Delhi zoo’s monitor lizards dead
All four monitor lizards at the Delhi Zoo have died of “shock” after being taken out of their enclosures during hibernation by a staff member.“The lizards were pulled out by a zoo ranger on January 28 without seeking any permission. We have taken disciplinary action against the staff,” curator Riyaz Khan said.As per the postmortem report, the lizards died of shock.Mr. Khan said the reptiles died on February 1, 2, 11 and 15.According to the curator, the lizards go into hibernation from November to March. “They are not disturbed. No food or water is given to them during this period,” another zoo official said.The zoo now has no more monitor lizards. The curator added that a detailed report was being prepared by the zoo authority regarding the incident and further action would be taken after the Director examined the same.The zoo had reopened in January after a brief hiatus owing to the bird flu scare last year which claimed the lives of 14 water birds.
Senior Uttar Pradesh Minister Satyadev Pachauri allegedly insulted a physically challenged employee during a surprise inspection, a video of which has gone viral on social media.The incident came days after the Yogi Adityanath government renamed the ‘Viklang Kalyan Vibhag’ (Handicap Welfare Department) as ‘Divyang Jan Shasaktikaran Vibhag’ (Specially Abled Empowerment Department).The Khadi and Village Industries Minister allegedly made a derogatory reference when he came across the contractual employee on Wednesday during an inspection of the department’s office in Dalibagh area here.“You have kept a differently-abled man on contract. What will he do? This is the reason behind lack of hygiene here,” Mr. Pachauri can be heard saying in the video clip.As he drew flak over the incident, the minister said his remarks have been misconstrued.“Maybe, my words were not correct… I was trying to say that everyone cannot do all the work,” Mr. Pachauri said.
The city’s garbage crisis is fast becoming a political flashpoint. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has hit out at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over its alleged apathy in resolving Pune’s garbage woes. The NCP has also targeted the BJP’s failure in bringing relief to the residents of the villages of Uruli Devachi and Phursungi, which are being used as dumping grounds for the city’s waste.NCP MP Supriya Sule, who visited the villages on Wednesday, called upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi to pay attention to the residents who are being forced to live in insanitary conditions and compelled to breathe toxic air emanating from the surging mounds of untreated waste.The residents have been opposing the use of their villages by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for dumping the city’s urban waste, estimated at a staggering daily average of 1700 tonnes. Ms. Sule said, “We had earlier requested Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to shift the dumping grounds to another site. But it appears Mr. Fadnavis has no intention of keeping the promises he has been making over the past two years.” Ms. Sule later participated in an agitation by residents to make the two villages, used as dumping zones for nearly three decades, garbage-free. She posted pictures of the agitation to her Twitter account. She also criticised Pune’s politicians and authorities for going on foreign tours and expressed hope that Mr. Modi would intervene in the matter.She said, “At a time when the country is swamped by the BJP’s propaganda of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, it is unfortunate that Pune, with its aspiration to be a metro, should wallow in garbage. I hope the Prime Minister takes note of the crisis.”‘Find alternative site’On Tuesday, PMC Commissioner Kunal Kumar’s visit to address the concerns of villagers failed as they stuck to their demand of the PMC finding an alternative disposal dump. A fresh garbage crisis sparked in mid-April after a fire at a garbage depot in Uruli Devachi led villagers to protest against the PMC’s use of villages as dumping grounds. Moreover, the city’s key decision-makers are abroad: Guardian Minister Girish Bapat is in Australia while newly-elected Pune mayor Mukta Tilak is touring Mexico.
