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T o ensure that its ambition to install 30,000 megawatt of offshore wind power by 2030 does not come at the cost of the marine ecology health, the Government has proposed that lease of any wind farm in the sector will be cancelled if they are found posing threat to flora and fauna beneath the sea water. This is one of the major reasons for lease cancellations proposed in the draft Offshore Wind Energy Lease Rules, 2019 issued by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE). The Ministry is now seeking suggestions and opin- ion from the public about the proposed rules. The rules also propose penalty to the default- er project proponent in the form of fine and jail imprison- ment, if found violating the norms. As per the draft rules, lease of an offshore wind power project can be can- celled if it is found to be “causing environmental dam- age to both flora and fauna beneath the sea water and posing threat to human life and property while carrying out the activities under water and operation of the wind energy turbines during valid- ity of the lease.” The draft rules also main- tains that “If, in the opinion of the Central Government, oper- ation of the wind turbines/wind turbines is causing damage to environment or damage to property, or pollution can thereby be prevented, the Central Government may order the Wind Farm to be shut down pending an enquiry under sub-rule (a), which enquiry shall be held within a reasonable period of the mak- ing of such order.” In offshore wind farms, wind turbines are elevated over the sea level with different types of foundations, depend- ing on the depth. The large- scale deployment of offshore wind farms is the part of the Government’s shift to renew- able energy. Offshore wind power projects are used to exploit the potential of wind in open seas, where wind blows stronger than on land. The rules follow the national offshore wind energy policy which was notified in October 2015, providing a basic framework for develop- ment of offshore wind energy in the country. As per the policy, offshore wind energy blocks will be allo- cated to successful bidders through global bidding. C ommuting will become easier for the people of Delhi and Noida as the Delhi Metro is set to open the 6.6 kilometre Noida City Centre- Electronic City Metro corridor by next month. Signalling trial runs have already been com- menced on the section. Blue Line corridor will become Delhi Metro’s second longest Metro corridor after the 59 kilometre long Majlis Park- Shiv Vihar corridor of Phase 3. The route will be formally thrown open to the public once the Commissioner Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) inspects the corridor and accords oper- ation clearance. Once the section will be ready to open, a large number of people living in Noida such as sectors 34, 52 and 22 as well as commercial areas in sectors 59, 61, 62 and Electronic City will be largely befitted as cur- rently there is no metro con- nectivity. The 6.6-km long cor- ridor is an extension of exist- ing Blue Line corridor that con- nects the Dwarka and Noida City Centre. “The section will be a major boost for around 80,000 new passengers living in the inner circles of Noida and will also connect various parts of Delhi. Moreover, the entire Phase-III project of the Delhi Metro will be completed once this section will be ready to open for public,” said a senior Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) official. The new section will have a total of six stations at Sector 34, Sector 52, Sector 61, Sector 59, Sector 62 and NOIDA Electronic City. With this extension, after its opening, the Blue Line will become 56.46 kilometres long. Officials added that the six stations on this corridor will cater largely to densely popu- lated areas of Noida. The resi- dential areas of housing soci- eties in sectors 34, 52 and 22 will be immensely benefited as the people of these areas will be able to board trains from their own neighbourhoods to reach different areas of the NCR. Further, people can also easily reach major hospitals such as Safdurjung and AIIMS. P anic gripped motorists and commuters waiting for the traffic signal to turn green at the curve of Gurjar samrat Mihir Bhoj Marg, near Akshardham, when gunshots were heard around 4.30 pm on Thursday. What followed next was action that very much resem- bled to Bollywood flicks. Two Delhi Police personnel riding a scooty who happened to be in the vicinity, managed to nab a criminal after he and five of his accomplices had robbed two Haryana-based businessmen of Rs 35 to 40 lakh and one of the criminals opened fire at them. According to police, a gang of six armed robbers were tail- ing the duo after they hired an auto near Ghazipur Murga Mandi to reach to the Inter State Bus Terminus (ISBT) Kashmere Gate. Before they could com- prehend, they were surround- ed by the gang members who forcibly snatched the bag con- taining cash. Seeing the com- motion, the two Delhi Police personnel, intervened. Luckily the bullet missed the mark and in the ensuing melee, cops managed to pin down on the criminals while his cohorts fled the spot with the ‘loot’. The criminals opened fire at them. According to a senior police official, the victims have been identified as Ashok Kumar, a resident of Ganaur (Haryana) and Narendra, a resident of Karnal (Haryana). They are into the business of poultry and on Thursday they came here in Ghaizpur Mandi to collect their payment, police said. O ver a month after announcing an alliance for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) announced the allocation of seats to each partner on Thursday. In a statement, SP presi- dent Akhilesh Yadav and BSP chief Mayawati announced that while the SP will contest on 37 seats, the BSP will fight on 38. Amethi and Rae Bareli — the pocket boroughs of the Rahul family — have been left for the Congress. The three other seats left for other parties by the BSP-SP alliance are Baghpat, Muzaffarnagar and Mathura for the RLD. On January 12, when the SP and BSP announced their alliance, both Mayawati and Akhilesh had said they would contest 38 seats each and leave four seats for other parties including two for Congress. But the SP sacrificed one seat from its quota to pacify the RLD. As per the list, the SP will contest eight Lok Sabha seats in west UP, 16 in east UP, nine in central UP and two each in Terai and Bundelkhand region. Akhilesh is likely to contest from Kannauj and Mulayam Singh Yadav from Mainpuri. The SP has been given all the five seats it had won in the 2014 parliamentary elections - Azamgarh, Kannauj, Mainpuri, Budaun and Ferozabad. In the Lok Sabha by-elections, the SP had wrested the prized Gorakhpur and Kairana seats from the BJP. Because of its sway in east- ern UP, the BSP will contest 17 seats of the region, including Ambedkar Nagar from where Mayawati is expected to contest. The BSP will contest 11 seats of western UP, eight in central UP and two in Bundelkhand region. I ndia has decided to stop the flow of its share of water to Pakistan from rivers under the Indus Water Treaty, a move seen as an immediate fallout of deadly terrorist attack that killed 40 paramilitary person- nel in south Kashmir. Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari tweeted to con- vey the decision of the Government to stop India’s share of water going to Pakistan. But the actual implemen- tation of the decision may take up to six years as dams as high as 100 metres will have to be built to stop such flow, officials said insisting its decision was in no way a violation of the Treaty and was only aimed at getting the rightful due to peo- ple of the country. Under the Indus Water Treaty signed in 1960, the waters of the western rivers — the Indus, the Jhelum, and the Chenab — was given to Pakistan and those of the east- ern rivers — the Ravi, the Beas, and the Sutlej — to India. India’s share of water from the Ravi, the Beas and the Sutlej came to 33 million acres feet (MAF). While about 95 per cent of the water was being used in the country after the construction of three main dams across the rivers, close to 5 per cent water or 1.6 MAF would flow to Pakistan. To gain access to this water, India is now building more dams which will be completed in six years, officials said. Another official said the decision was taken two months back. Water to Pakistan from the three rivers has been flow- ing for 60 years while the country needs the same to meet needs of its citizens, they said insisting stopping of its share of water from going to Pakistan is in no way a viola- tion of the Treaty. “Under the leadership of Hon’ble PM Sri @naren- dramodi ji, Our Govt. Has decided to stop our share of water which used to flow to Pakistan. We will divert water from Eastern rivers and supply it to our people in Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab,” Gadkari said in a tweet. He further said, “The con- struction of dam has started at Shahpur-Kandi on the Ravi. Moreover, UJH project will store our share of water for use in J&K and the balance water will flow from 2nd Ravi-BEAS Link to provide water to other basin States.” Gadkari’s tweets have come barely a week after the gruesome Pulwama terror attack on February 14 in which as many as 40 CRFP person- nel were martyred when a terrorist rammed an explosives laden vehicle into a bus car- rying them. New Delhi believes the attack was planned and supported by elements in Pakistan. A gainst the backdrop of political parties, including the BJP and the Congress, making alliance partners for the Lok Sabha polls scheduled for next couple of months, the Opposition leaders are all set to meet on February 26 to dis- cuss the strategy and formation of a sub-committee for evolv- ing a common minimum programme (CMP). The meeting to be held at Mohali in Punjab is to be attended by top leaders like Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu among others. Detailed report on P2 T he main architect of the 2016 surgical strikes on terror launch pads in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK), for- mer Northern Army commander DS Hooda, will head a Congress task force on national security. Congress sources said party president Rahul Gandhi had met Hooda earlier and dis- cussed the modalities of the panel to which the Lt Gen (Retd) agreed. “The Congress president has set up a ‘task force on national security’ to prepare a vision paper for the country,” party said in a statement. Hooda will lead the panel and prepare the paper in consultation with a select group of experts. Hooda’s appoint- ment by the main Opposition party attains significance as Congress has been accusing the Modi Government of politi- cising the surgical strikes. On September 29, 2016, the Army had carried out the strikes on seven terrorist launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC) in retaliation to an attack on its base in Uri earlier that month. A week after the Pulwama terror attack in the Srinagar National Highway, Union Home Ministry on Thursday approved entitle- ment of all paramilitary per- sonnel to travel by air on the Delhi-Srinagar, Srinagar- Delhi, Jammu-Srinagar and Srinagar-Jammu sectors. Till now, officers in the rank of Inspectors and above were given this air travel facility. The Ministry of Home Affairs issued an order saying it “has approved the entitle- ment of air travel on Delhi- Srinagar, Srinagar-Delhi, Jammu-Srinagar and Srinagar- Jammu sectors to all the per- sonnel of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs)”. This includes, the order said, their journey for joining duty, transfer, tour or going on leave. As many as 65,000 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel are deployed in the State as part of 65 battalions apart from units of the Border Security Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and the National Security Guard (NSG) present in the Kashmir valley for rendering a variety of roles in the internal security grid. E xpressing annoyance over the Samajwadi Party (SP) joining hands with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav said that Akhilesh Yadav had “fin- ished” the party by deciding to contest only 50 per cent of the Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. “By contesting just 40 of the total 80 seats in the State, Akhilesh has finished half the party. Delaying the announce- ment of candidates is further weakening the prospects of the party,” Mulayam said while addressing party workers at SP State headquarters here in the presence of media persons on Thursday. This is the first time that Mulayam has come out open- ly against his son and SP chief after the party stitched an alliance with the BSP. “The fight of the SP is with the BJP. The party workers should pull up their socks to fight and win majority of the seats that the party is contest- ing,” he said while conceding that even as the SP was forging alliances, the BJP was far ahead in preparations and had already sent its observers to different constituencies. The remarks come days after SP patriarch created a stir in Parliament, saying he wished that Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns to power. The SP patriarch urged the party workers to approach him if they want a party ticket to contest the parliamentary polls and suggested that he could “change” any decision taken by Akhilesh. T he State Cabinet on Thursday late evening slashed current power tariff to half for electricity consump- tion up to 400 units that will benefit about 21 lakh consumers. The Cabinet also decided to waive off short-term loans taken by farmers. The loan waiver was one of the major electoral planks of the Congress in run up to the Assembly elections. The Cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, also decided to form a ‘Vikas Parishad’ for looking after the develop- mental works of scheduled regions in plains of Chhattisgarh (Raipur, Durg and Bilaspur), state Agriculture Minister Ravindra Choubey informed reporters. “The Cabinet has decided to slash current power tariff to half, for electricity consump- tion up to 400 units,” Choubey said, adding that it will bene- fit more than 21 lakh people in the State. Likewise, the cabinet also ratified chief minister’s earlier announcement of allowing Chhattisgarh Mineral Development Corporation (CMDC) to oversee sand min- ing operations, which were earlier carried out by Panchayats. The Cabinet has also decided to end the rule of Chhattisgarh land revenue code which permitted acqui- sition of tribal land on mutu- al-agreement basis, Choubey stated. In another major deci- sion, the cabinet decided to permit regularisation of land under Rajiv Awas Yojana. RNI Regn. No. CHHENG/2012/42718, Postal Reg. No. - RYP DN/34/2013-2015

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To ensure that its ambition toinstall 30,000 megawatt of

offshore wind power by 2030does not come at the cost of themarine ecology health, theGovernment has proposed thatlease of any wind farm in thesector will be cancelled if theyare found posing threat to floraand fauna beneath the sea water.

This is one of the majorreasons for lease cancellationsproposed in the draft OffshoreWind Energy Lease Rules, 2019issued by the Ministry of Newand Renewable Energy(MNRE). The Ministry is nowseeking suggestions and opin-ion from the public about the

proposed rules. The rules alsopropose penalty to the default-er project proponent in theform of fine and jail imprison-ment, if found violating thenorms.

As per the draft rules,lease of an offshore windpower project can be can-celled if it is found to be“causing environmental dam-age to both flora and faunabeneath the sea water andposing threat to human lifeand property while carryingout the activities under waterand operation of the windenergy turbines during valid-ity of the lease.”

The draft rules also main-tains that “If, in the opinion of

the Central Government, oper-ation of the wind turbines/windturbines is causing damage toenvironment or damage toproperty, or pollution canthereby be prevented, theCentral Government mayorder the Wind Farm to be shut

down pending an enquiryunder sub-rule (a), whichenquiry shall be held within areasonable period of the mak-ing of such order.”

In offshore wind farms,wind turbines are elevated overthe sea level with different

types of foundations, depend-ing on the depth. The large-scale deployment of offshorewind farms is the part of theGovernment’s shift to renew-able energy. Offshore windpower projects are used toexploit the potential of wind inopen seas, where wind blowsstronger than on land.

The rules follow thenational offshore wind energypolicy which was notified inOctober 2015, providing abasic framework for develop-ment of offshore wind energyin the country.

As per the policy, offshorewind energy blocks will be allo-cated to successful biddersthrough global bidding.

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Commuting will becomeeasier for the people of

Delhi and Noida as the DelhiMetro is set to open the 6.6kilometre Noida City Centre-Electronic City Metro corridorby next month. Signalling trialruns have already been com-menced on the section. BlueLine corridor will becomeDelhi Metro’s second longestMetro corridor after the 59kilometre long Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar corridor of Phase 3.

The route will be formallythrown open to the publiconce the Commissioner MetroRail Safety (CMRS) inspectsthe corridor and accords oper-ation clearance.

Once the section will beready to open, a large numberof people living in Noida suchas sectors 34, 52 and 22 as wellas commercial areas in sectors59, 61, 62 and Electronic Citywill be largely befitted as cur-rently there is no metro con-nectivity. The 6.6-km long cor-ridor is an extension of exist-ing Blue Line corridor that con-nects the Dwarka and Noida

City Centre. “The section will be a major

boost for around 80,000 newpassengers living in the innercircles of Noida and will alsoconnect various parts of Delhi.Moreover, the entire Phase-IIIproject of the Delhi Metro willbe completed once this sectionwill be ready to open for public,”said a senior Delhi Metro RailCorporation (DMRC) official.

The new section will havea total of six stations at Sector34, Sector 52, Sector 61, Sector59, Sector 62 and NOIDAElectronic City. With thisextension, after its opening, theBlue Line will become 56.46kilometres long.

Officials added that thesix stations on this corridor willcater largely to densely popu-lated areas of Noida. The resi-dential areas of housing soci-eties in sectors 34, 52 and 22will be immensely benefited asthe people of these areas will beable to board trains from theirown neighbourhoods to reachdifferent areas of the NCR.Further, people can also easilyreach major hospitals such asSafdurjung and AIIMS.

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Panic gripped motorists andcommuters waiting for the

traffic signal to turn green atthe curve of Gurjar samratMihir Bhoj Marg, nearAkshardham, when gunshotswere heard around 4.30 pm onThursday.

What followed next wasaction that very much resem-bled to Bollywood flicks.

Two Delhi Police personnelriding a scooty who happenedto be in the vicinity, managedto nab a criminal after he andfive of his accomplices hadrobbed two Haryana-basedbusinessmen of Rs 35 to 40

lakh and one of the criminalsopened fire at them.

According to police, a gangof six armed robbers were tail-ing the duo after they hired anauto near Ghazipur MurgaMandi to reach to the InterState Bus Terminus (ISBT)Kashmere Gate.

Before they could com-prehend, they were surround-ed by the gang members whoforcibly snatched the bag con-taining cash. Seeing the com-motion, the two Delhi Policepersonnel, intervened.

Luckily the bullet missedthe mark and in the ensuingmelee, cops managed to pindown on the criminals whilehis cohorts fled the spot withthe ‘loot’. The criminals openedfire at them.

According to a seniorpolice official, the victims havebeen identified as AshokKumar, a resident of Ganaur(Haryana) and Narendra, aresident of Karnal (Haryana).They are into the business ofpoultry and on Thursday theycame here in Ghaizpur Mandi to collect their payment,police said.

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Over a month afterannouncing an alliance

for the upcoming Lok Sabhapolls, the Samajwadi Party (SP)and the Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) announced the allocationof seats to each partner onThursday.

In a statement, SP presi-dent Akhilesh Yadav and BSPchief Mayawati announced that

while the SP will contest on 37seats, the BSP will fight on 38.Amethi and Rae Bareli — thepocket boroughs of the Rahul family — have been leftfor the Congress.

The three other seats leftfor other parties by the BSP-SP alliance are Baghpat,Muzaffarnagar and Mathurafor the RLD.

On January 12, when theSP and BSP announced their

alliance, both Mayawati andAkhilesh had said they wouldcontest 38 seats each and leavefour seats for other partiesincluding two for Congress. Butthe SP sacrificed one seat fromits quota to pacify the RLD.

As per the list, the SP willcontest eight Lok Sabha seatsin west UP, 16 in east UP, ninein central UP and two each inTerai and Bundelkhandregion.

Akhilesh is likely to contestfrom Kannauj and MulayamSingh Yadav from Mainpuri.

The SP has been given allthe five seats it had won in the2014 parliamentary elections -Azamgarh, Kannauj, Mainpuri,Budaun and Ferozabad. In theLok Sabha by-elections, theSP had wrested the prizedGorakhpur and Kairana seatsfrom the BJP.

Because of its sway in east-ern UP, the BSP will contest 17seats of the region, includingAmbedkar Nagar from where Mayawati is expected tocontest.

The BSP will contest 11seats of western UP, eight incentral UP and two inBundelkhand region.

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India has decided to stop theflow of its share of water to

Pakistan from rivers under theIndus Water Treaty, a moveseen as an immediate fallout ofdeadly terrorist attack thatkilled 40 paramilitary person-nel in south Kashmir.

