Floods in Bihar and Rajasthan: Situation remains critical

As the flood situation in Bihar remains critical, the Army and the Air Force have been requested to stay on alert in case of any fatalities, reported India Today. The death toll in the flood hit state has crossed 90, as reported by Vishva Gujarat.

Two lakh people have reportedly lost their homes in flood ravaged Bihar, as waters from Sone and Ganga rivers breached embankments, reported Vishva Gujarat.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh, on Monday, spoke to chief ministers of four flood-hit states — Bihar, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand — and assured Centre's help in dealing with the disaster.

"I assured the chief ministers of full cooperation from the Centre in the flood mitigation drive launched by the states," an official statement said.

The rising water level of Ganga has affected all the districts situated along the banks of the river in Bihar.

Ganga and five other rivers have been flowing above the danger mark in Patna, Bhagalpur, Khagaria, Katihar, Siwan, Bhojpurand Buxar districts, prompting officials to keep a close watch over the situation.

The Ganga river has been flowing at maximum level (above danger mark) of the season at six places in various parts of three districts- Digha ghat, Gandhi ghat, Hathidah in Patna, Bhagalpur and Kahalgaon in Bhagalpur district and Buxar district, a Disaster Management Department statement said.

Other rivers flowing above danger mark are — River Sone at Koilwar (Bhojpur) River Punpun at Sripalpur (in Patna), while Ghaghra remained in spate at Gangpur-Siswan in Siwan district, Kosi at Baltara and Kursela in Katihar district and Burhi Gandak in Khagaria, it said.

Five teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) had been deployed in Patna on Sunday, while two teams in Vaishali district to step up the relief and rescue operation in their flood-affected riverine areas, the department said.

It was also decided to take the flood-affected people residing in riverine areas to safer places in relief camps where they would be provided food, water, medical facilities.

The Air Force at Gorakhpur has also been asked to be on alert so that it can be used to drop food packets to the affected areas, if needed.

The Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that holidays of all the officers have been cancelled in order to facilitate their deployment in flood affected areas.

All the DMs and SPs of flood affected districts would keep moving in order to assess the ground realities; he said adding that DMs would carry out aerial survey of their respective districts.

Nitish Kumar has also demanded that a team of experts look into the problem of silt in rivers, reported Vishva Gujarat. 

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India Eye on Recapturing No.1 In Test Ranking

On a high in the wake of fixing the arrangement with extensive triumphs, a perky India will expect to finish a 3-0 defeat keeping in mind the end goal to recapture its No 1 Test positioning when they meet a drowsy West Indies in the last Test match of the arrangement, in Port of Spain on Thursday.

Having effectively taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the four-match arrangement after their devastating 237-run win in the third Test, Virat Kohli and his men will intend to go for the slaughter in their offer to dislodge Australia from the post position in the ICC Test rankings list.

However a draw at the Queen's Park Oval would imply that Australia will keep up their top position while Pakistan by ideals of their noteworthy 2-2 draw against England will be the No 2 Test group.

With Skipper Kohli making it clear that he will get a kick out of the chance to have Rohit Sharma at No 5 and elevate himself to No 3, it is improbable that the center batting line-up will have any adjustment in the last Test match.

However with Shikhar Dhawan not having a lot of an execution notwithstanding his 84 in the opening Test, it will enthusiasm to check whether Murali Vijay, who was dropped in the last amusement in spite of being fit makes a rebound in the playing XI. The opener's thumb harm has completely mended, as reported by batting mentor Sanjay Bangar beforehand.

Now of time, Cheteshwar Pujara getting a life saver appears to be impossible.

Indeed, even the five-pronged knocking down some pins assault could experience change. In a long season, where India plays another 13 Tests, the workload for any semblance of Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami should be overseen.

One of them could be managed a breather, with a bouncing back chance given to Umesh Yadav, or even beginner Shardul Thakur could get a look-in, if Kohli is in trial mode.

The champion entertainer in the arrangement for India has been Ravichandran Ashwin, who is currently world No 1 all-rounder in Test according to the official rankings.

Among the batsmen, opener KL Rahul (236 runs) has been entirely reliable with a major hundred and a half-century in the two Tests while Ajinkya Rahane has again indicated why he is such a vital machine gear-piece in the Indian group's wheel with 243 runs that incorporates a ton and a half century.

Captain Kohli istill top run-getter with 251 runs yet it's more to do with the twofold hundred that he scored in the opening Test.

In the event that the Indian group takes the No 1 Test crown, they will must be more merciless, a characteristic not showcased in this arrangement until days four and five in St. Lucia.

West Indies, in the mean time, will seek after some level of change in their play after yet another compliant surrender.

