Los Angeles: ‘Modern Family’ fame Colombian actress Sofia Vergara flaunted the 1990s bikini fashion in an online post.
Vergara shared some vintage shots of her posing in a bikini on her WhoSay account on Friday. She is seen holding a little girl in the photos.
The 42-year-old captioned one of the photos, “the 90s!!! Bogota”. However, Vergara didn’t mention who the little girl is posing beside her, but she definitely raises the cuteness factor, reports huffingtonpost.com.
This isn’t the first time retro swimsuit photos of the ‘Modern Family’ actress have surfaced. Back in April, the Internet uncovered a photo of Vergara, then 20 years old, posing beachside in Salgara, Colombia in 1992.
New Delhi: Hansika Motwani, child actor turned southern star has found herself in the midst of controversy when a YouTube video of her taking a shower went viral.
Even though it has been claimed that it might be a double who is posing, there has been no official statement yet. The video is of the actress taking a shower and the camera looks as if it has been placed in a secret area.
It has not only become a rage on social media platforms but also on mobile apps like Whatsapp. Motwane has been in the spotlight when her private party photos with her ex-beau Simbu had splashed the internet. The actress has become popular in the souther film industry and is likely to appear in some big projects including ‘Romeo Juliet’, ‘Vettai Mannan’ and ‘Idhayam Murali’.
In recent times more and more actresses have faced such controversies with the social media being so popular in India now.
Radhika Apte clarified on her Twitter page after a body double video of her was leaked online. Others too have had to had to face the ire of the public because of nude or naked pictures and video leaks.
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Friday resigned ahead of trust vote in Assembly. Here are the live updates from Bihar:
4:45 pm: Nitish Kumar arrives at Raj Bhavan to meet Bihar governor Keshari Nath Tripathi.
3:06 pm: The entire incident has exposed Nitish Kumar. First he made Manjhi CM; now after eight months, he himself wants to become CM again – Sushil Modi
3:05 pm: BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi is addressing a press conference.
2:08 pm: I had said I have chosen a senior colleague. Other people interpreted that I was making a ‘Mahadalit’ man CM, says Nitish in response to a question
2:05 pm: We have already staked claim to form government, Nitish in response to question on staking claim
2:02 pm: It is upon him to make his decision now, about what he wants to do – Nitish Kumar on Manjhi
2:00 pm: I want to thank all the parties who supported us amid all this, including Mamata Banerjee, Shiv Sena and BSP – Nitish
1:58 pm: I appeal to people of Bihar, don’t get misled by BJP, they are power hungry – Nitish
1:55 pm: BJP used to play religion card earlier, now they are playing caste card – Nitish
1:55 pm: A person who sits on a constitutional post isn’t identified by his caste – Nitish
1:53 pm: Mahadalit term coined by me only, BJP today trying to play caste card – Nitish
1:52 pm: I again admit I committed a mistake by resigning as CM. I seek forgiveness from the people of Bihar. I assure of good governance if I become CM again – Nitish
1:52 pm: If we get another chance to govern, we will work in the same manner and with the same pace with which worked for over eight years. We will provide governance – Nitish
1:51 pm: We had staked claim to form government earlier – Nitish
1:51 pm: I am ready to take up responsibility, awaiting Governor’s decision – Nitish
1:50 pm: Today, they (BJP) have failed despite everything – Nitish
1:48 pm: I admitted it was a mistake to resign as CM in the wake of Lok Sabha poll loss – Nitish
1:47 pm: We and allies had advised Manjhi several times not to work according to BJP’s game plan but he never listened – Nitish
1:47 pm: I have never interfered in Manjhi’s working – Nitish
1:46 pm: Entire script of the drama written by BJP, says Nitish
1:44 pm: Every effort made to split JD(U). BJP leader Nand Kishore Yadav even said it was Manjhi’s job to secure majority through ‘jugaad’ – Nitish
1:43 pm: Manjhi should have acted gracefully, should have resigned earlier if he didn’t have majority, should have also respected party decision – Nitish
1:42 pm: What has been claimed by Manjhi at press conference today are laughable – Nitish
1:41 pm: The drama continued till last night. BJP fully involved in it – Nitish
1:39 pm: First of its kind event happened in India’s parliamentary democracy that CM called the session but resigned ahead of Governor’s address to the joint session of the Assembly.
