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A rvind Kejriwal- led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) re-affirmed its supremacy over the BJP in the high octane Delhi Assembly elections by winning 62 seat out of 70. The AAP managed to retain its vote —53.57 per cent this time against 54.3 per cent in 2015 — and beat the anti- incumbency and the poll campaign blitzkrieg of Home Minister Amit Shah-led BJP. The national Capital witnessed an intense poll campaign led by the BJP’s humongous poll machinery backed by organisational set- up, against Kejriwal who changed his tactics and did not indulge into the slanging match with the saffron party despite being provoked on several occasions. However, the BJP could add another five seats to its tally of 3 in 2015 and increase its vote share by over 6 per cent to 38.49 per cent, but that was too little to stop the AAP jugger- naut. The Congress which had ruled Delhi for 15 uninter- rupted years till AAP came to the scene was vanquished as its 63 out of 66 candidates lost their deposits in the AAP tsunami. The Congress’ ally RJD too lost its deposit on four seats. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal from New Delhi, his deputy Manish Sisodia from Patparganj, Raghav Chadha from Rajender Nagar were notable winners. The BJP won five seats, while the Congress scored unenvi- able “zero”. The high volt- age elections also saw Kapil Mishra, a former Minister in the Kejriwal Government who had rebelled against AAP, losing to AAP’s sit- ting MLA Akhilesh Pati Triptahi from Model Town Assembly seat. Sisodia, the architect of AAP’s educa- tional revolu- tion in Delhi, won a tough battle against rookie Ravinder Singh Negi of t h e BJP by over 3,000 votes f r o m Patparganj seat. He had many anxious moments before emerging victorious in the 15th round. AAP’s Okhla candidate Amanatullah Khan, who was in the eye of storm for his alleged association with the Shaheen Bagh protesters, defeated BJP’s Braham Singh by 71,827 votes. Shaheen Bagh, which falls under the Okhla Assembly constituency, turned out to be the epicentre of anti-CAA protest with women and chil- dren holding sit-in protest for about 50 days. Continuous media attention has kept the pot boiling which the BJP cap- italised on during poll cam- paign. Seelampur, which also wit- nessed violence during an anti- CAA protest, saw AAP’s Abdul Rehman emerging victorious against Kaushal Kumar Mishra of the BJP. Rehman defeated his rival by a margin of 25,000 votes. Raghav Chadha, who was fielded from the Rajinder Nagar constituency in place of the sitting AAP MLA, defeat- ed his BJP rival Sardar RP Singh by 20,058 votes. Atishi, who was fielded from Kalkaji, won by 11,393 votes defeating BJP candidate Dharambir Singh. Social Welfare minis- ter Rajendra Pal Gautam who was fielded from Seemapuri won by defeating BJP ally Lok J a n Shakti Party’s Sant Lal. AAP’s SK Bagga won from Krishna Nagar con- stituency where he was pitted against BJP’s Anil Goyal. The Tri Nagar and Shalimar Bagh seats also went to the AAP. AAP’s Preeti Tomar won the Tri Nagar seat by 12,000 votes, while Bandana Kumari emerged victorious on the Shalimar Bagh seat by a mar- gin of 800 votes. AAP’s Kuldeep Kumar defeated Raj Kumar of the BJP from the Kondli seat. Mukesh Kumar Ahlawat of the AAP defeated the BJP’s Ram Chander Chawriya from Sultanpur Majra, a reserved seat. Mohinder Goyal of the AAP won the Rithala seat after defeating BJP’s Manish Chaudhary, while Jangpura seat was won by AAP’s Praveen Kumar, who defeated BJP’s Impreet Singh Bakshi. AAP’s Prakash Jarwal won the Deoli seat, defeat- ing Arvind Kumar of the BJP, while the party’s candidate Naresh Balyan retained the Uttam Nagar seat after defeating BJP’s Krishan Gahlot. I n Shakur Basti, AAP’s senior leader Satyendar Jain won after defeating Dr SC Vats after trailing him in the initial trends. Rajesh Gupta of the AAP emerged victorious from the Wazirpur seat while BJP’s Dr Mahender Nagpal stood second. Surendra Kumar of the AAP defeated Ranjeet Singh of the BJP to win the Gokalpur seat. H ailing party’s landslide win as a “Victory of India” Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said a new kind of pol- itics has emerged from the Delhi Assembly poll outcome, with people rewarding the party which built schools, hos- pitals and provided cheap elec- tricity round-the-clock. Kejriwal greeted supporters at party office by saying “I love you”. He chanted “Bharat mata ki jai, Inquilab zindaba and thereafter he addressed the supporters. “It is a victory of all and every family who consid- ered me their son and gave us a huge mandate. In the coun- try today, Delhiites have given birth to a new kind of politics, which is called “Kam ki rajni- ti” (politics of works),” he said. “This is very auspicious message for the country as the politics of work can only take our country to the 21st centu- ry,” said Kejriwal, flanked by his wife, daughter and senior party leaders, from the stage erected at the party’s headquarters. The AAP chief was accompanied by his family and senior party leaders Gopal Rai and Sanjay Singh. Addressing the gathering, AAP’s Rajya Sabha member Sushil Gupta said, “People of Delhi have showed the way to the country that only develop- ment works will take it forward and not Hindu-Muslim poli- tics. All kind of divisive politics has been rejected by the peo- ple of Delhi.” Party leader Gopal Rai also asked volunteers to get ready, saying “what happens in Delhi can expand to the whole coun- try”. Rai, a Minister in the Kejriwal Government, retained Babarpur constituency by defeating BJP’s Naresh Gaur. “The whole country needs change. I urge my volunteers to prepare themselves. Get ready. What happened in Delhi can expand to the whole country,” Rai said. A youth who had put ver- milion on his ladylove to marry her more than three years ago, dumped her and again married her on Monday after the victim lodged a com- plaint against him. According to sources, Swetabasanta Jena works as a contract labourer in the Rourkela Steel Plant and resides with his parents in B block in Sector-7. He had developed friendship with Pujarani Naik; and thereafter, their love rela- tionship had started. As per an FIR of Pujarani, Swetabasanta had reportedly put vermilion on her head on June 1, 2016 in the Jagannath temple of Hanuman Vatika at Rourkela. After their marriage, Swetabasanta took Pujarani to his home, but after a few days, Swetabasant’s parents started torturing her as she belongs to a “lower caste” and did not allow her to enter in puja room, kitchen and ultimately cast her off. Pujarani lodged a com- plaint during that period in the women police station seeking justice. The then IIC of women police station called members of both the families and told Swetabasanta to live with Pujarani. Swetabasanta took Pujarani to a house at Sector- 16 where Swetabasanta alleged- ly used to torture her and told her to bring Rs 5 lakh from her house. Pujarani again lodged a complaint in the Sector-7 police station and women police station. After knowing about complaint against him, Swetabasanta took Pujarani to Bhubaneswar and kept her in a house there. He then came to Rourkela, leaving Pujarani at Bhubaneswar. Pujarani waited for Swetabasanta from December 2017 to December 2019, but the latter did not return to Bhubaneswar and also did not pick up her call. Finding no other alterna- tive, Pujarani came to Rourkela on February 7 and met former Councillor of BJP Pramila Das and shared her plight. As per advice of Pramila, Pujarani lodged a complaint in the women police station on February 8. Fearing arrest of Swetabasanta, his parents reached police station and agreed to take Pujarani to their home. As per demand of Pujarani for her surety, her father-in-law also gave her a cheque of Rs 2 lakh. On Monday, again the marriage of Swetabasanta and Pujarani was solemnised in the premises of the Jagannath temple in Hanuman Vatika at Rourkela in the presence of members of both families and Pramila Das. C hief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday stressed on the need of con- servation and restoration of the heritage sites that have been damaged by natural disasters. “Odisha’s heritage sites must be preserved for future generations at any cost for they not only represent the state’s cultural identity but also serves as a driving force of its economy,”said Patnaik inau- gurating the 2nd BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise- 2020 (BIMSTEC DMEx-2020) here. The three-day programme is being organised jointly by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA). He underpinned the preservation of heritage sites and stressed on undertaking of adequate documentation, prop- er identification and grading of heritage sites. “It is important to undertake adequate doc- umentation, proper iden- tification and grading of heritage sites based on the potential risk and other characteristics. We must improve upon early warning dissemination system and capacity build- ing for conservation of cultural heritage sites,” said he. He hoped that the BIMSTEC DMEx-2020 would prove a milestone in safeguarding the cul- tural heritage sites across the region. Highlighting Odisha’s disaster preparedness, Patnaik said that maturity in pre- paredness, along with Zero Casualty approach has shaped Odisha as a role model earning praise from UN and interna- tional media. Over 80 delegates belonging to five member countries, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Nepal, are participating in this exercise. However, Bhutan and Thailand are not participating in the exercise. Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy and NDRF DG Satya Narayan Pradhan also spoke. The exercise is being organised from Tuesday to Thursday at Bhubaneswar and Puri. Union Minister of State for Home Nityananda Rai would launch field training exercise at Ramchandi Beach on Wednesday in Puri. An exercise village has been set up at Ramchandi where simultaneous on aquat- ic disaster response with spe- cial attention to the damage to heritage site would take place as part of the exercise. This would provide real-time sce- narios so that in times of dis- aster, a proper plan for response and coordination among mem- ber nation can be executed in multi-agencies scenarios. International observers like United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) and national observers like Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and representa- tives from various stake- holders like India Meteorological Department (IMD), National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Central Water Commission (CWC), Animal Quarantine and Certification Service (AQCS), Civil Defence and Fire Services BIMSTEC are participating in the exercise. BRAHAMAPUR: The driver of the bus ‘Silk City’ which came in contact with an 11-KV wire in the Golanthara area in Ganjam district on Sunday, was arrested by the Brahmapur police on Tuesday. The arrested driver was identi- fied as Gagan Nayak Brahamapur Superintendent of Police Pinak Mishra said prime facie investigations revealed that Nayak was guilty and his rash driving led to the tragedy. Notably, after the incident, Nayak had jumped from the bus and fled from the spot. PNS T he Bondamunda police on Tuesday detained four per- sons including the husband of a woman for allegedly setting her on fire for bearing a girl child for delivery. The woman succumbed to the burn injuries on Monday night. Later, the cops a con- ducted postmortem and hand- ed over the body to her fami- ly members. According to a complaint lodged by parents of the deceased Radha Kumari (35) with the Bondamunda police, she had undergone an abortion in 2014 at the instance of her husband Binod Singh (40) to do so following determina- tion of the female sex of the foetus. Over five years later, the woman gave birth to a baby girl, for which her husband and in-laws were torturing her physically and mentally, her relatives alleged. They further alleged that Radha Kumari was set ablaze by the accused on February 1 when she was six-month preg- nant with a female foetus. She lost her unborn baby on February 3 while undergoing treatment at the Rourkela Government Hospital. And she succumbed to her burn injuries on Monday night. Later, police registered a case and started investigation into the incident. Based on the on FIR, police have detained deceased Radha Kumari’s hus- band, his elder brother, father- law and sister- in- law. “After registering case, we have detained four persons including husband of deceased woman and we are interrogat- ing them.” said Bandamunda PS IIC s Dharua.

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Page 1: English News Paper | Breaking News | Latest Today …...2020/02/12  · State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA). He underpinned the preservation of heritage sites and stressed

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Arvind Kejriwal- ledAam Aadmi Party

(AAP) re-affirmed itssupremacy over theBJP in the highoctane DelhiAssembly electionsby winning 62 seatout of 70. The AAPmanaged to retainits vote —53.57 percent this time against54.3 per cent in 2015— and beat the anti-incumbency and thepoll campaign blitzkriegof Home Minister AmitShah-led BJP.

The national Capitalwitnessed an intense pollcampaign led by the BJP’shumongous poll machinerybacked by organisational set-up, against Kejriwal whochanged his tactics and did notindulge into the slanging matchwith the saffron party despitebeing provoked on severaloccasions.

However, the BJP couldadd another five seats to its tallyof 3 in 2015 and increase itsvote share by over 6 per cent to38.49 per cent, but that was toolittle to stop the AAP jugger-naut. The Congress which hadruled Delhi for 15 uninter-rupted years till AAP came tothe scene was vanquished as its63 out of 66 candidates losttheir deposits in the AAPtsunami. The Congress’ allyRJD too lost its deposit on fourseats.

Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal from New Delhi, hisdeputy Manish Sisodia fromPatparganj, Raghav Chadhafrom Rajender Nagar werenotable winners. The BJP wonfive seats, while the Congress

scored unenvi-able “zero”.

The high volt-age elections also

saw Kapil Mishra, aformer Minister in the

Kejriwal Governmentwho had rebelled against

AAP, losing to AAP’s sit-ting MLA Akhilesh PatiTriptahi from ModelTown Assembly seat.

Sisodia, thearchitect ofAAP’s educa-tional revolu-tion in Delhi,won a toughbattle againstr o o k i e

R a v i n d e rS i n g h

Negi oft h e

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o v e r3 , 0 0 0v o t e sf r o mPatparganjseat. He hadmany anxiousmoments beforeemerging victoriousin the 15th round.AAP’s Okhla candidateAmanatullah Khan, whowas in the eye of storm forhis alleged association with theShaheen Bagh protesters,defeated BJP’s Braham Singh by71,827 votes.

Shaheen Bagh, which fallsunder the Okhla Assemblyconstituency, turned out to bethe epicentre of anti-CAAprotest with women and chil-dren holding sit-in protest forabout 50 days. Continuousmedia attention has kept thepot boiling which the BJP cap-italised on during poll cam-paign.

Seelampur, which also wit-nessed violence during an anti-CAA protest, saw AAP’s AbdulRehman emerging victoriousagainst Kaushal Kumar Mishra

of the BJP. Rehman

defeated his rival by a marginof 25,000 votes.

Raghav Chadha, who wasfielded from the RajinderNagar constituency in place ofthe sitting AAP MLA, defeat-ed his BJP rival Sardar RPSingh by 20,058 votes.

Atishi, who wasfielded from Kalkaji, wonby 11,393 votes defeatingBJP candidate DharambirSingh.

Social Welfare minis-ter Rajendra Pal

Gautam who wasfielded from

Seemapuri wonby defeating

BJP ally LokJ a n

Shakti Party’s Sant Lal. AAP’sSK Bagga won from Krishna

Nagar con-

stituency where he was pittedagainst BJP’s Anil Goyal. TheTri Nagar and Shalimar Baghseats also went to the AAP.

AAP’s Preeti Tomar wonthe Tri Nagar seat by 12,000votes, while Bandana Kumariemerged victorious on theShalimar Bagh seat by a mar-gin of 800 votes. AAP’s KuldeepKumar defeated Raj Kumar ofthe BJP from the Kondli seat.

Mukesh Kumar Ahlawat ofthe AAP defeated the BJP’sRam Chander Chawriya fromSultanpur Majra, a reservedseat.

Mohinder Goyal of theAAP won the Rithala seat afterdefeating BJP’s ManishChaudhary, while Jangpuraseat was won by AAP’s PraveenKumar, who defeated BJP’sImpreet Singh Bakshi.

AAP’s Prakash Jarwalwon the Deoli seat, defeat-ing Arvind Kumar of theBJP, while the party’scandidate NareshBalyan retained theUttam Nagar seatafter defeating

B J P ’ sKrishanGahlot.

I nS h a k u rB a s t i ,

A A P ’ ss e n i o rl e a d e r

S a t y e n d a rJain won afterdefeating DrSC Vats aftertrailing him inthe initial

trends.R a j e s h

Gupta of theAAP emerged

victorious from theWazirpur seat while

BJP’s Dr MahenderNagpal stood

second.Surendra Kumar of

the AAP defeated RanjeetSingh of the BJP to win the

Gokalpur seat.

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Hailing party’s landslide winas a “Victory of India”

Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal said a new kind of pol-itics has emerged from theDelhi Assembly poll outcome,with people rewarding theparty which built schools, hos-pitals and provided cheap elec-tricity round-the-clock.

Kejriwal greeted supportersat party office by saying “I loveyou”. He chanted “Bharat mataki jai, Inquilab zindaba andthereafter he addressed thesupporters. “It is a victory of alland every family who consid-ered me their son and gave usa huge mandate. In the coun-try today, Delhiites have givenbirth to a new kind of politics,which is called “Kam ki rajni-ti” (politics of works),” he said.

“This is very auspiciousmessage for the country as thepolitics of work can only takeour country to the 21st centu-ry,” said Kejriwal, flanked by hiswife, daughter and senior partyleaders, from the stage erectedat the party’s headquarters.

The AAP chief wasaccompanied by his familyand senior party leaders GopalRai and Sanjay Singh.

Addressing the gathering,AAP’s Rajya Sabha memberSushil Gupta said, “People ofDelhi have showed the way to

the country that only develop-ment works will take it forwardand not Hindu-Muslim poli-tics. All kind of divisive politicshas been rejected by the peo-ple of Delhi.”

Party leader Gopal Rai alsoasked volunteers to get ready,saying “what happens in Delhican expand to the whole coun-try”. Rai, a Minister in theKejriwal Government, retainedBabarpur constituency bydefeating BJP’s Naresh Gaur.

“The whole country needschange. I urge my volunteers toprepare themselves. Get ready.What happened in Delhi canexpand to the whole country,”Rai said.

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Ayouth who had put ver-milion on his ladylove to

marry her more than threeyears ago, dumped her andagain married her on Mondayafter the victim lodged a com-plaint against him.

According to sources,Swetabasanta Jena works as acontract labourer in theRourkela Steel Plant and resideswith his parents in B block inSector-7. He had developedfriendship with Pujarani Naik;and thereafter, their love rela-tionship had started. As per anFIR of Pujarani, Swetabasantahad reportedly put vermilionon her head on June 1, 2016 inthe Jagannath temple ofHanuman Vatika at Rourkela.After their marriage,Swetabasanta took Pujarani tohis home, but after a few days,Swetabasant’s parents startedtorturing her as she belongs toa “lower caste” and did notallow her to enter in pujaroom, kitchen and ultimatelycast her off.

Pujarani lodged a com-plaint during that period in thewomen police station seekingjustice. The then IIC of women

police station called membersof both the families and toldSwetabasanta to live withPujarani. Swetabasanta tookPujarani to a house at Sector-16 where Swetabasanta alleged-ly used to torture her and toldher to bring Rs 5 lakh from herhouse. Pujarani again lodged acomplaint in the Sector-7police station and womenpolice station. After knowingabout complaint against him,Swetabasanta took Pujarani toBhubaneswar and kept her ina house there. He then came toRourkela, leaving Pujarani atBhubaneswar.

Pujarani waited forSwetabasanta from December2017 to December 2019, butthe latter did not return toBhubaneswar and also did notpick up her call.

Finding no other alterna-tive, Pujarani came to Rourkelaon February 7 and met formerCouncillor of BJP Pramila Dasand shared her plight. As peradvice of Pramila, Pujaranilodged a complaint in thewomen police station onFebruary 8. Fearing arrest ofSwetabasanta, his parentsreached police station andagreed to take Pujarani to theirhome. As per demand ofPujarani for her surety, herfather-in-law also gave her acheque of Rs 2 lakh.

On Monday, again themarriage of Swetabasanta andPujarani was solemnised inthe premises of the Jagannathtemple in Hanuman Vatika atRourkela in the presence ofmembers of both families andPramila Das.

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Chief Minister NaveenPatnaik on Tuesday

stressed on the need of con-servation and restoration of theheritage sites that have beendamaged by natural disasters.

“Odisha’s heritage sitesmust be preserved for futuregenerations at any cost forthey not only represent thestate’s cultural identity but alsoserves as a driving force of itseconomy,”said Patnaik inau-gurating the 2nd BIMSTECDisaster Management Exercise-2020 (BIMSTEC DMEx-2020)here.

The three-day programmeis being organised jointly by theNational Disaster ResponseForce (NDRF) and the OdishaState Disaster ManagementAuthority (OSDMA).

He underpinned thepreservation of heritage sitesand stressed on undertaking ofadequate documentation, prop-er identification and grading ofheritage sites.

“It is important toundertake adequate doc-umentation, proper iden-tification and grading ofheritage sites based onthe potential risk andother characteristics. Wemust improve upon earlywarning disseminationsystem and capacity build-ing for conservation ofcultural heritage sites,”said he.

He hoped that theBIMSTEC DMEx-2020would prove a milestonein safeguarding the cul-tural heritage sites acrossthe region.

Highlighting Odisha’sdisaster preparedness, Patnaiksaid that maturity in pre-paredness, along with ZeroCasualty approach has shapedOdisha as a role model earningpraise from UN and interna-tional media. Over 80 delegatesbelonging to five membercountries, Bangladesh, India,Myanmar, Sri Lanka andNepal, are participating in thisexercise. However, Bhutan andThailand are not participatingin the exercise.

Chief Secretary AsitTripathy and NDRF DG SatyaNarayan Pradhan also spoke.The exercise is being organisedfrom Tuesday to Thursday atBhubaneswar and Puri.

Union Minister of State forHome Nityananda Rai wouldlaunch field training exercise atRamchandi Beach onWednesday in Puri.

An exercise village hasbeen set up at Ramchandiwhere simultaneous on aquat-ic disaster response with spe-cial attention to the damage toheritage site would take placeas part of the exercise. Thiswould provide real-time sce-narios so that in times of dis-aster, a proper plan for responseand coordination among mem-ber nation can be executed inmulti-agencies scenarios.

International observers likeUnited Nations Development

Programme (UNDP),International Search andRescue Advisory Group(INSARAG) and theInternational Centre for the

Study of the Preservationand Restoration of CulturalProperty (ICCROM) andnational observers likeIndian National Trust forArt and Cultural Heritage(INTACH), andArchaeological Survey ofIndia (ASI) and representa-tives from various stake-holders like IndiaMeteorological Department(IMD), National DisasterManagement Authority(NDMA), National Centrefor Medium Range WeatherForecasting (NCMRWF),Indian National Centre forOcean Information Services(INCOIS), Central Water

Commission (CWC), AnimalQuarantine and CertificationService (AQCS), Civil Defenceand Fire Services BIMSTEC areparticipating in the exercise.

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BRAHAMAPUR: The driverof the bus ‘Silk City’ whichcame in contact with an 11-KVwire in the Golanthara area inGanjam district on Sunday, wasarrested by the Brahmapurpolice on Tuesday.The arrested driver was identi-

fied as Gagan NayakBrahamapur Superintendent ofPolice Pinak Mishra said primefacie investigations revealedthat Nayak was guilty and hisrash driving led to the tragedy.

Notably, after the incident,Nayak had jumped from thebus and f led from the spot. PNS

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The Bondamunda police onTuesday detained four per-

sons including the husband ofa woman for allegedly settingher on fire for bearing a girlchild for delivery.

The woman succumbedto the burn injuries on Mondaynight. Later, the cops a con-ducted postmortem and hand-ed over the body to her fami-ly members.

According to a complaint

lodged by parents of thedeceased Radha Kumari (35)with the Bondamunda police,she had undergone an abortionin 2014 at the instance of herhusband Binod Singh (40) todo so following determina-tion of the female sex of thefoetus.

Over five years later, thewoman gave birth to a babygirl, for which her husband andin-laws were torturing herphysically and mentally, herrelatives alleged.

They further alleged thatRadha Kumari was set ablazeby the accused on February 1when she was six-month preg-nant with a female foetus. She

lost her unborn baby onFebruary 3 while undergoingtreatment at the RourkelaGovernment Hospital. Andshe succumbed to her burninjuries on Monday night.

Later, police registered acase and started investigationinto the incident. Based on theon FIR, police have detaineddeceased Radha Kumari’s hus-band, his elder brother, father-law and sister- in- law.

“After registering case, wehave detained four personsincluding

husband of deceasedwoman and we are interrogat-ing them.” said BandamundaPS IIC s Dharua.

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Two days after 10 personswere killed and 30 others

injured when a bus came incontact with live 11-KV wireat Mendarajpur in theGolanthara area in Ganjamdistrict, the Southco and theRural Development (RD)Department have startedblaming each other for themishap, adding much to the

agony of victims’ familiesand local people as well.

While the injured personsare now fighting for theirlives in hospitals, mere sus-pension of four engineers i.e.two from each department isnot suffice but a sheer eyewash, said an aggrieved localman who did not wish to beidentified.

Addressing a Press meet,Bharatiya Bikash Parishad(BBP) State presidentSurendra Panigrahi andsenior CPI(M) leader AliKishore Pattnaik demandedthat the AO and CEO ofSouthco are immediatelyarrested for their negligence.

Panigrahi demanded thatan FIR be lodged immedi-ately at the Golanthara policestation against the concernedengineers, including theChief Engineer and theSouthco MD and more com-pensation be paid to victims’families by the both the

Government and theSouthco.

The documentary evi-dence clearly shows that theExecutive Engineer of theRD Department appears to beresponsible for the tragedy.According to information,the Executive Engineer ofthe Southco in its letter No1272 (4) issued on July 4,2018, addressed to the EE ofthe RD Department, hadexpressed serious concern asto how the road wideningwork from Mendrajpur toDankalpadu and vi l lageManikpur under Kanisi andGolanthara Electrical sec-tions was undertaken withoutint imat ing the Southcoauthorities. Due to suchwidening work, the poles ofexisting 11-KV lines came tothe middle of the road, pos-ing threat for lives of roadusers, the letter read.

Even the said letterreveals further that the

Southco had submitted anestimate to the RDDepartment for shifting andre-erection of the existing3p-3w 11 KV OH line and a63-KVA DP mounted 11/0.4KV substation (without trans-former) from middle of theroad to the roadside to whichthe EE of the RD Departmentdid not pay any heed.

Besides, the Southco gavean option to the RDDepartment to carry out thepole shifting and erectionwork by any authorised elec-trical contractor by deposit-ing only six per cent of thetotal cost towards supervisioncharges. To this also, the RDExecutive Engineer remainedas a mute spectator.

When contacted, theSouthco CEO said that if theNHRC gives a directive topay compensat ion, theSouthco would certainly con-sider such an order onhumanitarian ground.

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The Institute of Life Sciences(ILS), Bhubaneswar cele-

brated its 31st foundation dayon Tuesday. Chief guestMinster for Science andTechnology Ashok Panda,while complementing theresearch work of the institutionin the field of biotechnologyand life sciences, said scienceand technology applicationshave tremendous potential fordevelopment of the humankindand the society at large.

Panda said several initia-tives of ILS have significant rel-evance to Odisha in the mattersof health and disease manage-ment, nutritional and agricul-ture improvement. The StateGovernment is working close-ly with the ILS and has recent-ly supported establishment ofa biotechnology incubator topromote entrepreneurialecosystem in the State in thefield of biotechnology and life

sciences.ILS Director Dr Ajay

Parida spoke on the institute’sachievements during the lastyear and mentioned that its sci-entists and students have pub-lished more than 50 researchpapers, obtained three patents,commercialised two productsand received many awards andrecognitions including 15 stu-dents obtaining their PhD.

Utkal University Vice-Chancellor Dr SoumendraPatnaik said the ILS’ initiativeon tribal health and nutritionis an important area of researchand hoped that the researchwould lead to significant out-comes. NISER Director DrSudhakar Panda complement-ed the ILS for its effort in tak-ing science to the grassroots.He particularly mentionedabout the massive studentsoutreach programme of ILSand also the work the ILS iscarrying out for the economicempowerment of tribal farm-

ers specifically inNabarangapur district.

AIIMS, BhubaneswarDirector Dr Gitanjali said theILS and the AIIMS have recent-ly signed an MoU for workingin the area of health research aswell as academic and studentsexchange programmes. Both

the institutions are workingtowards specific research pro-grammes in the area of cancerbiology and infectious dis-eases. Ravenshaw UniversityVC Prof Ishan Patra spokeabout the state-of-the-art infra-structure at the ILS and hopedthat the ILS would be a guid-

ing force in improving thebiotechnology ecosystem ofthe country.

Minister Panda releasedthe institute’s annual reportand newsletter and gave awayprizes to the best employee ofthe year and the bestresearchers.

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Adelegation ofParliamentarians from

Odisha met Union RoadTransport and HighwaysMinister Nitin Gadkari in NewDelhi on Monday and dis-cussed about the progress ofNational Highway Authority ofIndia (NHAI) projects in theState. BJD MPs BhartruhariMahtab, Chandra Sekhar Sahu,Chandrani Murmu, SarojiniHembram and Amar Patnaikalong with Congress MPSaptagiri Sankar Ulaka andBJP MPs Basant Panda,Aparajita Sarangi and SangeetaSingh Deo held talks withGadkari. Union MinistersDharmendra Pradhan and VKSingh were present during themeeting.

NHAI Chief General

Manager Ram Prasad Pandainformed the Union Ministersand Parliamentarians that theOdisha Government has pro-vided all kinds support to com-plete the highway projects inthe State. In the current fiscal,the NHAI has a target to con-vert 366 km of NHs in the Stateinto four-lane and six-lane.

He also informed that bud-getary allocations of approxi-

mately Rs 20,000 crore havebeen made by the Centre tocarry out the NH works. TheNHAI has so far carried out173 km of highway construc-tion in the State.

In January, Chief SecretaryAsit Tripathy had held a reviewmeeting with NHAI officials onthe progress of different NH-widening and constructionworks.

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An ailing minor boy lost hislife while being taken to

hospital after the concernedambulance got stuck in heavytraffic at Chandrasekharpurhere on Tuesday.

As per reports, the five-year-old boy had initially beenadmitted to the CapitalHospital here, where doctorsreferred him to the SCB

Medical College Hospital inCuttack. But as his conditionstarted worsening, his familymembers decided to admithim in a private hospital in thePatia area of the city.

But the boy died on theway to the hospital after theambulance, in which he wasbeing shifted, got stuck in thetraffic snarls at various junc-tions along the route to Patia,following which the emergencyvehicle reached the hospitalafter over an hour, thedeceased’s relatives claimed.

Vehicular communicationson the road connecting Patiahad come to a standstill due toexcessive traffic congestion onthe route.

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The investment underC o m p e n s a t o r y

Afforestation FundManagement and PlanningAuthority (CAMPA) has yield-ed good result in the State withan increase of forest area by 274sqkm during last two years asper India State of Forest Report(ISFR), a biennial publicationof Forest Survey of India.

This was known in a State-level Steering CommitteeAuthority of CAMPA held

under the chairmanship ofChief Secretary Asit Tripathyhere on Tuesday whereinAdditional Chief Secretary DrMona Sharma outlined theissues for discussion.

CAMPA Chief ExecutiveOfficer Uma Nanduri said, “Asper ISFR- 2019, the forest areain Odisha has increased by 274sqkm within the year 2017 to2019. Besides, the tree coverarea has also increased by 655sqkm. Odisha has been pro-jected as a lead State in differ-ent parameters of forest man-agement and has been placedat 6th position at the nationallevel.”

“This has been possiblebecause of different initiativesand projects taken underCAMPA,” said PCCF SandeepTripathy.

Chief Secretary Tripathydirected officials to focus oneffective implementation ofwildlife management plan and

growth of biodiversity. He alsodirected the Forest &Environment Department toenhance mangrove forest cov-erage in Bhitarkanika.

The committee approvedthe Annual Action Plan of2020-21 with a total outlay of Rs803.65 crore. The major activ-ities include block plantation,assisted natural regeneration,bald hill plantation, mainte-nance of previous year’s plan-tation, fodder and fruit-bearingplantation, bamboo culture,wildlife management, etc.

A target was set to under-take plantation in 1500 hectaresof land at the rate of 1,600plants per hectare during 2020-21. The issue of protectionfrom forest fire also figured inthe meeting. An amount of Rs41.13 crore was approved formaintenance of fire protectionline, operation of 216 fire pro-tection squads and support toVSS for fire protection works.

Nanduri said, “As of now,a total forest area of 55,534.40hectares has been diverted fordifferent purposes in Odisha.Against this, 72,606.57 hectareshave been stipulated for com-pensatory afforestation. TillSeptember, 2019 afforestationwas done in 64,135.27 hectares.The APO 2020-21 has plannedfor plantation in 4,355.35hectares. The balance area of4000 hectares will be planted inAPO 21-22.”

PCCF Tripathy said,“DGPS survey of the entireforestland of 60,991 sqkm hasbeen undertaken applying RSand GIS techniques. This hasproved to be very useful inmonitoring of forest area,wildlife and maintenance ofdifferent assets. The methodhas been accepted as a bestpractice at the national leveland the Government of Indiahas advised other States toemulate the model.”

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BJP MPs from Odisha onTuesday met Union Rural

Development Minister NaredraSingh Tomar and lodged acomplaint to him that needypeople in the State are beingdeprived of housing facilitieswhile most of them are vul-nerable to natural disasters.

They requested Tomar toconduct an inquiry against thelack of scrupulousness and fla-grant preferentialism in allot-ments of PMAY housing fundsin the State.

“It is distressing to notethat a large number of irregu-larities have been reported andfunds under the PMAY havebeen misappropriated with bla-tant favouritism, depriving theeligible population,” they said.

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In view of demand from pas-sengers, the Ministry of

Railways has decided to runspecial trains towards Ajmerfor the Khawaja Urs Fair-2020.

To carry the devotees ofthis region to witness the fes-tival, the ECoR has planned torun a special train from Puri onFebruary 26. In the returndirection, this train will leaveAjmer on March 2 and arriveat Puri on March 4.

08421 Puri-Ajmer Specialwill leave Puri at 0900hrs onFebruary 26 and will arrive atAjmer at 0400hrs on February28. In the return direction,08422 Ajmer-Puri Special willleave Ajmer at 2005hrs onMarch 2 and reach Puri at1615hrs on March 4.

This train will have stop-

pages at Khurda Road,Bhubaneswar, Cuttack,Dhenkanal, Talcher Road,Angul, Rairakhol, Sambalpur,Bargarh, Balangir, Titilagarh,Kantabanji, Khariar Road,Mahasamund, Raipur, andother important stationsbetween Puri and Ajmer fromboth the directions.

Urs is celebrated to com-memorate the death anniver-sary of Sufi saint KhwajaMoinuddin Chishti, founder ofthe Chishtiya Sufi order inIndia. It is celebrated for sixdays in the 7th month ofIslamic Lunar Calendar, calledRajab and features night-longDhikr Qawwali singing. Thisyear, the 1st Rajab will be heldin the night of February 25-26and the 6th Rajab will be heldon March 1-2 night.

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]A critically ill female baby,daughter of Kiran Tanty and

Mahendra Ganda, a resident ofBadnuagaon under Kansbahalpolice station of Sundargarhdistrict has recuperated atAastha Mother and Child CareHospital (AMCCH) after acomplicated surgery was doneon her by a team of doctors atAMCCH.

The baby girl after recov-ery, was discharged fromAMCCH, on Monday. She wasborn as a preterm baby weigh-ing only 1,600 gms. The babyhad developed breathing diffi-culty soon after birth andhence was referred to IGH. Shewas there put on a ventilatorand diagnosed to havediaphragmatic hernia on left

side. This is a rare con-dition affecting one in2,500 newborns.

The only way tosave the baby was tosurgically correct thedefect. Pediatric sur-geon Dr J Kumar camefrom Ranchi and oper-ated the baby alongwith the team ofAnaesthetist Dr ArpitAggarwal and pediatri-cians of AMCCH.

The father of babygirl is a labourer andobviously of limitedfinancial resources. Tohelp him, the hospitalhas given large dis-counts along with gen-erous help from Vatsalya TrustRourkela.

"I am very happy that my

daughter has recuperated atAMMCH," said MahendraGanda, father of the baby girl.

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The BJP on Tuesday sub-mitted a memorandum to

the National Commission forBackward Classes (NCBC) urg-ing for its intervention toensure adequate reservationfor the OBC and SEBC cate-gories in jobs and education inOdisha.

“By virtue of Sections 15(4)and 16(4), the UnionGovernment is providing 27-per cent reservation to OBCpeople in jobs and education.The Supreme Court has alsoupheld it. It is disappointingthat the Odisha Governmenthas not implemented the reser-

vation even after 30 years of itsimplementation in the coun-try,” alleged Krushak MorchaState general secretary SurathBiswal.

He said that while all Stateshave executed 27-per reserva-tion to OBC people, Karnataka,Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Biharare providing more percentageof reservation to this categoryin view of its big share in thepopulation. Tamil Nadu is giv-ing 50-per cent reservation tothe OBC category.

He too alleged that theOdisha State Commission forBackward Classes Act has notbeen implemented since it waspassed in 1993.

A team comprising BJPState general secretary RanjanPatel, Hitesh Bagarty,Maheshwar Sahoo, SanatGadtia, Gokulandana Mallick,Jugal Padha and Pradeep Sahoosubmitted the memorandum.

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The Social Justice Front,Odisha, submitted a mem-

orandum to the Chairman,National Backward ClassCommission, during the latter'sState visit on Tuesday andraised demands like inclusionof a column in the NationalCensus for caste census ofOBCs, formation of OBCCommission in the State, 27per cent reservation for OBCsin jobs and admission in vari-ous courses.

It said the Government ofOdisha in a Cabinet Resolutionon January 11 moved theCentre for Caste Census of

backward classes in the gener-al census 2021. But the pro-posal was rejected byGovernment of India onFebruary 5 in Rajya Sabha byMinister ofState(Home)Nityananda Rai.

The forum urged the com-mission to take up the matterwith the Union Home Ministerand Prime Minister.

The forum also urged tomove the Government of Indiato raise the income limit ofcreamy layers of BackwardClasses to Rs 15 lakh.

It also requested the com-mission to further activate thethe OBC Finance Corporation,that is now lying inactive.

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The ‘We the People of India-Odisha’ held a demonstration

at Master Canteen Square here onTuesday to protest against theDelhi police lathicharge on JamiaMillia Islamia University stu-dents, who were holding a rallyagainst the CitizenshipAmendment Act (CAA) andNational Register of Citizens(NRC) in New Delhi recently.

The organisation’s leaderssaid the NDA Governmentgoons physical attack on theJamia Millia and JNU studentsdemonstrates the undemocra-tic and autocratic attitude of theBJP Government, which hasfailed in all fronts be it job cre-ations, contolling the risingprices and farmer suicides.

The Government’s policyto divide the country in name

of religion has triggered wide-spread protests in the country.The BJP Government shouldimmediately revoke the anti-people CAA and stop the pro-posed implementation of NRC,demanded organiation leaderNarendra Mohanty.

Among others, AbiramBehera, Biswapriya Kanungo,Suresh Panigrahi, SrikantMohanty , Satish Mishra,Mahendra Parida, Shivram andmany other members of the Wethe People of India-Odishawere present.

PURI: The Puri UrbanCooperative Bank Limited is innews following appointment oftwo new candidates into itsoffice just a day before expiryof its managing board.

When the board is endingon Thursday, two persons havejoined overnight, alleged adirector of the bank.

Director PravanjanMohapatra, challenging theappointments, alleged that thetwo were appointed throughbackdoor.

He stated that no approvalhad been made by the board forappointment and no consent ofCooperation Department andthe Reserve Bank of India hadbeen sought. Mohapatra saidpresident GunanidhiMohapatra and secretaryinducted two of their relativessecretly through back door,looking at expiry of the board. PNS

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The much-awaited rail linkbetween Talcher and

Bimalagarh is still neglected byboth the State and the UnionGovernments, alleged theTalcher-Bimalagarh Rail LinkAction Committee here.

According to committeepresident Adwaita PrasadBiswal, the demand forTalcher-Bimlagarh Rail link(TBRL) was initiated 53 yearsback. After much hue and cryand intensive public agitation,the project of 149.743 km wasapproved by the Union Cabinetin 2003-04 and the RailwayMinistry decided to constructthe rail line. But unfortunate-ly, after 16 years, 50 percent ofthe land acquisition work ispending and the budgetary

sanction to the project is veryfeeble in comparison to otherprojects, he told.

Biswal alleged that whilelast year budgetary sanction forthe project was more than Rs280 crore, but this year it gotreduced to Rs 140 crore.Despite this, Biswal said he wassceptical about the expenditureof allocated money as there wassluggish move by the StateGovernment for land acquisi-tion.

He said still half of the landrequired was to be handedover by the State Governmentto the Railways. He further saidwhile the State Governmentwas working hard to provideland for Khurda-Balangir rail-way project free of cost but forthe Talcher-Bimalgarh project,the Railways had alreadydeposited money with the StateGovernment for compensa-tion against acquiring the land.

However, despite this therehas been inordinate delay inland acquisition by the districtadministrations of Angul,Deogarh and Sundargarh.

He added that if the StateGovernment and districtadministrations showed sincereinterest to hand over the

unused land of theGovernment then about 2/3rdrequired land would beacquired.

But despite the instruc-tions from the Private Secretaryof the CM to the concerneddistrict Collectors, these worksare not completed. On theother hand, taking the plea ofland acquisition, the budgetaryallocation by the UnionGovernment has been reduced,Biswal lamented.

According to him afterforest land clearance about 562acres of private land and 163acres of Government landacquisition was pending. Hesaid though the project targetwas March, 2022, now it wasextended to December, 2023.

Briefing on the project andfurther course of action notedtread union leader BishnuMohanty said the action com-mittee would be making acoordination with the State

Government to arrange a jointmeeting of the three districtadministrations, railwayauthorities, people’s represen-tative of the areas throughwhich the rail line to be passedand the action committeemembers would make a targetoriented guideline for earlyacquisition of land. Besides, thecommittee involving the localpeople will meet the three dis-trict Collectors to persuadethem to acquire the land byMarch of this year and if theyfailed, then the action com-mittee would resort to agita-tion.

Rourkela Steel PlantExecutive Association presi-dent Bimal Bisi said with thecompletion of the rail project,the Rourkela Steel Plant wouldsave about Rs 100 crore peryear in transportation of coal.

It may be noted here thatwith the construction of theTalcher-Bimalagarh rail line,the rail distance betweenRourkela and Cuttack will beshortened by 120 km. Amongothers, action committee mem-bers Harihar Routray, RourkelaBar Association presidentRamesh Bal, Biman Maity andSrimanta Behera were present.

BALESWAR: A man alleged-ly hacked his wife’s lover todeath at Dudhianali villageunder the Raibania police sta-tion in the district on Monday.

The deceased was identi-fied as Prasant Das.

Sources said when accusedBiswambar Behera reached hishouse early in morning, hefound Prasant sleeping in thehouse. In a fit of rage, Biswambarattacked him with an axe whenhe was asleep. He was killed onthe spot. Later, Biswambar sur-rendered before police.

Getting information, policewent to the spot and began aninvestigation into the incidentwith the help of a forensic team.The deceased was a resident ofMankidia area under theRaibania police station, saidJaleswar SDPO AnkitaKumbhar.

Sources said the accusedwife had an illicit affair withPrasant and the couple used tomeet when Biswabhar left forwork, sources added. PNS

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The oldest educational insti-tute of the district,

Laxminarayan College,Jharsuguda, is going to com-plete 50 years and it is set toobserve the golden jubilee cel-ebration on the occasion.

A special meeting of theold students has been held inthis regard. Chief MinisterNaveen Patnaik will inauguratethe ceremony on April 5.

It was decided to hold acultural programme on theoccasion by the Bolywoodartists.

The meeting was held inthe premises of Jhadeswari

Temple under theChairmanship of president ofalumni association SandipAwasthi in the presence ofHealth Minister Naba KishoreDas. The Minister informedthat the land issues of the col-lege could be sorted out due tothe active cooperation of StateGovernment and the ChiefMinister.

The role of BrajrajnagarMLA Kishore Mohanty,Minister Susant Singh and oth-ers was praised by Minister Dasin his address and he hopedthat various issues of the collegecould be solved easily in thecoming days.

Starting from invitingBolywood actors and arrange-ment of cultural programmes,Das voluntered to take allresponsibilities. Likewise,

Brajrajnagar MLA Mohanty inhis address said that the HealthMinister should be praised forhis personal initiative taken toresolve the land and buildingissues of the college and organ-ising the golden jubulee cele-bration in a colourful manner.Principal of the collegeChirabrat Dutta sought thecooperation of everybody.

Senior lawyer Tapas Ray

Choudhury coordinated themeeting besides declaring thenames of different committeeheads.

Eminent educationistsPratap Behera and TahaluSahoo, senior BJD leaderManoranjan Mohapatra sharedthe dais. The next date of thepreparatory meeting was decid-ed to be held on February 24 atBhubaneswar.

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Aday after multiple photos ofthe Sun Temple at Konark

purportedly showing replace-ment of sculptures with plainstones surfaced on socialmedia, the ArchaeologicalSurvey of India (ASI) issued aclarification in this regard say-ing that the images are “mis-leading”.

The images with sculp-tures are from the NatyaMandap of the temple while thephotos showing plain stones arefrom the plinth of Jagamohana(the main temple), the ASI said.

The tweet regardingreplacement of sculptures withplain stones is false and mis-leading, it said. The ASI furtheradded that the plain stone workshown in the image was done

in the mid-1980s. “ASI usedplain stone only wherein therewas no evidence left and as perASI’s the then archaeologicalpolicy, only such portions werefilled with plain stones. ASIwould like to confirm that nosculpture has been replaced,” itsaid in a statement.

Notably, the photos cameto the fore after removal of theiron scaffoldings at the temple.

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Effective functioning ofChild Rights Protection

Committee at the village,block and district levels, adetailed survey of totalnumber of migrant chil-dren, more power andinfastructure to committeeat district level and morebudget provision for thechild development sectorwould go a long way intackling the multi dimen-sional issue.of child traf-ficking in Balangir and tomake India free from childtrafficking.

This was observed byspeakers at a workshop on"Child trafficking free India"

organised by the Palli AlokPathagar,in collaboration withthe People's Cultural Center(PECUC) and Kailash Satyarthi

Children's Foundation (KSCF),held here.

Among others, Loisingha

MLA Dr Mukesh Mahaling,CWC Member Sunita Tripathiand Dr Godabarish Ratha,Prasant Nayak, scribe Sudhir

Mishra, Dayasagar Pradhanand Sandeep Kaunar sharedtheir views.

BARIPADA: In an example ofa property feud taking a mostviolent turn, a teacher washacked to death in front of hiswife in Jamupani village underthe Gorumahisani police sta-tion of Mayurbhanj district onMonday evening.

The deceased was identi-fied as Sukadev Marandi.

According to sources, theincident took place whenSukadev, who worked as ateacher in Jharkhand’sDumuria area, was at his farm-land with his wife.

Madan Murmu and LalMohan Murmu approachedSukadev and suddenly attackedhim with a sharp weapon, killinghim on spot. The deceased’s wifeimmediately rushed to the policestation and lodged a complaint.

Acting on the complaint,police sent the body for post-mortem and apprehended thetwo accused. The gruesomeincident occurred due to aproperty dispute that was sim-mering between both the fam-ilies since long, sources said. PNS

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E d u c a t i o nMinister SamirRanjan Dashtook middaymeal with stu-dents of thePractising Schoolhere on Tuesday.

Dash toldreporters, "Today,I took middaymeal with school students.The food quality was good."

Earlier, the Ministeraddressed a conference ofheadmasters here and calledupon them to work hard toimprove the standard of teach-ing.

Asked to comment on thecorruption and glaring finan-cial irregularities committedby a clerk of the BEO office, he

said prima facie evidence hasbeen found against the clerkand he would be put undersuspension.

The Minister said this yearsteps have been taken to pre-vent HSC examination ques-tion papers being made viral.A coding process has beenintroduced for the purpose. In57 schools, CCTV camerashave been installed for better

monitoring of the examina-tion.

Steps are also being takento provide the textbook toschool students on the day ofopening of schools, heinformed.

Dash said there are a largenumber of headmaster postslying vacant as a court caseregarding headmasters ispending.

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The 2nd Joda Mahotsavwhich concluded on

Monday attracted thousands oflocal people but the absence ofthe local MLA MeenakshiMahanta and Keonjhar MPChandrani Murmu in the festhas been a matter of discussionamong locals.

When contacted, SushantaKumar Barik who was coor-dinator of the Mahostav com-mittee said both MP Chandraniand MLA Meenakshi were thepresident and vice president ofthe Mahostav committee,respectively.

The programme had beenfixed after due consultationwith them but keeping in viewthe busy schedule of the MLA,the original date fixed to beon January 31 was changed atthe last moment and deferredto February 7. However, thistime also, she couldn't be avail-able due to some importantGovernment work.

Secondly, MP Chandrayaniwas unavailable as she was at

New Delhi to attend the ongo-ing Parliament Budget Sessionthere. However, Minister ofState, MSME, PremanandaNaik, GM (OMQ),Tata SteelAtul Bhattnagar and MLA,Anandpur Bhagirathi Sethyhad graced the occasion.

Though it was claimed thatthe programme was 100 percent successful, but sourcesrevealed that at presentChampua BJD was dividedbetween two groups:Onegroup led by , formerMLA,Champua and working

president of the Mahotsavcommittee Jitu Patnaik andanother by supporters of SanatanMahakud.

Due to rivalry between thetwo groups, this situation hap-pened, said sources.

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The nursing homes andprivate clinics while are

mushrooming in the district,several of them are runningillegally. Either they are notregistered with THE DMET(Directorate of MedicalEducation and Training) orthey are waiting for renewal.

Despite the fact, neitherthe district administrationnor the health administrationis serious about the prevailingsituation of private healthcarefacilities.

Additional DistrictMagistrate Sambit KumarNayak said, “About the matterthe CDMO is being apprisedand a month ago, a team hasbeen formed to look into thedocuments of the privatenursing homes and clinics.”

Sources said as many 52nursing homes and clinicsacross all blocks including 25in the district headquartersarea were registered with theDMET yet several of themwere waiting for renewal foryears . They were not beinginspected and certified againbut found running.

It was alleged that in thewant of checking and enforce-ment many of them were oper-ational without complyingwith the safety and hygienenorms. And they were admit-ting indoor patients more

than the capacity flouting therules and norms.

Sources added that since2015 neither any renewal ofthe nursing homes was madenor any fresh permission wasgiven to any nursing homes.

On the issue, Chief dis-trict Medical Officer BanarjeePrasad Chhotary said a three-member team comprising amedical officer in the rank ofAdditional District Magistrate(ADM), a police officer anda fire officer had been formedto inspect the nursing homes.

The team was inspectingall the aspects including firesafety provisions for thenursing homes and clinicsand necessary actions werebeing taken. However, due tofrequent transfer of ADMO,the process was gett ingdelayed.

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Astaff of the Rourkela SteelPlant (RSP) was placed

under suspension for threat-ening his senior by brandish-ing a pistol on Tuesday.

Sources said GeneralManager Pratap Kumar Swainand a staff Bishnu Kerkettawere at loggerheads over somematter. However, in the after-noon, Kerketta barged intoSwain’s office chamber andthreatened to kill him by bran-dishing the pistol.

Scared, Swain ran out of

the chamber to save his life. ButCISF personnel managed tooverpower Kerketta and dis-armed him.

The accused was sent tothe Ispat general Hospital formedical examination and latersuspended for his anti-socialactivities.

However, the RSP author-ities claimed that the gun inpossession of Kerketta was atoy pistol. But questions havebeen raised how the accusedmanaged to smuggle the guninto the plant premises.

RAYAGADA: Four womenwere injured critically during afeast in Forest Colony inRayagada town on Tuesday.The injured were identified asKalabati Manding, ParvatiKandagiri, Laxmi Kandagiriand Sukanti Miniaka.

The injured were admittedto the District HeadquartersHospital here with severe burninjuries. As per reports, themishap occurred when prepa-ration for the feast on occasionof the death anniversary of oneManoranjan Sahu’s father wason. The cooking gas pipecaught fire accidentally andspread to the place where thewomen were chopping vegeta-bles. According to latestreports, Kalabati, one of theinjured was shifted to theSaheed Laxman Naik MedicalCollege Hospital in Koraput asher condition deteriorated. PNS

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More than 150 labourerstrafficked from Balangir

and Nuapada districts wererescued from two brick kilns inBengaluru on Tuesday. Policealso detained four persons inthis connection.

The rescue operation fol-lowed simultaneous raids con-ducted by the District LegalServices Authority (DLSA) in

Bylakere, Yelahanka andBengaluru Urban North Sub-Division. Sridevi, a rescuedlabourer, said her family ofthree were being given ricegruel as food. “We had to sup-press our hunger with just twomeals a day, lunch and dinner.”

Initial reports said the brickkilns are run by two brothers.

The rescued labourers arelikely to reach Odisha onThursday.

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Chief Minister NaveenPatnaik on Tuesday

stressed that public servantshave to prove their account-ability of highest orderunder the Mo Sarkar initia-tive.

He said this at a func-tion held for inclusion of theFood Supplies andConsumer WelfareDepartment under the MoSarkar initiative at Lok SevaBhawan here on Tuesday.

“My Government is apeople’s Government. Nobodycould be more important thanpeople themselves. The MoSarkar initiative demandsaccountability of the highestorder from the public ser-vants,” he said.

Congratulating the depart-ment, the Chief Minister said,“This is one of the most impor-tant departments of the StateGovernment that has engaged

3.30 beneficiaries, nearly 79 percent of the State’s population,with food security provisions.Managing work at such agigantic proportion needsexceptional skills, suitable sys-tems with extensive databaseand commitment by the work-force. The effort of the depart-ment in this direction is appre-ciated.”

He said the portability in

PDS distribution, which isbeing implemented in BMCnow, would be replicated grad-ually I the entire State. Hestressed on participation ofmore women self-help groupsin the public distribution sys-tem. He asked officials toensure that not a single eligibleand deserving person isdeprived of getting PDS sup-port.

FS and CW MinisterRanendra Pratap Swain saidthe department is commit-ted to serve the people in aprofessional manner. “Wehave developed and put inplace and efficient feedbacksysted for the purpose,” hesaid.

Chief Secretary AsitTripaty said theGovernment would rewardor punish an employeedepending on the kind offeedback received from thepeople.

Secretary, 5-T VKPandian interacted with offi-cers of the department, includ-ing CSOsof Nuapada, Baleswarand Mayurbhanj, MIs ofRemuna, Simulia,Thakurmunda, Titlagarh,Daringbadi, Phiringia andSimiliguda to know about theirunderstanding of the MoSarkar initiative.

Department Secretry VVYadav was present.

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The 16thDhauli-KalingaMahotsav jointly organ-

ised by the Department ofTourism, Government ofOdisha, the Orissa DanceAcademy and the Art Visionunveiled a scintillatingevening for its audiencewith the majestic DhauliStupa in the background.

The three- day festival'sinaugural presentation com-prised Odishi dance byOrissa Dance Academy andSrjan, Bhubaneswar. Boththe institution combinedlypresented Pallavi, an offer-ing which was a tribute to GuruKelucharan Mohapatra. Pallaviset to Raga-Sankaravaran andTaal-Ektali and Raga-Hanshadhwani and Taal-Ektali.It is a pure dance form withmovements of lyrical grace.

The dance composition wasmade by Guru KelucharanMoahapatra, music by PanditBhubaneswar Mishra anddance choreography was madeby Guru Aruna Mohanty andGuru Ratikanta Mohapatra.

Evening's next presentationwas Kathak dance by RajashreeShirke, founder of Lasya Centrefor Dance Education andResearch, Mumbai. They pre-sented prodigious and mirac-ulous story in the history of the

Vaarkari Sampradaaye ofMaharastra saint poetessKanhopatra, a story thatbewilders historical andspiritual enthusiasts tilltoday. The script, concept,choreography, direction andcostume design was madeby Shirke.

Inaugural evening lastpresentation was contem-porary dance by AstadDeboo and Group, Mumbai.Their dance interpretedMahatma Gandhi's quotesin today's context. Thedance had a mesmerizingspell on the audiences till theend.

The dignitaries who gracedthe occasion were DrPriyambada Mohanty-Hejmadi, Devi PrasannaPatnaik, R Balakrishnan, GuruAruna Mohanty and GuruIleana Citaristi.

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SWAYAM, alive painting

workshop forartists with dis-ability, is aneffort to pro-mote talentedu p c o m i n gartists with dis-abilities.

SWAYAM Edition 2 isbeing held in partnership withDN Regalia, IPCA andSwabhiman. Of the 22 artistswho submitted their works, 16were selected in the first roundand 13 in the final round.

The artists are being men-tored by veteran artists overthree days from February 11 ata workshop at DN RegaliaMall in Patrapada here. The

artists belong to various dis-tricts of the State. The work-shop was inaugurated by DNGroup Chairman JagadishPrasad Naik, founder trusteethe Ila Panda Centre for Arts(IPCA), Paramita Panda andSwabhiman chief executiveSruti Mohapatra.

The art workshop is beingcurated by eminent contem-porary artist Veejayant Dash.

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Vigilance sleuths on Tuesdayarrested Soro tehsil’s Kudei

Revenue Inspector RakeshKumar Pradhan for demandingand accepting illegal gratifica-tion of Rs 500 from HemantaKumar Panda of Sarasankhafor submission of enquiryreport for issuance of legalheir certificate in favour of thecomplainant.

A trap was laid andPradhan was caught red-hand-ed while taking bribe from thecomplaint inside the Soro tehsilcampus. His office room andresidential house atSahadevkhunta, Baleswar werebeing searched, informed ano f f i c i a lrelease.

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Haryana EnterprisePromotion Board (HEPB)

which met under theChairmanship of ChiefMinister, Manohar Lal Khattaron Tuesday approved specialpackage of incentives amount-ing to over �1246 crore to fourMega Projects to be estab-lished in the B, C and D cate-gory of Blocks in the State.

Deputy Chief Minister,Dushyant Chautala, EducationMinister Kanwar Pal, Minister ofState for Labour andEmployment Anoop Dhanakwere also present in the 7thmeeting of the Board.

.Kattar said the setting upof these Mega Projects wouldnot only bring investment tothe State but also provideample job opportunities tothe youth and boost the Stateeconomy.

The Board also accordedapproval for filling up 14 postsin Bureau of Industrial Policyand Promotion (BIPP) and 35posts in Haryana EnterprisePromotion Center (HEPC) oncontractual basis for furtherstrengthening of HEPC andBIPP. It also decided that theauthorization for approval ofspecial package of incentives insuch cases where the quantumof incentives is within thedefined guidelines and limits asapproved by HEPB be delegat-ed to the AdministrativeSecretary of Industries andC o m m e r c e

Department.The grant of special pack-

age of incentives to the MegaProjects was approved by theBoard on the recommendationof Executive EmpoweredCommittee (EEC) headed byPrincipal Secretary to ChiefMinister. While an incentive of�30.06 crore was approved forAarti Green Tech Limited,incentive amounting to � 65.94was approved for AdaniWilmar Limited, �298.08 crorefor Wonder Cement Limitedand �852 crore for AmperexTechnology Limited.

As per the HaryanaEnterprises Promotion Policy-2015, the Mega Projectsinclude all projects involvingfixed capital investment of�100 crore and above, or gen-erating direct employment ofmore than 200 persons in ‘D’category blocks and fixed cap-ital investment over �100 croreor generating direct employ-ment of more than 500 personsin ‘B’ and ‘C’ category blocks.

Aarti Green Tech Limited, afully integrated steel manufac-turing company with manufac-turing facilities of Carbon andAlloy Steel Rounds and Squares,Sponge Iron, Power and FerroAllows has decided to set up aunit for steel scrap processingover 9.92 acres of land in IMTRohtak in ‘B’ category block. Inthe first Phase, the Company hasproposed an investment to thetune of Rs 151 crores with anemployment potential of 129persons.

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Taking stock of the situationin the wake of Monday’s

firing incident at Dhariwal inGurdaspur district, PunjabDirector General of PoliceDinkar Gupta on Tuesdaydirected all theCommissioners of Police(CPs) and the SeniorSuperintendents of Police(SSPs) to beef up the securityacross Punjab.

Reviewing the securityand law and order in the state,DGP held a video conferencewith all the Inspector General(IG) Ranges, Commissionersof Police and SeniorSuperintendents of Police.During the meeting, Guptadeliberated upon various secu-rity related inputs and issues,and ordered scaling up ofhigh visibility policing, areadomination operations, check-ing of suspicious vehicles,deployment and patrollingplans of districts, placement ofPCR, Rural Rapid PoliceResponse (RRPRS) vehiclesand other patrol vehicles.

The DGP also discussedother security measures tocheck and monitor movementand activities of those arrest-

ed in the past for heinouscrimes, especially those arrest-ed in Narcotics Drugs andPsychotropic Substance(NDPS) Act, UnlawfulActivities (Prevention) Act,Arms Act cases, besides main-taining law and order duringprotests or demonstrationsrelating to CAA, NRC or NPRplanned to be held inMalerkotla, Ludhiana andMansa.

The state police chief alsodirected the Commissioners ofPolice and SSPs to execute acomprehensive manpoweraudit to pull out police per-sonnel from non-essentialduties and deploy them onoperational duties for enhanc-ing efficiency in the day-to-day functioning of police.

He also asked them toextract data from variousPolice databases, such asCrime and Criminal TrackingNetworks and Systems(CCTNS), Saanjh, PunjabArtificial Intelligence System(PAIS), etc for quick andprompt prevention and detec-tion of crime.

Meanwhile, the ADGPinternal security RN.Dhokevisited Dhariwal to inspect

the crime spot, where twounidentified persons hadopened fire at Ashok Kumarand Honey Mahajan around 7pm on Monday.

Dhoke was accompaniedby Gurdaspur SSP SwarandeepSingh, AIG (CI) AmritsarKetan Patil, AIG (SSOC)Sukhminder Mann.

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Haryana Transport MinisterMool Chand Sharma on

Tuesday said purchase of 10new luxury cars (Fortunervehicles) has been approved inthe meeting of Haryana HighPower Purchase Committeechaired by the chief ministerManohar Lal Khattar. Thesecars will be given to ministerswhose cars have run five to sixlakh kilometers.

The State Governmentwould have to bear the burdenof around �4 crores on thesenew cars.

