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Prime Minister NarendraModi has convened a high-

level meeting on Saturday toreview the health of the econ-omy and discuss measure toarrest free-fall of rupee and ris-ing oil prices. The meeting isexpected to discuss measurelikes asking the RBI to raise 30-billion dollar through NRIbond to strengthen the rupee.Ahead of the meeting, the PMheld discussion with FinanceMinister Arun Jaitley on Friday.

Besides the PM and Jaitley,Reserve Bank of IndiaGovernor Urjit Patel, NITIAayog vice-chairman RajivKumar, Prime Minister’sEconomic Advisory Council(PMEAC) Chairman BibekDebroy and Finance SecretaryHasmukh Adhia are expectedto attend the meeting.

Interest rate hike and greaterintervention by the RBI through

selling of dollars are amongother measures that could alsocome up for discussion.

In the past in 1998, 2000and 2013 when the rupee facedsimilar crisis, the RBI hadraised dollar through issuanceof NRI bond. The meeting isalso expected to take up con-

cerns on rising fuel prices.However, experts feel that withlatest data showing that OPEChas raised oil production andthe global demand likely to besubdued in the near future, thevolatility in fuel prices couldstabilise on its own.

Experts feel the

Government should not takeany populist measure like cut-ting down excise on petrol anddiesel which will derail the fun-damental of the economy. Every�2 cut in price of petrol anddiesel would lead to a revenueloss of around �30,000 crore.

Experts feel theGovernment must ensure thatthe fiscal deficit target of 3.3 percent of the GDP in FY19 ismaintained to boost the senti-ments of foreign investors andstop flight of capital from thecountry. Incidentally, foreignportfolio investors (FPIs) havewithdrawn around $7 billionup to August 31. This is a wor-rying signal since the FPI wasnet buyers of equity and debtlast year.

Besides having an impact oncurrent account deficit, thenose-diving rupee has madeimports costlier and led to petroland diesel prices skyrocketing torecord highs. The Current

Account Deficit (CAD), whichis the difference between inflowand outflow of foreign exchange,rose to $18 billion or 2.4 per centof GDP in the April-June quar-ter on account widening tradedeficit.

The Finance Ministry hasruled out any cut in taxes toease the burden on consumers,saying it does not have thebandwidth to lose any revenuewithout developmental spend-ing being cut. The Governmentcan ill-afford this in an electionyear. Opposition parties led bythe Congress have made spi-raling fuel prices and plum-meting rupee a political issueand questioned the efficacy ofthe Government’s economicpolicies. They have beendemanding that the Centrecut excise duty and some of theStates ruled by them includingAndhra Pradesh and WestBengal have announced mea-sures to cut local taxes.

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A19-year-old college girl stu-dent, who was felicitated by

the State Government aftershe topped the CBSE Boardexams two years ago, wasallegedly kidnapped and gang-raped by a group of menin Haryana’s Mahendragarhdistrict.

The girl, a resident ofRewari was forcefully pickedup from a bus stop in Kaninatown, Mahendragarh on herway back from a coachingcentre on Wednesday andwas then taken to a secludedplace where she was gan-

graped after being offered adrink laced with sedatives,said police, adding that theaccused were in a car.

Later, they left her in anunconscious state near a busstop in Kanina, said police.

The family of the victimhas said she has named threeaccused in her complaint, butwhen the incident took place,she sensed that 8-10 peoplecould have been there.

“The three men accused ofraping the student after drug-ging her have been identifiedand would be arrested soon.The accused belong to thesame village as that of the vic-tim,” said Shrikant Yadav,ADGP South Range, Rewari,told the media.

Sharing details of herdaughter’s trauma, the victim’smother said her daughter is ina state of shock after the inci-dent and the accused are still

roaming freely.“Police have failed to take

any action against the miscre-ants. We were made to runfrom pillar to post before ourcomplaint was taken. The FIRwas registered at 1 am as policekept citing jurisdiction issuesmaking us shuttle betweenRewari and Kanina. All wewant is justice,” the mother toldthe media in her village, whichfalls in Rewari district.

Meanwhile, the victim wasadmitted to a hospital inRewari after she complained ofpain in the abdomen.

“The patient was broughthere with complaint of abdom-inal pain and we admitted her.Her X-ray and ultrasound weredone which were normal. Hervitals are stable, though sheappears to be tense. We willalso seek a psychiatric opinion,”said a doctor at civil hospital inRewari.

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Samajwadi Party chief andformer Chief Minister

Akhilesh Yadav said if the unit-ed Opposition failed to dislodgethe BJP from the Centre in the2019 Lok Sabha polls, theOpposition leaders would beforced to sell ‘pakoras’.

The SP chief said this whileflagging off a ‘Save Democracy,Save India’ cycle yatra inEtawah on Friday.

“If we fail to defeat the BJPin the next general election,then be ready to sell ‘pakoras’near some nullah as the PM hasalready said that methane gasis produced from the gutter andprovides employment toyouths,” Akhilesh said.

The SP president saiddemocracy would come to anend in the country if the BJP wasvoted back to power in 2019.

He said the cycle yatrawould not stop and it wouldspread awareness among peo-ple about BJP’s conspiracy todecimate Indian democracy.

“This yatra will save thenation’s democracy and it willculminate only after dislodg-ing the BJP from power inDelhi in the 2019 poll. Peoplehave seen through the BJP’sconspiracy against democra-cy. They have tested theirtools during the 2017Assembly polls and formed aGovernment here. People willgive the BJP a befitting replyin the 2019 polls,” Akhileshopined.

The SP chief alleged theBJP Government had deniedGovernment jobs to Dalits andbackward class youths and if hisparty returned to power in UPin 2022, the old system ofrecruitment would be imple-

mented. Akhilesh also attackedChief Minister Yogi Adityanathfor suggesting to farmers tostop sowing sugarcane andshift to vegetables.

Hitting out at the BJP, SPgeneral secretary Ram GopalYadav said, “The BJP will useevery trick to win elections, likesplitting political parties andfloating new outfits to splitanti-BJP votes, ahead of the2019 election.”

Ram Gopal said the battleof 2019 would be a very toughbattle for the party cadre astheir survival would be at stake.

As per the original plan,Yadav was to formally kickstartparty’s Lok Sabha election cam-paign from Kannauj onSeptember 19 by riding a bicy-cle and flagging off the over 40-km ‘Haq and Samman Yatra’.

“As party workers are alsoon a cycle yatra, I’m deferringmy yatra. One such cycle yatrais underway from Ghazipur toNew Delhi. I will start the yatraon Khajanchi’s birthday(December 2),” Yadav said.

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Chief Minister Raman Singhfelicitated veteran and

renowned sculptors and crafts-men of the country at NationalHandicraft Award Ceremonyorganized by HandicraftDivision of Union TextileMinistry and StateGovernment's GramodyogDepartment here on Friday.

Union Textile MinisterSmriti Zubin Irani presided overthe programme. On the occa-sion, Village Industries MinisterPunnulal Mohle and Raipur MPRamesh Bais were also present.

The State Government'sGramodyog Department offi-cials informed that this isNational Handicraft AwardCeremony has been organizedin Chhattisgarh's capital cityRaipur for the first time.

On special request of ChiefMinister Raman Singh, UnionTextile Ministry decided toorganize this event in Raipur.On the occasion, accomplishedand veteran craftsmen of year2016 were awarded Shilp GuruAward and National Award.

Eight craftsmen received

Shilp Guru Award 2016 name-ly Mohd Matloob of Delhi,Gulam Haider Mirza of Jammu& Kashmir, Roopam Mathru ofOdisha, Gopal Saini of Punjab,Arjun Prajapati and BabulalMarotiya of Rajasthan, andTripti Mukherjee of West Bengal.

The 25 craftsmen, whoreceived National Award 2016 onthe occasion are-- Hema Deviof Bihar, Mamta Devi of Delhi,Mohammad Yakub Khatri ofGujarat, Abraham Hasan Khatri

of Gujarat, Usha J Pawar,Vinita Prakash and Sarojini NYasmi of Karnataka, AnubamKalpana Devi of Manipur,Sukanti Swan of Odisha, DVenkatum of Telangana,Kalpana Chitrakar of WestBengal, Khandu Shrivaslu ofAndhra Pradesh, R Ravindramof Tamil Nadu, Sudheer Fadnesof Delhi, Rajendra Singh Yadavof Uttar Pradesh, Kamaljeet ofPunjab, Sharad Kumar Pradhanof Odisha, Hasan Ahmed of

Uttar Pradesh, Amritlal Sirohiya,Rajendra Kumar, Gajendra Soni,Mohanlal Gujjar of Rajasthan,Tapas Kumar of West Bengal andDhirendra Kumar of Bihar andRiyaz Ahmed Khan of JammuKashmir. Shilp Guru Award wasstarted in year 2002 by CentralGovernment, under whichawardees receive Rs two lakhcash and a gold coin along withshawl, certificates and memento.

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Chhattisgarh has received35,150 ballot units, 29,300

control units and 30,435 VoterVerifiable Paper Audit Trail(VVPATs) so far for upcomingAssembly polls and First LevelChecking (FLC) of them havebeen done, informed State ChiefElectoral Officer Subrat Sahooon Friday.

While addressing a pressconference here, he informedthat the brief revision of the elec-toral roll of the State ended onSeptember 7.

The objections receivedunder it would be disposed off bySeptember 20. Final publicationof the electoral roll would be doneon September 27 according towhich the Assembly Elections-2018 would be held, he informed.

Informing about the recent-ly held brief revision work ofelectoral roll, Sahoo informedthat counter verification of voters above age of 100 yearswere being done and action wastaken accordingly.

Special attention was givenfor registering the Personswith Disabilities (PWD) invoter list and special campswere held to enroll the thirdgender and leprosy affected, heinformed.

Informing that VVPATswere being demonstrated ateach polling booth, Hat-Bazaarof villages, Cinema Halls and inmobile van in urban areas, theCEO informed that it would beused in all the polling boothsof the State in the upcomingAssembly elections.

The official furtherinformed that recently trainingprogrammes were held for thepolice personnel in the state aswell as at the district levels.Similarly Health Departmenthad been instructed to makeavailable special medical facil-ities to the polling teams andsecurity personnel.

They have also been askedto conduct regular meeting ofMedical Board and make necessary arrangement of AirAmbulance, he said.

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Chief Minister Raman Singhwould resume 'Atal Vikas

Yatra' from Saturday(September 15 ).

He would be visiting 15districts of the State tillSeptember 20.

Singh would be addressingpublic meetings, welcome meet-ings along with participation indedication ceremonies and layfoundation stone for differentconstruction related works.

On September 15 and 16,he would be visiting tribaldominated Bastar division’s sixdistricts of Kanker, Kondagaon,Bastar (Jagdalpur), Dantewada,Bijapur and Sukma districts.

He will visit Bilaspur,Raigarh and Koriya districts, onSeptember 18, Korba,Balrampur-Ramanujganj andSurajpur districts and on

September 20 will visit districtsof Surguja, Jashpur andMungeli.

On September 15, hewould leave Raipur and reachBhanupratappur of Kanker dis-trict at 11.40 am by helicopter.

The Chief Minister wouldaddress the public meetingand lay foundation stone forworks worth Rs 170 crore.

Singh would then proceedto Makdi and from there to vil-lage Tarapur of Bastar district.In both places, he wouldaddress public meetings.

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Praising the Dawoodi Bohracommunity for its honesty in

trade, Prime Minister NarendraModi on Friday said the conceptof 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam',the world is one family, givesIndia an identity different fromall other countries.

The Prime Minister wasspeaking at a function held atthe Saifee Mosque.

The community's spiritualhead, Syedna MufaddalSaifuddin, felicitated Modi onhis arrival at the mosque for theevent, 'Ashara Mubaraka', whichcommemorates the martyrdomof Imam Husain, the grandsonof Prophet Mohammad.

"The concept of VasudhaivaKutumbakam is a great strengthof India, making it distinctfrom others. The Bohra com-munity is making the world

aware of this concept throughits work," the Prime Ministersaid in his address.

Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam,Modi explained, is an ancientIndian concept which envisagesthe the world as one family.

"We are proud of our past,we believe in our present andare confident of our brightfuture," Modi said.

The Prime Minister high-lighted the GST (Goods and

Services Tax) roll-out and othereconomic reforms carried outby his Government and saidmembers of the Bohra com-munity took maximum advan-tage of these steps as they areknown to carry out their tradeand business world over withhonesty.

"They have set an examplefor other people (with theirhonest trade dealings)," he said.

The Prime Minister also

praised the Dawoodi Bohras, asect within Shia Islam knownfor their trading and businessacumen, for their efforts inmaking the Swachh BharatAbhiyan a success.

Modi recalled MahatmaGandhi's close association withSydena MohammadBurhanuddin, the late spiritualhead of the Bohra community.

"Mahatma Gandhi met theSydena during a train journey

and they became very close.During the Dandi Yatra,Gandhiji stayed in Saifee Villa (abuilding owned by the commu-nity in Dandi, Gujarat) whichwas later dedicated to thenation," the prime minister said.

The 'Swachhata Pakhwada'(cleanliness fortnight) will belaunched on September 15and will culminate on October2 on the occasion of GandhiJayanti, he said.

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The Supreme Court Fridaydirected the Centre to con-

sider framing separate rules forgranting disability certificatesto leprosy patients for availingreservation and various welfarebenefits.

A bench comprising ChiefJustice Dipak Misra andJustices A M Khanwilkar andD Y Chandrachud issued a slewof directions to the Centre andall States for eradication of lep-rosy and rehabilitation of thosesuffering from it.

"Medical staff in privateand Government hospitals besensitised to ensure that leprosypatients do not face discrimi-nation," the bench said.

The apex court furthersaid that awareness campaignshould be launched so that lep-rosy patients are not isolatedand allowed to lead a normalmarried life. The court alsoasked the Centre and States toframe rules that public and pri-vate schools do not discrimi-nate against children from lep-rosy affected families.

The apex court had onJuly 5 directed the Centre to filea comprehensive action plan toensure eradication of leprosyfrom the country, saying the"curable" disease cannot beallowed to affect the people.

The bench was hearing a

PIL filed by advocate PankajSinha alleging that the gov-ernment was not taking ade-quate steps to eradicate the dis-ease.

Additional SolicitorGeneral Pinky Anand, appear-ing for the Centre, had said thatthe Government was not tak-ing an "adversarial" stand onthe PIL that has raised theimportant the issue. Earlier, thebench had asked the Centre toplace on the record the 'Draft

Implementation Programme'for eradicating leprosy from thecountry.

The bench was informedthat Delhi, Andhra Pradeshand Chhattisgarh were lep-rosy-endemic states and effortswere needed to eradicate thedisease from these states.

The Centre had said anonline programme was beinglaunched to detect the patientsand their treatment.

Sinha, in his plea, has

alleged that leprosy affectsover 1.25 lakh people annual-ly in the country. "Despite aneffective cure, namely Multi-Drug Therapy (MDT) whichhas been available since 1981,that can completely cure 99per cent of leprosy bacteria,due to apathy of the Centreand State Governments, peo-ple are still suffering from thesaid disease, which is treatedas a social stigma," the petitionhad said.

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Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharamanhas ruled out any engagement with

the Opposition on issues relating to themulti-billion dollar Rafale fighter jet deal,saying they do not deserve to be involvedafter throwing muck on a very sensitiveissue concerning India's defence pre-paredness.

Sitharaman said the Governmentdecided to go for procuring only twosquadrons of Rafale jets as an emergencymeasure in the wake of China and Pakistansignificantly ramping up their air powerby inducting stealth fighters.

"Is there any point of calling them andexplaining? They are misleading the coun-try with something which was not evenagreed to during the UPA Government.You are throwing an allegation saying thereis a fraud. You did not care for operationalpreparedness of the air force," she told PTIin an interview.

The Defence Minister was askedwhether the Government will engagewith Opposition parties the way the thenPrime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2005had taken the Opposition into confidenceand addressed their apprehensions topave way for finalising the nuclear dealwith the US.

"It (Rafale deal) is an inter-govern-mental agreement. You (Opposition) have

asked us questions and I have givenanswers to them in Parliament. Then whatam I calling them for? What am I goingto tell them when I call them?" she said.

The Defence Minister also assertedthat the Rafale deal cannot be equated withthe Bofors issue at all as was beingattempted by the Opposition, as she hasrid the Defence Ministry from middlemenentirely.

Led by Congress, Opposition partieshave been attacking the Modi Governmentalleging it is procuring 36 Rafale jets fromFrance at an exorbitantly high cost.

Congress has said the UPA finaliseda price of �526 crore per fighter whilenegotiating a deal to buy 126 Rafale jets,but the current Government is buying eachaircraft at �1,670 crore when the weaponsand avionics onboard the jets will be ofsame configuration.

Sitharaman said the weapon systems,avionics and other key add-ons to theRafale aircraft will be "much superior" incomparison to what was negotiated by theUPA.

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India continued to rank low in theHuman Development Index

(HDI), but climbed one step to 130in a list of 189 countries in the lat-est United Nations DevelopmentProgramme (UNDP) report onaccount of rise in life expectancy,education and per capita income.

India's HDI value for 2017 is0.640, which put the country in themedium human development cate-gory. Norway, Switzerland, Australia,Ireland and Germany lead the rank-ing, while Niger, the Central AfricanRepublic, South Sudan, Chad andBurundi have the lowest scores in theHDI. Within South Asia, India'sHDI value is above the average of0.638 for the region, with Bangladeshand Pakistan — both with similarpopulation size — being ranked 136and 150 respectively.

Between 1990 and 2017, India'slife expectancy at birth increased by10.9 years, mean years of schoolingincreased by 3.4 years and expectedyears of schooling increased by 4.7years. India's Gross per capita incomealso increased by about 266.6 percentbetween 1990 and 2017. Accordingto report, between 1990 and 2017,India's HDI value increased from0.427 to 0.640, an increase of near-ly 50 percent. The report was releasedby the United Nations DevelopmentProgramme (UNDP) on Friday.

India's HDI for 2017 was 0.640.However, when the value is dis-counted for inequality, the HDI fallsto 0.468, a loss of 26.8 percent dueto inequality in the distribution of theHDI dimension indices. The averageloss due to inequality for mediumHDI countries is 25.1 percent and forSouth Asia it is 26.1 percent. TheHuman inequality coefficient forIndia is equal to 26.3 percent. Thereport said 26.8 percent of India'sHDI value is lost on account ofinequalities — a greater loss than formost of its South Asian neighbours(the average loss for the region is 26.1percent).

"This confirms that inequality

remains a challenge for India as itprogresses economically, though theGovernment in India and variousState Governments have, through avariety of social protection measures,attempted to ensure that the gains ofeconomic development are sharedwidely and reach the farthest first,' itsaid.

