Germany passes law against online hate speech Friday June 30,2017

German lawmakers approved a bill on Friday  June 30,2017 aimed at cracking down on hate speech on social networks, which critics say could have drastic consequences for free speech online.

The measure approved is designed to enforce the country’s existing limits on speech, including the long-standing ban on Holocaust denial. Among other things, it would fine social networking sites up to 50 million Euros ($56 million) if they persistently fail to remove illegal content within a week, including defamatory “fake news.”

“Freedom of speech ends where the criminal law begins,” said Justice Minister Heiko Maas, who was the driving force behind the bill.

Germany legalises same-sex marriage Friday June 30,2017

German lawmakers voted on Friday June 30,2017 to legalise same-sex marriage after a short but emotional debate, bringing the country in line with many of its Western peers. Though Chancellor Angela Merkel voted against the measure, she paved the way for its passage by freeing other members of her party to vote their "conscience."

Lawmakers voted 393 for legalising “marriage for everybody” and 226 against, with four abstentions.

Note

Germany has allowed same-sex couples to enter civil partnerships since 2001, but has not granted them full marital rights, which include the possibility to jointly adopt children

Goods and Service Tax(GST) - 30 Years To GST

India's GST discussions started in 1986-8.

 It's taken almost 30 years of discussion and missed deadlines for GST to be finally ready to be flagged off.

Goods and Service Tax(GST) - Magic Or Mirage ?

The introduction of goods and services tax (GST) is called transformative because it is meant to benefit everybody and hurt none.

 However, the form in which the tax is introduced in India has many experts worried that it will increase complexity and uncertainty, nullifying any gains.

Goods and Services Tax(GST) - Pay more for bank services, insurance premium, credit card bills from July 01,2017

Consumers will have to shell out more for banking services, insurance premium payments and credit card bills with the GST rollout from Saturday July 01,2017 onwards.

Under the Goods and Services Tax, effective Friday midnight June 30,2017, most of the financial services would attract a higher tax of 18 per cent as against 15 per cent as of now.

Goods and Services Tax(GST) - Lesser talktime, higher phone bills under GST regime effective from Saturday July 01,2017

Mobile phone bills are expected to go up while recharges would yeild less talktime for prepaid customers from Saturday onwards under the new GST tax regime.

Under the Goods and Services Tax (GST), telecom services would be taxed at 18 percent compared to 15 percent currently.

This means that a user would get a talktime of about Rs 80 on a recharge of Rs 100, compared to about Rs 83 earlier.

Similarly, costs for postpaid users would also go up to the extent of three percentage points. So, for a monthly usage of Rs 1,000, users will have to pay Rs 1,180 instead of Rs 1,150 currently.

2017 India Tour of West Indies - West Indies Vs India Fourth ODI @ Antigua Sunday July 02,2017

Head-to Head in ODI's

• Total Match - 116 
• West Indies Wins - 60 
• India Wins - 53 
• Tied - 1 
• No Result - 2 

First Match: Prudential World Cup - 1st match, Group B, West Indies won by 9 wickets (with 8.3 overs remaining) at Edgbaston, Birmingham (neutral venue), Jun 9, 1979 

Last Match: 28th Match in World Cup - India won by four wickets at W.A.C.A. Ground, Perth on March 6, 2015  

5-Match ODI Series Results

First ODI @ Port of Spain on Friday June 23,2017
No Result - Match Abadoned beacause of rain

Second ODI @ Port of Spain Sunday June 25,2017
India 310/5 in 43 Overs
West Indies 205/6 in 43 Over
Match Result - India won by 105 Runs
MOM - Ajinkya Rahane(India)for his 103(104 Balls 4x10 and 6x2)

Third ODI @ Antigua Friday June 30,2017
India 251/4 in 50 Overs
West Indies 158/10 in 38.1 Overs
Match Result - India won by 93 Runs
MOM - M S Dhoni (India) for his 78*(79 Balls 4x4 and 6x2)

Fourth ODI @ Antigua Sunday July 02,2017
West Indies 189/9 in 50 Overs
India             178/10 in 49.4 Overs
Match REsult - West Indies won by 11 Runs
MOM - Jason Holder(West Indies)for his 5/27(9.4 Overs)
Series Result -  India led the 5-match series 2-1

West Indies Beat India in a Nail-Biter to Stay Alive in the Series

Jason Holder registered career best figures of 5-27 as West Indies defeated India by 11 runs and stayed alive in the five match One Day series.

