ON NDTV : ATTACK ON FREEDOM OF PRESS

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India's Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday raided the home and offices of top television executives Prannoy and Radhika Roy, co-founders of news channel NDTV, which has often clashed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. In response, the network put out scathing statements and broadcasts, saying the raids amounted to a "witch hunt" and "a blatant political attack on the freedom of the press."

The raids were conducted in connection with loans from ICICI Bank taken out by the Roys, starting in 2008.

The network said the loans have been repaid, and it issued a document that appears to confirm their claim. "NDTV and its promoters have never defaulted on any loan to ICICI or any other bank," read a statement posted on NDTV's website. "We adhere to the highest levels of integrity and independence. It is clearly the independence and fearlessness of NDTV's team that the ruling party's politicians cannot stomach and the CBI raid is merely another attempt at silencing the media."


"In American media, it is considered patriotic to question and make the government accountable, here to be patriotic is to just agree with everything the government says," said Prannoy Roy, speaking to The Washington Post.

India ranks 136th on the World Press Freedom index, slipping three places since last year.

Dissenting voices are often silenced using sedition laws. More than 51 freedom of information activists have been found murdered since the law came to force in 2005.

Major corporate owners also limit the diversity of India's media: Although India has 86,000 newspapers and over 900 television channels, a handful dominate. Reliance, one of India's biggest companies, owns News-18, which dominates coverage on a number of popular TV channels and magazines.

On Monday night, NDTV aired a half-hour Hindi language broadcast, anchored by Ravish Kumar, describing the atmosphere of fear in which Delhi's news media works. "If you ever meet a journalist on these streets ask if they are afraid. They'll tell you without speaking: 'Delhi's journalists are now scared.' . . . This is the capital of fear," he said.

During the broadcast, Kumar said that had the raids not happened, his program would have focused on ongoing farmers strikes in the states of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. "This is an attack on all of you," he said. "Just like this, every day, things that concern the ordinary man are pushed out of the national media.

Several editors and journalists have sharply criticized the raids. Raj Chengappa, president of the Editors Guild of India, said in a statement: "Entry of police and other agencies into the media offices is a serious matter. NDTV, in various statements, has denied any wrong-doing and termed the raids as stepping up the concerted harassment of the news channel and an attempt to undermine democracy and free speech and silence the media."

Rajdeep Sardesai, a former NDTV anchor, now a consulting editor at rival network India Today, said, "When raids are carried on a respectable public figure, on a nine-year-old investigation, questions are bound to be raised."

NDTV's news coverage has riled up members of Modi's Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party, many of whom accuse the network of being anti-BJP. Days before the raid, NDTV news anchor Nidhi Razdan had sparred with the BJP's national spokesman Sambit Patra on air and asked him to leave her show for his accusation that NDTV had an "agenda."

In November 2016, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting had ordered an unprecedented 24-hour blackout against the network, saying its coverage on terrorist attacks at Pathankot had revealed "strategically-sensitive information." NDTV argued that its coverage was based on official news briefings and that other broadcasters that had made the same revelations were not being penalized. At the last minute, the ban was lifted.

At a news conference, India's minister of information and broadcasting said that the agency's officials were simply carrying out their duty and there was no political interference in their investigation. He said, "If somebody does something wrong, simply because they belong to media, you cannot expect the government to keep quiet."

Friday 2 June 2017

INDIA'S NUCLEAR MISSILE SUCCESSFULLY TESTED FROM ODISHA'S CHANDIPUR

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The Prithvi-II missile is capable of carrying a 500 kg to 1,000 kg warheads and is thrusted by liquid propulsion twin engines. It uses advanced inertial guidance system with manoeuvring trajectory to hit its target with precision and accuracy.


Balasore, Odisha: India today successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile from a test range in Odisha as part of a user trial by the Army. The trial of the surface-to-surface missile, which has a strike range of 350 km, was carried out from a mobile launcher from launch complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur near Balasore at around 9:50 am, official sources said.

"The trial of the sophisticated missile was successful and the mission objectives were met," they confirmed. 

The Prithvi-II missile is capable of carrying a 500 kg to 1,000 kg warhead and is thrusted by liquid propulsion twin engines. It uses advanced inertial guidance system with manoeuvring trajectory to hit its target with precision and accuracy.

The state-of-the-art missile was randomly chosen from the production stock and the entire launch activities were carried out by the specially formed strategic force command (SFC) and monitored by the scientists of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) as part of training exercise, a DRDO scientist said.

"The missile trajectory was tracked by the DRDO radars, electro-optical tracking systems and telemetry stations located along the coast of Odisha," the sources said.

Teams on board the ship deployed near the designated impact point in the Bay of Bengal monitored the terminal events and splashdown.

In salvo mode, two Prithvi-II missiles were successfully test fired in quick succession from the same base, on November 21, 2016.

Inducted into Indian armed forces in 2003, the nine-metre-tall, single-stage liquid-fuelled Prithvi-II is the first missile to have been developed by the DRDO under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme.
 

