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CM YK friday, october 27, 2017 Delhi City Edition 36 pages ₹ 10.00 Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow follow us: thehindu.com facebook.com/thehindu twitter.com/the_hindu A new consumer protection law is on the anvil to crack down on misleading advert- isements and simplify the grievance redressal mechan- ism, Prime Minister Naren- dra Modi said on Thursday. He was speaking at the in- auguration of a two-day in- ternational conference on Consumer Protection for East, South, Southeast and Asian nations. Mr. Modi said India’s con- sumer protection traditions dated back 2,500 years. Laws existed even in the Vedic period to prevent un- fair trade practices and adul- teration of products, he said. Extolling the virtues of the new Goods and Services Tax (GST), Mr. Modi said it was one of the key consumer- friendly reforms that his gov- ernment had introduced. The GST would benefit con- sumers in the long run as prices would come down be- cause of competition among manufacturers, he said. Consumers can no longer be cheated as they can see on receipts the tax they are paying, Mr. Modi said. “Today, we are in the pro- cess of enacting a new Con- sumer Protection Act, keep- ing in view business practices and requirements of the country. The pro- posed Act lays great em- phasis on consumer em- powerment,” he said. The new law will replace the Consumer Protection Act, 1986, and is in line with the revised UN guidelines on consumer protection. It is currently with the Cabinet Secretariat and will be placed before the Cabinet for consideration soon, the Prime Minister said. Govt. working on tougher consumer protection law Laws existed even in Vedic period against unfair trade, says PM Special Correspondent New Delhi Talking tough: PM Narendra Modi speaking at a conference on consumer protection in New Delhi on Thursday. * V. SUDERSHAN CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 Yogi visits Taj, calls it a gem and an integral part of Indian culture page 7 Defence Minister takes note of key shortfalls in the Navy page 11 Pakistan court issues arrest warrant for former PM Nawaz Sharif page 12 Venus stuns Muguruza, makes it to the seminals page 17 FRIDAY REVIEW 12 PAGES (TABLOID) DELHI METRO 6 PAGES NEARBY Close call: A massive re broke out in the Behrampada slums outside the Bandra railway station in Mumbai on Thursday, during a demolition drive. No casualties were reported in the blaze, which was brought under control by re services personnel after six hours. * VIJAY BATE CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Scorched earth In one of his sharpest attacks on the Modi government’s economic decisions, Con- gress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said demonetisation and GST were like a com- mando-style “double tap” killing the Indian economy. GST had unleashed a tsunami of tax terrorism, he said, assuring industry that his party stands for “reform- ing, changing and simplify- ing the GST.” Speaking on Thursday at the 112th annual session of the PHD Chamber of Com- merce, an industry body in north India, Mr. Gandhi said, “Commandos in a host- age situation fire what is called a ‘double tap’ — two quick shots in the chest to ensure that their target is down, is dead. Modiji and his government have fired a double tap at the heart of our economy. First ‘note- bandi’ (demonetisation), bang! and then GST, bang! has crippled our economy.” Describing the note ban as a “Modi Made Disaster,” he said the PM was “person- ally responsible for wiping out 86% of the cash and used his vast powers to un- leash terror on citizens.” Note ban, GST ‘double tap’ killed economy: Rahul Congress leader says GST has unleashed tax terrorism Sandeep Phukan New Delhi Rahul Gandhi at the PHD Chamber’s annual session in Delhi on Thursday. * PTI I AM A BLACK BELT IN AIKIDO, SAYS RAHUL PAGE 10 CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 The Centre has instructed the States not to deny PDS benefits to any person who does not have Aadhaar or has not linked the ration card to the 12-digit biomet- ric identifier, and warned them of strict action for viol- ations. It also asked the States not to delete eligible households from the list of beneficiaries for non-pos- session of Aadhaar. The instruction was is- sued this week to all the States, after an 11-year-old Jharkhand girl allegedly died of starvation recently after she was denied PDS ra- tions. In the directive, the Union Food Ministry clari- fied that deletion from the ration card database could happen only after a proper verification of the ration card holder establishes “beyond reasonable doubt” that an entry pertaining to the said ration card holder is not genuine. State field functionaries have been asked to ensure that beneficiaries are not turned away for non-posses- sion of Aadhaar, and all ex- ceptions in this regard are recorded in a separate logbook. ‘Don’t deny food items for lack of Aadhaar’ Centre issues instruction to all States PRESS TRUST OF INDIA NEW DELHI CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 The charge sheet filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday against Zakir Abdul Karim Naik, founder of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), says he deliberately and ma- liciously insulted the reli- gious beliefs of Hindus, Christians and non-Wahabi Muslims. The investigation has re- vealed that there are 19 im- movable properties, includ- ing land and buildings, worth ₹104 crore, connected with Dr. Naik. The chargesheet, filed in the NIA court, will pave the way for agencies procuring a Red Corner Notice against Dr. Naik, who has been elusive and has refused to come to India to cooperate with in- vestigating agencies. The chargesheet men- tions a speech given by Dr. Naik in September 2012 dur- ing the Ganapati festival, and another speech in Srinagar that was uploaded to his Facebook account by the IRF. The chargesheet says that nine speeches and/or utter- ings, in particular, were found to be inflammatory as they hurt the religious senti- ments besides inciting viol- ence. Dr. Naik, along with the IRF and Harmony Media Private Limited have been charged under several sec- tions of the Indian Penal Code, and Section 10 (pen- alty for being member of an unlawful association) of the Unlawful Activities Preven- tion Act. The chargesheet says in- vestigations had established that Dr. Naik and his associ- ates have been promoting enmity and hatred between religious groups in India and initiating Muslim youth and terrorists in India and abroad to commit unlawful activities and terrorist acts. These activities are causing disaffection against the Gov- ernment of India, are preju- dicial to the harmony amongst communities and likely to disturb tranquility, it adds. The investigation estab- lishes that incriminating public speeches have been in circulation through elec- tronic media,and have been, and continue to be seen, across the world. The minutes of the IRF’s Board of Trustees’ meetings disclose that the IRF had approved, organised, promoted and funded public lectures of Dr. Naik, including his incrimin- ating speeches, the chargesheet says. Seized ma- terial such as DVD and books list the IRF as the publisher. Clean chit to sister The agency gives a clean chit to Nailah Naushad Noorani, sister of Dr. Naik, who was a trustee of the IRF Educa- tional Trust along with him. When Dr. Naik became a Non-Resident Indian in 2013, he appointed Ms. Noorani as the director in Harmony Me- dian as well as Longlast Con- structions Company, in his place. But it was found that she was director on paper only — all the affairs of com- panies were handled by her brother. She signed the cheques on his instruction and had no knowledge of the com- pany affairs. Furthermore, she received ₹29 crore from Dr. Naik through her par- ents’ bank account between 2013 and 2016. This money was further invested in Har- mony Media and Longlast Constructions company as per Dr. Naik’s instructions, the charge sheet says. Naik maliciously insulted religious beliefs: NIA Agency les charge sheet, highlights nine inammatory speeches Sonam Saigal Mumbai Dr. Zakir Naik. * DEEPAK SALVI The Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday arrested five youth for the assault on a Swiss couple at Fatehpur Sikri near Agra. The tourists were stalked and harassed by local youth before being bru- tally assaulted with stones and sticks on October 22. Shifted to Delhi Quentin Jeremy Clerc and his partner Marie Droz, both in their twenties, sustained severe injuries in the attack and were shifted to the In- draprastha Apollo Hospital in Delhi after being taken to a PHC and then a govern- ment hospital in Agra. Mr. Clerc suffered a frac- tured skull while Ms. Droz had a broken arm and many bruises. According to the doctor treating them, their condition is stable. Dr. Rajendra Prasad, senior consultant neurosur- geon, said, “Mr. Clerc came in with extensive injury to his skull. He had a fracture and blood clots. His nerve leading to the ear has sus- tained injury causing hear- ing loss. He was put in the in- tensive care unit and was later shifted out after his condition stabilised. Ms. Droz had a fracture on her forearm which was attended to.” “They just want to be left alone and are not ready to speak to the media just yet. All they want right now is to recover soon and leave,” said hospital official. Unprovoked attack The five youth, who har- assed and assaulted the couple, had allegedly tried to strike up a conversation and insisted on clicking selfies with the woman. After a set of intrusive ques- tions, the accused surroun- ded them and assaulted Mr. Clerc with stones and sticks. Ms. Droz was attacked when she came to his defence. Police said they were in- formed of the incident through an emergency 100 alert by a local person. After the victims communicated to the police their ‘refusal’ to lodge an FIR, the police filed a non-cognizable report suo motu, U.P. Additional Dir- ector General of Police, Crime, Chandra Prakash, said. U.P. Secretary (Home) Bhagwan Swarup said five people were found to be in- volved in the incident. “All five have been arrested/ap- prehended... two appear be major and the rest minors,” he said in a statement. Sushma seeks report External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has sought a report from the State govern- ment and directed officials of the MEA to meet the vic- tims in the hospital. Minister writes to CM The attack could have a neg- ative impact on the image of the country, Union Minister of State for Tourism K.J. Al- phons said in a letter to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Meanwhile, CPI(M) polit- buro member Brinda Karat has written to the Swiss Am- bassador Andreas Baum, saying the “shocking and horrifying” attack on two Swiss nationals in Agra was “extremely shameful” for In- dians. Five arrested for attack on Swiss couple in Agra The tourists were stalked and harassed by local youth before being brutally assaulted with stones and sticks Special correspondent LUCKNOW/delhi The Delhi High Court on Thursday rejected Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sub- ramanian Swamy’s plea seeking a court-monitored SIT probe into the death of Congress MP Shashi Thar- oor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar, terming his PIL as a “text- book example of a political interest litigation”. A Bench of Justices S. Muralidhar and I.S. Mehta said the petition made “sweeping allegations” against Mr. Tharoor and the Delhi Police without giving any basis for these accusations. Pushkar was found dead under mysterious circum- stances in a suite of a five- star hotel in Delhi on the night of January 17, 2014. Mr. Swamy, in his plea, had alleged that the police had “botched up” the probe and accused the Congress leader of “interfering” in the investigation now and even earlier when he was a Minis- ter in the UPA regime. The Centre and Delhi Po- lice, represented by Addi- tional Solicitor General San- jay Jain, told the Bench that they “do not subscribe to Swamy’s view” that the probe was being influenced by Mr. Tharoor. PRESS TRUST OF INDIA NEW DELHI HC no to SIT probe into Pushkar’s death Rajasthan passes Bill to hike OBC quota JAIPUR The Rajasthan Assembly on Thursday passed a Bill which has increased reservation for Other Backward Classes in government jobs and educational institutions from 21% to 26%. NATION PAGE 6 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD U.P. man arrested for journalist’s murder CHANDIGARH The Punjab police on Thursday claimed a breakthrough in the murder of senior journalist K.J. Singh and his mother Gurcharan Kaur at their residence in Mohali last month with the arrest of a man from Uttar Pradesh. NATION PAGE 6 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Abdul Karim Telgi, con- victed for masterminding the multi-crore fake stamp paper racket that had na- tionwide ramifications, died at Victoria Hospital here on Thursday. The 56-year-old was ad- mitted to the hospital 10 days ago with meningitis. “He suffered a massive car- diac arrest and...we could not revive him,” S. Balaji Pai, special officer, Trauma Care Centre, Victoria Hospital, said. He was declared dead at 3.55 p.m. Telgi, a school dropout, was a small-town youth from Khanapur in Belagavi, who sold peanuts at rail- ways stations in the 1980s to make a living. Counterfeiter Abdul Karim Telgi dead Involved in fake stamp paper racket Special Correspondent Bengaluru Abdul Karim Telgi LIFE AND CRIMES PAGE 7 CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 A day after a 34-year-old woman was allegedly shot dead by “two armed assail- ants” in front of her hus- band and two-year-old son in Rohini, the police have arrested the victim’s spouse for the crime. The police said Pankaj Mehra on Thursday con- fessed to killing his wife Priya. New twist The development turned out to be quite a twist in the case as the accused had initially claimed that his family was attacked by two men, who shot and killed his wife. He had also raised suspi- cions that the alleged at- tackers were sent by a moneylender to whom he owed a substantial sum of money. Man held for wife’s murder in Rohini Hemani Bhandari new delhi DETAILS ON DELHI METRO PAGE 1 Boy dies after scue with classmates NEW DELHI A 14-year-old boy died allegedly after a scue broke out between him and four of his classmates at a private school on Thursday morning in north-east Delhi’s Karawal Nagar. The police have apprehended a minor. DELHI METRO PAGE 1 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD https://thehinduzone.blogspot.com/ https://t.me/pdf4exams

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CMYK

friday, october 27, 2017 Delhi

City Edition

36 pages O ₹10.00

Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow

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facebook.com/thehindu

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A new consumer protectionlaw is on the anvil to crackdown on misleading advert-isements and simplify thegrievance redressal mechan-ism, Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi said on Thursday.He was speaking at the in-auguration of a two-day in-ternational conference onConsumer Protection forEast, South, Southeast andAsian nations.

Mr. Modi said India’s con-sumer protection traditionsdated back 2,500 years.Laws existed even in theVedic period to prevent un-fair trade practices and adul-teration of products, he said.

Extolling the virtues of the

new Goods and Services Tax(GST), Mr. Modi said it wasone of the key consumer-friendly reforms that his gov-ernment had introduced.The GST would benefit con-

sumers in the long run asprices would come down be-cause of competition amongmanufacturers, he said.

Consumers can no longerbe cheated as they can see

on receipts the tax they arepaying, Mr. Modi said.

“Today, we are in the pro-cess of enacting a new Con-sumer Protection Act, keep-ing in view businesspractices and requirementsof the country. The pro-posed Act lays great em-phasis on consumer em-powerment,” he said.

The new law will replacethe Consumer ProtectionAct, 1986, and is in line withthe revised UN guidelines onconsumer protection. It iscurrently with the CabinetSecretariat and will beplaced before the Cabinet forconsideration soon, thePrime Minister said.

Govt. working on tougherconsumer protection law Laws existed even in Vedic period against unfair trade, says PM

Special Correspondent

New Delhi

Talking tough: PM Narendra Modi speaking at a conference onconsumer protection in New Delhi on Thursday. * V. SUDERSHAN

CONTINUED ON A PAGE 10

Yogi visits Taj, calls it

a gem and an integral

part of Indian culture

page 7

Defence Minister takes

note of key shortfalls

in the Navy

page 11

Pakistan court issues

arrest warrant for

former PM Nawaz Sharif

page 12

Venus stuns Muguruza,

makes it to the

semi�nals

page 17

FRIDAY REVIEW A 12 PAGES

(TABLOID)

DELHI METRO A 6 PAGES

NEARBY

Close call: A massive �re broke out in the Behrampada slums outside the Bandra railway stationin Mumbai on Thursday, during a demolition drive. No casualties were reported in the blaze,which was brought under control by �re services personnel after six hours. * VIJAY BATE

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Scorched earth

In one of his sharpest attackson the Modi government’seconomic decisions, Con-gress vice-president RahulGandhi said demonetisationand GST were like a com-mando-style “double tap”killing the Indian economy.GST had unleashed atsunami of tax terrorism, hesaid, assuring industry thathis party stands for “reform-ing, changing and simplify-ing the GST.”

Speaking on Thursday atthe 112th annual session ofthe PHD Chamber of Com-

merce, an industry body innorth India, Mr. Gandhisaid, “Commandos in a host-age situation fire what iscalled a ‘double tap’ — twoquick shots in the chest to

ensure that their target isdown, is dead. Modiji andhis government have fired adouble tap at the heart ofour economy. First ‘note-bandi’ (demonetisation),bang! and then GST, bang!has crippled our economy.”

Describing the note banas a “Modi Made Disaster,”he said the PM was “person-ally responsible for wipingout 86% of the cash andused his vast powers to un-leash terror on citizens.”

Note ban, GST ‘double tap’killed economy: Rahul Congress leader says GST has unleashed tax terrorism

Sandeep Phukan

New Delhi

Rahul Gandhi at the PHDChamber’s annual session in Delhi on Thursday. * PTI

I AM A BLACK BELT IN AIKIDO,

SAYS RAHUL A PAGE 10

CONTINUED ON A PAGE 10

The Centre has instructedthe States not to deny PDSbenefits to any person whodoes not have Aadhaar orhas not linked the rationcard to the 12-digit biomet-ric identifier, and warnedthem of strict action for viol-ations. It also asked theStates not to delete eligiblehouseholds from the list ofbeneficiaries for non-pos-session of Aadhaar.

The instruction was is-sued this week to all theStates, after an 11-year-oldJharkhand girl allegedlydied of starvation recentlyafter she was denied PDS ra-

tions. In the directive, theUnion Food Ministry clari-fied that deletion from theration card database couldhappen only after a properverification of the rationcard holder establishes“beyond reasonable doubt”that an entry pertaining tothe said ration card holderis not genuine.

State field functionarieshave been asked to ensurethat beneficiaries are notturned away for non-posses-sion of Aadhaar, and all ex-ceptions in this regard arerecorded in a separatelogbook.

‘Don’t deny food itemsfor lack of Aadhaar’ Centre issues instruction to all States

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

NEW DELHI

CONTINUED ON A PAGE 10

The charge sheet filed by theNational InvestigationAgency (NIA) on Thursdayagainst Zakir Abdul KarimNaik, founder of the IslamicResearch Foundation (IRF),says he deliberately and ma-liciously insulted the reli-gious beliefs of Hindus,Christians and non-WahabiMuslims.

The investigation has re-vealed that there are 19 im-movable properties, includ-ing land and buildings,worth ₹104 crore, connectedwith Dr. Naik. Thechargesheet, filed in the NIAcourt, will pave the way foragencies procuring a RedCorner Notice against Dr.Naik, who has been elusiveand has refused to come toIndia to cooperate with in-vestigating agencies.

The chargesheet men-tions a speech given by Dr.Naik in September 2012 dur-ing the Ganapati festival, andanother speech in Srinagar

that was uploaded to hisFacebook account by theIRF.

The chargesheet says thatnine speeches and/or utter-ings, in particular, werefound to be inflammatory asthey hurt the religious senti-ments besides inciting viol-ence. Dr. Naik, along withthe IRF and Harmony MediaPrivate Limited have beencharged under several sec-tions of the Indian PenalCode, and Section 10 (pen-alty for being member of anunlawful association) of theUnlawful Activities Preven-tion Act.

The chargesheet says in-

vestigations had establishedthat Dr. Naik and his associ-ates have been promotingenmity and hatred betweenreligious groups in India andinitiating Muslim youth andterrorists in India andabroad to commit unlawfulactivities and terrorist acts.These activities are causingdisaffection against the Gov-ernment of India, are preju-dicial to the harmonyamongst communities andlikely to disturb tranquility,it adds.

The investigation estab-lishes that incriminatingpublic speeches have beenin circulation through elec-tronic media,and have been,and continue to be seen,across the world. Theminutes of the IRF’s Board ofTrustees’ meetings disclosethat the IRF had approved,organised, promoted andfunded public lectures of Dr.Naik, including his incrimin-ating speeches, thechargesheet says. Seized ma-terial such as DVD and books

list the IRF as the publisher.

Clean chit to sisterThe agency gives a clean chitto Nailah Naushad Noorani,sister of Dr. Naik, who was atrustee of the IRF Educa-tional Trust along with him.When Dr. Naik became aNon-Resident Indian in 2013,he appointed Ms. Noorani asthe director in Harmony Me-dian as well as Longlast Con-structions Company, in hisplace. But it was found thatshe was director on paperonly — all the affairs of com-panies were handled by herbrother.

She signed the chequeson his instruction and hadno knowledge of the com-pany affairs. Furthermore,she received ₹29 crore fromDr. Naik through her par-ents’ bank account between2013 and 2016. This moneywas further invested in Har-mony Media and LonglastConstructions company asper Dr. Naik’s instructions,the charge sheet says.

Naik maliciously insulted religious beliefs: NIAAgency �les charge sheet, highlights nine in�ammatory speeches

Sonam Saigal

Mumbai

Dr. Zakir Naik. * DEEPAK SALVI

The Uttar Pradesh police onThursday arrested five youthfor the assault on a Swisscouple at Fatehpur Sikrinear Agra. The tourists werestalked and harassed bylocal youth before being bru-tally assaulted with stonesand sticks on October 22.

Shifted to DelhiQuentin Jeremy Clerc andhis partner Marie Droz, bothin their twenties, sustainedsevere injuries in the attackand were shifted to the In-draprastha Apollo Hospitalin Delhi after being taken toa PHC and then a govern-

ment hospital in Agra. Mr. Clerc suffered a frac-

tured skull while Ms. Drozhad a broken arm and manybruises. According to thedoctor treating them, theircondition is stable.

Dr. Rajendra Prasad,senior consultant neurosur-geon, said, “Mr. Clerc camein with extensive injury tohis skull. He had a fractureand blood clots. His nerveleading to the ear has sus-tained injury causing hear-ing loss. He was put in the in-tensive care unit and waslater shifted out after hiscondition stabilised. Ms.Droz had a fracture on herforearm which was attendedto.”

“They just want to be leftalone and are not ready tospeak to the media just yet.All they want right now is torecover soon and leave,” saidhospital official.

Unprovoked attackThe five youth, who har-assed and assaulted thecouple, had allegedly triedto strike up a conversationand insisted on clickingselfies with the woman.After a set of intrusive ques-tions, the accused surroun-ded them and assaulted Mr.Clerc with stones and sticks.Ms. Droz was attacked whenshe came to his defence.

Police said they were in-formed of the incident

through an emergency 100alert by a local person. Afterthe victims communicatedto the police their ‘refusal’ tolodge an FIR, the police fileda non-cognizable report suomotu, U.P. Additional Dir-ector General of Police,Crime, Chandra Prakash,said.

U.P. Secretary (Home)Bhagwan Swarup said fivepeople were found to be in-volved in the incident. “Allfive have been arrested/ap-prehended... two appear bemajor and the rest minors,”he said in a statement.

Sushma seeks reportExternal Affairs MinisterSushma Swaraj has sought a

report from the State govern-ment and directed officialsof the MEA to meet the vic-tims in the hospital.

Minister writes to CMThe attack could have a neg-ative impact on the image ofthe country, Union Ministerof State for Tourism K.J. Al-phons said in a letter to UttarPradesh Chief Minister YogiAdityanath.

Meanwhile, CPI(M) polit-buro member Brinda Karathas written to the Swiss Am-bassador Andreas Baum,saying the “shocking andhorrifying” attack on twoSwiss nationals in Agra was“extremely shameful” for In-dians.

Five arrested for attack on Swiss couple in AgraThe tourists were stalked and harassed by local youth before being brutally assaulted with stones and sticks

Special correspondent

LUCKNOW/delhi

The Delhi High Court onThursday rejected BharatiyaJanata Party leader Sub-ramanian Swamy’s pleaseeking a court-monitoredSIT probe into the death ofCongress MP Shashi Thar-oor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar,terming his PIL as a “text-book example of a politicalinterest litigation”.

A Bench of Justices S.

Muralidhar and I.S. Mehtasaid the petition made“sweeping allegations”against Mr. Tharoor and theDelhi Police without givingany basis for theseaccusations.

Pushkar was found deadunder mysterious circum-stances in a suite of a five-star hotel in Delhi on thenight of January 17, 2014.

Mr. Swamy, in his plea,had alleged that the police

had “botched up” the probeand accused the Congressleader of “interfering” in theinvestigation now and evenearlier when he was a Minis-ter in the UPA regime.

The Centre and Delhi Po-lice, represented by Addi-tional Solicitor General San-jay Jain, told the Bench thatthey “do not subscribe toSwamy’s view” that theprobe was being influencedby Mr. Tharoor.

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

NEW DELHI

HC no to SIT probe into Pushkar’s death

Rajasthan passes Bill to hike OBC quotaJAIPUR

The Rajasthan Assembly on

Thursday passed a Bill which

has increased reservation for

Other Backward Classes in

government jobs and

educational institutions from

21% to 26%.

NATION A PAGE 6 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

U.P. man arrested forjournalist’s murderCHANDIGARH

The Punjab police on

Thursday claimed a

breakthrough in the murder

of senior journalist K.J. Singh

and his mother Gurcharan

Kaur at their residence in

Mohali last month with the

arrest of a man from Uttar

Pradesh.

NATION A PAGE 6DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Abdul Karim Telgi, con-victed for mastermindingthe multi-crore fake stamppaper racket that had na-tionwide ramifications, diedat Victoria Hospital here onThursday.

The 56-year-old was ad-mitted to the hospital 10days ago with meningitis.“He suffered a massive car-diac arrest and...we couldnot revive him,” S. Balaji Pai,special officer, Trauma CareCentre, Victoria Hospital,said. He was declared deadat 3.55 p.m.

Telgi, a school dropout,

was a small-town youthfrom Khanapur in Belagavi,who sold peanuts at rail-ways stations in the 1980s tomake a living.

Counterfeiter AbdulKarim Telgi deadInvolved in fake stamp paper racket

Special Correspondent

Bengaluru

Abdul Karim Telgi

LIFE AND CRIMES A PAGE 7

CONTINUED ON A PAGE 10

A day after a 34-year-oldwoman was allegedly shotdead by “two armed assail-ants” in front of her hus-band and two-year-old sonin Rohini, the police havearrested the victim’sspouse for the crime.

The police said PankajMehra on Thursday con-fessed to killing his wifePriya.

New twistThe development turnedout to be quite a twist inthe case as the accused hadinitially claimed that hisfamily was attacked by twomen, who shot and killedhis wife.

He had also raised suspi-cions that the alleged at-tackers were sent by amoneylender to whom heowed a substantial sum ofmoney.

Man held forwife’s murderin Rohini

Hemani Bhandari

new delhi

DETAILS ON A DELHI METRO PAGE 1

Boy dies after scu�ewith classmatesNEW DELHI

A 14-year-old boy died

allegedly after a scu�e broke

out between him and four of

his classmates at a private

school on Thursday morning

in north-east Delhi’s Karawal

Nagar. The police have

apprehended a minor.

DELHI METRO A PAGE 1 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

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The Centre has handed overthe murder case of All BodoMinority Students’ Union(ABMSU) president LafikulIslam to the Central Bureauof Investigation (CBI), evenas the union staged protestsin Kokrajhar on Thursdaydemanding immediate arrestof the killers.

The move to hand overthe case to the CBI followeda request from the Assamgovernment to the Centre. Anotification in this regardwas issued by the Centre onWednesday, a State govern-

ment release said.“Though a CBI investiga-

tion is most welcome, theprobe should have begunearlier,” ABMSU general sec-retary ShahkamalKhandakar said.

Protest ralliesSupporters of the union tookout protest rallies in Kokra-jhar on Thursday carryingplacards and demanding thearrest of Lafikul Islam’skillers, Mr. Khandakar said.

The Government RailwayPolice and the police saidABMSU supporters attemp-ted to put up rail blockades

at Kokrajhar and Salakati butthey were foiled.

“Since August, we havebeen demanding a CBI in-quiry and had met ChiefMinister SarbanandaSonowal several times. Heassured us of a CBI probe,”Mr. Khandakar said.

SIT constitutedHowever, the Chief Ministerhad said at the time that asthe process could take sometime, a special investigationteam (SIT), constituted bythe State government, wouldcarry forward the probe inthe interim, Mr. Khandakar

added.The ABMSU general sec-

retary said they had not re-ceived any official commu-nication about the CBIinquiry from the Stategovernment.

Lafikul Islam was killed byunidentified miscreants atTitaguri market in Kokrajhardistrict on August 1 this year.

The Assam governmenthad constituted a SIT headedby Inspector General of Po-lice Anurag Tankha to in-quire into the murder, andhad provided ex gratia reliefof ₹5 lakh to the next of kinof the slain ABMSU leader.

CBI takes over probe into Assamminority leader’s murder caseLa�kul Islam was killed by unidenti�ed miscreants in Kokrajhar district on Aug. 1

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A woman allegedly tried tomurder her own grand-father with the support ofher husband in Ganjam dis-trict of Odisha. An FIR wasfiled in this regard at theBhanjanagar police stationon Thursday.

The victim, GadadharSwain (60), was found bythe side of the road nearKodanda square underBhanjanagar police stationin an injured state on Wed-nesday night. He allegedthat he had been thrown outof a running car by hisgranddaughter, LaxmiSwain, and her husbandTulu Tarini.

Land documentsHe also alleged that hisgranddaughter and her hus-band have taken away hisland documents, bank pass-

book, ATM card and₹10,000. Mr. Swain has beenadmitted to the Bhanjanagarsub-divisional hospital.

Inspector in-charge ofBhanjanagar police stationAswini Kumar Sahu saidbased on the complaint ofthe victim, a case under Sec-tion 307 of the IPC has beenregistered and an investiga-tion has begun. A policeteam was sent to the villageof the victim as well as thatof the absconding couple.

Mr. Swain has been livingwith his daughter and herfamily in Rajpandu villagesince the death of his wife.Suffering from an eye prob-lem lately, he was visited byLaxmi (his son’s daughter)and her husband on Wed-nesday. The duo offered totake him away for bettermedical treatment and al-legedly pushed him off thecar en route to the hospital.

60-year-old man thrownout of running carStaff Reporter

BERHAMPUR

Arunachal Pradesh ChiefMinister Pema Khandu onThursday expressed concernover meagre allocation tothe North Eastern Council(NEC) and said less alloca-tion will make the council

fall short of serving anypurpose.

Pressing issues Mr. Khandu during a meet-ing with NEC secretary RamMuivah here discussed sev-eral pressing issues regard-ing the council that require

sources made available withthat of the aspiration of theconstituent States, the ChiefMinister informed that de-mand for funds from con-stituent States each year hasincreased and that stood atan average of ₹4800 croreannually.

urgent attention, an officialcommunique said.

The NEC allocation sub-stantially decreased from9th Five Year Plan onwardsand since then has remainedstagnant.

Pointing out the large gaparising due to meagre re-

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All roads in the city led to themighty Ganga on Thursdayas hundred of thousands ofpeople made a beeline to themyriad ghats, all sparklingclean and decked up to re-ceive devotees taking part inthe Chhath Puja.

Patna roads, otherwise no-torious for huge traffic snarls,sported a different look onThursday as cars, bikes andother modes of transportgave way to devotees walkingon foot and carrying“kalsoops” (wicker baskets)on their heads containing of-ferings to be made to the Sungod.

The more enthusiasticones went through the ardu-ous ritual of prostrating onthe ground after every singlestep while undertaking thejourney to the ghats wherepeople, cutting across socialbackgrounds, converged tooffer “Arghya” to the “As-taachal Surya” (setting sun).

