Author: Samikhsya Bureau

Representatives from nearly 200 countries are gathering in Poland for talks on climate change — aimed at breathing new life into the Paris Agreement.The UN has warned the 2015 Paris accord’s goal of limiting global warming to “well below 2C above pre-industrial levels” is in danger because major economies, including the US and the EU, are falling short of their pledges.

But scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — the leading international body on global warming — last month argued the 2C Paris pledge didn’t go far enough. The global average temperature rise actually needed to be kept below 1.5C, they said, according to a BBC News report.

It is about new series of work-wears that Allen Solly with a campaign called ‘Open Work Culture’ that regards the importance of an employee friendly work environment. The manufacturers have released a TVC about cool commutes to work and also a video was released on how they amazed the audience at select PVRs with a surprising performance and special vouchers under the seats.

Apparently offended by verbal offensives from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday made scathing counter attack on the former accusing him of betraying unemployed youth of the country.   Speaking  in Malakheda town, an aggressive Gandhi said “Prior to the Lok Sabha general elections, Modi had promised to the youths that he would provide employment to two crore people every year”.

Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited (AHEL) on Tuesday announced successful completion of more than 50,000 cardiac surgeries at its Chennai flagship
hospital. This new milestone in cardiac Surgery was achieved with superior outcomes on par with international standards. The over 50,000 cardiac surgeries included complex procedures like bypass, Valve replacements, pediatric cardiac procedures,
transplants and minimally invasive procedures.

Once Bollywood sensation Katrina Kaif has long after broke her silence saying she is happy to have the breakup. The actress was referring to her rumoured friendship with Ranbir Kapoor. ‘I now see it as a blessing because I was able to recognize my patterns thought process’. Katrina said that she could see them from a whole different perspective.

Indian and US officials in coming days will sort out all issues related to the United States possibly waiving sanctions against India for its purchase of Russian S-400 air defence systems, Secretary of Defence James Mattis said at the Pentagon.
“We’ll sort out all those issues here, and in the days ahead… we’ll work all this forward,” Mattis told reporters on Monday when asked, if he expects New Delhi to get a sanctions waiver over the S-400 purchase.

Saavn Media Private Limited, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), on Tuesday launched JioSaavn, South Asia’s largest streaming, entertainment and artist platform.
JioSaavn represents the official integration of JioMusic, India’s most popular music app, and Saavn, India’s leading global over-the-top platform. The new integrated app will be available across all App Stores, including the Jio app store, on JioPhone, as well as, at www.jio.com/jiosaavn.
As announced in March 2018, at the time of acquisition of Saavn by Reliance Industries Ltd, the implied valuation of the combined entity at over USD 1 billion makes it the most valuable music streaming platform in South Asia, and among the most popular in the world.
JioSaavn combines the streaming media expertise of Saavn with Jio’s digital services ecosystem. Jio is India’s
largest digital services network with over 252 million subscribers. The integrated app has a massive addressable
market opportunity both in India as well as for the Indian diaspora.

Alleging that the government had evidence to arrest Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi months before they fled the country but did not do so as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s daughter was hired as Choksi’s lawyer, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday demanded Mr Jaitley’s resignation.
In a post on social media, Rahul said, “8 months before they were allowed to flee, the IT department wrote a 10,000 page report on Chota Modi & Choksi’s massive fraud.
Govt had evidence to arrest them. But didn’t because FM Jaitlie’s daughter was hired as Choksi’s lawyer.
FM Jaitlie must resign immediately.”
Mr Gandhi posted on his Twitter handle a media report which claimed that IT report waved red flags eight months before the PNB scam broke, but was not shared with other agencies.
Earlier, addressing a press conference, AICC

The corporate giant Mukesh Ambani was defenseless that evening at Deepika Padukone’s reception when a photographer taking clips told him that ‘Jio chal nahi raha’ and to which Ambani just smiled back and said nothing. The video has gone viral in social media.

Business deal derails as an attempt by the Samsung to promote its new product Galaxy Note 9,  the company took to the use of Apple iPhone for tweeting its product through tweets. That did not work out as the company soon got trolled  and Samsung Mobile was shut after the tweet went viral once widely shared online.