Thirty children died in the government-run BRD Hospital in Gorakhpur over a 48-hour period, allegedly after a private firm contracted to supply liquid oxygen to the hospital backed out as it was not paid outstanding dues amounting to almost ₹70 lakh.District Magistrate Rajeev Rautela said that around 30 patients had died in the hospital over the last 36 hours, including 14 in the neonatal ward.Of these, seven deaths were reported since Thursday night — three in the neonatal ward, two in the Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) ward and two in the general ward. The other 23 deaths were reported since midnight of August 9 — they comprised 14 deaths in the neonatal ward, three in the AES ward and six in the general ward.The Uttar Pradesh government denied that the deaths were due to lack of oxygen supply. The casualties, it said, were due to various illnesses.A magisterial probe has been ordered to ascertain the cause of deaths. Sources in the hospital said that due to the lack of oxygen supply, cylinders had to be transported and filled from neighbouring districts. Manoj Singh, a Gorakhpur-based social activist-journalist, said the hospital had had to rely on using jumbo oxygen cylinders since Thursday night as the liquid oxygen supply had collapsed.Mr. Rautela said that he had learnt from the Principal of BRD that the hospital had witnessed disturbance in the supply of liquid oxygen since Thursday night as the firm had withdrawn supply due to non-payment of its dues.“Out of an outstanding of ₹70 lakh, ₹35 lakh was paid to the Lucknow-based firm. But the firm said they have not received the payment. They said they had alternate means of oxygen supply. We requested them to not disrupt supply of liquid oxygen,” Mr. Rautela said.The company, identified as Pushpa Sales, had written to the principal of BRD Hospital on August 1 informing that it would be unable to supply oxygen if the payment of ₹63 lakh was not made soon. It had also stressed said that the company from which it sourced gas had expressed its inability to supply in future due to the non-payment of dues.The hospital lies in the home turf of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the incident comes two days after he himself inspected the hospital during his tour. 60 children die in 5 days at Gorakhpur hospital
A 14-year-old girl committed suicide by setting herself afire in Sanjay Colony here on Tuesday after she was allegedly raped by a teenager staying on rent with his family in an adjacent room.The accused, Amit Kumar, has been arrested on charges of rape under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and abetment to suicide under the Indian Penal Code.Class IX studentThe girl, a Class IX student, allegedly doused herself with kerosene on Tuesday afternoon, a week after she was allegedly raped, and set herself afire. Her mother works as a helper in Sector 24 and was away when the incident took place. The woman, in her complaint to the police, said that one of her relatives called her over the phone to inform about it.Suffered 95% burns The girl was rushed to B.K. Hospital in Faridabad and was diagnosed with 95% burns. She had deep burn marks on the face, head, neck and back and was referred to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi, where she succumbed to her injuries.According to the complaint, the victim, who was the youngest among three siblings, had gone to the washroom in the early hours of May 1 when the accused allegedly pulled her inside his room and raped her. The girl did not disclose the incident to her mother for several days, eventually confiding in her on May 7. But the landlord, Sugreev Bainsla, allegedly prevented them from filing a police complaint in this regard. The case was registered after the girl died and the accused was arrested.Accused from U.P.The accused had been harassing the girl for almost 10 days before he allegedly raped her, the FIR said.“The accused was arrested in Faridabad after the complaint was received. He belongs to Uttar Pradesh. He had gone for his sister’s wedding five months ago and returned a few weeks back,” said Station House Officer, Mujesar police station, Rajender Singh.
Two days after resuming political activities, Tej Pratap Yadav, the elder son of jailed Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad, on Tuesday met his father and claimed that he was advised to “take the party forward” by him. The over two-hour meeting between the two took place at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, where the RJD chief is undergoing treatment for various ailments after being convicted in fodder scam cases. “It was a long time since I met my father. I became emotional. I love him. My father is my God — Krishna, Vishnu and Mahadev,” Mr. Yadav said. He claimed that the RJD chief had asked him “to take the party forward”, reiterating that he saw Tejashwi as “Arjuna”.
