Mustapha Carayol must take it a day at a time, says Boro boss Aitor Karanka

Aitor Karanka knows how hard it is to recover from a cruciate knee ligament injury, having suffered the same at Athletic Bilbao in 2005

Aitor Karanka is refusing to put a time frame on Mustapha Carayol’s first team return.

The Boro boss knows from bitter experience just how hard it is to recover from a cruciate knee ligament injury.

And that’s one of the reasons why he doesn’t want to put a figure to how long Carayol will be out of contention.

The Boro winger tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in the Championship fixture at Bournenmouth two weeks ago and is set to go under the knife any day now to have the damage repaired.

He is likely to be out of action for approximately six months, which would mean he won’t play competitively for Boro until September at the earliest.

Asked how long he thought Carayol would be unavailable, Karanka said: “It’s difficult. Maybe you can say six months and it ends up being seven or eight.

“Or you can say eight and it’s only six so with this kind of injury you have to be careful not to commit to a date.

“It’s a long injury and we have games until the end of the season and it’s not good to speculate whether it’s six, seven or eight months.

“I suffered this injury when I was in Athletic Bilbao in 2005,” he added. “And with this kind of injury it’s better to think day-by-day because it’s so far away.

“It’s not important to think about one week or two weeks with this kind of injury.

“Muzzy’s injury is similar to mine but each player is different, the mentality is different, the conditions are different.

“I’m sure Muzzy will come back stronger, more mature and a better player for sure.

“I can understand what he’s going through and that’s why I sent him to be with his family because the early days can be difficult.

“It’s important to be surrounded by your family and friends.”

It’s been a topsy-turvy few weeks for Carayol, who was in fine form at the start of the year, scoring both goals in a 2-0 win at Blackpool.

However, after a disagreement with Karanka at Watford in February, he was dropped for two games because of a “bad attitude”.

On his return he played well, inspiring Boro to victory against Ipswich and scoring against Nottingham Forest before suffering his injury at Bournemouth.

Albert Adomah praises work Danny Graham gets though on behalf of Boro team

Albert Adomah says Danny Graham is making a huge and unselfish contribution to the team in every game he plays

Albert Adomah has praised the work Danny Graham gets though on behalf of the Boro team.

Going into today’s Championship fixture at Brighton, the deadline day loan signing from Sunderland had managed just two goals in 10 appearances for Boro.

But Adomah insists Graham is making a huge and unselfish contribution to the team in every game he plays.

“On the pitch he does loads of hard work but people maybe don’t see that,” said the winger, pointing to one of the goals he scored on Tuesday at Huddersfield as an example.

“For one goal he made a great run to open things up for me.

“He comes off the pitch sweating and covered with bruises on his legs and his back.

“He does a lot of work to help the team.”

Of course, Graham was signed by Boro to primarily score goals and, in that respect, the move hasn’t worked as planned so far.

But Adomah believes Graham’s natural ability to score hasn’t disappeared.

“He is a clinical striker, believe me. He is brilliant in training and he bangs them in,” said the Ghana international.

“Everyone wants Danny to score.

“He’s come from the Premier League and he’s a great striker but he hasn’t really shown us yet what he can do.”

Students Peacefully Protest Against Biased Media

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Jaipur: On 27th March Students Committee of the Global Institute of Technology, Jaipur with huge crowd took to the Road of Jaipur, Rajasthan to protest against discrimination of media towards minorities.

Many social activists belonging to different religions gathered for the protest which was carried out peacefully. Activists and students carried placards and banners shaming Indian media for its attitude towards minorities. Students shouted slogans against media like “shame on media”, “stop playing with innocent lives” etc. They demanded action against such media which arbitrarily declares any person as terrorist without any proof and evidence. Due to this students are harassed unnecessarily. Justice should be delivered timely as justice delayed to innocents is justice denied.

