Why Bill Gates is donating chickens in Africa

Bill Gates is launching his latest scheme to help sub-Saharan Africans living in extreme poverty: he’s giving them chickens.

Gates will donate 100,000 birds vaccinated against common diseases under a programme he said would boost incomes because chickens are inexpensive to care for, a good investment and help provide nutrition for children.

The Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist  said on his Twitter feed on Thursday.

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PM Narendra Modi back in India after concluding five-nation tour

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at the Palam airport in New Delhi Friday morning after concluding his five-nation tour. He was received at the airport by BJP leaders.

PM Modi began his tour by visiting Afghanistan on Sunday where he launched the ‘India-Afghanistan Friendship Dam’ with his Afghan counterpart. He then reached Qatar the same evening and left for Switzerland from there on Monday evening.

After reaching Switzerland on Tuesday, he held a meeting with business leaders and the President of Swiss Confederation.

PM Modi then headed for the United States where he had detailed discussions with President Barack Obama and addressed a joint sitting of the US Congress. In doing so, he was the fifth Indian leader to address the Congress. He ended his tour on a high note in Mexico where he secured that country’s support for entry into the elite Nuclear Security Group (NSG).

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Madhya Pradesh BJP MLA Rajendra Dadu dies in car accident

Rajendra Dadu, BJP MLA from Nepanagar in Madhya Pradesh, died on Thursday after his car met with an accident while going from Indore to Bhopal.

According to police, Dadu’s car overturned near Saikrakheri village in Sehore and he died on the spot. He was going to Bhopal to attend a meeting of party MLAs at Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s residence.

The meeting scheduled at CM’s house was then adjourned. His driver and personal assistant also lost their lives in the accident.

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TE3N and Do Lafzoon Ki Kahani release at box-office today

It will be a battle between the Shahenshah of Bollywood and Sarabjit star Randeep Hooda at the box-office starting today. Amitabh Bachchan starrer TE3N is a clear front runner given the sheer screen numbers it has received over Do Lafzon Ki Kahani which opens on 800 screens. Eventually, in the longer run, the content and performances will determine the true winner.

TE3N brings together on screen three fine actors in the form of Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Vidya Balan. The movie which is an official remake of a Korean film(surprisingly the makers have decided not to officially name the original film) is a whodunnit suspense drama woven around a septuagenarian played by Bachchan whose life is turned topsy turvy when his granddaughter is kidnapped. A search to find her proves futile. Eight years later another kidnapping and its modus operand brings the spotlight back on Bachchan’s granddaughter’s case. Bachchan joins forces with a priest(Nawaz) and a super cop(Vidya) as they set out to investigate the kidnappings. While the content has not been tinkered with as compared to the original Korean film, it will be the performances of Big B, Nawaz and Vidya that will make this a worthwhile watch.

Do Lafzon Ki Kahani will depend much on Randeep Hooda’s new found elevated star power courtesy Sarabjit. The actor who has been in his pink of form will be hoping for an encore after delivering a standout performance in Sarabjit. The movie is a remake of a Korean film and tells the story of an ex-boxer and his riveting love story for a blind girl. Randeep will be donning the boxing gloves for the movie while playing his blind romantic interest is Kajal Aggarwal who makes her return to Hindi films after long.

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PM Modi's 7th Meeting With Obama Next Week. Here's The Agenda.

WASHINGTON: 

HIGHLIGHTS

1. Both countries finalising agreements for their militaries to work closely
2. PM will address both houses of the US Congress, considered a rare honour
3. They are expected to discuss India's desire to join the NSG

Next week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Washington as one of President Barack Obama's closest international partners.

President Obama invited PM Modi for one of the last big visits by a world leader before his term ends in January. Although the trip won't feature a lavish state dinner, the PM will address both houses of Congress, considered a rare honour.

This will be their seventh meeting since Mr Modi became Prime Minister in May 2014, an impressive tally for a US President and a leader who is not a formal ally, said Ashley Tellis at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.

"The personal relationship between the president and the prime minister ... is really one of the unanticipated surprises of the past two years," said Mr Tellis, an expert on India.

The developing relationship is seen as an Obama foreign policy success. Washington views India as an important part of its rebalance to Asia and as a counterweight to China.

The two countries are finalising agreements that would make it possible for their militaries to cooperate more closely, and for US defence manufacturers to both sell and make high-tech weaponry in India.

A deal on logistics would govern issues such as how the two countries account for costs of military exercises. Another involves encrypted communications and geospatial data transfer.

Decades of non-alignment has, however, made New Delhi wary of an embrace by the more powerful United States, which has overtaken Russia as India's top arms supplier.

There are frustrations, too, on the US side.

The two countries reached a civil nuclear agreement in 2005, but it has yet to yield any contracts for US-based companies. Only now is Westinghouse, a unit of Japan's Toshiba, approaching the finish line on a deal to build six reactors in India.