A day after the United Kingdom’s Home Secretary gave the go-ahead to extradite former liquor baron Vijay Mallya to India, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) told a special court in Mumbai hearing Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) cases against him, that it had no objection to the consortium of banks selling the fugitive businessman’s properties and recovering their dues amounting to ₹6205.35 crore. But the ED said the banks should give an undertaking to return the amount claimed by them to the court in the future.The ED has submitted an affidavit through its deputy director in response to an application filed by a consortium of banks, led by the State Bank of India (SBI), seeking restoration of properties owned by Mr. Mallya, accused of defaulting on loans of over ₹9,000 crore. In the affidavit, the ED gave a detailed background of the legal process that the banks had adopted, stating, “In the civil proceedings before Karnataka High Court, United Breweries Holdings Limited (UBHL) moved the petition for settlement of dues of the consortium and other creditors. Prior to this offer, Vijay Mallya, on behalf of himself, Kingfisher Airlines, UBHL and Kingfisher Finvest India, made two other settlement offers which were rejected by SBI for not being sufficient and on certain technical grounds.”Meanwhile, the erstwhile director of UBHL filed an affidavit stating, “UBHL is keen on settling the debts owed to the banks. Further, he also lists down the assets belonging to both Vijay Mallya and UBHL, the sale of which could satisfy the repayment of the principal amount of ₹6,203 crore owed to the banks by Kingfisher Airlines Limited…”Mr. Mallya had filed an affidavit before the Karnataka High Court where he affirmed the contents of the application by UBHL with respect to his willingness to sell and dispose of the shares and assets owned or controlled by himself and his family in order to settle the dues. SBI opposed the settlement offer before the HC on the ground that the jurisdiction of the court was barred to provide relief under Companies Act. As the assets were attached under PMLA, a special Act, the assets could only be restored and sold by an application under Prevention of Money and Laundering (Restoration of Confiscated Property) Rules, 2016.The ED, on Tuesday, put forth a condition to the no-objection.“The court has to be satisfied that the claimant — applicant — has acted in good faith and has suffered the loss despite taking all reasonable precautions as is requisite under the PMLA read with Prevention of Money Laundering (Restoration of confiscated property) Rules, 2016.”
With rising mercury levels and severe heatwave, Gujarat is facing a massive water crisis. The scarcity is particularly acute in the Saurashtra region, Kutch, North Gujarat and parts of tribal pockets in central and South Gujarat.More than 20 districts are severely affected as towns and villages hardly get water twice a week. In more than 500 villages in 14 districts, drinking water is being supplied through tankers; the number will only rise in days to come.Recently, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani admitted that the State is in the midst of a major water shortage but assured that drinking water will be provided to every village. Except the Narmada, all other waterbodies and dams have negligible water, he said. The challenge“The available water in all the dams of these regions is negligible. However, thanks to the Sardar Sarovar dam and the Narmada canal network, people will not face any difficulty till July-end. Water is available in the dam. The only challenge is to supply it to far-flung areas, some 500 km away from the dam,” Mr. Rupani said after reviewing the situation.Subsequently, the State government asked the district administrations to start plying tankers in villages where water was not available.“After a review and reports from local authorities, we have decided to provide drinking water to villages located in different districts by tankers so that people don’t face any shortage,” said Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel.According to officials, the number of villages needing water tankers will only rise due to high temperatures that push the demand.Supply on alternate daysIn Rajkot, water is supplied only for 20 minutes a day and in many localities and societies located on the outskirts, supply is on alternate days or through tankers.Even in Jasdan, the Assembly constituency of Kuvarji Bavalia, the Water Supply Minister, shortage of drinking water forced villagers to hold protests demanding its regular supply.MLAs’demandLocal legislators have made representations demanding adequate water supply in areas where the Narmada water is the only source now.“In my area, more than two dozen villages are facing acute shortage. I have written to the Minister and demanded that all villages are provided water through tankers and tanker trips be doubled,” said Congress legislator Virji Thummar from Amreli district.
