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Carving granite is anevocative endeavour for

Odisha’s woman sculptorNivedita Mishra. She isdedicated to carving and itconnects not just with thedensity and intensity of thegranite blocks she works uponbut upon the physicality andmateriality of the smallerelements she works upontherein.

Carving as sculpturalpractice has a deep, ancient,g lobal histor y and thisconnection between a visionfor modern sculpture andmethods of making has beenemployed for centuries ,millennia even, across theglobe and this is why herworks appeal deeply to thecommon man.

“My connection withstone involves spirituality andreverence for the spirit thatdwells within,” says Niveditaas she puts together her seriesOdyssey at the Lalit KalaAkademi in a small cameo.

“Stone for me is aboutpeople and their journeys, ithas been on this earth muchlonger than man and for thisreason the stone becomes ourteacher, it is simply what myancestors bel ieve. As asculptor, I visualise what thestone wants to become and Istrive to help it bloom. Thegranite blocks I use speak tome by its texture and grains.

I look at the characteristics ofthe granite, and then startcarving,” she adds.

But when you look at thepolished cylindrical series inher works you know thatcarving is not just simply amethod of making sculpturefor her; it isan articulation ofa particular vision of thesculptor’s craft: it is alsoinextricably bound up withthe art iculat ion of an‘aesthetic creed’.

Her large worksymbolises a cave withapertures that captures thesensations of making templeportals carved with chisels,hammers and mallets fromhard, as well as resistant

material. This fascination andcrit ical attention to theprocesses and concept of‘direct carving’ arguably keepsthe commentar y of thetechniques of sculpturalidentities and corollaries asher insignia for conversations.

“I find strength, faith,and dignity through myheritage, yet I also find thesesame things in other cultures– and I derive inspirationand motivation from them aswell,” says Nivedita as sheruns her hands over her owncarving of the triangulartempled cave.

A look at the smallerclusters of her work shows asif the earth has created itself

into a cathedral of beautifultreasure stones —uncountable shapes andtextures, each one stampedwith its own rich familialand cultural history.

No wonder, so many of uspick up stones that speak tous, and carry them home,placing them in specialniches, and treating them asour own personal discoveries.

Each offers a puzzlingmystery to explore; eachtweaks our imagination,stimulates our curiosity andraises interesting questions. Inthe series that echo treasuresand boxes and cavities the setof four with lids are the finestin finesse and fervour.

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BJD’s Pinaki Misra is therichest among candidates of

the Lok Sabha constituenciesgoing to polls on April 23 in thethird phase with assets of over�117 crore, revealed a report ofthe Association for DemocraticReforms (ADR) and OdishaElection Watch (OEW) onSaturday.

Among other Lok Sabhacandidates, BJP candidate fromSambalpur, Nitesh Gangdev isthe second richest with totalassets of more than �26 crorefollowed by CongressDhenkanal Lok Sabha nomineeKamakhya Prasad Singh Deowith assets of over �15 crore.

Among Assemblycandidates, Congress candidateof the Badamba Assemblyconstituency, Bobby Mohanty isthe richest with assets of morethan �106.32 crore.

Pradesh CongressCommittee president NiranjanPatnaik is the second richestcandidate with total assets ofover �60 crore followed byIndependent candidate fromChampua, Srimanta Tripathiwith total assets of Rs 46 crore.

Out of 356 candidates in the42 Assembly constituencies inthis phase, 103 are crorepatis, theADR report further revealed.

The report also pointed outthat there are 38 womencandidates which constitute 11per cent of the total number ofcandidates in the third-phasepolls.

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Three Odisha students havebeen selected to participate

in the United Nations IntensiveSummer Study Programme-2019 to be held from June 3 to7.

The selected students areAdyasha Nanda, SubhalaxmiPatnaik and Fax Sahoo, all ofDhenkanal district. Adyasha isnow studying in Plus Threestudent in DhenkanalAutonomous College.Subhalaxmi is an LLM studentof the Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan(SOA) University and Faxsahoo is a final year BBAstudent in the Indian Instituteof Tourism and TravelManagement (IITTM).

The Summer Intensiveprogramme is organised bythe USA-UNOa the School ofDiplomacy and InternationalRelations, Seton HallUniversity, USA, informedprogramme director B Smith.

Selected students wouldlearn and interact about foreignrelations, diplomacy and howUNO works in practices and

other chapters. The Utkal Federation of

United Nations Association,Odisha unit and MissionReconstruction have offeredto impart preparatory trainingto the three students beforetheir visit to the USA.

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PCC president Nirajan Patnaikon Saturday said social

indiscipline and incidents ofviolence are on the rise in Odishaonly due to rise in liquor business

encouraged by the BJDGovernment.

He too alleged that theGovernment has failed inchecking illegal liquor tradeduring the ongoing generalelections.

“Both the BJD and the BJPare encouraging criminalsduring the elections. As a result,employees engaged in pollmanagement and commonvoters don’t feel secured,” he said.

Patnaik urged the Chief

Electoral Officer to keep vigil onsuch incidents as there are twomore phases of polling to be heldin the State.

Patnaik said the BJD and theBJP are trying to woo voters withfalse promises. He questioned the

reliability of attractive poll sopsmade by the two parties. Patnaikurged upon voters not to go byfalse promises and to selectcandidates with conscience.

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After Forest Departmentpersonnel trimmed the

tusk of a wild elephant in Angulafter it trampled five persons todeath on Friday, WildlifeSociety of Odisha secretaryBiswajit Mohanty has written tothe Principal Chief Conservatorof Forests (Wildlife) and ChiefWildlife Warden requestinghim to refrain from trimmingtusks of wild elephants.

Mohanty alleged that theoperation was carried out atnight in less than 24 hours afterthe attack was based on hastydecision making that did notaccount for the interest of thetusker in having his tusks intact.No other options to manage theanimal’s aggression wereconsidered by the department.

He also questioned howthis action was taken withoutthe permission from theDG(Wildlife), Government ofIndia as it is a Schedule Ianimal .

He stated that tusks ofelephants in captivity may betrimmed but those in the wildneed to protect themselves asthe sharp ends of the tusks aretheir tools to defend againstattacks by other tuskers.

Mohanty stated that in anearlier letter they had informedthe Wildlife Department aboutthe tragic fate of another tuskerof Kamkhyanagar range inDhenkanal district, whose tuskswere trimmed on December 18,2016. Sadly, 20 months later theadult tusker was found bleedingand suffering from multipleinjuries after being attacked byother tuskers.

The animal had woundscaused by goring by othertuskers which were deep andserious. On July 29, 2018, hewas tranquilised and treated forthe wounds but he did notsurvive long. It was later foundthat he was once again attackedby other elephants while he wasrecuperating and died a painfuldeath on August 11, 2018,Mohanty stated.

He further stated that thewildlife activists had raisedconcerns about the fact thatevery year about 18 to 20 adultbreeding tuskers are lost andhence it is important to protectand preserve the remainingbreeding adult males for asustainable elephant populationin the State.

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Astudent went missing whiletaking bath at the sea

beach here on Saturday. He wasidentified as Abhishek Pandeyof Bihar and had come to visitPuri along with his friends whoare his fellow students of theBhubaneswar-based CIPET.

The students were bathingin the Bay of Bengal nearChaitanya Chhak in front ofSwargadwar crematorium.While his friends returned tothe beach, Abhishek wasbathing in the sea alone. Hewas swept away in the strongcurrent and went missing.

Though Fire Brigadepersonnel launched a franticsearch for the missing student,Abhishek is yet to be traced.

In separate incidents, sevenpersons including someBengali tourists were rescuedfrom drowning while bathingin the sea by lifeguards.

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Patients getting treatment atthe MKCG Medical College

Hospital here are facingproblems due to shortage ofblood in its Blood Bank.

According to information,the premier hospital is runningshortage of blood for the lastthree days.

While some patients likethalassemia need blood regularly,the shortage in the premierhospital has worried them andtheir relatives. Some patientshave been forced to be expensiveby moving to Bhubaneswar orVisakhapatnam to avail blood.

The increase in demandand the decrease in collectionhave led to the shortage ofblood. While 3,000 units ofblood were collected from 25blood donation camps held inFebruary, only 723 units ofblood collected in Marchthrough 14 camps. In April, nota big blood donation camp hasbeen organised by now andthere is no such plan in coming

days. As a result, the bloodshortage is expected to be acutein coming days.

Under this situation, somevoluntary organisations havecome forward to hold blooddonation camps.

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Athree-year-old girl wasallegedly raped by a 15-

year-old boy nearSanajhankarpali village underthe Sadar police station onSaturday.

The victim was admittedto the Bhima Bhoi MedicalCollege Hospital here in acritical condition.

Reports said the accusedlured the girl while she wasplaying near her house withher friends and took her to anearby toilet and raped her.Hearing her screams, the girl’sparents rushed to the spot andrescued her.

She was immediatelyrushed to the hospital.Palpable tension is prevailingin the area after the incident.

“We rushed to the spotafter the parents of the victiminformed the matter to us.

By the time we reachedthe spot the accused hasescaped. We are trying to nabhim at the earliest,” said apolice official.

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If a voter has lost ormisplaced his or her Voter IDcard, he or she can still voteby showing any valid photoidentity proof like Aadhaarcard, driving l icence,passport, etc. Voters may beaware of this and are expectedto cast their valuable votes fora flourishing democracy.

With all eyes on theongoing Lok Sabha andAssembly elections. it may benoted that unlike previouspolling, this time mobile

phones wil l not beallowed inside the pollingbooths; and to avoid last-minute glitches, it’s better ifvoters either leave theirmobiles at home or have theirown arrangement to keeptheir phones either in theirvehicles or with someonewhom they accompany tohave a hassle-free voting.

K Ravi, Member, ADR, E-237, GGP Colony,Bhubaneswar-751025, Mob:9437616497

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Allegations of sexual harass-ment have cropped up

against Chief Justice of IndiaRanjan Gogoi prompting him toconvene an urgent extraordi-nary hearing on Saturday andassert that the charges by a for-mer apex court staffer were“unbelievable” and part of a con-spiracy by some “bigger force”to “deactivate” the CJI’s office.

As the allegations by theformer woman staffer who hadworked at Gogoi’s home officein Delhi and dating back toOctober stunned the judiciary,Gogoi said he would not stooptoo low even to deny them.

At the hurriedly calledhearing in Court No 1 presidedby him after the allegationswere carried by some news por-tals based on the affidavit by thewoman, the apex court said itis leaving it to the “wisdom ofmedia” to show restraint and actresponsibly so that indepen-dence of judiciary is not affect-ed. The court, however, decid-ed not to issue any gag order.

A three-judge specialbench headed by Gogoi wasconstituted after a sworn affi-davit by the woman, copies ofwhich were sent to the resi-dences of 22 apex court judges,became public.

In her affidavit, the womandescribed two incidents of

alleged molestation by Gogoidays after he was appointed CJIlast October and her subse-quent persecution.

The woman alleged thatshe was removed from serviceafter she rebuffed his “sexualadvances”. She claimed thather husband and brother-in-law, both of whom were headconstables, were suspended fora 2012 criminal case that hadbeen mutually resolved.

She was later also made toprostrate before Gogoi’s wifeand made to rub her nose ather feet in the Chief Justice’sresidence, she alleged in her

affidavit, adding that her dis-abled brother-in-law wasremoved from service at theSupreme Court.

There was no immediatereaction from the Governmentor any major political party.

The court held the hearingfor about 30 minutes duringwhich Gogoi said indepen-dence of judiciary was under“very serious threat” and“unscrupulous allegations” ofsexual harassment had beenlevelled against the CJI as some“bigger force” wanted to “deac-tivate” the office of the ChiefJustice. He did not elaborate on

who the “bigger force” was thathe was referring to. The CJIalso said the woman had acriminal record and two FIRswere lodged against her.

“How can she become aSupreme Court staff when anFIR was pending against her,”the CJI asked, adding that twocriminal cases were also pend-ing against her husband.

The court, which said thejudiciary “cannot be made ascapegoat”, said the mediashould not publish thewoman’s complaint withoutverifying its truth.

The CJI said this issue hascropped up when a Benchheaded by him is scheduled tohear “many, many sensitivecases” next week and this wasalso last few weeks of the LokSabha elections.

The CJI did not name anyof the cases. Besides the CJI,the Bench also comprisingjustices Arun Mishra andSanjiv Khanna, said the “big-ger force” behind the contro-versy has the potential to shakethe faith of public in the judi-cial system.

Though the CJI was head-ing the Bench, he left it toJustice Mishra to take a call onpassing any judicial order.

Dictating the order, JusticeMishra said, “Having consid-ered the matter, we refrainfrom passing any judicial order

at this moment, leaving it tothe wisdom of the media toshow restraint, act responsiblyas is expected from them andaccordingly decide whatshould or should not be pub-

lished, as wild and scandalousallegations undermine andirreparably damage reputationand negate independence ofjudiciary.”

New Delhi: Wing CommanderAbhinandan Varthaman, whobecame the face of the tense mil-itary confrontation between Indiaand Pakistan, has been shifted outof Srinagar and posted to a front-line air base in the western sec-tor, official sources said onSaturday.

It is also learnt that the IAF isto recommend Varthaman’s namefor Vir Chakra, the covetedwartime gallantry medal, which isthe third highest after the ParamvirChakra and the Mahavir Chakra.The transfer came after the IAFassessed a security threat to WingCommander Varthaman’s lifefrom terror organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) which hasbeen trying to attack Indian mil-itary locations and personnel.

Varthaman, who was cap-tured by Pakistan on February 27during an aerial combat withIndian Air Force, had returned tohis squadron in Srinagar lastmonth though he was on a four-week sick leave.

Orders have been issuedfor his transfer from Srinagarto another base in the westernsector, sources said, terming thetransfer as “routine one”.

The IAF pilot went onleave in mid-March after secu-rity agencies completed a near-ly two-week debriefing follow-ing his return from Pakistan.

Sources said a medicalboard will review his fitness tohelp the IAF top brass decidewhether he can return to fight-er cockpit as desired by him.

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New Delhi: A Delhi court onSaturday said it would hear onApril 24, a police plea to can-cel the bail of a former womanSupreme Court employee, whohas accused Chief Justice ofIndia Ranjan Gogoi of sexualmisconduct, in a cheating andcriminal intimidation case.

Chief MetropolitanMagistrate Manish Khuranalisted the matter forWednesday as the accusedwoman was not served withthe copy of the police’s plea.

The police sought cancel-lation of the bail granted to thewoman on March 12, after thecomplainant claimed that hewas being threatened by theformer Supreme Court stafferand her associates.

An FIR for the allegedoffences of cheating, criminal

intimidation and criminal con-spiracy was lodged against thewoman on March 3, after acomplaint was filed by NaveenKumar, a resident of Jhajjar inHaryana, at the Tilak MargPolice Station here.