After Roston Chase's hundred in Jamaica, things searched energetic for the hosts especially after they diminished India to 130/5 in the primary innings of the third Test.

They will want to put a rousing exertion however, with trusts at the end of the day pegged on the accomplished couple, Darren Bravo and Marlon Samuels. Any progressions, notwithstanding the devastating misfortune in the past match, look far-fetched.

Teams:

India: Virat Kohli (c), Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), R Ashwin, Amit Mishra, Ravindra Jadeja, Stuart Binny, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohd. Shami, Shardul Thakur, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma.

West Indies: Jason Holder (c), Kraigg Brathwaite, Shai Hope, Darren Bravo, Marlon Samuels, Jermaine Blackwood, Roston Chase, Leon Johnson, Shane Dowrich (wk), Devendra Bishoo, Carlos Brathwaite, Shannon Gabriel, Miguel Cummins, Alzarri Joseph.

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Rio Olympics 2016: Sania, Bopanna Seal Semifinal

RIO DE JANEIRO: Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna repressed Britain's Andy Murray and Heather Watson without breaking a sweat to breeze into the blended copies elimination rounds at the Rio Olympic Games here on Friday.

The fourth seeded Indian pair ruled the quarterfinal challenge, winning 6-4, 6-4 in only 67 minutes.

One more triumph will guarantee India a silver medal and a thrashing in the elimination rounds would allow Sania and Bopanna to battle for the bronze.

India has one and only tennis award in its whole Olympic history that came through Leander Paes, who won a singles bronze at 1996 Atlanta Games.

Murray came into the challenge in the wake of winning his singles quarterfinal that kept going over two hours and was a pale shadow of himself.

The world number two, victor of three Grand Slams and singles protecting Olympic champion, appeared rationing his vitality for the greater fight ahead. His substantial legs and smothered development on the court made the undertaking less demanding for the Indians.

Watson did not resemble a player who won the Wimbledon blended twofold title this year, battling severely with her serve and ground strokes in the opening set.

Sania and Bopanna were a superior group than the Britons, who never represented a risk to the Indians. Bopanna was strong with his blasting serve while Sania played brilliantly from the back of the court.

Bopanna started with a twofold blame and Sania's back to back volley blunders implied that Indians were first to flicker.

In any case, the Indians instantly recovered the break as Watosn dropped serve at adoration. A whirlwind of unforced blunders by the Briton set Indians pleasantly with three chances and Bopanna found a strike champ on the main break point.

Sania spared a breakpoint in the following and held to make it 2-2.

An anxious looking Watson battled with her serve and was again down 0-40. The Indians grabbed the favorable position. Murray neglected to put over a solid forehand come back from Sania, putting the Indians ahead 4-3.

Sania turned out serving strong in the following set as India drove 5-3. Bopanna served out the primary set without whine, hitting two pros.

The British players played better as a group in the second yet the Indians were up for the errand and softened Murray up the fifth for a 3-2 lead.

That lead stayed with the Indians and Bopanna fixed the issue on the third match point with an overhead crush.

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GST WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE BILL PASSES IN PARLIAMENT

The Constitutional Amendment Bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday to present a nationwide merchandise and Services charge (GST), moving the attention on the tax rates.

Under the new framework, the states and the Center will gather indistinguishable rates of assessments on products and services. Case in point, if 18% is the GST rate on a decent the nation over, the states and the Center will get 9% each called the CGST and SGST rates.

The Center will likewise exact and gather the Integrated Goods and Services Tax (IGST) on all between State supply of products and services. The IGST system has been intended to guarantee consistent stream of information assessment credit starting with one state then onto the next.

There has been no understanding yet on rates of different merchandise and administrations, which remains a dubious issue. A week ago state account pastors told the Center that the rate ought to give help to regular nationals and little specialists while not bringing about loss of income to states.

A board under boss financial counsel Arvind Subramanian has suggested an income unbiased rate of 15-15.5%, with a standard rate of 17-18% be collected on most products and all administrations.

An income unbiased rate is a solitary rate at which there will be no income misfortune to the middle and states in the GST regime.

The board has suggested a three-level rate structure wherein some crucial merchandise will be saddled at a lower rate of 12%; purported negative mark merchandise, for example, extravagance autos, circulated air through refreshments, skillet masala and tobacco items at a higher rate of 40%; and every single staying great at a standard rate of 17-18%.

The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) favored a standard rate in the scope of 23-25% if merchandise are saddled at three distinct rates—an extraordinary rate for valuable metals, a lower merit rate for some imperative products and a standard rate that will be relevant to generally merchandise.

It had additionally proposed a GST rate of 18-19% if there should arise an occurrence of a solitary GST rate — that is all merchandise are saddled at the same rate.

The thirteenth Finance Commission headed by previous account secretary Vijay Kelkar had proposed 18% as a conceivable GST rate.

