Fans breathe a sigh of relief as Salman Khan returns home

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April 7, 2018

Mumbai, Apr 8: Amidst distribution of sweets, bursting of fire-crackers, cheers and whistling by hundreds of fans, actor Salman Khan returned to his Mumbai home in Mumbai on Saturday evening.

Salman, 52, tensed but smiling, gave a flying kiss to his fans from the balcony of the Galaxy Apartments at Bandra in Mumbai. 

The actor reached Mumbai from Jodhpur by a chartered aircraft. 

Khan, accompanied by bodyguard, Shera, landed at the General Aviation Terminal of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai and drove straight to his home.

His cavalcade had a difficult time entering his building compound as it was surrounded by hundreds of fans. As soon Salman was spotted in his balcony, hundreds of flashlights from smartphones lit up the area. 

Bhai, as he is popularly known, was accompanied by his father Salim Khan, mother Sushila Charak, Shera, other family members, sister Alvira and Arpita and a nephew. He waved to his fans who kept cheering and then signalled that he wants to catch up on some sleep and also requested them to go back homes. 

"We are very happy that Salman has got bail. Salim Khan saab and his family had got a big relief. We would also like to thank the judiciary for granting him bail," said filmmaker Ashoke Pandit, the convenor of The Indian Film and Television Directors' Association (IFTDA).
 

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Salman Khan released from jail after getting bail in poaching case

Jodhpur, Apr 7: Bollywood actor Salman Khan was granted bail by the District and Sessions Court of Jodhpur on Saturday in connection with -decades-old blackbuck poaching case.

The actor was told to file a personal bail bond for Rs. 50,000 and produce a Rs. 25,000 surety from two persons each who will guarantee that he will comply with all bail conditions.

When the judge Ravindra Kumar Joshi pronounced the decision, Khan's both the sisters, Arpita and Alvira along with his bodyguard Shera were present in the court. Both his sisters looked relieved and left the court in a happy mood. 

Court has also directed him to appear in person on May 7 in the appellate court for hearing on his appeal against conviction and sentence. In addition, the court added a condition that Khan cannot leave the country without the court's permission.

Soon after his bail was ordered fans gathered outside the court. They cheered and raised slogans in his support, with some shouting "Apna Tiger bahar aagaya", "Sab se best Bajrangi Bhaijan".

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan who was convicted in a 1998 blackbuck poaching case, was sentenced to five years in prison and was fined Rs 10,000 on Thursday. He was sent to Jodhpur Central Jail and was given the tag of “Qaidi no 106”.

Khan wears a cap to avoid eye contact:

Dressed in a dark black t-shirt and dark blue jeans, Salman Khan who spent 48 hours in the jail walked outside at around 5:30 PM. Khan who looked happy dis not prefer to have any contact with the media and public waiting outside the jail. He wore a cap and was escorted by Shera and straightaway left for Jodhpur airport where his charter flight was waiting to fly to Mumbai. His sisters and lawyers also reached Jodhpur airport and boarded the same flight.

Arguments before the court: Defense Vs Prosecution 

Earlier in the day on Saturday morning, both the defence counsel and the public prosecutor completed their arguments. The prosecution talked about the credibility of the witnesses and post-mortem report which said that the blackbucks had gunshot wounds. However, Salman's lawyers argued that only the bones of the animals were sent for evaluation when their skins. 

Defence counsel asked for bail on grounds that the witnesses against him weren't reliable and assured that Khan would not misuse his liberty if granted bail."In past 20 years, Salman has never misused of being a popular film star. Every time he was present in the court, despite his busy schedule" Mahesh Bora told the court.

Whereas Public Prosecutor Pokar Ram opposed the defence’s arguments and said that Salman should not get the bail as this case is powerful than the previous one. He argued on the basis of DNA test and forensic report on the basis on which he was found guilty by the trial court. "Forensic report shows the gunshots and his fingerprints match", Pokar Ram told the court.

The judge who gave bail to Salman was transferred previous night:

Incidentally, Sessions judge who granted bail to actor Salman Khan was transferred late on Friday night. The news created suspense over the continuation of proceedings but the judge District and Sessions Judge (Jodhpur Rural) Ravindra Kumar Joshi heard the bail plea. 