Sharma has also directedto fill the vacant posts in theCommercial and RegulatoryWing of the TransportDepartment as early as possi-ble so that no inconvenienceis faced in commuting by thepeople of the state due toshortage of staff in theTransport department. Hesaid that the department holds

a very responsible role in pro-viding transport facilities to thepeople of the state.

Presiding over a reviewmeeting with officials of theTransport Department, he saidthat a letter should also be writ-ten to the Director General ofPolice to fill the posts of con-stables and head constables inthe Regulatory Wing of theTransport Department on adeputation basis so that staffcould be available for properexamination of overloadedvehicles.

During the meeting, it wasinformed that out of 190 busesrun under the Kilometerscheme, 80 buses have beencommissioned and the remain-ing buses will soon be on theroads. In addition, 168 buseswill arrive by March 2020which include 150 mini-busesand 18 Super Luxury (Volvo)buses. Apart from this, thepurchase of 867 standard dieselengine buses is in process.

It was also informed thatunder the Chatra ParivahanSuraksha Yojana, 219 busesare being run on differentroutes and their number canalso be increased further as perthe requirement.

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Aleader of a right-wingorganisation was injured

while a trader died as uniden-tified assailants opened fire atDhariwal town in Gurdaspurdistrict.

The incident took place onMonday evening. Shiv SenaHindustan youth wing presi-dent Honey Mahajan wasrushed to a hospital after theattack while the deceased wasidentified as Ashok Kumar.

Mahajan was sitting in theshop of his neighbour AshokKumar when the attackersarrived in a car and opened fireat him. One of the bullets firedby the assailants hit Ashok.

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Haryana Chief MinisterManohar Lal Khattar, who

is also the Chairman of ShriMata Mansa Devi ShrineBoard, Panchkula on Tuesdayapproved Rs 1114.78 lakhs forconstruction of old age homein the campus of Shri MataMansa Devi Shrine Board(SMMDSB), Panchkula.

An official spokesman saidthat the decision to constructthe old age home was taken inthe 17th meeting of the Board.He said construction work ofthe old age home will be under-taken by the Public Works(Buildings and Roads)Department.

The old age home wouldbe constructed within 36months and it will be a four-storey building. It will have 19double-occupancy rooms,including WC and kitchenette,two cubicles with two dormi-tories. The old age home willalso have two lifts and will havethe provision of stairs as well.

The ground floor will havereception, office, doctor room,general ward, nursing station,waiting lounge, kitchen and adining hall.

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To curb the use of video oraudio clips glorifying drugs

and gun culture in buses plyingacross the State, PunjabTransport Department carriedout a five-day special drivechallaning 212 buses.

“The special drive waslaunched from February 7 to 11,2020, on the directive of theChief Minister Capt Amarinder

Singh, during which all theRegional Transport Authorities(RTAs) held meetings withtransporters, sensitizing themabout the ill-effects of playingobscene or vulgar songs on thepsyche of youngsters,” said aspokesperson of the ChiefMinister’s Office on Tuesday.

The spokesperson said thatall the stakeholders were sensi-tized that such things encourageyoungsters to go astray and suc-

cumb to the growing violenceand gun culture being propa-gated through such filthy songs.

The teams also emphasizedthe need to educate the driversand conductors to refrain fromsuch unhealthy practices, whichblatantly pollute our gloriousculture.

During the drive, in all 509buses were checked, of which212 were found violating suchnorms and challaned.

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Hinting at the formation ofa political outfit, former

Haryana Pradesh CongressCommittee president AshokTanwar, who had quit the partyahead of the Assembly polls lastyear, said that “SwambhimanDiwas” rally will be held atKarnal on February 16 wherethe future course of actionwould be taken regarding theformation of the political party.

Tanwar said he was intouch with like-minded leadersof Haryana to work on analternative to BJP andCongress. He claimed thatpeople of the State are fed upwith both the national partiesare looking for an alternative."Only third front political out-fit can fulfill the aspiration ofthe people," he said.

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The Supreme Court Tuesdaysought response from the

four death row convicts in theNirbhaya gang rape and mur-der case on the Centre's appealagainst the Delhi High Courtverdict which had refused to setaside the stay on their execu-tion.

The apex court also grant-ed liberty to the authorities toapproach the trial court forobtaining fresh date for execu-tion of death warrant.

A bench comprisingJustices R Banumathi, AshokBhushan and AS Bopannamade it clear that pendency ofappeal filed by the Centre andthe Delhi Government beforeit "will not be an impedimentfor the trial court" to considerthe request for issuance offresh date for execution "on itsown merits".

It noted the submissions ofSolicitor General TusharMehta, appearing for theCentre and Delhi Government,that one week's time granted bythe high court to these convictsis expiring today and no furthersteps have been taken by themto avail any remedy. Mehtatold the bench, which postedthe matter for hearing onFebruary 13, that execution ofthese convicts is not for "enjoy-ment " as the authorities areonly executing the "mandate ofthe law".

Referring to the delayingtactics of the convicts, he saidthree of them have exhausted

their remedies but one of them,Pawan Gupta, has not yet filedeither a curative plea in the apexcourt or a mercy petition beforethe President. He said

the court has to keep in mindthe impact of this situation onthe society as despite the appealsof the convict being dismissedby the top court in 2017, theauthorities were "struggling toexecute them even now".

Mehta referred to thealleged encounter killing offour accused in the gang rapeand murder case of a womanveterinarian in Hyderabad andsaid, "People were celebratingafter the incident and this wasbecause people have startedlosing faith in the system. Thisreflects poorly on our system."

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India has discussed with Bangladesh atthe highest level the issue of repatriation

of Rohingya migrants and both the coun-tries have agreed on the need to expeditetheir safe, speedy and sustainable return,the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.In a written reply, Union Minister of Statefor Home Nityanand Rai said there arereports of some Rohingya migrantsindulging in illegal activities.

"The issue of repatriation of theRohingyas has been discussed withBangladesh authorities at the highest levelwherein both the countries have agreed on

the need to expedite their safe, speedy andsustainable repatriation to their homes inMyanmar," he said.

Rai said the Central Government hasissued instructions from time to time tothe State Governments requesting them tosensitise the law enforcement and intelli-gence agencies for taking appropriatesteps for identification of illegal migrants,and their restriction to specified locationsas per provisions of law.

The instructions also include captur-ing their biographic and biometric par-ticulars, cancellation of fake Indian doc-

uments, and starting legal process, includ-ing initiation of deportation proceedingsas per the provisions of law.

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In a major jolt to the JaganReddy dispensation, the

Ministry of Agriculture hasrejected Andhra PradeshGovernment's proposal torelease the payment underRythu Bharosa scheme forfarmers from the PM-KISANyojana. The Andhra PradeshGovernment has sought alumpsum amount from PM -KISAN scheme to give benefitto its Rythu Bharosa schemewhich proposed to give �12,500per year to each farmer fami-ly.

In a written reply to theLok Sabha, AgricultureMinister Narendra SinghTomar on Tuesday said theAndhra Pradesh Governmentunder its Rythu Bharosascheme proposed to give�12,500 per year to each farmerfamily inclusive of a benefit of�6,000 given under PM-KISAN. The State Governmentscheme also aimed to cover thetenant farmers. "StateGovernment had requested torelease the payments underPM-KISAN scheme as a lump-sum amount instead of pay-ments in installments. Therequest of Government ofAndhra Pradesh was not

accepted," he said. The state'sproposal was "not accepted"because PM-KISAN was meantto provide income support toall land holding farmers' fam-ilies in the country, subject tocertain exclusions.

An amount of �2,000 waspaid in three equal install-ments to enable farmers takecare of expenses related toagriculture and allied activitiesas well as domestic needs so asto protect them from falling inthe clutches of moneylendersfor meeting such expenses andensure their continuance infarming activities, he added.

Under PM-KISAN, thecentral government provides apayment of �6,000 per year inthree equal installments of�2,000 to 14.5 crore farmersacross the country. The eligi-bility of farmers to join PM-KISAN is determined by therespective state governmentson the basis of OperationalGuidelines of the Scheme.

As per the 2015-16 agri-culture census, there are about83.90 lakh landholdings inAndhra Pradesh. So far, 54.45lakh farmers have registeredunder PM-KISAN, the UnionMinister said in a separatereply.

To those registered

between December 2018 andMarch 31, 2019 in AndhraPradesh, the centre has paid thefirst installment to 36.40 lakhbeneficiaries, second install-ment to 34.11 lakh beneficia-ries, third installment to 33.78lakh beneficiaries and fourthinstallment to 31.35 lakh ben-eficiaries, he added.

To those registeredbetween April and July 2019 inthe state, the centre has releasedfirst installment to 7.92 lakhbeneficiaries, second install-ment to 7.64 lakh beneficiariesand third installment to 7.35lakh beneficiaries.

To those registeredbetween August andNovember 2019, the centrehas released the first and sec-ond installment to only onebeneficiary but to those regis-tered between December 2019and March 2020, the centre haspaid the first installment to6.84 lakh beneficiaries ofAndhra Pradesh, the ministeradded.

Sharing all India figures,Tomar said a total of 9.60 crorefarmer families across Indiahave been successfully regis-tered under PM-KISAN as onFebruary 6. Of this, 8.44 crorebeneficiaries have received ben-efits.

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Advertisements that mis-lead consumers by promis-

ing fair skin or offering cure forhair loss and infertility inwomen, enhanced sexual per-formance, increasing braincapacity among others willattract jail term upto fiveyears and a fine up to �50 lakhsas per the draft of Drugs andMagic Remedies( O b j e c t i o n a b l eA d v e r t i s e m e n t s )(Amendment) Bill, 2020.

The proposed legislation,drafted by the Union HealthMinistry, has also widened itsambit to cover from printmedia to electronic media, theinternet and websites besidesmaking several additions to thelist of diseases, disorders, con-ditions covered in the existingAct.

The proposal for theamendments follows concerns

raised by the AdvertisingStandards Council of India,industry watchdog, from timeto time, alleging that in theabsence of the proper legalambit the gullible consumerswere being taken for a ride bythe unscrupulous advertisers.

The Draft Act, which isavailable on the website of theMinistry for public comments,says that medicines, "magicremedies" and products to cureany of 78 diseases, disorders,conditions named in the draftshould not be advertised, asenior health ministry officialexplained.

Prohibition of advertise-ments include those claimingtreatment of AIDS, encephali-tis, drugs or treatment for sex-ual impotence, premature ejac-ulation and spermatorrhoea,AIDS, improvement of mem-ory, improvement in height ofkids/adults, improvement insize of sexual organ, duration

of sexual performance and dis-orders of menstrual flow hys-teria.

The other advertisementswhich have been banned underthe draft are on claims onpower to rejuvenate, obesity,maintenance or improvementof the capacity of the humanbeing for sexual pleasure,insanity, increase in braincapacity and improvement ofmemory and improvement inheight of children/adults.

As per the draft, the first-time convicted will be given jailterm upto two years and a fineup to Rs 10 lakh as opposed tothe existing provisions of sixmonths' jail time and anunspecified fine, for secondconviction, jail term willincrease to five years and a fineup to Rs 50 lakh.

The draft bill also propos-es an expansion of definition ofan advertisement. It says, "anyaudio or visual publicity, rep-

resentation, endorsement orpronouncement made bymeans of light, sound, smoke,gas, print, electronic media,internet or website and includesany notice, circular, label, wrap-per, invoice, banner, poster orsuch other documents.

The ASCI in its periodicalreports has listed dozens ofmisleading advertisements thatviolate the Drugs and MagicRemedies Act. These adver-tisements have made claimsrelated to asthma, cancer, dia-betes, increased height, obesi-ty and sexual performanceamong other health and cos-metic conditions.

The Drugs and MagicRemedies Act, 1954, is intend-ed to prevent gullible or vul-nerable members of the publicfrom being exploited throughadvertisements for drugs orcosmetic products for certainhealth or cosmetic disorders,said the official.

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As speculation mountedafter the BJP and some

other parties issued whip inthe Rajya Sabha asking theirmembers to be present onTuesday, Rajya SabhaChairman M Venkaiah Naidusaid it is for the health of theHouse as attendance is nor-mally very less on the last dayof the session before the recess.

He also said no Bill will betaken up and the House will

only discuss Budget in thebackdrop of reports in themedia hinting that someimportant Bill may be initiat-ed.

The Budget session ofParliament, which started onJanuary 31, will go on a breakfrom Tuesday and meet againon March 2. As the Housemet for the day, Naidu said nobill will be taken up and theHouse will only discuss thebudget and Finance MinisterNirmala Sitharaman's replylater in the day.

The BJP had on Mondayissued a whip asking its mem-bers of Parliament to be pre-sent in their respective Houses

on Tuesday. After whips wereissued by political parties,there was speculation in a sec-tion of the media that the gov-ernment may come up with animportant legislation in theHouse.

Naidu said some politicalparties seem to have issuedwhips.

"That is for the health ofthe House because today is thelast day (before the break) andwe have seen in the past thatattendance normally is veryless sending a very wrongmessage as if members are notinterested in the Budget andthe House," he said.

The Chairman furthersaid, "I will be happy" if a whipis issued regularly throughoutthe session so that MPs remainpresent.

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Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman on Tuesday

came out with a strong counterto former Finance Minister PChidambaram’s ‘incompetentdoctors’ overseeing the econo-my comment, saying she does-n’t want to learn from thosewho gave “faulty remedies”,under whom FDI literally ranaway and “cronies” fled thecountry after defaulting onbank loans.

In her usual combativestyle, she defended her han-dling of the economy citing“seven specific green shoots” inrising foreign direct invest-ment (FDI), net foreign port-folio inflows, kicking off of �103 lakh crore infrastructurepipeline, jump in foreignexchange reserves, GST col-lection topping �1 lakh crore insix months in current fiscal,rebound in industrial produc-tion and surge in stock markets.

Defending her Budget for2020-21, she reeled outannouncements of last yearincluding reduction in tax rateon income generated by com-panies, compared steps taken

by the Congress-led UPA dur-ing global financial crisis of2008-09 and took credit for theReserve Bank of India (RBI)cutting interest rates by asmuch as 135 basis points lastyear to boost growth from itsworst showing in 11 years.

She first spoke at length inthe Lok Sabha, giving out sta-tistics and hard data to defendnot just budgetary allocationbut also the slippage in fiscaldeficit target for the third yeara row.

Hours later, she came to theRajya Sabha with a shorter andcrisper reply, much of whichtargeted Chidambaram whohad on Monday stated that the"economy was perilously closeto collapse and was beingattended by incompetent doc-tors" and that the Governmenthad predispositions.

"A lot of assumptions werebeing put on us. One thing Iconcede and that is it is cer-tainly predisposed about notrepeating faulty remedies thatthe UPA Government gave in2008-09. None of that will berepeated by us," she said.

"What was the remedyoffered in 2008-09 and whatdid it result in. We certainly

don't want that burden on theeconomy for today or for thefuture," she said adding theUPA during 2004 and 2014 was"very fortunate" to inherit acushion in the good work ofAtal Bihari VajpayeeGovernment of the previousfive years.

The Finance Minister said she would take commentsand suggestions made byeveryone but not "when you areconstantly throwing barbs atus".

Stating that theGovernment was trying to

bring back a number of croniesran away from the country aftertaking money from banks, shesaid: "So that twin balancesheet problem is not somethingwhich I would not want tolearn from those very compe-tent doctors."

Again, the NPAs runninginto lakhs of crores of rupeeswas a fallout of "another rem-edy offered during the 2008-09crisis".

"We certainly do not wantto inherit or copy those reme-dies of competent doctors,"she said and went on to cite

double-digit inflation, high fis-cal deficit and Governmentliability being passed on to oilcompanies to dress up the bal-ance sheet as other ills of theUPA era.

Sitharaman said in 2012-13, foreign investment record-ed a negative 36 per centgrowth. "Literally FDI ran outof this country. And this iscompetent doctors holding theeconomy together."

On Chidambaram's chargeof the Modi Government has apredisposed mindset about for-eign trade agreements, she saidthe pacts signed during UPAare being reviewed as they are"harming" the country.Chidambaram's speech hadmore sarcasm than content, shesaid.

On the economy, she saidthe size of the Indian economyhas grown from USD 2 trillionto USD 2.9 trillion in fiveyears that saw an averagegrowth rate of 7.45 per cent ininflation of around 4.5 percent.

Listing initiatives taken bythe government, she said,increasing Foreign DirectInvestment (FDI), rise in fac-tory output and over Rs 1 lakh

crore GST collection in sixmonths of current fiscal wereindications of green shoots in

the economy. Referring to vis-ible indicators of green shoots,the Finance Minister said the

forex reserve is at an all-timehigh and the stock market isupbeat.

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Before Finance MinisterNirmala Sitharama came

out with a strong counter, thedebate on the budget for 2020-21 on the second day in theRajya Sabha on Tuesday sawthe Opposition hitting out atthe Government for not takingadequate steps to revive econ-omy and the ruling party MPsstressing that the fundamentalsof the economy were strong.

Opposition members saidthe Budget has not lived up toexpectations and fails toaddress challenge faced by theIndian economy. They alsoattacked the UnionGovernment for the "step-motherly" treatment to Statesand privatisation of public

sector units including LifeInsurance Corporation ofIndia (LIC).

Expressing concern overthe state of economy, BinoyViswam(CPI) said it wasalready on "ventilator" andnot in the "ICU" as mentionedby Chidambaram on Monday.He also termed the budget for2020-21 as failed budget.

PL Punia (Congress) saidthe Government is not readyto accept the crisis in theeconomy and urged theFinance Minister to consultexperts to address the prob-lem.

He also charged the gov-ernment of doing nothing forthe welfare of scheduled castesand tribals, saying sub-plans berestored for SCs and Tribals.

K Keshava Rao(TRS) saidthe budget has set up an ambi-tious disinvestment target andwould be difficult to achieve.He said the dual tax systemproposed in the Budget wouldbenefit chartered accountants.The TRS member also raisedthe issue of "step motherly"treatment being given to Statesin devolution of taxes.

Veer Singh(BSP) said theCentre has "ruined" the Indianeconomy and unemploymentis at a 45 year-high.

He alleged the Centre isending reservations for SC/STsand OBCs. KumariSelja(Congress) focused onHaryana in her speech andsaid the state has not got itsdue in terms of allocation offunds.

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The CBI on Tuesday gave aclean chit to former CBI

Special Director RakeshAsthana and chief of Researchand Analysis Wing SamantKumar Goel in a bribery caseregistered by the agency in2018 following a bitter feudbetween the then chief of theanti-corruption body AlokVerma and his deputy Asthana.Goel's name found reference inthe FIR but he was not anamed accused in the case.

Following the clean chit toAsthana, there is a strong buzzin the bureaucratic circles thathe might be appointed as theDelhi police commissioner asthe incumbent Amulya Patnaikis scheduled to retire onFebruary 29.

Both Asthana and Vermahad traded charges of corrup-tion against each other follow-ing which the Government ina midnight action decided tobench them out from the pre-mier agency.

The agency has also clearedDSP Devender Kumar accusedin the case but chargesheetedDubai-based businessmanManoj Prasad who was earlier

arrested by the agency. The agency has submitted

before the designated courtthat further probe againstManoj's brother Somesh andanother accused Sunil Mittal isrequired. Officials said theprobe has not yielded any evi-dence to corroborateHyderabad-based businessmanSathish Babu Sana's allegationsagainst Asthana, Goel andKumar that they received bribeto save the controversial meatexporter Moin Qureshi.

Asthana was booked on theallegations of IPC section relat-ing to criminal conspiracybesides corruption and crimi-nal misconduct under thePrevention of Corruption Acton a complaint filed by Sana.On October 15, 2018, the CBIhad registered an FIR againstAsthana for allegedly taking a

bribe from Sana. In his complaint, Sana had

alleged that he paid a bribe ofRs 2 crore to Asthana to getrelief in an ongoing investiga-tion linked to Qureshi.

The alleged bribe moneywas paid over a 10-monthperiod beginning December,2017. Sana was being probed byan SIT headed by Asthana.

In his complaint, Sana hadalleged that he had had metManoj who claimed to havegood relations with Asthana.Sana also alleged that Manoj''sbrother Somesh would alsohelp him in getting a clean chitin Moin Qureshi case probefrom Asthana.

Asthana has denied all alle-gations against him and pinnedthe blame on the feud withVerma, leading to the registra-tion of the case against him.

The chargesheet againstthe private person and cleanchit to the government servantscomes as the Delhi High Courthad last month gave a fourweek deadline to complete theprobe or else ensure the pres-ence of CBI Director RKShukla before the court on thenext date of hearing onFebruary 12.

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One of the four death rowconvicts in the Nirbhaya

gang rape and murder case,Vinay Sharma, moved theSupreme Court Tuesday chal-lenging the rejection of hismercy petition by thePresident claiming that the"hurried rejection" was "malafide" and violated the letterand spirit of the Constitution.

He has also sought com-mutation of his death sentenceto life imprisonment claimingthat he has "developed mentalillness" inside the prison dueto the alleged "torture and ill-

treatment".Vinay alleged in his plea

that "public statements" madeby Ministers at the Centre aswell as in the DelhiGovernment supporting hisexecution had "pre-judged theoutcome of his mercy peti-tion", and there also appears tobe "non-application" of mindon the part of the President inrejecting his mercy plea.

"This must also be considered in light of the hur-ried rejection of the mercypetition by the President onJanuary 31, within 48 hours offiling of the petitioner's mercypetition.

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Jammu: ‘Hanuman Chalisa’recited by Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal helped hisparty win the Delhi Assemblyelections, Jammu & KashmirBJP president Ravinder Rainasaid on Tuesday.

‘Kejriwal won the Delhipolls because of Hanuman ji ashe recited the HanumanChalisa and was blessed byLord Hanuman otherwise hewould not have won,’ Rainatold reporters here. Reacting tothe landslide victory of theAAP in Delhi, he said the votepercentage of his party alsoincreased manifold.

‘He (Kejriwal) rememberedHanuman for the firsttime and recited Hanuman Chalisa and he wasblessed by the Pawan Putra,’ hesaid.

Asked why the BJP was not

blessed despite chanting ‘JaiShri Ram’, he said the party wonthe parliamentary electionswith a thumping majoritybecause lakhs of party workerschanted the name of Lord Ramrepetitively.

Meanwhile, jubilant AAPactivists hit the roads outsidethe exhibition ground here tocelebrate the victory of theparty in the Delhi elections.

They distributed sweets before dispersing peacefully. ‘The voters of Delhirejected the politics of hatredand voted for the work done bythe party during its rule,’ one ofthe activists said, alleging thatthe BJP left no stone unturned to divide the peopleon communal lines by rakingup the Shaheen Bagh protest. PTI

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An international conferenceon languages held in

Sarawak, Malaysia betweenFebruary 5 and 8, selectedSanskrit as the language whichemits the ‘most positive vibra-tions’ and ‘spiritually pure innature’.

The Conference on AsianLinguistic Anthropology(CALA 2020) held at Sarawakanalysed the findings on theresearch held in eight nationaland 11 international languagesand came to the conclusion that‘languages in written and spo-ken formats can emit eitherpositive subtle or negative sub-tle vibrations’.

The scientific research onthe spiritual purity of Sanskritheld by Dr Jayant Athawale,Rendy Ekrantio and SeanClarke of the MaharshiAdhyatma Viswavidyalaya,Goa, and titled ‘SpiritualVibrations of the Most PopularLanguages And their Scripts’

found that languages differ at avibrational level and have a sub-tle impact on the people usingthe language.

The MAV linguisticresearchers used aura and ener-gy scanners and measured thesubtle positive and negativeenergies. According to Ekrantio,an Indonesian linguisticresearcher, pursuing hisresearch on Sanskrit and otherlanguages in MAV, the teamstudied the subtle energyreleased by the translation ofthe sentence ‘The Sun Rises inthe East and Sets in the West’in eight national and 11 foreignlanguages. The subtle energy inthe print out of sentence in eachlanguage was checked.

The languages with theDevanagari script had the mostpositive readings in contrast tothe other languages, whichemitted negative vibrations.

‘Sanskrit was found to bethe language with the highestspiritual purity, followed byMarathi,’ said Ekrantio explain-ing the important observations

and conclusions made by theteam during the research.

To drive home that theirfindings were not somethingout of the blue, the scientiststranslated the same sentenceinto English, Mandarin andSanskrit and studied how peo-ple’s aura gets affected by theselanguages.

The sentence — ‘The Sunrises in the East and sets in theWest’ and the respective trans-lations in the 3 languages bynative speakers of that lan-guage were recorded. Two sub-jects of average spiritual level(which means that they werenot doing any spiritual practice)were asked to listen to each

recording for 10 minutes.After listening to each

recording the effect of thesentence on the subjectswas measured. Neither ofthe subjects had any psy-chological affiliation forany of the 3 languages.Both the subjects were neg-atively influenced by theChinese and English lan-

guages. This means that theirauras became more negative.

Along with that, they lostany traces of positivity.However, when they listened tothe sentence recorded inSanskrit their negative aurareduced considerably and theygained a positive aura in just 10minutes,’ said Sean Clarke, aformer officer of the IndianNavy who quit his jobe to pur-sue his interest inlinguistics.

P a r a p a n a n g a d iUnnikrishna Panicker, leadingSanskrit scholar who belongs tothe rare breed of studentstrained in the Gurukul systemsaid that Sanskrit is the most

civilised and cultured languagesin the world because of itspurest form. ‘Those who usethe language on a daily basisunderstand its divinity andpurity. This controversy overSanskrit itself is unwarranted,’said Panicker.

Ekrianto observed thateducational institutions shouldkeep the spiritual purity of thelanguage in mind while choos-ing or promoting languages tobe taught as part of the cur-riculum. Dr MG Gireeshan,physicist, vice-principal, andhead of research, Jai BharatCollege of Arts and Science saidthat he agreed with the findings of MAV scientists.

‘The uniqueness of Sanskritslokas is the sudden synchro-nization of high and low-fre-quency sound waves. This leadsto a compression in the atmos-phere resulting in the formationof positive fields and positiveenergy,’ said Dr Gireeshan whofelt this was an area whichshould be pursued with vigour.

Srinagar: Authorities onTuesday snapped mobile inter-net services in Kashmir as aprecautionary measure to pre-vent any law and order distur-bance on the 26th deathanniversary of JKLF founderMohammad Maqbool Bhat,officials said.

Mobile internet serviceswere suspended early in themorning as the authoritiesapprehended violence in theValley in view of a bandh callgiven by separatist outfits tomark Bhat’s death anniversary,they said.

The services were restoredin the evening, the officials said.

Authorities had restored2G internet services in Kashmiron January 25, more than fivemonths after snapping allcommunication facilities in thevalley following the nullifica-tion of Article 370 on August5 last year.

The internet services weresuspended on Sunday as well as

the separatists had called for ashutdown to mark the deathanniversary of Parliamentattack convict MahammadAfzal Guru. Police on Saturdaylodged an FIR against thebanned Jammu KashmirLiberation Front (JKLF) forcalling a strike on Guru’s death

anniversary. Guru was hangedin 2013 inside the Tihar jail inDelhi for his role in theParliament attack in December2001. Bhat was hanged in 1984and is buried inside the Tiharjail. Normal life in Kashmir wasaffected due to the strike, offi-cials said. PTI

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Describing BJP’s defeat andAam Aadmi Party’s victo-

ry in Delhi Assembly elec-tions as a defeat of hatred andmoney power and victory ofdemocracy and development,Bengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee on Tuesday attackedthe saffron outfit saying it wasfast becoming a ‘Stateless party’with the federal States going outof its hands one after the other.

The Chief Minister whocongratulated her Delhi coun-terpart Arvind Kejriwal forhis hat-trick in the Capitalpolls said ‘politics of hatred andpolitics of vendetta has lost todemocratic forces and politicsfor development. The Delhielections have once againproved that the people wantfood, development, employ-ment, peace and not hatred….Look how the people of Indiavoted for the BJP in 2019General elections and in returnit gave the people CitizenshipAmendment Act and NationalRegister for Citizens.’

She said if the BJP did notrectify itself then soon it will be

routed from all the States inIndia. ‘They are fast becominga stateless party and if they con-tinue to spread hatred like thisthen they will soon they will getzero seats in India,’ she saidaccusing the BJP of playing pol-itics of hate and vendetta to winelections.

‘Look how just eightmonths back they had tasted aresounding victory in the gen-eral elections. But they failed toretain that by taking anti-peo-ple steps. Today when thecountry’s economy is in thedoldrums they are selling outthe Government concerns,reducing jobs … and then in abid to divert attention spread-ing politics of hatred. But thepeople of India have seenthrough their clever politicsand have started rejectingthem. Look how one after theother they lost Maharashtra,Jharkhand and now Delhi,’ shesaid.

‘The elections have provedthat they have rejected theirleaders, their money whichthey have been splurging to winelections and their spiteful pol-itics… It has proved that falsepride, fake news and money

power will lead them nowherein the Indian politics,’ shemaintained.

On whether the Delhi elec-tions were a referendum againstthe CAA and NRC, Banerjeeremained non-committal ondirectly connecting the twoissues. However she asserted‘the people have made theirminds clear that they wantroti, kapra aur makaan morethan anything else like NRC.’

She hoped the BJP will takea lesson from the defeat andretrace its steps and ‘rejectCAA, NRC and other anti-peo-ple decisions.’

On whether she wouldattend Kejriwal’s swearing-inceremony she said she wouldlove to do that ‘but as you knowmy Assembly session is onand so I will have to take intoaccount other engagementsbefore taking a decision onattending his function in Delhi,’adding ‘I have already con-gratulated Kejriwal ji for hismassive victory.’

Meanwhile both the TMCand AAP supporters celebrat-ed the BJP’s loss in Delhi at var-ious places in Bengal.

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Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda onTuesday congratulated Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal over AAP’s ‘splendid third victory’ in theAssembly polls and said this win assures the rest of Indiayet again that ‘desperate acts of communal polarisationhas limited currency’. ‘You richly deserved this win. It isalso a remarkably good sign in Indian politics that yourfocus on development has paid off immensely,’ Gowdasaid.

In a letter to Kejriwal, the JD(S) patriarch said ‘Yourvictory assures the rest of India yet again that desperateacts of communal polarisation has limited currency.

The talk of your Government’s good work in the healthand education sectors has reached the corners ofKarnataka and the rest of India too.’

The Aam Aadmi Party is in the verge of landslide vic-tory in the 70-member Delhi Legislative Assembly forwhich the counting of votes were underway on Tuesday.

Among those who registered victories are Kejriwal,his deputy Manish Sisodia, besides senior AAP leadersRaghav Chadha, Atishi and Dilip Pandey. PTI

Mumbai: Senior Maharashtra Congress leaderPrithviraj Chavan on Tuesday said the people ofDelhi had rejected the BJP’s ‘style of politics’ thatfocussed on Shaheen Bagh protests and commu-nal issues rather than the people’s staple ‘roti, kapdaand makaan’.