Water Resources MinisterNitin Gadkari tweeted to con-vey the decision of theGovernment to stop India’sshare of water going toPakistan.

But the actual implemen-tation of the decision may takeup to six years as dams as highas 100 metres will have to bebuilt to stop such flow, officialssaid insisting its decision wasin no way a violation of theTreaty and was only aimed atgetting the rightful due to peo-ple of the country.

Under the Indus WaterTreaty signed in 1960, thewaters of the western rivers —the Indus, the Jhelum, and the

Chenab — was given toPakistan and those of the east-ern rivers — the Ravi, theBeas, and the Sutlej — to India.

India’s share of water fromthe Ravi, the Beas and the Sutlejcame to 33 million acres feet(MAF). While about 95 percent of the water was beingused in the country after the

construction of three maindams across the rivers, close to5 per cent water or 1.6 MAFwould flow to Pakistan.

To gain access to this water,India is now building moredams which will be completedin six years, officials said.

Another official said thedecision was taken two months

back. Water to Pakistan fromthe three rivers has been flow-ing for 60 years while thecountry needs the same tomeet needs of its citizens, theysaid insisting stopping of itsshare of water from going toPakistan is in no way a viola-tion of the Treaty.

“Under the leadership of

Hon’ble PM Sri @naren-dramodi ji, Our Govt. Hasdecided to stop our share ofwater which used to flow toPakistan. We will divert waterfrom Eastern rivers and supplyit to our people in Jammu &Kashmir and Punjab,” Gadkarisaid in a tweet.

He further said, “The con-struction of dam has started atShahpur-Kandi on the Ravi.Moreover, UJH project willstore our share of water for usein J&K and the balance waterwill flow from 2nd Ravi-BEASLink to provide water to otherbasin States.”

Gadkari’s tweets havecome barely a week after thegruesome Pulwama terrorattack on February 14 in whichas many as 40 CRFP person-nel were martyred when aterrorist rammed an explosivesladen vehicle into a bus car-rying them. New Delhibelieves the attack wasplanned and supported byelements in Pakistan.

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Against the backdrop of political parties, including the BJPand the Congress, making alliance partners for the Lok

Sabha polls scheduled for next couple of months, theOpposition leaders are all set to meet on February 26 to dis-cuss the strategy and formation of a sub-committee for evolv-ing a common minimum programme (CMP). The meeting tobe held at Mohali in Punjab is to be attended by top leaderslike Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar,West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, TDP supremoN Chandrababu Naidu among others.

Detailed report on P2

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The main architect of the2016 surgical strikes on

terror launch pads inPakistan occupiedKashmir (POK), for-mer Northern Armycommander DSHooda, will head aCongress task forceon national security.Congress sources saidparty president Rahul Gandhihad met Hooda earlier and dis-cussed the modalities of thepanel to which the Lt Gen(Retd) agreed.

“The Congress presidenthas set up a ‘task force onnational security’ to prepare a

vision paper for the country,”party said in a statement. Hoodawill lead the panel and preparethe paper in consultation with

a select group ofexperts.

Hooda’s appoint-ment by the mainOpposition partyattains significance asCongress has beenaccusing the ModiGovernment of politi-

cising the surgical strikes. OnSeptember 29, 2016, the Armyhad carried out the strikes onseven terrorist launch pads across the Line of Control(LoC) in retaliation to an attackon its base in Uri earlier thatmonth.

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Aweek after the Pulwamaterror attack in the

Srinagar National Highway,Union Home Ministry onThursday approved entitle-ment of all paramilitary per-sonnel to travel by air on theDelhi-Srinagar, Srinagar-Delhi, Jammu-Srinagar andSrinagar-Jammu sectors.

Till now, officers in therank of Inspectors and abovewere given this air travel facility.

The Ministry of HomeAffairs issued an order sayingit “has approved the entitle-ment of air travel on Delhi-Srinagar, Srinagar-Delhi,Jammu-Srinagar and Srinagar-Jammu sectors to all the per-sonnel of the Central ArmedPolice Forces (CAPFs)”.

This includes, the ordersaid, their journey for joiningduty, transfer, tour or going on leave.

As many as 65,000 CentralReserve Police Force (CRPF)personnel are deployed in theState as part of 65 battalionsapart from units of the BorderSecurity Force, Indo-TibetanBorder Police (ITBP), CentralIndustrial Security Force(CISF), Sashastra Seema Bal(SSB) and the National SecurityGuard (NSG) present in theKashmir valley for rendering avariety of roles in the internalsecurity grid.

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Expressing annoyance overthe Samajwadi Party (SP)

joining hands with the BahujanSamaj Party (BSP), SP patriarchMulayam Singh Yadav saidthat Akhilesh Yadav had “fin-ished” the party by deciding tocontest only 50 per cent of theLok Sabha seats in UttarPradesh.

“By contesting just 40 ofthe total 80 seats in the State,Akhilesh has finished half theparty. Delaying the announce-ment of candidates is further

weakening the prospects ofthe party,” Mulayam said whileaddressing party workers at SPState headquarters here in thepresence of media persons onThursday.

This is the first time thatMulayam has come out open-ly against his son and SP chiefafter the party stitched analliance with the BSP.

“The fight of the SP is withthe BJP. The party workersshould pull up their socks tofight and win majority of theseats that the party is contest-ing,” he said while conceding

that even as the SP was forgingalliances, the BJP was far aheadin preparations and had alreadysent its observers to differentconstituencies.

The remarks come daysafter SP patriarch created a stirin Parliament, saying he wishedthat Prime Minister NarendraModi returns to power.

The SP patriarch urged theparty workers to approach himif they want a party ticket tocontest the parliamentary pollsand suggested that he could“change” any decision taken byAkhilesh.

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slashed current power tariff tohalf for electricity consump-tion up to 400 units that willbenefit about 21 lakh consumers.

The Cabinet also decidedto waive off short-term loanstaken by farmers. The loanwaiver was one of the majorelectoral planks of theCongress in run up to theAssembly elections.

The Cabinet meeting,chaired by Chief Minister

Bhupesh Baghel, also decidedto form a ‘Vikas Parishad’ forlooking after the develop-mental works of scheduledregions in plains ofChhattisgarh (Raipur, Durgand Bilaspur), state AgricultureMinister Ravindra Choubeyinformed reporters.

“The Cabinet has decidedto slash current power tariff tohalf, for electricity consump-tion up to 400 units,” Choubeysaid, adding that it will bene-fit more than 21 lakh people inthe State.

Likewise, the cabinet alsoratified chief minister’s earlier

announcement of allowingChhattisgarh MineralDevelopment Corporation(CMDC) to oversee sand min-ing operations, which wereearlier carried out byPanchayats.

The Cabinet has alsodecided to end the rule of

Chhattisgarh land revenuecode which permitted acqui-sition of tribal land on mutu-al-agreement basis, Choubey stated.

In another major deci-sion, the cabinet decided topermit regularisation of landunder Rajiv Awas Yojana.

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President Ram Nath Kovindon Thursday promulgated

four ordinances, including theMuslim Women (Protectionof Rights on Marriage) SecondOrdinance, 2019. After thePresident’s nod, the ordinancewill come into force for thethird time in less than a year.The ordinance makes the prac-tice of instant Triple Talaq apenal offence.

The Union Cabinet hadgiven its approval to re-issuethe ordinance on Tuesday. TheGovernment failed to pass theBill, known as the Triple TalaqBill, in the Rajya Sabha duringthe Budget Session ofParliament.

The Centre had first pro-mulgated the Muslim Women(Protection of Rights onMarriage) Ordinance inSeptember 2018. A Bill toreplace it was passed in the Lok Sabha in December,but remained pending in theRajya Sabha.

The Government promul-gated the ordinance again afterthe Winter Session ofParliament, but could not passthe Bill in the Rajya Sabha dur-ing the Budget Session.

The ordinance is set tolapse on June 3, when the cur-rent Government’s term endsand before the next session ofParliament.

The Triple Talaq ordinancehas faced stiff resistance fromthe Opposition parties. OnFebruary 20, SP chief AkhileshYadav had said that the ordi-nance will be used as “a weaponagainst minorities.”

The other ordinanceswhich promulgated by thePresident, are the IndianMedical Council (Amendment)Second Ordinance 2019; theCompanies (Amendment)Second Ordinance 2019 andthe Banning of UnregulatedDeposit Schemes SecondOrdinance 2019.

The Banning ofUnregulated Deposit SchemesSecond Ordinance 2019 is toprotect gullible investors from

Ponzi schemes. The Ordinancewill immediately tackle themenace of illicit deposit-takingactivities in the countrylaunched by rapacious opera-tors, which at present areexploiting regulatory gaps andlack of strict administrativemeasures to dupe poor andgullible people of their hard-earned savings.

The Indian MedicalCouncil (Amendment) SecondOrdinance, 2019 to allow theBoard of Governors (BOG) torun the scam-tainted apexbody for regulating medicaleducation.

The Companies(Amendment) SecondOrdinance 2019 It is based onthe recommendations of theCommittee to review offencesunder the Companies Act,2013, so as to fill critical gapsin the corporate governance &compliance framework asenshrined in the CompaniesAct 2013, while simultaneous-ly extending greater Ease ofDoing Business to law abidingcorporates.

The President also gave hisassent to changes in the IndianStamp Act, 1899, which willrationalise and harmonise thesystem of levying stamp dutyand help curb tax evasion. TheAmendments to the IndianStamp Act, 1899, were intro-duced as part of the FinanceAct 2019, and was approved byParliament.

The amendments proposeto create the legal and institu-tional mechanism to enableStates to collect stamp duty onsecurities market instrumentsat one place by one agency(through the Stock Exchangesor Clearing Corporationsauthorised by the stockexchange or by theDepositories), the FinanceMinistry said in a statement.

A mechanism for appro-priately sharing the stamp dutywith relevant StateGovernments based on state ofdomicile of the buying client isalso proposed, it added.

The proposed rationalisedand harmonised system isexpected to lead to zero taxevasion. The stamp duty willhave to be paid by either thebuyer or seller of a financialsecurity, as against the currentpractice of levying the duty onboth, the Ministry added.

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Prime Minister NarendraModi is likely to launch the

direct income support scheme— Pradhan Mantri KisanSamman Nidihi-PM-Kisanscheme and distribute the firstinstalment of Rs 2,000 duringhis visit to Gorakhpur andPrayagraj on February 24.

However, doubts are beingraised over the implementationof the scheme in some non BJPStates — Andhra Pradesh andTelangana. Both the States areseeking funds from the PM-Kisan yojna and want to dis-tribute by their own to the ben-eficiary farmers.

As many as 1.22 crore smalland marginal farmers havebeen enrolled by the Ministryof Agriculture till date for thePM Kisan scheme. The ModiGovernment intends to ensurerelease of first instalment to alleligible farmers — small andmarginal — before the modelcode of conduct kicks in.

Top sources said that UPGovernment has enrolled over70 lakh small and marginal

farmers under the scheme. TheUP Government is working onwar-footing to upload details ofeligible farmers on the centraldatabase by Friday. HaryanaGovernment has registeredover 10 lakh such farmers.

“PM Modi will address thetwo-day national conclave ofthe BJP Kisan Morcha onSunday and later release themoney — Rs 2,000 per landholding — electronically tothe bank accounts of farmers,mostly from Uttar Pradesh,with the click of a button,”sources said. As per initialreports, over 1.22 crore farm-ers have been enrolled underthe scheme across the countrytill date. The Ministry isAgriculture is working to enrollover two crore farmers by thetime of launch of the scheme.As per estimate, there are 12crore small and marginal farm-ers in the country.

According to sources, non-BJP State Government wantsfund from the Centre and dis-tribute it on their own while theCentre on the other hand,want to distribute to the ben-

eficiary by their own to getmaximum political mileage inthe upcoming Lok Sabha andAssembly polls. Earlier, theOdisha Government was notkeen but now they have agreedto join the Centre’s PM-Kisanscheme.

“Odisha Chief MinisterNaveen Patnaik has urged PM

Modi to consider inclusion oflandless labourers, sharecrop-pers and vulnerable house-holds under the PM-KISAN,Assam and Jharkhand havesought explanation from theCentre over implementation ofthe scheme and West Bengaland Madhya Pradesh haveasked for more time from the

Centre to implement thescheme,” the sources said.

“The State Governmentshave to ensure that everybodywho is a farmer and owns twohectares of land as on cut-offdate subject to exclusionsshould be included. The sig-nificance of PM-KISAN is that,for the first time, an attempt hasbeen made to transfer incomedirectly to farmers withoutusing price policy (of eitherinputs or output). In most ofthe programmes in the past,including those of previousgovernments, the policy instru-ment used has always beenprice,” said the officials.

In the interim budget, theModi Government announceddirect income support of Rs6,000 per year to 12.5 croresmall and marginal farmerswith land holding up to 2hectares under the PM KisanSamman Nidhi Yojana. Sincethe scheme was launched inretrospective effect fromDecember 1, 2018, the firstinstalment of Rs 2,000 is duewithin the current fiscal yearending March 31, 2019.

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Contrary to theGovernment’s claims that

leprosy is on decline in thecountry, the Indian Association of DermatologistsVenereologists & Leprologists(IADVL) during its unique 63days drive which culminatedhere on Thursday noted thatthere were high endemic pock-ets of the crippled disease andthat patients were sufferingwith serious infectious cases.

“What is worrying is that inthe last two three-years, andthat what we also noticed dur-ing our drive undertaken in 18States that we are seeingpatients with multibacillaryleprosy - the more severe form,which includes some of themost infectious cases,” said DrMukesh Girdhar, national VicePresident, IADVL.

He said such patients(multibacillary leprosy) needadvanced and regular treat-

ment for longer duration. “Yes,there is resurgence of cases,severe cases. Disability index ofthese patients is definitely high.In fact some of the patients wereceived at our camp had bac-teria droplets from their noses,making them highly infectiousto their contacts,” said DrGirdhar, highlighting the grav-ity of the situation.

“Due to lack of publicawareness there is a delay indiagnosis of leprosy,” Dr DineshKumar Devaraj, Joint SecretaryIADVL said, adding most lep-rosy cases were from Odisha,Bihar, West Bengal,Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra.

During the drive, the asso-ciation reached out to morethat 3,00,000 people withchronic cases as high as 95 percent and recurrent cases as highas 60 per cent.

One of the other diseasesthat was widely prevalent wasVitiligo. More than 10 millionIndians suffer from Vitiligo. Dr

Rohit Batra, dermatologist, SirGanga Ram Hospital andChairman, IADVL PeopleConnect Cell said that “Eventhough the prevalence of vitili-go is 1-2 per cent of the generalpopulation but we observedthat out of all the peopleapproached us during the driveit was more than 5 per cent.”

Talking about fungal infec-tion observed during the drive,Dr Girdhar, said, “There werea lot of patients suffering fromfungal infections. We sawchronic cases as high as 95 percent and recurrent cases as highas 60 per cent. Family memberswere affected up to 70 per centand more than 80 per cent ofchild cases have an affectedadult in family. Also, 50 to 70per cent have used steroidcreams for fungal infections.”

Quackery is of major con-cern in these situations whereSchedule H drugs are pre-scribed by unqualified people(quacks), said the experts.

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The CBI has registered a pre-liminary enquiry against

unidentified officials of UttarPradesh Public ServiceCommission for allegedlygranting favours to close rela-tives of public servants in anexamination to select addi-tional private secretaries dur-ing Mayawati’s tenure as ChiefMinister in 2010.

The PE is based on a com-plaint from the BJP-ruledGovernment in the State whichsubsequently sent to the CBI bythe Central government in

January. It is alleged in thecomplaint that certain uniden-tified people including officialsof the UPPSC committed irreg-ularities and misconduct inthe examination for about 250posts of additional private sec-retaries in 2010, officials said.

The officials who have notbeen named in the PE extend-ed undue favours to unde-serving candidates. Some of thecandidates who were the ben-eficiaries in the examination

did not fulfill even the basicminimum eligibility, the officialsaid quoting from the com-plaint.

The complaint has allegedthat some selected candidatesare “close relatives” of publicservants then serving the UttarPradesh Government whichwas headed by Mayawati from2007-12, they said.

The officials of the UPPSCin alleged connivance with theexaminers altered marks of

the candidates to enable theirselection. The definition ofpublic servants includes elect-ed representatives who havetaken oath of office.

On a question whether the“close relatives” were of elect-ed representatives in the gov-ernment, the official did notoffer any comment saying,“These are allegations in thecomplaint from the state gov-ernment. We have registered apreliminary enquiry.”

The move of the agencybecame public on a daySamajwadi Party and BahujanSamaj Party sealed their seat-sharing agreement for LokSabha polls to forge a formi-dable opposition against theruling BJP.

The PE has no sanctionunder the Criminal ProcedureCode (CrPC) and the suspectscan refuse to even join theenquiry.

However, the agency canregister a regular case (FIR)after gathering prima faciematerial to substantiate theallegations in the PE.

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The Congress on Thursdaysharpened its attacked on

Prime Minister Narendra Modiover the Pulwama terroristattack last week. While it con-tinued to target Modi for his“opened arm” engagement withthe crown Prince of SaudiArabia during the latter visit toIndia, the grand old party tookon the PM over his publicitycampaign shooting for a film inthe Corbett National Park tillthe evening of February 14despite the Pulwama attacktaking place in the afternoon.

There was no immediatereaction from the PrimeMinister’s Office and the BJPover the allegations. Congress’chief spokesperson RandeepSurjewala, addressing a Pressconference, also accused BJPpresident Amit Shah of “politi-cisation of terrorism” in hisspeech in Assam on Sunday.

The Congress said ques-tions must be asked about the“gross intelligence failure” ofthis Government and on the“priorities of a Prime Ministerwho on a sensitive time like thishas gone on a foreign tour toSouth Korea instead of tacklingterrorism”.

Citing reports from news-papers, Surjewala gave a time-line of events saying the terrorattack happened at 3:10 pm onFebruary 14 with the Congressreacting to it at 5:15 pm. “ThePrime Minister also knewabout it. Yet the PM, a personwho claims himself to be anationalist, continues to shoota film (for Discovery Channel)for self propagation in theCorbett National Park inRamnagar,” he claimed.

The Congress spokesper-son alleged that the PrimeMinister continued to “enjoyboat rides” with the cameracrew and later ensured thatthere was slogan shouting bythe BJP people in his favour.