1:37 pm: JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar is addressing a press conference.
12:00 noon: I have a long list of scams, would have exposed them had I got more time – Manjhi
11:55 am: I was surprised by Lalu Prasad’s silence – Manjhi
11:54 am: Manjhi alleges widespread corruption in Bihar in awarding and implementing government projects.
11:50 am: I was asked by Sharad Yadav to step down without being told the reason – Manjhi
11:48 am: Meanwhile, Bihar Assembly has been adjourned sine die.
11:47 am: Allegations were levelled against me – Manjhi
11:47 am: Nitish ji acted like ‘Bhishma Pitamah’, did not utter a word when I was not allowed to do any work – Manjhi
11:46 am: I was forced to work in a certain manner at the start of my tenure as CM. I was asked to sign on certain files – Manjhi
11:45 am: I come from a dalit background. I don’t have big ambitions.
11:43 am: I still have majority, support of over 140 MLAs – Manjhi
11:42 am: Keeping all this in mind, I handed over my resignation to Governor at around 10:30 am.
11:42 am: Some of the JD(U) MLAs were planning to resort to violence in Assembly during trust vote – Manjhi
11:41 am: We had asked the Governor to hold secret ballot during trust vote but he expressed his inability to do so. If secret voting was not held, our MLAs, including me, would have faced death threat and even revocation of their Assembly membership – Manjhi
11:40 am: Some of our MLAs got threatening SMSes not to vote in my favour. We were also doubtful of Speaker’s actions.
11:39 am: We could also not find the name of BJP leader Nand Kishore Yadav as leader of opposition in the sitting arrangement. The Speaker had also recognised a different party as main opposition. Further, we found names of some of our supporting legislators missing from sitting arangement – Manjhi
11:38 am: When we got the Assembly proceedings order sheet in the morning, we found long-held traditions were not being followed in it – Manjhi
11:35 am: Jitan Ram Manjhi is now addressing a press conference at his residence.
11:31 am: Senior JD(U) leader KC Tyagi says “we have been saying from day one that we have majority. Manjhi ji resigned due to lack of numbers.
“We are hopeful that the Governor will invite Nitish ji to stake claim to form government,” he adds.
11:30 am: BJP MLAs hold protest outside Bihar Assembly over Jitan Ram Manjhi’s resignation.
11:25 am: RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav says Manjhi should have quit earlier. “He should have resigned earlier; by getting involved with the BJP he has ruined his future,” says Lalu.
“Acha hua, swagat hai, ab mil kar kaam karein, BJP mein na jayein (Whatever happened is good, it is welcome. Now, let’s work together; don’t join BJP),” Lalu adds.
11:00 am: BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain says the BJP stood by the Bihar CM. “We stood by a Mahadalit, we did not ditch him. The BJP has always been on the side of the truth,” Hussain told reporters.
10:55 am: JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar says their stand has been vindicated that things should become clear before the commencement of Assembly’s Budget Session.
“I will give my reaction after the situation becomes clear. We have not got any formal communication (on Manjhi’s resignation). This has happened suddenly when Governor and others have arrived for the Governor’s address,” Nitish tells reporters outside Assembly.
“BJP’s game plan has been exposed,” he adds.
10:45 am: As per reports, Manjhi has recommended to the state Governor that the Assembly be dissolved and fresh polls conducted in the state.
10:40 am: Reports say Manjhi will address a press conference at 11:30 am.
10:35 am: In a sudden development, Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Majhi has resigned ahead of trust vote in Assembly.
