NEW DELHI: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Facebook founder shed the casual attire he is usually seen in — jeans, t-shirt and sneakers, (hoodie optional) — and wore a dark suit for his meeting with the Prime Minister.
Soon after the meeting, Modi tweeted, “It was wonderful meeting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. We discussed a wide range of issues.”
On his first visit to India, Zuckerberg on Thursday met telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to discuss expanding reach of internet including by using alternate technology.
“Connecting more than a billion people with internet is not only going to improve lives of people in India but helping innovation and imagination of Indian people will help turn around the world and we are very excited in opportunities in India,” Zuckerberg said after his meeting with the telecom minister.
“About 2.7 billion people have access to the internet. But that’s only one-third of humanity. Almost 4.5 billion people don’t use the internet,” pointed out Zuckerberg, in Delhi on a two-day visit to India. “Connectivity cannot just be a privilege of the rich and powerful. It is a human right.”
Zuckerberg had earlier said he was looking forward to meeting PM Narendra Modi. “I know that he has launched the Digital India initiative and we’re very excited about it. India has thousands of villages that don’t have access to a mobile network and Mr Modi is committed to bringing them online. I will spend a lot of time listening and learning about what we can do to help,” he said.
Of course the Saudi Diplomat who mercilessly raped two Nepali Women along with his friends sneaked out of the country like fugitive this Prince could not do the same. After all they say it is the U.S.
A Saudi prince has been arrested on charges of trying to force a worker at a Beverly Hills estate to perform oral sex, Los Angeles police said on Thursday. Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 28, was arrested on Wednesday and was released on $300,000 bond the next day, according to police and online jail records. The Los Angeles Police Department’s special consul division said the prince does not have diplomatic immunity, according to the Los Angeles Times and KCBS-TV.
The Los Angeles Times said police descended on the massive estate after a neighbour saw a bleeding woman screaming for help as she tried to scale the property’s surrounding wall on Wednesday. The $37 million home, in one of the most exclusive enclaves in the world, has been rented for weeks at a time by foreign nationals over the past year, the neighbour told the Times. The prince is expected to be in court Oct. 19, court records show. Attempts to reach him by telephone were unsuccessful and his attorney was not immediately known. A call to the Saudi embassy was not immediately returned.
Film: KIS KISKO PYAAR KAROON
Starring: Kapil Sharma, Elli Avram, Varun Sharma, Simran Kaur Mundi, Manjari Phadnis, Sai Lokur
Directed by: Abbas Mastan
Rating: **1/2 (Two and half stars)
What’s It About:
Indian television’s favorite funny man Kapil Sharma makes his big screen debut in a film about polygamy and the after effects. Kumar Shiv Ram Kishan (Kapil) is a good-hearted man who gets into circumstances that force him to get married to three different women (Simran, Manjari & Sai). None of the wives are aware of the others’ existence. The husband’s best friend (Varun) suggests they all live in the same building so it would be ‘easier’ to handle them all. The confusion begins thereon, which gets out of hand when Kumar’s girlfriend Deepika (Elli) also wants to get married to him. To make matters worse for the hero, all the four women in his life also become friends. How he handles the situation when the truth is finally unveiled is what the rest of the film is about.
What’s Hot:
Directors Abbas & Mastan attempt a full-blown comedy this time around and without getting into the morality of a subject like this (polygamy), they offer a few laughs in this screenplay-driven film. The focus is more on creating problems and resolving them – that’s the route to generate laughter. The dialogues and one-liners are far more effective than the actual proceedings – they help the film keep its head above water for most of the time. The film is Kapil’s big-screen launch and the good thing is that the directors haven’t showcased him like a conventional hero by any standards. In fact, they’ve almost modeled him as the new-age Govinda. The character of Kapil is close to what people have seen him on TV already. For almost the entire show, Kapil holds the film on his shoulders and it’s that inherent, endearing quality about him that enhances his character. Elli shows a dramatic improvement from her last film (Mickey Virus). Arbaaz Khan is superb as the hearing-impaired don – some of his scenes are among the film’s highlights. The film’s scene-stealer is Jamie Lever (Johny Lever’s daughter) as the maidservant. Here’s a talent to watch for.