Kumar has alleged thatthe former apex court employ-ee had defrauded him of�50,000, which he claimedshe took as part of a bribe,promising him a job at theSupreme Court.

He claimed that in June2017, he met the womanthrough a common friend,Mansha Ram, regarding hisemployment and she had toldhim she was a personal assis-tant of a judge in the SupremeCourt and her husband wasalso an officer.

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BJD candidate for thePatkura Assembly seat Bed

Prakash Agarwalla passedaway following prolonged ill-ness here on Saturday morn-ing.

As a result, the poll in theconstituency is to be counter-manded by the ElectionCommission. A by-election isto be held within six months.

Importantly, BJP nomineeBijay Mohapatra was the mainrival in this constituency inKendrapada district againstAgarwalla, the sitting MLAwho was seeking reelection.

Agarwalla, a six-timeMLA and a former Minister inthe Biju Patnaik and NaveenPatnaik Governments, wasundergoing treatment at aprivate hospital inBhubaneswar after he wasnominated as the BJD Patkuracandidate.

Chief Minister NaveenPatnaik expressed his deepgrief over the veteran politi-cian’s demise, saying it was “anirreparable loss to the BJD aswell as to me”.

Condolence messages forAgarwalla poured in from allquarters cutting across the

party lines following his death.Prominent among those whomourned his death were BJPleader and Union MinisterDharmendra Pradhan,Congress State presidentNiranjan Patnaik, Leader ofOpposition NarasinghaMishra and BJD State gener-al secretary Bijay Nayak.

Agarwalla, a close associ-ate of Biju Patnaik, was activein politics since the 1970s.

He was elected to theAssembly on a Utkal Congressticket from the Kendrapadaseat in 1974. Later, he was alegislator of Janata Party andJanata Dal in 1977 and 1990,respectively, a lso fromKendrapada.

He had joined the BJP andwas elected to the Assemblyfrom Kendrapada in 2000.He represented Patkura twicebeing elected on BJD ticket inthe 2009 and 2014 elections.

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The Central Government isearning revenue of thou-

sands of crores of rupees of roy-alty from coal in Odisha, butunfortunately the State is onlygetting “pollution and dust” inreturn, said BJD supremo andChief Minister Naveen Patnaikat an election rally here onSaturday.

Without taking names,Patnaik accused BJP leaders ofOdisha of their involvement inillegal coal trade.

“Are some BJP bigwigsinvolved in illegal coal trade inthe State,” he questioned,adding that companies likeMCL and NTPC are gettinghuge benefits from their oper-ations in the State, but nodevelopment works in theperipheral areas have beenundertaken by these compa-nies.

Patnaik further attackedthe BJP Government for notrevising coal royalty and askedwhy a “five-minute” job couldnot be done in last five longyears.

He also alleged that BJPleaders in the State are work-

ing for contractors neglectinglocal Odia youths in matter ofemployment.

“At a time when manylandless people in the State areyet to get justice, why theCentral Ministers fromOdisha have kept mum overthe issue,” Patnaik questioned.

Further, Patnaik allegedthat BJP leaders are gettinginvolved in incidents of ran-sacking of EVMs fearingdefeat in the elections as isindicated from the polling inthe first and second phases.

He said this obviously refer-ring to the vandalising ofEVMs in Sorada in Ganjamdistrict, for which the localBJP MLA candidate has beenarrested.

Ending his speech,Patnaik reiterated that he givespriority to interest of the com-mon people and he wouldcontinue to serve the people ofOdisha till his last breath.

Patnaik later visitedSambalpur and addressed pollrallies campaigning for BJDcandidates.

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The Nalco conducted a cus-tomers’ meet in

Ahmadebad on Thursdaywhich was attended by a largenumber of aluminium andalumina customers of Nalco inGujarat and nearby States.

Nalco CMD Dr TK Chandgave a glimpse of the world alu-minium market and predictedthat during the current fiscal2019-20, the aluminium andalumina market would remainsteady without any abnormal-ities and would be driven bymarket fundamentals.

He also estimated that suchmarket shall be beneficial forthe aluminium industry as

there would be incrementalgrowth without stiff rise or fallin prices, which are injuriousfor the growth of the industry.

Allaying the concern ofthe customers on fall of LMEprices by 10 per cent and priceof alumina by nearly 20 percent, he informed that the alu-minium industry in Indiashould aim at making alu-minium affordable as afford-ability would bring scalability.

He also said India would

become the second largest pro-ducer of aluminium in theworld in the next two to threeyears. The customers of Nalcowhile reiterating their com-mitted partnership with theorganisation requested theNalco to open a stockyard inAhmadebad.

On the occasion, a film onNalco was shown to the cus-tomers and a presentation wasmade by the Regional Manager(West).

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Chief Secretary AP Padhihere on Saturday conduct-

ed a review meeting on thewaste management in theBerhampur MunicipalCorporation (BeMC) area inpursuance of two NGT ordersin this respect.

Housing and UrbanDevelopment Secretary GMathibhathanan, RevenueDivisional Commissioner(Southern) T Apang Aao,Ganjam district Collector BijayAmtrut Kulange and BeMCCommissioner ChakrabartySingh Rathore, PollutionControl Board Member andForest and EnvironmentDirector were present.

Padhi reviewed measuresfor door-to-door collection ofwastes, segregation of wastes,management of constructionand demolition materials, plas-tic managment, faecal sludgeand septage management, con-struction of a solid waste man-agement plant at Mahuda andlegacy waste management.

Padhi directed officials tocomply with preliminary direc-tion of the NGT by June 2019by indentifying land for mate-

rial recovery facility, floatingtender for solid waste man-agement plant. Officers wereasked to comply with otherdirections by November 2019.

The Chief Secretary alsodirected officials to keep ade-quate stock of water so thatthere would be no wasterscarcity in Brahampur duringsummer. He also asked officersto meet water shortages of res-idents by supplying waterthrough water tankers.

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The Maa BudhiThakuraniYatra, which

began here on March 29,entered its 22nd day on Fridaymaking the silk city morecrowded and colourful.

After several rituals, Maamoved in an impressive pro-cession amidst chanting ofhymns and beats of gongs, andreached at paternal house atDeshibehera Sahi in Bada Bazar.

The holy mast for the bien-nial MaaBudhiThakuraniYatrawas erected at Desibehera Streetas per schedule. A large num-ber of devotees stayed awake tillearly morning to participate inthe procession which startedfrom Thakurani Temple Streetand culminated at DeshibeheraStreet on March 29. After reach-ing there, Maa Budhi Thakuraniwas received by Her fatherTathas Desibehera, P DurgaPrasad and his wife P Devaki atthe temple at old Brahmpurwith a basket of flowers and per-formed a Puja and other ritualsto invite the deity.

After completion of themuch awaited first phase ofGhata Parikrama (soul journey)of MaaThakurani with tradi-tional rituals, the second phaseof “Ghata Parikrama” began onFriday. The significance oftheParikrama is that MaaThakurani moves around dif-

ferent streets and completesthe process of invitation ofRaths and Kalakunjas (blackchariots). According to the tra-ditions, Maa will release Rathsinvited during first phase andthe heads of some Raths(char-iots) will be founded in front ofher.

During the second phase,the yatra is witnessing hugecrowd as devotees those whohave had Manasika (personalwish) are moving on the streetswith different dresses and styles.

Since only 10 more days leftto complete the yatra, lakhs ofdevotees from different parts ofGanjam and the neighbouringStates of Andhra Pradesh,Chhattisgarh and West Bengalare coming in large numbers tohave a darshan ofMaaThakurani in her tempo-rary adobe in Deshibera street.

Now thousands of devotees(Manasikadharies) whose wish-es are yet to be fulfilled are mov-ing on the streets in differentcolorful dresses (besh) repre-senting mythological charactersto appease the Goddess.

Meanwhile, different char-iots have started coming to theyatra venue. According to infor-mation available, three suchwell decorated chariots tillWednesday have come to theyatra venue.

These chariots includeBoitaRatha of Chandra street,Maa Jwalamukhee Rath ofKalupatra Street, BinchanaRatha of Bachhuwari Street.

To avoid hot summer, thedevotees in remain in queue for

darshan. A large number offemale devotees first made theirpujarchana on the bank ofDharma Jhanda in front of thetemporary temple and thereafter offeredPuja to MaaThakurani as per the rituals.Interestingly, Beshdharis likeKrushna, Balarama,Chhodgazia, and Bagha (tiger)attracted the devotees and enter-tained them.

In every evening, the ghat-aparikrama (soul journey) ofMaa becomes a routine activi-ty of deity. Similarly, afterSsandhya Alati, Mother Debakikeeping the soul on her head(MukhyaGhata- the chief soul)accompanied by eight otherfemale members of “Dera com-munity” visited the MahuriRajabati (Mahuri Palace) withtraditional badya and ghantawhere the mother of Yuva RajAshok Kumar Narendra Debperformed a Puja and Alatee asper the rituals.

During the soul journey toMahuri Rajbati, thousands offemale members on both sidesof the Desibehera street were inline on both sides of the road to

welcome the Ghata (soul) ofMaa Thakurani.

The five streets throughwhich the Ghata Parikrama(soul journey) from Rajbatipassed through include BadaBazar-Khaspa Street,KaribariSahi, Karana Sahi,Sagadia Martha Sahi, andPanidtaSahi. During Parikrama,females by keeping Kumbha atthe threshold of their home wel-comed Maa Thakurani andsought her blessings.

Preparation for foundingRath and Kalakunja are in fullswing. Maa’s favourite chariotknown as “Dolee Rath” is like-ly to be on the road on Sunday.

The business communityand their associations havemade all-out efforts to attractthe devotees to the temporaryadobe of Maa Thakurani atDesibehera street and have illu-minated the entire area likeBada bazaar, Nadia Gorji,Deshibehera street. The districtadministration has deployedseveral platoons of securityforces to control the crowd andthe traffic and to prevent anyuntoward incident.

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The nine-day-long famousMaaHingulaYatra has

begun on Thursday with greatreligious fervour and gaiety inTalcher.

Maa Hingula is the pre-siding deityof the coal townand scores of peripheral vil-lages. With the fest havingbegun, the seat of the deity atGopal Prasad near Talcherhas awoken to life with thou-sands of devotees crowdingthe spot each day.

MaaHingula in the formof fire has appeared at threehundred meters away fromthe eastern corner field of hertemple. The holy seat of thegoddess is situated on thebank of the river Simhada.The deity resemblesJwalamukhi of Assam who isworshipped as Hingula orHingulei .

In the SaralaMahabharata, we find MaaHingula as the manifestationof the Goddess Sarala. It isbelieved that one can get allwishes fulfilled by paying avisit and worshipping thegoddess.

It is also believed that thefoods become easier to cookand delicious due to the bless-ings of theMaa.

According to a legend,when queen Gundichathought of introducing sixtypauties of Bhojan (daily offer-ings) for the Lord Jagannathand sought the permission ofthe Lord, the king wasordered in a dream to worshipGoddess Hingula for thesmooth conduct of cooking,which led the king toBidarbha to bring theGoddess to Puri. King Nalabrought the Goddess Hingulain his upper garment, in theform of fire. But a marvel tookplace when the Gajapati Kingand Nala were taking restnear the bank of the riverSinghada at Gopal PrasadGada, where the Goddess dis-appeared and a voice from thevoid announced Gopal PrasadGada to be the holy place(Puja Peeth) of GoddessHingula.

The voice also declaredthat her two associatesKuteisuni and Karadei willalso be worshiped here.

The place of action ofGoddess Hingula became thekitchen of Shree Mandir.

The main worship ofMother Hingula is conductedo nBishnuDamankChaturdashi,which falls on the fourteenthday of the bright phase on themoon in the month ofChaitra.

The festival starts from anauspicious moment on theThursday of the dark fort-night(KrushnaPakhaya) whenthe chief worshipper remains

on austerity away from hisfamily in the temple.

A special oven is madehere and the worshippercooks and takes his mealonce in a day till the comple-t ion of the fest ival . Heremains aloof from familyaffairs. Even he abstains him-self from daily rites like shav-ing etc. A special worship isoffered to the Goddess onevery Thursday of the monthof Chitra.

An auspicious day is cho-sen on the basis of the starand zodiac position of theGoddess before a week of thefestivals and on the same daythe Goddess is worshiped onthe pandal of the deity“Kuteisuni”. The worship iscalled “Jantal Puja”.

It is believed that thedeity worshiped enters intothe body of the patiara afterthe performance of the pujawhich is known asSodasaupachara.The Goddessindicates the direction of herappearance by entering thebody of the patiara and thetradit ion says that theGoddess generally appearsfrom the eastern or the west-ern direction of the Peetha.

Dehury, the traditionalworshipper of Goddess, goesto find out the place ofappearance of the Goddess inthe midnight of the sameday. Since the Goddess isseen the form of fire andmoves at many places andmoves from one place to theother, Dehury worships theGoddess by chantingmantraand pacifies her bymaking a f ire on theCharapthar (char/coal).

Every day more coal isadded to the main fire of theGoddess during the time ofworship by which the girth ofthe Goddess increases to thevery big dimension on thefinal day of the festival.

A Kondh tribal fixes theappliqué presented by theking of Talcher by tying it tofour bamboos.

This appliqué has a heightmeasuring sixteen hands fromthe place of appearance of thedeity. The devotees offer a lotof things like jaggery, honey,ghee, variegated silk sarees,sweets ,coconuts, jute, incensesticks and many others intoher fire which are consumedby Her.

In the afternoon Alam,the mobile image of theGoddess arrives at the bigpandal from the temple forworship, in a processionaccompanied by the devoteesand the traditional instru-mentalists and drum beaters,who carry umbrellas, cym-bals, conches, Chowries, etcalong with chanting devo-tional songs and Kirtans.

The festival will continuetill April26.

Meanwhile, the districtadministration has made nec-essary arrangements toensure the festival event free.

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April 14 for two months, morethan 1,700 fishing vessels,including 722 trawlers, havebeen rendered idle across thedistrict .

In Baleswar district. asmany as 227 villages undernineblocks near the coast dependon marine fishing .

While about 40,000 peopleare directly involved in the sec-tor, nearly one lakh familieseke out a living out of the fish-ing and allied jobs .

Besides the Balaramgadi,Bahabalpur and Kasafal fishingbases, the other ghats fromwhere fishermen undertakefishing voyage are Baliapal,Gopalpur and Chandaneswarwhere marine extension unitshave been established.

With the ban on fishing,not only the fishermen com-munity, the business of iceproducing plants will beadversely affected. The marinefish catch not only caters to thedemand for consumption offish in the district, fish is alsoexported to different States.

The ban every year isenforced till June 14 in view ofthe breeding season of marine

fish and protecting their pop-ulation.

Marine Fisheries OfficerChittaranjan Sahu said, “Inview of the breeding and lay-ing of eggs of fish, the ban isenforced under a Central direc-tive. The ban period wouldrestore the fish population andultimately the fishermenwould be benefited.”

