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ژوئن 4, 2022

Asian Cup qualifiers without general public irks Sunil Chhetri

National football icon Sunil Chhetri didn’t hide his disappointment at no tickets being sold to the general public for the Asian Cup Group D qualifiers to be played at the Salt Lake Stadium from June 8-14, and felt it deprived the Indian team of home advantage at a time when it needs crowd support the most.
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About 20,000 complimentary tickets have been issued, which has resulted in the organisers getting the stadium rent-free. Public sale of tickets would have forced the All India Football Federation (AIFF) to fork out around Rs 16 lakh per day.
The Indian team would be playing in Kolkata, the country’s football hub, after a gap of nearly three years and Chhetri would have liked the crowd in his corner as he tried to lead India to the continental championship.Best of Express PremiumPremiumPremiumPremiumPremium
“When Mohun Bagan played at 4 o’clock (in the AFC Cup), there were 38,000 people. How is it that we are finding it difficult to sell tickets (for 8.30 pm kick-offs) when the national team is playing? The same thing happened in Mumbai. If there are no fans for the game, I understand. When the national team is playing in the Northeast, in Kerala, it’s jam-packed. It doesn’t make sense,” said the veteran marksman.
The sparse crowd in the stands will make a mockery of home advantage, Chhetri said.
Sunil Chhetri (Illustration: Suvajit Dey)
“The least I was expecting was 30,000 because at 4 o’clock, they came for Mohun Bagan. We are happy that we are hosting it (the tournament), but (such little turnout) it would make no difference. When we come to play (here) for Bengaluru FC against Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, we feel it as an away side and it’s intimidating. So, they should fill (the stands) and then we can say we have home advantage. If in a stadium of almost 90,000, only 10,000-15,000 people turn up, then what’s the point of having home advantage? We go to training, there are 100 people, man! (So) I don’t understand how?”
He said Kolkata was one of the places where the national team can expect good support.

“There are a few places in my country where you go to play for the national team and we know you are going to get support. Kerala is one of them. Of course, Kanteerava (in Bengaluru) is one of them. But Kolkata is right up there and you feel special here, because they (fans) love their football.”
Lack of star power
Organisers, on the other hand, have cited lukewarm response to a tournament featuring teams from footballing backwaters as the reason for less crowd. India has a FIFA ranking of 106, ahead of Hong Kong (147), Afghanistan (150) and Cambodia (171).
“Look at the teams playing and their rankings. Do you think fans will throng the stadium? I don’t see more than 10,000 spectators turning up,” a former top AIFF official said.
The Salt Lake Stadium has a capacity in excess of 70,000.
Salt Lake Stadium.
“The Bengal government has issued instructions that all tickets should be free. See, printing tickets is not an issue but how to distribute them, whom to distribute to is an issue. Yes, they (state government) are giving (us) the stadium free and that’s why tickets (for the matches) have to be free. But we are giving 20,000 tickets, not a very small number,” AIFF director (competition) Anil Kamath told The Indian Express, informing that the complimentary tickets would go to the state football associations, different clubs, government offices and from there “to public”. According to him, some tickets would be directly distributed to the public online.
The AIFF is currently helmed by the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA), although tournaments are organised by the Federation’s secretariat. CoA member and former India captain Bhaskar Ganguly made his displeasure known. “I told Mr Kamath, if we would have been informed about this earlier, we could have taken the matter to the state government. The state government allowed 100 per cent turnout for IPL matches only a few days ago. We might have helped the organisers in this regard. Now, it’s probably too late. India are playing at home and they deserve crowd support,” Ganguly told this paper.

Chhetri admitted that the Indian team’s recent performances left a lot to be desired. “A little bit of negative feeling from the fans that we haven’t been doing well of late. That might be the reason. Last time we played here against Bangladesh and the result (1-1) wasn’t good, the performance wasn’t great. But the support was unbelievable. We will try our best to give them better memories than what we gave them against Bangladesh.”

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ژوئن 2, 2022

Mira Rajput consumes this wonder ingredient for her skin: ‘No makeup, no skincare, just drinking…’

Mira Rajput is a fitness and skincare enthusiast who likes to keep things natural and chemical-free.
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Her social media account is filled with information about skin health, and in one of her recent Instagram stories, the mother-of-two put the spotlight on an Ayurvedic practice that includes drinking ghee, called ‘Snehapana’.
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Mira shared a selfie and wrote, “No filter. No makeup. No skincare. Just drinking ghee.”