10:30 am: Ahead of the trust vote later today, CM Manjhi has just met state Governor KN Tripathi.
10:25 am: JD(U), RJD, Congress, CPI legislators and one Independent MLA supporting Nitish Kumar will boycott Governor’s inaugural speech in the Assembly, says JD(U) chief whip Sharawan Kumar. He adds that these MLAs will enter the Assembly during the trust vote.
10:00 am: The Bihar Assembly session will start today at 11:00 am with Governor’s address to the joint session. Manjhi will table the proposal to hold trust vote at 12 noon and voting is expected to be held on the same at 2:30 pm.
09:45 am: BJP has issued a whip to its Bihar MLAs asking them to vote for Manjhi during the trust vote.
09:30 am: D-day has arrived for Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi. He, Friday, faces a trust vote on the floor of the Bihar Legislative Assembly to prove majority of his government.
In a good news for the embattled CM, BJP yesterday announced that it will support the ‘Mahadalit’ CM during the floor test.
“After a long meeting of the BJP legislators, the party has decided to support Manjhi during his confidence vote in the Assembly,” said BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi.
The BJP’s offer of support came on a day when Bihar Speaker Uday Narain Choudhary notified JD-U leader Vijay Kumar Chaudhary as the leader of opposition, replacing Nand Kishore Yadav of the BJP.
The Speaker also accepted former chief minister Nitish Kumar’s demand that Janata Dal (United) (JD-U) be given the status of the main opposition party.
Following the Speaker’s decision, BJP MLAs created a ruckus and protested in the Assembly complex .
“How could the Speaker take away the opposition party tag from the BJP,” asked senior party leader Shahnawaz Hussain.
“We protest against this move as well as the way the JD-U is treating Manjhi, who is a Mahadalit,” Hussain said at a press conference in New Delhi.
He also said that the BJP has nothing to with the charges of horse-trading being made by the Nitish Kumar’s camp.
Manjhi, after being expelled from the JD-U on February 9, has been declared as an unattached member in the Assembly. He was expelled for allegedly “indulging in anti-party activities”. But he has refused to resign and has to prove his majority in the house today.
Manjhi yesterday said he will offer Cabinet berths to legislators, who will support him during the confidence motion. “Aaiye mera samarthan kijiye, mantri pad lijiye (come to support me and become a minister),” he told reporters, attending a function here.
Also yesterday, the Patna High Court ordered that eight rebel JD-U legislators, considered close to Manjhi, would not vote during the confidence motion in the Assembly.
A bench of Justice Iqbal Ahmad barred the JD-U MLAs from voting after hearing their petition, seeking permission to vote during the floor test.
Manjhi was picked by Nitish Kumar as his replacement when he quit last year after JD-U’s rout in the Lok Sabha polls.
In the 243-member Assembly, the JD-U has 115 legislators — most of whom are with Nitish Kumar. The party has the support of 24 Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) legislators, five Congress MLAs, two Independents and a CPI MLA.
The BJP has 88 legislators and is supported by three Independents.
Washington: Britain’s electronic spying agency, working with the US National Security Agency, hacked into the networks of a Dutch company to steal codes that allow both governments to seamlessly eavesdrop on mobile phones worldwide, according to the documents given to journalists by Edward z.
A story about the documents posted yesterday on the website The Intercept offered no details on how the intelligence agencies employed the eavesdropping capability, providing no evidence, for example, that they misused it to spy on people who weren’t valid intelligence targets.
But the surreptitious operation against the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phone data chips is bound to stoke anger around the world.
It fuels an impression that the NSA and its British counterpart will do whatever they deem necessary to further their surveillance prowess, even if it means stealing information from law-abiding Western companies.
The targeted company, Netherlands-based Gemalto, makes “subscriber identity modules,” or SIM cards, used in mobile phones and credit cards. One of the company’s three global headquarters is in Austin, Texas.
Its clients include AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint, The Intercept reported.