With non arrival of marinefish in the market, the commonpeople are facing a tough timewith the exorbitant price of thecommonly consumed sweetwater fish, these days, saidsources. The Rohu andKatlawhich were otherwiseavailable at Rs 200 per kg arenow sold between Rs 280 andRs 300 a kg. Hilsa of reason-able size is sold at Rs 1,000-Rs1,200 per kg.

“There is no catch ofmarine fish due to the ban. Themarket is sustaining on thelocal fresh water fish alongwith the fish imported fromneighbouring AndhraPradesh,” told retail fish trad-er of local market SakirAhmed.

“We do trading with amargin of Rs 30- Rs 50 per kg. The selling price is alwayslinked with the buying cost .Therefore we have little role toswing in the market to higherside.

In fact we too bear losses inthis lean season since moretransactions always fetch moreprofits.” he further mentioned.

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MCL CMD RR Mishraalong with Director

(Technical/OPs and P and P)OP Singh and senior advisorLN Mishra visited the TalcherCoalfield on Saturday.

Mishra visited the opencast mines of Talcher coalfieldsand interacted with thecoalminers under the “KhadanBhetghat” campaign. Heenquired about the workers’welfare and working conditionsin the mines.

The miners discussed withthe CMD on several issues ofcommon interest and also con-tributed their ideas for betterwelfare measures of theemployees, smooth coal min-ing and despatch operations intheir projects.

The visit of every mineconcluded with awarding thetoken of prize to the best per-formers for their distinguishedcontributions.

MCL has a target of 162.5million tonne and every minerfrom bottom to top has tight-ened their belt to achieve therecord breaking target.

Mishra offered prayers toGoddess Maa Hingula Peethaand sought blessings.

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Adoctor was killed and 12persons sustained injuries,

four of them critically, as a carand a bus collided at AndhariChhak under the Korai policestation in Jajpur district onSaturday morning.

Dr Lalatendu Jena of theSteel City Medical,Kalinganagar was driving hiscar on National Highway 215towards Andhari when a buscoming from Rairangpur col-lided with the car. The inten-sity of the accident was so highthat the car was completelydamaged and Dr Jena died onthe spot. The bus also turnedturtle there. All the 13 passen-gers were rushed to the JajpurRoad Medical. However, fourof them were shifted to the SCBMedical College Hospital inCuttack as their condition dete-riorated.

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The Central University ofOrissa (CUO) celebrated its

annual cultural day on theoccasion of centenary celebra-tion of the 150th birth anniver-sary of Mahatma Gandhi in itscampus in Sunabeda on Friday.

Saheed Laxman NayakMedical College and Hospital,Koraput Dean Prof SK Palitaand Principal Prof KrushnaChandra Biswal attended as

guests and stressed on thedevelopment of the ability ofthe students for the excellenceto get success.

Palita urged the students todedicate themselves for thequest of excellence in life andnation buildings and said aca-demic must have an orientationfor socio-economic develop-ment of the region.

Biswal highlighted the richand diversity culture of theKoraput region and said “Thesetwo leading educational insti-tutions one in higher educationand other in health educationwould serve the educational

and healthcare need of thepeople of the region.”

On the occasion, studentsperformed classical dance,songs and drama and certifi-cates and prizes were distrib-uted to all the winners of thecompetition organised on theannual sports day.

University StudentWelfare Dean In-chargeDr Ramendra KumarParhi, Finance OfficerIn-charge K Kosla Rao,JMC DepartmentAssistant ProfessorSaurabh Gupta, formerCollector Gadadhar

Parida, NAD GM ManojKumar, ICAR-IISWC,Sunabeda Director Dr GMadhu, COATS DrJagabandhu Samal and VectorControl Research Centre,Koraput Director In-charge DrSudhansu Shekhar Sahu werepresent

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The National Human RightsCommission has directed

the Odisha School and MassEducation Secretary, theGajapati district SP andP a r l a k h e m u n d i - b a s e dTabarsingh Upgraded HighSchool’s Head Master to submita report on some students ofschool’s hotel falling sick due tofood poisoning.

The NHRC passed theorder taking cognisance of apetition filed by civil societyorganisation Human RightsWatch secretary Sangita Swain.

Swain in her petitionalleged that some tribal girlstudents vomited blood afterhaving food in the hotel of

the Tabarsingh UpgradedHigh School in Gajapati dis-trict. She accused the schoolHead Master and police ofnegligence and prayed forcriminal action against them.

She also requested thecommission to compensatethe victims of � 3 lakh, providefree medical treatment and pay� 20 lakh to the kin of the vic-tims, who died in the incident.

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Inspired by ideals of BJDpresident and Chief Minister

Naveen Patnaik, KhordhaCongress district vice-presi-dent Sudarshan Sundray andCuttack DCC secretary WallibPatel along with their hun-dreds of supporters joined theBJD at the Naveen Niwas hereon Saturday.

Welcoming them to theparty fold, Patnaik saidSundray and Patel’s joiningwould strengthen the BJD inKhordha and Cuttack districtsfurther.

Patel said he joined theruling party after being drivenby the clean governance andstrong leadership of the ChiefMinister.

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The Union Home Ministryhas allowed risk and hard-

ship allowance to non-fieldunits of CRPF in Jammu &Kashmir and Naxal-affectedStates after revising the earlierguidelines which provided forsuch allowances exclusively tothe personnel deployed in thefield units and not those locat-ed in a district headquarter.

The move is expected topositively impact thousands ofthe CRPF personnel as theparamilitary has deploymentover one lakh men in Jammu& Kashmir and Naxal-affectedareas.

“It is clarified that since thenew classification of field areashas been made on geographi-cal basis for drawal of RHA forall CRPF offices situated in aparticular classified field area,hence Risk and HardshipAllowance is applicable to allthe officers and personnel post-ed in the same classified area,”reads an internal circular issuedon April 16.

“…approval is herebyaccorded to draw RHA to allOfficers/personnel to drawRHA in the areas classified videMHA OM (office memo) dated22/2/2019..while issuing sanc-

tion for RH Allowance, thecomplete postal address of theoffice including Block , subdivision, tehsil and districtshall be mentioned.

These allowances areapplicable wef 22/2/2019,” itfurther said.

A committee was consti-tuted under the chairmanshipof Union Home Secretary toreview the existing classifica-

tion of field areas in respect ofJammu & Kashmir and LeftWing Extremism affected dis-tricts where troops aredeployed for anti-Naxal oper-ations.

On the basis of report ofthe Committee, the UnionHome Ministry issued onFebruary 22 thi year conveyedsanction to the CRPF to drawrisk and hardship allowance

according to field areas classi-fied in a series of annexures tothe order.

After the order from theHome Ministry, a number ofreferences were received at theCRPF headquarters here fromvarious CRPF offices fromJammu & Kashmir and Naxal-hit States asking for permissionto allow them the allowanceaccording to the new classifi-

cation of field areas as clearedby the Home Ministry inFebruary.

Following this, a clarifica-tion from the Financial Advisorwas taken before the paramil-itary allowed the allowance inthe entire terror or Nazalism hit districts of Jammu& Kashmir besides ultra-Leftinsurgency affected areas, anofficial said.

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Chief Justice of India RanjanGogoi, who held an extra-

ordinary hearing in theSupreme Court on Saturdayover allegations of sexualharassment against him, cited“criminal record” of the accuserduring the proceedings.

The CJI, who along withJustices Arun Mishra andSanjiv Khanna assembled tohear the matter which wasdescribed as of “great publicimportance touching upon theindependence of judiciary”,said that the woman, a formerapex court employee, had acriminal record and two FIRswere lodged against her.

In a letter addressed to 22other apex court judges, thewoman had said that she wasa junior court assistant in theapex court. She said she hadjoined the service on May 1,2014 and her service was ter-

minated on December 21,2018. During the hearing,Justice Gogoi said when shewas employed with the apexcourt, an FIR was pendingagainst her.

“How can she become aSupreme Court staff when anFIR was pending against her?”

the CJI said, adding that twocriminal cases were also pend-ing against her husband.

A third FIR was registeredagainst her following which shewas arrested, he said, addingthat after getting bail, shethreatened the complainant ofthe third case with dire conse-

quences. He said the womanwas in jail for four days becauseof the criminal cases lodgedagainst her and she was alsowarned by the police a coupleof times to maintain goodbehaviour.

The CJI said that in thethird case, the police has movedthe lower court seeking can-cellation of the bail granted toher and the matter was listedfor hearing in the Patiala Housedistrict court today itself.

Later in the day, a trialcourt said that it would hear onApril 24 the plea filed by policeseeking cancellation of the bailgranted to the former womanSC employee in a cheating andcriminal intimidation case.

Chief MetropolitanMagistrate Manish Khuranalisted the matter for Wednesdayas the accused woman wasnot served with the copy of thepolice’s plea.

The police sought cancel-

lation of the bail granted to thewoman on March 12, after thecomplainant claimed that hewas being threatened by theformer Supreme Court stafferand her associates.

An FIR for the allegedoffences of cheating, criminalintimidation and criminal con-spiracy was lodged against thewoman on March 3, after acomplaint was filed by NaveenKumar, a resident of Jhajjar inHaryana, at the Tilak MargPolice Station here.

Kumar has alleged that theformer apex court employeehad defrauded him of �50,000,which he claimed she took aspart of a bribe, promising hima job at the Supreme Court.

The apex court took suomotu (on its own) note ofreports carried by four newsportals on allegations of sexu-al misconduct levelled by theformer apex court womanemployee against the CJI.

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Questions on Congress pres-ident Rahul Gandhi’s citi-

zenship and educational qual-ifications resurfaced onSaturday prompting theAmethi Returning Officer todefer the scrutiny of his nom-ination papers from the seat tillApril 22, giving the BJP a han-dle to hit out at him as it askedhim to come clean on theissue.

An independent candidatefighting from Amethi hasraised doubts over Rahul’sIndian citizenship, leveled alle-gations of non-disclosure ofassets and properties of the UKcompany whose documents

show him as a British citizenand non-matching of docu-ments related to his educationalqualifications. The issues hadearlier too cropped up and theBJP has had targeted him thenalso. Citing the complaint filedwith returning officer ofAmethi against Congress pres-ident, the BJP also raised ques-tions on Rahul’s citizenshipand educational qualification,and asked him to come cleanon the matter. The returningofficer (RO) has fixed Mondayas the next date of hearing onthe matter.

BJP spokesperson GVLNarasimha Rao told reportersit was “stunning” that Rahul’slawyer sought time to reply to

the objections. “These are serious allega-

tions. Is Rahul Gandhi anIndian citizen or not? Did heever become a British citizen?He should come out with thereal story,” he said.

Election Commissionsources said the returning offi-cer is the final authority onsuch a matter, but he cannotcheck the veracity of whateveris written on an election affi-davit.

“If someone approachesan RO raising objections, hemust hear the affected party. Ifanyone has any objection towhatever is recorded in anaffidavit, the person shouldapproach court. The EC has no

role in any objection made toelection affidavit,” they said.

Rao claimed that a Britishcompany, in which Rahul hadsaid in 2004 that he madeinvestment, in its submission tothe authorities there stated thatRahul was a British citizen.

Under Indian law, oneceases to be a citizen of thecountry if he gets citizenship ofany country, he said and askedthe Congress president toanswer the questions raised inthe complaint. If the Britishcompany made a false state-ment, then did Rahul actagainst it, he asked.

Referring to the complaint,the BJP spokesperson saidthere are “discrepancies and

attempts to suppress facts” inRahul’s affidavits filed duringdifferent elections from 2004 to2014.

The Congress chief hadsaid that he did M Phil indevelopment economics fromCambridge University, but laterclaimed it was in developmentstudies, Rao alleged.

The BJP spokesman said

inquiries show that one RaulVincy and not Rahul Gandhigot the degree in that particu-lar year.

“We will like to know ifRahul Gandhi goes by multiplenames in different countries,”Rao said. He also wondered ifthe Gandhi scion’s qualificationwas like Congress manifestoesthat change every five years.

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Attacking what he called“present generation of

dynast” in Congress, UnionFinance Minister Arun Jaitleyon Saturday claimed that it hasbecome a liability for theCongress party and hopedthat the “aspirational India”would find it increasingly dif-ficult to accept “dynasties”.

“If the Congress’s dynasthas only an ability to deliver 44seats or 60 seats in Parliament,what then is the incentive forconventional Congressmen tobear humiliation of subjectingthemselves to a dynast?Ultimately, in dynastic partiesone has to accept politicalslavery,” Jaitley said in a blogtitled, ‘Will 2019 Witness theDynasty as a Liability on theCongress Party?’

The grand old party is ledby Rahul Gandhi , grandson ofIndira and son of Rajiv, and isassisted by his sister PriyankaVadra.

Jaitley said the two PrimeMinisters that BJP gave to thenation — Atal Bihari Vajpayeeand Narendra Modi — were bya mile the “tallest politicians oftheir generation”, adding thatthis could happen only inmerit-based parties and notdynastic ones.

“A relevant question withthis changing socio-econom-ic profile of India is — Aredynasties an asset for a partyor are they a liability?Unquestionably, the presentgeneration of dynast hasbecome a liability rather thanan asset for the CongressParty,” he said.

Jaitley further said, “Is

history going to witness some-thing wholly unprecedented?Are we going to witness therejection of caste based anddynastic parties? And willaspirational India make aharsh judgement on electing amerit based leadership? Thismay well be the case.”

Referring to other dynas-tic parties, Jaitley said theIndian National Lok Dal(INLD)has splintered, whilethe Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)got zero in the Lok Sabha elec-tions in 2014 and 19 seats inthe assembly elections.

The Samajwadi Partycould only retain seats for itsfamily members in the 2014elections, while the RJD wasdown to two seats, he noted.

Commenting on the firsttwo phases of polling for thegeneral elections, Jaitley saidthe momentum was clearlywith the BJP and PrimeMinister Modi.

“In terms of nationalleadership contest for a PrimeMinisterial election, it isalmost becoming a one horserace. There is nobody elsemeasuring up to PrimeMinister Modi’s level of capac-ity and acceptability,” he soughtto say.

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Cracking the whip, theElection Commission on

Saturday ordered the transfer ofthe Malda police chief in WestBengal, just days ahead of theApril 23 Lok Sabha polls in thedistrict.

The Commission askedthe state government to shuntout Arnab Ghosh as SP, Malda,and replace him with AjoyPrasad, who is heading a statearmed police battalion.

The EC also made it clearto the state government thatGhosh should not be put onelection duty.

Malda goes to polls onApril 23 in phase three of LokSabha elections.

Recently, when the pollwatchdog had transferred somesenior police officials, stateChief Minister MamataBanerjee had accused it ofworking as a “tool” of the BJP-led government at the Centre.

