RANCHI: India’s Yusuf Pathan on Wednesday became the first batsman in the Twenty20 history, and sixth overall, to be ruled out for obstructing the field.
Test cricket has seen only one batsman, Briton Len Hutton, getting out in that fashion while four players so far have been ruled out in the ODIs, latest being Pakistan’s Mohammed Hafeez against South Africa early this year.
Pakistan’s Rameez Raja (1987) and Inzamam-ul-Haq (2006) while India’s Mohinder Amarnath (1989) are the other three batsmen who were out in similar fashion in ODIs.
Pathan earned the dubious distinction of becoming first batsman to get out in that way in the shortest version of the game while playing for his IPL side Kolkata Knight Riders against Pune Warriors.
The match was in tight situation today when the incident happened. After managing to negotiate a yorker from Wayne Parnell, Pathan attempted a single. As Pathan ran, the bowler too tried to get close to the ball but Pathan pushed the ball with his foot, causing obstruction in the field.
The matter was referred to third umpire and he was declared out. His dismissal in the 18th over was turning point of the game as KKR did not have the batsmen to score required 23 runs from 13 balls after that.
Pune restricted Kolkata to 163 for seven to complete their third win from 15 matches.
AMSTERDAM: Branislav Ivanovic scored with an injury time header on Wednesday to give Chelsea a 2-1 win over Benfica in the Europa League final and secure the club’s second European title in as many seasons after winning last year’s Champions League.
The Serbian defender rose at the far post to send a looping header over Benfica goalkeeper Artur from a Juan Mata corner to seal the match in the 93rd minute.
A Fernando Torres solo effort gave Chelsea the lead on the hour mark and Oscar Cardozo leveled from the penalty spot eight minutes later — setting the stage for Ivanovic’s last-gasp decider.
Chelsea won despite playing without two key players, Belgium midfielder Eden Hazard and veteran central defender John Terry, who both picked up injuries in Sunday’s 2-1 Premier League victory over Aston Villa. It was the second year running that Terry had to sit out a European final — he was suspended for last year’s Champions League decider and could only look on as his team beat Bayern Munich on penalties.
The last-minute defeat in front of 46,163 fans at the Amsterdam Arena meant more heartache for Benfica, which has not lifted a European trophy since 1962 when a promising 20-year-old striker called Eusebio fired in two goals to power his team to a 5-3 victory over Real Madrid, also in Amsterdam. Since that victory, Benfica has now lost all six European finals it reached and Eusebio was on hand to watch the latest defeat.
Torres, who has struggled to find the net consistently for Chelsea since his 2011 transfer from Liverpool, ignited the long-simmering match just in the 60th minute.
The Spaniard collected the ball just inside Benfica’s half, used his strength to turn and wrestle past Ezequiel Garay and then beat captain Luisao before rounding Artur and calmly slotting in the net from a tight angle.
He sprinted to the corner and struck a Usain Bolt-style pose in front of the Chelsea fans.
Chelsea’s lead only lasted eight minutes before Cesar Azpilicueta handled the ball just inside the area and Cardozo smashed in the penalty to bring Benfica level.
NEW DELHI: Daughter-in-law should be treated as a family member and not housemaid, and she cannot be “thrown out of her matrimonial home at any time”, the Supreme Court has said, while expressing concern over instances of brides being burnt and tortured in the country.
The apex court said a bride must be respected in her matrimonial home as it “reflects the sensitivity of a civilized society.”
“A daughter-in-law is to be treated as a member of the family with warmth and affection and not as a stranger with respectable and ignoble indifference. She should not be treated as a house maid. No impression should be given that she can be thrown out of her matrimonial home at any time,” a bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra said.
Korea: A plastic surgery addict injected cooking oil into her face when doctors refused to give her any more silicone. Former model Hang Mioku has been left permanently disfigured following the DIY beauty treatment. After injecting an entire bottle of black market silicone into her face, Hang resorted to using cooking oil that left her face severely swollen and scarred.