“The Prime Minister con-tinues to have tea, samosas atseven o’clock at Governmentexpense in a PWD guesthousewhen every single Indian house-hold didn’t have food,” he said.

On one hand the countrywas picking up the “pieces of ourmartyrs”, and on the other handthe Prime Minister was involvedin his “propaganda and public-ity,” Surjewala claimed.

“Can such a conduct beexpected from the PrimeMinister of a country. ThePrime Minister should havebeen chairing the Cabinet com-mittee on security immediate-ly and should have taken

action, instead of shootingfilms,” he said.

Surjewala said theCongress had shown restrainon the direction of party pres-ident Rahul Gandhi, but it wasimportant to raise issues ofsuch conduct that “insults mar-tyrs”. “The Congress party andthe entire nation stands unitedwith our armed forces as alsoour Government in every stepthat they take in tacklingPakistan-sponsored terrorism.We are determined in thatresolve even today,” he said.

Surjewala also hit out at theconduct of BJP leaders in theaftermath of the attack. He dis-played a photograph purport-edly showing BJP MP SakshiMaharaj smiling during thefinal journey of a slain jawanand cited Union TourismMinister KJ Alphons taking a“selfie” at a soldier’s funeral.Alphons has denied taking thepicture himself saying somemiscreants circulated his pho-tograph at the CRPF jawan’sfuneral as a “selfie”.

Surjewala also saidPakistan will not succeed in itsdesigns and invoked IndiraGandhi’s strong action in 1971.He also asserted that theCongress, when in power, hasalways taken moral responsi-bility in such situations.

Congress spokespersonslammed the Prime Ministerfor receiving Saudi Arabia’sCrown Prince Mohammed binSalman at the airport and askedwhether according a grandwelcome to “those whopraised” Pakistan’s “anti-ter-ror efforts” was his way ofremembering the Pulwamaattack victims.

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Preliminary probe into thePulwama has revealed that

YSMS, a mobile application,was hosted on the ‘dark web’and regulation of such com-munication apps on the inter-net by the US could havehelped in containing thePakistani terror groups’ nefar-ious agenda in the region, offi-cials connected to the suicidebombing probe said.

Interestingly, the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) module thatcarried out the deadliest attackin the three decades of militan-cy in Jammu & Kashmir hadused the YSMS app for com-munication among one anoth-er before executing the suicidebombing on a CRPF convoyleading to the death of 44 CRPFpersonnel. The app does notleave any signature on theInternet and can be traced onlyif the hardwares are intercepted.

The websites of Pakistanarmy/Inter Services PublicRelations (ISPR) and its terrorproxies Lashkar-e-Tayyeba(LeT) and JeM also hosted ona common server by Americanfirm Cloudflare Inc which is acontradiction of the sanctionsand bounties put on the headsof the terror masterminds ofthese two groups by the USunder its terror listing regime.The server of the Pak-backedReferendum 2020 campaigntargeting Khalistani movementis also located in the US andhosted by the Cloudflare Inc.

In addition, American

video sharing platform YouTubehas uploaded millions of videosof the LeT and JeM terrorpreachers, including HafizSayeed, Abdul Rahman Makkiand MasooD Azhar, leading tocontinuous radicalisation of theyouth in India and the region.

Yet another American firmTwitter is also being used by thePakistan-based terror groupsfor furthering the jehadi agen-da without putting any effectivefilters. Search engine Google’sfeatures are also being exploit-ed by the terror groups foraccessing information underthe Do It Yourself (DIY) pro-grammes for knowhow on sen-sitive issues like assemblage ofIED and remotely-operatedvehicle. IEDs have been used bythe terrorists in Jammu &Kashmir. The inimical forces,including Zakir Musa, a formerJaish commander who has since

floated Ansar Ghatwatul Hind,subsequently rechristened as al-Qaeda Kashmir is seeking todevelop remotely-operatedvehicles for execution of bombblasts in the Kashmir Valley.

Counter-terrorism expertDr Rituraj Mate said, “The JeMand LeT might have outsmart-ed the US administration bygetting their websites hosted inAmerica but the USA hadinvented the Internet technol-ogy and will be bound to takeaction against such misuse oneday or the other if it is seriousin containing terrorism glob-ally, including those exportedby Pakistan.” Continuous back-ing and funding to Pakistan by the US is bound to infuse ananti-American sentimenttowards their products as is thecase with China when boycottcalls are often given againstChinese goods.

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Against the backdrop ofpolitical parties, including

the ruling BJP and mainOpposition Congress, makingalliance partners for the LokSabha polls scheduled in nextcouple of months, theOpposition leaders are all set tomeet on Tuesday to discuss thestrategy and formation of a sub-committee for evolving a com-mon minimum programme.

The meeting to be held atMohali in Punjab is to beattended by top leaders likeCongress chief Rahul Gandhi,NCP chief Sharad Pawar, West Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee, TDP supre-mo N Chandrababu Naiduamong others.

The decision of a publicrally in the Congress ruledPunjab is yet to be formalisedbut the meeting is crucial as aday later, the Congress willlaunch newly appointed gen-eral secretary Priyanka Gandhiin his first public rally inGujarat this month end. Thesame day the Congress hasscheduled its apex body

Congress Working Committeemeeting at Ahemdabad.

The Opposition meetingassumes significance in thewake of both the national par-ties — the BJP and the Congress — been working overtime to forge alliance andthe announcements ofParliamentary seats by the BSP-SP combine who are ready to

take on the Modi juggernaut incrucial Uttar Pradesh. Both thenational parties have announcedtheir alliances in Bihar,Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.

Moving forward on a unit-ed anti-BJP front for theupcoming Lok Sabha elections,top Opposition leaders, includ-ing Rahul Gandhi, MamataBanerjee, Delhi Chief Minister

Arvind Kejriwal, Naidu, SharadYadav, were present in themeeting of Opposition partiesat Sharad Pawar’s residence onFebruary 13.

The leaders agreed to worktogether to prepare a commonminimum programme to oust the Modi Governmentand consider forging a pre-pollalliance.

Banerjee, one of the primemovers behind the effort tocobble together an anti-BJPalliance, had organised a megarally of Opposition parties inKolkata on January 19.Banerjee has already statedthat the differences of partieswhile in States should be keptaside as the prime agenda of allthe Opposition parties is to tar-get the BJP ruled Centre in theLok Sabha polls.

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Taking on the Congress forattacking Prime Minister

Narendra Modi over thePulwama attack, the BJP onThursday lashed out at theOpposition party saying itsstand exposes the claim that itwas standing with theGovernment and armed forcesin the aftermath of the terrorattack in Kashmir and that theparty sounds like echoingvoices from across the border.

Addressing a Press con-ference, Union Minister andBJP leader Ravi ShankarPrasad accused the Congressof seeking to weaken themorale of the armed forces ata time when the whole worldis “firmly standing” with India.

Prasad hit out at theCongress for its “shameful”attack on Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and said hewas in Uttarakhand on the dayof Pulwama attack as part ofan official programme relatedto tiger conservation. “Was theCongress aware of thePulwama attack? We were notaware,” the BJP leader said ina dig at the Opposition party.

He said the Congressattack on the ModiGovernment would havepleased Pakistan adding thatstyles of what Imran Khan andthe Opposition party havesaid may be different but theircontents bore striking resem-blance. He charged theCongress with demoralisingarmed forces in the countrywhore valiantly respondingto terror outfits.

Prasad said strength of theModi Government reflected inremoving security of theKashmiri separatists andeagerness of Kashmiri youthto participate in Army recruit-ment. He said India hasreceived global backingagainst Pakistan on thePulwama attack and theneighbouring country wasdiplomatically isolated.

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Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP),the flagship unit of the

public sector steel giantSAIL, has created a newrecord by producing 4052tons of prime rail onFebruary 19, a companystatement informed here onThursday.

The synergistic effort ofthe combined production ofboth rail mills led to the newbenchmark production. Rail andStructural Mill produced 2806Tons and Universal Rail Mill pro-duced 1246 Tons.

Congratulating collectiveefforts of both the rail mills on theoccasion, ED(Works) PK Das toldthat this kind of achievement gives

confidence in the collective capa-bilities of the BSP team and rein-forces the resolve to supply tenlakh tons of rail to Indian Railwaysin 2018-19.

He felicitated the shift execu-tives of RSM, URM and also thesenior officials of these shops aswell as of the allied departments.

Bhilai Steel Plantcreates newproduction record

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

The state government willundertake a safety audit of

all anicuts in the state toascertain how they turneddilapidated, agriculture andwater resources ministerRavindra Choubey told theassembly on Thursday.

The minister gave theassurance after Congressmember Indu Banjare andlater BJP member NarayanChandel and Saurabh Singhraised the issue.

“It is a critical issue thatconstructed anicuts havebecome ruins. A team led bychief engineer will be sent toprobe them.”

BJP legislator soughtstern action against the offi-

cials involved in low qualityconstruction. The ministerassured him of action.

Assembly SpeakerCharandas Mahant suggestedthat the audit should be con-ducted in all the anicuts of the

state which are either beendamaged or are likely to bedamaged in coming mon-soon.

The minister said theprobe will start from Janjgir-Champa district of the state.

State police carryout massiveanti-Naxaloperation inBastarSTAFF REPORTER n SUKMA

Three security personnelwere injured in separate

encounters during anti-Naxaloperations launched byChhattisgarh police in the dif-ferent districts of Bastar divi-sion since Wednesday night.

“A jawan of CoBRA 201battalion was injured in anencounter with Naxals in aforested patch, at the bordersof Sukma-Bijapur district,”Superintendent of Police (SP)

Sukma Jitendra Shukla said. "The injured jawans was

identified as Deva Lal whohas been airlifted to Raipur.His condition is stable andout of danger" SP Shuklaadded.

The security team had thefaceoff with armed MaoistsThursday afternoon duringthe operation jointly conduct-ed by the Special Task Force,DRG and CoBRA .

The police officer furtherinformed that a few muzzleloading guns were found atthe encounter site.

Earlier, in a differentoperation that was carried outin the jungles of Dabbamarkaabout 150 km south ofSukma, two police personnel

were injured who have beenrescued. The encounterbetween armed guerrillas andpolice forces happenedaround 2:30 pm and gunfightbetween both sides lasted forabout one hour, the SPinformed.

The operations werelaunched in a day GirdhariNayak has been given thecharge of DG (NaxalOperations).Notably, accord-ing to Chhattisgarh policefrom 2016 to 2018, 575 con-flicts happened betweenNaxals and police in Bastar inwhich 336 Naxals were killed.In the same period, 151 policepersonnel attained martyr-dom, while 207 civilians werealso killed.

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

Chhattisgarh State Assembly SpeakerDr Charandas Mahant will inaugu-

rate a three-day State level AgricultureDevelopment and Farmers Welfare Fair(Krishi Mela) at Bemetara Krishi Mandipremises on February 22 at 4pm.

Agriculture and water resourcesminister Ravindra Choubey will presideover the inaugural function. Experts inagriculture, horticulture, animal hus-bandry, fisheries, water managementwill interact with farmers on theimproved techniques in agricultureduring the fair which will conclude onFebruary 24.

The theme of the fair is ‘Narva,Garuva, Ghurva and Baadi (NGGB).The subjects such as management ofrain water resources, why and how torenovate rivulets, soil and water con-servation based on land type, higherproduction, development of kitchengardens, fisheries and other related top-ics will come up for discussion.

Inspecting the preparation,Choubey said that a decision has beentaken to open a‘Horticulture University’in the state.

The main aim of the state govern-ment is to strengthen the farmers eco-

nomically, he said, adding foodprocessing plant will be plantedas per needs.

The government alsoannounced that BemetaraAgriculture Produce Market willbe declaredas ‘E-Mandi’ so thatfarmers of the region can selltheir produce online and alsoseek market rates. Cultural pro-grammes will also be organisedduring the event.

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

Member of the NationalCommission for Scheduled

Castes Dr. Yogendra Paswan onThursday visited NationalMineral DevelopmentCorporation (NMDC)’s head-quarters in Hyderabad and dis-cussed various welfare measurestaken up by the corporation forthe Scheduled Caste andScheduled Tribe communities.

According to a communiquéfrom NMDC, its chairman-cum-managing director N.Baijendra Kumar, T.R.K. Rao,director (commercial), SandeepTula, director (personnel),Amitava Mukherjee, director(finance) and office bearers ofNMDC SC and ST Associationextended a warm welcome to Dr.Paswan.

They briefed him aboutwelfare measures undertaken bythe NMDC to uplift the rural

populace, employment opportu-nities and benefits provided forthe members of SC and ST com-munity.

Dr. Paswan appreciated theefforts and made special remarksthat the commission did notreceive a single complaint fromthe NMDC SC and STAssociation.

The NMDC CMD explainedthat there are well establishedsystems for ensuring cordial rela-tions between management andemployees which helped in betterreturns and productivity of thecorporation, apart from enhanc-ing employment opportunitiesthrough skill development andwomen empowerment activities.

NMDC management alwaysencourages the members of SCand ST Associations to give theirsuggestions to improve the wel-fare schemes the corporation ini-tiate for them, the CMD said.

STAFF REPORTER nRAIPUR

Chhattisgarh ChiefElectoral Officer Subrat

Sahoo shared his experi-ence of successful holdingof incident-free and peace-ful 2018 assembly electionswith educationists, studentsand young entrepreneurs atHarvard University,Massachusetts during thetwo-day 16th Annual IndiaConference on currentissues related to India.

Sahoo was speaking atthe session on ‘A BillionVotes: How India ManagesIts Election’ sharing daiswith former chief election

commissioner O P Rawatand Delhi Chief SecretaryVijay Kumar Dev.

Sahoo, addressing thegathering, shared theadministrative arrange-ments, planning, innovativeand technological stepsalong with experience ofimplementing them to con-duct the election.

Underlying the chal-

lenging situation and gal-lant works of polling teamsand administration forholding polls in Naxal-affected Bastar, Sahoo citingexamples explained thefiner points of electionprocess and intensifiedarrangement made in theregion. He also shared howbased on prevailing condi-tions on the ground, quick

decisions were taken bypolling teams and securityforces. The awareness pro-grammes to ensure maxi-mum participation of votersbuilt confidence in remotetribal dominated areas. Thisis the victory of democracy,he added.

Sahoo pointed out, inthe last election where zeropolling was registered, thistime good polling wasrecorded due to which noviolence or untoward inci-dent was reported. For thefirst time in its electoral his-tory of the state, no re-polling was held during the2018 assembly elections.

Mild earthquakehits northernChhattisgarhRAIPUR: A mild earthquake joltednorthern Chhattisgarh Thursday after-noon. Light tremors were felt inAnuppur, Baikunthpur, Ambikapur,Korba and Bilaspur around 1.02 pm.

According toofficials of theIndian meteoro-logical depart-ment Raipur, themagnitude of theearthquake was3.5 on the richterscale.

The earth-quake's epicenterwas about 5 kmbelow the earth’ssurface in Korba district. The tremorswere recorded in the richter scale forseveral minutes, the officials added.

According to geologists,Chhattisgarh does not falls in the seis-mic zones. So, it is relatively less earth-quake prone.

Agriculture minister orderssafety audit of all anicuts

Water from Sonthito two industriesIn a written reply to a questionfrom BJP member Saurabh Singh,agriculture minister stated as onJanuary 15, 2019 there are 28 ani-cuts in Janjgir-Champa district.Out of which, only from Sonthianicut, Prakash Industries Champaand Madhya Bharat Paper MillLimited are being provided water.The pending water bill of both theindustries is around Rs 25.62 crore.The minister, replying to anotherquestion from Congress memberPrakash Nayak, said that as onDecember 31, 2018 a total of Rs188.14 crore water tax is pendingagainst industries based in Raigarhdistrict. Notice has been served toall the industries as per rules.

Light tremorswere felt in

Anuppur,Baikunthpur,Ambikapur,Korba and

Bilaspur

Speaker Mahant to inaugurate ‘Krishi Mela’ today

CM to launch ‘Sooraji

Gaon Yojna’ on Feb 23Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh

Baghel will launch the ‘Sooraji Gaon Yojna’ atState level Agriculture Development andFarmers Welfare Fair (Krishi Mela),Bemetara on February 23 at 2.00 pm at KrishiMandi premises. Special guest on the occa-sion will be Agriculture and water resourcesminister Ravindra Choubey.

National SC panel apprisedof NMDC welfare measures

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

Doctors of the Pt JawaharlalNehru Memorial Medical

College, Raipur gave a newlease of life to a 42-year oldman by implanting artificialtitanium ribs after removing atumour, achieving a rare med-ical feat.

The operation was carriedout by the doctors at theAdvance Cardiac Institute ofthe medical college’s Cardio-thoracic and Vascular SurgeryDepartment.

HOD Dr KrishnakantSahu said that it is most mod-ern surgery where the dam-aged ribs were removed andtitanium plate was fixed. Theperson has recovered and isnow normal.

The rib recipient had beencomplaining of pain in lowerchest for two months. Afterprimary investigation and

scan it was found that the 8thand 9th ribs of left part have atumour. This was causing thepain. The tumour had also

affected the nearby ribs alongwith diaphragm and the peri-cardium covering of heart.

During biopsy it wasfound that it was a kind ofhighly aggressive tumor‘Chondrosarcoma of rib’which is a rare malignant type.

The operation was thenconducted which took threehours, wherein the 7th, 8thand 9th ribs were removedalong with the tumor affectedparts. Pericardium anddiaphragm were repaired. Theweight of tumour was 900grams and size was 20x6 cm.As three ribs were removed soto support the chest, 18 cmtitanium plate was fixed on8th rib. Now after eight days,the patient is normal.

CEO Sahoo shares pollexperience at Harvard

Raipur hospital achieves rare medicalfeat: Man gets ‘titanium’ ribs

The NMDC CMD explained that there are wellestablished systems for ensuring cordial rela-tions between management and employeeswhich helped in better returns and productivity

Three police personnelinjured during Naxal huntSTAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

Two youths carrying cashamounting to Rs 1.70 crore were

arrested from Kotwali police stationlimits on Thursday afternoon, policesaid.

Notably police on Wednesdayhad seized Rs 11 crore cash inMahasamund that was being smug-gled to Odisha in a car. In view ofthe incident Raipur police was onalert and was carrying out checkingat different locations across the cap-ital city.