Joshi was among the 87 District Judges shifted by the Rajasthan High Court on Friday late night. He has been transferred to Sirohi. Stating it as a routine practice the judge said, "Every year transfers in the judiciary take place in the month of April or March. And we are given a time of 7 days to join the new posting and we are allowed to take up those matters which are urgent like Khan's bail".

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January 29,2020

Aurangabad, Jan 29: Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah of creating a conflict between Hindu and Muslim communities in the country, former JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar has said the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) was adding fuel to the fire.

He was speaking at a rally held on Tuesday at Pathri in Parbhani district of Maharashtra against the CAA and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). It was organised by NCP MLC Abdullah Durrani.

"Modi and Shah used to create conflicts between Hindus and Muslims during the Gujarat elections. Now they are adopting the same strategy in the country," Kumar alleged.

Citizens should keep the religious conflicts aside and question the present government about unemployment and the poor state of the economy, he said.

"Through the CAA, the government is adding fuel to the fire, which is already raging in the country," he alleged.

When anyone questions the government about the problems existing in the country, it in turn asks him about his citizenship, the former JNUSU leader alleged.

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February 17,2020

Feb 17: Chinese authorities on Monday reported a slight upturn in new virus cases and 105 more deaths for a total of 1,770 since the outbreak began two months ago.

The 2,048 new cases followed three days of declines but was up by just 39 cases from the previous day’s figure. Another 10,844 people have recovered from COVID-19, a disease caused by the new coronavirus, and have been discharged from hospitals, according to Monday’s figures.

The update followed the publication late Saturday in China’s official media of a recent speech by President Xi Jinping in which he indicated for the first time that he had led the response to the outbreak from early in the crisis. While the reports were an apparent attempt to demonstrate the Communist Party leadership acted decisively from the start, it also opened Xi up to criticism over why the public was not alerted sooner.

In his speech, Xi said he gave instructions on fighting the virus on Jan. 7 and ordered the shutdown of the most-affected cities that began on Jan. 23.

The disclosure of his speech indicates top leaders knew about the outbreak’s potential severity at least two weeks before such dangers were made known to the public. It was not until late January that officials said the virus can spread between humans and public alarm began to rise.

New cases in other countries are raising growing concerns about containment of the virus.

Taiwan on Sunday reported its first death from COVID-19, the fifth fatality outside of mainland China. Taiwan’s Central News Agency, citing health minister Chen Shih-chung, said the man who died was in his 60s and had not traveled overseas recently and had no known contact with virus patients.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe convened an experts meeting to discuss containment measures in his country, where more than a dozen cases have emerged in the past few days without any obvious link to China.

“The situation surrounding this virus is changing by the minute,” Abe said.

Japanese Health Minister Katsunobu Kato said the country is “entering into a phase that is different from before,” requiring new steps to stop the spread of the virus.

Japan now has 413 confirmed cases, including 355 from a quarantined cruise ship, and one death from the virus. Its total is the highest number of cases among about two dozen countries outside of China where the illness has spread.

Hundreds of Americans from the cruise ship took charter flights home, as Japan announced another 70 infections had been confirmed on the Diamond Princess. Canada, Hong Kong and Italy were planning similar flights.

The 300 or so Americans flying on U.S.-government chartered aircraft back to the U.S. will face another 14-day quarantine at Travis Air Force Base in California and Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. The U.S. Embassy said the departure was offered because people on the ship were at a high risk of exposure to the virus. People with symptoms were banned from the flights.

About 255 Canadians and 330 Hong Kong residents are on board the ship or undergoing treatment in Japanese hospitals. There are also 35 Italians, of which 25 are crew members, including the captain.

In China’s Hubei province, where the outbreak began in December, all vehicle traffic will be banned in another containment measure. It expands a vehicle ban in the provincial capital, Wuhan, where public transportation, trains and planes have been halted for weeks.

Exceptions were being made for vehicles involved in epidemic prevention and transporting daily necessities.

