Trump demands withdrawal of India's 'unacceptable' tariff hike

INSIDE THIS ISSUEPompeo meets

PM Modi

Pompeo vows cooperation with India but trade defence issues unresolved Page 9

United States says nations must force foreign companies to store data locally

US has no plans to cap H-1B visa

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Super 30 is an upcoming Indian biographical drama fi lm directed by Vikas Bahl

lsquoBadrinath Ki Dulhaniarsquo

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Kohli fined 25 of match fee

Virat Kohli was fi ned 25 of his match fee for excessive appeal-ing in World Cup contest against Afghanistan Page 23

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Thought of the Week ldquoIt is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not peopleto focus your energies on answers -- not excusesrdquo - William Arthur Ward

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Trump demands withdrawal of Indiarsquos lsquounacceptablersquo tariff hike

US President Donald Trump does a fi st bump with Japanrsquos Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indiarsquos Prime MinisterNarendra Modi during a trilateral meeting on the fi rst day of the G20 summit on June 28 2019 in Osaka Japan

By Neha Dasgupta

NEW DELHI - US President Donald Trump on Thursday de-manded India withdraw retaliatory tariff s imposed by New Delhi this month calling the duties ldquounac-ceptablerdquo in a stern message that signals trade ties between the two countries are fast deteriorating

India slapped higher duties on 28 US products after the United States withdrew tariff -free entry for certain Indian goods Washing-ton is also upset with New Delhirsquos plans to restrict cross-border data fl ows and impose stricter rules on e-commerce that hurt US fi rms operating in India

ldquoI look forward to speaking with Prime Minister Modi about the fact that India for years hav-ing put very high tariff s against the United States just recently increased the tariff s even furtherrdquo Trump said on Twitter

ldquoThis is unacceptable and the tariff s must be withdrawnrdquo said Trump who will meet Modi at this weekrsquos G20 summit in Japan

Government sources rejected Trumprsquos argument saying Indian tariff s were not that high compared to other developing countries and US tariff s on some items were much higher

Indiarsquos trade ministry did not immediately respond to a Reuters email seeking comment

Trumprsquos tweet came hours

after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left New Delhi after meeting Modi Pompeo had said the nations were ldquofriends who can help each other all around the worldrdquo and the current diff erences were expressed ldquoin the spirit of friendshiprdquo

In one tweet though Trump may have badly undermined Pom-peorsquos eff orts to reduce frictionbetween the two countries

Trump in May scrapped trade privileges for India under the Gen-eralized System of Preferences

(GSP) under which New Delhi was the biggest benefi ciary that allowed duty-free exports of up to $56 billion

India initially issued an order in June last year to raise import taxes as high as 120 on a slew of US items incensed by Washingtonrsquos refusal to exempt it from higher steel and aluminium tariff s

But New Delhi repeatedly de-layed raising tariff s as the two na-tions engaged in trade talks Trade between them was worth $1421 billion in 2018 with India having

a surplus of $242 billionThe relationship took a big hit

with Indiarsquos sudden introduction of new e-commerce rules for for-eign investors in February

That angered the United States which saw a protectionist New Delhi eff ort to help small traders at the expense of US fi rms such as Walmart and Amazoncom Inc

Companies such as Mastercard and Visa have also been battling Indian central bank rules that mandate them to store their data only in India

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Modi says one-sided decisions drive development of global economyOSAKA - The development

of the global economy is largely driven by one-sided decisions and disputes felt by the entire system Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday

ldquoWe should still focus on the World Trade Organisation (WTO)

reform to achieve balanced de-velopment of the global economy and so this growth is open to ev-eryonerdquo Modi told a meeting of leaders of the grouping of BRICS nations on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japanrsquos western city of Osaka

Russias President Vladimir Putin (2nd L) Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro (C) Indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi (2nd R) Chinarsquos President Xi Jinping (L) and South Africas President Cyril Ramaphosa pose for a picture during the BRICS summit in Osaka Japan on June 28 2019Sp

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By Mayank Bhardwaj

HARIDWAR India - Hundreds of Hindu monks gathered under the banner of a group linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos Hindu nationalist party last Thurs-day urged the government to help build a temple on a disputed religious site in Ayodhya

ldquoAfter taking part in our annual event the seers are of the view that the government must re-move every single obstacle in the path of a grand temple in Ayod-hyardquo Alok Kumar international

working president of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) or World Hindu Council told Reuters

