Scott Keach, Australian show jumper, will participate in Olympics after long 28 years

Rio Olympic will observe a new record s the Australian show jumper Scot Keach is all set to restart his performance after long 28 years in the Olympics. After six Olympics, Keach will return to games after he was being reported of his selection on Thursday for the ‘equestrian team in Rio.’

Reports are that Keach was named in the Australian Olympic Games, scheduled to happen from August 5 to 21, with a record of appearing in professional tournament for the longest time. The 51-year-old athlete is now a resident of Florida. Also, Keach is expected to improve his performances, who, last played in the Seoul Olympics and came up with fifth place in the team 23^rd in the individual event.

In an Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) press release, Keach said: “I remember the whole Olympic experience and I enjoyed it very much. I remember going to the opening ceremony and closing ceremony and things like that. We had good horses and riders on our team but in the end things didn't quite go our way.”

Keach has started his Olympic debut at 1988. A proud owner of his horse Fedor, said that he started planning two years ago. “Things started falling into place two years ago and that is when the Rio Olympics became a real focus,” he added.

Seventh Satellite NAVIC Completes ISRO’s Navigational System

Bengaluru: Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has launched its seventh and final satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS). Named as NAVIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation), the seventh satellite will work together to provide accurate navigation ‘including terrestrial, aerial and marine navigation, mobile phone services, mapping and land surveying data, voice navigation for cars and disaster management,’ reports said.

After the satellite launching on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ‘hailed’ the initiative. He also took to Twitter to celebrate the ‘gift of science’: “We will determine our own paths powered by our technology with this successful launch. It’s a great gift to people.” He also announced the satellite to be named as NAVIC, according to sources.

The seventh satellite of IRNSS 1G, was launched into a sub geosynchronous transfer orbit with a perigree (nearest point to earth) of 284 km and an apogee (farthest point to earth) of 20,657 km. ISRO said that the satellite was launched on board the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), which took off from the Sriharikota launch pad at 12.50 p.m.

ISRO also declared that with this launch of NAVIC, the process of IRNSS constellation of seven satellites is complete. The system will work in a similar manner of GPS, the global positioning system operated by the United States comprising 24 satellites. A nationally developed and tested, the 1420 crore project, as Dr TK Alex, former director of ISRO said will be able to provide two types of services- the Standard Positioning Services (SPS), available to all users and the Restricted Services (RS), meant for the intelligence and defense uses.  

In his speech after the satellite launch, PM Modi also asked neighboring countries to take part in the navigational system. In a video conference with the ISRO engineers, he asserted: “We have seven neighbors who rely on technology provided by other countries. They can use Indian services if they want.”

“We are now one of five countries with our own navigational system. Today we are free of dependence on other countries for navigation. Our planes will be able to land with ease and accuracy, we can plan disaster relief better and with our own technology,” PM said congratulating ISRO.

Latif’s Son Claims Father Shown in Bad Light, Moves to Court against Shah Rukh Khan

Ahmadabad: An Ahmadabad court on Thursday issued defamation notice against actors Shah Rukh Khan, Farhan Akhtar, director Rahul Dholakia and four others, claiming that the movie shows gangster Adul Latif in a negative avatar.

Latif’s son Mushtaq Shaikh asserted that SRK’s upcoming movie Raees, based on the gangster’s life, defamed him as it showed he was running a brothel and using women bootleggers, reports said. Khan is playing the lead role in this film.

According to reports, Ahmadabad city civil court judge R.T. Vatsani had issued the notice against Red Chillies Entertainment Private Limited and co-producers Excel Entertainment and Rahul Dholakia Productions. Khan along with the others who has received the court order has to file their replies within May 11. Following the defamation notice, Mustaq also sought injunction against the release date and promotional material of Raees.

Following the complaint against the film and his actor, director and production house, advocate Harsh Gajjar said: “There were 97 cases lodged against Latif in his life time. These cases were for bootlegging and serious offences under TADA, however, at no point he ran a brother or used women for delivering liquor. By attributing such false claims in the movie trailer the respondents have defamed the family’s image in the society.”