Rejecting the allegation,the EC had said it was wellwithin its rights to transfer offi-cials during election period.

Meanwhile, the nodal elec-tion officer of Nadia distrci,Arnab Roy, who has been miss-ing Thursday, continued to betraceless.

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Former Union Minister andCongress leader from

Kerala S Krishna Kumar onSaturday joined the BJP sayingthat he wanted to work tostrengthen Prime MinisterNarendra Modi’s leadership.

The 80-year-old leader wasinducted into the party by BJPleader Anil Baluni andShahnawaz Hussain at theparty headquarters here.

Kumar said Modi has beenworking to develop India andhe should continue to lead thecountry.

He has been elected to theLok Sabha three times during80s and 90s, and was also aminister in the then CongressGovernments at the Centre.

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The Bar Council of IndiaSaturday condemned the

“false and cooked-up” sexualharassment allegations againstChief Justice of India RanjanGogoi and said the entire barwas standing with the CJI, andagainst this “attempt to malignthe institution”.

“These are all false andcooked-up allegations and wecondemn these kinds of acts.These kind of allegations andactions should not be encour-aged. This is an attempt tomalign the institution. Entirebar is standing in solidaritywith the Chief Justice of India,”Manan Kumar Mishra, BCIchairperson, told PTI.

He said an emergencymeeting of the top bar bodywould be convened on Sunday

and a resolution be passed inthis regard.

“We will pass the resolu-tion and then try to meet theCJI to make him aware of the(BCI’s) decision,” Mishra said.

The Supreme Court BarAssociation (SCBA) presidentand senior advocate RakeshKhanna, who was present dur-ing the extraordinary hearingin the matter on Saturday,however, refused to comment.

“We are not part of thecase...There is no lis (litigation)before the court. I am not giv-ing any interview (on the con-troversy). Thank you,” he said.

However, former SCBApresident and senior advocateVikas Singh said the propercourse would be to have an in-house inquiry by some seniorSupreme Court judges toauthoritatively find out thetruth “this way or that way” ina time-bound manner.

“If it is a false allegationthen this definitely is a threatto independence of judiciary,but if it is true then it is alsovery serious,” he said.

“There should be an in-house inquiry by some seniorSupreme Court judges to findout authoritatively this way orthat way in a time-bound man-ner,” Singh told PTI.

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The National InvestigationAgency (NIA) on Saturday

arrested Mohammad Gufranfrom Amroha in Uttar Pradeshin connection with the ISISconspiracy case relating to a sis-nister plan to target Delhi-NCRand Uttar Pradesh. Gufran isthe 13th accused to have beenarrested in the case. Duringinvestigation, role of saidaccused person had surfaced asone of the key conspirators inplanning to carry out terroristattacks in Delhi NCR and UP.

“Arrested accusedMohammad Gufran wasinspired by ideology of ISISwhich is a proscribed organi-zation under UAPA (UnlawfulActivities (Prevention) Act)and formed a pro-ISIS modulenamely Harkat Ul Harb-e-Islam with the help of accusedpersons arrested earlier to wagewar against Government ofIndia,” NIA spokesperson said.

Investigation revealed thathe was instrumental in pro-curement of arms and ammu-nition and also explosives tocarry out terrorist attacks inDelhi NCR and UP, the NIA

spokesperson further said.Twelve accused persons

have earlier been arrested in thecase.

The case relates to a groupof pro-ISIS terrorists whoformed a terrorist gang whichwas engaged in acts prepara-tory to commission of terrorattacks with a view to wage waragainst the Government ofIndia.

“The group was found tobe inspired by ideology of ISISand was conspiring and prepar-ing to target places of impor-tance in and around NationalCapital Territory of Delhi. It

was gathered that Mufti Mohd.Suhail alias Hazrath, resident ofJafrabad, Seelampur, Delhi,was the Amir of pro-IS mod-ule who mobilized funds andprocured weapons, ammuni-tion and explosive materials toprepare IEDs etc with his otherassociates, the spokespersonadded.

Gufran will be producedbefore the designated NIACourt, Patiala House, NewDelhi on Sunday.

Meanwhile, (the NIA onSaturday carried out searches atthree locations in Hyderabadand Wardha in another ISIS-related case known as AbuDhabi Module case

During the searches con-ducted in this case, a numberof digital devices including 13mobile phones, 11 SIM cards,onr iPad, two laptops, oneexternal hard disk, six pen dri-ves, six SD Cards and threeWalkie Talkie Sets (Kenwoodbesides a number os suspiciousdocuments have been seizedfrom the houses of the suspects.

“Questioning of the foursuspects is going on,” thespokesperson said without anelaboration.

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)said on Saturday it has not issued

any direction with regard to a five-daya week working for commercial banks.

“It has been reported in certainsections of the media that commer-cial banks would have a 5-day weekin terms of RBI instructions. It is clar-ified that this information is not fac-tually correct,” the RBI said in arelease.

The RBI has not issued any suchdirections, it said. Currently, branch-es of commercial banks observe hol-iday only on second and fourthSaturday of a month apart fromSunday.

Remaining Saturdays are a fullworking hour for banks.

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Employees of Jet Airwayshave written to President

Ram Nath Kovind and PrimeMinister Narendra Modi seek-ing their intervention to recov-er outstanding dues as well asto expedite the process ofemergency funds for the airline,which has shuttered its oper-ations temporarily.

Cash-starved Jet Airways,which has around 23,000employees, has delayed pay-ment of salaries to the employ-ees, including pilots. Amiduncertainty over the futurecourse of the carrier, twoemployees’ unions have nowwritten to the President and the

Prime Minister.In separate but similarly-

worded letters this week, theSociety for Welfare of IndianPilots (SWIP) and Jet AircraftMaintenance EngineersWelfare Association (JAME-WA) have requested help inclearing their outstandingsalary dues.

“We request you to con-sider the situation with theurgency it deserves and directthe management of Jet Airways(India) Ltd to expeditiouslydisburse all outstanding dues toaffected employees.

“We also urge you toexpedite the process of emer-gency funding, as every minuteand every decision is very crit-

ical in these testing times,” oneof the letters said.

After months of uncer-tainty, Jet Airways announcedtemporary suspension of itsoperations on April 17 as itfailed to receive emergencyfunds from lenders.

The unions highlightedthat a section of employees

have not been paid theirsalaries on time for the lastseven months and that thedistressing situation was alsobrought to the notice of theMinistry of Labour andEmployment in March.

“The management of JetAirways has gone back on itssalary arrears payment sched-

ule conveyed by mail datedDecember 7, 2018. The out-standing amount for pilots andengineers as of now is threemonths salary (full salaries forthe months of January,February and March), and forall other staff is one month’ssalary,” the letter said.

Noting that employees didtheir best to keep up the high-est standards of safety and pro-fessionalism in these tryingtimes, the grouping said non-payment of salaries is causingextreme hardships to employ-ees. “Even after all our efforts,we are not seeing any ray ofhope and so it is our humbleplea to take this matter underyour guidance for an imme-

diate action for the revival ofthe entire system,” the lettersaid.

SWIP has around 1,200members while JAMEWA rep-resents more than 500 employ-ees.

“We have also realised thatalong with our Jet Airwayssinking, we are not only 23,000employees who will be affect-ed directly but a number ofpeople who are running busi-ness or are associated with ussome way or the other.

“Even the shops at the air-ports are facing a lull. Such abig airline going down willleave a huge vacuum behind.Passengers are already facingthe brunt of it,” they said.

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Private lender HDFCBank on Saturday

reported a 23 per cent jumpin its net profit to �5,885.12crore for the quarter endedMarch 2019 on a healthygrowth in its net interestincome.

The bank had registereda net profit of �4,799.28crore in the January-Marchquarter of 2017-18. Totalincome for the quarterended March 31, 2019, stoodat �31,204.5 crore, up by 22.1per cent from �25,549.7crore for the quarter endedon March 31, 2018, the bank

said in a regulatory filing. Net interest income

grew by 22.8 per cent to�13,089.5 crore in the lastquarter of FY2018-19 from�10,657.7 crore in the year-ago quarter driven by aver-age asset growth of 19.8 percent and a core net inter-est margin of 4.4 per cent,the bank said.

On asset front, bank’sgross non-performingassets (NPAs) were at 1.36per cent of gross advancesas on March 31, 2019, asagainst 1.30 per cent as onMarch 31, 2018. Coverageratio as on March 31, 2019was 71 per cent.

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almost trebled to 8.61 lakh inFebruary compared to 2.87lakh in the same month of lastyear, according to the latestEPFO payroll data.

The retirement fund bodyEmployees’ Provident FundOrganisation has been releas-ing payroll data from April2018, covering the periodstarting September 2017.

According to the latestdata, the highest job creationwas recorded in January 2019at 8.94 lakh against the provi-sional estimate of 8.96 lakhreleased last month.

During February 2019, thehighest number of 2.36 lakhjobs were created in the 22-25years age group, followed by2.09 lakh in the 18-21 years agebracket.

The data showed that 80.86lakh new jobs were created inthe 18 months period fromSeptember 2017 to February2019.

However, the EPFO hasrevised downward the numberof net subscribers added ornew jobs created fromSeptember 2017 to January2019 to 72.24 lakh from 76.48lakh released last month.

The sharpest revision wasfor March 2018 in the latestreport which showed con-traction or exit of 55,934 mem-

bers from the EPFO subscrip-tions. Last month, the EPFOpayroll data had showed that asmany as 29,023 members exit-ed from its schemes in March2018. ‘

In February 2019, theEPFO data had showed that asmany as 5,498 members joinedEPFO schemes in March 2018.

On contraction in March2018 numbers, the EPFO said,“March 2018 figure is negativedue to large number of exitsreported in the month ofMarch, in view of it being theclosing month of the financialyear.”The EPFO said the data isprovisional as updation ofemployee records is a contin-uous process and gets updatedin subsequent months.

This is age-band wise dataof new members registeredunder the EPFO where the firstnon-zero contribution receivedduring a particular month. Foreach age-wise band, the esti-mates are net of the membersnewly enrolled, exited andrejoined during the month asper records of the EPFO, itadded.

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Paytm Payments Bank Ltd(PPB) on Saturday said it

has appointed entrepreneurSairee Chahal to its board ofdirectors.

Chahal is the founder andCEO of SHEROES -- a com-munity platform for women.

“We are delighted to haveMs Sairee Chahal on our board.She has comprehensive expe-rience of customer serviceecosystem. We will benefitfrom her knowledge and exper-tise,” PPB Managing Directorand CEO Satish Gupta said ina statement.

PPB, which was incorpo-rated in August 2016, formal-ly began its operations in2017.Paytm Founder VijayShekhar Sharma holds 51 percent stake in PPB, while therest is held by One97Communications.

Gupta had recently statedthat PPB has 4.4 crore savingsbank accounts with deposits ofover �400 crore as well as 26crore wallet accounts.

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India’s growth trajectory holdsimmense potential for glob-

al stakeholders to establishenergy, infrastructure andtechnology collaboration withthe country, a UN forum herehas been told.

Counsellor in India’sPermanent Mission to the UNAshish Sinha stressed onWednesday at the ECOSOCForum on Financing forDevelopment Follow Up thatIndia wanted to use growth asa mechanism to pull the max-imum number of people out ofpoverty and improve quality oflife in an inclusive manner.

“India has retained its posi-tion as the world’s fastest grow-ing major economy. Indianeconomy has been growingover 7 per cent for several yearsand the forecast for the futureis equally robust,” he said.

Sinha noted that Indiaimproved its ranking by 23positions in the World Bank’sEase of Doing Business rank-ings last year.

India improved its rankingon the World Bank’s ‘ease ofdoing business’ report for thesecond straight year, jumping23 places to the 77th position

on the back of reforms relatedto insolvency, taxation andother areas.

“India’s growth trajectoryholds immense potential forour global stakeholders toestablish energy, naturalresource, and infrastructureand technology collaborationwith us,” Sinha said.

The current global eco-nomic outlook also reiteratesthe need for the promotion ofpolicies for enhancing eco-nomic growth and growthinducing investments, he said.

Earlier this month, theWorld Bank said India’s GDPgrowth was expected to accel-erate moderately to 7.5 per centin fiscal year 19-20, driven bycontinued investment strength-ening, particularly private-improved export performanceand resilient consumption.

“The objective is to bankthe unbanked, secure the unse-cured, fund the unfundedand service the un-serviced

areas,” Sinha said.Noting that India has taken

strong initiatives for financialinclusion, he said in the thepast three years, the govern-ment has opened over 320 mil-lion bank accounts for thosewho never had an account.

“We have leveraged thesebank accounts with the powerof a biometric identity systemand mobile phones, to deliversubsidies and services to thedeserving poor,” he said, addingthat 1.6 million people havebenefited from the recentlylaunched cashless health insur-ance scheme called ‘AyushmanBharat’ in the first four monthsof its launch.

India is also the sixthlargest producer of renewableenergy in the world and Indiansolar power capacity will growrobustly at an annual averagerate of 15.3 per cent to reach105.9 GW by 2028, up from 26GW in 2018, he said.

Sinha noted that researchand innovation would be thedriving force in the 4th indus-trial revolution era. The Indiangovernment has introducedthe flagship programme Start-up India with 1.4 billion dollarsfund for four years to create astartup ecosystem in India.

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Reliance Industries onSaturday said it is not in

violation of the US sanctions onVenezuela and had purchasedcrude originating from theLatin American nation fromcompanies such as Russia’sRosneft in full knowledge of USauthorities.

In a statement, Reliancesaid reports suggesting that itwas involved in an arrange-ment that leads to cash pay-ment for oil supplies toVenezuelan national oil com-

pany PDVSA via third partiesare “false and reckless”.

“Reliance has purchasedVenezuelan crude oil fromcompanies such as (Russia’s)Rosneft long before the impo-sition of the US sanctions, asthey do get title to Venezuelanoil in return for reduction intheir prior debt. “Since sanc-tions were imposed, Reliance

has made such purchases withthe full knowledge andapproval of the US Departmentof State (USDOS), and Reliance has informed USDOSof specific volumes and trans-actions. Such transactions donot lead to any consequent pay-ment to PDVSA and do notviolate US sanctions or poli-cies,” it said.

Reliance said its priceagreement with such sellers isat market price and paymentsare settled in cash or by prod-uct supply bilaterally betweenit and such sellers.

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The Government hasextended the last date for

filing summary sales return,GSTR-3B, for March monthby three days until April 23.

“Due date for filing GSTR-3B for the tax period March2019 has been extended toApril 23, 2019,” a ticker onGST portal ‘gst.Gov.In’ said.

The last date for filing

summary sales return andpayment of taxes for March isApril 20, 2019.

AMRG & AssociatesPartner Rajat Mohan said,“Glitches in GSTN is leadingto frequent extensions in thefiling of tax returns. Tax filersalso need to improve the habitof filing at the last date, lead-ing to burden on the serversresulting in the collapse of thesame.”