The report says India has a gen-der inequality index ( GII ) value of0.524, ranking it 127 out of 160 coun-tries in the 2017 index. In India, 11.6percent of parliamentary seats areheld by women, and 39.0 percent ofadult women have reached at least asecondary level of education com-pared to 63.5 percent of their malecounterparts. For every 100,000 livebirths, 174 women die from preg-nancy related causes; and the ado-lescent birth rate is 23.1 births per1,000 women of ages 15-19. Femaleparticipation in the labour market is27.2 percent compared to 78.8 formen.

The report further points outthat a child born today in Norway,which is top in the list, can expectto live beyond 82 years old and spendalmost 18 years in school. While achild born in Nigeria, lowest in theHDI list, can expect only to live to60 and spend just five years inschool.

"On average, a child born todayin a country with low human devel-opment can expect to live just over60 years, while a child born in acountry with very high human devel-opment can expect to live to almost80,"said Achim Steiner UNDPAdministrator.

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Union Home Ministry hasapproved allotment of

�3,000 crore for women safetyprojects in eight metro citiesincluding Delhi. The projectinclude setting up of womenpolice patrol teams, techno-logical installations like panicbuttons, smart-LED streetlights, transit dormitories forwomen and children, one-stopcrisis centers, forensic andcyber crime cells in the select-ed metros under the WomenSafe City Project. It will imple-mented in Delhi, Mumbai,Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru,Hyderabad, Ahmedabad andLucknow from 2018-19 to2020-21, a senior HomeMinistry official said Sunday.

Safe city proposals amount-ing to �2,919.55 crore wereapproved under the 'NirbhayaFund' recently, the official said.�663.67 crore has been ear-marked for Delhi, �252 crorefor Mumbai, �425.06 crore forChennai, �253 crore for

Ahmedabad, �181.32 crore forKolkata, �667 crore forBengaluru, �282.50 crore forHyderabad and �195 crore forLucknow, the official said.

The project takes a com-prehensive view of womensafety, with the states adoptinga mix of solutions based ontheir requirements. It envisagesdeployment of all-womenpatrol teams such as SHE-teams and well-equipped emer-gency response vehicles called'Abhayam' vans to ensure quickand effective response system.

The proposed infrastruc-ture includes development of

safe zone clusters in hot crimezones, smart LED street lighting,CCTV cameras connected tomodern command and controlcentres, security enablers inpublic transport, installation ofpublic panic buttons, provisionof toilets for women within safeeco-systems and transit dormi-tories for women and children.

Police stations are plannedto be equipped with womenhelp desks and other servicessuch as counsellors. This willmake police stations moreaccessible to women for lodg-ing complaints and gettingother assistance. One-stop cri-

sis centres are also plannedalong with forensic and cybercrime cells.

An integrated approachhas been followed whiledesigning the physical infra-structure to be added toenhance safety of women andchildren in public places and toinstil a sense of security inthem, another official said.The safe city proposals havebeen prepared jointly by therespective police and munici-pal commissioners of each city.

The project is being imple-mented in consultations withthe ministries of women andchild development, urbandevelopment and electronicsand information technologyand respective municipal andpolice commissioners. The costof the project would be sharedbetween the CentralGovernment (from Nirbhayafund) and respective states inthe ratio of 60:40. In case ofDelhi, the Home Ministry willallocate an additional amountof �240.11 crore.

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Unrelenting in his attackon the issue of Vijay

Mallya, Congress presidentRahul Gandhi on Fridaytrained his guns directly atPrime Minister Narendra Modisaying it was the CBI whichaided the fugitive tycoon's"great escape" by changing the"detain" notice to "inform" andthis was "inconceivable" thatthis was done without PrimeMinister Narendra Modi'sapproval.

Taking to twitter, Rahulwrote "Mallya's Great Escapewas aided by the CBI quietlychanging the "Detain" noticefor him, to "Inform". The CBIreports directly to the PM. It isinconceivable that the CBI, insuch a high profile, controver-sial case, would change a look-out notice without the approvalof the PM."

On Thursday, Rahul haddemanded resignation ofFinance Minister Arun Jaitley,accusing him of "colludingwith" Mallya and "allowing the

criminal toflee". Later inthe evening, hesought Jaitley'sresignation.

Meanwhile,senior Congressleader RandeepSingh Surjewalalatched on tothe CBI'sr e p o r t e dadmission that it made an"error of judgment" in dilutingthe Look Out Circular againstMallya in 2016 from detain toinform. He also pointed to thedelay by a consortium of banksled by the State Bank of Indiain moving the Supreme Courtagainst the liquor baron despitebeing advised to do so bysenior advocate DushyantDave.

"The question is simple,nation wants to know whowas the architect, executor,benefactor and protector in thiscase," Surjewala asked, hintingthat both banks and investiga-tive agencies were asked to goeasy on Mallya at the behest of

the Modi Government. Surjewala, quoting media

reports, said that Dave hasstated that he advised 17 bankson how to approach the apexcourt to seize Mallya's passportin February 2016 beforeMallya's departure to the UK,but a petition was filed onlyfour days after he fled

"On 19 Aug 2014, SBIissued a notice stating VijayMallya is a willful defaulter. OnSept 2014, United Bank ofIndia also stated same. By2015, SFIO & CBI registeredcomplaints against him. Sohow can CBI now say that theyhad no proof of his fraud," hequestioned.

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The Supreme Court onFriday agreed to hear on

September 17 a plea filed bya petitioner in nikah halalaand triple talaq case, seekingprotection after facing acidattack on Thursday atBulandshahr in UttarPradesh.

A bench of Chief JusticeDipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwikar and D YChandrachud considered theplea of Shabnam Rani, whowas attacked allegedly by herbrother-in-law and has been

hospitalised. She has alsosought better health care.

The top court directedAdditional Advocate Generalof State of Uttar Pradesh,Aishwarya Bhati, to takeinstructions in the matter.

"Let this matter be list-ed on Monday, September17, 2018. Let a copy of thisapplication be served onAdditional AdvocateGeneral of State of UttarPradesh Aishwarya Bhatiwho shall take instructionsin the matter. Registry isdirected to reflect the nameof . Aishwarya Bhati in theCause List. Be it clarified,only interlocutory applica-tion shall be taken up and

not the main matter," thebench said.

The court asked advocateAshwini Kumar Upadhyay,counsel for Rani, to submit acopy of the petition to theUttar Pradesh Government.Rani was yesterday report-edly attacked with acid inBulandshahr and it is beingalleged that her brother-in-law and his friend wereinvolved in the incident.

She was rushed to thelocal hospital and her con-dition is said to be stable.

Numerous petitionshave been filed in the apexcourt challenging the preva-lent practices of nikah halalaand polygamy among

Muslims saying it was viola-tive of fundamental rightsguaranteed under theConstitution.

While polygamy allowsa Muslim man to have fourwives, 'nikah halala' dealswith the process in which aMuslim woman, who wantsto re-marry her husbandafter divorce, has to firstmarry another person andget a divorce from the sec-ond person after the con-summation. In her pleaagainst nikah halala andpolygamy, Rani had allegedthat her husband divorcedgiving her triple talaq andforced her to perform nikahhala with her brother-in-law.

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Tamil Nadu GovernorBanwarilal Purohit has for-

warded the State Government'srecommendation for releasingconvicts in the Rajiv Gandhiassassination case to UnionHome Ministry for its opinion.Home Ministry officials onFriday said that the judicialdivision of the Ministry willexamine the legal positionsand will take a view as per law.

As per the 2013 landmarkjudgment of Supreme Court,the Governments should con-

sult the prosecution beforetaking a decision of prematurerelease of convicts. In RajivGandhi assassination case, CBIis the prosecution and the stateGovernment has no role, saida senior official, adding thatrecently Centre has alreadyexpressed its view to SupremeCourt on the same matter.

After the Centre's deci-sion, certain convictsapproached Supreme Court totake a decision under Article161 of the Constitution whichempowers Governors to releaseconvicted persons.

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the people afflicted with leprosyhailed the Supreme Courtjudgement on Friday, calling it"momentous" and one whichhas given due recognition tothe rights and challenges facedby the sector."

They regretted that it wasindeed a shame that India stillhas large numbers of new casesand accounts for the highestglobal burden of the cripplingdisease, despite availability oftreatment and cure since 1980.

Vinita Shanker, Director ofthe Sasakawa India leprosyFoundation, welcomed themuch-awaited order sayingthat the judgement is along thelines of the principles andguidelines of the UN HumanRights Council to which Indiais a signatory.

"It is a matter of pride thatthe highest authority of the

country has focused on an areabegging for attention over thelast so many decades. The chal-lenge now is to ensure that atime-bound program alongthese directives is initiated by thedifferent concerned ministriesand departments," she said.

Shanker stressed on theneed for a mass awarenesscampaigns to spread awarenessabout leprosy. Also, "commu-nity based rehabilitation andprevention of discrimination inschools are necessary to notonly take care of those whohave been affected and ostra-cized but also of their childrenwho suffer even when theydon't have the disease( as isoften the case)," she added.

The problem lies in boththe good medical care reachingthose affected as was as in thesocial stigma that is stillattached to leprosy. Its directivefor ensure availability of drugsin PHC, in providing recon-structive surgery and in not iso-

lating those affected by send-ing them to sanatoria, is righton the dot, according to theactivist.

"Highlighting the need forgenerating a greater awarenesson the issue of leprosy, its cur-ability and free treatment toaddressing the issue of stigmaand discrimination the Courthas given a host of directionsto both the Central and Stategovernments," said Dr MaryVerghese, Executive Director ofThe Leprosy Mission TrustIndia, an NGO working in thefield of leprosy since over 144years.

Suresh Dhondge, a lep-rosy afflicted person and pro-gramme manager in TLMTI,said that the judgement wouldhelp the community live withdignity while Dr V V Pai,director at Bombay LeprosyProject, said: "hope now thegovernment stress on activecase finding to prevent latediagnosis or deformity."

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Prime Minister NarendraModi will launch the three-

week-long 'Swachhata Hi Seva'movement on Saturday. Modiwill interact with cross-sectionof people from 18 locations onthe inauguration of the move-ment intended for moreawareness and greater publicparticipation of the cleanlinesscampaign, which will run up toOctober 2, the 150th birthanniversary of MahatmaGandhi.

"The people with whomPM will interact includeschool-children, jawans, spir-itual leaders, members of milk

and agricultural cooperatives,media persons, localGovernment representatives,railway employees, Self HelpGroups, and Swachhagrahis,among others," said the

Government in a statement.Many sports stars and film per-sonalities across the countrywill join the interaction withthe Prime Minister.

The 'Swachhata Hi Seva'

movement, which aims at gen-erating greater public partici-pation towards Swachhta, isbeing organised in the run upto the fourth anniversary of theSwachh Bharat Mission, onOctober 2 which will alsomark the commencement ofthe 150th year celebrations ofMahatma Gandhi, added thestatement.

Earlier, describing thismovement as "a great way topay tributes to Bapu," thePrime Minister, in a videomessage to the people, hadexhorted people to be "part ofthis movement and strengthenthe efforts to create a SwachhBharat."

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The Central Governmentwould provide technical

and financial assistance for thedevelopment of an ‘ArtificialBeach’ on both sides of PtRavishankar Reservoir forwhich the ChhattisgarhTourism Board (CTB) shouldsend the proposal to theTourism Ministry, said K JAlphons, Union Minister ofState (Independent Charge)for Culture and Tourism onFriday.

The Minister made theannouncement while acceptingthe demand raised by StatePanchayat and RuralDevelopment Minister AjayChandrakar.

Alphons was in the districtto launch the Central govern-ment’s ‘Tribal Tourism Circuit’under its Swadesh DarshanScheme.

The Minister unveiled aplaque to launch the ‘TribalTourism Circuit’ inChhattisgarh.

The circuit comprises --Jashpur-Kunkuri-Mainpat-Kamleshwarpur-Maheshpur-Kurdar-Sarodhdadar-Gangrel-Kondagaon-Nathiyanavagaon-Jagdalpur-Chitrakote- andTirathgarh.

Appreciating the workdone by Chhattisgarh TourismBoard (CTB), Alphons saidthat the Cottage at the touristsite is having good architecturaldesign and termed the sur-

rounding of reservoir as ‘God’sown Paradise’.

He jokingly said one cancome and write poems and lit-erature in this quite place.

The Minister said that

Chhattisgarh is the second cir-cuit after Manipur to belaunched. There are 74 projectsunder Swadesh DarshanScheme to be developed at acost of Rs 6000 crores and 30

projects would be completedthis year.

The tourism sector hasgenerated around 14.62 millionjobs in the country during thelast four years. Last year, Indiantourism sector grew by 14%

while global growth was 7%including increase of revenueby 20%. The ambitions havebeen kept high in tourism withearning target of 100 billion,Alphons said.

He also spoke on the

Cleanliness Mission taken upby Prime Minister NarendraModi which has spread aware-ness regarding cleanliness evenamong the children.

He also spoke on otherflagship programmes of theCentral government, like LPGdistribution, free electricity topoor, construction of housesfor all by 2022 and others.

The Minister appreciatedthe initiatives taken byChhattisgarh Government forpublic welfare.

Earlier, Panchayat andRural Development MinisterAjay Chandrakar said thatChhattisgarh does not haveany sea beach, so on banks ofGangrel Dam, should be devel-oped as ‘Artificial Beach’ so that

domestic tourists can have thefeel.

He urged the TourismMinistry to sanction the projectby providing technical andfinancial assistance.

The Minister also laidstress on the ‘Ram-gamanMarg’ proposal.

State Culture and TourismMinister Dayaldas Baghel gavethe welcome address.

Director General TourismSatyajeet Rajan also appreciat-ed the work of resort and saidthat there are a total of fourprojects in the country and twoare being implemented inNagaland, one in Telangana butChhattisgarh is the first tribalcircuit to be inaugurated incountry.

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NMDC Ltd has bagged pres-tigious 'Rajabasha Award'

and second prize in PSU cate-gory of ‘C’ Region at a functionheld at Vignan Bhavan in NewDelhi on Friday as a part of‘Hindi Day Celebrations’, acompany press releaseinformed.

The said award was pre-sented by Vice President ofIndia M. Venkaiah Naidu andreceived by Usha Singh,Executive Director (Personneland Administration) in pres-ence of Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh, Union Ministerof State (Home) HansrajGangaram Ahir, Minister ofState (Home) Kiren Rijiju,Secretary, Official LanguageDepartment and other digni-taries.

NMDC is always commit-ted for implementation ofOfficial Language Policy ofGovt. of India. In recognitionof these efforts, NMDCreceived many prestigiousawards in the field of Rajbhashasuch as “Rajbhasha Samman”1st prize from Ministry ofSteel, Govt. of India and

“Rajabhasha Shield-First prize,Best Magazine award forNMDC’s house magazine“Khanij Bharati”, it informed.

The company regularlyconducts RajbhashaConferences/Seminars, publi-cation of “Khanij Bharati” reg-

ularly competitions and Hindi workshops for theemployees of other PSUs inHyderabad under TOLIC apartfrom conducting Hindi workshops and Hindi compe-titions for the employees ofNMDC at Head Office,

Hyderabad and all Projects &Plants of NMDC, the pressrelease informed.

NMDC encourages itsemployees for more and moreusage of Hindi in their officialworks through monthly Hindiincentive schemes.

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Five girls and a boy would beparticipating in the School

National Games scheduled atJharkhand in U-17 categoryand in Andhra Pradesh inUnder-14 category of Archeryduring the coming months,stated Trilochan Mohanta,Havaldar , General Duty (GD)of Indo-Tibetan Border Police(ITBP) who received specialaward for promotion of sportsin insurgency infested areasand also ‘Atal Drishti Patra’.

He was felicitated by ChiefMinister Raman Singh duringthe State Sports Award deco-ration ceremony held at AtalBihari Vajpayee Auditorium, PtJawaharlal Nehru MedicalCollege premises on Thursday.

Motivated by the work ofCommandant, Surinder Khatri,a national level Archer himself,Trilochan Mohanta has nowfully dedicated himself since2016 of his posting inKondagaon 41st Battalion ofITBP to promotion of sports inthe insurgency areas.

Around 100 children from

Kolavan, Mardapal, Rangapal,Kakori, Mungapadar and othervillages nearby the camps inKondagaon district, all schoolgoing girls and boys are beingtrained in Archery.

Last year, around 40 play-ers in different categories wonthe State-level event while in2017 and seven players playedin national events. Five archersin School National Games andtwo in open games while the sixare scheduled to play, he said.

The children aged under14under 17 and under 19 includ-ing senior category players arealso being imparted training incompound and recurve bowwhile government has provid-

ed around 21 Indian Bows.He said that he had per-

sonally spent around Rs fivelakh for purchase of one com-pound bow and five recurvebow to train the children.

“Yes, now I am facing dif-ficulty in training the childrenas the number of children hadincreased while the compoundand recurve bow are less innumber. The training isimparted for two hours from6.00 am to 8.00 am while inevening it is from 4.00 to 6.00pm,” he said.

The other factor is thattribal children are now gainingconfidence but shortage ofequipment along with diet atpresent is an existing barrier.ITBP has a limitation so we areworking within the frame-work. State ArcheryAssociation has not yet extend-ed any help for the children,Mohanta said.

Last but not the least, healso has apprehensions thathis job being transferable, willthe efforts made in promotingsports in insurgency areas go invain, if transferred?

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Prime Minister NarendraModi states that the

Government will not run busi-ness, which is the reason itoffloaded the hospitality busi-ness, mainly ITDC AshokaHotels, while retaining only theNew Delhi property but not forlong, said K J Alphons, UnionMinister of State (IndependentCharge) for Culture andTourism.

He was in Dhamtari onFriday to launch the ‘TribalTourism Circuit’ underSwadesh Darshan Scheme at PtRavishankar Reservoir premis-es.

The Chhattisgarh TourismBoard would have to privatisethese cottages so as to pave wayfor construction of 100 morecottages so that the venture

becomes viable, otherwise theState government would havebe regularly infuse funds in theventure, Alphons said.

On question of retainingthe villages in ethnic form inTribal Circuit, he said no onecan stop modernization of vil-

lages comparing the state ofKerala.

He said each village ofKerala has all urban facilities,similarly, the villages wouldtransform; now only one thingconnects all, is the internet. So,nothing will stop. “Yes,Chhattisgarh will be retainingfew ethnic tribal villages main-ly in districts of Kondagaonand Jashpur,” he pointed out.

“‘Ram-gaman-Marg’ is aproposal given by differentstates including Uttar Pradesh.It can bring in domestic touristsbut not foreign.

For accepting the propos-al, there should be requiredfunds; how much footprints isexpected and it should provideenhanced experience to thetourists,” Alphons said.

“The target is to increasedomestic tourist traffic but

also maximise foreign touristtraffic. It makes no sense, ifresources are deployed andthere is no result. There shouldbe viability,” he pointed out.

Even every state cannot begiven similar projects; itdepends on resources availablewith the Ministry and State-wise requirement.