According to reports, Raees will portray the story of Raees Khan, a goon who operated in the 1980’s Gujarat. With dozens of cases against the gangster who was a part of Dawood Ibrahim’s gang, Raees was shot dead by police while he was trying to escape from the Sabarmati jail. The film is scheduled to release on July 3, this year.

 

Bollywood Director Kabir Khan Assaulted At Karachi Airport

Karachi: Bajrangi Bhaijaan-famed director Kabir Khan was ‘heckled’ at the Quaid-e-Azam International Airport in Pakistan on Wednesday by a number of people present in the airport lounge. The protesters confronted the 43-year-old director claiming that he showed ‘Pakistan in a bad light’ in his latest film Phantom.  The director went to Pakistan to attend a marketing seminar at Lahore, reports said.

Kabir, famous for his ‘firm belief in India's secular fabric’ to rejoice the friendship between Indian and Pakistan, was attacked by a shoe-wield protester wearing black salwar-kameez. However, the director did not respond to any of the comments, sources said.  

Reports are that the angry protesters were heard saying Pakistan Zindabad and repeating anti-India slogans. Also, they had asked Kabir to make film on the activities of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) activities in Pakistan. “You people send Jhadav and kill hundreds here. Why don’t you make a movie about it?” asked a protester who referred to RAW official Kulbhushan Jhadav who has been arrested in Pakistan.

Kabir’s film Phantom based on a storyline of the Mumbai attacks had Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif in the lead role. A story about a retired military officer, who is in a mission to kill the Mumbai attack mastermind, was banned in Pakistan claiming that the film showed a negative picture of Pakistan.

However, Bajrangi Bhaijaan starring Salman Khan made ‘roaring business’ in Pakistan and had promoted Indo-Pak ties in its plot. Kabir Khan denied commenting anything about the incident. He later took to Twitter: “To media on both sides: 12 screaming lunatics with a mobile phone camera is not news. Please don’t give them the attention they want. Ignore.”

Great Barrier Reef in Verge of Extinction: Scientists

The largest living ecosystem, the Great Barrier Reef, stretched 1,430 miles along Australia’s coast is ‘dead or dying and almost all of it is on the brink of extinction’, said the scientists. The scientists have also warned the health of the ecosystem, assessing it’s increasingly bleaking conditions.

In another publication from the Australian ministry, the corals of the Great Barrier Reef is also suffering from bleaching- a condition leaving the coral to push out the algae inside, making it white. Apart from the outrageous effect of global warming, the strong El Nino is also playing a master role in bleaching and death of the corals.

Professor Terry Hughes, conveyor of the National Coral Bleaching Taskforce that conducts aerial exhibition of world heritage sites, said: “We've never seen anything like this scale of bleaching before. In the northern Great Barrier Reef, it's like 10 cyclones have come ashore all at once.” Hughes also added that almost 50 percent of the total coral is already dead or dying.

Australian Environment Minister Greg Hunt, in this context, asserted: “There were some who said that the worst had passed. We rejected that, and they were wrong.” Even the UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee that denied the Great Barrier Reef in the endangered list but continued their concern for its future.

Environmentalists across the globe, who accounted global warming and El Nino as the reason behind the loss, also have considered the usage of coal and coal-fire in Australia as long term reason.

The Great Barrier Reef is a location to draw in a huge amount of tourist, in a fear of tourism business loss, are reluctant to publish the bleached pictures of the corals. The tourism companies even have barred the entry of media and politicians in the bleached area fearing its impact on tourism, said reports. Apart from the environmental impacts and tourism affects of bleaching, half a billion people from Australia is dependent for their livelihood on the corals and as many as $30 million people’s income is at stake, said reports. 

Austria Adopts Strict Laws To Keep Out Refugees

Vienna: The Austrian parliament has adopted one of Europe’s most restrictive refugee laws, allowing the government to declare a state of emergency if the number of migrants threatens “national security.” It may also directly reject refugees at the border.

