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Max: 40.5OCMin: 27.1OC RH: 32%Rainfall: Nil

Forecast: Cloudy sky.Rain or thundersowers

likely. Max/Min 40/27ºC

WEATHER

ASTROGUIDEVikari; Uttarayana

Tithi: Jyeshta ShuddhaTadiya till 9.54 am

Star: Punarvasu till 8.26 pmVarjyam: 9.09 am to

10.39 am; 3.56 am to5.26 am (Friday)

Durmuhurtam: 10.04 amto 10.56 am; 3.17 pm to

4.09 pmRahukalam: 1.30 pm to 3

pmHIJRI CALENDAR

Shawwal 2,1440 AHPRAYERS

Fajar: 4.41 amZohar: 12.22 pm

Asar: 4.39 pmMaghrib: 6.43 pm

Isha: 7.56 pmSUNSET TODAY 6.48 PM

SUNRISE TOMORROW 5.41 AMMOONRISE TOMORROW 5.19 AM

MOONSET TODAY 8.48 PM

DC CORRESPONDENTHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

The onset of the SouthWest Monsoon in Kerala,which was predicted tomake its landing on June 6is now very likely to bedelayed till June 8, as perthe prediction of theIndian MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD). ForTelugu states, IMD pre-dicts that Andhra Pradeshmight receive rains onJune 11 and Telanganastate is expected to get iton June 13, as per the IMD.

While Kerala is predict-ed to receive the Sou-thwest monsoon on June 8,here TS will experience co-nsecutive heat wave condi-tions till June 9. The pub-lic have been advised notto expose themselves dir-ectly to sunlight and takenecessary precautions.

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MONSOON TOHIT KERALAON JUNE 8

INDIA WILLRETAIN 7.5%

GROWTHWashington, June 5:India’s economy is project-ed to grow at 7.5 per cent inthe next three years, sup-ported by robust invest-ment and private con-sumption, the World Bankhas forecast, in some goodnews to the new Indiangovernment.

The bank in its GlobalEconomic Prospectsreleased on Tuesday saidthat India is estimated tohave grown 7.2 per cent infiscal year 2018/19, whichended March 31.

A slowdown in govern-ment consumption was off-set by solid investment,which benefitted from pu-blic infrastructure spend-ing. India will continue toretain the position of beingthe fastest growing emerg-ing economy.


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ANUDEEP CERMILLA | DCWARANGAL, JUNE 5

Even before the Interme-diate result fiasco couldbe forgotten, the Telang-ana State Board of Interm-ediate Education (TSBIE)has once again founditself in a sticky situation.

Two sealed trunks con-taining question papers ofthe advanced supplemen-tary examinations sched-uled to be held June 7onwards have gone miss-ing from the strongroomat Mills Colony police sta-tion, Warangal.

Although authoritiesrealised two days ago thatthe boxes had gone miss-ing, they kept the wordunder wraps and conduct-ed a quiet search but invain.

The boxes containedquestion papers for thesecond year exams to beheld on June 9 and 10.

The police received acomplaint from the custo-dian Rajitha and thenlaunched an investigationinto the issue.

Central zone DCP

Narasimha appointedWarangal ACP Narsaiahas the investigating offi-cer in the case.

The officials conductedan extensive search at theDistrict Common Examin-ation Board (DCEB) officeand the Government HighSchool in Shambunipet,where the boxes were pre-viously stored.

Meanwhile, TSBIE sec-retary M. Ashok urged thestudents appearing for theexaminations not to wor-ry and reassured that theexaminations will be con-ducted as per the sched-ule.

He acknowledged thattwo trunks had gone miss-ing and said that a differ-ent set of question paperswould now be preparedfor the examinations.

Papers of Interexam missing

DC CORRESPONDENTwith agency inputsNEW DELHI, JUNE 5

In the future, you may beable to raise the issue ofthe malfunctioning ofelectronic voting mach-ines and voter-verifiedpaper audit trail mach-ines or their mismatchwithout the fear of beingarrested.

The Election Commis-sion is contemplatingrevisiting a rule that pro-vides for the prosecutionof an elector if a com-plaint of EVM andVVPAT machine mal-function turns out to befalse, Chief ElectionCommissioner SunilArora said.

“Now that the currentelections are over, wewill probably be dis-cussing it internallywhether it should bemodified, softened etc ...We may revisit it,” hesaid while responding toa question on the penalprovision, which manyfeel is unwarranted.


NO ARRESTFOR FALSEEVM ALARM


Four children, all agedbetween 10 and 17 years,who went for a swim in aquarry at Rudraram vil-lage of Sangareddy dis-trict drowned on Wed-nesday, as they slippeddeep into the waters.

The children were allcousins and hailing fromAlwal, said the police.

The children had beento their relative’s houseat Rudraram village forthe summer vacation.The children were identi-fied as Govardhan,Vishnuvardhan, Anand,and Nandini, residents ofBalajinagar in Alwal inHyderabad.


4 COUSINSFROM CITYDROWN

VIKRAM SHARMA | DCHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

Three senior IPS officersincluding one from Tel-angana state are in therace for the post of thedirector of the presti-gious Sardar Vallabhb-hai Patel National PoliceAcademy (SVPNPA), thenational institute fortraining of Indian PoliceService (IPS) officers,based in Hyderabad.

The AppointmentsCommittee of theCabinet (ACC), whichhas the Prime Ministeras its chairman, is likelyto meet this month andappoint one of the threeto the prestigious post.

Top sources told DeccanChronicle that the IPSofficers — N.R.K. Reddyof the 1986 batch (Raja-sthan cadre), A. Hemac-handran, also of the 1986batch (Kerala cadre) andSantosh Mehra of the1987 batch (Telanganacadre) — are the top con-tenders for the post.


TS CADRE IPS IN NPACHIEF RACE

Didi: Don’t mess, will decimate youKolkata, June 5: A com-bative West Bengal ChiefMinister Mamata Bane-rjee on Wednesday sent astrong message to herdetractors on the occasionof Id-ul-Fitr, saying “who-ever messes with us willbe decimated”.

Banerjee, whose Trin-amul suffered reverses inthe recent Lok Sabha elec-tions, greeted people atRed Road here where acrowd of over 25,000 hadgathered to offer namaz.

“Jo humse takraega wochoor choor ho jaega (who-ever messes with us willbe decimated). This is ourslogan,” she said in anapparent reference to theBJP which scripted aremarkable victory in thepolls, bagging 18 of the 42seats in the state.

Banerjee has also beencritical of BJP’s use of theslogan Jai Shri Ram,alleging that the saffronparty was mixing religionwith politics by repeated-ly using the phrase.

The Chief Minister haslost her cool twice in thelast few weeks over peoplechanting Jai Sri Ram atsome places in the statewhile her motorcade waspassing through.

“Hindus stand for‘tyaag’ (renunciation),Muslims for ‘imaan’(integrity), Christians for‘pyaar’ (love) and Sikhs

for ‘balidan’ (sacrifice).This is our belovedHindustan and we willprotect it,” she told thegathering on Wednesday.

“There is nothing to bescared... Sometimes whenthe sun rises, its rays arevery harsh, but they laterfade away. Do not bescared, the faster theycaptured EVMs, thequicker they will goaway,” Banerjee added.

The TMC supremo hasbeen alleging tamperingof electronic votingmachines (EVMs) duringthe general elections, andin the run up to it.

Meanwhile, GovernorKeshari Nath Tripathialso extended his bestwishes to people on Id-ul-Fitr.

“May this joyous festivalprovide an opportunity toreaffirm our faith in thecountry’s cultural her-itage, unity, spirit offriendship and fraternityamong all sections of soci-ety,” he said. — PTI

FESTIVE FERVOUR

Muslims greet each other after offering namaz at at Macca Masjid on the occasion ofId-ul-Fitr that marks the end of the holy month of Ramzan in Hyderabad onWednesday. — DEEPAK DESHPANDE

S.N.C.N. ACHARYULU |DCHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

Even after the defeatof Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao’sdaughter K. Kavithain the Lok Sabha elec-tions, dynastic politicsis likely to prevail inthe Zilla Parishads.

In many districts,the family members ofTelangana RashtraSamiti (TRS) MPs,MLAs, and MLCs arelikely to become ZillaParishad chairper-sons. TRS leaders saiddynastic politicshelped them win allthe 32 ZPs in the state.

Elections for ZPchairpersons will beheld on June 8 and MrRao will decide thecandidates in a day ortwo. In fact the TRSleadership had indi-cated to the districtleaders who will be thecandidates for theposts of ZP chairper-sons even before ZPTCelections were held.


1 STABBEDTO DEATH INBJP REVELRY COREENA SUARES | DCHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

A BJP reveller wasstabbed to death hoursafter the local pollresults were announ-ced on Tuesday. Thedeceased, PremKumar had joined BJPworkers in their cele-bration of the party’svictory in the localelections.


DYNASTYRULE IN ZPsTO CONTINUE

■ ■ BIE SECRETARYacknowledged that twotrunks had gone miss-ing and said that a dif-ferent set of questionpapers would now beprepared for the exams

Mamata Banerjee

ANIMESH SINGH | DCNEW DELHI, JUNE 5

The newly-formed NDAgovernment on Wednes-day constituted two newCabinet committees toaddress major concernson sluggish economic gro-wth and employment gen-eration, headed by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi.

Interestingly, defenceminister Rajnath Singh isnot part of any of the twohigh-profile panels, inwhich several of hisCabinet colleagues, andeven some ministers ofstate have been named asmembers.

The five-memberCabinet committee ongrowth and investmenthas home minister AmitShah, finance ministerNirmala Sitharaman, rail-way minister PiyushGoyal and road transportminister Nitin Gadkari asmembers.

The second panel on skilldevelopment and employ-ment generation has 10members — Mr Shah, MsSitharaman, Mr Goyal aswell as petroleum minis-ter Dharmendra Pradhan,human resources develop-ment minister RameshPokhriyal, agricultureminister Narendra Singh

Tomar, skill developmentminister Mahendra NathPandey, minister of statefor labour SantoshGangwar and minister ofstate for urban develop-ment Hardeep Singh Puri.

Poor economic growthalong with employmentgeneration are the twomajor challenges for theNDA government, whichlast month returned topower at the Centre.

GDP growth for theJanuary-March quarterwas 5.8 per cent, the low-est in five years of theNDA government. GDPgrowth for 2018-19 was 6.8per cent, against the targetof 7.2 per cent set by thegovernment.

Employment generationhas been the poorest in thecountry in the past 45years, as had been indicat-ed by the National SampleSurvey Office’s PeriodicLabour Force Survey.

It had said India record-ed the unemployment rateat a 45-year-high of 6.1 percent in 2017-18. Job cre-ation was one of the keypromises of the NDA gov-ernment in its 2014 elec-tion manifesto.

The Centre, meanwhile,also constituted the Cabi-net Committee on Secur-ity (CCS) on Wednesday,which deals with nationalsecurity and foreignaffairs issues, is headed bythe Prime Minister.

Jobs, growth gettop panels’ focus

■ Centre sets up panels to boost investment

Poor economicgrowth along withemploymentgeneration arethe two majorchallenges forthe Centre.

GDP growth forthe January-Marchquarter was 5.8per cent, thelowest in five

years of the NDAgovernment.

Employment generation has been thepoorest in the country in the past 45 years,as per NSSO Labour Force Survey.

COURSE CORRECTION

RAJESWARI PARASA | DCHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

Madhapur student G.Madhuri Reddy scored toprank in the female catego-ry with a percentile of99.9993620, and secured all-India 7th rank in the over-all category in the NationalEligibility cum EntranceTest (NEET), whose resultswere out on Wednesday.It’s the only rank for Telan-gana in the top 50 ranks.Andhra Pradesh baggedthree ranks in the top 50.

Ms Reddy is also the top-per in the southern stateswith a score of 695 out of

720 marks. Speaking to theDeccan Chronicle, she saidthat she is happy and wasexpecting that she wouldget a rank below the top 10.She wants to do an MS inCardiology.

Her proud fatherTirupathi Reddy, an ITprofessional based inHyderabad, said that thededication and hard workof his daughter got her thehigh rank. He said she wasalways a brilliant studentand received free educa-tion since class 7 from theNarayana Group ofEducational Institutions.

Andhra Pradesh student,

Qureshi Asra, scored a per-centile of 99.9980861 andsecured all-India 16th rankwith a score of 690 marks.

She is also at second posi-tion in southern India.

AP has two more all-Indiarankers: Pilli Bhanu Siva

Teja and S SrinandanReddy came 40 and 42respectively to make it intothe top 50.

This time, 15.19 lakh can-diates registered for thetest nationwide, out ofwhich 14,10,755 were pre-sent, which is 92.85 percent. From the last year,there is an increase of 14.52per cent in the number ofregistered students. Thetotal pass percentage in thecountry stood at 56.27 percent.

This year, the NationalTesting Agency (NTA) con-ducted NEET, 2019 throu-ghout the country on May5, and 20, 2019 for admis-sion to MBBS and BDScourses in India in medicaland dental colleges.

■ Topper wants to be a cardiologist; AP scores 3 top-50 ranks in national testRIGHT | WAY

TS student topper among girls in NeetMEDICAL TEST

A total of 15,19,375candidates registered for the

nationwide test for admissionto MBBS and BDS courses. Of

this, 92.85 per cent studentsappeared for the test.

In Telangana, 48,996 students appeared for the test.But only 33,044 or 67.44 per cent have successfullycleared the test.

Out of 55,200students, whoappeared for the test,only 39,039 studentsqualified from AndhraPradesh.

G. MadhuriReddy

INDIA BEATS. AFRICA

India, who had towait for long toplay their first

game, outplayedSouth Africa by

six wickets tobegin their World Cup

campaign on anemphatic note.

SA

TOP SCORERSFOR INDIA

TOP BOWLERSFOR INDIA

INDIAROHIT227/9 122*

Dhoni — 34K.L. Rahul — 26

Jasprit Bumrah 10-1-35-2Yuzvendra Chahal

10-0-51-4

The highest individual scoreof the tournament to date

ROHIT SIZZLES

230/4

Hats off to Rohit, hisinnings was special.And also the guyswho batted aroundhim. I would say it’s aprofessional win.

— VIRAT KOHLIIndia play Australianext on Sunday

IN BRIEF

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NATURE LOVERSTAKE PART IN

‘FOREST BATH’DC CORRESPONDENTWARANGAL, JUNE 5

On the occasion of WorldEnvironment Day onWednesday, nature lovers tookpart in a “forest bath” held atPandem Reserve Forest inMahbubabad district. The pro-gramme was organised by theWarangal Rural District ForestDepartment and Jana VignanaVedika.

About 300 nature lovers whovisited the forest fromMahbubabad, Nizamabad,Siricilla, Kamareddy,Wanaparthy, Mahbubnagar,Ranga Reddy and Khammam,trekked through the forest trailat Pandem and climbed up thecliff enthusiastically. Districtforest officer Mr K.Purushotham showed the visi-tors various species of plants,trees, flowers and birds presentinside the forest. Later, theyvisited the herbal garden inPakhal and observed the vari-ous herbs planted there.Narsampet Munsif court judgeMr Sanketh Mitra said thefuture generations must moveforward with preservingnature and make it their primeagenda. Narsampet ACP MsSunitha Mohan said, “If we donot preserve the trees, we maysee days in which we have tobuy oxygen just like we buywater today.”

DFO Mr Purushotham saidthe theme for this year’sEnvironment Day was “BeatAir Pollution”.

He explained that forest bathwas not an exercise, or hiking,or jogging. It is simply being innature, connecting with itthrough our senses of sight,hearing, taste, smell and touch.

In Hanamkonda a green walkwas held near the public gar-den in which citizens andnature lovers participated.

30 fall ill after eating at weddingAdilabad: As many as 30 vil-

lagers fell sick after eatingfood served in the marriage

party in Chimmangudi villagein Sirikonda mandal on

Wednesday. The villagersstarted vomiting and were hit

with bouts of diarrhea aftereating the wedding food. The

persons who fell sick havebeen shifted to RIMS,

Adilabad where they areundergoing treatment. Thevillagers say that the food

poisoning took place due todrinking contaminated water

and eating food preparedwith the same water.

BIKER INJUREDIN MISHAP AT

NARSINGI DIES DC CORRESPONDENTHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

A biker who sustained injuriesin an accident near Khanapurcrossroads in Narsingi diedwhile undergoing treatment atGandhi Hospital on Tuesdayevening.

According to sources,Mohammed Shabir, 29, a pro-fessional driver hailing fromChilkur, was on his way backhome from Mokila village onhis bike (AP 28 AY 3909) when aforegoing car braked abruptlynear Khanapur crossroads infront of the bike.

As a result, Shabir lost con-trol of his bike, rammed intothe car from the rear, fell off,and received critical injuries,said the police.

Mohammed Shabir wasimmediately taken to a privatehospital and then to GandhiHospital for treatment, wherehe succumbed while in treat-ment.

Narsingi police told thisnewspaper that based on a com-plaint from one MohammedJahangir, the brother-in-law ofthe deceased, a case has beenregistered and an investigationhas been taken up to identifythe accused driver whoseaction resulted in the mishap.

Green driveSCR GM Gajanan Mallya asked eachemployee to plant a sapling and nurture itsgrowth on the World Environment Day

I did my bit, planteda sapling on the

occasion of WorldEnvironment Day.

— T. Harish RaoTRS MLA

MADDY DEEKSHITH | DCHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

The environmentally con-cerned Greater HyderabadMunicipal Corporation(GHMC) has been promot-ing the plastic ban andraising eco-friendly awar-eness programmes, but itis doing so through flexis,vinyl hoardings and othersuch non eco-friendlymeans.

Despite imposing theplastic ban in the city andimposing fines on viola-tors, the GHMC has beenpromoting environmentalawareness only throughplastic.

Even the civic body’sWorld Environment Daycampaigns were done inthe same way.

Though they have theoption to use cloth ban-ners for single-day cam-paigns, they have not doneso. Officials are even usingsingle use plastic bottlesin all GHMC offices de-spite the ban imposed bythe commissioner.

Currently, out of 5,000metric tonnes of munici-pal solid waste generatedby the city, 450-500 MT isplastic waste. The corpo-ration has even made anaction plan for a completeban on plastic by 2022.

However, it needs to startpractising what it preach-es. Single use plastic waterbottles will be found in allcircle, zonal and head-quarters right from Citymayor’s chamber, GHMCcommissioner’s office todeputy commissioner atthe ground level. Flexiescan be seen on all swachhauto tippers, monsoon act-ion team vehicles, and in-stant repair team vehicles.Plastic banners are com-mon.

Despite Municipal Admi-nistration and UrbanDevelopment principalsecretary Arvind Kumar

instructing strict imple-mentation of the PublicProperties DefacementAct, the GHMC, which issupposed to enforce it, isinstead violating it andpromoting its own pro-grammes by erectinghoardings and flexies.

In January, after examin-ing hoardings, flexies,posters and banners in thecity Mr Kumar had askedthe civic body to removethem immediately.

He directed officials toensure that unauthorisedflexies conveying birthdaygreetings, political ban-ners, pamphlets/posters ofeducational institutionssuch as colleges andcoaching centres in resi-dential areas, on street-light poles, and at junc-tions in GHMC areas arenot permitted. However,his instructions fell ondeaf ears.

Ignoring Mr Kumar’sinstructions, the civicbody has turned a blindeye to hoardings, flexiesand banners in publicplaces including roads,streetlight poles, flyovers,bus shelters and govern-ment offices. Mr Kumarsaid zonal commissionerswill levy penalty on insti-tutions and persons past-ing advertising materialon walls of bus shelters,central divider blocks,walls of flyovers andMetro stations.

Responsibility should befixed on Sanitary FieldAssistants in their respec-tive jurisdictions.

GHMC officials wereunavailable for comment.

GHMC promotes plastic banbut uses vinyl, flexi banners■ Civic body continues to use single-use plastic bottles despite ban


You will find plastic bagsof below the stipulated 50microns in every nook andcorner of the city, but theGreater Hyderabad Mun-icipal Corporation has col-lected a mere `26.03 lakhin fines from violators ofthe ban. It has also booked2,625 cases in one year.

As of now, the plasticban in Hyderabad appliesto the manufacture anduse of plastic carry bagsmeasuring below 50microns, which is about0.05 millimetres.

This is in accordancewith the plastic wastemanagement rules, 2016 ofthe Central government,which made it mandatoryto ban plastic bags of lessthan 50 microns.

