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Current Affairs - 30 July 2015

Maharashtra Governor Rejects Yakub Memon's Mercy Plea
  • Maharashtra Governor Rejects Yakub Memon's Mercy PleaMUMBAI:  Maharashtra Governor C Vidyasagar Rao today rejected the mercy petition of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon, dashing the last hope he might have had of escaping the gallows.

    Memon's plea has been rejected, Government sources said.

    The Governor's decision on the petition, submitted by Memon on July 21 within hours of the Supreme Court rejecting his curative petition, came immediately after the apex court dismissed his plea seeking stay on his execution slated for tomorrow.

    A TDA court had in April this year set July 30 as the date for hanging Memon at the Nagpur Central Prison, where he is lodged.

    Yesterday, the Supreme Court set up a three-judge bench to decide Yakub's fate after a two-judge bench was split on his plea seeking a stay on his execution.

    On March 12, 1993, 12 coordinated blasts had rocked Bombay, as the city was then known, leaving 257 dead and over 700 injured.

Yakub Memon Will be Woken at 3 am, Say Nagpur Jail Sources
  • Yakub Memon Will be Woken at 3 am, Say Nagpur Jail SourcesNAGPUR:  Yakub Memon, the only person to be sentenced to death for a series of bombings in Mumbai in 1993, will be hanged early on Thursday morning if President Pranab Mukherjee rejects his final plea for mercy.

    The Maharashtra government is preparing for Yakub's hanging at Nagpur Central Jail tomorrow, which happens to be his 54th birthday.

    Sources say Yakub will be woken up at 3 am, and after a bath and health check-up, he will be taken to the hanging yard.

    Since his execution date was decided, there have been regular medical assessments, say sources.

    Yakub's brother Suleiman and cousin Usman are at the Nagpur jail to meet him.

    Responding to media questions on their way to the jail from a hotel in Nagpur, Suleiman said: "I have full faith in the judiciary. I have full faith in almighty. Please leave me."

    The Supreme Court today refused to stop his hanging, rejecting his argument that correct procedure was not followed.

    Yakub was found guilty in 2007 of helping plan and finance the deadly blasts in which 257 people were killed. His brother Tiger Memon, the main accused along with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, has been missing since 1993.

    Of the 11 sentenced to death for the terror attack, Yakub was the only convict not granted mercy.

Indian Guilty of Double Murder to Present Himself in US Court
  • Indian Guilty of Double Murder to Present Himself in US CourtWASHINGTON:  A 29-year-old Indian software engineer, facing death penalty for a double murder, has told a US court that he would present himself during an appeal to the State Supreme Court in Pennsylvania.

    Raghunandan Yandamuri has been found guilty of double murder of 61-year-old Satyavathi Venna and her 10-month-old grand-daughter Saanvi Venna at their apartment in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania in October 2012.
     
    A software engineer on H-1B visa, he killed Satyavathi and her grand-daughter following a failed kidnapping bid.

    After a hearing last week, Montgomery County Judge Steve O'Neill allowed Raghunandan to represent himself, but only after warning about how strict and rigid the procedures of the high court are, local media reported.

    However, the judge has appointed two standby attorneys Stephen Heckman and Henry Hilles, to help Raghunandan, a native of Andhra Pradesh, if needed.

    Raghunandan is facing death sentence by lethal injection.

Donation is About the Receiver's Dignity: Magsaysay Award-Winner Anshu Gupta
  • Donation is About the Receiver's Dignity: Magsaysay Award-Winner Anshu GuptaNEW DELHI:  Founder of NGO Goonj, Anshu Gupta, who has been named for this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award says that social initiatives can succeed only when people are not treated as objects of charity.

    "I come from a middle class family and I understand the sense of dignity.  Why treat people as the subject or object of charity? Donation is not about donor's pride; it's about receiver's dignity," he said, speaking to NDTV.

    The 42-year-old said the recognition will encourage social entrepreneurs to do more to solve India's problems. "I am overwhelmed for sure. This is recognition for the work we do," he said.

