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Bengaluru: Sexually assaulted boys turning hostile during trial is posing a major challenge in securing convictions in Karnataka, according to prosecutors, investigators and activists involved in counselling sexual abuse survivors. State police data accessed by TOI reveals that for every conviction in Pocso cases where the survivors are boys, there have been more than two acquittals over the past four years. From 2021 till Oct 31, 2024, there were 114 cases registered for sexual assault of boys under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. Of them, only seven have ended in convictions, as against 18 acquittals. The remaining cases are still under trial. While 24 cases of sexual harassment against minor boys were registered in 2021, the number rose to 25 in 2022 and 33 in 2023. The first 10 months of this year saw 32 cases. On the poor conviction rate, ADGP (law and order) R Hitendra told TOI: "The survivor, who would be a minor during the incident, could have turned an adult during the trial. He could turn hostile owing to reasons like social stigma. Such incidents psychologically damage survivors." While not ruling out the tendency of families keeping cases of sexual assault of boys under wraps, Hitendra said, "In most cases of sexual harassment of boys, complaints are lodged only in case of serious injury or damage. Such boys are emotionally affected and many turn hostile as they become adults during trial." Stanley KV, co-founder of the Mysuru-based Odanadi, an NGO involved in rehabilitating survivors of sexual assaults and trafficking, said as boys grow into adults, they are imbued with "male pride" and aren't ready to accept being subjected to sexual assault. "Male pride doesn't permit male survivors to accept in courts that they were sexually assaulted, and this is why many turn hostile. They need proper counselling. Psychosocial and sexual counselling will help them overcome such embarrassment and stand firm during trial," he said. The state police numbers, though, are at variance with those collated by Odanadi, which revealed 334 cases of sexual harassment of minor boys were registered in the state during 2021-24. According to Stanley, the NGO got its data from the women and child welfare department through an RTI application. Asked about the differences in data, Hitendra merely said the data provided by state police is based on FIRs registered. BOX SOME RECENT CASES April 2021: Two men, including a truck driver, were arrested on charges of sexually harassing a minor boy in Gauribidanur, Chikkaballapur district. According to the boy, he was playing near the house of one of the accused when they gave him Rs 50 and asked him to bring two cigarettes. When the boy returned with the cigarettes, they sexually assaulted him. Later, his parents filed a complaint against the accused — G Ashok and N Lokesh. Investigating officers from Gauribidanur Rural police station filed a watertight chargesheet against the accused. In Feb 2022, a fast-track Pocso court found them guilty and sentenced them to rigorous imprisonment of 20 years each. Dec 2022: A youth and his mother were booked under Pocso Act for allegedly sexually harassing a 10-year-old Kerala-based boy in Nandi Hills. According to the survivor's mother, she, her son, the accused youth, and his mother had visited Nandi Hills when the youth inappropriately touched the 10-year-old. The act was allegedly noticed by the youth's mother, but she kept silent, said the survivor's mother in her complaint. The complaint was filed in Kerala and the case transferred to Nandi Hills police station a few months ago. The accused were arrested and the case is under investigation. Jan 2024: The parents of a 16-year-old student filed a complaint in Gauribidanur taluk against his teacher (a woman) for allegedly sexually harassing him during a study tour. An obscene picture of the student and the accused teacher, taken by the latter, went viral on social media. The incident badly affected the survivor's academic performance. The case is under trial now.