However, ever since thiscame into effect, the cor-poration has been penalis-ing the manufacturersonly during the SwachhSurvekshan survey sinceit gets points for levyingfines. According to thedata collected from thecorporation, it has booked2,625 cases and collected`26.03 lakh in fines in twofinancial years, 2017-18and 2018-19.

Corporation sources saythat if the corporation col-lects penalty from shopsthat use the banned plasticbags, the fine would crossone crore.

VIKRAM SHARMA | DCHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

Three senior IPS officersincluding one from Telan-gana are in the race forthe post of the Director ofthe prestigious SardarVallabhbhai Patel Nati-onal Police Academy(SVPNPA), the nationalinstitute for training ofIndian Police Service offi-cers, based in Hyderabad.

The Appointments Co-mmittee of the Cabinet(ACC), which has thePrime Minister as itschairman, is likely tomeet this month andappoint one of the three tothe prestigious post.

Top sources told DeccanChronicle that the IPS offi-cers — N.R.K. Reddy ofthe 1986 batch (Rajasthancadre), A. Hemachandran,also of the 1986 batch(Kerala cadre) and San-tosh Mehra of the 1987batch (Telangana cadre)— are the top contendersfor the post.

The term of the Directorof NPA, D.R. DoleyBarman, also of the 1986batch, came to an end onMarch 29 this year.

While N.R.K. Reddy ispresently posted as

Special DG (Law andOrder) in Rajasthan, A.Hemachandran is DG,Kerala Fire and RescueServices, and Santosh Me-hra is presently the dire-ctor of the TelanganaState Police Academy(TSPA).

Sources said that thoughall three are strong con-tenders for the post, thecontest has now narroweddown to N.R.K. Reddy andSantosh Mehra.

While Mr Reddy previ-ously had a stint in theCentral Reserve PoliceForce (CRPF) and wasbased in Hyderabad, MrMehra had served in theBorder Security Force.

All three IPS officershave earned the reputa-tion of institution

builders and have impec-cable track record.

A 1986 batch IPS officerof the Jammu & Kashmircadre, Doley Barman hadreplaced Aruna MBahuguna, an AndhraPradesh (united) cadreIPS officer as director ofthe Academy in February2017. Barman’s appoint-ment was done by tem-porarily downgrading thepost to the rank ofAdditional DGP for a peri-od of two years or untilfurther orders. She heldseveral important posts inJammu & Kashmir,Assam and also in theMinistry of Home Affairs.

Both N.R.K. Reddy and AHemachandran are DGrank officers while Sant-osh Mehra is an Addi-tional DGP rank officer.

While IPS officers in the1987 batch have been pro-moted to the rank of DGs,it is only in Telanganathat the officers have notbeen promoted to the rankof DGs.

Presently, a Telanganastate cadre IPS officer,Umesh Sharraf, is the in-charge Director of theNPA. Mr Sharraf hasbeen in the NPA sinceJanuary 2015.

Only `26 lakh collectedas penalty in 24 months

ANURAG | DCHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

The ministry of culture inresponse to an RTI queryfiled by one L. Rameshrevealed that the numberof inscriptions in the So-uth Indian languages sig-nificantly surpasses thesame in Hindi.

This revelation is timelyas it comes while theMinistry of HRD happensto be trying to imposeHindi in their NewEducation Policy.

Inscription is the processof writing something on adurable material. The ASIidentifies the process ofpreservation and propaga-tion of knowledge through

inscriptions as epigraphywhich has been steadilydeveloping since the 16thcentury.

As per the data availablewith the ArchaeologicalSurvey of India (ASI), thedepartment houses 12,000inscriptions in Telugu andonly 200 in Hindi. Theother South Indian lan-guages i.e. Tamil,Malayalam, and Kannadaalso surpass Hindi by asignificant margin in thisregard.

In fact, Tamil was foundto top the list with a record38,000 inscriptions avail-able with the ASI.

“It (epigraphy) is the sci-ence of discovering, deci-phering, and interpreting

inscriptions. Theseinscriptions on stone andother materials are themost authentic records ofour history,” the ASIinformed.

Elaborating on the rele-vance of these inscrip-tions, Dr BhangyaBhukya, professor of His-tory, University of Hyde-rabad, told this newspaper

that, “The Telugu lan-guage was spread by theEastern Chalukyas. Tamiland Kannada were thedominant languages inthis region, however, owi-ng to local factors, Teluguliterature began gainingpopularity. The primaryreason behind the largenumber of Telugu scriptsis its rich history and cul-tural diversity. Also, we donot see Persian or Urduinfluence in Telugu, butwe do in Hindi.”

“Inscriptions are the pri-mary source of informa-tion about our past - oursocial history. We did nothave printing and papertechnology back then, sothe only method of main-

taining records was toinscribe data. Hindi, onthe other hand, developedas a language in the 18thcentury. It was theBritishers who separatedHindi from Urdu. And itwas India’s freedom move-ment which contributed agreat deal in makingHindi popular among themasses,” he added.

Japanese HistorianNoboru Karashima, alsothe former president ofthe Epigraphical Societyof India, back in 1985, hadcalculated approximately10,000 inscriptions inTelugu language, whichmakes it one of the mostdiverse languages in ourcountry.

Inscriptions on South languages surpass Hindi■ Tamil tops the list with a record 38,000 inscriptions available with the ASIHISTORY | LESSON

NARENDER PULLOOR | DCNIZAMABAD, JUNE 5

Rejuvenation works ofthe Sriramsagar projectwere speeded up in com-posite Nizamabad andKarimnagar districts.State government appr-oved `1,067 crore for therejuvenation scheme inJune 2017 and the workwas awarded to Navayugaengineering company for`927.12 crore in August2017.

The work was plannedto complete within 15months by November2018, but are not yet com-pleted. As a result, pro-posals were submittedseeking extension uptothe end of June. In thiscontext, Chief MinisterK. Chandrasekhar Raovisited Rampur pumphouse of the scheme inJagtial district onTuesday and directed offi-cials to complete works atthe earliest.

The Sriramsagar proj-ect, the lifeline for northTelangana districts hasbeen losing its sheen forthe last three decades.Around 12 irrigation proj-ects including Babli wereconstructed in upstreamareas of the river Godav-ari in Maharashtra state.As a result, water inflowinto the Sriramsagar pro-ject was adversely affect-ed. The storage capacityof the SRSP was also re-duced to 90 from 112 tmc.

Siltation in SRSP alsoaffected water storage foragriculture and drinkingwater needs.

In this context, ChiefMinister K.Chandrasekhar Raoapproved a rejuvenationscheme for the SRSP withreverse pumping of waterfrom the Kaleshwaramlift irrigation project. Ar-

ound 2 tmc of water willbe lifted from Yellampallyevery day for mid Manairand SRSP rejuvenationschemes.

Minister for R&B andTransport Vemula Prash-anth Reddy was instru-mental in sanction of theSRSP rejuvenation sche-me. He accompanied theCM during the Kales-hwaram and SRSP rejuve-nation schemes inspec-tion on Tuesday.

Speaking to DeccanChronicle, SRSP rejuvena-tion scheme executiveengineer Sudha Kiransaid that they plan to con-duct a wet run by July 15.“We are concentrating oncompleting works of theRampur and Metpallypump houses, to enablereverse pumping of 54tmc water,” he explained.By September water willreach SRSP, he added.

CM visit speeds upSriramsagar works

TS IPS cadre officer in racefor director post at NPA

4 MINORS OF AFAMILY DROWNIN QUARRYDC CORRESPONDENTHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

Four children, all agedbetween 10 and 17 years,who went for a swim in aquarry at Rudraram vil-lage of Sangareddy dis-trict drowned on We-dnesday, as they slippeddeeper into the waters.The children were allcousins and hailingfrom Alwal, said thepolice.

The children had beento their relative’s houseat Rudraram village forthe summer vacation.The children were iden-tified as Govardhan,Vishnuvardhan, Anand,and Nandini, residentsof Balaji Nagar inAlwal.

Patancheru inspectorP. Naresh said that onWednesday, the cousinswent for a swim at aquarry containing stag-nated water but did notreturn home. The localswho saw the childrendrowning, alerted thepolice and in turn, theirparents were informedabout the mishap.

He said that one childwas aged 17, two wereaged 15 and another wasaged 10 years.

The bodies of the chil-dren were fished outwith the help of profes-sional swimmers andsent for the autopsy at agovernment hospital. Acase under section 174 ofCrPC has been regis-tered for the probe, saidthe inspector.

NIZAM KIN MOVECOURT AGAINSTNAME CHANGEDC CORRESPONDENTHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

Najaf Ali Khan and Mi-rza Mohib Baig, grand-son and the great-grand-son of H.E.H. — the VIINizam of HyderabadLate Mir Osmani AliKhan Bahadur — whobuilt the Osmania Univ-ersity have filed a PublicInterest Litigationbefore the TelanganaHigh Court opposingthe unilateral action ofthe Osmania Universityin changing the name ofthe existing OsmaniaUniversity Library to“Bharat Ratna Dr B.R.Ambedkar Library”without ascertainingany reason and withoutpublishing any Gazettenotification.

“The decision of theOsmania University offi-cials has deeply hurt thesentiments of the heirsof late Mir. Osmani AliKhan Bahadur,” he saidin the petition.

He submitted that theyhave even approachedthe chief secretary ofthe Telangana govern-ment and gave a repre-sentation requesting torestore the old name.

OH, THE IRONY

A march organised by the GHMC shows flexi banners being used to commemorateWorld Environment Day on Wednesday. There was an option to use cloth banners forsingle-day campaigns such as these but it was not followed.

■ EVER SINCE thiscame into effect, thecorporation has beenpenalising the manu-facturers only duringthe SwachhSurvekshan surveysince it gets pointsfor levying fines.

■ N.R.K. REDDY ofthe 1986 batch(Rajasthan cadre), A.Hemachandran, alsoof the 1986 batch(Kerala cadre) andSantosh Mehra ofthe 1987 batch(Telangana cadre)are the top con-tenders for the post.


The Musi Riverfront Dev-elopment Corporationhas decided to identifythe unauthorisedconstructions which havemushroomed on thebanks of the Musi anddemolish them.

An MRDC official saidthat the corporation wou-ld verify satellite imagesalong with pictures cap-tured by drone camerasto identify the illegalstructures.

The data will be handedover to the HyderabadMetropolitan Developm-ent Authority (HMDA)and Greater HyderabadMunicipal Corporation(GHMC) to demolish thestructures in co-ordina-tion with the revenuedepartment.

According to a surveyconducted by the revenueofficials in 2016, 8,529unauthorised structureswere identified, spreadover eight mandals on thebanks of the Musi.

The Hyderabad districtcollectorate officials aspart of the MusiRiverfront Developmentand BeautificationProject constituted nineteams to check the enu-meration of propertieserected on the banks ofthe Musi.

After verifying the landrecords, the authoritieseven demolished six enc-

roachments inCharminar mandal.

Sources said that thedemolition drive washalted immediately dueto political pressures.

Revenue officials con-tinued the exercise andnoted 667 encroachmentsin Asifnagar mandal, 989in Amberpet mandal,4,225 in Bahadurpuramandal, 73 in Charminarmandal, 517 in Golcondamandal, 499Himayatnagar mandal,650 in Nampally and 903in Saidabad mandal.

A senior MRDC officialsaid the revenue officialshad identified 3,529 resi-dential, 1,946 commercialproperties, 228 religiousstructures constructedwithout authorisation ongovernment land.

He said that on privatelands, 3005 residentialstructure, 418 commer-cial structures and 27religious structures hadcome up illegally.

The official said the rev-enue department hasbeen fighting 20 courtcases regarding illegaloccupation of govern-ment lands.

“Out of about 10,000encroachments, about8,000 cannot be removedeasily. The remaining canbe demolished in a day.They will be eitherremoved or demolishedas part of the Musi beau-tification process,” hetold this newspaper.

Drones to identifyillegal structures

■ CURRENTLY, OUTof 5,000 metrictonnes of municipalsolid waste generat-ed by the city, 450-500 MT is plasticwaste.

No. of inscriptions Language38,000 Tamil 12,000 Kannada 12,000 Telugu

150 Malayalam200 Hindi

11,0000 Sanskrit

ASI defines the process of gatheringknowledge through inscriptions as Epigraphy

RICH HERITAGE■ PATANCHERUinspector P. Nareshsaid that onWednesday, thecousins went for aswim at a quarrycontaining stagnat-ed water but didnot return home.■ THE LOCALS whosaw the childrendrowning, alertedthe police and inturn, their parentswere informedabout the mishap.

■ New schemesproposed underthe Kaleshwaramlift irrigation proj-ect: 12,45,000acres and for 123tmc■ SRSP rejuvena-tion schemes aimsto lift 1 tmc perday for 54 days.■ Three pump-houses will comeup on the floodflow canal toreverse pumpwater to SRSP.■ 11,600 cusecswill be dischargedwith lift height of33 meters.

PROJECT INFO

CityTHURSDAY | 6 JUNE 2019 | HYDERABADDECCAN CHRONICLE

Fish cureTSRTC will run 130 buses from June7 to 9 for fish prasadam at Nampally,says transport MD Sunil Sharma

Let’s pledge for asustainable city. Plantmore trees to beat air

pollution— Harichandana Dasari

GHMC Zonal Commissioners

IN BRIEFSCR to ply 94 special trains

Hyderabad: The SouthCentral Railway announced

the extension of 94 summertrains to ease the connectivi-ty on various routes. Here isthe list of trains whose serv-

ice have been extended.Machilipatnam-

Secunderabad; Narsapur-Hyderabad; Hyderabad-

Vijayawada; Tirupati-Nagarsol; H.S Nanded-

Tirupati; Kacheguda-Kakinada Town; Kakinada

Town–Kurnool City; KakinadaTown–Raichur;

Tirupati–Kakinada Town

Merge Bhadradriinto AP demand

Bhadrachalam: GondwanaSamkshema Parishad has

stepped up its stir on merg-ing Bhadrachalam and

Dummugudem and Charlamandals into Andhra Pradesh

and constituting a new dis-trict by making the holy town

as its district headquarters.The Gondwana Samkshema

Parishad convened a meetingon the issue and decided to

organise protests to fulfil thedemand.

Fewer TS, AP studentsqualify in Neet 2019■ Only 4 states saw more than 70% students qualify NeetDC CORRESPONDENTHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

The percentage of stu-dents who qualified forNEET from Telugu stateshas reduced this time –from 68.88 to 67.44 inTelangana state and from72.55 to 70.72 in AndhraPradesh.

In Andhra Pradesh,around 57,798 studentsregistered for the test,out of which 55,200 stu-dents were present. Ofthis only 39,039 studentsqualified, which equatesto 70.72 per cent.

In Telangana state,around 51,114 registeredfor the test, out of which48,996 were present, and33,044 qualified, whichequates to 67.44

Corporate education inthe Telugu states is focus-ing more on techniquesand memorisation meth-ods to crack the entranceexaminations ratherthan focusing on impart-ing conceptual educa-tion, whereas the examswhich are being conduct-ed India-wide focus moreon conceptual knowl-edge. This may be thereason for the reductionin the percentage, said asenior lecturer in a cor-porate college.

In only four states didmore than 70 per cent ofthe students qualify forthe Neet. AndhraPradesh is one of themwith 70.72, whereas Delhitopped with 74.92 percent, followed by Har-yana and Chandigarh,with 73.41 and 73.24respectively.


The 101st Air TrafficManagement & Air Laws(Basic) course culminat-ed at Air Force Academy,Dundigal, in which 31officers from the IndianNavy, Air Force, IndianCoast Guard, Nigerianand Philippines AirForce, graduated as AirTraffic Controllers. AirMarshal A.S. Butola,Commandant, Air ForceAcademy was the chiefguest at the valedictoryceremony as the review-ing officer.

Flying Officer RitikSaroha was adjudged firstin the overall order ofMerit and Flying OfficerAbhishek Mandiyal wasadjudged the most prom-ising trainee of thecourse.

Speaking on the occa-sion, Air Marshal A.S.Butola, Commandant AirForce Academy, acquaint-ed the graduating officersto the challenges of thefast growing aviation sec-tor, the rapid technologi-cal advancements andsafety requirements.

“The air traffic con-trollers have a bigger rolein times of distress, natu-ral calamities and hostili-ties. The fresh entrantsshould be more opera-tionally-oriented andsafety conscious whileconducting Air TrafficController operations,”said the Air Marshal.

The young graduatingofficers of the 101st ATM& Air Laws (Basic) coursewill soon be employed asAir Traffic Controllers atvarious military airfieldsin India and abroad, someof them at busy joint mil-

itary-civil airfields.Air Traffic Control

Officers TrainingEstablishment (ATCOTE)at Air Force Academy, is aspecialist Air TrafficController training andtesting establishment ofthe Indian Air Force(IAF) which trains offi-cers not only from theIAF but also from theIndian Army (IA), IndianNavy (IN), Indian CoastGuard (ICG) andHindustan AeronauticsLtd (HAL), as well asOfficers from the ArmedForces of various friend-ly foreign countries.

ATM & Air Laws (Basic)course is a six-month-long immaculately craft-ed training programmewhich covers all aspectsof Surface movement,Aerodrome and ApproachControl Functions inaccordance with theInternational CivilAviation Organisationstandards moulded to suitthe requirements of mili-tary and joint user air-fields.

Hyderabad, June 5:Researchers at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular andMolecular Biology (CCMB)here have shed new light onunderstanding endocytosis.

The findings can help intreating depression better,according to a CCMBrelease.

Endocytosis is the processby which a living cell takesup molecules bound to itssurface.

It is a key event in thetherapeutic action of manyof the drugs that act viaGPCRs, the release said.

G protein-coupled recep-tors (GPCRs) are tiny cellu-lar nano machines, housedin thin fluid-like cell mem-branes that separate cellsfrom each other.

They help in communica-tion between the exteriorand interior of the cell.

Due to their major role incellular signaling, GPCRsrepresent prominent drugtargets, it said.

GPCRs are known to enterthe inside of cells by theprocess of endocytosis.

However, the details ofregulation of endocytosisand the route the receptorsfollow during the process isstill not fully understood, itsaid.

In a recent finding pub-lished in the AmericanChemical Society journal'Biochemistry,' AmitabhaChattopadhyays groupfrom the CSIR-CCMB shedssome light on this, it said.

“The researchers haveidentified the molecularplayers involved in endocy-tosis of an important mem-ber of the GPCR family, theserotonin receptor,” it said.

The serotonin receptor isan important drug target inneuropsychiatric disorderssuch as anxiety and depres-sion, it said.

— PTI

RESEARCH TO HELPUNDERSTANDENDOCYTOSIS

RTI ACTIVISTKILLED INVISAKHAPATNAMDC CORRESPONDENTVISAKHAPATNAM, JUNE 5

An RTI activist named M.Sreenivas, 44, was killed byunidentified persons inChodavaram of Visakha-patnam district on Tuesdaynight.

According to the cops,Sreenivas was allegedly trav-elling on a bike along withhis second wife M.Padmavati when two personsallegedly came on a bike andattacked him with an ironroad. He reportedly died onthe spot.

When Srinivas stopped thebike, seeing iron roads in thehands of attackers,Padmavati went to call peo-ple for help. But she didn’texpect that the attackerswould kill Sreenivas.

Inspector of ChodavaramSrinivasa Rao said that thedeceased was an RTI activistand also into lots of smallbusiness for livelihood. Ithas been learnt that as partof RTI activism, Sreenivashad several enemies.

RAJESWARI PARASA | DCHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

The onset of the SouthWestMonsoon in Kerala, whichwas predicted to make itslanding on June 6 is nowvery likely to be delayed tillJune 8, as per the predic-tion of the IndianMeteorological Department(IMD).

For Telugu states, IMDpredicts that AndhraPradesh might receiverains on June11andTelangana is expected toget rains on June 13, as per

the IMD. While Kerala ispredicted to receive theSouthwest monsoon onJune 8, here Telangana willexperience consecutiveheat wave conditions tillJune 9. The public havebeen advised not to exposethemselves directly to sun-light and take necessaryprecautions.

However, the warning isconfined to NorthernTelangana region, “Heatwave conditions are verylikely to prevail at isolatedpockets over NorthTelangana.”

Mr Mahesh Phalawatfrom Skymet weathers stat-ed that as of now, the statewas getting northwesterlywinds which were hot viaVidarbha, which is makingthe temperatures rise.