India lost in-form Shikhar Dhawan (5), captain Virat Kohli (3) and Dinesh Karthik (2) cheaply after restricting West Indies to a modest 189/9 in 50 Overs

But Ajinkya Rahane and MS Dhoni then came together and stitched a 54-run partnership together. It was a rather slow partnership, and took them 18.1 overs to make 54-runs.

M S Dhoni played a rather slow innings, making 54 off 114 balls. 

After scoring his 64th half-century in the fourth ODI in Antigua, Dhoni took his international runs tally to 15581 (ODIs: 9496, Tests: 4876, T20Is: 1209). While Gilchrist has scored 15461 runs in his illustrious international career (ODIs: 9619, Tests: 5570, T20Is: 272)

However, Dhoni may have overtook Gilchrist, but he is still very far behind the record of Sri Lankan wicket-keeping great Kumara Sangakkara, who accumulated 10,000+ runs in both ODIs and T20Is.
He was dismissed on the last ball off the 49th over, with Williams accounting for the former India captain.

India never really got going, and seemed to be behind the eight-ball throughout the chase. But it never looked as if they were out of the game, with Dhoni almost staying till the end.

Pandya scored 20 runs and Jadhav 10 as the batsmen struggled to get runs on what was a slow and a sluggish pitch.

Earlier, all-rounder Hardik Pandya (3/40) and chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav (2/31) yet again proved very effective in the middle overs while Umesh Yadav (3/36) scalped three
batsmen later on in India's dominating bowling show. 

Coming into the must-win match, West Indies elected to bat and were off to a steady start but lacked character for a flourishing finish against the visitors.

Openers Evin Lewis (35) and Kyle Hope (35) put on 57 runs in a steady start for the hosts before young Pandya broke the partnership by getting rid of the latter.

Kuldeep, who has looked impressive from the beginning of his debut, made life tough tough for the West Indies batsmen with his stock ball and googlies.

Lewis tried to open his arms, going for a drive off Kuldeep, but the ball turned a bit and went straight to captain Virat Kohli at mid-wicket.

With Pandya and Kuldeep bowling in tandem accurate lines, the hosts found the going tough. Lack of application from the home batsmen made the job easier for India.

Paceman Umesh Yadav also contributed in cleaning up the middle over by scalping three batsmen.

Once the openers departed it got worse for the West Indies, which needed a good partnership and a batsman, who could stay on the crease for a longer period.

The chinaman bowler struck for the second time when he deceived Roston Chase (25) in the air and the ball clipped the bails, leaving the team at 121 for there in 31.2 overs.

The hosts maintained a decent run-rate but now they needed to accelerate to present some challenge before the formidable batting line-up.

Pandya returned and dismissed wicket-keeper Shai Hope (25) by having him caught behind and soon Umesh Yadav had his first victim in rival captain Jason Holder (11).

Half the team was back in pavilion. The responsibility to get the side a fighting total was on Jason Mohammed and Rovman Powell.

However both of them departed soon. Powell, attempting to hit one hard from Umesh, miscued one to Ravindra Jadeja while Mohammed hit straight to Jadeja while slashing one from Pandya.

Umesh troubled the tail-enders Devendra Bishoo (15) and Ashley Nurse (4) with his fast and rising deliveries. One such ball hurried on to Nurse took an edge and Umesh caught it diving to his follow right

Scorecard
West Indies 189/9 in 50 Overs
India             178/10 in 49.4 Overs
Match REsult - West Indies won by 11 Runs
MOM - Jason Holder(West Indies)for his 5/27(9.4 Overs)
Series Result -  India led the 5-match series 2-1

