MANGALURU  SUNDAY  NOVEMBER 17, 2024  `12.00  PAGES 26  CITY EDITION INDIA’S HOCKEY HUB, ODISHA, FINALLY WINS NATIONAL TITLE DOMINATING FIVE-GOAL FEST FOR WINNERS In the final on Saturday, Odisha defeated Haryana 5-1 to win the title at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Hockey Stadium in Chennai. For Odisha, Rajat Akash Tirkey scored the first goal in the first quarter before Pratap Lakra doubled the lead in the 39th minute. In the fourth quarter, Shilanand Lakra scored three goals to seal the title After investing in infrastructure, promotion, including sponsoring both men & women’s national teams, the state has emerged on top ■ 1st MOST PLAYERS FROM SUNDARGARH NURSERY ■ ■ At least 12 players were from the cradle of Indian hockey in the team. Coach Bijay Lakra said some of them grew up playing together. This was Haryana’s 3rd consecutive final appearance (2022 winners) Earlier in the day, Lalit Upadhyay and Rajkumar Pal helped Uttar Pradesh beat Manipur to finish third in the competition I P13 THIS IS THE FIRST-EVER SENIOR NATIONAL TITLE FOR ODISHA CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOGGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI Imphal valley on boil, mob storms houses of ministers Speculation rife on some BJP MLAs submitting resignation today LIFT AFSPA FROM SIX AREAS, SAYS GOVT P R A S A N TA M A Z U M D A R @ Guwahati Mob attacks 2 women for ‘prostitution’, 3 held in B’gavi EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Belagavi A woman and her daughter were assaulted by a group of people at Gangwadi in Belagavi, alleging that they indulged in prostitution at home. Three people have been arrested in this connection. The group also tore the clothes of one of the women. Though the attack took place two days ago, it came to light on Saturday . Belagavi Police Commissioner Lada Martin Marbaniang said an officer of the ACP rank will investigate the case. An FIR has been filed in Malmaruti police station. Deputy Commissioner of Police Rohan Jagadish, who visited the house of the woman and her daughter, said special teams will be formed to arrest the other accused who had assaulted the women. He warned the people of Gangwadi against taking law into their hands. Police security will be provided to the two women, he added. A video shows the woman and her daughter being dragged out of their house by the group of people and assaulting them. P5 WITH THIS ISSUE FEELING AT HOME PLUS 12 PAGES MASSIVE protests broke out in Manipur’s Imphal valley on Saturday after the bodies of six persons, believed to be of those reported missing from Jiribam district on Monday were recov, ered from a river close to the border of Assam’s Cachar and Manipur’s Jiribam districts. Miscreants also vandalised and burned down five churches and six houses in Jiribam on Saturday evening, the Indigenous Tribal Advocacy Committee claimed. In the wake of widespread protests, the state government temporarily suspended internet and mobile data services in the affected districts. The protesters attacked the houses of several MLAs and damaged properties at some places. They also stormed the houses of two BJP ministers. Vehicles were also set on fire. One of the MLAs, whose house was targeted, was R K Imo, who is the son-in-law of Chief Minister N Biren Singh. As the protesters are going for the jugular of the elected members for failing to control Imphal saw massive protests on Saturday after six bodies were found The Manipur government has written to the Centre requesting it to review its Nov 14 notification imposing the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act in six jurisdictions in the Imphal valley. The state cabinet discussed it at a meeting late Friday night and decided to request the Centre to review and withdraw the said declaration No reason was cited the escalating violence, speculations are rife that some of the BJP’s legislators could resign on Sunday . The influential Meitei organisation ‘Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity’ announced a civil disobedience movement from Saturday . The bodies of all six persons were taken to the nearby Silchar Medical College and Hospital (SMCH) in Assam’s Cachar district for post-mortem. Three of the bodies were recovered on Friday and the others on Saturday The state govern. ment in a statement issued earlier in the day confirmed that three of the bodies were of the missing persons. Three women and three children went missing from Jiribam following Monday’s gunfight in which CRPF and police personnel had gunned down 10 “militants”. Kuki-Zo organisations claimed they were “village volunteers”. Tension had been building across the Imphal valley since Friday night following reports about the recovery of three bodies. The protests intensified later in the day on Saturday when reports emerged about the recovery of three more bodies. Upa Lokayukta seeks relief for 93-year-old woman convict R A M A K R I S H N A B A D S E S H I @ Kalaburagi MOVED by the plight of a 93-year-old woman convict at the central jail here on Saturday, Upa Lokayukta Justice B Veerappa telephoned Advocate General Shashikiran Shetty and asked him to file a review petition before the Supreme Court on behalf of the legal services authority to get relief to her. Nagamma of Jewargi taluk, who is awaiting confirmation of three years of jail term from the Supreme Court in a dowry harassment case, is bedridden and even unable to speak properly. She depends on jail staffers even to go to the toilet. However, her son, who was also arrested in the same case, was acquitted by the court for want of evidence. The Upa Lokayukta, after seeing her poor health condition, told reporters that he is “seeing such a case for the Upa Lokayukta Justice B Veerappa tastes food cooked for prisoners at Kalaburagi Central Jail on Saturday | EXPRESS first time. As she has been convicted