The demand from his conser-vative allies puts further pres-sure on Modi who last month came back to power with a bigger mandate to quickly resolve a dis-pute that has cast its shadow over the relationship between Indiarsquos majority Hindus and minority Muslims

The VHP shares ideological ties with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and it has led the campaign over the past three

decades to build a temple on the site of what Hindus say is the birthplace of Lord Ram one of their most revered deities

The disputed site in Ayodhya situated in politically crucial Ut-tar Pradesh - Indiarsquos most popu-lous state - continues to be one of the most polarising issues in a nation where Muslims are 14 per-cent of the 13 billion population

VIOLENT HISTORYA militant Hindu mob tore

down the centuries-old mosque in Ayodhya in 1992 triggering ri-ots that killed about 2000 people in one of the worst instances of communal violence in India since

the 1947 partition of the countryHindu groups insist there was

a temple at the site before the mosque was built by a Muslim ruler in 1528

The birthplace of Lord Ram a physical incarnation of God Vishnu deserves a grand tem-ple said Champat Rai national vice-president of the VHP

ldquoAfter all itrsquos a question of the sentiment of millions of Hindus who see Ayodhya as one of their most sacred places as sacred as Mecca is in Islamrdquo Rai said

The monks who gathered in the holy city of Haridwar on the banks of the Ganges river sacred to most Indians also asked the

top court to quickly resolve the decades-old dispute

ldquoWersquove decided to write a let-ter to Indiarsquos chief justice to en-sure a speedy conclusion of the caserdquo said VHPrsquos Kumar

While keeping control over the controversial site in Ayodhya the Supreme Court has been weigh-ing petitions from both Hindu and Muslim communities on what should be built there

Late last year the Supreme Court appointed an arbitration panel to mediate in the dispute The arbitration panel headed by former judge F M Kalifulla is expected to give its report by Aug 15

Hindu monks push government to help build temple on disputed site in Ayodhya

FILE PHOTO People look at a model of a proposed Ram temple that Hindu groups want to build at a disputed religious site in Ayodhya in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh India on November 9 2018

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Some in Indiarsquos opposition see redover new orange cricket jerseys

MUMBAI - Some opposi-tion politicians on Wednesday slammed the Indian national cricket teamrsquos new orange jer-seys accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos right-wing Hindu nationalist party of push-ing its trademark saffron hue on the team

ldquoFor the past five years the Modi-led government is trying to saffronize each and every thing Be it sports cultural activities or anything for that matterrdquo said Congress lawmaker Arif Nas-eem Khan according to Reuters partner ANI

But an International Cricket

Council (ICC) source told ANI that the Indian cricket board (BCCI) had simply opted for or-ange over its classic blue jersey to distinguish itself from Eng-land whom India are due to play in the World Cup on Sunday

BCCI officials were not immediately available

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Mother gets up to life in prison for strangling stepdaughter in bathtub

NEW YORK - A 58-year-old Queens woman has been sentenced to up to life in prison for strangling her 9-year-old step-daughter in a bathtub in 2016 a crime a neighbor was horrified to discover after breaking down the locked bathroom door

Prosecutors say Shamdai Arjun of Queens was sentenced this month after being convicted of murder in the August 2016 death of Ashdeep Kaur

She will spend 22 years to up to life be-hind bars for the slaying

A jury convicted Arjun in less than an hour back in May for the murder of Ash-deep who lived with Arjun at her Rich-mond Hill home according to the Queens DA

During the trial prosecutors say an eyewitness observed Arjun and her ex-husband leaving the Queens home on the evening of Aug 19 2016 with two

grandchildren The eyewitness asked about the stepdaughter and was told she was in the bathroom waiting for her fa-ther to pick her up

Prosecutors say the eyewitness called the victimrsquos father who told her to break down the bathroom door She did and found the girl strangled in the bathtub

The medical examiner ruled the girl died of manual strangulation Arjunrsquos ex-husband was charged with obstruct-ing police shortly after she was arrest-ed though the status of his case wasnrsquot immediately clear

ldquoWhat was disturbing to me is the cal-lousness of this case the extreme vio-lence undertaken both in terms of the du-ration and the purpose the hate and evil that must have consumed [Arjun] in or-der to take the life of a 9-year-oldrdquo Judge Kenneth Holder said at the hearing