Hubei has built new hospitals with thousands of patient beds and China has sent thousands of military medical personnel to staff the new facilities and help the overburdened health care system.

Last Thursday, Hubei changed how it recognized COVID-19 cases, accepting a doctor’s diagnosis rather than waiting for confirmed laboratory test results, in order to treat patients faster. The tally spiked by more than 15,000 cases under the new method.

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March 10,2020

Mar 10: Indian energy tycoon Mukesh Ambani is no longer Asia’s richest man, relinquishing the title to Jack Ma after oil prices collapsed along with global stocks.

The rout, exacerbated by mounting fears that the spread of the novel coronavirus will thrust the world into a recession, erased $5.8 billion from Ambani’s net worth on Monday and pushed him to No. 2 on the list of Asia’s richest people, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Ma, the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. founder who relinquished the No. 1 ranking in mid-2018, is back on top with a $44.5 billion fortune, about $2.6 billion more than Ambani.

Oil plunged the most in 29 years on Monday as Saudi Arabia and Russia vowed to pump more in a struggle for market share. The slump comes just as the coronavirus is spurring the first decline in demand in more than a decade. That raises questions about whether Ambani’s flagship Reliance Industries Ltd. will be able to cut net debt to zero by early 2021, as he has pledged. The plan hinges on a proposal to sell a stake in the group’s oil and petrochemicals division to Saudi Arabian Oil Co., the world’s biggest crude producer.

While the coronavirus has curtailed some of tech giant Alibaba’s businesses, the damage has been mitigated by increased demand for its cloud computing services and mobile apps.

Reliance Industries, by comparison, has no such silver lining. The Indian conglomerate’s shares plunged 12% on Monday, the most since 2009, extending this year’s decline to 26%. Alibaba’s American depositary receipts have slipped 6.8% so far in 2020.

Ma reclaims crown after Reliance shares were pummeled in 2020.

Few of the world’s billionaires fared well in Monday’s collapse as the S&P 500 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average each plunged more than 7.5%, the most since the 2008 financial crisis, threatening to end the longest bull market in history. But no one did worse than those whose fortunes are underpinned by oil. Wildcatter Harold Hamm’s fortune was cut almost in half to $2.4 billion and fellow oil magnate Jeff Hildebrand lost $3 billion, bumping both from Bloomberg’s 500-member wealth ranking.

In a pivot toward new businesses such as telecommunications, technology and retail, Ambani’s Reliance Industries has piled on billions of dollars of debt over the years.

It spent almost $50 billion -- most of it funded by borrowings -- to build Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd., which became India’s No. 1 wireless carrier within about three years of its debut. As the mobile venture took off, Ambani also unveiled plans for an e-commerce empire to rival Amazon.com Inc. in India.

Addressing concerns over the liabilities, Ambani pledged in August to cut the group’s net debt to zero from about $21 billion as of last March. The Aramco deal is crucial to that plan for which Reliance Industries has valued its oil-to-chemicals division at $75 billion including debt, implying a $15 billion valuation for the 20% stake that’s for sale.

Signs of a potential delay to that deal unnerved some investors, hammering the stock since it touched a record high on Dec. 19.

Reliance Industries expected the Aramco transaction to be completed by March, but people familiar with the matter said in February that talks were still ongoing to bridge differences between the two parties over the deal’s structure.

Adding to the uncertainty, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration has petitioned a court to halt the proposed stake sale, threatening a key source of funds needed to pare net debt.

But Ambani, 62, may soon bounce back from the setback, said Harish H.V., managing partner at ECube Investment Advisors in Bengaluru, India.

“The game isn’t over,” he said. “Ambani has successfully built a robust business model which would keep him in the game. Moreover, his telecom business will start yielding results in coming years.”

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SmR
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Tuesday, 10 Mar 2020

The curses of the bank depositors savings which vanished with collapsing economy and fraudlent seems to have gradully affecting riches of Ambani's.

 

AU
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Tuesday, 10 Mar 2020

in Holy Quran Allah says; but they plan and Allah plans, and Allah is the best planners..(Surah Al Anfal 8:30)

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