Recently it was found thatJharkhand and Punjab did nothave any tourism project onwhich they were asked to sendproposal and was acceptedafter necessary modification.One state cannot be allocatedmaximum projects. So equityhas to be maintained, he added.

In Chhattisgarh, the reli-gious circuit of MaBambleshwari at a cost of Rs 50crore has been asked for finalproposal after due modifica-tion, he said.

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Chhattisgarh Chief MinisterRaman Singh on Friday

said that AICC President RahulGandhi is visiting temples afterfearing Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.

The Chief Minister wasreferring to Rahul Gandhi’svisit to Kailash Mansarovarand proposed visit to theprominent temples ofChhattisgarh.

The AICC has sought theroute map of several prominenttemples in Chhattisgarh so is toinclude it in Rahul Gandhi’svisit to state.

The Chief Minister said atleast in the name of elections,those people who never visit-ed temples, atleast have begunto visit the temples.

Union Minister for TextilesSmriti Zubin Irani said that ifany political party is asked, itwould say they see the God inthe people.

But it is a happy momentthat the person who has goneto tour the country, due to BJP,is forced to have a visit and prayat the temples.

She said that one has to

understand that politics in thecountry is based on develop-ment and if any party does pol-itics by defining development,then it is only the BJP.

Meanwhile, ChhattisgarhPradesh Congress Committee(CGPCC) President BhupeshBaghel while reacting to thecomment of Chief Ministersaid that what type of ‘Hindu’national party is it whichobjects to Congress PresidentRahul Gandhi going to thetemple. How the Chief Ministeris seeing politics while climb-ing the steps of temple, he said.

Baghel said that BJP lead-ers are sitting without work and

so watching the movement ofCongress President. They (BJP)should turn the pages ofCongress history before mak-ing any comment. It isCongress leader Sardar VallabhBhai Patel who started the ren-ovation of Somnath temple. Itwas President Shankar DayalSharma who dedicated thetemple to the nation.

Congress party followspath of Father of NationMahatma Gandhi. BJP doesnot have the right to play pol-itics on religion. It is an indi-vidual’s privacy to follow anyfaith and no one can questionit, he said .

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The Congress party hasalleged that mining scam

worth millions of rupees in theState is taking place by issue ofillegal (duplicate) royalty slips.

In a press conference heldhere at Rajiv Bhawan on Friday,Congress party’sCommunication Wing In-charge Shailesh Nitin Trivediciting the information receivedby the party under Right toInformation (RTI), levelled theallegations.

“The game of duplicateroyalty slip was going on allover the State since past 15years”, Trivedi alleged. A case ofone Mining Contractor ofRajnandgaon Santosh Agrawalcame to fore and no action wasbeing taken even though com-plaints were lodged to relevant

authorities at a higher level, hesaid. Neither an FIR was lodgednor any special enquiry teamwas constituted, Trivedi said.

Trivedi demanded that theChief Minister should order aspecial audit over the incomefrom royalty and clearance

from the royalty. He alsodemanded stern action againstthe guilty by ordering a judicialprobe.

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The BJP government is ded-icated to improving the lot

of poor in the State. The datapresented by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi states that infour years, economic conditionof five crore people haveimproved, said Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) State PresidentDharamlal Kaushik.

He was addressing the BJPState Working Committeemeeting held at Ekatma Parisarhere on Friday.

In Chhattisgarh, after ChiefMinister Raman Singhassumed office in 2003, it wasbeing considered as a BIMARUstate and labour migration washigh which had become syn-onymous to the state. But BJPgovernment considered theproblem and now no one sleepson an empty stomach nordeaths are occurring. The mes-sage of ‘Antyodaya’ has beenput in place on the ground forwhich full credit goes to ChiefMinister, Kaushik said.

He said, “Our target is notobtaining power but providingrights to the poor, exploitedand the denied, for which workhas to be done.”

Kaushik recalled the con-tributions of former PrimeMinister late Atal Bihari

Vajpayee and his Hindi speechin the UN on the occasion of‘Hindi Diwas’.

Prime Minister NarendraModi is following Atalji’s foot-steps and once again put Indiaon economic growth map.

On BJP National President

Amit Shah, he said it is the hardwork of party’s NationalPresident that BJP Governmentis in 20 states .

In Chhattisgarh, the partywould form government for thefourth consecutive term. Newrecord of registering 65 plus

seats would be established.Each booth with furtherstrength should work and itshould be the target, Kaushiksaid.

Last time it was 13 lakhparty members and this year itis 27 lakh members. The mes-

sage of public oriented welfareschemes has to be disseminat-ed among people and it istime for hard work. It is theresponsibility of party workersto achieve the target, he said.Later, the Committee paid trib-utes to departed souls.

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The Supreme Court onFriday ordered a high-level

probe to take the erring cops totask for causing “tremendousharassment” and “immeasur-able anguish” to ISRO scientistNambi Narayanan in the 1994espionage case and asked theKerala Government to coughup �50 lakh compensation forcompelling him to undergo the“immense humiliation”.

Terming the police actionagainst 76-year old ex-scientistof Indian Space ResearchOrganisation (ISRO) as a “psy-cho-pathological treatment”, abench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra saidhis “liberty and dignity”, basicto his human rights, were jeopardised as he was taken into custody and, even-tually, despite all the glory of thepast, was compelled to face“cynical abhorrence”.

“There can be no scintilla ofdoubt that the appellant, a suc-cessful scientist having nation-al reputation, has been com-pelled to undergo immensehumiliation.

The lackadaisical attitude ofthe State police to arrest anyoneand put him in police custodyhas made the appellant to suf-

fer the ignominy. “The dignityof a person gets shocked whenpsycho-pathological treatmentis meted out to him.

A human being cries for jus-tice when he feels that theinsensible act has crucified hisself-respect,” the bench, alsocomprising Justices A MKhanwilkar and D YChandrachud, said.

Welcoming the judgement,the former scientist said inThiruvananthapuram that theKerala police had “fabricated”the case and insisted that thetechnology he was accused tohave stolen and sold in the1994 case did not even exist atthat time.

“The Supreme Court hasclearly stated that it was an ille-gal arrest. It also identifies andacknowledges the sufferingand humiliation I have gonethrough.

“The highest court of thecountry has accepted what Isaid. They (Kerala police) fab-ricated the case.

The technology they said Istole and sold did not even existthen,” he said responding to theorder,” he said.

The espionage case, whichhad hit the headlines in 1994,pertained to allegations oftransfer of certain confidential

documents on India’s spaceprogramme to foreign coun-tries by two scientists and fourothers, including twoMaldivian women.

Narayanan hadapproached the apex courtagainst a Kerala High Courtjudgement that no action need-ed to be taken against formerDGP Siby Mathews, who wasthen heading the SIT probeteam as IGP, and two retiredsuperintendents of police K KJoshua and S Vijayan, whowere later held responsible bythe CBI for the scientist’s ille-gal arrest.

Today, while awarding Rs50 lakh compensation to bepaid by the state government ineight weeks, the top court saidthis was being given to com-pensate for his suffering, anx-iety and the treatment metedout to him.

It also allowed him tosimultaneously pursue hispending civil suit for furthercompensation.

The bench said the “repu-tation of an individual is aninsegregable facet of his rightto life with dignity” and reject-ed the plea of Kerala govern-ment that dueto the lapse of time no inquiryand subsequent actions need-

ed to be taken against erringofficials.

It accepted Narayanan’splea that the authorities whowere responsible to cause sucha “harrowing effect” on hismind, should face the “legalconsequences”.

“We think that the obtain-ing factual scenario calls forconstitution of a Committee tofind out ways and means totake appropriate steps againstthe erring officials,” the benchsaid.

It ordered setting up of athree-member committeeheaded by its former judgeJustice D K Jain to take appro-priate steps against the erringofficials and directed theCentre and the stateGovernment to nominate oneofficer each in the panel. Theseat of the committee would bein New Delhi.

“The criminal law was setin motion without any basis. Itwas initiated, if one is allowedto say, on some kind of fancyor notion,” the bench said.

“We are of the view that theappellant was arrested and hehas suffered custody for almostfifty days.

His arrest has been seri-ously criticised in the closurereport of the CBI. From the

aforesaid report, the harass-ment and mental torture facedby the appellant is obvious,” thebench said.

The bench said the “entireprosecution” initiated by thestate police was “malicious andit has caused tremendousharassment and immeasurableanguish” to Narayanan. “It canbe stated with certitude” thatthe fundamental right of lifeand personal liberty ofNaryanan was “gravely affect-ed”.

The CBI, while giving cleanchit to the scientist, had saidthat Siby Mathews had left“the entire investigation to IBsurrendering his duties” andordered indiscriminate arrest ofthe scientist and others withoutadequate evidence being onrecord.

It also had its political fall-out with a section in theCongress targeting then chiefminister late K Karunakaranover the issue, that eventuallyled to his resignation.

The case had caught theattention in October 1994when Maldivian nationalRasheeda was arrested inThiruvananthapuram forallegedly obtaining secret draw-ings of ISRO rocket engines tosell to Pakistan.

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The Supreme Court onFriday modified its order

that provided for setting up ofa committee to deal with dowryharassment complaints byprotecting the provision ofpre-arrest. The top court hadon April 23 reserved its verdicton a batch of pleas seekingrevisiting of a judgement thathad reduced the severity of theanti-dowry law on the offenceof subjecting a married womanto cruelty by spouse and in-laws.

“We have protected pre-arrest or anticipatory bailprovision in dowry harass-ment cases,” said a bench headed by Chief Justice DipakMisra and comprising Justices

AM Khanwilkar and DYChandrachud.

The Supreme Court, whilemodifying the verdict given byits two-judge bench, said thatthere is no scope for the courtsto constitutionally fill up thegaps in penal law.

“There should be genderjustice for women as dowry hasa chilling effect on marriage onthe one hand, and on the otherhand, there is right to life andpersonal liberty of the man,”the bench had said whilereserving its verdict.

The bench was hearing aplea filed by an NGO ‘Nyay-adhar’, an organisation formedby a group of women advocatesof Maharashtra’s Ahmednagardistrict, seeking sharpness insection 498A, claiming thatthe otherwise “helpful instru-ment” in the hands of victimwomen has become “valueless”.The plea suggested that out ofthe three members in familywelfare committees, at leasttwo should be women andone should have done Masters

in Social Work. It had also suggested recording of facts atthe time of counselling and saidthe committee should also consider the economic status ofthe parties.

A two-judge bench of theapex court in July last year hadvoiced concern over the “abuse”of section 498 A (subjecting amarried woman to cruelty)and passed a slew of directions,including that no arrest should“normally be effected” withoutverifying allegations as viola-tion of human rights of inno-cents cannot be brushed aside.

The bench had observedthat many such complaints arenot bonafide and “uncalled forarrest” may ruin the chances ofsettlement.

The top court had issuednotices to Ministry of HomeAffairs, Ministry of Womenand Child Development andNational Commission ofWomen and sought theirresponses while disagreeingwith the July 27 verdict of thesmaller bench.

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BJP MLA Manvendra Singh,who is the son of ailing for-

mer Finance Minister JaswantSingh, is expected to take deci-sion on taking a politicalcourse “away from the BJP” onSeptember 22 at ‘ SwabhimanRally’ near Jaisalmer-Barmer.

Anticipating ‘rebellion’ bythe MLA, Rajasthan ChiefMinister Vasundhara Rajeundertook her ‘Gaurav Yatra’campaign for the upcomingAssembly poll in the State and

did not visit the Manvendra’sconstituency. The CM wrappedup the second leg of her Yatraon September 2 at Pachpadrain Jodhpur-Barmer districtwhere Congress also held itsrally.

Pachpadra, a town inRajasthan’s Marwar region, hasturned into a political testingground for the BJP, Congressand the influential Rajputcommunity to whichManvendra belongs to andderives total support.

It is in Pachpadra that

Manvendra also seeks to holdshow of strength in‘Swabhiman rally’ onSeptember 22 and possiblymake the major announce-ment about his political future.“ The rally is to unite allbeyond caste and communityand self-respecting people, “ hesaid.

The rally planned as acounter by Rajputs against the‘Gaurav Yatra’ of the ChiefMinister, according to sources,would be attended by peoplefrom ‘chhattees quom’ (all

communities) who woulddecide the final step to betaken by the former BJP MPand present MLA from ‘Sheo.’

According to sources,Manvendra is toying with theidea of either contesting assem-bly poll as an Independent orto cross over to another partyincluding the Congress.

Manvendra, an erstwhilejournalist, is reluctant to dis-close his cards. The posterspasted around in the regionhave Jaswant as the main faceand marked by the complete

absence of BJP leaders. “It is the rally of all respect-

ing leaders who were disre-garded by the BJP,” a politicalleader close to Jaswant said andpointed to “the total dissatis-faction” in the Rajput com-munity against the BJPGovernment in the State.

A former member ofParliament from Barmer from2004 to 209, Manvendra wassidelined and suspended fromthe primary membership of theparty after he sought to cam-paign for his ‘rebel’ father con-

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The son of a Delhi Policesub-inspector was arrested

on Friday after a video inwhich he is seen beating a girlwent viral. Police action cameafter Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh took cognisanceof the video and asked DelhiPolice Commissioner AmulyaPatnaik to take action againstthe accused.

A complaint was receivedfrom a woman late onThursday night at Tilak Nagarpolice station in West Delhi,alleging that her estrangedmale friend Rohit Tomarshowed the video to her — inwhich he was seen assaultingthe woman — and threatenedher that she will meet the sameconsequences if she did notcondescend to his marriageproposal.

The cases against theaccused — one of criminalintimidation and molestationand the other of rape — wereregistered based on the versionof two women at Tilak Nagar

and Uttam Nagar police sta-tions. “Accused Rohit Tomar(21), son of Delhi Police sub-inspector Ashok Singh Tomar,was arrested by Tilak Nagarpolice staff on Friday. An FIRwas registered in Dwarka dis-trict’s Uttam Nagar police sta-tion by the woman who wasbrutally beaten up in the video.The video which went viral onsocial media was shot in WestDelhi’s Uttam Nagar onSeptember 2 and was shot bythe accused’s friend,” the policesaid.

Deputy Commissioner ofPolice (Dwarka) AntoAlphonse revealed, “Effortswere made to contact the girlafter the video went viral. OnFriday, the victim contacted thepolice and filed a complaintagainst Rohit. She told thepolice that Rohit called her tohis friend’s house in UttamNagar and made physical rela-tions without her consent.”

“The victim alleged thatwhen he told the accused thatshe will file a complaint againsthim, Rohit dragged and beather up which was recorded byhis friend. Fearing reprisalfrom the accused, she didn’tlodge a complaint after theincident,” DCP Dwarka stat-ed.

“The victim was takenfor medical examination afterwhich a case under relevantsections of the Indian PenalCode (IPC) was registeredagainst the accused RohitTomar,” the DCP added.

An FIR was also regis-tered late on Thursday againstthe accused at the Tilak Nagarpolice station by a womanwho was in a relationshipwith the accused alleging thatRohit showed her the video,said a senior police officer.

“A case under sections323 (dealing with punish-ment for voluntary hurt),354(dealing with assault orcriminal force to woman withintent to outrage her mod-esty), 506 (dealing with crim-inal intimidation), 509 (deal-ing with insult to modesty ofa woman) and 34 (dealingwith acts done by several per-sons in furtherance of com-mon intention) was regis-tered against the accusedRohit,” DCP (West) MonikaBharadwaj stated.

“I have taken note of avideo where a youth has beenseen brutally beating awoman. I have spoken to theDelhi Police Commissionerover the phone and directedhim to take necessary actionin this regard,” Rajnath Singhtweeted.

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that under Union TextileMinistry's scheme, 18 craftsmenof Chhattisgarh have beenawarded National Award in var-ious crafts till date. This year,Ashok Kumar Chakradhari wasfelicitated with national meritcertificate for clay art. TheChhattisgarh HandicraftDevelopment Board has award-ed State-level Awards to 91

craftsmen for various crafts tilldate.

After formation of state,number of craftsmen inChhattisgarh has increased from2600 to 17 thousand. Thisincrease in number also showsthe growing interest of young-sters in hanficraft. ChhattisgarhHandicraft Development Board,Shabri Emporiums,Chhattisgarh Haat and MaatiKala Board has been estab-lished under ChhattisgarhGovernment's GramodyogDepartment for welfare of

craftsmen. Bamboo art Project has

been started in Gariaband,Mohla and Manpur, and BastarHandicraft Development Projectis being conducted inKondagaon. DesignDevelopment and MonthlyFinancialAid Scheme has alsobeen started for the craftsmen.To promote handicraft inChhattisgarh, Board has sentproposal of Integrated Designproject worth Rs 26 crore 56lakh, which will benefit twothousand craftsmen families.

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howling winds, life-threateningstorm surges and torrential rains asit edged closer to the coast in whatofficials warned is a “once in a life-time” event.

Reports said coastal streets inNorth Carolina were flooded andwinds bent trees to the ground as thestorm, which has been downgradedto Category 1 and is weakened andslower moving than in recent days,prepared to make landfall at somepoint on Friday.

More than 150,000 customers inNorth Carolina were reported to bewithout power as the outer band ofthe storm approached.

Footage from US TV outletsshowed raging waters hitting piersand jettys and rushing across coastalroads in seaside communities.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami reported “life-threat-ening storm surge and hurricane-force

winds” along the North Carolinacoast. In its advisory, the centre saidFlorence was over the Atlantic Oceanabout 35 miles (55 kilometers) eastof Wilmington, North Carolina andmoving northwest at six miles perhour (10 kilometers per hour).

It added that the maximum sus-tained winds were 90 miles perhour. Florence is now at the weak-est of five categories on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

In a display of the early effects ofthe storm, one flood gauge on theNeuse River in New Bern, NorthCarolina, showed 10 feet (threemeters) of flooding, the NHC said.

With winds picking up along thecoastline earlier Thursday, federaland state officials had issued finalappeals to residents to get out of thepath of the “once in a lifetime”weather system.

“This storm will bring destruc-tion,” North Carolina Governor RoyCooper said. “Catastrophic effectswill be felt.” In Wilmington, a steadyrain began to fall as gusts of winds

intensified, causing trees to sway andstoplights to flicker.

Avair Vereen, 39, took her sevenchildren to a shelter in Conway HighSchool near Myrtle Beach, SouthCarolina.

“We live in a mobile home so wewere just like ‘No way,’” she said. “Ifwe lose the house, oh well, we can gethousing.

“But we can’t replace us so wedecided to come here.” - Monsterstorm surge expected

Steve Goldstein of the NationalOceanic and AtmosphericAdministration said Florence’s for-ward motion had slowed and it wasnot expected to make landfall in theCarolinas until “some time Fridayafternoon, Friday evening orSaturday morning.” He said hurri-cane-force winds extended outward80 miles from the center of the stormand tropical storm-force windsextended nearly 200 miles out.

Some areas could receive asmuch as 40 inches (one meter) ofrain, forecasters said.

