War of
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SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY,
MAY 13, 2022
MCI (P) 034/10/2021
THIRUBEN EXPECTS
PERSONAL BEST AT
SEA GAMES
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COUPLE DEMAND
GRANDKID OR
$900,000
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INDIA DENIES
SENDING TROOPS
TO SRI LANKA
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PAKISTANI
SONG CAPTURES
INDIAN HEARTS
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Supreme Court puts controversial
sedition law on hold
India’s Supreme Court has put a con-
troversial colonial-era sedition law,
which critics say is used to stifle
dissent, on hold.
The judges on Wednesday asked the
government to refrain from registering
any new cases which invoked sedition
until it was done with hearing petitions
challenging it.
The court also asked the authorities
to pause all existing sedition trials.
Faulty battery cells, modules likely
caused e-scooter fires
Faulty battery cells and modules have
been identified as the leading cause of
electric scooters catching fire in India
in recent weeks, according to the
findings of an initial investigation by
the Central government.
The probe looked into fire incidents
involving three companies, including
Ola Electric, which is backed by
Japan’s SoftBank Group and was the
country’s top-selling e-scooter maker
in April.
India sells record 1.4 million
tonnes of wheat in April
India exported a record 1.4 million
tonnes of wheat in April, the first
month of the fiscal year, providing
some relief to grain markets as buyers
scramble for alternatives to Black Sea
supplies that have been hit hard by the
Ukraine war.
India, the world’s second-biggest
wheat producer, exported a record
7 million tonnes of the grain in fiscal
2021-22. It exported just 242,857
tonnes of wheat in April 2021.
Former Haryana chief minister, 87,
clears Class 10 and 12 exams
Former Haryana Chief Minister Om
Prakash Chautala has cleared his Class
10 and 12 exams at the age of 87.
He received his mark sheets from
the Haryana examinations board in
Chandigarh on Tuesday.
Last year, Mr Chautala had
appeared for the Class 12 exams but
his result was withheld because he had
not yet passed a Class 10 English
exam.
Uttar Pradesh police chief
removed for ‘neglecting duties’
Uttar Pradesh police chief Mukul Goel
on Wednesday was removed from his
post for allegedly neglecting his duties
and not taking interest in departmental
work.
Mr Goel, who assumed the charge
as the UP Director-General of Police
(DGP) in June 2021, will now be
posted as DG, Civil Defence.
Dead photojournalist wins
second Pulitzer
Among the Pulitzer Prize 2022
winners in Journalism, Books, Drama
and Music announced on Monday is
Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui,
who was posthumously awarded a
Pulitzer for his images of Covid-19’s
toll in India.
The Indian photojournalist was
killed last year while covering a clash
between Afghan special forces and
Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.
Anger after India airline removes
disabled teenager
India’s aviation minister said he was
investigating a domestic airline after it
allegedly refused to let a disabled
teenager board its flight.
The airline’s staff told the teenager’s
parents that he was a risk to other
passengers. The incident sparked
widespread outrage with many calling
out the airline for discriminatory
behaviour.
IndiGo has denied the allegations,
saying it prides itself on being an
inclusive organisation.
Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya
Scindia on Monday promised
“appropriate action”, saying he would
personally investigate the incident.
Jharkhand mining secretary
arrested in money laundering case
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on
Wednesday arrested Jharkhand Mining
Secretary Pooja Singhal in a case of
money laundering.
The case involved the alleged
diversion of Mahatma Gandhi National
Rural Employment Guarantee Act
(MGNREGA) funds during her tenure
as deputy commissioner in Khunti in
2009-2010.
Ms Singhal was produced before a
special court, which sent her to ED
custody for five days.
Xiaomi accuses Indian agency of
‘physical violence’ threats
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi
has alleged its top executives faced
threats of “physical violence” and
coercion during questioning by India’s
financial crime fighting agency.
Officials from the Enforcement
Directorate (ED) warned the
company’s former India managing
director Manu Kumar Jain, chief
financial officer Sameer B.S. Rao and
their families of “dire consequences” if
they did not submit statements as
desired by the agency, Xiaomi’s court
filing dated May 4 stated.
The ED said Xiaomi’s allegations
were “untrue and baseless” and
company executives had deposed
“voluntarily”.
Climber dies on Himalayan peak
Indian climber Narayanan Iyer, 52,
died in Nepal near the summit (at an
altitude of 8,200 metres) of the
world’s third-highest peak
Kanchenjunga, expedition organisers
said last Friday.
“He was slower than others and
we had two guides assist him. He was
very exhausted, couldn’t continue
and collapsed,” Mr Nivesh Karki of
expedition company Pioneer
Adventure told AFP.
Woman dies from cardiac arrest
on way to Everest base camp
A 52-year-old woman doctor from
Mumbai died while trekking to the
base camp of Mount Everest in
Nepal, a family member said on
Sunday.