Imagine if people from Kansas and California were as genetically distinct from each other as someone from Germany is from someone from Japan. That’s the kind of remarkable genetic variation that scientists have now found within Mexico, thanks to the first fine-scale study of human genetic variation in that country. This local diversity could help researchers trace the history of the country’s different indigenous populations and help them develop better diagnostic tools and medical treatments for people of Mexican descent living all over the world.The team has done a “tremendous job” of creating a “blueprint of all the genetic diversity in Mexico,” says Bogdan Pasaniuc, a population geneticist at the University of California (UC), Los Angeles, who was not involved in the research.Mexico contains 65 different indigenous ethnic groups, 20 of which are represented in the study, says Andrés Moreno-Estrada, a population geneticist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and the study’s lead author. Working with Carlos Bustamante, another Stanford population geneticist, the team sampled the genomes of indigenous populations all over Mexico, from the northern desert of Sonora to the jungles of Chiapas in the south. Over centuries of living so far apart—and often in isolation because of mountain ranges, vast deserts, or other geographic barriers—these populations developed genetic differences from one another, Bustamante explains. Many of these variants are what he calls “globally rare but locally common.” That is, a genetic variant that’s widespread in one ethnic group, like the Maya, may hardly ever show up in people of different ancestry, like people of European descent. If you study the genomes of only the Europeans, you’d never catch the Maya variant. And that’s a big problem for people with Maya ancestry if that variant increases their risk of disease or changes the way they react to different kinds of medication. “All politics is local, right? 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The most divergent indigenous groups in Mexico are as different from each other as Europeans are from East Asians, they report online today in Science. This diversity maps onto the geography of Mexico itself. The farther away ethnic groups live from each other, the more different their genomes turn out to be.But most people in Mexico or of Mexican descent these days are not indigenous but rather mestizo, meaning they have a mixture of indigenous, European, and African ancestry. Do their genomes also vary by what region of Mexico they come from, or has all that local variation been smoothed out by centuries of different groups meeting, mixing, and having babies?To answer that question, the team collaborated with Mexico’s National Institute of Genomic Medicine, which has been collecting genetic data from mestizos for many years. Somewhat surprisingly, they found that mestizos in a given part of Mexico tended to have the same “rare” genetic variants as their indigenous neighbors. The mestizo genomes “track so well with the indigenous groups that we could use the genetic diversity in mestizos to make inferences about [their native] ancestors,” Pasaniuc says. Strong genetic markers of Maya ancestry, for example, show up in the genomes of modern people living in the Yucatán Peninsula and the northern part of Mexico’s Gulf Coast in the modern state of Veracruz, which likely reflects a pre-Columbian Maya trade or migration route. “It gives us a historical understanding of what these populations have been up to,” says Christopher Gignoux, a postdoc in Bustamante’s group at Stanford.Even more important are the study’s clinical implications. To determine whether the genetic variation in Mexico could influence disease risk and the accuracy of diagnostic tools, Esteban Burchard, a pulmonologist at UC San Francisco, analyzed how a common measure of lung function tracks with Mexico’s genetic variation. He found that people with genetic variants common in the east of the country had different results on the lung function test than did people with variants from the west. That means doctors probably shouldn’t be using the same criteria to diagnose lung disease in both populations, he says. “What we demonstrated is that depending upon the type of Native American ancestry you have, it can dramatically influence the diagnosis of lung disease, in a good or a bad way,” Burchard explains.Lung function is just one example of the ways in which Mexico’s fine-scale genetic variation could be affecting disease and diagnosis, the team says. For Bustamante, this wealth of potential clinical applications made the study particularly exciting to be a part of. “Let’s move beyond the questions we tend to focus on in population genetics and really try to tackle how we’re going to think about translating this” in ways that modern people can benefit from.*Correction, 13 June, 11:28 a.m.: Mexico contains 65 different indigenous ethnic groups, not 55, as was previously reported. This has been corrected.