Ostin Technology Group Announces Results of Extraordinary General MeetingDaily Post Nigeria 2025 wheat farming: Governor Namadi orders arrest of Jigawa farmers’ chairman Home News Politics Metro Entertainment Sport News 2025 wheat farming: Governor Namadi orders arrest of Jigawa farmers’ chairman Published on December 8, 2024 By Khaleel Muhammad Jigawa State Governor, Umar Namadi, has ordered the immediate arrest of Isyaku Katanga, the chairman of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, in Kiyawa Local Government Area. The governor gave the directives when he paid an unscheduled visit to inputs distribution centres of the 2025 wheat farming programme at Kiyawa and Birninkudu local government areas. This followed the allegation raised by some farmers accusing the AFAN chairman of the illegal increase of two thousand naira on the official amount to be paid by each farmer. According to the governor: “We received complaints of alleged extortion of money from farmers. We will not accept this and whoever is involved must refund it back to farmers.” Governor Namadi therefore directed the police to arrest and investigate the suspect and ensure that they retrieve the money collected from the farmers. He also pledged to ensure that the full package is given to the registered farmers as directed by the Federal Government. Governor Namadi expressed concern for the delay and poor arrangements by agro-dealers assigned to distribute farm inputs to dry-season wheat farmers in the state. He therefore called on the stakeholders to ensure that registered farmers received their allocation in good time so that they could start early preparation for dry-season wheat farming. Related Topics: 2025 wheat farming Jigawa Namadi Don't Miss Israel seizes Golan heights buffer zone amid Syrian power shift You may like Jigawa Governor, Namadi presents 2025 budget ₦698.3bn to state assembly Four to die by hanging in Jigawa over culpable homicide Jigawa policeman’s wife gives birth to triplets a year after having twins Police arrest 22 cattle rustling, robbery suspects in Jigawa Police rescue kidnapped victim in Jigawa Police arrest 7 suspected cattle thieves in Jigawa Advertise About Us Contact Us Privacy-Policy Terms Copyright © Daily Post Media Ltd

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Thoughts to live by: Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph— The George Washington Hotel invites you to bid farewell to 2024 with not one, not two, but five New Year’s Eve Babys. The Babys, one of the top rock and power-pop bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s, will be playing in the downtown hotel’s ballroom on Dec. 31 to close out the GW’s year-long 100th anniversary celebration. “We’ll play all of the hits,” said the band’s lead singer and bassist, John Bisaha. “And we’ll do a lot of rock and B-side stuff. We rock a lot harder than The Babys did back in the day. ... We’re looking to get everyone on their feet and having a good time.” Suzi Smith, general manager of the GW, said booking The Babys for a New Year’s Eve gig in Winchester was serendipitous. Here’s how it happened. The GW has put on a concert series this year featuring Orleans, John Ford Coley and Firefall as part of the hotel’s 100th anniversary celebration. Smith said the hotel had been hoping to line up a fourth musical act for New Year’s Eve but did not have any luck until Firefall played there in October. That’s when Smith and hotel co-owner Glen Burke met Bisaha, who sings lead and plays bass for both The Babys and Firefall. Burke asked if The Babys would be willing to close out the GW’s 100th anniversary celebration on Dec. 31, and Bisaha was quick to agree because of how much he enjoyed the friendliness and history of Winchester. “We’re actually going to be staying a few days after this gig,” Bisaha said. “That’s how much we love Winchester, love the people there.” In an interview this week, Bisaha said he became the frontman of two bands because The Babys and Firefall had the same booking agency and often shared billing at concerts. In July 2022, Firefall bassist and vocalist Mark Andes retired from touring and recommended that Bisaha take his place. Firefall leader Jock Bartley agreed and Bisaha joined the lineup. “I’m playing in two different styles,” said Bisaha, noting that Firefall and The Babys come from the same era but play different types of music. While Firefall plays country-rock similar to acts like The Eagles and Jackson Browne, The Babys is more straightforward rock with heavy elements of pop. The Babys formed in 1975 in London with the lineup of John Waite (bass/vocals), Michael Corby (keyboards/guitar), Tony Brock (drums) and Wally Stocker (guitar). After recording three albums, Corby left the group and was replaced by two Americans: Jonathan Cain (keyboards) and Ricky Phillips (bass). The band enjoyed tremendous