Her plights was featured on Korean television and viewers donated thousands of pounds to pay for corrective surgery. During the first of 10 operations, surgeons removed 60g of silicone, oil and other foreign substances from her face and 200g from her neck. However, Hang is still disfigured and she said she wishes she could have her old face back. Hang had her first procedure aged 28 and then moved to Japan where she had repeated treatments. She quickly became obsessed with having smoother and softer skin. Doctors eventually refused to carry out any more work on her after her face became noticeably enlarged.
However, she managed to get hold of a bottle of silicone and a syringe to self-inject but when that ran out she resorted to use cooking oil. Her face was so altered that her own parents did not recognise her and local children also used to call her ‘standing fan’ because her face was so large compared to her small body. Numerous operations paid for by donations have managed to reduce the size of her face and neck but she is still significantly disfigured. Recently the former model was working in a recycled clothes shop, called The Beautiful Shop, and receiving handouts from the state.
LONDON: Seven Pakistani-origin men have been found guilty of sex crimes against girls, some as young as 11, in Britain.
A London court heard six girls were drugged and suffered sadistic abuse while aged between 11 and 15.
“You have been convicted of the most serious offences and long custodial sentences are inevitable,” the judge at the Old Bailey said in his ruling on Tuesday.
All seven, facing charges of running a sex grooming ring near Oxford, will be sentenced on June 26.
The court heard victims were plied with alcohol and drugs before being forced to perform sex acts. Some had also been beaten, burned and threatened.
The abuse began in Oxford but some of the victims would be later taken around the country to be offered to other men who were in contact with the gang.
Kamar Jamil, Akhtar Dogar, Anjum Dogar, Assad Hussain, Mohammed Karrar, Bassam Karrar, Zeeshan Ahmed and Mohammed Hussain – all in their mid-20s and early 30s – were found guilty of either rape or conspiracy to rape.
The jury was told that key members of the group used and abused the six victims in a systematic and organised sex trafficking ring over eight years until their arrest in 2012.
The court heard how the men identified vulnerable girls for abuse then groomed each one of them until they were under the control of the gang.
Acts of physical and sexual violence escalated into using objects to cause pain and humiliation.
The court heard that girls were tied up, burnt, suffocated, bitten, scratched and urinated upon.
The victims would return to Oxford bleeding, injured and carrying sexually-transmitted diseases.
One of the victims described being plied with hard drugs and forced to have sex with strangers while being filmed at the age of 13.
The men had denied charges including rape, arranging child prostitution and trafficking between 2004 to 2012.
BAGHDAD: Officials said a wave of evening bombings have torn through mainly Shia areas in Baghdad, raising the nationwide daily death toll to at least 32.
The attacks come amid growing tensions between the Shia-led government and minority Sunnis.
Police and hospital officials say the deadliest attack was near a bus stop in the sprawling neighbourhood of Sadr City where at least seven people were killed and 20 wounded.
Officials say in all 11 bombings struck Baghdad, as well as the cities of Kirkuk and Tarmiyah.
Nobody claimed responsibility for the attacks, but they bore the hallmark of al-Qaida in Iraq and other Sunni insurgent groups.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorised to release the information.
Bauer Media Ltd, a large media company, has this week apologised and expressed regret to UNITED SIKHS for any offence felt by any member of the Sikh community by the publication of an article and photograph of a Nihang Sikh in their porn magazine in January this year, which is published from Perth in Australia.
This apology was expressed in an agreement mediated by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), following a complaint filed by UNITED SIKHS.
“We filed a complaint with the AHRC after we were notified by a Sikh from Queensland about this offensive article titled ’Turban Legend’ that was published in the 30th January 2013 issue of Bauer Media’s magazine, ‘The Picture’”, said Sukhwant Singh, Director – National Legal Affairs, UNITED SIKHS (Australia), who negotiated the agreement on behalf of UNITED SIKHS .
“Sikhs had found the article racially offensive as it showed a photograph of a Nihang Sikh amongst objectionable photographs in the porn magazine,” he added.