The Intercept offered no evidence of any eavesdropping against American customers of those providers, and company officials told the website they had no idea their networks had been penetrated. Experts called it a major compromise of mobile phone security.
The NSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In the past, former agency officials have defended using extra-legal techniques to further surveillance capabilities, saying the US needs to be able to eavesdrop on terrorists and US adversaries who communicate on the same networks as everyone else.
The NSA, like the CIA, breaks the espionage and hacking laws of other countries to get information that helps American interests.
Still, the methods in this case may prove controversial, as did earlier Snowden revelations that the NSA was hacking transmissions among Google’s data centers.
The Intercept reported that British government hackers targeted Gemalto engineers around the world much as the US often accuses Chinese government hackers of targeting Western companies, stealing credentials that got the hackers into the company’s networks.
Once inside, the British spies stole encryption keys that allow them to decode the data that passes between mobile phones and cell towers.
AP
- The accused used to supply these sensitive documents to certain corporate houses: Police tell court
- Delhi Police tells court that various incriminating documents of ministries of Defence, and Coal and Power were recovered from the accused.
- A Delhi court remands four accused arrested in connection with alleged leakage of classified documents in police custody till February 23. Three other accused in the case remanded in two weeks judicial custody by the court.
- The Delhi Police is taking accused from Crime Branch office to court.
- Sources say the accused allegedly used fake ID cards to gain access to Shastri Bhawan in the middle of the night. They would use the duplicate keys to open rooms of senior officials and photocopy secret official documents for sale to corporates and consultancy firms.
- Sources say locks of all the rooms are being changed, and security and vigilance enhanced.
- The door of Director Prashant S Lokhande was found compromised about two months back following which the ministry ordered a through investigation and CCTV cameras were installed.
- Sources say the Petroleum Ministry was first alerted of the theft of official documents some months back when some critical documents with the then Joint Secretary (Exploration) Giridhar Armane were found in a photocopier machine when rooms were opened in the morning. The ministry internally probed the issue.
- The bunch of keys found in the possession of the five arrested persons were used to open the rooms of top ministry officials they had allegedly accessed, say police sources.
- Bassi refuses to reveal the names of the organisations who benefitted from leaking of documents. He said: “It will not be good to reveal the names of these organisations as the investigation is still on.”
- The arrested people (Lalta Prasad and Rakesh Kumar) did not steal particular documents, they instead used to lift any document lying on the table, says Bassi.
- The police chief says the initial investigation revealed that some individuals, who were provided these documents, also worked with some corporate companies.
- News agency, ANI, quotes Asharam, accused in the case, as saying that he has not done anything wrong and he is being framed. My sons are to be blamed for the incident, he adds. As crime branch officials whisked him away, he says, “I came to know of this on February 17. I have not done anything. Mera beta zimvewar hai (my son is responsible).”
- Three accused, who were earlier in the day taken to the Petroleum Ministry, are now being taken back to Crime Branch office.
- Delhi Police chief BS Bassi adds the documents have to be examined in consultation with concerned officers.
- Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi says probe into the matter is on. Vowing to share more information once he possesses it, Bassi says in total five people have been arrested in connection with the case.
- Refraining from spilling the beans, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan says the investigating agency is doing its job and an independent inquiry is going on in the matter.
- The rooms that they had alleged accessed to steal official documents included rooms of Special Secretary Rajive Kumar, Joint Secretary (Refineries) Sandeep Poundrik, Joint Secretary (Exploration) UP Singh and Director (Exploration-1) Nalin Kumar Srivastava among others.
- The five persons, including two junior employees of the Oil Ministry, are being taken to the rooms of senior officials which they had allegedly accessed using duplicate keys.
- The Delhi Police takes five persons, who they have arrested for allegedly stealing official documents from the Petroleum Ministry, to the site of the crime to check the access they had to the building.
Earlier development:
In a development that caused reverberations in political as well as corporate circles, the Delhi Police on Friday arrested two energy consultants in connection with leaking of classified documents from the Petroleum Ministry.