Holder referred to trial testimony of a medical examiner who determined Arjun must have strangled her stepdaughter for at least 4 minutes

ldquoShe had to endure that that was the last moment of her liferdquo Holder said ldquoThe suffering that this child endured as she was being killed is actually unimagi-nable and to boot you were the last face that she looked up and had to see before she diedrdquo

Prior to the sentencing Ashdeeprsquos fa-ther Sukhjinder Singh cried throughout his statement to the court as did relatives

seated with himldquoWhenever I came home from work

my daughter always said lsquoPapa Paparsquo Now nobody says Papardquo he said ldquoMy daughter said to me lsquoPapa one day I may become a police officerrsquo rdquo

ldquoMy wife killed my daughter hellip she killed my daughter because she already

have two daughters She is no mother she is evilrdquo he said

Assistant District Attorney Denise Tiri-no lamented the case as ldquoone of the most horrific crimes Irsquove ever prosecutedrdquo de-claring ldquoThere is absolutely no sentence that the court can impose that would be appropriaterdquo

CEO charged in $66 million accounting fraud scheme

Shamdai Arjun

WASHINGTON DC - The Securities and Exchange Commission this month filed a new fraud action against Long-fin Corp and its CEO for falsifying the companyrsquos revenue and together with a former Longfin consultant for fraudu-lently securing the companyrsquos listing on Nasdaq The SECrsquos prior charges against these defendants and two others result-ed in a preliminary injunction freezing more than $27 million in allegedly ille-gal trading proceeds from unregistered distributions of Longfin stock

The action filed this month in federal district court in Manhattan alleges that Longfin and its CEO Venkata S Meena-valli 49 of India conducted a fraudu-lent public offering of Longfin shares The complaint alleges that Longfin and Meenavalli obtained qualification for a Regulation A+ offering by falsely repre-senting in SEC filings that the company was principally managed and operated in the US when in fact the compa-nyrsquos operations assets and management remained offshore

Longfin and Meenavalli as alleged then engaged in a fraudulent scheme by distributing over 400000 shares of Long-fin to insiders and affiliates to meet cer-tain Nasdaq listing criteria without ob-taining payment for any of these shares and along with Longfin consultant Andy Altahawi misrepresented to Nasdaq the number of qualifying sharehold-ers and shares sold in the offering The SECrsquos complaint alleges that Longfin and Meenavalli also engaged in an account-ing fraud recording more than $66 mil-lion in sham revenue representing nearly 90 of Longfinrsquos total 2017 reported rev-

enue Longfin voluntarily delisted from Nasdaq in May 2018 and shut down in November 2018

In a parallel action the US Attorneyrsquos Office for the District of New Jersey this month announced related criminal charges against Meenavalli

The SECrsquos prior action alleged that Longfin Meenavalli Altahawi and two affiliated individuals Dorababu Penum-arthi and Suresh Tammineedi illegally distributed and sold more than $33 mil-lion of Longfin stock in unregistered transactions

Altahawi Penumarthi and Tamminee-di have agreed to settlements subject to court approval that would fully resolve the SECrsquos charges and have agreed to surrender the previously frozen funds towards paying monetary relief With-out admitting or denying the charges Altahawi has agreed to settle the fraud charges and the prior charges of trading in unregistered securities The proposed settlement would require Altahawi to re-turn $21 million of allegedly ill-gotten gains pay a $29 million penalty and surrender all his Longfin shares Al-tahawi also agreed to be barred from serving as a public company officer or director for five years and to an indus-try bar to be issued in an administrative proceeding

Penumarthi and Tammineedi without admitting or denying the charges agreed to settle all pending charges for trading in unregistered securities The proposed settlements require Penumarthi to pay more than $17 million and Tammineedi to pay more than $241000 in addition to injunctive relief

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ROCKFORD IL - Starting on July 1 Illinois drivers caught while using an electronic de-vice will be issued a movingviolation

ldquoIf you get three moving vio-lations in twelve months you could be risking the suspen-sion of your license or things of that naturerdquo says Roscoe

Police Sgt Robert LewisViolators will also be charged

a $75 fi ne for their fi rst off ense That number will increase by $25 each additional off ensecapping off at $150

ldquoPeople try to do diff erent things they think might be safer for themrdquo says Lewis ldquoThey will hold [their phone] away

