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In a clear indication thatIndia was not going to buck-
le under the threat of US sanc-tion over the S-400 missile dealwith Russia, Army chief GenBipin Rawat on Sunday saidthe country has an indepen-dent foreign policy and it mightgo ahead with acquiring theKamov helicopters and otherweapon systems from Moscow.
The Army chief ’s state-ment is significant as NewDelhi is confronted with thethreat of US sanction underthe Countering America’sAdversaries Through SanctionsAct (CAATSA) after India onFriday signed a multi-billion-dollar deal to procure the S-400Triumf air defence system fromRussia. Gen Rawat, whoreturned Saturday night after asix-day visit to Russia, hadheld talks with military officialsof that country to enhancebilateral cooperation. He saidthe Russians were very keen onassociating with the Indiandefence forces.
“They (Russians) dounderstand that we are a strongArmy, capable of standing upfor what is right for us, basedon our strategic thoughtprocess,” he said while deliver-ing the Gen KV Krishna RaoMemorial lecture here.
On his Russian visit, GenRawat recalled a questionposed to him by a Russiannaval officer that India seemedto be looking westwards atAmerica, which has put sanc-tions on Russia, and that
Washington has also threat-ened to impose restrictions onNew Delhi for dealing withMoscow. To this, Rawatresponded saying, “Yes, we doappreciate that there could besanctions on us, but we followan independent policy”.
Seeking to assuage Russianconcerns over India’s growingties with the US, Rawat said,“You (Russia) can be restassured (that) while we may beassociating with America ingetting some technology, butwe follow an independent pol-
icy. I told them while we aretalking sanctions and you arequestioning on sanctions,President Vladimir Putin andMr Narendra Modi, at thisjuncture, are signing the treatyon purchase of S-400 weaponsystem in spite of the fact thatwe may face challenges fromAmerica in the future.”
Disclosing that India waslooking forward to procuringKamov helicopters and otherweapon systems and technol-ogy from Russia, he said NewDelhi was looking to get space-
based systems and technologiesfrom Moscow to enhance itsspace capabilities.
“There is no end in sight tothe manner in which we cancooperate with your country. Ithink the way forward is to seewhat is best for the nation,strategically important for us,”he had said.
In a guarded reaction tothe Indo-Russian deal, the USsaid on Friday that its intent toslap sanctions on Russia wasnot aimed at causing damage tothe military capabilities of its
“allies or partners.” “The (CAATSA presiden-
tial) waiver is narrow, intend-ed to wean countries offRussian equipment and allowfor things such as spare partsfor previously-purchasedequipment,” a White HouseNational Security Councilspokesperson told PTI hoursafter the conclusion of the S-400 contract. But for the pres-idential waiver, CAATSA sanc-tions come into place in theevent of a major purchase likeS-400 missile defence system.Ahead of the deal, the US hadurged India not to purchaseRussian defence systems. “TheAdministration has indicatedthat a focus area for the imple-mentation of CAATSA Section231 is new or qualitativeupgrades in capability - includ-ing the S-400 air and missiledefence system,” the WhiteHouse NSC spokesperson said.
Last month, the US hadimposed sanctions on Chinafor the purchase of S-400 fromRussia. “Our recent action tosanction a ChineseGovernment entity for an S-400 delivery underscores theseriousness of our resolve onthis issue. The waiver author-ity is not country-specific.There are strict criteria forconsidering a waiver,” said thespokesperson.
The State Department,which is tasked with reviewingthe deal and initiating theprocess of sanctions or waiverunder CAATSAA, and makerecommendations to thePresident, did not respond to
questions. However, an indus-try source said the law isambiguous about “when awaiver is necessary so this canbe avoided for years”.
The National DefenseAuthorization ACT (NDDA)2019 gives the president thepower to waive of the CAAT-SA sanctions if it is a nationalsecurity interest.
It also mentions severalother reasons for a presidentialwaiver, prominent amongwhich is if the purchasingcountry is taking or will takesteps to reduce its inventory ofmajor defense equipment andadvanced conventionalweapons produced by thedefence sector of the RussianFederation as a share of its totalinventory of major defenceequipment and advanced con-ventional weapons over a spec-ified period.
In fact, over the last decade,India the top arms purchaser ofthe world, has graduallyreduced its dependence onRussian weapons. It now standsat about 60 per cent, which ismuch lower than it was adecade ago. As part of its diver-sification plan, India hasincreased its purchase of armsfrom the US to the tune of $18billion. A presidential waivercan also be given if a countryis cooperating with the USGovernment on other securi-ty matters critical to US strate-gic interests. Experts believethat is exactly the case and oneof the main reasons for the USdesignating India as a ‘MajorDefence Partner.’
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In yet another incident grossnegligence on part of the con-
tractors, four labourers lost theirlives while five sustained criticalinjuries, when temporary ironfixtures around an under-con-struction multi-storey privatebuilding on the Noida-GreaterNoida Expressway collapsed onSunday.
The incident occurred atprivate real estate firm BPTP’s18-storey ‘Capital City’ inSector 94 when the shuttering(temporary fixtures built ofiron) came crashing down inthe morning, police said.
A police official tasked
with the investigation saidprima facie it appears that theshuttering was hit by a tractor-trolley carrying constructionmaterial, which led to the inci-dent but the cause is yet to beascertained. “Nine people wereinjured when the shuttering ofthe building collapsed. Four ofthem have died, while fiveothers have been hospitalised,”Senior Superintendent ofPolice, Gautam Buddh Nagar,Ajay Pal Sharma said.
An FIR has been regis-tered at the Sector 39 policestation, under whose jurisdic-tion the building is located,police said.
The deceased have beenidentified as tractor-trollerdriver Naushad and workersKaran, Vijaypal and Ramvijay,they said.
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The National TigerConservation Authority
(NTCA) will soon commissiona Wildlife Institute of India(WII) study to assess if thecanine distemper virus (CDV)-— the deadly pathogen thatrecently killed over 5 lions inGir forests — can affect thehealth of the tigers too.
Sources said the decision toconduct the study was dis-cussed at a NTCA technicalcommittee meeting last month.Incidentally, the WII proposalhad been gathering dust for thelast several years with the twodepartments of the Dehradun-based Government’s premierwildlife research body in tug-
of-war to conduct the study.“However, now all the
issues have been sorted out andthe WII experts will soon startthe study in a few tiger reserveswhich will soon be identified.CDV is a highly contagious dis-ease and we should not be seencaught unprepared in the mat-ter,” the sources quoting offi-cials said.
He was referring to thedeath of 23 lions in Gujarat’sGir sanctuary in less than amonth, most of them due toCDV and protozoa infections.
The lions, an endangeredspecies, are now being vacci-nated with shots of the vaccineagainst the virus which havebeen imported from the US.
CDV is considered a dan-
gerous virus and had beenblamed for wiping out 30 percent population of Africanlions in East African forests.CDV is mainly found in wilddogs, jackals and wolves. Itattacks the immune systemand other vital organs in ani-mals. In most of the cases, theinfection is fatal.
Sources in the NTCA saidthe study is being conductedwith an aim to assess and sug-gest preventive measures totackle the virus if it is foundto be lurking around. Thereare just over 2,500 tigers leftin the wild, with majority ofthem in India. Threat frompoaching and shrinking habi-tat has always been a majorconcern to survival of thesehighly endangered stripedcats.
Following a report inVeterinary Science’ whichcited how a dead Asiatic lionfrom Gujarat was detectedwith a lethal virus in its tissuesafter the animal came in con-tact with other infected ani-mals like cattle, buffaloes ordogs, the NTCA had issued anadvisory to the tiger reservesto vaccinate stray cattle anddogs living around reserves ona regular basis.
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About 40 girls of a residen-tial school in Supaul dis-
trict in north Bihar werethrashed by young boys andtheir parents on Saturdayevening for resisting sexualadvances.
The boys used to pass lewdremarks and write vulgarthings on the walls of the girls’school. And when some girlsfound one boy writing on wallthey caught him and repri-manded him. In retaliation, thestudents of Middle School,Trivenigunj which is situatedclose to the girls’ school, theirparents, and village youthsarmed with lathi and hockeysticks stormed the KasturbaGandhi Balika Vidyalaya atDaparkha village and startedbeating the girl students mer-cilessly. Nobody was there tostop them, said eyewitnesses.
At the time of the attackthe minor girls, mostly belong-ing to SC, ST and EBCs, wereplaying in the school groundafter classes. They were rushedto referral hospital atTrivenigunj block. And two ofthem were referred to Sadarhospital in Supaul in critical
condition.The warden of the
Kasturba Gandhi BalikaVidyalaya hostel Reema Rajsaid she alerted the schoolguard and informed policewhen she came to know aboutthe incident. Police reachedthe spot after one hour whenthe attackers left the premises.
Education MinisterKrishna Nandan PrasadVerma said it is a serious mat-ter and promised that strictaction would be taken againstthe attackers. “We are planningto put in security arrange-ments in girls’ residentialschools to avoid such inci-dents. Female constables andsecurity personnel will be sta-tioned at girls’ residentialschools,” he said.
Supaul DM BaidyanathYadav said a case has been reg-istered against the attackersand the accused would betaken to task.
The DM said both thegirls and boys schools arelocated in same premises withcommon playground. “Thegirls have complained againstboys for passing vulgarremarks and writing objec-tionable things on the wall.
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In a horrific incident, thebody of a seven-year-old girl,
who went missing sinceSaturday afternoon after beingallegedly abducted by a localcouncilor, was found covered ina gunny bag on the roof of amosque located in MuradNagar, on Sunday morning.
According to the police, thebody was first seen by a manwho went to the roof to getsome fresh air while he went tothe mosque for prayer. Theman named Sulaiman firstnoticed the foot of the deceasedwhich was visible from underthe gunny bag and thereafteruncovered the body and sub-sequently informed police.
Police said that her fatherZahid Beg complaint abouthis seven year old daughtergone missing suspecting herabduction by a local councilor.On the basis of his complaintthe police registered the caseunder section 363 of IPCagainst local councilor namedAzaz and four and five otherpersons. While the police wasinvestigating the case theyreceived a call that the deadbody of the girl was found over
the mosque at about 7 am onSunday who then reached thespot and recovered the body.
Meanwhile the newsreached to the family membersof the deceased who allegedthat a local councilor HariAizaz is behind the murder oftheir daughter.
Police have sent the deadbody for postmortem andinvestigation is on with seniorofficers supervising the caseand keeping a close watch.
“The complainant ZahidBeg has named the local coun-cilor Azaz in the FIR along withfour or five unidentified per-sons. The FIR has been regis-tered and arrest of the culpritwill be made soon” said thePublic Relation Officer to theSenior Superintendent ofPolice (SSP), Ghaziabad.
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Inaugurating the UttarakhandInvestors Summit 2018 in
Dehradun on Sunday, PrimeMinister Narendra Modiexhorted investors to invest inUttarakhand. This State is notonly the ideal destination fortourism but also has the poten-tial for becoming a fully organ-ic state and an energy surplusstate, he said.
Speaking about the variousmeasures taken by the Central
Government towards devel-oping a New India, he said thatUttarakhand was a shiningpart of New India especially asthe 18 year young State hasambitions, energy andimmense possibilities.
Addressing the gathering,Modi said that the nation wasexperiencing rapid social andeconomic changes and in thecoming decades, India wouldbe the driver of the worldgrowth engine.
He said that presently, thenation is experiencing a morestable economy with the fiscaldeficit having been decreasedand inflation under control. “Inthe past couple of years, morethan 10,000 steps have beentaken by the Central and Stategovernments due to which theease of doing business hasimproved by 42 points. We
have annulled more than 1400laws and improvements weremade in the tax system withattempts being made to makeit swift and transparent.
With the biggest tax reformsince India gained indepen-dence- Goods and Services Tax,we now have a single market.Infrastructural works have beenundertaken at a record ratewith about 10,000 kilometres ofnational highways being con-structed in the last year whichamounts to about 27 kilometresper day- double than the figureachieved by past governments.Similarly, work on rail lines,metro rail, modernisation ofrailway stations, aviation andwaterways has also picked upsubstantially.” Stating that Indiahas the best atmosphere forinvestors, he referred to theAyushman Bharat scheme,
adding that it has enhancedopportunities for investmentin the medical sector. This is ascheme under which the pay-ment for patients is ready andreturns to investors are assured.
Regarding Uttarakhand hesaid that though the regionwas ancient, the government is18 years young. “Eighteen yearsis an important phase in age.Uttarakhand represents youth,ambitions, energy and immensepossibilities which chief minis-ter Trivendra Singh Rawat’sgovernment is working hard toharness. During the then primeminister Atal Bihari Vajpayee'stime, things were tough but nowUttarakhand is on the fast trackof development. Better con-nectivity here will benefit thetourism sector the most.
Apart from being the idealdestination, Uttarakhand also
has potential for becoming afully organic state. With theCentre also focusing on foodprocessing, I would speciallyrequest investors to focus on
agriculture, food processingand related spheres.”
Stating that India is alsobecoming a world leader inrenewable energy, he said that
the government is working tomeet the target of decreasingdependence on fossil fuels andgenerating 175 gigawatt powerby 2022 from renewable ener-gy sources. He further said thatUttarakhand had the potentialto become a power surplusstate while inviting all investorsto become a part ofUttarakhand’s growth.
He said, “Uttarakhand alsohas a unique SEZ- Spiritual EcoZone- which is immensely morepowerful than special econom-ic zone. I am sure that underchief minister Rawat, the statewill rise to the envisioned devel-opmental levels by 2025 whenthe start marks the silver jubileeof its creation. I also assure fullcooperation from the govern-ment of India to those investingin Uttarakhand,” said the PM.
Earlier, he also visiting the
various stalls set up at the venueof the summit. Uttarakhandgovernor Baby Rani Mauryaand various cabinet ministerswere also present on the occa-sion.
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Mussoorie always had aspecial place in the hearts
of the Nehru family as itreminded them a lot ofKashmir, their beloved home.The Nehru family, right fromthe early years, had a very closeconnection with the Doon val-ley and Mussoorie and anyonewho has read the autobiogra-phy of the late Prime Minister,Jawaharlal Nehru, is familiarwith this fact. On October 13,eighty eight long years ago,Nehruji arrived in the Queen ofHills with his wife.
Nehruji spent time inMussoorie with his parents, hiswife and daughter and in Doonvalley in jail on several occa-sions and later, as the PrimeMinister, he visited both citieswith his daughter, Indira, manytimes. In fact, just a day before
he passed away, he was in theDoon valley.
A special visit to Mussooriewhich Nehruji recalls, in hisautobiography, is this one-made in 1930-in the month ofOctober. The weather was at itsbest and just like many visitorslike to be in Mussoorie inautumn even now, Octoberwas always a beautiful monthfor a visit to Musoorie. OnOctober 13, Nehruji, with hiswife Kamala reachedMussoorie to spend three dayswith Motilal Nehru, who wasthen recouping in the hill town.Writes Nehru ji, “He was look-ing just a little better, and I washappy to think that he hadturned the corner and wasgetting well; it was good to beback in the family. I rememberthose quiet and delightful threedays well. Indira, my daughter,was there; and my three littlenieces, my sister’s daughters
…And these three days werethe last I was to have with myfather before his fatal illnesscame to snatch him away fromme”.
He was expecting his re-arrest soon. “Kamala and I were
going down from Mussoorie onthe 17th October to be in timefor the Peasant Conference atAllahabad on the 19th. AtDehra Dun, an order underSection 144 CriminalProcedure Code was served on
me almost as I was leaving.” Bythe evening of 19th October,Nehru ji was arrested again andcarried off from Allahabad toNaini Prison. The last days hespent with his father were leftbehind in Mussoorie.
Motilal Nehru, while inMussoorie, often walked downThe Mall and Camel’s BackRoad during his days spenthere. The relationship betweenthe Nehru family and Mussooriebegan with Motilal Nehru’s vis-its to the hill station, mainly forrecuperating from illness. Hiswife, Swaroop Rani and theirdaughter Vijay Lakshmi Pandit,all had a great attachment to thishill station and visited it allthrough their lives. VijayLakshmi Pandit stayed inLandour for some time and wasa frequent visitor to the famous“A.Prakash & Co” in SistersBazar. Several generations of theNehru family have patronisedthis amazing store which standsunassumingly in a tranquil cor-ner of the popular hill station.
Ten years earlier, in thesummer of 1920, Nehruji hadbrought his ailing mother andwife to the famous Hotel Savoy
of Mussoorie, along with littleIndira. He had not enteredactive politics till then but anincident in Mussoorie catal-ysed his entry into the sphere.Staying at the Savoy was anAfghan delegation which was inIndia for political talks with theBritish Government. PanditNehru did not know about theAfghans till after he arrivedthere. The Government, afraidthat he might contact them andinfluence them asked him tosign an undertaking that hewould not get in touch with thedelegation. Nehru refused to dothat. Though he was not inter-ested in meeting the Afghans, hebelieved that nobody had theright to prevent him from meet-ing them. He was ordered by theauthorities to leave Mussooriewithin 24 hours.
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehruand his wife spent many a sum-mer in Mussoorie. Mrs
Wanchoo, Indira’s maternalaunt, lived for years in a houselocated on Gandhi Chowk(Library crossing ). .
Personal and political mat-ters brought Indiraji again andagain to these hills and she hadmany good friends here likeSitaji, the princess of Kapurthala.Indira Gandhi was extremelyfond of staying at “Ekant”, theguest house of the HaryanaGovernment. She also livedmany a time at the Wanchoo’splace.
Radha Bhavan and SavoyHotel were also Indiraji’sfavourite places to stay at whilein Mussoorie.
"Kamla Castle "and "CraigTop" were two of the otherresorts which the family stayedat often. Every October bringsback memories of the daysspent in the autumn by this dis-tinguished family in the hills ofMussoorie.
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The annual closure of Gangafor cleaning and silt
removal has been enforcedfrom Sunday midnight.According to the Uttar Pradeshirrigation department officials,it would remain closed for thenext 30 days and the full flowwould resume on the night ofDiwali.
However, during the timeof the closure, 1000 cusecs ofwater would be maintained atHar Ki Paudi so as to enablethe pilgrims to take holy dip,add the officials.
Every year around thistime, the canal is closed by theUP irrigation department andduring the time of the closure,various social organisationsand academic institutionsengage themselves in cleaningthe river bed.
Speaking to The Pioneer,SDO Upper Ganga CanalVikrant Kumar Saini said,“Keeping the religious senti-ments of the people throngingHaridwar for holy dip, therequired water level would bemaintained at Har Ki Paudiand some other ghats. Wehave ensured that 1000 cusecsof water would be maintained
at Har Ki Paudi. From October 7 mid-
night, the Ganga canal regu-lated from Mayapur regulatorwhich goes through Har KiPaudi has been closed andfrom October 10, theBhimgoda barrage would alsobe closed. However, throughthe escape channel, the waterflow would be maintained atSati Ghat and other importantGanga ghats falling along theway.” Asked on the resump-tion of the water flow, Kumarsaid that the normal waterflow would resume on thenight of Diwali.
However, the GangaMahasabha presidentPurushottam SharmaGandhiwadi vented angerover the closure of the Gangafor a month. “The irrigationdepartment officials have gotno right to hurt the senti-ments of the visitors whocome to Ganga for holy dip.
Even the President hasarticulated the same viewwhen he visited Haridwar,” hesaid. Expressing doubt overwhether the department’sassurance on the maintenanceof 1000 cusecs of water at HarKi Paudi, Kusha Ghat, VishnuGhat and Ganesh Ghat wouldbe acted upon, he said thatdespite the assurance, the lowwater level disappoints thepilgrims who come aroundthis time every year.
Notably, a pact was signedin 1916 between the thenBritish Government, somerulers of the erstwhile prince-ly States and Madan MohanMalaviya on the volume ofwater required to be main-
tained at the mainstreamGanga, particularly across theghats of Haridwar, so that theHindus coming here for tak-ing the holy dip were notinconvenienced.
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Two students from theCollege of Engineering
Roorkee (COER) figuredamong the top 50 at the nation-al competition held at IIT,Mumbai in which 1200 insti-tutions from across the countryparticipated. The competitionwas meant to evaluate the the-oretical knowledge of the stu-dents from the practical aspectas well as to provide them witha platform for research andexperiments, the organiserssaid.
These aspiring entrepre-neurs have showed their acu-men towards starting their ownventures, they added.
Divyansh Dwivedi andAnkit Joshi from computer sci-ence department of COER fig-ured in top 50 list of the stu-dents. In another event, AdityaSingh, Nishant and Shiv Tyagiof the same college were listedin the top 10. They showedtheir talent at Association forComputing Machinery–International CollegiateProgramming Contest in whichthere were 800 contestants.
Speaking to The Pioneer,
Major General O P Soni, direc-tor general COER, said, “Foroverall personality grooming ofthe students, various entrepre-neuring programmes have beenlaunched where ITC, JBM,IBM, spoken tutorial, e-journeyto IIT and the Robotic Lab havebeen involved. This is toenhance the academic stan-dards of the students as well asto make them more employableand competent to start their
own ventures.”A special cell has been
constituted in the college whichworks on building the spirit ofentrepreneurship among thestudents.
A training is given to helpthem blooming into successfulentrepreneurs in future, he saidand added that any studentfrom Uttrakhand can avail thistraining free of cost.
Utkarsh Rawat, a third year
student of mechanical engi-neering, has started his com-pany Robotics Trade India, adivision of COER, while anoth-er student opened The Next
Move, a home automation com-pany, Soni informed.
Chairman of the college,professor J C Jain said thatkeeping in mind the need oftechnology and research in thefield of agriculture, an agricul-ture department would be setup in the coming session 2019-2020. A special laboratory totest the quality of the soil is alsobeing established in the campuswhere any farmer from the
region can come for getting thesoil tested free of cost, headded.
It is, further, learnt thatunder the aegis of COERCenter of Excellence, the collegehas purchased Timble R8SDGP, the best quality interna-tional level technical equip-ment, to make the students ofCivil Engineering aware of the‘Learning and Earning’ concept.
Vikhyath Chauhan., AmanPoddar , Sarthak Mathur andVikashdeep are among thosewho have successfully enteredtheir second year of entrepre-neurship from electronics andtelecommunications depart-ment of the institute.
Notably, COER is the onlyinstitution in the state to ownthis kind of exclusive technol-ogy. This technique is useful inremote sensing in the field ofroad mapping, land cover map-ping and other surveys, theCOER sources said.
Christopher Columbus(1451-1506) is the English
version of the Spanish nameCristobal Colon, and the ItalianCristoforo Colombo. His voy-ages of exploration were spon-sored by Spain, and he madefour of these in his attempt toreach India, searching for goldand spices. Though he neverarrived in India, his voyagesmade him famous as they ledto the European conquest ofNorth and South America, andof the Caribbean islands. Thishas led to some parts of theworld celebrating ‘ColumbusDay’.
This year ‘Columbus Day’occurs on October 8. It is saidto be the day he first reachedthe Americas in 1492.Columbus did not ‘discover’America, as is often erro-neously mentioned in texts.There were inhabitants of bothNorth and South Americathousands of years beforeColumbus arrived. And norwas he the first European toreach there. Yet Columbus’sarrival in the Americas and theCaribbean definitely changedthe destiny of these lands, lead-ing to conquest and devasta-tion, and in many cases to thetotal elimination of the localpopulation.
The history of the
Caribbean islands rarely findsits way into textbooks, and herewe look at the effects ofColumbus’ visits to theseislands. Located east of CentralAmerica, they consist of hun-dreds of islands which todayare grouped into 27 territories.Out of these thirteen territoriesare independent, the others stillunder various European pow-ers. The independent territoriesare Antigua and Barbuda, TheBahamas, Barbados, Cuba,Dominica, DominicanRepublic, Grenada, Haiti,Jamaica, St Lucia, St Vincentand the Grenadines, St Kittsand Nevis, Trinidad andTobago. Each island has its ownunique history and culturalheritage. Some of theCaribbean islands were occu-pied from around 5000 BCE.When Europeans reached theregion a little before 1500,there were different groups ofnative people in the region.These groups mainly lived byfarming, fishing and hunting.
The island whereColumbus first landed wasknown as Guanahani. Thiswas thought to be the islandlater named San Salvador, whilerecent research suggests hisfirst landing was Samana Cayisland. Both these are in theBahamas.
He found the islands verybeautiful, but did not findgold. He then reached Colba(later known as Cuba), andnext another island that henamed Hispaniola (today con-tains Haiti and the DominicanRepublic). With the help of alocal chieftain he established asmall Spanish settlement. It wasnamed Navidad (the Nativity).
Twenty-one Spanish peoplewere left there, while Columbusreturned to Spain.
He began his second expe-dition in 1493, with sevenships and 1500 men. When hereturned to Navidad, he foundall the Spaniards there had beenkilled, as they had misbehavedwith the native people. Furthereast, he then founded a settle-ment called Isabela. Protestsand revolts by the local peopleof Hispaniola were suppressedwith guns and he againreturned to Spain in 1496.
The population ofHispaniola at the time ofColumbus’ arrival is notknown. Estimates vary fromeight million to 50,000. WhenColumbus first reachedHispaniola in 1492 a peacefuland helpful group of peoplewere living there.
The Spanish called themTainos, and Columbus wrotethat they were “such an affec-tionate and generous peopleand so tractable that there areno better people or land in theworld”. But Columbus was nottrying to make friends, he waslooking for wealth, gold andcontrol over the region. Apartfrom the Taino, there was arival group known as the Carib.There were five territories onthe island of Hispaniola at thistime, each ruled by a chief.
On his second voyage,there in 1493, Columbusbrought 1500 people to settlethere, and insisted that every‘Indian’, that is, every localperson, over the age of 14,should supply him with a cer-tain amount of gold everythree months. But there wasnot much gold there, and they
could not do so. Many hadtheir hands and feet cut off aspunishment, and bled to death.Other local people died of dis-eases. By around 1512 therewere only 28,000 people, andby 1542, only 200.
As the local people haddeclined, slaves were importedfrom Africa for labour. TheSpanish too found it difficult tolive there, and moved to SouthAmerica. All kinds of peopleoccupied the island. Frenchadventurers were among them.Part of Hispaniola was ceded toFrance by the Peace of Ryswykin 1697.
It was known as SaintDominique, and later Haiti.Haiti was a French colony at thetime of the French revolution.
The Bahamas form anarchipelago consisting of about700 islands and islets, thoughonly 40 of these are occupied.A branch of the Taino, theLucayan, lived in the regionwhen Columbus reached here,mainly in the 19 largest islandsof the archipelago. The totalpopulation was around 40,000.Almost the entire populationwas transported as labour toother islands. Only 11 peopleremained there in 1520, andsoon there were none. Foranother 130 years, the islandshad no people.
Thick forests grew.Resettlement began from 1648.The new settlers includedwhites, slaves and free blacks.It was again abandoned andresettled and conflicts contin-ued.
For a few years, theBahamas were under the newlyindependent America, andthen again under Spain, but
became a British colony in1787. Not a single descendantof the original inhabitantsremained.
The third voyage started inMay 1498, and Trinidad wasreached in July. He thenreached the coast of Venezuela,but did not realise he wasexploring a whole continent. Itwas Amerigo Vespucci whofirst realised this, followingthe same route as Columbus,and America was named afterhim.
Columbus’ fourth voyagewas from 1502-04. He reachedthe Central American coastand sailed along Honduras,Nicaragua, Costa Rica andPanama. Soon after this,Columbus died in 1506.
The story in the otherCaribbean islands too is simi-lar. In South America greatcivilisations were destroyed,as after Columbus, Spain andPortugal conquered the conti-nent. In North America too, thenew settlers devastated theindigenous people. That is whyit seems inappropriate to cele-brate his arrival in theAmerican region, though onehas to recognise his contribu-tion in altering the history ofthe world.
Indigenous people of theseregions have a movementcalled ‘Abolish Columbus Day’,and some States in the USAhave acknowledged their con-cerns, and started celebrating itas ‘Indigenous People’s Day’ or‘Native American Day’.
(A PhD in ancient IndianHistory, the writer lives inDehradun and has authored tenbooks)
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Top industrialists, foreigndiplomats and representa-
tives attending the InvestorsSummit extolled possibilitiesin Uttarakhand for investmentand developments. ChiefMinister Trivendra SinghRawat appreciated the over-whelming response to theInvestors Summit.
The CM said that such wasthe response the summit thatregistrations had to be closeda few days earlier.
He spoke of the focus areasof the State Government forinvestment and shared detailsof MoUs and proposalsreceived in various sectors sofar. The State has diligent workforce, among the lowest crimerates in India, conduciveatmosphere for investment andindustry along with good infra-structure which is being devel-oped further with projects likethe all-weather road andRishikesh-Karnprayag rail line.
Managing Director ofAmul, RS Sodhi said thatUttarakhand’s per capitaincome was 70 higher than thenational average. About �2,000crore worth milk is consumedin Uttarakhand in a year ofwhich about 15 per cent islocally sourced.
With will to work,Uttarakhand has all potential todevelop in the dairy sector.Amul has signed MoUs fortechnical assistance and train-ing in Uttarakhand which willdefinitely help towards achiev-ing such development, he said.
Mahindra Group managingdirector Pawan Kumar Goenkareferred to his company’s expe-rience of operating two man-ufacturing plants inUttarakhand. He said that sincethe automobile manufactur-ing plants had been estab-lished here, no disruption hadbeen experienced in their oper-ation. Good governance inUttarakhand is conducive toinvestment and industry, headded.
Chairman and managingdirector of Jindal Steel Works,Sajjan Jindal recalled his expe-rience of visiting Kedarnathand his company’s involve-ment in reconstruction worksthere following the 2013 dis-aster. He said though JSW wasnot industrially active inUttarakhand yet, it would def-initely look to invest here con-
sidering the appreciable oppor-tunities here.
Adani Enterprises Limiteddirector Pranav Adani said
that the Adani Group seesimmense potential inUttarakhand. The group hassigned MoUs for investmentamounting to about �6,500crore in sectors including trans-port, metro, solar power andlogistics, he added.
Acharya Balkrishna ofPatanjali spoke of the immenseherbal wealth in Uttarakhand.He said that Uttarakhand has60 per cent of the 22,000 med-icinal and aromatic herbsfound in India. He also spokeof opportunities in the Yoga,AYUSH and wellness sectors inthe state.
ITC Managing DirectorSanjiv Puri said that his com-pany had had an encouragingexperience of doing business inUttarakhand. He also pointedtowards opportunities in thefood processing sector in theState.