What’s Not:
The film is a mish-mash of a lot of films from the 90s (Saajan Chale Sasural, Sandwich) but the screenplay just can’t keep pace. An entire sequence in the shopping mall is almost like a watered-down version of the one from No Entry. Most importantly, the reasoning behind the hero’s three marriages is far from funny and neither is the resolution. When you attempt a film like this, you can’t be preachy and offer justifications, which is what the directors resort to in the climax. And after that, to watch an ending where they all live happily ever after and together, is a bit too much to digest. Production values are also substandard – the film looks tacky and outdated. Fine actors like Varun Sharma and Supriya Pathak look completely out of place and sync – we can understand why. The songs act like roadblocks.
What To Do:
If you’re a Kapil Sharma fan, chances are you’ll enjoy this one too. The brand and level of comedy is just the same as on his show.
Stated below are rules to be followed by Hindus according to Sanatan Santha which is guided by the Hindu rituals.
The Sanatan Sanstha, which is accused of the murder of rationalist Govind Pansare, has laid out explicit rules and guidelines which governs each aspect of a believing Hindu’s life. From what clothes one should wear, to how one should bathe and defecate, to the right way of urinating, the Sanatan Sanstha has all the answers.
1) Urinating: The Sanatan Sanstha states on its website that Hindus must not urinate from a standing position. This is because because it “causes a flow of accumulated Raja-Tama predominant energy towards the feet. As the negative energy gets concentrated there, the distressing vibrations emitting from Hell can very quickly enter the body through the feet.” It also “activates the flow of black energy associated with the ground, charging the entire body of the individual with Raja-Tama components”.
2) Defecating: While defecating, one must not use toilet paper as it does not ‘destroy the Raja-Tama particles’ in the feaces. This is because toilet paper is not ‘sattvik’.
The rules for urinating and defecating apparently are scientific. The Sanstha claims that a French scientist has come to this conclusion, though it does not state his name.
3) Wearing clothes: Apparently, clothes are not meant only to protect us from the weather or to hide certain organs. The Sanatan Sanstha claims on its website that “Wearing clothes amounts to taking the support of Maya to attain a level of Brahman-realized state,”.
It further goes on say that, “Clothes worn by men and women as prescribed in Hindu Dharma are designed by Deities and are those that manifest the Shiva and Shakti Principles.” Using this definition, only a nine-yard saree is perfectly ‘sattvik’ and all other forms of clothes are less so. For men, the dhoti is prescribed. Sanstha claims that this knowledge comes from ‘God’.
4) Washing clothes: The Sanstha has a full article on wearing washed and unwashed clothes. It says, “In case of washed used clothes there is sweating due to the Tej waves arising from the cloth. An unwashed used garment will give an experience of heat in the body due to gross appearing sagun. A higher proportion of dirt in unwashed clothes causes greater hindrance to the flow of sattvik waves that are attracted towards it and as a result, the extent of black covering on it is higher.”.
Silk clothes are better than cotton clothes, but the best ones are made from the the bark of a tree. Some unknown person is cited as the authority for this knowledge, which also ‘comes from God’.
5) Religious marriage v/s registered marriage: The Sanstha argues that a religious marriage is more spiritual than a registered marriage. It creates a glow on the faces of those marrying. The religious rituals increase ‘sattvikta’ in the groom and bride’s bodies, and reduce the impact of ‘Raja-Tama vibrations’.
Not to be outdone by fairness cream advertisements, the Sanstha’s website then shows a picture of a woman before and after her marriage. While Photoshop may be suspected, the picture on the right is regarded as happier and more sattvik.
Moreover, we are told how to prepare a wedding invitation card. Apparently, none of the content should be in English, and the art work should be ‘sattvik’. A full picture of Ganesha must be present in a seated position. Some propaganda matter about spreading ‘Hindu Dharma’ is a necessity.