    Mr Gupta left his corporate job to start an organisation known as Goonj in 1999. Today it works in 21 states across India for humanitarian aid, disaster relief and community development.

    "We promote the idea of cloth-for-work where people who do work are rewarded with the material. There is a sense of dignity in this. Our initiative is also sort of a parallel economy - not cash based but trash based," Mr Gupta said.

    "There are enough government schemes that need to be implemented. But let us not depend on the government, let's be part of the process and deliver. India doesn't need any more thinkers. We need more 'do-ers'," he added.

    The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation has said that 42-year-old is being recognized for "his creative vision in transforming the culture of giving in India, his enterprising leadership in treating cloth as a sustainable development resource for the poor, and in reminding the world that true giving always respects and preserves human dignity."

    Along with Mr Gupta, whistleblower bureaucrat Sanjiv Chaturvedi, has also been named for the award that recognises Asians for public service, governance, leadership and contribution to arts and literature.

Rajiv Gandhi Killers Will Not Hang, Confirms Supreme Court
  • Rajiv Gandhi Killers Will Not Hang, Confirms Supreme CourtNEW DELHI:  The Supreme Court today confirmed its decision of commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment of three persons convicted of killing former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

    The apex Court dismissed the curative petition filed by the Centre which was seeking a review of the decision in February last year.

    Centre's curative petition said that the victims in the former Prime Minister's assassination case were not heard before commuting their death sentence.

    In February last year, the Court had commuted the death sentence of three persons - Santhan, Murugan and Perarivalan, citing the 11-year delay in deciding their mercy petitions.

    The three convicts are lodged in a Vellore prison. Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21, 1991 in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu.

'Disappointed With PM's Office,' Says Whistleblower and Magsaysay Winner Sanjiv Chaturvedi
  • 'Disappointed With PM's Office,' Says Whistleblower and Magsaysay Winner Sanjiv ChaturvediNEW DELHI:  Whistleblower bureaucrat Sanjiv Chaturvedi, who has won the prestigious Ramon Magasaysay award today, has been out of work for over a year. The award, one of Asia's best-known, honours integrity in governance and public service.

    Mr Chaturvedi was removed as the main officer in charge of checking corruption at the state-run hospital AIIMS after he exposed how top officers and politicians were either on the make or misusing the facilities in Delhi. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has requested him as its Chief Vigilance Officer to combat graft but final clearances from the centre have not yet been issued.

    "I am very disappointed with the functioning of the PMO (Prime Minister's Office). I worked with the policy of zero tolerance as espoused by the PM, took this message to heart and took considerable personal risks to break corruption in AIIMS," Mr Chaturvedi. He added that it was "Only because of an independent judiciary that I was able to survive."

    The Indian Forest Service officer is still attached to AIIMS but has not been given any work.  It is up to the union health ministry now to clear his assignment with Mr Kejriwal's government.  The Delhi Chief Minister won the Magasaysay award in 2006.

    Mr Chaturvedi also had run-ins with the previous Congress government in Haryana headed by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda after he took up cases of corruption in projects involving officials and ministers.

    Along with Mr Chaturvedi, the founder of NGO Goonj, Anshu Gupta, has also been named as a recipient of this year's Magasaysay award.

Turkey Launches Heaviest Air Strikes on PKK Since Campaign Began: Official
  • Turkey Launches Heaviest Air Strikes on PKK Since Campaign Began: OfficialISTANBUL:  Turkish fighter jets launched their heaviest assault on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq overnight since air strikes began last week, a government official said, hours after President Tayyip Erdogan said a peace process had become impossible.
    The F-16 jets hit six targets in Iraq and were scrambled from an air base in Turkey's southeastern province of Diyarbakir, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the operations.
    "Last night's attack was the biggest assault since the campaign began last week," he said.
    Turkey began bombing PKK camps in northern Iraq last Friday in what government officials have said was a response to a series of killings of police officers and soldiers blamed on the Kurdish militant group.
    On Tuesday, fighter jets also bombed PKK targets in the southeastern Turkish province of Sirnak, bordering Iraq, after an attack on a group of gendarmes.
    The PKK has said the air strikes, launched virtually in parallel with Turkish strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria, rendered the peace process meaningless. But it has stopped short of formally pulling out.
    Erdogan, however, said on Tuesday that the peace process had become impossible and urged parliament to strip politicians with links to the militants of immunity from prosecution, a move aimed squarely at the pro-Kurdish opposition.
    Parliament is due to discuss the military operations in Iraq and Syria, as well as Erdogan's call for the lifting of immunity, in a closed session later on Wednesday.
    Erdogan initiated negotiations in 2012 to try to end a PKK insurgency, largely fought in the predominantly-Kurdish southeast, that has killed 40,000 people since 1984. A fragile ceasefire had been holding since March 2013.
    Western allies have said they recognise Turkey's right to self-defence but have urged the NATO member not to allow peace efforts with the PKK to collapse.
    While deeming the PKK a terrorist organisation, Washington depends heavily on allied Syrian Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State in Syria.