WEST INDIES

189/9(50.0 Overs)RR 3.78

BATTING

R

B

4s

6s

S/R

EVIN LEWIS

c V. Kohli b K. Yadav

35

60

2

2

58.33

KYLE HOPE

c K. Jadhav b H. Pandya

35

63

4

0

55.55

SHAI HOPE (wk)

c MS Dhoni b H. Pandya

25

39

1

0

64.10

ROSTON CHASE

b K. Yadav

24

34

2

0

70.58

JASON MOHAMMED

c R. Jadeja b H. Pandya

20

33

1

0

60.60

JASON HOLDER (c)

c MS Dhoni b U. Yadav

11

10

1

0

110

ROVMAN POWELL

c R. Jadeja b U. Yadav

2

9

0

0

22.22

ASHLEY NURSE

c & b U. Yadav

4

12

0

0

33.33

DEVENDRA BISHOO

run out R. Jadeja

15

30

0

0

50

ALZARRI JOSEPH

Not Out

5

7

0

0

71.42

KESRICK WILLIAMS

Not Out

2

3

0

0

66.66

Extras: 11 runs (B: 0, LB: 1, WD: 10, NB: 0, P: 0)

FALL OF WICKETS

57/1(K. HOPE17.2 OVERS), 80/2(E. LEWIS21.5 OVERS), 121/3(R. CHASE31.2 OVERS), 136/4(S. HOPE35 OVERS), 154/5(J. HOLDER38.1 OVERS), 161/6(R. POWELL40.5 OVERS), 162/7(J. MOHAMMED41.2 OVERS), 179/8(A. NURSE47.2 OVERS), 184/9(D. BISHOO48.4 OVERS),

INDIA BOWLING

BOWLING

O

M

R

W

NB

WD

E/R

MOHAMMED SHAMI

10

2

33

0

0

0

3.3

UMESH YADAV

10

1

36

3

0

6

3.6

RAVINDRA JADEJA

10

0

48

0

0

0

4.8

HARDIK PANDYA

10

0

40

3

0

4

4

KULDEEP YADAV

10

1

31

2

0

0

3.1

INDIA

178(49.4 Overs)RR 3.58

BATTING

R

B

4s

6s

S/R

AJINKYA RAHANE

c S. Hope b D. Bishoo

60

91

7

0

65.93

SHIKHAR DHAWAN

c J. Holder b A. Joseph

5

7

0

0

71.42

VIRAT KOHLI (c)

c S. Hope b J. Holder

3

12

0

0

25

DINESH KARTHIK

c S. Hope b A. Joseph

2

19

0

0

10.52

MS DHONI (wk)

c A. Joseph b K. Williams

54

114

1

0

47.36

KEDAR JADHAV

c S. Hope b A. Nurse

10

14

0

0

71.42

HARDIK PANDYA

b J. Holder

20

21

1

1

95.23

RAVINDRA JADEJA

c R. Powell b J. Holder

11

11

1

0

100

KULDEEP YADAV

Not Out

2

6

0

0

33.33

UMESH YADAV

b J. Holder

0

1

0

0

0

MOHAMMED SHAMI

c R. Chase b J. Holder

1

2

0

0

50

Extras: 10 runs (B: 0, LB: 0, WD: 10, NB: 0, P: 0)

FALL OF WICKETS

10/1(S. DHAWAN2.1 OVERS), 25/2(V. KOHLI6 OVERS), 47/3(D. KARTHIK12.4 OVERS), 101/4(A. RAHANE30.5 OVERS), 116/5(K. JADHAV35.4 OVERS),159/6(H. PANDYA45.1 OVERS), 173/7(R. JADEJA47.3 OVERS), 176/8(MS DHONI49 OVERS), 176/9(U. YADAV49.1 OVERS), 178/10(M. SHAMI49.4 OVERS),

WEST INDIES BOWLING

BOWLING

O

M

R

W

NB

WD

E/R

ALZARRI JOSEPH

9

2

46

2

0

4

5.11

JASON HOLDER

9.4

2

27

5

0

2

2.79

KESRICK WILLIAMS

10

0

29

1

0

3

2.9

DEVENDRA BISHOO

10

1

31

1

0

0

3.1

ASHLEY NURSE

10

0

29

1

0

0

2.9

ROSTON CHASE

1

0

16

0

0

1

16

Playing XI for West Indies: Evan Lewis, Kyle Hope, Shai Hope, Jordan Mohammed, Roston Chase, R Powell, Jason Holder (c), Ashley Nurse, Devendra Bishoo, Alzarri Joseph, K Williams

Playing for India: Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik, Kedar Jadhav, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav