Daily News (In Short)-25-May-2015

#* Tight security in place for PM’s Mathura rally today
Farah (Mathura): Thousands of policemen and paramilitary jawans from Agra, Jhansi and Allahabad zones will guard the much-hyped 'Jan Kalyan' rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be held in Farah block of Mathura district on Monday. Senior cops were seen busy holding review meetings till late on Sunday evening while hundreds of BJP workers were making last-minute preparations at the venue. Touted to be the biggest public meeting since Independence, this will be the first of a series of rallies being organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party across the country during the week-long celebrations of the completion of a year of their government at the Centre.The selection of the venue in Mathura has been made keeping in mind the fact that Nagla Chandrabhan village is the birthplace of Pt Deendayal Upadhyay, one of the founders of Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the forerunner of the present-day BJP. Modi will be the second BJP PM to visit the place after Atal Bihari Vajpayee. 

#* Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, his minister to hold public meeting to mark AAP govt's 100 days, to attack Centre
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his ministers will hold a public meeting here on Monday to mark 100 days of the AAP government amid a row with the central government over a notification giving Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung all powers over transfers and posting of officials.At a meeting of its legislators on Sunday, the Aam Aadmi Party described the home ministry notification of Thursday as "unconstitutional", and the government has decided to call a special assembly session May 26-27 to discuss the central order.AAP leader and former minister Saurabh Bhardwaj told mediapersons after the meeting that the central government was "shadow-boxing"."The notification that the central government has brought is not only unconstitutional, but it is against the basic principles of democracy," he said.The meeting was attended by Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia.Added another AAP legislator Alka Lamba: "If the chief minister doesn't have a right to appoint and suspend officials, then how is an elected government of Delhi supposed to fight corrupt officials?" "After discussion (in the assembly), if needed, we will go to the court," she said.

#* IPL 8 final: Chennai Super Kings lost because they are stuck in the past
If the 2015 IPL final between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings were a boxing match, the referee would have called off the fight after the first round itself. CSK were left reeling from the assault in the Powerplay by Rohit Sharma and Lendl Simmons that the game was over well before Mumbai were even done playing their quota of twenty overs.
It was Chennai's 6th appearance in an IPL final and Mumbai's third. Chennai had the experience, and the reputation of coming through in crunch games. However, Mumbai were the form team, winning nine out of 11 games, steeled by playing an entire month of do-or-die matches. When MS Dhoni decided to field after winning the toss, a big 'no no' in finals especially with CSK's batting line up low on confidence, MI tore CSK's reputation to shreds.
BCCIChennai had the experience, and the reputation of coming through in crunch games. However, Mumbai were the form team. BCCI. The confidence in the Mumbai ranks must have been so high that their skipper launched in to Mohit Sharma in only the second over of the innings even after losing the steady Parthiv Patel early in the piece. Sixteen runs flowed from the blade of Rohit Sharma. The CSK levee was breached early and washed away in the run deluge. Twenty overs and two hundred and two runs later, Chennai were left gasping for breath on the mat, bruised and battered.

#* John Nash: A genius who lived a life of great struggle and even greater success
Trenton, New Jersey: Born to an electrical engineer, and later a precocious and dashing young man who attained an Ivy League education, John Nash seemed destined for a life of stunning success. That he achieved, winning a Nobel Prize in 1994, but not without a struggle with mental illness that would make him a household name even more so than his achievements in mathematics. Nash had read the classic "Men of Mathematics" by ET Bell by the time he was in high school. He planned to follow in his father's footsteps and studied for three years at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh — now Carnegie Mellon University — but instead followed his passion for math.He then went to Princeton, where he worked on his equilibrium theory and, in 1950, received his doctorate with a dissertation on non-cooperative games. The thesis contained the definition and properties of what would later be called the Nash equilibrium.

#* For 10.3 lakh anxious students, CBSE Class 12 exam results today
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is set to declare the class 12 results on Monday.The much awaited results, for which 10.29 lakh students have appeared, are likely to be declared at around 12 noon.Students can get their results at www.results.nic.in, www.cbseresults.nic.in, www.cbse.nic.in and also through SMS and Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS).All details are available on the CBSE website, cbse.nic.in.The total number of candidates that appeared for the exam this year is 10,29,874.Out of these, the total number of boys are 6,03,064 and the total number of girls are 4,26,810.There has been an increase of 9.32 % in the total number of students that appeared for the examination as compared to last year.The board has advised schools under the Delhi region to collect the results from the office of the respective zonal office of deputy director of education after the declaration of the results.The board will also start the process of verification on its website shortly after the declaration of results.Officials said the results of CBSE’s class 10 examination would also be announced in a couple of days.The board, in its statement, added that post-result counselling would begin from Monday and continue till June 8, for which it has provided a toll-free number.

#* 11 killed, 20 injured in bus accident on Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway
At least 11 people, including five-year-old were killed and 20 others injured after a mini-bus going towards Surat crashed into a luxury bus on early Monday morning.The accident took place on Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, at Acchad village of Palghar district.Reports suggest that the bus driver of the minibus fell asleep at the wheel and caused the crash.Injured people have been admitted in the nearby Talasari hospital, while some have been shifted to Vapi and Silvassa. According to reports, 10 bodies - six males and four females, have been taken to Talasari Rural Hospital.

#* US Capitol Police destroy pressure cooker in a 'suspicious' vehicle near National Mall
Washington: Averting a possible bomb explosion, the US Capitol Police on Sunday evening destroyed a pressure cooker that was found in a suspicious vehicle parked on a National Mall street, reports said Monday.The police on a routine patrol spotted the unattended vehicle and found a pressure cooker along with an odour of gasoline, US Capitol Police spokeswoman Lt. Kimberly A. Schneider told a news agency.The police called the bomb squad immediately and destroyed the suspicious pressure cooker, she added.The owner of the vehicle was later arrested.The police added that the bomb squad - Hazardous Devices Section destroyed "items of concern in the vehicle including the pressure cooker" at about 7:45 pm after temporarily closing off the area on the busy Memorial Day holiday weekend.She did not immediately identify the other items but said only that "this safe disruption produced a loud 'bang.

#* Kingfisher default: It is tax-payer who is feeling hopeless when Mallya has last laugh
Bankers to Vijay Mallya’s grounded Kingfisher Airlines have nearly conceded unconditional surrender in their attempts to recover money from the airline. Mallya, once the King of Good Times, has thus made a clutch of 17 banks, lead by State Bank of India (SBI), the ‘subjects of bad times’. Kingfisher owes about Rs 7,000 crore to banks.
The chairman of United Bank of India, one of the lenders in the consortium, said last week that he had no hope left to recover any significant money from Mallya. This is not how a banker typically speaks, especially when such big money is at stake.
“Now, nothing is happening on the Kingfisher account and we are not getting any amount. We may ultimately get a few more crores by selling that building (Kingfisher House in Mumbai) and other collaterals," UBI managing director and CEO P Srinivas was quoted in reports as saying.In reality, it is not the banks but the common tax payer, who should feel hopeless and cheated.
By managing to persuade banks, mainly state-run ones, to lend thousands of crores, getting the loans restructured, spending the funds elsewhere and finally showing his empty hands and even dragging the same lenders to the court, Mallya has had the last laugh.

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