Thiruvananthapuram, Jun 3 (PTI) Defying the Centre’s uniform fishing ban, traditional fishermen affiliated to a state fishermen’s body today put out to sea off Chetuva coastal hamlet in Thrissur district and ventured upto 15 nautical miles for their catch.

Nearly 60 fishermen in six traditional craft set out to sea in protest against the Centre’s decision to impose 61-day fishing ban from June 1 to July 31.

“We went upto 15 nautical miles for fishing operations.

This agitation to press for the rights of traditional fishermen was a success,” Kerala Pradesh Malsya Thozhilali Congress leader T N Prathapan, MLA, told PTI over phone from sea.

The stir was above caste, religion and politics, he said, adding it was an agitation by ‘neglected’ people.

Congress led UDF government in Kerala had opposed the Centre’s ban on fishing activities in the Exclusive Economic Zone for 61 days from June 1 to July 31 and had maintained it would be imposed only for 47-days from June 15 to July 31 as in earlier years.

Yesterday, Fisheries Minister K Babu had made it clear after a top level meeting that Kerala was not for a confrontation with the Centre over the issue and that the ban would be in force for 45 days in coastal areas from June 15.

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy had met Modi at the latter’s residence on May 29 and discussed issues concerning fishermen, two days after Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi slammed the Centre’s decision to extend ban on trawling.

Fishermen in Kerala are protesting the NDA government’s decision to extend trawling ban from 45 to 61 days to protect marine health and certain provisions of the Meenakumari report on deep sea fishing in coastal areas.

Hyderabad, Jun 3 (PTI) The samples of Maggi instant noodles are being tested at a lab here as part of the nationwide exercise over the alleged presence of mono-sodium glutamate (MSG) and lead in their food products.

“We have taken 22 samples from our state. We have sent them for screening. Actual reporting time is two weeks maximum,” K Amarender Reddy, Director of Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM), Telangana, told PTI here.

The samples were lifted on Monday last, he said.

The testing is being done as part of the nationwide drive on the directives from the Central food safety body, Reddy said.

“It is a directive, not from the state government.

Directive from the Central food safety… The directive has gone to all states to lift the samples. We look for those two items, mono-sodium glutamate and lead,” he said.

Andhra Pradesh shares the lab here with Telangana, IPM official for AP government Dr Manjari said.

Raipur, Jun 3 (PTI) A 32-year-old man allegedly killed his two minor daughters by throwing them into a well as he wanted a male child in Balod district of the state, police said today.

The accused Chandradev Kongera has been arrested for the murder of his daughters- Madhuri (9) and Puja (4)- near his native place Fadaradih village under Suregaon police station limits on Monday afternoon, Balod Superintendent of Police Sheikh Arif Hussain told PTI.

“Chandradev, a farmer, was returning along with his two daughters on a bicycle from his in-laws’ village Sareli to Fadaradih on June 1. On his way, he stopped by a field before his native place and pushed the girls into a well there,” Hussain said.

Thereafter, he returned to his village and narrated a false story to the villagers that some persons tried to kidnap his daughters and when he resisted them, they threw the minors into a well, the SP said.

However, the villagers suspected that something was amiss and informed the police.

“When police questioned him, Chandradev broke down and confessed to have killed his daughters,” the SP said.

Bodies of the girls were fished out of the well on Monday night.

During interrogation, the accused revealed that he wanted a son, but his wife refused to go for a third child after two daughters, which prompted him to commit the offence.

“He?wanted to convince his wife for the third?child after the death of their two daughters,” the SP said.

The accused has been booked under IPC section 302 (murder), he said, adding that further probe was on.

On Friday, Sepp Blatter stood before the 209 members of the “Fifa family” that have become his fiefdom and giddily beamed: “Let’s go Fifa! Let’s go!”

Just a few days later, he stood before a sparsely attended, hastily convened press conference in Fifa’s £150m HQ and gloomily announced he would step down, bringing down the curtain on four decades at world football’s scandal-hit governing body and 17 as president.

Less than a week ago, Blatter was touring the meetings of the various confederations in Zurich and appeared supremely confident of victory in an election that he had promised never to contest. On Wednesday morning at 6am, his world came crashing down as Swiss police raided the Baur au Lac hotel.

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Some of those close to him say that privately he was more concerned than he let on as rumours, fed by the networks of private investigators employed by Blatter and his rivals, swirled on the progress of the FBI investigation into alleged money laundering and tax evasion.

It is testament to his record of Machiavellian manoeuvring down the years that even as he delivered his shock resignation, senior figures in world football were starting to speculate on what his masterplan might be and whether he would work to shoehorn a favoured candidate into the role when he is replaced between December 2015 and March next year.

His closest advisers insisted that there was no single silver bullet that precipitated a change in mood from his bullish, predictable attacks on the British media and the US justice system on Saturday to the contrite, diminished figure standing on the dais on Tuesday.

They said that he had simply spent the weekend since a combative post-election press conference, at which he was forced to deny that he handled a $10m (£6.5m) bribe, being told by those closest to him that the walls were closing in and it was time to go.

