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Jadeja’s bowling figures help restrict Australia’s lead to 87 runs

93runs added so far between Pujara (79 n.o) and Rahane (40 n.o), the

highest partnership of this series. The pair bats through the first wicketless session of the Test (post-tea)

10Virat Kohli’s batting average in the series,

the worst of his career. He was out to a ‘surprising’ LBW decision

How much is enough? On a crumbling pitch, a lead of 150 will be competitive. Anything over 200 may be match-winning

PujaraIndia 213/4 in 2nd innings, 126 runs ahead in a gripping match that’s changing every session Jadeja

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New Delhi: Like their curry,Indians love their TV showsspicy, with a sprinkle of vio-lence and drama. No wonder,they have turned out to be thefastest binge watchers onEarth, lapping up Netflix se-ries such as Narcos, Bloodli-ne and Marvel’s Jessica Jonesin just three days flat. The glo-

bal average is four days.Reed Hastings, co-founder

and CEO of video-streaming

giant Netflix, sees India as animportant market, althoughconsumption is still mostly

on mobile phones comparedwith other countries, wheresmart TVs are replacing tra-ditional ones.

Hastings, a serial entre-preneur, co-founded Califor-nia-headquartered Netflix,now valued at $60 billion,with Marc Randolph in 1997after selling off his first com-pany Pure Software. His advi-ce to entrepreneurs: “Find anidea that most people think isstupid and it turns out to besmart. Because if everybodyknows it’s smart, the big com-panies will do it.”

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WiFi connectivity acrossthe country is set to im-

prove with telecom regula-tor Trai planning to allowindividuals, communities,small-time entrepreneursand content and applica-tion providers to offer affor-dable and high-speed inter-net to the public, reportsPankaj Doval. Trai is set tomake the recommenda-tions soon.

The plan is to provide in-ternet for as little as 2 paiseper MB against existing ra-tes of around 10 paise in themobile telecom market. P 15

Trai plan to makeWi-Fi cheaper,

widely available

Affordable houses may soon beexempt from stamp duty, whichvaries between 4% and 8% ofthe transaction value. P10

‘Note ban may hit currentqtr’: The impact of note ban onGDP may be seen in the currentquarter in some segments,while the remonetisationexercise should be completed intwo to three months, RBI depu-ty governor Viral V Acharya saidon Monday. P15

Welspun’s steel plant getsMoEF nod: Welspun SteelLimited received environmentclearance from the MoEF for itsproposed 3 MTPA integratedsteel plant at Anjar. P15

Karni Sena vandals shatterfort mirrors:Members of the Karni Sena shattered herita-ge mirrors at the PadminiPalace in Chittorgarh Fort, aUnesco world heritage site, on Sunday. P8

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Gandhinagar: After hecticcampaigning for the last legof elections in Uttar Pradesh,Prime Minister NarendraModi will embark on a two-day visit to his home state onTuesday, his 10th since beco-ming the PM in May 2014.

Modi will arrive at the Su-rat airport at around 2:30 pmand leave for Dahej by a chop-per where he will visit theONGC Petro-additions Ltd(OPaL) plant. Later, he willdedicate the new bridge overNarmada, the OPaL plantand Bharuch bus port at anhour-long function at theBharuch Krushi University.

After addressing a publicmeeting, Modi will leave forRaj Bhavan in Gandhinagarwhere he will chair a meetingof all BJP officebearers. Tho-se who would be present inthis first election-orientedmeeting include chief mini-ster Vijay Rupani, deputy CMNitin Patel, all ministers,MPs and MLAs besides otherofficebearers of the state BJP.Party sources said that Modiis likely to outline his expec-tations from the state BJPunit regarding the poll prepa-redness.

Modi’s immediate visit toGujarat after completing theUP campaign has set off anot-her round of chatter of earlyassembly elections amongthe political and bureaucra-tic circles.

However, Rupani has cle-arly ruled out any such possi-bility. He had last addressedthe BJP workers on Decem-ber 9, 2016. BJP’s national pre-sident Amit Shah, who arri-ved from Varanasi on Mon-day night, is also expected toaddress the party unit alongwith the PM. P 5

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New Delhi: The conspiracycharge against senior BJP le-aders L K Advani, M M Joshiand Uma Bharti in the BabriMasjid demolition could berevived with Supreme Courtnoting that the charge wasdropped on a technicality andalso suggested joint trial ofthe accused.

The demolition case wasback in focus just ahead of thefinal round of polling in UttarPradesh with a bench of Jus-tices P C Ghose and R F Nari-man saying that the conspira-cy charge was dropped mere-ly on a technical ground. The

conspiracy charge was drop-ped by a Rae Bareli trial co-urt.

At present, the trial aga-inst BJP leaders is going on ina Rae Bareli court on chargesother than conspiracy whileproceedings against “unk-nown persons” with regard tothe demolition are also beingheard in a Lucknow court.

Appearing for CBI, addi-tional solicitor general Nee-raj Kaul stuck to the stand ta-ken during the tenure of theUPA government seeking re-vival of conspiracy chargesand said the agency is agree-able for clubbing of both thetrial proceedings.

SC SuggestsJoint Trial With

Kar Sevaks

Babri: Conspiracy chargeagainst Advani to return?