Singapore Minister, SIswaran, said that he saw threefocus areas for his country’sinvolvement in Uttarakhand.Singapore would be interestedin smart city development,tourism and air connectivity.Stating that there is consider-able potential for attractinginternational tourists toUttarakhand, he expressedhope that a direct flight couldbe started between Dehradunand Singapore.
Ambassador of the CzechRepublic in India, MilanHovorka said that his countrywould like to support expan-sion in manufacturing sectorapart from expressing interestin automobiles, renewableenergy, hydro power, food pro-cessing, information technolo-gy, tourism and hospitalitysectors. Ambassador of Japanin India, Kenji Hiramatsu alsoexpressed his views on theoccasion.
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The Union Minister ofRailways and Coal Piyush
Goyal said while addressing thegathering of the investors dur-ing the DestinationUttarakhand InvestorsSummit-2018 here on Sundaythat Indian Railways are work-ing on the plan to connect theChar Dhams-Badrinath,Kedarnath, Gangotri andYamunotri-,all located inUttarakhand, with rail net-work. He said that the work onthe ambitious Rishikesh-Karnprayag rail project is going
on apace and the first phase ofconnecting Veerbhadra withNew Rishikesh would be com-pleted by 2020. He hailed thekeen interest taken by thePrime Minister Narendra Modiin the mega project.
Goyal said that the projectwould cost about �44,000 croreand the Centre has set aside asum of �16,200 crore for thesame. “Once completed, itwould immensely boost theeconomic activity in the moun-tainous State,” he said. He, fur-ther, said that the Railways havedecided to use 100 percent elec-tric traction on Rishikesh–Karanprayag route which willensure that the engine emits nopollutants while speedingthrough the picturesque land-scape.
The Minister also claimedthat Indian Railways have
raised budgetary allocation forUttarakhand three times overthe past four years.
He said that while the
Railways used to spend about�187 crore per year inUttarakhand between 2009 to2014 it has jumped to �577crore from 2015 onwards
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The Investors Summit heldin Dehradun received an
overwhelming response frominvestors and other interestedparties. However, there weresome gaps in the managementof the event like the lack of ade-quate seating arrangementwhich left some of the delegatesand officials without seats inthe inaugural session.
About 1,600 delegates aresaid to have attended theInvestors Summit. The goodresponse received to the summitmay have been one of the rea-sons why some delegates andeven senior officials could notfind seats in the inaugural ses-sion.
Initially even BJP MLAswere seen searching for a place tosit with most of them managingto later find space. However, notall could find seats. Anannouncement was made askingall BJP party workers to vacateseats for delegates who had notfound a place to sit. Later, the ses-sion host also spoke of ‘AtithiDevo Bhava’ (guest is equivalentto god) and requested the localsto vacate seats for visiting dele-
gates. Apart from this, the lock-er room set up for visitors to leavetheir bags lacked proper tokens.
Due to this, the staff therehad to make do with numbersscribbled on pieces of paper tornfrom a notebook at the lastminute. There was also someconfusion regarding the securi-ty as those including somemedia persons with valid pass-
es were not allowed to enter forsometime.
Before the start of the inau-gural session, some of the dele-gates were turned back by thesecurity as they had a valid passbut lacked an invitation card.Though some visitors were nothappy with the confusion, anobserver opined that someminor issues were bound to sur-face when an event of this mag-nitude is organised for the firsttime.
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Tourism sector has generat-ed 14.6 million jobs over
the past four years and now itsupports 84 million jobs in thecountry, claimed the UnionMinister of State for tourism KJ Alphons while interactingwith the media persons on thesidelines of the DestinationUttarakhand InvestorsSummit-2018 here on Sunday.
He said that the department isplanning to make tourism a100 million dollar industry bythe year 2020. He pointed outthat Uttarakhand can movefar in Yoga, adventure tourismand trekking, given the hugepotential it enjoys.
Uttarakhand Tourism andCulture Minister SatpalMaharaj said that the UnionMOS for tourism has assuredto convene a meeting of the
officials of the Union forestministry and the Uttarakhandtourism department to sortout environment and forest-related issues hindering furthergrowth of the tourism sector inthe State. He, further, said thatpossibilities of setting up aninternational airport in theState are being explored.Maharaj added that the UnionGovernment is planning toexpand the capacity of
Gauchar, Chinyalisaud andPithoragarh airstrips. He, fur-ther, said that the StateGovernment has rolled out anew tourism policy and a largenumber of people have showninterest in the home stayscheme.
Earlier on the day, theUnion MOS for tourismAlphons urged the investors tocome forward to invest in theadventure tourism sector.
He ,further, said that theState Government should bemotivated to develop the sec-tor appropriately.
Founder and managingdirector Ibex ExpeditionMandeep Singh Soin said thateco-tourism is the engine ofresponsible tourism strategy forthe State. Terming eco-tourismas the next step of the tourismsector, he advised the entre-preneurs to ‘go sustainable andget certified’ to get its maxi-mum benefit. The Statetourism secretary DilipJawalkar reminded theinvestors that the Uttarakhandgovernment has given a statusof industry to the tourism sec-tor and memorandum ofunderstanding (MoU) to thetune of � 30000 crore has beensigned under the tourism sec-tor during the summit.
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All praise for Uttarakhand forits natural beauty and spir-
itual wealth, the ambassador ofCzech Republic Milan Hovorkasaid that the State has immensepotential for industrial growth.Interacting with the media per-sons on the margins of theInvestors Summit on Sunday,Hovorka said that Uttarakhandcan take benefit of Czech exper-tise in automobile, renewableenergy, bio-technology and foodprocessing sectors. He ,further,said that a business delegationfrom Czech Republic wouldsoon visit Uttarakhand to dis-cuss modalities of mutual coop-eration. Furthermore, the CzechRepublic is interested to boostspiritual tourism inUttarakhand, he declared.
Managing director of Alinzgroup, Inderpreet Pruthi whoaccompanied the Czech
Ambassador informed the gath-ering about portable petrolpumps.
He said that sinceUttarakhand holds importancefrom the tourism point of viewportable petrol pumps would beimmensely beneficial in remoteand far-flung areas. He furthersaid that Czech company Alinzis interested to help the statewith technology and invest-ment in this segment. He saidthat the Government of Indiahas given its approval to set upportable petrol pumps in thecountry on August 10. “With atank capacity of 9975 to 35000litres, our portable petrol pumpcan be installed and dismantledwithin two hours,” he said.
In particular reference toUttarakhand, he said that thestate housing the Char Dhamsand other tourist places, suchtype of petrol pumps can helpboth the pilgrims and thetourists greatly.
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When the Prime MinisterNarendra Modi was
addressing the State's maidenInvestors Summit at RajivGandhi International CricketStadium here on Sunday theCongress workers were staginga protest at Gandhi Park,demanding the PM to break his‘stony silence’ on Rafale dealand the spiralling prices ofessential commodities.
Earlier, the State Congresschief Pritam Singh had saidthat though his party was notinimical to the InvestorsSummit they would hold theprotest to demand the PM tospeak out his mind on the twoissues confronting the nation.
Addressing the well-attended party gathering atGandhi Park on Sunday, Singhsaid that if the PM has moralcourage he should reply to theCongress’s questions on Rafaleaircraft deal and the price rise.“He owes an answer to the
nation on thesetwo matters,” hesaid.
Citing figures,he said that whilethe deal to procureRafale fighter jetsfor Indian AirForce (IAF) wasfinalised duringthe UPA regimeaccording towhich one plane was to cost�526 crore the same has beenpurchased at a staggering costof �1670 crore during theNDA regime. The Congressleader alleged that on the insis-tence of Narendra Modi, theGovernment of India under-taking Hindustan AeronauticsLimited (HAL) had been side-lined to favour Reliance underthe offset clause.
Dwelling on the price rise,the State Congress chief saidthat soon after assuming officein 2014, Narendra Modi hadpromised to bring down theprices within 100 days. “Butover the past four years, theprices have been going throughthe roof.
For instance, the gas cylin-der which used to cost �390during the time of the UPA
Government is now costing�900,” he said.
Reiterating his party’sstance on the InvestorsSummit, he said that his partywas not opposing it. “But weare just asking the PM toanswer to two questions onRafale deal and price rise,” hesaid.
Addressing the gathering,the leader of the opposition inthe State Assembly IndiraHridayesh said that Congresswould continue to hold protestrallies on price rise and Rafaledeal.
Among others present dur-ing the sit-in were the formerministers Dinesh Agarwal andMatbar Singh Kandari, PCCvice- president Surya KantDhasmana and former PCCpresident Kishore Upadhyaya.
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Delegates visiting theInvestors Summit, foreign
dignitaries along with ChiefMinister Trivendra Singh Rawatand Cabinet Ministers attendedthe Ganga Arti at Rishikesh onSunday evening. Noted singerAnuradha Paudwal sang theArti on the occasion.
Expressing his wish forprosperity in Uttarakhand onthe occasion, the Chief Ministerreiterated his commitment fordevelopment of a newUttarakhand by 2025.
The Chief Minister saidthat the investors summit willprove to be a milestone for pro-viding a new direction to devel-opmental efforts in the State. Hesaid that the State Governmenthad also taken steps towards ful-filling its commitment to mak-ing Uttarakhand a prosperousState.
The State is receiving coop-eration from all fronts in thisendeavour. He also expressedgratitude for Prime MinisterNarendra Modi for inaugurat-ing the first investors summitheld in the State.
On the occasion, the ChiefMinister also felicitated noted
singer Anuradha Paudwal.Thanking the Chief Minister,she expressed her devotion tothe Ganga and also appreciatedthe natural beauty of the State.
The Vidhan Sabha SpeakerPremchand Agrawal, cabinetMinisters Satpal Maharaj,Subodh Uniyal, MP RameshPokhriyal ‘Nishank’, ambas-sadors of Czech Republic, Japanand Argentina, various repre-sentatives of the industrial fra-ternity and information depart-ment nodal officer KS Chauhanwere also among those presenton the occasion.
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To ensure the involvement ofthe general public of
Uttarakhand in the InvestorsSummit 2018 at the interna-tional cricket stadium, the pub-lic will be allowed to visit theexhibition and theme pavilionat the summit without entrypass on Monday evening. TheChief Minister Trivendra SinghRawat said that members of thegeneral public will be allowedto visit the exhibition andtheme pavilion from 4 PM to 7PM on the concluding day ofthe summit. There will be nobar on entry to these sites, headded.
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Himalayan Echoes- KumaonFestival of Literature and
Arts concluded here on Sunday.American author Joshua Pollockspoke on the heartfullness med-itation . Informing the gatheringabout this method of meditationhe also involved them in Yoga forsome time. Speaking about hisbook and encouraging the gath-ering to meditate, he spoke on thedifference between mindful andheartful meditation.
During the second session onthe Legendary Maps from theHimalayan Club, discussion washeld with its author HarishKapadia. Speaking about his pur-pose behind writing the book,Kapadia said that in the past it wasimpossible to get maps of the bor-der regions of Himalaya from theSurvey of India. If some maps ofsuch regions were found, thenames of places were not men-tioned in them. However, gettingsuch maps has become easier now,he said., The third session was heldon Anuradha Roy’s book, ‘All theLives we Never Lived’. The authorspoke in detail about variousaspects of the book. Various otherbooks were discussed during thesessions held later in the day. Atthe conclusion, the festival direc-
tor Janhavi Prasada thanked all theauthors and others for attendingthe literature and arts festival.
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The national general secretaryof the Janata Dal (United),
Pavan Verma opined that the for-eign policy of India is not properat the present. He also said thatthere is growing interest in know-ing about the Hindu religion. Hesaid this while interacting withmedia persons here while visitingthe Kumaon Festival of Literatureand Arts on Sunday.
He said that he had written abook on Adi Shankaracharya.Everybody is curious to learnmore about Hindu religion. At atime when there are disputesregarding aspects of the religion,he had tried to present the philo-sophical thought of this religionin simple language for the gener-al reader. Aspects of AdiShankaracharya’s life from hisbirth in Kerala to his attainingSamadhi at Kedarnath are men-tioned in the book. He opined thatthere is lack of dialogue betweentwo sides at present, adding thatthe country needs another AdiShankaracharya. Fanatical ele-ments in a religion cannot be tack-led effectively unless one learnsabout the liberal aspects of the reli-gion, he said.
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Pawan Bansal and ManishTewari have several things
in common. Former UnionMinisters, and parliamentari-ans, they have the ‘hand’ of theCongress behind their back,and a desire to “serveChandigarh”. If that was noenough, both have done theirlaw from Panjab University,Chandigarh. But the differ-ence in their political ideologyis as dissimilar as their age.
Young and energeticTewari highlights broaderissues concerning the CityBeautiful, the mature and hard-ened-politician Bansal, on theother hand, believes in touch-ing upon the local issues affect-ing the residents in their day-to-day existence.
Bansal, who entered 70s inJuly this year, has been thelongest serving MP fromChandigarh before the BJP’sactor-cum-politician KirronKher broke his winning spreein 2014 Lok Sabha elections.But, Bansal is “confident” ofmaking a comeback, notwith-standing his earlier declarationof 2014 polls being his last.
“I am very confident, andI am preparing myself for it.And for four-and-half years,after my defeat in the last elec-tion, I confined myself toChandigarh only...didn’t go toDelhi or loitering around inDelhi...I am at Chandigarhworking day-in and day-outwith the people. We have func-tions on everything, and wedon’t miss out on anything,”says a ‘positive’ Bansal.
Bansal, who is well-versedwith the local issues, people’sproblems, city’s characteris-tics, its every minute detail oreverything, admits that for allthese years, he has been prepar-ing himself thoroughly for it,“and I am confident of the vic-tory also...But it is ultimatelythe high command to decide”.
In the same way, Tewarihas also put the ball in partyhigh command’s court sayingthat “these are the things whichare decided by the party highcommand”. But his “desire” tocontest 2019 parliamentary
polls from Chandigarh is nomore under wraps.
Comparatively younger 52-year-old Tewari, who had beenin the race for Congress ticketfrom Chandigarh in 2014 too,has been active in the cityfrom nearly past two years. ButTewari draws attention to his“long and deep associationwith the city beautiful”.
“I was born and brought uphere...went for my schooling,attended my college (DAVCollege), and university. Myparents’ job was here...and myfather was assassinated in 1984in Chandigarh,” he says whileaccentuating his bond withChandigarh.
Besides physical and emo-tional connection, Tewari isundoubtedly not a fresher inthe city politics. “I was AICC(All India CongressCommittee) member fromChandigarh from 1991 to 2004before I went to Ludhiana tofight Lok Sabhaelections...Presently, I am themember of the ChandigarhCongress,” he says.
Despite the fact that thetwo served as the UnionMinisters in the sameCongress-led UPAGovernment, Bansal andTewari don't see eye-to-eye. Infact, when the Congress re-nominated Bansal as its candi-date in 2014, notwithstandingthe controversy involving his
nephew Vijay Singla — that notonly cost him the cabinet berth,but questioned his integrity —Tewari had categorically statedthat party should not fieldtainted politicians in an indirectattack on Bansal.
With 2019 parliamentarypolls just a few months away,The Pioneer talks to the twofrontrunners for the Congressticket from Chandigarh regard-ing the ills that afflict the cityand its residents, and its solu-tions:
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Underlining that everyproblem in Chandigarh stemsfrom the same reason, Tewaristrikes at the root while back-ing for a “powerful corpora-tion”.
“Everybody is trying totreat the symptoms rather thanlook into the disease. And thedisease lies in the entire man-ner in which Chandigarh hasunfortunately come to be struc-tured and governed...Goingback all the way to 1966...I don’tsupport the Commissionaratesystem, but a strongerCorporation,” says Tewari.
Pointing that there is adire need to make clear theroles of UT Administrationand the MunicipalCorporation, Tewari adds that
he supports that “Mayor bedirectly elected for the periodof five years. Lot of powers, thatvest in the Administration,must be transferred to theCorporation, and theCorporation must become atruly effective body”.
He points that the role ofan MP is “to ensure that leg-islative structure, which gov-erns the people or theCorporation or separation ofpowers between theCorporation and theAdministration, should bemore effectively tilted or giveCorporation primacy in allissues, expect perhaps law andorder”.
Tewari believes that LokSabha polls would not befought on local issues, but onnational or fundamental ones.“The fundamental issue forChandigarh is how to makeCorporation more efficacious,powerful...There has to be arelook at Corporation andAdministration’s relation-ship...which means the funda-mental revisit of the statutewhich governs theCorporation,” he submits.
Further, Tewari says thatthere is a need to ensure thatthe role of bureaucracy in civilaffairs of Chandigarh is “min-imised”. “Unfortunately, theCorporation Act is very heav-ily skewed in favour of theAdministration. The
Corporation is almost a rec-ommendatory body,” he adds.
He reiterates that Mayorshould be directly elected forthe term of five-year so that heor she can really implementwhat they have promised to thepeople.
And for him, division ofpowers and roles betweenAdministration and theCorporation would be themain local issue for elections.“If there is going to be one localissue which I think at the bot-tom of all the problems thatyou see with regard to garbagecollection, or regularisation ofhousing board flats, or leasesystem...That is where theyreally stem from,” he says.
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While Tewari believes intaking a holistic and overallview of the problems to comeout with solutions that addressthe larger issues concerning thesmaller ones, city’s politicalold-hand Bansal talks of issuesaffecting the lives of the resi-dents in their day-to-day exis-tence in more mundane thanabstract terms.
Four-time MP knows thecity like the back of his hands,and the problems like dirt thattends to get into ones finger-nails.
“There are currently twomajor problems affecting the cityand its people that have aggre-gated in the past four-and halfyears. One is garbage collection,and another most important isincrease in number of vehicles oncity roads,” says Bansal whilesweating details of its way outs.
On the issue of garbage col-lection, Bansal too points at theongoing blame-game andblurred division of roles betweenthe Administration and theCorporation. “The rules arepromulgated by theAdministration and formulatedby the Municipal Corporation,”he adds while lashing out at thepowers-that-be for adopting anymodel without taking intoaccount the “local conditions”.
And when he is talkingabout its solutions, one can eas-ily gauge that he is so muchfamiliar with the topography ofthe city — knowing the build-ing structures, knowing whatsection of people stays where,and the problem that go togeth-er with. To deal with the stink-ing problem of garbage collec-tion, Bansal stresses on encour-aging waste segregation athouseholds as wet and dry, set-ting up of safai kendras, oppos-es employing a concessionairefor the job, different depositpoints for e-waste, giving therecyclable waste to the garbagecollectors, among others.
For road congestion,
Bansal believes that metro isthe “only solution”. “Metro isnot just for Chandigarh, and weneed not be parochial or close-mind about it. We have to takein stock the present situationwhere large number of vehiclesand nearly two lakh peoplefrom the adjoining areas arecoming everyday toChandigarh,” he points.
He maintains that it’s notonly ChandigarhAdministration that has tobear the cost, but the respectiveneighbouring states likePunjab, Haryana and even
Himachal considering Baddiemerging as a part of tricity.
Bansal dismisses the latestsuggestion for introducingmonorail, which, according tohim, would “spoil the city’scharacter” as it would mainlyrun over-ground, while metrowould largely be undergroundin the city.
Among others, he listsupgradation of health prob-lems, making governmentschools — if not better — thanas good as private ones, men-ace of stray cattles and dogs,among many others.
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There was nothing lazy aboutSunday-October 7. In fact,
Punjab virtually went into an elec-tion mode with all major politicalparties holding their massive showof strength, trading barbs againsteach other, the parties and theirworkers crowding the rally groundsin the politically-strategic Malwaregion carrying banners, flags, rais-ing slogans — pro and anti.
The day was reminiscent of thelast day of election campaigning,when all political parties indulge ina high pitch battle of words toemerge victorious. But, it was justthe beginning.
The state’s three major politicalplayers — the ruling Congress,challengers Shiromani Akali Dal(SAD), and the third front led byAam Aadmi Party (AAP) — flexedtheir muscles drawing huge crowdsfor their respective rallies, which hasbecome an issue of prestige ratherthan just popularity.
While SAD made an apparentattempt to save its image that suf-fered a huge dent following thereport of Justice Ranjit SinghCommission on sacrilege and relat-ed firing incidents, the Congress andAAP targeted the regional outfitover the same — making it amplyclear that sacrilege would be themain issue for Punjab in 2019 elec-tions, putting the rest — be itdrugs, farmers, social welfare, indus-try, among others — on back burn-er.
All three events witnessed size-able turnout. And whose show out-numbered whose is just a matter ofguesses and surmises. However,the immense attendance duringAAP-led ‘rosh march’ fromKotkapura to Bargari in Faridkot —main areas affected by sacrilege inci-dents — demanding action againstguilty was enough to give sleeplessnights to the panthic SAD, and sothe ruling Congress.
Not only religious or panthicleaders, people from all walks of life,including even women and children,participated in the protest march.
On the other hand, theCongress and SAD held their showin each other’s home-turf. ChiefMinister Capt Amarinder Singhlashed out at the Badals for all thesins of Punjab at Lambi — the bas-tion of SAD patron and five-timeChief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.In reply, Akalis came down heavilyon the Chief Minister over his fail-ure to fulfill all the tall pre-pollpromises by holding a parallel ‘Jabar
Virodh’ rally at Patiala — CaptAmarinder’s citadel.
Akali leaders did not mince aword to blame the Congress for try-ing to malign the image of the SADand the Badal family by using var-ious means, including the Bargariissue.
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Sounding the poll bugle fromLambi, Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh on Sundaylaunched Punjab Congress’ ‘Mission13’ to mark the beginning of party’selection campaign in the state.‘Mission 13’ is aimed at winning allthe 13 Lok Sabha seats of the statein the ensuing elections.
At the same time, CaptAmarinder launched a scathingattack on the Badals from theirhome ground accusing them ofblatantly lying on Bargari sacrilegecase and subsequent incidents ofpolice firing of 2015, as well destroy-ing the lives of youth and farmersby failing to do anything on theissues of drugs and farm debts.
Capt Amarinder, addressing arally at Mandi Killianwali in Lambi,urged the people to wipe out SADfrom both the state and the nation-al politics by voting the Congress topower in all the 13 seats in Punjab.“Congress would win all the 13 par-liamentary seats in the state, includ-ing Bathinda and Lambi segments,”he said.
Taking on his arch rival and pre-decessor Parkash Singh Badal for his“falsehood” on the police firing inci-dents, Capt Amarinder said that theformer Chief Minister claimed tohave slept through the entireepisodes, though the then DGP hadalready exposed the lie before theJustice Ranjit Singh Commission.He pointed that the DGP had spo-ken to Badal at 2 am that morningand had also spoken with the IG 22times.
Capt Amarinder squarelyblamed the Badals for drug relateddeaths in the state, and for failing tosave the farmers from their debtburdens, which was left to his gov-ernment to waive off despite the eco-nomic crisis facing it.
Reiterating that he would notindulge in political vendetta againstthe Badals or anyone else, CaptAmarinder made it clear that any-one found guilty by the SIT for sac-rilege cases would be punished asper the law and nobody would bespared.
“Badals would have to pay forall their sins, including the sacrilegeand false cases as well the deaths of
youth due to drugs and of the farm-ers,” warned Capt Amarinder,adding that be-adbi will not be tol-erated at any cost.
Finance Minister ManpreetBadal said that the public responseto the rally was a clear sign of thedemolition of the Badals’ fiefdom.Condemning the Akalis for destroy-ing state’s future generations, hevowed that the Capt Amarindergovernment will build a new Punjabfor the people.
Punjab Congress president SunilJakhar hit out at Badal accusing himof putting all his might into savingSukhbir, which he described as hiscompulsion. “Badal had put thepanth under threat to save his son,”said Jakhar while appealing to thepeople to break the Badals’ monop-oly on the SGPC to end politicalexploitation of religion unleashed bythem.
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Facing revolt from within for hisstyle of functioning and amidstrising clamour for change of guard,SAD president Sukhbir Badal, dur-ing party’s Jabar Virodhi rally atPatiala, declared that SAD “is notthe property of the Badal family” —something he said for the first timein the recallable past.
In an apparent attempt to dam-age control and please the disgrun-tled taksali leaders, Sukhbir said:“SAD is not a property of the Badalfamily. It is a property of elders andthe (Sikh) community. Today, I amserving Akali Dal. In next fewyears, it could be someone else. SADis a representative of Sikh commu-nity.”
On the same lines, former ChiefMinister Parkash Singh Badal toosuggested Sukhbir to honour allsenior or taksali Akali leaders in abefitting manner. For the same,Badal deputed SGPC’s former pres-ident Kirpal Singh Badungar to pre-pare a list as soon as possible of alljathedars who were jailed either withhim or before him.
Sudden change of stance can beattributed to its senior leaderSukhdev Singh Dhindsa’s resigna-tion from all party posts, besidesopen revolt by three senior Akalileaders from Majha — MP RanjitSingh Brahmpura, Rattan SinghAjnala and Sewa Singh Sekhwan.
Launching a sharp attack onCapt Amarinder, Badal accusedhim of conspiring to take control ofSikh institutions, including theSGPC, saying that ‘Sikh Sangat’would not allow the Congress tosucceed in its “nefarious designs”.
Likening Capt Amarinder to“dictator and Hitler”, Badal claimedthat the Chief Minster wanted tocreate a "stumbling block" to stoppeople from reaching the rally hewas addressing in Patiala.
Badal also hit out at theCongress regime for having failed tohonour its pre-poll promises. Heasked his son Sukhbir to hold twomore similar rallies in Doaba andMajha region also to make peopleaware about the “failure” of theCongress-led State Government.
Defending his party and takingon his rivals on the issue of sacrilege,Badal said: “Today, they are talkingabout sacrilege of religious scrip-tures. When Army had attacked theGolden Temple, the damage wascaused to the shrine and GuruGranth Sahib and Akal Takht.”
Sukhbir, on the issue of sacri-lege, said that he was upset with theincidents at Bargari in 2015. “BadalSahib at that time could not sleep fortwo days. Those who are involvedin this heinous crime are demons,”
he said adding that at least 70 inci-dents of sacrilege had taken placeduring one and a half years, and nowno Congressman raises this issue.
Lashing out at the Congress andAAP, Sukhbir accused both theparties of spewing venom againstSAD during last elections for their"vested interests".
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Aam Aadmi Party’s rebel MLASukhpal Singh Khaira on Sunday seta 15-day deadline for the Congress-led Punjab Government to actagainst those responsible for thedeath of two persons in connectionwith sacrilege incidents in 2015.
Khaira, addressing a rally atKotkapura before a protest marchtowards Bargari, declared that incase, the Government could not takeany action against the police officialsas well as other elements responsi-ble for the incident, “the partywould intensify the agitation”.
Besides AAP’s rebel MLAs, itsstate unit president BhagwantMann, Leader of Opposition inVidhan Sabha Harpal SinghCheema, Lok Insaaf Party’s presi-dent and MLA Simarjeet Singh
Bains, religious leader Baljit SinghDaduwal, self-styled jathedar DhianSingh Mand, among others markedtheir presence during the impressive show.
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FIREWOKS MISSING: Congress’ firebrand Minister Navjot SinghSidhu, who is well-known for his fireworks against the Badals, wasconspicuous by his absence during party rally at Lambi
BADALS’ RELATIVES STAYED AWAY: At the time when the seniorBadal was urging party workers and leaders to bring long their broth-ers-in-law and others for the party’s Patiala rally, his son-in-law andformer Minister Adesh Pratap Singh Kairon, and daughter-in-law andUnion Minister Harsimrat Badal did not attend the rally.
SLIP OF TONGUE: SAD president Sukhbir Badal caused a big embar-rassment to his father and former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badalwhen he addressed him as “pita-samaan” (father-like). Earlier also,Sukhbir committed the same faux pas in 2011 during Maghi Melarally, and senior Badal had publicly corrected him. But, he chose tokeep mum this time. Later, SAD too issued a clarification saying thatSukhbir’s words have been “mistakenly confused” as the SAD chiefhad clearly described the senior Badal as “apne” pita smaan bazurg(“our” father-like elder), which was a reference to the senior Badal'sstature as a father-figure for every worker and leader of the party.
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The alliance talks between theCongress, Samajwadi Party
(SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) fell apart as the grand oldparty was unwilling to cede totheir demands for more seats inthe crucial poll-bound Stateslike Madhya Pradesh,Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.
The same attitude of theCongress made one of its majorUPA constituent, SharadPawar's NCP, announce its deci-sion to go solo in Rajasthan.Pawar has, however, clarifiedthat NCP will contest only onthe seats where the party hasstrong base and that it wouldnot damage the prospect ofCongress.
Congress decided to riskgoing alone as its internal assess-ment showed the party willwrest power in these Stateswithout even an ally. A seniorleader explained that had theCongress ceded to the BSP andSP demand for seats in thesethree States it would have beenforced to part with at least 20 percent seats.
"Both SP and BSP havelimited presence in these threeStates and could impact the out-come of only a handful of seats.They won't be able to win on theremaining seats they aredemanding. This will only helpthe BJP," he said.
Congress also realises thatboth SP and BSP have their owncompulsion to stitch together agrand alliance in Uttar Pradeshwhere Congress could be sig-nificant force if the year-endAssembly polls go in its favour."SP and BSP know that BJPmust be defeated at all cost toprevent their own extinction.The reality will dawn on every
body," he said. After BSP, SP too on
Saturday ruled out an alliancewith the Congress for theMadhya Pradesh andChhattisgarh Assembly elec-tions. The SP announced that itwill fight elections in MadhyaPradesh and Chhattisgarh inalliance wuh to GondwanaGantantra Party (GGP). SPchief Akhiesh Yadav also saidthat his party was ready to joinhands wuith the BSP in MadhyaPradesh polls, keeping alive theprospects of a grand alliance inUP.
"State units are better awareof the ground situation than the
central leadership. They took adecision and the central lead-ership accepted it. It should notbe confused with attempts toforge a 'mahagathbandhan' thatis meant for the Lok Sabhapolls," said Congress spokesmanPawan Khera when asked aboutthe alliance failure.
Polls in Chhattisgarh,Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram,Rajasthan and Telangana will beheld between November 12and December 7 in what may bea virtual semi-final to the 2019Lok Sabha elections. Countingof votes will be taken up togeth-er in all the five States onDecember 11.
The party however isexpected to face a tough chal-lenge in Mizoram from theMizo National Front in theupcoming Assembly polls.After being in power for twoconsecutive terms, internalsquabbles and anti-incumben-cy factor are making the situa-tion difficult for the Congress tohead on where BJP has alreadyput a strong foot hold in thenorth eastern States. Mizoramgoes to poll on November 28.