The toughest-ever bill, passed by 98 to 67 on Wednesday, allows the Austrian government to declare a state of emergency if the number of migrants unexpectedly goes up, thereby posing “a threat to national security.”

Depending on the situation, the state of emergency could be extended for three more six-month-long terms. Under the new law, border control officers would also be given the right to refuse entry to nearly all migrants, with only a few exceptions for those facing safety threats in a neighboring transit country or those who already have relatives in Austria.

Some other vulnerable groups like unaccompanied minors and pregnant women would be kept exempt from the harsh rule.

The special measures will also oblige migrants to file their asylum applications directly at the border in registration centers which are yet to be built, contrary to a previous practice of letting the refugees into the country. They may be held for up to 120 hours while their application is being verified.

Wedged between Europe’s two main refugee routes — the Balkans and Italy, Austria received around 90,000 asylum requests in 2015, the second-highest in the bloc on a per capita basis.

Many brave a short but dangerous sea journey from Turkey to Greece, before trekking up through the Balkans toward western and northern Europe. More than a million people, primarily from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, landed in Europe last year, triggering the continent’s worst migration crisis since the aftermath of World War II.

Rio Olympics face challenges

With Rio Olympics only 100 days to start with, Brazil, a country famous for doing last minute preparations is facing twin challenges in economy and politics. Reports are that Brazil has already prepared the games venues but is not sure about appearances.

Apart from economy and politics being the most delicate issues in the country to deal with, the Brazilian President’s ‘fighting impeachment’ made the people ‘angry and distracted’.

According to reports, the Rio residents are not paying added attention to the quadrennial extravaganza as ‘there are so many other things to talk about.’ In the last four years after Brazil was selected as the host country of Olympics 2016, with more than 30 million people were lead to poverty making Brazil face a meltdown in economy.

Even players, excited to represent their country in the Olympics, said: “Brazil is going through a political crisis, and the situation has still to sort itself out. I think we just need to resolve the politics, and then people's attention will turn to sport.”

Apart from politics and economy, health and crime are the officially declared issues impacting the Rio Olympics. With a massive of Zika virus that caused widespread panic and death, athletes and players are rejecting their names from the Olympics list.

Plus, drug and human trafficking, murder and other criminal activities have now become common reasons to rebuff Rio’s prospects. A government statistics showed that as many as 432 people were murdered in the city in the first quarter of this year.  

Nepal Gets Its First Female Muslim Lawyer, Hope Surrounds Women’s Career

Mohna Ansari, Nepal’s first female lawyer and a Muslim bring a ray of hope for the Nepalese women who are now ‘slowly coming up’. Ansari is the country’s first female Muslim lawyer and a Commissioner at the Nepal Human Rights Commission (NHRC), said reports. Also, she is the first to become a graduate in her family.  

“The new constitutional amendments give them a ray of hope,” says Ansari who belongs to a lower middle class family in Nepalgunj, a small town in the southern fringe of the Himalayan country. Mohna Ansari joined the NHRC as a Commissioner on November 2014, after she received a call from the Nepal government that asked her to join the five-member commission that tackles issues like security force excesses and gender discrimination in Nepal.

Reports are that before Ansari started working at NHRC, she had her first government assignment at the National Women Commission (NWC) for four years where she was a Commissioner too. She worked at NWC from 2010 on a United Nations Development Programme project. “This was the first time a Muslim (woman) was appointed at such a high level,” asserted Ansari who is quite active in social media.

Reports are that Mohna’s rise as a Muslim woman in a post in the government body is a result of ‘the change that has been taking place in Nepal since the monarchy was abolished in 2006 - after a decade of Maoist rebellion,’ sources said. Mohna is also the first woman, from a NGO background who understands the issues and addresses problems faced by ordinary people of Nepal. Her social media accounts are flooded with such complaints and shares that address women’s and indigenous rights, issues of the Madhesis and delays in post-earthquake reconstruction.

“I was the first to oppose the deployment of the army to deal with Madhesi agitation. I was the first to speak publicly against that,” she said while referring to recent protests by the Madhesis who occupies more than a third of the Nepal’s population but are economically and politically underrepresented.