The fervour that had star-ted building up with “NahaiKhai” on Tuesday, followedby “Kharna” the next day, hita crescendo on Thursday asthe “Chhath vratees”, whoobserve a rigorous 36-hourfast and refuse to take even asip of water, made their jour-ney to the ghats singinghymns in praise of the Sungod in local dialects such asBhojpuri, Maithili and

Magahi. The festivities willconclude on Friday when thedevotees reconverge on thebanks of the Ganges, stand-ing in waist-deep water, andoffer “Arghya” to the risingsun.

The “Chhath vratees”thereafter break their fastconsuming “prasad” offeredto “Chhathi Maiya”, the mainitem being “thekua” — a pan-cake made of wheat flour,shredded coconuts and jag-gery. Chief Minister NitishKumar, who is known to tourghats on the evening “Ar-ghya” days, has chosen theNasriganj Ghat at Danapurthis year. “Kharna Prasad”was also distributed at his of-ficial residence on Wednes-day night.

Mr. Kumar’s deputy SushilKumar Modi and acting pres-

ident of the state CongressKaukab Qadri too undertookdistribution of “kalsoops”,coconuts, incense sticks andother items that are used inthe puja.

Preparations have beenunderway for the mammothgathering since last weekendwhen the Chief Minister andDeputy Chief Minister heldseparate inspections of thenumerous ghats in Patna andthe satellite township ofDanapur and gave instruc-tions to officials for sprucingup the arrangements.

Mr. Kumar laid special em-phasis on ensuring safetyand security at the ghats. Mr.Modi said that the Bihar gov-ernment is treating the festiv-ities as a “state event” and ar-rangements have been madeaccordingly.

Chhath fever hits crescendo in Bihar capital

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PATNA

Religious fervour: Devotees o�ering Chhath prayers at a Gangaghat in Patna on Thursday. * RANJEET KUMAR

All roads lead to the Ganga

Half-a-dozen writ petitionschallenging the controversialordinance that extends pro-tection to public servantsagainst investigation willcome up for hearing in theRajasthan High Court onFriday.

The Criminal Laws (Ra-jasthan Amendment) Ordin-ance, 2017, promulgated onSeptember 6, has providedimmunity to public servants,judges and magistrates fromprobe and prosecutionwithout prior sanction.

While State Congresspresident Sachin Pilot andthe People’s Union for CivilLiberties (PUCL) moved theirpetitions in the High Court’sJaipur Bench on Thursday,some activists and lawyersfiled public interest litigationpleas after the State govern-ment tabled a Bill to replacethe ordinance in the As-sembly on Monday.

As the Bill has since beenreferred to a select commit-

tee of the Assembly for its re-consideration, the ordinanceremains in force for sixweeks. All the writ petitionshave sought striking down ofthe ordinance with the con-tention that it infringes uponthe constitutional rights ofcitizens and will encouragecorruption.

Mr. Pilot argued in his pe-tition that the ordinance vi-olated Article 14 (equality be-

fore law) and Article 19 (1) (a)(freedom of speech and ex-pression) of the Constitutionby curtailing the powers ofcourts to order investigationon complaints made againstpublic servants.

New provisionThe new provision for pun-ishment for disclosure ofpublic servants’ identity un-til the sanction for investiga-

tion and prosecution wasgiven, by inserting Section228-B in the Indian PenalCode, restricted the freedomof media to report on accus-ations and amounted to viol-ation of the right to freespeech, stated the petition.

In addition to the legalbattle, the Opposition Con-gress will continue its agita-tion against the Bill’s refer-ence to the select panelrather than its “completewithdrawal”. “The intent ofthe government is suspect.Sending the Bill to the com-mittee was a face savingmeasure. Does the govern-ment want to protect certainindividuals even after the en-tire Opposition and journal-ists have risen against itsmove?” said Mr. Pilot.

However, Aam AadmiParty’s legal cell head Poo-nam Chand Bhandari allegedthat Mr. Pilot had filed thepetition “in haste” to takeaway credit from the AAP,which had challenged the or-dinance on Monday.

Rajasthan High Court to hearpleas against ordinance today Parties, activists say it infringes upon the constitutional rights of citizens

As the Bill has been referred to a select committee of the Assembly,

the ordinance remains in force for six weeks. * FILE PHOTO

Special Correspondent

JAIPUR

The Madhya Pradesh gov-ernment has directedschool authorities not toask the name of the biolo-gical father if the child of arape survivor seeksadmission.

Following a recom-mendation of the MadhyaPradesh Human RightsCommission, the SchoolEducation Department haswritten to district collect-ors, asking them to conveythis directive to the schoolsin their jurisdiction.

“The MPHRC has madea recommendation and wealso believe that this wasnecessary for protectingthe dignity of a rape sur-vivor who is a single par-ent. So the School Educa-tion Department hasdecided that schools — gov-ernment or private —would not ask the name ofthe biological father of arape survivor’s child,” saidMinister of State for SchoolEducation Deepak Joshi.

District Collectors wouldensure the implementationof this instruction, headded.

“As a society, we need toprotect the dignity andconfidentiality of a rapevictim who has to gothrough an intense mentalagony...,” the Minister said.

M.P. salve for rapesurvivors PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Bhopal

PM to address IASprobationersDEHRADUN

Prime Minister Narendra

Modi will address IAS

probationers at Mussoorie’s

prestigious Lal Bahadur

Shastri National Academy of

Administration and give them

tips on effective

administration on Friday,

officials said. On the second

day of his Uttarakhand visit,

Mr. Modi will also take part in

a yoga session with the

probationers, they said. PTI

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Man stabbed todeath in Batala BATALA

A 30-year-old man was

stabbed to death allegedly by

a group of people over an

enmity at the Pandiya chowk

area here, the police said on

Thursday. Manmohan Singh

was killed in the incident that

took place on Wednesday

night in the densely-

populated area of the town,

they said. PTI

Balloons with “I LovePakistan” imprinted onthem being sold at a shop

here have been seized andtwo persons detained inconnection with it, the po-lice said on Thursday. A raidwas carried out in Govind

Nagar and packets of bal-loons with imprints of “ILove Pakistan” and “Habibi”were seized from a vendor, ,they said.

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Kanpur

Balloons with ‘I love Pakistan’ seized in Kanpur

More than 450 cartons ofliquor were seized and fourpeople arrested from twodistricts of Bihar. While atruck carrying 329 cartonsof liquor bottles was seizedfrom Sonepur in Saran dis-trict, in Vaishali, 135 car-tons of liquor bottles wererecovered from a vehicle.

Liquor seized

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Mysuru to host Janaki’slast public concertBENGALURU

Legendary playback singer

S. Janaki will enthral

connoisseurs of music on

October 28 at the open air

auditorium of Manasa

Gangotri in Mysuru in what

will be her last public

concert. She announced her

decision to stop accepting

new assignments in

September 2016. “She is

performing to honour an old

commitment,” said S. Murali

Krishna, son of Ms. Janaki.

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Hyderabad to host 20thchildren’s film fest HYDERABAD

Hyderabad will be the venue

for the 20th International

Children’s Film Festival, to be

held from November 8 to 14.

It will be jointly organised by

the Children’s Film Society of

India, the Ministry of

Information and Broadcasting

and the Telangana State Film

Development Corporation.

Faced with a controversy,the CPI(M) has started fire-fighting by trying to find outhow party Kerala secretaryKodiyeri Balakrishnan wasmade to travel in an openluxury car owned by ahawala-tainted person dur-ing his ‘Janajagratha Yatra’ atKoduvally on Wednesday.

Party sources said lack ofadequate caution on theirside landed the party and itssecretary in a row, whichcould have been avoided.However, they said vigilwould be exercised to ensurethat such embarrassmentsdo not recur.

‘Party will probe’Mr. Balakrishnan denied thathe was aware of the owner-ship of the car he usedbriefly during his yatra atKoduvally. He said the partywould investigate how the

car — belonging to a taintedman — was used for his yatra.

A controversy erupted onWednesday when Mr. Bal-akrishnan used a MiniCooper convertible ownedby Karat Faizal, a young busi-nessman and municipalcouncillor who had been ac-cused of gold smuggling andhawala operations on a largescale.

Mr. Balakrishnan travelled

in Mr. Faizal’s car along theMarket Road, Koduvally, onWednesday.

Mr. Faizal denied that hehad any personal links withthe CPI(M) State secretaryand said he offered his carwhen the CPI(M) local com-mittee workers asked for it.

It was the BJP leader K.Surendran who first raisedthe issue. The UDF soon fol-lowed suit.

Kodiyeri rides luxurycar, kicks up rowVehicle used for yatra is owned by a hawala-tainted man

Courting controversy: CPI(M) secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnanin Koduvally on Wednesday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Staff Reporter

MALAPPURAM

Former Kerala MinisterBinoy Viswam on Thursdaymoved the Supreme Courtchallenging a provision inthe Income Tax law thatmandates the linking ofAadhaar with PAN as a viola-tion of the fundamentalright to privacy.

A Division Bench of theSupreme Court had on June9, 2017 upheld Section139AA of the Income Tax Actof 1961, which mandates thelinking of PAN with Aadhaarnumber, to the extent that itwas not discriminatory un-der Article 14 and not a viola-tion of the fundamentalright to trade and professionunder Article 19(1)(g) of theConstitution.

Mr. Viswam was the peti-tioner in that case.

Fundamental rightHowever, the Division Benchled by Justice A.K. Sikri hadleft the question whether

Section 139AA was violativeof the right to privacy open.

It decided to wait till aConstitution Bench de-livered its verdict onwhether privacy was part ofthe fundamental right to lifeenshrined in Article 21 of theConstitution.

The issue was finally de-cided by a nine-judge Benchof the Supreme Court on Au-gust 24.

It unanimously held thatprivacy was indeed a part of

the fundamental right to lifeunder Article 21.

The nine-judge Bench’sverdict was based on a refer-ence made to it by a five-judge Constitution Benchhearing a bunch of petitionschallenging the Aadhaarscheme.

Privacy judgmentBuoyed by the privacy judg-ment, the Kerala leader hasreturned to the SupremeCourt for a verdict on Sec-tion 139AA, which was intro-duced into the Income Taxstatute by the governmentthis year via the Finance Act.

Mr. Viswam, representedby advocates SriramParakkat and M.S. VishnuSankar, asked the apex courtto suspend the operation ofSection 139AA and restrainthe government, “its agentsand subordinate authoritiesfrom compelling the linkingof existing Aadhaar-re-gistered individuals withtheir PAN numbers.”

Ex-Kerala Minister movesSC against Aadhaar linkingBinoy Viswam says IT law provision violates right to privacy

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NEW DELHI

Binoy Viswam

Four cannons have been ex-cavated from the premisesof the 250-year-old Govern-ment Queen Mary’s GirlsHigh School building locatedin the One Town Area of Vi-sakhapatnam.

What began as a regularexercise of digging for theconstruction of an addi-tional block of classroomson Thursday turned out tobe a pleasant surprise forthe construction workerswhen they stumbled uponthe four cannons when theydug up to six feet below theground.

Visiting the constructionsite, V. Edward Paul, re-searcher and member of theIndian National Trust for Artand Cultural Heritage (IN-TACH), told The Hindu thatold records revealed thatthere was an armament de-pot near the school duringBritish rule.

To study markings“Visakhapatnam was thenthe headquarters of thenorthern division of theMadras Army. While most ofthe armaments were shiftedto the erstwhile Madrasfrom the arsenal, a few weremoved to Singapore. How-

ever, there is a possibilitythat some of them couldhave been left behind. Un-less the markings of the can-nons are traced, it is difficultto date these weapons,” saidMr. Paul.

The Government QueenMary’s Girls High Schoolalready has three suchdummy cannons on itspremises. “We are nowworking with the authoritiesconcerned whether the ad-ditional cannons can also beplaced along with the otherthree dotting the entrance ofthe school,” said K. Suvarna,in-charge headmistress ofthe school.

Four British-era cannons found in A.P. school ‘Old records reveal that there was an armament depot near the 250-year-old building’

Edward Paul of INTACH looking at the newly discoveredcannons in Visakhapatnam on Thursday. * C.V. SUBRAHMANYAM

Rani Devalla

VISAKHAPATNAM

In an unprecedented move,the Telangana governmenthas offered to hold a sessionof the Legislature, startingFriday, for 50 days to enablea threadbare debate on allthe issues raised by theOpposition.

The offer was made byChief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao at theBusiness Advisory Commit-tee (BAC) meeting of the As-sembly on Thursday, leavingthe opposition perplexed.The BAC meeting remainedinconclusive as the mem-

bers decided to meet againon Friday to finalise theagenda and the number ofdays the House would be insession.

The Chief Minister calledon Governor E.S.L. Narasim-han ahead of the BAC meet-ing to inform him about theconduct of the Legislaturesession and the Bills thatwere likely to be passed.

The meeting, accordingto the ruling and oppositionmembers, went off smoothlyas the ruling party had comeforward to allow debates onall the issues listed by theOpposition.

Debate on implementa-tion of the loan waiverscheme, alleged irregularit-ies in irrigation projects,progress of double bedroomhousing scheme, 12% reser-vation to Muslims and sup-port price for agriculturalproducts were some of theissues on which the Opposi-tion parties sought detaileddebates.

Mr. Rao wanted the Treas-ury and Opposition benchesto prioritise the items thatshould be discussed duringtheir meeting on Friday sothat each of these issuescould be taken up.

Ruling party to allow debates on issues listed by Opposition

Special Correspondent

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Telangana government suggests 50-day marathon Assembly session

The Central Bureau of In-vestigation has registered asuicide abetment caseagainst Karnataka MinisterK.J. George, the thenBengaluru City’s Addi-tional Director-General ofPolice (Intelligence) A.M.Prasad and Inspector-Gen-eral of Police Pronav Mo-hanty in connection withthe suicide of Deputy Su-perintendent of Police M.K. Ganapathy last year.

The case was registeredpursuant to the SupremeCourt’s directive onSeptember 5, instructingthe central agency to in-vestigate the police of-ficer’s death.

In a television interviewgiven hours before hisdeath on July 7, 2016,Ganapathy accused thethen Home Minister Mr.George, Mr. Prasad and Mr.Mohanty of harassing him.As per the complaint filedby his son Nehal, his fatherdied as he was being har-assed by the three accused.

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A farmer has committed sui-cide in Odisha’s Bargarh dis-trict allegedly over crop fail-ure. His death comes a dayafter the government an-nounced a package for thedrought-hit areas of theState.

The Bargarh district ad-ministration, which carriedout a joint verification by of-ficers drawn from differentdepartments, including rev-enue, panchayati raj and ag-riculture, however hinted atfamily dispute as a possiblereason for the suicide.

Indra Bariha (33), whohailed from Mallamanda vil-lage under the Gaisilatblock, consumed poison onMonday and died at the Bar-

garh district hospital onWednesday.

Family members allegedthat Indra was constantlyunder stress due to back-to-back crop failures over thepast three seasons and thatcould have been the reasonwhy he ended his life.

‘No loan burden’ “Although the farmer lost hiscrops due to scanty rainfall,we are not convinced that hecommitted suicide due tocrop failure. He had nottaken loan from a bank orany moneylender. It is clearthat there was no loan bur-den on him,” said local teh-sildar Sadakar Kumbhar.

Mr. Kumbhar said: “Thefarmer and his wife had ap-parent differences. His wife

had refused to return withhim when he had gone tobring her back from hisfather-in-law’s house. He re-turned home alone onSunday evening and con-sumed poison on Mondaymorning.”

As per the crop damagereport of the government,the village of the deceasedfarmer has been categorisedas drought-hit. As many as930 villages under 10 blocksof Bargarh district have beenidentified as drought-hit.The State government onWednesday announced anumber of drought reliefmeasures including provi-sioning of input subsidy,short-term kharif loans andaward of more MGNREGAworks in drought-hit areas.

Odisha farmer commitssuicide over ‘crop failure’Administration hints at family dispute as possible reason

Staff Reporter

BHUBANESWAR

Development works forJalandhar announcedJALANDHAR

Punjab Chief Minister

Amarinder Singh on Thursday

announced a slew of

development works for the

city and a grant of ₹363.43

crore for implementation of

various ongoing and new

schemes. The Chief

Ministerannounced various

development schemes,

including a ₹1,000 crore ADB

project for ‘canal water for

drinking purposes’. PTI

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Four of family killed inhouse fire in U.P. SIDDHARTNAGAR

A house caught fire in

Lakhnapar village here, killing

four members of a family and

injuring another, the police

said on Thursday. The

thatched house of one Kalam

caught fire on Wednesday

night from an earthen lamp,

killing his wife Janab (28),

daughter Rukhsaar (6), and

sons Wasim (4) and five-

month-old Nasim. PTI

Two minors drown inBihar’s Gopalganj GOPALGANJ

Two minor brothers drowned

while taking bath after a

Chhath ritual in a pond at

Bisrampur of Gopalganj

district, the police said on

Thursday. After cleaning the

ghat, both went to take bath

in the pond and drowned. The

deceased were identified as

Mohit Kumar Pandey (12) and

his cousin Dilip Mani Tripathi

(10). PTI

Two children run over bytrain in Rajasthan SIKAR

A train ran over two children,

including a three-year-old

boy, near Dabla railway

station here, the police said

on Thursday. The incident

took place on Wednesday

evening when Anju (10) and

his cousin Babu (3) were

crossing the railway track. PTI

The Rajasthan Assembly onThursday passed a Billwhich has increased reserva-tion for Other BackwardClasses in government jobsand educational institutionsfrom 21% to 26%. The Billcreated a new “most back-ward” category within theOBCs for providing thequota benefit to Gujjars andfour other nomadiccommunities.

The Backward Classes(Reservation of Seats in Edu-cational Institutions in theState and of Appointmentand Posts in Services underthe State) Bill, 2017, hasprovided 5% reservation tothe Gujjar, Banjara, Gadia-Lohar, Raika and Gadariyacommunities. With the Bill’spassage, reservation in Ra-jasthan now stands at 54%,exceeding the 50% ceiling

mandated by the SupremeCourt.

The ninth session of theAssembly was adjournedsine die after the Bill waspassed by voice vote. Thesession, which had startedon Monday, also witnessed amajor controversy over theintroduction of a Bill to re-place an ordinance givingimmunity to public servants

from investigation withoutprior sanction. That Bill wasreferred to a select commit-tee of the House.

Gujjars and others wereearlier roped in as a specialbackward class communityand the State governmenthad tried thrice to grant 5%reservation to them. How-ever, the legislation wasstruck down every time by

the Rajasthan High Court,which ruled that the quotahad not only exceeded the50% limit, but was also notsupported by quantifiabledata supporting the claim ofGujjars’ backwardness.

‘Increase in population’Following an agitation byGujjars, the Bharatiya JanataParty government had as-sured them that the revisedOBC quota would be split togrant 5% quota to the “mostbackward classes”. SocialJustice and EmpowermentMinister Arun Chaturvedisaid while replying to debateon the Bill that the reserva-tion had been enhanced inproportion to the increase inthe State’s OBC population,which was “legallypermissible”.

The debate was marredby repeated interventions ofCongress MLAs, who rushed

to the Well of the House insupport of their demand forcomplete farm loan waiver.They raised slogans againstthe ruling BJP and held it re-sponsible for killing of Guj-jars during their agitation inthe past. Parliamentary Af-fairs Minister RajendraRathore retorted that theCongress was dishonouringthe Gujjar community.

‘Special circumstances’ Mr. Chaturvedi said that asmany as 91 communitieswere at present classified asOBCs, comprising 52% of theState’s population, and theState OBC Commission hadrecommended giving reser-vation to them. “As per theSupreme Court’s ruling inthe Indra Sawhney case, spe-cial circumstances exist inRajasthan for giving reserva-tion to OBCs beyond the50% ceiling,” he said.

Rajasthan passes Bill to hike OBC quotaReservation in the State breaches 50% ceiling, but govt. says it is legally permissible

Gujjars sit on a dharna at Paatoli in Rajasthan in this �le photo.They are major bene�ciaries of this Bill. * ROHIT JAIN PARAS

Mohammed Iqbal

JAIPUR

The Punjab police onThursday claimed a break-through in the murder ofsenior journalist K.J. Singhand his mother GurcharanKaur at their residence in Mo-hali last month with the arrestof a man from Uttar Pradesh.

Senior Superintendent ofPolice Kuldeep Singh Chahalsaid the accused, identified asGaurav from Mohali, was ar-rested while driving Mr.Singh’s car on the airport roadwith a fake registrationnumber.

‘Created nuisance’“We are interrogating the ac-cused. Initial questioning re-vealed that the accused hadmurdered the duo to take re-venge. Mr. Singh had a fewweeks before he was

murdered slapped the ac-cused in a park outside hishouse on the pretext that heused to create a nuisance,”said Mr. Chahal.

Mr. Chahal said the policehave recovered the knife usedin the crime besides otherstolen items from the accused.“We are also trying to find outif more people are involved inthe crime,” he said.

The Punjab police had setup a Special InvestigationTeam to probe the murder ofthe journalist and his mother,who were killed on September22 night.

Mr. Singh, a former NewsEditor with The Indian Ex-press, The Tribune and TheTimes of India in Chandigarh,was found with his throat slitwhile his 92-year-old motherwas suspected to have beenstrangulated.

U.P. man arrested forjournalist’s murderTook revenge for slapping incident

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CHANDIGARH

Weather WatchRainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday

Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: Skymet (Taken at 18.00 Hrs)

Forecast for Friday: Heavy rain is likely at isolated places overTamil Nadu, Puducherry and Kerala

city rain max min city rain max min

Agartala................. —.... 30.9.... 22.0 Kozhikode ............... —.... 34.0.... 25.7

Ahmedabad............ —.... 37.3.... 17.4 Kurnool ................... —.... 34.0.... 23.7

Aizawl ................... —.... 28.2.... 14.6 Lucknow.................. —.... 32.0.... 17.1

Allahabad .............. —.... 34.2.... 17.4 Madurai................... —.... 31.6.... 24.8

Bengaluru .............. —.... 28.2.... 21.4 Mangaluru............... —.... 32.6.... 23.4

Bhopal................... —.... 33.8.... 16.4 Mumbai................... —.... 36.6.... 23.3

Bhubaneswar ......... —.... 33.2.... 23.0 Mysuru.................... —.... 30.0.... 19.6

Chandigarh ............ —.... 30.8.... 16.4 New Delhi ............... —.... 33.2.... 16.1

Chennai ................. —.... 32.1.... 26.6 Patna ...................... —.... 32.6.... 20.5

Coimbatore..........0.1.... 31.8.... 24.4 Port Blair ..............0.5.... 31.5.... 24.7

Dehradun............... —.... 27.7.... 14.3 Puducherry..........24.6.... 33.8.... 23.1

Gangtok................. —.... 18.4.... 11.7 Pune ....................... —.... 31.7.... 16.4

Goa .....................6.8.... 34.3.... 24.0 Raipur ..................... —.... 33.8.... 23.1

Guwahati ............... —.... 30.4.... 20.3 Ranchi..................... —.... 31.6.... 19.2

Hubballi................. —.... 29.0.... 22.0 Shillong................... —.... 20.7...... 9.5

Hyderabad ............. —.... 31.2.... 21.5 Shimla..................... —.... 20.9.... 10.2

Imphal................... —.... 27.2.... 13.2 Srinagar .................. —.... 23.6...... 2.6

Jaipur .................... —.... 34.8.... 21.0 Trivandrum ............. —.... 31.9.... 23.6

Kochi..................... —.... 32.6.... 24.6 Tiruchi ..................0.2.... 33.9.... 25.2

Kohima.................. —.... 23.4.... 14.8 Vijayawada .............. —.... 33.1.... 24.8

Kolkata.................. —.... 31.6.... 23.7 Visakhapatnam ......... —.... 33.4.... 25.0

Particulate matter in the air you are breathing Yesterday

CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE

In observation made at4.00 p.m., Ghaziabad,Uttar Pradesh recordedan overall air qualityindex (AQI) score of 444indicating an unhealthylevel of pollution. In contrast, Durgapur,West Bengal recorded ahealthy AQI score of 36

Ahmedabad.............— .....— .....—....... —.......— ......—

Bengaluru........... ....9....90..110....... — .....91 ......*

Chennai .............. ....6....18....22......94.......— ......*

Delhi .................. ..35..172..106....406 ...417 ......*

Hyderabad .......... ..40....37....23....123 ...130 ......*

Kolkata............... ....5....59....44....... — ...150 ......*

Lucknow............. ..32..107....46....422.......— ......*

Mumbai .............. ..22....19....61....131 ...134 ......*

Pune................... ..34....16....87......82 ...109 ......*

Vishakhapatnam.. ....5....55....36....106.......— ......*

Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good

SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system,

making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air

particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues

and monuments.

NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by

reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters.

CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to

critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause

dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death.

PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes,

nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced

lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and

premature death in people with heart or lung disease

(Individual pollutant data for various cities are averages for the previous day)

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NATION

Court issues summons to Sanjay DuttBARABANKI

A local court has issued

summons to actor Sanjay

Dutt in connection with the

remarks he allegedly made

against BSP chief Mayawati

during the campaign for the

2009 Lok Sabha elections.

Additional Chief Judicial

Magistrate Sanjay Yadav on

Wednesday directed him to

appear in the court on

November 16.

IN BRIEF

‘Policy soon to pay onlyfor road stretch used’NEW DELHI

Within a year, the country is

likely to have a policy where

you may have to pay just for

the stretch of the national

highway that you use, instead

of shelling out a general toll

fee. At an event organised by

PHDCCI, Road Transport and

Highways Secretary Y. S.

Malik said, “Instead of

keeping a closed toll policy,

let us get in place an open

toll policy through an

intelligent transport

management system, so you

the pay the toll only for the

stretch of the road that you

use... "

Pull down structure, Ravi Shankar trust toldKOLKATA

The Eastern Circuit Bench of

the National Green Tribunal

has asked the East Kolkata

Wetland Management

Authority (EKWMA) to

demolish a structure built by

the Vaidic Dharma Sansthan

founded by Sri Sri Ravi

Shankar. An NGO, People

United for Better Living in

Calcutta, had approached the

NGT in May 2016 in this

regard.

Taking a dig at political op-ponents over his maidenvisit to the Taj Mahal, UttarPradesh Chief Minister YogiAdityanath on Thursday saidonly those who had “dividedsociety into camps of caste”had an objection to his tourof Agra.

“Many people had objec-tions to my visit to Agra. Theobjection is only of thosepeople who have divided so-ciety into camps of caste, en-tangled U.P. politics incasteism, nepotism and cor-ruption, and torn the socialfabric to shreds and de-prived the State of develop-ment,” Mr. Adityanath said.

In Agra, Mr. Adityanathwas addressing a publicmeeting moments after hemade his visit to the Taj,which has been shrouded incontroversy after some pro-vocative and dismissive re-marks by BJP legislators andthe State government’s omis-sion of it from a tourism-de-velopment booklet.

Soft stanceHowever, like in Gorakhpur,Mr. Adityanath showcased asoft-stance, as he reiteratedthat there was no need to gointo the depth of why, whenand how the Taj was built.“What’s important,” he said,is that the monument “wasbuilt with the help of bloodand sweat of Indianlabourers.”

Later talking to reporters,Mr. Adityanath described theTaj as India’s gem and an “in-tegral part of our culture”and stressed that his govern-ment was committed to itsconservation, an agency re-ported. In the rally, he statedthe Taj had attracted globaltourists in India and that itwas the “responsibility of usall” to preserve and protectthe monument, one of theseven wonders of the world.

He inaugurated and laidthe foundation stone for pro-jects worth ₹235 crore inAgra, even as he inspectedseveral other ongoing worksas part of his day-long sched-ule in the city.

On visit to Taj, Yogi calls it a ‘gem’ of IndiaMonument is apart of cultureand should beprotected, he says

Maiden visit: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during a visit to the Taj Mahal inAgra on Thursday. * PTI

Special Correspondent

LUCKNOW

The Taj Mahal was builtby demolishing a Shivatemple, a legislator fromUttar Pradesh’s ruling BJPsaid here on Thursday asChief Minister YogiAdityanath visited the17th century monument.

The Mughals first de-molished the temple andthen built the Taj Mahal,Agra North MLA JaganPrasad Garg told report-ers at the complex.

“Several historians be-lieve there was a Shivatemple at the same placewhere the Taj Mahal islocated. Mughals first de-molished the temple andthen built the Taj,” Mr.Garg said.

He, however, addedthat the BJP believed inthe Taj Mahal and ac-knowledged its import-ance.

“It is the world’s sev-enth wonder. The Taj Ma-hal is visited by millionsevery year and Agra isfamous due to this monu-ment,” he said.

BJP MLA Sangeet Somhad earlier called the TajMahal a “blot on Indianhistory” and BJP MPVinay Katiyar said it wasoriginally a Shiva temple.

Historians and archae-ologists have rubbishedthe temple theory.

MLA claimstemple wasdemolishedPress Trust of India

Agra

Samajwadi Party presidentAkhilesh Yadav on Thursdaymade light of Uttar PradeshChief Minister YogiAdityanath’s visit to the TajMahal, saying it is LordRam’s ‘kamaal’ (wonder).

Mr. Adityanath had to visitthe Taj Mahal under “pres-sure from the Centre”, theSP leader charged. “See howtime changes... BJP did notconsider it as heritage... andnow the CM is cleaning WestGate of the Taj Mahal with a‘jhadu’ (broom),” Mr. Yadav

told reporters here.“He (CM) is wielding

broom there. We have noth-ing to do with it. It is LordRam’s ‘kamaal’,” he said.

Tourists from all over the

world visit the monument,he observed.

“I am waiting for him toget clicked on that seat (withthe Taj Mahal in the back-ground),” he said.

“BJP men had termed theTaj Mahal as Shiva Temple.Some termed it as a blot onIndian culture,” he said.

Damage controlMr. Yadav had visited the Tajas the U.P. Chief Ministerover two years ago onValentine’s Day and sat onone of the benches in frontof the monument along with

his wife and Kannauj MPDimple Yadav.

Mr. Adityanath’s visit isseen by many as a damagecontrol exercise after a seriesof controversies erupted, be-ginning with a U.P. tourismdepartment booklet notmentioning the whitemarble monument in its listof development projects inthe State.

Last year, Mr. Adityanathhad said that the Taj did notrepresent Indian culture andthat visiting dignitariesshould be given the Gitarather than Taj replicas.

It’s Lord Ram’s wonder, says AkhileshPress Trust of India

Lucknow

Akhilesh Yadav

3 Maoists killed inChhattisgarhNAGPUR

Three members of the

outlawed Communist Party of

India (Maoist) were killed in

an operation by security

forces in the forest of

Kopenkadka in Rajnandgoan

district of Chhattisgarh on

Wednesday night. An AK-47

rifle, a self-loading rifle and

an INSAS rifle were recovered

during the operation, district

Superintendent of Police

Prashant Agrawal said.