New Delhi/ Visakhapatnam: JIMEX-18, abilateral maritime exercise between Indiaand Japan, began in Visakhapatnam onSunday.
Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force(JMSDF) ships Kaga, an Izumo-class heli-copter destroyer, and Inazuma, a guidedmissile destroyer, arrived here to mark thecommencement of JIMEX.
The Japanese ships would be partici-pating in the third edition of JIMEX underthe command of Rear Admiral TatsuyaFukada, commander of Escort Flotilla-4(CCF-4). The Indian Navy would be rep-resented by three indigenously-designedwarships and a fleet tanker. The partici-pating ships are INS Satpura, a multi-pur-pose stealth frigate, INS Kadmatt, an anti-submarine warfare corvette, missile corvetteand INS Shakti, the fleet tanker.
In addition, one submarine, P8I longrange maritime patrol aircraft and a num-ber of integral helicopters would be par-ticipating in the exercise, the Navy said.
The nine-day event is aimed at enhanc-ing inter-operability, improving under-standing and imbibing the best practices ofeach other, a Navy release said.
The Indian ships would be command-
ed by Rear Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, FlagOfficer Commanding, Eastern Fleet.
JIMEX-18 will comprise a harbourphase and a sea phase of four days each.
The harbour phase of the exercise,scheduled from October 7 to 10, wouldinclude professional and social interactionsbetween ships' crews, sports fixtures andoperational planning for the sea phase.
The sea phase would include anti-sub-marine warfare exercises, visit, board,search and seizure (VBSS) drills, gun fir-ings, cross deck helo operations and coor-dinated operations in anti-submarine and
anti-air threat scenarios.The last edition of JIMEX was held in
December 2013 off the Chennai coast.The conduct of JIMEX-18 after five
years is indicative of an upswing in the Indo-Japanese defence relations and the contin-ued efforts of both Governments to workclosely to enhance safety and security of theglobal commons in keeping with 'rule-basedorder,' the Navy said.
The ships of the two Navies have beenworking in close coordination in anti-pira-cy operations in the Gulf of Aden (GoA)for the past few years. PTI
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Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh,the Lok Sabha
Parliamentary constituencyrepresented by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi will be a newbase for the anti-riot and crowdcontrol Rapid Action Force(RAF).
The RAF personnel donthe specialised blue dungareeand the total strength of theForce has been increased from10 battalions (10,000 person-nel) to 15 battalions. The fivenew battalions of the RAFwere sanctioned by the CentralGovernment in January thisyear and the new bases havenow been identified, officialssaid.
Apart from the templetown of Varanas, the four othernew battalions will be based inJaipur (Rajasthan), Mangalore(Karnataka), Hajipur (Bihar)and Nuh (Haryana). Varanasiwill be the fourth base of theRAF in Uttar Pradesh — thethree others being in Meerut,Allahabad and Aligarh.
The process for acquiringland for the five new bases isunderway and the five battal-ions, which are already opera-tional, will start functioningfrom their permanent locationsin sometime, the officials said.
Besides Vadodara, Modi
won the Lok Sabha con-stituency from Varanasi in the2014 general elections. Modiretained the Varanasi con-stituency and resigned fromVadodara constituency.
Amongst the new bases isHajipur which is theParliamentary constituency ofUnion Minister Ram VilasPaswan. A RAF battalion has astrength of about 1,000 per-sonnel and it is equipped withgadgets and non-lethalweapons like pump actionguns, tear smoke grenadelaunchers and others to enforcesecurity and law and order incase of protests or riot-like sit-uations.
The force is part of theCentral Reserve Police Force,the world's largest paramilitaryforce with over three lakh per-sonnel. It was raised and madefully operational in October1992 with 10 battalions.
The RAF battalions arebased in various parts of thecountry in order to cut downresponse time and rush theteams in the shortest possibletime to control violent orriotous incidents.
The 10 old RAF battalionsare based in Hyderabad,Ahmedabad, Allahabad,Mumbai, Delhi, Aligarh,Coimbatore, Jamshedpur,Bhopal and Meerut.
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Adirect terror funding link fromPakistan has emerged after the
probe into the activities of Falah-e-Insaniyat, an offshoot of thePakistan-based terror group Jamat-ud-Dawah, by the NationalInvestigation Agency (NIA). Theprobe has also revealed that the out-fit was aiming at recruiting peoplethrough a new modus operandi bywinning the hearts of the gullibleyouth of a particular community.
The Falah-e-Insaniyat is Jamat-ud-Dawah's charity wing head-quartered in Lahore but operationsin India were being managed fromDubai to evade from the radar ofthe security agencies here. ThePakistani outfit had spread its ten-tacles to Jammu & Kashmir,Gujarat, Mumbai (Maharashtra)and Rajasthan.
The new modus operandi of theFalah-e-Insaniyat entailed spon-sorship of marriages of girl childrenand building houses of poor peoplethrough the local agents with a hid-den agenda to develop a cadre ofmotivated youth who would even-tually be recruited for the insidiousagenda of the outfit.
Top NIA sources said there is adirect Pakistan link that hasemerged during the probe into thecase. The Falah-e-Insaniyat hasseveral centres in Pakistan butoperations for India were managedfrom Dubai. The outfit was oper-ating in a clandestine manner in
India to avoid the gaze of securityagencies.
"During the preliminary ques-tioning of the accused in the case,it has emerged that the money thatwas coming in as "zakat" was beingused to distribute it among the fam-ilies of terrorists, "a senior officialsaid adding the NIA is suspectingSrinagar hawala route was alsoactive for movement of cash by theoutfit in various States.
The flow of money startedfrom Pakistan and travelled toDubai through which it came toJammu & Kashmir, Rajasthan,Gujarat and Mumbai and the net-work could be present in otherStates.
The NIA cracked the case afterthe agency put surveillance on thesuspects following receipt of action-able inputs that money was cominginto India from Dubai for "charita-ble purposes".
The original input that NIAreceived was that a Pakistani nation-al based in Dubai was in touch witha person in India who turned outto be one of the accused in the case,Salman, based in Delhi who wasdirectly reviving funds from Dubai.
The Pakistani national in Dubaiwas in direct contact with thedeputy chief of JuD's charity wing.
"The Central Government hasreceived information that a Delhi-based individual Mohd Salman is inregular touch with one Dubai basedPakistani national Mohd Kamran,who in turn is connected with
Shahid Mehmood, Dy Chief ofFalah-I-Insaniat Foundation (FIF),Pakistan, a front end NGO of ter-ror group LeT and a proscribed ter-rorist organisation under the UA(P)Act. Md Salman has been receivingfunds from outside the country sentby FIF operative Mohd Kamran andhis associates through hawala oper-ators. Mohd Salman has connec-tions with persons in various coun-tries including Pakistan, UAE,Canada, Sweden, Croatia etc whichprima facie indicates that FIF is try-ing to attract group of sympathis-ers to its cause of creating unrest inIndia by collecting funds for ter-rorist activities in India," reads theFIR.
The FIR has named Lashkar-e-Tayyaba/JuD chief HafizMohammad Sayeed, ShahidMehmood, Deputy Chief of Falah-I-Insaniat Foundation (FIF)Pakistan, Mohammad Kamran,Dubai-based Pakistani nationalMohammad Salman, Indian nation-al
The NIA conducted searches atthe residence of Ajaz Ahmad Hakakin Srinagar's Nowhatta last week inconnection with the terror fundingcase.
Out of the three arrested per-son in Falah-e-insaniyat terrorfunding case, one J&k residentSajad Ahmed Wani has received �80lacs from Aizaz Ahmed Hakakthrough hawala channels. The NIAhas arrested three persons in con-nection with the case.
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Congress on Sunday dismissed the �2.5a litre cut in petrol and diesel prices
as "electoral lollipop" aimed at the fivepoll-bound States, and asked theNarendra Modi Government to bringpetroleum products under the GSTregime.
Congress spokesperson Pawan Kherasaid that oil prices have begun rising againsince the cut was effected on Thursday,adding that it showed the Government'sduplicity and hypocrisy. He questionedthe Government's claim of oil prices beingderegulated, saying they depend upon theelectoral calendar as they remainedunchanged for 17 days during theKarnataka Assembly polls, and a similarpattern was seen during the Gujarat polls.
"We reiterate our demand to bring inpetroleum products under the ambit ofGST so as to completely demolish thissheer hypocrisy of credit seeking justbefore the electoral season," he said. ThisGovernment believes in tokenism forshort term applause, he said.
After "ghar-ghar Modi" (Modi inevery home) time for "bye-bye Modi" hascome, and the Government can bring asmile on people's faces as it departs bybring petrol and diesel under the GST, hesaid.
Taking a dig at Finance MinisterArun Jaitley, whom he dubbed as full timeblogger and part time Minister, Kheraaccused him of "lying" in his claim thatthe increase in the Government's revenueis on the account of an increase in tax
base. Khera said oil companies have madeover �13 lakh crore, which is fuelling theGovernment's coffers.
The Government has used money inevent management and publicity, healleged, noting that it allocated merely�2,000 crore for the Ayushmaan Bharatscheme, a health insurance scheme for thepoor.
Since coming to power, the govern-ment has increase central excise duty onpetrol by 211 per cent and on Diesel by443 per cent, the Congress leader said.When the Congress demitted power theexcise duty on petrol was merely �9.23 alitre and has been raised by the ModiGovernment to �19.48 a litre. The exciseduty on diesel has been raised from �3.46a litre to �15.33 a litre, he said.
Even the Value Added Tax (VAT)levied by State Governments is among thehighest where the BJP is in power, he said.
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Meenu Mani (42) has cere-bral palsy (CP), a group
of disorders that affect musclemovement and coordination.So does her husband SamuelMani. But this has not deterredthe wheel-chair bound couplefrom extending helping handsto people with special needs sothat they know they are notalone.
"We are doing our bittowards creating self confi-dence among the persons withdisabilities including CP tocreate independent lives. Byraising awareness about CP, wecan help the wider communi-ty to see and understand thedifferent circumstances of oth-ers, to view this diversity as astrength and to work towardsinclusion," she said at an eventhere organised by her NGO,Yes, We Can Trust.
The occasion was theWorld Cerebral Palsy Day cel-
ebrated on October 6. The program, which was
attended by the children suf-fering with CP as well as otherdisabilities and their parentsshed light that with grit anddetermination one can excel inlife. Like Ira Singhal, India'sfirst differently abled womanUPSC topper has done.Suffering with CP herself, shefaced lots of challenges, but herdetermination kept her push-ing through.
"In our society there arelots of myths about this prob-lem, like these children can'thave good quality of life, theywill remain disable for wholelife and most of them are men-
tally retarded and can't domuch in their life and so on…But this is not entirely true," Iranoted.
Ira stressed on early inter-vention to help children lead aquality life as they grow. Morethan 70% children with mild tomoderate affection have near-ly normal IQ. They can beactive, productive members oftheir communities. They canhave jobs, live independently,marry and have children too.
The SDM Alipur said, thiscan happen only when everyparent and society identifytheir talent and give them achance to become a productivemember. Right usage of assis-
tive technologies can bring asea change in their lifestyle, saidIra.
Augusto Monteil,Ambassador of Venezuelatalked about how the rights ofthe people with special needsare enshrined in his country'sConstitution while HimadrishSuwan, chairman ofConfideration of YoungLeaders stressed on buildingaccessible society for all.
Mani (43) summed up say-ing that the community is notlooking for any help. "What we
want is support", he said,adding: "It is important toaccept as we are and steps aretaken to bring the persons withCP in mainstream and makethem independent. People yetnot have been able to under-stand the CP. Awareness andacceptance is required at everystage and level."
Nearly 15-20% of physi-cally disabled children areaffected by cerebral palsy,whereas in India, the estimat-ed incidence is around 3/1000live births.
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The Government has madeAadhaar number manda-
tory for the patients in casethey seek benefits second timeunder the recently-launchedAyushman Bharat — PradhanMantri Jan Arogya Yojana(AB-PMJAY).
In case the Aadhaar num-ber is not available, beneficia-ries have to at least providedocuments to prove that theyhave enrolled for the 12-digitunique identity number,according to a senior official inthe Union Health Ministry.
The move follows
Supreme Court order declar-ing the Aadhaar scheme asconstitutionally valid.
The officer said that as theSupreme Court order is stillbeing assessed, right now wehave decided that one shouldhave Aadhaar number or at
least documents to prove thatone has enrolled for the 12-digit unique identity numberto seek treatment under thescheme for the second time.
"To avail benefits for thefirst time, one can either showan Aadhaar or any other iden-tity document like electioncard etc," the official added.
The Ayushman Bharat-National Health ProtectionMission (AB-NHPM), whichwas renamed as AB-PMJAY,was launched pan-India by thePrime Minister fromJharkhand on September 23.
Under the scheme, theGovernment aims at providing
a coverage of �5 lakh perfamily annually, benefitingmore than 10.74 crore poorfamilies for secondary andtertiary care hospitalisationthrough a network ofEmpanelled Health CareProviders (EHCP).
The PMJAY will providecashless and paperless accessto services for the beneficiaryat the point of service.
Over 14,000 hospitals bothpublic and private, have beenempanelled for the scheme,and as many as 32 States andunion territories have signedMoUs with the Centre and willimplement the programme.
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The Centre has decided togive a special treatment
and high comfort level toPravasi Bharatiya who intendsto visit to the Kumbh Mela inAllahabad early next year. TheGovernment has instructedrailways to activate its vastresources and scale up deploy-ment of such trains to carry upto 5,000 delegates who will bein Prayagraj in Allahabad.
In this regard the IndianRailways has firmed up plansto run special 'Pravasi Bharti'trains between Allahabad andDelhi to ferry delegates of thePravasi Bharatiya Divas.
Railway officials said thenational transporter will con-vert all third AC coaches of thespecial trains to second ACcoaches for providing morecomfort to delegates. The 15th
Pravasi Bhartiya Divas will beheld in Prime MinisterNarendra Modi's constituencyVaranasi from January 21 to 23.
The Indian diasporaattending the event will get anopportunity to participate inthe 'Kumbh Snan', prepara-tions for which have beenmade at the sangam for the del-egates. Those interested in par-ticipating in the holy bath haveto register on the PravasiBhartiya Divas website tillNovember 15.
While the Kumbh will betaking place from January 14 toMarch 4, 2019, in Allahabad inwhich railways will be ferryinglakhs of devotees from acrossthe country for their holy dips,the date for the delegates to visitthe Kumbh will be January 24.
The Indian railways offi-cials are however apprehensiveabout the journey as heavy fog
during peak winters is likely todelay trains on the route. Theshortest distance between thetwo cities is approximately 630km and minimum time a traintakes to reach Allahabad fromNew Delhi is 6h 44m.
Keeping in view the largenumber of pilgrims who willtravel to Allahabad at thattime, railways will also increasethe frequency of trains betweenthe two cities. The delegateswill be accommodated atPrayagraj and railways' cateringarm, IRCTC will provide com-plementary dinner and break-fast to them.
A meeting for a review ofplans for the PravasiyaBharatiya Divas delegates hasbeen scheduled by the MEA onMonday, which will be attend-ed by representatives of allministries associated with theevent including the railways.
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In order to meet the require-ment of 100 per cent EVM-
VVPATs across approximately10.6 lakh polling stations forthe upcoming Lok SabhaElection in 2019, the ElectionCommission is making manda-tory first level checks and train-ing to district officers for theproper conduct of elections andto bring transparency.
Around 22.3 lakh BallotUnits, 16.3 lakh Control Unitsand nearly 17.3 lakh VVPATs
will be used for the forthcom-ing elections in 2019, which arebeing manufactured by thetwo PSUs — ElectronicsCorporation of India Limited(ECIL) and Bharat ElectronicsLimited (BEL).
The commission said thatEVM management Softwarewill be pilot tested in the forth-coming Assembly elections inselect Districts namely Ajmer,Indore, Durg, Aizawl andMehboobnagar.
According to EC, the EVMVVPAT inventory is securely
managed through a robusttracking system to track alloperations on machine move-ment, First Level Checks, ran-domisation, poll day defects.
Use of EVMs ended thedays of booth capturing and thedelays and errors in counting ofballot papers. Even during theuse of ballot paper, large num-ber of votes in each Assemblyconstituency ended up beinginvalid. The specially designedthermal paper to be used in theVVPAT is capable of retainingthe printout for more than
five years so that the printoutis available for manual verifi-cation by the Court,if requiredin need of a dispute for crosschecking the counting of votescast.
"This time, to bring moretransparency in elections, EChas decided to use VVPATswhich allows the voters to ver-ify that their votes are cast asintended, as the VVPAT slipswill be visible to the voter forseven seconds behind thetransparent screen of VVPAT,before falling into the sealed
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Even after the Governmentof India started deporting
Rohingyas, illegal immigrantsfrom Myanmar, to their nativecountry, a large number ofthem staying in Jammu con-tinue to live 'safely' all alongthe periphery of Sunjwanarmy station and other vitalsecurity installations in dif-ferent parts of Jammu.
According to the stateHome department recordsmade available in the stateassembly during the Budgetsession this year, "a totalnumber of 6,523 Rohingyaswere camping across 39 loca-tions in five districts of the State".
In contrast to this varioussocio-politico organsationsallege their actual numberscould be much more thanrecorded in the record booksof the State Home Department.
According to the officialsources in the State HomeDepartment, the State PoliceDepartment is yet to preparean upgraded list of Rohingyas.
Even repeated remindersby the Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh, directing the
State Government to collecttheir bio metrics, has failed toalert them.
According to officialsources, "the majority popu-lation of these Rohingyas iscircling around Sunjwan armycamp, attacked by Pakistanbased 'fidayeen' squad onFebruary 10, 2018".
Preliminary investigationsconducted in the case hadclearly suggested role of someover ground workers,possiblysupported by Rohingyas,behind sheltering heavilyarmed terrorists before the attack was launched fromthe rear side of the army camp.
Despite lot of hue and cryand fresh security assessmentthese illegal immigrants con-tinue to occupy prime landalong the boundary wall ofarmy camp posing a seriousthreat to the security of thevital army installation.
Till date no action hasbeen taken by any other StateGovernment agency to relo-cate them to any other loca-tion to ensure safety of strate-gically important defenceinstallation.
Ironically, when DefenceMinister Nirmala Sitharamanhad visited the encounter site
it was brought in to her noticethat rampant constructionactivity was going on in andaround Sunjwan military station.
She was also informedthat illegal immigrants, settledin the close vicinity, continueto pose a threat as they arevulnerable to black mail byover ground workers of terroroutfits establishing theirsleeper cel ls in and around Jammu.
In the last eight monthseven the senior army author-ities have failed to convincethe State Government to atleast relocate these illegalimmigrants from the closevicinity of strategically impor-tant defence installations.
The issue of resettlementof illegal immigrants hasalready become bone of con-tention between the differentpolitical parties of the State.
On one hand the main-stream political parties fromKashmir valley adopt softapproach towards their con-tinuation within the statewhile Jammu based politicalparties and their leaders havebeen spearheading a cam-paign to relocate them at theearliest outside the State border.
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The by-election in three LokSabha and two Assembly
constituencies in Karnataka isan acid test for the coalitionGovernment of the Congressand the JD(S) led by ChiefMinister HD Kumaraswamy.
The byelection announcedby the Election Commissionto be held on November 3 isseen as an indication of polit-ical wind ahead of the 2019general elections. So much sothe fragile coalition is testingthe waters.
Even though all the polit-ical parties are questioning thewisdom in declaring byelec-tions in three Lok Sabha con-stituencies just a few monthsahead of general elections in2019, it is obvious it is going tohave an impact on the politi-cal situation in the State.
Kumaraswamy (JD-S)who took the mantle with justover 30 seats with the help ofCongress with 77 seats defeat-ing the BJP with 104 seats inthe 2018 Assembly polls has toprove his political acumen tokeep his relationship with theCongress, a house terriblydivided over the decision ofthe high command to alignwith the JD(S).
Bypoll for Ramanagaraand Jamakhandi assemblyseats and three Lok Sabhaseats of Ballari, Mandya andShivamogga will be held onNovember 3. Shivamogga LokSabha seat had fallen vacantdue to the resignation of BJPleader, Yeddyurappa,Sriramulu(BJP) had resignedhis Ballari seat, while Mandyaseat had been vacated byJD(S) leader, CS Puttaraju,af ter gett ing elected to the assembly.
The bypoll to assemblyseats of Jamakhandi andRamanagara is necessitateddue to the death ofJamakhandi MLA, SidduNyam Gowda, and retention
of Channapatna seat by chiefminister, H D Kumaraswamy,who had registered victoriesfrom two seats.
Karnataka PradeshCongress Committee (KPCC)President, Dinesh Gundu Raofelt there was no need to holdby elections for vacant LokSabha seats. Speaking at a pressconference he said that electionfor Lok Sabha seats could havebeen held during the generalelection itself. However he saidthe issue of having pact withJD(S) for this election has notyet been discussed.
Senior BJP leader and for-mer Minister S Sureshkumar ina face book post questioned theneed for the by elections aheadof 2019 polls within three orfour months.
After the breakup of BSPfrom the Mahaghatbhandhansenior Congress leader andDalit leader from KarnatakaMallikharjuna Kharge calledfor "like-minded parties" tocome together to defeat the rul-ing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)Government in the impendingelections.
It was just three monthsback at the swearing in cere-mony of Kumaraswamy manynetas showed unity by holdinghands which include Mayawatiof BSP and others.
But it is politically intrigu-ing that whether Devegowdawill have a pre poll alliance withthe Congress or wil he goalone. However many Congressleaders within the party are nothappy to go with the JDs whichis always seen as anti-Congressparty.
Meanwhile SeniorCongress leader and LocalBodies Minister in theKarnataka Government,Ramesh Jarkiholi, who hasshown the red flag against theleadership has drawn flak forskipping five Cabinet meetingsin a row despite holding a keyportfolio.
The Minister has offered astartling reason for his absence:"I will not attend the meetingstill God answers my prayers."According to reports, Jarkiholi,along with his younger broth-er and MLA Satish Jarkiholi,are upset with the Congress'high command.
According to BJP insidersYeddyurappa is planning tofield his son BY Raghavendrafrom Shivamogga parliamen-tary seat.
Raghavendra had vacatedthe Shikaripura seat for hisfather in 2018 assembly polls.Congress is expected to filedformer minister KagoduThimmappa or KimmaneRathnakara.
In Mandya, JD(S) is con-sidering IRS officer LakshmiAshwin Gowda orKumaraswamy’s son NikhilGowda.
The by-elections havebecome family affair and it setthe direction and mood of thepeople for the 2019 generalpolls. The elected candidateswill have only three to fourmonths and parties are ques-tioning the need for the byelections.
According to ChiefElectoral Officer (CEO) SanjivKumar With the announce-ment of by-elections in threeparliamentary and twoAssembly constituencies, themodel code of conduct hascome into force with immedi-ate effect.
He said Measures are beingput in place to ensure it is notviolated by political parties,candidates, bureaucrats andthe media.
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Thiruvananthapuram: Therepresentatives of Sabarimalatemple's 'tantri' (chief priest) willnot attend a conciliation meet-ing called by Kerala ChiefMinister Pinarayi Vijayan to dis-cuss the September 28 SupremeCourt verdict that threw openthe temple to women of allages,it was announced on Sunday.
"Let us hear the final deci-sion of the State Governmentwith regard to the filing of areview petition against theapex court's verdict. Once thatis known, then we will decideon what needs to be done. Todeploy female police personnelin the temple premises is a vio-lation of the temple practices,"Sabarimala priest KantararuMohanaru told the media.
The meeting is scheduledto be held on Monday.
Following the verdict,Vijayan had categorically saidthat no review petition wouldbe filed and the StateGovernment will do all thethings needed to implement it.
Things went out of controlafter the State Governmentand the Travancore DevasomBoard (TDB), who is the cus-todian of the temple, decidednot to file the petition leadingto hundreds of devotees takingto the streets in protest.
A. Padmakumar, a seniorCommunist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader andTDB President, said the Boardwas initially keen to file thereview petition, but after being
openly chided by Vijayan, theydecided not to.
Rahul Eashwar, anothermember of the tantri family,said that they have nothingagainst the VijayanGovernment but their prioritywas the emotional attachmentof the devotees. "The key stake-holders of the temple are theState Government and the TDBand if they do not file a reviewpetition, then there will be nolocus standi to other reviewpetitions. The need of the houris that these two parties shoulddo the needful," said Eashwar.
The decision to boycottMonday's meeting was takenafter detailed consultations withthe powerful Nair Service Societythe socio-cultural body of theHindu Nair community.
The Pathanamthitta district(where the temple is located), isobserving a shutdown on Sundayto protest the use of police forceagainst the youth wing of the BJPwhile they staged a demonstra-tion on Saturday.
On September 28, in a 4:1judgment, the apex court saidthe ban on women in themenstruating age group,whose presence in the LordAyyappa temple was consid-ered to be "impure", violatedtheir fundamental rights andconstitutional guarantee ofequality.
Until now, girls below 10years and women over 50years were allowed to visit thehilltop shrine. IANS
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here to retrieve and safeguardforest land from land grabbersin Jammu region, an officialspokesman said on Sunday.
Divisional Commissioner,Jammu, Sanjeev Vermadirected the constitution ofthe special cell.
Members of the cellinclude Jammu divisional for-est officer, assistantCommissioner (revenue), sub-divisional magistrate (south),joint director forest protectionforce, sub-divisional police offi-cer and Jammu DevelopmentAuthority (JDA) officials.
The decision to set up thecell was taken at a high-levelinter-departmental coordina-tion meeting of revenue, police,JDA and forest officials, chairedby Principal ChiefConservator Forests (PCCF)Suresh Chugh here onSaturday.
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The Mumbai Congress onSunday launched a 'hoard-
ing war' blaming the BharatiyaJanata Party Government forthe ongoing stock market crisesin the wake of the IL&FS devel-opments.
More than 250 hoardingscame up all over the country'sfinancial capital, highlightingthe bloodbath witnessed in thepast few days in the crashingstock markets with Sensex andNifty indices plunging, whichresulted in losses of lakhs ofcrores of rupees for investorsand traders.
"There's a complete chaosin the Indian stock markets...Within barely a fortnight, theSensex crashed by over 3,000points and Nifty by 1,600points. This has resulted in awipeout of �15 lakh crore ofinvestors' monies," said
Mumbai Congress PresidentSanjay Nirupam.
Added to this is the depre-ciation of the Rupee vis-A-visthe USD, now at over �74, thegalloping fuel prices, besidesother financial misgovernanceof Prime Minister NarendraModi's rule that has destroyedlakhs of small investors, he said.
"For this entire financialand economic crises whichhave resulted in the com-moners losing their savings,Modi must apologise to thenation. We have also demand-ed a White Paper on theIL&FS crises, but the govern-ment has not reacted,"Nirupam said.
The hoardings have comeup at prominent public places,railway stations, the twonational highways slicingthrough the city, major land-marks, railway stations andother important junctions.
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Atribal insurgent was shotdead by people suspected
to be of a rival group, policesources said on Sunday.
The victim was identifiedas S Paomei of Thangla village.He was accosted and gunneddown near the Keithelmanbipolice station.
He was a 'captain' of theoutlawed Zeliangrong UnitedFront.
Police sources said that anoutlawed tribal outfit, which isat loggerheads with the ZUF, issuspected to be behind thekilling.
No arrests have beenmade so far.
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Vadodara: Gujarat ChiefSecretary JN Singh and otherofficials on Sunday visited thesite of the Sardar Patel memo-rial in Narmada district, about90 kilometres from here, to takestock of the work.
The 182-metre tall Statueof Unity, located about 3.32kilometres from the SardarSarovar Dam at Kevadiya, isscheduled to be inaugurated onOctober 31 by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.
"We visited the site to takestock of the project and ensureits timely completion. It will beready for inauguration onOctober 31. It will emerge as aworld class tourist destina-tion," Singh said.
The memorial is beingbuilt at an estimated cost of�3,000 crore under the PublicPrivate Partnership model byconstruction firm Larsen andToubro and the state-runSardar Sarovar NarmadaNigam Ltd (SSNNL).
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The long-drawn Maoistinsurgency in the country
will be "completely erased" intwo to three years, UnionHome Minister Rajnath Singhdeclared here on Sunday.
Addressing the 26thanniversary of the RapidAction Force (RAF), a spe-cialised wing of the CentralReserve Police Force (CRPF),the Minister said the situationhad changed and the Maoistswere now confined to only 10or 12 districts.
"We will get news within 2-3 years that Maoism has beencompletely erased," said Singh,who represents Lucknow in theLok Sabha.
Praising the CRPF's role inMaoist affected areas, Singhsaid the 3.5 lakh-strong forcehad neutralized 131 Maoiststhis year between January andSeptember 20 and caughtanother 1,278.
"A total of 58 Maoists hadto surrender before the CRPF.The force also recovered ahuge cache of arms and ammu-nition this year besides �1.29crore in cash."
In the process, the killingof security personnel in Maoisthubs had drastically fallen.
A Maoist insurgency rag-ing in parts of India since1967 has claimed thousands oflives. Maoists are now knownto be most active inChhattisgarh, Madhya Pradeshand Jharkhand.
Jammu & Kashmir, heasserted, would always be withIndia.
"Kashmir is ours, it wasours and it will be ours. Nopower of the world can snatchit from us," he said.
Reminding that RAF dealswith riots, major law and orderissues as well as relief and res-cue operations, Singh said"rapid action" did not mean"reckless action".
"The force should under-stand how to behave, howmuch pressure it should createand when this should be cre-ated."
The Minister said the secu-rity forces were "civilized" andnot "brutal".
The RAF has been "usingminimum force and producingmaximum result".
Singh lauded the CRPF'sattempt in maintaining a bal-ance while dealing withKashmir. "If some Kashmiriyouths do things they shouldnot because they are instigatedby some people, you handlethem properly as you feel thatthey belong to our country.
"But if any person indulgesin terrorist activity, no power inthe world can stop you fromneutralizing that person."
The Minister said militantincidents had decreased inJammu and Kashmir and thatsecurity forces had been givinga befitting reply to the terrorists.
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Thiruvananthapuram: Heavyrain has been forecast in Kerala,under the influence of a depres-sion over Arabian sea which islikely to intensify into a deepdepression and further into acyclonic storm over the nexttwo days.