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In the face of a promise from US investigators that more indictments would follow and reading the scale and magnitude of the case being built up by the FBI and the US justice department, they say he finally listened.

In particular, his daughter Corinne is believed to have encouraged him to stand down.

Nor can he have been unaware of the fact that those closest to him over four decades at Fifa were being picked off one by one.

But something about that picture doesn’t quite ring true. Blatter has long been addicted to the power and prestige afforded him by his job and terrified of life beyond it.

US investigators have been cooperating with Swiss prosecutors for months and Blatter is sure to have been in their sights. He must have felt the noose tightening.

Existing in a bubble of private jets, five-star hotels and the endless, meaningless babble of Fifa – handshakes for peace, Nobel Foundation initiatives, Football for Hope and all – he clung on to power at all costs through a jaw-dropping succession of scandals revealed by dogged investigative reporters.

At times he appeared divorced from the reality of his organisation as the rest of the world sees it and the dark heart of corruption among its most senior figures, so vividly outlined last week in a Brooklyn address by the US attorney general, Loretta Lynch.

When he is not living the life of a head of state, Blatter has been salting away a salary never disclosed but which almost certainly totals more than $10m (£6.5m) a year.

To see the reasons for a dramatic U-turn in keeping with Blatter’s flair for the grand gesture, it is perhaps necessary to understand his desire to retain at least a modicum of control over the organisation he sees as his own.

Darjeeling- Madan Tamang, the chief of the Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League, was hacked to death in Darjeeling on while overseeing preparations of a meeting. When he was asThe CBI has indicted the entire top leadership of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), the ruling party in Darjeeling, for the murder of All India Gorkha League (AIGL) president Madan Tamang. The agency, which has been probing the murder since 2011, filed the final supplementary chargesheet in the case at a Kolkata civil court on Friday. GJM president and chief of Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA),

Bimal Gurung, and Morcha general secretary Roshan Giri — who have been charged with “criminal conspiracy for murder” — are among the nine top leaders named in the charge sheet.

Apart from Gurung and Giri, the chargesheet names GJM women’s wing chief and Gurung’s wife Asha Gurung, GTA chairman Pradip Pradhan, Morcha vice-president Benoy Tamang, MLA Harka Bahadur Chhetri, GTA deputy chief executive Ramesh Alley and Gurung’s two close associates — Dinesh Theeng and Devendra Sharma. Fourteen other Morcha members have also been charged. Significantly, Bimal Gurung, Asha Gurung and Roshan Giri were also named in the FIR lodged by Bharti Tamang — Madan Tamang’s wife after his murder on May 21, 2010. In all, CBI has chargesheeted 51 Morcha members in the case. While top leaders including Bimal Gurung, Roshan Giri, Benoy Tamang, Harkabahadur Chhetri, Pradip Pradhan and Ramesh Alley have been charged under Section 120b (criminal conspiracy), 302 ( murder), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 150 (hiring or conniving at hiring of persons to join unlawful assembly) of the IPC, Asha Gurung and 14 others have been charged for murder, rioting and for being armed with deadly weapon.

Now it is to be seen if the law will take its own course or political influence by GJM will have all the accused go Scot free.

Women now are gearing up or already in professions where they did not venture only a decade aga. Be it in the navy, air force or different engineering professions. But at the same time we have a section of the society where women still cannot dare to wear jeans openly. We even hear responsible politicians commenting on cases eve teasing, molestation or rape that women should not wear jeans or dresses which exposes their body.

In this matter the North East females could set an example to the rest of India to their freedom of speech, liberty to wear what they find suitable and also participating in major family decisions.

In this regard Real News of India was in Darjeeling. KFC restaurant in Darjeeling is a fully women empowered fast food restaurant maybe in the whole of India. From the cash counter to the kitchen staff every single staff is a female. The customers take pleasure in receiving such excellent hospitality surrounded by young ladies.

This should set an example to the rest of India. Cheers to the Darjeeling girls.

Even as police remains clueless about Aruna Shanbaug’s assailant, a local newspaper in Maharashtra claimed to have traced him to a village in Uttar Pradesh where he is working as a labourer and said he cannot recall what happened on that fateful day.

Walmiki, who throttled Aruna with a dog leash rendering her a cripple at the prime of youth, said he cannot recall anything about what had happened on that day. However, he asked the journalist “why are you people calling it as rape”. He claims that someone else raped Shanbaug.

Walmiki says that he and Shanbaug had a fight where he may have hit her, reports The Indian Express. He says that there was bad blood between the two. He claims that Shanbaug would ask only him of all the ward boys to feed the dogs and clean their cages despite his fear of the canines.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, son of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, died on Saturday after battling brain cancer, the vice president said. He was 46.

“The entire Biden family is saddened beyond words,” Vice President Biden said in a statement released by the White House.

“We know that Beau’s spirit will live on in all of us, especially through his brave wife, Hallie, and two remarkable children, Natalie and Hunter,” he said.