success, churning out five albums featuring Top 40 hits including “Isn’t It Time,” “Back on My Feet Again,” “Turn and Walk Away” and “Every Time I Think of You.” But after Waite suffered a leg injury in December 1980 that forced the cancellation of The Babys’ concert tour, the group disbanded in January 1981. Cain joined the band Journey in time to co-write and record the album “Escape,” which yielded several hit singles including the still-popular anthem “Don’t Stop Believin’.” Waite launched a solo career, scoring a No. 1 hit in 1984 with the song “Missing You.” From 1981 until 2012, The Babys were defunct. That changed when original members Brock and Stocker decided to reform the band with the blessings of Waite, Cain and Phillips. After an extensive talent search — “It was pretty vigorous,” Bisaha said — Brock and Stocker hired Bisaha to play bass and sing lead vocals. When they met his wife, Holly, they were so impressed by her singing talents that they hired her as a Babette (the band’s affectionate term for its female background singers) along with Elisa Chadbourne. “The Babettes got the gig before I did,” John Bisaha said with a laugh. “I had to still work (audition) for another month.” The band’s new lineup of John Bisaha, Stocker, Brock, Joey Sykes (rhythm guitar) and Walter Ino (keyboards) have toured and recorded extensively over the past decade with Babettes Holly Bisaha and Chadbourne. However, Stocker decided to step back from touring last year and the GW’s ballroom is relatively small, so only five Babys will perform in Winchester next week: John Bisaha, Holly Bisaha, Brock, Sykes and Ino. “We’ve got four of us dudes and Holly making the music of seven,” John Bisaha said, noting that his wife is key to the group’s sound because she’s the one who sings the female lead in what is arguably The Babys’ most popular song, “Every Time I Think of You.” John Bisaha said the band’s current concert performances sometimes eclipse the classic shows put on by The Babys’ original lineup. “It’s because of technology and — this is the key thing — taking care of your body and being in the moment,” Bisaha said. “Back then, being in the moment meant, how trashed can I be when I’m on stage? It was a lot different in the ’70s than it is in the 2020s.” The Babys will close out the GW’s 100th anniversary concert series on Dec. 31 from 8:30 to 10 p.m., meaning concert goers will still be able to attend New Year’s Eve parties to welcome the arrival of 2025. Tickets are $100 each and are available online via Eventbrite at . “They’ll get a nice high-energy show and have a good time,” John Bisaha said. “And we’re going to see what kind of New Year’s Eve elements we can bring into the mix to add a little flavor. I’m not gonna promise to be a New Year’s Eve baby and jump out in a diaper or anything like that, but we’ll see what we can do.”

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Minnesota is about to embark on an intense, high-stakes experiment in forced bipartisanship. The North Star state could show a way forward for a closely divided U.S. Congress — if politicians in D.C. are paying attention. Minnesota came out of the 2024 election with a statehouse that slid from solid Democratic control to one divided improbably between 67 Democrats and 67 Republicans. Democrats retained their one-vote majority in the state senate. Democratic Governor Tim Walz returns from his short-lived run as a vice presidential nominee to govern a more polarized state with a far more emboldened GOP. The Democrats’ 2022 trifecta — the unexpected result of a blue wave at the midterms — will be replaced by a uniquely hard-to-govern “tie-fecta.” In such a scenario, the smallest detail becomes an awkward negotiation. The house will be governed by not one but two speakers — one Republican and one Democrat. Committee assignments, chairs, rules and agendas will all require a delicate dance by antagonists dedicated to one another’s defeat. Bipartisanship is a muscle many state legislators are unaccustomed to flexing. The 2024 elections delivered 38 statehouse trifectas. An astonishing 82 percent of people now live in states governed largely by a single party. That phenomenon — and its disadvantages — was explored in a deep dive by my Bloomberg Opinion colleagues Mary Ellen Klas and Carolyn Silverman, who found the one-party dynamic suppresses competitive elections, discourages voter engagement and too often enables the ruling party to ignore voters outside their base. But of course, it can also make for some speedy legislating. Democrats in Minnesota took full advantage of their unity after 2022, ramming through a transformative agenda that reflected years of pent-up progressive demand. A partial list includes paid family and medical leave, expanding state-subsidized health insurance to more families on a sliding scale and to undocumented immigrants, free breakfast