“We have arrested Prayas Jain and Santanu Saikia in this connection. Both of them are energy consultants who received stolen documents,” said a senior police official.
While Saikia is a former journalist who runs a web portal on petroleum issues and has his office in Defence Colony, Jain runs his consultancy firm in Patel Nagar.
Delhi Police chief BS Bassi said that both Saikia and Jain ran some sort of an independent website where they uploaded the analysis of the stolen documents.
“…And this information was further used by corporate houses. They also shared this information with some individuals in return of money,” Bassi told reporters.
Both of them will be produced in court around noon.
The police had on Thursday arrested two Petroleum Ministry officials, a Reliance Industries (RIL) staffer and two other middlemen in the suspected case of corporate espionage.
In a case reminiscent of the spy scandal in mid 80s, more people are likely to be arrested today.
Raids were yesterday conducted at several establishments including a prominent building in Connaught Place which houses offices of a leading private petroleum firm, believed to be RIL.
Petroleum Minister Dharamendra Pradhan said that strict action will be taken against those involved in the case and they will be “severely dealt with”.
Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi had yesterday said that action was taken on a tip off that two persons along with their associates were involved in “procuring, obtaining and stealing the official documents by trespassing into the offices of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas at Shastri Bhawan on February 17”. Notably, Shastri Bhawan is located a stone’s throw from the Parliament house and houses offices of several ministers.
“A trap was laid and three persons came in an Indigo car near Shastri Bhawan. Two persons alighted and went inside while the third remained sitting in the car. After around two hours, when the two persons entered the car, all three persons were apprehended,” he said.
“The car they were travelling in had an unauthorised sticker of the government of India,” he said.
Bassi said the “secret papers” were photocopied after office hours by the arrested who used duplicate keys to open the offices after entering Shastri Bhawan on forged identity cards and temporary passes obtained fraudulently. The stolen documents were “sold” to an individual of private energy consultancy company and to those in the petrochemical and energy industries in return for rewards, he said.
“All those who are recipients of stolen documents will be questioned and action taken. If the documents fall under the purview of the Official Secrets Act, then the relevant sections will also be imposed,” he told reporters.
“They had been involved in the act for a long time,” he said, adding a case has been registered against the five for stealing, forgery, trespass and criminal conspiracy.
They were identified as Lalta Prasad (36), Rakesh Kumar (30), both brothers and resident of Delhi, and Raj Kumar Chaubey (39), a resident of Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh. Official documents were recovered from them. On information provided by them, Asharam, 58, and Ishwar Singh, 56, who were employed as multi tasking staff in the ministry, were arrested. Notably, Prasad and Kumar are sons of Asharam.
Reliance Industries said it has been brought to the company’s notice that one personnel has been detained by law-enforcement authorities. Launching a “robust internal probe” into the detention of its employee, the RIL said no information of commercial consequence to it resides in the ministry with which it is in arbitration in several cases.
Pradhan, who talked to various news channels, said that the surveillance at the ministry had been tightened by the National Democratic Alliance government and indicated such thefts had been taking place during the previous UPA government’s tenure.
Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala asked if the government will review decisions that had benefited the corporate houses due to the leaked documents.
He also sought to know how long this was going on and how many documents were leaked, while demanding that the corporate houses who allegedly benefited from the leaked documents should be named.
Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Sambit Patra said the government will get to the bottom of the matter.
New Delhi: A 29-year-old woman researcher has accused Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, the director-general of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), of sexually harassing her.
As per the first information report (FIR) registered at the Lodhi Colony Police Station on Wednesday night, Pachauri committed offences under Sections 354, 354A, 354D, 506 of IPC, which deal with outraging the modesty of a woman, sexual harassment, stalking, and criminal intimidation, respectively, a daily said on Thursday.
The Delhi High Court had yesterday directed the 75-year-old scientist to join the probe into charges of alleged sexual harassment “as and when required”. The court also lifted its order restraining publication of reports on the alleged harassment complaint by the woman research analyst to Delhi Police.