The depression over south-east and adjoining east-centralArabian Sea moved further west-north westward and lay centredSunday about 1,340 km east-southeast of Salalah (Oman),1,250 km east-south east ofSocotra Islands (Yemen) and 940km west-northwest of Minicoy(Lakshadweep Islands), a releasefrom IMD office here said.
It is very likely to intensi-fy further into a deep depres-sion during next 12 hours andinto a cyclonic storm duringsubsequent 24 hours, therelease said.
The system was expectedto move west-north westwards
towards South Oman andadjoining Yemen coast in nextfive days. Rainfall at mostplaces with heavy spells at iso-lated areas is very likely tooccur in Kerala during next 48hours, the release added.
Squally wind speed reach-ing 40-50 kmph gusting to 60kmph is very likely overLakshadweep and southeastArabian Sea during next 24hours and over eastcentralArabian Sea during next 48hours, the release added.
The Kerala governmenthas stepped up its vigil in viewof the possibility of heavy rains.
Kerala had been devastatedby floods in August this yearleaving a trail of unprecedenteddestruction and had forced peo-ple to take refuge in relief camps.The South-west monsoon hadclaimed 493 lives in the floods,the worst in the last 100 years.
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Around 35 exotic birds andanimals smuggled into India
from Bangkok via Myanmarwere seized by DRI personnel atthe city's international airportand two persons were arrested,an official said on Sunday.
The Directorate of RevenueIntelligence (DRI) officialsintercepted the consignmentvalued around �85.55 lakh onSaturday and handed over theseized animals and birds to theKolkata Zoo authorities forsafe custody.
"The cargo was booked inthe name of Domnic JacobSequeira of Pune, who alongwith an accomplice was foundwaiting to receive the con-signment. Both were arrestedwhen they were trying to loadthe five cages containing thebirds and animals in a vehicle,"a DRI official said.
The official said that DRI'sAizawl zonal unit had identi-fied one Lalfingkima Sailo forinvolvement in the smuggling
of the birds and animalsthrough the India-Myanmarborder at Zokhtawar inMizoram. A follow-up actionwas underway in Pune.
These are four whitecockatoos, one yellow-tailedblack cockatoo, five Eclectusparrots, 12 grey parrots, oneblue yellow macaw, one silvermacaw, one knobbed hornbill,two birds-of-paradise, fourcassowary chicks, two blackand white ruffed lemurs, onebaby marmoset and oneBengal cat.
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Amajority of BengalPradesh Congress leaders
are against party presidentRahul Gandhi and SoniaGandhi joining the unitedOpposition rally called byMamata Banerjee.
Though no PCC leaderwould go on record saying,“any decision would be takenby the high command” andthat “the State unit has alwaysfollowed the top leadership’sdecisions,” inside sources saidthat some senior State leadershave virtually extracted wordsfrom national leader RanjitSurjewala that Akbar Roadwill not circumvent the PCC intaking any decision regardingMamata Banerjee.
“We have not only been dec-imated by the TrinamoolCongress in Bengal — not bypolitical means but brute forceand money power — but also weare being subjected to humilia-tion every day. How can we takethis?” asked a senior PCC leaderand an office-bearer adding, “ifwe continue to capitulate beforeTMC like this then soon therewill be no Congress person leftin Bengal.”
Sources said though thehigh command does not wantto ignore Banerjee at a timewhen both Mayawati andAkhilesh Yadav have decidedto contest the coming
Assembly elections inRajasthan, MP andChhattisgarh without holdingthe ‘hand’ they are also notunaware of the fomentinganger among the grassrootsworkers in Bengal Congress.
“Workers of almost theentire Nadia district haveswitched sides to the BJP.Similar is the condition inBirbhum, East Midnaporeand other places. If we have tosave the Congress from fur-ther decay we will have to takeinto account the sentiments ofthe grassroots workers,” saida PCC leader and a former Minister.
The Bengal Chief Ministerhas called a rally of all the anti-BJP parties at Kolkata’s historicBrigade Parade Ground.Among the key political fig-ures invitees (including likelyinvitees) in the January 19 rallyare National Conference lead-ers Farooq Adullah, his sonOmar Abdullah, Gujarat lead-ers Jignesh Mewani andHardik Patel, Andhra PradeshChief Minister ChandrababuNaidu, his Delhi counterpartArvind Kejriwal andTelengana Chief Minister KChandrasekhar Rao.
The Trinamool Congresschief has also said that shewill invite her Kerala coun-terpart and CPI(M) leaderPinarai Vijayan and CPI’s DRaja. “We have invited all
non-BJP parties. We havealso managed to secure per-mission for the BrigadeParade grounds. Some of theleaders have confirmed theirparticipation too,” the ChiefMinister recently said.
At a time when theMayawati and Akhilesh Yadavare raising doubts over theCongress’ true intention toshare power and uphold a truenational alliance based on equi-ty and equality Banerjee’s biggestweapon could be a rally and aphoto op for the anti-BJP oppo-sition leaders that could in thefinal run catapult her to the cen-tre stage, experts feel.
According to sources theChief Minister is also planningto invite Mayawati andAkihilesh Yadav to her rally,insiders said.
On whether the Congresswants Banerjee to leave someseats (at least four seats) forthe party’s top leadership tojoin the January rally, a PCCleader who nourishes softerview on Banerjee said “we donot want to break a move tounite the opposition partiesbut that should not be done byhumiliating the others. TheChief Minister has alreadysaid that the TMC will contestall the seats in Bengal alone.If that be so then how can sheexpect the parties like theCongress and even the Left toattend her rally.”
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The Nana Patekar-TanushreeDutta spat reached a flash
point on Sunday with theactress formally lodging a com-plaint against the senior actorfor allegedly subjecting her tosexual harassment during afilm shoot eight years ago andPatekar indicating his plans toaddress a news conference onMonday to rebut the seriouscharges against him.
Hours after the Patekar’sreturn from Jaipur in Rajasthanwhere he was shooting for hisupcoming film 'Housefull 4',Tanushree took the battle to theenemy’s camp by lodging thecomplaint against the seniormale actor who she alleged“was grabbing me by the armsand pushing me...when he wastouching indecently...I felt veryuncomfortable because of hisbehaviour...I felt he has out-raged my modesty.”
Patekar found himself onthe defensive, when the mediapersons buttonholed for hiscomment on the raging con-troversy on his arrival in thecity from Jaipur on Saturday."Jo jhooth hai, woh jhooth hai(A lie is a lie)....Dus saal pehleiska jawaab de chuka hoon (Ihad said this 10 years ago),"Patekar said, as he boarded hiscar to head to his
Lokhandwada residence.Sources close to Patekar
said on Sunday that he plannedto address a news conference atCelebration Sports Club atLokhandwala Complex innorth Mumbai at 3 pm onMonday to rebut the chargesagainst him and clarify hisstand on the issues raised byTanushree.
Late on Saturday evening,Tanushree lodged a complaintwith the Oshiwara police sta-tion against Patekar under sec-tions 354 (Assault or criminalforce to women with intent tooutrage her modesty), 354-A(Assault or use of criminalforce with intent to disrobe her)and section 509 (word, gestureor act intended to insult themodesty o a woman) of IndianPenal Code.
In her complaint,Tanushreee also named chore-ographer Ganesh Acharya, pro-ducer Samee Siddiqui, directorRakesh Sarang and some MNSworkers who allegedly dam-aged her car and pulled her outof her car.
In her complaint,Tanushree alleged that the inci-dent took place on March 26,2008 during the shooting of asong in the film “Horn OkPleaseee” . The entire was to bepicturised on the actress, whilePatekar had only line in thesong. She said that before theshoot, she had made it clear tothe producer and director thatshe would not enact or perform
any lewd, vulgar or uncom-fortable steps in the particularsong.
“On the 4th day of theshoot, 26th March 2008, whileshooting was going on, NanaPatekar’s behaviour was inap-propriate towards me. He wason the set despite his work inthe song being over and he wasgrabbing me by the arms andpushing me around on thepretext of teaching me how todance. When he was teachingindecently and unnecessarily,then I felt very uncomfortablebecause of his behaviour and Ifelt he has outraged my mod-esty,” Tanushree alleged.
“He told the choreograph-er and other junior artists toback away so that he couldteach me the dance stepsthrough he was not a choreo-grapher and he was notrequired during the choreog-raphy as per my previousrehearsals,” the actress added.
“After the incident, I wasunder tremendous shock, Isuffered psychological trauma,was unable to take up work,suffered huge monetary lossesin crores and therefore I decid-ed to take action through filmindustry by lodging a writtencomplaint with the Cine andTV Artistes Association. TheAssociation decided the matterand passed the order withoutconsidering my complaint forap0logy,” Tanushree stated inher police complaint.
Actress Shilpa Shetty-
undra, who was among the firstof the Bollywood personalitiesto extend support to TanushreeDutta, once again threw herweight behind the latter foropenly sharing her storyagainst the senior actor.
The ‘Hear Me. Love Me.’host said: ” Women should notfeel weak or they shouldn’tblame themselves and rather bestrong today. ..We don’t knowthe nitty-gritties of the incidentbut it has kick-started a move-ment. People have suffered.It’s time women wake up andtake charge. It shouldn’t behashtag MeToo, it should be#YouToo, for the men. It’sshouldn’t be the women, cow-ing down and saying oh#MeToo”.
“In any milieu, actors,entrepreneurs, the workingenvironment should feel safe.That should be a prerequisite.This entire movement whichhas been initiated by TanushreeDutta, my heart goes out to her,as a woman and on a humanlevel because something likethis was brushed under the car-pet,” Shilpa told a news agency.
Earlier, a host of film per-sonalities including TwinkleKhanna, Farhan Akhtar,Priyanka Chopra, SwaraBhasker, Sonam Kapoor,Ayushmann Khurrana andFreida Pinto had openly sup-ported Tanushree in her fightagainst sexual harassment thatshe allegedly suffered at thehands of Patekar.
Meanwhile, beleagueredactor Nana Patekar has foundsupport from an unexpectedquarters. Hundreds of widowsof debt-ridden farmers, whocommitted suicide in recentyears, have rallied behind theactor in his hour of need.
Working under the bannerof the Vidarbha Farm WidowsAssociation, the farmers’ wid-ows staged a demonstration atPandharkavada village inYavatmal district on Saturdaydemanding an end to "the vic-timization of our brother NanaPatekar." The demonstratorsmade bonfire of an effigy andphotographs of Tanushree.
The demonstrators wereled by KBC-fame AparnaMalikar and other prominentactivists Bharati Pawar, AnjuBhusari, Geeta Rathore,Vandara Gavande, ArchanaRaut, Kavita Sidam, RanjanaKhadse, Kamal Surpam, UmaJiddewar, Sheela Mandavgade,Chandrakala Meshram,Poornima Pokulwar, BabitaAgarkar, Jyoti Jiddewar, RamaThamke, Vandana Shende,Ranjana Gurnule and others.
The demonstrators raisedslogans in favour of Patekar,who has been helping the farm-ers’ widows financially througha non-government organisa-tion. They said Dutta is "unnec-essarily defaming Patekar - afather-figure -- who has helpedthe cause of the crisis-hit wid-ows for several years" to helpthem secure justice.
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Ahead of the crucial firstphase of the Urban Local
Bodies (ULB) elections inJammu and Kashmir, theauthorities said elaborate secu-rity and logistic arrangementshave been put in place toensure smooth conduct of thepolls. The elections are beingheld in the backdrop of boycottcalls from separatists groups,militants’ threats and unprece-dented decision of two promi-nent mainstream political par-ties to stay away.
The security forces inten-sified vehicle checking, friskingof pedestrians and area domi-nation in the Srinagar city andother poll-bound urban pock-ets in Kashmir Valley to avertany untoward incident or pos-sible attacks by the militants.Several check points have beenset up to check private andpublic transport vehicles.Sniffer dogs were also seenassisting the checking proce-dures.
The first phase of the pollsis taking place on Monday. Theelections to 2 municipal cor-porations, 3 municipal councilsand 72 municipal committeesin the state shall be covered infour phases from 8 to 16October.
The polling will be held on08, 10, 13 and 16 Octoberrespectively, while as the dateof counting will be October 20.The polling hours will be from7 am to 4 pm and the processof election will complete on 27October.
In the first phase, the pollshave been scheduled to beheld in three wards of SrinagarMunicipal Corporation besides
covering MunicipalCommittees of Kupwara,Handwara, Bandipora andBaramulla in north Kashmir;Municipal Committees ofBudgam, Chadoora and KhanSahib in central Kashmir andKulgam, Devsar, Achabal,Kokernag and Qazigund insouth Kashmir. In addition, thepolls are scheduled forMunicipal Committees ofKargil and Leh in the firstphase.
The government has for-mulated unprecedented secu-rity plan for the smooth con-duct of upcoming Urban LocalBodies (ULB) and Panchayatelections in the state. The plancovers safety and security ofboth contestants and the votersin most sensitive areas inKashmir and elsewhere in theState.
Adequate arrangements forthe security of the candidates,their personal security as wellas the accommodation arrange-ments have been made. Areadomination, checking andoperations have been goingon to ensure general sense ofsecurity. Additional 400 com-panies of central security forceswould be deployed in the stateover and above the securityforces already stationed.
On Saturday, GovernorSatya Pal Malik reviewed thesecurity situation in the stateahead of the first phase of themunicipal elections. The meet-ing was attended by top offi-cials from Army, Police, CRPF,intelligence agencies and civiladministration.
In an unprecedented move,the government employeesdeployed on election dutywould be paid a month’s addi-
tional salary.There are no prominent
faces who are contesting in themunicipal elections thoughseveral women candidatesbelonging to Congress and BJPare in the fray. Most of the can-didates including women inKashmir region are contestingas independents.
The two main regionalpolitical parties NationalConference and PeoplesDemocratic Party have decid-ed to boycott the elections asthey have asked the CentralGovernment to clear its standon the issue of Article 35-A andtake steps for its protection.The Communist Party of India(CPI) also decided against par-ticipating in the polls keepingin view the prevailing situationin the valley.
The State Congress after
deferring the decision forsometime, of late announced itsparticipation in the upcomingPanchayat and Municipal elec-tions. The BJP and otherJammu based smaller partiesare also participating in theupcoming elections.
Pertinently, more than adozen Panchayat Ghars most-ly in south Kashmir regionbesides in central and northKashmir areas have comeunder attack following theannouncement of Panchayatelections. Unknown personshave set ablaze the PanchayatGhars and also attempted to seton fire some more PanchayatGhars in these areas.
On Friday, unidentifiedmilitants shot dead two work-ers of National Conferencewhile another activist was alsoinjured in the attack at their
residence in old Srinagar area.Petrol bomb attacks were alsocarried out by unknown per-sons at the residences of twoindependent candidates forULB elections in the two dif-ferent localities of old Srinagarcity last week.
Separatist grouping, JointResistance Leadership (JRL)comprising Syed Ali Geelani,Mirwaiz Umar Farooq andYasin Malik, has called forelection boycott and shutdownon the first polling day. Themilitant outfit HizbulMujahideen has also threat-ened action against the con-testants and the participants inthe ULB and Panchayat elec-tions. Yasin Malik was detainedand lodged in local jail sever-al days ago while Geelani andMirwaiz are held under house-arrest.
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Amassive cordon andsearch operation (CASO)
was launched by a joint teamof security forces in half adozen vil lages of southKashmir's Shopian districton Sunday. The operationconcluded without any occur-rence of clashes or untowardincident. Sources said thatSindho Shirmal, Balpora,Ganowpora, Barthipor,Wathoo and Chak villages ofthe area were cordoned off.
They said the operationwas launched on the basis ofpresence of armed militants
in the cluster of villages.The high speed mobile
internet services in southKashmir region continuedto remain snapped ahead ofthe upcoming civic polls inthe Valley.
The mobile internet ser-vices were suspended in fourdistr icts of Anantnag,Kulgam, Pulwama andShopian since Saturdayevening.
Only 2 G internet andbroadband services remainedoperational in the regionwith intermittent disruption.
Authorities said the highspeed internet services weresnapped as a precautionarysecurity measure.
The internet suspensioncomes four days after lowspeed internet services wererestored in Shopian andPulwama.
The districts stayed offline to curb circulation of res-ignations posted by SPOsand policemen through socialmedia networking sites fol-lowing the killing of threepolicemen by militants inShopian district last month.
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Around 190 polling stationshave been designated as
hypersensitive in embattledJammu and Kashmir wherepolling would be held in thefirst phase of municipal pollson Monday. Most of them arein Kashmir Valley.
Chief Electoral Officer(CEO) Shaleen Kabra said thatin the first phase of MunicipalPolls-2018 voting will takeplace at 820 polling stationsacross the State.
“In Kashmir Division 138polling stations have been cat-egorized as hypersensitivewhile in Jammu Division 52polling stations have been cat-egorised hypersensitive,” hesaid and added that for thePhase-I, 78 candidates havealready been elected unop-posed.
The CEO said 1204 can-didates are in the fray for 321Municipal Wards in Phase-I,including 83 in Kashmir divi-sion and 238 in Jammu divi-sion.
“The total electorate forPhase-I is 586064,”he saidand added that BasicMinimum Facilities (BMF)have been ensured in all thepolling stations across theState for voting.
He said Photo Voter Slipshave already been distributedamong the voters to informthem of their polling station.
Kabra said senior govern-ment officers have beenappointed as GeneralObservers to oversee thesmooth, fair and orderly con-duct of polls.
“Expenditure Observersare also keeping a watch on theexpenditure by the candi-dates,” he said and added thatfor the poll day MicroObservers have been deployedin polling stations, particular-ly those considered sensitive/hypersensitive.
“Besides, the Zonal andSector Magistrates have beendeployed to ensure smoothconduct of polls as well as mon-itoring the entire process,” CEOsaid and added that the DeputyCommissioners are undertak-ing Videography of all criticalevents related to the pollprocess.
Kabra said Control Roomshave been established in all theMunicipal Bodies across theState to respond promptly toany complaints of violation ofthe Model Code of Conduct(MCC) as also to disseminateinformation to the public.
He said adequate securityarrangements have been madefor smooth conduct of pollingacross the State.
He said the governmenthas also declared holiday onthe day of poll in the munic-ipal areas going to polls so asto enable the voters to casttheir vote.
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The game plan is yet to berevealed by either side but
the leading parties of the twoalliances in Bihar are likely toplay 20:20 in 2019 Lok Sabhaelections.
After the much-publicisedyet unconfirmed reports that inNDA the BJP would contest 20seats and give the remaining 20seats to its allies, reports comefrom maha gathbandhan orgrand alliance side, again uncon-firmed, that the RJD wouldkeep 20 seats and adjust itsalliances in the remaining 20seats.
The 20:20 formula has putthe allies of the two alliances inan uncomfortable position butthey are avoiding making anypublic reaction on the plea thatthey were still not informedabout such formula. “No for-mal talk has yet been held onthis matter,” said leader of anNDA ally who insisted thatwhatever be the seat sharingformula it should be discussedand finalised.
The RJD of Lalu Prasad,which claims to lead the maha
gathbandhan, has reportedlysounded that it would field itscandidates from 20 Lok Sabhaseats which meant that it wouldspare 20 seats to other ninepartners including Congressand possibly RLSP of UpendraKushwaha. If RLSP remainswith NDA, the seats would bedistributed among eight allies.
Apart from RJD, the alliesof maha gathbandhan includ-ed Congress, Lok TantrikJanata Dal of Sharad Yadav,Hindustani Awam Morcha(HAM) of Jitan Ram Manjhi,CPI, CPM, CPI(ML),Samajwadi Party and BSP.While one seat could be sparedfor Katihar MP Tariq Anwarwho recently resigned from theNCP, the RJD is waiting forRLSP. The Left parties, partic-ularly CPI(ML), and BSP areunlikely to accept this formu-la. Congress and HAM, whichare supposed to get eight andone seat respectively under theformula, would also not be sat-isfied as they expect more.
RJD supremo Lalu Prasad,currently in a hospital inRanchi in judicial custody, hasreportedly sent a message
through Tejahswi Prasad Yadav,who went to meet him lastweek, that the parties shouldnot insist on more seats with-out any logic and only thewinnable candidates be posi-tioned.
In 2014, the RJD won four,Congress two and NCP onewhile JD(U), which was not anally of any alliance, won twoseats. The BJP had won 22, LJPsix and RLSP three seats.
Earlier, filtered reportscoming from the NDA sidesuggested that the BJP hasalmost finalised the seat shar-ing but was restrained to makeit public in view of the resis-tance from the RLSP whichrejected offer to only two seatsto it. LJP of Ram Vilas Paswanwas also unhappy over pro-posed four seats. Bihar LJPchief and a Minister in Nitishcabinet Pashupati Kumar Parassaid in clear cut terms that hisparty would not accept lessthan six. “BJP being big broth-er should show big heart,” hesaid. As RJD is waiting forKushwaha with open arms,party has also sent out a signal,“Come early and get benefit.”
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Lucknow: Jammu & Kashmiris a part of India and it willremain so and "no power inthe world can snatch it fromus", Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh said onSunday.
"Kashmir is ours, it wasours and it will be ours. Nopower of the world can snatchit from us," the Minister saidon the occasion of 26thanniversary of the RapidAction Force (RAF), a spe-cialised wing of the CentralReserve Police Force (CRPF).
The RAF deals with riots,major law and order issues aswell as relief and rescue oper-ations. Singh also lauded the theCRPF's attempt in maintaininga balance while dealing withKashmiri people and terrorists.
"If some Kashmiri youths dothings they should not becausethey are instigated by some
people, you handle them prop-erly as you feel that they belongto our country. "But if any per-son indulges in any terroristactivity, no power in the worldcan stop you from neutralizingthat person," he added.
The Minister said militantincidents had decreased inJammu and Kashmir and thatsecurity forces had been givinga befitting reply to the terrorists.
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Srinagar: Ahead of the munic-ipal polls in the Kashmir Valley,authorities placed senior sepa-ratist leader Mirwaiz UmerFarooq under house arrest hereon Sunday.
Police said the decisionwas taken as a preventive mea-sure to maintain law and order.
Commenting on his arrestahead of the municipal pollsscheduled on Monday, MirwaizUmer said on his Twitter page:"Under House Arrest! Peculiardemocratic process... hugedeployment of forces, PSAs,incarceration, house arrests,raids, curbs, Internet bans gath-er momentum! Not to mentionthe unknown contestants andamused public! What mockeryof democracy at display!" Themunicipal elections will be heldin four phases in Jammu andKashmir. IANS
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akis
tan
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Soon
afte
r hi
s ap
poin
tmen
t to
the
Econ
omic
Adv
isory
Cou
ncil,
Pak
istan
Prim
e Min
ister
Imra
n Kh
an N
iazi
was
indu
ced
to r
emov
e D
r At
if M
ian
beca
use
he is
an
Ahm
adiy
ya, w
hich
is a M
uslim
'sec
t' co
nsid
ered
bla
sphe
mou
s by
mai
nstr
eam
Sun
nis.
Two
othe
r ec
onom
ists,
alth
ough
Sun
ni, n
amel
y D
r Im
ran
Rasu
l and
Dr
Asim
Ija
z K
hwaj
a, d
isapp
rove
d of
the
actio
n an
d re
signe
d. A
hmad
iyya
s be
lieve
them
selv
es t
o be
a s
ect
of I
slam
, bu
t in
Paki
stan
, ort
hodo
xy h
ad th
em ex
pelle
d so
me
50 y
ears
ago.
The
conc
ept o
f a m
inor
ity d
oes
not s
it w
ell i
n Is
lam
and
Pak
istan
was
cre
at-
ed a
s a
Mus
lim h
oly
land
or
Dar
ul I
slam
.A
nyon
e who
is n
ot a
Mus
lim is
look
ed d
own
upon
as a
non-
belie
ver o
r a k
afir
who
can
the-
oret
ical
ly b
e mad
e to
pay
jizya
and
is de
fact
oa d
him
mie
or a
‘pro
tect
ed’ o
r inf
erio
r citi
zen.
S/he
may
, of c
ours
e, be
offe
red
conv
ersio
n to
Isla
m, o
r al
tern
ativ
ely
ensla
ved
or e
xile
d or
kille
d ac
cord
ing
to d
octr
inal
law.
No
min
or-
ity, t
here
fore
, has
a fu
ture
in P
akist
an.
If th
ere w
as an
y dou
bt w
hats
oeve
r on
this
scor
e, it
was
rem
oved
by
the c
ruel
and
expe
-di
tious
man
ner
in w
hich
Hin
dus
and
Sikh
swe
re k
illed
or c
hase
d ou
t by e
arly
194
8. In
Eas
tPa
kist
an, t
he p
roce
ss w
as sl
ower
but
equ
ally
callo
us. T
his r
elig
ious
cle
ansin
g w
as c
onsis
-te
nt w
ith w
hat J
ustic
e MC
Chag
la w
rote
in h
isau
tobi
ogra
phy
entit
led,
Ros
es I
n D
ecem
ber:
“To
Paki
stan
eve
ryth
ing
is co
mm
unal
. She
cann
ot u
nder
stan
d ho
w H
indu
s and
Mus
lims
can
live
peac
eful
ly a
nd h
ave
the
best
of r
ela-
tions
. Pak
istan
’s ph
iloso
phy i
s tha
t in
the v
ery
natu
re o
f th
ings
Mus
lims
mus
t ha
te t
heH
indu
s an
d th
e H
indu
s m
ust
hate
the
Mus
lims.
If H
indu
s an
d M
uslim
s co
nstit
ute
two
sepa
rate
nat
ions
, the
n th
e ine
vita
ble r
esul
tm
ust f
ollo
w th
at th
e 50
mill
ion
Mus
lims
inIn
dia
are
alie
ns in
thei
r ow
n ho
mes
.”Fo
llow
ing
the
disp
osal
of
Hin
dus
and
Sikh
s, th
e nex
t rou
nd o
f min
ority
pur
ging
was
inau
gura
ted
agai
nst
the
Ahm
adiy
yas
orQ
adia
nis.
Dur
ing
the
late
19t
h ce
ntur
y, a
devo
ut M
uslim
calle
d M
irza G
hula
m A
hmad
of th
e Qad
ian
tow
nshi
p in
Gur
dasp
ur d
istric
tof
east
Pun
jab
repo
rted
ly sa
w a
divi
ne v
ision
.A
sign
ifica
nt n
umbe
r of p
eopl
e fo
llow
ed h
isle
ader
ship
. The
ort
hodo
x cl
ergy
, esp
ecia
lly o
fth
e Ba
relv
is an
d th
e D
eoba
ndis,
saw
in th
isde
velo
pmen
t a
phen
omen
on o
f ap
osta
sy.
How
cou
ld a
nyon
e da
re e
xper
ienc
e a
divi
ne
visio
n af
ter P
roph
et M
uham
mad
had
seen
ase
ries a
nd, b
ased
on
them
, del
iver
ed th
e fin
alm
essa
ge o
f God
? The
reaf
ter,
ther
e cou
ld o
nly
be k
halif
as o
r hi
s re
pres
enta
tives
or
imam
s.Th
ere
cann
ot b
e an
othe
r di
vine
vis
ion.
Nev
erth
eless
, the
follo
wers
of G
hula
m A
hmad
cont
inue
d to
cons
ider
them
selv
es M
uslim
and
pres
sed
for
the
crea
tion
of th
e ho
ly la
nd o
rPa
kist
an a
s vo
cife
rous
ly a
s an
y ot
her
mem
-be
r of t
he M
uslim
Lea
gue.
Sir
Muh
amm
ad Z
afar
ulla
h K
han,
an
emin
ent l
awye
r, sin
gle-
hand
edly
dra
fted
the
Leag
ue’s
Paki
stan
res
olut
ion
of M
arch
23,
1940
. In
1931
-32,
he h
ad b
een
Pres
iden
t of t
heM
uslim
Lea
gue,
and
from
193
5 to
194
1 he
sat
on t
he V
icer
oy’s
Exec
utiv
e C
ounc
il. W
hen
Part
ition
hap
pene
d, h
e w
as a
judg
e of
the
Fede
ral C
ourt
of I
ndia
(the
apex
cour
t in
New
Del
hi).
Sir
Zafa
rulla
h w
as a
ppoi
nted
the
Fore
ign
Min
ister
of P
akist
an. H
e al
so re
pre-
sent
ed th
e cou
ntry
at th
e Uni
ted
Nat
ions
. Thi
sge
ntle
man
is o
nly
one e
xam
ple b
ut an
y nu
m-
ber o
f his
sect
iden
tifie
d th
emse
lves
in th
e ser
-vi
ce o
f the
ir ne
w h
oly
land
. Yet
, in
1952
, vir-
ulen
t ri
ots
wer
e ig
nite
d ag
ains
t th
eA
hmad
iyya
s an
d Si
r Za
faru
llah’s
hou
se w
asse
t on
fire a
t Lah
ore.
He s
oon
trans
ferr
ed h
im-
self
out a
nd jo
ined
the I
nter
natio
nal C
ourt
of
Just
ice
at T
he H
ague
. In
the
wak
e of
ano
th-
er ag
itatio
n in
197
7 w
hen
Zulfi
kar A
li Bh
utto
was
the P
rime M
inist
er, t
he A
hmad
iyya
s wer
ede
clar
ed n
on-M
uslim
s. So
on af
ter,
Pres
iden
t
Zia-
ul-H
aq h
ad th
e Con
stitu
tion
amen
ded
tofo
rmal
ise th
e Bhu
tto d
ecla
ratio
n. T
his p
artic
-ul
ar a
men
dmen
t rea
d, n
on-M
uslim
mea
ns a
pers
on w
ho is
not
a M
uslim
and
incl
udes
ape
rson
bel
ongi
ng t
o th
e C
hrist
ian,
Hin
du,
Sikh
, Bud
dhist
or P
arsi
com
mun
ity, a
per
son
of th
e Qad
iani
gro
up o
r the
Lah
ori s
ect,
or a
Bahá
'í, a
nd a
per
son
belo
ngin
g to
any
of t
hesc
hedu
led ca
stes.
Afte
r the
Ahm
adis
were
offi
-ci
ally
dec
lare
d no
n-M
uslim
in 1
947,
a n
ewca
mpa
ign
bega
n to
subj
ect t
he S
hias
to si
m-
ilar p
resc
riptio
ns.
On
Augu
st 1
1, 1
947,
Qua
id-e
-Aza
m M
AJin
nah
gave
his
pres
iden
tial a
ddre
ss t
o th
eC
onst
ituen
t A
ssem
bly
of P
akis
tan.
