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Carrie Underwood, who welcomed a second son, Jacob Bryan, on January 21 with her husband Mike Fisher, recently opened up about the pressure to “bounce back” after giving birth. According to reports on EOnline.com,the singer posted a selfie on Instagram and captioned it, “I’m going to be honest, ‘bouncing back’ after having Jacob has been much more difficult than after I had Isaiah and I’ve been pretty hard on myself lately. I go into the gym and I can’t run as fast or as far (sic).”
She added. “I can’t lift as much weight or do as many reps as I could a year ago. I just want to feel like myself again…for my body to feel the way that I know it can. As I was working out today, I realized that for the past 11(ish) months, my body has not belonged to me. It was a perfect home for Jacob. And even now it belongs to him every time he drinks his milk. I promise to stop analyzing every angle and every curve and every pound and every meal. I’m going to keep staying the path because it is a journey and as long as I’m always working towards my goals, one day I’ll reach them (sic).”
The candid post immediately got a positive reaction from the netizens.
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European leaders and British Prime Minister Theresa May agreed Thursday on a short delay to Britain’s divorce from the European Union in the hope of ensuring an orderly Brexit.
Britain had faced a sharp cliff-edge deadline of March 29 to leave, but May’s EU colleagues said the split could wait until May 22 if British lawmakers approve a withdrawal accord next week.
But if the House of Commons rejects the deal — as it has done twice before — Brexit will take place on April 12, unless Britain has decided by then to take part in this year’s European Parliamentary elections.
“April 12 is the key date in terms of the UK deciding whether to hold European parliament elections,” EU Council president and summit host Donald Tusk said, announcing the arrangement.
Britain would need time to legislate to take part in the May 23 to 26 election, and May has insisted it will not try, preferring in her words “to honour” voters’ decision to end London’s 46-year-old membership.
“I believe strongly that it would be wrong to ask people in the UK to participate in these elections three years after voting to leave the European Union,” May said, confirming the agreement. Tusk said that if the vote is not organised then a further “extension will automatically become impossible” and that even with an election, all 27 remaining EU member states would unanimously have to approve it. “March 29 is over. As of tonight, April 12 is the new March 29,” an EU official said.
“On April 12 we have to know where things stand … if we don’t have a response by then we will have a no deal Brexit,” Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel warned.
French President Emmanuel Macron, who had taken a harder public line than some of his colleagues declared: “The responsibility now lies with the British, and I think that’s the big achievement of the day.” Despite a extraordinary joint warning from Britain’s business and trade union leaders that the economic disruptions of a no deal Brexit would present a “national emergency”, May had refused to rule out walking away.
Even as she was meeting the EU 27 in Brussels for the European Council summit, an online petition hosted by the UK parliament and calling for Brexit to be abandoned topped two million signatures. It still remains far from clear that May will be able to get the withdrawal agreement she signed last November past the House of Commons, and she turned up the heat on her own MPs after the Brexit talks.
“What the decision today underlines is the importance of the House of Commons passing a Brexit deal next week,” she insisted.
“Tomorrow morning I am returning to the UK and working hard on building support to get the deal through… I hope we can all agree we are now at the moment of decision.” May had requested a short delay until June 30 to allow time for the ratification of her deal if it approved, but European leaders decided they did not want Brexit concerns to linger into the election campaign.
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The relationship between India and the US flourished under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an official in the Donald Trump administration has said, adding it expects the ties to improve after the Lok Sabha elections.
The senior official also said the first ever India-US two-plus-two dialogue, held in New Delhi last year, took the relationship forward.
Responding to a question on five years of the Modi government and the recent visit of India’s Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale to the US, the official said, “US-India relationship has really flourished… since Modi took power.”
“The highlight, I would say, was Prime Minister Modi’s visit to the White House in the June of 2017 where a lot of progress was made on the relationship. I would just say that the visit by Foreign Secretary Gokhale was just the latest illustration of the positive trajectory that the relationship is on,” the official said requesting anonymity.
“We look forward to working with whoever is elected in this (general) election,” the senior official said, adding there is “a lot of strategic logic” to the India-US relationship.
The official said the US expects the ties to continue to improve and the country is looking for ways of cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region in particular on Washington’s converging strategic interest in that part of the world.
Describing the recent visit of Gokhale to the US a milestone, the official said the visit of the top Indian diplomat began with a meeting with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and concluded with National Security Advisor John Bolton.
During his three-day to the US visit last week, Gokhale had important foreign office consultation and strategic security dialogue at the state department. A wide range of bilateral, regional and global issues were discussed.
“They were able to talk about our shared vision for the Indo-Pacific, ways to strengthen our defence and security cooperation. Of course, they discussed Indian Pakistan situation as well as Afghanistan,” the senior official said.
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There was no room for “jihadi outfits and jihadi culture” in Pakistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan has said amidst intense global pressure on his government to rein in the terrorist outfits operating from its soil after the Pulwama attack. Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated after a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) killed 40 CRPF personnel in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district in February 14.
India launched a counter-terror operation in Balakot. The next day, Pakistan Air Force retaliated and downed a MiG-21 in an aerial combat and captured its pilot, who was handed over to India on March 1.
Talking to editors and senior journalists here, Khan said that India’s NDA government wants to win the general election based on its politics of hatred against Pakistan, The Express Tribune reported.
He warned that the security risk at the Line of Control (LoC) persists until elections are held in India and asked the nation to be prepared at all times. The armed forces of the country are ever ready and would give a befitting response in case of any military aggression, the prime minister said. Khan said that all the political parties have agreed to the National Action Plan and by now the militant groups have been proscribed. Further action was being taken against them as his government could not allow any such activity on the soil of Pakistan.
Tracing the history of jihadi outfits and “jihadi culture”, he said “these groups have existed since the days of the US-led Afghan war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, and have operated from here for decades”, Dawn news reported.
He said that there was no room now for any such group in the country, as Pakistan would like the world to believe that it was not only a peace-loving country but it was sincere in eradicating this culture of “jihadism” and terrorism through short-term and long-term policies. Khan said that India was trying to push Pakistan in the blacklist of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and if that happened, the country would be facing a lot of economic problems.
The international terror financing watchdog FATF last month decided to continue the ‘Grey’ listing of Pakistan for its failure to stop funding of terrorist groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammad, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamat-ud-Dawa. In June 2018, Pakistan was placed in the ‘Grey’ list and given a 27-point action plan by the FATF. This Plan was reviewed as the last Plenary in October 2018 and for the second time in this week-long meeting.
Speaking about the law and order situation in the country, Khan said that banned organisations should have been eliminated a long time ago, but it was his government which was taking action against them. He said that the government was spending huge amount of money to bring them into the mainstream. The US has warned Pakistan that another terror attack on India will prove to be “extremely problematic” as it asked Islamabad to take more “concrete and sustained” actions to rein in terror groups including the JeM and the LeT.
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The Congress Thursday took a swipe at the BJP for fielding Amit Shah from Gandhinagar in place of Lal Krishna Advani, alleging that first the party veteran was “forcefully” sent to the ‘margdarshak mandal’ and now his parliamentary constituency has been snatched away.
The saffron party fielded its president Shah from Gandhinagar in place of 91-year-old Advani, who has won from the seat six times. “First Shri Lal Krishna Advani was forcefully sent to ‘Marg Darshak Mandal and now his parliamentary constituency has been snatched,” Congress’ chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said.
Advani was made a member of the ‘margdarshak mandal’ (group of mentors) after the BJP came to power in 2014. “When Modi Ji does not respect elders. Then why will he respect the people’s trust? Get rid of BJP, save the country,” Surejwala said.