“During one such checking nearNahata market in Sadar Bazaarlocality, two youths -both natives ofGujarat were nabbed. They werecarrying cash Rs 1.70 crore in twobags and were riding a Jupiterscooty,” Additional Superintendentof Police (City) Prafull Thakur said,adding that the money meant forHawala transaction.

The accused have been identi-

fied as Harshad alias Mukesh Kumarand Sagar Desai both native of Patanin Gujarat. They used to work ascourier boys who pick up cash onphone calls and then dropped the

money at specified locations. According to police, they had

arrived in Raipur a few months agoand were living in Devendra Nagarlocality.

“Since the cash amount washigh, Income Tax (IT) departmentsleuths were also informed to inves-tigate the case further,” ASP Thakurstated.

Two youths held with Rs 1.70 cr cash

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Haryana Chief MinisterManohar Lal on Thursday

visited Rewari’s Rajgarh villageand Faridabad’s Atali village topay tribute to martyrs HariSingh and Sandeep Kumarrespectively.

Expressing condolences tothe bereaved family members,Manohar Lal assured them allsupport and cooperation of theState Government.

He said that brave soldiersof Haryana have always madesupreme sacrifices for theirmotherland whenever requiredand we are proud of it.

The Chief Minister saidthat the bravery with which oursoldiers fought with the terror-ists to safeguard our frontiers,with the same spirit, the wholecountry is today saluting theircourage. The State Governmenthas stood firm by the martyr’sfamily, he added.

Notably, during an opera-tion launched by Army atPulwama- Piglina area inSrinagar, one officer and threejawans of 55-RR Battalionattained martyrdom and HariSingh was one of them who laiddown his life while fightingwith the terrorists.

Martyr Hari Singh is sur-vived by his mother Pista Devi,wife Radha Bai and 10 monthsold son Laksh.

Manohar Lal said thatfinancial assistance of Rs 50 lakhhas already been given to themartyr’s family. While, Rs 17.50lakh each has been transferredin the bank accounts of martyr’swife and son through RTGS, Rs15 lakh has been transferred inthe bank account of his moth-er.

He also assured that martyr’swidow would be provided a gov-ernment job.

While talking to the familymembers of Nayak SandeepSingh, Manohar Lal said that

by sacrificing his life for thesecurity of motherland, SandeepKumar has made not only hisvillage and district proud butalso the State and the country.

Sandeep Kumar who gotinjured during an encounterwith the terrorists was admittedin the Army base hospital wherehe succumbed to the injuries onFebruary 19.

Expressing condolences toNainpal Singh, father of martyrSandeep Kumar and other fam-ily members, Manohar Lal saidan ex-gratia amount of Rs 50lakh has been deposited by theState Government into theirbank accounts. Apart from this,one family member of the mar-tyr would be provided a gov-ernment job on compassionateground soon, the Chief Ministersaid.

He further said that on thedemand of villagers, theGovernment School of villageAtali would be named aftermartyr Sandeep Kumar.

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Union Minister for HumanResource Development

Prakash Javadekar and ChiefMinister Jai Ram Thakur onThursday laid the foundationstone of Central University ofHimachal Pradesh at Dehra inKangra district.

Speaking on the occasion,Prakash Javadekar said that theforest clearance for constructionof this University was alsoaccorded when he was the UnionForest and EnvironmentMinister.

He said that this Universitywould open new vistas of devel-opment in the area besides pro-viding quality higher educationto the youth of the area.

The Union Governmentwould provide all possible helpto ensure that the Universitycampus would completed soon,he said.

The Union Minister alsosaid that the Centre has sanc-tioned several nation institutionsin the state.

“IIIT has been sanctionedfor Una and IIT for Mandi.Cluster University has also been

sanctioned for Mandi district. Inaddition to this, several CentralSchools have been sanctioned forthe state,” he added.

Speaking on the occasion,the Chief Minister Jai RamThakur said that the CentralUniversity will have two cam-puses at two different locations.

He said that the first campuswould be at Jadrangal nearDharamshala, which wouldspread in an area of 750 hectare.The second campus would beestablished at Dehra in an areaof 287 hectare.

Thakur said that the StateGovernment soon after assum-ing office in the state depositedRs 6 crore under CAMP Act forforest clearance, so that the con-struction of this campus couldstart at the earliest by divertingforest land for non forest pur-pose.

About Rs 1300 crore wouldbe spent on construction ofboth these campuses and thesame would be completed innext three years. Both thesecampus would spread in an areaof about 1000 hectare making itone of the biggest University ofthe region, he said.

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The ruling BJP andOpposition Congress on

Thursday took potshots at theIndian National Lok Dal overits split and demanded votingto decide whether the INLDMLA Abhay Chautala shouldcontinue as the Leader ofOpposition in the House.

INLD, which is Haryana’smain opposition party has 17MLAs and four of them havejoined the Jannayak Janta Partyformed after the split.

The issue cropped up dur-ing the Zero Hour during thesecond day of budget sessionwhen the Health Minister AnilVij, in a sarcastic tone, askedthe INLD MLAs “We haveheard that your party has split”.

Vij then asked the SpeakerKanwar Pal Gujjar whether hehad any formal informationabout the INLD’s split.

When Vij continued seek-ing answers on INLD’s split,party legislator Naina Chautalaadmitted that the party has splitand a new party has beenformed.

Following this, the HealthMinister while addressing theChair said, “Sir, she (Naina) hasaccepted on the floor of theHouse that INLD has split.Therefore, separate sittingarrangement should be madefor them.”

The Speaker, however said,

“They have not given any-thing in writing yet and we willlook into the matter.”

Soon after, the Congresslegislators too joined the issueand demanded that votingshould be held to decidewhether INLD’s AbhayChautala can continue as theLeader of opposition.

Abhay Chautala was notpresent inside the House whenthe BJP and Congress legisla-tors were taking potshots at theINLD split.

Former Chief MinisterBhupinder Singh Hooda said,“When one member (Naina) issaying on the floor of theHouse that they have formed aseparate party (JJP), then howLeader of opposition can con-tinue to enjoy the status.”

Congress MLA RaghubirSingh Kadiyan said that votingshould be held to decidewhether the rebel INLD MLAsstill hold confidence in theLeader of opposition.

The Speaker then assuredthe House to look into the mat-ter.

In the 90-member StateAssembly, while the ruling BJPhas 48 MLAs after the recentJind bypoll win, both Congressand INLD have 17 memberseach, one each memberbelongs to the SAD and BSP,five are independents while oneseat fell vacant after demise ofINLD's Jaswinder Singh

Sandhu recently.Notably, the JJP came into

existence in last December fol-lowing a vertical split in theINLD, after a bitter powerstruggle between Ajay Chautalaand Abhay Chautala, thegrandsons of Devi Lal, who hadfounded the party.

JJP was floated by AjayChautala and his sons-HisarMP Dushyant and INSO chiefDigvijay after the trio wereexpelled from the INLD.

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Lashing out at the HaryanaGovernment, Leader of oppo-sition and INLD’s senior leaderAbhay Chautala on Thursdayalleged that the StateGovernment has done nothingduring its tenure and even theGovernor Satyadeo NarainArya finished his address in lessthan 10 minutes and left theHouse on the first day of bud-

get session.Chautala, while speaking

during the discussion onGovernor’s address said, “TheGovernor only read first fiveparas and then the last parawhich is about BJP’s victories inrecent Jind bypoll and civicbody polls in Haryana.”

Reacting sharply to themention of victories in elec-tions in the Governor’s address,Chautala said, “Is it Governor’sspeech or BJP’s speech? IsGovernor someone’s Pracharakor praising BJP because ofbeing given a constitutionaloffice?”

The House has been insult-ed with the mention of electionvictories in Governor’s speech,”he further alleged.

Responding to him, ChiefMinister Manohar Lal clarifiedthat the Governor’s speech hasnot mentioned BJP’s victory butstated that the result are clearvindication of government’spolicies.

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The Congress legislators onThursday alleged that the BJPled Haryana Government isrunning away from discussionon burning issues in the StateAssembly, which is why thebudget session’s duration hadbeen curtailed.

During the zero hour of theState Assembly, Congress MLAKaran Singh Dalal said that theChief Minister Manohar Lalhad earlier cited examples ofother states which have longerduration of Assembly sessionand had claimed that the pre-sent BJP dispensation inHaryana too had started a sim-ilar practice.

“However this time, thebudget session which was toend on March 5 according tothe tentative schedule fixedearlier, will now end onFebruary 27. The govern-ment is running away from

discussion on these issues,which is why the duration ofthe session has been cur-tailed,” he alleged.

Responding to the allega-tions, Parliamentary AffairsMinister, Ram Bilas Sharma

said in the BAC meeting heldhere on Wednesday, CongressLegislature Party leader KiranChowdhary was present andshe had raised no objectionwhen the schedule was fixed.

Sharma said, “There is no

question of running awayfrom discussion on variousissues. We are here to answereach and every point that israised. Each and every MLAwill be given adequate time toraise issues.”

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Haryana Chief Minister ManoharLal on Thursday said that the

State Government has received thereport of the committee constitutedto explore the possibilities of launch-ing the ‘Kisan Pension Yojana’ and thereport is being studied now.

“The Finance Department wouldbe consulted to find out the additionalfinancial burden on this account,” hesaid while talking to the mediaper-sons after the second day of the ongo-ing budget session of Haryana VidhanSabha here.

He said that Prime MinisterNarendra Modi will release the firstinstalment of 'Kisan Samman Nidhi'scheme, on February 24 to the farm-ers' accounts as announced in inter-im Union Budget.

In response to a question, theChief Minister said that about 10 lakhfarmers of Haryana are expected tobenefitted with this scheme of theCentral Government. As per thescheme, the farmers having up to fiveacres of land will be benefited. TheCentral Government has asked allstates to provide details and data ofthe farmers and Haryana will be thefirst state in the country to providethis data, Manohar Lal said.

Replying to a question regardingAIIMS, the Chief Minister said thatthe AIIMS given to the Haryana willbe made at Manethi in district Rewari.Apart from this, AIIMS in Badhsa ofdistrict Jhajjar is a part of AIIMS inDelhi, he said.

On being asked about his meet-ing with BJP national president AmitShah and Uttar Pradesh ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath, the ChiefMinister said that it was a routinemeeting.

He said that elections to theHaryana Vidhan Sabha will not beheld alongwith the upcoming LokSabha Elections. The decision tofinalize the name candidates for LokSabha Elections is under the consid-eration of Central ParliamentaryBoard, he added.

Gurugram MLA questions theGovt over investments

MLA from Gurugram, UmeshAggarwal on Thursday questioned hisown government over the issue of set-ting up of new industries in Haryana.During the question hour, theGurugram MLA left the Manohar LalKhattar Government embarrassedwhen he questioned the Industriesand Commerce Minister Vipul Goelover the statistics related to invest-ment tabled in the House.

Aggarwal said, “DuringHappening Haryana in 2016, morethan 600 MoUs were signed while Rs6 lakh crore investment was claimedto expected from this. But as per thedata given by the government, onlyRs 500 crore investment is made inHaryana, he said urging the StateGovernment to put in more efforts togive a boost to IT sector.

He also questioned that govern-ment’s data which claimed that a totalof 58342 enterprises have been set upin the state from October 2014 toJanuary 2019 and 395199 persons gotemployment.

Earlier, BJP MLAs Mool ChandSharma and Umesh Aggarwalexpressed disappointment over theissue of cleanliness in Ballabgarh andGurugram while requesting theHaryana Urban Local Bodies MinisterKavita Jain to look into the issue.

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As many as 5118 people had diedin 2018 due to road accidents inHaryana. The State Government, ina written reply informed the StateAssembly that 429 deaths have beenrecorded till January 2019 due toroads accidents. In 2018, 446 peoplehad died in road accidents in

Gurugram, 432 in Sonepat, 352 inKarnal, 284 in Yamunanagar, 277 inRewari, 267 in Jhajjar, 258 inKurukshetra.

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A total of 6,18,565 unemployedyouth were registered with employ-ment exchanges in the state on theDepartmental portal, the StateGovernment informed in a writtenreply. The number of applicants cur-rently receiving unemploymentallowance in Haryana is 85152, it wasinformed. A maximum of 57685unemployed youth were registered inBhiwani followed by 53553 in Jind,49700 in Hisar, 46382 in Karnal and41376 in Yamunanagar.

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As per the medical certificationof cause of death (MCCD) data, 883and 1272 deaths due to cancer and694 and 753 deaths due to heart attackoccurred in the calendar year 2016and 2017 respectively in the state, theState Government informed whileadding that the data for the year 2018will be available after mid 2019.

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Haryana Health Minister Anil Vijsaid that the country’s 22nd AIIMSwould be constructed in Manethi,Rewari at the cost of Rs 1100 crore.For this, all formalities would be com-pleted soon, he said. Responding toa question of Congress legislators onwhether the National Cancer Institutewould be shifted from Badhsa, Vijclarified that the National CancerInstitute (NCI) constructed at Badhsain Jhajjar, is the country’s first biggesthospital which would work as exten-sion institution of AIIMS. The NCIhas been constructed on about 300acres at the cost of about Rs 2035crore.

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Responding to question related togiving Gohana a status of district,Haryana Revenue and DisasterManagement Minister, Capt.Abhimanyu said that in order to cre-ate new districts, new tehsils and sub-tehsils in the state, a cabinet sub-com-mittee under the chairmanship ofDevelopment and Panchayat Minister,OP Dhankar has been constituted.

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Punjab Government’s Special Investigating Team, investigat-ing 2015 sacrilege and related firing cases, has issued sum-

mons to the then Director General of Police (DGP) Sumedh SinghSaini for questioning on February 25.

SIT has asked Saini, now retired, to appear on February 25in the Punjab Police headquarter at Chandigarh.

Probing Bargari sacrilege and subsequent police firings atBehbal Kalan, SIT has, two days back, arrested IG Paramraj SinghUmranangal. Earlier last month, the SIT had arrested Moga’s for-mer SSP Charanjit Sharma.

Both are accused of ordering firing at a peaceful mob thathad gathered to protest against the sacrilege incidents atKotkapura. Earlier, the SIT had also questioned Bollywood actorAkshay Kumar for allegedly arranging a meeting between DeraSacha Sauda chief and Punjab’s then deputy Chief Minister andSAD president Sukhbir Badal. Besides, the former ChiefMinister Parkash Singh Badal and Sukhbir have also been ques-tioned by the SIT in the matter. Two Sikh youths were killed andmany were injured in the police firing on the peaceful protest-ers in 2015.

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Pakistan Prime MinisterImran Khan on Thursday

authorised the military to“respond decisively and com-prehensively to any aggressionor misadventure” by India,amidst heightened tensionsbetween the two sides follow-ing the Pulwama terror attackthat killed 40 CRPF soldiers.

Days after the terror strikeby Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad terror group inJammu and Kashmir’sPulwama district, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi saidsecurity forces have been givenfree hand to avenge the das-tardly act.

Prime Minister Khan, whochaired a key meeting of theNational Security Council hereon Thursday, said the Pakistangovernment was “determinedto demonstrate” that it is capa-ble of protecting its people.

He authorised the armedforces of Pakistan to “responddecisively and comprehensive-ly to any aggression or misad-venture by India,” said a state-ment issued after the meeting.

“This is a new Pakistan andwe are determined to demon-strate to our people that theState is capable of protectingthem,” Khan was quoted as say-ing by the Radio Pakistan.

The country’s top civilian

and military leadership saidthat “Pakistan is not involvedin any way, means or form inPulwama incident and it wasconceived, planned and exe-cuted indigenously”, accordingto the statement.

It said Pakistan has sin-cerely offered investigation ofthe “incident” and dialogue onthe issue of terrorism amongother disputed issues withIndia.

“We expect India to posi-tively respond to these offers,”it said, adding that based on theinvestigation or any tangibleevidence provided, Pakistanshall take action against anyonefound using its soil.

The NSC urged the globalcommunity to play its part inresolving the Kashmir issue.

In a video message onTuesday, Khan assured Indiathat he would act against theperpetrators of the Pulwamaterror attack if New Delhi

shares “actionable intelligence”,but warned against any“revenge” retaliatory action.

India rubbished Khan’scomments, saying disclaimingPakistan’s link with terroristattacks is an oft-repeatedexcuse by the “nerve centre” ofterrorism.

In a statement, theMinistry of External Affairs inNew Delhi on Tuesday saidIndia was not surprised thatKhan refused to acknowledgethe attack on India’s securityforces in Pulwama as an act ofterrorism, adding his offer toinvestigate the attack if pro-vided proof is a “lame excuse”.

Ahead of the NSC meetingon Thursday, Prime MinisterKhan and Army chief GenQamar Javed Bajwa held aone-on-one meeting duringwhich they discussed region’ssecurity situation.

The meeting was attendedby Army chief General Bajwa,services chiefs, heads of intel-ligence agencies, security offi-cials and federal and state min-isters for finance, defence, for-eign affairs and interior.

Khan also directed boththe interior ministry and thesecurity institutions to immediately accelerate actionson ground to ensure that militancy and extremism are routed from the society andthe country.

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Russian investigators for-mally charged US investor

Michael Calvey with fraud onThursday following his con-troversial arrest, his lawyersaid.

Investigators presented him

with the indictment on thecharge of large-scale fraud aspart of an organised group,which can carry up to ten yearsin prison.

“He has refused to admithis guilt or give any testimony”before consulting with hisdefense, lawyer DmitryKletochkin told Russian newsagencies.

Calvey is the founder of themulti-billion-dollar BaringVostok investment fund. He isone of six people arrested in aprobe into the alleged embez-zlement of 2.5 billion rubles(USD 37.7 million) from theRussian Vostochniy Bank.

Calvey has said in courtthat the charges against him arebeing used as an instrument ina shareholder dispute, insistingthat he has done nothingwrong.

Several high-profile figureshave spoken on behalf ofCalvey, with Russia’s businessombudsman Boris Titov sayingthe case was a typical corporatedispute and calling his arrestillegal. But Kremlin spokesmanDmitry Peskov on Thursdaysaid: “We have no doubt that truth will prevail as aresult of the investigation.Nobody but the court can pronounce Michael Calveyinnocent.”

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Afast-moving fire sweptthrough adjoining apart-

ment buildings and chemicalwarehouses in a historic part ofthe Bangladesh capital Dhaka,killing at least 70 people andinjuring several others, the lat-est such deadly blaze in thecountry.