She explained that the purpose of “drinking medicated ghee or Snehapana is internal oleation”. “Ghee is closest in structure to our body lipids and works best to dislodge ama (toxins), carry them out to be eliminated and nourish the cells of the body.”
She added that one has to drink “progressively increasing amounts of ghee till it saturates [their] body” and then comes out through the pores on their skin.

Dr Dixa Bhavsar, an Ayurvedic expert, agreed with this and told indianexpress.com that ‘Snehapana’ is something to be done before an elimination or detox therapy. “It means we consume ghee in definite quantities for 7-15 days. Snehapana means to consume different kinds of sneh or fat. Mostly, it is ghee, but sometimes it is also castor oil,” she explained.

According to her, it depends on the digestive system of a person. “For some, they can start with 20 ml of ghee first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. Every day, they increase it. For example, if they have 20 ml of ghee today, they can drink 30 ml tomorrow, then 40 ml the next day, until they reach a level of saturation.”
The expert added that while doing Snehapana, one does not eat or drink anything except for plain water, and in the evening, they can have light food like khichdi — but nothing that is deep fried, or made with a lot of spices.
“If you do this for 7 days, all the toxins get accumulated in the digestive system, and then on the last day, you can expel them using medication.”
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ژوئن 1, 2022

Dance school exclusively for trans community opens in Chennai, training to be free

A bharatanatyam dance school exclusively for the transgender community was inaugurated at Aminjikarai in Chennai on Tuesday. The dance school, a joint initiative of Kerala-based Sri Sathya Sai Orphanage Trust and an NGO Sahodaran, was launched with a function presided by Chennai mayor R Priya at a hall opposite to Loyola College.
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Dr C Sunil Menon, the founder of Sahodaran, told indianexpress.com that the initiative would be a platform for transgender people to express their talents.
“The Sathya Sai Trust had opened a similar dance academy, exclusively for transgenders, in Kerala a few months ago. When they approached us to do a similar initiative in Chennai, we were very pleased and excited. As a community we love to perform, we are born entertainers. For us, to get an opportunity to learn classical dance is something that we always aspired to. We have had role models like (Dr) Narthaki Natraj, Mallika Panicker, who made a name not only for themselves but for the trans community also. We are happy that Mallika is part of our committee as well,” he said.Best of Express PremiumPremiumPremiumPremiumPremium
Dr Menon added they wanted this service to be available to the trans community at free of cost as it would encourage more people to join and learn the art.

“It’s expensive to learn to dance. Not many people have the resources. If you want to do a performance, you need to book a sabha and they should be willing to give you the platform. After that, you need to pay for the instrumentalist, vocalist and others. These are huge barriers, it puts you off. The community members will feel dejected that they are not able to exhibit their talent due to their financial constraints. We wanted to give this facility to the community at free of cost. I feel this is a good change for them both physically and mentally. Their health improves, there is a routine and mentally also they get a sense of discipline, purpose and I feel dance really inculcates that into your system,” he said.
“The classes are going to be held at the terrace of Dr Nedungadi’s Ayurvedic Centre in the city. Ten of our members have enrolled so far. We are going to teach them bharatanatyam. Based on the interest of members, and if we get many more, we will think about teaching other dance forms. The problem with the community is keeping time, maintaining discipline… it will take time to get into a routine. But we hope this will really help them to get their act together. We will start slowly. The classes will be held once a week and later two or three deepening on the numbers. The classes would be held online as well for the benefit of the members,” Dr Menon added.
Kalaimamani Sudha, a transgender activist, said the community members would certainly benefit from the initiative.
Dr C Sunil Menon, the founder of Sahodaran, told indianexpress.com that the initiative would be a platform for transgender people to express their talents.
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”I believe that our members would be on par with other women. When our members approached a few popular bharatanatyam dance schools, they were not accepted. This initiative is dedicated specially for them. All interested trans community members can participate in this and show their talent. In the first batch, there will be 15 members. We would provide them training for a few months for their arangetram (first performance). Based on the outcome, we will take steps to begin the next batch of students,” she said.
Sudha added that earlier they had no access to even basic education and could not even imagine a platform like this to fine tune their skills.
“I used to dance to the ‘Azhagu Malarada‘ song (from Tamil film ‘Vaidhegi Kaathirundhaal’) and practise all the acting at my place itself because I had no opportunity to show it to the outside world. This generation has that freedom. They have the facility and the support of organisations like us and I believe they will excel. By witnessing their passion and performance, I am sure the rest of the other Sabhas will come forward to provide an opportunity to them to exhibit their talent,” she added.