It has now become an act of politics that before elections minorities are targeted and innocents belonging to minority communities are arrested accusing them for terrorist activity. Media discrimination in the way the stories are constructed rule against minorities’ life. People, including well known scholars from minorities are arbitrarily arrested and media stoke about them without any concrete evidence and any judicial statement. Minority youth is deliberately targeted and deprived of their rights which go against the spirit of Secularism.

These innocent people are taken into custody for long years and because of there being no evidence against them they are finally released. But when they come out, their life changes and they don’t find any resource to recover it back. There is a lot of empirical data which shows large number of young Muslims are put in prison without trial or charge-sheet for years.

The students stressed the need for strict and prompt action against erring media and police officers when Malafide arrests are made of any member of a minority community. They demand that Press Council of India must ensure that no innocent person is subjected to undue harassment. The students highlighted the need for peace and communal harmony

West accuses Syria over 3.5 million in need

Source: Al Jazeera

The Syrian government has allowed aid convoys to cross only one of eight border crossings identified by the United Nations as a priority, Western ambassadors said.

In February, the UN Security Council passed the first humanitarian resolution of the three-year civil war, demanding that the government and armed opposition allow aid to reach civilians.

But in the first progress report a month on, UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said the situation had only deteriorated and she demanded blanket, unhindered access to affected populations.

“Conflict and violence has intensified,” Amos told reporters after the closed-doors sessionAccording to Amos, only six percent of the population living in besieged areas had received assistance in the last month.

Since February 22, 300 cases of sexual violence have been recorded in and around Damascus alone, and hundreds of thousands more Syrians had been newly displaced, Amos added.

“Spending days and weeks negotiating to get one inter-agency convoy is a waste of valuable time,” Amos said.

The United States said the Syrian government had “utterly failed” to comply with the UN Security Council resolution and remained the biggest obstacle to the delivery of aid.

Syrian government officials use administrative snares to cripple UN field missions, repeatedly hold up convoys and remove medical supplies from convoys, US ambassador Samantha Power said.

Power said 3.5 million people could be reached “literally with the stroke of a pen” if the Syrian government allowed UN convoys in through other border crossings.

“It is the government alone that is denying the UN access across these checkpoints,” she said.

Britain and the US said they would be working with the rest of the Security Council on what further steps could be taken to ensure compliance, though they would not be drawn on specifics, the AFP news agency reported.

“What we are seeing is a pattern of arbitrary denial of access in violation of international humanitarian law and despite the Council’s demands,” British ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said.

Of 220,000 Syrians living under siege, 80 percent remain besieged by the Syrian government and of the total only 14,000 have been reached in the last month, Britain said.

Luxembourg, the rotating president of the Security Council, said the resolution had seen little to no progress

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Drunken Stockton women who torched man's flat destroying everything he owned are jailed

Kirsty Scott and Natasha Davis broke into the ground floor flat when the owner was out visiting a friend and they set fire to his bed

Two drunken women who torched a man’s flat destroying everything he owned were jailed yesterday.

Kirsty Scott, 24, and Natasha Davis, 20, broke into the Stockton ground floor flat when he was out visiting a friend and they set fire to his bed.

But they instantly regretted it and asked a passer-by to call the fire brigade, Teesside Crown Court was told.

Davis’s lawyer Alex Bousfield told the judge: “She understands that the man lost everything he had in the world in that fire.

“Other people lived nearby, and she very much regrets her involvement in it.”

The value of his property which was all destroyed was just £1,500 and the damage to the building in Cromwell Avenue, central Stockton, was £3,800.

The women were standing in the street nearby when the man returned to the blazing scene at 6pm January 3 last year after he was alerted by a friend.

Prosecutor Rachel Masters said that he asked them if they knew who had been involved in starting it and they said that they did not.

She said that he knew both of them because he had been in a six month relationship with Scott which ended.

Duncan McReddie, defending Scott, said that her story was that the man had made unwelcome approaches to her.

He added: “They were both very drunk.

“She has had a problem with drink and drunken behaviour since she was a child.

“But since she has been remanded in custody she has been undergoing counselling and education, and she approaches these matters with a clear head.

“She is determined to use the inevitable term of imprisonment and to undertake counselling and training for the future.”