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Friday with Super TyphoonMangkhut set to make a directhit in less than 24 hours, pack-ing winds up to 255 kilometresper hour and drenching rains.

Thousands f led theirhomes on the Philippines’northern coastal tip ahead ofthe early Saturday landfall ofwhat has been called thestrongest typhoon yet this year.

Businesses and residents

on Luzon island, which is hometo millions, were boarding upwindows and tying down roofsthat could be sheared off bywinds forecast to gust as highas 255 kilometres per hour.

“Among all the typhoonsthis year, this one is thestrongest,” Hiroshi Ishihara,meteorologist with the JapanMeteorological Agency, toldAFP.

“This is a violent typhoon.It has the strongest sustainedwind (among the typhoons ofthis year)”, he added.

The Philippines stateweather service said Mangkhut,a massive storm about 900kilometers wide, is packingsustained winds of 205 kilo-metres per hour as it roars westacross the Pacific.

Heavy rains and gusts werejust starting to hit the farnortheastern tip of Luzon onFriday, but there have been noreports of major damage orflooding.

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The Kremlin on Friday saidit was “absurd” for Britain

to dismiss as unconvincing aninterview with two suspects inthe poisoning of former dou-ble agent Sergei Skripal onBritish soil.

The comments came a dayafter Alexander Petrov andRuslan Boshirov denied anyinvolvement in the poisoningof Skripal and his daughter inthe English city of Salisbury inMarch, telling Russian state TVthey had visited as tourists.

British security serviceshad named the two men asmain suspects in the case.

“Accusing Russia of lyingafter the declarations of twoRussian citizens is... Absurd,”Kremlin spokesman DmitryPeskov said. “These are ordi-nary citizens. They have noth-ing to do with the Russianstate,” Peskov said.

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him to return as a lawmaker, but reiterated hisfull support for the Government led by his for-mer foe-turned-ally Mahathir Mohamad.

Anwar and Mahathir put aside their 20-year-old political feud to help their alliance win a his-toric national vote in May that led to the firstchange of power since independence fromBritain in 1957.

Anwar, who was convicted in 2015 forsodomy, couldn’t take part in the elections buttheir four-party alliance had agreed thatMahathir would be prime minister and handover the reins to Anwar.

Anwar, 70, was freed and pardoned by theking shortly after the polls. “The under-standing ... Is that immediately after the pardon,I should enter the race,” Anwar told TheAssociated Press on Friday.

“I waited four months and I think it is alsoimportant for me to start connecting” with law-makers and focus on parliamentary reforms.

Mahathir “will continue leading the nation,I will give full support,” he added.

A lawmaker from Anwar’s party earlier thisweek announced he had resigned as a memberof Parliament in the southern coastal town ofPort Dickson to make way for Anwar’s come-back.

The Election Commission will set a date fora by-election that must be held within twomonths. Some critics said it was wrong for a law-maker to have to resign to make way for Anwar.

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company was asked to pay over$300,000 to its 12 H-1B employ-ees for paying them far belowtheir salary and has been impo-sed a penalty of over $45,000, amedia report said on Thursday.

The US Department ofLabour Wage and Hour

Division (WHD) during inves-tigation found the company,which has offices in Bengaluruand Hyderabad, violated thelabour provisions of the H-1Bvisa program by paying itsguest workers far below therequired wages, the report said.

As a result, People TechGroup Inc has been asked topay its 12 employees $309,914and has been slapped with apenalty of $45,564, it said.

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arts

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dia

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ct th

at th

e en

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nmen

t — p

artic

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ly th

e clim

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mpo

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eri-

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ern.

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spec

ts ar

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cord

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ight m

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ld be

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tic p

lains

by

the 2

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e em

is-sio

n of

gre

enho

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ases

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ot re

duce

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lim

itth

e gl

obal

tem

pera

ture

incr

ease

to tw

o de

gree

s.Ac

cord

ing

to a

study

by

Mas

sach

usett

s Ins

titut

eof

Tec

hnol

ogy

publ

ished

in th

e jo

urna

l Scie

nce

Adva

nces

, va

st ar

eas

in I

ndia,

Pak

istan

and

Bang

lades

h wou

ld be

com

e too

hot f

or hu

man

sur-

viva

l by 2

100.

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ety

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t th

e en

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nmen

t pr

edate

spr

edict

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abou

t suc

h a ho

rrify

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utur

e. A

num

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vent

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orre

ctive

mea

sure

s hav

e bee

nsu

gges

ted an

d som

e of t

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have

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impl

emen

t-ed

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certa

inly

coul

d no

t hav

e exp

ecte

d th

ese

to pr

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e res

ults

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grou

se is

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d hav

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n ac

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ed ha

s rem

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sive.

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ques

tions

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ge. W

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he co

ntin

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erio

ratio

n? W

hat

need

s to

be d

one t

o ar

rest

the p

roce

ss?

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main

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ons h

ave

been

pop

ular

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-tan

ce to

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ge an

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k of g

over

nmen

tal w

ill. Fo

rex

ampl

e, it

is kn

own

that

post-

harv

est b

urni

ng of

plan

t stu

bbles

in ag

ricul

tura

l field

s in

Nor

th In

dia

is a m

ajor c

ause

of a

ir po

llutio

n in

Delh

i and

the

surr

ound

ing a

reas

from

roug

hly t

he ti

me a

roun

dD

iwali

to th

e end

of w

inte

r. N

or is

it a

secr

et th

atit

cont

inue

s bec

ause

farm

ers w

ould

not

hea

r of

endi

ng it

and

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ernm

ents

are u

nwill

ing

to u

seco

mpu

lsion

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r pol

lutio

n, in

the w

hole

of In

dia a

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otju

st th

e no

rther

n pa

rt of

it, i

s als

o ca

used

by

exha

usts

from

cars

, bus

es, v

ans a

nd lo

rries

whi

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bstan

tially

incr

ease

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ea’s g

reen

hous

e gas

leve

l.M

easu

res h

ave d

oubt

less b

een

take

n to

min

imise

this.

On

Nov

embe

r 26,

2014

, the

Nat

iona

l Gre

enTr

ibun

al ba

nned

car

s old

er th

an 1

5 ye

ars f

rom

bein

g driv

en in

Delh

i. On

April

7, 20

15, it

exten

d-ed

the p

rohi

bitio

n to

dies

el ve

hicle

s 10 y

ears

and

olde

r. The o

ther

caus

es in

clude

exha

usts

from

air-

cond

ition

ers,

the u

se o

f whi

ch is

goin

g up

rapi

d-ly,

and

the d

isplay

of fi

rewo

rks a

nd th

e exp

losio

n

of c

rack

ers

which

bec

ome

ubiq

uito

us d

urin

gD

iwali

and

the d

ays p

rece

ding

and

follo

wing

but

are b

ecom

ing i

ncre

asin

gly fr

eque

nt du

ring f

estiv

eoc

casio

ns lik

e wed

ding

s, bi

rthda

y par

ties a

nd vi

c-to

ry ce

lebra

tions

in an

arra

y of f

ields

from

spor

tsev

ents

to e

lectio

ns to

repr

esen

tativ

e bo

dies

like

Parli

amen

t, St

ate le

gisla

ture

s and

mun

icipa

lities

.Th

e im

pact

of th

e age

-spec

ific b

ans o

n pe

trol

and

vehi

cles d

iesel-

drive

n, th

ough

mor

e or

less

effec

tively

impl

emen

ted in

Delh

i, has

not

been

sig-

nific

ant b

ecau

se ca

rs ac

coun

t for

onl

y a f

ract

ion

of v

ehicu

lar p

ollu

tion,

the

main

cau

se o

f whi

char

e exh

austs

from

bus

es an

d lo

rries

. Bes

ides

, no

such

ban

is o

pera

tive i

n m

ost o

ther

par

ts of

the

coun

try an

d po

llute

d air

from

the n

eighb

ourin

gar

eas f

loat

s int

o D

elhi s

kies

with

bre

eze.

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adof

dec

linin

g, th

e disp

lay o

f fire

work

s and

expl

o-sio

n of

cra

cker

s ar

e in

crea

sing

with

gro

wth

injec

ting

mor

e mon

ey in

to th

e eco

nom

y. G

iven

the

publ

ic’s

moo

d, t

he t

rend

is u

nlik

ely to

be

reve

rsed

in th

e nea

r fut

ure.

The s

ame a

pplie

s to

the u

se o

f air

cond

ition

ers.

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ncre

ase i

n th

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mbe

rs w

ill c

ontin

ue g

iven

not j

ust t

he g

row-

ing a

fflue

nce o

f the

mid

dle c

lass b

ut gl

obal

warm

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g pus

hing

up

tem

pera

ture

s.Th

e ch

ance

s of

a m

arke

d im

prov

emen

t in

Delh

i’s air

qua

lity

in th

e nea

r fut

ure t

hus a

ppea

rdi

m. T

he sa

me g

oes f

or m

ost I

ndian

citie

s. Th

ear

gum

ent t

hat t

his d

oes n

ot w

arra

nt de

sper

ate co

n-ce

rn b

ecau

se ai

r pol

lutio

n is

prim

arily

an u

rban

prob

lem, d

oes n

ot w

ash.

Urb

anisa

tion

is gr

owin

g.

Acco

rdin

g to

a sur

vey f

eatu

red

in th

e UN

Wor

ldUr

bani

satio

n Re

port

2018

, abo

ut 3

4 pe

r cen

t of

Indi

a’s p

opul

atio

n no

w liv

es in

citie

s aga

inst

11.4

per c

ent a

ccor

ding

to th

e 190

1 ce

nsus

. A su

rvey

cited

in th

e U

N S

tate

of t

he W

orld

Pop

ulat

ion

Repo

rt in

2007

state

d tha

t 40.7

6 per

cent

of In

dia’s

popu

latio

ns w

ould

live

in u

rban

area

s by 2

030.

Vehi

cular

traf

fic in

rura

l are

as is

incr

easin

gwi

th d

evelo

pmen

t and

, with

it, p

ollu

tion.

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,wh

ile th

ere i

s an

incr

easin

g swi

tch-o

ver t

o gas

and

electr

ic sto

ves f

or co

okin

g in

urba

n are

as, la

rge s

ec-

tions

in th

e rur

al ar

eas u

se ch

arco

al, co

al, d

ried

cow

dung

cak

es a

nd w

ood

in in

effic

ient s

tove

slea

ding

to em

issio

n of

larg

e qua

ntiti

es o

f par

tic-

ulate

matt

ers d

amag

ing

to h

ealth

and

blac

k ca

r-bo

n wh

ich co

nduc

es to

glo

bal w

arm

ing.

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basic

cau

se o

f th

e Ke

rala

flood

s wa

sin

tense

and i

nces

sant

rain

fall o

n an

unpr

eced

ent-

ed sc

ale. T

his w

as a

resu

lt of

extre

me a

nd u

npre

-di

ctab

le we

athe

r co

nditi

ons

crea

ted

by g

loba

lwa

rmin

g. Th

e latt

er is

a wo

rld-w

ide p

heno

men

onan

d Ind

ia, ca

nnot

coun

ter th

e pro

cess

on it

s own

.Un

fortu

nate

ly, th

e Tru

mp

adm

inist

ratio

n’s d

isre-

gard

for i

t and

the U

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thdr

awal

from

the 2

015

Paris

Acc

ord,

porte

nd ill

for t

he fu

ture

of tr

ansn

a-tio

nal e

fforts

to co

pe w

ith gl

obal

warm

ing.

Indi

aca

n on

ly do

its b

est t

o co

ntain

the i

mpa

ct o

f the

phen

omen

on on

itse

lf. T

he n

eed

for t

his i

s all t

hegr

eater

beca

use,

acco

rdin

g to a

Wor

ld B

ank r

epor

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mpe

ratu

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re ri

sing —

and

rain

fall b

ecom

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erra

tic —

thro

ugho

ut S

outh

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t Asia

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trend

will

con

tinue

for

deca

des.

Citie

s su

ch a

sKo

lkat

a, M

umba

i, D

haka

and

Kara

chi w

ould

be

unde

r a su

bsta

ntial

risk

of s

uffer

ing

from

floo

d-re

lated

dam

ages

in th

e nex

t cen

tury

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over

nmen

tal u

nwill

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ess t

o tak

e ess

entia

lbu

t unp

leasa

nt m

easu

res w

ill en

d if t

here

is a

grow

-in

g pre

ssur

e to

act.

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ame g

oes f

or it

s vul

ner-

abilit

y to c

orpo

rate

pres

sure

s to r

elax e

nviro

nmen

-ta

l nor

ms t

o pe

rmit

mon

ey-sp

inni

ng p

rojec

ts in

area

s lik

e re

serv

ed fo

rests

and

ani

mal

sanc

tuar

-ies

. Nor

ms, e

ven w

here

in pl

ace,

are f

louted

in pr

ac-

tice

with

full

know

ledge

of t

he p

ower

s th

at b

ewh

ose p

alms h

ave b

een

grea

sed.

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ular

mov

e-m

ents

again

st po

wer p

lants,

min

es an

d fa

ctor

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ose d

evas

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cts o

n th

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mur

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put d

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t is n

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mas

s act

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t fro

nt. T

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ance

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he v

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us lo

cal

ones

coa

lescin

g in

to a

nat

iona

l mov

emen

t will

have

to ov

erco

me t

he hu

rdle

of in

diffe

renc

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hem

iddl

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s who

se as

pira

tions

and p

atter

ns of

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nged

sub

stant

ially

with

incr

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din

com

es. O

n th

eir pa

rt, G

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nmen

ts ha

ve to

take

mea

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e pro

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ctive

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nsit s

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s to t

aper

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he u

se of

priv

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ansp

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and

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pply

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ectri

city a

nd ga

s to e

ndpo

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rms o

f coo

king

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this

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not b

eea

sy. B

ut th

e pric

e of i

nact

ion

will m

ean

the e

ndof

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e, th

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ia, h

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o su

ffer

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h in

the

nam

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stag

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ent

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ent.

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rese

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accu

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s to

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rge

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ll. T

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stem

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ilitie

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ab S

hank

er S

ingh

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now

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It

is a

ppre

ciat

ive

of t

heH

yder

abad

city

pol

ice w

ho h

ave s

tart

-ed

a ‘C

yber

safe

Hyd

erab

adi’ c

ampa

ign

to cr

eate

awar

enes

s am

ong

teen

ager

san

d yo

unge

r stu

dent

s on

the d

os an

ddo

n’ts

in c

yber

spac

e.

Laud

able

as

it is,

the

mov

e w

illsa

ve t

he p

eopl

e fr

om c

omm

ittin

g

offe

nces

and

mak

e the

m aw

are a

bout

cybe

r cr

imes

. It i

s th

e yo

unge

r ge

n-er

atio

n th

at fa

lls p

rey

to c

yber

crim

equ

ite

easi

ly.

Ever

y ot

her

day,

Hyd

erab

ad ge

ts so

me c

ompl

aint

relat

-ed

to c

yber

crim

e.

In an

era o

f Mom

o Ch

alle

nge a

ndBl

ue W

hale

thi

s in

itiat

ive

by t

heH

yder

abad

pol

ice

is w

elco

me.

Tho

sew

ho h

ave

the

oppo

rtun

ity to

atte

ndsu

ch w

orks

hops

shou

ld d

efin

itely

go

for i

t and

gai

n aw

aren

ess a

bout

cybe

rcr

imes

. Su

ch d

rives

are

hel

pful

to m

ake

the p

ublic

awar

e of w

hat i

nfor

mat

ion

they

sho

uld

shar

e w

ith o

ther

s an

d

wha

t are

the

impl

icat

ions

of s

harin

gsu

ch d

ata

with

stra

nger

s. W

hile

tod

ay i

t is

Hyd

erab

ad, i

tw

ill b

e wise

for o

ther

Sta

tes a

s wel

l to

real

ise th

e gr

owin

g th

reat

s to

cyb

erse

curit

y an

d en

gage

the

mse

lves

in

such

cam

paig

ns.

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thre

e ne

w i

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es a

ndup

grad

ed sm

artw

atch

es th

at ca

n de

tect

hear

t pro

blem

s, w

hich

wer

e pro

babl

y

caus

ed w

hen

peop

le he

ard

the p

rice o

fth

e la

test

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gges

t, m

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expe

nsiv

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s to

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no g

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the n

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and

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e iP

hone

fana

tics h

ave

this

inex

plic

able

obs

es-

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for p

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e lat

est v

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n.So

met

imes

it fe

els n

osta

lgic

to co

ntem

-pl

ate o

n th

ose d

ays w

hen

ever

y pho

nes

cam

e w

ith a

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to me

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temen

t is f

alse,

it do

esn’t

refle

ct tru

th.—

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ce M

iniste

r AR

UN J

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I saw

Jait

ley m

eet M

allya

the d

ay he

left

India.

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e wer

e CCT

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s and

we

can a

ll see

that

for pr

oof.

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It’s ev

ery c

itize

n’s as

pira

tion

tose

e Ind

ia as

a gl

obal

econ

om-

ic le

ader

by

2030

. How

ever

,th

e dem

and

for s

kille

d m

an-

pow

er in

the f

ace o

f ind

ustr

y4.

0 is

far

from

bei

ng m

et.

The

refo

rms i

n ed

ucat

ion

and

skill

sec-

tors

are

sim

ply

not i

n pa

ce w

hile

ther

e is

a ra

pid

tran

sform

atio

n in

both

the i

ndus

try an

d th

e eco

nom

y. Th

ere

are

15 m

illio

n ne

wen

tran

ts ev

ery

year

into

the w

ork-

forc

e an

d as

per

the

Gho

sh a

ndG

hosh

repo

rt, 1

0 mill

ion

jobs

(for

-m

al a

nd i

nfor

mal

) ha

ve b

een

trac

ked

this

year

. The

re c

ould

be

mor

e job

s in

othe

r sec

tors

yet t

o be

track

ed in

that

repo

rt. H

owev

er, t

his

dem

ogra

phic

adv

anta

ge i

s fa

stbe

com

ing

a ni

ghtm

are

in th

e fa

ceof

larg

e num

bers

of u

nem

ploy

able

sem

i-ski

lled

grad

uate

s com

ing o

utof

the e

duca

tion

syste

m, r

edun

dan-

cy o

f wor

kfor

ce a

nd c

hang

ed sk

illse

t req

uire

men

ts du

e the

impa

ct o

fin

dustr

y 4.

0.

Also

, no

coun

try

has

beco

me

fully

dev

elope

d w

ithou

t act

ive p

ar-

ticip

atio

n of

its w

omen

pop

ulat

ion

in e

cono

mic

act

iviti

es.

In I

ndia

,w

hile

ther

e is

an in

crea

sed

part

ic-

ipat

ion

of a

girl

chi

ld in

prim

ary

educ

atio

n, w

omen

par

ticip

atio

n in

the l

abou

r for

ce h

as d

ecre

ased

to 27

per c

ent i

n re

cent

yea

rs, d

riven

by

high

er in

com

e in

rur

al a

reas

and

lack

of a

dequ

ate

oppo

rtun

ities

inot

her s

ecto

rs.

