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Does The University Admit Its Guilt?
Bowing to political pressure and the protest by students, the UoH has revoked the suspension of the remaining four students. This is a knee-jerk reaction and does not reflect well on the university. Does this mean that the University admits that it was in the wrong in suspending the students? After a student was assaulted on campus, the mother of the victim filed a case in the High Court demanding justice. Then the University appointed a review committee which after extensive deliberations found thee students guilty and recommended the suspension of these students.
The suggestions were implemented and a due process was followed in the entire matter. More importantly, the message was conveyed that the university is a place for learning and not a safe house for rowdy elements. Discipline on campus has to be maintained at any cost. And no one can accuse the university, of discrimination because the previous year, it had suspended five ABVP students for similar activities.
Therefore, revoking the suspension of the four students makes it appear as if the University was in the wrong which is not the case. The death of Rohit is indeed unfortunate, but the issue should not become fodder for politicians and the media.
Hansika’s Paintings Up For Sale
Even though Hansika has slowed down on signing star heroes’ films, she is busy with a handful of Tamil projects with rising stars in Kollywood. The actress now has the horror film Kalavathi ready for release this 29th.
Apart from being admired for her cute looks, Hansika is also known for her creative and human side. Hansika is a prolific artist and some of her recent paintings are now up for sale. And an even more touching news is that the actress will be donating all the money collected to orphanages.
It is well known that Hansika herself runs an orphanage in Mumbai, where she had adopted 20 orphan children.
Hansika also spends some quality time with the orphan kids and often goes out on vacations with them. Hansika was also one of the first few actresses to donate big for the Chennai flood victims recently. No wonder the beauty has so many fans for her beautiful heart.
Remembering laughing machine of Tollywood
One of the greatest comedians of all time- MS Narayana, who enthralled Telugu spectators for ages, bid farewell to his admirers exactly a year ago. In the career span of 17 years, MS Narayana acted or we can say entertained us in around 700 films. The ace comedian was born on April 16, 1951 in Nidamarru and died on 23 January 2015 due to multiple organ failure in Hyderabad.
Let’s remember the star comedian on the occasion of his first death anniversary… MS Narayana was a Telugu lecturer before making his entry into films in 1997 at the age of 46. He started off film career as a writer and associated in several films of Ravi Raja Pinisetty.
Although MS appeared in small roles, EVV Satyanarayana directed ‘Maa Nannaki Pelli’ provided him right break as a comedian. Since then, there was no looking back for MS. In current generation directors, Sreenu Vaitla exploited MS efficiently.
With funny spoofs, MS became the center attraction for comedy in several Telugu films. Winner of five Nandi Awards and one Filmfare Award, MS opined that he deserves Guinness record, as Brahmanandam acted in 700 films in 20 years whereas he did it just in 17 years.
His friends appealed to the Guinness Records Academy to recognize him. Tollywood and Telugu film buffs are truly missing the laughing machine- MS Narayana.
Talk: Superstar’s Little Daughter Debut
Tamil superstar Vijay’s each film release is a festival to his fans, thanks to his stardom. But the star hero is giving a surprise to audience in the form of his cute little daughter debut with his latest movie. Director Atlee is making a film ‘Theri’ with Vijay and just the first look of this film is a sensation everywhere.
And while the glamour part is taken care by beautiful Samantha and stunning Amy Jackson, it is known fact that yesteryear heroine Meena’s daughter Nainika is making a debut with this film.
But according to the latest reports, Vijay’s daughter Divya is also making an entry in films with Theri! Fans already started celebrating about their favorite star’s cute daughter debut and cine analysts are confident that she will take away all the attention with her appearance.
Few years back, Vijay’s son Sanjay has done a cameo for super-hit Vettaikaran movie. Star kids cameos is not new, now and then, but Divya’s entry is hot topic in Tamil filmdom now!
Why Extra R for Sarrainodu?
Stylish Star Allu Arjun’s ‘Sarrainodu’s pre look image has garnered stunning response among the movie lovers. And now, the makers are planning to launch the movie’s first look on 25th of this month, on the eve of Republic Day of India.
The title logo hasn’t been released by the makers yet. Nonetheless, it is known that an extra ‘r’ has been added for the title which makes the spelling ‘Sarrainodu’ for the movie. Boyapati Srinu, who is directing this crazy project, might have made this title change as per numerology. Mega fans are eagerly waiting for the launch of First look of the movie.