The state recorded a max-imum of 44.8 degrees cel-sius in Adilabad district,and heat wave conditionsprevailed in isolated pock-ets in the same district.

Even the city’s tempera-ture also remained at 40.5degrees celsius, deviatingfour degrees from the normal.

Monsoon delayed till June 8

Sarpanch can’t issue demolition notices: HCDC CORRESPONDENTHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

The Telangana High Courtclarified that the villagesarpanch is not authorisedto issue notices or direc-tions on behalf of the GramPanchayat to remove theencroachments or illegalconstructions in the villageand that such power isentrusted with the Pancha-yat secretary appointedunder Section 42 of the Act.

Justice Challa

Kodandaram was dealingwith the petition filed byVanga Raghava Reddy, aresident of Nanajipur vil-lage, Shamshabad mandal,Ranga Reddy district, urg-ing the court to declare theaction of the sarpanch asillegal for issuing noticesdirecting him to demolishhis compound wall. Thepetitioner admitted, howev-er, that the compound wallwas illegal.

The petitioner’s counsel P.Janardhan Reddy submit-

ted that although that theGram Panchayat is thebody corporate by the nameof the village and thesarpanch is the officialheading the GramPanchayat with the powerto pass resolutions and tocarry on the functions

entrusted to the GramPanchayat, it is thePanchayat Secretary whohas the authority to imple-ment the said functions.

He then brought to thenotice of the court GO 108,which was issued by thestate government on Sept-ember 26, 2018, and clearlymentions that the Pancha-yat secretary alone isentrusted with variousfunctions and the authorityto take necessary steps inresponse to alleged viola-

tions. The counsel furthersubmitted that as thesarpanch happens to be apolitical person, he is notentrusted with the execu-tive powers to deal with theaffairs of the GramPanchayat and has restrict-ed authority as specifiedunder Section 32 of thePanchayat Raj Act.

Considering the submis-sions, the court clarifiedthat the village sarpanchhas no powers to issue dem-olition notices.

SRI CHAITANYA STUDENTS EXCELDC CORRESPONDENTHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

Sri Chaitanya on Thurs-day said that it is theclear winner at thenational level in NeetMedical results. Theinstitute says that it hasgot an All India 1st rankand in the open categoryhas secured the 2nd and3rd ranks apart fromother ranks — 4th, 6th,

7th, 8th and 9th.Overall 29 Sri Chaitan-

ya students have secureda place in the top 100 asper information avail-able so far. Academicdirector Sushma said, “itfeels good to note that SriChaitanya students haveproven their merit. Evenif there is a change in theexam pattern or even ifthey have to competenationally or interna-

tionally our studentshave proven that strongfundamental conceptswin every time and thatthere is no quick fix tosuccess.” Dr B.S. Rao,the chairman of SriChaitanya Institutes, hascongratulated all the stu-dents and has expressedconfidence that the sameexcellent results wouldbe seen in IIT Advancedresults as well.

Petitioner’s counselargued that it isPanchayat secretarywho has authority.

The Inspector saidthat a case wasregistered and a probe will be done.

THE YOUNGgraduating officersof the 101st ATM &Air Laws (Basic)course will soon beemployed as ATC atvarious militaryairfields in India andabroad, some ofthem at busy jointmilitary-civilairfields. ATM & Air Laws(Basic) course is asix-month-longtraining programme.

ID MUBARAK

Muslims throng to various Idgahs across the city tooffer special prayer for Id-ul-Fitr. On the left, MPAsaduddin Owaisi greets children at Idgah Miralam andin the bottom, children hug each other after theirprayer. On the top, a person clicks a selfie with his fam-ily members at an Idgah.

31 officers graduatefrom IAF academy

A total of7,95,031 candidates living inIndia cleared NEET 2019. As many as 315

foreign nationals, 1,209 NRIs, 441 candidatesholding OCI (Overseas Citizenship of India)

cards and 46 PIOs also cleared the exam.

There is an increase of 14.52 per cent in the number ofregistered students compared to last year. The total passpercentage of the country stood at 56.27 per cent.

The NEET isconducted foradmission toMBBS and BDScourses.

Madhapur resident G. Madhuri Reddy, who secured the all-India 7th rank, isbeing congratulated for her result on Thursday.

CrimeTHURSDAY | 6 JUNE 2019 | HYDERABADDECCAN CHRONICLE

Check violenceUnion MoS for home affairs G. Kishan Reddycondemns the brutal attack and murder ofPrem Kumar in Mahbubnagar district

BJP workers aredisturbing peace in

Karimnagar town byattacking people.

— Gangula KamalakarTRS MLA

IN BRIEF

TRS man killsBJP reveller■ Killer’s father had lost in MPTC pollsCOREENA SUARES | DCHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

A BJP reveller waskilled hours after thelocal poll results wereannounced on Tuesday.The deceased, PremKumar had joined BJPworkers in their cele-bration of the party'svictory in the local elec-tions. He was stabbedmultiple times in hischest, arms and back.He succumbed whileundergoing treatmentat a hospital in Mahb-ubnagar. Election-relat-ed violence has so farclaimed two lives inMahbubnagar district.

According to thepolice, Prem Kumarworked at a wine shopin Narayanpet district,while his familyresided in Dokur vil-lage of Devarkadramandal in Mahabub-nagar district.

During the MTPCelections, Prem Kumarraised objections toSrikanth Reddy, son ofTRS candidate P. RamaKrishna Reddy, pastingposters on the wall out-side his house. Srikan-th was angry because itwas not the first timethat Prem Kumar hadquestioned his actions.

Prem Kumar visitedhis hometown onTuesday as it was a hol-iday. Meanwhile, fol-lowing the victory ofBJP’s Bhupal Reddyover the TRS candidateRama Reddy, the saf-fron party workers tookout a victory rally onthe outskirts of the cityand Prem Kumarjoined them.

Police said Srikanth

Reddy received infor-mation from his sup-porters that PremKumar was celebratingwith the BJP workers.

When Srikanth Reddycalled and threatenedPrem Kumar for cele-brating with the BJPworkers, but the latterrefused to relent.“Srikanth Reddy, hisdriver and an aide wentto the spot of celebra-tion and an argumentensued between themand Prem Kumar.Following this, the triostabbed Prem Kumarmultiple times,” an eyewitness said.

Prem Kumar wasthen shifted toMahbubnagar hospitalbut died while undergo-ing treatment.

Mahbubnagar super-intendent of policeRema Rajeshwari toldthis newspaper, “A caseunder sections 302, 147,148, 120 (B) r/w 149 ofthe IPC has been filedagainst the accused. Wehave taken the othersinto custody, but theprime accused is stillabsconding. The case isstill under investiga-tion. After all accusedare arrested, they willthey be producedbefore the local court.”


A watchman workingat an apartment com-plex in Raidurgamkilled his wife's para-mour during the weehours on Wednesday.The accused, identi-fied as Ramesh,reportedly surren-dered before thepolice after thekilling.

Raidurgam inspec-tor S. Ravinder saidthat the couple, iden-tified as Ramesh andShanthi, both in theirearly thirties, hadbeen living in a rent-ed house in Manik-onda for severalyears. B. Ramu, 28, anative of Mahbuba-bad district, wasworking as a labourer

in Manikonda. Thatwas where Ramu metShanthi and devel-oped an illicit rela-tionship with her.

When Rameshreturned home fromwork around 8 pm onTuesday, he foundRamu and Shanthi ina compromising posi-tion. In a fit of rage,he grabbed a knifefrom the kitchen andstabbed Ramu multi-ple times until hedied. Local residentsalerted the policeabout the incidentand Ramesh wasarrested. Ramu'sbody has been shiftedto the OsmaniaGeneral Hospital forautopsy. A case ofmurder has been reg-istered againstRamesh.

Watchman killswife’s paramour


A 35-year-old man died onmonday after falling offthe third floor of a build-ing in Durga Nagar,Puppalaguda, Narsingi, inhis attempt to escape.

B. Mahesh, 36, a privateemployee hailing fromKothagudem district, hasbeen living with his wifein a rented house on thethird floor of a building inDurga Nagar. In order toescape the excessive heat

that night, the coupledecided to sleep on the ter-race.

Around 11.30 pm thatnight, the couple camedownstairs. However,when Mahesh attemptedto open the door to hisapartment, he found thatit had been latched frominside. He also noticedthat a light had beenturned on inside thehouse. Subsequently, hewent to the corridor topeek into his house from awindow and, to his sur-

prise, found a strangerhanging off the parapet.

In fear of getting caught,the man let go of his gripand fell on the road andwas bleeding. By the timethe police team reachedthe spot, the man died.

“The man has been wasidentified as Balu, 35, whoused to work for the ownerof the house. `6,000 incash and a wristwatchbelonging to Mahesh wererecovered from him,” anofficial at Narsingi policestation said.

Thief falls to death from3rd floor in bid to escape

TEENS HELD FORROBBING PEOPLE,

STEALING BIKESDC CORRESPONDENTHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

Footage from CCTV camerashelped the Hyderabad policenab a college student and hisjuvenile friend, who used to robpeople and steal motor bikes.The police recovered fourstolen bikes from them onWednesday.

On May 20, a bike parked infront of a house atChandanagar was stolen. Thenext day around 3 pm, a pedes-trian identified as Shiva SaiKumar was robbed at BisonPolo Ground under Begumpetpolice station limits. The CCTVfootage showed the suspectsapproaching the victim on amotorcycle and snatching hisphone before fleeing. Threedays later, a similar incidenttook place under OU police sta-tion limits.

The series of bike thefts putthe task force into action. Theycollected CCTV footage fromthe spots and identified thethieves as M. Pranay, 19, a stu-dent, and his 16-year-old friend.Both of them are residents ofSainikpuri.

Deputy commissioner P.Radha Kishan Rao said Pranaywas an alcoholic and used tosteal bikes along with hisfriend at night. “The teenagersstole bikes for joy rides andused to leave them at commer-cial complexes later. They usedto rob people at isolated areasto fund their vices,” said theDCP. The task force has recov-ered four bikes from their pos-session. The duo has beenhanded over to Begumpetpolice, he said.

GRILLING OF TV9 FORMER CEO ENTERS SECOND DAYDC CORRESPONDENTHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

The questioning of formerCEO of Tv9, Mr V. RaviPrakash, continued on thesecond day on Wednesday atthe Cyberabad police head-

quarters. However, theefforts of police to get leadsfrom Mr Ravi Prakashremained un successful ashe reportedly refused tocooperate with the policeand mislead the sleuths withirrelevant information.

Mr Prakash was ques-tioned on issues includingforging the signature of anemployee of AssociatedBroadcasting Pvt Ltd, andalso about the preparationof ante-date documents anduploading them on the web-

site of the ministry of cor-porate affairs. “Mr RaviPrakash was called for thesecond day for questioning.He was evading the ques-tions and misleading theinvestigation officers,” saida police officer.

VIDEO OF CI ON DUTY INSKULL CAP GOES VIRALDCCORRESPONDENTHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

Falaknuma policestation CircleInspector K.Srinivasa Rao is fac-ing criticism fromsome quarters aftera video of him wear-ing a skull cap whileon duty and convey-ing Id greetings toMuslims. The objec-tion was that he wasin uniform and sothe skull cap was inviolation of norms.

However, somecomments said thatthe 14-second videothat went viral onWednesday shouldbe overlooked as hisintension was pure-

ly to greet the com-munity.

In the video, theinspector is seenseated at the policestation wearing awhite cap, and hebegins with:“Assalamualaikum,I, K. Srinivas Rao,circle inspector ofFalaknuma policestation, on behalf ofthe entire staff andmyself wish thecommunity IdMubarak.”

Former AP DGPand retired IPS offi-cer Swaranjit Sensaid, “It is a viola-tion of the uniformcode. This tendencyhas been growingand needs to bechecked.”

YOUTH ACCUSESPOLICE OFASSAULTING HIMDC CORRESPONDENTHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

A youth on Wednesdayalleged that police assa-ulted him at TukaramGate police station onTuesday night. Thepolice rejected the alle-gations and claimed thathe fell off the stairs andsustained injuries.

The police was onTuesday night informedabout two groups of peo-ple indulging in a quar-rel on the main roadnear the Indira Gandhistatue in Secunderabad.

The police rushed to thespot and took into cus-tody Sai Teja, a residentof the same area, alleged-ly for assaulting oneRahul Bhosle. Sai Tejaon Wednesday allegedthat the police beat himup at the station.

Smt. GURUDEEP KAURThe most beautiful flower from our

garden has been plucked away by theeternal Waheguru Sahib to Adorn his

own divine Abode in Heaven.But still we feel her presence amidst us.BHOG Ceremony will be held today(6-6-2019) from 5.00 p.m. onwards,followed by Guru-ka-Langar at 7 pmat Gurudwara Sahib, Ameerpet, Hyd.

From: Smt. Pritam Kaur, S. Jaswanth Singh,S. Rabjoth Singh, S. Roshan Singh,

Rachna Kaur, Ramneet Kaur & Grandchildren.Ph: 9885069070, 9866197749,

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SHRADHANJALI

2nd ANNIVERSARY You are Loved Missed and Remembered

Shri PYARELAL PURI6-6-2017

Wife: Smt. Kanta PuriSons: Ranveer Puri & Rajeev Puri

Daughters-in-law: Rosy Puri & Neeta PuriGrand Children: Megha & Manoj

Ronak & Ronith.

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Late Smt. PULAKANTI SHAKUNTHALAW/o Late PULAKANTI PUNDARIKAM

EXPIRED ON 26-05-2019MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE

Inserted by:RAGI FAMILY

SHRADDHANJALI

I am the resurrection and the life he whobelieves on me will live ever though he dies

- John 11.25

11th DAY CEREMONYIn ever loving memory of our beloved

H. AUGUSTINE ANTHONYDOB: 27-10-1981 DOD: 27-05-2019

Requiem High Mass on Thursday at6.15 am the 6th June 2019 at Holy FamilyChurch, Trimulgherry.Evening Prayer at 6.30 pm at ResidencyH.No. 3-16-685/A, Trimulgherry Village,Secunderabad-500015.Inserted by: SUNIL RAJ & H. ELIZABETH

7th DEATH ANNIVERSARY

Late BISAMALLA KAMALA BAISenior Nurse (Retired)

DOD: 06-06-2013Inserted by: Husband

Bisamalla Sreenivasa Reddy, B.A.Three Daughters and only Son andBisamalla Family Members & Friends.Add: H.No. 3-1-16/12/1, S.V. Nagar,Mallapur, Hyd-76.

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1st DEATH ANNIVERSARYIN LOVING MEMORY OF

Smt. MACHARLA ARUNA BAIW/o Macharla Hanumanth Rao

DOB: 2-3-1948 DOD: 15-7-2018MAY YOUR SOUL REST IN PEACE

Inserted by: Sons, Daughter,Daughters-in-law and son-in-law &

Grand ChildrenPlot No. 43, Ganesh Nagar Colony,

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1st ANNIVERSARY I Will dwell in the house of theLord forever Psalms 23:6

KANAPARTHY PRABHAKARD.O.B: 22.8.1947 D.O.D: 6.6.2018

Inserted by:FAMILY MEMBERS

“I will dwell in the house of theLord forever” Ps. 23:6

Mr. EGBERT DAWSOND.O.B: 20.6.1931 - D.O.D: 5.6.2019

Worked as Teacher in Vidhyaranya HighSchool and Devnar School for the blind.

Funeral details will be given later Contact: 9848686740, 9948156521

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MEMORIAL SERVICEI have fought a good fight, I havefinished my course. I have kept the faith,hence forth there is laid up for me acrown of righteousness. 2 Tim 4:7-8

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■ ■ During theMTPC elections,Prem Kumarobjected toSrikanth Reddy,son of TRS candi-date P. RamaKrishna Reddy,pasting posterson the wall out-side his house.

■ ■ As PremKumar joined BJPworkers in cele-bration theparty’s victory,Srikanth Reddyand two otherswent to the spotand stabbed him.

26-YEAR-OLDTECHIE KILLED IN

RAILWAY KODURUDC CORRESPONDENTKADAPA, JUNE 5

A young software engineer wasbrutally murdered inRailwaykodur, Kadapa districtin the early hours ofWednesday. He was identifiedas Abdul Khadar, 26, a residentof Ranganayakulapeta ofRailway Koduru town.

According to a police source,Abdul Khadar started fromBengaluru on Tuesday nightand got down on Wednesday5.20 am at Railway Koduru.When he crossed the CC cam-era surveillance, the culpritsattacked him with knives andhe died on the spot.

Mr Murali Dhar, DSP,Rajampet, along with the townpolice inspector Mr Balayyainspected the spot and madeenquires about the murder.They recovered his mobilefrom the spot.

According to sources, awoman from Railway Kodurutelephoned him on Tuesdaynight. Some others also spoketo him on Tuesday night.

Though the police has deniedit, sources say that police hastaken the woman into custody.Local residents said Khadarhad an illicit relationship witha married woman in RailwayKoduru.

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Career Chronicle

Speedy recoveryBJP gen-sec Ram Madhav comforts for-mer Union minister Bandaru Dattatreyawho has undergone knee surgery

TRS car has goneelectric, quiet andlethal. Results say

TRS heartbeat of TS— K. R Suresh Reddy

Former Assembly Speaker

IN BRIEF

BJP claims better show in local poll

Hyderabad: Telangana BJPspokesperson SridharReddy on Wednesday

claimed that their partyachieved better results in

the local body electionscompared to previous elec-

tions. He alleged that theTRS had spent huge moneyin the local body electionsand also created a scare inthe minds of people using

its MPs, MLAs and ministers.He said that Chief Minister K

Chandrasekhar Rao hadadvanced the Assembly

elections Out of fear.

Uttam resigns asHuzurnagar MLA■ Election as MP necessitated the moveS.N.C.N. ACHARYULU | DCHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

TPCC President N. UttamKumar Reddy UttamKumar Reddy was electedas MP from Nalgonda LokSabha seat it had becomeinevitable to resign as anMLA.

Mr Uttam Kumar Reddywas elected to theAssembly five times con-secutively. Speaking to themedia after his resigna-tion, Mr Uttam KumarReddy said since the lastthree decades, the peopleof Kodada andHuzurnagar treated himas their family memberand he would never forgettheir love and affectionfor him. He added that thepeople of Huzurnagar andKodada voted for him asNalgonda MP also. Hesaid that as an MP, in addi-tion to Huzurnagar andKodada, he would alsoserve the people of fivemore Assembly con-

stituencies. Uttam KumarReddy said that he wouldbe in public life till his lastbreath.

Meanwhile, the decisionof TPCC President UttamKumar Reddy has led tospeculation in the partythat he was stepping downas TPCC President.According to thegrapevine, the defeat inZPTC and MPTC electionsled to the resignation ofUttam Kumar Reddy as

TPCC President.Meanwhile, Uttam

Kumar Reddy denied thespeculation about his res-ignation as TPCCPresident. He said thatthe high command wouldtake a decision on thechange in the TPCC Chief.He said that in the localbody elections, theCongress did not achievethe results that theyexpected. He alleged thatin the local body elections,the TRS had indulged inmisuse of power. Headded that his wife, for-mer MLA Padmavathi hadno interest in contestingin the Huzurnagar byelec-tion.

In the same context,Bhongir Congress MPKomatireddy VenkataReddy said that he had nointerest in the TPCC ChiefPost. He said that the peo-ple had rewarded himwith the post of MP, whichwas more important postthan TPCC.

Dynasty power prevails inzilla parishad chief pollsDC CORRESPONDENTHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

Even after the defeat ofChief Minister K. Chand-rasekhar Rao’s daughterK. Kavitha in the LokSabha elections, dynasticpolitics is likely to prevailin the Zilla Parishads.

The TRS is likely to winall the 32 ZP chairpersons’posts and the majority ofthem are relatives ofparty leaders and ex-MLAs. TRS MLC and ex-minister P. MahendarReddy’s wife SunithaMahender Reddy is beco-ming Vikarabad ZP chair-person. In the past shewas elected as Ranga-reddy (old) ZP chairper-son. The MLC’s brother P.Narendar Reddy waselected as MLA fromKodangal. Ex-TRS MLATeegala Krishna Reddy’sdaughter-in-law TeegalaAnitha is becoming Rang-areddy ZP chairperson.