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Republican Party of India (Athawale) chief and Union minister Ramdas Athawale has demanded at least 10 seats from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena alliance for his party in the Assembly elections. The total share for the splinter groups in the BJP-Sena alliance has been locked at 18. The RPI(A) demanding a bigger share could derail the talks further, according to BJP leaders.The Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment said his party will not contest elections on a BJP symbol, while reiterating that reservation of Dalits and OBCs will not be reduced because of the promises made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “I do not think there is any need to review reservation. People who should get reservation will surely get it,” Mr. Athawale said in Mumbai. The RPI(A) had only contested eight seats in the State in 2014. The seats the party is demanding are to be picked from: Kej, Udgir, Deglur, Gangakhed (in Marathwada), Bhandara, Chandrapur, Umerkhed, Nagpur North, Pandharvada, Aarni, Mehekar, Badnera (in Vidarbha), Pimpri, Pune Cantonment, Malsish, Mohol, Phaltan (in western Maharashtra), Bhusawal, Chalisgaon, Devalal, Shrirampur (in north Maharashtra), Chembur, Mankhrud Shivajinagar, Dharavi, Kurla, Versova, Chandivili, Ambernath, Ulashnagar and Karjat Khalapur (in Mumbai-Konkan).In 2014, the RPI(A) had contested the Ambernath, Chembur, Pimpri, Deglur, Mehekar, Vikhroli, Shivaji Nagar and Deolali seats. Mr. Athawale said he was hopeful the elections will be a landslide for the alliance. “The current economic situation is challenging, but I am hopeful the measures taken by the Central government would see India progress in a short time,” he said.
Kerala native Jatan, lodged in a jail in Jammu, heard the voice of his wife and minor daughter for the first time in nearly four years, thanks to authorities introducing a first-of-its-kind prison inmate calling system, which allows prisoners to make long-distance calls.He is facing charges under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and is lodged in the district jail Amphalla, which is the first prison in Jammu and Kashmir to get the facility along with modern interview rooms on the occasion of 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, Gita Mittal, inaugurated the facilities on Wednesday evening in the presence of DGP (prisons) V.K. Singh and other senior civil and police officers. A total of 587 prisoners are lodged in Amphalla jail in the city.Facing imprisonment thousands of kilometres away from his home town, Jatan was the first to utilise the inmate calling facility and he talked to his daughter who was just two months old when he was arrested in Jammu.10-minute call“My parents have visited me a few times over the past three-and-a-half years but this facility has reunited me with my wife and daughter, and I am very thankful to the prison authorities for providing such a facility to us,” Jatan told PTI after talking to his family for 10 minutes.Jatan, who was working as a salesman at a jeweller shop in his city before his arrest, has now become a painter taking advantage of the efforts being made by the jail authorities for the reformation of inmates through different vocational training programmes and educational courses.