A tech savvy thief from Andhra Pradesh, Sathya Reddy made a novel attempt to rob the rich ones through use of Google map to know the posh families in Chennai and took a flight. His mapping helped as he started breaking into few houses where people were outside and robbed them, even by breaking houses where owners could be overpowered. He was somehow arrested by the Chennai police.

Yet again targeting Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Supremo and caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao( popularly known as KCR), Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that the people of the state dreamed about ‘Golden Telangana” comprising sufficient water, resources and jobs.However, only one family that of KCR emerged as “golden family” because the TRS Chief shattered the people’s dream by not fulfilling a single promise, Mr Gandhi alleged while addressing a public meeting at Gadwal.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday made a blistering attack on country’s first Prime Minister Pt Jawahwarlal Nehru for his faulty agrarian policies and said those were essentially responsible for the hardships of farming community.

Addressing an election rally at here, he asserted that things would have been different if Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was in power during those days.

“Yeh Gulab Ke phool lagake ghumne wale log, bagicho ka gyan tha. Unko kheto ka gyan nahi tha

(“I want to say something very clearly. Those who roamed about with ‘rose’ pinned on attire might have had knowledge of the garden but hardly understood anything about farming),” the Prime Minister said.

“Those leaders did not appreciate the hard work of Indian farmers. If Sardar Patel was country’s first Prime Minister, the farmers would not be going through the problems they are facing today,” Mr Modi said charging the Congress with “spreading falsehood” about farming community.

Qatar on Monday announced that it would leave the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) from the start of the new year and concentrate on developing and raising its natural gas output to 110 million tonnes from 77 million tonnes a year.

At a news conference, Minister of State for Energy Affairs, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Qatar Petroleum (QP) Saad bin Sherida Al Kaabi said Qatar informed its decision to OPEC earlier in the day.

Fresh from overseas visit and just four days to go for crucial assembly elections in Rajasthan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday described Congress party as a “university of falsehood” and maintained the general refrain that every five years government has to change in the desert state will be proved wrong this time.
“Congress has become a university of falsehood. More lies one says in that party, that person is rewarded,” the Prime Minister said addressing an election rally here.

He said there is a general refrain that every five years, the government is changed in Rajasthan and hence Congress party is sitting pretty satisfied confident that they will come back to power without doing anything.

A 53-year-old man, a retired soldier, who was arrested on charges of allegedly murdering his wife, died while he was in police custody on Monday.
Official sources said police had arrested Krishnamurthy on the charges of murdering his wife Meghala Devi (50) on November 20 and he had also confessed to have murdered his wife over family dispute. He had informed the police that he threw the weapon used for the murder near Kalkare on the outskirts of the city.
Then police took him to the spot to recover the weapon. While he was being taken to the spot, He collapsed while police were taking him. He was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital but had died on the way to the hospital, DCP Rahul Kumar Shapurwada informed.
After retiring from Indian army the deceased had been working in a private firm as lift operator. As he died while being in police custody, Additional Commissioner of police Seemanth Kumar Singh has entrusted the case to CID.

Sanya Malhotra, who is riding high on her recently released film ‘Badhaai Ho’ just posted Femina Hindi’s next magazine cover featuring her. The actress, who is just three films old has featured on yet another magazine cover for their December edition.
Sanya has extensively spoken about her career graph and two films release in a small span of time.
The actress has spoken how she always tried her best while working and always tries to give her best which makes her wanting for more. Sanya played two diversely different character in her last two films, ‘Patakha’, which was directed by Vishal Bharadwaj and ‘Badhaai Ho’ directed by Amit Ravindernath Sharma.

In ‘Patakha’ the actress played the role of a girl from a very small Village of Rajasthan, which is based on an acclaimed short story by renowned writer Charan Singh Pathik. In ‘Badhaai Ho’ she plays Delhi girl, who knows whats she wants in her life.

On the work front, her next film starring Nawazuddin Siddique, directed by Ritesh Batra ‘Photograph’ will be screened at Sundance Film Festival.

A video has gone viral in several platforms where in a Shelter Home in Dhenkanal in which it was shown that minor girls are given forced ‘benediction’ and conversion into Christianity. The conversion was going on unlawfully and the expose has given grains for the political opposition. How can the intelligence failed to trace such a heinous process is surprising which going on in 26 such homes.

Earlier there were allegation from the Shelter Home regarding sexual exploitation of minor girls.