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Thousands of Indians onSaturday rejoiced and par-

ticipated in the foundationstone laying ceremony of thefirst Hindu temple in UAE’scapital Abu Dhabi. MahantSwami Maharaj, spiritual headof the Bochasanwasi ShriA k s h a r - P u r u s h o t t a mSwaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS),which is constructing the tem-ple, presided over the four-hour ceremony followingwhich sanctified bricks wereplaced at the main pooja sthal(place of worship).

Indian Ambassador toUAE Navdeep Suri read outPrime Minister NarendraModi’s statement on the occa-sion, congratulating the Gulfnation for this initiative.

“On behalf of 130 croreIndians, it is my privilege toconvey our greetings to my

dear friend and the CrownPrince of Abu Dhabi, HisHighness Sheikh Mohammedbin Zayed Al Nahyan,” Suriquoted Prime Minister Modias saying.

“When complete, this tem-ple will symbolise the univer-sal human values and spiritu-al ethos that form a shared her-itage of both India and theUAE,” he said.

Suri said that the templeembodies the timeless Vedicvalues of VasudevKutumbakam, the whole worldis one family.

“I am sure this temple willbe a source of inspiration forthe 33 lakh Indians residing inthe UAE as well as of peoplefrom all other cultures,” Suriquoted Prime Minister Modi assaying.

The plan to build the tem-ple in Abu Dhabi was approvedby the Abu Dhabi government

during Modi’s first visit to thecountry in 2015.

Priti Vaishnav, educationand development expert,termed the temple as a well-deserved recognition of a thriv-ing Indian community in theUAE.

“This will also serve as agreat venue for tourism from allover the world as these templesspearheaded by BAPS are

amazing pieces of architectureas well as famous for their larg-er than life manifestation,”Vaishnav said.

The temple will be a cul-tural complex with art gallery,halls, library and gym.

It will comprise of seventowers representing the sevenemirates in the UAE and comeup on a 14-acre piece of land atAbu Mureikhah, close to the

Abu Dhabi-Dubai highway.The stones for the temple

will be carved by temple arti-sans in India and assembled inthe UAE.

Bindu Suresh Chettur,prominent Indian lawyer, saidthis is a welcome developmentfor the 3.3 million Indians liv-ing in the UAE and that it willhelp enhance people-to-peoplecontact.

“This country has alwaysbeen a role model when itcomes to giving respect toeveryone. This step will furtherboost the relations betweenthe two countries. Also, theBAPS temple architecture isvery unique so it will add tothe long list of marvellousarchitectures in the UAE,”Chettur said.

Sajeev Purushothaman,spokesperson of the NRI cell ofBharatiya Janata Party, said,“It’s very significant and sym-

bolic in this year of tolerance(being marked in the UAE).This temple is not just a placeof worship, it is a place forhuman development and har-mony to be created amongcommunities.”

“Just after the Pope’s visit(to the UAE), we have BAPSspiritual guru poojya mahantMaharaj Ji and being NRI, weare proud of this temple andrequest all NRIs to be a part ofthe making,” he added.

Sheikh Nahyan MabarakAl Nahyan received SwamiMaharaj and his delegation ofHindu priests at Al MaktoumInternational Airport onThursday.

While interacting withSheikh Nahyan, SwamiMaharaj prayed for the goodhealth and the prosperity of therulers and people of the UAE.

Swami Maharaj is theSpiritual Head of over 1,200

temples and 4,200 centers ofspirituality worldwide. Heguides the BAPS’ social, spiri-tual, cultural, educational,health, disaster relief and otheractivities.

He is the sixth and presentspiritual guru of the BAPSSwaminarayan Sanstha.

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Asenior North Korean officialslammed US National

Security Advisor John Bolton onSaturday, accusing him of mak-ing “stupid” comments onstalled denuclearisation talksand warning “nothing good”would come of them.

Bolton is the second, topranking US politician to be criticised byPyongyang in recent days, after it labelledSecretary of State Mike Pompeo as “reck-less” Thursday, demanding his removalfrom talks over the North’s banned nuclearprogramme.

Those comments came hours after theisolated state claimed to have tested a newkind of weapon.

Pyongyang and Washington have beenat loggerheads since the collapse of a sum-mit between Kim Jong Un and DonaldTrump earlier this year.

In an interviewwith Bloomberg pub-lished on Wednesday,Bolton urgedPyongyang to give a“real indication” it iswilling give upnuclear weapons.

In commentscited by NorthKorea’s official KCNA

news service, Vice Foreign Minister ChoeSon Hui said Bolton’s remarks may haveshowed a “lack of understanding about theintentions of the two leaders”. But, “theyall sound uncharming and stupid to me”,she said. “Nothing good would come toyou if such insensitive remarks persist.”

In the Bloomberg interview, Boltonsaid that for a third Trump-Kim summitto take place, “a real indication from NorthKorea that they’ve made the strategic deci-sion to give up nuclear weapons”, would beneeded.

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Islamic State group jihadists havekilled 35 pro-Damascus fighters

in Syria, in what a monitoringgroup described on Saturday astheir deadliest operation since thefall of the “caliphate”.

The Syrian Observatory forHuman Rights said four seniorSyrian army officers were amongthe troops and allied militiamenkilled in the desert east of Homsprovince over the past 48 hours.

The Amaq propaganda arm ofIS, which lost the last vestige of its“caliphate” to Kurdish-led forceslast month but retains desert andmountain hideouts in both Syriaand Iraq, said its fighters carriedout the operation. Another eightsoldiers and militiamen, includingtwo officers, were killed in a sep-

arate attack in neighbouring DeirEzzor province on Thursday night,the Observatory said.

The attack targeted a desert vil-lage south of the city of Mayadeen,upstream from the stretch of theEuphrates Valley where IS made adesperate last stand for its“caliphate”, the Britain-based warmonitor said.

Observatory chief Rami AbdelRahman described it as the“biggest attack and the highestdeath toll among regime forcessince the caliphate was declared

defeated”.Six IS fighters were killed in

the clashes, the Observatory said.Amaq said that IS had

launched its assault on Thursdayevening after government forcestried to track down its fighters.

The vast Syrian desert, knownin Arabic as the Badia, stretches allthe way from the capital Damascusand the cities of Homs and Hamato its north to the Euphrates Valleynear the Iraq border, where the“caliphate” was defeated in the vil-lage of Baghouz last month.

Commanders of the US-ledcoalition, which provided air andartillery support for the Kurdish-led operation, have warned repeat-edly that the jihadists’ loss of theirlast piece of territory did notmean their elimination as a fight-ing force.

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Two teenage men have beenarrested after the shooting

dead of a journalist in NorthernIreland, police said on Saturday.

The 18 and 19-year-oldswere arrested in Londonderryunder anti-terror laws andtaken to Belfast for questioning,the Police Service of NorthernIreland said.

Journalist Lyra McKee wasshot in the head late Thursdayin Derry by, police believe, dis-sident republicans linked to theNew IRA paramilitary group

as they clashed with police onthe Creggan estate in NorthernIreland’s second city.

Tributes to the 29-year-oldwere led by her partner, SaraCanning, who said McKee’s“amazing potential was snuffedout by this single barbaric act”.

Detectives hunting thegunman had released footageof the unrest, hoping that thecommunity would help traceher killers.

Belfast-born McKee, 29,had posted an image from theriots, accompanied by thewords “Derry tonight. Absolute

madness”.Images of the unrest on

social media showed a car andvan ablaze and hooded indi-viduals throwing petrol bombsand fireworks at police vehicles.

Police chief MarkHamilton said Friday “a singlegunman fired shots in a resi-dential area of the city and asa result wounded Ms McKee”.

Some officials blamedThursday’s unrest on the “NewIRA”, a republican paramilitarygroup opposed to the shifttowards non-violent tactics tobring about a united Ireland.

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Czech billionaire Prime MinisterAndrej Babis said on Saturday he

would not resign if indicted for hisalleged role in a two-million-euro EUsubsidy fraud.

Police this week recommendedthat Babis be indicted over the casewhich could see him and several oth-ers, including family members,spending five to ten years in prison.

“I would not resign because I havebeen saying from the beginning thatthis is a political process,” Babis toldthe DNES broadsheet which heowns.

The 64-year-old agro-chemicalsmogul pegged by Forbes as the sec-ond-wealthiest Czech is suspected ofabusing EU funds to build the luxu-ry Stork Nest resort and farm nearPrague in 2007.

He allegedly took the farm out ofhis sprawling Agrofert food, chemi-

cals and media holding to make it eli-gible for a subsidy awarded to smallcompanies before eventually puttingit back.

Charged by police in 2017, Babisand several others — including hiswife, brother-in-law and daughter —are suspected of subsidy fraud andharming the EU’s financial interests.

“If I weren’t in politics, nobodywould have heard about the StorkNest,” Babis told DNES.

“People keep plotting affairsagainst me, delving into the past. Thisaffair is 12 years old,” he said, callingcharges against his family “incredi-ble filth”.

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French Yellow Vest protestersmarched on Saturday to remind the

Government that rebuilding the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral isn’tthe only problem the nation needs tosolve.

Security was extra-high in Paris asauthorities braced for resurgent YellowVest anger, and Paris police said some70 people were detained by mid-morning.

Multiple protest events are beingheld around Paris and other cities onSaturday for the 23rd weekend of theYellow Vest movement against wealthinequality and President EmmanuelMacron’s leadership.

One group of about 200 peopletried to march on the president’sElysee Palace in central Paris, but riotpolice blocked them at the neo-clas-sical Madeleine Church.

Another group gathered aroundthe Finance Ministry in eastern Paristo demand lower taxes on workers andpensioners and higher taxes on the

rich.Yet another group is trying to

demonstrate yellow vest mourningover the Notre Dame blaze while alsokeeping up pressure on Macron.

The group wanted to march toNotre Dame itself, but were banned bypolice, who have set up a large secu-rity perimeter around the area.

Many protesters were deeply sad-dened by the fire at a national monu-ment.

But at the same time they areangry at the USD 1 billion in NotreDame donations that poured in from

tycoons while their own demandsremain largely unmet and they strug-gle to make ends meet.

Some 60,000 police officers weremobilised for Saturday’s protestsacross France as the interior ministerwarned of the risk of resurgent vio-lence.

The movement is largely peacefulbut extremists have attacked treasuredmonuments, shops and banks andclashed with police.

The heavy police presence meantsubway stations and roads aroundParis were closed Saturday, thwartingtourists who converged on the Frenchcapital for an exceptionally warmspring day.

“Paris is very difficult right now,”said Paul Harlow, of Kansas City,Missouri, as he looked sadly at thedamaged Notre Dame.

He and his wife Susan are in Parisonly for a few days, and didn’t makeit in time to see the cathedral — andtheir efforts to visit museums Saturdaywere derailed by closed subways andbarricaded roads.

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Suicide bombers and gunmenlaunched an attack near a

Government Ministry in cen-tral Kabul on Saturday, officialssaid, in an ongoing assault thatdestroyed weeks of relativecalm in the capital.

The attack near the com-munications Ministry occurredone day after planned talksbetween the Taliban andAfghan representatives werecancelled.

No one claimed immediateresponsibility for the assault,which left people stranded in thetall building. Six people wereinjured, according to a HealthMinistry spokesman.

Initial reports were con-fused, with officials from dif-ferent agencies saying three orfour attackers were involved. Itwas not clear how many weresuicide bombers and how manywere gunmen involved in a fol-low-up assault. AFP journalistsheard one big blast at around

11:40 am (0710 GMT), fol-lowed by sporadic gunfire formore than an hour afterward.

“The information that wehave is four attackers have placedthemselves near the communi-cation ministry and are engagedin gun battles with the Afghansecurity forces,” AmanduddinShariati, a security official inKabul told AFP. On Twitter, theMinistry of Information saidthree suicide bombers hadattacked a post office building atthe communications ministry.

General Sayed MohammadRoshan Dil, the Kabul policechief, said four attackers hadbeen wearing police uniformsand had targeted a shrine nearthe ministry. One of the attack-ers was killed, he told Tolo.

Local television footageshowed a small plume of smokenear the ministry, and peopleclimbing out windows on alower level. On Facebook, a mannamed Syed Jaillani Jallan saidhe was trapped inside theMinistry.

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Egyptians voted on Saturdayin a referendum that aims

to cement the rule of PresidentAbdel Fattah al-Sisi, the formercoup leader who presents him-self as a rock of stability in aturbulent region.

Voters were being asked toback amendments to the con-stitution to allow Sisi, 64, torun for another six-year termwhile boosting his control overthe judiciary and giving themilitary even greater influencein political life.

The three-day referendumbucks the trend of NorthAfrica’s mini-Arab Spring, inwhich mass pro-democracyprotests this month swept awayveteran presidents in Algeriaand Sudan.

Sisi himself was amongthe first to vote when pollsopened, casting his ballot inthe upmarket Cairo suburb ofHeliopolis.

In Shubra, a working-classneighbourhood of the capital,dozens of voters, mostlywomen carrying their chil-dren, queued outside a pollingstation in the local high school.

In Cairo, troops and policewere deployed in numbersalthough the interior ministrydenied to give any nationwidefigures.

Egypt is still battling ajihaidst insurgency based in theSinai Peninsula that has seenattacks in Cairo and other

cities.Sisi has argued that he

needs longer to complete thejob of restoring security andstability after the turmoil thatfollowed the overthrow ofveteran autocrat HosniMubarak in the Arab Spring of2011.

Out on the streets, his sup-porters waved flags bearingtheir campaign motto: “Do theRight,” as they pressed passers-by to turn out and vote ‘Yes’.

At a polling station inManyal, a Cairo suburb over-looking the Nile, MohamedAbdel Salam, 45, told AFP hewas voting enthusiastically insupport of the changes.

“I don’t care about thepresidential terms,” he said.”Sisicould stay forever as long as he’sdoing his job... And he hasalready done a lot”.

Sisi won his first term aspresident in 2014, a year afterhe led the army in overthow-ing elected Islamist presidentMohamed Morsi followingmass protests against his singleturbulent in power.

Standing virtually unop-posed after the disqualificationor withdrawal

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South Sudan President SalvaKiir on Saturday urged

opposition leader Riek Macharto return home “urgently” tohelp form a Government ofnational unity.

A failure by the former vicepresident to do so woulddestroy any hope for peace inthe war-torn country, he said.

“Even now, it’s not toolate,” Kiir told reporters.

“I am inviting Dr RiekMachar to urgently return toJuba so that we can worktogether to expedite the processof forming the revitalisedTransitional Government ofNational Unity”.

A peace deal signed by theparties of the country’s six-year-old conflict calls for theformation of a government ofnational unity on May 12.

Machar, who is a signato-ry of the agreement, onThursday asked for a delay ofsix months, saying it was notsafe for him to return to Juba.