LATEST STORIES LOOK: Venues for 2019 SEA Games SEA Games in Calabarzon safe, secure – Solcom chief Typhoon Kammuri accelerates, gains strength en route to PH PH men’s volleyball team vows to give it all in SEA Games Read Next UPLB exempted from SEA Games class suspension PH billiards team upbeat about gold medal chances in SEA Games PLAY LIST 03:07PH billiards team upbeat about gold medal chances in SEA Games05:25PH boxing team determined to deliver gold medals for PH00:45Onyok Velasco see bright future for PH boxing in Olympics00:50Trending Articles01:35Panelo suggests discounted SEA Games tickets for students02:49World-class track facilities installed at NCC for SEA Games03:04Filipino athletes share their expectations for 2019 SEA Games02:25PH women’s volleyball team motivated to deliver in front of hometown crowd01:27Filipino athletes get grand send-off ahead of SEA Games Don’t miss out on the latest news and information. Among the firsts to storm out of the trenches for Team Philippines, water polo team is brimming with confidence as it guns for a podium finish in the Southeast Asian Games which starts in Kuala Lumpur next week.Team captain Tain Gomez Jr., said the team honed its skills in a training camp in Barcelona, Spain, which he described as “very hard and high level.”ADVERTISEMENT
K-pop star Jung Joon-young convicted of gang rape, spycam crimes The country’s water polo squad, half of which is made up of enlisted military men, is hoping to duplicate—if not surpass—a silver medal finish in the 2009 Laos SEA Games.The team flies to the Malaysian capital on Sunday, two days before the competition starts at National Aquatics Center in Bukit Jalil.The rest of the team are Abnel Amiladjid, Adan Gonzales, Frazier Alamara, Juan Paolo Serrano, Macgyver Reyes, Mark Jerwin Valdez, Matthew Royce Yu, Mico Anota, Mummar Alamara, Reynaldo Salonga Jr., Romark Johnson Belo and Teodoro Roy Canete Jr.ADVERTISEMENT Brace for potentially devastating typhoon approaching PH – NDRRMC MOST READ WATCH: Streetboys show off slick dance moves in Vhong Navarro’s wedding That, according to him, prepared them for the tough grind ahead as they battle regional heavyweights in the sport like Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand.“This time we don’t feel any pressure because we are confident that we are prepared after training in Barcelona,” said Gomez in Filipino.FEATURED STORIESSPORTSWATCH: Drones light up sky in final leg of SEA Games torch runSPORTSSEA Games: Philippines picks up 1st win in men’s water poloSPORTSMalditas save PH from shutoutThe country went home empty-handed two years ago in the Singapore edition but this time, Gomez said they are not just physically, but also mentally prepared.“We are more focused right now. And we are all fit and in top condition,” said Gomez. Catriona Gray spends Thanksgiving by preparing meals for people with illnesses View comments
View comments Kammuri turning to super typhoon less likely but possible — Pagasa WATCH: Streetboys show off slick dance moves in Vhong Navarro’s wedding Read Next Trending Articles PLAY LIST 00:50Trending Articles00:50Trending Articles00:50Trending Articles01:37Protesters burn down Iran consulate in Najaf01:47Panelo casts doubts on Robredo’s drug war ‘discoveries’01:29Police teams find crossbows, bows in HK university01:35Panelo suggests discounted SEA Games tickets for students02:49Robredo: True leaders perform well despite having ‘uninspiring’ boss02:42PH underwater hockey team aims to make waves in SEA Games Perez will be joined by fellow Pirates MJ Ayaay and Mike Nzeusseu in Team Heroes, which will be coached by Topex Robinson. Also part of the squad are Allen Enriquez, Lervin Flores, and Kent Salado of Arellano; Jerome Garcia, Francis Munsayac, and Onwubere of EAC; Ervin Grospe, Jed Mendoza, and Teytey Teodoro of JRU; and Christian Bunag, JB Raflores and Laurenz Victoria of Mapua.St. Benilde standouts Edward Dixon, JJ Domingo, and Gerard Castor are also part of Team Saints, along with Letran’s JP Calvo, Rey Nambatac, and Bong Quinto, Perpetual Help’s Gab Dagangon, Prince Eze, and GJ Ylagan, and San Sebastian’s Alvin Baetiong, Kevin Baytan, and Ian Valdez. San Beda’s Boyet Fernandez will coach Team Saints.Leading the cast in the slam dunk contest are Lervin Flores of Arellano, Arnaud Noah of San Beda, Renato Ular of Letran, Allyn Bulanadi of San Sebastian and many more.ADVERTISEMENT LATEST STORIES MOST READ Catriona Gray spends Thanksgiving by preparing meals for people with illnesses SEA Games in Calabarzon safe, secure – Solcom chief