New Illinois texting-while-driving law brings harsher penalties for violators from their face or off to the side Theyrsquoll even move it down so it is not in their face but that is still distracted drivingrdquo

This law applies to cellphones laptops iPads etc Using a hands-free feature is the only way to use these devices while on the roadways

ldquoWhen you look down and

read [a text] for one second as your trying to drive you canrsquot do itrdquo says safety driving instructor Terry Grossmayer ldquoIf you see the person drive off the road in front of you itrsquos because they are texting and drivingrdquo

AAA reports 97 of people in 2018 believed texting and driving is dangerous but 35 of those people admitted to doing it anyway

ldquoEverything is running through your cellphonerdquo says Lewis ldquoIt is almost natural to be looking at that no matter what purpose it serves Just know that your life is more important than that text or that post or what-ever it may berdquo

Experts say there are simple ways to break the habit

ldquoA good thing to do is just try to put your phone somewhere else - put it in the console or put it in the glove boxrdquo says Gross-mayer

ldquoDonrsquot multitask while driv-ingrdquo says Lewis ldquoIf there is an important phone call or text that yoursquove got to send out pull over off the roadrdquo

Police on duty drivers report-ing an emergency parked on the shoulder or using a hands-free feature are the only exceptions to the new law

Drivers under 18 however are not permitted to use hands-free devices

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Florida man hit by stranger during argument with wife dies

ORANGE COUNTY FL - A man has died after being punched in the face by a stranger who intervened in an argument he was having with his wife at a Kissimmee Florida restaurant

The wife of Srikanth ldquoShrikrdquo Srinivasan said he was declared clinically brain dead on June 4 and was taken off life support a day later

Barbara Srinivasan says she and her husband were arguing at the restaurant on the night of June 4 when Benjamin Hernan-dez confronted him about how he was talking to her She says Hernandez then punched Srini-vasan in the face causing him to fall and hit his head on the fl oor

The blow knocked the man to the ground and he hit his head suff ering brain damage offi cials said

ldquoI said lsquoSomethingrsquos not rightrsquo So I started looking around his head and I saw blood coming from the back of his head and I screamed for some-one to call 911rdquo Srinivasan said

She said she got into an argu-ment with her husband about movies earlier that night

She suggested Srikanth should drop her off at the Ale House and she would meet him back home later

At the outdoor restaurantrsquos outdoor bar the couple kept talking in a serious tone

Barbara Srinivasan says she

never asked Hernandez to get involved

Deputies say Hernandez stepped in to try to de-escalate the situation

The victimrsquos wife said she does not see it that way

ldquoHe repeatedly kept calling him the N word and my husband kept saying lsquoIrsquom not that Thatrsquos not even my ethnicity You donrsquot even know what yoursquore talking aboutrsquordquo Srinivasan said

Hernandez told investigators his mother was abused and he was trying to intervene so Srini-vasan would not get hurt

ldquoWho has the right to go up and knock someone out if their husband goes and says some-thing sharprdquo Srinivasan said

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WASHINGTON DC - A man who set himself on fire near the White House has died of his inju-ries US Park Police said

The man identified as Arnav Gupta of Bethesda Maryland set himself on fire afternoon on the Ellipse Park not far from the Washington Monument in full view of passersby

He ldquodied of his injuries later that eveningrdquo police said in a statement

Park Police said they had turned over their investigation to the Washington Metropolitan

Police DepartmentMultiple outlets reported that

Gupta was the man who had been reported missing by police in suburban Montgomery County Maryland

In a Facebook post asking for public help locating him the po-lice said that Gupta 33 was last seen by his family when he left his home around 920 am

Police said in the post that they ldquoare concerned for Gup-tarsquos physical and emotional welfarerdquo

The Secret Service said that

officers responded in ldquosecondsrdquo after Gupta set himself on fire then began administering first aid and transported him to a hospital

The White House did not im-mediately respond to CNBCrsquos

request for comment on Guptarsquos death

Alina Berzins 17 told CNBC that she was visiting the Nation-al Mall with two of her cousins and saw the man ldquorunning and then we saw him covered in

flamesrdquoThe manrsquos motive remains un-

clear Another man had set his jacket on fire outside the White Housersquos North Fence Line in April That manrsquos injuries were not life-threatening

Man dies after setting himself on fire near White House

Police release surveillance photo after armed robbery at 7-Eleven in Niles Illinois