The court posted the matter for April 8 for further order.
Pachauri had moved the High Court seeking a restraining order on publication of reports relating to the alleged complaint. On February 17, the court restrained publication of news on the issue, but the next day (February 18), modified the order and lifted the ban.
Meanwhile, Pachauri, whose Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has shared the Nobel Peace Prize, moved anticipatory bail plea before the High Court. Justice SP Garg, however asked him to move the proper forum – the sessions court.
As per news reports, the complaint against Pachauri states that the woman researcher joined TERI in late 2013. The scientist started misbehaving with the woman researcher shortly afterwards.
“These include unwanted physical advances as well as e-mails, text and WhatsApp messages, as per the complaint. The complaint alleges that Pachauri persisted in his conduct, even after the complainant asked for a halt to the alleged messages. The research analyst had also moved TERI over the issue on February 9,” the daily added.
Denying the allegations, Pachauri has claimed that his e-mail IDs, mobile phone and WhatsApp messages have been hacked.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Pachauri said it will “not be prudent or appropriate to comment anything on the matter pending adjudication before the Hon’ble Delhi High Court”.
Patna: Embattled Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi dramatically resigned on Friday just ahead of a floor test, the move coming despite the BJP extending support to him.
Manjhi, while announcing the decision to quit, said that he did not get respect as chief minister.
“I have submitted my resignation letter to the State’s Governor. I should have quit before,” said Manjhi soon after he met Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi this morning.
Manjhi claimed that he as well as some legislators had received threats to their lives.
Manjhi was picked by former chief minister and JD-U leader Nitish Kumar as his replacement when he quit last year after JD-U’s rout in the Lok Sabha polls.
In the 243-member assembly, the JD-U has 115 legislators – most of whom are with Nitish Kumar. The party has the support of 24 Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) legislators, five Congress MLAs, two Independents and a CPI MLA.
The BJP has 88 legislators and is supported by three Independents.
Nitish Kumar was quick to react on Manjhi’s resignation and said, “Our stand has been vindicated.”
He told reporters that the “BJP game plan has been exposed”.
Manjhi said that he had requested Governor Tripathi to hold a secret ballot and “in that case, I would have had the support of 40-50 JD-U legislators”.
But, since “I realised that secret ballot may not happen, a lot of legislators would have lost their membership if it would have been known that they had voted for me, that’s why I decided to quit”.
He accused JD-U of “horse-trading”, an euphemism for driving a hard bargain to ensure adequate numbers in a floor test.
On Thursday, BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi said that the BJP decided to support Manjhi during the confidence vote in the assembly Friday.
“After a long meeting of the BJP legislators, the party has decided to support Manjhi during his confidence vote in the assembly,” Modi had said.
The fast-paced political development took place a day after Speaker Uday Narain Choudhary notified JD-U leader Vijay Kumar Chaudhary as leader of opposition, replacing Nand Kishore Yadav of the BJP which will support Manjhi during the confidence vote.
The Speaker accepted Nitish Kumar’s demand that JD-U be given the status of the main opposition party.
Manjhi, after being expelled from the JD-U Feb 9, has been declared as an unattached member in the assembly. He was expelled for allegedly “indulging in anti-party activities.
Actor Rohit Roy, who is playing a lensman in Madhur Bhandarkar‘s upcoming film ‘Calender Girls’, says he took inspiration from noted fashion photographer Atul Kasbekar for his role.
‘Calendar Girls‘, starring five newcomers, revolves around models who gain fame after featuring in famous calendars.
“I play a photographer in the film. My character is inspired by renowned fashion photographer Atul Kasbekar. It’s a very interesting role to play,” Rohit told PTI.
The ‘Shootout at Lokhandwala’ star is also penning a film script, which he will start shooting by the year end.
“I am at the final stage of writing. The film is a slice-of-life one. We will start shooting it soon as I am done with the final draft. I am excited to make my debut as a director,” he said.