He
obse
rved
: “Yo
u ar
e fre
e to
go to
your
tem
ples
,yo
u ar
e fr
ee to
go
to y
our m
osqu
es o
r to
any
othe
r pl
aces
of
wor
ship
. In
thi
s st
ate
ofPa
kist
an, y
ou m
ay b
elon
g to
any
relig
ion
orca
ste o
r cre
ed th
at h
as n
othi
ng to
do
with
the
busin
ess o
f the
stat
e. N
ow, I
thin
k w
e sho
uld
keep
that
in fr
ont o
f us a
s our
idea
l and
you
will
find
that
in co
urse
of t
ime,
Hin
dus w
ould
ceas
e to
be
Hin
dus
and
Mus
lims
wou
ldce
ase t
o be
Mus
lims,
not i
n th
e reli
giou
s sen
se,
beca
use t
hat i
s the
per
sona
l fai
th o
f eac
h in
di-
vidu
al, b
ut in
the p
oliti
cal s
ense
as ci
tizen
s of
the
stat
e.” T
he st
atem
ent w
as a
n af
firm
atio
nof
wha
t Jin
nah
had
told
a Re
uter
scor
resp
on-
dent
in 1
946:
The
new
stat
e wou
ld b
e a m
od-
ern
dem
ocra
tic st
ate w
ith so
vere
ignt
y re
stin
gin
the
peop
le a
nd th
e m
embe
rs o
f the
new
natio
n ha
ving
equ
al r
ight
of
citiz
ensh
ipre
gard
less
of t
heir
relig
ion,
cas
te o
r cre
ed.
In t
his
cont
ext,
Fara
hnaz
Isp
ahan
iob
serv
es: “
This
visio
n ou
tline
d by
the f
ound
erre
mai
ns u
nful
fille
d. A
t the
tim
e of
Par
titio
nin
194
7, al
mos
t 23
per c
ent o
f Pak
istan
’s po
p-ul
atio
n, w
hich
the
n in
clud
ed B
angl
ades
h,co
mpr
ised
non-
Mus
lim ci
tizen
s. Th
e pro
por-
tion
of n
on-M
uslim
s ha
s sin
ce f
alle
n to
appr
oxim
atel
y th
ree
per c
ent i
n th
e w
este
rnw
ing.
Fur
ther
mor
e, th
e di
stin
ctio
ns a
mon
gM
uslim
den
omin
atio
ns h
ave
beco
me
far
mor
e acc
entu
ated
ove
r the
year
s. G
roup
s suc
has
the S
hias
, who
acco
unt f
or o
ver 2
0 pe
r cen
tof
the
popu
latio
n, a
re o
ften
targ
eted
by
vio-
lent
extr
emist
s. A
hmad
is, b
arel
y one
per
cent
of th
e po
pula
tion,
hav
e be
en d
ecla
red
non-
Mus
lims b
y a w
rit o
f the
stat
e. M
inor
ities
such
as C
hrist
ians
, Hin
dus a
nd Si
khs h
ave b
een
the
vict
ims o
f bom
b at
tack
s on
thei
r nei
ghbo
ur-
hood
s, so
me o
f the
m h
ave b
een
conv
erte
d to
Isla
m a
gain
st t
heir
will
. Hou
ses
of w
orsh
ipha
ve b
een
atta
cked
and
bom
bed
whi
le fi
lled
with
wor
ship
pers
. Pak
istan
has
des
cend
ed to
its c
urre
nt s
tate
of
relig
ious
int
oler
ance
thro
ugh
a se
ries
of p
oliti
cal
deci
sions
by
Jinna
h’s su
cces
sors
.” (P
urify
ing t
he L
and
of th
ePu
re:
Paki
stan
’s Re
ligio
us M
inor
ities
by
Fara
hnaz
Isp
ahan
i, pu
blis
hed
by H
arpe
rC
ollin
s, In
dia,
201
5.)
The
desc
ent
bega
n in
194
9 w
ith t
heC
onst
ituen
t Ass
embl
y dec
larin
g th
e obj
ectiv
e
of P
akist
an’s
Con
stitu
tion
to b
e th
e cr
eatio
nof
an Is
lam
ic st
ate.
It re
ache
d a n
adir
with
the
‘Isla
misa
tion’
driv
e und
er G
ener
al Z
ia d
urin
gth
e 19
80s.
At
the
time
of P
artit
ion,
Chr
istia
nsth
ough
t tha
t the
div
ision
of I
ndia
had
take
npl
ace o
n th
e bas
is th
at M
uslim
s cou
ld n
ot co
-ex
ist
with
Hin
dus.
Mor
eove
r, C
hris
tians
thou
ght t
hey
wer
eah
le ki
tab
(peo
ple
of th
ebo
ok),
and
ther
efor
e, w
ould
not
be
hara
ssed
in P
akist
an. U
nfor
tuna
tely,
with
the
dem
iseof
Jin
nah,
the
so-
calle
d to
lera
nce
for
even
Chr
istia
ns v
anish
ed. G
ener
al Z
ia in
trod
uced
Isla
mic
law
s w
hich
wer
e op
enly
aga
inst
the
min
oriti
es. T
he m
ilita
ry ru
lers o
f Pak
istan
did
noth
ing
to co
ntro
l the
vio
lenc
e of t
he fu
nda-
men
talis
t out
fits.
Sinc
e the
n, C
hrist
ians
hav
ebe
en p
rose
cute
d an
d ki
lled
mai
nly o
n gr
ound
sof
bla
sphe
my.
Salm
an T
asee
r, a M
inist
er in
the
Shar
if G
over
nmen
t in
Punj
ab w
as as
sass
inat
-ed
. His
crim
e, a
ccor
ding
to fu
ndam
enta
lists
,w
as th
at h
e ask
ed fo
r a fa
ir tr
ial o
f Chr
istia
nsch
arge
d w
ith b
lasp
hem
y.H
indu
s and
Sik
hs w
ere t
he fi
rst t
o be
dri-
ven
out o
f Pak
istan
dur
ing
1947
-48.
A v
ery
smal
l pro
porti
on o
f the
m st
ayed
beh
ind.
The
irpo
pula
tion,
acc
ordi
ng to
est
imat
es, i
s abo
ut14
lakh
. A m
ajor
ity o
f the
m ar
e bas
ed in
Sin
d.M
any a
mon
g th
em ar
e agr
icul
tura
l lab
oure
rs.
In th
e las
t 30
year
s, w
omen
from
the c
omm
u-ni
ty h
ave
ofte
n be
en k
idna
pped
, for
ced
toem
brac
e Is
lam
and
mar
ried
off t
o M
uslim
s.
Whe
n pa
rent
s of t
hese
girl
s hav
e tr
ied
to g
etth
e st
ate
thro
ugh
polic
e an
d la
w c
ourt
s to
retu
rn th
eir a
bduc
ted
child
ren,
the r
eply
they
have
got
is th
e w
omen
em
brac
ed Is
lam
vol
-un
tari
ly a
nd m
arrie
d M
uslim
s of
thei
r ow
nvo
litio
n. T
he su
fferin
g of t
he S
hias
shou
ld n
otbe
ove
rlook
ed. T
he n
umbe
r of t
imes
they
hav
ebe
en b
ombe
d w
hile
pra
ying
in th
eir m
osqu
esis
bec
omin
g di
ffic
ult
to k
eep
trac
k of
.Ex
trem
ists
like
the
Wah
abis
have
exp
ress
eda
desir
e to
exp
el th
e Sh
ias f
rom
Isla
m; w
hat
was
ear
lier
done
with
the
Ahm
adiy
yas.
Serio
us in
tra-
Isla
mic
‘cle
ansin
g’ ef
fort
s beg
anat
the t
ime o
f Zia
. The
obv
ious
targ
et o
f bru
-ta
lisat
ion
wer
e th
e Sh
ias.
Sunn
is w
ere
pro-
voke
d to
look
upo
n th
e Sh
ia c
omm
unity
as
‘a w
orm
in th
e Mus
lim ap
ple o
f Pak
istan
’. The
requ
ired
poi
son
was
man
ufac
ture
d in
mad
rasa
hs as
soci
ated
with
the D
eoba
ndi a
ndA
hle-
Had
ith tr
aditi
ons.
As w
ritte
n by
the d
is-tin
guish
ed S
hia s
chol
ar V
ali N
asr i
n hi
s boo
k,Th
e Shi
a Re
viva
l: H
ow C
onfli
cts w
ithin
Isla
mW
ill S
hape
the
Futu
re: “
The
Paki
stan
ule
ma
bega
n to
sha
re S
audi
Ara
bia’s
per
cept
ion
ofth
e Ira
nian
and
Shia
thre
at.”
The e
xten
t of t
hees
tabl
ishm
ent h
atre
d is
such
as t
hat a
Sun
niM
uslim
terr
orist
gro
up ca
lled
Sipa
h-e-
Saha
baPa
kist
an t
arge
ts a
nd k
ills
only
Shi
as a
nd is
alle
ged
to e
njoy
the
cove
rt p
atro
nage
of t
hest
ate.
Whi
ther
min
oriti
es?
(The
writ
er is
a w
ell-k
now
n co
lum
nist
and
an a
utho
r)
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Sir —
Thi
s ref
ers t
o th
e arti
cle, “
Liqu
idfu
nds:
Ladd
erin
g ca
n he
lp” (
Oct
ober
3) b
y H
ima
Bind
u K
ota.
The
Gov
ernm
ent’s
dec
ision
to
mov
e th
eN
atio
nal
Com
pany
Law
Tri
buna
l(N
CLT)
to r
emov
e ex
istin
g bo
ard
ofIn
fras
truc
ture
Lea
sing
& F
inan
cial
Serv
ices
(IL&
FS) a
nd n
omin
ate U
day
Kota
k-le
d bo
ard
to b
ail o
ut th
e de
bt-
ridde
n co
mpa
ny is
wel
com
e. Bu
t thi
s is
just
the
begi
nnin
g, a
sco
mpl
ete
revi
val
will
tak
e a
long
time.
Mai
n di
ffere
nce
betw
een
the
Saty
am a
nd IL
&FS
saga
is th
at w
hile
the
form
er w
as a
cle
ar c
ase
of fr
aud,
the l
atte
r has
mor
e to
do w
ith as
set l
ia-
bilit
y m
ismat
ch a
nd w
rong
gov
er-
nanc
e iss
ues.
Sinc
e IL&
FS h
as a
solid
asse
t bas
e, it
will
com
e han
dy in
gen
-er
atin
g ca
sh o
ut o
f it t
o ba
il ou
t the
com
pany
fro
m t
his
mes
s. Bu
t th
eG
over
nmen
t sho
uld
focu
s on
dev
el-
opin
g a
stro
ng b
ond
mar
ket t
o se
rve
the
need
s. Ba
l Gov
ind
Noi
da��
�
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Sir
— T
he S
upre
me
Cou
rt h
as d
one
wel
l by
allo
win
g w
omen
of a
ll ag
es to
ente
r the
Saba
rimal
a tem
ple.
How
ever
,th
e ver
dict
has
eman
ated
hea
ted
argu
-m
ents
bot
h in
fav
our
as w
ell
asag
ains
t the
ver
dict
. Th
ough
the
ten
ets
of r
elig
ious
scri
ptur
es d
id n
ot s
tipul
ate
any
emba
rgo
on w
omen
of a
ny a
ge v
isit-
ing
the S
abar
imal
a te
mpl
e, th
e agi
ta-
tors
wan
ted
the t
empl
e aut
horit
ies t
oco
nfin
e to
the
age
-old
pra
ctic
e an
dde
ny p
erm
issio
n to
wom
en to
ent
erth
e te
mpl
e.
Oth
ers
dem
and
that
wom
ensh
ould
be
allo
wed
to p
ay th
eir o
bei-
sanc
e to
Lord
Ayy
appa
as p
er th
e ver
-di
ct o
f the
apex
cour
t. U
nder
such
cir-
cum
stan
ces,
it is
bette
r to
leav
e th
ede
cisio
n-m
akin
g on
tem
ple
visit
to
wom
en t
hem
selv
es. T
he D
evas
wom
Boar
d an
d th
e G
over
nmen
t sh
ould
mak
e th
e re
quire
d ar
rang
emen
ts t
ose
e tha
t wom
en w
ho d
ecid
e to
visit
the
tem
ple a
re g
iven
adeq
uate
pro
tect
ion
and
secu
rity.
Fion
a W
alta
irC
henn
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Sir
— T
his
refe
rs t
o th
e ed
itoria
l,“C
lean
Ind
ia” (
Oco
ber
4). W
hile
it
mus
t be
agr
eed
that
the
Mod
iG
over
nmen
t has
don
e a
stup
endo
us
job
in b
uild
ing
toile
ts, b
ut k
ey is
sues
,lik
e ina
dequ
ate s
uppl
y of
wat
er, m
ak-
ing
peop
le a
ccus
tom
ed to
usin
g to
i-let
s, du
e to
whi
ch th
ey co
ntin
ue to
use
open
spac
es, m
ust b
e ad
dres
sed.
It
is al
so a
fact
that
man
ual s
cav-
engi
ng
is
stil
l ve
ry
ram
pant
.Te
chno
logi
cal i
nter
vent
ions
, suc
h as
the u
se o
f rob
ots,
like t
he o
ne d
esig
ned
by a
Kera
la-b
ased
star
t-up
need
s to
bere
plic
ated
. A
diti
Via
emai
l
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neer
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m) w
anted
to m
eet m
eto
oust
the C
hief M
iniste
r. Th
is sh
ows t
hedo
uble
face o
f the
AIA
DMK
leade
rship
.—
AMM
K lea
der
TTV
DHIN
AKAR
AN
I am
not p
lying
to to
pple
AIAD
MK.
I tho
ught
he (D
hinak
aran
) migh
t hav
e cha
nged
but h
eis
conti
nuing
with
low-
level
politi
cs.
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puty
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Mini
ster o
f Tam
il Nad
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Crisi
s in
th
eIn
fras
truc
ture
Lea
sing
& F
inan
cial
Ser
vice
s(I
L&FS
) has
sent
Indi
ain
to a
pan
ic m
ode.
Whi
le i
t m
ay o
r m
ay n
ot b
e a
Lehm
an m
omen
t fo
r th
e In
dian
econ
omy b
ut th
e deb
t cris
is ha
s cer
-ta
inly
raise
d qu
estio
ns a
bout
how
our s
ocie
ty h
as b
een
mism
anag
ing
its f
inan
ces.
As
proj
ecte
d in
the
med
ia, th
e Gov
ernm
ent h
as al
read
yac
cept
ed it
as a
serio
us m
omen
t but
not a
scam
.It
is al
so a
fac
t th
at p
eopl
e’sde
posit
s in
bank
s and
oth
er fi
nan-
cial i
nstit
utio
ns, li
ke L
ife In
sura
nce
Cor
pora
tion
(LIC
), ev
en in
mut
u-al
fun
ds, a
re a
t ris
k. I
t is
also
aw
onde
r tha
t for
31
year
s, no
body
notic
ed th
at lo
ans
bein
g gr
ante
dto
IL&
FS w
ere o
n a m
ere g
uara
n-te
e on
a pie
ce o
f pap
er w
ithou
t any
secu
rity.
Even
now
, but
for t
he su
dden
seve
re s
tock
mar
ket
cras
h an
dSm
all
Indu
stri
es D
evel
opm
ent
Bank
of I
ndia’
s (SI
DBI
) app
roac
h to
the i
nsol
venc
y cou
rt to
reco
ver d
ues
and
IL&
FS f
iling
of
a pe
titio
nbe
fore
the N
atio
nal C
ompa
ny L
awTr
ibun
al fo
r pro
tect
ion
from
cred
-ito
rs, t
he en
tire e
piso
de co
uld
have
rem
aine
d un
der g
arbs
.N
o w
onde
r, th
e co
mpa
ny w
asdo
wng
rade
d to
a r
atin
g of
D —
deep
in
‘junk
ter
ritor
y’ f
rom
its
defa
ult g
rade
of A
AA
that
indi
cat-
ed h
ighe
r le
vels
of c
redi
t wor
thi-
ness
. The
surp
rise
is: H
ow d
id th
efir
m m
anag
e to
hav
e su
per
AA
Ara
ting
for s
o lo
ng?
Are
the
mon
itorin
g sy
stem
s,in
cludi
ng th
at o
f the
Res
erve
Ban
kof
Indi
a, so
wea
k? O
r is t
here
a de
lib-
erat
e apa
thy a
nd th
e sys
tem
is b
eing
milc
hed
by u
nscr
upul
ous e
lemen
tswh
o are
awar
e of t
he lo
opho
les? T
his
mea
ns th
at o
ur e
xper
ts, li
ke th
eirW
este
rn co
unte
rpar
ts, w
ho al
lowe
dth
e wor
ld to
plun
ge in
to th
e Leh
man
crisi
s, ar
e eq
ually
naïv
e or
are
ver
yne
glige
nt. P
ossib
ly, it
also
mea
ns th
atm
ore d
ifficu
lt sit
uatio
ns m
ay kn
ock
the d
oors
as th
e Sta
te B
ank
of In
dia
(SBI
) and
LIC
are
bein
g to
ld to
fill
the h
ole.
The I
L&FS
is a
stran
ge cr
eatu
re.
It is
dubb
ed as
priv
ate e
ntity
, but
is
fully
dep
ende
nt o
n fin
ance
s fro
mpu
blic
bod
ies,
like
LIC,
Cen
tral
Bank
of I
ndia
and
mut
ual f
unds
,in
cludi
ng th
at o
f SBI
and
pen
sion
fund
s lik
e HD
FC, I
ndia
Disc
over
yFu
nd, J
apan
’s O
rix an
d Ab
u D
habi
Inve
stmen
t Aut
horit
y. To
day,
all o
fth
ese
entit
ies
are
in c
risis.
Thi
sm
eans
tha
t pe
ople’
s ha
rd e
arne
dm
oney
is
bein
g liq
uida
ted
byde
faul
ters
lik
e N
irav
Mod
i an
dVi
jay M
allya
and
the n
atio
n re
main
sa
mut
e spe
ctat
or.
Fund
flow
s fro
m v
ario
us fo
r-ei
gn c
ompa
nies
, too
, may
rem
ain
affe
cted
. Th
e co
untr
y’s f
inan
cem
anag
emen
t sin
ce th
e 19
91 g
lob-
alisa
tion
is in
a m
ess.
The s
ituat
ion
has
aggr
avat
ed a
ll th
e m
ore
than
bein
g res
olve
d. T
his c
alls f
or a
study
as to
why
dur
ing
1947
-199
1, p
ub-
lic fi
nanc
ial i
nstit
utio
ns o
r ba
nks
rare
ly h
ad s
uch
dark
mom
ents,
desp
ite
low
Gro
ss D
omes
tic
Prod
uct g
rowt
h. T
he si
lver
line
was
its h
igh
savi
ngs a
nd in
tern
atio
nal-
ly a
ccla
imed
secu
re sy
stem
.Le
t the
nat
ion
not f
orge
t tha
tth
e co
untr
y is
ind
eed
pass
ing
thro
ugh
a da
rk m
omen
t as a
noth
-er
priv
ate b
ank,
ICIC
I, m
anip
ulat
-ed
by
its C
hief
Exe
cutiv
e O
ffice
r,Ch
anda
Koc
har a
nd h
er fa
mily
, is
faci
ng p
robe
on
acco
unt o
f irr
egu-
larit
ies i
n gr
antin
g lo
ans.
Muc
h of
that
is a
lso n
ot p
ublic
kno
wle
dge.
Mor
e th
an a
Leh
man
, po
ssib
ly,IL
&FS
is a
Saty
am m
omen
t, w
here
acco
unts
wer
e co
vere
d up
, if
not
fudg
ed.
The s
um is
that
ban
ks ar
e hav
-in
g ov
er �
12 la
kh c
rore
non
-per
-fo
rmin
g as
sets
(NPA
s) a
nd a
hig
hpo
rtfo
lio o
f uns
ecur
ed lo
ans,
both
priv
ate a
nd G
over
nmen
t ent
ities
. In
fact
, nom
encla
ture
may
diff
er b
utal
l are
dea
ling
with
the p
oor m
an’s
mon
ey, e
uphe
mist
ical
ly c
alle
d th
em
iddl
e cla
ss —
a gr
oup
that
is ju
stat
the p
over
ty li
ne. A
mist
ake a
ny-
whe
re ca
n le
ad th
em to
an
abys
s.It
also
mea
ns t
hat
acro
ss t
hepo
litic
al s
pect
rum
eith
er n
obod
yun
ders
tand
s the
intr
icac
y of s
ecur
-in
g pub
lic d
epos
its or
they
are a
par
tof
the m
ess.
Else
, ho
w w
ould
a �
91,0
00cr
ore
debt
pile
up
with
IL&
FS in
2017
-18?
The
re is
anot
her f
ive b
il-lio
n do
llar o
f suc
h pi
le u
p w
ith it
s16
9 sub
sidia
ries.
It m
ay b
e the
case
that
thi
s is
not
a sc
am, b
ut h
owco
me t
he m
ost o
f it h
as b
een
lost
inro
ad co
nstru
ctio
n an
d no
t in
a yea
rbu
t alm
ost o
ver t
wo
deca
des?
Lend
ing t
o in
frastr
uctu
re co
m-
pani
es,
in s
hort
the
Nat
iona
lH
ighw
ay A
utho
rity
(NH
AI)
con
-
trac
tors
, w
ere
to b
e re
cove
red
thro
ugh
tolls
. Whe
re h
as t
he to
llco
llect
ion
at su
per h
igh
rate
s gon
e?Th
e N
HA
I in
var
ious
sta
tem
ents
has a
verr
ed th
at n
ot m
ore t
han
one-
third
of t
he co
llect
ions
wer
e bei
ngpa
id to
it. T
his r
aises
a se
rious
que
s-tio
n: W
ho g
obbl
ed u
p th
e to
llm
oney
whi
ch h
as c
ause
d an
all-
roun
d in
flatio
n?Q
uesti
ons a
lso a
rise
as to
why
at al
l peo
ple a
re b
eing f
leece
d at
toll
gate
s de
spite
hig
h pe
trol
cess
of
eigh
t rup
ee p
er li
tre th
at is
bei
ngpa
id b
y ev
en n
on-h
ighw
ay u
sers
?Th
e nat
ion
was g
iven
to u
nder
stand
that
ces
s w
ould
rep
lace
the
tol
ls.Th
is m
eans
mes
s is p
ossib
ly at
ever
yste
p —
from
cess
to to
ll co
llect
ion
to h
igh
cred
it be
ing g
iven
to in
fra-
struc
ture
com
pani
es to
thei
r non
-re
paym
ent.
Indi
a is
livin
g m
omen
ts o
fse
vere
ext
orti
ons
of p
eopl
e’sde
posit
s. Ea
rlier
, it w
as su
ppos
ed to
be r
estr
icte
d to
ban
ks. N
ow, i
t is
even
the
Non
-Ban
king
Fin
anci
alC
ompa
nies
(N
BFC)
, lik
e IL
&FS
,w
hich
hav
e ste
pped
in t
o fil
l the
bank
ing s
ecto
r voi
d. T
hey s
ucce
ed-
ed in
grow
ing f
ast a
nd gr
abbe
d a l
ot
of m
arke
t sha
re.
But n
ow, w
ith IL
&FS
def
ault-
ing,
inve
stors
will
be
relu
ctan
t to
lend
to N
BFCs
. Thi
s will
incr
ease
cost
of b
orro
win
g and
impa
ct th
eir
prof
itabi
lity.
Cor
pora
tes,
too,
will
find
it di
fficu
lt to
raise
mon
ey fr
omN
BFCs
.Th
at th
e ent
ire fi
nanc
ial s
yste
mis
in a
crisi
s is e
vide
nt fr
om th
e way
SBI a
nd o
ther
ban
ks h
alved
the l
ev-
els
of A
TM w
ithdr
awal
s fr
om�4
0,00
0 to �2
0,00
0, p
ost t
he IL
&FS
crisi
s. Th
e ba
nkin
g sy
stem
is h
av-
ing
a sev
ere c
ash
crun
ch. T
he o
nly
hope
is th
at th
ey d
o no
t go
“cas
h-le
ss”
as th
e W
est h
ad s
een
durin
gth
e Leh
man
mom
ent.
The
Gov
ernm
ent
itsel
f ha
shi
nted
at it
. It a
llege
d th
at th
e deb
t-la
den
IL&
FS su
ffere
d du
e to
“mis-
man
agem
ent a
nd m
isgov
erna
nce”.
Nei
ther
a c
hang
e of
gua
rd,
asef
fect
ed b
y th
e G
over
nmen
t, no
ran
y fin
ance
bod
y w
ill s
olve
the
prob
lem
. Re
peat
ed m
isman
age-
men
ts, if
not
sca
ndal
s, po
int t
o a
grim
situ
atio
n.Th
e co
untr
y ha
s no
t le
arnt
.Fo
rmer
US
Pres
iden
t Ba
rack
Oba
ma’s
chi
ef o
f st
aff
Rah
m
Eman
uel h
ad sa
id, “
Nev
er w
aste
acr
isis”.
The
IL&
FS h
as e
xpos
edse
vera
l fa
ult
lines
. Th
e 20
08Le
hman
cris
is al
so s
tart
ed w
ithov
er-le
vera
ging
by
shad
ow b
anks
like
NBF
C. T
his e
xpos
es th
e fa
ult
lines
at t
he R
BI, w
here
the
IL&
FSis
regi
stere
d. T
he n
atio
n ha
s to
thin
k tw
ice n
ow b
efor
e tru
sting
the
regu
lato
r.Ra
ting a
genc
ies r
egist
ered
with
the S
ecur
ities
and
Exch
ange
Boa
rdof
Ind
ia (
SEBI
) to
o ha
ve f
aile
d.Fe
es to
ratin
g ag
enci
es ar
e pai
d by
the r
ated
. Giv
ing a
gene
rous
ratin
gha
s inc
entiv
es fo
r the
ratin
g co
m-
pani
es.
The
real
ity i
s: Ra
ting
isad
vert
ising
and
peo
ple
need
to
treat
thes
e as s
crap
s. W
as SE
BI n
otaw
are o
f it?
The
com
pany
audi
tors
also
eith
er w
ere
too
inco
mpe
tent
to r
ead
the
book
s or
the
y di
d it
delib
erat
ely.
But t
hey
are g
uilty
of
brea
chin
g pu
blic
trus
t.Th
e na
tion
need
s to
be a
war
eth
at su
ch u
neth
ical f
ault
lines
erod
eth
e ent
ire fi
nanc
e sys
tem
. Is t
hat t
hedi
ffere
nce
that
the
nat
ion
had
befo
re 1
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and
afte
r?(T
he
wri
ter
is
a se
nior
jo
urna
list)
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Patien
ts in
Indi
a sp
end
arou
nd 8
0 pe
rce
nt of
their
out-o
f-poc
ket (
OO
P) co
stfo
r tre
atm
ent,
whi
ch p
rimar
ily c
omes
from
the
ir ho
useh
old
inco
me
or s
avin
gs.
Acco
rdin
g to
a r
epor
t by
the
Nat
iona
lSa
mpl
e Su
rvey
Offi
ce (N
SSO
), ov
er 8
0 pe
rce
nt o
f the
Indi
an h
ouse
hold
s wer
e not
cov-
ered
by
any
healt
h sc
hem
e and
mos
t of t
heco
st wa
s met
by O
OP
in 20
15. T
he re
port
also
show
s tha
t aro
und
six m
illio
n fa
mili
es w
ere
push
ed in
to p
over
ty d
ue to
hig
h ho
spita
lisa-
tion
expe
nditu
re. T
he pr
opor
tion
of p
opul
a-tio
n re
port
ing
any
OO
P ex
pend
iture
incr
ease
d to
80
per c
ent i
n 20
11-1
2 fro
m 6
0pe
r cen
t in
1993
-94.
In si
tuat
ion
like
thes
e,on
ly a u
nive
rsal
healt
h in
sura
nce p
rogr
amm
eor
prov
ision
for h
ealth
care
at su
bsid
ised
rate
sca
n en
sure
that
peo
ple
are
not p
ushe
d in
topo
verty
by
cata
strop
hic m
edica
l exp
ense
s. H
owev
er, I
ndia’
s pub
lic h
ealth
care
bud
-ge
t rem
aine
d lo
w at
just
1.3
per c
ent o
f the
GD
P, w
hich
is fa
r les
s tha
n th
e glo
bal a
ver-
age o
f six
per
cent
. Also
, Gov
ernm
ent c
on-
tribu
tion
to h
ealth
insu
ranc
e sta
nds a
t abo
ut32
per
cen
t, co
mpa
red
to 8
4 pe
r ce
nt in
ade
velo
ped
natio
n, su
ch as
the U
K.
In th
is co
ntex
t, th
e new
flag
ship
hea
lthin
itiat
ive,
‘Ayu
shm
an B
hara
t’, an
noun
ced
byth
e Gov
ernm
ent r
ecen
tly h
olds
lot o
f pro
mis-
es a
nd h
as t
wo m
ain
objec
tives
: Firs
t, to
stren
gthe
n pr
imar
y he
althc
are
whi
ch h
asbe
en la
ckin
g in
the c
ount
ry. S
econ
d, to
offe
rfin
ancia
l pro
tectio
n fro
m ca
tastr
ophi
c exp
en-
ditu
re, o
ften
enco
unter
ed on
ce a
family
mem
-be
r is s
ick an
d ne
eds l
ong-
term
hea
lthca
re.
The p
rogr
amm
e see
ks to
pro
vide
a co
v-er
age
of fi
ve la
kh ru
pees
per
fam
ily, a
nnu-
ally t
o 10
cror
e fam
ilies
chos
en th
roug
h th
eSo
cio E
cono
mic
Caste
Cen
sus,
main
ly ru
ral
poor
and
ide
ntifi
ed u
rban
wor
kers
. Th
eex
pend
iture
incu
rred
in p
rem
ium
pay
men
tw
ill b
e sh
ared
by
the
Uni
on a
nd S
tate
Gov
ernm
ents
in th
e rat
io of
60:4
0. T
ill n
ow,
31 S
tate
s and
Uni
on te
rrito
ries (
UTs
) hav
esig
ned
Mem
oran
dum
of
unde
rsta
ndin
gs(M
oUs)
with
the C
entre
for t
he im
plem
en-
tatio
n of
the p
rogr
amm
e.