NILES IL - Police are asking for the publicrsquos help in locating two male suspects after an armed robbery at a 7-Eleven in the Village of Niles

According to the Niles Police Department the armed rob-bery took place at a 7-Eleven store located at 7450 W Oakton St on Sunday June 16 around 745 pm

Police said one man entered the store and attempted to dis-tract the clerk by trying to buy cigarettes The second man then entered the store and pointed a gun at the employee and de-manded money from the register

The offenders took money from the register forced the clerk to open the back door of the store and fled on foot

According to police one sus-pect was wearing sunglasses and

a dark hooded sweatshirt The second suspect was wearing a black Nike baseball hat a dark colored jacket and had his face covered by ldquosome type of nylon materialrdquo

Officers searched the area but were unable to locate the offend-ers

Police said the men took ap-

proximately $2000 an unknown number of cigarettes and an un-known number of lottery tickets

Anyone with information or surveillance video from be-tween 730 pm and 750 pm on Sunday June 16 is asked to contact the Niles Police De-partment Detective Bureau at 847-588-6570

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HEALTH amp SCIENCE7Saturday June 29 2019

NATIONAL NEWS

SOLANO COUNTY CA - Three teens have been arrested in an online dating bait-and-switch scheme they used to lure two victims to a remote part of the county before robbing and shoot-ing them according to Solano County Sheriffrsquos investigators

Herersquos how the sheriffrsquos depart-ment says both dates went down Amit Chhoker 18 would con-nect with the victims through an online dating website Then she would pick up the dates and drive them to a pullout on Putah Creek Road near Lake Solano north of

3 arrested in online dating scheme that left victims shot robbedVacaville

ldquoThen theyrsquod get intimaterdquo Solano Undersheriff Brad Dewall said

Thatrsquos when the accomplices allegedly jumped into action In-vestigators said Branden Lerma 19 and an unnamed 17-year-old

boy would jump out of the bush-es and into the car where Chhok-er and the victims were

One of the three of them in-vestigators arenrsquot sure which one told the dates to curl up into a ball and then they were shot

The three then robbed the vic-tims and took off leaving the injured dates behind investiga-tors said This happened in April and again in June with the same

modus operandi both timesldquoKind of heightened our alarm

that we had a pattern going onrdquo Dewall said

Investigators were able to trace one of the victimrsquos phones to a house in the Sacramento suburb of Woodland There they caught Chhoker and a few days later Lerma and the 17-year-old

ldquoThis could have ended very tragically obviously shot in the middle of a very remote area and then left with no communica-tion in the middle of the nightrdquo Dewall said

Investigators say they arenrsquot sure who actually pulled the trig-ger in this case because all three suspects are pointing their fingers at each other

Amit Chhoker (L)and Branden Lerma

Iowa family of four dies in apparent murder-suicide police say

WEST DES MOINES IA - An Iowa family of four was found dead over the weekend in an apparent murder-suicide authorities said

The bodies of Chandrasekhar Sunkara 44 his wife Lavanya Sunkara 41 and their two boys ages 10 and 15 were found with gunshot wounds in a West Des Moines home last Saturday morning police said

Officials said an autopsy showed that the boys and their mother were homicide victims while Chandrasekhar Sunkara had died by suicide No further details were given

Four other family members were visiting the family at the time of the murder-suicide the Des Moines Register reported One of those

relatives had discovered the bod-ies and ran outside to ask a pass-erby for help who then contacted police

ldquoThis tragedy will impact fam-ily friends co-workers anyone that knew this familyrdquo West Des Moines police Sgt Dan Wade said in a press release ldquoWe are

continuing to work through this investigationrdquo

Chandrasekhar Sunkara had reportedly worked at Iowarsquos De-partment of Public Safety The boysrsquo identities werenrsquot released because of their age Police said there is no continuing threat to the community

India Bulletin

Chandrasekhar Sunkara Lavanya Sunkara

Indian national arrested for transporting illegal aliens

SYRACUSE NY - Jaswinder Singh 30 of Philadelphia Penn-sylvania has been charged in federal court in Syracuse with transporting aliens in the US knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that the aliens were in the United States illegally

A criminal complaint charges Singh with transporting two

aliens who were without lawful status in the US and alleges that he received approximate-ly $2200 as payment for his services

The charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison a fine of up to $250000 and a term of supervised release of up to 3 years