6) Bathing: The Sanathan Sanstha informs us how we should bathe, in what position, and with what utensils.
Incredibly, one cannot be nude in the privacy of one’s own bathroom while bathing Sanatan-style. One must wear undergarments. One must sit in a cross-legged posture, and chant some shlokas (prayers), which are fortunately not defined.
Only a brass tumbler should be used for bathing. “Clean all nine orifices of the body,” is the Sanstha directive.
The Sanstha provides a ‘scientific’ reason for sitting in a cross-legged posture while bathing. When sitting in a cross-legged posture, the body shape becomes triangular, thus it becoming possible for a protective sheath to be easily generated during a bath,” it says.
Interestingly, in December 2014, the Sanatan Sanstha had blasted the RSS for ‘defaming’ the organisation. Apparently, two families who were members of RSS did not allow their daughters to join the Sanatan Sanstha. This inflamed passions among the Sanstha faithful who condemned the RSS.
A few days ago, it had been reported in the media that the Sanstha had published guidelines on what hair oil to use, and the length of hair that men and women must keep.
The Sanathan Sanstha website focuses exclusively on such bizarrely detailed guidelines for the most mundane, every day things people do in life.
If you are a Sanstha fan, more power to you. If not, you may be doomed for all eternity.
Why is an Indian actress named Priyanka Chopra playing an American FBI agent named Alex Parrish, you might ask? And what is with that accent?
Well, American television shows routinely hire actors from all around the world and it is not uncommon to see non-American actors cast as American characters. For instance, Dominic West and Idris Elba, both Britons, put on strong Baltimore accents for acclaimed HBO drama ‘The Wire’.
Chopra’s shaky accent in ‘Quantico’, an upcoming terrorism drama that premieres this fall on American TV network American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), should, therefore, be the least of your worries, since her character is meant to be an American citizen who is half Indian by ethnicity. The trailer was unveiled by Chopra herself on Twitter late on Tuesday night.
At first glance, ‘Quantico’, which also features Scottish actor Dougray Scott (‘Mission: Impossible II’), comes across as a typically overwrought American drama that combines the ‘Police Academy’ series with Angeline Jolie starrer ‘Salt’ (2010).
Chopra and her co-stars are FBI trainees at Quantico, a highly competitive ‘boot camp’ for aspiring agents. There are several ‘high school drama’ clichés to be found here. Chopra’s Parrish has sex with a man in the backseat of a car who later turns out to be in the academy with her (although she’s the one who is unfazed about it). Girl (and token gay character) check out a hot, young recruit walking around wearing just a towel. One character spends a contemplative moment near a pool wondering why he’s doing all this even as Chopra’s voice-over proclaims, “… they weeded us out, one by one.” Check, check, and check.
Eventually, Parrish is shown getting framed for engineering “the most devastating terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11” (in an attack whose aftermath is reminiscent of Ground Zero) and is forced to go on the run to clear her name, much like Jolie does in ‘Salt’. Yawn.
As of now, ‘Quantico’, which recently got picked up by ABC for a full season, will not be airing on an Indian television network.
‘Quantico’ will be available to Indian audiences almost immediately after its US airing,” Priyanka Chopra said in a statement.
Panaji: A Goa lawmaker today called for a ban on Sanatan Sanstha, a state-based rightwing organisation whose members are being accused by police in Maharashtra and Karnataka of killing Leftist leader Govind Pansare in Kolhapur in February this year.
Speaking to IANS, Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker from St. Andre Vishnu Wagh said that while Sri Rama Sene chief Pramod Muthalik, who he claimed was charged with lesser offences, could be banned from entering Goa, the Sanstha which has its headquarters in Ramnathi village, 35 km from Panaji, must also be banned.
“In democracy, there is no scope for violence. All those who try to use bullets to threaten the voice of opposition are terrorists, because they try to frighten the opposition.
“It is evident in the Pansare and the Kalburgi cases that the Sanatan Sanstha is doing just that. Their hand is evident in these cases,” alleged Mr Wagh, known to be close to Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar.