The blazing career today saw a lot of problems during her early days. The 39-year-old, soft-speaking lady said that her family was completely dependent upon her father’s carpentry shops but she went to school and completed her study. With a graduation degree in law, Ansari said she faced a lot of problem again when she wanted to work as a full-time lawyer because she was a Muslim lady. “It was too difficult to begin my career in Kathmandu with my background. My family supported me all along,” Mohna said while sharing her work experience.

Western Fashion Brands Struggle To Compete With Asian Counterparts

With Asian consumers getting more confident about their home grown brands, Fashion brands from China, Japan and South Korea are prevailing the market. Along with this, the Asian consumers are considered as the world’s biggest buyers of high-end fashion brands and products and represent almost half of the significant consumers, said reports.

Compared to the leading western brands, the Asian brands are young and mostly are belongs to the first generation of designers. Reports are that most of the Asian brand- owner are within 35-years of age, is tech-savvy and always in search for different fashion staples ‘that will make them stand out and look different.’ Also, these fashion brands are always ready to experiment with textile and materials, and hunts for ‘small, cool and original features’ in their designs.

According to reports, the Asian brands, mostly from China, Japan and South Korea is considered as a ‘growing threat from the East’ by the big western brands like Prada, Tod and Kering’s Bottega Veneta. Also, brands like Ms Min and Comme moi from China are growing fast and getting sold at the departmental stores of Lane Crawford.

“You sense there is a pride about seeing China develop its own creative community and seeing China emerge as a creative force,” Lane Crawford chairman Andrew Keith told. Most of the Chinese fashion brand products are sold online, to the Chinese nationals living abroad to offer them a sense of their home-grown brands.

Following the home-grown brands, the south-Asian countries now are sponsored by local industrial brands to organize fashion week to encourage the budding brands. Fashion brands, which were always thought as a cup of tea of the western countries, have now shifted the notion.

Korean electronics company Samsung’s fashion division chairman said: “Before many Asians thought luxury goods had to come from the West. But they are becoming more sophisticated and discerning and now more people are interested in local designers who have their own point of view and unique style.”

Apple Reports First Sales Drop In 13 Years

Tech giant Apple Inc. on Tuesday reported its first ever sales decline in iPhone sales in 13 years. Apple said that they have sold 10 million lesser iPhones in the first quarter of 2016 compared to 2015’s first economic quarter.

The report was released by Apple CEO Tim Cook, who, after declaring the decline in sales, has asserted: “The future of Apple is very bright.” Reports are that the ‘slide is putting more pressure’ on the company to come up with innovative products. Also, as Cook has asserted, the slide might be a result of ‘increasingly saturated market’ of smart phones.

According to reports, Apple’s slowdown in the market was followed by Microsoft Corp., Google owner Alphabet Inc. and Twitter, who posted ‘reports of missed expectations’ in the first quarter of 2016. Apple said its share fell about 8 percent as a result of about 50 million lesser sales of devices. Also Apple has dropped its sales in China to the most, the second largest market of the tech giant after USA being.

Market analysts have earlier reported of Apple’s decline in sales fearing that the company has reached its saturation point; many also termed the growth as ‘exponential’. A way-out from the hitch was also referred by market analyst: “Apple needs to come up with a radical new innovation or product rather than just the current incremental improvements to existing products. This is the only way in which it will reinvigorate sales growth.”

Referring its most recent Smartphone, iPhone 6 as an ‘anomaly’, Apple said that they are now looking forward to promote Apple Music and App Store’s potentials. Also, the leading tech-firm claimed their products to be in high demand by there are supply constraints. However, China being the first to drop iPhone’s sales, Apple is ‘extremely optimistic’ about china and claims to increase their investment there.

Angelina Jolie Set To Return For Maleficent 2

Los Angeles: Disney reported that Angelina Jolie will return to the role in Maleficent 2, although the release date has not been set. Screenwriter Linda Woolverton, who penned the script the first Maleficent will be back to write the sequel.