Don’t miss out on the latest news and information. Brace for potentially devastating typhoon approaching PH – NDRRMC Two of the NCAA’s top players—Lyceum hotshot CJ Perez and Robert Bolick of San Beda—banner the squads that will square off in the NCAA All-Star Game on Friday, while San Beda marksman AC Soberano defends his Three-Point Shootout crown in the side events at Filoil Flying V Centre in San Juan.ADVERTISEMENT Highlands pulls away in overall race Perez, who has been instrumental to the Pirates’ impressive 9-0 start to the season, will spearhead Team Heroes, whose players will also be composed of standouts from Arellano, Emilio Aguinaldo College, Jose Rizal U and Mapua.Team Saints, which features Bolick and San Beda teammates Jayvee Mocon and Davon Patts, will also be made up of stars from Letran, San Sebastian, St. Benilde and Perpetual Help.FEATURED STORIESSPORTSWATCH: Drones light up sky in final leg of SEA Games torch runSPORTSSEA Games: Philippines picks up 1st win in men’s water poloSPORTSMalditas save PH from shutoutThe midseason showcase will also feature a skills challenge, the shooting stars event and a slam dunk contest, where PBA great Jimmy Alapag and Gilas cadet standout Ray Parks will be among the judges.Soberano will defend his title against the league’s top marksmen, including Sidney Onwubere of EAC. Also in the contest are Letran’s Jerrick Balanza, Wilson Baltazar of Lyceum, RK Ilagan of San Sebastian, Brylle Meca of Arellano, Matt Johnson of St. Benilde, MJ Dela Virgen of JRU, Almel Orquina of Mapua and Jack Hao of Perpetual Help. Typhoon Kammuri accelerates, gains strength en route to PH LOOK: Venues for 2019 SEA Games UPLB exempted from SEA Games class suspension
E.T. returns to earth, reunites with grown-up Elliott in new ad BSP sees higher prices in November, but expects stronger peso, low rice costs to put up fight San Beda had the chance to finish the match early but allowed St. Benilde to come back mainly through Ranya Musa, who had 22 points including eight blocks.“We lacked the aggressiveness in the third set because after winning the first two we became very complacent,” said Racraquin.The fourth frame was tied at 13 until “our rotation allowed us to make crucial adjustments,” said Racraquin, whose three straight points gave San Beda a 20-17 lead.ADVERTISEMENT The 20-year-old Racraquin displayed leadership beyond her years in leading San Beda to a 25-21, 25-20, 17-25, 25-22 triumph over St. Benilde in the Premier Volleyball League Collegiate Conference at Filoil Flying V Centre.“I know that I have something different to offer,” said Racraquin, who scored 15 points including 12 attacks.FEATURED STORIESSPORTSWATCH: Drones light up sky in final leg of SEA Games torch runSPORTSSEA Games: Philippines picks up 1st win in men’s water poloSPORTSMalditas save PH from shutoutTrue to her promise, the 5-foot-8 stunner also proved to be as sharp on the defensive end, making 22 excellent digs and 10 receptions for the Lady Red Spikers, who improved to a 2-1 record.In the second match, Lyceum downed Jose Rizal University, 25-20, 24-26, 25-13, 25-22, for its first win. Trending Articles PLAY LIST 00:50Trending Articles01:18Woman gives birth at Manila North Cemetery on All Souls’ Day00:50Trending Articles01:37Protesters burn down Iran consulate in Najaf01:47Panelo casts doubts on Robredo’s drug war ‘discoveries’01:29Police teams find crossbows, bows in HK university01:35Panelo suggests discounted SEA Games tickets for students02:49Robredo: True leaders perform well despite having ‘uninspiring’ boss02:42PH underwater hockey team aims to make waves in SEA Games LATEST STORIES SBC’s top hitter Cesca Racraquin challenges St. Benildes’ Dianne Ventura as Marites Pablo tries to provide help during their PVL Collegiate Conference clash at the Filoil Flying V Center. CONTRIBUTED PHOTOChesca Racraquin