➤ Following Babri Masjid’s demolition on Dec 6, 1992, CBI chargesheeted L K Advani and 20 others under Sec 153A (promoting enmity between classes), 153B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) and 505 (false statements, rumours circulated to disturb peace)

➤ CBI later invoked criminalconspiracy charge against

Advani & 13 others but these were quashed by a spl court

➤ Order upheld by Allahabad HC in May 2010; CBI then approached SC in appeal

CHARGES WERE QUASHED BY SPL COURT

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Varanasi: In the first sixphases of the UP assemblyelections, PM Narendra Mo-di addressed just 18 rallies,aggregating barely 40 hoursof campaigning. But just be-fore the seventh phase, as Va-ranasi became the epicentreof the campaign, he suddenlyshifted gear and visited hisconstituency for three dayson the trot, holding three “ja-nata darshan” programmesand addressing as many ral-lies.

In all, Modi spent over 22hours in Varanasi in the pastthree days — a first for anyPM so far—as campaigningcame to an end on March 6 forthe seventh and last phase ofthe assembly polls. It was thefirst time Modi held so many

roadshows in Varanasi aftertaking charge as PM. Apartfrom the rally on the firstday—which was termed as“janata darshan" by BJPleaders —and the second andthird roadshows betweenGadwaghat and Ramnagararea, Modi also offeredprayers at the Kaal Bhairavtemple for the first time sincehe became Varanasi's MP.

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Rishikesh, believed by ma-ny to be the yoga capitalof India, is also emer-

ging as one of the biggest ex-porters of yoga teachers to So-utheast Asia as well as Chinawhere demand for yoga is at anall-time high. An estimated1,500 Indian yoga teachers, for

instance, are believed to be te-aching in China. Of these, 70 to80% hail from Rishikesh andHaridwar, home to various yo-ga schools where these tea-chers have honed their skills.

Ashish Bahuguna, whohas been teaching yoga in Chi-na for over a decade now, le-arnt his asanas at the Par-marth Niketan ashram in Ris-

told TOI over email.According to a report by

Beijing-based Daxue Consul-ting, the yoga market in Chinais growing rapidly with thenumber of people involved inits practice rising from 4 mil-lion in 2009 to 10 million in2014.

hikesh. Last year, he was con-ferred the title of ‘The MostBeautiful Yogi of China.’ Ba-huguna, who runs his own stu-dio ‘WeYoga’ in Beijing, saysthat even though there areothers who are teaching yoga,Indian teachers are the mostpreferred. “The Chinese pre-fer us since we have a grip overthe basics of the science,” he

Rishikesh yoga gurus have China in a twistPrachi Raturi Misra TNN

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New Delhi: Soon after Pa-kistan’s former national se-curity advisor Mahmud AliDurrani reiterated his standthat the 26/11 attack onMumbai was a "classic ex-ample" of cross-border ter-rorism as it was carried outby a Pakistan-based group,India asked Pakistan to pro-secute Lashkar-e-Taiba chi-ef Hafiz Mohammad Saeed.

"26/11 Mumbai strikes,carried out by a terror groupbased in Pakistan, was aclassic trans-border terro-rist event," Durrani said

while addressing a confe-rence on combating terro-rism at the Institute of De-fence Studies and Analyseshere.

Durrani was Pakistan’sNSA when the attacks werecarried out on November 26,2008. He was sacked by hisgovernment the next year,shortly after he became thefirst Pakistani official toconfirm that one of the at-tackers, Ajmal Kasab, was aPakistani, putting paid to Is-lamabad’s effort to denylinks to the carnage.

26/11 was cross-borderterror: Ex-Pak NSATIMES NEWS NETWORK

US President DonaldTrump on Monday signed

a revised, more limited execu-tive order banning migrantsfrom six mostly-Muslim co-untries from coming to the USfor 90 days. The new order, ai-med at improving on the hasti-ly drafted ban in January thatwas blocked by the judiciary,drops Iraq from the list of se-ven countries. TNN P12

Trump issuesnew travel

ban, drops Iraq

The pilot of an air ambulan-ce flying from Delhi to

Bangkok to airlift a patient toGurgaon’s Medanta Medicityreportedly died after the pla-ne crashed close to an air forceairfield in Thailand on Sun-day, on way to its destination.There were two pilots andthree Medanta doctors on bo-ard. One doctor suffered 45%burns, three others had lessthan 24% burns. TNN P10

Air ambulancecrashes; pilot

dead, docs hurt

India accounts for the secondhighest death rate of kids un-

der 5 years of age due to environ-mental risks, mainly pollutionand poor sanitation. Accordingto a World Health Organisationlist for south-east Asia, only My-anmar (297 deaths per lakh an-nually) is ranked above India(248.14 deaths). In the global listof countries with highest deathrate among under-5 kids due tounhealthy environment, Indiais ranked No. 35. TNNP8

Poor sanitation,pollution takingbig toll on kids

The Supreme Court soughtexplanation on Monday from

the Centre and RBI on why citizenshad been denied the opportunityto deposit scrapped currency tillMarch 31as promised by PM Modiwhen he demonetised Rs 1,000and Rs 500 notes on November 8last year. P 10

SC wants answerson note ban deadline

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The SC rejected GayatriPrajapati’s plea for stay of

arrest in an alleged gang-rapecase. Regretting that the casewas being given “politicalcolour”, the court said its orderwas confined to registration ofan FIR and did not mentionanything about an arrest. P 10

No relief for UPmantri in rape case

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A crowd at PM Modi’s rally atRohaniya in Varanasi on Monday. Hehas visited Varanasi 3 days in a row