The BJP is headed for a crushing defeat at thehands of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party in the Delhipolls with trends showing the latter crossing thehalfway mark in the 70-member LegislativeAssembly, winning 36 seats and leading in 26 oth-ers.

Speaking to a regional news channel, Chavansaid, ‘The people of Delhi have rejected the BJP’sstyle of politics as the focus of its campaignremained on issues like Shaheen Bagh and othercommunal elements instead of ‘roti, kapada andmakaan’. On the Congress failing to open itsaccount in Delhi, like in 2015, the formerMaharashtra Chief Minister said his party wouldhave to introspect, and it would be done in thecoming day. PTI

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With the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) setto score another landslide victory

in Delhi Assembly polls, Goa ChiefMinister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday saidvoters may have fallen for freebiesannounced by the Arvind KejriwalGovernment before the elections.

The BJP leader said the AAPGovernment in Delhi failed to providepollution-free air and clean drinkingwater, which are basic necessities.

‘We accept people’s verdict. May be,people wanted a government that givesfreebies from their own taxes,’ Sawant toldreporters in Ponda town of North Goadistrict.

Sawant, who campaigned in Delhi forthe Assembly polls, said the Kejriwal gov-ernment failed to provide clean air andwater to citizens of the national capital.

Goa Forward Party (GFP) chief VijaiSardesai said voters in Delhi have reject-ed ‘divisive’ issues.

‘Congratulations to #Delhi’s localparty @AamAadmiParty and@ArvindKejriwal for this resoundingvictory. It’s heartening to see the peopleemphatically supporting a party thatchampioned local issues and local devel-opment rejecting the national divisive issues #DelhiPolls2020,’ he tweet-ed.

As per the latest figures given by theElection Commission, the AAP hascrossed the halfway mark in the 70- mem-ber Delhi Legislative Assembly, winning 36 seats and was leading in 26seats.

Among those who registered victo-ry are Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, hisdeputy Manish Sisodia, besides RaghavChadha, Atishi and Dilip Pandey. PTI

Thiruvananthapuram: KeralaChief Minister Pinarayi Vijayanon Tuesday congratulated hisDelhi counterpart ArvindKejriwal for AAP’s ‘resoundingvictory’ in Assembly elections,saying let it be a harbinger forinclusive politics in the coun-try.

Vijayan said the Delhi pollresult could be considered as a‘reaction of the people towardsthe continuing communalpolarisation of the BJP-ledNDA and its anti-people poli-cies.

‘Congratulations to@ArvindKejriwal and@AamAadmiParty on aresounding victory in Delhielections. Let this victory be aharbinger for pro-people andinclusive politics in our coun-try,’ he tweeted.

Vijayan later told reportersthat the Congress party needsto learn ‘some lessons’ from theDelhi polls.

‘They were not ready tojoin hands with the AAP. Weneed to understand the realitythat the people are acceptingthose who provide an alterna-tive to the BJP’s ‘anti-peopleagenda’.

This is what that has hap-pened in Delhi. Under the ableleadership of Arvind Kejriwal,the Aam Admi Party has reg-istered a resounding and aninspirational victory in Delhi,’Vijayan said here.

The Aam Aadmi Partylooked set for a second term inDelhi with the party leading in63 seats of the 70 as votespolled in the last week’s elec-tions were counted. PTI

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Congratulating Aam AdmiParty and its Chief Arvind

Kejriwal for its performance inthe Delhi Assembly polls, JD(S)leader HD Kumaraswamy onTuesday said that people of thenational Capital have shownthat ‘fascist ideology’ will neverwin their hearts.

Calling Kejriwal as a leaderwho heralded development,the former Karnataka ChiefMinister said people havetaught a lesson for labellinghim a ‘terrorist’ and also upheldthe necessity of a regionalparty. ‘Heartfelt congratula-tions to @ArvindKejriwal@AamAadmiParty.

People of Delhi haveshowed that ‘fascist ideology’will never win their hearts.

Congratulations to AAPand voters of Delhi for testify-ing that successful politics withdevelopment as criteria (towin polls), amidst money andmuscle power,’ Kumaraswamytweeted.

Welcoming the mandate ofthe people, he said in a seriesof tweets that the mature voterof Delhi did not change hisstand, despite BJP’s might, withPrime Minister NarendraModi, Home Minister AmitShah and the entire Central

Government on its side.‘People have taught lesson

for calling someone who her-alded development (Kejriwal),a terrorist.

By upholding the necessi-ty of a regional party, people ofDelhi have alsoset a model by clearly stating

that development is their onlypriority,’ he said in anothertweet.

Kumaraswamy was refer-ring to remarks by BJP MPParvesh Verma at a poll rally,calling Kejriwal a ‘terrorist’over his alleged support to ananti-Citizenship (Amendment)Act protest in south Delhi’sShaheen Bagh.

Both Kumaraswamy andKejriwal have bonded at severaloccasions in the past.

The Delhi Chief Ministerhad attended Kumaraswamy’sswearing in as Chief Ministerof the coalition government inMay last year. Kumaraswamy,along with West Bengal ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjee,then Andhra Pradesh ChiefMinister Chandrababu Naidu,Kerala Chief Minister PinarayiVijayan had rallied behindKejriwal when the latter wasstaging a dharna at theLieutenant Governor office,which was seen as his powerstruggle with the L-G.

Patna: Bihar Chief MinisterNitish Kumar on Tuesday side-stepped queries on the outcomeof assembly polls in Delhi,where the coalition comprisinghis JD(U), BJP and LJP hasbeen drubbed by the incum-bent Aam Aadmi Party, with aterse observation will of thepeople is supreme.

‘Janta malik hai,’ saidKumar with hands foldedabove his head and the ghost ofa smile playing on his lips as hesauntered past a posse of jour-nalists tossing queries on thesidelines of a function where heunveiled a statue of RSS ideo-logue Deen Dayal Upadhyay.

The JD(U), of whichKumar is the national presi-dent, had contested two assem-bly segments in Delhi Burariand Sangam VIhar — and istrailing in both by huge mar-gins.

Although the JD(U) hasnever been a major player inthe national Capital, the cur-rent elections were significantbecause it was the first time thatthe BJP a formidable force in

Delhi chose to take itssmaller allies in Biharalong to take on thehuge challenge posed byArvind Kejriwal’s party,which is less than adecade old.

The tie-up in Delhihad been frowned upon byJD(U) national general secre-tary Pavan Varma a formerdiplomat, who aired his differ-ences in the open and faced theaxe.

Similar was the fate ofPrashant Kishor whom thechief minister had made hisparty’s national vice-presidentand whose position in theJD(U) had become increasing-ly untenable on account of hiscollaboration with Kejriwal inthe capacity of an electionstrategist.

An indignant Kishor hasthreatened to visit Patna afterthe dust settles in Delhi andunveil his future strategy,besides ‘exposing’ Kumar.

The torpid opposition inBihar, led by Lalu Prasad’s RJDwith the Congress as a major

ally, is likely to experience aburst of vigour on account ofthe results in Delhi, despitetheir dismal performance,which came barely a couple ofmonths after the BJP’s ouster inthe adjoining Jharkhand.

However, the developmentis likely to be received with asense of relief by the JD(U) asthe party will now be evenmore hopeful that NitishKumar’s detractors in the BJPwill be kept on a tight leash.

After the Lok Sabha pollslast year, several BJP leaders inthe state had begun to makestatements that time had comefor the saffron party to stakeclaim for the chief minister’spost, thereby threatening toupend the alliance with theJD(U). PTI

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Maharashtra Chief MinisterUddhav Thackeray said

here on Tuesday that throughArvind Kejriwal-led AamAadmi Party’s landslide victo-ry in the Delhi Assembly polls,the people in the nationalCapital had shown that thecountry would henceforth runon ‘Jan Ki Baat’ and not ‘MannKi Baat’, while NCP chiefSharad Pawar said that theprocess of the BJP’s removalfrom power at the Centre hadbegun.

Uddhav took an indirectdig at Prime Minister NarendraModi, as he congratulatedArvind Kejriwal and people ofDelhi on AAP’s superlative per-formance in the Assembly polls.

Without taking Modi’sname, Uddhav – who is also thepresident of the Shiv Sena—said: “I would like to extend myheart-felt congratulations toArvind Kejriwal and the people

of Delhi on AAP’s victory in theAssembly polls. The people ofthe Delhi have shown that thecountry would henceforth run‘Jan ki baat’ and not `Mann kibaat’ “.

“Despite the fact that thereis a government of nationalis-tic ideology, the principal rul-ing party – despite having usedall its might— could not with-stand the power of humblebroom (the AAP’s poll symbol).The strong party fielded its topleaders in its campaign, dubbedKejriwal as a terrorist, ignoredlocal issues and tried to divertthe attention of people usinginternational issues. Despite allthis, the ruling party at theCentre could not defeat ArvindKejriwal in the polls,” Uddhavsaid.

“The people of Delhi stoodsolidly behind a honest personwho believed in developmentmatters of the national capitaland reposed their confidence indemocracy. The people have

not only shown that they are aspatriotic as those in the rulingparty at the Centre but theyhave also removed the mis-conception sought to be creat-ed by the party in question thatall those opposing it were trai-tors,” the Sena president said.

Congratulating Kejriwalon behalf of Maharashtra andthe Shiv Sena on AAP’s elec-toral success, Uddhav wishedhim all the best for his devel-opment-oriented tenure as thechief minister.

While congratulatingKejriwal on AAP’s victory inthe Delhi Assembly polls,Pawar came out with a sharpreaction. “The process of theBJP’s removal from power atthe Centre has begun. TheBJP has already suffered defeatsin the earlier Assembly polls.The serial of the BJP’s debacleswill not end here. The peopleare now of the opinion thatthey want to elect govern-ments that believe in develop-

ment work”.“In Delhi Assembly polls,

the fight was basically betweenthe two parties. The people didnot consider the thrird party(Congress). More than whomto elect, the people showed thatthey were more interested inwhom to defeat,” the NCPchief said.

“I am not all surprised bythe outcome in the DelhiAssembly polls. A large num-ber of Marathi-speaking peo-ple live in Delhi. When I madeenquiries with them, theyshowed their preference toArvind Kejriwal,” Pawar said.

“Despite the fact that Delhiis a State where Prime MinisterModi lives, people talk moreabout Arvind Kejriwal than theformer. He has resolved theissues of people and childrenin the national capital are beinginculcated with good valuesbecause of the good educationthey are being imparted,” theNCP chief said.

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Kohima:The opposition NagaPeoples Front (NPF) onTuesday staged peacefulstatewide anti-CAA dharnasdemanding immediate roll-back of the amended citizenship law.

In Kohima NPF secretarygeneral Achumbemo Kikonand other leaders sat on dhar-na with banners and placardssome of which read “CAA is athreat to all indigenous com-munities of North East”,“Injustice cannot be a law”,

“CAA murdered secularism”and “CAA is draconian law”.

Addressing the gathering,Kikon said the claims of thestate government thatNagaland is protected by InnerLine Permit (ILP) and that thestate wont be affected as wehave been exempted from thepurview of CAA is “totallymisleading”.

He said that Nagaland hav-ing its borders with Assam isnot far from being overshad-owed by illegal immigrants.

“If we (Nagas) remainsilent even we are at danger offacing a similar situation,” said Kikon.

Asserting that NPF willnever compromise the rightsand privileges of the Nagas,Kikon said the NPF legislatorshave moved an anti-CAA res-olution in the ongoing budgetsession of the Assembly, but itsthe ruling NationalistDemocratic Progressive Party(NDPP) and BJP alliance gov-ernment rejected it. PTI

Bengaluru: A day after allo-cating portfolios to ten newlyinducted Ministers of hisCabinet, Chief Minister BSYediyurappa on Tuesdayreshuffled them apparentlyunder pressure from somenewly inducted Ministers.

According to an officialnotification issued by GovernorVajubhai Vala, Anand Singh,who was allotted the porfolio ofFood, Civil Supplies andConsumers Affairs on Monday,has now been given the chargeof Forest, Ecology andEnvironment Department.

BC Patil, who was giventhe charge of Forest

Department, has now beenallocated Agriculture depart-ment, which was additionallyheld by Home MinisterBasavaraj Bommai.

Yediyurappa has takenback the Small Scale Industriesportfolio from K Gopalaiahand has now allocated himFood, Civil Supplies andConsumers AffairsDepartment.

The additional charge ofsugar department thatGopalaiah had has been givento Labour minister A ShivaramHebbar.

According to BJP sources,Singh, Patil and Gopalaiah

were unhappy with their port-folios and had exerted pressureon the Chief Minister to changethe departments assigned tothem.

Though there was demandfor plum portfolios like Energyand Bangalore Developmentthat are with the Chief Ministercurrently, Yediyurappa has notallotted them as it may give riseto rift within, as several seniorparty leaders and Ministershave been eyeing the depart-ments.

The other minor changesthat have been done inTuesday’s reallocation includeMinority Welfare department

that was with AnimalHusbandry, Haj and WakfDepartment Minister PrabhuChauhan, which has been givento Textile Minister ShrimantPatil.

Similarly Ecology andEnvironment has been divest-ed from Mines and Geologyminister CC Patil and allottedto Anand Singh along withForest. Urban Developmentminister B A Basvaraj willhave the responsibility ofKarnataka Urban Water Supplyand Drainage Board (KUWS-DB) and Karnataka UrbanInfrastructure Developmentand Finance Corporation

(KUIDFC), excludingBangalore Development andrelated department andDirectorate of Town Planning.

Yediyurappa on February 6had expanded his Cabinet byinducting 10 of 11 legislatorswho had won the bypolls inDecember on the BJP ticketafter defecting from theCongress and JD(S) and sub-sequently facing disqualifica-tion. During the portfolio allo-cation on Monday, the ChiefMinister had assigned the plumWater Resources Departmentto Ramesh Jarkiholi, who hadplayed a key role in the collapseof the Congress-JD(S) coalition

government that paved theway for the BJP to come topower.

With the BJP leadershipmaking it clear that there willbe no more Deputy ChiefMinisters, the post that he waseyeing for, Jarkiholi had putpressure for the WaterResources Department.

Athani MLA MaheshKumathalli, the only newlyelected BJP legislator afterdefecting from the Congresswho was not made ministerduring the recent expansion,has expressed displeasure overhim being appointed as chair-man of Mysore Sales

International Limited (MSIL),stating that he was not inter-ested in it.

“When I was told that I willbe made chief of board or cor-poration, I had said give meLand Army (Karnataka RuralInfrastructure DevelopmentLimited) as I am a CivilEngineer and I can performbetter in it.

Last night I got to know Ihave been given MSIL, I amgoing to Bengaluru and meetthe Chief Minister.

If they want to give, letthem give Land Army, I am notinterested in MSIL,” Kumathallitold reporters in Belagavi.

“I should have been mademinister, but due to certain rea-sons and in the interest of theparty I remained patient.

I have been promised thatI will be made minister in thenext expansion,” he added.

With a few new Ministersstill unhappy over their port-folios, disgruntlement amongthe party’s old guard over thembeing left out during the expan-sion, regional and caste imbal-ance in the cabinet,Yediyurappa may have to lookat another round of expansion,probably along with rejig in thedays ahead, party sources said. PTI

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Mumbai: The Bombay HighCourt on Tuesday grantedinterim protection from arrestto a 22-year-old student-activist in a seditioncase lodged for allegedlyshouting slogan in support ofjailed JNU student SharjeelImam at an LGBTQ eventhere.

Justice SK Shinde, whowas hearing the anticipatorybail plea of the student,Urvashi Chudawala, said inthe event of arrest, the peti-tioner shall be released on a

personal bond of �20,000.

The court directedChudawala to appear beforethe Azad Maidan police sta-tion in south Mumbai, wherethe sedition case is lodged, onFebruary 12 and 13 for threehours in the morning andthereafter as and whenrequired by the police forquestioning.

Justice Shinde postedChudawala’s anticipatory bailplea for further hearing onFebruary 24. PTI

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The Special Investigation Team(SIT), probing thecase where a 25-year-old woman lecturer was

burned to death by her stalker at Hinganghat inMaharashtra’s Wardha district, will file a chargesheet within two weeks, a senior official said on Tuesday.

The victim, Ankita Pisudde, a resident ofHinganghat town, was set afire allegedly by herstalker Vikesh Nagrale (27) on February 3. She diedin a Nagpur hospital, where had been undergoingtreatment, on Monday morning.

The SIT team led by Wardha DeputySuperintendent of Police Trupti Jadhav is handlingthe case.

When contacted, Jadhav told PTI that state-ments of six witnesses have been recorded and evi-dences from the crime spot have also been recov-ered.

The charge sheet in the case would be filed with-in two weeks, she said.

“The accused is in police remand till February20 and we will try to file the charge sheet beforethe end of that period,” Jadhav said.

She also dismissed reports in a section of mediathat the accused was accompanied by a couple ofpersons at the time of crime.

According to information gathered by the probeteam, the accused executed the crime alone and wasnot accompanied by any person, the official said.

The state government on Monday appointedrenowned lawyer Ujjwal Nikam as special publicprosecutor in the case.

Aligarh (UP): Hundreds ofAligarh Muslim University stu-dents, who included a largenumber of girls, took out a can-dle-light march inside the cam-pus in protest against the policeaction on anti-citizenship lawprotesters in Kanpur and onJamia Millia Islamia students inDelhi.

After the march Mondaynight, the AMU StudentsCoordination Committee sub-mitted a memorandum,addressed to President RamNath Kovind, to authorities,seeking his intervention onthe issue. The committee alsodemanded the resignation ofUttar Pradesh Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath.

By venting fury againstthe protesters, especiallywomen, police was adding fuelto the fire in UP, the memo-randum claimed. It said UPpolice, instead of allowingpeaceful protests, is aggravat-ing the situation by indulgingin “wanton brutalities”.

The committee demandedthat the president intervene toprevent deterioration of lawand order.

Early Monday, UP policeallegedly tried to remove theprotesters from Kanpur’sMohammad Ali Park. The pro-testers accused the police of

resorting to lathicharge butsenior officials denied thecharge.

Similar protests have beencontinuing in Delhi. OnDecember 15, Delhi policestormed into Jamia, looking forprotesters who had indulged inarson, and allegedly beat upstudents. The same night,police also entered the AMUand clashed with studentsprotesting against Citizenship(Amendment) Act.

On Tuesday, former AMUStudents Union Vice PresidentHamza Sufiyan, who is amongthe four students whose sure-ty of Rs 1 lakh has been seizedby police, said he was being“framed” by district authoritiesfor the violence on December15, despite he providing docu-mentary evidence, includingcall records, to the HumanRights Commission to prove hewas not in Aligarh that night.

Sufiyan said in a state-ment that the police was“harassing” him even thoughthe CCTV footage showed hewas not present during theclash at Baab-e-Syed Gate ofthe university on December 15.

On Monday, examinationswere held at AMU according tothe schedule revised due to theanti-CAA protest on thecampus. PTI

London/Itanagar: A 20-year-oldman, believed to be the son of for-mer Arunachal Pradesh ChiefMinister Kalikho Pul, has been founddead in the bedroom of his flat in thecoastal town of Brighton in south-east England.

Shubanso Pul was found dead bythe local police officials on Sunday,who said there were no suspiciouscircumstances around the deathwhich seems to imply a possible suicide.

“At 3.41pm on Sunday (February9) police were called to an address inFalmer where a 20-year-old man wasfound dead in a bedroom,” an EastSussex Police statement said.

“There were no suspicious cir-cumstances. The coroner forBrighton and Hove has beeninformed,” the statement added.

The coroner will now open aninquest into the death, which iswhen the cause of death will be con-firmed.

Shubanso, the son of Pul with hisfirst wife Dangwimsai Pul, wasreportedly a student at the Universityof Sussex.

Meanwhile, his family in Itanagar

is trying to get in touch with theIndian High Commission in the UKto bring Shubanso’s body to India.

With the support of a few elect-ed members of the Congress and theBJP, Pul became the chief minister fora brief period in 2016. However, theSupreme Court ruled against theappointment, leading to his ouster.He himself was found dead in hisofficial chief ministerial residence inItanagar on August 9, 2016, with analleged suicide note.

While Dangwimsai Pul, the firstwife, had moved the Supreme Courtseeking a probe into the death andallegations of massive corruptionmentioned in her husband’s suicidenote, the BJP gave a ticket to his thirdwife, Dasanglu Pul to contest the by-elections from Hayuliang, which shewon. PTI

Ahmedabad: A group of col-legians and activists stagedprotests against the CitizenshipAmendment Act outsideSabarmati Ashram on Tuesday.

They were asked to vacate the footpath outside theashram by the police as they didnot have permission to hold aprotest there, a police officialsaid.”Dozens of people gatheredat the Sabarmati Ashram toprotest against the CAA. Theygathered with placards andlined outside the Ashram toprotest. But police asked us tovacate as we had no permis-sion,” activist Dev Desai said.

Desai said the protest wasthen held outside a college butthey were asked to leave fromthere as well by the police.

Inspector JM Khambhalaof Ranip police station said,“They gathered despite policedenying them permission tohold protest there. Several ofthe protesters did not knowthat the organisers did nothave permission. We let themgo.” PTI

Guwahati: All data of the finallist of the National Register ofCitizens (NRC) has been madeoffline from its official websitedue to non-renewal of contractwith the IT firm Wipro,prompting the OppositionCongress to doubt it as a‘malafide act’.

The complete detail ofexclusion and inclusion ofbonafide Indian citizens in the NRC was uploaded on its official website‘www.nrcassam.nic.in’ after thefinal list was published onAugust 31, 2019.

However, the data was notavailable for the last couple ofdays and it created panic in thepublic, mostly among the peo-ple excluded from the list as therejection certificates were yet tobe issued.

When contacted, NRCState Coordinator Hitesh DevSarma accepted that the datahave been made offline, butrefuted the allegation of any‘malafide’ intent in it.

“The cloud service for thehuge set of data was providedby Wipro and their contractwas till October 19 last year.However, this was not renewedby the earlier Coordinator. So,the data got offline fromDecember 15 after it was sus-

pended by Wipro. I assumedcharge on December 24,”Sarma told PTI.

He informed that thestate coordination commit-tee had decided to do nec-

essary formalities in its meet-ing on January 30 and wrote tothe Wipro during the firstweek of February.

“Once Wipro makes thedata live, it will be available forthe public. We hope that peo-ple will be able to access it inthe next 2-3 days,” Sarma said.

Reacting to the develop-ment, Leader of the Oppositionin Assam Assembly DebabrataSaikia wrote to the RegistrarGeneral of India and request-ed him to look into the matterurgently.

“It is a mystery as to whythe online data should vanishall of a sudden, especially as theappeals process has not evenstarted due to the go-slow atti-tude adopted by the NRCAuthority. There is, therefore,ample scope to suspect that thedisappearance of online data isa malafide act.

“Indeed, the deletion ofdata from the NRC website ata time when the appealsprocess is yet is start, is primafacie a deliberate violation ofthe directive issued by theHon’ble Supreme Court.

“This act also violates therules pertaining to the NRC,which stipulates variousprocesses post publication ofthe NRC,” Saikia wrote in theletter.

The final NRC was pub-lished by excluding 19,06,657persons. A total of 3,11,21,004names were included out of3,30,27,661 applicants. PTI

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Two recent trends inimical tothe country’s national secu-rity — the politicisation of themilitary and a flat and nega-tive defence modernisation

Budget — worrying as they are, willsoon become the new normal. In thisspace, I have written enough as to howthe ruling political elite has milked thearmed forces for electoral gains — beit during the Uri surface strikes orBalakot air strikes — but in the process,it has brazenly politicised them.Carrying pictures of serving Armyofficers on political posters by the BJPis terrible. But terming the Army andthe Air Force as “Modiji’s sena” is unac-ceptable. So is the usage of Air Forcecommanders to legitimise breaches inthe procurement procedure to justify thepurchase of the Rafale aircraft.

During the Karnataka elections,Prime Minister Narendra Modi need-lessly revived seven-decade-old politi-cal events involving Gen KS Thimayyabut erroneously named Gen KSCariappa, thus hurting both families. Incontrast, it was heartening to listen tothe new Army Chief when he remind-ed his soldiers about the Constitution.It was, however, disappointing that heread out the Government’s politicalscript on the merits of its actions inJammu & Kashmir, especially when thelegislation is under arbitration. The deepselection of Service Chiefs, overridingthe seniority norm and the appointmentof Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) willhave political resonance.

The ruling dispensation has becomeimmune to criticism by the ElectionCommission, its political opponents andthe veteran community about involvingboth serving and retired personnel to pro-mote its partisan agenda, much of whichis sub-judice. The Prime Minister’s choiceof themes, while speaking to the militaryduring the inauguration of the NationalWar Memorial (NWM) or the youngcadets at the National Cadet Corps (NCC)during the annual parade recently, waspolitical and inappropriate. Feedingimpressionable cadets with politicalachievements while casually claimingthat India could defeat Pakistan in war inseven to 10 days has left many bedazzled.Fuelling nationalistic hype when the mil-itary is starved of funds for modernisationis intriguing. The Prime Minister, aimingwith a Kalashnikov rifle at the highly exag-gerated achievements of the DefenceExpo 2020, which is now held whereverthe Defence Minister’s political con-stituency is, will become an ironic visual.

Military politicisation peaked at theNCC rally. Strangely none of the ServiceChiefs nor the CDS present there stoppedthe Prime Minister from speaking to thecadets about the political events aimed at

the Delhi elections. In contrast,recently the Australian CDS,Gen Angus John Campbell, didprecisely this: Tap his DefenceMinister Christopher Pynewhen he switched from speak-ing about military issues toanswering political questionsin the presence of senior militaryofficers, telling him that hewould ask the military to moveout — and they did. Campbelldid not want his officers to beseen backing his Minister overhis party’s claimed politicalachievements.

For the fourth year in a row,defence allocation was notmentioned during the 2020-21Budget presented this month.In her marathon speech, theFinance Minister quoted aTamil sage and said: “Just asnational security was importanta millennium ago, for herGovernment, it is the numberone issue today.” But the fundsshe provided for defence mod-ernisation suggested otherwise.According to one official in theMinistry of Defence, the fundsare barely sufficient to payinstalments for weapons pur-chased earlier. The DefenceMinister issued a lofty Pressrelease, lauding the Budget,without mentioning a wordabout the impoverished plightof her own Ministry. Similarly,the Prime Minister, who is still

nursing the surgical strike’shangover, said nothing, thoughhis remarks on defeating anuclear-armed Pakistan inseven to 10 days remainedpuzzling, especially as officialsin the Ministry of Defencehave said that ammunition fora 10-day intense war will beavailable only by 2022-23.

US Ambassador KennethJuster said recently that the eco-nomic slowdown, which theGovernment has not admittedto as yet, will affect moderni-sation of defence capability. Onpaltry modernisation fundsyear on year, former FinanceMinister Arun Jaitley had said,“Defence forces do not have themechanism to spend themoney; we do not have thefunds to give them; will havefunds only once the tax netexpands.” Since 2014, whenthe BJP came into power,defence Budgets have been attheir lowest since 1962 ataround 1.5 to 1.6 per cent of theGross Domestic Product(GDP). BJP’s own stalwarts inthe Standing Committee onDefence and EstimatesCommittee, Gen BC Khanduriand MM Joshi, had pointed outbig holes in defence prepared-ness. Khanduri lost his job forindicating this.

Soon after the current fiveper cent dismal increase in

defence allocation, the CDSapparently put the lid on anycomments by single ServiceChiefs, telling some journaliststhat the Budget was adequate;that the management of theBudget is critical; and that it ismore of a management issuethan a question of adequatefunds. He also said that hewould prioritise acquisition,raise age of retirement to 58years, create funds from with-in and if necessary, take addi-tional requirements to theGovernment. The PrimeMinister, while speaking to theNCC cadets, mentioned theappointment of the CDS, elab-orating that along with singleService Chiefs, this representedone plus one plus one, equalling111, implying that the CDS isthe Alibaba of defence issues.

The decision on One Rank,One Pension (OROP) taken bythe Prime Minister in the heatand dust of the 2014 electioncampaign was one he must beregretting now. The defencepension Bill has reached �1.33lakh crore, which is more than�1.18 lakh crore for salaries and�1.11 lakh crore for capital. In2010, it was �41,000 crore andlast year it was �1.13 lakhcrore. Another �6,500 crorewill be required for OROPequaliser this year. This incon-gruity in tooth to tail ratio must

be corrected. Equally, morefunds must be allotted formodernisation to catch up withChina, whose defence Budgetis three times more than India’s.

Clearly, the josh of the sur-gical strikes is no cover for lackof defence preparedness.Winning elections and wars arenot in the same league. TheGovernment can no longercamouflage its declining mod-ernisation programme withhigh symbolism and hyper-nationalism. Its seriousnessabout defence can be judgedfrom the appointment of fiveDefence Ministers in six years.Still, the CDS is a positive stepthough the way he has beenlocated in the hierarchy, he isanother ‘1’ in the PrimeMinister’s 111 arithmetic.

The politics of nationalsecurity has trumped its eco-nomics, leading to the 15thFinance Commission fire-fight-ing for the creation of addition-al defence funds. Given thetight fiscal situation, theGovernment should temperits national security ambitionsand goals and leave the profes-sional military alone.

(The writer, a retired MajorGeneral, was Commander IPKFSouth, Sri Lanka and foundermember of the Defence PlanningStaff, currently the IntegratedDefence Staff.)

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Sir — The decision of theUnion Government to detainformer Chief Ministers OmarAbdullah and Mehbooba Muftiunder the Public Safety Act(PSA) is a retrograde step andis bound to aggravate thealready volatile situation in theValley. Both leaders have alreadyunder detention for sevenmonths. Extension of theirdetention is in violation of theirrights and liberty as guaranteedby the Constitution. Suchuncertainty does not augur wellfor the future of the State.

Shivanshu K SrivastavaLucknow

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Sir — It refers to the report,“Asia breaks the barrier”(February 11). This Oscar willindeed remain historic as it isfor the first time that a foreignlanguage film won the best pic-ture award for its dark drama.While many other foreign lan-guage films have been nominat-ed to the best film category in thepast, none could reach this far. Byawarding Parasite, the Academy

has acknowledged the need todiversify. This win will give themuch-needed hope to other film-makers to dream and aspire forthe coveted prize.

Besides, Parasite has also

won three other awards (bestdirector, best original screen-play and best international film),which it rightly deserved. Indianfilm-makers, too, should aspire tocover this distance. Last but not

the least, while the Academy hasmade a big effort to appear moreinclusive, it still has a long way togo. None of the women directorswere nominated for best directorthis year. Hopefully, the present

honour will lead to diversificationfrom white male film-making toembrace women, too.

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Sir — The Government seems tohave acted in haste by chargingformer Chief MinistersMehbooba Mufti and OmarAbdullah under the Public SafetyAct (PSA). In a democracy, free-dom of expression cannot be sti-fled or suppressed but it appearsthat the Government is hell-bent to move in a direction thatwill lead to nowhere. In timeswhen the Centre must makerenewed efforts for normalcy toreturn in Jammu & Kashmir, ithas sought to undermine theState’s interests. The Governmenthas no evidence to prove that thetwo leaders fuelled violence orsought to break the Union.Agreed, they have been critical ofthe Government but they havealso stood up for the Union.Detention is not the answer.