“Dr Pradnya Samant, a resident of
Goregaon area, died of cardiac arrest.
There was no accident,” he said.
US-returned Chennai couple
murdered by domestic help
A couple in Chennai, who returned
from the United States on May 8,
were murdered the very next day by
their domestic helper.
Police said chartered accountant
Srikanth, 60, and his wife Anuradha,
55, were killed at their residence in
Mylapore and their bodies buried at
their farmhouse on the city’s East
Coast Road.
Domestic helper Lal Krishna, who
committed the crime along with his
friend P. Ravi, was later arrested from
Ongole in Andhra Pradesh.
The police recovered Rs5 crore
worth of jewellery, which belonged to
the couple, from the pair.
Santoor maestro Shivkumar
Sharma dies
Indian classical music legend Shiv
Kumar Sharma died on Tuesday at
the age of 84 after suffering a heart
attack at his residence in Mumbai.
He is credited with converting the
santoor, which was mainly played in
Kashmir, into a major instrument of
Indian classical music.
A gold-coloured chariot washed
ashore at Sunnapalli Sea Harbour in
Andhra Pradesh’s Srikakulam
district on Tuesday amid the impact
of cyclone Asani in the area.
A video tweeted by ANI shows
people dragging the chariot out of
the water and taking it to the shore.
Sub-inspector of Naupada
(Srikakulam district) said the
intelligence department was aware
of it. “It might have come from
another country. We have informed
Intelligence and higher officials.”
Going by the lettering on the
chariot, police suspect it could be of
Myanmar origin. A date,
16-01-2022, is inscribed on it.
The police have taken control of
the chariot, which is made of tin
sheet and has been given a
gold-coloured coating, but the
district authorities are clueless how
it drifted that far.
On Wednesday, the India
Meteorological Department said
Asani has weakened into a “cyclonic
storm” and would soon become a
depression.
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Mr S.R. Prada and his wife.
An Uttarakhand couple have sued
their son and daughter-in-law for Rs5
crore ($900,000) because they have
been married for six years and have
not yet produced a child.
Retired senior Bharat Heavy Electri-
cals Limited officer S.R. Prasad, 61,
and his wife, 57, have taken action
against their Guwahati-based pilot son
and Uttar Pradesh-based working
daughter-in-law on grounds of “mental
harassment” after they “failed to give
them a grandchild, even after six years
of marriage”.
The elderly couple, who live in
Haridwar, have demanded a grand-
child “within a year” or Rs5 crore,
which they claimed they spent on
their son’s “upbringing and educa-
tion”.
According to the couple’s counsel
Arvind Srivastava, the amount also
includes the sum spent on their son’s
wedding at a five-star hotel, a luxury
car worth Rs60 lakh that was given to
him as a gift and the expenses for
their honeymoon abroad.
The petition was admitted by a
court in Haridwar last Saturday and is
listed for hearing on Monday.
“They were married off in 2016 in
hopes of them having children. We
didn’t care about gender, we just
wanted a grandchild,” Mr Prasad told
ANI.
“I have only one son. I spent all my
savings on his upbringing and educa-
tion. I sent him to the United States in
2006 for a pilot training course. I
spent over Rs50 lakh for the same.
“He returned to India in 2007 due
to the economic recession abroad. He
had lost his job and could not find
another one for over two years. I
supported him financially during this
period as well.
“My son got a job at a private
airline as a pilot, after which we
decided to get him married as my wife
is often unwell.
“We finally got him married in
2016 with the hope that we would get
a grandchild to play with in our
retirement age. But six years have
passed and there is no child. We are
facing immense mental harassment.
“We took a loan from bank to
build a house. We’re troubled finan-
cially and personally.
“We have demanded Rs2.5 crore
each from both my son and daughter-
in-law in our petition.”
According to Mr Prasad, their son
and daughter-in-law live in separate
cities because of their jobs. But this is
causing the elderly couple immense
pain.
“We treated out daughter-in-law
like our own daughter,” he told The
Times of India. “Despite that, she
seldom stays with us, adding to our
sufferings.
“We even told her that if she is
worried about taking care of the child
due to her job, she could give the
baby to us so that we could look after
his upbringing.
“We are hardly left with any
money because we spent everything
on our son.”
Mr Srivastava claimed the case was
the “first-of-its-kind in Uttarakhand
and probably the country”.
“From the parents’ point of view,
their demand is justified,” he said.
“Their expectations are not wrong.”
The lawyer declared that the case
“portrays the truth of society”.
“We invest in our children, make
them capable of working in good
firms. Children owe their parents basic
financial care,” he said.
“The parents have demanded either
a grandchild within a year or compen-
sation of Rs5 crores.”
Indo-Asian News Service
No grandkid so couple sue son and wife
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