The visit gives PM Modi a chance to network with US lawmakers who may feature in a Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton administration but, as it coincides with the California primary, he is not expected to meet either.

President Obama and PM Modi are expected to discuss India's desire to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), a 48-member club of nuclear trading nations.

India was shut out for decades because of its weapons programme, and the civil nuclear agreement with the United States gave it access to foreign suppliers without giving up its arms.

Mr Modi arrives in Washington on June 7 and leaves the United States on June 8.

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NDMC workshop to raise awareness on diseases

Organised by the council’s health department, the workshop was attended by officials from the Delhi government, Railways, CPWD as well as state houses, hospitals, hotels and staff of the malaria department.

In an effort to raise awareness about dengue, chikungunya and other diseases, New Delhi Municipal Council chairperson Naresh Kumar Thursday organised a workshop , calling upon stakeholders to participate in the awareness campaign. Organised by the council’s health department, the workshop was attended by officials from the Delhi government, Railways, CPWD as well as state houses, hospitals, hotels and staff of the malaria department. Maintaining that New Delhi area was the seat of not just the nation’s government but also its legislature and judiciary, Kumar said it was the responsibility of the civic body to maintain its environment hygienically.

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UP clash: Mathura SP among 2 cops killed in standoff with ‘Netaji cult’

The clashes broke out when police were trying to evict illegal occupants of a land in Jawahar Bagh by activists, believed to be of Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi, on the directions of the Allahabad High Court.

THEIR demands include the cancellation of elections for President and Prime Minister, replacement of rupee with ‘Azad Hind Fauj’ currency, and sale of 60 litres of diesel and 40 litres of petrol at Re 1 each.

But the bizarre case of a cult-like group of nearly 2,000 protesters, who claim to be the “true followers of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose”, took a deadly turn in Mathura Thursday with clashes that led to the killing of two police officers, including a Superintendent of Police, and injuries to at least six policemen.

The protesters allegedly started firing on a police team that reached Jawahar Bagh to clear the area after the Allahabad High Court ordered that acres of government land be reclaimed from the Swadheen Bharat Vidhik Satyagrahi.

According to police, members of this outfit and another smaller organisation, Swadheen Bharat Subhash Sena, had been staging demonstrations at Jawahar Bagh over the last two-and-a-half years. Among the other demands posted on their Facebook page are: “We demand all records relating to the ‘Ruler of the Nation’, law and order, and also the document of citizenship (which shows how we are citizens of the nation) to be made public.”

On Thursday, government officials and police reached the spot around 5 pm and used teargas initially before the protesters allegedly started firing back. According to Mathura police, two bullets hit Station Officer (Farah), Santosh Yadav, who was declared dead on arrival by doctors at Niyati Hospital. SP (City) Mukul Dwivedi, who was placed on ventilator support, succumbed to bullet injuries later, said doctors at the private hospital.

Station Officer (Sadar) Pradeep Kumar were among those who suffered bullet injuries on the chest, hands and head. “We are trying to identify the miscreants to lodge an FIR,” D C Mishra, IG (Agra Zone), told The Indian Express.

So far, police have been able to identify only one of the group’s leaders, Ram Vriksha Yadav, but have no further information about him or his associates. Police sources said a few of their colleagues were even held captive by the protesters for a while on Thursday. But, they added, police destroyed all tents erected by the protesters and bulldozed a wall at the park.

These activists were followers of Baba Jai Gurudeo and have named their outfit as ‘Swadheen Bharat Vidhik Satyagrahi’. They have occupied hundreds of acres of land at Jawahar Bagh on the pretext of holding a ‘dharna’ since more than two years. Even after several notices were served to them, they were not ready to leave the premises,” said Rajesh Kumar, District Magistrate, Mathura.

The Allahabad High Court had ordered the government land vacated months ago. These activists filed a PIL in the High Court, which dismissed their plea and slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 on them,” said Kumar.

Officials and witnesses said there had been tension in the area ever since the Mathura administration gave the protesters a 48-hour ultimatum on April 15 that lapsed without any action being initiated. On May 25, the administration made an unsuccessful attempt to evict the protesters.

Late Thursday night, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav ordered an inquiry into the incident to be conducted by the Divisional Commissioner (Agra).

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Assam Board (AHSEC) HS Results 2016 Declared at 10 am today @ahsec.nic.in

AHSEC HS 2016 results: Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC) has announced the Higher Secondary (Class 12) results 2016 on June 2 at 10 am on their official website.

In this year’s higher secondary exam, about 2,54,860 students have appeared.

Steps to check AHSEC HS 2016 results
Visit the official website
Click on results
Enter your roll code, number and the security password
The result will be displayed on the screen
Take a print out

This year’s Council examination was in news when Physics and Biology question paper were leaked in February.