Kannada scholar MM Kalburgi was shot dead by unidentified men on August 30.
Founded by clinical hypnotherapist Jayant Athavale, the Sanatan Sanstha has several thousand members primarily from Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
It publishes a newspaper and a range of magazines and books propagating the organisation’s ideology, which is summed up as destruction of evil-doers and reinstatement of divine rule.
Many top politicians, including some Cabinet ministers in the BJP-led coalition in Goa have backed the organisation in public fora.
The Sanstha, through statements issued in Panaji, has repeatedly rejected the allegations that its members were involved in the attack on Mr Pansare, even as a Special Investigation Team probing the murder, has arrested Sanstha member Sameer Gaikwad and is on the lookout for another member Rudra Patil, who is absconding since a 2009 blast in Goa’s Margao town.
While the Sanstha was not indicted in the conspiracy, six people — Vinay Talekar, Vinayak Patil, Dhananjay Ashtekar, Dilip Mangaokar, Prashant Juvekar and Jay Prakash, all of them members of the same organisation — were acquitted by a trial court in 2013.
But Rudra Patil and Sandeep Akolkar, who were missing during the investigation, were declared absconders, with the National Investigation Agency (NIA) even issuing a red corner notice in connection with Patil.
Mr Wagh said that if the Goa government banned Muthalik from entering the state, based on the arson of a pub in Mangaluru in 2009, then a ban on the Sanatan Sanstha was also warranted.
“All Goans came together and the government declared ban on Muthalik. But Muthalik has not shot anyone, he ransacked a pub. But the Sanatan Sanstha people have been accused of greater crimes. They should also be banned,” he said.
Pope Francis turned from the halls of power to the hearth on Saturday, leaving behind Congress and the United Nations on his six-day United States trip for Philadelphia and events marking the World Meeting of Families — the original reason for the timing of his visit.
The third and final leg of the pontiff’s first visit to this country will feature the week’s biggest events — organizers expect perhaps one million people each at a celebration on Saturday evening at a site along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and at a Mass there on Sunday afternoon. Francis will most likely speak about the church’s teachings on the value of family life.
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The first stop on Saturday is the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, the 151-year-old seat of the Philadelphia archdiocese, to celebrate Mass for bishops and priests. Later, he will meet with seminarians at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, and in the afternoon he will visit with Hispanic-Americans and immigrants at Independence Mall, where he is expected to speak about religious liberty and immigrants from a lectern used by Abraham Lincoln.
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A banner bearing the image of Pope Francis hung outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on Friday. Credit David Goldman/Associated Press
On Sunday morning, Francis will meet with bishops attending the families meeting and will call on detainees, their families and staff members at Curran-Fromhold prison, where inmates have made him a chair, before the big afternoon Mass.
Jumbotrons flanking the parkway and placed in spots downtown will allow viewers to watch Francis live all weekend, according to planners.
He is scheduled to leave for the Vatican at 8 p.m., seen off by a delegation including Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden; Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania; and Mayor Michael A. Nutter of Philadelphia.
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So far on the visit, Francis’ 10th foreign trip, the pontiff’s main themes have been protecting the environment, cherishing immigrants and appealing for dialogue, with forays into other close-to-the heart themes.
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But family issues have been forcing themselves to the top of the agenda at the Vatican, and the pope’s speeches capping off the families meeting here will be listened to closely for what they may say about how the church will address same-sex unions and whether it will change its rules regarding divorced and remarried Catholics.
Major changes are not expected, though in recent months, Francis has eased the path to annulments and had once said, “Who am I to judge?” regarding gay priests.
Within a week of his return, the bishops of the church will convene a major meeting, or synod, on the family at the Vatican.
The pope touched on family issues this week, but focused primarily on more secular issues, including climate change, inequality and immigration.
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He has also as the pope of the periphery — his word for the marginalized peoples of the earth — made a point of spending time with the homeless in Washington and students in Harlem.