As indicated by the Bill, went in the Lok Sabha in May 2015, the rates were to be chosen by a GST chamber headed by the focal money priest with state fund pastors as individuals.

While GST rate won’t be topped in the Constitution Amendment Bill, the Congress has looked for “lawful ring-fencing” of the rates to protect regular subjects and little organizations from conceivable unfavorable effect from the high circuitous duty rates. States additionally need a procurement to guarantee that their income is not hurt.

The legislature may recommend a roof in the “supplementary” or sub-ordinate enactments that will must be passed after the primary focal law is ordered. These incorporate the state GST law, the focal GST law and the between state GST law.

These are empowering enactments that are important for rolling the new duty framework.

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Kashmir Trouble: Complicit PDP, Clueless BJP

Uncouth taking care of by an improbable and joyfully absent coalition Government has set off a progression of disasters, including the mass migration of minority Hindu tenants of the Valley Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has said that had she known it was Burhan Wani confronting the experience, he would have been saved passing. "How would we think around an experience? What would I be able to say? I trust that had they known he was there, he (Wani) would have been given one chance as the circumstance was quick enhancing in the State," said the Chief Minister.

Could a territory, fighting insurrection for about three decades, manage the cost of such a statement of regret from a CM? The experience occurred on the eighth of July. A decent 20 days after the fact, the CM, who should be the Chief of the Unified Command and doing combating a ridiculous no nonsense Jihad, is yet to compliment the security strengths and their knowledge system, who found the skipping about-the-Facebook radical and killed him. She, rather, permits her senior gathering associates to scrutinize the very credibility of the experience. Two of her MPs went unchallenged in their over the top articulations when Muzaffar Baig called the slaughtering pointless and "additional legal" and Tariq Karra asserted that Kashmiri Muslims were being subjected to a "genocide". And afterward, she herself, names the counter dread operation of the police, SOG and RR consolidated, as some sort of a misstep. This is, the point at which the terrorist killed by them conveyed an abundance on his head. Burhan had not just murdered unarmed non-warriors while focusing on the Sarpanches in any case, had additionally enrolled a few more to join the Jihad to execute the policemen and the troopers. He had likewise cautioned that the Kashmiri Hindus and resigned military's faculty, tried to be housed in unique provinces, will be focused on and shot at.

All these strange articulations from the decision party in Kashmir look like endeavors at currying favors to the separatist estimations and recovering some political ground for themselves after seriously screwing up the whole occasion. Balance the same with the hanging of Afzal Guru. Afzal's hanging was generally expected not at all like the experience of Burhan. A few of Afzal's leniency requests were turned down before he was hanged. This ought to have brought about a consistent develop of madness prompting emission when, post-execution, his body was not gave over to the family. However, none of such unsettling influences happened as were seen post-Burhan experience.

Presently, a crazy strategy of permitting excited funerals has supplanted the time-tried mysterious transfer of the killed terrorists. It was generally seen in the most recent two years that even the anonymous and faceless terrorists, who were not in any case neighborhood Kashmiris, when, had their unidentified and unclaimed bodies conveyed to the nearby mosques for the last customs, frequently pulled in a couple of thousand grievers. Such funerals activated avoidable exhibition as well as produced difficulties to an effectively delicate lawfulness circumstance. Also the negative effect such funerals would leave on the receptive personalities, offering an easy route to wonderfulness and a radiance of affliction.

However, for the sake of "mending touch" and "helpful methodology" this self-causing approach has been sought after. Not just in Kashmir, PDP appears to have sold this toxic suggestion so convincingly to a confused BJP that they have begun rehearsing it somewhere else as well. Keep in mind the staggering open burial service Yaqub Memon was given in Mumbai, after his hanging? Mumbai may require some investment to show comes about yet Kashmir Valley, a veritable tinderbox that it has been for long, was not liable to hold up and watch.

Of the few thousands hospitalized because of the uproars that went with and took after the memorial service, the dominant part contains the security work force. Ladies and kids, unfeelingly utilized as shield by the agitators, regularly endured the worst part of the uproar control measures of the police. Many Hindu Government workers, housed in a few travel camps over the Valley, needed to escape for their lives to Jammu when they got themselves encompassed by unfriendly crowds baying for their blood. Amarnath Yatra stood disturbed and the stranded travelers threatened. Police headquarters were pulverized, arms plundered, vehicles smoldered, open property vandalized and a cop was slaughtered. Drawn out time limit resulted to quiet the circumstance.

All it took was a dumbfounded BJP and a complicit PDP. The most recent emission in Kashmir has not just put a whole security framework on the back-foot additionally directed a steroid-shot to the hailing separatist spirit in Kashmir.

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