Congress defected MLAGandra Venkata RamanaReddy’s wife GandraJyothi is becomingWarangal rural ZP chair-person. Former minister

and TRS leader AliminetiUma Madhava Reddy’sson Alimineti SandeepReddy is going to becomeZP chairperson ofYadadri- Bhongir district.

Nagarkunool TRS MP P.Ramulu’s son P Bharathwill become Nagarkur-nool ZP chairman andTRS's former MLA fromMedchal, M. SudheerReddy’s son, Sharath Cha-ndra Reddy, will becomeMedchal ZP chairman.

Former TRS MLA,Nallala Odelu's wifeNallala Bhygyalakshmi, islikely to become

Manchiryal ZP chairper-son. Anil Jadav who con-tested as a Congress rebelfrom Boath assembly con-stituency and was defeat-ed, and later joined theTRS, is likely to becomeAdilabad ZP chairman.

Former MLAs KovaLakshmi (Asifabad), PuttaMadhu (Peddapalli),Swarna Sudhakar Reddy(Mahabubnagar) and .KKanakaiah (Bhadradri-Kottagudem) are alsogoing to become ZP chair-persons. In Kamareddy,Shobha is likely to becomeZP chairperson.

■ ■ TRS MLCand ex-min-ister P.MahendarReddy’s wifeSunithaMahenderReddy isbecomingVikarabad ZPchairperson.

■ ■ CongressdefectedMLA GandraV. RamanaReddy’s wifeGandraJyothi isbecomingWarangalrural ZPchairperson.

■ ■ Son ofTRS’s for-mer MLAM. SudheerReddy,SharathChandraReddy, willbecomeMedchal ZPchairman.

POWER PLAY

PROSPECTS OFCONG DEFECTORSIMPROVEDC CORRESPONDENTHYDERABAD, JUNE 5

The resignation ofTPCC Chief UttamKumar Reddy as MLAhas made it easy for TRSto merge the CongressMLAs who have defectedto the TRS LegislatureParty.

In the Assembly elec-tions, the Congress won19 seats and with the res-ignation of Uttam asMLA, the total numberof Congress MLAs hascome down to 18.

To merge the CongressMLAs who have defectedinto the TRS, it willrequire 12 MLAs (twothirds of the totalMLAs). Eleven CongressMLAs have already offi-cially announced theywill join the TRS. Inorder to avoid disqualifi-cation of the defectingCongress MLAs, TRSstill requires one moreMLA. Since the TRS isexpecting that Bhadra-chalam Congress MLAPodem Veeraiah willjoin, there will be 12.Once Veeraiah agrees tojoin the TRS, will startthe merger process.

■ ■ Mr Uttam KumarReddy said that asan MP, in addition toHuzurnagar andKodada, he wouldalso serve the peo-ple of five moreAssembly con-stituencies. He saidthat he would be inpublic life till his lastbreath.

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Ganganagar: As many as fivepeople were killed after an

SUV rammed into two bikesin Suratgarh town of the dis-

trict on Tuesday. The acci-dent occurred on the nation-

al highway when a Scorpiohit two bikes near Maneksarbridge. Following the colli-

sion, one of the bikes caughtfire in which a victim was

charred to death, while fourother people died on the

spot due to injuries. Parts ofthe Scorpio also caught fire

during the accident.After receiving informationof the incident, police and

fire officials reached the spotto control the fire. Bodies of

the victim were taken forpostmortem.

Ahmedabad: A man set hisbrother-in-law’s pregnant

wife on fire and tried toimmolate himself in Rajkot

city of Gujarat onWednesday, the police said.

Unrequited love allegedly ledChetan Palan (40), the

accused, to committ theheinous act, police said.

Both Palan and the 25-year-old woman, who is pregnant,sustained serious injuries andwere admitted to Rajkot Civil

Hospital. A case of attemptto murder was registered

against Palan, said inspector V V Odedara of Gandhigram

police station. The victimwoman is married to a cousin

of Palan’s wife, he said.

5 killed as SUVrams into bikes

Rest in peaceUttarakhand minister Prakash Pant passes away at 56

CBMs could be astarting point whichwould pave way for

resolution issues— Mirwaiz Umar Farooq,

Kashmir cleric

Man sets self, kin’s wife on fire

Mumbai: A 19-year-old sailorallegedly committed suicide

at INS Shivaji, the IndianNavy’s base near Lonavala in

Pune district, Wednesday,the police said. Akash

Sainath Kannala was foundto have hanged himself from

ceiling fan by using a bed-sheet at a recreation center

on the base around 4.30 am, a police official

said. No suicide note wasfound on the spot, and the

Navy has ordered an inquiry, he said.

Kannala, who was undergo-ing Direct Entry Engineering

Mechanics course, hailedfrom Pardi village in Nirmal

district of Telangana. — PTI

Navy sailor hangsself at INS Shivaji

Mumbai, June 5: Explosive-like materials were found on

Kolkata-Mumbai ShalimarExpress after its arrival hereon Wednesday, railway and

city police officials said. Sev-en plastic pipes filled with

what appeared to be firecr-acker powder, connected to

batteries with wires, werefound on the train when it

was being cleaned up at Ku-rla carshed, a police officialsaid. A letter with a mobile

number and an unidentifiedman’s photograph were also

found alongwith the pipes,said senior police inspectorSushil Kamble of Tilaknagar

police station, who is investi-gating the case. “We are exa-

mining the letter and tryingto contact the mobile num-

ber,” he said.

Explosive-like unitsfound on train

Protesters throw brickbats at security personnel during a clash which erupted soonafter Id-ul-Fitr prayers at Khanayar in Srinagar on Wednesday. — PTI

Srinagar, June 5: Clashesbetween protestors andsecurity forces broke outafter Id prayers in someparts of Kashmir onWednesday, officials said.

There were no reports ofanyone getting hurt, theysaid.

Protesters pelted stoneson security personnel insome parts of the old cityafter Id prayers. Similarincidents were reported inSopore in north Kashmirand Anantnag in southKashmir, the officials said.

In Nowhatta area of thecity, masked protestorsreportedly held banners insupport of banned Jaish-e-Mohammed chief MasoodAzhar and slain militant

commander Zakir Musa.However, police officialssaid they are verifying theveracity of these reports.

Security forces exercisedmaximum restraint whiledealing with the law andorder situation, they said.

The situation elsewherein the valley remainedpeaceful, they said.

The festival of Id was cel-ebrated with much fanfarein other parts of the statewith people throngingmosques, shrines andEidgahs to offer prayerson the culmination of theholy moth of Ramzan.

The biggest gathering ofpeople was witnessed atHazratbal shrine wherethousands of faithful

offered the Id prayers, offi-cials said.

Jamia Masjid atNowhatta in the old cityalso witnessed a hugecrowd. There were largecongregation in Sonawarand Soura shrines in theheart of the city, they said,adding similar gatheringswere held at all districtsheadquarters and majortowns in the valley.

According to sources,stone-pelters came out onthe streets and waved flagsof Pakistan and dreadedterrorist group IslamicState of Iraq and Syria(ISIS). Security personnel,however, practiced maxi-mum restraint, the policeadded.

Clashes in Kashmir after Id prayersMasked protesters hold banners in support of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar

Srinagar, June 5:Moderate HurriyatConference chairmanMirwaiz Umar FarooqWednesday expressedhope that the BJP-led gov-ernment at the Centrewill take steps for resolu-tion of the political prob-lem of Jammu andKashmir.

Addressing an Id gath-ering at Jamia Masjidhere, the Mirwaiz said hehoped that the “NewDelhi’s new ruling dis-pensation will take posi-tive steps for resolution ofthe basic political prob-lem and will work for itsredressal to end uncer-tainty once for all”.

The separatist leaderprayed for the resumptionof dialogue between Indiaand Pakistan.

“Confidence BuildingMeasures could be a start-ing point which wouldpave way for the resolu-tion of all issues amica-bly, including the long-standing Kashmir issue,”the Mirwaiz said.

Demanding opening oftraditional routes to facil-itate travel and trade,Mirwaiz said all naturalroutes of divided Jammuand Kashmir should bere-opened so that peopleare allowed to connectwith their loved ones.

— PTI

Mirwaiz: Hope govt willhelp resolve J&K issue

New Delhi, June 5:Former civil aviationminister and NCPleader Praful Patel isexpected to deposebefore the ED onThursday in connectionwith a money-launder-ing probe related to thelosses suffered bynational carrier AirIndia as part of analleged multi-crore-rupee aviation scam.

Mr Patel (62) has alsobeen named in a recentchargesheet filed by thefederal agency before acourt as a person knownto alleged aviation lob-byist Deepak Talwar.

The NationalistCongress Party (NCP)leader, who was incharge of the civil avia-tion ministry between2004 and 2011, has notbeen mentioned as anaccused in the case.

The EnforcementDirectorate (ED),sources said, hadalready questioned anumber of people in thesenior management ofthe state-owned airlineand the aviation min-istry.

Mr Patel was expectedto be quizzed about thestatements and revela-tions made by Talwar,they added.

The statement of MrPatel, a Rajya Sabha MP,will also be recordedunder the Prevention of

M o n e yLaunderingAct (PMLA).The four-time MPfrom theB h a n d a r a -Gondia Lok

Sabha seat inMaharashtra had earli-er told PTI that he wouldbe happy to cooperatewith the ED for theirunderstanding of thecomplexities of the avia-tion industry.

The central agency hasrecently filed achargesheet in the case,naming Talwar andclaiming that he was inregular touch with MrPatel.

It has alleged thatTalwar finalised variousc o m m u n i c a t i o n saddressed to Mr Patel onbehalf of Emirates andAir Arabia.

According to thechargesheet, Talwarobtained undue favoursfor the private airlinesusing his contacts.

The agency has alsoalleged that Talwar wasengaged in lobbyingwith politicians, minis-ters, other public ser-vants and officials in thecivil aviation ministryfor Emirates, Air Arabiaand Qatar Airways inorder to secure unduebenefits to these air-lines.

— PTI

AI loss: Prafullikely to deposebefore ED today

Lucknow, June 5: As theSP-BSP alliance unrav-elled in Uttar Pradesh,Samajwadi Party chiefAkhilesh YadavWednesday described thetie-up as a “trial” and saidit may not always be suc-cessful, but helps in know-ing the shortcomings.

BSP chief Mayawati onTuesday declared that herparty will fight the assem-bly bypolls alone, prompt-ing Akhilesh Yadav to sayhis SP too is ready to gosolo.

“Yes, there are trials, andsometimes you are notsuccessful, but at least youcan know your shortcom-ings,” Yadav toldreporters here onWednesday.

He also said that herespected Mayawati irre-spective of the politicalequation between the par-ties.

“I stand by my earlierstatement that respectingMayawati ji is same asrespecting me,” the SPpresident said.

He had made the state-ment earlier this yearwhen the SamajwadiParty (SP) and BahujanSamaj Party (BSP)announced tie-up for the2019 Lok Sabha elections.

“As far as going solo inthe bypolls is concerned, Iwill consult with partyleaders and devise a strat-egy to work in this direc-tion,” Yadav said.

The BJP won 62 of 80

seats in the state while theopposition alliancebagged just 15, with theBSP winning 10 and theSP five. The Congress gotone seat and the BJP allyApna Dal (S) two.

Eleven assembly bypollsare due in UP after therespective MLAs won theLok Sabha polls. Nine ofthem are from the BJP,and one each from the BSPand the SP.

“The bypolls can beannounced any momentnow. Under the currentconditions in UttarPradesh, we have decidedto fight the bypolls, whichwill happen on some seats,all alone,” Mayawati saidon Tuesday.

“If I feel that the SP pres-

ident is able to fulfil hisduties and convert his peo-ple into missionaries, thenwe can still walk togetherin future. There has beenno permanent break as ofnow.”

If he is unable to succeedin his task, it will be betterfor the party to walkalone, she added.

The BSP chief had calleda review meeting in NewDelhi on Monday toanalyse the Lok Sabharesults.

“I have to say with muchsadness that the SP's basevote - meaning 'Yadavsamaj' - has not stoodalong with the SP even inareas where they are inhigh numbers,” she hadsaid. — PTI

SP-BSP alliance a trial: Akhilesh

RABINDRA NATHCHOUDHURYBHOPAL, JUNE 5

Madhya Pradesh chiefminister Kamal Nath onWednesday left for athree-day-visit to Delhi.

This was Mr Nath’sfirst visit to Delhi afterresults of Lok Sabhaelections were declaredon May 23.

Mr Nath, who wasbelieved to have beenasked by the party highcommand to stay put inBhopal to nip in bud anyattempt to splitCongress LegislatureParty in MP by BJP, hadeven skipped theCongress WorkingCommittee (CWC) meet-ing at Delhi held in thefourth week of lastmonth.

BJP, apparently pro-voked by the return ofNDA at the Centre in theApril-May Lok Sabhaelections, had demandeda floor test by KamalNath government argu-ing that it was in minor-ity in the house.

BJP’s stand had threat-ened stability of theKamal Nath governmentforcing the stateCongress leadership toremain alert to foil anymove to destabilize thestate government.

The chief minister hadthen immediately con-vened a meeting ofCongress LegislatureParty and its allieswhere 120 legislatorsextended their supportto his government.

Sources said Mr Nathmight meet AICC presi-dent Rahul Gandhi dur-ing his stay in Delhi todiscuss on the issue ofnew PCC chief in MP.

Lucknow, June 5: BJP’sUnnao MP Sakshi Ma-haraj Wednesday metrape accused party MLAKuldeep Singh Sengar atthe Sitapur district jail to“thank” him after thegeneral election. Sengar,a four-time MLA, islodged in the jail forallegedly raping a girlwho had visited him for ajob on June 4, 2017.

Sakshi Maharaj said,“Our ‘yashasvi’ and pop-ular MLA KuldeepSengarji is lodged herefor quite some time. Ithought it appropriate tothank him after the elec-tions.”

Indore, June 5: TheMadhya Pradesh high courthas granted interim stay tothe action against the headof astrology school atVikram University who wassuspended for predicting,on social media, a comfort-able victory for the BJP-ledNational DemocraticAlliance (NDA) in the 2019Lok Sabha polls.

Raju Musalgaonkar, alsoknown as RajeshwarShastri, head of School ofStudies in Jyotirvigyan(Astrological Science) atthe Ujjain-based varsity,

had moved the court afterhe was suspended for viola-tion of the Model Code ofConduct (MCC).

Justice Vivek Rusia of thehigh court’s Indore benchTuesday stayed implemen-tation of the suspensionorder till the next hearing,said sources.

The judge also issuednotices to PrincipalSecretary of the HigherEducation Department,Chief Electoral Officer ofthe state and Ujjain districtcollector (who was the dis-trict returning officer) and

registrar of VikramUniversity, seeking replieswithin four weeks.

Mr Musalgaonkar wassuspended on May 7.

On April 28, he had writ-ten on Facebook that theBharatiya Janata Party(BJP) will get close to 300seats and the NationalDemocratic Alliance willcross the 300-mark in theelections.

Later, he deleted the post,saying it was only an astro-logical prediction and “ifthis experiment hurt thefeelings of somebody, then Iapologise”.

Following a complaint bya Youth Congress leader tothe district returning offi-cer, Musalgaonkar was sus-

pended for violation of theCode of Conduct.

His petition challengedthe suspension, stating thatwhile the authorities tookaction on assumption thathe was a government ser-vant, he was an employee ofVikram University and notdeployed on election duty,so the Model Code ofConduct was not applicableto him.

His Facebook post was“purely academic” and didnot establish a link withany political party, headded.

Kamal on 3-day visit to Delhi, maymeet Rahul

HC stays suspension of MP astrology teacher■ Head of astrology school was suspended for predicting NDA victory

◗ Following a com-plaint by a YouthCongress leader tothe district returningofficer, RajuMusalgaonkar wassuspended for vio-lation of the Code ofConduct

MP meetsrape accusedin UP prison

Tamil Nadu deputy chief minister O. Panneerselvam along with other leadersoffer prayers at the memorial of former CM J. Jayalalithaa in Chennai onWednesday. — PTI

Srinagar, June 5:Militants shot dead awoman and injured aman Wednesday inPulwama district ofJammu and Kashmir,police said.

“Terrorists fired upon aman and a woman atSingoo-Narbal inPulwama district onWednesday. While thelady succumbed toinjuries, the injured manhas been rushed to a hos-pital,” a police official

said. He said thedeceased woman hasbeen identified asNigeena Bano.

Further details areawaited, he added.

Woman shot dead by militantsin J&K’s Pulwama district

◗ Militants shotdead a woman andinjured a manWednesday inPulwama district ofJammu andKashmir, police said

‘LIQUOR LIBRARY’ SPARKS ROW IN MPBhopal, June 5: Bhopal,the capital city of MadhyaPradesh that takes pride inbeing the cultural hub ofthe country, on Wednesdayroared in outrage over a tri-

fle matter, a name given to aliquor shop here. Eminentcitizens of the city staged anoisy protest at the shop fornaming it “Liquor Library”.

— PTI

CONDITION OF NIPAHPATIENT STABLE: MINKochi, June 5: TheKerala governmentWednesday said the con-dition of the college stu-dent being treated at aprivate hospital here forNipah virus is stablewhile six others havebeen kept under watchat a local governmentmedical college hospi-tal. Authorities havescrambled to trace thesource of the potential-ly deadly virus whichresurfaced in the state ayear after it struck twonorth Kerala districts,claiming 17 lives.

A total of 314 peoplefrom various districtsare currently under

observation, a govern-ment bulletin saidWednesday evening.

According to the bul-letin, of the 314, six peo-ple have been shifted tothe isolation ward ofthe medical college hos-pital. “The condition ofthe student is stable. Ithas not turned worse,”state Health Minister KK Shailaja said, a day

after the 23-year-oldstudent was confirmedto be infected

with the Nipah virus.An official in the pri-

vate hospital where thestudent is being treatedalso said his conditionwas stable. — PTI

DC CORRESPONDENTCHANDIGARH, JUNE 6

Punjab CM Cap. AmarinderSingh has urged PM

Narendra Modi to consideran agriculture loan waiver atthe national level on priority,

as a one-time solution tohelp the distressed farmers.

In two separate letters,underlining the need to safe-

guard the interests ofPunjab’s farmers, the chief

minister has stressed that aone-time agriculture debtwaiver for farmers at the

national level was essential,while calling for PMFBY

modifications to make thepro-farmer initiative more

effective in transforming therural economy. The relief

given by the Punjab govern-ment from its limited

resources was not adequateand needed to be supple-

mented by the Governmentof India, he said in his letter

seeking the loan waiver on anational level. He pointed out

that this farmer friendly ini-tiative would not only con-tribute to a large extent in

reducing the distress butwould also help in putting

agriculture sector on a pathof high growth trajectory and

development with an assur-ance and hope of better

quality living for the farmersof the country. The govern-ment should bite the bullet

once and for all, he said.Capt. Singh apprised Modithat the state government

alone provided a debt reliefof `2 lakh to all the marginal

farmers.

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Jaipur: Amid the rift in theRajasthan Congress over the Lok Sabha debacle, a

party MLA Wednesday saidAshok Gehlot should be rep-laced with his deputy SachinPilot as the state CM. Todab-

him MLA Prithviraj Meenasaid the chief minister should

bear the responsibility forthe debacle. “A CM is respo-nsible for an election defeat

when the party is in powerand when it is in the Opposi-

tion, the responsibility lieswith the party president,”

Meena said. The MLA, how-ever, said it was his individ-

ual opinion that Sachin Pilotshould be made CM.

Rampur: BJP leader JayaPrada on Wednesday hit

back at her SP rival AzamKhan, saying he was doing

drama just to grab the lime-light. “He (Khan) is always

sad and gets agitated.During the counting of votes,

he had said that there areissues in EVMs. There is noclarity as to what he wants

to say,” she told ANI. “Helevels allegations against theadministration. He cries and

does drama only. He onlywants to grab the limelight,”she said. Without specifyingthe community’s name, Khanhad claimed that Muslims in

Rampur were deprived oftheir voting rights.

LOAN WAIVER:AMARINDER

WRITES TO PM

Cong MLA wantsPilot as Raj CM

StatementEnvironmental issues need to be treatedon par with political ones, said Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

I urge you all tomake Yoga anintegral part of

your life.— Narendra Modi,

Prime Minister

Azam only wantslimelight: Jaya

New Delhi: External affairsminister S. Jaishankar on

Wednesday spoke to Turkishforeign minister Mevlut

Cavusoglu, a conversation hesaid “that helped us build a

personal and professionalbond”. Turkey has been a

close friend of Pakistan butthere are indications that

Turkey is keen on strength-ening ties with India. Mr

Jaishankar tweeted, “Had awarm conversation with for-

eign minister of Turkey@MevlutCavusoglu that

helped us build a personaland professional bond. Thank

you for your good wishes.”Look forward to closely

working with you.”