Philadelphia has been preparing for Francis for months. A central part of the city is in a security stranglehold. Law enforcement agencies set up 19 checkpoints overnight into Friday to create a secure zone around the parkway and seven more at Independence Mall, near the Delaware River. Passers-by must go through a magnetometer and have their bags inspected.
Streets have been closed and public transit curtailed. A stretch of Interstate 76, a major artery from the city’s northern and western suburbs, was supposed to close Friday evening. Interstate 676, which runs east-to-west through the heart of the city, was also set for closure there in both directions, while the Ben Franklin Bridge between Philadelphia and Camden, N.J., was to be closed until noon Monday. And do not think of using any exits in central Philadelphia on Interstate 95. They are closed.
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, called Septa, limited service and required some passengers to buy special Papal Passes in advance. Suburban Station, one of three commuter-rail stops in central Philadelphia, was closed for the weekend. Schools, courts and city government offices were shut down for varying time periods starting Wednesday.
Still, many residents in this city of 1.6 million showed the same forbearance that New Yorkers displayed during the pope’s time there from Wednesday to Friday.
“We need this,” said Irene Perry, 59 and a Catholic, who was sitting Friday on her stoop watching people pass through security near the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. “We need help. We have homeless, and people without jobs, and I think it’s a beautiful thing that Pope Francis is coming, and he’s going to bless all of us. We need peace in the world.”
Brad Guigar, 47, a resident of the Fairmount section next to the parkway, said he accepted the inconveniences because of what he sees as the pope’s compelling message.
“This is has been something that everybody has had to change their lives for,” said Mr. Guigar, a cartoonist. “If we’ve got to not take Septa for a day in order for him to come in and talk about important things, then I’m willing to kind of shrug it off.”
Pope John Paul II started the triennial World Meeting of Families in 1994. This is the first time it has been held in the United States. Some 18,000 people from more than 100 countries attended the Vatican-sponsored event, a spokesman said. Six families from Australia, Congo, Cuba, France, Syria and Vietnam are expected to attend the families festival event Saturday evening in a group of guests that includes a musical lineup with Andrea Bocelli, Juanes, the Fray, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the comedian Jim Gaffigan and Aretha Franklin.
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“His humility and his concern with people, how he refers to himself as the son of an immigrant — I’m most impressed with that,” Ms. Franklin said.
Saudi authorities have been blamed for the stampede during the Hajj pilgrimage which killed at least 717 people, in the worst tragedy to strike the annual Muslim pilgrimage in a quarter-century.
The disaster, which also injured several hundred people, was the second deadly accident to hit worshippers this month, after a crane collapse in Mecca killed more than 100.
The stampede broke out in Mina, about five kilometres from Mecca, during the symbolic “stoning of the devil” ritual.
Hajj deaths by nationality
Algeria: 4
Benin: deaths confirmed but number unspecified
Burundi: 1
Cameroon: 20
Chad: 11
Egypt: 14
Iran: 131
India: 14
Indonesia: 3
Kenya: 3
Morocco: 87 (according to state media)
Netherlands: 1
Niger: 19
Nigeria: 3
Pakistan: 7
Senegal: 5
Somalia: 8 (according to local media)
Tanzania: 4
Saudi authorities have yet to provide an official breakdown, but several foreign countries and their media have announced the deaths of nationals. Source: AFP
Saudi Arabia categorically denied reports the crush happened after roads were closed to let a convoy of dignitaries through.
The Saudi Interior Ministry said the claim was malicious and untrue and Iranian state media appeared to have started the rumour.
Iran, which said 131 of its nationals were among the victims, accused regional rival Saudi Arabia of safety errors and organised an anti-Saudi demonstration over what it said were flawed safety measures that led to the tragedy.
“Saudi Arabia is incapable of organising the pilgrimage,” said Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani, leading the main weekly Muslim prayers in Tehran.
“The running of the Hajj must be handed over to Islamic states.”
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman earlier ordered “a revision” of how the Hajj is organised, state news agency SPA said, so that pilgrims could “carry out their rituals in complete safety”.
A formal inquiry is underway.