How
ever
, the
mos
t crit
ical i
ssue
for t
hesu
cces
s of t
he pr
ogra
mm
e is i
ts lim
ited
scop
e,un
even
dist
ribut
ion
of m
anpo
wer a
nd la
ckof
infra
struc
ture
to c
ater
to th
e he
alth
ser-
vice
. Aro
und
40 p
er ce
nt o
f the
sanc
tione
dpo
sts a
re ly
ing
vaca
nt in
som
e Sta
tes.
Mos
tof
the
prim
ary
healt
h ca
re c
entre
s and
dis-
trict
hos
pita
ls ar
e fac
ing s
horta
ge of
doc
tors
and
spec
ialis
ts. T
he c
ount
ry h
as s
ever
esh
orta
ge o
f reg
ister
ed m
edica
l pra
ctiti
oner
sas
per
the
Wor
ld H
ealth
Org
anist
aion
(WH
O)
norm
s, pa
rticu
larly
in
rura
l an
dre
mot
e are
as, w
here
they
refu
se to
serv
e eve
naf
ter s
ever
al ef
forts
by
the G
over
nmen
t. Ac
cord
ing
to a
rec
ent n
atio
nal h
ealth
prof
ile 2
018,
one
allo
path
ic do
ctor
in
aG
over
nmen
t hos
pita
l, on
an av
erag
e, se
rves
a po
pulat
ion
of 1
1,08
2, w
hich
is 1
0 tim
esm
ore
than
the
WH
O n
orm
s of o
ne d
octo
rpe
r 1,0
00 p
opul
atio
n. T
he si
tuat
ion
is wo
rst
in B
ihar
, whe
re o
ne d
octo
r ser
ves a
pop
ula-
tion
of 2
8,39
1 pe
ople,
fol
lowe
d by
Utta
rPr
ades
h (1
9,96
2),
Jhar
khan
d (1
8,51
8),
Mad
hya
Prad
esh
(16,
996)
, Ch
hatti
sgar
h(1
5,91
6) a
nd K
arna
taka
(13
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), w
hile
som
e Sta
tes h
ave r
elativ
ely b
ette
r sta
tus,
such
as D
elhi (
2,20
3) an
d G
oa (3
,883
). Fu
rther
, hea
lth in
frastr
uctu
re sh
orta
gere
flect
ed w
ith on
e Gov
ernm
ent h
ospi
tal b
edfo
r eve
ry 1,
844 p
eopl
e and
one S
tate-
run
hos-
pita
l for
ever
y 55
,591
peo
ple.
Acro
ss S
tate
s,Bi
har h
as th
e hig
hest
cong
estio
n w
ith 8,
645
peop
le se
rved
by
one G
over
nmen
t hos
pita
lbe
d fo
llowe
d by
And
hra
Prad
esh
(3,8
19),
Jhar
khan
d (3
,079
), U
ttar
Prad
esh
(2,9
05),
Mad
hya P
rade
sh (2
,661
), an
d Ch
hatti
sgar
h
(2,6
47).
On
the
othe
r ha
nd,
Him
acha
lPr
ades
h (5
77),
Goa
(671
), D
elhi(8
24),
Tam
ilN
adu
(899
) and
Ker
ala (9
39) h
ave r
elativ
e-ly
less b
urde
n. T
he si
tuat
ion
is wo
rse i
n ru
ral
area
s whe
n co
mpa
red
to u
rban
area
s, w
here
near
ly 70
per
cent
of th
e peo
ple r
esid
e, w
hile
mor
e tha
n 60
per
cent
of th
e reg
ister
ed d
oc-
tors
are c
once
ntra
ted in
urb
an ar
eas,
thus
cre-
atin
g a
high
ly s
kewe
d di
strib
utio
n an
dac
cess
ibili
ty of
basic
hea
lth fa
ciliti
es. S
ituati
ondi
ffers
acro
ss th
e Sta
tes w
ith ac
ute s
horta
gein
som
e poo
r reg
ions
.
In o
rder
to m
ake
any
healt
h sc
hem
e a
succ
ess,
besid
es th
e cos
t of m
edici
nes,
both
the C
entre
and
Stat
es m
ust w
ork t
oget
her t
oad
dres
s the
wid
e sho
rtage
of h
ealth
care
man
-po
wer
and
othe
r ne
cess
ary
infra
struc
ture
.Ab
ove a
nalys
is sh
ows t
hat a
lthou
gh In
dia h
asa p
ublic
hea
lthca
re n
etwor
k ran
ging
from
pri-
mar
y he
althc
are
cent
res
all
the
way
to
supe
r-sp
ecia
lity
hosp
itals,
bas
ic ne
twor
k is
poor
ly e
quip
ped,
und
er-s
taffe
d an
d ov
er-
crow
ded,
forc
ing t
he p
eopl
e to
look
for p
ri-va
te p
rovi
ders
. Ef
fect
ive
impl
emen
tati
on o
f th
e‘A
yush
man
Bha
rat’
sche
me m
ay h
ave a
pos
-iti
ve im
pact
on
redu
cing
OO
P ex
pend
iture
but w
ith a
con
ditio
n th
at th
e G
over
nmen
tw
ill en
sure
the r
ight
infra
struc
ture
to m
eet
the
new
inf
rast
ruct
ure
and
man
pow
erde
man
d. T
his c
an h
ave
a cu
mul
ativ
e po
si-tiv
e ef
fect
on
incr
ease
d ac
cess
to
quali
tyhe
alth
and
med
icatio
n. In
add
ition
, unm
etne
eds o
f the
pop
ulati
on w
ill be
cater
ed, w
hich
rem
aine
d hi
dden
due
to
lack
of f
inan
cial
reso
urce
s.If
hum
an r
esou
rce
and
infra
struc
ture
prob
lems
in p
ublic
hea
lth s
ervi
ces
are
not
timely
add
ress
ed, p
atie
nts w
ill b
e for
ced
togo
to
the
priv
ate
sect
or. I
n th
is ca
se, t
he‘A
yush
man
Bha
rat’
sche
me i
s lik
ely to
ben
-ef
it th
e priv
ate s
ecto
r mor
e tha
n th
e pub
liche
alth
serv
ices.
Ther
e w
ill b
e a
huge
scop
eto
gene
rate
fake
bill
s, as
hap
pene
d in
pre
vi-
ous h
ealth
insu
ranc
e sch
emes
, whe
re in
sur-
ance
com
pani
es fo
und
this
to b
e a
costl
ypr
opos
ition
and
mos
t of t
hem
refu
sed
to p
ay.
Hen
ce, i
t is
impo
rtant
to
plac
e m
ore
emph
asis
on im
prov
ing p
ublic
hea
lth se
rvice
san
d im
plem
enta
tion
of p
rope
r hea
lth in
sur-
ance
regu
latio
ns. O
ther
wise
, thi
s am
bitio
ussc
hem
e w
ill u
ltim
ately
be
unsu
stain
able
and
even
det
rimen
tal f
or th
e poo
r for
who
mth
e sc
hem
e is
inte
nded
like
oth
er sc
hem
esin
the p
ast.
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writ
er i
s Fe
llow
at I
nstit
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for
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an D
evelo
pmen
t, D
elhi)
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ping
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Ind
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nder
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ot o
f pub
lic fi
nanc
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y is
livi
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roug
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exto
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titut
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Having secured �1.81 lakhcrore in its kitty from e-
auction of 50 mineral blocks,the Government is looking toput on block another 100 minesin the next six months, accord-ing to the Ministry of Mines.
The Government so farhas auctioned 50 mines, includ-ing 23 limestone, 17 iron ore,4 gold, 2 each of manganeseand graphite blocks and onebauxite and diamond blockeach.
There are 102 blocks inpipeline to be auctioned byMarch 2019 in AndhraPradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat,Jharkhand, Karnataka, MadhyaPradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha,Rajasthan, Telangana andAssam, as per a report by theMinistry of Mines on progessof block auction.
These include 42 lime-stone, 19 bauxite, 11 man-ganese ore, 8 copper, 6 iron ore,6 graphite, 3 zinc, 2 emerald, 2gold, 1 iron ore & manganese,1 dolomite/limestone and 1copper ore.
As per the report,Jharkhand will auction thehighest 20 blocks followed by16 by Rajasthan and 13 each byMadhya Pradesh andMaharashtra.
Of these 102, theGovernment plans to auctiontwo limestone blocks in
October.Of the two blocks, one is in
Andhra Pradesh and the otheris in Gujarat.
The Chintalayapalle-Abdullapuram-Korumanipalli(CAK) limestone block inAndhra Pradesh with reservesof 104.68 million tonnes (MT)will be auctioned on October12.
The Bhatvadiya block inGujarat with reserves of 477.2MT will go under the hammeron October 17.
The Centre had earlier saidit was considering granting allapprovals, including environ-mental clearance, to mineralblocks before putting them upfor sale, a move that may givea push to the auctions.
The idea is to fast-trackauctioning and iron out issuesrelated to green clearances andland rights are addressedupfront.
It has given in-principleapproval to provide singleclearance for environment andforest to the new lease holdersof the 288 mining leases expir-ing in two years.
From the 50 mineral blocksauctioned so far since 2015, thegovernment will earn a revenueof �1.81 lakh crore over thelease period.
To ensure transparency inthe mineral sector, Mines andMinerals Development andRegulation) Amendment Bill,2015 was passed by Parliamentin 2015.
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Within a day of the one-offexcise duty cut and PSUs
subsidising fuel, petrol anddiesel prices are on the riseagain and have hit a threeweek high.
Petrol and diesel priceswere cut by a minimum �2.50on October 5 when the gov-ernment’s only second cut inexcise duty of �1.50 per litreand State-owned fuel retailersproviding a �1 per litre subsidycame into effect. In BJP-ruledstates, the reduction was high-er as they matched the cut witha similar reduction local salestax or VAT.
But the prices were on therise from the very next day.Petrol price was hiked by 18paise a litre on October 6 and14 paise on Sunday, accordingto daily price notificationissued by state-owned oil firms.
Petrol, which in Delhi wascut to �81.50 on October 5, onSunday costs �81.82.
Similarly, diesel rates arehiked by 29 paise a litre each onOctober 6 and Sunday. It costs�73.53 per litre in Delhi, upfrom �72.95 on October 5,according to the oil firms.
Delhi, which did not cutVAT on fuel, still has the cheap-est fuel in all metros and bulkof state capital as it levies lowertaxes. Mumbai despite reduc-ing VAT on petrol still has thehighest priced fuel.
Petrol in Mumbai sells for�87.29 a litre on Sunday anddiesel is priced at �77.06.
Petrol prices had hit an all-time high of �84 per litre inDelhi and �91.34 in Mumbaion October 4. Diesel rates toohad peaked to �75.45 a litre inDelhi and �80.10 in Mumbai.Following the twin decision,they fell to �81.50 per litre ofpetrol in Delhi and �86.97 inMumbai.
Diesel rates fell to �72.95 inDelhi and �77.45 in Mumbaion October 5. On Sunday, therates hit a three-week high.
Private retailers like NayaraEnergy, formerly known asEssar Oil, too are matchingPSU rates by subsidising fuel by�1 a litre.
After the Centre cut exciseduty by �1.50 per litre andasked PSU oil firms to subsidisefuel by �1, Maharashtra andGujarat Governments wereamong the first to announce amatching �2.50 cut.
They were later joined byChhattisgarh, Jharkhand,Tripura, Uttar Pradesh,Madhya Pradesh, HimachalPradesh, Haryana Assam,Uttarakhand, Goa andArunachal Pradesh with simi-lar moves. Jammu andKashmir, which is under gov-ernor’s rule, too reduced tax onthe two fuel.
Maharashtra, however,reduced VAT only on petroland not on diesel.
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Macroeconomic data,movement of the rupee
and trend in global crude oilprices would be crucial for thestock markets this week, sayexperts.
After back-to-back hikessince June, the Reserve Bank ofIndia (RBI) kept interest ratesunchanged on Friday, surpris-ing markets that had expecteda rate hike to support the tum-bling rupee and combat infla-tionary pressures from high oilprices.
“The equity market out-look has taken a beating givendegradation in the quality ofdebt, redemption and height-ened risk averseness byinvestors.
“Trend is likely to be neg-ative at least in the near-termtill the financial market sta-bilises. Key data like bondyield, INR, oil prices, liquidityand equity valuation has tonormalise which may takesome more time,” said VinodNair, Head of Research, GeojitFinancial Services.
“The lingering concernsseems to be around crude oilprices, global interest rates andthe ongoing global develop-ments on the trade front. Giventhe status quo, we expect shortterm rates to ease while longterm yields may trade rangebound.
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toring and INR and crude oilprices could be leading the wayfor markets going forward,”said Lakshmi Iyer, CIO (Debt)and Head of Products, KotakMahindra Asset ManagementCompany.
Stock markets took a beat-ing last week over rupee woesand crude oil prices. The BSESensex lost a whopping1,850.15 points over the weekto close at 34,376.99 on Friday.
“On economic data front,this week the InternationalMonetary Fund will present itslatest World EconomicOutlook as it opens its annualmeeting with the World Bankin Bali, Indonesia. USSeptember inflation data isdue on Thursday.
“In India, data like IIP forAugust and CPI for Septembermonth will be announced thisFriday,” said VK Sharma, HeadPCG and Capital MarketStrategy, HDFC Securities.
“Markets have witnessedselling across the board. Eventhe good quality stocks were
battered in line with generalmarkets.
“However, the current fallwas in isolation with globaldeveloped markets which givea ray of hope that soon abounce will emerge as valua-tions have corrected a lot acrossthe board. We think marketswill calm down once corporateresults start pouring in andgiven the oversold state ofmarket, sharp rallies can beexpected,” said Jimeet Modi,Founder and CEO, SAMCOSecurities and StockNote.
The Indian rupee crashedbelow the 74-level against theUS dollar for the first time everon Friday.
“Rupee was caught offguard and weakened beyond74, after RBI surprised marketsby keeping rates unchanged.Given the rising oil and tradetensions, traders will bet onexports going up, to curb fur-ther weakening in the curren-cy,” said Anand James, ChiefMarket Strategist, GeojitFinancial Services.
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Scheduled commuter carrierAir Odisha is all set to take
a Sharjah-based NRI investoron board as it seeks to tap freshcapital to fuel its expansionplans and the announcement tothis effect is likely to be madesoon, a source said.
The Bhubaneshwar-basedairline has also brought inindustry veteran Bhupesh Joshias its chief executive officerahead of bringing in the newSharjahbased partner, thesource said.
Air Odisha is currently 60per cent owned by twoAhmedabad-headquarteredfirms — GSEC Aviation-Monarch Networth Capital--and the rest 40 per cent stakeis with original promoterRadhakanta Pani family.
“However, GSEC Aviation-Monarch Networth have decid-ed to partially offload theirstake to the Sharjah-basedcrude oil firm Ghalia PetrolLLP. The two partners havealready signed the term-sheetand are expected to make an
announcement on the dealsoon,” the source told.
The decision was taken atAir Odisha Pvt Ltd’s boardmeeting held in Bhubaneswarlast month, the source added.
The GSEC Aviation-Monarch Networth Capital hadacquired 60 per cent stake inthe carrier from Pani family inNovember last year along withthe acquisition of G RGopinath-founded Air Deccan.
GSEC Aviation is owned byRakesh Ramanlal Shah, broth-er-in-law of Adani Groupchairman Gautam Adani.
Air Odisha managingdirector Shaishav Shah con-firmed that the airline wasgetting a new investor inaddition to the existing pro-moters to infuse fresh capital,adding that it had alreadysigned an agreement to clinchthe deal.
“I can just confirm that wehave signed the contract witha Sharjah-based companywhich is into crude oil trade.We will very soon be makinga joint statement on the pro-posed deal,” Shah said.
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The hike in minimum sup-port prices (MSP) for kharif
crop announced in July by theNarendra Modi Governmentwas “well below” the oneseffected under the previousUPA Governments in 2008-09and 2012-13, the Reserve Bankhas said.
The Government hadannounced the hike in MSPs inJuly for the summer or thekharif crop, following a budgetannouncement affirming a 50per cent mark up to farmersover the cost of produce. MSPon common variety of ricewas hiked by �200, along withother crops like cotton, andpulses like tur and urad.
It followed it up by declar-ing a hike for the winter crop aswell last week. This included anincrease of �105 per quintal forwheat, and masur by �225 perquintal, among others.
“In a historical perspective,the current increase in MSPs(announced in July) is signifi-cantly higher than the averageof the last five years but well
below the upward revisionseffected in 2008-09 and 2012-13,” the RBI said in theMonetary Policy Report pub-lished on Friday.
The MPR said the hike forthe 14 crops for the kharif2018-19 season implies a nom-inal MSP increase in the rangeof 3.7 per cent to 52.5 per centfor different crops as com-pared to their levels last year.
The MPR, however, didnot elaborate on the assertionbeyond a visual chart depictingthe MSP hikes for differentcommodities for multiple years.
It, however, said that the pre-sent MSP hike can lead to a 0.29-0.35 per cent hike in headlineinflation, the RBI’s core mandate.
“A first approximation ofthe inflationary impact of MSPincrease...Yields 29-35 bpsincrease in headline inflation,”the MPR said, adding that theestimate is based on multiplemethodologies.
It, however, added that theestimates are “highly tentative” inthe absence of “robust informa-tion on the actual size and scaleof procurement operations”.
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The promoter of GujaratNRE Coke Ltd is expecting
a positive outcome from theNational Company LawAppellate Tribunal (NCLAT).
“We are expecting a prop-er order from NCLAT to moveforward on Sec 230 of theCompanies Act in the nexthearing on October 8,” thecompany Promoter andChairman Arun Jagatramkasaid.
Jagatramka had submitteda proposal under Section 230of the Companies Act beforethe NCLT rpt NCLT Kolkatabench to revive the firm whichemploys 1,100 people.
The NCLAT had acceptedthe proposal of Jagatramka onMay 15 and had ordered toconvene a meeting of all thestakeholders on July 16.
The Jindal Steel & Power
Ltd, an unsecured creditorwith only 0.5 per cent of thetotal debts of Gujarat NRECoke, has obtained an ex-parteorder of NCLAT on July 12 tostay the meeting scheduled onJuly 16.
A stay order just a dayahead of the meet of the lendersand shareholders of GujaratNRE Coke Ltd cast a shadowon the future of the debt-ladenfirm which found no takersunder the IBC.
Earlier, Gujarat NRE Cokehad failed to get any suitor forresolution under the Insolvencyand Bankruptcy Code (IBC) asno plan was accepted by itssecured creditors.
“I am always optimistic,”Jagatramka had said earlier.
The beleaguered metal-lurgical coke producer owesabout �5,000 crore to securedand unsecured creditors whilethe liquidation value of the
company was put at �350crore. The company had vol-untarily moved the NCLATlast year.
According to a proposal ofthe promoter family ofJagatramka has promised torepay �3,501 crore of securedfinancial creditors through amix of long term debt and equi-ty reducing the company’sequity shares by 90 per cent andpaying part of FCCB holdersand unsecured creditors as set-tlement.
As per the proposal,�3,501 crore are to be con-verted into �500 crore of termloans to be repaid over 10years at 8.1 per cent interestrate and �40 crore worth ofshares of face value of Re oneand �2,961 crore ofCompulsory RedeemablePreference Shares of �10,000face value redeemable after 20year at one go.
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IT company Tech Mahindraexpects its cyber security
business to grow in the rangeof 30-40 per cent, at least for thenext three years, according toa senior company official.
“We are doing a very hum-ble start even if we grow 30-40per annum in our business ofsecurity. It is fair estimate ofwhat we can put on ground,”Rajiv Singh, Senior VP &Global Head of cyber securityunit of Tech Mahindra, said.
He was replying to queryon growth and business oppor-tunity that company sees incyber security business.
Singh said that the growth isexpected in cyber security divi-sion of Tech Mahindra everyyear over a period of next threeyears.
“You have to look at theCAGR , that can only go upwhen you have strong alliances.When I am talking aboutgrowth, I am talking aboutaccelerating in next 3 years. (In)next 3 years, (it) has to be accel-erated,” he added.
The company recentlysigned partnership pact withsecurity arm of Israel govern-ment-run Israel AerospaceIndustries (IAI) to provide anddevelop technical security solu-tion for utility firms and criti-cal infrastructure.
Under the partnership,Tech Mahindra plans to devel-op internal capability to handlecyber security solution andfurther train people to growbusiness. “We want to firstfocus on that there is right levelof capability to handle cybersecurity challenge.
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Aweak broader marketpulled down the combined
market valuation of the top 10most valued Indian companiesby a whopping �2,55,995 crorelast week, with RIL taking thesteepest hit.
The equity market wit-nessed severe drubbing lastweek, with the BSE benchmarkSensex falling sharply by1,850.15 points to end at34,376.99.
From the top 10 pack, RIL’smarket capitalisation (m-cap)plummeted �1,32,061.4 croreto �6,65,441.16 crore.
Tata Consultancy Services(TCS) took the second biggesthit, with its valuation plunging�31,164.6 crore to �8,05,187.65crore, while that of ITC tanked�23,932.94 crore to�3,39,284.67 crore.
K o t a kM a h i n d r aBank’s m-capn o s e d i v e d�17,091.72crore to�2,00,874.28crore andthat ofM a r u t iSuzuki Indias l u m p e d�13,821.67crore to�2,08,223.79crore.
HDFC Bank suffered anerosion of �11,629.51 crore to�5,33,340.93 crore and that ofHindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL)fell sharply by �10,433.61crore to �3,37,566.18 crore.
The valuation of HDFCdived �6,812.89 crore to�2,90,520.19 crore and that ofSBI went down by �6,425.7
crore to �2,30,075.87crore.Similarly, the m-cap ofInfosys fell by �2,621.03 croreto �3,15,331.73 crore.
In the ranking of top-10firms, TCS stood at numberone position, followed byReliance Industries Ltd (RIL),HDFC Bank, ITC, HUL,Infosys, HDFC, SBI, Marutiand Kotak Mahindra Bank.
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E-commerce major Flipkarton Sunday said it is foray-
ing into the insurance seg-ment after securing a corporateagent license.
To begin with, Flipkart haspartnered Bajaj Allianz GeneralInsurance to offer customisedinsurance solutions to power itsmobile phone protection pro-gramme for all leading mobilephone brands that are sold onits platform, Flipkart said in astatement.
It added that under theprogramme, it will offer bothcash payout option or free pickup, service and drop conve-nience to customers.
The insurance offering willbe available from October 10,the start of Flipkart's The BigBillion Days (TBBD).
“In line with our cus-tomer-first policy and as themarket leader in this segment,insurance felt like the logicalnext step in providing con-sumers with excellent after-sales care for their phones. The
plan, from purchase to claim,will be completely integratedinto our online platform...”Flipkart Senior Vice Presidentand head of Fintech RaviGarikipati said.
Tapan Singhel, MD andCEO of Bajaj Allianz GeneralInsurance Co, said the twocompanies are starting with thecomplete mobile protectionplan (CMP), adding value formillions of customers.
Estimates suggest about 36per cent of mobile phone usersin India own smartphones. Amajor worry for customers isdamaging their screens or hav-ing their phone stolen - chal-lenges that the offering aims toaddress.
The statement said theinsurance will be valid for ayear, covering accidental,screen, and liquid damagealong with theft of the pro-tected mobile phones.
Customers will be able topurchase the insurance-pow-ered CMP plan at the sametime as they buy the mobilephone for �99 onwards.
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Swedish furniture giant Ikeaon Sunday said it would not
raise the prices of low-endfurniture and furnishing prod-ucts if the company costsincrease due to Centre's recenthike in customs duty on somefurnishing items to curbimports of non-essential goods.
“For now, we have notseen any repercussions, but ifthere is continuation of costsdue to hike in customs dutieson furniture and furnishingitems, then at some point oftime we would have to pass it(burden) on to customers, butwe may do it on higher-endproducts, not lower-end,Deputy Country ManagerPatrik Antoni said.
Patrik said Ikea is a globalcompany and it would appre-ciate global trade, but wouldnot be happy with trade barri-ers such as customs tariff orimport duties.
He also said trade barrierswill only affect 'ease of doing
business,' which will in the longrun affect customers.
The central Governmenthad on September 26 hikedcustoms duties on as many as19 items, including jet fuel, AirConditioners and refrigera-tors, with an aim to curbimports of non-essential goods.
Ikea imports most of theproducts it sells, and many arecovered by the latest customsduty hike which includes table-ware, kitchenware and house-hold items made of plastic andtravel bags, among others.
The total import bill onaccount of shipment of suchitems into the country last fiscalwas �86,000 crore.
Curbing non-essentialimports was part of the five-pronged steps announced bythe government to check widen-ing current account deficit andcapital outflows. Ikea is planningto invest nearly �3,000 crore inthe next three years to open threefulfillment centres (packingwarehouses) in Mumbai,Bengaluru and Delhi.
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Washington: NASA’s Voyager2 probe is approaching inter-stellar space and has detectedan increase in cosmic rays thatoriginate outside our solar sys-tem, the US space agency said.
Launched in 1977, Voyager2 is a little less than 17.7 billionkilometres from Earth, or morethan 118 times the distancefrom Earth to the Sun.
Since 2007 the probe hasbeen travelling through theoutermost layer of the helios-phere — the vast bubblearound the Sun and the plan-ets dominated by solar mater-ial and magnetic fields.
Voyager scientists havebeen watching for the space-craft to reach the outer bound-ary of the heliosphere, knownas the heliopause. Once Voyager2 exits the heliosphere, it willbecome the second human-made object, after Voyager 1, toenter interstellar space.
Since late August, the
Cosmic Ray Subsystem instru-ment on Voyager 2 has mea-sured about a five per centincrease in the rate of cosmicrays hitting the spacecraftcompared to early August.
The probe’s Low-EnergyCharged Particle instrumenthas detected a similar increasein higher-energy cosmic rays.Cosmic rays are fast-movingparticles that originate outsidethe solar system. Some of these
cosmic rays are blocked by theheliosphere, so mission plan-ners expect that Voyager 2 willmeasure an increase in therate of cosmic rays as itapproaches and crosses theboundary of the heliosphere.
In May 2012, Voyager 1experienced an increase in therate of cosmic rays similar towhat Voyager 2 is now detect-ing. That was about threemonths before Voyager 1crossed the heliopause andentered interstellar space.However, Voyager team mem-bers note that the increase incosmic rays is not a definitivesign that the probe is about tocross the heliopause. Voyager 2is in a different location in theheliosheath — the outer regionof the heliosphere — thanVoyager 1 had been, and pos-sible differences in these loca-tions means Voyager 2 mayexperience a different exit time-line than Voyager 1. PTI
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Brett Kavanaugh was swornin as the 114th justice of the
US Supreme Court, after awrenching debate over sexualmisconduct and judicial tem-perament that shattered theSenate, captivated the nationand ushered in an acrimo-nious new level of polarization— now encroaching on thecourt that the 53-year-old judgemay well swing rightward fordecades to come.
Even as Kavanaugh tookhis oath of office Saturdayevening in a quiet private cer-emony, not long after the nar-rowest Senate confirmation innearly a century and a half, pro-testers chanted outside thecourt building across the streetfrom the Capitol.
The climactic 50-48 rollcall capped a fight that seizedthe national conversation afterclaims emerged that he hadsexually assaulted women threedecades ago — allegations heemphatically denied. Thoseaccusations transformed theclash from a routine struggleover judicial ideology into anangry jumble of questionsabout victims’ rights, the pre-sumption of innocence andpersonal attacks on nominees.
His confirmation providesa defining accomplishment forPresident Donald Trump andthe Republican Party, which
found a unifying force in thecause of putting a new conser-vative majority on the court.Before the sexual accusationsgrabbed the Senate’s and thenation’s attention, Democratshad argued that Kavanaugh’srulings and writings as anappeals court judge raised serious concerns about hisviews on abortion rights and apresident’s right to bat awaylegal probes.
Trump, flying to Kansas fora political rally, flashed athumbs-up gesture when thetally was announced andpraised Kavanaugh for being“able to withstand this horrible,horrible attack by theDemocrats.” He later tele-phoned his congratulations tothe new justice, then at the rallyreturned to his own attack onthe Democrats as “an angryleft-wing mob.”
Like Trump, senators at theCapitol predicted voters wouldreact strongly by defeating theother party’s candidates in nextmonth’s congressional elections.
“It’s turned our base onfire,” declared SenateRepublican leader MitchMcConnell of Kentucky. ButDemocratic leader ChuckSchumer of New York forecastgains for his party instead:“Change must come fromwhere change in Americaalways begins: the ballot box.”
The justices themselvesmade a quiet show of solidar-ity. Kavanaugh was sworn in byChief Justice John Roberts andthe man he’s replacing, retiredJustice Anthony Kennedy, asfellow Justices Samuel Alito,Clarence Thomas, Ruth BaderGinsburg and Elena Kaganlooked on — two conservativesand two liberals.
Still, Kagan noted the nightbefore that Kennedy has been“a person who found the cen-ter” and “it’s not so clear we’llhave that” now.
Noisy to the end, theSenate battle featured a call ofthe roll that was interruptedseveral times by protestersshouting in the spectators’gallery before Capitol Policeremoved them. Vice PresidentMike Pence presided, hispotential tie-breaking voteunnecessary.
Trump has now put hisstamp on the court with hissecond justice in as many years.Yet Kavanaugh is joining undera cloud. Accusations from sev-eral women remain underscrutiny, and House Democratshave pledged further investi-gation if they win the majori-ty in November.
Seoul: US Secretary of StateMike Pompeo said he andNorth Korean leader Kim JongUn made unspecified progresson Sunday toward an agree-ment for the North to give upits nuclear weapons. But therewas no immediate indicationwhether Pompeo had man-aged to arrange much-antici-pated summit between Kimand President Donald Trump.
Arriving in Seoul on hisfourth visit to N Korea,Pompeo tweeted he had “goodtrip” and he and Kim “contin-ue to make progress on agree-ments made at Singapore sum-mit.” Trump and Kim heldhistoric summit there in Juneresulted in a vague agreementfor the North to denuclearise.
The top US diplomat
offered no details, and uponlanding in South Korea, hebriefed White House nationalsecurity adviser John Boltonand Trump chief of staff JohnKelly on his trip, officials said.
Pompeo then met SouthKorea’s President, Moon Jae-in.Moon, who has met twice withKim, asked Pompeo to makepublic as much information ashe could about the trip.