According to leaders ofhis party he is in Khartoum, theSudanese capital. Machar “willnot come to Juba without secu-rity arrangements,” said PuotKang Chol, representingMachar’s SPLM-IO rebel groupat the National Pre-transitionalCommittee (NPTC), the bodycharged with implementingthe peace agreement.

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Chennai Super Kings will beexpected to shrug off a

rare loss and effectively seal aplay-off berth against RoyalChallengers Bangalore in theIndian Premier League here onSunday.

Defending championsCSK, who lost to SRH in theprevious game for only theirsecond loss this season, will getto 16 points with a win at theChinnaswamy and it should beenough to guarantee a place inthe top-four.

Their leader M S Dhonimissed the game against SRHdue to a stiff back but will prob-ably be fit for the game onSunday.

"Probably he will play in thenext game against RCB," stand-in skipper Suresh Raina hadsaid after the loss to SRH.

Following the tournamentopener between CSK and RCBin Chennai, both teams havehad contrasting campaigns.While CSK have lived up totheir reputation again, RCBcontinue to under-perform.

No doubt, RCB will befired up after the win againstKKR at Kolkata on Friday nightwhen they finally managed todefend despite a brutal assaultfrom Andre Russell and NitishRana. It was only their secondwin in nine games in the sea-son so far though they it stillkept them mathematically alivein the tournament.

RCB could also take a cuefrom a similar situation in 2016when they had lost five of their

first seven games, but ended upin the playoffs after winning sixof their last seven matches.

In the absence of indis-posed AB de Villiers on Friday,Virat Kohli took it all uponhimself to post a big total andin the process scored his firstcentury of the season. With ABexpected to be back, RCB willbe aiming to please their loyalfans with a victory at last ontheir home ground.

Despite the arrival of DaleSteyn, their bowling remains aworry as it was evident at theEden Gardens where Russelland Rana almost pulled off theimpossible after KKR needed113 off the last six overs. Thehosts just fell short by 10 runsas Moeen Ali saved the day forRCB with both bat and ball,having defended 24 in the finalover.

On the the other hand, CSKwill fancy themselves againstRCB and sail into the play-offs.Dhoni, who has scored 230runs in eight games includingtwo half-centuries, will hold thekey once again.

The star bowler for CSKthis season has been 40-year-oldImran Tahir, who has taken 13wickets. The South Africanimport has executed his skip-per's plans brilliantly.

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Steve Smith celebrated hisreturn at the helm with acaptain's innings that pow-

ered Rajasthan Royals to a five-wicket victory over a formida-ble Mumbai Indians in anIndian Premier Leagueencounter here Saturday.

Chasing a target of 162,Royals won the game with fiveballs to spare as the formerAustralia captain anchored theinnings with an unbeaten 59 off48 balls.

India U-19 World CupperRiyan Parag (43 off 29 balls)also showed good tempera-ment as he matched his skipperstroke for stroke during their 70runs stand in 9.4 overs thatpaved the way for a comfortablevictory.

Smith, who replacedAjinkya Rahane after the Indiavice-captain's disastrous run, hitfive boundaries and a six whileAssam lad Riyan also had iden-tical number of hits to thefence.

This is Rajasthan's thirdwin in nine games as they arenow placed seventh in theleague table above woodenspooners Royal ChallengersBangalore even though a play-off qualification looks a longshot as of now.

Rajasthan Royals, who werein a must-win situation, racedto 39 in 3.3 overs but Rahane(12 off 12 balls) departed asSuryakumar Yadav took a div-ing catch at covers off leg-spinner Rahul Chahar, whowas the pick of the bowlers withfigures of 3 for 29.

Credit should also be givento Sanju Samson for his whirl-wind 35 off 19 balls that set thepace and enabled Smith toanchor the innings in the man-ner only he can.

Riyan's composure also

helped even though Chahar andthe seasoned Jasprit Bumrah(1/21 in 4 overs) bowled well atthe back end but the home teamshowed enough firepower.

Earlier, Quinton de Kockcontinued his impressive runwith another solid half-centu-ry as Mumbai Indians put up adecent 161 for 5 batting first.

De Kock smashed 65 off 47balls with six fours and twosixes, adding 97 runs off 68 ballsfor the second wicket withSuryakumar Yadav (34 off 33balls) that helped MI total gaina semblance of respectability.

Reinstated as skipper inplace of Rahane, Smith intro-duced leg-spinner Shreyas

Gopal (2/21 in 4 overs) in thethird over.

He deceived rival skipperRohit Sharma (5), who steppedout only to offer a return catchafter failing to read a googly.

Gopal could have got ridof De Kock off the last ball ofthe over but Jofra Archerdropped a difficult chance atlong on.

Making most out of thisreprieve De Kock helped histeam reach 50-run mark in 6.5overs.

He reached his own half-century in 34 balls and hispartnership with Suryakumarwas broken when latter wascaught in deep off Stuart Binny

in the 14th over.A few balls later De Kock

too was holed out in long-onas Hardik Pandya and Pollardjoined forces with scoreboardreading 112 for 3 in 15 overs.

Pollard (10 runs 7 balls)was dropped by Archer onceagain. Hardik played anotherof his cameos scoring 23 off 15balls.

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Delhi Capitals strike regularly inbetween overs and nullify Chris

Gayle blockbuster start before a latecameo by debutant Harpreet Brar liftKings XI Punjab to 163 for 7 duringIndian Premier League clash at FerozShah Kotla stadium on Saturday.

West Indian Chris Gayle smashes 37-ball 69 which includes 6 fours and 5 bigsixes. While Brar adds 12-ball 20 runs inthe end which includes a last ball six toKagiso Rabada that took Punjab past 160runs mark.

Earlier, Shreyas Iyer won the toss andopted to field first at the tricky Kotlatrack. Delhi made three changes into theline-up by bringing in SandeepLamichhane, Colin Ingram and debutantSherfane Rutherford in place of ColinMunro, Keemo Paul and Chris Morris.

While winner in the previous tiebetween these two sides, Kings XI Punjabreplaces Mujeeb, Pooran and Arshdeepwith hat-trick hero Sam Curran, pacerHardus Viljoen and debutant left armmystery spinner Harpreet Brar.

Coming to bat first, in-form KLRahul welcomes Sandeep Lamichhanewith a first ball six, straight down theground in the second over of the inningsand then stroked a four in the third ballto put pressure on the bowler early on.But Sandeep got his revenge in thefourth ball when a brilliant piece of glovework by Rishabh Pant sent KL back to thepavilion. He was out for 12 runs in nineballs.

However Rahul’s dismissal had noeffect on Gayle and he hammered Ishantfor a four and a 101 m six in the thirdover before hitting four boundaries toSandeep Lamichhane.

But on the other hand, MayankAgarwal failed to get boundaries and thepressure of dot balls forced him to go bigbut it resulted in his dismissal. He was outfor just 2 off nine balls by KagisoRabada.

Next up to bat at 4 was David Miller.The South African started with a first ballfour.

Kings XI completed its first 50 in 5.4overs when Gayle hits Ishant for a four.And then he hammered Amit Mishra forbig six down the ground in the first overafter powerplay.

But in process of matching his part-

ner, David Miller throws his wicket. Hewas out for 7 runs in five balls and wascaught by Prithvi Shaw near the bound-ary line in the first ball of Axar Patel’sspell.

But even this also had no effect onGayle as he hits another big six down theground to Amit Mishra and then takes asingle to complete his fifty in just 25 balls.

He hits another one (his 4th of thenight) in the fourth ball of the ninth over.But was sent back to the dugout afterColin Ingram took a brilliant catch nearthe boundary line which was completedby Axar Patel, as Ingram passed the ballto him before crossing the boundary line.

He was out for 69 in just 37 balls. At

that time KXIP was 106 for 4 in 12.2overs.

The visitors suffered another setbackin the same over as Sam Curran was sentback for nought by Lamichhane (c & b).

With this twin blow in one over, KXIPscoring rate dip down as Mandeep (30 off27 balls) and Ravichandran Ashwin (16off 14 balls) failed to hit boundaries ona regular interval.

However it was the last ball of theinnings that took them past 160 whenBrar hits Rabada for a six.

For Delhi, Lamichhane was the mostsuccessful bowler with 3 for 40, whileRabada and Axar Patel also got 2 wick-ets each.

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Virat Kohli has said the onus was only on himto bat through the innings in the absence of

AB de Villiers and the RCB skipper lived up tothe expectations with a 58-ball 100 for his first cen-tury of IPL 2019.

RCB eked out a 10-run win over KKR for onlytheir second success of the season after AndreRussell and Nitish Rana nearly pulled off theimpossible. De Villiers was under the weatherbefore the start of the game and Kohli decided torest him.

"It was important to bat along when AB is nothere, as a senior player. AB was disappointed fornot making it for the game tonight and I told himthat I'll give him a hug if we win tonight," Kohlisaid at the post-match presentation on Friday.

RCB finally managed to defend a total afterposting 213 for four at the Eden Gardens.

"There's no point in panicking in these typesof situations, you got to leave it to the bowlers todecide what he wants to do. Few good decisionsby (Marcus) Stoinis and then Moeen in the end.I think the way Stoinis bowled those two-threedot balls, it was very crucial," Kohli said of Stoinispenultimate over.

"They (Moeen and Stoinis) both showed com-posure and that's what you expect from your teamsmates. Our communication during second time-out was to get 170-175, we didn't think we couldget 200-plus."

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Pacer Navdeep Saini, who is among India'sstandbys for the World Cup, says he is ready

for his big break in the mega event should theneed arises.

After attracting selectors' attention with asplendid season for Delhi in domestic cricket,the 26-year-old has impressed with his pace andbounce for RCB in the IPL.

The uncapped pacer is the sole bowleramong the standbys with the others beingAmbati Rayudu and Rishabh Pant. Saini will alsobe travelling with the World Cup squad as oneof the four net bowlers alongside KhaeelAhmed, Avesh Khan and Deepak Chahar.

"Absolutely (I'm ready)... The confidence ofdoing well in IPL will give me a big boost. If Iget a chance in World Cup, I hope to do well,"the shy lad from Haryana told reporters afterRCB's 10-run win over Kolkata Knight Ridersat the Eden Gardens here on Friday.

On his World Cup preparation, he said: "Wetalk during the matches but the most importantthing is to pay full attention at the nets. If youdo well at the nets, you will do well in a matchas well.

"My dad has always told me to give your 110per cent effort wherever you play. I'm puttingin that extra effort always in practice session andin a match."

Saini is also gaining from the vast experi-ence of South African great Dale Steyn who hascome on board as a replacement for NathanCoulter-Nile.

"I had a discussion with him on the eve ofthe match. He just told me to bowl the same wayand not try anything different," Saini said.

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In order to grasp and convey thecomplex reality of wartime cen-sorship, accounts of policy andofficial hand-wringing need to besupplemented with a narrative of

the lived experience of censorship.Fortunately for the historian, vividdescriptions are available in the mem-oirs of journalists living and workingduring the Second World War (1939-45). The job of press correspondentsduring wartime was not an easy one.They stayed and were briefed togetherwhen they were covering organisedtheaters of war, and this left little scopefor individual scoops. In an alreadydifficult situation, the operation of cen-sorship added a further complication.Sending news out from the war frontwas no easy task either: It could be sentout on a plane, or via army signalingequipment, in which case the wordlimit was severely restricted.

In his memoir titled Leaves From AWar Reporter’s Diary, Dinker RaoMankekar, who served as Reuters’ cor-respondent first in Colombo and thenon the Burma front, recalled that as hewas the only correspondent to staywith the British Second Division tillthe end (in the Burma front), they —not unmindful of the benefits of pub-licity — allowed him use of their wireless transmitter with a daily wordlimit of 600. This was transmitted tothe closest signaling point, eitherCalcutta or Comilla. On the otherhand, the American sector providedbetter facilities, and General Stilwell’sHeadquarters in North Burma evencarried a mobile wireless transmitterfor the use of the press. In his opinion,soldiers (via letters from family)received press cuttings featuring theiractivities, and this had a positiveimpact on morale.

And then there were the censors. In her memoir, Portrait of Myself,Margaret Bourke-White, accredited asa war correspondent with the US AirForce in 1942 (and best known in India for her photographs of Partitionrefugees) described censors thus:“Censors are a peculiar breed ofmankind. They are born with red pencils in their mouths, and they simply have to use them…”

Mankekar’s account of life as a warcorrespondent is replete with accountsof dealing with military censors, and ofthe irrationality of censors and of cen-sorship, generally. For example, when hewrote a profile of Naga warriors thatreferred to their poison-tipped spears,the war office censor deleted the termpoison, on the grounds that internation-al law forbade the use of poison in war.The report was passed only after thejournalist assured the censor that thereference was not to the present war.

Between 1942-43, the army inBurma was a forgotten army, as Britishand Indian newspapers gave maximumcoverage to the European and Pacifictheaters of war. It was only in March1944 that Burma became front pagenews and remained so for three months.On the Burmese war front, censorshipwas imposed by two authorities: The

GOI as well as South East AsiaCommand (SEAC) censors. Mankekarwas in Burma when news reached himabout the Japanese invasion of India viaManipur and Assam, and SEAC censorsrefused him permission to file the story,citing GOI instructions. At Calcutta,too, he was told by Lt Col Thompsonthat there was an order to the effectthat no story about the Japanese inva-sion was to be passed. The taboowords, according to the order, were“Japanese invasion of India”.Mankekar wrote the following cable,faithful to the letter of the law:

��)"����.!��"*�/+��/���))�.�����#$� ����)����������+����������+�"GLt Col Thompson was puzzled, then re-read the rules. Mankekar threatened toreport the delay to the SEAC headquar-ters in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Thompsonpicked up his rubber stamp andstamped the cable ‘passed’. The 9.30 pmAll India Radio bulletin carried thenews. This report gave Mankekar aninternational byline for the first time,and the next morning, he found him-self on the front page of many newspa-pers. The GOI was furious andlaunched an investigation. AsMankekar put it: “The rules of thegame were fully accepted by theGovernment, under which the corre-spondent’s duty is to get his storythrough and that of the Censors is tosee that the wrong story did not escapetheir lynx-like eyes, and if any did,then it is the Censor and not the corre-spondent that is to blame. ColThompson, I can never forgive myself,became Major Thompson, as a sequel— which was far from my intention.”

This incident contains at least twoimportant insights into the nature ofcensorship. One, that even rigorouslyenforced censorship could not standbetween a determined journalist andhis readers. Two, while in times ofpeace, journalists were the ones whowere prosecuted, in times of war, whencensors took on enlarged powers, theirresponsibilities also increased. As thisincident shows, the journalist merelywent to his next assignment; the censorwas the one who was penalised.