Jaishankar callson Turkish minister

Clockwise from above: BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain, Union minister Rajnath Singh and party veteran L.K. Advaniattend an Id-ul-Fitr event during an ‘Id Milan’ programme at Shahnawaz’s residence in New Delhi on Wednesday. Union minister for law Ravi Shankar Prasad greets minority affairs minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi at Mr Naqvi’s residence in New Delhi. A police officer presents rose to a boy in Mumbai. — PTI, PRITAM BANDYOPADHYAY

DC CORRESPONDENTwith agency inputsNEW DELHI, JUNE 5

In the future, you may beable to raise the issue ofthe malfunctioning ofelectronic voting mach-ines (EVM) and voter-ver-ified paper audit trail(VVPAT) machines ortheir mismatch withoutthe fear of being arrested.

The Election Commissi-on of India (ECI) is con-templating revisiting arule that provides for theprosecution of an electorif a complaint of EVMand VVPAT machine mal-function turns out to befalse, chief election com-missioner Sunil Arorasaid. “Now that the cur-rent elections are over, wewill probably be dis-cussing it internallywhether it should be mod-ified, softened etc ... Wemay revisit it,” Mr Arora

said while responding to aquestion on the penal pro-vision, which many feel is unwarranted.

As of now, a voter whoclaims that the EVM orthe paper trail machinedid not record his or hervote correctly is allowed tocast a test vote under Rule49 MA of the Conduct ofElection Rules.

But, if the voter fails toprove the mismatch, pollofficials can initiate

action against the com-plainant under section 177of the Indian Penal Code(IPC), which deals withgiving false submissions.

The IPC section statesthat the person “shall bepunished with simpleimprisonment for a termwhich may extend to sixmonths, or with finewhich may extend to onethousand rupees, or withboth.”

While the ECI has main-

tained that if there is nopenal provision, peoplemay make false claims, MrArora said that the penalprovision is used as “anexception very, very, veryrarely.” He added that theintention of the provisionmust have been to discour-age those who want to dis-rupt the electoral processby making such com-plaints.

According to ECI offi-cials, it takes 20 to 30 min-utes to go through and set-tle complaints aboutVVPAT machines showingincorrect result.

In April, the SupremeCourt sought a responsefrom the ECI on a pleaseeking the setting asideof the rule that providesfor prosecution of an elec-tor if the complaint alleg-ing malfunctioning ofEVMs and VVPATmachines eventuallyturns out to be false.

ECI likely to modify penalprovision for false claims

■ Poll panel chief says it’s used very rarely as an exception

Now that the cur-rent elections areover, we will proba-bly be discussing itinternally whether it (rule) should bemodified, softened.We may revisit it.

— Sunil Arora, Chief ElectionCommissioner

Itanagar/New Delhi,June 5: A massive day-night search for a trans-port aircraft of the IndianAir Force, which wentmissing two days ago, con-tinued on Wednesdaydespite inclement weatherconditions in mountain-ous Mechuka inArunachal Pradesh’s WestSiang district. TheRussian-origin AN-32 air-craft with 13 people onboard lost contact onMonday afternoon aftertaking off from Jorhat inAssam for Menchukaadvanced landing groundnear the border withChina.

IAF spokesperson GroupCapt. Anupam Banerjeesaid the search and rescueoperation has been inten-sified and expandeddespite challenges beingposed by vegetation,inhospitable terrain andpoor weather in the area.

He said all leads fromairborne sensors arebeing closely assessed andbeing followed-up withsearch by aircraft andground teams.

“Search operation byIAF and Indian Army hel-icopters was adverselyaffected by weather dur-

ing the day today. Howe-ver, supported by IndianArmy, Indian Navy, policeand state administration,the search efforts by grou-nd teams and airborne se-nsors will continue thr-ough the night,” he said.

Additional assets includ-ing two Sukhoi-30 aircraftwere deployed on thethird day to locate themissing plane apart fromthe fleet of C-130J and AN-32 planes and two Mi-17

and two ALH helicopters,IAF sources said.

The ground forcesincluded troops from theArmy, Indo TibetanBorder Police and statepolice. The two Sukhoi-30and two C-130J aircraftwill carry out night mis-sions, they said.

The IAF has been regu-larly updating the fami-lies of all air-warriors onboard the aircraft aboutthe rescue operation.

IAF deploys more planesto trace missing AN-32Leads from airborne sensors being closely assessed

New Delhi, June 5:The Congress expressedconcern Wednesdayover the safety and well-being of the IAF person-nel on board AN-32 air-craft and questioned thegovernment on why ithad not allocatedresources to replace the obsolete AN-32 fleet.

Congress chief spokes-person Randeep Surjew-ala said the defenceminister must answer

why measures were nottaken after the IndianAir Force (IAF) lost anAN-32 aircraft en routeto the Andaman andNicobar islands.

“Sad to know thatmissing AN-32 had SOSSignal Unit that’s obso-lete. Government musttell — Why was upgra-dation of AN-32 notcompleted despite Indiaand Ukraine agreementof 2009?” Mr Surjewalaasked on Twitter. —PTI

Cong questions why IAF fleet was not replaced

Lucknow, June 5: A dayafter the SP and the BSPdecided to contest alone inall 11 seats in the upcom-ing Assembly bypolls,their third alliance part-ner in the recent LokSabha elections — RLD —Wednesday announced ittoo will go solo.

Rashtriya Lok Dal UPpresident Masood Ahm-ad, however, expressedhope that the ‘gathband-han’ remains intact.

“The Rashtriya Lok Dalwill contest the UP assem-bly bypolls on its ownwhenever they are held.However, it is too early tocomment on the politicalscene of the state,” he toldPTI. Party chiefChaudhary Ajit Singhand Jayant Chaudharywill decide on the numberof seats the party will con-test and the matter may bediscussed during a meet-ing in the next few days,Ahmad said.

When asked about theRLD’s role in the newpolitical landscape of thestate, which sends thehighest number of 80 MPsto the Lok Sabha, Ahmadsaid, “The RLD was withthe Samajwadi Party. Wegot the seats from the

quota of Akhilesh”.The UP RLD chief said

the Congress should alsobe a part of the ‘gathband-han’.

When asked who willgain from the recent spateof political developments,Ahmad said, “The profitand loss analysis will bedone later. Our wish isthat the gathbandhanshould increase its ‘kun-baa’ (clan), so that we canemerge as a strong anti-BJP force”. The UPassembly bypolls will beimportant for the RLD asit has no representationin the UP LegislativeAssembly. In the just con-cluded Lok Sabha elec-tions, the RLD had con-tested from three con-stituencies, but faceddefeat on all.

RLD candidates AjitSingh and his son JayantChaudhary lost fromMuzaffarnagar andBaghpat Lok Sabha seatsrespectively. —PTI

RLD announcesit will fight UPbyelection alone

Bengaluru, June 5: Amidspeculation that a Cabinetrejig may defuse the crisiswithin the ruling Cong-ress-JD(S) combine inKarnataka, coalition coor-dination committee chiefSiddaramaiah Wednesdaysaid the vacant ministerialberths will be filled first.

The former chief minis-ter, who is also the Congre-ss Legislature Party (CLP)leader, said miffed partyMLA Ramalinga Reddywould get an opportunityto serve as a minister dur-ing the next reshuffle.

Mr Reddy had on

Tuesday had hit out at theCongress leadership forneglecting senior leadersof the party.

“I will speak toRamalinga Reddy... I hadtold him that he will bemade minister during thereshuffle. Now we are notdoing reshuffle,” MrSiddaramaiah toldreporters.

“We have decided to fillone post that is vacant(from Congress’ share ofministerial berths) due toShivalli’s death. Whenreshuffle happensRamalinga Reddy will also

get opportunity,” he added.Mr Siddaramaiah and

chief minister H.D.Kumaraswamy have heldseveral rounds of meet-ings on whether to go for a

Cabinet expansion or areshuffle to avert a poten-tial existential crisis to theone-year-old coalition, andto address the dissentwithin by asking a fewministers to step down tomake way for the disgrun-tled lawmakers.

The leadership seems tohave now reached a con-sensus about first fillingup three vacant posts andthen going in for a reshuf-fle if the need arises,sources said.

Of the total 34 ministeri-al positions in Karnataka,Congress and JD(S) have

shared 22 and 12 respec-tively according to thecoalition arrangement.

It is still not clear as towhen the cabinet expan-sion will take place, how-ever, sources said that itmight happen by the end ofthis week.

In fresh trouble for thecoalition, JD(S) state presi-dent A.H. VishwanathTuesday resigned from hispost flaying the function-ing of the alliance whiletwo senior Congress MLAsslammed the party’s stateleaders for the Lok Sabhapoll debacle. —PTI

AKSHAYA KUMARSAHOO | DCBHUBANESWAR, JUNE 5

Like Prime MinisterNarendra Modi who hasasked his minister to pre-pare a 100-day agenda fortheir respective depart-ments, Odisha chief min-ister Naveen Patnaik hasinstructed members ofhis council of ministersto submit a report on theimplementation of BJD’selection promises by the7th of every month. Thefirst such reports will besubmitted by July 7.

On May 3, the first meet-ing of the council of min-isters chaired by MrPatnaik, approved inprinciple the poll mani-festo of the ruling BJD asthe state government’spriority.

The chief minister’soffice (CMO) took toTwitter to state that thecouncil of ministers hasbeen directed to submit aprogress report on the7th day of every month.

“The council will meeton May 29, 2020 to markthe first year in govern-ment and review thedelivery of manifesto

p r o m i s e s .The govern-ment willfocus onpoverty alle-v i a t i o n ,making wo-men equalpartners inp r o g r e s s ,

up-lifting weaker sectionsand fulfilling the dreamsof the youth,” the CMOadded.

The CM’s directions,which came on Tuesdayevening, is seen a move tocounter the Opposition,which has been com-plaining that the rulingparty had failed to keepthe promises made in2014 election manifesto.

“We are happy that thechief minister has givenus 30 days’ time to informhim about the progress ofour respective depart-ments. This is a bigresponsibility and wewill try to deliver. SinceI’m a workaholic, I don’tthink there will be anydifficulty for me to gal-vanise my department,”said Tusharkanti Behera,state information tech-nology and sports minister.

Mumbai ,June 5:Shiv SenapresidentU d d h a vThackeraywould bevisiting Ayodhya with allthe 18 Lok Sabha MPs ofthe party before the beg-inning of the monsoonsession of Parliament,sources said Wednesday.

Mr Thackeray had vis-ited Ayodhya inNovember last year anddemanded that Ram tem-ple be constructed at thedisputed site before theLok Sabha elections.

The ties between theSena and its ally BJPwere under strain then.

The Sena later onceagain stitched up analliance with the BJP forthe Lok Sabha polls, butmaintained that Ramtemple was an importantissue for it.

When contacted,Harshal Pradhan, a closeaide of UddhavThackeray, said, “It istrue that Mr Thackerayhas decided to visitAyodhya. The plan is tovisit before the parlia-ment session starts onJune 17. There will be anannouncement about thevisit soon.” —PTI

Sena chiefto visitAyodhyawith MPs

Union minister for environment, forest and climate change Prakash Javadekar andMoS Babul Supriyo, cricket legend Kapil Dev and actors Jackie Shroff and RandeepHooda hold saplings during a tree plantation drive at Paryavaran Bhavan in NewDelhi to mark World Environment Day on Wednesday. — SONDEEP SHANKAR

◗ RLD UP presidentMasood Ahmad,however, expressedhope that the ‘gathbandhan’remains intact

Naveen’s mantristold to furnishprogress reports

Vacant Cabinet posts to be filled first: SiddaWe have decided to fill one post thatis vacant (fromCongress’ share ofministerial berths)due to Shivalli’sdeath — Siddaramaiah,

Cong leader

Lucknow, June 5: UttarPradesh chief ministerYogi Adityanath whoturned 47 on Wednesdayurged the people of thestate to plant saplings onthe occasion of WorldEnvironment Day.

“I congratulate theentire 23 crore people ofUttar Pradesh and I urgethem to take a resolutiontowards planting 23 croretrees in the state. It is abig but a necessary goal,”he said.

President Ram NathKovind, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, UPGovernor Ram Naik and

several other leaderswished him on his birth-day.

“Greetings to UttarPradesh’s dynamic chiefminister Yogi Adityanathon his birthday. CM Yogihas done commendablework in transforming UPespecially in areas likeagriculture, industry aswell as in improving lawand order. I pray for hislong and healthy life,” MrModi tweeted. Similarly,Union home ministerAmit Shah and defenceminister Rajnath Singhextended birthday greet-ings to Adityanath. —PTI

UP CM turns 47, urgespeople to plant saplings

Patnaik

Composer Ilaiyaraaja has won a landmark judgment over musicrights with the Madras High Court ruling he has a right oversongs composed by him over a long film career. The verdict maybe on specific cases over the right to his music with a group of

Malayasia-based labels, but it will resonate through the music industryregarding copyright and music royalties. The well-known film musicdirector who has composed the music for over 4,500 songs was fighting apitched battle where he stood up for the right to his music wherever it isplayed, including in concerts and public places. So sweeping was hisdemand that he had a run-in with music legend S.P. Balasubramaniam,who used to sing many of his songs in overseas concerts. For months therewas a standoff between these two personalities, which was resolved onlyrecently with the singer agreeing to pay royalty for singing songs com-posed by Ilaiyaraaja for films.

Some of the best music copyright laws exist in the United States, andthese are a model for contracts worldwide. Consider someone like Jay Z,rap singer and husband of Beyonce, who was declared the first rap musicbillionaire. Such success couldn’t have come without proper royalty pay-

ments by companies that sign up formechanical royalties (for all formats likevinyl, CD, digital downloads, streaming),and public performance, synchronisation(syncing with visual media) and printmusic royalties. It’s only right that theunique creative abilities of composers andsingers be recognised, and they be allowedto get a fair or agreed share of the moneti-sation process in a very complex settingwhere creative work is reproduced. Masterrights and publishing rights govern whatroyalties songwriters, publishers, recordlabels, etc. give or get. There are too manyshades of grey in the music and film indus-try worldwide thanks to digital piracy andthe illegal reproduction of music.

It is fascinating that a composer should lay a wholesome claim to hismusic as performing rights should also belong to the writer of lyrics aswell as the playback singer who recorded the song for films, besides thefilm producer who had paid all the artistes for their creative work for hisfilm. The industry is still divided over how the royalty system shouldwork, specially as technology is still evolving. Negotiating upfront inlegally-binding agreements is the best way to ensure a reasonable and justmethod for sharing of royalties. The period of contract is important as theownership of intellectual property rights by heirs as time passes addseven greater complexity. For instance, do royalties apply to SaintThyagaraja’s compositions or for that matter Nobel laureate GurudevRabindranath Tagore’s songs and music? The larger viewpoint is also thatonce creativity is out in the open, there should not be any restrictions onpeople enjoying them.

6 JUNE 2019

It is evident that the so-called “Mahagathbandhan” of Uttar Pradesh,cobbled together shortly before the Lok Sabha polls to take on the rul-ing BJP, could not survive the shock of utter defeat. The pure arith-

metical addition of votes of different parties usually does not make for agood adhesive in spite of what television punditry and “secular” intellec-tuals sought to persuade us.

Ironically, the alliance idea sprang up when the BSP and SP did remark-ably well against the BJP by pooling their votes, in addition to that of AjitSingh's RLD, in a clutch of byelections in UP last year, and has nowcracked up ahead of another set of byelections, this time wholly to the UPAssembly.

Fundamentally, the glue was very weak. The social base of the SP andBSP — the land-owning and influential Yadav OBC caste and the dalit toil-er in the field — are not natural allies. The same may be said of the BSPand the Jat farmer who might back the RLD. The assured Muslim vote foreach of these groups was the only steady factor.

It is noteworthy that the joint vote in the parliamentary election of theMahagathbandhan was smaller than the addition of the votes of the SPand BSP when they had fought separately in the Lok Sabha elections of2019. The Congress, though it also did poorly in the face of the saffron“nationalist” wave, cannot be blamed for this alliance's fate.

The suggestion cannot be missed that in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP mayenjoy an open field in the foreseeable future.

UP’s grand alliance collapses

A landmark rulingon music royalties

It is fascinating that acomposer should lay a

wholesome claim tohis music as perform-ing rights should also

belong to the writer oflyrics as well as the

playback singer whorecorded the song

for films, besides thefilm producer

c m y k c m y k

Words ought to be a little wild, for they arethe assaults of thoughts on the unthinking

My life is a brave one. I didn’t put any restrictions

JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESMIND POWER

ARUNACHALAM MURUGANANTHAM PAGE

8EditTHURSDAY | 6 JUNE 2019 | HYDERABADDECCAN CHRONICLE

Ididn’t like it, and then I did likeit. But a writer’s job is to tell thetruth, as Papa said back in 1942.Hemingway maintained that it

was bad luck to talk about writing —it takes away “whatever butterflieshave on their wings” — but he wrotenon-stop about writing, as incisivelyas any writer ever did. Last week Ifinished my umpteenth book onPapa, and it depressed me no end.Really. And then, as I was readingthe last three pages, I discoveredthat I did, after all, have a connec-tion with the great Papa. My depres-sion lifted like a fog.

Life is one long coincidence, andjust as I picked up Autumn in Venice,about Papa’s last muse, DebbieBismarck rang me from Key Westbecause she and her husband hadthought of me while visitingHemingway’s house there. Actually,the house was bought for the coupleby Pauline Hemingway’s uncle andinherited by their son Gregory who,

although not gay, was a cross-dress-er. Some older readers of this col-umn may remember that I metHemingway when I was a 15-year-old, had drinks with him in a NewYork bar and got loaded. But heturned out to be a phoney Papa, anolder, heavy-set man with a whitebeard posing as the greatest writerin the world.

Bad modern writers and victim-hood-culture opinion makers nolonger have any time for the greatPapa — although if they did, he’d godown in my estimation. Yet it’s hardto overestimate the effect thatHemingway had on prose style (youwouldn’t know it from the rubbishpublished today). Papa stripped sen-tences down to their essence,cleared away the lush density root-ed in Victorian prose, and in theprocess became numero uno. Theaforementioned book that got medepressed was written by Andrea diRobilant, a man I once met at a party

and did not like at all. He had anarrogance about him that brave sol-diers, good fighters and real toughguys do not possess. Gigolos, dressand shoe designers, and moderncelebrities have it in spades. I usedto know his uncle, Carlo di Robilant,quite well. He was an Agnelliacolyte, a typical lefty of that time(the 1960s) scared to death that hisfamily’s ass-licking of the Ducemight be an embarrassment.

I changed my mind halfwaythrough reading the work aboutPapa’s last muse and final days. Itinspired a cognitive frenzy actually,as I realised that I knew some of theprotagonists, especially the then 17-year-old Afdera Franchetti whom Ilater met as Afdera Fonda and withwhom I have remained good friendsto this day. When she was young,Afdera gave interviews in whichshe claimed that Renata, the hero-ine of Papa’s worst book, Across theRiver and into the Trees, was based

on her and that Hem was in lovewith her. And there were othersmentioned whom I knew, thoughnot well.

There was a time I contemplatedapplying to Mastermind with Papaas my specialised subject. Now Iknow better. What I didn’t realisewas how incredibly generous Papawas with friends and strangersalike. He singlehandedly supportedthe Ivancich family, and lavishedlarge amounts on his “daughter”, ashe called her, Adriana Ivancich. Heemployed and helped her brotherGianfranco, gave large parts of hisItalian earnings to Adriana, andspent even more on gifts to his wifeMary, out of guilt, despite the fact hehad not even tried to bed Adriana.

When Papa got the news in Cubathat Adriana had met a man who didnot allow her to keep up their almostdaily correspondence, he did noth-ing about it but continued hismunificent ways with her.