‘Sarrainodu’ has Rakul Preet Singh and Catherine Tresa in female lead roles. Anjali has done a spicy special song in this out and out mass entertainer. Thaman has composed the tunes of the movie. Mega Producer Allu Aravind is producing the movie on Geetha Arts. The movie is expected to hit the screens in the month of April.
Balayya Regrets ‘Train’ Scene
Balayya fans can never forget how they were trolled for some of their favourite hero’s scenes. The biggest one of them must be a scene from Palnati Brahmanaidu where the train goes back for his thigh slap.
Though there were many other heroes’ scenes far from reality and too much funny to watch, Balayya became target of spoofs and jokes many a time. Like never before, Balakrishna responded on those scenes from years back and regrets doing them.
In one of his recent interviews, Balakrishna admits that those feats and extreme scenes were totally unnecessary. Talking about them, the senior hero regrets for doing them. Saying that he never really gave a thought about those scenes when the writer came up and director asked him to act in them.
But it looks odd for himself, when he looks back at such ‘over’ feats. Admitting they were meaningless now, Balayya says that most of the scenes and dialogues of present films match the reality. So, for those who think why Balayya did those acts, he asks the same question to himself now!
Baahubali 2 Is Special Case For Rajamouli
Habitually, SS Rajamouli announces his film’s story, before starting the shoot. But, for the first time, he is not revealing much details of Baahubali 2 as it is a special case. The Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka and Tamanna starrer film is in full swing with production works and Rajamouli is planning to wrap up the picture in record low time of his career and release it by year end or in early next year.
Why Baahubali 2 is special case? This is first sequel film for Rajamouli and it will have some twists and exciting elements like ‘why did Kattappa kill Baahubali ?’ which are not to be revealed until the film hits the screens.
Rajamouli has strictly warned his production unit members to maintain secrecy over film’s content. Although there are some leaked stories doing rounds in social media, we will get clarity on the actual twist only after the theatrical release.
Rajamouli revealed that the second part ‘Baahubali: The Conclusion’ would be more emotional and with more grandeur. Currently, the director is canning scenes involving Prabhas, Ramya Krishna and few other artists. Rana, Anushka and others will join them in the next schedule.
Baahubali set the box office on fire, earning a spot among the top three grossers in India of all times, pocketing more than Rs 600 crore. The second part is expected to make much bigger business than the prequel.
The deployment of autonomous weapons
Davos: The world must act quickly to avert a future in which autonomous robots with artificial intelligence roam the battlefields killing humans, scientists and arms experts warned at an elite gathering in the Swiss Alps. Rules must be agreed to prevent the development of such weapons, they said at a January 19-23 meeting of billionaires, scientists and political leaders in the snow-covered ski resort of Davos. Angela Kane, the German UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs from 2012-2015, said the world had been slow to take pre-emptive measures to protect humanity from the lethal technology.
“It may be too late,” she told a debate in Davos. “There are many countries and many representatives in the international community that really do not understand what is involved. This development is something that is limited to a certain number of advanced countries,” Kane said. The deployment of autonomous weapons would represent a dangerous new era in warfare, scientists said. “We are not talking about drones, where a human pilot is controlling the drone,” said Stuart Russell, professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley. “We are talking about autonomous weapons, which means that there is no one behind it. AI: artificial intelligence weapons,” he told a forum in Davos. “Very precisely, weapons that can locate and attack targets without human intervention.”
Robot chaos on battlefield Russell said he did not foresee a day in which robots fight the wars for humans and at the end of the day one side says: “OK you won, so you can have all our women.” But some 1,000 science and technology chiefs including British physicist Stephen Hawking, said in an open letter last July that the development of weapons with a degree of autonomous decision-making capacity could be feasible within years, not decades. They called for a ban on offensive autonomous weapons that are beyond meaningful human control, warning that the world risked sliding into an artificial intelligence arms race and raising alarm over the risks of such weapons falling into the hands of violent extremists.
“The question is can these machines follow the rules of war?” Russell said. ‘Beyond comprehension’ How, for an example, could an autonomous weapon differentiate between civilians, soldiers, resistance fighters and rebels? How could it know that it should not kill a pilot who has ejected from a plane and is parachuting to the ground? “I am against robots for ethical reasons but I do not believe ethical arguments will win the day. I believe strategic arguments will win the day,” Russell said. The United States had renounced biological weapons because of the risk that one day they could deployed by “almost anybody”, he said. “I hope this will happen with robots.” Alan Winfield, professor of electronic engineering at the University of the West of England, warned that removing humans from battlefield decision-making would have grave consequences.