Iran’s first vice president Eshaq Jahangiri said other nations should have a role in the investigation.
“Countries such as Iran, which have suffered so much, should be represented in the inquiry to determine the causes of the catastrophe and to gain assurances that it will not be repeated in the future,” he said.
After the prayers in Tehran, worshippers held a protest against the “mischievous and incompetent regime” in Riyadh, said the Islamic Propagation Coordination Council which organises state-sponsored demonstrations in Iran.
Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia are bitter rivals whose relations are already strained by regional conflicts from Syria to Yemen.
The custodianship of the Muslim holy places forms a key plank in the Saudi monarchy’s claims to legitimacy.
Pilgrims at the scene in Mina faulted Saudi authorities and some said they were afraid to carry on with the Hajj rituals.
However, they said security had improved and the crowd was smaller.
Special emergency forces were heavily deployed across Mina with dozens of troops at every level of the five-storey bridge used for the stoning ritual in which pebbles are thrown at pillars.
How does a stampede happen?
The deaths of hundreds in a stampede during the annual Hajj pilgrimage raises the question: how does a stampede happen, especially during a peaceful religious gathering?
A Kenyan survivor who returned to the pillars on Friday said his group lost three people.
“I can blame the Saudi government because they did not control [the situation]. I was there. I survived,” Isaac Saleh said.
Aminu Abubakar, an AFP correspondent who was among the pilgrims when the stampede occurred, said there was no room to manoeuvre. He escaped the crush of bodies because he was at the head of a procession.
Fellow pilgrims told him of children dying despite parents’ efforts to save them near the sprawling tent city where they are lodged.
“They threw them on rooftops, mostly tent-tops … Most of them couldn’t make it,” Abubakar said.
Saudi Arabia ‘capable of managing Hajj’, health minister says
During weekly prayers at Mecca’s Grand Mosque, Sheikh Saleh al-Taleb defended the kingdom which, he said, “is capable of managing Hajj affairs” without outsiders suggesting they can do better.
“It is unacceptable to ignore all the efforts” the kingdom has made to improve infrastructure at the holy sites, he said.
Saudi health minister Khaled al-Falih, whose country has spent billion of dollars on safety measures at the Hajj, blamed worshippers themselves for the tragedy.
He told El-Ekhbariya television that if “the pilgrims had followed instructions, this type of accident could have been avoided”.
Pilgrims, however, blamed the closure of roads and poor management of the flow of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims in searing temperatures.
“People were stumbling, falling, trying to get up. They were dehydrated, getting disorientated, they were dying in front of our eyes,” witness Zaid Bayat said.
“They were suffocating. We tried to help revive them, but for every person you were helping there were 13, 14 others just falling down.”
Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop extended the Australia’s condolences to the families of those killed in the Hajj pilgrimage stampede.
In a statement Ms Bishop said she was deeply saddened to hear of the tragedy and terrible loss of life.
Saudi authorities said they did not know of any Australians who had been affected.
Gallery: Muslims travel to Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage
Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Usha Thakur said Friday that true Muslims should not visit any Durga pandal as the Quran prohibits idol worship.
“The Quran says that the worshipping of idols is prohibited. Therefore, any true Muslim should not go to any Durga pandal,” Thakur told media here. Thakur said Durga Puja and Garba are not sources of entertainment, but a reflection of the faith Hindus have on their goddess.
After a long battle with brain tumour, veteran actor Mohan Bhandari succumbed on September 24.
The actor was struggling to beat the condition for a few years now after getting a brain hemorrhage. Bhandari is a popular name in the television world ad has featured in several popular TV serials like Saat Phere, Mile Sur Mera Tumhara, Khaandaan on Karz, Parampara, Jeevan Mrityu, Pathjhad and Gumraah.
Bhandari’s son, Dhruv informed the media about his father’s condition a few months ago. Dhruv also features in a popular TV serial Tere Sheher Mein.
Bhandari also acted in the 2005 film, Mangal Pandey-The Rising which also featured actors like Rani Mukerji and Amir Khan.
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