by the Supreme Court, she will not get immediate relief. We have to file a review petition.” The Upa Lokayukta directed the jail officials and secretary of the district legal services authority Srinivas Nawale to send Nagamma’s details, including her medical report, to the advocate general at the earliest. EXPRESS READ DKS hints at disciplinary action against Zameer Five Maoists gunned down in Chhattisgarh operation Bengaluru: Calling out Waqf Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan for his ‘racist’ remarks on Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy, Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Saturday hinted at taking disciplinary action against him | P4 Raipur: Five cadres of the outlawed CPI (Maoist), including two women fighters, were gunned down by security forces in an encounter in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, on Saturday. Two security personnel wer aslo injured in the gunfight | P10 10-CR SUIT FOR 3-SECOND CLIP Nayan spars with Dhanush over Netflix docu E X P R E S S N E W S S E R V I C E @ Chennai ACTOR Nayanthara took to Instagram on Saturday to address a legal dispute involving actordirector Dhanush, accusing him of obstructing the making of her Netflix documentary Nayanthara: Beyond the Fairytale. She alleged that Dhanush demanded `10 crore as compensation for using three seconds of behind-the-scenes (BTS) footage from their 2015 film Naanum Rowdy Dhaan in the documentary . The documentary explores Nayanthara’s relationship with her husband Vignesh Shivan, a filmmaker, tracing it all the way back to the filming of Naanum Rowdy Dhaan, which was produced by Dhanush, under his Wunderbar Films banner. In an open letter, Nayanthara expressed frustration over the legal notice sent by Dhanush demanding `10-crore compensation for the use of three seconds of BTS footage. She stated that the clips in question were captured using personal devices and had been publicly shared on social media in the past. Furthermore, she revealed that her team has spent two years attempting to obtain an No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the actor-director, who allegedly refused to approve the use of even photographs and lyrics from the film. “Cinema is a fight for survival for people like me, who are self-made,” she said, accusing Dhanush of harbouring a grudge against the documentary and her personal life. She further stressed that his actions affected not just her and her husband but the numerous people who have worked on the documentary. She concluded by urging Dhanush to move past any resentment and allow her documentary to release without further conflict. Open letter gets mixed response In response, a number of actors, notably Dhanush’s previous collaborators, sided with Nayanthara, while others dismissed the matter, calling it a ‘marketing strategy’ ahead of the Netflix documentary’s release on November 18 SAD PRESIDENTSHIP CONSTRAINED BY TAKHT, BADAL CALLS IT QUITS H A R P R E E T B A J W A @ Chandigarh EMBATTLED Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday submitted his resignation, drawing the curtain over two decades of dynastic rule in the second oldest political party in the country . His position in the party had become untenable after the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikhs, declared him a tankhayia (guilty of religious misconduct) two-and-a-half months ago but did not announce his sentence and barred him from any political activity . Ever since his father Parkash Singh Badal became party president in 1995, it became a Badal family pocket borough, with the baton of presidentship being passed to Sukhbir in 2008. On August 29, Sukhbir had appointed senior party leader Balwinder Singh Bhundar as the SAD working president. SAD leader Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said Bhunder has convened an emergency meeting of the SAD Working Committee on Monday at the party’s headquarters here to consider Sukhbir’s resignation and chart out the next course of action, including initiating the process to elect his successor. The last organisational elections within the party was held on December 14, 2019. Sukhbir had recently suffered a fracture on his right foot and underwent a corrective surgery at the PGI in Chandigarh. His resignation comes three days after he approached the Akal Takht with a fresh appeal to Jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh (High Priest) to convene a meeting of the clergy soon to pronounce his religious punishment. On August 30, Sukbir was declared tankhaiya for the mistakes committed by his party’s government from 2007 to 2017 when he was deputy chief minister and SAD president. Man murders 14-year-old son with cricket bat EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Bengaluru A 14-year-old boy was allegedly murdered by his father for being in a bad company and not going to school at Kashi Nagar in Kumaraswamy Layout police limits on Friday . The deceased has been identified as R Tejus, who was a Class 9 student. His father Ravi Kumar, a carpenter, was arrested on Saturday morning. The boy’s mother works in a garment factory. Tejus was their second child. Kumar, who is said to be an alcoholic, reportedly wanted Tejus to study well. But Tejus used to bunk classes and roam around with a group of boys. He had bad habits and always used to be on his mobile phone. After learning that Tejus had habits such as smoking and drinking, his father warned him not to do so and study well. Tejus stopped going to school 20 days ago after his father neither got his phone repaired nor bought a new one. On Friday Tejus did not go to , school. He was also reportedly drunk when Kumar sought to know why he did not go to school that day Seeing his son in an in. ebriated state, Kumar allegedly beat him up with a cricket bat and pushed him against the wall around 8.30 am. P5