Empl

oym

ent

gene

ratio

n an

dfu

ture

of w

ork

are t

he b

y-pr

oduc

tsof

seve

ral m

egat

rend

s im

pact

ing t

hegl

obal

econ

omy.

On

a glo

bal s

cale,

the

impa

ct o

f tec

hnol

ogy

on jo

bsha

s be

en e

vide

nt —

it

has

been

asse

ssed

that

ove

r the

nex

t dec

ade

or so

, mas

s ado

ptio

n of

exp

onen

-tia

l tec

hnol

ogie

s, au

tom

atio

n, ar

ti-fic

ial in

telli

genc

e, m

achi

ne le

arni

ng,

Inte

rnet

of T

hing

s and

3D p

rintin

gwi

ll dra

stica

lly tr

ansfo

rm th

e wor

k-pl

ace.

This

will

not

onl

y pa

ve th

ewa

y for

new

era o

f ‘hum

an-m

achi

nein

tera

ctio

n’, b

ut al

so d

rive a

tect

on-

ic sh

ift in

‘ski

ll se

ts’ re

quire

men

ts.

Hist

oric

ally,

skill

requ

irem

ents

have

cha

nged

eve

r sin

ce t

he f

irst

Indu

stria

l Rev

olut

ion

reco

nfig

ured

the

role

of m

achi

nes a

nd w

orke

rs.

Coa

l m

iner

s in

the

pas

t us

ed t

o

carr

y out

ever

y tas

k m

anua

lly, e

ven

thos

e re

quiri

ng m

otor

ski

lls a

ndph

ysic

al s

tren

gth.

Tod

ay,

they

incr

easin

gly o

pera

te m

achi

nes t

o do

heav

y an

d da

nger

ous

toili

ng a

sth

ere h

as b

een

a nee

d to

appl

y mor

eco

mpl

ex sk

ills o

f mon

itorin

g equ

ip-

men

ts an

d pr

oble

m so

lvin

g.

Fifty

yea

rs b

ack,

nur

ses

wer

ere

quire

d to

adm

inist

er m

edic

ines

,m

onito

r pat

ient

s by c

heck

ing t

heir

pulse

and

tem

pera

ture

, an

d al

sohe

lp w

ith t

he t

hera

peut

ic t

asks

.To

day,

they

still

adm

inist

er m

edi-

cine

s to

patie

nts b

ut al

so h

elp p

er-

form

dia

gnos

tic te

sts a

nd a

naly

seth

e res

ults.

On

the o

ther

han

d, d

oc-

tors

are b

eing

assis

ted

by ro

bots

insu

rger

ies.

Sim

ilarly

, the

re ar

e man

yot

her

prof

essio

ns w

here

job

role

san

d sk

ill se

ts ha

ve ch

ange

d dr

asti-

cally

. The

re w

ere m

illio

ns o

f typ

ists

and

steno

grap

hers

not

so lo

ng ag

obu

t now

they

rare

ly ex

ist an

ymor

e. Ad

optio

n of

expo

nent

ial t

ech-

nolo

gies

is d

isrup

ting t

he o

ld o

rder

and

crea

ting a

new

nar

rativ

e by n

otju

st de

man

ding

new

skill

sets,

but

open

ing u

p op

portu

nitie

s by c

reat

-in

g new

mar

kets

and

tran

sform

ing

exist

ing p

rodu

ct ca

tego

ries t

hrou

ghin

nova

tions

. The

new

-age

inno

va-

tion

and

impa

ct ca

n be

und

ersto

odth

roug

h th

ree s

elect

case

stud

ies:

Cas

e st

udy

1: W

orkf

orce

vu

lner

abili

tyIn

201

6, it

was

esti

mat

ed th

aton

ly 9

.5 p

er ce

nt o

f the

supe

rmar

-ke

t’s r

even

ue w

ould

be

spen

t on

wag

es,

the

low

est

sinc

e 20

04.

Impr

oved

roste

ring

syste

ms,

auto

-m

ated

ord

erin

g, sh

elf-r

eady

pac

k-ag

ing

and

self-

serv

e ch

ecko

uts

allo

wed

the

supe

rmar

kets

to h

ireyo

unge

r, lo

wer

-ski

lled

staf

f fo

rch

eape

r rat

es in

less

num

bers

. Ca

se s

tudy

2:

Col

labo

rativ

ean

d co

oper

ativ

e wor

kpla

ce

Wik

iHou

se is

an

open

-sou

rce

syste

m th

at al

lows

anyo

ne to

des

ign,

shar

e de

signs

and

bui

ld a

hou

se.

With

acce

ss to

a co

mpu

ter n

umer

-ic

al c

ontro

l (CN

C) m

achi

ne, a

ny-

one c

an d

igita

lly fa

bric

ate b

uild

ing

part

s and

asse

mbl

e it l

ike t

he L

ego

or I

KEA

kit.

Wik

iHou

se a

ims

toal

low

com

pani

es t

o co

oper

ate

incr

eatin

g inn

ovat

ive,

affo

rdab

le, cu

s-to

mise

d an

d su

stai

nabl

e ho

usin

gsy

stem

s whi

le eq

uipp

ing i

ndiv

idu-

als t

o pe

rform

task

s tha

t wer

e pre

-vi

ously

only

acco

mpl

ished

by ex

pert

com

pani

es, c

hang

ing t

he n

atur

e of

the

cons

truc

tion

supp

ly c

hain

.C

urre

ntly

, th

ere

are

seve

ral

Wik

iHou

se p

roje

cts

bein

g te

sted

wor

ldw

ide,

redu

cing

the

frequ

en-

cy o

f hum

an in

terv

entio

n.

Case

stud

y 3: C

hang

ing w

ork-

plac

e dyn

amic

sZa

ppos

, an

e-co

mm

erce

pla

t-fo

rm fo

r sell

ing

shoe

s, sw

itche

d to

a ho

lacr

atic

sys

tem

in 2

015,

with

near

ly 1

,500

empl

oyee

s now

ope

r-at

ing

with

out a

ny m

anag

ers.

The

new

org

anisa

tiona

l str

uctu

re is

aco

mpe

titiv

e mov

e tha

t will

impr

ove

the c

ompa

ny’s

abili

ty to

tran

sform

itself

and

stay

rele

vant

as th

e mar

-ke

t shi

fts. I

t is t

he b

elief

of t

he C

EOth

at th

e ne

w st

ruct

ure

is a

way

toha

ve e

very

em

ploy

ee a

ct l

ike

anen

trepr

eneu

r. Th

is, i

n tu

rn,

will

enab

le th

e com

pany

’s ex

pans

ion

todi

ffere

nt m

arke

ts. So

me A

ustra

lian

com

pani

es s

uch

as t

he C

anva

, ade

sign

star

t up

and

Atla

ssia

n, th

een

terp

rise

softw

are

com

pany

, are

follo

win

g th

e mov

e. In

201

7, F

ICCI

and

NA

SS-

CO

M c

omm

issi

oned

Ern

st &

Youn

g to

unde

rsta

nd th

e im

pact

of

new

-age

tech

nolo

gies

in se

lect

five

sect

ors i

n In

dia.

The

repo

rt is

the

first

em

piric

al-b

ased

stu

dy a

ndco

vers

an

in-d

epth

ana

lysis

of

impa

ct o

f tec

hnol

ogy,

dem

ogra

phy

and

glob

alisa

tion

in fi

ve cr

ucia

l sec

-to

rs —

aut

omot

ive,

text

iles

and

appa

rel, B

FSI,

IT B

PM an

d re

tail.

Ital

so a

sses

ses

and

high

light

s th

ech

angi

ng n

ature

of jo

bs in

thes

e sec

-to

rs, s

kill

requ

irem

ents

and

polic

yre

com

men

datio

ns.

Som

e of

the

key

fin

ding

s ar

ehi

ghlig

hted

in th

e ta

ble

abov

e.In

thi

s ne

w f

ourt

h in

dustr

ial

narr

ativ

e, ho

w c

an a

cou

ntry

like

Indi

a, w

ith it

s div

ersit

y, de

moc

ra-

cy a

nd d

emog

raph

y, le

vera

ge t

hete

chno

logy

and

mat

ch th

e dem

and

side o

f job

crea

tion

with

the s

uppl

ysid

e of ‘

new

-age

wor

kfor

ce’?

How

can

we

deve

lop

our ‘

cluste

r bas

edjo

b m

odel

s’ to

cate

r to

‘trad

ition

al-

ly-s

kille

d’ p

eopl

e?A

glan

ce at

the e

cono

my r

evea

lsth

at a

mon

g th

e fiv

e So

uth

Asia

nco

untri

es, i

nfor

mal

sect

or em

ploy

-m

ent i

s the

hig

hest

in In

dia.

Nea

rly81

per

cen

t of t

he e

mpl

oym

ent i

nIn

dia

is in

the

inf

orm

al s

ecto

r.Ab

out

80.7

per

cen

t of

men

and

81.6

per

cent

wom

en ar

e par

t of t

hein

form

al e

cono

my.

Maj

ority

of

empl

oym

ent i

n th

e inf

orm

al se

ctor

have

no

cont

ract

ual

oblig

atio

nsan

d lo

w jo

b se

curit

y, he

nce

wor

k-er

s in

thi

s se

gmen

t fr

eque

ntly

switc

h jo

bs an

d ar

e pro

ne to

dom

es-

tic o

r int

erna

tiona

l mig

ratio

n.

Indi

a has

2,00

0 tra

ditio

nal s

kill-

base

d clu

sters

whi

ch o

ffer e

xten

sive

livel

ihoo

d to

the

loca

l pop

ulat

ion.

Each

clus

ter,

the s

ize o

f whi

ch ca

nva

ry fr

om 5

0 ho

useh

olds

to 5

,000

or m

ore,

has t

he p

oten

tial t

o cr

eate

a m

inim

um o

f fiv

e jo

bs re

spon

si-bl

e fo

r cr

eatin

g on

line

self-

help

grou

ps,

man

agin

g an

d cu

ratin

gso

cial m

edia

chan

nels

and

webs

ites

to g

ive d

irect

link

ages

to en

d-co

n-su

mer

s, lo

okin

g up

for i

nfor

mat

ion

on u

pcom

ing

trad

e fa

irs,

new

Gov

ernm

ent s

chem

es, u

nder

stand

-in

g su

pply

cha

ins a

nd fi

ndin

g ou

tm

arke

t pr

ices

and

tre

nds.

All-

enco

mpa

ssin

g, th

is ca

n cr

eate

thou

-sa

nds o

f job

s or l

iveli

hood

opp

or-

tuni

ties.

How

ever

, eve

n th

ese c

lus-

ters

nee

d tim

ely i

nter

vent

ion

totra

in p

eopl

e on

‘mod

ern-

age’

skill

s,w

hich

inclu

des c

reat

ive d

esig

n pa

t-te

rns f

or gl

obal

custo

mer

s, m

arke

t-in

g, d

igita

l lit

erac

y et

c. S

uch

empo

wer

men

t ca

n co

ntro

l an

dre

vers

e in

tern

al m

igra

tion.

In

the

fac

e of

an

unce

rtai

nfu

ture

, ref

orm

s in

edu

catio

n an

dsk

ill ec

osys

tem

shou

ld b

e to

equi

pou

r you

th w

ith th

e 21s

t cen

tury

skill

sets

such

as p

robl

em so

lvin

g, em

o-tio

nal i

ntel

ligen

ce, c

ogni

tive

abili

-tie

s, et

c. Ap

pren

tices

hip

is th

e bes

tfo

rm o

f pro

vidi

ng h

ands

-on

expe

-rie

nce

to o

ur y

outh

. Sev

eral

larg

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haps

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land

of th

e lat

e 50s

and

early

60s

, whi

le in

the p

roce

ss o

f loo

s-in

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e Em

pire

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nee

d th

at k

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of p

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chee

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ames

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ains

t the

chie

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synd

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ency

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llain

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hara

cter

alwa

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sed

to te

st ea

chot

her i

n ve

rbal

due

ls be

fore

act

ually

com

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g to

coup

de g

râce

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verb

al d

uels,

cre

ated

by

Ian

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ing,

led

to

a nu

mbe

r of

fam

ous

clic

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mou

thed

by

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pens

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thric

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spira

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nem

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ion)

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necl

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ow e

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d th

ere

spec

tabi

lity o

f fin

ding

a m

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en in

a pa

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g. N

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nly

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r th

e ye

ars,

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see

ms

to h

ave

beco

me a

wor

d of

com

mon

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ge ev

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cert

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loca

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guag

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num

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mea

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onne

ry h

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amou

sfli

rtat

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smile

and

the m

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tin

his

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ays l

it up

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cree

n. H

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wm

ascu

linity

and

las

civi

ous

beds

ide

the

man

ner w

ith so

me o

f the

mos

t cur

vace

ous

beau

ties

of th

e tim

e, lik

e Jil

l St J

ohn

and

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ula

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ress

, and

bro

ught

hor

des

ofau

dien

ce to

the

cine

mas

for r

epea

t vie

w-

ings

. Unf

ortu

nate

ly, a

few

of h

is su

cces

sors

have

bee

n la

ckin

g in

som

e of

the

se o

nsc

reen

man

neris

ms l

eadi

ng to

a dw

indl

ing

audi

ence

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ne o

f the

mai

n re

ason

s for

the i

nitia

lsu

cces

s of B

ond

was p

urely

coin

ciden

tal. D

r.No

was

, for

insta

nce,

relea

sed

in Se

ptem

ber

1962

, with

the s

tory

line o

f a ro

gue,

close

tom

ainl

and

USA

, int

erfe

ring

and

tryi

ng to

com

man

deer

and

sabo

tage

US

spac

e m

is-sio

ns. N

ow th

is w

as to

o clo

se to

the C

uban

miss

ile cr

isis.

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le th

e cris

is w

as h

andl

eddu

ring t

he fa

mou

s 13 d

ays o

f Oct

ober

1962

,im

med

iate

ben

efic

iary

was

Bon

d.

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ilarly

, an

unbe

lieva

bly

favo

urab

leat

mos

pher

e gr

eete

d th

e re

leas

e of

Fro

mRu

ssia

with

Lov

e, w

hich

hit

the

scre

ens

som

etim

e dur

ing t

he su

mm

er o

f 196

3. T

hat

was t

he ti

me E

nglan

d wa

s ree

ling u

nder

the

Prof

umo-

Chris

tine K

eeler

scan

dal, w

ith th

epo

ssib

le in

volv

emen

t of o

ne R

ussia

n m

ili-

tary

atta

che

base

d in

Lon

don.

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fire

lit

by a

smal

l lea

k in

the m

edia

and

the i

nitia

lde

nial

by

Prof

umo

in t

he H

ouse

of

Com

mon

s, ul

timat

ely b

ecam

e an

infe

rno,

final

ly c

onsu

min

g H

arol

d M

acM

illan

, the

Prim

e Min

ister

him

self.

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e Pro

fum

o sc

anda

l app

eare

d str

aight

out

of a

Bon

d fil

m, l

ot o

f se

x, c

all g

irls,

Russ

ian

spie

s, an

d po

ssib

le su

born

atio

n in

high

plac

es. It

was

quite

natu

ral fo

r the

main

-str

eam

med

ia an

d th

e tab

loid

s to

thriv

e on

this

sleaz

y affa

ir. Su

ch an

idea

l atm

osph

ere

befo

re th

e rele

ase o

f Fro

m R

ussia

n W

ith L

ove

coul

d no

t hav

e bee

n im

agin

ed e

ven

by th

eau

thor

him

self.

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top

of it

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und

that

very

time P

resid

ent K

enne

dy, in

one

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ter-

view

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s one

of h

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fav

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was

the

prov

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the c

ake t

akin

g the

stoc

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Jam

es B

ond

sky h

igh,

nev

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ain

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the p

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c-er

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a s

ucce

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l for

mul

a, of

whi

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raig

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The family feud has come tothe fore not only in the Lalu

Prasad’s family where his twosons are battling for suprema-cy but also in the family ofUnion Minister and LJP pres-ident Ram Vilas Paswan wherehis daughter and son-in-lawhave revolted.

In the political families,particularly in the families ofsupremo of regional parties,such revolts and clashes are nouncommon. When electionscome closer such feuds come inopen. Needless to say that suchinfightings are meant to gainsome personal advantage.

Paswan’s daughter AshaDevi and her husband AnilKumar Sadhu have knockedthe doors of RJD for ticket. Thecouple plans to fight electionagainst Paswan in Hajipur.“We are ready to take onPaswan. If I get the ticket I willcontest and if my wife is allot-ted a ticket she will fight,” saidSadhu, who was earlier Biharpresident of LJP’s wing DalitSena but recently quit theparty and joined RJD.

Said Asha,”We have beenneglected in the family. We didnot get any favour from myfather who showers all favoursto Chirag Paswan.” Jamui MPChirag is step brother of Asha.

Paswan has two wives and

Asha is daughter from first wifeRaj Kumari Devi, who Paswandivorced in 1981. Two years laterhe married Reena who is moth-er of Chirag and one daughter.

The reported revolt inPaswan’s family is not new. Lasttime during Assembly electionin 2015, Sadhu had revoltedand created scene at the LJPparty. He wanted ticket to con-test but was denied presumablyunder pressure of Chirag whois also chairman of the party’sparliamentary board.

A that time Sadhu in front

of media people and camerashad created drama by shoutingat the top of his voice againstPaswan and Chirag and criedloudly. In bid to avoid the fur-ther nuisance, Paswan gavehim a ticket. He contested butlost his deposit.

RJD sources said it washighly unlikely that Sadhuwould be given ticket becausehe was not worth candidateand has hardly any politicalunderstanding. Sadhu’s fatherwas a veteran politician andwon Assembly elections forfive consecutive terms.

Asha claimed that LJPsupremo Paswan has lost hispopularity and traditional sup-port base of scheduled castes,a section of upper castes andminorities in his constituencyHajipur which he has beenwinning for over four decadeswith record margins. ‘He haslost the support of even Paswancaste,” she alleged.

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The U.S. ConsulateGeneral in Kolkata in

partnership with the BiharEntrepreneurs Association(BEA) hosted an intensiveprogramme titled BusinessEnglish for WomenEntrepreneurs to help agroup of women in Patnagain confidence and be effec-tive communicators in aprofessional environment.

Altogether 15 selectedwomen entrepreneurs fromBihar received training intwo phases from AmericanEnglish Language SpecialistDieter Bruhn. During thefirst phase of a three-dayworkshop, participantslearned about effective pre-sentation skills and businessetiquette. Participants learnedabout speech registers andwhich to use with differentaudiences, how to create anengaging presentation, andhow to pitch a winning busi-ness idea. Bruhn was back inPatna to refine their final busi-ness pitches this week.