Afghanistan Investigating Reports of Taliban Leader's Death
  • Afghanistan Investigating Reports of Taliban Leader's DeathKABUL:  Afghanistan said on Wednesday it was investigating reports that Mullah Omar, leader of the militant Taliban movement behind an escalating insurgency, was dead.

    The elusive Omar has not been seen in public since fleeing when the Taliban was toppled from power by a U.S.-led coalition in 2001, and there has been speculation for years among militant circles that he was either incapacitated or had died.

    "We are aware of the reports of the passing of Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader," Sayed Zafar Hashemi, a spokesman for President Ashraf Ghani, told reporters.
    "We are still in the process of verifying those reports, and as soon as we get any more accurate information or identification ... we will let the media and the people of Afghanistan know about it."

    The comments came as preparations were under way for the next round of peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban, provisionally planned for Thursday or Friday in a location yet to be confirmed.

    Renewed uncertainty over Omar's fate could deepen divisions within the movement as rival commanders position to succeed him, in a possible setback for the fledgling peace process.

    The Taliban is already split between senior figures who support talks with Kabul to end the 13-year war and others who want to continue to fight for power.

    A senior Afghan Taliban commander based in neighbouring Pakistan said Omar had died of natural causes, although he did not specify when.

    "We are at a crossroads, and it will take some time to resolve this (leadership) issue," the militant said.

    He added that a group within the Taliban wanted one of Omar's sons to take over, while another favoured the promotion of political leader Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, who has been among those who support peace talks.

    A written message purportedly from Omar released earlier in July indicated he also approved of dialogue, but there was no way of independently confirming that the document was genuine.

    A senior official from the Pakistani military, which historically has close ties to the Afghan Taliban and other Islamist militant groups in the region, said he could not confirm Omar's death.

    "It is worth asking why this news has come out now, when we are two days away from the second round of peace talks," said the official, who was not authorised to speak to the press.

    "Especially in light of reports that he died two years ago ... why is this news being released now? It raises questions about the intentions of people who don't want talks to go forward."

    Ghani is keen to broker a settlement with the insurgents, who have been gaining territory in pockets of the country and intensifying attacks on military and political targets.

    Thousands of civilians and security personnel are killed each year in the violence, which has worsened since NATO withdrew most of its forces from the country at the end of last year.