Officials said the fire brokeout at night a chemical ware-house on the ground floor of afour-storey building namedHazi Wahed Mansion behind amosque in Old Dhaka’s con-gested Chawkbazar area onWednesday night and theflames then quickly spreadthrough four other buildingsnearby, including a communi-ty centre where a wedding

party was on.“The salvage campaign is

ending here,” mayor of DhakaSouth Sayeed Khokon said.

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blaze has claimed at least 70lives so far.

Earlier, fire service controlroom spokesman KamrulAhsan said that the death toll

was 81. However, it was laterrevised downward to at least 70.

Dhaka Metropolitan Policeofficials said the fire spreadrapidly due to the multiplechemical godowns that weresituated in the area.

State-run Dhaka MedicalCollege Hospital’s directorBrigadier General AKMNasiruddin, however, fearedthat the toll may rise as sever-al people were being treated atthe facility with critical burninjuries.

Khokon called off the res-cue operation around 12:10 PMafter nearly 14 hours of efforts.Two-hundred fire-fightersfrom 37 units doused the blaze,making their way to the scenethrough narrow lanes with fireengines.

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the world facing the dauntingchallenge of global warmingand climate change as he livedsuch a life that he did not leaveany carbon footprint, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi saidThursday.

Unveiling a bust ofMahatma Gandhi at the pres-tigious Yonsei University herealong with South KoreanPresident Moon Jae-in andformer UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon, Modi said in the20th Century, MahatmaGandhi was “perhaps themankind’s biggest gift”.

“In the last centurythrough his personality,through his life and values,Mahatma Gandhi showed uswhat the future will be. In facthe used to say my life is my les-son,” said the prime minister,who arrived here on Thursdayon two-day visit.

“Mahatma Gandhi used tosay the God and nature havegiven everything to fulfil ahuman being’s need but not thegreed. The natural resourcesare not enough if we want tosatisfy our greed. He used tosay our life should be needbased and not greed based,”Modi said.

He said that terrorism andclimate change are two biggest

challenges mankind is facingand Mahatma Gandhi’s teach-ings and values can help theworld address both the press-ing issues.

“During MahatmaGandhi’s lifetime there was nodiscussion about climatechange and environment, butthe statesman led such a lifethat he did not leave any car-bon footprint. He showed whatliving in harmony with natureis. He showed that it is impor-tant to leave a clean and greenplanet for the future genera-tions.” Gandhi used to say wedon’t have the right to takeaway the natural resources thatbelong to the future genera-tions.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosion Wednesday called

upon lawmakers to back a res-olution to halt the nationalemergency declared by USPresident Donald Trump tofund a wall on the southernborder with Mexico.

Trump announced theemergency in order to bypassCongress, which approved onlya quarter of the $5.6 billion hewanted for the wall in a spend-ing bill.

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February 14, 2019, will henceforthbe remembered as a day marred bythe horrific images of a cowardlyact of terror where more than 40Central Reserve Police Force

(CRPF) soldiers were killed in Pulwama.The suicide bomber, Adil Ahmad Dar, whohas been identified as the culprit of this das-tardly act, detonated close to 60 kilos ofexplosives near a convoy of CRPF soldiers.The Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) has claimedresponsibility for this act of terror and it hasbeen widely reported that the JeM has beensupported and enabled by the Governmentof Pakistan. There is no denying the fact thatthis was a day of mourning for India but itis crucial that this incident also becomes aninflection point where India provides abefitting reply to its enemies and emergesstronger than before.

India then stands at the crossroads.While every Indian, I am sure, agrees thatsuch acts of terror must not go unpunishedand should be avenged, the question for usas Indians is: What constitutes a befittingreply? Is it a reply that is ill-thought out,reactionary and detrimental to India’sinterests and values in the long-term or isit one where we emerge stronger and showthe enemies of our country that while itsenemies will try creating a divide throughcowardly acts of terror, our country willcontinue to stand unafraid and unmoved.We must refuse to give up those values,which distinguish us from failed states thathave long ago given up the ideals of a pros-perous and democratic society.

I am just as angry and livid at the attackas any patriot but at a time like this, it isimportant to remember the words ofAristotle, who had said, “Anybody canbecome angry — that is easy, but to be angrywith the right person and to the right degreeand at the right time and for the right pur-pose and in the right way — that is not with-in everybody’s power and is not easy.” In thisweek’s column, I will attempt to show howIndia can show its enemies that not only isthe country capable of taking hard decisionsand demonstrate that these acts of terror willnot be taken lying down but also that it willemerge stronger because of them.

Establish a Commission after such actsof terror: In the aftermath of 9/11, the USinstituted the 9/11 Commission, which wasan independent, bipartisan body consistingof not only Republicans and Democrats butalso staff members, who were experts in var-ious fields. The Commission was chargedwith preparing a complete report of the cir-cumstances surrounding the terrorist attackon the World Trade Centre and thePentagon on September 11, 2001. The reportexamined the preparedness of the US andalso provided recommendations to guardagainst such future attacks. It is imperativethat with acts of terror such as the recent onein Pulwama, India responds similarly. Aspart of the 9/11 Commission report, the

body examined the chronologyof events on September 11,2001, right from early 1999,when the hijackers prepared forthe attack while living inGermany till the point when theplanes had been hijacked by theterrorists. At each point in thechronology of events, theCommission submitted expertsuggestions on how to plug eachand every lapse that led to the9/11 attacks. It is imperative thatIndia draws a similar approachby constituting a commission ofexperts, which examines thechronology of events that ulti-mately led to the February 14attack and debate this report inParliament. Ultimately, thisreport should be made publicsince such a step will help heappublic pressure and preventsuch lapses in the future.

Strength from within first,then without: Terrorism’s short-term objective is to inflict painand sorrow through violence,and while horrific, its long-termaim of creating an environmentthat thrives on hate and suspi-cion in the country is muchmore frightening and harmful.This terrorist attack seeks toachieve the same goal. We, asIndians, must not succumb.

While understandably,there is a lot of anger in ourcountry over these attacks,some of the reactions to it are

questionable and are, in fact,aiding our enemies. The firsttype of reaction is one thatdemands an all-out war againstanother nuclear power.Unsurprisingly, a number ofthese calls are from individuals,who have the luxury to opinewithout the threat of conse-quence. The more rational voic-es on the subject are typicallyfrom soldiers and members ofthe armed forces, who under-stand the cost of war and, per-haps, more significantly, thecost of rashness in a battlefield.

For example, if India doesexecute its response withoutadequate preparedness and at aninopportune time, it will run thehuge risk of losing more bravesoldiers, not because of an act ofterror but due to brashness.Such an outcome is unacceptable.While desire for revenge is nor-mal, it cannot be at the cost ofreckless disregard for an Indianlife. That outcome, in my opin-ion, is unacceptable. While thereare always casualties in war, it isdifficult to justify such casualtiesif they are a result of aggression.

The other type of reactionwe have seen is the targeting ofKashmiris across India. This, too,is a response that cannot be jus-tified and must be condemned.First, from a humane perspec-tive, we must recognise that theminute we take out our anger on

an entire community due to ourpain over terrorist attacks, welose humanity, something thatdistinguishes us from the cow-ardly terrorists, who attack Indiaand what it stands for.

All of us, including all polit-ical parties, must come outclearly and unequivocallyagainst this behaviour. We mustrecognise that such a reaction iswhat the forces, that seek todivide India, actually hope toachieve. Creating divides with-in the country so that we turnon each other makes any futureacts of terror easier for our ene-mies. We must not allow theenemies of the country inflictthat sort of irreparable damage.

An examination of acts ofterror throughout the worldshows that rarely if ever are actsof terror random acts of vio-lence. Instead, they are thor-oughly planned and ruthlesslyexecuted. Therefore, in order tobe truly effective, our responsemust also demonstrate our abil-ity to be patient and cause max-imum damage at the mostappropriate time. While it maybe easy to give in to our morebasic demands for immediaterevenge, I think we can demandbetter from ourselves andemerge stronger as a result of it.

(The writer is JharkhandPCC president, former MP andIPS officer. Views are personal)

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Sir — On the one hand, India hasrelentlessly been demanding thatJaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief,Maulana Masood Azhar, bebanned and has been exertingpressure on the UN to declarehim as global terrorist. On theother, China, one of the perma-nent member nations in the UN,has constantly been foiling India’sbid to name him.

Ironically, another perma-nent member country, France,has been moving a proposal toban Azhar. Saudi ForeignMinister, Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, joined the chorus anddemanded his proscription.Meanwhile, Russia, too, has saidthat it isn’t averse to banningAzhar. Clearly, China standsexposed on its self-appeasingapproach. It is also a fact that theJeM claimed responsibility for thePulwama attack. Beijing needs toknow that terrorism in one partof the world slowly and steadilyspearheads to every nook andcorner. It cannot be an exceptionto terror.

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Sir — This refers to the article,“Getting a grip of Kashmir’sproblem” (February 20) byKalyani Shankar. I subscribe tothe writer’s view that radicalisa-tion and alienation of the youthin the Valley is on the rise.Failure to provide them with

jobs has made matters worse.Sadly, despite severe castigationfrom social, political and religiousquarters, terrorist attacks contin-ue unabated.

The writer is spot on in sug-gesting that while teaching therecalcitrant neighbour, Pakistan,a lesson is a must, the Kashmirproblem, too, needs to beaddressed pragmatically. A pro-

longed scenario of indecisionand precariousness hanging overthe youth’s future is at the root oftheir disappointment and frustra-tion. Ironically, they are exploit-ed by vested interests, too.

That a popular and democra-tic Government is trying to ropein prominent leaders from allpolitical parties will help the sit-uation return to normalcy. This

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Sir — This refers to the article,“Getting a grip of Kashmir’sproblem” (February 20) byKalyani Shankar. All those, whotry to divide India by killing inno-cent lives must be punished inaccordance with the law of theland. Those, who do the same byassaulting innocent Kashmiri stu-dents and shopkeepers, too, mustbe punished accordingly.

In this hour of darkness, ourcountry needs to be united. Weneed to show it to the world thatKashmir is an integral part of Indiaand Kashmiris are our brothersand sisters. Similarly, the interna-tional community must cametogether and pledge to root out themenace called terrorism. The 45CRPF soldiers, who were killed inthe Pulwama, represent the unityin diversity of our great country.Indeed, Pulwama martyrs teach uswhat India is all about.

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After Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s entry intoactive politics, our grand old party, theCongress, looks energised, motivated

and has the momentum on its side to face the2019 Lok Sabha election. Of course, it has beenhelped in no small measure by the BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP), which now looks jaded, car-ries the disadvantage of anti-incumbency andis seemingly devoid of the same energy andenthusiasm that marked the party’s campaignthroughout 2013 till the 2014 general election.Despite being on a roll — to an extent asCongress supporters would like to believe —after last year’s victories in the Assembly elec-tions to Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan andChhattisgarh, this would be the first battle inrecent years where the grand old party, whichby default is the main challenger to the BJP, isyet to come out with a positive poll narrative orsound implementable promises. It needs apitch, now.

Rather than projecting any positive agendafor the creation of jobs, to boost the country’seconomy or putting forth any dynamic agendawhich it might have for foreign policy vis-à-visour neighbouring countries, all it is dependentthis time around is on the “failure” of the Modiregime to fulfill promises it made in 2014. Asof now, Rafale seems to be the single mostimportant agenda for the Opposition, even asthe ruling party is spiritedly defending itself andhas been denying any wrong doing. Attack,attack and attack…seems to be the Congress’mantra as it enters the last phase before the elec-tions are formally announced by the ElectionCommission of India. But Rafale doesn’t havethe ability to wash with the electorate as an emo-tional issue. Can the Modi Government’salleged failure, therefore, become the trump cardfor the Congress? If the party’s think-tankbelieves it can take the electoral plunge withoutany positive agenda, or without any perfor-mance-oriented narrative, it is, perhaps, goingthrough a delusional phase. There will be nearunanimity among non-BJP parties and also alarge section of the academia and economiststhat demonetisation was a blunder and that theimplementation of the Goods and Services Tax(GST) could have been done in a better way, andperhaps, in a phased manner. There can be noargument on this front. But can this failure ofthe ruling party become the main weapon of theCongress fightback?

At present, all that the Congress has offeredinclude loan-waivers to farmers in States likeMadhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan,where the party won last year, triggering spec-ulation that it would do well in the general elec-tions too. But can loan-waiver alone be thepanacea of all the ills that plague the farmingcommunity? No farmer, agriculturist or expertdealing with the farm economy and farm cri-sis thinks so. At best, it is a pill which can onlyremove the symptom but can never fight thecause of the disease.

So, what can the Congress offer to the farm-ers of the country? Farm distress is, perhaps, thesingle most reason to make the ModiGovernment unpopular among the rural vote-base. Low farm prices have ensured that the

farmers’ returns from investments in crop, seeds,fertilisers and land are reduced and have, in fact,come down significantly in recent years. But willthe Congress implement the recommendationsof the Swaminathan Commission report, whichadvocates a new mechanism for fixing MinimumSupport Price for their crops? We have not heardmuch from the party on this front except somevague promises.

In fact, even in Punjab, where the party hasbeen in power for almost two years now, andwhich is plagued by farm distress and farmers’suicides for long, we are yet to hear much exceptthat provisions for cosmetic loan-waivers havebeen made. Farmers continue to be stressed inthe State even though the Congress under CaptAmarinder Singh took over the reins of poweralmost two years ago.

If you do not have anything concrete on thefarm front, that’s fine, you can take a call later.But what are your plans about job creation andgiving impetus to the economy? There is nodenying that demonetisation, which was fol-lowed by GST in quick succession, affected jobgrowth. In fact, the combine triggered massivejob losses. Has the Congress come up with a planto infuse new life to the economy and createjobs? The answer obviously would be a big no.

In 2014, when Prime Minister NarendraModi was bidding for power at the Centre, he,too, attacked the Congress left, right and cen-tre, using every possible imagery to pin downthe party and expose its inner contradictions.This was similar to what the Congress is doingright now. At that time, Modi found tractionamong voters with three crucial words — Modi,Modi, Modi — that echoed in almost all pub-lic meetings in the Hindi heartland throughoutthe campaign period. But at the same time, whiletomtomming his personal charisma, he had alsocome out with slogans of creating two crore jobsevery year and gifting 15 lakh in every bankaccount from the black money which was sup-posedly parked in foreign accounts. Of course,

the promise of achhe din acted as the catalystthat instilled hope among a large section of thepopulation, cutting across caste and religiouslines.

Five years down the line, all of these large-ly remain a promise and the slogans raised thenhave been given a decent burial. Even the“Gujarat model of development”, which was sup-posed to be implemented at the national level,remains forgotten and no one hears anythingabout it anymore. What Modi and his party aredoing this time around is what they did in 2014— virulently attack the Congress. Dynasty andalleged acts of omission and commission are thetop subjects on which the grand old party canbe attacked. There is no attempt to even sell arescue plan for stressed Indians.

So, there you are: Both the main contendersare calling each other names, they want the peo-ple to believe that the other is corrupt and aretrying to attract the voters’ eyeballs with theircolourful vocabulary, which they are usingagainst each other. What catapulted the BJPunder Modi in 2014 was complete disillusion-ment with 10 years of UPA regime, charges ofbig ticket corruption, perception of a remote-controlled Prime Minister and loss of hopeamong the electorate for the future. Modibrought in a wave of fresh air, positive change,political machismo and above all, hope for achhedin with some specific policy measures.

In the absence of a positive narrativeamong both contenders for power — BJP andCongress — electioneering so far has beenreduced to charges and counter charges, attackand defence. Of course, real electioneering is yetto pick up and will be seen only after the nationgets over the Pulwama tragedy. But people arestill wondering if elections this time round wouldbe fought on negative agenda, making both sideslook opportunist than committed visionarieswho will see us through.

(The writer is Senior Editor, The Pioneer,Chandigarh)

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When many of the guests lefther wedding receptionbecause of the terrible

smell emanating from unhygienicconditions prevailing in her villagein Maharashtra, Madhuri Sawantwas determined to change things.It took 14 years of single-mindeddetermination to overcome a rigidmindset and conditioning butSawant ensured that her village wasamong the 12 vil lages fromMaharashtra to win the first NirmalGram Puraskar, an award institut-ed by the Union Government inOctober, 2003, to promote ruralsanitation. Sawant’s village beat443 contenders from 10 States towin the award given to panchayats

or local self-governments, that haveensured that all households haveaccess to toilets; are free of opendefecation; and have separate toiletsfor boys and girls in schools andanganwadi centres.

Although Sawant started hercampaign much before she becamethe village’s first woman pradhan,holding an office made it easier forher to push for sanitation anddevelopmental work. It was herability to catalyse change that cat-apulted her village to the top.

Sawant is not the only onewho has been bringing change.There are innumerable examples ofhow the leadership of women inpanchayats is transforming Indiaand have been underlining whythere is an urgent need for anincrease in women’s participation inthe political system. Their presence in the village not onlyinspires other women but increas-es aspirations among families withdaughters.

When women are seen takingup responsibilities of village lead-ers, which are traditionally appro-

priated by men, others are motivat-ed to try and follow in their foot-steps. Research has shown thatperceptions of women as leadersimprove when they are seen andheard at village meetings.

Studies have proven thatwomen’s representation in localGovernments can make a tangibledifference. For example, the num-ber of drinking water projects inareas with women-led panchayatswas 62 per cent higher than in thosethat were led by men. Further,women legislators enhance eco-nomic performance in their con-stituencies by about 1.8 percentagepoints per year more than male leg-islators. Women legislators aremore effective at completing roadprojects and, hence, creating infra-structure for growth, according toa recent study by the UnitedNations University.

Additionally, by improving edu-cational outcomes for girls, thesewomen leaders lay the foundationfor increasing their participation inthe labour force and, thereby, clos-ing the gap of male-to-female work-

ing population in India.Even at the national level,

women’s leadership in the politicaldecision-making processes champi-ons issues of development, genderjustice, elimination of gender-basedviolence, gender-equality laws,healthcare and safety of women,irrespective of party affiliation.Despite their low numbers, (womenconstitute 12.2 per cent of the MPsin the 16th Lok Sabha and 11.5 percent in the Rajya Sabha), womenhave shown equal, if not greater,understanding of their role inParliament.

While women MPs on an aver-age asked 234 questions in the LokSabha, compared to 236 questionsby men MPs, female MPs on aver-age participated in more debates(56) than their male counterparts(55), according to data collected byPRS Legislative Research for the16th Lok Sabha (June 1, 2014, toJuly 31, 2018).