A native of Khanapur nearBelagavi, Abdul Karim Telgi’sparents were working withthe Indian Railways. Telgistarted working as a teen-ager after his father died. Hebegan by selling fruits atKhanapur station to supporthis family and raise moneyfor his education. After com-pleting a B.Com from a col-lege in Belagavi, he moved toSaudi Arabia and seven yearslater came to Mumbai towork as a travel agent andstayed at a guest house inColaba.

He started forging stamppapers in the early 1980s andinitially sold them for as littleas ₹100 per stamp paper. In-vestigations racket later ex-posed that he was acting in

connivance with some em-ployees of the Indian Secur-ity Press in Nashik, whichprints the legal stamp pa-pers. As per the practice atthe time, old machines usedin the press were auctionedoff, and these were boughtby Telgi. He procured platesused in the press from hiscontacts inside.

Illegal but genuine“The result was that thestamp papers printed byTelgi were real in spite of notbeing real. They were genu-ine stamp papers but pro-duced in an illegal manner,”said a senior police officer,requesting anonymity.

Telgi went on to build anetwork of over 300 agentswho would approach variousinstitutions that needed

stamp papers on a regularbasis and strike deals withthem as long as they werewilling to pay the price. Thenet worth of Telgi's racket isestimated to be around₹2,000 crore.

While the Mumbai Policehad registered a couple ofcases against Telgi in theearly 90s, he was releasedafter being questioned.

The lid was blown off theracket in 2000 when two of

Telgi's couriers were caughttransporting his stamp pa-pers in Karnataka.

Their interrogation led thepolice to Telgi, who was ar-rested from Ajmer in 2001. Itis estimated that fake stamppapers were sold acrossseven States as part of thescam.

SIT formedThe Mumbai Police CrimeBranch later obtained Telgi'scustody in 2002 and a yearlater, the Maharashtra gov-ernment formed a SIT,headed by then Deputy In-spector General of PoliceSubodh Jaiswal to probe thecases against him.

The next twist in the talecame in 2003, when duringa surprise visit to Telgi's flatin Colaba, Mr. Jaiswal found

him sharing a meal withMumbai Police personnel.The Crime Branch had takenhim out of lock up claimingthat they were taking him tosearch his residence. Assist-ant Police Inspector DeepakKamat was arrested for con-niving with Telgi in exchangefor money but was acquittedin 2016.

Telgi was convicted in2007 after he pleaded guiltyand was sentenced to 29years in prison, along with awhopping ₹202 crore fine.

However, Telgi was notdone with subverting the sys-tem. In 2016, Karnataka DIG(Prisons) D. Roopa, said in anofficial report that the mas-ter counterfeiter was gettingpreferential treatment in theParappana Agrahara centraljail in Bengaluru.

The life and crimes of Abdul Karim Telgi Counterfeiter had contacts within the govt. security press to help him procure designs, printing plates

Special Correspondent

Mumbai

Abdul Karim Telgi

The Supreme Court’s ban onthe sale of firecrackershelped Delhi and the NCRbreathe better afterDeepavali this year.

The court’s decision toban liquor vends within 500metres of National and StateHighways strengthened thegovernment’s decades-longefforts to prevent roads frombecoming accident zones.

Justice D.Y. Chandrachudcited these instances in opencourt on Thursday tocounter criticism that thecourt might have gone over-board, reading too muchinto Article 21 (right to life) ofthe Constitution and passingorders that were practicallyunenfor- ceable.

The judge, who authoredthe historic majority judg-ment which upheld the rightto privacy as a part of thefundamental right to life(Article 21), said the court’sorders could indeed be en-forced.

‘Positive intervention’He praised the October 9,2017 judgment of a Bench,led by Justice A.K. Sikri, tosuspend the sale of firecrack-ers till November 1 as an ex-ample of the court’s positiveintervention to ensure agreen environment. JusticeSikri had reasoned in thejudgment that the ban was ameans to “find out whetherthere would be a positive ef-fect of this suspension, par-ticularly during the Diwaliperiod.”

The judge was addressingAttorney-General K.K.Venugopal, who raised thequestion of enforceability ofthe highway liquor ban, at ahearing by a five-judge Con-stitution Bench on the ques-tion of scope of judicial re-view with respect to reportsof Parliamentary StandingCommittees.

Justice Chandrachud, whoauthored the liquor banjudgment, drew Mr. Venugo-pal’s attention to the factthat the verdict had said thevery “basis [of ] and founda-tion” for the ban was derivedfrom studies done by theCentral government in thepast decade.

Justice Chandrachud, whowrote both the December 15,2016 judgment and theMarch 31, 2017 order on theliquor ban, told Mr. Venugo-pal: “We were enforcingyour [the Centre’s] policy.”

In fact, the March 31 orderspecifically states that “wemust at the outset notice thatthis court, while exercisingits jurisdiction, has neitherformulated policy nor (as weshall indicate) assumed a le-gislative function.”

The order records that theban was based on the mater-ial ranging from the policy ofthe Union Ministry of RoadTransport and Highways; thedecision of the NationalRoad Safety Council, an apexbody for road safety; theCentre’s advisories to theStates over a decade; and theparliamentary mandate ofzero tolerance of drunkendriving.

‘Cracker sale ban helpedDelhi to breathe better’

Chandrachud praises SC judgment

Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI

West Bengal Left Frontchairman Biman Bose onThursday accused the TMCcadres of attacking theirrally in Nadia district, an al-legation denied by the rul-ing party.

Mr. Bose, in a pressstatement, accused theTMC cadres of attacking arally that was organised byvarious Left parties onThursday in Chopra area ofNadia district.

Left Frontslams TMC Press Trust of India

Kolkata

An internal inquiry by theRailway Board has foundthat due procedures werenot followed while attachingan extra coach to PadmavatExpress in which Human Re-source Development Minis-ter Prakash Javadekar’sprivate secretary was travel-ling with his family on a per-sonal trip last week.

The Railway Board consti-tuted the inquiry on Sundayafter a news report allegedthat one coach was attachedto Padmavat Express on therequest of Vinay Srivastava,the HRD Minister’s privatesecretary and a 1992-batch

Indian Railway Service ofMechanical Engineers offi-cial.

Mr. Srivastava was travel-ling with his wife and chil-dren from Lucknow to Delhion the train on Saturday.

“The inquiry findingsshow that a coach was at-tached in the last fewminutes before the train’sdeparture and after the pre-paration of the reservationchart. This should havehappened before the chartwas prepared,” said a seniorRailway Ministry official, onthe condition of anonymity.

Mr. Srivastava and theNorthern Railway divisionhad denied the allegations.

Executive Director(Works) S.C. Jain conductedthe inquiry. The probe re-port countered the Railway’sclaim that the extra coachwas for those passengers un-able to get a confirmed ticketdue to the festival rush.

“The inquiry found that20 passengers travelled inthe additional coach with acapacity of 30 passengers,”the Ministry official said.The extra coach had a com-bination of AC first class andAC 2-tier sleeper seats. TheRailway Board has advisedthe Lucknow division of theNorthern Railways to followdue procedures while at-taching additional coaches.

Extra coach added to trainagainst rules, says panelMeant allegedly to accommodate Javadekar’s secretary, family

Somesh Jha

New Delhi

A final-year student of theGovernment College of FineArts, Chennai, committedsuicide by hanging in Vel-lore district alleging harass-ment by a college faculty onWednesday night.

The student, P. Prakash,24, posted his suicide noteon his Facebook account.He also left a video record-ing on his mobile phone.

In the suicide note, he al-leged that he was facing “in-direct torture” at the handsof Ravikumar, Head of De-partment (Ceramics). Stat-ing that he was not allowedto take up any art work

properly, he claimed that hewas always “cornered” bythe faculty member.

Students of the collegestaged a sit-in protest insidethe campus in Chennai de-manding action against theprincipal, the head of thedepartment and anotherprofessor who were al-legedly responsible forPrakash’s suicide.

The students abstainedfrom classes and squattedon the road urging the au-thorities to dismiss the prin-cipal Mathialagan and oth-ers.

They demanded com-pensation to the family ofthe deceased.

Chennai studentcommits suicideAlleges harassment by faculty

Staff Reporter

VELLORE/CHENNAI

Strong voice: Students staging a demonstration in Chennai.* B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM

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EDITORIAL

It is in no small part due to Prime Minister Narendra

Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit

Shah that Gujarat wields a disproportionately high

in�uence on national politics. The so-called Gujarat

model of development was an important part of the

BJP’s campaign in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. To say

that the Gujarat Assembly election of 2012 had a huge

bearing on the parliamentary election that followed in

less than two years will be no exaggeration. For the

same reasons, Gujarat 2017 carries an additional layer

of importance: whether for the Congress or the BJP, a

win or a loss will cast a much longer shadow until the

summer of 2019. The two-phase polls on December 9

and 14 will thus be keenly fought, with the BJP seeking a

sixth straight win, and the Congress trying for a break-

through against all odds. The timing of the announce-

ment of the election schedule itself became a contro-

versy, as Chief Election Commissioner A.K. Joti faced

criticism for delaying it till after Mr. Modi had made two

more visits to Gujarat to inaugurate projects and an-

nounce new schemes. The argument that �ood relief

work in the State would have been a�ected if the sched-

ule had been announced along with that of the election

in Himachal Pradesh, which is ruled by the Congress,

was not very convincing. One, relief work had been

mostly completed, and two, the Model Code of Conduct

would not have stood in the way of such works.

However, when the votes are counted, what would

have mattered is not the two-week delay in the an-

nouncement, but the BJP’s performance over the last

�ve years. Also the Congress’s ability to o�er a viable al-

ternative. On the debit side of the political ledger for the

BJP, Mr. Modi is not the chief ministerial candidate in

Gujarat and may not be able to cash in on his charisma

the way he did in previous elections. The three years

since Mr. Modi moved to the Centre have not been the

best for Gujarat in terms of governance. The BJP had to

replace Anandiben Patel, who succeeded Mr. Modi as

Chief Minister, with Vijay Rupani in order to infuse

more life into the administration. But the Congress does

not seem to be well-placed to press the advantage. It is

reduced to seeking the support of leaders of caste

groups to make a dent in the BJP’s vote bank. The woo-

ing of the Patidar leader Hardik Patel and Dalit leader

Jignesh Mevani, and the induction of Alpesh Thakor, a

leader of a backward classes grouping, into the Con-

gress might have brought an accretion to its vote bank,

but the party will not get far by arti�cially yoking to-

gether leaders with support bases locked in social con-

�ict. These youthful leaders in the company of Con-

gress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will need much

more in common than a desire to vote the BJP out.

Without presenting a cohesive programme, this nas-

cent, loose alliance will have no game-changing impact.

The Gujarat stakesCongress needs a cohesive agenda if it wants

to push back the BJP in PM Modi’s home State

Electing businessmen who claim to o�er some-

thing better than the established order is not just

an American temptation, as the results of last

week’s parliamentary election in the Czech Republic

show. Billionaire Andrej Babiš’s party ANO (Action for

Dissatis�ed Citizens, but ano is also Czech for “yes”)

won 30% of the vote, making the second richest man in

the Czech Republic its most likely future Prime Minis-

ter. Mr. Babiš’s business ventures include food, chemic-

als, two of the country’s leading newspapers, radio sta-

tions and a news portal. While ANO is part of the

outgoing coalition, he established a political foothold

on an anti-establishment and anti-corruption platform,

promising to cut through cronyism and to run the state

more like a business. Ironically, Mr. Babiš himself is em-

broiled in controversies. He is currently being investig-

ated by the European Union for his alleged misuse of EU

subsidies in �nancing a construction project. How Mr.

Babiš, who during the 1980s used to work for a state

trading company in what is now Slovakia, established

himself so powerfully in the business world following

the formation of the Czech Republic in 1993 is unclear.

Slovakia’s top constitutional court has recently over-

turned a decision by lower courts to exonerate him of

ties with the StB, the former communist regime’s secret

police. This is likely to complicate an already complex

situation following last week’s vote, which saw main-

stream parties taking a beating. Given the fractured

mandate, ANO will need at least two other parties to

form a viable coalition.

The Social Democrats, who have led the incumbent

government in a coalition with ANO and the Christian

Democrats, got just 7.3% of the vote, down from 20.5%

in 2013. The election has also seen the growth of the far-

right Freedom and Direct Democracy Party (SPD),

which won about 11% of the vote. The party, run by

Tokyo-born Tomio Okamura, wants to take the Czech

Republic out of the EU, bring immigration down to zero

and ban propagation of Islam. Despite the fact that the

Czech economy is doing reasonably well and there is

low unemployment, candidates have played on fears

around immigration. Mr. Babiš himself used this to his

advantage during the campaign. Mr. Babiš has indic-

ated he is pro-EU and pro-NATO but is against the bloc’s

migration policies, has ruled out joining the euro and

seems to view the EU mostly through the prism of trade.

The relationship with Brussels is tense, with the EU

already having started infringement proceedings

against the country for not accepting its share of mi-

grants to the EU under a 2015 deal. Meanwhile, the fact

that Mr. Babiš has transferred his business to a trust

does little to assuage concerns over the power he would

wield. Those within the republic as well as in the neigh-

bourhood have legitimate cause for concern.

Czech churnA billionaire businessman could unsettle

the establishment in Prague

With India’s economicgrowth faltering in the lastcouple of years, the gov-

ernment has been casting aboutfor ways to galvanise the economy.Last November, it tried demonet-isation. It was a bold move but itseconomic bene�ts will be long incoming while the short-term dis-ruption has been very real and de-moralising. This year, it pushedthrough the goods and services tax(GST). Again, this is hugely positiveover the medium term, but is pain-ful in the short run.

Cheering the marketsThe government seems to haverealised that a simpler, more e�ect-ive remedy is at hand: recapital-ising public sector banks (PSBs)and enhancing the �ow of credit.The proposal to recapitalise PSBsto the extent of ₹2.11 trillion (₹2.11lakh crore) is a winner by any reck-oning. It is, perhaps, the most ef-fective way to provide a much-needed �scal stimulus to the eco-nomy and revive growth. Smallwonder that the markets havegiven the move a rapturous wel-come.

To understand the signi�canceof bank recapitalisation, we need alittle primer on bank capital. Regu-lation requires that banks hold as-sets only in proportion to the cap-ital they have. ‘Capital’ is acombination of equity, equity-likeinstruments and bonds. For a givenbalance sheet, there is a certainminimum of capital that banksmust hold. This is called ‘capitaladequacy’. The higher the capitalis above the regulatory minimum,the greater the freedom bankshave to make loans. The closerbank capital is to the minimum, theless inclined banks are to lend. Ifcapital falls below the regulatoryminimum, banks cannot lend orface restrictions on lending.

When loans go bad and turn intonon-performing assets (NPAs),banks have to make provisions forpotential losses. This tends toerode bank capital and put thebrakes on loan growth. That is pre-cisely the situation PSBs have beenfacing since 2012-13.

‘Stressed advances’ (which rep-resent non-performing loans aswell as restructured loans) haverisen from a little over 10% in 2012-13 to 15% in 2016-17. This has causedcapital adequacy at PSBs to fall. Av-erage capital at PSBs has fallenfrom over 13% in 2011-12 to 12.2% in2016-17. The minimum capital re-quired is 10.5%. An estimated 10out of 20 PSBs have capital of justone percentage point above theminimum or less. Inadequate cap-ital at PSBs has taken its toll on the�ow of credit. Growth in credit hasfallen below double digits over thelast three years. Between 2009-10and 2014-15, annual credit growthwas in the range of 15-20%. In the‘India Shining’ period of 2004-09,credit growth had been over 20%.

Some observers ascribe the de-celeration in credit growth to poordemand. They say that corporateshave excessive debt and are in noposition to �nance any investment.This may be true of large corpor-ates. However, it is not true of en-terprises in general. One study,which covered over 4,000 com-panies, showed that the debt toequity ratio fell below 0.8 (which isa low level of debt) in 2008-09 andremained low until 2012-13. ( J. Den-nis Rajakumar, ‘Are corporatesoverleveraged?’, Economic andPolitical Weekly, October 31, 2015).

Moreover, demand for invest-

ment �nance may have deceler-ated but demand for working cap-ital remains strong. If anything, theintroduction of GST has increasedsmall business demand for work-ing capital. Low growth in credit iscon�ned to PSBs. Private bankshave seen loan growth of 15% thisyear.

Evident since 2014The government has realised thatthere is a problem with the supplyof credit. It has to do with PSBs’ in-ability to lend for want of adequatecapital. The National DemocraticAlliance (NDA) government shouldhave recognised the problem whenit assumed o�ce in May 2014. Atthe time, stressed advances werealready 10% of the total. The NDAgovernment should have movedswiftly to recapitalise PSBs.

Instead, it chose to sweep theproblem under the carpet. Marketestimates had placed the require-ment of government capital at aminimum of ₹2 lakh crore over afour-year period. In 2015, underthe Indradhanush Plan, the gov-ernment chose to commit a mere₹70,000 crore over the period.

The dominant view in govern-ment at the time seemed to be thatPSBs had messed up in a big way, soputting more capital into them wassimply ‘money down the drain’.Their role needed to be shrunkthrough consolidation or by sellingstrategic stakes to private in-vestors.

This is a mistaken view. The badloan problem at PSBs is not entirelythe result of mismanagement.There have certainly been cases ofmalfeasance and poor appraisal of

credit. However, as the EconomicSurvey of 2016-17 made clear, theseare not responsible for the bulk ofthe NPA problem. The problem isoverwhelmingly the result offactors extraneous to manage-ment.

PSBs, unlike their private sectorcounterparts, had lent heavily toinfrastructure and other relatedsectors of the economy. Followingthe global �nancial crisis of 2007,sectors to which PSBs were ex-posed came to be impacted in waysthat could not have been entirelyforeseen. Blaming PSBs for the out-comes and starving them of capitalwas not the answer.

The failure to quickly recapital-ise PSBs has adversely impactedthe economy in many ways. First, ithas come in the way of adequatesupply of credit. Second, it hashindered the e�ective resolution ofthe NPA problem and kept majorprojects from going through tocompletion. Resolution requiresbanks to write-o� a portion of theirloans in order to render projects vi-able. They cannot do so if they seethat write-o�s will cause their cap-ital to fall below the regulatoryminimum. Third, corporates arestuck with high levels of debt andare unable to make freshinvestments.

The government’s move to re-capitalise banks changes the pic-ture. Of the ₹2.11 trillion package,₹1.35 trillion will be towards issueof recapitalisation bonds. PSBs willsubscribe to these bonds. The gov-ernment will plough back thefunds into banks as equity. An-other ₹180 billion will be providedas budgetary support. The remain-ing ₹580 billion will be raised fromthe market. Analysts believe thepackage should enable banks toprovide adequately for NPAs andsupport modest loan growth. OncePSBs have enough capital and arein a mood to lend, they can liquid-ate excess holding of governmentsecurities and use the cash to makemore loans.

Analysts worry about the �scalimpact of the recapitalisation pack-age. International norms allowborrowings for bank recapitalisa-tion not to be counted towards the

�scal de�cit. In the past, India hasused this accounting fudge. Theproposed recapitalisation bondsare likely to add to the �scal de�citunless the government resorts toother fudges such as getting theLife Insurance Corporation of In-dia or a separate holding companyto issue the bonds. The govern-ment should not worry undulyabout missing the �scal de�cit tar-get of 3.2% of GDP. The marketswill understand that the �scal stim-ulus is well spent.

Getting the record straightAnalysts also fret over repeatedbailouts of PSBs and the costs tothe exchequer. They seem to thinkthat bank bailouts have to do withgovernment ownership and ine�-ciency and the answer is to privat-ise some of our PSBs. Theycouldn’t be more wrong.

The overwhelming majority ofbank systems worldwide areprivately owned. And yet these sys-tems are prone to periodic bouts ofbank failures. The InternationalMonetary Fund has documented140 episodes of banking crises in115 economies in the world in theperiod 1970-2011. The median costof bank recapitalisation in thesecrises was 6.8% of GDP. India’s costof recapitalisation over a 20-yearperiod is less than 1% of the averageGDP during this period.

The Modi government hasshown courage in opting for sub-stantial recapitalisation of banks.This is not something that �ts intothe ‘reform’ mantra wherebyprivate is good and public is bad.Reserve Bank of India GovernorUrjit Patel has welcomed the movein e�usive terms: “The Govern-ment of India’s decisive package torestore the health of the Indianbanking system is in the view of the[RBI] a monumental step forwardin safeguarding the country’s eco-nomic future.” Indeed. The gov-ernment’s recapitalisation movepromises to do more to quicklyusher in ‘acche din’ than any othersingle measure it has initiated dur-ing its tenure.

T.T. Ram Mohan is a professor at IIMAhmedabad. E-mail: [email protected]

A bold step in bank reformIt’s been late coming, but the recapitalisation of public sector banks is a winner

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The tragic death of an 11-yearold girl in Jharkhand — whichhas resulted in the govern-

ment going into defensive mode —re�ects the dire situation that poorfamilies in India �nd themselves inevery day. On October 18, theAadhaar-issuing body, the UniqueIdenti�cation Authority of India(UIDAI), said that ‘the family of thegirl, who allegedly died of starva-tion, had Aadhaar and that strin-gent action should be taken againstthose who denied her governmentbene�ts’. While it has been accep-ted that she was excluded from hav-ing access to rations due toAadhaar, the government has goneout of its way to assert that the childdied due to other causes. TheJharkhand Minister for Public Dis-tribution has rescinded the orderrequiring the cancellation of rationcards not seeded with Aadhaar.This is another addition to a longlist of mass exclusions that a callousstate claims as “savings”.

While Aadhaar is part of a largerecosystem of centralised gov-

ernance where policymakers as-sert that digitisation, banking andcash transfers, and biometric track-ing ( JAM, or Jan Dhan, Aadhaar,Mobile) will sort out all problems ofwelfare, inquiry will show how un-bridled, mandatory digitisation iscausing immense pain and su�er-ing to the poorest and most margin-alised of this country.

No magic wand The social security pension systemin Rajasthan is another critical wel-fare system being broken by thistidal wave of digital solutions. Thisyear, on Gandhi Jayanti, the Stategovernment announced that fromOctober 2, 2017 pension formswould be accepted only ‘online’through ‘e-mitra kendras’ or li-censed private sector operators.

Social security pensions are alifeline for the elderly poor. In Ra-jasthan alone, there are 63,18,095active pensioners. Previously, toapply for a pension, an eligible per-son could submit pension forms tothe panchayat. Now, they have to�rst go to an e-mitra kendra. Theapplicant must have with them-Aadhaar and Bhamashah cards (aState-level identi�cation platformsimilar to the UID/Aadhaar system),upload all the documents, submittheir biometrics, pay a small feeand wait for veri�cation and sanc-tion. Pensioners must also period-

ically re-verify themselves. Thisprocess is supposed to cost ₹11 but“enterprising” e-mitras charge₹100.

For the elderly poor, end-to-enddigitisation of social security pen-sion processes is a disaster waitingto happen. The inability to openand use bank accounts, seed themwith Aadhaar and Bhamashah, andthen withdraw pension paymentsfrom their accounts using biomet-ric authentication every month isresulting in sanctioned bene�ciar-ies being removed from pensionlists. Nobody knows how many ofthem were alive when arbitrarilyclassi�ed as “dead”. Take the caseof Kanku Devi, Sita Devi and DhakuDevi, pensioners who the govern-ment said were dead.

Every village has a Kanku Devi.Now 50, she has a congenital disab-ility that rendered her limbs life-

less. Single, she lives in a one room,stone house. Her brother’s daugh-ter-in-law gives her enough �re-wood, ration and water to preparea small meal for the day — a dry rotiwith salt.

Before she passed away, SitaDevi, 40, had been bedridden for�ve years after a spinal injury atwork. Her three children, the eld-est who is 15, looked after theirmother and house. Her childrenare now struggling to get social se-curity bene�ts, challenged by di-gital requirements.

Dhakhu Devi, 90, who alsopassed away, and with no childrento look after her, was almost blindand did not have an electricity con-nection in her house. She managedto be mobile within the house. Herdaily roti, if it came, was brought toher by a family member who livednearby.

These women were the luckierones who got their pensions restar-ted after the intervention of civil so-ciety organisations. The meagrepension gives them some semb-lance of dignity and independence.There are countless such peopleacross India, who are now be-wildered and su�ering the con-sequences of new digital systems.

Lack of optionsThough e�ective digital applica-tions exist, the question is this: who

does digitisation serve? And, arethere other, better mechanismsfreely available? The most sensiblepolicy would be to provide a paral-lel digital option.

A demand that bene�ciarieshave the option to choose a pay-ment mode that is convenient tothem has been assiduously ig-nored.

There is, for instance, the plea toretain the option of choosing thepanchayat route for pension ap-plications. A useful digital-basedreform would have been to have anautomatic pension sanction assoon as people become eligible forit. The policies being pushedthrough appear to be more out of aconcern for administrative con-venience than the right to life.There is no consultation, no trans-parency, no accountability and noregard for what systems peopleknow will suit them best.

Schemes such as ‘Digital India’sound exciting as they “spell” pro-gress. But what these schemesmean to a majority of the poor andthe devastation they cause is lost onus. A disturbing lack of empathy,transparency and participation isallowing the weakest to be bulliedinto what is being portrayed as away ahead.

Nikhil Shenoy is with the Mazdoor KisanShakti Sangathan

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Politics and poll datesAs a party that has beenruling the State for long, theBJP is bound to leave nostone unturned in ensuringthat it continues to rule(“Gujarat elections on Dec.9& 14”, October 26). TheCongress may not be astrong or formidable forcein the State, but anti-incumbency, resentmentamong traders and smallbusinessmen over thecrippling impact ofdemonetisation and GST,and palpable resentmentamong OBCs will make theelectoral �ght that muchtougher for the BJP thistime. The high-stakes electoralcontest between the twonational parties will bewatched with much interestas the verdict will beperceived as a de�nitiveindicator of the trend forthe 2019 general election.Jeyaramachandran Murugesan,

Sholavandan, Tamil Nadu

Still out of schoolWe have miles to go to reachthe target of achieving centper cent enrolment ofchildren in schools andensuring them qualityeducation (“Going back tothe basics”, October 26).Millions of underprivilegedchildren are attendingschool on an emptystomach out of compulsion.Their problem iscompounded when they areforced to read tomes of inertfacts, taxing them. NobelLaureate Amartya Sen haslaid stress on education andhealth being the priorityareas. Unfortunately oursociety appears to pay moreattention to extravaganzasrather than promoting thewelfare of the futurecitizenry.A. Panneerselvam,

Puducherry

The new ‘disorder’America and China areplaced at the two ends of

the spectrum ofinternational relations(“Trump and the new worlddisorder”, October 26).While the U.S. appears to begoing its own way, Chinaappears engaged inspreading its net looking forpartnerships for its Belt andRoad Initiative. In order to�nd its feet in the new worldorder, India should work onthe existing contours of itsties with China in the formof BRICS, the ShanghaiCooperation Organisationand the China-led AsianInfrastructure InvestmentBank. Simultaneously, itshould also work withJapan, Australia andGermany in exploring newtrade ties with Africa, SouthAmerica and Southeast Asiaon account of sea links.Interaction with like-minded countries is betterthan an over-reliance on anunpredictable America.Balajee Sumant Chemote,

Ranchi, Jharkhand

A place in historyThere were excesses bymost rulers in the countryincluding the Mughals, andTipu Sultan is no exception.But we need to understandthe times prevalent then,when waging war was anecessity and some of thetactics and/or results werenone too pleasant. TipuSultan was commended forhis benevolent rule. He isalso considered to be thefather of modern rocketry.Those from the right wingshould refrain from makingcontroversial statementsabout �gures in our historywithout proper study (“BJPsmarts as Kovind laudsTipu”, October 26). S. Kamat,

Alto Santa Cruz, Goa

n President Ram NathKovind has been fair andnon-partisan without toeingthe line of the BJP, which isup in arms against theKarnataka government’s

Tipu Jayanti celebrations.This litmus test has shownthat Mr. Kovind is a truestatesman with perspective. M. Basavaraj,

Bengaluru

The future of workThe OpEd page article,“Should robots benationalised?” (October 26),highlights the allure ofshort-term gains that suchtechnological changes o�eragainst the e�ects theycould have on humanengagement with work inthe future. Work is notmerely a source oflivelihood. It is deeplyconnected with ways ofliving and therefore a sourceof meaning and ful�lment.

Today we are seeing notonly automation but an‘autonomisation’ of worktools and processes, forexample driverless cars.This could lead to reduceddependence on humanlabour and potentially theforced abdication of ourcognitive and culturalengagement with work. Thechallenge today is to shapetechnology such that itempowers people ratherthan replaces them.Ethically groundedtechnology would progressand serve society ratherthan disrupt it. Gideon Arulmani,

Bengaluru

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Under the auspices of the Muslim Society, a grand publicmeeting of Hindus and Mussalmans of Vaniyambadi was heldon the 22nd instant at 4.30 P.M. to consider the subject of theinterned Muslim leaders. Khan Bahadur, Hajee BadruddeenSaheb Bahadur, the popular merchant of the locality presidedon the occasion. The spacious Hall was overcrowded; manywealthy merchants of both the communities were present.Mr. Gundoo Abdus Sattan moved the following resolution:“The Hindus and Musalmans of Vaniyambadi assembled un-der the auspices of the Muslim Society most respectfully prayHis Excellency the Viceroy that Messrs. Mahomed Ali,Shaukat Ali and other interned Muslim leaders be immedi-ately released.’’ It was supported by Moulavi Khader, ShdshaSaheb and Mohamed Azeezalla Gareef Saheb. Further it wassupported by Adbul Khader Saheb, “Shikir” and unanimouslycarried. Mr. C. Venkataswamy Naidu delivered a lectureon”Hindu-Muslim Unity’’ in Tamil.

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO OCTOBER 27, 1917

Interned Muslims: Meeting at Vaniyambady.

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The fifth Punjab Provincial Conference met to-day [Oct. 25] atthe Bradlaugh Hall, Lahore, at midday. The hall was tastefullydecorated with shamianas, buntings and pictures while over-looking the dais were hung up portraits of His ImperialMajesty the King Emperor and His Gracious consort, of Mr.Gokhale, Sardar Dayal Singh Majithia, Sir Syed Ahmed andother patriots. Upon the dais sat the members of the Recep-tion Committee and several Indian ladies, including someladies of Tyabji family of Bombay and from Allahabad, whilebelow the dais in the body of the hall sat delegates from al-most every district of the province, the gallery being occu-pied by visitors.