Devendra KhuranaBhopal

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(NTO). Dubbed NTO 2.0, the revised tariff orderhas met with severe criticism and legal armour frombroadcasters, who have accused the TelecomRegulatory Authority of India (TRAI) of sabotagingthe sector by introducing clauses that will allegedlyerode subscription revenues, push broadcasterstowards an advertising-led revenue model anddestroy the level-playing field in favour of DistributionPlatforms (DPOs) and advertisers.

The TRAI, on its part, has argued that theamendments were necessary as the NTO had failedto meet its objective of giving adequate choice to con-sumers through rampant “misuse” of power and flex-ibility granted to broadcasters. But, perhaps, the moststinging reason that led to these amendments wasthe TRAI’s inability to keep cable bills in check,prompting consumers to downsize on TV viewing.

There are compelling reasons to scrutinise theregulator’s tinkering with the Network Capacity Fee(NCF) to expand the reach of Free-To-Air (FTA)channels under the NTO 2.0. There was widespreadbelief that the TRAI would waive off or at least reducethe NCF under its amendments to make TV view-ing more affordable. Far from it, the TRAI hasreplaced the old NCF structure with a two-slab onethat further expands the ambit of FTA channels.

To recapitulate, the NTO issued last year man-dated DPOs to provide 100 FTA channels, whichincluded 76 private ones and 24 Doordarshan (DD)channels to every subscriber for �130, excluding tax.Under the amended NTO, the TRAI has asked DPOsto provide up to 200 channels, excluding 24 DD chan-nels for �130. The regulator also introduced anoth-er slab — for more than 200 private FTA channelsand 24 DD channels, the NCF would be �160 exclud-ing tax.

The TRAI may have had the best intentions inintroducing the two-tier NCF structure. “TRAIrecognises that the new regulatory frameworkimplemented in 2019 caused distortions that led toprice increases in the TV market. Primary amongthem is a reduced incentive for distributors toimprove the quality of service on account of the NCF.Consumers also pay more to watch the same con-tent and it’s tedious for them to keep track of the num-ber of subscribed channels, as a result of the NCF.Through this two-slab system, TRAI ostensibly seeksto address such documented challenges,” says VivanSharan, Partner, Koan Advisory.

Despite its stated intention, however, the revi-sion in NCF — along with the mandate to reducethe MRP of channels from �19 to �12 to be part ofa bouquet — has raised difficult questions, many ofwhich reflect the TRAI’s own inconsistencies.

For one, the NTO was introduced last year inan attempt to empower consumers and give themthe freedom to choose what they want to watch andpay only for that. The TRAI has repeatedly arguedthat the introduction of à la carte pricing was nec-essary as broadcasters were dumping “unwanted”channels on consumers through bundling andbouquet formations. But here’s the catch, while theTRAI is attempting to restrict broadcasters frombundling or forming bouquets, doesn’t allowing a dis-tribution platform to offer 200+ FTA channels tan-tamount to bundling? Then again there’s an issue ofwho really benefits from the introduction of the newNCF structure — consumers or DPOs?

Chairman of Star and Disney India UdayShankar points out the anomaly, “If the regulator isso concerned about bringing down the price for theconsumer, then why in the name of an NCF, are thedistributors being allowed to charge as much as �160?Theoretically, they can charge anything up to �160for only providing FTA channels. Just to understandthe ludicrous contradiction of this order, the same

channels could be obtained by the con-sumer by going to DD Free Dish. So some-thing that the Free Dish makes availablefor free, the regulator, in the name of bring-ing down the burden on the consumer, hasallowed the DPOs to charge up to �160.”

Broadcasters are bemused that theTRAI is willing to give private DPOs theupper hand even at the cost of theGovernment’s own DD Free Dish. “Doesn’tTRAI favour private and commercialDPOs vis-a-vis DD Free Dish DTH,where the subscriber has to incur a one-time cost for a Set Top Box and gets theFTA channels for free for life but has to payprivate DPOs a monthly NCF for thosesame channels?,” asks an executive froma leading broadcaster on condition ofanonymity. The executive argues theTRAI is not only destroying DD Free Dish’sviewership but consumers are repeatedly“fleeced” each month in the name of NCF.

The legal head of another popularbroadcaster laments that the TRAI hasplayed into the hands of DPOs, grantingthem unequivocal authority to createbase packs for consumers. “DPOs will nowcreate a base pack of 224 poor-quality FTAchannels priced at �160 and push theseonto consumers. Meanwhile, as a contentcreator, my relationship with my con-sumers is curtailed, I lose the authority todecide how my channel will be carried bythe platforms and the reach it will garner,and my economies of scale have been erod-ed too,” says the legal executive who doesnot wish to be named.

Distributors, however, say there is noinherent benefit to them as claimed bybroadcasters. The CEO of a leading Multi-System Operator says on condition ofanonymity, “The NCF was never designedas a premise to offer FTAs to consumers.Platforms charge consumers NCF tocover the cost of setting up the infrastruc-ture to carry channels and their operations.As part of that commitment, the TRAIdirected us to offer 100 FTAs under theNTO. So FTAs are incidental, not the pri-mary reason why NCF is levied.”

Then there’s the critical issue of guar-anteeing choice to consumers. Broadcastersallege that while the TRAI seems to be

offering a wider viewing through the 200+FTAs, there is no real choice on offer.“MSO head-ends are not capable of deliv-ering differential packages of FTA chan-nels to every household taking intoaccount their age, language and genre pref-erences. So where is the choice as far asFTAs are concerned?,” asks the senior exec-utive. All of this could have perhaps beenpardonable if the new NCF structure couldguarantee lower cable bills, a claim TRAIis only happy to make. Broadcasters,however, are quick to burst the bubble.“DPOs will charge a MRP of either �130or �160 for the FTA channels and thenconsumers have to opt for à la carte chan-nels or broadcasters’ bouquet or DPO bou-quets to watch their choice of channels. Sohow will the two-slab NCF actually reducebills?,” argues the executive. To put it anoth-er way, the NCF itself serves as the biggestsingle-fixed component of monthly cablebills.

Distribution platforms have anotherpoint of view and say the NCF’s two-pronged approach will ease cable bills andsatisfy even conscious TV watchers. For afee of �130 and taxes, an entry-level con-sumer can now avail up to 200 FTA chan-nels, giving him a wider basket. Then again,even if a consumer opts for the entire uni-verse of pay channels, the TRAI has lim-ited the NCF to �160 a month, which hith-erto increased as the number of channelsincreased (an additional NCF of �20 wascharged for every slab of 25 channels).

Broadcasters argue the reduced MRPcaps and new NCF structure will limit thenumber of channels in pay bouquets, erodethe value delivered to consumers and theloss of subscribers and revenues will forcemore pay channels to become FTA, whichsolely rely on advertisement revenue fortheir business.

As more channels become FTAs, it willalso force broadcasters to fight a hard bat-tle with DPOs to be included in their FTAbase packs, giving platforms the upperhand to negotiate higher carriage fees. Puttogether, this will negatively affect the qual-ity of programmatic content and theviewing experience for consumers.

“Smaller broadcasters pay channels

may convert to FTA to remain attractivefor consumers, following the introductionof new economic regulations on bouquets.If more such pay channels become FTA,broadcasters will cease to invest in high-quality, niche content. This will negative-ly impact content quality,” says Sharan.

As more channels become FTAs andmore air-time becomes available, ad rateswill fall and advertisers will gain immense-ly. This will lead to an increase in numberof advertisements on TV. “This will onlyexpedite the migration of consumers toother digital platforms, where they not onlyenjoy high quality content but also with-out the frequent interruptions of advertise-ments,” says the head of another broadcast-er.

The TRAI did not respond to an emailseeking replies on the new amendmentsthat come into effect on March 1.

Experts say TRAI needs to allow thebroadcasting sector to flourish by scalingdown economic regulations and takingstock of the performance of last-mile dis-tributors. “The NCF has certainly increasedthe cost of watching TV. This can only beremedied by enhancing competitionamong last-mile TV distributors, not bymore economic regulations,” says Sharan.“Distributors must do justice to consumersby actually using revenues from NCF toimprove quality of service. A transparentecosystem-wide audit is desperately need-ed. Logically, this should precede regula-tory changes,” he concludes.

The legal executive warns that shouldthe TRAI continue with excessive and arbi-trary regulatory measures, it will push thebroadcast sector on to the same thornypath as the telecom sector.

“Until a decade ago, India boasted 14telecom players; today we are staring at aduopoly. The broadcast sector is headedin the same direction. More channels areforced to go the FTA way, leading broad-casters are not launching new channels andsmaller, niche channels are shutting shop.Ultimately, if the broadcast sector perish-es, so will the distribution platforms,” hesays.

(The writer is a journalist covering themedia and entertainment landscape)

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Whoever thought seven yearsago that the Delhi ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwal

would come this far to bag the throneof Delhi for the third term? Though theAam Aadmi Party (AAP) had arrivedas a disruptive force in 2013 and wasdismissed as an upstart, its chiefKejriwal surprised critics with his abil-ity to grasp the pulse of the public andchange for the better in this roller coast-er political ride. There was a method

to his madness though his critics calledhim an “anarchist.” Delhi was not theend of his ambition, as he took onNarendra Modi in the 2014 Lok Sabhaelections and the party contested on 400seats. Even after winning this timearound, the AAP was talking of nation-building. But for now, Kejriwal must besatisfied with the landslide win in theDelhi Assembly polls. This is the sec-ond time the “Modi magic” did notwork in Delhi elections, that too just sixmonths after the BJP’s impressive 2019victory. The fight was between the AAPand the BJP with the Congress not any-where in the reckoning.

The BJP had gone all out to winback the State — as it had been in thepolitical wilderness in the Capital foralmost three decades now — bombard-ing the city with high-profile leaders.

So, what worked for Kejriwal thistime? The coup was that he did a “Modi

on Modi.” The BJP leader won the 2014elections on the promise of develop-ment and Kejriwal did the same in theDelhi polls.

To his credit, he delivered on thatpromise and after five years at the helmthe Chief Minister did not go to theDelhi voters empty-handed. He wasarmed with his welfare measures,including free water, cheap power,improved health services, better edu-cational facilities, doorstep delivery ofservices to the common man, free busrides for women, better street lighting,CCTVs and so on and sought votes onhis Government’s performance.Though Kejriwal’s critics alleged that hewas doling out sops with the taxpayers’money, his projection of the AAP as aparty that works for the poor went intheir favour.

Kejriwal also wisely kept himselfaway from the Shaheen Bagh contro-

versy, anti-CAA protests and hate pol-itics, though Muslims are part of hiscore voters.

Second, Kejriwal is nothing if nota quick learner. He realised his mistakesand changed his style of functioningafter the AAP’s humiliating defeat in theDelhi Municipal Corporation elec-tions in 2017. But the real change cameafter the AAP got a drubbing in the2019 Lok Sabha polls.

So Kejriwal attempted an imagemakeover and from the angry youngman in 2012, he transformed into a“vikas purush (development man).”The “muffler man,” Kejriwal discardedhis muffler and also projected himselfas a family man. The winning tactic wasthat Kejriwal preferred to fight for Delhistrictly on bread and butter issues. Also,he consciously stopped his confronta-tionist politics and surprised manywhen his party supported the con-

tentious Bills on the abrogation ofArticle 370 and bifurcation of Jammuand Kashmir in the Rajya Sabha. Healso welcomed the Supreme Court ver-dict on Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. Allthese have resulted in a better relation-ship between the Delhi Chief Ministerand the Prime Minister. Modi even sentKejriwal birthday greetings when thelatter turned 51.

Fourth, he scrupulously kept thepoll narrative to local issues while theBJP raked national and divisive issueswith motormouths giving hate speech-es and trying to vitiate the atmosphere.

Fifth, Kejriwal also abandoned hisconstant fight with Delhi’s Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) after the SupremeCourt ordered the L-G to work on the“aid and advice of the Council ofMinisters.” The constant court battles,too, have stopped.

Sixth, and more importantly, nei-

ther the Congress nor the BJP had anycredible leaders to match Kejriwal’sstature. The BJP was betting on theModi magic while the Congress wasinvoking the work of Sheila Dikshit.

In short, his victory was due to fourmain factors. First, Kejriwal was suc-cessful in making the people believe thathe merited another chance. Second,people saw him as a “doer” as comparedto his earlier image of a politicalupstart. Third, was the decline of theCongress and lack of any credible leaderin the BJP. Fourth he was successful innurturing of the “poor” as his con-stituency. He got credit for the regular-isation of illegal colonies and stayedaway from polarising politics. However,the AAP and its chief should remem-ber that there are many challengesahead if they want to move to thenational stage.

(The writer is a senior journalist)

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budgetary allocation for 2021fiscal for the strategic Indo-Pacific, which it said was partof its efforts to ensure that theregion remains free, open, andindependent of "malignChinese influence".

China has been trying tospread its influence in theresource-rich Indo-Pacificregion. To counter Beijing, theUS has been pushing for abroader role by India in thestrategically important region.

Beijing lays claim to hugeswathes of the sea in the SouthChina Sea where it has set upmilitary facilities and artificialislands.

The US has long accusedChina of bullying Vietnam,Taiwan, the Philippines,Malaysia and Brunei who havecontesting claims over the

South China Sea.The White House in its

budgetary proposal for thefinancial year 2021, beginningOctober 1, 2020, said, thefuture of the Indo-Pacific,which contains roughly half theworld's population and many ofthe fastest-growing economies,is critical to US security andlong-term economic interests."

"The Budget provides

USD1.5 billion for the Indo-Pacific, reflecting a strongAdministration commitmentto ensuring that the regionremains free, open, and inde-pendent of malign Chineseinfluence," it said.

This funding supportsdemocracy programmes,strengthens security coopera-tion, improves economic gov-ernance and facilitates private

sector-led economic growth,the White House said.

A total of USD 30 millionhas been included in the bud-get for the global engagementcentre dedicated to counteringforeign state and non-statepropaganda and disinforma-tion from China, it added.

The budget also providesUSD 0.8 billion for theInternational DevelopmentFinance Corporation (DFC)for private sector developmentinternationally to support cor-porate growth in less-devel-oped countries and to providea transparent, high-qualityalternative to "predatoryChinese international lending"in the Indo-Pacific and otherstrategic regions, it said.

In the budgetary proposals,the Pentagon alleged thatBeijing continued to violate thesovereignty of Indo-Pacificnations and expand its controlabroad under the pretense of

the Belt and Road infrastruc-ture investments.

According to the Pentagon,in the Indo-Pacific, theDepartment of Defense isstrengthening and evolving USpartnerships into a securityarchitecture that helps upholda "free and open" order.

"With India, DoD isexpanding military-to-militarycooperation and improvinginteroperability, including byestablishing a new tri-serviceamphibious exercise, TIGERTRIUMPH," the Pentagon said.

The US, India and severalother world powers have beentalking about the need toensure a free, open and thriv-ing Indo-Pacific in the back-drop of China flexing its mili-tary muscles in the region,which is a large swathe of landand sea stretching all the wayfrom the west coast of the US to the shores of eastAfrica.

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Gems and jewellery exportswitnessed a 8.45 per cent

decline in January to Rs21,146.59 crore as against Rs23,099.57 crore a year ago, theGem Jewellery ExportPromotion Council (GJEPC)said.

During April 2019 toJanuary 2020, exports declined4.78 per cent to Rs 2,16,076.06crore as compared with Rs2,26,933.91 crore during thefirst 10 months of 2018-19.

Similarly, export of cut andpolished diamonds (CPD)declined 4.92 per cent inJanuary to Rs 11,757.08 crorefrom Rs 12,365.89 crore in thesame month of 2019.

CPD exports in the first 10months of FY20 (April-January) dipped 16.04 per centto Rs 1,14,982.97 crore from Rs1,36,941.69 crore during April2018 to January 2019.

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Britain's economy saw zerogrowth in the final quarter

of last year as manufacturingshrank heading into the coun-try's general election thatunlocked Brexit, official datashowed on Tuesday.

"There was no growth inthe last quarter of 2019 asincreases in the services andconstruction sectors were off-set by another poor showingfrom manufacturing, particu-larly the motor industry," saidRob Kent-Smith at the Officefor National Statistics (ONS).

UK manufacturing con-tracted 0.8 percent in theOctober-December period, theONS said.

Britain finally departed the

European Union on January 31after Prime Minister BorisJohnson in December led theConservative party to victory innational polls.

"We've broken the dead-lock and left the EU -- now weneed to seize this moment tolevel up and prepare our greatnation for long-term success,"finance minister Sajid Javidsaid in a statement Tuesday fol-lowing release of the growthdata.

"In my budget, exactly onemonth from today, I'll set outhow we will move forward,with more ambition and newthinking, and empower ourpeople and businesses so every-one has the opportunity tothrive," Chancellor of theExchequer Javid said.

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The Income Tax departmenthas issued notices under

foreign black money law in 422cases involving undisclosedassets and income of over Rs12,600 crore till December2019, Parliament was informedon Tuesday.

Minister of State forFinance Anurag Singh Thakursaid the Income TaxDepartment has taken contin-uous and concerted actionsunder the Black Money(Undisclosed Foreign Income& Assets) and Imposition ofTax Act since it came into forceon July 1, 2015.

"As a result, as onDecember 31, 2019, noticeshave been issued in 422 cases

under this Act, involvingundisclosed foreign assets andincome of over Rs 12,600crore," he said in a written replyto the Rajya Sabha.

With regard to depositsmade in unreported foreignbank accounts in HSBC cases,

so far undisclosed income ofmore than Rs 8,460 crore hasbeen brought to tax and penal-ty of more than Rs 1,290 crorelevied. About 204 prosecutioncomplaints have been filed.

"Sustained investigationsconducted in the cases revealedby International Consortium ofInvestigative Journalists (ICIJ)have led to detection of morethan Rs 11,010 crore of creditsin the undisclosed foreignaccounts so far. About 99 pros-ecution complaints have beenfiled," Thakur said.

In the Panama Paper Leaksinvestigations, undisclosed for-eign investments amounting toover Rs 1,550 crore have beendetected. About 38 prosecutioncomplaints have been filed, headded.

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Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman on Tuesday said

the economy is not in troubleand green shoots are visiblewith the country movingtowards a USD 5 trillion econ-omy.

Listing initiatives taken bythe government, she said,increasing Foreign DirectInvestment (FDI), rise in fac-tory output and over Rs 1 lakhcrore GST collection in the pastthree months are indications of green shoots inthe economy.

"There are seven importantindicators which show thatthere are green shoots in theeconomy...Economy is not introuble," she said while reply-ing to a debate on the UnionBudget in Lok Sabha.

Referring to visible indi-cators of green shoots, theFinance Minister said the forexreserve is at an all time highand the stock market is upbeat.

"Global sentiment is infavour of India. Foreigninvestors continue to show

confidence in India and that iswhy the country has attracteda net FDI of USD 24.4 billionin April-November 2019-20 asagainst USD 21.2 billion in thesame period the previous year,"she said.

Net Foreign PortfolioInvestment (FPI) in April-November 2019-20 was posi-tive at USD 12.6 billion asagainst USD 8.7 billion in thesame period last fiscal.

She further said the grossGST (Goods and Services Tax)revenue collected in January2020 grew at 12 per cent whilein November 2019, it was 6 percent.

"So there is a steady growthand therefore negative growth,which it showed in Septemberand October, has been cor-rected and we are on a positivegrowth trajectory and this willobviously bring in greater andnewer investments to the econ-omy and it will also reduce thebusiness cost," she added

There are seven greenshoots based on which theeconomy now very clearlymoving forward, she added.

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Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman on Tuesday

sought to debunk claims of datafudging by the governmentand said the government wasnot hiding any numbers.

"No resources have beencut down for anybody but Iwish to assure all members whoparticipated during the dis-cussion that the government iskeen to work together witheverybody and we want theeconomy to gallop,"Sitharaman said replying to adebate on the Union Budget2020-21 in the Rajya Sabha.

Without naming Congressleader P Chidambaram, shetook on the former financeminister for his remarks thatthe chief of defence staff shouldstrongly protest against thereduced budget allocation fordefence sector and that hisparty would stand in his sup-port.

Talking about previousUPA government, Sitharamansaid "the entire defence min-istry was paralysed, the defenceof India was paralysed, they didnot have an equipment andlook at the way, bullet-proofdresses were not available".

"What about Rafale? Whydidn't they buy it?. So havingparalysed the defence of India,it is very odd that a formerminister wants the defenceministry to protest. I amshocked at the way in whichgovernance is being treated,"she said. In a marginal hike, thedefence budget was increasedto Rs 3.37 lakh crore for 2020-21 against last year's Rs 3.18lakh crore, notwithstandingexpectations of a significantlyhigher allocation to fast-tracklong-pending military mod-ernisation efforts.

Sitharaman had served asDefence Minister in the firstterm of the Modi government.

Speaking on allegationsand questions raised on thedata and account fudging bythe government, she high-lighted that between 2005-2006 and 2010-11, every yearthere was issuance of oil bonds.

"The total of oil bonds issuedwas �1.4 lakh crore or 1.9 percent of then GDP. Even today, weare paying annually �9,900 croreon these bonds as interest.

"Alright the governmentborrows and we have to payinterest. Understood.

Government's liability onoil subsidy is something wherewe all have to see when we aretalked down to fudging ofaccounts," Sitharamanexplained.

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The Indian smartphoneindustry, which relies heav-

ily on China for componentsand sub-assemblies, has start-ed feeling the impact of supplydisruptions in certain productcategories due to the coron-avirus outbreak, market watch-ers said on Tuesday.

The industry is keeping aclose watch to see if shutteredfactories in China reopen in thecoming days and suppliesresume sometime this week.

"Yes, the industry is alreadyfeeling the impact and someproducts and models have beenimpacted. It is still early to drawany conclusion as select facto-

ries are slated to resume pro-duction in a phased manner,"India Cellular and ElectronicsAssociation (ICEA) Chairman Pankaj Mohindrootold PTI.

He declined to commenton the specifics, but added, "weare in a wait-and-watch modethis entire week."

Industry watchers, howev-er, admitted that the situationon the ground is bad, as thesupply lines for smartphonespredominantly come fromChina. At the same time, theysaid the market itself is slowand demand sluggish.

When contacted, realme inan e-mailed response said itssupply chain has not been

affected for the time beingand that "there has been no sig-nificant effect in stocks/pro-duction for realme in India"during the said period.

"All realme smartphonessold in India are manufac-tured in India, with more than7500 local workforce and morethan 50 per cent local sup-plies...Due to objective rea-sons such as logistics obstruc-tion and delay in resumption ofwork caused by the epidemic,some supplies from Chinamight face slight delays but nomajor impact as of now isthere for our future productplans," it added.

The company said it isclosely monitoring the impact

on the smartphone industry.E-mail queries sent to

Xiaomi, Oppo, vivo and POCOon the impact on supplies wentunanswered.

Meanwhile, reports sug-gest that one of the large con-tract manufacturers and com-ponent suppliers has resumedoperations in one of its plantsin China, but is operating withonly a small fraction of itsworkforce.

The death toll in China'snovel coronavirus outbreakhas gone up to 1,016 with 108new fatalities reported mostlyin the worst-affected Hubeiprovince, while the confirmedcases of infection have soaredto 42,638.

Outside China, there havebeen more than 350 infectionsreported in almost 30 placeswith two deaths, one in thePhilippines and the other inHong Kong.

The coronavirus outbreakand its perceived risk has casta shadow on the upcomingMobile World Congress(MWC), the largest mobileevent and the industry's flagship annual con-gregation.

So far, heavyweights likeEricsson, Amazon, Sony andothers have said they are with-drawing from the event that isscheduled to take place inBarcelona from February 24-27.

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Facebook on Tuesdaylaunched its 'We Think

Digital' programme, underwhich the social media giantwill provide digital literacytraining to 1 lakh womenacross seven states, includingUttar Pradesh, West Bengaland Bihar.

"In partnership withNational Commission forWomen (NCW) and CyberPeace Foundation, the pro-gram aims to provide digital lit-eracy training to one lakhwomen across seven statesthrough the year," a statementsaid.

The programme will startwith the state of Uttar Pradeshand expand to other statesincluding Assam, West BengalMadhya Pradesh, Gujarat,Jharkhand and Bihar, it added.

We Think Digital,Facebook's global digital liter-acy programme, wasannounced in 2019 during thesecond edition of its South AsiaSafety Summit.

The training program hasbeen designed with a focus ondigital literacy and citizenship,addressing issues around pri-vacy, safety, and misinforma-tion.

"We believe that womenshould have equal access toeconomic opportunities, edu-cation and social connectionthat the internet provides.Working closely with expertsfrom across different walks oflife, we are constantly innovat-ing and designing activitiesthat will enable digital learningand change in the community,"Facebook India Director ofPublic Policy Ankhi Das said.

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Markets snapped their two-session slide to close with

smart gains on Tuesday, mir-roring optimism in the globalmarkets as investors wagered onlimited economic impact of thecoronavirus outbreak.

Led by gains in index heavy-weights RIL, ICICI Bank andHDFC, the 30-share BSE Sensexsettled 236.52 points, or 0.58 percent, higher at 41,216.14.Similarly, the broader NSE Niftyrose 76.40 points, or 0.64 percent, to 12,107.90. NTPC, MarutiSuzuki, SBI, PowerGrid, BajajAuto, UltraTech Cement andAxis Bank rose up to 2.95 percent. On the other hand, BhartiAirtel, Mahindra and Mahindra,Nestle India, TCS and SunPharma shed up to 0.75 per cent.Global markets rose as China re-opened for business after aforced extension to the LunarNew Year holiday because of thecoronavirus outbreak, which haskilled over 1,000 people and dis-rupted major global supplychains. Bourses in Shanghai,Hong Kong and Seoul settledwith significant gains. Japanesemarkets remained shut for a hol-iday. Stock exchanges in Europealso opened on a positive note.“Easing concerns over the coro-navirus issue after the drop infresh cases came as a breather for

markets. Since the full impact ofthe virus issue still remainsunknown the extended shut-down is expected to dent eco-nomic growth this quarter.

“We expect the domesticmarket to stay focused on the lastbatch of Q3 numbers and CPIinflation for the month ofJanuary. As per the consensus,inflation is expected to remainelevated confirming the recentaction by the central bank,” saidVinod Nair, Head of Research,Geojit Financial Services. BSEutilities, power, metal, bankex,energy, healthcare and consumerdurables indices rose up to 1.68per cent, while FMCG and tele-com closed in the red. BroaderBSE midcap rose 0.35 per cent,while smallcap index slipped 0.18per cent. Meanwhile, Brent crudeoil futures rose 1.58 per cent toUSD 54.11 per barrel. On thecurrency front, the Indian rupeedepreciated marginally to 71.30per US dollar (intra-day).

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The government will clarifyon use of concessional rail-

way land by Concor before thecountry’s largest containertrain operator is privatised, anofficial said on Tuesday. TheContainer Corporation ofIndia Ltd (Concor) has builtterminals to house containerson land leased from the IndianRailways on a per containerlicence fee basis. On the otherhand, terminals run by exist-ing private container trainoperators are built on land pur-chased from the market.

Also, Concor currently getsland from the Indian Railwaysat a concessional rate as com-pared to other inter-modaloperators, an arrangementwhich may have to be alteredonce the firm is privatised.Firms such as Adani Portsmay be interested in picking upstake in Concor but wouldlike clarity on the land use aswell as the concessionalarrangement the firm has withrailways for transportation ofcontainers. The Cabinet, inNovember last year, hadapproved strategic sale of 30.8per cent stake, along with man-agement control, in Concor outof the government equity of54.80 per cent. The govern-

ment will retain 24 per centstake post sell-off but withoutany veto powers. TheDepartment of Investment andPublic Asset Management(DIPAM) held roadshows forthe strategic sale of Concor inCanada and Singapore lastmonth during which investorshad raised queries on landusage post its strategic disin-vestment. “Investors haveraised queries on the land issueand asked to make very clearsubmission in what way theleased land, where the Concorhas established its stations,would be available going for-ward and what will be the pric-ing,” an official told PTI.

He said the Ministry ofRailways will clarify the poli-cy before the Expression ofInterest (EoI) inviting bid-ders is issued. “This is anissue that is to be resolved,” theofficial said. Shares of Concorclosed at Rs 574.35, up 0.25per cent on the BSE. At thecurrent market price, sale of30.8 per cent stake in Concorwould fetch the exchequerover Rs 30,000 crore. The gov-ernment has set a disinvest-ment target of Rs 1.20 lakhcrore in the next fiscal fromCPSEs, up from Rs 65,000crore in the revised estimatesof Budget this fiscal.

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outbreak in China is expectedto have a minimal impact onthe Indian ports it rates due tolow China-related throughputthey handle, ratings agencyMoody’s Investors Service saidon Tuesday. The agency, how-ever, said the outbreak is a“credit negative” for port oper-ators in Asia Pacific.

Over 800 people have diedsince the oubreak last month inChina. The World HealthOrganisation (WHO) hasdeclared it as a global emer-gency. The rating agency saidthe share of China-linked con-tainer cargo is less than 5 percent by volume for the Indianports it rates. Additioally, man-ufacturers will likely seek alter-native sources of supply forcomponents to the extent thatsupply chain disruptions inChina persist, it said.

Similarly, on the bulk han-dling side, Moody’s said thedomestic ports it rates handle“negligible” volumes linked toChina and are unlikely to beimpacted. The outbreak is cred-it negative for Asia-Pacific’sport operators as it is disrupt-ing domestic and global supplychains and lowering discre-tionary consumer spending,which will reduce the through-put growth of Asia-Pacific’sports in 2020, the agencyadded.

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The Centre has rejectedAndhra Pradesh govern-

ment’s proposal to release thepayment under PM-KISANscheme as a lumpsum amountinstead of installments,Agriculture Minister NarendraSingh Tomar informedParliament on Tuesday. UnderPM-KISAN, the central gov-ernment provides a payment ofRs 6,000 per year in threeequal installments of Rs 2,000to 14.5 crore farmers across thecountry.

In a written reply to the LokSabha, Tomar said the AndhraPradesh government under itsRythu Bharosa scheme pro-posed to give Rs 12,500 per yearto each farmer family inclusiveof a benefit of Rs 6,000 givenunder PM-KISAN. The stategovernment scheme also aimedto cover the tenant farmers.“State government had request-ed to release the paymentsunder PM-KISAN scheme as alumpsum amount instead ofpayments in installments. Therequest of Government ofAndhra Pradesh was notaccepted...,” he said. The state’sproposal was “not accepted”because PM-KISAN was meantto provide income support to allland holding farmers’ familiesin the country, subject to cer-tain exclusions.