“I dearly hope that your lat-est visit, as well as the upcom-ing US-North Korea summit,which I hope will be happen-ing soon, will make an irre-versible, decisive progress,”Moon said. “Since we have themedia present here, I wouldlike to ask you to disclose any-thing that you can open to thepublic here.” AP
BUCHAREST: Romanianswere voting Sunday for a sec-ond day on a constitutionalamendment backed by theinfluential RomanianOrthodox Church that wouldmake it harder to legalise same-sex marriage.
The conservative Coalitionfor Family initiated the refer-endum and Orthodox priestsduring Sunday services encour-aged the faithful to vote.
The proposed amendmentwould change the definition offamily in Romania’sConstitution to make mar-riage a union between a manand a woman instead ofbetween “spouses.” Same-sexmarriage is already illegal inRomania.
The Central ElectoralBureau said 11.67 percent ofvoters had cast a ballot bylunchtime Sunday in the two-day referendum. AP
Lyon: The wife of the missingpresident of Interpol says herhusband sent her an image ofa knife before he disappearedduring a trip to their nativeChina. Making her first publiccomments on the mystery sur-rounding Meng Hongwei’swhereabouts, Grace Meng toldreporters in Lyon, France onSunday she thinks the knife washer husband’s way of trying totell her he was in danger.
She says she has had nofurther contact with him sincethe message that was sent onSept. 25. She says four minutesbefore Meng shared the image,he had sent a message saying,“Wait for my call.”
Meanwhile, the discipli-nary organ of China’s rulingCommunist Party says the headof Interpol, a senior Chineseofficial, is under investigationon suspicion of unspecifiedlegal violations. AP
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Scientists have developed anew test that can reveal the
amount of DNA people shed,a tool that could be used byforensic experts to nab crimi-nals using genetic clues left atcrime scenes.
A single tap of a finger onitems like door handles, glass oreven shaking hands can helpidentify and link potential sus-pects to a crime. Modern DNAforensic science is capable ofanalysing microscopic genetictraces inadvertently left atcrime scenes.
However, accurate identi-fication depends on the quali-ty of DNA sourced at thescene, according to researcherat the Flinders University inAustralia.
There is always a risk cru-cial evidence could be over-looked, smudged fingerprints
are the only evidence leftbehind, or even more worry-ingly, secondary transfer couldtake place, researchers said.
This could result in aninnocent person’s DNA beingtransferred by an object oreven a handshake to a placethey have never visited.Scientists have developed a testthat can reveal the amount ofDNA people shed. This willhelp determine whether theywere actually the last person tomake contact with an item,researchers said.
“We know that some peo-ple pass on more of their DNAbecause when they touchsomething more of their cellsare left behind,” said AdrianLinacre, Chair of ForensicDNA Technology at FlindersUniversity. “They are calledshedders but it’s very difficultat the moment to see who is ashedder,” he said.
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Pakistan is reviewing theprojects under the China-
Pakistan Economic Corridor(CPEC) to safeguard the inter-est of the people in Balochistanprovince, Prime MinisterImran Khan has said.
The $50 billion CPEC,launched in 2015, is a plannednetwork of roads, railways andenergy projects linking China’sresource-rich Xinjiang UyghurAutonomous Region withPakistan’s strategic GwadarPort on the Arabian Sea.
Khan’s remarks about theCPEC projects came as hechaired a Balochistan cabinetmeeting on Saturday in Quettaduring his first visit to theprovince as the Prime Minister.
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Christians dressed in theirtidiest clothes flocked to
Sunday sermons in the earth-quake and tsunami damagedIndonesian city of Palu, seek-ing answers as the death tollfrom the twin disastersbreached 1,700 and officialssaid they feared more than5,000 others could be missing.
Indonesia’s disaster agencysaid the number of dead hadclimbed to 1,763, mostly inPalu. Agency spokesmanSutopo Purwo Nugroho saidmany more people could beburied, especially in the Paluneighborhoods of Petobo andBalaroa, where more than 3,000homes were damaged orsucked into deep mud whenthe Sept. 28 quake caused loosesoil to liquefy.
“Based on reports fromvillage chiefs in Balaroa andPetobo, some 5,000 peoplehave not been found. Our
workers on the ground aretrying to confirm this,” he saidat a news briefing in Jakarta,Indonesia’s capital.
Nugroho said that effortsto retrieve decomposed bodiesin deep, soft mud were gettingtougher and that some peoplemay have fled or been rescuedand evacuated. More than8,000 either injured or vulner-able residents have been flownor shipped out of Palu, whileothers could have left by land,he said. Officially, Nugrohosaid only 265 people are con-firmed missing and 152 othersstill buried under mud andrubble, nine days after themagnitude 7.5 earthquake andpowerful tsunami hit Palu andsurrounding areas.
The government targets toend search operations byThursday, nearly two weeksafter the disaster, at whichtime those unaccounted for willbe declared missing and con-sidered dead, Nugroho said.
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China’s central bank onSunday said it was cutting
the reserve requirement ratios(RRRs) by one per cent fromOctober 15 which will inject anet $109.2 billion in cash intothe banking system, amid adeepening trade war with theUS that has increased pressureon growth in the world’s sec-ond-largest economy.
The reserve cut, the fourthby the People’s Bank of China(PBOC) this year, came afterBeijing pledged to speed upplans to invest billions of dol-lars in infrastructure projects asthe economy shows signs ofcooling further.
The PBOC said it will cutthe RRR for RMB deposits byone percentage point startingfrom October 15. The cut willenable banks in China torelease 1.2 trillion-yuan cashfor additional lending.
Some of the liquidityunleashed will be used to payback the 450 billion yuan ($65billion) of the medium-termlending facility that will matureon October 15, state-runXinhua news agency reported.
In addition, the liquidity ofanother 750 billion yuan ($110billion) will be injected into themarket for lending, accordingto the PBOC statement.
The announcement of therelaxing the RRR requirementfor the banks, which are alsosaddled with the huge localgovernment debt of $2.58 tril-lion comes amid deepeningtrade war with US and raisingof the interest rates by USFederal Reserve, intensifyingthe pressure on capital out-flows.
The huge cash outflowfrom the banks was expected to
help the private businesses toaccess more credit as theirproducts faced an uncertainprospect in the US, which isChina’s second largest marketafter the European Union.
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With tails wagging and rau-cous barking, hundreds
of dogs and their owners ralliedin London on Sunday to howlfor a new people’s vote onBrexit, in what organisersdubbed a “wooferendummarch”. The gathering drewEU-flag waving politicians,actors and activists — allaccompanied by their four-legged friends and united intheir opposition to Britain’sdeparture from the EU.
“In a campaign, use what-ever you can that helps,” AlastairCampbell, a former LabourGovernment spokesman, toldAFP alongside his five-month-old Cavalier King CharlesSpaniel, Skye.
“Today’s showing that thiscountry just isn’t unitingaround any vision for Brexitand it’s one way of fighting,” hesaid. The dog parade — which
attracted everything fromCorgies and beagles to huskiesand a giant Leonberger — tookplace two weeks before a larg-er pro-referendum rally, set tobe attended mostly by humans,planned for October 20.
British Prime MinisterTheresa May has ruled out anew Brexit referendum, sayingit would betray the result of the2016 vote and destroy trust in
politicians.But politicians from all
parties have joined a growingmovement for Britons to havethe chance to say whether theyhave changed their minds.
“It’s nice to highlight aserious point in such a fun way— everybody loves dogs,” saidGerman university lecturerFlora Renz, 30. She has lived inBritain for a decade and turned
out with Billy, a three-year-oldbeagle draped in an EU flag.
“I hope people are going tosee some sense. I don’t know ifa second referendum is thebest solution but anything’s bet-ter than what’s happening rightnow.” Human participants inthe march, many sportingfancy dress and painted dogfaces, assembled with theirfurry companions displayingpro-EU signs on their collarsand backs, near TrafalgarSquare.
The crowd pawed its waythrough the heart of the capi-tal’s Government district,before they were set to gatherfor speeches — and likely some
dog treats — in ParliamentSquare. Organisers plan tohand in a petition to May’sDowning Street office “signedby dogs and owners”.
After Brexit, Britain mayhave to leave the EU’s pet pass-port scheme, which allows reg-istered pets to travel to mem-ber states freely with theirowners. The change will meandog-owners are likely to faceincreased bureaucracy andneed more preparation time iftaking their canine companionsto the continent.
Some at the marchbemoaned that and otherimpacts of Brexit. “It’s just oneof the many aspects that peo-ple have taken for granted...And now won’t be there,” saidmarketing consultant AnthonyRobinson, 48, of London.
He attended with Fred, histwo-year-old Corgi — the dogbreed favoured by QueenElizabeth II.
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Afriend of a prominentSaudi journalist who went
missing in Istanbul on Sundaysaid officials told him to “makeyour funeral preparations” as the Washington Post con-tributor “was killed” at theSaudi Consulate.
A Turkish official separate-ly told The Associated Pressthat authorities believe JamalKhashoggi was killed at theSaudi Consulate, while another said it was a “high prob-ability.” Saudi officials havedenied allegations thatKhashoggi was killed at the con-sulate, calling them “baseless.”
Meanwhile, TurkishPresident Recep Tayyip Erdoganonly said “God willing, we willnot be faced with the situationwe do not desire” when asked byjournalists about Khashoggi.The growing dispute over hisfate threatens relations betweenSaudi Arabia and Turkey andraises new questions about thekingdom and the actions of itsassertive Crown PrinceMohammed bin Salman, whomKhashoggi wrote critically aboutin his columns.
Turan Kislakci, a friend ofKhashoggi and the head of theTurkish-Arab MediaAssociation, spoke to the AP onSunday outside the Saudi
Consulate in Istanbul. He saidhe believes Turkish officialssoon will announce the find-ings of their investigation.
“What was explained to usis this: He was killed, makeyour funeral preparations,”Kislakci said. “We called a fewother places, these are lowerofficials, but they said: ‘We haveevidence he was killed in a bar-baric way, we will announce ittomorrow or the day after.’”
Kislakci also alleged, basedon conversations with officialshe did not name, that Khashoggiwas made to “faint,” then wasdismembered. A Turkish officialsaid an “initial assessment” bypolice concluded Khashoggihad been killed at the con-sulate. On Sunday, another offi-cial assessed as “high probabil-ity” that Khashoggi was killed inthe consulate and his body wastaken away.
The Post reported on thepolice’s theory late Saturday, cit-ing two anonymous sources.
“If the reports of Jamal’smurder are true, it is a mon-strous and unfathomable act,”the Post’s editorial page editorFred Hiatt said in a statement.“Jamal was — or, as we hope,is — a committed, courageousjournalist. He writes out of asense of love for his countryand deep faith in human dig-nity and freedom.”
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Trump declared it an “his-toric night,” not long aftersigning the paperwork to makeKavanaugh’s status official.
“I stand before you todayon the heels of a tremendousvictory for our nation,” he saidto roars, thanking Republicansenators for refusing to backdown “in the face of theDemocrats’ shameless cam-paign of political and person-al destruction.” AP
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Beijing: China and the UnitedStates are set to hold high-leveltalks here on Monday to reducethe spiralling trade and militarytensions between the world’stwo largest economies.
US Secretary of State MikePompeo is scheduled to holdtalks with top Chinese leadersand officials in a bid to halt theongoing trade war in whichboth countries slapped addi-tional tariffs on billions of dol-lars of their exports.
Announcing Pompeo’svisit, Foreign Ministryspokesperson Hua Chunyinglast week said that China andthe US would exchange viewson bilateral ties and regionaland international issues ofcommon concern.
US Defence Secretary JimMattis too was due to visit butit was cancelled which Chinasaid was at the behest ofWashington. The news of can-cellation of his visit came afterUS allegations that Chinesenaval ship conducted unsafemanoeuvres near its destroyerDecatur when it passedthrough the islands off thedisputed South China Sea toassert freedom of navigation.China claims almost all of theSouth China Sea. PTI
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Acrash involving a limousineat a popular upstate New
York tourist spot killed 20 peo-ple, officials said Sunday.
Local officials told theTimes Union of Albany that alimo speeding down a hill hitbystanders Saturday afternoonat the Apple Barrel CountryStore in Schoharie, about 170miles (270 kilometers) north ofNew York City. State policeconfirmed Sunday that thedeath toll was 20 and said thecrash involved two vehicles.
The store is a popular stopfor tourists on fall foliage trips.
Authorities on Sunday did-n’t release names of victims orother specifics, but state police
set up a hotline for familymembers. The NationalTransportation Safety Board isinvestigating. An afternoonnews conference is planned.
In a Facebook post onSaturday, the Apple BarrelCountry Store thanked emer-gency responders for theiractions in the aftermath of the“horrific” accident. On Sunday,the store posted that it wasopen “and could use yourhugs.” Witnesses on Saturdaydescribed chaos, with a massiveturnout of ambulances andother responders.
“I heard some screaming. Itlooked serious because peoplewere running back and forth,”Bridey Finegan of Schoharietold WNYT NewsChannel 13 .
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To combat fake news, a teamof Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) researchershave developed a new MachineLearning (ML) system that helpsto determine whether a newssource is accurate or biased.
The researchers believe thatthe best approach is to focus noton the factuality of individualclaims but on the news sourcesthemselves.
“If a website has publishedfake news before, there’s a goodchance they’ll do it again. Byautomatically scraping dataabout these sites, the hope is thatour system can help figure outwhich ones are likely to do it inthe first place,” said lead authorRamy Baly from MIT’sComputer Science and ArtificialIntelligence Lab (CSAIL).
The system needs onlyabout 150 articles to reliablydetect if a news source can betrusted, suggests the study to bepresented at the 2018 EmpiricalMethods in Natural LanguageProcessing (EMNLP) confer-ence in Brussels.
For the study, theresearchers from MIT and theQatar Computing ResearchInstitute (QCRI), took datafrom Media Bias/Fact Check(MBFC) — a website withhuman fact-checkers whoanalyse the accuracy and bias-es of more than 2,000 news sites,from MSNBC and Fox News tolow-traffic content farms.
The team then fed that datato a ML algorithm called aSupport Vector Machine (SVM)classifier, and programmed it toclassify news sites the same wayas MBFC.
When given a new newsoutlet, the system was 65 percent accurate at detectingwhether it has a high, low ormedium level of “factuality,”and roughly 70 per cent accurate
in detecting if it is left-leaning,right-leaning or moderate.
The team determined thatthe most reliable ways to detectboth fake news and biasedreporting were to look at thecommon linguistic featuresacross the source’s stories,including sentiment, complex-ity and structure.
For example, fake news out-lets were found to be morelikely to use language that ishyperbolic, subjective and emo-tional.
In terms of bias, left-leaningoutlets were more likely to havelanguage that related to conceptsof harm/care and fairness/reci-procity, compared to other qual-ities such as loyalty, authorityand sanctity.
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In between day-long interviews, Tabumade time to speak to old friends likeR Balki, asking them to see her latest
film Andhadhun. Dressed in white andgrey dress with a high slit, the powerhouse,performer who was described by her co-star Ayushmann Khurrana as a malleableactor, had an aura of busy-ness thatseemed to envelop her being. A director’sactor, she has no qualms of playing char-acters that do not toe the established lineand slips into them with practised ease.While some of her characters have beengrey others have blown us over with theintensity with which they were portrayed.
�The characters you play are unique andeccentric.
Tabu: (Laughs) I think I am like that asa person now. Ye mereko abhi confirm horaha hai.
�Do you consciously choose such layeredcharacters to play?
I love to play them. I always wanted toplay these kind of people. Luckily, peoplehave come to me with these kind of scripts.I always wanted my journey in doingsomething different than standard char-acters that don’t engage you to that level.Even in a big mainstream film like GolmaalI had a quirky character. I attract those andgravitate towards them.
�In the 90s, when you shifted frommainstream characters to interestingones which film was your turning point?
It always came from within me. I knewthat my potential had to be explored andexploited to a larger extent than it wasbeing done. I was looking for platforms thatwould help me do that. When I got filmslike Macchis and Hu tu tu I really jumpedat them because that was my groove.
�Is thriller a comfortable genre for youto work in?
Sriram’s world is completely different.Nothing like Drishyam and Missing. I can’tfind words to explain how differentAndhadhun is. It’s a different explorationof yourself and your craft because it is adifferent format. The challenge is also tofit into that. Sriram creates a world andwhatever happens in it is true only to that.There are no reference points for the char-acters and stories. You start with a newapproach and break away from what youknow of playing characters. I decon-structed a lot within me for this film.
I can’t put a finger on what exactly Ihad to take apart within me because it’s
internal and part of the creative processbut if you see the film you’ll see that thisis not something I have ever attemptedto do before. What Sriram does withhis actors and characters may lookcasual but it’s something deep andfragmented which is coming out onscreen.
�Do you think that digital contentis pushing the boundaries of film?
The audience was ready anddemanding of different stuff, I don’tthink it is because of digital. Everygeneration, art form and pop cultureis going to be influenced by the soci-ety and what’s happening there. Idon’t think it’s a big topic of discus-
sion that things are changing.Human beings are changing sothis is expected.
�You have played two Shakespearianand a Victorian character. Do you likeclassics?
I have nothing to do with what isbeing offered to me. Whoever is offeringme those roles thinks that I’m right forthose roles. I am just lucky to play iconiccharacters like Lady Macbeth (Maqbool),Miss Havisham (Fitoor), Gertrude (Haider)and Kandukondain Kandukondain (Senseand Sensibility).
�Do you think this is a good timefor versatile actors?
I don’t know since I alwaysplayed different kind of charac-ters.
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Manoj Bajpayee’s next film,Bhonsle, which had its
world premiere at prestigious23rd Busan International FilmFestival 2018 received an out-standing reception from theaudience.
Bajpayee will be seen in thetitular role of a terminally illlone wolf Maharashtrian copBhonsle, retired against hiswill, in politically tumultuousMumbai, who finds himselfforging an unlikely companion-ship with a 23-year-old North-Indian girl and her little broth-er, while the raging conflictdestroying the world aroundthem reaches his doorstep,giving him one last battle worthfighting for, but it might just betoo late. The film also featuresa stellar cast like Marathi starSantosh Juvekar, theatre thes-pian Ipshita Chakraborty Singhand introducing the child artistVirat Vaibhav.
The acclaimed actor ofSatya and Aligarh, Bajpayeewho is excited about the worldpremiere says, “Great to hearsome exciting response comingin from Busan. This is my thirdfilm in a row to make it thereand I am quite happy aboutthe film and DevashishMakhija the directorand the entireteam who sacri-ficed a lot toreach here.”
T h ed i r e c t o r,DevashishMakhija,
producers PiiyushSingh (Indie Muviz)and Saurabh Guptawalked the red car-pet together. Thefilm is one of nineinternational pro-jects nominated forthe Kim JiseokAward in the AWindow on AsianCinema section.
The award willbe given out togeth-er with a cash prizeof $10,000 to thefinal two films,selected by the jurymembers at the clos-ing ceremony, whichwill be held onOctober 13.
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Makhija returned to BusanInternational Film Festival 2018after his internationallyacclaimed film, Ajji which pre-miered at the festival last yearin the New CurrentsCompetition. Delighted withthe response Makhija says, “Iwas expecting, the Korean audi-ence to treat my films as if oneof their own has made it! Theywere with the character ofBhonsle right through. Havingyour film screen at a festival likeBusan reinforces the belief thatcultural and political bound-aries are irrelevant when you’readdressing the human condi-tion like Bhonsle does.”
Bhonsle producerPiiyush Singh ofIndie Muviz says,“A world pre-miere, a packed
house, ane x c e p -
tional
and engagedinternationalaudience. It has
been the mostsatisfying experi-
ence to walk the redcarpet with my firstever feature film asa producer, Bhonslein the biggest filmfestival of SouthAsia, Busan.”
The film is produced by Manoj BajpayeeP r o d u c t i o n s ,Golden Ratio Films,P r o m o d o m eMotion Pictures and Indie Muvizand is slated torelease later thisyear.
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina imaginesthe origin and adventures of Sabrina,
the Teenage Witch, as a dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror, theoccult and, of course, witchcraft. Tonallyin the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and TheExorcist, this adaptation finds Sabrinawrestling to reconcile her dual nature —half-witch, half-mortal — while standingagainst the evil forces that threaten her,her family and the daylight worldhumans inhabit.Starring Kiernan Shipka, Miranda Otto,Lucy Davis, Ross Lynch, MichelleGomez, Chance Perdomo, Jaz Sinclair,Richard Coyle, Tati Gabrielle, GavinLeatherwood, among others.
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October 12. AaronEckhart, Amanda Peet andDiane Lane, among others,star as people who believethemselves to be descen-dants of the Russian royalfamily. Even though theeight episodes, set in dif-ferent locations are indeedfictional, the idea itself isnot. To this day, severalpeople around the worldclaim to be descendants ofthe House of Romanov, theRussian imperial family that was executed on July 17,1918.
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Unlike the first season of Little Things, which was alight-hearted take on the relationship between
Dhruv and Kavya, the second season will see themstep into a more mature relationship, seeking theirown individual identities while still dealing witheveryday problems. The show is directed by RuchirArun. Dhruv Sehgal is also the writer of the show.
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Daredevil, perhaps the mostpopular of all the Marvel TV
characters, returns for its third sea-son on Netflix. Set in a not-so-dis-tant future, the show follows theadventures of Matt Murdock(Charlie Cox), who practices lawby day and enforces it by night.The slick trailer has already gotfans pumped up for some bare-knuckle ass-kicking when theshow finally drops on October 19.
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Those who proudly flaunt India’svibrant democracy were ashamed
by the unruly scenes witnessed ontheir television screens during the lastfew days. The recent political dramathat unfolded made political punditslook at the future of politics with con-cern. The current scenario clearlyindicates signals of strong separatistforces at work in almost every polit-ical party. This dangerous trend of dis-integration has affected not only theparties but has also invaded familiesand the entire nation as well. However,one finds that adequate attentionhas not been paid to its origin and tothe enormity of harm that it causes tothe society at every level.
The tendency of separation is infact a combination of psychologicalsymptoms, behavioural trends andthinking patterns and is therefore, akind of a syndrome. Thus, before theactual split finally occurs, there is anupsurge in one’s conscious, subcon-scious or unconscious mind, of theforces of mutual dissatisfaction, dis-trust, disgust, hatred, intolerance andalienation. This starts when someambitious or self-centred people, inorder to fulfil their strong desire forpower, position, name and fame,money or material possessions and soon begin to find fault in others and thelatter act with the spirit of rejection,resentment, protests and abhorrenceor contempt. The two sides thus dis-turb and disown each other by begin-ning to assert their dissidence againsteach other with greater vigour. Thenthe blame game begins and each sidepaints its adversary black. Each crit-icises the other openly. As a result,they get estranged and become inim-ical to the interests of the other. Thus,utter selfishness, unrestrained ambi-tion, strong lust, stark greed, narrowinterests, social cut-off and individ-ualism, self-centredness, jealousy,rivalry and hatred that are born as aresult of these create disgruntlednessand create fissiparous tendencieswhich lead to a split in a party, anation or a family.
In such situations, one is caughtup in the whirl of levelling charges andcounter-charges against the otherand is unable to get out of it even ifhis/her well-wishers try to help. Oneis so much under the pressure of dis-turbed emotions that one refuses tolisten to the voice of reason which canlead to well-being. The person’s mindis so closed that s/he stops caringabout any attempts from the well-wishers to reconciliation and is not ina mood to settle the matter even byadopting the ‘give-and-take’ attitude.On the other hand, one’s standbecomes too stiff and inflexible. As aresult the emotional-mental distur-bance starts to increase and the forcesof negativity totally vitiate the atmos-phere. These could be catastrophic.Unitedly, humankind can face evennatural calamities and meet other dif-ficult and great challenges, but disuni-ty, disintegration, divisionism, sepa-ratism or ‘each-for-himself ’ attitudedoes not only leave gigantic problemsunsolved but also puts obstacles in the
way of finding solutions for evensmaller ones.
If we analyse this trend, we willfind that all this is due to the distur-bance in the human spirit. A restlessspirit is prone to give rise to forces ofde-stabilisation causing distress.Unless and until man learns to haveinner calm and peace and to solveproblems through spiritual knowledgeand meditation, the turmoil will con-tinue and will even escalate to thepoint of a serious human catastrophe.
According to the Bhagwad Gita,lust, anger and greed are the threegates of hell and hence it urges a beingto abandon them. One who is liber-ated from these three vices is on thepath to salvation. It is obvious fromthe above that true Ram Rajya canexist only when those living in thatRajya have divine qualities. So, howdoes one get liberated from these vicesand imbibe divine virtues? The onlyway souls can become pure in thispresent iron age is by linking up withthe source of all virtues, who isknown as “Supreme Soul.” Throughthis link they can draw power andvirtues that will enrich and strength-en them to take them beyond nega-tive influences. This simple process of
linking self with the Supreme iscalled “Rajyoga.” Practicing it regular-ly will bring the soul peace, love, puri-ty and bliss. Such qualities are reflect-ed in a person’s words and actions.And when a critical number of indi-viduals transform themselves in thisway, social transformation takes placemaking way for Ram Rajya.
When this happens, that day isnot far when we would see a world ofpurity of character and values, whereevery one would be divine and co-exist in harmony with nature. Therewill be no form of violence — phys-ical, mental or emotional. Pure loveand respect will form the basis of rela-tionships. They will be completely freefrom and ignorant of evil, vices andsuffering. Materially, they will be liv-ing in opulence and abundance.Science will be used appropriately tocreate technology and comforts whichare necessary, eco-friendly and safe.People will enjoy perfect health, nat-ural beauty, and a long life-span freefrom sickness and untimely death.There will be happiness and content-ment, lightness, innocence, purity andjoy in every action.
So when would this happen? It isactually ‘now’ that we get an oppor-tunity to create our best destiny.Once we conquer the vices such aslust, ego and attachment, we wouldregain our original divine naturetransforming the entire world into anew world. Don’t ever think that RamRajya is a myth. No! It’s indeed a real-ity that’s as close as tomorrow if westart practicing from today.
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Around 28 per cent of India’s popula-tion comprises of youngsters andadolescents between the age group of
10-24. Despite such a large section compris-ing of youngsters, there is a complete lackof focus on their sexual and reproductivehealth, especially education pertaining to thesubject.
Despite several well-planned policieslike the Adolescence Education Programme(AEP), The Reproductive, Maternal,Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health(RMNCH+A) program and the RashtriyaKishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK), thereare gaps in the on-ground implementation.The lack of effective financing for the pro-grammes that provide information andhealth services to young people, along withthe political landscape which stands againstcomprehensive sexuality education (CSE)often leads to this gap. A limited view of whoadolescents are and what their needs com-pise of, adds to it.
However, we do not have a policy thatmakes sex education compulsory in schoolsor outside it. The selective focus on issuesin CSE, shows that social conservatism andpatriarchal attitudes are prevalent. Forinstance, the curricula designed for adoles-cent health often operates from a heteronor-mative lens and only caters to the tradition-al gender binary.
There are certain questions on sexual-ity and human reproductive system thatremain unanswered for many adolescentsand even youngsters.
Examples abound on what the lack ofeducation and awareness about sexuality cando which has had drastic results. When a12-year-old girl in Sugamau, near Lucknow,who was a rape survivor, became pregnant,it was decided that once the culprit wasreleased from jail they would be married.The incident came to Yeh Ek Soch (YES)Foundation’s notice when a participant ofthe group of the youth leaders shared thenews during a session on ‘Access to SafeAbortion’ in the community. The need forurgent action to help the girl with medicalassistance was pressed upon, going againstthe girl’s family, as they wanted her to steerclear of the matter. However, the girl gavebirth to a baby boy later inDecember.
But not just cases of sex-ual harassment and intim-idation, even basic con-cerns about menstrualhealth and hygieneremain unaddressed.During a two-day work-shop on menstrual hygieneand sanitation in LittiparaHigh School in Pakur,Jharkhand. , which was attend-ed by more than 50 adoles-cents (15-17 years of age),few school dropout adoles-cent girls, the ASHA
workers, and government officials. The ses-sion focussed on young girls’ knowledge,awareness and practices around menstrualhealth. While programmes have been madeto promote sex education in schools, yetmenstruation is an overlooked chapter in thecurriculums. It is even more difficult toreach out to rural adolescents and women.
It was obvious that the girls got incom-plete information on menstruation with theminimum discussion in their home, schoolsand even in Anganwadis. “We have neverspoken about menstruation in school. Notwith teachers not even with our friends,”shared a school girl. The girls also sharedthat they knew that every friend of them hasstarted menstruating but no one talked
about it. For many, men-
struation is a taboo which is not to be spo-ken about. They said that this was the firsttime that they were discussing and talkingto their friends about it. They realised thatthey could discuss it openly without anyneed to hide. “We didn’t even know that wewere allowed to talk about it,” was a com-mon refrain.
There were hardly any discussionsabout the subject with the male teachers andironically they are the ones who teach sub-jects like biology and science and hesitateto discuss it.
The girls, in their feedback, expressedhow pleased they were to have a workshopthat discussed a taboo subject. There is aneed for more awareness-building sessionsamong not only the young women, but alsoamong those who engage with these issues,including administrative officers, education-al institutions, parents and frontline healthworkers, who must be sensitised on engag-ing with young people.
Another issue that was flagged was thatsince 2016, Jharkhand has funded �25 croreto promote menstrual hygiene amongschool girls, by distributing free sanitarynapkins. But till July 2018, the adolescentsfrom the Litipara school had received thesanitary pads only once. They even shared
that they didn’t like the quali-ty of the pads. Thus a need forchecking the quality of thepads and the mechanism toevaluate the process of their
distribution needs to be checked.On the other other, girls who didnot go to school shared that they
had no media to receive thepads. Apart from the lack of
sexual hygiene and men-struation awareness, thereis yet another stigmawhich has now beenworked on to a greatextent — transgender
people.
In a session at the capital, gender wasdiscussed which also emphasised that“trans women are real women.” Whileeveryone agreed that trans women experi-ence violence within and outside their fam-ilies, the main issue was whether they werewomen or not. One of the girls argued thattrans women are not real women becausethey do not have experiences similar to herswhile growing up where she faces discrim-ination. She said that it was only when atrans woman started feeling like and iden-tifying herself as a woman would they expe-rience womanhood. Debating against herwas another girl who argued that if one can-not see her struggling with her gender beforeshe begins to identify as a woman, does notmake her struggle less significant. Thenuanced discussion on understanding theinvisibility in the struggles of trans womenwas exceptional. Such nuanced argumentshaven’t been heard in a training before. Itcould be considered a success as there wasa space for the girls to think critically andarticulate their thoughts on gender and sex-uality. This is one of the examples of the CSEprogramme resulting in critical thinking foryoung people.With more such examples ofevolution as well as a lack of a proper sex-ual knowledge, the policymakers and gov-ernment officials need to be sensitised onissues of sexual reproductive health andrights in order to have a comprehensiveunderstanding of young people’s issuesand be equipped to address them.