Fortune – Forbes – World – Asia-pacific – Britain 2015
    • World Billioniers list 2015 tops – CHINA
    • FORBES 50 power full women list – india women 6 people
    • Arundhati bahattchary(SBI)
    • CHANDA KOCHAR(ICICI)
    • AKHILA SRINIVASAN (SHRIRAM CAPITAL)
    • Kiran mazumdar shah(biocoin)
    • Shikashama(AXIS)
    • Ushasnagwan(LIC)
    • FORBES most powerful person – 2015 — Modi- 15
    • FORBES -Bussiness person of year 2014 – LARRY PAGE
    • FORTUNE -500 india biggest country — IOC
    Fortune Magazine’s 40 under 40– 2014
    1. Travis Kalanick-Uber
    2. Brian Chesky–Airbnb
    3. Mark Zuckerberg–Facebook
    #Wealth-X list-2015 under 40 age billioners
    Top__Arun Pudur (INDIA)– cel frame
     # FORTUNE_The 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials in 2015 Top-5
    1. Power home remodelling group
    2. David weekly homes
    3. Allied wallet
    4. Pinnacle finance partner
    5. Acuity
     #Fortune 500 companies _ 2015
    1. Wall mart
    2. Exxon mobile
    3. Chevron
    4. Bershire hathway
    5. Apple
    #FORTUNE WORLD’S GREATEST LEADERS-2015
    1. TIM COOK
    2. MARIO DRAGHI
    3. XIJIPING
    4. POPE FRANCIS
    5. NARENDRA MODI
    # FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For.*Top -5
    1. Google
    2. The boston consulting group
    3. ACUITY
    4. SAS instutite
    5. Robert.w.baird
    Top countries with number of Forbes Global 2000 companies in 2015
    Rank– country– no of companies — TOP company
    1. United States   579         Berkshire Hathaway
    2. China               232         ICBC
    3. Japan               218        Toyota Motor
    4. UK                   94           HSBC
    5. South Korea     66           Samsung Electronics
    6. France             61           AXA
    7. India               56            Reliance Industries
    8. Canada           52            Royal Bank of Canada
    9. Taiwan           47            Hon Hai Precision
    10. Germany        45            Volkswagen Group
    #FORTUNE – MISCELLENOUS
    • Forbes Global 2000 companies in 2015–USA
    • FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For– GOOGLE
    • FORTUNE WORLD’S GREATEST LEADERS-2015–TIM COOK
    • FORTUNE Worlds Billonier list 2015 tops –CHINA
    • Fortune 500 companies _ 2015–wall mart
    • FORTUNE_The 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials in 2015_ power home remodelling group
    • Fortune Magazine’s 40 under 40– 2015 __Travis Kalanick-Uber
    #FORBES – MISCELLENOUS
    • Richest person on the planet_2015– BILL GATES
    • Richest Women In The World 2015–Christy Walton(WALMART)
    • The World’s Richest BILLIONIER 2015 — BILL GATES
    • The World’s Youngest Billionaires under 40–2015 —Evan Spiegel & Bobby Murphy–Snapchat cofounders
    • The World’s Highest-Paid Superstars Of 2015–Floyd Mayweather
    • FORBES ASIA RICHEST PERSON -2015 —Wang Jianlin, chairman of the Dalian Wanda Group
    • The World’s Highest-Paid Athletes– 2015 —Floyd Mayweather
    • Asia’s 50 Power Businesswomen–2015–Lucy Peng(ALIBABA)
    • FORBES india rich list 2015  — Dilip sangavi
    • Top 20 Richest Indian Celebrity in 2015–salman khan
    TIMES
    • Richest woman in Britain 2015–Kirsty Bertarelli 
    • TIMES–Britain richest sportsperson 2015 —Lewis hamilton
    • Wealth-X list-2015 under 40 age billioners–Arun Pudur (INDIA)– cel frame
    • luxury publishing group Huran Report– world rischest countries –USA,CHINA,INDIA
    Most 5 influential medicine makers 2015
    1. ANTHONY FACUI–USA
    2. KIRAN AMZUMDAR SHAH-INDIA
    3. SIR ANDREW WITTY–UK
    4. ARTHUR D.LEWISON–USA
    5. HEATHER BRESCH–USA
    The top 10 most expensive cities in 2015 by WEALTH -X REPORT
    1. Luanda, Angola
    2. Hong Kong
    3. Zurich, Switzerland
    4. Singapore
    5. Geneva, Switzerland
    6. Shanghai, China
    7. Beijing, China
    8. Seoul, South Korea
    9. Bern, Switzerland
    10. N’Djamena, Chad
    Least expensive cities in 2015
    1. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
    2. Windhoek, Namibia
    3. Karachi, Pakistan
    4. Tunis, Tunisia
    5. Skopje, Macedonia
    6. Banjul, Gambia
    7. Minsk, Belarus
    8. Cape Town, South Africa
    9. Managua, Nicaragua
    10. Tbilisi, Georgia


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