Mankekar’s memoirs are full ofexamples how censors’ decisions wereoften counter-productive. During theJapanese siege of Imphal, for example,when newspapers were forbidden fromcalling it a siege, Mankekar tookrecourse to an indirect strategy: In hisreport, he described the topography ofthe Imphal valley in great detail, aswell as the fact that there were onlythree land outlets from it. He thenmentioned the distance of the Japanesefrom Imphal on each of these outlets.Nowhere was the term ‘siege’ men-tioned. In his words, this roundaboutmethod of reporting gave a “muchmore alarming picture of the ever-tightening ring on Imphal than theword ‘siege’ could ever have given. Thestory passed the Censor, and thatnight, it created a crash in the Calcuttastock market”. Another scoop was his

report about the lifting of thesiege of Imphal. Mankekar hadexclusive access to this news asall other correspondents hadleft the town during the mon-soon months, but he had stayedon with the 33 Corps.

Another example of thecounter-productive nature ofcensorship: War correspon-dents had been forbidden fromreporting the fall of Kohima,even when almost all ofKohima was captured by theJapanese except for a tiny hillholding a British garrison.Consequently, when the Britisharmy began reclaiming thetown, a problem arose. Havingmaintained that they had neverlost Kohima, the militaryauthorities had to explain whatthey were attacking in Kohima.Hence, they re-christened nine-tenths of Kohima, which was inthe hands of the Japanese asthe ‘Naga village’, and renamedthe remaining one-tenth, com-prising a small hill on the edgeof Kohima town, as ‘Kohima’!

Mankekar himself had greatdifficulty while trying to“explain to readers why Britishtroops were attacking a British-held town”! In his opinion, thiscensorship was self-defeating:Japanese radio could easily belistened to in India and it broad-cast exaggerated reports of theirmilitary successes in Indian ter-ritory. By censoring news, thispropaganda could not be coun-tered. Furthermore, even whenKohima was re-captured by theBritish after two months, theBritish army was unable to makethe most of this victory in termsof propaganda since far fromgoing to town, with all fanfare,on the great and deserved Alliedvictory, the correspondents wereset to the embarrassing task ofhaving to explain to the worldhow the British forces per-

formed thefeat of recap-turing what theyhad themselvesbeen valiantly defend-ing all that time!

What was worse for thecolonial state was that in themeantime, Japanese radio hadbeen broadcasting news of thearrival of Subhas ChandraBose’s Indian National Army inKohima, the ceremonialunfurling of the Indian flag onIndian soil, and the establish-ment of the Azad HindGovernment in that area. Herewas a case where censorshipleft a vacuum easily filled byrumours. Some journalists (orat least the British ones) evenhad the luxury of seeing thelighter side of censorship. TheGOI had asked newspapers notto carry information about theweather so as to deny this infor-mation to the Japanese. Oneday, The Pioneer (then edited byits last British editor, HEBCatley) carried a news item tothe effect that there were leaveson the streets and the electricitysupply was disturbed. The col-umn asked if there was a storm,and concluded, “Hush, the cen-sor is listening.” Although cor-respondents usually got the bestof the censor, even Mankekaracknowledged that there weretimes when an intelligent censorwas of great help in pointingout errors. The censor duringwar-time was thus also editorand proof-reader. Occasionally— if unintentionally — the cen-sors did get it right.

Mankekar recounts an inci-dent when he filed a story,based on a British militaryintelligence report, that theRani of Jhansi regiment (awomen’s regiment of SubhasChandra Bose’s Indian NationalArmy) had arrived in Kohima.

The storywas killed by the

censors, and it laterturned out that Sikh jawans ofthe Indian National Army dry-ing their hair, when seen fromafar, had been mistaken forwomen. The conflict betweenjournalists and censors was, inhis opinion, mainly over theterms ‘security’ and ‘morale’.Censors applied rules mechani-cally, and war correspondentsinterpreted them more flexibly.The GOI, especially in theIndia-Burma theater of war,was inclined to be inflexibleabout allowing any informationthat they considered coulddampen morale. The problem,in Mankekar’s opinion,occurred because this covered“almost everything in thosetense days of external war-cum-internal-nationalist struggle”.

The line dividing the politi-cal from the military was notthin, but invisible. Accordingto Mankekar, it was for reasonsentirely political and not mili-tary that it was consideredadvisable by the powers inDelhi that the Indian publicshould not know aboutKohima’s capture, or about theJapanese invasion in theManipur sector. Corroborationof this statement is provided byexamples cited by journalistKedar Ghosh in his memoirstitled No Apology. Ghosh’sreport on a strike in a steel fac-tory engaged in war productionwas not passed by a press cen-sor. Irrespective of the colourof pencils used, the politicalwas impossible to separatefrom the military.

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An intimidatingh i g h - s e c u r i t yprison-like doorat the entrance, adark chamber

with discouraging number ofsecurity personnel and con-stantly gazing CCTV camerasover the visitors. As you enterthe room, you can’t miss thesense of unusualness of theoccasion. Spotlights focusedon glass cases displaying someof the most precious gem-stones, glittering gold, andsparkling diamonds, and aroom filled with babble thatwould only grow intensewhile moving from one exhib-it to the next. Well, this is theglimpse of the past in all itsshimmering glory for you atthe Nizams’ jewellery exhibi-tion curated for public displayat the National Museum inNew Delhi. It is a “never seenbefore” moment for manyvisitors gawking at the jew-ellery and regalia in all itssplendour. The sheer weightof the jewellery and preciousstones adorned by the erst-while Nizams so nonchalant-ly as displayed in the mono-chromatic photographs willperhaps give you a sense ofthe scale and heft of theirwealth in the yesteryears.

The Nizams were caughtin the crosshairs of thegeopolitics and made choicesthat didn’t pay off. And there-in lies the intrigue and mys-tery that dogged their wealthand quandaries. The Asaf Jahidynasty, familiar to all by thetitle of its representative, the

Nizam, owes its origin to MirQamaruddin Chin Qilij Khan,better known as Asaf Jah-I.This dynasty ruled the State ofHyderabad in Deccan forseven generations (1724-1948). It was one of the lead-ing Princely States in India.The area of the dominion wasequal in size to Italy. The trea-sures of Golconda and theDeccan region has been leg-endary. The Golconda mineswere the sole suppliers ofdiamonds to the world till thebeginning of the 18thCentury. Many famous dia-monds, which adorn thecrown jewels across the world,came from these mines. The‘Orlov’, ‘Darya-I-Noor’,‘Regent’, ‘Florentine’, ‘GreatMughal’, ‘Nizam’, ‘Sancy’ are afew examples of famous dia-monds mined in the Deccan— the dominion of theNizams. Geographically, theGolconda area for diamond

mining stretched to parts ofAndhra Pradesh andKarnataka during the 16th-19th Century.

The Nizam and the princeswould wear ceremonial regaliato attend official functions. Inaddition to the sarpench, aturra of gold wire, a distin-guished ornament worn onlyby members of the royal house-hold used to be worn. Princesoften wore a smaller sarpench,the turra as well as necklaces,armbands, and belts. Onlyhigh-ranking officials wouldwear turban ornaments. Thecrown jewels constitutedexquisite pieces and large gem-stones as head ornaments forthe head-dress was an impor-tant component of dressing ofthe princes. Some of theexquisite pieces and large gem-stones were used as head orna-ments. The sarpench signifiedpower and hierarchy.

The neck would be

adorned as the occasion war-ranted with an assortment ofnecklaces: A kanthi, a padakmarvareed , and finally, a har-murassa (a necklace). Theachkan (coat) would havejewelled buttons, a pocketwatch in addition to the baglus(belt) on the waist. Importantofficials and members of theroyal household would wearjewelled baglus on formal

occasions, ornamented withlarge gemstones attached tothe woven gold belts.

In the early 20th Century,as pocket watches became afashion statement in Parisand London, the style alsocaught the eye of Indian roy-alty and they incorporated itin the ceremonial regalia. Theupper arms would be adornedwith three armbands, the bhu-jbands, bazubands, andnavaratna bazubands, and thehands would have dastbands(bracelets) and rings.

The Nizams enjoyed heav-enly treasures and worldlycomforts and pleasures. HisExalted Highness Nawab SirMir Osman Ali Khan, whowas the last Nizam, is remem-bered for being the staunchestally of the British in India. TheNizam made a gift of diamondjewels, including a tiara andnecklace, to Queen Elizabethon the occasion of her mar-riage and it is still worn by theQueen — the Nizam ofHyderabad necklace.

He refused to submit tothe Indian state during theBritish withdrawal. He finallysurrendered to the Indianarmy in 1948. He was appoint-ed to a ceremonial position ofRajpramukh. The stature ofthe Nizam reduced in 1956when his dominion was trifur-cated during the reorganisa-tion of Indian States on a lin-guistic basis. The Nizam thentook retirement with threewives, 42 concubines, 200 chil-dren, 300 servants, and agingretainers, including a private

army, according to an estimate.Apparently, he provided pen-sion to around 10,000 depen-dents of his former empire.

After his death in 1967, theprogeny feud started. Thedescendants claimed theirshare and wanted to sell jew-ellery to international bid-ders. However, theGovernment of India inter-vened and termed it a nation-al treasure. After two decadesof negotiations, a deal wasstruck, and the Government ofIndia acquired the collection in1995 after paying the descen-dants. The jewels include themindboggling 185-carat Jacobdiamond that the Nizam

apparently used as a paper-weight. In today’s world, someestimates suggest the jewelleryis worth �50,000 crore.

Our uncaring attitudetowards the country’s leg-endary wealth is troubling.With so many treasures lyingunaccounted for in varioustrusts, temples, and mutts, itis important to systematical-ly list the countries enormousheritage, jewellery traditions,craftsmanship, design, aes-thetics, and safeguard themfor the coming generations torelish for posterity.

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According to various surveys,no matter how many students inrural areas are attending schools,50-70 per cent of them in Class Vare still unable to read a secondgrade textbook, or solve basicmathematics problems.Government schools, though exist,cannot provide the kind of quali-

ty education when compared toprivate schools. Poverty in therural areas and inability of schoolsand urban kids to socially acceptthe backward children stops themfrom fulfilling their dreams ofdoing something great.

Some Government schools areover-packed with students, becauseof which teachers aren’t able tofocus on students and give all ofthem personal attention. Difficultyfor students in understandingEnglish textbooks is another draw-back. Quality of education is farpowerful than poverty and lack ofresources. But that also has beendegrading ever since. The focus ofthe students and teachers is just onpassing their exams instead ofgaining any valuable knowledge,ultimately leading to the decline inthe level of education in India, inspite of many efforts.

The foundation to transformIndia into a highly literate nationhas to be laid down at primaryrural levels, so that quality ofeducation from the beginningshould be kept up to the mark.Students’ textbooks can be mademore interesting by using graph-ics to explain complicated con-cepts. Improvement in conditionof infrastructure, training theteachers, and providing them withincreased salaries should all be a

part of development. The gap between city and vil-

lage students has to be bridged byunderstanding the needs of theweaker lot and uplifting them.New methodologies and technolo-gies can be brought into classroomsas a way of teaching, and also tokeep up with the modernisation inthe digital world. Current age ofdigital connectivity can help usaddress many problems in ruralschools. Social entrepreneurs caninvest in bringing their innovationsand expertise to make our ruralclassrooms more advanced. Theproblem of shortage of qualityteachers and high drop-out ratescan be solved by e-learning plat-forms and smart classrooms.

There are many successfulexamples of entrepreneurs andorganisations, who with theirefforts have contributed signifi-cantly in bringing about a changeand a sense of encouragement inunderprivileged children, helpingthem shape a bright future.Together, social entrepreneurs inassociation with education super-intendents can build a solutionaround these problems which willresolve the overall issues of ruraleducation and pave the way for abetter and educated India.

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What about the compe-tent authority? Where is

it? Are they all set to slayUnited States President DonaldTrump but something is defi-nitely in the offing! The com-petent committees in the UShas already absolved theTrump Presidency of thealleged grim crime of conniv-ing with the Russian establish-ment, their espionage andindustrial-financial sectors toromp home a vaunted victoryover the Democrats. With alarge bevy of women candi-dates entering the fray for the“US Presidential” race such asKamla Harris and JuliaGabbard, personages such asJoe Biden need to tighten uptheir hugging and felicitationacts with the eminent ladies inthe American political firma-ment. Paul Manafort might bethe personage to go-after butthe American judicial appara-tus has given a clean chit toPresident Trump.

Akin to the tryst withBrexit accompanied by UKPrime Minister Theresa May inBritain, it is a rather tall orderto bid adieu to the conservativeand the “WASP method” in theAmerican homeland. No clearcut linkage has been unearthedby the Congressional andinvestigative committees alongwith the work carried on by theConsul, Robert Mueller.Despite consistent haranguingby the Democratic apparatus,President Trump’s parapher-nalia has survived and hasregistered quite a few success-ful vantage points both in thesphere of domestic polity andglobal politics/foreign policy of

the US. Before an electoral trav-elogue may be written, one canshed light upon how the fre-quent changes in the CapitolHill has evaded rational expla-nation; but President Trumpmust have had plausible rea-sons to go ahead with topplingof positions in theGovernment. All in all, theRussian connection has notbeen established though, itsblithe and rote filibusteringhas definitely soured the pitchfor the President.

The strain in the somesegments of US mainstreammedia have centred aroundthe ministration to spawn a“Putin scratch Trump’s back”approach which is largely posit-ed on a gladiatorial mediacomplex. Lampooning RussianPresident Vladimir Putin andPresident Trump as oligarchspar excellence, involved in aglobal staging exercise of inter-national proportions, has beenthe provisional pout of some ofthe media and has had animpact upon the health andlarger visage of the TrumpPresidency. Still, what needs tobe realised and understood isthat the United States is no sim-pleton oligarchy devoid of avibrant, dominant democraticand egalitarian political culture.Industry does domineer in theland of milk and honey, but isnot the sole purveyor in eco-nomics and public opinion inthe larger American state.Russia is on the rebuild, tangi-bly and psychologically as aEuropean empire. But the USis no banana republic or a tinpot nation as some soulfulobservers pinpoint about the

follies and fracas of the hiddenhand in Trump’s America.There is no Wikileaks worthynarrative to be told or hiddenabout the imagined commu-nities, akin to a recalibratingRussia and a comely ubiquitousAmerica.

The linkages betweenPresident Trump and theRussian connection have beenevery WASP’s pet peeve sincethe time the allegations begansurfacing. Michael Flynn hasbeen investigated by the three-some of FBI, Congressionaland Senatorial committees. Itwas alleged by the New YorkTimes report on February 14,2017, that Paul Manafort andother protégés of the TrumpAdministration conspired withMoscow but a direct presence

of Trump and his associatescould not be established with-in the idiom of the allegedRussia-Trump connect.Attorney General William Barhas come out with a bipartisanfinding that neither Trumpnor his associates have any-thing to do with the Russianoligarchic overarch in a March2019 release.