This will lead them to be aware of whatyoung people want from them as they arealso equal stakeholders in policies that aredesigned for them. By working in an all-inclusive manner, we will be able to createsafe spaces for young people irrespective oftheir caste, class, religion, gender or sexu-al identity. By strengthening our approachtowards adolescent and youth health, we willbe able to cater to their needs. After all, everyyoung person has the right to be informedand have access to health services.
However, with NGOs taking up healthinitiatives and sexual and reproductiverights, there has been an increase in theawareness of CSE and its need to be inclu-sive of all gender identities. Limited genderdiversity leads to young people having inad-equate information and impacts their per-spective.
What caught the attention ofRidhima Modi was not the quali-fications of her to-be-husband orthat he had a patent in his name,but his innovative thought-process.Ridhima, a post graduate infinance from the Xavier Instituteof Social Service, Ranchi, got a pro-posal from Ankit Agrawal, whohad started a new venture and wasalso contributing towards themammoth task of cleaning thegigantic river Ganga.
To understand the impor-tance of what Agrawal was doing,a look at the most sacred river ofIndia which is also a lifeline of themillions living along its course, isessential. The 2,525 km long river,despite being holy has becomehighly polluted over the years. Onesuch factor adding to the mulchare the flowers offered on itsbanks at different places of worshipwhich get immersed in the water.The flowers come in contact withthe water, release toxic com-pounds, reduce the oxygen leveland eventually threaten humanand marine life.
Flowers are a symbol of devo-tion and reverence. When used forreligious purposes, they becomesacred and cannot be dumped inthe bin and are eventuallyimmersed in the Ganga. So aneed was felt to recycle theseflowers to solve the problem ofmonumental waste being generat-
ed. A mission began on the Gangaghats in Kanpur which gave birthto what is called HelpUsGreentoday. Started in May 2015 by twofriends, Ankit Agrawal (29) andKaran Rastogi (29), HelpUsGreenbased in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, isa mission to clean the Gangawhich employs the local womenparticularly from the marginalisedsection of the society and providesthem with livelihood. HelpUsGreenhas pioneered the technology ofrecycling these flowers.
However, it was not an easyroad that the duo traversed.Convincing the temple authoritiesto hand over their floral waste wasthe first hurdles that they faced.Recalling a visit to a temple, Karansaid, “People go to a temple forpeace of mind but seeing a heap ofsacred flowers collected as garbageon the temple premises is hardlyconducive to that. Since I was reg-ular at this temple, it was difficultbut not impossible to convincethem. Incidentally, that was thebiggest temple in Kanpur.”
Starting with one temple, theinitiative now collects flowersfrom 23 places of worship in thecity on a regular basis. The quan-tity of flowers has increased man-ifold from 1.5 to two tons toseven to eight tons of flowerseveryday. Once collected, theseflowers are sorted to removeunwanted products like plastic
and garland threads. The flowerheaps are then sprayed with a bio-logical culture which removesinsecticides and pesticides.Cleaned and washed, these flow-ers are then hand-crafted intocharcoal free incense sticks, cones,plant fertilizer and florafoam.Launched under the FMCG brand‘Phool’, these products areabsolutely organic and chemical-free. It has incense sticks, conesand vermicompost. Another prod-uct called ‘Florafoam’ is a 100 percent bio-degradable alternative tothermacol. Made from flowers, flo-rafoam is customisable to anyshape and size and is a muchcheaper alternative to thermacol.“To make the model really scalable,
we needed a business-to-businessproduct for mass volume. The rad-ical idea of making thermacol-packaging material gave us themass volume as we expandedpan-India,” said Ankit.
The duo is not just set out tobring about an environmentalchange but is also making a hugesocial impact by employing 79women, who earlier worked asmanual scavengers. They nowhave full-time employment and getfair wages, insurance, providentfund and a bus service to com-mute. Ranjana who has beenworking with them for a year nowsaid, “My life has changed a lot forthe better.”
Karan, who completed his
Bachelors from Delhi Universityand Masters from WarwickBusiness School, UK, comes froma joint family and said that his par-ents were not keen on him takingthis up as they felt that “this is nowork to do.”
His partner too faced opposi-tion. When Ankit, who has 17research papers and a patent in hisname, told his parents that hewanted to quit his job and startHelpUsGreen, his mother said,“Ab tum job chodke mandiron kakachra saaf karoge (now you willleave your job and clean thegarbage in temples).”
Three years down the line,their parents are very proud ofthem and also ask their friends andneighbourers to send the flowersto the organisation rather than todisposing them in the water.
HelpUsGreen recently wonthe United Nation young leader forSDG 2018, Bill and Melinda GatesGoalkeeper award and the UnitedNation Momentum of ChangeAward 2018. They were also list-ed in Forbes 30 under 30 class of2018. “We never thought we couldachieve this. In the coming years,I hope we will be able to impactmore cities and change the lives ofnot less than 500 women”, Rastogisaid. Ridhima who manages theirfinances said, “Five years from nowI want to see us listed on the NSEas a public company.”
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Arsenal swaggered to a ninth suc-cessive win as AlexandreLacazette's double and a goal of
the season contender from AaronRamsey inspired a 5-1 rout of Fulhamon Sunday.
Unai Emery's side turned on thestyle on the banks of the River Thames,recording their biggest win of the sea-son as the resurgent Gunners movedinto the Premier League's top four.
Lacazette was at the centre ofArsenal's powerful show at CravenCottage, with his superb second-halfstrike restoring their lead after AndreSchurrle had cancelled out his open-er.
Ramsey's audacious back-heeledgoal put Arsenal in complete controlto cap a stunning move that recalledthe club's finest days under Emery'spredecessor Arsene Wenger.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang net-ted twice in the closing stages asArsenal won six consecutive leaguematches within a single campaign forthe first time since 2016.
They have also recorded threeconsecutive away league victories forthe first time in two years.
Emery was expected to need along period to revive Arsenal after thedepressing final years of the Wengerera.
But the north Londoners arequickly rediscovering their verve andstruggling Fulham had no answer totheir enterprising display.
Emery freshened up his side withsix changes, although one was enforcedas Mesut Ozil was sidelined due to aback spasm, and there were no signsof fatigue as they took the lead in the29th minute.
Alex Iwobi was the catalyst witha clever pass to Nacho Monreal.
Monreal clipped his cross intoLacazette and the French striker leftTim Ream flat-footed with a nimbleturn and close-range strike for hisfourth goal of the season.
Fulham hit back against the runof play in the 44th minute.
Unhinged by Monreal's wastefulpass, Arsenal were out of position asLuciano Vietto slipped a pin-point passto Schurrle, who caught Rob Holdingball-watching as he sprinted throughto chip a fine finish over Bernd Lenofor his third goal this season.
Undeterred, Arsenal stepped onthe gas after the interval and Lacazette
restored their lead in the 49th minute.Aubameyang and Ramsey had
both been left on the bench, but Emeryintroduced them for the final half hourin a bid to kill offFulham.
It proved aninspired move asRamsey sealed thepoints with amajestic finish inthe 67th minute.
Aubameyangput the seal onArsenal's stroll inthe autumn sun-shine in the 79thminute, deftlyc o n v e r t i n gBellerin's cross.
The Gabonstriker wasn't finished yet and, in thelast minute, he smashed in Ramsey'spass for his sixth goal of the season.
��1����������������� ���� Belgium playmakerEden Hazard kept up his red-hot formwith one goal and an assist to inspireChelsea to a convincing 3-0 victoryagainst Southampton in the PremierLeague on Sunday.
Unbeaten Chelsea, playingin an unfamiliar pale blue kitwith orange socks, made abright start at St Mary's andwas unfortunate not to beawarded a penalty whenWesley Hoedt fouled Olivier
Giroud.Southampton could have taken
the lead against the run of play, butDanny Ings blazed the ball wildly overafter good work down the left by for-mer Chelsea defender Ryan Bertrand.
Chelsea went ahead on the half-hour when Ross Barkley, who wasrecalled to the England squad mid-week, did well to win possession inmidfield and set up the unmarked
Hazard to fire the ball past AlexMcCarthy for his seventh league goalof the season.
Barkley then added the secondgoal, his first for the club, from tap-inrange after Giroud produced an acro-batic cross-shot following a free kickby Willian.
Southampton tried to stage a laterally and visiting goalkeeper KepaArrizabalaga had to pull off two fin-ger-tip saves to deny Ings and NathanRedmond.
Chelsea had the final word,though, as the irrepressible Hazard sentAlvaro Morata clean through and thesubstitute chipped the ball overMcCarthy.
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Atletico Madrid shot to the topof La Liga after Angel
Correa's goal proved the winnerin an untidy 1-0 win over RealBetis on Sunday.
Atletico sat seven pointsbehind Real Madrid andBarcelona after winning onlyone of their opening four leaguegames but as their rivals havestumbled, Diego Simeone's sidehave sprung into form.
Even if Barca return to thesummit by beating Valencia lateron Sunday, this was Atleti's fifthwin in six in all competitions,with their only dropped pointscoming in a stalemate away toReal Madrid.
Simeone can take some ofthe credit too for this victory atthe Wanda Metropolitano, afterthrowing on both Correa andThomas Partey as substitutes inthe second half. Thomas pro-vided the assist.
The contest was billed as aclassic clash of styles, withAtletico's stubborn defence upagainst the free-flowing RealBetis, who lit up the league lastseason with their flurry of goals.
It is testament to the threatBetis pose that opponents havebecome more cautious this sea-son and Atletico weresuccessful here in theirstrategy of absorb andcounter-attack.
Betis, who couldalso have gone topwith a win, such is thescrunched nature ofthe top half, stay sev-enth.
Diego Costa was missingwith a thigh injury, allowingNikola Kalinic to make his firststart since joining from ACMilan in August.
��������������Julen Lopetegui insisted it is
too early to be questioning hisfuture despite Real Madrid suf-fering a shock defeat by Alaves to
make it four games without a vic-tory.
It is four games without agoal too for the European cham-pions, their longest scoringdrought since 1985, as ManuGarcia headed home in the 95thminute to send theMendizorrotza Stadium wild.
It is the first time they havebeaten Madrid at home in 87years.
Alaves fans ran onto thepitch to celebrate their stunning1-0 win and the chants continuedlong after the final whistle.
For Real, this was anotherbody blow and to make mattersworse, Gareth Bale and KarimBenzema, their chief attackingthreats, were both forced offinjured. Bale had missed theChampions League loss to CSKAMoscow on Tuesday with a groinstrain.
It means Barcelona can gothree points clear if they win theirgame in hand against Valenciawhile Alaves' excellent start to theseason continues.
Lopetegui had been asked onFriday if he felt under pressure atthe club he left Spain for on theeve of the World Cup and thequestion was put to him againafter the match here.
"It interests you but is not aquestion that concernsme," Lopetegui said.
"We know what thelife of a coach is, especial-ly at Real Madrid, but wealso know it is Octoberand you have to keep per-spective and stay calm."
Captain Sergio Ramoswas more emphatic.
"It's other people who makethose decisions but it's nevergood to have a change of coach,"he said.
"It would be crazy."Talk of change feels prema-
ture but it will increase if Madridfail to find fluency soon and, inparticular, if Barca pull away. TheClasico at the Camp Nou loomsat the end of the month.
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Juan Martin del Potro said thathe was battling illness after he
suffered a shock defeat in theChina Open final on Sunday, los-ing 6-4, 6-4 to unseeded NikolozBasilashvili of Georgia.
In the women's final, worldnumber two Caroline Wozniackidefeated Latvia's AnastasijaSevastova 6-3, 6-3 for her 30thWTA singles title.
Argentine top seed Del Potrowas far from his best and hasbeen fighting flu or a cold for sev-eral days in the Chinese capital.
The world number four saidthat he did his utmost in difficultcircumstances.
"I did everything that I canto be better for the final, it was-n't enough time to feel 100 per-cent," the 30-year-old said.
There was to be no surprisein the women's decider.
Denmark's Wozniacki wasimpressive all week, never drop-ping a set and rarely looking trou-bled, sealing her spot in the WTAFinals Singapore in the process.
The 28-year-old, who wonher first Grand Slam at theAustralian Open at the start ofthis year, was imperious againstthe unseeded Sevastova.
It is her second China Opencrown — she also won it in 2010— and 30th overall.
"I'm just happy to havereached 30 today, I'm going toenjoy that," said Wozniacki, a for-mer number one.
"As a little kid I had a dreamof becoming a professional ten-nis player, becoming number onein the world.
"Then after number one inthe world, I wanted to win aSlam, then I wanted to lift tro-phies.
"Having done everything,all of that, it's pretty amazing.
"I think I had a dream of that,but I don't know how realistic Ireally believed that was going tobe."
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Meghana Reddy and TasnimMir won the girls doubles
crown as Indian shuttlers baggedfive medals in the BadmintonAsia Junior U-17 and U-15 cham-pionships which concluded atMandalay, Myanmar on Sunday.
Meghana and Tasnim pairdefeated Korean duo of Yeo JinGong and Da Yeon Jeong 23-21,21-18 in the final to secure theUnder-15 girls doubles title.
Meiraba Luwang and AditiBhatt won a Bronze medal each inthe Under-17 boys singles and girlssingles respectively, while SShankar Muthuswamy claimed aBronze in under-15 boys singles.
The men doubles duo in U-15category, Pranv Rao Gandhamand P Sai Vishnu, added yet anoth-er Bronze medal to India's tally.
Sankar lost his semifinal to
Korean Byung Jae Kim 15-21, 19-21 in a tight match and it was fol-lowed by Aditi, who went down toIndonesian Aisyah Savita Ftetani12-21, 13-21.
Meiraba fought well but unfor-tunately went down 21-19, 16-21,
10-21 against Korean Yong Jin andthe pair of Pranav and Sai Vishucouldn't withstand the Indonesianduo of Muhammad RayhanNurand Mar wan Faza, whowrapped up the match 21-12, 21-19.
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Kei Nishikori's hopes of a third Japan Opencrown were dashed Sunday by Russian
qualifier Daniil Medvedev, who crushed thelocal hero 6-2, 6-4 to play party-pooper.
Medvedev punched well above his worldranking of 32 and overpowered third seedNishikori in a one-sided Tokyo final, taking just63 minutes to scoop his third career title.
Nishikori, who won the tournament in2012 and 2014, had not dropped a set beforerunning into the beefy Russian and came intothe match as the overwhelming favourite.
But Medvedev snaffled an early breakthanks to a wild backhand from Nishikori, whogift-wrapped the first set to his opponent witha tame double-fault.
A misfiring Nishikori, who won the last ofhis 11 career titles in Memphis two years ago,continued to struggle as his towering opponentgrew in confidence.
Chasing a first tournament victory after
recovering from a lengthy wrist injury, the worldnumber 12 never really threatened Medvedev'sserve and went out in a flurry of unforcederrors.
Medvedev completed the upset with adrilled forehand to join a eye-popping list ofJapan winners that includes Roger Federer, PeteSampras, John McEnroe and Ken Rosewall.
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India opened its Para AsianGames campaign in style by bag-
ging two Silver and three Bronzemedals on the opening day here onSunday.
The men's badminton teamopened the country's medalaccount after narrowly losing toMalaysia 1- 2 in the semifinals tosettle for a Bronze.
In the 49 kg men's powerlift-ing event, Farman Basha claimedthe Silver and Paramjeet Kumarwon the Bronze. The Gold went toPia Laophalkdee of Laos for hiseffort of 133 kg.
Farman lifted 128 kg whileParamjeet had 127 kg.
The medals continued to comeIndia's way as swimmers DevanshiSatijawon picked up a Silver inwomen's 100 metre butterfly in S-10 category and Suyash Jadhavclinched the Bronze in the men's200 metre individual medley inSM-7 category.
The Boccia team, which iscompeting for the first time at theAsian Para Games, also emergedvictorious as they got the better ofhosts Indonesia in their first groupmatch 5-3.
In chess, all the Indians wontheir ties with visually impairedPrachurya Kumar Pradhan sealinghis victory over Domingos SavioFernandes Gusmao from TimorLeste in less than 15 minutes.
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Prithvi Shaw lived up to expectationswith a classy Test century on his
India debut but the teenage sensationmust tighten up his technique fortougher challenges away from home,feel former players.
Shaw batted like a seasoned pro tohit a sublime hundred in the seriesopener against the West Indies, becom-ing the youngest Indian to reachthree-figure score on Test debut. Hedid not face the best of attacks but itwas still a special knock that promis-es a great career.
His punches off the back footreminded former West Indies all-rounder Carl Hooper of the good oldCaribbean flair but he feels Shaw'saggressive style with the existing tech-nique makes the 18-year-old vulner-able for sterner tests overseas, startingwith the tour of Australia next month.
"He seems to be a great talent buttends to play away from the body.Clearly, he likes to be on the back footand play square off the wicket. Itworked here (in Rajkot) but with somuch gap between the bat and body,he could face issues in England andAustralia," Hooper, a veteran of 102Tests said.
Former India opener AakashChopra, who successfully negotiatedthe new ball in Australia during the2003-2004 tour, has a different take onShaw's technique. He too feels thatShaw needs to tighten up his game but
said if an unconventional approachworked for Virender Sehwag, it couldalso work for the highly-rated teenag-er.
"What we have just seen is perhapsa trailer of the things to come. It looksvery promising. You cannot grudgeabout the opposition and pitch was flat.But he will be tested (overseas) and Iam sure he is aware of it. We will getto know whether he can weather thestorm and what all he needs to do," saidChopra, who played 10 Tests forIndia.
"Currently, there are couple ofthings, I am pretty sure he is workingon that. One was his trigger movementwhich is already looking different towe saw in the IPL. I am not too wor-ried. He has got a great start," Choprasaid.
"People will have faith and he willget a slightly extended run. God for-bid even if Australia does not end upbeing the best of tours for him, youhave to bear in mind that lot of play-ers went there the first time and didnot really set the world on fire."
He said Shaw might have to curbhis aggression a bit while facing thelikes of Mitchell Starc and JoshHazlewood. The ball will swing inAustralia but not as much as England.
"There will be some swing asKookaburra tends to move a lot earlyon. Hazlewood and Starc will beexploiting those conditions. See, youhave to back yourself. Whatever tookyou to this level should make you suc-
cessful at the highest level as well."You may want to tighten up a bit
but radical changes in your techniquesare not advisable. He has got to be alittle careful off the back foot. Thepunches that he likes to hit could beslightly risky if the ball is moving lat-erally. We will have to assume that hewill learn with time. What he has donein the past counts for nothing. He willbe eventually be judged by what hedoes at the highest level," addedChopra.
Someone who has tracked Shawclosely is Amol Muzumdar, a stalwartof Mumbai and owner of more than11,000 first-class runs. The 43-year-oldsaid one should not jump the gun butwait till Shaw actually gets an oppor-tunity overseas before making a com-ment on his technique.
"I think he does not need tochange too much. Every player has gothis own style of play. His style is aggres-sive, playing on the rise and he shouldcontinue doing that. We will have towait and see how does in England andAustralia then only we can talk aboutit," said Muzumdar.
"You cannot be technically correctall the time, too much reliance on tech-nique is also not good. There has to bea balance between technique andflamboyance. All he needs to do is tobe selective with his shot making. Onwhich ball to go for your strokes andon which ball to hold back. That is theonly thing he needs to watch out,"reckoned Muzumdar.
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Reeza Hendricks and Heinrich Klaasenadvanced their claims for long-term
places in the South African squad as theyhit half-centuries in a four-wicket win overZimbabwe in the third and final one-dayinternational at Boland Park on Saturday.
South Africa completed a 3-0 sweepin a series which was as much about giv-ing opportunities to fringe players as it wasabout beating their neighbours.
"Our main focus was to keep lookingat players and we tried to give everyonegood game time," said South African cap-tain Faf du Plessis.
"Australia is our next tour (at the endof October). It will probably be a bittougher than this and we will be closer toour best 15 or 16 players for that tour."
Hendricks made 66 and Klaasen 59 asSouth Africa chased down a Zimbabwetotal of 228 with 4.1 overs to spare.
Hendricks hit a century on debutagainst Sri Lanka in August but scored onlyeight runs in his next four innings.Opening the batting, he helped AidenMarkram put on 75 for the first wicket andbatted fluently in hitting five fours and asix off 82 balls.
Klaasen played his second usefulinnings of a series in which he also keptwicket capably in the absence of Quinton
de Kock, hitting six fours and a six in a 67-ball innings. Two catches and a lightningstumping helped win him the man-of-the-match award. Sean Williams hit 69 to leadan improved batting performance byZimbabwe but it was not enough to pro-vide a serious challenge on the only goodbatting pitch of the series.
South Africa went into the series with-out front-line players Hashim Amla, DeKock and David Miller, with coach OttisGibson stating that opportunities wouldbecome less frequent for players chal-lenging for places in South Africa's 2019World Cup squad.
Earlier, Williams helped the touristsregain some pride after being bowled outfor 117 and 78 in losing the first two match-es. Williams and Brendan Taylor (40) puton 73 for the fourth wicket.
South African fast bowler Dale Steyncontinued a successful return to one-dayinternational cricket, bowling with goodpace and control on an unresponsive pitchto take three for 29 in 9.3 overs. Fellow fastbowler Kagiso Rabada took three for 32.
Zimbabwe captain HamiltonMasakadza said his team's batting had beendisappointing. "We just weren't goodenough across all three games," he said.
The sides start a three-matchTwenty20 international series in EastLondon on Tuesday.
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Opener Mohammad Hafeez cel-ebrated his recall with an
impressive century as Pakistandominated the opening day of thefirst Test against Australia in Dubaion Sunday.
Pakistan were 255-3 at theclose of play, with Haris Sohailunbeaten on 15 and nightwatch-man Mohammad Abbas one notout as Australian bowlers toiledaway with little success on a flatDubai Stadium pitch.
Hafeez, a late inclusion in thesquad after a double hundred in adomestic match, led the run-feastwith a knock of 126 — his 10th Testhundred — during a 278-minutestay at the crease and put on 205runs for the opening stand withImam-ul-Haq, who made a careerbest 76.
Pakistan skipper SarfrazAhmed won the toss and decidedto bat, and Hafeez and Imamlaid the platform for a big firstinnings as Australia's pace-cum-spin attack was held wick-etless before tea.
Hafeez, whose last of 50Test appearances came inEngland two years ago, broughtup his hundred by pushingspinner Jon Holland for twoafter hitting a pair of boundariesoff Mitchell Starc the previousover.
He was given a life on 74 whenMitchell Marsh could not hold onto a tough chance on the bound-ary off the bowling of Holland hav-ing covered some 20 yards in theoutfield.
Hafeez, whose innings includ-ed 15 boundaries, was finallytrapped leg before wicket by PeterSiddle by a ball which beat him onthe front push.
It was only after tea thatAustralia were able to take wickets,with off-spinner Nathan Lyon get-ting Imam caught behind in the63rd over of the day.
Imam hit seven boundariesand two sixes — both off Holland— to improve on his previous bestscore of 74 not out made againstIreland at Malahide in May.
Azhar Ali scored 18 before giv-
ing away his wicket to Holland,caught at mid-off by Starc.
Australia captain TimPaine brought on Lyon in theninth over but Pakistan reachedlunch at 89-0 before adding afurther 110 runs in the secondsession.
Lyon, Holland and Siddlefinished a challenging openingday with a wicket apiece.
Australia handed Test capsto Aaron Finch, Travis Head andMarnus Labuschagne whilePakistan included off-spinner BilalAsif for his first Test at the age of33. The second Test starts in AbuDhabi on October 16.
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India's U-19 team on Sundayfollowed the footsteps of their
seniors to win the U-19 AsiaCup title with a crushing 144-run win against Sri Lanka in thefinal with Delhi boys AyushBadoni and Harsh Tyagi playingprominent roles.
Just a week back, the seniorteam beat Bangladesh in a close-ly fought final in Dubai toemerge as continental champi-ons.
Runaway favourites, Indiaoutplayed Sri Lanka in alldepartments by first scoring animposing 303 for six at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium after skipperPrabh Simran Singh won thetoss and elected to bat.
All the Indian batsmen con-tributed with openers YashasviJaiswal (85 off 113 balls) andAnuj Rawat (57 off 79 balls) cre-ating solid foundation with121-run stand.
However the highlight ofthe Indian innings was Badoni'sblistering unbeaten knock of 52off 28 balls which included fivesixes and two fours. Along withskipper Prabh Simran (65 no off37 balls), Badoni added 110runs in 9.1 overs to literally batSri Lanka out of the match.
The island nation werenever in the chase as they wereall out for 160 in 38.4 overs los-ing wickets at regular intervalswith left-arm spinner HarshTyagi's registering brilliant fig-ures of 6 for 38 in 10 overs.
He flighted a few and fireda few down the channel inwhat was his best performanceat the U-19 level till date.
India did have one toughmatch against Bangladesh in thesemi-final which they won bytwo runs.
"I couldn't play today but Iam very happy that my teamwon," India's regular captainPavan Shah said in company ofhis deputy and stand-in skipperPrabh Simran.
Man of the match Tyagi,who bowled a disciplined linesaid: "The instruction was to
bowl at one spot after doing avideo analysis of the Sri Lankateam. The wicket also assistedthe spinners."
It was left-hander Jaiswal,who hit some flowing drivesincluding a pulled six over deepmid-wicket off left-arm spinnerDushith Wellalage.
For his consistency (318runs in the tournament), Jaiswalwas adjudged man-of-the-tour-nament.
The Lankans used fivespinners — three off-breaksand two left-arm spinners butall of them were slow throughthe air giving batsmen enoughtime to go on the back-foot.
Indian batting's most enter-taining part was the death overswhen Badoni and Prabh Simranbrutally assaulted the oppositionspinners.
In an over from left-armspinner Shashika Dulshan,Badoni hit four sixes with a cou-ple of them landing in stands.
A product of Delhi's famousSonnet Club, his techniqueagainst spinners was impressiveand like his 'senior' RishabhPant, he loves the slog hit overcow corner.
������'����India U-19 303/6 (YashasviJaiswal 85 off 113 balls, AnujRawat 57 off 79 balls, PrabhSimran 65 no off 37 balls,Ayush Badoni 52 no off 28balls)Sri Lanka U-19 160 in 38.4overs (Harsh Tyagi 6/38 in 10overs). India U-19 won by 144runs.
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Arampant Lewis Hamilton led aMercedes one-two at the Japanese
Grand Prix on Sunday to move to thebrink of a fifth Formula One world title.
The Briton dominated at Suzukaafter starting on pole, stretching his leadover Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel to 67 pointswith just four races left as the German'shopes were dashed by a collision withRed Bull's Max Verstappen.
Valtteri Bottas held off Verstappen totake second almost 13 seconds behindHamilton in a breathless 53-lap race atthe fast-flowing Japanese circuit.
"Woo-hoo! I love you guys!"Hamilton screamed over team radio afterhis sixth win in the last seven races.
"I hope you guys are not gettingbored of this — because I'm definitelynot."
Vettel realistically needed to win tokeep alive his fading title hopes but,despite making up four places in a fran-tic start after starting on the fourth row,spun off on lap eight in a shower of sparksafter a risky lunge on Verstappen.
The German, who began from eighthin qualifying, survived the scrape butfound himself back in 19th and couldonly finish sixth, dealing a hammer blowto his slim title hopes.
Hamilton will retain his world titleif he wins the next race at Austin andVettel fails to finish second.
"It's a great one-two for Mercedesand a true showing of the strength indepth we have," said the Briton after hisfifth Japan victory and ninth of the sea-son.
"I can't wait to unleash this beast inAustin," he added, pointing at his car.
"We've gone from strength tostrength this year as a team but I'm tak-
ing it one step at a time."Daniel Ricciardo finished fourth
for Red Bull after starting way back in15th with Kimi Raikkonen fifth afterFerrari opted not to switch his positionwith Vettel for the sake of two extrapoints.
Vettel was left wondering whatmight have been after a ruining an elec-tric start with an ill-advised attempt toduck inside Verstappen at turn 13.
"In that corner you can't overtake,"shrugged the Dutchman, who had ear-lier received a five-second penalty fornudging Raikkonen off the track.
"I even gave him space but he under-steered into my car."
Red Bull boss Christian Horner putit even more bluntly when asked to assessVettel's rush of blood.
"It was a bit late and obviouslyopportunistic," he said.
"You know with Max, he's nevergoing to give an inch and it's costSebastian dear today. That's probablythe end of his championship." Vettel sawit differently.
Further down the order, SergioPerez took seventh for Force Indiaahead of Romain Grosjean's Haas.
The second Force India of EstebanOcon came in ninth with Renault'sCarlos Sainz Jr 10th.
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The Indian junior men's hockey teamthrashed New Zealand 7-1 to register their
second consecutive win at the eighth Sultanof Johor Cup here on Sunday.
On the opening day of the tournament,the Indians had registered a hard fought 2-1win over hosts Malaysia.
Prabhjot Singh (6th minute), ShilanandLakra (15th, 43rd), Harmanjit Singh (21st),Mohd Faraz (23rd), Abhishek (50th) and skip-per Mandeep Mor (60th) were the goal scor-ers for India.
New Zealand's consolation goal camefrom the sticks of Sam Hiha in the 53rdminute.
Last year's Bronze medallist India got offto an attacking start as Prabhjot's fine goal inthe sixth minute put New Zealand on the backfoot.
Shilanand Lakra, who had made hissenior debut earlier this year at the SultanAzlan Shah Cup in Malaysia, was in good nickas he capitalised on a good assist to put theball past the New Zealand goalkeeper to dou-ble the scoreline.
The Indian forwards kept up the pressureas they scored back-to-back goals in the 21stand 23rd minute through Harmanjit's fieldstrike and Mohd Faraz's penalty corner con-version.
While the third quarter saw both teamsdrop the pace a bit, India extended their leadin the 43rd minute through Lakra.
It was Abhishek's 50th minute goal thatput India 6-0 ahead, even as New Zealand's
Sam Hiha scored a consolation goal threeminute later.
Skipper Mandeep also registered hisname in the score sheet as he converted asmart variation from a penalty corner to handIndia the massive win.
Earlier on Saturday, India beat hostMalaysia 2-1 to start its camappign on the win-ning note.
India will next take on Japan in their thirdmatch on October 9.
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