“It means that humans are deprived from moral responsibility,” Winfield said. Moreover, the reaction of the robots may be hard to predict, he said: “When you put a robot in a chaotic environment, it behaves chaotically.” Roger Carr, chairman of the British aerospace and defence group BAE, agreed. “If you remove ethics and judgement and morality from human endeavour whether it is in peace or war, you will take humanity to another level which is beyond our comprehension,” Carr warned.
“You equally cannot put something into the field that, if it malfunctions, can be very destructive with no control mechanism from a human. That is why the umbilical link, man to machine, is not only to decide when to deploy the weapon but it is also the ability to stop the process. Both are equally important.”
Russia, Britain trade charges over Litvinenko report
The Litvinenko inquiry report, which implicates the Russian state in the murder of a former Russian spy, has further undermined the already fraught relationship between Britain and Russia. The British Foreign Office summoned the Russian Ambassador on Thursday to set out its “deep concern” regarding the findings of the report. David Lidington, Minister of State at the Foreign Office, told Ambassador Alexander Vladimirovich Yakovenko that the inquiry’s finding of probable involvement by the Russian state in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko was “a flagrant disregard for U.K. law, international law and standards of conduct, and the safety of U.K. citizens.”
In his 329-page report on the death of Mr. Litvinenko in 2006 in a Mayfair hotel from what appears to have been radiation poisoning, Sir Phillip Owens has claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin was “probably” involved in the murder of the former spy who had defected to the U.K. with his wife and son in 2000, and from where he conducted a bitter anti-Kremlin campaign. Sir Phillip sets out a string of likely motives for the murder of Mr. Litvinenko by the Russian state with no hard evidence provided for Mr. Putin’s involvement.
Marcus Papadopoulos, Editor of the British publication Politics First, believes the report was “prejudiced from the outset” and should be dismissed. “Take the use in an official report of the word “probably”. What court in the U.K. would convict someone on “probable” guilt?” “Litvinenko was a triple agent who had dubious connections with people involved in espionage and business. Any one of them could have killed him. If we want to have an investigation, we should start with one into M16. It is widely believed that it had planned to assassinate Slobodan Miloševiæ and Gaddaffi.” ‘Blatant provocation’ Russia has described the inquiry report as “blatant provocation” by the British authorities.
According to a statement issued by the Russian embassy in London, the Ambassador told the British minister that his country “will never accept anything arrived at in secret and based on the evidence not tested in an open court of law”. Sir Phillip has reportedly earned the nickname of “Mr. Probable” in sections of the Russian media. The Russians view the timing of the report, which comes 10 years after Mr. Litvinenko was killed, as an attempt to put pressure on Russia over differences on a range of international issues.
The Russian government has questioned the suspension in 2014 by the British government of the coroner’s inquest into Mr. Litvinenko’s death that was open for the media and public and in which the Investigative Committee of Russia took part as an interested party. The inquest was replaced by a public inquiry, which notwithstanding the name conducted a big part of the inquiry in secret and behind closed doors. The Russian’s allege that the inquiry was set up when tensions with Russia had escalated over developments in Ukraine in 2014. The inquiry was seriously compromised, Russia claims, as key testimony from the British secret services was given in secret to the committee.
Barzani calls for Kurdish independence
The President of Iraqi Kurdistan has called on global leaders to acknowledge that the Sykes-Picot pact that led to the boundaries of the modern West Asia has failed, and urged them to broker a new deal paving the way for a Kurdish state. Massoud Barzani, who has led the troubled country’s Kurds for the past decade, said the international community had started to accept that Iraq and Syria in particular would never again be unified and that “compulsory co-existence” in the region had been proven wrong.
“I think that within themselves, [world leaders] have come to this conclusion that the era of Sykes-Picot is over,” Mr. Barzani told the Guardian. “Whether they say it or not, accept it or not, the reality on the ground is that. But as you know, diplomats are conservatives and they give their assessment in the late stages of things. And sometimes they can’t even keep up with developments.” The political map of northern Iraq has changed drastically in the 18 months since Islamic State overran Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul. Kurdish forces are now in full control of Kirkuk and Sinjar and have claimed control of thousands more miles of land that had been under control of Iraq’s central government.