Punjab conference.

In September 1960, Jawaharlal Nehrutravelled to Pakistan for a visit amid highexpectations all around for the resolu-tion of Kashmir. The visit followed theresolution of some major bilateral issuesincluding sharing of Indus waters, and asformer High Commissioner to PakistanT.C.A. Raghavan recounts in his book The

People Next Door, Nehru and Ayub Khan were going to give theimpasse over Jammu and Kashmir a personal push. However,matters came to a full stop after Nehru suggested that the“status quo” at the cease�re line was the only solution. ForAyub Khan, this was a non-starter, as he felt the cease�re linewould never be accepted by Pakistan given that it had no polit-ical or religious underpinnings. Forty years later, as Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and

then Manmohan Singh started a similar conversation withPakistan’s Pervez Musharraf. The four-step formula, as theirversion of the talks from 2000-2008 was called, came aroundto the idea that eventually “borders cannot be redrawn”. AsMusharraf wrote in his memoirs, and the Prime Minister’s spe-cial envoy Satinder Lambah outlined in a speech in 2014, the“out of the box” solution on Kashmir would require greaterfreedoms and interactions for Kashmiris on both sides of theLine of Control (LoC), leading to a lasting peace. The cross-LoCbus, which allowed Indian Kashmiris and Pakistani Kashmiristo visit each other, seemed the logical �rst step forward. Onthe Indian side, the period saw a greater level of engagementbetween New Delhi and Srinagar, and of the mainstream withseparatist thought, even including an abortive attempt fortalks with the militant group, Hizbul Mujahideen, in 2000.

Fast forward to the presentIn 2017, the landscape in Kashmir seems far removed from adecade ago and certainly from half a century ago. But as thegovernment begins another attempt to tackle the Kashmir is-sue with the appointment of an interlocutor, former Intelli-gence Bureau Director Dineshwar Sharma this week, it is clearthat some things have not changed. To begin with, the moveacknowledges that the solution of the problems in J&K lies inthe realm of politics, and not security. Home Minister RajnathSingh’s announcement was preceded by statements fromArmy Chief General Bipin Rawat and police o�cers in Kashmirthat even with all the gains made on the military and counter-insurgency front, a political solution is needed, and urgently.

Second, the open mandate to speak to all parties implicitlyindicates that the government is willing to speak to separatistsfor a “sustained dialogue”, a considerable turn from the hard-line policy of the Modi government thus far. That the govern-ment is now aligning closer to the policy of its predecessors in-dicates that the Centre could also consider talks with Pakistan,as outlined in the Agenda of Alliance document of the PDP-BJPcoalition in J&K. Mr. Sharma’s success in reaching out to allstakeholders in the Valley depends on con�dence in the Modigovernment’s seriousness in a long-lasting dialogue process inthe State, with a view to e�ecting an enduring peace — one en-visaged but not achieved by so many earlier governments.

The Kashmir gambitA short history of ‘out of the box’formulae to �nd a political solution inJammu and Kashmir

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The Law Commission ofIndia submitted a draft ofthe DNA Based Techno-logy (Use and Regulation)Bill, 2017 to the govern-ment in July. Given thatthere are no appropriatelegal mechanisms with re-gard to identifying missingpersons, victims of dis-asters, etc., the DNA Billseeks to regulate humanDNA profiling and estab-lish standard proceduresfor DNA testing.

The draft Bill has sub-stantially modified theearlier Bill and suggestedvarious measures to fortifythe use of uncontaminatedDNA samples for investiga-tion purposes and foridentifying missing per-sons.

The salient features ofthe recommendations in-clude the constitution of astatutory body called theDNA profiling board and aDNA data bank. The profil-ing board will undertakefunctions such as layingdown procedures and

standards to establish DNAlaboratories and grantingaccreditation to suchlaboratories, and advisingthe concerned Ministries/departments of the Cent-ral and State governmentson issues relating to DNAlaboratories. It will also beresponsible for super-vising, monitoring, in-specting and assessing thelaboratories.

The Board will frameguidelines for training thepolice and other investig-ating agencies dealing withDNA-related matters.

Its functions also in-clude giving advice on allethical and human rightsissues relating to DNA test-ing in consonance with in-ternational guidelines. Itwill recommend researchand development activitiesin DNA testing and relatedissues. DNA profiling willbe undertaken exclusivelyto identify a person andwill not be used to extractany other information.

The Bill has also recom-mended the setting up of aDNA data bank both na-

tionally and on a regionalbasis in the States. Thedata bank will primarilystore DNA profiles re-ceived from the accreditedlaboratories and maintaincertain indices for variouscategories of data such ascrime scene index, sus-pects index, offenders in-dex, missing persons’ in-dex and unknowndeceased persons’ indexwith a view to assistingfamilies of missing personson the basis of their bodilysamples and substances.Strict confidentiality willbe maintained with regardto keeping records of DNAprofiles and their use.

The DNA profiles shallbe shared with and by for-eign governments or gov-ernment organisations oragencies only for the pur-poses enumerated in theAct.

Violators of the provi-sions will be liable for pun-ishment of imprisonmentwhich may extend up tothree years and also a finewhich may extend up to ₹2lakh.

The identity puzzle

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The DNA Bill seeks to streamline genetic pro�ling activities

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Taylor ruleEconomics

This refers to a rule usedby central banks to de-termine the right interestrate for the economybased on changes in priceinflation and other eco-nomic conditions. It wasproposed by Americaneconomist John Taylor as atool to conduct rules-based monetary policy.The Taylor rule is oftenproposed as a solution tothe problem of discretioninvolved in the framing ofmonetary policy due tothe influence of politicalpopulism. It provides a for-mula to determine howmuch a central bankshould target an increaseor decrease in interestrates depending on theeconomy’s health.

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There is no doubt that NarendraModi, the politician, weaved magic.It’s important to see how he didthis. There are two parts to this ma-gic. The first is related to Mr. Modi’spersona and how he used oppor-tunities and a trend in Indian polit-ics to build an image. The secondinvolves his complete identificationwith neo-liberal Indian economicinterests that no other governmentcould do to this extent. The firstrefers to his magical skill; thesecond turned this skill into an illus-ory drama on a national scale.

Seizing opportunities Growing fundamentalism and the

need to marginalise voices forjustice and equity complementeach other. Both help to sustain thehegemony of the privileged interms of caste, religion and finance.Both arise from right-wing econom-ics, and it was obvious from the1991 liberalisation, privatisation,globalisation (LPG) period that thiswould happen. The Congress andother like-minded parties neverprepared themselves to counterthis, while the Bharatiya JanataParty and people like Mr. Modiseized this opportunity.

What happened in the last twodecades is that the classes thattasted blood from the LPG period

started wanting more. Noone could give it to themthe way Mr. Modi prom-ised and even showed inGujarat. These predatorspredictably went enmasse to the one whopromised more.

On the other hand, the discom-fort and massive livelihood and sup-port dislocation that follows all LPGprogrammes are countered eitherthrough a more equal and demo-cratic economic system or by turn-ing them into disgruntled mobswho turn against those who seek anequitable distribution of resources.In India, no government ensuredthe first solution, and so the latterbecame our reality, and in Mr. Modithe disgruntled sought succour.

Mr. Modi came in a beautifully

constructed image of acommoner, a massleader, a bold decision-maker, a harbinger oflost glory. In reality he isa fundamentalist whocloaks himself as a lib-eral, a pro-poor leader

who flies in corporate jets, and achampion who unifies the majoritythrough a divisive brand of politics.In the process, the real feudal vas-sals in the system — the bureau-cracy, the police, the income tax of-ficer, the priest — have become theonly beneficiaries.

This call to Hindu pride has nottranslated into benefits and dignityfor the poor. Crony capitalism hasforced the state to ease its way intopeople’s pockets. Development hasgot restricted to mega civil con-

struction projects, and a male pas-sion for size and show. Calls forjustice, equity and equality are be-ing labelled as populism, comprom-ise, and vote-bank politics.

Pro-rich policiesEvery brave decision is aimed atstrengthening the rich. Demonet-isation ensured that cash wasturned into “white”, while the poorsacrificed for their nation. Thegoods and services tax was rolledout to ease business for the big en-trepreneurs, while small and me-dium enterprises agitate for bottle-necks to be eased, not realising thatthe system is designed to kill them.The soldier continues to be sacri-ficed on our borders while croniesget away with defence contracts.

In his rush to please forces that

brought him to power, and lackingthe understanding and capacity towork for real India, Mr. Modi is los-ing his grip. Repeating Gujarat andplaying to the gallery does not worknationally. An economy that is host-age to the rich damages the poor.The rhetoric of religious national-ism does not weaken Pakistan orChina, just as strengthening thearms of the state in financial anduniformed bureaucrats does notlead to good and just “governance”.

Mr. Modi always had a politicalplot, never a people’s policy plot.As the first gets tiresome, there isno fallback. Till the magic of theHindu Hruday Samrat sustains, Mr.Modi’s magic will somehow stayafloat. But as people see through it,and go home after the show is over,the illusion will disappear.

Has Narendra Modi lost his magic?Mr. Modi never had a people’s policy plot. As people see

through his ‘magic’, the illusion will disappear

Sandeep Dikshit

is a member of the

Congress party

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YES

It’s unfair to use the word magic todescribe the hard-earned success ofa leader — it clearly undermines theserious thought process behind thepainstaking effort and the resolute-ness with which tough decisionshave been taken. “Magic” also neg-ates something which can be logic-ally explained and rationally under-stood. At the core of the unstintedpopular support that Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modi commands evenin the face of an aggressive negativ-ist propaganda is not magic but awell thought-out and neatlyplanned scheme of things. Since theplan is very much in place, relent-

less work on it is in progress andconfidence in the leader who is im-plementing the plan intact. There isno question of any deficit being ac-crued in the bank of goodwill andtrust.

What makes Mr. Modi tickThere are, among others, at leastthree clear factors that make Mr.Modi stand head and shouldersabove all others, especially Manmo-han Singh and his party functionar-ies. First, the purity of purpose;nobody doubts Mr. Modi’s inten-tions. Second, 18 hours of work aday to make India free of misgov-

ernance. Third, a not-so-small section of peoplealso appreciates that thisis a government thatdraws its strength notfrom status quo-ism butfrom transformativegovernance.

For people to believe inthe leadership, there has to be atrack record. Let’s take the exampleof Mr. Modi’s war on black money.The Bharatiya Janata Party has beentaunted, and derisive remarks havebeen made about its intention toeradicate black money and end cor-ruption. But one must rememberthat Mr. Modi made three import-ant revelations in his IndependenceDay address. First, he announcedthat within just three years, the gov-

ernment has recovered₹1.25 lakh crore worth ofblack money. The secondwas his proclamationthat the number of taxpayers has increasedfrom 22 lakhs to 56 lakhs.Similarly, his bold asser-tion that some three lakh

shell companies that were un-earthed after demonetisation, overhalf of which have now been dere-gistered, was important for mul-tiple reasons. A few months ago,Mr. Modi had said that while hisgovernment can make some mis-takes, its intentions cannot be chal-lenged. But the most significantmessage to the nation was his em-phasis that we all have to shed the‘chalta hai’ attitude and cultivate a

‘badal sakta hai’ approach. And forthat, he has been systematicallypromoting innovations in every sec-tor of governance.

Challenging the status quo While it is important to understandwhy people innovate, it is perhapsmore instructive to understand whypeople do not. Simple solutions tochronic problems do not alwayselude human imagination. Manytimes, people wantonly shut theirtalent window and tend to turntheir back to such solutions also be-cause of their vested interests in al-lowing the status quo to continue.

After several years, India hasseen a Prime Minister who embod-ies the principle of unattached in-volvement. Here is a leader without

any personal agenda, with noselfish goals, and with absolutely nointention of perpetuating politicalpower for personal benefits. Mr.Modi is challenging the status quowith an extremely rare ‘catch thebull by the horns’ approach. Thisapproach coupled with resolute-ness has promoted an out-of-the-box thinking under the Modisarkar. This is why the sheer num-ber of innovations in governancethat have been conceived and im-plemented in the last three yearsmakes it the most innovation-friendly government. When one in-novates, others get motivated.

With all these efforts, peopleknow that it’s not magic but aboutconfidence and conviction to steera nation forward.

The popular support that PM Modi commands is not

about magic but con�dence and conviction

Vinay

Sahasrabuddhe

is the national vice

president of the

Bharatiya Janata Party

NO

The mandate that the BharatiyaJanata Party and Mr. Modi receivedhas to be evaluated in the context ofthe promises made in 2014 —namely, internal security, transpar-ency, and reforms. Mere rhetoricalannouncements will not yieldmagic.

Not keeping promises On internal security, we find thatKashmir is on the boil. We are notin a better position, but it could beworse. The government is not doinganything different from the assur-ances made by the previous United

Progressive Alliance government.There were promises made to re-store peace and normalcy in theValley amicably and that the effectsof terrorism would not have any fal-lout in other parts of the country.Looking at the way our soldiers aredying and our borders are beingbreached, the promise of internalsecurity has not been lived up to.Yes, three years is a short time, butthere is a lot that needs to be done.

With regard to reforms and de-velopment, the major reforms thisgovernment promised, legislativeor otherwise, were demonetisation,

goods and services tax,and Aadhaar linkges. In aparliamentary democracy,people expect crucial de-cisions to be taken in a col-laborative manner, as aconsultative process to bedebated in Parliament.That was not done regard-ing demonetisation. While takingsuch a drastic decision, the govern-ment should be 100% sure of factor-ing in its effects. The intent mayhave been noble, but the executionwas not as effective as it shouldhave been. People lost their jobsand many their lives. Perhaps in thelong run it may help the economyby reducing cash transactions andreducing black money.

There was a promiseto create employment —two million telecom jobswith ‘Make in India’ be-ing launched in a big, bigway. It is early days yet,but we are nowhereclose to what was prom-ised though there are a

lot of things in the pipeline. TheCommerce and Industry Ministry isstretching itself to ensure that pro-jects on the lines of Make in Indiaare launched. GST and Aadhaar,both proposed in the time of theUPA, are problematic. Aadhaar wasintroduced as a Money Bill to avoiddiscussion in the Rajya Sabha. Thegovernment could have avoidedthis. This government had numbers

in the Lower House and even incase of a joint sitting, it would havesailed through. The logic of introdu-cing it as a Money Bill is not clear.

GST has been debated for a longtime. It was supported by manyparties in the Opposition. It had tobe rolled out at some point. Weshould have ensured that the eco-nomy does not get out of gear. GSTwill benefit the country in the longrun, but implementation remains acause for concern.

Steps forwardThe government has to be ap-plauded for enacting certain legisla-tion or at least going ahead withbills introduced by the previousgovernment. The Benami Transac-

tions (Prohibition) Amendment Act,for instance, will bring in transpar-ency and reduce corruption.

At the same time, if at the end ofthe day a senior party functionaryhas been charged with corruption,the government has to speak up. Atlower levels, corruption is rampant.The Prime Minister is committed tothe cause of secularism, but his par-typersons speak in different lan-guages. I have no doubt in mindthat at the Prime Minister’s level,there hasn’t been any allegation ofcorruption. In the UPA time too, thefirst term did not see corruptioncharges being laid at the door of thegovernment.

as told to Anuradha Raman

His government has not kept many of its promises but it

must be applauded for enacting certain legislation

Rahul Narwekar

is the spokesperson of

the Nationalist

Congress Party prior to

which he was with the

Shiv Sena

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the Ujjwala scheme and dir-ect benefit transfers as stepstaken to empower con-sumers in the last threeyears.

The Real Estate Regulat-ory Act, for example, MrModi said will protect homebuyers from the builders’monopoly. The builders willno longer able to cheat themby diverting funds of certainproject to another. Therewill be a robust grievanceredressal mechanism, hesaid.

“Stringent provisions areproposed against mislead-ing advertisements. A Cent-ral Consumer Protection Au-thority with executivepowers will be constitutedfor quick remedial action,”Mr Modi added.

Prime Minister said pro-tection of consumer in-terests is a priority of hisgovernment and is part ofhis resolution for New India.He listed the new Real Es-tate law, new Bureau of In-dian Standards (BIS) Act,

‘Tougher consumerprotection law soon’

When contacted, AjayBhushan Pandey, CEO of theUnique Identification Au-thority of India (UIDAI), toldPTI: “The aim is to ensurethat no one is denied anyfood benefits for lack ofAadhaar, lack of linking, ortechnical difficulty in bio-metric authentication. Aslong as a person is genuine,he has to be given the bene-fit...”

The States and the UnionTerritories will have toprovide Aadhaar enrolmentfacilities to those withoutAadhaar and link theirAadhaar numbers with ra-tion cards, the Food Min-istry said, warning of strict

action for violation of thenotification.

As per the National FoodSecurity Act, the States havebeen given time till Decem-ber to link Aadhaar with ra-tion cards.

Deadline extendedHowever, the Centre onWednesday told the Su-preme Court that the dead-line for mandatory linkingof Aadhaar for benefits ofgovernment schemes wouldbe extended till March 31next for those who do nothave the biometric identific-ation number. So far, 82% ofthe ration cards have beenseeded with Aadhaar.

‘Don’t deny food itemsfor lack of Aadhaar’

the micro, small and me-dium enterprises(MSME)sector, Mr Gandhi said thesector was the central pillarto create jobs.

Arguing for a new dealfor the sector, Mr. Gandhisaid, “Even the bank recap-italisation announcementtargets only India’s biggestbusinesses while throwingcrumbs at MSMES. Imaginehow much employment wecould create if [we] actuallymade capital available toyou in the same way we dofor the biggest companies.”

The Congress leader saidthree years ago the massivemandate for Mr. Modi reflec-ted people’s expectationthat he had the ability andthe understanding an Indianvision.

“Today it is fair to say thatexpectation lies shattered-...People looked up to us forour values and leadership.But today they laugh at us aswe are busy debatingwhether the Taj Mahal wasactually built by Indians,”Mr. Gandhi said.

The prime minister, he said,had failed to grasp the basicconcept of the Indian eco-nomy.

“All cash is not black andall black is not cash.Without understanding thisbasic concept, the PrimeMinister used his vast powerto unleash terror on Indi-ans,” Mr Gandhi said.

“The trust in this govern-ment is dead. For somereason the PM and his gov-ernment are absolutely con-vinced that every single per-son in India is a thief,” theCongress leader said.

He said GDP was slowing,private investments havecollapsed, agriculturalgrowth is at its lowest ebb,exports are declining andunemployment situation isworrying.

“Yet Mr. Jaitley with hisimpeccable logic comes onTV every other day to say'everything is just fine.' Hepulls out a graph and saysafter 2019 things will be nor-mal again,” he said.

Making a strong pitch for

Note ban, GST killedeconomy: Rahul

He got into racketeering inthe 1990s by selling fakestamps which he began toprint and circulate across thecountry to vendors atthrowaway prices throughhis network. By the time theBengaluru police arrestedhim in Ajmer in November2001, he had built an elabor-ate counterfeit operationsnetwork across severalStates including Maha-rashtra, Karnataka, AndhraPradesh, Delhi, Gujarat.

Links with politiciansJayant Tinekar, social activistfrom Khanapur, has deman-ded an inquiry into the con-nections of politicians withAbdul Kareem Ladsab Telgi,the mastermind of the fakestamp paper racket, whodied in Bengaluru onThursday.

Mr. Tinekar was the whis-

tleblower who complainedagainst the fake stamp paperracket that led to an investig-ation against Abdul KareemLadsab from Khanapur.

StampIT, a team of of-ficers put together by theState government, dug upevidence to prove chargesagainst Telgi. The CBI tookover later, as the scam hadramifications across manyStates. “Telgi has left behinda diary that contains thenames of politicians who gotmoney from him regularly.They too have to be broughtto book,” Mr. Tinekar toldpresspersons at his office inKhanapur on Thursday.

Mr. Tinekar had allegedthat Telgi had financial linkswith many prominent politi-cians. He sought a detailedinquiry against all leaderswho he alleged had benefit-ted from Telgi.

Counterfeiter Telgidies in Bengaluru

Days after the Centre an-nounced a Special Repres-entative to initiate and“carry forward a dialogue”with elected representat-ives, various organisationsand concerned individualsof Jammu and Kashmir, asenior government officialsaid they would not be con-fining its scope by issuing“terms of reference.”

The official said the gov-ernment had deliberatelydecided to use the term“Special Representative”and not “interlocutor” ashad been the trend in thepast.

“We have reiterated theorder issued in 2003 whenthe current Governor of J&KN.N. Vohra was appointed tohold dialogue in the State.The terms of reference willnot define the scope of workof the Special Representat-ive,” the official said.

The Centre appointedformer Intelligence Bureau(IB) chief Dineshwar Sharmaas a Special Representativefor Jammu and Kashmirtalks earlier this week.

Chief Minister MehboobaMufti held discussions with

Home Minister RajnathSingh in New Delhi onThursday.

Ms. Mufti said a detaileddiscussion was also held onthe ₹80,000-crore packageannounced by Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modi in 2015.“Funds are getting releasedand development works aregoing on. Work on AIIMS isalso going on,” she said.

An official said the Spe-cial Representative wasopen to talks with the separ-atists. “While insinuationshave been made to the ef-fect that the Central govern-ment was not willing to en-gage with so-called realstakeholders (read separat-ists), it is factually incor-rect,” the official said on thecondition of anonymity.

Special Correspondent

New Delhi

Dineshwar Sharma

‘Open to talkswith separatists’

Chief Vigilance Commis-sioner K.V. Chowdary saidon Thursday that the Cent-ral Bureau of Investigation(CBI) Director Alok KumarVerma had given an adversecomment against the eleva-tion of Gujarat cadre IPS of-ficer Rakesh Asthana.

He told The Hindu thatthe five-member committeetook note of the “frankviews” made by Mr. Verma,but unanimously clearedthe elevation of Mr. Asthanafrom Additional Director toSpecial Director, CBI. “It isnot that if somebody sayssomething, it has to gothrough,” Mr. Chowdarysaid.

Asked if it meant that theCBI Director’s report had novalue, Mr. Chowdary said:“He gave his views, he is en-titled to be consulted. In thepast there have been manyinstances [when the com-mittee has not been unan-imous]. One instance is thatof [retired IPS officer]Archana Ramasundram. Icannot disclose what he saidin his dissent note.”

The five-member Selec-tion Committee headed byMr. Chowdary and compris-

ing two Vigilance Commis-sioners, Home and Person-nel secretaries met onOctober 21 to decide on thepromotion of CBI officers.

In a two-page dissentnote, Mr. Verma had recom-mended that Mr. Asthana’selevation should be kept inabeyance till investigationsare completed. His namehad surfaced in the “Diary2011” seized by the CBI dur-ing a raid recently. The diaryis mentioned in an FIR re-gistered by the CBI itself onAugust 30 against threesenior Income Tax officialsfor allegedly accepting bribefrom Gujarat-based SterlingBiotech and SandesaraGroup of Companies.

The Hindu has a copy ofthe diary that says Mr.Asthana received ₹40,578on multiple occasions.

‘Asthana elevateddespite dissent note’CVC says selection was unanimous

Vijaita Singh

New Delhi

Rakesh Asthana

It is a question 47-year-oldRahul Gandhi is accustomedto facing at public events andprofessional boxer VijendraSingh asked it again at theannual meet of the PHDChamber of Commerce onThursday.

“My wife and I want toknow when Rahul bhaiyya

will get married,” asked theboxer at the Q&A sessionsoon after Mr. Gandhi’s vale-dictory address here.

In the bargain, the boxerand the rest of the audiencegot to know that Mr. Gandhiis a black belt in the Japanesemartial art of Aikido.

Reluctant to answer, Mr.Gandhi tried to brush off thequestion, calling it an old

one. But the boxer, whosewedding Mr. Gandhi atten-ded a few years ago, per-sisted and asked if he [Mr.Gandhi] would get marriedand then become Prime Min-ister. “I believe in destiny,and when it [marriage] hasto happen, it will happen,”he said. Mr. Gandhi’s answerevoked a round of applause.

The former Olympian

turned professional boxeralso asked why politiciansdid not take part in sports.Mr. Gandhi said he did notinclude himself in that cat-egory of politicians.

“I do exercise, run andswim, and I am a black beltin Aikido, but [I] don’t speakabout it publicly. Sports isvery important for me and Ispend at least an hour doing

sports,” he said, and agreedto a suggestion that heshould put short videos ofthese activities on his socialmedia platforms.

To another questionwhether he would prefer tohave younger faceswhenever his party comes topower, Mr. Gandhi said, “AnyCongress government in thefuture will be a much

younger government, butthere is value to experience.”

Mentioning former PrimeMinister Manmohan Singhand former Finance MinisterP. Chidambaram as ex-amples of experience andwisdom, he said, “We willhave a large majority ofyounger people but we willhave support from our tradi-tional wisdom.”

Rahul says he’s a sport, has black belt in AikidoSpecial Correspondent

New Delhi

Actor Kamal Haasan took toTwitter on Thursday to re-fute speculation about himannouncing the formationof his political party onNovember 7.

In one of his regularcolumns in a Tamilmagazine, Mr. Haasan hadsaid that he would be meet-ing with the members ofthe welfare association heruns and that a big an-nouncement could be ex-pected.

‘Usual practice’Speculation soon followedabout the possibility of theactor announcing the form-ation of his political party.Mr. Haasan, however, hasdismissed rumours and hastweeted stating that it is hisusual practice to hold anannual meeting of mem-bers of the welfare associ-ation.

There has been constantspeculation on the actor’sentry into the politics andthe formation of a politicalparty. Mr. Haasan hadearlier met the Chief Minis-ter of Delhi, Arvind Kejri-wal, and the Chief Ministerof Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan.

Kamal scotchesspeculation onparty formation

Staff Reporter

CHENNAI

A Russian technical team isin Vizag for a joint investiga-tion into the mysteriousdamage suffered by INSChakra, the nuclear sub-marine leased to India in2011, a diplomatic sourcehas confirmed.

Details available from anofficial Indian inquiry showthat the damage to the sub-marine is far bigger thanwhat has been known inpublic. The sonar dome inthe forward portion hassuffered an almost five-feetby five-feet hole, accordingto reliable information fromthe Ministry of Defence

sources. Two separatesources, from the Russianand Indian side, separatelyconfirmed to The Hindu thatthe damage to the submar-

ine was not very serious,and did not impact the nuc-lear reactor, because it wasall contained to the outerhull.

The Russian team arrivedin India after it refused to besatisfied with the findings ofa three-member Indianteam’s official inquiry.Sources said the team hadplaced the damage primar-ily on technical issues.There has been speculationthat the damage was causedby a minor accident whileINS Chakra was on themove.

Russia, which leased thesubmarine to India for a 10-year period in 2011 for over$600 million, sent a formalmessage a few days ago toNew Delhi that it was notfully convinced of the In-dian findings.

Russia then suggested

that technical experts fromtheir side be allowed accessto examine the submarinewhich had been docked forthe past several weeks inthe submarine base INS Vir-bahu in Visakhapatnam.

Sources said the investig-ations by the joint teamwould be filed to both NewDelhi and Moscow. For now,Russian sources indicatethat the damage is not seri-ous. “But we will have towait for the final report be-fore moving forward,” oneRussian official said.

India is already engagedin negotiations for thesecond nuclear submarinefrom Russia, which couldjoin service when INS

Chakra returns after its 10-year lease.

Speculation on accidentThere have been muchspeculation surrounding theaccident suffered by thesubmarine, with some re-ports saying it may have metwith an accident while ne-gotiating the narrow chan-nel to enter the harbour.The submarine suffered amajor accident in 2008while undergoing sea trials.

The Akula class submar-ine is an SSN, and is toprovide escort to INSArihant, the indigenouslyconstructed ballistic missilesubmarine that would carrynuclear missiles.

Russian team in Vizag to inspect damaged submarineSources say nuclear reactor on INS Chakra is intact; Russia not fully convinced of Indian �ndings

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Joint probe sought: Russia leased INS Chakra to India for a10-year period from 2011. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

The United Jehad Council(UJC), a PoK-based conglom-erate of militants, said onThursday that it will supportHurriyat on the dialogueprocess with New Delhi.

“They [the militants] arewith the Kashmir leadershipif they start a dialogue pro-cess. Since India is not sin-cere, we have decided to laydown three conditions,” UJCchief Syed Salahuddin told apress conference inPakistan-occupied Kashmir(PoK). The three conditionswere that India should de-clare Jammu and Kashmir adisputed territory; acknow-ledge that there are threeparties to the dispute; andaccept that Kashmir issuewill be resolved in the lightof the United Nations resolu-tions in accordance with theaspirations of the Kashmiris.

Salahuddin, who headsthe Hizbul Mujahideen, al-leged that India, in the nameof dialogue, had always com-mitted fraud. “When therewere no options, the youthof Kashmir took to arms. Un-der the present circum-

stances, armed struggle re-mains the only way out asIndia is eager to change theMuslim demography of J&K.”

The statement is signific-ant as the Hurriyat is findingthe going tough in the wakeof the Centre appointingDineshwar Sharma as its in-terlocutor for J&K. Mr.Sharma is visiting Kashmirnext week.

NIA raidsMeanwhile, sleuths of theNational InvestigationAgency (NIA) raided thehouses of Salahuddin’s sons

in central Kashmir’s Budgamdistrict on Thursday.

An NIA official said it car-ried out searches at thehouse of Shahid Yousuf, whoremains in the NIA’s custodyat Soibugh in central Kash-mir. “The NIA seized fivemobiles, two hard discs, onelaptop, incriminating docu-ments and some electronicdevices,” said the official. Hewas sent on a seven-day NIAcustody by a court in NewDelhi on Wednesday. A po-lice official said the premisesof another son of the Hizbchief were also searched.

Will support Hurriyat ontalks, says Jehad CouncilIts chief Salahuddin wants India to agree to 3 conditions

Peerzada Ashiq

Srinagar

More trouble: A �le photo of NIA personnel raiding a Hurriyatleader’s house in Budgam recently. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Refusing to countenance Lt.Governor Kiran Bedi’s recentorder stipulating that thegovernment officers attendpublic functions involvingthe ‘Head of State’, Puduch-erry Chief Minister V. Naray-ansamy has written to PrimeMinister Narendra Modi ur-ging him to direct the Lt.Governor to “stop runningthe administration directly”and issuing orders bypassingthe elected government.

On October 23, Ms. Bediissued a standing order man-dating the presence of of-ficers to ensure the solem-nity of functions marking“important national eventsand public functions havingthe attendance of Head ofState”.

The order went on to stip-ulate officers to RSVP attend-ance or inability, seatingnorms and even adherenceto a dress code.