Maleficent 2 joins a slate of forthcoming Disney live-action sequels and remakes that draw on the studio’s animated back catalogue. Screenwriter Linda Woolverton, who worked on the first film, will return for the follow-up.

Maleficent grossed $758m at the global box office, but received middling reviews. Disney released no further details about the Maleficent sequel in its announcement on Monday. The original film, directed by Robert Stromberg, fleshed out the tragic back-story of the character that was introduced in the studio’s 1959 animated musical Sleeping Beauty.

Disney also confirmed that it has cast Emma Stone to play the Disney villain Cruella de Vil in an origins story about the hound-hating star of the 101 Dalmatians movies titled Cruella. The studio is also producing new versions of Tinker Bell (with Reese Witherspoon), Dumbo (with Tim Burton directing) and Mary Poppins (with Emily Blunt). A sequel to current hit Jungle Book will also proceed with original director Jon Favreau set to return.

The 2014 film, directed by Robert Stromberg was loosely based on Charles Perrault’s original fairy tale and inspired by Walt Disney’s 1959 animated film, Sleeping Beauty. It portrayed the story from the perspective of the eponymous antagonist, depicting her conflicted relationship with the princess and the king of a corrupt kingdom. It starred Elle Fanning in the role of Princess Aurora, the Sleeping Beauty and Angelina Jolie (Isobelle Molloy as the younger version) as Maleficient.

Two Bangladeshi Gay Rights Activists Hacked to Death

Dhaka: Two people, including the editor of a magazine for the transgender community, have been hacked to death in the capital of Bangladesh.

A third person, a security guard at the apartment building where the killings took place, was seriously wounded in Monday’s attack in Dhaka, in which six attackers murdered Julhas Mannan and Tanay Mojumdar. Mannan was the editor of Rupban, the only LGBT magazine in the country, and he had previously worked at the US embassy in the city.

Maruf Hossain Sorder, a Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesman, said: “Unidentified attackers entered an apartment at Kalabagan and hacked two people to death.”

The incident came two days after a university professor was killed in similar fashion in an attack in Rajshahi, which was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, or ISIS) group.

Homosexuality is technically illegal in Bangladesh and remains a highly sensitive issue in society.

Both men were openly gay and believed that if more gay Bangladeshis came out then the country would have to accept them.

They were also behind the annual “Rainbow Rally”, held on Bengali New Year, 14 April, since 2014. This year’s rally was banned by police as part of widespread security measures.

Meanwhile Bangladesh’s best known blogger said he had received a death threat on Sunday.

Last year, at least four atheist bloggers and a secular publisher were hacked to death in a long-running series of killings of secular activists.

The South Asian country has seen a surge in violent attacks over the past few months in which liberal and secular activists, members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups have been targeted.

At 9500-Year-Old, Meet ‘Old Tjikko’ - The World’s Oldest Tree

Imagine a single living organism older than Jesus and the pyramids. It was born during the last Ice Age and has lived through man’s creation of the wheel and the destructive wars of the 20th century.

It isn't a mythological creature, but rather a tree. In fact, it is a standard Norwegian Spruce, a species that is frequently used as a Christmas tree today.

The ‘Old Tjikko’ was discovered in 2004 by Leif Kullman, a professor at Sweden’s Umeå University. The lone conifer sits in the Dalarna Province in the mountains of central Sweden. The visible portion of the tree is 13-feet-tall, scraggly and fairly young (the spruce’s trunks have a lifespan of only around 600 years, according to Kullman), but what is below makes ‘Old Tjikko’ unbelievable.

According to Kullman's team, the tree’s root system has been growing for 9,550 years, placing its start date at the beginning of the last Ice Age. The incredible lifespan is thanks to the plant’s ability to clone itself. As soon as one stem dies, another can take its place. ‘Old Tjikko’ started growing around 7540 B.C.