Now, four months before the centennial of the Sykes-Picot agreement under which Britain and France carved spheres of influence from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, Mr. Barzani said maintaining the status quo would ensure further regional disintegration and destruction. He said independence, which has been the centrepiece of Kurdish ambitions for decades but has been fiercely opposed by suspicious regional neighbours, was “now closer than at any other time”. Countries that had long been against the move were being swayed by the claim that sovereignty within the current borders of the Kurdish regional government could instead bring clarity, he said.
Over the past 10 years, an already tenuous relationship with Baghdad has been shredded. Iraqi leaders have been particularly angered by the seizure of Kirkuk, which has seen Erbil direct the flow of the city’s oil to its pipeline spreading north to Turkey. Erbil, meanwhile, had seen its prescribed share of central budget revenues slashed before it took the city, beating IS in a race for control in the days following Mosul’s fall.
New agreement Mr. Barzani said regional and global powers now needed to enshrine a new pact that would protect communities in Iraq and Syria, where divisions have become entrenched on socio-religious and sectarian lines. “There must be a [new] agreement, it is important to see what type of agreement it is, what mechanism it can bring and rely on to formalise things, and what will be its status. When the formalisation of that agreement will be is not known yet. It’s illogical to continue or insist on repeating a wrong experiment that was repeated for 100 years and is leading nowhere.”
“Right now, Iraq is divided. We are not responsible for it. On the contrary, we have done our best to preserve Iraqi unity and a democratic Iraq. In 1991, we went to Iraq and negotiated with those criminals that were responsible with the chemical bombardment, the Anfal campaign [launched by Saddam Hussein against the Kurds]. “After 2003, we went to Baghdad and tried our best through the constitutional process. But the existing culture in Iraq is not one of co-existence. “So if we can’t live together we have to live with other alternatives.” Mr. Barzani had announced he would push for independence on July 1, 2014, the first time a Kurdish leader had pledged to do so after decades of armed struggle, civil war and displacement.
The announcement was meant to lead to a referendum, but it failed to generate momentum and was soon subsumed by the IS advance on Erbil, and the worsening crisis in Iraq and Syria.
Pawan Wants To Do It On His Own
Sharat Marar, Pawan Kalyan’s good friend was one of the producers of ‘Gopala Gopala’ and he is now the sole producer for ‘Sardar Gabbar Singh’. In a way, it means that Pawan Kalyan is the producer.
While Pawan may get remuneration of around Rs 12 crore as the hero, he will make far in excess of it if he is also has a stake in the film. ‘Gopala Gopala’ proved that. Now there is a huge price being offered for ‘Sardar Gabbar Singh’. Pawan repeatedly wants to cut down drastically on the number of his films and hence, there is a strong possibility that he will produce his films himself.
What adds credence to this theory is the fact that he has not given the green signal so far to any of the producers he has committed to earlier.
Namitha Refuses for Skin Show In Telugu
We often observe star heroines like Samantha and Tamanna going de glam for other language films rather than Telugu. That’s just because when they were offered some performance oriented roles, heroines get ready to shed layers of makeup and even cut down their remuneration.
But there are few actresses who ask only for performance role and say ta-ta to any role offered to show their skin. Here is one such new face.
Malayali actress Namitha Pramod is new to Telugu films and her debut movie is Chuttalabbayi with Aadi. When asked about her roles in Telugu films, Namitha made it loud and clear that exposing in the name of glamour doesnot work with her. Either she wants a meaty role to act or just stay away from her if you want her to be ‘glamorous’.
Many actresses dictate their regulations in the beginning and later when offers slim down, they alter their list for ‘script demands’. But Namitha seems to be a girl standing by her word.
For now, Namitha is busy with Aadi’s Chuttalabbayi and she will get to shoot for Nara Rohith’s Kathalo Rajakumari. Fortunately for her, both these roles need not expose any skin!
Their Lives Have Become A Lottery
The Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) is mulling over allotting developed/returnable plots by this April. The size of the returnable plots is yet to be finalized. But can any of Naidu’s antics be without a twist in the tale?
According to the agreement between the government and the farmers, the latter should be given developed plots in their own villages. But now, the CRDA says the plots would be allotted on a lottery system which means the villagers might get plots elsewhere.
Naturally, they are an aggrieved lot. This is only the tip of the iceberg. Before the entire capital city is done with and completed which might be around 2050 hopefully, how many such U-turns will these farmers have to see?