Terming this as “inappro-priate, avoidable and im-possible to implement”, Mr.Narayanasamy’s letter to thePrime Minister points outthat such an order, if at all is-sued, should have been a cir-cular from the general ad-

ministration department asper the procedure.

‘Protocol followed’According to the Chief Minis-ter, all government protocolsare followed and officers at-tend national and officialfunctions such as RepublicDay, Independence Day orLiberation Day.

“However, there is nocompulsion on them to at-tend several day-to-day func-tions which are attended bythe Lt. Governor or ChiefMinister. This is due to thefact that on a single day,there will be five or six suchfunctions…If all officers aredressed formally, attendfunctions and salute the VIPsthey will be left (with) notime to do their normal andofficial work,” Mr. Naray-anasamy wrote.

He pointed out that a fewweeks ago, when a proposalwas submitted to issue a cir-cular making attendance atsuch functions mandatory,he had directed that the ex-isting system be continued.

Ms. Bedi came out withthe standing order on com-pliance of norms by seniorofficers with regard to at-tendance at State functions

and public functionsThe same day the standing

order was issued, the Lt.Governor notified the UnionHome Minister Rajnath Singhabout it citing the “non-com-pliance of norms” by some ofthe senior officers in regardto attendance in State func-tions hosted in the Raj Nivas.

‘Satisfying ego’The letter states that follow-ing the thin attendance at the‘At Home Reception’ hostedat Raj Nivas on Independ-ence Day, a directive was is-sued to formulate a StandardOperating Procedure to befollowed for hosting/attend-ing Government functionsvide letter No. LGS/2017/243dated August 21, 2017, ad-dressed to the Chief Secret-ary. “Since the matter ispending for more than twomonths, in exercise of thepowers conferred under Sec-tion 44 of the Union Territor-ies Act, 1963, and the Admin-istrator’s Executive Powersvested under Chapter IV andRule 46 of the Rules of Busi-ness of the Government ofPondicherry, 1963, I have is-sued a standing order in thisregard.”

Mr. Narayanasamy’s letter

to the Prime Minister statesthat in spite of his reasoningagainst a circular, Ms. Bedi“to satisfy her own ego hasnow issued an order underher own signature making itmandatory for all officers tobe present at all functionsbeing attended by her.”

A highly-placed officialtold The Hindu that the bur-eaucracy’s estrangementwith the Lt. Governor thatbegan when she suspended aPondicherry Civil Servicecadre officer for posting alewd video on a WhatsAppgroup initiated by her forpassing directions, was nowmore or less complete. Somehave complained of publicdressing downs while severalofficers were devising waysto opt out of serving unableto work in an environmentvitiated by the tiff betweenthe Lt. Governor and theChief Minister, he added.

Double standards“It smacks of double stand-ards when the same personwho has been harping on theneed for officials to adoptfield work issues an orderthat is a negation of a healthwork ethic”, another officialremarked.

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Though the BJP in Gujarathas vehemently denied al-legations of bribery made byPatidar agitation leader Nar-endra Patel, who claimedthat he was offered ₹1 croreto join the ruling party, Mr.Patel on Thursday broughtout an audio clip in which heand Varun Patel are hearddiscussing the deal struckwith the BJP.

In the taped mobile con-versation, Mr Narendra Pateland Varun Patel, who hadbroken away from the agita-tion and joined the saffronparty on October 21, areheard discussing about thedeal and how the moneywould be paid to him.

In the audio tape, Varun

Patel apparently tells Naren-dra that “he would get 60%now and 40% later.” How-ever, when Narendra Patelinsists on the entire amountin one go, Varun tells him to

accept 60% “now” and re-maining 40% “later”. “Youtake 60% after the press con-ference and 40% after thepublic meeting,” Varun Patelis heard telling Narendra.

Patidar leader heats up pollscene with tape on bribery Audio clip purportedly contains Varun Patel’s o�er of ₹1 cr.

Mahesh Langa

AHMEDABAD

The Visnagar sessions courton Thursday cancelled thenon-bailable arrest warrantissued against quotaagitation leader Hardik Patelafter he appeared before itand gave an assurance toremain present during

hearings in the future.Sessions judge V.P.

Agarwal had on Wednesdayissued warrants against Mr.Hardik Patel and six others,including Lalji Patel in a caseof vandalising a BJP MLA’soffice during a stir in 2015.The court posted the caseon November 15.

Arrest warrant againstHardik cancelledPRESS TRUST OF INDIA

MEHSANA

Prime Minister NarendraModi and Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) chief Amit Shahmay appear completely pre-occupied with the upcomingAssembly polls in Gujarat,but planning for the nextfew days of political activityshows that the southernstate of Karnataka, sched-uled to go to the polls earlynext year, is weighing heav-ily on their minds.

The north Karnataka dis-trict of Bidar will see PrimeMinister Modi make his firstpolitical speech in the Stateon Sunday, where he will beaddressing a political rallyafter attending a couple ofgovernment events inBengaluru and Dhar-masthala. According to asenior BJP general secretary,the rally will presage theNava KarnatakaParivarthana Yatre to beflagged off by BJP chief AmitShah on November 2 fromBengaluru and carried for-ward by the party’s chiefministerial candidate in theState, B. S. Yeddyurappa.The yatra or road show is ex-pected to touch all 224 As-sembly constituencies in theState and has two parts to it— the flagging off fromBengaluru and a mid-wayjamboree at Hubli onDecember 21. The yatra willconclude in Bengaluru againon January 28, in a rally tobe addressed by Prime Min-ister Modi.

“We are looking atKarnataka as seven distinctregions politically, includingBombay and HyderabadKarnataka, Malnad,Bengaluru and surroundingregions, coastal Karnatakaand old Mysuru, and wehope that, by January 28,Prime Minister Modi can ad-dress meetings in each ofthese regions,” said the of-fice-bearer, adding that thedetails were yet to beworked out. BombayKarnataka refers to theMarathi speaking districts

bordering Maharashtra,which were earlier part ofthe Bombay Presidency. Hy-derabad Karnataka com-prises districts in northernKarnataka borderingAndhra Pradesh, whichwere part of the erstwhileNizamate of Hyderabad.

Farmer suicides“Our main issues against thecurrent Karnataka govern-ment would be corruption,farmers’ distress that hasseen nearly 4,000 suicidesby farmers in the last fouryears in the State, and theincreasing cases of radical-isation and the poor hand-ling of it by the State govern-ment,” said the office bearer.

The BJP is seen as de-pending on the support baseof Lingayats, the largestcommunity grouping in theState, hence the choice of

Bidar, where the communityis in large numbers andhews to the BJP’s stronghold in north Karnataka.The Vokkaliga community,the second largest grouping,has traditionally not taken tothe BJP, and the recent in-come tax raids on KarnatakaMinister D. K. Shivkumar,who belongs to the Vokk-aliga community, have notgone down well. BJP chiefAmit Shah made it a point tovisit the AdichunchanagiriMutt of Vokkaligas in oldMysore in August. “What ismore important is that therewas an overture from theMutt for the BJP, whichwasn’t forthcoming earlier,”said the general secretary.

The party is trying to en-ergise cadre through theyatra and plans a big motor-cycle rally in Bengaluru forthe event on November 2.

Modi and Shah plan activities for early polls next year

Nistula Hebbar

NEW DELHI

A �le photo of BJP leader B.S. Yeddyurappa with others duringa roadshow in Karnataka. * M.A. SRIRAM

Gujarat is spotlit but it’sKarnataka on BJP’s mind

The Opposition parties inthe country will becomestronger after the GujaratAssembly elections, Maha-rashtra Navnirman Sena(MNS) president Raj Thack-eray said on Thursday.

“I agree the oppositionis a bit weak, but after theGujarat elections, it will be-come stronger. There willbe a visible change in theopposition,” he said.

Mr. Thackeray wasspeaking at the ‘Aaj TakManthan’ on the theme Ka-han Gaya Vipaksh (Whereis Opposition)?’

He slammed the PrimeMinister’s focus on Gujaratcampaign. Though, it is thePM’s home state, it doesnot look nice that the coun-try’s head is campaigningfor one state,” he said.

Thackerayforesees unityin Opposition

Press Trust of India

Mumbai

Commending the Navy onmaintaining continuous de-ployment of ships, submar-ines and aircraft in India’sareas of interest in the lastone year, Defence MinisterNirmala Sitharaman onThursday took note of thecritical capability shortfallsthat the service is facing invarious platforms.

She made these com-ments while addressing theon-going biannual NavalCommanders Conference.

Combat edge“Ms. Sitharaman took noteof the critical capabilityshortfalls that the Navy is fa-cing in ship-borne multi-rolehelicopters, conventionalsubmarines and minecounter measure vessels,which need urgent redressalto maintain the combat edgeof the Navy. She assured theCommanders’ that thatthese issues were beinggiven due impetus and ef-forts were in hand to mitig-ate these shortcomings atthe earliest,” the Navy saidin a statement.

The Defence Minister also

acknowledged the “high op-erational tempo” main-tained by the Navy in the lastone year through regular de-ployment of ships, submar-ines and aircraft from theSouth China Sea and Sea ofJapan in the East to the Per-sian Gulf and the AtlanticOcean in the West and theshores of Australia in theSouth.

The statement said theMinister has acknowledged

the focused efforts of theNavy in deterring piracy at-tempts off the Gulf of Aden.

24/7 surveillanceThe Navy has validated anew mission based deploy-ment concept to maintainround-the-clock surveillanceof critical choke points andsea lanes of communicationin the Indian Ocean Regionin the backdrop of increasedChinese presence.

Commends the force for its ‘high operational tempo’

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI

Mission mode: Nirmala Sitharaman with Navy chief AdmiralSunil Lanba at the Naval Commanders’ Conference. * PTI

Defence Minister takes noteof key shortfalls in Navy

Seeking a ‘constructive’ ap-proach to dealing with theexodus of the Rohingya, In-dia said on Thursday that thedisplaced members of thecommunity will have to re-turn to their place of originin the Rakhine province ofMyanmar.

Speaking at a think tankevent here, on the prospectsof India-Japan cooperationin the Bay of Bengal andAsia-Pacific regions, ForeignSecretary S. Jaishankar high-

lighted India’s regional hu-manitarian responsibilitiesand growing convergencewith Tokyo.

“The exodus of a largenumber of people from theRakhine state to Bangladeshis clearly a matter of con-cern. Our objective will be tosee how they can go back totheir place of origin. Clearlythat is not easy,” he said.“We are talking toBangladesh and separatelyengaged with Myanmar andwe feel that this is a situationbetter addressed with prac-

tical measures and con-structive conversation,rather than doing verystrong condemnations and,having checked the condem-nation box, moving to thenext issue.”

He highlighted the needfor “a sober, sensitive andlocally sensitive approach”in dealing with the humanit-arian emergency that the ex-odus had become.

Regional cooperationMr. Jaishankar also broughtup the ties between con-

nectivity, regional coopera-tion and humanitarian re-sponse to evolving crises.“One of the areas we want tosee in the agenda of BIM-STEC is collaboration on theHADR— that, we would likethese member countries tocooperate on humanitarianassistance to disaster situ-ation. In the last three years,Nepal earthquake relief, (In-dia’s response to) Yemencivil war, Maldivian watercrisis, and even OperationInsaniyat for the Rohingyasare part of cooperation.”

India for ‘constructive’ Rohingya policyKallol Bhattacherjee

NEW DELHI

A number of candidateswithdrew their nominationson the last day of withdrawalfor the November 9Assembly elections inHimachal Pradesh.

Now 349 candidates areleft in fray for the 68 VidhanSabha seats.

Senior Congress leadersand Ministers like Kaul Singh

Thakur in Drang, T.S.Bharmauri in Bharmaur,Harbhajan Singh Bhajji inShimla, Nand Lal inRampur, Ravi Thakur inLahaul Spiti, LakhwinderRana in Nalagarh and SatpalRaizada in Una will still facethe party rebels. ProminentBJP leader Indu Goswami inPalampur would also facePraveen Sharma, a partyrebel.

349 candidates in frayin Himachal PradeshStaff Correspondent

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Two more persons suspec-ted of having links with theIslamic State (IS) were arres-ted here on Thursday, rais-ing the number of those ar-rested to five.

The two have been iden-tified as U.K. Hamza, 57, andManaf Rahman, 45, bothnatives of Thalassery.Hamza has already beenidentified by the police asthe main source of inspira-tion for the radicalisedMuslim youth who havejoined the IS.

On Wednesday, the po-lice team led by KannurDeputy Superintendent ofPolice P.P. Sadanandan hadarrested three youths fortheir suspected links withthe IS.

Remanded for 14 daysAll the five have been arres-ted under Sections 38 and39 of the Unlawful Activities(Prevention) Act. They wereproduced at the PrincipalSessions Court inThalassery on Thursday andremanded in custody for 14days.

Mr. Sadanandan told The

Hindu that though Hamzahad no formal education,

he was well-versed in the Is-lamic scripture, includingthe Koran and Hadith. Hehad worked in the Gulf re-gion for over 20 years andreturned to his native placea few years ago.

Manaf Rahman had de-cided to go to Syria to fightfor IS after coming into con-tact with Hamza, he said.Hamza was to leave forSyria after Manaf landedthere, police said.

Their plan was foiledwhen Manaf was stopped atthe Mangaluru airport bythe Central agencies aroundsix months ago.

Since then, both hadbeen under police surveil-lance here.

According to the police,all those arrested, exceptfor Manaf Rahman, showedno distress at their arrest.

Two more held forsuspected IS linksThey had planned to go to SyriaSpecial Correspondent

KANNUR

U.K. Hamza, left, and ManafRahman

With the announcement ofpoll schedule for the GujaratAssembly polls, both the BJPand the Congress have be-gun an elaborate exercise forcandidate section. The BJP’sState parliamentary boardhas been holding meetingsin Ahmedabad to discuss po-tential candidates.

The board will make apanel of two candidates foreach seat and then the finaldecision will be taken by thenational parliamentaryboard. “The State parlia-mentary board will continueto meet till October 27,” aparty leader said. BJP presid-ent Amit Shah is also attend-ing all meetings of the Stateparliamentary board.

In the Congress, itsscreening committee hasbeen meeting in Delhi to dis-cuss the names of potentialcandidates for various seats.“The screening committeemeeting was held in Delhi.We have finalised names formore than 50 seats but the fi-nal announcement will bemade only in the secondweek of November,” a Con-gress leader part of the delib-erations said.

Senior Congress leaderand in-charge of GujaratAshok Gehlot and otherscreening committee mem-bers, State party chief Bhar-atsinh Solanki were presentin the meeting in New Delhi.

On Wednesday, the Elec-tion Commission of India an-nounced the schedule forthe Assembly polls to beheld in two phases onDecember 9 and 14 whilecounting will be on Decem-ber 18 along with HimachalPradesh results.

The Aam Aadmi Party hasalready announced candid-ates for 11 seats while re-maining candidates will beannounced in next fewweeks. Former Congressleader Shankersinh Va-ghela’s Jan Vikalp Party willfield candidates in all seats.

Congress, BJP kick-start process topick contestants for Gujarat battleBJP board has been holding meetings in Ahmedabad; Cong. screening committee convenes in Delhi

Decks cleared: Workers remove a hoarding of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani after theannouncement of the Assembly election schedule, in Ahmedabad on Wednesday. * PTI

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Imran apologises to Pak.election commissionISLAMABAD

Pakistan’s election

commission on Thursday

warned Opposition leader

Imran Khan to be careful in

his choice of words in future

after accepting an apology

from him for his scandalous

remarks against the top poll

body. Mr. Khan appeared

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contempt cases. PTI

ELSEWHERE

U.S.-led strikes claim 51civilians more: coalitionWASHINGTON

An ongoing review of air and

artillery strikes against the

Islamic State found that

another 51 civilians were

killed by the U.S.-led

coalition in Iraq and Syria,

pushing the total death toll

to at least 786. The coalition

revealed this in a statement

on Thursday. AFP

Brazil President Temeravoids corruption trial BRASILIA

Brazil's Congress has rejected

corruption charges against

President Michel Temer,

meaning he will not have to

face trial and is free to pursue

austerity reforms. The vote

threw out the charges just an

hour after Mr. Temer was

discharged from a hospital

following treatment for a

urinary tract issue. AFP

Billionaire arrested onracketeering charges WASHINGTON

John Kapoor, 74, Indian-

American billionaire and

founder of a pharmaceutical

company, was arrested in

Phoenix, U.S., for allegedly

leading a conspiracy to bribe

doctors to prescribe a

powerful opioid to patients

who don’t need it. PTI

A Pakistani anti-graft courton Thursday issued a bail-able arrest warrant againstousted Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif after he failedto appear before it in twocases of corruption spirallingfrom the Panama Papersscandal.

Accountability CourtJudge Muhammad Bashiralso dismissed 67-year-oldSharif ’s application seekingexemption from personalappearance. Mr. Sharif, wholeft for London earlier thismonth to be with his ailingwife, Kalsum, who is under-going cancer treatment, hasnot returned to Pakistan forthe court hearing since hewas indicted in three corrup-tion cases.

The National Accountabil-ity Bureau (NAB) on Septem-ber 8 registered three casesagainst Mr. Sharif, his chil-

dren and son-in-law in theaccountability court follow-ing a verdict by the SupremeCourt, which disqualifiedhim after an investigationinto corruption allegationsagainst his family.

Mr. Sharif ’s daughterMaryam and son-in-law Cap-tain Muhammad Safdar

(retd.) appeared in the courtbut Mr. Sharif was absentand his lawyer Khawaja Har-ris asked the court to exempthim from appearance, ac-cording to a court official.

NAB deputy prosecutorgeneral Sardar Muzaffar Ab-basi opposed the applicationand said already the court

granted Mr. Sharif a 15-dayexemption that expired onOctober 24. He accused Mr.Sharif of delaying tactics.

‘Forced to stay back’Mr. Sharif ’s counsel said heleft London on October 23 toappear before the court aftera brief stopover in Saudi Ara-bia ito perform Umrah withhis mother and pray for thespeedy recovery and healthof his wife. He told the courtthat Mr. Sharif was all set toleave for Pakistan from SaudiArabia when he came toknow that his wife was beingadmitted to the hospital onemergency basis.

In the prevailing circum-stances, Mr. Sharif has beenconstrained to stay back toperform Umrah in the nameof his ailing wife before leav-ing Saudi to London to bewith his wife at this criticalstage of her treatment, Mr.Harris said.

Pak. anti-graft court issuesarrest warrant against SharifEx-PM failed to appear before it in Panama Papers-related cases of corruption

In the dock: The court dismissed Mr. Sharif’s application,seeking exemption from personal appearance. * AFP

Press Trust of India

Islamabad

Solemn occasion: The Great Victory Chariot carrying the ceremonial urn representing the remains of the late Thai king BhumibolAdulyadej is pulled during his funeral procession in Bangkok on Thursday. This caps an year of mourning. * REUTERS

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Yang Jiechi, China’s pointperson for the boundarytalks with India, has beenelevated to the 25-memberPolitburo, the secondhighest rung in the coun-try’s power hierarchy.

Mr. Yang has been Chi-na’s Special Representativeat the boundary talks withIndia during President XiJinping’s first term in officethat began in 2012.

Till his promotion thatwas announced during thecourse of the just con-cluded 19th Party Con-gress, Mr. Yang was a mem-ber of the CentralCommittee of the Com-munist Party of China(CPC) — a category lowerthan the Politburo.

The ruling CPC’s de-cision to elevate him to thePolitburo is widely viewedas a signal of the Presid-ent’s trust in China’s topdiplomat.

China bordertalks o�cialelevatedAtul Aneja

BEIJING

Indian businesses with in-vestments in Britain wouldsee that it was business asusual, Britain’s Minister forAsia Mark Field said, as hesought to offer reassurancesto investors and others look-ing to the U.K. market amidthe uncertainty of Brexit.

Mr. Field, the Minster forAsia and the Pacific at theForeign and CommonwealthOffice, also urged businessesnot to focus too much on thestate of a trade deal with In-dia, which is dependent onBritain’s ability to secure adeal with Europe, arguingthat trade with Britain’spartners had continued withand without trade deals.

“The strategic partner-ship has never beenstronger,” Mr. Field said ofBritain’s relationship withIndia, arguing that despitethe lack of references to itspartnership with India inthe Conservative Party elec-tion manifesto of June, theparty and the governmentremained committed as everto pushing forward the rela-tionship, as Prime MinisterTheresa May’s predecessorDavid Cameron had done.

Mr. Field, who was a Re-main campaigner in lastyear’s referendum said ofBrexit: “We need to makethis work and we can onlydo so by being positive andhaving a buccaneering ap-proach. Of course, there willbe a cloud of uncertainty inthe next couple of years.”

However, two or threeyears of transition was noth-ing in the grand scheme ofthings, he said, adding that“we will get through this.”

“The message I hope tosend to Indians in the U.K.market is that it’s business asusual,” Mr. Field said,

adding that he recognisedthat some prospective in-vestors might delay de-cisions given the uncertain-ties. He hoped that theywould be able to do so at theearliest possible opportun-ity, while saying it was yet tobe ascertained when talkson a free trade agreementwith India could begin asthis would be dependent onthe terms of the transitiondeal reached with the E.U.

Two-year transition dealThe Prime Minister hadspoken of a two-year trans-ition deal after 2019 tosmooth Britain’s exit andthat if the transition deal didinclude a form of single mar-ket membership, then tradedeals with countries such asIndia could only be formallynegotiated after this period,he said.

Mr. Field said the govern-ment welcomed the changesbeing brought in by the cent-ral government though Brit-

ish “business people whohad tried to make it work inIndia have been frustratedby the pace of change,” andthat as India continued itsreform agenda, he hopedBritain could play more of arole. “I would like to see astronger economic connec-tion but it’s simplistic to sayit’s been a disappointment,”Mr. Field said.

Asked about the issue ofstudent visas — an issue re-peatedly brought up in thecontext of the British-Indiarelationship — Mr. Field saidhis impression of universit-ies was that they still felt be-ing able to attract the“brightest and the best com-ing out of India,” and thatthe government had listenedto some of the concerns ofstudents and introducedsome reforms.

Role in AfghanistanOn the issue of Britain’sstance on India’s role in thenew U.S.-Afghan policy, hesaid it was “not entirelyclear” what the role for In-dia may or not be but that itwas important that therewas a dialogue betweenAfghanistan and Pakistanthat was not there before.

“I also understand thedeep sensitivities on thePakistani side, the notion ofIndia having a role in Afgh-anistan that they would re-gard as being a red line.”

“ I do think it’s importantthat Afghanistan andPakistan are able to begin tocome to some arrangement.My instinct is that this wouldbe better on a bilateral basis— other countries involvingthemselves in this issue orbeing seen to interfere mayundermine the idea of beingable to come together to alonger term arrangement,”Mr. Field said.

It will be business as usual despite Brexit, says Mark Field

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Weeks after pro-Rajapaksaprotesters clashed with thepolice outside the Indianconsulate in Hambantota,Sri Lanka signed an agree-ment with India to build1,200 houses in a public ce-remony held in the southernport city on Thursday.

Following the agitationagainst the government’s re-ported move to lease out anearby airport to India, po-lice arrested eight protest-ers, including Hambantotaparliamentarian Namal Ra-japaksa, the son of formerPresident Mahinda Ra-japaksa. They were all gran-ted bail the following week.

The coastal city of Ham-bantota gained strategic sig-nificance after President Ra-japaksa built a massive portand an airport with hugeChinese loans. In July this

year, his successor govern-ment sold a majority stake ofthe port to China to servicean outstanding $8-billiondebt it owes China, fanningconcerns of countries withcompeting strategic in-terests, particularly Indiaand the U.S.

Local residents, includingsupporters of Mr. Rajapaksa,have earlier protested theselling of “national assets toforeign entities”, some ofthem leading to violentclashes.

Indian interest The agitation outside the In-dian consulate earlier thismonth followed media re-ports about India’s interestin running the nearby Mat-tala airport, which is miredin heavy losses.

The signing of the MoU inHambantota assumes signi-ficance not only in its tim-

ing, but also in taking India’shousing project to the Sin-hala-majority SouthernProvince.

Model villagesAs many as 46,000 homeshave been built in the Tamil-majority north and east,while 4,000 houses are cur-rently being built in the hillcountry in the Central andUva provinces, where sev-eral thousand Sri Lankans ofrecent Indian origin live andwork.

Of the 1,200 houses to bebuilt following Thursday’sMoU, 600 will be construc-ted in the SouthernProvince, while the remain-ing would be built across SriLanka, through one modelvillage in each of the coun-try’s 25 districts, accordingto a press release from theIndian High Commission inColombo.

India, Sri Lanka ink housingproject deal in HambantotaMove comes weeks after protests by Rajapaksa supporters

Meera Srinivasan

COLOMBO

An explosion and inferno ata fireworks factory near theIndonesian capital onThursday killed at least 47people, most of them femaleworkers, and injureddozens, police said.

Witnesses said a huge ex-plosion was heard from thefactory at about 10 a.m. localtime and then smaller blastsechoed across the neigh-bourhood as orange flamesjumped from the buildingand a column of black smokebillowed from it. The deathtoll could rise as many ofthose who escaped have

suffered extensive burns,said Nico Afinta, generalcrimes director at Jakarta po-lice. He said the factory had

more than 100 employees. “The fire began with a

strong explosion like abomb,” Benny, a Tangerang

resident who goes by onename, told MetroTV.

A worker who escapedthe fire said the factory’sstaff was mostly women em-ployed on a casual basis.

The factory is located nextto a residential area inTangerang, a city in Bantenprovince on the western out-skirts of Jakarta. A police re-port said the fire spread afteran explosion and that thefactory’s roof had collapsed.

Police said more than 40injured people were beingtreated at three hospitals.The factory had been operat-ing for less than two months,he said.

Indonesia �reworks factory �re kills 47Witnesses report hearing a huge explosion that was followed by smaller blasts

Associated Press

TANGERANG

Tragedy strikes: The �recracker factory that was destroyed inthe blaze and explosion in Tangerang on Thursday. * AFP

Catalonia’s leader said onThursday he would not callelections to ease a standoffwith Madrid over an inde-pendence push, leaving itup to the regional parlia-ment to respond to the cent-ral government’s plannedseizure of Catalan powers.

Carles Puigdemont saidin a televised statement ithad been his “duty” to finda negotiated solution to thecrisis “to avoid the impacton our institutions of the im-plementation of Article 155.”

He was referring to anever-before-used article inthe Constitution designed torein in rebel regions, underwhich Madrid plans to takeover Catalan political powerand finances in a bid to stopthe region’s breaking awayafter an outlawed independ-ence referendum.

Many had consideredearly elections — instead of aunilateral declaration of in-

dependence — as a way toavoid these drastic meas-ures taking effect and easethe crisis that has pittedCatalonia’s separatist lead-ers against the centralgovernment.

But Mr. Puigdemont saidthere were no “guarantees”in place “to justify callingelections today.”

He added that it was now“up to the [regional] parlia-ment,” which was expectedto meet later on Thursday,to decide how to respond tothe central government’splanned takeover.

‘Won’t call electionsto ease Catalan crisis’Agence France-Presse

Barcelona

Carles Puigdemont

Opposition supporters boy-cotted Thursday’s rerun ofKenya’s disputed presiden-tial election, clashing withpolice in some parts of theEast African country andforcing authorities to post-pone voting in areas af-fected by the violence. Atleast three people werekilled.

While most of Kenya waspeaceful, voter turnout wasrelatively low even in someregions considered to bestrongholds for PresidentUhuru Kenyatta, who wasdeclared the winner of anAugust 8 election that laterwas nullified by the Su-preme Court.

‘Logistical challenges’Most polling stations closedas scheduled at 5 p.m. andvote-counting began,though election officials saidsites that opened late due towhat they called “logistical

challenges” could stay openlater.

Sporadic unrestPolling stations in someareas supporting Oppositionleader Raila Odinga did notopen at all because ofsporadic unrest in which po-lice fired bullets and tear gasshells at stone-throwing pro-testers, who heeded his callfor a boycott and main-tained the election was notcredible.

Late on Thursday, policesaid they were investigatinginformation that “some indi-viduals” planned to attackconvoys of vehicles carryingballots to counting centresin some counties.

Three people were killedin protests, a police sourcesaid — one in the Oppositionstronghold of KisumuCounty, another in HomaBay in the west and a thirdin the town of Athi Riveroutside the capital ofNairobi.

Clashes mar rerunof Kenyan vote Associated Press

NAIROBI

The Indian-American fostermother of a three-year-oldIndian girl, whose body wasdiscovered from a culvert insuburban Dallas, has deniedany involvement in the deathor the removal of her daugh-ter’s body from their home.

The body of Sherin Math-ews was found on Sunday ina culvert under a road nearly1 km from her home.

Wesley Mathews, thefoster father of Sherin wasre-arrested after he changedhis story about his daugh-ter’s mysterious disappear-ance on October 7 from theirhome. Lawyers MichelleNolte and Gregg Gibbs, rep-resenting Sini Mathews is-sued a statement on Wed-nesday, saying she deniedany involvement in the deathof her adoptive daughter,Sherin. In the statement, thelawyers said Ms. Sini had co-operated with the police in-vestigation into her daugh-

ter’s disappearance onOctober 7 from their homein Richardson.

She was “interrogated forhours by several officerswith no attorney present” afew days later. “Now that Mr.Mathews has turned himselfinto the police and told themwhat happened to Sherin,we see no need for Mrs.Mathews to endure furtherpolice interrogation. She hadnothing to do with Sherin’sdeath or the removal of herbody from the home,” the

statement said. According tocourt records, Mr. Mathewspreviously told detectivesthat his wife was sleepingwhen Sherin disappeared.

On Wednesday, Mr. Math-ews was transferred to theLew Sterrett Justice Centre,where he would be underthe custody of the DallasCounty Sheriff ’s Depart-ment, the Richardson PoliceDepartment said. It said de-tectives were gathering evid-ence in the death of Sherin.

Suicide watchU.S. media reported that the37-year-old Indian-Amer-ican, who worked in an ITcompany, had been placedunder suicide watch.

Mr. Mathews is chargedwith injury to a child, a first-degree felony and his bondis set at $1 million. The law-yers of Ms. Sini said she was“trying to grieve for her lostdaughter while still caringfor her remaining daughter.She is struggling to pick up

the pieces of a shatteredlife.”

The police previously saidMs. Sini initially cooperatedin the investigation on Octo-ber 7, but then stopped. Thisweek, police said sheprovided the dental recordsand identified clothingfound with Sherin’s body tohelp the medical examinermake a positive identifica-tion. Police also said Ms. Sininever provided a full ac-count of what happenedwhen Sherin died.