The ‘Old Tjikko’ has been recognized as the world’s old individual living tree, but the title is a little murky thanks to the cloning process. Pando, a forest in Utah, started with a single quaking Aspen tree that spread into colony of over 40,000 genetically identically stems that share the same roots. It now covers 106 acres and weighs 13 million pounds. Experts say Pando’s genetic makeup could be from 80,000 to one million years old

’As AOL news say, ‘Old Tjikko’ has been growing throughout mankind’s greatest accomplishments and darkest periods, including the invention of wheels, the death of last wooly mammoths, the beginning of the first Chinese dynasty, the birth of Olympic games, the birth of Lord Jesus, the crumbling of Roman Empire, the birth of Prophet Muhammad, the two World Wars, among others.

7 Indians Listed Among 100 Most Influential People By Time Magazine

Washington DC: The Times’ 100 Most Influential People of 2016 list is out and it features seven Indians.

RBI governor Raghuram Rajan, tennis star Sania Mirza, actor Priyanka Chopra, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, environmentalist Sunita Narain and founders of Flipkart, Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal have been named by Time magazine in its list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.

Time’s annual list, released on Thursday, listed the 100 people in five categories – Pioneers, Titans, Artists, Leaders and Icons. The list includes Pioneers like composer Lin Manuel-Miranda, Titans like founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Artists like comedian Mellisa McCarthy, Leaders like IMF head Christine Lagarde and Icons like actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who are “exploring the frontiers of art, science, society, technology and more.”

Narain was listed in the Pioneers category, while Pichai and the Bansal duo were listed in the Titans category. Rajan was listed in the Leaders category. Chopra was listed in the Artist category, whereas Mirza was listed in the Icons category, thereby ensuring that at least one Indian was included in each of the five categories.

Other prominent names included in this year’s list are Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Adele, Usain Bolt, Lewis Hamilton, Nicki Minaj, Karlie Kloss, Denis Mukwege, Ronda Rousey, Christine Lagarde, Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Tsai Ing-Wen, Sean Barry MacFarland, Bernie Sanders, Justin Trudeau, Barack Obama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Hillary Clinton, Queen Maxima, Dwayne Johnson, Lori Robinson, Vladimir Putin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Pope Francis, Gina Rodriguez, Nadia Murad, Caitlyn Jenner, Charlize Theron, Oscar Issac, Ariana Grande, Idris Elba, Kendrick Lamar, Elena Ferrante, among others.

Apart from the seven Indians, several people of Indian origin have also found a spot on the list — Raj Panjabi, Aziz Ansari and Nikki Haley.

At 47, Jennifer Aniston Named World’s Most Beautiful Woman By People Magazine

Washington DC: At 47, actor Jennifer Aniston has been named as the ‘World’s Most Beautiful Woman’ by People Magazine in its 2016 edition of the list.

People’s 100 Most Beautiful People is an annual list of 100 people judged to be the most beautiful individuals in the world. Until 2006, it was the 50 Most Beautiful People. The magazine has been publishing the list since 1990.

Aniston now holds the record of being the second oldest person to top the magazine’s annual list. The oldest person to be ranked number one by People magazine in its 100 Most Beautiful People list is Sandra Bullock, who last year topped the list at the age of 50.

The Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy winning actor said that she has learned to embrace her appearance over the years and insisted that she feels her best when she’s healthy and strong. 

Aniston declared herself “very, very flattered” by the honor. She counts women such as Gloria Steinem, Lauren Hutton and Brigitte Bardot as her beauty icons. She said “It's funny, it’s a really quick transition from not a care and now all of a sudden, we’ve got to really be mindful of what we put inside our bodies.” “And how we sleep and take care of ourselves. You can get away with a lot in your 20s,” she further added.

However, it is not the first time Aniston has topped the list. In 2004, at the age of 35, she was named as the World’s Most Beautiful Woman for the first time. The 2016 list is the second time she earned the tile.

The Friends alum who transitioned to movies — her latest role is in Mother’s Day — got lots of attention in her early years for her trendy haircuts and style, but as she’s gotten older she’s become admired for her healthy lifestyle and age-defying yoga body.