Incidentally, female voterturnout was higher than maleturnout in 16 States and UnionTerritories out of 35 in the last gen-

eral elections in 2014. Can this betranslated into greater participationof women as candidates? Yes, saysa recent survey by Shakti, a non par-tisan inclusive platform of womenacross the country.

On being asked whether theywanted more women MPs in LokSabha in 2019 elections, Shaktireceived an affirmative answer from10 lakh registered voters across therural, urban, women, men andyouth spectrum. Their Shakti-NetaApp survey recorded 82.2 per cent‘YES’ across 24 States.

But first, political parties haveto give women a chance to contestthe elections. Only 8.8 per cent tick-ets were given to women candidatesby the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)and 12.9 per cent by the Congressin the 2014 general election. Will itbe different this time around? Willwomen be able to overcome prevail-ing cultural attitudes regardinggender roles, lack of finances andthe threat of violence?

That it is possible for women totriumph over these obstacles hasbeen shown by Jayanti, a young

woman from the backward Sahariyatribe in the Lalitpur district of UttarPradesh. Jayanti’s journey from adaily-wage labourer to a pradhansymbolises the growing politicalempowerment and coming of age ofmany marginalised women.

In the feudal and backwardBundelkhand region of the State,these women are now more willingto participate actively in the elec-toral process. Jayanti stood herground despite threats and coercionto withdraw from the elections.

Even the announcement thatshe had lost by four votes did notbreak her spirit. She exercised herright to a recount and was vindicat-ed when she was declared the win-ner by a thin margin of six votes.Since then she has resolved prob-lems related to the mid-day mealsold age pension cards and roads.

The power to give women achance still rests with the men. Nowis the moment to prove that com-mitments for women-led develop-ment don’t remain mere rhetoric.

(The writer is a senior journalist)

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The AIADMK which stageda ‘coup’ on Tuesday by rop-

ing in the PMK to its fold forfacing the Lok Sabha election,came across an unexpectedroad block by Thursday asVijayakanth of the DMDKdemanded seven constituen-cies for his party to fight theelection.

Vijayakanth has reportedlytold the AIADMK representa-tive who called on him thatduring the 2014 Lok Sabhaelection, his party was allocat-ed 14 seats by the BJP while thePMK was given only sevenseats. The AIADMK had signeda deal with the PMK on Tuesdayallocating seven seats and aRajya Sabha seat for theVanniyar dominated party.

While the AIADMK hadsmooth negotiations with thePMK and the BJP, Vijayakanthis proving himself to be a toughnut. The situation turned curi-ous on Thursday as SThirunavakarassar, the formerTNCC president called on theactor-turned-politician at thelatter’s residence in Chennai.

The Congress leader whospent nearly 30 minutes with theactor and his family later told

reporters that his visit was towish Vijayakanth best of healthand a speedy recovery. “Wespoke politics also and I request-ed him to take a decision keep-ing the national interests inmind,” he said.

Sources close to the actorsaid that Vijyakanth has some“accounts to settle” with theAIADMK, which he claims wasinstrumental in decimating hisoutfit after the 2011 assemblyelection. The DMDK whichcontested the 2011 assemblyelection as an ally of theAIADMK had won 29 seats andVijayakanth was the Leader ofthe Opposition. But 14 MLAsbelonging to the DMDKswitched over to the AIADMKcamp. Vijayakanth believesthat it was at the instance ofJayalalithaa, the then chief min-ister that the MLAs ditched him.

If the AIADMK parts withseven seats to the DMDK, theruling party would be left withjust 19 seats. There are partieslike Puthiya Tamilakam, TMCand fringe parties which toohave to be accommodated in thefront, which is causing anxietyto the AIADMK leadership.

The DMK had onWednesday allocated nine seatsin Tamil Nadu and the lone seatin Puducherry to the Congress.

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Hours after formerChief Minister

Omar Abdullah ques-tioned Prime MinisterNarendra Modi’ssilence on Kashmiri studentsbeing targeted in various partsof the country J&K GovernorSatya Pal Malik on Thursdaydenied reports of attacks onstudents.

Addressing a press confer-ence in Srinagar Omar toldreporters, “All over the countrybut especially in some areas, anentire population is beingmaligned. Our students outsidethe State, with no connectionto politics, are being targetedand expelled. This is nothingbut a conspiracy. Why is theCentre silent on it” ?

Reacting to Omar’s state-ment on a TV debate GovernorSatya Pal Malik later said “Idon’t want to comment onwhat Omar said but, I can tellyou something for your infor-mation, there are approxi-mately 22000-25000 Kashmiristudents studying outside J&K,not a single student has evenbeen slapped”.

He said, “At eleven loca-tions we had appointed liaison

officers 6 months ago,these officers took careof them and main-tained co-ordinationwith the StateGovernment and keptthe students safe. Evenyesterday in Dehradun

Kashmiri students stated thatthere was no risk or danger tothem and PDP people therewere creating a false ruckus.There is an attempt to create anissue where there is no issue,just to communalise beforethe elections and I don’t wantto react to such childish man.”

During the press confer-ence Omar had also slammedCongress and said not just theruling party and the PM, buteven the opposition has beenabsolutely silent on this issue.

Referring to possibility ofdialogue between India andPakistan Omar said, “talks withPakistan cannot be held in thebackdrop of terror attacks suchas the one in Pulwama, inwhich 40 CRPF jawans werekilled. “Our PM has talkedabout a ‘muh tod jawab’ butsuch a reply is not possible in thecurrent situation as the PakistanPM has also stated that theywould not think of but retaliateif any attack is launched byIndia,” Abdullah said.

Jammu: Cracking whip against the anti-national ele-ments, the Jammu and Kashmir police has registereda case against those involved in pro-Pakistan and anti-India sloganeering outside GGM Science College inJammu on February 11.

According to police spokesman, “FIR has been reg-istered under Sections sedition (124A RPC),Punishment for wrongful restraint (341), Punishmentfor rioting (147) rioting, armed with deadly weapon(148) and endangering life or personal safety of oth-ers (336) against unidentified persons”.

As per the hue and cry notice issued by SSP JammuTejinder Singh, SP city North, Jammu has intimatedthat some unknown persons have raised anti-nation-al slogans near the college, out of which the picturesof three unidentified persons have been traced out andare wanted in the FIR.

“As such photographs of these unidentified per-sons are being published for the information of policeestablishments and public in general, having any cluerelated to whereabouts and present locations of theseaccused persons, communicate the same on the con-tacts of police,” the notice said.

Police had gathered mobile/CCTV footage fromlocal businessmen to identify these persons involvedin anti-India sloganeering.

College students had boycotted their classes forthree days after police lathicharged them inside theGGM science college premises while they wereprotesting against stranded passengers for raising anti-India and prok Pakistan slogans in Jammu. PNS

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In a disturbing incident that tookplace a week after the Pulwama

terror attack, four Kashmiri stu-dents were humiliated, beaten upand forced by Yuv Sena activists toraise slogans like “Vande Mataram”,“Hindustan Zindabad” and“Bharatmata ki Jai” at Yavatmal ineastern Maharashtra.

Umar Rashid Dar (19) andUmar Nazir Ganai (20) both fromKupwara in Jammu and Kashmirand two of their other friendsfrom the same state were caughthold of near their rented homes atYavatmal late on Wednesday night,beaten up and forced to raise slo-gans hailing India, by the YuvSena activists.

The victim students are fromDayabhai Patel College of PhysicalEducation. The Yuv Sena activistsaccosted them near their rentedhomes in Waghapur Road area ofthe town and physically harassedthem as a mark of “protest” againstthe Pulwama terror strike in which40 CRPF jawans were killed. Twoof the jawans from the neighbour-ing Buldhana district were amongthose killed in the Pulwama attack.

A clip of video footage shot bythe Yuv Sena activists themselveswent viral on social media onThursday. The footage showed alocal Yuv Sena leader beating theKashmiri students and asking themquestions like to from where theywere, as to why they had come to

Yavatmal and whether were theylinked with terrorists. “What is yourname? Why have you come here?You should not come here.... Whatconnection do you with the ter-rorists there?... You relatives arekilling our jawans there. Why haveyou come here? How many stu-dents are here like you in Yavatmal”.

The replies from a student like“I have to come to study here... I amthe son of a doctor. I have not beento Kashmir for the last one and a halfyears...There are 15 to 20 Kashmiristudents in Yavatmal (the Yuv Senaleader tells the student: Tell them notto be here),” would not satisfy theYuv Sena leader who continued tobeat him and other students up.

The footage of the incident alsoshowed the Yuv Sena leader order thevictim Kashmiri students to raise slo-gans like “Hindustan Zindabad”,“Vande Mataram” and “Bharat Mataki Jai”. The victim students readilyobliged the Yuv Sena leader.

Incidentally, the incident tookplace four days after Prime MinisterNarendra Modi visited theYavatmal town to launch severaldevelopment projects. In his speech,Modi said that however the perpe-trators of Pulwama mayhem “willdefinitely be punished” and thesecurity forces had been given a“free hand” to deal with thecounter-attack they deemed fit.

Following the incident, theYuva Sena came in for sharp criti-cism from various quarters. In adamage control exercise, Yuv Sena

president Aditya Thackeray urgedhis supporters not to vent theiranger against “people from our owncountry” all in the name of “show-ing their anger against Pakistan”.

“I think the outrage wasagainst Pakistan and the need togive it a fitting reply is important…But we must ensure that this is notdirected at our own citizens in anymanner,” Aditya said.

“What has happened is notproper and highly condemnable. Ifthey are our members we would takeaction against them,” Yuva Sena sec-retary Varun Sardesaisaid.Meanwhile, the local Loharapolice station has registered a casein connection with the incident. “We are recording the statements ofthe victims and we would soon iden-tify the accused,” Yavatmal’s districtsuperintendent of police MRajkumar said.

Extending support to the vic-tim students, Dayabhai PatelCollege of Physical EducationSandeep Chawak said: “We are withthe affected students. Three of thefour victim students are studying inour college for the past three years,while the remaining one has beenhere for the past one year”.

A team of police led by DSPRajkumar visited the college, inter-acted with the students and assuredthem that there would not be anyrepeat of such incidents. “We haveincreased the security and patrollingaround homes where the Kashmiriboys stay,” Rajumar told the students.

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The Pune police onThursday filed a 1,837-

page supplementarychargesheet before a Punecourt against five more persons,including human rights activistSudha Bharadwaj and fugitiveMaoist leader Ganapathy aliasChandrashekhar, in connectionwith the much-discussedElgaar Parishad-cum- Bhima-Koregaon riots case.

Three months after theyfiled the first charge sheetagainst ten accused in the samecase, the Pune police filed acomprehensive charge-sheetbefore ted before AdditionalSessions Judge Kishor Vadane.

Apart from Bhardwaj andGanapathy, the three otheraccused named in the supple-mentary chargesheet are,Telugu poet Varavara Rao,activists Vernon Gonsalves andArun Pereira.

Like in the case of the ear-lier charge-sheet, the fiveactivists have been chargedunder various relevant sec-tions of the Unlawful ActivitiesPrevention Act (UAPA), 117 (abetting commission ofoffence), 120-b ( conspiracy)

read with 34 (common inten-tion), 121, 121 (A) (Waging orattempting to wage a war, orabetting waging of war, againstthe Government of India) 124A(sedition), 153 –A (wantonlygiving provocation with intentto cause riot..) and 505-1b(statements conducing publicmischief) of Indian Penal Code(IPC)

Confirming that a supple-mentary charge-sheet had beenfiled in the local court, Pune’sJoint Commissioner of PoliceShivaji Bodkhe said onThursday, “The evidence thatwe have produced against thefive accused includes evidenceretrieved from electronicdevices seized from the arrest-ed activists. We have chargedthem with waging war againstthe nation and spreading theideology of their banned organ-isation and creating caste con-flicts, disaffection and hatred inthe society”.

On November 15 last year,the Pune police had filed thefirst chargesheet before a spe-cial court in Pune against 10persons in the Bhima-Koregaon riots case, accusingthem among other things ofconspiring to kill Prime

Minister Narendra Modi andoverthrow the democraticallyelected government in thecountry.

In their chargesheet filedbefore a Special UnlawfulActivities (Prevention) Act(UAPA) Court in Pune tenweeks after the same courtextended a 90-day deadlinefor filing the charge-sheet byanother 90 days, the Punepolice had named Sudhir P.Dhawale, Rona J Wilson,Surendra P Gadling, ShomaSen, Mahesh S. Raut as amongthe 10 persons. They had beenarrested from various parts ofthe country on June 6.

The five other accusednamed in their charge-sheet asthe absconding accused by thePune police were M aliasMilind Teltumbde fromYavatmal, Prakash alias Navin

Alias Ritupan Goswami fromAssam, Manglu, Dipu andKishan Prashant Bose, allowing allegiance to the bannedCPI (Maoists). The charge-sheet stated that these fiveaccused had gone “under-ground” in various parts of thecountry.

The ten accused named inthe first charge-sheet in theBhima-Koregaon case havebeen charged under the samesections as is the case with thefive accused, includingBhardwaj, against whom thesupplementary charge-sheetwas filed on Thursday.

The charge-sheet had stat-ed that the five arrested activists--Dhawale, Wilson, Gadling,Shoma Sen and S. Raut –werelinked to the CPI (Maoists)which carried out subversiveactivities through under-

ground means. Human andcivil rights organisations likeIndian Association of People’sLawyers (IAPL), AnuradhaGhandi Memorial Committee(AGMC), Kabir Kala Manch,all of which set up legally,were supporting the outlawedCPI (Maoists)

According to the charge-sheet, accused number twoRona J Wilson had colludedwith Shoma Sena andPrashanto Bose, secretary ofthe outlawed CPI (Maoist)’sEastern Regional Bureau, alongwith other undergroundactivists hatched a conspiracyto kill the Prime Minister ofIndia.

Like in the case of the pre-vious ten accused, the currentfive have been charged with“waging a war” against thenation.

Five Maoist-linked activistsHuman Rights activists RonaWilson Jacob, SurendraGadling, Sudhir Dhawale, ProfShoma Sen and Mahesh Rautwere arrested by the Punepolice on June 6, in connectionwith the Elgaar Parishad andsubsequent Bhima-Koregaoncaste riots.

Subsequently on June 8, the

investigators had claimed thatthey had recovered from thelaptop of Wilson an allegedlyincriminating letter, whichuncovered an alleged plot bythe Maoists to carry out “RajivGandhi-type” assassination ofPrime Minister NarendraModi.

On August 28, the Punepolice arrested five moreactivists Varavara Rao, VernonGonsalves and Arun Pereira,Sudha Bharadwaj and GautamNavlakha for their associationwith the Elgaar Parishad heldin Pune a day ahead of theJanuary 1, 2018 Bhima-Koregaon riots and theiralleged links with the Maoists.

It may be recalled that onJanuary 1, one RahulPhatangale (28), a Dalit, waskilled and another 40-odd vehi-cles and some other propertywere damaged after some mis-creants attacked Dalits cele-brating the January 1, 1818 vic-tory of British troops overPeshwa Bajirao II’s army atBhima-Koregaon in Pune dis-trict of western Maharashtra.Following the incident,Maharashtra had witnessedlarge-scale Dalit protests whichturned violent at some places.

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The Union Home Ministrywill carry out a pan-India

survey to assess public percep-tion on citizen-centric policeservices like women safety andreporting of crimes, officialssaid Thursday. The survey willcommence next month andcover a representative sample of1.2 lakh households spreadover 173 districts across thecountry, based on the NationalSample Survey framework.

All the states and the UnionTerritories would be included inthis survey and it will be com-pleted in nine months, a HomeMinistry official said.

The survey is aimed tounderstand public perceptionabout police, gauge the level ofnon-reporting of crimes orincidents to police, the positionon ground relating to crimereporting and recording, time-liness and quality of policeresponse and action and expe-rience about women and chil-dren’s safety.

The outcome of the surveyis expected to bring out usefulsuggestions for stakeholdersin formulating and imple-menting appropriate policyresponses and changes in thefunctioning of police at the cut-ting edge and for improvingcrime prevention and investi-gation, transformation in com-munity policing.

It is also expected toimprove the access to the jus-tice and increased or appro-priate resource allocation forpolice in a systematic manner,the official said.

From time-to-time, sever-al initiatives have been taken bythe central government, aimedat facilitating and supplement-ing the efforts of state govern-ments and the UnionTerritories in providing citizen-centric police services.

A globally accepted way toassess the impact or outcomesof such endeavours is througha holistic analysis of servicesrendered to the public, throughpublic perception surveys con-ducted by professional andindependent agencies.

Such surveys are globallytested tools for improving ser-vice delivery in policing andenhancing public satisfaction.

With the above aim and tofurther strengthen the goodgovernance practices in theworking of police, the HomeMinistry has commissionedthe Bureau of Police Researchand Development to conductthis pan-India survey called the‘All India Citizens Survey ofPolice Services, another officialsaid.

The survey will be con-ducted through the NationalCouncil of Applied EconomicResearch in New Delhi.

The states and the UTshave been requested to extendfull cooperation to the conductof the survey, and to adopt thisgood practice and prepare theirpolice for undertaking suchsurveys on their own in thefuture, the official said.

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An improvised explosivedevice (IED) was recov-

ered from a State Transport busin Maharashtra’s Raigad districtlate on Wednesday night.

The ST bus was on its wayfrom Karjat to Apta village nearPanvel town when the driverfound a suspected materialkept in a bag on board the bus,at around 11 pm.

The circumspect ST busdriver quickly acted and askedthe passengers to disembark thebus. He also immediately alert-ed the police about the finding.

A team of Bomb Detectionand Disposal Squad from thenearby Alibaug rushed to the spotshort afterwards. The team foundthat the material looking a devicekept in a bag was indeed an IED.“The team took nearly five hours

to defuse the IED by removingthe wires and detonator in it. Thepolice sanitised the ST bus in theearly hours of today,” a seniorpolice officer said.

Raigad’s district superin-tendent of police Anil Paraskarsaid that device had been sentfor forensic examination. "Wehave a reason to believe thedevice might have been keptto create a panic and terroramong people,” Paraskar said.

After the incident, thecoastal Raigad district wasplaced under a high alert. TheState-run Maharashtra StateRoad Transport Corporation(MSRTC) ordered beefing upof security across its depots, busstands and buses in the state.