The judge told the women that it was a very dangerous and wicked act.

Judge Advocate Paul Camp said: “You were both well and truly drunk and you were not really in your right mind when you did it.

“I suspect you were beginning to realise the seriousness of what you had done at an early stage and you wanted to do something about it.

“This is a very serious offence which requires a substantial immediate custodial sentence”

Scott, of Melville Walk, Tilery, Stockton, was jailed for 40 months and Davis of Zetland Road, Stockton, was sentenced to 30 months custody after they pleaded guilty to arson being reckless whether lives were endangered

Thornaby Methodist Church targeted again as heartless thieves steal TV, laptops and charity box

Thornaby Methodist Church, which is home to Noah’s Ark Family Centre, has suffered two break-ins in less than two weeks

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Members of a Teesside church which has been plagued by burglaries have been left “distressed” once again after suffering two break-ins in less than two weeks.

Thornaby Methodist Church, which is home to Noah’s Ark Family Centre, was broken into on Thursday night with the heartless thieves stealing a TV, seven laptops and a charity box.

They also caused extensive damage to the building - knocking down seven doors and breaking a window on the roof.

The break-in came nearly two weeks after another burglary in which thieves stole a sum of money after gaining entry through a ventilator shaft.

The long-suffering church has been a victim of break-ins in the past, with burglaries in 2012 and 2011.

Judith Powell, senior steward at the church in Stanstead Way, said: “It has been very distressing for us.

“The most recent break-in happened overnight on Thursday.

“We had to close the play centre on Friday morning while scenes of crime officers investigated.

“They have caused quite a lot of damage to all parts of the buildings. They have gained access by breaking a window in the roof and then, because a lot of the doors are locked, they have had to knock down seven doors.

“As well as the TV and the laptops, they have taken a charity collection which was for the Butterwick Hospice.”

In June 2012 the family centre had its wages and donations taken after a safe was stolen and a till was smashed during a burglary.

In August 2011 lead was stolen from the roof and the facility has also previously been vandalised.

Mrs Powell added: “It is very upsetting but the damage can be put right and we can move on from this.

“What we would really like is for the people responsible to explain why they have done this. Why they feel the need to do something like this.”

A spokeswoman for Cleveland Police confirmed that they are investigating both burglaries. The first happened on March 16 and the second overnight on Thursday. Inquiries are ongoing.

Israel prevents EU delegation from entering Gaza

An official European parliamentary delegation was prevented, by Israel, from entering the besieged Gaza Strip yesterday.

A Moscow News Agency published a statement by the European Council which said the occupation forces located at Beit Hanoon crossing Erez in the north of the Gaza Strip prevented members of the delegation from entering Gaza.

The European delegation included the British politician Chris Davies, Norbert Netzer from Germany and Kyle Neilson from France.

The statement said: “The Israeli authorities claimed that the crossing of the EU delegation to Gaza was unrelated to the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.” This has been strongly refuted by members of the delegation.

According to the statement of the EU delegation, members of the European Parliament see that the closure of the Strip by Israel is a violation of international laws, pointing out that the occupation has already brought about an economic catastrophe upon the Palestinian people in Gaza causing the humanitarian situation that is now present.

The members said: “Instead of preventing the delegation from assessing the use of European taxpayers’ money, the authorities should be largely grateful for the efforts undertaken by the European Union”.

The statement emphasised that the Geneva Convention confirms that Israel is responsible for the welfare of the people under its control and occupation.

According to the statement by the EU delegation, the aim of the visit was to hold meetings with officials from the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to discuss the use of EU funds on humanitarian projects in the Gaza Strip.

This is the second time Israel has denied a European parliamentary delegation from entering the Gaza Strip, a team was prevented from accessing the Strip last October.

UNRWA receives more than €100 million annually from the EU to spend on the distribution of emergency food supplies and for the provision of education in the Gaza Strip.

UNRWA Commissioner-General for Palestinian refugees Filippo Grandi demanded the international community take action to lift the siege on Gaza