At a conciliation conducted by the Australian Human Rights Commission, which was accepted by UNITED SIKHS on 15 May 2013, the following was agreed:
1. Bauer Media agreed to settle the complaint, without formal admission of liability;
2. Bauer Media expressed regret that any member of the Sikh community of Australia who was offended by publication of the article was offended by publication of the article;
3. Bauer Media stated that it was not the intention of “The Picture” to upset any member of the Sikh community of Australia;
4. Bauer Media stated that it is sorry that any member of the Sikh community of Australia who was offended by publication of the article was offended by publication of the article;
5. Bauer Media undertook not to republish the article.
Harjit Singh, National Director, UNITED SIKHS (Australia) said. “This case exemplifies how the Sikh community can work, within the laws of Australia, with the media to protect the interests of Sikhs. UNITED SIKHS thanks the Australian Human Rights Commission and the Bauer Media Group for their cooperation and assistance in respecting the concerns of the Sikh community”.
A US court in Wisconsin has reserved its decision in the alleged human rights violation case against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal after completing hearing in the matter. The district court had taken up a petition
filed by New York-based rights body ‘Sikh for Justice’, which had alleged that Badal committed “grave human rights violations” against the community in India.
Attorneys appearing for Badal have argued that he never received any summons from the court, whereas Sikh for Justice claims that its authorized person served the court summons. ‘Sikh for Justice’ in a statement said that it would now approach the recently created American Sikh Congressional Caucus seeking their help in asking the State Department to withdraw its support to Badal, and will demand a Congressional hearing to discuss ban on the entry Shiromani Akali Dal leaders to US.
Notably, the recently formed Caucus has said it will only raise domestic issues related to Sikhs and not foreign issues. Members of ‘Sikh for Justice’ were present on the occasion of announcement of the Caucus in Washington in April.
According to pollsters and political pundits, NDP were supposed to win these Provincial Elections and in Surrey and elsewhere South Asian candidates in the fray were supposed to do well. But even that did not happen.
In all, only three South Asian candidates won — Harry Bains (Surrey-Newton), Amrik Virk (Surrey-Tynehead) and Raj Chouhan (Burnaby-Edmonds).
In some ridings it was a direct contest between two South Asian candidates. In Surrey-Newton NDP’s Harry Bains won easily against Liberal Sukminder Singh. And in Surrey-Tynehead it was again a direct contest between two South Asian candidates in which Liberal Amrik Virk beat NDP’s Avtar Bains.
At other places, NDP’s Jagrup Brar lost to Liberal candidate Peter Fassbender in Surrey-Fleetwood. In Surrey-Panorma, NDP’s Amrik Mahil lost to Liberal Marvin Hunt. In Surrey-Green Timbers, Liberal Amrik Tung lost to NDP’s Sue Hammell.
Even in Abbotsford, South Asian candidates Lakhwinder Jhaj, Preet Rai and Sukhi Dhammi lost. In Surrey-Cloverdale another South Asian candidate NDP’s Harry Kooner lost to Liberal Stephanie Cadieux.
Apart from Bains and Virk, the other South Asian candidate to win was NDP’s Raj Chouhan in Burnaby.
Raj Chouhan retained Burnaby-Edmonds by polling 7,897 votes, his fellow partyman Harry Lali lost in Fraser-Nicola to Jackie Tegart of Liberal Party. Lali got 4,785 votes as against 5,539 polled by Tegart.
In Surrey-Whalley Liberal candidate Kuljeet Kaur lost to NDP’s Bruce Ralston.
For the Liberals, experienced MLAs Stephanie Cadieux and Gordon Hogg as well as big-name newcomers like Marvin Hunt and Fassbender carried the party to victory in Surrey.
Hunt, a veteran Surrey councillor clinched a resounding victory for the Liberals in Surrey-Panorama.
Cadieux, who holds the portfolio for Children and Family Development, won 58 per cent of the vote in Surrey-Cloverdale — a hefty lead over contender Harry Kooner of the NDP party, who got 30 per cent.
Before election day, Surrey was split down the middle with both the Liberals and New Democrats holding four seats each.
Cadieux had moved to the riding of Surrey-Cloverdale vacated by former cabinet minister Kevin Falcon.
In Surrey-Fleetwood, it was a tight race between NDP incumbent Jagrup Brar and city of Langley mayor Peter Fassbender, with Fassbender winning by less than 300 votes.