Maharashtra’s Transportminister Diwakar Raoteordered a check of all the busesin its fleet. "This is serious andthe matter is being investigat-ed," he said.

Meanwhile, initial investi-gations have revealed the IEDdevice was of relatively of a lowintensity explosive.

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Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee on

Thursday expressed her strongresolve to espouse and defendIndia’s unity and urged thepeople to respect each others’languages in tandem with tak-ing “pride in your mothertongue.”

Banerjee who was speakingat the inauguration of theInternational Mother LanguageDay said she wanted a trulyunited India which was pow-erful and where the peoplewere mutually respectful eachothers’ cultures.

In an apparent reference tothe post-Pulwama hystericswhere the people of Kashmirwere subjected to victimisationall over the country Banerjeesaid the entire communityshould not be judged by the actof one person.

“I cannot expect victimi-sation of (Kashmiri) people forone instance,” she said adding“there is no reason to judge allthe Kashmiris by the act of oneperson.”

A suicide attacker fromKashmir had last week rammedinto a CRPF convoy with anIED-loaded vehicle killing 44jawans inviting world-wide

condemnation againstPakistan-sponsored terrorism

in India.Banerjee who earlier

expressed on the Twitter her“best wishes to all onInternational Mother LanguageDay” asking the people to“respect all languages but takepride in your mother tongue”told a gathering at DeshapriyaPark in South Kolkata that shewanted a united India whichwas strong and powerful bydint of its unity.

“We all want to sleep withunity, walk with unity, talk withunity …we want a united India,a powerful India,” Banerjeesaid.

Meanwhile, rulingTrinamool Congress sourcessaid the Bengal Chief Ministerwould next week attend theanti-BJP opposition meetscheduled to be held at Mohaliin Punjab.

The meeting is likely to beheld on February 26. A seniorTMC leader said “the ChiefMinister will take part in theall-party meeting at Mohali asshe has been a prime mover foran opposition unity to throwthe BJP out of power.”

Banerjee had earlierattended a similar meeting atNCP chief Sharad Pawar’s res-idence in Delhi where she metmost opposition leaders includ-ing Congress president RahulGandhi.

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In a rare judgment a Birbhumcourt on Thursday sentenced

former Vice Chancellor,Registrar and a professor of theprestigious Visva BharatiUniversity to five years’ rigor-ous imprisonment after theywere found guilty of forgery bythe same court.

Additional Chief JudicialMagistrate Arvind Mishra onThursday sentenced ex VCand mathematician DilipKumar Sinha, Registrar DilipKumar Mukherjee and MutkiDeb a former professor to 5years’ RI after they were foundguilty under various sections ofForgery Act, and Sections 467,468, 471, 475 and 120B (crim-inal conspiracy) of the IndianPenal Code.

A prosecution lawyer saidthat Deb had forged her testi-monials and joined theUniversity as a lecturer inmathematics despite being anundergraduate. Photostatcopies of her forged marksheets and certificates wereallegedly stamped and attestedby Dr Sinha who functioned asthe VC of the said centralUniversity from 1995 to 2001.

Visva Bharati was foundedby Poet Laureate RabindranathTagore and is considered acentre of excellence throughoutthe world.

It was alleged that Sinhahad impersonated as one

Rashbehari Ghosh a professorin the University of Calcutta.As a result Deb’s forged testi-monials established her as aB.Sc, M.Sc and M.Phil passouts from CU, JadavpurUniversity and Visva BharatiUniversity respectively. TheRegistrar was found guilty forneglecting his duty by cross-checking the testimonials.

A case was registered afterDeb applied for enrolment inPh.D course in 2002. When shewas asked to produce her orig-inal certificates she withdrew herapplication saying they had beenstolen and even placed a policediary in favour of her claims.

After the authorities con-ducted a probe all the threewere found guilty and an FIRwas registered with the BolpurPolice Station.

Meanwhile, the advocate ofthe convicts said his clientwould prefer an appeal in thehigher courts even as the triowas taken into jail custody.

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According to a HomeMinistry notification, "an offi-cer of the rank correspondingto that of the lowest rank ofmembers of the Assam Rifles"has been given these powersunder the Code of CriminalProcedure.

Assam Rifles personnelwill exercise these powers anddischarge their duties "undersub-section(1) of section 41,sections 47, 48, 49, 51, 53, 54,149, 150, 151 and 152 of the

CrPC within the local limits ofthe area comprised within theborder districts of Assam,Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur,Nagaland and Mizoram", thenotification said.

Section 41 of the CrPCstates that any police officermay, without an order from amagistrate and without a war-rant, arrest any person. Section47 gives powers for search ofplace entered by person soughtto be arrested.

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The host of reforms under-taken by the Government

has transformed India intothe fastest-growing majoreconomy along with themacroeconomic stability notwitnessed in the past, accord-ing to a note prepared by theNiti Aayog.

The country’s growth, thenote added, has decisivelyincreased over the last fiveyears and is much higher thanthe average growth among theemerging and developingeconomies.

“India’s economic perfor-mance dipped considerablyduring 2010-13.

“Over the last five years(2014-18), the India economyhas recovered and now is goingthrough one of its best-everphases of economic growthcombined with the microeco-

nomic stability,” the note said.Narendra Modi became

the prime minister in May2014 after the Bharatiya JanataParty-led National DemocraticAlliance won the general elec-tions.

The next general electionsare due in April-May.

According to the note, in2018-19, against India’s likelygrowth of 7.2 per cent, theworld GDP growth would be3.7 per cent and median ofseven emerging marketeconomies (Brazil, China,Indonesia, Philippines, Russia,South Africa and Turkey) is 3.5per cent.

The closest to India is

China, which is estimated togrow at 6.6 per cent in 2018-19,the note said.

“The uptick in economicgrowth has come from variouseconomic reforms undertakenby the Government such asimprovement in ease of doingbusiness, opening up to for-eign direct investments, thepush for infrastructure devel-opment and a stable and deci-sive policy environment,” itadded.

India’s growth in the cur-rent fiscal year is estimated tobe 7.2 per cent with the growthin preceding three years being8 per cent, 8.2 per cent and 7.2per cent.

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Bharat Heavy ElectricalsLimited (BHEL) has suc-

cessfully commissioned a 250MW coal-based thermal powerplant (TPP) in Bihar.

The unit has been com-missioned at the greenfield4x250 MW Nabinagar ThermalPower Project, being set up byBharatiya Rail Bijlee CompanyLimited (BRBCL), a joint ven-ture of NTPC Limited and theIndian Railways.

This is the third 250 MWunit commissioned by BHEL atNabinagar TPP, located atNabinagar in Aurangabad dis-trict of Bihar. The first twounits are already under com-mercial operation and thefourth unit is in an advancedstage of execution.

The orders for Steam

Generator (SG) and TurbineGenerator (TG) packages forsetting up of four units of 250MW coal based thermal plantwere placed on BHEL. Thecompany’s scope of workencompassed design, engi-neering, manufacture, supply,erection and commissioning ofSteam Turbines, Generatorsand Boilers, along with associ-ated Auxiliaries and Electricals,besides state-of-the-artControls & Instrumentation(C&I) and ElectrostaticPrecipitators (ESPs).

The key equipment for theproject has been manufacturedby BHEL at its Haridwar,Trichy, Ranipet, Hyderabadand Bengaluru works, while theconstruction of the plant hasbeen undertaken by the com-pany’s Power Sector — EasternRegion.

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Shares of publicsector banks

(PSBs) jumped upto 19 per cent onThursday after theFinance Ministryannounced infu-sion of �48,239crore in 12 suchlenders in this fis-cal to help them maintain reg-ulatory capital requirementsand finance growth plans.

Corporation Bank zoomed19.02 per cent at close of trade,UCO Bank 8.75 per cent,United Bank 7.19 per cent,Indian Overseas Bank 6.78 percent, Central Bank of India 5.50per cent on BSE.

Shares of Allahabad Bankjumped 5.34 per cent, AndhraBank 5.22 per cent, Bank ofMaharashtra 3.96 per cent,Syndicate Bank 3.59 per cent,Punjab National Bank 2.95 percent, Union Bank of India 2.80per cent and Bank of India 1.83per cent.

“Market extended gains asinvestors sentiment has beenboosted owing to recapitalisa-tion of PSU banks,” said VinodNair, Head of Research, GeojitFinancial Services.

With this funding, the totalamount of capital infusionwould increase to �1,00,958

crore of the planned recapital-isation of �1.06 lakh crore forPSBs for the current fiscal,according to Financial ServicesSecretary Rajiv Kumar.

Corporation Bank is thebiggest beneficiary of thisround of capital infusion with�9,086 crore of funding, fol-lowed by Allahabad Bank with�6,896 crore.

Further, �4,638 crore and�205 crore will be provided toBank of India and Bank ofMaharashtra, respectively.

Punjab National Bankwill get �5,908 crore, UnionBank of India �4,112 crore,Andhra Bank �3,256 croreand Syndicate Bank �1,603crore.

Under prompt correctiveaction (PCA), the Governmentwill pump in �12,535 crore infour other banks — CentralBank of India, United Bank,UCO Bank and IndianOverseas Bank.

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The rupee skidded by 11paise to close at 71.24

against the US dollar onThursday as rising oil pricesand a strengthening green-back weighed on the marketsentiment.

At the Interbank ForeignExchange (forex) market, thedomestic unit opened strongat 71.06 and rose to 70.91.However, it could not holdon to the gains and fell to alow of 71.29 before finallyending at 71.24 — a fall of 13paise.

The rupee had closed at71.11 against the US dollarWednesday.

Foreign institutionalinvestors (FIIs), who had beenheavy sellers over the past fewsessions, net bought equitiesworth �55 crore Thursdaywhile domestic institutionalinvestors bought shares to thetune of �202 crore, provision-al data showed.

Global markets were mixedfollowing the release of FederalReserve minutes which showedthat the US central bank wouldbe patient on interest ratehikes.

The dollar index, whichgauges the greenback’s strengthagainst a basket of six curren-cies, rose 0.13 per cent to96.57.

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Crisis-hit Jet Airways onThursday convened a

meeting of its shareholderswhere various proposals,including conversion of loansinto shares, were discussed.

The cash-strapped fullservice airline is looking forfunds and restructuring ofdebt.

Jet Airways founder pro-moter and Chairman NareshGoyal did not attend theextraordinary general meet-ing, which was chaired byWhole-Time DirectorGaurang Shetty.

During the meeting,which lasted for around 40minutes, Deputy ChiefExecutive Off icer AmitAgarwal told shareholdersthat the airline has been talk-ing to various investors for

capital infusion.Jet Airways has been con-

sistently working on cost-reduction initiatives and is alsolooking to rationalise its fleet toimprove cost efficiency.

The outcome of the meet-ing could not be ascertainedimmediately.

According to the noticethat was sent out to share-holders, one of the proposalswas for seeking approval forconversion loan into shares orconvertible instruments orother securities.

Another proposal was tonegotiate and finalise theterms and conditions withthe lenders for raising furtherloans from time to time aswell as provide the lenderswith a right to convert suchloans into shares, or convert-ible instruments or othersecurities.

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Shares of Jet Airways(India) Ltd rose nearly 1

per cent on Thursday aheadof an extraordinary gener-al meeting of the membersof the company later in theday.

The company’s sharesgained 0.82 per cent to closeat �234.85 on the BSE.During the day, it rose by1.69 per cent to �236.90.

At the National StockExchange (NSE), sharesclimbed 0.77 per cent toclose at �235 apiece.

On the traded volumefront, 3.46 lakh shareswere traded on the BSEand over 36 lakh shares onthe NSE.

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Leif Johansson, Chairman ofthe Board, AstraZeneca Plc

during his three day visit toIndia, announced expansion ofthe company’s strategic collab-orations to address the risingburden of Non-CommunicableDiseases(NCDs) in India.

At the India-SwedenUnnati healthcare 2.0 day, thecompany and its partners,Business Sweden, TheNational Association ofSoftware and Ser vicesCompanies (NASSCOM),Atal Innovation Mission-NitiAayog and AGNIi, announcedthe finalists of the UnnatiHealthcare InnovationChallenge.

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Indian Chamber of Commerceorganized the 9th edition of

India corporate governance andsustainability vision summitand awards on 21st February2019 at New Delhi. The sum-mit and the awards over theyears have provided the rightplatform to organizations foreffectively showcasing their cor-porate governance and sustain-ability practices.

The dignitaries who gracedthe occasion were Anil Swarup,Former Secretary, Department

of School Education & Literacy,Ministry of Human ResourceDevelopment, Government ofIndia, Bhaskar Chatterjee,Former Secretary, Departmentof Heavy Industries & PublicEnterprises, Government ofIndia & Senior Director, IndianInstitute of Learning &Management, Saunak Saha,Associate Partner, Ernst &Young and Anil Razdan,Chairman-ICC NationalExpert Committee on Energy& Former Secretary,Department of Power,Government of India.

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Junior Commerce andIndustry Minister CR

Chaudhary has set an ambitious$50 billion target for bilateraltrade between India and Russiaover the next seven years.

As of end-2018, tradebetween the two countriesstood at $30 billion.

“Our two-way trade havealready crossed the $30- billionmark, which we had set for2025. We, therefore, proposethat we enhance this to $50 bil-lion by 2025,” Chaudhary saidat the Indo-Russian forumorganised by the industry lobbyCII here Thursday.

He also said both the coun-tries are confident of achievingthe target.

The Minister said by 2030,the country is expected tobecome the third largest econ-omy in the world with a hugemiddleclass. But to reach thatposition, we need more andbetter infrastructure, access toenergy, more goods and ser-vices and a modern agriculturesector, he added.

“Russia is well placed tomeet our needs in these areasas well as others, he said,adding beside businesses, thereis a need for collaborationbetween the two countries onthe education sector as well.

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Contrasting centuries byJason Roy and Joe Root

paced England to a comfortablesix-wicket victory over the WestIndies with their record one-dayinternational run chase in ahigh-scoring opening game of afive-match series in Barbados onWednesday.

Set what looked a dauntingtarget after Chris Gayle's 24thODI hundred anchored thehome side to 360-8, Roy blazed123 off 85 balls at the top of theorder while Root cruised to acomparatively sedate 102 off 97deliveries to take help thetourists reach their target witheight balls to spare.

In achieving the highest-ever ODI run chase in theCaribbean and the third-high-est overall, England underlinedtheir status as the top-rankedteam in this format of the gameand will be brimful of battingconfidence heading into thesecond match at the same venueon Friday.

Fresh from a hundred in thelone warm-up match at theweekend, Roy was at his mostruthless against the hosts whomissed key fast bowler KemarRoach.

Roy set the pace in racing toa hundred off just 65 balls — thefastest-ever in ODIs in theCaribbean — and dominated anopening stand of 91 with JonnyBairstow.

He maintained the chargethrough a 114-run second-wick-et partnership with Root and bythe time he fell in the 27th overto leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo,England were well on course.

Earlier, Gayle lit up theKensington Oval with anotherdisplay of power-hitting.

Playing his first ODI sincethe home series againstBangladesh last July and having

announced that the upcomingWorld Cup will be his interna-tional farewell in the format, thebig-hitting left-hander signalledhis intentions for a lengthygrand finale with an innings of135 off 129 balls with 12 sixesand three fours.

His tally of maximumsdominated an innings in which23 sixes were struck, a new

record for an ODI innings.Despite conceding 34 runs

off his final two overs, leg-spin-ner Rashid played an importantrole together with Stokes inlimiting the West Indies progressover the final 15 overs.

Stokes returned the bestfigures of three for 37, includingthe important wicket of Gayle inthe 47th over.

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The aggressiveHarmanpreetKaur's injury-forced absence is

likely to be felt but a confident Indianwomen's cricket team will look tomake the home advantage count whenit squares off against England in a three-match ODI series starting at WankhedeStadium on Friday.

Fresh from a decent outing in NewZealand, where the team won theODIs but were blanked 0-3 in T20Internationals, the Indian team contin-ues its ICC Championships engage-ments.

The team has to hold on to its posi-tion in the top-four of the world rank-ings till 2020 to get direct qualificationfor the 2021 World Cup.

All the three matches will be playedat the Wankhede and India would befirm favourites. The Mithali Raj-led out-fit had beaten England 2-1 the last timethe visitors were here, in 2018.

Raj, whose position in the T20squad has created quite a bit of contro-versy in the past few months, is still atthe top of her game in the 50-over for-mat. The 36-year-old became the firstwoman cricketer to play 200 ODIs forIndia during the tour of New Zealanda few weeks back.

However, the hosts will miss herregular deputy and T20 captainHarmanpreet, who was ruled out of theentire series with an ankle injury. Shehas been replaced by Harleen Deol.

Although Harmanpreet was off-colour during the series against NewZealand, she remains crucial for Indiain its new-found aggression.

But ICC's woman cricketer of theyear Smriti Mandhana and the youngand sprightly Jemimah Rodrigues can

be banked upon to provide the requi-site spark. Mandhana, especially, was intop form in New Zealand and would beaiming to continue the fine run.

The team has had middle-orderissues in the past and newly-appoint-ed coach W V Raman would be keento sort those out.

The home team's bowling has anall-round look with the pace attackbeing led by redoubtable veteran JhulanGoswami and also comprising the likesof Shikha Pandey and Mansi Joshi.

With spin being a key element on

Indian wickets, the role of slow bowlersDeepti Sharma, Ekta Bisht and PoonamYadav in the middle overs would be cru-cial.

The England women, on the otherhand, are no pushovers in the 50-overformat. They have experienced cam-paigners in top-order batting, such asDanni Wyatt (746 runs in 61 matches)and 28-year-old Heather Knight.

Knight, with 2,331 runs to her cred-it in 86 ODIs, displayed good form inthe practice game against the BoardPresidents XI and would be expected to

anchor the innings for the visitors.With all-rounders like Sophie

Eccelestone, experienced pacer AnyaShrubsole and accurate medium pacerNat Sciver in the mix, England have thebowling attack to trouble the hosts.

Anya would also take confidencefrom her four-wicket haul in the warm-up game.

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Taniya Bhatia (wicket-keeper), RKalpana (wicket-keeper), MonaMeshram, Ekta Bisht, RajeshwariGayakwad, Poonam Yadav, ShikhaPandey, Mansi Joshi, Punam Raut,Harleen Deol.England: Tammy Beaumont,Katherine Brunt, Kate Cross, SophiaDunkley, Sophie Ecclestone, GeorgiaElwiss, Alex Hartley, Amy Jones,Heather Knight, Laura Marsh, NatSciver, Anya Shrubsole, Sarah Taylor(wicketkeeper), Lauren Winfield andDanni Wyatt.