In the list’s 27-year-history, only two men have topped the list — Tom Cruise in 1997 and Leonardo DiCaprio in 1998. Julia Roberts has topped the list the most number of times out of anyone — four times (1991, 2000, 2005 and 2010). She is followed by Aniston and Michelle Pfeiffer, both of whom topped the list twice. Pfeiffer topped the list in 1990 and 1999.

IPL Season 9 - Kolkata Knight Riders Beats Kings XI Punjab By 6 Wickets

Mohali: In the thirteenth League match of 2016 Indian Premier League (IPL), Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Kings XI Punjab by six wickets on Tuesday at the Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali.

Winning the toss, Kolkata Knight Riders elected to field first. Shaun Marsh was Kings XI Punjab’s highest scorer with 56 runs. He was followed by Murali Vijay who scored 26 runs and Kyle Abbott, who scored 12 runs. Marsh and Abbott remained not out. Sunil Narine was Kolkata Knight Riders’ best bowler as he took two wickets off 22 runs from four overs. Morne Morkel also took two wickets off 27 runs from four overs. At the end of 20 overs, Kings XI Punjab scored 138 runs off eight wickets.

In the second innings, Robin Uthappa was Kolkata Knight Riders’ highest scorer with 53 runs. He was followed by Gautam Gambhir with 34 runs. Pardeep Sahu was Kings XI Punjab’s best bowler as he took two wickets off 18 runs from four overs. Axar Patel also took two wickets off 19 runs from four overs Kolkata Knight Riders clinched victory in 17.1 overs when they scored 141 runs off four wickets.

Uthappa was named ‘Player Of The Match’.

Kolkata Knight Riders now stands at six points to be at the top of the leader-board, tied with Gujarat Lions. Kings XI Punjab stands at two points.

Kings XI Punjab will face Sunrisers Hyderabad next on April 23 in Hyderabad, while Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Rising Pune Supergiants on April 24 in Pune.

Reigning champion Mumbai Indians will face Royal Challengers Bangalore today in Mohali.

IPL Season 9 - Sunrisers Hyderabad Beats Mumbai Indians By 7 Wickets

Hyderabad: In the twelfth League match of 2016 Indian Premier League (IPL), Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated reigning champion Mumbai Indians by seven wickets on Sunday at the Rajiv Gandhi International stadium in Hyderabad.

Winning the toss, Sunrisers Hyderabad elected to field first. Ambati Rayudu was Mumbai Indian’s highest scorer with 54 runs. He was followed by Krunal Himashu Pandya who scored 49 runs, falling one run short of half-century. Pandya remained not out. Barinder Balbirsingh Sran was Sunrisers Hyderabad’s best bowler as he took three wickets off 28 runs from four overs. At the end of 20 overs, Mumbai Indians scored 142 runs off six wickets.

In the second innings, David Andrew Warner was Sunrisers Hyderabad’s highest scorer with 90 runs. He remained not out. Tim Southee was Mumbai Indians’ sole saving grace in the bowling department, as he was the only one who managed to take wicket for the team. He took three wickets off 24 runs from four overs. Sunrisers Hyderabad clinched victory in 17.3 overs when they scored 145 runs off three wickets.

Warner was named ‘Player Of The Match’.

Sunrisers Hyderabad now stands at two points, winning their first game of their IPL Career. Mumbai Indians also stands at two points.

Mumbai Indians will face Royal Challengers Bangalore next on April 20 in Mumbai, while Sunrisers Hyderabad will take on fellow new-comer Gujarat Lions on April 21 in Rajkot.

Kings XI Punjab will face Kolkata Knight Riders today at Mohali.

IPL Season 9 - Delhi Daredevils Beats Royal Challengers Bangalore By 7 Wickets

Bangalore: In the eleventh league match of 2016 Indian Premier League (IPL), Delhi Daredevils defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by seven wickets at the M. Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore on Sunday.

Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to field. Virat Kohli was Royal Challenger Bangalore’s highest scorer with 79 runs. He was followed by Abraham Benjamin de Villiers (55 runs) and Shane Robert Watson (33 runs). Mohammed Shami took two wickets for Delhi Daredevils off 34 runs from four overs. At the end of the innings, Royal Challengers Bangalore scored 191 runs off five wickets.

