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NEW DELHI: Captain Gautam Gambhir's 49-ball 60 led Kolkata Knight Riders to a convincing six-wicket victory against Delhi Daredevils in their IPL encounter at the Feroz Shah Kotla on Monday. 

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Riding on Gambhir's knock, Kolkata chased down the 147-run target in 18.1 overs with Yusuf Pathan remaining unbeaten on 40, a knock that came off 26 balls and was studded with a huge six and six fours. 

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Kolkata were in a spot of bother when they lost Robin Uthappa (13) and Manish Pandey (0) in one over by Domnic Joseph. 

Suryakumar Yadav hit 24 runs before getting dismissed by Nathan Coulter-Nile that brought Pathan to the crease, who added 65 runs for the fourth wicket with Gambhir. 

It was a typical knock from Gambhir as he looked to steer mainly through the third-man region to keep the scorecard moving and amassed a fine fifty. 

The Kolkata captain found an able partner at the other end in Yadav, who muscled a few shots down the ground. 

Yadav's eyes certainly lit up when JP Duminy introduced himself into the attack. He carted Delhi's captain down the ground for a six in the eighth over before perishing to Coulter-Nile. 

Once Yadav was dismissed, Pathan clobbered the bowlers to all corners of the ground to take his team to victory. 

The first woman bus driver in India's capital Delhi has told BBC Hindi that her priority is to ensure the safety of her female passengers.
Vankadarath Saritha, 30, received messages of support from passengers on her first day in the job - but also had to deal with malfunctioning doors.
Her appointment comes at a time of growing public anger about harassment of women on public transport in Delhi.
Officials hope the move will inspire other women to drive as a career.
Some Indian states have had women bus drivers for years, but this is the first time the capital has hired a woman to drive a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus.
Ms Saritha, who has worked as a private chauffeur, took the wheel of bus number 543 accompanied by much public interest, reports BBC Hindi's Indu Pandey.
Passengers seemed happy to see a woman bus driver - many came forward to take a good look at her, while others started taking her photos on their mobile phone cameras, our correspondent says.
Before getting down, some of the passengers called out: "Thank you, madam."
'Image'
But day one was not without its hitches.
Shortly after Ms Saritha set out, the doors developed a snag and would not shut or open properly. Two technicians then responded to her call to fix the problem and the bus resumed its journey soon after.

Ms Saritha, who is from the southern state of Telangana, said she took up driving to support her family.
"We are five sisters. I first learnt to drive an auto rickshaw and then drove a van for a college, before driving a bus."
Now, she says, she intends to help her family with her salary and buy gold ear-rings for herself.
"Having a woman driver will help improve the image of our service," DTC official RS Minhas said. "We had received seven to eight applications and we hired Saritha. Now we will advertise again and hire more women drivers."
Transport services in Delhi have been deemed unsafe in recent years after a 23-year-old student was fatally gang-raped on a bus in Delhi in December 2012.
And a driver from the web-based taxi firm Uber is on trial for raping a female passenger last December. He has pleaded not guilty.
Women-only carriages are provided on trains and metro services in Delhi in an attempt to improve safety and comfort for passengers.

A lot has been written and spoken about Dharma Productions’ next titled ‘Brothers’ starring Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra. The last schedule of the movie’s shoot is over and Akshay took to Twitter to share the news.
Akshay Kumar posted a picture of himself with actress Jacqueline Fernandez playing his love interest in the movie and director Karan Malhotra.


‘Brothers’ is the story of two brothers who are pitted against each other. It is an official remake of the 2011 Hollywood movie ‘Warrior’ which was also the story of two estranged brothers.
Veteran actor Jackie Shroff plays the role of their father, which was originally essayed by Nick Nolte in ‘Warrior.’
‘Brothers is slated to release on August 14.

Akshay Kumar's upcoming action drama Gabbar Is Back is a remake of the original Tamil film Ramanaa directed by superhit director AR Murugadoss.

The film is about a common man who decides to abolish corruption in society. In our country where we believe that corruption is inevitable, rape is no longer rare and laws are easily broken, excerpts from a conversation with the super disciplined Akshay Kumar on his formula of making society crime free - 'Make strict laws with severe punishment, strong enforcement and public display of the effect of breaking it.'

NEW DELHI: The sight of driverless Delhi Metro trains whizzing past stations, crowded and deserted, is all set to become a reality as upgraded new-generation coaches are being introduced on two upcoming lines as part of its Phase-III of expansion.

Apart from "unattended" trains, the 58-km-long Mukundpur- Shiv Vihar corridor and the 34-km-long Janakpuri (West)- Botanical Garden corridors will also have a new-age signalling system.

"The frequency of trains would increase to a much greater level and the gaps between two trains would come down to around 90 seconds due to this Communication-Based Train Control (CTBC) technology," a Metro spokesman said.

An official explained that these trains would be able to accommodate as many as 240 commuters more in six coaches as the cab of the trains is not required in driverless trains.

A total of 68 stations on the upcoming lines would also have Platform Screen Doors for greater safety and to prevent suicide attempts.

"More than 60 per cent work is complete on those lines" an official added.

Asked whether the technology would be implemented on the other upcoming lines of Phase-III, the official said that would not be possible as they are merely extensions of existing lines.

"The technology is being implemented on Line 7 and 8 as the entire lengths of the corridors are being constructed," the official said.

The trains would also be "10 per cent" more energy efficient than the operational ones because of improved design features, including more regeneration of energy during braking and energy efficient subsystems such as LED lighting.

A 31-year-old doctor at AIIMS allegedly committed suicide by slitting her wrist with a sharp-edged object after her husband started mentally torturing her after she learnt that he was actually gay. Failed marriage, breach of trust and hiding of the sexual orientation by her husband forced Priya Vedi to commit suicide in a hotel room in central Delhi's Paharganj locality.