An amount of Rs 2,000was paid in three equal install-ments to enable farmers take

care of expenses related toagriculture and allied activitiesas well as domestic needs so asto protect them from falling inthe clutches of moneylendersfor meeting such expenses andensure their continuance infarming activities, he added.The eligibility of farmers tojoin PM-KISAN is determinedby the respective state govern-ments on the basis ofOperational Guidelines of theScheme. As per the 2015-16agriculture census, there areabout 83.90 lakh landhold-ings in Andhra Pradesh. So far,54.45 lakh farmers have regis-tered under PM-KISAN, theUnion Minister said in a sep-arate reply. To those regis-tered between December 2018and March 31, 2019 in AndhraPradesh, the centre has paidthe first installment to 36.40lakh beneficiaries, secondinstallment to 34.11 lakh ben-eficiaries, third installment to33.78 lakh beneficiaries andfourth installment to 31.35lakh beneficiaries, he added.

To those registeredbetween April and July 2019 inthe state, the centre hasreleased first installment to7.92 lakh beneficiaries, secondinstallment to 7.64 lakh bene-ficiaries and third installmentto 7.35 lakh beneficiaries. Tothose registered between

August and November 2019,the centre has released the firstand second installment to onlyone beneficiary but to thoseregistered between December2019 and March 2020, thecentre has paid the first install-ment to 6.84 lakh beneficiariesof Andhra Pradesh, the min-ister added.

Sharing all India figures,Tomar said a total of 9.60crore farmer families acrossIndia have been successfullyregistered under PM-KISANas on February 6. Of this, 8.44crore beneficiaries havereceived benefits. Against thebudgetary allocation of Rs75,000 crore for this fiscal,funds amounting to Rs44,516.7 crore have been trans-ferred in the bank accounts ofbeneficiaries across the coun-try, he added. Tomar said PM-KISAN is a continuous andongoing scheme in which thefinancial benefits are trans-ferred to the bank accounts ofthe identified beneficiaries asand when their correct and ver-ified data is uploaded by theconcerned states on PM-Kisanweb-portal. The data of bene-ficiaries so uploaded by theconcerned states/union terri-tories undergoes a multi-levelverification and validation byvarious agencies concernedbefore making payment to thebeneficiaries. Hence, merelyregistration on the portal doesnot ensure benefit transfer tothe beneficiaries, he said.

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Script Open High Low LTPNAUKRI 3031.00 3060.00 2966.75 2997.20DIVISLAB 2092.00 2159.90 2090.60 2149.40IBULHSGFIN 326.40 360.90 326.40 345.00ICICIBANK 534.60 544.80 534.60 539.85RELIANCE 1445.75 1465.65 1445.05 1452.60COLPAL 1394.90 1394.90 1343.80 1348.10WOCKPHARMA 369.80 411.60 367.00 393.45TATASTEEL 446.25 457.15 442.85 444.25IEX 183.10 190.10 181.00 189.95TATAMOTORS 172.05 175.15 168.65 169.70SBIN 321.40 325.70 320.90 324.35DMART 2480.00 2480.00 2381.25 2394.65UJJIVAN 402.20 402.20 391.55 392.65SONATSOFTW 343.00 346.00 332.40 335.30YESBANK 37.95 38.10 36.70 36.85ZEEL 233.00 237.35 227.90 231.30MUTHOOTFIN 761.55 765.25 744.00 746.70HDFC 2424.00 2441.00 2421.05 2435.55ABBOTINDIA 14806.05 15099.00 14325.25 14464.90JINDALSTEL 197.05 202.40 195.30 196.35IDEA 5.07 5.15 4.75 4.87ITC 217.00 217.00 211.85 212.70PARAGMILK 121.90 121.90 97.75 100.20GODREJCP 634.95 636.45 614.75 615.55BAJFINANCE 4749.95 4785.15 4738.05 4749.20MARUTI 6969.00 7089.00 6919.20 7034.10BEML 960.00 991.80 926.80 967.10SIEMENS 1483.00 1521.25 1460.70 1495.90PEL 1585.00 1615.00 1551.20 1563.00NAM-INDIA 391.00 408.45 385.50 402.00POWERGRID 187.30 191.20 187.30 189.50HDFCBANK 1240.10 1255.30 1238.60 1240.05JSWSTEEL 279.00 293.35 279.00 288.75RBLBANK 333.00 346.85 333.00 340.20ASIANPAINT 1875.15 1894.00 1872.90 1877.15HDFCAMC 3323.00 3417.40 3315.05 3324.75GAIL 124.00 129.85 123.60 129.10INDUSINDBK 1292.00 1309.50 1285.30 1292.20AXISBANK 744.90 756.90 741.55 749.50SUNTV 483.50 512.50 483.50 503.85JUBLFOOD 1866.35 1870.95 1820.75 1825.25DLF 235.10 237.75 232.60 233.70TCS 2164.90 2174.00 2147.00 2151.65BHARATFORG 492.90 501.25 483.25 491.65TATAELXSI 1062.50 1086.90 1059.95 1081.85PIDILITIND 1585.25 1599.30 1574.30 1583.20M&M 536.00 537.20 522.85 524.40BHARTIARTL 538.60 544.85 532.85 534.45LT 1289.00 1299.00 1283.75 1286.95L&TFH 128.40 134.00 128.40 130.85HEROMOTOCO 2410.00 2441.80 2391.00 2397.15SRTRANSFIN 1240.00 1261.05 1206.50 1219.25STAR 500.05 519.80 497.45 509.45UPL 573.50 584.90 570.00 576.25HONAUT 34581.00 38850.00 33821.10 37890.00BIOCON 312.95 312.95 302.80 306.00ACC 1455.00 1470.30 1436.20 1438.55MOTHERSUMI 125.35 127.00 124.10 125.00INFY 776.20 779.25 769.75 773.80SUNPHARMA 423.60 424.60 416.70 418.40ESCORTS 871.00 882.40 863.15 865.60MCX 1236.95 1244.90 1202.00 1209.50ORIENTELEC 248.15 254.35 246.20 249.80TATAGLOBAL 398.00 399.00 389.15 390.50MINDACORP 113.35 113.35 108.00 110.00MRF 73500.00 73500.00 71204.30 71397.25HINDALCO 192.35 196.90 192.30 193.55COALINDIA 181.00 181.50 176.30 179.35BALKRISIND 1100.00 1148.80 1100.00 1136.60HINDUNILVR 2160.05 2179.00 2149.15 2152.80ULTRACEMCO 4440.00 4519.00 4434.50 4469.45KOTAKBANK 1678.15 1684.95 1668.35 1677.15VEDL 142.25 143.55 140.20 140.75DRREDDY 3150.00 3203.70 3134.95 3190.80NATIONALUM 42.45 43.20 40.85 40.95TITAN 1261.00 1279.00 1260.35 1271.00CIPLA 446.25 451.95 443.50 450.65BPCL 487.60 493.90 480.05 480.90GODREJPROP 1168.00 1169.90 1145.00 1149.95ADANIENT 245.20 248.50 243.75 245.15BAJAJFINSV 9646.00 9811.30 9646.00 9731.45WELCORP 223.00 233.70 220.55 222.40HEG 1249.45 1254.80 1165.00 1175.10CHOLAHLDNG 546.05 549.95 530.00 548.70EICHERMOT 19284.95 19350.95 18937.35 18981.05HINDPETRO 240.50 243.30 239.55 239.85PFIZER 4359.00 4361.95 4270.00 4300.00ADANIPOWER 60.30 60.95 59.45 60.10JUSTDIAL 505.10 514.15 500.70 504.95AUROPHARMA 543.05 551.45 537.90 548.15FORCEMOT 1370.00 1372.60 1295.10 1308.40NCC 50.45 50.45 47.85 48.05AUBANK 1137.90 1177.95 1117.00 1161.90BANDHANBNK 463.40 468.20 453.30 459.20NTPC 114.00 117.60 114.00 116.853MINDIA 24858.40 25208.70 22449.15 23028.15ONGC 107.45 107.55 106.30 106.65SAIL 46.50 47.30 45.50 45.70CGCL 210.50 223.50 204.30 218.55GRASIM 759.00 768.50 754.50 758.10BOMDYEING 94.00 94.70 90.10 90.75AMARAJABAT 776.95 780.75 758.00 762.10UNIONBANK 51.25 51.90 49.30 49.75GRAPHITE 320.00 321.05 306.10 306.90CANBK 188.85 191.50 186.80 187.55LICHSGFIN 435.00 441.75 432.15 433.80PETRONET 272.05 272.75 260.75 263.55

ASHOKLEY 83.00 84.45 82.60 82.85CANFINHOME 484.00 494.50 480.10 492.90HEXAWARE 381.20 381.20 372.05 375.25RECLTD 143.40 145.30 141.30 141.75JUBILANT 548.70 554.90 534.50 539.00DELTACORP 167.45 174.90 165.80 171.05IRB 113.95 117.00 104.85 110.60RAJESHEXPO 716.50 764.00 713.50 752.25MARICO 309.60 311.40 304.20 305.00BANKBARODA 91.00 91.60 90.00 90.30

TATACHEM 765.60 779.30 755.70 757.95GODREJIND 427.50 443.00 427.50 441.55BHEL 39.00 39.10 38.25 38.55BRITANNIA 3174.60 3199.65 3126.00 3134.85INOXLEISUR 447.90 486.00 446.10 469.45HDFCLIFE 590.95 594.45 576.00 583.60INDIGO 1401.10 1416.10 1384.25 1390.10VIPIND 507.55 519.00 498.05 506.95M&MFIN 395.00 403.00 390.05 391.25OIL 134.80 135.50 129.35 134.20IBREALEST 90.00 94.80 88.50 92.25DISHTV 12.15 12.80 12.02 12.07VOLTAS 689.00 705.60 681.05 683.05APOLLOHOSP 1670.00 1702.80 1670.00 1697.95SRF 4141.00 4194.00 4107.70 4158.60TRENT 695.00 715.00 669.65 676.60BEL 85.90 87.15 85.25 85.60AMBUJACEM 212.70 213.40 208.25 212.00GLENMARK 324.00 334.75 321.45 331.20BASF 995.00 1022.00 885.05 910.65AVANTI 630.55 638.70 604.40 609.65INDIANB 96.15 96.15 92.60 92.80LTI 1959.00 2008.80 1936.15 1995.50ABCAPITAL 93.60 97.40 93.40 94.40MANAPPURAM 171.95 171.95 165.20 165.60GNFC 197.00 197.95 188.00 189.70FSL 41.75 42.55 41.60 42.10BAJAJ-AUTO 3105.05 3151.50 3101.60 3146.30IOC 115.95 117.35 115.70 116.05ABFRL 263.00 275.50 260.30 272.75LAKSHVILAS 19.95 19.95 19.75 19.95RALLIS 230.65 246.00 230.00 239.75KTKBANK 75.00 75.35 74.35 75.10RAIN 112.35 113.80 110.85 113.05DABUR 514.50 516.70 508.00 508.65GALAXYSURF 1651.00 1790.00 1651.00 1702.10BERGEPAINT 586.00 589.70 580.65 582.80PFC 127.00 128.00 124.65 125.20VENKYS 1471.45 1477.25 1390.00 1405.35ADANIGREEN 215.00 217.35 208.15 211.20SOBHA 402.35 403.30 386.25 387.90LUPIN 701.75 709.75 699.00 704.90BATAINDIA 1825.00 1840.00 1794.00 1800.05EXIDEIND 179.30 180.95 176.55 177.30MGL 1193.00 1204.85 1168.65 1174.40RELAXO 758.00 799.75 754.40 782.55GLAXO 1305.80 1353.00 1280.00 1323.55NESTLEIND 16298.00 16318.45 15960.00 15995.00IDBI 36.65 37.70 36.40 37.00PNBHOUSING 431.40 437.70 422.00 423.95WIPRO 240.55 242.80 239.95 241.15PNB 57.60 58.00 56.75 56.95BAJAJELEC 439.45 459.60 424.60 430.25ADANIPORTS 371.80 378.35 370.00 374.35SPARC 200.50 200.90 190.00 191.15OMAXE 165.00 165.00 154.00 155.15HAVELLS 625.95 634.50 615.50 618.25LALPATHLAB 1626.90 1657.00 1600.00 1639.25INFIBEAM 58.35 59.15 57.50 57.70GICRE 253.80 255.50 234.60 235.90ASHOKA 109.50 111.50 104.00 104.40COCHINSHIP 351.10 358.20 345.00 349.70ALKEM 2624.80 2655.00 2606.00 2633.20HCLTECH 610.00 613.55 606.80 610.60TORNTPOWER 306.35 310.95 302.70 306.40JAICORPLTD 112.60 113.65 109.75 111.00FORTIS 164.00 164.00 155.45 160.10TORNTPHARM 2015.00 2054.95 2004.55 2014.90ICICIPRULI 485.00 490.45 474.10 482.05SBILIFE 956.20 958.00 936.70 939.45NIITTECH 1858.35 1880.00 1825.00 1829.50RAYMOND 651.25 651.25 623.90 631.10ITDC 345.00 345.00 315.50 317.70AJANTPHARM 1403.95 1424.00 1351.50 1385.50SUZLON 2.56 2.72 2.50 2.72INFRATEL 243.25 249.00 241.50 248.80BLUESTARCO 803.00 803.95 790.75 796.65INDIACEM 75.70 76.35 74.55 75.20

PIIND 1568.00 1578.00 1540.75 1552.65RPOWER 1.81 1.89 1.80 1.89NMDC 113.05 114.80 112.10 112.85TECHM 813.00 821.15 811.35 819.80AAVAS 1823.05 1900.00 1823.05 1889.25SPICEJET 91.00 91.30 90.25 90.60GODFRYPHLP 1375.00 1385.05 1336.20 1350.05DEEPAKFERT 104.00 110.75 103.20 106.85IDFCFIRSTB 41.25 41.90 41.25 41.50SWANENERGY 150.00 154.55 143.00 144.15IRCON 473.00 475.00 441.00 445.25EQUITAS 112.75 115.80 112.75 113.60DIXON 4600.00 4695.30 4600.00 4623.90TVSMOTOR 459.20 461.20 449.60 451.05DCBBANK 178.70 179.00 174.90 177.70CASTROLIND 144.35 147.20 142.60 146.40NOCIL 92.00 92.60 89.20 91.25SHILPAMED 416.00 437.85 416.00 437.85CARERATING 596.00 617.95 583.00 593.80BAJAJCON 214.95 214.95 201.15 204.50IGL 515.00 517.20 506.20 507.00CHENNPETRO 121.00 122.00 118.95 119.90NBCC 31.50 31.55 30.40 30.60WHIRLPOOL 2445.00 2445.00 2277.55 2290.30THYROCARE 605.80 637.00 594.00 609.40DCMSHRIRAM 365.00 367.20 360.10 363.90CADILAHC 279.90 279.90 273.10 274.60METROPOLIS 1626.00 1724.40 1605.55 1687.90RADICO 411.00 420.90 409.50 412.65MFSL 480.00 486.00 477.50 482.35CREDITACC 796.45 826.70 774.90 815.80PCJEWELLER 19.40 19.40 17.50 17.85PVR 2056.00 2056.00 2021.90 2043.05ADANIGAS 172.50 172.55 169.00 169.25TATAMTRDVR 70.45 72.60 70.10 70.35MINDTREE 923.30 931.20 916.00 927.45BALRAMCHIN 163.65 163.65 156.55 159.45GUJGAS 303.00 303.00 291.00 293.20REPCOHOME 329.95 340.05 326.25 329.55VBL 836.00 849.80 807.00 809.60BOSCHLTD 14193.55 14223.00 14100.00 14193.15CROMPTON 283.00 286.50 272.25 273.90DEEPAKNI 411.00 419.00 409.45 412.15ITI 85.95 89.15 84.20 85.95TV18BRDCST 26.55 27.80 26.15 27.30BBTC 1206.60 1210.00 1173.30 1177.50AMBER 1658.90 1667.90 1600.20 1605.65PAGEIND 24148.55 24200.00 23838.50 24115.20MRPL 43.05 43.20 42.50 42.65RCF 45.55 45.85 44.75 45.10SUNTECK 396.80 403.20 389.00 398.85SFL 1690.00 1770.00 1620.15 1644.65KALPATPOWR 459.90 462.35 408.00 416.60IDFC 36.00 36.10 35.50 35.60ISEC 470.00 484.95 468.35 477.70FRETAIL 343.20 362.80 342.00 353.75LAXMIMACH 3273.25 3313.00 3251.00 3255.10BLUEDART 2762.75 2815.00 2744.30 2770.35DBL 381.00 393.00 380.00 381.90HEIDELBERG 207.45 210.00 202.90 204.75JAMNAAUTO 44.35 44.90 42.55 43.10NATCOPHARM 720.00 723.85 702.30 716.20FINEORG 2469.90 2548.30 2400.00 2414.95FEDERALBNK 90.20 91.30 90.05 90.50TATAINVEST 1008.00 1025.00 973.45 982.45EDELWEISS 90.55 90.95 87.30 89.45JAGRAN* 69.00 69.05 68.15 68.15SCI 59.25 61.45 59.25 60.15SHREECEM 25095.00 25237.60 24701.60 24842.60MIDHANI 164.05 171.45 164.00 166.45GODREJAGRO 547.40 579.80 546.40 575.40ENGINERSIN 92.45 92.80 89.80 90.05APOLLOTYRE 164.90 164.90 160.70 161.25WELSPUNIND 44.40 45.45 43.90 45.05GRANULES 166.70 167.00 162.05 162.80JINDALSAW 86.00 87.35 85.05 85.15ICICIGI 1383.00 1385.35 1357.00 1368.25BLISSGVS 141.75 144.75 141.00 142.05VTL 1021.45 1035.00 1021.45 1028.10UBL 1295.50 1306.00 1270.20 1289.60ATUL 4974.90 5055.00 4929.35 5025.80MAHLIFE 408.20 408.20 396.00 403.05GICHSGFIN 148.65 149.00 143.00 144.55RAMCOCEM 791.10 799.00 777.00 780.45ASTRAZEN 2785.00 2789.15 2630.00 2649.05NHPC 24.30 24.40 23.75 24.00ARVINDFASN 358.15 384.35 351.00 382.15GMRINFRA 23.50 23.60 23.00 23.05CONCOR 573.20 581.80 572.90 574.35STRTECH 122.70 124.25 120.75 122.00RELCAPITAL 7.41 7.70 7.41 7.42LAURUSLABS 440.35 448.50 424.00 429.55POLYCAB 1053.80 1056.40 1035.70 1041.70NAVINFLUOR 1150.00 1150.00 1125.00 1130.20EIDPARRY 220.60 224.50 215.35 216.05TATAPOWER 57.90 57.90 56.70 57.65SYNDIBANK 24.35 25.75 23.90 24.25WESTLIFE 470.75 472.70 458.00 461.50SYMPHONY 1317.05 1324.95 1306.00 1316.20JMFINANCIL 115.00 117.30 114.20 115.05SUPREMEIND 1397.00 1400.00 1352.45 1394.10CAPPL 367.10 372.95 335.00 340.45CCL 235.90 248.85 235.05 248.00CUMMINSIND 550.00 557.05 544.50 546.05BAJAJHLDNG 3775.95 3857.20 3775.95 3827.95PHILIPCARB 129.80 129.80 126.40 126.60EMAMILTD 295.55 298.65 291.50 293.00PERSISTENT 701.65 701.65 685.25 700.30

RVNL 25.00 25.15 24.55 24.70KEC 350.95 351.50 342.00 343.10QUESS 599.00 606.90 566.00 579.05CHAMBLFERT 163.70 165.05 159.70 163.55SCHNEIDER 111.50 113.90 104.00 105.00BAYERCROP 4513.30 4530.00 4388.50 4442.30NH 351.60 364.65 350.55 353.20NILKAMAL 1426.65 1438.00 1390.50 1399.45CHOLAFIN 339.30 341.25 332.70 333.60VINATIORGA 1015.95 1032.10 1000.00 1003.75PRESTIGE 365.00 383.20 361.20 379.35CUB 230.60 231.10 227.00 230.15RELINFRA 20.70 21.20 20.20 20.60IIFL 184.00 191.60 183.30 189.50WABAG 219.65 220.25 214.65 215.60JBCHEPHARM 582.85 591.40 572.90 577.30IBULISL 108.95 112.20 106.10 111.90TVSSRICHAK 1780.00 1815.00 1666.10 1675.90PNCINFRA 197.50 200.35 192.80 198.30AEGISLOG 228.05 230.85 221.00 225.70BIRLACORPN 742.65 773.60 742.65 761.95IPCALAB 1253.55 1270.00 1241.20 1247.80TATACOFFEE 97.45 98.50 95.05 95.35DHFL 11.00 11.00 10.56 10.56NIACL 154.80 154.80 144.00 144.75BANKINDIA 64.75 65.45 64.05 64.35JKLAKSHMI 353.90 359.95 347.30 351.75ASTRAL 1220.25 1228.00 1200.70 1218.80INTELLECT 162.00 166.00 156.35 157.60ERIS 512.00 530.85 511.90 524.85CHALET 359.95 362.55 345.70 359.65MAXINDIA 92.00 93.15 87.75 89.35CESC 725.00 735.00 724.45 728.40GREAVESCOT 140.00 144.00 138.30 138.85HIMATSEIDE 114.00 115.85 103.80 104.55RITES 304.30 306.65 301.00 302.10JKCEMENT 1426.75 1430.00 1401.70 1418.00RESPONIND 90.00 90.00 87.15 89.00MOTILALOFS 794.05 797.00 782.15 790.40GSPL 244.10 244.10 239.95 242.00HSCL 63.90 64.50 61.35 61.55TIMKEN 958.10 989.00 955.00 985.55CEATLTD 994.60 997.95 979.00 981.05GET&D 164.05 164.45 156.50 159.20APLLTD 647.70 666.00 642.00 649.20HINDZINC 194.95 196.00 192.40 195.00OFSS 2954.95 2978.35 2883.90 2902.55HINDCOPPER 41.80 43.40 41.10 41.50COROMANDEL 616.60 618.00 605.20 608.10KEI 536.80 540.00 529.50 531.80SANOFI 6987.95 7005.00 6915.00 6962.50GSFC 80.90 81.20 77.35 77.70PHOENIXLTD 900.00 912.65 880.05 883.30AIAENG 1945.20 1962.65 1871.00 1889.05AKZOINDIA 2115.00 2178.00 2071.30 2171.60INDHOTEL 139.25 139.75 138.45 138.95UFLEX 234.15 237.35 226.00 227.80

SUDARSCHEM 473.40 477.50 464.35 466.55PGHL 4311.00 4459.00 4292.75 4357.15MASFIN 1148.00 1188.80 1146.00 1160.80ADANITRANS 339.95 339.95 331.35 337.35SOUTHBANK 10.00 10.12 10.00 10.04LEMONTREE 54.55 54.80 52.55 52.90VGUARD 209.20 211.35 203.50 207.25GARFIBRES 1569.40 1569.85 1467.50 1473.30APLAPOLLO 2104.50 2110.50 2028.05 2044.30CRISIL 1678.30 1678.30 1612.00 1619.70HFCL 16.40 16.95 16.40 16.90SHANKARA 510.00 520.10 510.00 520.10TIINDIA 534.90 534.90 503.65 518.85LTTS 1696.75 1701.90 1673.70 1693.25ITDCEM 65.00 65.45 60.25 61.00GUJALKALI 361.00 361.25 352.60 359.55DALBHARAT 904.80 906.10 884.40 895.85PGHH 11612.00 11727.25 11332.00 11455.55MEGH 59.65 59.90 57.40 57.70NESCO 774.20 777.05 755.10 758.35NETWORK18 29.95 30.50 28.40 30.50OBEROIRLTY 526.00 530.00 515.50 519.85VAIBHAVGBL 1115.05 1132.90 1078.45 1091.75IOB 9.68 9.83 9.67 9.77TRIDENT 5.96 6.01 5.86 5.90DHANUKA 526.20 532.40 504.70 527.50SJVN 25.90 25.90 24.90 25.10KRBL 284.95 295.05 284.65 292.00GPPL 88.70 90.00 83.20 83.85J&KBANK 22.55 22.90 21.05 21.20LUXIND 1495.00 1497.60 1483.00 1486.70HUDCO 38.90 38.90 37.00 37.20JKTYRE 73.95 74.00 71.60 72.20

MMTC 19.55 20.20 19.25 19.50REDINGTON 124.35 125.90 120.50 124.25IFCI 6.10 6.11 5.83 5.89SUNDRMFAST 472.75 472.75 457.50 466.60MINDAIND 376.40 384.55 370.25 381.40ESSELPRO 183.55 185.70 183.00 183.75JCHAC 2575.00 2648.00 2575.00 2633.25PRSMJOHNSN 67.35 67.90 65.65 66.15ADVENZYMES 179.20 180.00 173.10 173.85JSWENERGY 65.45 65.75 63.75 64.05TCIEXP 910.00 926.55 890.00 902.80GESHIP 315.00 323.40 313.70 321.70MPHASIS 934.00 937.20 908.00 912.75GHCL* 178.55 179.90 175.80 176.40FCONSUMER 22.05 22.50 21.90 22.15SHK 121.00 124.00 119.05 122.00VMART 2320.00 2338.00 2251.65 2273.10CORPBANK 24.50 24.50 23.40 23.45GILLETTE 6382.55 6403.75 6375.00 6390.30BALMLAWRIE 115.60 116.30 114.10 114.30KANSAINER 503.10 505.85 494.00 495.95KAJARIACER 544.50 547.25 537.25 544.05KNRCON 280.60 284.00 277.70 278.25ENDURANCE 1051.00 1082.55 1031.60 1070.25FINCABLES 381.65 393.20 380.25 391.25FDC 258.40 258.85 248.05 249.90ALBK 16.60 16.80 16.25 16.35HAL 784.75 784.75 764.40 767.20JISLJALEQS 6.96 7.16 6.93 7.03MHRIL 229.90 231.20 226.40 227.50BDL 295.55 296.00 288.15 289.50VSTIND 4490.00 4490.00 4306.05 4348.65TNPL 182.20 182.20 177.25 178.15THERMAX 1018.00 1022.00 989.15 1014.85NLCINDIA 55.60 55.60 54.40 54.95ORIENTBANK 47.90 48.30 47.35 47.50MAHINDCIE 172.40 172.40 169.55 170.40ASTERDM 166.35 168.50 164.20 167.20RATNAMANI 1288.85 1289.75 1260.00 1279.80DCAL* 100.45 100.45 100.45 100.45GRINDWELL 640.10 650.40 639.55 642.30GEPIL 816.40 820.55 772.00 779.00TATAMETALI 612.30 612.30 599.00 602.70LAOPALA 194.55 194.90 191.50 193.80CERA 2456.85 2493.00 2455.00 2466.85TAKE 93.75 96.75 93.10 93.85MOIL 150.10 153.75 149.50 152.10CYIENT 471.90 479.15 470.45 471.75JSLHISAR 75.50 76.40 74.80 75.15NBVENTURES 72.35 72.45 69.65 70.55TVTODAY 242.25 243.85 238.50 239.85SYNGENE 314.70 314.70 305.60 308.05PTC 55.25 55.40 54.50 54.75JSL 41.60 42.40 41.20 41.35FINOLEXIND 553.95 553.95 543.00 545.60TEAMLEASE 2400.00 2405.00 2306.05 2340.15INOXWIND 37.25 39.00 37.10 37.45MAHSCOOTER 4600.00 4650.00 4600.00 4622.25GSKCONS 9300.00 9370.90 9224.55 9224.55INDOSTAR 286.00 287.80 280.40 285.60MAHLOG 405.95 409.55 391.75 394.10ZYDUSWELL 1466.00 1477.90 1459.70 1470.40SKFINDIA 2100.00 2100.00 2002.45 2011.05ANDHRABANK 15.55 16.30 15.55 15.85IFBIND 543.90 543.90 531.00 536.85JYOTHYLAB 145.60 146.35 142.55 143.30VRLLOG 264.70 268.00 263.00 263.05ALLCARGO 114.20 114.20 110.80 111.00WABCOINDIA 6780.95 6816.40 6735.35 6809.80ZENSARTECH 156.55 158.65 155.20 155.75GDL 124.95 126.25 123.85 124.85BRIGADE 239.15 239.15 229.25 231.85LINDEINDIA 749.35 749.75 731.75 734.75SUPRAJIT 201.10 201.10 192.40 194.45SOMANYCERA 224.10 230.05 220.95 222.45TEJASNET 80.00 80.55 75.10 75.85HATHWAY 18.90 19.05 18.85 18.95ECLERX 621.80 627.00 614.00 617.30SADBHAV 117.65 117.65 112.50 113.60EIHOTEL 148.10 151.25 142.85 144.35GMDCLTD 60.45 61.20 59.50 59.70SOLARINDS 1277.50 1278.40 1227.00 1233.80TTKPRESTIG 5745.80 5842.95 5730.00 5802.95GULFOILLUB 801.70 818.15 796.95 810.35KPITTECH 99.25 99.25 94.20 94.95UCOBANK 15.00 15.15 14.95 14.95CENTRALBK 17.75 18.00 17.65 17.70CARBORUNIV 334.90 339.00 334.00 337.10CENTURYPLY 169.00 169.00 164.65 166.15VARROC 426.50 431.45 415.00 420.25SHOPERSTOP 388.60 394.55 388.00 393.60TIMETECHNO 52.80 53.00 52.15 52.45SCHAEFFLER 4702.20 4716.00 4600.00 4638.10MAGMA 56.90 58.20 56.00 56.15SIS 559.00 560.00 545.20 549.60ORIENTCEM 81.10 81.35 80.05 80.50UNITEDBNK 8.57 8.63 8.50 8.51DBCORP 130.00 130.55 128.75 129.20HERITGFOOD 345.50 345.60 339.15 340.55MAHABANK 12.35 12.35 12.19 12.26STARCEMENT 88.00 88.60 88.00 88.00MAHSEAMLES 370.45 370.60 367.60 368.15KPRMILL 647.90 656.65 638.70 640.85SHRIRAMCIT 1455.00 1469.30 1441.50 1442.50CENTRUM 21.50 21.50 20.75 21.00TCNSBRANDS 585.50 587.20 570.40 575.30FLFL 399.85 402.00 393.35 395.40GAYAPROJ 36.05 36.05 36.05 36.05

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Global efforts to contain thecoronavirus outbreak

intensified on Tuesday with ateam of WHO experts holdingin-depth exchanges with spe-cialists here, as the death tollfrom the deadly infection inChina crossed 1,000 while theconfirmed cases rose to 42,708.

The World HealthOrganisation convened a meet-ing in Geneva on Tuesday tofast-track promising tests,drugs and vaccines to helpslow the outbreak that hasspread to over 20 countries,including India.

The death toll on Mondayrose to 1,017 with confirmedcases totalling to 42,708 inChina. The confirmed casesabroad have gone up to 390,health officials here said.

A 15-member advanceteam of the WHO specialistsled by Bruce Aylward, a veter-an of past public health emer-gencies which arrived here onMonday night, began consul-tations with their Chinesecounterparts on Tuesday.