Thursday 1 June 2017

BJP LEADER QUITS PARTY AFTER THE TRADE RULE OF CATTLE BY BJP

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A BJP leader in Meghalaya has resigned from the party in protest against the Centre's new rule that bans cattle trade for slaughter. Bernard Marak, a leader from Garo hills, had created controversy earlier this week by promising cheap beef to people if the party came to power. Assembly elections in the hill state, where beef is staple, is due early next year.  

"I have decided to quit the party because I am a Christian and Garo first," Mr Marak said today. "The BJP is hurting sentiments here on the beef issue. Tribal society has its own laws. The BJP is trying to push Hindutva."

While Mr Marack was the only one to make such a promise, the other party leaders did not appear too enthusiastic about the new Central rule. Calling Mr Marak's opinion's his own, state BJP chief Shibun Lyndoh said they were not "against people having beef".

"Total beef ban is something that even people here do not support," he said, adding what was required in the state were regulations and hygienic slaughter houses.

Wednesday 31 May 2017

KAPIL SHARMA IS HOSPITALISED... HERE'S WHAT HAPPEN

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The ace comedian has been admitted to a hospital but is now stable...
There's bad news for Kapil Sharma. The ace comedian has been hospitalised in Andheri on Wednesday morning after he complained of uneasiness.
Kapil is under the scanner, ever since his fight with Sunil Grover became the talk of the town. The TRPs of his comedy show too have been on a declining spree. Now, on Wednesday evening around 4 pm, he started feeling unwell and was admitted to a hospital near his house.
He was suffering from low blood pressure. The channel confirmed the news to BollywoodLife.com/. According to the report, Kapil is recovering well and stable now. But it is doubtful if he will attend the Dadasaheb Phalke Awards tomorrow where he will be presented with the honour for the second time.

God bless him!! 

KATRINA AND SALMAN IN THIER NEXT MOVIE


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Bollywood Actors Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif, who are currently busy in the shooting of Abbas Zafar’s upcoming film Tiger Zinda Hai. The movie is a sequel of Kabir Khan’s Ek Tha Tiger which featured the same cast.
Rumours are spreading in the industry that the Bollywood Ex Couple will be starring in a movie which will be bankrolled by Karan Johar’s production. According to a source,“While KJo’s next directorial will be with Ranbir Kapoor, he wants to produce a film with Salman and Katrina in the lead as he finds their chemistry sizzling”. The source further added, “The pre-production work on the film has begun”.
The Namastey London actress will be next seen alongside Ranbir Kapoor in this year’s most hyped movie Jagga Jasoos which is slated to release on July 14, 2017. Jagga Jasoos is helmed by Anurag Basu. Also, Salman Khan will be next seen in Kabir Khan’s Tubelight which is slated to release on June 25, 2017.

Tuesday 30 May 2017

RESEARCH SCHOLAR BEATEN FOR ATTENDING BEEF FEST AT IIT-MADRAS

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IIT-Madras has ordered an inquiry into an "altercation" between two students over the "Beef Fest".
A research scholar at IIT-Madras was thrashed by a group of students on Tuesday, reportedly because he had led Sunday's "beef fest" at the IIT-Madras (Indian Institute of Technology) campus against the Centre's cattle trade rules last week.

At the fest, around 80 students reportedly discussed the Central government's recent ban on sale of cattle for slaughter at cattle markets and ate beef as a mark of protest. Slaughter of cow and calf is banned in Tamil Nadu but there is no bar of slaughter of buffaloes, ox or bull. 
The incident took place at the hostel mess around lunch when Sooraj R was asked by another student why got involved with the "beef fest". Around the same time, five-six other people surrounded Sooraj and started beating him up. Sooraj's received injuries in his right eye and was taken to hospital by his friends.

Later, a group of students protested outside the institute campus against the violence.

By evening, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan also condemned the violence against a Malayali student and asked his Tamil Nadu counterpart Edappadi K. Palaniswami to take necessary action.

An IIT Madras spokesperson said the institute had ordered a probe into the clash among two students. "Appropriate action will be taken after the inquiry," the spokesperson said, describing the fight as an "altercation" between two students. "Both students suffered injury and were given first-aid," the spokesperson said.

News of the fight came around the same time that the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court suspended the Centre's controversial rule that would have made it difficult for the Muslim-dominated meat industry to source meat. The court directive would be in force for four weeks.

Neighbouring Kerala, one of the first states to react to the Centre's cattle rules, had complained to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Centre has overstepped its jurisdiction in introducing restrictions on sale of cattle.

Animal husbandry is a state subject under the constitution. But the environment ministry had introduced the restrictions under a central law for prevention of cruelty to animals.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister the E Palaniswami hasn't spoken his mind on the central move, but opposition DMK led by the party's working president MK Stalin had announced one for May 31 against the Centre's "snatching away" the fundamental right to choice of food.