Mr. Mathews is the onlyperson charged with a crimein Sherin’s disappearanceand death. He originally toldpolice that his daughter dis-appeared while being pun-ished, when she was forcedto stand outside by a tree at 3a.m. for not drinking hermilk. Later, when the bodywas found, he changed hisstory and said his daughterchoked to death after he“physically assisted” her indrinking her milk.

Foster mom denies role in Sherin’s deathLawyers of Sini Mathews said she has cooperated with police investigation

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PRICE CHANGE

Adani Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414.30. . . . . . . . -1.15

Ambuja Cements. . . .. . . . . . 276.45. . . . . . . . -5.30

Asian Paints. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1191.15. . . . . . -10.55

Aurobindo Pharma . . . . . . 749.00. . . . . . . 14.50

Axis Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484.30. . . . . . . 11.30

Bajaj Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3283.40. . . . . . . 51.15

Bajaj Finance . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1746.75. . . . . . . 20.40

Bharti Airtel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511.30. . . . . . . . -4.45

Bosch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21031.45. . . -227.70

BPCL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536.45. . . . . . . 26.65

Cipla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611.50. . . . . . . 18.85

Coal India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293.35. . . . . . . . . 4.20

Dr Reddys Lab . . . . . . . .. . . . 2344.35. . . . . . . . -4.50

Eicher Motors. . . . . . . . .. 31617.55. . . . . . -98.85

GAIL (India). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465.30. . . . . . . . . 5.95

HCL Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869.05. . . . . . -38.00

HDFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1692.35. . . . . . . 14.70

HDFC Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1795.35. . . . . . . . . 0.25

Hero MotoCorp . . . . . .. . . . 3750.85. . . . . . -18.80

Hindalco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272.90. . . . . . . . . 6.15

HPCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481.20. . . . . . . 18.70

Hind Unilever . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1273.70. . . . . . . . . 1.25

Indiabulls HFL . . . . . . . .. . . . 1248.25. . . . . . -28.45

ICICI Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299.25. . . . . . . . -6.45

IndusInd Bank . . . . . . . .. . . . 1617.60. . . . . . . 25.20

Bharti Infratel . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 455.40. . . . . . . . . 3.25

Infosys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947.35. . . . . . . 12.05

Indian OilCorp . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 436.50. . . . . . . 19.25

ITC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268.40. . . . . . . . -0.85

Kotak Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1018.90. . . . . . . . . 8.35

L&T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223.50. . . . . . . 19.30

Lupin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993.00. . . . . . -10.15

M&M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1372.95. . . . . . . . . 8.25

Maurti Suzuki . . . . . . . . .. . . . 8068.05. . . . . 197.85

NTPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184.65. . . . . . . . . 1.30

ONGC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177.35. . . . . . . . . 0.50

PowerGrid Corp . . . . .. . . . . . 212.00. . . . . . . . -4.10

Reliance Ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947.40. . . . . . . . . 7.50

State Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320.50. . . . . . . . -4.40

Sun Pharma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530.15. . . . . . . . . 6.90

Tata Motors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419.40. . . . . . . . -2.55

Tata Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729.20. . . . . . . 11.60

TCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2538.85. . . . . . -21.05

Tech Mahindra . . . . . . .. . . . . . 477.25. . . . . . . . . 9.15

UltraTech Cement. .. . . . 4483.90. . . . . . . 23.65

UPL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813.00. . . . . . . 14.35

Vedanta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342.85. . . . . . . . . 6.95

Wipro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302.30. . . . . . . . . 3.40

YES Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331.20. . . . . . . . . 4.30

Zee Entertainment . . . . . . 531.50. . . . . . . . -0.65

EXCHANGE RATES

Indicative direct rates in rupees a unitexcept yen at 4 p.m. on October 26

CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL

US Dollar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 64.62. . . . . . . 64.94

Euro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 76.03. . . . . . . 76.41

British Pound. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 85.36. . . . . . . 85.78

Japanese Yen (100) . .. . 56.86. . . . . . . 57.14

Chinese Yuan . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 9.74. . . . . . . . . 9.79

Swiss Franc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 65.07. . . . . . . 65.41

Singapore Dollar . . . . . . .. . 47.48. . . . . . . 47.72

Canadian Dollar. . . . . . . . .. . 50.51. . . . . . . 50.76

Malaysian Ringitt . . . . . .. . 15.26. . . . . . . 15.35

Source:Indian Bank

BULLION RATES CHENNAI

October 26 rates in rupees with previ-ous rates in parentheses

Retail Silver (1g) . . . . . . . . . . . 42.40. . . . . (42.40)

22 ct gold (1 g) . .. . . . . . . . . . . 2,804. . . . . (2,806)

market watch

26-10-2017 % CHANGE

Sensex dddddddddddddddddddddd 33,147 ddddddddddddddd0.32

US Dollardddddddddddddddddddd 64.82 ddddddddddddddd0.11

Gold ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 30,550 ddddddddddddddd0.16

Brent oil ddddddddddddddddddddd 58.58 ddddddddddddddd0.39

India would need to spendabout ₹50 lakh crorebetween fiscal 2018 and2022 to build its infrastruc-ture in a sustainable manner,rating agency Crisil said.

“India will see close to₹3,000 crore investment perday in infrastructure sector,and 56% more than the ₹37lakh crore projected spendbetween fiscals 2013 and2017,” said Ashu Suyash, MDand CEO, Crisil Ltd. whileunveiling the agency’s Infra-structure Yearbook 2017.

“Spending of such mag-nitude requires expeditiousresolution of the problem ofstressed assets in banking,front-ending of bankableprojects, comprehensive re-tooling of public-private-partnership frameworks,and deepening of the infra-structure financing ecosys-tem, which is of tremendousimportance,” she said.

The report comes twodays after the Centre an-nounced it would spend

about ₹7 lakh crore to buildmore than 83,000 kms ofhighways by 2022.

On Thursday, the agencyalso unveiled Crisil InfraIn-vex, an ‘investability’ indexthat would track, measureand assess the development,maturity and investment at-tractiveness of infrastructuresectors. “For years now, thegovernment has been doingthe heavy lifting in terms ofinfrastructure investments.However, having only thepublic investment cylinder

firing is not good enough.Accelerating private sectorinvestments is an essentialcomplementarity, and theother cylinder that needs tofire,” Crisil said.

‘Most attractive’“The Crisil InfraInvex scoresfor 2017 show power trans-mission sector the most at-tractive to invest in cur-rently, followed by roads andhighways, and renewable en-ergy,” said Sameer Bhatia,president of the Crisil Infra-

structure Advisory. NITIAayog CEO Amitabh Kantpitched for channelling in-surance and pension fundsfor financing infrastructureprojects as also for a com-plete re-examination of theviability gap funding (VGF)scheme. Infrastructure sec-tor has suffered in India dueto under-investment for along time, he said. “We needto build up environment totap pension and insurancefunds for investments in in-frastructure projects... VGFscheme needs a complete re-examination,” Mr. Kant saidat the Crisil India Infrastruc-ture Conclave here.

He said in the last threeyears, the Centre had put in‘lots of resources’ in buildinginfrastructure such as roadsand airports, almost makingup for private sector invest-ment in such projects. “Youcan do it in the short run butnot for the long run. Thechallenge is to bring privateinvestments back in the in-frastructure sector.”

(With inputs from PTI)

‘India has to spend ₹50 lakh cr on infra’Such expenditure needs expeditious resolution of stressed loan problem: Crisil

Special Correspondent

MUMBAI

Stepping on the gas: Accelerating private sector investmentsis an essential complementarity, says Crisil. * REUTERS

Markets regulator SEBI onThursday revised the frame-work for ‘block deals’ byproviding two separate trad-ing windows of 15 minuteseach and increasing the min-imum order size to ₹10crore.

Ensuring confidentiality The move is aimed at ensur-ing confidentiality of thelarge trades and stableprices for such transactions.

The block deal window isprovided for buyers andsellers to execute trades for alarge number of shares. Suchdeals are usually negotiatedbefore their execution.

Under the new rules, SEBIwould provide two blockdeal windows — morningand afternoon — of 15

minutes duration each.Besides, the regulator has

increased the minimum or-der size for execution oftrades in the block deal win-dow to ₹10 crore. Presently,

block deal for shares worth₹5 crore through a singletransaction is allowed.

The decision has beentaken as SEBI received sug-gestions from market parti-

cipants to review the blockdeal framework.

The final norms havebeen put in place after tak-ing into consideration viewsof market participants andSecondary Market AdvisoryCommittee (SMAC).

The morning windowwould operate from 8:45a.m. to 9 a.m. and the refer-ence price for execution ofblock deals in this windowwould be the previous day’sclosing price of the stock.

With regard to afternoonwindow, the regulator said itwould operate from 2:05 pmto 2:20 pm.

The pricing would bebased on the volumeweighted average marketprice (VWAP) of the tradesexecuted in the stock in thecash segment between 1:45p.m. to 2 p.m.

SEBI tweaks block deal norms;least order size is now ₹10 cr. Decision taken after suggestions from market participants to review framework

Old order changeth: Presently, a block deal for shares worth₹5 crore through a single transaction is allowed. * REUTERS

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

NEW DELHI

The National Highways Au-thority of India (NHAI) willsoon issue bonds to financehighway projects, RoadTransport and HighwaysMinister, Nitin Gadkari, saidon Thursday.

“Foreign and domestic in-vestments for building roadsand highways infrastructurewould follow naturally be-cause of the pro-active infra-structural policies of thegovernment.

“The NHAI is preparing toissue bonds worth lakhs ofrupees by way of tapping thecapital market... efforts are[also] on to generate fundsfrom other such portfolios.This is being done to makesure that funds are raised tosupport and finance roadsand highways without any

delay,” he said at the 112thAnnual Session of PHDChamber.

Mr. Gadkari had said in apress conference on Wed-nesday that NHAI has a AAArating that would help it tapinto the capital markets. Hehad said that funds to thetune of ₹4-5 lakh crore can

be raised from the marketsfor highway projects.

The Cabinet on Tuesdayapproved the BharatMalaPariyojana to build 34,800km roads worth ₹5.35 lakhcrore.

It would include buildingeconomic corridors, inter-corridor and feeder routes,national corridors efficiencyimprovement, border roadsand international connectiv-ity, coastal roads and portconnectivity and greenfieldexpressways.

For Bharatmala, ₹2.09lakh crore will be raised asdebt from the market and₹1.06 lakh crore will be mo-bilised through public-private partnership (PPP).The remaining ₹2.19 lakhcrore will flow from accrualsof the Central Road Fundsand toll projects.

Policies will generate investment interest, says Gadkari

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI

Nitin Gadkari

NHAI eyes bond issue to�nance highway projects

Banking reforms are movingin the right direction, withrecapitalisation of publicsector banks (PSB) followingthe notification of the In-solvency and BankruptcyCode, under which bad loanresolution is already under-way, according to PrincipalEconomic Adviser in theMinistry of Finance, SanjeevSanyal.

Speaking at an event or-ganised by PHD Chamber ofCommerce & Industry onThursday, Mr. Sanyal saidthe government brought outthe IBC before the PSB re-capitalisation to ensurebanks begin the cleaning-upprocess prior to the capital

infusion. He said a mere re-capitalisation plan wouldhave only resulted in ‘en-couraging the perpetuationof old problems’.

On the demonetisation ofcurrency notes as well asthe implementation of theGoods and Services Tax re-gime, he said structuralchanges were ‘bound to cre-ate some friction’.

Mr. Sanyal said, withthese measures, the Centrewas trying to shift Indiafrom a rent-seeking and pat-ronage-based economy toone based on rules andcompliance.

These reforms are caus-ing a fundamental shift inthe way business was donein India, he added.

‘Bank reforms headedin the right direction’

Ideal that IBC preceded recap: Sanyal

Special Correspondent

New Delhi

Private sector lender AxisBank, that reported a sharprise in non-performing as-sets for the quarter endedSeptember 30, has beentermed a ‘laggard’ by ratingagency Moody’s in terms ofrecognising bad loans.

The bank reported a 24%sequential increase in badloans which resulted in grossnon-performing assets in-creasing from 5% as at Juneend to 5.9% as on September30. “We believe that thebank has been a laggard inrecognising its asset qualityproblems, a credit negativefor its credit quality,”Moody’s said in a report.

According to Moody’s, in-crease in corporate badloans drove the overall risein NPAs. Out of the ₹8,110

crore new corporate NPAsduring the second quarter,₹4,870 crore were recog-nised after an inspection byReserve Bank of India.

“Strikingly, only half ofthese were on the bank’swatch list announced in

March 2016, which identifiedaccounts with weak creditmetrics that were not yetclassified as NPLs (non-per-forming loans),” the reportsaid.

The report further saidthat according to the bank’sinternal credit ratings, loandowngrades into the below-investment-grade bucketcontinue apace.

Net migrationThe report says in thequarter that ended Septem-ber 2017, there was a net mi-gration of ₹2,300 crore (ex-cluding those loans thatbecame NPLs) to below-in-vestment-grade, or about2.2% of the loan book on anannualised basis. The below-investment-grade corporateexposure, based on thebank’s internal ratings, is still

about 3.9% of the loan bookand double its outstandingwatch list accounts.

On an average, over thepast five quarters, about 17%of the outstanding below-in-vestment-grade loans at thebeginning of the quarter be-came NPLs during thequarter, it said.

“Both these trends (i.e.,the watch list including onlyhalf of the accounts identi-fied by RBI and continuingmaterial downgrades belowinvestment-grade) indicatethat the bank has not beenprudent in identifying theextent of its asset-quality is-sues,” the report said. As aresult, Moody’s said, the ex-tent of deterioration in thebank’s asset quality over thenext 12-18 months may bemore than what was previ-ously expected.

‘Axis Bank laggard in recognising NPAs’Loan downgrades into below-investment-grade bucket continue apace: Moody’s

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Mumbai

Asset quality may deterioratemore over the next 12-18months, says Moody’s.

The recapitalisation pro-gramme for public sectorbanks is likely to boostequity market sentiment asit fuels growth recoveryhopes, but should be fol-lowed up with structuralchanges at such banks forbetter results, says a UBSreport.

According to the globalfinancial services major,though the recapitalisationamount may create a sup-portive environment forgrowth, it may not drivegrowth by itself.

The Centre on October24, unveiled a ₹2.11-lakhcrore two-year roadmap tostrengthen NPA-hit publicsector banks, which in-cludes re-capitalisationbonds, budgetary supportand equity dilution.

‘PSU banksmust berestructured’ PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

NEW DELHI

Government think-tankNITI Aayog has recommen-ded strategic disinvest-ment of 34 sick public sec-tor units so far, its CEOAmitabh Kant said onThursday. The Prime Min-ister’s Office (PMO) hadasked the think-tank tolook into the viability ofsick state-run companies.“We have recommended34 sick PSUs for strategicdisinvestment,” Mr. Kantsaid at the Crisil India In-frastructure Conclave here.

The Centre plans toraise funds to the tune of₹72,500 crore throughstake sale in PSUs thisfiscal, including ₹46,500crore from minority stakesale.

NITI bats fordivestmentin 34 PSUs PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

NEW DELHI

YES Bank reported 25.1%growth in net profit for thequarter ended September30 to ₹1,002.7 crore aided byhealthy growth in both in-terest and non-interestincome.

Net interest income grew33.5% to ₹1,885.1 crore whilenon-interest income grew35.4% to ₹1,248.4 crore. Netinterest margins improved30 basis points year-on-yearto 3.7%.

However, provisions roseon the back of an increase inbad loans with gross non-performing assets jumpingthreefold to ₹2,720.3 crorewhich was 1.82% of gross ad-vances as compared with₹916.7 crore or 0.83% a yearearlier and 0.97% as on June30. As a result, provisionsshot up 176.5% to ₹447.1crore. Provision coverage ra-

tio declined to 43.3% as com-pared with 64.8% a year agoand 60% sequentially.

According to a regulatoryfiling, the bank said follow-ing the risk based supervi-sion (RBS) of Reserve Bankof India (RBI) for 2016-17,which concluded in October2017, the divergence in grossNPA was ₹6,355.2 crore.

“Bank’s asset quality con-tinues to demonstrate resili-ence after duly incorporat-ing full impact of the RBIRBS observations for FY17,

concluded in October 2017,”said Rana Kapoor, MD &CEO of the bank.

‘Stress recognised’He called divergence as a‘temporary setback’ in assetquality and said that thebank had recognised the en-tire stress in the Q2 num-bers. He added only 19% ofthe FY17 divergences, whichrelate to 19 accounts, a ma-jority in the infrastructure orrelated sectors, are NPAs.

The bank reported agrowth in deposits of 23.4%year-on-year driven bygrowth in current and sav-ings account deposits, whichconstituted 37.2% of total de-posits. The loan book grew34.9% due to robust growthin both corporate and retailbusinesses. Retail bankingadvances grew by 78%year-on-year.

(With PTI inputs)

YES Bank Q2 net rises 25.1%Provisions soar as bad loans jump; NIM improves to 3.7%

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Mumbai

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IN BRIEF

Air India sale: seven�rms vie for adviser roleNEW DELHI

As many as seven �rms,including KPMG, BNP Paribasand Rothschild India Pvt Ltd,are in the fray for the role ofadviser to the governmentfor the strategic sale of AirIndia and its subsidiaries. Theother entities are EY, GrantThornton, Edelweiss andICICI Securities, according tothe website of theDepartment of Investmentand Public AssetManagement. PTI

India is likely to attract in-vestments worth more than$40 billion in the next fiveyears in the oil and gas sec-tor alone as several global oilcompanies such as SaudiAramco, BP Plc., Vedanta Re-sources and Total of Francehave evinced interest in in-vesting in world’s fastestgrowing market, oil ministerDharmendra Pradhan toldThe Hindu.

“Cumulative estimated in-vestments of $40 billion isexpected in India’s E&P [ex-ploration and production]sector in the next 4-5 years.The total investment re-quired is $25 billion in pro-duction-sharing contract[PSC] regime, of this FDPworth of $13.6 billion havebeen approved and invest-ment of $11.6 billion is under

declaration of commercial-ity,” said Mr. Pradhan, whowas in Mumbai to attend aroadshow to showcase op-portunities available for in-

vestments in the Indian oiland gas sector. The Ministeralso met with financial insti-tutions and private equityfirms in Mumbai.

“During Pre-NELP andNELP, total investments of$40 billion has been done. Inthe last three years, pendingprojects worth $25 billionhave been started. Our lib-eral policies and transforma-tion reforms undertaken re-cently had led toinvestments of $25.2 billionunder the PSC regime.”

‘BP investment’When asked about invest-ments by big oil firms, Mr.Pradhan said, “Today BP an-nounced an investment of $3billion, Vedanta Resourceshas announced investmentsof $6 billion and Saudi Ara-mco CEO has said that Indiais the investment destina-tion. It shows the robustnessof the Indian market.”

The government has comeout with the HELP (Hydro-carbon Exploration and Li-

censing Policy) frameworkwith a vision to reduce In-dia’s import dependency inoil and gas by 10% by 2022.

“The ministry has enacteda series of reforms to in-centivise domestic explora-tion and production of oiland gas.

“Discovered small field(DSF) bid round 2016 intro-duced under a liberalisedframework has been ex-tremely successful and wehope to get good invest-ments under the upcominground of bids in December,”K.D. Tripathi, Petroleum Sec-retary, said.

The government is bank-ing on investments fromthree key reforms in the pet-roleum sector- Open AcreageLicensing (OAL), DiscoveredSmall Fields (DSF) and Pro-duction Enhancement Con-tracts (PEC).

‘Oil investments of $40 billion by 2022’Minister Pradhan cites interest shown by Saudi Aramco, Vedanta and France’s Total to invest in India

On an uptick: Recent reforms have led to investments of $25.2billion under the PSC regime, says Dharmendra Pradhan. * AFP

Special Correspondent

MUMBAI

Nandan Nilekani-led Infosyshas, sort of, put founderN.R. Narayana Murthy in aspot. Perhaps Mr. Murthywasn’t expecting this.

By declaring that it foundno merit in allegations ofwrongdoing in the Panayaacquisition and reaffirmingthe previous findings of ex-ternal investigations, Mr.Nilekani and the firm havevirtually given a clean chit toformer CEO Vishal Sikkaand the previous board ledby R. Seshasayee. Clearly,Mr. Murthy wasdisappointed.

Anonymous whistle-blowers had earlier com-plained that the Panaya ac-quisition was overvalued. Itwas alleged that the unusu-ally high severance packageto former CFO Rajiv Bansal,who was not in favour of theacquisition, was not dis-closed at that time. Mr.Murthy unleashed a no-holds-barred public spatwhich finally saw the ousterof the Sikka-Seshasayee duofrom Infosys.

Will the latest board posi-tion allow for the closure ofthe issue? Should Mr.Murthyaccept the board’s

view and allow things to beconsigned to history? Anangry Mr. Murthy soundedhurt when he said, “Sadly, itappears we will no longerknow the truth.” Will he es-calate the matter further?

After all, his allegationsare serious. Tongues arebound to wag if he doesn’ttake this forward. With theboard reiterating the earlierfindings of external agen-cies, questions have alsobeen raised on the judge-ment exercised by Mr.Nilekani and other co-founders in the issue. “Havethey simply misjudged theissue?” asked an industrysource, who is unwilling tobe quoted. Meanwhile, aniconic institution — whichstood as a password for In-dia to the world — hassuffered collateral damage.

The present board, likethe previous one, also chosenot to make public the re-port of the probe. So, whatdoes one make of the In-fosys imbroglio? TheNilekani-led board has theunenviable task of reclaim-ing the brand image of ‘Infy’and fostering trust in anecosystem that is turning in-tensely competitive. How itbrings Mr. Murthy on boardwill be interesting to watch,especially when the firm islooking for a new CEO.

A bellwether staresat a crossroadsBoard now has to reclaim brand ‘Infy’

On a di�erent page: It remains to be seen whether co-founder Mr. Murthy will escalate the matter further.

k.t. jagannathan

Chennai

NEWS ANALYSISNagpur-based Gangotri Hi-tech Coatings and Paints(GHCP) announced the rollout of five fire-proof paintsin the southern market.

The paint acts as a retard-ant for all types of materials,including metals, plastics,wood and chemicals, in-cluding acids and alkalisand resist corrosion at hightemperatures.

GHCP was founded byLokman T. Gangotri, theformer head of Departmentof Surface Coating Techno-logy, Laxminarayan Insti-tute of Technology, Nagpur.

“The need of the hour isto come out with fire-retard-ant paints. Currently, we areproducing 10 tonnes of

paints per day and we havethe capability to scale it up.We are also exporting ourpaints to Taiwan. In the nextfew months, we will exportto Gulf Cooperation Counciland Sri Lanka,” he said.

Longer shelf life“When compared with theexisting products in themarket, these paints have ashelf life of five years andare priced at the samelevel,” he said. “Though wehave received several certi-fications for this product,we are yet to patent it. Sev-eral leading automobilefirms, paint companies, de-fence and the railways haveexpressed their desire topartner with us,” Mr. Gango-tri said.

Firm eyes an increase in exportsSpecial Correspondent

CHENNAI

Gangotri rolls out �re-proof paint

Datasigns Technologies, amobile lending platformbacked by JP Morgan’sformer managing director,Asia Special SituationsGroup, Sanjai Vohra, plansto raise up to $6 million in asecond round of fundingwithin the next one-and-a-half years, said MonishAnand, founder and CEO.

Pre-series A fundingThe Bengaluru-based com-pany raised $1.5 million in apre-series A funding lastmonth from SRI Capital,Beenext and Pravega. “Thenext round of funding for ex-pansion, Series A, is slatedwithin the next one-and-a-half years,” Mr. Anand

said.“It will come from theexisting investors,” he said.The platform’s vernacularlanguage app in Tamil andKannada helps users to ratetheir credit standing bybuilding a proprietary creditscore and report for peopleapplying for loans. The appcan run on the 2G network

and is Android-based.Datasigns has entered

into partnerships with non-banking financial corpora-tions and private banks tohelp users build their loanbooks.

“We are catering to theunserved and underservedmarkets,” he said.

In India, the rate of con-sumer loans to GDP is about16% compared to China’s40%, he said. “Our target isnot the millennials whowant to own an iPhone.Within a couple of weeks theapp will be available inMarathi, Gujarati andTelugu.”

The company is also plan-ning to licence its techno-logy to other nations such asthe Middle East and Africa.

May raise $6 million in the next one-and-a-half years

Jay Shankar

Bengaluru

Monish Anand

Mobile lending platformDatasigns eyes round 2 funding

NLC stake sale may fetchCentre ₹750 croreNEW DELHI

The Union government’s 5%stake sale in NLC India was ahit among retail investors.The portion reserved forthem was subscribed 2.9times. The share sale isexpected to fetch more than₹750 crore for theexchequer. Institutionalinvestors on Wednesday bidfor 3.19 times the sharesreserved for them in the o�erfor sale. The share saleopened for retail investors onThursday. PTI

BSE seeks Aadhaarupdate from brokersNEW DELHI

To ensure compliance withanti-money laundering rules,the BSE on Thursday askedits brokers to submit detailsabout preparedness forfurnishing Aadhaar details oftheir clients by the end ofthe month. The circularfollows the Uniongovernment’s amending inJune the Prevention ofMoney Laundering(Maintenance of Records)Rules with regard to thecollection of Aadhaarnumbers from clients. PTI

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Kohli ranked ahead ofMessi in Forbes listCHENNAI

Virat Kohli has been rankedseventh in the Forbes rankingof most valuable brandsamong athletes, ahead ofstars like Lionel Messi, RoryMcIlroy and Stephen Curry.The Indian cricket captain hasa brand value of $14.5 millionin a list topped by tennissuperstar Roger Federer with$37.2 million.

IN BRIEF

Vani registers fourth win of the seasonGURUGRAM

Vani Kapoor turned in a finecard of one-under 71 thatgave her a comfortablethree-shot win in the 14thLeg of the Hero Women’s ProGolf Tour. Vani totalledfour-over 220 and finishedthree clear of GursimarBadwal (74) and amateurPranavi Urs (74). PTI

Australia pips India inSultan of Johor Cup JOHOR BAHRU

India juniors lost their firstmatch, when they werepipped 4-3 by Australia in ahigh-scoring fourth round-robin league encounter at the7th Sultan of Johor Cuphockey tournament here onThursday. India will play GreatBritain in its fifth match onOctober 28. The result: Australia 4 (JoelRintala 3, Coby Green 36,Jonathan Bretherton 45,Nathan Ephraums 49) bt India3 (Sanjay 9, Dilpreet Singh 30& 47). PTI

Claude Puel appointedLeicester managerLONDON

Former Premier Leaguechampion Leicester City onWednesday named ex-Southampton boss ClaudePuel as its new managerfollowing the sacking of CraigShakespeare last week. Puel,56, also a former manager ofMonaco, Lyon and Nice inFrance, will take charge of hisfirst game on Sunday. AFP

The main feature of Eng-land’s performance in theongoing FIFA Under-17 WorldCup has been the unleashingof young professionals

picked fromthe PremierLeagueclubs.

In sur-prisingBrazil in thesemifinalson Wednes-day, theyoung teamshowed the

form and versatility requiredagainst a technically efficientside.

Famished of World Cupsuccess since the senior teamtriumphed in 1966, Englandadded the FIFA Under-20World Cup in its cabinet inMay this year.

A win against Spain in thefinal of this tournament willcomplete the resurgence thatEngland is longing for.

A maiden Under-17 crownis very important in Eng-land’s scheme of things. Ac-cording to coach SteveCooper, this will affirm the

“good work” happening backhome in relation to youth de-velopment.

The project christenedEngland DNA is fuelling the

success of its youth team asthe team looks to perfect itselite player developmentprogramme. It is no wonderthat Rhian Brewster would

be the top contender for the‘Golden Boot’ and PhilipFoden the favourite for the‘Golden Ball’.

With seven strikes, includ-ing two hat-tricks in success-ive matches, Brewster hasgiven his No. 9 shirt lot of jus-tification. The fantastic goal-poacher who is waiting tobreak into the elite squad ofLiverpool FC, is one manEngland looking to realise itsdream.

The striking part of Eng-land’s performance so farhas been the departure fromthe hit-and-run style to amore composite passinggame which thrives on theoverall skill of the team.

While Brewster is at thefountainhead of the attack,the side has thrived in push-ing its offensive throughthree midfielders supportingthe lone striker.

Philip Foden, theManchester City FC mid-fielder, has been at thecentre of creativity thatmarks England’s style ofplay. With the likes of Callum

Hudson Odoi (Chelsea), An-gel Gomes (ManchesterUnited), Morgan Gibbs White(Wolverhampton Wanderers)and Emile Smith Rowe (Ar-senal) in the squad, Cooperhas plenty to choose from.

The two in deep defence —Marc Guehi (Chelsea) andJoel Latibeaudiere(Manchester City) — havegiven solidity at the back,helping the ‘Three Lions’preying on all its opponentsso far.

Clean slate

England, which has won allits six matches (including awin over Japan on penalties)to be the most successfulside in the tournament sofar, needs just one more con-sistent performance to trans-late the fine run into a tri-umph.

Of the six wins, the lastfive have happened at theSalt Lake Stadium and thiswill give England enoughreason to be confident aheadof the final on Saturday.

England thrives on vibrancy and versatility Amaiden Under-17 title will a�rm the ‘good work’ being done back home: coach Steve Cooper

In the right direction: A triumph will be the icing on the cake for England’s wonderful showingand will complete the resurgence that the team is longing for. * K.R. DEEPAK

Amitabha Das Sharma

KOLKATA

Rohan Bopanna and PabloCuevas of Uruguay beatwild card entrants PhilippKohlschreiber and MaxMirnyi 6-2, 6-1 to reach thequarterfinals of the €2.6million ATP Tour event onThursday.

Divij Sharan and ScottClayton of Great Britainmade the doubles semi-finals in the €106,000Challenger in Brest(France) while LeanderPaes and Purav lost a closematch 10-3 in the super tie-break in the quarterfinals.

Other results:

€106,000 Challenger, Brest,France: Doubles (quarterfi-nals): Tristan Lamasine &Hugo Nys (Fra) bt LeanderPaes & Purav Raja 2-6, 7-6(8),[10-3]; Scott Clayton (GBr) &Divij Sharan bt Yannick Hanf-mann & Kevin Krawietz (Ger)7-6(5), 6-3.

$75,000 Challenger, Suzhou,China: Doubles (quarterfi-nals): Christopher Rungkat(Ina) & Jeevan Ned-unchezhiyan bt Markus Eriks-son (Swe) & Naoki Nakagawa(Jpn) 6-3, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF, Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia: Pre-quarterfinals:Arjun Kadhe bt Denis Yev-seyev (Kaz) 7-5, 2-0 retd.;Scott Griekspoor (Ned) btKaza Vinayak Sharma 6-2, 7-5.