Hannah Levintova writesin the alternative narrative dis-course, Mother Jones, “Despitehis claims to the contrary, thePresident’s ties to Russia arelong, deep, and, above all, mys-terious. In the 1980s, before theSoviet bloc crumbled, Trumpwas already trying to get afoothold behind the IronCurtain. Since then, he hasannounced on at least three

occasions plans to build aTrump Tower in Moscow inpartnership with various powerplayers and oligarchs.”

Ivanka Trump too as aninstrumentality has cut dealswith the Russian industry butall these details do not naturallyleave the US President in asoup, as before his grandilo-quent anointment, Trump wasa true blue entrepreneur moguland if he did business for prof-iteering then it was a naturalrecourse to trading and cor-porate turnovers which is anintrinsic part and parcel of theAmerican dream and theirattendant way of life and devel-opment/progression. It is in theAmerican tradition that anupward lurch on the career lad-der and amassing of wealth is

looked upon as an achievementand a qualifying characteristicof any mundane Americandenizens and being prosperousand being a profiteer is notlooked down upon as some-thing which is not sacrosanct.After screening the Americanmedia and the global media, itcan be surmised that there is anawful lot of innuendo and sub-terfuge surrounding theRussian connection ofPresident Trump and thedoughty Republicans. TheWashington Post too hasreported that President Trumphas continued to vociferouslyreject the allegations that theRussians had a well defined roleto play in the 2016 USPresidential elections. TheWashington Post on the con-trary reported, “Fusion GPSwas hired in mid-2016 by alawyer for Hillary Clinton’spresidential campaign and theDemocratic NationalCommittee to dig into Trump’sbackground. Earlier that year,the firm had investigatedTrump for a conservative web-site funded by a Republicandonor, but that client stoppedpaying for the work after itbecame clear that Trumpwould win the GOP presiden-tial nomination, according topeople familiar with the mat-ter.” Still, it would be prepos-terous to contend thatPresident Donald Trump is aRussian agent as the alternatemedia in the United States hasrepeatedly arraigned in its can-tankerous cacophony.

The answer to the posercan indicate an attractiontowards the domineering world

view of Putin, as PresidentTrump is enamoured of thenationalistic and patriotic scaleof reference of the Russianleader. As an attendant fact,President Trump does notattach much importance tothe institutions such as NATOand the United Nations and hasa diffident perception about theavowed American zeal ofspreading democracy in thelarger global space. PresidentJimmy Carter too opposed theSoviet incursion in Afghanistanbut President Trump has cho-sen to follow his own doctrineand not take regular recourseto history. Trump has alsosupported the moderatetakeover model where-in Putinintervenes in Poland andBelarus, and initially PresidentTrump too supported theseshenanigans emanating in theNATO’s backyard.

Now, even PresidentTrump has concluded thatRobert Mueller acted honor-ably after months of dispar-agement. It can be cited fromCNN transcripts that, “Russiadid not participate and influ-ence the American PresidentialElections in 2019.”

The denunciation and de-recognition received by theRussian diplomats in theUnited States also speaks vol-umes about the general coldwar mindset of PresidentTrump who believes in with-drawing the larger Americanoverarch.

(The writer teachesInternational Relations atIndian Institute of PublicAdministration, Delhi)

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Sudan and its people heaveda sigh of relief after dethron-

ing notorious Omar al-Bashir,who ruled the country since1989 with an iron fist. The peo-ple of Sudan have earnedrespect and admiration from allquarters around the globe forOmar’s ousting, somethingconsidered impossible foralmost three decades.

The most significant partof this peaceful uprising wasthe unprecedented tractionamong women, many of whomhad suffered under the brutalBashir regime.

How this uprising started?Who initiated this process tooverthrow an all-powerfulBashir? Lt General Bashirseized power in an Islamistbacked coup in June 30, 1989.He became the President ofSudan, when the RevolutionaryCommand Council was dis-solved and the country wasrestored to civilian rule inOctober 1993.

Bashir’s removal was madepossible by a five day-longround-the-clock peacefulprotest in which thousands ofpeople gathered outside theArmy headquarters inKhartoum, demanding his res-ignation. In fact, on April 6 theanti-Bashir mobilisationreached to its zenith thatmarked the anniversary of asymbolic non-violent move-ment which in 1985 broughtdown the regime of JaafarNimeiri.

Though people from allwalks of life raised voicesagainst the economic hard-ships faced by them because ofyears of sanctions imposed bythe US Government, it was theSudanese ProfessionalAssociation (SPA) that finallyled the protests against theBashir regime. The SPA is aconglomeration of doctors,health workers and lawyerswho have pinned down anintractable regime whose

President became the first headof a state to be indicted by theInternational Criminal Court(ICC) way back in 2009. Theseprotesters widely chanted slo-gans used for the regimechange during the historicArab Spring of 2011. What hasbeen significant throughoutthis anti-Bashir uprising is thatwomen participants were ashigh as 70 per cent whobelonged to almost all ages andbackgrounds. These womenprotesters highlight the factthat they are demonstratingagainst “sexist attitudes” in aconservative Muslim nationwherein hardcore Sharia lawsare practiced.

What has unfolded afterthe fall of the Bashir regime isnow critical both for prevent-ing unrest and guaranteeingpeace in this African nation.After Bashir’s ouster and arrest,first Vice-President andDefence Minister Lt GeneralAwad Ibn Auf suspended theConstitution, dissolved theNational Assembly, anddeclared national emergencyfor three months with the for-mation of a military-ledTransitional Council that willrule the country for the com-ing two years.

When Auf declared thetransitional Government, peo-ple heard in his declaration his“master’s (Bashir) voice”. Auf isa career soldier very muchlike his former boss who wasmade the Defence Minister ofSudan by the latter. WhenBashir declared a year-longstate of emergency on February22 this year in response tomonths of protests nationwideand calls for his resignation,Auf was promoted to serve asVice-President, indicating thathe can become the President ofthe country once Bashir’s con-stitutional term comes to anend by April 2020.

But now the problem isthat Auf was also the head of

the military intelligence duringthe conflicts in Darfur whichforced the US Government toput him in the list of targetedfinancial sanctions. Therefore,the moot point is what is instore for Sudanese people?

Will Bashir be replaced bysome new face with the systemintact or a new leader willemerge to bring in changes giv-ing relief to Sudanese.

Is that all a call enoughevoked by millions of populacefor a civilian government inSudan: Certainly not. TheChairperson of the 55-memberpan-African UnionCommission, Moussa FakiMahamat, who has been close-ly monitoring the crisis inSudan from the beginning hasexpressed the conviction that“the military takeover is not the

appropriate response to thechallenges facing Sudan andthe aspirations of its people”.

Further, Mahamat recallsthe 2000 Lome Declaration onthe unconstitutional change ofGovernment and the AfricanCharter on Democracy, elec-tions and governance thatstrongly condemn any uncon-stitutional change ofGovernment and commitmember states to the respect ofrule of law, democratic princi-ples and human rights.

While reiterating thesecrucial documents and provi-sions, he is looking forward tomeet the commission’s Peaceand Security Council to take anurgent decision to prevent acatastrophe in the resourcerich African nation.

What the US stated is that

the Sudan’s Army must incor-porate civilians into the newtransitional government andtwo years time for transition istoo long. Robert Palladino, theState Department spokesper-son, said Washington wouldcontinue to “call for thoseresponsible for the horrificcrimes that were committed inDarfur to be held accountablefor those actions” without spec-ifying whether Bashir or Aufshould be extradited in duecourse of time.

Also, the US is publicly air-ing the view that the Sudanesepeople should be given freehand in deciding who willlead them in future and theyare quite clear that they need acivilian administration to cometo Khartoum. British ForeignSecretary Jeremy Hunt made it

clear that military rule is notthe solution and what Sudandemands is a representativegovernment without any delay.

Meanwhile, top most inter-national organisations such asthe European Union and theUN have called for an inclusivegovernment in Sudan that willmeet the democratic aspira-tions of its people. All theseshow that both the interna-tional agencies and respectivenational governments of vari-ous countries simply want apopularly elected governmentin Sudan. It is very clear that noone wants to trust the same oldmilitary generals in a newdesign. Clearly, though militaryswung into action in the nameof preventing chaos, its hiddenintensions are very clear: Theyjust want to cling to the levers

of power so as to save their sta-tus and property. They are notreally interested in bringing ademocratic regime to powersooner or later.

The international commu-nity must keep tabs on thedevelopments in Sudan. TheTransitional Government maybe a grand game plan ofBashir’s cronies to protect theirprivileged access to power andwealth as they want to simplydemonstrate that they do carefor the concerns of the ordinarySudanese. And that’s why theyhave taken over to stop blood-shed. Hence, no one knows thetricks of the canny securocratswho are expert in handlingsuch situations and continue toremain in power for the sake ofstability. What needs to bedone at the moment is that theAfrican Union, along with theUN and the top global players,must first ensure normalcyand then gradually convincethe military to back a civiliangovernment within no time.Else, Sudan may slip into anabyss. This will embolden theextremists and the generals toplay their roles to exploit thecurrent situation. Finally, thecommon people will againcome back to the same irre-versible cycle of pain, poverty,and primarily misrule.

Peace and stability inSudan is crucial to the rest ofNorth Africa as it is borderedby globally significant areas andcountries such as the Red Sea,Egypt, Libya, Chad, CentralAfrican Republic, South Sudan,Ethiopia and Eritrea. Therefore,mismanagement of affairs inSudan might spread like wild-fire to the rest of Africa and cansimply add to the misery of thealready disadvantaged neigh-bours. In fact, Sudan itself issensitive in its ethnic mosaic asit has a large number of diverseethnic groups living across thecountry like Sudanese Arab(approximately 70 per cent),

Fur, Beja, Nuba and Fallata.However, after the separationof South Sudan in 2011, it hasbecome a predominantlyMuslim nation (especiallySunni Muslims), leavingbehind a small Christianminority in Sudan.

Today, Sudan’s economy isin a mess. It has lost most of itsoil reserves, estimated betweenfive and seven billion barrels,after the secession of SouthSudan. And also, its physicalsize has shrunk to the thirdposition, ranked after Algeriaand the Democratic Republicof the Congo. Therefore, inter-national donors and nationssuch as the US must make itclear to Sudanese leadershipthat Bashir’s ouster alone is notsufficient to rescue Sudan fromthe current debt trap.

To jumpstart its sick econ-omy, political stability througha democratic regime asinformed by the Sudanese civilsociety is a must. Washingtoncan make it straight that coun-terterrorism efforts fromKhartoum must continue so asto avail aids from global agen-cies as leaders of Bashir’s staturehad offered safe haven to glob-al jihadists like Osama binLaden in the 1990s.

Hence, the post-BashirSudan is to see that civil andpolitical rights are widelyrespected. A nation in tattersafter long autocratic rule ofBashir sincerely demands bud-getary transparency, end ofcorruption in high publicoffices and the ouster of the oldclusters of the ruling NationalCongress Party from key posi-tions in the country. This willfinally ensure offering breath-ing space to the common peo-ple, indicating political repre-sentation to them, for whichthey are yearning for decades.

(The writer is an expert oninternational affairs)

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dencies?” Well, a Guru doesn’t use a mag-ical wand to change disciple’s mind-traits.He would rather help you remould your-self. He, in the first place, shows a being’smirror image. Second, he triggers a spiri-tual seed in a being, which is there ineverybody, but in large majority lies dor-mant. Third, he offers lessons in how toself-reflect upon the inner frame of mindto explore indwelling thought-seeds thathold the key to inherent habit tendencies.The process helps identify and acknowl-edge one’s fault lines. Following which,one could address them by continuedreflection upon fresh educative inputsprovided either by the Guru himself orphilosophical scriptures. Once the educa-tive inputs get firmly absorbed in themind, they may spontaneously findreflection in our day-to-day conduct. Healso lends assistance in pursuing theprocess in right earnest. In the process,one also becomes aware of indwellingpotentials to further optimise them. Atthe end of the day, however, it all dependson a seeker’s conscious efforts, which isguided by three factors: First, the consul-

tee needs to be receptive enough to lookat the advisory with an open mind, freefrom any preconditioning whatsoever.But for which, he/she may not be able toabsorb them in sense and spirit. Second,the seeker needs to exercise his/her freewill option, an exclusive human preserve,to change his/her thought process. Third,sustained pursuance of the process sug-gested in right earnest.

The paradox, however, is that habittendencies die hard. Given a small trig-ger, they spring out again and again, andmore often to our detriment. So, it is noteasy to change one’s inherent tendencies.Only a resolute person having faith inthe Guru succeeds. What further com-pounds the problem is one’s ahamkara(sense of ego consciousness). It makesyou believe your own personality traits,coming as they may as a reflection ofKarmic carryover from the past, andaccordingly self-defines them as operat-ing principles of individual life.Ahamkara does also get drawn towardstempting influences of the outer worldand makes them the dream destination.In the process, it won’t invoke humanbeing’s empowerment tool, buddhi (thefaculty of discriminate intelligence), for

due diligence. The worst is that caughtup in the usual flow of life, ahamkaradoesn’t allow time and space to explorethe inner frame of mind. Consequently,one fails to dispassionately identify andacknowledge one’s own fault lines, and inmany cases, even one’s indwelling poten-tial. And if you are not aware of yourown self, how can you address the faultlines or optimise the strength potential?

“How is a Guru able to show the dis-ciple’s mirror image,” asked the man.Well, only such people qualify to be aGuru who purifies his/her mind and risesabove all mental and emotional limita-tions. They are able to access full land-scape of their mind. On that strength,they intuitively read a disciple’s mind.Alternatively, astrology can be used as adiagnostic tool to figure out one’s person-ality traits with a fair amount of preci-sion. “Is there any proof of what you havestated,” said the man. Ancient India’slearned masters during deep meditativestate have intuitively discovered the subtlerealities of life that find reflection inphilosophic scriptures. I reflected uponthose learnings for long. And then, usingastrology as a diagnostic tool, I appliedthem on hundreds of people in realterms. The experiences, thus gained,bears testimony to the above facts.

A case in point is that of a youngman who could not relate well to his par-ents and was under tremendous stress.He came seeking guidance. A look at hischart revealed that more than anythingelse, he was himself responsible for hispredicament. The reason: He had aninflated ego, as would 8th aspect of Marson Jupiter may mean. Moon placed inMercury owned Virgo sign, and that tooplaced adverse to Mars and Sun, in thefirst place, brings in a sense of “I am theonly right person syndrome”. He felt thatpeople don’t pay attention to his intelli-gent stand. Second, he wished things hisexclusive ways, and therefore, could notdigest contrarian views, no matter howrelevant they may be. Third, he was tem-peramental, impulsive, hot-headed, andirritable. The Sun opposite mischievousNeptune made him stuck to his fancifuldream perceptions, distanced fromground realities. What further put him atodds with his father was that the Sun wasill-disposed to Saturn. Continued...

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