The f inal businesspitches were showcased bythese women entrepreneursin front of the Public AffairsOff icer of the U.S.

Consulate General inKolkata, Jamie Dragon andother guests on Friday.

Dragon said, “EnglishLanguage programming is akey area for our workbecause good English canhave a huge impact on anindividual’s ability to earn abetter livelihood. We chooseto offer our English resourcesto youth and women in par-ticular to promote the entre-preneurial and innovativespirit of our societies.”

The U.S. ConsulateGeneral has worked closelywith BEA in promoting aspirit of entrepreneurshipamong women and youth.Earlier this year, the All IndiaWomen’s EconomicEmpowerment roadshowworkshop was held in Patnaand U.S. AmbassadorKenneth Juster also met withleading women entrepreneursduring his Patna visit.

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As the bickering, squabblesand dissidence within the

Congress in Karnataka casts ashadow on coalitionGovernment, Chief MinisterHD Kumaraswamy has allegedthe BJP is trying to destabilisehis Government.

Addressing a Press confer-ence in Bengaluru on Friday hesaid the BJP was putting all itseffort to pull down hisGovernment. He said, “I amwell aware of the efforts madeby BJP leaders. I am not sittingquiet and but doing what hasto be done to safeguard myGovernment. Their efforts willyield no success. I know whathas to be done.”

He further alleged that hewas also very well aware abouthow much advance money theBJP leaders had or tried to paysome of the legislators. “ButBJP’s ploy to purchase legisla-tors will not succeed”, he added.

He said that BJP leaders arenot interested in development ofthe State but their only aim is toestablish a BJP Government."But is it a possibility? it willnever happen. Let them resortto Resort politics or let them goto huts to hatch a plan, they willnot succeed, I am prepared foreverything," he added.

The Chief Minister allegedthat BJP is trying to lureLegislatures by offering moneyand power and they are utilis-

ing people who had torchedimportant files of BruhutBengaluru Mahanagara Palike(BBMP) files when BJP was inpower. "They are utilising themfor the operation and BJP hasalso roped in a Coffee Planterfrom Sakaleshpura( a place inKodagu) who had shot dead hiswife and own child. In gam-bling he had earned money andBJP want to utilise that moneyfor pulling down myGovernment," he alleged.

Chief Minister also threat-ened to take legal action againstBJP if they are resorting to“operation Lotus.” "I know allthe efforts of BJP and I am con-templating to take legal actionagainst such attempt. I knowwho is the king pin they areutilising, I will wage legal waragainst them," he said.

He said that the BJP's dead-

line to pull down the coalitionGovernment is changing everytime . Earlier it was Ganesha fes-tival, now October and next itmay go to Dasara festivities andwill have to keep postponing.

"But I am concentrating ondevelopment of the State andnot giving attention to theirefforts. From Monday I amholding meeting with Officersand will take to task those whoare neglecting in dischargingtheir duties due to rumours

spread that this Governmentwill soon fall," the ChiefMinister added. Replying to aquestion, Kumaraswamy saidthat "Congress Ministers,including Ramesh Jarkiholi,are in constant touch withhim. I have not contacted BJPlegislators of Mysuru belt tolure them as alleged but theyare in contact with me."Whenasked about Cabinet expansion,Kumaraswamy said that "it isleft to Congress HighCommand to take decision."Meanwhile senior Congressleader and the Deputy ChiefMinister G Parameshwara ruledout any dissidence in the party.He said reports on the coalitionGovernment may collapse soonis exaggerated and there was notruth behind those reports.

“There are some factorswhere the elected members andsome Ministers being dissatis-fied for some reasons, but it isonly restricted to issues relatedto their constituencies,’’ he saidafter holding a meeting withMinister for Water Resources DK Shivakumar at his residence.

He said there are no seriousissues that can affect the exis-tence of the coalitionGovernment but some prob-lems relating to the con-stituencies were there and it willbe sorted out after due discus-sions between the Governmentand the Ministers and legisla-tors concerned. ‘’There could besome smoke, but it is not seri-

ous. The Government is soundand safe. We will solve all theissues,’’ he stated.

Meanwhile BJP State chiefBS Yeddyurappa ruled out anysuch thing and said his party willplay the role of responsibleopposition. He said party chief,Amit Shah, has asked the Stateunit "not to create any confu-sion" and instead stick to play-ing the role of the oppositionsincerely. He rejected the chargesand said "BJP national presidentAmit Shah, with whom I spoketoday, has instructed us not tocreate any confusion. We shouldnot give any statements aboutthe political developments tak-ing place in the State. Instead, weshould stick to playing the roleof opposition sincerely.”The coalition partner Congressis facing a major dissidence withpowerful Jarkiholi brothersfrom Belagavi have threatenedto rock the boat. MunicipalAdministration MinisterRamesh and his MLA brotherSatish—are locked in a turfwar with another Minister, D.K.Shivakumar, casting a shadowover the coalition Government. This has become a major irri-tant for Kumaraswamy whohas asked the Congress highcommand to sort it out. Thepolitical circles are abuzz withformer Chief MinisterSiddaramaiah who is on aforeign tour is behind thisentire episode to take controlover the party.

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Alower court inMaharasthra has issued a

non-bailable warrant againstAndhra Pradesh Chief MinisterN Chandrababu Naidu and 15others in connection with aprotest he had led in the Stateagainst Babili irrigation projectin Nanded district as it wasposing a threat to the interestof then Andhra Pradesh State.

The list of the people againstwhom the Dharmabad court hasissued the warrant include APIrrigation Minister Devineni

Umamaheshwara Rao andmany TDP leaders who wereMLA at the time of the protest.

Chandrababu Naidu whowas leader of Opposition in thethen united Andhra PradeshAssembly had crossed the bor-der into Maharashtra alongwith 40 MLAs and several otherparty leaders and tried to reachthe Babili project to protestalleging that it would impoundmore Godavari river water thanshare of Maharashtra and it willturn northern Telangana regioninto a desert. Naidu who wasarrested and spent many days in

jail in Maharashtra was laterreleased on bail. Since then thecase was pending in the court.

Dharmabad court magis-trate has ordered the police toproduce all the 16 respondentsincluding Naidu before it onSeptember 21.

The fresh warrants wereissued after a local personmoved a petition beforeDharmabad court. Nanded dis-trict police officials said thatthey had filed a chargesheet inthe court five years ago against16 persons and the matter wasnow before the court.

The new development hascreated a stir in both the Telugustates with the TDP leadersboth in Andhra Pradesh andTelangana suspecting politicalmotivation behind the attemptto revive the case.

In his first reactionChandrababu Naidu said thatby fighting against Babili pro-ject he had not done any crime.“I had protested to saveTelangana from becoming adesert”, he told a meeting afteroffering pooja to Krishna riverat Srisailam project in Kurnoolon Friday. “I had told the policeon that day itself to do whateverthey can. Now they are issuinga warrant against me”, he said.

Former Union CivilAviation Minister P AshokGajapati Raju condemned thewarrant and wondered why hewas also included in the list ofrespondents. “It is not correcton part of Modi and Amit Shahto revive old cases”, he said.

TDP MP from VijayawadaKesineni Nani said that the war-rant against Naidu for fightingfor the cause of Telugu States waspart of a political conspiracy bythe Centr. “For all these yearsthey said there was no case. Nowhow they can issue a non bailablewarrant against a Chief Ministerlike this”, he asked.

He alleged that the PrimeMinister Modi, BJP PresidentAmit Shah and the YSRCongress president YSJaganmohan Reddy were the

main brains behind the conspiracy. Interestingly APCongress has also condemnedthe warrant against Naidu.State Congress President NRaghuveera Reddy said that itwas wrong to book criminalcases against the leaders whotake part in mass agitations.

However the State BJPPresident KannaLakshminarayana denied thatBJP had anything to do with thewarrant against Naidu. “TDP isenacting a new drama by drag-ging the name of the PrimeMinister”, he said. According tothe BJP leader the case wascontinuing since 2014 and thecourt had issued summons toNaidu and others 22 time butthey did not attend the court.The case was booked againstNaidu by the CongressGovernment in Maharashtra,he added.

Meanwhile the warrant hasalso become a topic of discus-sions in Telangana political cir-cles as it had the potential to cre-ate some sympathy for TeluguDesam. It has come at a timewhen the ruling TelanganaRashtra Samiti was trying to pro-ject the proposed TDP-Congressalliance in the State as “agent ofAndhra” and “betrayer ofTelangana”.

Senior Telangana TDPleader R ChandrashekharReddy recalled that they hadexperienced a hell inDharmabad jail in 2010.

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Aman, desperate for a son,allegedly threw his 18-

month daughter from the ter-race of his home in an UttarPradesh village after his wifegave birth to another girl,police said Friday.

The toddler, Kavya, wasseriously injured after the inci-dent in Pardhauli village, underCB Ganj police station areahere, Thursday and has beenadmitted to hospital.

Her father ArvindGangwar, who was drunk atthe time, has been arrested,officials said.

Villagers said that therewas tension in the house sinceArvind's wife gave birth to theirsecond daughter five days ago.

On Thursday, an inebriat-ed Arvind took his daughter tothe terrace and threw her down.

SP (City) Abhimanyu Singhsaid the police inspector in-charge of the area filed anattempt to murder case after thefamily did not turn up for it.

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Congress president RahulGandhi on Friday met all

the senior party leaders fromTelangana to discuss party’selection strategy and issue ofalliance with other parties.During the three-hour longmeeting, Rahul also met someof the leaders individually.

Rahul asked the leaders notto make any public commentson the issue of alliance andticket distribution and not tocriticise each other. He assuredthat the party will give ticketsonly to the winning candidatesand all the MLAs with a goodimage will be fielded fromtheir constituencies. Rahulobserved that Congress willfight in all the constituencieswhere it was strong and leavethe other constituencies to theother alliance partners.

After the meeting briefingthe media the AICC SecretaryRC Kuntia said that all thosewho were fighting against thecorrupt and autocratic rule ofTelangana Rashtra Samiti werewith the Congress and theparty was ready to align withthe Telugu Desam party.

Rahul Gandhi has autho-rized the State Congress pres-ident N Uttam Kumar Reddy tohold talks with the other par-ties, he said. “But the final deci-sion on the alliance will be ofthe AICC President” , he saidadding that the Congress willabide by the alliance-dharma inthe distribution of tickets.“party president urged all the

leaders to work together tobring Congress to power andwarned that anti party activityby any leader however big hemight be will not be tolerated”,Kuntia said.

Uttam Kumar Reddy saidthat the party will not leavethe constituencies, where itwas confident of winning, toother parties.

It was also decided thatduring the election campaignRahul Gandhi will address ral-lies in 10 districts. Rahul hasalso constituted a three mem-ber screening committee forTelangana. Some of the leadersrequested that Sonia Gandhishould also visit the state forelection campaign.

On the occasion TRS MLCBhupti Reddy and noted filmproducer Bandla Ganeshjoined the Congress party inpresence of Rahul Gandhi.

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Air Chief Marshal BSDhanoa has said social

media and its addiction haveaffected the sleep pattern of theIAF pilots. Delivering theinaugural Addressing at thethree day 57th AnnualConference of Indian Society ofAerospace Medicine (ISAM)titled “AEROSPACE MEDI-CINE: FIELD APPLICA-TIONS”, in Bengaluru onFriday he said Pilots at theIndian Air Force (IAF) are thelatest to face problems due tooverusing social media.

He said spending longhours on social media is mak-ing them sleep deprived. “Withmany of them spending timeon social media during thenight, they have less time tosleep” he added.

Air Chief urged theInstitute of AerospaceMedicine (IAM) under thetraining command to find amechanism or technology thatcan identify pilots who havenot had enough sleep beforetheir flights.

Dhanoa said that whilesocial media has become animportant part of communi-cation today, it is taking awaypeople's interpersonal com-munication skills.

Dhanoa said, "Earlier if apilot had a drink too much, thebarman would know. If hefailed to notice, the otherswould know and he did be laid

off flying for the day. Today weeven have breath analysers.We need a system today thatcan tell us if a pilot had beensleep deprived."

He attributed this to afatal accident in 2013 andsaid "Everybody seems to geton social media late, it thenkeeps them awake. Flying sor-ties when the ambient tem-perature goes beyond 40-degree Celsius is discouraged,so most of them take off earlyin the day. This means thatmost flight briefings are asearly as 6 am and pilots haven'thad enough sleep."Air Chief said that IAM will getactively involved in astronautselection and manned spacemission(GAGANYAAN) asdeclared by Prime Minister. Healso said that AerospaceMedicine specialist is the bestfriend of the air crew in thefield and appreciated the

Aerospace Medicine speciali-ty for their commendable job.

Amidst controversies overthe Rafale fighter jet deal prices,Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoaon Wednesday had empha-sised how crucial it was to pro-cure the fighter jets, consider-ing the threats from Pakistanand China and the Indian AirForce's current squadronstrength of only 31 from the 42sanctioned strength.

“No country is facing thekind of grave threat that Indiais confronted with. Intentionsof our adversaries can changeovernight. We need to matchforce level of our adversaries,”said Air Chief MarshalDhanoa.

"By providing the Rafaleand S-400, the Government isstrengthening the Indian AirForce to counter the shortfalls of our depleting numbers,"he said.

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BJP national president AmitShah will kick off his

party’s campaign forTelangana assembly atMahbubnagar on Saturday.Earlier he will hold discus-sions with the State partyleaders and review the elec-tion preparations and pointsto be included in the mani-festo. Before leaving forMahbubnagar he will alsooffer pooja at Durga temple inLal Darwaza area of old city,a communally sensitive pock-et of the city.

Briefing the media aboutAmit Shah’s program StateBJP President K Lakshmansaid that no leader from otherparties will be admitted intothe BJP during the visit’ “Thejoining will take place at thedistrict levels”, he said.

Lashing out at the GrandAlliance of Congress, TDPand others he said it was“unholy” and without anyprinciples. He also allegedthat there was also an alliancebetween the TRS and Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen. “It isa dangerous alliance” he said.

The candidates of the BJPwill be announced after theelection schedule was released,he said.

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Even if neighbouringRajasthan decided to cut

Value Added Tax (VAT) onpetrol and diesel followingcontinuous hike in the petro-leum products, there wouldn’tbe any change in tax structureon these two commodities inthe Prime Minister’s home-State Gujarat.

Ruling out any possibilityof reduction in tax in nearfuture, Deputy Chief MinisterNitin Patel on Friday said thatthe Gujarat Government hadreduced VAT around 10months back on petrol anddiesel and now taking 20 percent tax.

In Congress ruled statesVAT was being charged on thefuels in the range of 25-30 percent, said Patel in context ofCongress party’s recent ‘BharatBandh’ on the issue of surgingfuel prices.

In Gujarat petrol priceshave crossed �80 and �78 perlitre respectively. Chief Ministerof neighbouring Rajasthan hasannounced a 4 per cent pointreduction in VAT on the twoimportant petroleum productsearlier this week. In RajasthanVAT on petrol will be reducedfrom 30 per cent to 26 per centand on diesel from 22 per cent

to 18 per cent. Congress ruledPunjab and Karnataka tooreportedly planning to reduceVAT on petroleum products.Andhra Pradesh and WestBengal have also lowered VATon fuels.

It is worth mentioning thatthe Central Government is col-lecting �19.48 and �15.33 asexcise duty on a litre of petroland diesel respectively. TheNarendra Modi Government atCentre is attributing skyrocket-ing prices of petrol and diesel toexternal factors such as depre-ciating rupee and volatile crudeprices in the international mar-ket. The Central Governmenthas so far not given any indica-tion in reducing the taxes onfuels. In fact the UnionGovernment has asked thoseStates who are charging higherVAT on petroleum productsshould reduce the tax.

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Several long distance trainswere either cancelled or

diverted or even short-termi-nated, while the operation ofsuburban trains was restrictedon the affected line, after aneight-wheeler tower wagonderailed between Kasara andUmbermali stations in thesmall hours of Friday.

The derailment of an eight-wheeler took place betweenKasara and Umbermali stationsat 1.04 am during a midnightmaintenance block from 23.40pm to 1.10 am.

With the Kalyan-Kasarasection hit by the derailment, theCentral Railway operated thesuburban train services betweenKalyan and Asangaon. However,following an “rail roko” agitationresorted to by commuters atVasind, the authorities ran theservices up to Titwala from6.05 am to 07.55 am.

At least four long-distancetrains — Manmad-LTT-Manmad Godavari Express,Manmad-Mumbai-ManmadRajyarani Express, Mumbai-Bhusaval Passenger andMumbai-Manmad PanchvatiExpress — were cancelled, whileeight long-distance trains werediverted via different stations.

Five Mumbai and Pune-bound trains were short-termi-nated at places like Igatpuri,Nashik Road, Manmad, whilethree trains from Mumbai--LTT-Gorakhpur Express, LTT-Darbhanga Express andVaranasi Kamayani Express—departed from Mumbai two tothree hours behind the schedule.

Having taken up the trackrestoration work on a war-foot,the Central Railway personnelput back the 8-wheeler towerwagon that had derailedbetween Kasara and Umbermali,on the tracks in the afternoon.

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Close on the heels of arrestof a Hizbul Mujahideen

cadre from Uttar Pradesh,Assam police on Thursdaynight arrested one ShahnawazAlam, a close accomplice of thecadre from central Assam’sHojoi district.

Qamar-uz-Zaman, a sus-pected cadre of banned militantoutfit Hizbul Mujahideen wasarrested by Uttar Pradeshpolice from Kanpur onThursday. Zaman hails fromJamunamukh in Assam.

"Assam police has send a

team to Uttar Pradesh fol-lowing the arrest of Zaman forthe interrogations detailsabout involvement of anoth-er accomplice ShahnawazAlam, who we have arrestedfrom here,” said Special DGP,Assam police PallabBhattacharya on Friday.

"Shahnawaz Alam hadreceived training in Kishtwardistrict in Jammu region ofJammu & Kashmir. Zamanwas spotted in social mediaearly this year while he wasbrandishing an AK-47.Zaman had plans to carry outsubversive activity during

Ganesh Chatturthi celebra-tion," he said.

Back home inJamunamukh, Zaman's moth-er told media that securityforces have done a good job byarresting him.

“Anybody who carries outwar against the countrydeserves such treatment.Zaman has brought bad nameto the family,” she said.

She said, “My son is notgreater than the country, I willnot see his face. I prayed to Godthat he should get arrested.With lot of trouble we havegrown up Zaman.”

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The recent fidayeenstrike along the

J a m m u - S r i n a g a rNational Highway nearJhajjar Kotli has onceagain exposed the gap-ing holes in the overallsecurity 'bandobast' of400-km long surfacelink betweenLakhanpur- the gate-way of J&K andKashmir valley.

According to thepreliminary interroga-tion reports of driverand his accomplicearrested by the Statepolice from JhajjarKotli on Wednesday,over 20 infiltrators havebeen ferried by themsince January 2018 atdifferent intervals.