AHSEC had to postponed Class 12 Biology examination since the leaked copies of the question paper were found circulating in some parts of the state and social media website.

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US elections: Barack Obama says the Democratic nominee will be clear next week

President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he expected the winner of the Democratic presidential nominating race would be clear next week after Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders compete in races in California and New Jersey.

“I think that there has been a healthy debate in the Democratic Party, and it’s almost over,” Obama said during a town hall-style event broadcast by PBS.

People will “probably have a pretty good sense next week,” of who the nominee will be, Obama said.

Clinton, a former US secretary of state, is the front-runner in the Democratic race. Sanders, a US senator from Vermont, lags her in the number of delegates needed to wrap up the nomination.

California and New Jersey, which both have large numbers of delegates up for grabs, hold their votes next Tuesday.

Obama has not endorsed either candidate in the Democratic race, though he has made clear his affection and admiration for Clinton, who was his opponent in the 2008 Democratic nominating race. Obama appointed Clinton as his secretary of state after winning the presidential election that year.

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Sonia Gandhi writes to Modi, wants PM Awas Yojna renamed after Indira Gandhi

Sonia brought the resolution in a meeting of the District Vigilance and Monitoring Committee she chaired in Rae Bareli, her Lok Sabha constituency.

Amidst ongoing controversy over renaming of the government schemes launched by the previous UPA dispensation, Congress president Sonia Gandhi Wednesday brought a resolution against renaming of the Indira Awas Yojna as Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna. The resolution, that will be sent to Narendra Modi government at Centre, recommending that the decision should be reverted.
Sonia brought the resolution in a meeting of the District Vigilance and Monitoring Committee she chaired in Rae Bareli, her Lok Sabha constituency. The resolution was unanimously adopted by all the members, including four MLA’s of the Samajwadi Party.

“Sonia Gandhi brought a proposal regarding renaming of Indira Awas Yojana. It was discussed that apart from being the former Prime Minister of the country, Indira Gandhi had also represented Rae Bareli in the Parliament and thus renaming of the scheme named after her should be opposed from here. All of us agreed and the resolution will now be sent to the Centre,” said Manoj Pandey, SP MLA from Unchahar Assembly seat and also a minister in UP cabinet.

District Magistrate Suryapal Gangwar confirmed the move and said the resolution will be sent to the central government for consideration.

Meanwhile, Pandey claimed that during the meeting he also raised the issue of work on AIIMS in Rae Bareli not progressing further. He said the decrease in the flow of funds from Centre for welfare schemes and development works in Rae Bareli was also condemned in the meeting. “Our Chief Minister has given them (Centre) land worth Rs 1,000 crore free of cost for the AIIMS. While efforts of the UP government in providing help to farmers affected with hailstorm was praised in the meeting, the decrease in release of funds by Centre was condemned,” said Pandey. Apart from the vigilance committee meeting, Sonia also met public at Bhuvemau guest house and later held a four-hour long meeting with the officials at Vikas Bhawan. DM Gangwar, who was earlier asked to address the water crisis, made a presentation before Sonia informing her that out of about 60,000 handpumps installed in the district, about 20,000 were found to be non-functional in a survey. He further informed that out of these 20,000, about 15,000 have been repaired. “The MP (Sonia) had written to me about two months ago on the water crisis and we have been able to address it to a greater extent,” the DM said. Meanwhile, sources informed that Sonia allotted five solar powered pumps to each Assembly segment in Rae Bareli from MPLAD fund.

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Violence against Africans: Shake hands, tell them India loves them, Sushma urges Indians

"I appeal to fellow Indians. Next time you meet an African citizen, pl shake hand and say 'India loves you'," the minister tweeted.

Under pressure over what is being seen as a rise in the attacks against African nationals in the country, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has appealed to Indians to stretch out a hand of friendship to them, quite literally.

In a tweet Thursday morning, Swaraj urged Indians to shake hands with African nationals and tell them we love them.

“I appeal to fellow Indians. Next time you meet an African citizen, pl shake hand and say ‘India loves you’,” the minister said.

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On Tuesday, Swaraj met with the family of Congolese national Masonda Kitanda Olivier saying as a mother, she understood the “pain of a mother who loses a son on foreign soil”.

Swaraj, however, refused to characterise the death of Congolese national Masonda Kitanda Olivier as a racist attack, and invoked Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi to convey that India can “never have a racist mindset”. Read more about that, here.

Substantiating her argument that it was not a racial attack, Swaraj said: “All criminal acts should not be construed as racial attacks. As the CCTV footage of the incident in question showed, this was an act committed by goons who also thrashed the Indian bystanders who had attempted to intervene to save Mr Olivier. Delhi Police immediately swung into action after the unfortunate incident. Two of the perpetrators of the crime have already been apprehended, while a search is on for the third person.”

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