Autumn in Venice recapitulatesthe great physical courage shownby Hemingway after his doubleplane crash and the terribleinjuries he sustained; his bravestand against wild animals as hewaited, without weapons, to be res-cued; and the soft side he showedtowards women and the weak.Today’s midgets stand in reproach-ful contrast to his he-man shenani-gans, his excessive drinking, hisbravado, his fantastic talent. And tohis great taste in women — apartfrom Mary, his last wife — and inhouses: the light, white and airyCuban abode, and his flat at theSherry-Netherland, where Takigrew up. As he might well havesaid: “I shit on all his critics, onGertrude Stein and all other suchphonies, and declare Papa the Kingof the World.”

By arrangement with the Spectator

Of Hemingway& an era when

writers werelarger than life

Modi Doctrine 2.0: Getset, go; sky is the limit!

Prime MinisterNarendra Modibegan his sec-ond term witha foreign policy

bang. He was sworn intooffice in the presence ofthe heads of state andgovernment of not onlysome Saarc countriesbut also those of Bimstec(Bay of Bengal Initiativefor Multi-SectoralTechnical and EconomicCooperation) and thecurrent chair ofShanghai CooperationOrganisation. To top itall, he named careerdiplomat Subrahman-yam Jaishankar as thenew external affairsminister, a rarity inIndian Cabinets whereveteran politicians havealmost always been incharge of the foreignministry.

The early signal MrModi conveyed throughthe broader list of for-eign attendees at hisoath-taking and the mas-terstroke of MrJaishankar’s choice isthat India has set itssights on a more ambi-tious and expanded for-eign policy that will seekto better his first-termachievements. Theintent is to aim biggerand rise faster to a levelthat India deserves inworld affairs.

That Mr Modi opted forMr Jaishankar insteadof picking one of the 303BJP MPs shows hissupreme confidence in atechnocrat armed withvast experience of skil-fully navigating India’sforeign relations withmajor world powers.The PM correctly realis-es how delicately poisedIndia’s relations arewith the United Statesand China at present.Handling these two bigpowers is a key prioritywhich requires spe-cialised expertise andknowledge. By placingMr Jaishankar at thehelm, Mr Modi hasrecognised that foreignaffairs is a specialisedfield best left to be led byspecialists.

Mr Jaishankar has theadvantage of being aninsider within the ranks

of the Indian ForeignService, but also an out-sider in the sense of aCabinet minister hold-ing high political officewith the authority toreform the ministry.The drive toward the lat-eral entry of experts intothe external affairs min-istry, which hardly tookoff during Mr Modi’sfirst term, could speedup under MrJaishankar.

The MEA can do won-ders with an influx ofregional and thematicspecialists from outsidethe bureaucracy. Itspublic diplomacy divi-sion has just sevenstaffers in an informa-tion age where 24/7social media and globalnews coverage aboutIndia needs to be influ-enced and shaped. Theslew of extremely jaun-diced and inaccuratenews stories, opinionarticles and onlineinvective in the Westernmedia against Mr Modiand the direction Indiais taking under himbefore, during and evenafter the recent generalelection begged foraggressive counters byan organised “BharatArmy”. A systematicresponse campaign toalter the flawed percep-tions about India canonly be mounted by hir-ing more personnel andimplementing new ideasto spread our soft power,brand our image abroadand win foreign heartsand minds.

Likewise, the MEA’spolicy planning andresearch division isdirely understaffed withjust four officials. ForIndia to become a lead-ing power, we need toemulate superior pow-ers like China and theUS, which have dozensof personnel dedicatedto doing medium andlong-term geopoliticaland geo-economic sce-narios and plans withintheir foreign ministries,and in their extendedarms like think tanksand universities.

Mr Modi’s resoundingre-election and com-manding position as

India’s unrivalled leaderoffers a unique opportu-nity to think strategical-ly and plan ahead forwhere we should be by2030 and beyond in theemerging multipolarworld order, and whatgrand strategy weshould adopt for thefuture. Modi 1.0 hadstarted developing arobust foreign policydoctrine, but far moreattention and manpowerare needed within theMEA to advance it.

Among the long-termchallenges Mr Modi andMr Jaishankar face, twoare worth underlining.China’s Belt and RoadInitiative is galloping ata breathtaking pace.Barring India, almostthe entire Indo-Pacificand Saarc region are for-mally a part of BRI. Ourold fear of strategicencirclement by Chinais occurring in front ofour eyes and an alterna-tive “Sino-centric worldorder”, as the Portu-guese writer BrunoMaçães puts it, is beingerected in Eurasia andAfrica.

As an independentpower centre, India can-not abjectly cave in andendorse China’s hege-monic expansionism.Mr Modi did the rightthing by refusing to joinas a subordinate BRIpartner. But beyond boy-cotting BRI, India has toconstruct and concretisealternative inter-region-al connectivity and com-mercial networks of itsown. Under Modi 2.0, theAsia-Africa GrowthCorridor (AAGC) andfresh mechanisms forintegrating India closerto Central Asia andLatin America should bepursued relentlessly andraised to a higher pro-file. Mr Modi has thevision to build an “Indicorder” parallel to theSinic one. What remainsto be done is allocatingadequate resources inpersonnel and biggerforeign developmentassistance budgets to

reinforce his vision. The onus is on Mr

Jaishankar and his teamto tackle the transaction-al and protectionistDonald Trump adminis-tration in the UnitedStates. Old comfortingassumptions that the USwill help India counter-balance China must bereconsidered in light ofthe decline of liberalinternationalists in theAmerican polity, thelack of any grand strate-gy in Mr Trump’s for-eign policy, and the like-lihood of Mr Trump get-ting re-elected inNovember 2020.

As a master of prag-matic bilateralism, MrJaishankar will beexpected to hammer outa deal with the US thatprotects the trade andsecurity gains of theIndia-US relationshipfrom further damage.But since no deal is adone deal in the case ofMr Trump — a totallydomestically preoccu-pied politician who sim-ply doesn’t care aboutthe interests of othernations — the MEAshould study the tacticsadopted by other coun-tries which are facingthe music from MrTrump and analyse com-paratively how each ofthem is approaching theisolationist and unilat-eralist US. If there areissue-based conver-gences where India canmake common causewith other targets ofAmerica’s unreasonabledemands, such as pres-sure to forsake trade anddefence ties with Iranand Russia, we must col-laborate and assert ourstrategic autonomy.

The Modi-Jaishankarduo is the best possibleone to steer India’smarch to great powerstatus. The PM remainsour biggest asset on theworld stage. His charis-ma and energy have ele-vated India in the inter-national realm. Witheminently able hands onthe deck, the sky is thelimit in his second term.Mr Jaishankar can be acatalyst of Mr Modi’sIndian renaissance.More power to this duo,coupled with a commit-ment to innovativereforms, will translateinto more power forIndia in the world.

The writer is a professor and dean at

the Jindal School ofInternational Affairs

The onus is on MrJaishankar and histeam to tackle thetransactional and

protectionist Trumpadministration. Old

assumptions thatthe US will help

India counterbal-ance China mustbe reconsidered.

Subhani

Taki

Sreeram ChauliaForeign Pulse

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LETTERSHELMET RULEIn Bengaluru, both therider and pillion rider of atwo-wheeler must wearhelmets (Woman, sonkilled in road accident,June 2). Recently, theMadras High Court hadruled that wearing a hel-met is mandatory. ButHyderabad appears to bedifferent. A majority of itspeople do not wear thehelmet. Does the value of ahuman life vary from stateto state? Why did not thegovernment make wearingthe helmet a must?

A.S. MurthyHyderabad

MOTORMOUTHSIt is good to hear that controversialleaders like Giriraj Singh arebeing put under check in the verybeginning of the second Modi gov-ernment (Shah ticks off Girirajafter iftaar tweet, June 5). The BJPneeds to behave responsibly toprove their plank of “Saab KaSaath Saab Ka Vikas”.

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NEW SECRETARIATAfter the AP government gave upits control over buildings inSecretariat, the Telangana govern-ment can accommodate moreoffices in the existing buildings(TS gets vacant AP buildings, June3). So there is no need for a newsecretariat in Parade Grounds.

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OFF’NEW DELHI, JUNE 5.

Niagara falls is being “turnedoff” for a while. The waterswhich normally thunder overthe bluffs on the American sideare being temporarily divertedto the Canadian side, accordingto a Canadian Embassy publica-tion.

A1 , 2 0 0 -f e e tdam isb e i n gc o n -structed across the river on theAmerican side and the waterforced to alter its route to thun-der down over the Canadianhorseshoe falls. Geologists willstudy the composition and rockformation at the base. — UNI

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Strong wordsPakistan’s former president Asif Ali Zardarihas vowed to remove Prime Minister ImranKhan to end the people’s misery

It’s time for Beijing to“break the silence”on the TiananmenSquare massacre

— Chrystia Freeland,Canada’s foreign minister

SHORT TAKESPAK MILITARYPLANS TO CUT

DEF BUDGETIslamabad, June 5: In anunprecedented voluntarymove, Pakistan’s military hasdecided to cut the defencebudget for the next fiscal yearamid an austerity drivelaunched by the governmentto solve the cash-strappednation’s economic woes.

Major General Asif Ghafoor,Director General Inter Ser-vices Public Relations — themedia wing of the military, inhis Twitter message onTuesday said that voluntarycuts in the defence budget fornext fiscal year would not beat the cost of defence andsecurity.

“Voluntary cut in defencebudget for a year will not be atthe cost of defence & security.We shall maintain effectiveresponse potential to allthreats. Three services willmanage impact of the cutthrough appropriate internalmeasures. It was important toparticipate in development oftribal areas & Balochistan,”Ghafoor said.

Prime Minister Imran Khansaid on Tuesday that he wasvery appreciative of thePakistan military’s “unprece-dented voluntary initiative ofstringent cuts in their defenceexpenditures” especially inlight of the country’s finan-cial situation. Khan said hewas grateful for the move thatcame “despite multiple securi-ty challenges” that Pakistanfaces.

BIG

Xi, Putin forge bondsamid US tensionsMoscow, June 5: Chin-ese President Xi Jinpingand Russia's VladimirPutin praised their coun-tries' ties during a meet-ing in the Kremlin onWednesday, as Beijingand Moscow seek to sh-ore up cooperation amidtensions with the US.

Putin said the visit wasa “key event” in rela-tions between the twoneighbours.

“Our relationship willbe better and better,”said Xi, who was rece-ived with full honourswhen he arrived at Mos-cow's Vnukovo airport inthe afternoon.

The trip comes fiveyears after Moscow'sannexation of Ukraine'sCrimea peninsula led toa serious rift with itsWestern partners andsubsequent turn towardits neighbour to the east.

“In recent years,thanks to your directparticipation, the rela-tionship between Russiaand China has reachedan unprecedentedly highlevel,” the Russian presi-dent said. Following thetalks and a visit to theBolshoi Theatre lateWednesday, Xi is set totravel to Russia's formerimperial capital SaintPetersburg. There hewill attend an economicforum hosted by Putinon Thursday and Friday.

China and Russia“have strong politicalmutual trust, and sup-port each other firmly onissues concerning eachother's core interests andmajor concerns,” Xi saidduring an interview withRussian media ahead ofthe visit.

Putin's foreign policyaide, Yury Ushakov, ear-lier said Xi and Putinwould sign a new decla-

ration on their “globalpartnership and strate-gic cooperation, whichare entering a new era”.

The Chinese delegationbrought two pandas asgifts, bound for the

Moscow Zoo. “The ani-mal is a symbol of Chinaand the gesture is veryimportant to our part-ners,” Ushakov said.

The partnership is yie-lding increasing trade,

which has increased by25 percent in 2018 to hit arecord $108 billion (96billion euros), he added,calling China “Russia'smost important econom-ic partner”. — AFP

■ Russia praises China’s efforts to overcome differences

MEET

London, June 5: USPresident Donald Trumpsaid Wednesday he waswowed by Prince Charles'spassion for fighting cli-mate change and that healso wanted a world that is“good for future genera-tions”.

Trump has rolled backenvironmental regula-tions and pulled theUnited States out of theParis climate accord sincehis surprise election in2016.

But the mercurial WhiteHouse chief said he wasimpressed with PrinceCharles's commitment togreen causes when he hadtea with the heir to theBritish throne atBuckingham Palace onhis arrival for a three-daystate visit Monday.

Trump told ITV in aninterview airedWednesday that QueenElizabeth II's son dominat-ed the conversation withclimate talk.

“We were going to have a15-minute chat. And itturned out to be an hourand a half. And he didmost of the talking. He isreally into climatechange, and I think that'sgreat, I mean I want that, Ilike that,” Trump said.

“He wants to have aworld that is good forfuture generations and Iwant that to.”But he alsostuck up for his own man-agement of environmen-tal policies.

“I did mention a couple

of things, I did say, 'Wellthe United States rightnow has among the clean-est climates there are,based on all statistics, andit's even getting better',”Trump said.

— AFP

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping enter ahall during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on Wednesday. — AFP

Beijing, June 5: Chinalaunched a space rocketfrom sea for the firsttime on Wednesday, itsspace agency annou-nced, the latest step inBeijing's push to becomea major space power.

The Asian giant nowspends more than Russiaand Japan on its civiland military space pro-grammes -- unveilingambitious plans for mis-sions to the moon and

beyond in the comingdecade.

A Long March 11 rocketwas launched from aship in the Yellow Seajust after midday, theChina National SpaceAdministration said in astatement.

“This is the first timethat China has... (testeda) launch vehicle at sea,”it added. The rocket car-ried two experimentalsatellites and five com-

mercial ones. Statebroadcaster CCTV, in apost on the Twitter-likeWeibo platform, hailed itas “a new launchingmode for China to enterspace quickly”.

The test marks anotherwin for Beijing's spaceprogramme.

Earlier this year, Chinabecame the first nationto land a rover on the farside of the moon.

— AFP

Britain’s Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, US President Donald Trump and US FirstLady Melania Trump applaud after Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II (2L) made her addressduring an event to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, inPortsmouth, southern England, on Wednesday. — AFP

Prince’s climate changepassion wows Trump

China tests 1st sea-basedlaunch of space rocket

London, June 5: Presid-ent Donald Trump row-ed back on Wednesdayon his comments thatBritain’s much-lovednational health serviceshould be opened up toUS private companies ina post-Brexit trade deal.

The mercurial USleader also softened histone on UK Labour oppo-sition leader JeremyCorbyn and actress-turned-British princessMeghan Markle.

Trump sparked out-rage across Britain'spolitical divide bytelling a joint press con-ference with PrimeMinister Theresa Maythat “everything is onthe table” in talks on apost-Brexit US-UK free

trade deal — includingthe NHS health service.

“So NHS or anythingelse. A lot more thanthat,” Trump said on thesecond of his three-daystate visit Tuesday.

Britons treasure theirfree health care systemand fear its partial pri-vatisation. Some suggestthat US pharmaceuticalcompanies would hikethe price of medicationsand other basic services.

He told ITV televisionin an interview aired onWednesday that he didnot mean that the UKhealth system would beup for negotiations inthe talks.

“I don't see it being onthe table,” Trump toldITV. — AFP

TRUMP WALKS BACK COMMENTSON UK HEALTH CARE AND MORE

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Bengaluru, June 5{Activity in India's domi-nant services sector grewat its slowest pace in ayear in May, hurt by weakdomestic demand, a pri-vate survey showed onWednesday.

The Nikkei/IHS MarkitServices PurchasingManagers' Index fell to50.2 in May, its lowestsince May 2018 and only atouch above the 50-markthat separates contractionfrom growth.

That will make disap-pointing reading for poli-cymakers, after data lastweek showed the coun-try’s economic growthslipping to its weakest inmore than four years inJanuary-March.— Reuters

Services growth sinks to 1-year low

FC BUREAUMUMBAI, JUNE 5

A large number of compa-nies at the bottom of thepyramid in terms of netsales continue to farebadly while top compa-nies with net sales aboveRs 250 crore have donewell in the January-March quarter, an analy-sis of their year-on-yearsales and profit , done byCare Ratings showed.

A sample of 2,145 compa-nies, excluding banks,finance, oil & gas andrefineries, segregatedaccording to the net salesshowed 557 companieswith net sales above Rs250 crore in the fourthquarter registered highersales growth but their netprofit growth slowed year-on-year.

But for smaller compa-nies with net sales of lessthan Rs 250 crore, the per-

formance has worsened interms of both sales andprofit. Further 197 compa-nies with net sales of Rs125 crore to Rs 250 croresaw lower sales and profit.

Sales were down for 502companies with net salesof Rs 25 crore to Rs 125crore but their profit grewat 6.2 per cent.

Another set of 383 com-panies with net sales inthe range of Rs 2.5 croreto 25 crore registereddecline in sales whiletheir profit data is not

available. A total of 506companies with net salesof less than Rs 2.5 crorealso registered sharpdecline in net sales year-on-year.

The fourth quarter cor-porate performance forover 2,646 listed compa-nies shows their cumula-tive sales and profit regis-tered growth year-on-year but expendituresrose sharply on accountof higher raw materialcost and employee cost.

The results analysis of

2,646 companies showedthat the aggregate netsales grew at 9.4 per centcompared with 8.4 percent in fourth quarter ofFY18. The aggregate netprofits of these compa-nies registered a growthby 8.9 per cent, higherthan the 7.5 per centgrowth in the fourth quar-ter of FY18.

The profit margins morethan doubled from 2.3 percent in FY18 to 4.9 per centin FY19.

However, expendituresgrew by 9.5 per cent com-pared with the 6.3 per centgrowth in the comparablequarter last year.

Cost of raw materialaccounted for nearly 38per cent of the totalexpenditure in the fourthquarter of FY19.Employee cost grew at alower rate of 8.1 per centover 13.5 per cent growthlast year.

Large cos fare better inQ4, smaller firms worse LALIT K JHA

WASHINGTON, JUNE 5

India's economy is project-ed to grow at 7.5 per cent inthe next three years, sup-ported by robust invest-ment and private con-sumption, the World Bankhas forecast, in some goodnews to the new Indiangovernment.

The bank in its GlobalEconomic Prospects relea-sed on Tuesday said Indiais estimated to have grown7.2 per cent in fiscal year2018-19. A slowdown ingovernment consumptionwas offset by solid invest-ment, which benefittedfrom public infrastructurespending.

As against a growth rateof 6.6 per cent in 2018,China's growth rate in 2019is projected to be droppedto 6.2 per cent and thensubsequently to 6.1 percent in 2020 and 6 per centin 2021, the World Banksaid.

With this, India will con-tinue to retain the positionof being the fastest grow-ing emerging economy.And by 2021, its growthrate is projected to be 1.5per cent more than China's6 per cent.

The World Bank's report

came as a good news forIndia days after data fromCentral Statistics Office(CSO) showed that India'seconomic growth slowedto a five-year low of 5.8 percent in fourth quarter of2018-19, pushing the coun-try behind China.

The decline in the eco-nomic activity has beenattributed by the CSO tosteep decline in growth inagriculture and manufac-turing sectors.

According to the WorldBank, growth in India isprojected at 7.5 per cent infiscal year 2019/20 (April

1, 2019 to March 31, 2020),unchanged from the pre-vious forecast, and to stayat this pace through thenext two fiscal years.

"Private consumptionand investment will bene-fit from strengtheningcredit growth amid moreaccommodative monetarypolicy, with inflation hav-ing fallen below the RBI’starget," it said. Supportfrom delays in plannedfiscal consolidationshould partially offset theeffects of political uncer-tainty around elections, itsaid. —PTI

India projected to grow at7.5% for three years: WB

Beijing, June 5: TheInternational Mone-tary Fund (IMF) onWednesday cut its 2019economic growth fore-cast for China to 6.2 percent on heighteneduncertainty aroundtrade frictions, sayingthat more monetary pol-icy easing would bewarranted if the Sino-US trade war escalates.

The downgrade camejust two months after

the IMF raised its Chinagrowth forecast to 6.3per cent from 6.2 percent, partly on then-brightening prospectsfor a trade deal with theUS. A sudden escalationin the Sino-US tradetensions last monthunderlined the risks forthe world's second-biggest economy fromhigher US tariffs on bil-lions of dollars ofChinese goods.

IMF slashes China’s outlook

■ Firms with net sales of `125 cr-`250 cr sees lower sales, profit

SANGEETHA GCHENNAI, JUNE 5

The insurance regulatorhas increased the motorthird party premiums ofprivate cars by around 12per cent, less than what ithad proposed in the draft.The new premiums willtake effect from June 16.

Premium for private carsnot exceeding 1,000 cc hasbeen increased to Rs 2,072

from Rs 1,850 last year, ahike of 12 per cent. TheInsurance Regulatory andDevelopment Authority ofIndia (Irdai) had earlierproposed a hike of 14.6 percent to Rs 2,120.