They will join with Chineseexperts to conduct in-depthexchanges on the situation andepidemic prevention and con-trol, China’s HealthCommission spokesman MiFeng said.

“We welcome experts fromall countries, including theUnited States, to participate in

the team of experts. We believethat after consultation andcommunication, we can make appropriate arrange-ments for the joint team inChina,” he said.

Some 400 scientists will bemeeting on February 11-12 inGeneva to discuss all aspects ofthe virus, the WHOannounced. “On 11-12February, WHO is conveninga global research and innova-tion forum to mobilise inter-national action, and identifyknowledge gaps and researchpriorities to contribute to thecontrol of #2019nCoV,” aWHO tweet said.

This is the biggest gather-ing of specialists to evaluate the

coronavirus which surfaced inDecember last year andwreaked havoc in China.

The Chinese Governmenthas sealed 18 cities with over 50million people in the virus-hitHubei province including itsprovincial capital Wuhan toprevent its spread.

Michael Ryan, executivedirector of the WHO told themedia in Geneva that it isimportant to have risk man-agement procedures associatedwith the virus are worked outat the earliest.

“You can’t shut the worldeither and normal activity mustgo on,” he said. The two-dayforum in Geneva will try towork out a roadmap to deal with

the coronavirus in China andaround the world. This includesthe development of medicationand vaccines, state run CGTNTV reported on Tuesday.

The world’s leading expertswill bring together all theirexpertise from around the globeto focus their attention on how

best to try and defeat the coro-navirus, the report said.

They will examine issueslike how to fill the knowledgegaps of virus, focus their dis-cussions on specifics like howit is transmitted in particular.Most crucial is to developmedicine in particular and a

vaccine to contain it. Meanwhile, the Chinese

Government has removed sev-eral senior officials in Wuhan,the epicentre of the epidemic,for their mishandling of thecoronavirus outbreak.

Those sacked included theparty secretary for the Hubei

Health Commission, and thehead of the commission, offi-cial media reported.

Last week, three Chineseofficials of the Red Cross Societyin Hubei province were punishedfor improperly dealing withdonations for the preventionand control of the epidemic.

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The new coronavirus thathas killed over 1,000 peo-

ple in China and sickenedmore than 43,000 others glob-ally has been named ‘COVID-19’, the World HealthOrganisation said on Tuesday.

“We had to find a namethat did not refer to a geo-graphical location, an ani-mal, an individual or group ofpeople, and which is also pro-nounceable and related to thedisease,” WHO Director-General Tedros AdhanomGhebreyesus was quoted bythe official Chinese media assaying at a media conferencein Geneva on Tuesday.

The CO stands for coro-

na, the VI for virus and the Dfor disease, Tedros AdhanomGhebreyesus, director-gener-al of WHO, announcedTuesday at a news conferenceat the agency’s headquarters inGeneva.

The death toll from thevirus in China on Monday roseto 1,017 with confirmed casestotalling to 42,708, Chinesehealth officials said onMonday. The confirmed casesabroad have gone up to 390.“Having a name matters to pre-vent the use of other namesthat can be inaccurate or stig-matising. It also gives us a stan-dard format to use for anyfuture coronavirus outbreaks,”state-run People’s Daily quot-ed Dr Tedros as saying.

Bangkok: Thai health author-ities have barred a cruise shipfrom docking that has alreadybeen turned away by thePhilippines, Taiwan and Japanout of concern over a newvirus, although no cases havebeen confirmed on board.

The chief of theDepartment of DiseaseControl, SuwanchaiWattanayingcharoenchai, saidTuesday that the Public HealthMinistry had rejected arequest from the crew of theMS Westerdam to dock atLaem Chabang in easternThailand.

He said the ministry willfurther consider how to dealwith the ship’s situation. Itbegan its cruise on Jan. 16 in

Singapore. ShipownerHolland America Line saysthere are no known cases ofthe virus on board.

The virus has causedproblems for the cruise indus-try. Japan’s health ministryhas confirmed 135 cases of thedisease aboard CarnivalCorp.’s Diamond Princess,which is docked in Yokohama,Japan. The ship’s 3,700 pas-sengers and crew are expect-ed to remain under quaran-tine until at least Feb. 19.

Thai Public HealthMinister AnutinCharnvirakulhad indicatedon his Facebook page severalhours before the officialannouncement that the shipwould be denied entry. AP

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At least 15 women and chil-dren drowned and more

than 50 others were missingafter a boat overloaded withRohingya refugees sank offsouthern Bangladesh as it triedto reach Malaysia on Tuesday,officials said.

Some 138 people — main-ly women and children — werepacked on a trawler barely 13metres (40 feet) long, trying tocross the Bay of Bengal, a coastguard spokesman told AFP.

“It sank because of over-loading. The boat was meant tocarry maximum 50 people.The boat was also loaded withsome cargo,” another coast

guard spokesman, HamidulIslam, added.

Seventy-one people havebeen rescued including 46women. Among the dead, 11were women and the rest chil-dren. Anwara Begum said twoof her sons, aged six and seven,drowned in the tragedy. “Wewere four of us in the boat...Another child (son, aged 10) isvery sick,” the 40-year-old toldAFP. Fishermen tipped off thecoast guard after they saw sur-vivors swimming and cryingfor help in the sea.

The boat’s keel hit anundersea coral in shallow wateroff Saint Martin’s island,Bangladesh’s southernmost ter-ritory, before it sank, survivors

said. “We swam in the seabefore boats came and rescuedus,” said survivor MohammadHossain, 20.

Coast guard commanderSohel Rana said three survivors,including a Bangladeshi, weredetained over human traffick-ing allegations. Nearly one mil-lion Rohingya live in squalidcamps near Bangladesh’s borderwith Myanmar, many fleeing theneighbouring country after a2017 brutal military crackdown.

With few opportunities forjobs and education in thecamps, thousands have tried toreach other countries likeMalaysia and Thailand byattempting the hazardous2,000-kilometre journey.

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Pompeo said technologyinvolved in space launch was“virtually identical” to knowhowfor a long-range ballistic missile.“Each launch, whether failed ornot, further allows Iran to gainexperience using such tech-nologies that could benefit itsmissile programmes under theguise of a peaceful space pro-gramme,” Pompeo said in astatement. AFP

Cairo: A top Sudanese officialsaid on Tuesday the country’stransitional authorities andrebel groups have agreed tohand over former autocraticpresident Omar al-Bashir to theInternational Criminal Courtfor war crimes, including masskillings in Darfur.

Al-Bashir, who was over-thrown by the military last yearamid a public uprising, is want-ed by the ICC on charges ofcrimes against humanity andgenocide related to the Darfur

conflict. Since his ouster inApril, he has been in jail inSudan’s capital, Khartoum, oncharges of corruption andkilling protesters.

Mohammed Hassan al-Taishi, a member of theSovereign Council and aGovernment negotiator, saidthe council agreed with rebel groups in Darfur to handover those wanted by theInternational Criminal Court to face justice in TheHague. AP

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In a massive breach, an elec-tion app named Elector in use

by Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu’s Likudparty exposed sensitive per-sonal data — including identi-ty card numbers, full names andaddresses of the country’s entirenational voting registration ofabout 6.5 million citizens.

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ment Monday night that it hadopened a probe into the actionsof multiple parties involved inLikud’s leak of the personalinformation of close to 6.5 mil-lion Israeli voters, The JerusalemPost reported on Monday.

The statement said theauthority would probe both theLikud officials responsible andthird parties hired by the party,who had obligations to protectthe personal data, the reportadded.

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The School of Law, Sharda Universityconvened a seminar on January 31,

2020 on Women Empowerment & Socio-Legal Challenges in 21st Century. Theseminar commenced with the inaugur-al addresses of Dipak Misra, former ChiefJustice and other dignitaries.

The inaugural session was the high-light of the event, with noted speakersfrom the legal fraternity as well as the uni-versity’s top brass. Dean, School of LawProf Pradeep Kulshreshtha proved theperfect host as he spoke very high aboutthe Chief Guest.

Misra dwelled at length as a verita-ble pioneer of women’s rights and led the

discussion with his ideals of equality. Heemphasised that the rights of the citizensparticularly women are natural rights,recognised by the Constitution andemphasised on its importance in the 21stCentury.

He also dwelled on the doctrine ofnaturalness and principle of universalismwhile highlighting the leading judg-ments of Apex Court. As always, thespeech was peppered with his charac-teristic humour which reeled in thespellbound audience.

Dr Justice Satish Chandra, formerJudge of the Allahabad High Court, alsogave his two cents on the issue, drawingfrom his experience of being a witness tothe myriad changes in law.

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The Xavier School ofManagement has successfully

achieved 100 per cent placementsfor the outgoing batch of 2018-20 ofits flagship programmes: Two-yearPostgraduate Diploma inManagement — Human ResourceManagement and two-yearPostgraduate Diploma inManagement — BusinessManagement with all 359 candidatessecuring offers through the finalrecruitment process within twodays.

The Final Recruitment process

saw participation from 108recruiters with 362 domestic andinternational offers, inclusive of 24new finals recruiters.

Fr P Christie SJ , Director, XLRI— Xavier School of Managementcommented: “We are happy toannounce that this year’s placementseason has once again witnessedremarkable success in spite of thelongish economic slowdown.Interest in XLRI’s students has beentremendous, with top companiescoming for recruitment. Weattribute the excellent placementsthis year as an affirmation by theindustry of the high-standard of

management-centric education thatwe strive to deliver to our students.”

The median salary offered to thebatch saw an increase to �23 lakhper annum from �21 lakh perannum in 2019.

Multiple domestic offers at �50lakh per annum were from the BFSIsector. The highest internationaloffer stood at �58.5 lakhs per annumfrom the S&M domain

The top segments based onroles offered were Consulting, Sales& Marketing and BFSI. KPMG andPricewaterhouse Coopers made thehighest number of offers. Therewere 24 new recruiters this time.

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ment cell of SRM Arts andScience College,Kattankulathur has organisedentrepreneurial event CannyBazaar 2020 on February 6 andFebruary 7, 2020 at the Collegepremises. The inaugural func-tion of the event was held onFebruary 6, 2020. The stu-dents who have showed inter-est to become an entrepreneuractively participated in theevent and put up 12 stalls withtheir products ranging fromstationery, edible items tohandmade gifts.

The event was aimed to

provide a perfect platform forthe students to teach andinculcate the entrepreneurialand marketing skills.

Thadesh Munusamy,Cluster Head — RelianceTrends, Southern Region wasthe Chief Guest. He shared hisexperience and encouragedthe students to develop theirsocial and marketing skills tobecome a successfulEntrepreneur. Dr TP Ganesan,Pro-Vice Chancellor, SRM ISTand Dr K Subburam, Director(Academics), SRM Arts andScience College felicitated theevent.

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Hospitality in collaborationwith At-Sunrice GlobalChefAcademy, Singapore, invitesapplications for admissionsto its Diploma in Pastry &Bakery and Diploma inCulinary Arts.

Duration: One and a halfyear of which nine monthstraining in India and ninemonths in Singapore (inclu-sive of six months paid indus-trial training).

Eligibility: Applicantswho have completed ClassXII or equivalent, graduates,professionals and PG studentswho are planning to changecareer or venture in the excit-ing world of bakery or culi-nary art are eligible to applyfor this course.

Also, students with IELTS5.5 / TOEFL 46-59 / WPLNLevel 5 or at least 75 per centin English in XII standardexams can apply.

How to apply: Log on tohttp:// ish.edu.in/how-to-apply.html.

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Art and Design (IIAD) in col-laboration with Kingston

School of Art, Londoninvites applications for admis-sions to its undergraduateprogrammes in FashionDesign, Fashion BusinessM a n a g e m e n t ,Communication Design andInterior Architecture &Design.

It also offers postgraduateprogrammes in FashionDesign and Fashion BusinessManagement.

The Institute offers theseprogrammes through its cre-ative studio-based educationand strives to groom the nextgeneration of designers anddesign thinkers at its state-of-the-art campus in New Delhi.

Admission process: IIADentrance test

Exam date: April 26, 2020How to apply: Log on to

www.iiad.edu.in or contact+91 98713 83633, +91 11 41380000.

Shiksha, a part of InfoEdge Limited recently

conducted a survey onMBA aspirants and rollsout the survey report titledMBA Outlook 2020 thattouches every aspect of thestudents who want to pur-sue a post-graduationdegree in management.The study rightly identifiesthe changing trends, factorsand mindset of MBA aspi-rants and the parametersthat play a crucial role inthe col lege selectionprocess.

MBA Outlook 2020, astudy on and for MBA stu-dents conducted by Shiksha,highlights 10 different facets.These are:

Popular MBA entranceexams across regions:According to the report,XAT, IIFT, CMAT, NMAT,SNAP and UPSEE are pop-ular entrance exams apartfrom CAT and MAT in theNorth.

CAT and MAH-CETare the most popularentrance exams in West fol-lowed by CMAT, SNAP,NMAT and MAT. On theother hand, MAT is morepopular than CAT in easternIndia followed by IIFT,

IBSAT, SNAP, NMAT,TISS-NET and OJEE.

Average count of MBAentrance exams given bystudents across regions inIndia: The data shows 86per cent of the students inSouth enrol for two or fewerMBA entrance examswhereas this average standsat 69 per cent in North andCentral India. In West andEast of India, as many as 85per cent students enrol foronly three or fewer MBAentrance exams. The per-centage of students, whoenrol for four or moreentrance exams, is the high-est in Central India at 23 percent followed by West, Eastand North with an averageof 14 per cent. In SouthIndia, there are only 5 percent such students.

College location pref-erence (region-wise) forMBA students in India:Over 75 per cent of the stu-dents from South and Westwant to study in theirrespective regions, thereport says. However, thereare only 25 per cent suchstudents in Central and East.Students from all acrossIndia except those from theCentral and Eastern regions

are least interested in study-ing MBA from Central andEastern regions.

Cities preferred by stu-dents to study MBA inIndia: The report shows 70per cent of the studentsfrom West India want tostudy in more than 400MBA colleges located atMumbai, Pune andAhmedabad. The majorityof the students from EastIndia are more interested inlarge cities such asBengaluru, Delhi, Pune andKolkata. Only 22 per cent ofthe students from East wantto study in their own region.

Information mostwanted by aspirants whileresearching for MBA col-leges in India: According tothe study, authentic or ver-ified college reviews givenby students and collegerankings published by cred-ible sources are considerednecessary information bystudents while researching,followed by placement, fees&scholarship, admissionrequirements, programmesoffered and alumni successstories. Questions andanswers related to collegesare also considered impor-tant by students in some

regions.MBA specialisation

preferred by aspirantsbefore taking admissionin college: Marketing has ahigher preference in Westand East India whereasFinance is more popular inNorth, Central and SouthIndia. Only 10 per cent ofthe students in North Indiaprefer International Businessas their MBA specialisa-tion.

Of all the MBA special-isations Business Analytics& Digital Marketing aregaining swift popularityamong the students.

Top representatives ofa college that students wantto interact with for admis-sion related information:Aspirants prefer to interactwith current students ofcolleges to get more infor-mation and resolve theirdoubts and confusion, thereport unveils. Collegesshould focus on the inter-action of their current stu-dents with prospective stu-dents for better engagementand higher conversions.

Top concerns of stu-dents before taking admis-sion in a college in a par-ticular region: Shiksha sur-

vey 2020 shows, Collegereputation and accredita-tion is by far the mostimportant concern of thestudents across India.Financial concerns are thesecond most important cri-terion for the students acrossIndia except North, Centraland South, where skill learn-ing and student develop-ment become a larger con-cern. Most of these concernsare evenly spread acrossregions. Concerns such asdiscrimination, poor infraand student diversity are ofleast importance acrossregions in India except forNorth and South.

Top value-ads that stu-dents are looking for froma college before decidingon admission: A corporateexposure/projects and skilldevelopment programmesare prominent value-ads forthe students from Northand East. Colleges can usethem as a marketing propo-sition to influence students’decisions.

Work-experience whilestudying, practical classesand new & advanced equip-ment are emerging value-ads for the students fromCentral India.

Starting an entrepreneurial jour-ney is exciting. Individuals whoembark on such journeys are usu-

ally ambitious, motivated, and have avision. Today, it is easier than ever tobe an entrepreneur because many newtechnologies make managing a busi-ness simpler. While the element of riskthat comes with starting a businessremains; it is easier to manage usingtechnologies like artificial intelligenceand cloud telephony.

To remain competitive most busi-nesses use AI and cloud telephony. Tostay competitive new businesses mustadopt them too. Both technologiesconfer advantages to companies thatuse them; some such benefits are asfollow.

EASY TO SET-UPAn advantage of using cloud tele-

phony instead of PBX and EPBAXlines is that the former can be set upin less than a day, often in a matter ofhours. A PBX or EPBAX line, on theother hand, may take days to becomeoperational. In the competitive worldof business, it is essential to deliver ser-vices as quickly as possible; thismakes cloud telephony a vital tech-nology for businesses.

There are other advantages ofusing cloud telephony too. Everyoneknows that traditional phone lines areprone to becoming inoperative dur-ing bad weather. For entrepreneurs,not hearing a dial tone when theyneed to make an urgent call is frus-trating. Because entrepreneurs valueefficiency and time, they recognisecloud telephony as an ideal commu-nication technology. A cloud tele-phony system never fails even in theharshest weather.

In addition to failure during badweather, traditional PBX and EPBAXlines are prone to crash for a varietyof other reasons. Hence the reliabili-ty of cloud telephony systems is animportant reason why entrepreneursadopt them.

GROWS WITH BUSINESSESEntrepreneurs who use PBX and

EPBAX lines must change their busi-nesses phone number when theymove to new premises. A unique busi-ness number every few years dimin-ishes an enterprises image. Customersand vendors may view it as unreliable.Also, customers who don’t have itsnew number may not be able to buyits products and services.

The problem of having to changephone numbers when relocating is notan issue with cloud telephony. Abusiness that uses cloud telephonydoesn’t need to change its phone

numbers when it moves to newoffices. It may change offices as manytimes as necessary and still use thenumber it had in its first location.Businesses that have the same phonenumber they did when they openedenjoy greater trust.

Another even more significantadvantage of using cloud telephony isthe system can be effortlessly scaledup or down. As a business’ require-ments grow its cloud telephony sys-tem matches them. When a business’employee strength grows from ten toone hundred its infrastructure require-ments change. It needs more tele-phone numbers and lines to accom-modate the larger workforce. Cloudtelephony is an ideal technologybecause growing business can quick-ly increase the number of their tele-phone lines.

Because cloud telephony can bescaled rapidly, businesses can increasethe number of lines they use whenthey expect a surge in call volumes.When call volumes taper, they can eas-ily use fewer lines. Rapid scalabilitysuch as this offers enormous advan-tages to businesses. Business canquickly buy subscriptions to match anincrease in demand and vice-versa.

AI GIVES AN EDGEA cloud telephony system stores

data on the cloud where sophisticat-ed artificial intelligence algorithms cananalyse it. AIs ability to analyse andglean insights from data stored on thecloud gives businesses that use cloudtelephony an advantage. AI is becom-ing more intelligent every month,making its predictions about futureevents highly accurate.

For instance, a company thatuses a cloud telephony system mayfind the system alerts an agent that anincoming call is from someone angryat his employer. It may also make use-ful suggestions to help placate suchcallers. AI can’t replace agents, but asit grows more powerful, it can makethe agents better at their jobs.

In addition to alerting agentsabout callers’ temperament, AI caninform entrepreneurs about theircustomers’ intents. AI is intelligentenough to predict with a high rate ofprobability which customers are con-sidering ending their relationshipwith the business.

By bringing to the attention ofentrepreneurs those customers whoare considering ending their rela-tionship with a company, AI gives

time to act and win back trust. Most entrepreneurs today under-

stand that using a cloud telephony sys-tem is important for their business tosucceed. They like the flexibility ofbeing able to scale the system as theirorganisation grows and cancellingsubscriptions when needed.

AI is transforming business andplays a central role in cloud telepho-ny. Entrepreneurs want to use AI tomanage their enterprise; cloud tele-phony lets them do so. The predictiveability of AI, when deployed amongdozens of employees, adds consider-able value to a business; entrepreneursrecognise this.

People driven by the zeal to suc-ceed on entrepreneurial journeys andhave fun along the way know sometechnologies help do both. Cloud tele-phony is considered a valuable tool byyoung entrepreneurs because most ofthem know innovative technologiesare critical drivers of success. Suchentrepreneurs are digital natives whorecognise that adopting technology inbusinesses increases productivity.They are comfortable with technolo-gy and understand its potential.

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Alittle stress can be a good thing: Itcan be that motivational push thatwe need to get things done. After

months of attending lectures in schools,coaching classes, submitting differentassignments and attempting to readaround your subjects, exam season isfinally here. With it comes hours ofexhaustive study and revision, which canbe a difficult thing to manage. Panickingbefore, during or even after an exam iscommon among students.

Remember that there is usually arational solution to every problem, evenif you can’t see it at first glance.The ear-lier you start, the more prepared you willbe. Starting early allows you someextended time to learn and revise thecontents. As rote learning is just noteffective for everyone and will only cre-ate more stress.

Plan your revision to utilise the timeswhen you think you are at the peak ofyour productivity levels. Setting realis-tic or practical goals, whether you haveseveral weeks, days or hours before yourexam, helps you to put everything intoperspective - acceptance of your situa-tion and working within the realms ofwhat all you have maximises your out-put.

Below are tips that can help:� Devote at least one hour to one sub-ject.� Inform your parents that you aregoing to study and not to disturb mean-while.� Focus on past examination questionsto understand the perfect nature of theexam. Generally, eighty per cent ofpaper comes from past examinationquestions.� Give your best without thinking rest.Do as much as you can then prey theGod to fill in the blank.� Take the blessings of parents andtouch their feet every morning.� Before starting studies, rememberAlmighty for at least five minutes and askfor the strength to complete your targets.

Research says that revising withpeers is an effective study technique asit allows individuals to better absorb theirsubject. Ask a friend or your parents forhelp. Asking for help is never shameful.Sometimes it may be useful to havesomeone hear you summarise points or

to practise an oral presentation.Stress and sleep have a two-way rela-

tionship. Effective time managementincludes getting enough rest and goodsleep, which leaves you feeling moreenergised so that you’re able to focuswhen studying.

Have a clean, quiet, well-ventilatedspace to work, with easy access to anymaterials you need. Find out exactlywhat the exam involves. Are there pastexam papers you can look at to help youunderstand what to expect?

Make a plan of what you want tocover in each study period. Take regu-lar short breaks of about five-10 minutes.Don’t consume energy drinks, coffee orany other stimulants as these can makeyou feel agitated; drink water instead.Avoid junk food also.

Reward or pamper yourself whenyou achieve your study goals, such aswatching an episode of your favouriteTV show or going for a walk. Work outon how long you have for each questionand stick to it. If you have time at the endyou can complete unfinished questions.Work on questions that you find easiestfirst. Manage time before the end of theexam to revise answers and make nec-essary changes, if any.

Last but not the least: Believe inyourself.

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Applications are invitedfor Atithya ShreeScholarship by

Lakshaya Bharti Institute ofInternational HotelManagement (LBIIHM), Thescholarship is divided intothree categories under which astudent can get concession inannual fee between 10 per centand 30 per cent. The impor-tant thing is under this schol-arship scheme, there is a spe-cial concession for the girls'students of every category willget a 10 per cent concession infee.

Eligibility: Those studentswho are pursuing Class XII inthis year are eligible for thisscholarship.

Form: www.lbiihm.comApplication deadline:

March 20, 2020

Inlaks ShivdasaniFoundation invites applica-tions to provide opportuni-ties to graduate students withexceptional talent in any fieldto study a full-time Masters,M.Phil or a Doctorate pro-gram at top-rated European,American, and UK institu-tions. Selected students will getfull tuition fees, adequate liv-ing expenses and one-waytravel allowance and a healthallowance.

Eligibility: Be Indian citi-

zens who have been continu-ously residing in India for thepast six months; Hold a first-class degree or equivalent froma recognised university/insti-tution in India; Have prioradmission to the institutionand course chosen at the timeof the application; Be a maxi-mum of 30 years of age.

Rewards covers full tuitionfees, adequate living expensesand one-way travel allowanceand health allowance with amaximum funding of$100,000.

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Application deadline:March 31, 2020

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Eligibility: Graduates orfinal year students of any UGprogramme in India, also stu-dents who are at the beginningof second year of their over-seas studies (Fall 2020 –Spring 2021) can apply.Students must have scored aminimum of 60% marks in theprevious qualifying exam.

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Technology has changed theway we look at the world .With various path-breaking

technologies emerging every year,we are observing changes in dif-ferent spheres, education beingno exception. Keeping up with theemerging technology trends canhave a major impact on the wayeducation is being imparted inschools today. It will help offer stu-dents with latest opportunities andunique learning experiences thatthey need and deserve.

What exactly are the educa-tional technology trends that havebeen making major waves in therecent years? Here’s a list of trendsin the current education environ-ment that you should not miss outon.

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a radical transformation in theworld of education, with highereducation slowly adopting the dig-ital era. Learning from plain text-books in traditional classrooms isnot exciting and would be outdat-ed soon. Digital textbooks andTablets are engaging and help savemany textbooks every year.Textbooks are getting more expen-sive as they need to be revised orupdated every few years. Textbooksare usually used for at least sevenyears before a new edition comesout, not giving children access tothe latest information. A digital

textbook or a Tablet is not only costefficient but can easily be updatedto reflect the most recent data. Ithelps provide students with the bestcontent with the best learning out-comes at the best possible prices!

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classrooms are now being given amulti-sensory learning environ-ment through interactive white-boards. They are a smart way tohelp students learn better andengage them completely. Theyoffer a huge step forward in edu-cating the next generation of stu-dents. Interactive whiteboards sup-port visual, auditory and kines-thetic learning styles, leading toconsistent improvement in thelearning outcomes. They aid inteaching abstract and complexconcepts to the students in a moreengaging and fun way. They alsoallow teachers to record instruc-tions which can later be shared withthe students for revision.

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never before. There are no limita-tions of time and distance, and allone needs is a reliable wi-fi con-nection paired with apt mobiletechnologies. High quality of learn-ing is made possible for students byproviding them access to educatorsor subject matter experts who maynot be reached due to distance or

time constraint. Education can betailored to suit the needs of the stu-dents when various technologieslike video conferencing, socialmedia, pre-recorded videos, classforum are clubbed. Remote learn-ing model also allows students whoto attend classes virtually.

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design thinking to various class-room activities to make themmore engaging and fun.Educational video content can betaken to the next level by addinggamification. Interactive things arealways more easy to remember andretain. Learning process canbecome easy. The whole idea is touse the typical game technique ofgiving challenges, give rewards towinners, then provide harder chal-lenges with even bigger rewards.There is a science behind it. Whenyou win at a game, your mindreleases dopamine that triggersmotivation and pleasure. Thismakes learning an overall positiveexperience, one that you don’thave to force students to enjoy. Themain concept of interactive gami-fication is to challenge the students,let them feel great about overcom-ing the challenge, then challengethem more.

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next big thing in the education sec-

tor, enhancing student learning andengagement. It cuts across all thebarriers and gives a feeling ofthings being right in front of youreyes. Students find themselvesimmersed in what they are learn-ing and are able to process theinformation better.

Augmented Reality (AR) isanother technology that can takelearning to the next level. The edu-cators can use AR in innovativeways to make any boring lessoninteresting and interactive. It can beused to overlay interactive digitalelements like text, image, video clipand animation to give real-timeexperience. The AR can promote21st century skills like criticalthinking analysis, creativity andproblem-solving.

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is block-chain technology which isespecially useful when there is aneed to collaborate distributedinformation in a database. In edu-cation sector, it can prove to be veryuseful in exam management, ver-ification of student credentials andcertificate verification.

Life-long learning records canalso be managed using Block-chain. Learning, being a broadprocess calls for effective analysingand tracking to understand theresults better. Learning analyticsusing emerging block-chain tech-nology, is reshaping how learning

behaviours of children are beingmonitored. It is helping teachers toprovide students with targetedimprovement to courses and helpthem deliver enhanced results.

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known as AI, is the latest buzzwordthat is finding its way into varioussectors, including education. AI hasrevolutionised the way curriculumsare being implemented in schools,and has given birth to innovativeideas.

There are various AI applica-tions for education today that havemade learning more convenientand personalised. Thanks to smartdevices, the educational materialsare becoming more accessible tostudents. It has also resulted inautomation of administrative jobs,allowing educators to spend moretime with students. In future, AIcan also aid in providing detailedanalysis of student performance inthe examinations, as a teachers'ability to comprehend student per-formance has its own limitations.As per studies, adoption of AI ineducation sector will explode overthe next five years.

These were a few trends thathave taken the education sector bystorm. There is so much to discoverand the opportunities ahead arevery exciting.

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In a stunning reversal of fortunes,an underwhelming India sufferedtheir first ODI series whitewash

in more than three decades as NewZealand completed a 3-0 sweepwith a five-wicket victory in the thirdmatch at Bay Oval in Tauranga onTuesday.

It is the first whitewash forIndia in 31 years in a series in whichall matches have been played. Theywere beaten 5-0 by the West Indiesback in 1989 in an away assignment.

This came within days of Indiasweeping a five-match T20 series.

“They (New Zealand) playedwith a lot more intensity after the T20series. They deservedly won 3-0,” saidIndia captain Virat Kohli after theshocking turnaround for both thesides.

Henry Nicholls scored 80 in 103balls and Martin Guptill made 66 off46 as the Black Caps scored 300 forfive in 47.1 overs. Colin deGrandhomme smacked 58 not outoff 28 balls at the end to help seal thewin with 17 deliveries to spare.

Earlier, India had scored 296 forseven after being put into bat, thanksto K L Rahul’s (112) fourth ODI hun-dred.

Chasing a sub-par 297, NewZealand got off to a flying start asGuptill and Nicholls put on 50 offjust 40 balls. Overall, they added 106for the first wicket.

Gupitll smacked six fours andfour sixes as the Indian new ballbowlers faced an onslaught. ShardulThakur (1-87) and Navdeep Saini (0-68) struggled to find their rhythmand were taken for runs, whileJasprit Bumrah finished the serieswicket-less.

Yuzvendra Chahal (3-47) pro-vided the breakthrough, bowlingGuptill in the 17th over. At the otherend, Nicholls scored a half-century

off 72 balls and anchored the innings.He added 53 runs with Kane

Williamson (22), but Chahal strucktwice and Ravindra Jadeja (1-45)removed the in-form Ross Taylor(12) cheaply. New Zealand werereduced to 189 for four in the 33rdover at that stage.

Taylor was adjudged player ofthe series for amassing 194 runs inthree innings and being dismissedonly once.

De Grandhomme took centrestage then and smashed a half-cen-tury off only 21 balls. His explosiveknock included six fours and threesixes, as his fifth wicket partnershipwith Jimmy Neesham (19) came offonly 31 balls.

India’s fielding was lax and failedto build pressure on the Black Caps,

an apt representation of their strug-gles in this series.