Rohit, who started his showbiz career with TV, made a comeback to the small screen after a gap of seven years and currently stars as a happy-go-lucky station master on ‘Peterson Hill’.
Wellington: Hammered by hosts Australia in their lung-opener, England face another stern test when they take on the unbeaten New Zealand in their Pool A match of the cricket World Cup, here on Friday.
England could not have thought of a more nightmarish start to their World Cup campaign as Australia inflicted a humiliating 111-run defeat on them.
The way Aaron Finch, George Bailey and Glenn Maxwell tore apart England’s bowling unit at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, a lot will depend on how skipper Eoin Morgan and his men recover from the morale-shattering loss.
New Zealand, on the other hand, are already in touching distance of a quarterfinal berth after two consecutive wins.
After a convincing 98-run win against the 1996 champions Sri Lanka at Hagley Oval in the tournament opener, Brendon McCullum and his men beat Scotland by three wickets in their second game.
For England, running into the co-hosts after facing Australia makes it all the more difficult as they are aware another slip-up would kill their chance of going further.
The onus thus will be on skipper Eoin Morgan to lift England’s spirit and give their batting a boost, especially since he has scored abysmally low — just two runs in five innings — in the run-up to the tournament so far.
Shoehorned into captaincy after Alastair Cook’s axing, Morgan will have to lead from the front to inspire his team when it takes the field at the Westpac Stadium tomorrow.
“He’s aware of the fact that he wants more runs and it’s important for the team that he plays his part. He thinks about his own game. He knows his strengths. So the onus of responsibility is on him because of his experience,” England’s batting coach Mark Ramprakash said.
Needless to say, New Zealand are the strong favourites going into the game tomorrow but the way the co-hosts struggled to score 143 against Scotland in their last match, the co-hosts will have to sort their batting woes.
Teams (from):
England: Eoin Morgan (capt), Moeen Ali, James Anderson, Gary Ballance, Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Stuart Broad, Jos Buttler (wkt), Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Chris Jordan, Joe Root, James Taylor, James Tredwell, Chris Woakes.
New Zealand (from): Brendon McCullum (capt), Trent Boult, Grant Elliott, Tom Latham, Martin Guptill, Mitchell McClenaghan, Nathan McCullum, Kyle Mills, Adam Milne, Daniel Vettori, Kane Williamson, Corey Anderson, Tim Southee, Luke Ronchi (wkt), Ross Taylor.
PTI
Mumbai: Shiv Jayanti, the birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was celebrated with traditional fervour in Maharashtra on Thursday.
In Mumbai, Governor C Vidyasagar Rao paid floral tributes to the Maratha warrior king at the Shivaji Park.
The programme was organised by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the Shri Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Commemoration Committee.
The Governor garlanded the statue of Shivaji and also visited the memorial of late Bal Thackeray.
Mumbai’s Guardian Minister Subhash Desai, Minister for Transport Diwakar Raote, Mayor Snehal Ambekar, Municipal Commissioner Sitaram Kunte and office-bearers of Shri Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Commemoration Committee were present on the occasion.
The Governor later participated in the Shiv Jayanti celebrations organised by the BMC at Mayor’s Bungalow and listened to the patriotic songs presented by the teachers of Sangeet Kala Academy of Municipal Corporation.
The state government’s official ‘Shiv Jayanti’ celebrations are held on February 19 each year, while the Shiv Sena celebrates ‘Shiv Jayanti’ as per the “tithi.”
Sena leader Desai, who is the Industry Minister, told PTI that his party wants the government to celebrate the event as per the “tithi,” which falls on March 8 this year.
“We have sent a letter to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Cultural Affairs Minister Vinod Tawde in this regard,” Desai said.
“We pointed out that a committee appointed by the previous government had suggested that the Shiv Jayanti be celebrated as per the tithi – on Falgun Vadya Tritiya,” the minister said.
PTI
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