می 31, 2022

SC allows Anil Deshmukh to file application in HC for early listing of bail plea

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said Maharashtra’s former home minister Anil Deshmukh, arrested in connection with a money laundering case, is at liberty to file an application before the Bombay High Court for an early listing of his pending bail plea.
A vacation bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and B V Nagarathna said it hopes and trusts the matter would be taken up for hearing expeditiously by the high court.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Deshmukh, said the petitioner is 73 years old and requests that his pending bail plea, which was filed in March, be heard by the high court.
“….the petitioner (Deshmukh) is at liberty to file application for early listing of his bail application….,” the bench said.Best of Express PremiumPremiumPremiumPremiumPremium
The top court observed that the bail application was listed before the high court on three occasions and it appeared that the matter could not be heard due to paucity of time.
“This court cannot fix a date for the high court,” the bench observed orally during the hearing.
Deshmukh was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in November 2021, and is currently in judicial custody.
On April 8, the high court had adjourned the hearing on Deshmukh’s bail application while deprecating the practice of seeking urgent hearings of bail pleas citing medical emergencies.
The high court had said urgent hearings being sought on medical grounds has become a problem.
The NCP leader had filed a petition in the high court after a special court rejected his bail plea earlier.
He has sought bail on grounds of his ailing health and termed the ED’s case false and frivolous.
The ED in its affidavit opposed the bail plea and alleged that Deshmukh was the mastermind and brain behind the conspiracy and that he had misused his official position as home minister.
The ED’s case is that while serving as the state home minister, Deshmukh misused his official position and collected Rs 4.70 crore from various bars in Mumbai through Sachin Waze, a police officer who has been dismissed.
Deshmukh has refuted these allegations.

می 31, 2022

Behind Aadhaar flip flop: Plaints, confusion

An advisory by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) cautioning users against sharing a photocopy of the document was issued after its regional office in Bengaluru received complaints about Aadhaar details of some people being photoshopped and misused, government officials said.
The advisory was withdrawn by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Sunday on account of it being “misinterpreted”. Instead, the Ministry said, Aadhaar holders are “advised to exercise normal prudence in using and sharing” their card details.
“After UIDAI’s Bengaluru office received some complaints of Aadhaar details being altered using photoshop, they were alarmed by the possibility of its misuse. So they issued a statement urging people to not share photocopies of Aadhaar with unauthorised entities. But the advisory was causing a lot of confusion and could have been misinterpreted,” an official in the know said.

The initial advisory, issued last Friday, said citizens should share their Aadhaar details only with entities that have a “user licence” from UIDAI. It did not specify how to verify this user licence. It added: “Do not share photocopy of your Aadhaar with any organisations because it can be misused. Alternatively, please use a masked Aadhaar which displays only the last 4 digits of your Aadhaar number.”Best of Express PremiumPremiumPremiumPremiumPremium
While withdrawing the advisory, MeitY said, “Aadhaar identity authentication ecosystem has provided adequate features for protecting and safeguarding the identity and privacy of the Aadhaar holder”. It added that people should exercise “normal prudence” while sharing their Aadhaar details, without elaborating on what “normal prudence” constitutes. Queries sent to the UIDAI did not elicit a response until publication.

Friday’s advisory caught people by surprise who took to social media to complain that they regularly share photocopies of Aadhaar for a range of services from getting SIM cards, opening bank accounts, and checking into hotels, among other things. The advisory also appeared to be in stark contrast with a contention made by UIDAI’s former chief and then TRAI chairman RS Sharma, who in 2018 had shared his Aadhaar number on Twitter, challenging a user to show a “concrete example” of how the number could be used to “harm” him.
While critics have routinely flagged privacy-related risks of Aadhaar, a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), released in April, noted that UIDAI had not ensured that the applications or devices used by agencies or private firms for Aadhaar authentication were “capable of storing personal information… which put the privacy of residents at risk”.
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In 2018, the Supreme Court had struck down Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act, which essentially allowed private entities to collect citizens’ Aadhaar details. While reading down the provision, the top court had called it “unconstitutional”. Soon after the judgment, however, the UIDAI had clarified to banks that Aadhaar know-your-customer (eKYC) can be used to authenticate beneficiaries of government subsidies and welfare schemes, paving the way for private banks to use the document to identify beneficiaries of government welfare schemes.
A few months later, the Centre issued the Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019, which allowed banks and telecom operators to collect Aadhaar details as a proof of identity. After the Centre launched the Covid vaccination programme, a plea was filed in the Supreme Court in 2021, claiming that the Aadhaar card was being mandatorily insisted upon for administering vaccines. The government then informed the top court that Aadhaar was not mandatory for registration on CoWin.