doesn’t mind being likened to seasoned veteran Rachel Anne Daquis, but as much as possible, she wants to carve her own niche.On Wednesday night she made a strong case for it.ADVERTISEMENT Frontrow holds fun run to raise funds for young cancer patients Never an easy road to the Grand Slam For the complete collegiate sports coverage including scores, schedules and stories, visit Inquirer Varsity. Fire hits houses in Mandaluyong City WATCH: Streetboys show off slick dance moves in Vhong Navarro’s wedding LOOK: Loisa Andalio, Ronnie Alonte unwind in Amanpulo for 3rd anniversary Brace for potentially devastating typhoon approaching PH – NDRRMC Nonong Araneta re-elected as PFF president Don’t miss out on the latest news and information. View comments Read Next MOST READ
Frontrow holds fun run to raise funds for young cancer patients MOST READ BC ASTANA 65 — Gavrilov 11, Clemmons 10, Carter 10, Degtyarev 8, Murzagaliyev 8, Zhigulin 8, Yergali 6, Kolesnikov 2, Marchuk 2, Chsherbak 0.Quarters: 21-19, 35-43, 57-55, 73-65. LOOK: Loisa Andalio, Ronnie Alonte unwind in Amanpulo for 3rd anniversary Fire hits houses in Mandaluyong City Pingris grateful for coach, teammates’ support as he gets 5k points Nonong Araneta re-elected as PFF president Read Next BSP sees higher prices in November, but expects stronger peso, low rice costs to put up fight Brace for potentially devastating typhoon approaching PH – NDRRMC Trending Articles PLAY LIST 00:50Trending Articles00:50Trending Articles00:50Trending Articles01:37Protesters burn down Iran consulate in Najaf01:47Panelo casts doubts on Robredo’s drug war ‘discoveries’01:29Police teams find crossbows, bows in HK university01:35Panelo suggests discounted SEA Games tickets for students02:49Robredo: True leaders perform well despite having ‘uninspiring’ boss02:42PH underwater hockey team aims to make waves in SEA Games BC Astana stayed alive in the fourth quarter, thanks to back-to-back triples from Anthony Clemmons and Alexandr Zhigulin in the final 3:48 that cut Chooks’ lead down to two, 65-63, but LA Revilla and Austin iced the win with huge baskets in the end game.Dmitriy Gavrilov paced BC Astana with 11 points and 11 rebounds, while Clemmons and Justin Carter both had 10 in the defeat.Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas will shoot for its second win on Saturday as it takes on Sarreyet Ramallah of Palestine.The Scores:CHOOKS-TO-GO PILIPINAS 73 — Ravena 22, Austin 17, Manuel 10, Jeri. Teng 7, Jose 6, Revilla 5, Cruz 2, Torres 2, Jero. Teng 1, Tamsi 1, Vosotros 0.ADVERTISEMENT LATEST STORIES Don’t miss out on the latest news and information. The 23-year-old also had three rebounds, two assists, and two steals, including the game-sealing freebies with 20 seconds left in the clock as Gilas got off to a good start in the continental club competition.Isaiah Austin also impressed in his first game in national team colors, firing 17 markers, 18 rebounds, and six blocks to hold the paint for Chooks-to-Go.FEATURED STORIESSPORTSWATCH: Drones light up sky in final leg of SEA Games torch runSPORTSSEA Games: Philippines picks up 1st win in men’s water poloSPORTSMalditas save PH from shutoutJett Manuel also added 10 points, while Jeric Teng got seven in the victory.Chooks rallied back from a 51-44 deficit midway in the third quarter with a 13-2 blast, punctuated by a Jeric Teng three to take a 57-53 lead with 1:14 left in the period. View comments Photo from FibaAsia.comChooks-to-Go Pilipinas did just enough to hold off BC Astana, 73-65, to open its 2017 Fiba Asia Champions Cup campaign Friday at Chenzhou Sports Center in Chenzhou, China.Kiefer Ravena uncorked nine of his 22 points in the third quarter, where the Philippine side staged a huge fightback after being down by as big as 11, 40-29.ADVERTISEMENT E.T. returns to earth, reunites with grown-up Elliott in new ad Kammuri turning to super typhoon less likely but possible — Pagasa