Mali ahead of presidential election
Four elections employees and an elected official have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Mali, a week before the presidential election. Officials say the incident took place in the northern Kidal province as they were preparing to distribute ID cards. Authorities believe that rebels in the region are responsible for the kidnapping. Abductions are common in the conflict-torn country following last year’s coup and a French-led operation against Kidal-based ethnic Tuareg rebels. Mali is due to hold presidential elections on July 28.
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Kapur ends round two in tied 24th, six strokes off the lead
Muirfield, Scotland, July 19, 2013: India’s Shiv Kapur, dropped from overnight tied fourth to tied 24th place after shooting a six-over-77 in the second round of the 142nd Open Championships in Muirfield, Scotland. The 31-year-old however, made his first cut at a Major with relative ease on a high-scoring day that saw some big names including World No. 2 Rory McIlroy and US Open champion Justin Rose fall by the wayside.
Kapur’s (68-77) second round of 77 featured two birdies against eight bogeys and took his total to three-over-145. The Delhi golfer trails the leader Miguel Angel Jimenez (68-71) of Spain by six shots. World no. 1 Tiger Woods (69-71) is in tied second along with fellow American Dustin Johnson, Englishman Lee Westwood and Swede Henrik Stenson, one stroke behind the leader.
The cut fell at eight-over-150. Eighty-two professionals and two amateurs made the cut.
Kapur, playing in his second Major, admitted that he could not help feeling ecstasy and agony in so short a period, yet he kept his composure. “On a course where scores have been tough and conditions so demanding, to be three-over is alright,” he said.
From six-under after nine on the first day, Shiv ended at three-under. Then on Friday he went six-over for the day and ended at three-over for 36 holes. Yet he was in the top half of the players who will play over the final two rounds and he has enough chance to improve on the best finish-ever by an Indian at tied 27th achieved by Jyoti Randhawa way back in 2004.
Kapur also became only the fourth Indian after Jyoti Randhawa (2004), Anirban Lahiri (2012) and Jeev Milkha Singh (2012) to make the cut at the British Open. Only Jeev has made the cut at the other three Majors, too.
Kapur struggled from the start after four bogeys on the first six holes. “I went into the bunkers far too often and had to keep guessing the wind direction as it kept changing. It was like playing over two different courses over two days. But then that’s links golf. It’s exciting and yet very challenging and frustrating.”
With his score at four-over after six, Shiv sank birdies on the ninth and 12th and dropped bogeys on the 10th and 13th to stay at four-over till the 17th tee. He then signed off the day with a bogey-bogey finish on the last two holes.
“Today the wind was totally opposite. So when you’re standing on the tees you’re trying to figure out — it’s a lot of guesswork. For example, on the ninth hole today I’ve hit 3-iron off the tee followed by a 6-iron. Yesterday on the same hole, I hit driver, 2-iron, 8-iron, you know. So it’s a completely different golf course,” said Kapur of the conditions.
He added, “When you get off to a bad start, you’re just trying to hang on, because there’s not too many birdie opportunities, so to speak. I thought I did a pretty good job after that bad start to hang on for a while. Unfortunately I had the dreaded “S” word (shank) on the 17th with my third shot. I had a wedge in there and I shanked it onto the green and actually did well to make a bogey. A bad drive on 18th meant a finishing bogey. But I felt I did well to hang on and keep the score for 16 holes.”
His putting let him down in a way. “Yeah, the putter was just not hot. Yesterday you’re holing putts and the game seems easy. I hit a lot of good putts that didn’t really go in. I had a horseshoe out on 13. It came straight back at me.”
He added, “On the front nine I found myself leaving quite a few putts short, because in any mind I still had the speed from yesterday. You can’t get yourself to hit it far enough past the hole, because you’ve seen them roll that far past yesterday. But on the back nine, I’m told they’re drying out again. On the last five or six holes, some of that stuff that happened yesterday afternoon was happening again.”
Speaking of his first day experience, he said, “Yeah, definitely yesterday gave me a lot of self-belief that, hey, if you’re going to lead a Major at some point, you can do it. The more times you put yourself in that position, the better you’ll be at it. I think that’s the difference between, perhaps me, and most of the players. They regularly get themselves in contention. But the fact that I even did it for nine holes means the ability is there, it’s just a question of getting a bit more consistency in the game and being able to do it on a regular basis.”
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Israelis and Palestinians still at odds
Posted on July 21, 2013 by sagarmedia
US President asking the two nation to initiate dialgoe. Israelis Palestinians still at odds over many issues ahead of talks,
Israel will not bow to Palestinian demands that negotiations must be based on their 1967 borders as Netanyahu insists that resuming peace talks is in Israel’s own best interests.
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Middle aged man in a wheelchair has detonated a small device at Beijing International Airport.
The state media said ,Ji Zhongxing, 34, from central Shandong province, was injured and taken to hospital.No-one else was hurt in the blast, which filled part of the Terminal 3 arrivals hall with smoke.
An online micro blog attributed to the man says the explosion was to protest at his ill-treatment by Chinese police.
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Crown Prince Philippe sworn in as king of the Belgians after the emotional abdication of his father Albert II.
Philippe is Oxford- and Stanford-educated, trained air force pilot took the oath as the country’s seventh king in a ceremony in parliament.
Holding his audience from Royal balcony amid applause, King Philippe, promised to uphold the constitution.
Belgium has a constitutional monarchy in which the king plays a largely ceremonial role.
One of the duties the monarch does have is trying to resolve constitutional crises.
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Who: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Adolescent Health Programme, Government of India
Speakers: Additional Secretary and Mission Director NRHM, Ms Anuradha Gupta , Joint Secretary, Mr. Rajesh Gupta, Chief of Nutrition, UNICEF Mr Victor Aguyao, What:The Adolescent Health, RCH-DC Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India cordially invites you to a press conference organized on adolescent anemia and the role of Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) programme When: July 22, 2013 (Monday) at 3 pm
Where: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Nirman Bhawan, Maulana Azad Road. New Delhi
Background: Anemia among adolescents i.e., young people aged 10-19 years is one of the most challenging public health problem in India. The National Family Health Survey-3 shows that in 2005, 3.4 out of 1.2 crore adolescents aged 15-19 years, in India were anemic.
This media consultation aims at providing health reporters with valuable technical and programmatic information on adolescent anemia in India and the role of the WIFS programme in addressing adolescent anemia – one of the formidable public health challenges in India.
For more information and for pass/entry for Nirman Bhawan, kindly confirm your presence to
Ms. Geetanjali Master, Communication Specialist, UNICEF India, Mobile:+ 91-9818105861
Ms. Sonia Sarkar, Communication Officer, UNICEF India: Mobile: +91-981 017 0289, 9891861445
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