Her body was recovered by a police team from her room, police said. Before taking the extreme step, Priya Vedi, a senior anaesthetist at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here, wrote a note on her Facebook account and also left a suicide note alleging that her husband was gay and he used to torture her.

Priya Vedi's husband Kamal Vedi, 34, a dermatologist at AIIMS, was arrested later on Sunday on the basis of the suicide note. Police said that Priya's husband had filed a missing complaint on Saturday evening when he failed to contact her on her mobile since morning.

"After Priya's missing report, we had launched a man-hunt. It was alleged that she could be hiding near Nabi Karim area in central Delhi," Deputy Commissioner of Police Parmaditya said.
Police said that the couple got married five years ago and since then they were staying in AIIMS staff quarters in south Delhi. Police got the information about Priya Vedi's death during search operation of several hotels in Paharganj.
"Officials broke open the door and found her lying in a pool of blood on the bed, after they failed to get friendly entry inside Priya's room by knocking at the door," a police official privy to investigation said. "She had slit her writs with a sharp-edged weapon and was lying in unconscious condition. She was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared her brought dead," said the official.

The police team also found a suicide note from her possession in which she had mentioned her sour marital status which led to her committing suicide. "She had mentioned about her husband's sexual orientation in her note. She had written that since she got to know about her husband's bisexuality, he used to torture her and harass her for dowry.

"We are investigating the case from all angles and based on the suicide note we have arrested Kamal from his residence at AIIMS quarters in the afternoon. He has been booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code," Parmaditya said. Priya Vedi's latest post on Facebook specifically mentioned that her husband was gay.

"Dr Kamal Vedi, I never wanted anything from you but due to your abnormal sexuality you thought that I need sex from you. But it's wrong. I just wanted to be with you, accepting you and your sexual orientation because I loved you very much but you never knew importance of this. You are a criminal of my life. Dr Kamal's family is innocent but you are a devil," her last message on Facebook read.


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NEW DELHI: For the second day in a row, a man committed suicide by jumping in front of a Metro train. The incident was reported around 12.45pm on Thursday at Nawada Metro station. The deceased was identified as Qadir (20), who was staying with his uncle in Mansaram Park in Uttam Nagar, west Delhi. His parents live in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh. This is the sixth suicide inside a Metro station this year.

NEW DELHI: The body of a four-year-old boy, who had gone missing from his house in east Delhi's Geeta Colony on Wednesday, was found dumped in a gunny bag at an abandoned plot on Thursday.

Police suspect the child was sodomized and then drowned.

The incident came to light when the child, out playing, did not return home. His family started looking for him in the neighbouring areas and lodged a missing report at Geeta Colony Police Station.

His body was recovered from an apartment near Pushta Road on Thursday morning. Sources said that CCTV footage of the area show a man dragging a gunny bag and dumping it in the abandoned plot. The bag was left behind a van. When the van left the place, a shopkeeper noticed the bag. On closer inspection, he saw the child's head protruding out of the gunny bag. Locals informed police about the body.

The parents were called to recognize the body after which it was sent for post-mortem. The parents had received no ransom call.

According to police, there were no injury marks on the body. The child's clothes were wet indicating that he could have been drowned to death in a water tub, sources said.

Sources also say that it is possible that the boy was sodomized. The post-mortem reports are awaited. 

दिल्ली के तुर्कमान गेट हत्या के मामले में पुलिस ने चौथे आरोपी को गिरफ्तार कर लिया. गिरफ्तार आरोपी का नाम सलीमुद्दीन उर्फ सलीम है. आरोप है कि रविवार की रात शाहनवाज की सबसे ज्यादा पिटाई उसी ने की थी. इस केस में अब तक कुल 4 आरोपी गिरफ्तार हो चुके हैं. एक आरोपी फरार है. पुलिस ने उस आई 20 कार को भी बरामद कर लिया है जिसमें वारदात की रात सभी आरोपी सवार थे.
गौरतलब है कि दिल्ली वासी शाहनवाज रविवार रात अपने 2 बच्चों के साथ अपनी बाइक से घर जा रहा था, जैसे ही उसके बाइक तुर्कमान गेट पर पहुंची, उसी दौरान शाहनवाज की बाइक एक आई-20 कार से टकरा गई. आई-20 कार में 3 से 4 लोग सवार थे.

टक्कर के बाद पहले तो बाइक सवार शाहनवाज से कार सवार युवकों की कहासुनी हुई. कहासुनी इतनी बढ़ गई की आई-20 कार सवार युवकों ने शाहनवाज की पिटाई करना शुरू कर दी. शाहनवाज को नजदीक के अस्पताल ले जाया गया, जहां डॉक्टरों ने उसे मृत घोषित कर दिया.

Although I respect the pledge to not litter, I've to say that it is plain superficial. India is not dirty just because people litter. India is dirty because"

1. Lack of public bins - Let's accept that India just doesn't have enough public bins. So most end up throwing on roadsides.

2. Overflowing public bins - Because of (1), whichever public bins are there are overflowing.

3. Underpaid Understaffed cleaning department - Even if you throw only at bins, there's no one to dispose this waste. People who are working are played less, there's human scavenging.

4. No accountability - If the cleaning department isn't working well, due to plain incompetence, the public can do nothing about it

5. Pathetic Waste disposal - At the end all the waste, whether thrown in house bins, public bins or at roadsides, has to be disposed somewhere! You can't just disappear it. Due to lack of disposal facilities the waste keeps getting accumulated as a small hill making the nearby localities UN-livable.