In the second innings, Quinton de Kock scored an incredible century to become Delhi Daredevil’s highest scorer, when he scored 108 runs. He was followed Karun Nair, who scored 54 runs. Nair remained not out. Watson took two wickets for Delhi Daredevils off 26 runs from four overs. It took Delhi Daredevils 19.1 overs to claim victory when they scored 192 runs off three wickets.

Delhi Daredevils now has four points, while Royal Challengers Bangalore stands with two points.

Royal Challengers Bangalore is next going to face reigning champion Mumbai Indians on April 20 in Mumbai, while Delhi Daredevils will take on the reigning champion on April 23 in New Delhi.

Earlier in the day, during the tenth league match of 2016 IPL, Kings XI Punjab defeated Rising Pune Supergiants by six wickets at the Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali. Both the teams currently have two points each.

Mumbai Indians will face Sunrisers Hyderabad today in Hyderabad.

The Story Of ‘Lady Of Harley’ — Veenu Paliwal

In Jaipur, it was a common sight to see Veenu Paliwal riding her Harley Davidson 48 on the roads. Dubbed as the “Lady of Harley” (Dunes Harley-Davidson) and “HOG Rani”, Veenu Paliwal is one of the most well-recognized Indian motor bikers of all time. And she died doing what she loved — riding Harley Davidson.

Born in 1972, Veenu once noted during an interview that her inspiration was her father since childhood, who himself was an “avid biker”. Although she was passionate about bikes, it was only after getting into college when she learned to ride motorcycles from her college friends. However, she herself did not own any motorcycle then.

Veenu was well known for being the only woman biker in Jaipur. She became the first Indian woman to ride a Harley-Davidson bike at 180 km/h. Apart from being a biker, she was an entrepreneur and ran a lounge in Jaipur called “Chai Bar”

She was married, but due to her husband's restriction on her riding, and other issues led to a divorce, she had two children from her marriage, son Shiven Vikram (studying in the USA) and daughter Shivika Vikram (had just completed her twelfth standard), though the children’s custody remained with their father. Veenu's father had retired from the Union Bank of India. She has a sister who lives in USA.

Veenu had clocked 17,000 kms since November 2015 and wanted to cross 50,000 kms in a year. She also wanted to make a documentary on biking. Paliwal wanted to join politics one day and show people that it is not the big bad world it is made out to be.

Veenu died in a road accident on April 12, 2016 during a Harley Davidson sponsored nationwide tour where she had to cover all Harley Davidson dealerships. While en route to Bhopal near Gyaraspur, her bike skidded negotiating an accident-prone curve. She was rushed to a nearby health centre but died soon after due to internal injuries. The autopsy mentioned that her liver had burst. She was cremated in Jaipur on April 14, 2016.

People from all walks of life bid a tearful adieu to 44-year-old Veenu. Everyone from a small kid to a senior citizen thronged the cremation ground.

Actor John Abraham, an avid biker himself, shared two pictures of the noted woman biker on Twitter and said: “My heart goes out to Veenu Paliwal. May her soul RIP. From a fellow biker. Respect.”

Maral Yazarloo and Seema Sharma Dora, members of a group of women bikers called ‘Lady Riders of India’, said Veenu set an example for the women, as well as men, in the country.

Urvashi Patole, the founder of Bikerni and a Royal Enfield Classic 500 rider, said Veenu’s death is an unfortunate incident and women should not be discouraged by the incident and should take up riding to pay homage to her soul. “There are many challenges faced by a woman on a bike. More than the familial tussles, when on roads women bikers are eve-teased, followed, stalked shamelessly by men. The extent goes to even pushing them off their bikes. Moreover, their character is judged, they are subjected to insults, and are also belittled and defamed. The patriarchal society of India and the so-called ‘machoism’ of men gets offended when they see a women biker on the roads,” she said.

In a society like ours, where it is hard for a woman to step out of ‘normal code of conduct’, the example set by Veenu in breaking multiple stereotypes is truly unconventional and inspiring, and her legacy will go on.