Author: Samikhsya Bureau

It may come as a set-back to about one crore LPG consumers across the country if they lose their connection from Bharatgas,Indane or HP in case they have done their KYC (know your customer) by the 11th of December. Reports say that the central government has instructed all the above agencies to complete the KYC by the end of November. This would apply to consumers who enjoy no subsidy also.

A report in a Hindi daily Hindustan the government has asked the agencies to do the KYC of consumers who have not submitted their Adhaar or opted for the ‘ Give it up’ scheme.

Make in Odisha’ kicked off on the second day in which Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani remained the major attraction in the Conclave. He  announced investment of Rs 3,000 crore in the State in the next three years while Tata Sons Group chairman, Natarajan Chandrasekaran assured to invest Rs 25,000 crore investment.

Ajmal Amir Kasab, the short and stout looking man who nearly pulverized the nerves of Mumbai through hours long mayhem that killed many underwent a throwback to his teens when he had confessed to a police officer that ‘ aap jit gaye ..aur mein har gaya ‘(you won, I lost) . This was according to a report in the Hindustan Times quoting the then main investigating officer Ramesh Mahale who reportedly had seen the last glimpse of hope fading into fear on the face that deadly terrorist who was held guilty of 80 offences . Kasab was not an easy case to be handled and Mahale had to adopt soft tactics to tame Kasab who was ‘spinning ‘ stories, says the report. He had strong hunch that he would get a “leeway’ as death sentence in India is usually” abhorred”.

At one point Kasab confessed to his crime and was sent to the gallows. On November 13 he was hung.

Bollywood actor Rakhi Sawant, who recently took on the Me Too fame Tanushree Dutta and got away , but she paid a price dearly when she challenged a woman wrestler in Haryana’s Panchkula and was sent to hospital after getting knocked out. After the bout Rakhi had serious pain in her stomach and limbs was soon rushed to the hospital and now stated to be stable after treatment.

Taking part in a television debate the BJP national spokesman Dr. Sambit Patra, jokingly or otherwise, threatened the AIMIM spokesman Syed Asim Waqar that agar Allah se pyar karte ho to baith jao warna… kisi masjid ka nam bhagwan Vishnu ke naam par rakh dunga’. This was while there was a debate on the changing of names of cities etc. in India and when Waqar specifically questioned why the name of Ekana International Stadium is being changed. Patra had even said that the Hindus in India are being oppressed by Muslims.

Absconding for some tine the former minister of Bihar, Manju Verma still untraceable who was alleged to have found in a nexus of illegal arms possession in the family .The supreme court on Monday slammed the Bihar police for the lapse so far. She is sought in a case of recovery of ammunition from her home during a raid some time back. An FIR was registered against the former minister and her husband as an accomplice in the crime under the Arms Act , 1959 when 50 cartridges were recovered from her in-laws in Begusarai.

Former Supreme Court judge and CJ of Orissa High court , justice SN Phukan passed away on Sunday. He was 81 years old.

Justice Phukan joined the Gauhati High Court Bar after his enrolment. In 1963, he was appointed to the Assam Judicial Services.  In 1976, he became the Law Secretary of Assam.

Following his appointment as a permanent judge of the Gauhati High Court, he also served as its Acting Chief Justice. In September 1994, he was transferred to the High Court of Himachal Pradesh, in which court he served as Chief Justice from March 1995. In August 1996, he was transferred once more to the Orissa High Court, where he also served as Chief Justice.

Thereafter, he was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court in January 1999. He retired in 2002.

The much awaited event Make in Odisha II has taken off with a bang in the state capital. Speaking at the occasion many top honchos from the country including the chairman of the Reliance industries Mukesh Ambani extolled the potential Odisha offers as a favourite  destination and he looked forward to further investment here. It is yet another precursor which will ensure enormous business and growth opportunities, the chief minister Naveen Patnaik had said.

Senior BJP leaderand Union Minister Ananth Kumar has died at the age of 59 on Monday at Bangaluru. Ananth Kumar who had the portfolios of Chemicals & Chemicals and Parliamentary Affairs was suffering from cancer and was back in India from US last month after his treatment.

The much awaited event Make in Odisha II has taken off with a bang in the state capital . Speaking at the occasion many top honchos from the country including the chairman of the Reliance industries Mukesh Ambani extolled the potential Odisha offers as a favourite  destination and he looked forward to further investment here. It is yet another precursor which will ensure enormous business and growth opportunities , the chief minister Naveen Patnaik had said.

All the guests from the world of business and other sectors were heard heaping praises on the chief minister for making the state the most conducive venue for overall investment in future.

Now a lot is being spoken about the new regional outfit Damodar Rout has announced to form. When Rout was sacked by Naveen Patnaik, erstwhile prominent BJD leader Baijayant Jay Panda was the first leader who reached to console a beleaguered Rout at his residence. When Rout recently hinted about the formation of a new outfit to counter the BJD regime under Naveen, the former kept the name of Panda at the top of the list.

Mumbai police has arrested a retired Naval officer on charges of duping job seekers to the tune of Rs.36 lakh. The incident came to light through a leak when someone among the job seekers informed to the police. The ex-Naval officer Trineta runs an academy in Vishakhapatnam had fleeced six such job seekers taking Rs.6 lakh from each of them and interestingly. the accused  had issued them appointment letters. The accused was arrested on charges of duping and forging documents.

It is all about timing and chief minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik has down the years acquired the much needed knack for it. Make in Odisha II has taken off today making way for the Juggernaut to roll on as Patnaik aims to cajole over 800 business honchos to invest in a new climate of business . The spot-light zooms from a 14 acre expanse decked up Janata Maidan where Ambanis and Tatas are among the many who would add up to the initiative taken by the chief minister using such occasions as instruments to jack up investment,  and politics as well.

Love can not be measured by integral calculus. That is what an eighty three year old husband proved before he died. Faizal Hassan Qadri, who is no more, had built a mini Taj Mahal in Bulendshahar in Uttar Pradesh, in memory of his wife died on Friday in a road accident. According to his relatives Faizal Hassan shall be buried along side his wife within the same structure.

Both the opposition parties in Odisha have come down on the government’s much hyped Make in Odisha carnival aimed to bolster the investment in the business sector in Odisha. Calling it a pre-poll political image building measure the BJP has said that when only 8 % projects were set up and 22 went back,it’s all exercise in futility. While the Congress has dubbed it as a mere ‘smoke bomb’ and has no bearing on reality.

With air index level crossing 300, life in the national capital has become bad to worse each passing day. More so, after the Diwali the the index touching to 400. So difficult has become the situation that the authorities resorted to water spraying in several places to reduce the level of air pollution.

An ex-employee of the Tatas Vishwas Panday has shot dead a manager in the company by spraying bullets point blank. Arindam Pal , a senior manager at the stockyard of Tata Steel was in his cabin when the accused entered the cabin and shot him dead . Vishwas was in fact sacked from the company for indiscipline earlier and is now absconding.. The incident took place Haryana.

On the polls scheduled from Nov.12 to Dec 7, the Election Commission has imposed the ban on all exit polls. The states where polls to be held are Telengana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Vhhattisgarh and Mizoram in which the polls are to be conducted in two phases and the ban remains effective on Electronics, print and the digital media.

The ban was contemplated by the EC as per the Section 126(1) of the Representation of the People Act(1951) , ‘portraying any election related matter including results of any opinion poll or any other poll survey ” in any electronics media would be prohibited during the period of 48 hours as fixed for the conclusion of any phase of poll.