Beau Biden had announced last year he planned to run for governor of Delaware in 2016.

He was diagnosed with brain cancer in August 2013 and underwent surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. After getting a “a clean bill of health” in November of that year, his cancer recurred in the spring of 2015, the vice president’s office said.

He sought aggressive treatment and had been hospitalized this month at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center outside Washington. His family was with him when he died.

“Beau embodied my father’s saying that a parent knows success when his child turns out better than he did,” the vice president said. “In the words of the Biden family: Beau Biden was, quite simply, the finest man any of us have ever known.”

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Beau Biden was very close to his father and a familiar presence in his political campaigns.

After eight years as attorney general in Delaware, Beau Biden joined the investor law firm Grant & Eisenhofer in 2015.

He served a year-long tour in Iraq as a member of the Delaware Army National Guard. He suffered a mild stroke in 2010.

President Barack Obama said he and his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, were grieving. He paid warm tribute to Beau Biden, saying he took after his father.

“He studied the law, like his dad, even choosing the same law school. He chased a life of public service, like his dad, serving in Iraq and as Delaware’s Attorney General,” Obama said in a statement.

“Like his dad, Beau was a good, big-hearted, devoutly Catholic and deeply faithful man, who made a difference in the lives of all he touched, and he lives on in their hearts.”

The vice president has not publicly ruled out a run for president in 2016, but he would face tough odds to gain an advantage over his friend, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is far ahead in public opinion polls in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Clinton expressed condolences over Twitter on Saturday.

“My heart is broken for the family of Beau Biden – a wonderful man who served his country with devotion and lived his life with courage,” she wrote.

The vice president has faced family tragedy before.

Shortly after winning election to the U.S. Senate in 1972, his wife Neilia and three children were in a car crash. Neilia and their daughter were killed, while their two sons, Beau and Hunter, were injured.

Biden opted not to move to Washington, choosing instead to make the 2 1/2-hour daily round-trip train commute from Delaware to his Senate job so he could spend more time with his sons. He married Jill Jacobs some five years after his first wife died.

Biden took office as vice president when Obama entered the White House in January 2009. He has a deep knowledge of Washington politics after decades in Congress and a folksy, avuncular style that contrasts with what many consider Obama’s more aloof manner.

Biden regularly mentions his family in speeches and sometimes has his grandchildren accompany him on diplomatic trips abroad.

Mumbai, May 31 (PTI) Around 8.5 crore commuters have travelled by Metro during the past 11 months since beginning of commercial operation on 8 June last year, Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd (MMOPL) said here today.

During the past 11 months since beginning of commercial operation on 8 June, 2014, around 8.5 crore commuters travelled by Metro, which maintained 99 per cent service efficiency in 110,000 trips, an MMOPL, a subsidiary of Reliance Infrastructure, release said.

Meanwhile, MMOPL has tied up with several retailers in a bid to offer a unique shopping experience to its commuters.

The smart card users of Mumbai Metro, would be able to get into a shopping spree on the 11.4 km long metro corridor connecting Versova with Ghatkopar via Andheri from 1 June onwards.

They would be able to enjoy discounts and offers while shopping at several retail outlets along Versova- Andheri-Ghatopar (VAG) corridor just by displaying their smart travel cards at the retail counters, the release said.

New Delhi, May 31 (PTI) Budget carrier GoAir today named Austrian national and former Jet Airways official Wolfgang Prock-Shauer as its new chief executive officer, saying his 34 years of experience in the industry will add immense value to the airline’s business.

The airline also said that its operating revenue has surged by 21 per cent in the previous fiscal on the back of a 13.2 per cent rise in the passengers growth during the period.

Announcing Prock-Shauer’s appointment, GoAir managing director Jeh Wadia said in statement, “We are delighted to have Wolfgang Prock-Schauer on board. With his rich experience of 34 years in the industry, we are confident Wolfgang will add immense value to our business.”

Prock-Shauer would take the place of Giorgio De Roni, who quit GoAir as its chief executive on March 31 due to health reasons after serving the carrier for nearly four years.

His appointment as the new CEO is effective from June 15, the airline said.

This is the second time in last 12 years when Prock- Shauer will be serving an Indian carrier as earlier he worked with another Mumbai-based airline, Jet Airways, as its chief executive, a position which he held till October 15, 2009.

The Wadia Group-owned no-frills airline currently operates over 2,000 weekly flights across 21 domestic destinations with a fleet of 19 Airbus A320 planes.

“We are also pleased to inform that the company has made significant increase in the operating revenue by 21 per cent with EBITDA (earning before interests, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) reporting a substantial improvement of 76 per cent over FY-14,” Wadia said.

He said that the airline also clocked a substantial 13.2 per cent growth in the number of passengers flown in the financial year ended March 31, 2015 over the year-ago period.

Besides, gaining a nearly one per cent market share at 9.3 per cent in FY15 as against 8.5 per cent recorded in the fiscal 2013-14, the seat factor also surged by almost five per cent to 79.2 per cent in FY 15 as compared to 74.3 per cent in FY 14, he said.