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Indian women's ODI team skipper Mithali Raj said theteam is focussed on avoiding the qualifiers ahead of the

2021 World Cup but reckoned it will be a major challengefacing World Cup champions England in the absence ofinjured Harmanpreet Kaur.

Mithali said her team is focused on holding on to itsposition in the top-four of the world rankings till 2020 toget direct qualification for the 2021 World Cup.

"It's a very important series for us, being number threeright now in points table. Points are at stake and I definite-ly want the team to get direct entry (into the next WorldCup). It's important to get as many points as possible fromthe series," she said on the eve of the series.

India had beaten England 2-1 the last time the visitorswere here in 2018 but Mithali said facing the visitors with-out Harmanpreet will show the team's depth.

"England are a formidable side, being the World Cupchampions and they will come strongly at us. We shouldbe playing a positive brand of cricket," said Mithali.

"They've got their senior players back into the squad,and we are without one of our senior players. But this serieswill also show how we meet this challenge. It will reflect thedepth of our team."

On the absence of Harmanpreet, Mithali said the injuredplayer will be missed but her absence also provides chanceto the youngsters to come good.

"She is one of the main players in the team for a longtime, but it is also an opportunity for young players in theteam to rise up and use the opportunity to step up and per-form," said the India captain.

"Harman is not there because of injury. I should empha-sise that we, as a batting unit, should take the (added) respon-sibility and whoever gets the opportunity should play thatrole," she added.

For a direct entry into the World Cup, Mithali and com-pany need to hold on to their position in the top-four ofthe world rankings till 2020.

The equation becomes a bit more complex in the wakeof the terror attack by a Pakistan-based terror-outfit inPulwama in Kashmir and the outrage it has given rise toall over the country.

Now there's a distinct possibility that the Indian teammay not line up against Pakistan and Mithali said she is awareof this sort of scenario.

"It's always been in our minds that we probably won'tplay Pakistan, and that's why, whatever matches we playagainst whoever, we should be going in by keeping in mindthat we need those points," she remarked.

India had defeated New Zealand 2-1 in the recent ODIseries in different conditions and Mithali said they will takethe confidence into the series against England.

"It was our first win on the New Zealand soil, so it feelsgreat to win a series there, but to come home and playEngland is completely different," she said.

"The conditions are different. We'll take a lot of posi-tives and confidence from that series win, but our prepa-ration and strategy differs from what it was in New Zealand."

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Reigning World Cup cham-pions England want to cre-

ate history by defeating India intheir own backyard for thefirst time in an ODI series, saidvisiting team captain HeatherKnight on the eve of the open-ing clash.

"Yes, we have talked aboutit. It's something we want to doas a team. We want to make his-tory. When we came here lastyear, it was a slightly youngerteam. We weren't able to dothat; we lost that series 2-1,"said Knight.

The two teams had playeda memorable World Cup finalin 2017 when hosts England

pulled off a sensational win."We have had some amaz-

ing games; that World Cupfinal was an amazing game tobe involved in. Obviously theenormity of the occasion: to bein a WC final, to be sold out atLord's. We've played some goodgames, including last year inIndian conditions as well."

According to Knight, herteam's strength is its depth.

"The ODI cricket we'veplayed in the last couple ofyears, including the World Cupin England, that's been verygood. We have got perfor-mances from different players.We have got inexperience anda group that has been aroundfor a while as well.

"We've got quite a settledbatting line-up and everyone ofthe batters in the top six orseven are match-winners. Sohopefully a lot more playerscan step up, as they have donein the last two years," sheadded.

Knight agreed that Indiawill miss the injuredHarmanpreet Kaur.

"She has been a very goodplayer for them. She has beenplaying in the leagues aroundthe world. I know what sort ofplayer she is. Any team in theworld would miss her."

On how to stop the in-form Smriti Mandhana, withwhom she has played in theBBL in Australia, Knight said

that the India opener has someweaknesses which her bowlerswould look to exploit.

"I have obviously playedwith Smrit i in Hobart[Hurricanes], very recently.She played in my team, so Iknow her very well. I knowshe's a very good player. Andhaving seen a lot of her, obvi-ously, it gives us the chance tolook at her weaknesses as welland try and figure out howwe're going to exploit them inthe series," she added.

Meanwhile Mithali was ofthe view that spinners wouldhold the key although becauseof the early starts there wouldbe some moisture for the medi-um pacers to exploit.

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Young Shreyas Iyer hit a blazing 147off 55 balls to help Mumbai defeat

Sikkim by 154 runs in their Group Copening match of the Syed Mushtaq Alitrophy on Thursday.

Iyer's 147 is the highest T20 scoreby an Indian. He surpassed the recordof Rishabh Pant, who had scoredunbeaten 128 for Delhi Daredevils.

His 147 is also the 12th highest scoreby a batsman in the T20 cricket histo-ry.

Test specialist Cheteshwar Pujaraalso hit an unbeaten 100 in 61 balls, butthe effort went in vain as Railwayschased down Saurashtra's 189-run tar-get with five wickets in hand at theHolkar Stadium.

At the Emeralds HeightsInternational School ground, it was allIyer show, who took the Sikkim bowlersto cleansers hammering 15 sixes andseven boundaries as Mumbai posted amammoth 258/4 in 20 overs.

The domestic veterans then restrict-ed Sikkim to 104/7 to start their cam-paign on a winning note.

Mumbai lost openers skipperAjinkya Rahane (11) and young prodi-gy Prithvi Shaw (10) cheaply and were

reduced to 2-22.But one-down Iyer and experi-

enced Surya Kumar Yadav joined forcesas they hammered the oppositionbowlers and conjured a 213-run stand

for the third wicket.It was an absolute carnage with Iyer

being the more aggressive of the two.24-year-old Iyer raced to his 100 in

just 38 balls.

Surya too played a handy knockof63 in just 33 balls with eight boundariesand two other shots over the fence.

Sikkim was never in the hunt tochase the total and their innings endedat 104/7.

For Mumbai, spinner Shams Mulaniand pacer Shardul Thakur picked twowickets each, while Dhawal Kulkarni,Shubham Ranjane and TusharDeshpande picked a wicket each.

In another Group C match, Pujarahit a stroke-filed unbeaten 100 off 61balls, with 14 boundaries and a six, andhis team, Saurashtra, to 188/3 in 20overs.

But contributions from the middleorder helped Railways overhaul the tar-get with two balls to spare.

Meanwhile at Mulapedu, Jharkhandpulled off a thrilling three-run win overholders Delhi in a Group 'A' match.

Batting first, Jharkhand rode onVirat Singh's unbeaten 70 to make 158for 4 in 20 overs against an attack thatincluded Test paceman Ishant Sharma.

Delhi fell short by three runs despitea brave knock of 70 by Dhruv Shorey.

In other matches, Kerala thrashedManipur by 83 runs and Jammu andKashmir beat Nagaland by nine wick-ets in an one-sided encounter.

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India all-rounder Hardik Pandyawas on Thursday ruled out of

the upcoming T20 and ODI seriesagainst Australia due to "lowerback stiffness" with RavindraJadeja replacing him in the 50-over squad.

It is a minor setback for theteam and Pandya, who returnedto action during the limited-overs series in New Zealand afterbeing handed a provisional sus-pension.

"The BCCI Medical teamdecided to rest the all-rounder and

let him undergo strength and con-ditioning work for his lower backat the National Cricket Academy(NCA) in Bengaluru. Pandya willbegin his strength work from nextweek," said the BCCI in a state-ment.

"The T20I squad will now

consist of 14 members. RavindraJadeja has been named replace-ment for Hardik Pandya for the 5ODIs," it added.

After returning from banPandya made instant impact in hiscomeback game, proving howcrucial his presence is for the bal-ance of the side.

The 25-year-old has so farplayed 11 Tests, 45 ODIs and 38T20s.

His absence from the ODIsquad gives Jadeja another oppor-tunity to stake his claim in thesquad for the World Cup to beplayed in the UK in May-July.

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Cristiano Ronaldo's Champions Leaguemission with Juventus stalled onWednesday as Atletico Madrid

secured a deserved 2-0 victory from athrilling first leg at the Wanda Metropolitano.

Ronaldo returned to the Spanish capi-tal, where he enjoyed unprecedented successin this tournament with Real, but it was theirrivals celebrating at the final whistle as goalsfrom Jose Gimenez and Diego Godin putAtletico within sight of the quarter-finals.

But this was a victory that Simeone's sidefully deserved. Antoine Griezmann had hitthe crossbar while VAR twice intervened,correctly, in Juve's favour, cancelling apenalty for a foul on Diego Costa and thenruling out an Alvaro Morata header justbefore Gimenez struck.

While Juventus tried to preserve thestalemate, Atletico were bold. Simeoneintroduced Morata, Thomas Lemar andAngel Correa, all around the hour-mark, andhis daring paid off. "I showed balls," Simeonesaid.

Juve are certainly not dead and buried,particularly given Costa and Thomas Parteywill both be suspended for the return inTurin after each picked up yellow cards.

But the failure to score an away goal, andtheir clear inferiority in the second half doesnot bode well for any hopes of a comeback.

"They don't give you chances," saidAllegri. "They make you play badly."

Defeat in the last 16 for either teamwould be unthinkable, for Atletico, whoknow the final will be played here, at theirown stadium, on June 1, the perfectchance to wrestle the trophy off Realin the very city they share.

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Europe's premier prize has nowentered its 23rd year, when expec-tations are higher than evergiven they now boast thetournament's most pro-lific ever player.

Ronaldo, though,endured a disappoint-ing night, suffocatedfrom the outset by atypically relentlessAtletico backline.

Perhaps it wasfrustration thatmade him wavefive fingers inthe direction ofthe baitingA t l e t i c ocrowd, pre-sumably tosignify hisf i v eChampionsLeague tri-umphs.

His best contribution was an early, dri-ven free-kick from 30 yards, that had to bepushed over by Jan Oblak, and the dummy-shot before it, that exposed Costa asencroaching, for which he received his yel-low card.

Costa was his bristling self and almost

won a penalty when referee Felix Zwayerthought he was tripped by Mattia de Sciglio.But VAR showed he had not only exagger-ated the contact but also extended his runinto the area.

The rest of the half was tighter butAtletico had two golden opportunitiesearly in the second. First, Griezmannvolleyed Costa in behind but the Spaniardsidefooted wide with only WojciechSzczesny to beat.

Then, it was Griezmann's turn,this time Szczesny intervening, tippingthe Frenchman's lob onto the crossbarbefore Giorgio Chiellini stopped Costa fromreaching the rebound.

Atletico were pushing and it was Morata,on for Costa, who made the difference. Hepowered in a brilliant header only to see itchalked off for a push but he was notdeterred, and when Juve failed to clear hisknock-down at a corner, Gimenez was per-fectly placed.

Juve were rattled and their failure to rallycould cost them dear. Atletico scored againas Godin rose to head in at the near post,only to turn and find Mario Mandzukic hadcleared the ball to his feet. The angle was tightbut the net was open.

Juve might had snatched an away goallate on but Oblak pushed over FedericoBernardeschi's shot. They have it all to do.

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Raheem Sterling sealed a dramat-ic 3-2 Champions League win for

10-man Manchester City at Schalkeon Wednesday as the English cham-pions scored twice in the last fiveminutes.

Sterling tucked away the winnerat the Veltins Arena in the 90th

minute just after substitute LeroySane fired home a stunning free-kick for the Premier League lead-ers against his former club in the

last 16, first leg.Schalke led 2-1 at half-

time as the VAR twice inter-vened to award penalties,

both converted by NabilBentaleb, cancelling out SergioAguero's opener in Gelsenkirchen.

City were in real trouble with 22minutes left when Nicolas Otamendi,who gave away the controversial firstpenalty, was sent off for a second yel-low card before Sane's moment ofbrilliance and Sterling's winner.

However, City still have somework to do in the return leg on March12 with Fernandinho, who wasbooked when conceding the secondspot-kick, and Otamendi both sus-pended.

Schalke are just above theBundesliga's relegation places andwinless in their last four leaguegames, yet they gave Premier Leagueleaders City an almighty scare.

The hosts initially struggled toget out of their half as Man City dom-inated the opening 30 minutes, untilthe game swung dramaticallySchalke's way with the two penaltydecisions.

Schalke shot themselves in thefoot for City's opening goal on 18minutes when a lazy pass from goal-keeper Ralf Faehrmann to Salif Sanewas snapped up by David Silva.

The Spaniard drew Faehrmannand selflessly served up a simple tap-in for Aguero to claim his 10th goalin his last seven City appearances.

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life into Schalke.Schalke drew level after Daniel

Caligiuri fired in a speculative shotwhich clipped Otamendi's arm.

Despite City's furious protests,the spot-kick was duly awarded,which Bentaleb tucked away to thedelight of the home crowd on 38 min-

utes and they would be celebratingagain soon after.

The Germans took the leadwhen Fernandinho pushed Senegaldefender Salif Sane when a free-kickflew into the box, and VAR againintervened and another penalty wentSchalke's way.

Bentaleb stepped up to smash thespot-kick past Ederson and putSchalke ahead.

The second half was a muchmore even affair with Schalke nolonger intimidated to be playingstar-studded City.

In turn, the visitors' problemswere compounded on 68 minuteswhen Otamendi clattered Schalke'sreplacement forward GuidoBurgstaller and was dismissed.

In a bid to turn the match with13 minutes left, Leroy Sane came onfor Aguero and the Germany inter-national produced the goods againstthe club he left in 2016. Then Sterlinglatched onto goalkeeper Ederson'slong clearance as the home defencehesitated and slotted in.

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As the inaugural season of ProVolleyball League has start-

ed all the players have geared upthemselves to win the season.Every team is trying to give itsbest to make the season anexciting and thrilling contest. Hailing from a sports back-ground, SAQLAIN TARIQ hasbeen playing volleyball since hischildhood. Tariq currently playsfor U Mumba Volley. Tariq'sinspiration has been his fatherwho was also his coach. "I comefrom a sporting background.My father is a former Volleyballplayer, and is currently coachingVolleyball. My elder brother is aVolleyball player and he is alsocoaching. So my entire family hasbeen associated with Volleyballand therefore I developed inter-est in the game. My father hasbeen my source of inspirationfrom the beginning," he tells you.

Talking about the strategiesthat he uses during play, Tariq

said: "It takes time to develop onthe skills as instructed by acoach. My position is of a settler,and it is the settler's responsibil-ity to decide on the number ofballs a player gets in the team,which is essential to function asa team. To develop on this, onemust be mentally prepared tomoral up the team and playtogether with a cool mind. It isa very deliverable position, whereyour contribution decides onhow much you receive, and I'vebecome habitual of it," he says.CARSON CLARK who playsfor Black Hawks Hyderabad saysthat if you don't believe you canwin every match there is notpoint of playing the match."Confidence is the key. My strat-egy before playing any game isthat if at this level in volleyballyou don't believe that you canwin every match, then there is nopoint of playing. That's what Ilove so much about this sport,

that at any given time a team cangain momentum and beat ateam that might be more talent-ed or technical," he tells you.

Talking about the prepara-tions that he does before amatch Clark said: "I am thetype of player that likes to befree and relaxed before a game.I think to be at your peak per-formance, you need to thinkless and let your body react to

the situations. There is a reasonwe practice for thousands ofhours, and when the momentis most important, I let mybody take over and do what I'vedone thousands of timesbefore."

Clark feels honoured andfortunate to be a part of thenational Volleyball team.

"The national team is anincredible honour that I feel

very fortunate to be a part of.There are so many legends Ilooked up to growing up, andthe opportunity to have themas teammates and learn fromthem was an amazing time inmy volleyball career," he tellsyou adding that his successmantra is to never let your posi-tion decide who you are just befocused in your game andremain what you are.

Clark has a piece of advicefor the aspiring players. "Listen,ask questions, and be open tocritique. There's nothing betterthan a young player, who iseager to learn and is down toearth. I have more respect forhumble athletes, who just wantto get better and keep improv-ing," he says.MOHAN UKKARAPANDIANcaptain of Indian Volleyballteam says that their strategiesdepend upon their oppositionteam. "We don't follow a partic-

ular strategy but it dependsupon which team we are playingwith. We strategise according totheir strength and weaknesses,"he tells you adding that his bestmoment was when he wasselected in senior men team andhe got an opportunity to playagainst Pakistan in Pakistan.NAVEEN RAJA JACOB who isa part of Chennai Spartans saysthat the Government shouldensure more exposure for thegame in India. "There are a lotof good players in India but weare not getting the requiredexposure. We want to bringmedals for the country in theupcoming Olympics but for thatwe need Government's supportto bring this game at the fore-front," he tells you.

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Angel Di Maria scored a sumptuousfree-kick and Kylian Mbappe was

also on target as Paris Saint-Germain con-tinued their relentless march towardsanother French title by hammeringMontpellier 5-1 on Wednesday.

With Neymar and Edinson Cavanistill absent, Layvin Kurzawa also scoredfor PSG at the Parc des Princes, while twoown goals completed the rout.

Florent Mollet had equalised at onepoint in the first half for the visitors beforethey crumbled in a rearranged fixture thathad initially been postponed in earlyDecember due to disruption caused by"yellow vest" anti-government protests inFrance.

As they warm up for the second legof their Champions League last-16 tie

against Manchester United on March 6,PSG are now a huge 15 points clear of sec-ond-placed Lille, and still have a game inhand as they race to a sixth Ligue 1 titlein seven seasons.

"It was not our best peformance, butwith our attacking quality it was adeserved victory," aid PSG coach ThomasTuchel after his side maintained their per-

fect home record in the league this sea-son.

It was also their ninth win by a mar-gin of at least four goals in the currentcampaign.

He was missing a host of players forthis game, with skipper Thiago Silva sus-pended. French international left-backKurzawa was making his first start in theleague in an injury-hit season and heopened the scoring in the 13th minutewith a header from a Daniel Alves cross.

Montpellier remain sixth, while PSGnow host mid-table Nimes on Saturdaybefore a French Cup quarter-final againstDijon and then a visit to Caen, as theirbusy schedule continues before the visitof United.

The other game in France onWednesday saw bottom side Guingampdraw 0-0 at Bordeaux.

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