This was after Rahul’s first hun-dred at number five helped anchorIndia's innings.

He hit nine fours and two sixes,and rescued India from a precarious62 for three.

He put on 100 runs with ShreyasIyer (62 off 63 balls) for the fourthwicket, and later on another 107 runswith Manish Pandey (42 off 48balls) for the fifth wicket. HamishBennett finished with 4-64 from tenovers.

India made another poor start.Kyle Jamieson (1-53) bowledMayank Agarwal (1), who has suf-fered a torrid tour of New Zealandthus far. The big blow came whenVirat Kohli (9) was out caught at

third man in the seventh over.Prithvi Shaw provided the initial

flourish with 40 off 42 balls, but hewas run-out going for a suicidal sec-ond run in the 13th over.

Iyer and Rahul then anchoredthe Indian innings. The former bat-ted steadily and reached his half cen-tury off 52 balls, his third 50-plusscore in this series.

But Iyer couldn’t carry on, out

caught off Jimmy Neesham (1-50).It was down to Rahul then, who

crossed 50 off 66 balls. His partner-ship with Pandey progressed well asIndia reached 250 in the 45th over.

Rahul’s hundred came off 104balls, and he perished in a bid toaccelerate. This is where India’sinnings fell apart, as Pandey alsoholed out off Bennett shortly after-wards.

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India captain Virat Kohli on Tuesdayberated his bowlers for their

mediocre performance as he tried toexplain the team’s first ODI serieswhitewash in over three decades, say-ing that the visitors lacked composureall through.

“The games were not as bad as thescoreline suggests. It boils down tothose chances that we didn’t grab. Idon’t think it was enough to win gamesin international cricket,” Kohli said inthe post-match presentation.

“With the ball, we were not able tomake breakthroughs, we were not at allgood on the field. We haven’t played sobadly but when you don’t grab thosechances, you don’t deserve to win,” headded.

“Batsmen coming back from toughsituations was a positive sign for us, butthe way we fielded and bowled, thecomposure wasn’t enough to wingames,” he asserted.

The ineffectiveness of Indianbowlers can be gauged from the factthat the attack couldn’t dismiss thecomplete rival line-up even once.

Kohli lauded New Zealand forbouncing back after the T20 hammer-ing.

“New Zealand played with lotmore intensity. We didn’t deserve towin because we did not show enoughcomposure,” he said.

The batting mainstay is lookingforward to the Test series, whichbegins on February 21, to makeamends for the disappointment.

“I think because of the TestChampionship, every match has thatmore importance. We have a really bal-anced Test team and we feel we can winthe series here, but we need to step onto the park with the right kind of mind-set,” he said.

His opposite number KaneWilliamson, who missed the first twogames due to injury, was lavish in hispraise for the home team’s grit.

“An outstanding performance, veryclinical. India put us under pressure,but the way the guys fought back withthe ball and kept them to a par total.The cricket in the second half was out-standing to see,” he said referring to theside’s effortless chase of a 297-run tar-get.

“We know how good they (India)are at all formats but for us the clari-ty about the roles the guys had was themost important thing. Outstandingeffort against a brilliant India side,” headded.

����� �� �5 India have beenso consistent in the last five yearsthat the ODI debacle againstNew Zealand is not worrying, leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal saidon Tuesday, playing down the rareseries-whitewash the Black Capsinflicted on them.

“Overall, if you see it is justthe fourth or fifth series loss in thelast 4-5 years. The other team isalso here to play. You cannot winevery match. We have won oneseries, lost the other, so it is notsomething too serious to ponderover,” Chahal said at post matchconference.

He said the youngsters willlearn a lot from the experience ofplaying in New Zealand.

“Prithvi Shaw and MayankAgarwal came into the side, soyoungsters got to play outside

India. It is not easy to play in NewZealand. But overall if we see, itis just an ODI series. We did winthe T20 series 5-0, first time, that’sa positive for us as well,” added

Chahal.Chahal was all praise for the

hosts but admitted fielding is aconcern for India.

“They have played quite

extraordinarily in this series. Sowe need to appreciate that. Poorfielding happens at times. Once in10 series it happens, we have timeuntil the next ODI series. We haveseen what are the shortcomingsand we have enough time to workon it before the next series,” hesaid.

When asked why he andKuldeep Yadav have not playedtogether since the World Cup, hesaid, “Ravindra Jadeja is playingextraordinarily well, whether it isbatting or bowling or fielding. So,I play half the matches andKuldeep plays half the matches.”

“Main motive is to do what isbest for the team. In Asia Cup allthree of us have played togetheras well. If wickets allow that,maybe all of us will play togeth-er again.” PTI

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New Zealand skipper KaneWilliamson on Tuesday

hoped for a full-strengthsquad for the Test seriesagainst India after managingthe limited overs leg withinjury-ravaged outfits.

“We are expecting all ofthose guys to be fit for the first Testand they’ve been tracking nicely. It’san exciting opportunity againstone of the best sides in theworld,” Williamson said.

“It’s part and parcel ofthe game that you get guyswho get injuries. We’ve obvi-ously had a lot of that inrecent times to deal with butthere have not been any excus-es.

“Guys have come in to tryand play the roles that they’regiven to the best of their abil-

ity and learnt a heap along the way,” headded.

The skipper said that the lim-ited-overs’ leg would not havemuch bearing on the ensuing twoTests, though they can still lookto carry a bit of confidence from

the 3-0 ODI series whitewash ofthe visitors.

“Obviously, a different sideand a different format.Throughout a series you’realways trying to touch onareas as a group. It’s a dif-ferent format but thereare some parts guys willget confidence from goinginto that series.

“The focus doeschange but I know theguys are looking forwardto that series.”

The Test series startsin Wellington on February

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Their batting woes sorted, Indiawill fancy their chances of claim-

ing the women’s T20 tri-series whenthey face Australia in the summitclash today.

After failing to fire in unison intheir first three league matches,India produced a good batting showto record a seven-wicket win overAustralia on Saturday, which took theHarmanpreet Kaur-led side into thefinal.

The two sides are on equal foot-ing having won a match against eachother in the double-legged league.

Senior opener Smriti Mandhanacontinued to be the batting bulwarkalong with Harmanpreet, but themost heartening thing was that 16-year-old Shafali Verma came good inthe last game against Australia.

After two failures,Shafali’s 49 off 28 ballsgave India a flying startand her innings contained

eight fours and a six. Her senioropening partner Mandhana, on theother hand, anchored the 174 runchase with a solid knock that com-prised seven boundaries.

Jemimah Rodrigues also con-tributed with a quickfire 19-ball 30,while Harmanpreet chipped in witha run-a-ball 20 to help India chasedown the target.

The Indian bowlers have beendoing well in this tournament withthe likes Deepti Sharma andRajeshwari Gayakwad producingconsistent performances. In thepenultimate league match againstEngland, the Indian bowlers didwell to not allow the opponents aneasy win while defending a smalltotal.

Australia got a boost after aneasy win over England a day afterlosing to India. They have a strongbatting line-up with opener BerthMooney among runs and one-down Gardner in tremendous form.

Key players Lanning and EllysePerry have also been in good touch.The only struggling batter has beenthe opener Alyssa Healy.

Gardner had top-scored againstIndia in the second league matchbetween the two sides, whileMooney played a big part in the winagainst England, which took thehome side to the final.

The tournament is a preparato-ry event for the T20 World Cupbeginning in Australia on February21.

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Australian big-hit-ter David Warner

says he is likely to quitT20 cricket in the next“few years” to prolonghis Test and ODIcareer and spend moretime with his youngfamily, which includesthree children.

The 33-year-old,who won Cricket Australia’s Allan Border medal forbeing the player of the year on Monday said, “I thinkyou look at Twenty20 internationals, we’ve got back-to-back World Cups as well,” Warner was quoted as say-ing by the Australian Associated Press.

“That’s probably a format that could be one I dropin a few years. It’s going to be very difficult to play allthree forms — and good luck to all the guys that wantto keep playing — it’s challenging,” he explained.

Warner averages over 40 in both the Test and ODIformats and has a strike rate of over 140 in T20s. Thetwo T20 World Cups are to be held in Australia (thisyear) and India (next year).

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Kidambi Srikanth spearheaded India’s 4-1mauling of Kazakhstan in their opening group

match to brighten their chances of reaching thequarterfinals of the Asia Team BadmintonChampionships on Tuesday.

Former world number one Srikanth, the upand coming Lakshya Sen and Subhankar Dey wontheir respective singles matches easily.

Srikanth took just 23 minutes to beat DmitriyPanarin 21-10, 21-7 while Sen was even quick-er, notching up a 21-13, 21-8 win over ArturNiyazov in 21 minutes. Dey beat KhaitmuratKulmatov 21-11, 21-5 in 26 minutes in the thirdsingles.

World Championship Bronze medallist B SaiPraneeth, who was not fielded in the singles onTuesday, teamed up with Chirag Shetty in thedoubles, but lost to the Kazakh pair of Niyazovand Panarin 21-18, 16-21, 19-21.

However, M R Arjun and Dhruv Kapila beatthe Kazakh duo of Nikita Bragin andKhaitmurat Kulmatov 21-14, 21-8 in the second doubles match.

The Indian team has beenplaced in Group B alongsideMalaysia and Kazakhstan. Thetop two team in each of thefour groups will make itto the quarterfi-nals. India playM a l a y s i atomorrow.

Un f a z e dby the coron-avirus fears, afull-strength Indianmen’s team is takingpart in the champi-onships with an eyeon medals, whichwill give playerscrucial rankingpoints in theOlympic year.

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Struggling SakshiMalik is desperately

seeking another roundof trials to remain incontention for a TokyoOlympics berth as shegears up for the upcom-ing Asian WrestlingChampionships in non-

Olympic category.The Rio Olympic

Bronze medallist washumbled by two-time

Cadet World ChampionSonam Malik during thetrials in the 62kg catego-ry.

The WrestlingFederation of India(WFI) has already madeit clear that it may holdfresh trials if the perfor-mance of the winnersare not satisfactory at thetournament in Italy andin the upcoming AsianChampionship.

Sonam had lost the

first round of the rank-ing series event in Romebut if she manages tofinish on the podiumduring the Asian C’ship,beginning February 18in New Delhi, the WFIperhaps won’t stop herfrom competing at theAsian Olympic qualifierin March.

“I am hopeful foranother round of trials.If I qualify in that I willhave two more chances,

the Asian WorldOlympics qualifiers andthe World Olympicsqualifiers. I want toqualify in the two keytournaments,” Sakshisaid.

“Preparations for theAWC has been good. Iwill give my best, be itany competition, andwin medals. I am work-ing hard on my tech-nique. I need to makesure that I don’t repeat

the same mistakes that Ihave made in the previ-ous tournaments,” sheadded.

During the trials,the 18 year-old Sonamwas trailing 6-10 butlevelled the scores witha four-point throw toshock Sakshi.

Sakshi then got thechance to compete atthe Asian C’ships innon-Olympic 65kg cat-egory.

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Ben Foakes and Keaton Jennings areback in England’s Test squad for the

first time in 12 months after beingpicked for the tour of Sri Lanka.

Lancashire opener Jennings andSurrey wicketkeeper-batsman Foakeswere discarded after the West Indiestour 12 months ago.

But both of Jennings’ Test hun-dreds in his 17 appearances havecome on the subcontinent andFoakes was player of the series inEngland’s 3-0 whitewash of Sri Lankain November 2018.

Foakes won the first ofhis five Test caps in Galle inNovember 2018 where hescored a fine hundred.

England’s record wick-et-taker James Andersonremains absent as he

recovers from acracked rib sus-tained during therecent tour of South

Africa.

Despite his Test struggles since lastyear’s World Cup, Jos Buttler is one ofEngland’s most naturally gifted playersand he has been given another chanceby the selection panel.

However, Buttler will have to com-pete with Foakes for a place in the start-ing line-up in the two-Test series.

Moeen Ali was England’s joint-leading wicket-taker on their lastvisit to Sri Lanka but his decisionto continue his indefinite breakfrom Test cricket means Jack

Leach, Dom Bess and MattParkinson will be the frontline

spinners.Yorkshire batsman

Jonny Bairstow missesthe trip to take a breakhaving been part of theSouth Africa tour.

Joe Denly hasbeen retained despite amodest series in SouthAfrica, where his 210

runs at an average of 30matches his career average

after 14 Tests.

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India was on a high after theywhitewashed hosts New Zealand

in the five-match T20 series buttheir joy was short-lived as 2019World Cup finalists made comebackin 50 overs format to clean sweepIndia 3-0 and proved their WorldCup semifinal win over Virat Kohli’sside last year was not a fluke.

Despite missing the likes first-team regulars like Trent Boult,Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry andskipper Kane Williamson (playedonly in 3rd ODI), they not only tookthe revenge of T20 humiliation asthe scoreline suggests but alsomade sure that they were wayahead of their opponents in everyaspect of the game.

The Pioneer takes a look at whatcosts India during this three-matchseries that led to a first clean sweepin 31 years.�Jasprit Bumrah failed to take sin-gle wicket despite completing his

quota of 10 overs in all threegames.�Virat Kohli managed to score just75 runs in three innings.�India wasn’t able to get a big open-ing stand in absence of regularopeners Rohit Sharma and ShikharDhawan. The new duo of PrithviShaw and Mayank Agarwal added50, 21 and 8 runs resp in threematches.�Except for Yuzvendra Chahal, noother India bowler was able to trou-ble Kiwi batsman.�India failed to get any wicket inthe first powerplay (1-10 overs)which let Martin Guptill and HenryNicholls give NZ flying start withscores of 85, 93 and 106 runs.�India’s fielding has been below parin the entire tour and especially inODIs, outfield players droppedcatches and missed run-out oppor-tunities that cost India. (Kuldeepdropped Taylor’s catch in 1st ODIat the start of his innings and laterhe made hundred to help NZ chasetheir highest ever total in 50 overgame).�Shardul Thakur leaked too manyruns (1/80 from 9 overs in 1st ODI,2/60 from 10 overs in 2nd ODI and1/87 from 9.1 overs in 3rd ODI)which failed to build pressure onopposition players during run chase.

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�2���5 He is still bathing in theeuphoria of leading Bangladesh totheir first global cricket title. But 18-year old Akbar Ali knows all too wellthat a place in the senior team is stilla bridge too far and he has to contin-ue the good work to realise his ultimatedream.

Akbar quite literally led from thefront as Bangladesh stunned defend-ing champions India to win theirmaiden U-19 World Cup on Sundayin a thrilling final at Potchefstroom.

He showed nerves of steel with apatient 43 not out off 77 balls, com-ing out to bat when his team was in aspot and seeing out India’s threats fromleg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi and fastbowler Kartik Tyagi’s spells beforereaching the finishing line.

“It was a dream come truemoment for all of us. We have workedreally hard for two years. All our hardwork came to life at that one moment.We were over the moon and even thatis an understatement. I cannot describethe feeling when Rakibul (Hasan) hitthe winning runs,” Akbar said beforethe team left for Bangladesh.

“I want to play for Bangladeshsenior team like everybody else. Thatis the ultimate goal. But I really don’twant to think of it now. We have a longway to go. This is the just the begin-ning as I have said before,” said thewicketkeeper batsman.

It was not a one-off for Bangladeshwho had been searching for a crownfor the last 20 years. Akbar said the U-19 group have been together sinceAugust 2018, preparing for the WorldCup and have toured places likeEngland and New Zealand to fine tunetheir skills.

“We have been camping togetherfrom 2018 August. We played the Asia

Cup. Then we played a series inEngland, New Zealand. We played SriLanka and England at home too. Thecricket board invested a lot in us andgave us a lot of exposure tours whichhelped immensely. So it’s good plan-ning coupled with our execution thatworked,” said Akbar.

The Rangpur-born Akbar hadsaid before the World Cup that win-ning the title was always the goal andanything lesser at the tournamentwould have left them dissatisfied.

“We had the belief in us and wewere confident (before the start of thetournament) that if we can play ournatural cricket, we can beat any oppo-nent.

“The quarter-final against SouthAfrica gave us a lot of confidence andperhaps that is where we turned a cor-ner,” said Akbar who braved the lossof his elder sister during the tourna-ment to lift the trophy.

After Bangladesh won the final,the players of the two teams were seenengaging in an exchange of words andeven some pushing and shoving on thefield, leaving a Bangladeshi flag dam-aged in the process.

Akbar reiterated that something ofthat sort should never happen, but alsoadded that Indians were also at faultlike them.

“I said (sorry) on my behalf.Emotions are always high during afinal. I would say that we also made amistake, Indian players also made amistake.

“Whatever has happened duringthe match, it can happen. But whathappened after the match was notright. I said sorry on my team’s behalf.But both teams were at fault. Thisshould not never happen again,” hesigned off. IANS

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Two Indians — Akash Singhand Ravi Bishnoi — and threeBangladesh players were on

Tuesday found guilty of bringing thegame into disrepute and handedsuspension points for the ugly on-field confrontation that marred theUnder-19 World Cup final in SouthAfrica.

Akash and Bishnoi along withBangladesh’s Md Towhid Hridoy,Shamim Hossain and RakibulHasan were found guilty of breach-ing the ICC Code of Conduct afterthe two sides nearly came to blowsfollowing Bangladesh’s three-wick-et win for their maiden U-19 WorldCup title in Potchefstroom, onSunday.

“Five players have been foundguilty of a Level 3 breach of the ICCCode of Conduct for Players andSupport Personnel ... (they) werecharged with violating Article 2.21of the code, whilst Bishnoi receiveda further charge of breaching Article2.5,” the ICC said in a statement.

The article 2.21 of the ICC coderelates to conduct that bring thegame into disrepute. It covers pub-lic acts of misconduct, unruly pub-lic behaviour and inappropriatecomments which are detrimental tothe interests of the game.

One suspension point amountsto a player being ineligible for oneODI or T20I, U-19 or A team inter-national match. However, all ofthese players are set to progress tothe senior set up now and areunlikely to be affected by this.

“All five players have acceptedthe sanctions proposed by ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup MatchReferee Graeme Labrooy,” it added.

Some Bangladesh players gotcarried away while celebrating theirhistoric win over India in the final.While their captain Akbar Ali apol-ogised for the “unfortunate inci-dent”, his Indian counterpart PriyamGarg felt it is something that shouldnot have happened.

The first-time champions wereoverly aggressive while fieldingwith their lead pacer Shoriful Islamsledging the Indian batsmen afterevery delivery. As Bangladeshapproached the winning runs,Shoriful was seen swearing multiple

times openly on camera.As soon as the match ended, it

became tense with Bangladeshiplayers rushing to the ground anddisplay aggressive body language.

“India’s Akash accepted thecharge of breaching Article 2.21 andhas received a sanction of eight sus-pension points, which equates to sixdemerit points, which will remainon his record for two years,” the ICCsaid.

Compatriot Bishnoi acceptedthe charge of breaching Article2.21 and received a sanction of fivesuspension points, which equates tofive demerit points.

“Bishnoi also accepted a level 1charge of breaching Article 2.5 fora separate incident during thematch, where he used language,actions or gestures which disparageor which could provoke an aggres-sive reaction from a batter follow-ing the dismissal of Avishek Das inthe 23rd over,” said the ICC.

“For this he received a furthertwo demerit points meaning sevendemerit points will remain on hisrecord for the next two years.”

Bangladesh’s Hridoy received asanction of 10 suspension points,

which add up to six demerit points,which will remain on his record fortwo years.

Hossain received a sanction ofeight suspension points, whichequate to six demerit points. Theywill remain on his record for twoyears.

Hasan received a sanction offour suspension points, which equalfive demerit points, which willremain on his record for two years.

All charges were levelled by on-field umpires Sam Nogajski andAdrian Holdstock, third umpireRavindra Wimalasiri as well asfourth umpire Patrick Bongni Jele.Level 3 breaches carry a minimumpenalty of four suspension pointsand a maximum penalty of 12 sus-pension points.

The suspension points will beapplied to the forthcoming interna-tional matches the players are mostlikely to participate in at eithersenior or U-19 level.

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All but out of the quarterfinal race,Delhi will need several results to

go their way and a big win over fel-low laggards Rajasthan in their finalRanji Trophy group match startinghere today to remain in the hunt fora knockout berth.

With just 18 points from sevengames, Delhi are currently languish-ing at the 10th spot in the 18-teamGroup A and B cross pool and arevirtually out of the reckoning, but abonus point win over Rajasthanand some favourable results canstill keep them in the fray.

However, Delhi’s hopes dependon permutations and combinationsand it would be stunning if theymake the next round.

They have the same points asVidarbha, but Delhi’s situation hasbeen made worse by a low run rate.

They need to beat Rajasthan

with a bonus point and then hopeKarnataka and Punjab lose theirgames, while Uttar Pradesh andTamil Nadu at the most, draw theirencounter.

But if Vidarbha win their next tie

against Hyderabad, a bonus point willnot be enough for Delhi.

Even after all this, Delhi will haveto ensure they end with a higher runrate than Karnataka, and going by thenumerous complications, it looks likea dead rubber for Delhi.

Mired in selection controversies,Delhi had a disastrous Ranji cam-paign this year, winning just twowhile losing one and drawing fourgames out of their seven matches.

Rajasthan, on the other hand, areout of the reckoning, having garneredjust 16 points from seven games.

Rajasthan have been no betterthan Delhi and have registered twowins, four loses and one draw in theirseven matches.

Gujarat, meanwhile, are leadingthe combined Group A and B chartwith 29 points from seven games,ahead of Saurashtra (28 points off 7matches) and Andhra (27 pointsfrom 7 games).

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Saurashtra, who have already qualified for theknock-outs, will aim to finish the league stage with

a victory when they will face Tamil Nadu in EliteGroup B game in Rajkot.

Saurashtra collected three points from theirdrawn- game against Mumbai and are sitting at thesecond place in the combined A and B Group stand-ings with 28 points.

A win will boost their more before playing thequarter-final.

Only five teams from combined A and B willmake the quarter-final.

Tamil Nadu, who are 19 points, are in contentionmathematically. They will need to beat Saurashtrawith a bonus point and then hope that Karnataka,UP and Punjab lose their respective games.

If TN don’t win with a bonus point, they can stillqualify if Karnataka, Punjab and UP lose their match-es, as then the quotient will come into picture. TNright now have a higher quotient.

Bowling has not been an issue for Saurashtra astheir spinners led by Dharmendrasinh Jadeja andpacers led by Jaydev Unadkat have done a decent job.

Jadeja has so far taken 20 wickets. But he needssupport from others and so does Unadkat.

It is their batting which needs to come good,especially the top-order. The hosts are too depen-dent on Arpit Vasavada or Sheldon Jackson and thelikes of Harvik Deai, Snell Patel need to score big.

Tamil Nadu have a tough task at hand consid-ering that the track at SCA Stadium could aide spin-ners from the third day.

Meanwhile, multiple-time champions Mumbai,who have been knocked-out of the Ranji trophy, willplay for pride against Madhya Pradesh.

The Vinayak Samant-coached team would liketo end, what has been a disappointing season on awinning note.

Mumbai have added all-rounder AakrshitGomel to the 15-member squad for the game againstMP.

In other elite B games, Karnataka take on Barodaat Bengaluru, with the hosts having a chance to makethe knockouts. Baroda are already out.

And at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh take onHimachal Pradesh. While Himachal are out of thereckoning, a win could give UP a chance to quali-fy, but they will also have to see the results of othergames.

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India U-17 womens footballhead coach Thomas

Dennerby wants his charges totry and imbibe a quicker pass-ing game as they get ready forthe U-17 World Cup slated tobe played in the country inNovember.

The team, as part of theirpreparation, have travelled toTurkey where they play twofriendly matches against theRomanian U-17 team.

“We are trying to put in anew formation — the 4-2-3-1.If you look at the profile of theplayers we have, I feel it suits usvery well. We have played somegames amongst ourselves butthe real test is to test it at the

international level. To do thatwill be a very significant test forus,” Dennerby was quoted assaying by www.the-aiff.com.

“It’s for all to see that withevery given day, the game is get-ting quicker and quicker. Weare trying to implement aquicker passing game with less-er touches on the ball, and morerunning. We are making a sin-cere effort to play at a higherpace.

“The girls are much fitternow, and are quite adept inplaying at a higher pace. Thegood thing is that the gapbetween the best players andthe rest, both in terms of tech-nical acumen, and physicalprowess is getting closer,” hesaid.

“That is a very positive signfor any coach. Currently thereis a big fight — a healthy com-petition among the players forslots in the team. As a result, theteam is benefiting, Indian foot-ball is benefiting.

“The most significant partstays that when someone getsinto a better shape, it forces theothers to pull up their socks tooand shape up too,” explainedDennerby.

On the exposure tour toTurkey, the coach said: “It’s theperfect time to enact somechanges. The stage is set todevelop more players, and sure-ly we won't just play 11 playersduring the tour. We need to bemore specific in coaching asmuch as we need to be a bitmore sharper in coaching, aswe know a bit more about theplayers.”

“At times I feel our girls area bit too friendly on the pitch(smiles). Romania are a techni-cal side who are also veryphysical. That will be a huge les-son for our girls as to how tocombat teams who are willingto use their bodies, physicalpresence and tough tackles. Itwill help them mature playingagainst a new style. After allthey are preparing for the U-17Women’s World Cup,” he said.

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Former Arsenal boss Unai Emery says he did-n’t get enough time to transform the London

giants who were on a “downward slope” whenhe was appointed, France Football magazinereported on Monday.

Emery had 18 months at the EmiratesStadium after a two-year stint with ParisSaint-Germain and a spell which includedwinning three straight Europa League titleswith Sevilla.

“Arsenal had been on a downwardslope for two years when I joined them,” Emerytold France Football.

“We stopped the rot and took theclub to the Europa League final(where they lost 4-1 to Chelsea)and took fifth place in the PremierLeague,” Emery said in defenceof his tenure that ended inNovember 2019 after a runof seven games in all com-petitions without a win.

“That season we had

qualification for the Champions League in ourown hands but it all went wrong.

“We lost our four captains (Laurent)Koscielny, (Petr) Cech, (Aaron) Ramsey and(Nacho) Monreal and we really missed them.

“Some of our top players didn’t have theright attitude and were asking for more

than they were giving.”“I needed more time to manage to

transform this club, into the newArsenal I had been hoping to build,”added Emery, currently without a club.

Emery also claimed he could havesucceeded at PSG had VAR

been in place when hischarges were ChampionsLeague last-16 victims toBarcelona.

“In the home leg we didreally well with top-level foot-ball (winning 4-0). But in the

return we were eliminatedbecause VAR did not yet exist.

We lost (6-1) because of referee-ing decisions and this was clear.”

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The Sports Ministry iscontemplating an

inquiry into an “unautho-rised” Indian team’s par-ticipation in a circle styleworld cup in Pakistan,which has kicked up astorm.

The players, estimat-ed to be 45 in numberand accompanied by agroup of some 12 officialsand coaches, are in theneighbouring countrywithout any official per-mission or clearance,according to the Ministry.

A Sports Ministrysource said that “the min-ister (Kiren Rijiju) is setto start an inquiry.”

“Any disciplinaryproceeding will start onlyafter the players are back,”said another source.

There is more troublein store for the belea-guered national kabaddifederation as two individ-uals — K P Rao and M VPrasaad Babu — filed awrit petition in the DelhiHigh Court demanding aCBI inquiry into “allegedscandal and functioningof AKFI at large”, thesources claimed.

The Indian OlympicAssociation (IOA) onMonday said it has notsanctioned any kabadditeam’s visit to Pakistan fora tournament.

A contingent fromIndia reached Lahore onSaturday via the WagahBorder to take part in thechampionship. Picturesand footage of the Indiansarriving in Lahore havesurfaced on social mediaplatforms, kicking up astorm.

On Tuesday,International KabaddiFederation (IKF) presi-dent Janardhan SinghGehlot said the tourna-ment is not recognised bythe apex body.

“Yeh farzi tourna-ment hein, farzi playersparticipate kar rahe hein(This is an invalid tour-nament where playerswho are not recognisedby the world body areparticipating),” Gehlotsaid.

“The countries tak-ing part in this circleWord Cup in Pakistan,say Australia or Canada,are not affiliated to theinternational federation.Circle kabaddi is not

played in these countriesso these farzi (unrecog-nised) players are repre-senting these countries,”he said.

On his part, theadministrator of AKFI,Justice (Retd) S P Garg,had also said that thenational body did notclear any such team.

Questions are alsobeing raised about therole of the PunjabKabaddi Association(PKA) as the officialsand almost all the playersparticipating in the tour-nament are affiliated tothe state body, whichdoes not have the“authority” to clear ateam on its own for inter-national competitions.

The list bearing thenames of officials andplayers is signed by PKApresident Sikander SinghMaluka.

Sources said that theAKFI and PKA are“together” on the issuethat saw a new twistwhen Pakistan AmateurCircle KabaddiFederation (PACKF)claimed that manyIndian players were com-peting for teams of other

participating countriessuch as Australia,England and Canada.

“If Pakistan is nowclaiming that this is anofficial World Cup thenhow come Indian playersare now playing for dif-ferent countries which isevident from a list thatwe have,” a source said,calling Pakistan’s versionan “eyewash”.

Meanwhile, a letter ofGehlot granting approvalto the ongoing tourna-ment in Pakistan in hiscapacity as IKF presi-dent has emerged. Theletter was sent to PakistanKabaddi Federation pres-ident MuhammadSarwar Rana.

Asked about it ,Gehlot said, “ThePakistan federation senta letter asking forapproval to host the tour-nament and the IKFgranted it and I gave theapproval as I am the pres-ident. There is nothingwrong in it.

“If one of our mem-bers wanted to host atournament, we can giveit. How do we know thesekind of issues will hap-pen?”

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Pakistan on Monday defeatedBangladesh by an innings and 44runs in Rawalpindi to lead the two-Test series 1-0. On the other hand,the junior team came out with aspirited performance as they defeat-ed defending champions India inthe pulsating U-19 World Cup.

“If you want to learn some-thing, you can learn from yourjuniors and from everywhere. Theycan give us some knowledge onhow to get good results,” Mominulwas quoted as saying after thematch.

“They really fought back on theground and we should learn fromthem. We have to learn one morething from them and that is the waythey have shown self-belief,” headded.

The 28-year-old minced nowords while criticising his team andsaid: “It was a very disappointingperformance by us, there is noexcuse for it and I think we have toimprove a lot of things.”

Meanwhile, former Bangladeshcaptain & national selector HabibulBashar said he is expecting quite afew players from the U-19 team tomake it to the senior level.

“This is great for our cricket.We played in the Asia Cup final andfailed, same with the NidahasTrophy final, so we were strugglingto cross the final hurdle but thejunior team broke the jinx and thattoo at a World Cup which is a verypositive sign for us,” Bashar saidfrom Rawalpindi.

“I am hopeful that we will geta lot of players from this group whowill graduate into the senior teamand serve Bangladesh cricket for along time,” said Bashar who played50 Tests and 111 ODIs forBangladesh. IANS

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