For cars between 1,000 ccand 1,500 cc, the premiumis up 12.5 per cent to Rs3,221, lower than the pro-posed premium of Rs 3,300.The premium for carsexceeding 1,500 cc will

remain at Rs 7,890 as pro-posed earlier.

Similarly, the TP premi-um of two-wheelers of lessthan 75 cc has been raisedby 12.8 per cent to Rs 482from Rs 427. For two-wheel-ers not exceeding 150 cc,premium will go up by 4.4per cent to Rs 752 and thosebelow 350 cc by 21 per centto Rs 1,193. However, norate hike has been pro-posed for superbikes or

those exceeding 350 cc. Theproposed rates of two-wheelers have been retain-ed by Irdai even after sta-keholders consultations.

The long term policy pre-miums—three-year for pri-vate cars and five-year fortwo-wheelers ---have beenretained without anychange.

The regulator has fur-ther introduced two newcategories.

IRDAI hikes car premium by 12%

Southampton, June 5:Former England captainMichael Vaughanbemoaned the number ofempty seats at the WorldCup match between Indiaand South Africa atSouthampton onWednesday, adding hisvoice to criticism of thetournament’s ticketingarrangements.

There were severalbanks of unfilled seatswhen play started at 10:30am local time with India,one of the best-supportedteams in world cricket, inthe field. “Such a shamethere are so many emptyseats,” said Vaughan,commentating for BBCRadio. “They keep sayingit’s sold out but where arethe tickets?”

The crowd swelled whenIndia captain Virat Kohli,

arguably the biggest starin the game, was batting,but there were stillnoticeable gaps in thestands.

Claire Furlong, theInternational CricketCouncil’s general manag-er of communications,told AFP that the matchhad drawn a capacitycrowd of more than17,000. Furlong pointed tothe long queues for foodoutlets and other attrac-tions on the concoursesbehind the stands as onereason why not every seatwas taken.

“The match is a 17,200sell-out. We haven’t had aturnstile count yet but allday there have been a cou-ple of thousand millingaround the concourses,”Furlong said.

— AFP

Southampton, June 5:Rohit Sharma hit anunbeaten century as Indiamade a comfortable startto their World Cup cam-paign with a six-wicketwin over South Africa inSouthampton onWednesday that dealt afresh blow to the Proteas’tournament hopes.

Chasing a modest 228,India cruised to victory onthe back of Sharma’s 122not out as they won with15 balls to spare and liveup to their favourites tagin the showpiece event.

For South Africa, a thirdstraight defeat in as manymatches this World Cupleft their hopes of qualify-ing for the semi-finals on aknife edge.

Fast bowler JaspritBumrah andleg-spin-n e r

Yuzvendra Chahal laid theplatform for victory asIndia restricted an injury-hit South Africa to 227 fornine in 50 overs.

Chahal returned figuresof 4-51 after Bumrah didthe early damage by dis-missing both South Africaopeners.

Sharma, who survived adropped catch on one bySouth Africa captain Fafdu Plessis at second slipthen anchored India’schase.

South Africa quickKagiso Rabada struckearly with the wicket ofShikhar Dhawan for eightbut his team was short onruns to put pressure onthe opposition batting.

Wicket-keeper Quintonde Kock came up with astunning catch behind thestumps to send back Indiaskipper Virat Kohli for 18off Andile Phehlukwayo— the first time in three

World Cups the star bats-man had not started thetournament with a hun-dred.

De Kock was airborne ashe flew towards first slipto grab the ball, whichflew off Kohli’s edge froma rising delivery by pace-man Andile Phehlukwayo.

Kohli returned to thepavilion to stunnedsilence from a large crowddominated by Indian fans.

It is the first time thatKohli has not started theWorld Cup with a centuryafter reaching triple fig-ures in his first matches ofthe 2011 and 2015 editions.

The stunning effort fromDe Kock though is unlike-ly to change the Proteas’fortunes as India look setto chase down their mod-est target of 228.

But the brilliant effortwill give Ben Stokes com-petition.

Sharma kept the chase

on course, building part-nerships that included an85-run third-wicket standwith KL Rahul, who made26.

The opener’s well-judgedmix of caution and aggres-sion saw him reach his23rd one-day century witha single off TabraizShamsi, with Sharma hit-ting 13 fours and two sixesin total.

Sharma survived anoth-er reprieve on 107 afterDavid Miller dropped ahigh but routine chance atcover to sum up SouthAfrica’s sorry perform-ance so far before ChrisMorris held a consolationcaught and bowled chance,despite treading on thestumps at his end, to dis-miss MS Dhoni (34).

Earlier, Bumrah, theworld’s top-ranked ODIbowler, had the ball dart-ing around on a cloudymorning, openers Hashim

Amla (six) and de Kock(10) both falling to slipcatches off his bowling.

Chahal soon took chargeas he bowled Rassie vander Dussen for 22 with thefirst ball of his secondover to end a 54-run third-wicket partnership.

He then bowled skipperDu Plessis for 38 later inthe same over.

Morris, batting at No 8,provided late spark withhis fighting 42 during aneighth-wicket partnershipof 66 with Rabada, whomade an unbeaten 31 —his highest ODI score.

South Africa have beenhit by a spate of injuries,with pace spearhead DaleSteyn making an early exitfrom the tournamentwithout playing a game.

India next play Australiaat the Oval on Sundaywhile South Africa take onWest Indies on Monday.

— AFP

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India fans said they would set-tle for nothing less than WorldCup glory as Virat Kohli’s

team began their campaignagainst South Africa atSouthampton on Wednesday.Kapil Dev led India to their firstWorld Cup title in 1983 at Lord’s,whipping up a national frenzythat boosted the profile of crick-et in the country.

Thirty-six years after “Kapil’sDevils” defied heavy odds to beattwo-time champions West Indies,a horde of Indian fans arrived inSouthampton hoping to witnessa successful start to the tourna-ment. “We have heard stories ofKapil lifting the Prudential Cupat Lord's by our father, now wewant to witness the feeling,” saidAnup Kumar, an Indian fan whotravelled down from London tosee the match.

“Kohli can do it for sure,” the32-year-old banker added.

“We will follow the team. Thereis Dhoni, there is Kohli, there isRohit Sharma. We will certainlymake the semi-finals,” saidBritish-based Rina Singh.

— AFP

EMULATE KAPIL,FANS TELL VIRAT

Pakistan batsman AsifAli has credited hisfamily for con-

vincing him to playat the World Cupafter the tragicdeath of hisinfant daughterlast month. The 27-year-old had to leaveBritain after the fifth one-dayinternational against Englandwhen he learned of the death ofhis 19-month-old daughter DuaFatima from cancer in theUnited States. Asif, who was notin the preliminary squad for theWorld Cup, forced his way intothe final 15 with two half cen-turies against England duringthe recent series between the twocountries. Asif said his wife andfamily helped him deal with hisdaughter’s illness. “I wasinformed of my daughter’shealth during the PSL inFebruary,” Asif said. “It wasshocking and heart-breaking butmy family stood by me in thosedifficult times and they eased itby convincing me that I shouldplay for the country and theywill take care of her.” — AFP

ASIF INDEBTEDTO HIS FAMILY

ICC paid a rich tribute to ViratKohli on Wednesday as it postedan illustration of the Indian skip-per sitting on a throne, wearing acloak and a bejewelled crown.

— Twitter

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BEST SPELLS BY INDIAN SPINNERS IN CUPSpell Bowler Opponents Venue Year5-31 Yuvraj Singh Ireland Bengaluru 2011

4-6 Yuvraj Singh Namibia P’maritzburg 2003

4-25 R. Ashwin U.A.E Perth 2015

4-32 Anil Kumble Netherlands Paarl 2003

4-51 Y. Chahal South Africa Southampton 2019HIT START■ Ton-up Rohit anchors India’s clinical chase against SA

South Africa: H.Amla c Sharma bBumrah 6, Q. deKock c Kohli bBumrah 10, F. duPlessis b Chahal 38,R. van der Dussen bChahal 22, D. Miller cand b Chahal 31, JPDuminy lbw b Yadav3, A. Phehlukwayo stDhoni b Chahal 34,C. Morris c Kohli bKumar 42, K. Rabada(not out) 31, I. Tahir cJadhav b Kumar 0.Extras (b1, lb3, w6)10. Total (for ninewickets in 50 overs)227.FoW: 1-11, 2-24, 3-78,4-80, 5-89, 6-135, 7-158, 8-224, 9-227.Bowling: Kumar 10-0-44-2, Bumrah 10-1-35-2, Pandya 6-0-31-0, Yadav 10-0-46-1, Chahal 10-0-51-4,Jadhav 4-0-16-0.India: S. Dhawan cde Kock b Rabada 8,R. Sharma (not out)122, V. Kohli c deKock b Phehlukwayo18, KL Rahul c duPlessis b Rabada 26,MS Dhoni c and bMorris 34, H. Pandya(not out) 15. Extras(lb3, w4) 7. Total(for four wickets in47.3 overs) 230.FoW: 1-12, 2-54, 3-139, 4-213.Bowling: Tahir 10-0-58-0, Rabada 10-1-39-2, Morris 10-3-

36-1, Phehlukwayo8.3-0-40-1, Shamsi9-0-54-0. MoM: RohitSharma

SCORECARD

STATS: S. PERVEZ QAISER

Bangladesh undone by New Zealand speedstersLondon, June 5:Paceman Matt Henrygrabbed four wickets asNew Zealand bowledBangladesh out for 244in their World Cupmatch at the Oval onWednesday.

Henry finished withfigures of 4-47 to followhis three wicketsagainst Sri Lanka asBangladesh — sent in tobat — lost their last sixwickets for just 65 runs.

Bangladesh all-round-er Shakib Al Hasan hit afighting 68-ball 64 withseven boundaries in his200th one-day interna-tional but no other bats-men cashed in on goodstarts.

Once Shakib wascaught by wicketkeeperTom Latham off thebowling of Colin deGrandhomme in the31st over, the inningsfell apart.

Mohammad Mitun

(26), Mahmudullah (20)and Mosadeek Hossain(11) all failed to build asignificant innings.

Tailender MohammadSaifuddin hit a 23-ball 29with a six and threeboundaries beforeHenry and Trent Boult(2-44) mopped up thetail.

Earlier, openersTamim Iqbal, who made24, and Soumya Sarkar,who scored 25, gaveBangladesh a solid base,putting on 45 runs forthe first wicket.

But Henry made the

breakthrough for NewZealand, bowlingSarkar in the ninth over.

That brought Shakibto the crease, much tothe appreciation of alarge contingent ofBangladeshi support-ers.

Iqbal was out shortlyafterwards, caught byBoult off the bowling ofLockie Ferguson, toleave Bangladesh 60-2.

Mushfiqur Rahimrebuilt the innings withShakib, putting onexactly 50 for the thirdwicket before he wasrun out for 19.

Both New Zealand andBangladesh won theirfirst matches at theWorld Cup, taking placein England and Wales.

New Zealand crushedSri Lanka by 10 wicketsat Cardiff whileBangladesh beat SouthAfrica.

— AFP

Vaughan lamentsempty Cup seats

ROHIT SHARMA

122*OFF144BALLS

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Shakib Al Hasan enroute his fifty againstNew Zealand. — AP

Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal cBoult b Ferguson 24,Soumya Sarkar b Henry 25,Shakib Al Hasan c Latham bDe Grandhomme 64,Mushfiqur Rahim run out 19,Mohammad Mithun c DeGrandhomme b Henry 26,Mahmudullah c Williamsonb Santner 20, MosaddekHossain c Guptill b Boult 11,Mohammad Saifuddin bHenry 29, Mehidy HasanMiraz c Latham b Boult 7,Mashrafe Mortaza c Boult bHenry 1, Mustafizur Rahman(not out) 0. Extras (b1, lb8,w9) 18. Total (in 49.2 overs)244.FoW: 1-45, 2-60, 3-110, 4-151, 5-179, 6-197, 7-224, 8-235, 9-244.Bowling: Henry 9.2-0-47-4,Boult 10-0-44-2, Ferguson10-0-40-1, De Grandhomme8-0-39-1, Neesham 2-0-24-0, Santner 10-1-41-1.

SCORECARD

Team P W L N/R Pts Net RR

West Indies 1 1 0 0 2 +5.802

New Zealand 1 1 0 0 2 +5.754

Australia 1 1 0 0 2 +1.860

England 2 1 1 0 2 +0.900

Bangladesh 1 1 0 0 2 +0.420

India 1 1 0 0 2 +0.302

Sri Lanka 2 1 1 0 2 -1.517

Pakistan 2 1 1 0 2 -2.412

South Africa 3 0 3 0 0 -0.952

` Afghanistan 2 0 2 0 0 -1.264

STANDINGS

● Kiwi pacer TrentBoult took his150th ODI wicketwhen he gotBangladesh’sMehidy HasanMiraz out in the49th over.

L o n d o n ,June 5: Jason

Holder’s WestIndies are reviving

memories of theirWorld Cup glory days

with a pace attack thathas the ability to strike

fear into opposition bats-men.

The two-time championsopened their campaign atthe tournament in Englandand Wales by skittling outPakistan for just 105 atTrent Bridge as theirquicks made good use ofthe bouncer.

Oshane Thomas led theway with four for 27, whileAndre Russell, Sheldon

Cottrell and captain Holderprovided good support as

the West Indies cruised to aseven-wicket win.When West Indies beat

Australia in the inaugural 1975World Cup final at Lord’s, theirside included a four-man pacebattery.

And when they defeatedEngland four years later inanother Lord’s final to retaintheir title, the West Indies didso with the original “fearsomefoursome” of Andy Roberts,Michael Holding, Colin Croftand Joel Garner.

Nobody is suggesting the cur-rent line-up is yet in that classbut the fact they bowledPakistan out cheaply withoutKemar Roach and ShannonGabriel shows that, once again,West Indies have an impressivestock of fast bowlers.

And it was further evidence that,although they only scraped intothis World Cup via a qualifying

tournament, they are more than capa-ble of beating anyone on their day.

Australia, who began the defence oftheir title with a seven-wicket rout ofoutsiders Afghanistan, will pose a farsterner challenge. But the West Indies,who have won two of the past threeWorld Twenty20 tournaments, willtake heart from the way Thomasbounced out David Warner in a warm-up match in Southampton last month.

Bouncers on the blockOne danger for the West Indies is thatthey become “bouncer happy” and usethe tactic too often, with Warner andSteve Smith, both returning from one-year bans for ball tampering, morethan capable of putting away any mis-directed short stuff.

Former Australia captain SteveWaugh, a two-time World Cup winner,has been impressed by what he hasseen from the West Indies so far.

“For the first time in a long whilethey have fast-bowling depth. Everyside in this tournament will be wary ofplaying the Windies and I wouldn’twant to face them in a knockoutmatch,” Waugh said.

“They are the sort of team that, ifthey get on a roll and build somemomentum, then they could win itall,” he added.

As for a batting order in which ChrisGayle is one of several big-hitters,Waugh said: “They are the most watch-able team in the tournament with abatting line-up that can kidnap anybowling attack with brute force.”

Clive Lloyd, the captain of the WestIndies sides that won the 1975 and 1979World Cups, said: “Australia have gotsome firepower and some very goodbatsmen. We just need to see what hap-pens when the pressure is on the WestIndies, but the game against Australiashould do that, as that will be a goodtest of where we are at.” — AFP

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CRICKET CROWN

Perera praises Lanka bowlers

London: Bangladesh coachSteve Rhodes spoke of hisrespect for the way his playershandled themselves after theChristchurch mosque attacksearlier this year.

The team narrowly escaped theattacks that killed 51 people inNew Zealand in March duringtheir tour of the country.

“I have got so much respect forthe players, the way that theyhave handled themselves afterthat event, the way that theyhave got themselves through itall,” he said.

“They are just celebrating Eidnow, the end of Ramadan. That’sbeen tough for many of the boys.The experience they wentthrough, they went throughtogether on that coach, and Ithink it somehow gelled themand I think that they have actu-ally got solace from each other,”he said.

“There’s a lot of smiley faces atthe moment, and going back tothat day in Christchurch, I wasthinking, how do we get a teamback together after. But theyhave done it,” Rhodes remi-nisced.

— AFP

Cardiff: Skipper Gulbadin Naibadmitted Afghanistan struggledin English conditions andblamed wayward bowling in thefirst 10 overs for their 34-run lossto Sri Lanka in the World Cuphere.

“We didn’t start well with theball and didn’t bowl enough inthe right areas in the first 10overs. I think maybe the bowlersdidn’t take enough responsibili-ty,” Gulbadin said.

“We were better in the middleand credit must go to how RashidKhan, Hamid Hassan andMohammad Nabi bowled. But wemissed something at the startand if we didn’t give away 35extras then maybe Sri Lankadon’t score 201,” he said.

Gulbadin said Afghanistanfailed to adapt to the seamer-friendly conditions. “Sri Lankaare an experienced team whohave played a lot in these type ofconditions whether in NewZealand or England,” said the 28-year-old.

“The wicket was completelydifferent to the one we played onagainst Australia at Bristol. Iwas telling my guys to playstraight and to take their timebut they struggle a lot on thesekind of surfaces. We lost somewickets at the start. But SriLanka bowled really well,” headded. — PTI

AFGHAN SKIPPERBLASTS BOWLERS

Nottingham: Australia captainAaron Finch says he would wel-come the introduction of con-cussion substitutes in interna-tional cricket. A report inBritain’s Daily Telegraph news-paper said the ICC could allowconcussion subs from October 1.

At present, substitutes in inter-national matches can only fieldand are not allowed to bat orbowl. But a two-year trial of con-cussion substitutes in variousdomestic cricket competitionsaround the world started inOctober 2017, allowing players tobat and bowl.

The issue was thrown intosharp relief at the ongoingWorld Cup when South Africabatsman Hashim Amla wasstruck on the head by a bouncerfrom England fast bowler JofraArcher and had to retire hurt.

Finch said on Wednesday thathe had no qualms with allowingreplacement batsmen or bowlersto take over from a concussedplayer at international level. “Iknow that it has worked inAustralia in domestic cricket,”he said.

Finch added: “The last thingyou want is people getting hit,obviously, but if there is, youalso don’t want the game to bedetermined by someone gettinghit and then being out of thegame. If that happens in the firstover, that’s a huge disadvan-tage.”

“It’s all about the safety of theplayer and at the end of the day,the game of cricket isn’t asimportant as someone’s health,”said Finch. — AFP

FINCH BATS FORSUBSTITUTES

SHORT SINGLES

Field goof-upsworry WoakesNottingham, June 5:Chris Woakes wasadamant England’s sur-prise World Cup defeat byPakistan was “no carcrash” but accepted theywould have to raise theirfielding standards after asloppy display con-tributed to a 14-run loss atTrent Bridge.

Paceman Woakes, fastbowler Jofra Archer andleg-spinner Adil Rashidwere not helped by a poorfielding effort that sawnumerous runs givenaway in mis-fields andover throws Jason Roy’sextraordinary drop thatreprieved Md Hafeez.

Woakes, who showedEngland the way withfour catches, was at a lossto explain the decline inEngland’s performance.

“By no means was it acar crash but it was the

difference in the game,”said Woakes.

“We didn’t field as wellas we can and probablyleft 20 runs out there. Itwas just one of those dayswhere we fumbled a few,probably dived over a cou-ple. We’re obviously avery good fielding team,we’ve proved that over thepast few years, and thiswas just an off day. We’llmeet up in Cardiff, gothrough our routines andtry to meet those samestandards,” he said.

Woakes said the round-robin nature of the 10-team tournament meantit would be tough to winthe World Cup withoutlosing a group match.“It’s unlikely any teamwill go through the tour-nament unbeaten and ifthey do it’s a hell of aneffort,” he said. — AFP

SL battingis concernfor MahelaCardiff, June 5:Former skipper MahelaJayawardene is con-cerned about SriLanka’s batting in thisWorld Cup, saying the1996 champions willneed to put up a bettershow with the willow togive their bowlers morefreedom.

Though Sri Lankamanaged to pull off a 34-run win in the rain-hitmatch, Jayawardenesaid it was disappoint-ing to see the wicketstumble like nine pins.