Doubles (semifinals): Wil-fredo Gonzalez (Gua) &Francesco Vilardo (Ita) btChristian Didier Chin (Mas) &Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-3, 6-0.

$60,000 ITF women,Luzhou, China: Doubles(quarterfinals): Dalila Jak-upovic (Slo) & Ankita Raina btZharian Wei & Yuxuan Zhang(Chn) 6-0, 7-6(6).

Bopannaand Cuevasin last eight SPORTS BUREAU

VIENNA

India’s lone point of interestin the FIFA council meetinghappening here on Fridaywill be pushing its bid tohost the FIFA Under-20World Cup in 2019.

The All India FootballFederation president, PrafulPatel, said he would try tomake “good use of the good-will” India has gained bysuccessfully hosting the Un-der-17 World Cup when headdresses the FIFA councilas a special invitee as thehost president.

“I will try to make gooduse of the goodwill in myand India’s command whenI address the FIFA councilwhere I have been invited,”Patel said in a news confer-ence here on Thursday.

Patel said the invitecomes from the FIFA presid-ent Gianni Infantino, who ar-rived here on Thursdayalong with a 35-member del-egation for the council meet-

ing. India has submitted aformal expression of interestto FIFA a couple of monthsago and the AIFF presidenthas been insisting all alongthat he will try to convincethe world body despite thefact that the last U-20 WorldCup was held in Asia (SouthKorea).

Jaime Yarza, head of FIFAtournaments, said the coun-try is ready to host anotherFIFA tournament, consider-ing the fantastic infrastruc-

tural development that hashappened in the last fewmonths.

“The stadiums whichhave come up here are al-most of World Cup. Indiashould be proud of forwhatever it has achieved sofar in terms of infrastruc-tural development and fansupport,” Yarza said.

Though not declared offi-cially, India is on the verge ofbreaking the record attend-ance in any of the youthWorld Cups (U-17 and U-20).

Patel also said that Indialooks to sustain the interestgenerated around footballby bringing up a Centre ofExcellence, which will be ac-commodating the elite per-formers of the senior, age-group and the women’steam.

The AIFF is also lookingto “handhold” FIFA in thedevelopment plan, whichalso includes bringing up sixacademies in the country.

Praful to push for hostingUnder-20 World Cup Special Correspondent

Kolkata

Praful Patel * AFP

After months of confusionand doubt, Uwe Hohn, theGerman who owns thelongest javelin throw in his-tory, has now landed in thecountry to coach Indians.

But some of the country’sleading throwers, includingunder-20 World championNeeraj Chopra, have notmade up their mind abouttraining under him.

“I was supposed to go toGermany but I have not de-cided anything,” Neeraj, alsothe current under-20 Worldrecord holder, told The

Hindu from Patiala onThursday evening. “And thenew coach has come, so I’myet to decide what to do.”

Neeraj, who had been un-der rehab for his groin injuryfor the last few months withhis sponsor JSW’s support,was to go to Germany totrain under Werner Daniels,the coach of 2013 MoscowWorlds champion Christina

Obergfoll.

Christina’s husband Borisnow trains the current Worldchampion Johannes Vetterand Daniels is very close tothem.

Daniels also revealed thathe was expecting Neeraj inGermany within a fortnight.

“Neeraj will be here inabout 10 to 12 days and I willbe coaching him, may be un-til 2020,” said Daniels fromhis Offenburg base.

One can understandNeeraj’s dilemma and nowthat Hohn has arrived in In-dia, the youngster is prob-ably under pressure fromthe Athletics Federation ofIndia to stay in the countryand train under the German.

Meanwhile Annu Rani,the 2014 Asian Gamesbronze medallist and thecurrent women’s National re-cord holder, is also not likelyto train under Hohn.

“Annu will be training un-der me but we will be seek-ing Hohn’s support and ad-vice regarding hertechnique,” said her coach,former international Kash-

inath Naik.

“If nobody wants to trainunder Hohn, what will thecoach do,” asked an AFIsource.

Davinder Singh Kang,who finished a surprising12th in the recent LondonWorlds, could not be contac-ted for his plans but deputynational coach Radhakrish-nan Nair revealed that Dav-inder would be under Hohn.

Interestingly, East Ger-man Hohn’s world recordthrow of 104.80m in EastBerlin in 1984 — the longestthrow in history – forced ath-letics bosses to change therules of the javelin throw tomake it safer for other ath-letes on the field. His recordwas also removed.

Australian Garry Calvertworked wonders withNeeraj.

The next few years willdecide whether Hohn couldhelp Indians produce somebig throws too.

Hohn is here, but Neeraj in a dilemmaIndia’s leading throwers have not decided on training under him Stan Rayan

KOCHI

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EXCLUSIVE

Dries Mertens added to hiscollection of memorablegoals with another brillianteffort as Napoli won 3-2 atGenoa in a thrilling matchto go back to the top ofSerie A on Wednesday.The results: Atalanta 3(Freuler 50, Ilicic 59, Kurtic75) bt Verona 0; Chievo 1(Birsa 61) lost to AC Milan 4(Suso 36, Cesar 42-og, Cal-hanoglu 55, Kalinic 64); Bo-logna 1 (Lulic 50-og) lost toLazio 2 (Milinkovic-Savic 4,Lulic 28).

Juventus 4 (Bernardeschi14, Dybala 22, Higuain 65,Cuadrado 70) bt SPAL 1 (Pa-loschi 34); Roma 1 (Perotti 10-pen) bt Crotone 0.

Genoa 2 (Taarabt 4, Izzo76) lost to Napoli 3 (Mertens14, 30, Zukanovic 60-og);Fiorentina 3 (Benassi 29,Simeone 66, Babacar 75-pen)bt Torino 0.

Sassuolo 0 lost to Udinese1 (Barak 32); Cagliari 2 (Farago9, Pavoletti 90+5) bt Be-nevento 1 (Iemmello90+4-pen).

Napolireclaimstop spotAgencies

Milan

The Maharashtra Cricket As-sociation (MCA), at its man-aging committee meeting onThursday, ratified presidentAbhay Apte’s decision to sus-pend Pandurang Salgaonkaras chief curator of the MCAInternational Stadium andalso his membership repres-enting Raigad District till theoutcome of an enquiry isknown.

Apte, who is a lawyer, willhead the enquirycommittee.

The former Maharashtrafast bowler, who was lookingafter his ailing wife in a hos-pital after supervising workat the match venue, was al-leged to have violated thecode of behaviour for matchofficials on the eve of thesecond One-Day Interna-tional between India andNew Zealand.

He confided details ofpitch behaviour, likelyscores, how quickly thepitch can be tampered withto the two televisionjournalists.

He also responded posit-ively, when they told him,that the money they wouldmake on the basis of the in-formation supplied by him,would be shared.

While the MCA would be-gin its enquiry soon, the ICCAnti-Corruption-Unit (ACU)manager, Bir Singh, and theICC Coordinator, Investiga-tions, Steve Richardson,were in Pune on Thursday toinvestigate the case and sub-mit a report in a few days.

Salgaonkar’s friends be-lieve that he only bragged abit, but the BCCI officials be-lieve that he had no right togive pitch-access to thejournalists and pass on vitalinformation.

Sources told The Hindu,that Salgaonkar did not heedto the BCCI certified curatorRamesh Mhamunkar’s ad-vice.

Many people connectedwith the MCA feel that theSupreme Court- appointedCommittee of Administrat-ors (CoA) should have re-acted promptly to a letteraddressed to them by a MCAmanaging committee mem-ber Madhav Ranade.

Ranade had informed theCoA, after an MCA ManagingCommittee meeting on Au-gust 26, that efforts were be-ing made to “marginalise”Abhay Apte and also that heshould be “shown in poorlight by by sabotaging thematch between India andNew Zealand to be held inPune, by any means possibleincluding the floodlights be-ing switched off or failing ata crucial moment.”

CRICKET

MCA rati�es curator’s suspension G. Viswanath

Mumbai

India’s spin bowling twins R.Ashwin and Ravindra Jadejahave neither been ‘dropped’nor ‘rested’, they are onlybeing ‘rotated.’

A senior official involvedin the selection process ofthe Indian team told The

Hindu that the continuedomission of Ashwin andJadeja was not due to lack ofperformance.

He said, “We all respectwhat Ashwin and Jadeja haveaccomplished so far. But, weneed to look at the futureand are seeking more varietyin the attack.”

Ashwin has 150 ODI scalpswith his off-spin at an eco-nomy rate of 4.91 while left-

arm spinner Jadeja has 155wickets at 4.90. Both are use-ful batsmen in the lowermiddle-order with Jadeja be-ing an exceptional fieldertoo.

Kuldeep, Chahal impressThe top official added, “Thetwo wrist spinners KuldeepYadav and Yuzvendra Chahalwere picked because theyare different. Both are talen-ted and have done extremelywell so far. They bring a lotto the attack.”

He observed, “We wonthe ODI series against SriLanka 5-0 and then defeatedAustralia 4-1 in the one-day-ers. Kuldeep and Chahal,particularly against Aus-tralia, played a big part. It

would be very unfair on ourpart to drop them at thisstage. It would hurt theirconfidence.”

The official insisted thedoor was not shut on anycricketer in the shorterformats. “We are in the pro-cess of finding the best pos-sible team for the 2019 WorldCup. We are shuffling ourplayers, infusing freshblood.”

He also dwelt on therather mysterious case ofWashington Sundar.

The promising off-spin-ning all-rounder was all butpicked in the Indian squadfor the Twenty20 seriesagainst Australia, then couldnot get through the Yo-Yotest and subsequently found

himself out of the India-Aand Board President’s XIteams as well.

The senior official said,“We know he has potential.We are monitoring his pro-gress. He is still only 18 andplaying Ranji Trophy forTamil Nadu is a learning ex-perience in itself for Wash-ington. He is on our minds.”

Washington, however,needs to clear the Yo-Yo testbefore he can be picked forany Indian side, senior or theA-team. The official said, “Hemight be called soon to un-dergo another test at theNCA.”

The selection for theshorter formats against SriLanka could indeed be inter-esting.

Ashwin, Jadeja only being ‘rotated’Washington on the minds of selectors, says a senior o�cial

S. Dinakar

Chennai

What next? A senior selection o�cial said though RavindraJadeja and R. Ashwin’s achievements are being respected,they were also looking to the future. * FILE PHOTO: K.R. DEEPAK

Fancied Manoj Kumar andMandeep Jangra, bothfrom Railway Sports Pro-motion Board (RSPB),notched up comfortablewins in the second Elitemen’s National boxingchampionship here onThursday.

Manoj was declared thewinner against Uttar Pra-desh’s Rahul Gupta in thesecond round itself as thereferee stopped the welter-weight contest.

For Mandeep Jangra too,it was a one-sided affairagainst Tamil Nadu’s R.Prakash Raj in the middle-weight category as theformer emerged a 5-0victor.

Manoj,Mandeeppost wins Sports Bureau

VISAKHAPATNAM

Akhil Kumar, who turnedprofessional last year, hasended his association withhis promoters IOS BoxingPromotions, claiming non-fulfilment of contractterms.

“I have served a legalnotice to IOS...it mentionsabout the breach of theagreement committed bythe IOS,” said Akhil onThursday.

IOS Boxing Promotions,which also manages starboxer Vijender Singh, how-ever, denied receiving anylegal notice from theformer CommonwealthGames gold medallist.

“We have not receivedany notice from him. Butwe are aware that he mightbe having some otherplans,” said IOS’ managingdirector Neerav Tomar.

Akhil snapsties with IOS Press Trust of India

NEW DELHI

Saina Nehwal’s stay at theFrench Open Super Seriesbadminton tournament wascut short in the secondround by Akane Yamaguchihere on Thursday. The fifth-seeded Japanese took outthe Indian 21-9, 23-21 in 39minutes.

Meanwhile, K. Srikanthand P.V. Sindhu crossed thefirst hurdle to progress tothe second round on Wed-nesday. Srikanth advancedafter his opponent Ger-many’s Fabian Roth retiredat 0-3 in the opening game.Sindhusaw off Spain’s Beat-riz Corrales 21-19, 21-18.

The results:

Women: Second round: AkaneYamaguchi (Jpn) bt Saina Ne-hwal 21-9, 23-21. First round:

P.V. Sindhu bt Beatriz Corrales(Esp) 21-19, 21-18.

Men: K. Srikanth bt FabianRoth (Ger) 3-0 retired.Doubles: SatwiksairajRankireddy & Chirag Shetty btBastian Kersaudy & Julien Maio(Fra) 21-12, 21-14.

BADMINTON

Saina exits; Sindhu,Srikanth advance Agencies

PARIS

P.V. Sindhu. * FILE PHOTO: AFP

Swiss tennis great MartinaHingis announced her“definite” retirement onThursday, signalling theend of a career which tookher from 1990s teenage su-perstar to doubles worldnumber one some 20 yearslater.

“I think now it’s defin-ite,” Hingis told reporters.

Hingis quitsfor thirdtime

Martina Hingis. * CLIVE

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Shanmukha Kavirayar of Sri Vaikuntam village, in TamilNadu, was a pious man, whose wife Sivagama Sundari wasequally religious minded. They named their son Ku-maraguruparan. But the parents were worried because thechild could not speak. They went on a pilgrimage toTiruchendur to pray to Lord Shanmukha. They stayed inTiruchendur for some days, and visited the temple everyday with a prayer for their son.

One day, Kumaraguruparan began to speak. He became agreat poet. To express his gratitude to Lord Shanmukha, Ku-maraguruparar sang verses in praise of the Lord and calledthe collection Kandar Kalivenba. In the concluding verse hesaid, “Show me Your lotus like feet, and shower Your bless-ings on me.”

Kumaraguruparar had great regard for his teacher, Masil-amani Desikar, and to show his gratitude to his guru, hecomposed Pandara Mummanikovai.

When Kumaraguruparar was in Madurai, he composedMeenakshi Pillai Tamizh. He saw the Goddess as a child,when he composed this set of verses, said Malayaman in adiscourse. It is said that Goddess Meenakshi Herself listenedto his verses with relish. She was so pleased with Ku-maraguruparar’s devotion that She gave Her strand of pearlsto him.

The saint went to Varanasi and stayed there for a longtime. He continued his spiritual service in Varanasi too.While there, he composed Kasi Kalambakam and also awork on Vinayaka. Unfortunately, the latter is lost to us.

Kumaraguruparar also gave discourses in Varanasi inHindi! It is said that his discourses on Kamba Ramayanaminfluenced Tulsidas. It is a tribute to his genius that he gavediscourses in Hindi before an audience for whom it wastheir mother tongue!

FAITH

A gift from the Goddess 5 Meeting? Take friend (4)

6 A word not kept — proof that's

in Chambers, probably

(6,2,7)

7 Indian traffic rule, makes no

sense (6)

8 Notice Brown getting back into

the house (6)

11 Stone divider on the road

(4,3)

14 Silent about working on the

template (7)

16 Silly, how foolish it's to be

acting in a scholarly fashion

(8)

17 Spooner's call to release bird

from plant (4,4)

19 State something amusing,

when in North India (6)

20 The fool's got power, entered

quietly (6)

23 Storyteller's taken to

writing — read (4)

13 Lost identity in pile-up, it's

stress (6)

15 Payment in instalments — a

fool assumes it is at random

(12)

18 Wild partying, so we get

stamina (7,5)

21 Twists, turns — energy input

creates disturbance (6)

22 One’s on bed within nine — it's

habit forming (8)

24 Flow is not regulated, discard

(8)

25 51% — he gets the last fruit (6)

26 Railing is allowed in talk (8)

27 Swear by race tips, only

version (4,2)

n DOWN

1 Throw out one who is

marooned (8)

2 Horse frisky, last seen with

another animal (8)

3 Important data — Ideally comes

in multiples of 12 (5,10)

(set by Arden)

n ACROSS

1 Like in wine, it has its roots (6)

4 Trouble wearing spikes in West

Indies (8)

9 Pigs stay in and around Chinese

hut (6)

10 Subject in a large settlement

(8)

12 Appeal from top to bottom,

King gives green signal (3,5)

THE HINDU CROSSWORD 12147

Kvyat will not return to Toro RossoMEXICO CITY

Toro Rosso will continue with

rookies Brendon Hartley and

Pierre Gasly for the rest of

the Formula One season after

deciding there is no way back

for Russian driver Daniil

Kvyat. “Kvyat will not return

again. We do not believe he

can make the turnaround in

the long term,” said Red Bull

motorsport consultant

Helmut Marko. REUTERS

IN BRIEF

Perez dreams of teamingup with World champsMEXICO CITY

Mexican Formula 1 driver

Sergio Perez said his

aspiration is to become part

of a team led by a champion

such as Lewis Hamilton,

Sebastian Vettel or Fernando

Alonso. “In Formula 1 there is

such a difference among

teams and cars that your best

touchstone is your teammate

and to have a world

champion as touchstone is

always good,” he said. IANS

Arjun Kapoor becomesco-owner of FC Pune CityMUMBAI

FC Pune City has announced

actor Arjun Kapoor as the

new co-owner of the club.

“Pune City is doing

tremendous work and

seemed a natural fit for me in

their endeavour to develop a

professional set-up,” said

Arjun.

No politics, and onlygolf, says MatsuyamaSHANGHAI

Japanese star Hideki

Matsuyama says he will steer

clear of politics when he

plays golf with Donald Trump

and PM Shinzo Abe early next

month. “I am a professional

golfer, not a politician. We

just look forward to having a

fun day, hopefully we will

enjoy it and I will have the

opportunity again in the

future,” said the rising World

No. 4 golfer. AFP

MYSURU: Magistero, who hasbeen well prepared, is expectedto score in the M.A.M.Ramaswamy Trophy (1,400m),the feature event of the races tobe held here on Friday (Oct. 27).

False rails (width about 6m from1,600m to the winning post) willbe in position.

1 MULKI PLATE (Div. II),(1,200m), rated 00 to 25, 1-45

p.m.: 1. Smile Of Peace (8) RayanAhmed 61, 2. Florencia (3) S. John59.5, 3. Always United (1) S. Mano-har 58.5, 4. Jack Of Hearts (13) P.Mani 57, 5. Superlite (11) A. Baan-dal 56.5, 6. Incitatus (14) A. Ramu55.5, 7. Rocket Punch (4) T.S.Jodha 55.5, 8. Peppa (10) ArshadAlam 54.5, 9. Slightly Blonde (2)Darshan 54, 10. Honey WenMoney (6) Kiran Rai 53, 11. NoblePrincess (12) P.P. Dhebe 51.5, 12.Sante Fe (5) Raja Rao 51, 13.Spectre (9) Jagadeesh 50.5 and 14.Dontworrymonday (7) Sai Kiran50.

1. FLORENCIA, 2. ROCKET PUNCH,

3. INCITATUS

2 NYVELI PLATE (1,400m),rated 00 to 25, 2-15: 1. Al Dor-

ado (1) Tauseef 62.5, 2. Big TimeBay (4) Santosh Kumar 62.5, 3.Lightning Touch (14) Sahanawaz62, 4. Sazae San (11) Madhu Babu62, 5. Ice Weapon (9) R. Marshall61, 6. Kodals Princess (12) Md. Im-ran Ashraf 60, 7. As Always (7)Rayan Ahmed 59, 8. Golden Steps(5) S. John 59, 9. Eudora (13) AjeetKumar 56, 10. Nuala (6) P.P.Dhebe 54, 11. Giralda (8) Sai Kiran52.5, 12. Safe Bet (2) Kiran Rai52.5, 13. Cyclops (10) S. Manohar51.5 and 14. Country’s Charm (3)Vivek 51.

1. SAFE BET, 2. KODALS PRINCESS,

3. GOLDEN STEPS

3 MULKI PLATE (Div. I),(1,200m), rated 00 to 25, 2-50:

1. Rock Steady (11) Rayan Ahmed62.5, 2. Anmol Hira (7) Sunil Sam-son 61.5, 3. Perfectgoldenera (12)M. Naveen 61.5, 4. Air Of Distinc-tion (9) P.P. Dhebe 61, 5. Croziet(1) S. John 60, 6. Man Of Law (10)Raja Rao 60, 7. Show Me What UGot (3) Tauseef 59.5, 8. Final Des-tiny (2) A. Qureshi 59, 9. InternalAffair (8) Kiran Rai 59, 10. Amaz-ing Beauty (13) S. Waseemuddin56, 11. High Voltage (4) Darshan55.5, 12. Kiraathaka (14) IrvanSingh 54, 13. Nenitara (6) RajeshKumar 54 and 14. Danube (5) B.Harish 53.1. PERFECTGOLDENERA, 2. IN-

TERNAL AFFAIR, 3. CROZIET

4 NANDI PLATE (1,400m), rated20 to 45, 3-25: 1. Great Tribute

(9) Srinath 61, 2. High Admiral (3)T.S. Jodha 58.5, 3. Golden Bow(13) A. Qureshi 58, 4. Micron Yaa-cow (10) S. Manohar 58, 5. Call MeMaybe (11) Md. Akram 57.5, 6.Capitalize (5) Rayan Ahmed 57, 7.Cool Springs (14) Vivek 56.5, 8.Firing Line (6) Ajay Kumar 56.5,9. Kudla Punch (1) Janardhan P56, 10. Intrepid Warrior (4) San-tosh Kumar 55.5, 11. Wings Of For-tune (7) Kiran Rai 54.5, 12. CalicoKing (12) P. Mani 54, 13. ClassicalDancer (8) R. Marshall 53.5 and14. Noble Emperor (2) S.K.Paswan 51.5.1. GREAT TRIBUTE, 2. HIGH AD-

MIRAL, 3. CLASSICAL DANCER

5 M.A.M. RAMASWAMY TROPHY

(1,400m), rated 60 & above, 4-05: 1. Mickey Mouse (10) T.M.Prashanth 64, 2. Side Winder (5)T.S. Jodha 62, 3. Magistero (9)Srinath 60, 4. New World (2) P.P.Dhebe 57, 5. Class Is Class (8) AjayKumar 56.5, 6. Anvill Star (7) Ar-shad Alam 55, 7. Amazing Redd (1)Rayan Ahmed 53, 8. Just By

Chance (3) Shivnath Paswan 53,9. Kazuri (4) Rajesh Kumar 50and 10. Storming Home (6) SaiKiran 50.1. MAGISTERO, 2. SIDE WINDER, 3.

AMAZING REDD

6 SEA MIST PLATE (1,600m),rated 40 to 65, 4-40: 1. Markus

Sittikus (5) R. Ravi 60, 2. RareRhythm (12) T.S. Jodha 59.5, 3.Chandini (1) Madhu Babu 57.5, 4.Native Elements (2) Vivek 57.5, 5.Summer Dawn (10) Ramesh Ku-mar 56.5, 6. Honour (6) RayanAhmed 56, 7. Idealist (13) Srinath56, 8. Flirting Eyes (4) Sunil Sam-son 54.5, 9. Back Of Beyond (9)Sai Kiran 53.5, 10. Sagrada (3) B.Harish 53.5, 11. Happy Victory (11)Rajesh Kumar 53, 12. ImplicitTrust (14) P.P. Dhebe 51.5, 13. BlueBlazer (7) Md. Akram 51 and 14.Beautiful Effect (8) Ajeet Kumar50.5.1. RARE RHYTHM, 2. IDEALIST, 3.

IMPLICIT TRUST

7 ESQUIRE PLATE (1,200m),rated 20 to 45, 5-15: 1. Diva (2)

Gautam Raj 62.5, 2. Matteo (13) S.John 62.5, 3. King Smile (11) M.Naveen 60.5, 4. Majestic Queen(6) T.S. Jodha 60.5, 5. Bestow (5)Darshan 60, 6. Teri Adah (8) Md.Imran Ashraf 59, 7. Velvet Rose(14) Tauseef 57.5, 8. Oreius (7) Vi-jay Kumar 57, 9. Six Ace Red (10)Rayan Ahmed 57, 10. Jersey Bride(9) Kiran Rai 56, 11. At The Top(12) P.P. Dhebe 55, 12. Gracious (3)Shivnath Paswan 54, 13. Celestar(4) A. Baandal 52.5 and 14. BoldNature (1) Rajesh Kumar 51.1. MATTEO, 2. BESTOW, 3.

MAJESTIC QUEEN

Day’s best: GREAT TRIBUTE

Double: PERFECTGOLDENERA —

RARE RHYTHM

Jkt: 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7; Tr (i): 2, 3 and4; (ii): 5, 6 and 7.

Magistero expected to score

NBA: Sony Six (SD & HD),5.30 & 8 a.m.Pakistan vs Sri Lanka: 2ndT20I, Sony Six, 9.30 p.m. Bundesliga: SS Select 1 (SD& HD), 11.45 p.m.

TV PICKS

Group AAt Guwahati: Assam 244 & 41for seven in 27 overs vs Rail-ways 483 for seven decl. in138.4 overs (Saurabh Wakaskar80, Shivakant Shukla 86, Nitin

Bhille 89,ArindamGhosh109,Ashish Ya-dav 50n.o.).At Luc-know: Ma-harashtra312 & 256for four in76 overs(Rahul Tri-pathi 91,Ankeet

Bawane 58) vs Uttar Pradesh271 in 82.2 overs (AlmasShaukat 63, Shivam Chaudhary54, Eklavya Dwivedi 71, ChiragKhurana six for 53).At Shivamogga: Karnataka 183& 332 in 105.4 overs (KarunNair 134, Stuart Binny 72, Me-hdi Hasan five for 88) vs Hy-derabad 136 & 92 for two in 32overs (Tanmay Agarwal 43batting).

Group BAt Surat: J&K 261 & 130 in 34.4overs (Hardik Patel five for 49,Piyush Chawla four for 38) lostto Gujarat 455 in 143 overs(Priyank Panchal 61, ManpreetJuneja 131, Chirag Gandhi 86,Parvez Rasool four for 108,Manik Gupta five for 143).Points: Gujarat 7 (13); J&K 0(3).At Thiruvananthapuram: Ker-ala 335 & 217 for two in 46overs (Jalaj Saxena 102 batting,Sanju Samson 72 batting) vsRajasthan 243 in 82.3 overs(Dishant Yagnik 62, TajinderSingh 44, Jalaj Saxena eight for85). At Ranchi: Haryana 208 & 141for four in 47 overs (Rajat Pali-wal 44 batting, Rahul Dagar64) vs Jharkhand 425 for ninedecl. in 133.5 overs (IshankJaggi 135, Ishan Kishan 83,Shahbaz Nadeem 70). Group CAt Vizianagaram: Andhra 584for five decl. vs Odisha 294 forsix in 102 overs (Govinda Pod-dar 111, Subhransu Senapati91).At Mumbai: Mumbai 374 & 85for one in 22 overs (Shreyas Iyer

56 batting) vs Tamil Nadu 450in 142 overs (B. Indrajith 152,Washington Sundar 69, V. YoMahesh 103, Vijay Gohil fourfor 129).

At Agartala: Tripura 205 & 103in 44 overs (Ankit Sharma fourfor 51, Mihir Hirwani five for 22)lost to Madhya Pradesh 260 in80.1 overs (Rajat Patidar 79,Harpreet Singh Bhatia 70, Ish-war Pandey 47, Gurinder Singhfour for 94) & 52 for no loss in14.2 overs. MP 7 (14); Tripura 0(2).

Group D

At Porvorim: Punjab 635 vsGoa 246 in 79.4 overs (SagunKamat 47, Amit Yadav 52 n.o.,Raghu Sharma four for 50) & 67for two in 37 overs.

At New Delhi: Himachal 364 &176 for nine decl. in 54.4 overs(Rishi Dhawan 40, AkashVashisht 44) vs Services 215 in76.3 overs (Navneet Singh 49,Nitin Tanwar 55, GurvinderSingh four for 58, AkashVashisht four for 75) & 28 forone in 15 overs.

At Nagpur: Chhattisgarh 489vs Vidarbha 331 for six in 101overs (Faiz Fazal 125, WasimJaffer 50).

RANJI SCORES THIRD ROUND, DAY 3

Lewis Hamilton has no inten-tion of easing up this week-end as he seeks a mere topfive finish in the MexicanGrand Prix to clinch hisfourth drivers world title anda place among the greatestdrivers in Formula Onehistory.

The arguments over hisstatus have grown in volumeas the months have passedthis year, but they reached anew crescendo this week inthe days following his ninthwin of the season at lastweekend’s United StatesGrand Prix in Texas.

His Mercedes team chiefToto Wolff declared him tobe on course to become “thebest driver that has ever exis-ted” while veteran BrazilianFelipe Massa, who missedout on the 2008 title, whenHamilton stole it from with apassing move at the finalcorner of the decisiveBrazilian Grand Prix, saidthat he already ranks himalongside Michael Schu-macher and Ayrton Senna.

Another title triumph willlift him clear of Jackie Stew-art, on three championshipwins, as the most successfulBritish driver of all time,drawing him level on fourwith Alain Prost and his cur-rent rival Sebastian Vettel.

Ahead lie only seven-timechampion Schumacher andfive-time title winner JuanManuel Fangio.

Hamilton, however, hasbeen keen to avoid the hypeand says his mind is on win-ning this Sunday’s race infront of a passionate andraucous crowd at the Auto-

dromo Hermanos Rodrig-uez.

“There are still three racesto go,” said the 32-year-oldBriton. “And in my mind, Istill have three races to win.There are still a lot of pointsavailable —until you actuallywin the championship, youcan’t get ahead of yourself.”

His caution is understand-able as he and Mercedesknow that despite the longstraights and slow corners,the thin air at an altitude of2,250-metres will help de-liver a contest that may playto the strengths of rivalFerrari.

Mercedes will run with ahigh down-force set-up, asmight be used in Monaco orBudapest, two circuitswhere it struggled this year,

and this is the cause of itsconcerns. Vettel, despitetrailing Hamilton by 66points and needing a hugeshift in form and fortunes,will not abandon his hopesof stopping the Englishman’simmediate triumph.

But, as Massa put it, if any-one can win more or lessanywhere in any conditions,it is Hamilton who has reeledoff five wins in six racessince the European summer.

“He is definitely one of thebest drivers in the history ofFormula One,” said theBrazilian. “You cannot reallytake him away in a differentlevel compared to MichaelSchumacher and AyrtonSenna. He’s there.”

Wolff, a demanding teamchief who has seen Hamilton

add consistency and discip-line to his unmatched talentfor raw speed and aggressiveracing, was even morefulsome.

“Lewis is about to breakall records that have been setin Formula One and it is justa matter of time that peoplewill say he is on track to be-ing the best driver that hasever existed,” he said.