and lunch in public schools, shield laws for transgender youth traveling to Minnesota for gender-affirming care, increased child tax credits and some of the strongest protections in the country for abortion rights. Compromises that might have given opponents a stake in Democratic bills were often passed over, lest the proposals get watered down. That made for great bragging rights on the campaign trail, but may also have triggered anger among some voters. Now comes the aftermath: a statehouse where no one is in control. “It’s essentially a circular firing squad,” said former Democratic Majority Leader Ryan Winkler, who left the legislature in January 2023. “The only way it proceeds now is if everyone keeps their guns down and proceeds together.” One possible outcome is that Minnesota Republicans will demand some degree of retreat from the Democrats’ progressive victories. That may be the inevitable downside of proposals crafted by one party alone. Such reversals have become familiar in Washington, D.C. President Joe Biden spent the first week of his term issuing dozens of executive orders and memoranda on a broad range of issues whose common theme was undoing much of what his predecessor had done. Now that President-elect Donald Trump is about to start a second term, he is expected to return the favor, nullifying what he can of Biden’s legacy. This kind of whipsawing generates a tremendous amount of uncertainty. It’s infinitely harder for two sides to work out an enduring compromise that takes the best ideas from both. (And yes, both sides occasionally have good ideas.) But it does produce better outcomes — and more long-term stability. Craig Volden, professor of public policy and politics at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, noted recently that all-or-nothing policy proposals have a poor track record. He cited a study from the University of Chicago that examined bipartisanship in Congress from 1973 to 2016. It found that “bipartisanship unambiguously helps individual lawmakers who seek to advance their policy goals.” Bills with broader support are more likely to be enacted. “Lawmakers who recognize this and do the hard work to form broader coalitions,” Volden said, “have been finding much greater success. They offer a blueprint for constructive lawmaking that forms the bedrock of a healthy democracy.” So, what lessons can Minnesota offer? Can such bipartisanship be forced? It’s possible. Minnesota is fortunate to have two low-key, hard-working women leading their respective parties in the house. Democrat Melissa Hortman and Republican Lisa Demuth, the speaker-designates, are respected within their caucuses, even-handed in their treatment of others, and not given to grandstanding. Beyond that, it’s possible to create rules that encourage working together, such as requiring bills to have a certain percentage of bipartisan committee votes before advancing. Then there are the lessons from the election itself. Republicans in the state, and nationwide, find themselves with a coalition that, for now, includes far more of the working class and minorities than before. In theory, that should make them more receptive to priorities in those communities. Democrats may have tested the limits of certain progressive causes and may need to reframe or scale back to broaden their party’s appeal. 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NEW YORK (AP) — Romad Dean had 16 points in Fordham's 87-72 victory against Maine on Sunday. Dean also had five rebounds and four steals for the Rams (6-5). Jackie Johnson III had 16 points and six assists. Abdou Tsimbila finished with 10 points and eight rebounds. The Black Bears (6-5) were led by AJ Lopez with 24 points. Keelan Steele added 10 points and two steals. Christopher Mantis scored eight. Fordham took the lead with 18:36 left in the first half and never looked back. Dean led their team in scoring with nine points in the first half to help put them up 37-23 at the break. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .See the 4,800+ rejected designs for Illinois' new state flagAll the 2025 showbiz dates you need to know from Sabrina Carpenter’s tour to Brit Awards and GlastonburyNEW YORK (AP) — Romad Dean had 16 points in Fordham's 87-72 victory against Maine on Sunday. Dean also had five rebounds and four steals for the Rams (6-5). Jackie Johnson III had 16 points and six assists. Abdou Tsimbila finished with 10 points and eight rebounds. The Black Bears (6-5) were led by AJ Lopez with 24 points. Keelan Steele added 10 points and two steals. Christopher Mantis scored eight. Fordham took the lead with 18:36 left in the first half and never looked back. Dean led their team in scoring with nine points in the first half to help put them up 37-23 at the break. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .

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