“There is no questionthat Sri Lanka couldhave batted better. Aftersuch a good start, whereKusal Perera battedbeautifully and they hadtwo big partnerships, itwas disappointing to seethem lose their way,”Jayawardene wrote in acolumn for ICC. — PTI

Cardiff, June 5: SriLanka were far from per-fect after yet another bat-ting collapse againstAfghanistan, but all-rounder Thisara Pererasaid the team always hadfaith in their “experiencedbowling unit” to pull offthe win.

Sri Lanka registeredtheir first win of theWorld Cup againstAfghanistan after facing amassive defeat at thehands of New Zealand intheir tournament opener.

After being put into bat,Sri Lanka could only man-age to put 201 on the score-board before NuwanPradeep (4/31) and LasithMalinga (3/39) starredwith the ball to bundle outAfghanistan for 152.

“We all believed in our-selves and we knew wehave an experienced bowl-ing unit, which is why wehad five fast bowlers as wehave that experience,”Perera said after the victo-ry on Tuesday. — PTI

HEAD-TO-HEAD

HIGHEST INNINGS TOTALS

HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL SCORES

LOWEST INNINGS TOTAL

BEST BOWLING PERFORMANCES

Venue Played WI Aus Tied N/Rwon won

Total 139 60 73 3 3In World Cup 9 5 4 — —Last five 5 1 4 — —

West Indies: 313-9 in 50 overs at St John’s 22-02-1978Australia: 341-8 in 50 overs at Basseterre 06-07-2008

West Indies: 153* Vivian Richards at Melbourne 09-12-1979Australia: 173 Mark Waugh at at Melbourne 09-02-2001

West Indies: 70 in 23.5 overs at Perth 01-02-2013 Australia: 91 in 35.4 overs at Perth 04-01-1987

West Indies: 7-51 Winston Davis at Leeds 11-06-1983Australia: 5-14 Glenn McGrath at Manchester 30-06-1999

West Indies will become the team after India (967 match-es), Pakistan (919 matches) and Australia (933 matches) toplay 800 One-Day Internationals. Steven Smith who scored 473 runs at an average of 52.55

in 11 innings of 15 matches, needs 27 runs to become 13thAustralian to complete 500 runs in World Cup.

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Sri Lankan bowler Nuwan Pradeep (second from left) celebrates with teammatesafter taking a wicket during the match against Afghanistan on Tuesday. — AFP

London, June 5: JustinLanger has hailed the WestIndies’ “Calypso cricket”,admitting they were hisheroes when he was grow-ing up as he preparesAustralia to face their cur-rent battery of fastbowlers.

The two teams, who havewon seven out of the 11World Cups so far betweenthem, meet at Trent Bridgeon Thursday after bothcruised to comfortableopening victories.

Head coach Langer saiddefending championsAustralia would need toadjust their mindset to takeon the West Indies quicksand other fast bowlers atthe tournament in Englandand Wales.

“We’ve probably spent

four months thinking andplaying against spin bowl-ing,” he said on Tuesday.

“We have to adapt to WestIndies no doubt, who havegot a number of good, fastbowlers. South Africa willbe same. England will bethe same. Have to adapt ourgame plan and adapt prettyquickly. Obviously a verydangerous team the waythey bat and aggressivebowling, but they’ve gotweaknesses as well andwe’re playing pretty goodcricket,” Langer added.

West Indies, who won thefirst two World Cups, in1975 and 1979, were the

dominant force in the worldgame for two decades andboasted a succession ofworld-class fast bowlersand thrilling batsmen.“When I was a kid it wasCalypso cricket, and I thinkwe’re seeing plenty of signsof Calypso cricket,” saidLanger said.

“Running and bowlingfast. They’re not necessari-ly going to be bowling thesame spot every ball, butgoing to be exciting towatch. They all try to hitsixes most balls so DarrenBravo’s probably a little bitmore unorthodox. Alwaysexciting playing the West

Indies. When I was growingup they were my heroes,”he said.

Langer described veteranopener Chris Gayle, whoscored 50 in the WestIndies’ seven-wicket victo-ry against Pakistan, as abrilliant player. “With himon the team they seemed togrow a leg. They take confi-dence from him. Again,hopefully don’t take toomuch confidence onThursday,” he said.

Australia were on the endof a thumping last yearwhen England posted aworld record one-day inter-national score of 481 for 6 at

Trent Bridge and Langerdescribed the experience asbrutal. “Had some reallygood times here at TrentBridge and last year was adown,” he said.

Langer welcomed DavidWarner’s innings of 89 notout in Australia’s winagainst Afghanistan, hisfirst official internationalmatch since completing aone-year ban for ball tam-pering.

“You can see the look inhis eyes,” he said.

“A lot of people are talk-ing. Looks determined. Forhim to battle through 90 or80, whatever it was, and tostill be there at the end andget the job done for theteam, that’s a great sign forus,” he said.

— AFP

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West Indies captain Jason Holderappeals during their opening matchagainst Pakistan at Trent Bridge inNottingham last week. — AFP

Chris Gayle of the West Indies during a training session at TrentBridge in Nottingham on Wednesday. — AFP

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Gloves offAkhil Kumar has withdrawn a criminal defamationcase against fellow boxer Dilbagh Singh after gettingan apology from him for remarks made in 2013

Lionel Messi (center) controls the ball amidst teammates during a training session of the Argentina team in BuenosAires, Argentina, on Wednesday, ahead of the Copa America tournament in neighbouring Brazil. — AP

ENGLISH FACEDUTCH TESTIN SEMIFINAL

RAPE CHARGEAGAINST CR7IS DROPPED

Guimaraes (Portugal),June 5: England’s longwait for a first interna-tional trophy since 1966could be just days awayat the Nations Leaguefinals in Portugal, butRonald Koeman’s resur-gent Netherlands pres-ent a hazardous hurdlefor the Three Lions inThursday’s semifinalhere.

A run to the semi-finals of last year’sWorld Cup and memo-rable victories overSpain and Croatia tomake the last four ofanother tournamentwithin 12 months haveraised expectations thatGareth Southgate incoaching the generationto finally end England’swait for glory.

By contrast, the Dutchhave had a lean fewyears after failing tomake it to Russia lastyear or qualify for Euro2016.

Even though the Dutchlost a thrilling openingEuro 2000 qualifier 3-2 toGermany in Marchthere are no fears theywill miss out for a thirdconsecutive major tour-nament.

The side captained bythe imperious Virgil vanDijk is also blessed withthe core of an Ajax sidethat were seconds awayfrom facing Van Dijk’sLiverpool in theChampions Leaguefinal.

But there is no guaran-tee English success willcarry over to the inter-national stage.

One of Koeman’s firstacts when taking chargeof his country last yearwas to make Van Dijkhis skipper havingworked with him atSouthampton.

“When you look atVirgil now, this is a big,big personality on thepitch. He is a leader,”Koeman told TheGuardian. — AFP

Sydney, June 5: Indiahad a mixed day in officeas top shuttlers P. V.Sindhu and SameerVerma progressed to thesecond round but H. S.Prannoy made an earlyexit at the $150,000Australian Open WorldTour Super 300 tourna-ment here on Wednesday.

World No. 5 Sindhu, asilver medallist at RioOlympics and 2017 and2018 World championship,defeated Indonesia’sChoirunnisa 21-14, 21-9 ina lop-sided contest inwomen’s singles.

The Indian will meetexperienced ThaiNitchaon Jindapol next.

Sixth seed Sameerexacted revenge againstMalaysia’s Lee Zii Jia 21-15, 16-21, 21-12 in athrilling opening roundmen’s singles match. TheIndian had lost to Lee atthe Sudirman Cup lastmonth.

The 25-year-old fromMadhya Pradesh, whohad reached the semifi-nals at World Tour Finals,will square off againstChinese Taipei’s WangTzu Wei in second round.

Among others, formerSingapore Open champi-on B. Sai Praneeth, whohad reached the finals at

Swiss Open this year, beatKorea’s Lee Dong Keun21-16, 21-14, to set up aclash with second seedIndonesian AnthonySinisuka Ginting next.

Former CommonwealthGames championParupalli Kashyap alsocleared the opening hur-dle, entering the secondround with a 21-16, 21-15win over Thailand’sSuppanyu Avihingsanon.He will next cross swordswith Lin Dan, who recent-ly won the MalaysiaOpen.

However, Prannoyfound the going toughagainst Lin Dan, goingdown 18-21, 19-21 to theeighth seeded Chineselegend.

In men’s doubles,Satwiksairaj Rankireddyand Chirag Shetty defeat-ed compatriots ManuAttri and B. SumeethReddy 21-12, 21-16 to enterthe second round.

The young duo will nextfight it out against secondseeded Chinese pair of LiJunhui and Liu Yuchen.

However, AshwiniPonnappa and N. SikkiReddy lost 14-21, 13-21 toKorean combination ofBaek Ha Na and Kim HyeRin.

— PTI

Washington, June 5:The rape lawsuit againstJuventus star CristianoRonaldo has beendropped, according to areport from Bloombergon Wednesday.

A notice of voluntarydismissal was filed lastmonth in Nevada statecourt in Las Vegas.

The filing did not saywhether the accuser,American womanKathryn Mayorga, hadreached a settlementwith Ronaldo.

Mayorga filed a com-plaint in September lastyear alleging she wassexually assaulted byRonaldo in 2009 in a LasVegas hotel.

Ronaldo, 34, the formerManchester United andReal Madrid player,strongly denied theaccusations. — AFP

Oakland, USA: Toronto Raptorscoach Nick Nurse dug out a

defensive scheme his own play-ers hadn’t seen in the NBA

before to shut down the league’stop-scoring defending champion

Golden State Warriors.So when players say they never

know what Toronto might donext in the NBA Finals, they

mean it.Nurse used a Box and One

defense late in game twoSunday, leaving Fred VanVleet to

guard Golden State star guardStephen Curry. The Warriors’

NBA-best attack fell silent, eventhough the Raptors lost and thebest-of-seven series level at 1-1.

“Everybody is making fun of meabout it, right? I was just tryingto come up with something to

stop them,” Nurse said.Golden State’s DeMarcus Cousins

said he hadn’t seen the ploysince middle school. Toronto’sKyle Lowry said he had neverseen it in the NBA. And Currycalled it “janky” without even

being sure what it meant, sayinghe hadn’t seen it since college

days. — AFP

SHORT TAKES

For us Italians thecall of home is

strong. I begin tofeel the weight of

friends and elderlyparents I rarely see.

— Maurizio Sarri, on Italian job

Paris: The IAAF said it will fight aSwiss court decision to suspend

its rules obliging athletes, includ-ing double Olympic championCaster Semenya, to lower theirtestosterone levels in order to

compete in certain events.Switzerland’s highest court on

Monday temporarily suspendedthe IAAF rules following an

appeal by Semenya, the SouthAfrican who won the women’s

800 metres at the 2012 and 2016Olympics.

The athlete was contesting adecision by the Court of

Arbitration for Sport which pre-viously found that the rules were“discriminatory” but “necessary”

to ensure fairness in women’sathletics.

“The IAAF will continue to fightfor equal rights and opportuni-

ties for all women and girls inour sport today and in the

future,” the InternationalAssociation of Athletics

Federations (IAAF) said in astatement, adding that it was

committed to the “full participa-tion of women” in athletics. It

said it would “seek a swift rever-sion of the super-provisional

order moving forwards”. — AFP

IAAF set to appealSwiss court ruling

Dublin, Ireland: The Indian juniorwomen’s hockey team clinchedthe Cantor Fitzgerald Under 21

International 4-Nations title afterbeating Ireland 1-0 in the final

here on Tuesday. The win meantIndia ended the tournament with

an unblemished record.With three goals in four games,

Mumtaz Khan finished as thehighest goal scorer of the tour-

nament.In a first quarter both teamsplayed well and created few

clear chances. Ireland won a suc-cession of Penalty Corners right

at the end of the quarter, butdespite the pressure, India’s

defence ensured they went intothe break goalless.

The second quarter played out toa similar script but over the

course of the period, India start-ed asserting more.

Ireland though were the onescreating all the PC chances. Theyhad another midway through the

quarter, but it was saved byBichu Devi. Despite the quality of

attacking play, it was the twodefences that really stood out

through the encounter. Theteams went into half-time locked

in a stalemate. — PTI

TORONTOTHINK OUT OF

THE BOX

Junior women winU-21 hockey title

BIG FIGHTParis, June 5: RogerFederer set up amouthwatering Fren-ch Open semifinalclash with RafaelNadal on Tuesdaywhen he defeated StanWawrinka in four setsto become the oldestmen’s Grand Slamsemifinalist in 28years.

The 37-year-oldSwiss beat his compa-triot 7-6 (7/4), 4-6, 7-6(7/5), 6-4 to reach his43rd major semifinaland eighth at RolandGarros.

Federer trails hishead-to-head recordwith Nadal 15-23 —despite winning theirlast five matches —and 2-13 on clay.

The Spaniard has a

5-0 stranglehold overFederer at RolandGarros with Nadalwinning their mostrecent Paris clash inthe 2011 final.

“The completedream would be to winthe tournament. Otherplayers won’t agree,but I believe it any-way,” said Federer.

It is the third seed’sfirst appearance at theFrench Open since

2015 after taking timeaway from clay tofocus on Wimbledon.

Rain painMeanwhile, RolandGarros organiserswere facing a schedul-ing nightmare onWednesday after theentire day’s play waswashed out with theprospect of anotherall-consuming delugeexpected to swampParis on Friday, possi-bly forcing thewomen’s final to beplayed alongside themen’s on Sunday.

Tournament direc-tor Guy Forget said heremained hopeful ofthe French Open fin-ishing on time onSunday. — AFP

Bhubaneswar, June 5:The Indian men’s hockeyteam embarks on a newjourney under recently-appointed chief coachGraham Reid as the eight-time champions starttheir quest for 2020 TokyoOlympics qualificationwith the FIH Series Finalswhich begins here onThursday.

Eight teams from Asia,Europe, Africa and NorthAmerica will battle it outfor two places in the FIHOlympic Qualifiers sched-uled to held in October-November later this year.

Besides top-rankedIndia, the other participat-ing teams in Pool ‘A’ arePoland, Russia andUzbekistan while Pool ‘B’consists of South Africa,Asian Games championsJapan, USA and Mexico.

Placed fifth in worldrankings, India will startthe tournament as over-whelming favourites,given the vast gap betweenthe hosts and other teamsin terms of quality, skillsand stature in world hock-ey.

South Africa at 16 andJapan at 18 are the next

closest sides in the tourna-ment in terms of rank-ings.

India will open theircampaign against min-nows Russia and areexpected to win theencounter by a huge mar-gin but to finish on top thehosts will have to over-come their knock-out jit-ters as has been the case inthe past.

India’s best chance toqualify for the Olympicswas through the JakartaAsian Games but theyfailed to qualify for thefinal after losing to

Malaysia in the semifi-nals.

In this year’s Azlan ShahCup too India failed toclaim the title despitebeing the top side, losingto South Korea in the sum-mit clash.

The FIH Series Finals isIndia’s first step towardsqualifying for the TokyoGames. The tournamentwill serve as first real testfor Australian GrahamReid, who was appointedas Harendra Singh’s suc-cessor in April this yearfollowing India’s dismalWorld Cup campaign in

December last year.And it remains to be seen

how Reid handles theenormous burden ofexpectations which manyof his predecessors likeTerry Walsh, Paul vanAss, Michaels Nobbs etc.failed to handle.

The problem for Reid, aformer coach of theAustralian men’s hockeyteam, is that he doesn’thave enough time and willhave to deliver the resultsinstantly, especially underHockey India, which has ahabit of firing coaches atits will. — PTI

Hockey men have Tokyo on mind

Chhetri scores but Indialose match at King’s Cup

Sindhu, Sameerin second round

Paris, June 5: GianniInfantino on Wednesdaysaid he had turned FIFAinto an organisation“synonymous with credi-bility” as he was re-elect-ed for a second term aspresident of world foot-ball’s governing body.

It was a formality thatthe 49-year-old would bewaved through for a newfour-year mandate, until2023, as he stood unop-posed at the FIFACongress in Paris.

The FIFA Council choseto back his re-election byacclamation, withInfantino now hoping tobuild on the work hestarted in February 2016,when he was voted in tosucceed the disgracedSepp Blatter at the headof the organisation.

Eager to “open up” and“globalise” the game, hewill now push ahead withalready approved plans toexpand the Club WorldCup to 24 teams, and withhis ambition of expand-ing the World Cup itselfto 48 teams.

As he addressed the 211members of the Congressin the French capital,where the Women’s WorldCup begins on Friday,Infantino claimed creditfor the success of the 2018men’s World Cup in

Russia, the “transparent”bidding process for the2026 tournament and theintroduction of VideoAssistant Referees intothe game.

He said he was now atthe head of “a new FIFA,an organisation that issynonymous with credi-bility, confidence, integri-ty.” — AFP

Fifa chief staysfor 1 more term

Buriram (Thailand),June 5: Talismanic cap-tain Sunil Chhetri struckin his milestone matchbut India lost 1-3 to high-er-ranked Curacao intheir opening tie of theKing’s Cup football tour-nament in Igor Stimac’sfirst game in charge hereon Wednesday.

Chhetri became the mostcapped India player bysurpassing BhaichungBhutia’s 107 internationalmatches and he scored thelone goal for his side inthe 31st minute from aspot kick for his 69th goal,though it did not makeany difference to theresult of the match.

The 82nd rankedCaribbean island nation,which has two players ply-ing trade in EnglishPremier League and someothers in European

leagues, scored three inthe space of 18 minutes —through Roly Bonevacia(16th), Elson Hooi (18th)and Leandro Bacuna(33rd).

A sloppy first half inwhich India — ranked 101— defended and attackedpoorly, saw the team trail-ing 1-3 at the breather. Thenew defensive set up —with Rahul Bheke comingin as central defender —was looking out of sortswith lack of anticipationand communication.

India played a vastlyimproved football in thesecond 45 minutes —which was played mostlyunder rain — but couldnot score another goal.

Stimac’s charges madeat least four chances inthe second half with twocoming to the 34-year-oldChhetri whose first

attempt hit the uprightand the other — anotherfree header — sailing overthe bar.

Though high-profileStimac, a World Cupbronze medallist and for-mer Croatia manager,began his stint as Indiacoach on a losing note,there were positives to betaken from the matchagainst a more technicallysuperior side.

The Croatian gaffer gaveinternational debuts to asmany as five players,including to Under-17World Cup captainAmarjit Singh, and theIndian side played posses-sion football and mostlythrough ground passes.

Curacao dominated thefirst half but surprisinglyIndia had more posses-sion with 53 per cent asagainst 47. — PTI

Roger Federer ofSwitzerlandreturns the ball tocountrymateStanislasWawrinka duringtheir men’ssinglesquarterfinal at theFrench Open inParis on Tuesday.Federer won 7-6(7/4), 4-6, 7-6(7/5), 6-4. — AFP

AUSTRALIAN OPEN

New Delhi, June 5: The BCCI anti-corruption headAjit Singh on Wednesday said he will investigate thecase of a Mumbai player allegedly approached tounder-perform during a local T20 League last monthand is expecting the MCA to hand over the details ofthe matter at the earliest.

“It (the case) has not been forwarded as of now butI will ask my office to check up with them (MCA).Once it comes, on the basis of what the complaint is,we will inquire since it is already out there (in pub-lic domain),” Ajit Singh said.

According to a media report, the Mumbai player,who has played Ranji Trophy, was approached by arival team’s owner to under-perform in the MumbaiT20 League semifinals.

The league, approved by the BCCI and conductedby the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA), washeld from May 14 to May 26 and all the games werebroadcast live on a leading sports network. — PTI

PROBE INTO ALLEGEDCORRUPTION IN MT20

Stockholm, June 5: Lennart Johansson, the for-mer UEFA president acclaimed as father of theChampions League, has died aged 89, the Swedishfootball federation said on Wednesday. “Swedishfootball is in mourning. Lennart Johansson hasdied. He passed away on the evening of June 4 aged89 after a short illness,” the federation said.

Johansson’s reign at the head of UEFA, Europeanfootball’s governing body, from 1990 to 2007, coincid-ed with the birth of the Champions League, worldfootball’s biggest club tournament, and the trans-formation of football into a global business withwide appeal and income driven by TV revenue.

— AFP

BIG LEAGUE FOUNDERJOHANSSON IS DEAD

FIFA President GianniInfantino reacts afterbeing re-elected by accla-mation for a second termat the 69th FIFA Congressin Paris on Wednesday.

— AFP

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