These sensationaldisclosures has already

left all those senior securityofficers, entrusted with the jobof securing national highway,red faced.

Even huge presence of secu-rity forces at different locations,random patrolling by the Quickreaction teams (QRT's) of theIndian army, CRPF and randomchecking of vehicles at securitycheck points set up by the Statepolice could not detect presenceof heavily armed terrorists in thetruck, frequently used by the overground workers of Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist outfit toferry them to Kashmir valley inthe recent months.

According to police thearrested driver and his accom-plice has been identified as RiazAhmad son of Ghulam AhmadR/o Hajin, Pulwama andMohammad Iqbal son of AbdulKhaliq R/o Pakharpora,Budgam, a BSc Nursing stu-dent. Brother of Riaz was alsoa terrorist and had been killed

in an encounter with the secu-rity forces. Official sourcesrevealed they were both work-ing as OGW's of Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist outfit.

The duo,seems to have ranout of their luck on Wednesdaywhen they stopped at one oftheir favorite eating joints nearJhajjar Kotli for a sumptuousbreakfast.

The duo had no idea thata flying squad of a highwaypatrol party could chase themand take the lid off their secretoperation.

Three member fidayeengroup, hiding inside the truck,also acted in haste by openingfire on the police party andexposed themselves.They wereneutralised on Thursday dur-ing the day long operation inKakriyal area alogn the nation-al highway.

Top brass of the State policehas already taken note of theserious security breach.

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The Trinamool Congress has strongly refutedCentral Government’s contention that it had not

come in the way of Bengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee’s proposed Chicago visit where she wasreportedly invited by the Vivekananda VedantaSociety to attend the 125th anniversary of SwamiVivekananda’s historic speech at the Parliament ofWorld Religions.

Rejecting the argument of a senior ForeignMinistry official that his Department had “notreceived any request for clearance regarding the visitof Ms Mamata Banerjee to Chicago for any event”and that “the reports about the denial of permissionare therefore not true,” Trinamool MP DerekO’Brien said that the Chief Minister’s visit was spikedby the saffron brigade as they wanted the programmeat American city to be held under the banner ofGlobal Hindu Congress and addressed by RSS chiefMohan Bhagwat.

“It is common knowledge that BJP-RSS wantedonly one major programme to be held in Chicago …under the banner of World Hindu Congress … andattended by Mohan Bhagwat. To ensure this happenedintense pressure was mounted on the VivekanandaVedanta Mission in Chicago,” O’Brien said echoingwhat the Chief Minister herself told during a speechat Ramakrishna Mission, Belur Math.

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decided to rebuild theMajherhat Bridge con-necting rest of Kolkatato Diamond Harbourand the all importantGanga Sagar Islands inone year’s time, StateChief MinisterMamata Banerjee onFriday said adding thehigh-powered inquirycommittee led by theState Chief Secretaryhad submitted a reporthinting at lapses on thepart of some PWDofficials as also theMetro Railways trig-gering the collapse ofthe 55-year old struc-ture.

The last week’sbridge collapse hadleft three persons

dead and about 26injured promptingthe opposition topoint fingers at theState Government forpoor maintenance ofState overpasses.

Banerjee said theinquiry committee ledby Chief SecretaryMalay De had “point-ed out two things.”First it was the respon-sibility of PWD andtheir negligence was tobe blamed for thebridge collapse, shesaid adding “also theconstruction work bythe Metro Railwayswhich is building itselevated tracks” rightbeside the collapsedstructure “had animpact on it.” She saidthe Metro angle wouldbe probed further bythe team.

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Benchmark Sensex spurtedaround 373 points on

Friday to reclaim the 38,000-mark as better-than-expectedmacro data and further recov-ery in the rupee triggeredwidespread buying.

The NSE Nifty toobreached the 11,500-level witha jump of 145.30 points.

All sectoral indices endedin the green, led by realty,power, consumer durables andmetals.

Brokers said sentiment wasbullish on continuous recoveryin the rupee amid reports thatthe government may announcesteps to prop up the domesticunit.

Prime Minister NarendraModi will hold meetings withtop officials on Friday andSaturday to review the eco-nomic situation.

The rupee strengthenedby another 65 paise to 71.53(intra-day) against the dollarFriday, also supported by a fallin crude oil prices.

Domestic cues were posi-tive after official data releasedafter trading hours Wednesday

showed that industrial pro-duction (IIP) grew at 6.6 percent in July, while retail infla-tion cooled to a 10-month lowof 3.69 per cent in August.

Meanwhile, WPI inflationalso eased to a four-month lowof 4.53 per cent in August onsoftening prices of food articles,especially vegetables.

The benchmark BSESensex stayed in the positiveterrain through the sessionand touched a high of38,125.62. It finally settled372.68 points, or 0.99 per centhigher at 38,090.64 — its high-est closing since September 7when it had finished at38,389.82.

Also, the broader Niftyclimbed 145.30 points, or 1.28per cent to finish at 11,515.20.Intra-day, it shuttled between11,523.25 and 11,430.55.

However, the indicesclosed with losses for the sec-ond straight week. The Sensexlost some 300 points, or 0.77per cent, while the NSE Niftyfell 73.90 points, or 0.64 percent, during the week.

Meanwhile, domestic insti-tutional investors (DIIs)remained net buyers, picking

up shares worth �541.44 croreon Wednesday. However, for-eign portfolio investors (FPIs)sold equities to the tune of�1,086.39 crore, provisionaldata showed.

“Ease in inflation andrecovery in rupee added opti-mism in the market. Stability inyield and rupee will be crucialfor the market momentumwhile investors have continuedto stay cautious due to globaltriggers.

“The global peers also trad-ed on a positive note in expec-tation of ease in trade tensionsbetween US and China. Anyredressal in tensions will pro-vide enough headroom fordomestic market,” said VinodNair, Head of Research, GeojitFinancial Services.

The overall investor opti-mism rubbed off on broadermarkets as well, lifting the BSEmid-cap and small-cap indicesby 1.62 per cent and 1.38 percent.

Vedanta was the big hitterin the Sensex kitty, surging 5.25per cent after the company saidThursday it has discoverednatural gas in a KrishnaGodavari basin block.

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Inflation-based on wholesaleprices eased to a four-month

low of 4.53 per cent in Auguston softening of food prices, butexperts warned that a slidingrupee and rising oil pricescould prompt an interest ratehike by RBI.

The effect of rising petroland diesel prices has been neu-tralised by deflation in foodarticles, which resulted a lowerwholesale price index (WPI)inflation for August.

The WPI-based inflationstood at 5.09 per cent in July and3.24 per cent in August last year.

According to Governmentdata released on Friday, foodarticles registered deflation at4.04 per cent in August 2018.Last month, deflation in thiscategory was 2.16 per cent.

Deflation in vegetables was20.18 per cent in August, asagainst 14.07 per cent in theprevious month.

Inflation in the ‘fuel andpower‘ basket was 17.73 percent in August as prices ofdomestic fuel increased, in linewith high global crude oil ratesand a depreciating rupee.

While inflation in liquefiedpetroleum gas (LPG) was 46.08per cent, in diesel and petrol itwas 19.90 per cent and 16.30 percent, respectively, during August.

ICRA Principal EconomistAditi Nayar said core inflationhardened to a series high 5 percent in August, from 4.8 percent in July, a signal that firmswith pricing power are begin-ning to transmit the weakerrupee and rising costs associ-ated with industrial inputssuch as fuels, to final prices.

“The rise in the core-WPIinflation in August 2018, inaddition to the risks posed tothe outlook for the CPI infla-tion by the INR depreciation,elevated crude oil prices andrevision in MSPs, appear like-ly to prompt a majority of theMPC members to vote for arate hike in the October 2018policy meeting,” Nayar said.

RBI‘s fourth bi-monthlypolicy review is slated onOctober 5. Industry chamberCII, however, said that a declinein both wholesale and retailinflation would boost senti-ments and a rate cut by the RBIat this juncture will help revivethe investment cycle.

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Petrol and diesel prices onFriday scaled new highs as

rates were increased on accountof rupee depreciation and risein international oil rates.

While petrol price wasincreased by 28 paise a litre,diesel rates went up by 22paise, according to a pricenotification of state-owned oilmarketing companies.

Petrol in Delhi now costs�81.28 per litre and diesel ispriced at �73.30 a litre.

In Mumbai, petrol isretailed at 88.67 per litre, for�84.49 in Chennai and �83.14in Kolkata. Diesel costs �77.82per litre in Mumbai, �77.49 perlitre in Chennai and �75.36 perlitre in Kolkata, according tothe notification.

Delhi has the cheapest fuelrates among all metros andmost state capitals because oflower taxes. Mumbai has thehighest sales tax or value addedtax (VAT).

A combination of a dip inrupee value against the USdollar and rise in crude oilprices has led to a spike inpump prices since mid-August.

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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.on Friday shared its vision in

India’s smartphone market andlineup of advanced compo-nents at its fourth SamsungMobile Solutions Forum(SMSF) in New Delhi.

It also highlighted latestcomponent solutions such asExynos Modem 5100, ISOCELLPlus image sensors andLPDDR5-based mobile DRAM.

More than 300 industryexperts attended the forumthat included global mobilemanufacturers.

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India ranks third globally interms of number of family

owned businesses with 111companies of $839 billion totalmarket capitalisation, followedclosely after China with 159firms and the United Stateswith 121 firms, says a report.

According to the ‘CreditSuisse Family 1000 in 2018‘ report,published by the Credit SuisseResearch Institute (CSRI), interms of number of family ownedbusinesses, within the non-JapanAsian region, China, India andHong Kong dominate the list.

These three jurisdictionstogether comprise around 65per cent of the non-Japan Asiansection of the CSRI‘s database,

and has a combined market cap-italisation of $2.85 trillion (or 71per cent) of the market share.

Korea came in fourth place,with 43 companies ($434.1 bil-lion market capitalisation), fol-lowed by Indonesia, Malaysia,the Philippines and Thailand,each with 26 companies.

The report covered 11markets in the Non-JapanAsian region, which continueto dominate and represent a 53per cent share of the universe,with a total market capitalisa-tion of over USD 4 trillion.

The report further notedthat in 2017 alone, Non-Japan-Asia-based family-owned com-panies generated 25.63 percent greater cash flow return oninvestment (CFROI).

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Hinduja groupflagship Ashok

Leyland on Fridaysaid it has bagged anorder for 200 buses inBangladesh.

The order is forsingle-decker ACbuses which includesintercity AC buses aswell as city AC buses, AshokLeyland said in a statement.

“These completely built-up(CBU) units for BRTC(Bangladesh Road TransportCorporation) will be procuredagainst a tender under Indianline of credit,” it added.

Commenting on the devel-opment, Ashok LeylandManaging Director Vinod KDasari said the repeat order,after the double-decker bus

order, is a testament of the trustBangladesh authorities havein the company.

“Bangladesh continues tobe one of our most importantexport markets. And it willcontinue to play a key role inour strategy of increasing ourexport share in total revenue,”Dasari said.

Ashok Leyland sharesended 2.7 per cent up at�131.35 on the BSE.

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SYSKA Group (India) inpartnership with

Biometronic Pte. Ltd.(Singapore) and SuyinOptronics, Corp. (Taiwan) willset up India‘s first camera mod-ule factory. The factory will besetup in Noida with the totalinvestment of $30 million forthis project which will be uti-lized in three phases.

Suyin Optronics will man-ufacture camera modules formobile phones, automotiveindustry, medical, securityindustry and defense industry.The factory will have a cleanroom for an installed produc-tion capacity of 5 million piecesper month and an expansionplan to set up the first chip-on-board plant.

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Boosted by an undefeated run, seven-time champions India will start asfavourites against Maldives in the

summit clash of the South Asian FootballFederation Cup here on Saturday.

The Indian team, comprising under-23players except for one, has been the onlyunbeaten side in the tournament. It hasbeaten Sri Lanka (2-0) and Saturday's oppo-nents Maldives (2-0) in the group stagesbefore prevailing over Pakistan (3-1) in thesemifinals.

The defending champions will bechasing its eight triumph in 12 editions andthird back-to-back titles as it seeks to con-tinue its stranglehold in the regional tour-nament.

Maldives have not played in the finalin the last three editions, losing in the semi-finals each time. India, on the other hand,has played in the final of all the earlier 11editions except in 2003.

The last time the Bangabandhu Stadiumhere hosted the tournament in 2009, Indiaand Maldives faced each other in the sum-mit clash and both sides could not score agoal even in the extra time. India won thatfinal match in penalty shootout.

Stephen Constantine would not wantSaturday's match to meander towardspenalty shootout but his players cannot takeMaldives lightly though the island countryhas been struggling in the group stages.

"Maldives have shown their worth inthe semifinal against Nepal. A 3-0 winagainst Nepal was not an easy task. Eventhough we have won against them in thegroup stage, we cannot afford to disrespectthem. We have to keep in mind that threeof their main players did not play againstus," Constantine said ahead of the final.

"Maldives have our full respect and weare expecting a tough game on Saturday.But we also deserve to be in the final. Wefear none and as I said before, we havecome with a strong intent to win the tour-

nament," he said.Constantine said his players have the

added incentive of doing well on Saturdayas they can earn a place in the Asian Cupsquad.

"These boys have a carrot in front ofthem which is a berth in the Asian Cup

squad. They are well aware of the fact thatthey need to perform constantly to earn thesame."

Manvir Singh, who scored a braceagainst Pakistan in the semifinal to win hissuccessive MVP Award of the tournament,said the focus is to continue the good work.

"It was a group of tough guys and thejob was never going to be an easy one. Butwe had the self-belief to churn out the pos-itive results and eventually, we did," he said.

"Now, our focus is on the final. We areworking as a unit and we just need to keepour heads down and continue the work,"the 23-year-old striker who is leading thegoal-scorers' chart with three goals said.

Maldives head coach Petar Segrt saidhis team has a chance to win the title.

"I'm very proud of all our players andthe staff. This is a huge success for us tobe in the final of this competition. Werespect India, they're a big opponent. Butthis is our chance which we want to take."

Maldives captain Akram Abdul said,"We have struggled in the group stages butwe are in the final now. This is our biggestchance. We have not played the final innine years. We are well prepared and weare going to fight to win the tournament."

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Daniel Ricciardo recorded thefastest lap in the first free

practice session on Friday for thisweekend's Singapore Grand Prixbut Ferrari's replacement forKimi Raikkonen had a momentto forget.

Charles Leclerc marked hisfirst session since beingannounced as Sebastian Vettel'snew teammate for 2019 with ablunder near the end of the ses-sion.

The 20-year-old Leclerc mis-judged his Sauber's exit from theAnderson Bridge, clipped thewall hard at turn 13 anddestroyed his right front wheel.

Singapore specialistRicciardo, who has finished onthe second step of the podium forthe past three years, powered hisRed Bull round in 1 min 39.711sec at the spectacular Marina Baystreet circuit which snakes its waythrough the heart of Asia's "LionCity".

Max Verstappen completeda Red Bull one-two just two-tenths of a second behind butchampionship leader LewisHamilton was only sixth fastest,1.521sec off the pace, afterMercedes opted not to use thefastest hypersoft tyres in the ses-sion.

Sebastian Vettel, who trailsHamilton by 30 points in the dri-vers' championship, was thirdfastest and less than a tenth of asecond behind Verstappen.Raikkonen was fourth.

Nico Hulkenberg in hisRenault was an impressive fifthfastest but Valtteri Bottas in thesecond Mercedes could onlycome in eighth fastest.

The Marina Bay track has 23

corners, more than any other onthe current Formula One calen-dar, and is a severe test for bothdrivers and cars with tempera-tures topping 30 Celsius.

But the first session, whichtakes place in daylight and thesearing heat of the afternoon, isoften not a true guide to the paceof the cars for the night race.

The green track traditional-ly gets much quicker as the raceweekend progresses and morerubber is laid down.

The track was noticeablydusty in some sections and sev-eral front-runners experiencedloss of grip and spins on thebumpy surface.

Hamilton ran wide a coupleof times, Bottas and Williams'Lance Stroll both spun at the sec-ond corner, as did Force India'sSergio Perez at turn 20, andRaikkonen missed a turn andended up in a run-off dead-end

before spinning his car 360degrees to get back on track.

5��5�,*#��*9�-�=�-#-�Mercedes chief Toto Wolff 's

idea of each team adding a thirdcar to promote young talenteddrivers has received a mixedresponse from the Formula 1 fra-ternity.

During the previous race inMonza earlier this month, Wolffhad proposed that a third carshould be introduced for youngdrivers like Esteban Ocon, whodoesn't have a drive for next yeardespite doing well for ForceIndia since joining them last year.

The other Mercedes-backeddrivers whose future is uncertainis Pascal Wehrlein and Formula2 Championship lead GeorgeRussell.

However, the likes of RedBull and Sauber have alreadyexpressed apprehensions over

the radical idea.Ahead of the Singapore

Grand Prix here on Sunday,championship leader LewisHamilton of Mercedes, KimiRaikkonen of Ferrari, BrendonHartley of Toro Rosso and KevinMagnussen of Haas gave theirvaried opinions on the subject.

"I quite like the idea of morecars. More teams maybe, ratherthan three drivers in a team -would be a handful," said reign-ing world champion Hamilton,endorsing the view of his teamprincipal.

Former world championRaikkonen said having threecars in each team can makethings complicated.

"I think it would be nice tohave a lot of cars but then, I don'tknow. So many things that it willchange. It's pretty difficult towork it out," said the Finn, whowill be returning to Sauber.

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Kidambi Srikanth crashed out of themen's singles event after losing a

marathon three-game quarterfinal todraw curtains on India's campaign atthe $ 700,000 Japan Open badmintontournament here on Friday.

Just like his compatriots, fatigueseemed to have caught up with theseventh-seeded Srikanth as he squan-dered a game's lead to lose 21-19, 16-21, 18-21 against Korea's Lee DongKeun in a duel that lasted an hour and19 minutes.

Former world No 1 Srikanth, whowon a Silver at the Gold CoastCommonwealth Games, had earlieravenged his Asian Games loss to HongKong's Wong Wing Ki Vincent witha clinical straight game win in the pre-vious round.

In a hard-fought battle where for-tunes fluctuated too often, Srikanthconverted a 2-4 deficit into a 9-5 leadin the opening game. But Lee clawedback at 10-10 before the Indian man-

aged to grab a one-point advantage atthe first interval.

Srikanth continued his upwardmovement but Lee kept breathingdown his neck. Leading 19-17, theIndian allowed the Korean to catch upagain before securing the requiredpoints to pocket the opening game.

Lee played positively in the sec-ond game, reducing his errors butSrikanth found the going tough as heconceded seven straight points to hisopponent, who moved to a massive12-5 lead at one stage.

Srikanth tried to make a come-back but Lee kept his nose ahead toroar back into the contest.