In Surrey-Tynehead, newcomer Amrik Virk secured a seat, with 50 per cent of the vote compared to his nearest rival NDP Avtar Bains, with 37 per cent, with less than 20 ballot boxes remaining.
Virk, a Langley RCMP inspector who has a 26-year career in policing, took a three-month leave without pay from the force to run for political office.
He takes over from former Liberal MLA Dave Hayer, who won in 2009 by a slim majority of about 1,500 votes but decided not to run this year.
NDP’s Amrik Mahil who lost to Hunt in Surrey-Panorama told the Voice, “This is quite unexpected,” he said of the defeat. “I can’t understand my riding. I really don’t know what happened.”
Both Surrey-Green Timbers and Surrey Whalley — two ridings which overwhelmingly voted to boot out the Liberal-introduced HST— stayed with NDP with MLAs Sue Hammell and Bruce Ralston respectively retaining their seats.
In Delta North, Tinku Parmar of the Conservative Party got just 902 votes
In Vancouver ridings, barring one all Indo-Canadian candidates fared badly.
In Vancouver-Kingsway, Gurjit Dhillon (6,090 votes) of the Liberal Party was beaten by NDP leader Adrian Dix (9,376 votes).
In Vancouver-Kensington, Raj Gupta of the Conservative Party polled a mere 519 votes.
In Vancouver-Langara, Gurjidner Bains of the same party bagged just 607 votes.
Barinder Hans of the Green Party came third in Vancouver-Point Grey by getting 2,180 votes.
Gian Sahota (5,542 votes) of the NDP lost to the Liberal Party’s Linda Ried (10,725 votes) in Richmond East.
In the Abbotsford-Mission region where Indo-Canadians make up about one-fifth of the population, no candidate from the community could win.
In Abbotsford-Mission, Preet Rai (4,939 votes) of the NDP was trounced by Simon Gibson (9,565 votes) of the Liberal Party.
In Abbotsford South, Lakhvinder Jhaj (3,745 votes) of the NDP lost to Darryl Plecas (8,811 votes) of the Liberal Party.
In Abbotsford West, Sukhi Dhami (4,978 votes) of the NDP was defeated by Michael de Jong (8,645) of the Liberal Party. Another Indo-Canadian Moe Gill, who contested as an independent, polled 973 votes.
In Saanich South, Rishi Sharma (8,473 votes) of the Liberal Party lost to Lana Popham (10,824 votes ) of the NDP.
The BC Liberals defied the pundits, the pollsters, and even the odds themselves to win another majority government.
Liberals won their fourth consecutive majority government by taking 50 seats. NDP got 33, while BC Greens got one and one was won by an independent in South Delta.
The only sour point for BC Liberals was the fact that Christy Clark lost in her own riding of Vancouver-Point Grey.
“That was easy!” quipped Leader Christy Clark to open her party acceptance speech.
She went on to talk about being “humbled” by the win and then came back to the values passed down to her by her late father, who would have turned 85 on Election Day.
“The values include leaving this province better than we found it, values that include making sure that we look after those who loved us the way that they looked after us.”
She told the victory rally in Vancouver that the voters have presented the Liberals with a “tremendous obligation” and pledged that the party will honour the responsibility they’ve been given.
Clark also thanked all of the candidates from all of the parties.
“In every democratic process, it requires all kinds of people, from all different walks of life and all different communities, to decide that they want to step up and make a difference. Putting your name on a ballot isn’t something that anyone takes lightly.”
She also admitted she will have to work hard to win over those who didn’t vote for her and that she will make the environment a priority.
Former Finance Minister Colin Hansen has a theory on how the party pulled off a win. “The undecided voters in the last week of the campaign really decided that the economy was the number one issue.”
Backroom-boy Brad Bennett has another. “Campaigns really matter and people start paying attention when the writ’s dropped and they pay more attention as the campaign starts to run its course.”
Clark herself lost in her riding of Vancouver-Point Grey; she has been neck-and-neck with the NDP’s David Eby all night. Eby ended up winning by 785 votes.
Clark narrowly won the riding in a 2011 by-election by just 564 votes over Eby.