“This is the best Lewis —both on and off the track —that I have worked withsince 2013.”

Hamilton has attributedhis rise to “another level ofdriving” to two main factors.

The first was the retire-ment of long-term teammateand rival Nico Rosberg afterhe won the drivers’ title lastyear and the second hisswitch to a vegan diet.

Hamilton on the cusp of gloryThe Brit needs to �nish in the top �ve to secure his fourth title

Eyeing history: Another title triumph will help Lewis Hamilton draw level with Alain Prost andSebastian Vettel. * AFP

Agence France-Presse

Mexico City

Ch. Niharika shocked thirdseed L. Jyothsna of TamilNadu to emerge the leaderin the girls’ section of the28th National under-17chess championship here.

Important results (fourthround, TN unless specified):Open: T.V. ArunachalamShivaa 3.5 drew with MitrabhaGuha (WB) 3.5; V.S. Rathanvel4 bt Chaitanya Sairam Mogili(AP) 3; Nithin Babu (Ker) 3lost to Manish Anto Cristiano4; L.R. Srihari 3 drew withSaurabh Anand (Bih) 3; KumarGaurav (Bih) 3 drew with G.B.Harshavardhan 3; R. Rath-neesh 2.5 lost to R. RajaRithvik (TS) 3.5; R. Dileep Ku-mar 3 drew with M. ShyamKumar 3; R. Sibi Visal 3.5 bt L.Srihari (Pud) 2.5.

Girls: Ch. Niharika (AP) 3 bt L.Jyothsna 3; M.K. Sri Poorna2.5 lost to Harshita Guddanti(AP) 3.5; C.M.N. Sunyuktha2.5 lost to V. Toshali (AP) 3.5;K. Priyanka (AICF) 3 bt S. Sen-thamizh Yazhini 2.5; S. An-napurni 2 lost to Tarini Goyal(Chd) 3; Bhanot Stuti (Har) 3bt G. Soundariya Lakshmi 2;Rajashree Rajeev (Ker) 2.5drew with Mohana Praba 2.5.

NiharikaoutwitsJyothsnaSpecial Correspondent

COIMBATORE

The collection of lesser num-ber of samples has helped inthe reduction of dope posit-ive results from India in2016.

India is placed 16th with atotal of 2831 samples ana-lysed in 2016, according tothe testing figures releasedby the World Anti-DopingAgency (WADA) onThursday.

73 of the 2831 samples, in-cluding 132 blood samples,

have returned positive res-ults indicating a sharp dropin the number of dope posit-ive cases from the country.

It is 2.6% of the total num-ber of samples with noblood sample returning apositive result.

Better than before

In previous years, India wasranked very high with morepositive results arising out ofbigger number of samples.

In 2013, 93 samples werepositive out of 4274 (ninth),

while 99 were positive from4340 (10th) the followingyear.

In 2015, 110 samplestested positive from an ag-gregate of 5162 (eighth).

Major contributors

Among the sporting discip-lines which contributed sig-nificantly to the number ofdope cheats in 2016 includeathletics (24 of 1024samples), weightlifting (14 of324), powerlifting (14 of 58)and wrestling (five of 158).

Reduction of dope positiveresults from India in 2016Y.B. Sarangi

KOLKATA

SPORT

TOI outplays Delhi CC

TOI outplayed Delhi CC in alldepartments for a 118-runvictory in the Super Elite 1Division of the DDCA Leagueon Thursday.

In the Elite 1 Division, MalikSports won by 48 runsagainst Bright while in theElite 2 Division match at theMundka ground, Yorkthrashed Superstar by 10wickets.

The scores: Malik Sports 253for eight in 40 overs (AmanJainwal 94, KC Bishal 46,Aditya Kumar three for 37) btBright 205for nine in 40 overs(Kishan Kumar 78, Vishu Mishra59, Lakshay Baniwal 3 for 19).

TOI 312 for eight in 40 overs(Rahul Chaudhary 115, ArpitGarg 57, Manthan Kanujia fourfor 40) bt Delhi 190 in 34.3overs (Aryan Kapoor 59,Abhishek 40; Yashaswi Khatrithree for 32, Saqlain Haiderthree for 65).

Superstar 152 for eight in 40overs (Mohit Tokas 68, RohanAnand 37) lost to York 156 forno loss (Udit Garg 83 not out,Theme Rawat 51 not out).

Bal Bharati in semi�nals

Bal Bharati School scored a62-57 victory over Maxfort toenter the semifinals of the28th Hansraj Prabhakarinter-school basketballtournament on Thursday.

In fact, the two Bal BharatiSchools made it to thesemifinals of both the seniorand mini boys sections. HostOxford School and MontfortSchool emerged as thechallengers in both sections.

The results (league):

Boys, senior: Bal Bharati 62(Harshit 24, Lokesh 16) btMaxfort 57 (Sahil 22, Harsh 15);Sachdeva 40 (Kunal 16, Jatin12) bt St. Mary’s 37 (ShankyRajput 14, Aryan 11).

Mini: Bal Bharati 59 (Yatish 42)bt Sachdeva 57 (Yashasvi 21,Lavish 12); Oxford l 42 (Shivam15, Rahul 11) bt Mira Model 17;G.D. Goenka 28 (Arif 13) bt BalBharati 26 (Harshit 11).

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\ DELHI ROUND-UP \

The Krishnapatnam-India in-ternational regatta 2017 willbe held as part of the AsianSailing Federation (ASAF)Youth Sailing Cup 2017-18series at KrishnapatnamPort, Nellore, from Dec. 27 to31. The eight earlier editionswere held in Chennai.

It will be organised jointlyby the Navayuga SailingAcademy, the Yachting Asso-

ciation of Andhra Pradesh,Tamil Nadu Sailing Associ-ation and the Yachting Asso-ciation of India (YAI), underthe aegis of ASAF. WhileKrishnapatnam Port will bethe venue, the racing areawill be in the open sea infront of KrishnapatnamBeach.

The courses to be sailedwill be windward/leeward,trapezoid, or any other con-figuration as may be de-scribed in the sailing instruc-

tions, which will be availableapproximately a week beforethe event atwww.iiregatta.in.

The classes with age eli-gibility in brackets: Singlehander: Optimist (Born in2002 or later), Laser 4.7(2000 or later), Laser Radial(1999 or later). RS: One; 420,29er (1998 or later).

For details: AshokThakkar (98400 99099) [email protected]

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD

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Venus Williams gained re-venge for her Wimbledon fi-nal defeat by GarbineMuguruza when the Amer-ican advanced to the lastfour of the WTA Finals with agutsy 7-5, 6-4 victory overthe Spanish World No. 2 onThursday.

Both knew a win wouldsecure a passage to the semi-finals as they held identical1-1 records in White Groupplay at the season-endingevent but the 37-year-old wasstronger on the key pointsand moved brilliantlyaround the court toprogress.

The victory enabledVenus, who won this eventin 2008, to advance alongwith pool winner KarolinaPliskova, who won her firsttwo matches but endedround-robin play with a 6-3,6-1 defeat by Jelena Os-tapenko earlier on Thursday.

The winner-takes-allshowdown started withVenus looking to dictateterms, pushing Muguruzaaround the court and attack-ing her second serve as theSpaniard countered by push-ing the American back withher deep ground-strokes.

Venus continued to pickaway at the Muguruza servebut an ace and a string of bigforehand winners helpedstave off the early threat asboth combatants took thefight to each other in a high-class encounter.

The pair traded servicebreaks before Muguruzafailed to hold on and sendthe opener into a tie-break

when Venus converted herthird set point after the back-peddling Spaniard dumped aforehand into the net.

Muguruza’s repeated at-tempts to pull clear in thesecond were denied byVenus on every occasionwith the American twice bat-tling back from behind toedge 5-4 ahead with herstrongest service game of the

set. The American made aconcerted push for victory inthe 10th game and sealed amemorable victory after anhour and 41 minutes whenMuguruza sent anotherfeeble forehand into the net.The results:

White group: Jelena Ostapenkobt Karolina Pliskova 6-3, 6-1.

Venus Williams bt GarbineMuguruza 7-5, 6-4.

Gutsy Venus stays on courseVeteran gets the better of Muguruza to make the semi�nals

Vintage stu�: The 37-year-old Venus was stronger on the key points against Wimbledonchampion Garbine Muguruza and moved brilliantly around the court as she progressed to thelast four. * REUTERS

Agencies

SINGAPORE

WTA FINALS Ace pistol shooter Jitu Raithrew a lifeline to formerWorld Champion TomoyukiMatsuda, and the Japanesegrabbed the chance to clinchthe men’s air pistol gold inthe World Cup Final at theDr. Karni Singh Range, Tugh-lakabad, on Thursday.

There was little hope forthe 41-year-old Japanesewhen he scored 573 in quali-fication. However, needing a95 on the last series, Jitustruck a string of 9s in the cli-

max and missed qualifica-tion by one point.

Reigning Olympic cham-pion Xuan Vinh Hoang of Vi-etnam had ensured the tenthand last spot with a 568, andJitu was hovering betweenthe two champions, for themost part. Jitu did improveafter a lethargic start, butwas not at his best in theend, in a series of 94, 96, 96,97, 95 and 94. He evenstruck the odd eight to com-plicate matters.

Matsuda was brilliant inthe final as he led from thestart to finish with a worldrecord 241.8, beating 19-year-

old Pavlo Korostylov ofUkraine by 0.7 point. The lat-ter equalled the world juniorrecord. Defending championDamir Mikec of Serbiasettled for fourth behindOleh Omelchuk of Ukraine.

In men’s skeet, RiccardoFilippelli of Italy emergedthe champion, as he won theshoot-off 4-3 against BenLlewellin of Britain after thetwo had tied on a world re-cord 59 out of 60 in the final.

The Italian had also wonthe gold in February at thesame venue. For the host, alot would be at stake on Fri-day in men’s double trap,

with Ankur Mittal, SangramDahiya and Shapath Bharad-waj ready to showcase theirability.The results: Men: 10m air pis-tol: 1. Tomoyuki Matsuda (Jpn)241.8 (WR) 573; 2. Pavlo Koro-stylov (Ukr) 241.1 (EWRJ) 583;3. Oleh Omelchuk (Ukr) 218.8(585); 9. Jitu Rai 572.

Skeet: 1. Riccardo Filippelli (Ita)59 WR (4) 122(2); 2. BenLllewellin (GBR) 59(3) 123(11);3. Federico Gil (Arg) 49 (122)1.

Women:10m air rifle: 1. AndreaArsovic (Srb) 251.3 (415.4); 2.Laura-Georgeta Coman (Rou)249.7 (414.1); 3. Peng Xinyi(Chn) 228.5 (415.1); 9. PoojaGhatkar 412.4.

Jitu falters, Matsuda clinches air pistol goldWC SHOOTING

Kamesh Srinivasan

NEW DELHI

There were no exaggeratedcelebrations or no euphoricexpressions of joy but NewZealand left the SreeKanteerava Indoor Stadiuma pleased bunch onThursday. With victory overThailand, the Kiwis booked aspot in the semifinals of theFIBA under-16 women’sAsian championship (Divi-sion A), thus qualifying fornext year’s FIBA under-17women’s World Cup for thefirst time in the nation’shistory.

“It’s actually pretty cool,”said coach LorraineMcDaniel. “The girls haveworked really hard. It justshows how much of a risebasketball has seen in ourcountry.”

New Zealand moved tothe Asian qualifying zonefrom Oceania earlier thisyear, and the team realised itneeded to change its ap-proach to compete in its newenvirons. “It (Asian competi-tion) is a lot more physicaland just a lot faster,” saidMcDaniel. “Athletes aremore disciplined and shoot-ing percentage is higher. We

knew those things but play-ing against them is a com-pletely different story.”

To help her players adapt,McDaniel had a rugby coachhelp out in training beforethe team left for India. “Wehad him do a tackling ses-sion so the girls get used tohitting people and beinghit,” she said. “It took thefear of physicality out. Itreally helped us a lot.”

Pivotal to New Zealand’ssuccess in Bengaluru has

been captain Charlisse Trin-ity Leger-Walker, who is nowthe tournament’s joint-topscorer with 66 points fromfour games. She also has 38rebounds and 15 assists toher name. Leger-Walkerspent only 17 minutes oncourt on Thursday or shewould have been on top ofthe scoring charts all on herown.

The 16-year-old hails froma family of cagers; motherLeanne went to two Olympic

Games with New Zealand,while older sister Krystal hasturned out for the seniorside.

“I started playing basket-ball when I was three so I’vealways been around thecourt with my mum and sis-ter,” Leger-Walker said. “I’vealso played touch rugby anda bit of netball when I wasyounger because my mumalso represented NZ intouch.”

Leading the team in aWorld Cup would be incred-ible, she felt. “It’s awesome.We’re the first NZ girls’ age-group team to qualify for theWorld Cup. I’m really proudfor all of us.”

Japan will be hard to over-come in the semifinals onFriday, but the Young TallFerns have already achievedone major objective.The results (quarterfinals):

Division A: Australia 123 btHong Kong 29; China 72 btKorea 57; New Zealand 80 btThailand 52; Japan 82 btChinese Taipei 49.

Division B: Kazakhstan 71 bt SriLanka 58; Iran 129 bt Maldives39; Malaysia 88 bt Nepal 36.

Low-pro�le Kiwis �y highQualify for next year’s FIBA u-17 World Cup

Shreedutta Chidananda

Bengaluru

Weaving through: Charlisse Trinity Leger-Walker has been thestar for New Zealand, scoring points at will. * SUDHAKARA JAIN

ASIAN U-16 <> It’s actually pretty

cool. The girls have

worked really hard.

coach Lorraine McDaniel

Pardeep Narwal has had ariot this season.

For anyone watching, hisplay has implied one thing:he’s overpowering. So over-powering, any oppositionwould consider him an ob-stinate devil who has to beturned out speedilywhenever a chance arises.But it’s not easy.

Bengal Warriors tried andfailed, losing 44-47, to theNarwal-led Patna Pirates inthe second qualifier onThursday.

Few minutes into thematch, Narwal stood outwith a raid that inflicted anall-out on the Warriors. Hemanaged to put out the onlythree defenders who des-perately tried to pin him.

His escape was the labori-ous, teeth-clenching kind,as the defenders musteredsome bulldog pluck to defyhim. Pirates were 9-1 aheadthen.

From there, till about fiveminutes left in the secondhalf, Pirates looked as ifthere were in a hurry to con-tinue their title pursuit. Itwas deuced keen and busi-ness-like and made it seemthe Warriors’ challenge wasa mere formality for it themto squash.

They ended the first half21-12, had a 42-28 lead in thesecond, before the Warriorsrevolted and closed in tomake it 44-47. Narwalscored 23 points in all.

Patna Pirates will nowface Gujarat Fortungiants inthe final on Saturday.The result: Second qualifier:Patna Pirates 47 bt BengalWarriors 44.

Pirates carry the day Pardeep Narwal delights again

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CHENNAI

Hero: Skipper Pardeep Narwal, right, was the star for Patna Pirates on Thursday. * R. RAGU

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Assam gets glossary on medicinal plantsGUWAHATI

A forest officer in Assam has

come out with a unique book

that has recorded close to

1,400 medicinal and aromatic

plant species as well as wild

mushrooms that are found in

the State. Jatindra Sharma’s

two-volume book, based on

15 years of research, also

records a few species of

plants that are yet to be

named. IANS

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RNA editing tool to helpcombat genetic diseaseBOSTON

Scientists have created a new

gene editing tool that tweaks

the individual RNA ‘letters’ in

human cells without making

changes to the entire

genome, paving the way for

therapies that can reverse

mutations.The tool was

developed by scientists from

The Broad Institute and

Massachusetts Institute of

Technology. PTI

Baking soda can removepesticides from fruit skinBOSTON

Washing apples with baking

soda could help get rid of

pesticide residues on the

surface of the fruits, making

them safer for consumption, a

study has found. Washing the

produce with either plain

water or bleach solution was

found less effective,

scientists said. PTI

Amazon.com Inc has plansto drop off packages directlyinto shoppers’ homes.

The world’s largest onlineretailer announced a featurecalled Amazon Key, a lockand camera system thatusers control remotely to letdelivery associates slipgoods into their houses. Cus-tomers can create tempor-ary passcodes for friendsand other services profes-sionals to enter as well.

The move, in the worksfor more than a year, mayhelp Amazon capture salesfrom shoppers who are un-able to receive an order inperson, and do not want thepackage stolen from theirdoorsteps. Amazon Keylaunches on November 8 in37 U.S. locations. It also sig-nals Amazon’s ambitions inthe growing market for

home security devices,where Alphabet Inc’s NestLabs competes.

“This is not an experi-ment for us,” said PeterLarsen, Amazon vice-presid-ent of delivery technology.“This is a core part of theAmazon shopping experi-ence from this pointforward.”

Members of Amazon’sPrime shopping club canpay $249.99 and up for acloud-controlled cameraand lock the company offersto install. Delivery associatesare told to ring a doorbell orknock when they arrive at

someone’s house. If no onegreets them, they press ‘un-lock’ in a mobile app, andAmazon checks its systemsin an instant to make surethe right associate and pack-age are present.

The camera then streamsvideo to the customer, whocan view the delivery re-motely. The associate cannotproceed with other trips un-til the home is again locked.

Mr. Larsen said in-hometheft was “not somethingthat happens in practice,”based on trials of AmazonKey. In some cases Amazonwill reimburse customers if aproblem arises, he said. It isunclear if such protectionswill satisfy customers’ secur-ity concerns. Demand forother smart lock systems hasso far been small comparedto devices like the AmazonEcho speaker.

Not at home? Amazon wants to come in and drop o� parcelsService launches on November 8 in 37 U.S. locationsReuters

<> Theft is not

something that

happens in practice

based on trials

Peter Larsen

Amazon v-p of delivery technology

A mother’s determination tomake Christmas special forher daughter is the inspira-tion behind the latest addi-tion to Greece’s culturalscene — a toy museum.

Maria Argyriadi learnedhow precious toys are thehard way.

Clutching an old, wornblack and white photographfrom childhood showing herown toys beneath a Christ-mas tree, she relates thestory of how during the fest-ive season her parents couldnot afford more than onenew toy.

Her mother wouldsecretly take her old toysaside and repair them, aswell as make patterneddresses and undergarmentswith crinolene, and putthem all back under the tree.

The idea to become a toycollector occurred to herduring a visit as a young wo-

man with her husband to anantique flea market inAthens in 1970.

“I saw a bear, similar toone I had and loved. (It was)torn, without an ear, aneye...My mother’s words, tolove my toys and not tothrow them away, have re-mained with me, and Ithought how is it possible for

someone to have thrown thisaway?” Ms. Argyriadi, amother of two, took the bearand sewed it up. “I took careof it. That was the first, andslowly I started to collect,”she said.

That bear now sits in acase, along with the otherchildhood toys that hermother repaired, in the new

Benaki Toy Museum inAthens.

Ms. Argyriadi amassed acollection of more than20,000 toys, of which 3,000are on display. They span aperiod from antiquity to the1960s, and come fromGreece, Germany, France,Britain, the United States,Africa and Asia.

One of her favourite toysis significant for the story be-hind it. It is miniature dollfurniture made by a motherfor her child’s birthday dur-ing the 1941-45 Nazi occupa-tion of Greece from firewoodbelonging to German sol-diers that had taken over herhome. The mother used hernail polish to decorate it.

“It was really very sim-ple...That piece speaks toyou, and when her daughter,who is now old, brought it tous, we could see the love shehad for it, we saw in fact thatshe did not want to part withit,” said Ms. Argyriadi.

Athens museum has its own toy story Maria Argyriadi has donated 3,000 pieces from her massive collection

Reuters

Athens

Miniature art: A puppet theatre dated about 1890 displayed atthe Benaki Toy Museum in Athens. * REUTERS

Harvard scientists have de-veloped a next-generationhybrid version of RoboBeethat can fly, dive into water,swim, propel itself backout of water, and landsafely.

The RoboBee is 1,000times lighter than any pre-vious aerial-to-aquatic ro-bot, and could be used fornumerous applications,from search-and-rescueoperations to environ-mental monitoring andbiological studies, re-searchers said.

New floating devices al-low the multipurpose mi-cro-robot to stabilise onthe water’s surface beforean internal combustionsystem ignites to propel itback into the air, they said.

“This is the first micro-robot capable of re-peatedly moving in andthrough complex environ-ments,” said Yufeng Chen,a former graduate studentat the Harvard John APaulson School of Engin-eering and AppliedSciences.

Complex movements“We designed new mech-anisms that allow thevehicle to directly trans-ition from water to air,something that is beyondwhat nature can achieve inthe insect world,” saidChen, first author of the re-search published in thejournal Science Robotics.

By combining theoret-ical modelling and experi-mental data, the research-ers found the goldilockscombination of wing sizeand flapping rate, scalingthe design to allow the beeto operate repeatedly inboth air and water.

Using this multi-modallocomotive strategy al-lowed the robot to flaps itswings at 220 to 300 hertzin air and nine to 13 hertzin water. The researchersretrofitted the RoboBeewith four buoyant outrig-gers — essentially roboticfloaties — and a central gascollection chamber.

RoboBee candive, swimand �yPress Trust of India

Boston

Between February and May,most of the 89 Indian citiesthat are to be developed asSmart Cities have beenfound to be 1-5 degrees Ccooler during the day relat-ive to the surrounding non-urban areas. More than 60%of the total 89 urban areasare 1-5 degrees C cooler dur-ing April (it’s 70% in May).

This observation is invariance with the globallywitnessed phenomenon ofurban areas getting signific-antly warmer during the daycompared with the sur-rounding areas as a result ofurban heat island effect.

In contrast, during thepost-monsoon period (Octo-ber to January), about 80%of the urban areas show typ-ical urban heat island effectand are 1-6 degrees Cwarmer than the surround-ing non-urban areas.

During the night, all thecities studied are warmer(1-5 degrees C) than the sur-rounding non-urban areasdue to urban heat island ef-fect regardless of the seasonand location.

Compared with other cit-ies, urban areas in semi-aridand arid regions of westernIndia show higher warmingin the night.

The night time warming isdriven mainly by heat storedin buildings and imperviousconcrete areas.

Vegetation in focusA team of researchers led byProf. Vimal Mishra from theCivil Engineering depart-ment at IIT Gandhinagarfound that cities are coolerduring the day than the sur-rounding non-urban areasonly when the non-urbanareas lack vegetation andmoisture either due to lackof irrigation or water bodies.

These cities (Kurnool, Vi-jayawada, Badami, Bijapur,Aurangabad and cities in Gu-

jarat and Rajasthan) are typ-ically located in western andcentral parts of India.

However, cities (Varanasi,Lucknow, Allahabad, Kan-pur, and Patna) in the Gan-getic Plain, north-westernIndia (Punjab and Haryana)and southern tip of the westcoast show typical urbanheat island effect during theday; these cities are 3-5 de-grees C warmer than the sur-rounding non-urban areasduring the pre-monsoon(February-May) and post-monsoon (October-January)periods.

The non-urban areas inthese areas have vegetationin the form of trees or agri-culture and have moisturedue to irrigation.

“There are two reasonswhy urban areas in westernand central parts of India be-come cooler than non-urbanareas during summer. Thenon-urban areas have nocrop and moisture, the soilis dry and day-time air tem-perature is above 40 degreesC. On the other hand, theurban areas have vegetationcover and water bodies. Thisis why cities are cooler thanthe surrounding non-urbanareas during the day,” ex-plains Prof. Mishra.

More than 70 of the 89 cit-ies studied are surroundedby non-urban areas whichhave more than 50% of totalland cover under agriculturebetween November andMarch.

This results in non-urbanareas being cooler than thecities during the post-mon-soon season. The resultswere published in thejournal Scientific Reports.

Aerosols too have an ef-fect in reducing the temper-ature but their role in cool-ing during day time is lesscompared with vegetationand irrigation.

“Cities being significantlywarmer than surroundingnon-urban areas duringnight has policy-related im-plications,” says Prof.Mishra. “During heat-waves,the prominent night urbanheat island effect which isprevalent across cities couldworsen the levels ofdiscomfort.”

Planning requirement“Since the government isplanning to develop these assmart cities, we should thinkof using more sustainablebuilding materials that ab-sorb less heat during theday. We also need to includepassive cooling measuressuch as increased tree cover,increased ventilation inbuildings and orientation ofbuildings in modern build-ing designs to reduce thenight-time urban heat islandeffect,” he says. Thereshould be an optimal com-bination of imperviouscover, vegetation cover, andwater bodies within thecities.

The researchers usedsatellite data (2000-2014)and community land modelto identify the impact of ir-rigation and show the cool-ing seen in cities is due tolack of vegetation and mois-ture in non-urban areas rel-ative to cities.

Researchers push for use of sustainable building materialsR. Prasad

Chennai

Vimal Mishra

IIT team tracks urban heatisland e�ect in 89 cities

<> We also need to

include passive

cooling measures

such as increased

tree cover

A 6,000-year-old skull foundin Papua New Guinea islikely the world’s oldest-known tsunami victim, ex-perts said on Thursday aftera new analysis of the area itwas found in.

The partially preservedAitape Skull was discoveredin 1929 by Australian geolo-gist Paul Hossfeld, 12 km in-land from the northern coastof the Pacific nation.

It was long thought to be-long to Homo erectus (up-right man), an extinct spe-cies thought to be anancestor of the modern hu-man that died out some1,40,000 years ago.

But more recent radiocar-bon dating estimated it wascloser to 6,000 years old,making it a member of ourown species — Homo sapiens.At that time, sea levels werehigher and the area wouldhave been near the coast.

An international team ledby the University of New

South Wales returned to thesite to collect the same geo-logical deposits observed byHossfeld.

Chemical analysisBack in the lab, they studieddetails of the sediment in-cluding its grain size andgeochemical composition,which can help identify atsunami inundation.

They also identified arange of microscopic organ-isms from the ocean in thesediment, similar to those

found in soil after a devastat-ing tsunami hit the region in1998.

“We have discovered thatthe place where the AitapeSkull was unearthed was acoastal lagoon that was in-undated by a large tsunamiabout 6,000 years ago,” saidstudy author and UNSW sci-entist James Goff.

“It was similar to the onethat struck nearby with suchdevastating effect in 1998,killing more than 2,000people. We conclude thatthis person who died thereso long ago is probably theoldest-known tsunami victimin the world.”

The conclusions, aided byresearchers from the UnitedStates, France, New Zealandand Papua New Guinea, arepublished in the journalPLOS ONE.

Mr. Goff, a world author-ity on tsunamis, said whilethe bones of the skull hadbeen well-studied previ-ously, little attention hadbeen paid to the sediments

where they were unearthed.“The geological similarit-

ies between these sedimentsand the sediments laid downduring the 1998 tsunamimade us realise that humanpopulations in this area havebeen affected by thesemassive inundations forthousands of years,” he said.

“After considering a rangeof possible scenarios, we be-lieve that, on the balance ofthe evidence, the individualwas either killed directly inthe tsunami, or was buriedjust before it hit and the re-mains were redeposited.”

Following the 1998tsunami, which penetratedup to five kilometres inland,attempts to retrieve victimswere called off after a weekbecause crocodiles werefeeding on the corpses, lead-ing to their dismemberment.

This may also explain whythe skull of the person whodied 6,000 years ago wasfound on its own, withoutany other bones, the re-searchers said.

Ancient skull likely belonged toworld’s oldest tsunami victimScientists studied sediments in Papua New Guinea site, where cranium was found

Agence France-Presse

Sydney

6,000 year-old skull foundin Papua New Guinea. * AFP

Few authors were as in-tensely private as HarperLee, who was rivalled per-haps only by Thomas Pyn-chon and J.D. Salinger in heraversion to publicity.

When Lee died in 2016 atthe age of 89, she hadn’tgiven a substantive interviewin decades, and her reti-cence added to the mysteryof why she decided to pub-lish Go Set a Watchman in2015, a novel she had setaside in the 1950s.

But she was known to be aprolific letter writer, and inrecent years, more of hercorrespondence has trickled

into public view as it hascome up for auction, offer-ing a rare glimpse of the au-thor in unguarded moments.

Now, a batch of letterswritten by Lee between2005 and 2010 offer a newwindow into the last decadeof her life. The lettersprovide some context for herviews on religion, politicsand race.

Frustrations of ageingIn one letter from 2008, shediscusses the frustrations ofageing and her declining fac-ulties, writing, “I haven’t gotbat sense — I blame drugs,but it’s probably senility....

Everybody here is in demen-tia of some sort, I am noexception.”

The letters, which werewritten to her friend FeliceItzkoff, who died in NewYork in early 2011, are being

sold by Nate D. Sanders Auc-tions, which has set a min-imum bid of $10,000.

Her private letters revealthat she was sensitive towhat was being said abouther, despite her deep dis-taste for publicity.

In one of her letters, Leereferences criticism levelledat her for publishing just onebook, by one of her literaryheroes, Eudora Welty. “Ionce heard her say some-thing about ‘Harper Lee’scase’ — talking about one-novel writers,” she wrote. “Icould have told her: as itturned out, I didn’t need towrite another one.” NYTIMES

Harper Lee letters come up for auctionBatch of notes o�ers a new window into the last decade of reticent author’s lifeAlexandra Alter

Harper Lee

Hard at work: Students of �ne arts from various colleges design rangoli patterns on the pathway to Salt Lake stadium ahead of theFIFA U-17 World Cup �nal in Kolkata on Thursday. * K.R. DEEPAK

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Eye-catching carpet

Puppeteers from the U.K.,Germany, Peru, Portugal,Italy, Lithuania, Brazil andSingapore have gathered inKolkata to showcase tradi-tions in different parts of theworld.

The ‘Puppets Unite Neigh-bours’ festival is also aimedat reviving interest in pup-petry in India, the organ-isers said. Various puppetart forms — glove, shadow,knee, giant, human, theatre,street, interactive and bal-loon puppetry — will be seenat the festival.

Puppeteers Ravi Bhat of‘Kath Putli’ ( Jaipur), Sara-vana Dhanapal of ‘GiantPuppet’ (Bengaluru), SudipGupta of ‘Dolls Theatre’(Kolkata), Jitendra Advani of‘Masti Maker Human Pup-pet’ ( Jaipur) and Edwin Leeof ‘Dragon Act’ and ‘Lion

Dance’ (Kolkata) are amongthe participants from India.

The audience will have achance to see performances

by the CIA team from Braziland One Woman Companyfrom Germany, the organ-isers said.

Using balloons and gloves,puppeteers set to charm Kolkata Traditions from di�erent parts of the world on displayPress Trust of India

Kolkata

Fun starts now: Puppet artists perform at the InternationalPuppet festival in Kolkata on Thursday. * PTI

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