The decider turned out to be apulsating contest as Lee jumped to a12-9 lead only to see Srikanth turningthe tables at 13-12 with four-pointburst. However, Lee managed to drawparity at 14-14 and then slowly movedahead to eventually seal the contest. Itwas Srikanth's second defeat to Lee,who had outlasted the Indian at the2016 Asia Championship.

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Aperfect start from their open-ing four games has raised

expectations over Liverpool's titlecredentials, but Jurgen Klopp'smen face their first serious test ofthe Premier League campaign atTottenham on Saturday.

After dismissing West Ham 4-0 on the opening weekend of theseason, Liverpool have had toshow a more resilient approach innarrow victories over CrystalPalace, Brighton and Leicester,compared to the free-scoring sidethat romped to the ChampionsLeague final last season.

Indeed, the only goal theReds have conceded so far thisterm came from a howler by£65-million ($84 million) goal-keeper Alisson Becker in trying todribble his way out of trouble atLeicester.

The installation of Joe Gomezalongside Virgil van Dijk at cen-tre-back, allied to the continued

improvement of young full-backsAndrew Robertson and TrentAlexander-Arnold and the addi-tion of Alisson, makes the currentLiverpool defence far harder tobreach than on their last visit toWembley.

Harry Kane ran riot backthen in October last year, scoring

twice and forcing Klopp to sub-stitute Dejan Lovren after just 30minutes as Spurs cruised to a 4-1win.

Kane will be keen to get backamong the goals with lingeringquestions over his early-seasonform and fitness in a World Cuphangover since picking up the

Golden Boot in Russia.And there will be even more

responsiblity on Kane's shoul-ders with captain Hugo Lloris andDele Alli ruled out through injury.

Defeat at Watford just beforethe international break punc-tured Spurs' own push to be con-sidered title contenders. But vic-

tory will take them level withLiverpool at the top of the table forat least a few hours before otherfront-runners Chelsea, Watfordand Manchester City are in actionlater on Saturday.

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package of the season thanks tofour straight wins to stand along-side pace-setters Liverpool andChelsea.

Hornets boss Javi Gracia hasearned a reputation for big scalps,upending Barcelona and RealMadrid during his time in Spainwith Malaga, and thrashingChelsea 4-1 in his first match incharge at Vicarage Road to go withvictory over Spurs two weeksago.

United got back on trackwith a comfortable win at Burnleybefore the international break tocalm the storm surrounding JoseMourinho's future.

But should Mourinho's mensuffer a third defeat in five leaguegames, the chances of catching thelikes of Liverpool and City wouldalready look forlorn.

At the other end of the table,West Ham remain the only sidewithout a point after four gamesdespite a huge transfer spend ofnearly £100 million over the sum-mer.

Former Man City managerManuel Pellegrini has not justbeen backed in the transfer mar-ket, but also with the patience ofthe Hammers hierarchy.

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Ramkumar Ramanthan gave his all but it wasnot enough to stop Laslo Djere from winning

his first Davis Cup match as India trail Serbia 0-1 in the World Group Play-off tie, here Friday.

Ramkumar battled hard before losing 6-3, 4-6, 6-7(2), 2-6 to Djere in the opening singles whichlasted three hours and 11 minutes on the indoorclay court.

Ramkumar pulled away in the opening set witha break of serve in the sixth game. The Indian wassolid with his returns from the baseline while Djerefaltered on the second breakpoint, sending a fore-hand return long.

An easy hold in the next put Ramkumar ahead5-2. He served out the set in the ninth game whenDjere hit a backhand wide from an advantageousposition.

With Ramkumar at the middle of the net, theSerb attempted a passing winner and could notkeep the ball inside the lines.

Ramkumar charged to the net several times,as he has been doing of late, in the second set andgot a few points. He used to stay mostly at the base-line but now he has worked on his serve and vol-ley skills after training with Sanjay Singh, who hasa long association with master-of-the-art LeanderPaes.

Djere however cut down on his errors andhardly lost points on his serve to lead 3-2. Priorto that, Serbian captain Nenad Zimonjic hadargued with the chair umpire for overturning a callfrom the linesman, who called fault onRamkumar's first serve at 40-30 in the fourth game.

The chair umpire checked the spot where theball landed when Ramkumar protested against thecall and awarded an ace in Indian's favour.

Serving at 4-5, Ramkumar could not pick upa half-volley and netted a backhand slice to handtwo set points to Djere. He needed a good serveat this crunch situation but served a double faultto put the match on even-keel.

In the third set, Ramkumar hit a backhand tothe net on the second break point in the secondgame to trail 0-2 but a flurry of errors from Djerein the next game, got the Indian back on serve.

There was no break of serve after that butRamkumar saved a break point in the fiercelyfought 12th game to force a tie-breaker. Djerecruised to a 4-0 lead and closed the set with an ace.

Ramkumar had chance to break Djere twicein the fourth set but he did not capitalise on those.However, the Serb did not miss what came his wayand broke Ramkumar for a crucial 4-2 lead. Therewas no stopping Djere from there on as he put hiscountry ahead in the tie.

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Virat Kohli's absence mighthave taken some sheen

off it but the general excite-ment surrounding Indo-Pakencounters will be the USP ofthe six-nation Asia Cup start-ing Saturday with aBangladesh-Sri Lanka clashhere.

While there are twoassured India-Pakistan match-es, one in the group league andthe other at the Super Fourstage, the organisers, broad-casters, and the supporterswill be hoping for a possiblesummit showdown onSeptember 28 too.

For India, it will be achance to see how the teamreacts to pressure situations inabsence of Kohli, who hasbeen rested after a gruellingEngland tour, which endedwith a 1-4 Test series loss ear-lier this week.

The team will begin itscampaign on September 18against Hong Kong, followedby the much-anticipated clashagainst Pakistan the next day.

While Rohit Sharma hasbeen a brilliant white ball play-er, his leadership skills haven'tbeen tested against a qualityside.

He led against Sri Lankalast December but it was abelow par opposition. In fact,Bangladesh, with its resources,is a better 50-over side cur-rently.

But the focal point wouldbe how India India play aquality Pakistan side that hasa world-class fast bowler inMohammed Aamir, a solid allrounder in Hasan Ali, a prolificopener in Fakhar Zaman andtalented batsmen such as BabarAzam and Harris Sohail.

India's main aim would beto settle their middle-ordercombination and also find aperfect batting position forMahendra Singh Dhoni duringthe course of the tournament.

The Asia Cup has been atournament where Bangladeshhave done well over the years.During the last edition at

home, they were in finalalthough the event was com-peted in T20 format.

In 2012, they played thefinals in the 50 over format.

The side under MashrafeMortaza has the wherewithalto compete in the 50-over for-mat with a good bowling line-up for slower decks like theones that will be on offer inDubai and Abu Dhabi.

The batting comprises amercurial Tamim Iqbal and theseasoned MahmudullahRiyadh. Mushfiqur Rahim andShakib Al Hasan are fantasticon their days and the teamwould remain a dark horse inthe tournament.

Sri Lanka is one team thatIndia have been pitted againstthe most in the last 24 monthsacross formats. The team'stransition phase is taking toolong and internal issues likeadministration of the Boardand pay disputes have plaguedthem for quite a while now.

However, they have a lot ofexperience in AngeloMathews, Upul Tharanga,Thisara Perera and LasithMalinga with youngsters suchas Akila Dananjaya, DasunShanaka and Kasun Rajitha.

Sri Lanka's problem hasbeen their consistency andthey will hope to do coursecorrection.

For Afghanistan, it will bea tournament to show thatthere is more to their side thana global T20 superstar inRashid Khan. With the likes ofMohammed Shahzad in theline-up, the Afghans will behoping to create an upset ortwo.

Last but not the least isHong Kong, led by a player ofIndian origin Anshuman Rath.

It is a team of semi-pro-fessional players, who migrat-ed to the country in search ofgreener pastures. Their mainaim would be to remain com-petitive as their matches havenow been accorded ODI status.

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Fast bowler Dale Steyn was on Fridaynamed in a 16-man South African squad for

three one-day internationals against Zimbabwe,starting on September 30.

Steyn, 35, has been plagued by injuries inrecent years and has not played in a one-dayinternational since October 2016.

But he recently stated his determination tofinish his white-ball career by playing in the2019 Cricket World Cup in England.

Steyn made a comeback to internationalcricket after shoulder and foot injuries whenhe played in two Tests in Sri Lanka in July buthe only took two wickets at a cost of 89.50 runseach. He has subsequently shown a return toform during a stint with English countyHampshire, taking 20 wickets in five first-classmatches at an average of 19.10.

Christiaan Jonker, who made 49 in apromising debut in the third and final Twenty20 international against India in February, isthe only newcomer in the one-day squad.

Tahir, who was rested from South Africa'stour of Sri Lanka, makes a return followingsteady performances in the Caribbean PremierLeague (CPL) 2018.

Batsman David Miller and wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton de Kock have been rested forthe one-day series but will play in a three-matchTwenty20 series.

Two uncapped batsmen, Gihahn Cloeteand Rassie van der Dussen, were included inthe Twenty20 squad.

Selection convener Linda Zondi said thesquads were part of an ongoing process to assesstalent ahead of the World Cup.

"We still have one-day series after this oneagainst Australia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka as weget closer to finalising our likely World Cupsquad," he said.

Faf du Plessis was named as captain of bothsquads, subject to fitness assessments. He suf-fered a shoulder injury in Sri Lanka in Augustand said on his return to South Africa that hewould miss the Zimbabwe series rather thanreturn to action too soon.

Cricket South Africa said in a statementthat if Du Plessis was not fully fit a replacementcaptain would be named nearer the time.

6�#2-,9��G8,-Faf du Plessis (captain), Hashim Amla, JPDuminy, Reeza Hendricks, Imran Tahir,Christiaan Jonker, Heinrich Klaasen (wkt),Keshav Maharaj, Aiden Markram, WiaanMulder, Lungi Ngidi, Andile Phehlukwayo,Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi, Dale Steyn,Khaya Zondo.

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Gurpreet Singh clinched a Silverin the senior men's standard pis-

tol but India's junior shooters con-tinued to hold centre-stage, snaringtwo Gold medals to steer the coun-try to its best-ever finish in the ISSFWorld Championships here onFriday.

Vijayveer Sidhu, 16, shot a Goldin the 25m standard pistol event forjunior men after combining withRajkanwar Singh Sandhu andAdarsh Singh to claim the team Goldon the last day of the prestigiousInternational Shooting SportFederation (ISSF) competition.

India signed off third in theoverall medals tally with 11 Gold,nine Silver and seven Bronze medalsfor a total of 27, making this theirbest performance in the showpiece.

Sidhu, who finished fourth inthe 25m pistol on Thursday, man-aged an individual score of 572 tofinish ahead of Korean LeeGunheyok (570) and China's HaojieZhu 565).

In the team competition, Sidhu,Sandhu (564) and Singh (559)totalled 1695 to fetch the top hon-ours with Korea (1693) and CzechRepublic (1674) settling for theSilver and the Bronze medals respec-tively.

Singh managed a fourth-placefinish in the individual competition.

In the senior competition,Gurpreet Singh ensured that thecontingent signed off on a positivenote with his Silver.

The former CommonwealthGames Gold-medallist fired a scoreof 579 to finish second behindUkraine's Pavlo Korostylov, whoshot a score of 581. The Bronzemedal went to Koreas Kim Junhong,who shot the same score as theIndian but had lesser inner-10s to hiscredit.

India ended fourth in the teamevent with Gurpreet, AmanpreetSingh (560) and London OlympicsSilver-medallist Vijay Kumar (560)combining for a score of 1699.

India's junior women's skeetteam finished a creditable fourthwith the trio of Simranpreet Kaur,Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Areeba Khantotalling 318. None of them managedto qualify for the individual finals.

In the men's skeet event, AngadVir Singh Bajwa shot 118 to finish

49th, followed by Sheeraz Sheikh(115) at 69th. Mairaj Ahmad Khanshot 113 to finish 77th. The team fin-ished 20th.

In the men's 300M rifle 3 posi-tions Parul Kumar (1134) was thebest-placed Indian at 24th, whileAmit Kumar shot 1124 to finish28th. Akash Ravidas was furtherdown at at 35th with a score of shot1077. The team finished 8th with3335 points.

With the Youth Olympic Gamesscheduled for October, the WorldChampionship concludes ISSF'sengagements for the year.

The next big event will come upin February next year with the firstWorld Cup stage, which will also bea Tokyo 2020 qualifying event, to beheld in New Delhi's Dr Karni Singhrange.

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The World Cup is still eightmonths away but India skipperRohit Sharma feels that the six-

nation Asia Cup starting Saturdaywill give his side a chance to worktowards a "perfect combination"going into next year's mega event.

India are still searching for a per-fect middle order combination in theone-dayers even as they have a set-tled top three batsmen in stand-inskipper himself, Shikhar Dhawan andregular captain Virat Kohli.

Asked if the Asia Cup will be abuild up to next year's World Cup inEngland, Rohit said: "In a way, youcan say that. Every team wants to goto the World Cup in a good frame ofmind. But we shouldn't be lookingtoo far ahead. Obviously the AsiaCup gives every team an opportuni-ty to get the combination rightbefore the World Cup."

However, during the captains'press meet, the talented Mumbaikarsaid that while the World Cup will beat the back of his mind, it is better totake one game at a time.

"I won't understand how Angie(Angelo Mathews), Sarfraz (Ahmed)or Mashrafe (Mortaza) are looking atit and what their strengths and weak-nesses are. But as the tournamentprogresses, we will understand whatteams are doing.

"The World Cup is too far ahead.We will play a lot of games beforethat. A lot of players will get anopportunity to stake claim for a berthin that World Cup squad. It's a greatopportunity to try for that perfectcombination," said Rohit.

India begin their Asia Cup cam-paign against Hong Kong onSeptember 18 before taking on arch-rivals Pakistan the next day.

While India versus Pakistangames are of primary interest, Rohitsaid it's not just about one match.

"Pakistan have played some greatcricket of late and we are looking for-ward to that clash. However, by nomeans I am saying that focus shouldbe on one game as all the games thatare going to be played over here willbe quite competitive," he said.

"The focus should be on thewhole tournament because everynation is eyeing that title. Also for thefirst time, I am captaining in a full

tournament and it's excitingfor me personally."

While he played forMumbai Indians duringthe first phase of IPL-1,Rohit last played in Dubai in arepresentative tournament for IndiaA, way back in 2006.

"I am very happy to be back here.I didn't actually realise that wehaven't played here for the past 12years."

Asked about the weather, Rohitadmitted that it's not really pleasantand also felt that the group that wasin England for the Test series need-ed the break to rejuvenate themselves.

"It's not pleasant for sure. Forthe guys who were in England,it was a hectic tour and it is onlyfair that they go home and

spend some time with their fam-ilies and then come here. It is not

easy but then weather is going to besame for all the teams. So we have tojust focus on playing good cricket.That's all," he signed off.

;��6BA#��#*��#��6��#B�-#A?�@�The BCCI has sent fiveIndia A bowlers to help the seniorteam during the net sessions aheadof the Asia Cup, starting in DubaiSaturday.

Three pacers — Avesh Khan ofMadhya Pradesh, M Prasidh Krishnaof Karnataka and Siddarth Kaul ofPunjab — along with left-arm spin-ner Shahbaz Nadeem and leg-spin-ner Mayank Markande will be bowl-ing at the nets for the next three days.

Save Avesh, the other four werea part of the India A and B squads inthe recently concluded Quadrangularseries which also had A teams fromAustralia and South Africa.

Kaul was also a part of the seniorteam during the limited overs leg ofthe UK tour.

However, with the Vijay HazareTrophy (National One-Dayers) start-ing from September 19, it is expect-ed that the players will be sent backon time to represent their stateteams.

"Not everywhere do you getquality net bowlers and it becomes aproblem for the senior team duringpractice sessions. With back to backgames, you don't expect aBhuvneshwar Kumar or a JaspritBumrah to bowl flat out at the nets.Also the young academy bowlers attimes can't provide quality practice.Hence we have got some of our nextline of bowlers," a senior BCCI offi-

cial said on Friday."This is a process that proves to

be mutually beneficial for the team.While senior batsmen get qualitypractice, someone like a MayankMarkande can learn a lot by bowlingat the India nets. Also the senior play-ers and the coaches can only keep atab on the talent pool," he added.

The process was started beforethe tour of South Africa when thelikes of Avesh, Basil Thampi weresent to South Africa for net sessions.

The BCCI has also arranged fora left-arm throwdown expert from SriLanka named Nuwan Seneviratne,with specif ic aim of tacklingMohammed Aamir's fast pacedincoming deliveries.

Around 10 members Indian teamunder stand-in-skipper Rohit Sharmahad their first net session on Friday.

The ones who were a part of theEngland Test series are expected toarrive on Sunday evening and jointhe training on the eve of the HongKong match on Monday.

India start their Asia Cup cam-paign against qualifiers Hong Kongon September 18, followed by theirencounter against arch rivals Pakistanon September 19.

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India coach Ravi Shastri onFriday said that they didn't lose

the Test series to a collectiveeffort from England but to all-rounder Sam Curran's individualbrilliance which became the dif-ference at crucial junctures.

India lost the five-Test series1-4 but Shastri put up a brave frontmaking it clear that the finalscoreline does not depict the kindof fight that Virat Kohli's men putup.

"I would not say (we) failedbadly. But we tried. We must givecredit where it is due. Virat and mewere asked to pick the Man of theSeries (for England) and we bothpicked Sam Curran. Look whereCurran has scored, and, that iswhere he hurt us. More than

England, it was Curranwho hurt us," Shastritold ESPN Cricinfo inan interview.

He then point-ed out the phasesduring Test matcheswhen the talented all-rounder took the gameaway from India.

"In the first Test,England were 87 for 7 (inthe second innings) atEdgbaston, he (Curran)got the runs. In the fourthTest, they were 86 for 6 (firstinnings) in Southampton, he

got the runs. We were 50 for0 (first innings) atEdgbaston, he got the wick-ets. So at crucial stages inthis series, he chipped inwith runs and wickets. That

was the differencebetween the two sides,"Shastri explained.

While the complexICC Test ranking sys-tem helped Indiaregain their pole posi-tion, Shastri main-

tained that he will takeheart from the fact that

the side put up a goodshow.

"We are still the No 1team in the world. AndEngland know how well wefought. Their media knowshow well we fought. Our fans

know how well we fought. Theirpublic knows how well we fought.We know inside how well wefought," he added.

Asked if he was distracted bythe criticism, Shastri said:"Absolutely not. (I would be the)last one to press the panic buttonwhen I see so many positives. Ihead back home with a very pos-itive state of mind. I know exact-ly what we do. I know exactly andclearly where the team is heading- it is heading in the right direc-tion."

There had been a lot of criti-cism of team's performance butShastri remained unperturbed.

"People are entitled to theiropinions. As long as we know thejob we are doing and we are hon-est to our jobs, we are not worriedabout what critics say," Shastri said.

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